amsaimdt^tsmt |psa*bj^-. JL* mem j? I '^^sBSfsssm 9303s IH AN ELEVATOB, A.Persian Town. Josiah Ormskirk proposed to her, and he sought in vain for the gracetul figure The President's Letters. elevator? If so, the stoppage may be was accepted. dressed pink as a Watteau shepherdess. caused by the failure of the water." A writer in London Society thus describes The President took up a package of Just as the last chords of "I wonder if she would remember "I don't know1 don't knew what a towa in Persia: "The streets letters on the table and said: "1 often Every one agreed that the season the waltz were dying away he caught me if we met again?" thought Bourchier, an hydraulic elevator is," moaned are busy and full as a beehive such think of publishing a book, which I promised to be a bailliant one, and site of her emerging from a distant as he turned, and, impelled by Rosalie, sobbing. "Such a thing has believe would be better than Peck's a olatter of tongues, too, that I am conservatory on Rockminster's arm. the heart of the New York retail merchant some obscure feeling, took the Elevated, never happened before. Oh, Vincent, Bad Boy. Some of the letters I receive qjiite bewildered at the diversity of Bourchier went straight up to the which within a short time deposited can'tcan't you save me?" rejoiced. Perfectly-appointed from people all over the country pair. sound. Every one talks at the top him near Central Park. He "Would to Heaven I could! I would !!rV' are the funniest things in the world." carriages rolled in an endless stream "The last was our dance, I think, strolled through the gate, and along ofhis voice-, as though the person addressed die for you, gladly." Then he read little extracts from several along the more spacious thoroughfares, Mrs. Ormskirk," he said in a voice the well-remembered drive. "I don't know about dying for me," were deprived of hearing. letters, some of which were applications that struggled to be calm, but only or stood in long lines outside The afternoon being unusually fine, she sobbed out, "butbut there seems Venders of enticing sweetmeats and for money and advice, and succeeded in being reproachful. the drive was thronged with carriages. a very good chance of your dying with the various stores patronized by their some giving advice to the President, clarified butter expose their tempting 1^^ There was a flush on Rosalie's Bourchier paused several times and me." fair owners. The streets in front and letters- on all subjects imaginable*, wares. -O sweet beetroot, and onions jH$flH| cheek, and a subdued sparkle in her stood to watch the moving panorama Bourchier smiled. MR ,**l of no interest at all to the President of the fashionable ones was hopelessly and carrots have I!' cries the coster-^ *^'^^1 eyes as she answered: of beauty and fashion. The interminable "I don't think things are quitesobai of the United States. One letter was blocked. It was just such a scene stream of vehicles and the constant monger,, displaying his stock in trade as that, Rosalie." "I am so sorry, Major Bourchier. from a young lady who was about to succession of faces that looked on the back of his donkey, and seems as may be witnessed any fine day in And now," she added quickly, "I am "How do you know? Why, any be married, and she wanted him to blankly at him as they passed, made going to ask you to give me your arm minute we may be dashed to pieces! I to drive a brisk trade. Every one the season, but to one tall, dark, sunburned send he*- $100 to procure a bridal outfit, him feel somewhat melancholy. He to my carriage. I am tired,"and want have heard of "such things." appears to be out of doors. Beggars saying she knew he was a charitable, man, whose upright carriage was about to turn homeward when he to go home." His arm was still around her waist good man, and that she had no appeal to our charity, rising themselves became aware of a large pair of brown betrayed his profession, the whole in her terror she did not seem to notice Mr. Rockminster frowned, and murmured doubt that he would send the from the heaps upon which, eyes regarding him from a handsome phantasmagoria of fair women, perfectly itat least she made no attempt a few words into her ear which money at once. He remarked that barouche that had just come to a they lie basking in the sunshine If you to withdraw herself from his embrace. well-got up men, equally well3ot Bourchier could not catch but Mrs. he did not believe that he would standstill not three paces from where A ^ivethem something they are content, "Life seems all the more entrancing Ormskirk's silvery tones were so clear send the money, but he said he did up carriages, and lofty -'steppers," he stood. As his gaze rested on the but if their prayer is unheeded it is because now, of course," he ventured to say, that he could not help hearing her reply. do one thing in regard to a wedding piquant face in which the aforesaid was replete with the charm of comparative trying not to speak bitterly. "You you are a Christain dog or the that pleased him. A young lady eyes were set a flashing glance of recognition novelty. But though the were always ambitious, Rosalie, and son of a burned father, and with alternate about to be married wrote to him "Yes, to-morrow." shone from under the delicately as Mrs. Rockminster" scene was inspiring enough, he did not vituperations "and furtive3eathings just before Thanksgiving, and told Then she dropped Rockminster's arched brows, and a pair of fresh rosy "Who told you I was going to be linger long in the region sacred to the him she would like it if he would let arm, and took Bourchier's arm with they again subside. lips parted in a bright smile over a set Mrs. Rockminster?" she retorted with her know beforehand just what day a slight air of embarrassment. "We wind between long strings of or the most dazzling little teeth imaginable. Eleusinian mysteries of shopping. spirit. "If you are going to take advantage he was going to appoint for Thanksgiving, "You are leaving early, Mrs. Ormskirk, camels, each beast is tied by a rope or Just as he was crossing the threshold of the position toto bully as she wanted to know the day he said, coldly. chain to the back-trappings of the on of the Bayonet club, he was hailed by me" "Rosalie!" mui*mured Bourchier to so that she could be married on it. "Yes, I am tired, she replied binefly. that precedes it. With an unpardonable "My darling, such an idea never himself "and she has not quite forgotten a well remembered voice. And she said that if he would give her "Let us make our way down stairs at breach of good manners one pokes crossed my brain, I love you far too me after all." beforehand the date of Thanksgiving, once." his nose familiarly into the carriage. "Bourchier! by all that's wonderful! well," interrupted Bourchier, with his He raised his hat and went quickly so that she could be making preparations, Some of them are fine, handsome But when Mrs. Ormskirk's carriage Why, I thought you were far away in lips close to her pretty ear. The temptation fcrward to the side of the barouche tb she would never tell it to a single beasts, still wearing their winter coats drove up a slight contretemps occurred. was irresistibfe. He kissed her Europe!'' greet the woman he had parted from soul but her husband. TheasPresident of thick shaggy brown hair a long The iootman proved to be in a state going velvet cheek once, twice, and then, as in bitterness and anger ten years ago. wT wrote her the date he fringe of it hangs about the neck the of hopeless intoxication. Bouchierat The speaker was a fair, fresh-colored she did not attempt to move, her fresh "Vincent Bourchier, I declare!" said to select for Thanksgiv ing, so that she legs also are covered as far as the once informed Rosalie of the state of man, a little over 30, of the familiar rosv lips. "Rosalie, do you love me?" Mrs. Oimskirk, as she extended her could make preparations and be marritd knees with soft masses, which look like affairs, adding that it would be better type of the man about town, She was silent save for a slight catching daintily gloved hand "I thought I in good style. I spoke to him of knickerbockers. What a motley collection to dispense with his services altogether. well-dressed, spruce, and with the air of her breath, that might have could not be mistaken. When did the reception the day before in the it isvarious types blend with been either a sigh or a sob. you retnm from Europe*" East Room, on which all of the people of one who is on good terms with himself a confusion of sound. Women bestride "It is really too provoking," she "You will not marry Rockminster, "Only the day before yesterday," he who* desired to do so were free to go manfully their steeds and a and all the world. said. "Maj. Bourchier,I must ask you will you? You will marry me," he replied, looking her full in tne face. and shake hands with the President. large white jackass, the property of a to drive home with me. I am in a "Come and have a cigar and a chat. went on passionately. "No one loves "It is a pleasure to find that I am not I said that I thought that it would be Sayid, brays a welcome in a voice most laughable predicament. Do you Why, it must be ten years since you you as do, Rosalie. Think of it, I quite forgottena pleasure I hardly a bore to him. He replied that it was which for strength, richness, and unlimited understand how to work an elevator?" have loved you for ten long years." anticipated. I have been in the Park thepleasantest part of thedaytohim. compass I never heard surpassed. left New York." Bourchier started, and then hesitated "Is that true?" she whispered in her rmlt for an hour or more, and you are the It only took a few minutes, it rather In a small square there is^ a "It is. I shall be a sort of Rip Van a moment. "Yes, I think so." most musical tones. only person who has recognized me." took business off his mind for 1 he circular platform open to the public, Winkle." "That is fortunate," she caid in a "I swear it. Will you marry me, "II have a good memory for faces. time, and he was satisfied that it and although it can scarcely be called "Nonsense, man! We don't forget relieved tone. "At Megatherium Flats Rosalie?" And you are very little altered," she pleased the people very much. He a public building, it is one of interest our friends quite so soon, even in New the elevator boy is often not to be "Ifif we ever get out of the elevatorImay." finished with a blush. said theie were visitors to Washington to many. It is planned after no particular York," retorted the other, leading the found so late as this, and I generally who were pressed for time, and form of architecture, and is That ready blush of pretty Mrs. way into the smoking room. depend on my own servant. I am too "The elevator! I love the elevator!" were anxious to see the president, and certainly not the creation of an artistic Ormskirk's gave her an air of "girlish "Now for your news, Huntley," said nervous to work the the thing mybelf." cried Bourchier, enthusiastically, if they had to go home and say that mind. The basement is asakko simplicity that was more charming Bourchier, as he settled himself in an Bourchier was naturally overjoyed "why but for it" they had not seen him it would make or platform raised a few feet from the than real. easy chair and lighted a cigar. "Who to do her this trifling service, and he "I might have married Mr. Rockminster," them feel as though they had not tot earth, and anything more dismal cannot "Would you have known me again?" has been born, who has married, who felt that the tete-a-tete drive to Megatherium she said with an odd little their money's worth, so he made it a well be conceived, for this is the she asked, with an innocent air, which has died since I saw you last?" Flats would almost indemnify laugh. "You told me I was ambitious!" point to go down every day and shake execution ground, the long pole in the became her wonderfully. "Let me think. It is a difficult thing himself with alacrity in the widow's hands with them and answer any centre of which was formerly but too "I should have known you anywhere," to arrange one's ideas when one is bidden cosy brougham, and they were "Poor Rockminstei! and happy questions they might ask. He said often adorned with a grim and was his fervent answer. to stand up and deliver like that." driven off rapidlytoo rapidly, he me!" laughed Bourchier. that some remarks that people made ghastly head. Except in extreme How crowded the park is this after- In spite of this protest, Huntley thoughtto their destination. to him as they passed through the cases the penalty of death has "In the meantime, sir, I insist on noon," remarked the lady changing during the next half hour contrived to As Mrs. Ormskirk had surmised, the room were what newspaper men been almost abolished from time to being let out of this elevator at the subject abruptly. "Isn't it wonderful retail a fair amount of gossip. elevator boy was no where to be found would call "old chestnuts." But he time the executioner has an opportunity once I object to be kept hanging between where all the people come from? "You remember little Ida Somer- the nighttporter, who could not leave said everybody who made the remark, of reveling in the odiousness of earth and heaven like Mohammedor And such queer looking people some ton?" he said suddenly. "Pretty girl, his post, being the only creature about 'This is the first president I ever saw," his vocation. The laws of each country, his coffinI forget which it of them are! Just look at that woman blue eyes, complexion rose and cream, at that late hour. supposed that lie was the first man however barbarous, are generally was." in a pink bonnet and yellow dress'" and that sort of thing. Heiress, too. that ever thought of it. He said that adopted for tne good of the respective Bourchier. of course, letoited that, "I must ask you to escort me to the "May I call on you, Mrs. Ormskirk?" She fell in love witfh that young Seton, & sometimes he had to be a little cruel, inhabitants, and the method of executing far irom thinking himself in such a seventh floor," said Rosalie, smiling he asked, when they had talked about who hadn't a cent to bless~himself but he could hardly avoid it, and mentioned criminals in civilized countries position, he considered the elevator as she seated herself in the left. A mutual acquaintances, criticised the with, except what he got from the one case in which a delegation would produce but little effect upon was his heaven, and that for his part small lamp lighted the machine, and passers-by, and chatted amicably, 'Children ot Israel. Her guardian brought with them a young man who the very mixed and half-barbaric he was perfectly happy where he was. shown down on her poudree head, after the manner of friends who meet didn't see it cut up rough and wouldn't was evidently loaded for bear with a people who assemble here. The public piquant face and radiant eyes. "But I am not," said Rosalie, with after a long interval of absence. hear of it. But she married him, speech. The president said he knew &pecta,cle acts as a warning to others some returnreal or assumedof her though, when she came of age," added "The ball was a dismal failure "Of course you may. 1 live at Megatherium the fellow had a speech before he got that punishment will surely follow fears, "it is almost as bad as the wasn't it?" she said, looking up at Huntley, for he had tender remembrances Flats when I am in the city. it within twenty yards of him. He crime, and doubtless deters many from Black Hole of Calcutta." him as he worked the ropes. of his own in connection with You will generally find me at home was busy that day and he resolved similar offenses. Just then the elevator gave a lurch. the fair heiress. Perhaps the association about 4 o'clock." And, with another "Yesn-nonot altogether." he that he had to choke that fellow off Mrs. Ormskirk screamed and buried of ideas prompted his next remark. of her sunny smiles, Mrs. Ormskirk "How strongly are comedy and traady answ ered, losing his head somewhat. or die. When the fellow came up to her face in her handkerchief. Bourchier drove on. blended in this life' Dirty, barefooted It would have teen the happiest evening him with one hand on the buttons of jumped up and caught hold of the "By the bye, Bourchier, wasn't Rosalie little children.clad in very short of my life if" He stopped and his coat, his MS. in his other hand, rope, and in a moment, the machine Bryden an old flame of yours?" ^urts, or even in nature's garb only, Maj. Bourchier saw a good deal of fixed his eyes on her face. and was just clearing his throat for a glided smoothly upward. equivalent** PQ are playing, unmindfuld of the horrid "That's a leading question witha Mrs. Ormskirk during the next few "Yes, Major Bourchier?" she queried speeck, the President said he reached "Come, Rosalie!" said he, smiling as place, making the Persian vengeance," replied the other, with weeks. On some pretext or other he softly "if what?" out, took him by the hand, shook it they stopped at the seventh floor. for mud-pies from the dust which may rather a forced laugh, as he pulled contrived to drop in nearly every day "If you had not cheated me out of warmly, urged the next man forward, "All's well that ends well. You have have been dyed with the blood of viciously at his mustache. "But at Megatherium Flats. The luxurious my waltz, Rosalie," he burst out impulsively. grasped his hand and passed the whole only been a prisoner for one short halfhour scores of malefactors. The road is what of her?" She married some suite of rooms occupied by the fair delegation on quickly. He said he I am going to put on chains for here so bad with deep ruts half hidden ..rich city man, didn't she?" widow was on the seventh floor of the Mrs. Ormskirk blushed and fingered felt actual sorrow as he looked back lifechains of roses of course, "he added by piles of mud that we were forced to huge block of buildings, consequently "Yes Josiah Ormskirk. Fellow her fan nervously. at the fellow who had intended making hastily. "You have had a fright ad\ ance slowly and with care, for fear they were reached by that useful who made his money on the Stock "Oh, Rosalie!" he said, droppingthe a speech. He said he looked as I have won a wifethanks to that delightful of breaking our horses' legs or leaving modern convenience, an elevator. Exchange. Died a couple of years rope and seating himself at her side, though this administration was a failure institution, the elevator!" a portion of the carriage behind us. I Bourchier soon cherished quite a sentimental ago, and left his wife a rich widow. "why will you play with me like this? and he knew it. There was an expression have never had such a shaking in all feeling ot affection for the Awfully good thing for her, for I believe You know I love you. You know I on his face as he went out of my life and, every time we miss destruction cosy little cage which carried him so he rather led her a life of it some Conversation. have loved you for years!" He had the White House door that plainly by one of the wheels just easily and so swiftly upward to the time before his death. Hadn't you seized one of her small hands and said: "There may be people who think Emerson says: "It is very certain skirting a hole instead of going into it, dwelling of his charming Rosalie, and heard of it?" pressed it to his lips before she could that this administration is going to that sincere and happy conversation rny heart i filled with unexpected satisfaction, had he been of a poetical turn, he withdraw it. He had forgotten all give the people a good, clean government, "No. He must have died during my doubles our powersthat in the effort although the jerks have nearly would certainly have penned a sonnet about the danger of precipitancy. but I will be condemned if I believe absence in Russia, where I hardly ever to unfold our thought to a friend we dragged my joints apart." in its praise. "Rosalie, listen to me!" it." The President said he knew saw an American newspaper." make it clearer to ourselves, and surround he would be accused of cruelty, but he "How did you manage to exist? "Not nownot here!" she interrupted He was resolved to try his luck again it with illustrations that help thought the fewer speeches there were Well, Mrs. Ormskirk is beginning to with a touch of her old coquetry. and in spite of the fair widow's occasional and delight us. It may happen that A Funeral "With no Mourners. fired at a President the better he was W into society again. I saw her in "Fancy any one having the fits of caprice, he believed his each hears from the other a better off. Again he alluded to a call he had the park only yesterday, and by Jove hardihood to make a declaration of From the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. chances of success were considerably wisdom than any one else will ever from some colored jubilee singers. she looked quite as pretty and almost lovein an elevator! And you used better than they were ten years ago. An Augusta clergyman was asked to hear from either. Our chief They sent word tha~ they would like as young, as she did ten years ago!" to be soso romantic!" The worst of it was that Mrs. Ormskirk conduct the funeral of a man in an adjoining want in lifeis it not somebody who to call upon the President, and he told "Yes, she was very pretty," assent-ed had at least half a dozen pretendants, "What does it matter where or when town, who died with the reputation can make us do what we can? And the Secretary to let them come. Bourchier. and he added bitterly, and the name of her admirers one speaks if the love be genuine? I of having been a miser, a few we are easily great with the loved or When they were in the East *'and she took her charms to the best was legion. Bourchier was often love you truly, Rosalie, and I have lays ago. He is believed to have honored associate. We come out of Room the usher came up and market, as most women do." mortified to find that the attentions been very patient but I could not been worth $75,000, but his house our egg-shell existence and see the great said that the jubilee singers were "Come, old fellow, don't be cynical," of one or the other of this band of aspirants bear to see that idiot Rockminster" was bare and mean and he had no dome arching over usj see the zenith there. The President asked how many said Huntley. "Have another cigar, seemed more acceptable to "Major Bourchier, I cannot allow friends. Before the service the clergyman above and the nadir under us. there were and the usher said fifteen. and let us talk about something else." this little coquette than his own. you to speak in that tone of one who asked some of the traits of the Speech is power, speech is to persuade, The President said, "Show them right But the mention of his old love's More than once he was tempted to may one day be my husband." t deceased, that he might speak of him to convert, to compel. It is to bring up here to my room." Tney came up, "name scorned to have taken away risk everything on a single cast of the "Your husband'" appropriately. They told him howsnug another out of his bad sense into your formed a circle in front of him and Bourchier's appetite for society gossip. die, and ask her boldly if she would "Mr. Rockminster proposed to me the miser had been, how he had good sense you aje to be missionary their leader congratulated the President He rose slowly, and looked at marry him. But more prudent counsels this evening." she said, dropping her and carrier of all that is good and ground the poor that came into his on looking so well, and said that bis watch. prevailed, and he resolved to bide eyes. noble." dutches, and so on. the boys were glad to see him, and the "Five o'clock. Old habits are things his time. Precipitancy might ruin everything. "And you accepted him?" President congratulated the singers of strong growth. I think I shall A woman, he argued, is seldom a* "Well, not exactly!" she replied, "But what were his good qualities?" Of course nothing of all this can be on their fine appearance, and supposed -stroll down Broadway and see what won by a coup de main. with a mischevious smile "but I may. asked the clergyman. pretended or forced. No efforts to that they would go directly is going on. Do you feel inclined to One evening, nearly two months after I have not given him his answer yet. -Didn't have any," was the laconicreply. say what is not thought or felt can away. The leader drew from his *eome too, Huntley?" the meeting in the Park, Mrs. Ormskirk I shall to-morrow." pocket a piece of music and said, "Mr. ever be successful. As is the life so "No, thanks. I feel lazy this afternoon, was present at a fancy dress ball This, then, was what she meant ,'Didn't he have one redeeming President, we will now sing you a will be the speech, for "out of the so I shall look through the given by Mrs. Rodney Rosier, a sister when she spoke those two words to trait?" song." The President said, "No, no, abundance of the heart the mouth evening papers." of the most distinguished of the fair Rockminster. Bourchier's face turned "Not a dd one," irreverently answered not at all there must be no singing in speaketh." Sincerity is the first "Well, I'm off, at any rate, for an widow's suitors. It was the first entertainment red with anger. the neighbor. this room. This is a business place element of all good conversation ."hour's stroll." And with agood-hu^nored of the kind at which the "Rosalie," he said hotly, "youare a "It was the most difficult duty that and I cannot have any singing here." all others combined cannot atone for smile and a partingshake of the latter had appeared since her husband's heartless coquette! I have done with I ever performed," said the clergyman He said that the colored jubilee singers its lack. It is, however, largely a hands the two men parted. As Bourchier death. Mrs. Rosier made so you forever." afterwards. "There was no Bible in bade him good-bye and retired, matter of emphasis We can give utterance sauntered on down Broadway great a point of the matter that she "I am indeed sorry you should think the house and it wafs a long time before and he has his doubts whether they to the rea* thoughts within his thoughts went back to a certain wrote a charming little note begging so badly of me, Major Bourchier. one could be found. Then the were pleased with their interview with us and thus stimulate them to better November afternoon, when he and Rosalie dear Mrs. Ormskirk to break through But," she added, with the lightest man in charge of the funeral had disappeared. the President or not. He said he felt work we can let our purest feelings had ridden on horseback through her rule. Mrs. Rosier, it may be hinted, touch of sarcasm, "that is no reason I asked where he was and sorry when the leader put his music have free vent in words and thus the winding drives in Central Park, was extremely anxious to bring why you should keep me a prisoner my informant said with a grin: 'Dunno back into his pocket and marched out nourish them, while inferior themes and love had got the better of prudence, about a match between her brother to tell me so. The elevator is at a guess he is hunting for mourners.'" with a look that seemed to say: "The and thoughts and desires can be silently and he had proposed and been and Josiah Ormskirk's widow and standstill." colored race need not expect much dropped and will thus lose some refused. Pretty Rosalie, though she Josiah Ormskirk's thousands, the It was true. In his eagerness Bourchier from this administration."Peck's Sam Jones and Other Preachers. of their hold upon us. There is often -had only the experience of a sinele Rockminster family's revenues not had dropped the rope, and the Sun. room for much courage in speech ?se.aon, had enough of worldly wisdom beingexactly in a flourishing condition. elevator was stationary. From the St.Louis Globe-Democrat. Jd a card of invitation, courage, not so much to maintain to fcnow that though Vincent Bourchier Bourchier also receiv "I won't keep you a prisoner That our preachers, as a rule, are 4a was handsome, clever enough opinions as to confess ignorance. One and he had the mortification moment longer than I can help, Mrs. wanting in simplicity of diction and rbirth,aapleasant to be companion, alreadd of goo of the chief benefits of conversation is of witnessing the very marked attention Ormskirk," he said, jumping up. He brave soldier, (he had ?iven to over- laborious ways of putting for each to learn that which his companion Too Much Study. paid by Mr. Rockminster to pulled the rope vigorously, but the things, we are obliged to confess. distinguished hinself at the age of five knows and he does not, and Rosalie, and what was worse, of noticing elevator did not move. Rev. Edward Everett Hale turned a The art of familiar, and yet forcible, and twenty,) he was no mate for her. this benefit can only come to the that the latter received his attentions neat point in a very neat manner the "Don't you understand the mechanism?" speaking is a hard one to learn and to She was a penniless but ambitious girl, modest and receptive mind. Most of with apparent satisfaction. He cried Rosalie, in sudden other day at a meeting of the Schoolmasters' sustain and somehow it seems to be dependent upon the whims of her the argument held by persons of opposite watched the pair with silent wrath. alarm. Club in Boston. He reported more so in the pulpit than anywhere aunt. Mrs. Silverton, a stern matron, views is quite futile for the The green-eyed monster had full dominion "Yes, of course." he reforted, a trifle a teacher as saying to him just before else, when there is where it should be who had preached her pretty niece want of this mental condition. The over him, and of all Mrs. Rodney irritably "but-but there seems something the meeting: "When I leave the found at its best. There is a consant many a sermon on the folly and wick-edness object is, not to find out the truth fPr-^a-'' Rosier's guests he was the most wrong with it." schoolroom I leave the schoolroom. 1 tendency, apparently toward a variety of girls who married poor men. about the mooted subject, but to miserable. The brilliant scene, the Mrs. Ormskirk sprang to her feet I don't permit myself to do anything of preaching that is not preaching 7:- "I don't think you are the sort of shine and to conquer. Neither party I music, the gay crowd were like dust with a little scream of terror. which pertains to theschoolathome." so much as lecturing and farfetched woman who would be happy with two becomes wiser, neither is convinced. ISfei and ashes between his teeth. He was "Oh, Major Bourchier we shall be This was a very wise thing for the philosophizing and so, when a Sam new diesses a year," she was in the The triumph of one and the humiliation about to quit the ball-room in disgust killed, I know we shall. There is some schoolmaster to do, and a very creditable 3 Jones comes along, talking in familiar habit of saying. "Think of living in a of the other are alike fruitless, when, as on a previous occasion, thing wrong with the elevator! We thing for him to say. The lauguage and urging every day facts, six-roomed house in a back street, and more or less uupleasant feeling is he caught a glance from Rosalie's may be dashed to piecesthe thing preacher simply retorted: "All I ask with easy energy, people flock to his i with one Irish hired girl to help you "a- left behind. A thorough defeat taken beautiful brown eyes, which seemed to may falloror 'something. Oh, is, don't lay on the boys and girls burdens tent and pay him those tributes of keep house! No, Rosalie, you must fX in the right spirit is more really valuable bid him stay. In a moment he relented what will become of us!" she went on, that you yourself do not bear." interest and applause which other and vmarry a rich man, or I wash my hands l*1^ to the truth-seeker than twenty and went up to her. bursting into tears. "Can'tcan't If the regular school hours are all that 4 abler preachers do not gain. It isthe .of you." r, -_, victories that only feed vanity. you save me, Vincent?" She was standing with Mr. Rockminster the teacher, who is old and tough, difference between raising a subject Miss Bryden had not sufficient Philadelphia Ledger. *XJ%? She clung to him in her terror. and one or two other men ought to work upon school matters, above a man's head and thrustineit directly -strength of character to defy her aunt Hi near one of the long windows. "Don't be frightened, dearest," he are they not amply sufficient for the into his face. In the one case 1 Mrs. John Jacob Astor's favorite and marry Vincent Bourchier, whom, said, trying to speak cheerfully "it Bourchier asked for a dance, which children, who, thank God. are not yet he yawns and goes to sleep in the othl in her heart of hearts, she knew she jewels area pair of ruby and diamond may not be so serious as you think. was graciously accorded him, but old and tough?New Haven Palladi er, he straightens up and hears every IF! *oved. A couple of months or so later, earrings. Do you know if this is an hydraulic when the longed-for time came round I una v&