^#fe* fl i fcMII llll .y He liad to Iiie, Too. I bring her Jv^ Mr, Gladstone'* Home. either." Then won by Miss Vaughn's MTLOYE. 'Great heavens! why did girl happy, and nothing pleases me ao appealing eyes, he continued: on this fatal journey?' I From the Detroit Free Press. much as to see that she like* books., Annie S. Downs, in the Christian at Work. "We ian all fair and on time till we '"Perhaps the young lady'll have For when she is as old as I am she i He climbed piree pairs of stairs td "Not as all other women are Six miles from Chester, in Flintshire, was about 200 miles beyond Omaha. some remedies,' suggested one of the will find that they awe- better than all get to an insurance office on Griowold I she to whom my soul is dear Wales, is Hawarden Castle, the residence Then the snow began. It didn't seem porters for we'd all got into the way the tarts and cake* and toys and Her glorious fancies come-from far, street, and as he came face to face much at first. The women folks in already of turning to the young lady of Mr. Gladstone, but the Beneath the silver evening star, plays in the world. any one woald with the occupant, he said: the train rather liked it. They all And yet her heart is ever near. whenever things were wrong. make me the greatest feing that ever property of his wife, who inherited crowded to the windows to see, and "Well, I went for her, and you never "I believe you are M*, Blank?" lived, with palaces and gardens and it from ner father. Sir Stephen Glynne. 'Great feelings hath she of her own, the children hurrahed. Anything see any one so level-headed as she fine dinners and wines and coached "Yes sir." "Which lesnersouls mayne\erknow Spelled Hawarden, it is always called, seemed a pleasant change after seemed to be. She knew just what tGod gheth them to her alone, and beautiful clothes and hundreds of "You came* down 9fi a Michigan: when pronounced correctly, Harden. the sage-brush, I suppose. But to do and she had the right medicine And sweet they are as a ny tone servants, on condition that I would avenue car about 8:30 o'clock thiaraorning.' as it went on coming, and the Wherew ith the wind may choose to blow. in her bag and in less than an The parish of Hawarden numbers not read books, I would not be a king. drifts grew deep, and the cars had to hour that poor lady was quite comfortable, I would rather be apoor man in agarret about 13,000 acres, and of these "I did. sir." "Zei in herself she dwelleth not run slow, the older ones began to look and her husband the most with plenty of books than a king 9,000 belong to the Gladstone estate. Although no home were half *o fair *So did I. We were all talking: serious, and I can tell you that we relieved man that I ever saw. Then who did not love reading."' JNo simplest duty is forgot, about the eartbejpake. I stated tothe The village, in itself, neither pretty who had charge of the train felt so. the young lady came along to where Xife hath no dim and lowlv so ot I F occupants of the car, and you' nor picturesque, is outside the" gates "We was just between two of the I was standingthere wasn't nothing That doth not in her sunshine share. Trasredy of the Plains. were one, that the shock ]ared all of the park, which stretches away feeding stations, and put on all the for me to do, but I was waiting, for the glass- chand elier? in myof yesidence grandly from the manor nouse. Oaks, ^8he doeth little kindnesses, Cheyenne Letter in New York Mail. steam we could hoping to push through I didn't know but there might be bu? Patric a5 and~threw down limes, or lindens and elms are thickly Which most lea\e undone, or despise, The writer met on the streets of to where provioins could be got at in and said she: "Mr. Scott, I am growing UTor naught that sets one heart at ease, Henry which stood or a bracket." set over the grounds, and at the left, Cheyenne a few days ago an old friend, case we had to stop. But it wasn't anxious about the fuel. Do you -And giveth happiness or peace, "I remember your' statement very on a commanding Height, is the last seen on the southern cattle trail. no use. The snow kept coming. I think there is plentv to last? Suppose Sa low-esteemed in her eyes. clearly." ruin of the ancient castle, which, Old times were talked over. Our never see it come so. The flakes looked we were to be kept here a week." "And I added that my ormolaclock vith its magnificent ivy and its friend still followed the Texas longhorns, i She hath no scorn of common things, as big as saucers, and the drifts "Now just think of it, not one of us stopped dead still, and that a $100 traditions of more than ten centuries, And, though she stem of other biith, and many scenes of past days piled so quick that, when we finally dumb fools had thought of that. You Sound us her heai entwines and clings, mirror in' my parlor was cracked looks down somewhat haughtily were recalled and many trail adventures stuck, in about ten minutes no one see we was expecting to be relieved And patiently she folds, her wings across." upon its castellated successor, recounted. In the course of the could see out of the windows. The from hour to hour, for we had telegraphed tread tlie humble paths of earth. "Yes, youdid." which is now the home oi the greatest talk Red River crossing was mentioned, train would have beer clear buried both ways, and the snow had "Well, sir, I have come-up to tell lining statesman of the age. There and our friend said he must tell Blessing she is, God made her so, over it the brakeman and the porters stopped by that time, and none of us you that I live a rented house and ^an be no doubt but that Mr. Gladstone And deeds of week-day holiness of a romantic tragedy marking the hadn't gone the whole length overit the had any notion it was going to be the ep off have none of the articles mentioned. I Fall from her noiseless the snow, is the most eminent of all the crossing of the stream by the herd he swr roofs e\ery half-hour, and job iu was to dig us out. Only the Nor hath sne e\cr chanced to know burn kerosene in two old lamps in owners of Hawarden, though they was with this season*. In the outfit, with biooms and shovels. We had a young lady had the sense to remember That aujht were easier than to bless. place of glass chandeliers. If Patrick have been De Montforts, Montholts starting to gather the cattle for the lot of sho\ els aboard, by good luck, that it might take longer than we were Henry busts were selling for a dime and Stanleys. The la3t lost it when trail in the early spring, was a young or nothing else could have saved us She is most fair, and thereunto calculating on. apiece I couldn't buy one, and the Earl Lome was beheaded in 1657. fellow about whom hung a mystery. .Her life doth tightly harmonize, from being banked up outright. But it "Says I, 'If we stay here a week, there only ormolu clock 1 have came from A Sergeant Glynne bought it under He had been with the outfit since the Feeling or thought that was not true was terrible hard work, I can tell won't be a shovelful of coals left the dollar store. The 100 mirror the Susquestration act passed by Ne'er made less beautiful the blue fall before, and such was his reserve you. There wasn't no more laughing for any of the fires, let alone the en- Un louded heav on of her eyes. was all in my eye." Parliament the same year, and for that six months had not succeeded among the passengers by the time it gine.' a song. He was an ancestor of Mrs. "What on earth possessed you to' in making him any better known to come to that, and the children stopped She is a woman, one in whom 'Then don't you know, says she, Gladstone's, and his portrait hangs tell such a story?" his companions than when he joined The fepimg time ol her childish vears hurrahing." in her soft voice 'that it would be a over the mantel in her drawing-room, "Well, you were all bragging about them. He was slight and delicate, in Hath ne\ei lost its iresh pufw.ne, "Oh, the poor little things! What wise plan to get all the passengers together but she is not very proud of his record. the earthquake and how your pianos 'Though Knowing well that life hnth room appearance togirlishness. yet his. duty did they do? Were there many on in one car and keep a good fire For many blights and many tears. At the northern end ot the village is danced around and how your sih erware was always performed'as well as that board? Was there plenty for them to up there, andmattere let th otherare stovelittlo eat9" the church, a plain, low building, with rattled, and $500 vases fell It' no if we a of the most stalwart rider. In the out7 lo\ hoi itli a love as still a squatty tower and a dwarf spire. down, and I felt that'I must lie or be spring, when the actmty of the cattle As a bioad river's peaceful might, "That was the worst of it. There crowded,' says she. Its interior having been totally destroyed degraded your estimation. I deeply gathering began, this young fellow, to Which, bv high tower and lowly mill, wasn't plenty for any one to eat. We "Well, of course, it was the only by fire about thirty years regret my weakness, and have come whom the boys had given the sobriquet &oc- wandering at its own wll, had stuck just midway of the feeding thing to do, as we see at once when it since, it has been restored at a great to Le your forgiveness." And yet doth ever now aright. of "Lady," became restless. An stations, and there wasn't a great was put into our heads. We took the cost and with some taste. eager anxiety to see everystranger encountered "I'll forgive you." deal of anything on board besides And, on its full, deep breast bercne car the sick lady was in, so's she'd not on the range seemed to "Thanks. After this if a cyclone occurs, Of this church the Premier's second what the passengers had in their Like quiet is as my dutie-, he, have to be disturbed, and we made up have taken complete possession i or we have a flood or earthquake, son, Stephen Gladston, is rector, and I flows aiound them and between, lunch baskets. One lady shp had a beds for the children and somehow all him. He seemed to know by intuition be careful about the statements And makes them iicsh andtairandgieen, the living is said to be worth $20,000 tin of condensed milk, and they mixed the passengers managed to pack in, when a stranger was about, and, you make in a crowd. You .Sweet homes wherei.i to live and die. a year, exclusive of the rectory. Mr. that up for the babiesthere was ten train hands and all. It was a tight, James Russell Lowell. was certain, sooner or later to'get a don't know to what you' may drive Stephen Gladstone is an earnest and of 'emand so they got on pretty squee/e, but that didn't matter so sight of him. "Lady" carried a good innocent men." instructive preacher, and much beloved well. But there was about five other much, because the weather was so Winchester habitually, and knew exactly He went away with his hat in his by his parishioners, but it is not childien, not babies, but quite little, awfully cold. '.THE IiNGINEEK'S STOEY. how to use it. It soon becamea hand and the other fell in a deep reverie for the sake of hearing him that the and I don't know wh.it they would recognized fact the outfit that the "That was the way I come to see and failed to hear the knock of great crowds flock to Hawarden have done if it hadn't been for the young fellow was looking for someone so much ot the young lady. I hadn't the man who wanted a quarter to church, for they only come when his young lady." tOOUDdE. VNT BY SI'S and the wild cowboys watched eagerly anything to keep me about the engine, help him reach Sandusky and his father is known to be in residence. "This about it," said John Scott, "The young lady I" said Miss Vaughn, for the denouement. It did not come so I kind of detailed myself off dying wife. Almost directly in fiont as you enter looking up with some surprise, for until the herd had been gathered and fche engineer, as the train .slow ly crested to wait on her. She was bu all day the church is the reading desk, where with the words a curious tremble had reached the Red River crossing. The long doin* things for the rest. It's every Sunday when he is at home, Mr. a, Ions,', gradual grade. "You're come into the engineer's voice, and a night the outfit camped on the banks queer how people's characters come Gladstone reads the lesson of the day, Modest (?)W est Virginia Constituents atop of the Rocky Mountains now, dark flush into his bronzed face. of the red stream there rode into out at such times. We got to know rising for that purpose from a wooden What young lady was that?" ixna'acn." 1 camp a stranger looking for work. He all about each other. People stopped bench, which is bis usual seat. He ughn looked to right and One of the West Virginia senators is V.1 was a stalwart, sun-burnt fellow, apparently suing and ma'aming and be'ng polite Emily It was a moment or two before joins heartily in response and song, quoted as telling an amusing story of lo left, and was conscious of a feeling about thirty years of age. and just showed what they were worth. John Scott answered the question. but listens to thesermon with his head a constituent. Not long ago, he says, As the foreman arose from his supper The selfish ones, and the shirks, and thrown back and eyes partially closed "I don't know what she was called," 'Of disappointment. She had pictured he received a letter from a ma&.well to meet the newcomer there came the the cowards, and the mean cues who and only in that attitude does an observer he said, slowly. "1 never knew. She known in his district, stating that for the top of the Rocky Mountains as rapid beat of hoofs.- A horse wanted to blame some one besides the nee how much paler than formerly was the onlv one on the train, so we years past his vote has been regularly dashed up to the group around'the Almighty for sending the weather something quite different fiom this. is his gnarled and rugged face. just called her the young lady. She aast in the senator's interest and supper fire, a girlish form leaped to the there warn't no use for any of them When he leaves the i hurch and passes was traveling alone, but her folks had Here were no frowning heights or sudleti hitherto he had requested no favor in ground, the firelight shone on the barrel to try to hide themselves any more through a narrow lane which leads asked the conductor to look after her. gults, only a v/ide rolling plateau, return. Now, however, he would like of a leveled Winchester as it covered than it was for the other kind. The to his son's house, all stand uncovered She was going out to some relative of some distant peaks which did not to have forwarded to him at the earliest the stranger, and a voice, clear and women, as a rule, bore up better than on each side of the way, and oiten hersher brother, I guess, who was moment a few gardening lirspleinents, stern, was heard: "Make your peace the men. It comes uatural, I suppose, 'look \eiy high, and far ahead a elimp in ranks three, even iour feet deep. sick down to Sacramento. That was a list of which was enclosed with your God at once, James Saunders. for a woman to be kind of silent and how she come to be there." oflowei levels running down into the He is very popular in the neighborhood, It is I, Ella Morrow, who speaks with a letter. This seemed modest pale and patient when she's suffering. making himself acquainted with pla'nir.. It seemed hardly worth while "Were the children under her cr.ie?" to you." A spellbound silence endured enough and the senator started down But the young lady wasn't that sort, the opinions of all classes of men, takes "No, ma'am she was all alone, as I come so far for so little. for a second's space and .then the report town after breakfast to till his constituent's either. She was as bright as a button an interest in the young men's debating told you but she took them under rang out and James Saunders request. Taking the all along. You'd suppose from herface *'J&f cJy'" she said. "But where are society, and is accessible to-his her care from the very first. They pitched headlong from his horse, shot that she was having just the best kind hand he entered a large 'si in themmmtaiiis? They don't look nearly tenants and the villagers to such an had their fathers find mothers alons through the heart by* "Ladyy" of a time! store on the avenue and hardware extent that it is doubtful if they do so hijh as they did yesterday'" three of them had, at least, and the the woman he had* deserted. requ ieted tbe clerk to till the order, not think Mr. Gladstone owes as "I can see her now, standing before other two had their mother and a "Naturally, ma'am," responded the Scarcely had the smoke-wreaths floated supposing fcfruat $10 would cover much to Hawarden, as- Hawarrden the s-tove roasting jack-rabbits, for nurse-girlbut somehow no one upward when another report came cover all ex genses. The clerk engineer, "things don't appear so huh does to Mr. Gladstone. Indeed, an the o* hers' supper. Some of the gentlemen but the young lady seemed to be and "Lady" had taken her own life. beamed in such a pleasant manner when you're so high as they are. We're old dame boasts that she frequently had revolvers, and when the able to do anything with them. On the person of the girl, who had so henr requestintg the proper directions to shipmen tells him all that is in her mind, and snow got crusted over so's they could .utop you know." The poor little things was long braved the hard life of the cattle tkat it suddenly occurpd to my fraend J*ilvtt there's no look-off, no wonder- a couple of very mild looking old men walk on it, they used to shoot 'em. half starved you see, and there wasn't frontier for the purpose oftakin vengeance that he would ask the exact amasrat often come to hi& library "to let him And we were glad enough of every one anything to amuse 'em in the dark on her false lover, was foumetfa ful distance, as from the top of Mount of the bill. When told that it was know how that last speech ot his shot, provisions were so scanty. car, and one of them, who was sickly, letter. This told in pathetic terms 3H25 the senator ^hook his head slowly/, Washington. I confess I am disappointed." sounded down in Hawarden." The last two days them rabbits and fretted all day and 'most all night, the story of her wrongs. Up to her held out his hand for the list of snow water melted in a pail over the and the mother didn't seem to have Mrs. Gladstone has a large orphanage 17th birthday, three years from the goods and left the store. The -aaane stove was all we had to eat pr drink." no faculty or no backbone to her but for girls close to her own house, in date of the tragedy, she had lived a happy "Ii 's kind of queer," said John Scott, senator, it is related, received* last whenever the young lady came round, the stable yard, in fact, where they "I suppose there was nothing for and beloved daughter, amid the with a dry chuckle, "how folks from winter from a person entirely unU^aro-wn that sick young one and all the rest are carefully taught to use their hands you to do but to wait," said Miss granit hills of New Hampshire. On the- iWhim, but claiming to be a constituent, Ahe east keep alluding to that 'ere would stop crying, and seem just as as well as their minds, and are watched Vaughn. 17th birthday there came a yoofflg a request tor a Christmas- box chipper as if it was Summer-time outdoors iifctfteSjiii] as if it weie the standard of over tenderly until time prsoves stranger to her home. He was handsome, "No, ma'am there wasn't nothing which should contain a iComp}et-3suit and the whole train full of thay are able to live honest, useful accomplished, and winning. ^measurement. We don't think so at all for me to do but helple the young a clothes for the writer, measurements me help candy. lives. Mrs. Gladstone has often held Teaching the winter term of the district Sh*1 lady now and then. mueb of it this way. Why ma'am, enclosed a large box oftrferfees the post of matron to the orphanage school, Ella was one of hiavpus her more than the rest, I used to "I don't see how she did it, he went sandies, something suitable to .make "you're about 2,000 feet higher this for a month at a time, and it is told pils, and the close companionship.in think. She'd come to me and say, on, meditatively, throwing a shovelful glad the heart of his matrimutual in the village as evidenoe of her remarkable rniiiwre thai.'ft you was at the top of which they were thrown developed Mr. Scott,thi's rabbit is for you and the of coal in at ohe furnace door. "Some partner, and then followed a. rainnte liberality of opinion, that love on her part. It was the old thai little shuck of a Mount Washington conductor.' She never forgot anybody women is made that way, I suppose. the-(description of sundry useful' articles if the parents of the orphans had been story. Then came desertion and except herself. Once she asked noe As soon as we see how things were going, thafcithey all think so much of." and. toys desired for his six children. dissenter*, the children were not only secret departure of the girl from her to hold the sick little girl whileshe took and how bad they were likely to At the end of the page, in strong W Vaughn smiled, but she experienced permitted but encouraged to attend home to avenge her wrongs. She a sleep. It was mighty pretty always be, that girl kind of set herself to keep 'pareothesis, apparently addeiH as a chapel instead of church. a shock, nevertheless. The New had traced her betrayer to the Texas to see her with them children. They along. She had a mighty gentle way sort of an appropriate nightcap^ the frontiei, and knew that if she only-' Strangers are allowed free access- to never seemed to have enough of her. England mind does not easily accustom with her, too. You'd never have mgemsons creature desired that:for his had the patience to wait long enough the park and ruins of Hawarden, and All of them wanted her to put them guessed that she was so plucky. itself to hearing its sacred mountain own private u. the box sho-wld also she must meet him. Her task comr we had no difficulty in procuring admission to bed, and sing to them and tell stories. Plucky' By George, I never saw anything contain without fail a. gaUoei of the thus lightly spoken against. pleted, she-no longer had any desire to the Orphanage. have Sometimes she'd have all five like her pluck." w*Have you ever seen Mount Wash- best whiskey. to live. even known of persons being permitted swarming o\ er her at once. I used to "Was she pretty?" asked Miss to go through the house itself, which watch them." ington?" she asked. Vaughn, urged by a true feminine is not a show place, and chiefly remarkable "Well, how did it end?"" asked Miss "Oh, bless you, yes'" replied John curiosity. Reverently the rough riders, whfri for its numerous- books, Tbe Improvidence ot" Th&aUeray. Vaughn, as the engineer's voice, which, -Scott, cheerfully. "I was raised over "Well, I don't know ityou'd 'acalled had so long known her as a comrade,, which are not only Mr. Gladstone's had gradually grown lower and more Ifryeburg, and grew up alongside her so or not. She was a slender-built in every one of dug for "Lady" a deep grave on the FMiadelplna Newsu but1 study and library, dreamy, came to a stop. of it. I thought it was a pretty big girl, and her face looked sort of kind spot witnessing her vengeance and laic?, Thackeray was a improvident the living rooms. In his study he has "Eh? what? Oh!"rousing himself. concern when I was a boy, but now" and bright both to me. Her voice was her therein. The body of the seducejwas wretch, and his expenses- nearly always a table for each variety of, work, a "It ended wnen threelocomotives and x!Htt ilob^d the sentence with a short, as softwell, as soft as a voice can be, carelessly flung in a shallow hoi/, exceeded his income. His-avowed lithograph table, apolitical and theological a relief train from Cheyenne broke expressive laugh. and it kind of sang when she felt and the*next morning two- lonety purpose in coming to i&neriea the one. another tor letter waiting, through to us on the eighth morning happy. She looked you straight in Miss Vaughn changed the sublet. graves ^ere left on time banks ofRdi sscond time in 1850, wa-T.to and so on. Over the alcoves devoted ssse his after we wereblocaded. They brought the eyes when she spoke. I don't believe She was not offended. She had grown River. to Homer, Virgil, Horace, Spenser and own expression, "'iOi.lay up aipotol provisions and coal and we got on the worst man ever lived could G,o like this rough, goodnatured engtsneer Shakespeare are busts and pictures money" fos.his t*odanghters and first rate after that. Didi the 3iek have told that girl a lie if it had been in the course of three days' jourpaey, The Chesti-nt Gon$.. not only of the men, themselves, but yet it shows the- impulsiveness and lady die? No, ma'am. She was living' to save his life. Her hair was brown. during which, favored as a relative of their friends and of'plaoes connected boyishness^of thejijan thatrbf returned when I last heard of her, down to Tha^ "chestnut gctg" is al3coad.] HID She was different from girls in neral, of the directors of the road, she with them. OverMrs* Gladstone's to England in thermitlfet Santa Barbara. Two years agoy that S a prosperous the land, and onc^-annot traveler somehow." tftad several times be^n privileged to desk is the fine portrait" of hear husband esgagenrjut and. w\il& half of was." in aayvdirection without encountering fide, as now, in the engineei's cab, for "I think we must say that she was painted by Milais, his Iectuse dates- unfilled. Before hehad its axafeperating tsnkle. 13!ustrati.vre &, better view of the countiy. "And what became of your- yoking pretty," observed Miss Vaughn, with visaed varitous csties- Ha the west As there is no public library an Hawarden, of tbte'Wtay the chestnut gcag may get lady?" "Have you been long on this road?" a smile. every one of the- manrr thousand and in IJennsylTarda while?sahis room, in its- work at t&e wrong tim- the "She left at Sacramento. Her ^ishfi asked. "I ain't so sure of that. There's volumes belonging to-the^libraiy one nigAtiin'ris-hocalia New York, UticaiHerald has-She follo/wiip^ brother or some one was down to ^-Pretty near ever since it opened. plenty of ladies come over the road of the castle is freeljvlent the* villiagers he haropened tjo.pickup)a, newspaper, meet her. I saw him a moineQit. Ha "t run the third through train that since that I suppose folks would say TSe- alarm or chestnui indaafc coming to select upon at, specified and tb*rehe sawanaountftd that a certain didn't look like her." come out from Chicago, and I haven't was better looking than she was, sj^?ang into immediate popularity, day of the week, when a member of steamer woultls sail Sbr Liverpool been off the line since, Winter or "Aftd you never saw her agaius? but I never see any face quite aad no doubt hss done anuch toward the household sets as librarians. next jftorning'. A fib o iome-sickness .""Summer, except for three months, You never heard her name?" like hers. It was still like a lake, cheeking the tid^ of unpaofitabfie repetition, The wealth necessary to support the overjAmehisn, Aihbouga he was about when I was laid up with a broken and you seemed to feel as if there "No, ma'am I never did." and has. encouiraged aoiginaliljyi extensive establishment, and. the vast retiring and, wap-partly divested of his. was depth to it. And the farther The engineer's voice soundiedi groff aad freshnqes of ideas. But like wealth of the family, oomes- from the you went down the sweeter it got. and husky as he said this. He shoveled apparel, heo-ang for fa&servant, packed "This must look very differently in etvery invention it has its-dangers. finding of coal and*, iron mfch* Glynne significance of the- little ttinkJe at She never made any rustling when she in coals with needless energy. 14s baggage nhat wry nigh^ and, 'Winter," said Miss Vaughn, noting iTihe1 estates-early in, fthe present century. walked. She wasn't that kind." "Are you a married man?" asked .the treeless distances, and the snows without saying a, wsrd to one of hia 'once reaches, the mn*d of the most It is nobly and generously devoted to Miss Vaughn. The question, sounded still glinting on the higher peaks to Another pause, which Miss Vaughn friends, sailed iochame the next morning. i obtuse listener. A fw Suardiays ago theg*o of othsrs, but perhaps they abrupt even to herself, bmt seemed was careful not to break. a young mar* faultlessly attired, havling "\ou may beiieve it does! That greatest benefit it confers, upon tha relevant to something in her mind. "I don't know what them children put on his best suit efrd&votion world is the keeping up of this beautir Even Mr. Ffelfctes "who was certainly "No," would 'a done without her," went on tirst year, when the snow-sheds wasn't a* well, atsended jhe mmistrations ful historic home) so suitable to tie hW closest American friend, had no John Scott looked her sqiuarely in the engineer, as if talking to himself. fouilt, it was terrible. I was running ae of a well-known divine. Tn young chatafiter.-of.Mir.Gladsto, genius and iatimaiion, el hs sudden departure the face a* he replied. His countenance Thdn, with sudden energy, "I don't ith&t train that stuck in the snow xoan was ill atteotion, and his deportment until sweraldays after, when the pilot, was rather grim and set, and know what any of us would a done seven daysperhaps you'll remember was mujh,adrau?8 by those who hod'directed the vessel on its way the owiiif Winter Ev*nings* for a moment she feared she had offended without her. The only trouble was about it it was in all the papers. I Fr present. Just as. the clergyman had DO tha oce&a,. handed him a card on him. Then, as he met her deprecating she couldn't be everywhere at once. hshsbsi'fc'ever forget that, not if I live closed am eloquet** quotation of scripture, which these words were written: gaze, he assured her with a There was a sick lady in the drawingroom "fco be as old as my grandfather, and to the effech that we are sinners The evenings- are lengthening -with "Good-bye* Pields, good-bye Mrs. VV swift smile: at the end of one of the Pullmans. Jiie didn't die till he was ninety odd." and unjworthy bo be saved, an un-- Fieds. God bles3 everybody, says W. the coming oi cold weather, says a She had weak lungs, and was "No, ma'am,. I ain't* and I never "Tell me about it," said Miss Vaughn, guarded movesient rang the alarr* M.'P." This abardo anient of his engagemei&tainfeant writer in. the- Toledo Blade, suad we going out to California for her health. shall b a& I know of* he added. ipersuasively, seating herself on the under the youag mart's coat. In the. fcr him a large pecuniary beg to remind the young peo pieand Well", the cold and the snow brought "Second rate wouldn't satisfy me lihigh side bench of the cab, with that silence that SeUowed the eflort of the loss, and yet he told Mr. Fields on a hoinorrhage. That was the second the older ones, toothat a goad book, now, 1 guess." He pulled the corck stir of attention which is so enticing preasher, the tiny tintinnabulation vx London that if John Jacob Astor day alter we was blockaded. which hung ready to his hand, and a nice fire and a quiet room are most to the story teller amusements are rang out li&e the peal of a church had ottered him balf his fortune to There wasn't no doctor on board, and long screeching whistle rang out over ew and far between in the long moiiwxfcoay precious things .vhen takera in combination. bel& To tine* horrified young man it permit that pertwular steamer to sail I her husband was mighty scared. He the plaink and sent the prairie-dogs ot the overland journey to Cal^Sbrma Society is good in its way, without him, ba would have declined seemed t roar and reverberate come through to the front car to find scuttling into their burrows. besides which, Miss Vaughn but one gets talked out ajad needs to 'the impossible favor" and gone through tbo arches. To the ii^tiated the conductor, looking as pale as a 'This is a feeding station we're dearly loved a story. refresh the mind.written We recall the fol- by Lovf aboard. HFi^everhad another chance of the coingiegation it was, tosay the ghost. coming to," he explained. *"SVenty I "There ain't much to tell," said lefcte to fill thoF,e broken engagements. A lowing concerning the hajbit of reading least, startling and prorate. The a minutes here for supper, ma'nm and 'My wife's a-dyin,' said he. 'Ain't .John Scott, with something of the few years afterward, on a Christinas chestnut nlarm is no respecter oi TrJiokon it ain't a bad one either there no medical man on the train?' feeling which prompts the young vocaliat morninp^*hi8TOQther{gnd times or occasions. It should be him, &ea.d. i Macaulay to his niece. It is worth you'd like to have me helr^you down, And when we said no, he just gave a to .complain of hoarseness. "I bed,. used carefully and discreetly. It perusing and obeying wouldn't yon?'' groan. 'Then she must die/ he **aid ..ain't any hand at telling such things, should never l*e vjorn, to church. MI am always glad to make my little i iilr ij fcJife iwiwi ]4 Yt aakmmtimiim