'WPWIP wnftjUm ?p msa**pam *-i^VKEnmwuu9%5t!t CHILD WIDOWS I N INDIA. has similar tastes, as his are refined weak sight. Her gown was of rustling am sorry that you should hard bad srf^sF*f.j &**'- to a high degree. Photos could be exchanged silk, her presence full of dignity yet thb long journey for nothing." and returned if not approved. If I had known in the morning indications of feminine coquetry were "For nothing!" shouted Septimus, Two Millions of WomeK Condemned to Penance. How weaiily all the day Address Rupert, care of the editor of not wanting in the arrangement of the waxing bold under civil treatment. From the London Times. The words unkind would troubleyour mind the Brickbury Chronicle." large tippet on her shoulders and the "Where That I said when you went away, The recent telegram announcing The evening of the following Saturday rosebuds that dangled from her cap. "Yes, I know what you are going to I had been more careful, darling, Lord Dufferin's .decision regarding two letters lay on his table. The carpet was soft and velvety. ask, and.upon my word, I'm ashamed Nor given you need^jss pain Breathless with agitation he tore one Hindoo widow marriages receives emphasis Septimus glanced at his muddy boots But we vex our irn with look and tone to answer your question but if you of them open. It was a blotted and We may never take back again. with dismay. He would willingly have insist upon it you shall have a full explanation. from the outbursts of fanatical ill-expressed note from a young lady made a more splendid entrance into v Though," here he stopped hostility which are agitating Northern For though in the quiet evening in a hairdresser's shop. He threw ft to the halls of slavery. and his eyes twinkled, "though I did You may give ine a kiss of peace India. indignantly on one side what had he "Miss Dynoch, I believe?" he said, not expect you to believe me!" Yet it well might tie that never for ra and she in common? The decision arrived at is characteristic with his best bow. The pain of the heart might cease! "Who is Mr. Thomas The second letter was written on lilac alike of the statesman How many go forth at morning "Yes, that is my name. Perhaps "Gawkroger? You are as bad as my Who uever come home at night! paper, the envelope sealed with a you will be so good as to inform me who now presides over India and of aunt, Miss Dynoch. Well, I don't exactly And hearts have broken for harsh words seal bearing the impress of a cupid. to what cause I am indebted for your know. I never imagined any the new point of view from which the spoken, The letter itself was neatly written in visit." one would be so foolish as*to believe Indian government regards questions That sorrow can ne're set right. -THE aclear, firm running hand. Wecannot in such trash. Where is Rosalinda! She did not ask him to sit down, of internal reform. Lord Dufferin expresses BEST TONIC do better than give it word tor word: We have careful thought for the stranger, Nowhere. Why? Because she doesn't and she remained standing herself. a genuine sympathy for the "Dear and gallant SirI fepl as I And smiles for the sometime guest exist and never did out of my "Ihave come, madame," said Septimus, This medtotes, combining Iron with jmtm party of progress, but he does not But oft for our own the bitter tone, read your thrilling lines that I have braki. much impressed by her dignity, vegetable topics, quickly and complete^ Though we love our own the best. allow his sympathy to blind him to at last met with a kindred spirit (let Cures Dyi passu Indigestion, Wemksms, "to demand Miss St. ClaireRosalinda Septimus put his hands to his head. Ah, lips with the curl impatient! Impure BI4, sBstfariauChlUaaad Fi me not be ashamed to own it,) for the grave political difficulties of the St. Claireat your hands." Ah, brow with the shade of scorn! m*d NeursJcfsw "Whowho is Rosalinda?" he which my heart has long yearned! case. It is an nnmillny remedyforDiseases of theKidney* 'Twere a cruel fate were the night to late He had prepared this speech and a gasped. Gladly, ah, gladly I would enter correspondence wmA LJhrer. To undo woik of the morn. great deal more, but the rest of it had There are over 20 000,000 of widows Mr. Fenwick succeeded with some It is ibralaable for Diseases peculiar ts with such a one as Rupert, Women, aod all who lead sedentary liyes. quite gone out of his head. in India, and 2,000,000 of them difficulty in suppressing a violent but, alas! I am an orphan maid, and It doesnMfiijorethe teeth, causebestdachevor "I beg your pardon. I must ask belong to castes who practice child SEPTIMUS' FIANCEE. cough that threatened to become unmanageable. produce onstipatkmctht Irmmediewuda. the world's riches are not for me. You you to speak up. marriage and insist on the celibacy of Itcnriciiesand purifies the blood, stimulates would spurn the poor girl who must the appetite, aids the assimilation offood,relieves Miss St. Claire, madame," repeated their widows. These customs are not "If you insist upon it, Mr. Potter, gain her humble crust by her own exertions. Heartburn and Belching, and-4renft* It was exceedingly hot in the little Septimus, raising his voice and endeavored enforced with equal rigor in all parts ens the muscles and nerves. to put the case clearly, I don't believe Yet, perhaps, your nob!" parlor of the country inn where Edmund For Intermittent Fevers, Lassitude, lack otEnergy, to drown the shrill bark of the of India, nor among the castes who there's no such a person." nature might not turn from the d^ S it has no equal. terrier. "My Rosalinda, where is she? Fenwick lay tossing on the follow them. But, broadly speaking, "Sir!" answered Septimus, who was spised companion. Did I but know. *3- The genuine has above trade marlr an* How is she?" there are about 2,000,000 Indian totally unacquainted with the works crossed red linesion wrapper. Take no otbex horsehair sofa, inadequately supported on i* rapper. My dearest aspirations are to be elegant "There must be some mistake, I women of good family who are condemned of the great writer from whom Mr. 'XOBJK.XB to cultivate my mind to a high by pillowsthe very picture of TUTTS think," said the lady. "The people to a life of penance or of Fenwick quoted. "I fail to comprehend pitch under your tuition, would leave weariness and misery. from whom I took the house are called your meaning. I don't know shame. nothing wanting to gratify yours Jones. Did you not come on business He had come down on a fishing expedition what you're driving at. Rosalinda, This, however, is a very mild statement dare she sign herself, affectionately to see my nephew?" the young lady, is ol the case. For it must be remembered with a few select companions, and humbly, PILL "The same," replied Septimus, little that the cruelty of enforced "Now, my dear Mr. Potter said and, as ill-luck would have it, he had RosALijft)A ST. CLAIRE knowing that he had given the wrong widowhood in India is aggravated by Fdmund Fenwick, cordially, still with "I inclose ray photo. I am a brunet, met with an accident in jumpiug out card with the address of his firm the circumstance that a vast number his handkerchief to his face, "you with flashing yet melancholy dark of the dog-cart, and had broken his printed in the right hand corner. "Mr. ot widows have only been wives in have been badly treated, I know, and eyes. Ere sorrow met my path I was Thomas Gawkroger has written to I apologize most sincerely. Shake name. In Bengal 271 Hindoo girls leg the second day after his arrival. 25 YEARS IN USE, not considered unlovely. Your answer, me, and I am here to inquire after the hands and come and have some luncheon. out of every thousand between the "Just come from the station sir. should you deign to send one, Ag*4 Th* Qrtatsst"Medical Triumph of tbs health of Miss St. Claire." You must really want it after aces of five and ten are married, and will be forwarded to me by a triend. Eighteen pence to pay, and sixpence The lady shook her head, her manner, your journey and upon my word, I no fewer than 666 are returned as SYMPTOMS OF A Till then, farewell! Address R., Postoffice, for the boy." becoming more severe. shall require support, too, before I encounter married between the ages of ten and Great St. Paul's street, E. C." TORPID LIVER. "My nephew is from home at the my aunt again. I answered fourteen. This applies to the general It was the current number of the The weeks went on. His holidays moment. I must ask yon to wait in your advertisment. I wrote the letter. Hindoo population. But among the Brickbury Chronicle. were at hand. He would fain have Less of appetite, Bowels costive, Pain i the hall till his return." I sent you a photograph that I bought higher castes, who enforce the celibacy the head, with a doll sensation In tb visited his Rosalinda at her home in at a shop. It was scandalous, but She approached the bell, but Septimus of their widows, the proportion is back part, Pain tinder the shoulderblade Surrey, but she besought him not to Septimus Pottei was a clerk in a did! Rosalinda, to mention the lady pushed forward. Fullness after eating, wit a adia much higher. Practically every Hindoo come he should not first look upon Inclinati on to exertion of body ormbJ, for the last time. I do assure you that "Your nephew!" he exclaimed my large house of business in the city. girl of good caste is either a wife Irritability of temper. Low spirits, witb her in the walls of slavery. Her Rupert bavins neglected somcaCty, Rosalinda is a mirth pure and simple." letter is from Mr. Thomas Gawkroger." or a widow before she reaches the age feeling-o The exact nature of the business must wait till fate smiled upon \V eariness, Dizziness, Fluttering at tkoHeart, of 14. In thousands, indeed in hundreds their path, and she inclosed a little transactions of the firm by which he Dots boforetho eyes, Ileadach* "Then there is decidedly some mistake. of thousands, of cases the child And Emily forgave him when he sver tbe right eye, Restlessness, with poem on the subject which made him was employed it would be hard to describe, I must wish you good morn- fitful dremas, Hlehly celored Urine, en* has never known what it is, to be a told her the whole story. She and happy for days. He sent a ringtwo CONSTIPATION ing." but principally it had to do wife. The most orthodox idea is that Septimus were married the following golden hands clasped together TTJTT'S .PilLA^S are esper-aliy adapted a girl should be given in marriage before Christmas, and they have a charming "Madame," said Septimus with with hides and tallow. Sepimus was, and he wrote her long letters every to such case*, one doso efiects such a the sense of natural modesty house in Brickbury. Septimus still change of fee' jr to astonish tl suffowr great solemnity, regardless of the fact day, which she answered at first consequently, engaged in avocations They Increase tbe A rtpetlte.aiid cause the arises. For canonical purposes this wears a velvet coat in the evening, that the terrier was working the heels once a week, and then once a iortnight. body t^ Tn.U.9 Kiem, linn lb *y-tem 1B of a commercial character which bore was taken to be her eighth year. The but he has dropped his airs and graces, of his boots on the chances of their being noni fsiictl. urd Vv tl. onic Action ou At length there came a day tbe I'UcocUTcOnrnit^iIefrtilHr Stools an? directly on the subject. So far, he was marriage is not consummated till she and is the most devoted husband in ratsnor did he smell the Dutch when he had not heard for a TUTTS. protur 1 P-koUV. HAiftr -i -rnv vt..JV.1 ML reaches the age of about 12 and meanwhile, the world, while his sweet-tempeied in the same position as scores of young month. He became frantic with vexation cheese"do not put me off. I am not if the husband dies, she is condemned wife treats him with the profoundest some of his friends had begun to be deceived. I am aware" (he was men in the city,but in one particular, to a life of celibacy. respect, and has never so much as referred to talk and tease him about his new beginning to get nervous) "that you GR*Y HAFK or Wsi'-Kinss charged to he differed from his companionshe flame should he lose her now, just as to Rosehnda since their wedding It is essential for the honor of a GLOSSY BIA CX by a single Rpphcition o? have a companiona beautiful young thiB DTK. It imparts a nptural color, acL* was thoroughly ashamed of his work. he was aboucoulo have his salary day.Household Words. Hindoo family of good caste that it ladyconcealed'' instantaneously. Solil by lnigs38ta o He not brook the raised9 Indeed, he has kept hide and tallow a Bhould contain no unmarried daughter sent express on receipt of QX. "I have no such thing," interrupted Office. AA Murray &t., riw York thought. of mature years. The existence of profound secret for a consi "lerable Miss Dynoch with some temper, "and The Deceptions ot* a Reign. PACKER'S such a daughter i^ not only a social never did in my life. Do you mean length of time and even his most intimate In dispair he wrote a few hurried disgrace, but areagiousciime. When, St. Petersburg Correspondence of the Soleil. HAIR BALSAM to insult me?" friends, theWmdleswho lived lines, begging to be allowsd to see her, Alexander III. is, perhajis, of all the therefore, a female infant is born, the ths popular favorite for dress* "No companion," gasped Septimus. bemoaning her long silence. Life without at Brickbury, in the same street as first idea an her father's mind is not princes who have reigned over Russia inj tne Air, Res onng the color "Does not Mi= St. Claire live here? Rosalinda was insupportable to ^ri wlien gray,and ^revtruug Dan- one of pleasiue, nor perhaps regret, himselfeven Emily Windle, whom he since Peter tne Great, the most patriotic Your nephew wrote and told me she 4^3 drufi. It clean-.es the scalp, him, etc. In answer to this appeal but simply how to find a husband for admired, and who was unfavorably yA stops the hair f.Uiing, and is and the one most inflamed about was dangerously ill. I've come all he received a short epistle in a her. It is not necessary that she 5 and $i sucb at Druggists. the way from London to see her. I the national glory it is his dominant disposed to his advances, had never shaky handwriting. Rosalinda had Bhould become a wite in our sense of have corresponded with her regularly passion, and almost his religion. Cn been ill she had paited with her employer, had an inkling to the truth till it the word. Jt suffices that she should for months." and had gone to be the companion der Alexander II., while he was onlyheir be given marriage, and go through came out one day by accident. Then The Best uag Core you can OM of a maiden fady ot wealth in "Then you ought to be ashamed of to the throne, the present emperor the ceremony of the Seven Steps, Sam Windle had very naturally made and the best known preventive of Consumpt Nortbshire. It was a long journey yourself," said Miss Dynoch, and the which completes the religious rite. was the recognized chief and inspirer PACKER'S TONIC kept in a home is a sentinel to a few jokes at the expense of his friend, from London she dared not invite rosebuds rattled in her cap. keep sickness out. Used discicet'y it keeps the Aged Brahmans of good family still of the party that is hostile to foreigners, her Rupert to the house that was her blood pure and the Stomach, Liver and Kidneys and these jokes, as often happens, "My intentions, madam, are honorable. go about the country marrying, for a in working order. Coughs and Coids vanish before all confounded by the people un temporary home. If better, she would Your nephew, Mr. Thomas bad not been appreciated The fact it. It builds up the health. pecuniary consideration, female infants der the name of Germans. Scarcely write again next week. Adieu, and Gawkroger If you suffer from Debility, Skin Eruptions, whom they sometimes never see was that Septimus, who was Cough, Asthma. Dyspepsia. Kidney, Urinary or again adieu' proclaimed czar, he wished to "My nephew's name is Mr. Edmund again. Within the memory of men Female Complaints, or any disorder of the Lungs, 'Only gifted with very ordinary But she did not write. Days went realize Mr. Khatkoff's dream, which Fenwick. Leave the room instantly! Stomach, Bowels, Blood or Nerves, don't wait Btill living this abominable practice capacities, firmly believed that till you are sick in bed, but use PARKER'S TONIC by and at last, one foggy morning toward You have come here under false pretenses. i i is to banish from the country was a flourishing trade. A Kulin to-day it will give you new life and vigor. the end ot September, Septimus this vocation was art, and that he Quit my house immediately." all the heterogeneous elements that Brahman, perhaps white-haired, half HISCOX & CO., N Y. received a communication from a Sold by Druggists. Large saving buying $ i sire. "But Rosalinda, where shall I find was a misappreciated genius. He had blind, and deciepit, went the round time and politics have introduced stranier, a gentleman who signed himself her?" asked Septimus, looking wildly ot his beat each spring, going through been given a fair start in life by a among the Slavonic race. He showed "Thomas Gawkroger." His worst around as if he thought it probable the ceremony of marriage with such batchelor uncle the firm treated him a marked preference for Moscow, and fears were realized the gentleman that his fair lady-love might be concealed Female infants as were offered, and I by that means greatly displeased the wrote that it was his painful duty to well he had a rising salary, and was behind the yellow silk curtains. pocketing his fee, and perhaps never inform Mr. Potter that Miss Rosalinda Petersburg population. He for St considered by his friends to be a most Miss Dynoch became perfectly rigid returned to the child's house. riB WOMEN, 3t. Claire wa= suffering from so severe bade the use of the French language at I,C00 AGENTS. O with suppressed rage. She pulled the fortunate young man. Nevertheless So long as he lived she could marry I an attack of illness that the doctor3 thepalace, and banished from the court bell violently. At the same instant no other man when he died she became he was not satisfied. For JOHN (KUGH'8entfnu new bootjngtpcblUhW declared that there was no hope of her festivities the customs and fashions the door was thrown open. "Susan'" a widow for life. The Hinuoo lESr"LmiaTRUTSSJ!sSl- ultimate recovery. As Mr. Potter and of western Europe. This annoyed tlu cried Miss Dynoch "show this person child widow is looked upon as a thine the young lady had never met, the nobility. He openly proclaimed thu out." apart and accursed, bearing the penalty A yfrfect treasury of go^d tluarj: a aeries Of T.rsr*. Septimus lounged into a readingroom writer hoped that time would soften old doctrine of czarism, thereby shock-' PICTUEEB painted ai only in this world for sins which she Jomsr J5. Septimus turned to make one last to which he subscribed. It was the blow, and reconcile Mr. Potter to QOUGH ing tne liberals and frightened the has committed in a past existence. appeal, and almost fell into the arms a dingy, shabby place, with a torn carpet the inevitable. The ring and other Protestants and Catholics the raskol-' Her hair is cut short or her head is of a good-tempered looking young and a dusty velvet sofa. More trinkets would follow to-morrow per can pnlnt them. It R'vea, In ps niks and the Caucassian Mussulmans shaved altogether she exchanges her man, with a brown beard and twinkling jnaJifiit forrt.,hi l 11uemght*,his- than once he thought of Emily's tearful rail. The postmark on the cover was by proclaiming the supremacy of the mogk btirm ff ai.etio.c% tcfrtthtt* eyes. pretty childish clothes for the widow's wltnmorHo! jc t~and par* gazeof the cosy drawing-room, Charlhill. official church. He made war upon eomil rmniixUe "j" nsvor before coaise and often squalid garment she I hope you are not ill, Annt Zoe?" and the happy evenings he had rmb'iahefl. tut- r_ of kU "Not so will I be baffled"' cries Septimus. the Germans of the Baltic provinces, is forbidden to take part in any village pathos and tiftfi-e ol tut boast "No, Edmond, my health is preserved spent there drinking tea out of "Does this impertinent stranger are cuilo irr^v-str.'s. A io*tfnlft. which wounded German sensibility and festival or family gathering" the cent lloyal Orta-vo Volum, oss to me. But I beg that you will dismiss 4 page sad S3! gold-and-white cups, ornamented think to tear two loving hearts 7r caused reprisals. He affected to treat t&ininif IIOAT-IV very sight of her is regarded as an ill this person from the house. He Bu vrbS.t, riviL, 3. with butterfly handles, which he had assunder?" And then, desending from the Emir of Afghanistan and the Hospodar omen Her natural woman's instincts U/C UMHT 0"Omor*itnrls is a dangerous character he has used himself presented to Mr. and Mrs. his heroics, he confided to an intimate of Bulgaria as vassals, and, flL fife HI itig, in i.isvu cas. are starved into inanition by vansern to *I.IJI 'j this bot,* to ttts the most disrespectful language'" Windle on the twenty-fifth anniversary friend of his intention of checkmaking consequence, exasperated the English ten* of tliounAiO'i bo are wnltinsj con&tant 'fasts, sometimes prolonged "I assure you, madam," began poor for it No competition, and it it no* out xeiUis all other* of their wedding day. No, he old Gawkroger in the long run. and the Austrians and to-day, when to 72 hours Amid the genial and 10 to 1. KiniKWra, Editors, Critic* ete. cxvfrittbata Septimus, who wished himself safe at would stay where he was, and show unqualified endorsement and ri it God pern AgtmSa. the bitter fruits ot this imprudent The two young men laid their heads bnahtly -colored life of the Hindoo mtxeit tomrtimikimaktmomty andatlhs lanie Urn* ctmilaji home in Brickbury, "I mean no disrespect." tor and var his spirit as a man 'of character. So policy are patent to all, the c/ar does a thonvjhlv firtl-dmn ttck Exrlurire tr together, and between them hit on family she flits about disarrayed, silent, Special Terms given. Bond for lnrsvi il unrated lrculan he sat down to a table with a determined not wish to admit that he has mader. the following plan: Septimus was to containing full particular*. Aridrms A. Gk NBTTIJK shunned, disfiguredin some "What's your business here," asked TON & CO.. Pubs., 9 7 K. Olaxk St.. Chicago, In. air and dragged a paner toward mistake. He still keeps around him tell the firm that a relation of his was parts of'India a hideously bald object the newcomer. "You see that you NEW GOODS! LOWEST PHIGESt him. It was the Brickbury the evil counselors, who havecompromised alarmingly ill in Northshire, and to forbidden alljoy and all hope. are annoying the lady." Chronicle. A corner of this select the safety of the empire, and beg for a few days' holiday. He was Jl "I received a letter on Monday," explained publication was devoted to advertisements, believes more than ever that he is the not to answer Mr. Thomas Gawkroger's The Tro{rress of Opinion. Septimus, taking an envelope victim of European jealousy of English and as Septimus looked down letter (to write to Rosalinda Henry J. Luders from his pocket. "I was prepared for intrigues, Austrian hate, German the column a pathetic appeal met on a bed of sickness would be worse A sea-captain tells the following anecdote ill news, but notnot for such treatment hostility and French liberalism. than useless,)but to take a ticket to Ms ieye: "An elderly widower, no about a shipmate who accompanied as this. Consider my position Alexander III, has a frank and loyal Charlhill and burst upon the conspirators longer handsome, engaged in the ham ihim on (one of his whaling voyages Dealer in- in the world, Mr. Thomas Gawkroger!" nature, and was not born for the duplicities like a bombshell. and sausage business, desires to correspond of politics. The deceptions DRY GOODS, "Oh, ahyes!' broke in the man "Miss St Claire?" he inquired of a ith a young and beautiful of his reign have deeply embittered with the beard. "Mr. Thomas Gawkroger buxom high-colored woman servant. Stiles was .a -simple-hearted transparent ladypossessing 1,50who would him, and the failing health of the empress to be sure. He wrote to you, GROCERIES, "I am her intimate friend. How is yiung fellow, and when they me&t him at the hymeneal altarSeptimus and the delicacy of his eldest son did he?" she? Is she better?" sailed, had been "paying attention had no originality, but NOTIONS, ETC. are not calculated to reassure him. "He did. And if yon can tell me "Beg pardon," said the servant. for some time -to a young lady, who quicker to seize an idea when it Add to this dreary picture the renewal where he has hidden away this lovelv "Miss St. Clairethe lady who is so who, he had reason to think, did not was once put before him in black and Riesling's Block, of nihilist plots, and it will be seen girl dangerously ill!" fully reciprocate his ardent feelings. white? He read and at the same that the situation of Alexander III. is "Edmond!" cried Aunt Zoe, with upraised "There is none sick in th' house At all events tlhe parting pn her part moment resolved that he also would NEWULM, MINH. not an enviable one. hands, "what is the meaning of now," said the woman stolidly "but was not so .affectionate as he could confide an advertisement to the all this? Do you know or do you not they've got th' whooping cough down wish, and he was impressed with tbe columns of this excellent journal. know to whom this person refers? Do the lane." (belief that she .only kept him as & Should an eldertya plain pork Frame Houses the Safer. you or do you not know who Mr "No, no'" exclaimed Septimus, arranging standby, in default of a better offer. butcher met with success and he not? Thomas Gawkroger may be?" Charleston, S. News. his fur collar. He could see in Farther down the list he saw touching "I don't believe," Stiles would say, "Well, Aunt Zoe," replied the nephew, a glass in the hall how well he looked. One of the most remarkable manifestations appeals from lovina ladies who with a despondent shake of his head. gently stroking his beard, "I have "This is Miss Dynoch's house, is it of our earthquake was the wished to meet with eligible husdands. "f don't believe Ann Jones 'It have not?" heard of such a man." utter destruction of massive brick Had he ever been disdainful toward me, anyhow." "Aye, but she's at hoam." "Then I am sorry for the company buildings and the comparative immunity the fair sex? Ah, well, Emily When they had been out a few "Well, then. I have come to see the you keep!" pshawl She was a simple girl of frame houses. The explanation months, and had met with fair success. lady who is companion to Miss JDy- "The fact is," he said, turning to who could not appreciate his higher of thisand a seemingly indisputable Stiles tone was modified. The noch." the discomfited Septimus, "my aunt, aspirations, well enough, doubtless, oneis that an earthquake lacks burden of his monologue changed to: Miss Dynoch "I dunno what's to do," said the but too uncultivated for him. He the propulsive horizontal power of a /Well, I don'nobut what Afln Jones servant, eyeing him suspiciously "but "Don't drag my name into the discussion, had already paved the way he would tornado, while the upheaval force is '11 have me, after all-** I beg." the mistress is within. W ill ye give a break off that unfortunate affair on so iriesistible that weight counts for Witeh 1,000 barrel*?ofoil undrhatehes, name?" "No, by no means, dear aunt. The the spot and hope for a better future. nothing in securing the safety of a he tbecame still moie hopeful. fact is. your name's PotterMr. Septimus "Strange that they are all in league He sat up until 2 o'clock that morning "Chance is pretty good for Ann building. The fact that a building fell, Potter, ot course?" with Gawkroger," said Septimus to writing and rewriting his advertisement Jones," he would say '-pretty good ea=?t, north, south and west, proves himself as he handed his card to this Septimus bowed. tearing up sheet upon sheet of now." alarming personage. It was a very nothing as to the direction of the "Or No. 4 Prospect Place, Brick- rose-colored paper in his endeavors At 1,500 barrels he had assumed a bury." neat, glazed card, which he had lately earthquake force, inasmuch as a after perfection- At Sast he was satisfied, self-satisfied manner, and soliloquized: had printed. Septimus bowed again. building shaken from its foundation If hM 4 and the masterpiece read: "I guess there's no danger but what The servant left him standing the Then, my dear Mr. Potter,you and I by an upheaval will, by the force of Apn Jones *il have me now." "A young gentleman, whose morning hall, but returned almost immediately have a lew words to say to each other eravity, fall along the line of resistance. At 2,000 barrels: hours are devoted to the pursuit of to say would he walk in. on business. Come and have a glass It would seem, therefore, that "Ann Jone* '11 be glad enough toget commerce"so he got out of the hide of sherry! These matters are best arranged Hat in hand Septimus entered and the absence of horizontal force in our mf now, I know-" and difficulty"wishes to correspond without troubling the ladies. found himseif in a haudsome diningroom, earthquake disposes almost absolutely When they cut up the last whale with a maidon of gieat personal attractions, Aunt Zoe. if you will excuse me, I'll face to face with a prim, elderly of the landslip theory which was take Mr. Potter in the dining room at that was to fill the vessel's hold, and his own being not to be despised, lady, with a small terrier yelping at formulated by Professor McGee, of once." squared away tor home, Stiles threw with a view to matrimony. at his heels. The lady had a gold eyeglass the earthquake commission. The his hat in the air with a wild Indian Hi* prospects are good he stands five in her hand, which she landslip theory necessarily carries with yell of triumph, exclaiming: held close to the card, while feet eight in his boots his eyes are "Sit down, do. Mr. Potter." said it the idea of a force exerted in the "I'll be hiiged if I'Jl have Ann Jones, she threw her head backward blue and his hair auburn. His great his companion, pleasantly, "My name, anyhow/' desire is to meet with a partner who direction of the slide. after the fashion of people of as you aldreay know, is Fenwick-1 BeatintheYTarliL