^Sf^r a "Given to Hospitality." A TRIP TO MOROCCO. awaited us. a few miles outside the city in the household seemed to be that of After that the deacon himself was even the scolding does no good. It*a walls. The place was charming, close chief.grumbler nothing on the table obliged to present to his aunt the alternative ridiculous, when I have such an excellent to a bridge over the River Tensift, that was rightthe tea was cold, the steak of keeping out of the sickroom, Details of an Overland Journey from girl in the kitchen, and when drains the whole Morocco plain and* scorched, the potatoes underdone or leaving the house, and she Aunt Debby relieves me of almost all tne Seacoast to tne Capital. BT CATHARINE LENT STEVENSON. surrounded by lovoly date palms. while, at every possible opportunity, a chose the former in high dudgeon. the care of Harry"and she turned A letter from Morocco to The London The hext day, our eighth on march, we sly barb of stinging Scotch sarcasm These were strange days for Deacon with a loving kiss to the three-year-old Times says: In countries where ''"Wy wife? Humph! You lon't know made our public entry into the city. was hurled at Mrs. Grant herself. Grant Never, sincene had had a house monarch enthroned in his high chair by the residence of the court is far removed 4iy wife, sir. She's always ready to At 8 o'clock punctually we left the She parried these blows as lightly as of his own, had he passed a week without her side. from the haunts of civilization, the camp and continued our route through possible, but the doctor was not surprised wceive visitors. I made it my one company. He felt that his cardinal "What do you think, doc?" said the journeys of the ministers to visit the the palm groves. After riding about two that at last the tears rose to her virtue was fast rusting through disuse. deacon drvly "she's coaxed and coaxed, mle when we began housekeeping, hundred yards we found the road eyes and she immediately excused herself Even the most ass'duous droppers-in until I've at last consented to her ruling sovereign assume much more ^aid I, 'Helen, we may not have the lined with soldiers, and so it continued for a moment, while Aunt Myra, had ceased to come, for the doctor had asking Aunt Mvra here." important features than when, as in inest kind of cooKeiw on oar table, but till we reached the gate of the city, under her breath muttered, "Baby!" not failed to notify the entire village "Aunt Myra!*' ejaculated the doctor. one thing must always be there, Europe, a few hours, or at the suost a thqre1 some two hours later. In spite of t(ie What did surprise him was her husband's that there must be no guests at the "Yes, indeed why not? the poor old few days, will take one to one's destination. 4 knife and fork for the "stranger that heat and dust one could not but enjoy utter oblivion of all that was Grand mansion. Was there anything woman is lonely' and half-sick a Nor is there any country in the the sight, the soldier-lined streets, passing. the matter with his wife, anyway -Is within our gates," We've followtd change will do everything for her. Besides, every available spot occupied by gazing world in which this is better illustrated The meal was nearly finished before Aunt Myra said there was not, and I want to prove to 3'ou that I've that rule almost to the letter for men", women and children, while our he found the opportunity to break Aunt Myra was an experienced nurse. gained enough grace in the past five than in Morocco. People who are idmost fifteen years, and it's wonderful escort swelled larger and larger as the through the deacon's incessant stream She complained of no painonly lay years to enable me to live with any- used only to the means of traveling how the Lord honors the cheerful soldiers fell in behind us, as we of conversation, and say, "I have a white and stilL It did seem as if it body." common to Europe can have no idea of giver there pretty generally is a str&ner marched along. In all there were slight acquaintance with an aunt of were nothing but nervousness, and if t "Grace is an excellent commodity," the preparations necessary for a journey some fifteen thousand soldiers out, vouro, Mrs. GrantMiss Deborah there was anything a woman ought not within our gates, while our neighrs" said Aunt Debbv, grimly, "and 1 know which can only be accomplished and nearly all armed with MartiniHenry Holbrook." to be humored in, it was nerves. Fine you've got it, Helen but I am glad it rifles. On entering the city by airs this young doctor was putting on by living in camp and by traveling The face lifted to his was' transfigured, is something besides grace that has I should think there might be, intermpted a decidedly poor gateway, we found What if Aunt Myra were right, and it while its owner eagerly exclaimed, all the road on horse back. First there put the color in your cheeks. I shall Deacon Grant's companion, ourselves in a narrow street, the walla was all a plot between him and Aunt "My Aunt Debby! Oh, do you know have more faith in the grace holding are letters to write to the sultan, frith au amused smile, "if you hail on either side being of tabbia and mud. Deborah Aer? Do you live in Cliftonville? out, if it's backed up by blooa and whose work it is to convey in safety The heat here is insufferable, and the Have you known her long? Is she well? iim on the road a mile from your Thus, for a week, the deacon fumed, muscle." the party from whatever part of the dust even more so. The houses give one When did you see her last? and on Surday he started for the mill iome, and force him back with you in "Well," said the deacon, after the coast they land at to the capital, supply the appearance of being meger, poor "JSO," said the doctor laughingly, his grand recruiting place for guests, laugh had subsided, "I've said she 4pite of himself on wash-day, too," places, though I believe in many cases "my home is not in Cliftonville, but I beasts of burden, horses, tents, and His wife heard the heavy wagon lumbering should come, and she shall. I'll do fce continued, apologetically, as, emergng the interiors belie the exterior. The spent a few weeks there just before outof the yard, and though she provisions to a certain extent, though anything to please Helen. But if she's from the stable door, he saw a tall, crowd of soldiers with fixed bayonets coming here, and made her acquaintance said not a word, Aunt Deborah noticed the Aunt Myra of five years ago, her the amount of stores that have to be in the scarlet coats and blue baggy {lender woman coming around the then. She is very well. I saw that she grew more aud more restless stay will be a short one. I don't want brought from Tangier itself is, to a trousers, the richly trapped horses, all her the morning I left, and she charged jorner of the house with a basket piled as the morning wore on and the pink another inscription chosen for my mind as little used to housekeeping as forming a striking sight, and one me, when I saw you, to tell you that flush on her cheek deepened to crimson. kigh with newly washed-clothes. wife's tombstonehey, Aunt Debby? mine, preposterous. never to be forgotten but if we enjoyed she should certainly expect' you for But seriously, friends"and the smile "Wash-day? Well what if it is? the ride in the heat, how much* a long visit this fall." When the doctor came at noon, he with which he answered his wife's look Though it had been the intention of W-* Folks eat on wash-day, don't they? more did we enjoy the delicious cool, "Humph!" said the Deacon, sullenly found her in a high fever. "Hum of love was just a shade tearful"my the ministers to leave Tangier on the Helenr' as thay approached the as when on entering a gate we found while Aunt Mvra snapped out, he said, with an om.nous shake of the home was never a true home, nor "a Thursday before Good Friday, it was slothes-line"this is Dr. Brownell, the ourselves in the gardens of the "Does she think car rates have gone head. "I have bin fighting typhoid happy home, until I had learned to not till the following Saturday that we poung man who is going to put up his Maimomia palace, the residence given down, or that you have come in possession symptoms from the first, and it looks join with my 'given to hospitality,' got off, owing to stress of weather. Her Sign in our village. I was lucky enougli up by the sultan during our sojourn of a millionwhich?" now as if they had gotten the better of another text: 'But if any provide majesty's ship Curlew had been lying Jo meet him on the road just now, so I in the city, situated in the midst of me, What has occasioned the change? But even that sneer could not take not for his own, and especially for three days in the bay when, on Saturday, brought him back to, dinner. Near long avenues of oranges, lemons, Have you any idea the happy light out of Mrs. Grant's those of his own house, he hath denied April 9, we embarked, and shortly feady, ain't it?" pomegranates, and olives. eyes. "Thank you," she said in an tne faith, and is worse than an inffdel.' after midday steamed out of the The words were uardly spoken before "Very nearly, James. How do you earnest tone, as the doctor was leaving and I've learned that 'provide' means straits of Gibraltar. Early next morning Mrs. Grant sprang up with a wild io, sir? The clothes-yard is hardly the room "it is almost like seeing something more than food and cloth- we sighted Mazaghan, our port light in her eye, crying, "Hush they've the place for a formal introduction, but A Phase of Development. Aunt Deborah herself, to see some one ing." of destination, a seaport town on the come. Did't I tell you so He always all times and seasons are alike to my It is noticeable that while there is a who knows her. I shall write her that west coast of Morocco. As we entered brings them from the mill. I must go "Amen!" said Aunt Deborah. husband and the smile which lighted degree of dullness in some lines of industrial I have met you." the bay there was as much saluting as right down and get dinner while, at Mrs. Grant's once beautiful, but now there had been when we left Tangier "Saj', too, that I advise you, by all the same instant steps were heard on effort, the builders of railroads, *adly worn face, had in it a tinge of An Oleaginous Compound. and it was amidst the deafening roar means, to accept her invitation." the piazza below, and a gruff masculine bitterness which did not escape the doctor's were never ire busy than they are at' For many a weary hour, poor man, of cannon and their blinding 'smoke "Thank you, but"with a patient voice announcing, "You haye a fine watchful eye. the present time. It is estimated that Nic Schmeder i\as on the frying-pan, that we were rowed ashore,' On the little sigh"I fear that will be impossible view here, deacon." Jlospitality.ysimmolation "Poor woman!" he murmured to His case was really very hard, $500,000,000 represents the sum of thja jetty the bascha, or governor of the this year." Company!" gasped Aunt Debby, imself "jt just as her aunt told me And was very much like trying lard town, met the minister with military railroad building, present and twelve* "Is Aunt Myra a constant inmate of and then flew to her charge, for it required he's a dail on the alter of GoodalVs Sun. honors, a band playing some native air your home?" asked the Dr, of the deacon all her own and the doctor's months prospective, in this country. abominably out of time. The sight while making his adieux. strength to keep her in bed. This industry, it must be remembered, NEARLY FIFTY MILLION BIBLES Of course they are," said the deacon, was a gay one, the whole town turniug All that afternoon she raved: "Is "Well, she's been here with us the involves a number of other industries, all uneoncious of this by-play of out to see tlje show, even the city walls there meat enough O Sarah, have biggest part of two years" was the rejoinder. thought "where's the difference in which, however, are akin to it. In the Printed In 1G5 Languages and were crowded with gayly dressed you made the coffee How many are "She has no near relatives, times and seasons If a man's ready Distributed surveys, in the grading, track laying, Broadcast Over the Moors and white robed women. After thev Ten, twanty, oh, hundreds, and except a brother, and somehow, he and to receive his friends on Thursday afternoon, World. bridge, culvert and station building, a tasting of the hosjitalit of Mr. and and hundreds How can I feed them his wife can't seem to get along with why should't he be ready on var.ety of callings is required, each The American Bible society has just Mrs. Redman, the vice consul and his all And Aunt Myra says the bread is her. I felt sorry for the poor old body, Monday morning? A friend's a friend, giving employment to a large number wife, we left the town for our camp, compiled the results of its work for the sour she'll be sure to say it before so I asked her here on a visit, and she's and a day's a day. I don't see that it of persons and with all this railroad set some three weeks before by the past year. It has issued 977,605 volumes, them. O James James! staid ever since. To be sure, she's matters much what name you call it. building the fact should not be over- 'I emperor to owait us. Nothing could The success of the dinner party was abundantly able to pay her board anywhere, besides 500,000 foreign lands. But come into the house, doctor, you'll looked that while the nation is being bo more picturesque than a row of never known. The deacon left before but then, that ain't my idea of nielt in this broiling sun and the deacon This makes the total number of Bible? built up, as it were, various industries Moorish tents pitched on the beach they were seated at the table, and hurried hospitality. She's a little peculiar in lead the way, through the vinecovered issued by the society since its organization as well as agricultural interests are with the attendants' and escorts' camp away, panic-stricken, to his wife's some things, perhaps, but, bless me! a porch, into the cool sittmg*oom. being developed, just as a growing tree in 1816 48,356,251. The corrected behind, gay with gorgeously trapped room, whence, as the sight of him only baby could get a along with Aunt My- increases in size and strength, and puts horses and mules, while camels walked proof of the last pages of the New Testament increased her ravings, he was summarily ra." The doctor sank into the easy chair forth numerous branches in various here there amongst the tents with in Ponape have been returned ejected by the doctor. All her "Yes, a baby might," thought the ^proffered him with a sigh of relief. It directions. When the fact is con-J their slow, patient tread. wild words burned into his soul, fixing from Micronesia, and the last pages oi doctor, "but not a sensitive, overwrought -was such a change from the glare outVidethis teniplated that there are 700,000 persons as he afterwards said, the brand of Cain The next morning we started, leaving woman, whose very nerve lies the Muskokee Testament from Okmulgee. dainty room, with its screened employed in the railroad service already, upon his brow. Mazaghan about noon with our camp on the surface, and quivers at the slightest windows, its floor covered with cool The Dakotans want a new edition and that thousands of persons There followed weary weeksweeks and escort, the latter consisting of some touch." But he prudently held his anatting, its vases of delicate flowers. are also employed in the building of new in their language. of anxious watching, weeks of prayer three or four hundred soldiers, all peace, knowing from a certain look in 'Isn't it delicious?" he exclaimed. railroads, that other fact occurs to us The American Bible society has pub and agony. Even Aunt Myra seemed mounted, and some hundred infantry. the deacon's eye that Aunt Myra was a "Yes," said the deacon, "this is that with the railway anywhere there lished the Bible in all the languages of strangely subdued, while the deacon This number consisted partly of our sore topic in the Grant household. -what I call comfort Excuse me if I take is added a tenfold multiplication ol Europe, and in Reval-Estonian, Irish, moved about like a man from whom all permanent escort, whose duty"it was to Within a month, Dr. Brownell was off my coat After a hot day's work, the value of all the country bordering. Finnish, four dialects of Africa, Gsebo hope had been crushed. There seemed tdke us to Morocco itself, and partly of summoned to Mrs. Grant's bedside. to come in and stretch yourself on this The impetus given to construction Mpongwe, Benga Dikele, Zulu in the no ground for hope, and yet they hoped men furnished by the governor of the "I don't know what is the matter lounge for an hour is something worth of locomotives, passenger aud languages of the Sandwich Islands and and waited. d.strict. The work now became of a with me, doctor," she said faintly, in while, and I enjoy it twice as much if freight cars by railroad buildings has Micronesia: in the Slavic, Bulgarian, At last came the crisis. "To-night," rputine character. At 6 o'clock we answer to his question. "I gave out there is somebody with me." been noted especially in the daily press. Chinese and Japanese, and in ten said the doctor, "the fever will turn. I rose, though it was generally near 8 all at once and all over, and it seems to An opening door just then let in the All of the leading establishments in North American Indian dialects, making will watch while you both go away and before we got to horse and started on me that I shall never be able to pull rattle of dishes from an adjoining this respect are full of work. This forty-eight in all. Those issued bj pray for he knew well that neither our day's march. The tents were taken myself up again. I don't care much. room, and the doctor found himself gives strength and tone to the iron industry. the British and Foreign Bible society burst-ng heart could bear the strain of down and packed as soon as we had It I could only die, I should not care at wondering how many hours a day Mr. Had it not been for the rail-* makes the total number of languages that watch. left them, and sent on ahead of us on all but if I am to be sick a long time Grant took to enjoy the coolness but roads it is probable that we should find and dialects in which the Bible is printed Aunt Derby threw herself on the mules, merely the breakfast tent being 0 doctor, promise me that if I am to he only said, "ybu are a very hospitable to-day the principal population and to-day by these societies 165. 01 sofa in the little parlor, and lay motionless left for our accommodation. Our escort be sick a long time, Aunt Myra shan't man, Deacon Grant." only business prosperity within a few "Well! said the deacon with the these the oddest looking are the Irish, the deacon went out of doors. changed, except for the permanent come near me! I can't stand her. And miles of the seaboard and the mam Slavonic, Turkish, and Azerbijan oi Hour after hour he walked back and soldiers in every new district we enteredformed won't you tell the deacon that I must air of a man who, though not uneoncious navigable waters. Heretofore the pop. Tartar-Tnrkisb, Georgian, Syriac, Arabic, forth in a dumb anguish which could in a double line, down have Aunt Debby here? O doctor, I of his merits, could yet be humble ulation of our country has doubled in Ethiopie, Tigi-e (which has a colon find no uttcrence, even in prayer. At which we rode, the soldiers closing in must!"' in that consciousness I've always numbers in about twenty-three 3 ears. last he dragged himself into the parlor, after every word, Amharic, Persian, behind. After about three hours' ride And here for the first time in her life. considered hospitality one of the If we assume that it will now take and said pleadingly, "Aunt Debby, do Pali, Pari-Gujerati, Sindhi, Cararese, we stopped for luncheon, a tent having Helen Grant fell into a storm of hysterical cardinal virtuesin fact, I mav say the twenty-three years from 1887 to give you think there's any hope?" Malaylam, Undu, Orissa, Siamese, Burman, been sent on for that purpose early in sobbing. ^jgj cardinal one. What greater condem- the country 100,000,000 of people, this Tibetah, Karen, Javanese, Coptic, "Yes," was the calm reply, "there the morning. Here we usually rested The doctor soothed her like a tired p1 nation'I could the Masterd jpronounce rate of progress will call for all the than was a stranger, an took me Cree, Tinne and Cherokee. is great hope for herthat she will some time, riding on into our camp in 1 child, and did not leave her until she facilities for transportation that can be soon be in a land where company is 'How many translators do you emplov the cool of the afternoon, the tents and had fallen into a light slumber. aotin?" I've tried to live'with that afforded by the construction ot 8,000 unknown and there is hope for "you, was ask of the Rev. Dr. Alex. baggage having passed us while at if passage before me for the past fifteen "Deacon GranC" he said, as he miles of railroad yearly for some ears too. You can air your favorite text McLean, one of the secretaries. lunch, and so our traveling was easy years, and I can assure you that no joined that anxious husband in the to come. At present there are a dozen on her tombstoneonly I should like and light work, except for occasional "We have no translator. The work room below, your wife is a very sick 'One was ever turned empty from my or more trunk roads and 'great water to add a footnote, saying that, in this heat and continu.il dust. On our arrival is clone by the missionaries, who have woman. I foresaw this clearly the day door. Why, I've had dozens of poor routes engaged in managing the ton-^f, instance, the 'given' is used instead of we had tea, if milka luxury in to study the language of the country 1 dined with you. It is a clear case of fellows stop here months at a time when nage, local and otherwise, of the coun-K/ 'saerified.' these partswas procurable. About in which they labor. The Bible complete nervous prostration. She they have *been looking for work. I tr\: but with a population of 100,000.-^, 8 we dined, and dined excellently, the society pays their expenses while they "O my God said the stricken must have the most perfect care and 000 of people these transportation facilities don't say it boastingly, but you can ask French cook soon falling into the way man, bowing his head upon his hands are translating for us." absolute rest. You inns keep guests Deacon Grant's reputation anywhere would prove grossly inadequate. 1 "my punishment is greater than I can of cooking in a tent with a charcoal "How manv Bibles have been printed out of the house, and 1 will not be answerable about here, and you'll be told that I'm Twenty thousand dollars of black walnut bear." fire. Perhaps the greatest amusement for the blind?" for consequences if your Aunt given to hospitality." lumber will make $100,000 of furniture. "Dear friends," broke in the doctor of the day was the powder play, the one "There were issued last year 207 the Myra enters her room. She must S "You must be peculiarly fortunate in Just so will 8,000 or 10,000 miles a glad note of joy in his voice"let military maneuver of the Moorish cavalry. entire number in forty years is 14,184. have some one to care for her whom [r securing servants," said the young of new railroad every year produce a us give thanks to the Father. The Twelve, sometimes twenty of the These are in the raised letter form." she really loves her Aunt Deborah I doctor quietly, "or else the strain of so prosperity in each year the value qf crisis is passed, and she is sleeping Moors would form themselves in line, "What are the new Bibles for the would be the best" |Mv much generosity would come 'very which can be estimated only by millions sweetly." put their horses into a quiet canter till blind?" "But," interrupted the deacon, who jgv'-' Jieavily upon your wife." of dollars.American Cultivator. they got opposite us, salute, wave their And they gave thanks, with streaming "We printed twelve years ago a had been inwardly chafing under this -"Well, no," said the deacon uneasily, long-barreled fantastic guns over their e\es and bated breath such thanks Bible ki the New York point print, and torrent of advice, **I can't see why all S?v "-"ifs pretty hard work to get good She Was Equal to Him. heads, change from a canter to a furious as can come only from hearts who have printed the Psalms in the same, this is necessary. Aunt Myra is as IjV help, that's a fact, especially as I can't gallop, fire at some supposed object, have watched their dearest down and have now completed the Gospel Hostetter McGinn's"Miss Esmerelda, good a nurse as Aunt Debby." if**\ afford to pay fancy prices. We have and suddenly stop. To see the through the death valley into the land according to St. John." I love you" |f' .only a young girl this summer, but an "Your wife loves,Aunt Debby and horses goaded on by the cruel Moorish of hope and life. And Aunt Debby "What is the point print?" I l aunt of mine is living here, who is loathes Aunt Myra isn't that reason Miss Esmerelda"But it's all a mistake spur, stiMining every nerve in the wild whispered through her tears: "Forgive "It is a system of points that represent I -as spry as a cricket, and helps about a enough?" about my being rich. I am a poor race, with their saddles of red, gold, or me, James. The anguish had driven either separately or by combination Q good deal. Then we have no children, "Butshe ought not be humored in girl, Mr. McGinnis." some lovely eastern shade of blue or me wild." the letters of the alphabet. The a and woman's work is nothing anvhow.'' such whims she ought not give way to pink, and the riders' long white haiks "1 have nothing to forgive," he answered "You didn't let me finish my old raised letters could not be readily 1~ "I think your wife looks far from them. It ain't Christianthe way she flying in the wind behind them, was a stoutly. "I deserve it all, and detected by fingers that had become sentence. I was going to say I lov s- well, and as if she were working much feels towards Aunt Myra." striking and picturesque sight, much more. I can never forgive my- calloused by basket making, at which you not" .beyond her strength," said the doctor "Wait until you are a woman with self." many blind people work. The points "That's all right, Mr. McGinnis. I On the last day but one of our march $^ -in-his most assured professional tone. worn-out nerves before you pronounce "Doctor," he continued meekly, after can be felt bv the dullest finger." ,4 we obtained our first view of the great was only testing vour aflections. I have f^' "Who? Helen? Oh, no, she always judgment,"* said the doctor sternly. Aunt Debby had stolen softly to the The cost of supplymg the Bible in Atlas mountains. We had been climbing ,V looks that way, and ghe's perfectly "I tell you this is a matter of life or a fortune of $100,000 in my own name." room above, "do you think if I were to foreign lands is $100,692.24 more than a narrow mountain pass for some hfy -well. I never heard her complain in death, and I will not undertake the "Why do you interrupt me! I was send Aunt Myra away entirely, Helen's is received from them. One-ninth ol hours, a relief after the dusty plain I ^he fifteen years we've lived together." case unless my orders are strictly saying I love you not on account of chance of recovery would be better?" all the families visited by the agents that up till now we had been traveling your money, but for yourself alone." But the thought evidently troubled obeyed." "I think so, certainly," was the reply. are destitute of the Bible. over, when, on reaching the summit, "I'm glad to hear it. That was all a '*he good deacon, for, after a few irrel- Aunt Debby came the next day, and "You see she has been, by her, It took Dr. Eli Smith and Dr. Van we saw the great mountains and the joke about the $100,000," replied s, -evant remarks, he excused himself, and was duly installed mistress of the sick on such a constant nervous strain for Dyck sixteen years to translate the plain stretched out before us, Morocco Esmerelda. lp the doctor heard his voice a moment room. If the doctor had entertained the past two years, that nothing but au Bible into Arabic. Dr. Schauffier spent half hidden in its grove of palm trees. McGinnis looked as if he was not p^ later: "Is there anything I can do to any fears lest her well-known sweetness absolute relaxation of the tension can fourteen years on tlie Osmanlee version. feeling well. 'Texas Si/tings. It was a lovely sight, the green below M" Jielp you women folks?" of temperament should unfit her do her any good." Dr. Schereschewsky fifteen years to and the snow-peaks above, the nearer m: "No, nothing," was the sharp replv to cope with Aunt Myra, they were "Then to-morrqw she shall go," said render the Old Testament into the The Blue Glass Craze. mountains a brilliant blue in the clear, ^'housework ain't a man's business. quickly dispelled. To two people in the deacon emphatically. And to-morrow Mandarin Colloquial. Dr. Williamson bright daylight. We stopped some The blue glass craze of several years WL But I don't wonder,you ask, Jeems it this world could Aunt Debby* be stern she went. tV^-Tv" i and Rigffs spent forty years on the Dakotan time and gazed." H^ -duz seem as if dinner wouldn't,be dun One could scarcely Deacon Grant and his aunt for ago numbered among its victims Mrs., version. One of them estimates realize that one was looking upon the $o-day. Helene kin take the longest hadn't theyto use her own words "Do you know, Deacon Grant," said Ruth Smith, a wealthy lady of Bridgeport, do th least of any woman that he spent on an average thirty great peaks of the Atlas range, rearing an1 vtime "taken all the life and hope out of my Dr. Brownell, one sultry July day, as Conn. She caused to be built odf minutes on every verse he translated. their heads some thirteen or fourteen Jt know. Why, when I was her age" blessed baby?" he and his bride lingered over their the southeast corner of her house a Since Bible societies were organized thousand feet into the sky, the backbone, Jpj Just what happend at that remote dessert of berries and cream in the "Keep Aunt Myra out of the room?'' room composed entirely of blue glass, 250 versions have been produced in so to speak, of Africa, the barrier i.^"period the doctor never learned, for deacon's cool dining room, "do you she had said answer to the doctor's into which the sun streams the entire fe at that-moment he heard Mrs, Grant' about 200 languages and dialects. that divides the wild tribes of know it is just five years ago to-day command "if she comes in, it will days. Mrs. Smith wears blue spectacles, New York Sim%*iMf^dM%J^kf'Zx the Sus and Sahara from the Moors. voice "You may call your friend to since I first dined with you?" be over my prostrate form." dresses in blue silk and has her What strikes one first about the range .-dinner, James." "Five years, is it?" said the deacon. But Aunt Myra was not so sasily kept meals brought to this novel room on vv Lovers in Fiction. is that all the peaks, as far as there Dr. Brownell did not need that "dinaer "Well, Well, it don't seem so long. out she proved herself fertile in expedients dishes of blue glass, where she eats, are any, appear to have the same altitude, hour in order to assure himself that They've been the happiest five years of for reaching that chamber door, Liszt gave an amusing account of the sleeps and lives. It is stated that she and are for this reason unlike any .Mrs. Grant was a sick, overworked my life, and I've you to thank thatPve and many were the passages-at-arms manner which George Sand used hex has not been out of her glass home other mountains I know, except perhaps known how to live them." woman nevertheless that dinner hour she had with Aunt Debby in the hall, lovers in fiction after she had done more than ten minutes at at a time in a few of the Norwegian ijelds. "Me? Oh, no, not altogether give a gave hhn much light upon the subject. on the staircasewherever she could with them in fact "First, she limea While at lunch Raid Maclean and Capt eight years, during which period she little thanks to Aunt Debby and the The slatternly, helpless-looking servant manage to waylay her. her butterflies," he said "then she Maclean, his brother rode out to meet has never felt a pain or an ache of the typhoid fever. By the way, Mrs. Grant, girl was a revelation as were the Aunt Debby always locked the door feeds them in her box with grasses and They are Scotchmen but are both slightest description.Chicago Times* you don't keep open house now, I three stalwart farm hands who were, and put the key in her pocket whenever flowers this is the love period. After in the service of the emperor of believe?" .evidently fixtures at her table for the she was obliged to leave the room, a time she sticks a pin into them they Morocco, and Kaid Maclean has lived "Openhouse! No, indeed not so but one day having failed to do so, she season. The tall, vinegary-looking old M^The Judges Ahead. S some twelve years in the country, and struggle in their pain but she has had -Hady whom Deacon Grant introduced open as I want it by half and the smile returned to find her patient in hysterics, has been into parts where no other Eight divorces to one marriage last enough of them and is now bent on with a sudden touch of pride which which lighted up Helen Gran't face with Aunt Myra standing over her Christian has ever penetrated. They reminded one strikingly of "Mr. E.F.'s had no tinge of bitterness now. week made Cape Cod people fear for and lecturing her in a high key on the I have be. vivisection. In the end they will _. took lunch with us, and escorted us Aunt"as "my Aunf Myra," was the the furore of the union,ForUay,' sin of incurring so much'expense, with 1 to scold this husband of mine whenever preserved as dried specimens."Seu lunch with us, and escorted us Argus.^ .greatest revelation of all. Her position nothing the matter but laziness. want company, York Tribune. %&t I as far as ElKantata, where our camp