perhaps, be too assiduous in their devoirs. one that would see you of fatal consequences from the tteci* house." dent. $. They did hurry on to the heaven of a I love my doga beautiful dog,' "Now, my dear child, you are the In the midst of the to^do, while Brave and alert for.a race, *y. pretty bijou cottage in red brick veriest tyro I ever met. As if I have Bridget was cooking rum and water The symptoms of drunkenness, be it Man, without the protection of a k Ready to frolic with baby or man and stone gables, standing among not the charmer peeping at us through 4 and lemons, and frequently tasting observed, are all paralytic, and are Dignified, too, in his place. superior being, is secure of nothing laurels in its own grounds, and a the lace curtains at the centre window the mixture in*.the kitchen, Ii~'a""~d an while all due to loss of nervous power and rc.. I that he enjoys, and uncertain of ev- stone's tnrow from the sea, into which this half hour past. Looking at I like his barka kindly bark, Castor was caretully tucked into Mr. erything he hopes for.-Tillotson. of voluntary control. The flushing o* there jutted a boat pier, with a boat at Musical, honest and deep me, remember, not you, my boy." haA Landon's bed by ,,_,,.., his friend who Landon'svdressd ha the face shows the paralysis of the And his swirling tail and his 6haggy the end of it. The two ladies disappeared "By Jove!" starting up, "you don't Would you respect yourself, keep enrobed himself in Mr. W coat through the green gate, but your heart and body clean. say so! Where?" small blood vessels soon the slip ing gown and nether garments, the And his sudden, powerful leap. Castor managed to catch a Parthian "There! You've gone and done it shod utterances show the want of voluntary aforsaid procession returned from Women alone compose a flourishing glance of a pair of very bright now! She's scuttled off like a mouse. Oh, never a corpulent pug for mo, church. Lily flew down the stairs like control over some of the muscles Presbyterian Church at Sydney, III. sapphire blue eyes while Pollux That comes of weariug an eye-glass a bird, but hot quicker than the indignant i Nor a spitz with treacherous snap! of articulation the double vision They built and dedicated it substantially was saluted with a series of you can't see." ^Never a trembling, pattering hound, poodle. indicates the loss of accommodating free from debt, but the barks, the poodle, who, now believing "I can see that you have arranged Nor a poodle to live on my lap. "Oh, papa, dear! Only think. They offices have been vacant for a year because power in the eyes and the staggering himself at home and safe from terriers, this plot very nicely for yourself, my were all but drowned, when we saved Ho soft lined basket for bed Has Jack there are no men to fill them. struggled violently in his mistress' gait shows that the loss of control dear Pollux. 1 am to fall in and be them that is, I and Cook. Oh, wasn't Nor bib, nor luxurious plate arms the vain pretense of desiring the duffer that gets drowned, while has extended to the large muscles it a mercy? The two officers! They But the doorstep brown that he There were sixteen Methodists, six to annihilate them both at you are to be the hero, the brave ai*e in your bed'" lastly, the drunkard falls prostrate in guards so well, Baptists and only one non-professor once. preserver, and so forthno, thank She brust into tears, as girls do unuer And the lawn are his royal state. a condition so closely resembling apoplexy of religion in the grand jury of Gwinnett "A doosid neat little crib," observed you." sudden excitement. No dainty leading ribbon of silk that the most experienced occasionally county, Ga. Its session was opened Pollux, staring at the bow window. "But think of the pity a corpse excites, "Two officers, and in my bed!" exclaimed My grand, good dog shall fret fail rightly to distinguish one by prayer. "Just the kind of a little box and the brandy and water, and No golden collar needs he to show her father wrathfully. "What from the other. one would like to dawdle away a summer He's a very expensive pet that blue-eyed charmer putting hot does this mean? Are you mad?" General Booth is planning a Salva. in, if one had $3,000 a year, instead stockingsher own, perhapsfull of "Indeed and indeed, then she's not," tion army campaign for Zululand and The temperance women of England But just my loving voice for a chain, of only 1,000 farthings." salt to your poor feet." observed Bridget to the astonished South America. He has issued a call His bound at my slightest sign, have been getting up a jubilee memorial "Yes, and with those two eyes to "Ay, my good Pollux, and of your groups. "And where should the poor And the faith when we look in each for 5,000 officers to be trained to go to the queen in the shape ot a rival the billows," mused Castor, who whispering into her ears all the time. other's eyes craytur be, and he an illigant Iri- h- abroad as missionaries. Thousands petition that the bar-room be closed was sentimental,coraparatiyely speaking. Proclaims that my dog is mine. No, the sorra a bit of me will be the man, a son of Lord Castor, as fine promptly responded to the call. on Sunday. It now weigns several corpse. You may, if you like." a man as ever stepped, that lived beyant j He'll never be carried in arms like a "I should think now," continued hundred pounds, and contains threequarters the bog, if not in the best bed? Boston Transcript: Bible readings "Well as you say yourself, it is better babe, Pollux, "that it would not be unseemly of a million signatures. And his friend, that's as good as a in parlors will be a feature of society than nothing. I'll be the damn, Nor be dragged like a toy,all a curl to knock at the door and inquire if wet nurse, wid him, and anlrish gentleman, SFor he proudly knows he's a dog, diversion sha'l it be said?this winter, moist, unpleasant body, but it's no A Nantucket steamboat captain Mr. Smith Hve-3 here? That would does Jack, too, as he told me himself, and will take the place among use to-day. There's a flutter in the was one asked by a passenger on his tell us who the charmer is, at all And I'm not that sort of a girl. when he took the sup of brandy from son of the intellectual that Browning dovecote, and we may just as well go Bessie Hill, in St. Nicholas for events." boat how much ardent spirits he me own hands, Mrs. Bridget,' sez he, home to lunch"which they did. recitals occupied last year. October. "Capital! Let us enter forthwith." used. did yez ever hear of Sir Giles Pollux, The next day was Sunday, and Rev. P. L. Evans, one of the pioneers But when the two young men knocked of Castle Pollux?' sez he, and 'Degorra, He replied, I never drank a teaspoonful there was only early church parade. and rang the bell, they became of the Methodist church in Washington, sir, sez I, 'that I did many and A COTTAGE BY THE SEA. The two young officers strolled down of rum, brandy, gin, cider, aware, to their surprise, of a died recently. He combined many a time 'and that's me own to the cottage by the sea, and having wine, or beer I never smoked or snuffed, great commotion within. There father.' sez he, and" office-holding with the duties of the taken up their positions at the end of was a noise of as chain being put ministry, and had been almost continuously and I never drank tea or coffee." "Will no one stop that infernal From the London Graphic. the pier, began to smoke as usual. across the door, a' hurrying of feet, in public office since 1829, woman's tongue?" exclaimed Mr. Landon. "But," said the passenger, "what Mr. Landon, ex-cotton spinner, had The belle were ringing for church and and a clatter of fire-irons, and above when he was appointed register of the "You have been most imprudent, good reason to hate the army. His did you dunk with your breakfast?" the morning was a fine one in the 1 all the din the poodle barked furiousiy. Lily. Has not the armv cost us treasury. At the time of his death he "Cold water," was the answer. merry month of May. Presently they eldest daughter had married a gallant enough already, without putting two held a position in the dead letter office. "And what with your dinner?" say a solemn procession issuing from "Officers!" some one cried in an young Hussar, who quickly spent her officers into my very bed?" "Cold water." the green gate headed by Mr. Landon, "Good deeds," once said the celebrated angry voice. "On no account let "Only one, papa," she said humbly, fortune at Newmarket, and thereafter "Well," said the passenger, "but who, in figure and features, was remarkably Richter, "ring clear through them in." and looking down. what do you take when you are like Mr., Hablot Browne's vanished from the world's ken, leaving A window above the porch was now Heaven like a bell." "Pish! Well, they shall get out of sick?" pictures of Mr. Dombey in the novel her neither widow nor maid. His thrown up, and an elderly man with the house faster than they came in," of that name. Mr. Landon, Miss "I never was sick in my life," was To sav that we have a clear conscience a very long face and very" white whiskers eldest sona great scamp, as the sons he cried, and bounded up the stairs. the ready reply. Vizard, two maid servants, a coachman, is to utter a solecism had we desired the young men to be But even Mr. Landon was silenced of steady business men often areentered a page, and John, the footman, never sinned, we should have had no gone. The high liquor license law is diminishing by what he saw in his bedroom. The with two out-door servants, formed a dragoon regiment, got into conscience.Carlyle. "Does Mr. Smith live here, sir?" inquired the number of drinking saloons blinds were all drawn, and the room the cortege. Tney all carried large some discreditable row, was tried by Pollux, with his best and 1 in Philadelphia. In every part of the darkened. A young man with a curly The highest point outward things prayer books, and were in their go-tomeeting is the contentment most courteous manner. Court-martial, dismissed the service head lay in his bed. His eyes were inf city places used for years as bar-rooms can bring one raiment. Miss Lily was not "No, sir, he does not. This is a lunatic shut and his face pallid? The latter and shot himself through the head the have been vacated, and now bear on therenor the poodle. Miss Landon of the mind, with which no estate is asylum, and I am a mad doctor. was due it must be confessed, to an had developed quite a fondness for the closed doors placards "To Let." the next dajr. His second daughter, miserableSir Philip Sidney. If you value your liberty you application of violet powder from the tBe sea ot late, and was never tired of A number of the places closed were 'Clata, was cruelly jilted by a guardsman, Will be gone. No one is aflowed to There are now twenty-seven vessels toilet table. There were great black watching its varying moodsso like pretentions establishments, fitted up and died at Bournemouth a enter here, and especially nofaugh! engaged in missionary work in different marks under his eyesfrom a lump of those of a womanfrom her window. in good style, apparently doing a soldiers." paits of the world under the auspices year subsequently of a broken heart. coal in the grateand Mr. Landon began "I say," said Pollux, when the procession thriving business. With them, as with "Is the young lady a patient we of sixteen societies of these missionary to think that matters were really A second sonat Woolwichwas had gone past some time, numberless glittering affairs of this just saw go in?" ask'ed Castor, surprised. vessels sixteen are running on worse than he thought. Moreover, he blown to pieces by a shel* "there she is behind the drawing-room world, where appearances go for so the coasts of rivers of Africa and six had caught Bridget's reference to the curtain. Fortune favors us the which exploded in his hands while "Yes, sir, she is. Mad as a hatter. among the islands of the Pacific much, things were not what they seemed. nobility, and Mr. Landon, like many house is empty now is the time for Homicidal mania. Don't you ever attempt lie was examining it and last, but not Ocean. self-made men, dearly loved a lord. Five hundred dollars for one our little comedy!" So saying he walked to speak to her, or she may cut least, his own remaining child, his ewe "Well, sir," he said to Pollux, "here year's license to sell liquor was too to the very edge and looked into He that never changed any of his your throat. Carries a carving-knife exclaimed Miss Vizard, of a suddeu. heavy an inroad on the annual profits lamb, Lilly, evinced a remarkable prepossession the sea. "But look here, chappie! It opinions never corrected any of his in her muff. Here, John, show these And a soldier it wasan orderly in to warrent a continuation of the business. would never do for you to save me, for the military. The mistakes.Bishop Hail. humgentlemen out." pursuit of the young man. Miss Vizard Hence the end came. for you would not have the nous to Cfrand Dutchess of Gerolstein was not The window went down with a bang, almost fainted when she heard The company in avhich you will improve carry the farce through. Come, no and a tall footman.coming round from fonder of soldiers than Lily Landon that the Royal Bombardiers were ordered At the general assembly o the the most will be the least expensive.Washington. hesitation you go." And suiting the rear of the house,politely escorted on service to South Africa immediately, knights of labor at Minneapolis recently but th she only saw them at a distance, the action to the word, he sent Mr. the officers to the gate. and that the Colonel had General Master Workman Powderly, Castor with a souse into the water. never at closed quarters. This The seed of sacrifice brings forth the "I say, John," quoth Pollux, twiddling been sending messenges in search of in referring to the principles of Miss Landon saw it all from the window, idiosyncrasy was made all the more a sovereign between the fingers of fragrant fruit of love, and love always them all the morning. The effect on and so did the poodle. The latter the order, seid: "I am called a crank distressing to Mr. Landon from the his lavender kids, "who's that old the drowned was remarkable. He has in its heart the seeds of new barked disapprobation of the on thetemperance question. I may be a bloke, eh?" jumped out of bed and clothed himself sacrifice.Rev. Josiah Strong. circumstances ot his residing in a garrison whole proceeding, but his mistress crank on this question, but I am not in a moment. So did his friend. John regarded the gold attentively trembled with fear and excitement. town, which is a seaport as well. It is utterly in vain for any one to ashamed to say that I would rather Miss Lily wept silently. with one eye. "That's Mr. Landon, "Good gracious!" she said to herself. He could not prevent Lily seeing -sol. attempt to reason in opposition to see a man sober than a drunkard it "As I'll never probably see you hisself. Horful rich, but vulgar. He's "Are those two handsome young the truth of God, for every word God is better to educate our children to be fliers and officers going about their again, I'll say good-bye," said Mr. made his money in trade, you see, so officers quarreling about me, and will hath spoken shall stand forever.C. temperate, not to be drunkards. duties, nor could he abolish the regimental Landon quietly. you must excuse him." there be murder? Oh, my! No! See, H. Mackintosh. There is not a man living that will Miss Vizard regarded Pollux with band which always made Mis3 one of them throws off his coat and "And the girl, John what about the say it is right to bring into the home inexpressible tenderness. It does not require great learning to dashes his hat on the ground! Lily's blue eyes sparkle and caused young lady?" asked Castor excitedly. that which damns the headofthefamily. "It is like going to the crusaders," be a Christian, and to be convinced of He plunges into the boiling "That's our daughter, a namiable her unconsciously to assume something she murmured. There are those who have threatened waves to save his drowning the truth of the Bible. It requires an but 'aughty young 'ooman. No followers of the audacious demeanor of a As for poor Lily, she could only return to leave the order because of my friend. The waters close over them! honest heart and a willingness to obey allowed," said John significantly. the squeeze of her lover's hand vivandiere. All he could do was to position on this question. I say to Brave man! Oh, dear, I can't stand God.A. Barnes. "Specially the milrogtary." no more. ngage a distant relative as a duenna* this! Cook! Cook! Come here, run, run all who would withdraw for that "But why, John, why?" A general conference of all Evangelic-. At Majuba Hill there are two graves directly." cause, I say go I'll trust the fate of "Can't say, sir, I'm sure. I only but under a homely exterior this old al Christians in the United States,is to i sise by side, in which Pollux and Castor, state facks. Now, sir, I must go back. this nation with sober men. I'llne\- The cook, a fat Irish woman, with a lady concealed a most romantic disposition, be held under the auspices and direction undivided in death, sleep well. I If Mr. Landon was to see me, I'd lose eg take back one word I have said on red face and reddish hair, came puffing of the Evangelical Alliance for the wonder if Lady Longworth ever thinks with a singular belief in what my place. Thank you, sir, thank you the temperance question. The time and blowing to the foot of the United States, in the city of Washington, of them in the whirl of London society? is now derided as chivalry. The very sorry, but must lock the gate," stairs. will come when the workers of all December 7, 8, and 9, 1887, to She is a great lady now, and her .Barsetshire Regiment, alias the Royal which he did. "Oh, cook! run quick and save them! kinds will be banded together for study in effect the followingquestions- eyes are as much admired as her dia* Bombardiers, was quartered at And they were locke*d out on the Two officers! Drowning there at the this common purpose." FirstWhat are the present perils monds. Barmouth at this time.andan exceedingly dusty road forthwith. pier. Oh, run.run quick, cook.please." and opportunities of the Christian lively mess was, one of the distinctions It As Castor pensively turned homewards "Is it sogers, they? Bedad, thin, church and of the country? Second of the regiment, two-thirds he saw something white, like a The Great Tower at Paris, the divil a fear of them. Sure, indeed, GeneraKCrant Laughed. Can any of them be met -of the members being young Irishmen. handkerchief, wave from a top window. I was coorted by a sergeant meself, Paris Dispatch to London Telegraph. best by a hearty co-operation of all It was currently reported that thefce Chicago Tribune. His spirits rose with a bound, and, aud, sez he, sez he" Evangelical Christians.which, without The works on the Champ de Mars young gentlemen, of good family, but General Grant was rarely known to singular enough, he never mentioned detriment to any denominational interests, But Miss Landon could not wait to for the exhibition of 1889 are going -slender means, were the plague of the smile, and the occasions were few indeen the circumstance to his dear friend will serve the welfare of the hear honest Bridget's reminiscences. on apace. The foundations for several adjutant general's life.so frequent were Pollux. when his dignity so far broke whole church? ThirdWhat are She sped out of he house and down of the large buildings have been laid, the complaints and grievances that down as to permit him to laugh out Ah' if he had but known that this the best means to secure such co-operation,and to the pier, the poodle barking furiously .aTrose from their racing, rowing, rathunting and the modern Tower of Babel, which rightthough he was far from being was only a frisky freak of Miss Vizard, to waken the whole church in front, and Bridget puffing like is being constructed under the auspices and other proclivities and that devoid of a relish for a good story or the duenna, into whose head there to its responsibility. a female locomotive in the rear. the commander-in-chief himself had of M. Eiffel, isgradually rising from suddenly came a phantasy of a distressed joke. There was one time in his life, They reached the beach just in time threatened to honor the two worst the ground. M. Eiffel hopes that it will damsel in a turret and of two to meet the two dripping officers coming however, when he indulged in a roar canegrace"3 of them all with the disAinction be quite finished by October next year. A Delicate Machine. young knights attempting her rescue. out of the water. If Miss Landon of laughter that migtit have been ot a court-martial. The two The first story, about 180 feet in 9 The circumstances, however, was The Safety Valve. had not been so excited she migfft beard tor a quarter of a mile. It was rin questionthe head and front of all height, will in all probability be completed enough to fan the sparkthe bolt In a Broadway store which is a have thought it singular that ttte this offendinghowever, took life riotously, while ne was filling the Presidential the end of December, and we from the bluein Castor's bosom to a branch of a big out-of-town scale factory, drowned man was riding on the other's and were, indeed, on the high chair and made his trip toDes Moines, shall then be able to form a fair conception flame, while, as for his friend, he are more different kinds of scales back, and that, though his eyes road to Avernus, when the following Iowa, and delivered his famous speech of the character of the entire walked on, wrapt in contemplation of than most people imagines were ever were shut,he seemed to cling vigorously incidents occurred: They were close rl here are specimen of every on educationthe first time it xvafl structure. Curiously enough the workmen John's allusion to Mr. Landon's made, to his friend's neck. alhes.these two so that they went by discovered that he really could make wealth and "wulgarity." engaged in clearing the centre of grade pf weighing machine, from the the name of Castor and Pollux in the But sheneither noticed this nor anything a good speech. He had been in St. big track-scales that can weigh a railroad the Champ de Mars have met with unexpected Next day, and next day, and the regimentnicknames that will do just else, in her efforts to emulate car full of pig lead down to a difficulties, owing to the fact Louis and came up the old Northern next, the two friends strolled down to Grace Darling on that coast. Z&B well as their real ones, which are tiny balance so fine that it is kept in that portions of the old Exposition Missouri Railroad into Iowa. He Marine Villa, and smoked many cigars nthose of a noble Irish family. "Oh! I saw you fall into the water, in a glass case which could be carried on the little pier, but to no purpose. building had not been properly removed. passed through the little town of Lieutenant Castor and Pollux, then, lam so glad," she stammered inconsistentlyr in one's pocket. The smallest scales No one came out of the little green They have been obliged to Bloomfield, twelve mUes from the jj^were walking down the High street, "How brave of you: but of all are made for delicate te3ts in gate, and no one went in nevertheless havfe recourse to blasting. I hear, by arm in arm, with very large cigars in will he die?" Missouri line, at 9 o'clock at night. assttving. They are adjusted to milligrammes, they enjoyed a beautiful view of the the way, that most of the men, about their mouths, and very small bull Pollux shook his head meaningly A crowd had assembled, conspicuous and are so sensitive and so drawing-room windows. t&rriers at their heels, when Nick, like Lord Bacon in the play. 600 in number, are employed at the among them being the village toper, fine that an eyelash can be correctly "It's not satisfying, you know," Alias Castor felt an electric thrill, BO "It all depends on the pro mptness of rate of 2 l-2d. to 3d. per hour. These who always filled wp on great weighed on them. You ean write yomr said Castor, "but it is better than to say, from the arm of his pall Dick the measures. If we could only put are low wages for Paris, but the behavior occasions, and had therefore nanie on a slip of paper with a lead*pencil, nothing, seeing where she is." t(Pollux), and from previous experii him to bed at once now." of the laborers has been excellent, and then find out just how risen to the emergency and "I tell you what, my dear fellow," .ences at once concluded tha* there "Oh, bring him into the house. My and their zeal and activity have much your signature weighs. The was in a condition, on the arrival of said Pollux "this can't go on nohow. & was a pretty girl around. So there name is LilyMiss Brandon, you already won for them no small weights are the mere atoms of aluminum, I must have money, for the duns are the Presidential party,, to hobnob with ~wasan a benign old lady, wreathed knowand I'm sure pa will not be amount of commendation. in smiles also. not haif so large as the head of all down on me in shoals, and my respected a king. The train halted at the station angry when it is a matter of life and a pin. The machine is so delicatethat progenitor is in the same fix "By George! what an exceedingly for several minutes, and in response death." a little dust blowing in from the as myself, since all bis tenants down pretty girl," quoth Nick, and "Looks A Grave Question. to cheers Present Grant appeared 'Deed thin, but he'd be a naygur if street might effect its workings, and it at Castle Pollux refuse to pay him the very solvent," said more practical on the platform and lifted his he was anything else,'" said Bridget. has to be carefully cleaned after each Of a grave question, which every 'rint.'" Dick. Chuckling at the success of his experiment, hat in stiff, schoolboy fashion. The exposure. It is made of aluminum,, Benedict must be called on to face in "Let us follow them and find out "Hang your filthy lucre! i only Pollux, who was a young old toper looked at htna with blinking platinum and the finest tempered some form, the Buffalo Courier says. 4 wher they live." want her eves." athlete, ran his friend at the double steel, and people do not use it as- a eyes, then deliberately clambered up "There's a young man up onwell, no The two ladies, who had evidently "It strikes me, my child, that you q\iick into the cottage, while the two plaything a3 a general rule. It costs on the plat orm, steadied himself bv matter what streetbut on a street Tbeen making some trifling purchases are very far gone. But sitting here women followed at their best pace behind as much as its weight in gold. Every in Buffalo, who is about to enter into tbe^ railing, and deliberately thurst an ^directio, town had of turnesuburbs,faces the their and in were the smoking wont do us much good in the in much perturbation. once in a while a skeptic comes along 3 the b. b. of m. in a month or 30. The bis face close to theshpinx like countenance 5 way of either optics or rupees. The "Ye must put him into the master's who dosen't believe it will weigh a hair question that torments him now i before him. There was a dead iiow walking along the sea-shore, the question is, how to get in." own bed," quoth Bridget, who was the from a man's head, and if the manager whether to give his wife a stated al' silence, the audacity of the act causing younger with a white fluffy poodle dog "I am sure she is kmd-hearted," only servant left this Sunday in the of the store has plenty of time at lowance of money, give it to her in her arms. The officers followed at said Castor. "See how she hugged the townspeople to stare in dumb house, "and give him plenty of rum his disposal he will bring out the wonderful s*. "hunks," or let her ask for it when a respectful distance, but the bull terjriers that poodlelucky dog!" and brandy. That's what cures the amazement, while the few persons surrounding fittle machine and operate it. she wants it. He's rather diffident were in earnest in their endeavors "Come! That's good," cried Pollux. sogers, as Sergeant Heavyslirn many Grant were equally astounded. A. reporter happened in the other day about talking it over with his betrothed. ifco make the acquaintance of the fluffy "Happy thought let us test it." and many's the time" while the operation wasgoingon. Te For a moment the drunken man t,c "The diggins of it is," as he says,, ipoodle. Perhaps tble accounted for "How?" *p "Take him up to Papa's roomf Up manager took a slip of ordinary writing swayed and stared, and then said: that the allowance will have to be oi of the ladies' knowledge of what "This way, sonny^-TTou tumble into the stairs to the Tight. Can I do anything, paper and weighed it. It weighed *p."Ish zis Presh'dunt Grant?" nvasfijoingon behind them. the water here, off this pier, and small, if it's that way. He has tried sir? Oh, please tell me!" thirty-eight nrilligrammes. He then I will plunge in and rescue you. Man to pump the married women ot his acquaintance The features of the hero of Ap* "Let us ask them to call off their "He should have hot stockings full gave it to the visitor, with a lead pencil, overboard' Great sensation, you pomattox. relaxed a little as he nod-ded fflog," said Lily "I am sure they are and most of them incline of salt to his legs and feet," said Bbllux and the visitor wrote "John Henry know. Gallant conduct! Carried into affirmatively. toflicersof the Bombardiers. gravely. to the allowance system. It will be Lamed" on it in a full free band. the drawing-room by John. .l*"Come, now, hones', pardner," persfsted ".Not for the world, not for the "Would Bridgets do?" she' inquired rather hard to arrange the matter Then the manager put the slip back Smelling-bottles, brandy put to bed! the toper. "Shay, oP man, y* %.^world, niy dear," replied the doubduennat eagerly. "She wears blue wooleners, equally unless his wife runs the house on the scale ana fixed the little *"no that I have any abou Bless you, my children, 20,000 ?A ain't trym' to fool a feller, are yon?'* very warm and thick" keeping, bills and all, in which case weight s. Whea he struck a balance down, and 20,000 more at my death! The scene was cut short by the ttheir gallantry the cjnva'rous sense "I think," said Pollux, shaking his some women would say. and perhaps again he bad forty-three milligrammes Old man now and can't live long! Town Marshal preaching up and yanking of honor of these brave men who die head, "that lisle thread, six sixes, on the* other side. The signature justly, that be should turn over his Upon my word, it's glorious," cried the intruder to the ground but ifc for their country, and for England, would suit his complaint better." weighed precisely five milligram mes. whole salary to her, and ask her for Pollux^enthusiastically. had such an erpressibly funny side home and beauty but think what She blushed, for she saw he was regarding Then the man pulled a hair out of his cigar and other spending money when "Except for onething," returned bis that the "silent man'* burst into a your papa would say, wich his singuar Iter boots. After this, though head, and the manager found it weighed he needs it. Bnt that's rather hard friend, sarcastically "that you might hearty guffaw, in Which those around antipathy to warriois. Oh, no, anxious to be of every assistance, she three milligrammes. on the man.'* drown here and be blessed, for any Ijim joined as the train moved away. (never let us b,urry on, or they may, did not seem to be of very much afraid