flOW EDAAjBEClDEC. Good Hot **"-*-i*"*-4ttJi Ogirviea haadsohie, intelligent-looking "STons^nse If thafcV* all I won't invite' Edna,* Laura says quietly "and Vm girl, and Laura's special friend. him." so glad dear!" Frederick Sdnratia N^-YoA'-'ISmeir' said "I had hoped," Laura had said to her "Then 3?n get papa to do it, And then, after some moment's excited Seventy-one degrees-- bdotr sfe*c A splendid June day, bright and cousin, "ihafBernard would marry BeJfr Laura, rising and serenely walking off. talk on Aunt Mary's part, the latter means 100 deg. below freezing point. :B4ttta~n%Anr of Empjt breezy.' Opposite the great square in Ogilvie. I-know she likes him, and just, So Mr. Derwent came to dinner, and says suddenly: rf^ It was uz the Artie regions, not far its carpet of green, stands a large .From fjtapftqy^irk Herald. before you came I thought he was just he talked very sensibly and cleverly, and "And I have a piece" of news, also, from Back's Great Fish River, when brewn painted house with bow-windows beginning to pay her some attention Each circus has its general. Talk to paid formal and polite attentions to though not so important as yours, Edna. the author was conducting a homeward but one never knows how to take Ber- him of any city or town in the com both Miss Laura Warden and her cousin. and spacious piazzas, half shrouded in Bernard sledge journey to Hudson's Bay nard." rrv, and the thought immediately oo And when, after dinner, the party adjourned in the depth of an Artie winterNovember, blossoming wisteria. "Where is Bernard?" said Laura, to him: "Ah, yes a town of $2,-. After this affair of the white and blue to the drawing room, and Mr. December. January, February 'and why did he leave the picnic so suddenly. On one side is a croquet ground, and 000, $5,000, $10,000 ox $12,000, as\ dre'sses, Bernard is for some days rather Derwent, after a brief chat with Mrs. and Marchthat he experienced it. And the nevswhat do you on the other a glimpse of a lovely old the ease may be, profit." He knows' cool and distant to his cousin. j, f%? Warden, leaves the lady's side, and seats Bevere weatherthat is, intensely cold think of his having purchased that almost to a unit the population and fashioned garden, green, coot, and himself on the opposite end of .the sofa Edna does not like ither conscience had set in just before Christmas, in Morford House oppositethe one next how much can be made out of it. He. occupied by Edna. Barnard takes up a perhaps reproaches herand one day, ahadowy, the mere sight of which is refreshing. 1879, the thermometer sinking down to Mr. Derwent's ?"said Aunt Mary nodding knows also the character of theinhabi-f book and studies the effect of the letters standing in the low window, she places to 65 deg. and 68 deg. below zero, and to Edna. tants, and he is acquainted thoroughly in an inverted position, refusing utterly her hand lightly on his coat-sleeve, and never getting above 60 dejj." below, and "Why, mother?" said Laura in sur* It is Sunday, andf" the people on their with the railroad and other faculties to glance in their direction. says coaxingly: we were having a hard time with our prise. "He heardlet me see, it was for getting into the place. He maps way to church. Mpst of those who pass "What is the matter, Bernard? have sleighing along the river, our camps at Edna, on the contrary, finds it difficult the day before yesterdaythat Judge out the route at the beginning of the this way are evidently of the elite, for I offended you?" night almost in sight of those we had to not, watch Bernards She tries Taylor wanted the house, and he just season, of course changing it as much., He turns his dark eyes upon hex left in the morning, so close were they -the street i3 the fashionable one of the in vain to confine her attention to what rushed up to the agents office and secured as possible every year. There see without a word. together and so slowly did we labor Mr. Derwent is saying, and more than it on the spot," said Aunt Mary town. twenty-four advance agents, who "I am sure I never intended it," says along. Reindeer, on which we were once answers absently, and hopes that triumphantly. As they pass the brown house, each follow each other in regular rotation. Edna. relying for our daily supply of food, Bernard will pity her and come to the "But," said Edna vaguely, "I did not They look after the advertising, looks up at the bow-windows, as if expecting He takes the little hand lying on his Jvere not found near the river, and being rescue. And she finds it a great relief knowI mean, how could he afford it?" the provender for the onimals, to see there a face that they coat-sleeve. seen some ten or fifteen miles back when at last the guest takes ids departure. "Afford it? Why, child, he's rich the lodgings, and contracts of from it, I determined to leave its bed "H you never intended it, Edna TU know. enough?." various kinds. These agents are provided and strike straight for home in Hudson's forgive it." But none is visible, though perhaps "Well," says Laura as her father escorts "Rich questioned Edna wondermg- with checks. They gives checks Bay. "Forgive what?" in innocent surprise. the visitor to the frontdoor, "how those whom they look for are nearer on the show for the amounts contracted do you like him?" "You don't mean to say, Edna, that for. The treasurer takes up t^an they imagine for atone end of the But her color betrays her, and Bernard "He's very nice," Edna answers with you didn't know that Bernard's grandfather We had been gonet hree or four days, and pays the checks so that when the upper piazza, screened by the matted smiles as he says still holding her a sharp glance across the room, "and," died years ago and left him the when, as we ascended the higher levels, show arrives it has no tiouble in any wisteria, are two young girls, dressed in hand: pointedly "very agreable!" whole of his handsome fortune Why, the thermometer commenced lowering, direction. It has happened a few thin slippers and white cool muslin "You are no actress, little cousin, You Bernard shrugs his shoulders and I should think, of course, Laura would and on the 3d of January, 1880, at 3 times that the firm has been swindledV know to what I allude." forces a smile of compassion. scaques. have told you." o'clock in the afternoon, reached 71 but it never refuses to honor a check, "But, Bernard, that blue dress was "I should think, Bernard," his sister "I thought she inew," said Laura. deg. below zero, the coldest we experienced "to keep up the credit of the circnsJ' One of the girls is tall, fair, stately, well, was really shabby, and you would remarks, "that you might have paid 'How strange that we never spoke of on our sledge journey of neaily Not one of the great exchanges in New and a trifle inclined to embonpoint. One not at all have liked to see me in it. more attention to Mr. Derwent, considering it in her presence: But mother doesn't a year in length, and the coldest ver York is better posted as to the monetary can predict that at 40 she will make a And besides you knowMr. Derwent he was our guest." this look as though Bernard were thinking encountered by white men traveling condition of any town or city very handsome and imposing woman. had offered to escort me to the party." Bernard flushes at this. of getting married out of doors, for that day we moved than the managers of the circus. The 'He's decidedly officious and frisky "What could I do with an old Methuselah The other is nearly as tall, but lithe "Indeed it does. Why, I declare it's camp some ten or twelve miles to the eircus managers well know it is useless for his age," says Bernard dissapproviagly. like that?" he demanded indignantly. soutn-eastward. The day was not at all perfectly delightful to think of Mr. going into a place where there is much and sylph-like, with a clear olive complexion, disagreeable, I must say, until along Derwent and Edna owning one of thos commercial depression. The character^ dark roguish eyes, and a face "Frisky! Oh, Bernard!" says Edna, "Old? He's only about 40," avers toward the early night, when a slight istics of a town are studied before going beautiful houses just opposite us, and pretty and piquant. laughing. Laura. zephyr, the merest kind of motion of into it. For instance, it is known Bernard and Bella the other. For of "How pleasant this is S" she says. 'I "Has he asked you to go to the pic- "And so fine looking!" says Edna. the wind that would hardly ruffle the when the miners of Pittsburg are paid courseBut what's the matter, Edna, nic?" enquired her cousin suspiciously. would not exchange with those people Whereupon Bernard throws down his leaves on a tree, or even suffice to cool off, and right on top of the event, comes child? Ah, these picnics, and late "Not exactly. Hemerely alluded book, taking his hat, thinks he will step the face on a warm day, sprang up the "show." It very rarely happens going to church." hours, and courting are too much for to" over to the Ogilvies and ask Miss Bella from the southward, and, slight and that a miscalculation is made, bat? it you. Go upstairs, dear, and lie down." "Nor I," says the other quietly. "I to go to church in the evening. "Merely took it for granted that you insignificant as it was, it cut to the money is lost anywhere thafr place fa^ She obeys white and trembling and -seldcm go to church in summer." were bound to go with him, and so he bone every part of the body that wa given a wide berth next season. And Edna declares that she has a no one guesses the wild regret, the "And Aunt Maiy .1 Bernarddo needn't be-in a hurry to ask you!" says exposed, and which, fortunately, was headache, and retires to her room for a bitter pain and remorse, and the vain they go regular?" Bernard wrathfully. only the face from the eyebrows to theehin nap, and lies awake for a full hour, longing that he deep down in her heart The weather too, is watched almost ^i and about half of the cheeks. We "Then he will find himself mistaken," 'As for Bernard, he seldom goes at thinking. as she murmurs: as carefully as it is by the signal-service turned our backs toward it as much Edna says with emphasis. She likes Bernardlikes him more -any timespends the day lying on the "Had I known it yesterday." bureau* The circus never goes farther as possible, and especially after we had "Are you sure of that?" and more every day but Mr. Derwent library sofa, reading. Mamma is generally south that Omaha, Kansas* City and. gotten into camp and got to work "Sure Of course! And to prove it, is rich, and she knows by this time that an inveterate church-goer but NERVOUS ORATOR S. St. Louisj or farther north than St. building our snow-houses and digging 111 go with you, Bernard," this very she can, if she will, be mistress of that Paul, Minn. There is no^ money outside jnsfc now she is on bad terms with the thorough the thick ice of the lake sweetly, "if you will let me, and aren't elegant establishment opposite. Oh, if of those limits^ The great aim of Men Who Always Shako mil Tremble Sa for fresh water, and so lazily did our new minister, and vows that if he don't engaged to Miss Ogilvie. I had never seen Bernard, how much the circus is to strike fair weather fore Makinsr a Great Speech. breath, that congealed into miniature easier for me it would be! "Miss Ogilvie is nothing to me. She's resign she will join the other church. everywhere When it is extremely cold clouds, float away to the northward, a nice sensible girl, but I'm not in love Great orators are almost invariably In the two weeks following, Edna sees I is one of her whimsies." in the north the circus is enjoying the like the little, lbh cirrus clouds of a with her, as Laura, and mother, and all nervous with apprehension when about a great deal of Mr. Derwent. The town "How odd'." says Edna, laughing. warmth of the south and the dollars summer sky, that we knew well enough of them seem to think." to make an important speech. Lutherr in summer is gay -with strangers, for "'Oh, you don't know her! I forgot of the genial southerners. When it becomes how terribly cold it must be without "They say you liked her once," says to his last years, trembled when he entered whom parties and picnics, and entertainments too hot in the south then it looking at the thermometer that stood that you have not been here since you Edna, glancing up askance, and halfshading the pulpit the same is true o\ of all sorts are got up and wends its way in the opposite direction., 71 deg. below zero, Fahrenheit. were a little thing of six years old. her face with her fan. at these Mr. Derwent and 'that charming Bobert Hall. Mr. Gough confesses Moreover, it never attempts to compete It is not so much the intensity of the "I like her well enough, and, perhaps, little brunette, Miss Edna Porter," that he is always in a tremor when coming What a pity uncle should have his with a cheaper entertainment. If cold, expressed im degrees on the thermometer, might have liked her better in are about the most conspicuous. before an audience. Many of tha family so far away. "We have been so Barmim is billed for Maryville, Miss., that determines the disagreeableness time. But since you came, Edna leaders of the House of Commons have "Edna," says Bernard, stepping .cut off from each other." and a 25 cent show gets ahead of it the of Arctic winter weather At that critical moment, Laura innocently given similar testimony. Canning said through the French window on the piazza big circus passes on. The general "He had to do it, you knon, when he as it is the force and relative direction entered the room. he could always tell advance when he and taking a seat on the front knows, tooj now long it is profitable' "failed." of the wind. I have found it far It was a charming picnic, as everybody was about to make one of his best steps beside his cousin, "have you to stay in town. "Yes, dear, I know, and I have always pleasanter with the thermometer at said. Laura had plenty of partners, speeches by a chill running through him, promised to go to the party with the The army of employes is divided felt very sorry for you. "We, ourselves, 50 deg., 60 deg. or even 70 deg. below but as for Edna, the beaux generally, caused by a fear of failure. Lord patriarch into five divisionsthe performers, the live up to our income, and papa zero, Fahrenheit, with little or nO'wind though reluctantly, seemed inclined Derby, father of the present Earl, The term he now generally applies to ring attendants, the stable and menagerie declares he will have nothing to leave blowing at the time, than to face a to respect the pretentions of Mr. when a young man, was one of tha Mr. Derwent, who in the cool of the attendants, the trainmen (in circus Bernard and myself but still we live rather stiff breeze wnen the little tell Derwent. host speakers in Parliament. He was evening has stopped for a few monents parlance "razor-backs"), and.the in good style, and anything, in my tale showed 20 deg. warmer temperature. Bernard, from remote corners, known as the "Prince Rupert of de- to exchange some pleasant remarks canvasmen. The canvasmen number 'Opinion, is preferable to being a governess. Even an Arctic acclimated white watched that gentleman's attentions to bate," and seemed so self-possessed as with the young ladies, and has just left 200 out of 700a. large number, but How you must hate it!" man facing a good strong wind at 20 his cousin, and pulled his moustache indeed1" with a sigh, "and I to be incapable of embarrassment. But them. not too many to cope with the hugetent deg. or 25 deg. below zero is almost "Yes, with inward wrath and resentment. he said: 'When I am going to speak, which is put up in. the country. Now Edna has been all day expecting feure to- find the wind freeze the nose dread the thought of going back to it. special placefor He began, too, to look with doubt upon my throat and lips are as dry as those ax Ontthe trains there is Bernard to offer his escort to this party, and cheeks, and the thermometer does I have no aptitude for teaching. I like Edna, for had she not that evening gaj**fy, and should like of all of a man who is going to be hanged." everything and everybody. Indeed, and she feels vexed that he has not done hot have to sink over 4 deg. or 5 deg. dress and encouraged him in the sweetest manner, He also told the late Sir A. Allison that the trainmen could load the train almost so. to induce the Esquimaux themselves to things, to be rich, and tlxe mistress of and was she not now, to all appearances, "he never rose to speak, even in an blindfolded, the arrangements areso'precise, "If I have," she says sharply, "I don't keep within their snug snow houses unfler just such a house as those two handsome equally encouraging his rival? afternoon dinner assembly without experiencing and have been so long in see why you should want to know about the same circumstances, unless ones opposite. Whose are they?" a certain degree of nervous smoothworking order. The canvasmen A sudden thought sent the blood to it." want or famine demands their presence "Onethat handsomest of the two, are the first to be* packed off. tremor, which did not go-off till he his brow. Could it be that this charming "It is none of my business now, certainly. in the storm. With plenty in the with the greenhouse and fountainis They touch nothing untiLthe teamstefcs cousin of his was a coquette, and warmed, to the subject." I can only leave you to your larder for all the mouths, brute and for sale. The other belongs to Mr have arrived on the ground with the* was making a fool of him chosen e3cort, and hope that you may human, none of them venture out in Derwent, one of our first lawyers. And It is recorded of Cicero that he canvas, and then, when the tent is up, At this moment the couples began to ,have a nice time, and be benefited by fcuch eather. "by-the-bye, ETina, here is a chance for shuddered visibly over his whole they sit down and just watch the others take their places for a quadrille, and his society and conversation." the realization of your ^shes for Mr. body when he first began to speak." "doing their bit." So.it is with the Bernard sees Mr. Derwent, in his usual "I don't see why I should not have a Derwent is a rich widower, ant., it is reported, A African' Queen. In the "Life of Lord Lyndhurst," by trainmen when they haveloaded or unloaded stately and deliberate manner, making nice time in Mr. Derwent's society." on the lookout for a young wife. Sir Theodore Martin, we are told the cars they willnot put a hand Among the notables along the River his way to Edna across the crowded says Edna still more sharply. So don't fail to set your cap at him!" that he did not prepare hi3 to anything else, and perhaps if they floor. Congo not the least in importance was "Certainly, if it were a scientific lecture, she added, in a tone half laughing and speeches. "Though like all great orators, did they would be only in the way. Slipping past the row of wall flowers, for instance, or a funeral, or a Queen Gankabi, who is thus described half earaost. Every employe has a special duty to he never rose to speak without nervous he reached his cousins side in advance murder trial but for a pleasure party "Any children?" asked Edna, idly. by Stanley: perform and does not consider himself' emotion, this is no way inteifered ^eOnesoon to be married and go of his rival. and dancing, don't you think a little engagedior anything outside oi+that. with his power of thinking as he spoke, "About an- hour after we left our "Are you engaged for this set?" he ehincongruous away. He must, of course, have a mistress camp! we v,ere met by two well-manned and calling into play the fittest language whispered' Edna gives him a severe look, and for his establishment, for he is canoes, in the foremost of "which to express what he thought. The "Yes, toto Mr. Derwent," glancing maintains a dignified silence. Laura fend of entertaining and living in style, there was a female paddling vigorously intensity with which his intellect worked at her card. jSf Crisis in Dcrnnar* 3$ comes hastily to the rescue. and There!" she added suddenly, as for a few strokes and, then, with a became contagious. He got his hearers He takes the card from her hastily, From the New York Evening Post. "What will you wear?" she enquires. the door of the opposite house opened, peculiar style, bnnginc her right arm minds within his grasp, ho made and thrust it into his pocket, just as a "Blue, I hope," says Bernard quicklv, and a gentleman descended the steps, Denmark, being a small country, is to her waist. Ankoli recognized her tbem think with him, see things with tall head and shoulders loom up near and with an earnest glance at his cousin *lhatis Mr. Derwent! How do you trying to be revolutionary on a, small and cried out* 'There is Gankabi'', the same clearness he himself saw them, them. who looks up. Hie his looks?" scale. The folkething, or lower house,'? Naturally, to meet such a celebrity, and so led them insensibly up to his "Dance this set with me, Ednarl ask "Why," she asks softly. "Is it your Edna bent a little forward for a sight has always had a great animosity to the principal person on the river, we own conclusions." Tierney. whom it as a favoras something more than a favorite color? or do I look better in of the rich lawyer. the army, and has repeatedly refusedf halted very quickly, and without the Lord Macaulay calls one of the most favor!" he said earnestly. blue He was about forty, and very goodlooking, to vote the money required for its slightest feign ot timidity she steered fluent debaters ever known, said She knows what he means. He is "Oh, neither exactly only"he appears but stiff and precise. port. Now, it has resolved upc her 4.5-foot canoealongside. This very! he never rose in Parliament without pressing her hand. This is the decisive the least bit embarrassed"only Edna shrugged her graceful shoulders. Btill more radical course and in action on her part showed a person feeling his knees knock together. turning-point, which she feels that the idea occurred to me that I prefer to of character. She probably was listen-,- der to emphasize its- disappr It is one of the compensations she cannot evade. see ladies dressed in blue." **I could never like a man who walks ing to Ankoli, who, like all other natives, of the ministry Estrup has.^ of nature that the nervous temperament "Our dance, I believe, Miss Edna," "Don't tell stories, Bernard," says his MI that excrutiatingiy-dignifiepf man- began at the very beginning of a down the official budget by sons which occasions the trtmblmg 3ays Mr, Derwent, offering his arm. sister reprovingly. "You know perfectly ner," she said. story and continued to the end. Her 000,000 kroner. Tnetgovernmen* is also one of the causes of oratorical Edna hesitates, and casts a glance at well that you want Edna to wear blue *"Then I may congratulate myself in attentive survey of myself was returned endeavored to persuade the houj, success. In fact, it may almost be said Bernard, wistful and appealing. because Mr. Derwent remarked just with interest. Excepting her, having never been remarkable for dignity pass-a provisional budget but th that no one can be a great orator, or a He speaks instantly, and there is a now that he admired white. Youv'e hair and color, she had" nothing negroid of mien said a voice in the door*syay quest has naturally been refuw really effective speaker-,, who does not subdued triumph in his look and manner: about her. Draw a figure with'i been evesdropping at the window." behind them. complete deadlock is the result exnerience the feelino. the Martha Washington style of face,, Bernard scrowls at his irrepressible I There stood a handsome young man, King is afraid of the Headers o&u, "Beg pardon, Mr. Derwent, but I color it a rich bronze, put the short, sister, and Edna colors. tall, dark, with a silky moustache, and or Biiberal party, andldtoes note Didn't Hurt Him, but It Ke think you are mistaken. This is my frizzly hair of the negro above, and. "Of course, dear, you will wear go-varnment1 'steel-colored eyes under his dark eyebrows. intrust the reins of dance?" Thought it Did. one has a striking likeness of the Queen. white?" Laura continues coaxingly. one wbx questions tha- divine rL| Edna slightly turns to Mr. Derwent.. Gankabi. Among negro women thisface A very matter-of-faefr young dentist, '"Mr. Derwent will expect it, you know." He sauntered up leisurely, and stood monarchs. So he- prefers to Her breath comes quickly, and her fingers of the Washington type is very who stands high in his profession and leaning against the balustrade, with "Indeed, I don't see what right he powejr a ministry which has but s% tremble a little as she endeavors to unusual. Probably I have seen 200,- folded arms, looking down upon the has to expect it," Edna answers with deala as- tenderly with his patients at teem followers im th folkething \M fasten that troublesome bracelet"Let 000 African women in my travels, and fas girls. Edna blushed slightly as she sudden asperity. the nature of his wock and the instru some* of these being' uncertain)*^ Miss Edna decide which of us is 1 cannot remember to have seen more met liia gaze. And Bernard's contracted brow clears rnenfcs-ol torture which he wields will whieh is detested by the great majo right," says Mr. Derwent with dignified than half at dozen such women. A *Have you been eavesdropping?" she again. He looks gratefully and almost permit, had a long discussion at th of. the people. Toibecount for thisgular politeness. certain feminine softness was appar-ent (enquired saucily. tenderly down at the still blushing face clfcb one evening with a friend, who is situation* it natfel be remera He is a little flushed. they were narrow-browed, with "No indeed! I came upon you quite beside him. But the girl plays with a convert to the mdnd etire theory ed" that the Danish Ijef^eince it Bernard, on the contrary, is slightly narrow, receding chins, but the best unawares, heard a chirping and chattering her fan, and will not look ur and defends it on all occasions. The common cause with the extreme I pale, and his eyes are intently fixejj, upon of this formidable type were governing as of many magpies, and thought" Un the evening of the party, in ner fcals, with Socialistic procliviiSejs dentist was unsparing uai his ridicuU his cousin. women, great in their, own way, suohi "Don't be impertinent, Bernard," says own room, Edna spreads out two test the confideaee of the more conservative ot this new "ism," butt his friend remained She avoids his glance, and turnihgy as the Queen mother af Uganda, and ibis sister serenely. dresses side by side, and surveys them midldfe class and T& is possifcly unconvinced, and at a late takes Mr. Derwent's arm* murmuring Gankabi, Queen of Musye. That thelatter *'I? Certainly not! And if my cousin long and meditatively. this consciousness on toe part ot hour they parted,agreeing to disaeree something about having lost her card. was not greater was due solely Edna entertains the least idea of She twice takes up the "white robe, the party- leaders (Berg and Boisen) A few days later the dentist had acali Mr. Derwent walks off with her upon to a laak of opportunity. Perhaps wha/u you hint at, I am ready to go down but hesitates and then he glances at that they- have lost more- than they from his friend* who had a particular his arm, with a little pleased smile of Candace- of Ethiopia, and Cornelia,, npo my knees and ask pardon." Bernard's portrait which hangs beside havegainedby- the coalition*, which has ly painful tooth. "It needs fillig," triumph lurking about the corners of the mother of the Gracci, may have 'Not here," said Edna, "on the piazza Laura's over the little writing-desk in occasioned the recent spb of tie Left -said the dentist, after the usual leis his mouth, and Edna sees no more of been women of th same type. er floor. I heard Aunt Mary complaining a corner. in two eampe, the Danish, party and Bernard that evening. ffi urely examination with a minatim people were a wild-looking set. Their that it had not been swept for a From this she turns to the window the Europeans. The former constitutor Next morning the ghdsr conie down to pitchfork. "Of eourse," he added women affect heayy collars, of brass, century and your immaculate white and looks across at the handsome house the moce conservativer wing, and adhere an 11 o'clock breakfast, and Aunt Mary, there is no real pain and no real cavi from ten to sixty pounds in weight, .suit would suffer." opposite. t national methods and a pro* as she poured out their coffee, scolded ty, but, as you think that botk exist, while- their leglets and armlets, were "Thank you for your solicitude on Oh, if only that house were Bernard's gressiye national devefefanent, wnite^^p them for staying so late on the moonlight 1 have got to act on that theory also, Tery heavy.."v ^-pt^^Wt my account, but I have a soxd above instead of Mr. Derwent's But had not the latter have declared war againetfC porch after their return from the I shall riot really hurt you although such low interests. Dress is nothing in Laura told her that her rather had declared Christianity and tine- whole existing^*']! picnic. "%h you may think I do'J^'iJust sit still XKT eyes." Hngh McCa&nont, the London he would have nothing to leave socSaj!'order. The two Jews, Geesae|^n Laura only smiled placidly, and Edna and I'll have it all over in a. tew mm "It ijs a good deal in mine. 1 love banker, who died receatly, left a fortune herself and Bernard oo& Edward Braades {the former f^T" toyed with her apron and blushed. utes." And the dentist with "ghoulish dr.ejjs, ^ridrdevote much of my time and of 4,05)0,000, made chiefly in Down stairs in the parlor, the gentlemen weH known man of letters) are tha^ to it. There, now I have told "II have something to tell you, glee," proceeded to pliy bis trade Beading ani other American securities. are waiting. ||js f.* most conspicuous, men of this, vltca4M Aunt Mary." with vigor, using rasps, ana drills,and tlhe truth," she added, laughing, "and In hja lifetime be gave Lord A light step is heard on the stair, and radical factKn|| Aunt Mary, glancing at her, nearly will leave you to meditate upon the folly wedges, and gouges, and hooks. an Cairns 1*000,000 en. his becoming both the gentlemen turn'. sprang from her chair. -fef womankind, while I go and write a -puochers and harnmerfs. until the tar lord chancellor. Baron. Herman deStern, A graceful, sylph-like figure stands "Bless my soul, child! you don't letten home." rible job was done. "Did it hurt him?" aaother banker who has justdied in the doorway, her eyes rather downcast Since Dr. William Perry nc mean that Mr. Derwent proposed to And she airily tripped away while his the torturer wa3 afterwards asked. wojffch several millions, made bis as she pretends to arrange a refractory Sever passed away, ther ha you last night?" nodded assent, ^yes followed her to the door, f^f/ *'K-n-no, I think not, hut he thoucht A fortune in foreign loans, and got bis 4 bracelet. There are crimson some doubt as to who is ati^ she1 Edna smiled as "Bernard," said Laura, "I want you it did. He squirmed well."Boston title from Portugal for his services in roses in her dark hair, and her dress is JI the oldest living graduate and Aunt Mary at once turned up the i waylay Mr. Derwent and invite him Herald. Hs finaneial matters. gave large &%ms white.. vard. It has been learned girl's face and kissed her. dinner." to Jewish chanties. "Mr. Derwent advances, looking William /Goddard, el Qfc "I'm perfectly delighted. Why, itfe If *Verywell Why?" The story thai the Canadian Pacifi* pleased, and Bernard takes his ha^and Mass. now holds that the very best match in town, and "Because I've a plan concerning Edna. Railway was to he taken on agaaranteecj' gaes off alone to the party. S^ V was torn in Portsjaout' y~ Ttom?w fa*Atrain a theUi\J Pacific almost in the whole country. Tour *t saw him on Friday evening at the concert, 3 per cent wan f$ven an empihatic denial When Edna arrives she sees mm in a road will wake the/toeeTeaAj-huiMB^ between Omah,a 22% 1790, and was $ father and mother will be so pleased." gazing very admiringly at her, and *& a t^h P*?ifc,coai* in r" Harvard in th$$l*| bav-window. talkinsr erkyelv with Miss "I knew he would propose last night Vj* thought-^-* .Us