th»w was a small boat with several IN A MONTH OR SO. Bradley started hack astonishment SENSE OF TOUCH. Patience Alford's Children. Marshall since I can remember. When people in it in sight on the lee bow. and cried: we were two little tots with gingham, We bore away for the boat, which in In a little while, a month or two, 'You don't mean to say you are The Most Complex and Jast Understood sunbonnets on we began to play together a short time was alongside the ship. The buttercups and violets blue Capt. Wilson's widow?' in the fields. I don't know why Sffl of A11 "M» Senses. Five men and a little boy climbed up 'How fast time does slip away!" Will bloom and flourish on the hill, k-j 'That's exactly what lam,' said our it is, but I love Clara the best of any Of all the senses wepossess, the sense 'The birds their sweet notes loudly thrill, from the boat to our deck, and we exclaimed Aunt Mercy Hopkins, as she skipper, rising to her feet and putting of my schoolfriends. It is a great disappointment Tho roses sweet will bloom and die, of touch is at once the most complex gave them a warm welcome. The little her beard back into place. 'After my came into Mrs. Alford's sitting-room, And summer breezes gently sigh, to me, but I wouldn't and the least understood, says the boy couldn't have been a day over And Boda fountain soon will boom, husband's ship had been struck by the with her traveling-bag in one hand have Charles or the children know it* Pall Mall Gazette. Blindness and deaf.irec! eight years old. He was bright-looking And lovers crowd the ice-cream room, steamer I was lilted on board of the tor anything," are too common, and we can all little fellow, with long curly hair. and her cap-box in the other. "I The overcoat will go in pawn, latter by two of the men. My husband After Aunt Mercy had been in a or less appreciate the nature and Capt. Harris took to him at once. The girl will wear the dress of lawn, told our folks if I did't see Patience and child were given up for lost, al Alford household a week, the boys hadl^ The dust will lie thick on the road, He carried the little fellow into the A tent of these du-e afflictions. But though I begged the people to return Alford's children betorelong, I'd never The boy «ill kill the harmless toad, found a place for their hats, bats, andfp^~^ after cabin and put him in his own who ever thinks how he would be afiected and search the wreck for them. They The bullfrog sing his doleful lay, see them, they will soon be grown-up everything else that belongs to a berth, and took him something to eat, by deprivation oi the capacity would have done this but the steamer The crickets chirp at close of day, treasures, and Harry and Lettie not while the rescued men were telling us to feel, inability to distinguish by folks. So I've come." The lovers stroll in lonely lanes, could not find the wreck in the fog, how they came to be in the open boat. only kissed their mother when they J"-^ touch between smoothness and roughness, The organ grinder give you pains, "And we are all so very elad to see and it was supposed that she had went off, but relieved her of many du- "1 They belonged to a barque which was heat and cold, or by an impaired The bycicle man will show his leg, foundered immediately after we left you, Aunt Mercy," said Mr3. Alford, ties while they were at home which^. bound to New York, but had sprung The busy hen will lay her egg, power to receive the various sensations her. I went home to my friends. My as she took off the new-comers's bonnet In every pond and lake and bay aleak and had foundered the day before. she had been in the habit of doing for--, of pain and pleasure which reach husband had left very little money, Boats will be seen each plrasant day, The crew left the vessel in two them. Aunt Mercy brought this new us through the surface of the body? and outside wraps and drew up and 1 found that I would have to work All balls and parties will be o'er. boats just before the vessel went down, state of things about with, her usual How is it that the same finger which for a living. I didn't care to hire out the easiest chair in the room for her And oiks will seek the cool seashore, but when she did go under she swamped good common sense, tact and discre-' tells us that a substance is hard or The boy each day bis path will take as a housekeeper or do any other to sit down on. one of the boats, and the captain tion. soft, tells us also that it is hot or cold? In every puddli, creek and lake, drudgery of that kind. I had learned and seven men were thrown into the "This isn't Harold' what, the baby "Your dear mother is so good" said The babe-ball man will wield the bat, Have we, as some physiologists aver, navigation thorough!}- from my husband The farmer wear the big straw hat. water and drowned. The other boat, you had with you the last time you Aunt Mercy. "She always was just so a sixth sense, that of tempeiature? If and was well fitted to take The peddler on tho street will shout, with the mate in charge, managed to good when she was a little girl, always not, how comes it that a 3ingle touch charge of a ship. I went to a ship came to Marshfield, visiting," said The sun will knock fat people out, keep afloat until we came up with it. fulfilling the scripture injunction. 'In of the finger conveys to the brain, in owner who was an old friend of my The baby-carriage will soon appear, Aunt Mercy, as Mrs. Alford introduced honor preferring one another.' She1 the same instant, two distinct impressions, "The mate of the wrecked vessel, husband, and told him ]ust how things There'll be a boom in lager beer, her eldest son, and said proudly: always prefers everybody before herself—the And picnic will bo all the go, Mr. Bradley, was a gray-haired, roughlooking stood. He thought that under the perhaps three, for the substance It will all be in a month or so. most unselfish person I ever in question may be wet, as well as hot "This is my big boy. Aunt Mercy. man, but he seemed to have circumstances I couldn't do better saw. If there's anything that I think a kind heart. Early in the evening, than dresd up as a man and go to sea or cold, hard or soft? Physiologists See, he is head and shoulders above is unjust and mean, it is to impose on when he was sitting in the forward as a captain. He found me a ship, cannot tell us they only know that his little mother, but the very same a person of such a nature—taking cabin with the second mate and myself, the sensations so conveyed are separable, and I've been a skipper ever since. boy I carried in my arms to Marshfield. advantage of a person's love for us by he told us that the little boy, who And now no one is Loing to take my and that the ways by which And here is Lettie, his sister you letting them give up pleasures for our was still in the after cabin with Capt. boy away from me.'" they reach the brain are not the same. -'fhe Little Romance Which the Stewardess Harris, had been ship-wrecked twice sakes." The subject is by no means new, but have never seen her." "That they ain't, said good hearted Told. before. The little fellow was the son fresh liaht has latelv been thrown on The children had never thought of Mr. Bradley, who then kissed the boy "How much she favors her grandmother," From N. Times. of a sea captain, and had been going imposing upon their mother such a it by the researches of two Swiss savants, and shook hands with us all. In five exclaimed Aunt Mercy. "I to sea with his father and mother "I have been going to sea these 25 M. A. Herzen and Professor dear good mother as she had always minutes he and his men were on their ever since he was born. About four ?x am so glad you called her Lettie, after been to them. But they were old Soret. The observations of these two years," said the stewardess of an way to the big clippe", and our skipper, years before, when the ship on which gentlemen, besides being highly interesting, enough and sensible enough to see the your mother," and Aunt Mercy imprinted with her arm aiound her boy, American coastwise steamer, one afternoon this sea-going family were, was nearing matter in the same light as Aunt Mercy psychologically as well as physiologically, was leaning against the taffrail waving a warm, loving kiss on the recently, as she sat sewing in the English Channel, a heavy fog did, after she had talked with them. are of considerable practical her hand to them. fresh, rosy, girlish cheek. set in. The second mate was in charge the cozy ladies' cabin of the vessel to importance in their relation to A fortnight before the wedding, Lettie "Now, I understood the captain's of the deck and the captain, with his Then four younger children came the training ot the blind. had a private conference with her which she belonged, "and yet I was liking for Mr. Wood, our mate. She wife and boy and the mate, were at rushing into the room, hunting after father. was in love with him, and of course never wrecked, nor has a ship I have the dinner table. The captain's wife Pressure on a limb—as. for instance, their several school necessities which "Now, papa/' she said, "We must she was a little jealous of me. The been on lost so much as a spar while when we tall asleep lying on one of our happened to think of something in the were lying about the room. "Come, get mother off to Mrs. Marshall's silver whole mystery about Capt. Harris,as galley that she wanted, and she went arms—if continued for some time, I was aboard. Yes, my life has been Clarence and Warren, Kate and Jessie, wedding." 1 f» she called herseli, was accounted for. forwardfor it. Just then a big steamer makes it more or less numb. It gradually and see Aunt Mercy," said the a very commonplace one. There has "Nothing to hinder, is there?" asked j* "One evening some weeks afterward loomed up suddenly in the fog, and, loses the power of transmitting mother. The four younger children Mr. Aliord. |j been no romance in any way connected when we were in the Indian Ocean I without any warning, struck the ship sensations to thebiain. Accordingto all gave the newly arrived guest a kiss "I am going to attend to the housekeeping," glanced through the alter cabin door, with it stop though, I did not aft and smashed in the cabin. The the observations of M. Herzen. the of welcome, then began to gather up said Letty, very gravely, if and what do you thuilc I saw! There poor captain was crushed to death, first sense lost is that of touch, the play a very small part in a romance the various books, slates, pens and "but mamma can't go without a new sat our mate,'" Mr. Wood, by the side but the mate and the little boy were second that of cold, the third that of pencils preparatory to going to school. once. That happened fully 20 years black silk dress." I of our skipper. She had her beard off, only imprisoned by the broken timbers. pain, the last that of heat. He says "Why doesn't she get one then?" j| and I noticed then that she had let "Where's my hat?" asked Frank, as ago, and now it seems like a dream I The mate cried out a number that when one of his arms is so torpid her hair grow. In Mr. Wood's lap sat he wheeled out the sofa and looked behind "Oh, papa you know* how mamma jj of times, but received no answer. He Sometimes wonder if it wasn't after that he has to feel for it with the is. She thinks we need so many the little boy. She was looking tendenly it. "Mother have you seen my could hear occasional whistles from other, and it is impervious to a pinch k.11 a dream. It seems stranger to me at Mr. Wood, and he was hat?" things that she doesn't want to take the steamer for about half an hour. or a prick, it is sensible to the warmth aow than it did even then." The talking to the boy as if he had made the money for herself. Now, Henry is The mother instantly began searching Finally he made a struggle and succeeded of the other hand. If the pressure be up his mfnd to be very good to him— wort by stewardess paused and a faraway going to put in his monthly allowance for the missing head covering. in tearing away enough broken prolonged, the limb ceases to be for his mother's sake. Then I knew for next month to the black silk Alter some minutes had been wasted, timber to liberate himself. He took look in her eyes showed that affected even by neat. There are people, that it Avas all settled." fund, and I'm going to give up the the little boy with him, and going on Frank exclaimed, "Oh, I know now she was indulging in retrospection. otherwise healthy, whose capacity white cashmere dress and the dotted the deck found that the wreck was where it is it is on top of the wood of feeling is so far incomplete that they Swiss this summer. We children have "When I was young I went on sailing sinking. The vessel had been deserted shed. I was up there after my bantam Cautions for the A*eL never know what it is to be cold so far vessels instead of steamers," continued never sacrificed anything for dear by the others, who had probably rooster, and I left it there," and as sensations conveyed to the skin are Age works great physical changes, mamma she has done all the sacrificing the stewardess. "About 20 climbed on board the steamer. The the boy made an exit through the concerned. Winter is the same to in this family." years ago—that was when I was wreck was now nearly even with the many of which are generally recognized. door. Meanwhile Mrs. Alford was reinstating them as summer. This probably water, and the mate made a little raft Mr. Alford was a man of business. young—I visited some friends in the shoe buttons, finding delinquent Some of them involve dangerous liabilities, arises from an abnormal condition of and launched it. lie took the boy Everything in his home ran without pocket handkerchiefs, arranging country after a voyage, and then I the spinal cord. M. Herzen mentions and impose the need of constant and sprang on to the raft, where he collars and hair ribbons, and any friction. There was no fretting came to New York to find a ship. The the case of an old woman whose legs, caution. lashed himself and the little fellow. ever heard within its walls, no complaints getting the children ready for their departure agent I went to told me that I could partially paralyzed, could feel only Soon afterward the wreck sunk. Next One is to guard against undue exertion. for school. Finally everything the little wile managed everything. go as stewardess on a ship bound to pain and cold. At her autopsy it was morning it was clear, and the mate He had never thought much The tough, elastic coat of the Avas ready and in broken ranks Australia. 'The skipper,' said he, 'is found that the spinal cord in the and the boy were picked up by a arteries is apt to become, on the one the children rushed out ot the dooi\ about the strength of heart and arm a good man, but he's a regular old neighborhood of the nervous centres small iron bark bound to Japan. The that were requisite to- carry on such a hand, chalk-like and brittle, or, on the But they all kissed the mother goodbye maid.' I said that I didn't mind old of the back was shriveled and otherwise bark, however, got out ot her course, complication of machinery so noiselessly. other, fatty and weak. Nature seeks befoie they went out. The door maids, and so it was settled that I in an unhealthy state. But M. and was driven ashore on a small to guard against the consequent danger had scarcely closed before Harry came -was to go with the 'old maid captain.' Herzen has not rested content with island, not lar from the Philippines. by rendering old pet*sous less inclined in from the gymnasium, with his shirt "Lettie," said her father, "your observations of his own species he has The next day I went aboard and reported The island was inhabited by friendly mother is the best woman in the to effort. But a little extra exertion sleeve torn to shreds. made experiments on the lower animals, to my new captain who was natives, who took careof the stranded put forth suddenly, may cause "Caught it on one of the hooks," world'" His face seenied to reflect classified several of the sensations called Harris. The captain was short crew, but nearly three years elapsed the weakened vessels to give way, from some new light just then, which had sail the young man. "Just catch it of the touch, and discovered and rather slight built, with mild gray before any vessel came to the island. the increased force with which the together as well as you can, please, all at once dawned upon his mind and their localizations in the organism ayes, but with a full, heavy black They were finally taken off by a manof-war, heart throws the blood into them. he threw down his ledger and went out mother. I have only ten minutes in and Professor Soret, taking up the which landed them at Bombay. beard. He seemed about 35 years Hence may result apoplexy or fatal which to get back to college." of the office with his daughter to buy psychological branch of the subject, Here the mate was taken sick and •old. H's hands were small and delicate, aneurism—the latter being a sudden the new silk dress. "Just as quickly as I can," said the has tried to find out how far the sense sent to the hospital, where he was and his voice was high and just bulging out of arteries. "The children all want to give something mother, as she got out her needle and of touch may be made to convey to visited by Mr. Bradley. The latter, a trifle shrill, and he walked up and thread, and prepared to draw the ragged toward it," said Lettie. "We the sightless an idea oi the beautiful. who had once been befriended by the So, too, the heart itself (orits aorta dowu the deck with a mincing sort of sleeve together. Harry hurried want to surprise mamma with the For as a deal musician may enjoy music, boy's father, said that the bark he —the great curved trunk which first gait. Thinks I, 'Captain Harris, if his mother every moment until it was dress and put on the outs'de of the despite his deafness, so may a was on was about to sail for New receives thebloodfromtheheart) may you wasn't a skipper you'd have finished. Then giving her a kiss he package, "From papa and the children." York, and he undertook to deliver blind man find pleasure in beauty of be in a similar condition, and suddenly rmade a first rate single woman.' I vJwC took his Virgil and went out. form, notwithstanding his blindness. the little fellow to his friends. But fail because of undue exertion, when it regularly despised him until the first Mr. Alford bought the silk—one of "Mamma," called Lettice from her In the one case the pleasure comes now the poor boy was again on his might have been equal to the ordinary storm came on. Then he went on deck room up stairs, "please come up here the highest priced ones in the store. way to the other side of the world. from the rhythm, or rather from sonorous work of years. Such no doubt was and handled the ship in such a way "Doesn't your mother want some my skirt hangs dreadfully. I don't vibrations of the air, produced the late case, where an elderly gentleman that I couid not but admit that he know what is the matter with it. lace to trim it with? I think I heard by the playing, in the other from the hurried to reach a railroad train, her say once that she was quite partial -was the best navigator I had ever "While Mr. Bradley was finishing his And two of the buttons are oft fiom symmetry and regularity of the object and fell dead on entering it. The aged f—- account of how he came by the boy, my basque." to handsome lace." sailed under. Then I began to think handled. "When music is going should firmly refuse to hurry. "Yes, papa, it ought to be trimmed Captain Harris came in from the after "Excuse me, Aunt Mercy." saidMrs. •better of the old maid captain. I never on I feel something here," said to M. A like caution applies to whatever cabin and said that the little fellow Alford. "I'll be back in a feAv moments." with lace." saw a captain so considerate of his Soret a deaf mute who enjoyed operas, quickens the action of the heart. was sleeping nicely. Mr. Bradley began A number of yard* of beautiful lace •men. If one of them was the least bit putting his hand on his stomach. The Every one knows the power of violent to tell the captain about how the was bought. The next morning wrhen Soon mother and daughter appeared sick the captain would go into the blind, even those born blind, as Professor emotions in this respect. No one boy was wrecked the first time. Then Patience Alford awoke at an early in the doorway, and the latter, after Soret has ascertained by inquiries forecastle and attend to him as tenderly wishes to fall dead in a fit of anger. hour, as it wras usual for ner to do, the captain rose up pale and trembling among the inmates of the blind kissing her mothergood-bye, went out. as any nurse. And when the Undue eating, especially of stimulating and asked the name of the ship. When she found a package lying on the table "They all kiss their mother," asylum of Lausanne, have the same weather was bad he would not allow food, is almost as dancerous. All in her room directed to her. When Mr. Bradley gave the name of the ship love of symmetry as the deaf. The thought Aunt Mercy, "but they make the mates to make the men do any the appetites need to be kept under she opened it, and saw the dress, and that was run down, and said that the a slave of her all the same. How girl embro'derers attach much importance work that wasn't really necessary. control. read the words: "For the dearest, boy's father was Captain Wilson, the to the perfect regularity of the strange it is'" A special caution is needed in descending The mates used to make fun of the best, most loving and self-sacrificing skipper staggered back and then rushed Mrs. Alford had a young girl to help designs which they are required to repeat stairs. In our normal voluntary -captain behind his back for being so of mothers, from papa and the children," into the after cabin as if he had the work. The basket-makers her who was very inefficient, so she had movements there are certain nice .considerate of his men, but somehow the tears fell down fromher eyeslike gone mad. We couldn't make out the greater part of the housework to insist on the willow withes they use adjustments effected by unconscious I thought it was a good trait in him. rain. what was the matter with him. An being all straight and of the same do herself, and the morning was a mental acts. But age affects such a began to watch the captain closely hour later I went into the after cabin very busy one. "For the wedding, mamma, for the length. Solutions ot continuity in the change in the brain substance that and I soon made up my mind that for something, and I saw the captain wedding!" cried the- children, bursting things they handle are, to the blind, "So many things the children might mental activity, is lessened. An old there was a mystery about that man. iVeiling over the boy, who was fast have done before they went to school'" into the room at that moment. 'Lettie indications of ugliness. They like man can no more think as quickly as Once on a pieasant evening I came on asleep. The captain looked up and I is going to keep house and take evenness of surface, regularity of shape thought Aunt Mercy. "Tbe fetching a young man than he can run as fast, 'deck and saw the captain loo lung at noticed that his eyes were red, as if a cracked pot, a rough table, or a and carrying would be as good as the care of us while you are gone, and we or jump as high. Hence the missteps tho red sunset with tears in his eyes. he had been crying hard. Thinks I, are going to be iust as good as we can broken chair causes them positivediscomiort. gymnasium for Harry, looked at merely ot the aged in descending stairs. Aged At another time, when I thought he 'Well, well, you are an old maid of a But to create the mind from a physical point of view." be." persons, therefore, should form the was on deck,I went into the after-cabin captain, indeed.' of a person born blind an artistic idea The child- en all kissed their mother In the afternoon, when Mrs. Alford's habit of taking their bearing, so to for something. I found him there. involves a measure of pyschological work was done, she sat down with that morning, as they had always "The next morning we were becalmed. speak, at the top of the stairs, and What do you think he was doing? development which it is very difficult Aunt Mercy "for a real good, old-fashioned done before, but somehow the kisses Near by us lay a big clipper keep their mind on each step down by Why, he was sewing and crying into to impart and requires from both visit," she said. meant more that morning than they ship, which, toward noon, sent a boat a conscious voluntary effort. the bargain. 'They are right in calling teacher and scholar great patience They were talking about Clara Marshall's had ever meant before. to us. The officer in charge of the The aged should also most carefully you the old maid captain,' thinks I. and long sustained effort. silver wedding. "I am so glad I have seen Patience clipper's boat said that they were guard against a chill. It is more dangerous "I want to go so very much," said Alford's children!" said Aunt Mercy, bound for New York, but were shorthanded,^and for an old man to catch cold Mrs. Aliord, but it is impossible for told Mr. Bradley that he when she returned home. "They are than for a young man to catch a and the"other men from the lost bark me to do so, so I mustn't think of it. such good children,, every one of them."" fever—Youth's Companion. "The mate, Mr. Wood, was a tall, He Got the Job. were welcome to come on board and "Why not?" queried Aunt Mercy. 'fine looking down-easter about 35 work their passage to the United "I couldn't leave the children. And When Amos Cummings arrived in A Iry Joke on Senater Beck. Barnum and the Boomeransr. years old. The captain seemed to States. Mr. Bradley jumped at the Charles is as dependent upon me as New York, after the war, he had a "Do we ever get fooled?" exclaimed like him, but I thought how much he Washington Letterto Boston. Iteco'd. chance, and his men being already to they are. He can't possibly leave his most excellent opportunity to be a imust envy his size and strength. Barnum, when I asked him if he was leave our ship, he looked around for business to go with me." A story is told upon Senator Beck at The captain, though, was much the boy. We found the little fellow in often led into wild goose chases after tramp. All he possessed beside a jot "Why can't Lettie keep house?" a White House dinner. It seems the cabin, where he wras being petted things that turned out to be ordinary. the smarter man of the two. The that Senater Butler of South Carolina lot of ragged clothes on his back was "Lettie keep house'" exclaimed Mrs. by Capt. Harris. The captain made "Well, I should say so. There's no mate, somehow, seemed to take a called the butler to Mm and saidr Alford, as she laughed heartily. "The twenty cents' worth of postage a great outcry wnen Mr. j^raaiey saia dependence to be placed on the reports "Mr. Beck has a great dislike to fancy to me—tor, as I said, I was idea! Why, she doesn't knowthefirst stamps badly glued together. He wore that the boy would have to go with of travelers as to the alleged wonders champagne. He becomes very irritable young in those days. He was always step towaid housekeeping. him. Our skipper begged hard for the a pair of battered cavalry boots and they've seen. For instance, we've if his glass is often filled, but is too running into the cabin on some pretext "I think it will be a good time for youngster, but Mr. Bradley said that just wasted §500 on boomerang Ii about three-quarters of a pair of her to learn," said Aunt Mercy. "The polite to say so. Alter the champagne to see me. But 1 never encouraged he would have to take him to his throwers. You've heard of Australian is served you will please him by filling wedding will be during her vacation. him. You see I was engaged to trousers. The place where the missing friends. Mr. Bradley was about to bushmen who have a weapon You had better let her try it. You his glass but once and then supply! *be the mate of another mate and parts of the latter should have been lead the youngster out of the cabin, made of a bent stick with a sharp ing it with apollinans." This solemn kept house, Patience Alford, before ^that mate, poor fellow, was lost at when Capt. Harris fell on his knees was concealed by a sunburned army advice was acted upon by the butler, point, that they throw with wonderful you were as old as she is." sea a few years afterward. Although and put his arms around the boy. overcoat. In this garb he climbed up who admonished his assistants! skill, hitting the prey unerringly, "Yes but my mother died, vou 'the captain didn't seem to care much Then he looked up to Mr. Bradley and When the champagne came in Beck and then returning of itself to fall at know, and I had to," said Mrs. Alford. to Horace Greeley's editorial den and -.about me, he didn't fancy the mate's said: drank his glass at a gulp, for he is one the feet of the marksman. Well, it "Besides, Aunt Mercy, I haven't anything taking a liking to me. That used to asked Mr. Greely for a job. He did of the greatest wine drinkers in public to wear." struck me that half a dozen of them 'You must not take him. lam his uzzle me. One pleasant evening when not ask to be appointed to either the life. Then the fun began. The senators would be a fine attraction, and I had "As bad off as Flora MeFlimsy of father!' went on deck I saw the captain, who position oi managing editor or foreman. all about him be^an to plague an agent go from London to the wilds Madison Square!" said Aunt Mercy, stood aft, looking admiringly at the 'His father!" replied Mr. Bradley. him—first one and then another. of New South Wales, but he writes me He was willing to do anything. bursting into a hearty fit of laughter. smate, who was sitting at the starboard What do you mean? Why, I knew His glass was empty, and he frantically that the accounts are two-thirds lie, "Really 'nothing to wear' is true in gangway. When the captain Capt. Wilson myself. He was at least "No place for you," squeaked Mr. swallowed the other wines remaining my case. Aunt Mercy. I have been and the remaining third isn't worth ten years older than you, and was a Greeley, without turning from his me come, on deck, he ?ave me a about his plate.VWhen bringing away. The boomarang is a trying to get a new biack silk dress for large man into the bargain. Come, desk to look at the applicant, "don't sort ot suspicious look, and when the his patience was exausted he called to the last year, but when the time comes fact, and the native Australian savages let me have the boy!' you see I'm busv? G'way! Scat! mate came up to me and began to the waiter behind him: "Fill my that I think I can get it, there is also fling it at game—missing about as damit!" •make himself agreeable, although as 'No, no,' cried Capt. Harris,pressing glass." The man had his apollinans so much to buy for the children that I often as hitting and it will return, if I said before I had not given him any the little fellow still closer to him. ready, and Beck drank it with a wryface. "But I tell you I must have a job." put off my black silk diess for abetter it strikes nothing, to somewhere near 'I may not be his father, but I am .encouragement, I glanced again at the "More Champagne," he said, Mr. Greeley turned around his revoling time. Lettie wants three new suits the starting point, but with no sort his—' captain and there was an angry snap sotto voce, and again the apollinari-J chair, and glaring at Cummings, this summer she is going to visit one of certainty. My man searched thoroughly, "'Don't say you're his mother, flowed for him. So it went on, every in his eyes. He did not like to see said: "Must? For what reason, of her young friends at the seashore, and witnessed the feats of the the mate and me together. That was snesred Mr. Bradley. one about him drinking wine and 1 young man, do you say must?'" and Harry's college expenses are best experts to be found, but they 'Yes, I am his mother!' was the re- apoltinaris. The others would noc plain. But why should he object to "For this reason,""replied Amos, quite heavy, and eo many other things amounted to nothing in particular. let him rest, and he drank about two it so long as he didn't seem to care to be bought for the four younger turning his back on Mr. Greeley, lifting The famous boomerang is practically "And with that Capt. Harris pulled quarts before the dinner was, over. for me himself. I tried to hit on children that it is impossible for me the drapery of his old blue overcoat a myth." "o*^ 1 aside the heavy black beard I mentioned. After the guests left the table tome of to think of a new blai.k silk dress this -some reason for this, but soon gave and exhibiting the vacant places There was no doubt about them told him the joke. He received spring. It is really a great disappointment the whole thing up as a mystery too where wild winds had whistled Gov. Hill oi New York has informed his it in no amiable mood, and is now it. The captain had a woman's face, for me not to go to the silver -deep for me to attempt to solve. riends that he is not, and never has been through his trousers. and not a bad looking one either. Mr. waiting to be even with Butler-. wedding, as I have always loved Clara One morning when we were in the He got the 30b.—J. Amory Knox, a candidate for president. ^South Pacific some one cried out thaf MM *3fc £&&.