mm^m-0m S- The Prodigal's Return. It was unhappily, easy to see that been round, and it will soon be sold." have Dorrowed money have charged *a.. Two Good Stories. Touched The Old Man's Heart. such would be the end." "Ah, well, the sale can be made you interest at the rate of fifty per "A bit of a bet which took place in a Nebraska State Journal. "If you foresaw it why did you without me "f^ $$S&£ I cent." ik^V^l Wj' broker's office here recently may be make no effort to oppose my follies?" Once upon a time an old man "Impossible. Th^re are legal "Well, that is the business of usurers." HVv Translated from the French, "At my first suggestions you gave of interest, says Arlo Bates in the called his three sons to him in the formalities which require your presence. me to understand that it was dusk ofthe evening, and in a faltering BY ALFRED ROLAND HAVEN. Besides there are family "You take the matter very easily. Providence Journal. A man who your affair. If I had insisted you voice said to them: "My boys, in a me souvenirs, of no value to anyone but Young Baron Paul deBrantel, pale However, it is necessary to make has investigated pretty carefully certain would have sent me away. I gave little while you will have no father. yourself, which you would not care them disgorge." a.nd agitated, entered his cosy bachelor lines of western stock was laying your father a solemn promise never I am standing on the shore of the to have pass into the possession of "By what means can I do so?" apartments in the Kue Tatbout, to leave you I have kept it." down his theories to a couple of river of death and soon I must strangers." "You might appeal to their con threw his hat on the sofa, pulled off The baron knew that he had only launch my boat u»pon it. Now, 1 The baron allowed himself to be friends, who laughed at his ideas and science." r" It himself to blame for the position in have as you know, a splendid farm, his gloves and examined some papers persuaded, and three days afterward, "Conscience is a coin that is not told him good-naturedly that he did which he found himself. At last he upon which one man can thrive, but accompanied by Pierre, he arrived which lay on a table. These were current among them." *& not know what he was talking said: as there are three of you I have been at the estate of his ancestors. "Suppose we try to move them." tradesmen's bills and dunning letters. about. "I was ignorant of business matters sorely preplexed as to which should It was a beautiful summer evening „"We would have our labor for our A bitter smile played about as a child. When I needed have it. I have therefore decided to when he reached the home from "I'll show you whether I know pains. Indeed I do not know who Ms lips as he murmured: money it was you I intrusted to procure give each of you two dollars that which he had been a voluntary exile. they are." what I am talking about or not. I it for me. Why have you, who you must spend tomorrow, and to He had not visited it since he had "When the stag is at bay all the "I will enlighten you. They are will bet you $50 that I can clear $250 had the experience which I lacked, the one making the wisest purchase left it after his mother's death, and Pierre, myself and "a third person, *dogs rush upon him. It is the way accepted the usurious conditions on these stocks before the board shall the farm be given. Come ta he expected to find everywhere traces who is the most guilty of us all. I -of the world." which have been imposed on me?" closes." me tomorrow evening at this time of neglect and disolation, to see the soon perceived (and Pierre, who is a He pulled the bell rope impatiently. "I knew, indeed that the conditions and tell me how you have each ex« garden walks choked with weeds, the farseeing person, was of the same "Done,"' cried the other. Itlacked were exorbitant, but I also knew pended your money. Now, goodnight, The summons was answered by a furniture covered with dust and opinion), that it would be impossible oruy twenty-five minutes of the time that young noblemen who were not and heaven bless you all." stained with mould, the ceilings hung to arrest you in your extravagant Vhite-haired servant, whose face pre•sented for the closing of the board, but Mr. willing to regulate their wants according On the the following evening the with cobwebs. course, carried away as you were by the impassive, almost enigmatical hastily scribbled an order, which to their resources are forced three sons assembled before theix On the contrary, everything was every means in our power. Tradesmen, gravity peculiar to domessties he sent off at once. Then he calculated to submit to the terms of theusurers. father. "Reginald," said the lattei in order, as if the proprietor of the counting the risks they run with It was necessary for you to have a moment and dispatched a employed in old families. to the eldest, "what did you purchase manor had not been absent for a day. young men of wealth who let their money at any cost I procured it for second. What he bought and what with your two dollars?'1 The garden had been well looked after, •"Pierre," said the Baron, "have money slip through their fingers, you." he sold I do not know, but in any Father," returned the son, "I pondered and within the chateau one would greatly increase the amounts of the you been to see M. Alcide Dantier?" long that I might make wise have sought in vain for a sign of case the result of his twenty-five minutes' "And you have delivered me into bills they send them. It was arranged, "Yes, monsieur. He said that it use of the money, and at last carelessness or uncleanliness. the clutches of these pitiless Shylocks however, with those with whom transactions was that he •was impossible for him to come, as bought a pair of strong shoes." The Baron expressed his astonishment simply because you did not wish to you have dealt, that, in consideration gained, over and above commissions "Well done, well done the journev he is to start on a journey this evenmgtl' to Pierre. be separated from me?" of being paid at a certain time, $250. One of the men who were through life is rugged and hard, and "Probably," replied the latter, "the "Yes, monsieur." the amount of their claims should present told me the story, and I the thorns are thick upon the way. chateau has been put in order so that "And has not your intelligence seen not be unreasonable. You went into "'And M. Desloges?" said to him in comment: You have shown prudence and forethought, it may sell better." that a ruined master is not able to debt and it became necessary for you "He said that he was short of "I am profoundly ignorant of speculative and I love you the better During the night he passed at the keep a servant?" to borrow money,andPierre,inwhom transactions, but can you for it. And what did you buy. TnGifeyandv that he regetted much manor, which on the morrow would "That view of the case may apply you have had blind confidence, undertook tell me why in the world, if Mr. Augustus?" "I too thought long and cease to be his, the young baron did that he was unable to obliged you." to others, not to you and me. I am to obtain it for you. At this knew how to make the money, deeply," responded the second son. not close his eyes. He listened to the point the third accomplice comes on bound by the promise I made to your "And^Comte d'Autrin? He could he didn't do it without the "that I might not purchase anything songs of the birds of the night, to the father." the scene. This person was very exacting hardly offer such an excuse." the stimulus of a wager?" trivial or foolish. Since the cap murmuring of the wind among the and took mortgages on*your "I see that you are obstinate, and "Oh, of course he ran his risks," that I wear is worn and ragged. 1 "I was told that he was away from trees, to the creaking of the weathercock—to possessions, which were hypothecated that you have a ready answer for all bought a hat with a wide brim, was the eeply, which, I suppose,must all the sounds which lulled home." for their full value. It" has been my questions. There is however, have been satisfactory, although it which 1 show to you, my father." his infancy. ascertained, however, after a careful ''They are all alike. One has plenof one thing of which you have not did not sound so, "and he probably The old man regarded him with a examination of the schedules of thought.the possibility of my taking On rising he went for a walk friends in prosperity, solitude in was not sure enough of the way glance of pride and affection, and your indebtedness, that you have a fancy to put a bullet into my in the garden. He wanted to bid -adversity. Did the tradesmen's replies things would turn to go in in cold said: "You too have done well, really spent only 50,000 francs, which brain." adieu to all the places endeared to Augustus: often in the world the j^+KOt&P blood." vary as much?" is certainly a very reasonable price him by memory. There he used to "I have never feared that extremity. All of which illustrates the game brow is fevered and the sun rays for the experience you have acquired. "No, monsieur "they were unanimous sit, book in hand here was a favorite side of stock speculations. Another beat fiercely upon the aching head, Your assets, therefore amount to walk of his mother, whose sweet voice in declaring that they could "You probably think I have not stock story which is mildly diverting and your hat will com tort you. about 250,000 francs. The person he fancied that he still could hear in not wait." the courage to do it." relates how Mr. A, a young lawyer, rejoice that my sons are so filled with in question has taken advantage of this arbor he had had long conversations On the contray, I have thought purchased some mining stock three wisdom. And you Theophilus, what "But you told them that they your carelessness and ignorance of with Jeanne, and it seemed as that if you were tempted to commit did you buy?" "My father," anwered or four years since, and it soon after "*^V business affairs. I think, however, would be paid in full?" though he could see her graceful figure such a cowardly act all that would became worth nothing whatever. Theophilus, "I didn't ponder that an arrangement can be made by and smiling face prettily framed by "I have carried out your instructions, be necessary to turn you from it with At his club a few weeks since he worth a cent. As soon as I left you appealing to her sense of fairness." the foliage. horror would be to make you look monsieur." mentioned the circumstances to Mr last evening I blew in my stuff for The Baron was astonished. For aloogtime he was lost in these upon these portraits." B, a doctor of his class at Harvard. five tickets to the base-ball games.' "That is well. They shall be paid "You know this person then?" he reveries, and the sun was high when Pierre pointed to two pictures With tears of joy streaming down "Well," was the answer, "I am in not one of them shall be paid not one asked. he took his way back to the house. which hung above the mantelpiece. his furrowed face, the venerable man thersame fix of some manufacturing -of them shall lose a cent." Suddenly he stopped, thinking that "Yes, and you also. Your creditor, One represented the Baron's father, embraced Theophilus, and murmured stock, I'll tell you what I'll do he must be dreaming. Through the your usurer, is Jeanne Rosel." As his master ceased speaking to dressed in the uniform of a colonel, in a voice hoarse with emotion. and I'll change you for luck?" open window of the chamber which The young girl had entered noise ihim Pierre retired. his face wearing the calm and virile The exchange thus jokingly proposed "Had I a farm as large as Texas, his mother used to occupy came the lessly and overheard this conversation. expression of a man who knew no was effected, and a few days with a wind-mill on it, it would be The baron, left to himself, again sound of a piano, the air was one of She approached the three men, fear. The other was the image of a yours!" And then Eeginald and later A told Mr. C, a third classmate, ran over the papers which lay before which, in other days, he had never saying: woman whose features reflected Lhat Augustus moved sadly away into of the transaction. "I was caught tired. A prey to violent emotion, him. Beside the bills there were memoranda "Yes, Paul, it was I. During these serenity of soul and that goodness of the gathering gloom and while the the same way on some railroard his heart palpitating, he seated himself years of foolish dissipation I have ofmortgages and other business heart ^hich made all who knew her one tried to keep the flies off himself bonds," observed, "and if you like on a bench and listened. In a never lost sight of you. I knew that, love and admire her. documents of different kinds I'll trade them for your manufacturing with his hat, the other kicked few moments the sound of the piano though you yielded at times to wrong The young man stood spellbound stock." himself severely with his boots. which testified with brutal eloquence ceased, but he remained in the same impulses, your heart was right, ami before the two pictures. Deep emotion It struck A that there was something to his irretrievable ruin. place, plunged in sorrowful reflection. that when your reason returned you showed itself in his eyes. amusing in this exchange of Presently a light sound attracted his would again be the same Paul as o\ The baron was twenty-five years of "During the last war," said the paper which purported to represent attention he lifted his eyes and saw old, with whoml haveso often talked Honey and the Bat. .-age, and only three years had elapsed old servant, "I stood near your father so much and was really worthless. a young girl, who looked at him with in this room. I was able, with my He made a second exchange in the An amusing anecdote is related ol when he was struck by a pierce since he had received his paternal iniheritance—years a smile. father's consent, to use the fortune same spirit as that in which he made George Honey,who, some years ago, Of a bursting shell. He suffered the of foolish dissipation, "Jeanne! Jeanne! You here?" he left me by my mother as I saw fit. pains of martyrdom, and yet the result tne first. The odd sequel of the tale while on a tour in the provinces, had said, in a troubled voice. "It was during which he had spent and in what manner I have employed of the battle occupied his is that since this took place, early in taken lodgings in a house on the you I heard playing?" it you know. You will not be pressed imoney recklessly,as though possessed thoughts more than his wound. A the winter, both the manufacturing outskirts of a town. Soon after retiring, "Today Brantel passes into the for payment." of an inexhaustible purse. Young, stock and the mining stock have appeared fugitive passed near us, and he at he was awakened by a fluttering possession of strangers," she replied. "Suppose I insist on immediate above the surface, and, although once became anxious to know how noise, as of a bird, around the handsome, the bearer oE a name well "We have both had the same payment for the full face of the the battle was going. When he learned they are not at any very curtain of his bed. He sprang up 4mown among the noble families of thought I, like you, have come to mortgages?" that our men, overpowered by lofty figure, they are yet far better struck a light, and saw a small,dark bid adieu to this place, which has so France, he had friends without number "Well, perhaps M. Plantier can numbers, were yielding, an angry than nothing, while the railroad creature, with wings, blundering many memories for me." make some useful suggestion." who sought his companionship light came into his eyes. He compelled bonds which A got on his second exchange about the room. Not being well "You have had reason to despise "A marriage contract is the best an their pleasures, and now he was arestill of no appreciable value me to help him mount his versed in natural history, he did not me, Jeanne, during these years of means 1 can suggest of getting you whatever. A decl-ires that he is particularly horse, and, barely able to keep his •brought face to face with the sombre recognize it as a bat but thinking it folly which I expiate to-day." out of your embarrassment," said seat, he rode into the midst of the marked out by fate for misfortune, queer sort of a bird, he resolved to .reality and knew that when his debts "I have blamed you, Paul, but I the notary, smiling. fray. His regiment, seeing their and, of course, there has catch it, and examine it by daylight have pitied you more." were paid he would be as poor as "Oh, Jeanne!" said the Baron, '(you leader covered with blood and presenting been a good deal of fun over the matter. So he took his felt hat and attempted, S\ "I will accept ill-fortune without a have reopened for me the heaven Job. the image of death, took for a long time in vain, to capture murmur if, when I am in Algiers, which I thought was closed against His melancholy thoughts turned to courage and routed the enemy. But the intruder but at length he your thoughts will sometimes turn me forever. How can I ever repay fthe old manor of Brantel. In this the colonel was not able to witness Health and Beauty. pounced upon it, earefuUy removed to the absent, if you will say to yourself you?" ihome, which had been in the family the end of the battle he fell fainting it from hat with his hand, shut it up that, although I have been to Old Pierre, who had been a silent Ladies' Home Companion. ior many generations, bis childhood into my arms, and for in a drawer, listened while it struggled blame, I have striven to redeem my spectator during this scene, the end To be beautiful, a woman must be was passed. There ho had grown up a month lay on his bed between life for a few momentstoescape,and faults by corageously accepting my of which he foresaw, approached his healthy the delicacy which comes binder the watchful eye of a mother, and death. Monsieur, you, being then went to bed and was soon destiny." master and said: whose life was an example of all the from physical weakness is not an the son of such a father, will not asleep. But he was not destined to "Do you not regret the loss of this "I told you, monsieur, that I would virtues, and whose memory was still element of beauty. The grace of perfect kill yourself." home to which so many ties bind sleep long. HarcHy bad he dozed off never leave you." fresh in the country round about form is the result of sound bone After a moment's silence Pierre you?" when a further fluttering awakened "Ah! you are a monster of dissimulation," where she had dispensed charity with and flesh health strengthens the continued: "When regrets are useless it is better him, and lighting another match, he exclaimed the Baron, wisdom. He remembered well the muscles, and the proper conditions "I have seen your mother lying on to stifle them." found a second bat. laughing. whiter day when he followed her dead of the stomach and lungs is of great the bed which she did not leave till "And you are able to do so?" At that moment the door of the body to the village graveyard. importance—on the perfect circulation she went to the graveyard. A disease, "I shall endeavor to do so." dining room was thrown open. A He had an exciting scramble before He could see himself seated at the of the blood and its freedom for which she knew there was "You are right. When one bids delicious odor rose from the steaming he caught this one, but finally he tfamily table, face to face with his farther, from all impurities depends the beauty no remedy, was consuming her. Her adieu to his native land it is better soup tureen, and the table glittered succeeded and put it in the drawer a heroic soldier, austere in manmer, face was calm although her suffering of the complexion. The skin must for him to efface from his mind the with old family silver. with its companion, and again retired. severe to himself as to others, was terrible. A complaint never be kept healthy by frequent bathing memory of the places he quits and "Paul," said M. de Rosel. gayly, Again, however, he was •who-instilled in his son the principles escaped her lips. She forgot herself and proper diet, as well as plenty of the friends he leaves behind him." "give your arm to your wife." awakened in a similar manner bats of kn inflexible morality. He recalled t: to think of those whom she was exercise in the open air. The English He did not reply at once. Theemotion Paul and Jeanne led the way, and come not in single spies, but—if the all the scenes of that patriarchal life, about to leave behind her. A man are wont to say the paleness and against which he struggled overcame the others followed the couple. •which now seemed to him an existence expression be allowed—in "battalions." who has had such a mother will not sallow tinge of the American girPs him. Their eyes met both were of poetic serenity. Again in Each specimen was carefully try to take his life." «f Ufa** complexion is due to insufficient confused. At la'st he said: thought he saw the old terrace rrom A Great Edifice. deposited in the drawer. At The old servant seemed to betrarisfigued. nourishment, the want of strengthening "I thank you, Jeanne for coming, •which one cpuld see the distant horizon, last, after an unusally long chase,he The new Cathedral of Moscow cost His face always calm and although it would, perhaps, have food. A French author of note the garden which descended to was so heated that he opened the impassive, had assumed a soulful more than $10,000,000. It has been better for me had I been spared says: "A train of exact and rigid the bank of a stream, in which he window, and having retired exhausted look which made a deep impression been half a century in constructing, this interview. It has made me doubt observation has demonstrated that used to angle for trout, the beach enjoyed a few hours sleep. When on the young man, who was no less but the wonder is not that the time my courage, I thought that I was a succulent, delicate, and careful •trees of the forest, whose shade he heawokehejumpedoufcof bed and moved. firm in my resolution, and now my is so long, but rather it has been so regimen repels to a distance, and for fused to seek on summer days. At the opened tne drawer very cautiously, But it was not a time for sentiment strength deserts me. I am sad, sadder short. The great Cathedral of St. a ^considerable length of tinie, the •turning of a walk he saw the sweet to look for the- prizes- of the night or emotion. The baron was than you can know, at the Saviour's is erected as a memorial of external appearance of old age. It .end smiling face of a beautiful girl,whose but lo! there were no bats there! ruined, and it was necessary for him thought of parting from you forever." the deliverance of Russia from Napoleon voice seemed to him to possess gives more brilliancy to the eyesy more He opened the drawer wide, and to adopt some means of extricating Bonaparte in 1812. Less a wondrous charm he saw her lreshness to the skin, more- support then discovered it had no back to it. himself from the difficulties which "Console yourself, Paul." than three months after the retreat blush when his mother made dis.creefrallusions to the muscles, and as it is certain in He had, in faet, spent his night in surrounded him. He did not tear to "Never," he murmured. And then to her hopes for their of the French, the Emperor. Ale-x physiology that it is depression of express before Pierre his uncertainty catching the same- bat, which had he added in a faltering voice: "It is future. .That dream was broken, ander I., issued a decree that the the muscles that causes wrinkles, as to the best course for him to pursue. flown out at the- back of the drawer a cruel torment for him whose happiness and-' the young man, rejoicing church should be built, and a few those enemies of beauty, it is equally as soon as he had put it in at the is vanishing to have a vision an liis independence, bade adieu years later the foundations were true to say that, other things being front, and when the window was "Monsieur," said the old servant, of it still before him. Good-bye, to the tranquil life of the old laid. It took twenty years to erect equal, those who- understand opened had finally escaped.—SanFrancisco "there is many a wealthy tradesman Jeanne." manor. Then came the feverish eating are comparatively ten years who would be happy to have his the building and cover it in, and the Argonatcfc. "Good-bye, Paul. My father and ,passion of youth, dissipation following daughter known as the baroness de scaffolding was taken down in 1858. younger than those who. do not understand the notary are waiting for you to dissipation, and nights without Authors' PKH Karnes. Brantel." The scaffolding alone cost $250,000. that science." Our dry atmosphere, §1 settleyour affairs." vsleep. At last he exclaimed: Literary GossLpi, „.^ it i& true, is somewhat unfavorable "Sell my name for money? How It has five great gilded copper cupolas, With an unsteady step, his face ^Oh if I could begin my life again!" to clearness and brilliancy Bayard Taylor's -first* name was dare you make such a suggestion?" surmounted by crosses, the central very pale, he returned to the house •'Sorrow and regret overcome him, of our complexion, and our climate "Well, there is still Mile. Jeannie de one of which stands 340 feet James only a few others than Wilkie and entered the room where M. De Tiot the cowardly discouragement is more or less exhausting to the Rosel. There was a time when she Losel, the notary, and Pierre ^await Collins' intimate friends know that from the ground. The whole building *hich renders defeat irretrieveable. would not have hesitated to marry ed him. jg constitution of women, yet with care his. name- is really William Wilkie is faced with marble, and the He was one of those who knew how you, and you know that one of your "My friend, said the first, "we are and attention to certain rules any interor is pronounced the most exquisite C©Uin8,aBd Austin Dobson was.H.eary to accept the responsibility of their mother's regrets was that she died engaged, M. Plantier and I, in examining woman not actually diseased may Austin Dobson before he took up in its decorations, in Europe. .errors and who find in themselves without seeing her your wife." into yotir affairs. Nearly have good health, and with it some Kteratpre, and Edmund William There are magnificent paintings, ithe strength in which to regain their "I slighted her when I was rich, and three hundred thousand francs have degree of beauty* Bathing is one of elegant windows costly candelabra, Gosse is to-day known to tie* ttorld .lost ground. One thing, however, IfSu., been spent in two years. You must now that I am poor I would hardly the first requirements, as it produces t, only by the first and las* names. nlr -surprised him that his old servant's and the floor and walls are enlaid ask her to repair my wasted fortune. have had a good deal of pleasure for a healthful condition of the skin. eaay acquiescence in all his caprices. "Henry R. Haggard" sounds strange with many varieties of marble. Never would I make her such an insulting that price?" Therefore, the daily bath, with a Pierre had been for years in the service to thousands of ears who know There is nothing in the world to proposal. But I must decide "Say rather that the time was sadly walk of an hour or more in the open of his father, to whom he had "Rider Haggard." Brander Matthews, •.equal the gorgeous splendor of the upon some course at once. I have and foolishly wasted." ,t air (not the exercise of housework), shown unswerving devotion. Why altar and its accompaniments- The and Duffield OsbarneisinrealitySamuel a friend who owns a large estate in "Are you aware that you have and a plentiful supply of good, wellcooked, -then thought the young baron, had fm DuffieldOsbornei. Lawrence cathedral covers 73,000 square been outrageously robbed?" Algiers. I am sure that he would khe made no effort to arrest him in nourishing food—plain food, Hutton is a contraction of James feet, and will accommodate in it-t willingly make me superintendent of "Well, what else could I expect? A i?fatal course? not pies, puddings aid sweet-meats central area—for it is in the form of Lawrence Hutton* and Howard it. I shall offer him my services, and person who does not know how to In answer to a second summons —will add not only to a woman's attractive Seeley is Edward How lrd Seeley, jr. a Creek cross—10,000 worshippers. as soon as his answer "comes we will take care of his own should not complain Pierre presented himself before his appearance, but improve Frank Stockton Is really Francis The bells for this church cost $75,000. depart." if it is taken from him." imaster. mind, body and soul, for health, The largest weighs tweaty-six Richard Stockton, while Joaquin "Vei-y well. But first it will be "The tradesmen with whom you "Pierre." said Paul de Brantel, happiness e~d virtue go hand in necessary for yon to go to Brantel have dealt have presented absurd Miller is a corrupitan, of Cinciaaatua tons, and th% smallest4.|raly thirty ^'you know my situation?" hand. A purchaser for the chaseau has bills. The people from whom you Hiner Miller. ,., *k Bounds. rC* -"Yes, Monsieur, you are ruined. Z&sLi