„,„..,# *, RESIGNATION. &3¥gE what oa please and fix up the place the balance and not found wanting. FOB YOUTHFUL READERS. at the mute observers of this touching to suit yourself." I know now that her love for me was -VI. %'^fi scene, gave a low whinny, which "Well, if you aint the best John in strong enough to brave all trials for said as plainly as any words could The sun sinks low in his farewell gleams the who\e conutry," Ruth said, almost me. Henceforth she shall be queen of the busy beating pulse of care INSTRUCTIVEfl^A N T3$% S E PU have done: laughing and crying in the same my prosperity." biselessly adown the solitudes of air READING FOR E O N "Can no one here help him?" „f [e draws his fading wheels and old earth breath. JEow could she ever be homesick "It was a very pretty little drama A choking sensation came into my dreams. again?" you chose to make me take theprincipal throat and in the carriages close Too, when the wintry shadow, moving, Something About Skates and And that night, instead of crying herself part in," she said, "but I forgive around there were scarcely any eyes deems Skating—A Touching S a to sleep, as she had thought that you and I am satisfied if you are." But fitthat the bright world should, buried without tears. But there was no From a Russian Polo Game f—The afternoon to do, she lay awake from there "Completely," he answered with a help. Hehad injured his spinal column Size of Alligators. Beneath the chilly shroud and threatening very joy, thinking of the pretty things lover'skiss. ^f? J"Do and snapped some ligament connecting "dare" she could buy and make for the cabin, you know,* dear* John." she with the brain, so that—although Of the keen blast, arise under sunny and imagining how picturesque it whispered that night as she held Ruthie he wac taken he hospital and did About beams, Something Skates and OPVR/GtfT ja^, would look covered with Lady Banks up for her papa's good-night kiss, flo to us must come the hour, the dread Skating. not cease to breathe for several days roses, and how sweet the violet beds last hour Every one t&fers "that I doubt if I can ever be as happy —he was virtually a dead man. There is no more graceful and When our tiny day shall pass into dreamless would be in the spring time. anywhere as I was in that little from Catarrh the Head.^~ Those rest, healthful exercise than skating. A And so the very next day she set log cabin of ours, in spite of all the A Wise Toad. who don't hafc it suffer from those So full of quiet calm and sweet repose. the hired man to work laying off a skillful skater makes one almost look hard work I did. Love never seemed Forever more we yieldthe power A lady used to sit after tea almost who do. It's a disease you can't garden, and all that week and the Of life's witchery to life's new guest before such a sweet compensation for for the wings that, the ancients fixed avery evening on a stone step at the keep to yourself. Be comforted! for He alone best knows. next she spent her spare time in digging all of life's trials." to the ankles of Mercury, Perseus and head of a flight of terraces which le\ Here are some of the symptoms: ALMA ALDEN. and hoeing and spading. The "Well, if that isn't just like a woman," Minerva. In one thing can the birds from a bay window down into the following week John took her to the Headache, obstruction of nose, discharges laughed her husband. "LikeLot's be rivaled by humans, nearest town, and she selected the falling into throat, sometimes I0TE IN A LOG CABIN. wife, forever looking back. Give her garden. As this window was not "A they sweep, various articles she desired for the heaven, and two to one she'll be sqrry profuse, watery, and acrid, overlooked by any neighbor's window, house. She managed to furnish it On sounding skate3 a thousand different she ever left earth." at others, thick, tenacious, mncous, it was the family custom to quite comfortably, and under her ways, Ruth only smiled and held her peaee. ND this is home!" purulent, bloody, putrid, and offensive leave the curtains up in the evening, deft fingers all things began to bear a In circling poises, swift as the wind along, She knew that he would ever hold eyes weak, ringiug in ears, Ruth Delano gazed sings Thompson. homelike look. The place lost its barren and let the cheery light of the student their log cabin days in sweet and sacred deafness offensive breath smell and shiftless look, and even the The boy who has never learned to about her with lamp which stood on the large reading remembrance.—Omaha World. dog Harold seemed to feel the change. and taste impaired, and general debility. skate has lost a pleasure that is dear a mingled feeling of table shine out. 5 He no longer wandered aimlessly But only a few of these HYPNOTIZED BALL QUESTS. to boy's heart, but there are few who wonder, joy a about as though seeking a comfortable One evening, as the lady sat on the likely to be present at once. have not tried skating, however limited is a in spot, but went to sleep a picture step, she saw a large toad hopping on The eure for it—for Catarrh itself, of contentment on one of the soft rugs the streams, pond' or icy place for Three a And How They Told Some Unvarnished the grass toward her. When he had and all the troubles that come in the sitting room, keeping one zealous Truths to Each Other. miles had she traveled practice may have been. come within about eight inches of the from it a perfect and permanent eye always half open upon his Skates are very old hundreds, across the Here is an extract from Linkman's playmate, Ruthie. window, he suddenly settled himself eure, is Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. nay, perhaps thousands column of sarcasms in London Truth: continent to reach into the longgrass, having selected as The worst cases yield to its mild, The months sped by in spite of all of years before this crisp winter, "Mrs. Chenevix, dear Lady Betty, is a soothing, cleansing and healing his resting place a little hollow, so the harhships she had to endure—for skating was a merry sport. the home her husband had nrepared curious, eccentric little woman, whose properties. A record of 23 years life is hard for a woman in a new that only the very top of his head and Perhaps too many in this age of invention for her, and this is what she found country—on light wings for Ruth. favorite doctrine it is that all our has proved that to its proprietors his gleaming eyes showed above the think that more ideas are A lonely ranch among the foothills She made the best of all her trials, 'set' en masse is predestined to eternal —and they're willing to prove it grass. new than really are so. If we remember and was as sweet and contented as if in Southern California, with a plain to you. damnation. There he sat, without moving, until that everything we see around us she had been in the fair home they the dampness sent his observer into log cabin for a home. Not a vestige They do it in this way If they "Having secured the services of grew up, then we can begin the inquiry had owned and lost. Though often the house. The next evening she found can't cure your Catarrh, no matter of a plant or flower around it, hills 'Prof.' Pillinger, the American hypnotizer, her limbs ached and her head was about skates that came before the that the toad had already taken his how bad your case, or of how long and having, moreover, admitted foretelling brown and bare under the weary with the weight of work which keen edged "club," with all the ardor place when she seated herself on the me into her confidence, Mrs. fell to her share, she never complained. standing, they'll pay you $500 in July sun, and not a shade tree in of historians. It-is certain that skates step and on several successive evenings Chenevix proceeded on last Friday Not once did she grow frettul or cash. Can you have better proof of would be of no use in the tropics we he was sitting in exactly the samespot 6ictf' night to give a small dance to a few reproach her husband for taking her the healing power of a medicine by the time the sun had fairly must look for their home in the land "0:ie might know there never had judiciously selected friends. The 'prolessor,' so far from all that she loved. seL. of long winters, of crusty snow and stationing himself on the landing, fc»een a woman near this place," said "He is doing the best he can," she The lady's curiosity was by this surreptitiously hypnotized the slow, ice-bound rivers. A GOOD BARGAIN. Sutli, her eyes slowly filling with tears. always said to herself, "and what time aroused to such a degree that she guests as they came, and willed that, We would not envy the boy of long would a palace be without his love? It seemed so comfortless and barren determined to defy the dampness, and A Novel Scheme to Give Five while ooserving ail the outward rules ago, as he bound th« shin-bones of Besides, how'much I have to be grateful af fi- leaving her mother's old-fashion. stay in her positon on the step until Stamps for Nine Cents. of decorum, they should frankly reveal some animal to his feet and went for." And somehow the remembrance she saw what the toad accomplished «d icirm-house in Maine, full to overflow whatever secret thoughts each through a kind of sprawling gymnast ICS A neat advertising scheme, emanating of their first evening in the logcabin in his hiding place. The next evening, ing with inviting, comfortable had in his mind. The result baffles that was the skating of the period. from New York, has just made its would always bring tears to her therefore, she provided herself with a description, but I forward you a combination In Iceland skates are called isleggir, things, and surrounded with flower appearance in this city, and is "catching eyes. It was such a real proof of his thick shawl, and took her accustomed which happened particularly "ice bones," the shin-bones of a sheep. gardens and -orchards, and where love and thoughtfulness for her. on" rapidly. The projectors of seat, a little later than usual. to amuse me: If sheep shin-bones were the first «very nook and corner suggested the When the next spring lengthened As the light faded the toad rose the scheme at a first glance might be skates, then the boy who lived before "For instance, Bounderby, skipping into the summer, and her sweet face from his position and hopped towards taken for full-blown lunatics, but •dett hands of a woman. She felt her iron or bronze were known,# back in up to the Duchess of Killybeggs, exclaimed: began to wear a tired look that he her a little way then, after solemnly there is a sreat deal of method in their very heart sinking within her. the stone and bone age, could enjoy 'My dear duchess'—emphasis did not like to see, he came to her and anxiously regarding her for some Then seeing the eyes of ner husband himself with this cheery sport. The madness wrhen fully examined. on the dear,—'how are you? And how one evening, saying gravely: moments, he returned to his hollow, •fixed, upon her she forced back the boys of London in the 12th century, Heaped up in the vindows of several is that insufferable imbecile, the duke? "Ruth pack your trunk to-night tomorrow evidently deciding that she was a tears. Fitz Stephen tells us, in winter bind of the large stores in the central portion I really am delighted'—this with unfeigned harmless person, not bent on making I want to take you with me Had she not said, like the Ruth of under their feet a pair of shin-bones, of the city are several hundred sincerity—'to be seen addressing to San Diego. Important business trouble for him, as he had at first old, "Whither thou goest, I will go take in their hands poles shod with memorandum books of convenient you in public, and I earnestly feared. calls me there, and you and Ruthie and whither thou lodgest I will lodge?" iron, which at times they strike size and handsome appearance. Each trust that every single individual in both need a change." When the lamp in the window was Would any place, no»matter how a^ainstrthe ice, and are thus carried contains about sixty pages and is this room is attentively observing the lighted, it seemed to her* that the "But how can youleave the ranch?" full of comfort it might be, ever be along with the rapidity of a bird on bound in a well gotten up, pliable incident. By the way, how comes it Ruth asked, "just now when you are toad raised his head a little and home without him? Had she and her the wing or a olt discharged from a muslin cover. In the middle of the tha* a person of your undoubted aristocratic took on an attitude ot great vigilance. most needed?" baby Ruth not wept tears of joy when crossbow. The generous Holland boy, little book is a calender and an descent should look so ridiculously The cause was soon apparent. "Oh, Redly will take charge of the the letter came telling them that papa Hans Brinker, was forced to go back amount of useful information or like a supernatural housekeeper? place, and the men will work for him was coming from California to to the primitive way, when he postal matter, and five 2-cent stamps. Between j'onr natural appearance as well as for me," After a few moments a large moth, take them home? And had not every had given his skates to a The entire book, including the and that shockingly decollete attracted by the light, dashed against foot ot the way been a joy to think he If Ruth had noticed him'just then poor friend and had forgotten his stamps, is sold for 9 cents, a 10 dress of yours you are, I think, quite ds once more with them and that very carefully she might have seen a the window in a vain endeavor to chances in the race for the "silver per cent reduction from Uncle Sam's one of the most revolting spectacles I gain entrance. After fluttering wildly they were to have a home? twinkle in his eye that would have skates." rate for the "adhesibles" alone The have ever yet beheld.' against the glass, it suddenly dropped, made her suspicious as to this"business little memorandum book itself—wellmade She stroked the hand of her husband, It is thought that skates came into "The Duchess, genially: 'Ah! Mr. trip" to San Diego but like a dutiful blinded to the ground, and the toad who held their little Ruthie in bound as it is—would cost at use in Northern Europe, perhaps in Bounderby, how singularly like you sprang forward and secured it. wite she packed up and asked no foolish least from 3 to 5 cents to manufacture, hi^ arms, smiling through her tears. Holland, where it is cold and there is all that is! Your innate vulgarity is questions. This was only his first victim, and and to sell it with five 2-cent "I know, dear, it is a new country," plenty of smooth water, because only redeemed by the ingenuous manner at the end of half an "hour the watcher When they reached San Diego, much stamps sewn within the covers for she said cheerfully, "and you have where the rivers are swift there is no which you betray it upon the to her surprise her husband did not go went into the house with her curiosity :ents shows enterprise in giviug bargains done the best you could." skating. The wooden skates with very slightest provocation. Such fully satisfied. Some one to to a hotel. He gave the coachman It was the truly wifely spirit, and in iron runners curling up into a wonderful people as you, of course, invariably some directions, and they were driven whom she told the story suggested his heart he blessed the true woman spiral terminated with a brass Examine the little book, however, judge of things merely by theii external that the toad might have happened to an elegant looking house in the •who said it. acorn at the point, were introduced and the mystery is solved. Every appearances, and import into the suburbs. on the favorable position the first "All the ranches look kind of desolate," into England from the Low Countries. alternate page contains an advertise draAving-room the native atmosphere night but his friend persisted that he "Why, I didn't know you had he said, "where there's no one Gossipy Pepys, in his diary of Deo. 1, ment from scane prominent business of the pantry.'" had discovered it by his own unaided friends here!" exclaimed Ruth, in surprise. 1661, records, "To my Lord Sandwich's, but men about but now we've got a house in divers lines, and at the head intelligence. .little woman here, things will soon be to Mr. Moore and then of the remaining pages is a halt-inch CURE FOR SLEEPLESSNESS. "Oh, yes," said John, "I have a over to the Parke, where I first in my looking different." advertisement of a New York paper, The Size of Alligators, number of them. This is the home of life, it being a great trost, did see people in side of the house she found everything which journal, it is stated, is responsible Victims of Insomnia Can Hypnotize I have seen numerous specimens of the best friend I have in the world." sliding with their skates, which is a neat, at least, and that was a tor this novel method of a Themselves Into Slumber. our saurian no longer than an ordinary "Why!" John neaily took her very pretty art." vx en comfort to her,, and if the parlor ng that large section of the "dear breath away. She thought of her lead-pencil this was in the season was barren-looking with no carpet I have a way of putting myself to oublic" who are always eager for a The Scotch have the reputation of shabby traveling dress and Ruthie's upon it, the kitchen was full of sleep that has never tailed. But, of of their hatching. I have aiso oig "pen'north." being good skaters both in the "fen," shabbier cloak with dismay, but she •contrivances -which women like, and course, you wont pay any attention or straight swift skating, and the At a moderate computation the advertisements seen a few living specimens about sixteen made up her mind to make the best she knew that John had thought of to it because it's so simple. However, in the little work will "fancy" skating. Our country has feet in length. In the autumn of of it for John's sake, anyway. A lady them for her. here it is* the champion, I think, at present. aiore than cover the total outlay, including ,.^S-3 1875 I obtained for the late Effingham could always be a lady, no matter Affer supper they sat down on the I close my eyes lightly, and then the loss on the stamps and how she was dressed. Lawrence, Member ot Congress, little porch front of the cabin to gently and gradually direct them upward, the commission paid for distributing. A Touching Scene From a Russian talk ot plans for future work. It was as if I wanted to look into the A neat servant opened the door and Commissioner from Louisiana to Polo Game. just at sunset, and as Ruth sat placidly the interior of my own skull. The and ushered them into a handsome thf Centennial Exhibition, the dried A pathetic story of brute pity is looking at the view in front of movement must be gentle and gradual reception-room. The house was beautiful skin of an alligator which, after at told in the following extract from the tier—which, after all, was a fine one, or the sudden strain on the nerves inside, and everything was new least fifteen inches had been cut irom taking in a glimpse of the'blue Pacific will give you a headache, and sometimes and ot the latest fashion. Ruth sank letter of a visitor inftussia,to a friend, the snout and skull, and ten inches and a background of purple mountains—she into a finely upholstered easy chair there may be some slight discomfort describing a game of polo: began to lose the undertone on the first two or three with a feeling ot momentary ontent. from the end of the tail, still measured Horse and rider still lay motionless. of home-sickness which had so marred For a moment she almost wished^ she trials, but it wears off rapidly. seventeen feet ten inches in length. Was it possible that the shock could her home-coming. She thought might be the possessor of such a After you have retained your eyes in Allowing more than six inches for Jhow beautiful a home might really be home, and then she put aside the envious that position for a leAv moments you have killed them both? The man lay shrinkage in drying, this monster ot under the shadow of the lifted pines, wash. feel yourself losing consciousness of just as he had been sitting, turned to his kind, alive, must have measured. and she resolved with John's help she time and place and slowly slipping, "Make yourself at home, dear," one side in readiness to strike the could make hers one to be proud of. more than twenty feet. He was killed John said,*"while I see the master of with delightful smoothness and a As it in answer to her thought, John ball so that, while his feet were still kind of dreamy softness, out of the the house, He is probably in his in the lower part of Bayou Lafourche. went into the house and returned in a study. I will return when I have present. I invariably have the one in the stirrups' his head and shoulders moment laden with two parcels, which sensation, that of floating in a boat spoken to him privately. I know he had fallen backward on the ground Probably the largest alligator ever lie dropped into her lap. will be delighted to know you are here on gently rocking billows that are At this death-like stillness a shudder seen in Louisiana was killed in a small moving easily away, says a writer in "There, Ruth," he said, "you can't and will welcome you." lake on the plantation of H. J. Feltus passed through all the vast assembly: the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. .guess what these are, can you?" "HQW strange John never told me of and in the carriage next to in Concordia Parish. According to "I am afraid not," Ruth said, eyeing this friend of his," Ruth said to herself, The process is really a kind of selfhypnotism, us a lady fell suddenly back against the statement of Mr. Feltus, now the mysterious looking packages and while you are performing looking at the handsome ingravings of Baton Rouge, this specimen measured the cushions, fainting. Then two or 0 3 3 E O •wondermgly. on the table near her. it your mind is unable to twenty-two feet length. The' three officers sprang forward to "Well, you know the house isn't take up any thread of thought or Presently he returned, but not, as Both the method and results when great reptile had long been famous for see wrhat had happened, while very beautiful yet," John said, his she expected with the master of the memory or present to itself any picture Byrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant miles around having destroyed numbers the players leaped from their good face fairly shining with the little other than the one the process house, whom she was feeling a little in of hogs and hounds owned in the and refreshing to the taste, and acta horses to assist tneir fallen secret he had in store for her "But I awe of. itself supplies. It is a very singular neighborhood of his retreat. He had gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, comrade. Never have I seen a sight guess you'll find something in each of thing, and I find that nearly all my "Where is he?" she asked. become so wary, from the number of of higher intelligence jn a brute than Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system those parcels that will help you beautity acquaintances can repeat alter me the "Here." ineffectual shots fired at him, as to be was then exhibited by that little Cossack it." selt-hypnotic movement. effectually, dispels colds, headaches "Here? Whv John, have you lost almost unapproachable. Finally he pony. What could he mean? Ruth took and fevers and cures habitual your mind? There is no one with you. fell a victim to a long shot fired from -The Milkman In the English Courts. up the lighter but larger one first. To constipation. Syrup of Figs is the You and I are alone." She began to a Mississippi rifle in the hands of Mr. As two or three of the officers, Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, of England, her surprise it was full of garden seeds, only remedy of its kind ever produced, look frightened. What if John had Feltus, who had persevered in hunting stooping, took him by the head to email packages of every kind, almost, and Mr. Justice Wright have really lost his senses? He had certainly pleasing to the taste and acceptable him, having been the greatest loser by raise him, he looked up at them with just given a decision of almost equal ehe could think of. acted queer about this San his depredations. The huge carcass to the stomach, prompt in pleading, pathetic eyes, as though entreating interest to the sellers and the consumers "Well, how lovely!" she said. "Now Diego trip. of this reptile was towed to the bank its action and truly beneficial in its them to be very careful. Then we shall raise all the vegetables we of milk. A certain milkman was To her further amazement he burst by a boat. It required the strength slowly, cautiously, he allowed himself effects, prepared only from the most arrested for selling milk which did not need, and our garden will rival dear into a loud laugh, and taking a stand of a pair of mules-and a stout rope to to be drawn away from that prostrate Another's at home." contain its legal proportion of cream. healthy and agreeable substances, its in the middle of the room, said with a haul it ashore, where the measurement figure, raising himself as much as possible, "Yes," Johu replied, "and go ahead He said that it was no fault of his. many excellent qualities cpmmend it polite bow: was made with the result noted above. that he might not crush or injure The milk complained of happened to «of it for California beats the world to all and have made it the most "Dear Mrs. Delano, allow me to introduce his beloved master. for flowers, and your garden will be be taken from the bottom of a can, popular remedy known. to you the master of this A Dangerous Guest. and was, of course, inferior to that No sooner was this weight removed just as lovely in winter-as in summer. house, John Delano, Esq., your humble Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50a There are twenty varieties of roses which had been taken from the top, than the officer's body turned with a During a dreadful snow storm and servant. I am monarch of all I and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. alone among that collection ot seeds." because the natural tendency of cream quick, convulsive movement, and the inundation in Bengal, the. estate of a survey." Any reliable druggist who was to rise. To ask him to interfere next moment stiffened as though suddenly "Isn't it wonderful to think of?" Mr. Campbell, situated on the island of "John, you are surely going mad with the natural action of milk was changed to stone. It made every may not have it on hand will procure cried Ruth, as delighted as a child and I with you. For heaven's sake." Sangar, suffered so greatly, that oy* over her treasures. "And what can be preposterous. The Magistrate took one shiver to see that ominous, ghastly it promptly for any one who sh« entreated, "tell me what you of three thousand people living on in here?" she oontinued as she opened this view of the case and discharged motion. Thehorsewasnosooner on wishes to try it. not accept any mean!"' his grounds, only six or seven hundred the second parcel. "Wonders will never the prisoner. An appeal was taken, his feet, than, shaking his head free .{ubstitute. "I'll tell you what I mean, little cease!" she exclaimed the next moment, escaped,and these principally by clinging and Justice Coleridge holds that the from the hand that held his bridle,and wife," he said. "I mean that I came CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO, as he poured a whole bag of silver Magistrate was wrong. It did not stepping, oh, so carefully, he passed to the roof of the house. While to San Diego last year during the land ijto her lap. "And what is this matter, he said, whether the defendant around to where his master's head Mr. Campbell's house was crammed so SAN FRANCI8C0, CAL. boom, went into real estate business for9" had doctored his milk or not. IDUIMLLE. KY. *£ltf YORIL *LV. lay. The great fur cap had fallen close as scarcely to admit another and cleared a small fortune. This is The important point was that he had "To buy your parlor furniture," he backward, leaving the bronzed forehead your home, and all that is in it belongs individual, what should come squeezing .replied, laughing at her amazement. taken money for something which was bared. Then, the bystanders all to Ruth and John Delano. The and pushing its way into the interior not what it pretended to be, or what "Honest?" She looked at him, her the while looking on in pitying silence, ranch and the log cabin were simply a but an immense tiger. Having the law required should be. If the •brown eyes sparkling. the poor beast came close up, and trial of your love. I wranted to find reached the room in which Mr. Campbell milk deteriorated from natural or putting out his tongue, touched the "It is for Mrs. Delano to do Avith as out what kind of stuff my wife was other causes, he had no right to sell it was skting, he nestled himself she pleases," he naid. "I have saved officer's face lovingly, licking the temples made of." as the perfect article. This lesson in down in one ot the corners, like a the money to furnish the cabin with, and brow and running his nose "And did you find out?" she asked common honesty and common sense caressingly under his chin, as though and thought to have it fixed up before of him, woman-like, not knowing Newfoundland dog. Mr. Campbell will be impressed upon the memory of you tame, but concluded on second he would force his master to raise his whether to ,4augh or cry over this then loaded his gun in a very quiet the offender by a fine, to say nothing thou Jit that vou could do better head and speak to him. Finding this great joy. *." manner, and shot the dangerous guest of legal costs. ihan I so there's the money. Buy "Indeed I did. She was weighed in to be of no avail, he lifted his own dead upon the spot. Mts *^T,35SK•?«». head sorrowfully, and, looking around sgyf