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By what inducements or terrible threats the young gehtleman was persuaded -or\ forced to ac company his relative matters not to the purport of uour'story; certain it is that young Todd was borne off to London to spend a few days vtith the unajor in that officer’s snug chambers in the Albany, and that, the- days Oengtheisect. into weeks, and weeks into months, before he was back again ntiBattletonl .Alifemiwbile young Todd r£ i ‘±\r,,s'':£ the major having been wise enough to dis- baqco>sn)oke^youHg“fellnws with no starch major very well knew, and even had de signed from the first. Sisters with money, too, some of them; one with immense ex pectations, but -with, the slight drawback of a wen behind the ear, but for all that, and as atore.=aiffi an extremly nice girl, and, under the circumstances, not too proud to turn a.dde from young Todd’s attentions, which became manifes\. by slow degrees, and after he had heard about the property. When he returned to Battleton he was sf 11 a free man, however; he had not acted precipitately; he was taking time to con sider his future course, he thought, and he Daly again for a little while. Herein he was disappointed, for Miss Daly was not to ew her no more. She h.ad vanished i 2 Come of her. They were not even curious as to what had become of her; and Miss Racket was rude enough to add: “And a good job, too,” when she informed Mr. Todd, somewhat spitefully, that Miss D ily had with.drawn from service at the refresh ment buff Jt forever and ever, that she had been gone, “oh, goodness knoxvs how long!” and she was not the only one who thought it was a fair riddanoo of a stuck-up young person. There was a Miss Creasy in her place, a very large young woman, with a pair of fat, rosy cheeks, and a tower of false yellow hair, wi h a gold arrow and a ribbon in it; but Mr. Told did not like the looks of Miss Creasy, and faded from her and the Bat'.leton girD altogether after this. He went back to London, and to the lady xvitb the wan, and to his uncle, to whom he said not a xvord coucerninr Rulh Daly’s dis- which he could hardly have explained had he been called upon to do so. He liked to keep things to h mself, did Master Todd. Nature had not endow.-d him with a capacious or communicative soul, which was nature’s fault, of course, and not his own. He had a '■-’at notion that bis uncls would have been y gl.ad to hear that Miss Paly had got the way, and it saved unpleasant comm, nts at any rate. His uncle might have said, with Miss Backet, “And a good job, too;” and at all events Ma). Crawshaw should not have the o- portunity of saying it before one who had been “more dreadful spoons” on Miss Dab than he had ever cared lo confess. And it was absolutely certain that Maj. Crawshaw was unaware of Miss Daly’s de parture from Battleton, or did that able and indefatigable old soldier know more of that young iady'.s movements than his nephew? For Maj. Crawshaw was nob of a communicative disposition, any more than young Todd was; and he was sly at all events in this matter, though it was for young Todd’s good and Miss Dajy’s that he sbouM keep things to hi.-naelf, and a cloud forever between them. There was no sta. bility in young Todd, no respect for those beneath him in social position, no real love in h s entire system; and hang itl litile Ruth Daly was too good for the lout alto gether. M ss D.aly, thought the major, was a clever and sensible little woman, with her pretty head screwed on the right way, and with less infernal nonsense about her than he had discovered in any women yet; and he respected Miss Da’y because she was a girl who knew how to respect herself. He told Mr. Freshwater, this at the Intor- aational hotel, S. W., Javelin-s and Presh- ivater’s new anl colossal speculation at tified in < ffering to Miss Daly, after a quiet little talk, of which Mii,s Daly was never aware, between Maj. Crawshaw and his culalives-'lf >awshajv being own Uttle counting hou.se, soma three or four months after t’nelr last interview at “Here’s a genPeman I think you know, Miss Daly,” said Mr. Freshwater, as the major made his best bow and shook hands with her. “The majorl” Miss Paly exclaimed. “I forget your name; but Mr. To id’s uncle, is Maj. Crawshaw coughed as Mr. Fresh water took his departure. It is not pleasant for one's name to bo forgotten, and to stand a witness to a short memorio I indiviiunTs struggl ng to recall it, and ho tol 1 his name again with a grim survey of her. Mr. Todd’s uncle, too! What a terrible way of recol lecting a man, and a maj srl “How strange you should fin I me here! that Mr. Fresh w.ater— -” Maj. Crawshaw hastened to explain. “Not at all strange ” hs sail quickly. “I dine hero very frequenlly; there are more life and bu .tie than at mv club—c’.ub v»ry old-fashioned now', and half my friends away at the wa.” and so on; and Javelins and Freshwater are excellent caterers to the Biitish public, and one gets something to eat counting house department?” “Oh,” said the major, reddening, “a chance word or two with Ditchwater—^Freshwater, I mean—about his management and his finance and book-keeping, and he said he foimd that ladies made excellent clerks, and that he could trust the books of the Inter national to Miss Daly; and then I naturally said, ‘What Miss Daly?—^not from Battle- ton, surely?’ And surely it was! I hope you are very well?” “I am very well, thank yop.” replied Miss Daly, regarding hiqj thoughtfu ly, eyeu critically. “I am very pleased to hear I t This is an agreeable change of Ufa froift the junction refreshment counter.” “It is harder work here,” said Miss Daly. “There is more responsibiUty and less amuse ment” “Ohdear! Why, yon don’t mean to say ---- ’’ “No; I don’t say anything,” replied Miss Daly, with a smile, as if enjoying Maj. Crawshaw’s surprise, “only that I prefer my rise in life to the Junction, and that I am indebted to Mr, Freshwater for putting such confidence in me.” and feeding the strangers and cads in of it; a false position, young lady—a tc false position, I assure you.” “You must not be too hard npon my class, major. You remember?” “How you took, me to task,” he replied. “I should think I did remember that I— I —admired— But there, you don’t like com- plbnents.* “And you are very busy?” “Yes. I am rather busy Jurt now.” “I would not disturb you for the -world,\ said Haj. Crawshaw; “but I thoi^ht I should like to sea you again fop few; min utes, after Freshwater had told ma that it was the real Miss I>aly in offloe hereu It was like coming to'see an old fHend. uldlike to \ ’ ' To trouble ao an, - saia jnwjjaiy. .imming gain and taking-up her pen,.at' wbieh sig- ificant hint be tamed to go'away, bolding ut bis hand once more to her ottoe* moment’s heeltntion, “Good evening,” ha said. “good evening, wnjor,\ “You—you don’t ask after my nephew,” he said; “what has become of him—whether 1 am doing my duty by him and looking after him, as you advised me to do?” “He is well, I hope.” “Quite well, thank you.” “I thought ha was. I see him very often, and he appears to possess all his old health and spirits.” “Good God! has ha found yon out again, then?” exclaimed the major. “The artful scamp! he has never told ----- ” “He has not seen me,” said Miss Daly, demurely; “but through these wire blinds I see him very frequently coming up the steps to luncheon with his friends. I am glad he “Humph! yes; exactly so. 'Wo are all glad,” muttered the major. “But if ho finds out you are here he will be very much aston- ed and delighted, I—I—am afraid.” your meeting. I don’t know that I should try, if I thought — Dash it! Good evening,. Miss Daly—good evening.” Maj. Crawshaw rode away in a condition very much perturbed, and the International hotel, S.W., echoed not with his martial tread for many a day afterward. CHAPTER VL A CBISIS. Two months had gone by before Maj. Crawshaw entered the huge caravansary again. It was six in the evening when he commenced his dinner there; it was half past eight ere ho had finished. It was a quarter to nine when he took the liberty of proceeding to the counting house, which Miss Daly was thinking of closing for the night as he appeared. “Good evening. Miss Daly. I trust yon ------ latee a visitor. ” “Certainly, They shook hands together, and then Ruth Daly asked if he had b^n in the country or abroad. “Why should you think that?” he asked,, almost peremptorily. “I thought you dined here very frequently —at least I understood you to say so, ” re marked Miss Daly. “I did say so. I used to dine here very frequently,” said the major: “but I have altered my habits lately. ” at a vhitoi w b ,* i ’A.rAl'.S.p: want to be a spy again upon you and my nephew. I—I thought if he chos3 to coma here, an i had made up his mind to coma here, I had better keep away, and leave you to yourselves.” “That was very kind of you,” said Miss Daly, quietly; “but his x»ople would have been very much alarmed, and not at all “'^^I'don’t ^ r e ,” said the major, bluffly. “Oil, but you did care once.” “Pm not afraid now of your making a fool! struck me that if ha were really in love with you ho could not have a more sensiblo wife,, “Thank you,” said Miss Daly. is said anything to you— andnd I can’tan make him out infernally 'ly, a I c all—I should like ----- ” “I have not spoken to Mr. TodA That gentleman does not Imow I am at the Inter national,” interrupted Miss Daly. “Not yet!” exclaimed the major. “And you don't want him to know, perhaps?” “I should leave the place at once if ha knew I was here, and if he became as foolish a fellow as he was at the Junction,” replied! a fellow as he was at Miss Daly, firmly. “I thought of telli] “If you do, I will again 1” cried Miss DB; The maior looked as! ling him you -were here, never speak to you He came very regularly to the In!ei-na- tional after this; he altered his habits again Ha was evidently a m-in not very long of him once more. Its peice and rest, its capacious arm cbair.s in the smoke room, its snug dining room, where the viands were to his taste, and the waiters not hungi’V for fees, wore ail desorb'd for the stir and bustle of the 11 ish establishment at Lambeth Bridge, and the mixed assembly which poured into its mammoth dining room every evening The major did not speak to Miss Daly on evi'ry occasion that jje patronized the In ternational; on the contrary, he kept his disr fance to an inordinate extent, and was con tent with a good evening once a week. He knew she was in the counting honse--^afe in the counting houser-rand that no young Todd WAS hanging about the doors, and that was enough for him nnd his purpose. For his purpaso, thought Miss Daly, a little indig nantly. now and then, was to keep his eye ntion her, to suspect her; his mission in life was to keep guard r* his nephew and her self, despite all that she had said. As if she were not to be believed and trusted! as if he had any right to watch her in this odd, meaningless fashion; as If it answered any good purpose, or would have been of any use, had she been disposed to Assert her rights, and elude his old-fasbioned vigilance, •And yet he was not a spv, and scarcely acted like one. He had expressed h ’s horror of playing the spy even, ana seemed an earn est, thoughtful, grave gentleman at most times. She wondered why he came so often to the International, for she was sure he did not like the hotel, and she could not under stand why he put himself out of the way so frequently to exchange a few words with Mr. Freshwater, she being also sure that he did not like Mr. Freshwater, whose manners wei-e obtrusive and “loud.” and whose h*.'i<l had been not a little turned by the success of his mammoth establishment He must come to make sure Ms nephew was not hovering about still, otherwise there seemed to be no valid reason why he should take so much pains to render himself uncomfort^ One day he came to the hotel before eleven in the morning, dressed In a new surtout coat, with a flower in his buttonhole and a hat SO glossy that he might have shaved himself in i t He marched to the counting house, “as if the place belonged to him,” said the head waiter to a subordinate. “Do you know what to-day is, Miss Daly?” he h'qn-'red. “Tuesday, ig it not?” “Tut! tut! I mean what auspicious day?” “N-no,” said Miss DUy. Then she looked at his new coat and shiny hat, and thought he was going to ba married. She felt sorry he was “caught.” and sure in hep heart that it was by a designing widow with pioney in the funds, and some halt a dozen grown-up sons and daughters by way of family enr cumbranoe’. ■ *!I am going to a wedding.’? “Indeed!'! liMy nepRew’.s wedlhg. Mr. To^d enters the holy state til's morning. I am his best He -watched her very closely, with his clear gray eyes fixed and unblinking, and Ruth Daly objected to his stare, and fe}t herself reddening beneath his gaie. i a sttilprJae,” she remarked, H r t married this morning,” he , —‘ '* te f..vnoi.r Tt •..mod tn ««v “I have _ I reckoning at laat, and thcM’a anend of It and you. “I hop* h« 'baa n)*de » wise choice,” sold *^^thJokaoi 'Bba. is not ach(t of a girl, but a woman of mind,- /Wbo will look after him and the m<m*7 sha bring* hiq). ” “You are-aatiiflod?” “Perfectly aatisISed.” “That U all rii;ht, than,” > aha murmuredi in so dry a tone thathsi looked at her very sharply. “I snpp^as you thlnktiuii^hen I am satls- fl*a,*veryb£«y oi^lit to be, Mto» P o lyr h* aoid;; “dtv rather, you thlnkihat Ithink so?” UlsiiDalyAaUfttaad. trary, myt-thqiJjlig^ 1 somewhat atrangely.” mw wliii^ djrecthm,' m i^ I *#;?\ ^ l ^ y i n V a y In day thl* was, I thought yon were gqlng to your own- wsadlng\ sha-aaid. . Tbo major starad hardar thaq aver, and 'hiailowar jaw dropped on to fail satin, stock Hflteek hisDew liat off, and brushed it the. m r a if way with- hJa ooat alsave, and th«n 'putit coi'efuUy onagalo. “God bleas my soul I wh«ti on wtraorJl^ nary thought,” % said, “Not very extraordinary, surely.” “That any one should think—that you should think—I was going to bo married this morning! Dear me! I wish you were not troubled -with such silly ideas. Miss Daly.” was going to be hanged,” he said, techily, as he walked away in great hAste. . “Cross old bachelor!” said Miss Daly, with a ijout, as she turned to her' books; “it Is as well, for the lady’s sake, that you are not going to be married, Maj. Crawshaw. ” And certainly Maj. Crawshaw was not particularly amiable on his nephew’s wed ding day. He scowled at the ministers— there -were three divines to tie up young Todd and his bride securely; he prompted young Todd in his responses in an nun -ces- sarily high key; abused the bsadle on the church steps for getting in his way and tumbling over him, in undue haste to par ticipate in the general distribution of fees; and a t the wedding breakfast he was graver and grimmer than befitted the occasion. He was very thoughtful, a! so, and made but a clumsy, spluttering speech in return for some one proposing the bridegroom’s relatives, and sat down disturbed in temper afterward at his o-wn miserable failure. “I was never so embarrassed in my life— never, Sarah,” ho said to his sister, who was at his side in purple velvet. “That fellow ought to have been shot for lugging in such a toast. Ridiculous 1” “I don’t think you are quite well this morning,\ remarked Dowager Mrs. Todd. “I was never so well in my lifa” “You seem a little out of sorts to me.” “I don’t know what you mean,” growled the major; “but I’m in sorts—heaps of “Ah! well, we have you to thank for all this happiness, ” said his sister in a low tone, “for if it had not been for your coming down to Battleton, and taking Edwin to town with you, who could tell what might have hap pened?” The major coughed in his throat, but made no reply. “Poor Edwin would have been snapped up by that dreadful girl, you may depend upon it She was more than a match for my dear boy. She meant to have run awaj with him.” “She never meant anything of the sort.” “John, how do you know?” exclaimed his .'LSt(>r; “how can you tell?” “.She was worth half a dozen of your oub,” he cried. “She would not have looked at him—she would not have had him for twen ty 1 imes.h's money. There is nothing like design about Miss Daly.” “I cannot understand how you—” began his sister, whe i he snapped off her conject ure half way. “Nobody 'ays you do understand; don't try,” ho cried- “Miss Daly is a la-Jy, and a friend of mine, and I’m not going to sit hero and hear her abused. It is not likely. ” “A friend of yours, JohnI Did you say a friend?” “Yes, I did say a fr ond.” “Bless me! you know her, then? I—I hope she is not setting her cap at you instead of my boy, for she must be a really dangerous person.” “Don’t talk nonsense. ” “But you are a man of the world, and not likely, a t your age, to be led away easily.” “Never mind about my age, Sar.ah. \VYhat the devil has my age to do with if?” he «aid, in the same siip-ire^sed and husky key. “There are old fools as well as young 'ones, I suppos'.” *‘But you’re not an old fool,” replied his sister, dryly. “Yes, I am. Fm an o’d fool to fhink that— \Will you c-blige me, .sister, by dropping this rid'oulous c.mversation.” “What are you going to do?” “Propose the health of old fo-ils in gen ii,” he answered, curtlv; and then he in intruding upon the private aportn the International, perhaps-4th^ th major was fairly bewildered ijnd disec The major turned red and then pale. In all his life he had never felt in a more awk ward position, but ha acted as a gentleman should to a pretty woman. Ho gave In, and acknowledged hla transgressions without at tempting an excuse. “I beg your pardon, Miss Daly, and I am very sorry.” There was so mournful an expression in the warrior’s face that Miss Daly was soft- *ned at once. This was true contrition. “■Very sori-y?” she repeated. “Very.” “ihen I forgive yon, major, if a poor girl’s forgivenoss is of any value to yon.\ She held bar band toward him, and was surprised to find that bis was trembling, “■you will not let this happen again, ■will you?” she said. “Happen again! 'W hat do you say?” “You know—^you understand.\ “Of course I had no idea that you -were fond of him. You diid not lot me into that secret, Miss Daly,” he stammered forth, “or you would have found mo still your friend. love him already. She accepted him^ and never repented marrying a man old enough to be her father. Very extraordinary, but people don’t occasionally. The good folk of Battleton, who relied on the majoFs dying like a bachelor and a gen tleman, and leaving bis worldly goods among them all, -were very much shocked a t first; but they all recovered by degrees, all but young Todd, who- never forgave his uncle, married and settled though he was for him- “It -was a deuced shabby trick,” be once said, “to get me away from the girl, and then marry her bang off, when my back -was turned. And little Daly might have known better—^ahl and done better, too,” he added, complacently. “She had one good chance for herself a t the Junction, but she let it go Just like a woman, that was!” eyes became larger and more luminous. “What are you talking about?” she ai in fresh amazement. outburst that really became her. “I r have thought about him. What has he ever been to me but a nuisance?” “You don’t say sol—I am glad—I— Well, then-what is the matter? What have “You don’t know? Oh, Maj. Crawffiaw, what is the use of playing the hypocrite, and playing it so badly?” “I play the hypocrite!” he exclaimed, for heaven’s sake, girl, tell me what is my Ruth Daly looked at him rgain sharplv idea as to the cause of Miss Daly’s reserve, and this being dismissed, he -was utterly lo't. There was no time to consider a fresh cause of grievance at this jurctura “Yon have a very bad memory,” she said. “Try and think why I am here, and who put me here.\ “Oil!” said the major, recollecting on the “It was you who persuaded Mr. Fresh water to appoint me book-keeper; it was it was my own wonderful talents which had Bud( set me in th's placa You have robbed me of ray independence bv this; you have low ered me in my s'lf-estesm.” “I wished to get you away from Battleton.” ; any cost—^ye.s,” and the tears were ming in her eyes as she spoke; “but it The Sledge Oogs o f Alaska. The ice being in good condition, with dogs and sleds laden with cook- iogpotsanda few proTisions, %tent and deerskin bedding, a start was made early in the morning. The thermometer marked 15 degrees below zero and there was an icy blast from the north, so it may be imagined that the weather was somewhat- cool. Smooth shore ice was found, over which our sleds went rapidly, and at dusk (3 p. m.) the dogs smelt the deer and tore frantically in their harness to get at them. And here, en passant, I may be per mitted to dwell upon the annoyances and vexations that an Arctic traveler has to undergo when using the dogs for sled work. The most docile and mild looking animal is probably the worst of the team, quarrelsome, snarl ing and fighting whenever a chance presents itself. For an hour or so the dogs will lie quietly, seemingly at peace with one another; then, as if by sudden inspiration, one springs upon the other, biting and tearing the legs, ears and those portions of the body unprotected by hair, and a general me- lee ensues, only ceasing when heavy blows from pieces of wood or tent poles strike some ten d e r p a rt. Then, loo, a t nig h t the how ling in chorus— not a genuine howl,, but a species of sharp, drawn out wails—break upon the ear, to the im a g ination seem ing like the wailing of a horde of lost spirits lamenting their bitter lot. Still, travel would be impossible during the winter were it not for these dogs. So far as exhibiting attachment or retain- le offlclatin inj-kablo. Yes, he was in a bad temper that mom- ins', nnd his sister’s allusion to his age had not tended to improve it. He could not for get ihat i-emork j peop’e over the boundary line -will take allusions to their years -with a spasm, It’s the one rule without an ex ception, “I was asked this morning if this was my wedding day,” he said, later on to his sister, when the guests were departing; “so I could not have looked so deuced old, Sarah.\ “Far too old to be thinking of your own wedding day now, John, I should think,” re plied Mrs. Tmid. who would have been i x- tremely sorry for her brother’s marriage, and all the legacies floating away from her and her children. “Much you know about that.” They were the major’s last -words that afternoon, and they oppressed and discom fited Mrs. Todd very seriously. She remem bered them, too; they roso vividly before her again a few months afterward, and she rnuld only sigh and say. “I thought as much,”adding, in moments more bitter, that “there was no trusting any man.” Maj. Crawshaw dined a t the International (hat evening. He went straight to the In ternational, in fact, despite his bad temper and his bad appetite after a heavy luncheon. He saw Miss Daly after dinner that even ing. He strolled into the counting house and told her all the news; but she did not appear to bo CT^atly interested, and even an swered sometimes in monosyllables when he waited for the answer which he thought his obsorvalions required. Miss Daly was out of i'sorts\ that even'ng, as his sister would have termed it. He missed the bright, frank smile which was so natural to h\r and the steadfast look from the eyes was no longer for him. She hardly glanced up once from her ledgers. The distant manner of Miss Daly troubled the major more than ho could account for. It was evident that in some way or other he had given her offense, unless-rand this was the horrid thought which damped and dis heartened him—she was grieving that young Todd was forever set apart from her. Had she disguised her emotions so completely as to deceive him in this wav? 'Was it possible that he had been so gi'ievouslv mistaken in his estimate of her character? He went away disconsolately. Twice that day had he gone from the shelter of the International with a heart exceedingly heavy. \What a trouble and a nuLsanoe at his years to let the words or the manner of a girl—a mere child-affect him in this un- accountab’e way! What was the use of it? What was he thinking about. Was he thinking too much of Ruth Daly, then?—a young woman who could never think anything of him—who thought so little of him, in fact, that only that mom- ing sho had asked if it was his wedding day; strong evidence that she could not have had him on her mind. Of course that was not likely, he being on his way to fifty and grow ing iron gray. Ho had never paid her any attention, for that matter; and as for “mak ing eyes,” that process was for lunatics un der twenty, or f(?ols who went on their way nublushingly and in a ctjronio state of lee'r. Ah, yes, he was a failure; his scheming had been a fafiure, too, and she had loyed young Todd, after all Or, if it were impossible to . love that youth—and, upon his sou!, he thought it wa? impoS'-ible—then sho was worldly au4 selfish, and was regretting now the chanM which she had let slip by her re serve. She had been quietly waiting for young Todd, making sure of his coming presently, and Mr dlsaPFfilutment at lost had been more than she could disguise. ■VVell, he was sorry, he was vexed, and he brooded 'until a late hour upon the whole position, and went to bod shrugging his .shoulders at the weakusss of women—which he had dpne all his life, for that matter, be fore he had met Miss Daly. Nevertheless, Maj. Crawshaw did not give up the Inter national; ho should do so by and by, but ho did not pare to part with Miss Daly on had -t^ms, and fae thought be should prefer the final meeting to be pleasant and friendly, so that there might bo a fair reminiscence of her forever afterward in his memory. Con found it! ha was getting an old fool—his sis ter was right In hey fears, Ha was softening with uncommon rapidity. Miss Daly con tinued grave and distant in her manner— almost as if she owed him a grudge. She was always terribly busy with those abom inable account books, and would not look at him except when he entered the counting house, and then it was -with so much calm surprise at his apjiearance—athis impudence in intending upon the private apartments of 'Ited? he major. “I -ndshed t rescue you from a false position—to plaes you in a different sphere, where, at least, you should not be exposed to the vulgar at tentions of a mob. I wanted you to be something better than a waitress, and 1—1 certainly told Mr. Freshwater you deserved “And he took your hint, as you were likely to be a good customer,” she said, satirically, “as you had influence and many frion Is. But what coffid he have thought “Thought! If he has even had a thought far as exhibiting attachment OT retain- of you in any way disparaging I'll knock his . , ugly head off!-ay, gad, I will!” exclaimed m g any eBpecial liking for an individ- w 4 • VI these animals cannot be said to “Oh, he has been very kind m hib way, and I do not think I ha'vo served him very badly; lu t I muft leave the International” “3Iy dear—young lady,” he added, with a jerk, “.v'ou will never be so precipitate— “I have already given Mr, Freshwater notic’ of -K-ithdrawal,” said Miss Daly, in- teriT.pting him. “B -cause I asked him to place you here?” The major looked still more raoumfully at “I suppose it’s a proper pride— - know,” he said, helplessly. \I cannot b 01 - ; and yet I cannot but thin' hly. And upon i I. are maki; ual, t show the slightest trace. They simply come to any one who feeds them, acting perfectly indiscriminately.— (7on San Franoisco Chronicle. , . , ■ \I cannot blame yo-i; and yet I cannot but think you are acting very rashly. And upon my honor,” he blurted forth, “you are making i misor.'hlo ” misorablo.” fhy?” ‘‘B -cause all this is my fault—because— Mi-s Daly,\ he said, suddenly, “-there is an other reason why I placed you hero, -which ay as we have the whole truth while I am about it, and then you can laugh at mo thoroughly Miss Daly did not laugh. On the con- tiaary, sho turned very wfaite, guessing the whole truth a t once. •■Pray dqn’t say any more,” she urged. “O.ily that I love you. Miss Daly,\ said the impetuous major, “and have loved you in my quiet, old-fasbioned way ever since I spoke to you on that Sunday morning down in Battleton. 'Very ridiculous of me, you will think, at my age; but I could uot help it. Miss Daly, my life seemed very dull and lonely after J had known you, and thero was a faint hope once that yon might learn to care for me a little, There, that’s go'd-day, and take the liberty of saying, Gcd bless youT’ He held both his hands toward her, but sb? did n o t see them for the mist before her eyes. He stooped and looked more closely into her face, and saw that she was Drying. “Miss Daly, forgive me if ---- ” “Go now. You are veiy kind—there Is nothing more to forgive. I—I--- Fiease go now, major, for my sake, ffi J you notF \ Major., will you got ' ske sqi'4 Still ho made no to iMT* her, fating toq much of a gentle'num tqleave her iu tea^ ThM ‘0 was a softening in her vtue®t kJA tbkt told him he had ‘not offmded h*r apew; tbeve came a new hope to faina, “Ruth,”' hp exciaimpd, ^ I might only think you would learn to like me in time, that I was uot too old for you, or too much of a bear, or—or ---- ” “You -will go no-w, major,\ she entreated,., putting her hand in faia, 'wfil irtv* time to think of this-—a Uttle time to con sider all you hfiye m KL Jt ii Uk* a drwm to me at presen'fc.” “Not a bad dream—not quite a nightmare. Miss Daly?—say that,\ “No, \she murmured, -with her bead averted from him. “And when.*111 you-give me an answer?” he asked. “To-morrow?\ “In a fortnight’s time,\ “Good heavens! What an age o t suspense!” “I am bewildered—I did not think—1 could not believe—I— Major, will you go?\ she said, almost angrily, In her exoitemeht “Certainly. Good-day—good-by, , 'Miss Ruth; I am going. ImBMdiately;” and be marched away hnrriedly. He was Men no more for a fortnight at the Ditemational, He was a brave man, but be had not the courage to appeof hoW bis time of. suspense was over. And It had been a great stis- pense, co-werlng in the shadows of his rooms in the Albany, a nervous and dispirited man, and no one save himself knew what ^ dreary, dreadful time of probation It wag. He hnq sef fai* hearf ?tuth Daty, aqd It was a heart with only fine Idea to distract it ip its' sober middle age. Had be been a younger man, or a man more frivolous, he Among the M.oon-shiners. Woman’s Work. Tlie Im p o rtance o t a Regnliar tor 0 a llF Work. l R o n tin e ' How Divine Vengeance Worked. From the Boston Record. A capital story is told regard ing twd peddlers of Hebrew extraction who were plying their vocation in the country. Calling at a farmhouse for dinner they were accomoda ted, though the fare was, if anything worse than that usually given to tramps—the driest of bread, very stale, cold potatoes, scraps of fat meat and bones, sour milk, etc.—and, what made m atters worse, they were charged for the miserable repast. It took all the small change they could rake and scrape to pay the score, and shouldering their packs they left the house two very sober and disgus ted men. After walking down the road for half a mile in silence one of them ventured to relieve his feelings: “ Dot vas a pad man, Isaac.” “ Yes, Moses, dot vas a ferry pad Another half-mile, and another long silence, then : “ God vill punish dot man, Isaac.” “Yes Moses, God vill punish dot They tiudged on fully a mile fur ther before either spoke again, and then Moses broke the silence by ex claiming with quiet emphasis as he drew a handful of silver spoons from his bosom: “ Isaac, God has punished dot man.” Southern Blvouack. The counties of Kentucky, Tennes see, North Carolina and Georgia, where the “moonshine” men are found in most perfect characteristic type,*re of ten a hundred miles from a railroad or a telegraph. In some of them the only vehicles that have ever been seen are the “buckboard,” upon which some- enterprising commercial adventurer makes a tour of inquiry, or the lumber ing ox cart which is sometimes owned in a neighborhood. The “roads” are little more than bridle-paths leading over the mountains or along the creeks and streams that fill the bottom of ev ery valley. Sometimes the only road is the bed of the stream itself, dry and rocky in summer and frequently miles along one of these paths without meeting with any sign of human habi tation. On either side the mountains tower, almost perpendicular, covered with a dense growth of stunted trees and matted underbrush. When a house is found it is usually log hovel of one room, thatched with split boards held down by great boulders, or beams kept in place by wooden plugs. There is little or no metal used, and even the stones, with which the valleys abound, are not al ways gathered to build fire places and chimneys; these are frequently made of logs and so wide and deep that ihe wood fire built in the center is too far from the sides to ignite the structure. In this hut the family will live, with no store of provisions, but trusting to the seasons and their gifts and the fiot- sam that accident brings to the door. The cultivation of the “ farm” and the care of the “ stock,” with the spin ning and weaving of the rough fabrics made into garments, are left to the women, while the men hunt and fish, distil the vile liquor called moonshine whiskey and do any odd jobs that full in their way. The physical development which re results from such a condition strieted. The type of mountain men is a rather tall and angular person of superfluous flesh, square j^'inted, raw boned, stooping, from the task of climbing and descending, and slouch ing in bis gait*; keen of eye, slow and deliberate in bis speech, but alert and quick in action; he is usually[insignifi- cant in appeara'fice, but capable of im mense exertion and often living to a great age. The women are usually gaunt and masculine, or wilted slatterns who show some traces and suggestive ness of beauty when young. Many women use tobacco as incessantly as the men, and iu all the modes adopted by the men. The Salt Mountains of Palestine. Palestine possesses a remarkable salt m o u n tain s itu a ted at the south e n d of the Dead sea. The length of the ridge is six miles, with an average width of three quarters of a mile, and the height is not far from 600 feet. There are places where the overlying earthy deposits are many feet in thick ness, but the mass of the mountain is composed of solid rock salt, some of which is as clear as crystal. How far this deposit of salt extends below the surface of the ground, no one at pres ent knows. At some points, this ridge, which is on the shore of the Dead sea. It is astonishing how much time peo ple lose for want of system. The iqin- utes have such an odd trick of slipping away so swiftly that if they are not caught and applied to a good purpose the years are left periodically blank. The woman who dwadles about dress ing and over her breakfast finds the best part of the day gone before shfa is ready to set herself about anythipg. The same is true in the life of n ^ . Then comes the inevitable hurry ?|nd worry which weary both mind and body more than any amount of sys tematized labor. Organization & st and application afterward are poveer- ful motors and lubricators of the ma chinery that inclination or necesinty sets in motion. Women are particularly prone to a lack of system in any occupation they undertake, and it is this which is One of the greatest clogs to their advance ment. In no way, perhaps, is this fault more apparent than in housekeep ing, which is as much a business as is book-keeping, although but few house keepers ever look at it in that light. To begin with, there should be a place for everything and everything in ‘its place. This rule strictly adhered to will save a great deal of vexation, loss of time and extra la bor. Being obliged to hunt for anything, and, if ina hur;ry, not being able to find it, is a great ad ditional burden to the housekeeper’s weight of care, and is easily avoidable. Putting things where they belong is very much a matter of habit, and is just as easy as putting things where they do not belong. And not only is the housekeepei this method, bat every member of her family is benefited. Many kitchens are inconvenient and have not proper closets for the recep tion of cooking and baking utensils,, or labeled drawers for spices, etc. This may seem a very small thing in the household economy, but let the house keeper wbo has never had these con veniences insist upon having them, and she will wonder how she ever found time and patience to hunt for each re quired article in pantry and cupboard. The row of little drawers over the “ mixing table,” each plainly labeled with the condiment which it contains, will save a wonderful deal of running in the course of the year and do away with a great amount of friction and wear and tear. Another stumbling-block which the averttge housekeeper encounters is not having a regular routine which she follows in her work. House-work, to move smoothly, like all other work, should be arranged after a plan and the plan adhered to. There is no lime gained and much lost by doing a little of this and a little of that and finish nothing—result, confusion and worry. Think your work over and decide the order in which it may be done to the best advantage, and,* having asce: tained by experiment what that order is, make it the daily programme. This A W< 9 dM ikl Clock. A marvdous clock, which is in^nd- ed to surpass the mechanical wonders of Strasburg and Berne, is being made’ in Viilcngcn in the Black Forest,-one of the headquarters o f this branch o f industry. It is in the Gothic style and indicates the seconds, minutes, hours, days, m o n ths, years, and leap- years, beginning with the fost seconds of the first year and ending with the last seconds of the 99,999 A. D . It also indicates the correct timeforeach meridian, the phases of the moon, and strikes the minutes, quarters, and hours. Marvelous figures move around the clock, time, Christianity, human life, striking the minutes and hours j genii, death, a patron saint, cherub, and the twelve apostles, Christ, the four ages of man, the four seasons, the seven heathen gods who give^ the names to th e days o f the the signs of the zodiac, etc. announcing the hours with his ' and he is relieved at morn by a prone it increases her enjoyment of them. L great deal of delay in the accom- ihment of the house-work is quarter or half ho beyond the allottee father, like son,” a forw iii “Miss Holy,\ he sal^, pno morning, “In -ffhat way have I ojfeqiied yuu?” “J bqve ngt said you have given me offense,” was the slow reply, “I have no right, possibly, to take offense.\ “But still you are offended, and you are too truthful a girl to deny it,\ “Aad you teo «l*ar-*i||fated a man not to knowitltetia th« MUW,'’Mdd Buttt Paly, jCaqing falm luddanly. than a jest. Miss Daly received him with a sad smile thatdropp^ hlmtosero; Imt he 'waa mis taken In his fear*. She was very happy now: she had made up hermlnd to say yes. Pbe fanewwltfa'fffaon fafao migfat I m t tbo happlneM of her UK and whom ti wonUl nqt bedifffa^t fao qqt Naval Warfare Reduced to a Science. The Selfridge torpedo—that in gen eral use—is a tin can filled with about sixty pounds of guncotton, which has the explosive force of 3Q0 pounds of powder. It is exploded by electricity, and ipakeg noise enough to frighten an enemy’s ship into showing her heels, though in the water the sound is of course subdued and nearly lost. Some of the torpedoes, however, are far more terrible things to see and hear of than this comparatively simple specimen, They are made in some cases twenty- five and even thirty feet in length, and filled with so much powder, guncoften dynamite and nitro-glycerine, not to mention various oombuBtibles of the same agreeable nature. When it is necessary they-are set off to spin through the water at a irantio rate of speed, generating internal heat by the action of a sort of paddle wheel, until, jnst as they reach the ill-fated vessel which they are intended to annihilate, the whole infernal contrivance goes off without a symptom of warning, and rthe unfortunate Eliza, Maud or Ann Sophia, as the case may be, flies in a thousand million pieces up to the as- iomshed sides, ^ a r , dear I What a horrible visitfation war is, to be sure! We haven’t any navy, but we are get ting navti warfure down to a very fine point, indeed .—Providence Jour- S abatoox S pbi N os in to have a doulile treat next June,’when the sociely of the Army of- the Fotomao will mciet there, and Gbiunoej M. Pepew and Widlace Bruce will be the oroiior and poet respectively of i^e P 9 pM\o?j, approaches very close to the water, and ai others it recedes until it is fifty or more yards from it. Just here the water of the Dead sea is much more salt than it is at the north end, where the Jordan enters the lake. This salt is a government monopoly. The same is true of the salt that is contained in solution in the Dead sea itself. If Arabs or the natives of the country were found getting salt from the shores of the Dead sea or from this salt mountain, they would be arrested at once. Most of the salt used in He bron, Jerusalem, and elsewhere in this part of Palestine, comes from these sources, but it is gathered under the direction of government officers, and the revenue is supposed to go to - -g the government.-- United States Con- .. sul M e r r ill in Scientijio Am e rica-\ plishment of the house-work is occas- :— J u_ irregularity of meals. that the ioned by the irregularity The head of the family knot dinner or supper will wait for him, and so be makes no hesitation in lin gering on ing on one pretext or irter or half hour,>ur, perbihaps per )d meal time. her, like son,” and the children fall ;o the way of loitering on their way home from school, or playing just a little lonj less that or supper busy house-wife this peri( g is a great strain. Her at a standstill. ing the day a trumpeter sounds his bugle, then comes the night watch- an announcing the hours wit! srn, and he is relieved at morn rowing cock. In spring and er the cuckoo’s note is heard. T h e angels who attend Christ in his last hours [are also moving on, and there i and an old manan whho The clockwork al- also a sexton a kneels in p m w in prayer. T he clockwork al- ao sets in motion various paintings-— seven pictures o f the creation of the world—^and the fourteen stations which represent the life and sufferings o f Christ. It is intended,AQ- show _ _ this wonderful piece V f mechanism i the first International exhlbition.- Boston Globe, The Largest Farm in th e World. In the extreme sonthwest corner of Lonisiana lies the largest producing farm in the world. It. runs 100 miles north and south and twenty-five miles ^ east and west, and is owned and o e r s ted by a syn^cate of northern capitid- ists. Their general manager, J. B. Watkins, gives an interesting account of this gigantic plantation, wMch throws the great Dalrymple farm of Dakota into the shade completely. He. was cornered by a Post reporter at the St. James Hotel, last night, and asked to give the particulars of his gi gantic enterprise. “The million and a half acres of land in our tract,” Mr. Watkins said, “ was purchased in 1883^ from the State of Louisiana and fro? the United States government, lat time it was a vast grazing land for cattle of the few dealers I took States that time it was a vat ^ ^ the cattle of the few dealers of the neighborhood. When I took posses sion I found over 30,000 head of half- w ild horse and cattle. M y first w o rk was to divide the immense tract into convenient pastures, establishing sta tions or ranches every six miles. The fencing alone cost in the neighborhood of $30,000. The land I found to be best adapted to rice, sugar, corn and cotton. “ All our cultivating, ditching etc;, is done by steam power. We teke a tract, say half a mile wide for instance, and place an engine at each side. These engines are portable, and oper- cable attached to four ploughs;^ ;te a cable ^ ^ ind under this arrangement we ar^en- abled to plough thirty acres a day with fr the labor of three n cruij biAc Ana/vJi. vjx tiuxee lui:}!!. V./UX. rowing, planting, and other cultivating is done in a like manner. In fact, there is not a draught-horse on n i’ tire place. \We have, of course, for the herders of cattle of wMeh we ise o the en- horses now have 16,000 head. The Southern Pacific railroad runs for thirty-six ...... ’■ farm. We havt miles through our : three steamboats 1 of o waters the f our own estate, upon which 300 miles of navigable v We have an ice factory, a bank. yard and a rice mill.- puiliean. of navigable waters, factory, a bank, a ship;^ Be mill .—Missouri j B«. is a marvelous salvaior of time and temper, and will undoubtedly lighten the housekeeper’s days in as it increases her — A The Danger of D u st. Darkness, dampness and dust are poteni^encies of disease. Everybody recognizes this; but how many 'fail to adopt its precepts. If there be sermons in stone, surely the summer dust and its dangers would prove a fruitful subject for medical discourse. There is as great a difference between London and country dust as there is between the corresponding muds. Pulverized matter would be harmless enough if it were deprived of its physi cal, property of ready iliffusion. The atmosphere is laden and swarms witk particulate matter of highly compleix nature. Its chief peril to l i ^ g beinga ides in the organic constituents. terial Yarions Uses o f Borax. A cup of powdered borax on your washstand will do wonders in the way of softening the skin. If you have been w o rking in the garden or doing anything about the house which has tended to make your hands rough, when you wash them dip your fingers ■in the borax and rub your hands well with it. The safest and best thing also for washing the hair is moderately- strong solution of borax in water. Pure water should be used immediately after washing with the borax and water. Our lady readers who have not used borax have been losing a great help and comfort. If •once tested none will be without it on the toilet table. It removes stains and dirt from^the hands better than soap, and at the same time soltens and smoothes the skin. It is excellent for washing laces, and will without injury cleanse brushes and combs in a few moments. It extracts dirt from articles of delicate texture with out rubbing, it being only necessary to put them to soik in solution of borax over night, and to rinse them in the ling. Two tablespoonfuls o f pul verized borax, dissolved in a quart of water, to which add enough water to cover % pair o f blankets, will cleanse them beautifully. Jt also sfaves great labor in washing. jm school, or playing just iger, all unconscious or car i “mother” ia dinner .waiting for them. Now, to the I of 1 1 great strain. 'H er work •vir tually is at a standstill. It is n worth while to begin anything els( besides, her time is taken up in shil i ng the dishes from one part of the stove to another in the effort to pre- t them from getting cold; spoiling the woman wbo takes pride in her cookery, and most women do, is no small thing. The husband whose wife is cook and housemaid owes it to her to be in time for meals, and thus not cause delay in her work, which is quit( as important to her as his is to him The men who look upon woman’s time as of little account please make a note of this paragraph. Any quantity of labor can be cram med into a lifetime. The heaviest Largely this organic material consists }f minute forms of life in a stage of atency, only waiting for a spell of Heat and moisture and a favorable amount of light, or it may be darkness, to awaken it into activity-tivity. The habits ac of individuals in every class of society. Binding the masses, are not calculated’ diminish, but rather to augment, e amount of organic matter in our atmoBj ■ere. louth and nos- vent them from getting cold; or o: the other hand, from burning or dry in g up. Beyond this is the knowledg osph Mucus, saliva and humor ularly known as “matter,” must be aischarged from the mouf’ trils to the extent of many galloiiB daily, and not a little of this comes from infective sources; while we ven ture to think that the bulk of it min gles vrith the dust of our streets And courts. If, as seems not unlikely, con sumption is largely caused by “germs, the contagion is-'caught., __ estimate the amount of mischief that the shaking of mats may have caused I How _ ^oung „ I have. le shaking of mats may have caused I [ow many y girls early in the morning on their way to business have, ' 80 to speak, received their death blow while] inspiring, all 'jneonsoious of lay’s work can be got through, eit >y the fireside on the wife’s part >ut of doors on the husband’s side while] inspiring, all ’jnoonsoious of harm, some of the clouds of dust that always greet them? Who can tell? The abatement of this danger ai ^nce is a difiSculty that almost out of doors on the husbani time be taken by the foreh le if lock, eveiy- and everything id out. But it re- well as handwork. Who can tell? itement of this danger and nui- ________ seems insurmountable. Much may be done by personal habits of prevention.— London Lancet. quires h< The Best Thrown In. “Darling,” said a young\ depart ment clerk to a pretty Georgetown girl, whose waist his arm encircled, “ what do you think your dear papa would say if I were to ask him for yoor hand f” “ I don’t think he’d like It, Harry,” she lisped. “ No ?” he said in dismay, for he thought he was very dense with the old gentleman., “ No ? Why not ?” “ Because, dear,” she smiled, “ he wouldn’t want his only daughter mutilated in that manner, ,Ask for all of me, Harry, and I have a vague suspicion you’ll get me mighty quick.” Harry gave heir a squeeze as big as a dime museum anaconda^ and saw the father ncj^t day w a most successful manner. WQritie^ ^ndon Lancet. Farming Land in Europe. While the soil is rapidly increasing in value in the United States, it is a remarkable fact that mere farming land is becoming almost worthless in Great Britain and the continent of Europe. T h e extension of steam communication to the hitherto remote regions has made the supplies o f bread- stuffs and provisions so abundant in the ports of the old world that land for raising grain and cattle no longer yields an income to the londlord. O f course it still pays to run dairy ffirms, to raise eggs, milk and butter, and to supply vegetables and fruits. City » property, also, never brought such i high prices as now. The great land lords o f Europe, once controllers' o f all the wealth of the nations, are n without incomes, and quite ■willing to part with their bolding to the tenants and field laborers,-—
