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Soon the room door opened and Sir Frederic Oliphnnt entered, going over to Shirley with outstretched hands and very troubled eyes; and, as she looked up at himLher ownivyerexery dim. Punctnally at 12 o’clock on the ollowing day Lady Oliphant’s brougham drove through the quaint old town of Adinbrooke, and turned up the hill Where the old castle stood which was now used as the county jail, and drew up at its gate. The morning was fine and clear, and, as Shirley Glynn and Lady Oliphant passed into the buildâ€" ing, a ray of wintry sunshine fell on the younger woman’s lovely face, touching it with a momentary brightness which faded as they entered the comparative darkness within. The governor, a stately. militaryâ€" looking man. with a stern yet not unkindly face and a heavy iron-gray 1nustache,came down to meet them. He had met Lady Oliphant before, and shook hands with her in a frank friendly fashion, bowing low to Shirley as he did so, and looking at her with interested eyes as they went on to- gether. He had heard much of her beauty and grace, and hername had been familiar to him when she had been a queen in society andfctcd and sought after and followed. “ Then you must forgive her,” she said, averting her eyes from his face, with a little pang at her heart when she saw the pain there. “ I have forgiven her; but"â€" he paused, and his strong fingers pulled nervously at his mustache; then he went on rapidlyâ€"“ I care for her far too much to keep up a. show of resentment against her; still 1 am not at all sure that it would not. be Wiser to go away and never see her again.” “ Why 7” Shirley asked. “ Because-~because I can hardly think she cares for me when she doubted me on such slight grounds, Lady Glynn.” Shirley glanced at him: there was no mistaking the pain on his face; and she felt sorry that a girl who had been form» Bate enough to win such alove as his should have been weak enough to doubt it, and so raise doubt in his own mind. Presently the sound of wheels rapidly approaching the house made Madge start up with a quick joyful exclamation. Shirley too rose to her feet ; but her knees trembled, and she was forced to sit down again While she tried to appear composed and to quell the nervous agitation which seized her. Madge flew out into the hall, and Mr. Litton followed, for he feared that he might be needed in his professional capacity if Sir Hugh had returned with his friends. “I am sure of that,” she said gently, and turned away from him for a moment in silence. “ How did he beat it ?" she asked steadily then, looking at him with brave steadfast eyes. “Well and bravely,” he answered warmly. “ There was a sad dignity about him which disarmed even those who were inclinefl to be bitter against him.” “Yes; if your are well enough and equal to 1t on ma see him to-morrow.” y _> ‘ Y _ _ __ _ " That is like Gully," she said Softly ; and during the rest of the day she was very quiet. “My poor child,” he'said. gently, “they would not accegtpail}. _We 011;: best}: He placed chairs for them,then left them alone in his pleasant sitting-room. It was a cheerful room handsomely furnished, and Windows looked over a garden which in the summer Was bright and fragrant with the beauty and the smell of flowers. Lady Oliphant and Guy exehanged a few sen- tences as they waited ; Shirley sat by the Window, looking out with wistful eyes and pale parted lips. Something in the place seemed to stifle her; even in that cheerful airy room she could scarcely breathe; and Guy, without speaking, opened the Window near which she sat. Her eyes glanced up at him gratefully, and then she looked out again at the dreary garden. 1 “ You must not say the grounds were slight,” she said earnestly. “ Most women, I think, would have been vexed and pained ; and you must not think that, because she had not perfect faith, she has not perfect love. Girls are different from men, you know; they Want constant assurance of the love they inspire, and you must try to forget her jealousy in love.” His face was touched with 9. deep com- passion as he preceded the twoladies to his own private room, Where Guy was wait- ing. looking haggard and worn and pale, as if the night had been a long and restless one. Presently the door opened, and a. pretty golden-haired little girl came bounding in, but stopped shyly, seeing the strange ladies. Guy bent down to her and took her little hand in his. She was a. daughter of Captain Graham‘s, Whose acquaintance he had made the night before. “That is love’a curse." he answered, smiling, but his face was brighter for the earnest words she had spoken; and the pain he had felt at the want of faith in him which pretty Rosie Venn had shown was almost removed. “ I am glad to know that," she said. “ Will they let me aee_1_1im?” _ "IThank' you, I shall be well enough. AndflGuyI” “ Guy 'remained at Adi nbrooke ; he Wished to be near Sir Hgghflr’r Shirley gave him her hand in silence, and a gleam of tenderness atolo into his Weary eyes as they met here, while his heart ached for her with an agony which had never ceased even for a. moment. If he could have spared her any further Buffer» ing, he would gladly have done so at the coat of his own life; but this trouble noth- ing could lessenfiâ€"paine, influence, wealth, all were alike powerless. _ “ Yes,” she whispered shyly, shaking her curls over her face as she left her hand in his; and Shirley turned from the Window at the sound of the sweet childish voice, and the stifled sensation at her heart left her as she saw the shy bright blue eyes looking at her wietfully from beneath the veil offfalling yelloyvhair. A Story of Woman’s Faithfulness. "‘V'VDon't go awry, Amy," he said, smil- ing. “Oome,&nd speak to these ladies. Didigouyapt yggr fath‘erfl”. ‘1. a ‘}‘I must ask‘you to wait 8. few minutes,” Captain Graham said courteoualy. “ It will not: be _lor_xgqr, I_thi;_1k." ;;Whosc liifle girl are you ‘2" she said Then mowed his outstrohchnd arm 01‘ . And then he rose with murderous will And roamed the earth and vowed to kill All poets who Wipli Iiondiah skill He lay them in the valley green, The city's strain to calm off, And the funnel: with his mowng nmchjne “ 011,]etmeleiwe the city's heat, Its frippcries and fornmlitios, Anfi plape opco {110129. pay tired feet On nature’s actualitiea. I'll turn from fashion’s mimic train, Its a. ing arts, its high disdain, And utho my tired heart, and brain In primitive rfilnlities." Dislmrdencd of publicity. But horse flies nmrkod him for their prey, And down his backbone day by day The caterpillar wound his way In sinuous eccentricity. Would come with fiendish fluvih-y, With daddy longlozzn run a. men, And march in military pace Across his bloated and lvliatemd fact», In Wild, tumultuous ruvolry. And while the still breeze from the south Lapped him in dreams elysian, T]_1_q'g§.y gregn froglqu'ped in his mouth With acrobat precision ; The wookchuck niluhled at his nose, The weasel chewed up both his 11mm, The snake crawled thro‘ his liudorclu’oa In wandering indecision. H0 turnud from “ fashion's mimic Lmin,‘ And sought the calm l'usticity Of field and forest, In:qu and plain, And when beneath some arbor snug He'd lie in thoughtful rovolry, Th9 buglblwhee 911d,Luqquenpug‘ SHIRLEY ROSS : 78110711 fiustoml lies could palm oIT. CHAPTER LI. A Country Idyl. As she was kneeling by his Rifle, he took her hand, and,folding it in both his, pressed it near his heart. The touch Heemed to lessen the pain there, he thought, as he met the wistful eyes. “Did they, darlng ‘2” Shirley’s fingers were parting the wavy golden hair from the pure white brow, and hot ayes, very intent and tender. were studying the child’s: face. “ I was sorry,” the child went on, “ because no one ever kissed the place and made it better, when I fell down, as she did; but hither was very sorry g” mm] mm bright face shadowed a. little at the m- mombmnco. “ And you were his little comfort ‘2” ” Yes, who told you sowâ€"did father? He always calls me that.” softly : and the child crossed the room and put her chubby little fingers on Shirley’s ‘ soft soalskin. “Father’s,” she answered brightly. “ And mother’s?” “Yes; but mother has gone away, you know ; the angels came and futehed her.” “Did they, darling,y ‘2” Shirley’s fingers were parting the wavy golden hair from the pure white brow, and her eyes, very intent and tender. were studying the child’s: ‘ face. “ I was sorry,” the child want on, “ because no one ever kissed the place and made it better, when I fell down, as she did; but father was very sorry ;” and the bright face shadowed a. little at the re- he asked, alter a short pause. “ Yes. Wm: it very painful, Hugh ?" [ “ No. my darling. I think I am dead to ‘g pain now. I rememberthinking once that, g 11' you lmew of my crime, the Right of the horror mu] repngnunee in your eyes would > kill nm ; hut, when you-knew it, and Guy, it seemed as if I did not care who 0180 saw E my shame. And they were all very good and patient, Shirley, although poor Guy was terribly cut up because they would not take bail.” “ “’0 were grieved at that, Hugh.” “ Were you, my darling ‘2” he said wistâ€" . fully. “1 think it is almost better so. I f hrwo berm such a burden to you these last I \veokn thn‘tm" Shirley lifted her on to horlmoe, and pressed her quiveringr lips to the pretty hair; and the little girl with all a child‘s quick instinct and pity for any one suffer» ing, put up her arm and claupt'd Shirley's nook and nestled her gohlmi head against the soft sealekin of Shirley’s coat; and there was inexprnxsible comfnrt in the tight clasp and the clinging little hand. It seemed to Shirley, m4 aha out there with Amy Graham nestling in her arms, that much of the darkness which hadfnllen upon her spirit as she entered tho nuatlo had been lifted since the child had entered the room. That anything so good, so bright, so innocent should havo lived in that gloomy place was sufficient to remove hull its gloom : and Amy never guessed what a little comforter in truth she hud boon to the beautiful lady who had clasped her so ton- derly and so closely. “You live here always, Amy ‘2” ” Yes, always ; but sometimes wo go away together to tho sou-side, father and mo and the nurse." “ Do you like the Bedside, my door?” “ Yes; but I like the cmotlo host.” “You have no little brother or sister ‘2" Shirley asked softly. “ I can see you better here,” he Enid presently, smiling at her, with his pale lips quivering a little and his (eyes very dim. “ And I want to see as much of you as I can, my brave. generous darling. 1 seem to have so much to any to you, Shirley, andaxmd not very much time to say it in." “ N0”~â€"the child shook her head as it rested against Shirley, and the blue eyes grew very wistfulâ€"1‘ l had a little brother once, but he want with mnther to llonvm.” “ Captain Graham has seen grout trouble.” Lady Oliphant said, in a low voice. " 1 [(2 lost his young wife and libtlo 5011 within a. few days of mach other.” It was a bare whitewashed room, scrupulously clean, and through the high barred Windows a. my 0f Wintm‘y sunshine had struggled in and lay softly onthojloor, while in the little grate 9. fire was burning; cheerily. Sir Hugh was fully dressed, lying upon the bed with closed eyes, and he looked so haggard and attenuated and deathJike that Shirley‘s heart almost ceasad to beat with n. sudden Tear. Hnr noiseless movements, the soft unrustling velvet dress that she wore, did not attract his attention, and she Wits fully 11 minutn in the room, watching him, before he saw her. ‘ “ Noâ€"hardly at all. And I am much stronger. Captain Graham amt me that arm-chair, Shirley: and it 5:: only sheer laziness which makes me lit: I " He rose who spoke, ant! smggrcring to his feet, managed with Shirley’s aid, to reach the arm-chair, where he lay back exhausted even by that effort. Shirley looked up wistfully; she was thinking, perhaps that “ grid is more for the living lost than ever it is for the dead ;” but she remained silent; and in u few moâ€" ments Captain Graham cmnc back, his stern face softening into a bountiful mandarâ€" ness as he caught {sight of the child in Lady Glynn’g arms and saw the more, punmful look in the beautiful lmml eyes which met his with sudden swift. inquiry. “ Sir Hugh can nee you now, quietly. “ lliwe you bucn making irimm’n with my daughter, Lmiy Git: Him is generally a little addicted to wn "m," ” hm m“ nrul A “ I will take care that you are not dis:- turbed,“ he said very gently. " And, Lady Glynn, I needlml‘dly tell you that; he is very weak, and mum” “I will hot forget,” she amid steadily. “ I will not be less calm than 1 am now. Tlggnk you, Captgip (fruinpnfz She went in softly; he clogod the door after her, and Shirley was: in the prison» cell with which her dreams lmd been ham)» ted more than once. Her thoughts went back almost. involun- tarily to the days when she hmi known him first, and she amv him again 98 he had been then, so handsome and distinguished, so full of life and health and gayoty; she remembered thn New Yenr’kove bull at Fairholme Court and their interview in the school-roam, which had been tho beginning of such misnry, and it almost seemed as if she could hear again the patter of the min against the window-panes ms she had heard it then, and the moan of the wind in The leafless trues. And it washis love for her which had brought him to this grievous strait, the impulse of an undisciplined heart, which, having always l‘ucnivmi “ goad,” could not bear to resist “ evil.” The heavy lids were slowly lifted, and his eyes opened and he saw her, and over his [8.00 came a sudden brightness which gave it for a moment some of tho hmuty of other days. The next minute she was kneeling beside him, and his weak arms were round her, hi5I face hidden where Amy’s golden head had rested in few min- utes before, and there was silence. It was Shirley who, remembering (lap tain Graham‘s injunctions, movod first. She disengaged herself gently from his Weak clasp, and put him back upon tho pillows, and his eyes dwelt upon her with all the old passionate tenderness as she bent over him. He led her himself Rows the long, pam- agcs and the stoneflt pa, {hinking rummâ€" whilc that it was rare for the gloomy priâ€" son to receive such n. bnautifui visitnnt, and himself too opened the door of the 00]] where Sir Hugh was confined. “ So you have come to ma, Shirley ‘2" he said at last, while his eyos drank in the beauty of her face and his hands clasped hers closely. “ You expectml mo, Hugh? You know I would come ‘7” “ Yes, but " “ But what, rlmr ‘2” “ But I was almost sorry afterwafii that I had asked you. This is no plnou for you love.” “ Of my'sclf, dear ?” he echoed. “ Thorn is not much to tell, save that I am happier, much more at rest, than I have been during: all these long months.” She stoofibd toward him anti put her lips t_o his forehead. “‘ And you are not suffering much, Hugh ?”_ ' ‘ “She was not afraid of me?" .3119on mid 9.8 she put the child d0\vn~~â€"und (llapmin Graham noticed how long and close and fond the kiss was which she pressed upon the rosy cheekuand then she followed the governor out of‘the room. “It is! my fittest p1acn.Hugb; and RF! often and as long 0.8 I cam 1 will be with you here.” He smiled feebly. “ How pleasant it is to hear you speak in that little tone of decision,” he said. “ It is very pleasant to see you in that dress, Shirley.” He'toucheâ€"d her velvet nnfl fur with his slender fingers for a. moment; and she Emilgd brnYolyjnfso his filtgre‘dfnfm. ” I am $3183,” 5110 said brightly. “ But tell r99 of y0_u_rsplf, IVI‘I‘lgh.” _ " They told yofi about yesterday, dear?” “ Hugh,” she answered steadily, “ I will come, rm I said, as 012th and for as long as they will let me.” He smiled gratefully and Emily. “ It will not b0 for long, dear, even at the longnat,” 110 said feebly. “ Thank “1171 were bravo enough and unselfish enough,” he said huskily. “ 1 would tell you not; to come here any more, my darling; but, I cannot give up entirely the comfort of seeing; you. But do not come often, Shirle ; this is no place for you, andw” “ It is better 50, Shirley,” he said again. “ I cannot help feeling what misery 1 should have saved you and Guy if I had been 11011th and brave enough to do what was right at first. But mgr-fits are nnavuiiing and useless--â€"»bosidcs, it in: too late for any atonement now.” She mined hm‘ hand to his mouth and silenced him, and he caught it and pressed it fondlyrto his lips; _ _ ley were silent for a. space then, the eyes of both resting on the red glow of tho firn, and Hugh’s faint, struggling breathing alone breaking tho stillnesa. After Mime, fleeing that he was very much oxlmusmd, she induced him to rest upon the little pallet-bed again. It was approach- ing the time when she must leave him, she knew; and he guessedsso also by the sorrowâ€" ful yearning which came into her eyes. And then again he prosfied her hand passionately to his lips; in his humiliation he never sought to touch her mouth and callher by tender names, which almost broke her heart, remembering how he loved her and how he had suffered for that lava. “ (Amy has been so good to me,” he went on softly. “1 lmvn no words to speak of, his goodnr'ss. I think the very sight of him puta life into mrz, Shirley. My dur- ling$ iLt-nkrm SO much of the pain away to think that I 10.3w:me in his care." \Vevping now, Rho h-aned her head against his arm, and naked him trcmuâ€" 10119))! and bmkmily through her tears. not; to speak to her ; there might be happiness for them yet. “Love, 1 am too happy! It is not right that such a. wretch as l have been should know suoh blessedness as this! Shirley, it seems; to me more than over now that your forgiveness and Guy's are an emnesv of that other forgiveness for which I hardly dare to hope.” “ For you. yes, my best and dearest, happiness enough, I pray Heaven, to atone in vome mo, sum for the misery of the past; hm Shirley, if you look forward a littin, only a few Short weeks, you can not but 300 that, it will be humor for me. Darling, forgive, me! 1 did not moan to pmin you. I run nut worthy of one of nhosoprocious toms, and yet they make mo so happy.” Tlloy wore falling; now thick and fast upon his: fovorml hand, and it seemed to llugl‘. Glynn that they fell upon his heart like the blosgml min from heaven upon the parched (sm‘th, bringing healing and soften- ing and fertility where all had beendry and bm‘ron before. “ Last. night, dearoat child,” he went on quiaLlyâ€"mnl Shirley noticed that he never culled horhiH “ wife all through those bitter days! nâ€" " when I awoke all the past came below moAall my past life 80 selfish and worthless mud useless, and all the wrotehmlnosa I nmdo by my fatal love for you all those years of our married life, when ” When the romling was ()er, tlwny sat for awhile silent in the dim lirolit Gull, their hands clasped and Sir Hugh’s head reat- im; on his wiln’s shoulder. The Same strange senao oi Unreality which lmd been upon Shirlvy before was upon her now; it was all part of the same dream. \Vns it possihlc that it was Hugh Glynn, the man she had hated and despised. who was lying thus peacefully against 1101' now, and that it was her heart which was so full of, pity and compassion and tenderness? Was it his hand which claspad hers, his voice which [mill softly ” A11, do no . bulk of them!" she cntrm’md sadly. “ I cannot- think of them now \vich. out, (i001) 1min. If I hall been less proud and unforgiving, if I had not, cherished my anger against you. all this might never have boon. ()i’i, Hugh, I um its guilty in the, sight. of hmwn SLE‘: you cun her my, and more guilty, i-iinm my sin lasted for years, and yours was immediame repented of.” “ Love, you had ovary right to lmto me,” he mid mm‘ly ; “ I had injured you past all lorgivcnoss. But let; us not talk of the past, Hinco it so paiua you. Let us talk of your future, Shirley.” She started and look-3d up at him. “ You know, dear child, that. by the will I made soon after 7 after ” rho hesitated a. little, then went oulmrriodly “I stoloyou from Guy, 1 lofv what was all yours by right away from you, and now ” 'But her: gomvlov hind upon his stoppofl him. “ Hugh!" she said ontreatingly. “ \Vhat would you say, my dearest ?” he asked as he saw how her lips: quivurod and how M10 pained color rose in her face. There was no need to finish thesentence; he understood her, and a. llush of shame rose to his hollow cheek. “ I see, my dour,” he said, after a long silence. “ 1 will not urge you then. Tell me about your brother,” he went on prosently. “ \Vill he uvnr forgive mo all the misery I brought on his siswr 7.” “ He thinks that he was: more the cause oi that misory than you, Hugh," she am. wm'ud gently. “ Hut 3011 are very weary, dour. Will you let me, rli to you now?” “ Yes, presently. Do _\011 over Sing 110W, Shirlvy? l have NO often thought of that smut you Sum; one day in the oak parlor at Fairholmo (ionrt. it was the day Guy proposed to you, I think, and I shall never forgot your Moons you sung it. Oh, my darling, soon, when you are free, you can plum your hand in your king’s with perfect oonfiflonce, for “' Titled by gift of God in he, And rich in a rim-er thng than wealth !’ Does it pain you for me to talk thus, Shirlm ‘2” he coutimmd, wistfully. “ Dear, it; in my on!) (:nmforh now to think how your tuturc will atone for the past.” I “Let me read to you, 111131;,” she plead 0d (\zlynmst ' "l’msamly, (low. It is so pleasant to look at the happier things in store for you. You have had bitter things long; enough, poor little woman; but, if it pains you, I will think of them when I am alone. Yes, I am randy, dear1 if you will read.” The Book, a. worn and shabby little volunm, which had taught them both many a. lasson durian those terrible days at Erin- (lale, was lying), on the tuftllo. Shirley drew in toward her, and turned over the leaves 110Eitatingly. Stendy and sweet and grave and reverent \Vfifi hur voicrv as shu romlthosagmnd words which tell of n Father’s infinite love and imvmxiuiling pardon words which huvo brought comfort and healing to many a. sinner; and, as ho lidtened, the look of peace dampened on the haggard attentive face of Hugh Glynn, and his thin burning ingurs (zlosvd ovnrr her hand. “llugfimthat willâ€"do not change itâ€"I could not 7” “ Always the Same chapter, Shirley,” he said, wile a limtle smile. " You know- that; which tells of the son who was dead, and alive again, who was lost and fonm .” Wall street has just lost one o[ her most daring speculative lemiers, Charles A. Johnes,who in the last few years has made over $2,000,000 in the Stank market, breakâ€" ing down his health utterly in the strain and excitement involved therein. Pointed. A confirmed tippler remnrked in the presence of his little son that; at one period he didn’ttouch a. drop fortwo years. “ Pa,” said the little fellow, “ was that your first two years '1” Heaven, Oh, thank Heaven for that ! Oh, Shirley, if you could know how fillcthought of the trial haunted me at first, how oinen oh, how oftean saw the crowded court, the judge, the accusing faces, the contempt of my crime and cowardice and bufieness in every eye! How I used to wake at night Struggling with tho terror of it, and dared not go to sleep for {our of it recur- ring! Oh, Shirley, even now, if 1 dared, I would pray that thu end might come be- fore that, that I might not be judng at any earthly tribunal, but by that Judge who is more merciful than any earthly juugel” H y 7 A Rising Young Man. To his! fond father, who has asked him where he is in his class now: “Oh, pa, I've got a much better place than I had the last quarter.” “ Indeed. \VOU, where are you?” “ I’m fourteenth.” “Fourteenth, you little lnzybones! You were eighth Inst term. Do you call that a better place?” “ Yes; it’s nearer the stove.” ~ Anfl Shirley, as she bent over him trying: to soothe the agony of terror which had seized him7 in her heart echoed his prayer. Daily, almost hourly, ho wasted and becmne weakenflynd 0mm day, whon the prison (1001' closed after Shirley, she wondered whether, when she came on the following day, he would be living to give her that fond bright smile which al\Vays cmue into his] eyes when they rested upon her, no matter how grout his suffering had been the minute before. Thin is the “’orst. Blifkin’s boy, who was engaged in rub- bing Imlmrwisn insect powder on his dog, wt off this dreadful one to his mother: “How does a campaign flag differ from this insect pmvder?” Of course she gave it up, and the boy answeer and said: “ Because one is flung to the bmozn and the other is brung; to the fleas.” He had to go to bed without his supper, Three weeks went by. Sir Hugh Glynn was very ill, sick unto death; and with ovary hour the certainty increased that he would not live to be triofl for the (100d ho had ([0110 under the summer sky on the rocks at l‘luston. His illness was a com- plicated one, brought onzpnrtly by exposure and want, partly by romorse and misery. The exposure to the weather on that Christ mas night when he had been found Bongo. Jeas in the snow by the woman he had wronged so deeply had aggravated the chestsomplaint from which he had suffered for months; one lung was entirely gone, the other was going fast, and the end might come at any time. 110w She G01. (Put. “0, pnpn.‘ I was caged once,” said a littln girl. “ \Vlmn I was visiting auntie in the country last summan went into some busliea, and after a while I found 1 was caught. The lnmlma were so thick that I couldn’t get out.” “ \Vell, how did you finally get out ‘1” “ 0,” she replied, with :L tom; of her curly bend, “I had a little hatchet and I hatched myself out."â€"~(7llimgu ’lribmm. To the last day of her life Shirley remembered Captain Graham’s kindnum and consideration for bar than. The cir- cumsta‘ was of the as so were strange, and unusual certainly, and perhaps udmittmlnf unusual priviloges; but every care and kindness which were possible warooxtundcd to Sir Hugh in his prison-cell; 51.n(l ho was :rn‘teful and contrite exceedingly. Mrs. Gilbert, who formerly lived at Franklin street and Fairmount avenue, proudly told her friends that she was the mother of twenty-two children, all in good health, and Mm. Oslor, who lives near the Market street ferry in Camden, is famed flu: and near as the maternal proprietor of nearly a. quarter of a. hundred children, and says she will live long enough to see each one of her twenty-three offapringz the happy parent of a third generation of Oslers, who are well represented in the city across the Delaware. At one of the largest; hotels in Atlantic City last week there stopped a. fineâ€"looking old man of some 90 years, now a. retired merchant. He has been married thren times in nearly the century of his life, and he had eighteen childrcn by his first wife, six by a. second and four by the third, making a total of twenty-eight. The oldest of thin young colony is 70 years of age and the youngest 10. The old gentle- man is hearty and happy, and takes his (inin bath in the surf with as much gusto as his 30â€"year old grandson and his 8-year» old greatgranddaughter. A! I’hiladilphia Record. He did not suffer much, except when the terribleparoxysms of coughing recurred and the subsequent hemorrhage, and a wordoi’oomplmmt never paused his lips. It was often difficult to Guy Stuart, rememberng the llugh Glynn he hml known in tho bygone yours, to recognize him in this patient, unsomplzzining, pmii~ tent sufferer. That Hugh Glynn hurl boon so proud, so selfish, so impatient of any contradiction, so unlxmding, BO hoedloas while the prisoner in Adinbrooko Jail was so unselfish, so tender ovor others, so ropmitnnt and gentle, that he won sym- pathy from all with whom he was brought in contact. A Fortunate Mother \Vipcs Out. a Mort- gage. “ If you make up the even two dozen children by next year I will lift the mortgage off the farm,” said the owner of a piece of land in Montgomery county. 23. short distance from J’othstown, to Mrs. Nader, the mother of twonty~two children, as she was rocking the twentyâ€"second child in n. cmdle upon the occasion of his Visit. The man mount his offer as njokowbut~~ The next yoar the owner was on hand promptly to .oolloot the intorogt, when to his surprise the proud mother motioned him to the cradle, and lifting the ooverlot, Showed him fine twins, which completed the two dozen. There was nothing to do but grin and bear it. The owner lifted the mortgage, and said he believed in protect- ing home industry. A happy attendant at the games of the canny Scots at Gloucester yesterday was a. mother from the land of tliistles who kept her eye on the: lively movements of fifteen young Scots who danced the High- land Fling t0 the music of three bagpipes. Shirley saw him daily for a short time. Sometimes he WM well enough to talk to her, at others he was able only to lie with her hands in his, and his eyes mating with undying love and tenderness! on her face. Sometimes he would ask her to rend to himm always thoae some blessed merciful, divinely beautiful lines which comforted him as nothing else could. Sometimes his mind wandered a little from very weak- ness, and he would murmur disoonnoctod and broken words which told them much of what he had suffered and borne in tho past; but often, when he was in this con- dition, the touch of Shirley‘s lips upon his brow and her voice spanking his name would bringT him back to the present, and he would make a. pathetic atrugglo against the unconsciousness; for a. tow monnmts; when he would wander again, or sink lmlf into a. stupor, lmlf. into a sleep. (To be COUUIHUOGJ TSVINS LIFT A DEBT. CHAPTER LIT. Mvac RANKIN writes: to tlm Chicago ’l'imrs that tho lute Hartley (lmnpholl had nothing to do with “ The Dmxitng.” it was dmmntimd from Joaquin Miller’s sketch, “Tim First Familins 0f the Sierras,” by 1’. A. Fitzgerald, nf Philadel- phia, an old aster, to Whom Rankin paid $325 an act for the work as fnst as it was done. The play, under the title of “ Poor Little Billie Piper," was first read to Joaquin Miller in the summer of 1876, Nu 0M1 can accurately estimate the dam- ago which has boon done, rkspocially in ro~ Cont years, by bush fires. Those are all accidentally started ; that is they have developed, unoxpnctedly, from smullor fires. The persons setting them out, however, have exhibited a. criminal carolosanosa. The owners of valuable rivor property are found fault with because they discriminate as to whom they will allowtn camp upon it, but the fault-finders would be lead given to severe criticism wore they aware of all the anxiety and worry the campers have canard. A few ditya ago. says 9. Kingston paper, tourists were refused a landng at one man’s wharf, and on the same day a fire was started in his lmah. Before it was olmckod it had burned over a. considerable territory. That was not the first oxporiv mice of tho hind whirah tho landlord had had, and he is to be named if he ourtly warns every camper l’imu‘oforth to go (also. Whore with his: fires Lats-r, another pro- pnrty ownor, near to the same plane, had most of his hay hurrde up, and the scarcity of. fodder makes the loss a serious one. Tm: greatest woman in the world died last Monday. She was :1 Nova. Scotian, her maiden name was Anna Swan, and she was the wife of Capt. Bates, the Kentucky giant. 1102‘ actual height was 7 foot- 9 inches, and her weight 325 pounds. She had been exhibited all over the world, yet she was asmodnst and rotiring as a, woman other Size could be. She had one child,th it died in infancy. AN interesting experiment was recently made by a. Dr. Durand in reference to the relative power of imaginfition in the two sexes. lIo gave to 100 of his hospital patients a dose of swootonnd water, and shortly afterwards ente'rdxl the room,apâ€" parontly greatly agitated, saying he had by mistake administered :1 powerful emetic. .ln nfewminutes four-fifths of the aubjoots were affected by the supposed emetic, and were mainly men, while every 0110 of those not al‘focted were women. Winrmnmn or no there exists some myst- terious connection between cmnp meetings and min, the fact rnmnins that the weublmr during thm'r continuance is generally of n (lmidedly moist character. This year lute been no exception to the rulv; but mum of dampening the enthusiasm of the dwellers in tout-s it appuan to have udilod to it. '1‘hecnmp-meebing, amid all other changes, is likely always to ronmin as n. distinctive feature of Mothmlism, valuable for the physical Inst which it affords and for the friendly msuciztiions which it engmxdvrs. THHSE who doprccnto the principles on which tho opposition of organized (:lmrity to indiscrin’iinate aims giving is based would have their eyes opened could they read the details of a case in ono of the courts of New York this wank. A lame woman who was; liI‘.pOl‘l7(‘d by one Groun- lield m: lliH capital in n. bogging vulture, 311ml him for the muovory of. $5235, being :1. balance of 53300 she had ticposiflcd with him during; 1101‘ twvnty-six wouks’ operations loss bOlH‘Ll at tho rate of $1550 :1. woek. Slio gained the suit with intm‘est and cos-its and once more illiwtmtod the profitablean of bogging. Eight: big; ocean steamers are liming built (or the trans-Atlantic lllllifilfllllll some sharp contests of speed are expected when they are floated, for all are being built with a View to lowering tho record. The (luion lino hits on the stocks what will be the big- gest vosscl nlloutmnot including, of uourso, tho Grunt Enslnrn, which is to bu, broken. She will be 11,500 mus. SirVVillium Pierce, who designed the Oregon, Alaska, Ilmbria and .l’ltruriu», in her designer, and he says she will cross thin comm in live (luyfi. Ilor length will be 5130 feet, breadth of beam (33 foot and depth of hold 52 foot. Several striking; (lopnrtnrcs will be made in her construction. Tum old proverb, “ Better late than never,” has just been illustrated by a strik- ing instance. Ninety-seven years ago some person, now unknown by mime, posted in Paris a number m’ the (Jazmin Unincrsnlle, directing, it to “ Monâ€" sieur X , in Merges, Switzerland,” but the newepapor did not arrive at its destination until last week. It appears that the Gazette, which had been waiting for delivery ever since January, Hill, had get mixed up with a bundle of other news- papers, and wam found with its cover and addresfl still intact amidst a heap of rubbish in a. gnrrety. The finder eontmientiously Rf‘lll: it to the lllorges post. master, by whom it was as mneeientiounly forwarded to the present representative X m family still living {it Morgue. 80 unique it upeeimen of postal integrity deserves to be exhibited in a postal museum, or would not be out of place amongst the curiosities in the Newspaper Museum at Aachen. Tim marriage of Dr. Butler, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, last week, to Agnnta Ramsey, daughter of Sir John Rmnsny,l1as created extraordinary interest on account of the remarkable university career of the bride. Both bride and briden groom enjoy thc distinction of being seniors in classics, a. coincidence without parallel. Dr. Butler is 8. man of high academical distinction and extremely popular. ()ne of the bridesmaids was a fellow student of the bride at Ncwnhem College; she wore Rpcc- tmclce, giving her a. curious appearance. Dr. Butler is 55 years of age and the bride 22. He presented her appropriately enough With finely bound copies of Plato, Sopho~ 0108 and Dante. A Tnnummn from Pittsburg to the New York Tinws says that a “ prominent Iocul mining engineer and coal export thinku natural gas is giving out.” lie says : ‘ Within two yours at furthest coal lands will be selling for what they were considered worth before natural gas was thought of. This will be due largely to thu failure of the gas fields to supply tho demands made upon them. Gus, liku oil, will in time exhaust itself. New fields may be oponed. but, tak- ing all in all, I think the outlook for coal was never so bright since natural gas came in use." Similar predictions were made concerning the petroleum supply twenty years ago. Tm: Duke of Marlborough has recognized the force of the point that his Now York marriage with Mm. Hammersloy was of very doubtful validity and has had another ceremony poriormod in England. This re- moves all doubt in the nmtmr, 212: there mm be no question as to the validity of the English marriage. The Duke’s experience should be ii lesson to ovary divorced defend- ant who may want to go to New York to get married. The New York law prohibits a. person against whom a. decree of divorco has been granted for his or her marital in~ liflolity from marrying again during; the lifetime of. the complainant without leave of the court. UNITED STATES Consul liooning, of Bre- men, reports the arrival in that port of some tobacco grown in tho German colony of Cameroon, in Africa. It is the product of a first crop, and is regarded as lully equal, if not superior, to Sumatra. leaf. The price paid in Bremen for this tobacco was 50 Cents per pound. Similar grades of Sumatra sell for 88 cents to 95 cents per pound. Quite a boom in this tobacco is now being experienced in Bremen. Compsmios are being formed and capital is being libomlly invested in its cultiva- tion. ll; is expected to compete sharply with Sumatra, being of quality equal to the Dutch product and much cheaper. CURRENT TOPICS. “ Talking about swindlors,” snid old Deacon Blizzard, “ about two years ago a. book pndler came along, and, as we had no jiblo in the house, I bought one with a. pretty rod cover, with ‘ Holy Bible' in gilt lottors on the back, and clamps on to it, and I’m (lunged if we didn‘t discover last week that the book was a volume of census roports for 1870, with a. bogus back; and maybe we’d never found out how we’d been cheated if my wife’s sister, who had come to visit us, hadn’t gone rummaging through the book, looking for a recipe for mince pies, which Amanda said she had mislaid i somewhere.”-1)mkc‘s Magazine. 1 You can purchase a. bottle of Polson’s Norviline, the greatest pain remedy in the world. Nerviline cures headache, neural- gia, toothache, pains in the side or back, rheumatism, etc. As an internal remedy. Nerviline is prompt, effective and pleasant to take. Nerviline has no equal as a. pain- Eul)dning_romedy, and a test bottle costs only 10 obs. Jan on your druggist and in- vest 10 cta. Norvilinc‘, Norviline, nerve pliu cure. Rankin guys, and to Bartloy Campbell in the following: winter. Rankin adds: “ This 1’. A. Fitzgerald was considered rm unlucky man, and I was certain that managers would never listen to a play written by him ; so I hired Miller to father the work and paid him 955,200 for the fraud” This is a. fair illustration of many happenings in the Grub street lite- rary line. The stage carpenter who RRVVCd out the plny got $5200, the literary Charla- tan who lent it his mime got 26 times as much, and the actor of it probably doubled the last Immod sum at least twenty times. And Hartley Campbell and Louis Aldrich got the hint of that profitable piece of theatrical joinery out of poor Fitzgerald’s work to boot. PROBABLY the most aggravating passenger tho street our drivers have, to deal with is the able-bodied man who pulls the bell and then proceeds to slight before the car stops. Of course the driver obeys the signal and than looks round for his passenger to slight. Nobody stirs, and on further in- vestigation he sees the person who rang the bell across the street, unconscious of or indifferent to the fact that he has caused the driver and horses unnecessary labor and tho passengors unnecessary delay. Of course, if. a passenger wishes to do so it is his privilege to pull the bell rope, and nobody will complain. But in that cuso let him keep his soot until the car stops and then got off. But if be proâ€" posos to lows the car while it is in motion why docs ho ring the bell? Thcro nrc mimy citizens who never think of stop- ping,r n. street car to got on or off if they are 2110110 and unencumbered by bug- gsge. No one should try it, however, who hasn’t lonrnod to jump with the car, a precaution that is sometimes ncglocted by people old enough to know better and who are vory much surprised on stopping off the wrong way to find thomselvos lying flat on their backs in the streets. \Vlmn dram] diammn, with iron hand, Hangs its dm‘k mnnt‘ln ovnr 1.1160, Emmm its: "ll-mlsln‘vinp hand. With Guhlon Mndicul Discovery. Dr. R. V. l‘ierce’s Golden Medical Dis- covery cures coughs, colds, and consumption if taken in film). 0f druggista. Young mmi-â€"1 cannot nndorstunfl, sir, Why you permit your daughter to sue me for branch of promise; you romcmbcr that you were bitterly opposed to our engagement because I wasn’t good enough for her, and would disgrace the family. True to Life. “ Lotus play we are married,” said little Edith, “ and I Will bring my dolly and say : ‘ Soc, baby, papa I ’ ” “ Yes,” reâ€" plied Johnny, “ and I will say, ‘ Don’t bother me'now, I want to look through the paper 1’ ” ” Nr‘vsr morning wore to evening but some heart did break, ” says Tennyson; and the part that ill health often plays in heart- Wrsck is too great for computation. Uter- inv disorders especially becloud the spirits and sup the springs of vitality and nervous force. For these distressing diseases, func- tional irregularities, unntxtural discharges constant pains, weak back, lassitudo, dull- ness, sinking sensations, ill temper, and all weakness and derangements peculiar to females, Dr. I’icrco’s Favorite Prescription is a perfect specific. Sold by all druggists. In a recent report to the English Educa- tion department Sir James (lhrichten Browne, M. 1)., gave it as the result of his investigation of alleged overpressure of work in elementary schools that “ the seeds of disease are being sown broadcast by the schoolmaster.” He found that suicide, insanity, and many diseases of the heart and the kidneys are increasing in England year by year; and he ex- pressed the opinion that “ the main cause of this increase is overpressure in elemen- ta-ry schools.” This is a startling judg- ment of hi;le authority on a subject of strictly vital interest, and we have no reason to question its truth. To force the unformcd and reluctant brain to tasks beyond its normal power is far more crucl than to overtask the muscular system by excessive physical work. In the latter the body soon reaches its maximum of pos- sibility and there stops, with a stunted growth, a premature development, and an enfeobled system as its coneequonco. In the former there is an excited condition of the nerves, a permanent damage to the brain, and a deterioration of. all the vital functions which depend upon the brain. There are many small graves where children lie buried who might have lived the allotted span of human life but for tho baneful haste and ambition of indiscreet parents. There are many schools which are worse than slaughâ€" terhouecs. Old msmâ€" Young man, that was senfii mom; ; this is business. Formanyyears the manufacturers of Dr. Sago’s (laturrh Remedy have offered, in good faith, $500 reward for a case of NasalCatarrh which they cannot cure. The Remedy is sold by druggists at only 50 ets. It has fairly attained a wide world- reputation. If you have a dull, heavy headache, obstruction of the nasalpassages, discharges falling from the head into the throat, sometimes profuse, watery and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody and putrid; if the eyes are weak, watery and inflamed; if there is ringing in the ears, deafness, hacking or coughing to clear the throat, expectoratiens of offensive matter, together with scabs from ulcers, the voice being changed and hasanasal twang; the breath offensive; smell and taste impaired; sensation of dizziness, with mental depression, a hack- ing cough and general debility, you are sufferingfrom nasal catarrh. The more mmplioated your disease, the greater num- ber and diversity of symptoms. Thousands of cases annually, without manifesting half of the above symptoms, result in con- sumption, and end in the grave. No dis- ease is so common, more deceptive and dangerous, less understood, or more on- successfully treated by physicians. W'ar comes high, and next to it prepara- tionsfor war. The English Admiralty esti. mates that a. firstâ€"class; ironclad costs £750,000, or in our money about $3,750,000. First-class locomotives cost about $10,000 apiece, so that 375 locomotives, that serve the uses of peace, could be built for the money put out on one vessel which is good for nothing if not a. destroyer of the produc- tions of p0fl(70.“4'1;031071, Transcript. Tlmt Gilt Bible with Gold Clasps. Ironcladn versus Locomotives. Let The \Vorld Know It. Son“ In out. and lime inefifi. A “'(mdnrl'ul () fl'er. QUERY: If Mr. Page‘s businuss IS the largest in its line in the United States, is it not the bust possible proof of his ability to pay higth prices 7 if he did not do so, would he naturally got more Skins than any ofhis competitorain the Emeline? WE WEEK’S BEST F RIEN An Old East Indian Says we Don’t Wear the Right Kind Here. Referring to the style of headgear worn here during the summer weather, says the IIattm‘ and Farrier (New York), a veteran East Indian expressed the opinion that in- ducements were held out for sunstrokes. “ It is astonishing." said he, “ thatsi people so practical and scientific as the Americans should permit this evil to go so long un- checked, for the vast majority of the sun- strokes are easily preventable by affording proper protection for the head. Almost every man I meet in New York has his hair trimmed closely with one of those diminutive lawn-mowers in the hottest months and wears the ilimsiest sort of a hat, whether of straw or felt. That is a weak shield against the penetrating rays of your glaring. scorch- ing sun. Women find a natural safeguard in their abundant hair, especially when they wear it coiled on the top of their head. of course they are not as much exposed to the sun’s rays as the men are, but even if they were the ratio of prostration would be much larger among the males with their thin headgear and closelyucropped hair. Sunstroke is almost unknown among the natives of eastern countries. You may think that the coiled turban of an East Indian is a heavy and ungainly thing to wear above one’s brain, but instinct and experience have taught him the advisa- bility of giving ample protection to the ‘ head, no matter how coolly he may apparel the rest of his body. Then, too, the use of umbrellas is very general in countries near the equator. Europeans in the East real- ize the value of light but thick helmets. You in New York will learn after awhile to wear the right kind of a hat in summer.” “ We bctiava that in extent of light-weight rm material collected and carried. Mr. Page holds the lead, of (my competitor and that his present stock is the largest led by (my house in this country." And the Review says: "After a most thorough investigation of Mr Page’s business as compared with others in same tine, we have become full satisfied that in his spacia‘lty, light-weight stoc ,Iw is umzwstunuwly the largest dealer in this Cullflt’r‘y, whale in supm qualitij 'l‘s‘ cmlfes‘sedlj/ at the head." The Shoe (9 Leather Reporter, N. Y., and Shae .16 Leather Review, Chicago, the lending trade papers of tho U.S. in the Hide line, have sent their representatives to investigate Mr. Page's busi. nuns, and after a thorough examination and com purisun t1 cmmrtcrgivus him phis {indoraemml‘t Im- us. Cash Furnished on satisfactory guarant; Address, 0. S. PAGE, Hyde Park, Vormout, U. : lflflfiUflAfll‘b,bU'l‘UflfiK general 1y We want a GOOD MAN in your locality to pick up “Wholly unlike artificial systems. Cure of mind wandering. Any book learned in one reading. 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Sent by mail for 50 cents. â€"TWO boys were trying to jump down a few steps on the stoop of a. house wherein they resided. Says John to Jim : “ Can you jump down six steps?” Answers Jim : “ I wouldn‘t risk it here. We better go to some other house. If I break my neck here in front of my house I get the ~â€" licking I ever had.” And off they went. The testimonials printed by H. H. \Varnor & ()0. are, so far as they know, posiliveiy genuine. For the past five years they have had a stand- ing offer of $5,000 for proof to the (non- tmry. If you are sick and want to get well, use It is a Scientific Specific, was not put upon the market until thor. oughly tested, and has the endcraement of Prof. S. A. Lattimoro, M. A., Ph., LL.D., Official Analyst of foods and medicines, N. Y. State Board of HealthJ and scores of eminent chemists, physiâ€" cians and professional experts. H. H. Warn0r& 00., do not cure everything from one bottle. they having a. Specific for each import- antdisease. Fight. shy of any pre- paration which claims infallibility. Warner’s Safe Cure. Warner’s Safe Cure CALF SKINS MEMORY has been before the public now about ‘tun years, and in thafi time he.3 tunwed ilst‘lfl'tolm :III that. it Ems been represented. It cures permanently. We have tens of thousands of testimonials to this effect from people who were cured years ago and who are well to-dny. II. is purely vegetable, contains nothing harmful, and DOES purify the blood and lilTRl'} disease, as it; puts the kidneys, [he only blood purifying.r organs, in comâ€" plete health. HEADGEAR FOR. SUMMER. PROF. LbISIcME’fzav Emh Em, N.Y. MARVELOUS DISCOVERY. ITCHING FILES. DONL35 £8