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A Rosebud Immortal. [Th3 following is from a book of poems, “A Haunted Heart," by Minna, Irving, of Tarrytown, Whose quarrel wi h Snenographer Palmer Wells has excited the attention of the courts and the newspapers.] We stood in the garden at morning, A garden all golden mud green; The leaves in the win 2 sang together, Her laughter-made music between She was robed in the White of the lilies, Her eyes, like the heavens, were blue, And around her, in swecmess unfolded, The roses arglitter with dew. I prayed for a bud. and she gave it, With a smile and a blush and a sigh. I caught and I kissed her white fingers, There trembled H. tear in her eye. The gardener, ancient and wrinkled, Came clipping the boxwood and yew, And she went, and a cloud drifted over, And the sparkle died out of the dew. “You know, father, that I do not care for these parties,” said Caleb, awkwardly. “ They are not in my line, and I am never my own man in them.” ,,__1... -nhannt nF Haw Lu vau lâ€"Iâ€"ll-A.‘ n. um...“ “ And thee doesn‘t make account of thy duty to me as brought thee up,” said Miles. “ What thy father Wishes doesn’t weigh so much as the tail-end of a. mouse with thee. Thy father who has slaved for thee, and thought night and day of naught but thee and What would be for thy goodâ€"«thou‘st naught better to do than flout and fleet when he wants thee to hold up thy head us than ehouldet with the beat.” 1 , n_._L lluuu Buvuluuv u...» -.A- _~_ “ You know, father, I nevermean to flout or flear you,” said Caleb, earnestly; “but I do not feel called on to go about among these people. They think themselves of another make of flesh and bloofl from us, and they don’t care a. jot for our moneyâ€" got, as it were, by a fluke, and with such owners as We.” 1 1,; ALA uwuuLn an Vlun “Such owners as we! and what the dickens dost mean by that, jackangpes?” shouted Miles. “Why, just this, father: we are not gentlemen: and we can’t pretend that we are," said Caleb. >1 1 -n H! ,JI." - w.._'.n.u.1~ mug, nvuu u ..... “ Toots, toots,lad1 Brass’ll gild a miner’s yick till it is as fine as my lord's sword,” said Miles, half in fun and half in anger. The gentry at Kingshouse ain’t far different from men uni women elsewhere, I reckon; and a full purse goes as far, my lad, as those mouldy 01d content-arms, with noth- ,,,J t-w:|-. buvnu “mum, V.“ ,...W ,, , ing behind them but lean chaps and family pride. Go thy weys, I tell thee. Hie up- stairs, Caleb, like it good lad, and do as thy father bids. Don thy best coat and go to the Vicarage with the rest. And if thou’lt bring me home a. well-doinglikely daughter- in-law, like that Lady Elizabeth yonder, I’d not care to cell the King my uncle. And I’d set thee up in housekeeping so that the King shouldn’t be put about to call thee nephew.” -. , A _ :I -:I-ML arr-"111an uvt’uu n . Caleb still hesitatedâ€"silent, awkward, reluctant, abaehed; when his father aud- denly flew into a rage such as even he was not accustomed to see; and with curses, hicks, blows, and oaths offered him his choiceâ€"to go, or to leave the houee that very moment disinherited forever. His son 1136 therefore nothing for it but to band before the storm, and yield to his father’s desire; and so it was that for the first time in his life he formed one of the Kingehouse atheringe. and made his entrance into the air company of Whom Lady Elizabeth Iuohbold was the queen and Eatelle Clan- ricarde the star of beauty. CHAPTER III‘. HIE IPIIIGENIA. One oi 0ch Miles Stagg’e favorite ephor- isms was that which proclaims how fine birds are made by fine feathers. Give Colin Clout a. good coat, a flashy necktie, a gold chain as thick as a ship's rope, etude as big as sixpences, and all the rest to cor- respond, and Miles could see no difference between hi appearance and that of the smartest young Jemmy Jessamy in the land. If Jemmy were to be dressed in flan. nele, the difference,indeed, would be to the good of Colin. Consequently. though Caleb, from his experience of college life, knew elightly better than his father, and from his more delicately organized brain, had at all times keener and quicker perceptions, he was forced to obey the old man‘s imperative command that he should make himself as smart as ninepenoe, and take the shine out of that gang of genteel paupers he would meet in the Vicarage gardens today. His close-fitting frock-cost was new to rawness and distractingly faultless; his black trousers were still in the tailor’s well- defined creases; his glossy hat shone like a blackened mirror; and his jewelry was resplendent. Over the edge of his stiff white collar, guillotined with an aniline crimson tie fastened by a. large diamond horse-shoe pin, his round, flat, unmeuning face rose like a pug-dog’s changed from black to red and white, and from hairy caninity into a. fairly good sketch of humanity. His fawn-colored gloves matched the color of his hair, and his patent-leather boots crippled the flat feet which. for the most part, oxpatiated in greased boots where his cores were not tortured. Such as he was, holding himself as stiflly as if trussed beneath his clothes, shy, sheepish, uncomfortable, self-con- scious, and not a whit reassured by his iather's boisterous commendation, nor by his mother's vacant smile, the young man mounted the dog-osrt, which the coachman droveâ€"the smart groom sitting behind, his arms folded and his tongue in his cheek»â€" and went off to one of those informal tennis parties which Mr. and Mrs. Stewart game weekly for the pleasure of the young people and the promotion of social good feeling. a.‘ .1 .. It need hardly be said what impression the poor young man made when he came on the lawn, somewhat after time because of the struggle at home; his wonderful get-up contrasting so sharply With the loose flennels of the rest, the tightly buckled belts. the turned-up sleeves, the well'worn cricket shoes. and all the other loose points of the time and occasion. Not the dear good vicaress herself could resist thet little smile which comes unbidden on the first flush of 9. ridiculous surprise, while some of the worse bred and less kindly tittered audibly. Lord Eustace, Lady Elizabeth’s younger brother, gave a. slight whistle, Which was the rudest thing of all. But then he was a lord, and on- titled to his own private code, Charlie Osborne. who, as poet, paint-er, musician and artist generally, assumed to know more about the religion of beauty and the moral- ity of msthetios than any one else, looked at the new-corner with the same expression on his face as if a false chord had been played, 2;. halting rhyme repeated, or a man been detected hiding the ace up his sleeve. As for Caleb himself, if that old familiar Wish about the earth opening and swallow- ing him up alive could have been fulfilled for his benefit, how gladly would he have sunk beneath the sod, never to reappear! His distress was so appurent,his awkward. miss so pitiful, his Whole bearing 50 abject vantl humiliated, that three charitablo souls took him into the sacred precincts of their compassion, and forgot to ridicule for the sake of pity. One of these three was, of course, Mrs. Stewart herselfâ€"a woman of "that liberal, kindly, but not sentimental mature sometimes found in the arid wastes My locks are u-glimmorwibh silver, My life is unbriglitened by love, For, still in the robes of the lilies, She sings with the angels above. In a. book in my bare liztlo attic, Laid in with a leaflet of run, 15 a. roscbud that never unfolded For la-cli of the sunlight and dew. That is all: she is dead like film rosebud, And my love for her never was told, But my dream of the glory of heaven Is of bar at the gateway of gold. She stands with her foot in the blossoms And Waiteth to welcome me through, And give me a rosebud immortal, Starred over with diamon is of dew. ESTELLE’S INFATUATIGN: A NOVEL. of society, as might be foundatcuntam and a. palm tree in the desert; the second. Estelle, who thought how dreadful it must be to be like that; and third was Lady Elizabeth Inchbold, the fair-set mark at which old Miles aimed the presumptuous shaft of his paternal desires. 1 “I' LAL1.9.. m-.. Duct-u v- .4”, I,“ ,,,,,, But then this was Lady Elizabeth’s way. ‘ Whatever there was of hurt or sorrow, of ‘ low-lying, trampled on, helpless or mie- handled, Lady Elizabeth was willing to lift up and comfort. Could she have wiped away all tears from all eyes at the coat of her own eternal weeping, she would have done so ; could she have healed all wounds by the blood of her own heart, she would have healed them. No thought of self, no calculation of the extent or cost of her sac- rifice troubled the pure stream of her human pity. That she should beemirch herself by touching the besmirched never occurred to her as possible. And if it had? Well, those who give themselves up to the care of the lepers doom themselves to the disease they live to soothe and die to lessen. 4‘ ..--x,1 , not lose touch of the reel in the ideal. AUDDLAA; Estelle Clanricarde’s great friend, she and Charlie Osborne, Whom Estelle loved, stood at the opposite sides of that great triangle of life and thought the apex of which is truth. Where he, bitten by the sentimental cynicism of a certain school, despised his kind, and held life but a blotch and a blunderâ€"emore especially modern life and all the changes wrought by steam and scienceâ€"she saw good every- where, and like those who bore for under- ground waters on a sandy tract, knew how to find the deeper beau- ties hidden beneath superficial ugliness. For her, unselfish, generous, glad to serve ‘ and eager to save were more harmonies than discords in this great diapason of suf- fering and joy, of vice and virtue; for him, self-indulgent to pleasure and weak to pain, unable to hear, of irritable fibre all through, were mainly discords, with here and there ahsrmony in a. gorgeons sunset or finely worded objurgation of the high-priest of his own restricted sect, or in Estelle Clanri- cards when he coald get her to himself and forget his artificial pessimism in the light of her dear eyes. Lady Elizabeth had sympathy with humanity because she did She therefore loved mankind, and pitied as much as she loved. Charlie Osborne refused sympathy because of his abhor- rence for that which was mean and low and ugly in man. Her love went to people, his to things; hers to facts, his to thoughts. Between them lay the whole difference between the two great schools of humanism and realismâ€"humanity and art. - 1,. It was not, then, out of the usual order- ing of things, but the reverse, that when her grave, calm eyes had taken the whole circumstances of this unhappy omad'haun, so painfully out of plane, Lady Elizabeth should go to where Mrs. Stewart was still talking to him in her brisk bee-like manner, and join in the conversation as one who had the right of previous know- loflgo. She had that way. Her manner was that of one who had already established Wan Uuulu u; uuu n “v u...“ «n-.. a. claim of sympathy, and counted the points of contact. She never stood on the defensive,as even well-bred people are wont to do with strangers, but assumed from the first that touch of nature which makes the Whole world kin. n uv... .. u.... ....‘. “ By Jove! that sister of mine is stark, staring mad. Look at her talking to that l’olichinelle 1 ” said Lord Eustace, not below his breath, to Estelle, to Whom he was paying exaggerated court to take a. rise out of Charlie Osborne, for mischief, not malice. “ On the contrary, I think she is very sweet to be so kind to such an object. But then she always is so kind,” returned Estello,g1adto be able to contradict her adhesive companion, Whom she could not shake off, and Wished anywhere but where he was. She knew Charlie’s susceptible jealousy and faculty for self-tormenting, and she had no Wish to vex him for Lord Eustace’s pleasure. She was far too gentle and sweet-natured to wish to vex him for her own‘just to see the power 5110 had over himâ€"a5 is the way with certain of her sex. “Are you, too, one oi the new sort? ” asked Lord Eustace oontemptuously. “ I thank my good stars I am out of it. All this playing at democracy seems to me not only the worst form but the vilest rot afloat. It is rank atheism to pretend that we have no distinction of classea, and that gentlemen and boots are own brothers. And only ends are atheists.” -r 1 1115,,L_LL WHAIWIThgâ€"Bvafii;fthink Lady Elizabeth is very sweet to go and talk to that dread- ful creature," said Estelle, with her pretty doggegqess. . .. . ‘ u I,:,,‘,__ And thenâ€"her mother’s back being con- veniently turned at the moment â€" she looked round to Charlie Osborne, and sent him a telegraphic message with her eyes which allfayed some of the fever burning in his vems. Meanwhile Lady Elizabeth took it in hand to make poor Caleb's present torture 9. little lessuuendurablo. She fauna ithard work. There was not a. solecism that he did not commit, not a gaucherie that he loft untouched. He called her Miss to start with, and when Mrs. Stewart gave her her title formally, he made “ Lady Elizabeth ” flank every sentencemow before,now behind and sometimes fore and sit together. _ When Mrs. Stewart said, “ I don’t think you know many people here, Mr. Stagg ?” poor Caleb blushed like a peony and looked like a fool. Then, when she presented him to Lady Elizabeth. he forgot his hat, and shook hands instead. When, pointing to the ger- den seat near to Where they were stand- ing, Lady Elizabeth said, “ Shall we sit down,” he planted himself at once on the edge in the shade, and let her sit in the sun with the light in her eyes. When he saw his mistake he was too awkward to get up and rectify it, though he would have let her walk over his body and use his fine new clothes for a door-mat had she had the mind. And when she, with that wonder- ful insight which belonged to her, divining the cause of his apparent discourteey, and knowing that the little sacrifice would be his pleasure, said quietly, “ I am sure your eyes are stronger than mine, Mr. Stagg ; would you mind changing places with me?” he very nearly tumbled head-foremost into her lap in his eagerness to obey her, and wiped the place Where he had been sitting with his handkerchief for her benefit. “ No, Mrs. Stewart, not to speak to,” he answered. But by slow degrees he ceased to twirl his hat between his knees ; his heart left off beating in those painful gasps which are more like eoba than beats ; those invisible neetlles ceased to prick him, as they had been pricking him ever since he drove up to the gates; he got to feel that he knew this Lady Elizabeth, this daughter of the earl. quite well, though not intimatelyâ€"as one would know one’s gunrdian angel, say; something to revere, but not to be afraidg of ; while over all his being stole a divine sense of calm, as with a lost wanderer when he sees the welcome light of a human home. ‘- n- v,,,,.,, After probing and ploughing this barren tract and that arid acre, Lady Elizabeth at last fell on Caleb‘s own particular subject mflowers and birds and natural history generally. t neefled patience and good engineering to draw from the poor oxnad'haun the fact that he knew anything at All; but the “ aelight,” as her father sometimes called her-who had him in hand, was both patient and a good conversational engineer; and though her shy and awk- ward naturalist never ventured on a posi- tive assertion, but said what he had to say with a modest “ I think ” as the grating behind which his knowledge took refuge, even to “ thinking ” that field-mice eat honey-bees, and that the eundew entrays fliesâ€"she got a great deal out of him that was pleasant and new, and that made her uphill grind a little less arduous. .1, , -L J- 'Alsooit Somewhat tightened the slack as might 136 fognd a fcuntain #A,-_J cords of his own self-esteem to find that he could interest her by what he said. How ,glad he was that she cared for nature and things? He was indem- nified now for all the ridicule and coarse opposition his student’s tastes -, had had to face and hear at home. This divine creature, who reminded him of some Greek goddess, met him on his own ground and asked him for information. It was an honor which seemed to crown his head with a fillet of gold when she said that she would like him to show her in his microscope things she had not yet seen, and teach her more than she already knew. It was the noble touch of womanly dependence which rouses in a man's soul all that he has of heroism and devotion. Younger than himself, but how immeasurably su- perior. this beautiful girl-Woman seemed to draw his whole being into hers, as the lake receives the rill, as the formless mist over the morass is absorbed into the infinite heaven. Had he been a Greek she would have represented to him the chaste splen- dor of that goddess who kissed the sleeping boy on Mount Latmos; had he been a 230- , man, she would have been the renewal of ‘ Numa’s sacred counsellor; as a Roman Catholic, he would have seen in her the holy likeness of the blessed Virgin; as a Hindoo, she would have been Laehshmi, the female energy of Vishnu. She was in any case semi-divine; and 116 was glad now that he had braved the torment of this ordeal, seeing what great gift of grace and joy it had brought him. His face beamed like one who has met an angel by the way, and something deeper than its ordinary flat and level sentiments seemed to have come into it. But this delightful state of things could not last very long. Lady Elizabeth was too valuable a member of the small society on the lawn to be allowed to give herself to one onlyâ€"and such a. one as Caleb Stagg more especially. Estelle was the one who came to disturb an interview which was beginning to really interest Lady Elizabeth, and to set the i butter fly stirring within the Chrysalis with Caleb. She was bored by Lord Eustace, and under the strict petrol of her mother's watchful eye she could not get so much as a whispered word with Charlieâ€" scarcely a fleeting look. He at last, in a fit of jealous rage and despair, had gone to the hammock that swungfintenanted between the two evergreen oaks. Estelle thought that if she were sheltered and shielded by Lady Elizabeth she might perhaps snatch a perilous five minutes of joy, soothe her lover’s easily perturbed spirit and drink another draught of that sweet poison with- out which young life is but a desert and young hearts as dry as potsherds. Accord- ingly, the graceful girl came strolling up to where this strangely mated pair were sit- ing on the garden seat backed by azaleas and rhododendrons, and in a. pretty be- seeehing way asked heririend to come with her for a little welk~and that walk would be to the two evergreen oaks between which the hammock was swinging, with Charlie Osborne eating his heart. The winding of 1, the paths and the friendly intervention of l flowering shrubs would hide them from i Mrs. Clenriearde, end all would be well 1 and without danger. As Lady Elizabeth had it. also at her heart as a. duty to help poor Estelle when she could, and as she did not think that a. new interest should overeat an old one, she looked at Estelle kindly, and said, “ Yes, I will go with you, dear,” as Estelle knew she would. - Than, turning to Caleb, she asked, “ Shall I introauce you to any one before I go ?” -r- 1 n1' ,,'L_L1_ T .J‘VJL A bv . “Thank you, Laay Elizabeth. I fion’t think I care to know any ona else, thank you, Lady Elizabeth,” said Caleb, with a blush that made his ears as red as fleshy flames. “ But; you will be dull, knowing no one,” said the daughter of theEarlof Kingshouee, with as much kindly conaideration and courtesy as if her brother’s Polichinelle had been the son of 3 king. " I think not, Lady Elizabeth,” was his stammered reply. .. "7“! 7 7775‘.» unuwulv...“ -y 4 She coula nofi say “ Will you come with us ‘2” That would not have been fair to Estelle; but she Wished she could have carried him with her, as she would have rescued some bird from boys, some monkey from a brutal showman. “ I’ll just keep to myself, now that you are going, Lady Elizabeth,” said Caleb, afterapause, between the Scylla of not liking to make an independent: observation, anfl the Charybdia of not Wishing this beautiful Woman to trouble herself on his account. mm.” wwâ€"mv". a _ Had 11; been any one but Charlie Osborne she would have kept the poor fel- low in his present safety and have thrown over 0.11 the rest. WEBB; sorry to fake Lady Eéizabeth away,” said_Estelle, very kindly. " ‘ (HAHN- uuu wmvu, wuu um”. ...................... " I couldn’t expect that ladies like Lady Elizabeth and yourself, miss, would stay with such as me,” he added, with the deep humility of his kind: 1 r, jun”: “uw..-__, -_ 7,. , “ I am so sorry ; but, oh, come, dear l” Whispered Estelle, the selfishness of love sweeping away her philanthropy ; and Lady Elizabeth turned away with a smile to poor Celeb that left on his bewildered soul the impression of moonlight on the water.o£ soft moss, of cool green forest glades, of a. rare wild {lower found on the edge of a. sheltered pool, of all that there is of soothing and entrancing in nature. And While the two friends strolled away to carry comfort and bring joy to poor irritated Charlie Osborne, Caleb slunk into the shrubbery that sloped sharply down- ward to the river. If he could have left the Vicarage at this moment he would, but he was bound. He had not arrived punctually, and that had been a. grievous thing to him. The card of invitation had aid “4. to 7,” and he had not been there till half-past 4. He had ordered the trap to return punctually on the stroke of 7, and it never occurred to him that he could leave before it come. He had, then, two long mortal hours to fill up, and how was he to fill them? The best thing he knew was to keep out of eight of every one; so he alunk into the Bhrubbery, and for the first time in these late en- thusiastic years of study he forgot to look for creatures. Allnature seemed transformed, and he knew nothing of what he saw, or, rather, he saw nothing as it was about him. He felt as if in some strange place full of mild glory and an all-pervading buhindeiinite light. Tears, of which he was not con- scious, slowly gathered in his wide-opened eyes and fell on his red silk tie. He was trembling with that. kind of rapturous tremor which overpowers us in the presence of some sublime beauty of nature. The poor omud'hnunl the poor Polichinollel Who would have credited him with those birthppsngs of anew soulâ€"he, in his glossy has and tailor’s triumphs of cost and trousers, his fswn-oolored gloves and flashing horseshoe diamond pin l The sutyr which enclosed the god.tlze temple, the gift of man to maid, of mother to child. was the architype of poor Caleb‘s soul, imprisoned in such a. body and overlaid by such conditions as nature and fortune had made for him i “Oh, don't vex yourself, miss,” Caleb answered, with another tgrggnt qfi‘blushea. CHAPTER. IV. detrimental as Charlie Osborne himself, and from the same v,cmuae. He wanted money with his wife to float him off the financial ehal- lows where at present he and 9.11 his house were stranaed. He could not afford to marry {or mere love and beauty; no man “.nn :Au»..mn “Awa M.â€" _..__V can nowadays who has not a good fortune firmly secured. Certainly no one in Kings- house could, unless he were prepared to bring up a. family on stirabout, and to dress ‘ - ' - i I! , H , I _ ._ J 'nhu‘v‘v‘nv‘flh them in blue house-flannel and wornnouse sheeting. Caleb Stagg was the only moneyed man available; and even Mrs. Clanricarde shrank from 9. creature who wore teilors’ triumphs at an informal tennis party, and flannted a flaring red tie with a flashing diamond pin. Still, he was rich beyond those dreams of avarice we all have heard oi; and on the principle of the living dog and the dead lion, 9. golden calf is better than 9. leeden phoenix, and those who went butter on their breed must not be very nice as to the shape of the knife wherewith it is spread. Besides, no plastic substance is utterly hopeless to reform, and if Caleb Stagg had a. mind at all, and his proper complement of limbs and senses, surely an astute mother-in-law could pull him into shape! Even all princes are not person- able men, and other poets than Pope have been outside the pale of manly beauty. Stirred, then, by all these reasons, more or less deliberately recognized, Mrs. Clan- ricarde went to Mrs. Stewerb, and in her pretty French way,which beat all the Eng- lish manner out of the field, asked What had become of Mr. Stagg. Poor young man 1â€" it must be very triste for him, here among so many strangersl and should they find him and console him? “ Be is somewhere about," said Mrs. SSewart, looking vaguely round. Truth to say she had forgotten him. Like many kind-hearted, brisk and energetic women, she was apt to be sporadic in her interests and a. little unordered in her Ways. W; £51821" Eda him,” i said Mrs. Clanricarde, looking behind a rose-bush, as if he might be hidiog in _its shadow. 3,4,. 2.. u. “v w. _. __- ___7,0 0 But they sought in vain. Deep down in the ehrubbery, off the path and on the border or the river, the poor omad’haun set cradling his new-born soul, and the things of time and space were to him as naught. Mrs. Stewart went the length of even a shrill little call, to which was no response, and the search was perforce abandoned. Meanwhile Estelle and Charlie Osborne made the most of their chance, and Mrs. Glanrienrde lost on all sides at once. v.uu-.uw-m- n... The hours of pleasure passed and that of departure came on. That automatic memory of time, which seems to belong to the body rather than the mind,mede Celeb know that he must rouse himself from his mental ecstasy and physical stupor and go through the ordeal of saying good-day to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart. As he came on to the lawn the whole party was assembled together. No one had yet gone. It seemed to Caleb as if all England was there. His round eyes took in no one precisely, no one personally. He only saw a Very sea of bonnets and cricket caps, of colored frocks and white flannels, of Women’s faces and men‘s mustaches. Then he caught sight of two large lustrous gray eyes, and all the rest vanished like :3. phan- tasmugoria. Only those glorious eyes re- mained, as his home, his loadstar, his anchorage, in this bewildering sea of un- familiar humanity. Nothing of all this was shown. The face of a man is not as a. sheet of glass through which can be read his thoughts and feelings. All that the assembled company saw was a round, flat, red-faced young man in an absurd get-up, staring at Lady Elizabeth Inchhold with all his might, and standing stock-still, as it struck to stone. Lady Elizabeth herself broke the spell by saying, with marked kindness, to this mute shar-gazer, whom she knew the rest mutgly idiculing,”Have you seen that beemtiful avenue of laburnums,Mr. Htagg? You were in the shrubbery,I think ?7 Did yoq see tbem ?”l u ‘1 Caleb blushed, as he naturally would when thus brought back to the things of the present. “ No, Lady Elizabeth,” he said. Poor fellow! As little as Jim Bludso did he know how to lie. Even those white llea of society, which save appearance and mask confession, were as far from his understanding as were the recognized Shibbolezha aml authorized formulas. “ It was a pity to have missed them,” said Mrs. Clanriourde, adopting Lady Eliza- beth’s tone, and looking with artificial benignity on the omad’haun, thickly plated with gold as he wasâ€"so thickly as to be almost possible! w:- 1 ,,,,1__. w. l, Caleb turned his round face and rounfler eyes on the speaker with pitiable bewilderâ€" ment. It; wss all like some distressful dream. KWhy should ‘uhese people stand there looking at him? Their eyes, multi‘ plied to hundreds, stuck like latices into his heart. [Eu felt. as if he had unwittingly committed some ofience, and this was his arraignment. It was a nightmare; but he retained just so much of consciousness as to let him understand that Mrs. Clanricarde had spoken; and not knowing too clearly What she had said, nor what he ought to reply, his native courtesy crime to his aid, and he answered, “ Thank you, Mrs. Clan- ricm‘de,” as the only thing that presented itself. Though he had not been formally intro- duced to any one but Lady Elizabeth Inch- bold, he know quite well each individual of the‘ assembly, when he could detach his wits from their woolegathering and force them into‘ concrete observation. The Sun- day club of church is the great photograph of a neighborhood, where people learn to know one another without speech or con- tact. When they returned to the lawn ' the grast bulk of the company had gone. Lady Elizabeth was no longer there, and Estelle and Charlie Osborne had also diaappeax‘ed. They lmd walked to the gate, Where the carriage would ove‘itnke themâ€"llatelle, re"- signcd to brave the maternal tempest that she knew would follow on her act of diaâ€" obedience and temerfiy, if only she could comfort and make happy her handsome lover meanwhile. A “Let me take you,” said Mrs. {Elan ricardc, stil! benign anghumane; “ It would be a pleasure,” said Eskelle’a mother, with he: airy French politeness; and Caleb, feeling {as one in a. mill-taco dragged into the deep waters by a force he could not resist, was led like a. calf by a Win of straw to where thelabumnmshung like golden fountains agfiinat the sky. "‘Ksnhsil; grant, Mrs? Cluurioardé com- manded Estelle to accompany her} by the look her daughter 131qu 5‘0 yveil. 1 mfemained impassive, and Charlie Osborne got the good of her con- tummy.’ .... n 1-1, Though at the time of their walk, which Mrs. Clenrioarde did not hurry, the weight of conversation rested on her alone, she got answers of a. kind from Caleb; but they were emphatically of a. kind, and at the end she was no nearer anything like acquain- tance or sympathy than she had been at the beginning. Her action had in it no real kindlinese. It was essentially egotistic and well rnlcuhsted; end the poor omad’heun felt the difference he could not have defined. But he was greteful all the same. She went through her self-appointed task with gullent consistency, and got so far on the way ehe wanted to go as to fix a day for Caleb to cell at “Les Seulefi "mâ€"whieh local orthography 51391166, and local intonation pronounced ” Lissole." Ashe had at last entered society through the Vicarage gate, there wee no impropriety in opening her own. And she could try her hand at his reformation. If he proved hopeless, she had but to abandon him ; if he were prec- ticebleâ€"Eetelle had before now taken a. eilver-coeted pill. This of gold would also have to be taken. LJUnLuU, mu.“ nou‘su uLLu uuuuuw. “I’m 10th to trouble you, Mm. Clan ricazde,” answered Caleb. filer: Caleb}, shaking hands with Mtg am} Mra. Stewart and with Mrs. Clanricarde, so heartin that the ladies nearly shrieked as their fingers were cut by their rings, said, in his strange old world way, vivified from mummydum only by his exceseive embarrassment, “ And thank you, Mrs. Stewart, for my entertainment "â€"9.116 the same to Mrs. Clanricerde, varying only the name. But his heart was heavy, and the world seemed empty, and he felt that he had been worse than a boor and less polite than a coal heave! in that he had not been able to Bay the same to Lady Elizabeth, to whom he owed so much more than to any one else. Terrific Commotion and Combat on Chica- go’s Finest Avenue. The most fashionable part of Michigan avenue boulevard was Wildly excited at 7 o’clock last night E. G. Lewis, an insur- ance broker, who lives in ahandsome house at No. 1,450, had just sat down to dinner when a servant girl rushed in from the kitchen, yelled “ Burglars 1” and crawled unaer the table. Mr. Lewis plunged into the back yard. A low-sized man, dressed in dark clothes, confronted him. The low-sized man preâ€" tended to be drunk, and said he “ wouldn’t go home till morning." Mr. Lewis looked around and saw a. ladder which had been raised to an upper Window. Mr. Lewis mu into the house and returned with a. big gun. Ae he entered the yard he heard a. mocking laugh and saw the low-sized man loping_up the alley. u 1 'nL. “ I’ll fool the other one,” muttered Mr. Lewis, and he took down the ladder and stored it in the woodshed. Then he went into the house to lock the floor. The aer- vant girl thought the burglar had come to scalp her and she hurled herself into the street, screaming. George Hankine, the sax-gambler, lives next door in a stately mansion. Mr. Han- kine has numerous servants. Each of these servants turned in a call for the police. Every other neighbor who had a police call used it. Every other neighbor who didn’t have a police call made a noise. Mr. Han- kins’ ooachman climbed over the fence, and George Jones, a druggist‘s clerk, who had sneaked around to the back door to get the first lick at the burglar, emote the coach- man with a baseball bat and chased him down the alley. A boulevard policeman, thinking George and the coaehman were the burglars, started after them. They were met by a petrol wagon full of blue- coats,_who fell upon George. 1 1 ~ And the burglar? He buttoned up his coat, walked down the front stairs, met one of: Mr. Haukins’ servant girls at the door, chucked her under the chin, and went home.‘0hicago Car. New York World. Another remarkable case of the growth of hair after burial came to light yesterday at the disintermont of the body of Mr. Samuel Bowlby, who died in Southwold in May, 1887, and W218 buried in the Talbot- ville cemetery. When Mr. Bowlby died his beard was about four inches long, and the hair upon his head was the usual length worn during life. When the coffin was taken up yesterday by his Eon-in-law7 Mr. J. Learn, [or reburial in Mapleton cemetery it was discovered that the beard had grown to the length of eighteen inches. â€"St. Thomas Times. In writing from Fsyal, one of the Azores Islands, a. correspondent of the BostonTrarn- script says : 'On the country roads and near the wind-mills you will see circular thrash- ing floors made of hardened pumice stone. When cows and oxen are driven over the grain, crossing and recrossing it, these are a distinct and frequent feature in the land- scape, and reminds one of Bible scenes. What is that strange noise I hear from afar? I say to my native companion. Why, its an 0): cart coming along the lane with a load of grain. I watch and wait, and within half an hour it passes, with its two or three yoke of oxen dragging this uncouth cart with its high encircling wicker front and sifies. Ice great solid wooaen wheels creak and groan. One is impelled to be merciful and beseech the owner to oil the wheels. But no. I must not, and am told that this noise is a part of the equipage, and no farmer is satis- fied unless his wheels have the proper amount of squeak. A 112w was once made by the Portuguese Government that no creak- ing cart should be allowed to enter a. city, At the Disinterment of the Body of Mr. Samuel Bowlby. They are puttingin a. lick here and a E lick there with the big Lick telescope, now 2 doing business in Californian. The latest '3 not reported was a long, steady look at g Saturn’s South Pole, which seems to Show ' a. shiny tiny ice Cup. This report is subject to revision. The Shadow of the rings upan ’ the ball and of the ball upon the rings come strongly into ken through the great glass. hunt the repealed Moses Bradshaw, 0E Claiborne county, Tenn , celebrated his 100th birthday anni- vermry this week by riding; fifty miles on horseback. He nmde tha journey on a. wager. Mrs. Sophie Mcrklein, who died at New York a. few days ago, leaving $10,000 to her children, had a. queer bankâ€"~the bed on which she slept. After her death $34,000 in cash was found between the two mafi- tresses. “ When a woman has plenty of clothes to talk about, ” says a cynic, “ she is not in’misohief.” What a. misfortune that Eve had not more clothes to talk about.â€"~ Bing/zamton qumlllz'can. Collectorâ€"I hava called six ilmes, sir, for the amount of this kill already. 7 Citizenâ€"Wlm-at, six times? 15 it pos- sible you have been put to all that annoy- ance? Now, I‘ll tell you What I’ll do : when I feel like paying the amount I will call on you myself. It's outrageous to give a man the trouble] have unconsciously “ I know,” mumbled the weazenefl octo- genarian millionaire, gazing fondly into the azure eyes of the charming woman by his side, “ I know that I am somewhat advanced in life, but still an olii mam can love, and besides the disparity in our years is not so apparent ihatvi” .. . y. ,‘ ‘f I Mefely éhowcd him the phonoâ€" graph that I always keep concealed unécr the sofa.” A mum?» Aang A link: ‘1 ~yeauokl told his father he was a. fool. On being reprimanded by his mother am} required to say he was sorry, he toay died up to the insulted parent and ex. clamed: “Papa, I’m sorry yon’s a fool.” VVrr "7 V . o . . ‘ S1: . ” she cued, flushmg 1ndlgeant1y wand they were not married. ” They tell the you are married again, Pat -, is that so ‘2” “It is, sor ? " “How are you satisfied with the change ’2” “ Moig‘nty well, sot I BE the ferst Mrs McGlacherty was aloivc the day, 1116 ownly regrit. wud be that oi hadn’t married me second woife ferat."â€"â€"â€"Yonkcrs Gazette. Worse than the Swan Boy Behind the Sofa “ So you and Herbert are going to be mmrried? ” said one young lady to another" “ Yes, during the holidays.” ' “ You didn’t- throaten him with a breach of promise suit, did you ? ” 11- u 1, given you A SIEGE 0F BURGLABS. A STRANGE DISCOVERY Bible Scones Still Enacted. people rebelled and the law Wis (To be Continued). Why She Refused Him. Two Odd 01d Ones. Bo Put it Strong. Obliging Z A FAMOUS Boston wit says that the pros pacts appear to be that protectionists will not much longer allow the tide to come in unless a tariff can be collected off is. A BOTANICAL exploring party from Ger- many recently discovored on one of the Philippine Islands 21 number of plants whose flowers were almost a yard in dia- meter, tha petals, five in number, being oval and of a creamy white shade. LADY SIIAF’I‘ESBURY, mnieca oi the Marquis of Donegul, is another {air sprig of the British nobility to go into trade. She has established a shop in Bournemouth for the sale of farm and flairy produce, much of which comes from her own property. A memroms minister, Rev. C. S- Nickerson, indorses the Presidential In- auguration ball, saying that it is natural innocent and beautiful. He denounces some round dances, but high-necked, 11 o’clock, square.cornered. long-meter ianoing he approves of thoroughly. IT has been demonstrated that in piping natural gas in pipes of one size about eight pounds per mile of the pressure is lost, but by using the telescope system, smallerpipea at the well and gradually increasing the size towara the point of consumption, the loss of lpressure is reduced to three pounds per m1 6. LIEUT. STANLEY, whose marriage with a daughter oE the Duke of Manchester on the 5th insh, was the most fashionable event in London in recent years, will arrive in Can- ada with his bride about the beginning of February, and for a: few weeks following accompany his father, the Governor-Gen- eral, on various visits to noted places. THE Princess of Wales has set the fashion for a. new boot which is intended for rough country walking and is! imgsrvious to any amount of damp. It is very high, button- ing nearly up to the knee, of black leather, with an inner lining of stout water proof tweed between the ieathet and the kid linâ€" ing. The sole is about half an inch thick EANON HAWEIS still retains his “all in Chichester Cathedral and occasionally preaches with great vigor, though he is 84 years old. He is a son of the Dr. Hawois who was chaplain to the famous Countess of Huntington, and is the father of the Rev. E. R. Haweis, the funny little man who visited this country recently and is preacher, lecturer, musical and art critic, author and newspaper man all in one. 111' ims been discovered that the grave of William Penn is in a sadly neglecteri con. dition. There is not even a. mound above it, and only a flimsy slab of stone stuck in the ground, at the head or footâ€"no one can tell which. The Friends do not; approve of the erection of elaborate and costly monuments, but there surely could be no objection to some more definite and perma- nent marking of such an interesting spot. NEARLY all the sweeps in Paris are Italians The funeral of their chief, M. Scazzigu, has just taken place at St. Augustin Church with sumptuous solomnifiy. He came to Paris 60 yeaer ago on foot, “ sweeping " his way to the metropolis. He died a millionaire by knocking down soot, and curing smoky chimneys. His charities were proverbial. Two [acts in his career : He would never allow any of his employees to work on Sunday, and any stovc chimney or fire place that was sick. in a poor man’s home, he doctorcd it gratis. The Pope decorated him with the oriler of St. Gregory. which ranked him “ Cousin,” with the Emperor of Austria. and the Queen of Spain. THE London Morning Past has published a story describing the flufiing at Holyrocd Palace a. short time ago, of “ the remains of a. baby wrapped in cloth of gold and marked ‘J.,"’ and proceeded to suggest that the baby was none other than the real James VI. of Scotland and I. of England. The story, it may be pointed out, has got rather mixed on its way south. The fact is, no such discovery was ever made at Holyrood. About two yearn or more ago Major Gore Booth fiiscovered the body of a child concealed in the stonework of the castle not far from the entrance to Queen Mary’s room. {lhere is no clue to the identity of the child, and none has since been forthcoming. Every visitor to the castle gets the story from the guides, and no mystery is made about the matter. There was recently discovered in Central Africa a village of houses built. along a street and having gubled roofs. The inhabitanta are of superior intelligence, keep good order in the village and Sleep inbsds raised above the ground. ' v T111: udvuntage which a. good cigar has over a. cigarette is that the smoke of the cigar is likely to kill microbes, while that of the cigsrette only retards their develop- ment. The London Tclr 7; says editoriâ€" ally : “An eminent phyri n of Pisa. hasro- cently been engagedm‘e cherrve, in some ex- periments undertaken with a View to test the action of tobacco smoke upon micro- organisms. The microbes were subjected to the smoke for about half an hour, during which time three and 2’. half to four and 9. half grammes oi tobacco were consumed. Among the various kinds of tobacco used More the large Virginia cigars, large and small csvour cigars and the best cigarette tobacco. The result showed that tobacco smoke has the effect of wholly preventing the development or” some micro-organisms and of retardingT that of others. The Virginia cigar seemed to have the most powerful result, while cigarette smoke had only a. retarding influence, end did not entirely‘check the growth of any form.?’ If, therefore, you want to be healthyimost diseases being the product of microbes, us Dr. Flint stated in the Forum~â€"why, smoke cigars and swear off from cigarettes. Tucsu who complsin of the amount of fiction taken out of public libraries should remember how frequently the most- impor- tant questions have been forced homo upon the public mind in the term of. lic- umi‘iiis arresting attention, and other inquiry and action coming afterward. No one will ever be able to compute just how much was contributed by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin" to the full, of slavery. The lute Mrs. Helen Jackson (£1.11) Worked hard in lihrm' 5.: for a. whole winter over her compilation “ A Century of Dishonor,” and when it was fairly published, and n. copy sent to every member of Congress, she felt list all she could do to right the wrongs of the Indian had been done. Yet it failed to produce the impression on the public mind which she bud desired; and she then wrote, at s White heat, and with a rapidity and facility which she compared to inspiration, the novel of “anona;” and this time the work was accomplished. Her utmost dream of success for the book was of a. circulation £10,000 02'15,000; but it has now got up to '15,000, and {31 still steadily selling. Schools, societies, villages and even drawing. room cars have been named after its here» inc, and it has unquestionably done more than any other single influence to reach the. public mind. The recent religious novels have brought snow the problems of theology before all. And the very latest illustration of this work of fiction, as a sort of moral breaking-up plough for thought and knowledge, is to be seen in the clubs which are said to be forming to study the problems presented by Mr. Edw. Bellamy’s novel, “Looking Buckward." The object of this ingenious story is to portray the condition of life in the year 2000, supposing that the existing tendencies of legislation are carried further and farther, and govern- ment becomes more ” paternal" in its character. *3 CURRENT TOPICS. Petticoat Emancipation in Paris. The Gaulois attacks Mme. Carnot because she suffered Mme. Dieulsfoy to appear at her last bell dressed in man‘s clothes. The Gaulois speaks of a police regulation which forbids ladies to wear such garments, and of u. Prefect of Police who ordered it to be put in force at the Opera Comique against Mme. Dicnlufc), . The moral which this attack points to is that things are tolerated at the Elysee which the police would not allow at the theatre. It has been decided by a. committee of the Chamber of Depu- ties that there is nothing to prevent ladies who find men’s attire convenient from wearing it. Mme. Dieulafoy is a very exceptional person, and her life not only above the breath of scandal, but in the highest degree honorable. The Louvre owes to her its Persian collection. At the opening of the Persian Museum there she received Mme. Carnot in the suit which she found so convenient when she was excavating the earth mounds at Shushsn. She emancipated herself from petticosts for the first time in 1870 to follow the army of the Loire, in which her husband was ser- ving as a volunteer. At Shushan, when she went there to excavate, she arranged for herself an easy kind of men’s suit, and on her return to Paris she found it impossiLh‘la to revert to, as it seemed to her, the ens convenient garments of her senâ€"London Daily News. “There are mon‘xcuts when Eilenco prolonged and unbrokmx More oxpressivonmy be than all words ever Bpolmni' Look at that won and wasted women, once the picture of health, now so pallid. She cannot begin to tell her sufferings, but as from day to day she goes through the house, attencling to her many cares, her attenuated form, her white face, her steeping shoulders, her pinched features, all tell that she is a silent martyr to disease. He): once cheery voice is seldom heard, but her silence tells her suffering more than words could do. 0! ye silent, sorrowing, suffering sisters, there is a. cure for your troubles; Dr. l’ieree’s Favorite Prescrip- tion is a. sovereign remedy for the derange- ments and maladies peculiar to your sex As a powerful, invigorating tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system, and to the womb and its appendages in particular. For overworked, “ Wormout," “ run-down,” debilitated teachers, milliners, dresv makers, seamstreeses, “ shop-girls,”house- keepere, nursing mothers and feeble women generally, “ Favorite Prescription ” is the greatest earthly boon, being un- equaled as an appetizing corflial 'and restorative tonic. Subscribers to Whom are rented machines can have left at their door every morning the waxy tablets known as phonogramg, which can be wrapped about a. cylinder and used in the phonograph. On these tablets will be impressed from the clear voice of a good talker a condensation of the best news of the any, which the subscribers can have bulked back at tham as they hit at their breakfast tables. the stomach,” is the energetic phrase whic} Carlyle fipplled to his own troublesome organ of digestion. The great essayist- war :1 d3 speptic from his youth, but had 11: used Dr. Pierce’a Pleasant Purgntivc Pellets he might have shaken off the in cubus of indigestion, “ like a dewdrop {row a. lion‘s mane,” and there would have been more “ sweetness and light ” in hia writings and his home. All druggists ; 2:,- cents a. vial. “ 01d Grimes.” “ Oid Grimes,” that familiar “ littl‘ felicity in verses,” which caught the popn lar fancy as far back as 1823, was a guddm inspiration of the late J ude Albert; G Greene, of Providence, R. I., who fonmi th: first verse in a. collection of old Englisi ballads, and, enjoying its humor, built 111 the remainfier of the poem in the min conceit. must be in poor health and unable to do good day’s work. A disordered liver 0, any disease caused by scroiula or ha blooxi will be considered a qualification but; preference will be given to those l‘mv ing obatinato affections of the throat an: lungs or incipient consumption. Apply h the nearest drug store and ask for u botil» of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery *1 ‘ T3 ‘ V ‘We wish a. few men .4 ‘ 5011 our good»: by sump to the wnoleealc and 1‘ ' mil trade. Largebt man facaurcrs in our line. Enclose 2~cenn stem! Wages per day. Permanent position. ’ I- postals answered. Money advanced for ws ,6 avdvoxtisingmtc. Centennial Manufactunn 00., Tiucinnuti, Ohio. mam‘mazxz. “"619 afl’Eâ€"fimmx “ H76 believe that in mutant of light~weight rad materiuL collected and carried. Mr. Page halt the lead of any competitor and that his presea stool.- 738 the largest held. by (my house in th country." And the Review says: “After a most thorough investigation of M Page’s business as compared with others in sun line, we have become fully satisfied that ins ' specialty, light-weight stock, he is unqucséz’mwbl the lm-gust dealer in this country, whzle in super ‘ ' ‘ ' - Hy at the head." ,,u A um.» : 11 Mr. Page‘s busino ‘s is the large-1 in in; line in the United. Sting-s, it Man the: L‘“,‘ possible proof of his ability to pay highest prions: If he did not. (10 E0, woum £10 manually get mn’ Skiuathmn any ofhlscompatitors in Ibo : amelm THE Efifik’fi EEQT FREENE Fred Foster was arrested on Eaturda evening for perpetrating a. brutal outragei a saloon at Sanduoky, Ohio. James Farrel an inoffensive fellow, was lying on a tabl in tho saloon in a drunken ntupor, an Footer conceived the idea. of playing joke on him, and for that purpose purchasr‘ a pint of whiskey, which be poured nu Farrell‘s clothing, and then set ihe liqu. on tire. The drunken man was instantly eI velopcd in flames, and mu Bhouting fro: the room. Some men soon caught him an extingu d the flames, but not until 1' was tc "lldly burned. :1 lernhanit's forcign tour has bet a lnmmnt succees in all reapazcls, but; Bl will not derive any permanem benefit fro it, as her expenses me enormous. 81 actually makes her For. an allowance $1,200 a week, and he: debts amount ‘ $140,000. Sarah and her company alwn3 lodge in the same hotel when she is “ . tour,” and she is a. Monte Cristo lil hostess when things are going well and a} isin good humor. She is still very e travagunt, and wastes large sums in buyit trash of every description, and she carri her purchases about. with her. Her bil at the Austrian, Roumamian and Turki custom houses amounted in the aggrega. to $18,000. for us. Gash Furnished ox; satisfactory guaj’varnt; Address, 0. b‘. Baum, Hyde Park, Vermont, U. 3 The 87205 (13‘ Lcnxiher Reporter, N. Y., and 571' (‘9 Lcuz‘lu‘r Review, Chicago, the lending trad papers oftho U.S.1ntheHideline, have sent the representatives to investigate Mr. Page’s bu n3; , and Mth a, thorough examination and co: u‘tlix‘o lfqy-rlqrgivgsh'mmi 13d memen be 1 “L! .4- Eiiiéééiimi‘afifii'ufiEii3§:;%%EiÂ¥ We want a GOOD MAN in your locality to pick t CALF SKINS * alibi; a Curiosities or the I’houogmnh. \Vanted, 10,000 Disabled Men, “ That. Diuholical Apparatus, um“. Miyvmxflm A Dastardly Deed. 1; iv ‘ 3.4 89