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Again, without any apparent occa- sion, he would hector and rage, threaten and qufly, till only the dul- ness of weariness and indifference preserued her sanit . On this occasion e strode restlessâ€" 13; up and down the narrow apart- ment. He had the whip still in his hand, clutched in the middle; and every other minute he would stop at the window and curse the snow, which appeared somehow to irritate him past_ endurance. CHAPTER LI. "HOW LONG, o LORD, HOW LONG?" Lilias Mac Walter sat in a little chillish sittingâ€"room in the contracted grate of which a fire of wood and peat was reluctantly burning up With a maximum of smoke and a minimum of flame. She had thrown down her shawls and bonnet upon the sofa, and now she sat in the armchair by the fire looking straight before her, a dull and hopeless ache wrenching stol‘idly at her heart. She had sufi’erecLso much that the acubeness had gone out of the pain itself. Death and life seemed now very much alike to her. Walter Mac Waiter grew every day more suvllenly enraged. Sometimes he would sit and watch her for hours with hatefulh malevolent eyes. “But for this I might have had it over tomight,” he muttered. “Pshaw! nothing goes right with me! But 1 nm glad, though, that the place looks different.” He stopped before his wife. ‘Woman,” he said, “rise up and look after the fire, and see that the id1_e people bring \is gpmeghing pg eat." The course, Blssqt, Lilias stoo ed obedientl'y, and began to arrange t e smouldering eat and dying embers. She blew ine actually till the man, laying his hand upon her shoulder with a sudden fierce scenes of ringer: thrust_her rudely-gaglde. . Lilian door. "Stand away from there!” he cried. "You blow all the ash into the room. Get the dinner laid, and leave me to attend to the fire myself.” Lilias moved listless‘sy towards the “No,” thunderad her husband, “did I not tell you that you were not to go out of my sight on the peri} of your life? Dare to disobey me on your perili Ring the bell!” And as the woman did not at once sve the bellâ€"pull, which WM hidd n behind a deep curtain, he rushed thlt . ‘ himself and pulled it till the cord " off in his hand, and the released “That's the auld house,” he said; “it was here before ever there was a Baxter." “We are three friends out from Edinburgh on a walking tour in our Christmas holidays. At the last mo- ment my daughter wished to accom- pany us. I fear there is a storm brew- ing. Could we have any accommoda- tion however humble, at your inn?” lieggie {watched his head. “Weel,” he said, “ve’él hae to gang into the auld house. For there’s a lady and”â€"H0ggie pausedâ€"he could not conscientiously add “a gentleman”â€" “a man here already, and they hae engaged the best rooms and the par- lor. They hae had them bespoke mair than three weeks. Sae g'in ye want any accommodation, ye’ll e’en has to gang to the guld hoose.” “Na,” he said, “I wadna tak’ that upon myse1’â€"juist yet. But the mis- tress is busyben the hoose, andâ€"week ye may say onything to me that ye hae to say to her." “Are you the master of this inn?” he Said, poi’ibeiy. Hogg'ie shook his head with a cur- ious little smirk. Hoggie was at the gate by this time, and the stoutest of the mm of four came forward to apeqk 199 big;: “Mair and mair! They may be wantin’ to stop ten days like you drawing craiturs that cam’ at the time o’ the Shaw-storm three year syne, and nearly ate us oot o’ hoose and hame. At the best they’l'l be bidin” for their tea, and Hoggie will hae to wait till the mistress and Meg has them served: May the black deil tak' a’ st‘avaigers and run-theâ€"countries that are sae far left to themsel‘s as to forsake their ain comfortable fire- sides in sic weather.” At this Hoggie threw down his broom with a Justifiable expression of disgust. But before he had time to reach his desired haven of a sonsy meat tea he discerned through the drift, which be- gan thinly to veil thé lace of the bleak moorland, a number of dark figures advancing on foot up the long steep ascent. two seniorsâ€"who were, of the “Orra Man” and Daniel looked at each other. . CHAPTER L.â€" (Cont’d.) ESSUE No; 48-325. BY 3. B. CBOOIETT. “You do not ask why I have brou'ight you here," he said; “I know your play [and pretence of meekness. But, my ilady, I learned from a'source you can- not guess at of your letters to the old stonebreaker, your father. I doubt not they Were the means you took of sending my money to the drunkard’s son. Now it seems that I cannot watch you closely enough in your own *house at Kirkoswald. But I can here. I will not once let you out of my sight. You shall see your old father on the parish before you die. And I will make of your son just what his father was. I cannot say more than that!” Lilias had eaten nothing, and now sat With her head turned away from her tormentor, looking into the fire (with an expression of more than mor- tal anguish. he came of. He is spending his burs- ary money like water in the vilest places. He will soon come to the end of it and be disgraced. That is Why I will take good care that you do not send him any more. In a year I will lsee him back at the hedgeâ€"root, where .I have seen his father lie. I shall Ilive to have him sent to gaol, and you ‘shall‘ go to the trialâ€"Lilias, pretty Lilias that once flouted and despised Walter Mac Walter. Have not I paid l y debts in full?" For the excellent thou ht had come to Mr. Bisset, so soon as e hu‘ heard Horgg'ie describe Walt/er Mac alter as a "black-a-vised hyena," that they should take the ostler partly into their confidence. A crls and “crunkl " pound note wonder ully aasisted t a process, and the “One. Man's” dis- criminatin appreciation of the horses in the sta 1e beneath the auld home 0’ Baxter's bought Hoggie Haugh body and soul. ' ' And the sound of his voice reached the ears of three who listened beneath in the snow, and was heard also by a fourth, who stood a little way behind. “Aye,” this last‘ communed with hi'mself, "001; 0’ his mind, I wad say sae. That’s never the voice 0’ a man in his seven senses. Ye may coont on Hoggie Haugh to keep an e'e on him. I’ll never tak' a wink 0' sleep this nicht wi' that puir thing in his poo'er." “He's gane to his ain bed and bar- red his door, flingin' it to wi' a brainge that shook the hoose!” was Hoggle's last bulletin. “I'n listen whilos at the puir lass's window through the nicht, and gig ye 501‘}; if: need be." Christopher Kennedy, M.A CHAPTER LII. THE NIGHT WATCH. Lilian Mac Waiter had Ion known her husband’s essentialri an ty. For yea? he ha dwelt mo-rbi 1y upon her pas T 8 0y Kit Kennedy was to Mac W hr the outward sign and token of her fol-mar low for his father. 01 a cast of mind originally coarse and brutal, without enta' or moral reserves of power Wa an ac Walter had grown to believq that his chances of hapfpiness dependpq upon the removal 0 . the boy out o ‘ ath, and for fine purpose he hp. 5535- Ermaticall- endeavored to Eefamtg ilias an 1193' son. Bub recap 1y an 1 ea tar mk dangemus had t a plug». a had mafia a 3313 , The WLfe herself was t 9 ante: happiness. The son must ruine When Walter Mac W'alber was left alone with his wife he sat down oppo- site her. "Indeed," she said, indignantly, “is "be proved to be insane till some {this the King 0’ Muscovy that we hue, act of mania suddenly startles their ‘ gotten at Baxter's? ‘Spread the ‘cloth and be donel’ It's not likely that Elspeth Conachar will bide where her conversation is not esteemed a privi-' leeg'e. Where's that guidâ€"forâ€"naethr- in'g' Hoggle Houghâ€"oot at the auld hOOSe, ye say, wi’ mair tourist bodies? I wonder what's ta’en the halo warld to travel at Christmas. Never was sic daft-like lo 5 heard 0' in my young days. ab ie, tak’ hen the sec- ond best service. Buid gens what sic a monster micht no do to my best cheena. Faith, I’m heart-sorry for you puir peetifu’â€"lookln’ thing that he has for a wife. She up ears no to be lang for this warld. n’ gin I was her I wadna muckle care, wi’ siccan a girnin' Hottentot for a, man!” tworld into dreadful knowledge of ‘th‘sir condition. Such maniacs are [perhaps the most dangerous of all. It was, for instance, no unusual thing for Lilias to awake in the night to the afl'righting consciousness’that {her husband had entered the room and was standing silently by her bed- _side with arms folded across his 'breast. Hour after hour he would remain so, never for a moment reâ€" ,moving his gaze from her face. And then as the re light of the morning stole into 1; e earful chamber, and the blinds edged themselves with Ybrighter light, he would steal back to his own room on tiptoe and fling himâ€" ser upon his bed, still fully dressed, only to repeat the performance the Mistress Conac'har erectea herseLf, and sailed out with the stately port of g gaileon before the Wind. “Yes, spread it and be done!" re- turned Walber Mac Walter, striding to the window, and standing there a tall, gloomy figure, the whip still clqtghed neryously in his right hand. notice for you?" “You are nearly an hour before the time you specified in your letter, sir," said Mistress Conachar with dignity. “By: I will spread the cloth.” “Can you not bring up dinner at 031cc I ordered it to be ready upon my arrival. Is three weeks too short notice for you?" As sHe enberéd Walter Mac Waiter threw the green cord of the bellhpul'l on the floor. lever sprang back with a wheezingé screech. 3 Mistress Conachar of Baxter’s Inni appeared a moment after at the door; of the private parlor, a little flushed: in the face, partly from the shortness: of breath natural to her years and manner of life, and partly from anl excusable anger at being summoned! thug irnpeflously infihrer own house. ! "71 53115 'wfifiv’ac'c‘h'k'vfih "3:1;u a" said The two men, watching at the edges of the blind through which the feeble glimmer of the nightâ€"light shone like an illumination, saw Walter Mac WaLâ€" ter come in and stand by his wife’s bed. Motionless for a full hour they watched him. Their hands were on the window sill ready to throw up the sash and spring into the room if he should lay hands 11an her. therary Work. The Acrobat - “That ventrrlloquist guy says he writes all 1113 own stuff." It was Teddy's first term at school, and his mother had been telling" the rich old uncle how well the boy was getting along with his studies and how dearly he loved his school. The Hoofer â€" “He ain't got the braiqls. His stuff sounds like It was written by his dummy.” It is better to bé able to look back to a day well lived than ahead to a month of promises. "Well, my little man," asld the uncle, "what do you do in school all day?” It was a figil like this, for the first time spied upon by other eyes than those of the persecuted woman, who had borne her trouble so silently throughout the years, that Walter Mac Walter kept that stormy night of mldwinter in the inn of Baxter's Folly high on the cliffs of rSandhaven. 7 A school girl who was asked to do- flno drawing replied: 130le had had his first lesson in as; tronomy and when he came home from school he began to enlighten his small slster on the mystery of the stars. the blinds edged themselves with brighter light, he would steal back to his own room on tiptoe and fling him- ser upon his bed, still fully dressed, only to repeat the performance the following night. u v21 .12 1- .: n “I wait till 11': time to go home,” was Teddy's matter of fact reply. "It is just thinking and then mark- ing round the think with a. pencil.” "Do you know," he said, “that the little star you see way up there is very much bigger than this whole earth?" "Then why doesn't it keep the rain 01! us?” she aia‘ked. Joan, aged six, and Kathleen, aged eight, were having an argument as to who was the taller. "Of course you are not as tall as I am," said Kathleen. “You are only as high as my shoulder." "Yea," admitted Joan, "but youtr feet don’t go down any tanner than mine; so I'm a; tall as “>11 that way!” Mlnard'a Llnlment for atlfl' muscles. A little girl had been to church 0; 333 first time. On returning home 9; gather asked her what she thought of e agrvlce. "I 141186 15 Very much," she replied, “but here was one thing I didn’t think was it." was that. dear!” asked the mother. ................. g unnu uluvuAAI/J "vunu, w '3 medical man accustomed to cases of !delusion, have indicated influence and :homicidal mania, and have diagnosed Walter Mac Walter as belonging- to .thg mqst dangerous class of lunatics. of a perverted Jealousy, though a spe- cialist on the alert would rather have noted them as strong evidence of de- mentia. There are lunatlcs who, be- ing sane in the ordinary affairs of business and the outward relations of mankind, and having no one in any sort of authority over them, cannot be proved to be insane till some overt act of mania suddenly startles their world into dreadful knowledge of their condition. Such maniacs are perhaps the_ most dangerous of all. Yet he was a man of money, power, and responsibiiity. It was impossible to restrain or confine him. His men- tal states were not noted save by his Wife, and she, wearied and made even indifferent by long-continued cruelty, mistook his moods for the natural bias The mother would die of grief. He himself would be freeâ€"or, if this failed him or proved too slow, he must discover other means td fies himself. His return to places famiiiQVth; him in his boyhood, his fits of aI'tern- ate kipdljness and brutality would, to BRIGHT REMARKS THE CHILDREN MAKE YM Your!“ "mun! (or Ineunbkm '- mnamn with Bollmc and A!!!“ Muslin“. In Var} cm. «£ch I lhru ynn' Cantu cl Tnlnln. ta young III-sen. luv)“ 1m "nulrcd reunion. and acclram ol hmnm Inna. 'nm "null-J nu Idem in. night. tour afllm. Tbs lunlh nod" IHHNII d In: 855001. I monthly Illa-nun and Invnllni unuma In Ind (mm haw You. For funk. Inter-alien wan to I!" SunerandmL (To be cofitinuéd.) NURSES . :L'Abuuub u-vvu, yvvn I".cu1’aâ€"t;on*" gggggbgrrgggngggfaon'. Nlu'men, n on the :d, does’ not depend r ' _ -nmy or food eaten. but on its quality and suitability to winter conditions. Most people are under the impres- sion that the causes are externalâ€" cold weather, snow, frost, and so on. That, however. is wrong. _The causes of chilblains are internal. A chilblain is merely the outward and visible re- sult of a wrong internal conditionâ€" Those who get plenty of exercise. who clothe themselves warmly, and eat nutritious “heating” food, never get cfiiiblains. The clothing, by the way, must be loose, for tight boots, tight gloves, or anything that impedes the circulation is certain to produce chilblains. Porridge, fat baoon, drip- ping, and so on are "heating" food§. “Why one‘man did all tha work, and then another man came around and got all the money."- â€" Jimmy 15 threé years old and very fond of telling his dtreams at the breakfast table. One morning his father, thinking to apply an Intelligent test, said: “But, Jimmy, I don't be- lieve you know what a dream is," Jimmy‘s answer came quick and sure. “Yes, I do. It's moving picture- while you‘re asleep." Always practice careful saving and frugal spending. Even a poor boy can manage to put something in the savings bank, no matter how little, every payvdlay. Johnny had been taken by his moth- er to a museum of natural history, and he was particularly Interested in the big stuffed animals. ‘ In a few weeks the chilblain season will open. It you are a sufferer, you know from painful experience what chilblains“ feel like. But do you kriow what causes them? “Well, Johnny, where have you been this afternoon ‘I” asked his father when he got home. “To a wonderful place, dad ex- claimed Johnny. “Mother took me to a dead circus.” "What makes that new' baby at your home cry so much, Tommy?" “If you had all your hair off," was Tommys reply, "and your teeth out and your legs were so weak you couldn't stand on them, I guess you'd feel like crying, too." - There is no external cure for Chil- blalns, but the following is the apâ€" proved medical remedy for broken ones: Coptlba (one ounce) and methy- lated collod‘ion (three ounces) applied night and morning. “Here is an apple, Sam." said his mother. “Divide It with your sister and be generous.” "How shall I be generous, mamma?" asked Sam, grasping the apple. “Why, always give the larger part to the other person, my child." Sam thought a few minutes in sil- ence. Then he handed his sister the apple. Strange Occurrence. “How did the accident Happen?” "Mietook a puncture-proof tire for a life-presetrverâ€"and went down.” “Here, Ethel, you heard what moth er said. You divide it, ’stead of me.” One reason for this queer notion is that psi-sons, with ideal sanitary a1" ranrgemenrta, separate beds for each inmate, and three meals 8. day, are palaces of splendor and delight com- pared with the average native hut, With‘ its mud floor and squalid sur- roundings. *‘ In this part of the world convict la-3 bar is almost universally employed for! such tasks as road-making, laying out public gardens, and building houses. In addition, householders who want any kind of job done are in the habit of sending to then town prison, which will supply a gang of competent con‘ victs in charge of a warden to carry out the work. As a result, the West African gets it into his woolly head that he has been specially selected to render sew. vice to the Government. and, when he is released and returns to his ownE home and friends, his prestige among? them is enormous. In fact. one manv‘ who had had his sentence shortened! because of his good conduct. took the, respite as a great insult and inquired! what he had done that he should beE turned out before the proper time. i Prison life in this country has lost many of the terrors, but the "prison taint” remains. W6 are still very far removed from the point or View of the natives of West Africa, who consider a term of imprisonmmt in one of the Government prisons the greatest hon- or that could be conferred on them. Where Prison Means Honor. Chilblain Time. poor I “Lastly, he swallowed a couple of spoonfuls of boiling oil. This seemed to be a greater effort th 9; I9ft"perzoa‘nmmce, for his face turned purple, and drpps of sweat stood on his forehead. I was too close to the manâ€"I_cou1d touch mm with my hand â€"{or any deception to be practiced. All this, moreover. went on for eight days from eleven am. till late at night. Then the man tdok a thin flat iron bar, red hot, and worked at it with his teeth till he had bitten off a piece about three-quarters of an inch long, which he spat down 1mm his mouth. Next he trod on red-hot Plates, but I did not think so much of this, as he only drew his feet over them one af- ter the other without resting' his weighi upon them. ngh Flnance. Mrs.Naw1ywedâ€"-â€"“And how much are these crackera 7" I was told that he went through the performance twenty times upon the principal day of the fair. He has been eyamined by some of‘the doctors here, we have warned him that he must give up swaiiowing the boiling oil or he will ruin his digestion. He replied that he knew that he would have a short. life. He had tried other ex- pedients to gain a iiveiihoe-d, but had failed; he was driven to this by prava necessitas." A young composer Went to Mozart one day and asked how he should set about writing a symphcny, “A sym_ phony!” â€"â€" exclaimed Mozart _ “you are much too young for that.” But, master,” objected the youngster, «You had written many symphonies before you were my age." "Yen." replied the great composer, “but I didn't need to isk how it was done.” In other words, he did it because it was in him to do it. Mrs. N.â€"â€"“Oh, that's too much. I’m going to get them at Blood’s." (Blood’s is four blocks away‘. Grocerâ€"“Twentyievern cents a pound, ma’am." She leaves, but returns 111-8. few minutes. . Mats. N.â€""-0h. they arefwentyelght cents a pound there, and yours are only twen‘tyfieven, so I'm going to gat yours." _ Gaaocer-~"How much do you want?” Mrs. N.â€"“Half a pound!" mm fluttered about, and some fell on my sleeve. Then he took a. red-hot poker and licked it with hiss tongue until the iron cooled. To make sure that there was no deception, I tried to touch it, but had to withdraw my finger pretty smartly, and an English friend of mine srtanding by In his cigar at the poker after It had left the tongue at Plum. “Perhaps the most curious exhibi- tion at the fair was thisâ€"a man strip- ped save for a. pair of drawers and al sleeveless jersey, who called himselti the Modern Pluto, and performed withl red-hot irons in a manner in explicablel to me. I was close to him and saw that there was no deception. He first got an iron scraper, about the size of; a h0e~ir0n, which was heated red hot, in a charcoal fire that was kept bum-! ing at my feet, and in which several irons wgra glowing. With this he: scraped his arm, legs, both his cheeks; and throat. The white ash from thej iron fluttered about, and some fell on{ my sleeve. Then he took a red-hot poker and licked it with hiss mnmxa' When hoarse use Mlnard's Llnlment. “Well.” said one, “it I fall I shall sue the examiners.” “How can you do that?" “Because the law expressly forbids anyone “to utilize the ignorance of others to harm them ln any way.” H e Was Vl‘mmune. Two artudents were discussing their chances in an examinatiiqn. Labor worketh Va harshness upon sorroW.â€"â€"Montaigne. Some of the performances that one sees at fairs oa- clrcus sideshow; are so inexplicable that the spectator usually takes it for granted that they are not what they appear to be. Knife- swallowng and flreâ€"egtlng are no compllahmente which it is hard to con- Vince the ordinary observer are any- thing but sleightofâ€"hand. Yet we find .ln Rev. 3, Baring-Gould's delightful Remlnlscences a story of his sojourn in Frelburg, Germany, which shows that he was convinced that one faklr, at least, did exactly what he pretended A- ‘1‘ to do. 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