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THE YOUNGEST CLERK.
"Is it a beggar, .lane?" said Mrs
Troop. "(ill, don't send the poor
creature a way ! Hive him a glass of
milk and a bit el cold beef!"
"Please, ma'am," said .lane, "there
ain't so inii'-h as a drop of milk left;
and you gave the la! of the beef to old
(iideoii (ialbip. And besides, nu'am,
don't think it is a tramp at all. It's
quite u respectable ymiiig lean, in a
brown linen dn ter, and a carpet-bag.'' , hand-paint 'd china vases mi the wo'd
"Oh!" said Mis. Troop. "A new en mantle, and cheap mii-lin curtains
boarder, ch?" j at I he window, after a supper of black
"Well, ma'am, 1 ain't ipiite sure," ' caps and milk, delicious home-made
sa:d .Ian.', discreetly. "I'olk.s is so bread, fresh honey and johnny-cake.
different." "Two dollars a week lor such fare as
".lane," said Mrs. Troop, mysteri- j this, to say nothing of my cunning
ou.-ly, "I see il. all now. It's the little corner room!" said Mr. lirowne
youngest clerk."
"Ma'am V" said .lane,
ed way.
"Oh, don't be so stupid!" cried Mrs
Troop, w ho was o'ie uf those nervous
New Kngl.i' I . .i.eii who are perpet
ually instinct with electricity, and
w ho saw and comprehended things by
flashes. C.,11 Barbara; and make
haste about it !"
liarbara camV into the green gloom
of the huh- pantry, whose window
was thiikly shaded with morning-
glory vim-s a tall, slim lassie, with'
solemn bbii'-gray eyes, brown hair. ,
and a slow grac:- of manner which she
must have iui. eril 'd fmm the birches
on the mountain-Mile and the reeds in 1
the swamp, for other buehers she had
none.
"What is it. mother.'!" said she. "I
was emptying the t aMicrs out of the
ol 1 pil!ow-t.cks. and -"
'liarbara," .-aid Mrs. Troop, "don't
bother ah .ut p:ll..v-t e'i-! It's the
youngest clerk - he's wailing just over
there in the porch, w itli his bag. Can
we a.c. iii:ii".!at'' l.iin. do yon think'"
"M .Mier." ai 1 liarbara, "what o:i
earth do mi mean '"
Why," cried Mrs. Troop, with a
little impatient givture, "don't you re
liicmh'T i I I Mr. Fali-hawe, the book
keeper ill lirowiie, l!rownsoii ' iV.
Jirow ne's, telling 1 1 about the young
est clerk there, who had the weak
lungs and the small salary' And he
said he'd reeoiuiiiend him here, lor his
summer a. a! ion; an ! he Impel we'd
take him cheap and do what we could
for him."
"Oh!" said liarbara, arching her
pn tty bn.w. "Vcs, il seems to me
now that I do remember something
about it. liut, mot her. where can w e
put him ' l!cry room is full -even
to the two -1 ij ing-roolV I chambers in
the garret."
'.'.v.' a poor young man," said Mrs.
T.i'.p. hi a di.-tre.sscl voice, "with
bcredit.iry c..iisimpt lea and almost no,
salan! li.trh.tra. we never can turn
him aw av !"
"o, of ni'iiM' ii.. t," -aid liarbara
relic! ting. "Mother, I can manage it.
Peii'l fret any more. Tell him he
may c. me."
"And high time, too," said Mrs.
Troop, nervously, "with him waiting1
there on the porch, and wondering, no
doubt, what all Ihi- delay means." i
Hie bustle 1 oat, with kindly hosjii-
tabty in her eyes. There, in the jnir
ple twi.ig'it. apparently listening to '
the s nig ot the u hip-p.ior-vvills on the
nioiiiitaiii- idc, sat a slender person,
dres "d in cool, brown linen, with a !
Viil.si' r sting o 'i the lloor beside him.
Ilo.vvvas Mrs. Trot. i to kiiov that hi; ;
ha 1 h aid every vv..r.l of the brief col-!
lo piy ?
"Madam." he said, lifting the straw!
hat from his curly head, "1 -" j
"Oh, yes. y. s!" said Mrs, Troop; "I:
know all about it. Your name is ;
lirmv nc with lirowne, lirownsnn A:
Browne. Mr. Fanshawe told me all
about you. You are the youngest
clerk there."
"Madam, I -"
"It isn't necessary lo explain," kind-
ly interrupted Mrs. Troo. "IVe'l'l
give you a room ind board for two
dollars a week. I can't promise you
the dainties they have at the ( hocoiiia
House, but everything shall be clean!
and wholesome. Mr. Fanshawe knew !
I would be interested in you, because I
bad lost a boil ol aboiit your age."
"Indeed, Mrs. Troop, I am very
much oblige I to you, but "
"Here comes my daughter Barbara,"
said, Mrs. Troop, evidently desirous to
abbreviate tho newcomer's tlianUs.
''liarbara, this is tlio youngest clerk.
His name, I believe, is lirowne."
liarbara let her soft, blue-gray eyes
rest 11 1 m his tired face for a second,
with the most angelic sympathy.
"Is your cough very had this sun i
iner'"she asked. "Oh, I hope tho
mountains will do you good! How
long n vacation have you two
weeks?"
He smiled.
"You are very kind," ho said. "The
linn will allow me to he gone as long
as I like."
"And your salary will go unjust tho
same?"
"And my salary will continue just
the same."
"That is what I call real gcnerosily."
said liarbara. "Oh, I should like to
thank Messrs. ISrowuo. lirownsoii
lirowne. Well, come in. Our little
cottage is full of hoarders, hut my
mother and I will contrive to make
roiim fi ryoti somewhere."
And the pale hoarder slept that night
:ii a little rose-scented room, with a
strip of bright rag carpet on the lloor.
j to himself. "1 nev er boarded so cheap
a bewilder- i ly before in all my life."
At the end of a week he was more
than delighted with his summer home.
Mrs. Troop was tho kindest and inns'
motherly of hostesses; liarbara was
the impersonation of sweet and gracious
reiinement. The mountain was full of
purple glens, merry-voiced cascades
winding foot paths and breezy heights.
Mr. lirowne enjoyed hims.-lf intensely,
lie believed that he had come to the I
right place. I
"Iioii't you think," said liarbara to :
her mother, "that he's erv strum: for,
a consumptive'"
"It's that herb-tea. and the diet of
honey and new milk that is building
him up." said Mrs. Troop, triumphant"
ly. "I never knew it fail yet in lung
diseases. liut he's very pleasant,
liarby, isn't he'"
"Ver,!" said liarbara. earnestly.
Mr. lirowne had not been a month
at the little cottage on the mountain,
when, overtaken by a sudden shower,
he took refuge in an old, uiiu-ed lain,
not faraway from the house, where a
thicket of blo.Miming elderberries con
cealed the rude stone basement, all I a
veteran yellow pine tree Hung its ban- j
ncr of black-green shade over the
mossy shingles of the roof. I'nuse I,
except to stow sweet Kay in - and in
one corner a little ciiami.er mi l oeen i
finished oil', long ago. with a brick j
i hiiuney and a tiny-paued lattice. The
door was half open, and Mr. lirowii1' i
could discern a little cot-bed, draped j
with white; a dimity-covered toilet- i
stand, whose coarse, cheap bowl and
.pitcher were enriched with purple and
crimson autumn leaves in hand-paint-
ing. and a little needlework rug which
lay at the font of the bed.
"Ah." said Mr. lirowne, to that best
of confidants, himself, "I comprehend
it all now! I have displaced Mademoi
selle liarbara from the little corner
room in the cottage. I'pou my word,
I feel like a usurper! liut how good ;
they are, this mother and daughter,
whose only income is derived from never known! And all these gifls be
this precarious occupation of taking .-towed by the hand of the poor young
summer boarders! How unselfish, hovv
utterly self-sacrificing! There an
good Samaritans yet left in the world.
i inaiiK neaven:
When September came, with its vel
low leaves and its elusiers of vivid
blue asters on the edges of the woods,
Mr. lirowne j.rcuired to return to the
citv.
"Von are sure you are strong enough
to resume work'" said Mrs. Troop,
anxiously.
"Mother," said liarbara, "he isn't at i
all like an invalid. Father old Mr. '
Fanshawe was mistaken, or else Mr. j
lirowne has made an almost miraeii-
Ion; recovery."
.lust at this instant Jane came to
tell Mrs. Trooji that neighbor Jackson
was at tho door wa ting to borrow a
drawing of tea.
The gentle widow bustled out;
Mr.
lirowne turned to liarbara.
-Yes," said he, "I am going to return
to New Yorlv. Hut I shall leave
something behind me."
"We shall be very happy lo take
charge of anything for you," said liar
bara, who was sorting over red-cheeked
jiearsfor jireserving.
"Shall you ? lint you don't know
what it is. liarbara," suddenly lajisinfr
into extreme gravity, "it is my heart.
I am driven lo conf."
it - and to ymi."
"You are inking:
i that I have lost
cried liarbara.
coloring and '-hII -disposed to be indig- .
nant.
"I never was more serious in my
life," asseverated Mr. lirowne. "1 do
love you, dear little liarbara, truly ami
tenderly. J)o you think you could
dare to trust your future to me V Pour
as I seem, I could yet give yon a good
home."
"Oh. I am not afraid of that." said
liarbara, w ith rising color and droop
ing eyelashes. "I hae been brought
up to be independent, ymi know, and 1
believe I could earn a little money by
art work, if ever I had the chance. II
--if you really care for me "
"My own darling!"
"Then yes, 1 do love you!"
So liarbara was wooed and won.
"Of course, the dear little mother
must live w ith us." said Mr. lirowne
"I couldn't do without her!"
Mrs. Troop, who had once more
joined the group, looked puzzled.
"Is it a Hut." said she, wistfully.
"Xo. I occupy a w hole house."
"lint dear me!" cried the inother-iu
law-cleft, "isn't that rather extrava
gant'" "I think not," said Mr. lirowne, seri
ously. "lint must ymi really be married at
once "
"I should iil
and you back
to carry both liarbara
to the citv with me,"'
said the lover.
"And poor , lane V Though, of course,
it would he nut of the question for
liarbara to keep a hired girl?" hesitat
ed Mrs. Troop.
"Oh, .lane must come, too," said Mr.
lirow ne. "liring her with you. by all
I means. e can manage it somehow,
j To tell ymi the truth "
I "Well," said Mrs. Troop, eagerly.
I "I am a fraud and a delusion," con
fessed Mr. I'.imw ne. while liarbara
raised her soft eyes in uiiiacmeiit. "I
am imt the youngest ch rk in the linn
at all. 'The voimgest clerk went out
j (,, licriuuda.al the expense of the linn
hist spring. 1 hope he is doing well in
that climate. This man was Ferdi-
mind liiovvii. I am Augustus
',rn lie. the voiiiigest partner."
"lint li wevcr came ymi
here
eagerly .picstloped Mrs. Troop. "Iiidn't
i Mr. I'aus'iawe re omioeivl you?'
j "Not at all. I came to the hotcl.but
il was full; and tiny thought that per
haps I could be provided for at Mrs.
Troop's cottage until there was a va
cancy in the Chocoma House, liut
when the vacancy came I dulnt care
to claim it."
"So ymi are not poor at all!" said
liarbara, in a low voice.
"Ni t in y.uir sense ol the word, jut-
haps; but I shall be poor indeed,
weet liarbara. if I have foilcited
voiir favor," he uttered fervently.
Nor consumption '
No, imr consumption." he admitted.
You have been deceiving us al
aloiu
-Yes, I have been deceiving ymi all
aioii'r," ai.l Mr. lirowne. "lint,
under the circumstances, do you see
lmw I could help it '"
'-t is very strange," said liarbara.
! might to be thoroughly indignant
with you: but somehow somehow I
love you more dearly than ever."
Mrs. Troop could hardly believe lu r
own cars. A pahce in Fifth avenue;
a double carriage driven by two line
gentlemen who wore choicer suits and
glossier hats than the parson himself;
limbic damask napkins, with uioiin. j taining the crown jew el-. Ourattend
;ranis embroider, d on them, at every j atlt inserted a key, two heavy iron
meal; eg
hell china; all the luxuries
which she ha I dreamed of, but. had .
clerk w hom -he ha I undertaken to
board at two dollars a week because
he was alone and friendless, and for
whom she had saved the choicest
slices of honeycomb and brewed the
nio.-t inv igorating herb tea!
"One often reads of these things in
novcls,"said she; "but how seldom they
come true in real life!"
Kind, simj.le-hearted Mrs. Troop! If ,
she had been a student of the great j
"novel" of Human Nature, she would !
hav e known that we arc all of us liv ing
romances at one time or another-
Ami why not? Is not the world
always full of love and youth?
lie Took the Hint.
Mr. and Mrs. Jones were starting for
church. "Wait, dear," said tho lady,
"I've forgotten something; won't you
go u) and get my goats off the bureau?"
"Your goats." replied Jones; "what
iiew-faiigled thing's that '" "I'll show
you," remarked tho w ife, and she sailed
up stairs and down again with a pair
of kids on her hands; "There they
are," said she. "Why, I call those
things kids," said the surjirised hus
band. "Oh, do you?" snapped the wife
"well, sodidl once, hut they are so
old now, Fin ashamed to call them
anything but goats." Then they
went on to church. The nexl day
Joiici' wife had a half do.'cn pairs of
uo.w gloves in a hands e lacquered
box of t he latest design.
THE WI.NTKIt IMUCK.
.tlaitlillli nice of the Home of the lr
or All I lir IIii.Hlnii.
A letter to the San Francisco I'himii'
ih from St. Petersburg savs: Scarce as
money is and jor as are the mass of
people, there is enough to keep up a
certain style, especially in tUw royal , ol Massachusetts und ( oiiuccln-ni.
palaces and public buildings. Thanks ' Here and there the sand and mud
to tho courtesy f (!. M. Ilutloii. the washed level with the surface of tin
I'nited States vice c msul general, who j water, and on this trembling mass the
was in charge of tin consulate, we eh- people clustered, and grew precarious
tained permission t i go over the win- . I'nud, and fought ever for firmer blot
ter palace, a favor i ot always granted I ig. Now they drove back the ocean:
to strangers. It is ;. huge building of ' now the ocean drove them back and
brown stone and i vers a large area, ' drowned them out. For many yc-im
each of the sides i , is neat ly square j they have slept mi the batlle-lield
measuring some 1M . et ; but it is not j with weapon in hand and armor on,
more than ninety feel high, and the never relaxing effort and never fed-
heavy cornice that forms an almost un
broken line round the top still further
detracts from the height. I 'laced on
this cornice are a large number of
statues, which it requires no great
s( retch of imagination to conceive to
he jiersons endeavoring to escape from
destruction hv the wav of the roof, so
jumbled up are they with the chimneys.
The general effect of the building,
which only dates from !-:'.. would be
jioor were it not for its size, which, to
some extent, makes up for want of
architeelual grandeur. The interior is
also devoid of any special architect mil
features, and there is no grand stair
case. It is simply a huge s piare box)
divided up into rooms, but some of
these are truly magnificent, and when
Idled with the flower of Hessian so
ciety, as they are at state receptions
during the winter season, must look
grand indeed. Peter's throm-i t
with silver chandeliers, red tinted
walls, and highly decorated dome '
union hall, w ith gilded columns; the
throne-room with its massive marble
pillars and gold chandeliers and the
plate-room, w ith crystal chandcliersand
trophies of gold ami silver plateagainst
the walls and stands sloping up to the
very ceiling, aread imj.erial apartments
in every sense. The s.icccs-ioii of re.
cent ion rooms and corridors is also
most imposing, although the jainting.-
of battle scenes, where carnage and
rapine arc depicted in all their horrors
with a monotony that becomes almost
nauseating, seems to be hardly adapt
cd to exclusive adornment of rooms in-
tended for gay assemblages, and they
must form a ghastly contrast to bright
toilets and glittering
jewels, and lair
w omanly forms.
The isitor is escorted through hall
; after hall decorated Willi almost barbar-
j jr magnificence, and a each one is
taken under the charge of a In sh at-
teinlanl, attired in gorgeous imperial
liwry. 'The j dace, which at present is
quite unoccupied- as the emperor re
sides at another palace some distance
upthe Ncwski (.rospcet lairb swarms
with servants, who are all well dress
ed and courteous and "i reinely idle
having apparently m thing else on
earth to do except to -land or walk
about in the' empty apart incuts, w hich
are seldom trodden by any other feet.
Here and there is to be seen a
superior ollleer, in full i mi form, evi
dently in charge of some part of the
building, and at one point we sudden
ly came ujioii two Cus-a- k sentinel 4,
armed to the teeth ami standing
motionless on each side of a doorway
This was the entrance to the room eon"
doors swung open, ami we were usher
t.,i in.
The room was almost bare.
with the exccjitiou of some glass-top.
jied eases, si eh as are used at museums
for manuscripts and objects of interest,
which stood near the walls, and two
central stands, but when the. cloths
which covered them were removed, the
sight was davling. In the side cases
was a collection of tiaras and aigrettes
and jicndants. in brilliants iind-rnbicj,
and jcarls. The central stands bore
the crown regalia; the emperor's
crown. a huge ma-s of diamonds of Hit
purest water, surrounded by an extra- '
idinarv uncut rubv ; the empress'1
' crown, somew hat smaller, if possible :
more brilliant, and the scejdre, bearing
on its top the celebrated l.aarolf ilia- ,
iiiond, of w hich the story is told that il ;
was stolen from an Indian temple and !
carried off concealed in a cut in the leg !
of its jnirloiner. Compared with these !
Muscovite gems all others that I have J
ever looked on are dull and small- j
One thing in the picture-gallery of the
palace was remarkable, and that is the
absence of j.cciiliarlv Kussian worthies
whose portraits covered the wa'K I
There were faces of strictly F.nglisli '
type, Swedish faces in small numbers
and Herman faces of any quantity,
but liussian faces none, and no one J
could guess that he was surrounded by
the likenesses of men by whom the I
great northern jiower had been built j
uj. It is very much the same to-day.
The leading men here are ipiite differ
ent in appearance than the uiassol the
jn'ople, so different that they might
well belong to another race They
have, many of them, line features and
noble forms.
Holland.
Holland, writes W. A. Croffut, was
originally a sort of archipelago a vast
sea made shallow by the alluvium
washed down from Central Furopc
j through the chaiigingchannels of gr '.it
streams. Its area was equal to that
mg for a moment secure. The inces
sant combat has made them a ml nst.
patient, igoroiis and own lining pen
pic. liut the Victories have not beell
all oil one side. F.vcry tell years or si
the savage sea would storn the foiti-
: Heat ions and drown lo.nnn or i.t'iin ol
; the far rs. Then, where the sand
dunes Were too low for defense, the)
j built a great system of dykes, reaching
far beneath the tid.sand far below,
'the Wonder of the world. Mill tin
brigand Meuse would steal through its
walls, ut-the .uider ee w ould burst
, its prison, or the barbarian sea would
. leap its barriers, and there was a de.
slriutive iiiiimlalii'ii about once in
seven years lor centuries. Once T-V
, ieopl,' were drowned, at another
time loii,iii!ii a slaugbti i three times
as great as that at Waterloo. More
than once since that great 1 attic was
fought Ji'i.i too Hollanders have be. n
swct away in a single ..erilow. liut
the survivors were obstinate. They
drove bail; the sea and rebuilt their
Village.-. 'I'liey slrciigthelied the de.
fences alollg the coast and elected
windmills upon them, which incessant
ly pumped out the water and poured it
into Hie sea. They put the rampant
rivers in strait-jackets id solid ma-oii-ry,
divided them so they Would be
harmless and taught them docility.
Tin u
around
they constructed walls
lhe irreat l.f-.es. and starl-d
w iiidmili-on t hem. In this wa.v ti e;,
have ivi laimed more leitd land than
liieie is in tiie -talc ol bhode l-iand.
It w as like draining lake ( b orge. An
enterprise is imw on "foot to build a
dyke across thai gn at inland gulf, the
Odder ee, pump the lower half dry
and expose to the sun avast area of
arable land. It would l e beiovv the
level of the sea, of course, but ti e
Hutch farmer- are accustomed to plow
below the level of the keels of the
ocean steamers uf)' lhe coast. Sgniii
cant, indeed, are the arms of Holland
a I ti .it sw miming in the sea.
II en i j- The II.
The M. I'etersbnrg Viedouiost i re
ports that the summer pala e of the
c.'ar at I'eti rlml' was a lew nights ago
entered hv burglar-. VV ho success! 'idly
eluded the vigilance ni the -ii.it
I,., j
t.r
t,lt
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t-etive.-, soldiers, servant-, and dogs
employed to guard the building, and,
having broken down doors, sale-,
cupboards and boxes, male oil with
a vast quantity of very valu.il I"
booty. Among the vahiallcs .-I .den
are a number of gold and silver
medals, an immense amount of j. wil
r.v belonging to the empress, and the
curious dishes in which the peasants
brought bread and salt to the late
car at the time of the emancipation
of the serfs. The police have since
arrested about a score of sll-pieioiis
persons, but it appears to be loleia-
bly certain that the thieves are still
at large.
1'i'iive tlle'eer.
"Old liclibovv." whom tin
lien 'of fait Idess allv ;rovvu -
beau
night."
as recorded by Hood, was an admiral.
His last ami ui"st celebrated battle was
fought oil' Carthageiia with Admiral
I ti Cassc ill ITo.'. e wa- left by his
captains, who were afterward -hot. to
carry on the engagement alone, and he
continued the light, remaining on t he
quarter deck, alt hough his leg had been
shattered by a chain shot, until the
French sheered oil'. The adiinr.d of
the enemy's licet wrote him a letter
three days after the battle, saying :
"Sir 1 had little hopes on .Monday la-t
but to have supped in your cabin ; yet
it jdeased Hod to order it otherwise.
I am thankful for it." liemlow died
of his wounds in two mouths.
A ''0"' Wave,
The old gentleman met him at the
door, nliuo.-l before Hernandc' band
had left the bell-knob, and w ith one
courtly gesture of his paternal hand
waved the young man in the general
direction of the front gate. Ilernau-
de obeyed, with infinite tad and
i courtesy, remarking, as he mo-cved
I down the dest itcd street, that he knew
the signal service bad predicted a cool
I wave from the northwest, but he had
I no idea it would get along so soon.
I'EAKl.S OF TIIOl XiHT.
Words are the key of the heart.
Affection is the broadest basis of a
good life.
rngratefulness is the very poison
of manhood.
We are never as happy nor as un
hajipy as we fancy.
It is a good rule to be deaf when a
slanderer begins to talk.
A woman who wants a charitable
heart wants a jmre mind.
We have suilicient strength to sup
Jiort the misfort uiics of other.-.
The utility of virtue is so jdaiu, that
the unprincipled feign il from jmlicy
The gnat event of to-day is usually
but a tri'!e in the memory of t-i-in. !
row. lion'owed thoughts, like borrowed
money, only show Hie pn'.iity of the
borrow cr
'I here is very little that we do
in the way of helping our neighbors
that does not come ha -k in hle-sing-oil
oiirselv cs.
It is with narrow -so, bd people as
With naiTovv-nc-i.ed luitl--: the less
they have ill tl.wlil. the ncie Ici.-e they
make iii pouring it out.
If a man ciopth s bis pur-e into bis
head, no man can lake it away i'r..m
him. An invest incut in knowledge
always pays the Lest int. rest.
J.ove is the most lerriblc. a!-, the
most generous of the passion-; il i
the only one that im hides in i's
dreams the happiness of s"iue . i.e
else.
livery duty will done, il.uiitles
adds to the in. r.il and spirit i,.,l stat
ure, l ia. h opp.i; l unil.. eagerly gra- .
ed ami used is the key to !ai gei
privileges. Music is the haruioiroiis voice ol
creation; an echo of tin- iipi-ibb-W
orld: em inde o the div ilie con d
which the t-iii i ri' universe is lii.-tinnl
one day to sound.
If a man di es not make new ae
qiiaiutauecs a- he advance-, through
life he wiil soon Cud himself Ihi
ah. lie. A man -hoidd I
ship in constant n pair.
ecp his frii Icl
Iloyiil liiiiitini'.
There must be a good d al of saitii
ic ss in the daily routine uf existence
alter all. I wa struck with this in
the park yesterday whib-ob-erv ing the
Princess of W ales .is she was driving
along the sweep which extend-fi'oi.i
the Marble Arch to the Oxford-street
entrance to the park to the g.a-cu--t
at ue of the Prince Coii-oi I . a the
Kensington side. In icspoiise to the
bows ami salutations of the us-ciiihla.-f
shebows her head, first to the rigid
and then to the hit continuously
There is almost no cessation in the
exercise. It is a p ut nf In r duty in
lite. And the bow i- a study a won.
di iflll I lilllil between listle- liess
and cordiality. The features remain
quite Miiilele-s ; there is no suspicion
of the -mirk of the popular lav m ile of
the footlights I'm- in-innce. Ihit tlm
eye-are full of interest as they light
on every passing face, and it is im
possible to entertain a doubt that mm
has been bowed t... di-1 iiid ly and di
rectly, by the princess. That is what
i so i ic h, nit- pe pic not only people in
, a certain po-it imi in l,fc, but the poor
people, the bard toil is of the i n-v
town, who stop on their way to hav c
a look at the dear princes-. There
seems almost a.- I, cell a look of interest
ill thelil upon her faci; as she sees , I
theirs concerning her. "No oiu ran set
her without feeling an admiration I'm
her. I'.ut one who looks In in alb tln
siiil'acc of things must know, allhouul.
so Well dissembled, that this is oliiy I
a. ting out the royal pari. It caini' t
be that Ah xandr.i nallv feel the m.
i
teres) Per bat ure- indicate in every'
pas-iug stranger who b..w-to In r in j
the park. And it must I e a i -oii-idi-i.
able depriv atioii to her in the w ay oi
bilking to those who accompany lo r
this constant bowing. Ycsti r.lay hci
eldest daughter was with her, and also
one of those cousinly grand Cernian
dii. lies-es s:'ii'i-ioy al ov cr mi a v isit.
The ladies were redlie;', to hcldess
.-iience. lor so continuous was Alex
andra's bowing she could md find time
to talk to them, and no doubt it is con
trary to ctiqtlflti for lesser lights to
i converse with each other when the
j great one can take no part. How
: simple and elegant A lexandra's toilets
always arc! Always so m at, compact
ami trim! I Hit ing the hot weather
she has been wearing simple washing
j.rints to the jiark. Yesterday the sky
I was slightly overcast and she was aji
pro.riateiv dressed in black silk with
small br..ead"d flowers in natural
i colors. She wore a tiny white hi-e
'bonnet, with black sjuittcd net. veil.
Her ap.caiauee of girlishncss is one o
j the most marvellous charms of this
j stainless jirincess.
railing.
Von know wlii'ii fiiiM'ds lire parting
And linurU must sh n'loil-by,
II nv ttk tin'' kind, hinjl linger.
And liovv lliey weep umlsyli.
Von know wlmii wo two purled,
Willi je.it mid id 1 1! Inulilur,
l'lin sndni'M mul llit) twin
Colin: lo us loi. yearn iillnr.
Whi'iimikiH ss und when sorrow
Slnlu hull mil' lives iiwjy,
All, li n we st iil reiiii'inlii.'iud
I in l.iuliini;, ljviiii diiy.
Tin n i iiiik! ii ti rill nl ejndmm,
I.il.e eleiiiiiini; liniu n'mve;
II hull mil' hlu In no ."i.diie-s,
-hull) lit Ifasl, w.is lovu.
-. SrtniU.
Ill M0K01S.
"No inure reflections, please," said
the looking-glass, after it had tumbled
dovv ustairs.
It is very unlucky to have thirteen
at a tal l -, particularly when there is
only enough to satisfy the appetite ot
ten.
An Ohio dentist hits devoted him
self to active politics, jirobably on the
ground H at his calling has litted him
for "taking the st iimp."
A young bride, mi being asked how
lu r liu diand turned out, replied that he
turned out viiy late in the morning
and turned in very late at night.
A fortune awaits the man who in
vents a penholder that you can't stick
into the mucilage bottle, ami a muci
lage brush that won't go into the ink
stand. "Sen i !" said the young man to his
friend, "why, lack's got a heap ot
nerve, lie wasn't embarrass, d a bit
the fust time he went to a barber's
shop to get shaved."
"Mamie says you can't come to see
lu r any more," said a boy to his
sistu's admirer. "Why not?" "Ite
ca'lse ymi conic to see her seven
nights a week now, ami how could you
come any more'" silence was the
only aii- M er.
"is lr. Calomel vi vv successful in
his practice'" "Very; he lias cleared
ov. r .sjo.iiou the last l wo years." "In
deed! I'.ut I. as he lost any j'iitients?"
Only those who have died. Of
i oui'se. t bey could be of no help to hilii
any longer." ( if course imt."
A yoiiog hidy reading in a news
paper the other day of a girl having
be n made crazy by a sudden kiss
called the attention of her uncle, who
was in the room, to that singular oc
currence, whereupon the old gentle
man gruilh demanded what the fool
had g.'iie crazy for. "What did she go
ra.v for?" archly asked the ingen
'imis maiden: " why, for more, I sup-
posc."
Ireland's National Color.
Ireland may be said to be an emerald
isle and green enough in a great many
way-, but the Mag of that country is
not green, Im! blue, if any respect is to
I e paid to 1 radii i . lis or heraldry or the
actual I act.- in the ea-e, whatever sort
if emblem may be commonly used.
The green banner i- the result of popu
lar In lief of sev eral cent lil ies' diirat ion.
but the old 1 ks tell a dillereut story.
There w as a Hukeol Ireland, says thi
Pall Mad Caelte. in l.'ichard IPs
time, Koberl de ere, I Mike of Ireland
and Mai-'piis of Imbliu, to w hoi i I In
king grant 'd a coat of augmentation,
a.Mirc, three crowns or, with a border
argent." In F.dward IV's time Hit
aruis of Ireland were such a problem
for the herald-, that commissioners
were sent ( investigate and to report
I he commissioners pronounced th.it
the anus el that kingdom werethrei
crowns in pale. A drawing in tin
I'.riii-h Museum settles the quedii n.
The drawing was made in the reign ot
(liieen lili.lbi th, or, at least, registered
the colors as they existed in her reign,
'l he national llag appears then to have
been a harp or with strings argent mi
an a 'tire ground. Thus in early times
the national llag was certainly blue.
An Insult lo lhe Profession.
A prominent physician was heard
using vciy tun ompliuu utary language
about a certain butcher.
Why is it," asked a friend of the
doctor, "that ymi abuse that butcher
so much? You are everlastingly say
ing mean things about him."
"I've got g I reason to talk about
him. Last w inter I owned a fat pig.
1 sent for thai butcher to kill and
dress il. He did .so, but what do y ou
thick be told lue when I wanted to
know what his bill was '"
"I have no idea."
"Well, sir, that butcher juitted inn
on the bin k and said: 'Never mind
about the '.ill, doctor, we are in the
same business, ymi know, We jiro
1. , ioiial men niu-t ludji each other
out.' I was so inad at the fellow I
could have "
"Picsciibeil lor him," added the due
tor's friend.
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