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mere animated machine, worked in matters
of this sort from the outside.
my daughter has q wild romantic at
tachmsnt to your son." Mrs. Temple con-
tinued. Now You can help me to put an
end to this affair. You only can put an
end to it, but you can do So
al can, can II" he replied.
"Yes; tell Sophia that you do not ap-
prove of it, and that you consider it likely
to be injurious to Percivsl, which it surely
will be- Say with perfect truth also-you
csu-thst you are tolsrsbly certain that
even if che remained constant to him he
would not remain constant to her. Just
fancy, Mr. Brent young msu at the
most impulsive period of life, thousands OF
miles away, and with no hope of seeing
her for years! Constant, indeed! Why,
in fairy tale it woald be too absurd to be
truel"
he sat before her, passive and receptive,
agreeing to everything. But indeed, il
the proud SibYl, aud the inhexible Gold
more, and the intellectual Caroline had
bent to her will, little wonder our poor
rector bent too, broken IS his nerves and
will we're BY the one terrible storm of fate
Whenever she asked him, DO you thins
so2' he answered, II think &c." Whenever
she said, viii you say so to SophiaY III
replied, Il will say so" And thus she
faced him, energetic. full of plot and will
talking fast, aud with frequent action driv
ing her meaning home. An onlooker nigh
have thought the scene private mesmerit
experiment, and Mrs. Barbara Temple thu
strong aud restless operator, and poor MIR
Anthony Brent the helpless subject arounc
whose volition and reason another mint
was coilipg itself in swift and powerful
folds.
49," said our little mother, when Thu
task was done, You sre to set before SO
phia the facts of the case, and its probs
bilities You are to tell Sophia that Per
civsl ought not to marry her if he could
and that in time, be would not marry he
even if he ought Interest, duty, affection
probability. Sophia, | shall hem you in
and force you to yield !"
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CHAPTER ii.
,,EosoR YOUR PARENT" AND SERVE YOUR
SELF"

,'BoYoR YOUR PARENT" AND SERVE YOUR
SELF"
Mrs Barbra Temple was in her glory.
For a less complicated or q more immedi
s,slv hopeful undertaking she would scarce
~ have cared. Sophia she we'll knew, was
not an essy vonsn to turn, and still less
was she easy to beguiie. Percival Brent
had already taken the girls fancy. DE
was more prepossessing, with bisyouth and
his generous ways, than this grave, serious
stranger, verging on middle life. And the
mother had found by experience that sttec-
ton with Sophia vas not mere whim or
fancy. much less selfintsFest or passion.
Its roots struck deep For Mrs Temples
Durnose the mere vulgar brides of wealth
and ease vers not enough; ell kinds of mo-
tives must be engaged, suxlllarles from
iunumerable quarters must be unIted; the
cempsipn must De carefully planned, the
advance made neither too early nor too late,
lust at the moment of fate; and then the
kingdom of Sophis's heart would be won.
Buf all this only kindled Mrs Barbara
Tsmple into excitement. Marrying Car
and Sihyl had been ehild's play; here was
a game for a mistress. She felt the same
axulistiou which chess player feels who,
long used to engage with adversarles to
whom he can give castle and win easily,
sits at last facing an enemy who would win
ifhe got pawn or moVe.
Everything mnst be done at the right
time" she said. Everything must be done
in the right way. Whom can / trust for
that? Whom Nobody except myself
First of all she talked to Prendergsst
herself. Mingling certain defersnee for
his ouinion with unconcesled reliance on
her egn, she told him for the present ne
had better net make any advances to So
phis. :, 49,
to retreat Sophia has already noticed
YOUR liking for her. Now, if you withdraw
for a while you viii puzzle her, She Will
saw, did hs admire me afte- ell, or mott
Hss he, on coming to know me better,
found me issC sttractiVe2 You will excite
her curiosity, which, ,et ne tell You, Is o
great thing for lover to do. Besides, al
though Sophia may not care for you, hay.
inc once secured gour admiration, she will
not ike to lose ii. No woman wishes that
! nan who once admired her should cease
70 admire her. She may not care for him
she NAV even have en- aversion to him
but she likes him to care for her. And
,sy, if Sophia finds that you grow cooler;
he win wonder question with herself, feel
. little p;ousd; and then, il yon turn round
gain end confess her pOwsr-Wel-Wel
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CHAPTER III.
EGERroN DoouTTLE GIVES HIS VOICE FOR
SEVERE MEASURES.

EGERToN DooLITTLE GIVES HIS VOICE FOR
SEVERE MEASURES.
When Mrs. Barbara Temple was ushered
into Csroline's drawing room. she caught
sight of the young husband and wife sitting
side By side on sofa. Her coming was
evidently unexpected, aud Egerton, eiscu-
lating my gracious" dashed out into q
conservatory adjoining the drawing room,
while Caroline, composing herselt, met her
mother with Just the sm sllest kind OF mo-
meutary confusion. The little woman
glanced at two love birds perched side BY
side in acage which hung over the conserva-
tory threshold. and then she recalled Sibyl,
sitting in her lonely splendor:
"For some things" our little Palpsy re-
marked privately, "for some things q young
fool ia better than an old sage. But these
are only e,ceteras Of life; Sibyl has secured
the grand thing, after all, and more of il
than Car. Life is pretty equal."
Caroline nv dear girl, she said after
few casual words, Il have come this morn
ing to consult You OF Q matter of the great
est importance. / know your good sense,
and the energy with which you can act
when you have decided what is right to be
done. fit was not for YOU, Caroline, and
your tact and judgment | should be in de-
spsir," 1890,
With this insinuating preface she told the
story OF Prendersast's proposals. and after
expanding in the most glowing style in
praises Of his person, character and estate,
she turned to the dismal topic of sophia's
irtatuation for that .penuiess Australian
boy. -. -,
For this, whim, this caprice, this idea,
which is not worthy TO be called an ideG,
sba will actually sacrifice man Who is nos
only man of family aud fortune, bat
whose character is of the very pattern she
most processes to admire. ! protest. Car
oline, it will drive ma wild
at certainly is unfortunate, Car said.
"And unless you cooperate with me,
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CHAPTER VI
Yrs. TEMPLE REVIEWS FER coSpuc.

rs. TEiFPLE REVIEWS HER CONDUCT.
Tie lsbors OF tie day were over. The
whole assault had been planned In her
bedroom Mrs. Barbara Temple sst like q
genera in bis tent the night before the bat
ue' She vas reTeSing her foroes, oessur-
ing their strength, settling the order 10
which they Rhould advance.
sit is important, however Sophia NAV
affect to despise it, tina. Prendergasts
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charitable and humane to fault. Believe
me, Sophia. I would not open my ups 70
YOU ON the subject if ! did not believe IN
NV soul that Prende,gast win make you,
truly happy woman. and that he is worthy
of YOU. can ssy nothing more in his
praise"
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DEBIT AND cREOlT.

Chicaco RaHhlcr.
You ave me smiles and kisses,
/ gave diamond ring,
For tender lOOkS, the peWeSt o0o~'
And latest songs 10 sing.
Pm in \ hundred letters
Beginning DARLING Love, 60,
Aud nov ! think a witnereu P'hA'
A Worn. though tiny glove.
You'll get again tbOS9 kisses
Those tender gla0ces, TOO,
But never al geg back The pie
OF money spent on JOU.
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BEAUTY.'S SECRET
BY ALAN MUIR.

Author of Family Hard~are.' "G"tds"
GrLS," Etc
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BOOK FOUR,

LADY BEIUTTS CHOICE
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supersnuons pertalnIng % clolbIng

An old superstition pertaining to
clothing is that before putting on new
clothes a sum Of money must be placed
IN the right-hand pocket which viii in
sure its always being full. If by mis-
take, however, il is put in the left-hand
pocket, the wearer will never have a
penny as long as the clothes last.
If an article Of dress is put on inside
out 1t is good luck.
II is said Of the cast-of clothes of the
dead that they never last very long,
but that as the body decays so do the
garments. In Denmark a corpse is
never allowed to be buried in the clothes
OF a living person, lest as the clothes rot
IN the grave that person to whom they
belonged should waste away and perish.
50 IN the Netherlands even the rings Of
the dead are never given away.
The apron is not without its super
stltions. Women turn them before the
new moon'to insure good luck for the
ensuing month. In Yorkshire, a town
IN England, when a married woman's
apron falls off it is q sign that some
thing is coming to yeX her; when, how
ever, the apron Of an unmarried girl
drops down she is frequently the subject
Of laughter, as it is a sure sign that she
is thinking of her sweetheart. If a
young woman's petticoats are longer
than her dress 1t is proof that her
mother does not love her as much as
her father, a notion which extends as
far as Scotland. If the stocking is put
on wrong side out, it is lucky, but UNI
lucky to turn it. To clothe the left
foot before the right one is a sign OF
misfortune.
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IT is never well to s big words
when small ones will express the same
meaning. A lady who was making a
call on some acquaintance observed that
the furniture had been changed, and
remarked to the lady:
s'You have been metamorphosed;
haven't your"
"Y-e-s," said the other, hesitatingly.
"You mean repapered, l suppose; it
looks much better, doesn't itp"
Another lady wa showing a visitor
around her grounds, which were under
the care of a landscape gardener, and
she inquired of her friend how she
liked the work.
"Why, 1 think" she said, ''that you
like symmetry"
"Why," said the other, ''we don't in
tend to bury any n here. There is a
good cemetery quite near"
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A CLOCK THAT IS WATCHED.
One Chronometer Gazcd at by 900
600 People every Year.

"Do YOU see that chron0metergh
asked one of Broadway's well-known
watchmakers, pointing TO a small, bur
nished face, boXed-up timepiece when
sat in his show window ticking as COM
p~laeently as il the world wasn't rushing
around in space at break-neck speed.
"Well, do you see anything peculiar
about it2n
= "No," replied the reporter.
"Right. There are hundreds like it.
Some better, more worse, but there are
few that have 1900, 900 eyes stare at it
every year." said the matchmaker.
Crowds passed by the window.
Here and there n Of these number
stopped: edged up TO the glass, pulled
out his gold, silver or nickel timepiece
and seowled, smiled or looked thought
full as the methodical face of the chro-
nometep criticised or approved OF their
time. The ieweler unused.
Its strange" said he, ''but by act
ual count more people consult that
~chronometer every year than there are
inhabitants in New York state"
Correcting himself, the jeweler ex-
planned that he counted a man every
timeih came to look, and not each in
dividual.
"Thls is how 1 arrive at my figures, y
said he. 81 stand at the window, and
take one minute. The average of a
dozen trials, counting the faces that
appear, is 43. Yes, over two score
faces on an average glance at the
ehronometer every minute for ten
hours a day."
"As the proof of the pudding is the
eating thereof SO the Broadway jew
eler's figuring is the proof of his state
ment. Here it is: Forty-three a min
ute is 1850 an hour; multiplied by 10
for a day, it makes 25,S00. Now,
the chronometer is only visible, accord
ing to his count, for 6days in the week;
again, the result of a day was multiplied
by 6, giving a total of 154,S00, the
number that view the chronometer
every week. Multiplying it by the 81
weeks which constitute a year, with a
liberal allowance for holidays, the Jew
eler held up the result tr1umphantly-
$500, 900 people.
-".sYes," SAID he, ''there you have it,
100000 people; and figures are noted
for telling the truth"
OF these he estimated fully 100000
were men.
"Aren't women as curious about the
time of day as men?"
mo. l have found it otherwise.
Few women care if their watches are
within ten seconds or ten minutes of
the time. In fact, l don't believe that
the female mind really comprehends
the flight of time. It's something they
don't care to think of, but with men
it's different-they watch every mo-
ment.n
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The "Little Lady" at the Circus.

She was a little lady of very tender
years, but of great dignity and exces-
sively dainty tastes. She was asked
if she would like to go to the circus by
a gentleman who thought he'd like to
do a good and pure action just for once
in his life. She accepted with some
hauteur, This great big man wanted
to do the correct thing. He had no ae-
quaintance with children, and he
thought of course he must unbend.
| She sat very austerely all through. Once
| she burst into a loud laugh, but she
Immediately blushed and bridled up,
and every now and again she'd turn
with a dignified look of establishment
at the grown-np man who was bowling
with laughter at the clown. She did
not like it.
"Wil you have some peanuts?" he
asked her.
"Peanutsl" she said, with an air as
if she had been deeply insulted. 81
wouldn't eat peanuts here for any
thing"
That shut him up.
"What did you think of it? 1t was
very funny, wasn't it?'' said the
grown-up man, desiring to be genial
and pleasant with the young child, as
he wrapped the little thing up in her
cloak.
Eyes, it was very good" she said
quietly. 81 liked everything in it ex-
cept the clown. There was nothing
refined about him. L do not think
that clown is a gentleman.
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4 Mountain or Ice Jewels.

Within the memory of the last three
generations the Muir glacier filed the
bay for miles below our anchorage, and
while it recedes It Is creeping slowly
down, scalping the mountains, grinding
all the sharp edges into powder or leav-
ing a polished surface behind it. II
gathers rock dust and 1.-THE wreck of
every living thing and mixes them up
into the snow and ice. These CONCEAL
again, or are compressed into soft filthy
monumental masses, waiting their turn
to topple into the waves at last. TIE
wash Of the sea undermines the glacier;
the sharp sunbeams blast it. 1t is for
eve sinking. settling, crushing in upon
itself and splitting from end to end,
with fearful and prolonged intestinal
reverberations that remind one of the
battle thunders and murder and sudden
death. There was hardly a moment
during the day free from a rumble, or
a crash, or a splash.
The front elevation might almost be
compared to the Falls of Niagara in
winter, but here is a spectacular effect
not often visible at Niagara. At in
tervals large fragments of icecliffs fall,
carrying with them torrents of snow
and slush. Heaven only knows
how many hundred thousand
tons of this debris plunged
into the sea under our very eyes,. Nor
was 1t all debris. There were masses
of solid ice 30 lustrous they looked
like gigantic emeralds or sapphires, and
these were fifty or eve a hundred
times the size of u ship. When they
fell they seemed to descend with the
utmost d~eliberation. for they fell a
much greater distance than We could
realize, as their bulk was almost beyond
conception, so that a fall of 200 or 300
feet seemed to us a tenth-part Of that
distance.
With this deliberate descent, as if
they hoated down, they also gave an
impression of vast weight, as when
they struck the sea the foam flew two
thirds of the way up the cliff again-a
fountain 300 feet in height and of mon
strous volume. Then after a long
time-a very long time 1t seemed to
us-the ice would rise slowly from the
deep and climb the face of the cliff as
il 1t were about to take its old place
again; but it sank and rose, sand and
rose, until it had found its level, when
it slowly joined the long procession
drifting southwark to warmer waves
and dissolution.
What is that glacier like? Well, just
a little like the whitewashed crater of
an active volcano. At any rate. 1t is
the glorious companion piece to Kill
auea in Hawaii. In these wonders of
nature you behold the extremes, fire
and ice, having it all their wi way,
and a world of adamant shall not pre-
vail against them.
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elbow is that old family feud Of
yours with the Smith family coming
on?" asked one Kentucky citizen of an
other.
''It's all goin' our way. Pm left,
you see, and part of brother Jim is stlE
on earth, but 1t goes about on crutches,
Father, you know, petered out over
three weeks ago with a hole in his
heart, and uncle Robert is up at the
hospital, doin' as well as can be expect
ed for a man who hasn't got any nose.
Where have you been lately?"
"Out of town. And the Smiths?''
"Well, l don't want to brag about
myself and my relations. You just go
up to the graveyard and turn to the
right"
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STEwED APPLES WITH RICE. -
Scoop out the cores and peel some fine
russell apples. and stew them In clari.
fed sugar. Boil some rice in milk
with a pinch of salt, a few strips of lem
on peel and sugar enough to sweeten.
Leave on the fire until the rice is quite
soft and has absorbed nearly all the
milk, remove the lemon peel and place,
in a dish arrange the stewed apples on
the rice and put in the over until 1t is
of a pretty golden color.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Light cares speak, great mes are
dumb.
Hate no one-hate their vices mot
themselves.
The greatest wealth is contentment
with a little.
A hired horse and ones own spurs
make short miles.
Approve thy friend privately, COM
mend him publicly.
A handful Of common sense is worth
a bushel Of learning.
Contact with the world either breaks
or hardens the heart.
They are never alone that are accom-
panied by noble thoughts.
II you would know what a dollar is
worth, try to borrow one.
He that would jest must take a lest.
else to let it alone were best.
He who buys wants a hundred eyes,
who sells need have but one.
Great souls invite calamity, as lofty
mountains the thunder clouds.
Mems evil live in brass;
their virtues we write In water.
To be a great man it is necessary to
turn to account all opportunities.
Truth often displeases a lively soul.
but it always persuades a lust man.
Take the tone of the company you
are in, and never pretend to give 1t.
Despair not for a cloudy sky
The darkest cloud will soon pass by.
Men seldom improve when they have
no other models than themselves to
copy after.
What we learn in u youth grows
up with us, and in time becomes a part
of the mind itself.
Method is the soul of hasSS works
there is no method w Johnsle in the
punctuallty. but also
Life is a stormy and nee
age. The yes ell We start il
lis childhOod'S first rock.
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A SPIRIT OF accommodation evident
ly ruled the Courts of Justice Duffy in
New York, the other day, when an old
man, sail broke up" over dlsappoint-
ments arising from his second marriage,
applied for relief. II will send you to
the island for two months till the warm
weather sets in" said his Honor.
"OhI that won't do at all, Judge"
replied O'Sulliyan, 81 want to be COM
mitted for life. It's life or nothing for
me. Send me for life."
"AIl right" said Judge Duffy. "Mr.
Brown commit this man for life, and if
that don't suit HIM we will give him a
few years more"
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NO" said Mrs. Frank, 81 didn't
like that minister at all; he made me so
nervous that ] couldn't sleepa wink all
church time. How different from our
own pastorl l always enjoy Mr.. Jones's
preaching, he has such a nice way of
speaking, you know. Why, when he
begins to speak he soothes my nerves so
that / doze of before he has spoken
twenty words, and l meyer wake until
he gets through"
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On the eastern coast of the Caspian
sea a curious phenomenon is in progress.
The Kara Bobhaz is IN estuary nearly
separated from the main body of the sea
by a bank through which there is an
Inlet. The evaporation from this gulf
is so great that a current continually
sets in from the Caspian; and as there
Is no return current the water of the
gulf becomes more and more sail 'erous,
and a deposit of salt is in course of for
mrtion' In time this gulf will be cut
off from the Caspian, and will then
be dried up and become an extensive
salt-bed.
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Itoo members of the Society of Ply
sizes and Natural History of Geneva,
Switzerland, have been experimenting
by means of Photographic processes as
to the depth of water which light from
the surface will penetrate. "A trial in
the clear waters of Lake Geneva showed
that light penetrated there sufficiently
to affect very sensitive Photographic
plates at depths of sos feet, and at that
depth the light at midday was about as
strong as that of a clear, moonless night.
Similar experiments carried on in the
Mediterranean led to the conclusion
that sin the month of March in the
middle of the day and in bright sunlight,
the last gIlmmer of light comes at 1900
feet below the surface.
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A SPANISH FISH DIsH.-It is better
IN this weather to freshen the sailed
Goldfish by putting 1t on early in the
morning n cold water to boil, chang
ing the water two or three times as it
reaches the boiling point. Lay it aside
when tender. Slice a couple of onions,
fry them in dripping or salad oil till
brown, add a pint of cooked tomato and
picked-up fish; shake the saucepan oc-
c~asionally and cook for two hours slow
ly. This is 4 good dish for either wash
day or ironing day, when the fire is
kept going I'll day.
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Tie following beverage is soothing if
taken just before going to bed by the
person troubled with a cough. 1t is an
old French recipe, and is called '''lait de
poule:" Mix the yelk of one egg thor
oughly with a teaspoonful of sugar and
add a few drops of orange-hower water.
Pour a gill of boiling water by degrees
upon the mixture, stirring constantly,
and drink very warm.
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FRIED CALLS BRAINs.-Soak them
in cold water tour or five hours, then
lay them in boiling hot water for an
hour. take them out, skin them and
cut them into cork-like pieces. Flour
them well, dip them in egg beaten up
with a little Geld water, pepper and salt,
and fry them a golden color in plenty of
oil or lard in a deep pan. SO that the
pieces may fairly swim in it. When
done. sprinkle them with very fine salt
and serve up piled On a napkin and
garnished with lemon cut in quarters
and fried parsley.
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NIAGARA FALLS VIsIToR-"What
are all these things you are putting up2"
Enterprlsing Native-''They are toll
gates"
"Toll gatesl Why, they are scat
tered in all directions, and are close to
houses.n
eyes. That's so it will be handy to
run out and take TOLL"
But there is no road through them"
"No; We'll build the road after
wards"
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a LUNCHEON DIsH.-Take four
eggs, boil them hard, when cold she'll
them and cut them in half lengthwise.
take out the yelks, beat into a smooth
paste. To each allow a good slice of
butter, half a t~easpoonful of anchovy
sauce, and cayenne pepper to taste.
This should all be thoroughly mixed
with the yelks, then fill the white with
halves with this paste. Serve on a nap
kin and garnish with parsley.