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■W WITH HERSELF. Sime Story of a Woman’s Atonement, HVl v b y Charlotte M. Braeme. CHAPTEHXI.iI -Continued. ‘ BM®j;Sho bad not lain long before h!>o the sound of footsteps; then the Kjoor of her room opened, and Ethol entered Ethel, with a light on mHer noble face-the light of fixed, deresolve. She set the lamp HKat she carried in her bund down on table, and wont up to Loonie. She down by the 1 odside, and placed hand on the hot brow. If “Leon lo,” she whispered, “Leonie, ■M My darling, I could not help coming to Soo—l could not part from you in anlor, as wo parted to-night. Wo are, win of us, motherless -we have neither of us a sister—and we have |M been a great deal to each other. I M could not retire in anger, Loonie, because I love you so dearly.” i The noble face softened into unuttortenderness as sho bent over the ■) you are not pleased with |M me,” she continued, in the same low 'Voice. “If you were but an indifferent fflH acquaintance, your right or wrong doHHiing would not seem important to mo; B Ibut you are my dea 1 est friend, I.eonie, BH and 1 cannot see you acting dishonor--888 ably without coming to plead with you.” M I hope you will spare me all preach- ■| ing. Ethel. I had quite enough of that [this morning." 1 “I want to plead with you, not to ■ {preach to you,* said Ethel. “You shall SH' not harden your heart against me, LeoSB Inio; you shall not turn coldly from me. BM II love you, and by right of my love you Imuet hear me. ” MHk) “I cannot really i-ee what it matters you,” said Leonie. “How dees it you? You can have no iuterin the inheritance. ” “Do not speak to me si, I.eonie; my (interest is in you, and in your soul; it is for your soul's sake that 1 come to plead with ycu now.” “I can take care of my soul myself,” Leonie, abruptly. M. I “You can; but will you do so? Let 'me speak to you as your own sister M .'might speak; try to think that I am lyour sister, Loonie, and then you will BH have more patience with me. My dar- ■ iliug. right and wrong are so clearly BB .marked out for you—do not mistake BB Ithem. Believe me, unless you give up this inheritance, which never whs M (yours, you will bo unhappy all your Jife; you W HI never know peace or rest ■ again; you will even despise yourself. 'Honor and honesty both call upon you to give it up.”, ■ I “Then they call in vain, Ethel, for I M shall never do so. ’’ i “You will. I have more faith in you H than you have in yourself; you will do K 'right in the end. It is a terrible tempB| tation—l admit that. Because you love B| luxury and. magnificence so dearly —be- ■ cause you love all that wealth brings— H | <it !s a great temptation; but, Leonie, ■' there is something far above all this.” M.. ■ “That is preaching, Ethel. ” K Miss Dacre bent over the fair face; ■ she looked tenderly at the rare perfec- ■ tion of its loveliness. ■ ! “You are so beautiful, Leonie," she ■ imurmured; “your soul should match ?' our face. See, my darling, there are wo paths before you: have patience B 'with me while I sketch them.* B *1 must listen, I suppose,” said [Leonie, resignedly. B ' t “Yes, you must listen, Le mie. Supfl pose you do what is right—you give up B Ito Paul Flemyng, before your marriage, B ;what is justly his—the money, estates, B land, aid title the late Earl meant to B| leave him. Before God and man you K twill then have done a just and ho nor aB hie deed; and what will you be the B >worse for it? Your husband—who will B never know of this argument—will adB (mire you as the most loyal of women, I 'and people will have faith in you teB cause you have proved yourself capaB-. -ble of being honest at any cost to your- ■ iself. I can see naught in which you I can suffer, but in every respect you ■ [will gain. You will have a fair name B before men, and a clear, bright, brave f soul before heaven. Oh, Leonie, think I what that means; think what it is to | have the clear light cf heaven on you— I (to live so that you may .find a home in | 'that better land. There is the other | [path. You may, with perhaps some | (Show of legality on your side, keep this | inheritance; you may humiliate the I Iman you are going to marry by giving I 'him everything, which in reality he I ought to give to you; but I say to you i that in doing so you imperil your own I soul. Leonie, those are not light [words. Suppose that half of England were yours, and that a wonderful exItension of life were given to you—that you Were allowed to live over a hun- ‘ 'dred years—you must die at last, what, ithen, would it matter to you whether you had been rich or poor? The great concern would be to have saved your Sbul. Leonie, can you say honestly B ithat you are even trying to save your W 'soul when it is weighed down by such a sin as this? Can you fancy what the hour of death must lie for one who has I lived a life of fraud? You know that, if you keep this which is not your own, I you can never honestly raise your head iamongyour fellow-creatures; you will be burdened with a sin of wrong-doing 'and misery that can never leave you? I “Ethel, you are wasting your time,” said Leonie. ; “No, I do not think so. You turn ffrom die proudly now; you refuse to listen to me; you despise all that lam Isaying—but you will remember my [words, for all that, Leonie. You wi;l remember that I, who love you with a [deep, true, disinterested love, have fkneit here to pray you for your soul’s sake to act. rigntly and honorably. [Leonie, I have another idea about you; jif I am wrong forgive mo. I have [fancied from your manner, from your [feverish restlessness, from your craving for excitement—l have fancied, iLeonie, that all this is not strange to you; that you had perhaps found the will, and had hidden it.” , ’ A low moan answered her. When she looked at the white face, she saw ' that Leonie lay in a dead swoon. i | “Was I too hard upon her?” murmured Ethel. "Oh, no! Heaven knows k-./ Ithat I have only told her the truth.” I I* CHAPTER XLXIL * "You are not angry with me, Leonie?” said Ethel Dacre, when the violet 'eyes unclosed at last, and Leonie looked around with a half-bewildered air. ( 1 “No, I am not angry—leave me, Ethel. I cannot hear any more; you try me beyond my strength." j Nop would she listen to another word. In sheer despair Miss Dacre -went away at last; there was nothing now to trust to save time and prayer. If prayer would save the unhappy girl, then Ethel Dacre would pray earnestly. Meanwhile Leonie—sick, shuddering, her heart full of dread and fear—lay watching for the dawn. I “She will betray me—she will toll •-■-every one what sne suspects. Is it possible that I shall ever be found out?” The very thought made her whole soul grow sick with fear. “Found out"—she whispered the words to herself—"found out to be a thief?" . She would fain have annihilated time and space, so eager was her desire to take hold of the will and destroy it. Nothing could affect her if that

were once destroyed; no human being could give evidence against her, and she should live and die Countess of Charnleigh. Ethel Dacre might betray her—she might tell the story of the letter —she might even whisper her suspicions about the will; what mattered it all when nothing—absolutely nothing—could be proved against her? She laughed aloud—a harsh, discordant laugh—terrible to hear from the lips of ono so young and fair. “I have imperiled my soul,” she said, “I have sacrificed my love, and have • sent the man I love to exile and death; surely the small matter of losing the • esteem of my fellow-creatures cannot hurt me after all that. It is the last sacrifice I have to make. Goodness, love, honor, honesty—all aro gone; i self-respect may follow them, the esteem and good opinion of my kind go with it, but I shall live and die Count- ■ ess of Charnleigh." , Suddenly across the dull gray of the : morning sky she saw a gleam of gold, and then she sprang up, knowing that the morning had dawned. She changed ■ the white muslin wrapper that she i still wore for a dark traveling dress, and as she did so Florette gently opened the door. She brought a cup of tea and a fresh roll to her lady. loonie ■ eagerly drank the tea, but did not touch the roll. “Try to eat something, my lady," said the girl, “you will faint.” Then came to Leonie a dull wonder as to whether she should ever eat • again; her heart was like lead within , her, her face pale, her hands trembled eo that she could not fasten her cloak. “We will walk to the nearest cabstand,’’ she said. “Open the door quietly, Florette; I do not want to dis- . turb anyone.” So, in the early dawn of the summer i morning, Loonie left a magnificent home, where she had lived so brilliant- . ly, to commit one of the most treacherous of crimes. Florette asked no question; yet she wondered what this sudden journey | meant—she wondered why her lady's face wa# so sternly set and white—wby ’ the pale lips were so rigid and compressed, ■ Crown Leighton was reached at last. . Great were the surprise and bewilderment of the whole household at seeing their lady. No one could understand [ it. Leonie asked at once for Mrs Fearon, and, more than half bewildered, the housekeeper entered her , presence. , “You are surprised to see me here so early,” she said. “We cannot spare many hours from London now, so I came by first train, and shall return perhaps this Evening. ” “I will do my best to carry out your wishes, my lady,” said the woman: “and you will not find the house in bad order. Shall I prepare some breakfast , for you?” “No.” Leonie could neither eat or , drink again until that will was de- , stroyed. She went to the room, almost dreading to look in the hiding-place lest the • will should be gone. She locked the door, and then went with trembling, faltering steps to the place where she [ had hidden the document. It was safe; a little cry escaped her when she saw it again. She took the cause of all her misery in her hands. ' “You have cost mo my love, and you | may cost me heaven.” she said; “now I will destroy you. Yon shall cost me no more." But how was she to destroy it? There was but one method, and that | was to burn it. “If I were to tie it up with a stone, and throw it into the sea,” she said to ' herself, “it might rise again. I will burn it—l will watch the smoke from , its ashes curl in the air—l will watch { the ashes disperse in the wind; then, in my own right, I shall know that I am Countess Charnleigh of Crown Leighton. HoW was she to burn it? If she car- . ried it down into the servants’ quar- . ters, and was seen to put it into the fire, rumor might rise and tell against her. She must destroy it here in her own room, unseen, unknown by all. “One more falsehood and I shall be free," she said to herself, as she rang the bell. Mrs. Fearon answered it—the maid . was resting after her journey —and looked somewhat aghast when her lady asked for a fire. “A fire?" repeated the housekeeper, as she looked from the beautiful, restless, feverish face to the glowing sun outside. “If you do not think it too warm " “I have taken cold —I am cold,” said Leonie; and the shudder with which she uttered these words gave them the semblance of truth. “Early rising is not good for you, my lady, ” decided the yfbman; “I will light the fire for you myself." A few more minutes and a bright fire was blazing in the grate, contrasting oddly with the glowing sun and sultry warmth of the June day. “I will ring if I want you.” said Leonie to the housekeeper, and then she locked the door and went to the hid-ing-place where lay the will. As she passed the great mirror she started back in sore affright. Surely that ghastly pallid face was not hersf those wild burning eyes so full of fear, those pale trembling lips—surely they did not belong to the beautiful, radiant girl whom people called Countess of Charnleigh. “Wicked deeds do not suit me," she said to herself, with a laugh that sounded like the cry of a lost soul. Then she stood before the fire with the will in her hands. “I am going to commit a crime,” she reflected—“a crime for which in olden days men were hung. ’’ Whv did she pause? The red flame blazed merrily; the door was closed; no human eyes could see her. Why did she hesitate? Good and bad angels had fought for her; good and evil spirits had waged fierce battle for her. Her own self had been at war with her own self. She had sent into sorrow and exile the man she loved; she had listened while honored lips told her she was imperiling her Soul; she had given up her hope of heaven. Why did she pause over this crowning act of her sin. She had said to herself that she would keep what she had at all risks. She knew that she wotild lose her fair name before men—that she would be forever estranged from those she loved best; yet she had weighed all that in her mind, and it seemed to heras nothing in comparison with what she gained by her sin Why did she hesitate? The red blaze seemed to laugh ffs it roart*4 away. She raised her hand to thrusv. the will far into the soft glow and then paused. She could not do it—she had tried, f and failed; she could not, she df red not doit. Perhaps the good angels had won the battle—perhaps the evil spirits had fled. She could not do it—that crowning act of her sin was beyond her. Slowly the arm that held the will dropped; and presently the roll fell from the nerveless hand to the floor and the girl dropped on her kn»es with a passionate cry and passionate tears. '‘Merciful heaven,* she called, “help me to do right!" The trial and struggle were over—she was no longer at war with herself; the better nature conquered the lower one, loyalty had beaten down false''l r... >”

hood, honof had sharred dishonor. She who had boasted so proudly that she would risk all for Crown Leighton lay weeping a helpless, humble child. The temptation hud been a terrible one— it was trampled under foot now. Looking back, Leonie thought she must have gono mad. She had tried to bo brave and hardy In her wfongdoing; but sho had a nobler nature than she herself know of. When. It came to the last act in the her noble heart, her natural goodness, and her early sense of right, were all stronger than temptation, and they beat ft down. The relief was as cooling dew-drop.-i to thirsty flowers; what soft, sweet showers aro to parched trees and arid grass, such to her soul were the tears that she shed—they seemed to bring grace and healing with them. “How could I dream of this wicked deed?" she sobbed aloud. “Never again shall such an evil spirit hold me in chains. I will live, and die loyal and true, even though I may not be Countess of Charnleigh." She reSembereti the old saying, “The woman who hesitates is lost. ” "I will deliborate.no longer," she said; “I will place myself beyond temptation: I will place this in Paul Flemyng'sband. and then I cannot go back. Left to myself, I might fall again; if I do there can be no retraction.” When the passion of her tears had been exhausted, she rose from the floor; then she stooped and carefully picked up the will. “I will not stop to look around me,” she thought; “1 will not linger over the magnificence of Crown Leighton; I will go at once, before the temptation returns even stronger than before.” And without one glance at the sumptuous chamber, without one look at the splendor she had loved so well, she put on her traveling cicak and went down stairs. “Mrs. Fearon.” she said, “will yon order the carriage? I want to go at once to Weildon. 1 have not a moment to spare.” Wonitaring a little at what she thought her lady’s caprices, the housekeeper hastened to comply with her request. Ito be contimuku | SCRUB LANDS OF AUSTRALIA. Chinese as Self-Acting Machines for Opening the Country. The “lawyer vine” is the worst obstacle to the clearing of lands in Australia. It is a kind of palm that grows in feathery tufts along a pliant stalk and festoons itself as a creeper upon trees. From beneath the tufts of leaves the vine throws down trailing suckers as thick as stout cords, armed with sets of sharp red barbs. These suckers sometimes throw themselves from tree to tree across a road that has not been lately used, and make it as impassable to horses as so many strands of barbed wire. When the vines escape from the undergrowth of wild ginger and tree-fern and stinging bush that fringes the scrub, and coil themselves in loose loops upon the ground, they become dangerous traps for man and horse. In the jungle, where they weave themselves in and out of the upright growths, they form a net that at times defies every means of destruction but fire. The work of clearing ground incumbered is not light. In some districts it is done by Chinamen. They are hot allowed to own freehold land in the colony, but scrub land is often leaded to them to clear and use for a certain number of years. The ground, when it is cleared, is extraordinarily rich, and they appear to recoup themselves for their labor with the first crops they grow upon their leaseholds. The. owner afterward has it in his power to resume his land, and the Chinaman passes on to clear and use the scrub. In this way the Chinese are employed as a sort of self-acting machine for the opening o£ the country. They devote themselves principally to the cultivation of fruit. A walk around a Chinese garden is an instructive botanical excursion, so many and strange are the edible varieties of fruit to which ono is introduced. Spices, too, and flowers flourish under the care of the Chinamen, and the fields of bananas and pineapples dotted with oranges and mango prehards, which stretch for miles beside the sugar plantations, are nearly all Chinese. Sounding the Deep Sea. A ship regularly engaged in deep sea sounding usually has the sounding machine mounted at the after end. and when about to sound is brought to a standstill with the stern to the sea. The stray line, with the sounding rod and sinker attached, is over the guide pulley and carefully lowered to the water’s edge, the register is set to zero, and the deep sea thermometer is clamped to the sounding line; a seaman is stationed at the friction line which controls the velocity with whiqh the wire is unreeled, another at the brake, and a third on the grating outside to handle the sinker and instruments and to guide the wire as it passes overboard; a machinist is at the hoisting engine, and the recorder takes a position for reading the register. When the sinker is let go, the vessel is maneuvered so as to keep the wire vertical, and the, friction line is adjusted so as to allow it to descend from 70 to 100 fathoms per minute. The instant the sinker strikes bottom, which is unmistakably indicated by the sudden release of the wire from strain, the reel is stopped by the friction line and brake; the recorder notes the number of turns of the reel. In an hour this messenger of man’s ingenuity makes its excursions through five miles of watery waste to the abyssmal regions of perfect repose. Slapping the Wrong Man. A funny incident, accompanied by a witty retort, was enjoyed the other day as the crowd was surging out of one of the theaters. In front of a party of gentlemen was a man with his collar turned up above his ears. “Why, there is B," said one of the party. “He doesn’t seem to see us; I guess I’ll wake him up. ” At the same time, and without stopping To think, he stepped forward ana hit the bund led-up individual a terrific slap ou the back. The man turned around as he received the blow and disclosed to the astonished eyes of the hilarious gentleman the face of a total stranger. He hesitated a moment before the calm nnd inquiring gaze of the man in front, and then, stepping forward, said: “I beg your pardon, sir; but, to tell the truth, I took you for another man. ” ■x “I am," was the quiet reply."—-In-dianapolis Sentinel. This Is Practical Christianity. Trinity Church in Boston has taken a new departure, which will supply a need often felt but rarely mentioned. It has established a “Christian pawnshop” where the rate will not exceed 4 per cent and where the business will be conducted on humane principles. There are many mon and women to whom the loan of a few dollars at a critical time, without usury and withoqj publicity, would mean escape from starvation or worse. The deepest artesian well is at Pots- I dam, 5,600 feet deep. ( i- * •“'I-• /

THE NATION’S SOLONS. SENAtE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Oar Mallon*! Law-Maker* an<! What They Ara Doing for the Good of the Country—▼arioca Measure* Proposed. Dlseussed, •nd Arted Cpon. Doings of Congress. The debate ou the pension appropriation bill continued all day Monday In Che Bouse, and nt times considerable spirit was displayed. The principal speakers were Messrs. Dolliver, Hepburn, Enloe. and Cannon. The Senate held a short session, and but little business of Importance was transacted. A brief debate on silver was precipitated by the Intention expressed by the Vice President to refer the Bland seigniorage bill, which had just been received from the House, to the Finance Committee. Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, opposed this disposition of the bill, and asked that It lie allowed to He on the table subject to being called up at any time. This was finally orderfli. Mr. Stewart at the same time offered a free silver amendment to the bill. The only other event of Interest was the offering br Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, of a resolution looking to the appointment of a tariff commission, which ho offered as an amendment to the tariff blit A number of bills of minor Importance were passed. Ihe feature of the pension debate In the House Tuesday was the speech of General Daniel E Sickles, of New York. Mr. Milliken (Rep.. Maine) made a brief speech In favor of liberality in pensions, and was followed by Mr. Grosvenor (Kep, Ohio). Tho charge that there was wholesale fraud In tho pension rolls General Grosvenor stamped as false and malicious. Mr. Coombs (Dera.,N. Y.) decried the constant attempts to make political capital out of the pension business. *nd the unjust charges of hostility to the system upon the Southern Representatives. The Southern members, he said, had quietly acquiesced In the demands for pensions. They did not even reply to the taunts of the other side. Me. Blair (Bea. N. H.) snld that, tho cry that the cry that the pension roll was a roll of dishonor, tainted with fraud, had long been heard In the land. As far back as 18M, in order to get at the fraudulent pensions, the entire roll was published. It was examined In every community, and as far as he knew not one single, solitary case of fraud was developed. Mr. Mahon (Rep., Pa.) concluded the debate for the day. At the end of his remarks the committee rose. Mr. Dockery presented a bill from the joint, committee on expenditures In the department to Improve the methods of auditing accounts In the Treasury Department, and then at 5:40 o'clock the House adjourned. Tho Senate confirmed a number of postmasters. The pension appropriation bill, carrying 1150,000,000. was passed Wednesday afternoon without division. Throughout the debate there had been no criticism of the amount carried by the bill All the amendments to the bill save one, that of Mr. Pickier to make the reports of the examining surgeons open to the Inspection of the applicant or his attorneys, were defeated. They all fell under points of order that they were not germane. The one which attracted most attention was that of Mr. Enloe, to repeal a portton of the provision Included In the act of last December to prevent the suspension of any pension except on thirty days notice; also to permit the suspension in case of plain prima facie evidence that the pensioner had procured bls pension bv forgery, perjury or other palpable fraud. This amendment .was offered at the suggestion of Commissioner Lochren himself, who under the opinion of the Attorney General declared thnt If the act of last December stood over $500,000 would have to be paid out to suspended pensioners who were proved beyond all question not to be longer entitled to the pensions they had been drawing. Mr. Outhwalte, the Chairman, of the committee of the whole, however, ruled the amendment out on Mr. Martin’s point of order that it was not germane, The Senate struggled all day with the seigniorage coinage bill, and considerable progress was made. It will soon be Ont Os the way. On motjnn of Mr. Gibson the Senate passed the House bill appropriating $45,000 for the rescue of the armament and wreck of the United States steamer Kearsarge. The ' President transmitted some additional Hawaiian correspondence to the House Thursday morning. The Senate bill to amend the act to establish the Smithsonian Institution was passed. The conference report on the urgency deficiency bill was presented by Mr. Ayres and agreed to. Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, from tho joint commission on expenditures In the executive departments, called up the bill to reform the method of accounting and auditing In lhe customs department of the treasury. The bill abolishes the office of Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of Customs The discussion over the bill took a wide range and was participated in by Messrs. Baker. Henderson. Hepburn, Cannon and Dockery. The bill was passed. The House then went Into committee cf the whole for the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill and, after debate, adjourned. The Senate In executive session confirmed a lot of postmasters In Kansas, Illinois, Michigan and lowa. In the House Friday, after transacting some business of minor Importance, the Houre wont into Committee of the Whole for further consideration of the District of Columbia bill. In the course of debate Mr. Kilgore denounced the District press as subservient to all jobs In the District to plunder the Treasury. At 3 o’clock the debate closed and voting took place on various amendments. Without completing the consideration of the bill the House took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be devoted to private pension bills The night session was devoted to the passage of Individual pensions, and at 10:25 the House adjourned. In the Senate Mr. Peffer introduced a resolution for an investigation into the Senatorial sugar speculation. The House bill authorising a bridge over the East River between New York and Long Island passed without objection. A bill was passed appropriating $200,000 to pay tho damages resulting to persons who went upon the Orow Creek and Winnebago Indian Reservation in South Dakota between Fab. IT and 27. 1885. Then came up the Bland seigniorage bill as unfinished business, which occupied the rest of lhe day. The House completed the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill Saturday, and passed It after defeating the final effort of Mr. de Armond to reduce the share of expenses of the District to be borne by the geneeral government. The debate was devoid of all general Interest After an unsuccessful effort on the part of Mr. Sayers, chairman of the appropriation committee, to reach an agreement as to the limit of the general debate on the sundry olvil appropriation bill, the House adjourned. This and That Prudence is the better part of shrewdness. The most accurate weather report is the thunder clap. The rich man has his muff at the barbershop. The poor man takes his there. "Tis the accounts of a side door saloon that are kept up by a double entry system. Speaking of “sage dressing,” what’s the matter with Socrates putting his coat on? Everything a rich man says goes, if h® does not say “balky horse.” If beauty is only skin deep the rhinoceros should be the handsomest beast afloat. The average man is apt to be the next thing to a fool when he gets beside hlmsolf. It Is considered strange that aristocratic people will consent to live in a common wealth. Cheerful looks make every dish q feast, and that it is which 'crowns a welcome.— Massinger. Oorneijus Vanderbilt, it is said, ) has given a million dollars to religious i ( work in the past two years.

MY LADY’S DRESSING TABLE. A Charming New Which Would Ornament Any Boudoir. It is many years that poets have sung of their lady to vet sitting before their dressing-tables, adding delicate touches to the beauty of which both the lady and her lover were so proud, says the Housewife But surely no prettier bqpkground for the scene which they picture could be imagined than a charming little dressing-bureau, a new design. Around the wtbte enameled table, a simple affair, but in tine taste are three short brass rods fastened to the wall. Over these three rods and at the back is arranged a drapery of figured white muslin, edged with a soft frill ot lace. At the sides just on a level with the top of the table the drapery is caught back by a cord and tassels, but it would be fully as picturesque and feminine in the position it is to occupy it tied back with ribbons. Fastidious persons, who dislike to have any ot their toilet articles out in the dust of the room, will probably keep their pretty table dressed up with a vase ot fresh flowers and a china catch-all perhaps. But more will love to see it all complete with the useful button-hooks, scissors, knife, and similar trinkets, all laid in rows ready to hand. The nail things will all be on a tray by themselves, the brush and combs in their own tray of china or lacquer and on either shelf pretty sachets and cushions for both stick-pins, hat-pins, and toiletpins. Pressing-tables were almost unheard of in American homes a flew years ago, but their utility is so unquestioned that "their use spreads from month to month. Certainly, no matter how many persons sleep in ontfroom, thej’ should, if they make any pretense whatever toward making a toilet, have each a dressingtable to herself. Rooms may often be so small that one large clothes bureau must do for two sisters or friends, and this without the least need lor one interfering with the other’s comfort But to dress at one glass, that is quite different Superstition argues that it is wretchedly unlucky for one person to look over the shoulder ot another in a mirror, but it is more than unlucky: it is bad manners. No woman can give to her lovelocks that undivided attention which a hot iron requires while another woman is nodding and bobbing behind Her shoulders. It is distracting to the mind, and burned foreheads and lost tempers are apt to be the result. More than that, what would be all right to one ot the room-mates would be highly displeasing to another’s sense of neatness, and that would not be pleasant Every human being has a right to a reasonable amount of liberty, and that cry for liberty is nowhere more just than in the relations between a pretty girl and her picture in her mirror Small Agents and Great Work. -It is the little things that count much oftener than we are apt to suppose. Agencies apparently so trivial as to be almost beneath notice have changed, and are changing the face ot the earth. So comparatively insignificant a form of vegetation as moss, for instance, may not only effect the aspect of a landscape, but may, in the course of time, powerfully assist in giving a new character to a continent. One of the most surprising results of recent scientific investigations in Greenland Is the indication of the wonderful work mosses are performing there. Where glaciers have ceased to advance, or have become “dead,” various species of mosses have found a foothold on them, and gradually overspread them with a mantle of green. The amount of vegetable matter slowly deposited by ’these Greenland mosses is so considerable that it has been suggested that this deposit will be of great importance in the future history of that strange land. It is known that in a past geological age Greenland was not the dreary, ice-sheeted continent that it is today, but a beautiful land, almost tropical in appearance in some respects. And if, in the future, geoological dr astronomical causes should bring about a return to the former conditions, when Greenland was really “green,” the rich stores of vegetable material now accumulating there through the growth of mosses amid the ice will give wealth to the soil of the continent. What can be more.interesting to a thoughtful mind than'such evidences of foresight by which, from age to age, are provided the means and agencies that revolutionize the earth. —Youth's Companion. Origin of the Scarlet Uniform. We have Cromwell’s own testimony that “diversity of clothing” in the Parliamentary army had led to the “slaying of friends by friends.” Wnen, therefore, in the autumn of' 1644 the Parliament decided to reorganize the army, it decided, at whose motion we know not, to dress it one color. And as the new model army created by the ordinance of February 15, 1644-45, is the true germ of the i resent army, so its dress is the true germ of the present uniform. "The .men are all Redcoats all the whole army, only are distinguished by the several facings of their coats. The Firelocks (who were attached to the train of artillery) only are some of them tawny coats.” So wrote a correspondent to the newspapers after a visit to Fairfax’s' army in April, 1645. Thus the British army, clothed in the royal scarlets was a rebel army. The first regiment of horse (the Ironsides reorganized) and of foot wore scarlet with'blue facings, which is the present mark of a ‘.‘royal” regiment, and to put the finishing touch on the picture the new clothing was served under the shadow of Royal Windsor. » Finally, the first action of this first army of redcoats was against the King in person at Naseby, thpugh even there, not content with distinction of dreis, the Royalists “wore beans in their hats” and the Parliamentarians “handkerchiefs, or semething white.” The sinner who says, “1 will help I do it,” Is a better man than tha s*!ut| who says, “It should be done.” i

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