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WSF £ « aw;/ x^v**4dii^--<^^p \ ’ CHAPTER V. “Nothing seems to satisfy you, to content or please you,’’ said Bertie Carlyon to his friend and companion, the young Earl of Bayneham. “Here you are, young, tolerably good looking, a magnificent income all clear —no debts. You possess two Edens in the country and a palace in town: no matter what you want, you can have it. Now look at me, a poor, unfortunate, younger son. My whole income would not keep me in cigars alone. 1 am over head and cars in debt; everything goes wrong with me; fate, love, and fortune, frown alike. Yet I look happier than you do." "Do not tease me, Bertie: 1 am not in the humor for it,’’ said I.ord Bayneham, moodily. 1 “Neither for that or anything else,’’ retorted Bertie. “What do you want that you cannot have? There is even a young and beautiful wife provided for you when < you have time for the wooing." The gloomy look deepened on Lord I Bayneham’s face. । “All you say is true, Bertie," he replied; “yet in all sober truth. I declare to you I would give my rank, title, •magnificent 1 income,’ and all else I possess in the world, to lie at this moment a free man.” “Free from what?” cried Bertie, in utter amazement. Lord Bayneham made no reply, and a j look of deeper gravity stole over his i companion's face. “You must trust me in all or none," said Mr. Carlyon. “I see you are changed; and. all jesting aside, you are unhappy. If I can help you, let me; if not, I can but sympathize in silence.” “If you would but be serious,” remon- ' strated Lord Bayneham. “I am.” said Bertie: “laughing, with me. is second nature; but did I ever fail you?” “No," said Lord Bayneham, "you never did: but you are so fond of joking over everything. What 1 have to say lies deep in my heart; if you were to smile 1 should never forgive you." Not even the shadow of a smile crossed Bertie Carlyon’s face; on the contrary, he looked half sorry, half vexed. “ ‘He jests at sears that never felt a wound, ” said Bertie. “Despite my love of laughing, I have suffered as keenly as most men. 1 can respect real sorrow when I see it, Claude, as you know well." The two gentlemen were quite alone in what appeared to be the smoking room of Lord Bayneham’s London house. It was a large and lofty apartment, well furnished with divans, easy chairs, lounges and sofas, whereon the lords of creation could smoke at their ease. Bertie Carlyon lounged upon a couch drawn near to the window. He was smoking industriously. Lord Bayneham had tried a meerschaum that failed to please him. and he took up a cigar with no better result. He laid both down with a sigh; going up to the mantelpiece, he leaned dejectedly upon it, then sighed again. “Have a game of billiards?” said Bertie. "It is too warm,” replied the young earl. "Let us join the ladies, and have some music." suggested Mr. Carlyon. “I am tired,” said Lord Bayneham, wearily. Then his friend reproached him for not being happy and contented. “I can respect true sorrow." continued Bertie, “but not fancied woes. I have seen something of a darker side of life. What is your trouble, Claude? It is not poverty, debt or ill-health what else can make a man unhappy and dissatisfied?” “I will tell you,” replied Lord Bayneham. “I know you will guard my secret as you would your own life. 1 am engaged to marry one woman—good, amiable, noble and true, while I am passionately in love with another.” It must be recorded to Bertie's disgrace j that, for all answer, he indulged in a low, prolonged whistle. “That is a serious business," he said, at last. “I thought you were to marry Barbara Earle next year?” “So it was arranged," said Lord Bayneham. “If it be right to marry one woman while the face of another haunts you—comes before you in dreams by night—looks at you all day—stands between you and the face you ought to love —fills your heart with a love that defies despair—if that be right, then next year I shall marry Barbara Earle.” JtfUL UUVIU ill UH: tivifu r-- WW? fallen so deeply in love with?” asked Bertie, aghast at his friend's earnest, impassioned manner. "If 1 could but tell you." said Lord Bayneham. with a sigh—"a myth, a fairy, a nameless, beautiful vision.” “But that is nonsense,” said his practical friend. "Visions are all very well— ' I like something more substantial. Where ! did it appear to you?” “You promised to be serious, Bertie." j replied his friend, reproachfully. “I will tell you where I saw it. Do you remember in May I went to Scotland with Tre- ' vors and Higham?” “I remember,” said Bertie. “We went to Trosach Castle, and remained there three weeks,” continued the young nobleman, “then I, longing to see more of the beautiful Scotch scenery, went on a pedestrian tour. To shorten my story, I need only toll you that one delicious morning I wandered into the very heart of the bonny woods of Brynmar. I lost the path, and was getting bewildered, when all at once the richest and most musical voice I ever heard rose, clear and bell-like, on the morning air. I listened to the words; they were pretty and fantastic, and they are firmly imprinted on my heart. I went on, and saw —ah, Bertie! I can never paint the picture for you. Imagine a young, girlish, graceful figure standing in the midst of soft, mellow, golden light—imagine the loveliest face that poet ever dreamed of, a smile parting the sweet lips as she bent over her flowers, a wealth of bright gold-

I on hair falling in beautiful confusion over | shoulders that no sculptor could imitate—imagine little white hands holding, halflovingly, a bouquet of bluebells.” “It would be a pretty picture,” interrupted Bertie. “You should paint it.” “There is no need,” said Lord Bayneham. “I give you my word of honor, Bertie, I did think it was a vision. You never saw anything so delicately lovely. I spoke to her—l asked her the right path, and she showed it to me; I said something about the beauty of the woods. I cannot tell how it happened, but I remained with her some minutes, and at the end of that time I loved her as it takes a lifetime to teach some men to love. I could have knelt at her feet and offered her my life. 1 longed to tell her how I admired her; but. although we were alone in the woods, a queen upon her throne was not more sacred to me than this young girl, whose shy, sweet eyes rarely met my own. When we parted I asked her for one of the flowers she held. She gave it to me, Bertie, and I would not part with it for anything you could offer me.” “Did you ever discover who she was?”’ asked Bertie. “No,” replied Lord Bayneham; “not exactly. It was a lonely neighborhood. ■ I asked at some of the cottages. One woman told me I must have seen I.ady Hutton, as she lived at Brynmar. 1 looked iti the 'Peerage;' Lady Hutton is over forty, and has no daughter. I went back > to the same place last week, but could I neither see nor hear anything of her.” "What shall you do?" asked Bertie, “What can 1 do?” said Lord Bayne- ; ham, impatiently—" ‘dree my weird,’ as the Scotch say: try to forget her. 1 suppose, and marry Barbara Earle next year.” “It would not be fair to Barbara," said Bertie Carlyon; "she o 'serves a whole heart or none." "You are right." replied Bayneham; "I esteem Barbara highly; but I love the girl I saw in Brynmar woods.” “ fry to discover her," suggested Bertie. "Even it I did." said the young earl, "what tun I to do with Barbara? There must be misery one way or another. Now I have told you my secret, Bertie, do not torture me by reverting to it; bear with me patiently torn time. We Baynehams are doomed to love unhappily.” "Nonsense again.” said practical Bertie. “I do not believe in dooms, visions, poetry or unhappiness. I am quite sure, no matter how dark the cloud may be just now, it has a silver lining.” CHAPTER VI The Baynehams. of thistle Bivm bnm. were a noble and ancient family. The earldom dated as far back as the reign of the “Merry Monar h." The father of tin present earl was remarkable for nothing save having married one of the most beautiful and imperious women in England— Lady Blanche Delamere. She was descended from an ilb strious but somewhat decayed family. She had a younger sister, who. unlike the brilliant countess, married for love; she united her fate with that of an almost penniless captain, Gerald Earle. Fortune, how ever, favored them. !<>r be fore Gerald Earle ami his young w ife began to feel the evils of poverty, a large fortune was bequeathed to him by a dis tant relative. (Jerald Earle die,! abroad, and his delicate wife did not long survive him. She had left her only - hdd. Bar bara, to the care of the Countess of Bayneham. Her trust was nohh fulfilled: Barbara Earle was treated in every way like one of Lady Bayneham’s own children. Her large fortune accumulated, and w hen she rem hed her eighteenth year she found herself one of the wealthiest heiresses in England. The Countess of Bayneham had one fixed idea it was that her son should marry Barbara Earle. She w is deeply attached to the young girl, over whose ehihlheod ami youth she had watched so well. Both children were brought up with the same idea, but nothing definite was ever said to them. La-ly Bayneham. foolishly enough, would speak of the time when Barbara would be Claude's wife. Every day, in fifty different ways, it was brought before thewj. Claude took it as a matter iof course. Barbara loved her cousin; she had no thought, no happiness, no wish away from him. When Claude went to college he never returned without a present for his intended little wife. One speech of his was most characteristic. Talking one -lay at school in the midst of a group of boys, who were discussing their future, he said: “1 shall never have to trouble myself with love making; I am going to marry my cousin. Barbara, yon know.” His father died, and Claude became the Earl of Bayneham. Perhaps no one ever began Hie umier,4airm young,—Handsome, clever amT eomplished. Nature and fortune had both been kind to him. lie ow ned one of the i proudest names and tlie finest estates in England. The long ami illustrious line of ancestors had each added a laurel so the crown of the Baynehams. Everything I and everyone smiled upon him. He was - one of the happiest of men until that May ■ morning came ami brought him to the I woods of Brynmar. He returned home an altered man. His । previous life seemed to have been one long, i calm, unbroken dream. He was awakenled now, and the dream had ended. The i realities of life had begun for him. He I had learned on that bright May morning I a lesson that Barbara Earle had never taught him—how to love. He saw the | preparations continued for their marriage, I and made no comment. Whatever he ; might think or suffer, he was a gentleman, j a man of honor, who would scorn to break j a promise and die rather than fail when honor bade him persevere, CHAPTER VIL j The world generally did not call Bar- | bara Earle a beautiful girl. The great | charm of her face was the soul that shone there. Her eyes were magnificent, dark, dreamy, full of light and thought. She had sweet, sensitive lips, perfect in shape and color. People passed her by at first, considering her almost plain; at a second interview they would like her better. Then her face would grow upon them, until they would end by declaring that no

other girl was half so beautiful as Barbara Earle. Lovers in plenty sighed for Barbara Earle; she had no thought save for Lord Bayneham. When he returned from Scotland she found him changed in every respect. He had lost the gay flow of spirits that once never failed him; he fell into dreamy reveries, from which nothing could ever rouse him. lie looked like a man whose aim and purpose in life were ended. He was kind to her. but indifferent to everything in the wide world. Nothing seemed to interest or amuse him. Even Lady Bayneham noticed and wondered at the change that had come over her son. One day Claude was unusually busy; his lawyer was at Bayneham. and ninny business affairs were on the tapis. The steward was waiting, and an important paper was mislaid. Lady Bayneham was in the drawing room with visitors, so that Claude could not ask for help from her. In his perplexity he sought Miss Earle. “Barbara,” ho said, “like most people who undertake to do three things at once, I am making a terrible mess of it; will you help me? I have lost a paper—the plan for those new houses at Greystoke. Will you go to my study and look for it? The keys lie upon my writing table.” Barbara gladly hastened to comply with his wish. Lord Bayneham’s study was a room sacred from all intrusion. It was very rarely that any one obtained admission there. It was a pretty little apartment, overlooking the park. । Miss Earle searched for the lasnfl^ every available place; she renu where her cousin kept papers; then- was no trace ofitr TBf drawer smaller than the rest drew her at-' tention; she opened it. and several papers fell out. One was the lost plan, another a picture that had been folded in paper. Barbara looked nt it with surprise; she saw it was a sketch taken by her cousin; । she recognized his style, and his initials were underneath it. It was a simple hut beautiful subject, and the artist had done full justice to it. A young girl standing I beneath the shade of a large, spreading tree, the sunbeams fading on her golden hair. Her face, so womlrously lovely, was bent over some bluebells that she carried in her little hands; anything j | ; fre.-h, so fair, so delicately beautiful as ! that face, Barbara Earle had never seen. | It was quite strange to Barbara; but . who could it be? With a woman’s keen eyes she tinted the details of the dress. The original of the nieture was evidently ; | a lady; who could she be? and why had I I Claude lot ke 1 up what was rertninly the ■ best ot his productions. He was too busy i just then for her to mention it. Ho j thanked her gratefully for the trouble she ! had taken, but Barbara Earle was ill at : । ease. That evening when dinner was over and i Claude rejoined the ladies, Barbara went to th* table whore he stood, looking over ! some beautiful engravings that had just , . arrived. “Claude," she said, gravely, “when I opened the small drawer of your bureau j j this morning, a pi- tore fell out of it. one I |of your own paintings. 1 believe. Whose ; ' foe-- is it? I n-Ver saw -me half so teau- ! । tiful before." She was watching him k-smly, ami saw ; a slight pallor in his face. "I cannot tell you whose face it is," he replied; "it is n picture 1 mw on my trav- j I els. and thought it so beautiful that I could not refrain from trying to reproduce j | it." "Y-m have su. - - -sb -1 w-U." stud A! As । Ila rle. J He made some half-indifferent reply ajj turned away. Barbara Earle's eyes fm lowed him with n and, wistful look. What had changed him so? L--rd Bayneham went tn his study. He I i took the picture from the drawer, and, I folding it in many papers, locked it safely | He was kinder than usual to Barbara ■ that evening, a- though he would make amends for some involuntary wrong. The Countess of 1 iay nvham chaaged her mind once more. Siu- had decided upon < dissuading her son from going to 1/ondon for th-- season until after he was mar- I ried; but she looked upon it in a different light m>w. H;s engng- :m-nt to Barbara Earle was known publicly. Perhaps, after nil. it would be better to make a bril- ; limit appearanee in London, and then at ; the end of th.- season have n brilliant marriage. She decided it was to be so, i ami early in May the young earl left Castle Bayneham for his town house, which was an almost palatial mansion in Grosvenor Square. (To be continued.) Chinese Kites. Great ingenuity is displayed by the Chinese in the manufacture of kites. ; Kites of the angular shape common i among ourselves are never seen, the de- : signers representing at their own sweet will flowers, birds, fish and in fact i anything that may be found on the ; earth or in the waters under the earth. Many of them are extremely beautiful j I ami do infinite credit to the artistic ' ' tastes of the people. Human figures, i representing historical or mythical ’ I events, are very commonly used, while ! emblems, such as the double fish, and > ■j-l^haracteia-aL full it—»n !<»■—-t —. uch. -w- ci in unci urn chi (good fortune) are favorite snbioe7 wt . On some of them musical strings ai^T so arranged that they emit sounds’of melody as they fly aloft. The first ones so constructed are said to have been instrumental in saving an army when in dire distress. The General commanding this unfortunate force, being hemmed in by the enemy, resorted to the strategem of Hying in the dead of night a number of kites with musical strings I so as to emit sounds resembling the words, “Beware of Han.” Like the Syrians, at. the noise of the chariot wheels, the contending host took flight at the sound, and were destroyed—horse, foot and dragoons.—Good Words. The pineal gland is a small body almost in the center of the brain. It contains a cavity holding a sandy substance composed of phosphate and carbonate of lime. Its use in the animal economy is absolutely unknown. Fanciful physiologists have conjectured it to be the seat of the soul. Maria Taglioni, the dansense, was the daughter of an Italian ballet master. She was born in 1804, went on the stage in 1822 and continued her appearances in public until 1847, when she retired. Her greatest successes were in La Bayadere, La Sylphide and La Fille du Danube.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | — THOUGHTS WORTHY OF CALM ' REFLECTION. A Pleasant, IntercstinK, and Instruct- ' ive Lesson, and Where It May Be Found—A Learned and Concise Re- । view of the Same. Lesson for April 14. The resurrection of Jesus is the subject of this lesson, which is found in Mark lb: 1-8. God be praised for the resurrection! Vi ithout it we were of all men most miserable! with it we are of all men most joyous and assured. For when Christ arose, all hope arose and all grief and gloom were buried. For the tomb that gives us back our Lord engulfs Satan. Here infidelity lies buried. Hie jacet to doubt ami unbelief. AH hail! to life and love and joy. Christ is risen! Christ is risen! Tell it, sing it, rejoice in it everywhere. “Joy to the world, the Savior reigns; Let men their songs employ: While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, R<>pent the sounding joy." Whnt a surprise! They came with spices to anoint, for love’s sake, a dead body; and 10, a living voice was presently saying. "Children, haveje any incnt?” Henceforth leave incense and spices to the church that worships a den-1 Christ. Lot I'rotestnntisni arise and follow his footsteps of mercy to Galilee, and presently to Olivet. "Very early in the morning." they camo to the sepulcher. But Christ was earlier. I'p ami away! ilmnan love arose very early on the first day of th-" week; divine love rose earlier. Got! is always first with his love and his power. "Who shall roll us away the stone?" So they said as they came, or more literally, they kept saying. And then they looked ami lo! the stone was nln-ady rolled away. Brother, sister. I troubh-d and bur-leu--I. bereaved, it may ■ be, death itself impending, look, the stone : iis gone! In Christ tin* To-k of offense is | i removed. Only look. "They snw a young । ; man sitting." One of heaven's young men. ' ; Have you ever seen him before? Will you : ' ever see him again? Yes, you and I shall I one day be like him. a specimen celestial, ‘ | clad in white garments and in everlasting . ' youthfulness, "Be not affrighte-l." Here I ends all affright, her-' at the r- surrection |of our Lonl. H- ne. forth ghosts are i banished, death is shorn of ’-s terrors, i the grave's victory gone. Christ is risen: j lie calm, be confident. Hints ami 11t u-t rat ions. The doctrine of the r- surre- tion is great ; ; rcsnrraction life is greater. The |*ower ot a ri— n lit-- preach it. live it. Do you?) It is altogether n re important that God should have |H>wer over us than that wo , should havc jm»w -*r ov - r others. The latter । will follow w h- n --is <• th-' first is secure. ■ The adage says that dead men tell mtales. In the kingdom of the Master it j is only -lea-1 men ulm tell the tidings men i w ho have been slain ->f the Lord, and then ! raised again to walk in newness of life, j The world n-'ods -m h. Ami the church ; needs them. Do iw pr- a- h mid speak of ; I the resurrect ion vmmgh ? Not so much, ; I perhaps, the re-iu re- ti--n ns the risen Christ. Why h.ivc we m-t iw-ai rejoicing j lit It nil the time I you have. I ; But it ha* come to us as a glad new mes- ! sago that Jesus's already ->n the throne, ■ ! and nt the right b-tml of *--.-I. 1 hink of it. brother. He i- not any longer under • torture of s-v-urge and la*h. Ho has ; passed through suffering and death, and 1 is seated already as a conqueror, crowned ! now w ith gh-ry nn-1 h ‘U''r. And wo belong ito him. ami h--. I G...|s grace, to us. fan ■ we not pray now ami work now as never H-fore? Was it m-t some such eon cep- 1 I tion as this that made the dying man. j i raising his eyes u-war-l heaven, cry out: i "it lifts m< ' b ftsm. "' S. l your affec- ' tions on things nlmve. ' "P- a- -'. p-Tte-I p a e, th-' future all tin know n. i Jeans, we know; aa-l lie is on the throne.” Th-- n-surr-• ti-.n was all of God. entire- । Ily -o. Th •: --q'l< s w- r- i-t expecting it: the Jews did tc-t want it; Pilate did : all he could tmade it >urr. poor itnjiotent) |to prevent it. T' > n - an;- Go-1, in our ■ umlon-'n- '- an I -ii-j it f.-r us. So Goii ofI ten does with us by his grace still. 'I he j little lad. essaying to h. Ip his father with ( his b-s-ks, s it weeping <>n th-' Ixittom stair, i with a volume in his arms too big for him । to carry. Tht n came a great arm around him and lifted him. burden ami all. to the । top. Christian brother or sister, has not i God the Father often treated you thus? Venture somewhat on this resurrection . - power. Go beyond carnal expectation.! ■ Exjiect great tilings of God, and so at- । i tempt for him. If we understand Dwight L. Moo-ly this is his spirit: and hence h« i surprises ami startles some of us. Doubt- ; less, we need to be wake-1 up, half asleep ■ jas we are. Riding across the country j with a gentleman who had been driven ■ to meet him. Mr. M'-'-iy caught sight of ; • a school-house, ami proc- e-led to give out i notice along the way of a meeting to be * held there. "But who is going to lead it?” his companion asked, for be knew that A Mr Moody ha-1 appointments - very night qo —U. kg lUdgUUej were . rt-rspoi vVm! evangelist. "I?" exclaimed the man. “I never did such a thing in my life!” Quoth Mr. Moody, “It is high time you commenced.” Ami commence he did, ami likewise a gracious revival in the country community. Next Lesson "Watchfulness.” —Matt. 21: 42-51. The Greatest Sinner. The greatest, most guilty sinner is the man who has heard the gospel plainly, affectionately and faithfully | preached, and yet has trifled .vith it, despised it and rejected it. No such ■ sinner can be found in all the heathen world, and yet such are often the ones who puzzle themselves about what will become of the heathen. Do Good. “Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can, In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can." - John Wesley. A match ignites because of the heat generated by friction. Matches are tipped with phosphorus and sulphur, j both highly inflammable substances. i

| NEEDED NO ASSISTANCE. A Young Woman Who Was Able to Deal with Mashers, On a Bay Ridge boat the other evening a young woman gave an Illustration of how the American girl can take care of herself. It was on the trip to Bay Ridge, and the evening was rapidly growing darker. She was not more than 17 or IS years old, extremely pretty, with a slend- graceful figure, large gray eyes and a well-shaped mouth. She seemed to be hurrying home to some place on Long Island after being delayed in the city, and she was slightly nervous. She took a seat on the afterleck near a family group, as if she wished to be near women, and at times she glanced anxiously at the falling evening shadows. The boat was near the end of its journey, when a young man, rather flashily dressed, stalked up and took a seat very near her. She was looking In another direction and did not notice him. When he spoke to her she turned with a little start. "I beg your pardon,” he said, with a smirk, “but may I ask you a question?” She looked at him, but made no answer. “I should like to ask you a question,” he said, pausing again, as if expecting some encouragement. There were halt a dozen men near who looked as if it would give them pleasure to pick the fellow up by the neck and drop him into the sea, but no one moved. Every one seemed to feel that the young woman was perfectly capable of taking care of herself. She was looking at him steadily, with a little indescribable smile around her mouth, which could uot be mistaken. “I wanted to ask you,” he said hesitatingly and beginning to look very uncomfortable, "if you had any objection to my sitting here.” She half turned away, as if the conversation were ended. “Do you mind,” he said, “if I ” She turned slowly and gave him an- ! other look. It was very calm and unperturbed. but there was an unspeakable meaning in the glance. He got up and sneaked away. She had not spoken a word. Her eye had not even flashed. She had looked neither indignant nor frightened, but lie had fled in consternatiou. She turned with no sign of emotion, and leaning her elbow on the ! rail so that her hand rested on a pretty : cheek, looked at the lights down the bay, as if she were enjoying the lovely . evening. New York Tribune. HUMORING THE GREAT PETER. Hovr the Sovereign of Wurtembcrg Carried Out Hie Little Joke. It seems that the Czar, who has determined on retaining his incognito In traveling through Europe, absolutely de- 1 j dined to take up his quarters at the ' royal palace at Stuttgart, but insisted I on going to an inn. Having learned of this prior to his arrival, the Wurtemberg sovereign caused all the hotel and , Inn keepers to remove their signs. Over the principal doorway of his palace he had a huge sign hung out stating that within there was cheer for man and beast at cheap prices, and that the name of the hotel was Konigsbau. On the Czar's carriage and retinue entering the city the postilions, previously Instructed by the Wurtemberg officials, drove straight to the palace, and there, standing at the main entrance, was the sovereign, fat, burly, and jovial, arrayed in the traditional i costume of a b -niface, with white apron and cap, etc., while the various prin- 1 ; cesses, princes, nobles, and dignitaries of his court were costumed as waiters, and waitresses, ostlers, and other servants. Peter the Great, greatly amused at this witty and kindly maner of humoring his wishes, entered thoroughly into the spirit of the joke, which was kept up until the following day. when he proceeded on his journey. Noticing ' that the postilion mounted on the wheel- • er of his traveling carriage was a man j i of singularly unkempt appearance, his clothes ragged and covered with mud, lie made a. remark to one of his attendants that there was at least no mistake as to the social condition of that man, and that there could be no danger of his being a nobleman in disguise. And yet, when at the end of the first stage, the postilion came to the carriage door to receive his gratuity and raised the ! cap from his head, the Czar to his astonishment recognized in him the heir to the Wurtemberg throne, who had assumed this disguise for the purpose of speeding his father’s imperia! guest. —New York Home Journal. Tbirty Thousand Knbbers. i The late ■Maharajah Dhuleep Singh (a player much above the average) once told Cavendish that he had been j studying his (Cavendish’s) book on whist. “And I hope your Highness found it a profitable investment,” said ■ the gratified author. “Oh! no, quite the ; contrary,” was the reply; “since I J studied the game, I have lost thoui sands.” Cavendish supposes this to have been a piece of humorous exaggeration on ' the Maharajah's part; but there was probably a residuum of truth in the remark. When a good player gives up a I bold and natural style, and binds himself down to the rigid system of conventional rules advocated by Dr. Pole and Cavendish, he is not likely to be a winner at the year’s end—not, at least, on any large scale. Cavendish -is himself an instance in point, for he tells us that in eighteen years’ play, out of 30,000 rubbers there i was only r a balance of 628 in his favor, i In other words, he was one rubber to i the good in forty-nine (about 2 per j cent.), or one-seventh of a point per ; rubber. This seems a small percentage ■ for a first-class player, unrivaled in his knowledge of the game, even if he I played always against first-class oppo- , neats.—Black wood's Magazine.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY CONDENSED. What Our Neighbors are Doing—Matters of General anil l ocal Interest—Marriages anil Deaths—Accidents aud Crimes—l*er« Sonal Pointers About Indianians. Minor State Sews. An Isolated case of small-pox has been discovered near Jeffersonville. Cost of maintaining the Prison South for the month of March was $6,100.50. Infant daughter of Isaac Bronston, Lebanon, fell into a tub of water, and was dead when found. White clay, suitable for making crockery and queensware, has been found near Madison. Richakd Richards, a miner, was fatally crushed under the cage in the Peerless coal mine at Council Bluff. Brokers refuse to buy Jeffersonville's $60,000 bond issue I ecause the bonded debt would exceed the legal indebtedness of the city. Inscrance compaines affected by the Anderson gas explosion, two wo?ks ago, will sue the Anderson gas company for $50,600. Wnii.E William Davis, a farmer, -wa-s ■ hitching up his horse at Valparaiso the animal became mad and attacked Davis,catching him by tiie hand, pulling off his thumb and three fingers and tearing out the tendons of the forearm. The a'iu will have to be amputated at the elbow. June 18. 1889, Gerturde Alpaugh, a handsome yourg woman of Andrews, put a slip of paper in a bottle and hurled it in the foaming Wabash. The slip asked the finder to write to her. Two days ago a young man of Lockport found the bottle and sent Miss Alpaugh the requested missive. Farmers in Laporte County say a large part of the wheat is killed there. The cold weather and the absence of snow from many of the fields resulted in w eakening the roots and the dry weather and winds of March completed the work so the entire tops and roots of the wheat are dead. It is now thought that much oi tiie wheat will be plowed up and put in spring crops. Orr’s Lake, near Laporte, widelyknown as tiie angler's paradise, is likely to lose its popularity as a fishing resort, as it is believed that ali the black bass and sunfish died during th<» winter, caused from the air being exclud 'd by the thick and long continued ice. The ice is now out ami the shores are lined w it i dead fish and in places they lay in the water by thousands. Black bass that will weigh from one to six pounds lay along the shore by the wagon load. The famous Howard county ditch case of Lee vs. Rarey that has been in court about ten years was tried again last week, at Kokomo, resulting in a verdict for the i plaintiff. The litigants are wealthy rej sidents of Howard tow nship, living on adjoining farms. The contention is over a small ditch. The costs of itigation have already exceeded the value of both farms ; and there is no telling when the contest I w ill stop. The case w ill again be sent to I the Supreme Court. i Tin: contract has been signed for the location at Gas City of the Cox-Spence pottery w orks, which has been much sought after by other gas-belt cities. Local contractors have already been set to work preparinu figures for submitting bids on the construction work of the buildings, which will be of brick. The capacity of the kilns, which are to be erected at cnce, is 20,000 gallons. The works are to be in operation w ithin ninety days. Most ot the employes ’ will be skilled workmen. I’ei’aktment Commander Shiveley, of the G. A. IL, requests a correction of the statement that he intended removing the headquarters of the order from Indianpolis to Wabash. He states that he had appointed Adjutant-general .Smock to serve as adjutant-general during his incumbency. ' and the headquarters are located at the home of the Adjurtant. The banner and colors of the State organization were taken to Wabash, but lie wishes it understood there will be no change otherwise. Foist Wayne for the past six months has experienced a water famine, almost.and ■ at a meeting of the Council, Mayor OakI ley suggested that water be brought Bom ; Fish Lake. This is a body of pure water j located forty miles north in Steuben Counity. A committee of five was appointed to , superintend tiie surveying of lines from ; Fort Wayne to the lake to determine w hether it is practical to bring a supply of water to the city.' FishLake.it is said, is ICO feet higher than Fort "Wayne and if that be the case there will be no trouble. The ladies of the First Presbyterian ■ Church of Kokomo, caused a slight | commotion in religious circles by giving a I minstrel preformanee in the opera house. ! About thirty of tiie most prominent church ; members appeared on the stage in burnt | cork and gave an excellent entertainment netting the church a handson e sum. Rev. 11. G. Roscamp. the pastor, was consulted by the more diffident ladies, who hesitated about applying the cork. He eased their consciences by the jocular remark that some of them appeared on the street daily w ith powdered face, anil even wore them to chuch, and he saw no difference from a I moral standpoint w hether the powder used was whiteter black. Patents have been awarded to the , following residents of Indiana: Edward T. ; A. Akass, Indianapolis, extension grille j fretwork: David E. Brentlanger, assignor jof one-half to J. R. West. Gas City, i measuring device; Malcolm Dickerson, assignor of one-half to J. F. Curtice, Fort Wayne, electrical transformer; Ada Harris, Indianapolis, hair straightener; Frederick A. Hetherington, Indianapolis, assignor to IV. Schmidt, Chicago, dough dividing machine; John IL Hooter, Kentland, cultivator; Wiliiam Huberts, Lafayette, tile ditcliing machine: Jacob C. Hunsinger and W. Ensminger, assignors of one-third to F. IL Batt. Laurel, poultry crate: John T. Smith, Kokomo, depurator; George Southard, Indianapolis, envelope: Frank ; Stanley, Liberty, pneumatic straw-stacker: J John H. Welch'. Fort Wayne, sejf-measur-ing oil pump. IVhii.e Frank Knotts, an employe of the plate-glass factory at Elwood, was assisting to carry a large plate of glass from the horse to the bench it suddenly broke and a large segment fell on him, ripping open his scalp from the top of his head to the base of the neck, inflicting a dangerous wound. Chaki.es Lynch, a Vandalia switchman, was run over and killed by the cars at Terre Haute while trying to save the lives of the occupants of a wagon. The horse had stopped on the track. Lynch, in signaling the engineer to stop, fell from the car. He was a member of the Indianapolis Lodge of Brotherhood of Firemen.