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CHAPTER XVII. For a few moments, in that wiki ami burned excitement. Vanity was forgot ten. She lay upon a grassy bank, ami none asked if she were alive or dead. But the detective went to her side, and saw that she breathed, although her eyes were closed and she was quite unconscious. (With professional presence of mind, he opened her lips and poured a little brandy into her mouth, and perhaps he saved her life, for when, an hour after, sho was taken into the hospital, the doctor dedai । ed that she had just escaped death by exImiistion -a few beats of the pulse morel nnd she would have been past help «n<Q hope. But let us return for one moment o> (tie "burning farm. -\s I said, the most complete silence prevailed within the wads. It irdware was neither seen. m>r was any motion of him lx ard again. Just alter the whisper wont round that the tire was going out. the roof fell in with a crash. Hardware had made elalmrate preparations for a . mflagration; ami the tire ran 'from room to room, and seemed to meet fuel everywhere. Its rapidity was equal ed by its heat ami fury: for when the ■ ruins were searehed there was absolutely । ; nothing but a charred mass. Bake it with I । <i rake, and [x>re over every handful and , Aift it to the last pinch through a sieve. ■ <iM was ashes, and nothing but ashes. ■ , They expected, perhaps, to find diamonds, ( pearls, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, cat’s- , eyes, and so forth. Blessed are they who expect not! Have you ever burned a lot of old letters in a corner of the grate?i । Within the to ;• blackened walls of old , Tumbledown l'arni nothing was left but I , tmri^ thin ashes. All that raging Hames t , could consume had vanished. | ; As W illie Snow came back with help a I . ♦strange thing occurred. At a turn of the : „ pleasant lane, under a shady tree where , he and Vanity many a time had stood, i , there met him a party of bearers carrying I , his former sweetheart down to the Ims- [ Vital. Now, I don’t by any means want to t pile horror upon horror, and as Willie told ( me, there was no horror here; for she lay t •white and calm, beautiful beyond words, ] the sweetest repose upon her face. ] ‘•la sho quite dead?” Willie gasped. “No. but going fast enough,” some one , replied. "God. spare her life!” the young man cried. “Oh, God, hear my prayer, and spire her life!" I Aider the excitement of the time. I suppose, the detectives cast off their silent ways and answered questions freely. Hardware was "wanted.” About two years ago there had been a most extra ordinary jewel robbery at Birmingham. From "information received” the police ' were led to believe that a man named Bar- | nitt had been connected with the robbery, mid this man they traced into connection with old Hardware and his daughter. Now. in this place I had better relate what came out afterward. Hardware . was of respectable family, and had even been at Cambridge for one or two terms. But.he fumed to evil ways, drank, gambled, and took to the race course. Subsequently it was found that he had "reformed,” and had married the daughter of a clergyman. One daughter was born to them, and the mother stuck to him through all his vicissitudes and profligacy. Barnitt had early in life been celebrated as an amateur actor, and now, m his life as an adventurer, he took to the stage, and became a small manager. So he lived on for several years. His wife died; his daughter, whoso beauty and vivacity were well known, went upon the stage, and, for a time, father and daughter did tolerably well. Then the two vanished, and when they reappeared Miss Hardware had an , aged father, very decrepit, but of excellent character. Under this disguise, Throwing it off artfully and by night, he iiad committed several burglaries, and loft the police nowhere at all. It is fair , to say that there never was any proof that his daughter was connected with his crimes, or even knew of them. Barnitt or Hardware had not only been in several burglaries, but there was little Moubt that his was the hand which had i .ghot one of the Birmingham police, who liad tried to capture him. The detectives fully believed that Hardware—or Barnitt, rather —had learned that the police were on his track, and their "theory” was that he intended to set fire to the farm, and to lead them to the belief that be and his daughter had perished in the flames. Gracious Me lay stretched on the grass, just where he had fallen. At last, when the excitement had somewhat subsided, they went to examine the dead body, and 1 wore surprised to observe that the eyes Temuincd open Still more ttie observers wove astonished to see the said eyes blinking in a curious way. "Where were you hit?” inquired one of I the compassionate persons. “Which aide ! did the ball enter?” “Neither side," said little Gracious, I trembling still. “You see, this is how it occurred. I was here, and he was—there. I He was going to fire, when it struck me - 1 can’t tell why that if I was to drop down, do you see, and lie quite still, the ; affair might blow over. So I did. Hit? bless you. no! Not within a yard of me!” Vanity Hardware was taken to the hospital, where for seven weeks she lay be tween life and death. Suddenly she be gan to mend. Then one morning, when Home kind person called to ask after her. the reply was that she had gone. Where? Nobody knew. Neither doctor nor chaplaiu could tell anything except that she was gone. Vanity had been dangerously wounded. ‘The ball had entered her side, and the doctors had great trouble in extracting it. The patient suffered much; and from weakness she dropped into fever. The physicians said she would die, but she rallied, and, with a weary, heartsick look upon her face, turned, as it were, up the toilsome road leading back to the life that now is.

I A lady was nursing in the hospital who was what I used to call a nun only I be lieve now the saying is "sister.” and she seemed to be drawn to Miss \ unity by what she was told. Somehow this lady. Sister Catherine, treated the sick girl like a daughter. Anyhow, she found the way to Vanity Hardware’s heart. Poor Vanity Hardware! Wounded in body and utterly broken in spirits, she clung to her new friend like a child, and told her all the story of her lite. How Ihor mother had been good and true through all her sufferings, until her death. How, when dying, she had called Vanity to her side, and put a litt»e tailed white flower info the child's hand, saying: I "Thore, darling. I laid that flower on j your little breast the day you were bap tized. Then the flower was as fresh and sweet as your bosom was white and pure. Keep that flower, year after year, my child. Never do anything to soil it "Which I never did," \ anity said. burst ■ itlg into tears at this place. I never torgot mother's dying words "L’or which." the good lady said, “thank the blessed Lord, You have a new life before you.” "No." Vanity answered, with a firmness in her beautiful eyes that amazed the lady, "you mistake me. 1 shall never be good." And at this word Vanity Hardware turned her face upon the pillow and burst out crying. For all the world like a broken heart! Sister Catherine was not the woman to give Vanity up. Attracted by Vanity's looks, pitying her sorrow and sustained most of all by her own resolute will, she determined that this girl should have one more i ham-e in life, and that a good one. She had a niece, a married lady, who lived about fourteen miles away in a hand some eountrt house. This niece was rich, and of the same persuasion as the aunt, was a charitable lady and did many good works. This niece was not a nun. nor at all nunuish in her ways, but fond of life and fashion. Now, to this young lady the sis ter dispatched Vanity Hardware, with a letter ot introduction, and the time was a rainy October evening when poor \ anity, with trembling steps and beating heart, stole up the avenue towards the tine house to which she had been directed. Sho saw an iron fence which ran round the lawn. Sho gazed into a handsome drawing room, which was so brilliantly lighted that her quick eyes could see all that went on. This might have been what quality call the children's hour. Two mites were playing about the room, dressed to perfection, and Vanity noticed that a third । small girl, with a white taco and long I dark hair, was lying on a lady’s lap. I watching the other children with a tired expression. \ unity called this lady mam ma at once. A gentleman sat in an easy chair read ing the newspaper, and not taking notice of anybody. From the familiar way the two little children ran about him, \ anity judged him to be the father of the family. Next sho remarked that on a settee there was posted an elderly lady, very stout, very stiff, very dogmatic in her demeanor. Now, Vanity Hardware had eyes like a lynx or a hawk, ami the light of the room, as I have said, was brilliant; so she saw how this old lady watched with shrewd and designing face a bit of by play which wgs going on at the piano. Beside the piano stood a well-fashioned ruddy young man, who had evidently just droppetl into the drawing room. A young lady was sitting at the instrument, looking up with laughter into his face. Little Vanity Hardware dretimed that in this drawing room she saw enacted the prologue to her own future life. Little handsome horseman, mistress, flirting girl and domineering dame dreamed how, out in the cold October mist, a watcher stood who was afterward to step into the midst of their schemes and hopes ami fears, intrepid and resistless. Vanity hurried to the front door and rang the bell. A spruce maid answered. After some hesitation, the answer was given that, “0 yes. missis probably Would see the young person.” Next moment handsome "missis” came out, with a quick step. “You look very pale,” she said. "Are you ill?” Vanity looked up. Something in the lady's face encouraged her. But when she tried to speak, her lips would not obey her, and the only sound she uttered was a sob. Immediately the lady flew off to the drawing room, and Vanity hoard her say: “Augustus! Augustus; there is a poor girl outside. She looks so thin, and so pretty and so cold. Do go and see her.” "Well, well, Maud.” Augustus rejoined. in n good-natured tone, “this comes of being married to a wife. I suppose I , may as well go at once. The next instant the gentleman was ■ standing beside Vanity. "What is your business, my girl?” He asked this question with a curious I air of mingled condescension, authority I and kindness. ! "1. come with a letter from Sister Cathj erine.” “Indeed!” the gentleman said: but in I that brief space he, 100, passed under the 1 spell of her face and voice. "Let mi 1 see, will you- won’t, yon had you not I bettor come in to to the drawing room?" “I am not fit for the drawing room," I she said. “Please don't ask mo." j "My library, then," he said. “Follow I mo.” The upshot of the interview in the library, and the perusal of Sister Cath , erine’s letter, was auspicious. An hour • later Vanity found herself alone in a ; pretty bedroom surrounded by comfort i and refinement, and twelve hours' quiet j before her. ? In the morning a servant brought het t a message that the lady of the house win j engaged, and could not see her until 1t o'clock; and meanwhile a small boudoit next to her room was set apart for hei

use. Hero she had her breakfast. The room looked out upon the garden; and as the morning was warm and sunny, B J IO opened the window and enjoyed the fresh air. Well might Vanity sit and muse. Whai road in life was she to take? Her ex|M>rf. once was remarkable, almost unexampled Her mother, affectionate, pious ami ro ’ lined, had made it the chief care of her struggling life to imprint something o f herself upon her child. But Vanity had inherited some of her father's qualities also; his recklessness, his love of change A horror had op[>ressed her ever since the tragedy at 'l’umbledown Farm; whv allow it any longer to brood over her mind? Her father was gone. She had no part his awful fate. She might change her name, and with that banish forever the terrible gloom which sho had believed must rest upon her forever. Her experience of Willie Snow's inconstancy had bisrn n bitter disclosure. Vanity had idolized that young fellow. All that her mother had ever taught her about goodness had gathered around Willie, and ho became in her eyes the image of integrity and virtue. Just when she expected him to rise to heroism Willie had sunk down to respectable selfish commonplace. Vanity suffered not from lacerated affections alone. Her idetil had been de graded. Virtue and goo<lness had been reduced to feeble amiability and prudent consideration for number one. Yet what was this whisper in her heart? Why, aS she listened to it, did her color deepen, and her eyes grow strangely liright, and her pulse beat fast? "Willie Snow the man who loved me once who was stolen from me who could not resist mo esen now the man that I love still what if I won him back after all?” CH VPIEK NV HI. Suddenly, as she sat at the window, sho saw her handsome hostess appear, walking in a very sisterly way with the young horseman. They promenaded the gravel walk up and down, engaged in earnest talk. "No, lorn, the lady said, “I don’t agree with you; most decidedly not. I cannot call her handsome. Os course I don't care to say she is anything else.” "But, like the celebrated parrot, Mami,” he replied, “you think a deal.” “Besides. Tom" Maud raised her finger warningly "mark my words; you will have the old lady on your hands. Uharm ing mot her in la w, Tom." "< >h. no. you know." Tom called out, in sincere hlarm. “Take precautions, you know, hisert special clause i t the lense. You see" he knocked the ash out of his cigar “what is a fellow to do? These beauties require sm It a lot of lovemaking, and it cats up a fellow's time. Now, Arabella is not excessive in that way." "Then 1 siipjtose it is settled, Tom?" "Don't think I <sotld do better. Mau l.” ell. dear, 1 hope y->u will bi* ha^ipy." But if ever a kind sister’s voice expressed sorrow and disappointment, verging on disgus’. it was Maud's voice then. .lust at nlmt moment a servant came hurrying out and whispered something to her mistress, who flew into the house wirhont a word, seeming in an instant to forget her brot her. The cause of Mami Neville's exit did not at first appear. In about a quarter of an hour -he came into Vanity’s room, and Vanity noticed that her expression was anxious. The letter of her aunt ■ Sister t'atheritie had evidently not tX'en the first c inmunication made to heracorning the young actress, for she kn# n all her histom . and \ unity felt grate 11 for the taet ami d'dieacx with whiehrthe glided over things which would be painful to the poor wanderer. Every minute she ; grow more chatnmsl by tihe kind manner of her new friend, and felt even ready to ,'ieeept her guidance. (To be continued.t Prowled with a Dog. They were talking about cats of high degree, e;t<h succeeding otic being a little more altitudinous. when a young ; lady front Farniington avenue at last । found opport unity to say I have a cat I whose intelligence is best i|lustrated l>y a bit of moral and race oblitiuity she exhibited the other day. The color of her glossy coat puts her in the 'orattge' class, whatever that may bo. She has a native antipathy for dogs, but slit' is somewhat more than tolerant of the frisky fox terrier that makes his headquarters at our house. Fox terriers, as yon know, consider it to be tludr earthly mission to rid the ground of cats, snapping their necks as if-they will not adopt the habits of the squirrels in the trees. We always knew that he made tin exception of our < at. however, but we were not aware of the extent to which they trained together until last week. Then we heard the not unfamiliar sound of sharp barking and lively scurrying in the yard, ami, rushing to the window, saw a neighbor's tabby on the limb of a tree, her tail about as big as the branch, glowering down at Sport. And there, side by side with Sport, on the ground, Imdxing upward, sat our cat. We were praising her as an intercessor for her kind, when suddenly she left him and darted up to the tree to the bran< h where tabby cowered. Before we cdui' l comprehend her motive she had asf’ a j‘ cd tubby and the poor animal was > airly dislodged, after a tussle, ami landed at the feet of Sport. Sport's bark of delight brought us to our senses just in time for us to interfere and rob both j him and his cat ally of the fruit of their triumph. But wasn’t it cute in her?” Hartford Courant. Works Both Ways. Much has been written about the 1 new experimental colony established at Fitzgerald, Ga. One of the notable features of the colony is that negroes , are not tillowed in it under any cir- . cu mst a rices. Another colony. With similar restrictions, is soon to be ea- , tablishc.il in Mare County, near Eitzgcrald. Meantime a colony of colored people is being established on the Abbey ville and Waycross Railroad, mp r joining the Fitgerahl colony. In this ' no white peojfle are to be allowed unJ Her any circumstances. Kansas Is Growing. s In Kansas the farm and live Stock o products combined show an increase r in value over the preceding year of r ^IbJ'JSjtiGS, or 13.3 per cent.

censure for bayard I denunciatory action taken BY THE HOUSE. Severn! Democrats Join the Republi-' can. Majority, While Five Republicans Refuse to Vote Against the Ambassador to Great Britain. Rebuke n ,i A mbuHsador. For the first time in its history, the popmar branch of Congress has rebuked an American diplomatic agent for his utterances abroad. The House of Representatives Friday adopted a resolution censuring Ambassador Bayard for his utterances m (.rent Britain. The mnjoritv was overwhelming, the Vo te standing ISO to .1. As it to emphasize the severity of the rebuke says a Washington eorre•pondent, the number of Democrats voting lor censure was greater than the number id Republicans voting against it One Democrat, Mr. Bailey of Texas, made a speech in favor of the resolutions mid condemned the ambassador quite as ; savagely us any of the Republican ora tors. One Republican, Mr. Willis of 1 »<1 ! aware, spoke in Mr. Bayard's favor, but, | it is claimed, he wa* actuated largely bv | >Stato pride. Six DeLiocrats Bailey and Goekrcll ot Texas, Cummings of New York, Latimer of South Carolina and 1 [Layton and Sorg ot Ohio voted against i Mr. Bayard, and five Republicans Baker of Maryland, Cooke of Illinois. Draper of ; Massachusetts, Pitney of New Jersey and Gillis ot Delaware voted for him. The I second resolution, exptessing the opinion of the House that our diplomatic agents abroad should avoid public discussion, was adopted by a still larger majority, the vote standing 191 to 39. Mr. Adams (Rep.. I‘aJ. who was minister to Brazil under the Harrison administiation, was the first to resume the do- • bate. He favored the resolutions and said ^lr. Bayard s long service and commanding position as an American made his ()f---/ense the more flagrant and n prehcnsiblo, lo show Mr. Bayard fully recognized his position as the representative of the whole

'"‘w '7 ■ 1' KMItA^SADOR THOMVS FRANCIS BAYARD.

K ,»i — ——- people, lie re.nl from a speech delivered a । p>nrniu by Mr. Bayard at Wilmington, Del., !u which rhe ambassador said: “I I represent no >ari\ as ambassador to i Great Britain, but my country and my own people, ” Mr. I aintild ißep.. N. Y.) regretted Chat the comrSittee had not brought in articles of impeachment instead of cenBure, and Mr. Hnttrhinson (Dem., Texas)' said ho would vote tor the second resolution laying down tlr? well-established principle that our representstives in foreign countries should abstain from partisan speeches. Mr. Willis was the first Republican to i announce that he opposed < ensuring Mr. Bayard. Mr. Turner (Dem., Ga.) spoke eloquently iu opposition to the resolutions, and then Mr. Hitt, chairman of the Foreign Allairs Committee, yielded the remainder of his time to Mr. Bailey ■ (Dem., Texas), who made a speech in favor of the resolutions, declaring the Edinburgh speech was a breach of good taste and of diplomatic etiquette and was | an offense against our common sense and Bound and rugged patriotism, and that a | man who would express such utterances < as those of Mr. Bayard nt Boston was ' ‘‘unworthy to represent this country any I where or al any time,” Then the vote was taken as previously Stated. The first resolution censured Mr. Bayard “in the name of the American people”; the second condemned in general terms the delivery of partisan speeches by our foreign representatives. For the second resolution nine Democrats voted and no Republicans against it. The nine Democrats were: Alien,, Mississippi: Bailey. Texas; Cummings. New York; Hutcheson, Texas; Layton. Ohio; Owens. Kentucky; Pendleton, Texas; Sorg, Ohio, and ' Stokes, North Carolina. The City Council of Anderson. Ind., ! As the result of a vigorous campaign by Christian bodies, has passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for any person uvuler the age of 1G to smoke a’eigarette. punishable by arrest and a fine not in excess of $25. The Great Western Pin Company as signed at Toledo and named Fred B. Dodge as assignee. The schedule of aslets and liabilities shows the former to be $75,000 and the latter $40,000. It is reported nt Port Said that Gen. Barratieri passed through there incognito. The Italian Government has forbidden the boarding of any transports homeward bound.

BIG BLOW TO SPAIN. Defeat in the Recent Pinar del Rio Battle a Crushing One. The Cuban insurgents have dealt Spain ft crushing blow. Trustworthy information has been received from Havana that the battle fought a tew days ago in l*inar del Rio, which the dispatches sent out with the sanction of the press censor described as a Spanish victory, was in reality a lamentable defeat for the forces of Gen. Weyler. This news reached Havana and was sent to New York in a brief cipher cablegram. The source of the information leaves no doubt of its reliability. Ihe Spanish officials will not permit the report of insurgent successes to be sent out of Havana. The late press dispatches from Havana say that officials now admit that the battle was a fiercely contested one, and that it was attended with serious consequences to the Spanish. It is the firm opinion in New York among persons informed of events in Cuba that the Spanish cause is lost. It is also believed, despite denials, that this last defeat will so add to the dissatisfaction against Gon. Weylcr that either his resignation of recall will soon follow. The I engagement was more in the nature of a I pitched battle than any.previous one duri ing the insurrection, and the attack made i by the insurgents was bold and effective, { Iho impression strengthens in Wash1 ington official circles that Spain has made i a lailure of it in Cuba, and that the re bellion cannot bo suppressed in any othei way than by wearing it out. t util re eently it was believed by l.oth Presidon Cleveland and Secretary Olney that th. ; Spanish forces would practically be aid I to restore order in Cuba during the pres ■ ent winter and spring. It was becans. of this belief and because his love of fai: play prompted him to give Spain area sonable chance that the President hat i hitherto declined to take any stop looking ; to interference into affairs of Spain ant i her colony. But it is now apparent tin i campaign in Cuba is nearly at an end. sc 1 far as this winter is concerned. The ; rainy season will set in soon, and thou military operations of a serious or effective nature will have to end. Up to this time Gen. Wcyler has made no substantial progress from a military point of view, and there is little reason to hope

I that he will accomplish anything in the short time remaining for field work. Morei over and this is a condition of affairs . for which President ('leveland has been | waiting—there are many indications that i the Spanish authorities are despairing of I success. It is freely predicted by ofti- ; cials familiar with what might be called the inside of the situation that President ( leveland will intervene, and intervene successfully, within sixty days. The interests of the United States and of humanity require that the struggle be not allowed to continue another winter, after another summer of industrial paralysis. TO CONQUER THE SOUDAN. Chamberlain's Declaration of British Policy on the Nile. Til the House of Commons Friday afternoon Mr. Chamberlain said that Eng- ; land's ideal policy was the recovery of j the Soudan, and that there could be no ; real peace or prosperity for Egypt until i the Soudan was recovered. He assorted I that the present policy of the Government : represented the immediate needs of Egypt I and denied that Groat Britain was plungi ing into a policy of adventure. Great I Britain could not evacuate Egypt, until | her work there was accomplished, d’he I reverses of the Italians in Abyssinia had encouraged the dervishes to" resume hostile activity and measures must be taken to restrain them before the situation became worse. At the close of the debate the motion of Mr. John Morley to reduce the vote for the civil service by £IOO, wli^ch. it carried, would have had the effect’of censuring rite Egyptian policy of the Government, was decisively defeated. HEAVY SNOW IMPEDES TRAFFIC. ; Storm in New York Blocks Railroad t ravel —Thermometer S Below. The storm in New York State of Thursi day was the worst that the railroad men have had to contend with in many years. Snow plows were worked night and day keeping the tracks in condition for travel, but the branch lines have suffered. All the roads running into Rochester, with the exception of the Western New York and Pennsylvania, have been compelled to either abandon trains ovrun them several hours late. At the junction of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg and the New York Central it took seven engines to pull one train over on to the Central tracks. The southwestern limited on the Central was lost for a time between Chicago and Buffalo, and arrived over five hours late. In two days twenty-two inches of snow had fallen.

LEO’S MANNER OF SPEECH. Deliberate, but Unhesitating, and Bls Voice Has Great Power. The stiff mannerism of the patriarchal system, which survived until recently from early Roman times, gave him that somewhat formal tone and authoritative manner which are so char- ■ acteristic of his conversation in private. His deliberate but unhesitating speech ; makes one think of Goethe’s “without haste, without rest.” Yet his formality is not of the slow and circumlocutory sort; on the contrary, it is energetically . precise, and helps rather than mars the sound easting of eacli idea. The formi ality of strong people belongs to them naturally’, and is tiie expression of certain unchanging persistence; that of ■ the weak is mostly assumed for the ’ sake of magnifying the little strength they have. I lie Pope’s voice is as distinctly ini dividual as his manner of speaking. It - is not deep, nor very full, but, considn ering his great ago, it is wonderfully 1 clear and ringing, and it Ims a certain ' incisiveness of sound which gives it ' great carry ing power. Pius IX. had as r beautiful a voice, both in compass ami 0 in richness of quality, as any barytone >. singer in the Sistine choir. No one who r ever heard him intone the "To Deum” in St. Peter's, in tiie old days, can forgot the grand tones. He was gifted in many ways with great physical beaus ty, with a rare charm of manner, ami M'Lh a most witty hinnor; and in charir actor he was one of the most kindi- hearted and gentle men of his day, as s he was also one of the least initiative, g so to say, while endowed with the high '1 moral courage of boundless patience e and political humility. ' Leo. XIII. need speak but half a [( dozen words, with one glance of his .. flashing eyes ami one gesture of his s noticeably long arm ami transparently i- thin hand, ami the moral distance bes tween his predecessor anil himself is at 0 once apparent. Thore is strength still in every movement, there is deliberate decision in every tone, there is lofty independence in every look. Behind these there may be kindliness, charity, and all the milder gifts of virtue; but what is apparent is a sort of energetic, manly trenchancy which forces admiration rather than awakens sympathy.—Century. Arousing the Hornets. Australian hornets have an evil reputation as, indeed, is true of hornets generally and in "Opals ami Agates” Mr. Nehemiah Bartley relates a laughable incident in which they played a conspicuous ]>art. There xvas in Queensland a laud-sur-veyor, a man of dignified demeanor, very severe with the men in his employ, before whom he never unbent in tiie slightest degree. It happened one day, when work was over, that one of the men was taking home a tomahawk xvhich had been used for marking trees, and as he passed along he struck it carefully into a decayed stump, intending to leave it there till the next day. An instant later out came a swarm or hornets, and the man. finding them about his head, made a “bee-line” for the nearest water-hole, into xvhich he plunged and squatted. . Not long .■liter this his mate came along the same path. The inlmbitanrs of the stump h:id retired from the scene. The man saw the tomahawk, and thinking it might fall from the stump, removed it and struck it in a little deeper. Out rushed the hornets in a body. Tiie man brushed and struck at the assailing host, but xvas worsted and forced to make a wild stampede for tiie water-hole, where he found his companion still immersed. The two sufferers compared sorrowful notes as > they daubed mud over their wounds. I’ollowing in th^ir xvake along the * path came the serious "boss” himself. ! He saw the tomahawk, and flunking E that the xvorkmen had been careless to leave it there to rust in the dexvs of i night, he wrenched it from the stump t to take home. He likewise was waited 5 upon by an army of angry insects, and ■ like his workmen, was compelled to take refuge in the water. “What stings those insects have!” he cried. “Y'es, sir, we know they do,” was the response; and then all three mon broke i into a hearty laugh over the misadventure and their ridiculous appearance. In the water to their necks. It was the ' first time the boss had indulged in a bit of pleasantry with bis men. but it I was not the last. 1 t Historical Records of Maryland. t In speaking of the records of ihe Provincial Court of the Province of c Maryland, from 1657 to the revolution, j now preserved in Anne Arundel County, the Baltimore Sun says: “The his- , torical value of these old records is . inestimable. It is believed that no other State in the Union has such tec- । ords of family history showing the 1 manner of living among the people of the colony as far bacs as 250 yoais 1 ago. In the xvills, families can be traced back from father to sou tor a century. The court record books containing inventories of personal estates make a ' complete exhibit of the character of i household furniture, kitchen implements, farm utensils, etc., used by the early settlers and their descendants 1 during the first century and a half of the colony. From these things we can read much of the habits and customs i of the people. 1 Ivory. Most of the ivory that comes to the market is “dead”—that is. ivory taken from animals long since dead*, and which has been stored away by the natives for years. There is no danger in Africa of the supply being exhausted for several generations, at least. If there are souls in trees, Ute cork txiia must have a cork sola.