... A TRYING ALTERNATIVE. Beryl is just twenty-one. She is tall and graceful ; fafir as a lily, and as beautiful. She is the only child ofI the late Sir Gerald Blythe, of Bloscobel Towers, Torquay, an orphan and an heiress, Laset year rhe laid her well-worn ...

... REX CARSTAIRS' FRIEND. Rex Carstairs baa nothing 'to do and nobody to talk to, he had endured that state of things for nearly two hourp and could stand it moo longer, so he put on blie bat and went round to call on his friend, -Harold St. IMar. Arrived ...

... I mean his couduct during the late election, and particularly at that trying moment, when bis high sense of honour induced him to retire from the contest. A bout this there is no di fference of opinion whatever. It Is, therefore, sutlicient for me to observe ...

... twonderful way in shchie clever housekeepers roan save utaseen expenses without etartafliog the public comforts of the family. Site studied oil the best economies, and devised pt'ivate and peauliar savings of bet' owni, and thus was enabled to make ati ...

... HOW MARGERY FENNELL SAVED AN EXPRESS TRAIN. Ten o'clock striking by the little Dutch clock in the corner, and George Fennell not yet at bome. Margery Fennell was used to her father's absence of an evening-had been used to it all ber life, but whenever ...

... se, and the fireman were busy trying to put it'out. An ?? Irishman, who had been drinking on tick, beseeched a friend, a fireman, Ifor the love of Heaven,_Micky,.play on the shiate. Scone-A concert for the people. Dis- t-inguished Amateur (about to ...

... Frienidship is next dis- solved. -Ie felt it 6fiee ; lie now insinuates himself by aneans of sentimnents and professions Whieh were onte sincere. ?? seizes the moment of uisuspectingiaffection to ensnare the fmiends of his youth, borrowingt money whici ...

... YFoU try de &'igel's yr cp she said, Bveryliody seales in eilof'it. Hle did try it, and in three months n1o lie was well, and has been well ever since. In tie aletter dated December 17th. 1891, lie says, Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup saved my W life ...

... early life is the laggard of the word's race. * Truly happy las the boy whom parental or fiiendly care saves from this alluring- danger of youthful days. The- reason why truancy is so serious an evil is not the loss of a day or two it school now and then ...

... INORATITUDE.-When Duchenois, _ the celebrated French actress, died, a person niet an old man who was one of her.most intimate friends. He was pale, confused, a'eestricken. Every one was trying to console t him, but in vain. Her loss, he exclaimed, does ...

... tthat one of these stoves would save half my fuel ? 'Most decidedly I do; Iwill answer for it. Then give me your hand, my frind, said he, delighted, ?? I'll- tel you what I'll do; I'll have two stoves, and save it all. Two men paused before the ...

... -Canon is leaving Eng. land with Lord ?? for a teur in India, in order to try and recapture his lest health. Lord Lansdowne, the Viceroy of India, does not forget his old friends. He recently sent two beau ifel silver bowls, lined with gold, of exquisite ...