r quit „ IgbUr, Mr*. De*y. who wu * matronlT woman of ^ —o ^udohUdnn, * ami tn«n aboot nrenteen, anil i ’VSSJ' miles bom the oily of New York, in fins old place near the water ed with ererr erldenoo of ti and wealth. My fint introdnotlon was in a nary profaeaional way. I rode Bantnadon Place, aa it waa sometime* «Sd7S2*dl«*.t ’ T — shown into an old-I

!o the°

a chair wi ■cr which ’"""ify’spprosch aronsed him, and aa he atarted op I waa enrpriaed to find him - -oath of seTenteer —- ■ old look of faee.

“You are kind, sir—there is; bt Stephen has often hinted that, unless many Mm, I will find myself poor,

wish I knew his reason**

“It waa merely to frighten you. drew the deed of treat myself, and think the property, aa pointed out to me by your grandmother, must be worth at ,i£. - . -fi«— The dty is

my grandmother. She dialike* to be troubled with details of business, and wished me to state to you the particulars of her present wishes. You will find her a remarkable woman." “ I presumed aa much from what I hays heard of her. Mrs. Hr-*---the appearance of aperao Very decided, air. She has peculiar notions, and needs an at in yery few of her affair*. She withe*, at present, to giro to my oonaln, who is a mare child, a sufficient fortune to place her beyond the danger of want, and she does not wish this to so be gireu aa to place the child in possession of gjsjBopnfr, ->•— “She wiahei

Debray and Stephen were coming in. The former laid: - “I am glad to hare met you, air. Stay a moment Mias Debray, this gentleman, your eouain, has selected Una day to make certainly ill-timed proposals for your hand. I would hare preferred to leave snch ten until my mother's grays were l what grown silent after pur returning foot*tope. But ha leayes no alternative, ‘--ring informed me that the only terms which we can remain in this houso i our aeoeptanoe of his propoaala." "Nay, madam, yon apeak harshly; said not that” "You said as ranch, air. Let ua nc dispute about ahadea of meaning. Tour answer, my child." - "Stephen ha* my an "- Haa he yours?"

. beg your pardon, mr, I most

troduoe myself, I aeo. Debny la . .

Mias Debray la my oonaln by f

~He waa a good-looking man, with the ,

unmiatakeable out of a sailor. protean on explained why I had not him before. Hia eye waa intelligent - ' 11 oflife. I liked him at a glance, three, minutes he had won hia . my heart, aa I doubt not he had long ainee to the heart of Mia* Debray. ‘”-5 smiled pleasantly and frankly in face, and held out her hand to him. * i■ IK* Mmtlaman. is* ,

ike the

Mias Debny, of whom you spok> day you left the old place ? Has fear. I am your confidential p:

aionad adviser, you know."

“It ia he, air, and no other; I will be frank, since I have no motive for concealment John,'yon are free to leave me. You have beard how poor we are.

What eay you f

She laughed aa the caked him. As if she did not know what hia anawer would be! Blessed be pure, treating woman's lore—love that oversteps all barriers of false i iat treads, m

der foot all i

id spoke in a broken and

m the labor of the

benefit I was to prepare the treat deed, entered the room. She waa a girl of

and handing my draft.toaolerk to copy.

“I have considered it monthly '’int^lhink. I am rich, and _9oee poverty, * —’ ’

of this old homi • daughter is la not this ao

believe^it ia, mafinm,” aaifl I, for rut time speaking. '‘I certainly drew a deed of valnablej , todretL^Iromei that kind, some year* ainoe. But I think I hear4 that it was destroyed bor..w.; vmtv; pr Ihorerwaa an error in it, fvt&eiort. My solicitor if it But lawyer* diCer." “That i* not to the present point at all, air. I tMnk the win of n* mother gives me her oarriage and horse*. If you will erder theml win leave with my

gronp, and I left th« 1 hilarious. The nor

j I In my office, when - heard a ourioua sound in the street and walkingoutwaa astonished to see Stephen Huntingdon In hia oarriage, *hyieking out e eerie* of moat blasphemous expressions at tome person on the •idewalk. A crowd inrtantly gathered, but even this had no effect on the maniae, for eneh he wa*. HU rage knew no bounds, and wa* increased by the cool and provoking eonduot of his antagonist whoec head wa* directly under my window, to that I could not aea hia face. So furious grew Stephen, that at length he seined the whip from the coachman and struck a long lashing blow into the otOwd. In a twinkling I saw the cool stranger advance, acme Stephen by the collar, and drag him out of hu carriage to the mdewalk, box

The trial waa brief, and

feebly. We could but , >r, and with that we were abundantly prepared. Men of • tending and reputation spoke of him in the highest terms. The prosecuting officer said he would admit his previous good character. 1 When I had oouoloded my appeal to he jury, I found that, if I had moved JO one else, I had deeply affected my poor client. HU ghastly appearance, as I resumed my seat, frightened mo. Butwheu the jury had retired, he leaned

over to me, and - hardly^intelligil

me a great wretch. Yc know how easy and simple a thing, times, it U to oommit a terrible enm.. The pee, the paper, the ink, lie before you. It U but a touch, a wave of **— hand, and the work U done, and . are nch, and who U to know that yon did it? It waa an accursed accomplishment, and like all the inventions of the man that led me to it ~

“ Who waa that r

“A pupil of mine five year* ago. He used to praise my band-writing, and tempt mo with offer* of money ‘ for him a hundred enriou* *f miserably poor then, end easily ■ted. I wrote him letters and notes

copied poems » " "

It bmgth helped grandmother, that frightened the old lady on a first of April. He got me to oopy an old deed of hand, exactly imitating it in color and paper, and everything, cuept that he made the description different, and hi* grandmother led that there wa* a terrible

1 waa frightened nearly out ■es at the idea that ahe waa

thousands leas than ahe had supposed. I succeeded *c —" **“•

that when rite temptation

of her a

ition, while they made good c _ie. They proved the will of '

Mr*. Huntington. They proved also c that ahe had been in possession for more •

fifty years of the premises in quos- t They proved finally the will of < Huntington’s father, brief and ‘ simple, giving kU entire property, without naming any in particular, and boro

they rested their ease.

I remarked coolly that the U of testimony waa superfluous, a* v would soon perceive, and 1 amused self in looking at the anxious face

Irntingtnu, who sat with

^ near him, prepared to overthrow the tnut 1 - deed if I should offer it.

But I had no auoli intention.

I opened to the jnry with a brief hUtorr of the Mrcumstoneea leading to the -me. I stated candidly the error in the net deed and then related the story of is forger. I reminded the judge of iat solemn night, and hU deep interest i my atory riritod Ihe attention of the

jury. I did not connect tho stb thU deed. I left that for thei

the party became afraid t

' vatched each other'i rearing night* each r hia head, ready foi

oy; while tho scared Esquimau scarce dare shut their eyee for fear of being

murdered and cab

- 1*hen“m_ .. *ire^tmlfbeMnd Mni and I P rotl ? W j 1 '' m '^ 1 n tho same way b) about the "I wiah to express to ; tion, and hia bead lashed lo ae( , t >n .| „k your forg by a cord from his neck. In | (or - j m p ru dence last night. ition ho waa left until 10 1 mo t hj 8 onoo> „ml I promise you o'clock Tuesday, when some neighbors j norM ~,t drunk again." - and released Mm from hia | Smudgkins says the shot ws

rned i

hopeless. One of tho atrangeet point* in this ease, to my mind, waa the fact that the error in the description of the property KYtati'-.SfEns i&SSESdSlK.S'-'-'--

give 'myself. Fanny thinks ah nothing to forgive. May He be tnl before whom I shall soon aj I heard but little of tho last part i _la sentence, for I saw In hi* story eolation of my error in the Detemy trust deed. I did not even ask the name of Ms pupil. I saw it all. It wa* a deep-laid plan of Stephen Huntingdon. The atory of tho first of April and his grandmotber'a fright was ml a fabri tion, of course. He had planned ' freed when theold lady first detennii to make the trust. I began to see way out of the difficulty. At length s stir outside the door nouneed the return of the Jury, Si

» pro

. ill.-—

day, ia

it to as i case only, and in no outer, has the aignifleanoe of a lightning flash, after whim be awaits, almost breath- ‘ as, tho next and more terrible, which ay destroy Mm. "Gentlemen, have you agreed on ■or verdict ?" “We have." “ what ia your verdict ? Guilty It guilty ?" “Guilty; but wo strongly reooi and the prisoner to the mcrey of the

tho atory with Hm .. my ability with

that I knew and waa ready to expose hia rascality, I Moaed without informing the court what I intended to prove, and leaving my antagonists still usuapenae. I then oaUed my first and only witness: an old man, exceelingly old, well known through the city aa an accuretq historian and a perfect walking record of old events and land marks. “ Mr. Stephens, do yon know who oonpled the farm commonly called the

Inland Ham In 17—?"

“Very well indeed, air. It waa the ider Judge Huntingdon's favorite farm 1 those days, andhe lived on it for - ■—— *—-| frequently

when ducked MoKiasick i

| day ht

well, frol

Teusday nool [art, who are both roc i arrested, a— 1 —*-

^answer for asBauit with in- j ■ infliot great bodily injury ; and | ““

0 ! A jury once returned into court in or- : ’ dor Uiat one of their number might bo c UK0 j instructed in the following point of law;

"I believe that the evidence ie one way, and tho other eleven believe different; .' does that justify any other juryman ] knocking me down with a chair ? "

fer, she

ho recently large family are To Mre. Buddington'a angst she should come homo with

she should come homo' she replied, “What, and leave au • victuals here for other "000010 to No; Fauna and I shall slay

all eaten." Now, Mrs. Had-

dington it contentedly " *

opments, strong "in tl:

month, at least, will fit homo again, and of Ms ability the: vindicate himself from ell the caper aiona that have been whispered againii him in Ms responsible position as com

of the Polaris.

tqneetio: quite away all their foothold. "Did you know the father 0 Huntingdon?" “I knew Mm way well, air.” “He was a man of large property, wa*

he not?"

"Stephen Denton? Ha, ha! not be. He was a little ereckrd. poor man. He died poor as a ret, but ImupUnghe waa rich. Ho made a win, ami Mr*. Huntingdon had it proved after iie waa dead, though he did not leave a farthing to ^ay^tbe fees. But ahe had greet respect And •o'Sr*?'Huntingdon's title came un her husband's father, and not her •n father. Now to the next atop. The

In Hot Weather.

If during the hot weather people, afir becoming heated and fatigued with ork or ex erase of any kind, eat freely [ cabbage, green-peas and bra- s. _jelona, encumber*, green apples, and similar articles, the probability ia that In a few honrs they will think they are attacked with genuine As iatio^ cholera.

1 of anr kind at this season

invite disease and death. The market

itl^abound in unripe

stowed awn in an mao forgotten by tho whole' dnoed. It waa rolnmlno it all. Farm after farm w carefully; personal securities we mtod seriatim, until the immens. a of the late Mr*. Huntingdon id and described, and then g. ‘ " " Huntingdon. ind to hold

faith” that a

will find her husband

1 paper report* that recently a Mr. Jean A. Lane telegraphed another Jean A. Lane, in Sherman, Texas, to meet him on a certain day in Galosbnrg, IB.; and it proceeds to tell tho following story: "Jean A. Lane, No. 1, wa* informed by the banker at Sherman that, throngh a New York bankinghouse, be was authorized to drew on a London house tor almost any amount of money. Jean A. Lane protested that he knew nothing of the matter; that he waa not aware any rich relatives or other persona had placed to hia credit in London any sums of money, great c small ThsShormnnbankerinformedhii that ho most be the man; that ho knr *' to bo Jean A. Lane, 'Whereupon A- Lane proceeded to draw in Ms favor *10,000, and in favor of brothers and brether-ln-law, *30 making in all *40,000. The draft* honored, and *10,000 in gold were paid thereon. In a few day* Jean A. Lane Met Itoned np. telegraphed to No.

iso of any kind, and cleanliness

ipe or decayed ■Band for isle ci

all easy victim* tivarH dodontion, prudenoe, _n all things are the

against summer ailments of every kind —tho beet preventives against the ' tality of any peetilenoe which may inde the great city. Caution, not fear, what tho public should exorcise, as 0 mortality increases with midsummer

Dangerous Traveling. An overland traveler writes ti arakee- paper long angers incurred ■ . itievea, and desperadoes througlmnt he entire journey. He says: "Their pentious cover the whole field; spotsn dog the step* of person* leaving Ian Francisco, and by means of the telr£

ing protested fro didn’t think he wi

How Starch Is Hade.

Laundry starch is made from iat grain being composed of ■urtha pure ataroh, the other mrth comprising * great variety of ther material*, which are not only difflolt of extraction and removal, but lust ho thoroughly done if the starch

_l to bo first-clasa. These impurities are woody fibre, oily matter, and gluten

' *— of those ingredients, it

“ ■ ‘ ’ with tho

(glue.) Any o

ground, of an alkali, poeseaaingaitrong chemical affinity for oil and gluten, but none whatever for ataroh, which unites with tho oil, gluten and woody fibre,

An Austrian Fan

The Wittingan farm esta a at in Austna. It embraces all m t]l0 16th of May to the 6th of ,es of agncultur^-cattlo breed- thOT0 w „ rc 5Ii 577 «*,. 0 f cholera ■eep breeding, Ac. The Ponce | ^ k al|ici . out of which 19,007 ended eleven places, five of which be- ( ^ _knd from the 1st of July to to the Wittingan teree M the | ^ 6lh o( Jal t k PJ . 0 were nearly *00 itz and three to tho Hammer see- ... This is not an exaggerated —‘-ininj 6.000 a—— _ . .. ■ - >■-

ratable ground, divided as follows:— Grain, 60.3; meadow. 38.3; psstnrsge, a* ; nurseries, 2.3 ; hop gardens, 0.4 ; —d, ai. On the 1st of^May last -ms was 1,000 oattio. 3,271 sheep 10 horses, 11 foal*, besides 17 spans of Torses used for home purposes. On lie eleven farms are employed eleven mperintendents, ten chief threshers, lino fodder masters, two guardians of die meadows—in all thirty-two persons, ind a host of laborers, men and women. The wages of labor average from one to tiro dollar* s week in American money. Forest culture jp the most interesting industry connected with the form, end has at Wittingan a very interesting history. The first mention of measures — token to protect the forests oocnr

1 seventeenth century. Now the

culture of trees has developed to a system as accurate and regular as tho

growth of cereals. The e

20, from 21 to 40, 61 to 80, from 81 t 120 being about th

rom 41 to 60, from 100 and above 100, extent of age per-

the official records attest iti Itiqtorts from Onawa, Manona Coon

sport, fo

if the Western part of

destroyed corn and oats. There are very poor proajKCts of anything Jjut a however, and there ia a fine crop. There is.a story told of an eminent criminal lawyer who. on one occasion, made such * powerful plea in favor of ■ notorious thief on trial that not only did tho jury acquit the rascal, but one of . tlie jurymen remarked, on bring dls-

self.

law-abiding

A Header Alienated, wtom contemporary thinks it 1 relate that an Iowa editor, reel keep up with tho styles, ran

Very eonsdentii

re tlie people of Rochester,

Itoxicated young men went to bed on the railroad track the other night, and in the ordinary course of railway travel were run over and killed. Bnt ihe people bed an idea that the bodies must remain undisturbed till a sleepy ooroner could be summoned from ms house

some miles distant.

experienced husband in Lafayette

Ind., 1 wife fr

lection, but before

ahewi

$£d°he woMdf^V;min" followed and overtook the truant pair. Th(

or got behind the woman, and prepared to *cll Mi life as dearly aa possible. Ho waa uncertain aa to whether

the ontraged husband would aboot

or murder him with a carving k . Ho stood there like the boy on the burn-

ing deck, and calmly awaited

suJL The outraged husband came up within about two feet of the editor, and said: “ Ouaa your Impudence, I want you to atop my paper. 1 ' That was all follow The editor recovered himself and ai L leave he would have the matter attended

During all Jht trying

Ity yean shows to 1 eagh process of raskini

experience I the moot

1 stuck to the editor ti. girl’s stooking. Borne

.. people get mad and atop thsirpaper

. | ahnoat nothing—it beats aa

.3181 jllH JrtijpiA f *toY w

homo to his it he changed

nty five dollar

r switch and vioo

After s critical examination by herself and lady friends the choice fell upon that labelled twenty five dollars, and sbe decided to keep it, notwith-

■"1# husband's plaintive pro-

could not affbrd to pay out more than ten dollan for such an article,

curious battle took plaoe, recently,' 'elham, N. H., between a hen and a

which wanted to dine off some of the young chicks. The matronly hen made a loud out-cry, and at the approach of the reptile flew «i it with ruffled feathers and threatening beak, which it* adversary evaded as beet it could, but finally, after repeated efforts to secure a chicken and aa many rebuffs bythe hen,'it crawled off into a wall, and the frightened and enraged- bird clocked a retreat and got away without the loss of • single member of her

family.

.Iwrheji •*! (II,rad