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Show fiery indignation, and the eyes glowed like balls of Are. He answered not a word but coming to me, held out his hand, and the hollow despair of the my sliver pieces. I will give to Jamie to buy whatever he wants; sdJ half of all I can earn JaSOME GOOD STORIES FOR OUR mie shall have. "That is mother's noble, unselfish tone haunts me now. JUNIOR READERS. It is needless to struggle longer boy. To give others pleasure, dear, will give you much more pleasure than against fate,' said he slowly; farewell. tha Crlppla," a Hrautlful Story the money possibly could." Marguerite. Heaven give me all the "Janil, for tha fauiilaiira of Our Junior The next day tin silver pieces found bitterness, and leave you peace.' Vrlouda lluw Kalpli llarauia tha their way to the s'ck child; and such And before I could speak, he was a happy boy as little Jamie was, and llappiaat Uoy lu tha Villas. anger with me was CHAPTER II. (CoxTixuin.) long closed volume of my experience. gone. My father's such a happy face Ralph wore! crushed so beneath was I terrible. But you cannot Imagine how keenly Now it seems that a knowledge of my The next Saturday night beside his I Buffer," Bobbed she. l.ltlia Mwaethaart. trials will give force to my advice, it, I made no effort to savea myself, and he found a piece of paper on which bed wub more than a like bride, 11EN curly sunshine corpse Can I not? ah. my child, you little will teach you to rely upon my sympawere the words, "It is more blessed to ov a l.rightly guess how thoroughly 1 read every thy, and, I hope, induce you to follow brought hither by your father, only to receive," and beside the than give If 1 thought any ef- two months after Emile's farewell.'' thought, how 1 bleed over every my instructions. The city roofs and paper a beautiful picture of tlie Boy mamma, my Oh, mamma, angel inward pang. Klirauds fort of mine could induce the count to alone Christ: under this. To my dear little sobbed Felicie; and you the street. And you da not blame me? Say you relinquish this marriage contract I mamma! " Down town to work son, that It may help him to be do not think I am wrong. should still keep silent but 1 am con- kuve lived till this time my little smiled The countess mournfully. Not wrong, my precious one, hut vinced that, fond as he is of you, he Kef. "Dear child, grief does not always we. Anil each like the imprisoned bird beating itself would break your heart before he would A Trui- - llmir Klorr. a kind found at I the friend. morn, kill. Moreover, unfor ambitious you. uselessly against the bars, very plans forego his same corner of law and the enforcement Abbe needed. The I Speaking comforter the Just wise. Felicie shuddered and neBtled closer What is unavoidable must be inert, of discipline in Yellowstone Bark, 1 no lungwill dead Is Recaled now; you And for all the oh, accepted with the best grace possible. in her mothers arms. which a there of heard bear tlie 1 w wreath a story I ould er wonder that hang every world, There was a time, my Felicie, when Spare yourself unavailing agony. I consider exceedingly important not not iiiIks when I tell his Christmas grave upon And if I could help it, was Felicie's your mother8 heart throbbed and be&t The long days comfort that I Hud In this. only as a comment on the discipline ul he taught me to be at peuce indignant reply. restlessly against just such an an- you the park, but as a moral lesson to parSometimes her step is quickened when sU again. reAt least, my love, you might try to nouncement as have you ents in domestic obedience. The story Hl't'S It was useless to repine, nothing look upon it in a pleasanter light. Who ceived how much Me from the distance hastening aiac1, tonight but Is literally true, and If It were not I to now why not try could relieve me Boirii'tlmi-her glances serin inclined to should im knows but the marquis may prove your more hopelessly, you may not repeat It. for it would have ideal hero? For I am sure there is no agine, when I tell you her whole find some happiness,' said he, since no value. Mr. Kipling says. "The law Sometimes own. meet with my a they reul love. I have watched you jeal- affections were given to another and heaven had sent me such lot?' This also of friendly the grace, is obey. jungle And I saw the wisdom and goodness Sometimes she blushes, liut through a'.l seems to la the law of Yellowstone ously enough, I hope, to make sure of that the startling revelation only came Even before you discreet. that. to her upon the command to receive a of the suggestion. Bark. There la a lunch station at the She never smiles, though oft my eyes enJewel, my hapmy came, my treasure, Felicie's eyes flashed angrily. husband from her own station." treat. upper basin, near Old Faithful, kept by calm and cheerful. I cannot like him. I detest him to The daughter reached up to kiss the piness, I had grown a very Intelligent and Ingenious man. Onward ahe hurries with the hurrying seek a defenceless, unwilling bride for quivering lips, which spoke these words I had shut the past from my mind as He got acquainted last year with a she throng, much as possible, and sought out the the sake of her wealth if he were pos- falteringly. I, too, go onward by another way. bear, wbo used to come to his house of my lot. Never should 1 Wondering If her sweet maiden thoughts every day and walk into the kitchen for I abhor sessed of all the graces should My poor little Felicie! you thought pleasures belong revealed it to you, but that it him. I knew not how to pity you, while you have To me. for one bleat moment of the food for herself and her two cubs. Tbs lesson. the needed me to seemed you cubs never came. The Now, my daughter is unreasonable. are so fortunately Ignorant of the fiery day got on It is even more hopeless now to at- As all the houre my tender thoughts In- very Intimate terms with keeper was the mild remonstrance. the bear, whs pages which I have Buffered. There close to escape from your father's will; But, mamma, is not this way of conwas a pleasant boy, who was a foster tempt Her lovely soul, like buds shout a rose. was always civil and well behaved and and the to can compel he king, reappeal would take food from his hand without tracting marriage barbarous and brother of my cousin Henri's, and who to marry as he wishes. For you, My little sweetheart, whoae dear name, the hand. volting? taking shared Henri's home and education, you no such trial as I have alas, One day toward sunaet the bear came Yes, my dear, exceedingly so. It who even accompanied him to Germany my Felicie. ie I know not she how lives nor neither I have to the kitchen, and, having received her la the fault of many years' growth. We to the college. It was done with the de- related; you understand why where, in France do not look upon human be- sire of giving (he poor, sickly child of kept you in such strict retirement, why Nor to what toll her light feet dally portion, she went out of the back door I have watched over, you so jealously pasa; to carry it to her cubs. To her surings as so many bouIs, worthy or un- nobility a companion to cheer, amuse I only know that ahe le good and fair. attachto any forming your prevent prise and anger, the cubs were there net ter And a that old world's worthy; but we rute rank with rank, and help him. And all Henri lacked sad (he I place, whether it joins great hearts and puny Emile possessed. He had a swift, ment before Beeing the marquis waiting for her. She. laid down the Heaven Is nearer since I've seen her food and ruh d at her Infants and gave natures or otherwise. It is a great keen intellect, a splendidly developed judged it best, also, that you should And face. see him before. My child, seek, I evil, yet you and I, Felicie, cannot al- frame, a wonderfully gentle, reflned, not Madeline 8. Bridges In Ladies' Home them a rousing spanking. She did not own sake Beek ruff them; she spanked them, and then Journal. ter it Your father approves or it, sees and knightly bouI. He was absolutely Implore you, for your she drove them back into the woods, no harm in it. You know how thor- necessary to the comfortable existence to be pleased with him. Felicie was not ready to return to her cuffing them and knocking them at Jaiule, the Cripple. ough an aristocrat he is. I have hith- of the feeble invalid, and he shared all F. erto tried to conceal from you the the advantages of wealth. He dressed own case. (By Lucy Gerrish In Union Signal.) every step. When she reached the spot That noble, generous Emile! said Hurrah! Ten cents every week for where she hail told them to wait, she pain it gave me to see his lack of sym- like a gentleman, he had an education all the errands I do!" shouted Ralph left them there and returned to the pathy with those below us. It seems far above the average, his manners she; have you ever seen him since? The countesB frowned a little, but an- to his friend Herbert, as he rushed out house. And there she staid in the the time has come now when your hap- were elegant, his bouI was pure. I was kitchen fur two whole hours, making of the house on bis way to rcliool. piness demands a better understandconstantly with the household. I swered calmly: took our I wish I could have ten cents, said the disobedient children wait for their horse ing Twice; once when thought it was a gity for poor Henri, I do not need this explanation at and affection for my cousin Annette, fright in Paris he rescued me from alHerbert, softly, but I don't think my food, simply to discipline them and difleast from a child I have seen the which drew me there, into that happy most certain destruction; but he never mamma could Bpare It to me, there are teach them obedtenre. The explanation is very natural. our for care people, circle. I never discovered that it was spoke, he thrust me into the count's so many of us; and, you know, Jamie ference in your and my father's. I have not always love for Emile, until I was informed arms, and vanished in the crowd. Your Is sick so much, we have lots of bills When the bear leaves her young in failed to notice the grateful glance oL by my father that he had accepted the father does not know of his exist- to pay. Poor Jamie! I do wish his a particular place and goes away in back would not keep growing so crook- search of food for them, if they stray ence. adoring love which follows you from suit of Count Languedoc. ed and ache so; I would like to have away In her absence, ahe has great difbcowI, nor the angry to cottage, cottage And again, the second time? perShe sighed heavily, and caught her ficulty In finding them. The mother fathhim grow well. or sullen apathy which greets my Her daughter sisted Felicie. breath qulverlngly. knew that the safely of her cubs and The gravetwo Felicie, er's appearance, replied boys started off to school; seized her hand, and covered it with It was here at the chateau. I was and her own peace of mind depended upon during the opening exercises ly. kisses. down (he garden walk you strict leading discipline in the family. Oh, that a in was thinking all the time what The countess was silent, lost I cannot tell you what strange imwhen I saw him grown older and Ralph we had more such mothers in tha Herbert bad said about little Jamie. painful revery. pulse impelled me to hurry away into sterner looking but with the same He knew Jamie was a cripple, hut he United States! Harper's Weekly. Oh, mamma, dont think I have not the little arbor where Annette and Henthe at eye, standing deep, melancholy did not realize that he must suffer a appreciated your noble nature, your ri Bat listening to Emile's melodious gate watching us." l A Dream. never deal. would treat generous delicacy, that tones as he read to them some old And you spoke to him? In the How did God happen to make him pleasant month of November, hint to me, nor aljow me to refer to, poem, and break upon them the anNo, my child, I went away at once; when all the leaves and grass had my fathers failings. Do you know, nouncement in the most tragic tone. I did not forget that I was Count that way?" said Ralph to hie mother been tinged a deeper brown by the came that how wondered you night I have often I Languedoc'S wife. My eyes were upon Emile's face. freaks of that autumn froHt. it was He did not make him that way, to have him, you who must have been saw it turn deadly pale; I saw the I dear, replied his I was Emile! then Felicie; Poor sighed standing on the front steps molher. "He was so grand and beautiful in your girlspasm of agony shake hiB strong young think I should try to comfort him a at school washing my slate. 1 had not shout field the a running after beautihood frame into the helplessness of child- little if it were me that he loved." ful yellow butterfly. It flew over the been at this a great while before my Felicie spoke timidly, expecting the hood. Wretched and selfish that I " said the counthe And old marquis iron fence; and, as Jamie was very attention was called to the fact that reproof she Immediately received. was, I felt a glow of joy to know that tess, anxiously. small, he tried to get through after it; my slate, when moistened, was a perHush, ray child! I cannot listen to he loved me that the blow which but the fence gave way and fell, crush- fect mirror, reproducing all the rare I about you. pray him, Dont talk a disparaging word. He is your father, pierced mine struck home to his heart. will not listen father if I ing little Jamie beneath It. His cries beauties of the oriental hill. I could my promise, I would indeed he had He said not a word, but threw down iny husband. attracted the men who were at work very easily see the little brooklet lya more generous forbearance for the his book, and walked away. Annette to my pleadings, to try to likeofhim. deing below, and I now took a fancy to in the Held, and they took hjm up gentme the privilege down trodden peasant; but we are all looking frightened, went after him, Till then, give ly and carried him home, never to examining the small objects reflected sinful in some way we must forget, and I threw myself, weeping bitterly, testing him. walk again, as he had injured his by the slate. First, I could see the we must overlook each other's faults." beside Henri. Poor boy I he tried to IV. CHAPTER spine. So he has to keep in his chair clear water as It flowed In a hurry As if there were any fault in your comfort me but he had read that one over pebbles and shells soon to OOLISH child! all the time; and mamma thinks he skurry character! exclaimed Felicie warmly, swift look exchanged between Emile be landed in the mighty "Father of a be commust little ah. you very patient little uch sinking down into her seat again her and myself, and well understood the Waters. While more watching the pebbles so than a some mother's little prehend boys as excitement Bomewhat exhausted. over rolled and over, I thought depth of my wretchedness. Too well they who have everything and I am sure feverish anxiety, Alack, Felicie, if you knew what he knew, who had known such a true A rolling stone gathers of the adage, be God must countess. of the such a patient proud sighed constant struggling I have endured! nobleman with nature's signet, instead no moss. Again could see the merry little sufferer. Felicie turned, I have am 1h I of on his thinking. of an earthly monarch's, But it you as they twirled In the brown brow, leaves I not should have thought God and kisBlng her been painfully anxious concerning this could have no heart for a lower union as If struggling for morning sunlight, would let that earnhorrid said fence come fondly, came streaming In Biinbeam engagement; but I build all my hopes of soul. each that down, said Ralph. estly: them and their kinsmen dryad1. upon the marquis; I have only heard upon My poor, poor mother!" sighed Fewas It not God's My dear, dear fault; he made favorable accounts of him. Oh, my licie, as she wiped away the streaming Jamie well and strong. But others At last, on examining the image of an do not mamma, 1 discovered a very small hare, old child, you must learn to love him, tears. distress yourself were careless, and did not keep the clad log, wilful this subdue must objection In autumn bis The countess smiled drearily. you suit, reared back as be fence should it to I will try for me. kept. please you to one you have never seen, or your It is of the past I am telling you.my I will promise to obey you. This reDo you suppose He would rare if I In his nest of leaves and possessing all If happiness will be wrecked. Heaven child not of the present, remember. cital has indeed deepened your authorbought an awful lot of candy with my animal dignity, as he were the king I was so of beasts, while alone. save you from all I have undergone!" Emile found means to speak with me as increased money? as well my love for last amused at that I demy He waB nearly crazed with ity, You, mamma!" exclaimed Felicie, in alone. discovery I am afraid He would think Ralph Let us put away the subject you. rided to make an immediate exploraastonishment, quite forgetting her own grief. He talked bitterly and wildly; until at least there is no escape from rather selfish. grief in pity for the storm of emotion alas, truthfully, also, as I acknowledged it. Have you heard the strange stories The next day was Sat unlay. Ralph tion of this lovely spot. Noon came on, and I. with all my bright hopes, dewhich the question brought to her usu- then and now. What was a paltry afloat around the chateau concerning a kept hearing the word selfish," and coronet, he asked, beside a lifetime of visitor to our little forest? whether hu- his heart seemed full of the story of lit- scended the hill, crossed the brooklet, ally calm and gentle mother. and found everything as represented Hindi! Bald the countess, regaining love and happiness? lie was not no- man or ghostly remains to be deter- tle Jamie. The bright little silver piece still on my slate. As soon as the hare deher composure with a powerful effort. ble born, but he should never be poor. mined. Twice he was tected my presence he gave up his com"They are coming with the refreshment His education, his strength, his talnot. What can you stayed intohis pocket. "Certainly would were ents mine an he unfailing spend it for candy, and fortable position and made his exit tray." mean? replied the mother, looking ex- tempted twice The servants entered, spread out the make me happier, as his wife, than the something said in the little heart among theI dense undergrowth. About interested. this time awoke and found I had only tremely crown. "Selfish! tiny table with a dainty repast, lighted count could with a palace and a was been dreaming.' Trebor Wenner. most reliable "Old Jeannot my cantwo I he week silver him. Then went in contradict Another could of candles not by. and still anthe scores came in Victoire the other other and another, until four little silfrantically besought me to fly to the authority. delabra. and vanished again. inevening, chattering with fear, saying ver pieces, making forty rents, were Kiperlenre. Now, then, you must tell me about new world, just in the glory of its that some calamity was about to befall In a little box. Now, Bairick Muldoon, said the it, mamma! said Felicie when they dependence. Oh, my child! Heaven our family; that all the peasants had nicely put away One night as his molher kissed him magistrate to the evidently alarmed spare you the terrible conflict which rose from the table. t, she said. "What is the mat- witness on the stand In a case ot shook my very soul! It was a terrible seen a dark figure hovering around, CHAPTER III. temptation to leave the harsh, unpity- which always vanished into air the ter with my boy, that he is so quiet burglary, bear in mind that you have sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, HE countess had ing father, who would wreck my hap- moment it was approached by any one. and thoughtful?" out reason her of the to I back a choked tried and nothing but the truth.' belief, so to the with touched which lump fly Ralph needlessly, piness scarcely stammered Mr. Yls, yer honor, the food, her face one my whole heart clave to. But I and finding it useless to reprove her would come In his throat, and with a was pale and very was spared the decision. My father firm conviction, I demanded who had cry said. O, mother, I can't get that Muldoon, his eyes wavering from tha sad, as she drew had somehow obtained an idea of the set the stories afloat. She named two word selfish out of my heart, and I Judge to the jury and back again; It's her daughter to her cause of my reluctance to fulfil his or three but Jeannot is such a steady, do wish I could make God see me not mestlf that'll do the very best I can; I selected him from so selfish. I tried to think it was not but I hope the glntlemen will be a trifle side, and pillowing wishes. He had watched our meeting faithful old man, and went at once to ac- ms that was selfish, but I know It slsy on me at the Btart, for It's littla the bright, young in the summer house between the two the number, the silly wom- was. of used I am to that sort av thing, yer him cuse roarfrightening us a He came estates. like lies upon head upon beof his ssld Instead astonishment. en. To honor. "Never mind," my most if mother; Emile the he answered: upon lion; ing shoulder, heaped he persist- you are really sorry, God will underNothing else but abusive language, the moat abhorrent ing ashamed and repentant, was all true. it It often rnnkes a man hot when yo in stastand. ed declaring a was like marble Emile revilings. your happiness, I know I what SB him cold facts. (TO tell COXTIXUSD.) do will "Mother, dear, could tempt me to unBcal this tue, only the nostrils were curved with i with FOR BOYS ANDGIRLS.1 them j MMiet-hra- ri s u I Faut-lfu- boy-m- good-nigh- . j |