mutters in wliich you agree, and showing 
them that you are glad to find ground upon \~ 
which you can stand with litem; do you not t 
think that with them you would speedily <4; 
come into more cordial relations? that your k 
influence over them would he greatly in* ';1 
creased, and that your lifa in the main would 
bo pleasanter than it now Is? Mark you, I 
do not suggest that you accept their errors. 
I do not commend indifferontism; I am not 
oven preaching tolerance now. I am simply 
asking you to do them justice. For one, I 
should be glad to dispense with the charity 
of ihoso who are opposed to me, if I could 
get them to do mo justice. 
Getting up after awhile, ho brought the 
satchel out and examined the name. There 
was no mistake, it was the same hand. “ It 
13 a miracle, I don’t believe in such things,” 
ho said vaguely. 
Possibly ho did not sleeep. At. any rata 
he sat thcro in the morning with tho eon- 
tents of the 3 atchel nil about him, trying to 
write something. Whatever it was, he had 
rewritten it many times, far torn scraps c> 
paper lay scattered on the floor. This at 
last was suitable, and folding the slic-et and 
laying it one side, he proceeded to put the 
articles ono after another carefully into the 
satche.'. This completed, dress and all, ho 
laid tlio folded paper into the top, and 
locked it. Hesitating a moment, he cut the 
little ribbon that held the card, and leaving 
it on his desk, took his way directly to tho 
Express office. 
lie expected a letter to acknowledge tho 
receipt of the satchel, perhaps to tell lightly 
« il.l it. . 4 ,4 1 ... I 
^ so much as by seeming to forget sue a neeus 
yourself, make it an impertinence for another 
a to mention it. You arc proud." 
i “ Which is one of the unchristian virtues, 
1 and therefore dubious." 
T 44 Perhaps yes." 
“ I shall 1)0 obliged to yield tho palm in 
reading character, for I nm quite at a less to 
know why you would not bo a lielpflil man 
—unless, indeed, you have so much contempt 
for woman’s helplessness, you do not care to 
pamper thorn." 
lie shook hi i head. 11 Try again, and re¬ 
member we ore on our honor." 
She could not help thinking how queer 
ail this was; hut ho had succeeded in in¬ 
teresting her, if that could have been bis 
object, and Booming himeolf to bo equally 
interested, sho answered after a moment, 
44 Waiving tho possible solution that you 
have no taste for such things, I will hazard 
the guess that you have been too busy." 
“ Lot mo tell you,” ho said, turning eagerly 
bo a 3 to Dice her more perfectly. “ You will 
allow a little egotism, considering we arc 
strangers. I have had no home, nor mother, 
nor Bister, no one but my sell, and not so 
much as that always. It Is not strange, 
perhaps, that one warps a little under such 
circumstances, oven trying to do his best, 
which I certainly have. I can sec now that 
other ways would hnvo been better, other 
otyeots worthier; but having my own special 
wants that were never provided tor, and 
nothing in tho way of example to teach mo 
that there was anything higher. I marked 
out a purpose which was to fit myself for a 
nlacc in tho world and attain it. I have nc- 
somctiiing of you. I am aware that any- | 
where except in this country, and to anyone 
but mi American, an expression of such n 
wish would bo unpardonable. But, though 
your face is eastward, which I have been bold 
enough to surmise is homoward ns well, I 
trust you have been West long enough to 
know something of our peculiarities." 
She set him at case with a somewhat frank 
and detailed account of the whereabouts of 
her homo as well as the several places she 
had visited West, with now and then a sly 
use of Western isms in languago that lie did 
not fail to observe and acknowledge himself 
pleased with. Gradually they grew confi¬ 
dential and serious, and when the night was 
well spent., it would hava been a marvel to 
them to have the subjects they lmd touched 
upon passed in reviow before them. It would 
have been no less a marvel, if they had had 
the fortitude to faoo it, to sec an analysis of 
their feelings toward each other. It is 
wonderful iiow close together an isolated 
position will draw two people; and sitting 
in the same seat of a railroad car where 
everybody about them was sleeping, they 
wero as really alone ns in a boat at sea. 
perhaps they had spoken more freely of life 
and life’s best ends, and of their own thoughts 
and plans, even of their failures, than it would 
havo been possible for either to have talked 
with hla dearest friend. Certainly, though 
the night had seemed brief they acknowl¬ 
edged' tacitly that into it had been com¬ 
pressed a wonderful amount of experience. 
Tho conductor now and then in passing 
through had attracted them by a smile, 
otherwise they had been quite uninterrupted. 
As they drew near the town where ho was 
to stop he grew thoughtful and finally tak¬ 
ing a card from his pocket and idly turning 
it over and over in his hand a fow minutes 
he handed it to her saying, 44 1 am going to 
any further advance ; and vacillated be¬ 
tween never answering a letter at all, and 
giving a brief reply, which should includo a 
request that ho would not pursue the ac¬ 
quaintance. Not having had to decide bo- 
tween these two courses and a third, upon 
winch sho had not dared to speculate much, 
she did not know but she felt relieved; and 
though she rigbed in settling buck into tho 
routine of home life, without anything to 
break tho monotony, it was probably a sigh 
of content. _ 
CHAPTER V. 
In the busy days that succeeded his wake¬ 
ful night, John Gray found many odd min¬ 
utes in which to reflect with heightened 
color and quickened breath upon his fair 
acquaintance, but not an hour of the leisure 
ho wanted, to look out the name, till ho was 
back in bis little room in Chicago nearly a 
week after. It was not wonderful, perhaps, 
that among all the women he had met in 
society, during the brief period he lmd paid 
court to that masked queen, there had been 
no ono natural enough, or possessing tho 
requisite character, to beguile him into a 
wish for a closer intimacy. It is probable, 
too, he found such a resource In his old 
dream as to preclude the necessity of accopt- 
iny a reality not approaching his hleaL lie 
had begun to think with tho contemptuous 
generalization with which men often include 
tho whole sex in their disdain of the ordi¬ 
nary woman, and was fast outgrowing his 
old theories of equality, and his old fancies 
of sain tali ip. When that night's revelation 
had revived lib most generous faith, he felt 
a kind of exhilaration through those days 
when he had no time really to think, but 
now that be was seated leisurely beside bis 
own fire, with the little block book in lib 
hand, be began to reflect, more rationally. 
What, did be know about this girl, after all? 
That she was superior to any one he had ever 
met,—that she was strong and good, ha was 
sure; for the rest, ho had a picture of a serl- 
We find the following in an cxchnngo, in 
reference to tho capture of monkeys in Africa, 
and cannot vouch for hs truthfulness. Ad¬ 
mitting tho monkeys* taste for strong drink, 
it proves them to bo more nearly allied to 
humanity than wo Imvo previously suppose;!. 
Monkeys are pretty common, yet, as all 
the family are pretty cunning, has It ever 
occurred to tho reader how they arc taken ? 
Pitfalls will take a lion, and tho famished 
monarch of the forest will, after a few days’ 
starvation, dart into a cage containing food, 
and thus be secured. But bow m e monkeys 
caught? Tho ape family resembles man. 
Their vices are human. They love liquor, 
and fall. In Darfovr end Sauaar the natives 
make fermented beer, of which tho monkeys 
are passionately fond. Aware of this, tho 
natives go to the parts of the forest frequent¬ 
ed bv tho monkeys, and set on the ground 
calabashes full of tho enticing liquor. As 
soon a.3 a monkey sees and tastes it, he utters 
a loud cry of joy that soon attracts his 
comrades. Then an orgla begins, and in a 
short time the beasts show all degrees of in¬ 
toxication. 
Then tho negroes appear. Tho drinkers 
arc too far gono to distrust them, but ap¬ 
parently take them for larger species of their 
1 own genus. 
how she had thought it lost forever, possibly 
to ask something about it; further than that 
lie was skeptical. He didn’t know anything 
about these “happy chances.” With him 
effect was the sequence of cause. This strange 
thing had set him afloat, he was in a maze. 
It is questionable if in the six weeks after 
lie sent the satchel and heard nothing from 
it, he had once attempted to identify his 
remembrance of the gill who had taken 
such ahold upon his feelings, with the mythi¬ 
cal Mary De Forest of his fancy. This 
uniting of a dream and a hope, both vaguely 
undefined in tho mind of so practical a man, 
had produced a kind of paralysis of thought 
t hat admitted of no sane reflections. At the 
end of this time, however, business culling 
him into the State of New York, be stepped 
off the tx-aiu at Syracuse and purchased a 
ticket for Fnirtown. Ho would lmvc been 
puzzled, perhaps, to explain tho exact object 
of this. Certainly not to thrust himself up¬ 
on the notioe of a lady who disdained to ap¬ 
prise him evon of the receipt of her property, 
lie may have had a wish, Such as some of 
us have experienced, to s»o the place that 
such a woman called home, tho streets she 
walked, the sun that shone upon her.—[Con- 
' eluded next week. 
The negroes lane eomc up, and 
these immediately begin to weep, and oover 
them with maudlin kisses. When a negro 
lakes one by the baud to lead him off, the 
nearest monkey will cling to tho ono who 
thus finds a support and endeavor to go off 
also; r.ncl another will grab at him, and bo 
on until tho negro lends a staggering line of 
ten or a dozen tipsy monkeys. When finally 
brought to tho village, they are eocurcly 
caged and gradually sober down; but for 
two or three days a gradual and diminishing 
supply of liquor i3 given them, bo ns to 
reoonollo them by degrees to tholr state of 
captivity. 
SOWING WILD OATS. 
Must there be, in the early life of every 
mau, a sowing of wild oats? Some will 
contend so. And they will point,to the 
dissipated, reckless youth, —tho prodigal 
from truth and goodness and respectability, 
who is spending “ his substance in riotous 
living,”—and say bis season of sowing is at 
hand—that he will settle down by-and-by, 
and lead a correct life. To such wo com¬ 
mend these words, by some unknown 
writer; 
' In all the wide range of accepted maxims 
there is none, take It for all, more thoroughly 
abominable than the one as to the sowing of 
wild oats. Look at it on what side you 
will, and I will defy you to make anything 
but a devil's maxim out of it. What a man 
—bo he young, old, or middle-aged—sows, 
that shall he reap. Tho only thing to do 
■with wild oats is to put them carefully into 
the hottest part of the fire, and get them 
burned to dust, every seod of them. If you 
sow them, no matter in what ground, they 
tough roots, like tho 
SAYING “HATEFUL" THINGS, 
What a strange disposition is that which 
leads people to jay “ hateful ” things for tho 
mere pleasure of saying them. You nrs 
never eafo with such a person. When you 
have done your very best to please, and aro 
fociing kindly, and pleasantly, out will pop 
some bitter speech, some underhand stab, 
which you alone comprehend — a 6nccr 
which Is masked, but whioh is too well 
aimed to be misunderstood. It may be at 
your person, your mental failing, your fool¬ 
ish habits of thought, or some little secret 
of faith or opinion, confessed in a moment 
of genuine confidence. It matters not how 
sacred it may he to you, ho will have his 
fling at it; nay, since the wish is to make 
you suffer, ho is all tho happier the nearer 
he touches your heart. Just half a dozen 
words, only for the pleasure of seeing a 
cheek flush and an eye lose its brightness, 
only spoken because ho is afraid you are too 
happy or too conceited. Yet they are worse 
than bo many blows. How many sleepless 
nights have Bach attacks caused. Flow, 
after them, one awakes with aching <| - cs 
and head, to remember that speech before 
everything else—that bright, sharp, well* 
aitned needle of a speech that probed tho 
very center of your soul. There is only one 
comfort to be taken. The repetition of such 
attacks seen weans your heart from the 
attacker; and this onoo done, nothing that 
ho can say will ever pain you more.— Zla> 
senfftr. 
to arrest her writing, 44 if you do not impose 
any obligation as to tho use I shall make 
of it” 
She gave him another of those surprised 
glances t hat ho had grown familiar with, and 
must have seen something in his face that 
was satisfactory or that produced some oilier 
effect, for sue bent her head quickly and 
wrote the name. He was standing, and as 
she handed the book to him without looking 
up, the car gave ono of those sudden jerks so 
disconcerting when unexpected, and the 
book fell, shutting itself naturally. Ho pick¬ 
ed it up with a smile and taking her hand, 
bent down to say with emphasis, “ Thank 
you and good-by. I shall find the name." 
She sat quite still a long while with a sen¬ 
sation that was as nearly astonishment as 
anything; not so much at haviug Interested 
some one else, as to find herself in a kind of 
absorbed interest that was like nothing site 
had over felt, and like nothing Bho had sup¬ 
posed herself capable of feeling now. This 
stranger, who if ho was what ho seemed was 
well worth her thoughts, had brought to tho 
surface whatever was best and truest in her, 
and had shown her, for which she was siu'C 
she thanked him, that she was not dead to 
feeling nor to power. 
41 Supposing and supposing"— 
She hummed the air and smiled contempt¬ 
uously, and then comprehending that day¬ 
light was approaching, she pressed her eyes 
close to the window and examined the card. 
“John Gray, Chicago, Ill." Nothing ro¬ 
mantic in that; she should probably never 
hear of him again. Nevertheless, she put 
the card into her portmonnaie thoughtfully, 
a manner she retained all day. 
Getting home the next morning, and find¬ 
ing everybody 60 glad to see her, and herself 
in that feverish excitement that makes one 
want to tell everything the first hour, she 
quite forgot the adventure till at evening 
Lizzie found the card and asked about it. 
She told the story, animatedly enough, and 
added, “ Was it very improper, sis, to give 
him uiy name ?” 
“ I don’t know as it was. dear, if he is such 
think him, but I shouldn’t 
“ With all my shrewd guessing, I havo 
read but poorly if you would judge a man by 
what bo bad dono rather than by what ha 
had attempted.” 
“ And yet I have a great respect for tho 
man v. ho accomplishes something. We 
dreamers, lilto other people, admire what we 
cannot do." 
“Andyet?" he questioned. 
“Yes; but I am a woman and have a right 
to be impraotioal and a hero-worshiper." 
Ha nodded gravely. “ Which does not 
make it any clearer that I have not tho right 
to despise myself tor not being a hero.” 
She acknowledged the implied moaning 
with a searching look that was almost a 
frown. “No," he said, answering it, 44 don’t 
condemn me; I am not a professional flat¬ 
terer ; it was unintentional. But as I am in 
the boasting line, if you like that better thau 
being at the confessional, I would like to 
mention a project I am attempting now. 
Yon do not weary ?” 
44 Oh, no! please go on.” 
“ Being an orphan, and knowing to what 
sore and hurtftll want orphans arc exposed, 
it occurred to mo years ago that It would be 
a good thing to do something for them In a 
special way ; and having no one but myself 
to look after and to spend my money upon, 
I have been laying out some of it in building 
a school in a little town in Indiana, that was 
for years and is now as much my home as 
anywhere. It is nearly ready for starting. 
I am exclusive, like most people with ono 
idea, and make orphanage a test of admit¬ 
tance for pupils and teachers. Just now I 
am anxious to find a suitable corps of 
teachers" — he hesitated. “ Are you a 
teacher ?” 
She shook her head. “ Always wanted to 
will come up with long, 
couch-grass, and luxuriant stalks and leaves, 
as sure as there is a sun in heaven—a crop 
which turns one’s Insert cold to think of. 
The devil, too, whose special crop they are, 
will sac that they thrive, and you, and no¬ 
body else, will have to reap thorn; and no 
common reaping will get them out of the 
soil, which must he dug down deep again 
and again. Well for yon if, with all your 
care, you can make the ground sweet again 
by your dying day.” 
MANAGEMENT OF MEN. 
■Writing upon this subject in the Herald 
of Health, and having a very despicable 
man in mind, the Rev. Washington Glad¬ 
den remarks: 
Instead of regarding your neighbor as 
wholly bad, and treating him so, (you will 
bo likely to treat him so if you think so of 
him, for “ us a mau thinketh in his honit so 
is he," ) suppose you recognize his good qual¬ 
ities, and let him see that you do; suppose 
you stand ready to commend every good 
deed of his jnst as earnestly as you condemn 
his evil deeds; suppose that you are always 
ready to help him forward with sympathy 
and encouragement whenever be seems to 
be going in the right direction. Do you not 
know that so far as your life is affecte d by 
vnnr rp.lntinns to him. it will flow with a 
LIVING BY RULE, 
Our modes of l«fe must be adapted to our 
age, our occupation, and the peculiarities of 
our constitution. There arc certain general 
principles which aro applicable to ell. Every 
man should be regular in his habits of eating; 
should have all the sound sleep nature will 
take; should be in the open air an hour or 
two each day, when practicable, and should 
have a pleasurable and encouragingly remu¬ 
nerative occupation, which keeps him a little 
pushed; and they arc happiest who are in 
this last category. No one ought to make 
himself n galley slave to any observance; 
occasional deviations from all habits are ac¬ 
tually beneficial; they imparl a pliability to 
the constitution, and give it a greater range 
of healthful action. 
Thinking well may lead to doing well, 
a man as you 
