lag words. He could not trust himself to speak, 
hut crushing the letter In his hand, left the house 
without another word. 
Twelve months have rolled away, and It Is again 
the eve of St. Valentine. Once more a little figure Is 
crouching heforo the lire. The bright blaze falls 
upon her chestnut hair, and Ups it with gold, ]ust 
a8 It did a year ago. it falls, too, on her Bweet 
face and reveals how much she has suffered In all 
that dreary time. 
The hope expressed In her letter ha 3 been ful" 
filled, in the Interval elapsed she has not once 
seen Frank Drayton. But has she succeeded In 
forgetting him ? Ah! no, and she begins to fear 
she never will. In her hand is the Bame photo¬ 
graph, and she gazes on It now through a mist of 
unshed tears. 
“ Who would think,” she murmured, “ that the 
owner of that face could he so false—so cruel; 
and yet I am so weak, so fond, so deficient In 
woman’s pride, that I foel I love him still. No- 
no. What do I say? i must and will forget 
him!” 
And governed by this determination, she tears 
the photograph la two, and after one last linger¬ 
ing look, flings it Into the Are. 
The flery tongues devoured the pieces of card¬ 
board In an instant. 
“ How wretched I am 1” she thought, “ and last 
year 1 was so very—very happy l ” 
And with a burst of anguish she burled her face 
In the soft cushions of her mother’s chair. 
Absorbed lu her grief, she did not notice the 
noiseless opening or the door, nor the appearance 
of the servant who stood upon the threshold. He 
paused irresolutely, and then another figure stood 
beside him. The new-comer made an imperative 
gesture for the domestic to withdraw, and the 
door closed silently, leaving the stranger in the 
room. It was some time before he moved. He 
saw the dark figure kneeling by the chair—her 
stifled sobs came softly upon hts ear. At length 
he advanced. On the thick carpet, his footfalls 
made no sound. He reached her side unnoticed, 
and then bending forward, touched her with an 
unsteady hand. She looked up quickly. 
'* Frank!” she exclaimed, for she recognized his 
tall figure at a glance. * ‘ Frank!” 
There was a world of reproach, or surprise, and 
yet or tenderness, in her tones. 
“ Kate t” he said, In a voloe broken by emotion, 
“ forgive me for intruding upon you thus; but I 
could keep away no longer. That 1 am herein 
opposition to your wishes I am well aware; hut 
I felt the Irresistible desire to see—to speak to you 
once again—must be ray excuse. You shrink from 
me 1” he added, in pained accents."Do not—oh, 
do not send mo from you till you have heard what 
it Is I wish to say.” 
“I will llsteD,” 6he said, faintly; “hut do not 
keep me long. I am far from strong and—” 
“Kate, dearest,” he Interrupted In a broken 
voice, advancing a step nearer to her as he 
spoke “ I have come to-night to entreat you to 
forgive me for all 1 have done-for all the anguish 
I have made you suffer. I have come to tell you 
that the mad passion—I will not profane It with 
the name of love—which I had for Cousin Kate no 
longer has the shadow of an existence, it died 
out that night—that night when I received this 
letter and this ring. Those words of yours bid¬ 
ding me farewell revealed to me, like a flash 
of light, the enormity of my mistake. I knew 
then that it was love I felt tor you, and that the 
other was an insensate Infatuation, can you 
guess what my feelings were when I made tho 
discovery? 1 wrote to you; but every letter came 
back with the seal uubroken. I tried to see you 
but was denied admittance. It was not till to¬ 
night that I was enabled to gain access to you. 
Speak to me, Kate-speuk to me, or do I plead tu 
vain? if you fear my proffered love Is likely to 
prove transient, dismiss the thought. Twelve 
months Is long enough to test the reality or my af¬ 
fection. In all that lime it has never swerved, 
and through all time to come I give you the as¬ 
surance that it never will. Speak to me. That 
you have listened to mo so long gives me hope. 
Will you accept the love I offer you ? will you 
let the past be as though It had never existed? 
Will you forgive me ? Will you be my wife 7” 
His tones, words, manner, all proved the sin¬ 
cerity of everr word he spoke, and appealed Ir¬ 
resistibly to Kate's loving heart. Buteven If it had 
not been so, there was a still stronger advocate 
for him in her own breast, she was, however, 
too agitated to utter a syllable. At the last words 
she gave a step forward and sank helpless Into 
Ills arms. She felt herself pressed tightly In his 
embrace; she felt, kisses showered upon her Ups 
and brow; and the next moment she felt the en¬ 
gagement-ring was once more supped upon her 
finger. 
“ Ahem!” said a voice. 
The lovers started, and looked up, surprised to 
find they were no longer alone. 
Frank was the first to recover his self-possession. 
Keeping Kate prisoner with one hand, he held out 
the other aud exclaimed: 
“My dear Mis. Seton, I am Indeed most happy 
to Inform you that the misunderstanding be¬ 
tween your daughter and myself no longer ex¬ 
ists, and there remains nothing now but for 
Kate to fix the day when 1 may have the happi¬ 
ness of making her my bride 1” 
■ -»■»»- 
MAGAZINES FOR JULY. 
Thb Oriental and Biblical Journal. Con¬ 
tents Influence of the Aboriginal Tribes upon 
the Aryan Speech of India, by Prof. John Avery; 
The Latest Cuneiform Discovery, by Trof. A. H. 
Sayce, D. D., F. R, s,; The Assyro-Baoylonlan 
Doctrine of Immortality, by Rev. o. D. MUler; 
oslrlds of Auelent F,gypt, by Prof. T. O, Paine; 
Human Sacrifices in Auelent Times, by Senor 
Orosco y Berra; Teutonic Mythology, Pror. It, B. 
Anderson; The Antiquity of Sacred Writings In 
the valley of the Euphrates, by Rev. 0. D, MUler; 
A Cinerary urn, by Rev. Selah MerrUl, D. D.; 
Mount Tabor, by Rev. S. D. Phelps, D. D.; Edlto- 
Hal Notes; Miscellaneous; Archaeology and Eth. 
nology; Art and Architecture; Geographical Ex¬ 
plorations; Proceedings of Societies; Index of 
Articles on Archaeology, Anthropology and Eth¬ 
nology, 
Cleopatra’s Needles.— The remarkable obe¬ 
lisks whlolv have been known to the world under 
the slguiar cognomen of Cleopatra's needles, and 
which are now being removed, one to England and 
the other to tho United States, have a much more 
interesting arcbajologteal interest than 13 general¬ 
ly supposed. They were taken from the celebrated 
quarries atSyene, and were, like others, construct¬ 
ed in the usual tapering form symbolizing the 
Bun’s rays- The material of which they are com¬ 
posed 13 a rose-coiorea granite. Pliny states that 
they were transported to the NUe with the aid of 
flat-bottomed boats, floating in canals especlaUy 
prepared tor that purpose. It is supposed that 
they were afterwards erected to their place by 
making a groove at their base, In which they 
might turn as a hinge, and then building a mound 
of earth, which Increased in size as the top of the 
shaft arose, until the monument stood erect. They 
were originally set up by Thothmes HI, one of 
Egypt’s greatest rulers, at Heliopolis, or the City 
of the Sun, as early as 1,600 B. C. They were 
transported to Alexandria under Tiberias, and set 
up In front of Cesar's temple, where they obtain¬ 
ed the name which they bear. The name was 
given to them because of a tradition that they 
were removed to Alexandria during the reign of 
Cleopatra. The obelisk removed to England Is 
6 S feet flve inches high, and contains on Its two 
faces hieroglyphs expressive of the titles of 
Thothmes HI; on the other two Ramses II has 
added his own, Illustrating only the pomp and 
vainglory of these monarchs, but absolutely des¬ 
titute of historical Information. The other obelisk 
on its way here contains many similar inscriptions, 
and was erected by the same monarch. The sig¬ 
nificance to the Bible student which these remark¬ 
able monoliths possess, la not so much lu their In¬ 
scriptions or their forms as In the fact that they 
were probably standing In front of the great tem¬ 
ple to the Suu when the Israelites were in Egpyt. 
They also remind us of the two pillars Jochln and 
Boaz, which Solomon erected in front of his tem¬ 
ple. Such obelisks were always erected In pairs, 
and were most common and prominent symbols of 
worship at the east.—Biblical Review. 
The American Naturalist.—Contents.— The 
use of Agricultural Fertilizers by the American 
Indians and the Early EogLlsh Colonists; A Sketch 
of Comparative Embryology; List of the Birds of 
the WllUamette Valley, Oregon; A Botanist in 
Southern California; Progress of American Car- 
clnology in 1ST9; The structure of the Eye of Trllo- 
bltes ; Recent Literature; General Notes; Zool¬ 
ogy; Anthropology; Geology and Palaeontology ; 
Geography and Travels; Scientific News; Proceed¬ 
ings of Scientific Societies; Selected Articles In 
Scientific Serials. 
This periodical continues to supply Its readers 
with valuable matter. Many or the articles are* 
calculated to be of Interest to persons who are 
not deeply Impressed with scientific research. 
We are In receipt of Fashion Magazines as 
follows: 
Domestic Monthly, Buttexlck’s Delineator, Dem- 
arest’s Monthly, Ehrlcb's Quarterly. 
These, though varied, are all devoted to the par¬ 
ticular styles of the season. 
Victor Hugo’s Marriage.— It was no play- work 
his student life, rising early and tolling late over 
prose and verse; poems for prizes, articles lor 
magazines, anything that would “ sell,” and pro¬ 
cure the dally bread. More especially as the 
youth. Still a boy in years (be was scarcely IT), bad 
chosen to engage himself to the daughter of his 
father’s old friend, M. Foucher, who on her side 
was little more than a child, and could bring him 
no fortune whatever. The parents protested, 
victor persisted, and Mile. A dele proved faithful, 
though there seemed at first but small chance of 
their constancy being rewarded. When he first 
wished to publish a volume of short poems which 
had appeared from time to time in one of the peri¬ 
odicals, no publisher could be found to undertake 
the risk, Abel Hugo, however, generously came 
forward and paid for Us pubficaUon; while the 
bookshops refu^g to allow the modest volume so 
much as a placfln their windows, it was exposed 
for sale through the kindness of a personal friend. 
The book was entitled •• Odes et Poesies Dlverses.” 
Fortunately for Its author, the first person wlio 
happened to buy it was M. Menechat, Reader in 
Ordinary to Louis XVm., who brought It under 
the King's notice. Us success was so rapid as to 
exhaust tho first edition, 1,500 copies, within four 
months. This, of course, brought him in a certain 
amount of ready money; not much, one would 
think, seeing that the publishers reserved to them¬ 
selves 3 francs out of the 3 rrancs 50 centimes, 
which was the price of each volume; still the 
author’s portion served to buy a magnificent cash- 
mere robe for tUe •• corbrUle ete nonat r ,t and when, 
about the same time, he received the first fruits of 
a pension of l.ooo francs per unuum granted him 
by the King, he felt justified lu demanding the 
hand of Adele, aud they were married at St Sul- 
plce La tho year is??, victor being then 20 and his 
bride Is years old.—Temple Bar. 
Speculator to old miner in Leadvllle, handing 
him a bag of samples, “ Gold quartz or carbon¬ 
ates ?” Tho honest miner turned It over In his 
hand indifferently, took out his knife and picked 
at It awhile, and then asked: “ Got much of It ? ' 
“ Thousands of tons,” answered the outer eagerly; 
“ how much do you suppose she’ll run ?” “ can’t 
toll nothin' without an assay." “But you can 
guess, can’t you? You can guess?” “Oh, yes, 
anybody kin guess, but a guess Is liable to be ex¬ 
travagant. Now, I should; say—but mind ye, i 
may go over tho mark- l should s-a-a-y,” turning 
the specimen over again and holding It up to the 
light—" I should s-a-a-y that if ye can save the 
gold In this, and catch the silver, and not waste 
the lead, that It might run about—well, about two 
dollars to the county.” 
--- 
When M. De Lesseps was getting up his Suez 
Canal, a gentleman afflicted with Anglophobia 
called on him and expressed his desire of subscrib¬ 
ing for his railroad In the island of Sweden. “ It 
isn’t a railroad. It’s a canal,” said M. De Lesseps. 
“That makes no difference ” “ It Isn’t an Island. 
It's an Isthmus.” “Put my name down all the 
same.” “ But it isn’t lu Sweden. It’s m Suez.” 
“A 11 right. I don’t care what or where It Is. All 
I know is. the English don’t like It; so I want to 
help It on.” Another enthusiast wrote—“Yield 
not an inch to perfidious Albion, if necessary, 
move your Isthmus elsewhere. Your shareholders 
will follow you,” 
-m-*- 
The Mule Puzzle.—D raw a circle fifteen feet In 
diameter, place a mule In the center and walk 
around him without getting out of the circle. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
AIDS TO DIGESTION. 
Proper kiuds of food. 
Best methods of cooking. 
Variety and change of diet. 
Exercise. 
Geuial state of mind. 
Sleep. 
Pleasant social surroundings. 
Thorough mastication. 
Regularity iu eating. 
Proper intervals between meals. 
-- 
DON’T FAN FIRE. 
If you should come up stairs some day and 
see a little smouldering fire just starting iu 
one of your floors, stealing stealthily into the 
carpet, you would not bo very likely to sit 
down beside it and fan it, much less would 
you run over to a neighbor's aud have her 
bring the bellows to help blow it up. Not 
if you were a woman In her right senses. You 
know ^uite well what speedy measures you 
would take to smother or quench it out. 
Dear young housekeepers, there are worse 
fires which start up silently in homes than 
were ever kiudled by Lucifer matches. They 
begin small. Gross words usually start them, 
but how the tire spreads when oueo kiudled, if 
only it gets a little fanning t One sure way to 
fan the blaze is to ruu over to a neighbors 
and talk your trouble over. Tell just how un¬ 
reasonable John is, and how little he sympa¬ 
thizes with your trials, and unless your friend 
is an uncommonly wise woman, you will go 
home more wretched than you came, and feel¬ 
ing harder than ever toward John. You have 
gained nothing, but you have furnished food 
for considerable scandal, for nothing travels 
faster than the ill news that “so and so 
don't get along well together.” That which 
was only a transient flash of 111-temper has 
been blown into a conflagration that is likely 
to burn up your domestic happiness. 
Some one says if there is ever anything for 
which we are thankful, it is for angry words 
not spoken. I would add for domestic skele¬ 
tons we did not exhibit before the world. 
Better keep them locked up in their closet. 
They will not shock or harrow your sensibili¬ 
ties half so much there. 
Only possess your soul in quietness, aud the 
fire will die out. If your inmost conscious¬ 
ness tells you that you have the true and de¬ 
voted love of your husband you will not be 
much moved by little things. Tears and life’s 
mutual joys aud sorrows will draw all true 
hearts closer to one another, and the once vexa¬ 
tious things will seem like trifles, as you glance 
backward over them. 
Remember that uotliug helps along domes¬ 
tic troubles like talking over them; nothing 
smothers them like silence. A little patience 
aud self-command aud the flash dies down. 
And, oh! how glad you arc that the fair fabric 
of your home happiness has not been con¬ 
sumed. Aunt Lois. 
Note.—“A uut Lois” is requested to send 
her address. B. m. 
-- 
CANE AND GRAPE SUGAR. 
Prof. Kkdzie gives us the following valu¬ 
able bit of domestic iuformatiou: Cane sugar 
is two and one-half times as sweet as grape 
sugar, closely allied to it, and differs so little 
from it that some persons cannot distinguish 
it. By cooking, the eune sugar may be chang¬ 
ed to grape sugar, and thus lose its sweetening 
power. Some women put the sugar In with a 
mass of acid fruit to be cooked, and keep 
cooking and adding sugar white it keeps 
on growing sourer, until at last they use two 
aud one-half times as much sugar us they need 
to secure the desired result. The cuue sugar 
has been changed to grape &ugar. Now If the 
sugar had beeu added after the fruit was cook¬ 
ed, much less would have been required, and 
the result would have been far more satisfac¬ 
tory. 
FOLDING DOWN SHIRTS, COLLARS, ETC. 
We are in the habit of usiDg corn-starch 
when folding down onr shirts, collars, etc., and 
think it superior to laundry starch for that 
purpose. Dissolve a tablespoonful, rounded 
—in a quart of water and add as much white 
sugar as can be taken up between the thumb 
and first finger. Roll up tightly and let remain 
several hours before h oning. But to meet with 
any success with the raw starch, the boiled 
6 tarch should be of the best quality, properly 
prepared, aud the clothes dried quickly and 
thoroughly. 
DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Warts. 
The expressed juice from the leaves of the 
common arbor-vit® will cure warts. Apply 
each day for three or four weeks. 
Meat Cake*. 
Take scraps of meat free from bone and gristle 
and chop fine. Season with salt, pepper, par¬ 
sley .or onion. Take any remnants of dry 
bread, soak in water until soft, press dry and 
mix with the meat—about half and half. Add 
one or two eggs, form into little flat cakes and 
fry quite crisp. e. a. l. 
Green Pea Cakes. 
Mash two cups of cooked peas while hot; 
season with butter, pepper and salt; when cold 
stir in a beaten egg, a cup of milk and a small 
cup of sifted flour having a teaspoonful of bak¬ 
ing powder mixed with it. Fry as yon would 
griddle cakes. a. l. 
The Best Dried Yeast. 
One dozen potatoes; three handfuls of hops ; 
five quarts of water. Wash the potatoes clean 
but do not pare them. Put them on to boil 
with the hops and water, and boil one and 
one-half hoars. Mash the potatoes well, in 
with the hops. Put one quart of flour in a 
crock and pour the mixture boiling-hot 
through a sieve on the flour. Stir it well, aad 
when milk-warm add one pint of good yeast. 
When light take two-thirds corn-meal and one- 
third flour, pour the yeast in, stir it around 
well, spreading on a table to dry. It never 
fails, aud will keep six months. 
Water-Melon Pickle 
Take the rinds of a rnelou ; par® the green 
off very thin aud then soak them over night in 
weak, salt water. In ihe moruiDg drain and 
boil in watmx with a small piece of alum, until 
tender; then make a sirup of vinegar, sugar, 
cinnamon bark, cloves, and allspice, and boil 
a little while in this. Seal while hot. Very 
nice. Mas. G. Me. F. 
To Clean a Toilet Sponge. 
Buy flve cents’ worth of hydrochloric acid 
and dilute with four or flve quarts of water. 
Put in the sponge, squeezing and working it 
with the hands until perfectly free from all 
grease. Afterwards rinse in clear water. 
John Boldin’s Prize Recipe for Salad. 
From six or eight coss(or cabbage) lettuces 
remove outer and coarse leaves and strip from 
remaining ones the good part. The pieces 
should be two and one-half to three inches 
long and may be broken up, bat not cat; then 
wash them and let them remain about half an 
hour in water. Rinse iu second water, place in 
napkin and swing till dry. For dressing, take 
the yelks of two hard-boiled eggs, crush them 
to paste iu bowl, adding one-halt tablespoonful 
French vinegar, three mustard-spoous mustard 
one salt-spoon salt and beat up well together; 
then add by degrees, six to eight tablespoons 
of Lucca or Provence oil, one of vinegar and 
when thoroughly mixed, a little tarragon fine¬ 
ly chopped, a dessert-spoon coarse white 
pepper, as pepper in powder irritates the pal¬ 
ate. When all is well mixed, place the salad in 
it and turn over aud over, thoroughly and 
patiently, till there remains not oue drop of 
liquid at bottom of bowl. Put the white of the 
eggs iu slices on the top and serve shortly after 
it is mixed. 
Ideal Strawberry Shortcake. 
Take one quart of flour ; three teaspoonsful 
baking powder; one pint of milk and one- 
third cup of shortening (which should be two- 
thirds butter aud one-third lard.) Make the 
paste as soft as possible for rolling it out. Bake 
in two layers. When baked, cut off the upper 
crusts; butter the lower crust of one layer and 
spread It over with straw berries, which have 
already been sugared and partly crushed. 
Upon this place the crust; butter and spread 
with the berries as before, Another layer of 
paste, berries and sugar caube used if desired, 
or make iuto separate cukes, lu the mean¬ 
time, beat the whites of two eggs to a stiff 
fioth, with a sufficiency of pulverized sugar. 
Spread this thickly over the top layer of ber¬ 
ries; put In the oven and let it bake until the 
meringue is a delicate brown. 8ervc with rich 
sweet cream, or with crushed berries and their 
juice with sugar. Mrs. John E. Sweet. 
