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Noel bit bis lip, and regretted his hasty speech 
as soon as he remembered that Clement Dun forth 
had just been doing ihe very thing he wus repro¬ 
bating so strongly. But clement did not ap¬ 
pear at all embarrassed. With rather a super¬ 
cilious smile, he observed : 
•• You are a second « hevalier Bayard. You ought 
to have been bonl In the days of chivalry ; for re¬ 
ally. my dear fellow, your notions, although very 
praiseworthy, and all that, are not adapted to such 
a practical age as the present. Then It Is quite un¬ 
derstood that you arc prepared to go out a free 
man, without even the Incumbrance of an engage¬ 
ment ? But—perhaps l am now going too far-” 
•> i have no ties either to bind me to England or 
make me Impatient to return here,” said Noel. 
“ You can say t his much respecting me. If It be ab¬ 
solutely necessary to allude to the subject, at all.”’ 
“ButI must not vouch for your being heart- 
whole,” laughed clem. “ We might have known 
that you would not have been so utterly impervi¬ 
ous to the heiress’s attractions 11 you had not 
been shielded by some pretty Londoner’s charms.” 
Noel heard this with impenetrable gravity, for 
he was too much annoyed to smile at It. clement 
Uuniorth might be in earnest with his proffers of 
service ; but .he was rendering it a very difficult 
matter for the man he was obliging, to feel as grate¬ 
ful as perhaps he ought to be. 
While Clement jotted down Lord Carlsrorae’s 
age and a few other particulars, Noel was revolv¬ 
ing with bitterness the lilUe pronoun he bad em¬ 
ployed a few minutes since. To whom did he al¬ 
lude when lie said wi ? Could it be IfllUau Gray ? 
The thought gave a little acerbity to Ids lone, as 
he inquired how much longer the young lawyer 
proposed remaining at Cornby. 
Clement shrugged his shoulders. 
“ That Is a question you must put to my em¬ 
ployers, not me.” 
“ But theLr affairs appear to allow you an ex¬ 
traordinary amount of leisure.” 
“ said Clem, carelessly, “It’s astonishing 
how much a fellow ean get through by stealing a 
few hours from the night.” 
*> At all events you may spare yourself the troub¬ 
le of coming' to Carislorde again, as lshall cer¬ 
tainly leave here in two or three days, atiarthest.” 
*• l have never considered It a trouble ; and Irene 
would be very angry with me If I neglected calling 
daily to inquire how you are progressing.” 
“ l hen, for Irene s sake, come no more:” Noel re¬ 
sponded. “ it is not just to her that you should 
spend so many hours by the side of another.” 
-‘ You mean the little Gray V” asked Clemeut, 
tranquilly, “ Booh ! Irene and I are quite as one 
respecting that young lady." 
“ r must be excused for doubting this,” said 
Noel,* “ No young girl can be content to know 
tha t her betrothed seeks the society of another so 
continually aud persistently as I hear of your be¬ 
ing with Miss Gray.” 
clement leaned back in his chair and laughed, as 
if amused at the charge thus brought against 1dm. 
“ And so you think 1 am giving Irene cause to be 
jealous. Pooh! She knows better, if you do not. 
You have been shut up in these rooms pleasantly 
unconscious of what was passing around you : but 
your sister and I have seen enough to know that 
Miss Gray—meek, modest Miss Gray—la not what 
she scums, and that we shall do you a good service 
by unmasking her.” 
“ And to effect this, you walk with her, calk with 
her, pay her the most flattering attentions, con¬ 
trive to throw yourself in her way at every oppor¬ 
tunity, aud Insidiously try to win her confidence. 
By heavens: t his is not work fit for a true man, 
but only for a traitor and a spy, and so It disgraces 
you.” 
Clement Uunforth had leaped to his feet, and 
stood glaring at the indignant speaker, with hlB 
hands cieucliea. and leeth pressed into Ills nether 
Up till the blood came; but his wratnful mood 
quickly passed aw r ay. 
** Pshaw i what ex iggerated views you take of 
one’s proceedings! Would you quarrel with me 
for doing my best to unmask this girl?” 
“Certainly; for the task does not come within 
your province You appear to forget, Mr. Uun¬ 
forth, that both you and I are simply guests here, 
and that when you interfere In Miss carlsforde’s 
affair.-;, you act with a presumption that Is Inexcu¬ 
sable.” 
“ i suppose you are right,” was the reply 
that came after an embarrassing pause. •• I 
daresay I have let the lawyer’s tendency to sift 
any doubtful case that comes In my way carry me 
too far. I ought to have consulted you llrst; you 
must know better than I do whether Miss Carls- 
forde will prefer to be kept in Ignorance of the 
little Gray’s antecedents. Then you had rather I 
came here no more-7 and you will bear me blame¬ 
less with Irene ?” 
The good humor with which he was yielding to 
Noel’s wishes made the latter regret that he had 
urged them so rudely. But still he would not pro¬ 
pose any middle course, it was better, far better, 
that Clement Uunforth should cause some surprise 
by thus suddenly ceasing to visit at the Park, than 
that he should either continue the ignoble espial 
on whien he professed to be engaged, or arouse the 
suspicions of Irene. 
When these reflections had passed rapidly 
through his mind, Noel extended his hand, with 
more cordiality than he could generally bring him¬ 
self to testify, saying, as he did so: 
“ pray excuse me if I have appeared ill-natured, 
and accept my thanks for the readiness with 
which you have consented to come here no more. 
1 will {not forget what I owe to Miss Carlsforde. 
Before I leave here I will have an Interview with 
ui ina.ii Gray, and point out to her that it would 
not be consistent with my duty to my generous 
kinswoman to let your revelations pass by without 
asking her to explain them." 
“Must my name be brought Into questionV 
Recollect that i did not volunteer this informal 
tion.’’ 
“ I will not mention my Informant, If I can help 
it,” Noel assured him. “ If Miss Gray is able, as I 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
hope she will be, te prove that there has been 
nothing wrong In her conduct”—Clement’s smile 
and shrug made Hie speaker wince—“nothing 
that can reflect on her character, I shall keep her 
secret.” 
“And If not?” asked Clement, curiously. 
Noel averted his face. It was horrible to think 
that, there were two sides to the question—t hat 
If there was any truth In Clement’s statement, 
IllJUan could not be as blameless as ho wished to 
think her! 
“I must be guided by circumstances," he mut¬ 
tered, agitatedly. “ If Miss Gray sees that It will 
be ray duty to ‘ipform my kinswoman of what 1 
have heard. 1 hope she will spare me the pain of 
doing so by withdrawing from here.” 
“It Is a tangled coll; better let it alone.” Cle¬ 
meut counselled; ** unles3 you have changed your 
mind, and wish to Ingratiate yourself with the 
heiress. In that case, you could not have a more 
favorable opportunity: you deprive her of her 
friend, but you offer Instead—a lover. What, are 
you growing angry again ? Then l wJU go before 
the storm bursts on my head. Adieu. Our next 
meeting w ill be, 1 suppose, at Mrs. Kstcourt’s. Yet, 
no; I was forgetting that you are still so far from 
strong. Don't neglect to drop me a line when you 
propose leaving here, that 1 may meet you at 
corby station, and make what arrangements I 
can for your comfort on the journey." 
Again Noel felt constrained to thank him, and 
after some further conversation, they parted on 
more iriendly terms than usual; clement, or so 
he asserted, to make up by some hours’ hard work 
for the time lost on the preceding day; and the 
Invalid to test his returning strength, sometimes 
with the aid of a crutch, sometimes with Jeph- 
son s arm, up and down the wide corridor, into 
which Ills apartments opened.—To be continued. 
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OUR SCHOOLS. 
S. B. BUCK. 
lx Is very cheering to one who has battled orally 
and with pen for years against universal opposi¬ 
tion, with full confidence In the correctness of the 
principles he has adopted and expressed, and fully 
believing that he has but to wait with patience 
when his views will be generally adopted, to see 
at last that he has not labored in vain. 
As far back as lftio, when I ill’st sent my daugh¬ 
ters to a public school, after having made con¬ 
siderable progress in their education at home 
under my own tultlcn, I tiled to persuade their 
teacher to dispense entirely with columns of words 
In their spelling lessons, arguing thus: a word to 
be appreciated as of any value must be in a sen¬ 
tence, and that there Its ortliography and mean¬ 
ing should be associated, each helping to fix the 
other In the memory, aud that the child should 
never be required to give the orthography of a 
word that he did not know the meaning or. The 
reply I got was, “ the trustees will never tolerate 
such an innovation.” I considered that 1 had the best 
answer that could possibly be given, and continued 
my home-teaching In my own way. The result Is 
that to-day, though my daughters are matrons, 
they have never been beaten in orthography- 
some years subsequently a wealthy man of Gene¬ 
see County, N. Y., offered a- prize for the best 
essay on school teaching, which was procured and 
published In a book and donated to every school 
district library In the State of New York, and 
there In that book my Ideas of teaching this 
branch were for the first t ime seconded. 
I have lived to see my Ideas on tills and many 
other matters of teaching adopted In high places, 
but 1 am specially cheered by the expression of 
Prof. Beal In the Ritual, 2‘ld March last: “Spell¬ 
ing is best learned In connection with reading/ 
Reading this brought the whole matter forcibly to 
my mind. 
I can heartily agree with Mr. Beal In his Ideas 
of the teaching or grammar and arithmetic, but 
it In his remarks about “ spelling reform” he al¬ 
ludes to the Introduction or the Phonetic language, 
I have not the hope that, he expresses o f ever see- 
lrtg this reiorm adopted, and my thoughts at 
once recur te a time over twenty’ years past 
when a Phonetic tract distributer and myself sat 
on two big boulders In my garden and argued the 
case, he for and I against the probability of this, 
his promised reform, ever being adopted. 
it is true that since that time the e in the old 
scythe has been dropt, mj has taken the place of 
the uyh in plough, and many other similar changes 
or reforms have taken place and ma.ny other 
words are Ukoly to be changed, but so far as I 
have ever learned, these changes have never been 
made by any vote, or by the action of any associ¬ 
ation of men, but rather by common assent, the 
most common If not. the best authority for any 
change te orthography or grammar. I see that 
the e in height is lately left out, but can any one 
set or association of men give a reason why at the 
same time the word should not have been spelt 
hUe ? TO spell the word phthisic, tiztk would seem 
te be a reform, but What M. n. seeing the word by 
itself would ever guess its meaning? 
Teaching language, or more properly teaching 
the “young idea” not specially “ how te shoot,” 
but what the child needs to know te qualify him 
for even a medium station In life, I look upon as a 
high art worthy the study and investigation of a 
literary Edison, and I look hopefully forward to 
the time when great Improvements In this branch 
of science will be inaugurated. 
•-*-*-*--- 
“ RAISED.” 
No barber knoweth whom he may shave, and 
the man who rushes into a shop and drops Into a 
barber-chair, without seeing who occupies the 
next chair te the right or left, may get badly left, 
as a case proved yesterday. Aaolld old citizen in 
the wholesale trade was taking It easy, his face 
covered with lather, when m came a young man 
who flung off Ills coat, bounced Into a chair, and 
called put: 
“ Hurry up, now, for I must get back to the store 
before old Blank does, or he will raise thunder! 
Hang him, he won’t even give a man time to die!” 
The solid citizen turned his face to glance at the 
other, and the barber noticed a reddening of Ids 
lace. 
“Goingon a vacation this summer?” asked the. 
barber who waspreparlng to shave the young man. 
“Vacation! How te Tophet can I get away 
from old Blank ? And if T could he pays such a 
stingy, contemptible salary that I couldn't afford 
even a ride on the terry boat I” 
“ Why don’t you ask 1dm for a raise? queried the 
barber. 
*• Why don’t I ask for the hand of his lreckle- 
nosed daughter? He’d discharge me In a minute, 
though he’s making money and ctoi afford if. If 
the old hyena would have a stroke of apoplexy the 
Junior partner might do something, but such 
chaps alwayslive lo be a hundred years old.” 
Conversation ceased here, the solid man got oul. 
of his chair, took a brushing aud sat down, and 
when the clerk arose from his chair and turned 
around snow-bulls would have looked black beside 
hLs face. He tiled to bow and speak, but some¬ 
thing wouldn’t let him, and when he started to 
put on his coat he held It tails up and collar down. 
He was still struggling with It when the solid 
man rose up, looked around and walked out, say¬ 
ing never a word. The barber wet the young 
man’s head and held cologne to his nose, but he 
walked sideways when he went out, and there 
was an uncertain wobhle to hLs knees. In apply¬ 
ing for the vacant position to-day state what shop 
you shave at .—Detroit Free Press. 
-♦-*-♦- 
AS TO TREATING ONE’S FRIENDS. 
The “ Methodist” says kind words for the “ mod¬ 
eration” reform movement which aims at stopping 
the habit of treating te drinks. But it would go 
further and stop the practice of treating to car 
fares. “ It Is desirable, we think, to get under the 
principle of good will and manliness that supports 
treating. We beg leave, therefore, to say that It is 
not manly and courteous, but just the reverse, to 
pay another’s bill without being asked to do so, or 
when there Ls no reason to believe that the other 
is unable te pay. The man who pays his neigh¬ 
bor’s car fare, lunch ticket, or concert ticket, with¬ 
out express permission, does an ungemlemanly 
thing, a vulgar thing, which a well-bred man will 
never do without a sense of personal humiliation. 
The well-bred man may do those things because 
he knows they are the custom of the imperfectly- 
civilized people among whom he lives, but he will 
feel that he degrades hlmselt by domg them. The 
principle is a very simple one: when you pay an¬ 
other man's ear fare without his request, spoken 
or Implied, you assume the right to create an obli¬ 
gation, and this assumption Is bad manners.” 
Celluloid Is rapidly coming Into use as a sub¬ 
stitute* for Ivory, horn, bone, shell, coral, etc., in 
the manufacture of 00 tubs, knife-handles, canes, 
piano-keys, pen-holders, card-cases, jewelry, har¬ 
ness and carriage trimmings, and a great variety 
of other articles. Even collars and cuffs are made 
of it. It Is said to be a compound of cotton, nitric 
acid, and camphor,—a nice little inflammable com¬ 
bination to scatter all about our houses, and wear 
on our persons, and carry In our pockets. It was 
invented te 1870 , and has grown to great propor¬ 
tions in the Held or manufactures. Being neat and 
cheap and popular, small thought will be given 
to any stupid considerations of safety. And very 
likely It Is no more dangerous than some of our 
other favorite goods and playthings. 
■» ■» » - 
Raising Cats in Holland.— The common cat Is 
largely fed on flsh, and bred for Its fur. te Holland, 
where the flnest skins are obtained. Large quan¬ 
tities are also collected te Holstein, Bavaria, and 
Switzerland. In France about thirty thousand cat 
skins are furnished annually to commerce. This 
fur Is greatly valued, while the supply of good 
skins Is tar too short of the demand. Tha black, 
spotted, and striped varieties are all much te re¬ 
quest for making Into wrappers for open carriages, 
sleigh robes, and for railway traveling. 
-- 
The “ Sunday Afternoon” says:—“One of the 
most remarkable things In human nature It the 
willingness of women te sacrlUee a girl’s life lor 
the chance of saving a scapegrace man. If a pious 
mother can only marry her sou Beelzebub to some 
“ good, religious girl,” the chance of his reforma¬ 
tion Is greatly Increased. The girl is neither here 
nor there, when one. considers the necessity for 
saving the dear Beelzebub. 
-- 
Millstones made of glass are a German novelty 
eight pieces of glass of equal size are used as nuclei; 
a counter piece of granite Is bound to the outer 
form with cement The advantages claimed are 
that they run easily, grind cool, and produce finer, 
lighter flour than French buhrs. But a few are 
te actual operation. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
The Hearing, and How to Keep it. By Char. 
H. Burn f.tt, M. D. Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blak- 
iston. Price, 50 cents. 
This Is the first of the American Health Primer 
series. The book is divided into three pans. The 
first treats of the anatomy and physiology Of the 
ear; the second, of the chief diseases and Injuries 
of the ear and the avoidance or their Improper 
treatment,, and the tlflrd of the general hygiene 
of the ear. The second chapter of part third Is 
devoted to the can: of the ear In disease, including 
the relief of partial deafness and the education 
of partially deaf children and deaf mutes. The 
subject Is very thoroughly treated, while the ab¬ 
sence of technicalities of language, arid the excel¬ 
lent engravings which Illustrate the text, serve to 
make the hook admirably adapted for the general 
reading public. A few extracts will give a faint 
idea of some of the useful Information the book 
contains: “It maybe said, for the comfort of 
friends and parents, that no bead. Hutton, ‘spite 
brill,’ beau, grate of witeat, maize, or any similar 
small, smooth object which a child could put In Its 
ear will do any harm, if let alone by all save one 
entirely conversant with the Structure Of the ear 
and properly supplied with instruments for exam¬ 
ination and treatment, it your child, therefore, 
gets any such foreign matter In Its ear, rest assured 
such object has not gone beyond reach of surgical 
skill. The harm In such eases usually arises from 
the unskilful means resorted to, te haste aud con¬ 
sternation. for Its removal. Let it alone until It 
can be properly removed.” * ’ * * * 
“ sweet oil Is one of the articles not to be dropped 
Into the ear for earache; for it will not cure the 
pate, te begin with, and it. Is greasy, and hence— 
for the treatment oi the ear—dirty: it is heavy, 
sticky and cloggy.” There is also a number of 
other injurious matters which are often, but 
should not be., put Into the ear when it ts Inflamed 
and aching. Prominent among these Is the core 
of a roasted onion. “Every one should learn that 
a poultice over either the ear or eye will act Injuri¬ 
ously on the organ. If a poultice of any kind be 
placed over an Inflamed ear for a short time, even 
for a few hours, Irreparable Injury may be done. 
Not only may the hearing be destroyed by such 
mismanagement of the car, but a chronic running 
from the ear may be thus establlslted.” The 
author then proceeds to give explicit directions for 
properly treating ears that, have become diseased. 
A more useftU Little book It would be hard to find. 
Lilt* of' Deujiiitilii K. Butler i By T. A. Bland, 
M. I). Boston: Let* & Shejiherd. Cloth, $1. Paper, 
60 eenta. 
The author of this eulogy—for it Is nothing else— 
has a most Intense admiration for the subject of 
his praLses. Butler, according to this authority* 
has the brain of a Franklin, the firmness of a .lack- 
son, the Intellectual force of a Bacon, the Integrity 
of an Aristides and the ripe scholarship of a Cush¬ 
ing.” The life of such a man as Butler cannot fall 
to have elements or Interest in It, However preju¬ 
diced the biographer may be. and though one 
cannot but smile at the extravagant panegyrics 
lavished so continuously on t he General the book 
is Interesting te the extreme. 
tsoTur*, IjCtfentlN nild H::1 Iu<Ia: By John Boyi.e 
O’Reilly. Boston: The Pilot Publishing Co. Price 
Mr. O’Reilly Is favorably koown to a large class 
of readers through hLs Intensely dramatic pictures 
ol Australian life. Ills “ King of the Vasse ” par¬ 
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the press both here and abroad. Tile poetus of 
this author are conspicuous for earnestness, origi¬ 
nality and purity or tone, while their freedom from 
mawkish sentimentality and affectation make them 
most delightful reading. 
Spiritual Kougx for Social Worship : New York: 
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This collection of by inns and t unes Is an abridged 
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These “songs” are designed especially for confer¬ 
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330 tunoB. The tine paper, the clear type, the firm 
and handsomeCloth blading make a most attract ive 
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MAGAZINES. 
It Is announced that Lidpincolt’s Magazine 
for July will present some extraordinary attrac¬ 
tions both In Its reading matter and Its Illustra¬ 
tions* Among the articles there will be a defence 
of Franklin against bis prejudiced English crillcs, 
by Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown’s School- 
Days; a biography of Joe Jefferson, from ma¬ 
terial furnished by himself, with pOtfOlts of hint as 
seated te tes studio, and In each act of Kip Vun 
Winkle, and views of Ills country-scat te New 
Jersey; an exquisitely Illustrated description of 
a charming New* England village—Stratford-on- 
the-Sound; and the opening paper of a series by 
Ur. Felix L. Oswald, giving sketches with pen 
and pencil ot travel and adventure around the- 
wonderful and unfamiliar scenery of the back 
woods of Mexico and Central America, The 
whole number will be specially adapted to furnish 
entertainment alike to the summer tourist and 
the. family circle at home. 
if or outfit, 
CONDtJ/TED 8V MISS FAITH RIPLEY. 
TRULY SPOKEN. 
M. A. II. 
The words of your correspondent, Miss. Har¬ 
vey, concerning our duty to ourselves as Individual 
souls, are full of truth ami worthy of frequent 
thought- There have bedi intrusted to each of 
us certain talents to put to usury. In giving an 
account of our stewardship, to say that we have 
had no rime to care for our own talents, much less 
to Increase them, and so they have rusted out 
while v - have been spending our strength for 
others, will it, think you, secure for us the welcome 
commendation, “ Well done, good and faithful ser¬ 
vant,” A r c.? Manifestly, self-improvement Is our 
solemn duty. It is, do unto others as wo would 
that they should do unto us, not, more than we 
would permit them te do lor us, that Is required. 
The widow’s mite was so acceptable a gilt because 
she gave her all, not because she gave mme than 
was liora to give, aud thus sinned in the giving— 
for oven -so commendable a virtue as self-sacrifice 
may be carried to such an excess as to become a 
Bln. No. not only have we. incumbent upon us cer¬ 
tain duties, but we have certain lights of which 
