■a desk, calmly looked out of the window > leaving Sebastian surprised and yet not' - surprised, Fred furious, and Helena over whelmed, with confusion; for she knew her • brother, and felt sure that he must have distinguished himself in some far from desi rable manner towards Miss Blisset, to cause that gentle lady to openly manifest discourtesy Helena's humiliation was in creased as she realised, with lightning-like rapidity, thatAdrienne must have some excellent reason for repeatedly refusing to visit her at Castle Hill. Crimson, she stood where she had received the rebuff and knew not what to do. It was Sebastian ivho after the unavoidable momentary pause, and when Mr Spenceley had turned upon his heel, said, just as if nothing had happened: "I shall lay the matter before the board to-day, Miss Spenceley, and I am sure it Trill be attended to immediately." Helena met his eyes as she looked tip at Mm, and the burning blush of mortification glowed more deeply than before. . "You are very kind," she fsaid in a low «hoked voice; "but you cannot do away with the fact that I have to blush for my nearest relations."

With that, she too turned away as if not knowing where to go; and Sebastian decided the best thing lie could do would be to follow Mr Spenceley to the council room.

' For Mr Spenccley, muttering an ana thema, had directed his steps away from such dangerous ground, and with raging hatred in his heart, entered the second of the three rooms. In that moment he would gladly have strangled some one, or kicked, his dog, or flogged his horse, or sworn at his mother ; and if he had had a wife, he would have caused her to spend a joyful evening on his return home. As it was, he found himself in a small Toom, in the window of which stood a long ■desk, at which desk sat two men busily writing. One of them rose as he entered, to fetch a ledger from a shelf at ,the other side of the room. Spenceley's rage gave way to a momentary start of surprise; then the blood came surging to his face and ears, as he found that he was confronting that insolent, unknown operative, who had dis graced and branded him, and degraded and punished him ten months ago in the club billiard room.

Like a liirid dream it all started up again in his brain. .There the man stood—he tingled from head to foot as he beheld him —with face pinched and worn, but with the same broad, unstained brow, the same scorn ful grey eyes, the same muscular fingers—he seemed to feel them at Ids collar again—and he could not grind him to powder as he would like to do. nor put him to any kind of horrible torture such as he would have deemed desirable for him. Myles's eyes fell upon him, and a sudden gleam of scornful, contemptuous amusement shot into them; his head flung itself backwards, his lips curved into a kind of smile, but otherwise he did not deign to notice Mr Spenceley. Into the heart of the latter trie old devils of revengeful desire and frantic hatred came leaping back. Why had he been so quiet ? "Why had he suffered himself to be laughed at and diverted from his original purpose of punishment? Why had he sat down patiently all. this time with that ? A black ■cloud of fury overshadowed his mind. His thoughts were scarcely coherent. But it was incredible. The fellow should and must be made to pay dearly for his inso lence. He had sworn it once, and would carry it out now. With wrath and rage contending madly in his stupid, brutal soul, he went on into the committee room, where lie' was immediately followed by Sebastian Mallory, and business commenced. Fred Spenceley was too much occupied with Ids own private fury, with thinking, with a sort of hatred and love combined, of the sweet contemptuous face of Adrienne Blisset, which he could not banish from his mind of these and other things—to take any particular notice of the man called James Hoyle, who had been summoned to rend a report to the board that afternoon. He had been entrusted with the task of visiting courts in a low part of the town, whither, it was said, a number of the fac tory liands had. been obliged to retire, in • consequence of being nnable any longer to tpay the rent of more respectable houses. Mr Hoyle had ofFered himself to the Board as peculiarly suited for the work, being "himself a minister of the gospel, and used to istrange scenes and low {neighbourhoods. "He speaks the truth there at all j events," Sebastian Mallory had remarked sotto voee, to Canon Ponsonby, "but the Father of Lies has some share in his paren tage, all the same, sir—dont you think so." "Or else he has selected Mm as his ■peculiar adversary, and left the traces of his to corrupt him." replied Canon Ponsonby, fixing his piercing upon Mr Hoyle. But as Mr Hoyle really did seem well fitted and anxious for the work, he was al lowed to undertake it. His report was considered clear and succinct He was told that he had done •well • a further commission of the same kind was. given him, and he was told to present himself again as soon as possible with the required information". Expressing himself humbly gratified at laving been of any service in such a cause, Mr ""oyle vowed to the assembled board, careTufly avoiding two pairs of eyes— a pair of lazy brown ones and a'pair of pier <a.a" grey ones—and, with a long sidelong look" at the sullen averted countenance of Fredrick Spenceley, took his departure. A fortnight passed. Tne middle of May had come and gone. Every day the dis tress grew more tremendous, the efforts needea to meet it more strenuous and un ceasing. The whole time and the whole time and the whole energies of those who had begun the work were gradually ab sorbed into it, Still the cruel war ragsd on across the Atlantic, aud midsummer and famine advanced hand in hand, with long, •devouring strides. To be continued.

Life at the French Watering places.

Teouville, Deanville, and Dieppe are -crowded; the most wonderful Parisian toilets pervading the beach, and still more marvellous bathing-dresses, almost putting old Neptune, with his limited repertory of shoaling greens and blues, out of counten ance. One can imagine a mermaid trying to take the pattern in her eye, for doubtless ■cut-out paper models are unknown in the Kingdom under the sea. I spent two days there last week amid the concourse of French Marquises and Countesses, with their attendant courts of "cavalied servanti," of rich English, to whom the rather fast tone of Trouville manners and customs is not deterrent; and of sparse Americans with costumes- that outworthed Worth himself, and eyes that opened wider every day at the unaccustomed sights they saw. ' ; ,',' The pretty American is no prude; she has been accustomed to receive her daily meed of admiration, and thinks no more of it than she does of breakfast or dinner. She is very often fast, but her fastness compared with that ot Trouville, "is as water Unto wine. I should like to see some of the letter she writes home from her pretty home in the Hotel de :ia*r Mer. One of them might run somewhat >as follows :—.

" The people here do the most extraor dinary things; not only do men and women bathe together, but they sit and walk about on the beach in the most astonishing bathing costumes you can imagine. I will describe that worn this morning by a pretty women, rather inclining to "embonpoint" : Trousers of striped scarlet and yel low ticking, barely covering the knees, even though supplemented by_ an edging of gold lace; tunic of similar ticking, com mencing a good two inches below the neck, and with a collar made of gold braid and gold lace. This tunic is confined at the waist by a gold braided band, and reaches to within six or seven inches of the knees. The sleeves arc very short, so that arms and legs are practically uncovered. What would you take to walk about, laugh, flirt, and chatter with half a dozen men in such a garb! It is thought nothing of here. In fact, it is what every one does. Most of the baigneuses look as if they were dressed for opera boufl'e. As for the flirtations ?" — "Liverpool Mail."

MISERS.

A Collection of True Miracles of

Meanness.

The lives of all the celebrated misers will bo found much the same. They were very seldom married ; they were unsocial, though sometimes fond of animal pets; they main tained existence on food the quantity and quality of which a dog would have objected to; they were very seldom stirred to the slightest degree of benevolence, and they nearly always disappointed the expectations of their heirs.

In the beginning of this century there was an old man named W. Fuller, who lived with his son in a hut consisting of two chambers and sitting-room. Their allow ance of food was a chop apiece and a pint of porter between the two for the day, this last being a luxury they could not go with out, proving that appetite was stronger than will. They went to bed in the dark. Old Fuller was a banker, and retained his clerks on low salaries by promising them legacies when he died. But his promises were not fulfilled; he wrote his will on the back of an old letter, and left all his pro perty, worth £250,000, to Ms son. That the hoarding of money has given actual pleasure to these poor wretches there can be no doubt. It stands to reason it must be so, or they would hardly throw up their interest in both worlds :

Firit starved, in this, and damned in that to come.

Jerry Taylor, a famous miser, used to say if his successors had as much pleasure in spending property as he had in hoarding it up, they need not complain of their hard lot in tno world. Mention is made of a miser in Venice whose pulse quickened as in a fever on hearing a sum of money mention ed. He was a Catholic, and made the sign of the cross with a gold coin. He had chests full of gold, each named after some saint, and decorated them on saint's days. Wheu dying he requested the spectators to withdraw from the room a few moments. They did so. On returning they found the old man lying dead on a large bag, both his hands clutching a piece of gold. This calls to mind the case of Henry Tfeaufort, Cardi nal of "Winchester, who cried out on his death-bed : " Fye, will not death be Lhired, and will money do nothing ? Must I die that have such great riches ? If this whole realm of England would save my life, I am able either by policy to get it, or by riches to buy it 1" The death of the miser Foscoe, who amassed an immense fortune by usury and taking erery advantage he could of the ne cessities of the unfortunate,was dramatically appropriAte. For reasons of safety he dug a hole in the ground, and secreted his treasure there ; he made a trap-door with a spring lock, and would go down daily to gloat over his savings. He lived a solitary life, but one day his neighbours remarked that he had not been seen for an unusually long time. They made search for him through the house, the woods, and iv the ponds, but failed to find him. Years afterward, when workmen were repairing the house, they came across the secret awe in the cellar. On opening.lt they found Foscoe's remains amid heavy bags of untold treasure ; he had died with the object-of his.devotion. KIND TO HIS DOG. The methods by which misers havo ac cumulated their huge fortunes are much the same; it was by saving, rather than by making money, that they became rich. Daniel Dancer dined on two or three boiled eggs, and warmed up his cold pan cakes that were left by carrying them in lis pocket. Elwes, who was worth nearly £25,000, carried old bones in his pocket, taking them out to his farm to be used as fertilisere. Another miser used to boil a piece of beef and fourteen hard dumplings on Sunday; that would be the allowance of food for himself and sister for a week. Dancer saved on soap, never using it or towels; he -washed himself in the river and dried himself in the sun. He used to beg a pinch of snuff, putting it In a box he carried with him. This he exchanged for a farthing candle, which lasted until the box was again filled. He used an old meal sack for a shirt and a bundle of straw for a pillow. But he was singularly generous to iis dog, to whom he allowed a pint of milk a day. He died worth £100,000. There was a celebrated miser named Aiid ley, who lived in the time of the Stuarts, and whose keenness as a business man was remarkable. He was originally employed as a clerk at six shillings a week, and in the course of a few years, by dint of the economical practices that come natural to persons of his ilk, had accumulated sufficient to engage in speculation. His habit was to buy bad debts for a trifle and afterwards compound with the insolvent. An anecdote will illustrate his method : A tradesman, Miller, owed a merchant named White £200, and seeing no other chance to obtain it, Miller being insolvent, sued for the amount. Audley goes to White and offers him £40 for the debt; the merchant accepts. Then the miser goes to Mil ler and obtains his quittance of the debt for £50, upon the condition that he pays for the accommodation. The insolvent signed the contract which, he thought was offered in a benevolent spirit. The contract was that he should pay to Audley, twenty years from that time, one penny consecutively doubled, on the first day of twenty consecutive months; failing to pay a fine of £500. Miller, ac quitted of his debt, arranged with his credi tors and commenced business. Two or three years afterward the miser began to call for his instalments, and Miller found on calculating that on the first of the twentieth month he would have to pay £2,885 ; so he refused the'payment of his bond and gave Audley £500 forfeit. VandiUe, a remarkable French miser, was at one .time the Mayor of Boulogne, and while in that position partly maintained himself by being milk-taster general at the market; while munching a scrap of bread he would partake of these gratuitous draughts. He always travelled to Paris on foot, anc fearful lest he should be robbed, took good care never to have more than three pence in Ids pocket; if he needed more money he begged on the road. By such methods, and lending money [to the French Government, he made a fortune of £800,000, sprung from a single shilling. During the very cold winter of 1734 ho

found it necessary to purchase some extra fuel, and endeavoured to beat down the wood merchant in Ms price. The man drove off and Vandilla stole a few logs from the back of the cart. In hastening away'Jwith them helbecaine overheated and contracted a fever. He sent for a surgeon saying he wanted to be bled. As the sur geon charged half a livre, which was con sidered too much, a barber was called in who agreed to open a vein for threepence; "but friend," said the cautious miser, '''howoften will it be requisite to bleed me?" " Three times," replied the barber. " Three times ! And pray what quantity of blood do you intend to take from me at each operation?" "About eight ounces at each time." That will be ninepenco; too much! tooo much! I know a cheaper way; take the whole twenty-four ounces at once, and that will save me sixpence." He saved his sixpence but lost his life. SAVED THE FEE. Sir William Smyth of Bedfordshire, a wealthy miser, agreed to give GO- guineas, if Dr Taylor, a celebrated oculist, restored him to sight. The doctor succeeded so well that Sir William was able to see to read and write all the rest of his life without spectacles. But he pretended at his cure that he only had a glimmer, of his surroundings, and on that account suc ceeded in getting the fee reduced to £20, one third of the original price. A St. Petersburg miser, who lived in the time of Catherine 11. resorted to a peculiar method to save a little money. Ho had a large mastiff dog to watch his house, and had trained him to bark and howl all night. Finally the dog died. Not caring to go to the expense of purchasing another, the old man personated a dog himself, and went about the house morning and evening, barking and howling in imitation of his former protector. This man lived in one damp room in a large, dilapidated old house, and we are told that his cellar con tained casks of gold and packages of silver. He was the richest man in Russia.

In striking contrast to tho mean charac teristics which seem to come natural to the miser, there are two anecdotes that have been handed down to us of the benevolence of extremely avaricious men. Some years ago fhere lived in Marseilles, France, a miser named Guyot. He was noted for his parsimony, had always lived in the city, was hated by grown persons and stoned by the boys. He died very wealthy. His will read aB follows: "Having observed from my infancy that the poor of Marseilles are ill-supplied with water, which can only be secured at a great price, I have cheerfully laboured the whole of my life to procure for them this great blessjog, and I direct that the whole of'my property shall be expended in building an aqueduct for their use." Some years ago it. was proposed to build Bethlehem Hospital, London, and contribu tions were requested from the rich as well as the poor. A collector in a dirty part of the city heardaman scoldinga servant for throw ing away a match, only one end of which had been lighted. When the collector went in and asked for a contribution he did not expect muchsoccess, and was agreeably surprised to receive a check for 400 guineas. He then told the old man of his thoughts, who replied: " Your surprise at receiving this sum is occasioned by my care of a thing of such little consequence; but I keep my house and save my money in my own way. My parsimony enables me to bestow more liberally on charity. With regard to bene volent donations, you may always expect most from prudent people, who keep_ their own accounts and who pay attention to trifles." Dean Swift was once invited by a great miser to dine at his house with a large 1 party. The famous satirist being requested to give grace, said : "Thanks for thia miracle!—this Is no less Than to eai mauna in tha wilderness: Where racing hunger reigned wove fonnd relief. And seen that wondrot.s thing, a pleco of beef. Hare chimneys Bmolco that never smoked > before. And we've all ate where we shall eat no more."

FUN.

A lady watching by the window for her husband, late at night, sees a masculine shape approaching through the darkness. "Is it you?" she says. "No, madame, not I."— "Le Figaro." "Plethora:" Coach—"Dear, dear! How came you to fail in your 'exam.?' I thought I had crammed you sufficiently!" "Plucked"—"Ah; fact.is, you crammed me so tight that I couldn't get it out!'— " London Punch."

Esthetic: The "utterly utter" kind of talk has infected the street gamins, one of whom, after picking up a more than usually fragrant cigar stump, exclaimed to his friend: ** Jack, this is quite too positively bully."—"Boston Transcript." • Young lady who can't hear herself play because of the racket made by the lawn mower: "John, how long shall you be, as I want to practise?" Gallant young gar dener: "On, goo yeouw on, Miss Amy - goo yeouw on! I shan't mind yar noise!" There is a young lady in Keokuk, lowa, who is six feet four inches tall, and she is engaged to be married. The man who won her did it in these words: "Thy beauty sets my soul aglow—l'd wed thee right or wrong; man wants but little here below, but wants that little long."

Discussing a friend: "Oh, I grant you he has some good points, but he is so awfully violent. Why, he yesterday called his uncle a brigand, a robber, and said he would end his days on the scaffold." " Yes, but he wouldn't have talked so about a stranger."—"Le Figaro." A Western coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death from exposure. " What do you mean by that?" asked a relative of the dead man. "There arc two bullet-holes in his skull." "Just so," replied the coroner; "he died from exposure to bullets." Ornithological: "Waiter," said he, ex amining his reed bird critically, "I should judge from the bill that this was an English sparrow." He finished and was handed his check. After a glance he remarked: "Waiter, I was wrong; judging from-the bill that was a Pompciian nightingale."—

"Exchange." " Pa," quoth Sammie, to his sire, "why don't you go out West?" "Why do you ask; my boy?" "Because Bill Higgins went there, and he struck a banana." "A bonanza you mean, Sammie." "Well, what's the difference?" "Why, when people strike a bonanza, it sets them up; when they strike a banana, it sets them down."

Thrilling incident: Adolplms's courage was up. Falling on his knees he cried: " Angelina, dearest, make me the happiest of men by accepting my heart and hand." Casting one look at the great paw, Ange lina thrilled in every fibre as she replied sweetly: "0, Adolphus, this is more than I expected."—" Boston Transcript." "It all depends." Customer—"l don't know how it is, but my clothes never fit me nicely. Now, you always make my_ friend Captain Stollert's coats to sit beautifully!" Tailor—"Yes, sir, but he's got shoulders to hang'em on! If a gentleman's made like a champagne bottle, no tailor can fit him!" (Exit customer in dudgeon.) — "London Punch."

All Sorts of Items.

Do not despise fat people. They, too, may have their sorrows.

One of a party o£ girls who ran a five mile race at Rio, lex., died from over exertion.

When a law becomes a dead letter, why don't they send it to the dead-letter office ? Early to Led and early to riso is good for the sleeper but rough on the flies.— "Detroit Free Press."

Samuel Warren was the most prolific novel writer. Ho was author of "Ten Thousand a Year."

A man's curiosity never reaches the female standard until some one tells him his name was in yesterday's paper. The London "Lancet" says there is no warmth in clothes. But somehow or other clothes seem to be a necessity even in winter. .

The boots worn by a vain beau at Dentonville, lowa, have cork lifts two inches thick .inside under his heels, in order to increase his stature. An exchange, under the head of "Fashion Notes," reports that gentlemen returning from the summer resorts are wearing their pocket-books flat. One of the strongest men in the world is a Bavarian named Semmelman, who lias lifted an anvil weighing 488 pounds with one finger, and has raised a load of bricks weighing 540 pounds to his shoulder. Samuel Lover has a poem in one of our exchanges, entitled "What I'd Do." We don't know what you would do, Samuel, but if we were in your place we would not write auy more poetry.—"Rochester Ex press." A woman's hand is a great trouble to her. When she goes out to walk, she must have something to hold in it, otherwise she knows not what to do with it. No wonder she is ready to give it away at the first opportunity. "Oh, Charlie," exclaimed the elderly Miss Prim, "I've learned lots of things this summer—been studying botany and geology and —" Charlie—" What, more now wrinkles, Miss Prim ?" Charlie meant no harm, but Miss Prim was heard to remark, as she gazed into her mirror that evening : " The idea ! More new wrinkles, indeed ! The saucebox 1"

Confiding love: Charlie, have you got a hooked nose?" "Yes, darling," answered Charlie, smiling. "I'm afraid it la a little liable to that criticism." "Well, I never should have noticed it," she added in dignantly, "if that horrid Sprig girl across the way hadn't told me to ask you if you wouldn't like to sell it for a syphon." A poet of the olden days thus graphically expressed his appreciation af money: 11 Uolri besots in brethren hato; Gold in families' debate; Gold does friendship separata; ttoM dooa civil wars create; . p Gold alona does passion move; Gold monopolizeslovo; A onrao on her, and on the man Who this traffic first begun: A curse on blm who found tho ore, A curto on him who digged the Btere; A curse on him who did reflno it, A ouree on him who first did coin it; A curse, all curß«s else-above. On him who need it first in love." Young men ought to be found some where rather than nowhere; in other words, they had better Ret a record, for he that is deceitful is found out soonetor later. It takes a mighty smart man to wear a veil that is not gauzy, even to ordinary observers.—" Hartford Sunday Journal. The latest fashion reports: The banker's wife should wear cashmere; the organist's, organ-die; the carpenter's, plane goods; the chainnaker's, satin. " Yes, sir," said Mr Gallagher, " it was funny enough to make a donkey laugh. I laughed till I cried." And then, as he saw a smile go round the room, he grew red in the face and went away mad. General Grant, driving up to a letter-box in Long Branch the other day, modestly stepped from his carriage and posted some papers. While yet standing, a negro, dressed in gorgeous livery, drove up and pompously exclaimed to a small boy : "Simny, put dis heah letter in dat box. The bystanders appreciated the matter and roared. How quickly we forget thp rules of arithmetic as learned in school is shown in the fact that a prominont dry goods merchant in Boston worked half an hour on the following proposition, and failed to give an answer: If four men build a wall five feet high in four days, how long will it take six men to build a wall eight feet high in seven days ?

Longevity.

M. de Solauille contributes to the "Revue Scientilique," a valuable article on this subject, in -which he brings together some of the most recent data on the subject. He analyses the results of recent European censuses by ages, and the register of death also by ages. If we strike a mean of the census* from ISC9 to 1872 we find that Europe (exclusive of Itussia, Turkey, ans some small Southern states) possessed in 1870 a mean population of 242,940,376, classed as follows from the point of view of advanced ages: 17,313,715 of more than 60 years, 79.559 of more than 90, and 3,108 of more than 100 years ; i.e., one in habitant in 12 of more than 60, one in 2,669, of more than 90, and one in 62,536 of more than 100. Women ■M. Solaville finds, are more numerous in' ex treme old age than men, and the difference , increases with the age. Thus at 60 years the advantage is with the women in the proportion of 7 per cent, at 90 and above it rises to 45, and with centenarians of 60 per 100. It is in France tha 1, we find the great est relative number of inhabitants at the age of 60 and upwards; but it is not so for centenarians, of which France has less than all the other States of Europe except Belgium, Denmark, and Switzer land. From a calculation of deaths by ages the result is reached that, to the total deaths, those at the age 90 and upward bore the following proportions to the coun tries named and arrranged according to the decreasing order of importance : Great Britain, 9.73; Sweden, 7.39 ; France, 6.58; BeWum, 6.07; Switzerland, 6.00; Hol land, 4.47; Italy, 3.76; Bavaria, 6.42; Prussia, 3.06 ; Austria, 2.61. The result is in accordance with that we know of the mean age of the deceased in the same countries. Is great longevity increasing or diminish ing for the same number of inhabitants? ■We have information on the subject only for France. If we take two periods sufli ciently distant from each other to allow a change of any importance to be pro duced, we find in the fourteeen years of the period 1824-37, a mean annual number of deaths among centenarians of 152, or 1 to 217,105 inhabitants. In the eight years of the period 1553-60, we only find a mean annual numberof 11 centarian deaths in a population which has increased 20 per cent. But if great ages appear to have diminished, the meanlife has very sensibly increased, a result much more favourable. A certain number, of centenarians have made known their regi men. Notwithstanding some very rare examples to the contraiy we must place in the .first rank temperance, sobriety and regular habits ; then comes hereditary, relative comfort, the absence of strong and pregnant emotion, as far as possible a country life, and finally a healthy and quiet calling.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 5, 1881.

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