THE STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT.

AUCKLAND, N.Z., NOVEMBER 18, 1882

A SUMMER AMUSE MENT.

Sitting in the airy "company chamber1/ two nighta after his arrival at the Moun tain Farm, Koyce Worthington wrote the following letter: —

"My Dear Muriel,—l can fancy you all in your sheen and shimmer of satin and gems to-night at tbe hop,flirting desperately with some poor victim, who does not imagine that the sole possessor of your heart sits in his room alone and lonely high up in the Green Mountains writing to you. Well, go on, my dear, flirt to your heart's content, and your victim's despair—your time is short. Next year, if I' regain my health as my physician has promised, I will Bb near you to prevent your exercise of that privilege, which will be your privilege, no longer. " I have been two days at my new home. The air here is deliciom, clear, bracing in vigorating, a tonic and a stimulant in one. Already I feel benefited—and trust that six weeks of this atmosphere will completely rout the last ve3tige of the malaria which has made life a burden to me tor months. But think of me—a man who has been in a whirl of business and social life for thirty years -to be exiled to this lovely mountain farm for a whole season! The family con sists' of Mr and Mrs Roberts, and one daughter, a rather sweet-faced girl of perhaps twenty. She has only lifted her eyes to mine once, and then I thought them pretty, a dreamy dove-colour. She seems to stand a little in awe of me, and is evidently a perfectly unsophisticated maiden, Even if I make her acquaintance, she will be but a poor substitute for th» companionship of your own brilliant self. Pity me, then, and write me often. 1 have only my dog, my gun, my books, and my memories to make the tedious time eu durable, remember, while you have all the world at your feet, and all the majesty of the ocean beyond.

• Yours until death,

'Royce Worthington.'

J u-it one week later he recdived the fol lowiDg reply :—

Long Branch, July 18,

Moa Cher: I have juat time for a line before I dress for ihe hop. lam really sorry tor you, ray poor boy, to he so far away from all that renders life endurable; but I know it is the only thing for you— the only treatment to overcome that horrid malaria, which was spoiling your com plexion. lam enjoying myself as usual —yes, Royce, I suppose 1 am flirting with a handsome Englishman, who is Betting all the liulio3 wild. Bat, of course, you can trust me; and now I will be equally fair with you. "Why don't you begin an inter esting flirtation with that wild moutain flower you wrote me of; twenty years old, inexperienced, unsophisticated i Why it is high time some one taught her a little of the world. You are the proper person, Royce—so I give you fall permission to amuse yourself. But, of course, never forget your own

MUBISL IiACBV,

Boyce Worthiogton's smile settled into a slight frown as he read the letter to its close. Jnat a little heartless, the tone of it seemed, somehow —this light, laughing, instruction that he should go deliberately to work to — what ? Simply to win a simple girl's heart and break it. So for a moment the better nature of this selfish man of the world reasoned, and rebuked the writrr of the letter. But an hour later, when he met Celt sta Roberta in the moun tain path that led to the spring, he gal lantly relieved her of the pail upon her aim, and walked by her side to the spring, smiling down upon her with his most dan gerous smile. ♦Do you knoj? I am vary carious over something ?he said aa they walked along. 'Something upon which you alone can satisfy my curiosity ?' " Why, what can it be ? she asked worderingly, lifting her long lashes for a moment. , . . , . , Boyce laughed—a merry musical laugh it was I "There I am answered already," he said. " I have been wondering over the colour of your eyes ever sinca I came here. You have never allowed me to see them but once before, and theu only for a second. But I ccc that I was right ia my conjecture. I thought they were dove - colour, and they are." Celeste looked up at him with the frank innocence of an unconscious child. " Are they ?" she said. 1 have sometimes read of dove-coloured eyes, but I never knew Kline were that colour. I thought they were grey, and I did not know that I had never looked at you. I hope you have not thought ma impolite ? indeed I want to make it pleasant for you here—l know it must be loaely to oue like yeu." Koyce felt his blood hurry through his veins. Jlow charming she was in her frank, confiding innocence. How declicjous the love of such a girl would be -how interest ing to watch her heart unfolding day by day, like a rose. "It is lonely," he said, "I find myself pining for compaoionsbip very often. I have only my books, and I am too tired and languid to read long at a time, and my eyes have troubled me a little-eyer since thn fever which depleted me so." " Would you like to have me read to you an hour or two every day ? I could if it wonld please yon.'1 She saia this, with a modest shyness of manner, and the sugges tion of a blush in her cheek. '• I wonld be delighted, only It seems too great a favour to ask of you." ■;> "But you did not ask it, I offered. I feel it to db my duty, 3ince you were sent here for yonr health, to help you to regain it. It is for the credit "i Mountain Farm that I do t'lis." and she laughed merrily as " Well, then, I yield a willing assent. I am sure Dr. Kingm.in would feel confident of my recovery if he could know into what hands I have fallen. He sent me here as suring me that it was the ODly air and the only place to regain my health and 8 r»D^es,' so father told me. A sister of Dr. Kinsman's came to us la^tyear supposed to be beyond hops of recovery—almost every disease in the li-t of human ills seemed to have possession of her poor body. Yet she left us quite well after three months, surely you ought to become robust in a few " I begin to fear that I shall recover too rapidly to please me," Eoyce responded. But Celeste made no reply to this—indeed she did not seem to have heard him. Her dove-coloured eyes were fixed in the purple and amethyst that was touching the moun tain tops with glory. . "Of what.are you thinking?" queried Uovcl after a moment's silence, daring which he watched her lifted face, that wore the look of a saint. He discovered that Cele3te was more than a pretty girl—she W^I bwas tl thinking of the world that lies beyond those mountain tops,' she said. <■ The world of which I know so little. I wonder if I would ba happy there ?" Fvovce watched her smiling; already was thereis "vague unrest" in her gentle bTb ia a wonderful world,"he said, "and there is much in it for one like you to en joy Pictures, operas, plays, fine works of art-yes you would like the world beyond have" all those thing* here," Celeste answered softly. "All, ami none of the petty anaoyances, the heart-aches and the strife which I would find in the " I do not understand yon," he said. » She smiled—her saint-like, child-hke Sn»! Don't you? Well, what picture could fes grander than that yonder-where the ettß touches the mountain peaks with fin gers dipped in glory ? I think there v no Sth'er word that describes a monatun snn set but that one-glory. And what opera could be finer than a storm in the moun- Swnen the winds crash through the ereat pines and unite with heaven's or chestra-the thunder. And what play can wks of art caLompare with this moun. taiu scenery on every aide ? Surely I have a world as wonderful as #4 #«* ließ be jond the mountains."

Boyce was silent, The girl's face was transfigured, her soul was shining from her eyes. That night he wrote to Muriel Lacy. " My Mountain Maid is to read aloud to me an hour every day. She reads very well, but so unworldly, so unspotted, I wonder if she can belong to the same rase of beings to which you and I belong."

And to this Mnrlel replied : — " I judge from your remarks concerning the Mountain Maid that your flirtation is Tinder full headway. I doubt if she will ever be as unworldly when >ou leave her. Poor child, how her heart will ache, yet it will do her good in the long run. Every woman's heart must ache sometime, ana you must be amused during your exile. It must be stupid enough tor you at the best. The Englishman continues to play the de voted, but lam rather weary of him. I must confess there is nothing like an agree able American, one I wot of especially."

Again a frown of displeasure contracted Royce Worthington's white brow, and he tossed his betrothed's letter with a little impatient exclamation: — "Is the woman heartless ?" be mused ; but he did not fail to make himself as agreeable as possible to Celeste an hour later, when they drove down the steep mountain read to the village two miles

away. It was a memorable drive ; for a sudden storm broke upon them on their return, and they were obliged to take shelter under a great oak while it swept over. They had brought no warning in the fair blue heavens of the approaching storm when they set forth. And now Celeste insisted upon removing a light shawl she wore, and wrapping it about Koyce's shoulders. "Indeed, you shall do no such thin?," he said. "Instead I have [half a mind to make you take my coat." "But I am perfectly well," pleaded Celeste. "I was never ill an hour in my life, and yon are an invalid seeking for health. If you were to take cold, and it were to settle on your lungs, you would be an easy victim for lung fever or pneumonia. Please let me wrap this shawl across your chest and shoulders."

Royce was obliged to consent, and as he felt the light weight of her hands upon hia shoulders as she adjusted the shawl, a thrill shot through his veins, a thrill of pleasure so keen it was like pain. "Thank you," he said simply, and then stood watching her wrapt expression as her eyes followed the course of the clouds that reared their great crests like another tier of mo an tain ranges.

"Ah, is not glorious?" she cried, her cheeks aglow, her eyes sparkling. " How I love a thunder-storm,"

" What a nature the girl has," thought Royce, "so rich and lofty and impassioned, so above and beyond all weak woman's fears and alarms."

He was sorry when the storm subsided and they could pursue their homeward journey. He liked the sense of seclusion from the world with this girl, as his only companion, which he had enjoyed during the storm. *

He found another letter awaiting him on his return from Muriel. It was full of the light gossip of the resort of hops, flirta tions, handsome toilets, engagements, marriages. He twisted it up and used it as a cigar-lighter. It seemed like the veriest trash to him after his recent ex perience, He did not mention Celoate ia his next letter, or his next

Then came one from Muriel which closed with query : " Have you reached the grand denouement of your mountain romance, tnat you are so silent concerning it, or has it lost all inntereat for you ? Did the fair maiden'prove too easy a conquest, or what has happened, pray tell me ?" "A conquest ?" Koyce repeated the words over to himself. Was Celeste interested in him other than a friend? he wished he knew. They were much together novr.and had grown to be most cordial comrades. He was growing stronger every day, and now he read to her sometimes while she sewed, or attended to her household duties. She was such an appreciative listener to his favourite books

They drove together to the village and they spent long delicious evenings in the moonlit verandah. Vet for the life of him Royce could not tell if Celeste was growing to love htm. Somehow he had found him self unwilling to practice thoaa ordinary arts of flirtation upon her, and had conse quently been simply bis most agreeable self. But he knew very well that all women found him fascinating. He had been a woman's darling from hia cradle. And now to he in doubt if he bad made an im pression upon this simDle eirl.

• But, of course, she must care for me," he thought. " She has never been away from home since her sixteenth year, when she returned from a boarding school, and all her life has associated with those simple mountain villagers. She must, she shall care for me."

Yes, it had coma to that with Koyce. He was piqued by her manner, which revealed nothing of her feelings, aad had crown sel fishly determined tbat Celeste should grow to care for him. And the result—but he did not stop to reason about I hat. That evening Boyce found her in the little sitting room singing softly while (he accompanied herself upou the cottage organ. " You have a sweet voice," he said, standing where he could look down upon her face.

"Have I," she a<ked. 'I love (o sing, but I am never quits sure tbat I sing at all well." She did not blush at his words or his looks. Koyce often wondered why she did not blush more readily. "It is not the composure gained h> contact with the world,' he reasoned, "and it U not from any lack of refined feeling; yet nothing seems to confuse her." It was quite true. Celeste possessed that perfect unconsciousness of herself that n sometimes found in very young children ; and it was this remarkable quality which accounted for the peculiarity so puzzling to Koyce. " Yes, your veice U fine. With a little cultivation it will add materially to your many attractions whea you take your place in the world where you belong—in my world.' Koyce's eyes were on her face as he spoke these words slowly aod with mean ing emphasis. To his surprise and delight, she lifted her eyes quickly to his for » second, then dropped them, and a burning scarlet dyed her face and throat. Then she hurriedly turned tho leaves of too music, as if looking for som thing sho could not find.

Koyce enjoyed he* confusion. • He was satisfied; the cared for him ; and bi« reference to her ultimate pi ice in his world had betrayed her well-guarded secret,

Afte" that he spjr;d no pains to use every fascination in his power to complete the work so well begun. It was almost time for biti to go back to the city. Muriel Lacy had flown from the watering resorts, and was growing im patient for his return They were to be married in the Spring, and there were many plans to talk over. Muriel was anxious to go to Europe and spend the winter—the Englishman was to be in Paris. Still Royce lingered at the Mountain Farm. At length Muriel wrote that she had de cided to sail for ICurope in two weeks with her aunt. If Koyce desired to see her before her departure he must come at once. Koyec announced his intended de parture that evening after her letter came. He watched Celeste's face narrowly. It betrayed nothing. "I shall miss you sorely," she said. That was all. " But we shall meet again," he said "l trust so," she answered, and again she shyly lifted her eye?, and that crimson wave swept over her face. Koyce Jelt his face piling. His heart throbbed, his blood swept through his vena. He longed to fay to this girl who stood before tbat she *ai a new reve lation of womanhood to him ! that she had awakened depths in his nature of which he had never dreamed ; that he loved her tenderly, trn!-, passionately, and wanted her for his wi . Thl* was what he longed to Bay, for it \vi^ t>ie truth, the truth which he had known these last few days. ■ He said good-bye hurriedly and with white lips, That dreary ride back to the city he never forgot. >et he was going to his betrothed, the brilliant belle Muriel Lacy. < She found him a languid and distrait lover. After one week of j&is fiopifty.

during which time he had never once men tioned their marriage, she said to him : "I believe you left your heart in the mountains, Royce. You are not yeur old self at all. And if you did, I really wish you would go back and find it. You boro me with your stupidity. I have been accustomed to a more entertaining gallant." Koyco was sileut a moment, and seemed making a resolve. Then he spoko : " You are light," he said. " I did leave my heat t in tne mountaius. I love the girl you bade me amuse myself wiih !"

Muriel turned a startled face toward him " Love her—that girl ? " she said, wonder ingly. " lsetter thin you love mo? " " Better than I love my life ! "

"Better than I love ray life." "Then go back to her at once. I aui sure I do not want you here."

Muriel spoke sharply, but there was still more of wonder than anything else in her face. She could not understand bis prefer ence.

" I will go back gladly. You need not blame me, Muriel, You told me to amuse myself, and I endeavoured to follow your wishes in the matter. Hut I found the girl a new revelation to me, and I ended in loving her. I never dreamed I could love any woman as I love her." "Well, then, I wish you every success, Royce. Here is your ring. I sail for Europe next week, and my .English fiiend will join us in Paris soon, tie asked me to marry him, Royce, and I did not give him a definite answer. I knew he would be more useful to me in Paris if I left him hope. I shall very possibly marry him now, be is very much in love with me. So we are both well provided for, it seems." "And we will always be friends, Mu riel?"

" Why, of course, Royce, Better friends than if we had married each other, pro bably." So they parted—Koyca to hasten back to Mountain Farm with the mad, impetuous haste of a boy lover, lie looked ten years younger than when he last went over that route. Celeste was at the spring dipping up a bucket of water when lie came down the mountain path.

"Is it a ghost or a reality ?" she cried, laughing as he sprang down beside her. "A solid reality, he answered, gather ing both her hands in his. " Oh, Celeste, Celeste, say you are glad to see me." She looked up with her sweet, honest eyes full of wondrous surprise, alarm, " Glad 1 oh, certainly. I have missed you very much." "Missed me? Can you not say more than that? Oh, Celeste, you are my ideal woman, my light, my life. I came back to tell you tnat I love you, tbat I want you lor my wife,"

Celeste drew back in sudden alarm, and a shocked expression drew all the warmth out of her face.

"Mr Worthington, you are beside your self," she said. '' What reason have you to speak such words to me 1" "What reason? Why, fireat heaven.", what reason nucd I savo that I love you ? What reason have you to forbid that love?"

" The best in the world." she answoted, quietly. " Knowing that 1 am the be trothed of another, I hold you in ton much esteem to suppose you wuuld ever tpeuk such words to me as you have just spoKon. I am sorry to ba disappointed in you."

Eoyce grew white to thu lips. " Be trothed to ano'.her 1" he npeitej, "You cannot mean it, Celeste."

She looked at him with wondering eyes. "Did >ou not kaow iiiat I am the pro mised wife of I.'r Kingman ? that I urn to be married in the early winter?"

': Grtat heaven, uo ! Why did ysu keep this from me till now ? Why did jou never mention it ?"

111 never discus my private matters with strangers," Celeste answered quietly, "lie s-ide, I supposed you knew ever after tbat day at the organ, when you spoke of my singing, and referred to the time when I should take my place in your worid. Your tone and manner were so meaning that I thought you referred to my engagement. Then, again, when you went away you said we should meet agaiu, and I inter preted your words in the same way." Koyce stood a moment iv nleocc. Oh, how he had deceived himself—how blind he bad been in his vanity and selfishness. He turned and.gave his hand to Celeste " Good-bye," ho said, "I have been a blind fool, but I deserve,ray fate " Then he was gone. He did not sco Celeste again until they met ia society, and she was Mrs Kinsman. That earn.) week he received the " Parisian," which contained a marked item. It was the an nouncement of the engagement of Muriel Lacy to Albert Uempstcad, of London, England.

The P overty that Hides.

The poor are always with us, and yet we know them noti The poverty that parados its needs and is perpetually asking for " relief" is not the teal indigence that true humanity should be most solicitous to help. It is the poverty that hides which ihe genuine philanthropist should search out and succour. In this great city theie are thousands who know the bitterness ot unsatisfied hunger, who endure the misery or that most blighting of all cold, the chill of starvation ; who suffer torments of mind worry and wretchedness ; and who ate, in short, dying of destitution while they keep tip an external appearance of res pectability and even of content. Medical men who are admitted to see life stripped of its tiusel, especially those who have to deal with the mental phase of human nature at close quarcers and in its weakest mommts, when pretencu is no longer pos ible, have this hid' Jen poverty brought painfully hi.me to them. The outside public has no conception of the extent and depth of the impecuniosity that prevails, and the bitter achinp yoid that is un satisfied. We piiy the so-called "starving poor." Heaven help the starving "well to-do" and even seemingly " wealthy 1" It is a giim fact that there are at tiiia niomeut members of the pro fession, tradesmen, clergymen, aid edu cated persons of nil classes aud grades of society, who are poorer and more at a loss how to feed themselves and their families than the aveng.; "poor1' upon whose re cognised needs society is wont to txhaust its charity. . Would that ther-j could be a "secret s :ivice fund" managed by a com mittee of philanthropists who would not need to publisti their doing to the world, and who had the wisdom t'j conduct their mission of mercy with the tact that genuine benevolence always demands. The sufferers of whom we are speaking, and for whom we would plead, not only affect, but feel, that prido in life that absolutely deters them from makiDg their circumstances known, ihey would, aad do, die rather than confess the urgency of their poverty. When we read of casts of "starvation" that attract notice by the finding of coroner's juries, and disclosures! made before the magistrates, we wonder how many in this ostentatiously charitable community of ours even suspect the existence of the povery that hides.— The Lancet.

Politics.

Bazaars.

A, few weeks ago the residents in a colliery village, not far distant from Chester-le- Street, were aroused one night by sounds of strife proceeding fromthe dwelling of a yonng miner who had not yet completed the first twelve months of his matrimonial bliss. On some of the neighbours enteiinz the house, they found the husband wiping the blood from his face, which had evi dently felt an enmged wife's nails. The wife moved about the apartment in a highly-excited sta'e, cropping such ejacu lations as " Weel aa nivvor!" "An' be had the check' te come an tell me!" "Aa'll gie hor m much if aa catch hor, the brazzen fa<?got" &c. " When aa coma hyem," blubbered Geordie, in answer to the neig bours, "she wanted to knaa whor aa'd been te, an1 aa tell'd hor oa'd been deon to tbe Lion discussing politics." " Ay, ah that'a true," interrupted the irate wife; "an aa've just gien 'im somethiu.' to myek him remimber that he's gettin' a wife at hyeni, an' that he's no 'business te gan taakin' te Polly Ticks, nor ne other o' the family. Aa'll Folly Kicks him if he gans that gyet agyen 1"

Of course, there jb an enormous waste of money at bazaars. By an odd form of mental insanity, people will be induced to give at those places three times tha value for something next door to vuleilcss, wh o would never buy it all auywhere else. It is this remarkable instinct or hallucination upon which the bazaar demon works. I know that it is argued that evevy one gets a quid pro quo who paya his money and walks in as Artemus used to say, " You caunot expect to go in without paying, but you can pay without going in." There is no act of folly or maduess that may not be committed at one of these charitable " routs." A friond of mine once found a beauty selling coffee. He asked for a cup. ''One shilling," sho said, "but if I taste it first three sLillinKa." He paid the three shillings, but when, after puttiug the teaspoon to her lips, the poor girl handed the cup to the monster, with one ot her most winning smiles, he merely said, " Thanks ; you drink the rest yourself." Sho never sold another three shillingsworth. Perhap3 it is nice to be waylaid by. half a-dozen beautiful girls, who offer to clap a emokjng-cap on your head, pin a rose in your button-hole, thrust an embroidered cigar-case into one pocket, a pair of slippers' into the othor, compel you "to eat an ice, or force you to invest in toffy made by (heir own fair fingers. It may b( nice without being naughty, and it is certainly expensive without being useful; but I must say the swindles at large b.tzaars havo been carried to the verge of commercial fair dealing. 1 won't dwell on strawberry- Kissing and coffee-sipping but on justice and honour. A concert is advertised in two parts, and the room is cleared out at the end of the first. Having paid for the whole, you perceive that you are to have but half. Enter next batch with same prograninio, who only get the other half. The same thing is practised at the theatre. You are only put through half an act, and then hustled out. issuing more tickets than thero are seats is too common a plan to notice, but dishonest raining should lie checked. I knew a case the other day when nobody got the object rafiled for, simply bebauso it was only lent out hy the owner for the day, and did not belong to the bazaar, When it comes to this, I say charity becomes positively immoral.

However, I am not on tho side of the growler 3. If people did not like bazaars they would not be got up. The getting of thorn up providos amusement and occupa tion to a great many people who might otherwise be idle or more mischievously emp'oyed, and sometimes attention ii called to really good objects. Personally, I al-1 ways like to see a collection of pretty women well-dressed, and full of life ana\ animation ; and this, I fancy, is about thff secret of a i;ood deal of bazaar enthusiasm and philinthropic zeal.

Having douu growling, I will proceed to dispense a little .sysvmatic iatormation, which may be useful to some enterprising people about to get up a baziar without knowing whore to begin.

A lady asked mo the other day how to begin, i said, "I am sure I doa't know," but last week I stumbled upon a sot of hints drawn up by Mr Lazenby Liberty, of Chinese silk notoriety, which I should think would be cager.y read all over tnc country, if the weather holds up, nud the bazaar season holds out. A Rood deal ol time and trouble is saved by a system; that U the chief merit of the St, John's Ambulance Classes. As a friend snid to me the other day : " Of comse, in a sick room, it you thiuk, you cm generally find out what to do ; but if you have been through the nursing classis, you know at once what to do without thinkiog." So it is in organising a bazaar. If you c.in do it by book, it saves the bother of thinking. The following suggestions will repay attention; enconomise time and labour, and promote efficiency :—

1. When you apply for patrons' name?, enclose a stamped envelope for an answer,

2. Resolve your committee of manage ment into snb-committces for decorations, advertising, amusemen's, and printing, 3. Get the biggest alt Unable local nob to open your baziar. 4. Get a. many male stowards as you can ; they are very useful in helping (aod flirting with) the ladies at the stalls, aud they promote the illegal practice ot raffling, it must not be called ruffling, because it is illegal; so tho word raffle must not be printed, but jou can call it something else, and do it without breakiug the law. You can call jt the "kiss-me-quick" game, oi by any other absurd, suggestive, and wholly irrelevant name, or you may invite people to join the " iJon't-you-wish-you may-get-it" Club. 5. Adopt a style—do It have a bear gar den. Remember that you live in higher culture days. You can havo " Too-too " stalls and a " Couhur tuee " theatre. The simplest thing ii to lean to the "old Eng lish," which means almost anything ; or "Orieatal," which means almcst any thing else, and jjives free scope to your imagination, if you've got one—if you have not, use some cne else's.

6. An official programme is a necessity. Let the end of it out iv advertisements ; this will pay your printer's bill. But don't print many things, print much. It costs little more to strike off 2,003 than 1,000 ; but it costs double if the 2,000 have to be separately set up. 7. Issue a certain number of free admissions. This will act as good ground bait. Besides, you can always ascertain whether the pauy you sell to got in free—a little chaffy talk will elicit that, especially if a pretty woman tries it—and then you can charge your victim double. 8. If you can, wi;h any show of decency —preteud that the bazaar is over-crowded and double tho ontrauce-frea.

There 1 Mo ono cau say that l'in ab surdly squeamish, although I admit the abovu bin is are not my own, and I could not defend, especially after what I have said, the strict nurality of all of them. But the bazaar conscience is not "sensitive" on such mutters, and when all is said and dove, people put thiir heads into the chari table nooset with their e*es open, The only means or self-preaervatro i consists in leaving jo r pwsi at home. You must not wonder if, * hen once inside the happy huuting field—by fair means or foul—your pnr*e vcets emptied an^yonr pockets picked, and chiefly by tho "Fair"— " loudon Truth."

Scurvily Rewarded.

The First Bleeding in Russia.

It is not generally known that four thou sands of people were executed when our men marched on Delhi during the Mutiny; and one giim story, the grimmest I know, illustrates our .mode of terminating onr connection with Sepoya, A certain officer held an improvised court, where he spent day after day in ordering executions The proceedings ran somewhat as follows :—A native was led in, and a soldier said simply, " Native. Taken in arms." The president of the court then said (in a lingo" which I can't spell), "Ail right, take him out." Then the uuhappy wretch was hustled through another door, with his hands held behind his back and his neck forced for ward. ' Somfi strapping Sikhs wera waiting outside, and a blow from a talwar shot away the head of the victim of English justice. The body was lugged off and pitched down a dry well. While our amateur judge was despatching man after man in this comprehensive way, a messen ger arrived with a note. Ihe note said : •' Dear What sickening work this is ! When you are done come and have some dinnor with me. 1 have some venison, and I can promise you both wine and icei" The officer crumpled up ihe note aud said dieamily (in the same nnspellable lingo), " All light, take him out." The two friends had a capital dinuer, and enjoyed their iced champagne very much. When coffee came the host said, " Well, I'm glad you turned up. Of course you must have had my note, or you wouldn't be here. But, by the way, old fellow, rather an extra ordinary thins; haopened. My bearer hadn't come hack!" The guest stared, gasped—and <enienibered. Probably no messenger was ever so seurvily rewarded for carrying an invitation to a good dinaer. It was useless to look for the poor fellow down tha dry well, so they let him repose there.

The Czar Alexis, father of Peter the Great, was one morning in a state of great irrita tion. He alternately walked about and eat down, contradicted and scolded his courtiers around him, who stood trembling before hia bloodshot eyes and the unnatural hue of his countenance. All of a sudden his sight became darkened, his head fell heavily upon his shoulder, his legs tottered, and he fell Into a swoon on the floor, Be was laid on the sofa, and his physician at onco sent for, who, finding his pulse at a perfect stand, and all the symptoms of the face indicating an approaching attack of apo plexy, ordered the izir's arm to be un covered, in order to bleed him. But hardly had the doctor taken in hand the lancet, when Alexis, somewhat recovering from his swoon, opeued his eyes, and asked tbe doctor in an angry tone what he was about.

" I was about to bleed you, your majesty," replied the other, softly. "Xo bleed me ?—I don't understand you." "This instrument," said the doctor, pointing to the lancet, " would made such a slight incision iv the flesh of your arm as to camo much less paiu than even the scratch of a pin, but it will cause a few drops of the thick'blood to flow off, aud facilitate thereby the circulation of the whole system." " How I" shrieked Alexis. " Yo» meau to wound me, aad spill my blood intention ally. Hoiv dare you?" '■It's true, sire, tho euro for bleeding is not yet known in your vast empire, but it has been into Poland, Germauy, and Franco with unf iiling success j bat 1 would certainly not have dared to attempt it on your majesty's person if I had not found you in imminent danger of your life." " Nonsense 1 I will not allow my body to be wounded, or my blood to be spilt, \ Baid the Czar, doggedly. "But consider, Czar Alexis," remon strated the doctor, earnestly, " in taking from you a few drops of blood I am sure to save your life; but it you refuse I cannot answer for the consequences, and what now appears only a slight indisposition, may turn to a moat serioua illness, which will baffle all my Mali und all the medicine in the world."

Struck by these ominous words, Alexis asked wether tuere wn no other means of saving his life "None that I know of," replied the doctor, seriously. " Does blosdiog hurt a person in good health ?" asked Alexis.

" Certainly not; it can neither harm nor do good to persons who are in need of it."

" Then," said Alexis, " bleed yourself 'first, doctor." "With pleasure; but my arm will then bo so weak for a couple of days that I shall not be able to perform the operation ou you during that interval." 'iho Czar thun told all bis courtiers to Btaud round in a circle, and ordered the doctor to bleed them all in turn, These wore Ilia Milaslowsky, the Princes Harish kin audDolgorucki, Count Tolstoy.Genoral Lubanotf, and many more of high rank and birth. K&ch and all wore bled, in blind obedience to tbc Czar's will: however, when the turn came to Strc^hncu", who was bent with as;e and enfeebled by long service, the docto■• made a full pause, and looked hesi tatingly at tl o Czar, as much as to Bay, hero is danger in the operation. Encour aged by the pau-c, Btrcshneff bent his kuee before Alexis, and said : " May your maicsty please to pardon the liberty I am taking to beseech you, in all humility, to spare me the few drops of blood which the Almighty has still left in my veins at my advanced ate. What may be useful or harmless to the young, may prove dangerous to tho old." The doctor nodded ass cut to the assertion. Tho Czir, however, felt himself so insulted that, clenching his fist and iuilicting a blow on the breast of the old man, he shrieked in a violent voice :

"How dare you, old dog, to disobey your sovereign ? If you do not at once bare your arm I shall have you shot like an old beast."

W c need not say that Streshneff nnder went the ope.ation, which done, the doctor told Alexis it was now his turn to be bled.

"Very well," said the Czar, gloomily, and baring his arm, turned away his head, and bid tho doctor make haste.

strange to say, Alexi?, who could with the utmost indifference look on at the hlai'd hi) caused to be shed of thousands ot his subjects, was coward enough to t>e frightened at the sight of a fow drops of blood from his own body 1

How He Got His Revenge.

SOME years ago a man named Wines lived in a cortain New Englaad towo, his pro fession being that oi a school teacher. His resideuco was a laige, Old-fashioned house, upon the front door of which appeared a door-plate of considerable size, bearing his name, without prefatory initials, as follows.' j WINES- One day in the course of his pedagogical duties, It became necessary to the mainten ance of order that hof should chastise a cor tain refractory youth, which feat heaccoa plished to the full conviction of tho offender. Smarting with the discipline he had re ceived, this malevolent small boy pondered upon revenge, and at length arranged a plot which he telioved would tesult in con tusion of face and bitterness of spirit to the teacher whose blows had so much incon venienced him. Accordingly, the first con venient night he went to the master's house, and arranged the conspicuous plate on the front door so that it read as follows : ■ WINES | ; and other lickers ■ Whether the youth intended to per petiate a pun, or was ai illiterate as he was obstreperous, is uDknown, but the latter opinion is said to hive generally prevailed in the community whioh claimed the honour of his residence.

An Eccentric Bishop.

Our good old bishop, Daniel Wilson, died this morning. He was a most eccentric old man, and countless were the stories of him, I will mention a few from my personal experience. In a sermon at the Calcutta Cathedral, after a huobub about some indis cretion attributed to an officer of rank, the bishop, after a powerful discourse, wound up by saying: "But, my brethren there are sinners everywhere. There ara sinners even among these dear little children (pointing to the Sauday-school child ren right and left of him), and there are a vast number of old sinners in front of me," waving his bands over the heads of the Govcruor-General and stall', members of Cuuniil, heads of departments, etc, One morninu I breakfasted with him. As usualjat family prayer?, which he invariably con ducted himself, he prayed by name for the people staying with him. There waa a gemleman from Madras for whom he prayed, and then he said, "let us pray for his dear wife, and dear children." A thought struck him, he paused, and lie said to hii chaplain, "By-the-bye, is he a mar ried man ?' " No, my lord, he ia not mar ried," •' Afe, well, never mind," he resumed. "He may mairy, and the children may come." On another occasion it was related that lie was preaching against the Bin of avarice, when he delivered himself of the following remarks;-"My brethren, there are several forms of avarice; one form has recently been brought home to me un pleasantly. You all know my archdeacon there, a. most excellent man ; well, last week be sold me a horse for 500 rupees, he is not worth 10. This, my brethren, I consider a most unpleasant form of avarice," —Colonel Kamsay'i Recollections,

"Lady Tichborne."

At the meeting of the Board of Guardians of the South Stonehnm Union, near South ampton, on Tuesday, the master of the workhouse reported that "Lady Tien borne," wife of the Claimant, had, with two illegitimate children, become an inmate. It seems tUat since her husband's incarcera tion she has been residing in a district of the Union called St. Denys, her chief, if not only, maintenance being an allowance from a fund raised by certain of the Claim ant*'* sympathisers. She wa3 once Bum inoned under the Education Act for not sending the Claimant's children to school, but these are now being educated at two separate places in the counfry. Her " lady ship " had, however, since her nusband's codviction given birth to two other children, and this being recently followed by a third, her benefactors withdrew their support, aud she was compelled to seek refuge, with her two youngest children, in the work house.

The Irreproachable Waltzer.

Gibls who love dancing for dancing's sake, and do not care who or what their partners may bo bo long as they can waltz, ought to be delighted to hear of the following! American invention, the account of which we borrow from the Standard : " The ' ir reproachable walizec' is a stout frame of light wood, of about five feet in height, and remotely resembling an old-fashioned kite frame. At tbe top of the frame is a padded ' rest'for the lady s band, nnd at about the middla of the frame is a jointed arm, cap able of beinu; placed round a young lady's wuist, and securely fastened in tlut position with a thumbscrew. The frame has two feet furnished with castors, each one of which has a universal joint, so that it can turn freely in any direction. Ihe whole affair weighs only five pounds, and it is made to fold together, ho that a lady can carry it in her hand, either with or without a shawl strap,"

Serving Him Too Bad.

Several columns of the morning papers are devoted to reports of burglaries, in nil of which there seems to have been mortal combat between tho burglar and his pur suew, The Sireatham burglary is particu larly interesting from the fact that this pirate of the metropolis appears to have delivered himself of a few remarks on the more humane treatment of burglars by their capturers. After beiog chased over a wall like a cat, and a shovel thrown at his head—degradation enough for any human being a* any t'me ot day—he was knocked down, hit over the head with a spade, and kicked in the ribs, This las indignity seems to have aroused his most virtuous in dignation. He said they were serving him too bad—serving him like the Egyptians— and that here was a nice country to get an honest living in. It is needless to state he had already spoiled the Egyptians him self, fired at every one alt round, and wounded one of hispuisuers, but this was not sufficient to justify there behaviour. The game is over when a burglar is caught, and thero must not be one more kick or blow after ho is on his back. It is as well to know this in time, so that the game may be played more fairly in future.

Obliging Her Majesty.

I HAVE just dropped upon another excel lent and characteristic joke of tho late Norman MacLeod. As one of her Majesty's Chaplain's, ho was frequently inundated with invitations from tuft-hunters. He was dining at the house of one of these persons-a lady—one evening, and got a little exasperated at the manner in which he was treated. In addition to being pes tered with questions, he submitted for eomo time to the equally-monstrous an noyance of not being asked to take any liquid refreshment. "And what would Her Majesty be saying to you when dining with.her at this stage oi the dinner, Mr MacLeod?" fussily asked his hostess after the third course. " Madame," said he, with some warmth, '' at this stage of the dinner Her Majesty usually pusheß the whisky decanter towards me and says, 'Tak' a dram, Norman, my man; and (added Norman with^ome sentiousness) 1 tuoitly endeavour to oblige Her Majesty."

Princes and Ladies.

One reason why princes are to bo much envied is their success with ladles fair or otherwise, for the halo that doth encircle a princely brow is as attractive aa the candle to the poor moth; but it is possible also that this may be a bore, as in the following instance:-There dwells in the ciiy of Uustchuk, in Bulgaria, the daughter of an Abbajee, or maker of a cosrse sort of cloth worn by peasants. He died, leaving a for tune, considerable for that country, to two daughters, one of whom, anything but "fair" in sense, but fat and probably thirty, dreamed that the was destined to be Princess of Bulgaria, and she and her mother foolishly told everyone, Shortly afterwards, when the Prince passed through Kuatchuk, she pushed herself forward on every possible nad impossible opportunity, presented a gorgeous bouquet on a cuahion which she herself had worked, and at the ball so persecuted him with attentions that ho in despair appealed to one of his stall officers to " for heaven's sake save me from that woman." However, she is still to the front ou all occasions, and still confidently believes in her destioy. I hear ,though, that the Prinre Alexander is not always so stony-hearted, and that In Varna there is a story bow an officer in Government employ had lately been diamtssed under rather more than suspicion oi having helped him self to public funds, but was reinstated, according to on dit, because he had a fair spouse. I hear that the Prince has gained a considerable amount of unpopularity on this account.

A Phosphorescent Cat.

They Lad a bilin' old time at the West End recently. Mr Monkey's boy took the family cat and rubbed phosphorus all over him. It was about nighfall when he com pleted his job and let the cat go. The hoodoo began right away. The cat got into a barrel and began to yowl, and that attracted the attention of a bulldog, and he came along and danced about and. barked, and got tetribly excited. It was a case of " dog in the light, cat in the shadder, dog full of fiejbt, cat growing madder." Pretty soon the dog upset the barrel, aad weut in after the cat. But it wa9 a surprise., to him. The phosphorus glowed in the darkoess, and he beheld a cut of fire. He came out of that barrel, and went off howling, as though a police man had stepped on him. Then the cat went up on the rcofs, whene other cats do congregate, and tried to chum round with 'em, Bat it wae no go, They fled from him as if he were a boot-jack. He didn't understand it, and gave chase; and as there were about foutty cais on these roofs, and as they were all scared and fled from him, howling dismally, the Doise was something fearful, co that folks in the vicinity who heard it were seared and and had cold sweats. The cats continued to tear about and veil co that it couldn't be endured. Mr. Monkey and others got up, and went upon the roofs with clubs. And at first the sight of a fiery eat frightened them, and one lady ecreamed and fell through a skylight, and nearly killed a man sleeping beneattt it, and made him think Mother Shipton was right. Finally, Mr Monkey and his friends made a desperate charge on the fiery bat, and the poor cat took a riving leap to the streets. He hit on a policeman, saving his life, but nearly scariug the officer out of his, as he thought he was struck by lightning. The cat jumped to the giouod, and an astronomer came along and took him for aa aerolite, and trhd to pick him up. To his amazement the aerolite ran. Then he was scared too. Finally, the cat got into a haymow, and somebody thoughtthebarnwasalire.andthey called out the engines and gotseven stieams turned on him. He fought well, but they fixed him. Aud then investigations showed nofiie, but ouly a dead cat. Aud they told the stableman he was a crocs-eyed fool to mistake a cat's eyes for a fire, and so they left him. And all the West End is talking of the mysterious, fiery cat," and only young Monkey understands the myrtery,



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In fact, she will continue to b?, aa heretofore, the female adviser, and will treat cases of both women and ohlldren. She also begj to draw attention to a few specialities, via, the Herb Tonic and Blood Purifier; also. Herb Tobaooo for Asthma and Herb Worm Fowdeis for Children. All parties communicating either by letter or personally may rely on prompt attention and striot confidence, All orders sent to any part of the Colonies on receipt of Money Order, either Telegraph or Post Office Order, or Postage Stamps; .also Stamps for reply. Please Address— NEXT MESSRS. WINKB & HALLi Shortl&nd-streot, Auokland. |ty|" B D I C A. L, NORTH SHORE PHARMACY. Devonport. GARDNER, M.P.S., ENGLAND, Pharmaceutical Chemist. Prescriptions are dispensed, and Medicines, Toilet Articles, Nursery Requisites, &0., bup • plied at the same price as in Queen-streefc' WANTED KNOWN—" Pectorine,' " Coniferino," " Sulpholine," Quinine and Iron Tonic, Gardner's Blood Mixture (a moat reliable medicine). Taraxacum and Po dophyllum Genuine Oil of Eucalyptus, Per fumed Selutlon of Carbolic Acid, Liebi^s Beef Wine with Bark, Extract of Malt and all Its preparations, Worm Powders and other medi cines for children, Sec., &c, may be obtained at 'The English Pharmacy, 181, Queen-street, and » North Shore Pharmaoy, Devonport—For jpar tlculors apply to Mr A. W. Gardner, M.P.S,, Eng„ Pharmaceutical Chemist,



TTITCBENS'S BLOOD RESTORER, FOR CLEANSING, PURIFYING, A*D INVIGORAIING THE BLuOD. ":' Seven Yeats' Test in Auckland! THIS Medicine differs from ordinary pro prietary preparations, inasmuch as it was-the product of yeais of-study and investigation by an eminent physician of the Army Medical Staff, with whom Mr Hltcheua served during the New Zealand War, as Assistant Dispenser to the Ini-. perial Forces. On its introduction to the public as a specific for the cure of Rheumatism, A Kheumatic uout, Scrofula, Skin Diseases, Blood Impurities, and General Debility, i. quickly attained great celebrity, and soon . was sought after from every part of New Zealand, . Its curative and depurative properties have been fully testified by the numerous testimonials received by the proprietor from patients who had long suffered from the above distressing maladies, who had ap plied in vain to physicians for relief, and in whose cases, Turkish Baths, Hot Springs, and other popular remedies had been re. sorted to without effect. This celebrated medicine is compounded from products of the vegetable kingdom, is palatable and easily taken, mild, but effec tual, in its action upon the animal econ omy. It is, in sooth, a veritable Blood Restorer, cleansing it, and thereby restor ing diminished vitality. It presents, un questionably, a purer, safer, tetter,' and • ' .• more reliable alterative medicine tban any that has hithetto been available to the" people. . . • - (Copy). MrD. R. Chisholm,- Agent for Mr Hitcheks.—Dear Sir, It is with heart- ■ felt thanks that I am" able to endorse the sterling qualities of Mr Hitchens's invalu able Blood Restorer. Being induced by Mr Dishsr, who spoke in eulogistic terms of its merits, to place my wife (who was suffering very acutely with rheumatic fever) under its treatment, I am very happy'to . state the medicine has acted quite magical. After a few doses pain entirely ceased, and she is making rapid progress, and is now enabled to resume her household duties.. Actingso beneficially, I would not oe with- - out such, a valuable remedy, and should impress upon thoso who are similarly suffer ing not to overlook this specific, which is inestimable,—Believe me, yours very sin cerely, Thomas Bbowf, Brittauia Heights, Kelson. THE want of a reliable remedy for Rheu .matism, Sciatica, Gout, Lumbago, &c, has long been felt as one of the greatest calamities of the age. While other means and medicines having been proving them« selves vain and delusive, this remedy has been silently and steadily unloosing the • cruel fingers of disease, and freeing captive. men from their deadly embrace. ' The '■•■pe ople are now requested to give Blood' Restorer a fair and impartial trial And the Proprietor would have it distinctly understood that the cures of Rheumatism: &c., are due entirely to his Medicine's Wonderful Effect upon the Blood, by ita ■ Cleansing, Purifying, and Invigorating power. . Impurity and Inactivity of the Blood Is the cause of most sickness and pain. After a course of this medicine, blood-vessels— which have become, as it were, choked up with unhealthy matter—become exhilarant withi pure soarlet life-blood, flowing na. turally along, and imparting in its course vigour and strength to the entire system. __ '■ ..' BHITCHENS~ELEBRATED LOOD T> ESTORER The Renovator of the Human Blood. . ; '>'-.' No more Physical Degeneration if the Law of Health are observed, ordinary ' care exercised, and BLOOD RESTORER freely taken. JJITCHENS^ORDIALISED ' V JgLOOD TDESTOREa'i (Price, £2 per case net), Is a healthy and palatable summer drink when mixed with Lemonade or similar beverages. ~ w.iJ&S? ti D- c SXeat remedial properties of the MEDICINAL Blood Restorerf it is still of like character in its action on the human l?^'T a??oi? sPecially manufactured for. HOI.C.L USE. ■ * To be had Wholesale of . L. D. NATHAN & Co., Sole Agents. ■ „;.'■, HAVE Talis CELEBRATED AND EAVOURITS B3AND OF |AS ALE & GUINNESS'S STOUT Always in Stock, - L. D. NATHAN & CO. 1882-3 T f£ & ISB2-S We have received our SECOND SHIPMENT bj the His garooma, from Sydney, transhipped ex Ganges. 3148 PACKAGES, ; ;* Consisting o: ■ ■ ■ , ~ EXTRA CHOICE KaISOWS & CHOICE & MEDIUM CGNGOOb Of neat twisted even leaf, and very strong and rich flavour. Also, 125 BOXES CHOICEST. MANDABIW SCENTED ORANGE PEKOE. The above,with about ' 2000 PACKAGES OF FINEST QUALITIES (Balance ot First Parcel), *ad 300 PACKAGES OF ASSAM AND . . DARJEELINGB, Knable ns to offer a very Rare Selection buyers. Our Fosohow correspondents Inform nit thai seven-tenths of last shipment Was secured a- EXCEPTIONALLY CHEAPBATBB, And we are determined to give our clients th ' FULL BENEFIT OF THIS.