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5 £p HAI'TRIt VII—(( ontluued.) Mrs. Jack's first experiment. nt im parting the rudiments of the English grammar to Miss and Master Bodding ton did not go off with the smooth ness which might have been wished. Jimmy and Jenny were exceedingly un pleasant children, with utterly untamed wills, and tyrannous as cnly spoiled children can le tyrannous. They were dull, too, and altogether reduced Mrs. Jack to a state l»ordering on desjjair within the first hour. "We don't like grammar," cried Miss Jenny "teach us something else while Master Jimmy announced that as for Ms part he did not intend to he teached at all. and forthwith got under the table and became "a lion in his den," with the painful peculiarity of snap ping at the logs and feet of all who approached him. Poor Bell found herself terribly un able to cope with this unruly couple and after having tried entreaties and kird words—at which the young Bod dii.gtons became more violently ungov ernable than ever, and then throats and sharp words, at which they laughed and made faces—she was reduced to the necessity of declaring that she would nppesU to their pupa, and left the room for that purpose. Instinctively she had come to the conclusion that an appeal to Mrs. Boddinghm would be of no avail, but she thought that stern-look ing father would probably make him self obeyed. As she crossed the hall, she met him face to face. He had Just come in. apparently, lie wore rid ing hoots and carried a whip in his hand, and a fine Newfoundland dog followed at his heels. He took his hat off and liowed to" Bel], but without offering to shake hands with her. "You are not afraid of my dog?" he risked. "I)owi, Neptune!" Bell bent down and patted the dog, who had come close up to her confiding ly. "Afraid!" she said. "Oh, no! I love degs, and this is a very line fellow." The next minute she looked up again and found the eyes of Neptune's mas ter fixed on her anxiously. "What is the matter?" he asked. "You look disturbed." His voice md his face grew so kind as he spoke, and softened into such ex pression of sweetness that the tears brimmed up in Bell's eyes, and she be gan to stay that she feared—she greatly feared—that she should not be able to manage the children. They were terri bly unruly. She was so anxious to do her duty, and she had tried every meth od she could think of, but they would not obey, and she was forced reluctant ly to appeal to him. "To me'.'" he said, hesitatingly. "But I don't know that I ought to inter fere." "Oh! I thought—I was afraid—-I did not think it would be of any use to trouble Mrs. Boddington," said Bell, blurting out the truth. "Of no use at all. I should say. And besides, Mrs. Boddington is not out of bed yet. I will come with you and try what I can do to put these ill managed children to rights." The appearance of Ms bronzed face and white hair rising up lxhind Bell's shoulder had the effect of silencing Jim my and Jenny at once. They had been making a great noise, and had strewed •the floor with grammars, geographies and copybooks scattered in wild confu sion. "Pick up all that, at once. Sit down there, Jimmy, opposite to your sister." He was obeyed in silence, the children looking half frightened, half sulky. "Now, Mrs. Lilly, if you will be so very kind as to give these children one more trial, we shall all be very much obliged to you. It will be very kind of you, because, unless they learn to behave with decency, and respect their superi ors, they will have to go away from this house. 1 can't allow untamed sav ages to live here." Mrs. Jack resumed her seat and pro ceeded with her lesson, her new ally sitting in the room with a newspaper in his hands and his dog crouched at his foot. And so the rest of the morning passed away in comparative p«ace. "How very good of you to help me!" said Bell, when she rose to go away. "I am so very, very grateful to you. I dare say, by degrees we shall get to understand each other better, shan't we!" turning to the children, who, how ever, only stared at her in glum sor j)rise. "If they don't learn to behive better. I should advise you to give them up, Mrs. Lilly." "Oh, I don't want to give them up!" cried Bell, earnestly. And then, as she walked down th° drive toward the gate v uitiller her new friend accompanied her. she opened her heart in her im pulsive, confiding way, and told him all the circumstances which made it so important to her not to lose her pupils. "And I hope you don't think me very Incompetent because I failed to make myself obeyed just at first," she pro ceeded, looking pleadingly into his face. "I will strive my uttermost to do my duty to your children, Mr. Bodding ton." He started back, and a deep crimson blush spread itself over his brown face as he answered hastily, "Oh, I'm afraid there's some misapprehension here. I have been obtaining your confidence un der false pretenses. 1 am Mrs. B"i- dinglon's brothor, and my name Mr. Warren bowed a little stiffly, and did not further urge his request, and so they parted at the gate. "Well, 1 can see by your face tha$ your pupils got on comfortably to-day, my dear," said Miss Barnaseoni to .Mrs. Jack, that evening. "1 have been quite anxious about you all day." "Oh. yes. Barney. 1 got on very* well. At least—the children wouldn't obey me one atom at first. Jenny said she did not like grammar, and Jimmy got under the. table and growled like a lion." "Good gracious!" "Yes but then I threatened to appeal to their papa "Ah! and he put them to rights?" "No, Barney! He isn't their papa at all. And only think, his name is War ren, not Boddington. It was my mis take. Isn't it odd?" "My dear, it's so odd that I can't make head or tail of a word you are saying!" returned Barney, opening her black eyes very widely. "No, of course not! It's my fault for running on too quickly. But I have been so steady and so olil all day long that you must let me chatter now in my own fashion, just to rest myself, eh. Barney? And by degrees you'll understand it all. Now sit down in the comfortable corner of the sofa, and I'll tell you all about it." CHAPTER VIII. After the beginning of Mrs. Jack's engagement at Beech Grove. Mrs. Hogg was not often shocked by the spectacle of that lady "scudding" up and down the High street. Occasionally Mrs. Jack went to Perclval House. Her visits there were not made more agreeable turn formerly. But as she said to her self. the Lillys' hard words and hard ways were easier to bear, now that she wanted nothing of them. For Bell had made up her mind that the sum she was to get for teaching "^ie little Boddingtons would eke out her income so that she could live upon it and pay her way. It is true that this same* teaching money was occa sionally reckoned twice or three times over in Mrs. Jack's budget. But, when ever she became aware of this fact, she would say, "Oh, well, I wil! go with out something for myself, and make it straight that way." Only, unfortu nately. what tne "something" Was to be was never clearly defined In her mind. Certainly Mrs. JacK's talents did not lie in the direction of finance. Her father-in-law's family had receiv ed the announcement of her engage ment at Beech Grove* with marked displeasure. Especially Mrs. Lilly felt aggrieved, for she had confidently pre dicted that Bell would not get a single pupil in Codlington and it was hard to be flatly contradicted by fat" in the shape of an impertinent, accomplished fact in the matter. S«ill, there were mitigations. The people at Beech Grove were not Conlingtonians and that was almost the same as if Bell had found no pupils in Codlington. Neither did the Boddingtons appear willing to as sociate with the townsp( cple. This was offensive in one sense: but, on the other hand, it kept Bell's teaching in the background—a little out of the ken of the Lillys' circle of acquaint ance. Mrs. Lilly, however, made several warning speeches to her daughter-in law ".bout the strangers. "I is Warren." Bell blushed almost as deeply as he had done and stammered out an apol ogy. Then their eyes met and tiiey both began to laugh. "You must have thought it very cool of me to trouble you about the children." said Bell. "Well, no in :'ou. i uiea-'.ir»' I ,elt re sponsible for the'v d«nt "'Iiavior so long as they are in :nv "Oh!" house." "Yes, this is my hou-i My sisttf and brother-in-law are visiting 'im» for a time. I found niys *if very lonely rnd strange oa coming back to England after a twenty yea ,*s' absence in In dia, and asked Jane and her hus band to bestow the charity of their society on a solitary old fellow for as long as they can stand the dullness of Beech Grove. There is confidence for confidence, Mrs. tally. And now you know who 1 am, will you let me look into the schoolroom to-morrow in my character of 'bogie'—the children are a little afraid of me—and see that you are not driven quite distracted by my nephew and niece V" "Oh, it's very kind of you but I'm afraid you will find it so very tire some. And I dare say I shall get on better to-morrow, thank you," Mrs. Jack answered shyly. hope, Bell," she would say, "that this Mrs. Boddington is a rcspt-cfable person. We know nothing abeut her, you see. And it would be very painful to Mr. Lilly to have you mixing yourself up with doubtful characters in any way." "Well, Mrs. Lilly, it would also be a little painful to me, I assure you." "Ah, but you see, Bell, you are so ex tremely thoughtless, and your spirits are so volatile that you woidd never feel anything of the sort as we should. Another time she said: "Now, Bell, as to this Mrs. Boddingtong, there is something queer, 1 am afraid. Young Muggeridge, Bates & Booty's articled clerk you know, told Edgar in the office only last week that their firm had had the drawing out of the lease Beech Grove is Sir Ileury Iliggms' property, Bell—and that it was made out in the name of Warren, and not Boddington at all. Now what can that mean V" "Mrs. Boddingfon's brother Is the master ol* the house." '"Oh, indeed, Bell Well, the whole business looks strange to me. I should be very cautious of mixing myself up with those people until we know a lit tle more about them." Possibly Mrs. Lilly's caution was whetted to a keener edge than usual by the fact of her having, weeks ago, left a card on the new occupants of Beech Grove, which politeness had remained entirely unnoticed by them. But she omitted to mention this circumstance to Bell. The newcomers formed a topic of conversation in all circles of Cod lington society for a long time. They were rather severely handled at select tea parties for Codlington knew noth ing of them, which was an a priori pre sumption that there was nothing good to be said about them. And when you talk of people, if you cannot speak fa vorably you must speak unfavorably. The thing is clear! At least such were the principles and practice of Codling ton. Meanwhile the summer waind and the pleasant autumn days came and burnished the foliage with golden brown tints, and spread a silver veil of mist over the horizon, and brought cool, crisp weather morning and evening, so that walking was a pleasure, and even the straight, dusty bit of road be tween Codlington and Beech (Jrove be "inie a delightful promenade. Mrs. Jack often declared that it was a re markablj' pleasant walk especially from Codlington to Beech Grove. And Avlien Miss "Barnaseoni laughed at her for making a "bull," Mrs. Jack defend ed herself by calling her friend's atten tion to the fact that her walk from Cod lington to Beech Grove was made in the cool morning hours, whereas that from Beech (Jrove to Codlimrton oc curred in the hottest part of the day. She was not singular in her opinion as to the pleasantness of that special bit of road, either for very often in deed, as the autumn advanced, it might be said, every morning—she was sure to overtake Mr. Warren loitering with Nep at his heels, on his way homeward, lie always took a morning walk by himself, he explained to Mrs. Jack, for his sister and brother-in-law were very late risers, and he could not remain in the house until they should be ready to walk, ride or drive with him. And so —and so it came to pass that Mrs. Jack usually overtook him on her way to give her morning lesson. It was not possible for Mrs. Jack to be often in the society of any one—of any one, that is to say, who showed her a gleam of kindliness—without speak ing frankly of her own history and cir cumstances. It was not only that she leaned very readily on the opinion or judgment of others, but that her nature absolutely eraved for the cordial of sympathy. Her troubles seemed to be come less troublesome, her pleasures more pleasant, her mistakes less hope less. the moment she saw them reflected in the mirror of another mind. Being often in Mr. Warren's society, she nat urally grew confidential with him. She told him about "Barney and about her father-in law's family and about Popsy's sense and precocity. Mr. War ren was especially interested in Miss Barnaseoni. It may be remembered that Barney, catching a glimpse of liiin fcom her parlor window, had recog niztnl his face as once familiar to her. And on searching l.er memory it turn ed out that she had known a Mr. Rob ert Warren years ago who had be iriended a brother of hers. "My father, you know," said Barney to Mrs. Jack, "was a chorus singer at the Italian opera. lie might have been something better than a chorus singer, for he had a charming voice and he knew music well, and lie was an Ital ian into the bargain. But he—he never was something better and he had a half-dozen of us children, and my poor mother slaved and toiled to keep us. My father is dead and gone these five and-thirty years. I'm not going to rake up his faults. Lord, have mercy on us all! But I only say that my mother, what with one thing and another, had a hard timo of it for many a long day. Well, one of my brothers—Antonio his name was—showed a pretty talent for drawing and design, and mother (God knows how!) scraped together the money to apprentice him to a great house decorator, and the lad did well, and was getting on. But, as ill-fortune would have it, he tumbled from a scaf folding when he was decorating the ceiling of a great rich East India mer chant, who had a fine house and want ed to make it finer, and poor Tonlo broke his collarbone and dislocated his wrist, and then he was on his back in the hospital for a long time. The nephew of the East India merchant happened to see the accident and he went to the hospital to look after Tonlo, and he came to mother to break the news to her, and lie was as good as an angel to us all. His uncle was very generous with his money, and we were very grateful for his help. But young Mr. Warren—mother said if prayers and blessings could do him any good he would go straight to heaven! He had a heart of gold, to be sure! And he was a slim, handsome young fellow in those days, with brown hair ami a fair skin. And think of my recollecting his face all these years! They did say that lie was going to marry one of the East India merchant's daughters but he didn't, you sim\ He went away to India instead, and poor Tonio is dead and buried. Ah. dear me, licw long ago it all seems! Y'ou ask him, my dear, if he remembers Tonio Barnaseoni." (To Be Continued.) Too Much Head Work, Miss Murray Hill—I should think studying so much is not good for a young man. College Student—Right you are. You see the head of our foot-ball team after the Thanksgiving game. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. I'RDflnQSS OF Til 13 USEFUL AHT9 UKVIVKll. What Engrlinli Scientist* Have to Say About Teu DrluUluK.—A Sew Artifi cial Stone.—A New Smokcle«» Pow der. The latest aspect of the tea crusade in England is calculated to bring into a strong light the inconsistency of many so-called tetofallers. It is alto gether a new and discomforting experi ence for those, who, while forbidding to the laboring man his pint of beer, are accustomed to solace themselves two or three times daily, in many cases oftencr, with their own favorite tipple, to be confronted with the question that the English papers are asking: "Are we i nation of tea drunkards?" There seems excellent cause for believing that this question limits only of an af firmative answer. The whole English nation consumes about 1-2 pounds of the leaf per head annually, which, when made into a beverage, produces about thirty-seven gallons of tea. It is asserted that not only is the nation yielding with all the weakness of the icbriate to the diseases of aerve and stomach which result from excessive tea-drinking, but it is developing that indifference to quality which is the' crowning mark of mere indulgeuee, the point of s"verance between the gourmand and the connoisseur. In sup port of this the fact is recalled that a short time since when an eminent l^on don physician condemned the use of In dian teas as likely to emphasize the w rs-t effects of tea-tipping, there was a brief reaction in favor of the Chinese leaf. But the China tea proved too delicate in flavor for the palates vitiat ed by the coarser product ef Assam, and in a week or two was no longer asked for, the consumers returning to their old familiar blends. This argues the existence of a most serious social evil. While alcolml acts on the animal nervous system, thein acts on the high er or intellectual system, as well as on the nerves controlling digestion, and both are stimulants and sedatives. While the effects of the former are quickly evidenced, those of the latter* are more subtle. To unduly excite the nervous system continuously must re sult in exhausting that system, more especially if it. is not naturally strong a counterbalancing nervous depression results.continually deadening the ac tion of the food ferments, and perma nently impairing their action. If, therefore, the nerves which control the digestive function are continually over excited, as in tea-tippling, while at the same time the digestive ferments are having their activity deadened, is it to be wondered at that the whole function of digestion becomes impaired, and that indigestion is the result? Non-al cohol food beverages do not cause us to break the written and unwritten laws of society, yet it is a grave mat ter of doubt whether they should not come under the same degree of con demnation as alcoholics. Alcoholic bev erages certainly fill our jails, but there there is no doubt lliat tea-tippling has a great deal to do with filling our luna tic asylums, besides causing vast mis ery and expense in various ways. A New Artificial Stone. A new artificial stone is bcin^ made in Germany, which appears io be im measurably superior to many kindred materials now in use. The sand em ployed, which is well dried and screened before being used, contains from 2 to 3 per cent of clay. It is placed witJi a certain proportion of ground lime into an iron drum with diagonal ledges in the interior, winch is then closed and slowly revolv«Ml by steam so as to se cure a thorough incorporation of the materials with each other. The mixture is taken out anil conveyed to an ap paratus consisting of a frame of wrought iron, having a flat bed, on which molds are built up. When the frame is filled covers are platvd on the molds, everything is wedged up tightly and file frame and mollis are run on rails into a cylinder. When the cylin der is closed water and steam are ad mitted. The matter must cover the molds, and the steam is admitted at a pressure of 45 pounds or 00 pounds per square inch. The steam forces the water between the crevices of the molds, the water slakes the lime, caus ing it to expand in volume, and as the molds resist the outward expansion the lime is forced into the sand and cements it into hard stone. The steam pressure is kept Tip for three days. The frame is then withdrawn, and twelve hours are allowed for cooling be fore the taking to pieces of the molds and the removal of the stone. Differ ent, tints can be given to the stone by mixing a small ierceuiage of colored earth with the lime and sand in the cylinder. In some experiments made in England to ascertain the resistance to thrusting stress of six 0-inch cubes of this artificial sandstone, three of them, of bull' color, crushed at an aver age of tons per square foot, while the remaining three, which were gray, went at 177.0 tons per square foot. A New Smokeletw Powder. The current eoi titim for furnish ing 10,1)00 pounds of smokeless powder to the UnitX'd State's army gives addi tional interest to the announcement that another smokeless powder has been invented by a German named Guttler that is in many respects superior to all of the numerous varieties which have been adopted by the different European nations. France has hf»r powd -r for her I.ebel rifie, Germany lie- Nobel powder, Italy her balh.stite, Austria h.»r Schwab-Rubin, England her cordite, Sweden her apyrite, and Sn?tzerland, Denmark, Russia and other countries have the special powders t'nt spectively favor. But in ity and cleanliness. pl-Htom., new powder is called, is glWSt eel them all. In the first* srir manufacture it appears as a which is poured into f,^ns becomes a fairly hard subs ble of being pressed, rolUi at will. The substance and is. like celluloid, servi'"'. numerous purposes. I'lasfc"-'^ used for blasting iKvvlcr,"fcv''l! of canons, rifles and tfanUi The greatest advantage elainn' is eminent durability, whii,. smokeless powders 'inam:f:ich means of ether and nitro-gly,.'. $ Hi variably deteriorate. The iaJl of plastomenite is also so wclli.^ tliat it leaves no residue in th 1 or carl ridge, although the strike Ml ity of the projectile is unusualv" HT Its initial velocity from a eaiiber is 71 Tun., with a gas considerably below 3,000 ali:', Crs Furthermore, neither cold «Ama. 40 weather has any effect upou ih tonienite cart ridges, whereas dors containing nitro-L-lvceriV." waiti from changes in the te-nperanir, erto plastomenite has been n• 11 red principally for sporting ]„rl ProVl but its good qualities have attra,-ctton attention of the German niliirves st thoritles, and it is to bo exter.sivelnnA ed in the army. enin gs Kent Raj* In liifiiidencent Al B. B. James makes a s'igg, sti,t^s may serve as a pointer to lamp® facturers who are seeking to tull be a lamp that will give the m^me efficiency at a minimum of o Ik'cii r?nV)-, mentions that a German eht-m: succeeded in producing a g] iss .^rY!n while perfectly transparent, is ous to boat waves, if an in.an lamp be grasped, and the turned on. heat is instantly tv! appreciable time wfll elapse glass becomes hot. In one *,!• has been transmitted through 1! instantly as heat in the other, i ture has dh flu re he eon 'e get ind is .dUlgin on, an lank trasniitted. Mr shows that the principal rt- .-. electric globes art1 so relativ eh nt is that the white-hot carl) out waves, not only of Hi lciurth to aff.H't the eye, but::.-. of all possible leng'hs longer':-!, The light rays are all wit' a small compass—from l-40.tci M!U of an inch long, and as a 1: fact, the all possible lengths Ion its these, include by far the giv r* ^*ta: of the energy of the current, la this line Mr. James propose A bl i perilm nt shall follow. If a 1 *PV al pu 1 it t.. nder rtlcles. tare Ullt! »y tile ,lne In wblcl) li u' be made which will keep longer, i. e., heat waves, a heat accumulated in the globe aa the 111 dting point of the glass, if 1 I i l) and the front wheels are iHk sar.v, ami constspiently the lilann'^ be kept white hot at an expemli' a much smaller amount of curnn point at which this heating of tteWarn. should be stopped could be termined and regulated. It is that the glass for which this claimed is composed of sodium, and kaolin. A Steam Carriage. C. h. Simonds, of Lynn, Massj made a steam carriage for his on that will make ten miles an heiir rt a i a e w e i s o n y 4 o u n i i persona can earn' two at a ti has the appearance of an onlina riage in front, except there are 1 visions made for a horse. Tlw If awii't are of cycle make and are four J|3f[(( ber. I he hind wheels art? 4. gyorv i i' ,".0 a trial already, aud it has At- with rubber tires. The boiler gine set just in the rear of tl and give tlio carriage the :ippe of a fire engine. The steam in what is called a porcupin^. which weighs 100 pounds. Tli'1 is made fcy naphtha flames fmni jots. The naphtha is kept in :u.^" enough to last for seven hoii» Writ there is a water tank that will li'LOAVi gallons. There is a pump that, i 1 1 ni matic in action directly connect^Ufc" 1 the engine. The steering part of a crank wheel on the footho iijj£--- that the engineer can steer ami to the engine at the same tirm1 body of tiie carriage rests on and three springs. It is easy and allowance has been made ftil cry movement. The shafts are ofl and can stand all of 1,000 pounds] Simonds has given the steam proved cess. It started off at a ten-ni!li there was no noise, smoke or trl whatever.—Springfield (Mass.) K«— lican. Snbmnrlne Plioto(irrnpIiy« Photography under water is uH accomplished fact In France, land and America, workers in thv tx(graphic world have been endea) to hit upon a contrivance w 'iiable IhcJiv them to take instantaneous tographs under water at any depti in any weather. Photographs hail taken in a brief time under \y i' calm weather by direct stinlijd depths of six or seven meters, something more than this was This want has now been SW suppm M. Louis Boutan, of Paris, wlio vented a special magnesium cask of 1100 liters capacity is with oxygen gas, and is lix 'd a -I"' lamp, which s with a bell glass. A vessel is 01111 magnesium in powder with this lamp in such a the metal can be project^1 flame Iy the action of a which serves as bellows, we believe, has obtained go taneous negatives during^ storm, when no daylight trot., it... d.'ptlis. Tl.. y r.'£iirls tmckurouud. 'Illt remedied when the apparatus perfected. We shall look for soft terestlng developments submarine photography. Gazette. rubber M. W1 Cj,