Il was about six o'clock when she capitu luted. That shrill old voice had shatioicd her obstinacy, She walkod carelessly to the guto and hold out the money. " New, go," ahe said, aovcrely, " aad don't ever come here again." " Thank ye. My bonea is tired sittin' nny» way," answered Mum, stuffing (he cash into her pocket us she stumbled away, Her earn ings thut day were no poor recompense (or Bitting still and using her vuico in tliu vii up. eration for which oho had ut natural inclin ation. "So Mara left,''the judge said when he came home at evening,

" Not till about «ut hour ago, when I paid her," his wifo answered, m a voice of forced gaiety.
"Till you paid her T echoed the judge. " Yes. She was disgracing mo befo'e the whole town. I can never hold my head up i>gain,"she replied, giving way to Iwr real feelings.
|( "0h, ves, you can," the judge said, " P eo I l!c hltY e lived down worse things right herein this town."

Mrs. Ourtiss resented this jocose tone, "You didn't havn to give in to the old cat and pay her, so you can laugh," sho retorted. tt " oh > di,ln 't 1?" said her husband. " Fanny, you never want to acknowledge you've been outwilted, even by a witch." " That is easy lo say," she answered.
"Indeed, it is," said the judge. All that week he socrolly congratulated himself on h» reticence, which he considered masterly in a married man, He evon went so far as to make a.provorh after tho fashion of Solo "inn: " A nine man ketpetu his own counsel,"

,11, ~—-. The cost of Si, Peter's, in Rome, *M o.ver *W,000,000,.
