I really don't think Dr. Jerome is wise setting young girls to visit in the German quarter.

If there are such things as feather weights, why on earth don't the managers of Jerome Park races stuff the steeple-chase jockeys with them, to prevent them from being injured by such accidents as happened there on the opening day of the Autumn meeting?

War has often been spoken of as a great Game; and Mr. Jerome K. Jerome has lately written eloquently on that subject.

War has often been spoken of as a great Game; and Mr. Jerome K. Jerome has lately written eloquently on that subject.

Still, even now, as Mr. Jerome himself contends, the term is partly justified by a certain fine feeling of which it is descriptive and which is indeed very noticeable in all ranks.

From the fourth to the seventh centuries, however, it was well known and highly valued by Hilary of Poitiers, St. Jerome, and Rufinus, and closely followed and abridged in their rhetorical works by Cassiodorus, Julius Victor, and Isidore of Seville.

"Oh, Père Jerome!"

Wherefore, in the silence which followed, a daughter's conscience felt the burden of having withheld an answer, and Olive presently said, as the pair sat looking up into the sky: "I was thinking of Père Jerome's sermon.

Olive felt her mother's thought and knew that her mother knew her own; but now that she had confessed, she would ask a question: "Do you think, maman, that Père Jerome knows it was I who gave that missal?" "No," said Madame Delphine, "I am sure he does not.

"I wish I was PèreI wish I was as good as Père Jerome.

" So Père Jerome, much wondering, made a second detour toward the residence of one of Monsieur Vignevielle's employés.

There was a walk in Père Jerome's little garden, of which we have not spoken, off on the right side of the cottage, with his chamber window at one end, a few old and twisted, but blossom-laden, crape-myrtles on either hand, now and then a rose of some unpretending variety and some bunches of rue, and at the other end a shrine, in whose blue niche stood a small figure of Mary, with folded hands and uplifted eyes.

No other window looked down upon the spot, and its seclusion was often a great comfort to Père Jerome.

The officers of the Government had not found him, nor had Père Jerome seen him; yet he believed they had, in a certain indirect way, devised a simple project by which they could at any time "figs dad law," providing only that these Government officials would give over their search; for, though he had not seen the fugitive, Madame Delphine had seen him, and had been the vehicle of communication between them.

Père Jerome was walking to and fro, with his hands behind him, pondering these matters.

Oh, Père Jerome, I am bringing so much trouble upon my poor mother!" Père Jerome moved slowly toward the house, with his eyes cast down, the veiled girl at his side.

Oh, Père Jerome, I am bringing so much trouble upon my poor mother!" Père Jerome moved slowly toward the house, with his eyes cast down, the veiled girl at his side.

"Yes; and they became much more so, and said if we did not write, or send a writing, to him, within twenty-four hours, breaking the" "Engagement," said Père Jerome.

Oh, Père Jerome, what shall I do?

," said Père Jerome, "what you seem to want is not absolution, but relief from persecution.

Père Jerome, pausing on a street-corner in the last hour of sunlight, had wiped his brow and taken his cane down from under his arm to start again, when somebody, coming noiselessly from he knew not where, asked, so suddenly as to startle him: "Miché, commin yé pellé la rie

The lamp burning before the tabernacle in Père Jerome's little church might have hung with as motionless a flame in the window behind.

Yet Père Jerome tarried.

Père Jerome waited, but no sound came.

"He should," as St. Jerome saith, "so love truth, that he should suppose himself to have sworn whatsoever he hath said;" and therefore should not be apt to heap another oath on his words.