OLD STANFIELD HOUSE; (continued 6)

Zeke was tried and convicted, but his mind failed so entirely before the end of the trial that he was sent to an asylum; from which, however, he contrived to escape, and was found dead in the Red Hollow, to which some glimmering of remembrance had no doubt led him.

The old house was put in good repair, but Calista did not come to live in it for several years. She lived as a daughter with Mr. and Mrs. Fabian, cheering their old age with daughterly care and affection.

As soon as she was of age, she visited her mother's old home, where she found Mrs. Tom Folsom old and poor, but still working to support herself and her helpless son, and after much persuasion prevailed on that lady to accept a tolerable provision, which should place her above the need of labor much too hard for her age. Miss Malvina's little old red house happening to be in the market, Calista bought and fitted it up neatly as a residence for her cousin, and saw her comfortably established before leaving her. Mrs. John Folsom, who was still preaching self-denial, thought Miss Stanfield might have used her money to better purpose, but every one else was pleased to see the hard-working, independent woman so well provided for.

Nor was this Calista's only work of benevolence. Her money was not like a stagnant reservoir, poisoning all who came near, but being kept running like a flowing stream, it brought many a blessing which returned to the owner again. It paid Mary Burns's way through school till she was able to take a first-class place as teacher. It brightened and soothed the declining years of Miss Meeks. And far and wide, in heathen lands and at home, it helped to spread the good tidings of the gospel of peace.

"Calista is not spoiled, though she has seen so much of the world and had so much money," remarked Mary Settson, when Calista came home from Europe, whither she had gone on her bridal tour when she married Mr. Fabian's nephew. "I was a little afraid for her, but she is not spoiled at all."

"The world has not spoiled her, because she has never loved the world," said Belle Adair—Belle Adair no more, but the hard-working wife of a city clergyman. "Neither money nor the world can do us any harm unless we let them into our hearts. And depend upon it, Mary, those who live for this world most entirely are those who get the least enjoyment out of it."

"THEY THAT WILL BE RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A SNARE . . . THE LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL."—Paul to Timothy.