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Captain Fortescue danced for the l)est part one happy evening with the prettiest girl of the season. And the gallant captain fell desnetately in love with her. lie went home in the bright mistiness of an early summer morning in a high fever of excitement, for he believed that Miss lira >gi idle viewed him with considerable favor. The next afternoon he went to call on her. She seeiued to him even more beautiful in the daylight and a simple dress ; he became momentarily more and more in love. Aud now ho fan cied that uot only Miss Bracegirdle,but her mother, regarded him with kindly eyes. Iu that case he had but to go in aud win. He resolved so to do, and left the house so full of his passiou and his thoughts that he forgot—his um brella. This sas no unusual circum stance. Captain Fortescue was given to forgetting his umbrella, and leaving it in a handsome cab or any other con venient place. Thus it happened that this which he had now left was the ou- Ip one he possessed. The next day he knew Miss Bracegirdle was going to an afternoon fete at the Botanical Gar dens. He intended to meet her there. But it was showery, thunderous weath er, aud he felt that to visit the Botani cal Gardens without an umbrella would be dangerous and difficult. Besides,an umbrella is often admiralhy useful dur ing the progress of a love affair. He had learned by accident that the Bracegirdles were goiug out shopping in the morning. He fore, to call and ask the housemaid to give him his umbrella. This seemed exceedingly simple, but luck was a gamst .Captain Fortescue. The maid who admitted him on the day before had this very morning departed in a four-wheeled cab with two boxes on the top of it,her "month" being "up." A uew maid had taken her place—oue of a less smiling disposition than the last. "I called here yesterday afternoon," said the captain, "and left my umbrel la ; will you let me have it ?" Something in the sternness of the eyes which were upon him made him falter before he had said the last word of his requests ; it suddeuly occurred to him that he might fiud it a little difficult to prove that the umbrella iu question was indeed his own. "No, thank you," said the maid. "I've had enough of that* at my last place. I'm not going to get into trou ble here. Better take to an honest trade,young man." With which piece of advice she shut the door in Captain Fortescue's face, leaving the officer as tonished. quenched aad crest-fallen. He went straightway and bought a new umbrella. Armed with this, and ad mirably attired in other respects, he went to the Botanical Gardens, where he met Miss Bracegirdle, who seemed more beautiful, more charming and more graceful than ever. As soon as it seemed at all decent lie called again, feeling very contented with himself and his fats. But when be asked whether Mrs. Bracegirdle was at home and the stern ma'd eyed him for a silent awful instant, his spirits fell strangely. "She is not," said the maid, and shut the door with an abruptness that gave him a singulaily disconsolate feeling. When, about an hour later, the la dies came in and tbe maid brought them some tea, she said to Mrs. Brace girdle : "If you please, ma'am, that young man has been here again who came one day with the umbrella dogde. He asked if you were at home—of course he knew you were not—and I suppose he had some plan for getting into the house, but I shut the door in his face and would not listen." "That's right, Eliza," said Mrs. Bracegirdle, "never give them a chance to go inside the hall. There's been to much of that stealing of coats and um brellas in this neignborhood ; it never would happen with a sensible house maid. Master Harry leaves his things hanging in the hall, so that it would be quite easy to carry off a coat or" um brella, if you left the man there alone for a minute. If he is so impudent as to come again, the moment you see who it is shut the door." The next afternoon was Mrs. Brace gridle's "day at home." Capt. Fortes cue had not intended to go then ; he wanted the lovely Miss Bracegridle to himself, not surrounded by a crowd "of admirers. But as he had not been able to see her the day before, he determin ed to brave the crowd, and be content if he got bat one smile all his own. And so he presented himself once more at Mr 3. Bracegridle's door, this time knowing her to be within. But when it wis opened and he confidently fram the phrase, not as a query, but an as sertion, "Mrs. Bracegridle at home V" and proposed immediately to enter the maid said shortly,"No,she is not," and quickly shut the door upon him. MILLHEIM, PA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14., 1884. V* V ■ F WI /' AIBEMRHBVV J KLK^^ No words can describe his feelings. He stared blankly at the handsome door, well shut and Arm, that sudden ly had closed upon him and separated him from his love. What could this awful thing mean V Had Mrs. Brace gridle heard something—false,of course and uttered by some other base admir er of her daughter—which had made her take this cruel step ? It was im possible to guess. It was impossible to knock again and ask ; it was ridic ulous to staud staring at the door. He turned to descend the steps and walked down the street. Before he had gone half way he met a hated rival, a very fine fellow, whom he had only begun to bate in the last three or four days, since he had notic ed that Miss Bracegridle sometimes gave him very charming and encourag ing glances. Captain Fortescue walked on slowly and listened for the confident rat-a-tat-tat of his rival, lie heard it. listened and looked back. The door o pened aud the visitor instantly admit ted. The unhappy man who had been turned away from the same entrance, sighed heavily and went away down the sunny street, hanging liis head. He told himself that it woald be only a fool of a madman who could pretend to misuuderstand so plain a refusal as this. Perhaps it was meant kindly, he thought, and groaned at the thought. Miss Bracegridle was no coquette, and did not care to have men offer her their love when she had no intention of ac cepting it. He was so desperately en amored of her that he busied himself in trying to see this cruel cut as a kind deed. His hopes were gone ; but he could not bear so suddenly to lo3e his idol. He determined he would not worry her by his unwelcome presence where she could not easily avoid him, nor permit himself to be laughed at by his successful rival. So he excused himself from certain engagements at houses where he knew lie should meet her. He gave up dancing and took to cards instead. "Mamma," said Miss Bracegirdle one day, "doesn't it seem odd that for three weeks Capt. Fortescue has not called ?" "It does," said Mrs. Bracegirdle ; "and yet, when I come to think of it, we have not met him out anywhere, either. lie must be ill, or more likely he has gone out of town. He will call when he comes back." This she said, noting that her daugh ter looked a.little pale and out of sorts. But, secretly she was uneasy herself. Capt. Fortescue had shown signs of be ing so hot a wooer that it seemed very improbable he would leave town with out a word to them. At the next op portunity she quietly made some inqui ries about him, and learned that Capt. Fortescue was neither ill nor out of town. This was bad news indeed ; for Mrs. Bracegirdle knew perfectly well that her daughter's heart was seriously touched ; and, as Capt. Fortescue was perfectly "eligible," all had promised fairly. Now that fair promise was de stroved. There was nothing to be done except try, by other distractions, to e rase the impression which Captain Fortescue had made. Mrs. Bracegidle devoted herself to the daughter more tenderly than ever, and the girl under stood her. Amid all the gayety and the many engagements which came with every day, there was a melancholy about the house which had never b*en there be fore. It was impossible for them to banish it altogether. Even Mast er Harry, a cheerful youth of 14, became aware of it at last, and declared his sis ter was not "half as jolly as she used to be. " One day when his mother and sister were taking a quiet half hour be fore dressing for dinner, he came into the room carrying an umbrella. "I say, mother, this umbrella's been in the stand for a month. The fellow it belongpd to has forgotten all about it, I expect ; don't you think I might have it ?" "Isn't it yours ?" said Mrs. Brace girdle. "I gave you a silver-handled one last year." "Oh, I lost that long ago," replied the youth coollv, "and I may as well have this instead. It's like mine, but ever so much more sweller. There's a PAPER FOR TIIJJfMOMK CIRCLE. Cleveland and Hendricks, Democratic Cemlatcs FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT. name engraved on it ; I can liavo that scratched out." "Let me see the name," said Mrs. Bracegirdle. She took it and read "Fortescue." An odd look came over her face. She said nothing for a moment, but seemed plunged in thought ; then she arose aud went down stairs to the din ing room. She rang the bell, and the stern-eyed maid appeared. "Eliza," she said, "can you remem ber the appearance of that young man who came one day and asked for an umbrella ? He came twice,l think you said,and asked for me the second time. Will you describe him if you can ?" "He was quite a gentleman to look at, ma'am," said Eliza ; "but this sort mostly are. Tall and broad-shouldered, and military looking, with blue eyes, very short fair hair, and a long, heavy fair moustache." "That will do Eliza," said Mrs. Bracegirdle, "you can go." As soon as Eliza had left the room, Mrs. Bracegirdle, sat down and wrote a note. Then she tore it up and wrote another, which was merely an informal invitation to lunch the next day. The she called Harry down to her. "Harry," 3he said, "I want you to go to Captain Fortescue's rooms, and take this note and the umbrella. See him if you possibly can and try to ex plain about this unhappy umbrella and that wreiched, sluuid Eliza." Then she told Matter Harry the story at which lie laughed immensely. "Now, you must not laugh, but think how you can do the thing nicely, Harry. You can manage it admirably if you choose. It is too absurd to put on paper. And make Captain Fortes cue promise to come to ltincb, just to show he bears no malice." Harry put ou his best manners, and accomplished his task well, though he felt much aggrieved at having to give up the umbrella. Captain Fortescue came to lunch, and this time Eliza admitted him, and blushed as sho did so. A Hard Run of Luck. John Kelly has a run of bad luck in appearing so often before Democratic national conventions in opposition to the candidate of his state. Each time the man preferred by the rest of the New York Democracy is the only man who does not suit Mr. Kelly and his associates. When he appeared _ before the last conventions at St. Louis and Cincinnati demanding any one but Tilden, there was room tor the belief that he was sincere persuaded that Til den would make a bad candidate, and there were a good many Democrats throughout the country who were in sympathy with that belief. But when New York selects a new* candidate,who is again particularly obnoxious to Mr. Kelly, there is good cause for the sus picion that Mr. Kelly is a hard man to please with a presidential candidate from his own state, and that in fact no one will suit him whom he does not think he can control. Cleveland's in dependence and lack of allegiance to Tammany Hall, is probably the real reason for its leader's antipathy to him and will as well account for the antag onistic votes lie has found in the New York delegation from other parts of this state. The delegates look more to their interests than to that of the party in the state, and prefer a candi date from outside the state, rather than one of their own citizens who will not be likely in 'the presidential office to hold them at their own estimate of themselves and reward them according ly.—Lancaster Intelligencer. A Bold and Strong Nomination. (From the N. Y. t Commercial Advertiser, rep.) In nominating Mr. Cleveland the Democratic party has done a bold thing, but whether their courage is the courage of discretion it would be pre mature to say. Mr.Cleveland will prove a strong candidate, but will meet, with strong opposition. In making Govern or Cleveland their candidate his party has been deaf to the mandate of the self-seeking politicians in whose path the Goyernor has stood 'like a stone wall' and has made an affective appeal for the independent vote of the country. Eating Before Sleeping. "Go home and eat a good supper, that's all the medicine you want," and the medical gentleman to whom a re porter had gone for a nervine, a seda tive or sleeping potion opened the door to show him out. "But, doctor, it's 11 o'clock at night !" "Well,what of it ? Oh, I see. The popular prejudice against eating at night. Let me tell ton, my young friend, that uuless your stomach is out of order, it is more benefit to you to eat before going to bed than it is harm ful. Food of a simple kind induces sleep. At what hour did you dine ?" "Six o'clock." "Humph 1 Just what I thought. Six o'clock. Fourteen hours between dinner and your breakfast. Enough to keep any man awake. By that time the fuel necessary to send the blood coursing through your system is burn ed out. Animals sleep instinctly af ter meals. Human beings become drowsy after eating. Why ? Simply because the juises needed in digestion are supplied by the blood being solicit ed toward the stomach. Thus the brain receives less blood than during the hours of fasting, and becoming pa ler the powers grow dormant. Inva lids and those in delicate health should always eat before goiug to bed. The sinking sensation iu sleeplessness is a call for food. Wakefulness is often times merely a synitom of hunger. Gratify the desire and sleep ensues. Tiie feeble will be stronger if they eat on going to bed. Some persons are ex hausted merely by the process of mak ing their toilet in'the morning. A cup of warm milk and toast on retiring or of beef tea on awakening will correct it." "But is it not essential that the stomach should rest ?" "Undoubtedly. Yet, when hungry we should eat. Does the infant's stomach rest as long as the adult's V Man eats less often only because his food requires more time for digestion. Invalids and children at night may take slowly warm milk, beef-tea or oat-meal. The vigorous adult can eat bread, milk, cold beef, chicken, raw oysters or other such food. Of course, it must be taken in moderation. You start home now and take a cup of tea and a beef sandwich on the way, and I'll risk your sleeping. Good night !" A Clergyman for Cleveland. He Forcibly Tells The Reason Why. Rev. Augustus Blauvelt writes as fol lows : I venture the prediction that the vast majority of us Independent voters,nom inally Republicans, will steadily adhere to our present resolution not to vote for Blaine. It is perfectly futile to en deavor either to divert us or to delude us by giving out that the protection of American industry by a tariff is the great question of the present campaign. So far as the financial prosperity of the country i 3 a leading issue of this Presi dential contest, the issue is to be met in either way rather than by a tariff. In other words, the security of Ameri can finances, both private and public, just now far mortdepends upon protec tion from domestic dishonesty than up on protection from foreign competition. In private affairs the methods of a Ward replete the resources of the peo ple by the millions. In municipal aff airs the methods ot a Tweed, long enough endured, would bankrupt the metropolis itself. In national affairs the reputed methods of a Blaine—well, let us at least see to it that the next President of the United States is reput ed to be anhor.est man. And so far as up to this time any facts have come to light, any suspicious hayebeen promul gated, Giover Cleveland is this honest man, if nothing more. In plain terms, it would be purely gratutious to enter tain the remotest suspicion that,in con nection with the corporations and mo nopolies and political adventures and governmental parasites of the country, such a President as Grover Cleveland would make could by any possibility become one of the most engulfing forc .es of a sort of moral financial mael strom for the earnings of American in dustry, the profits of American traffic, the incomes ot' American investments. Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. A Wicked. Deacon They have managed to keep up with tho times at Far liockaway, Long Is land, all along, in a general way, but lately they have fallen in the rear in the matter of church scandals. Tho Methodists of the town have at last awakened, however, and come out of their devotional lethargy to prove that they are of this ara. Two of the lead ing members 'of the church are John flenry A brums, of a general store at the railroad depot, and Ilenry Cornell, |his wife's brother, who is a master of a vessel at liockaway Bay and a farmer in tho vicinity. Their church is at Westvllle, in the town of Hempstead. Cornell, the rough old sea dog, has a rough, salty way of crit icising tho saints and a method cf run ning a church on ship discipline that is not popular among the landsmen. He has been especially severe on hypocrisy, and in his outspoken, brusque way has made several ot the loudest shouters at the experience meetings hang their heads. It was agreed that the Captain should be sat upon and gagged to pre yent him giving away church affairs in discriminately, but there was no one who volunteered to undertake the se dentary task; so ho went his wild way. At last the sea dog fell afoil of his brother-in-law. He went one day to a neighboring farmer named James Hicks, who has a pretty wife, (at least so Abrams alleges in a complaint he has sworn to lately), and 'put the deyil in his head.' The Captain remarked, artfully : 'llicks, do ycu know that fellow Abrams? He ain't no Christian,though he pretends to be,and I tell you because you ought to know it.' 'Why ain't lie a Christian? asked Ilicks, pricking up his ears. 'Why, do you remember the revival meeting in 1883 ?' continued Cornell. 'I do ; but what have they got to do with it ?' 'Well, then, your wife was dead gone on the revival with the rest of them, and —' 'Well, go on. What occured ? asked the husband. 'My,' continued Cornell, 'I watched him at one of these meetings and kept my eye on the lady, too. He got down on his knees and covered his face with his hands and prayed like sun, but all the time he was peekin' through his fin gers and winkin' at the lady.' 'What! Winkin' at her ?' 'Yes, aiul pretty soon she got up and went out, and pretty soon he got up and followed her and they were seen walk in' together and—' '.See here, Cap'n Henry, [do you want to say it was my wife be winked at V exclaimed the furious farmer. 'I don't say nothin'—l only tell facts,' said the cunning old sea dog. 'But I'll say that your wife went out of meetin' just about that time, too.' This raised a 'circus' such as Rocka way had not seen in years. The angry Hicks went for Abrams, and the goss ips of reiigous circles took up the story and made it so hot, that Rockaway be came Hades for the parties concerned. The centre of gravity—an English joke. The original Boone companion was Daniel's trusty rifle. The man who 'found his level' was a carpenter, of course. De fust step toward spilin' a child, is ter laugh an' call him smart ?when he sasses yer. -Not eyery dog that barks in the night is mad, but the man who is trying to sleep'usually is. Isn't it curious that Bar Harbor should be situated in such *a strictly temi>erance State as Maine ? Student: Heat expands and cold con tracts. Professor: Correct. Give an example. Student: During the Sum mer the affections of city people for their country relatives expand and in "Winter they contract. A colored man not long ago went to the counting-room of a newspaper of Galveston, Texas, to subscribe for it. 'How long do you want it?' asked the clerk. '.Tes as long as it is, boss ;if it don't fit de shelyes I can ta'r a piece off myself.' A Sunday-school teacher, says an ex change, had grown eloquent in pictur ing to his little pupils the beauties of Heaven, and he finally asked: 'What kind of little boys go to Ileayen A lively little four-year-old boy, with kicking boots, flourished his fist. 'Well, you may answer,' said his teacher. 'Dead ones' shouted the little fellow, at the extent of bis lungs. Mrs. Blank : I don't see why they don't invent a shoe-button that won't come off the first time the shoe is worn. Mr. Blank : I belieye there is a metalic fastener of some kind: Mrs. Blank : Oh, yes; I have tried them.The buttons don't come off, but they tear the leath er. LOOK at my new pair of No. twos. They are ruined. What would you ad vise me to do ? Mr. Blank : Have the buttons put on a ;pair of No. sixes. NO. 32. Odds and Ends. ~ _ 1 I 1H Wf |NEWBPAPER LAWS If subscribers order the discontlmution of newspapers, the publishers may continue to send them until all arrearages are. paid. J f subaerlbers refuse or neglect to take their newspapers from the office to which they ararent they are held responsible until they have sett led the bills and ordered them discontinued. If subscribers move to other places without In forming the publisher, and the newspapers are sentto the former place, they are responsible. AD VERTIBINGT RATBB~ 1 wk. l mo. I.ltnos, oir.os. 1 year 1 square $2 oo ♦4oo | sft 00 6 CO I 8 <0 U " 700 10 00 15 (X) 3000 40 00 1 " 1000 1500| 25 00 600 75 00 One Inch makes a square. Administrators and Executors' Notices fct.6o. Transient adver tisements and locals 10 cents per line for first insertion and 5 cents per line for eaob addition al insertion. Some Mexican Superstitions, Not long ago, in one of the frontier towns of Mexico, a man shot a defense less old woman down in the street In broad daylight. He was captured with his carbine in his hand and when exam ined before the magistrate gave as. reas on for his crime that the murdered wo man had been called upon to .'nurse his brother, who was sick, and had, by working charms upon (him, caused his death. The firm belief in phantoms is taken advantage of by evil disposed persons,who, disguised as women, glide aoout the suburbs secured from moles tation by any passers-by. These phan toms haunt grown men will gravely tell you of 'phantasmns/as they call them, seen near or at the spot where men have been murdered-These generally bear the form of men lying dead, weltering in their blood. Those that recount you these tales affect not to believe in the existence of spirits, but one can see that although, like Mine, de Stael, not believing in ghosts, they are afraid of them all the same. At Pueblo a man went before one of the judges and asked protection from a discarded sweetheart who, be declared, had made an image the exact represen tation of him, and which was carefully dressed in clothes like those he wore, and that she stuck pins in the arms and legs of this puppet, which act caused him the most awful tortures, fearful pains shooting through the portions of body corresponding to those in which the pins were stuck on the puppet. He had dragged to -court the woman, and actually bore the puppet in his hand as proof of what he said. He proposed to destroy this uncomfortable pirated edition of himself, and only asked that the judge would prevent thewoman from making another one. The superstitions, of course, give rise to a considerable traffic in charms, in which may be found a curious inter mixture in religious belief. A thief, for instance, will carry as a charm a gainst detection some carious verses addressed to the patron saint of his guild. Love powders and portions are often used, aud sundry old men and women yelped 'curanderoe' make a liv ing as doctors, practicing a curious medicine and neeromacy. It is not so joug ago, in an interior city,that one of the old women smothered herself and patient, a tax collector of some intelli geuce, to death in an improyised Russ ian bath, in which she raised a mephi tic vapor of certain herbs for the pur pose of driying out a witch that inhab ited the body of her patient. The fact that she herself perished shows that she believed in ghosts and thought she could not conquer them. Before enter ing the bath she told her attendant to pay no attention toany cries from with in, as the witch would probably make a great disturbance before allowing her self to be dislodged. Democratic Nominations for ' Fifty Years. The nominations made by the Demo cratic Conventions within the last fifty years are as follows : 1836 .Martin Van Buren* Ist ballot. 1840, Martin Van Buren, unanimously* 1844, James K. Polk, Oth ballot. 1848, Lewis Cass, 4th ballot. 1852, Franklin Pierce, 49th ballot. 1856, James Buchanan, 17th ballot. 1860, John C. Breckenridge,s6th ballot. 1864, George B. McClellan, Ist ballot. 1868, Horatio Seymour, 23d ballot. 1872, Horace Greely, endorsed. 1876, Samuel J. Tilden, 2d ballot. 1880, Winfield S. Hancock, 2d ballot. 1884. Grover Cleveland, 2d ballot. The 1860 convention that nominated Breckenridge balloted fifty-five times at Charlston, S. C., then adjourned to Baltimore, June 18, when Brecken ridge was unanimously nominated' on the first ballot. The "bolters" met the same day and nominated Stephen A. Douglas on the first ballot. In 1852 Franklin Pierce's name first appeared on the thirty-fifth ballot,when Virginia gave him her fifteen votes. Lewis Cass aud James Buohanangwere the leading candidates on most of the forty-five ballots, but at ue time did either have a majority even of the con vention, while a two-thirds vote was required to nominate. "Broken English" recites the story of a Frenchman, M. Dubois, who com plained to an Edglish friend : "I am going to leave my hotel. I paid my bill yesterday, and I said to the land lord, 'Do I owe anything else ?' He said, 'You are square.' 'What am I?' He said again, 'You are square.' 'Thatte strange,' said I. 'I lived 80: long I neyer knew I was square before.' Then as I was going away he shook me by the hand, saying, 'I hope you'll be round soon.' 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