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MILLHEIM, PA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER (3., 1884.
A TERRIBLE TEMPER.
"If tt ere is anything especially ob
noxiou* to me," avowed Miss Murphy,
in solemn couclusi n, "it is interfer
ence with the affairs of others ; but in
this cas 1 1 said to mvscif, 'Duty, Mary
Anne Murphy, duty !' "
"Oli 1" gasped Jessica. She had
sunk back in her rose-ribboned iat tan
rocker iu quite a tremor or dismay,
A very charming room this snburan
parlor into which gold burs of sunshine
slanted through the half-closed Vene
tians. Worthy even of pretty Jessica
—it, with its tiled hardwood tloor, its
silyer-fox and bearskin rugs, its Mad
ras draped wiudows, its quaintly mod
em mantle of polished oak, its eccen
tric chairs, its grotesque tables, its
dainty aquarelles, its Chinese cabinets,
its slender but admirably chosen col
lection of bisque and Limoges. And
surely eye, however critical, crave no
sweeter picture than little Miss Ray
made iu her pale blue surah tea-gown,
cascaded with Vaiencienoes, and all
her bronze-biighfe ripply hair braided
in childish fashion down her back.
But just now the loyely face was cu
riously colorless, the purple-blue eyes
wide and startled under their long
lashes.
There was silence after that sharp
exclamation of Jessica's. Miss Mur
phy could afford to be silent. She had
dropped her small shell and it had ex
ploded with a most satisfactory report.
She sat rigidly erect in the conscious
ness of duty done, every fold of her
black silk visiting custume stiff with
propriety, every pompon on the brown
beige bonnet bristling with respectabil
ity.
"I don't believe a word of it !" de
clared Jessica, slowly.
If impolite, the remark was in no de
gree insolent. It was simply the ut
terance of a conviction. Miss Murphy
was not offended. She removed her
gaze from a gem of Van Elton's on
the opposite wall to fasten it on the
agitated little lady in th rocker. It
took some endurance on Jessica's part
to sit meekly under the scrutiny of
those faded blue eyes—eyes tolerant,
placid, beaming, as those of a benig
nant old cow.
"It is true, my dear. He said it. I
heard him with my own ears !"
This really was unanswerable.
"They were in the front parlor,"
pursued Miss Murphy, folding her
plump, tan-gloved hands with aggrava
ting leisure and serenity. "I sat sew
iug just behind the portiere. I never
would baye stayed could I only have
foretold what was coming. They had
been talking about other things, and
were silent for awhile. "Suddenly my
Ned burst out laughing 'So you've
seen her,' he said, 'and you don't
fancy her, eh ?' Fancy her ?' ech
oed Jack. 'Well, I should say not !' "
"Well ?" urged Jessica, steadily.
She would hear it out, she told her
self—she would— every word of it !
"Well, then," slowly, to heighten by
suspense the effect of her narrative,
"Ned said, 'The boys around here all
like her immensely. Roy Pates says
she's a daisy !' "
"Oh 1" moaned Jessica. "You
must excuse that nephew of mine, my
dear ; you really must. Ned but re
peats what he hears. Besides, you
know he is only a boy yet—just eight
een. What Ned said is of no import
ance. Please go on."
She sat erect again very pale and im
perative, indeed.
"If you insist on hearing," hesi
tantly, Jack replied. "Well, I don't.
I did just at first. I confess for a
while she deceived me. But a few
days gave me enough of her.' Ned
said. 'Why, we all thought you were in
great luck to get her.' 'Luck !' cried
Jack iu answer so loud,my dear,l fairly
jumped. 'Luck ! Yes, the most con
founded piece of bad luck I ever
struck !' lam ashamed to say, my
dear, but to be veracious I must say
that here Ned, quite carried away by
his youthful sympathies, inquired,
'Can't you get out of it ? And Jack
said, 'Confound it, no ! That's the
worst of it. I can't break such a con
tract with any honor to myself. But
I only wish some other fellow stood in
my shoes ju3t now. I've promised to
take her and I'ye got to do it, but it's
a deuced hard bargain'—oh, my dear
Jessica, you're not going to faint!"
Jessica put out het hand with a slight
repressing gesture.
"No, Miss Murphy, lam not going
to faint. Is that all ?"
Miss Murphy was rather disconcert
ed. Her shell had exploded noisily, it
is true. But now that the smoke was
clearing away she, at whose feet it had
been flung, was not dead—not even
wounded.
"Yes, I believe that was all, for just
then some one summoned Jack. But
as he went out, he called back to Ned :
•I'll s'ee you at Blyane's to-morrow
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE
night and talk this unfortunate blun
der over again. Be in my study at 10.
I'll meet you tl ere.' "
"And that really is ail ?" queried
Jessica, quite her own possessed self a
gain.
Miss Murphy stared. To once more
drop Into similes her balloon which
had sailed up so straightly and securely
at first had suddenly collapsed and was
falling with startling rapidity.
"I should think," severely,"lt would
be quite enough."
"Enough V" airily. "That's it 1 it's
too much ! You know an overdose of
poison occasionally counteracts the ef
fect of a lesser quantity, and I think,"
with a smile charmingly confidential,
"it is something the same way with
gossip— don't you ?"
It was Miss Murphy's turn to gasp.
Such a girl ! But then one never
could understand Jessica Ray. Miss
Murphy thought it was time to go.
With ttie cessation of conversation
concerning personal affairs her inter
est died a natural death. She was ad
verse to wading in foreign waters.
The inodorous pool s®urumed over with
village scandal sufficed her. She feared
aught else.
"Good-by, my dear," with a bewild
ered shake of the tinseled bonnet. "I
am so sorry I had to tell you. Life is
full of unpleasant duties. I never like
to interfere iu other people's affair.
'Charity,' I always say ; 'charity and
silence.' If there iaany I particularly
detest it is tale-bearing. Well, as I
said, I must be going! Goad-by, my
dear. I'm so glad yiu don't mind."
"Good-by," cordially.
"We all thought," pausing at the
door for a parting thrust, "that it was
to be not only a marriage de conven
ance, but a genuine love affair on both
sides."
"Indeed 1" said Jessica, brightly
arching her pretty brows.
And then at last the door closed on
her visitor's broad, black-silk back.
The blitheoess born of brayado died
out of little Miss Ray's face. She
went slowly back to the rose-ribboned
rocker and sat down therein for a good
heartsick, contented, mortified, miser,
able cry. When she had been very,
very young and charming, and Jack
Sutherland an awkward lad of ten,
their fathers had planned a marriage in
the future. The planning stood,by the
way, upon an agreeably substantial
basis, looking at the affair from a finan
cial point of yiew. Soon after Jack's
father had died and Jack had gone to
live with his mother's relatives in
England. He carried with him the
memory of a pair of sweet eyes, for all
the worlc like big, blue, dew-wet for
get-me-nots, for wee Jessica had parted
from her playmate with a particularly
tender and protesting farewell. Twelve
years passed. Neither chafed—as in
novelistic traditions bound—against
the paternal decision of their childhood.
No fair English maiden displaced his
first love in Jack's loyal heart. As for
Jessica, she had grown to think of Jack
as a hero who was coming across the
sea to claim her. When she anticipa
ted that coming before her mind's eye
forth pranced a snowy charger bearing
a plumed knight.
One day just two weeks ago it was
she went down to the drawing room In
response to the servant's announce
ment. A gentleman standing in the
window turned at her entrance. He
came swiftly forward, both hands ex
tended, his face brightening with gay
admiration.
"It is—it is—little Jesica 1"
She knew him then. Without cur
veted no upletid'd steed. By his side
swung no jeweled scabbard. Around
his neck was slung no mandolin. From
his shoulder fell no cloak of roby vel
vet. Not stalwart statured was he,nor
raven haired, nor flashing eyed. Not
the grand creation of her girlhood's
sweet foolish dreams, in trnth, rather,
his rivals would have said, a vety or
dinary young man. But he had cornel
Jessica's heart gave a great throb. A
true woman though, ergo,an arch-hyp
ocrite, she put her hand in his with
an air of cool surprise, a touch of well
bred reproof in her greeting.
"And you are—Mr. Sutherland 1"
Neither had in any way suggested the
odd relation in which they tacitly
stood to each other. Both felt the
chain that bound them, for all its mas
sive golden linns a very frail and brit
tle one in ttie passionate strength of
youthful impulse. Neither would be
slow to fling it off if the bandage prov
ed oppressive. Howeyer, it did not.
The childish, iguorant, romantic af
fection which had been smoldering in
their hearts since the sorrowful parting
of the playmates, at a word, a touch, a
look blazed up into a pure, and strong,
and steady flame. Of his courtship
Jack Sutherland made short work.
Putting aside the understanding be
tween their fathers like the man he
was, he wooed her for her own sweet
sake. Just two nights ago he had told
her in his quiet dirfefct fashion how
dearly he lnvtd her. And Jessica—
well last evening had ome the sapphire
ring that—only last evening and to day
this !
If Miss Murphy's neat lit'la shell
had not brought death it had caused
pain akin to it.
"It's the money !" moaned Jessica.
"It's the hoi i ible detest it le money he
wants. It Isn't me !" And then a
face witli clear brown eves and a kind
grave smile arose before her and she
broke down crying afresh.
But after awhile she sprang up rub
bing two small resolute (Dts in two
very pink eyes. "I won't seo hi in to
night. And I'll be in the library at 10.
And I'll hear what else he has to—No,
I won't 1 I won't evesdrop. But I'll
meet him there and give him buck ins
ring. When I break it he can get the
money without taking me. lie's wel
come to it. I hate it ! But I'll look
my very loveliest—l will—l will !"
And she did.
As she came up to the parlors at Mrs.
Bryant's "small and early" Miss Mur
phy— always first on the field—looked
at her in amazement. Quite a bewitch
ing vision little Miss Ray to-night,
rose lipped, star-eyed, smiling, her
slim, dusk draperies of laee trailing
softly behind her, a huge cluster of vio"
lets at tin bosom. It was after 10 be
fore she could escape from her compan
ion and make her way to the library.
Her hand on the portiere dividing the
apartment from the morning room,'she
paused.
Voices. She didn't iutend to eaves
drop. Of course, it was unintentional
—all was said and over so quickly. E
qually of course it was dishonorable,
but I think as a rule we are apt to con
sider questions of honor with extreme
nicety when our hearts are very sore.
"I've decided to take her," Jack's
quiet voice was saying wearily. "It's
the only thing I can do now."
Ned spoke.
"She's skittish, I know, but (byway
of consolation) she may outgrow
that."
Jessica groaned involuntarily. Jack
glanced toward the curtain.
"Well, drop the subject." In a low
er voice : "Keep it dark, like a good
boy I don't want the people to know
I atn such a young fool as to be taken
in by a bag of bones, all paint and
drugs."
Jessica was plump as a partridge,and
her complexion was a "bloom" patent
ed by nature's self. The morning-room
was unlit, save from the hall. Thank
gooduess for that ! She felt herself
growing faint and dizzy. Was that
Jack who talked so—could it be—her
Jack ?
"Oh, come now I" laughed Ned,
"you know you're exaggerating. She's
not quite as bad as that I"
"Pretty nearly 1" ruefully. "I dou't
so much mind her skittishness—lcould
break her of that, I flatter myself—but
she has a terrible temper I"
She must not faint, Jessica told her
self frantically. Oh, she must not I
Was that dark thing beside her in the
shadow of the portiere a fauteuil ? She
sank down on it heavily, weakly, ex
hausledly. Horror of horrors ! It at
first succumbed a second to her
weight, then moved,protested with vig
orous energy, shrieked.
All faintuess banished, Jessica leap
ed to her feet, her soft, quick cry of
alarm mingling with that muffled roar
of rheumatic agony.
"That's aunt!" gasped Ned.
"Jessica !" cried Jack. He strode
forward and flung aside the portiere.
The light from the library poured into
the shadowy morning-room. It fell on
Jessica standing just within very white
and trembling, and it showed on the
floor a large and ungraceful heap of
crushed drab silk and bugles, disorder
ed "front," and gruesome groans.
Fur a moment they stood and stared
—speechless. But Miss Murphy kept
on groaning.
"What is it all about V" queried
Ned bewilderedly, helping his aunt to
rise.
"I—I," faltered Jessica, "sat down
on Miss Murphy 1"
"What ?" cried Ned.
"We were eavesdropping," confessed
Miss Murphy, with venomous csudor,
" and Jessica took me for a footstool
and "
"My darling J" whispered Jack (no,
not to Miss Murphy) "I thought when
I heard your voice you were hurt or
>>
Jessica flamed up.
"How dare you ? Stand back sir 1
Here's your ring." She tugged bravo
ly, but it fitted well. "I have heard in
what manner yon speak of me. No,"
disgustedly, "don't appear astonished !
Recall your conversation of yesterday
morning with Ned Sales."
Ned started at being thus abruptly
referred to. Jack looked daz.'d. "I
did not intend to hear another such
conversation as that which had been
repeated to me, but I did. If I'm—
I'm," the rose crimsoning iu her cheek
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"skittish," bringing out the hateful
word with a jerk, "and—and a deuced
—bad- batgain," slowly, and if I've
got a ter—ter—here's your ring !"
She had wrenched it olf at last.
But Jack did not take it. Ills dumb
dismay had turned to uproarous mitth
It was well a noisy polonaise was in
progress ia the drawing-room. He
laughed. lie kept on laughing. Sud
denly the whole ludicrous misunder
standing bursting on Ned he struck in
with a very howl of delight, and they
fell into each other's at ins like a coup
le of crazy boys and supported each
other and laughed.
But recollecting Jessica standing
there, Sutherland explained, between
shameful relapses into laughter, "It
was-a horse. I thought I knew all a
bout horseflesh. I knew nothing. I
have to take her—the idiocy is mine.
I fondly fancied I iiad found a Maud S.
Sim Smiley's famous nag could beat
her. I gave a thousand for her.
She's worth -ah, now you under
stand I"
For Jessica had sprung forward,
mouth and eyes three swest, remorse
ful "O's ?"
"Jack—Jack ! And i.ow I talked
just now 1" all riotous blushes. "I
think—l'm afraid—l flared up so—l
must have, after all, a—a—kind of a
temper you said the horse had I"
"I'll risk it !" laughed Jack.
Heedless of Mrs. Byrant's small
nephew, who had entered and stood
stockstill an exclamation point of in
quisitive delight ; heedless of Ned, who
clung in silent, spasmodic convulsions
to the portiere ; heedless even, this
rash young man, of Miss Murphy—that
ancient virgin who, rigid and frigid,
glowered at him in an access of scandal
ized modesty, he took his sweetheart
in his arms with a good, long, loving
kiss, and thus adoringly addressed her:
"Doubted me, did you ? You—con
temptible little—wretch 1"
A Bad Business.
'So you don't want to canvass any
more for the 'Life of Andrew Jackson,'
said the proprietor of a subscription
agency to a young man who bad just re
turned from the country.
'No ; I believe not. The work is very
pleasant and all that, yet I prefer to do
something el.se. Believe I'd rather dig
ditches or clean out wells.'
'Was your trip to the country suc
cessful V
'Well, no, I can't say that it was. I'll
give you a sample of my experience.
One afternoon while riding along a
couutry road, I came upon a field in
which an old fellow was plowing. I
waited until he got to the end of a row
and then, approaching him, I asked if
he would not like to look at the 'life of
Andrew Jackson.' '
'W'y, I looked at one o' his lives
tuther day. Must have had more lives
than a cat. Stranger,l'd like powerful
well to lock at it, but the fact is,l ain't
got the time. This cotton is mighty in
the grass. Whoa, Ball, come around !'
'My friend,' said I, 'if you would like
to look at the book, I'll plow while you
sit down and examine it.' This pleas
ed him veiy much, and taking the book
he climbed the fence, weut into the
woods and sat down in the shade. I
plowed for some time, until I got tired,
but, thinking that the old fellow would
soon make his appearance, continued to
plow on. At last I went into the woods
and found him deeply interested in the
book.'
'lt's too late for you to go much fur
der to-night,' said he, 'so you'd better
stay all night at my house.'
'I agreed, for houses in that section
of country were far apart. We'l, when
we went to the house the old fellow
took my book and devoted himself to it
the entire eyening. I knew that he
would buy it, for I could see that he
was deeply interested. The next morn
ing just before I got rtady to start, I
turned to my host and said ;
'Have you made up your mind to buy
that book ?'
'No, but I did 'low to buy it but thar
ain't no us'n buyin' it now.'
'Why ?'
'Case I sot up last night an' read her
through.'
'That so ? Well, in consideration of
the tact that I have staid all night; with
you, I'll make you a present of the
book.'
'Much obliged to you.'
'Not at all. Well I must be going.'
'Hold on. You hain't paid me yit.
I charge you a dollar au'a half fur your
night's login.'
•Yes, sir, and he made me pay it, re
gardless of the fact that I had present
ed him with the book. No, I con't care
to engage further in the book business.'
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herd hands sat in the Lake Shure depot
last evening waiting for the departure
of a train for the East. She had just
arrived into town from Dakota.
•We won't waste any time in foolish* a
ness out our way,' she* said to a young
man who seemed to be acquainted with
her. 'There is no Joye-making on my
half section. It's nothing but No. 2
whiat from May to August. That's
what we are out there foi. Now.lown
and manage a farm of 820 acres, and
this year I took out a crop of eighteen
bushels to the acre and sold it, got the
cash, put it in the bank, discharged all
my men but one who will look after
things this winter and I'm off for a lit
tle fun down East. 'Marriage?' said
she, in response to some remark by her
companion; 'that's what all the good
for-nothing cranks of men that I see
from plowing time to harvest can talk
about.
'Whatdo I want to get married for ?
There are more than 300 of us girl farm
ers in Dakota,and we will hold a conven
tion some time. I never saw a man yet
that I would haye around. I intend to
farm until I get money enough to live
on comfortably, aud then I'll see. I'm
in the habit of doing about as I please.
There was a nice young fellow in my
neighborhood; last July he tried to be
very gallant, and wanted to help me
whenever I did any work. If I chopped
a little wood he wanted to do it. If I
went after a pale of water he wanted to
carry it. If I put a bag of grain on my
shoulder he insisted on giving me a lift.
He was a pretty, nice boy, but he made
me tired. One day I wanted the hay
rick on the wagon, and I took hold ot
one end and clapped it up on the wheel
so quick that it made him dizzy.
'Let me,' say he, but be only threw
the whole thing down in trying to get
the other end up. He didn't have the
strength.'
•Says I: *Oh go away. You don't
eat enough No. 2 wheat.' Then I put
the rick up in good style.
'We meet lots of such fellows out
there. They are good enough, I sup
pose, but when I want one I will send
for him.'
The World's Largest Organ.
A recent number of the English Me
chanic reports the completion of what
is said to be the largest organ in the
world. It was built by Walcker, of
Ludwigsburg, and has been placed m
the cathedral church of Eiga. This
colossal instrument measures 36 feet in
width, 32 feet from back to front, and
is 65 feet high. It contains no less than
6826 pipes,distributed among 124 sound
ing stops. Most of the pipes are con
structed of metal, but paany are of
wood, especially the larger ones. They
are of all shapes and sizes, from the
giant tube of thirty-two feet to the tiny
whistle of an inch. Almost eyery va
riety of tone ana pitch can be produced
by this "king of instruments," the
trumpet and the trombone, the fiddle
and the flute, and many other instru
ments are all represented. Human
power is not called upon to supply the
capacious lungs of this musical giant,
the bellows—feeders being worked by
means of a water engine of four hors
power. In glancing over the list of
stops some fine-sounding names occur,
and if the sounds which they yield are
as beautiful as their names would sug
gest it will be readily admitted that the
instrument is capable of producing
heavenly music. Among such names
are vox, angelica, harmonia, lethrioa,
voix, celeste, etc. It is open to ques
tion, howeyeer, whether the above is
really the largest organ in the world,
and it certainly is not if we take the to
tal number of pipss as a standard of
comparison. Our own Albert hall or
gan contains 7428 pipes {and 111 stops,
not to mention the liosevelt organ in
Garden City, N. Y., with 7031 pipes
and 115 sounding stops; and perhaps
one or two others might be mentioned
as containing more pipes, though few
er stops.
An Anecdote of Bob Ingersoli.
Says a correspondent of the Chicago
Mail : President Clarge,of the Illinois
Central Bailroad, told me a good story
about Bob Ingersoli that has not yet
been in print. A long time ago it was,
when many counties in the southern
part of the State were under township
organizations, and the supervisors sat
as judgss in certain cases. "Bob" was
arguing a case before one of these tri
bunals, of which the judges were evi
dently more familiar with crops than
law practice. He brought all his elo
quence to bear on the point, that the
case in question was a great injustice
to his client,and should be "thrown out
of court." Continually returning to
that argument, he reached the climax
with a burst that, as usual, carried ev
erybody by storm,ending with t he same
appeal to "throw it out of court, sirs I
out of court." It brought the judges
up "all standing,'* and the presiding
one slowly reached over, gathered up
the papers in the case from the table in
front of him, and as he gaye them an
energetic flip out of the window.turned
to Ingersoli with a nellevfed Smile and
saiti ; "Bob, out I"