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The night was extremely dark, for the stars that twinkled in the black sky had no power to light the dull earth. Nervously, with a beating heart, a young gi:l hurried down a country lane, a parcel in her hands. Shi was Lon don bred, and had the town fear of country lanes, and, if she did not think "every hush an officer," dread ed that every bush might conceal a thief. Eveline Moreton was employed by a large London mourning establish ment, and she bad been sent down ac cording to the advertisement to "fit" a recently bereaved family. If the way was dark and gloomy, Eveline's thoughts were dark and gloomy, too. The poor child WHS tired and hungry, for her train had been detained for two hours by an accident on ilia line. She had been told to take a cab, but there was no cab to be had, and North Lodge was "quite a three-mile walk," the sleepy porter had informed her. llis direct ions had been clear enough. Eveline was to keep straight along the dull gloomy lane, till she reached the high road, when North Lodge would be the third house. Oh how she wished the walk at an end ; it was so dark and dull and lonely. Eveline paused sud denly, and looked down the path she had to pursue with frightened eyes, for she distinctly heard footsteps. If she had yielded to her first impulse of childish terror she would have tried to find some hiding-place behind the hedge ; but ashamed of her fears, she walked on with a low nervous laugh. The footsteps approached rapidly, and soon a dark figure came in sight. Eve line shrank back to get out of its way, but it moved also, so that it was still right in front of her. "Good night I" said a gruff voice. "Good night I" repeated Eveline ; for, as Charles Dickens said, we are never so polite as when we are fright ened. "Jt is a dark night for you to be out in, went on the man. Have you such j a thing as a copper about you to giye a poor fellow V" Trembling Eveline took cut herpurse to look for a penny : as she did so, it was suddenly snatched out of her hand, Eveline gave a little cry of distress at the loss of the money ; but she was too much alarmed to utter a single word of remonstrance. The man's hurley figure still barred the way. "Let me pass," she pleaded. "I have no jewelry. My purse was the only thing I had worth stealing ; you have that, so pray let me go." "Don't be in such a hurry, pretty one," said the man, with a course laugh, and he caught hold of her arm. "I want to speak to you." "Oh I pray—pray—let me go," cried Eveline, dropping the parcel, for her poor little heait was beating almost to suffocation. "Not till I've given you a kiss," he said insolently. "You are a very pret ty girl." And he drew her nearer to him, so that his rough beard touched her cheek. Eveline pushed him from her with all her force, uttering scream after scream. Her terror gave her sudden strength, and for quite a minute she kept him at arm's length. "You little 'vixen 1" he exclaimed with an oath. "I'll have that kiss in spite of all your your struggles ; I will by—" lie never finished the sentence ; for, at that moment, a well-directed blow from a powerful fist felled him to the ground. "You cowardly blackguard !" cried the new-comer indignantly. "llow dare you insult a lady ! Btand up and let me knock you down again 1" But this the tramp wisely declined to do. He rolled over in abject terror, whining out an appeal for meicy, as the young man spurned him wiih his foot. "I am indeed sorry that you should have been frightened by the fellow," said the stranger, lifting his hat and turning to Eveline. The girl tried to thank him ; but her emotion was too great, and putting her hand to her eyes she cried bitterly, while the young man looked on sym pathetically, scarcely knowing what to do or say under such embarrassing cir cumstances. "My parcel !" she exclaimed sud denly,thinking of her employer's prop erty. "Is here I" returned her new friend, picking it up, as he spoke, "and your purse too," he added, for in the strug gle the tramp had dropped Eyeliue's shabby little portemonnaie. Eveline took the purse, and then me chanically held out her hand for the parcel ; but Ralph Vernon—buch was the name of the gentleman who had come to her rescue—shook his head. "I'll carry it," he jsaid dubiously. A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE "You don't think I am going to leave you in the lane after what lias happen ed. Where are you going V" "To North Lodge," faltered Eve line. "You will find the Thtirsbya in great trouble," said Ralph Vernon, looking at her curiously. "I know it," returned Eveline, col oring. "I have come from Loudon to make up their mourning. "Oh I" cried Ralph,a littie snrprised for he had imagined thnt she was some poor relative at least. His manner was far more respectful than before, and Eveline felt so glad of,his company that she soon brightened up, even laughing at the recollection of the tramp, ne he crawled away on his hands and knees, and then sudden ly sprnnj to his feet, flying off like the wind. It was too dark for Ralph to distinguish the girl's features plainly, but he could see that she was pretty, and that her figure was slight and graceful. Her voice, too pleased him ; it was so sweet and refined. This little dressmaker was a lady in every sense of the word. "Pray, take my arm," he said kindly "I know you are very tiied and upset by the 1 right that ruffian gave you." "But you have the parcel to carry," returned Eveline, hesitatingly. "I can maoage both you and the par cel," he told her with a laugh. "You never carried a parcel before in your life," observed Eveline, as she accepted his arm. "How do you know that ?" he asked good humoredly. "Well, if I have neyer made myself useful befoie, it is high time I began now." They had left the lane and were in the highroad. Strange tosay,the walk, which at the commencement seemed so intolerable to Eveline, now appeared marvelously short. "I shall never see him again," she thought, with a faint sigh, as they par ted at the gates of North Lodge, and it was with a very weary little face that she entered the presence of the lady of the house. He had told her that Mrs. Thursby was a very amiable woman, but still Eveline was agreeably surprised at the kindness of her reception. She had been to many houses on the same er rand before, but nowhere had she been treated with such consideration. She was at North Lodge for several days, working away as if life had de pended on it, and, as she worked, her thoughts were of the handsome stran ger who had rescued hei from the biu tality of the tramp. Once Ralph came up the carriage* drive, and, peering from tin window, she looked at his frank face and stal wart figure with a queer little ache at her heart. He was making a call on the ladies of the house, and no doubt was a lover of—an accepted lover of—one of Mrs. Thursby's daughters, those graceful, fair-haired ladies who were so dignified in their grief at the loss of their fath er. She felt relieved when her business was over, and she stood waiting in the little railway station for the train that was to carry her to London. There is 110 place under the sun more depress ing than a country railway station, and our little heroine had repeatedly glan ced at the clock, when a tall form darkened the doorwav, and she looked np to see Ralph Vernon standing be fore her. "So you are going back to town," lie said, shaking hands with her as if they had been old friends. "I thought I would like to come and say good-by." "llow did you know ?" she asked in surprise. "Oh, Grace Thursby told me," he answered, carelessly, "she Is one of the best girls in the world." "She seems very nice to her infer iors," observed Eveline,a little bitterly, "I can im.igine how charming she can be to her equals." "Who is her inferior ?" asked Ralph Vernon, quickly. "Not you, by Jove ! She was saying to me that you were a perfect lady." "Very kind of her, I am sure," said Eveline, haughtily ; "only lam at a loss to nnderstand how such a discov ery came about." "There, now, I haye offended you," said Ralph,contritely : "but I am such a clumsy fellow." "Not at all," returned Eveline, hus kily. "It is very kind of your affianoed wife to take such an interest in me." "My affianced wife 1" he said, with a hearty laugh. U I should like my broth er John to hear you say that." He was very close to her now, as they sat on the hard bench. "Don't you know that I fell desperately in love with you that night when I rescued you from the tramp—at least, I think I did, al though it was not till I saw you peep at me,through the window that I knew how exquisitely pretty you were ? Be my wife, and let me take care of you, not only on dark nights, but all your life." But Eveline shook her head, for, al though her heart prorapted.her to say "yes," she felt that she had no right to accept the sacrifice hor impulsive and hot-headed loyer was willing to make for her sake. "It cannot be," she said,mournfully. "It is a mad, Quixotic idea. I know, from what I have heard Mrs. Thursby say, that you are wealthy." "Hang the money 1" exclaimed Ralph."lf you don't say 'yea,' I'll—l'll go lion hunting in Africa, and get torn to pieces by wild animals." But even this terrible threat had no effect upon Eveline;she was firm in her determination to do right at any cost ; she would not even tell him where she lived. And so they parted at the little railway station, and Eveline went back to London with less color in her cheeks than when she had left it,and a strange gloomy look in her beautiful eyes. "It is all for the best," she thought ; but life had never been so hard to bear. The girl was biave—very—braye and wanted to do right ; but the struggle between love and duty sapped her strength, and laid her on a bed of sick ness, from which it seemed she would never rise. Duriug her illness she was continual ly calling upon Ralph Yernon, in such piteous accents that it drew tears from the eyes of those who heard the poor weak voice. "Mother, I'm going to telegraph for Mr. Yernon," said Eveline's si9ter Nellie. "It is dreadful to look at her white face and glittering eyes, and to hear her calliug upon his name from morning to night." "But who is this Mr. Vernon ?" asked the poor mother, helplessly. "I don't know," said Nellie; "but 1 found a card with his name and ad dress on it, and 1 intend to send for him. It must be some one she cares for, and 1 don't mean to let ber die if anything can 9ave her." "But perhaps he won't care to come" said the mother, with the prudence of age anu experience. "Then he can stay away," returned Nellie, her eyes wet with tears ; and there was a look of pain in her sweet counteuance, for her mother might be right, and what would become of poor Eveline if there should be no answer to the telegram ! The next two hours were anxious ones for Nell. She stood up breathless with eager ness when someone knocked softly at the door. In auother moment Ralph Vernon was in the room, and had grasped her by the hand as if she had been an old friend Instead of a straug er. "Is she ?" he could not finish the sentence, for lie feared the worst. J "She still lives," returned Nellie, aud, taking him by the baud, Eveline's sister led Ralpu into the next room where the poor girl lay. Her mother was Kneeling at the side of the bed, but rose instantly and mo tioned to Ralph to take her place, and as he did so, Eveline.opened her eyes and looked at him. The sight of that beloved face had a magical effect upon Eveliue. She put out her weak hand with a little cry that told more plainly than words how cruel her sacrifice had been, and, as he gathered her in his arms, her lover re gistered a steru vow that, if her life were spared, he would make her his wife in spte of all the world—herself included. Aud so he did, for Eveline recovered from that very hour, and di rectly she was able to leave her room, there was a quiet wedding, and the two started tor the South of France, where they remaiued until Eveline had had recovered her health. They are an exceptionally happy couple, and Grace Thursby tells her husband tbat his brother Ralph's wife is the sweetest woman she knows. How Meals are Served in New Orleans. Few set tables. You are "served in the morning before you get out of bed with a cup of coffee as good as can be found auy where iu the world, and some bread or little Creole pie-crust caKes. There is no trouble about your meals. There is a restaurant on eyery corner or so, or you can have your meals serv ed hot, and at the most reasonable rates. As a general thiag, however, they do not "go in heavy ".for breakfast here. Your coffee is supposed to satis fy you until midday, when you take a slight lunch at some saloon. About 0 in the evening you sit down to the big meal of the day. Supper there 1* none, unless you drop in at the theatre, after which you eat something light. Thus, at least,you will find the natives doing, and those who have been visiting New Orleans each winter for years will tell you that it is the most comfortable way to liye here and best suited to climate. Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. The Old Liberty Bell. The old bell which Philadelphia has sent to the New Orleans Exposition has had a notewoithy history, apart from the one great deed which gave it world wide fame. In 1751, the Pennsylvania Assembly (a Quaker convocation, under the rule of the Penna) authorized a committee to buy a bell for the State llou3e. In the letter sent by this committee to Robert Charles of London,ordering the bell, are these words : "Let it be cast by the best workman and examined carefully before it is ship ped, with the following words, well shaped in large letters, around it, 4 By order of the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania for the State house in the city of Philadelphia, 1752.' And underneath, 'Proclaim liberty through all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." ' As Philadelphia and the province governed by Penu was atjthat time lit erally the ouly spot in the world where absolute religious freedom prevailed, there was a siugular pertinence and significance this inscription. On the arrival of the bell it was bung, and ruug to try the sound, but, having been badly cast, it cracked on tbe first stroke of the clapper. The good Quakers then resolved to re-cast it themselves, which they accordingly did in 1753. In 1777, when the British threatened Philadelphia, it was removed to the little Moravian town of Bethlehem for safety. Even tiien, the people who were fighting so hajd for their freedom invested with a kind of sacredness the bell which had rung out to proclaim Liberty not only to this land but to all the uations of the world who should seek shelter here. It was broken several years Liter,and has since occupied a place in the old State Ilouse at Philadelphia, next to the room in which the Declaration was signed that made us a free people. It has now been sent uDder a guard of honor by Philadelphia to the city of New Orleans,on a mission of good-will and friendship. It it will help to re store peace and brotherly feeling be tween the people of the two sections, and to re.nind them that they are one nation with the same heroic past,sure ly never before was metal cast for a nobler work. How a Senator Obtained a Wife. "Some of them (the reporters) have i He fancies," sait the senator (Groome) "and there is no telling what they may lead to. Several years ago, when I was a candidate for.Governor of my State, a gentleman in a neighboring town, where I chanced to be, said that he would oppose me on the ground that 1 was a bachelor. He WHS older than I was, not the best looking man in the world, and had never been married ;so, to silence him, I said in a jest Miat I would bet him a hat that I could find a lady inside of three years who would marry me, and that was better, I w?s sure,than he could do. I succeeded in backing him down but I got into a nother difficulty. One of these news paper chaps somehow or other got hold of what I had said—or, rather, what I hadn't said—and the first thing I knew I was published as offering to bet that I would be married within three years. A scribe in Baltimore, to get ahead of his fellows, ventured to giye the name of the lady in that city to whom I was engaged. From my green and salad days to that time I had not thought of getting married, much less of making a wife of the lady mentioned. I happen ed to meet her, however, a day or two afterward —for I knew her —and asked her what she thought of the rumor. She told me laughingly that if it would aid in my election she would not con tradict it until after I became Govern or. I believe that it neyer was contra dicted, and, as I subsequently married the lady, it is now too late to deny it. That newspaper reporter's fertile im agination secured for me the best in the world."— Washington Post. CIVIL SERVICE NOTE. One of the duties of Judson Macum ber, an intelligent colored man employ ed in the Austin Post Office, is to cut a daily supply of kindling wood for the stoves in the building. A few days ago the supply was short. 'Why don't you chop up two or three days' supply of kiudling wood, so we can always haye some on hand V ask ed Colonel DeGress, the postmaster. 'No, sah, I don't cut up no kindlin' wood for de day ahead. We am liable to hab our heads chopped off any min ute, and I don't hab no kindlin' wood in de cellar for de Democratic niggah what gits my place.'—Texas Siftings. A man who occasionally gets in a word edgewise can be called a sharp talker. A little girl on seeing a peacock for the first time remarked what a beauti ful bustle it had. NO. 6- 'NEWBPAPBR LAWS If subscribers order Ihe discontinuation of newspapers, the publisher* inav continue to send them until all arrearajres are paid. If suPscrUM'is refnse or noph-et to take their newsp.i|>ers from the ofllrp to which they are sent they are held responsible until they hare settled the bills aMI ordered them discontinued. If subscriber* mpve toother places without In formlu r the publisher, auti the newspapers aio sent to the former place, they are responsible. L_. . .1 . i ADVERTISING RATES. 1 wk. 1 mo. 3 mos. 6 mos. 1 yea 1 1 square #2 00 #4 00 #5 00 #6OO #8 00 H " 700 10 00 15 00 30 00 40 00 1 H 10 00 1500 2500 45 00 7600 One Inch make* a square. Administrator* and Executors' Notices ,*2.60. Transient adver tisements and locals 10 cents per line for first Insertion and 5 ceuts pr line for each additlon ul.inseitlon Horses in Battle. War-horses, when hit in battle, trem ble in every muscle and groan deeply, wlille their eyes showdeepastonishment. During the battle of Waterloo, some of the horses.as they lay upon the ground, having recovered from the first agony of their wounds, fell to eating the grass about them, thus surrounding them selves with a circle of bare ground,the limited extent of which showed their weakness. Others were observed quietly grazing on thejfield, bet ween the hostile lines, their riders having been shot on their backs, and the balls fiying over their heads and the tumult behind, be fore, and around them, causing no inter ruption to the usual instinct of their nature. It was also'observed that,when a charge of cavalry went past near to any of the stray horses already mention ed, they would set off, from themselves in the rear of their mounted compan. ions, and, though without riders,gallop strenously along with the rest, not stopping or flinching when the fatal shock with the enemy took place. At the battle of Kirk, in 1745, Major Mac- Donald, baying unhorsed an English officer, took possession of his horse, which was very beautiful, and immedi ately mounted it. When the English cavalry fled, the horse ran away with its captor, notwithstanding all his ef forts to restrain him ; nor did it stop until it was at the head of the regiment of which apparently its master was commander. The melancholy, and at the same time ludicrous figure which Mac Donald presented when he saw himself the victim of his ambition to possess a fine horse, which ultimately cost him his life upon the scaffold, may be easily conceived. The Original Judge Lynoh. Who the original Judge Lynch was— if such a personage ever really existed —is a mystery. The earliest date as signed to this exhibition of a developed "iron conscience" is, according to the Gal way Council Book, the year 1498, when an Irishman in muucipal authori ty in the county of Galway, and named James Lynch, hanged his own son out of a window for despoiling and murder ing strangers," without martial or com mon law, to show a good example to posterity." Another ancestral deriva tion is to be found in one Lynch, who, about 1687 .was sent to Ameriea to sup press piracy. As justice was not ad ministered with much rigor or formali ty in the colonies, it is presumed that this Judge Lynch was empowered to proceed summarily against the pirates, and thus originated the term. The o pinion which traces the expression to a Mr. Lynch, founder of the town of Lynchburg, in Virginia, is entirely un supported by any authority beyond identity of name ; but it is curious to remember that so long ago as the reign of Richard 11. there was a current dog* ged distich : -"First hang and draw ; then hear the cause by Lydford law." ODDS AND ENDS. Parlor lecturer promise to be a pop ular form of amusement. Beans are going up in consequence of the great demand for export. No coin of less value than a five-cent piece circulates in New Orleans. Mr. Dolby says that Charles Dickens cleared $225,000 out of his readings. The grain crop in this country the past year was the largest ever raised. The Massachusetts railroads killed or injured 457 people during the y<=ar 1884. As long ago as 1710 London had a one-cent evening paper—The "Evening Post." Butler county, Pa., will soon haveall its houses heated and lighted by natu ral gas. A monument was erected over the grave of "Kit Carson at Taos, N. M., on Jan. 2. The Chinese in San Francisco paid $27,000 in fines Jinto the police court revenues last year. An o'd Mexican woman in San Luis, Cal.,*aged 98 years, has just cut her third set of teeth. Great Britain manufactures 700,000,- 000 envelopes yearly. The United States turns out 2,500,000,000. For 200 years one-quarter of all the cheap violins in the world have been made in Mitleawald, Bavaria. Senator John Sherman is to preside at the Washington Monument dedica tory ceremonies on Feb. 22. There are 347 female blacksmiths in England, all of whom actually swing heavy hammers and do men's work. The ice bridge at Niagara this win ter is said to be the most- massive foi many years, and is estimated to be over sixty feet thick. A California lunatic hospital, which was intended to accommodate 500 pa tients, now has 1700, with new acces sions every week.