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Glenn held out his cup and saucer, both of which had been duly painted and baked, until they looked duly an tique-held them out across the short way of tiie table to his sister. •Another sip of coffee, if you please, Ilelly,' he said. 'And see here, Ilelly, doli'i look at the sugar you put in it.' 'What are you talking about ?' de manded his sister, testily. She was suspicious of some covert unpleasant ness in the quiet words 'What do you mean ? Why shouldn't 1 look at the sugar ?' 'Because,' said the non-committal Glenn. 'Because what ?' Ilelly asked, with someaspertity. 'Why don't you tsi 1 me ? Why shouldn't I look at your sugar ?' 'Because jou might change it into something sour.' •What a rich joke I' she said, turn ing up her nose, with all her other features pinched. 'You just the same didn't get up at all this morning. It's nearly eleven o'clock. And now I have to sit here aud pour your coffee, when I promised the girls that I'd help deco rate the hall for the festival.' 'Why didn't you tell me this soon er ?' Glenn said deliberately sipping his coffee. 'What good would forty tellings have done ?' Ilelly snapped. 'I should have had to wait and get your coffee-all the same. You would have gone on with your morning napping. Mamma just makes a baby of you ! She pets you till you can't sit up. If I'm not up at family breakfast, I have to take just anything I can find about the pantry, while you can sleep till eleven, and get up to fresh coffee and hot quail and waffles, and everything nice,and I have to stay and watch you eat, you great baby ! Mamma won't let me stir out of this house till you are breakfasted. You tyrannize over me through mam ma.' She paused, but when Glenn made no reply, continued, '1 wouldn't mind it if you worked at night, like railroad men and telegraph hoys and night ed itors and doctors. But you don't do a lick of work, night or day. You just sit up with that girl of yours, I know.' Glenn looked at her in a solemn way, but said nothing. 'I wish you were going to get mar ried to her right away,' Helly went on. 'But I'd pity your wife !' As Glenn was leisurely folding bis napkin', their cousin Bftty, entered, in a rushing way, crying out : 'ls this the way you help decorate the hall ? You promised to come for me by nine o'clock. I've waited and waited and waited. Sister Ann's been out to the gate forty times to see if you were coming, and she's been to the east window twice forty times. It's a fact. I've just haunted that window, so that mother couldn't see to sew, be cause I was in her light all the time, and she scolded me about it. And all our folks got vexed at me, and called me a Gdget, and it's all on your ac count, Helly, and I think it's a shame for you ' '1 think it's a shame for you to chat ter at tins rate !' interrupted the irri tated Helly. Betty's talked teased her like pin-pricking on an already nettled surface. 'You always were a rattle-box. You can talk longer without saying anything than any one I ever knew.' At this Betty's face flushed ih sud den resentment. 'Come, Helly, you're carrying things too far,' said Glen. 'Don't let her rude speeches hurt you, Betty.' 'I don't mean to let them- hurt me. I always consider the source from which a thing comes.' answvred Betty, pouting at Helly and smiling at Glenn. 'l'll go to the hall, and tell the girls that Helly is too cross for any use iD the world ; that she'd wither the flowers if she were to s try to help us make wreaths. Come on Glenn 1 You are going my way.' She hooked her arm in his, and off they started, chatting and laughing as if there wasn't any teased Helly to care for. Their nonchalant way made Hel ly madder. Beside, Betty should not have the last word. 'I am glad you are going,'Helly mut tered, 'and I hope you'll never come here.again.' Betty paused and turned. Her face was hot and flushed ; her eyes bright. 4 1 shall take care not to come back un til you ask me to come. 'Then you'll never come again,' Hel ly said quickly, her temper rising eyery moment. 'Why, Helly !' Glenn remonstrated. 'You forget yourself.' 'No, Ido not forget myself,' she quickly interposed. 'You owe Betty an apology,' Glenn continued. MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 7., IBBG. 'Then I owe something that I'll nev er pay,' Ilelly retorted, with prompt ness. 'But Ido not owe her an apolo gy. She owes me an apology.' 'l'm sure I've nothing to apologize for.' Betty said, tossing her head. •The idea of my apologizing, when sho has been saying such rude things ! Come along, Glenn !' Ilelly heard the front door close on them, but kept her seat at the table for some minutes ; sat there breathing hard, her heart swollen, her lips tight, her nostrils widened and trembling. Just then I felly's aunt dropped in, a dear good soul to whom Ilelly confided everything. To her Ilelly told her story. 'Apologize to her indeed ! said Belly '1 won't do it 1 And if she waits for me to invite her, she'll never enter this house again. It's horrid in Glenn to tease and worry me ti'l he gets mo an gry, and then tell me to apologize for not being sweet. It's insulting. And now I suppose that he's gone off to the mercantile library to read some novel, leaving me to clear the table where he's been dallying. And he took Bet ty's part against me ! Betty, with her chatter, is simply horrid ! Chattered like a magpie, and then went prancing off with Glenn, instead of helping me clear the table, so that I could go a long with her to the hall. She's as selfish as she can be ! But I'm rul of her, that's one good thing 1 She is'nt ever coming here again till I invite hei. I suppose her father and mother will lay all tho blame on me, for they think Betty is perfectly perfect. On their account, I'm sorry about the trouble, for uncle and aunt have always made a pet of me, because I'm auntie's name sake, I suppose. I shall have to see Betty when I go there, eyen if she shouldn't come here any more. Very likely, though, they won't want me to come I'm out with Betty. It will be dreadfully lonesome not to have Bet ty's to run to, and to have uncle and aunt cold and distant to me. And I'm so used to having Betty lly in and out at all hours that I don't kuow how I can ever get along without it. We'ye always done everything together. And I know that mamma will think I'm to blame ; she always does when Betty and I have a spat, aud 1 guess it's a bout so, for mamma's jndgemeut is generally correct; and I'm spunky, and I don't control my temper, and I just let my anger get the better of me. I believe Betty means what she says. I know sho does. She means not to come till I Invite her. But I'll not in vite her. I said I wouldn't, and I won't, if she never comes ! I'll show her that I can be as set as bLo ia. Feeling somewhat braced irj this confession, Ilelly proceeded to clear way Glenn's breakfast table. But there was a cold, heavy spot in her throat. 4 I suppose I can stand it if Betty does stop coming here,* she went on saying. 4 1 don't know either how I can. I'd giv6 everything I own if she'd come running in this minute. But I'm not going to break my word. I shall not invite her. I think she's cruel 10 say such a dreadful thing. Oh, dear ! dear 1 dear !' Having by this time got the table cleared, and having liberty to ciy, Ilel ly did ciy, dropping into a chair and hugging its back. 4 Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! Oh ! I don't believe I can ever stand it !' she said. 4 And I know that Betty means it ; she'll nev er come here again unless I inyite her without eating my words and swallow ing them right down. 4 I suppose I ought to eat them and be glad of the chance, even if they choke me, for I didn't really mean them. I spoke them when I was in anger. People oughtn't to speak when they're angry, and if they do they ougnt to take back everything they say, for they hardly ever say anything they can stand by. I wish my lips had a spring -lock that would lock when I get angry. Yes, I ought to cake it all back ; I ought to, but oh ! oh ! oh !' She was crying aloud when the tele phone rang. It was a very interesting thing—this new arrangement in their house, just put in the day before, and a summons from it was sure to start Belly to her feet. She patted one eye with her wadded up handkerchief, then the other, and hastened to get the mes sage. 4 Who is lt?' she asked. 4 A penitent,' was the reply. Belly's heart gave a strong spring. 4 Who ? What penitent i" she asked, hardly able to keep the eagerness out of her voice. 4 0ne who behaved very badly toward you this morning,' said the telephone. 4 lt's Bett I Oh, it's Betty !' Belly in joy whispered to her heart. Iler face was radiant ; her lips were parted in smiles, as she asked ; 4 What do you wish to say ?' 4 I wish to ask your pardon for my behavior this morning. lam to blame A PAPER FOR TIIK HOME CIRCLK. for your crossness. Telephone buck my pardon, dear. 1 llelly could hardly stand still as she put her eager lips to the mouth-pieca and said, in a jubilant tone : 'I for give you, ten thousand times, you blessed old sweet ! And won't you forgive mo once, you precious ? I've been crying ever since you weut away mad at me.' •Poor dear !' was the reply, '1 wasn't mad at you at all.' 'And If,' llelly replied, 'I was a par ticle mad at you, I've got all over it, and was so sorry for my unkind words that 1 could have cried my eyes out, and did, almost.' •Well,' said the telephone, 'bathe your eyes and come down to the hall, and I'll go home with you.' 'And stay to dinner,' amended llelly, all in a twitter that she was to have lletty again in the house,and that without tlrst giving the Invitation. 'Of course I'll stay to dinner, replied the tele phono. 'You're the sweetest thing in the world !' said llelly, quivering with de light. •You're auother !' was the reply. 'Come along to the hall !' in fifteen minutes llelly was down town. As she entered the hall, Glenn came down to the aisle to meet her. 'You look happy as a queen,' he said, recalling the mood in which he had left her. 'I feel as happy as a queen,' she re plied. buoyantly ; 'Betty and I haye made up.' '1 am glad to hear that,' said Glenn, •for Betty was very much hurt this morning. She said, most decidedly, that she never would make up with you, unless you made the first advan ces.' 'And yet she made the first advan ces.' llelly said, with triumph. 'lt was splendid iu her, and just as nice as could be.' At this point, a lady called Glenn to assist in putting up a cioss of flowers, llelly hastened oyer te Betty who at that moment happened to be sitting a little apart, weaving a wreath. She did not lift her head, even when llelly stood close alongside. 'Dear Betty !' said her cousin, slip ping into a seat beside the wreath, 'it was just the sweetest thing that ever was for you to make up, and to offer to go home with me without waiting for me to invite you. I think it was grand iu you—so much nicer than to stick to a silly promise made in anger. 'Why !' Betty oegan. llelly went on, eagerly, without no ticing the interruption. 'But I invite you now, with all my heart, not only to stay to dinner, but to spend the af ternoon, and stay all night and all next and all next year and forever and foreyt. !' 'But,' SOA4 Bettsy, 'I don't know'— 'You showea -what lots of sense you have by not laying up my foolish words,' llelly went on 'but honor bright 1 Betty would you have given up if you couldn't have done it by tei*. phone ?' •By telephone !' said Betty, her face full of question. 'What are you talk ing about V I can't understand you. What do you mean V' 'Why, I mean this : wasn't it easier to make your confession by telephone, and ask my forgiveness by telephone, than it would have been standing face to face with me ? Wouldn't you say that it would be easier, Glenn V' she continued, as he came up. 'I haven't made any confession, or asked your forgiveness or io any other way,' Betty declared. 'What 1' cried Ilelly, 'you hayen't confessed by telephone ! Who did, then ? Somebody did !' Glenn was smiling with a compre hension of the situation. 'I was the penitent,' he explained. 'Was that you, Glenn ?* Helly said, her face sobering at the revelation. 'The yoice didn't sound at all like yours.' 'Well, as to that, I suppose a person uses a higher pitch of voice than nat tural in speaking by telephone. Be side, you haven't heard my telephone tones enough to be familiar with them.' 'So you hadn't made'any advances ?' Ilelly said to Betty. 'Not an advance,' Betty laughed. 'And I'ye gone and invited you to my house to stay foreyer 1' Hel'y said. 'l'm so glad I don't know what to do, for I was wishing to make up. And though I didn't aak your forgive ness by telephone, I have asked it by this note, which I meant to send to you by Glenn.' Betty drew a scrap of pa per from her pocket, and handed it to Ilelly, saying : 'My bond to keep the peace with you.'— Youth's Companion. It was Freddy's first experience with soda water. Drinking his glass with perhaps undue eagerness lie was aware of a tingling sensation t in his nostrils. 'llow do you like it ?' inquired his mother, who had stood treat. Freddy thought a moment, wrinkling his nose as he did so, and then observed : *lt tastes like your foots was asleep.' The Good Old Times. In olden times in my pious individu als considered it a good work to set a part part of their worldly wealth for keeping the members of the congrega tion from sleeping duiing divine ser vice. On the seyenteenth of Apri1,1725, John lludge bequeathed to the parish of Trysull, in Shropshire, twenty shill ings a year, that a poor man might be employed to go about the churoh dur ing the sermon and keep the people a wake. A bequest of Richard Doyery, of Farmcote, dated 1059, had in view the payment of eight shillings in tho church at Clavery, Shropshire, for a similar purpose. At Acton church, in Chesire, about thirty years ago, one of the church-wardens used t6 go round in the church, during service, with a huge wand in his hand, and if any of the congregation were asleep.they were instantly awakened by a tap on tho head. At Dunchurch, in Warwick shire, a similar custom existed. A per son bearing a stout wand, shaped like a hay fork at the end,steppe J stealthily up and down the naye and aisles, and whenever he saw an individual asleep, liejouched him so effectually that the spell was broken—this being sometimes done by fitting the fork to the nape of the neck. A more plajful method is said to have been used in another church, where the beadle went round the edifice during service carrying a long staff, at one eud of which was a fox's brush, and at the other a knob. With the former he gently tickled the faces of tho female sleepers, while on the heads of their male compeers he be stowed with the knob a sensible rap. Why tho Organ was Locked. The other day a household was made proud and happy by the intro duction of a cabinet organ. The moth er could play a little, and as there was a "popular collection of music" includ ed in the purchase, she lost no time in getting every note aud stop into prac tice. The organ groaned and wheezed aud complained with the most aston ishing of music, night and day, day and night for a week. Then one morning there was a knock at the door, and a little girl from the next house shrilly said : 'Please, marru, mother wants to know if you won't lend her your mu sic book V This was a surprising request, in asmuch as the woman next door was known to be organless. After gasp ing once or twice the amateur organ ist asked : 'What does she want of it V The child hadn't been loaded for this question,so she straightforwardly replied : 'I don't know, I'm sure, only I heard mother tell father that if she had hold of the book for a day or two mebbc somebody could get a rest.' The woman softly shut the door in the little girl's face, and went and Ci*of u ]]y locked the cabinet organ with a brass Music s SootiiY*igr Powijr. A minister named M C a cir cuit in Southern Indiana. The wse lie rode was a spirited animal, and would not let a blacksmith shoe him. The preacher was a great revivalist and singer of revival songs. A smith in the county seat, the centre of the cir cuit, learning that the preacher's horse would not be shod, meeting the diyine one day, said : 'lf you'll bring that horse to my shop to-morrow, and follow my instructions, I'll shoe him all around, and it won't cost you a cent.' Accordingly the preacher was on time at the smith's shop with his refrac tory steed, and after the animal had been divested of saddle, blankets, and all but the bridle, the smith said; 'Now, bold your horse by the rein, close to the bridle bit, and sing one of your liveliest camp-meeting songs, and when that is ended strike up another, and keep on singing until I finish shoe ing the horse.' The preacher obeyed, and, to the as tonishment of all, the animal was pas sive until the work was completed. As the blacksmith clinched the last nail he dropped the animals feet, ex claiming : 'I knew you could sing religion into that horse.' in Piedmont, Ga., there is a forty cent man. if he hires auy one he only pays forty cents per day ; if he hires himself to anyone he only asks forty cents per day ; if he make 3 a bill or an offer for anything, it is only forty cents ; if he swaps horses, cows, or anything he either asks or pays forty cents difference. —With >our next order to your grocer, send for a sample pound ot Dreydoppol's Ilorsx Noap. You will find it to be the best and cheap est soup you ever used. It is used by the best families in Boston. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. WHAT IS WEALTH ? An Important Question Viewed from a Philosophic Stand point. Wealth cannot be any mere sum of money. Money has no settled value. In one place,among certain conditions you can get for a mere trifle what you cannot buy with a thousand pounds somewhere else. What will purchase pure air and clear sky in November ? Millionaires cry out for them in vain. Yet some poor woman, say in Shet land, who never sees money, but ex changes her knitting work for her trifle of tea and cloth, can get the bracing wind and the bright sky for nothing. We all know how seriously this consideration should enter into our estimate of the real improvement to be looked for in any change of our place or prospects. What better off are we in going somewhere to earn double wages if all the commodities of life there cost three times as much as where we aro now ? People rush off to the capital cities to "better" themselves by earning a few shillings more per week or a few hundred more per year, as the case may be. They generally find that the things they must have absorb all the apparent sur plus, while many things which they had before, and ought to have, they have to resign altogether. Wealth does not consist of posses sion of any kind. Take an illustra tion : A man is wrecked on a desert ed island ; the ship runs aground, and he finds himself the owner of bags of bullion and precious stones, of rare books and rich fabrics. Put he can get no fresh water. Presently he dies of thirst—& poorer man than the beggar who wins a humble meal by sweeping a doorstep or weeding a garden. Indeed there is no poverty so terrible as the possession of every thing except what we want. The Persian poet, Sadi,has a story on this poiat. lie say 9 : 'I saw an Arab sitting in r x circle of jewelers of Basrah, and relating as follows: Once on a time, having missed my way in the desert and hav ing no provisions left, I gave myself up for lost, when I happened to find a bag full of pearls. I shall never for get the relish and delight that I felt on supposing it to be fried wheat, nor the bitterness and despair which I suffered on discovering that the bag contained pearls.' Still less does wealth consist in mere accumulation ; we really do not have what we do not use. A miser had a store of buried gold, over which be used secretly to gloat. A thief stole it away and a wise man strove to comfort the miser by persuading him to burj' some oyster shells in its place and to visit them and chuckle over them, as he had done over the gold. Now let us turn to what wealth is in the highest sense. Wealth is the satisfaction of those needs of human life which, if unsatisfied, check its har monious development. No man can be wealthy till he finds out the limits of his needs, for "want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover." So we cannot find out wLat wealth is till we find out what these needs are. Our bodily needs are pure air, good water, wholesome food, sufficient clothing and shelter, labor and rest. Our mental needs are the education of our senses, some leisure and some intellectual nourishment, either from books or society. Our spiritual needs are love and duty.—/. F. Mayo, in Sunday aJ Home. Not Surprising, Madame Bonaparte in her younger days once attended a state dinner, and was taken to the table by Lord Dudas. He had already received some sorts of her sarcastic speeches, and in a not very pleasant mood asked her wheth er she had read Mrs. Trollope's book on America. She had. 'Well, Mad am,' said the Englishman, what do you think of her pronouncing all Ameri cans vulgarians ?' 'I am not surpris ed at that,' answered sprightly 'Betsey Bonapart.' 'Were the Americans the descendants of the Indians or the Es quimaux, I should be astonished ; but being the direct descendants of the English, it would be very strange if they were not vulgarians.' There was no more heard from Lord Dundas that evening. —First-class iob-work done at the office. NO. 39. J NEWSPAPER LAWB If subscribers order the discontinuation newspapers, tiie publishers may continue send them until all arinaratfes are paid. If subscribers refuse or nep.lect to take their newspapers from the otlW* to w iitclitliey are sent they arc held responsjlde tint II they have settled the hills and ordered I hem ll>eunt Inued. If suliscrlbet's move toother places wlthontln forminu ihu.puU**iior, juitLUnuicw spit pels .ire sent to the former place, Hiey are responsible. ADVERTISING! RATES. 1 wk. j mo. 1.1 utos. fi nios. 1 yea 1 sfptarc $ 200 *ino| fr>v *r,ui ssoO too fioot moo 1000 is cm >2 700 10 00 15 00 SOW 40 00 1 '* 10 fid Ifiooj r.OO 45 00 75 CO One Inch makes a smmrc. Administrators and Executors' Notices f'ij'O. Tjansient adver tisenients nnd iocaH cents per line for first Insertion and aceutA |srr line for each addition al iusertiOQ Looking for a Seat. The London Christian World has the following famished it hy a correspond ent. Possibly the incident may serve to set some who live on this side of the Atlantic thinking : A workingman came to live in Lon don, having obtained work of a perma nent kind. From bis youth he had been accustomed to attend a place of worship. Not yet a Christian, he still loved a house of prayef and resolved not to neglect it. Accordingly, on the first Sunday morning he went off in search of a place ot worsldp, and, hav ing seen one with open doors, he went in, and. as no one was about, he took a seat in one of the pews. Just as the service began a pew-openefjtold him he could not sit where he was. and did so in such a manner thai he left the build ing in disgust. After a Siinday or two he ventured into another sanctuary,and the same thing happened." An interval of abstention followed, and then for a third time he went within the sacred precincts, and, alas ! a third time he was .turned out of his sitting. For twenty years he ceased to attend any place of worship, and then a curious thing came to pass. It was on this wise : His child at tended the Suuday-scliool of a popular preacher, and what she satyl made him resolve to try for a seat once more. In time we see the craggy drops, The craggy atones made soft; The slowest snail in time we see Doth creep and climb aloft. And he, after twenty years, would try again. This was what happened. He entered the beautiful chapel, and to my knowledge the chapel stewards there are alert, polite, resourceful men, one of them remarkably so. Well, for a moment he was absent from bis post, and the poor man sat dowti in the end seats —no pew "doors on them —and in the seat of a very cantankerous person ! The chapel steward, glancing along the aisle, saw the poor man had poached on a v-ry strictly preserved seat, but he resolved not to disturb him. No,he watched for the'owner of that sitting, arrested his steps in his gentle way, begged him not to disturb the poor wayfarer, and managed to pilot him in to another seat. It was a great feat of Christian diplomacy, and had its re ward. That poor wayfaring man is now a member of the church, and I heard the happy chapel steward tell the story. Keeping Ice in the South. The ordinary Virginia ice-house con sists of a conical excavation in the ground, say from sixteen to twenty feet deep, the same width at the top, narrowing down to six feet at the bot tom. Here a barrel-shaped hole is dug for drainage ,* above this a floor of rails is laid, and the cone above is liued with pine poles. When I moved from the North to my farm here, and remembered the ice houses there, filled witii thick ice nice ly sawed, closely packed, and surround ed with a compact lining ot sawdust, I looked at this bole in the* ground with some disfavor ; but as it was the only ice-bouse to be had, I was compelled to use it. Winter came, with ice from two to three inches thick, and no use for a saw ; so, under the direction of "Uncle Sam," an intelligent negro, we broke the ice on tlie pond, drew it a shore, filled an ox-cart (for there was no sleighing) dumped it into the ice house, and continued Jto dump until the bouse was full, and then covered the ice with straw. The ice kept better than I had expected, but not so well as in northern ice-houses. The conical shape of the pit kept the ice in a com pact body, as when it settled it was ne cessarily presstd into a solid mass. I found, however, that the ice melted at the sides faster than was desirable, and I concluded that the heat rising from the earth was more to be dreaded than that from the air above. Next year, instead of cleaning out ray ice-house, I left the straw tnat was put on top of the ice at the bottom, putting the ico on top, and of 'course covering the ice with fresh straw. This practice prov ed so satisfactory that it was continued ever since, and it is now ten years or more since I saw the bottom of the house, and tlie ice keeps much better than formerly.— GEO. CLEDON, in the American Agriculturist for October. An 111 Wind. It is estimated that the ten thousand saloons of New York city take in $220,000 per day, or $75,000,000 per year. This seems a great waste of money, but it should be remembered that these saloons are a great help to many trades and professions which would fall to a very low ebb of prosper ity without the extraneous aid thus rendered them. The doctors and un dertakers have great reason to be grate ful to the saloon keeper, and without him, pray how could our criminal courts be carried on at a profit ,or what would become of the legal profession ? One should look on both sides of a thing before condemning it.— Cottage i Hearth.
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