THE CURATE'S SWEEI HEART "A young woman with a pWslnn face, who rart-ly smiles, and 8(vni tu slum observation, nnd nu old lady, who comes out very little and ulways veiled." That was the description given to the Rev. Clmrles Orosvenor of the new oc cuiwnta of the little cottage which lay ?o clone to his vicarage that he could nee the smoke from the chimney over the. toj of the trees that skirted his lawn. The Rev. Charles Orosvenor had been away from the scene of his lalxirs at Chumleigh for a month. Chunileigh was countryfied enough and healthy enough, but he had been ordered sea ait and had taken the trip, leaving his by no means extensive flock to the care of a temporary shepherd. The Rev. Charles Orosvenor was t y oung man, and Crumleigh was his first living. He was quite new enough to hi work to take Interest in it. and he wa on intimate terms with all his parishion ers. Directly he heard of the new arrivals in the village, he, of course, determined to call upon them, but he thought he would just inquire what sort of people they were. The result was the above description a description vague enough in all con science, and yet suftlcie.it at once to in Test the heroines of it with a slight halo of romance. The Rev. Charles Orosvenor had not so long left college life to bury himself among the pumpkins but that he could duly appreciate the piquancy which a little mystery lends to our ordinary hum drum existence. Knowing that the young lady shunned observation his curiosity was at once aroused, and lie looked forward to his first meeting with her with more than ordinary eagerness. As to the old lady well, he was a young bachelor, remem ber, and however deeply old ladies may veil themselves, or however mysterious they may be, they can not expect to com mand much attention when there is a younger lady in the case. The curate called at Laburnam cottage the day after the return from the sea side. He found the Smiths very quiet nnd unassuming people. Mrs. Smith said very little and sighed a good deal, and Miss Smith, though a fluent and agree able speaker, as he could judge from the little she said, spoke only in answer to his questions, and kept her eyes fixed on the ground, the whole time he was talk ing to her. "Something queer alxmt these people," said the Rev. Charles Orosvenor to him self. "I wonder what it is. I must draw them out. " His notion of drawing them out was to engage their services in his parihh work. The old lady sighed and consented. The young one colored, cast down her eyes, and said that she was not fit for such work. Not religious enough, she meant. The Rev. Charles Orosvenor was much distressed to hear that Miss Smith was not religious. Here, at least, was a task congenial to his soul. He was quite will ig to convert farm laborers and to ro- rni market gardeners, but when a de mre looking young lady, with an agree able manner, offered herself, he could cot refrain from looking forward to tho prospect of higher and nobler .work. He talked seriously to Miss Smith, and Miss Smith listened seriously so seri ously that the curate was taken by sur prise. He was almost alarmed at tho terrible earnestness with which the girl spoke of refigious questions, asked for spiritual consolation, and argued with him on the dread subject of the sinner's fate hereafter. The earnestness and the vehemence of his parishioner, however, only increased his interest in her. Now, when Miss Smith called herself a miserable sinner, the Rev. Charles Grew veuor thoroughly believed that she was one. He accepted her confession in the same sense that he would have accepted it from the patron of his living, or his mother, or any of his lady parishioners. Ae are all miserable sinners, and bein enjoined to say so, a clergyman can not for the sake of being complimentary, re fuse to believe a young lady when she affirms that she is no exception to the rule. But as to attaching any really serious import to the confession of Miss Smith, that never occurred to him for a moment. He soothed her, offered her such consola tion as he could, thought she was a must pious and interesting girl, and fell madly in love with her. From the moment he made the dis covery his conduct to her altered. He tempted her to talk less about herself and to be cheerful. He didn't want the girl he was in love with to be too persistently a miserable sinner. She was so charm ing and so nice that he felt she might very well keep that in the background a little. A white tie and a clerical coat do not alter a man's nature ; and when a man falls madly in love with a woman, he likes to imagine her as near perfection as possible. Miss Smith's manner changed also, She discovered the parson's secret before it was many days old. She was stiU pleased to gee him, but she avoided all reference to her sins. Once he questioned her about her past lifa. For a moment she went deadly p.ilo, then the color rushed to her cheeks, and she stammered out a remark which turned the conversation. Miss Smith saw that the Rev, Charles Orosvenor was at her mercy. It was only a question of time when he would make the avowal. Should she encourago him, or discourage his secret, and stop it while there waa yet time? In her difficulty she laid the case be fore, her mother and asked her advice. The old lady was frightened out of her wits. She dare not think a!xut such a thing, she said. Of course it would be i.l 10 makiug of her if she could marry a I rgyman; but how could it be done? If j would have to know the history of lier life first, and then "And then he wouldn't have me," answered tho girl passionately. Ofcour.se not, my dear," said Mre, Smith, "at least I should think not," "Shall I tell him? Shall I confess all the next time he comes?" Again Mrs. Smith is frightened. Sho does not like to think what the result of that confession will bo. They've man aged at last to find a spot whore they can live quietly and unknown. Why must nil the miserable story be brought up again? Miss Smith, failing to get any practi cal advice from her mother, think the matter over quietly by herself, and by the time she sees her admirer ngain she bos settled on her course of action. She meets him in the fields that lead to the church. It Is a bright summer morning, and they pause by a stile to look tit the yel low and led of the far stre tchtng field's. Tho Rev. Charles Orosvenor com mences by talking nlxmt nature-, and gradually comes down to talking about himself his aims and prospects in life. Little by little the conversation slides into the grxve he wished, nnd in Hvemiuiites his hand and fortune have been laid at the feet of the lady listener. He hadn't meant to ! so abrupt ; he had meant to keep his secret a little longer, but it had slipped out accidentally among the poetry and domestic, detail and he was very glad it was over. Miss Smith was of course very much surprised. The curate had caught hei hand as his accents grew more impas sioned. She allowed him to retain it till he had finished, then drew it gently away. "Mr. Orosvenor," she said quietly, "1 will answer you fairly and frankly, lie fore you made me such an offer you should have ascertained to whom you were speaking. " "What do you mean?" "You do not know who or what I am. " "I know that you are an angel. " Miss Smith's li curled slightly, but her voice trembled as she answered : "As you have gone so far it is only right you should know something about me. My name is not Smith. That is a false name. " "A false name!" the parson gased. "Dear me! why do you want a fills name?" "Listen and I will tell you. Did you ever hear of a terrible crime for which two men and two women wore con demned? It was called a 'mystery' at first. But when the facts came to light it waa called a 'murder.' Ono man starved his wife to death, nnd the otln.i : people helped him. He wanted to mam I a younger woman, and this youngt-t I woman was one of the accused. " I "I remember the case, "stammered the i curate. "It was very awful ; but I don't j see what you've got to do with it. " The perspiration stood on his brow and , he began to mop it with his pocket hand kerchief. He hnlf expected to hear that Miss Smith was a relative of one of the criminals. "You remember," continued the girl, speaking rapidly now and without emo tion, "that all four were coudemed t'. death, but the young girl was at the last moment granted a free pardon and al lowed to return to the world and to her friends. " "Yes," gasped the clergyman, "I re member; but what has all this business to do with you?" "This," answered the lady whom lie had just made an offer of marriage: "I was the girl that allowed tho murdered woman's husband to love me ; I was the girl for whose sake the murder was com mitted; I was the girl who was con demned to be hanged by the neck and then granted a free pardonl I am " She stopped. "She Rev. Charles Gras venor had reeled back against the stile snd closed his eyes. "Excuse me," he muttered, "a little faintness, that's all. " He pulled himself together, stam mered a little, coughed, and for a ruin ute seemed at a loss what to say. She broke the silence first. "I have told you now the secret of my life. I am here with my mother, aud here wish to remain unknown, forgot ten by the world. We are bound to live under an assumed name. We should be hooted and stoned if it were known who we really are. Will you keep my secret?" "Certainly," stammered the curate; "and I trust " "That I shall keep yours. Rest assured of that, Mr. Orosvenor. I will forget that anything has happened this morn ing beyond the ordinary interchanges of courtesies between clergyman aud par ishioner. " She smiled and bowed and passed on. He walked back slowly to tho church, muttering to himself. " What an escape who'd have thought it?" Tho Rev. Charles Orosvenor is still the curate of Chumleigh, and Miss Smith and her mother still live at Laburnum cottage. The parishioners, however, notice that the visits of the clergyman to the cottage are few and far between, aud that when he calls he is generally accompanied by one or other of his lady visitors. And old Dame Turvey, who knows everything about everybody and is a great authority on village matters, as sures every one that she can't make it out at all, for she was quite sure the par son waa sweet in that quarter and she quite expected that Miss Smith would have presidod at the parsonage tea tablo. "Something must have happened very unexpected to break it all off," con cludes the worthy dame, "for it was all altered like in a minute. " Dame Turvey is right for once. What happened was very unexpected, and it made such an impression on the Rev. Chorlea Grosvenor that he will remember it to the end of his life. Tommy Can we play at keeping a store in here, mamma? Mamma (who has a headache) Certainly, but you must be very, very quiet. Tommy Well, we'll pretend we don't advertise. Art in Advertising. " I say, Bill, wot makes you go 'round with that there barrel over yer'ed?" " I'se got ter do it. The gals foller me, so I'se obliged tor disguise myself. " Judge, M'lKMIIMI' IMl Uvl'.KI'U The hilest liisi-Dvei'.v for dyspeptics is t!uil piiieiipplf juice is as active a i!i- g.'sicr as I'l'sin, Much as has been liCcomplished In the way of electrical inventions, the chances nre thnt only the outer edge of the inns-nreli"-4 Held lin us jet been touched. Invenlivn Aw Sir Morel I Mackenzie obj.-cts to linye hospitals on the ground thnt the added virulence of germs from tlio bodies ol many patients is as dangerous as that o those Hiiuiiintiiig from dead Unites. A machine, xnid to be a marvel of lightness and ingenuity, has recently been built in Australia for experiments in flying through the air. It is propelled by an engine fed with compressed air. It has recently lieeu shown thnt the bad effocls of fog were felt most by tropical plants which, in a state of nat ure, were exposed to the sunlight. Plants which grew under the shade of forest tre'sdid not suffer so much. Soft, tender plants and aquatic vegetation seemed to come oil worst. Aluminium bronze of 10 per cent, it U claimed, has a breaking strength of 310, 000 pounds, as against 80,000 for stec : hence, when the time comes, which nmy not be far distant, for building bridges of aluminium or its alloy, we shall hare a structure about one-third the present weight aud much stronger, A Washington physician has a some what novel theory of dietetic "It is not the food which you assimilate which makes yon Cut," he said, "but that which you eat and fail to assimilate. Eat as ninny meals a day as you please, but eat little at a time, and avoid fluid, and you will reduce your weight " It was receutly maintained before the Talis Academy that shortness of sight was a defect incident to civilization or to an urtilicial condition of life. An ex amination of lh eyes of w ild animals shows that those captured after the ago of six or eight months remain long Mghted, wliilo those captured earlier or born in captivity are near sighted. At the last meeting of the Physical Society in England an electric lamp was exhihited which lighted itself when darkm n came on and extinguished it self when daylight or another strong light was brought into the field. The lamp is worked bv a selenium cull on the principle that the strength of the current varies with the inWuaity of light falling on the peleuium. KI)l C ATtONAL. There are 73 American colloei for women. There nre still 08 log schoolliouses re maining in Oregon. In the University of Maryland are 100 women dental students. No more colored students are to be ad mitted to the Maryland Law School. A year ago Harvard hud 2,079 stu dents, Columbia 1,02), and Yale 1,477. Only four of the 30 professors of Kansas University were lorn in Kansas. Boston's board of education has de cided to ubolisli flogging in the public Bchools. The Seventh Dav Adventistn will build a univiTsitv in tin- Northwest, either at Walla Walla or Spokane. The richest American ollei' is Colum bia, with an endowment of $0,000,000. Harvard comes second, with about 7,000.000. Women can siudy agriculture at Dart mouth the coming year. Thos; who have already learned to harrow up men's feelings will take to it nalur'illv. One of I ho mull licant educational tend 'iici' a of the day is the increu.sed interest in the study of history aud poli tics at Johns II ipkins University. The study of c misery as iutroduc -d into the schools of New York city three years ago, and iiow ahout 1.000 girls are learning how to boil egs, huke bread, make collue, broil steak, aud slum the frying pan. Corsets, tight shoes, and idl artificial and fake iileas of dresB are discoun tenanced at Mr. Moody's Worthtleld school, and girls are taught tho higher etclucs as well as practical resu u of physical culture. In the Now York public schools last year there were 18,643 pupils who studied Oeriiiiui under 43 teachers, an increase of 8,000 over the uiunWr of two years before. Therj are now S.8? 1 pupils who study French iu 14 public schools. A resolution has been adopted by the Alabama legislature directing the com mittee on education to inquire into tho propriety and expediency of admitting students of both sexes to the Slate insti tutions of learning, aud uluo as to the expediency of a women's anuux to the Agricultural and Mechanical Collogo ul Auburn. l'KKWNAL. Kossuth, at 88, is w riling his memoir? at Turin, Italy. Mary Auu Morse, of Natick, Mass., bequeaths $150,000 to the town for u hospital. Queen Victoria has five maids to assist at her toilet, viz: Three dressers aud two wardrobe wonieu. The ex-Emperor Dom Pedro is mak ing a Portuguese translation of Ihu "Arabian Nights. " Rumors are current that Justice La mar ia growing weary of the Supreme Court routine, owing to failing health. Ex-Attorney General Garland . has built up a large nnd lucrative practice in the Supreme Court at Washington, which Is now his home. Mr. Stanley, in his lectures, never speaks of "niggers" or "negroes." He. invariably classes the people as "white men" and "black men. " Madame Barrios, widow of the cele brated president of Vonezuela, is now staying in Washington. Her fortune is said, on good authority, to aggregate $6,000,01)0. Jay Gould goes to bed every night at 10 o'clock, does not drink tea or coffee, eats with great regularity, and takes admirable care of bis health, but the paw baa told upon hint, nevertheless. )iM ORGANS SEWING MACHINES. J. SALTZER'S I II 111 A IV I WW I With many years experience in buying and selling musical instruments and sewing machines I can guarantee to my customers the best in the markets Pianos and Organs purchased of me, can be relied upon. If anything get. out of order, it can easily be corrected, and a great deal of annoyance saved. 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