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A DROWSY DAY.
The butterflies flit here and there '
About the tawny. dut-deep road.
Like flake of gold, in gmertnii glare.
Heat-ehrtTeled Tines, and leTes that ihoweu
Life ia each leaf ail breezy June.
Dronp languidly along the way:
And a lone bee, with muffled croon
fSeems moodily to eay :
"It ta a drowty, droway day.
No ailrer r!pple atlra the brook
Whose glay Bow lip noiselessly;
There seems no lito where eyes may look;
The clouds and ships becalmed at sea.
The song lie hushed tn panting throat
Of bird; grasshoppers tire of play;
The cricket seldom shrills its note.
And only then to say:
"It is a drowsy, drowsy day."
So noontide lapses onto ere.
The farm-house panes Cash ruby-clear;
And bats their secret places lcare.
And katy-d:ds a?a(n we bear.
The fire-flies gem the gathering shade;
The swallows cheep, tn circl na play;
And weary flowers, la field and glade.
Seem whispering to say:
It wa a drowsy, drowsy dy."
Ucorge Cooper, In N. Y. Independent
A CONSULTATION.
Tho Family Doctor and tho Fash
ion ablo Physician.
I am a family doctor, with a suffi
ciently arduous. If not over-lucrativo,
practice, chiefly among the lower mid
dle) cla3 whoso homes abound In &
southeastern suburb of modern Bab
ylon. Soma years ago, when I was
moro of a strug-gler than I happily
now am. I had by good fortune ob
tained a foothold as medical advisor
in tho household of a wealthy city
stockholder, who dwelt in a spacious
and luxurious mansion some throe
miles fhrther out on the Surrey hills
than tho extreme limits of my regular
round of vi-it-s; and the ftMs 1 received
for occasional calls to Mount Aureo
when Mr. Midas Contango had a touch
of hid chronic torraenter, the gout; or
his somewhat sentimental spouse
quite a grand damo. however, in her
own esteem was suffering tho pen
alties of systematic outrao on the
digestive fit-up of her portly person,
were so liboral in their extent as to
form in the aggregate no inconsidera
ble proportion of my modest income.
Alter my connection at Mount Aureo
had continued, to tho seeming satis
faction of all concerned, for some
two years, I began to receive more
frequent summonses thitherward. The
only daughter of the Contangos, Miss
Muriel, a fine, tall, gracefully-formed
damsel of seventeen, who might have
stood for a sculptor's model, 90 per
fect was her physique, had returned
home for her Christmas vacation from
her fashionablo Brighton boarding
school troubled with a slight cough.
In all respects save this t: itling laryn
geal affection, she enjoyed the excel
lent health of which both her parents
had had possession in their earlier
days, before the indulgences which
follow in wealth's wake had made
them profitable acquaintances of my
own. It was clear enough, too, to mo
that Miss Muriel Contango's throat
trouble was purely local; nevertheless.
It was causing serious alarm to the
master and mistress' of Mount Aureo,
who idolized their charming daughter.
The dream of the Cantango exiatenco
was to mate Miss Muriel to some scion
of the aristocracy, their reputation
for riches having obtained them entree
to society to which, by birth and
breeding, they were not entitled.
Mr. and Mrs. Midas Contango had
both begun to dread that Miss Muriel's
indisposition would culminate in bron
chitis or a deciino. The slightest cough,
the least bronchus, raised the grim and
terrible specter of phthisis, and tho
beautiful young lady was held to be in
imminent danger of an early grave.
1 had examined her chest with the
most anxious and minute care, but
c.-uld discover nothing to justify any
fear or even doubt of the correctness
of my diagnosis; jet, despite balsamic
and sedatives, exposure, however little.
In treacherous weather would cause
hoarseness and a transitory cough.
Indeed, these disagreeable symptoms
often manifested themselves without
any apparent cause, except, as I
judged, tho inordinate precautions
taken to avert them. The rooms at
Mount Aureo were always too hot;
Miss Muriel was overclothed. could
not stir out for a constitutional in the
garden without a respirato,r. or take a
drive unless hidden in an envelopment
of costly furs.
WTien I ventured to
hint lit thU. the invariable reply of the
Contangos was: "Ah! doctor, if we
did not take this care of Muriel, how
leng would she bo with us? the dear
child is to delicate." And nothing I
cou!d say would alter their opinion.
One day in the April succeeding,
when Miss Muriel had been coddled up
at heme for four months instead of
being sent to Brighton to continue her
studies, Mrs. Contango was more than
usually concerned about her daugh
ter's condition. The stockbroker and
his good lady had over night held an
anxious discussion. I had made my
now usual though quite unnecessary
daily visit to Mount Aureo, and Mrs.
Midas Contango was, in her patroniz
ing and yet solicitous manner, bowing
mo out. I bad almost reached the
door, hat in hand, when Mrs. Contan
go said, with some effort: "Doctor,
you know we have tho utmost confi
dence in you; we carry out your in
structions to the letter; but our dear
child"
Yes, madam; only you will persist
in treating her. If I may be pardoned
the simile, too much after the manner
of a tropical orchid, instead of regard
ing her as a beautiful plant of En
glish growth."
'Well, you may bo right, doctor;
but we are so very anxious, Mr. Con
tango and myself you see Muriel Is
our only child, our sole hope. Now
would you mind our asking the opinion
of a famous specialist as to the case?"
Nothing would be better or more
proper. Tray, whom would you like,
and whn may wo arrange, contingent
on his being able to conic, tohavo him
here""
Mrs. Midas Coctnngo mentioned tho
fvf."n of a very fashionable and cx
lretvo Lotu-on pfcyj-Uian with a con-
sultative practice confined almost en
tirely to the houses of those who had
been presented at court. He was cer
tainly not the man I should have
chosen, for the faculty rather smiled at
his pretensions to pre-eminent skill,
and his reputation was far moro that
of the drawing-room than professional.
However, 1. a humble if conscientious
practitioner, could not afford, had 1 so
desired, to decline to meet him. and I .
consented to facilitate arrangements
for an Interview at the great man's
convenience.
The fashionable physician drew up
in his imposing equipage at the door
of Mount Aureo half an hour behind
the time appointed, was introduced to
his patient, making tho while profuse
apologies for having been unavoidably
detained by a critical case that of the
Duke of Deer wood to whose house in
Mayfair he had been summoned by the
Duchess request to glvo his opinion as
to the treatment adopted by the at
tendant medical gentleman.
What!" said the society exquisite
for such the celebrity certainly was
what!" exclaimed he. In grandilo
quent tones, striking a theatrical atti
tude, "is it that fine young lady we are
to consult about? That superb girl, in
such perfect condition! Come, madam,
confess that you are only making fun
of us."
"Well." replied Mrs. Contango. Im
pressed, aa she was meant to be, by
the importance of the pompous per
sonage who was addressing her. I
admit appearances are in my daugh
ter's favor, and I hope that you may
be able to assure us that her condition
is not serious; but she is always losing
her voice always coughing and If
we were not to take care" A flood
of tears drowned the rest ot the sen
tence. Hut," airily remarked the famous
doctor, "my dear madam, why dis
tress yourself? All may be well. Let
me hear from this gentleman, your
family attendant, the symptoms as he
has interpreted them."
I gave the history of the case in a
few words.
"Well, well; there tcans to ho noth
ing serious; but we must examine the
chest with the utmost exactness to de
cide that,"
Pardon me," Interrupts mamma,
"but will you allow me to remain in
tho room?"
"Of course, madam," responded
the favorite of fortune. "You have
a sacred right to stop here. Pray, sit
down." And then he directed mo to
commence tho examination. I per
cussed with minute carefulness every
part of the thorax, and, as before,
could really find nothing abnormal.
"There; you perceive that I have
tested with exactness, and the reso
nance Is everywhere perfect." I
made tho remark as a mere matter of
form, for I had not failed to note that
the very superior West End practition
er had not condescended to pay the
slightest attention to my proceedings,
but was talking In low tones to Mrs.
Midas Contango all the ti
"Ah, well, now it is my turn." said
he, and. with the most delicately im
pressive care placed Miss Muriel
again in position; not. as I had done,
with the arms crossed on the chest,
hut stifily extended. In place of tell
ing her to count "thirteen to sixteen,"
he gave her a book and directed her to
read a dozen lines, and then to 6ing
the gamut, an octave and a half. The
mother was watching all this in ad
miration and devouring every detail.
"Ah! humph!" eaid the oracle; "it
seems there is something but exr
treraely difficult to differentiate. Let
us hear what percussion yields." And
his style was truly enchanting. Every
tap with the fingers was given with a
flourish and a graceful sweep worthy
of the most expert professor of sleight-of-hand
that ever entertained a Coun
tess' guests. There was a moment of
studied indecision, and then, with a
covert smile, turning to me, he said:
"There it is. Listen, my dear young
friend," as he boat his digital drum
now on this side, then on that, "Tick
tack, tick-tack. Hark! do you hear
it? There is a very appreciable dif
ference in resonance; when I say ap
preciable difference," I do not say an
enormous difference no but there it
Is!"
"For my own part, sir," I returned.
"I can not, with all deference, detect
the slightest difference."
Oh, very likely; but there, never
theless, it is. Now come, however;
though having ascertained tho truth
about the case my time is short, let
me convince you. I will turn my
back to the patient, and you 6hall
again percuss. I will tell which side
you are tapping upon by the variation
in the sound." He turned round, and
I percussed as equally as possible
the two sides of the thorax. "You
are on the left side." He was quite
right! In a moment, however, my
surprise was changed to admiration
of the fashionable physician's smart
audacity. His professional nay. I
yet hope I may more truthfully write
it unprofessional trick was obvious
enough, but performed with such per
fect aplomb that I was duped even
whilst taking part in it, He had
turned his back to the patient, to Mrs.
Midas Contango and myself, but ho
was looking into a large mirror above
the console which faced him!
What could 1 do? I was mute. The
tables had indeed been so completely
turned upon me that I had nothing to
say.
"Madam. I must not alarm you."
observed the triumphant specialist to
Mrs. Contango, who was in blissful
ignoranceof the deception; "these del
icate gradations in tone can only be
at once detected after immense prac
tice, only by those who examine a
stream of patients; but there is some
thing on tho left side of your daugh
ter's chest nothing serious so little,
indeed, that my young friend here has
been unable to find it; but tbero it is.
And now, the examination being com
plete, permit us to consult as to the
treatment, and then I must go, or I
shall incur the displeasure of a noble
but somewhat impatient patient of
mine."
When we were alone I again ex
pressed my incredulity, delicately
hinting at my observation of his ruse.
Tut, tut! my (.ear young friend."
said he. testily, "you have not yrt
grasped the situation. Now, here you
have a girl who coughs and has been
hoarse for a long time then how the
deuce can you get over the fact by
telling the parents that there is no
cause for it! Very likely there is
nothing the matter with her; but why
does she cough?"
"That was exactly what her mother
said to me."
"There you are; and mamma was
quite right; there must be some cause
for it. We may not be able to lay our
finger npon it, for we must examine
and understand our patients thor
oughly very often betore we can make
out their ailments, and then one finds
the mischief, because, you see, we are
expected to discover it,"
"But 6tippose there really Is noth
ing." .
"Nonsense! There always ia But
even if there were not, we are equally
bound to find it; for if you tell these
anxious people. 'I can discover noth
ing wrong, they will naturally put it
down to your ignorance, and send for
somebody else who has knowledge
enough of human nature or sufficient
tavoir jaire not to be embarrassed
with so small a difficulty. Now, do
you see my meaning?"
"Theoretically .there is nothing,
practically there is,"
"You may put it so. If so it please
you. But I assured you that there is
and there is your vigilance and
punctilious exactitude notwithstand
ing a little convenient tlifferenco in
resonance Tho mamma heard tho
remark, as I intended her to do; 6he
had not the remotest idea what it
meant why should she have? but
she is perfectly happy now that tho
cause of her darling's cough has been
discovered, because she thinks, the
cause being known, the cure will fol
low. The moro unintelligible the ex
planation, the more convinced is she
of its correctness. Ono may remedy,
you know, a difference in resonan
but how can you pretend to cure a per
son whom you persistently declare to
havo nothing the matter with her?"
I began to understand. "
"Now," continued this consummate
reader of society's intelligence, "I ad
mit that this Is not science "
'Nor what the schools and our
academical training teach us," haz
arded L
"Quite so, my dear fellow; but ac
cept for once the tuition of a man who
has not altogether failed in his pro
fession. What I have taken the
trouble to demonstrate to you gratis is
a good working rule smelling a
little, perhaps, so to speak, of tho
shop or of legal tape but if our
patrons are satisfied, our patients
made happy. our reputations ad
vanced, can wo wisely permit so triv
ial a matter as departure from slavish
adherence to what is miscalled prin
ciple to stand between us and success?"
"Well." admitted L a littlo sadly,
"perhaps you are right,"
"Of course I am. my dear young
friend. ( am a cynic, but I succeed.
I have been, for instance, beseeched
to meet you here to-day. And now for
treatment,"
A little delicate counter-irritation
was suggested and agreed on; then
tho fashionable physician stepped into
his elegant turn-out before the door of
Mount Aureo, amid the profuse thanks
of Mrs. Midas Contango, a hundred
guineas richer for his half-hour's
visit. As he shook hands with me, on
Vhrowing himself back among the
cushions of his brougham, the famous
xpert smilingly whispered: "You
are too modest, my ingenuous young
Triend; you have already the science
it medicine at your finger-ends; why
not acquire the art also? Adieuf
One rarely takes part in a consulta
tion without loarning something; but
I never obtained 6uch valuable practi
cal know lodge from any meeting with
a brother professional as I did in that
inglorious scene in the drawing-room
of Mount Aureo. in which I was so
sadly let down, for a time at least, in
the estimation of Mrs. Midas and Miss
Muriel Contango.
Miss Muriel subsequently recovered
her temporarily defective resonance
sufficiently to gladden tho hearts of
her parents by making a marriage at
their cost into a noble house. I still
have tho pleasure of ranking her
among my patients, but for no organic
or other serious ailment; and I have
it on excellent authority that her hus
band. Viscount Barrenlands. would be
extremely glad at times, when he bas
been inordinately extravagant with,
his unearned increment, if Lady
Muriel's vigor of voice and physique
were both a littlo less robust Cham
bers Journal.
No Musical Sense in Horses.
An interesting report regarding the
development of the musical sense in
horses has just been made by a com
mittee of German zoologists and bot
anists. The report says: "Tho in
vestigations as to tho musical sense of
horses have shown that that sense is
very poorly developed in these ani
mals. It bas been proved beyond
doubt that horses have no notion what
ever of keeping time to music and that
at circuses they do not dance accord
ing to the tune, but that the musicians
have to keep time according to the
steps of the animals. Other investi
gations show that horses do not un
derstand military trumpet signals. It
is only the 1 ider or tho animal's in
stinct of imitation which induces
horses to make the moves required by
the signal, but no horse without a
rider, however carefully trained, takes
the slightest notice of a trumpet sig
nal and the same observation has been
made on a large number of cavalry
horses without riders." Science.
The bnakes a man sees when ho is
wrestling with a sovcro attack of de
lirium tremens arc not "water" tcako-s.
This is reliable. Norrislowu liwt'uld.
WOMAN'S WORK.
With many a turn my steps I take,
la many a crook and crevice;
And many a biscuit must I bake
For Maud and ixie and Lev a.
I sweep, I dust, I cook, I rise
Cp la the morning early;
I wash tbe breakfast dishes, and
I churn, then dresa the baby.
I make the dui,t, and dry leaves fly
Against my new broom fairly;
I chatter, chatter as I go,
Because I rest ao rarely;
"For men may come and men may go.
But I (to on forever, ever,
I go on forever.
I move about and In and out, '
. While here tho chickens feedln;.
And here and there at hawk to shout.
But little they are heeding.
I walk, I run, I skip. I hop
From one thing to another;
I stop to dress a bruise or cut.
For the children run to mother.
Then to the garden I must go
To see what work is needed.
For plants must be set out, yon know.
And then they must be weeded.
For men can' t stop, for they must go.
But we work on forever, ever,
We work on forever.
I clear the tray and put to rights"
Tbe dining-room and kitchen;
I then go la my room to sew, t
And try and do some stitching.
I wonder If there is on earth
No respite from our labors.
No time to go and Koslp some
With pleasant, friendly neighbors?
Betore I end th a piece of work
And try to thin': a little,
I throw It down and run and make
A Bre and place the kettle.
For men mutt eat and go, you know.
But women can k-o never.
Yes, men will come and men will go.
Hut we work on forever, ever.
We work oa forever.
Mrs. T. O. Holt, In The Freeman.
MISS NAOMI NUTTING.
She Makes a Success of Minding'
Her Own Business.
"Me and Squire Bagshot, we're
goin' into partnership together," said
Miss Naomi Nutting.
"Eh? What?" cried tho Widow
Scarsby, hastily adjusting her ear
trumpet, "You a-thinkin' o' gettin'
married at this time o day?"
Miss Naomi gave a sniff of exceed
ing great derision.
Who's talkin' o' gettin' married?"
said she. "Not L Nor. I guess, the
squire. We're outen our first child
hood, and we ain't got to our second,
I calculate. Not yet."
The Widow Scarsby looked disap
pointed. "Then," said she, "what do you
mean?"
"Why," explained Miss Naomi,
the squire he's leased the old farm.
I'd got to let it to somebody. What
between the taxes and tho interest
and the repairs and all. it was too
much for a woman to look after. But
tho cows and the poultry and all is to
remain, and I'm to run the dairy and
the egg business. Ten per cent, com
mission I'm to havo. and tho use of
the old house. And I've sot out a lot
of now strawberry roots, and some of
the offshoots of Hester Brine's sweet
smellin English violets, and I'm go
in to earn my own livin", if I bo a
woman."
"Vi-lets!" repeated Mrs. Scarsby,
"and strawberries! John hain't no
faith in that sort of thing."
"It don't matter to me whether ho
has or not," curtly observed Miss
Nutting.
"A woman uever yet mado farmin'
pay."
-Anyhow," said Miss Nutting. "I
mean to have a try at it. My ex
penses won't be much, that's one
comfort,"
"Bettor give up the notion," said
Mrs. Scarsby, slowly shaking her
head.
Not if I know it," said Naomi.
"I'm pretty certain I ean make good
butter, and I always took natural to
hens and chickens. And I know I can
market them strawberries at tho sum
mer hotels on Cherry brook, and En
glish violets bring fifty cents a dozen
at tho New York . florists in January
and February."
"You're runnin' a great risk!"
sighed Mrs. Scarsby, in genuine Job's
comforter accents.
"There's alwaj the poor-house left
if I don't succeed," sarcastically re
marked Naomi.
And Mrs. Scarsby went away to tell
her news throughout the whole neigh
borhood. "Upon my word." said Mrs. Dr.
Plumb, "the woman has pluck! But
of course she won't succeed; women
never do."
"I nover was so flat in all my life,"
said Mrs. Scarsby, "as when I heard
Naomi say she was goin' into partner
ship with Squire Bagshot. I s' posed,
of course, she was goin to marry
him."
"Well, I don't know why slio
shouldn't," said Mrs. Plumb. "The
squire ain't young, but he's a likely
man enough."
"He marry Naomi Nutting!" said
Mrs. Scarsby. "A poverty-stricken
old maid, with one foot in tho poor
house!" "Fools used to say your John was
partial to her," shrewdly observed
Mrs. Plumb.
"That's all a mistake," said Mrs.
Scarsby.
And 6he took herself and her ear
trumpet off to the next house, while
Elite Price, Mrs. Plumb's bound girl,
who had been listening through the
dumb-waiter, breathlessly scampered
to the grocery for the ounce of pow
dered cinnamon, which she had been
told half an hour ago to bring, and
there Informed Mrs. Peppersauce as a
profound seeret that Miss Naomi Nut
ting and Squire Bagshot were about to
be married.
"I don't believe it," said Mrs. Tcp
persauee. 'I heard it with my own ears!" said
Ellie. glowing all over with the impor
tance of her news. -
"An old maid like that!" said Mrs.
Peppersauce, scornfully.
She ain't thirty yet," said Ellie.
I heard missis tell Mrs- Scarsby so."
Ill news, they say, spreads fast; to
does good news. Which of these
heads Sitiiro Bagshot' a engagement
caiuo under is hard to fcpocity, but
certain it is that tho morsel of osaip
spread like wildfire through Cherry
village.
"Me engaged to Naomi Nutting,"
said the squire. "Well, it's tho first
I've heerd of it,"
"Naomi Nutting going to marry
that old widower!" said John Scarsby.
"What nonsense! You told me your
self, mother, that she denied it up and
down."
"Yes," said Mrs. Scarsby, a little
doubtfully, "but that's what they al
ways do. It would be a great thing for
Naomi Nutting."
"I'll never believe it," said John.
The old love affair between him sr.d
Naomi Nutting was dead and gone
long ago. but something in the preva
lent atmosphere seemed to fan tho
faint spark of its ashes into new life.
John Scarsby remembered how black
and bright her eyes once were, and
what a trim little figure she had
While the squire, meditating on the
perfect, dazzling cleanliness of Naomi's
dairy, and the efficiency with which
she had set out tho violet roots and
the straw berry creepers, said to him
seU: "I don't know but that I might do
worse. To be sure, she's a poor, soli
tary, friendless creetur. without any
property, except that old mortgage
ridden farm. But I can't got no liirJ
girl short of eleven dollars n. month,
and it is sort o' lor.eoino sett in' on
tho stoop of evenin's all alone. She's
been brought up economical, too, and
won't want to spend any more money
than she can help. That's a great
thing,"
And the squire brushed his lank
hair more carefully than ever over the
glossy dome of his bald cranium, and
considered seriously tho propriety of
dyinsr his grizzy be.-ird.
"Mother," iiiidJohn Scarsby, that
day. "it isn't right for yon to" do nil
the housework by yourself. It's too
much for you."
"La, John. I do hope you ain't
thinkin of hirin' a help!" exclaimed
Mrs. Scarsby, in dismay. "Of ail tho
shiftless, idle, wasteful things"
"We've got to do something, moth
er," said John. "I can't let you work
yourself out,"
It was all true. John Scarsby had
said the samo thing time and u.iin to
his mother; but he said it now with
genuine earnestness, looking at her
as he did 60, and secretly wondering
1 how he should break to her the tid
'l ings of an impending daughter-in-law.
rttiu xaoiiii iuuing, 01 ail persons,
the woman whom Mrs. Senr.sby al
ways designated as 'that poor forlorn
maid."'
John was a bravo man, but. there
are more kinds of courage than one. j
Mrs. Scarsby cried over tbe butter- J
beans she was cutting up for dinner.
"I won't have a help in. the house,"
thought she. "If John really w ants
a woman around, why can't he get
married? And I don't know no smart
er girl than Naomi Nutting. I've a
great mind to go over and seo if she
can't break that ero contract with
Squire Bagshot- I wish 1 dared to
speak right out to John about it. He
used to like Naomi, but men are
queer."
Naomi had just come in from weed
ing her late-onion patch tho next even
ing, when the squire arrived, all 111
his best
"Gocd evening, squire," said Miss
Nutting. ";it down till I light tho
lamp."
Don't light it." said the sqt.ire.
sheepishly. 'I'm partial to the twi
lihu" "I ain't," said NaomL "I mostly
like to seo what l'iu doing. You've
come about business. I suppose?"
Ahem yes," admitted the squire.
Although he had told himself all day
long that Naomi Nutting wo-.ilii
certainly jump at his ofler, he couhl
not subdue a certain nervousness at
the last moment. "Very important
busicesf,!"'
lat-tat-tat-t-t-t! came a knock on
the panels of the lilac-shaped front
door.
John Scarsby. arriving cloo on tho
heels of the squire, had perceived the
necessity for immediate action.
lie was flushed, nml breathed hard
with rapid walking, but he had
screwed his courage up.
"Naomi." said he. "can I speak to
you for ono minute?''
Naomi, holding the lamp in ouo
hand, stared hard at him.
"I'm engaired just now," said she.
"Engaged?"
"Squiro Bagshot is here."
"I won't keep you long." said
John. "I only want one word."
"Any thing happened?" questioned
Naomi.
"No, but " John drew a quick
breath of vexation and embarrass
ment. "Will you hear lus out,
Naomi?'1
Tho squire, in the front room,
cleared his throiit loudly ns Naomi
conducted John into tho back kitchen.
"Now. then." said the. "What is
it?"
Did ever lover woo maiden before
untler such discouragingcircumstauces
as these?
John fixed his eyes on tho copper
boiler, and blurted out his tender
confession at once.
It v.-as an awkward proceeding, but
it was inevitable.
"Naomi.'" said he, "I want a wife.
Will you have me?"
"No, thankee, John," said Miss
Nuttiug.
John stared at .her, and uttered a
gasp.
"What did you sav?" stammered he
"I said no!"
"I'm too late, am 1?" he utterc.l.
despairingly.
"Well, yes, you are."
"Hadn't you belter think it ove ?"
"Weil, it wouldn't bo 110 use."
Jehu went away completely d'.-ti-founded,
and Naomi went back to the
squire.
"What business could that joung
mnn possible havo with you, Naomi?''
asked the squire, a little fretfully.
4. I'. v. as i'livatc," said Naouii, com
posedly.
"Naomi." said Mr. Bagshot, plung
ing headlong into the subject, "I'm
thinking of getting married.""' v
"Arc your" said Naomi, somewhat
amazed.
Tin tired of livin' solitary and
alone, and I don't know of nobody 1
like Wtter than you," added Squiro
Bagshot.
"Much obliged to you. Pin suro,"
said Naomi.
"Do you think you could learn to
love me?'' said the squire, his hard
features galvanized into unwonted'
tenderness.
"1 duimo whether 1 could or not,"
said Naomi. "lut 1 don't mean to try."
"Eh?" jerked out tho squire.
"I'm engaged already," explained
NaomL
'To that shiftless young Scnr-bv?''
"Ho ain't particularly shiftievs a-. I
know of," ob.-eived Naoini. "But it
ain't to him. us it happon?."
"If you're 1'CL.lly engaged," said tho
squire, of whoso character delicacy
was by no merins a prominent lrr.it,
"uhnt c u earth aro you rnr.ni::g the
dairy business for?"
"To earn money, to be sure," said
Naomi. "I'm to marry a rich :nan,
and I don't eho j-o to go to hi;u empty
handed, or without a decent wardrobe,
such as other women have."
"Who is it?" still further dcmcnd'v.l
the sijuire.
"Well, I don't mind telling you.
since you ask ine up and down," said
N:ie;!.i. "Him that owns the new
Mountain iron woi ks, Joseph Alden."
The squire made a little gurgling
sound, as if ho were ineffectually
trying to swallow somcthir.r. Joseph
AMen, tho handsome, niiddle-aed
Engli-hmnn, tho best match in
Cherry County, engaged to Naomi
Nutting, whom he Squire Baushot
had mentally characterized as "a
poor, solitary, friendlefs creetur!"
"Well," said he, heavily rising, "I
s'pose I'd better go."
"I don't know as you'll gain p.ny
thing by staying," Naomi coolly re
marked. Tho sti.iro was tiri.eu io hire a
stot t Vermont wt.irnn ul e'evn dol-
lars
mc th.
Mrs. Scai'sbv sti.i con
tinued to do her ow n ho eiuntK, 1!)
spite of ih. rcnion-ti ant t s oT l ei- .-on
John. Naomi Nuttitig does as sho
did befoi c. minds her ow:i business.
And tin." violet and sir:-. wlwirv busi
ness ha- proved a s.iece-s, and thrt
wedding-day is fixed. - - f:..i;uiiav
Night
- 1 s e
TH Z LITTLE SiS I Cr!.
soung Per'riM Wito .In- m .rtfii Tii;l to
li.rt iu- cil.lo i nii:.: t..li.irt.
Little si.-t.-rs : I t ; ;'L..t i'i .1 tj tho
young la.iy '.v illi her iirst be;...
They h; ve sueli a deadly habit of
tclliiHT jusl the secrets that their big
sister wouldn't have known for tho
world, and telling them nt jiut tile
Wdi'.-t t:;:u.' t hey en- id t. i-wi 1 ; : -lect.
Ami, ..l::t is m... . they t-e.-lt to take
a naih'ioi; pica -ure in te! lium.
If Mary June has kept her hair
rolled up for two days, io lo well
frizzed when Aucrm-tus culls, her liltle
sister wi:i note the procoedirg. and just
as Mary Jane has assured her admir
ing swain that her hair curls natural
ly, siud that it i.- almost impo sihle to
make it stay any where, up will pop
the small si-ter, and t.-U the whole
story of the curl-papers, sun: in till
P'.-ur,abulty she will add the informa
tion that Mary Jane put red Jul; on
her checks to make Per "pr'tty."
Littlo sl-i- rs are alwn.vs cropping
out at the wrong time." 'i h -y never
wait to ) t bed the nighls wii.-n Ihe
big si-tor's beau in expect -.1, anJ no
amount of coaling and riinil;; c in cou
vinee tii in that tin y are si .-cpy.
They have e s forev-ry thing and
ears that would detect the slightest
w hisper. and next day, at Ihe cUnner
tabie. the i.ig sii-ter will mort i ;leu
to death aial the w ho!- fncily will bo
thrown into convulsions hy trie piping
announcement from the siatil! si..t r:
"(1 us Jones bit our Mary Jane last
night, riiit into tho nioir.li! I seen
him! And sho bit him back!''
Little sisters always w ar I to know
all tho whys and the wheref !:. Ono
of them is Kk-;ly ti climb on tho km-o
of au aspiring young gentleman suit
or and n.-k him why he doesn't h.' vet
more l.aii s in his mustache; the would
like to u-k him if he doesn't f -el bad
because his no-o is long, and it. wouM
delight her 11 -ar l)lt!.j hear; ;,:.;-::;-t
to him the l.ict that Mary Brown and
Sister Jane both said he was 100 long
legged for any thing but a greyhound.
Small si.-U-i's will tell ihe family se
crets with mo.-t delightful candor, and
while the young gentleman caller is
waiting for the young lady of tho
family to give the final to.icliet to her
toilet before coming down the small
sister will confidentially make him
acquainted with the fact that "papa
swears at mamma right along," und
that "wo have old hen for dinner and
call it chicken pie." and that "Sister
Jane wauls t.i get imuTied awfully It.
some rich young fool who will keep
her without work."
Littlo sisttvs will put molasses candy
in the chair and see you sit down on
it without a. word of warning; they
will wipe thvir bread ami butter hands
on your pantaloons; they will cradle
their kittens in your si.x--do.lar hat
they will pin you and your inamorata
to the chairs; they will put burr in
your hair; Ihey will sift sawdust from
tho cracked ltodies of their dolls down
tho back of your neck; and they will
make faces at you, and yell like littlo
demons if you attempt to d"lond your
self. Therefore, wo say to jtvi: If pos
sible, avoid going courting in families
where there are little sisle-M unless
you are so d'-eply in hive a.-i t be jnr
feclly i lid liferent and re; kloss ns to
otisequ. Jieos. X. i'. Weekl ,
Wo should be mindful that no
hour of life returns to le lived over
better; therefore each hour thould bo
so filled as to stand the t-.stof eternity.
Jod has a, right to look for g-ood first
j from tho moral vineyard lie as 1 ut us
into :iu opportunity is Jits command
i to impiove it