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MIRIAM:
Tie Eomance or Heatlerleiil Hal
By Makda L. Crocker.
Copt aio bt, 1888.
She would not banish him as if he had
committed ain, when it waa really no fault
of hia that failure waa written over agaiuat
the family name, and that the ledger waa
found without a balance sheet in the Fair
fax house! Arthur loved to think of it in
thia way and arrue himself into Deiievinr
a be dreamed.
Ithamer Fairfax waa no financier, and,
belnn oneof those untried individuals whose
wealth comes to tbem by inheritance, cost
ing them nothing: but the Oxeruon of enjoy
ing it, he never acquired any business qual
ifications. And it was owing to his dull
ness of mental vision that he invested
largely with certain unscrupulous com
panies and in the end being swindled com
pletely. Not so with the son, for, although he had
not been oblUred to toil, he had inherited
from his mother s family great business ca
pacity. Their name beiog connected with
the most successful mining enterprises in
the north and west of England gave Arthur
great confidence in himself, and he hoedto
accumulate wealth aud be wise enough to
remain on sound financial basis. But before
he aliould go abroad in the interest of the
enterprise he longed to visit Heatherleigh,
and still he dreaded it.
As It happened, opportunity favored him
sooner than he had dared to hope, and he
found himself within the spacious rooms of
the hall, where he had spent many happy
hours ; but the light of Heatherleh had
gone out, and every thina: was so changed.
All the brightness seemed to have fled with
the gentle spirit of Lady PercivaL
The heavy crape folds here and there re
minded him of her, while the shadowy.
-s-rjrii"-'X )
TOOtTHEa TUII WaXJttD.
cloaMVcnrtained apurtmeets seemed to say
in their lone:y nooks and corners: 'We
mount, we uioura '."
And. Miriam! Well, she wu so changed,
with her great grief weighing her down.
Together they walked out over the
grounds, Arthur and Miriam, as they used
of yore, but the heart of each was aadly
chauged hers with her sorrow,, and hia
with his fears.
How pie she was ; the deep mourning of
her gown rendered her more ghost-like, if
possible. Her dark, expressive eyes met
his wtth stran re yearning tenderness m
their depths he had never Been before.
Such an unconscious, preoccupied gaze, as
one might see when a broken heart looked
forth from its portals.
Miriam grew unusually confidential and
friendly aa they talked. Four giri, ..u ut
one to whom she could go with her burden
of sorrow, no wonder she clung to this
friend of hers thus.
And Arthur in tarn, before ho was aware
of what he was really aaying, had related
the whole story of his altered circumstances,
and their cruel hedging him outof society.
Here he stopped suddenly, for to go fur
ther and speak of what had been the dear
est dream of his life was something he
dared not do now, he thought.
Miriam had been listening attentively,
walking along with one dainty hand reat
iuar on hia arm, but he did not know that
her sore heart was only waiting to be com
forted by his love. Ueeiug a strange loo
of decision cross his handsome face, she
guessed iustiucuvely that the declaration
ne certainly had come to make waa reso
lutely deferred because of bis low finances.
"He thinks I will reject him because his
wealth has been swept sway," she mused.
Then looking down at a bordering of rare
mosses, now browning in the sun, she made
reply:
''I have heard of it," ahe said, "but such
things, although very much to be deplored,
ought never to make differences between
friends. 1 am sure it would not with me."
Arthur could have bowed in happy thank
fulness and kissed the pale, perfect face
for this speech aione, but his heart failed
him, and he dared not yet commit him
self. After a slight pause, as if she wished to
give him time to consider her words, ahe
continued in a low, weary tone: 'It is cer
tainly hard for you, Mr. Fairfax, but your
trouble is nothing compared to mine, at
last; nothing to mine," she repeated, al
most desperately, closing the trembling
hand over his arm and looking up with
swimming eye.
"Alas:' ahe burst out. vehemently, "what
is property without a friend f?
"A friend," he repeated after her, meet
ing the upward gaxe with the secret of his
soul shining iu hia clear, honest eyes. "I
would be more than "a friend' to you, Miri
am, if you would let me. But 1 am
afraid,1 and bis tones grew bitter, ,thatl
have no right to that oue blissful dream of
my life now; I presume it ought to go with
the heyday of fortune, with the glamour of
gold I Circumstances and social position
are all, it seems, there are to measure a
man and establish hia worth. I never
thought on this matter until I have been
measured and found not worthy of social
position- And I must remember iu"
You have thought of that, have your
ahe questioned almost, in a whisper, tight
ening her clasp on his arm, but not look
ing up.
He felt her Assuring hand; he heard the
anxious, impetuous voice, and took cour
age. He took the trembling, black-gloved
hand from his arm and held it in a worship
ful way for aome minuttsa. What should
he say I
This beautiful, sorrowing girl, so far re
moved from him socially, was all the world
to him; but did ahe realize that the sting of
poverty was keen, was more than she could
bear I
I havs thought of this a thousand
times," he answered, chokingly. "How
cam I help thinking; thinking until each
thought goads me to almost madness I I
have loved you, oh! Miriam, so long, and
you have grown as dear aa my soul to me.
Bui now it seems unpardonable that I
should indulge in the one blissful dream of
my life after my riches have taken wings.
"You need not have it so," cried the
deo!ate girl, clutching hia arm excitedly.
"You shall not go away and leave me in
this prison-house, now that I know you
love me. evert Arthur Fairfax, take
me witn you er 1 snail go maa ana do
something desperate. Here I have none to
speaii i as you know; none but the aenr
atits. And none to love me; no, not one.
j -1 "aai
71 -Z'.f-'
XI A FUXKA WMM TIB TUTH
EBENSI3URG. PA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 28.
anina ox inax, Arthur, think what a life I
wiu oe oougeu to lead at the hH now that
mother is dead."
"You have forgotten your father. Mir
iam." "So," she returned with an earnestness
Arthur had never seen her exhibit. "No, I
have not forgotten him, but he has ignored
me he hates me 1 Oh ! Arthur, vou surely
are aware of the strange fatality of the
house of the Fercivalsl And it is this
cruel destiny which makes us enemies,
father and me, Thia desperate antagonism
existing between us our bereavement only
serves to strengthen instead of nullify. Oh I
Arthur, you have no idea bow wretched I
am !'
He put his arms about her then and she
sobbed out her pent-up sorrow in a parox
ysm of grief on his breast. And thus, in
anguish, iu bitterness of soul aud in tears,
their troth was plighted.
Thus, too, the child of tears, the Inheritor
of a father's displeasure, cut the last filmy
thread of affection existing between her
proud, austere parent aud herself, and in
curred tne lasting hatred of the paternal
heart for her affianced husband.
But, with the arms of him whom she
loved with her whole soul about her, it was
doubtful whether she felt or cared in ref
erence to her fathers wishes. To get
away from the doomed doors aud loveless
shadows of the rooftree which held only
vague, uncertain destiny for her, and to be
with one who, she was certain, cared for
her, was now the whole wish of her sorrow
stricken heart. Failing in this, she should
"do something desperate," aa she had con
fessed to her lover.
CHAPTER YTII.
But Bir Rupert Percival raved when
Arthur Fairfax presented himself before
his august tribunal with such a request;
raved of hangers-on, of fortune hunters'
and, finally, of impudent poverty.
The lover atood calmly controlling hia
temper for the sake of her whom he loved.
It Hashed across his mind as he listened to
the old man's excited harangue that per
hais his great bereavement had affected
him more thun any one waa aware of. Iu
view of this suggestion of mind he brought
all his charity of soul to bear aguiust the
angry abuse heaped upon his undeserving
head by the husband of his dead friend and
father of his betrothed.
But when Sir Rupert's stinging words,
"impudent poverty," were flung insolently
in his face, it waa too much. He felt his
aristocratic blood mount in defense, and an '
angry retort was inevitable.
This last fling was a little more than his
generous nature could bear without retali
ation, aud he hissed, wuh flashing eves:
"Your bieasiug, if you please your curse
if you dare !"
"Aha! young man, you have blood; now,
if you had money but you haven't. Pov
erty aud pride go together; and impudent
maimers, too, for that matter. You can
not be a son of mine aud suugly ensconce
your lean self auioug the Percival bonds. I
advise you to s-ek a j lebt ian a liance and
be wise, at least- Go; I have done."
"I do not fear you lu the least. And, if
you were not so old, you should eat your
impudent words. As it is, I will go, but
not to sack a mesalliance; no, not by any
meatis. Your daughter will be my wife.
I swear it."
With this parting salute Arthur Fairfax
bowed himself out of the grand drawing-'
room at Heatherleigh ; out from the pres
ence of the Irate owner, with a flourish and
a bang, leaving the servant swing after
himU arr. p
Tmly. the culmination of the deep sor
rows about to fall was coming on with a
swift-winged and. terrible vengeance.
Miriam was waiting for Lira la the hall,
pale and excited.
Courage, dearest,'' he whispered, ten
derly, as she came forward with anxious
inquiry a tarn dU on every feature other
flue face. Your austere father has re
fused to even hear me, and has repulsed
me shamefully, but that need not will not
separate ns, 1 trust."
Por a- moment he held her" ra his arms,
while they listened silently, -breathlessly to
the footsteps of Sir Rupert aa he paced
hurriediy. angrily, back and forth on the
polished floor, nursing his wrath and mot
tering invectives on the head of the man
who had just quit his presence.
'Then h?saul no to you i" she questioned,
presently.
''Most emphatically, Miriam, and called
me 'impudent poverty beaidea." He winced
as the insulting interview waa men tally
rehearsed.
Disengaging herself from her lover's
arms. Miriam stood still, as if posing for
some dark tragedy. Her Sue eyes flashed
dangerously, and her fair face flushed and
paled alternately. Surely the traditional
hate had developed in the soul of this
oeautiful girl, the last of the Fercivals.
Arthur Fairfax watched her silently. He
leeded no further protestation that she
oved him, for the look on her changing
-tour aLEssiso ir vou please; tock cvksk
IT tov Pake!"
countenance plainly told him that her heart
was his for all time. He stooped and lussed
her fervently aa she looked up.
"Father has insulted you, Arthur, and I
hate him," and the tones expressed an en
mity thst even the words could not convey.
'Miriam, dearest, don't say that," said
Arthur, holding out hia hands entreating
ly, but she only clenched one jeweled hand
nervously and answered: "I must."
Then she turned away from him and
walked to the narrow-pan d hall windows
and looked out. She was trying to calm the
tumult in her proud soul Away out there,
across the pleasant stretch of park and
lawn, lay the dear dead mother. .There,
free from all this wear and tear of soul,
rested motiMt in the family vault at Oak
lawn. "Mother cared for Arthur, and thought
him good and true, and she would have been
willing, I feel assured. Yes; mother, you
are willing that I should go from hence,
with Arthur Fairfax ; I some way feel that
you are looking down from the far-away
home, and giving me pitying assurance
that this step is right." She whispered
this up arainst the diamond panea with
pale, trembling lipa, while a ware, of con
scious rignt swept away an hesitation and
fear from her youthful heart. Then, after
a moment's sileut prayer, she came back to
Arthur who stood waiting. ,-I will go with
you." she said, her pale face lighting up
with a bright, quiet radian oe, born of her
love for him.
"Ood bless you," he answered. "I have one
true heart in all the country side; more than
a friend my darling proves ; yet,Miriam. you
must not make too great sacrtfli-es for me;
you are giving up a beautiful, luxurious home
for a life which, by comparison, must neces
sarily savor tf poverty; you are leav
W'lt fee JS-
MAX! ME, AM AIA AM iUTU HUDB.
ing aa aged father. Perhaps, alter all, we
haa better wait until I retrieve my fortune,
in part, at least. Then I fancy Sir Rupert
would give us his blessing, dearest."
"Xo," came the answer, decisively. "I
am going with you, Arthur. The bird pre
feis the freedom of the forest, though
bought with a price, to the elegance and
ease of a gilded priaon-house. The hard
ships and storms of the former are nothing
when freedom and love and sunshine glorify
it. I am going with you. Arthur, so please
do not object any longer."
And he did not. He only drew her close
to his proud, happy heart and prossed a
fervent kiss on the determined little mouth
for answer.
What a wealth of love had been given
him ; and, for the time, he had forgotten
the wrathful vengeance of the father, in
the love of the beautiful daughter, until
the turning of the door-handle gave him a
start.
To avoid Sir Rupert they let them
selves out through a rear entrance and
stole across the park together until its
boundary was reached.
'Don't grieve, dearest, if your father
should say harsh things to you, and hard
things of me, on your return to the Hail,"
Arthur said, taking her hand kindly. "As
soon as I have arranged with my uncle as
to time of starting for the mines, I will
come for you."
"I shall be so glad," exclaimed Miriam,
with a smile of anticipation lighting up her
featui as. 'I will not grieve."
"You are brave and good," be said, proud
ly. "I shall not always be poor, and it will
Only be for a brief season, I trust, that
you will be obliged to feel the incon
veniences of a sojourn in the mining re
guns. God help nie! how I wish I were
the child of wealth for your sake, Miriam."
"Hush 1 Arthur, I am not dissatisfied ith
your fortune, and am only too glad to be
with you and to get away from Heather
leigh." And they both looked back instinctively
to the great frowning gables beyond the
shimmer of the rippling artificial lake, ho
with a rising of wrathful feeling, she with
a shudder. Then with a fond 'good-bye'' he
was gone, and the iron wickwt shut with a
spiteful click, and Miriam retraced her
steps, pondering this romantic day's doings
with a sense of utter loneliness creeping
aver her.
I am not in the wrong," she said, softly,
to the mild-eyed deer in the adjoining
chaso as they browsed and looked wonder
ing !y at her through the barbed inclosure.
"I can not help it if I am destined to in
cur my father's hatred," she nodded to the
great swans at play on the bosom of the
sheeny waur, "and I shall not try."
But the deer did not understand, and the
white, graceful birds sailed across to the
opposite shore unmindful of her presence.
They had no share in the wrath, the sor
rows oi the shadow-life of the Hall; theirs
was the sunny side of existence within its
environs, and all the cares and heart-aches
tell to the lot ot - Its more intelligent
owellers.
Back into the silent, gloom crept the
worse than orphaned girl, and eluding Sir
Rupert she gnoed to her apartments, leav
ing him m ignorance of her walk through
the park with e son of poverty he had or
dered from his moneyed doors.
Miriam had come into possession of the
legeud ; a little here and a little there bad
been revealed to her until she knew the
traditional curse by heart
There was a time when she had laughed
its import to scorn, but of late years she
beran to believe in the truth of iu asser
tion. A fortnight after parting from Arthur a
note was handed her br a servant. It was
from her lover, aud stated that he had per
fected his plana for leaving for the mines,
and that he would be at the entrance to the
park from the highway with a carriage for
her on the morrow. "In the afternoon,
dearest,' he had written, "1 wiil come;
there is no need of me asking you to be
punctual in meeting me at the iron wicket
near the chase at three o'clock, as I know
you will not fail."
Fail 1 Uo, not for worlds, yet a strange
yearning for the dark old Hall, a longing to
be reconciled to the gray haired father,
took possession of her. But more bitter
than the waters of Mara came the prompt
ings of pride and wounded filial affection.
It is utterly useless to grow morbid over
impossibilities. She must bow to the rod of
a heartless destiny, and go unpardoned and
unloved.
The morning dawned at last that closed
the long, nervous sennight of waiting.
Miriam woke from a terrible dream of
death, andain an agony of doubt and terror
she sprang from her couch. "It was but a
dream," she said, smiting faintly to her
scared reflection in the mirror, "but a
dream." Yet sha could not help but think
that even dreams were significant some
times. She dared not mention it to Peggy;
for that credulous creature would, with
her Irish projensities for the mysterious,
interpret a terrible revelation, no doubt.
And the yawning mines, the black pits, aud
the black-covered hearse of her night
vision would be all but dire realities by
the time Clarkson would be done with
tbem. She must not dwell on this; she
must prepare for her flight. Her face
assumed an ashen hue and her eves
dilated as she thought of this the last day
for her within the hall as its heiress.
Disinheritance would be her doom. That
was what had fallen to the others ; those
that had gone before her, and whose
portraits she had so often seen in tho
gallery.
Oh ! yes. She must needs pay a visit to
her kindred of the silent room, doubly her
kindred now, for the day had arrived at
last that another child of the Percivals was
ready to depart from the frowning shadows
of Heatherleigh. How many sad hearts
had gone from beneath its roof, with the
day of wrath treasured up against them.
"If it must be, it must," she said, bitterly,
as she walked the shadowy, silent length of
the low gallery alone an hour before her
departure, taking a last view of the re
versed faces, bung in line "like so many
gibbetted souls," she murmured. "I can
not help being that 'eldest child, neither
am I to blame for the curse of an ancestor
falling to hapless posterity. Ah 1 you dear,
proud one," she exclaimed, with a tremor
of anguish in her tones, as she turned the
last portrait of the doomed to the light.
"You were a youngest child, poor Allen!
and where are you to-day? Ahl my fair,
noble-browed relative, I fancy some one
will stand here some day and ask that
same question concerning me; perhaps not
so very far hence, either.
"Alas I alas ! that I am one of you !" she
exclaimed, wildly. "What a thing love is ;
to win us ail away from our anceatral balls
into so-called mesalliances, bringing down
thereby the wrath of our fathers and dis
inheritance. "Ahl good-bye no 1 farewell to you all;
I am doomed also, and must be going r'
She turned the face of the hapless Allan
to the wail again, and waving a sad adieu
with trembling hand, while tears of anguish
bedimmed her vision, she left the long,
lonely gallery, shutting the door gently as
if on the beloved dead instead of on so many
portraits only.
"This is my last visit to the gallery, she
whispered with prophetic lips, "the last time
I shall come."
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CHAPTER IX-
So ir happened that after having sought
her father in a last hope of reconciliation
and failed, insomuch that the ending proved
to be but a stormy interview and wrathful
parting, Miriam stole quiet iy out through
the para to meet her future husbaud.
The dull gray afternoon auemed sur
charged with iiu oppressive sueuce, and an
tvil bttiuvU lurking in the very air; or was
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it but a nervous fancy lending a miserable
influence!
Miriam put her hand on the wicket open
ing out toward the highway at a quarter to
three o'clock with a sigh, and found she
was a little early.
Her face had been white and drawn with
grief and pain, and her beautiful eyes had
in their depths such a wild, despairing look
when Peggy Clarkson met her in the hall
directly after the interview with Sir Ru
pert ; but now her face glowed with satis
faction, and the fine eyes had a pleasant
light as she stood bidding a silent adieu to
the dear, familiar grounds.
Ah! what an iron will upheld the fair
girl; truly she had the indomitable spirit
of the Percivals.
A sound of wheels coming slowly toward
the chase, and her heart throbbed wild
ly with expectation. She stepped outside
and crossed the common. "Yes, there he
comes," she said, and in a flutter of delight
she flew back to the place of meeting.
'Dear Arthur," she murmured, "I have
never known but two friends, mother and
you. She has been taken from me, and I
have only you left," and the pearly tears of
memory dropped on the trembling hand on
the gate. "Poor mother!"
But the carriage drew up and Arthur
Fairfax alighted, smiling happily to find
his beloved Miriam punctual. He kissed
her where the tear-stains showed plainly
on the fair cheek. "Why these tears, dear
est!" he asked, tenderly.
"I was thinking of of mother," she an
swered, and he understood, for his vision
was misty with emotion as he held her for
a moment in sileut caress.
Peggy Clarkson came up with numerous
bundles and faltering step This was to her
a sorrow greater than that she felt for the
dead icther.
But she bore up bravely for the sake of
the beautiful girl before her and whom she
loved as her own. Her ownl Ah! yes;
away across the channel, in the mother
country on the shores of Killarney, resting
peacefully, was Teddy. Dear little Teddy,
who closed his blue eyes to this world in his
third year, and was laid away forever,
with his flaxen curls clinging to his white
baby brow.
Poor Peggy I Many sorrowful days had
gone over the cycling arc for her, but this
one seemed to her the hardest to bear. She
wiped her tears away as she came up with
her bundles aud tried to appear cheerful.
All unconscious of treachery. Sir Rupert
was taking his accustomed afternoon nap,
and while his only child was leaviug her
home forever and caring but little for his
gray hairs, he was dozing the hours away in
his quiet apartments.
'Perhajis father may relent," ventured
Miriam, as her lover handed her into the
carriage.
'Oi doubt it, me darUnt," sobbed Peggy,
wiping the tears away from her dim old
eyes in order to get a last sight of Miriam.
"Oi doubt it, but may the blissid Vargia pro
tect ye, onyway."
"Do not feel so badly, I pray, Mrs. Clark
son," said Arthur, "if Sir Rupert never
forgives us. Surely you can trust Miriam
with me, and feel that she will be happy,
and that is more than she will be here."
"An you're livin roight, me mon, Oi kin
thrust the childer wid ye; an' far be it
from me to help ye on in yer run ain' away,
sir. if Oi couldn't."
"Thank you kindly," replied he, taking
her trumblin g hand in a last good-bye.
"Cheer up; you shall h.-ar of Miriam fre
quently. Have a care, Peggy," he added, in
a lower tone, "that Sir Rupert doesn tever
dream of your being mixed up in this leave
taking, or that you were aware of Miriam' a
going."
The old housekeeper answered him by an
affirmative nod, and turned away to hide
her tears.
With a final good-bye, away they whirled.
Miriam waved an affectionate adieu with
her handkerchief as the turn ot the road
shut them forever from the park and the
tearful Peggy at the wicket.
"Och boon 1 and me ould heart is broke
iutoirely," moaned she to the silent land
scape, while the clouds lifted and a ray of
sunshine shot athwart Its dullness.
The brambles and the heath bv tho way
side were tinged with a beautif ul flush of
autumnal scarlet, and leaves tinted with
the faintest gold went flying hither and
thither in the breeze. The sunshine which
struggled through the gray canopy and
cast a ray of promise across the day for
Feggy, lay glinting on tho sea for Mi riam
and her lover as they neared Hastings.
Through the lanes, past the hedges
where the blackberry briars formed a
dense barrier, with their browning leaves
and luscious clusters, all fauniliar
nooks and old friends, who seemed to say
"good-bye! good-bye!" past all these they
had come, and the downs, the sea and the
cliffs were uncommonly beautiful in the
setting light. The sea breezes blew up
across the country, refreshing and sweet,
the wind-mills on West Hill were whirhug
their great arms, and the old castle neur
by caught the western glow with a peace
ful contentment, which seetnedto say: "I
am glad to be left te picturesque ruin aud
forgetfulness."
The quaint little church at Fairlight was
the destination, but they had taken a cir
cuitous route to avoid trouoie, aid tne mas
ter of Heatherleigh determine on following
them.
Miriam's heart went out to the gray
haired, feeble father whom she never ex
pected to see again, and with whom she
never could be happy. She revolved the
possible scenes of wrath and, perhaps,
sorrowful regret that would transpire
when he should be made acquainted with
her night. Then her thoughts turned af
fectionately to Clarkson, who was so "de
tarmiut to help the childer away unbe
knownst," and her heart ached for the old
housekeeper when she should fall under
the Interrogative vengeance of her master.
And a great many other things connected
with the Hall floated before her mental
vision; some of them coming ltke reproach
ful reminders, while others were so dis
tasteful that she drew a sigh of relief to
find them really turning Like a bad chap
ter in the history of the past
She looked about her. Ah! would she
ever stand here again and look far away to
High Wickhaia and the sea! They were
passing gaunt, grim Minnus rock now, and
the sea lay a dark strip in the distance with
the faint sunset light showing purple-tinted
on the sky above.
For answer the breeze swept by with a
low, mournful music, and died away in the
dusks of eventide.
Arthur, partly divining Miriam's specula
tions by the pensive look on her sweet face,
drew her to his heart with a fond caress
saying: "Sever mind, dearest, I will try
hard to make aU this up to you. Be happy.
See! we have left the clouds behind us,"
and as in happy emphasis the last rays of
the setting sun gleamed brigbtly from be
neath a cloud and seemed the seal of
promise.
"Yours was a beautiful home," he con
tinued, as she looked up with a smile of
trust and confidence, "but you were not
happy perhaps never would have been
within its fateful doors."
"So," she answered. In a positive tone,
"that I think were impossible, but I shall be
happy with you."
Then the dreary weight left her soul and
a wave of happiness, as brightas the circlet
of western gold, swept aside all misgivings
and the joy of assurance beamed oa her
face.
Behind them were desolate Beech wood
Terrace, which might never more welcome
the oue, and ivy-crowned Heatherleigh,
which could not, would not ever again open
its doors to the other. Before them was the
quiet, unpretentious Wedding ceremony iu
the little chapel of AllSaiuta; near by also
Uncle Eurie Fu.rfax.who was to svrve a d-
postage per year in advance.
NUMBER 5.
lightful little dinner just after the wedding
aud just before their departure for their
future home in his pretty villa over there.
Waa that all that was before them I No,
not by a great deal. There lay a beautiful
sea of happy sailing for the two hoful
hearts, but beyond its narrowed limits
broke the billows of a dark and moaning
flood. Happy for them, as for us all, the fut
ure is vailed from our inquisitive hearts;
else we would go down into the depths of
despair sometimes ere the battle of lifo
should begin.
But with hope for the anchor and love at
the helm, their ship had spread sail for the
untried waters, which looked fair and se
rene in the offlug.
Ah ! here was the chapel at last, in the
dusk and silence, open to receive them.
Uncle Fairfax and a few friends waited
them in the dimly-lighted chancel.
Miriam paused a moment in the shadowy
porch for a little whispered prayer aud
then passed down the narrow aisle on the
arm of a friend to where Arthur and his
uncle awaited her. A soft, sweet light
shone from her dark eyes, and the marriage
service was responded to iu low, clear
tones, without hesitancy.
On the arm of her newly-made husband
Miriam left the chapel, but there were none
to strew flowers in her way. All was si
lent and gloomy without, and the dream of
the previous night recurred to the bi leas
she crossed the church-yard. The head
stones gleamed through the darkness like
mile-stones of the past, and Miriam Fairfax
hid l.jr face on hor husband's shoulder aud
shuddered. He noticed it and asked:
"What is it, dearest!"
"Nothing!" she answered, "only this is a
gloomy wedding night. Nature seems to
have put on mourning for us, Arthur."
"Why! why, little wife," he said; "I am
so happy I do not seem to remember
aught of shadows. As to the gloom, dear
est, I had not thought of it. Surely you do
not regret "
"Hush! Arthur, that were impossible,
when 1 love you so."
But the light and warmth and happy re
ception at Uncle Fairfax's superb home
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brought back the smiles to Miriam's face,
and Uncle Earle's blessing settled like a
holy benediction on their heads. For
gotten were all the shadows and gloom
of All Saints in the well wishes aiui God
speeds showered after them as they started
for their home near the mines.
Arthur had invested what money he had
in buying shares, under tho supervision of
his uncle, who had great experience in this
matter, and who owned much mining stock.
He was not goicg to the mines as a laborer,
but sent in the interests of the company;
he resolved to be faithful, and hoped to rise
to positions of more importance, and double
and treble his finances.
To be Co,Umud.
SHAVING THE BEARD.
The Practice 1 Alluda- I to In Many Tarte
of the old Te.tanient.
The earliest reference to shaving is
found in Genesis xii., 14, where we re ad
that Joseph, on being summoned before
the King, shaved himself. There aro
several directiona ad to 6having in Le
viticus, and the practice is alluded to in
many other parts of tho Holy Scriptures.
Esypt is the only country mentioned in
tho IUblo where shaving was made a
practice. In all othwr countries such an
act would have been duba.Mng in the
extreme. Herodotus mentions that the
Egyptians allowed tho lrd to prow
when in mourning. So particular were
they as to Bbaving at all other times,
that to neglect it was to set one's self
up a9 a target for reproach and ridicule.
When the Egyptian artists intended to
convey tho idea of a mean, low, sloven
ly fellow they always represented him
in full beard.
Unlike the Romans of a later age the
Egyptians did not confine the shaving
privilege to free citizens, but obliged
their slaves to shave, both beard and
head.
Tho priests were alout the only class
of citizens who habitually shaved the
head except tho slaves.
About 300 years It. C. it liocame the
custom of tho Romans to shave regular
ly. According to Pliny, Scipio Afri
eanus was tho first Roman to shave
daily. In Franco the shaving custom
was brought about by Louis XIII.
coming to the throne young and beard
less. The Anglo-Saxons wore their
beards until at the Conquest they wero
compelled to follow the example of the
Normans, who shaved. From the time
of F1 ward III. to that of Charles I.
beards were universally worn. In the
time of Charles 1 1, mustache and whisk
ers only were worn, and soon af U-r tho
reign of that monarch the shaving prac
tice became general. St- Louis Repub
lic THE WOMEN'S HUNT.
Females Put On Men C lothe. In Order
to llrive Away Evil Spirit.
A very curious custom is that called
tiro women's Lunt, which prevails among
some of tho aboriginal tribes of Chota
Nagpore, India. It is observed when
ever any calamity falls upon tho com
munity such as perhaps, a visitation
of cholera.
Tho women put on men's clothes, take
up arms and go a-hunting not in the
jungles, but in the nearest village east
of them. They chase pigs and fowls,
take as their own every thing they kill
and levy blackmail from tho beads of
the villages for tho purchase of liquor,
or else they allow themselves to le
bought off for a small sum of money and
a pig. Toward ev-ning the hunting
party retire to a stream, cook arid eat
their meal, drink their liquor and then
return home, having acquitted them
selves during tho day in a thoroughly
masculine and Ixdsterous manner.
Then tho village that has I icon visited
foes on a similar excursion to tho vii-
lai?o east of it. and so on to the i-atem
J border of tho district, lty this series of
. excursions it is supposed that the evil
spirit is safely conduct d out of tho dis
trict without ofleuding ua dignity.
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EATE.N BY SHARKS.
The rMartul Vau ot Aeronaut Van Tassel
at Honolulu.
Aeronaut Van Tassel, who la well
known all over tho United States as a
daring adventurer among the clouds, uet
a fi-arful death at Honolulu not lojig
ago by falling into the water from his
balloon, where he was eaten by sharks.
Tho occasion of Li last ascension was
the King's birthday. There was a gr&ud
celebration, and tho '.-stivitics were to
conclude with a parachute leap. Shortly
before three o'clock Van Tassel entered
his balloon alone after all tho necessary
preparations had Wn made. The con
ditions were favorable for hislanding on
land, and when the balloon shot upward
it was thought he would not land more
than alnlf mile from the starting point.
Tho balloon ascended steadily to tlir
height of one thousand fee t. wK-n it
was caught by a breez.. blowing seaward
and carried over tho water.
The aeronaut evidt-ntly saw he mutt
inevitably fall into the watT, and those
who were watching him with glasses
saw that ho was hurriedly making prep
arations for a descent. Suddenly the
parachute was let loose, and the bag of
gas shot, up higher into the air. Tho
parachute opened nicely, and tho man
gracefully descended into the water
about two miles olf shore.
That was the last seen of him." The
steame-r Zealandia, which brought the
news, was at tho time entering the har
bor. Two boats were immediately low
ered, and the men were son at the spot
where the man was last seen. 1 :ie-y
could find no trace ef him. The para
chute had sunk, owing to the weight of
its iron, and threes er four monster
sharks wero seen swimming near by.
They followed the boats back to tho
steamer.
Though the search was continued
afterward for several hours no trace was
found. Van Tassel was a daring sw iiri
mer, and under ordinary circumstances
could not have drowned before the bouts
reached him. The hunt for his body has
lx-en continued every day since? the ac
cident, but without avail. The men
who were in the boats say Van Tassel
must have leen seized by tho sharks al
most immediately after h stru.-k tho
water, for not more than eight minutes
elapsed from the time the boats were
lo wered until the spot was reached vhere
the daring man died.
Ne-ws of his death was not long iu
reaching shore, and immediately thou
sands who had seen hirn go up went to
the beach and wharves, jiikI small 1
without numtier were rowed eastward.
The first diligent search was not ended
until dark, and there is no hope what
ever of recovering the body now.
Van Tassel was well known in San
Francisco and throughout America.
There are few large cities in tl..j Tint
ed States in which he has not inu.ie as
censions, and few understand tho busi
ness so well us he, as he had U-n; ip
hundreds of times. Ho ma le niauy as
censions from Woodward's darden. Cen
tral l'arlc and tlio Ocean beach, and he
successfully performed parachute, jumps
in thiscityat tho beach a low moi.ths
ago. Onemeoccasiiin 'rf'foi-e the 1 :.p near
ly cost mm tils lire, tno paraciu :e not
opening and dosoending with ligctning
rapidity for many hundred feet befe're
spreading.
He was about forty years of age, anil
left a wife, but no children. Cor. X Y.
Sun.
LINCOLN'S ANCESTORS.
Fact. Leaniod from tlir Archive, of Berk..
County, l'a.
Among the inmates of the county
almshouse is John Lincoln, aged about,
seventy-five years. IIo is a desce ndant
of tho same family to which the dead
President belonged. He has been hv
for several years, and it is known that
in his young days he was wealthy. Lav
ing inhe-rited a considerable sum of
money from the family. IIo was. how
ever, a lover of fast horses and fox
hunting and the sport w as too much lor
him and he soon fell into evil wu;, s.
(Joing from bad to worse, he eventually
became a hostler at a country hotel.
Becoming old, ho was quickly incapaci
tated for work and was then sent to the
poor-houso. Researches among tho ar
chives of Hei'ks County show that t.10
Lincoln family came from Massachu
setts and se-ttled in Oley township, this
county, some timo prior to 17:;.". They
soem became prominent citizens in that,
and adjoining townships. The; grand
father of President Lincoln went from
here to Virginia and thence- to Kentucky,
according to authentic records. They
wero among the largest taxpayers a
century ago, and tho names of Mordccai,
John and Abraham aro common ones oa
the records and tax levies. Abraham
Lincoln, a grandunclo of the martyr
President, the records show, was a coun
ty commissioner in 1773. Ten years
later ho was ejected to the legislature
and servesd four years. Subsequently ho
was a justice of tho pe-aco and e-x-otlicio
ono of tho justices of tho quarter ses
sions court. Many ancient documents
can be found bearing his signature.
Reading (Pa.) Dispatch.
lHrkcns I.-ttT to Hi. Sons.
Hero is a letter from Dickens, ad
dressed to his younger sons on their
leaving home, 0110 for Cambridge, tho
other for Australia, in which thti fa
ther's heart and tho deeper side of his
nature reveal themselves: "You will
remember," he says to both, "that you
have? ne-ve-r at homo be-en wearied aliout
religious observances tr mere formali
ties. You will therefore understand
the better that 1 now most solemnly im
press upon you the truth and beauty of
tho Christian religion, as it comes from
Christ Himself, and the impossibility of
your going far wrong if you humbly but
he-artily respect it. Similarly I impress
upon you the habit of saying a Christian
prayer lnith night and morning. These
things have stood by me through my
life, and rememlH-r that I tried to ren
der the New Testament intedligiblo to
you and lovable to you w hen you were
me-re balx-s. And so (lod bless jou. Ever
your affectionato father." Literary
World.
That Awful Brother.
"I hope you wiU pardon my lato ar
rival," said the young man, as ho
seated himself in the easiest chair. "
forgot my umbrella und had ti ptand
in a stairway until the 6hower was
over."
"That's ono on you, Jennie,"
shouted Tommy, lu great g;eo. "I
told you 6a Of course he had tense
enough to go in when it rained."
And the aiionce, lide a soft hat, was
plainly felt Terr Haute Express.