The lame and rel'&Me circulation ei tne '"aw tii4 r okam ccii.nenls It to Us tavoraMe rt st.ieration of ail vertitcr. w urc fa Tor will b.n serled at lbs follow trip low rates : 1 locti, time , M 1 months...... a 1 " fl montiit (.50 1 " 1 year on " 6 months e 00 I " 1 year. lu.00 I " o months. .0a S 1 year lT.iiq W eol'n monthn ........ 11.0r ' 8 months. 2-'. o 1 year ia.Oa S Da otvtaiaVM . 40. 0q 1 year T6 o linalneri Items, first Insertion lOe. per Una ; each tabseqnent insertion Ae. per line. Administrator s and txece tor's tit JjcS..... 150 Auditor's Notices S O0 Stray and similar Notices.... 1 60 3F Ri iol'iiiOM or procrefllna of any corporation or tocietv, t4 communicntions dtnantd I emit illrn turn to a. p wetter of itmittd or individual infei . mutt 04 mm joi at advertisement. Job I BisTixe of all kinds neatly and eiredf ously excreted at lowest prtcc.i . l-r'tyoo lor? l t.llhe.l Weekly at KUKNSIJI'IUl. ... ri;NN'.. 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"Her health Is not tbe best, but I should suppose she might be able to come within a. year or ao. If she only could get over her beinjf banished from LieaiherliMga 1 believe she would be sure to come." - - 'Oh I whin yo po home pload with her forme; tell her tht IVpry'e heart is Just bhreakin to behold the soicht or her swale self once more. But what was it, me Leddy, that Miriam sent to puirold Peggy fort Yon have a nusae ftr me." Pepgy, she watus ber portrait from the gallery." . ' . She made no reply lor some minutes anu 1 was brpinninp to thick sha meant to deny me after al But presently she turned to ward me a face I never ahull lorget. If the young mi.thress muncs to iver room b:ick, why wud she be aftbur havm the porthnut!" queried she, bruting up. "An why couldn't ahe wait until she coonrs herae-lf? &eems at range lotke to me old head." " Peggy had struck the chord vibratlna; a false note, and ahe half distrusted me. True enough, if she intended to come back to Ueat herieih why send me for the pii-t-ure. TheoU housekeeper rocked buck and Mi I 1 1 7-' -jx "ISO WHTCOCXDM'TSBB WAIT I' SAID PEOOT. forth nervously, reatless! r, and kept watch ing me out of the corners of those blue cyea covertly. . I must make a raodom sue if nothing more rr IVgfT Clark? a would soon begin to bolleve that 1 was an im postor. 1 ' - ". Peggy," said I, '"it may be that the grief of losing her husbuiul and In tie innocent son will kill her before she run return. I believe that it is grieving that is killing her acyway, iasvcj of disease. SI.e has the portruit of Arthur and tne baby, but Lots not her own, and doubtless she desires to have them all together. I do nut know whether ahe thinks she will ever be able to return or not. I dreaded always to mention it, aad she might sot want auo to either; she is so sad, Peggy, so sad." Och boon !" wailed Piggy, "an it'e dying she'll be in that far-away counthry, au' it's me that'll aiver act eyes on me dariiut ony more, ony morel' "As long as there is life there is hope, Clarkson," I rentured, clicerfully. f 'Jh, yis; but whin there's not much of aythur to depind on Its thernble." "Well, Peggy," I aaid.hopefuny, "when I go home I shall tell her just how you feel; how happy you would be to welcome her back to ileatnerleigh, and I rerily be.ieve be' 11 come, for she remembers bow you used to love her." "Arrahl and thin ye can hev the por thrait, ma'am; yis, me Leddy, ye can take the swabe, proud face from the jrallery, and Carry mc old weary heart's blissing with it to Miriam." ; " ' I presume I never Celt ao fully relieved la my life; so gUd that I might fulfill my promise made on the spur of the moment, and which I had dreaded to carry out ever sirce I set foot on English soil. But that was gotten along with- I went over to Peggy ana gissea ner withered cheek. "Miriam will be ao glad, so thank ful to you, I know. Her pale face will . brighten, I am sure, and you will be glau, too, that you have given her happiness, if only for a day." An' it's roight ye are, ma'am; It's roight ye are. Peggy Clarkson wouldn't be mane enuff to wrong the awate lady on the foot athool, not her. But I do bclave the mas thur's spirit will be therrible angry if that porthrait laves the Hall," she added, drop ping her voice to a whisper and making the ciin of the cross "on the snowy folds of her Vandyke. Pooh ! I don't believe that Sir Rupert can know any ithing of it," I said, lightly. An ye river moinde, ma'am, whin he cooms in the midnoight to do pi nance, and goes E walkin an' a walkin' ov the great house, he'll miss the porthruit, or Peggy is a fool." "Do you really believe that hi spirit la here everf" I asked, earnestly, looking straight into those great, blue eyes. MI know it, ma'am," she replied with un mistakable emphasis; and I gave in. "Well, I suppose it is," I said. Wontyou go through the ball with me, Peggy, some night and let me hear htm walk? I'd very much like to hear him; indeed, I would." She looked at me in wild-eyed silence. CHAPTER XXL "An' it's moighty strange what koinde ov folks ye Americana are, ony way. Oi reckon as ye' re so rncf.pindint the other aoide the wather that ye" re sot afraid o' the spirits, or the dead, or the divil his selfr" "You are) rigrht in that, Peggy ; we are sot standing in particular fear of any one but God." "As' Oi rather gueea eorne ov 'em don t athand la qnakia fear 0 Him, sot by an overly anight." I could not help smiling at the earneet ncsaof the old housekeeper And the near neaaof ber shrewd guesa to tbe facta of tfceca. ButlaAul: "Weil, will you go with, no, Pe-fgy, to find S:r Rupert in the central hall tome niL.t before I go hornet" . And ahe promised me she would. . It happened on a rather sullen, . gusty sight that Pegy and I chose to investigate the ghost story, or rather, I chose, for' Clara-son did not choose, save only for the sake ( her promise. With the recital of Sir Rupert's roaming about the central hail doing penance ring ing in my ears and burning in tny soul I waited, iu company with Peggy aud Audi, In the deep silence for the spirit to "wa.k." Clarkson, all in a shiver of fright and ex citement, declared that I had taken "the very koinde ov a boigkit on wbacbi the spirit wud be moat loikely to give as a fair show." t I drew my wraps about me' to the dense shadows, and Clarkson clung to me like a frightened child as we entered the central hail, and our footstep echoed hollow and strangely as we proceeded. Had it not been for my overruling desire of experiencing a genuine spirit visit and my morbid love of adventure with, the mys terious, I should have glTen up the project at the outset because of the old touaakeep er'a increasing timidity. But I could not bring myself to say: "Let us give it up," and so we proceeded. 1 a X ! A FXKKhtajr WHOM TBI TUTH EBENSBURG. PA . FRIDAY. APRIL II. 1S90. So erouchit.ir low on the lower steps of the great oaken staircase we wared pa- I tientlytor some demonstration of SirRu- j pert. The hail lamps, which had not been j lighted sine the dead master lay, ao cold and rigid. In the adjoining room, were light- I ed, and, burning low, cast more 01 gioom than cheerfulness around us. The witch ing hour approached; the shadowe hang heavily folded In the corners, and seemed to cling to tbe moldering balustrade like dense curtains of crape. Peggy was grow ing uneasy, and, too nervous to converse, sat shivering on the edge of the steps, wbitc f aoed and alert. .'-. t Anctl leaned against the polished railing and lteucd with the air of a niartyr. . Doubtless thev were both martyrs to a foolish freak, and I, relenting, was en the point of saj mg "quits," when something arrested my attention. I was conscious of a stealthy movement In the corridor above. aad it seemed to me I ett, rather than -hoard, , the manifestation, if such an expression la j allowable. Peggy held her breatn, and, put- I ting- her finger oa ber lip, signinea : -. , lenee ; listen t" A sound as of some one walking wearily about with muffled step came to our ears at Intervals, and 1 fancied Sir Rupert was resting between marches. This continued for some time. Back and forth through the corridor went the weary, painful march of unseen feet, with the momenta of rest sandwiched in at regular intervals, "A very methodical ghost," I said to Peggy. "Hush r she wnispered, and 1 shut up like a clam. Then a weary sigh floated down the long staircase, and I felt rather uncomfortable - to think the plot was thickening so fast in favor of Pir Rupert. Surely my theory was in danger already of being exploded by the peraiatent spirit. But while, we listened the manifestations grew fainter and fainter, as if disgusted with the fruitless tramp, tramp, and tae sound of footsteps had Aied out aluether when tbe soft, indistinct treud as ot some one in their stockinged feet was plainly heard oa the Landing just aoove us, stud I rancied a sort of murmured whispering seemed very near us. Tins was more than Peggy and Ancfl had contracted for and their precipitate flight was something wonderful to behold. They rushed from the foot of tbe staircase acrova to the aide entrance through which we came in; there they paused is tne opeu doorway. Peggy beckoning frantically for me to fu'.low. I followed her, seeing that such a terror bad seized tbem. Aed in fact I. myself, began te feei "ereepy" and ima-jined 1 crald bear the repentant coa feeston of the hapless old man in my wane. Paiirungat the paasafe-way, I irmtactly regained my self-poeaeaiun and signified my intention of returning to the foot ef the sl-ircase, Pegg) remonstrated, and finally said that if I "must jine Lan'e with the spirit, why, 1 must go aione, as she shouid not return. "All n-jht, Peggy," I said; "wait for me here, wi:i you?" ' "An faun Oi will if the maetbur don't be fur gittin afthur me too airnestly," she replied, shivering with fear and exritetnent. I was In for the whole manifestation, and if I should pause now from some squeamish notion of danger I ahoulrt always rrgretmy bavicj done so. .The open p&asage-way made a very cold draught, connecting the outdoor current of raw night air with the one formed in the stairway, and I felt rather uncomfortable; so wrapping my loose cloak about my chilly form I retraced my steps, and leaning against a column midway of the hall 1 tra.tr ed further developments. "Pshaw I" I said, feeling ashamed of our inglorious retreat, and began taking myself to task, mentally, for so doiii, when tne indistinct footfalls came on down-stairs. I strained every nerve to catch every sound, 0! 1 . ' .. i"Q HI I. - f ; .7.7 V-Tn , -r I ST8JLCCIO XVEBT KISVS TO CATCH TQI : " BOTSD. - remembering that Pegtry said something about the master's falling to the foot of Una stairs. The lamps burned dimmer, and I was conscious of a presence other than mortal. My heart gave a stifled throb and seamed to stand still, and I found myself foolishly asking: "Where am I!" Presently I saw, or seemed to see, an object moving aXcut in the extreme end of the hail, biowiy and hesitatingly the indistinct shape seemed to be hunting something. . The soft footfalls I heard plainly, now again, and my eyes riveted on the moving object of shadowy existence. 1 followed its constant!y-ctaiig-ing positions, now standing, now croucuing low, a if weary, with a strango feeung of fascination I am not able to descr. e. . It seemed to me that I losfjuy Individu ality; I was reaily myself noWnger. - I felt that 1 was alao a shadow being, like the one I wasgarmg at so fixedly; a sort of ob scure, vapory body, fuil of life, however, and sympathy. I thought with wonderful rapidity somehow, and felt myself merfring into the shadow at the foot of the staircase. It was not Sir Rupert.. I bad forgotten him; but it waa myself my other self from away eff from the spirit land, and I was weary. The bartnea of my thoughts seemed to be such a sad, bopeiess ques tioning. . ""Thy for me was thijre so rest, do repose, when I needed it so much! There was such a restraint on me, invis ible, but such a galling restraint as would drive a mortal man mad to endure. And my situation was plainly mapped oct be fore me, and I knew the replies to every question 1 might ask before I could ask theen. 1 - --.: - . . , Oh! what an existence. .There was se utulcicg what 1 had doc, so celling out of rhis wretched groove of useless regret. Pin ioned by an en seen power, I felt teat I was doomed to wander forever back and forth the length of my enslaving. Invisible chains. Always going and ao weary, but sever ex hausted. 1 felt that this was my terrible, endless punishment of soul agony for something which I pad done and for which there was , now bo repentance, and in my deep despair . 1 uttered a low, piteous cry. ' The sound of my voice had broken the awful spell which the apparition had thrown over tue, and I found myself standing before the door of the fateful d rswin g-room. How I managed to get there I can not say, as I waa not conscious of having made a single step in any direction while in my strange state of sympathetio sorrow, and finally my own soul weariness. Although I did not remember of having made a move, I bad been drawn tbe half length of the great central hall by the power of tbe weird, fascinating object, which faded instantly at my unearthly cry, leaving me tcy individuality once more. At this juncture ail weariness bad left me also, as well as fear, and I was con scions of the fact that the object had gone into the drawing-room, and 1 felt impelled lUIIS fill, AHD ALL ABB EUTM BKBIDB- to follow it. The morbid curiosity was again seizing me and I determined to open tha great door. I had forgotten Peggy under the strange influence of this midnight expe rience, aad boldly reached for the key in its brass ring on the wall. . '. But as I touched the key a cold, icy, shiv ering sensation went over me, and I stayed my eager hand. The lamps burned brighter now and and well, where was I! A noise behind me caused me to turn quickly and, half alarmed, I noticed that Pegey and Aneil were standing in the passage-way. How very long they save been standing there, 1 thought; then came the half-awake sensation, acd I realized th:it they were waiting lor mc When they saw me looking at them they called to me to "coom away from there." ' At sight of their familiar faces I started and awoke, shaking off the lethal charm, to . realise where I really was. As the knowl edge came to me, instantly I became terrir fied. and rushing across tbe hall fell faint ing in Pi-guy's arms. ' : Wben 1 came to my senses once more I was lying on the low suttee in the servants' quarters, and tbe houselteopor waa mop ping my forehead alternately with camphor and water, and moaning as if her heart were broken. I opened my eyes languidly, and looked up at the desr old soul bci-ding over me. A hulf-frightenod exclamation of joy burst from her lips. ' "An", mo Leddy, an' it's yer own swate self that L.n'1 ded yet. Oi'ia glad OI gut ye away from that awful place afore thim . spirit, kilt ye." "How lor? was I in there alone f" I asked, the whole of the se.u national experience flashing vividly across my mind. . - "Uh! jlsta miuiU Oi thought yer . was coming away ouce from the d.vih wbus penn's, tut ye went roight aloDg a gropin' about likesumttmi stark chrary, an' sot a motndin a wnrrud Oi said to yer." ' " It was evident tney had seen nothing, so I kept my nncaiiuy vtaiou to myself. Otily a minute, FeRgy s;i;d, nud. it t veined to me years. I rememotred the swf ul feeling of lie!pss despair that had possession of me in that minute, and could not help bat tliiuk what must be the punishment in the next -world if one is allowed such an experience as ily an lUk.Ut. J. was sure 1 had ex perienced a part ef Sir Rupert's punish ment, somehow. 1 closed my eyes wearily and thought of Dante. Had hi such insights as I had ex perienced ) The depths of despair, with iut siren 3U1 enough te endure aud never become entirely exnaustud. coupled sl'h the desperate knowledge that it was too latef toe iatel 1 am fully satisfied with my adventure, and shall hereafter be alow jio cMidemn any plausible ghost-story cwming to my ken. .... I lay so long with closed eyes and motion less form that the old housekeeper came and beat over me until I felt her breath on TuTchofk ' ' - "An she's worried out and gone to slape, aha la," murxaured she, xatuig away; but I could sot have slept for love nor money. If my repose satisfied Pog-gy, I ielt willing' to keep up the feurned sleeping process iu order that I niigat think. I could do that with wonderful iiUnctness, but as for sleep, it was far from me. ., "It's near mornin','' I heard Peggy say, "an she'll slape full well the rest o' the noight here.1" 80, suiting her actions to her plans, she covered me with a blanket, pu.led a liUle at th pillow under my head, perhaps to see if I was yet alive, and reckoued to Ancil that they "moight as well go to bexl. If they couldn't snut tser oiesTor the nrst wink o' slape." : - . That sight's experience left me in a very nervous state, aud it was days before 1 felt, like Richard, myself again.. Peg-gy dUd not add to my comfort, cither, by remarking each morning: "An how white and 'Iraid loofcin' ye are, to bo sure." " : But, as timo settles all things earthly, it settled my nerves at last, aud I began to speak of going back to Cousin Gladys' little cottage. Peggy's blank face and hearty de murs kept me several days longer at tbe Hall than I had intended to stay, however. After all, I am glad now that she kept me, on one pretext and another, .long aa she did, fur -thereby I was enabled to meet a friend of Xdiriani's and perhaps add to her happiness on my return. And this is how' it happened.- I - was walking in the park alone one morning while Peggy was on household duties intent, when I espied a gentleman walking slowly along a Ledge not far from me. I was wondering who he was to have gotten into the lnrtosure with out lief, wben he-looked up and in my di rection. .', V.- !. ' ' Soeiug that I was watching him he came forward, and, removk.g his hat with ex ceui'mg grace, introduced himself as Allan Percival, nephew of the deceased Sir Ru pert, and cousin to Miriam Percival Fairfax. 'Did I ever hear of Miriam I , Did 1 know of her voyage to America, and just where she was living now!" were two questions asked almost in a breath. The first one I bad scarcely j answered by a mere monosyllable when the next came, as If it had been kept waiting for years to make itself known. 1 remembered that Miriam had spoken so warmly, eloquently of this Allan Percival that I did not hesitate in talking confidenti ally to him. Indeed I had thought some times when she was speaking of iicr Lon don visit and his illness that in time to come Allan miht Cud his aSection re turned. I woudered if I bad better tell hiai she was living with me; then I thought J. should wait a moment and let him speak. . . 'Don't be afraid of me; I knew Miriam Went to America, or at least intended to make the voyage some months si ace," he said, respectfully, in a most musical voice, and with those wonderful eyes bent be seechingly on me. "She intended to go to a place calle4 Bay View to reside with a lady friend," he continued, "in order to get away from sight and sound of this accursed place," and he looked around, while his handsome face grew dark with angry sorrow.. CHAPTKK XXII. . "She told me in secret," he said, present ly, looking up with a sigh; '-but as you seem to know of her whereabout also, I pre sume 1 am sot betraying my cousin to stranger or enemy V .. .. He paused and his look of inquiry melted all the reserve I was trying to muster, so I said : "I may as well tell yoa, then, see itg you know her plans, that 1 am that lady friend and that Miriam lives with me at Bay View." . . . .'.'.. - "Oh! at last I have heard directly from ber T he exclaimed, almost beside himself, with joy. Then he came forward and gave me his hand and said be was "glad to see Miriam's friend." I knew that before he spoke, for the glad ness was written all over his fine-face In happy smiles, unmistakably. "When are you going back?" Joe. rent nreVeyeiag tae toe of hiancaUr polished boot, and. dasibtk.-se, beplag that' I bad not read his secret.' '-' - -" "In a few days," I answered ; 'Miriam sent me to the Hall on aa errand, and that is why I am here. I came to visit friends elsewhere. But did you wish to send word to your cousin, or were you contemplating a trip?" - He -looked at me for.a moment as If my words had put a new idea in his head. Then he said: "If you will wait, siadame, I will write a note, providing you will be kind enough to give it her; that Is" and he hesitated, "if ahe still remembertmct" - I looked at him. . How could any one for get that face, I thought. Theu'I said: "Oh! certainly, she 1 einembera you, Mr. Per cival. I have heard her speak of you quite often, and I knoio she would be plji to get a line from you."- . He raised his eyes once moreand a slight SI. SO and flush cameovcr his face which left it almost pallid, while I fancied a soul-mist uiniming those glorious eyes. He pxcw visibly agi tated, but caiming hiiuseif wifh an effort he said : "If you will please to sit down on tnis seat and wait f ,r me 1 will indict a few lines to my cousin Miriam !" I sat down on the rustic seat, old and moss-grown, while he drew for pencil aud pocket diary from an inner pocket of his coat, and, tearing a leaf from the book, wrote to Miriam. I watched him with, a curious interest. "Would Miriam be glad to get this letter I 1 was sure it would be a lftter into whoso short length would be crowded the passion te thoughts of years. I believed that Miriam would waken from her morbid, belp esa grief after its perusal, and I watched 1 Tfrr5. v. 'it V 'ir"- ' r V ' i i 1 - ? A '1 1 iv 5 r H -h 1 ; 1 -i. T ?' H :) ' U u i I JVi.,-:'l . .- I mm 'w-Kstr m "si " im. 1 WATfTJEB HIM WITH A CtTtlOfS rNTEHEST. the firm, shaj-ely hand trace words I was positive, were of ptHjlio fire with much the saUiO fliags ut guineas that one sees a potioy prep ired which is to give great reliuf to a suffering friend. I Lad ma.le up my mind, and accordifcgly T.thoiiL-ht best not to mention rny meeting ' Allan rvrrival in the park to Pe-rcy or An r:L Thev, 10 say the least, would be curi ous, ami perhaps mightuskquestions which I could i.ot am-vvrr ai d do justice to the con fidence reposed in tuf. So, trusting that thvy bad not seen Allan, I thrust the letter to Miriam in my pocket and entercl the house. They hail not seen Allan, and I cotmsod myself lucky in es caping all chance of being interrotrated, for . suy victor t tue park had eujwiue'l secrecy upon ine in the matter of his identity and Lis ues.tge to Miriam. . . Miid be: "Cecp this meeting hero that is, the identity of the individual you chanced tj meet a profound secret as far as this side the water is concerned. I ventured .here because it was my father's home until driven from it," and his eyes took on an ai:grr, agonized gleam whlcn Rade me shudder in spite of myself. "Ah 1 here, too, is a P.Tx-tvnL" I thought, and the look in his eyes remicd'vl mc of Miriam. ' "1 presuSie," e beran, after a pause, "I ought never to save come cere; it fills my soul with hate to look about me aud re member my father's story, and also that of Cousin Miriam. But, after ail, it is quite, lucky for we, because I have met you, Acr friend, by qoming." His face speedily regained its former pleasant expression and a yearning hope supplanted the dark look of revenge which had so awed me. Yes," I replied, it is a stroke of Provi- leriee; you were ta me it me and I am to carry your messaire to your cousin." "lo you believe in that theory 1" he asked, an odd, puzzled look on his face. Certainly I do," I answered, "and you will, too, by and by." 'I am almost converted to your doctrine now," he laughed. - , Then, after wishing me "bon voyage" and reiterating his des ire that Miria:n 3houid get tue letter from my hands only, Ue lifted his hat and b;p!e me good-bye again and walked away toward what tjf I t. i.r. ho deer park, but now a rather ncr:ectN! rinse. ' One morning not long after this decidedly romantic intt-rview iu the old, deserted Hentrierlelwli grounds I found myself ready to leave the Ha'.L " Pfg!fy, who had either grown tired of ceasing n;e to prolong my visit or presumes! furiner pressing was useless, which, indeed, would have been, brought Miriam's iiortrait from the gallery, aud, wrapping it care fully, with many a caress and crooning word of endearment, gave it into my care. . I consiiUired this quite a feat to get pos session o'f a portrait from this old Hall, and showered my unfeigned thanks on Peggy's devot-d head in consequence. "I will do all In my power to get her to return, -if '-only for a year's visit," I prom ieil the two aged servants at my leave takin?, and intend to keep my prrmiise good. Xot for worlds woo'd I prove false to those old Irish dwellers Ut Healherleigh by not . 'Tying to persuade Miriam to Come back, if for nothing else than to see them. Hark! what is that? Oh, it is the ting, tinT u-liug of the bell for luncheon, and Gladys expects my cousinly presence in the "pleasant little breakfast-room shortly. ' . Cousin Gladys' luncheons are something famous for a suburban cottage, with their' deitciwus. rake and fruit arrangement, to get her with theirsmattering of cold meats, and flanked with spiced wines. She is in high glee this week, for we are to take a little run up into the dear old Cotswold hi'.'.s, Gladys and I, and she is chipper as a bird in consequence. ' I shall enjoy the trip, to be sure, but the secret of Allan's letter and the pleasant knowledge of having met him eclipse all the happy anticipation I might feel in a run among the Cotswold bills. : I find myself lost in speculation as to what Miriam will do and say when 1 give Allau's letter Into her bauds arul tell her I mot him accident aily net providentially at HeaLherleigh.'' With such weighty secrets in iny posses . siou from both, sides of the water, no won ier I am beginning to feel myself a person of uneemmou importance. , And. the letter and portrait in my keeping,' either of which is worth a ransom to the owner, I presume, make me feel more like an ambassador than simply a guest. It seems to me that my com ing to see Gladys has lost its Identity be come, as it were, a secondary objoct or ex cuse for the grander possibilities. Ah ! here comes Gladys. I expected as much. 1 have kept her waiting too long for tier busy, bustling nature, and she Las come to aee if I have gone to alcep in this cozy nook or turned a deaf ear to her luncheon beX ; A week later finds me making ready for the return voyage.- - : CHAPTER XXnt We have been having an outing, Gladys and I. We have taken that little run up the Thames for' which we were booked some time. Gladys, saving some friends in London, and wuhing to see them also, we spent a couple of days there. Prom there we start ed for the delightful country trip. It would . nave been more to my liking to have gone in midsummer, but tbe summer was past, . the opportunity had gone by, and the upper Thames had been left until now. No matter; we found ourselves at the Great Western Paddington station one fine morning, with lunch-hamper in hand. G ladvs remetuliers the lunch item, if oothiug else, en route for Taplow. . Away we roll out of the big city and across the quiet peace-fulness of a beauti ful stretch of country. The fields, however, were unfortunately rather brown and bare, it being too late in the season for field dais ies or bright aud blooming hedge rows. It seemed to me a kind of siilemn, quiet loneli ness pervaded the landscape, and 1 cea.-. d to look from my compartment and shut my I. A V If. postage per year in advance. NUMRER 11 eyes to the outside glimpses of the real world, busying inyseif in delving into the iuipo.-siole aud perhaps possible, ideal world of my own. An hour's ride brought us to our destina tion "by rail. Prom Maidenhead we were to go by boat to Marlowe. There a friend meets us, and we gn winding away across the country again to Oxford renowned old Oxford and from there to a little nook in the hills miles further on; Gladys' old home, you know. I do not know that I havo time to tell you of all the beautiful landscapes, wooded parks, soft, hazy meadow stretches, still green aud inviting, ai.d the thousand other lovely visions which will le green in mem ory for many a long day. Bat I wish to say that our rido on the Thames from Maiden head to Marlowe was one r.ui:d of delight ful surprises aud etijoya'oh diversion. There are many picturesque scenes on li.e bunks of this old, much-sung, much-paiuted riv r. With its numerous locks, weirs, lovely old wills and hospitable inns, with its pictur esque scenery of Wooded heights and hand some and ivy-wreathed, ivy-crowned churches and country seats, 'old Father Thames" is remembered as a very genial friend. No wonder the artist raves; no wonder the poet strikes his sweetest, graudest 11 um bers along his banks. So wonder, I say, no wonder! Oxford being on the flow of the Thames also, 1 re jj retted very much that we had not had time to boat it further; but neces sity knows no compromise with inclination, and Gladys must go by another route. Days and days it would have taitcn us, Gladys said, to have gone up the river to Oxford, and of course it would, when we come to take into consideration the classic windings of the stream. Well, I um sure I misso.1 a great deal of beautj-and loveliness, but it can not be helped now, nor could it have been. Gadys' old home nestles in a bright little SOfk among the li ills, and a b.-auliful little country residence it is, situated on the banks of the Thames, but cot the great river we left behind us at Marlowe, or Ox ford, for iuslance. . Xo;aqu;jt, silvery, unpretentious flow just below the garden, where we stood aud watched birds of migration pass over our head-s in the pray of the evening light, while the brisk breexe went by and sighed itself to death among the hills. The house itself is also ivy-wreathed every thing is ivy-wreathed, or ivy crownod, it seems to me, in rnerrie old England aa well as the more pretenti ous neighboring residences; alow-caved, uuuiv gabled afTuir, ffim Solid masonry and heavy wooden shutters. A little, woudod park and an antiquated-looking summer house at -" -. j 4 '' vi"- "' '- - j xar-uy rr . 7 7a i i'T''r fHtKE WE STCM-IIJ AND W A1X"Htl THU Mltl-S Or SJIORATIOS I'ASS. the back, where G'adys acd I found ricli pui'ile clusters liaiitring invitingly along the rufU-rs of a brukeu-dowu trellis belong ing thereto. - To bo Ctmtinued. . .a 1 - 1 CONVICTS IN SIBERIA. A Comparison of the Sufleriu-es adnred by Two Classes. Refrarded as place--) of punishment the Nerchinsk mines did not seem to me so terrible as they are often repre sented to be. It is not very pleasant, of course, to work eig-ht or ten hours every day in a damp or icy gallery three hundred feet underground; but even such employment is, 1 thick, less prejudicial to health than unbroken confinement in a dirty, over-crowded and foul-smelling convict prison. The mines are badly ventilated and the aaes liberated in them by the explo sives used are doubtless injurious; but there are no deadly fumes or exhala tions from poisonous ores like cinna bar to affect the health of the labor ers, and experience seems to show that the death rate is no higher among' the convicts who go regularly every day into the mines than among those who lie idle day after day in the vitiated air of the prison kameras. If I were permitted to make choice be- 'tween complete idleness in such a prison as that of Algaehi or Ust Kara andrepular daily labor in the mines, I should, without hesitation, choose " the latter. So far as I could ascer tain by careful inquiry among the con victs themselves, no one has ever been compelled to live and sleep in these mines day and night, and I believe that all the stories to that effect pub lished from time to time are wholly imaginary and fictitious. The work inp; force may occasionally havo been d vided Into day and night g'ang-s, or shifts, sent into the mines alternately, but the same me a have never been required to remain there continuously for twenty-four hours. At tbe pres ent time there is no night work and all of the convicts return to their prisons before dark, or in the short days of midwinter very soon after dark. I do not -wish to be understood as saying that tho life of Russian con victs at the Nerchinsk silver mines is an eatsy one, or that they do not suf fer. I can hardly imagine a more ter rible and hopeless existence than that of a man who works all day La one of the damp, muddy galleries of the Pokrofski mine, and goes back at night to a close, foul, vermin-infested prison like that of AlgachL It is worse than the life of any pariah dog, but at the same time it is not the sen sationally terrible lifo of tho fictitious convict described by Mr. Grenvillo Murray the convict who lives night and day under ground, sleeps iu a rocky niche, toils la hopeless misery uuder the lab of a pitiless overseer, and Is slowly poisoned to death by the fumes of quicksilver. Such things may be effective In a sensational drama, but they are not true. Tho worst feature of penal servitude in Siberia is not hard labor in the mines; It i the condition of tho prUons. George Iveonao, in Century. . jiAvV 0 1 with rf -r--- rr. mmlm mm W!fi I LAST OF THE DELAWARE?. The Old Indian li.. 1 ncovers Uuiy U tbe -Ore at faUi.r." The Chief of tho Dolawares, that is . the title of tho stalwart old man with the coarse black locks, tho wrinkled copper skin, cunning black eyes and cruel mouth. Sevonty-fivo years old. but more erect and of greater height than any white man in the mountains. Chief of the Delawares, but a ruler without one subject, with n, log cabin on the mountain 6ide, a bit of meadow land, a stretch of pasturage for his sheep, where his ancestors had seign- ioral rights over the lovely glades of the Alleghnnics. He knows, the old man, of what race ho sprung and what his inheritance, but he rarelv speaks of it- Once, two years ago, he showed that ho knew his family's history as well as tho proudest New F.nglander. The late W. V. Corcoran, of Washington, was Ptopping at I)..-er Park, and In one or his drives some ,no poinw-d out Manner Male and told Mr. Corcoran that he was Chief of the Dcla wares. ? Mr. Corcoran turned to him quickly and asked hi-s name. Not acknowledg ing tho name which the white people have given him, Manifer Male," ho drew himself up proudly aud said: "I am tho Chief at tho Delawares." -3 "I remember well," said Mr. Cor coran, "when an ancestor of yours, probably your father, m taken by mj- father to see the FroDiiiont, An drew Jackson, about a treaty signing away this whole section to the white man :ind agreeing to leave this coun try for the Southwest. Did you ever hear of it?'' Yes. It was my lather. His peo ple went. When the lime came he could sot go. He diod on the ;pot where my cabin is when tho news Was brought to him that the white men were building a railroad in tho valley where his people built their camp fires at tho coming of the whiter." Old Manner Male did not take off his hat or bow his head as he stood at tho tide of tho fine equipage, but the courtly old gentleman in the carriage raised his hat and bowed homage to the last Chief of tbe Dolawarcs. It i? t-Mrj srittte old Manner Male w ho comes twice a woek to tho rear door of a pretty cummer ooltage and ex changes a fne saddle of mutton for money banded Liia hy aprttty young matron, befo.-o whom ho takes off the hat that ho will never raise to any white man savo one, and that itf the stately gentleman who sits on tho porch with a whito-f rocked child at his side nnd always says: (oo.l day. Mr. Malo. We nie groatly indebted to you for your mutton." Tho old Indian bows to tbe Great Father, for it is the President of the United States vhu has greeted him and the President's daughter who has taken the mutton, of which In; is as proud u his atieostors of their GoJ given righti, tho glades of the Allo genics. He has dozens of grandchildren, this old Mariner Male. The dusky, brown-skinned daughters of the fallen house sell masses of rhododendrons and laurel 1,3 tho iiraaer guobts, ar.d in the winter gather the red berries of the wintergreen. which the-y trade for flour In the Uek-hboring towns. The sons Of the house, none of whom havo Manner Male's proud carriage, slouch into the village with a string of pheas ants slung across the thouldcr or a half-dozen mountain trout dangling from the hand. Deer Park JIJ.) Cor. N. Y. Press. . - FACTS ABOUT RINGS. A History of the I'ao of This Woll-knowu Ornament. The practice of waring finger-rings has Ix-eu almost universal from an early period In the world's history. There is a tradition which ascribes their inven tion to Tubal Cain; and the old Latin author who gfves c-nrrency to tin-story, sj-aking of the w.-.lding circlet, says: "The form of the ring being circular that is to say, round and without end in, parte th this much, that mutual love and hearty alTcclion should roundly flow from one to the other, as in tho circle, and that continually and forever." The first authentic reference to finger-rings occurs in tho Old Testament, where ( ienesis xxxviii. ) iucntion is made of Judah's signet-ring. That t!iy wore also in use among tho Egyptians at that time is evident from the forty-first chapter of Genesis, wln-ro wo read of Pharaoh taking oil his own ring and p'itling it upon Joseph's hand, when ho mndo him "ruler over all tbe land of Egypt." The hands of female mummies, found in the tombs of Egypt, are profusely covered with rings; the wealthy ladies of that country wearing costly ones upon nearly every finger, while their jHHjrer sisters had to content themselves with cirules of bronze, glass or pottery. The ancient Chaldoans. tho Persians, and, according to Herlotus, the l!:iby lonians wore rings; and it is probable th.lt from Asia they wore introduced into Greece. In the later Greek b-g. nds the anciont her-s aro spoken of as wearing them, and at a more recent dan e-very freeman throughout (iro'Ctf wtrni to havo had one. The earlier rings appear to havo been used not so much for ornament a for the practical purpoto of alllxing a. als; but later on they lcamo merely orna mental, and were set with procious stones. The Romans, who are believed to havo derived, tho custom from tbe bahines, wore signetrrings of iron as was tho case with tho Lacedif inouiaus and every freeman had the right to wear one. ; Ambassadors in the early years of tho republic used to wear gold rings as part of their ollicial dress; this jus annuli aurei Jxnng afterwards extended to Chief Magistrates. Sonatorsand. lateron, to equitos. Kinperors were wont to con fer litis right 011 those w horn tliey wished to favor, and tint privilege lwj-aine grad ually more and more extonsiw, until in the. time of Justinian all Unman citi Eciis could avail themst lvos of it. Tho later Romans used to wear la.my rings upon their fingers, some even hav ing different ones ir summer and win ter, while the height of "dan lyiMii" was rt'iichtnl by those who never wore tho same ring twice, but threw it away when once it had done service. .' .r-e ! t i
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