aim p——
Fo-night as I turned back the pages
Of a book Time had fingered before,
A nd whose leaves he'd the odor of ages,
And imprints of much usage wore,
A little brown curl I discovered,
Vat fell froin the book to the floor.
ld I sinned?
don!
Did a lover's sad tear the pag
Heaven grant me its par-
@ spot?
The lower “forget-me-not?’’
It lay as if carved on a gravestone,
And all of its sweetness forgot.
¥ held the curl up to the lamp-light,
And, watching the gleam of its gold,
There I heard with of the
night
A sad liltle story it told :
But 1 promised the sacred old volume
Its secret I would not unfold.
the rush
I would that the world knew its sor-
row,
ry 1 must not reveal,
your book-case to-morrow
1 to your own heart appeal,
know why the tattered old vol-
Ih
p44)
© nid
Aud en
i you'll
ume
The little curl tries to conceal.
RSA TIE SER,
Al
1584 1 Paul.
fall, had
to go with him over the
ifiic road to San Francisco,
was at St,
conductor,
pe rsua
Nort
It was late i
blo Kad -
wilh a basket of provisions,
Case my Wert
On My journey.
the season, and I feared a
fr
101
fears realized, an
2
» depot I found a
d in leon
110 Sige]
O ke rood
id lady seats my
iy t
yor +
1 {
least t ne. an
that I should bh
pany for the gre
wey, her dest
took her
withdrew i
resolved to
In
sought the
r the
ater |
nation
back to CAT. 1011 She ag:
drawing-room, and
the soothing
and a
the ne
out
ito the
)
stoke
search of company
smoker of xt
which was oc« upied exclusively b
who after a time dropped one or
fguiet hints about the enviableness of
position, and their desire
21 vi a 1i¢
berths, By«
Roker Was
+1 1
doubt ESS 1
andd-b
i
time, but
lecture on the sin of gambling
materializ
examples.’
one felt quite di
of his “terri
after a while, 1
car and
Mrs, Forsvth's door
red to ask her if I might have the pleas
ure of taking her to the table, and was
pewarded by a gracious smile and a
prompt acquiescence, Although I tried,
without g to be inquisitive, to
skirt round subject, I did not sue- |
ceed in gaining any information as to
her matrimonial condition. The next
day, however, I was fortunate enough
to discover that I had two or three times
net Mrs. Forsvth's single sister when
she had been visiting some mutual ac- |
quaintauces in San Francisco, This
fact served as a far better introduction
than Hall's had been, and in the more
intimate conversation that followed I at |
last learned with delight that Mrs, For- |
syth was a widow of over a year's stand- |
AH wed] to
ble
went
one
my DOOKS,
Sseenin
the
ther future home with her sister,
We lost our dining-car, wuch to our
regret, on the second day.
day saw snow incessantly descending,
and Mrs, Forsvth began to prophesy all
‘kinds of disasters, and even suggested
mext station of any size,
ing this course she was, however, dis-
shaded by the joint eloquence of Hall
and myself. Each hour that I spent in
her society added to the charm that was
aapidly stealing over me, by discovering
mew similarities in tastes or ideas, and
even by an occasional warmly c utested
argument on slight points of difference,
hen T awoke on the fourth morning
the windows were thickly crusted with
ice, and ‘though I could not scrape a
place through which to observe our rate
of progress, I felt sure from the motion
tha! we were making little headway, I
began” to feel a sensible yearning to
reach the breakfast station, ard was
when Hall came in, and ex-
| pressed some surprise at seeing me up
! and dre ho wl,
*1 think it
me out.” I answered, “Tha
last night was pretty queer.
breakfast station?’
Forks about
basket »
supped
Are
| near Uh
“The
| ahead.”
“And how long
fifteen miles
are
11 with a calm
nese wl Lances was
ich under the eircum
\
a little as
we go back?”
scAfra
{ engine ant
{ nO Switch near,
i up behi
There's
K for a
197
manage
LOO
DY men
press my ag
feminine
chicken as
began our repast whi
ing.
Presently reyt
and langhed [his is
“I think it’s very jolly
“Oh! I don’t mean the breakfast, bu
my sitting down as your guest, when,
I had never: you.
I said, “I'm an em
nently respectable and proper person
that is, for a lawyer. The conductor
can vouch for me. He has known me
for years.”
“Yes he gave vou a character,”
“Fhen you inquired?’’ I asked eager-
Mrs, Fo
three davs ago
SON
‘1 assure vou,”
ly, »
“Oh, no,’ she answered, with a shade
of mischief in her tone; *‘he volunteered
the information.”
“How good this tea is!’ I observed,
tasting some that she had handed me,
“I never could have made it so well my- |
self.’ i
“It certainly is nice, but it’s not due |
to my skill, but to the quality of: the |
tea.”
I, of course, dissented from this view, |
or at least glass
eq, for I had no cups—of that tea, which |
I was willing to swear was the most
We were just finishing when Hall
getting on so comfortably,’
“Yes, Yemarked Mrs. Forsyth; ‘‘the
road is so smooth we could without any
inconvenience. ”’
“You give the road too much credit,
The fact is, we haven't moved
“You don’t mean to say we're at the
station already?”
“No, ma'am; we're stuck.”
“Stuck!” repeated Mrs, Forsyth,
“Yes in the snow, Can’t budge an
inch. I've telegraphed for relief.”
“Oh, dear me! When shall we get
out?’
“I hope to-morrow,” answerel Hall
{
{ desire to make things as pleas:
sible,
| *Can’t you back
{ the lady, after a brief
i spent in an inward
“No, ma'am.’
“What shall w
“We can only wait
i try to send
Forks by this :
“And in the meantime there is
basket s
wnt 48 pos-
asked
vidently
down?"
Pause, ©
struggle,
They'll
trom
, ma'am,
One Provisions
evening
my
I observed in ascheerful a tong
{ as I could command, [ had been year
ing to offer my sympathy during H
tion, but thought it be u
ith the proce
down easy
ting ‘em
3 80 anxious to get
said Mrs, Forsyth,
ind lie down for a little
i 1'11 be got
{ it better than I expect
| observed Hall, as the door
our sight
Halt
able to
» tool
‘‘She's a
{ with an
| would h
i ting
amount
we done
and tender
my uosity, | \
was true Mrs, For
more friendly and confi -
mpet
that
t she
possessed a qu ot i
way of checking any at
pts to digress into tende
The third
apparent
ts rTeRS,
morning n showed no
change
When Hall came in he, however,
appeared unusually cheerful,
“You look as if we were goin
in ontside sit
'
Lion
io got
“Not yet awhile. But that frost last
\
a got a4 message
will come down early this after
noon, with extra snow-shoes, and that
the men who think they ean
manage it may try to get to the Forks,
I suppose you have been on shoes
“Yes: but to tell you the truth, I'm
not particularly anxious to get away.”
Hall broke into a quiet laugh. ‘I
thought I saw which way the wind was
blowing.'’
I didn’t quite relish his amusement,
and was about to remonstrate and ex-
plain, when suddenly a brilliant idea
struck me,’
“Hall I exclaimed, “I want you to
do something for me, and I'll be grate-
ful all my life.”’
“What is it?”
“When Mrs, Forsyth and I are at
breakfast, I want you to" At this
moment the latch of her door clicked, I
stopped, and pulling him along, said:
“Come outside; I can tell you in a min-
ute or two, but she musn’t hear.’
On the platform I confided to him my
scheme, What it was, and how it
worked, the reader will soon learn,
On my return I lighted the lamp, put
on the water, and soon had the sim-
ple breakfast ready Mrs, Forsyth did
When she
and did
Keep long
in she
hier
deplenisl
Hie
1
Carne took her u
not make custoin
i +
bout
be ik
Mr.
' 1 ¢
MCKIE
:
5
up tl
y With you.
Ss DO use Crying,
make the best of it."
‘Have y«
ii evel
“Yes ma'am, last year two
davs,”’ And with
lid again noticeable,
“Twenty-two days alone,’ ejaculated
Mrs, Forsvth, “in a snowy tomb, with
a conductor and an old clergyman’?
“Kate, dear Kate, won't you listen to
me? Together the time will not be half
we will share it. Think,
of what you may save me from.
twenty
that tremulous eve-
he went out
she said, after a brief pause;
to save your life, I might be
“Then yon consent?’ I eried.
“Are you very sure you love me?”
*t As certain a2 that I breathe,”’
“Phen Robert—yes, 1 know your
name-—that nice conductor told me
you—you may ask the clergyman if he
will. But oh! it’s awful to be married
without a wedding dress.”’
“You shall have the handsomest that
is to be got when we reach the coast,”
“Phat won't be like being married in
Remember, if you ever repent this,
oy
it.
that I only marry you to save your life,
“1 shall never repent. I love you, too
much.” I started toward the door to
soe the clergyman,
She called me back, and as I held her
in my arms she whispered, ‘Robert, I
think I am a little selfish, after all.”
The only way to have a friend 1s to
be one,
mo
TALKING AROU
FERNS,
How a Coolness Sprang Up Hetween
Two Friends New Use for
Spring Chickens.
nA SAS:
A Free and Fearless Bill-Poster
1
udhesive
nager hav
ith Paulding
find the w hole
fy
§
ng
woke ol
ry 4
nce wo
front of om of
with show bills
were pasted over,
handsome {io
away. In another
instance, Paulding’s brigade pasted the
sidewalks of Broadway and Fifth ave
nue with dodgers that did not wear off
for a week, When his men were in a
merry mood they made nothing of dec-
orating the backs of private carriages
with advertising paper, and once they
adorned a church front with the bills of
a burlesque troupe,
y
$440 3
pavement, covered
Even
‘4
and it
indows
him a
clear the defilement
the w
cost sum
I ——— — a -
An Old-Fashioned Saving.
This expression is a corruption of an
when they migrate in autumn, form
themselves into lines shaped like the
the two lines following; and as they sail
away, far above the trees, and beyond
all danger from guns,-—on those cold
mornings when the air is clear, and the
glee, and join in a chorus, “Honk, honk,
honk!”
Any one who has heard those curions-
ly sounding notes, never could mistake
them. And the folks on the earth be-
low who heard the birds’ wild call, in
old times, realized the happiness of the
winged creatures in being so high and
safe, And so it became quite natural,
when two persons met each other under
peculiarly favorable circumstances for
this or that enterprise, for them to say:
“Everything is lovely and the goose
honks high!”
Bee Hunting in North Carolina,
to
this
He sSo0Om
ho stopped and ut-
dumfounded suer by pre-
his cocked rifle and giving the
iperious order to ‘Stand and deliver.”
The preacher as soon as he could col-
his thoughts, replied rather weakly :
My dear sir, I've got nothing in the
world: I'm nothing but a poor Metho-
dist preacher.”
It was the fashion of that day for
gentlemen to wear enormous seals and
watch chains suspended from their
fobs. and Mr. Cotton was in the fash.
The quick eye of the robber (for
n, impelled by «
the man meant by
§
i
ollowed him,
urosity
the man, w
his pur
TT
ling
a noted free-booter,) fastened on that
watch-seal. “1 see you sport a watch,”
“I beg you will spare me my watch,’
“No fooling.” said “Phelps,” impa-
tiently. “‘Pass over that watch.”
Reluctantly the preacher took out his
watch and gave it to the robber,
Before they parted ‘‘Phelps™ read
his victim a homily on the ill effects of
curiosity. ‘“This, sir, will teach you a
lesson. Remember, when you wish to
follow a stranger hereafter, first make
sure that he is not a robber."
Covon BYrup,—One ounce each of
thoroughwort, si'ppery elm, flax seed
and licorice stick, simmer together in
one quart of water till the strength is
best molasses, one half pound of loaf
cold bottle tight. Dose one tablespoon-
ful three ties every day, = .°
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