—At Indianapolis, on the 05th, Ed-
ward I. Palmer, a young man, was
fatally injured by falling from a freight
‘train in a fit. Frederick Kelch drove
into the river to wash his wagon ani
was swept away by the current and
drowned. J. D. Connor stepping out
of the way of a moving train, was
killed by a train going in the opposite
direction, on the next track.
—A special to a Cincinnati paper
says that at New Holland, Ohio, on
the 6th, Mrs. Arnold was celebrate
the 100th anniversary of her birth, It
adds that she has two sisters living, one
aged 106, the other 112,
—TIn Frederick, Maryland, on the 5th,
Dr. Joseph A. Webb, a dentist of Balti-
more, shot and wounded H, R. Besant
in the arm, As the ball could not be
extracted on the 6th, blood polsoning
was feared. It is said that Besant, who
is respectably connected, betrayed a
young lady, the cousin of Webb, and
that she is now in an insane asylum in
consequence.
—A telegram from Atlanta says the
result of the election in Georgia on
the Oth msures the nomination of
General Gordon for Governor. The
Democratic Convention will meet in
Atlanta on the 28th instant.
—.xcessive heat and drought have
been complained of throughout the
Northwest and Northeast for several
days past. In Dakota atemperature of
100 degrees in the shade was reached
at various points on the 05th and
Pierre “*a violent hot wind blew down
several houses and drove the people to
the cellars to avoid suffocation.”
some places are drying up. At Han-
over the temperature has ranged from
090 t : 96 in the shade,
—A freight train on the New York
City and Northern Railroad was thrown
from the track near Amawak Station
on the 6th, by a horse, and the engineer
was killed.
— A blast was fired on the 6th on the
new
streets, in Pottsville, with serious re.
sulls, The itlack Diamond Hots] and
a saloon opposite wore riddled by flying
stones, and Joseph Miller,
who was standing at the bar of the
hotel, had his thigh broken. Several
others were less seriously injured,
{Moses Levi, aged 23 years, and Michael
of
capsizing of a boat on the lake in
Douglas Park, Chicago, on the 5th,
While four boys were playing on a
lumber in Shenandoa, Penna., ou the
Sih, the lumber pile fell, injuring one of
them. John Ww. Kreiger, so badly that
he died in a few hours. Two others
were dangerously injured.
—The steamer Oconto, of the Og-
densbury, Toronto and Cleveland Line,
was sunk by striking a shoal in the St,
Lawrence river. near Clayton, on the
7th. She 1s a new boat of 500 tons
burthen, and it was her first trip
through the lakes, She had a cargo of
silks, cottons, boots and shoes, valued
at $500,000, and, as she is partially
submerged, the
$150,000,
—During a display of {ireworks at Pea-
old awning on which fifteen or twenty
persons had gathered gave wayand threw
them upon the crowd below. Twenty
‘men, women and children were injured
fifteen severely. Some or them 1t is
feared, will not recover. In Baltimore,
back, shot himself through the brain
while examining a pistol, and died in-
stantly.
gerously shot in the head.
~The Rural New Yorker publishes
its annua crop summary from more
than 4000 reports from all parts or
the United States. It concludes that
the winter wheat crop 18 on the
whole good, the probable yield being
295 million bushels, against 212 mil-
lions in 1885, with a slight increase in
acreage, Spring wheat has been con-
siderably injured by drought and
blight; the yield will probably be 140
million bushels, against 145 millions
last year. The total wheat crop will
probably be 435,000,000 bushels,
‘against 357,000,000 bushels last year,
In oats there has been a slight in-
crease in acreage, The crop has been
considerably injured by drought and
insect pests, and will probably yield
600,000,000 bushels, against 620,000,-
000 bushels in 1885. Of rye and bar-
ley there will be excellent crops, on a
slightly increased area, There is a
good stand of corn, and the outlook is
excellent for a fine crop. Of early
potatoes the crop will be heavy, and
late potatoes are promising, especially
in the West.
achicola. Florida on the 30th which de-
stroyed $40,000 worth of property. Six
persons were drowned in the bay.
—E. J. Betzler, a merchant of Car-
roliton, Missouri, was accidently shot
dead by his brotuer, E. A. Betzler, in a
target rracticing game on the 5th.
Walter Sise, 4 years of age, died on ths
7th in Brooklyn from the effects of
drinking carbolic acid, which he got
hold of ina bottle on the 5th, re.
Oberly, wife of a farmer of Norfolk
county, Virginia, on the 5th attempted
to kindle a fire with kerosene, when
the oil can exploded, and the burning
fluid was scattered over herself and
two children, and instantly the clothing
of all three were ina blaze. The mother
and one child died on the 5th; the other
child, while horribly burned, may
live. In Shirley township, Huntingdon
county, Penna., on the 5th, a seven-
ear-old son of Adam Baird started a
J in a barn while playing with match
es, The barn and d were de-
ance, $560,000, The woods around are
on fire,
—Johin Werner, aged about 50 years,
shot and killed is 14-year-old son and
then committed sulcrde In an apart.
ment house on West Fourth street,
New York, on the 7th. Poverty is
supposed to have caused the tragedy.
in Holden, Missouri, on the 5th. Rob-
inson had been arrested for a pstty mis-
demeanor and tried to escape, when the
policeman shot him through the heart.
In Glendale, near Cincinnati, on the
| 7th, Jacob Alexander was assailed by
{ two men. Ile managed to throw them
off and fire upon them just as one was
aiming at him. One of them fell and
the other fled. Alexander gave himself
up.
two men and served terms in the work-
house and penitentiary.
~The latest particulars of the fire
at Romeo, Wisconsin, show that 12
dwellings, two warehouses, a saw inill,
{ & planing mill, 8,000,000 feet of lum-
The losses aggregate $130,000, and the
insurance about $50,000, Sixty wen
are thrown out of work and 27 families
left destitute.
diana, on the 7th, destroyed Thomp-
son’s livery stable, the National House
{ Loss, $40,000. Several persons were
prostrated by the heat and are in a
critical condition.
the Knickerbocker lee Company, with
two engines and nearly 100 000 feet of
{ destroved by fire on the 7th, The loss
| 18 estimated at $100,000,
destroyed by fire on the 5th.
is about $35.000. Dering has a popu-
| lation of 2000. The Crelithion
| Newburyport, Massachusetts, ware
| burned ou the 8th. Loss, $30,000; n-
i surance, 38K, The factory had been
iresume in a few weeks, A fire at
the Montana Lumber Company’s plan-
| assay office of the Silver Mines, Loss
dian Pacific
Toronto Junction, and 15 cars were
{ burned on the 8th.
| sured. The woods along the line of the
| Wisconsin Central Railroad for miles
are on fire, and many of the seltiers are
{ threatened with run.
taurant and outbuildings at Whitman,
Massachusetts, were burned onthe Sth
{ Loss, $26,500; insurance, $20 500,
—Seven salmon fishermen were
{drowned ina gale off the entrance of
the Columbia river, Oregon, on the GLh.
John Kelly, driver, and Robert Lim
berg, pipeman of a chemical engine, 1n
Chicago, were dangerously, if
fatally, injured on the Tth,
{to a tire the engine fell down an em-
bankment, The men were caught
{ under the machine, and the chemical
| fluid in the tank was scattered all over
{ them, Besides being burned by the
hquid, each had a number of bones
{ broken, and Kelly's skull was frac-
i tured. Mrs, Sarah O'Rourke, a widow,
her six children and four friends, were
| taken violently ill, with symptoms of
| poisoning, after eating breakfast, in
| Providence, Rhode Island, on the 8th.
t 13 believed there was arsenic in the
{ milk,
—Henry Young, aged 34 years. shot
{ and killed Mary Discher, aged 18, in
{ New Richland, Minnesota, on the Tih,
because she refused to marry him.
then committed suicide. Three brothers,
Lewis V., Elmer and James Smith,
| were killed in Clay county, Texas, on
the 7th, by fence builders, with whom
| they qaarrelled, alleging that the fence
| was being put up on their property.
| The wife of Asa Turpen, a farmer,
| killed her infant and her seven-year-old
{ daughter, and then committed suicide,
| Before doing the deed she sent away
i two children of her husband by
| former wife,
with thunder and lightning passed over
Scranton Penna,, on the 7th, Saveral
houses were unroofed,
-A telegram from Pittsburg says the
use of natural gas in the manufactories
consumption of 188,850 bushels of coal
aday. *‘In 250 working days, which
is considered a year by manufacturers,
the whole amount of coal displaced
would run up to 47450,000 bushels,
Calculating 100 bushels to be an average
take 1600 coal miners to dig this coal,
this region. It required the use of 633
railroad cars to transport the coal,
Each of these, 30 feet in length, would
| make a string more than three miles
| long.”
-8ix boilers at No. J colliery of the
Delaware and Hudson Coal Company,
at Plymouth, Penna., exploded on the
| 8th, The boiler house was blown to
atoms and many buildings in the neigh-
borhood were damaged. Edward
Scott, the fireman, was fatally scalded,
and Michael Gilligan, the engineer,
was seriously injured,
~Typhoid fever Is raging in the vil-
lage of Waterford, Racine county, Wis-
consin, Fifty persons are sick of the
disease and four have died.
Tue disadvantages of riding In a
horee car that is unheated is thus set
forth. It is needless to add that at the
present time Chicago is greatly exer
cised for the cheerless condition of the
surface cars: -
“I think a man who will smoke in a
car with ladies is no gentleman,” said
one lady to another in a Madison street
car, yesterday,
The man across the aisle paid no at-
tention to the cutting remark, but sent
whiff on whiff in direction of the lad-
“Gracious!” remarked the other
lady, coughing distressingly, “it is
dreadful to breathe the nasty stuff into
our lungs this way.”
4 uctor!” called the first lady,
“will you make that beast over there
stop smoking?”
“Bless ye, ma'am, he ain't smoking,
Thal's "is breath ye see.”
Cg
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
BENATE.
8. Senate on the 2d the
Appropriation bill was
passed. ‘The River and Harbor bill
was considered, Adjourned,
In the U, 8. Senate on the 34, the
Naval Appropriation bill was reported,
with amendments. The River and
Harber bill was considered, and an
amendment was adopted appropriating
one million dollars for improving New
York harbor so as to secure a thirty-
foot channel at the Sandy Hook en-
trance of tie harbor, upon such plan
as the Secretary of War may approve,
Several other amendments were adopt-
ed, when the Senate went Into execu-
tive session, and when the door were
reopened adjourned.
In the U. 8. Senate on the 6th a bill
was reported to regulate the pay cof
army and navy officers who refuse or
neglect to provide for their families.
Mr, Ingalls, at the requestof the Social
Purity Alliance, of the District of Co
In the U.
Legislative
protection of women and children in
the District of Coluiubia.’’ The con-
sideration of the River and Harbor bill
was resumed. Pending action on an
| amendment appropriating $150,000 for
jay and
| the purchase of the Sturgeon
i of Hefuge, the Senate wen! into secret
{ session and afterwards adjourned.
In the United
7th, Mr. Plumb
| from John A. Kirkpatrick, a pension
bill in whose favor
States
fully to the President. was read in full,
small l
{ over the veto,” The River and
bor bill was resumed, the pending ques
tion being the amendroent appropri-
| ating $150,000 for the purchase of Stur-
geon Day and Lake Michigan
{ Canal and harbor refuge,
Spooner offered an mmendment as a
substitute appropriating $150,000 for
the purpose of making free of toll the
through the canal,
was agreed to-
r
Ok
| commerce
substitute
| Adjourned.
to 10,
oth
of. The Woman Suff
rage resolution was objected to by Mr.
Piatt, The Senate went into secret
session. When the doors wera reopened
{| the death of Representative Cole, of
Maryland, was announced and the Sen-
| ate, as a mark of respect, adjourned.
HOURE
In the House on the 1st, a
was received from the Senate
| ing that that body had passed, over the
President's veto, the bill to quiet the
| title of the settlers the Des Moines
river lands, of Alabama,
| was disposed
message
on
Mr. Oates,
moved to refer the bill and message
the Judiciary Committee. Lost
| yeas 103, nays 140—and the Speaker
| announced that the question recurred
ton the passage of the bill notwith-
standing the olijections of the Presi-
dent. The bill failed to pass for want
of the required constitutional two
i thirds in the affirmative, the yeas being
161, the nays 91. Adjourned.
In the House on the 24, a conference
| committee was appointed on the bill to
i repeal the Preemption and
| Culture acts,
on two of the President's vetoes of
pension bills, They were ordered to be
printed and lie over. The General De.
ficiency bill was considered in Commit-
tee of the Whole, and 43 of the 110
pages of the bill were disposed of. An
evening session was held for
sideration of pensin bills, but owing, to
a deadlock, nothing was done. Ad
journed.
In the House, on the 34, a message
was received from the President veto-
ing another private pension bill, Mr.
O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, presented a
petition signed by 1000
| Labor of the Second Congressional
District of Pennsylvania, urging the
passage of bills now
| Congress calculated to protect the mn-
terests of labor. The consideration
to
i sumed in Committee of the Whole.
| After completing 68 of the 119 pages
of the bill, the committee rose and
| the House adiourned.
In the House, on the Tth, the Speaker
| presented the 21 veto messages sent by
{ the President oa the 5th, Several of
| the mossages, after debate, were re.
| ferred, when further proceedings were
| blocked by the Republicans abstaining
from voting, and thus leaving the
i House without a quorum. *“Filibus-
tering’ was continued until 5 o'clock,
when the House adjourned.
In the House, on the 6th, petitions
were presented by Messrs, Harmer
{ of Labor in their respective districts,
ests, Mr, Taulbee, of
| called up the report of the Committee
jon Invalid Pensions upon the veto
message of the President on the bill
granting a pension to Carter W.
Tiller. After some debate the matter
was postponed-—yeas, 117; nays, 113,
The General Deficiency bill was fin-
ished in Committee of the Whole and
reported to the House, Pending; ac-
tion the House adjourned.
In the House on the 8th, the death
of W. R. Cole, Representative from the
Third Maryland District, was an-
nounced. After the action customary
in such cases the House, in respect to
the memory of Mr, Cole, adjourned.
Mus. Donns—*No indeed, the new
craze for lamps has not affected me,
and it won't either. I would not have
a lamp in the parlor for the world,”
Mrs, Hobbs—**How can you talk so?
The lamps they make now ave perfect
works of art and everybody buys
them.”
“1 know it; but I can’t see what ad-
vantage they are,”’
“If you had a Frown-up dn hier, as
I have, you would see the advantage
quick enough.”
“Dear me! What difference would
that make?”
“You know a kerosene lamp can’t be
turned down real low without smok-
“Yea”
“Well, when I smell smoke I know
it’s time to saunter into the parlor,”
Dove Song,
W Lite dove! that sittest lightly
On yonder blooming spray;
My step shall not affright thee,
Nor thought of mine betray,
My heart, which erst was troubled
Lest danger might appear,
I3eats calmly now, unrufiled,
The home-flight is so near.
Hast thou the gift of healing
Within thy flutt’ring breast?
My soul, to thee appealing,
Begs peace of mind-—and rest.
Fly, fly unto that maiden,
As sweet and fair as thou!
Tell her my heart, care laden,
Forgets no sacred vow;
That, in some far-off dreaming,
Our fates may be unite,
When true love, yet earth's seeming
May wake in pure delight.
TIRE SRA ART.
LEOLINE
“Oh, mother, I wish we were rich! I
think it is a shame that we are obliged
to live in this litle hut, while my
haughty cousin lives in a mansion and
been mine.”
‘My dear, how can
| pretty cottage a hut, and how can you
| complain when we are doipg so well?
Let May wear her diamonds, and
please, dear, for my sake, if for noth-
ing else, do try to be contented.”
Florence Arleigh made no reply, but
{ pressed a kiss on her mother’s forehead
and left the room,
As the closed,
leaned back in
the last rays of the setting sun, while
vou
Mrs, Arleigh
and watched
door
her chalr
childhood. Her cheek was
soft South wind apd no
| sound ber musings of by-
| gone days, gazed into the blue
sky, where the clouds floated and float-
| ed away in the distance, but she saw
| not the clouds, for her mind
old ber infant foot
of her
fanned by the
disturbed
She
the home, where
band of a mother.
self, a Lappy maiden, in
forest, twining a wreath of flowers and
of the May.
he thought how sur-
learn that an
while she
the shady, old
Crowning
herself Queen
She A
smiled as s
priced she had Deen to
artist had been sketching her
addressed the her
How her young heart leaped with
delight as she saw the admiration ex-
pressed in the eyes of the stranger. Then
she had been wooed
how be had
{trees as subjects,
had
she thought how
and won by the artist and
taken her to the residence of his father,
from ber eyes
her hus-
Then tear after tear fell
as she thought bow she and
band had been turned away from the
home of her father-in-law, and how
her husband's proud sister had said:
“When I marry, I shall not disgrace my
family by marrying the child of a poor
| farmer.” Oh!the days that followed,
the happy days, in which she tried to
make their cottage a pleasant home
| for Leon, who worked early and late to
paint the pictures which brought just
| epough money to support them. Bit.
terly she wep!
brilliant June day when death entered
her home and her brave, handsome
Leon was laid in the little parlor and
her two children walked on tip-toe say-
ing,
mamma is sick,” Her reverie was in-
came from the chamber of the little
cottage which Mr. Arleigh had been
pleased to will to his son's widew.,
Upstairs is a cozy room in which
| Florence and [eoline Arleigh do the
| They have been copying, but are not
{doing so now, for Leoline is laugh-
| Ing beartily while Florence stands
| before the mirror saying, mm tragic
| tones, “How have the mighty fallen!
{ An Arleigh must earn her bread by
| the sweat of her brow.
| poet who will immortalize the fair face
| reflected in your mirror? Where are
{ the brave men who will gaze with ad-
| these azure eyes?
| Alas! they are here, but they are not
| the ones in whose pockets the gold dol-
| lars jingle merrily, for the men whose
money would make them acceptable in
my sight pass my ‘beauty unadorned’
and bow at the shrine of my cousin.”
Leoline leaned back in her chair and
laughed until the tears started from
her eyes. “Ob, Florence,” she said,
“are you crazy or are you rehearsing
for private theatricals?”
“Neither, but, seriously Leo, I was
pot intended for this kind of existence.
1 was not born to spend my life daub-
ing my fingers with ink. I was born
to walk like this through rooms which
art has done its most to beantity”
and Florence raised herself to her full
height and walk majestically across
the room,
“Well, said Leoline, ‘if you have
finished, we will continue our work.”
“Oh, dear! Work! work! Nothing
but work! I think our grandfather was
too mean for anything or he not would
have given all his property to Aunt
Emma and left us without a cent.”
“Florence,” said Leoline gravely,
“our grandfather is dead and what.
ever his fanlts may have been, we are
not to judge him, He gave us this
pretty cottage and we are doing
nicely.”
“There, you little saint; I take it all
back. Let us have peace,” said Flor
ence, kissing Leoline and hurrying to a
small table on which were scattered
pens, ink, papere.,
Not long after this, Florence and
Leoline had been out for a walk and
were returning home when they were
met by one of Mrs. Leslie’s servants, r-
“Oh, Miss Leoline,” sald the se
vant, ‘your cousin, Miss May, is very
sick, and Mrs, Leslie sent me to in-
quire if you would assist in nursing
her.”
said,
mother is willing.”
The disease may be contagious, and
no end of trouble, Yes, and who is to
do all the copying while you gone? Let
Aunt Emma hire some one. I am sure
she has enough money.”
“You need not copy any more
usual, You know I have a little
money which I saved for a ralny day,
and we will manage some way, Bo
don’t look so cross, for 1 feel it my
duty to go.”
“Duty! Fiddlesticks!
dia not think of duty when poor father
Jy this time they had reached home
and Florence rushed in exclaiming,
‘Mother, May Leslie is sick and Aunt
Emma wishes Leo. to help take care of
the small-pox or
something dreadful.” and Florence sat
down out of breath, while Leoline
knelt by her mother’s chair and said,
“May is very ill. May I go?”
Mrs. Arleigh little
turned face and, for a moment, she
thought how cruelly had been
law, who now
Leoline,
know she’ll cateh
Kissea the up-
she
asked that JLeoline, sweet
‘She shall
nature
oh You
darling, and may God bless
of the Leslies,
her better
descendant
not go;"” but soon
may
o
KO,
you.”
eived the best of care and the
directions were carefully fol-
'é
doctor's
lowed by Leoline who, hour after hour,
sat by of
never complained of weariness,
At crisis was passed
May was quiet and rational and she no
had done when the
fever was as its helget., she was sur-
that Leoline was the
and had cooled her fevered
brow, and whose soft voice had lulled
and she begged ber to stay
the side the sufferer and
last the
ABS WM
prised to learn
one whose |
her to rest,
awhile,
May were sit-
sitting.
One day Leoline and
ting mn the latter’s beautiful
Toot,
interesting story in a late
Suddenly there was a rap
at the door, followed by the entrance
of Dr. Deane, who cheerily,
“Well, how is our patient to-day?"
While he talked May, lLeoline
walked out quietly and, going to her
her bed and
seeing her
aloud an
INAGAZINE,
said,
to
wept bitterly. Anyone
would be surprised, for quiet Leoline
If it were Ilor-
think it strange,
angry
tears.
would not
became so
cheeks, but, a moment after, she would
thing which excited the risibility in her
Florence was clouds and
sunshine and as changeful as the wind,
but when Leoline wept it was not from
anger, it was because something seri-
ous disturbed the serenity of her soul,
The cause of her presen! grief was
this: unasked, she had given her heart
to the handsome young doctor, whose
all
“Ah,” she mused, ‘what chance
have I to win him? I, who have neither
beauty nor fortune, can inspire no love
sessed all the virtues of Yenelope, I
that her heart had passed from her
keeping and that she hoped to become
the bride of one who is all that is good
and true. I must carefully conceal my
love for him, for mother and Florence
must not know that I have lost my
heart while under the roof of the Les
lies. Gentle mother would be more
sad than ever, and impulsive Florence
would say she knew something would
happen to me, and she would hate
cousin May, who is the innocent cause
of my sorrow.”
The next day Leoline determined to
go home, and in spite of May’s en-
treaties, declared she must go that ev-
ening; for, said she, “You will soon be
well, and mother and Florence need
me."
“Well,” said Mrs. Leslie, “if you
must go, I suppose we cannot keep you:
but here is a small sum as a return for
your kindness in coming to help us;”
and she passed a check to Leoline, who
laid it on a table, saying she could not
accept money as payment for her servi-
ces, Mrs Leslie liked Leoline, and
she sald, mentally, *I will give her a
handsome present.’’
That evening Leoline returned home,
and, as she left her aunt's house, she
noticed how beautiful May looked mn
her white cashmere wrapper, and she
murmured, **No wonder Dr. Deane
tf
| herself by the side of Leoline, exclaim-
ing, “Oh, Leo., I’m the happiest girl
alive! Rich Mr, Way has returned
| from Europe, and hesays he f211 in love
| with me last sear, and he has proposed,
and I'm going to marry him, and 1’
buy you and mother a nice
| things, and, oh, I’m too happy to live!”
When Florence was excited she paid
no attention to the repetition of con-
| Junctions,
1 8
ol of
Teoline replied: “I am very glad to
hear of your good luck; but are you
sure that you love him?”
“Love him! Of course I love him.
| Wouldn't I love anyone whe askes ne
| to share a fortune of a million dollars?
| Mother 18 coming!” and she ran down
| the path that led to the street and met
| her mother ere she entered the yard.
“When Leoline retired to her roc,
| she gazed in her mirror, but could see
| no beauty in the small, pale face, large,
| earnest gray eyes and brown hair
| brushed plainly back from her fore-
{ head, ‘“‘Beautiful May,” she said;
*“‘Heaven help me that I may not envy
| her happiness,”
{ Fortwo days Leoline was busy and
did not go out at all, but on the third,
| which was her birthday, she and Flor.
{ ence went for a stroll, Florence was in
| the best of humor and talked incessantly
{of her approaching marriage,
| about the dresses she would
| diamonds she would wear, ete.
| first Leolmne listenea and tried to be in
| terested, but, try as she
{ could not forget Dr. Deane,
seemed ever before her and
| she tried to crush her love, the
| that love became and wider
| gulf between them. Florence
| tered on, wholly unconscious that
sister was not listening. “It isa
tery to me how Mr. Way fell
with me, 1 always knew that I
not born to work, but I da not expect
to get out of it so soon. How the girls
will envy me when I become Mrs. The.
ow May Leslie will
hig
i
Fou are lwently years
have,
would, she
His face
ue more
stronger
4
grew the
odore Way, and
stare. Say, Sis,
old to-day, and I mast look after you
or you will be an old maid, Walt till
I'm married and see if 1 don
+ find
¢ na
a
rich husband for you.’
Tie two girls were returning
Florence though
bad forgotten to mail, and Leol
to return
walked slowly on, while Flor
turned the +e
not gone far when she heard s
“rood evening, Miss
looking up, her eves rested
of Dr.
reached
home
of a letter she
when
ine
street,
nee re-
to pos flie «oline had
me one
BAY, Artieigh”
“ 1
anda
upon
They
an arbor
the handsome face Deane.
walked on until they
which was provided with rustic chairs,
Dr. Deane suggested that
but no sooner were they seated than
Leoline’s hands were clasped and she
heard the Doctor saying “Oh,
can you not see how dear you
me? Sweet Leoline, raise those beau-
tiful and me you will
Jove me just a little. Tell me, Leo, is
| there no hope for me?” Leoline did
not reply, but she offered no resistance
when he took her slight form
arms and showered passi
upon her face, which bad lost
ed paleness and assumed the hue of tl
bright red rose, Al t
much confused to speak, but at }
they enter,
Lex ine,
are lo
tell
ETAYy eves wa
1
in his
Kisses
118 Wi
vrs tee
Ya A
4
Mit
Sua
we
first she
looked into the deep blue eves s
own and said, **I though
loved cousin May."
“Thought 1 loved cousin May! Why,
how could I be charmed 1 May's
black eves when 1 was in love with
little nurse?’ Here Leoline
s0 many kisses that she begs for meres
and declares she will be smothered.
| One day Mrs. Arleigh was greatly
| surprised to see, 1n the village paper, a
notice to the effect thax, through a
dishonest agent, Mrs, Leslie bad Jost
| the greater part of her fortune, A few
| weeks later the same paper announced
| the marriage of Miss May Leslie and
Mr. Richard Lee, the coal merchant,
and stated thac the happy couple had
| gone to Chicago, where they would
reside. Leoline burst into tears when
| she heard of her cousin’s marriage, for
she still thought that May loved Dr.
| Deane. Florence remarked, *‘Serves
| her right, She liked you, but she al-
| ways hated me, and now she has Jost
| her fortune and has had to marrya
| baldheaded, cross-eyed, ill-natured old
codger, whom she must already hate.”
The days passed swiftly away. The
paths were strewn with the leaves of
Autumn, and the cold blasts of Winter
were followed by the soft breath of
Spring.
It is a bright June day. The interior
of Mrs. Arleigh’s cottage ‘s pictures-
que in the extreme. Hach room seems a
bower, for beautiful June roses are here,
there and everywhere, The inmates of
the cottage are hastening to and fro as
if preparing for some special event;
but upon the faces of all, thereis a
look of happiness, for there is lo be a
double wedding, and the brides will be
Florence and Leoline.
There is a ring at the door, and a
small package is handed to Leoline, She
sees that it is addressed in her cousin's
own hand writing, and she hastily tears
off the wrapper. All day she has been
thinking of May and wondering if she
has forgiven her for winning the heart
of Dr. Deane. When she has torn the
wrapper from the package, &! ¢ finds a
little box, and, upon opening it, she
feels a thrill of delight, for she sees a
beautiful diamond ring, on which Is in-
scribed the word, “Leoline.*
~Veivet Nowers of the most gorge
0us SOTts Appear on straw Louuels, :
in her
3
ner
receives