WHAT NOT T0 LOSE. Don't lote courage; spirit brave Carry with you to the grave, Don't lose time in vain distre a: Work, not worry, brings sucetss, Don't lose hope; who lets her stray Goes forlornly all the way. Don't lose patience, come what will, Patience ofttimes outruns skill, Don't lose gladness; every hour Blooms for you some happy flower, Though be foiled your dearest plan Don't lose faith in God and man. “LITTLE ONE” The great ballroom was like the sea. The waves of people whirled and eddied in the storm of music. They tossed to and fro—backward and forward—the jewels and brighter eyes of the fair women suggesting the spray that is thrown upward by the waves and lit by the sun. The human tide ebbed anid flowed —a turbulent whirlpool surrounded by a wall of stony dowagers and ancient beaux. ‘Then there came a sudden lull the wind died out—the dancers ceased, and all was order. The flitting couples were the gulls darting here and there after the storm was over. A girl came out into the hall, leaning on the arm of a much-bedecked cavalier. who was jerky in his walk and voluble in speech. The man was a type of the many types of Washington society, but his partner attracted the eyes of all She was probably ninetecn, rather tall, and very graceful. Her features wero classic in their mould, bat full of the fire of life and sympathy that the strongest chisel fails to cirve. As they passed down the broad hall, the ran chattering like a simian, and the girl indifferently regarding the biase youths that blocked the way, a young fellow came forward wearing an air of general disgust, and looking infinitely more bored than his other miserable fallow-creatures. He stood carelessly to one side to let the two pass, apparently regardless of them, but as they approached, the girl ran for- ward with a cry. “Why,” ejaculated the young man, aroused fromm his state of apparent som- nolence, “it's Lit it's Nancy!” “You never told me you were here,” answeied the girl, blushing ever slightly. The de trop cavalier looked on thie meeting with an expression of feeble- ness, and stood to one side. “How could I tell you?’ laughed the young man, “when I imagined that you were still in Virginia? to-morrow.” “D.dn’t you know I had come up to Washington to make my debut, and Oh, I beg your pardon, Lieutenant Frax- ton, my cousin, Mr. Wentworth.” The Lieutenant shuffled uneasily and bowed stifly, while Wentworth made a feint at a slight nod of recognition. ‘*Come into the conservatory, Nancy.” he whispered, offering his arm: and Mis. tress Nancy, who acted her own sweet pleasure, turned to the officer with a smile and bow, and accepted her cousin's arm. The Lieutenant blinked at them as they went off. “Well, Little One?” said Wentworth. with a questioning smile, as they en. tered the dim, fragrant room. : Miss Naney stamped her foot. “Why do you persist, Tom, in calling me sp? she objectod. ‘‘It won't do for society?” “Well, I reckon not,” answered Tom “That's my own especial name, and ciety has nothing to do with it.” “Of course not.” responded the girl, abscotly. She was thinking of some years before, and Tom's stubbornness regarding that very subject; she let it pass now as she had then. “Tell me, hon cousin, leading seat. “Suppose ! missed you?” “It would have been your own fault.’ replied the girl. “You are so mighty independent that your own mother does not keep track of Your movements, much less your humb’e cousin.” “1 didn't think she cared,” Tom an- swered. and waited n moment for her to respond, “She don't’ —which reply was forth-coming in due season, ’ “pons lot's fight,” Tom continued, ow do you like society? “Oh,” laughed the girl. “it's pleasant, because society seems to like mo. Mrs. Whorter, an old friend of papa’s, thought it too bad that I should miss the madness of a Washington season, and invited me up. Mamma is staying at your house. and do you know, Tom. we Bre going to spend this summer there. Auntie says that the visit is to be indefinitely pro- longed. Isu't it good of her?” “Perfectly right,” agreed the young man. ‘“‘I'mto spenl the summer there myself.” “Why, I thought you were abroad?” eried the girl. “No, that is, if my doesn't scare you all away,” was the re. 880 I was going down 80 ‘re you?" remarked her way to a clojists red had gone home and ; going “So | heard.” fore would have called gods to bear witness to his intended begira. It was the first capitulation and the girl must have understood it some- how, fer she was uncertain how to an. swer. Afterall, it was the belle of the season who responded, “Well, perhaps not.” Then an intruder came upon the scene, a gentleman with fierce whiskers, which essayed the leonine, but lent rather a feline oxpression, “This—er—is my dance, 1 believe, Mins Hardy’ he yoututed, Miss Hardy, responding with an indifferent Ist?” took his oe. By Then she turned to her cousin, “I'll save you the next dance, Tom.” young man smiled and nodded in the most matter-of-fact way, while Puss. in-Boots glared at the individual who re. ceived such sovereign courtesy with such sppatont calmness. ft to himself, Tom gave vent to a whistle. Then he improved the occasion by growling and mentally dubbing him- solfa hydra-headed specimen of asthinity. 1t bad been three years since they had last met, Heo way! then fresh from el, lege, with an un good opinion himself, and sho Just in he salis state. Thoy had upon the nine gcvd friends who were oternally squabbling, a —Tom winked slyly at an oleander, and changed his montal personal desienati-n to something more flattering. Heo 414 not consider his instability: he did not recall his blessedness as opposed ery of woman's thrall. to the ness toward the fair sex time —was complotely wipod out. He be- queror; but there was enough latent good sense in the young man to make him re- solve to keep his opinions to himself, That night he settled upon his plan of campaign. He would make himself use. ful; by-and-by he would become neces. sary. His cousin by-the-way also saw in him an in- terposition of Providence. She could do as she ploased regarding him, and make { him useful. Not that she didn't act ther own sweet pleasure in every- | thing; but queens may not be so absolute {us cousins, and thers was a sense of possession and comradeship as well. She had known him forever ns measured by her own life, and he was a brother more years’ absence did nothing toward altering the sisterly rogard. So Miss Nanoy Hardy, the belle of the season, adopted Tom Wentworth as ao deus ex machina: and, when sho so desired, the wires were manipulated, and the convenient cousin lowered into the center of society 8 stage and made to act his little part. The only one who objected was Mrs, Whorter, the girl's chaperon, who thought that there was something deeper than cousinly regard in the young man's mind; but when she feobly objected (on general principles alone), the younger Indy gave a scornful sniff, and commented upon the years that she had known him. So the season of 1845.6 passed on, the young man continually on his guard, and playing his. part so well that he oe- casionally” introduced a gentle quarrel to prove that the state of things was as it nlways had been. But he grew to know the girl better than he had ever done before, and learned her sweet sim. plicity. She was a batterfly and a child aimless in life, careless of the future, delighting in the homage she reovived But she took all the admiration of the men #0 naturally, betraying no partiality. having no knowledge or thought of the truth of love as it should be, that her seif-constituted mentor dared not to venture warning, as he would have suspicions, alwavs alert, suggested anvthing serioms. Life to her was full of youth, music, and pleasure; love was an abstract quality that she did not realize. Wentworth understood it and He had outg own his uncertainty; he had become a man. So the sea of society pitched and rolled, burving many beneath its d ep waters, w hile Mistress Nancy rode on the topmost and ruled. jut there came an awakening one day ‘a tiny cloud over Arcady. Wentworth, been lulled into n was suddenly awakenod., He had called at the with the assurance of familiarity entered at once into the drawing-room; and as he entered, a pie- Hpon n done if his \ . all waited, waRYe passed who had security, Foiipe feeling of 2 house, and ture wus revenled that stirred his pulses and made his heart throb wildly with jenlousy. A voung man stood before the fire, silent and abashed. His eousin sat to one side, her head bent in thought I They entrance, and then the young man, with a low bow to " ticing the intruder As the door closed Wentworth went forward and the girl rose and took his hand, full of gentle, “Oh, Tom!’ choking back a sob, “w hy do such things happen » Why do men love and then feel badly DECRURE : * niso silent both turned at his the g woeat out, not no. Her OYes wore womanly tears sie sa me, f bre Cause Tom's heart gave a great bound: he was ly satisfied. “I don't know. Little One,” he tenderly and goutly, patting the little hand that lay inthis. Bat he did know: and he also knew that if he told, he would give up hope and banish love. The time had not vet come; he must continue in his fool's paradise standing unarmed at the gate to guard. Then he suggested a relief, and it showed the curb that the Young man possessod over himself, prov. ing nlso his ready deriation from the path of truth. ’ “What do vou asked, ’ wholly answered, say toa canter? he *T'he horses are now waiting, The suggestion was a happy one. But upon reflection Tom afterwards doubted the wisdom of the step. As thoy gal. loped through the city half an hour later another horseman hove in sight, and with the permission of Mistress Naney, joined the posty. And this rider—a grave, middle-aged officer of the army —secemad to interest the young lady exceodingly, until Tom said something (to himself) that touched severely upon the fickleness fore perfect being. When the ride was over, and with glowing cheeks, Miss was not greatly impressed; Having Thomas Wentworth did not spend his time in building castles; he settied down remained the same as over. days, and Mrs, orter once questioned him as to whether he thought *‘the major was in earnest.” The gon lady had bos come convinced of his disinterestodnoss, und was surprised and shocked to hear the Major called an ‘old fool.” The youn man had no bed of roses those days, un each hour seemod to be fitted with a par. ticularly sharp thorn made on purpose to disturb kim. The Major was very at- tentive, and Miss Nancy sublimely un- conscious to all appearances, but a large size devil of doubt had entered the youth's mind, and no that sealed ¢ of oyni aud distrust, If he could only some pretext to outdo the Major he would have boen happy, but that gentleman was so uniformly polite that Virginia not to be cast in the chivalry was shade. As the winter of "45 had been s!l sun. shine to the young lover in the cloak of a gloom. mit of his being otherwise than gracious, and he went to these dinners solely be- causo Nuncy had asked him to once, for the Major had given the invitation to her time. He plainly saw the drift of things ; he know that Nancy's eves were opened, and that for her the world had attendant satellite. The Major groeable machine god was lugged along to keog Mrs. Whorter happy and amused. | for the sake of cousinship-—confound kin! he thought and the ouly thing that cheered was the reflection that it cost the Major a lot of money. It was the Major who got them front seats to see some official ceremony, where for three hours Tom sat by hersido while the other was absent on daty; bat it was the Major, resplendent in full dress uniform, that walked homo with Miss Nancy, while Tom escorted Mrs. Whorter, and gave small heed to that Indy ’'s reminiscence of the time when the silk-stocking regime of Madison place to the bag.at-the-knee rule of Mon. roe, all of which happened when she was little, little girl.” “Um!” commented Tom at the clusion of this history, and, looking ahead, decided that the Major and Nancy made a very handsome couple, which angered him There wore ramors of war afloat, a Lone Star State in the fact brought comfort to the young man’s soul, for the place for soldiers was at the front. The rumors grew in strength all the time, and one day a magnanimous thought came into the younz man’s mind why should he not go to the war too, and give his rival an equal chance? He consulted with the Major, that official saw the War Secretary and the Presi. dent, and one day came back with a com. mission as Lieutenant. By that time all talk was that of war. ne fair April day Tom took Na to the valley of the Shenandoah, gave her into the keeping of her mother, and bade good-by to his affectionate rela. tive. As he mounted his horse to ride cown to the station —he had taken advan tage of the occasion to kiss all around his hand and ‘I'll come back a Major!’ he cursed rave QOn~ view, and iw OW ’ he was ed shouted, hen himself for a prig as ho role the dear girl would sarely him: he ealled ap for a long time. ue thing which tr ily that was the thought that he would be on even terms with the Major in far went. So he Washington feeling unplos trying to make himself martyr to principles, When Tom reached the « apitol he got orders to report to General Taylor on the Rio Grande, and off he want, leaving the Major in Washington, four hours his ideal. ‘This was not what he had counted upon, and Tom realized the that he had been a sure-en 3 Hea did not intend to mak: rifice at first ; did not and i 181 and he remembered pleased Mexico as returned to like a out a ns love fool, and only from Buns ail Seen Heo st of May, and there found that he had to learn so much that the past in lor to perfect present that is, he He Maj HI Te the ¢ amp by the 1 it he gave up t ordi hi in the gave up as much as he could been on duty for a week ¥ a himself Work when the turned up, smiling and hearty Hello, Lieutenant.” was his greeting “How are you? He grasped the young 1.3 man's hand and held it ' { ny oni You by . Pom, may | not? o amengaged to your fair cousin.” Tom's ideaof what happened just then was never very clear. He knew that the Major and he were drinking to the health of Mistress Nancy in the Major's tent ten minutes lator, and that he surrounded by blood-thirsty Mexicans in the night, and utterly wiped out. The next day there was a skirmish, and in the excitement a gun was Tom's face that he was burned by the flames about the eves. and fell blind. After that the troops pressed for- ward, and Tom was left groaning be- hind. Tha army moved on, and was vietori. ous. In a week Tom realized that the world still possessed light, though it was but a faint glimmer, and then he was rambling across the plain in a rude wagon. Howeward bound! There was h spel to be fired so close to back man, he felt sorry that he must give vp the touch of that gentle guiding hand. vas there sweeter or more and flowers. together with a low voice all through them. two sat on a hillside beneath a shady treo, The valley of the Shenandosh strotched before them, with the dim mountains atar off. The Potomac was ao silver thread, oconsionally lost in a patch of trees, and then running on through a mesdow, before him as he lay on his back smok- ing. As he had told Nauey one day, he folt it all the tizne, She sat beside him with a book, reading the poetry sung by some minstrel in the olden time. Now and then she would stop to laugh at some quaint expression or way of spelling. apd laughed, spelling out the words as to a child. Meanwhile Tom lay with his eves closed, blowing the smoke straight up, up, until it seemed to form the little clouds that sud led across the biua sky. As the afternoon waned, a little colored boy came running out with a letter * fo’ Miss Nancy. She took it and read, then bent her ignominious. What a home.coming it was —so pitiful to the strong young man! His sight improved a little, and he could distioguish forms in the twilight about, but his eyes were kept bandaged most of the time, and in that condition he left the to meet him ? joy, and a soft voice whispered, “Tom!” “Yes, Littlo One,” ho answored, pas. sively. * No good.” “The doctor wrote yesterday from Washington that you would be all right in a few months,” she rejoined; for he and tredted. He wore a slouch hat pulled downover He had been told all this, but had said that he didn't care, which was true he didn’t. The girl saw noth. ing of this, Sho saw the tall man help- could not see her wep. “Come, Tom, dear; your mother is waiting in the carriage,’ and she led him to her. He said very little going homeward, seated beside his motor. but in the front seat Nancy sat weeping gently, and she held his hand all the way, grieved at the sight, and the first thing that he did Then ® got. owe was Je Star of the age, and endeavor to recognize dear dim form before him, What sweet calin days were those that followed! He sat on the piazza while sho read to him and talked to him, asking him ail sorts of questions about J woeks’ Tom “ What read,” She started suddenly answered. “ Major killed at Vera Cruz Fom dropped his pipe and rose to his foot Then he bent “aver and took hor bonds in his. * Poor, poor Little One |" he said, in a voice so full of sympathy that she burst into tears Ho took a seat on the geass beside her, and tenderly stroked her hair as she sobbel. *“ My Little One,” “1 am awful- ly sorry for you is it?" he asked. “I can't “1 forgot,” she Barton has been 3 he w hispered Only the f after. Life evervohere and love. Then and nid her head silonce of the summer noon : he drew her toward him, upon hisshoulder ‘*Little One.” ho “ih } hie spered it's so awful!” she sobbed “He so good, and 4 I didn't know that I cared for him pot, and 1] don't know wy fool and I thought at first | loved | ! ! ' 4 loved me i was went away so hb Tw inh, he Answer, right as God or- iH now rere dimmed to the present sas i he fature nappy, loving vearstob Harper's Weekly An Amiable College President. De. Hill, the Harvard, th a ov was who was trouble and the Fhe Fairfield ¢ils anollier story Liu piabaty soon aiter CAnXKer worms begat ii frees in much and it was feared that they would : Dr. Hill ¢ gestraved CER i } jual to the cmeren } OF Duss have the asl handsome trees residence destroyed by insi ker worms, Accordingly be mu aration largely « vin posed of ink and gid! his While fi raiment suitable § on prep. printer s . thus the recs, JOR i i nl the remedy wi him a plained that the tr wore injured by th him if she could not them. He said he would if be could get time. She asked him his name and he said “Hill,” und after exacting from him and examine the 4 about her resi and him to treat { the worms engage A promise to come up trees, she went home and proudly told her husband what she had done. He ro. cognized the divine by hor description i Ihe. “Hill kept pits of the moriified indy 's protestation; and the trees are alive and thrifty today. {New York and wise appalied ut his promise, in s A A AAAI A Statue to “Little Mar.’ of The in bronze statue be unveiled in Philadeiphin on Septem. the battle of Antietam, is thus described: heroic, resembling closely that of Gen. eral Thomas, tho apirited animal ridden by crest of a gentle hillock. tience of his stead, the dingy littie army cap deawn down over his eyes, the im. buried in that deep thoughtfulness, that impression of latent power and magne. tism, which won for him the devetion of all officers, and made him the great or. nizer of the shattered armios of the Jnion, The top of the granite pedestal, from which the steod arises, is 11 feet above the nd. Its base is 14 feet long and 8 feet wide, the lower half of massive granite, the upper carved with wreaths and martial devices, The front will be inscribed simply, ‘ General George B. Mo Clellan,’ letters, Below will be a heavy shield v eaves of AN EX-SLAVE’S GRATITUDE, Master’s Danghter, musty records of the Government de- partments at Washington. Many a white-haired lady clerk or palsied Gov- ernment employe have i in their n touching ro- mance could their lips be Now and then, by accident, the fucts come out. and are eagerly sezied by greedy correspondents from which to weave a glowing sketch of touching pathos. But a thousand other life stories ure never revealed, and those who alone could have related them are buried with their secrets, In what is known ns the seed room of the agricultural departinent a slender woman, with a scattering of gray in her of 8a week, Traces of refinement and culture distinguish her bearing Her delicate face is marked by lines of care, Trouble has sealed her lips und focussed the ambition of what remains to her of life upon her employment. Working side by side with women who are earning their pittance to feed hungry children at home, she performs the service required of her seemingly oblivious of what is going on nround her, She was appoiated early in December, and her appointment came to her as a great boon, and under singular circum- stunces, Une afternson just before Thanksgiv- Day Frederick Donglass and his white ' to the door of carringe Mr. Rusk receiv Secretary Rusk's house od them in the parlor, and after shuking hands, Douglass asked the bluff old sec. retary of agriculture if he might prefera wife drove ina modest Thanksgiving of having it granted. The Secretary assured him that if the request with a hope power of granting it reste i with him he rely upon favorable consisderation. TheSeo- listened, but was very busy just then, and requested the white.haired ex- slave to remind him of the case later. In the es preferred his request, 3 % * # #5 y course of a few days the Secretary altare found among his letters following Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D Hon. J. M. Rusk Agriculture: Nir | have the honor to re. us req ested, of the case of if the C., Nox Re 26, retary of family in Lire § s BB member « umn. that wos formeriv a sinve, i * # riune ol h Miss throug oe sOeks lovment by family in this 6 siraong that for I nk eri ai ployment i the humbie § Mina piace she the a useful will, 1am sure, if en seeks, herseil tural service, and member of the agric teful for the appoint 10 obstacle ii be fon ' 1 he place she I ar iY A Mastiff Kills a Fawn. ing Shaw of Racket Creek on ig on North Mountain He took her home, ie 3 , nnd named her F ne, Mr mastiff, Gdeascr, took a great { $ He tant irom the sfart. } hed to her ¥ sha 1: 1h othe fawn became very much atta middle ere insepar. dog looked after protected her zs, and appeared to be whenever y one fondled her hey roamed over the farm together, i 3 $00 and the dog jealous wouldn't allow Fanaie to get ont of his sight, By her actions the sown showed that she wos pens d with ¢ dog's attentions, and she frequently “ i Th i dog coaxed her back a number of ¢ times, seeming to fear that something the farm baildings After a while Fan. straived of her freedom by the dog. time she started for the forest. tne afternoon last week Mr. hours, He was about to send the boys to the hoase without Fannie. His face was covered with blood, and he whined and made a great fuse, “Teaser, where's Fannie?’ Mr. Shaw asked him. The dog uttered several moarnfnl howls and started a a run to. ward the nearest woodland, looking back as he ran. Mr, Shaw followed him for nearly two miles into the woods, the dog giving vent all the way to howls of distress. In a little dark ravine the dog led Mr. Shaw to the dead body of the fawn, where he sat up and cried as though he had lost his best friend. Mr, Shaw raised the fawn's head, and the dog lay down, licked her nose and whin pitifully. The fawn's throat had Leen torn and she had bled to death. 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