THE VALLEY OF THE GEII1YS- BURG, DY JAMES 8. SULLIVAN. One dusk, cheoked moon long summers gone, whito- Put windowa DBeoheld this valley reel with war Wher: glow now, yon still hamlot's redly the heusowives gossip, or olse croon i Through the long afternoon gatmbol in the v ilies at their mom vibhos in A GOVERNMENT CLERK. BY Hamilton is a natural iar conditions of Was hough he is a Gover . | duct il hington meut clerk in, . 4 of mrments close Hifi on at AT four fow Well good-looking, y, his re: bey in the afternoon. TI more Ff (racar men in Washington mannered, cultivated, exceptionally antecedents, in every drawi he is ife are facts which nobo he is, perhaps, throw ig} had her sphere is the | i i { * ol o'clock ere good Ig 1 pool and away that have chievements in y circle in fact that y born lea vear, early in » german at the Japanese Xp $ Mari upon } ndent as Government grew older time of the ball at the Japanese 1, it was only natural that Hamil. d Miss Forrest pretty constantly, were manifestly She § thrown and their! Aare cable to was a girl not altogether friv- ous, and she had enthusiasm beyond should be both tions of future parties or recol She awoke in m a desire his best side, and he was a man of more than usual in formation and intelligence, for his hours at his office were not infrequently spent in reading and in which were of no vaiue the Government, but were most improving to him. [It was inevit able that Miss Forrest should sce in him a superiority to his contemporaries, She found him a trifler, it is true, often evn ical, sometimes bitter and misan thropical, but he had a charming, frank boyishness of nature and a generosity of heart which caused most people to like him and some even to love him As for Miss Forrest, 1 think she must have been naturally a flirt: for she took to it as a bird does to flying, with slight | fluttering and very little preliminary training. There was little Polonisi, the Secretary of the Italian Legation; Major Lockwood, a gallant officer in the pay corps of the Army; Jones and Smith, | young fellows, clerks in the State De- partment; old Count de la Rose, an im- poverished French nobleman, attache of the Legation. All were her constant at- | tendants and formed her bodyguard, | sometimes on duty together and some times by turns Major Lockwood was the most sistent. He came of an old and distin- guished family. He was not without intellect; but he expended it all in the perfection of his gentility, Although he | clothed his handsome person in sober | tints, there was, nevertheless, an appear. | ance of much thought in his trousers, | and his cravats showed considerable | power of mental concentration, He was not a bad fellow, however: and Miss Forest liked him, because he was good looking and a fine specimen of a “swell.” It is not infrequently the case, too, that a pereon with a stupendously good opin- ion of himself succeeds in communica- ting a part of this opinion to others, There was such a voluminous self-esteem emanating from Major Lockwood that most people concluded it must have its origiz ir sowe spark of genuine merit, IL To siv in a rarlor, tete-a-tete with a 8 pretty girl who is not averse to bein made love to is dangerous; to walk . wit {ond £ pu n NS Oh past ones show her labors to «even per her when she is addicted to perfect hats is still more but to ride horseback with her when the air is balmy and the blood is warm with the delightful exer ia apt to be fatal. Through the generosity of a rich sunt, Hamilton was the fortunate possessor of a fine and when the weather permitted and Miss Forrest was willing, the two used to take long rides in the beautiful country around Washington, they would cast all conventionalities to the winds: sometimes singing together, laughing from veryexuberance of spirits, 80; cise horse; On these oreasions and sympathy of each $3 EY ' said th reaiiy t do vou hink that it Ma I only SUC “It is a Hu k f ‘that “Th ae Onve ion,” she s raat you can interrupt imterruption 1s not What was | started denly $ “] am sure mt I the wl's, and that 1 woul i if let and white when we have next n In truth, “1 was saving tl yught my could beat Lockwo be supremely happy vou would wear weel ily in st omed to being Hamilt He was so a trifler that he But Miss Forrest a flirt every d mn not vet It was nee seldom was in bane . and it w uld be with earnest, Wns oming more of 18 inte the result Greek obsery " 1 encounter of sree i the : impartial wearing spoke a little scornfully getting serious She laughed. “I kn : but Major Lockwood was in a w He was almost rude, and said he ved | was trifling with you He is funny Major Lockwood-—what of him?" trifled o him good.” I must not trifle with Mr. Henry Hamilton is not to be ranked with men of such inferiority as officers of the pay corps of the army Hamilton winced a little “You are “Itistrue [ am i if you with him, it you, is oni don’t take any credit to myself because *‘And why are you only a Government clerk?” she said, her manper changing suddenly “Really, your are worthy of a better career than that, Why don't you do something? You are clever enough. I see.” “Well,” he said, lazily, perhaps | am alone in self.” He was leaning back on the divan, lux “Mr. Hamilton,” she said, ‘suppose would exert yourself and show the world He started up. “Yes, oh, yes; may I person?” “Who knows?” she said: “perhaps | may." she spoke, and immediately Lockwowd and her other vassals came dutifully about her; and Hamilton, yielding up his place, went home to think. When he ealled at her house the next evening he saw only Mrs, Forrest, her daughter being indisposed: but before he fete the maid handed him a little bunch of violets which, she said, Miss Marie bad charged her to deliver to him, 1. The rivalry between Hamiiton and Lockwood was nning to excite inter. est, If she could, Miss Forrest saw them separately; but when i was un- 1 | same time, she kept them on tolerably good terms, It was a great convenience to her that the paymaster had more leis aftercoon, and later she could Hamilton, As for him, what had begun as a mere liking had ripened into an in fatuation, and was fast mellow ing a genuine passion, To friends who watched him closely a cer tain brooding of became evident Receptions and his app arcd to enjoy only there: and, indeed, he Now mto characte: binll " 3 § LH) somberness and in fact if Marie wi Hever vi dinner world, were un f Of Der nresence i Ot tnined enerey SOUrCes + wins able ny excursion. She carri and tl s for luacheon were quite com When time to salad with her i ny tppeared ti a delice iss i Or POMS Inven to be forth haps the p nin sandwiches was ure I HEY th Hamil good humoredly thus Forrest invest jut per Of ¢ dav was to see were em d yward the fom KW rts ou water her, for roun wie middle of od, strid- tstretehed oiling i wt t ou us and but her ridicul ton sKipped canal was ‘“ The 5 dav was not thi nubbin fr that Hamilton 1 Miss Forrest, keenly felt: and 3s rove son most hiat he would =? and he w hole solved in future actually did her for five days, nor had reason for supposing that he would her when he went out to tea on Sanday night. But she was there more radiant han ever, and the glance that the table at him was charged with sadness Fortunately, the make w re RETOER besecchi no ng general conversation after DECCSSArS “I have not seen you for a time, 3 long the Forresta would spend the senson in New York, but it was not without a pang was engaged to Maturin Delano He did not know Delano, save by repu tation, ns a man of large and small intellect, He was certainly not as interesting to Marie Hamilton but he was obliging and she liked him very well When the list of people in Washington her looking estates as had rood \ : asking to wel made out, Delano, in it over, asked ‘Who is Henry name vou have 1 hie Hamilton, ad of the IN MIDDLE LIVE, at Which Works of the World Were the frearz Written. Ages some of unmedd began tl Bacon wrot when ns 41 from thu Fennyson w Hind Mil “41 pre LS apj . eared Fdgeworth rent ATUL ius began his religious works at ori =i n Meredith published “Lucile” at The first volume of Indian tales from the pen of Cooper appeared when the author was 30 1 writers that the famous ode on the fall of th Babylon at 52 Gray published his “Elegy” at 34 Isaiah wrote e king of Jewis) HAY It “Yes ” he said, gloomily: “five whole an eternity, in fact." “I am sorry. [ wished to see you, | I have become accustomed to setting you.” She looked up at him for an in stant softly. “Shall we ride together to-morrow! In the revulsion of his feelings, he wanted fore her—to do anything such was his adoration of her “Yes,” she said, in a low, caressing voice, ‘if you care to go with me.” i ROVYONn Years, Macaulay was 47 when he began the the “‘His- tory of England.” The “Marco Bozzaris,” the poem by which Halleck is best known, appeared when he was 35. Buckle brought out the first volume of the “History of Civilization” at 36. De Quincey published “The Confes. sions of An English Opium Eater,” now! He had the ride the next day, and he knew was expected of him, he saw smile of happiness upon his countenance that Hamilton changed his mind and Miss Forrest had ealeulated clock was fifteen minutes slow, and Lock- wood had, as a consequence, overstayed his time, When Hamilton saw her ata party in the evening she asked him why he had not come, “1 was afraid you might be fatigued from the visit that Major Lockwood had been p*Ying you,” he answered shortly, “Oh, no; Major Lockwood doesn’t fa. tigue me. There are others who do, though ~=with theirsuspicions.” She was vexed because her plans had miscarried. Heury Hamilton bowed to her and left, But Marie Forrest rejected Major Lockwood when he Jroposed, which he did the day before she went to New York on her way to Newport, Hamilton heard, early last winter, that The “History of Ferdinand and Isa. bella of Spain” came out when Pres cott was 41, his “Conquest of Mexico at 47. Cooper wrote to relieve the misery of ever-impending iosanity, and was 53 Wilkie Colling' first novel, “Antonina,” came out when he was 36. Pollock was 20 when the “Course of Jules Verne was 35 before he turned his attention to scientific fiction in “Five Weeks ina Balloon,” Roussean wrote the “Emile” at 50, the foundling asylum, Mrs, Somerville was 51 when her “Mechanism of the Heavens” appeared from the Cambridge press, At the age of 41 Milton issued ths “Paradise frost.” which had been in preparation for twenty years, Making Sport of a Language. When the Portuguese first explored Brazil, they made great fun of the na. tives of that conntry, because they had in their alphabet no f, r, or I; a people, the invaders declared, without A Te , Oo rey-~without faith, law, or king. The Mohawks, again, have no labials, and vowed it was absurd when the missions. ries tried to teach them to pronounce and b; “for who,” said they, ‘ean pound 4 with his mouth shut?" Argpasut, { [HE JOKER'S BUDGET. i OF THE PRESS, Pos. ! Ad- | Came | { Why Not? Had An Hiteh sibly They Arec-She Where In, Kte., Ete. vantage the responded that eve to business no," he half smile: “I guess not to-day too high, I'll you when they arn and he moved on quietly and Detroit Free : they're see lower.” cheerfully, ‘ress, CARRYING A MORTGAGE buiit mortgage, Jimson must have of his under a Bilkins fine house didn’t he? Wilkins-—~Yes, How did you know? Bilkins-—1 notice his shoulders are be ginning to look like a Mansard roof, [New York Weekly, A 1LOXG-FPELT WANT. Sappy—By dropping a nickel in anew machine a cigawette will come out, doncher know, and a cigarette will go out. —| Puck. WELL EQUIPPED. like mine is worth five hundred a year in any church choir Maud it.«={ New York Herald. A HEAVY SHOWER, Mother-— How did you get so wet! Did vou fall overboard! " Little Dick—Dunno. It mined so hard out there I couldn't tell whether 1 was overboard or not. HE DIDN'T CATCH ANYTHING, Employer--You took to gro fishing yesterday! Employe—Yes, sir, Employer—Catch anything? Employe--Nothing, sir. Employer (making a powerful effort to appear calm)-Come up to my house this evening. 1 want to have a talk with you about taking you into partnership, {New York Press, KIND AND CONSIDERATE. a day “My wife is a kind and considerate woman,” “1 am glad to hear it." “She never calls me a fool, as some wives call their husbands.” “Nol” “No, she never goes further than to say, ‘John, I beliove you're half a fool.’ Aiew York Press, THE DEAR GIHLA Would you lleve 1 1 fewer than five Young men On 16% Sine fe AYE no hands hands re it, Blanche (glancing ) OR, dear, i Cig believe -{ Exchange DIETA “Don't ing on th #OME ONE Bing t $ ; Kir need. ¢ i “i Hua. Oo happy ARVIUIm big Over First Man (on Wagon) hullup: you'll run that pol Second Man—That ain't no policeman ; it's only a feller in a blue suit. Gang. | —{ New York Weekly. COOLED NIM OFF. “How is it that you look so cool cheerful on this hot day?” “Well, I have just had a talk with the | oldest inhabitant and he remembers summers when it was twice as hot as this.” —i New York Press, and Plymouth Rock's Journeys, Plymouth is a busy factory village, We are sent for landmarks of the past to Plymouth Rock, the cemetery on | Burial Hill, and the museum in Pilgrim { Hall. No spot is quite so famous as | Plymouth Rock. The stranger is sure prised to find it so small, but itis a | veritable rock, where rocks are not | plentiful, It is protected by a stone | inclosure with iron gates, through which we pass and step on the granite of dark | gray color. The hardness of the stone | makes it almost impossible for relic | hunters to carry off pieces, but a French | traveler said he saw bits of Plymouth Rock in many States of the Union. One | jarge fragment is built into the wall of | the Church of the Pilgrims iu Brooklyn, New York. The original rock is in two halves, each about four feet in diameter, the under part somewhat larger than the upper. At the time of the revolution it was taken up to be carried to the cente of the town to make a rallying point for patriots. The rock was broken in two wmlves, The lower part was left ip ita original place, while the other half was carried to the town square, In 1834 the rock took another j prmey to the lawn in front of Pilgrim Hall was inclosed by an iron miling, on which are inscribed the names of forty-one who signed the compact on board the May flower. A third journey, however, has restored it to its original position. The Alden claim for their respective ances. tors the honor of having stepped it first. The poet Longfellow calls John Alden his maternal ancestor. Peter son's Magazine.
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