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THE WONDERFUL HAND.
BY DENNIS O'RAFFERTY
PART FOURTH
TILE GRAND FINALE,
Within a foul cave in the regions of night,
The fearful abode of hobgobblin and sin ite,
Surrounded by spectres forbidding and grim,
Behold, as a prisoner, venturesome Tint.
A jury assembled to sit on his case,
Whose faces displayed neither beauty nor grace;
The provident judge, master-spirit of vice,
Gazed out with a leer that turned Tim's heart to ice.
" Call Timothy Byrne," said the judge with a frown,
Unfetter his limbs, let his wrists be unbound;
Have you any reason to offer, young man, •
For wickedly stealing 'Tun WornEaFuL HAND.'
"A rason ?'' cried Tim, "be me sowl an I have,
'Tis this that me sowl the rich treasure did crave
I knew not ver honor on it had a claim;
I thought it wluld secure me both riches and fame.
" Instead it has been all the canoe of me grafe,
It's right glad I am that ye Lave it home safe,
And if ye'll hut free me and let me depart,
Ye're welcome to kape it µ•id all of me heart."
"Nay mortal," quoth he who presided, "'tie mete
That ere you should lave such a lovely retreat,
A lesson of wisdom we to you impart,
To teach you to meddle no more with our art.
"Convey hint in haste to "the slippery crag,'
Where perished the nettle-brained Clare county hag—
And if by good fortune its summit he gains,
Let freedom reward the rash youth for his pains."
A giant now seized him and bore him away
To where rose a precipice, rugged and gray,
And bidding hint seek for a mode of egress,
lle left him to scale it or dieat its base.
"()eh hone gramachree !" cried poor Tim in despair,
"The dinil himsel couldn't clamber up there;
But if I lie here I'll be food for the bats,
They'll fight o'er me fl,sh like the Kilkenny cats.
"So here goes to try for me freedom wid might ;
Swate l asgin assist me to scale the smooth height
Paralysis saize on that lIANo, is me prayer,
I'll ne'er stale another I vow and declare."
Just then a large bird, of a race now extinct,
Mistaking poor Tim for a pig, so I think,
Flew down from its perch, taking Tim by the hair,
It sailed away heavenward up through the air.
Retaining his presence of mind, he was mute,
For fear he might frighten the murdtheriu brute
One only remark did he venture to make,
" Be jabers Fine saved if his howld dizn't break !"
But oh what a thinking he kept up meantime,
As nearer the top his rude captor did climb ;
He kicked off Hs boots thus to lessen his weight,
For fierce was the pain that encircled his pate.
But safely the bird brought him up to the top,
And into its nest his fair body did drop ;
The young birds put on quite a look of dismay,
For ne'er had they gazed on such strange looking prey,
The parent-bird looked on poor Tim with disdain,
Half tempted to tumble him over again ;
But ere it had time, pro or con, to decide,
Tim left at a pace that a race-horse defied.
When safe ont of sight he decided to pause,
To bind up the gashes made by the bird's claws ;
But what was his horror to find his head bare,
Ills life had been saved by the breadth of a hair.
To moralize then the great spalpeen began:
.
" Was leer it thus since creation of man ?
Had Absalom's hair carved his body as well
Ho might have been living the story to tell.
"But chore I am glad that it stuck to Me head
Until I was safe void the young birds in Led,
For bad it gev way but a moment before
I might have been knockin' at St. Peter's door.
"I'm glad I escaped wid the loss of me hair ;
I'll lave the bird that, chute, in pledge for me fare,
And if I'm ne'er ;Mettle pledge to redeem,
hould that mild bird iu the highest esteem.
" Henceforth I shall live by the sweat of me brow
And thry to kape clear of that party below ;
W id pockets bereft now of aril's mate rout,
curtail ambition me prospects to suit.
"A widower now wid youth's bloom en 'me cheek,
A mate Irish lass for u partner I'll seek ;
But shore I must get me a wig for this head,
They'll think it was robbed by the vixen that's dead
"Financially spaking, that scheme was a miss,
Except the remembrance of marital bliss;
The joy it imparted io hear she was dead,
Does scarcely o'er balance au ogle-clawed head.
"But why do I vent on poor Biddy me spleen?
The fault we/ill hers that is plain to be seen ;
Pier charms were to me like a cable of sand,
The 'open sesame' was 'Tin WONDERFUL HAND:
"Bad luck to the HAND, it has ruined me quite,
Uncovered me head, and near killed me wid Light ;
May ague unnail ivory finger straightway,
And bind them to Satan t., swaten his tay."
ght Aterg-Zelltr.
THE GHOST OF HERON LIKE.
Under the young shade of the old trees
before the Heron Lake House, Hugh Che
viot tied his horse, and took off his straw
hat to feel the balmy woodland air bathe
his temples. It was dewy and sweet with
the scent of horse chestnut blossoms.—
Through the slopes of birches and alders
the lake glimmered Hue like a sheet of
steel. Cheviot drew a long, quivering
breath.
"Glad to see you, colonel !" called his
host from the portico.
"Yes, lam here at last," responded
Cheviot, advancing toward the house, but
his gaze wandering after two white but
terflies waltzing down the slope.
"Fine weather," placing two chairs in
proximity on the piazza.
"It seems to we the moat beautifd
Spring for years," was the response, as
Cheviot sat down, the sunset light striking
full on his face—the face of a warrior,
scarred and marked with life, but noble as
stern. "The house is not full, I think you
said ? It will be quiet here ?"
"Quiet enough," responded Peter Stew
art, shrugging his shoulders.
"Who are your guests ?" asked Cheviot,
pulling at his brown beard. "Heron Lake
cannot be a fashionable locality ?" with a
half-apprehensive look toward a glittering
carriage-load of ladies rolling along the
tree-hung road.
"No, no. Those arc people from the
village, six wiles away. It's Mr. St.
Lambert's team. Nice horses ; see the
furthermost bay. There's a gait for you !"
"Yes, yes. Then they are not coming
here g"
"Well, Mr. St Lambert's here—some
times."
"Boards here ? And who else ?"
"A family named Stamford, another
named Rochester, and a few invalids." .
Cheviot appeared satisfied. The supper
bell rang.
After supper, seized by the enticing
charm of the steel-blue water glinting
among the trees, he startel suddenly to
visit it.
His host called after him : "It's a half
a mile away !" but he still kept on.
The glades were scented and sweet.—
The birds twittered sleepily on the branch
es of blossomed boughs, or eyed him with
bright, hidden eyes from their nests. He
found a tinkling little brook leading down
to the lake, and followed it.
It widened gradually into the sheet of
pal c, blue water. Bankful among the
darkening green, Heron Lake gemmed the
forest like a pearl.
"Why did they give this lovely spot
such an ugly title ?" murmured Cheviot,
seating himself upon a fallen tree.
The fading light grew murky; the si
lence deepened ; yet the sweetness and
coolness held him until all was black and
still.
A rushing noise in the bushes suddenly
startled him. 'Was it midnight ? He was
wet by the dew. lie rose to his feet, re
called to his task of returning. But as he
turned, a figure, dimly white, stood in his
path
Slight and light and graceful, it waived
aside, and was gone. For a moment he
doubted that he had beheld it. All was
dim and lonely, and the rustling tree-tops
were monotonously repeating some vague,
sad story.
"Has Heron Lake a ghost ?" he asked
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1875.
himself, as he plunged through the alders
homeward.
"31r. St. Lambert, Colonel Cheviot.'
The gentlemen acknowledged the intro
duction somewhat formally, both privately
preferring not to be intruded upon ; but
Mr. Peter Stewart silently congratulated
himself upon having done the correct
thing.
Mr. St. Lambert had been at the llcron
Lake House full three days, and until now
no opportunity of presenting Colonel Che
viot, his favorite guest, to this gentleman
had occurred. Mr. St. Lambert was sit
ting on the piazza, and Col. Cheviot, lost
in thought, had approached inadvertently.
A cold, well-chiseled, handsome face was
St. Lambert's, with pale hair curling
around it. His dress. his diamonds, were
exquisite. He was about thirty years of
age—nearly ten years younger than Che
viot. Each man, you would have said,
understood himself well.
The colonel remarked that it was fine
weather.
"Yes, but a cursed lonely spot to find it
in !" responded Mr. Lambert, taking ad
vantage of Mr. Stewart having been called
in-doors.
"You are detained here against your
will ?"
"I hoped to be in Paris this month,"
was the reply.
In three days more Peter was satisfied
that Lis two distinguished guests would
not fraternize.
Cheviot was getting the rest of spirit
that lie netqled. And soon, since the
Rochesters and the Stamfords were not
intrusive, and the heart of the woods was
open to him, he felt himself slowly coming
to life, after years of suffering that had
benumbed him.
All his hopes in life had been centered
upon a woman who was lost to him. The
old story, but never beyond belief to the
stricken heart upon which it falls. Clare
Edgerton's marriage, against her will, to
the man to whom her father was indebted,
had cast a shadow, like that of a grave
stone, down the path of Cheviot's
All beauty, all enjoyment was lost to him
when he found himself bereft of her. lie
seemed to have died to himself
But now the sky and the rustling
boughs, and the violets looking at him
blue and brave•eyed from the grass, arous
ed and vitalized him. A voice came out
of the wood's recesses saying : "This is not
all. There is more to come."
Meanwhile he ate the trout of the hill
side streams, slept sweetly, was polite to
the Stamfords andßochesters, and avoided
Mr. St. Lambert.
He awoke one night, and heard a voice
singing outside of the window. A woman's
voice, sweet and strange, and with vibra
tions in it that seemed familiar. Moonlight
shone white on the wall, through the
branches of a tree. He aroused himself
and looked at his watch. It was a quarter
to three in the morning.
Strange as the circumstance was, an al
most unaccountable excitement seized him,
as he dressed and went out upon the upper
piazza. But already there were lights and
the voices of men about the house. Soon a
voice—it was very like St. Lambert's—
called, "We've got her !" Then all grew
still.
. But be could not sleep again until past
day-break. That singing voice so haunted
him.
The next day he made inquiries. A sick
woman, deranged by spells, had escaped
from tl►e care of her nurses. they told
him.
Two weeks passed ; A wild, rainy spell
drove Cheviot in-doors from his accustomed
haunts, and little Mrs. Rochester, who
secretly admired the stern man with the
sad eyes, invited him to her private parlor,
an invitation which, to his own surprise,
he accepted.
First she tried him with a bit of gossip.
. _ _ _
"Have you heard," she said, -"that Mr.
St. Lambert is to be married next week ?"
Cheviot had not heard.
"To Miss Rosa Grant, of New York,
who is staying at the village hotel, six
miles off. And they do say, Colonel Che•
viot, that he has a wife!"
"A wife ?"
'Yes, an insane wife. And that she, is
kept here in a back wing of the house
with her nurses. Mr. St. Lambert is
wealthy, though they say it is with her
fortune; but money won't help him to
get divorced from a sick wife," concluded
Mrs. Rochester, with flashing eyes, which
were to be interpreted by the fact that the
little woman was in delicate health, and
had a course looking husband, who treated
her with brutal indifference.
"Certainly not," said Cheviot.
"I have never seen this invalid woman.
St. Lambert says it is his sister, but I know
parties who can prove that she is his wife.
Peter Stewart is in the secret. Do you
know that she escapes and wanders about
the ground ? And that is what the ex
citement was about the other night !"
"Indeed ! I distinctly heard some
strange, sweet singing."
"She has a heavenly voice. And she
calls, sometimes, a man's name, piercingly,
sweetly ; it would make your heart ache
if you chanced to hear it. But they al
ways bush her up and keep her as quiet
as possible. This is my third summer
here, or I should not know so much."
"The skeleton in the house," said Che
viot, smiling.
Ares, almost literally. They say she is
pined away to look like a spirit more than
a living thing."
"A spirit ? I think I saw one in the
woods the night I came here exclaimed
Cheviot.
"Perhaps it was Mrs. St. Lambert."
"Possibly," returned Cheviot., with a
start.
lie sat musing for a while on what he
bad heard.
In course of a few days the strange story
became familiar to him. The indifference
which he bad before felt for St. Lambert
now changed for a decided disapproval and
dislike.
"A bad man," he said to himself, re
garding more attentively the handsome
Greek profile and the bold eyes.
The next week closed the stay of Colo
nel Cheviot at the Heron Lake House.
Once more he wandered alone to the little
sheet of blue water, and as the afternoon
was hot and the balsamic scent of the pines
heavy, he fell asleep, couched luxuriously
on a bed of brown, rustling leaves.
A violent peal of thunder awoke him.
He sprang up. The sky was blaek. Lines
of lightning played above the pine-tops.
It was too late to escape; he could only
sink back under the matted boughs, trust
ing to their destiny to protect him from
the coming rain.
"Suddenly, pleadingly, sweetly, a voice
called his name.
"Hughie ! Hughie!"
Cheviot leaped to his feet
"Hughie !" "Huabie !"
How frightfully like the voice of the
woman he had lost ! But she would never
call him more. No, no—never any more!
lie threw himself down among the russet
leaves again, almost with a sob.
_ _
How he bad loved the lips which had
made that plain name sweet ! Oh, God'.
but thou only may witness the strong man's
agony.
When Cheviot again raised his head,
the slight white figure of a woman, stood
beside the basin of the little lake. He
gazed at her, momentarily, his gaze deep
ening. Her pure cut features, the wealth
of silky black hair unrolled and falling
down the loose gray dress, the frail white
hands, the attenuated yet graceful form—
they were lire, and yet unlike, the Clara
Edgerton he had been bereft uf, and again
he found himself upon his feet, and breath
lessly fearfully pressing fbrward.
The white r figure Moved slowly along
the bank, her gaze turned aside. Overhead
the thunder rolled heavily.
Suddenly there was a crash among the
bushes. The figure of a man leapt into
view.
The white figure turned at the sound.
Then, like one who, weak and helpless,
anticipates violence, the strange woman
flung herself upon her knees with the ring
ing cry :
'-Mercy ! Mercy :"
A muttered cum, and her captor was
upon her. By her loose dark hair he drag
ged her prostrate. With his booted foot
he kicked her eeble body, while she seem
ed to have fainted.
It was a man with the face of a demon
that Cheviot sprang upon and choked from
a hold upon his victim.
St. Lambert !
For a moment the two men glared at
each other. Then a blinding light seemed
to scar their eyeballs.
"One shall be taken and the other left."
When Hugh Cheviot regained conscious
ness, a woman's tender hand was brushing
the rain from his face. Softly her tremu
lous voice cooed above him :
4 •llughie ! Hughie !"
"Clare !"
He looked up into her eyes, meeting his
pitifully under the disheveled black hair.
"You are not hurt ; but he is dead," she
said.
Clare Edgerton and the wife of St. Lam
bert !—who lay lifeless where heaven's
thunderbolt had stretched him !
Wrapped close in his cloak, and borne
in his arms, he carried his treasure back
to the hotel.
That she was now quite sane they were
all obliged to acknowledge. And when
St Lambert was brought in on a stretch
er. his scarred, blackened and distorted face
told too plainly bow he had died.
Miss Rose Grant drove out in her car
riage, but beard a tale of her lover which
sent her back speechless and shivering.
Devotion and happiness won Clare back
to health, sercaity and strength. Her for
tune was rescued, and in a month she was
the happy wife of a happy husband—Mrs.
laugh Cheviot.
for the ;1; Mien.
Good-Nature.
Be good natured ifyou can, for there
is no attraction so great, no charm so ad
mirable. A face that is full of the ex
pression of amiability is always beautiful.
It needs no paint and no powder. Cos
metics are superfluous for it. Rogue can
not improve its cheeks, nor lily white
mend its complexion. Its loveliness lies
beyond all this. It is not the beauty
that is but skin deep. For when you
gaze into the face of noble man or woman,
it is not the shape of the feature you
really see, nor yet the tint of the cheek,
the hue of the lip, or the brilliancy of the
eye. You see the nameless something
which animates all these, and leaves fin•
your instinct a sense f,f grateful fascina
tion ; you see au indescribable embodi
ment of a heartfelt goodness within, which
wins your regard in spite of external ap
pearance, and defies all the critical rules
of the msthetic. Cultivate good-nature,
therefore. It is better than "apples of
gold set in pictures of silver," fer gold
will take to itself wings and fly away, sil
ver will tarnish in time, and both, when
abundant, lose their comparative value ;
but good-nature never, never loses its
worth—never abandons its possessor to
the mental poverty of the malicious—
never loses its hold on the esteem of the
world. It is always in fashion and always
in season. Everybody admires it. It
never grows stale. It costs little to ac
quire and nothing to keep. Yet it is be
yond diamonds in its worth to its owners,
and can neither be stolen nor lost, how
ever neglected. Surely this is a jewel that
merits a search ; and, when found, merits
a protection. Possess yourselves of it,
young women ; no talisman will find you
so bewitching in the judgment of the sen
sible among the other sex.
Modern Courtship.
The z'ysteni of love, courtship and mar
riage has undergone very radical changes
since the days when Jacob devoted a con
siderable portion of his life to winning Leah,
the tender-eyed, and Rachel, the beautiful.
Who, in this age of steam, electricity and
Atlantic cables, could devote seven years to
paying those laborious attentions which
have justly come to be called "serious"-
51 serious, indeed, that in many instances
the :'lishiooable pair are oppressed by a sad
feeling of soberness during the remainder
of their lives ? Even Jacob himself, did he
live in our time, would scout at the idea as
preposterous. Fancy "the girl of the peri
od" bombarded with flowers, at the rate of
ten dollars per boquet, during seven mortal
winters ! Calculate how many hundreds of
miles of "Germans" the aspirants would
dance during the same space of time ! Im
agine the innumerable cups of tea he
would imbibe in the domestic circle while
on such long terms of intimacy with his
beloved's family. No physical system
could stand it. The most robust man
would break down under the ordeal.—
Even Patrick himself, who from early
youth has been brought up to constant
and severe labor, would find it impossible,
while "kapeing company" with Bridget,
to "ice-crame and discoorse her" for a pe
riod of seven consecutive years. The world
was made in seven days ; but many of the
enterprising youth of the present age have
shown that all the courting necessary be
fore marriage can be accomplished in much
less time, Jacob to the contrary uotwith
standing.—New York Evening Pose.
I IVUD knot dye in summer and leave
the garden sass, the roasted lamb and
buttermilk, the cool place on the grass.—
I wud knot dye in summer, when every
thing is hot, and leave the whisky jew
lips ; owe know. I'd:: rather knott.—Josh
Home Courtesies,
A writer ii► Harper's &tzar makes
sonic excellent remarks concerning cour
tesies at home. Mew.e listen, good people
of the home eireie:
"The placing of the arm chair in a
warm place for mamma, running for a foot
stool for aunty, hunting up papa's specta
cles, and seres of little loving deeds, show
unsuppressed and loving hearts. Bat if
mamma never returns a smiling 'Thank
you, dear,' if papa's 'Just what I was want
ing, Susie,' does not indicate that the little
attention is appreciated, the children soon
drop the habit. Little people are imita
tive creatures, and quickly catch the spirit
surrounding them. So, if when the moth
er's spool of cotton rolls from her lap, the
father stoops to pick it up. bright eyes will
BCC the act, and quick minds make a note
of it. By example, a thousand times more
quickly than by precept. children can be
taught to speak kindly to each other, to
acknowledge favors, to be gentle and un
selfish, to be thoughtful and considerate of
the comfort of the family. The boys. with
inward pride of their father's courteous
demeanor, will be chivalrous and helpful
to their young sisters; the girls. imitating
the mother, will be gentle and patient.
even when big brothers are noisy and heed
less. In the home where the true courtesy
prevails, it seems to meet you on the very
threshold. You feel the kindly welcome
on entering. No rude eyes scan your dress.
No angry voices are heard up stairs. No
sullen children are sent from the room. A
delightful atmosphere pervades the house
—unmistakable, yet indescribable.
Scrap- Books.
The best paste for scrap-books is made
of flour. Apply it with a soft brush to
the back of the paper to be pasted in and
pat down the scrap with a soft cloth. Roth
sides of the leaf may be scrapped, and
many successive pages filled at once, but
care should be taken to remove all paste
from each page when it is completed. and
the book should be left wide open to dry.
A well filled scrap book is a very pleasant
companion of a rainy day, especially if
taste and discretion have been exercised
in its arrangement. Stories should be in
a part of the book by themselves ; the
same may be said of poetry. and of wit
If all the newspapers usually torn and
burned for kindling were carefully scissored
there might be in every family a book of
wit and wisdom, of information, and en
tertainment second to none in the family
library, always excepting the Bible. It
is well to accumulate quite a store of scrape
before beginning the book and employ
some rainy day of leisure in arranging
them properly and fastening them in plum
Picture-books for children, far superior, in
point of variety and intere.st. to any in the
shops, may be made by saving up pictures
and pasting them into some volume not of
intrinsic merit—an old ce•sus book with
good binding answers the purpose At
intervals through the book a half dozen
leaves should he cut off smoothly, leaving
a half inch margin, to make room for the
scrappings and keep the book in good
order.
Drinking for the Effects.
He said didn't care anything about
liquor, only the effects. He never liked
the taste of it ; made him "gag" to drink
it; and he made an awful face as he took
it down. But it was the effect he was at
ter. It' it wasti:t for the effects be would
never drink a drop of liquor in his life.
He was a nice young man when we first
heard him say that. He had health. gnod
looks, property and a respectable position
in society. The only perceptible effeetaof
his potations then were the heightened
color in his cheek, increased brilliancy of
the eyes and vivacity in conversation. He
was generous and liberal with his mon ey,
too, and bad a "host of friends." Weil,
he kept on drinking for the effects and he
got them, as every man will who keeps at
it long enough. The last time we saw him
ho was that pitiful object, a human wreck.
He was standing at a bar pleading for a
drink on time, his trembling fingers being
unable to find even a solitary nickel in the
pockets of his ragged apparel. He bad
kept on gagging over his whisky and drink
ing for the effects until he hadn't any ef
fects left, except those painfully apparent
ones, poverty, disease, privation and van
ished respectability. Verily, he got the
effects.
The Old Red Cent.
As the old •red cent." has now pared
out of use, and except rarely, out of sight,
like the •old oaken bucket," its history is
a matter of sufficient interest for preserva
tion. The cent was first proposed by Robert
Morris, the great financier of the revolu
tion, and was named by Jefferson two years
after. It began to make its appearance
from the mint in 1792. It bore the head
of Washington on one side, and thirteen
links on the other. The French revolts-
Lion soon created a rage for French ideas
in America, which put on the cent, in
stead or the head of Washington, the head
of the goddess of liberty—a French liber
ty, with neck thrust forward and flowing
locks. The chain on the reverse side was
displaced by the olive wreath of peace, but
the French liberty was short-lived, and so
was her portrait on our cent. The nett
head or figure that succeeded this—the
staid, classic dame with a fillet around her
hair—came into fashion about thirty or
forty years ago, and her finely-chiselled
Grecian features bare been but slightly
altered by the lapse of time.
Forgiveness.
The mantle of charity ought to be thrown
around the faults of our 'diem-beings
"Thy sins be forgiven thee" should be the
answer for us to give to those who have
sinned against us and wish to be taken
back to our bosoms and be as they once
were, pure and sinless. Forgive and forget;
memory will not let us forget, but it is in
the power of exalted human benevolence.
Saddenning scenes will ofteu press these
selves upon our attention, even when we
do the best to prevent them. So scenes of
harmony between ourselves and our hu
man relations will arise in the soul, not
withstanding the presence and influence
of that principle of christian charity which
should inspire every human soul with its
divine effulgence. Yet memory, however
faithful to her trust will not prevent ns
from being lenient towards the faults and
follies of others and to forgive their de
parture from a true life.
Tile boy who, when asked to what trade
he would wish to be brought up, replied :
"I will be a trustee, because ever sines
papa has been a trustee we bavo had pud
dings for dinner."
A POssebg lessiearn.
Sitting in the amities the amber day. I
bled a little sermon preached is the way I
like; and I'll report it Smrywer Mtsusit. be
came it taeght my* et the lame ea all
should learn. and rased it its MA a IN&
oral, simple way, that as one amid forgo
it. It wir+ x bleak. sstawy Thu ; the min
was late ; the ladies' mow 4arit sea molly;
and the &ern 'news. old end rest, isle
sat waiting isspetieedy. in 1111401 411111111114
'ow spirited, or stepid. I fek sit Arm;
and thought. as I looted armed thus wry
fellow hetegs were a vary iewmialhle, ets
i b terestiet set.
Just them a forks% mid wnsimma, shaking
with palsy, muse is With s leis 6111
of wares for vile. sod west alma me*
offering t bets to the sitters. Notaiy
anything. Ind the pone old aired lOW Mbllk
lug at the door a minute. as if relomemens
go out into the bitter stews aspic As
turned preseutly sod robed about the toast■`
as if trying to God semsdlias . sad lbw s
pole lady in black who ley es if sole, we
a sofa, opened ter me, Pow the old se
wan. and instantly oohed is s hied Isms,
flare anal lose seeding. umisee r
-No:de.sr. I an inokieg for lb* lmmtis'
place. to hare a War. 'Ws I pee eat
again. My eyes is pow, sod 1 asts't ism
to find tb•' foram, sogriparea:'
Here it is, - sad the lady led her to dm
10,11111 TS•istat.f. placed a Aar. sod show
ed her how t', wars her feet.
We'.l. now ain't that miss 7 - mid the
old woolan. 'reedit,- her rased mercer
to dry. --Thanlty. deer this is pre
eoaar,rt.ible, aie't it' stet Stop to
day. beim' lame sad visible', ;sod net esll
ing much makes use down beirted. - '
The lady smiled. wino to the seenser,
bought a cup of tea sad some sere of hod,
carried it herself to the old weensk acid
said, as revertfelly sod bindly as lithe
poor woioao had been dremod io sUh and
for, -Won't yes have $ sop of hot see'
It's very etimfortiee sleek s day SIP
:lakes alive do they gave tea so this
depot erred the WA lady. in s tem et
innocent surprise that mode *smile ipo
round the room, tooshieg the slemoisell
face like a streak of sunshine "Wei, nem,
this is jest lovely." added this old lardy. alp
ping away with s relish, ..Tllis dose worm
thewiskiss of my boort 7'
While she refreshed herself, telresig ken
story inesnwhile, the lady babel sow the
poor little WMs s ebe beast, broglis
soap and pins. shoostriotp., and lope. awl
cheered the old wail by miss etrA hr
them.
As I waterbed her dole; tbeemph•
what a sweet Famish' had. *mush ra ass.
starred hey plain Wows foist
ly ashamed of isyself. that i bed
shaken my head whew the liselliet ewe et
feint! we ; and as I saw the MI tstinlNlP
est, sympathy and kielliseee eseseiete din
dismal faces all anima sew 1 ad wish line
I 641 been the segisien to es, it wt. it
Wale only a kiwi weed tea a fetwissily mt.
but onnehow it briwbOseed that leen
room wonderfelly. It ehoomild the lists
of a dozen women. said I think it tatewholl
a doses hearses. &it I sair isiwy eyes Ulm
the plain Tidy with made* tespwee; tail
when the old women pat ep so se. weed
pera isi beekoned to her. and bweght ewe
thing. as if they wanted to repair their
Grit negligence.
Old beggar women are ant reemsetie. nei
thcr are mops of tea. bnaChsesa. Mal wider
ed soap. There were so gestbmwees pews
ent to be impressed with the lady', himd
set. sal it wase't tine, tnr elleet. sad no
passible reward enehl be rereireed ler it
@seer. the onsissessstieal thumbs id a sist
ged woman. Bet that eine* link
charity W 35 as wood as a serum we thew
who saw it. sad I think mush gamier vest
no her way better for that hair base is
the dreary elation. I sae testify thew sow
of them 'lid. sad nothing bee the .Si.ay
nen• of her pore prevented bet free •-enew
forting the males of the heart" of leery
forlorn odd woman she met for a week af
ter.— L-Niao ..litotf.
Elul se Wows.
W,Aaea are like everythiarg else as lair
world—a very silted op affair. .1 , -...r4ing
to our owe ~bwervatietv acre Ir#
Women goo.* sod memos bail,
Woman gay sad woman sad,
Wnatine big sad woman sepail.
Women abort and wows nll.
Romeo rat and wsnes 18110.
Women meat sod wawa wow
Wows yeses sod women adaL.
Weans bonen sad Immo and.
Ream poor sod VOWS lb*
.led a good nosy more wawa
The kilt mums is this wield wet, Is.
Eve was a hod girl. She &lit babas! tie
the (kod Templar,. Eve Med appeesior
too well--she wasted her's dry. We sew
er saw Eve, has they soy eke was a presty
girl. Her fellow was a shop by the moms e
of Adam. We sever west is whoa will
him. Ewe was like the rest.( )ier slaw ;
just tell ber out to do a thing awl ewes
would be sere to do it. Eve muse lines
been a country girt. She irado't cemsissall
for fashion, and *be made her ewe drew
without a sewiag amehise. She Irma br
rather behind the timee should ale vile
US DOW.
Some women are very petty. We does
like pretty wouses--there are sissy. es
seamy fellows around them_ They remind
ur of a lot of lies es s amiss disk We
like the molasses bet--bethes the ass.
;nod wo*en are plenty is this w> y.
but they sever will tip reef it. yes have
got to trail 'eta net yrarmlf
Bad women are everywhere. They are
like rotten apple• is a barrel at geoid ISM
—apt to throw their flee:yeti internee
aroond theta. They will always t to
make pro believe they are gaol_ Don't
take a ball woman. :ilia is s essillerfe4
tre-Lenre. Look oet for trade-mart.
Gay wow. are jolly fitrfswei, Atop gia
a laugh. They sake Sao ;ad geed deur
to your qleeve-bottoms.
A sod woman ought ;o wear speetestiea
with pink colored gliviseo in them. That
would wake her look at the world in &Ai(
ferret light.
We don't know that we like s big law
sea better these a little use. If she is se
big flat a step ladder is required to him I
her, we most resrpeetfally &erne its Amer
of the snail Doe. As we ream farther at
this subject, we COMO CO the easelaisa
that the small ogee are always potfenible,
they base a teadeoey to bass themalree
—armed a fellow--wed we IMO to 'wr
aith the material fee a has,* pet.
We hate a seas weamia. We feel
saying "deliver as frees evil" wheaeret
we ace one. Bet give ea a sweet weans—
one of natare's ewe ehildrea--vrith reay
cheeks and klieg eyes, with a aohle ham,
a high-towed said,* pare soul sad a
body, relined in bite, dredged is s =l
Sect ; be she poor or risk, yang or eid,
large sr ineell—ta sash as owe we weld
say, "Ily onto oar arms, Jarboe ; we lore
you."
SU aalWs "OP.
Tie OW kW r■d
I had an molt dellik‘ Mr Op ma is
the Gm gem saw spy inniqp. ad I
iisale knew 'bre sell gisimprompla lie
sailmisime Irbil* I prpsermil timorlip
try yetis wises Maim.
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ary beam cry suoto wriest "Imo bow
Aso Nary is oraimig sorwow. WA.
I gime or suroire • nohow 414-
emortroor MP bor. in
gory feel, sibe sr low my
vow, or saki dor ir sloomoomL it
onlintary nom; pit pm oil be 4111
yak istoomoOry hal iv, corder or babe...
k be mire impoorrosimos. Ihr
proo er spollkir it per paw Ibr
mho bre icr;
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tier maim bemillmovil Nis bow prow
I dim ear to oar losor
a jets aims am ma or my poonio I tow
of, asi moll tin or le so cry berm is as
sv. IL its hilhourirg ~an sod I At mai
parstivoity•l
IMO Or it named eggs mink •
sorvicor ler - ask sod Oboe
en alley may boor mitt sit ors
• 11y door sow diem is eat sobor
goyim" Windier do Jasiax, opy vies is.
obi & 1 lbws r solos laws Me is
est) , dose sod, ahlbomplb dbo 111111 boor soy
vamp, as obis.. Air i ampere, i 'sir
eartatity issak ir rill be us
opooli gory bud is odor to be bind 1 soo
wiry aim err it
Aso aim is I. prirom 4 ire
boort. prosrami as db. MOW spob
isoi hind. sJ ar 11. es *NM dire bee
rot pissooro.
Ms sowings isseis ea issop
woo ory wiM. lo tar sioollsr wrJaw
Id* sir s obboAr air
IR if is bed buried bir rids, is AMP
WNW
so efightst sp set pow - dbrisibsd
is4s.sed dirpdhisem se es swift
side.iselb sessesd.ssd so? sew airtr
dime die dirt
"Sim so. my it .- WNW isip sone.
sod is Asia, sitsslb at Wei die bow
sod nowise as dissibiessi—Jidos
Beni Ileum imaie aide OW
iste it se law 1 pawl spit MEI as.
Me airdrop sod stet Sir *plug eigeret
mimes.
Inas I wonowl r. polar.wi vita
..hatpins • bow Ma, in lie Wier has
si ; awl ilsonnia IMP
big ballkodist
lkillikety-- 4 11/141 ye 1 a parrs
*sr" !" rot ge ay rib lbw • Oat
sod 3•10 waft jesprit Ir liflo.
Rather Arty. - sous die or__
$ war ler", sod die amossmillos amr -
am&
The asiolsber. Ihor War assaad ems
bore Mood it. W 1 gm is Our
dial *wry 4 tbe banes I 1004 ow,
is dee mem 4 fir swains ary sow
INA asumise to my ow so—
'SNP hod per vat Maio
Itself bet if panomme WWI
nod riot my wit. bang toot 1110 x 11111 •
mama by As tosoloo. tbot
- go 'wry sit* silt lot
romettly By will aid 4411 y
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'Tom. - moil I. Toe
m 'A I toir r Folo
it grabogaloti ; tie boom
irmy lowa roe moy - Awl sodbarillieb
site at
Mood ss *sir essms s lie solls,
Amok tissy OMB brow sod sow WI
we ryibiag spa is mosisislisliseiamine
vas, - sout iwr swiss* sillisid4 swat"
seflossisi ist isms dile Isom
111 as shy risi "Pm sow IF/ sow by
ieir 4so isonsispsing aloe 4 nisi OW
isssiism 4 imam dOB ollississr sirs sesse.
i 5... / initial irms inoriesp tre my vit.
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limp mid al* ON so smispilly Amp.
Ow for seise vor sr assind s it yip
wise the w promp.
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awl* sursime.
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armisil my *Mt
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1111MOI Wadi a iv tier.
I began to Wei it tines on sonannin
dos pair. soll. ssewi UPI
insing Ain risk I amps! ism Anew&
prier, end Awe lb by A w boulk, nib
' bee sot pipit sonibm gill air Indy. WI
ing from :air osi net. ski bin Go lid
inns bin
T. sod s asset inpiiime
imp crllialolllll6. bet ea s
sewn& I inwnailitasty and itirdsaiway
iminal s eintlionillenib. Am
abs wlri.s gnisine AO andibieb. sad
env asenspir Is reillisie air beglow. app.
=ad ;erring* beat ismasilt it a
peon lOWA Me gm mos on
in ibis elballa* r suppmer bin MIN"
bid not lionayint ear biding titre.
la mend noy Ina and monk ob. by
Obis Tillie annwpoinned i As. and
web a amidling as Ipa I row rp•
ankFail beliwn awl I bap ewer ft re
oPia
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A Wars. emosint whist rift siarard
Creserery Poe La Miry and s sit
war russiair boy ibe away &-
swim Mr MO sok but Ile piers OM
aavvey. sad sea ibr W. eirsrs
must die boom Thy Maar bill as
Yearraire spies i IMO goo awl as.
sorb dry van e die dvad. ise Wire 1/7
18 E 10 7
- Irmo .4•0111110 bit Used aria awe per
..4f yes old vials
10 :1. obisr sway sae rosiost. ois jimisior
of dis vasirpird awe liges as i 46,nrr
to beep MIL Ilse is die sot •
nry reel Aiwa. my. me M
imed tbs *isms sided Kos :
• De yen bows wigs pm luis ask
was suisrislis ass' yips swim
obis if dig lINIS mid bat Ass saes, eke
sf ras swat be lissihuspull
wafts* r
sic rasi lie frisks. Ise
dis ale Psis, r
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Inips r
Alms awe:* _wise ***ism Ind
ibis sisemssi : *as or WI Nos is Os
mos odd ?so. Tos as,oo.
it pordsolor to ho t sod ao
sr 111i* bile rasa_ VOW ohm
isserripsilis bus sue NM ye mew bow
isms rise dl of m`
• I no s boo or Mari ear sorey".
sic *ism owes. of for
• em INK imit. a t me bass
so, mod in do him ommilloo sir
rommuse isupst opoooll lbw ode im II
is their pigmy si oar gm for
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