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WATCHES,
We call attention te a tew very desirable articles at unusually low prices
Beys' Silver Hunting Cased Watches at $0.25
Beys' Silver Hunting Cased Stem Winding Watches 15.00
Gentlemen's Silver Hunting cased Full Jeweled Watches. 5.00
Gentlemen's Silver Hunting Cased Stem Wladlng Watches 15.00
Indies' 10 and It Carat (told Hunti'.ig and Hair Hunting
Cased Watches at 18.00
We all attention te our fine Movements for Ladles' Watches Full Jeweled,
even in centre pivots, which we will case te order in Handsome Bex-joint
Monogram Cases or otherwise. Gentlemen's is Size Movements Cased and
Engraved or Monegrammcd te order.
A special new line of goods is Just received, censUtingef Gentlemen's Silver
Boz-Jelnt-Cased Watcher, the Handsomest Silver Watches ever brought te
this city. We Invite an inspection or these goods, feeling confident we can
show inducements te buyers net te be found elsewhere.
H. Z. RHOADS & BRO., Jewelers,
4 West King Street. - - - - Lancaster, Pa.
EDW. J. ZAHM,
Minu&ctaring Jeweler, Zahm's Cerner, - Lancaster, Pa.
Things in our stock that make
Beautiful and Durable Christmas Gifts.
WATCHES, DIAMONDS,
CLOCKS, SILVERWARE,
SPECTACLES, JEWELRY,
GOLD BRONZES, GOLD HEAD CANES,
GOLD THIMBLES, SILVER HEAD CANES,
SILVER TniMBLES, OPERA GLASSES.
GOLD PENS AND PENCILS,
HANDKERCHIEF AND GLOVE BOXES.
GOLD BRONZE SMOKING SETS,
FINE CIGAR SETS,
BACCARET VASES.
AL-L these and man meke at
ZAHM'S CORNER. LANCASTER, PA.
vrs
CLOSING
COATS AND
-AT
NEW TOEK STOEE.
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LAD1ES' COATS reduced te i $2.75. $I.2j, $7 and $1.
LADIES' DOLMANS reduced from $10 te JS.S0, $12.50 te $8.50, $15 te $10.
1-adles In want of these goods should all at once, sis they can't last long nt these prices.
JUST OPENED A CHOICE SELECTION' OF
HAMBURG EDGINGS AND INSERTINGS,
Latest Designs, Ite.mtilul Werk, Lewest Trices.
NEW YORK STORE.
HOMER, COLLADAY & Ce,
1412 and 1414 Chestnut St.
PHILADELPHIA.
The general Improvement in business the past year, with the prospect of a very large in
creased demand for all kinds of Dress Goods, induced all American buyers of Foreign Goods te
place Immense orders. Tlds was universally Urn ease, se much se that, perhaps without exag
geration, 90 per cent, mere goods were imported limn the country could possibly consume. As
a consequence, there has bien a great break iu prices in a great inanv fabrics, which we 8'iall
fully meet.
WE SHALL SELL
Fermer
Prices.
$0.25 $0.50
All Weel Armures
French Flannel Suitings
French Strincd Fancies (all Silk
til 1.00
sad Weel) 75
French Shoedas (in all colors) 5
French Brocades (all Silk and
Plain French Plaids 75
1.50
1.75
1.03
Finest French Brocades (in several
deshrnsi l.ce 2.50
In addition te our offerings in the above goods, we have some lines of very choice goods
of which It Is difficult te meet the demand, in which we have a very choice assortment, both in
cloth and colorings.
CLOTH SUITINGS:
41-Inch Cleth Suitings (very desirable
914nch Cleth Suitings (in all colors 1.10
H-lnch Cleth Suitings 1.20
FRENCH
Our make of these goods we believe te be the beit in the market, and the asseitment et
colors our own selection.
8-lneb French Shoedas $0.87J 40-Inch French Shoedas $1.12
FINE CAMEL'S HAIR:
Our assortment et th'se beautiful goods is stiil complete, from 81.S5 te S2.50. We have
Just received one case el Camel's Hair in Evening Shades in very beautiful quality. In Cream,
Flak and Light Bine, ! Inches wide, te sell at Si .85.
BAREGE DE VIRGINIE:
We have J ust received one case or this very desirable texture for Evening Dresses, quality
veryuperler. In Cream, Fink and Light Ulue, 27 inches wide, te sell at 80c.
CLOTHIXO.
GREAT SLAUGHTER IN CLOTHING.
GRAED HARK BOWI AT GEfl TEE HAIL.
Will be sold in sixty days TEX THOT SAND DOLLAKS WOETH of
HEAVY WINTER CLOTHING,
Without regard te cost. Xew is your time In secure n geed Suit et Clothing for very Utile
tneney, Beady-made or Hade te Order.
OVERCOATS IN GREAT VARIETY,
Fer Hen. Youths and Beys. Men's Dress Suits, lien's Business Suits, Youths' Suits in every
style. Beys' Clothing, a very Choice Variety,,
99" Don't fall te call and secure some of the bargains.
MYERS & RATHFON,
.Ne. 12 E1ST KINU STREET, LANCASTER, PEM'A.
EOR
FOE SALE CHEAP.
A FIRST-CLASS
THREE-STORY BRICK DWELLING HOUSE,
WITH A GOOD STORE BOOM.
Tlus Property is situated en the corner et Mulberry and Lemen streets ; with nine geed
rooms and large cellar ; also het and cold water and gus through the house.
This Property will be sold cheap or exchanged ter a small house or building lets.
Alse, a FIEST-CLASS llltlCR STABLE in the rear of the lionse, anil occupied by Samuel
Heeler, for hale new.
Fer inrther particulars call en
J3AUSMAN & BURNS,
Or at HOUGHTON'S STOKE, 25 North Oneen Street
JEWELRY, e.
aoevs.
SALE OF
DOLMANS,
THE -
Fermer
Prices.
$0.65 $1.12
Camel's Haii- Stripes
Itimrailn Vnveltles
.73 2.&U
French Fancies (very costly goods.. .75 2.75
English Novelties 25 .50
French Handkerchlets, squares 75 1.50
French Handkerchiefs, squares 55 1.50
French Novelties 1.25 2.75
French Novelties .50 1.50
51-inch Cleth Suitings $1.23
51 Inch Cleth Suitings...
51-inch Cleth Suitings
2.00
SHOODAS :
SALE.
Lancaster, jrntrlli&enrcr.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 10, 1881
Girl and Grandfather.
Frem Temple Bar.
The pretty, sleepy pari-li of Aspenkiik
lay basking in the fervid blaze of a noon
tide sun, en Sunday, early in June, some
five-and forty years age. It was the hour
of morning service, and the doers of the
old parish church steed open, se that'the
rector as he steed preaching in the worm-
eaten pulpit, a commanding-looking figure
iu his black gown could see all around
him, net only the living fleck of which he
was the shepherd, and who new sat ic
spectfully hearkening te his accents, of
rolling thunder, but also the quiet, grassy
giaves outside, where the village fore
fathers lay taking their rest under the
daisies. I, tee, could see from the corner
where I sat iu my grandfather's pew, a
green patch of churchyard, with a butter
fly skimming about the perch, which was
very refreshing te me after keeping my
eyes dutifully fixed en my prayer-book
such a long, long time. Clese te the
deer sat the workhouse childien, who also
snatched a fearful joy as they sniffed the
summer air, but wee te the wight whose
roving eye, or gently protruded head was
detected by the guaidiau's searching
glance. Crack went the cane en peer
wooden pate, te his grief and anguish, aud
at the well known sound my heart would
llfoefl fnr trnrwlpnnnte lc T tlimirrlif lmtxr
sere his head would be next time he had
his hair brushed. Our pew was a com
fortable square box in the north aisle,
well cushioned and carpeted with plcuty
of high hassocks, en one of which I gen
erally sat, my head resting en my grand
father's knee. We were great allies, he
and I, and braved my grandmother's leeks
of mild disapproval On many minute occa ecca occa
ciens, when her sense of propriety was
ruffled by some childish freedom of gesture
or breach of rules conventional. She was
a strict disciplinarian and could net forget
hew in her young days the maternal hand
had held a stick when the hour of correc
tion came, a vision which always made
me rejoice iu secret that my great grand
mother was safe out of sight and reach
before I came into a world, where, as a
rule, children were naughty. Xe reform
ing finger had as yet been laid en Aspcn
kirk church. The large east window,
thickly festooned with ivy, looked beauti
ful in my inexpeiieneed eyes. I did net
knew hew hideous the whitewashed
walls and great high pews wcie, but I
hated old Rebbie, the clerk, who took se
prominent a part in the services, and
whose droll nasal performances, and self
satisfied smirk, used te excite me te illicit
smiling, which net all the cold severity
of my grandmother's eye could control.
Heavens ! what a performance was the
" Old Hundredth " in these days at As
penkirk church ! There was no organ,
nor can I remember any tuneful voices,
but I can still hear Rebbie, in high mono
tone, giving out each line successively be
fore it was sung by the congregation of
untutored north-country voices at the full
pitch of the lungs. One hymn-tune which
was in use, and which, in spite of liaib.tr
eus treatment, still haunted . my car and
gave me pleasure, I never heard else
where, till after many years, in a French
convent, I found it again, and recognized
in the old Latin invocation te Mary,
chanted se pathetically by the nuns of
Avranchcs, the identical melody that had
charmed me in Aspenkiik church when I
was a child. But this is a digression. ' Let
us get eutside the church this glorious
summer day, for the rector's discourse is
ever, the first rush of Cumberland clogs
has escaped into the churchyard, the lads
and lasses are sliding off in company, the
farmers gathering in knots for a gossip
about the hay and ether rustic matters,
and their wives and daughters are ex
changing civilities and the little-tattle of
the week, before dispersing te their sev
eral homes. Through them all stiides
the rector, in gown and college cap,
tall, spare, and aristocratic. IJeb go the
children, the women curtsy; he nods,
pleasant and royal-looking, as he passes
through them all flown the churchyard
path, his eagle eye sweeping their ranks,
and an indescribable effluence of high
breeding and careless kind-heartedness
playing about him like an invisible atmo
sphere. "Ah! Mrs. Somerby," he cries out te
ray grandmother, " what a line rose you
have there ! Why have I none like this in
my garden?"
"Dear! Mr. Peathcrstene," she bays,
"you have finer far than this, for certain,"
as she puts the rose into her hand.
He steed smelling it critically.
" Where will you match me a fragrance
like this among all the apothecary's
gums?" says he, in that deep, rolling
voice that always sounded te me like the
sea.
He carried it oil with him as he disap
peared through the deer te the rectory
wall, and from that day the bush en
which the ruddy rose had grown was call
ed the "apothecary's rose." My grand
mother's quaint-looking conveyance,
styled the "minibus," was standing wait
ing for us outside the churchyard wall
under the shade of a great elm-lrec, but
old Farmer may just go -en whisking Jiis
tail at the flies for another ten minutes,
for the meetings at the church gate are
net te be scrambled through all in a
moment.
I sat down en a gravestone and waited
contentedly enough while giandmamma
gossiped. " Mary Atkinson " slumbered
below. I began te draw mental pictures
of Mavy Atkinson's past, present aud fu
ture condition, who had laid here for fif
teen years. Her natural body innst have
been eaten by the worms long age. I
wondered if her bones were quite gene
also, and if the coffin was empty, and what
was going en itiade it new ; and where
Mary Atkinson's soul was waiting all this
time, and if she were net rather tired of
waiting, and feeling chilly without her old
body ? Suddenly t heard a cracked quav
ering voice cRe at my ear, which made
me start up in apprehension. Mary Atkin
son's voice might sound as queer as that if
she had nothing but a few hours left ; but
eh relief ! it was only Miss Betty Jeffer Jeffer
eon, who steed looking curiously at me
from under her long poke bonnet eccentri
cally trimmed with a knotted bunch of
worsted stay-laces. My giandmethcr's
mere familiar tones saluted me
" Letty, are you dreaming, child ? De
you hear Miss Betty is inviting veu te
tea ?"
I steed up, confused aud properly over
powered by such au honor. Miss Betty's
girdle-cakes were the creamiest in the
parish ; moreover, her cow, "Miss Story,"
was an old acquaintance, having been
once a calf in our Helm field. Her garden
lay in pleasant proximity te a bread aud
silvery river, and there, en a bed of fine
gravel, I could enjoy an unmolested half
hour at the agreeable game of ducks aud
drakes.
2 I demurely thanked Miss Betty, whose
old, puckered, parchment mask took an
additional crease of approbation. I was
only a visitor at my t randmether's house,
and was te return te my parents in Scot
land shortly. I think Miss Betty some
how expected te inhale, through my small
personality, some impressions of the
northern metropolis, as her sister, Miss
Anne always dubbed the city of my birth.
Of Miss Anne I was considerably afraid.
She was much mere imposing than Miss
Betty ; were a silk gown, and confined her
hair by a very bread fillet of black velvet,
which gave her an impressive appearance.
She was generally spoken of in respectful
tones, as " a woman of very superior
mind." She was pertly in person, and
condescending iu manner, but she had a
displeasing custom of always coming
down en me with a sudden public appeal
en historical questions, which was sorely
discencciting, and made me timid in her
aucust presence. Only last week, at mv
grandmother's tea table, just when the het
buttered cakes wcre coming in, she bad
startled nic by the abrupt question, "New
then, Miss Charlette, what is' your opin
ion of the character of Henry VlII. ?"
Trembling I felt that upon the style of
my reply would depend Miss Anne's
opinion of the system of education iu the
northern metropolis, and that my mother
and my governess steed upon their trial
in that dread moment. Grandpapa had
somehow come te my aid, as he generally
did in awkward emergencies, aud I was
saved for the time. But new, again, I
saw her steadily approaching. Surely
she would net desecrate the holy day with
profane antiquarian researches. There
was no savin-;. I slipped eus at the
churchyard gate, and raade for the "mini
bus," where I sat, full of hopes and fears,
a distinct hope being that royjjrandmether
would net ask Miss Betty te Fairholm till
after my departure, for the geed lady,
having a nervous disinclination te sleep
alone iu the yellow guest-chamber, had
invited me, en a recent occasion, te keep
her company there. Should I ever forget
the vague, unutterable terrors of that
night, when I, aiousedby some inexplica
ble sympathy with Miss Betty s wakeful
fears, opened my eyes in a pitch darkness
within the hearsc-iikc bed, and heard iu
the unearthly silence the odd, creaking
voice or Miss Betty proclaiming nervously,
" Jfew deadly still all is !"
My grandmother joined me at last, and
we drove home te Fairholm iu our usual
jog-trot fashion, picking up my grand
father aftcrwe had gene about a mile.
There were two little cupboards in the
"minibus," whence grandmamma always
produced some relishing gingerbread cake
te beguile the long drive, of four miles.
What a pretty rural drive it was through
the Aspenkiik plantation ! Hew fragrant
the odors of pine and fir ! What a liberal
margin of short, sweet turf bordered the
park-like read en either side ! Here and
tlicic we passed a cottar's cow, peacefully
grazing en the roadside, followed step for
step by a little heid-girl patient virtue
in miniature for whom there was gener
ally a bit of gingcibread te spare. Why
does net gingerbread tase the same nowa
days? Nairew grew the lanes, and mere tor
tuous. The hedges and ditches hereabouts
are all a tangle of meadow sweet and
ragged robin. The home landscape is
tame aud monotonous ; but in the dis
tance rise the blue hills of the Berderlaud.
And new we must cress Lyn Bridge.
Hew black and sullen the river leeks en
the one side under the cliffs of red sand
stone, and hew brightly it ripples en the
ether ! Then we turn a sharp corner, and
descend gently for half n mile, through
grandpapa's fields and plantations. At
List we .siht our own pretty homestead,
and Farmer, with no need of admonition-,
turns into the courtyard, his labors ended
ler the day.
rilAI'TEK II.
Header, let ni'j linger a moment ever
the memory of Paradise, for such was
Fairholm te me. The days I passed there
were purely happy, the only days out of a
long life that shine ever undimmed in
memory's golden light Arcadian days,
when my soul, like a bud, began te open
softly te the morning sun, and no canker
ing worm crept nigh the favored
blossom days that rolled by blessedly
uneventful, as I learned te read out of
Nature's book, aud te lejoice in the
operations of her hands ; te distinguish
the notes of the birds, aud watch
them iu the coverts where they reared their
young ; te stand in the early morning, as
the mower whetted his scythe, and smell
the new-cut grass ; te hunt the mushroom
ere the dew dried upon the meadow, and
gather the eggs for breakfast from the
cackling hens; te watch the cows, ever
tins byre-deer, as they yielded their milk
te the p til, and stand aside as they passed
me lowing te the fragrant i a jturcs. Here
T learned the names and properties of
flowers and herbs, and wrought in a cor
ner of my own with spade and watering-
pet ; watched the bloom en the plum, as
it swelled te ripeness en the sunny wall,
and the chcriics reddening day by day be
neath the net, among their pointed,
glossy leaves. Down iu the hay fields,
I played till 1 was weary, and read fairy
tales underneath the geld tassels of the
laburmfni tree. And moving through
all, was the influence of a mighty affec
tion, which tinctured everything in which
I lived, moved, and had my being. Never
have 1 loved any human being as I loved
my grandfather. I loved my grandmother
al.ii), but in quite a secondary way. She
was less indulgent, mere impatient of the
small mistakes and blunders of childhood.
A little wholesome fear tempered my love
for her, yet I liked well te lay my round
young check against her soft, velvety old
one, or te trot by her side as she visited
the dairy and larder, and te watch her
decant her clear gooseberry wine into the
quaint old pint decanters, with roses
wrought into the crystal. My first view
of her in the day was always pleasant.
She sat in a sunny window of the break
fast parlor, which looked into the garden
iu sober, black gown, a clean muslin
kerchief folded across her besom, pinned
at the threat by a little rose in garnets,
the only ornament she ever were, a gift
of ray grandfather in.his courting days.
She was always reading the same little
book, Bogatzky's "Gelden Treasury,"
whence she gathered, I fancy, her note
for the day. I can sec her well-cut fea
tures, her calm, sensible, spirited expres
sion, and the little stiff brown curls upon
her forehead, for she did net then wear
her own hair. I new knew that the inis
Ircss of Fairholm was a very handsome
woman. My grandfather was net hand
some a homely-looking, blue-eyed man
of medium stature aud ruddy complexion.
His smooth, bald crown I admired ex
ceedingly. I was net the only person
who paid him homage. Jehn Somerby
was master wherever he stepped. An An
other blight tint at the breakfast table
was the china which lay en -the snowy
cloth, with odd, unmeaning pattern in
Chinese style, vermilion and blue. 1 have
never seen the same again. Ner could
you have easily matched the grim waiting
maid in her large-flowered print gown,
with forbidding countenance, the malevo
lent loekinir old fairy of the house. She
had but one eye, but nothing ever escaped
the ether. Werk was as 'the breath of
her nostrils. There arc no such servants
nowadays. As seen as breakfast was
ever, the psalms for the day were read
aloud by my grandfather and me, faith
fully, verse about. My grandmother
listened with her hands folded en her
knee, and always said the doxology at
the end iu a curious accentuated way
which impressed my imagination. Then
my day began out of doers with
grandpapa, if weather was fine, pruning
and watering the vines, and convers
ing with the pet toad, who never failed te
come out of his corner of the vinery at
our entrance, or spudding thistles in the
Holmfield, or walking through the young
plantations. Perhaps there was a sheep
wasbtng en band, then a gloreus morn
ing of excitement was spent at the river
side, where, amid a babel of barking dogs
and shouting shepherds, the heavily
fleeced creatures were plunged into the
river one by one te the men who waited,
waist deep, te receive them, each newly
washed sheep swimming off te the oppo
site bank after the operation, as nimbly
as though it had done nothing but swim
through life.
On market days I
lowed te drive te the
grandpapa's deg-cart.
was sometimes a',
cathedral town in
, These were days
marked by a white stone. Then the old
man wenld teach me te drive, and I was
seen initiated into the rule of the read,
and the handling of the reins, and great
was my glory, as at the close of the day,
I would skillfully draw up in the courtyard
at Fairholm, grandpapa sitting in appar
ent indifference, his arms crossed en his
breast, and a defiant -leek at gradmam
ma, who was always.en the watch for our
return' as much as te say, " Who says we
can t drive ? lialzac writes somewhere
of "the little blue flower of perfect felic
ity." Seldom is it found upon earth ; but
I gathered it, reader, at moments like these
and were it in my besom.
There was a curious erection in one of
the plantations, an ingenious device of
" Harry the Carpenter." A large barrel,
set en end with a deer in the side, and a
seat all areuud within. Here would my
grandfather and I sit together, many a
time, sheltering from a summer shower,
he trolling out some old English ballad,
which I repeated after him, verse by
verse, till I knew all he had te teach,
and could give "The Minstrel Bey,'' or
"Dulce Demum" at a harvest supper, te
the wondering admiration of the rustics.
The old man was, I belieye, as happy as
the child. Purer, mere legitimate joys
were never marred by the trail of the ser
pent. Jehn Somerby was a man with a
story, all unknown te me in these sweet,
early days. I learned it hit by bit long
after.
CHAPTER, iu.
In a secluded Lincolnshire village, fifty
years before I came upon the scene, there
grew up a rustic beauty in her father's
cottage by the roadside, known te her
little world as Semcrby's Hannah. A
fairer creature than Hannah at the age of
sixteen, no artist ever drew. Greuze
must have dreamed of her in some happy
night, for in all the enchanting girlish
heads that laugh or pout from his canvas,
there is a fugitive glance of Hannah.
Ne sheltered, pampered, delicate toy was
she, but a playmate of nature, a creature
kissed by breeze aud sunshine, whose
healthful, innocent charm blossomed all
about her, from the curling, golden head,
te the arched and rosy feet that seldom
were a stocking.
Madame Boothby, from the great house,
driving slowly through the village one
summer evening, heard a fresh voice sing
ing like a lark.
"Larksden't usually sing se late," she
suggested languidly. Then she spied the
sengstress, ankle deep iu the stream which
madam's horses must presently ford. A
three-year-old urchin sat astride en her
shoulders, his fat arms cuddling round
her neck, whose white secret was half re
vealed under the rumpled folds of a
checked cotton kerchief. Madam's coach
stepped, and she beckoned imperiously
from the window. " Where de you spring
from, pretty water-witch ?" she said, in a
fine drawl.
"She's neaii a witch," cries little Bill
from his perch, with a strangling em
brace, win ch sends the rosy color racing
ever the girl's brew and besom, " she's
just our Hannah."
"Down, Bill, and held thy tongue, will
thee, when the lady speaks?" And new
Bill's check is laid sheepishly against his
sister's leugh skirts, as she swings him
from her shoulder te the dusty read.
" I'm Ralph Somerby's Hannah," said
the girl simply.
" Somerby, Somerby," mused the lady,
her large, black eyes scanning the girl
curiously.
" Eveiybedy knows Italph Somerby,"'
said Hannah seriously.
The lady smiled.
" I de believe this is the child that I
sketched five years age, Tamar," aud she
turned te the small, prim woman who sat
be-ide her ; Tamar Uec was housekeeper
at Boothby Hall.
" Likely enough, my lady," she answers
quietly. "Hannah's a geed girl, anil
comes of geed, honest folk. Her father
My lady laughed.
"What has that te de with it, geed
Tainar? Why, the girl's a prodigy, Ja
marvel of beauty. She has the pose of a
nymph, and her coloring, 'tis a Galatea !
Oh that Gainsborough could sec her !
What have you been gathering, child ?"
" Watercrcsses for mother's supper,"
said the girl, shyly proffering her basket,
"but if madam will have them, they're
tare and wholesome for the bleed this
time e' year," and the ripe, pouting lips
parted in a dewy smile.
Lady Boothby put out a white baud for
the cresses, en which flashed a magnifi
cent sapphire. Hannah's eyes were caught
by the sparkling jewel.
"Your eyes are finer, child," said madam
with a sigh, patting the girl's downy
cheek. "Tell your mother te bring you
te the Hall te-morrow. I must see you
again."
Then she drove away, and Hannah aud
little Bill steed and watched her coach
till a bend in the read shut it out from
their sight.
"Sing again, Hannah." cried little Bill:
"sing 'Willow, Willow;' " but Hannah
walked en and sang no mere that night.
When she and her mother repaired te
the Hall next day, they were very gra
ciously received in the housekeeper's room
where Mrs. Tamar Bee was occupied in
arranging much fine linen in large oaken
presses. There was a fragrant smell
of lavender all about. The French
windows opened upon a little garden,
where deep borders, set with sweet old
fashioned flowers and heibs, entertained
the bees and butterflies en sunny days.
A flagged pathway led down through the
middle of the garden, overhung here and
there by overarching apple-ttees, and a
high hedge of hollies bounded the little
enclosure, beyond which rose a murmur murmur
ous pine weed, from whose cool depths
came evermore the weed-pigeon's soft,
crooning proclamation of love and bliss.
The small, precise old fairy who bere
rule iu this favored corner, was 3Irs.
Tamar Bee, housekeeper sit Boothby
Hall for five-and twenty years. Her
mother had been confidential maid and
companion te a deceased Madam Booth
by, under whose eye Tamar had been
trained and educated se perfectly for her
present pest, that she naturally fell into
it at the first opportunity. Boothby Hall
was her world, and in hercyes no Boothby
could de wrong. The present Lady
Boothby was a dowager, an I au earl's
daughter, who had spent much of her life
in foreign courts, whither her husband
had carried her en his various diplomatic
missions. He bad died three years age
at Flereneel and net many months after
wards, his eldest son a delicate bat prom prem
ising young man, had followed him te the
grave. The present owner of the Hall
waa youth of nineteen or twenty, new
serving his majesty upon the seas ; nnder
Admiral Redney, and the old family seat
lay lonely and beautiful, waiting ter the
coming of the master. Lady Boothby
naa no daughter, and for female friend
ships she had little liking. Her tastes and
habits were foreign, aud her visits te the
hall were rare. She dabbled in art, drew
aud painted with some skill, and kept np
a large correspondence with odd and emi
nent people. She sincerely mourned the
less of her husband, and regretted the po
litical excitements from which his death
had in some measure, excluded her.
Whimsical anil eccentric, of proud, im-i
peneus temper, she yet exercised much
fascination when she desired te please.
She had secluded herself new at the hall,
te await tidings of her son, whose adven
turous life at once touched her imagina
tion aud awakened her maternal anxiety.
She i.ew saw before her in this beauti
ful peasant girl a source of interest, and
kindling, as she ever did, at the presence
of beauty, she insisted that Hannah
should leave her father's cettase and
come te the hall. The girl was nothing
leth. She nestled under the wing of
Tamar Bee, who taught her the delicMe
housewifely arts whenever my lady was
tired of her plaything, and seen grew
attached te the docile, graceful creature,
who moved about in costuraesof my lady's
devising, gathered the lavender and rose
leaves, washed my lady's laces and
bieught sunshine and music into the
quiet solitude of Boothby Hall. Old
Italph Somerby fretted for his daughter ;
little Bill, and an elder brother. Ralph.
missed the pretty, soft-hearted sister, who
had been at once playfellow and nurse.
The rose was plucked from the home
wall and the cottage looked dull without
it. But gentle, unselfish Mrs. Somerby
would net complain. The girl was better
off, and learning what would lift her a
step higher in life than her neighbors.
The child was tee pretty for their rough
ways ; and when Hannah would come in
for an hour, blooming and tenderly loving
as ever, with a cake for the boys of her
own baking, and a compliment of tea from
Mrs. Tamar for mother, geed Mrs. Som
erby exulted quietly and took her double
burden of household labor without a
grudge. And the year were en. Public
atfairs wi-re uiettled. England had
proclaimed war with Helland ; and from
the Ameiican shores tidings came of the
capture of one West Indian island after
unetlicr from the Spaniards. But no news
from Mr. Boothby had reached his mother
who grew anxious aud dispirited. One day
in spring, as my lady lay en her couch,
turning ever a portfolio of sketches by Mr.
Hogarth, while Hannah hovered near,
holding new one, new another, in this
liidit or that, as she was bidden, the heavy
silken curtain was parted which hung
across the doorway of the chamber, a
handsome, dark young lace looked in upon
the two women, and, in a moment, with
out further notice, Mr. Boothby was
kneeling by his mother's side, kissing her
hands. But the joyful surprise was tee
much for the peer lady, who, with a faint
cry, swooned away, Pale and terrified, a
scared leek iu her lovely eyes, Hannah
new te support Iier mistress, passed a
round arm about her neck, and gazed
speechless at the splendid apparition of
manhood in all its bravery that steed be
fore her. As in a dream she saw and
heard all the wonderful bustle of the next
few moments, took the distilled water
from. Mrs. Bee's small, trembling Angers,
and bathed the pale face whose eyes pres
ently opened, aud fastened with a leek of
hungry love upon her son.
"Come, mother," cried a hearty, boy
ish voice. "I never thought te frighten
yen se. Don't you see it's your own ne'er
de-wcel Jack, who is always blundering,
confound him, instead of doing tilings
soberly, like ether folk !"
She was awake new, aud hanging en
his neck with teats of joy.
"Tamar, de you see him? Se like his
father ! se changed in three short years !
Oh, my boy ! what tiles yen have te tell
nic !"'
Then the vision faded, aud Hannah
was back in Mrs. Bee's room with a flnt
tcringit her heart.
Concluded Te-morrow.
"There maybe some virtue iu all of them."
lie said, -'but for actual worth and rapidity of
effect, 1 knew that nothing made can excel
l)r. Hull's Cough Syrup."
lfreaklng Out.
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Spring lllossem is Invaluable. I have had
Scrofulous sores en my legs for a number of
years, and occasionally they would break out
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the sores have disappeared and my skin is
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10 cents.
Fer sale by II. 11. Cochran, druggist, 137 and
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