THE CLuCK=-MENDER. to he marcel!” said Iris Dale. “Oh, great deal” She looked intently at berself re- seurn—-the girl who had loudly i i sO | claimed her determination to preserve | | multitude of fine wrinkles, her 1a lependence tO the last? “Ay dear,” said old Mrs. North, “I am afraid you have made a mistake.” “['m ufraid so, too, Northy,” said Iris pursing up her beautiful red lips into the smilitude of a ripe cherry, “But what isa poor girltodo? Every ono else gets married—why ghouldn't i “WT nere is no disgrace in being an old mr aid, Lis” “No disgrace, but a great deal of i inconvenience, dear Northy,’ sighed | the girl. “But wio is he, anyway!” asked Mrs. North, raising her spectacled | ¢.e8 to the face of the pretty young relative whose guardian, chaperon, | and companion she was, “That's a strange question to ask,” “He's Mr. For- said Iris, laughing. tescue Bennett Fortescue, to be shure, | who might wear a title if he chose to assume the responsibility of the ruin- | ed vstates in Tyrone.” “1 bat is Mrs. North. “He says so—and it is he says 80,” remarked the truth,” Iris retorted, with “He banker in New York, with no relatives spirit. sa living —s0 you see [ shall be spared the indignity of a mothern in-law,” with a light laugh. “Don't jest, Iris,” “I’m not going to, Northy—indeed I am quite convinced thatit is no | laaghing matter.” “Do you love him ?” The girl huog down her read, while a sudden shade of gravity fitted across her face. “J—think—e0,” she murmured. “But, my darling Iris, you must be sure of it.” “He is so very pleasant, Northy,” pleaded Iris. “So stately and chival, | rous—one feels that one can look ap to him, be my master and superior in all re epects.’ “Well, dear,” sighed Mrs. North, “I only hope you won't live to repent it. Is that your engagement ring?” With a laugh and a blush, Iris held | up her pretty left hand on the fore- finger of which sparkled a cluster of dew=bright diamonds. “Isn't it exquisite, Northy. grand-w wearing these very diamonds in a clasp at ber throat. I do so delight in heir-looms. And my grand-mother was only a country lawyer's wife (With a little sigh.) “The Dales are as good a family as any in America,” said Mrs, North with spirit, “Now you are jealous, Northy,’s lag hd Iris. “You prejudiced against But you will learn to like and esteem are somehow "” m me, him as wuch as I do—in (i “It willbe alos ng time then,” thought Mier. North. ible and soft §; “He is a deal to plave-~ wken to su ideas.” It slmost cruel to dampen Iris’ bright But she said nothing. seemed snticipations by any hint of de “Trouble comes soon enough in this ror'd without going half way to meet it,” thought good Mrs. Nor h. Iris Dale was an huts she sting of the be. h and orphan be had lost her parents when was too young to feel the She beau. of attact Up to ri hi joyous natures which teavement, was tiful, and moreover, rT Was one those sunshine everywhere, the pre:ent time she had exulted in de- claring but had surrendered at last to the little herself lowve-proof she god with the bow and arrows and to the inimitable graces of Mr, Fortescue Bennett Fortescue, “Miss Iris, an’ ve plaze,” spokeout, the shrill voiceof Trish Nora, “there's man shpake wid you, nn onl down here wants to And I'm thinkin’ it's the cloek~mender.” “Very well,” mid Iris, indifferently. “(live him the kitchen clock—and the clock in Mere, North's Nora” “Bit he wants to shpake wid your gelf, ma'am.” ‘How very presistent of him," said room, | went down stairs nevertheless, “3, I am really engaged! Evgaged lt i flected in the glass, - Was this the | free, wilt Iris Dale who but yesterday | would Lave laughed all restraints to | o- | My husband, Northy, must | His | other was presented at court, | Mr. Fortescus, | i my plain | Iris, momentarily annoyed, but she adeliberate It was not in her gracious nature to slight the | poor or she old. dear, 1 am afinid that that implies a | A respectable little old man, in al much worn and mended gray suit and hin white locks, stood by the dining- room fire, warming his chilled hands, which were insutliciently protected by a pair of blue yarn mittens, ness, and his face was traversed by a All these things Iris comprehended in one | glance, as she kiudly bowed to the | old man. “Is it Miss Dale?" he said--and | Iris could see that he trembles | leaf. “I am Miss Dale,” she “Come nearer to the fire—you are Nora, bring this smiled. chilled through. | man a cup of hot coffee. You arethe | clock-mender, I suppose?” he made | submissively, “Iam the clock-mend- Would it please you for me to “Yes, ma'am,” er. Ana?) {to my lodgings 7” “As you please,” said Iris, careless | ly. “Syma ladies, ma'am, would object | | to me carrying choice French clocks | with the t p button of his waistcoat. “Oh, I don’t doubt your honesty in the least,” said Iris, kindly. “You're right there ma'am,” he re- | “We're | sponded with earnestness. an honest race, if we're nothing And I thank you for trusting me. Yes, I'll take the clocks home, if you don’t object. I'm a poor cleck-mend er, as has always worked for my bread, but I've 4 son, ma'am, that’s a fine gentleman, though you mightn’t think it? this might just | Iris. “Bat all { the clocks | been transacted with Nora.” “And that's true, wa'am,” said the as well | clock-mender, what a sudden accession | of awkward shyoess. “But 1 want led to kiss the sweet hand of the lady | who is going to marry Mr. Fortescue Benuett Fortescue.” “Is the man crazy?’ thought Iris, | ool ring vividly as the old artisan | reverently bent, and pressed his lips | to the back of her band. | “They think I don't | thing about it,” faltered the old man. | “Bat human natare is human {8nd it's a proud day for ould Terence know any: nature, Fortescue, when he hears that his son, | a fine gentleman as ever was, is 10 be merried to a real born lady.” “What!” cried Iris. “You are his father you “Don't let on to him, plase, ma'am “It's a fine spirit he has, and a pride that I al ways koew would work his way. ‘And father,’ says he, ‘you keep yourself to said the clock-mender. | yourself. If I'm to be a gentleman,” | says be, ‘I can't bs hampered by poor | relations.’ And it was gospel | ma'am, doa't you see, though I'l] hi hurt me not : . deny it a little at | | for I'd pinched and scraped slowly to i For in the old | ! . country we were only hedgers and ) ) ive him a chance, | ditches—an' now see where me boy in a banker's office at salary of six hundred dollars a year a 8.ill Iris listened in mule amaze ment, Bo if you plase ma'am, not to bu tion 1 we,” said t ries | man. “I dida’t | when I « mane Lo say [ just wanted to of the marry. get a glimpse at the sweet face grand lady my was y son to Jut somehow the latch of my tongus | got loosed and I couldn't help saying’ | my say. He'd be it 0 murders me | entirely, if he knew I had took liberty all, ma'am, And blood’s thicker all kn Thaokee, | ma'am kindly,” as Nora brought in the collfee. “The Lord loves them as kind to ‘ould and poor. And I shall go about the but after he' y my wn son. than water, we Ww, cip of steaming 14 {my business now, withan easy heart,” He carried the clocks away, will with the same drooping gray-head and | wall, and noted the size of the dark | like a | { i i | | schemer—a false liar. Aud Iris Idmle shuddered at the fate she had so nearly escaped-—the fate of becomming wife to a villian, I'he engagement was broken off is scarcely necessary to add this fact. Miss Dale returned the diamond ring to Mr. Fortescue Bennett Fortesque with a brief note, in which the stated His dim | that she had changed her mind, and blue eyes had not yet lost their keen {bad determined, henceforward, to lead a single life. For she would not betray the and so she exposed to coquetry—whatever. ohose to call it. Mr. Fortesque Bennett poor old clock-mender, preferred leaving herself the charge of caprice— Mr. Fortescue Fortesque was furiously angry of course, and consulted a lawyer to know whether an action for breach of promise would not lie, not to try the experiment, so the dis- But the lawyer advised him i answer, | appointed swain pocketed his wrath and looked out for another heiress. | Mrs, North rejoiced greatly. “My dearest Iris,” said she, ‘I was mend them here, or take them home | | be happy with that man. would not And] quite convinced that you ing him, Bot I don’t understand away,” be added, uneasily fumbling | else, | | why you broke it off so suddenly. “Oh sald Iris, laughing. “I always kn Ww | was a creature of impulse, you | Northy."” As for the old cock-mender, that | gement had been abandoned. only sighed when he heard the engs ¥ “I always felt it would bz too good | juck for the like of us,” said he. jut | (m sorry sha changed her mind, fi { its a sweet { Prof. Baird says that “I do'nt doubt it in the least,” said | business about | have | National a fair est duct of the f i mate of the anopual pr | American fisheries would not fall short of one million dollars. Hatching fish artificially has ¢ the establishment of Fish South Keusi Erom his studies of menced at Culture Assosiation ogton, near London, the Krakatoa { catastrophe Verbeek is led to main { { | truth, | the | | tain that part of our globe remains die ad still in & molten state, and he has been the | putes the theory which | vanced that the heat of voleavic furnaces is entirely due {ical action, Dr. C. E | no outbreak of cholera has been known Saunders states th {to occur in & new locality in less time [than it would take a man to t | the distance from the nearest place where the difease already existed, ig is pretty conclusive that human agen. cies rather ] p responsible for the spread than climatic causes are if the ease, Successful cxperiments have made in joining and of divided different replace It sight and hearin 4 11 resiornn i functions nerves, nerves of used to | stroyed. 18 may be restored after injury to the ners mn which they depend, by bringing other nerves LO service ial An Irish caulay, has i union, physician, Dr. He Ma jue f the sun in ry made the un SLEROs- tion that the intense heat tropic al countries be for ¢ Mualchot's cold air into used as an agent y He i ling building: IR® would uge i pumping ries. dwellings, « a Sa] {as in this way the temp rooms may be reduced grees to 60 degrees. available on] tained M. Balland n sacks for v holesome, formed in consequent of the old flom mation of gluten under of the natural ferment When such flour is treated with ether and the product evaporated bath, there is ia | which has an acid rea disagreeable oder and taste Io determine far off the moon actually sppears from the eye the late Mone. Plateau devised a ingen nious experiment, which may be repented by any person. Looking steadily sat the full moon a few turned suddenly round y where ice may bx asserts th two or three becaa © [ during transio nhuence Of whes'. on a sand foul ally F1ryn hes how he the momenls, toward | slow, uncertain movements—~those of | accidental or complimentary image a man Who has been bound down by when projected on the wall, When | oft all bis life—and Iris, her heart |by moving forward or backward, this | fall of econficting emotions, hurried to her room. So this was the foundation of Mr, Fortesque Beunett Fortesque’s “fami- ly title” in Tyrone—his ruine + enstle he grand old lineage in which Iris bad so gloried. An ungrateful son — spectral image is made to assume the sige of the real moon, it must appear to be the same distance from the ob- server's eye ; and Mons Platean found hie distance from the wall to be about fifty-six yards. Ina similar manner Mons. Stroobadt prooved the sun's ap: parent distance to be about fifty-three yards, {the lower | | do { believe you have done wisely in reject- he Tr LIFE AMONG MEXICO'S CLASSES LOW Corn and beans are relied upon by Mexicans for food, and these they must have eked classes of out with onions and red pepper, { olla podrida made of various kinds of ments and vegetables boiled together, { This is a dish which if not remarkably | and satisfies the palate of our neigh given them, In the season there are ! various fruits, among which are pears fige, and some few dates, }, : | ing or dirivking, in this respect resem- | bling the natives of old Spain, who | are abstemious in every way. S | of the JL people hereabouts are poor indeed, and are satisfied with { the most plain and unpretentious sur roundings. | 80, us, for a general thing they have | no way of bettering their and the climate deals gently with | them except when the north wind | sweeps down, chilling the whole laod | for days together. Then the surcharged be electricity, and the Almos phere seems to with air becomes al most blue. The manes and tails the horses present a peculiar appear ance, the head standing « A | becomes a serous thing, as 1b ut &8 if 1n i stinct with life. “norther often 18 ke most impossible to make fires to } | much heat when made out of do Dances the natives must, and fa guitar and violin dauce, ung ladies with y are Wallz most solemn de orum dinariy there relireshments me kind, the ladies, with cake and candies I'he hard earth flor many instances is used for the and bencl tf 0, near the walls, There was a lar farmers.an exciting woked ws tot for. Just previ { have bumped a six s¢ weight was about New York Lobossing n I rench © IR, J ok, was fi his Fahy ary | dead this morning at | house, No. 404 Fourth | had committed suscide by inhaling {ga in an manner. Lhe | gas jet in one corner of his bed room was turned on full, Over the burner on the pipe was one end of an foot rubber tube. This was run down ‘the side of the wall and on the other end of this tube was an iron pipe about a foot long. The rubber was coiled once around the body of the dead mag, and the iron pipe was stuck in his mouth. Then over all this was placed the bel clothes and pillow. When found he had evident. ly been dead two days, He left a letter, in French, saying that he was tired of life and that he had been out boarding avenue. He Ingenious of employment two weeks, An | | occnsional kid is also relished, and an toothsome, is very filling for the price. | bor as well as anything which can be | oranges, lemons pomegrantes, grapes, | ! : . vil I'he Mexicans are a frugal people, and not given to intemperance in eat- | very Well enough that this is | TBE una | eight | Three Weeks Conrt There will be three wesks court in | April and May, beginning on the 10th of | April. Names, occupations and | dences of the Grand and Traverse Jurors {are given in the subjoined lists, THIRD MOY DAY OF AVRIL TEAVERSE JURORS, Christian “harra, farmer, Taylor J. W luaberwoan. Phi igmburg, William Harper, gentioman, Bellefonte, Geo W Ellennorger, farms Verguson Jones f Hefonts nker, leliefunte, Monroe Ar Fhowas Joke John ¥ Harris Bevjamin Jones John Dale, tarmer lohn A Daley, fa mer, Curtin Chas McGarvey, laborer. U Wm Stover, farmer ix. J Oscar Loraloe, gentleman, Phillipsburg, Auvtdrew Glenn, (armer, Co lege Benjomin Veck, laborer, M Thos BR Parkes, lumberman James Harris merchant John Dubqgs, farmer, ¥ Ellis Lyle, 0 er Beaner uion lon , H Beil ring eyor, Patton tige Tur JSeacher, Hows D Boyder, merchant, College. bert Hepburn, carpenter, Bellic ‘onte, Hon Bamwuel Fraok, merchant, Mies Chas Eckenroth, fur Hon F Gray Meek, editor fie W G Morrison, teacher, Worth liam Poorman, farmer IS Fin farmer, Marlon Conrad Ringer © tho " Joseph Boyer, drover, Howard borough wipes | ‘ ner tw J M K mer, Spring eionle W w hoe En artie - ol Fravklin Emerich, lab ' rer, Wa ker riser, Hare cs farmey sacks . Howar pre iiwy 2 condition, | im to Say al Pi ila. not Lo allem pt , but the jour. ey with his eompani he said bh would rather b | be buried with his fathers than | a longer lease have ivania finally buried among the His appeal was complied with and the little bard arrived | Chicago this morning snd weretrace. ferred to the Northwestern dept, where they were to (ake the tran for the “Land of the Dakotas,” when this young Iai saddenly diel.” The grief of his yopng companions was painful and touching. The Coroner held a ham y inquest finding that con- sumption was the cause of death, The young Indians countinued their journeying to-night, bearing with them the remains of “Bio ks Red Eagle. of life in Penosy and be whites, resi- | taken back dead and | in | A PLAIN ROAD TO HEALTH, Read the Sworn Testimony and Satfs- fy Yourself. |THE HOWARD GALVANIC SHIELD. “a, AOWARD 1» 4 A Aa i rie (7 g This in the only apy nee made that can be applivd directly to the Kidoeye, Liver, Fron ach, Bplern, ov any part of the Lod) 5 be worn wt sight or Juring the day by #ithe Women or Child 1f your sre Weak Irritable, Frettul, Ney vous, Forgetful without any sppsrent Ouse; that your Enery can po longer be Concentra trated, Your Thoughts Clouded snd Disconnected, thet longer Have any | ‘hd oe IT Li The Howard jmoniaie sre 1 L a ir artiew { whose names are attached 1 ! { foCLemaney and submcr this Sih Layfuyotte Kwaore ony ot #rherel besith “oe 1 GF. 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