?? W VV""), ,1 -.rpTfs,srs"'B5 "-j?f- ""Sf r-PI5R!' --ijlf'fff ' 13 then it the Casino, she tells me, and not sel- Jaki in tha MAvnv C .1 Y . !.! IP uvu. u .mc l.uiujUit VI IUO IMMTJ iHUlSClI. He has the entree into the most difficult Saltravian houses. Indeed, why not, since that Clarimond designs to "be his friend? You will change your mind about the Jerninghanis, mv dear" will vou not?" 'So," replied Kathleen, with much firm ness. Then she looked at her mother very fixedly, and pursued: "Sow, mamma, le't one thing be clearly understood between you and me. We came here for the waters at least I did, if you did not. It is late in the day for me to try and impress upon you that niy social lite "is ended. You must have seen that in Dresden. And as for a certain idea of yours, I can only gay that it would be painful to me beyond words painful and mortifying in the extreme were it not so strongly flavored with an element of wild absurdity." Mrs. Kennaird attempted no further per suasions. "Let me achieve her presenta tion to the Kinc," she mused, "and this nonsensical desire for secluding herself will vanish like one of the Saltravian morning mists." And while she robed her stately figure, that afternoon, in the most becom ing gown that her limited wardrobe pos sessed, the new yearning cheered her spirit as an exlixir-like cordial warms the blood. Because an aim was dazzling, even dizzying, should it for that reason be de serted? Ah, to think of the exquisite vic tory it would mean? How that horrible Marchioness of Dendudlow would writhe when she heard of it? To be the mother of a queen! There was something splendidly distinctive in the very boldness of the pro ject. The fact that an eflbrtlikethis teemed with novelty and daring was no sign that It would prove a failure. After all, so much depended on Kathleen's powers of fasciua tiou, and these were immense. Then, too, was she not just Amarican enough to be called an American girl, and was not this the next remarkable and stirring act for the American girl to commit? Margaretta Kennaird surveyed herself in the dressing mirror as she donned her bonnet, and thought how the matronly symmetries of her figure would grace a court And then to have her portrait painted by some famous European artist and hung in the palace as that of the "Queen's mother!" Perhaps several centuries after her death it would hang there. And for several centuries, no doubt, they would recollect her great ac complishment overseas in Sew York, whence her stock had sprung. Everybody who could claim the faintest relationship with her would do so. "Queen Kathleen" would rate for them as an ancestress worth having; that humiliating Dendudlow affair would be mercifully hidden (why not?) by the capacious mantle of historv itself. "Queen Kathleen 3" What a delightful sound it had ! "Clarimond and Kathleen 1" There was not as much real honeyed roman ticism in even "Borneo and Juliet 1" It must be confessed that meditations of this kind produced an intoxicating effect upon this most curious of American "aristo crats." Her state of mind was almost an agitated one by the time that a short stroll had brought her to the gates of the Jerning ham villa. She felt hcelf on the verge of society here in Saltravia; felt that to-day might prove but the quiet threshold of many beautiful morrows. There were not more than "0 guests present, and these were near ly all her own country folk. In the course of a little time she was presented to at least half of them, finding that she already knew a few, that she had heard of a number more, and that certain others were not by any means of a desirable type. Then it entered her shrewd mind that this set, into which she had drifted, was altogether the wrong set, and that if she kept Kathleen quite out of it she would be doing a most prudent act The Jerninhams, brother and sister, had evidently a great grudge against the King and his court, and it was pleasant for them to feel that their friends were of the same rather rancorous mind. They never spoke acainst Clarimond, but they hinted that he was flippant and frivolous and had all the proverbial bad faith of the Princess. Brother and sitter ere oddly alike, both being tjll and slim, both having a sunken look about the cheeks and slaty-hued eyes with piuk-edzed lid's. They fioth talked with a slicht lisp, and in talking used their hands with the same jerky little gestures. Neither of them often said "I," it was nearly always we" with them, so that alter a while yon got the impression that nothing happened singlv to this devoted brother and sister, but that human experi ence treated them to its sjood and its ill in perpetual duo, as the rain and sun tre3t two apples on a single stem. Harriet .Terningham made herself notably civil to Mrs. Kennaird, and after awhile they had a private chat together amid the general babble of the little modish drawing room. "Wc hear your daughter is so wonderfully beautiful, Jlfs. Kennaird," said the sister of the deposed Art buperintendent "Par don me, but v.e do! And it grieves us greatly to hear that she is indisposed to day. The waters sometimes afiect people for a few days just like that. We can't live away from them now, thousrh at first we thousht them reallvquite horrid. That is whv my dear brother Wasn't depart ed from Saltra la. I mean since Mr. Eric Thaxter caused the King to treat him so cruelly. But perhaps you haven't heard about "that. So? Oh, then, I won't bore you with our private grievances. And yet, after all, they've become horribly puvjlic, ever since my dear brother wasousted from his position and that Alonzo Lispenard was made to replace him." "Alonzo Lispenard:" broke from Mrs. Kennaird. "Is is he in Saltravia?" "I believe he is in Munich now, though there's a report that he will be back next - eek lor tne great royal ball at the palace. Pray, do you Know him?" "i'es. Yes, I'e met him. He's a a New Yorker, you know." "True. I suppose you've met him in society over there in the Tour Hundred,' as they call it. " "Ye's," said Mrs. Kennaird, feeling a little dizzy and hardly knowing just what answer left her lips. "Quite right It er was in the 'Four Hundred," as you sav." "Such a queer name, isn't it?" babbled Miss Jerningham. "We can't get used to it, you know. There was nothing of that sort when we were there." "Oh, ves, there was." her listener might mentally have said, "only you know noth ing about it" But Mrs. Kennaird was in no mood for any such 'comments, whether mute or vocal. "And so this Alonzo Lis penard," she presently faltered, "holds a position here under the King," "Oh, yes, Art Superintendent, you know. Eric Thaxter, the adored friend of Clari mond, took it away trom us tnai is, l mean from my brother and gave it (with the King's full sanction) to this Mr. Lis penard." "I see I see." "Pray, is it true." continued Miss Jer ningham, "that he was engaged to a beauti ful girl in New York who iilted him the moment she heard he'd lost all his money?" "Beally, I think it is quite false," mur mured Mrs. Kennaird. She got away from the villa as soon as decent politeness would permit The late afternoon made the ex quisitely tended and statuted lawns in front of the hotel look like squares and medall ions of dark-green plush, from an immense Japanese pagoda that, burned with as mauy tints as if it bad been builded out of a fallen rainbow, floated music made by one of the most perfect orchestras in Europe. Kathleen in a plain, dove-colored gown, without a single ornament of any kind, moved here and there amid the arabesque of box-edged paths, holding a book against one side of her bosom, as women are w ont todo. She seemed wholly unaware of the attention, rven the scrutiny, which she attracted, though she wa3 perhaps perfectly well aware of it and preferred to appear otherwise. She had known no ore at thehotel, on her arrival, and afterward had desired complete isolation. The new acquaintanceships into which her mother had drifted were not shared by her; she remained calmly though not haughtily aloof. When Mrs. Kennaird now drew near the great square, over which loomed the light and pretty lacade of the chief hotel, she at once perceived that Kathleen was being a great deal noticed and silently admired. "Little wonder, too," it swept through her mind; "for as she walks there now her form and face seem to embodr this delightful thing of Chopin's that His Majesty's rau- K - ntfisw I sicians are playing so finely." And then ' lf. TT......... ...1 ............ ..I... .3 l..v dnrthtol" 11.13. OXUiltlUlIU UUJ'I UUtUCU UCl ",".'. But before she could reach her side, old Mrs. Madison, with wrinkled face, gouty step and a cane bis enough for a British squire, beet bv the same malady as herself, came hobblinglv forward. "My dear Mrs. Kennaird! I don't know , how I can stay any longer in Saltravia un less you present me to vour uaugnten t isn't only that four or five young men ara always tormenting me for a presentation to her, knowing that 1 know you. It's, that lots of tiresome old persons like myself, of whichever sex, make mv life a burden with their longings." Here Mrs. Madison shook her head, and so briskly that the gold rimmed glasses trembled on her high, clear curving nose. "Ah, Mrs. Kennaird, it's we old things that are the wisest lapidaries for pronouncing on the color and water of that dearest of all diamonds, youth!" "My daughter will be charmed to meet vou, and your friends also, my dear Mrs. Madison, of course," was the reply given by Kathleen's mother. But while she stood and strove to talk blandly with this old alienated Knickerbocker (for who could for get that the Madisons were leading people in the Tialmv davs of the Van Leriuses, and that a Madison once married a Van Lerius as far back as 1795?) she was secretly throb "bing with discomfort and chagrin. Alonzo Lispenard here in Saltravial And not only that, but on terms of special favor with the King! It was ruin of all those de licious hopes! For the very moment that he heard Clarimond had admired Kathleen what would he be sure to do? Prejudice his roval friend, beyond a doubt, against both herself and her child. Oh, it was too aggra vating, too maddening! When she reached Kathleen Mrs. Ken naird grasped the girl's wrist with a tremor and force that instantly betrayed her trouble. "My dear Kathleen," she began, 'haye such wretched news." "Wretched news, mamma?" "Yes; don't stare at me. Everybody, I hear, is staring at yon. Therel I won't clutch you in that idiotic style any mora. You you know, my. dear, that I I have alwavs prided mvseff on my repose." "Well, mamma?" "Let's walk along quietly toward the hotel, as if nothing had happened. I've just heard from Mrs. Madison that your wonderful beauty and grace have set every body talking about you." "And is that all that has happened?" Kathleen asked, with a decided languor." "So. I onlv wish it were! My dear child, where did you think Alonzo Lispenard had gone after after the breaking of your en gagement? Don't look demoralized, now! Answer me!" Kathleen had visibly started, and her change of color was manifest "Gone?" she repeated. ""I heard that he was here in Europe. You remember, mamma. Some thing was said about an Austrian Grand Duke having wanted him to purchase works of art for his private gallery. But I never believed the report It was never con firmed. I " "Kathleen! Believe the report now, If you choose!" "Believe it, mamma!" "Yes. But change the Austrian Grand Duke to a a Saltravian King." Kathleen looked fixedly at her mother for several seconds as they moved still nearer to the steps of the hotel. When she spoke it was clearly to show that she had in a measure understood. "Alonzo is here?" she faltered. "Yon mean that?" "He lives here, and lives under the very wing, so to speak, of Clarimond. It seem that his friend, Erij Thaxter, sent for him to come on here after the failure." Then Mrs. Kennaird gave a few further explana tions which ended by the time they reached the huge enclosed balcony of the hotel and ascended the steps. Kathleen sank into a chair, not trembling, but lookiog as if tremors might at any moment begin. "We must go away from here, mamma," she presently said, glancing up into her mother's face while that lady stood in placid grandeur beside her. "We must go at once." "Oh, now, mv dear Kathleen Yon surely won't be so foolish " "He will think we came solely on his ac count" "But I tell yon he isn't here." , "Still, he may return any hour. Ko, mamma; I will not stay. Let us go to Vall- ambrosa to-morrow, we intended going there, you know, when you suddenly got this craze for Saltravia." Mrs. Kennaird tightened her lips togeth er, stared straight ahead, and gave not a syllable of response. Oh, of course Kath leen must have her own way! It would be folly to keep her here against her will, for that will had modes "of making itself felt which coercion sooner or later failed to profit by. And to think that the presence of this detestable Alonzo should shatter such a lordly edifice of shining and pris matic dream! Ah, it was too harrowing! In a certain sense Kathleen was right; the horrid creature might think she had come here because of him, though any thrills of dignity ou the subject would have been idle if it were not that this bugbear was actually an intimate of the Kirnr. In that abominated capacity he was fate appointed, as one might tay, to head herself and her daughter oil" Scalding tears of ire and dis appointment gathered to the eyes of Kath leen's mother while she stood and watched the spacious hotel grounds dotted with strollers and sweeping on toward the palace, white and splendid against its dark green mountain side. She had raised her handkerchief to brush away the?e fiery tears if in reality they should" show signs of falling, when a kind of flurry among the people on the laurels made her curious to learn its cause. This soon be came plain, as she discerned a group at some distance away, headed by a man of' noble and gracious presence. She had seen Clarimond a day or two ago, on the occasion when Kathleen had so evidently won his heed, and once having seen, it was not easy to forget him. She now leaned down and murmured to Kathleen: "The King, my dear. And I think he is coming this way." "Le't us go upstairs, mamma," said Kath leen, rising. "Or will you remain here and shall XT' The words died on her lips, for just then old Mrs. Madison came puffing up the steps w iiu u uuuu cuueuiau ui binkiDg appear ance at'her side. "Mrs. Kennaird," called the old lady, "I couldn't stand the pressure of circumstances any longer. I'm compelled to beg of you that you'll make me acquaint ed with vour lovely daughter, so that I can can appease the longings of Mr. Erie Thax ter, who is resolved to know her or die." "Mr. Thaxter certainly shall not die without knowing Kathleen," said Mrs. Kennaird, in her most dulcet tones. And then there was an exchange of introductions gone through quietly and quickly, as most well-bred persons manage to deal with such matters. Kathleen, who was one of those women made even more interestingly beautiful by weariness and pain, at once found herself liking Eric Thaxter. It had all come hack to her that he had been "Lonz's foreign friend," and for this reason he was now clad with a peculiar enticement While Mrs. Madison bowed over her cane and held converse with Mrs. Kennaird, the girl, low voiced and spurred by a desperate sort of frankness, addressed Eric "I've just heard, Mr. Thaxter," she said, "that Mr. Lispenard lives here, and with vou." "Yes," replied Eric, "but at present" "He is in Munich. I've heard that, too. The whole piece of intelligence has given me great annoyance. I take for granted that he has told you of of our broken en gagement" "Yes, Miss Kennaird, he did tell me." Prepared though she somehow was for this candid reply, its gentle delivery sent the rose-tints flying into her face. Her eyes moistly sparkled as she fixed them on Eric's. "Oh, I'm so sorry mamma and I should have come here!" she exclaimed, though? with a softness of tone that de feated her moth'er's thirsting ear. 'We never dreamed that he was here. I think nobody in New York except perhaps his sister, ilrs. Van Sant voord, really knew just where he had gone." Then she dropped her gaze for an instant, and while she aid so her observer had, as he himself might have phrased it, THE artistically explained her. "The face for a i Psyche," passed through his mind, "and all ' the more entrancing because nature has ' gifted her with that divinest of charms the incessant lorgetiuiness mat sne is su uraun fuh She doesn't think in the least about the divinity of her profile. Self-consciousness, the curse of most feminine beauty, has mercifully spared her. A woman likethat, who treats herself as if she were a spinster of 60. with defective front teeth and a hairy mole on her chin, becomes an nnconscious goddess, i I don't wonder Lonz adores her still, and I don't wonder Clarimond is ask ing to know her. But aloud Erio said, with his native affable bluffness: "My dear Miss Kennaird, it's not a very mighty planet, after alL Don't bore yourself about Alonzo's prox imity. When he knows that you've honored Saltravia with your presence, he will prob ably be quite too ashamed of his past mis conduct to let you get the faintest glimpse of him. Oh, I know iust how atrociously he behaved. He's told, me, and I've scolded him without pity." Kathleen bit her lip and watched the speaker for an instant with searching and wistful eves. "He's told you?" she breathed. "But if you don't think me to blame at all, Mr. Thaxter, he he must have given you a very generous version of the whole affair. Then she drew herself up, and with almost a lofty c&lmless went on: ."But we are go ing to-morrow. We have decided to push on toward Vallambrosa. No doubt you know it They say it is so delightful, and very quiet there. Betirement is what I most care for, just now." "Betirement?" echoed Erie, with a mock gesture of despair. "And here I am, Miss Kennaird, come to you as an envoy from the King, who greatly desires the pleasure of your acquaintance. " Perhaps Eric had without intention loud ened his voice a little. Anyway, Mrs. Kennaird.heard all that he had just said, and, considering the fact that Mrs. Madison had a minute ago uttered certain tidings of a most exhilarant sort to her, she was now suddenly transported once more with hope ful surprise. S 'My'dear," she said to Kathleen, as the latter'drew backward several steps, with a distinct show of reluctance, .even depreca tion, "I trust that if Mr. Thaxter wishes to present you to the King you will not hesi tate to accompany him." But here Eric shook his head, and broke into a light laugh. "Miss Kennaird needs not to accompany me bv any means." said he. 'If vou will I merely walk with her down toward this little fountain where the bronze tritons are, I will bring the King to her." Mrs.Kennaird caught her daughter by the wrist She was excessively agitated, and showed it, to the great secret amusement of Eric "Do you hear, my love?" she almost stammered. "The the King is to be brought to you!" Half descending the steps which ha had lately mounted, and removing his hat as he did so, Eric answered in tones of courtesy as tranquil as tuey were careless: "Oh, I assure you, King Clarimond never permits a lady to bo presented to him. He's very royal, if you please, in other ways, but that is not one of them." Pale, and inwardly quivering, Mrs.jKen naird still held her daughter's wrist At Eric passes down the lawn, her voice, with brisk staccato whisper, shot into Kathleen ear. It conveyed but four words, yet these were pregnant with an intensity of desire and demand: "Come 1 Come, at once I To be conlinutd next BtmSafJ A bricht girl who is fating a special course in natural science in one of the woman's colleges has elevated her opinion of humankind considerably since she began her studies. "Talk about the wickedness of human beings!" she wrote back home, not long ago, "it isn't a circumstance to the In iquity of these lower orders. Why, in watching some of tha Amceba under the glass I've seen the whole ten commandments go to smash in a single half hour. Their wickedness may be miscroscopical hut it's awful. Whole families are aten by some one enterprising member, they steal each others wives and children and lie and rob and practice polygamy and they're slyer than lots of people, toe I'm going to study cells next term and I expect to find pro toplasm the-most depraved substance yet J believe what' theologian's call original sin in people must be nothing but protoplasm working." It is proverbial th at a man must ask his wife's leave to thrive. It is quite as true that a woman must ask her husband's leave to -be bright and amiable Sugar by fer mentation turns to acetio acid. "The sweetest soul that ever looked through human eyes." will turn sharp and bitter nnder the ferment of rasping marital criti cism. Two women spoke of a third; said one enthusiastically:. "Age cannot wither her nor custom stale her infinite variety." "True," murmured the other. "In the last census report she is set down as just two years younger than her eldest son, and her life's .'story I've heard it half a dozen times, and it's always a romance and always a new one." If yon value yonr youthful looks, dress five years beyond your real age. Yonr wardrobe more than aught else should take time by the forelock. The gay trappings of 16 go marvelously ill with gray hairs and the wearer of them is a sorry spectacle for gods, men or the observing sex. Nothing is so underbred as quarreling, to say nothing of the waste of nervous energy, and there is neither honor nor profit in it If your adversary is a woman she can heal her self-esteem of your sharpest stabs in a bath of tea and tears. The manliness of a manly man puts him at a cruel, dumb dis advantage a coward can always shelter be hind your womanhood. It is much better to resent insolence or positive hurt with fine freezing courtesy than with the most clamorous sarcasm or the most hysterio sobs. .. There is a story that a testy old land holder in the District of Columbia often said to our first President when he was planning the Citv of Magnificent Distances: "Mr. Washiugton, I'd like to know what you would have amounted to if you hadn't married the Widow Curtis." Certainly marriage with the wealthy widow helped the handsome young soldier to the leader ship in his province that afterward flowed into the command of armies, and gave in dependence to a nation. A Strive to keep these things clear: your eyes, your complexion, your conscience; these things soft: your hair, your hands, your heart; these things clean: your lips, your name, your mind. A To know how to ride a horse, to shoot a gun and to tell the truth: once that was held to make the education of a gentleman, and it is still a very good foundation for modern flourishes. A The lady managers of the World's Fair are already receiving most astonishing let ters applying for space in the Woman's Building. The mother of three pairs of twins has written to say that she thinks she is entitled to recognition, and. she would like to have a crayon drawing of her off. spring exhibited. She also desires to know in what department she ought to have the exhibit go. 9fc JjBKk'aUjjgHK !ifffM 'i'lfi'ralflffiSfliffli liLi'iMfi"!' PITTSBTmG- DISPATCH, A HERMIT OF' FAME. Ono of the Sons of John Brown, at His Quiet Home on Lake Erie. HE LUES IH THE HISTORIC PAST. The Family True to the Memory of the Hero of Harper's Ferry. LETTEB OP 1 CONFEDERATE BOLDIEB rcoBKXsroxpcxcx or TBS distatcxj Put-in-Bat, Lake Erie, Noy.6. "lea, this is Mr. Brown," said a strang'ely pic turesque character, as he stood by his load of gathered fruit which he was making ready for market "I am the son of John Bown, of Ossawattomie, and the only one of the race living this side of the Bocky Mountains." The speaker is an old man with white hair and whiskers; but his eye is so clear, his step so elastic and his speech so full of vigor that I marvel after all his years and won derful experiences that his powers are so strong and complete. "I live on and enjoy these acres and the products they bear," he continued. "In my retirement I look back upon the events of the past with which my family name is connected with a mingled feeling of pride and sorrow. My father's memory is to me very sacred. His life and history is also a reverence to us alL There are seven of us left, four women and three men. All of them live in California except myself. I have dwelt on this island almost ever since the tragedy at Harper's Ferry, and expect to as long as I live." Fat-ln-Bay In the Fall. What a strange experience I have had this afternoon on the Island of Put-in-Bay in Lake Erie, the largest and most import ant, I believe, of those specks of land in its blue waters which are found between San dusky and Detroit The fruit season is just closing, and the frosts of fall have turned the leaves of the trees and of the vineyards a strange yellow color. The very last of the fall fruit is being gathered as I come by accident upon one of the oldest of the sons of John Brown, and the one who bears his father's name. He is a most intelligent man and stands by his family record with a dignity that makes one feel an interest in it and him, no matter what may be his views of the past "I am more than content with the judg ment the country has made up of the events of 1859. They demanded much of life and death; but both were made without hesita tion by those who were called upon to act Look at the evidence of these tacts. My father's grave at North Elba, in the interior JbJm Brown's House. of New York, is visited every year by thousands of people who believe that in his attempt to destroy slavery he did to the full his duty as he saw it No man does great things without great sacrifices, and my parent .was no exception to the rule. His family shared his ambitions and are proud of his record. Despite the loss of a noble father, who imparted his spirit and his pur pose to all his children, we have lived to see his idol completed by other hands. The Recovery ot Watson's Body. "Brother Watson, who was killed with him at Harper's Ferry, or rather mortally wounded, is, you know, buried by his side, and there is a touching story connected with my recovery ot his remains. They were spirited away from the place where he died, and were not discovered for somo years nfterward. One day I received a letter from adoctor in Martinsville, Ind., informing me that they were in a medical school at Jefier sonville in the Hoosier State. I went down, found the identification complete, and the officers of the school surrendered the body to me without question. They were well preserved, and were bein-j used a an an atomical specimen for the education of young doctors. I brought them North and buried them beside my father, because I thought it fitting that the two men of our family who fell at the inception of the war which destroyed slavery should rest side by side. "It is a good many years since these events at Harper's Ferry, and I have had many queer experiences in relation to them. Only a few years ago I received a letter from a Confederate soldier, who was in or about the combat my father had in Vir ginia. His letter was yery frank and gen erous. A Letter to a Confederate. "I preserved it carefully among the many missives which I have received since the war. My reply to that letter will indicate its spirit, for I have not the message at hand this moment. Here it is: Pct-w-Bay, Lake Emr, hi, ) r. O , ' 879. S uitawa u.oustt. Juxe 18, 1879. Deak Sib "One tonch of nature makes tha whole world kin." Thoe words expressed my thoughts, as I read your letter of the 15th Inst, giving some of vour own recollec tions of my father and brother Watson at the close of the assault at Harper s Ferry. You "uided my father to rise as he stumbled fornaid ont of the engine house." You "Improvised a couch out of a bench with a air of overalls for a pillow for my dying i other, and you gave him & cup of water to quench his thirst, which won jou his thanks-" His th 4nks were, I know, sincere, for his was a soul of sincerity. Will you not with equal faith accept mine, and not only mv own. but on behalf of all mv lather's family! Thonch you aie a "South Carolinian ana cook part on tne siue oi tne south tn the late war," this is no barrier to our sympathy and lespect for you as a man who was faithful to his convictions. My ather, brothers and comrades who fell at'Harpei's Ferry did not liate the people of the South, 'twas only toward her slavery that they cherished a sacied animosity. It may seem to Southern people paradoxical, and yet I know that the South never had truer friends than those she then considered her direst foes. When that day comes, as come it will, in which the whits people of the late seceded States shall fully rec ognize and freely grant to every one without distinction of color, race or pre vious condition the rights they claim for themselves, and which Rre inherent in hu manity, they will then appreciate the hearts of the men at Harper's Ferry who would have risked all for them, had the uttimtinn been reversed. Waiting with somo Interest the publica tion of your reminiscences, and hoping sometime to offer a fraternal hand to you who gave a cup of. water to my dying brother when you deemed him an enemy, I remain. Yours for the rights of all, JoHa Bbowtt, Jr. A Lost Not Without Its Return. "As you may imagine it was a touching letter that brought out this reply from me, for it was such an evidence of how the ani mosities of the war have softened with years, that I felt that our losses were not without return. I have many more con tributions to the history of that time; but this one that I have given you is enough to illustrate how our funiily appreciates the changed conditions that have come upon the country since 1859, and through them gather iresh reverence every year for our lather's memory. He gave a noble life for a mighty sentiment The cost to us was heavy, but we are horn of a race who be lieve in giving up the dearest things of life, and even life itself for the right As for myself, I do not mingle much with the 'iSPWyjygsSl gpC-JsMarew f.!Sr-y SUNDAT, NOVEMBER '8 world, except the quiet one I make here for-myself." Isn t it strange that in an afternoon of accidents I should have found Mr. Brown who bears the name of the remarkable man who began the war on his own account with a handful of men.. The son "who bears the father's name is now past 70 years of age; buthe is still full of that fire which made his father such a marked man. I imagine that he does not look unlike his parent did, when he died. His little vineyard of seven acres from which he picksa good living, unless all the evidences fail, stands back from the main road some distance, and John Brown's Little Office. the house where he lives is just beside the waters of the lake. All about it are proofs of neatness and a reasonable degree of pros perity. Belles or Harper's Ferry. ' After we had chatted for a time we went down to a seat under the spreading branches of a tree, and there talked for an hour. Just to the left of us was a little office facing the house, in which the veteran preserves tha relics of the contest at the little Virginia town at the junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, that has made his family name famous the world oyer. In it are books, manuscrips, and even some of the arms that were used at Harper's Ferry. Mr. Brown keeps the small building as a sort of workshop, where he may live among the memories sacred to his father. To pore over the mysteries of that place, and delve among the written things he has preserved would be worth much; ,but he is keeping them all for a family record, and I can say nothing more about them, than that when they are given to the public, romance and tragedy will be so mingled as to attract any mind. "Yes, my sister Buth, who lives in Cali fornia, is preparing a sort of sketch or me morial volume about the events of 1859 and those that preceded and follow ed it She may not write a large book, but a good part of her life has been spent in gathering up the threads of that time, and when her volume is printed the world will have some new facts in relation to John Brown. I do not know how they will be received, for it has moved so rapidly since those days that it is hard to say what will interest those of the present generation. But I am getting evidences every day, that thought about the cause my father espoused, and his family who tried to help him carry it out, is not dead." "Were you in the fight at Harper's Ferry?" Enlisting Recruits In Canada. "No. I had been sent by my father to Canada to enlist the active support of the better class of colored men who had escaped from bondage in fact, to recruit soldiers for the cause. I had been quite successful, and had just returned to onr home in Ash tabula county,intending to rejoin my father near the scene of action, when the combat took place. It was not his intention to make the attack for some months after he did, but a traitor in his party forced him to move quickly and without proper preparation. He was a very ardent man, who knew no fear, and hence when the emergency arose he never hesitated to act "We have profound respect for his mem ory, and have never looked upon his like since he went to his grave. You will re member, perhaps, that the movements upon the armory at Harper's Ferry resulted in a Congressional investigation, wnicn was managed by Mr. Mason, of Mason and Sli- dell fame. They nnlertook to take me to Washington to testify. They even sent a deputy marshal after me, but I refused to go. I knew what my presence in Washing ton would mean, and remained at home. I took no part in the war, except to go to Kansas and join one of the border regiments for a time. Doesn't Balse Grapes for Wine. "Let me see. It was early in 1862 that I came to this island and settled on this little patch of land to raise fruit I have led a very secluded life, attending to my vine yard and gathering my grapes. See, I have a wagonload almost ready for the Detroit John Brown, Jr. boat, where I have sent all of my product for years.. I never sell a pound of mygrow ng for wine." "You will excuse my farmer's garb," said he, as we walked along; "but I like it and it fits my business." We parted at the gate by the main road, and I walked toward the little wooden town which is called Put-in-Bay. An hour later, just as I was finding my way to the dock where the big steamers land for Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo and Sandusky, I met Mr. Brown again just under the spreading branches of the willow tree which marks the spot where are buried Perry's men, who fell in the memorable battle on Lake Erie, j hen the old Commodore sent the ringing message to the Government that has been cast in letters of gold: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." We gossiped a little about the history of this spot where we were standing,and as we parted he said kindly: '"Come and see me again, if you ever come this way." ' FSAKE A. BUBB. A MlnUter Saves the .Life ot a Neighbor. Mr. Isaac Snyder, a neighbor of mine, had an attack of the colic, rnd was wishing only that he could die. I gave him two doses of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhcra Remedy, and in a short time he was entirely relieved. No family should bo without so valuab r a medicine. John S. Bakee, Even- Bedford county, Pa. wsu Household goods packed for shipment HATCH &"KEEKAir, 33 Water street Su 4 W 3 1891 HOUKS. OF SICKNESS Do Hot Pasa Swiftly, So Patients Have Lots of Time to Think. SOME DIFFERENCE IN THINKING. The Est. George Hodges PreierflMi Pour Spiritual Hedlclnet. HOTT TBOUBLE OFTEN INDS DT GOOD pnUTTET FOB TOT DI3PATCH.1 It is altogether likely that everybody within the reach of this sermon will some day be sick. It is not everybody, however, who knows how to be sick. It is a great thing to know how to he sick. The sickroom is a battlefield, and the fight that is fought there is not only a physical one; it is a spiritual combat also. And battles go, for the most part, to the best prepared contestant It has again and again been found that readiness counts for more than numbers. The Germans beat the French in their last war because they had a general who planned out all the battles he forehand, and had every detail looked after and was perfectly ready. If we are all going to be sick, let us learn how to be sick. And the best time to learn that is now while we are wclL There is not much use preaching to sick people. It is a great deal better to preach to the sick people before they begin to get sick. XeUnro Is a Iiost Art Now, sickness gives almost everybody a chance to think. Somehow a good many people are so busy in this hurrying life that they seem fo get no time for thought There is not half an hour in the whole day when there is not something to be done, and done right off. The whole attention is taken up with a succession of business cares or house hold duties. Our modern life is lived on a perpetual run. Never had any people so many time-saving appliances as we have, and never has any people had less leisure time. We spend all that we save. Leisure is a word for whose meaning we consult the dictionary. We read about it with curios ity in old books. It is one of the lost arts. There is plenty of thinking, but it is ap plied almost entirely to the visible and the temporary. There is little opportunity to consider the great truths of the human life. What are we here for? Where are we go ing? We hardly stop to ask. And if we sometimes question with old Pilate, what is truth? the chances are that we follow Pilate's example, and stay not for an answer. We have hardly time to say our prayers. Spiritual Value ot Sickness. Now, in the midst of this unending hustle and bustle, in the midst of this noisy life, comes the angel of sickness, and we are led away out of it all, away from the sight and hearing ot it, into a quiet room where we can think. And what shall we think about? The spiritual value of our sickness depends upon the answer to that question. We may go out of our sick room as we would go out of a prison, hating every remembrance of it, counting onr confinement as just so many weeks stolen from ns out of our life. Or we may go ont as a victorious soldier goes from the field of triumph, wounded and broken, and weak and weary, but with his heart glad in the consciousness of a good fight bravely and successfully fought; or as a devout soul departs from the still sanc tuary, with the glow in his face reflected from the face of God, and who goes out now in thestrength of that blessed meeting, helped and uplifted, to uplift and help his brother men. The difference is very largely a difference in thinking. Meditation is the soul's medi cine. If we take no medicine, or if we take the wrong kind of medicine the soul will suffer for it, like the body. It is of im mense importance to know the right thoughts to think when one is sick. Four Spiritual Medicines. I would prescribe four kinds of spiritual medicine meditation upon the love of God, and upon the sympathy of Christ, and upon the fact of sin, and npon the fact of the shortness and uncertainty of human life. God loves us. Sometimes it is pretty hard to believe thai in the midst of pain. But the great spiritual heroes, and saints, and doctors of the old time, who were closer to God than we are, and knew God better than we do, declared that suffering was even a sign of the great love of God. It is not necessary, I think, to emphasize the authority of Peter, and John and Paul. It is plain enough to see that they were mas ters in tliat realm of knowledge where mas tery depends on spiritual sympathy and appreciation and character, where spiritual things are spiritually discerned, and where one cannot see at all unless he first be born from above. They knew as much about pain as we do, they had sufficient exper ience of it in their hard lives, and they knew 1,000 times more about God than we do. And they said that human pain has somehow a close relation to the divine fatherhood. "My son, despise not thou the chastening of the'Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. If ye endure chastening God dealeth with you as with sons." Understanding the Father. In different words and different ways, they all taught that And unless we know more about the heavenly Father, and are closer to him and understand him better than they, we will do best, it seems to me simple to accent that "Lord, he whom Thou Iovest is sick." That message, which is forever being car ried by word, or letter, o'i" telegram, hither and thither among the sons of men bringing consternation and foreboding with it, came once to Christ "He whom thou Iovest is sick." And we know that Christ was all the time healing the sick. Would he suffer it, then, that bis best friend should be sick? Would he not hasten at once and heal him? Instead of that, he stayed on where he was; and Lazarus got worst and worse day after day, and finally died. And yet Lazarus was so dear a friend to Jesus that they did not need to speak his name when they brought the news of his sickness but deemed it enough to say "he whom Thou Iovest" is sick, knowing that the Master would understand. So a man could be the dearest personal friend of Christ, and yet be sick, and die. The Answer to Onr Prayers. In the case of Lazarus we have not only the first chapter of the story, but the last We can read it all the way through. And we can see how Jesus withheld the lesser blessing of recovery only that He might grant the greater blessing of new life. The story breaks off in the middle, in our human experience of sickness and death. We read only the sad part of it. We see Christ standing afar off, and seeming to pay no heed to prayer. They whom we love are sick, and death comes, and the bleising is hidden from our eye3. But thebles'ing fol lows. And our prayers are answered, if we could but know it, not as we asked, but in finitely better. Sickness is only the beginnin? of God's dealings with our souls. We are reading the first chaper in the sick room, and what the next chapter will be we know not, ex cept that our Heavenly Father means that it shall be a new life somehow. The first thing is to trust him, to rely unreservedly npon his infinitely wise and infinitely tender love, to say over and over toourselves,"God is my father,God is caringfor me, and doing the best with me, and making ready a blessing to give me. The Father loves me.". That will help us to be patient the Divine Sympathy. And God knows. That is the next thing to think about. God was in Christ, taking our flesh upon Him, meeting our tempta tions, bearing our sorrows, making acquaints ance with pain. We have not an high priest, who cannot be touched with the feeling of 1 onr infirmities. We can be sure in our sick ness not only of the love of the Heavenly Father, but of the sympathy of the Son. Our Lord represented himself to us in the gospel as the Good Shepherd. And one of the duties of the shepherd in that Syrian country was to lead the sheep. He never drove the sheep. He went on at the head of them and they followed." And so wherever they went he had gone before. All the hard and steep and thorny paths he had himself walked in. It is a great thing to feel that God under stands us. One of the supreme blessings of the incarnation, of the revelation of God here in human flesh Is that it assures us of the understanding, of the perfect sympathy, of God. It is wonderful to have'God love ns, but it is wonderfully unspeakable to have God down here on our human level, putting Himself in our place, making Him self man. The Story Hot a New One. God knows all that sick people have to suffer, knows just how hard it is. All the manifold discomforts of the sickroom, all the painful weariness and the hourly strain upon the patience, and the slow creeping of the minute hand on its interminable journey around the figures of the clock, all the anxieties of the long day and the worries of the sleepless night, all the headaches and the heartaches, and the feeling that every thing is going wrong in the house or getting twisted at the office, and that we ought to be up, and that we are so weak that it tires us even to think of getting up all that is known to God. Every bit of it had its like ness somewhere in the Ijfe of Jesus. As for downright pain, God knows what that means. The cross testifies to that He who hung there in the darkness, thorns upon His forehead, marks of the scourge cut deep into His shoulders, nails through His hands and through His feet, suffering torture of body and desolation of soul, is able to have sympathy. The cross is the symbol of the sympathy of God. Accordingly, the last chapter of the gospels are good reading in the sick room, and Good Friday is a good day to think about We will do well in the midst of pain to fix our attention upon that scene of Calvary, to take Christ as our example in the endurance of suffering, and to realize how much closer His pain and our pain brings us together. The Fellowship of Suffering. I met a good old man the other day who told me he was a Methodist, a "shouting Methodist," and yet that he would like to see a crucifix in every church. Probably he would like to have a picture of thecruci fixion hung in every sick room. It is not unlikely that we have lost something in putting away out of the sight of our Protestant eyes that old, impressive, strik ing symbol of the love and sympathy of God. Jesus suffered as we suffer. And so he knows. We get into the fellowship of His sufferings through the door of the sick room. He comes day by day tojbe more to ns more hopeful, more near, more neces sary, more beloved. The cross, however, has a message about sin as well as a message about sympathy. And that is tte next thing that we will do well to thins: about when we are sick. First, the love of God, and then the sympa thy of Christ, and then the fact of sin. Sickness always means sin. Directly or in directly, it is always the outgrowth of sin. If there had h,een no sin there would have been no sickness in the world. The sick ness may be the consequence of somebody else's sin. So closely are the lines of hu man lives intertwisted and tangled that if one member of the great human family suf fers other members suffer with it, and if one commits sin the evil effects of that sin reach out and touch others than the sinner. Worst Punishment of Sickness. That is one of the fearful things about sin, that it not only destroys the happiness of the sinner, hut it strikes a sword through the hearts of his best friends, and poisons thej lives of his innocent children. Sickness is always the punishment of some kind of sin. But it is one of God's punishments; and that means that it comes out ot love, not out of anger; and that is not the reaching ont of the hand of God to strike us, but, in stead of that, is just the natural and inevit able consequence which is attached to sin like a shadow. It follows sin as a shadow follows him that walks in the sun. In sickness, accordingly, is a good time for a man to think about his sins. We get away out of our common course of life; we are set for a time quite on the outside of it, where we can see it What sort of a life is it? What kind of days have we been spend ing? At what purposes have we been aim ing? Is it a good life to close up right now and take with us, as a completed thing, for the inspection of the Great Judge? And, if it is not, then how would we better change it? Sickness suggests self-examination, and new resolutions. A severe affliction be- fins a new era in a man's existance. If he as been living in the Dark Ages, now is a good time for the Beformation. The Anticipation of the End. And. with this, comes in that fourth oc cupation which I suggested, the meditation of the sick person upon the shortness and uncertainty of human life. Everybody who is sick thinks about death. He may not say anything about it, but there it is, a dread thought in the background ot ni3 mind getting always more and more in the foreground some day, in some sickness, I must die. Every sickness awakens the consciousness of that inevitable destiny of man. And we wonder if it will be this time or the next? Death is probably much more dreadful in the anticipation thii- in the reality. , We shrink from it, partly because it is the entrance upon an unknown and solitary journey; partly because it is a separation Between us and those who are dearer to us than the life itself; partly, with some, be cause it takes us out of our pleasant houses, as Johnson said to Garrick when he saw the delightful rooms he lived in, "Ah, David, these are the things that make death terri ble;" and then, beside all this, is the con sciousness of sin. That is true which St Paul said: "The sting of death is sin." Happy are they who can go on and finiih the sentence "But thanks be to God who giveth the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ" A Thought That Interprets lAIe. We think of death in quiet moments in the sick room, and it interprets life. The thought gives somehow a different meaning to all the entries in our old journals and changes our ordinary estimations of value. Much that seems great, seems very small looked at from the point of view of death. Money and society, gain and pleasure, our old anxieties about our dress and our dinner these things interest us and are of im portance to us to-day. But they who look back, as we, all must sometimes, with one hand in the hand of death, set, no doubt, a different value upon all these things. It is no longer a question with them about the pleasures they possess down here; they are a great deal more interested about the credit they will find up above in the books of Heaven. What they have, will then matter-nothing; what they are, will be the question ot questions. AVhat they may have thought about a score of theological doctrines, for or against them, they will then utterly forget; only the . Great Realities Are of Concern to him who looks away from all the wrang ling disputation into the eternal future. He wants a faith that he can stand on. He Wants to be sure of a Heavenly Father, and a personal Redeemer, and a life beyond. Alas, for him, if he can only reach out, empty handed, into the empty air, and tako but a tragic leap into the dark. "Lord, teach us to think that wc must die," prayed a good man, "that we may be wise." We ought to go out of th'e sick room with a new sight, with eyes opened to see things as they really are, and hence forth to prize them at their actual values. It is evident that such a sickness would be a benediction. Out of such a sickness we would come into spiritual convalescence, into health of soul. "It is good for me that I have been in trouble," wrote one who had passed through some such benefi cial experience," that I may learn thy stat utes." "Before I was troubled, I went wrong; but now have I kept thy word." Geoege Hodge. AS AETinCIAL I702T. Beoest "Experiments That Seem to Be la tha Bight Direction. 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