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That makes a discord In the Olirlstinas A moment In the dines or talk I Sigh, And seem bait lonely In the crowd sometlines— Sometimes. : - • Not Von, nor for long. o Mend. my friend •• We were net Mat oer lice "thatwe might Iraqi; The Sower:crowned .day *tsar* balbrioon an endr Should Guitar Spring a loner impairs keep? Comes all Winston the dine of fading leaves. Come on the cold short days. *e mad "rise . And go our way, and garner home our shepies• Though some far taint regret maiskinfkiireyes Soinettases. . ' •'• Somethasol me a light almost divine 4 In meettuteyes of two that sow are one. Impatient of the team That rise to mine. . I 1 tura awayto seek!some , worh widow. Them dawns a look upon Some stranger face ; I think, " I like, and yet bow far leis fair S" •nd toot►. and look again, and seek no trace A moment morn your fancied likeness there.- 80011StIMeS. o sad, sweet thoughts ! 0 foolish. vats' 'egrets t As wile It were, what time June roses blow, To weep because the first blue violet , t • , We found infipring has faded long ago.; 0. love, my love, if yet by mpg of bird, By flower scent, by aunts 'Tad poet's rtiymes, 'My heart, that fain would be at peace. is stirred; Am Ito blame that still I sigh sometimes!, • • Sometimes? , And sometimes I know a parig of leaking pain, Thai, while I *Falk all lonely,:otber eyes May haply smile to yours that aline again, Beneath the sun and stars of Southern sklea. The past is past :but Is It sun, if yet • P who in calm content would seek to dweU Who will not grieve, yet cannot quite forget, -Still send a thought to you, and wish-you well Sometimes f Lotilas 7, Swink ON THE CLIFF, An Adventute - at Barrnoutb. Fifteen years agOiarmouth was a quiet little village. The whistle of the iron horse was;not to -be' heard within many miles; and the passage of- the coach .between Dolgelly anti Caniarvoe *as `the sole event of the day. There was one hotel and some half-dozen shops and other houses where lodgings where to be obtained; but slight as was the accommodation, it fully equaled the demand. - "Just the place for a fellow AO be able to sketch without people - coming to, look over his shoulder, was the comment of Hugh Carson, a young artist, as he took his first stroll upon the Sands. . A tall, welt-built youig fellow, with legs rather long for his body, and a 'face rather .heavy in repose, but -bright and winning When he smiled; The tide was out, a few fish ermen were mending their nets and tarring their boats, and a lady and child were down upon the rocks near the edge of the sea. " - A bright bit of , eolor on those dark rocks,"' be said,. " with the island on the left and the sea beyend, and that abrupt headland coming in -just the thing b Agin with." . He bad his sketching-book under his• arm and his color-box` in., his pocket, and, - sitting down on the sand-hills, he set • rapidly to work. For an hour and a hair he:worked steadily, and then the bright bit of color and the child moved off toward the shore. Still he worked on at his sketch, and was almost startled when a shadow passed across. his paper. He glanced up, and saw a girl of some twenty years old,/with a youbg er one of .seven or eight. The child dropped the hand she was holding, and came fearlessly up. " Please may I look at , your pic ture ?" He nodded silently, and went on with his painting. " " 0 cousin Amy, such -a pretty picture! and there are you and me on the rocks. Do look The girl glanced at the artist, but neither by look nor motion did she ', second the child's request ; , and with a little shrug of her shoulder she turned away, and walked On slowly until overtaken by her cousin. " What a bear I am!" the young . I man said to himself. " I ought to have got up and grinned and taken off my hat, I suppose, and asked her to look at it; but it's no use, I can't get on with women. I never car. think .what to say to them. I have no doubt she thought me a perfect bear. And so I am. ' But I suppose it's my nature." And be went on with his painting. " One o'clock ; it's time to go in to dinner. The:tide is coming ,up and covering the rocks; I will finish , it to-morrow morning." The next day' he worked until din ner, and was greatly contented with, the result. • " It will make a capital thing," he said.' "1 have been very lucky with the lights . . I do think it will be the, beat thing I have done." " His. pleasure was a little marred by the fact that .the, two girls .had been out on the rocks, and had .on their return passed close by him; but this time the child bad kept close . to her cousin. - " Offended, evidently," was his muttered comment, "and no wonder. I wish I was not such a bear." The following morning he was late in starting for a stroll , across the sands.' The tide had already turned, and there are few places on the'coast where it comes in more rapidly than on the Barmouth sands. fora lOng time its approach is so gradual that it can hardly be noticed;.but when it reaches a certain 'point it conies in , with startling speed. "'There are those girls on the rocks again," he said, and he shaped his course so as to tarry him to the right of - them. He had not gone . fifty yards along the edge of the sand when he heerd a loud cry behind him. He - looked round; and saw that the elder girl, who was reading, had risen from a t tampotool on which she was sitting,end that the child was on the rocka; already cut off by a rapidly inereasing stream of water. The cry of the child on discovering EMI SWODA,;) . BRADFORp . i. : COUNTY',..i . .="P4. -. .,TKiPli.lpit:::MOßNlliti •:-' DECEMBER 30, - , ;-iBOO.. . .. . . . .. - . ,T _ . . ... her situation was echoed' byber com panion, who was about to rush- into the water' when Hugh ran . up. " All right, little oiler he shouted cheerily. "I'll fetch you out." So saying, h e r waded into the lin ter; which wall'already nearly up to his wain!, reached the little, girl, took he r in his arms, and carried her to the shore. There you are t right as possible," he said, 'as be put her down; " but yoa must Wad, missy, for the tides are very rapid here." "Thai* you so very much, Sir," the elder girl said.; "it is most kind of you." . The artist looked into the , flushed face of the girl, and the ey.2i in which the tears were standing, and his, ha bitual shyness fell upon him. Mat tering somethirig about ita being no odds at all, he raised hie hat and, turning upon his heel, spin pursaed his walk. - ... "-He really las bear," Amy.. Her bert said; is she hurried off with the child toward the sand- ills, pursued. by the fast-rising tide; "and yet, by his voice; I am sure he could be very nice if he liked." - Amy Herbert had no experience whatever of shy men. She was the only daughter of a very wealthy Manchester cotton spinner, and Man chester does not class shy young men among its prodections. She was accustomed to admiratioe, for she was pretty and ap heire4, and in both capacities made much of; bat, though a little wayward and willfUl, from always-having her own way, she was really_ unspoiled, and was. as bright and lovable a girl as was 'to be found in the metropolis of cotton. ' For the next few days Hugh Car mm 'Biased the young lady and child from the shore, but several times saw the flutter of a light-colored dress high up on the hills behind, Barmoutb. " That rising tide bas given her a fright," he said to himself, "and they've taken tothe hills. Rather ' a nuisance, because I have done with these „fiats, and shall be doing the hills myself. However, they are ex tensive enough without our running against each other; as -we always seem to be doing here." In fact ; as Hugh and his acquain tances took their meals at atout the same hour, and both came in at the very last moment before them, it is not singular that each day they had, either morning, afternoon or evening, met at eest once in the quiet little street;' and each timeillugh raised his hat, Miss Herbert bowed frigidly, and her little cousinnodded brightly. Once when he pasied the door of their lodging, just akthey'were going in, the child ran across the road as her cousin entered, and put'ber hand into his, and talked to dim for two qr three minutes, (nd conveyed to him the thanks ber mamma,' who Was not strong, and did not go , out much, for having carried her semi the tide. -For the: next three days Hugh Carson was engaged iid paint ing a picturesqtm old farm-house lying farmi. the hill. The subject was a good' ie l and he setto to pro duce a finished picture on , the spot, and worked 'at it from early morning' as long as the light lasted, making his breakfast and lunch off' milk and 'timid and cheese obtained at the, farmhouse. Upon the - third evening he was returning from his work, walk ing along the edge of the hill, looking down upon the sea, , when he came upon the- little girl lying on. the ,ground, Crying bitterly. , Why, little one; what is the mat ter?" - The child, who had not beard him ' approaching, leaped to her feet, and , upon seeing who it was, a look of pleasure flashed across her,. tear- I stained .face. "0, please, Sir, do help me 1 Cowl sin Amy has tumbled down the ," Good gracious; child, where has she fallen?" Hugh said in horror ; for the spot where they stood- was above one of the steepest slopes be tween Barmonth and Barked). " Down there, Sir; she ias picking a flower when she. slipped,; and I can't get at her, but I can see her." And the child led the young artist to a point, further on, where the pla -testi projected, and, the face of . the hill where Amy had allen was visible. The slope where she had slipped was very steep, but became - even steeper lower down.. Then a rocky ledge' projected ' and below it an ab rtipt precipice some fifty feet high. Amy Herbert lay on the ledge. She' ]' had rolled down on to it, and had eiidently struck her head, for '.she' was insensible. This ledge was some' Mime feet wide ; and, from the posi tion sin which the • girl lay, it was probable that, at the first movement I, =ideas she came- to, she would roll over the edge.. "All right, little one; don't cry;; I will get to cousin Amy. She has hurt herself; but I dare say she will be all right when I 'get to her." Hugh spoke cheerfully, but he ' was by no means sure that - the girl was not killed. He . looked closely at the grassy, slope. It was easy enough to 'slide dowe; but once down, there was no getting up again. , He was fully a mile and a half from the town ;'but he dared not run for aid, for if, the girl partially recovered she might be dashed to pieces before his return. It was evi dent that he must slide doWn to her. But the child puzzled him. He was afraid to send her to the village by herself, afraid to leave her alone on the top; besides, if they were to stop On that ledge till help came,it would be much more pleasant with the child there, both for Amy and himself. "Look here,,,Pdasy,"he said, after a minute's thought, "-will you be , a good quiet little girl if I. take you with me down-to COUlthi Amy II The child nodded seriously. "Here goes, then," he said.; "now you bike hold of my hand very tight, and we Arill go down as far , as we can; then We'll lie down pa i l the grime, you pet our arms round my neck, and we will slide down." 1. ' So it was done, not' without dap gettbut Hugh was strong and steady; and lying on his face, with one :arm round the child, ha held on to the tufts of grass, and let himself slide as gently as he could. Still his iMart sio - Azoms or monmoiAnox ram £3T qmarraite • , beat fast for, an Ninstant when, on, reaching, the ;lest point of elope, they ell dont with a rush the'bust omen set to theledge where Amy lay, hidf over the ;brinkof the sheer fall below. " gow, Pew, you sit dOwn quite quiet vihile I see to cousigiAmy.7 Very anxiously the young artist lifted the girl's bead from the grass. There was a little pool, of blood be; low it, which - had flowed from a wound lust above the ear. He put hie fingers to her wrist, and, after a minute of anxious suspense, he felts very faint flickering pulse. - 6* Thank God t," he murmured de- voutly. Then he took out a whiskrilaskt and poured a few drops between the clinched teeth. Again-and again be did this, the child all the time sitting perfectly quiet, and watching with quiet frightened eyes. .Preiently the girl sighed faintly. • "Take hold of cousin Amy's hand," Hugh *aid, "and . when you eee, tier open her eyes speak to her gently. I Tell her to lie' - still; put your face close to hers, act that she may see yOu when she opens ber eyes:' Hugh was sitting on - the ground supportiig the girl, whose haul rest ed on his shoulder. Presently there was a movement' of the eyelids, and. then slowly s and languidly the eyes opened. ; "Thew, cousin Amy,you are bet ter now. Lie quite quiet You have huh yourself, and most be very goo d.il The eyesespressiiil recognition and , a t int wonder, and then ellised agiOn. Hugh waited 5, a little, and then pound a few more drops of whisky between her lips. This time the effect was more decided. She moved, shOok her head, and tried to avoid the'inouth,of the flask. Then she looked up again. , "What is iti" - she said faintly. What are you doing? Wheit am It" - "You must uiet and good, the child_Said itively. You must not Wye, the gentleman says 'I his time the speech was vaguely understood, for she looked beyond the child's face to that' of Hugh ; closed her eyes again, and then made an effort to raise her' head. Then Hugh spoke, gently but decidedly: - " My dear young lady, you must lie quite quiet. You have fallen down - and hurt yourself, you are faint and weak. You are quite safe 'where you are, but you cannot move, for we are on the side of the hill, and must wait till help_ comes. Your cousin is here with you. , Kiss her, Pussy." ' , • Amy-Herbert listened in a sort of confused wonder. She did not under stand in the. least, except, that she . was told to be quiet hi firm authori tative-tones, such as had not been addressed to 'her since she was a child. The warm kiss of her little cousin seemed to assure her that all was safe and right, and, with a little sigh she closed her eyes again, and was soon breathing quietly. , Then the child turned tollugh: ' "'Amy's gone , to sleep. My name isn't. Pussy, but Ida—lda : Herbert." All right,4da. I'll call you - so in the future. Now, Ida, 4rheti you stand up, can you see the road down below there ?', , "Just see it," the child said ; " but it' is getting dark. When are we going home? ' "1 am afraid we are not going home to-night, Ida. Certainly not unless some one comes along that road, and there is not much chalice of that." • _ • Y .- Where are we to sleep!" Ids ask= ed, in surprise. ":We must sleep where we are. Cousin Amy wilt sleep here, and you shall curl up close to me and lay y6ur head against me on , the other side, and I don't think you'll .be cold." • "But I want supper before I go to • "Ah, you can't , have supper to night, Ida ; but it will be great fun, youknow, sleeping out ,here for a bit, and I expect that presently your mamma will send people out to look , for you, 'and then we shall hear them shout, and weiball shout back again;, and then they'll come with ' some ropes, at.d up we shall go to the top, Now shall I tell you a story ?" "0; yes, please," Ida said delight . "Will you sit quiet by me, then ? and when you feel sleepy you' just lay. your head down' and go off to sleep. I will go on with my story till you're asleep; but we must talk very low, else we shall wake cousin Amy." For an hour hetold stories of fair ies and enchanters, and then the little bead leaned gradually 4 against his .waistcoat,and in five minutes he stop ped in the middle of his narrative. Then Amy Hebert spoke : " I am, not asleep; I have been awakwfor some time, and have been thinking. You are the gentleinan who rescued Ida off the rocks, are, you not?" - - " Yes," Hugh said. , " I thought so. Now, please, how cattle you and. Ida here, And where are we, and why don't wetgo home?" " You rolled down a steep grassy. slope on to a ledge. You struck your head in falling, and were insen sible for a . time. I came up, and and should haie run off for assist ance, but .I feared if you movetibe fore I came back you would fall over another fifty feet, so- I. took Ida and slipped down to you." - " Can't I move ?" the > girl asked, presently. f 6 41 Are you uncomfortable V' - "No she 'said shyly. "Then you' had better lie still," Hugh Bald decisively. " The ledge is very' narrow, and you are weak, and .I dare say- giddy, for you lost a good deil of blood. So you really. over if , you eat up. With my arm round yon, you are quite safe."' And Hugh emphisized the' fact:by drawing her still more closely l tolim. Her slight figure yielded to the pres sure, and with a little movement, which was very 'like the nestle with which Ida had , prefaced her subsi *deuce to sleep, May Herbet lay quiet' 3 , and in a Yell few minutes Hugh, was sere, from her regular breathing , that she too was Weep. It Musi. be nearly ten o'clock: , Hugh sad to hitheaff. I should think we ought , very soon to, get out of this. 'old lady will be fidgety by tudt-past seven, alarmed by half-past eight, • and by balf-past ought to hays all Barmont out with torches. But women are'iso long be fore they set about a thing in earn est. They begin to . fidget long be fore a man dues, but they don't set to work to take decided steps. :Still, searchers ought to be out by this time. lam 'beginning to feel hor ridly cramped.. I suppmet s some fel lows wCuld like this sort of 'thing. but I don't see any point in it What ever. In another quarter of an hour Hugh saw several lights coming along the road below, and could hear faint shouts, which seemed to be echoed by a party proceeding along the bill. They were moving but slow ly, for there were lights half-way,up the face, and they were evidently searching, very carefully. The wind was from them. , and it was useless for Hugh to try and return , their shouts. - • Gradually_ they got nearer. and he determined to make-an effort, but to do so it was necessary to stand up. He moved slightly, and the elder girl moved also. " Wake up, please," he said; "hap is at band." She raised herself al, once. "I do think! have been asleep. I feel ever much better." " I will stand up to shout," Hugh' said. " Will you lean back against the hill ?, I wilt lay your cousin down with her head in your lap. She is as sound as a top. Now for it!" land standing up, Hugh gave a shout with all the power of his lungs. . There was. a patise in the move ment of the linterns and then a Shout. " Hallo•a-a 1" Hugh shouted again; "this way 1" Rapidly the lanterns came flitter ing along the road till .they were down in trout of them. - " Here we are ! here are the ladies !" Hugh shouted. "Any one hurt?" "Not much; ; , but we can't;-get either up . or down. You must let a rope down to us from above. Here we are ;" and Hugh struck a match and lighted, a large piece of. paper. " Have tle party above got ropes ?" There was shp_ntitig backward and forward, but the party above had not got ropes. "Send` baeic for -them - .at once," Hugh shouted, " and . beeure and tell the lady that no, damage is done here," "Vow do you feel now ?—I was goinglo say. cousin Amy," he laugh ed ; but I really haven't, the pleas ure of knowing yourname." " Amy Herbert." , " How do you feel now, Miss Her bert?", "1 feel weak, and rather headachy," she.said ; "but there is nothing really the matter with me. iWYhat an escape I have hadi" 4. - Yes, you had,a narrow squealiof it," Hugh said frankly ; just anoth er pound or two of impetus and you would have gine over the ledge.' • She 1111Wailent and he went on: " Do you object to smoke ? Becadse it you. don't • I should really like to ight I .•Nbt at all,' Amy said. - " There's something comfortable about a pipe," Hugh said, when it was fairly alight; "somehow one can talk when one gets a pipe alight." " I think men can talk at all times," Amy said, with a flash of her usual spirits. _ "Same men win - ;" Hugh said. ""I can talk with men • but, do you know, somehow I can't with women. I can talk with you now because I don't see you, and becausb 'll am smoking ;_ but I should.feej horribly uncomfortable if I met yoii4gi the morning:" ' 5 4 " I did not know any men were shy with women, nowadays," Amy said. " Shy ?" Hugh repeated . 4 "'W , yes; I'suppose it is a sort of shyness with me. I never had any sisters, and so, you see, I never got in the way of talking to girls. Itht very annoying sometimes, and makes pea ' pie think me - a bear. .1 suppose you thought so. You must have - done "'Yes," Amy said. "I did think you rather a bear. I am not accus. towed to shy young men, and simply fancied you did not want to epee* to strangers. And now, please tell me ex actly how it happened, because f,kkall have to tell aunt. and I have confused idea of what , has taken place." Again Hugh told her the Then_ I owe my life to you," the girl said, when he bad finished. "I really don't think yeti do," Hugh said, in a matter-of fact way. " I question very much if you would ' nothave conk!, round out of your faint before I could have brought help from Baimouth. However, cl f co,arse ' I acted for the best, and, it avoided all risk. There ivas no - danger in get-i ting down to you ; the little one and' I slipped down as easily as possible. If I thought you were going to tell me to-morrow that you were ve grateful, or anything of that sortl give you my honor 'I should go right away by the coach to Carnavon." I - The girl felt by the tone of Hugh's voice, that there was no affection about him, that be really meant what he said. ` • - "triply just say thankyou,' now ?" she asked quietly. - "Yes, just 'thank you," be said lightly. .• • ' "If I were a man you would shake bands over it ?" the girl asked. " Yes," Hugh said. . . " Please give me Your hand.". He stooped down, an she put her hand into his. , "Thank yon," in 'a deep. quit, earnest voice. , Then as-he rose again, she went on,, in a changed voice: • • "Now mind, it is a bargain. ' We: have shaken hands on It 4 am not to be grateful, and you not to be afraid - Ot me, but are just to be as natural with.me as with Ida." i "That is a . bargain," ,Hugh said, with a laugh. "1 don't'• think -I sbell feel shy with you in the future. I never talked so much with 'a woman in my. life. -1 suppose it's because I can't see your face." _ " I don't know whether to take that for a' compliment or the reverse," Amy laughed. "The-reverie, of course," Hugh said; laughing,,too; "compliments ' are not in my line.; Ah,, here they 'are with the rt pe. They have' been preciouS'quick about it." And Amy Herbert felt there was a real compli ment in the tones in which he spoke. "Now you must wake Ida. How soundly she sleeps ! Now letine help , . you on to your feet. .. . Even with the aid 'of the rope it was a work of considerable difficulty to jget Amy Herbert:up_to the top of the slope; for she was weak ind shaken, and unable to di) much to help her self. • At last it was managed ; and then she was he ped down a steep t.!path close by 1 the road below, where a carriage rom- the hotel was waiting for them. ‘ - " Will you come up and see my aunt?" Amy asked, as they stopped at-the door. i "Not to-night, thank you. I with come in the morning to see. how you are alter' thi shake'; . and, please, he said, "tell yonr aunt of our bargain.' It would be artful to come up to be= thanked. . • '- ‘ 4 Good-night," the girl said. "1 wont „forget. Come early. Now, Ida, come along; you 'will soon be bed." Two months later Mr. Herbert was walking up and down his breakfast room in a towering passion., Amy.. was sitting in a great armchair. " It is monstrous, it is incredible," Mr. Herbert exclaimed. " Here you 'for whom I have looked for a capital match, who refused three-of the very best men in the district last year, are away fol. two months and a half at this beggarly - Welsh village, and you Come bask and . deliberately tell me that you . have engaged yourself to an artist, a fellow I nevet heard of." " Dear old daddy," Amy said quietly, " don't get angry about it. Come and sit down and talk it over reasonably, as you alwayi do things with me.' "No; no, Amy. I know what your reasonable talking means. am not to be coaxed lor wheedled or made a fool of. Ws all very well when you want a pairof new ponies or anything of that kind you have set your mind on, but there is a limit to, eVerything." " Well t but we. must talk the ques tion over t daddy." 1 "Not at all, not at all; no talk is necessary. You tell me you want to marry this fortune-bunting artist. I say at once I won't hear of it; that its out. of thequestion ; that I will not hear a single word about such a ridiculous affair." " Now,'why should you call - him a fortune-banter ?" Amy , said, seizing atonce the weak point. "He bas.no idea that there is any fortune in the case. He saw me staying in poky lodgings at Bsrmoutb, and, beyond, the;fact that I live at Manchester, he kinpws nothing. Be tells me that he v ims enough for us to live on quietly, in aldition to: hiss profession.. , So, You see, he can't be: called a fortune hunter." • • ; "Well, well, it maker{ no matter. . •The thing , is monstrous c and I will pot hear of it." ' . '" Well, daddy, I will dojust as you Tie, and I won't say more about ,now; but, of course, to-morrow I must talk about it, because it itkout of . the question that' I , should break' ,my word which .I bare giVen, and' Should make him unhappy; and be awfully unhappy myself. So I Shall have to talk about him, and you will have to listen" , =the father had,Sat down now—" because) though, its 'tny papa.. you have a perfect right to say, will not Onsent to your marrying this man,' 'still, yon know, I must talk about: a thing that is making me very unhappy. And it will be so 1-much better and nicer, daddy," And she went over to him now and / lot herself dCwn on his knee, with her arm around his neck, " if you give in at once. Because, you know, you can't keep in a naughty temper with me long ; and besides,-you: would be very unhappy if I was unhappy.; and at last, you know - very well, you wilt have to give up being cruel and cross, and will tell. me to be happy my own way." - Amy," her , father said, trying to I look'very stern, "I have spoiled you. I have allowed , you to tyrannize over me." . "No, daddy, I can't allow that= certilinl..). not tyrannize: I have led you for your own good, and you have been as happy as the day is long-7 " -And now,"' be continued, ignor ing the protest, "I am to reap the reward of my folly. That you should have married a man pf high rank I expected; had you married a first rate man of business T should have been contented. But an artist!" ",Well, daddy, we won't* talk any more about it. to day. Nowi'll just smooth those naughty cross wrinkles, and I'll kiss you on each cheek and the middle of your nose. Therei t now it looks like itself. There I ten o'aock striking, and you not off! Mind, I shall expect you up to luneheon." So Mr.. Herbert went off , shaking his head, and although still deter mined, yet, at heart; very doubtful 'as to his po wer . of resistence. Amy went to her /special sanctum, , and wrote her first letter to Hugh. The following sentences show that she had no doubt on the subject: " Daddy does not take kindly to the notimas yet. He doesn't know you, you See, • and it has of course come upon him alittle suddenly ; but he is the very best and kindest of all the daddies in the world, and to a very few days he will see it in quite the right light. It is of no use your writing or coming to me here till he Is quite reasonable • but I expect by, this day "'reek to ave everything ar ranged. I will let you know what train to come by, and will meet you at the station." It is to - be presumed that Amy '41.00 nor Annum in Athrance. tboroPghly undetstood her &t heft; but at any rate, it was exactly that diiy week at Haigh Carson, havN obeyed instractions, and ,got out a' the station directed, five miles from Manchester l 'wXs a little suprised and much disappointed at not seeing her upon the platform " Your luggag e,Silt Are you the gentleman fo r a iwthorns? Very well,' Sir, I wilh, send up the portmanteau : Miss Herhert is 'in the pony-carriage." \ . "Bless me, Amy,". Hugh\said, of ter the first greeting, as, they \ drove off, "you used to talk 'abont\your pony-trap, but this turnout is pretty enough 'to attract attention in the park, Amy," andl be looked at her. with a puzzled glance,"you're; not a swell, are you I—beuge that icr,itld be dreadful." ' Well, Hugh, if being a swell means having lots of money, I sup. pose I am one, for daddy has lots upon lots. He's got cotton-mills, - you know.' But there's nothing dreadful in that." "You ought to have told me, Amy," Hugh, said a little gravely. " Pas si bete," the girl said. "In the first place, it was nice to know 'that you fell in love with me without knowing whether I bad a halfpenny; in the second place, you very likely would have 'run away if you bad' thought l Wag rich ; and totell you the truth,:Mailer Hugb, I had no idea of letting - Iron run away. There. Hugh, there's the. house; isn't it pretty ?" " It's almost a palace," Hugh said in distr.ay. " Yes; and, there's papa at the door waiting to greet you:. Now, look quite pleasant and bright, Hugh; for, of course, I want him to like you almost as much as I do."— Tinsley's Magazine. 9 Isolation in Yellow Fever. Four miles from Vicksburg, in a southeasterly' direction is a very spacious mansion, erected some years ago. by Colonel . L :atham, of - Madison county: Captaia A. Anter,of Vicks. bug, rented that building and grounds for a retest from yellow fey. er. He , carried With him forty-three white and five colored persons. lie laid in ample stores' for a long im prisonment. On the day he entered the-place, like the heroic Old river commander he was, he took supreme comma,nd,,and laid - down and pub lisped quarantine laws. They were simple _and easily, understood, and; besides, nobody doubted but they would be executed to the letter and on the spot, although he might hay'. to strike where it wounded himself. The first article of his code was about as follows : "No human being : shall enter these premises' until the Board of Health in Vicksburg 'says it. is ,safe for us 'to return home. " The next thing was' in the same spirit:; "Should any person violate inch order, Betsy, a superior double barrelled shot-gun, is fully authorir.- ed in my hands to excate a death Warrant on the offender." The neighborhood was pretty thickly settled, and Captain Antei 8 quarantine laws were very generally underatood, and while Ir is as tender hearted as a woman, he is as fearless as a true,rpan, and no one questioned the' propriety of his purpose. He held in his hands the lives of fifty ruts, who looked alone to him for protection, and he resolutely stood up to the responsibility. : He maintained his quarantine fot three months, and during that -time until the place was abandoned not one instance of yellow fever or any sicknesi„whatever appeared within the premises. Outside of his fence, and all around him the yellOw fever prevailed, and fronAhe upper window of his abode an observer could see the grave-diggers at work; physicians were seen hurrying to and fro, and the cries and lamentations of -the be reaved ones were heard in every direction.. - Yet no harm disturbed, .110 :sick ness prostrated, a single indiiidual over -whom Captain Anter executed his purpose. No one suffered for the want of anything. Vicksburg was kept employed through it's Elowards and others in ministering to the nec essities of- the people outside .of the outer enclosure, and it was a public relief to have fifty less sick people to nurse, and many less, in ali proba bility, to be buried.—New-Orteans Picayune. Buck beer is demoraliiing in its tendency when it moveth itself aright. It layeth hold of the intellect and twisteth it out of shape. My son, •go not with them who go to' seek buck beer, for at the last it stingetir • like the brocaded hornet 'with the red-hot narrative, and kick eth like - the choleric mule. - Who bath woe ? Who bath bab bling ? Who bath redness of eyes ? He -that goeth to seek the schooner of ,buck beer. Who bath sorrow'? Who strivetb, when the middle - watch of the night bath come, to wind up the , clock wi' h the fifteen puzzle'? He that kicketh against the buck beer and getteth left. Verily, the bucknesnot! the buck I beer bucketh with a mighty buck, in somuch that-the buckee riseth at the noon hour with a head that compas seth the town -round about, and the swellness thereof waxeth. more an mote, even from Dan to Beer—Sheba. (Current joke in the Holy Land.). . Who clainorith with a loud voice and saith Verily, am • not I a bad man? Who is he that walketh un steadily, • and singeth unto himself, ";The Bright Angels - are Waiting ,tot . Me?" • Who wotteth not even a fractional wot, but setteth hisihronometer with the wooden watch of the watchmaker, and by means of tooth brush ? Go to. Is -it not he who bangeth his 'intellect forninat the buck beer, even unto the eleventh hour ?—Den7- ver Tribune. _ ACM that lessens the enjoyments of life increases our desire of firing. • Isuociarryr to amuse the, hnaginatiOn in this dream of lire i 0 *amt. ME =WER 31 About Buck Becr. NOT DOWN. We to mum Win • • • itse wad, bat r wow van et mks sof t d wori4 • Comm Ihanp ejl Mita . Theletilkeid7 bs _ • Not s sees pal/ bssr ties *OW 11151M-IRTer some thous ulaef • Letting tet• fivei l derielet Ap la vale Um, we hi 'Abdo& 'Kam spernte& time. telathit; , • They hie in amp' ases IMMO semers 11451144071 tied wale 10411hogsre ' tket ttw eteeds t4te4 Niue sees wee • Iles the wee *Ng the 410 , 0 % zio7ththe andrillitblie4 - Bat , the (ta tie eesteese heti% • DnWnß rim the bitter hmetida, Lo I poor wide ILLlrooess a Mop of tow asoldrope of rati throllieto the iditty dela. - 1 • .11.11 In vain the bidder shower. Aad the oerelso fill wttb power. )Gatborteg dal, pot load the wheat Antb Ina 1 1 111 1 , Wad poor feet., - Lot It mot be so, my ; • • Look up, as yea limo sad labor... Not for Ono likes woes vials ; • Motif ono has eases and trials. • Joy sad pate are licked togortfor. Like the fair sod cloudy weeder. L may ',Wive, oh, lot as pray.. • . • IWksodpollows tof today. • —7'A. 4doomor, Climax Lectularia3s. AND WIT OT .A =MSS AITC- G • , 110AIIIIL; A widow who wait going to leave the, city held an auction of her beim: hold effects yesterday,and everything went at prompt sale until little but \the bedatead was left. Just before • - ilds was put up some of the women went • to - spying aro - und; and discov ered that it was infested: by bed-bugs. This fact was noised around until it came to the ears of the auctionetr, who mounted his box and said: Words etumot - express the poig nancy of my sorrow over the base canard which taw - been put in circu lation in this crowd. I have sold. goods in 'this town for twenty-nine long years, and this is the first in stance in which bugs have been per mitted to' step between me and - the purchasing public.. Ladies and gen tlemen; "there is - a bug in ofabout that bedstead I want to see him. I cannot and will not 'believe there is. It would be a slander—a must foul slander on the character of this wid ow, whO is about to remove_ to the State of Ohio." - Being invited - to 'step down and view the bugs for , himself; he made . an inspection They were there. They were galloping in` and out and up and down, and it was no use to dispute the fact. • - . " Ladies and gentlemen, "- said the auctioned as he, resume his poet, " I found bugs. don't exactly re member the Latin name for them,but theyare there. And now let me talk to you as a friend. Bed-bugs were not made for gaudy show, nor were they made for a life of ease. It is s .- - law of nature that they should in habit bedsteads. , They can no more go out under the barn and make. a living than a dog . can become eagle and _float through' space. The . aversion •among you to this insect is founded on false principles. His bite _ scarcely irritates the sleeper, but it cleanses and purifies the bloo:L• But for the bed-bugs of this country we should all. have boils and,caibtmcles. They keefo down warts.- - They cause moles to disappear. Give, them a chance and they would remove corns without pain. The great---" a - Fifty cents!" called an old wo- • man who remembered that:she bad a remedy at hoine. "Fifty cents ! I am offered fifty -cents for_ a $lO bedstead, -and as I was going to say, the great: Napoleon always asked for a with bugs in it. lam offered fifty.vents, and yet emsar had his bugs. - I "One dollar." • . ' 6 t I am offered ope dollar, and yet the, poets of Greece immortalized the insects before you. „This widow tells me Alit she has not had an ache or a pain since the "first bug ,made his appearance. - How many of you have _ read what Homer wrote of them ? What-was the fountain of Mozart's Twelfth Mass? And yet " Two dollars." " And yet I hear only two dollars! Do you have headache? -Are you afflicted with giddiness? Do you have roaring in the ears?" " Three dollars." • " My friends, let' me go home attd, get my copy of.' Paradise Lost' and read to'you one short chapter. What did Milton—" " For dollars." " Ali I begin to see thatiiit and culture are not unknown to the audi ence. Did Alexander the Greet have ' boils? Never; - not a one ! And why?" '",Five dollars." "I am bid five dollars. I -would like to quote a verse from a well known Latin poet, but time presses, and this bedstead is sold for five dol lars, cash , on the nail. I - will now direct your cultured 'attention- to that cook stove with a cracked oven. 7—. Deircrit Free Press. • A • Bar-Room Presidential Straw:: A Quincy saloon-keeper took - iiiore than unusual interest in the last ,Presidential campaign,-and was con tinually taking "straw votes." There being quite a crowd in his saloon one Saturday night, he got his blank tickets and ballot-box and said : " Here, now, you fellows, march up and vote." ' The crowd came promptly up to the bar, and one of them said: - "How do you work-the blanked. things ?" "Just put down the name o' ?our favorits on one o' them 'strips of -pa per, and then shove ikinto the box. After you'vw , all voted, we'll count , ?ern, you see?" The voting progressed briskly for 1 few moments, and then the judge of election declared the polls closed. Somehow the crowd failed to under stand the saloonistil meaning, for when the countinst - was finished the vote stood : Whisky, 7 ; strata wide-- `key; l; whisky strait,.l; whiskey and stiugar, 1; whisky and sirrip'ind bit ters, 1; ginn strait, 1; beer, 9; here, 1 ; I'll take tecigar, 1 ; &met Tilton (the -barkeeper's vote), 1. The precinct was promptly counted out.- - --Quini:y Modern Argo. "You had better change' that rug," .said a lady to her 'servant: "Don't you 'think it corroborates better with the car. pet in this way ?" was the relpouse. It was the same glir who told her mistress that a gentleman with a pradleament" in his speech , bad called •to .see ber.—Aa dress' Queen. • AN old ladY went into' a book - store the other day and asked to me $ " steropti eon " Said she ; "I want to find a picture of a piece of statuary that I saw at the Centennial.. I don't remember the name of it. but ft was two children on a half;shell."- Taw i tlist. follow the divine guidenee,,, — may expect the divine Mowing. A misp,that is cosuicious of ita integri ty mores to say coOra - t..h00 it weans to perform. I El
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