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GOODRICH & HITCHCOGICAIubIIshers.
VOLUME XLII.
gh deep her dreama of coming grad,
So fast her gaze down passion's flood
Ili sunny reach and shadowy wood,
So bold and shy.la maidenhood -
On-fancy's treacherous steep she stood,
liar will perforce must sleep:
The life behind was flat and gray;
Deforn, s swelling prospect lay;
And one was whispering her to stay,
And one was beckoning her - away—
It was not hers to say him nay ;
TOWANDA, PA.
In piteous trireme by her side. r " -
The voice to each warm wishl replied •
With words of duty. houte'and pride
here, certain peace—there, hopes untried;
And now the mused and now she sighed ;
But scarce she strives to speak.
For on her wrist she felt a hitulf.. o ,r .
So softly strong its master•baud r
A flattering breath her forehead fanned
With vows `twere Masa% to withstand
Or be they writ on rock or sand. _
i'horehlld I Wm such a dream to wake
One word- the maiden spell shall break—
one step her moment's empire shake.,
This !cart shall glow, but that shall ache
By either Would he won. •
Soil the blushing of the Ales •
The snu to jeweled cradle Bea ;
Hay cannot be unless be 1 !so ; •
He lifts—the painted magic -
He clouds at upon—at ere he
tiles—
And yet—lt Is the sun.
—E. Purcell
,arch -1, 1891
THD MAGIC 'EMERALD.
"Shadows to•ntght
lave struck more terror to the soul of Illehard,
Than could the substance of ten thoasabd soldiers."
"The magic emerald, did you say,
Mr: Langton? Dear me, how very
interesting !" -
" Did you fiever:hear of it before,
Lady Matilda ? I
_thought that.neat
ly- everybody knew , that old story."
" 0, one doesn't tlways hear things,
you know. But tell me t what 'does
the magic emerald: do - ?" •
'Lady Matilda'
_companion, with al
little sigh of resig nation, settled
back more comfortably 'against the
roots of the enormous oak "under: '
which be was-lying. He was a long,,
lean, wrinkled man, - with a skin?
burned by long xpi:?sure.
.to tropic.
suns
' to the tint of the autemn leaveleaves-thatlay about him. He would have
been a noticeable figure anywhere,
but . he was particularly so -amid . his
present surroundings : - He was the
kind of man one would have rather,
expected to meet in an Atabian des.,
ert'or on the wilds of the Pampas
than amid this ; quiet English land
scape ; and his dress, which- was a
compromise between civilized re
quirements and , tropic ease, tended
to increase the natural strangeness
of his aspect.. • .•
Stephen Langton, like all men:`,..6f
any strength' of character at all, had
his friends and his enemies, and their
estimates of - him differed . as muchas
people's estimates Of . their acquaint
ances do ; differ. But .on one point
they were unanimons: Langton : was
queer.' . That verdict had been pro
nounced on him very early in life,
and had stuck to MEd ever since. In
the cradle, in the nursery, at school,
he had diff(ired frOmall other babies,
from all other children, from all other
*schoolboys: His, regimental. compa
ions in the 200th
compan
ions had, accepted and
confirmed the designation of his nurse
and his schoolmates. 'He ; too k no
interest in any of the things in which
the British subaltern most delighted
He (lid not bet, he never touched a
card, he did. not brag about his prow
ess to the fair sex. I suspect that it
was the last mentioned trait that
most exercised, the minds of his;
messmates. What, could you make
of a fellow who seemed as anxious to
avoid the blandiShments of the pret
tiest girls of a garrisontown
they had been as faded and as dull
as the lady whose commonplaces
bored him to death on this glorious
afternoon ? And Stephen. Langton
was worth a pretty girl's smile, and
might have had his choice in most
ballrooms.- Independently of the
advantages of a handsome face • and
figure, his expectations were thrice .
as great as those of any other' ma n
in the 200th. But Nelly'Delpatd, of
- Portsmouth,.and ,Kelly Despard, of
Chatham, and other Nellys and Fan- .
nys innumerable, all-of them pretty
-and some of them'. rich, retired in
turn from the assault of that itnpreg
nable fortress. Stephen Langton was
not a marrying man, and Sir.6harles
Grandison himself was net more ig-'
norarit of the verb " to flirt." He
especially disliked any allusion to his
martial achievements; and if he had
left his regiment with the " Rogue's
March " in .his ears; could not have
been more unwilling to talk of -his
campaigning days. But he had done
good service in his time, and in many
a village on the wild-northwest, bord
er of Hindostan the name of Langton
Sahib, the ". Feringhee boy-devil,"
is whispered to this day by white
haired men, who remember with what
a rod of iron he ruled the district in
the days of the rebellion. Bat -son'.
I;ENJ. 3i. Ity.cit
ally 1, '79
tnoTll-75
M=l
Jan. 1,1875
Apra '76.)
msF.A.SES
OF
VIE EAR
bre as were the prevailing tints of
his character, it had lights as well as
shadows. Many a man who was
louder-tongued in sympathy lacked
the depths of real tenderness that lay,
under the , hard exterior.: It is a,
great tribute to the sterling worth
of a man who makes but few
friends when the few who know him
most thoroughly are loudest in their
praises. There were tliose who could
tell - of deeds of quiet heroic self-sac
rifice done by this silent and sardonic
man on sea and battle-field, tor duty
and for friendship's sake. Every
body knew at whose east the children_
of poor Jack Naseby were being fed
and educated, and how, nobly the
promise whispered in the ear of -the
dying comrade had been fulfilled.
And when poor little Tompkins, the
soapboiler'snon, came that awful
cropper over the Derby, and saw
nothing before him but °to sell out
and retire to an eternity of soap
boiling under the eyes of an indig
nant father, it was Langton who set,
him right, and tided him over that'
disastrous time. But .still, in spites
of such stories as these, of which hia
friends would tell you many,, the Or-.
- dinary verdict regarding Stephen,
Langton was that he was "queer;'.
and the general impression he made
on most_ people was the reverse of
favorable,
TOWASDA,
.-616 - 6,000
-. 1 66,000
Arll 1:1871
> THE PAUSE.
yet—dare she then he meat?
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TOWANDA, BRADFORD '-001711TY, PL, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 188 L
On his aceeasion to his fortune, he
had behaved in fashion totally dif
ferent from whathad been expected
of him, and Langton - Ball. bad never ,
for a month together been empty of
guests. His liberality in this respect
did notarise from any modification
of his own! peculiarities, but was sole
ly due to the influence bf his sister,
Miss Bertha Langton, to whom, re-,
.port saik he was passionately, at
tached. Report was right for - once;
and Berti;s. word was law to her
brother, w o concentrated upbn her
all the affection that other men dissi
pate on the thousand and one objects
to which he was utterly indifferent.
" The magic emerald," said Ste-
Then Langton, "has been an heirloom
in our family for the last foul. hun
dred years. Apart from its associa
tions, it is a very valuable stone from
its size and quality. It is said undef
certain circumstances to have the
poiver of losing its tint, and becoming
perfectly colorless."
" What are those circumstances-?"
asked Lady Matilda.
" If its possessor:is guilty of any
great meanness or rascality, if he be•
trays a friend, or commits any really .
vile
.or wicked action, the emerald
loses its color, and when that hap
pens it is a warning of certain pun
ishment. The criminal may strive
hard to avert the penalty; but it will
come in spite of all he may do."
'" And has that ever happened ?"
wNever, since it has been in our
family," responded Langton. "My
forefathers have either been exception
ally virtuous, or the emerald has lost'
its powers or never possessed them."
" 0 Mr. Langton, 'pray don't cast
doubt on such, a reallycharming sto
ry 1 So very romantic, so truly in
teresting. But, supposing that its
posse4or---you, for instance (though
I'm sure, of course, that you wouldn't)
—were to do something -really dread
ful, would the emerald never recover
-its color?"
"'Never, sO long l as it remained in
my possession. But directly it - be
came another man's -property -it
would be as at present, and would
remain,so until he did something
awful, and so on."
Lady Matilda made no remark in
answer to her compa.nion's last
speech,, and,. indeed, wins not to
have beard She was looking in
tently between the bushes behind
Langton, and, as he ceased to speak,
she rose, in order to obtain .a better
view of the object on which her eye
were fixed. Langton turned; and
gazed with a languid-curiosity intik
,same direction. But i3uddenly* he
rose too, and stood beside his com
panion,- with his teeth .set fast, and
his faee paling beneath its ruddy
bronze. Lady Matilda'a face was
white with ill-dissembled anger, and
theliand which.patted the leaves 08
agitated by an angry tremor.
A young bari of twenty-twb or
three, light haired, fresh colored, and
looking eXasperatingly cool and calm
in the blazing sunlight which lit the
open space . About him, came lounging
up the little hill on which stood the
copse which• hid the listeners from
View. Beside him walked a girl,
some, few years his junior, 'attired in
a dress of some diaphanous fabric,
lit by ribbons of pale bluer Her sum
mer hat, decorated like her dress, she
carried in her hand, and A thickly
tWisied coronet of leaves and flotrs
was in its place upon 'her lust us
hair.' Ignorant of the scrutiny/ to
which they were, subjected, they came
on until they were within twenty
yards of thAr concealed watchers.
Then, siezed by a sudden faintness,
the young man fell, limp and inter
tebrat', .against a tree, uttering a
hollow groan. The lady regarded
him with a countenance whose;grav
ity was contradicted by the laughter
of -her eyes. He raised his eyes tip-.
pealingingly to her face, and groaned
again. •
"Well ?" she asked.
He pressed his , hand upon • his
heart, and gasped:
"-The customary. restorative." - •
The girl looked about her, and
then, believing herself unperceived,
stooped Over her exhausted compan
ion and kissed'him. He, with a sigh
of relief, briskly recovered , the per
pendicular, and the pair disappeared
from the view of the enraged Lady
Matilda and her companion. •
''Shameful;!" gasped the angry
lady. •-0 Shameful I Outrageous !
How dare he ?"
Langton made no answer, bu
tugged silently at his mustache.
"Thir. Langton," panted Lady Ma
tilda, I pray you to believe that I
am no party to this disgraceful con•
duct op the part of my daughter."
" Disgraceful !" repeated Langton,
with an astonished lifting of the eye
browst •" Why disgraceful? Per
tectly natural, I should sig."
Lady Matilda glared at him as if
doubtful of his sanity.
Given," continued her compan
ion, ".a country house, a handsome
young man, a pretty girl, time, place,
and opportunity, surely . oke ' result
should not surprise you. •
But without consulting me—"
Langton broke in. with a calm im
pudence which completely bewildered
his companion :
" Did you always ask your mam
ma's permission before—'
He did not complete this sentence,
but. eked= out his meaning with a
smile.- -
The lady, with an , angry flirt of
her parasol, turned from him and
walked ~towards the distant Hall. He
followed her.
",31y dear Lady Matilda, pray
don't _Rake the matter -so hardly.
here is—isn't a better fellow in the
hole world than Roderic Vane."
"A penniless adventurer." ,
P,eraiit me. NOt an adventurer,
:aid not "pennikss. That he has a
ccent - position is past dispute; be is
a gentleman, and has very good pros
"A very good catch for a trades
man's daughter, no doubt," answered
the offended mother. " Bat I bad
looked higher than a government
clerk for Elsie."
Langton would have spoken again;
but she flashed round on him sud
denly :with undisguised rage in face
and voice. -
Do - you plead his cause, Mr.
Langton?"
" I do. zlf I may be permitted to
say so, I shall regard it as a good
match-on both sides." ,
' She; turned from him with 'a
ges
ture and exclamation in which anger,
disdain, and surprise were all ex
pressed, and left him Where he stood.
Stephen Langton gained the soli•
tude of• his own room, and shut-him
self in, to fight out the great struggle
of . his life, and have his bitter hour
unseen..
The pride that had kept back any
avowal of What he now knew to be
a hopeless passion was too shallow a
pretence _to be kept_ t!Oo himself.
The agonies of such a mind are easier
imagined than described, at least by
such a pen as mine. There is no
scrap of the proverbial wisdom which
is truer than that one ivlifeh teaches
us that the stillest watets are oft
times the deepest, and those passions
that Stephen Langton 'so perseier
ingly cloaked in , cynicism were wider
and more real than even anY of his
closest inmates would have deemed
them.
A knock came to his door, and, in
answer to his query, the voice of his
valet announced the advent of his
dinner-hour. He bade the fellow be
gone savagely, and a minute after
cursed himself for his weakness.
" You ass!" he said, apostrophiz
ing his reflection in the mirror. "Is
this your philosophy ? Is this the
result of the self-drilling of a lifetime,
to make yourself the babble of your
own servants' hall, andthe tool - of
sucho match-making old herridan as
that ? ' What do you want with the
kid, you wrinkled, crow's-footed;
overgrown schoolboy ? What's. the
girl to you; or you to her? What
quality of body or brains or heart
have you to win such a - prize by
What right have you to cast your
ugly shadow en two lives ?" • ,
A second knock came to the' door
as he finished this uncomplimentary
harangue. • 1
.
"Who's there ?" he askqd.
" It is I," answered a tamale voice.
"Is anything the matter, Stephen ?"
" No," he answered, afraid: to trust
his voice to say more.
"John said he - thought you ware
ill," returned the voice..
" I am not ill," returned Stephen.
I shall be down to dinner present
-
y.
" Stephen,l am sure there is some
thitg the matter,"_ continued the
voice, with feminine persistency.
I
.Langton opened the door hnd con
fronted his visitor. ' i' l
44 What do lon want?" i e asked
ufigraciously:i' il
H' What is the matter with yoU?"
reiterated this feminine Irish echo.
Stephen Langton was tall and dark,
Bertha Langton was tall and fair.
Stephen was forty and looked more;
Bertha was almost twenty-one, and ,
looked less. They differed',in ,a dozen'
other things, and yet were alike in!,
some mysterious way. Where the
likeness lay the most astute observer
could never have determined; but-it
existed, nevertheless.
" There's nothing the matter with
me," answered Langton.- " Can't you
take an answer 11"
‘! Don't talk to me in that way,
Stephen," answered the lady, in calm
reproof. " You'll only be sp_rzy for
it afterward." .
.Langtou made an uneasy growl
Bertha smiled. ;
;It's only business affairs, my
dear. -I've been bothered 'lately.
Run away, like a good girl. I'll be
at dinner directly."
He turned away as he spoke, and
walked towards his toilet-table. But
before he reached it a pair of soft
arms were around his neck, and his
sister's cheek against his own.
He sat down, almost , unmanned by
this touch of womanly pity. The
girl would have spoken; 'but there
was such a look in the eyes he turned
on her that -she forbore. Presently
he said,quite in his ordinary voice :
" You are the only creature who
has my secret. Keep it, Bertha."
She ansivered "by a, kiss, and left
rn.
Feeling Strangely composed and
quiet after l his intense , mental stra in, i
Stephen dressed and -descended to
dinner. His appearance was the sig
nal for a general movement to the
table. Roderic Tene t he noticed,
was iii at ease, and divided his fur
tive. regards between Lady Matilda,
who sat, prim and rigid, exactly op
posite Lim, and her daughter Elsie,
his companion of the afternoon, who
had been established far down the
table, with an insuperable barrier of
two.. county members, their wives,
and !a clerical dignitary between them.
Elsie was very pale, and. sat out the
dinner, eating nothing, and sending
away her plate ; untouched after each
course There seemed to be a con
straint on all present; and conversa
tion languished, in spite of the gal
lant efforts of Bertha, ably seconded
by her brother.
Weavere speaking thisafternoon,
Lady Matilda, of the magic emerald,'
said Langton.
Lady Matilda remembered the
conversation. • - _
" That is the stone in the centre
piece of my sister's necklace."
' It was nota atone of extraordinary
size, and would havershown butimor.
y in that respect-beside Some of its
famous sisters. But color and
brilliance were marvellous; and its
water as pure ail that of the famous
- treasure for love of which poor Isaac
Levi went mad. Its mention gave a .
filip-to the conversation;
and though
Lady Matilda still maintained a atonyJ
silence, and Roderic and Elsie um
mained taciturn or monosyllabic, the
rest of the guests found plenty to
talk of regarding the histories and
legends of famous jewels.
'Dinner over, it was proposed by
Bertha, and carried with acclamation,
that tea should be partaken of in the
garden where the ladies accordingly
repaired. During:the: after-dinner
symposium,Langton noticed that
Vane drak Much more than his
usual quantity, of wine, swallowing
glass after glass in rapid succession,
and with a countenance of unaltered
gloom, t rising to join the *digs,
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who oould be seen wanderibg round
the terraces of the garden, the young
man took Langton's arm, and drew
him sway down .a sequestered alley,
which led into the park. The ;wid
expanse of green . stretched in one
unbroken wave-like roll until it met
the overarching blue. The birds,
recovering from the languor of the
day. were- giving the prelhirinary
trills of their evensong. It was such
an evening as is made for lavers'
confidences,—when not fliterect tbro'
a third party. So thought Stephen
Langton • but being fairly caught,
he -trade d himself up for silent en•
d u ranee.
I' must school myself," thought
be; "and here is an opportunity for
a lesson. What's the matter ) Vane?"
he asked aloud; "I never saw you
look so glum."'
"I, never felt so glum before, Steve.
I'mgone coon."
" Will You translate ?"
"Um in love:."'
"For the first time ?"
'' Yes, to anything like this extent.
Look here, Langton,. I must -tell
somebody or burst. Let me tell ; you."
Langton dropped his handso the
young man's shoulder.
"You young mull As if A didn't
know all about it !'
Vane stared; his companionemiled.
" Well, it saves me the trenble of
telling you, and you the bore of lis
teeing. You're a good fellow, Lant
ton, and you've been very kind to
me. 'what. would you advise me to
do P Lady Matilda knows` it, I swear.
She cut me dead this afternoon, and
Elsie 'came in to dinner looking like
a ghost; so,' suppose "'she has been
having_a bad quarter of, an hour, too.
You see, I'm only a 'younger son.
The governor won't stand a penny
more than three hundred a year, and
I get :another three from the office.
I can't marry Elsie •on that. Her
mother won't bear of it. I suppose
she's right. It's bard to ask a girl
to give up a life of ease and comfort
to live, and perhaps rear a family, on
six hundred a year: If Lady Matilda
were another sort of woman, she
might make things straight for as.
But that's past hoping for. I must
give her up, old man; and get out of
this. I've got • enough coin to buy
an axe, and get, a' passage to Canada;
and I'll go there and live it down.
But it's bard lines," he said, with a
break in his office. "It's hard lines."
"Keep up your heart, my boy,'%
returned:Langton, touched by the
young man's artless expressions of
grief. " It's lmil; but might be
worse. If the girl loves you, it won't
matter to her if you have six hundred
a yeas or sixtythousind. And 'if
she doesn't mind, why should you ?
There are better chances on the cards
than _Canada, anyway. Hang on
and Watch, -that's my advice, since
you ask it."
One by one the - guests wandered
back to the Hall, and distibuted
themselves over the carpeted desert
of the great drawing-room, while the
ladies officiated at the piano. Miss.
Elsie, being warmly pressed e to sing,
begged to be excused ; and Roderic,
after several vain endeavors to get
within conversation distance of his
inamorata=each attempt being dlei
erly frustrated by Lady Matilda—
wandered off to smoke a sadly con
templative, cigar, and muse upon her
manifold perfections and his own üb
worthiness.
Lady Matilde, buried in the downy
depths of an armchair, her eyes ap
parently exploring vacancy, but in
reality keenly. :Watching the move
ments of Langton, waited with feline
patience. She was too wise a woman
to meddle actively in the Matter and
court another rebuff; but Langton's
affectation of indifference had by no
means -blinded her to the true state
of the case, .and she hoped still. •
Elsie sat apart, beside the window,
half in and half out of :the flood of
Moonlight which partially lit the
drawing-room. But Langton, with
the exception of a few phrases, of
course, did_ not trouble her with his
conversation, and presently retired
quietly, leaving Bertha at the piano.
He eat at the window of his room,
and looked_ out over the moon-flooded
.ark, past the thin ribbon of sliver
which marked the course of theriver,
past-the rich-leaved trees that stood
like islands of shadow in - s sea f of
light.- He was looking_beyond them ,
into his own future. He-was calmer
now, and could look at i lt quietlSin
spite - of the terrible gnsts'of passion
that still shook him for a moment,
and passed, leaving the calm deeper.
So far he had done well, ind was sat
isfied with himself upon the whole,
'as belied a right to be. The prime
Jtempiation Of his life was overcome,
and his passion had made him false
neither to love nor friendship.
The calm beauty of the night seem
ed to draw him from the house out
into the alley in which he had .heard
the confidences of the lovelorn Rod;
eric. He could not pass the spot,
without something ofa tremor. His
hopes lay buried under that grassy '
inoundi and a great wave of some
nameless emotion, made up of love .
And sorrow and hopeless !lope, rose
in his gout' And before it sank again!
he saw before him something that
sent the blood' from his face—Roderic
and Elsieolimly visible in the shade
at the turning of the alley. He slip•
ped i back into' the darkness with a
nurse on his lips„ and something 'very
like a prayer in - his heart. Some
blind feeling that his trial was beirii
made unnecessarily bitter crossed his
mind. The voices reached him
where he , stood, ."too Joir for the
words. they uttered to be - understood;
andthen smother sound, nnmistalta
ble in -*Silence of the night, faint
as it was. A white figure fluttered
by him,lost in the shadow, and Vane's
step went slowly crunching the grass
in the distance. ' , i
Langdon left the spot with hurried
unequal steps, and walked -rapidly
across the park in the direction of
the river. When: he Came 4 its
banks be turned and walked with its
current. Before he had gone mile
the sound of the, falling of istant
waters met hie earl, and p ntly
l i e
he came to the spot at which . he bed
of the river' suddenly made a sheer
descent of . some twenty feet. Re
• ..., at the brin k, looking down nt
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the foaming caldrbn into which the
water ruskiid with - Oar and eking like
the shouting Fif an army. Some
vague thought t that in that Intions
hell of wiurinenaters be might find
the peace denied to him elsewhere
crossed him as be gazed.; But
Stephen Langton was not of the stuff
whereof suicides are made.
"The.coward's remedy," he mut
tered, as he turned away.' " Net
that • not that 1"
He continued his stroll along the
edge of the basin until his further
progress`was barred by the trees that
ran to 'the edge, intertwined` breast.
high. with bramble anT7briishirood,
and which served to mark the bounds
of • his. domain: Heke, 'perforce, he
turned and retraced kis steps. What
was the black shadOW 'recumbent on
the edge of the fall, dritte very spot
on which he had stood ten minutes
before? • He drew nearer to it with
silent steps, somethinx,too hideous
to be called a hope growing in Ida
_heart as he advanced: The figure
Moved, and be saw the moonlight
fall upon its face. It :was Roderic
Vane. With a shout that rang high
abnve the tumult of thelall, he rush.
ed down the bank :Vane was on
his feet and met the sh4ck.
" Langton! Good -God', what are
yon doing?" •
,' He held , his arms about his victim,
and resointely4hrust him back, fOot
by foot, Until they stood non the
edge. With all the tenacity of de
spair the supple youcgster clung
about him, holding • on with bands
and teeth in a last bard struggle for
dear. life; but . Langton loosed his
grip, and drove him with a • cruel
blow over the brink. One _ stifing
gurgling cry, and his body struck ;
the water. The murderer knelt, upon '
the turf, and looked down into the
foam. Was it• fancy, or did be in
deed see the white face looking up at
him through the surges? What mat
ter ? The appeal Was voiceless, and
could be beard by no man save him
self. •
The horror of the place was, so
strong upon liiin.that he.ran like a
bunted hare across the park, straight
for the house. He slipped in unper
ceived, and mounted the - stairs. His
dress was
_torn anti disordered', and
his cheek was bleeding.' ; He mist
not be seen, so. He hastily changed
his dress, stanched the slight scratch,
ani then, pale - but calm, descended
to the drawing-room.
The guests were grouped in 'the
centre of the room, evidently under
the influence of some strong emotion
of surprise or wonddr. As he enter
ed,,his sister broke through them,
and came towards bim, her ne c klace
in her band.
" Stephen ! look ! My emerald_ !
What does it mean ?" _ • -
He looked and saw, colorless as
his 01/11 haggard face, the jeivel cen
trepiece. It was. no fable, then, this
old wife's story. The curse was
come upon him. He fell back with
outstretched hands, as if to ward off
some ,palpable borzoi.- that threatened
- him. • - ;
The dreamer _sprang to his feet,
his eyes dazzled by the flood-of light
that inundated the •room in which he
sat, and glared out upon the'seene
before him—park and garden and
river and sky flooded by the rosy
morning light. A clear voice rang
up frOm below : •
Vat:rote s'allume;
L'ombre epalsso trust,
Ls rave et Is biume
Vont on Ta la milt. •
ranpleres et totes
B'ouvrent derel-chosen
Du revetl del chose!
On entend le bruit.
lie ran to the window, and looked
eagerly down fnto , the garden. His
sister looked up at him, and waved
him a good-morning salute with the
dew-drenehed flowers she held in her
hand. The illusion of the dream was
so strong upon him still, that he half
believthe vision hai beeds wak
ing
rea ity'and his present state a
dream. ' Hesfipped gently into. his.
sister's,' room, and searched awing .
her jewels with trembling • flngers,,
until he came upon the emerald:" . It
was unchanged, as steadfast. in its
glorious hue as his heart , should be
henceforth to the accomplishment of
the task he bad set himself.
. ,
" DEAR Stu Wiitram,—On a cer
tain occasion,, which I would rather
not specify, you', told me that if it
should ever be in your power to ren
der me &service, you trusted I would
afford you the opportunity. Permit
me to request of you one favor,. which
I know you will the. mote readily ,
grant, inasmuch as it"will give you
the chance efl killing two birds with
one stone, by doing two kindnesses
in one.
"There ' is, employed in "your de
partment, a young igentleman of the.
name of Vane, in i whom .I take a
great interest. _. Hitt present salary, I
hear, is three hundred a year. He is
meditating the committal of that
blunder which you and I have So
happily avoided; but mamma is im
placable. Can you .do anything for
him f .He is a smart young , fellow,
well up to the duties of any post that
a man of his age is likely to be in=
trusted: with - . ---Permit me '-to solicit
your good officeron his behalf, and
believe me, yours most faithfully,
i STEPHEN LANGTON."
--Tinet r etj'a Magazine." .
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IT is- much easier to to polite and
neighborly than to tly into a passion when
thineLdo not Suit you. Take this note,
for instance, addressed by a lady to her
neighbour next doorr-" Pear madam/
Your children, who are numerous, and
appear to be disorderly, no doubt deserve
the frequent floggings youeve them;
but, u my nerves are weak, I 'write this
to ask if yqu can't di, something to dead.'
en the sound."- '
"The bill has got a new tooth, but
the old lady ta laid up,witiva cold in her
head, and Johnny is dtiwn with the mea.
ales," remarked a Galveston 4entlematt
to a defeated candidate. "What in the
thunder do I pare," was the reply of the
defeated candidate, scowling furiously.
" Well," said the gentleman, slowly, " be
fore the election you used to take me
aside every time you met me and ask bow
my tinnily was coming on, so I thought
lon weak' like to know." . fi
lone • Biwirna says—" To avoid all
trouble of lawsuits Item Loire and alms
I have lumpluded to administer upon my
satata,..b7 spending it is I golecong.."
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Then theimerry scrambling .
Papa laughed to see !-- • .
"And you didn't fink, now,
That It could be me! ^ - • '
...Mrs. 'R. N.- Titrner ta-Yotta'a Compatdon.
" I doan' believe , " began the old
Wan as he crumpld up a leaf of
tobacco to fill hie pipe—" I 'loan'
believe dat a sartin amount of, Bat
tery eher hurt anybody. I know that
Poo' Richard an' a hundred odders
have tole 4 s to .bewar' of folks dat
flatter, but ole as I er' an'timely as
I be,l sometimes kinder long fur
someody to say dat I'm lookin'
young for one o agejOr dat
holdiu'_inp wonderfully well consid
:rin' thet I've been. blode up on a
steamboat, fell outet a tree, wrecked
On de lake; shot in , e army, an' had
de small-pox. :
- "When I crawls out on de - doah
step of a mawnin' feelin' ole an' blue,
an used up, an' long come Persever
ance Jones an' calls out Hello 1 an'
says Ize got de biggest wood-pile in
town, an' folks am all talkin' 'bout
our buyin' a seven-dollar bedstead,
an' dat de boys want me ,to run far
oflls, why, sah, it limbers me up like
It bottle of linimen my doze doan'
look half so bad, d ole woman seems
ten y'ars younger, n' I begin to look
aroun' to see ho much it would
cost fur a silver
front dotal.
" It's de same w d de ole woman,"
continued the: ekl ras he filled ,up
his pipe. " She's ole an' gray an '
about worn out w d hard work, an'
yit when I- say to per dat she kin
roast a 'posstnn a !eetle de nicest of
any woman in de country, an' , our
rag carpet -am t • wn's talk, an' dat
she am young 'n iff to look fhr a
second husband, y sn don't know how
she ehirks up.l -
' Au' its jest se yid my nayburs.
When Deakun Jackson gits sorter
'shamed of his ole doze, an' he sots
on a log by de gate an' wonders
what's de use of a poo' man tryin' to
git, 'long,l slips oUt an' tells him dat
I; neber seed sue cabbages as he
grows; dat his o ll,* am pickin'
up; dat his chi t e n ' am cornin' up
genteel ; dat be o rbe proud of his
ale woman—why, sah, all de medi
cine in de world wouldn't help de
Deskon like sick talk. De blues fly
away, he begins to ' whistle, an' he
slants his hat over his ear, an' goes
on his way wid a new heart in him.
"Ize bin watchin' aroun', an' it am
my opinyun dat ye can hurt a human
bein' a great mo by indifference dan
ye kin by flattery. De only'way to
make a man sunibody am to let him
know dat he am= sumbody. De hu
man,heart am like a wallet. It often
gits low - down. ~Sind words am' its
cash capital. De mo' capital. it has
de harder it tries to make spring
outer winter an' sunshine outer
gloom an' sorrer."
A MANTLE ~OF CHARITY FOR SYMPA
THETIC PHYSICIANS.
dual When an individual is reported to
ha* died of disease of the heart, says
a writer in Hall's Journal of Health,
we are in the habit of regarding it as
as inevitable event, as something
which could not have been foreseen
or prevented, and it is too much the
habit, when persons suddenly fall
down dead; to report the heart as the
'cause ; this silences all inquiry and
investigation,.and saves the trouble
and inconvenience of a post mortem
A truer report would have a tendency
to save many lives. It is through a
reported disease of the heart , that
many an opium eater is let ofi'into
the grave, whiCh covers at once his
folly and his - crime ; the brandy
drinker, too; quietly slides around
the corner thus, and is heard of no
more; in short, this report of the
disease of the heart is the mantle of
charity which the polite coroner and
sympathetic physician throw around
the paves of generous people.
At a scientific congress at Sties- 1
burg it was that of sixty-six
persona who bad suddenly died, an
immediate and faithful post mortem
showed that only two persons had
any heart affection whatever„ one
sodden death only in thirty-three
nom disease of the heart. Nine out
of sixty died of apoplexy—one out of
every seven ; while forty-six—lime
than , two out of three—died of lung
affection; half of them congestion.of
the lungs; that is the lungs were so
full of - blood they could not work ;
there was not:Toom enough for air to
get in to sup', •rt life. It is then of
cUnsideiablC practical interest .to
know some the common everyday
causes of ongestion of the lungs,
a disease w ich, the figures._above
being trite, kills three times as many
persons at short warning_ as apoplexy
and heart disea:,elogether.
Cold , feet, tight shoes, light cloth
ing, costive bowels, sitting still until
chilled through alter having been
warmed up by labor or a long, hasty
walk; going too suddenly from a
close heated room, as a lounger or
listener, or speaker, while the body
is weakened by a continual applica
tion, or abstinence, or heated by a
long address ,• these are the frightful
causes of sudden death in the form
1,; • per Annum In Advanoo.
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HIDING FROHIPAPA.
Papa's lost babi , t
Searches everyw;ll.
Under chain and es;
With the greatesgeare
Pulls aside the enr c lalo,
Peeps behind th door
Never sees the Iltt beep
Carted ap on the 'door ;
Never hears the whisper,
!' Mamma, don't You tell !"
Nor Um lOUs Welter.
AnMed, - llke • bell !
OS he scampers wildly,
Wanting here and there,.
Overturning everything, -
With the greatestosre.
Canary has a visit,
Sitting on his perch,
Mamma's apron _pocket
Suffers by the search.
"Now I am so Wed—
Elephant at play—
Milt I must take a rest
A minute by the way.
lay my weary head ;
On this tittle rug."
Under mamma's towel -.
Lay her darling. snug
Elder. Duffy on. Flattery.
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Heart Disease.
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of congestion of the lungs ;,but which,
being falsely reported asdiseases of
heart, and regardedvits an inevit•
able event, throw people off their
gaud, instead of pointing them to
their true causes, all of which are
avoidable;and very easily so, as •
general rue; when the mind has once
been intelligently drawn on the sub :
ject. •
WiiiiMZM
THE INTELLECTUAL CONVERSATION BE
TWEEN TWO GIDDY YOUNG: THINGS
ON TUE CARL .
On the way to Buffalo two "young
people " got on the train somewhere
east of Cleveland.. They were going
back to school. ',key were not silly,
ignorant country young people.. By
no manner of Means. They represent
ed seminary and, college culture, for
the young man was on his way back
to Cornell. They dropped into a
seat opposite the pilgrims, and they
talked, and the passengers in the im
mediate vicinity listened to this high
ly intellectual interchange of pulsing
thought and throbbing sentiment.
"Say I" exclabied the impetuous
youth, "I heard something about
•ou!"
Oh yogi" she replied; "what was
it?"
"Shan't tell."
- "That's. real Mean-1 Who told
you ?"
Oh, I know'," he asserted ; "it
paralyzed me."
`.Well, what was it about?"
" Down there at Chatauqua, that
thug. Oh, that paralyzed me. Te
he, te-he."
" What," she exclaimed, in tones
of intense surprise, as though it was
the first time.she ad ever heard of
such a place—" Ohatauqui !"
"Aw, yes, you know, out there
with—"
"With whom ? Te-he."
id Oh, pshaw I Te-he, te-he I"
"I don't know what you mean." ,
"06, no, you don't! Well, it par...
alyzed me." _
" Well, I don't care anyhow, it
ain't so."
"Well, I got it pretty straight.• It
int paralyzed me. -•
" Who told '
" You'll never tell I told you?"
" No, indeed, I won't."
" Well, I got. Wfrom Will Blank.
It just paralyzed Me." •
"Oh, I know what you mean, now:
what. of that! Te-tie, te-fie f"
" Aw, well, a goOd deal of. it. Te
het td-he 1"
" Why, that was nothing. Te-he,
•-be 1" '
Aw, that just paralyzed me."
"I don't believe you know any
thing about it, anyhow. Te-he, td
h!"
" Yes, I do know all about it. Just
paralyzed me, tell you."
. " Well,_ what did he gay about the.
other ?" "
" Oh, he told me all about that ?"
" What did he think ?"
" I wonlt' tell yen."
" Oh, please do." ) •
"A h, you're too anxious." r ,
" Indeed, I think I ought to know."
You'll get mad if I. teU yon."
(Then, suddenly remembering that
he hadn't made the remark for thirty
seconds)—" It's just paralyzed me."
" No, I won't get mad."
" Yea, you will."
"'No, I won't." _
"Yes, yon Rill. - It'll paralyze
you."
" No, I won't get mad. Not at
you." •
" Oh, pshaw WOn't you?"
" Indeed I won't. I will be thank
ful to you. , I'll do something for
you some tithe." -5
".Oh, hish, you paralyze me," , be
sighed.
" Well, tell me; won't you 1" she
pleaded. • •
'' If you are real sure you won't
get mad." .7
"Indeed /i'and indeed I won't!
what did ha say abotont it?"
." Well, he said he didn't care. It
piralyzed me." (Then, with a and
den inspiration of genius, he added)
And don't you forget it."
"Are you sure he didn't ?"
"He said he did't. Oh, I was par
alyzed. Te-he-he." -
" Well, I'm glad."-
" Yes, 1 thought you would be."
" Why ?"
" Oh, becaise. Te-be!"
" Well, why did you think so ?"
-" - Well, because." •
"But Irby ? Te-he !" •
"Oh, because."
Well, you must ba e some rea
son ?"
" 06, I know. It just paralyzed
me, I tell you. , Te-be
At this interesting ipoint in. . the
conversation the passengers got out
at Sliver Creek to conceal their,emo-
Mon. The jester was weeping. The
man on the wood box was swearing
Under his breath. The fat passenger
was purple in the face, and the sad
passenger, lifting his hands to heav
en, said
" Immortal gods, dwellers on high
Olympus! Did I ever in all my cal
lowest days profane the secret quiet
of the day with such colossal, heav
en-daring, maddening, soul-destroy
ing imbecility? No, a thousand
times, no ; by,all the voiceless gods
that guard the awful gates of eternal
silence, no ; by thunder I never did !"
" You bet your life you did?' said
the woman who talks bass; and with
out breaking the dead-lock the Sen
ate adjourned.—Burdett's Roaming.
"You had better change that rug,"
said a lady to her servant. "Don't you
think it corroberatea better with the car
pet in this way?" was the response. It
was the same girl who told her mistress
that a gentleman with herticament in
his speech had called to see r.
He was at breakfast, wrestling with a
piece of remarkably tough veal. His wife
said to him, " You always sky - there's
something to be thankful , for in 'every
thing. I fancy you'd be puzzled to and
something to be thankfial for in that veaL"
"Not at all," he cheerfully responded,
stopping to breathe ; "I was ,fast think.
ing how grate shoul d we should be that we
met it when it was young.
Soma fellow has discamered that there
are 83,825 ways of spelling scissors.. If
be bad been correcting manuscript for a
newspaper he would have discovered that
there are about 998.899 ways of spelling
every.word in the English language.
bifonnation for Tenants.
zwrialurrnm-nors iros Mak Into
PAT MITS...I4ATII o ohs
, MOM LIB AL TOWA&D
Tani.
The courts were at one time
disposed to construe the law as _be,-
tween tenants and owners in favor
of the latter, but recently 'their , de
cisions- have been much more liberal
to the tenant. - Once it was under
stood that whatever improvement
was added to a property by a tenant
could not be removed. There has
been modification of decisions onthis
subject of late; As a igimeral nder,
whatever a tenant puts, We a dwel-
Hog or erects on the premises for his
comfort, Without the intention to ,
permanently annex it, he may remove
at any time before the expiration of
his lease. This would include such
things as cupboards, shelves, coal
bins, and even a stair-way has" been
held to be within the rule. All trade
fixtures and temporary structures,
whether frame or brick, and without
regird to their Size, may be taken
down arid carried off by the tenant
who erected them. Even a dwelling
house is not a parinf the reality if
the right to remove it is reserved.
All the landlord can legitimately de.
nand is to have his property restor
ed to his possession in as good order
as it was received by the tenant, or
dinary wear and tear excepted.
Whatever the tenant puts in of $
movable nature he may take sway,
but his carpenter work must not in
jure or permanently alter the proper
ty. All the decisions concur that
these removals of improvements, and
fixtures must be made within- the
term of the lease. If the tenant waits
until his leaise has expired, the land
and all that is on it except the pure
ly personal property of the tenant
reverts to the landlord. '
Quin i, number of our citizens
visited the circus ground yesterday,
and among them was Mr. Blank.
Among the curiosities were two aut
omatic figures of women. They were
-wound up by - one of, attendants,
when tone of them made a. bow which
the aforementioned Mr. B. t hought
was intended for him, and he re
sponded with " How do you do,
ma'am ?" He turned to &bystander,
and with a shake of the :head ad.
dressed him thus : " Well, that , is a
fine-looking woman, but it's a mys
tery how she knew me, as I never
saw her before."—Binghamton Lead.
er.
Tau sentiment of the honeymoon
is a frail thing, and alter awhile a
man flops right . through it like a
brick through a 'cobweb. A three
moirthi-old bride was rattling sway
in her loquacious style, when her
husband, forcing himself not to ap
pear too :;aeverely tortured, said
" Don't you feel as if you were peril
ling your beauty by talking so much?"
" Why so, John ?" she asked, with
some surprise. "Because, pteciousi
this is summer time, and you might;
o.,et your tongue sunburnt;"—Brook
lyn Eagle.
A gOti‘i way to keep earth moist,
in a hanging basket, without the
trouble,of taking it down, is to fill" a
bottle with water and put In it two
pieces of yarn, leaving one end out
side on the earth. Suspend the bot
tle just above - the basket and allow
the water to drop. This will keep
the earth moist enough and save
much.time and labor. -
Thoughtful Thoughts:
MnX are born with two eyes, but with
one tongue, in, order that they should see
twice as much as they say.
No man has ever yet reached to perfec
tion, but no man has aver been rendered
worse by striving for it.
Kaur trouble at arm's length. Never
turn a blessing around to see whether it
has a dark side to it.
RAFE la like the min, *birch, as we
journey toward it, cuts the shadow of
our burden behind us.
NATURE has written a letter of credit
on some men's faces, which is honored
wherever it is presented.
A rsr kitchen makes a lean will.
A Biwa. leak will sink a greakship.
IF you would be sick think of
Joy are our wings, 'sorrows are our
spurs. .
IT is better to be wronged than to do
wrong: - -
HAPPINESS is just as cheap s commedi.
ty as misery.
- A COUNT without ladies would be a
yeai without a spring.
WHAT maintains one Tice, would
,bring
up two children. -
We of Aare does us more- 41=0
than want of knowledge.
REtrorott is the best armor in the
world, but the worst cloak.
FROWNS blight young children u frosty
nights blight young plants. '
* GRIEF ennobles. He who has not suf
fered can never have thought it.
Tan morality of domestic life is the
very corner stone of civilization.
To twit a man of his faults, is to expose
a greater fault of oar own.
. To break a bad.babit reqnbes4nore. ef
fort than to contract a good one.
Fun, Fact_ and Facetisc.
"FRITZ" EMMETT Bap be bas signed
the pledge hundreds of times: It's no
use, however. " dli signs fail in. 'dry'
weather."
'A FRICNCIIKAN in busineas here adver
tises that he has a "chasm" for an ap
prentice. He had looked up the word
openingP in the dictionazi..
"Tea first time a Yankee oyster went
down my throat," e xclaimed Bea
consfield, " I felt just as if I had swallow-
IKI the Declaration of Independence."
A nEwsrAPEß,shing over a recent
painting, says : " In trout stands a rustic
maiden wrapped in her own thouots."
The scene is laid in latitude ono ftree
south. -
A BACTIELOR, on reading that "'two
lovers will sit up all with one chair
in the room," said it could ~not be dove
unless one ofthem sat on the floor. Such
ignorance is painful.
A innow Awing' about to many her
fifth husband, her pastor rebuked her for
contemplating matrimony Er soon again.
" Well," retorted the widow, "I just
want you to understand if the lord keeps
on taking them, I will too."
" Amenvaii," he murmured, with .a
ps
thos in his voice, "why do you quiver at
my touch? Why do you shrink from my
embrace as the startled fawn trembles at
the rustling of the autumn leaves?"
" I've been vaccinated,," she said.
Baia HARTZ% first poetic "fll
commenced in these words — " s ipped
the nectar from her lips ; I sipped and ho
vered o'er her." And the last two lines
were as follows "Her father's boot
flashed on the scene. I'm wiser now, sod
sorer."
Tan word krre in one of the Indian dia
lects is elnnebodstmcniglabanagegager.
.
Tb* accounts for the hat that
never have but one sweetbeart at, a time.
You couldn't expect, a toset to two cheese
lendamoUgbkanagogager affairs at once.
A' DISTINOUDIRED gentleman whose
nose and chin Item both very long, and
who bad lost his teeth, whereby. the nose
and chin were brought near together. was
told—" I ern afraid your now- and chin
will tight ore lo t r t i c tthey approach each
other very men ly." "I am afraid
of it rnyielt" mid t hegeritletnan," - for a
great many words have passed between
them already."