STljc ntcs, Nctu Bloomftcllr, 3a. 3IR. ARKWRIGllT'S WILL. MR. AMOS AUK WRIGHT sat be fore his study firo, cogitating. He was thinking over the words uttered by Squire Ilousoworth half an hour ago, when that worthy had been sitting with him over the sherry aud piiicapplo desert. " What very Cno young men your nephews are, Mr. Arkwright." 'J Yes," muttered Amos, " I supposo they are very fiuo young men very fine young men, indeed ! But I wish they liad'nt been brought up with tho idea that they had n rich uncle to full back upon." ' Florian is a desperately extrava gant young coxcomb, without an idea in his head except the club house and his new silver dressing-box ; and as for Al bert, studious and thorough going though ho may bo, thcro's something about hiin that always reminds mo of tho ring of false metal. Since tho days of Joseph Surface, no one has ever really boliovcd in these model young men. It's perplex ing it is upon my word. I've almost a mind to turn my fortune into gold bars and throw it into tho East River ! I re ally believe the boys would do better if I wcro a bankrupt. Hallo! here comes Florian now." riorian Leverson lounged into the room, a handsome, blue-eyed young man, with gold brown hair,and n merry Appol-lo-shaped mouth. . "Well, uncle," saluted tho youth, dropping languidly into a chair. " Well, young man," brusquely re sponded tho uncle, in a tone denoting no very rapturous welcome. " I was just looking for you, uncle." "Were you indeed ?'' said the old man, dryly. " I wanted to tell you something." " More debts, ch V " Not exactly, sir. T'ncle," with a des perate effort, as one might pull the string of an iced shower-bath, " I'm engaged to be married ?" " And who is tho young lady f" " Alice Dean." " A pretty girl, very, for those who fancy tho Anglo Saxon style of good looks, but you have made a fool of your self." " In what way, fair ?" demanded i'lo rian. " She don't care a straw for you it's your expectations she's going to marry." " Uncle." " Don't tell mo !" cried Mr. Arkwright. "As if I hadn't found out tho hollow hypocrisy of this schouiing, knavish world long beforo you wcro born ! Marry the girl : bo a fool if you like : but mark niv words, if you weren't tho nephew of Amos Arkwright, tho rich old bachelor, Alice Dean, wouldn't look at you twice !" " Uncle, you are speaking what is false." " Hold your tongue !" wrathfully inter jected Mr. Arkwright, "or I'll disinherit you!" " I would rather bo disinherited than thus insulted," rejoiued the hot-tenipcrcd nephew. By way of answer, Mr. Arkwright merely rose and strode out of tho room, nearly tumbling over his other nephew, Albert Wheatley, at the head of the stairs. " My dear undo !" cried Albert, a tall, dark, stylish looking man, with a voice as soft as a flute. " Don't speak to me," Mr. Arkwright, " for I'm in a passion. " In a passion, uncle !" " With your shiftless, good for nothing jackanapes of a cousin, Florian Leverson. Albert Wheatley'a face assumed a mild expression of sympathetic regret. " It is scarcely to be wondered at, Uu cle Arkwright. Florian's principles are indeed to be deplored." Mr. Arkwright cut Albert short by hurrying past him down stairs, and shoot out into tho street. Half an hour afterwards he camo back in a bustle. " Boys," he cried, putting his head in to the room where his nephews wero en during one another's company by the ad ventitious aid of the evening's newspa pers, " I've got to go West to see about the railroad lands I've been buying. i nere s trouble in the new board ot di rectors, and I must look after my inter ests in person." And thus disappeared Mr. Amos Ark wright. Alice Dean was re-trimming her opera hat a week or two afterwards, when the door opened, and Florian Leverson walk deliberately in. ' She smiled a welcome to her lover. But then she noticed that he looked very pale. " Florian, what has happened ?" " I have bad news to tell you, Alice," said Florian Leverson, seating hiuiself be side her. " My undo has died suddeu ly somewhere out West. He hall bceu threatened with apoplexy for some time past, but be was a person who never took any precaution for hjs health ; and I am left a beggar." " 0 Florian ! 1 thought he was rich " " 80 he was ; but through some strange pique of perversion, he has left all his fortuno to my cousin Albert." "'But Mr. Wheatley will surely divide with you,- Florian j he knows that you two wero brought up together in antici pation of an equal share of the family es tate." Florian's lips curved bitterly. " You do not know Albert Wheatley, Alico j he is selfish, cruel and grasping. I never knew him to share so much as an applo or a handful of marbles with any body else." "Then, Florian ' " Then Alice, my little treasure, thero is but one alternative left open to me to givo you back tho troth you plightod to mo. I cannot drag you down to pov erty with mo now." " Florian," cried Alice, witlf tho tears flashing into her soft eyes, and a deeper dye of crimson coming to her check, " do you think I would givo up your love now? Never, dearest ! Let us bo poor and happy together; we cau both work, and love will shed a sunshine over the darkest lot." " Hut Alico, you have been so tenderly brought up." " Do you think that I am dependent on velvet carpets, and diamonds, and a box at tho opera, for my happiness, Flor ian 1" she asked, almost reproachfully. " My darling," was his low-murmured reply, as he folded her to his heart. "Let Albert Whcatly have the Arkwright for tune now. I envy him none of its yellow glare, since your noble, disinterested heart is mine." Mr. Dana was in his oflice, when " Som pronious l'arkcs," card was brought in. Mr. Dana, who happened to be that mm avis, an honest lawyer, laid down his pen and told his clerk to show tho stranger in. It was not much that Scmpronious l'arkcs wantod a little matter that was soon dispatched, but somehow they drift ed off into n, desultory conversationjul'tcr wards, and happened on tho death of old Amos Arkwright. " I'vo bceu told ho was enormously wealthy," said Mr. l'arkcs, tapping his 6nuff-box. " Yes," said Mr. Dana. " It was a cu rious whim of tho old man to constitute me his executor. Why I never saw him in my life." "Indeed?" . " Never once. . But of one thing I'm quite certain, to uso Ilibcrnianism the greatest mistake of his lifetime was at his death." "How do you mean?" asked ' Mr. l'arkcs. "In leaving his money to that young Wheatley." " A miser, ch '!" " Ou tho contrary ,as graceless a spend thrift as you ever saw, gambling, betting at the races, vicious amusements and de grading company. His prosperity seems to havo acted on him as I have sometimes seen sunshine act on a rank and noisome patch of weeds, stimulating him into flaunting folly." " Spending the old man's money, eh ?" "Not entirely ; for the best of it is,it was fortunately so tied up that he could only uso the interest ; but whatever could by any possibility bo squandcrcdlms vanish ed." " There was another ncphcw,was there not?" " Yes, Florian Leverson. Ho is mar ried." " Married ?" " Yes ; and is in Jay & Dyson's bank ing house, doing well. Nobody had any idea of the steadiness and common-sense there was in that young fellow." " I supposo he is furious at his uncle's partiality." " I have never heard him express any such opinion. Ho always declares that the money was his uncle's to do with as he saw fit, and that ho had received too many kindnesses at the hands of Mr. Arkwright to begin to criticise his mem ory now." Mr. l'arkes took snuff. " Must be a curious young man," he said dryly. " And who, may I ask, did ho marry ?" "Miss Dean; and a very energetic, thorough going little wife she makes for hint. In this en ho the disinherited neph ew seems to havo received tho most real benefit of the two." " It's a peculiar sort of a story," said Mr. l'arkes, rising, "but I must bo going. Good evening, Mr. Dana, I'm much obliged to you for your politeness about those Btainps." Aud Mr. Dana went back to his legal toils, never once mistrusting that ho had beon talking to a ghost ! Florian Leverson and his wife were sitting contentedly at their unpretendiug little fireside, when a knock cume to the door. - Florian started a little. " If my uncle Arkwright were not dead and buried," be said to Alico, " I should declare that was his knock." " Nonsense," said Alico playfully, and he opened the dour. There stood Mr. Amos Arkwright, smiling contentedly." " Good evening," said Undo Arkwright, walking in as if nothing at all had hap pened. " You're at tea, I see. Can you give mo a cup.strong, without milk or sugar?" Alice uttered a cry, and ran behind Florian. , Floriau started at the appari tion with a fuce as pale as ashes. ' Uncle !" " Yet, it' I," said Mr. Arkwright, wanning his coat-tails ut the fire. " I'm not dead I've been alive in Chicago the whole time ; but you understand I waul ed to see for , myself how things were going to work. I've found it all out. Albert is a mean scamp, and you and this bright-eyed little wife of yours oomo here, my dear, and givo 1110 a kiss aro trumps!" Mrs. Alice, now quito convinced that Undo Amos wan Undo Amos, and no sheeted ghost, but rather a plump old gentleman in a gray woolen suit and gaiters, camo accordingly with tho fra grant kiss ou her cherry lips, and scaled herself at onco as first favorite to tho ca pricious old millionaire. While- Florian,as his unolc said,. " behaved moro liko an iusano school boy than a reasoning mem ber of society." Undo Avkwright's stratagem had suc ceeded brilliantly in discerning tho false Rtono from tho diamond. Albert Wheat ley, shorn of tho glitter of his temporary prosperity, is a billiard marker now,somc whero in tho South; and Mr. Arkwright domiciled with Mr. and Mrs. Florian Leverson, tho most complacent old gen tleman north of Mason aud Dixon's line! "Wash Day in Switzerland. "H Aunt, do tell us something about your journey to Europe," exclaimed I, as Aunt Hattio came into the room, having returned only a few days since from a tour to tho old country. " Well," replied aunt, " I will tell you of a call I made on a friend in Switzer land. ' She had shown tne around the house, when suddenly she exclaimed in her sweet, broken English, "you know not that we wash theso days." " You wash to-day and such a company to dine !" exclaimed I, as a recollection of tho way wo ignored Monday as a com pany day at homo flashed through my mind. " Ah, oul, my friend, that makes uoth thing, if you excuse mc for a little; but you sco I havo engaged my women, it is now three months, and tho weather makes so warm that wo like no longer to wait." " Engage women three mouths before hand to do a washing ! and warm wea ther, what had that to do with it?" I must havo looked my blank astonishment and ignorance, for Madame hastened to reply, laughingly. " Oh, o, I forgot that you know not our habitudes. ' Wc do not as you, who aro so poor and have so few linens that you must wash all tho weeks. And," lighting up with sudden thought, " you shall come with me now this moment even, and regard our so different man ner." ' And taking my arm she led mo down a short flight of steps to tho laundry. An immense, well-plastered basement room, in the center of which wero four tubs, as they called them, seven or eight feet long, resting upon solid supports of hard wood, aud filled, some with colored clothes, some with white. Hero wero three women clattering about over tho rough stone floor, as they followed their mistress' directions in set ting up a lye, very much, girls, after your mother's manner in the old-fashioned soap-making days. Only that here, in stead of ono insignificant barrel, wero three or four huge hogsheads from which the lye ran into largo vats beneath. These threo women, so my amiable hos tess informed me, wero hired by tho day to prepare the linen, tho drying ropes which they extend from tree to tree in tho orchard tho clothes pins, all in short which is requisite to prevent too much going and coming when the great wash ing day arrives. Besides, they make in tho enormous range a fire which is fed day and night during tho washing, and heat the water which they pour over tho clothes in tho great tubs or vats, whence it runs through pipes into the sewer, whose open mouth is at one end of the room. " To-morrow morning," Madame went on to say, " the six women I have en gaged to wash, will come early in the morning and begin by rubbing tho cali coes as they are always washed before tho ' tho whites.' Two or three women wash at the sumo vat, during which the others do not ccaso to pour boiling water over ' tho whites,' which tire usually washed the secoud or third day. After this they must hung up the clothes to dry, and iron them if they know how, if not, other wo-, man, ironers, must be sent for." In farther conversation I learned that these washerwomen wero to bo hired for nothing else 5 that, going around, us they do, from house to house. they naturally pick up and disseminate to the best of their ability ull the cancans (gossips) of tho vil luge, and henco the saying, which has perplexed me more than once in transla ting, that a person who meddles with the u flairs of others is a Iruionuf. (lye-washer.) ' Aud now," said aunt Huttie, in con clusion, "I believe I have told you all I know about washing day in Switzerland, except that these lo'ivi unn have to be fed five times a day three si uu re mould,' and two lunches of bread and cheese wino of couie." " But you haven't unswercd all our questions," exclaimed mother. ,,; " What puzzlos me is to know whero that abominable muss of. soiled clothiug enn be kept for a twelvemonth without engendering the plague. In some out building for the purpose I supposo. ' " No, indeed, I. remember asking Mrs. Lcburre iibout that ut tho time, and she uurwered me that hers were stored in the attic, where the muny windows wero kept open tho year "around, except during storms." , . " Of courso then, nothing else is kept in such an attic ?" queried sister Helen. " Nothing but tho firewood." " The wood kept at tho top of the houso ? How is that ? WJiat a fuss it must bo to tako it up and down !" " Yes, it would be if carried by hand, but instead of that, there is regular ma chinery for the purpose, drawing it up in immenso baskets through ji door opening from tho attic. in the roar of the house. Tho wood is hard and dries thero under the tiles. Then as tho first floor docs not contain the Jiving rooms of the family, it is not as much work to distribute the' fuel as you might at first suppose. In connection with this I recollect an incident that occurred in tho Lcbarro family. One autumn day some years be fore wo wero thero at work in the wood yard filling tho huge basket with fuel, while a man employed for tho purpose, standing in tho attic, turned tho crank of tho machine and brought upload after load. During ono of theso ascensions tho basket seemed to pull strangely, not ex actly heavier than usual, but jerky and unsteady. Suddenly it grew lighter, thero was a fearful scream, and in another moment the man had hauled in his basket containing threo pale, fright ened boys in lieu of wood, tho fourth scapegrace having tumbled out in the midst of their frolic. Tho poor fellow es caped with a broken leg, and thereafter the boys were quite satisfied to seek their fun in Bomo other way than making old Fritz haul them up to the attic in tho wood-basket. And now girls pray don't ask mc anything more to night, for I must positively go this moment, " said Aunt Hattio rising and thrusting her knitting work into her pocket, lest your undo should think I am lost or spirited away," and she had put her hood and furs on, and was half way to tho door, when I arrested her with : " But what of getting and making of all this underclothing? How can young ladies ever sew up enough to last n year, or their fathers" glancing at ours, "af ford money to buy them '(" " They couldu't if cotton and linen cost anywhere near what they do here, or if tho girls were as extravagant, and be rufflcd and be-tucked and bc-braided and be-flounccd as you foolish things arc." And she pinched my cheek by way of emphasizing my especial foolishness. " You sco they are more sensible 'over there,' dress more plainly, and havo in consequenco moro timo for reading and study. Why, I know at least a dozen Swiss girls of your ago who speak and writo fluontly in four languages and more leisure also for fun, out-door dan cing, etc. - And with that little love-slap at our feminine sins, dear chatty aunt Hattio rushed precipitately out of tho room. The Force of Imagination. BUCKLAND, tho distinguished geol gist, ono day gave a dinner, after dissecting a Mississippi alligator, having asked a good many of tho most distin guished of his classes to dino with him. His houso and all his establishment were in good stylo and taste. His guests con gregated. Tho dinncr-tablo looked splen didly with glass, china and plato, aud the meal commenced with excellent soup. " How do you like the soup ?" asked tho doctor, after having finished his own plate, addressing a famous gourmand of tho day. " Very good indeed," answered tho other ; " turtle, is it not ? I only ask be cause I do not find any green fat." The doctor shook his head. " I think it has somewhat of a musky taste," says unothcr: "not unpleasant, but peculiar." " All aligators havo," replied Buck land, " the cayman peculiarly so. The fel low I dissected this morning, and which you have just been eating " Thero wus a general routo of guests ; every one turned pale. 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