Ijc mc0, New Bloomfieft, )a.
"We'll contrive to Intercept them,"
whispered the policeman. " You just
stand here with your two pistols, and I'll
find my way down, so as to surprise them.
If they show fight, fire."
lie crept down stairs. I waitod, tremb
ling a little, but resolute. The men tramp
ed about for a while, and said something
about a dray around the corner. Presently
they gathered in tho parlor, and began to
take up the carpet, thinking, no deubt
they were working for Mr, Robert Haynes.
Then tho Star posted himself at the back
door and culled me down by sign.
It was quick work. The poor fellows
turned pale the jobbers when they saw
the pistols. The three were marched off
in order, and in a few hours after Star and
were entering the crowded passago of the
B depot. We wended our way to
the ladies' room. Mrs. George was there,
as beautiful, as cool, as graceful as ever.
When I pointed her out.
"The devil !" blurted Star ; " I thought
you said she was ugly. That woman?
Thunder an' 'omuls !"
My blood was up, however, and I felt no
pity. Twist me round her linger could she?
I walked coolly up to hor. A largo valise
stood on end by hor sido.
"Mrs. Gcorgo," said I, "I'll thank you
for that ton thousand."
I never saw such a face on any mortal
being in my life. All tho vitality seemed
struck out of it ; it was whito, dull and
dead, with dusky, frightened, shining eyes
almost starting from their sockets. I didn't
know whether she meant to scream, or
swear, or to run. She gavo a gasp or two,
and half rose, but Star's " Please keep your
scat, madam," sent her back.
upon my soul, after the first moment of
gratified revenge, I pitied the poor woman;
saw only my gentle, refined houso-kecper,
with her soft pleading eyes. It was well
that the policeman got me out of the way,
or for the second time I might havo made
a fool of myself.
Some years afterward, when a different
sort of a housekeeper sat at tho head of my
table a petite woman with blonde hair, and
eyes that melted the heart in a man I
hearo, from Mrs. Qeorgo. She was keep
ing bar in a San Francisco restaurant.
How He Won Her.
CISSY THORNE was sitting at her toil
et table, skipping a over novel, whilo
her maid Emma brushed her long, thick
silky hair.
" Well, Emma, did you go to the fair?"
asked the brushee, laying down her book
" Yes, miss, I did."
" And what did you see?"
"I saw horsemanship, where they rode
standing, and jumped through hoops
wouderful."
" And did you go on one of the round
abouts that are worked by a steam-engine,
which plays an organ ?"
"No, miss!" replied Emir a, with an
emphasis.
" Do you know, Emma, I should liko to,
if no one saw."
"Lor, mitts 1 they are crowded with such
a low lot, they are."
" Low lots, as you call them, seem to
have all the fun," said Cissy, with a half
sigh. '' And what else did you see ?"
"I went to a fortuuo-tcllor."
"No! In a tent?"
" There were little tents about, but it
was a yellow cart I went into; not in the
fair exactly, but in the clump, before you
come to it, She's wonderful!"
"Is she, though? What did she say?
Tell me," cried the excited Cissy, who was
troubled with longings after tho super
natural. '
"She told me all sorts of things which
she could not have known natural ; a mole
on my neck ; how long I have been in ser
vice ."
" Yes, yes, but the future ; did she say
anything about that?"
" She did more, miss, she showed it to
me."
"No!"
" J.u a round glass. As true as I am
standing here I saw him plain."
" Your future husband?"
" As is to be ; yes, miss."
The two girls had been playmates when
very little, and there was much more fa
miliarity between them than is customary
with mistress and maid. So Emma had to
enter into all the mysterious details of the
cabalistic ceremony.
"What fun!" cried Cissy. I should
like to go 1 I will go ! The fortune-
toller's caravan is not actually in the fair,
you say ; and there will not be many peo
ple about if we start early."
"Lor, miss, what will your pa and ma
say?"
"I don't know; I'U do It first and ask
them afterward, for fearthey might ob
ject. We will go to-morrow morning di
rectly after breakfast, mind."
Mr. Thome was a steward ; I do not
mean an official attached to a steam-pack
et, In charge of a cbliuvshopful of white
basins, but a manager of lurge ostates in
the eountry ; a well-to-do man, who had
small property of his own, which he farmed
in the most intelligent and neatest style,
on the outskirts of the market-town of
LHtleun. Mrs. Thorne was plump, good
patured, and lazy, yet somewhat sensitive ;
she fancied the country families were pat
ronizing and she would not be patronized.
Cissy was their only child, and they
thought much of bor, honestly believing
that thoro never was such another baby
child maiden. Of course tho paragon
was never sent to school, and her govern
esses were selected principally with ref
erence to their power of appreciating her
merits. ...
Nevertheless, she, was very' charming,
and had two lovers; I do not mean more
admirers, but two men who were ready to
many her if she would but; choose one of
them. But she could not quite make up
her mind which of the brace to select.
If this gipsy would only bIiow me
which I am to take, it would save me a
worfd of trouble," she said to herself, with
a smile ; " but, of coin-no, that is all non
sense. Yet if she did,, I vow that I would
be guided by it."
One aspirant was Pendil Frogmoro, a
landed proprietor in the neighborhood
very poor for though his rent-roll was a
fair ono, his debts were enormous but
vcrv handsome and well set up. Indeed,
he had been in the Blues ; I don't moan in'
bad spirits, but a man in armor ; and his
wifo would bo undoubtedly country.
Charles Wilson was the name of tho
other; he was a young London solicitor,
who had just been taken into a good firm,
and was now on a visit to his mother, an
Indian colonel's widow, who resided at
Littloun. Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Thorno
were good friends, so all was smooth there.
Mis. Wilson gtd murmured, indeed, when
she first saw her son's inclination.
" Would she bo a companion for you,
Charles ! Would she bo able to tako an
interest in the same things you did ?"
No, mother; and that is just what I
want. 1 sliould hate a wile who was as
clever as myself. But how can you fail to
see her merits ? Sho is such a very nice
littlo party !"
Parfi'u, par ; how dreadfully bad your
French accent is ! I grant that sho would
not be a bad match for you from a worldly
point of view."
Frogmore was tho more handsome, Wil
son the moro pleasant. Kcally, u lato
would settlo tho matter for hor, it would
save CiBsy Thorne a world of trouble.
So tho pretty bone of contention thought
as she started with her maid Lmma, tor
Litlleun Hurst, at 0 A. M., for Mr. Thorne
breakfasted early, and his daughter pre
sided, Mrs. Thorno being a sluggard.-
Not a drum was heard, not a pandcan
note, as she stepped briskly along ; the
gingerbread husbands were covered up
from tho dust ; the mcrry-go-arounds were
still, the clown was darning his dress ; the
donkeys breakfasted frugally on each oth
er's manes; tho fire-eater was trying a diet
of bacon, bread, and garlic, for a ehango.
Business novor commenced in the fair bo-
foro the afternoon. But Miss Thorno's
visit was not to the fair; to tho right, some
five hundred yards from the common thore
was a clump of sparse trees, and sheltered
beneath them stood one of those yellow
huts on wheels which act so vividly upon
the imaginations of village children. This
was tho abode of the sibyl, and adventur
esses turned aside toward it.
Emma went first up the steps, and tap
ped with the bright brass knocker ; the
door opened immediately, and a woman of
the ruvBtic race appeared young, hand
some as a. Spaniard, though her splondid
black hair was rather coarse, if you came
to examine it too closely. Emma drew
back, to lot her mistress enter first.
" Walk in, my pretty lady !" said the
gipsy. " Don't be afraid ; I am quite alone
hore."
Although the fun of the fair did not
commence till late in the day, it was evi
dent that custom came betimes to the
sibyl, for all traces of night disorder had
disappeared from the miniature interior,
which was spick and span, neat and clean;
obviously prepared for visitors. The small
apartment was still further reduced by a
curtain, which ran on brass rings along a
rod, inclosing a portion of the space.
The gipsy examined Cissy's hand, and
began making shots centres, though.
most ; bull's-eyes, some.
" You are an only child, and your father
and mother would give you gold to eat if
you wanted it; you had a bad illness four
or five years ago ; when a child you were
in great peril from a dog." A lot more to
the same effect, couched in vague language
but very correct. Cissy began to be sorry
that she bad come. " There's two gen
tlemen as is very sweet upon you my pret
ty lady," continued the unpootio sibyl
"If you marry one, you will be unhappy
all your life; but If you take the other, you
will be lucky, and live to be eighty, and
ride in your carriage and a pair all the
lime."
The Idea of this very protracted drive
rather amused Cissy, and that revived her
courage. After all, the womau might have
made inquiries about her on the chance of
her coming.
"And how am I to know which of these
gentlemen to choose?" she asked In a ban
tering tone.
"Oh, that I can not toll, my lady ? but
you can look In the Mugio Glass for your
self, and see if it show you aught."
" Let me see it, then," said Cissy brave
ly, though the feeling of creepinesB began
to return.
Tho gipsy said that Emma should leave
the caravan. But Cissy would not havo
that; so a compromise was effected; the
maid was blindfolded. Then the gipsy
drew slides across the little windows on
either sido, producing a deep twilight.
Then the curtain at the further end slowly
parted, revealing a wall of black cloth,
tightly stretched, in tho centre of which
was fixed a circular mirror about two foot
in diamotor, and this gradually became
luminous. Cissy's nervousness returned
with increased force, and sho grasped tho
hand of her blindfolded maid.
A table separated the girls from the
mirror; and whether it was owmc to the
magic quality of the glass, or the angle nt
which it was placed, it did not reflect tho
figures standing opposite it. Indeed, it
was more like ground glass than an ordi
nary mirror grouud glass with a feeble
light behind it. Presently the surface be
came covered with ill-defined, shifting
shadows, which gathered so thickly as to
obscure the whole of it ; aud then it grad
ually cleared, and a head and shoulders
grew upon it. It cleared a littlo more, and
rovcaled tho undaubed face of Charles
Wilson. Cissy stood aghast in awe-struck
terror before this supernatural imitation,
when suddenly, as she gazed, tho face bo-
fore her became convulsed with an expres
sion of terriblo agony. She uttered a littlo
scream, and fainted.
Fresh air and cold water soon brought
her to. Sho paid tho gipsy, and started
homeward.
" You seed him, miss ?" inquired Emma,
"ies; aim in never many nny ono
else, if I dio an old maid. But oh ! what
can that dreadful expression on his face
foretell ? I fear that some awful calamity
will happen somo day."
A not improhablo dread. Thore was ono
consolation; fato and Cissy's wish had hit
it nicely. Girls are queer things, and sho
hardly know that she preferred Charley
Wilson as much as she did.
In due time ho offered, and was accepted;
and thoy were married, and wont for their
honey-moon to the lake of Como.
One evening Charley Wilson rowed his
brido out iu a very clumsy tub.
How serious you are, Cissums 1" ho
said, finding her less chatty than usual.
"Did that bravo-looking beggar frighten
you? Because his frowzy head shall be
punched if ho did."
Oh no ; oh, don't offend him !" cried
the young wife. "Iam sure ho has got
what tho Indians call tho Evil-eye."
Has ho? Woll, novor mind; tho
Americans havo invented a potion which
counteracts the effect."
"Heally."
" Yes ; when we return I will get that
gentleman from New York stopping at tho
hotel to concoct us an Eye-opener that will
make it all right."
'Oh ho !" cried Mrs. Wilson ; and her
husband paddled on. "I say, Cissums,"
ho said, presently, resting on his oars,
"don't think that I am finding fault, bo
cause you have not got any faults, so that
would bo absurd ; but aro you not super
stitious ?" ,
" Aud if I am I havo a right to be,"
said sho.
Ah! any particular experience ?" and
ho wormed out of her tho wholo story. t
I am sorry I told you," she cried,
when he burst out laughing. " You don't
believe it ! You had better cull me
story-toller at once."
" Believe it, my dear ! I am ready to
swear to it. You did not see my ghost
though ; you wcro looking at me. I was
in a dreadfully confined position, and that
thief of a gipsy was so long about her pre
liminaries that I got a horriblo cramp in
my right calf, and mado a faco which I
thought would betray me."
The brido burst out crying.
" And you bribed my maid, and laid a
plot with a common gipsy to deceive me
and nearly frightened me to death, and
were laughing at me all the time oh'!'
she sobbed.
" All's fair in love," said Wilson sheep
ishly.
"It was unworthy or you I she con
tinued. "You have married mo on false
pretenses. I shall never feci the same to
wards you ; I will never forgive you
never!"
What Ear-Wax 1b For.
Dr. Dio Lewis, in one of his lectures,
while he was addressing the boys, singled
out a recj-bcaded little fellow, and asked
what the wax in the ear was for. Ho said
he selected a red-headed boy because tho
red-headed hoys are generally the smartest,
The boy stood up and said he did not know,
The doctor would not take such an answer,
If the boy didn't know, he must tell, at
least what he thought the wax was in the
ear for.
" Well," says the boy, "the wax Is in
tbe ear because because because it wauls
to be in the ear."
He questioned another boy, who claimed
distinction by having a red head, and his
answer was that It kept tho passage to the
drum moist. This was correct but it had
further Uhes, Ear-wax is a deadly poison
to insects. It sometimes accumulated and
became hard, causing partial deafness, but
a little warm castor-oil mixed with spirits
would remedy that, or an injection of soap
uds, r
Balm for a Bleeding Heart.
T
MIE interesting breach of promise suit
which has been on trial in the supe
rior courts for several days, in which Miss
Florence L. Johnson, living near Morrls
town, Shelby county, Indiana, sued Alonzo
Tyner, formerly a resident of the same lo
cality, but now engaged in the grocery
business iu this city, for $ 10,000 damages
for wounding her womanly pride and lac
erating her heart, was given to tho jury at
tho opening of the court yesterday morning.
Tho parties of tho suit are well connected,
the plaintiff belonging to one of the best
families of Shelby county, and the defend
ant being related to Hon. James N. Tynor,
member of congress from the Eighth dis
trict. They have known each other from
childhood, and the. friendship thus excited
between them ripened into warmer affect
ion which was mutually confessed, and an
engagement of marriago mado in tho fall of
1871. Extracts from the letters that passed
between them, which were read during the
trial, showed them to havo been a very af
fectionate pair of lovers. The history of
their love-making, as brought out by the
evidence, would do, with a change of names
and localities, for at least six , courtships
out often, though it concluded very differ
ently from the average of such affairs.
They hadjtheir quarrels and reconciliations,
their jealousies and confidences. Tho green-
eyed monster seems to have preyed very
frequently upon the senses of Mr. Tyner;
the evidence shows bIio acted very un
pleasantly on several occasions on account
of trivial causes. His sweetheart, who is a
bright eyod bruuetto, very properly did not
consider herself bound to obey all of his
behests, although desiring to act iu accord
ance with any reasonable wish of his, and
as she was somewhat exacted,several quar
rels occurred. Their dilferonccs were of
short duration, howevor, and up to last
Juno it seemed that love would finally ob
literate tho discordant elements in their
natures, and a happy marriage follow. But
from somo causo or othcr,tho flame of love
in the breast of tho young man went out as
suddenly as a candle in a gale. For some
time thoy had played the role of the ardont
lover, when to Miss Johnson's great aston
ishment he camo to her one day in tho early
part of last Juno and informed her that ho
would not inarry hor. As only five or six
days previous to this she had received a
letter from him, containing tho warmest
profession of love and constancy, the sur
prise of the young woman was natural, but
it finally gave way to a proud indignation,
aud sho gave him release.
Tho engagement was, reported as broken
off, but the littlo world in which tho par
ties moved went on as usual, until about
tho 1st of October last, when tho marriage
of Mr. Tyner to Miss Emma Elstun, of
Milroy, Bush county, was announced. This
produced considerable feeling among tho
friends of Miss Johnson, as it appeared
almost a direct insult to her for him to
marry so shortly after breaking faith with
her. Stung to tho quick by this culminat
ing act of disregard to hor feelings, sho de
termined to sue him for damages for
broach of promise, and accordingly insti
tuted proceedings In tho superior court,
Tynor having become a resilient of this
county. The caso was vol y ably managed
on both sides, Voss, Davis and Holman ap
pearing for the plaintiff and Porter, Har
rison and nines conducted the dolenso.
Both parties have been in attendance
through the trial, sitting but a few feet
apart, and a number of their friends have
manifested a great interest in the proceod
ings. The jury retired yesterday morning
at half past nine o'clock and returned about
the same time in the evening, being out
nearly twelve hours. They returned
verdict for tho plaintiff, awarding her $!
000 damages. The defendant is worth
about f 5,000 according to current reports,
so tho division is pretty equal. The sym.
pathies of tho majority of the spectators
were on the sido of tho vivacious looking
little brunette from tho beginning of the
trial.
Not Suited.
A Presbyterian minister was going out
of church and thore was a shower of rain
falling outside, and the people were there
fore detained at the doors, and did not
pass out as rapidly as usual, and he said to
a distinguished Baptist, who was walking
out with him, " What is tho reason of this
dolay?"
"I think," answered tho other, "thore
is a shower outsido."
"Ah!" answered the doctor, "there
are quite a number of your persuasion here;
they ought not to be afraid of the water."
" No said the brother ; "it is not the
water, but the sprinkling that thoy are
afraid of."
" Ah !' " said the Presbyterian, " I know
they are afraid of that and yot it comes
from heaven."
tW Coorge McDonald ,wcll says:
"Never fail to do daily that good which
lies next to your hand. Trust God to weave
you liko a thread into a great web, though
the pattern shows it not yet. The grand
harvest of the ages shall come to its reap
ing, and the day shall broaden itself until a
thousand yoars shall show themsolves as a
perfect and finished day." . ,
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