l)c tmt0, New Bloomfiefo, 3a
"In that cane I did my duty, and I
think the Indians will not trouble me ;
hiif. Avn If tfiAV alumM T fnai fliAm nnt "
" I Tear, young sir, that those light arms
of yours would be insufficient, In case of an
attack from the red-skiu."
" They never failod me yet," said Orlan
do, his eyes brightening, and his bosom
swelling with a proud emotion. " Though
I like not deeds of strife, yet I fear not
danger." .
"To deal with such an enemy, you
should be able to wield a weapon like
that," said the et ranger, as he put forth the
muzzle of his ponderous weapon, the butt
of which rested upon the ground.
At that moment Orlando's eye caught
the outlines of a hawk that was sailing
high in the air above the tree-tops beyond
. the cot. , Ho turnod towards his strange
visitor, and took the massive rifle in his
band. Its owner smiled as he resigned it
to the youth, and stepping back a pace, he
remarked :
"She'll prove a little too heavy for that
hand of yours, and 'twill be a steady hand
and quick eye that takes a wing at that
distance."
The young hunter seemed not to notice
the words of his companion, but raising tlio
rifle to his side he drew back the hammer,
and theu placed the butt against his shoul
der. The single tick of a watch could
hardly have passed between the resting of
the rifle and the pulling of the trigger. The
sharp, clear crack ran through the forest,
and on the uext instant the hawk uttered
a shrill scream trembled a moment upon
its outspread pinions and then, with a last
effort to maintain its position, it shot ob
liquely through the air, and fell not a rod
from whore the two men stood. Orlando
stepped to whore the bird had falleu, and
picking it up, he returned and handed it to
the stranger, remarking as ho did so :
" That's a good weapon."
As the powerful hunter took the rifle,
bo stretched forth his broad palm and
said :
"Orlando Chester, take that hand.
There it shall ever be yours in time of
need, and upon Mark Chiron you may look
as a friond. If the enemy are subtle, the
wit and strength of Chiron can overcome
them."
A moment the young man retained his
grasp of the hand that was thus held out
to him, and while yet he gazod into the
face of his companion, ho said :
"Speak you of enemies to me?"
" Indeed I do."
" But I fear not that the red man will
attack roe."
"And is there no danger in the world, no
enemies but the red-itkina ? Do not white
men sometimes prey upon each other ?"
" Yet there are none to prey upon me."
" Be not too sure of that, young sir. I
came not here without an object, nor do I
offer my services at random. I ask you
not to accept of them, for they shall be
yours at my own will."
There was an air of truth in the words
and in the manner of Chiron, which the
young hunter could not doubt, and after a
moment's reflection be said :
" If it be as you say that there is really
danger in my path you can be my friend
cow by explaining to me its nature, and
then I can save you further trouble by
avoiding it myself."
" The nature of that danger I could not
explain, and to be plain with yon, I tell
you I would not if I could. Kay do not
start. I speak my thoughts plainly, and I
fear not to tell the truth. I have come
here to-day to recognize you, and when
first I saw this garden, that lays in such
fantastical forms and devices about us,
I knew well from whose brain sprang the
wild conception, and I knew, too, whose
delicate hand must have done the work
there is but one, and that "
The giant hunter drew his hand across
his eyes as he thus abruptly broke off, and
then raising his face towards heaven, he
uttered :
" Alas I poor Morgiana Chester, thy fate
is a hard one ; but if there is a just God in
heaven, thy wrongs shall be atoned for,
and those that wrong thee shall be brought
to justice.
For a full minute Orlando regarded the
man before him in a sort of wondering as
tonishment. Every vestige of doubt had
fled from his thoughts, and though he won
dered, yet he hesitated not to trust. Then
there was something in the manner of
Chiron, a kind of authoritative determina
tion, that made him hesitate to ask further
questions, and at length be said : '
" My mother is in the cottage there, and
if you will follow me you can see her."
"Stay a moment," said Chiron, as Or
lando turned to load the way. " Do you
think one who knew me years ago, would
know mo now ?"
" I should think not," returned the
young man. -
"Then lead the way," said Chiron,
" and mind you, Orlando, I have called but
for a drink of water and a slice of venison."
The young man signified his understand
ing of his companion's meaning, and with
out further remark he led the way to the
house. In the entry Chiron duposited his
rifle, and then followed his conductor into
the presence of Mrs. Chester. For a mo
ment the powerful man gazed upon the
pale features of Morgiana Chester, but
when her rye met bis own, he turned away
to . hlrlo a tear that stole to his eye. The
unwonted emotion soon passed away, and
turning his gaze once more upon the poor
woman, he took the scat which Orlando
proffered him, soon after which the youth
brought to him a dish of water.
While Chiron was drinking, Mrs. Ches
ter seemed, for the first time, to notice that
there was a stranger in the house, and after
watching him for nearly a minute, a sud
den light overspread her beautiful features
and rising from lier seat she approached
the spot where he sat, and laid her hand
carelessly upon his broad brow.
" Are you not a stranger, sir ?'' asked
Mrs. Chester, in a tone of considerable
earnestness. " Suroly you must have seen
my husband. Tell me, have you not?'V
"No, madam, I have not. But rest
you ia peace, for you may yet see him
again."
Mrs. Chester went back to her window
arid sat down. Whether the thoughts of
her husband had passed from her mind, or
whether the assurance of the strange
hunter had softened her grief, it is impos
sible to toll, but at all events her tears
were wiped away, and the usual placid
melancholy overspread her features with
its softening influonce.
As Boon as Chiron saw that Morgiaua
was quieted from her burst of sorrow, he
arose from his seat, and beckoning to
Orlando, he took his rifle and left the
cottage.
"Sir," said the old hunter, as the two
stood once more in the garden, "this is
the first timo for many, many years, that
tears have wet these rough cheeks of
mine ; but who could see that sad
sight and not weep 1 Boy, you know not
what a mind has there been wrecked.
must now away, but be sure we shall meet
again, and often. Pursue your wonted
course, and when danger threatens I will
be near to protect you."
"One moment, sir," urged the young
man, as Chiron was in the act of turning
away. "Which way from here do you
take?"
" To Jamestown."
"And how?"
"The same way I came by land."
" I, too, am going to Jamestown to
carry a load of skins and furs, and if you
will take a seat in my canoe, we will bear
each other company."
Chiron assented readily to the proposal,
and while Orlaudo went to make his ar
rangements, the old hunter reloaded his
rifle, and then busied himself in looking
about the place. It took the young man
but a few minutes to get ready for his
mission, and when he rejoined his com
panion with Iub furs upon his back, the
latter remarked, . as he noticed the pistols
in the belt of Orlando :
" You go well armed."
"I always do," returned the youth, as
he started off. "My rifle carries but one
ball, sometimes I want more."
Orlando led the way in a south-easterly
direction towards the river, and as both
the hunters were naturally on the watch
for what might be Stirling about them,
there was but little said on the way, and
that of a commonplace character. At
length they came to a small, vine-arbored
cove, which let up some rods from the river
and here the yeung man found bis canoe,
and ere long they were both upon the
broad rivor, with the tide in their favor,
sailing rapidly down towards the settle
ment. For nearly fifteen minutes after the
canoe was upon the liver, not a word was
spoken. Chiron was busy with his own
thoughts, and Orlando know not bow to
address bis companion upon the subject
noarest his heart. There were a hundred
questions he would like to have asked, but
he disliked to meet a refusal for an answer,
and so he asked them not. .
"Orlando," at length asked-Chiron, just
as the youth bad shot his canoe past a
swift eddy that made round an abrupt
point, " will you tell me what are the pe
culiar points of your mother's mania?"
" You saw her this morning, sir. She
is seldom different never raving."
" I mean not that," returned Chiron.
" A soul like hers could never rave with
utter madness. I meant to ask what aro
the particular Ideas that haunt her most ?"
" There are only two ideas that seem to
be firmly fixed in her shattered mind. One
of them you have seen in its effects. The
same question khe so earnestly asked you,
she puts to all strangers who may call,
though never before have I known her to
approach a visitor as she did you. And
she also often talks to me about her hus
band having cruelly deserted her. Then
there is one other subject which seems
Indelibly fixed in her memory. 6he has a
strong old oaken chest, and ever since I
can remember she has, as often as once a
month, and frequently much oftener,
searched it all through in quest of some
treasure which she says, she deposited
thereiu. Sometimes she says 'twas mon
ey, aud - at others bIis asserts that it was
merely a paper."
"Ami thiB chest is it safe?" uttered
Chiron, with sudden energy.
" Yes, the chest is safe, but the treasure,
whatever it may be, my mother says it has
been stolen from her," Orlando answered,
regarding with no small degree of wonder
the manner of Ms companion.
"And bow has she searched it 1 What
nooks, what corners, what secret place has
she found?" , . . ;
" None at all. The chest ia perfectly
plaiu, without a orevice or crack to Indi
cate any secret hiding. pluoe." ; : '
" 'Tis fortunate for poor Morgiana that
she has lost her own secret," murmured
Chiron, half to himself, " for had she re
morn bored it, she might have found her
treasure but to have irredeemably lost it.
. " Chiron," said the young hunter, as he
raised his paddle from the water, and in a
voice so soft and low that its earnestness
was like a prayor, "what of that treasure?
Speak, I abjure you." . ' ..','
" If I give you one plain, straightforward
answer, will you promise to ask no more ?"
" I promise.'! , ,
"Then the paper for a paper I think
it is is undoubtedly safe, and for the
present ' it tafe only in iti concealment "
And, mysterious as Chiron was, Orlando
resolved to trust him, feeling that in some
way he held the key to his own and his
mother's fate. To be continued.
KITTY CLINE'S PLAN.
CAN'T stand this any longer,
L Kitty ; this suspense is wearing out
my life. I mean to have a talk with your
father this very night, and know the worst,
whatever it is."
Brown-eyed, brown-haired Kitty Cline
looked up in dismay at her lover's clouded
and resolute face.
" Oh, Robert, proy be patient a little
while longer ! You know just how con
trary ana set in ins way lamer is. It you
do as you say, the upshot will be that he
will forbid you coming to tho house at all,
1 ou leavo it to me. I have a plan in my
head. Bo to Cousin Jane's to-morrow
evening, and I will toll you how it works.
As Robert Dunn left the house which
he did with a lighter heart that when he
entered it, he met Mr. Cline at the gate,
who glared wrathfully at him in return for
his pleasant greeting.
Ho was a short, thick-Bet mau, with a
red, uncomfortable-looking face, as though
his collar was too tight for him.
Stumping into the house with consider
ably more noise than was necessary he
turned to the window where Kitty was
Bitting, humming a tune, a careless, un
concerned look upon her faoe, which beli
ed the frightened feeling at her heart.
" What's that young fellow coming here
so much for, Kitty?"
Kitty tossed her head with an air of
disdain.
" For what he won't get, smart as he
thinks himself. . He wanted that I should
let him speak to you, but I told him that
it wouldn't be the least particle of use."
Tho old man glared at his daughter with
an air of mingled astonishment and indig
nation that was ludicrous to witness.
" You did, hey?"
"Yes," replied Kitty, composedly thread
ing her needle. "Ho seems to have got
the idea into his bead, some way, that
you would favor his suit, but I told him
it wouldn't make any difference if you
did."
Here Mr. Cline fairly choked with rago
being unablo to give utterance to his feel
ings only by an inarticulate sound.
" And that, furthermore he needn't take
the trouble to call here again," continued
Kitty, placidly, apparently entirely un
conscious ot the storm that was gath
ering. "And have you the assurance to tell me
miss," burst forth the indignant old gen
tleman, " that my favoring his suit will
make no difference ?"
" Well, papa, of course I'd be sorry to
run connter to your wishes " '
" I'd rather think you would be," inter-
rupted her father ; " it's an operation that
you would not care to repeat not while
I'm above ground. Mr. I) nun Is an in
telligent and worthy young man, of whose
preference any lady with the least parti
cle of sense would be proud. I shall invite
him to continue his calls here, and re
member that it is my wish that you treat
him with the respect and consideration he
deserves."
Having thus delivered himself, Mr.
Cline left the room with an air of great
satisfaction ; Kitty making no response,
save by a subdued sniflle behind the
handkerchief, in which she hod buried her
face.
Having first made sure that her father
had taken himself off down the street, she
dried her laughing eyes, and as soon as it
began to grow dusk, she went over to her
cousin's whore she knew Robert would be
waiting for her, to tell him of her success,
and to Instruct him in his part iu the
little comedy that was being enacted,
At Mr. Cline's express invitation, he
continued his calls with more frequency
than before, being treated by Kitty, when
her father was present, with a coolness
which tho young man took with very
commendable philosophy and resignation.
Perhaps tlie warmth aud cordiality of
his host bud something to do with this, or
he might have beon sustained by various
private interviews with Kitty, and which
Seemed to be very pleasant and satisfactory
to al concerned. .
Emboldened by the marked encourage
ment given him by the old irentleman.
Robert finally asked him for the hand of
his daughter, receiving his unqualified con
sent. ' ! " '
' Robert expressed his gratitude In warm
terms, taking eare to hint "that he had
not received much .encouragement from
Miss Kitty." s
"Never you mind Kitty," returned the
old man with an air of grim satisfaction :
"girls don't know what they want, nor
what is for their best good. I'll manage
nor. . .
Accordingly, that very evoning, Mr,
Cline communicated to his daughter what
he was pleased to term "her undeserved
good fortund." " r f
No sooner had Kitty beon given the
name of the husband destined for her than
she vehemently asserted that she wonld
die sooner than marry him. Her father
just as stoutly Insisted that she should :
and the controversy ended by his ordoring
her to her chamber, declaring that she
should stay there until she came to a
proper sense of the duty she owed him as a
daughter.
In the morning he visited Kitty, finding
her, it possible, more contumacious than
bofore. Iudeed, so provoking was her
language, that he assured her of his deter-
mi nation to keep her on bread and water
until she submitted.
With this pleasing prospect before her
Kitty remained "in durance vile," all
day.
She did not seem at all cast down ; on the
contrary, she bore every appearance of be
ing in an exceedingly comfortable con
tented frame of mind. Slio speut the
greater part of the day in answering sun
dry notes, which were slipped under her
door by her cousin who was in the plot,
the contents of which seemed to afford her
great satisfaction.
When the old gentleman visitud Kitty
in the evening, he found her considerably
subdued, which he ascribed, in no small
degree, to the rogimen of bread and water
to which he bad condemned her, being in
blissful ignorance of the more appetizing
fare that hod been surreptitiously smuggled
into her.
When her father intimated that she
could leave her room as soon as she signi
fied ber willingness to take the husband
he had selected for ber, she yielded a sullen
assent.
Kitty was careful to express her deter
mination to defer her marriage as long
as possible, aud, as a natural consequence,
her father was prompt in asserting his do-
termination that the ceremony should be
performed at once. .
Kitty contrived to retain the sullen, re
sentful look she assumed until the hour ap
pointed for the wedding. Then her face
boca.Tn rdiant with smiles and blushes,
and which created such a marked transfor
mation iu her countenance as to attract
her father's attention.
"Ha 1 she -is making the best of it, as I
knew she would," was his inward com
ment. Kitty's married life was a very happy
one.
" I have the best husband iu the world
she said, one day, in the hearing of her
father.
"And you may thauk me for it," ho
chuckled. " You never would have mar
ried Roboit if I hadn't insisted on it.
Girls never know what Is good for 'em ;
it's well that you had some one to choose
for you."
Folson iu Syrups.
A recent analysis in Chicago of samples
of some " very line syrup" served out to
families showed them to contain the oil of
vitriol in dangerous quantities. The sub.
stance thus operated upon is called ligniuo
by the chemists. It is the basis of the
fibre of wood and exists almost pure in un
dressed cotton and liuon. Hence old rags
and other equally objectionable refuse sub
stances form the material out of which
this bogus syrup is' made. Rovolting as
are the associations called up by this fact a
very much more serious objection is found
in the sulphurio acid, which still lurks in
the syrup and manifests its presence there
when subjected to suitable chemical test.
When it is known that this acid is an ac
tive corrosive poison to the humnn organ
ism we may well shudder at the idea of
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Herald of Health contains an article on the
"Golden Drip Syrup," a commodity that
is much used. The writer, who has given
the subject a thorough investigation, con
firms tho statements cited above from the
American Grocer as to tho presence of sul
phurio acid in the golden drips.
t5ST A Brooklyn lady of fourteen has
sued a gentleman of sixteen for breach of
promise of marriage. We know nothing
as to the amount of damages claimod, but
we suppose that somewhere between ten
aud fifteen cents' worth of chewing gum
would be about the figure."
CSTAboy found a pocketbook aud re
stored it to its owner, who gave him a live
cent piece. The boy looked at the ooin an
instant, and then handed it reluctantly
back, audibly sighed, as he said, " I can't
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Neiv Pension Law.
UNDER an act of Congress approved March 3,
1873, widows of otltcers who were killed, or
died of disease contracted In the Aarvlcn. nra now
entitled to 12.00 per month fur each of their clill-
Ul t'll.
The guardian of a minor child of a soldier who
hereloliire only received tx.ou per mouth pension
Is now entitled to 110. per moth.
Holdiol'S whoreceiVH invalid nenslnna can nnw
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ueiweeu ao. aim ais. per muniu.
Soldiers who have Inst their dischanrna nu nnw
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Fathers and mothers who lost sons In the serv
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Notice Is
hereby given, that Lellcrs of Administration
un the est nte uf William Adair, lute of Luysvllle,
Tyrone township, l'erry county, l'a.. deceased,
have been grunted to tho subscribers residing Iu
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