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V(L. XXXIX.
; THE
The
FIRS7NATI0NAL BANK
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Sojexvc, Penn'a.
LAW,
bornen
OtPOSntCClveDIN AN08MALL
mots, payable on demand.
"k" uni AURCMANTS, FARMERS.
TOCK O.EB. ND OTHERS SOLICITED.
eppot""
-DISOUNTS DAILY. -
b?d of directors:
I.AlIrt J Ks v'. H. MiLLKit,
JaMKS Inilf, ( HA. ir. FlKHKB,
Jons Ktt, (;E. K. Scnx,
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PITAL. $50 000.
iv.,-.
CliaslJarrisun,
in J. I'ritts, Cashier.
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are
IR. tors:
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J.'ini liar,
J" pli it,
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SuB'l Sny.Icr,
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Jol !l srum.
lianMHi hnydt-r,
hi mil S. iliiitr,
V'm. Kr.Wi
fn-to 'tiji. u,,,.; n.-ia the most
il-.'Mi tnt ollJ;( i.: MiiU si.'e i Ankinjr.
Furtiiui; to sft,,! iio!i(' : or wtt run
' -i j.l tj Jjo" iui m.; in .Hint.
IMi.ik ,.,i.i),h- M'l-ur.-d l y.-neof lile-J-d
f I ei turex in. jawi Hi-i'.'vred liiue
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IERE WANTS TO KNOW
tl.; -
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anL'HITO GET THE MOST OF
pa.
tli.-m
OF tWODLD'S COODSF03
0
Ileast moey?
1K
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Dishes
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YKI.IOW, Mass,
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GREAT VARIETY
in IfT.
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lo
t-Ki: 1am)kin(.g.asi:s,
fAXfl I.AM IS, STM LAMPS
i
I 15 of all 3H'K riiioiif.
charpe
we ran
Nreltand Odditis in China
Ie place or
ilULLUI
Tin: she of
. COFF.OTH,
soi.i;m;t. pa
!D(WV,
f 1 7
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DOWN
Ahk for
Some fouo?j National hi
ourn.
aept2S - 'W
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Hints in
more rirnjv
cr rhictlv in
ny uitiMcal
ujiv jn
HUSTON.
bition at Mr.
Voile no iia. Hmhii- It ready for tlx- msrket.
Threshing Engines jVrl'."" .
y is HhitiKle Warhim-N Hay PrenKn, and liUil
dani Juil-iin,uta neneraiy.
. 1 -.1.1 ....":' fc-td
i ii.n.1 for Ulna- I
h ' traicd fUii"lfue I
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I
(Znral
Mlllllii, 1 V
ui and wimtniJ ik. a,.
Ilie -pilia ar ,.1 . :
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anyone w.,M r.U '.'i h! "r
t'lei
I wtf
irno
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Oil curc-J aie.'' ""'''"'I JacoU
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At iJiiuciMH :.ifo,X
THE CHARLES ..VOGELt.CO.I,,,.
It is to Your Inrcst
TO HI V YOUR J
Drugs and MeCjnes
OK
oft
JOHN H. SNpER,
st truftstin to
oini
of
BlESECKER & Sl'DER.
one b
h';t th piirvst and Iost l in Mock,
J wl;n Ini(rslMorneiinrf staiid-
Six
a:n
taC
HIS
as certain of them
lo,
rti-oy tlicin, rather thati
Kjsco:ioiircustoni. the
fitrai
can dt'iieiid on haviour
i
love
r
I MM 1 J
thing-rts,
ver fo Jei-fashi.t'bj.
PRESCRIPTIONS FAMILtECEIPTS
i
filled with care. Our pricea n'as low as
a-y otiier first-Tla., lmstnd 0:1
many articli-s .ni, h U-r.
tnaile
r
" sincu
other r
had ret
ton s
The itit.Tp .f
I -laved
, - . ...r-. l-oun;v SKI IO K IIOW
.. 1 .
"" ,;,"e fc',v"''' "s a larennj of their
cess,
- o.u - ., we hhall ?tii! roiniie togive
Wen
the very l-rtKo.Hwfoj-t:
a
. money.
not forget ti;a; we
a-e
;
niuke isxvialty of
nine 01 1 r--shown
t jbf
FITTIXO TIJUSES.
tor
had
efruaraiuec satkCu-tioi,. a:i,lf vcu
had trouble in tkis din'.n,
give us a call. 1!
witlioul1
healed
:liicr;il
SPECTACLES AND EYE-LASSES
oiii even
great man,
and daunt,
- af viir!..!.. - i r..o . . fc . -
j , 1UU Sll ( 1,H,M.!
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look Lis t'jg
lingers an-
... a,. :,vp yourey.T.itiiil. No
T.r ciamimui,,,,, )lM l wet-eon fi. lent
great
suit you. Come and S,J,
daughter as
Knsfcotfu j
JOHN N. SNYLTR.
or ten
ture,
presuming'
The
Oils! Oils!
lie
letter
ant of
lightly
ticular
OomeMie trade the liaest l.uds of
decline th(,j)
this letteri
Illuminating & Lubricting Oils l,ad alrea,
t his belovei '
Naphtha and Gasoline,
home
tl J ii .0 a,
Mr.
ne mAne from Petrolenm.'We cl,allonre
linil.ahu..i. ... . 1. 0
(ireat
PRODUCT OF PETfOLEUM.
cans)
t..r
I
If you wish the most unilfrnily
And
ed at Ilu
ners of hi
Satisfactory Oils
inn that f.
The Hom
1 lie
IX THE '
American ZNIarket,
I!ut nat
had expe.il i
fill I.QU.,1
Trade for Somcrsit And
aitpplied by
vicinity
received
began sto
fOOK EKHRITS SD
rktAtiL & Kin -SICK.
fcOVKKHIT, Pa.
eariv in
- lyT.
OHU UIUI
with ther
cinnitti, a
ladies wh
jiericiice
r
Pianos - Organs
.. ti..r. 01 IIV-'UIIIJ, fii)j (II J . I . .
-ntii lr lis K in r, i-w.vt i. IiilSuritJ
... ..... , illlXlaiU !
liiiprMVP!iH-iiUrvTniiu!.iuKkinKihfiiMruiiuiit vlUU a nui
inii-H-nl in ute. jnort durahtf . und
Itf likeij to gvi out of'tunu. j th? lace lluat
IUith tho Masin A IT0iiii;nrlnrKiiion1 Fmim ex. hiii.iL.m1 li' l',e
tliul w inch i tlirrliif , i -.iit..... I
iti-tninn-nt. imiiiT .f unv. other i n,-vt-'iB TO
iuiriMitni n mi ui;inu-i'jii Ioih can-
1 J - T
blazers am,
dazzlemeihsion
EVTason &. Hamlin
own Belf-(
stored. i -
IN. ll.c 4i
Organ and Piano Co.,
XLVV YORK. C HICAGO,
iiicay girls .
piazzas m'
was interes
j. & jacob onais, 11
IJAVII'SVILLE I'. O., (Somerhct Co., I'a.,
Auenti" for the
THE WHITELY HOOP POLE MOWER.
tar he and
liad Ijeen
and the chi
forth.
It was
WHITELY SOLID STEEL BINDER,
WHITELY AND CHAXi'ION
REPAIRS.
Bourbon co
-' ft
vnliror id..t
to visit the
along. Per -ilarity
to M
IlracebridiT
O
rordirs for
machinery and Impairs
lid he, thawi;
purely
,.
"1""
Tall ami wil
ed Up ,o
i .
J. H. Miller's Hardware Store,
o
Somerset, P., will b .Attended to
Promptly.
uiorougn urt
in, it seeme''l
norse naa u
was a pity U, -
yyA Sample Machine if now on Exhi
Miller's r-t-ire. (.'all unit sue it
J. ,t JACOH KAl'K.MAX, JR.,
JiavidKviiie P. O., Someiet, Pa.
Machines
A
i-inltv.
riinipiest, mot dural-le, eco
fintiiiril and Ilrrfrct in uw.
was lier
f
s.a.
hojm that he
intoxicated Lj
motion.
AVhen
B. KAKylHAK ooiorA- i M-inniea.j
lady who ha
Peuni'lvaiila ApTle-illurnl
Wuriu, York, ttL
toward her
JLJLJIOi lb JL JL JL OjJLIo
SOMERSET,' PA
YOU OR I.
j If we could know
ilch I us darliiiR, would be firat to
v.o wl;M be tirst lo bret tbe awelling ode
ioiif upoo me otber lide
Jf we could know
If It were yitu.
R1mi! walk softly, keepluR death In view?
Shoiiil im love to Toil imiro ofl nnn.'
Or sUild I trieire you, durliix uy le
If it were you ?
J r ft wr T
ShoJ 1 lint,rove tbe momenta (lipping by
I more clowly follow God pen vl.nr
uu ii a (wuetcr tbarity to uum
I Ifltwerel? .
j If we ronU know !
Wcjiinot, darlitx, nd 'ti better no.
Ltiv.
"T"' ""ret, jut as I do to-day.
along .ae rame
old Kumliliic
If I e uld know. , 1
1 WOUld not knnv . .
of iw. during, will ba the first to co, u "
OI"l'Itieioe may not h. l.m- .
I'ln the puniui; anc ibe i?r.t"i.
Iiutjheo, trwhiTe.ur how we're cnat ,":
t wtiuM rot know.
reK 1 to go
,:iii'T' U"Uii,
Ml BRACEBRIDGE',e
.ent'S D1LEM-
fltr.
If ih like lightning
i'liiffrdio,1,althougi r0r Xot in i,H raIv
tt ii tried oi.t to '.oaf ' t," tiimi,c isof"
-A h it iV Ft lJ)"v't'',,,, ,'"t in thc
e'"Hor; inadeuiA,t.w'"r,d m t,,e ,1"u,ttU
vou rierg, Kood.n bulk ' hlt V Lit from ,H'r"
wmauorbid conat. an ''Pi1"', or, it may be,
the III Khare ie IW"l'tion, xml then, w hen
liiitsell'geni'i-!"'1,a3 accumulated it ex-
uenjljeet jn ai kTally on the most promt
- itrv. I
liia"the surrounding expanse
a clfp of;
'i;ln at.'
not fL. el?
fed' have seen lightning strike
' SpanisU bayonet two feet
Arizona niesna. There was
in sight. If a man bad b-one
at, it would have been a case
iaut.tli
hi ition.
of liil6?1" M Bracebriilgn took the advice
sort,"i;Bni siciau to " seek some quiet r
hei '"d appeared at Ulue LicL Springs
T,,. " ' - i
iji
) this
uo.....ft ....... .V.V.V,..,
ths liefore he had met Mies Ret-
l,S-t-
tin 1Klir, !o, the daughter of Peter Costel-
I ; reat " copwr king," at a dance in
j fice de Ieon hotel, and had
ay fallen head
1 her. She was
over heels ir.
a pretty little
o, if she had contracted the fe
:heatrials that is epidemic in
le circles just now, would have
t by an astute manager for a
chambermaid." And, on the
nd, if the great Peter, her sire,
t ned on the old sod as Lord Luf-
1 otn
ittr
itl
tt
i.nt, little Uetta would have
role in reality with great suc-
it was, her sprightliness, her
ucation aud clothes set her on
where she received the hotn
Ilthe adjacent youth. Up to the
w i! Ponce de Leon dance she had
it self such an excellent couduc
del the shafts launched at her
liethrongh her head and heart
; "Having the slightest trace, and
an'erfeet. Put it was a strong
';,iian who could pxs over the
Rf Richard lSrai-ebridge with-
1 thrill. Miss Costello had a
. . ti :.i., - ..lL-u
In
j l3
11 Er,,,
inna. - ' - f
of 4H h
, 1
thaCbi
iJocN11
i'f"
11.
inn
tr
in I- Ai.eie unc 00-1. aoi "n
aud. and Mien Mr. I.racehndge
p. tst g'dd pen into his nervous
IVixl
0 wrote a business letter to the
Wiy, asking him for his only
mil;J
Jaaow, and the prospect of eight
and '
werrta dollars iu the course of na
tion
:ry properly felt himself a
co,T
ipstart while he was about it.
Ifou
Krat
wrote
r magnate agreed with him.
telli"
Jiracebridge a pompous
onv
mai
we; 1
p him that the last deseend-
chaiff the Irish kings was not to
unan w ith an American of no par
I,. W h or position, ond he must
H. Mionor of the alliance. hen
ehi'tfeached Mr. Hracehridge he
for threceived the tearful adieus of
by a f
Tf,ehe baving been summoned
l'n"ialTcmptory telegram from the
n,f ,.
Cost,
, 1 wnim
Uri ;
.-r v
j Redu,ot,no,e HpS'ance to
pecr,j
!
on in one striding (toAmeri
jnjity. He ruled his daugh-
Pennyl
year stil n Mr. Braeebridge appear
Ju!y hoik, he still drooj-ed the cor
lines at r.tache, under the impress-
aold on a
so,n
wot J '.
turn
nntd frultaof love were done,
tion in rai''"'"" r"n" lM8'
ki-r ano
alone.
Iietween J
1IIIU
.hnra a varniim. After lie
New
Vork. t i.
, ... , .iMta uiuuiauuii ui inuiir
and aslii,r. , tii
one can IUMlM Co"0' "ni 1,aJ
; in return, kind nature
. -f a new charge. It was
The o,a at Blue Lick, and, be-
Itesant's ns young married ladies,
laid amor,gH anj nurscg frora Cin.
relates thai ,,. three thi joun?
from the iH0OVereu frolll an ex.
Cornwall 0' ,
t, ty years, over, bow
This was tor ,
It was inl,allsl,,CU0U3 one ian be
their imlurt,'1 or a bit of fancy work
hundred aaryrted. So Bracebndge
region wideband loaned his French
the rocks oaDg married ladies, and
mark the platbies, wearing his gay
to an old Knj neckwear for the be-
i r
tn
Anil
tie if
I (f 1
and
itroi
j,
'e j
overwhehned, maidens, until bis
the 11 tii of Xc Wa, v,.rv folly re-
Editornlliantly-tinted Ken
The Pennsy,lm to make gay the
ion have tin .tresses, there
PTI
n.t. 1
for the annua ,nnp. ,
Washington, V. . u
rinirenii-nts wil . J .
of the asaociatic . . .
d.rsi
-l.y
alto in.
burg, will asset11""081 lu """J
July 14, and lea
train on Tintd'e that 80,116 f the
''? thoe at Pliilad around Millersburg,
iV' wmble in that .de up a riding party
also leave for ;Vmd Kitty Basil came
of Jn'y 15. Theag her entire dissim
will be visited in;0 that attracted Mr.
down the Potore but think, and so
tlience to Oid Poi ntut.ky girl attracts
I' - rfi
.liMr:
.rini. ru.rtq aft t .
ii""',,. , . n personal menu.
to(.,iJll(ineoFriJliyi. Mh8"e"r;
.vn hi. J utotAs nn hAr h flrk
; -"r . . . 7
olli-v
- " i
Summer
icebndge- tooK ner
i & :
T tl.af .Iia ,nil h.r
A handsomely , ...
J for each other. It
ier excursion to
try of the Kgfiounl-in, lake anP qu'8' 'i'"
But when uriTfc jr-sued by the II. f P"K them,
lifting one eiJPi-ntftnplating a stj l8h"y down' nd
just enough well to procure a of! ort ridinK skirt
of jiolished rjc!ij::B ''"ir arran-emantalixing glimpse
long, walkw fit T,,e ,'0"k '" ut B'x ncnea
free, yet hig Jl ityl'l',isi'ionto1as.,ue piazza with the
Ti f "ger as!, i. ai movement, w men
-. , . , , ,
j , ne couiu oniy
iou cen never k(
liikly a dose of Aj.
ection of graceful
i k headache. Voa
.21
MroGUflH eleaiiAing, and (
4lisl.it morn etlerli3 yoUD8
married
r Tit i t
.an any other uiedi'Q uml' BPru"K
uearmenis oi iuii-
ESTABLISHED 1827.
4
WEDNEDAY, JUNE 25, 1800.
mate fi-ietnlship,
Lucy baby on th
Brjt he was Bp
e felt like kit-sing the
spot.
ed that, as Mrs. lacy
h her eyes tn come for-
ninth ned hitn wit
ward and meet h1
er friend. It waa very
simple.
"Mr. BraeeJridgf, Mies Basil-" but
Io.ir i:racebrvP,iLro ft-lt as thounh tl ie sates
of paradise '(.iad been flun? open in his
face. The v .vide lawn, carueted w itb mat
ted blue k.. .,.,1 m1,-.1u,1 uilli f.trit
,6'-
' D' ame instmitly au enchanted
si-ene, now tliat was to walk there
Wltn , tliia WAiinr m.LLKa
... r
vou ever, in toe vernacular of that
state, "court " a Kentucky girl ? If you
have, I can't tell yon anything. If you've
not, there isn't any use in trying, a, it
would not be within the power of man
t- tell you everything.
She c u fence arnl coquet until you are
on the brink of despair, and wild with
anger, and detcrmitod to let the jade
ulone, and then, with one flutter of her
eyelash, or one curl of killing sweetness
in tlm corner of her mouth, she can bring
3'0U lo your original gt.ate of abhorring
heljjlesiiiiesB. .,
Bractibridga an.l lliUvIjsil went
through the whole ).ritr;;f!n. Tt-oiild give
;t Verbatim, but iionor revcii's me from
giving Mi.s Hasil's ai'fnal hentences, and
I am by lid uic-ans clever enough to make
jji new qjiVs fui the same lines. She went
back homo that evening with the inspi
ration of conquest danuin' in !ier eyes,
and he went up on the hill liehind the
hotel and smoked cigars over the invita
tion that she had uiven '..'uu tocoiue over
to Iill:rb .rg anU play tennis on thuir
lawn.
Miss Dasil's home was known as the
" XunnfT." from the fact -hut it hud
originally been owned by a family nam
' ffdNui.n. It more than comieii8ated for
its sombre name. There were five daugh
ters younger than Kitty, and people said
each one gsve evidence and promise of
1 1 . ,1. .. .
greater oeauiy inan me one umi rni
luir.,r n. n.w ?o,lnpr Mister. Marion.
ws gfiending theseas')n at West Point
with an aunt, and turning the brads of
half the cadets. With true Kentucky
lack of me-cenary cqns-iderations, she
married a West Point graduate tbe next
summer, and went to Mexico to enjoy
love in a desert.
Next to her came the twins, Xellieand
Sallie, just turning thirteen, and the vfr
iest Tomboys that ever existed. If Brace
bridge had not been in love genuinely
a victim to the grnmle. jvaii the rude
ness and pranksof those girls would have
driven him out of the State. As it was,
they took on some of the halo that he
ha-1 fitted to their sister.
He sent up to Lexington and bought a
riding-horse from a dealer there, and
then, like a knight of old, felt ready to
do battle for his lady Jair, only in this
case the battle must be won by a ready
tongue as well as a Hashing armor.
The Bourbon county pike winds
through the green Gelds like a silver rib
bon,' hard and 'w hite, brtt here and there
are shady dirt roads where two horses
can loiter along close together.
Many and long were the talks and dis
cussions that P-raccbridge and Miss Basil
held, ever disagreeing, yet each con
scious that every day drew them closer
together.
One night t was truly night when
they started, for the August day had been
too hot to think of anything but coolness
and seclusion as long as the sun shone)
there was a riding party. In the arrange
ment at starting, Bracebridge had fallen
to a Miss Biddle.a pasty-faced girl whose
whole talk was of the Cynthiana and
Lexington races, and who made desper
ate bids for Bracebridge to bet her con
fectionery and gloves upon the coming
contests. If he could have given her a
ton of candies ami a gross of gloves, and
never heard of her again, he would glad
ly have done so. But betting with liar
now meant some sort of intercourse in
the future, and he steered 'clear of the
po-sibility. The moon was low in the sky
as they rode home. As they turned out
of the pike into an open lane that was a
"short cut," Bracebridge's heart, when
he found himself at last by Kittio's side,
broke into a llame.
He leaned over and covered her whip
hand with his own. There was an an
sweriug pressure from the little, gloved
fingers.
" Will your father lie at home to-morrow?"
he said, his voice stiff from emo
tion. " Papa ?"' she said. (lie knew she was
humbugging,) " Don't you mean mo ?"
" No. I must see your father before I
see you again."
Thre was a flash from eye to eye, and
then Bracebridge rode on and heard the
legend of the run Goldsmith's Maid made
against Jay Eye See frrtin the enthusias
tic Biddle, but even that horsey young
woman could not not damphis new joy.
When l.e w ent into the Millersburg ho
tel that night he ran across Jack Blair,
w ho had just come in from Blue Ltek.
They smoked a cigar, apiece, white Jack
went over the salient points . in the
Springs' gossip for twenty-four hours, and
then Bracebridge went to his room. He
had just divested himself of collar and
shoes when the door opened, and a large
white envelope was thrown in.
" They told me to give you that. It
came this morning.' Came within an ace
of forgetting it."
' " Thanks, Blair," and he picked it up.
A business letter, of course. He hadn't
read ten lines until he felt as though he
should go mad. It was from Peter Cos
tello :
Fifth Aveivtr llutd, y. Y.
Mr. Richard Bhaci:iiiiiikjk.
IR : Finding that your atten,i.'ns to
my daughter hare serioUoly ini.n.-i her
health (" What iJoes the old fool
mean?" poor Bracebridge ejaculated)
snd the physicians saying that she must
have her way and not be ciwwed I write
to retract my refusal to you of last Janu
ary. The doctors say she w ill die unless
her mental trouble is relieved. Come at
once.
Yours respectfully,
Peter Costkllo.
- The old ass !"
Alas, Bracebridge 1 Had this letter
come to you two months ago, instead of
sitting there with your head in your
hands, disguited at iU style of composi
tion, you would have pressed it to your
heart as a harbinger of great joy. "Times
change, my masters." All night long
he walked the floor. Perhaps a thousand
times he drew a sigh from his boot-heels
and breathed out :
" Poor girl ! Poor Ketta !"
It is a terrible thing to have a girl dy-
r fC
mi ior yuu. vm cou.i
he loved her
; but bow could
loveu ner nae a siaier
he L'ave ; Kitty ? Kitty, glorious Kitty,
whose father he was to see that very day.
He knew there would be no trouble
there. He had already made friends
with jolly, happy-go-lucky Major Basil.
What would they think of him ? It had
got to that now. Braeebridgu was too
much of a man to shirk bis responsibili
ties. If Betta Costello nad loved him
enough for the parting to mean deatk to
her, then he could only despise himself
that he had not returned it in kind. She
should never suffer frora bis fickleness.
And then there was his explanation to
Kitty ! He felt aa though his hair was
growing white witn misery.
It was dayi.ght when he finally finish
ed the five sheets of paper in which he
tried to do himself justice. He directed
it to "Miss Kitty Basil The Nunnery,"
and then pked his few belongings that
be had brought over to Millersburg, sent
a telegram to Blue Lick for r! !ru- to
oe sent to the Xew York Hoi., ti.auking
hi stars meanwhile ihatonly yesterday
he had pai l his bills to the end of the
month, and went out in time to c:itch
the one train to Paris, the adjacnttow:.
As he went out f the Parnell Iloure
".dice he dropjied a dollar and his note
t'. Miss Barfil in the waiting hand of the
one bell-boy.
"Take thib to Miss Basil this tnorn'n.g."
"Yes, sir." And he wasone.
As the train rolled aero the bridge
there was a mist in Bracebr.dge'seys
He never expect-.a to "te tho shabby
'ittle town again.
He would have been wild could he
have know n the fate of his letter of ex
planation. It was la'.e afternoon before "Yellow
Bob" round time to carry a note out to
the Nunnery. As became in sight of
the house from a turn in the lane that
le-1 up to it through a natural park of
forest trees, he saw MLs Kelley and Miss
Sally Basil come mincing down the
veranda steps with long dresses, plainly
the prope'ty of their F-ster, dragging
after them. As they saw the adored boy
luey gave a couple of shri!'. screams and
started back, and then, recognizing him,
advanced more haughtily than before.
"What do you want?" Mi-s Sally in
quired, with freezing dignity.
"Laws, Miss Sally, I don't want nothin
Jes' fetched a cyard to Miss Kitty," and
he brought out Bracebridge's letter.
"Very well. Give it to me." And slip
ping it into the pocket of the dress she
was holding up, she walked on as though
letters were as plentiful as leaves, and of
more consequence, leaving Yellow Bob
a picture of admiring awe.
An hour later the dresses were hang
ing in Kitty's wardrobe, and the letter's
message was still unread.
One would naturally imagine that this
interval had been one '.of some anxiety
to Miss Basil ; and perhaps it would
have been except for one incident. When
she returned from her ride the evening
before she found that her father had 1
been hastily summoned to New York
upon important business. After she had
received a morning caller in the figure
of Jack Blair, and learned that 5Ir. Brace
bridge ha-1 also gone to New York, she
went about one prism of radiating smiles.
The most romantic girl could not ask
more in a lover than was hers. lie had
told her that he could not see her again
until he had seen her father. Her father
had gone to New York, and this rash
youth had followed him.
Meanwhile. Bracebridge was going
over the dreary journey. As the miles
(lew by, perhaps his greatest sull'ering
was in his realizing sense of the instabil
ity of his own feelings. As he thought
of Kitty's cleverness and beauty, and the
love-light in her eyes, he was sure that
she was the core of his soul. And then,
w hen be thought of jioor little Ketta dy
ing for love of him, he longed to reach
her, and clasping her in his arms, assure
her that her griefs were over. He at last
arrived at the conclusion that this last
was the proper state of mind. As he
had fully determined to marry Ketta, she
was the shrine at which he must burn
his incense.
It was ten o'clock of the hot August
night when he reached the city. He
took a handsome to the Xew York Hotel
and wondered why they kept an invalid,
in whom he felt a proprietary interest, in
any such stifling atmosphere. And then
he went to bed and to persuade himself
that it was all a dream.
The next morning, after a late break
fast, he wended bis way down Fifth Ave
nue to the hotel.
He asked for Mr. Costello, was inform
ed that he was not in, and then he ask
ed if his card could be taken to Miss
Costello. In the course ot fifteen min
utes her maid came down and said that
Miss Costello would lie glad to see
Mr. Bracebridgo if he cared to see an
invalid. His heart tender within him,
he followed the precise Frenchwoman
upstairs.
He was ushered into a very dream of
a boudoir, evidently fitted out in its de
tails by the present occupants.
Miss Costello was lying on a wicker
lounge piled with 6ilk cushions that deli
cately harmonized with the texture ot
the tlfthabillr. She greeted Bracebri'lge
with gentle languor, and presently told
her maid that she might ro.
A8soon as the attendant was safely
latched outside, Bracebridge fell upon
his knees and put his arm across the
shoulder that invited his clasp. How
happy they would be ! He could feel in
anticipation the answering pressure of
her arm.
What was his utter surprise to feel her
draw back from him, and to hear an icy
voice say, in the ear attuned for the ac
cents of passion : "
"Mr. Bracebridge, what is the meaning
of this extraordinary canduct? Will you
be good enough to seat yaurself in that
chair?"
"Retta, my darling, has not your father
told you?"
"Papa? Told me what?"
"That, in consideration of your health,
he has at last consented to our engage
ment" "Did he tell you that?" The invalid
was sitting up.
"Here is his letter," and taking it finm
his pocket (be bad expected to produce
it under vastly different circumstances)
he gave it to her.
She glanced rapidly ever it, and then
fell back among her cushions with almost
hysterical laughter.
By this time Bracebridge was stand
ing stiflly over her.
"Sit down. Oh, sit down," she man-
aged t say, finally
"And did poor pop
thins it was ou?"
And then ' i sat up again, and reach
ing out took Bracebridge's passive hands.
"Poor Dick t Confess you had forgot
ten all about me when you got papa's
letter. Now, hadn't you ?"
Bracebridge's face took on a fine scar
let. "I knew it! I knew it!" she cried,
"And I I had given you op long ago.
It is some one totally diLerent.'
And ther., still holding Bracebridge's
hands, Bhe told him the story. The ob
ject of her love just now wa the manager
of her father's business in New York. A
i.. a Knglanderof no social qualifications
whatever, but with a "way" that had
ensnared the heart of his employer's
daughter. Miss Retta had skillfully play
ed upon the feelings of her phvsicians.
and had a deep-laid plot to make her
father ask her the cause of ber rtespona
ency, when she meant to tell him the
truth. Thinking infallible, the old man
had succeeded in offering his ("au'iLi
to the ma.i she didn't wp.ih, and vrl-o
dida't want her,
"Go aw ay. Leave mo tha L'tier. I ca'
settle hiii now," this daughter of her sire
sail.', with determination ; snd Brace
bridge gladly took her advice.
As he boarded tbe ferry for Jersey City
that afternoon, he was delighted to nee
the portly form of Major Basil just ahead
of him, and he went up and touched him
on the arm.
"Hello! Mr. Bracebridge. Y Ai here,
Sir? Glad to seeyo-i. Where are you
going?"
Bracebridge gave a little embarrassed
laugh and a casual glance around to sen
that they were out of ear-shot.
"That depends upon you, Major Basil."
" Upon me ?" and the i '.cli voice was
jovial. "Then you'll come back to Ken
tncky. I can't ask better company. '
"But you will have to take me as a
son-in-law."
It was out. Major Basil grasped his
arm.
"You don't mean to tell me you've run
off -vith my daughter?"
"No. Oh, no."
Bracebridge, never realizing that if he
had done so it would have been regard
ed as a capital joke by Major Basil, was
inexpressibly shocked.
"I only hope to marry her with ycur
consent."
"Well you have it," the major said
cordially, shaking him by the hand. "I
saw it was coming to this some time ago.
and I took pains to inquire about you,
young man, and I have no fault to find.
Kitty's a good girl, and deserves a good
husband and I believe vou'll make one."
As the journey progressed, Bracebridge
learned that his prospective father-in-law
ha-1 left Millersburg the evening of the
ride. And like a flash he saw his loop
hole if only he had never written that
letter!
As they drew nearer and nearertheir
destination, Brnivbrid-e had alternate
fits of exaltation and despondency.
Suppose Kitty refused to take a man
who a week ago was on his way to mar
ry another woman, ami who had only
returned to her when informed that ho
was not wanted ? Half a dozen times he
oiened his lips to confess it all to Major
Basil and ask his advice, and then put
off the evil hour.
The major expected him to goat once
to the Nunnery, but dread at his possible
reception made him invent an excuse for
going to the Bine Lick Hotel for a day.
The last words he heard were) :
"I'll tell Kitty you'll be over to-morrow."
All night long Bracebridge tossed and
tumbled the sheets of his bed ; aud as he
slowly rode up the avenue at ths Nun
nery, the next morning, his sU te of mind
was not much calmer. His heart gave a
bound of delightas he saw Kitty just dis
appearing down a leafy arbor of the old
fashioned sort, that led to a wisteria
clad summer house. It would have given
an extra leap had he known that this
was the first time his letter had been near
her. In the pocket of her dress it had
laid undisturbed since the afternoon of
the liroiipwNfV a fVt jMcock.
He gave his horse into the hands of a
grinning colored boy, and followed the
path through the arbor, snapping his
riding-cane against his boot.
Although Kittie must have heard the
sound, she did not look up until Brace
bridge stood before her. She only receiv
ed the congratulations of her father, and,
it may be, looked for a different advance.
Her air of surprise was pretty, but there
was no doubt of the cordiality of her
glance,.and in another second she was in
Bracebridge's arms.
After they had gone over and over their
particular variation or the orginal life's
melody (convinced that they alone knew
the fundamental theme), Bracebridge
finally plucked up courage to ask her
what she thought when Bhe received his
letter.
"Your letter?"
"Blessed soul," he thought, "is that a
woman's way out of a dilemma ? Pre
tending she did not get it? Or did she?
Just then she put her hand into her
pocket and drew out, to her infinite
amazement the letter.
"Did you put it here just now ? What
is it?" and looking for a surprise de
lightful, of course she took a long pin
from her dress and began to cut open
the end.
Bracebridge was almost stupefied with
amazement. He felt like a counter on a
board being moved about by Fate, and
then, regaining his faculties with a rush,
he took the lettsr out of her hand.
"I wrote it," he said, "fearing that I
might not see you. It is useless now. I
put it there in jest."
And in his heart he excused himself
the deceit. .1. S. Dwute, in Fitink
lir'i.
, - I
Exciting.
"Your duties must bo Romewhat mo
notonous," said a lady to a mailing clerk.
"They are, inueed."
"The same round day after day and
week after week. No excitement"
, "No excitement excepting when we
have to rush things."
"And when is that?''
"When we find 'In haste' written on
the corner of an envelope."
"Oh, yes; that creates excitement!"
"Trtmcndous !" t
After all, the best way to know the
real merit of Hood's Sarsaparilla, is to
trjf it yourself. B sure to gwV'Hogd'a.
WHOLE NO. 2031.
An Even Thing.
I had a big chunk rf lead from Con
federate cavalry carbine driven into my
shoulder at Brandy f'tatiou, and was in
a hospital at Washington for treatment,
when an Ohio infantryman was placed
on the cot next on the left. He had
been shot in th leg about two months
be. re, and aft--r every eflort had been
made to save the lim' , he had been
brought here to have it amputated. A
surgeon rime or:e day to notify him
that tho operation would be performed
the next day, and Bill, as we called him,
listened, and then replied :
"Say, Doc, I'm waiting for a letter from
the old woman. I wrote to her that the
leg would probably ha e to come off, and
I ant to hear hat she has to say."
"But that can't make any difference."
"V eh, perhaps not ; but I kind o' want
her opinion. She's always been down
on one-letted men, and I aiit to seo
whether she's going bak on c eo'co'i"
"B"t she -von't, of cours ."
"y-u ;'o.i't !:nor. :.bortibrt. ""oinrn
'her. the o?t- -C H'''
ma cia-Xjmft ap and dc'vp "viil: i vc
cn t)'2, cnC rvailizin' tbr.l I'vo 0i. .o
stump'iig around for life, shh may feel s
disgust. Give me three or four days
more in which to get a le'ter."
The surgeon consented, and in two
days the letter came. Bill vas very
nervous and excited, and he aked m to
read the epistle and give him the news.
It wasn't frmit hi wife, but from his sis
ter, and she wrote :
"On the day that you wrote Mary thai
your leg would have to come off we start
ed to drive to Unci; Ben's, .""ne hors
ran away, smashed everything up, and
Mary's left leg was so badly broken that
it was amputated ye?terday. She has
the best of care and is doin well. She
sends love, and advises you to have your
leg off at once."
"Whoop!" yelled Bill, in a voice which
aroused the whole ward. "It's her left
and my right. Two wooden j.ins to go
clattering np and down ! Two legs to
hang up on the wall when we turn in at
night ! One of you nurses jo and tell old
sawbones to come in her and open his
butcher shop as soon as he pleases, and
some of j-cu boys write to Mary that
we'll be the happiest couple in the w holo
Buckeye ttate!" .V. 1'.
His Double Break.
' I w itnessed a very laughable incident
last winter," said a Frankfort man the
other day, "and the moral, if there le
any to the story, is that a man should
know the crowd before whom he talks
! indUcriaiinately. It was iu the Court of
Appeals chamber just after adjournment.
A crowd of gentlemen were sitting aroun
and the chief spokesman was a loqua
cious memberof the Frankfort aenus loaf
er, who was not acquainted with alt
present. One of the brightest young
lawyers in the State had just sfepped out
after making a speech. He had been
drinkinand t'ue Frankfort man said:
'What a mistake some follows make in
thinking they speak better when they
are half full of whisky: Now, I have
heard tnat our two Senators keep soak
ing full when on duty, and I think it is
a shame.'
" 'One of them has quit,' quietly re
marked one of the gentlemen present.
" 'Which one? was the query.
" 'I have,' answered Senator Blackburn
and begot up and walked out
"The dumbfounded talkative man
caught his breath and said : "Well, now,
that was a dirty break of siine. I didn't
know Blackburn was w ithin a thousand
miles of here. But I don't csre. I have
heard that Senator Biackburn drinks too
much to sustain evon a Kentuckian's
reputation.'
"Still another stranger spoke up with :
'Well, he just never did drink to an ex- j
cess, and I know that Untie Joe hasn't i
touched a drink in a year.'
"It was Senator Blackburn's nsphew
this time, and the talkative man made
his escape without standing on the order
of his going. Lonio iUe ' 'o'lui-rroi.
Absent Mindedness.
What we call a't sent miudedness is
temporary loss of memory. The mind,
intent upon some present thought, ob
literates or obscures the record of the
past.
We may even regard it as a partial and
temporarj' form of insanity, and if we
find absent-mindedness most common
with persons of great mental powers we
may accept the fact as another iliutra
tion of the ne-.ir alliance between reat
genius and madness.
Certain it is that Briiyere's "Absent
Man" was no mere creature cf fertile
imagination. The original is said to have
been the Count de Brancas, of whom a
curious story is related.
One day he was reading by the fire in
his study, when the nurse brought him
a child newly born to him.
The Count threw away the Vx aud
took the child on his knee to play with
it.
By and by a visitor was announced,
and the Count, forgetting all about the
child and lemembeiing cnly that he had
been reading a book, threw the poor in
fant carelessly onto the table. What a
mercy he didn't throw it into the fire.
It is recordeKl of La Fontaine, noted
for bis absent-mindedness, that he once
attended the funeral of one of his most
intimate friends, and shortly afterward
called to visit that friend.
When reminded by the astonished
servant of the recent death, he was at
first terribly shocked, and then re
marked :
"True ; of course ; I remember now, I
went to his funeral."
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Own Your Own Dooka.
Let mo ay to you, youn man or ton:
an, In gin at onc9 the foundation of j-o'ir
library. You often ask professional men
like myself, "How do you nse the public
library?" I, for oce, snort rerdr, that I
have never yet learned how, tho-igfi I
have haunted their all my life. I never
go into a public library that I do not get
confused ; my original quest is blunted or
turned aside by tbe pa- of catalogue
matter, my ardor is cooled Ly the me-rliani-ai
fuiwoieM of gttting what I
tUotight I wanted. My ideality is broken
down by tt. heat of the room, the lu
of an overtoat on omj arm, my I. at and
umbrella Uuder tn other, the search for
a blank ar.i pencil, the crowding oftlm
man next me i.e payment of a fine on
:be last book overbold, the pert and air
delay of the pretty girl w ho stands at the
gate f knowledge, or, worst of all, the
third or fourth rebuff of "out V -s I des
ignate the volumes I want. So that if I
had a.t idea buroing in my soul when I
came in, I deport uUerly vexed and
wholly out of w.-iti' e or speaking n:x.l
for that forenoon. I must go back to
my dert and kindi my fires anew. As
to sitting down in the library itself, mak
ing notes and kcepi i to my idea in that
publicity, wifh me !t is wholly out of the
oirstion. lrha it is my want of con
centration. Perhaps, more ver, if I were
a stitistician only seeking names ordafeH,
r, on the ot..ir hand, an idle man bent
only on ; jssing n -dlo hour over a novel
indoors rather titan on the park benchts,
I could read in a public obrary. But if
my author is to Vin. lie me and inspire
m with ns;gp"tioji f--r any t,iginal add
eu work jr word, my dull head must be
more soli. Ay, my ears less assailed.
If yc . buy yocr own bwk it is a least
fj?!n;'it brings n- infection :tto jour
v .'cliiiij.. I. thcM anything nmre de-.iu'uf-d
th'.n the fraranc of the io:
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t jco. i s you crack it o-en . s "owers open
j io .ho gaz cf daybr. k ? And the seni-e
' of p.op. i.ioTship prtv nCi ail hum-. You
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n-ve i... inei j u r- s on vour iii
j p,.ticlj for you: .-ouveiiieii. e.' You may
, W jt down to thick Sr an ho: r with t o
lay :
impertinent voice whispering, "Harry ui .
My turn nest." It U thiuking over a
book which ;3 tlm ti-t aiu:iL!e tli'n
alc'it rtading. That is the way we' tak..
th. li, Je book and eat it," as St. John
say". A book ol real worm n-ems to ay,
"Lay me down a-;d take me up a:;ai:i
after j-ou have d-arued ovei hat I said
on such a page." Your own hook, mark
ed and leaf turned dc.wn, will s-uietinies
stand a year on the shelf all disused. But
you know where to find what you uant.
l As time g'-es on one -'ay you spring out
of yuri'hair eti'Iaiming: "I have read
something on this point. Oh, I have it.
It is in such a volume. See, here it is !''
You are conversing with your friend
abt?ut Rome. "What did Dickens write
about the Colloseum ? Dear, dear! I got
it out of the public library. I have no
Dickens of my own." But you have a
Byron. Yen pull it down. Y-x. sit and
charm yourself with a pleasure far more
exquisite than when yr;i tirst perused it.
There is no creator error than to sup
pose that the mere reading of all the
pees of a book oa. e exhausts it. It is
ti.e fortieth reading that ail'oids the finest
flavor of pleasure, .-lowly, yet surely,
even with painful economy, you collect
a fow good tilings. The store will al
ways be wort a the investment to you.
You will learn how to select. You will
'.! s-ime books as years pass, tut s(nu;
! will always 1-e asdear as life toyou. Yon
will acquire th habit of "haniring round''
book Ftores, which cultivates a man, as
the face of it friend sharpeneth the
friendship. You will rea l reviews and
learn to be on .he watch for the newest
and latest in thought. No one rea ls re
views who does not buy books, yet re
views are often nowadays the ripest
thought in a new;iar. Your home
will be perfumed by your library. The
lack of the library is the severest reproach
on many a sordid home among the men;
money gotten. In fact one would, but
for the overgrowth of which the illus
trious Englishman couii-iains, as foon.
think of borrowing cradii s and eating
dishes as the few masterful looks that
underlie present human knowledge and
culture.
"I am a youn; man living in a lourJ-ing-bonse.
A library would be aa in
cumbrance." To which I reply : A yot.ni;
man with a library w ill prove irresisti
ble. He w ill soon have a local habita
tion and a rime. He will outgrow his
boardir.g-house. The world has a p'aco
for hiai and his books. Randolph Hill
in Iloftim Cl'jf.
Tho Domestic Dog.
The varieties of the domestic d-r hae
lately been discussed by French and
English naturalists M. G. Mo.-ti!'et. in
a papr read before the A nthrop; logical
Society of Paris, atiruing fioi.i negative
eviriecce tht on-existenci? of the dog in
the earlier (quaternary epoch, ttjt.cs his
presence onward from ii - -hidl-henis of
Denmark, in which his remain.-, com
monly occur. Pascing from the prehis
toric sees in F.urope. hs considers at
lensththesviden.-e that can b advanced
of the existfme of several vaiieties of
the dog among the Egyptians, and later
on among the anciear Greeks and Ro
mans, and in the fact of the innumera
ble varieiies of the canis domestiens, the
author believes we have one ef the moi-t
conclusive proofs of evolution. Mcsr.
Winder and Humphreys have also read
a paper before the Zoological Society, of
London, on so:ne caninal and dental
character of th domestic dg. based on
the resultd of the measurement of a lare
number ot dogs' skulls of various breeds.
ItsoV-jcct was te asccr'ain whether cra
nial and dental characteristics afforded
su.iicieiit information to ermit of a sci
entific classification of the breeds or
would throw any light upon their origin.
The conclusion so far arrived at was that
interbreeding had b.-cn so extensive anil
complicated as to make it impossible to
distinguish tho various forn.s scientific
allj' from the characters examined.
"Now, children, w ho was the strong
est man?" asked the Sunday-school su
perintendent. "John I- Siinson '." yelled a little fol
low whose knowledge of sacred ami pro
fane history was somewhat mixed.
Six-year-old. Grandpa, we have come
to wish you many happy returns of your
birthday ; and mamma says if you give
us each a gold dollar we are not to lose
it on our w ay heme.
At the Flower Show : lie Isn't that
bunch oflillies handsome?' She Yes,
but I should much rath.;: have this
bride's boqiiet. Ile Will yon carry on -like
it to mv wedding? She ha mj
see papa first.
Lady Tatient -.with big feet i "li you
think my pedal extremities are unusually
large?" Chiropodist (diplomatically
"Oh no. While) in Chicago last summer
I operated on a lady w hose shoes covered
several achers."
Still She Was in Favor oflt. Mr
Watu What. Yon don't mean t v.
that voa do not be'iove it- It'Jik.
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oay wt reH : .rs. rons-. a- ue
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