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B. F. SCHWEIER,
TEE 0018TITUTI0S-THE UHOS-AID THE ESTOBOEMEIT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXIX.
MIFFUNTOAVX. JUNIATA COUNTY. FENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 4, 1SS5.
NO. 10.
I will not werp
l'.ec a.ise on- poor nnd earthly mm i,
1 know the !KU..t vigil that you kjp
or thw great li;;',tlha, .bu
Thour) .dear, aaiag the flower you -m
"J lifl river rolls
1 . dirk and sullen: but afar.
I--.a:.l tl.PcrnW d.pthsand shifting shoals,
I vour spirit slumrg like a star
lo euide me lo the et.-ra.il Land of Sou's!
Ou ki-s, rev sivm
My hist on mortal llps-aud men will
deem
My liir a'.l hi-tornex) and hard defeat
-Not kC(1i,,s t: cnr lt,u., jUc,:ou, J
UI wuato.irtu uvt) slj;4:i b3 wh
'Some one must do something,"
JUlCtiV cdlalTVed II V mtMifar n-ith
pcc.il.ar vague kind of helplessness
which I have never seen in anv nth.-r
human being.
-'Some one must," I replied ; "and
that some tne is Ui;s young, strong.
uniwa ui cannon, whose lite hitherto
lias been too full of sunshine, peace,
and pot-try."
" What have we had in the shape of
sunshine, I should like to know, since
ovr father's death ? Just tell me that,"
"Hundreds or things," I replied ;
"and, first .ml foremost, we have each
Ot? er we have been together. Do von
call that nothing, Bertie, that for five
years I should have been permitted to
be with you, ar.d wait upon you?"'
"Child, even thing is as nothing while
I am as I am, chained here and useless.
I wonder how long it is to last J" be
said impatiently, turning bis face from
n.e.
"Perhaps not for lon2, darling," I
whispered. "When uncle Edward
comes home he may be rich enough to
take you to that German oculist whom
the world seems to be talking so much
of. Who knows ? He may come soon
now, Bertie. Meanwhile no time shah
be lost ; I will cet something to do, and
work hard to make the necessary money
for you to go,"
"Di, you are a brick!" exclaimed
Bertie, after a dreamy pause. "You
are always bright and cheeiful, and it
does one good totaiktoyou. As for
jincle Edward, I have lost all hope of
him ; I do not think of bis return now.
We have btari so much of it so long
that the vvaitii c and the talking have
tired me out. 1 have more hope of you,
dear; I th;nkyour sunshine maybe
worth something alter all, Di."
'My sui-shiue!" I repeated sorrow
fully. "Ah. Bertie, I talked very
grandly about it just now! I always
try to do so before you and mamw,
and un ii lately it has beeli much to me;
but your dim ees Lave dimmed my
brightness iore than aught else on
earth cou;l. It has come so suddenly
upon me."
"And upon me too," remarked our
mother, w ho had been listening to us
and watching us fiooi her arm-chair.
"Your Uncie lid ward may or may not
come, and we cannot lose time in wait
ing for him ; I am sure I do not know
what is beH to do P she added help
lessly. "But I do,"' I said ; "and I will tell
you what it is. I will ask every one 1
know, who I think can help me, to look
out for Die a situation as governess
somewhere, and every penny of the
money I make by teaching shall be put
by towards taking Bertie to this great
oculist; and I mean to look out at once.
I shall go after dinner to see Mrs. Tin
ley ?1 tLii:k she would be a good help;
she hears so much, and has so many
friemls,"
After our simple mid-day meal was
over, I enve;oed mvself in my thick
red cloak and started for Mrs. Tinley 's.
My thoughts were a:l of Bertie as I
went. The bright happy days of long
ago came to me l.ke s me sweet dream
of the past, but, oh, so sadly shaded
were they now by the dark cloud of the
present I
It is onlv a sh rt six weeks ago since
Bertie cime home one evening from bis
business in the rffi-e of old Snap, our.
Aslidown lawviT, and complained that
bis eves ar bed ml smarted painfully,
1 remember I did not think much of it
at the time ; but his eyes bad gradually
grown v,orse aad worse, until Dr. liu
ley sail that his si.'ht was in danger
and that te must have peifect rest and
the advice of a great London oculist, a
German, who had eflected extraordi
nary cures. It was perfect agony to
me to en eitain the possibdity of my
handsome brother Bertie's blindness.
"Oh, it could not could not be I 1
whirred to rnys-lf, as I walked up
Doctor Tinleys garden.
"Mrs. Tinlev," I said, kissing the
kind face 1 had known all my life, do
help me if you can. I want a situation.
I want to te.ich same little children, or
read to some old lady anything I do
not care what, so that I get something
to do. I must make some money I
And 1 did tell her all my reasons,and
poured into hei kind motherly heart my
one desire to do something to be.p Ber
t,p. s.,e listened very attentively to all
I had to say. .
ui u.v ..-ar," she said, when I came
to a bleat hless conclusion, "it is as re
markably smooth for you as chapter
in a storv-bcH.k ; only I do not think in
story books pe pie happen to find just
what tliev want so easdy. I had a let
ter yesterday- from Mrs. Martyn, a very
old friend of mine, in which sne aked
me to look out for a suitable young U-Jy
as goven e s for l er little Maud. It is
the very thing for you, dear, if you are
really in earnest about going. a
quite sure vou will be happy down at
Hatherleigh Ktciory. I will write to
my friend to-night. Di."
"Oh, if vou wouWI" I replied. Mrs.
Tinlev, it has quite taken me by sur
prise." I had never dreamed that i
should be fortunate enough to bear oi
anything to-dav. 1 only hope! that at
some future t. me you might hear oi
some one to whom I might be of use.
I hone it w.ll cot be too late,"
"We will hope for the best, love.
And the kind hand stroking my nair
seemd to LU1 me with assurance ana
comfort. . ..h
1 ui i h..pe for the tst, I hoped with
all the strength and fervor of my heart.
1 seemf-d almost to fly through the air
on my homeward journey that evening,
ia my wild ha te to carry my good news
to mv mother and Bertie.
'Well, love, if vou go there I hoi
you w ill be treated as a lady," observed
my motner, after I bad finished my re
cital. "When I was a girl I know a
governess used to be treated as one oi
the family ; but things are very differ
ent now in every wav-."
"Of coui -e I should be treated as
lady 1" I replied. "And, if I were not,
I should not much mind. I hav one,
affiuLd ne "Iled.glancmg
mer ni.hr int tUe briht Mm-
low seat hv ,'.'!' 8omehow. 8'tting i my
5rtJta oin window and Ber
tie s sofa, I seemed to give to the hearts
2hi i .i my own- 1 watched the
shadows lengthen and fall amongst the
grand old trees in front of toe hou
and then sdently fade beneath ?he soft
oUver rays of the bright full moon.
t.ven so mav thi rr.n. i , .
"ire !" I breathed to myi TkL5
Bertie a "Good uight" late'r on.
1 wo days afterwards I received a
very kind letter from Mrs. Marty,"
through Mrs. Tmley. She explained
that she wanted me at once, if conveu
lent to me.
"The sooner the better," I said to
myse.f, as I bustle! about my prep ira
! ''!f Tll sooner I go the sooner I
shall be back. You see soraelwdy i-,
doing something' as fast as ever she c in
mother dear. Things are growing
brighter for us, are they not ?"
"1 am sure I do not know where you
see the biightness, Di." was the le
sponso. "I am sure things are very
different Trou) what they used to be."
"Let us never mind what thev used
to be, dear. It is of no good moaning
yer the past The present is ours onlv.
i not let us make it dismal b? regrets.
1 shall want ano:her box, shall I not ?"
Ana so I man iged to interest my mother
m my lacking, and she soon forgot
everything eb in her desire that mv
thines should be of the nicest an .
neatest.
The last eveuiug p ised awav, as .-.'.)
sii'jh times p-ass, and the morning, with
i's bustle and hurry, came too quickly.
It was almost like a dream to lue the
lingering good-be, the long yeaining
g ze from eyes blind with unshed tears
at the dear lace-i in the floorwav. tiit
rapid transit over the rough si ones, auo
the tiual sto;page at our little q'M.w
country station. The j mruey was
something new to me. and tverylhiii;.'
saw poss-ssed an iniiuite mteres'.
Opposite to me Wiis seated a mid 1 e
aged nervous-looking man. who rather
excited my curiosity by giving me the
idea that he lived a life of perpetual
apologies. He was constantly asking
our pardon for soinetning or other,
which so worked upon my risible facul
ties that I very nearly committed my
self by lauehme iu his face when he
said to me
"I ask your pardon, but would you
like to look at the GraAic"
Looking at the papers my fellow
travelers supplied me with and gazing
through the window, list in Simulation
as to the new life before me, the day
gradually wore to a close. I was beain-
ii'nir til f fl rat har t irk.1 utioii tlia tr i'n
drew up at the platform of Silvington
station, and I knew that my journey
was at an end.
"I ask your pardon, but pray allow
me to assist you out ; 1 will hand you
your cioak and things afterwards"
and my friend of the UraMc came
boldly to the rescue and helped me out
of t he carriage.
"Is it Miss Cannon ?" asked a voice
behind me ; and, turning, I found ujy
srlf lace to face with a very pleasaut
lookiug man in clerical dress.
"Yes, I am ; ani I presume you are
Mr. Martyn."
We shook hands after that, aud there
upon couimeuced my rjrst introduction
to the owner of my new home. There
wa- something about tlm genial kind
ioce that smiled b tck upon me which
seemed to quite win my heart ; and I
-bought, if Mrs. Martin resemb'ed her
huibami, I should, in all probability, be
very contented and h.tppy at Hather
leigh Rectory.
We were very soon bowling along the
s noo:h lanes between tall trees, who-e
branches met and entwined overhead,
throwing upon the path before us such
a swtet subdued shado as I have only
met with in the lovely south.
"rretty, Miss Cannon ? You do not
sureiy think much of this," sai l Mr.
Mart vn to me, alter a leinark of mine.
"It is nothing conipirtd with some of
the beautiful places about If you are
fond of shady nooks and corners, you
must get my wife to show you her short
cut into Seldene I'aik. You will be do
lighted with that." .
' Is it near Hatherleigh ?" I a-ked
"It Joins it," he replied; "and Mr.
Seldene has put up a little gate for the
!enent of my wife. It is a prettier and
nearer way through the iaik to the vil
lage. Mrs. Martyn generally goes that
So we chatted. Brat abaut one thing
and then about another, until we drew
up at the door of the Kectory.
The next morning a most unimagin
able surprise came to me. After I had
arranged a urogrmi of studies with my
pupil, and she had taken me round the
garden aud shown me the intriccies or
ihe many pathways, the sp endor of the
numerous magnolias, and the rei wh
ine -ai ty of the ferneries, Mrs. Mar
ty n came to us and put an envelope into
my hand. ...
"Miss Cannon," she fcaid, with her
sweet smile, "my husband thinks it
much the best for you lo have ths now
It is of no use for either of us to stand
on ceremony, though we do not know
very much of each other It is a difh
culty that we shall daily overcome,
Sauwhilel know about your brother
Md svmpathlze deeply y??
must not hesitate about taking thi
now." "e ad,lei' 89 8lie "r ,,eu
Teave me. "I know it is for hyn Mrs.
Tinley told me ; so you see, Miss Can
non bow nicely we have
secure your companionship for teUe
months." . ,
TTnon opening the envelop I found
it contained bank-notes to the value of
ewS pounds. It was my salary for
twelve months; and Mrs. Martin had
gSZ it to me in aauce, kn owingmy
nTietv for my.brother. I feltsopleasea
STbardlyVewwhere l was. It
was so thoughtful, so kind I
"I must go Into 'h house. Ma ad. I
8Wd tolSefhUd; "I must thauk Mrs.
"SS; evening, my letter home was
Scon-mm, U German
U ffr ends - and she took me to many
great W"f 8 t transferred to my
when we should meet.
One day I strolled through the Utile
Il8oi. down by the , found
hey esw e1 the brook to
that the iaiu 1 'f, JT" graen aosa-
covered stepping-stones were buried be
neath some Inches of water. It was
very tiresome, for I esueciallv wanted
ti e terns for a pretty basket I was busy
waning tor airs, iiartyn's birthday.
"Di, my dear," I remarked to my
self, having no one else to speak to, and
dearly loving the sound of my own
voice. "DL what do vou mean to do ?
It is not like you to care for a few inches
or water and wet feet ; Bertie taught
you better than that, you know. No
one is about, and the keepers seldom
come here ; so here goes 1"
And. ungracefully gathering up mv
skirts into anything but classic folds
about my knees, I carefully stepped
down upon the stones, singing to my
self some quaint Italian words I had
arranged for my own pleasure to the air
of the "Blue Danube." I reached the
middle of the brook, when I cau never
tell bow it bapieued my foot Blipped
aud I tumbled headlong into the water,
burying my face m the ferns aud mud,
and making a splash that might have
been heard up at the Hall. When 1
tried to recover my feet I found to my
horror that it could not well be done.
An intense pain and an inability to pht
one foot to the ground warned me that
my ankle was dislocated. There was
nothing for It but to remain where I
was, in the fond tope of some passer-by
hapiening to see me. It certainly was
a most awkward predicament in which
to be placed. Here was a young lady,
the governess at the Bectory, seated on
a stone some inches in the water in the
otid die of the brook in Seldene Park.
The intense pain I suffered from my
inkle made me feel inclined to cry ;
while the situation was so absurdly lu
dicrous that for a moment it overcame
all else and 1 burst into a fit of uncon
trollable laughter. To my great amaze
ment, I heard the laugh echoed from
behind me, and, turning my head, 1 met
tMe gaze of a pair of bright blue eyes,
whi m were regarding me with a mern
hi, nt that was evidently irrepressible.
"I hope you will excuse my joining
in your laugh," said the gentleman,
coming towards me ; "but really I could
not help it ; you looked so funny seated
in tiie water. May I a?k if it is your
favorite seat ?"
"Ceitainly not," I replied ; "but I
cannot well help myself. I have slipped
and sprain ?d my ankle, and cannot
move."
"Oh, I am so sorry I Do allow me to
help you. I had no idea you were iu
pain, or I would not have laughed at
yon that is, if I could have helped uiy
aelf," he added, smiling, as he bent
over me, and, before 1 bad any idea
what be was going to do, I found myself
lit ted up in a pair of strong arms and
carried back to the bank.
' Can you stand, do you think ?" he
asked, as he gently placed me on my
feet, aud held me.
"Ou one leg," I said. "What a di
lemma to be placed int What will
Mrs. Martyn think of me ?"
"Think V What can she think? You
do not imagine she would suppose you
would purposely sprain your aukle, do
you ? If you will sit down here until
I return, I will run to the Ilectory and
tell them, and bring Mr. Martyn's trap
for you to ret jrn in."
Helping me to seal myself on the
grass, my companion assured me lie
would lose no time, and left me to my
meditations. So I occupied myself in
wondering until the sound of voices and
footsteps gave notice of the approach
of help. Mr. and Mrs. Martyn accom
panied the stranger, the gentlemen car
rying a small gate between them.
"'off, Miss Cannon, I am sorry you
will return in so uudiguilied a manner,"
said the Hector ; "but it will be far the
best aud easiest for your foot. The car
riage would have been awkward to get
in and out of, to say nothing of the
shaking over the stones. If you will
let my wife help you to sit down on tuis,
we will cairy you home without giving
you much pain.''
.Nor did they ; but it was very bad
nevertheless, aud I was very glad to lie
on the sofa and let Mrs. Martyn apply
a cooliug lotion to the swelled ankle.
That accident put a stop to my out
door excursions for a long time, and I
was often obliged to be left much aloue;
at lea3t, I should say alone as far as the
society of mankind was concerned, for
I generally had two comjKinions, blood
hounds of very great value, belonging
to Mr. Martyn. These dogs took a re
markable fancy to me, and whenever
they were unchained would be certain
to find me out.
My captivity w;is cheered by good ac
counts of Bertie's improvement, aud
now and then at rare intervals by a
short visit from the gentleman who had
extricated me from my dilemma. His
name was Ross; and I had time to
notice, on his lirst visit of iuquiry after
the sprain, what I had been too much
distressed to remark on our first meet
ing that he was exceedingly handsome.
I grew to look forward to his coming ;
for with him came a vague feeling of
content, which I had never experienced
before in the presence of any one except
Bert;e.
One day I shall never forget it Mrs.
Martyn came to me when 1 was lying
on the sofa teaching Maud, for I still
bad to rest my foot a great deal, though
able to walk a little.
"Miss Cannon," she siil, ''I want
you to be kind enough to let Maud have
a holiday for the rest of the day. Her
little friends from the Grange have
driven over to ask her to spend the day
with them, as it is one of their birth
days. I da-e say you w:ll not object to
being witliout such a plague for once,"
she added, fondly passing tier hand over
the child's head.
The next moment "the plague" bad
her arms round my neck, aud was
showering her H anks on my face for
my compliance with her mother's re
quest. In another instant she was off,
with a shout of delight.
"I wish I could induce yeu to change
your mind and accompany my husband
and me to-night, dear Miss Cannon,"
said Mrs. Ma tyn, sitting down by me.
'We do not like to leave you for a
whole evening ; it w ill be so lonely for
you. Djcjuib to the Sel wyns' with us?"
Indeed I would so much rather not,"
I replied. "I do not feel inelked for a
diuuer-iiarty. You know bow pleased
I always am to avoid one if possible 1
d slike'them so much. D not give me
a second thought ; I shall manage to
pass the time very well. ' You know it
id my evening for writing borne, and I
must write to Mrs. Tinley as well. Oh,
I shall find many things to do !"
I am onlv afra'd you may be lonely,"
said Mrs. Mailjti. "We may not be
home until rather late, for it is a very
long way from Drayton. By-the-bye,
you will only have Jane at home in the
kitchen, for I have given Margaret and
Mary leave to go to the christening of
Mary's i ler's twins. Will you mind
beinir m Hie house with only Jane "
iliiiJ f Xot one bit. Why should j
I ? I should not have any fear if 1
were to be alone for a week here," I re
plied, laughing at the idea of my being
frightened. "Besides, you forget, the
dogs no one need fear much where
they are."
However, I was destined to be left
more alone tban I aiiticiated : for,
towards eight o'clock, Jane came and
asked me ii I would allow her to run to
the village with a message for her mis
tress which she ought to have attended
to before. I gave permission at once.
"But, Jane," I added, as a parting
injunction, "do not be any lunger away
than you can help."
"Indeed 1 won't. Miss Cannon," she
said, "for I am leaving some beef boil
ing on the tire, and it will be done to a
turn in a quarter of an hour, aud 1
shail be back by then." So she went,
and I heard the door baug behiad her ;
aud I was soon lose to all rec!!octiou
of the outer world in the deep pleasure
of paper chat with my dear ones at
home.
The sound of a heavy footfall in the
hall roused me ; and I was just going
to see who it was, when the door opened
aud a man stood iu the doorway a com
mon tramp, with a face like a bulldog's.
I must have turned pale, for I felt very
faint.
"There's no call for you lo be any
ways afeared, mum," he said "I ain't
agoin' to do you no harm ; but the truth
is I am pretty nigh starving, and I want
you to come and show -ne where the
grub is kep'."
1 knew I dared not refuse, though I
felt my limbs tremble so that I could
baldly stand ; but I am generally self
posiesseiL aud, by a powerful effort a,
self-coatrol, I mastered my voice to
some degree of steadiness.
"L'sten to me, my man," I said ; "if
you want food you shall have it, and
welcome., provided you will leave the
house as soon as you are satisfied."
"Well, we won't make no rash prom
ises, mum," be replied, grinning. "Just
you come along with me, and give me
the best you can lay your hands to."
Oh, why why did I not have the
dogs in with me this night of all others?
How miserable I was, and how help
less t I felt ready to sink to the grouud
with intense fright. Suddenly how
it came to me 1 shall never know a
bright idea came into my head, and I
mustered all my strength and resolution
for the execution of it.
"Now, my man," 1 said, following
him into the kitchen, "you shall have
a good supper for once, but you must
be patient while I move about, tor I
have hurt my foot, and I cannot walk
very welL Sit down by the lire whi.e 1
lay tne table for you. Do you like
boiled beef ?"
"Dont 1 1" he replied, smacking his
lips. "Just put it afore me. mum. 1
says no more 1" -
All this time I was moving about,
getting bread, a plate, a knife and fork
and laying them on the table; then 1
went to the lire and lifted off the pan
containing the boiled beef, which I took
out aud laid on a dish.
"Now come and eat," 1 said to the
man ; "and make naste over it if you
do not want Mr. Marty u to return and
nud you here."
"Well, in courso the master might
object to my company," he. replied, set
tling himself at the table ; "so I will
hurry as much as 1 cau conveniently.
I sav, mum, get me some beer, will
yer ?"
When I had got well out of the
kitchen I flew not into the dining-ioom,
but to a side door in the ball which led
into the yard. In a second I had the
door 0eu, and was across the yaid un- I
fastening the dogs. 1
"Now, Mustard and Pepper, come f
I said, as I returned with my two
friends.
The tramp had evidently suspected
foul play, and had riseu and was slatid
ng at the kitchen door. He uttered a
frightful imprecatioa when he sa the
dogs.
"Watch him. Mustard I Watch him,
Pepnerl" I said, patting the doers'
heads. "Now, as long as you remain
perfectly quiet, the dogs will he here
and only watch you ; but, if you stir,
they probably will tear you to bits," I
added, turniuz lo leave the kitchen.
I fdt-quite faint now that my scheme
had lieen a success, and I knew the man
was safe until the Rector returned. As
I crossed the hall, 1 heard a knock at
the front door.
"Who is there?" I asked, too terri
fied by my recent fright to venture to
open it tirsL
"It is I, Miss Cannon Ross ;" and
never did human voice sound more wel
come than did his. coming as it did at
that moment of fright.
"What is it?" he asked quickly, as
the light ia the hall fell upon my face,
"Roblters !" I whispered ; and, after
a pause, I gave an incoherent account
ot my unwelcome visitor, iu the midst
of wnich Jatie returned , aud she was
equally astonished to find ber kitchen
occupied as it was.
Mr. Ross stayed with me until the
Rector's return, which was not until
some time afterwards. Mr. and Mrs.
Martyn wers full of mingled admiration
and pity for me.
"xou are quite a heroine, Miss Can-
con !' said Mr Mirtyn. "It was a
splendid Idea about Mustard and Pep
rerl" "It was an Idea born ot intense Inght.
I assure yeu there was not much of the
heroine about me.
A few days afterwards I beard that
the man had managed to escape, before
his trial, from the lock-up, and I felt in
daily terror of meeting him aiain. My
fears however were groundless, as I
never saw him afterwards. I met some
one else though, a little later.
"I have been walking about like a
pickpocket all the morning," said Mr.
Ross cne day taking my hand in bis
aud holding it tightly. "I want espe
cially to tell you something, Miss Can
non ; and I nave been watching lor you
so long."
"Why need you?" I a-kcL "iou
knew where I ws to be found You
could have come to the Rectory."
"Di," he said, placing both bis hands
on my shoulders and stooping over me,
"what I have to say to you I must say
to you alone. I want to tell you that
ever since I saw you I have loved you,
at d I must tell you of it. It you can
care for me, say so, darling, and make
me one of the happiest fellows in the
world. Do you love me, Di ?"
Love him I Had I not been loving
him without knowing it for a long time
past ? Had not his voise 'become the
sweetest, his face the dearest, and his
footfall the most musical to me of all I
bad ever known ? And was I not now
standing before him.blushing and droop
ing it may be, but one of tbe happiest
girls in the world ? I suppose he knew
all that "without one word from me,"
u the old Meg says for eertata It ia
that I never spoke a word, and just as
certain is it that 1 was clasied by a pair
of strong arms and held tightly while
I was kissed and thanked until I was
breathless.
"You do not mind marrying a poor
man, Di dear ?" I was asked, while the
blue eyes I loved looked down into mine
with an expression of merriment aud
fun.
"Not a bit." I said, smiling. "The
fact is, I have been so poor all my life,
that I should hardly know what to do
if I had wealth."
"Mistress of Seldene Park, for in
stance," he continued. "How would
you like that, Di ?'
"Not at all," was the reply.
"Poor Ross I" he said. "Di, if ever
I felt sorry for any one I feel sorry for
myself now. The woman I love will
not love my home."
"Yes, she will," I said earnestly. "1
do not care how small it is ; it will hold
us both, will it not ?"
"Oh, yes 1"
"That renrnds me I do not know
where your home is," I said.
''And yet I found you coolly in pos
session the first time I saw you, darling,"
returned Mr. Roas, now laughing out
right. "Indeed I was not I was in the
brook when you first saw me," I said
"in the brook belonging to Seldene
Park."
"In the brook belonging to me," he
corrected. "You have done Ross Sel
dene the honor of accepting himseir,
his park, and all its belongings." I felt
thoroughly puzzled and looked so. "Let
me explain," he added. "Martyn al
ways calls me 'Ross,' and his wife 'Mr
Ross.' You took up the latter name
also when you knew me, and I begged
my friends the Martyns not to te 1 you
I was Mr. Seldene, because I have al
ways had the idea that I should like my
wife to care for me for myself, apart
from any surroundings of wealth and
station. I have trained what I wanted,
and I am proud that the woman I love
has chosen me for myself. That is all,
dear. You do not object to the arrange
ment, do you ?"
llow could 1 ? I was very much sur
pried and astonished at first, I must
own ; but I have grown used now to
the idea that my Ross and Mr. Selder.e
of Seldene Park are one and the same.
No persuasion could change my de
termination to complete my year at
Hatherleigh Rectory I had received
payment beforehand, and nothing the
Rector, bis wile, or Ross could say
could move me.
The time is sweetened by the good
news of Iertie's improvement daily.
The last letter contained the happy in-tell-gence
that the German doctor has
promise I to cure him by the spring.
Aud in the spring the bright, beauti
ful, happy spring I have promised to
become Hos Seldene's wife. Mean
while I am still au inmate of Ha.l?er
ieigh Rectory.
St Valeutiuea Day.
Many years ago" sending a valen
tine 'o one's love was by no means the
simple thing it has grown to be In these
days of bustle and hurry. Then the
sighing swaiuof the love lorn damsel
had to retipj withm themselves and
with much travail in spirit, bring forth,
after mighty struggles with the muse,
a sonnet or a madrigal or whatever the
Courts of Love decreed in those days
to be the proier and correct thing in
which to express the all consuming pas
sion. Then a valentine meant something
moie than it does now. It was, indeed,
au ien declaration that Cupid had
wrought great things in the sleuder's
heart, anil th it the recipient was the
one person above all others to whom the
true love of the author went out. It
was a good old fashion, and in many
happy households to day the good wife
cherishes among her dearest treasures
the queer looking three-corner packet,
sealed with a waxen dove or a bleeding
heart, and containing the halting
rhymes of her boy-lover.
It is a very different affair in tbe year
of our L"rd one thousand eight hun
dred and eighty-live. "As the day
dedicated to the lover's patron saint ap
proaches, the young man who loves a
maiden fair counts over his pelf, ami
having decided to stay away from the
theater for a week or so, aud to eschew
billiards for the same time, determines
that he shall send his sweetheart some
token of the season. So he visits a
stole where the votive offerings to his
saintship are sold, and having gone
over the stock buys, according to the
limits of his purse, something that he
thinks will just about suit his lady love.
Unlike his rather and mother, who in
their valentine days catefully endeav
ored to conceal their identity, he has
the gift boxed np with his card inside
and mailed or sent by messenger to his
inamorata's place of abode. And hat
a vast variety of articles he has to
choose from, too. Lovely handkerchief
cases made of the rarest shades of the
most costly satin and plush hand-painted
and embroidered Jewel boxes the like
cf which none but the very richest
could enjoy in our forefathers' days ;
costly knicknacks of all descriptions,
and of valentines proper everything
that can by any possibility be made of
swsnsdown, flowers, satins, silks and
plush. Beautiful little boxes of the
most exiiensive woods filled with rare
combinations of costly materials and
bearing in the center seme verees of
poetry chosen from the very best
authors or written for the occasion by
a poet in the employ of the makers. All
of these things and many more can be
found on the shelves and counters of
a 1 the leading stores in the city, aud as
the superintendent of the valentine de
partment ot one of them said recently,
the cost will always suit the purchaser's
pocket. "For," continued he, "if one
does nat wish to pay JlUO he can buv
one for loO, and if that is too hish then
$23 will pay for something beautiful, or
he can choose, if all these prices are too
great, beautiful little trifles for $15,510,
So, f t, 53, 52 or 51, or if he still wanted
to go lower, here he can find valentines
that will express the tender passions
just as thoroughly as the other for 5
cents. Of course, if he wants to pay
more tban $11)0 we can accommodate
him in that, too. As a rule we do not
keep in stock valentines or gifts suita
ble to the day that will cost more than
5o0, but we can easily make anything
that, is wauted.
A stagnant soul, like a stagnant pool,
breeds insects, and reptiles, and slime.
It little becomes the feeble to be un
just; justice is peculiarly the shield of
the weak.
If we could read the secret history of
our enemies, we should find in each
man's life sorrow and suffering enough
to disam all hosUlitj.
Oid-lTahluiiel ScliooU.
The children of to-dav do not know
half their happiness. Kind treatment
aud gentU methods of instruction are
so much a matter of course, that the
davs when teachers were regarded s
tyrants seem too remote to concera
them at all. Yet it Is but one genera
tion since hundreds of unhappy scholars
were unable to separate the thought of
schoo'm:tster from the twin idea of
flau.dlation.
The autobiography of the late Dr.
Marion Sims recalls those times with
angular vividness. As a little boy he
was cruelly bullied and abused by his
teachers and his parents befare him had
received the same sort of treatment.
He gives an amusing account of an ac
cident which led to the escape of his
mother, Mahala Mac key, from the
power of one such tyrant when she was
a little girl.
The school which she attended was
held In a log cabin, situated In the
midst of a large tract of the pine woods
of South Carolina It was built of un
peeled logs, whose rough bark aud
numerous crevices afforded welcome
shelter to many insects and other small
creatures. One day, as little Mahala
was sitting with her back to the teacher,
upon the long bench of pine planks that
extended across the room,a green lizard
darted from the wall and ran close be
side her. Too much startled to think
what she was doing, she seized the in
truder by the tip of its tail and dung it
over her shoulder with a shriek of ter
ror. Tlien,turningaround to apologize
for the noise she had made, she was
overcome with dismay to see the teacher
dancing about the platform, shouting
with pain, and vainly attempting lo
knock away the lizard from the end of
his nose, whence it dangled, with its
teeth l)cked firmly in his nostril!
She stayed to see no more, but shot
out or the door bare-headed, and never
slackened her sieed until sate within
the walls of ber borne. A wise precau
tion, as it proved. The master was
never able to forgive her the undignified
plight to which she had Innocently
brought him; but as her father would
not send her back lo be punished for an
accident, she was removed from school,
and her instructor was forced to let his
swollen nose go unavenged.
Planetary Life.
Jupiter a-;d Saturn, which are much
larger than the earth, present all the
characteristicsof planetary youth. They
are manifestly in the stage of prepara
tion. Mars, which is much less tl an
the earth, presents the characteristics
of old age, w h le the moon, which is
much less even than Mars appears to be,
to all intents and purposes a dead
world.
Vet, even m thus rejecting many orbs
from the category life - supporting
worlds, we find our llief strengthened
that the great end of nature's work
ings, or rather cnief recognizable end.
is the supp. rt of life. For Jupiter and
Saturn, like the s in, are the centres of
systems of worlds Small though their
satellites may seem, even in the power
ful telescopes, they are really enormous
globes. The least of the moons of
Jupiter has a surfrioe four times as
great as that of the United States. If
the sun nourishes life on the earth aud
Venus, Mars, aud Morcury, why may
not the present work of Jupiter aud
Saturn be to help in nourishing life ou
the worlds which circle round them?
And even if the recognition of the
present unfitness cf Jupiter and Saturn
to supiort life, and of the long past
death of the moon, seem at first to nar
row our idew of life iu other worlds, it
will be found when rightly understood,
to widen them. When all planets in
our own systems attending ou other
suns were supposed to support life at
one and the same time, we could not
but recognize an infinity of life-lessness
before life lgan on these worlds, an
infinity of death when lile should come
to an end on them. But now we find
all time as well as all space occupied by
life. Before the worlds now the abode
of life were inhabited, millions of orbs
existed, which now, like the moon, are
all dead, but were then during millions
of years crowded with living creatures,
and 'oruncouuted myriads of yeais m
the future, worlds which are as yet In
their fiery youth will become in their
turn the scenes of busy life. "End
can we see none to the universe of God;
so, also, we see no beginning."
The Coffee rree.
Now that beautiful leaved plants are
so justly popular, and in such constant
demand for drawing-room decoration,
it is surprising that the coffee tree of
commere is not made use. We see it
now and then in nnrseymen's green
houses, but seldo n anywhere else, and
yet there are few evergreen shrubs more
ornamental, and very few that are bet
ter adapted for the adornment of the
sitting-room. An average temperature
of "il degrees In summer, and til) degrees
in winter, will be found quite sufficient,
and if the plant is put in a warm corner
in the room over tbe kitchen fire on
frosty nichts no harm will come to it.
The best soil for planting is a mixture
of peat and loam. The drainage must
be thorough, the supply of water abund
ant, and the roots must have plenty of
room. The coffee tree in a young state
is well worth growing for the Sake of its
bright green, glossy leaves, fragrant
jessamins-like white blossoms and ber
ries changing from green to red. It is
said that Megalledin, a learned Mufti of
Aden, became acquainted with It during
one of his African journeys. He took
back some berries with him to Yemen
and recommended the beverage to bis
friends as an excellent method of keep
ing awake at prayers. Its use gradually
spread to the Nile, Syria, Asia Minor
nud Turkey. Coffee was first sold in
Constantinople iu 1034. It was intro
duced into Euro; by the Dutch in
I'll1), but did not reach thus country till
1'A'). Arab coffee is chiefly grown in
Yemen, where it was first planted in
the neighborhood of Aden and Mocha.
The plantations are usually made half
way up the hills. The berries are not
gathered, but cloths are spread under
the trees for the fruit to fall on when
ri)K3. The coffee is mostly consumed in
ths country, the home demand being so
great. There is not much exported,
ai d that not the best. A good deal of
w hat goes in the trade by the name of
M ocha coffee comes from the Brazil and
the West Indies.
Daicnbxng the cranial differences
observable in men and women, M.
Mtuonvrier considers that while the
pr.retal is less developed in women, the
occipital is generally larger in them
thauia mss.
Taa Soudan not Araoa.
It Is common In alluding to the armies
of the mahdi to speak of them as Arabs
This is tne custom not only in this
country, but even in Lngland, whose
troops being on the ground, and whose
coiumunica' ion with tbe Soudon being
constant, should afford them accurate
knowledge of the country and its inhab
itants. An Arab is au inhabitant of
Arabia, and not a native of the Soudan
or any other foreign country. Nor
does the word Arab have anv bioa l
generic significance which, lik the
word Mohammedan, will nermit its ex
tension to people or various nativities
and religions. There are probab y many
Araia in the army of the Mahdi. as
there are some in a parts of the word,
and more especially in manv or the ci
ties of Africa lying oil the Mediterran
ean sea. Throughout E;ypt in itseunre'
ty, and including the Soudau. ot Upper
Egypt, there are many Arabs who are
influential; but thy do not constitute
the bulV of the population, any more
than does the influx of Teutons into the
United States entitle the sgregats
people to be designed as Germans
Ahmed himself, the mah li, is a Nubian
by birth, aud is a pure Ethiopian, as are
most of the Inhabitants of thai region.
Dongola. the place of his birth, was stt.
tied by some fugitive Mamelukes, who
escaned the scimeter of Mehemet All.
in IS 11, but even it he came from this
class be would not be an Arab, as Hie
Jlanielukes were originally Mongolians.
Circassians, or Georgians, and never
Arabs.
The great major.ty of the residrnts of
the Soudan are negroes and these com
pose the larger portion of the armies of
Uie Mahdi. Kordofan has some Aral's
among its natives, but; the principal
resa'ents as to numbers are negroes;
S,!'miaar, the province in which K'lai-
touin is situated, h;is more Arabs in it
than all the rest of the Soudan, but the
bulk of Uie population Is couv sd of
negioes. The N tibialis were originally
pure Africans, but by admixture with
lighter races have become mulattoes.
In addition to these, there are many
wandering tribes in the desert that are
sometimes pure Africans, unmixed de
scendants of Ham, and in utii.-r insu'i-c-s
are a coruiw'te of a'l the various
peoples who have oveiruu what Is now
known as Upper Egypt. There is only
unity on one point, and that is in reli
gion. All are followers of Isl.ini, and
ail of them are faiu.tical to the very last
degree. It is from all these diversified
peoples, or triles, that the ruahdi se
cures his righting material. There are
Arabs among them, as there were Ger
mans and Irish iu the national tones
during our war against the seceding
states; but in neither case has the for
eign element sufficient dimensions to
give it supremacy iu the character i ra
tion, or name, of the respective forces.
llow Small xpeudituro Couut.
Five cents each morning. A m-re
trifle. Twenty-five cents a week. Not
much, yet it would buy cotTe or u
for a whole family. Eighteen d. 'liars
and twenty-rlvs cents a year. AuJ
this amount invested in a savings bank
at tbe end of each year, and the in
terest thoreou at 6 per cent., cm,. li
te J anauady, wo.ilJ in twelve verf
amount to more tban $650. Laongh
to luy a good farm iu the Went.
Five cents before breakfast, dinner
and sapper; you'd hardly miss it, yot
'tis fifteen cents a day; $1.03 per werk.
Enough to bny wife or daughter a dresr
FJty-fcnr dollars and itixty cents a
year. Eu mgh to buy a em ill library
of books. Invest this as before, and
in twen'y yers you would have over
$2 OX). Q ute enough to bny a good
bonse aud lot.
Ten cents each morning; hardly
worth a second thought; yet with it
you can bny a paer of pins or a
spool of thread. Seventy cents per
week; 'twould bny several yards of
mnsiin. Thirty-six dollars and fifty
cents in one year. Deposit this
amount as. before, and yon have $1,31)
in twenty years; quite a snug lilt. a
fortune.
Tea cerits before each breakfast,
dinner and supper thirty cents a d y.
It would buy hook toi the chil Irtn.
Two dolltfs and ten cents a week;
enough to pay for year's subscription
to a good new-ipaper. Oae hundred and
nine dollars and twenty cents per year.
W ith it you could buy a good melodeon,
ou which your wife or daughter com I
produce sweet mnsta to pleasantly
while the evening hours away.
And this amount invested as before,
in forty years, produces the desirable
amount of $12,000.
Boys, It arn a lesson. If you would
be a happy youth, lead a sober life, and
be a wealthy and influential man; in
stead of tq landering jour extra change,
invest iu a library or savings bank.
If you would be a miserable youth,
lead a drunken life, abase your child
ren, grieve your wife, be a wretched
and despicable boinj while you live,
and finally go do wo to a dishonored
grave, take your eiiri chaago aad ia-ve--t
ia a drinking saloon.
Ufa in Nubia.
The banks of the Nubian Nile vary
with every mile, and beautiful are they
in diversity of color and combination,
though that beauty partakes of a ster
ner quality than in the landscapes of
Egypt. Nowhere can be seen the rich
fields which stretched on eii her shore to
Uie feet of tha Lybiia Hills. They
have disappeared, and in their stead
rise from the water's depth tall chits iu
broken precipice aud crag, or the river,
owning freer bounds, fljws majestaa.ly
on beneath rival streams or bordering
sands, that have the gorges of the des
ert hills for channels and the wind for
current.
Poverty is written on the face of this
sun scorched country, and such few
stripe of fertile land as the Nile reaches
in its flood are tilled with zealoas care
by the scanty population which they
support. It is curious to note wim
what religious caie the villages and
temples have been placed upon the
shelving rock or desert sand, where
none but the lizards could begrudge
their presence. Every inch of land that
can be cultivated is coaxed to yield its
burden of beais or doura, and ot spare
land whereon to place their vLlages.
good sooth, there is enough. Poor
though the Nubian is, bis wants are
few, and his thrifty ways make poverty
a light burden to him. Travel where
be will far hire or trade, be leaves his
heart in bis wild home of Nubia, and
returns hither when fortune allows.
There are HJUS freemasons In Con
necticut. ' Maine paid bounty oa 643 bears last
JUX
NEWS IN iiRIE.
The Standard Oil Coinpxiy em ploys
03,000 men.
Social gaittes pre now at their
height in New Yo- k.
There are 170,000 Italians living In
the United Staus.
New York city detivei JdOO.OOO a
year from fr.rry rents.
Snow-shoeinc clubs are to be Intro
duced in New Yoik.
Hartford has 51oi,CC7,000 Invested
in banks and insurance.
Mary Ilowitt still lives In the Tyrol;
she is now 85 years old.
The bishoptic of London has been
offeied to the bishop of Carlisle.
Merideo, Conn., is about to invest
$30,000 or less in a city hospital.
Madrid is described as the dullest
caphal in Europe this winter.
No buildinj has been destroyed by
fire m Warner, Nf. U., since 1873.
Paper is taking the place of cedar
in the manufacture of lead pencils.
A Norwich, Connecticut, pastor
wants his salary reduced 20 per cent.
The French army in Tonquin con
sumes 81S00 worth of quinine a month.
Lulu Hurst, of electric fame. Is
now giving exhibitions in her own State.
London is now consuming water at
a rate of over 110,000,000 gallons per
'lay.
" Fresh American oysters" is now
a familiar sign in many places In Lon
don.
There are nine American countes
ses and marchionessess in Rome this
winter.
There is a rage for bisque figures of
all kinds, but particularly for bisque
dogs.
A child recently died in Rye, Eng
land, of fri'-ht caused by a boy weannt
a mask.
The desire for Egvptian curiosities
has a-sumed the proportions of a craze
ui Lond ,n.
Two Buffalo women have been made
crazy by the stoties told them by a for
tune ul.er.
There are 11,600 sheep iu Anson.
Me., the banner sheep raumg town of
the state.
A farmer of Cbar'.tou county. Ma .
pays 51.119 taxes on his horses and $13
on his dogs.
There are 4.500 compositors in Paris
and their pay averages about thirteen
cent an hour.
A French woman who aspires to
dentistry is perform Ing street operations
iu Augusta, Ua.
The fall in the price of sugar last
year saved the Bntiih public, it is estl
mated, f .iJ,000,UuO.
"The Plains" have almost disap
peared from the great West. The rail
road ex-Piains it.
An owl which measured 4 feet S
inches from tip'to tip was killed at Con
cord. N. II., lately.
A prisoner recently discharged from
the Massachusetts State Prison toon
away 5 IS' A) in savings.
Miss Rebecca Thomas, of Mlddlo-
boro, YL, was born In the first hour of
the nineteenth century.
L. B. Hamlin, of Augusta, Me..
S3 years old, enjoys skating on the Ice
as well as any of the boys.
Between 80 and 90 years was the
average age of the persons who died
last year in Dublin, N. U.
Services in the churches of Thom
son, Ga., have been discontinued.owmg
to tbe prevalency of small pox.
A great revival of business ia r-
iwted from Passaic, N.J. , where every
factory is running on full time.
A 9ii-year-old Fair Haven, Conn..
woman "shucks oysters with the rest of
the girls." aud beats most of them.
Orange, of California production.
are a drug in San Francisco, where they
sell for 10 cents a dozen on the streets.
It cost more to maintain the city ot
Boston, in proportion to population.
than any other city in the United State.
-There are 347 female blacksmiths
in England, all of whom swing heavy
hammers and do men's work generally.
The heaviest snow-fall In a half
century's history of that place.it is sta
ted, is now lying in Jacksonville, Illi
nois. The most diminutive Shetland pony
at a New York agriculture show stands
but 2S inches in heigbt.and weight only
9J pounds.
Transatlantic steamers arriving at
Boston report having encountered a se
ries of g ales and heavy seas Uie whole
way across.
Kind words prevent a good deal of
that perverseness which rough and im
perious usage often produces in gener
ous minds.
The Belgian periodical press of the
present day comprises about 650 news
paper and magazines. There are 7U
dally journals.
A Stonington man who hasn't
learned that the one million stamp offer
is it fraud has collected 6(5,000, and Is
gathering more.
The introduction of electric llghu
into Tombstone, Arizona, which ha?
been agitated there for some time, ha
been aliandoned.
Seven savings banks in Connecti
cut have between themf 100,0u0 belong
ing to nobody in particular, so far as
they can ascertain.
A new orchestral club in Boston,
which gave Its first concert there hut
week, contains nine ladies among its
first and second violinists.
The acreage of graie vines In 3o
nora county, Cal , whi-iri fifteen years
ago was but fifteen hundied. Is now
about twenty-two thousand.
In the French military hospital
chaplaincies ha"'fc been abolished. The
eecessity of reducing the army esti
mates is the oSl.-ial explanation.
A lare number of the choicest
shops iu Paris, even such as are ia the
Rue de 1'Opera and the Rue de Rlvoli,
are unlet, and few, if any, of the large
Parisian hotels are paying their expen
ses. What Is generally taken to be a
sign of severe winter weather was late
ly perceived in Paris, namely, a numer
ous fl:ght of wild geese to the south
vtaid. A Government penslouer of Elgar
town, M.iss., is the fourth of his line in
direct descent who have drawn pensions
from the United States by reason of
military service.
Port Townsend la a place in Wash
ington Territory unknown to many in
telligent people, but it claims in rank
third in importance among the ports ot
Lhi CQzzXzj ta point of tijwrt tooMg.