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01,. XXXIX.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAECII 25, 1885.
NO. 13.
DRIFT.
jr hnlhtcd apron she stood in the
jJrfkl;rv.' frt rolled up, and her
, l.e-k.ri all aji.uw;
HrS i.air a cuied ceat.y; and I, India-
:.,.i h:n while Xancy was knead-
" :U- dough.
v .-.-.ill b neater, or brighter, or
. i,'Viim ;e " delightfully low,
i , .,k -o -ii.l-r, soerucetully tender,
L"j n , v -w.i-t Naucy. while karadiug
fTU :
i -.he pressed it, ai-d squeezed
it,
.j ,i turned it, now quick
i, ,1 ... ;(r.r,
,. . , t ,i' uiailoess I've paid for in
T.i- ti'-;irt sue was kneading as well
a- 1 Ijr U'dr'h.
'.v!"'n she turned for her pan to the
-r.
, m,- ami trusted, and said,shyly:
1' ir im.
: .a-
qj ,, v i , i'U he spoiling, in spile of my
: . ; r J.
If . . -.-..nd here and watch while I'm
" k--a.i!.S the doitfh."
1 1. .1 t r p'rnii-.9ion to stay. She'd not
.l-'i-n;
Th. ' i little tyrant said: "Jfo. sir! no!
f I liaJ vanished on being thus
Ul:i'-t.
! 7 li..r' n'aiel with Nancy while knead-
11. 'be doUgb.
I u. ,ir. ;.mii!; sweet Nancy, and see yon in
! . l.i'V.
V.-iir l.i-arr, love, has softened and pitied
t!.v w.je:
Ai. ! e, ! ir, are rich in a dainty wee
V ti-:e N iik'v, my Nancy, staads knead
;t.e .iough.
MILLY.
The ilcverend Archibald Eland, M.
A., lienor of Weston I'an a aud Hon
uiarv Canon of Cotswold, considered
himself a much-worried man and the
victim of hi surroundings. Traveling
tourists i f modest ambitions, noting,
with an appreciating eye, the prettv
whitcwa.-hed cottages, with their plump
ri -cheeked inmates, and the jrray
a ..- t ! t e venerable old church, which
j-VJ.er Tune had painted with soft
udiswo'.'red lichens, and catching from
t!,e t 'P "1 the stage-coach a glimpse of
the ivy-ciad paoles of the liectory, with
lie ro es eeping m at the quaint dia
mond paired windows, the smooth well-
kti-t cairiage drive, and the velvety
emera'J ''tet?n lawn, with its famous
laurels and gigantic magnolia; were
w.n;t t-i t-viud some unnecessary envy
uver ti.e Hector's happy lot. and to de
clare enthusiastically that mortal mau
eonM wish for no happier fate than to
apend his life m this peaceful home.
riti:.g ut his weekly sermons under
tlie piii j-le sliadowof the majestic moun
tains, i.vt i looking the morals of a nat
ural.y v.itnous flock, aud finally sleeping
peace fi.ilv u'ider the d;tisied sod or the
quiet (F-Hl"s-acre, followed by the tender
teen ts of his tarful aud revereut par-
Wiiia-rs.
Ai :n.rutlv, the Reverend Archibald
Itiuisr.f couiH not always take this
roseate view of his condition, and gen
era.'. made tke niost of his crumpled
x-ieaves. The prosp-ctively teartul
parishioners he was well content to
leave in the obscurity of some vague
lar-distant future, while in the more
un.irtant present he was undergoing
the suflVnngs or a rigid antiquanau
aud arcliteologut of severely cultured
tastes condemned to preach twice every
Sunday in an early Xorman church
wiLii the painful anachronism of pointed
Guthic windows. Then the miserly
juire of Weston Parva was wont to
emjitia.-1.e his Low-cuurcn views un
pleasantly whenever the poor Ilector ad
vacated s.ime improvement in the ritual;
and now, nuallv worst grievance of all
h;s bright, capable, pretty ililly had
taken it into her head to imagine h- r-
seif in love with that unpleasaut Squire's
stai-eirrace son, Stephen Corcoran
"Uiiiscular idiot" Canon Bland men
tally designated him. It was an aber-
rati..n of taste unaccountable in his
da'JL'iiter.
The young man had called on the
Kectnr in the morning, and, with much
couiideiice, requested his permission to
pav L;s addresses to his daugluer. Miss
Mlllicect Blaiid, and had seemed decid
ed'.y snrprisjHl when that permission was
emphatically refu.-d.
"Yoi! are barely twenty-two, Mr.
Corc-firan, and have uot yet taken your
degree, ;ini Milly is only Dineteen,"
said the Ilector impatiently. 'Pray do
not let me have any repetition of such
childish nonsense;'' and poor Stephen,
considerably crestfallen, had reluctantly
withdrawn.
M:l':y was the eldest daughter; and
this fresh worry was so novel apd un
precedented that the Ilector decided
upon takinu the unusual step of con
suitirrji Ins wife and seeking advice and
consolation in that rather hopvless quar
ter; so he made his way up-stairs to tiie
chariniiij'.y aesthetic littleboudoir where
Mrs. lll.tiid carefully withdrew herself
fr.jm vulgar household cares and sought
distraction in the last fashionable three
volume novel.
The Uector's wife was a lady who
never forgot that she had been a beauty
-iu an heiress, and expected other peo
ple to have equally retentive memorii s.
She had been suffering for the last two
years from an imaginary complaint with
ttj'stenous complications, and the cares
of the family had fallen on the slender
shoulders of energetic, fair-haired Milly.
The poor Rector, seated on a Clnp
petdale chair with uncompromising
arigis, poured the tale of his woes into
wile's unsympathetic ear, and, as
the recital lengthened, his jolly counte
nance gradually assumed the woe-be-ifone
expression of some long-suffering
fitfd.sval saiut
"It is really unaccountable to me how
girl of niine and of yours, my
dear," added the Ilector,glancing round
e pretty room, "should have such very
had taste!"
"He is the only young man she has
ever seen in this wretched little hole,"
answered Mrs. Blaud.
'"he certainly hasnt seen many."
atquiesced her husband. "But what
we t0 do about iff"
"You had better send Milly away for
rew months," at leugth suggested his
wife.
Tlie Canon's face lengthened consid
waUy. Miliy was bis pet and comforter,
bls ns?ht hand in all parish wort, and
wis prescription seemed to him infinitely
one than ths malady.
. Hut where shall we send her?" he
inquired pathetically.
"rjraret is very fond of her, and
there'8li4(1 her 80C'ety let ber e
Margaret was an elder unmarried sis
ter of Mrs. Bland.
- only yunf( Corcoran weren't
fuca ascairacel" murmured the Bee-,
tor, as t hough reconsidering his decis
ion. "But Fred told me some very
awkward stories of his Oxford life
which one cant, of course, repeat to
Milly, though you might just hint to
her. my dear "
"Yes; and then he's got red hair!"
said Mrs. Bland, hs though that efife
tually closed the discussion.
And so the important question was
settled within the clojed doois and vel
vet porlkrea that screened "mamma"
from her unruly children. Miss Buck
ley was consulted in a lengthy epistle
from Mrs. Bland, and expressed herself
delighted at the piosiect of a lengthy
visit from her "dear little Milly."
Milly shed a few mutinous tears when
told of the projecied visit, and poor
S eve vented his w rath in a little strong
language against the unconscious Rec
tor, and the lovers indulged In a very
pathetic farewell mtei view, when Milly
protested her undyn.g faith, and spoilt
her blue eyen, and made the tip of her
dainty little noee unbecomingly red,
while Steve solemnly placed a little tur
quoise ring on her buer, at the same
time expressing his regret that he was
"so confouudediy short of cash" and
could not afford diamonds; though, to
atone for that deficiency, he preseuted
her with a lock of that auburn hair to
which Mrs. Bland had so unfeelingly
alluded.
Milly was however naturally too amia
ble to sulk long over the parental de
crees; besides, she was very fond of
aunt Margaret, and a visit to her charm
ing cosy house was generally a welcome
chtnge from the round of Mil ly's rather
hard-working life.
''Poor papa! How will you manage
without met"' she asked, on the evening
before her deiartnre, geutly rubbing
her soft peach-bloom cheek against the
Hector's stalwart shoulder.
'I shall miss my little girl very
much," replied the Hector, stroking
M lily's golden hair; "but I shall console
myself by thinking how much she is
eiij tying auut Margaret's society. I
have the greatest respect aud admiration
for Miss Buckley."
"Yes, she is a darling!" responded
Milly heartily.
'When they were girls at home, your
mother was supposed to represent the
beauty, and Margaret the talent aud
common .-euse of the family."
'And you chose the beauty?" re
joined Milly, rather slyly
"Yes," answered her father, with a
faint sigh; "I chose the beauty."
It was a bright sunny September
morning when Milly started, and, not
withstanding the melancholy of the oc
casion, she could not help feeling bright
and sunny in sympathy, except when
she remeuilered how unhappy poor Steve
must be feeling at that moment, unable
even to anticipate the faint consolation
of gazing at his divinity iu church every
S inday; and then she called herself 4 an
unnatural little wretch" for feeling
even tuodeiately happy, though, could
she but have known it, Steve was at
that moment consoling himself with the
smiles of the buxom barmaid at the
"lied Lion" at Cotswold.
Her father had intended to accom
pany her, but had that morniug re
ceived a note from the Bishop requirin;
his presence at Cots a old; so Milly was
traveling alone, and -'the boys" at home
had been improving the occasion by re
lating for her comfort all the tales of
railway horrors they could collect, and,
when the supply ran short, supplement
ing it by blood-curdling inventions that
did much credit to their powers of im
agination. Of course Milly had professed to scorn
the idea of being frightened; but that
did not ptewnt her fr un looking out in
alarm at every stopage and feeling
much relieved that nobody came iuto the
couiiartment where she sat in solitary
dignity. Upcott Junction wasspecially
alarming, because here the local trains
joined the London une; aud Milly, as
she saw the guard preparing to give the
signal to proceed, was just beginning to
coiigrat ulate herself, when there was a
hurried scamper.
"First-class? This way, sir" from
an obsequious porter.
"Look sharp there!" severely from
the guard; and a male being, with all
his various imjiediuienta, was bundled
into her carriage; and the train would
not stop again for auother hour. Poor
Millyl
Haunted by confused memories of
Muller and Lefroy, it was several min
utes before Milly ventured to steal a
glauce at the ogre, wl o was apparently
absorbed in the juges of the Fitkl
"lleally he does not look so very
alarming," was her verdict; but then
he might 1 what the boys called a
"swell mobsman." "What a delight
fully long silky moustachel" and Milly
reuiernlxred with regret that poor
Steve's was, as yet, conspicuous by its
alsence. "X ice dark eyes tool"
Here this critical inspection came to
an abrubt termination as she found
with sudden dismay that the eyes in
question were looking at her with some
amusement in their gray depths.
"Would you like to see Punch?' '
asked the owner of the eyes, politely
handing her that periodical.
"Thank you," said Milly meekly,glad
to hide her blushes behind its friendly
paes; white the stranger opposite noted
with critical approval the dark-brown
tailor-made costume that did full justice
to the graceful girlish figure and the
brown felt hat contrasting so well with
the fair golden hair; man-like, too, he
took special notice of the well-shaped
bauds in the small four-button Suede
gloves, and of the dainty Pinet boots.
FuhcA was handed back when Milly
felt her cheeks a little cooler.
"Tenniel's cartoon is rather good this
week," remarked the gentleman, with
the same amused twinkle in his eyes.
Yes very," she answered feeling
that she must appear like a stupid little
schoolgirl.
Here Milly, who was blessed with a
sense of humor, felt suddenly struck
witn the absurdity of the situation. To
be sitting calmly discussing Teuniel's
cartoons with a possible murderer al
ready armed with the necessary weapons
for taking her life! for Milly had been
furtively regarding the baize covered
breech-loaders, but had consoled herse.f
with the reflection that revolvers and
pistols were generally preferred by such
peoole; and, as he tried to hide the
sudden smile under a cloak of lady-lUe
impassiveness, she looked so charming,
with the sparkle in her violet eyes, and
two tantalizing little dimples playiug
hide-and-seek in the rounded cheeks,
that the young man opposite, admiring
it all, said to himself
" What a little darling! I should like
to know her name."
Somehow they seemed to become
good friends alter that, and fed
gaily, with the freemasonry of youth
and high spirit while the tram dasi.ed
on, past busy corn-fields where swarthy
sunburnt men ted the golden sheaves
on to tlie nearly-laden wagon, while the
strong patient horses dozed lazily in the
warm sunlight, and the reapers in their
pink or white sun-bonnets lent color to
the scene, then rushing noisily into some
short tunnel, and emerging upon a quiet
woodland lane with its tall thady hedge
rows. "Three o'clock!" exclaimed Milly,
glancing at her venerable silver watch.
"How quickly the time psssea! We
shall be at Sherborne in ten minutes."
bherbome!" repeated her fellow
traveler, witn a quick inquiring glance.
"Do you get out there too?"
"Is it your station then?" asked
Milly in her turn, with a light laugh.
"What a queer coincidence!"
'It is a very charming one," he an
swered politely. "1 hope you are mak
ing a long stay in our little village?"
"Then he is evidently a native." she
reflected, drawing ber deductions with
feminine celerity, "Oh. ves!" she an
swered to his q 'lew t ion, with a most mel
ancholy sigh at the sudden recollection
of Meve's forlorn condition.
'You are not very flattering to ns,"
lie remarked with a smile. I suppose
you have suffered so much during the
past hour from one native that you
draw the most melancholy deductions?"
"Oh, it isn't thatl" Milly hastened to
assure him. "1 have always found
Sherborne charming. Ah, there is aunt
Margaret I" she cried suddenly, as the
tiain slowly drew up at the quiet little
country platform.
"Ah, Milly dearest so glad to see
you have arrived safely!" Then, turn
ing to Milly 's fellow traveller. Miss
Bu kley greeted him cordially. I did
not kuow you were eoming down, Mr.
Versciioyle. Of course" glancing at
the breech-loaders as the young man
brought them out of the carriage "to
morrow is the first! How could i for
iret so important a date? Weren't yoo
afraid he would shoot you, Milly?"
"I was indeed," answered Milly, so
emphatically that her companion
laughed.
"Mr Verschoyle my niece. Miss
Bland." Miss Buckley performed the
necessary introduction, while Mdly and
Mr. Verschoyle smiled simultaneously.
"I think we have already struck up
an impromptu acquaintance," said the
latter, as he walked with them to Miss
Buckley's pony-carnage, with its pretty
pair of ponies.
There was also a dog-cart with a
powerful bay horse standing in the
country lane; aud a smart groom
touched his hat respectfully to MlUy's
imaginary "swell -mobsman."
"I will only say au revoir," said Miss
Buckley, as the pnies set off at a smart
trot. "You must come up and see us;"
and Milly's smile strengthened the per
mission. - "And so you have been doing sad ex
ecution witli your beaux yeuz, naughty
girl." said auut Margaret that evening
after dinner, as they sat in the soft sum
mer twilight and she gently stroked
the fair hair resting against her knee, as
Milly sat on the soft rug before the
French window, nursing Toby, the asth
matic pug "and you are seut to your
stern old auntie to be kept out of mis
chief. "Don't you think papa and mamma
are very cruel?" asked Milly insinua
tingly. "You certainly seemed to be feeling
it acutely when you were chatting with
Anthony Verschoyle," said Miss Buck
ley, with a smile; and Milly blushed.
"Is this young Weston Squire so very
irresistible?" continued Miss Buckley.
"He's not the young Squire," replied
Milly, finding it convenient to ignore
the question. "He has an elder brother
in India with his regiment."
"And of course the silly boy hasn't a
shilling he can call his own, while yon
are equally impecunious!" exclaimed
auut Margaret. "Oh, you comically
disinterested children!
' " Will Utt love tluit you're to rich in
Light a fire in tlie kitchen.
Or tlie little god of marriage
Turn tlie pit, spit, spit' "
"It might be sufficient for the kitchen
fire, but scarcely for the drawing-room,"
answered Millv, with a smile.
"Ah, ma belle, you must have all the
rooms of your cottage well warmed, or
Cupid will catch cold and die of influ
enzal Our nineteenth century deities
are so prosaic," added Miss Buckley
sententiously. Then, rather iuconse
quently, she asked, "How do you like
Mr. Verschoyle?"
"I like him immensely," answered
Milly; "and I hope he'll remember the
beggar at bis gates' aud send us some
partridges," added the practical young
gourmet.
Anthony Verschoyle was lord of the
manor and envied owner of Sherborne
Chase, a delightful red brick old man
sion of the days of Queen Anne; and
Miss Buckley was his tenant, occupy
ing the quaint Ivy-covered dower-house
just outside the ponderous wrought-iron
gates.
As Milly kissed her aunt before going
up-stairs to ber cosy bed-room, that as
tute woman of the world, lightly touch
ing Steve's shabby little turquoises, re
marked carelessly
"I dont think your father would like
to see this, Milly."
"Papa never objected," pleaded the
young lady.
"Ah, your papa never notices that
sort of thingl" said auntie, with an
amiable contempt for the short-sightedness
of the general run of papas and of
Mr. Bland in particular. "But will you
as a favor to me, petite cease wear
ing It while you are my visitor? It is
always bad form, you know," she added,
"to parade an engagement especially
when it's so ineligible," subjoined Miss
Buckley mentally.
So Milly dutifully locked up her treas
ure, reflecting, with a pensive sigh, on
the general "contrariness" of parents
and guardians.
In other respects some of Milly's
wishes were speedily realized. She was
iu the drawing-room on the following
afternoon, playing softly to herself, and
bad just begun Schumann's dreamy pa
thetic Traumerei, when Anthony Ver
schoyle walked in with the ease of an
old friend who needed not to be an
nounced. He explained rather elabor
ately to Miss Buckley, who was knitting
at the open window in a state of sleepy
contentment, that he had just called in,
on bis return from a successful day's
shooting, to bring some birds; he also
hoped that Miss Bland felt none the
worse for her journey.
"Of course she is none the worse,"
Miss Buckley answered for her; "but I
know quite well. Squire, that Milly's
health is a matter of perfect indiffer
ence to yon, and that yon only came in
for a cup of my good tea after your
day's tramp. For I never will believe
that your crusty old housekeeper ever
gives you a decent cup; it is impossible
that a woman with such an undeniable
beard could accomplish that essentially
feminine Utok. i
Mr. Verschoyle admitted that Miss
Buckley's tea was an irresistible ten p
tation at that moment, though "Uie
other fellows" would blow him up ior
deserting them.
'My friends came down yesterday "
he explained; "and I should have come
with them, only that North train was
late as usual at Upcott Junction a
most fortunate accident " he add ',
"as it gave me th; pleasure of meeting
Miss Bland."
"You did not appear to think bo as
you threw away your cigar," said Mies
Bland, with a demure smile.
"I did not then know of the compen
sations in store for me," smiled Mr.
Verschoyle; "and you did not appear to
think me an unalloyed blessing."
"No, Indeed,'1 admitted Milly can
didly; "I thought that, armed w.ih
those dreadful breach-loaders,you world
be demanding my money or my life."
Mr. Verschoyle thought that theory
dower house drawing room had never
appeared so delightful, and be mentally
contrasted it with the chill splendor of
the disused room at the Chase, with Hi
glories shrouded in ghostly holland.
The trie sitting there in the soft aftT
noon light were worthy of their sur
roundings the hostess herself, wiib her
bright intellectual air, with the unusi-.al
contrast of black eyebrows and suo v
white hair, brushed off the low broad
forehead and shaded by rich black lace
knotted with French grace under tne
firmly rounded chin, Anthony Ver
schoyle, in his Ugh gray shooting-suit,
looking a perfect specimen of a high
bred English gentleman, and Millv, in
her tresh pink cambric, with a sofily
tmted Gloire do Dijon rose in her bell,
herself "in English rose
All tt about tcilh pretty tcilful thorns.
As sweet as English air could make her,"
"You will never find the dear old
Chas comfortable, Mr. Verschoyle."
said Miss Buckley, setting down l.er
Crown Derby tea-cup, "umtf you bring
a wife there!"
This advice was given in answer to
some domestic grumbling from tne
young Squire, who was fond of relating
his troubles to this old friend.
"My dear Miss Buckley! Such ad
vice from you, who are always warning
the village beauties about the perils ot
sweethearts and matrimouyl Why, yoor
last cook was so afraid of confessing tur
weakness for the village baker that she
actually, at the mature age of forty-five,
elopedl"
Miss Buckley stoutly defended ber
inconsistencies.
"I prescribe matrimony for you be
cause you belong to the practically help
less sex," she affirmed.
"I protest against that," murmured
Anthony.
"You have not the power of making
your homes comfortable without femi
nine co-operation," continued Miss
Buckley, regardless of the slight inter
ruption. "For women m self, for ex
ample it is always a question whether
the game is worth the candle. To r-ie
the candies always appeared the com
monest tallow dips, whereas I always
insisted upon the finest spermaceti." 1
"For the generality of women t .f.
tallow dips p:ve sufficient lijrt," r'j-
MUly, wan the usual teininineconteu.j.l
for ber own sex.
"I should, at least, like the very
choicest spermaceti for you," rejoined
Miss Buckley fondly, gazing with par
donable pride at the dainty figure pre
siding over the tea-table.
'I wonder in which category Miss
Buckley would place me?" reflected
Mr. Verschoyle, with sudden anxiety,
but refrained from asking the question,
preferring the ignorance which is so
often "bliss."
The nominal master of Sherborne
Chase the bearded old housekeeper
usurped the real authority evidently
found some Irresistible charm in the
cosy house lying so conveniently near
his own gates. At first be devised the
most ingenious excuse? for his daily
visits; but they soon became so much a
matter Of course that no excuse seemed
needed. Miss Buckley also noted, with
much internal amusement, the increased
frequency of the pastoral visits of the
Bev. Septimus Rugg, the High-Church
and high-art curate of Sherborne, whose
exalted ideas about the celibacy of the
"priesthood" had not rendered him in
vulnerable to Milly's charms, and who
wasted much of his valuable time in
trying to teach her a proper apprecia
tion of Browning, while Milly protested
that she could not understand him and
that his poetry gave her a headache.
Whether from the effects of reading
Browning or some more occult cause.
Miss Buckley noticed with some dismay
that her pet niece was losing her soft
roundness of outline, and that her
bright gaity had been succeded by a
feverish restlessness. While Milly
thought her aunt severely absorbed in
the last new Quarterly, that lady was
intently studying the girl as she leant
listlessly by the window looking out at
the battered autumn flowers, beaten
down to the damp ground by the gray
persistent drizzle, and thinking, with
forlorn self-pity that life was a very
poor affair after all.
Warming her toes at the cheerful fire
in her own room that same evening,
Miss Buckley summed up her conclu
sions. "Evidently Milly has been making
comparisons, and the silly little goose is
conscience-stricken to find that they are
not favorable to her rural Weston ad
mirer. So many girls mistake gratified
vanity for love! It is so pleasant to be
called an angel of beauty and that sort
of thing that we credit the first man
that tells us so with a vast amount of
penetration and taste, and we return
the compliment by endowing him with
all the heroic virtues. I'm glad MiUy
has found out her mistake in good time.
Anthony Verschoyle is a nice fellow.
and will just do for ber;" and Miss
Buckley gazed at her feet with great
satisfaction indeed they were very
pretty feet, and the black satin suppers
fitted them perfectly.
The next morning she wrote to the
Rev. Archibald, and, to her surprise.
received an answer by return of post.
It ran
"Dear Miss Buckley, Tour letter,
received this morning, has relieved me
of a great anxiety. I heard in the vil
lage last Tuesday that Stephen Corcoran,
the young fool, had eloped with the bar
maid at the 'Red Lion,' an elderly siren
of about thirty-five; they were married
in London, and the old Squire is in a
terrible state of mind. I suppose the
beau has not had the grace to write to
Milly, and 1 was trying to summon up
courage to break the news to her; but,
as you assure me it will probably be
most welcome intelligence, 1 have writ
ten to her by this p Both my wife
and myself feel most grateful to yon for
your kindaass to our little girl. Accept
our united kind regard, and, believe
me, dear Miss Buckly,
- ," Yours very sincerely,
, "Archibald Bland."
The post always came in early at the
dower house, and the letters were gen
erally taken up with the hot water, so
that each inmate read her letters in the
privacy of her own room. Aunt Mar
garet, who happened that morning to
be the first down to bieakfast, awaited
with some anxiety her niece's appear
ance, and fidgeted most unnecessarily
over the breakfast equipage.
. The door opened at last, and Miss
Buckley felt a sudden thrill of relief as
Milly came forward witti bright eyes
and a faint pink flush on her cheeks.
"Have yon heard from home this
.Doming?" Miss Buckley Inq aired as
Milly buttered her toast and leisurely
knocked off the top of her egg. -
'Ye," answered Milly very cheer
fully, ! have had a letter from papa,"
I Then she continued, with some embar
i tssmeut, '-Papa writes to tell me that
, Stephen Corcoran has eloped with a
young person trom trie 'Kea lion.' ad- i
senre," she continued, with the old gay
laugh, "has evidently made bis heart
grow fonder of somebody else."
"Here she paused, with a quick blush.
as an amused twinkle in the dark eyes
behind the tea urn reminded her that
the aphorism might have a double ap
plication. "That is very true sometimes," said
Miss Buckley with most exemplary
gravity; while Milly appeared suddenly
concerned about an imaginary fly In the
cream-jug.
Mr. Verschoyle, dropping In that
morning, was pleasantly surprised by
the bright smile that greeted him, and
felt his heart beat with sudden hope as
he saw the shy warm welcome In the
dark blue eyes. He had been driven to
the vtrzo of desperation dunng the last
fortnight by Milly's studied avoidance,
and her freezing politeness when she
was compelled to meet him, and had
lieen wont, at the close of each misera
ble d y. to mutter savagely some very
sage remarks about feminine contrariety
as he sought consolation from bis trusty
pipe. He had at last vowed never to
meet t!i 'heartless little flirt" again,
and to t..ke a trip to Africa, or join an
expedition in search of the North Pole.
Aided by forty-eight rums' perpetual
drizzle, be had actually kept away from
the dower house for two days; but this j
morning the clouds had lifted, self-sat- j
isfkd dahlias and sturdy asters raised I
their downcast heads, while the rich j
goldeu lef ves of venerable elms shone i
in the f right autumn sunlight. He
would go :o the dower house just once, 1
to nay "good bye;" and, as Milly's eyes i
looked in o his with a smile, all his
stt'ru resol itions suddenly melted away !
iu their lig it. and he found courage to
suggest, with wistful humility, that, as
It was such a delightful morning, Miss
Buckley ai.d Miss Milly should come
out for a w ilk.
Miss Buckley smilingly shook ber
In ad; she I -ad "a thousand things to do
it doors;" but the added, pitying the
y, ung ma i's disappointment
.- "I thin'c' you ought to make Milly go, j
"Jr. Versi'ioyle. If she doesnt get her j
borne air aud my cow, I'm going to
send her borne again." '
Milly's cheeks did full justice to Sher- j
borne air when she fouud herself walk- '
ing alone with Mr. Verschoyle on the .
quiet country road, where summer's 1
cool green had been replaced by the
coral of hii and haws and the gold of
fading bracken. She answered all his
remarks in monosyllables, until An
thony's hoies sank to zero, while his
thoughts reverted to the North Pole as
frequently as though they were a col
lection of magnetic needles.
"I am thinking of volunteering for
the new Arctic Expedition, Miss
Bland." he announced suddenly.
'Really!" said Milly unconcernedly.
"I hope you will enjoy the trip."
"Just as if I were going to Brighton!"
thought Anthony.
"I suppose it Is rather cold?" she
suggested calmly.
"I don't find it very warm here," an
swered Anthony lugubriously, quite
overcome by this unconcern. I
Then I should think the torrid zone '
would be a better change," said Mdly.
"Well, I've been thinking of Africa,", i
assented Mr. Verschoyle; "but a fellow !
told me the other day that the lions j
were quite done up. and Taganyika had 1
became as tame as Pall MalL" I
"I iuppose you find Sherborne very
stupid?" remarked the young lady, with
a sudden quiver in her voice which im
mediately raised mercurial young An
thony to realms of bliss.
"No, 1 dont," he replied inconse
quently. "It is the dearest place in the
world when you are In it, Milly" and
his arm stole insinuatingly round ber
trim waist.
"Then why do you talk about going
to the N-North Pole?" murmured Milly
pathetically, submitting to the caress
with a meekness that would have much
disappointed Miss Buckley.
"Because I thought it couldn't possi
bly be more frigid than you you cruel
little darling! But now, sweet," he
went on, with a happy thrill in his
strong young voice, "you will be my
own little wife won't you, dear? Re
member how lonely I am all by myself
in that big solitary house. Ixxk up
into my eyes, Milly, and say 'Yes.' "
Milly did not say that important mon
osyllable; but she raised her eyes for
one shy momeut his; and in their
deptlis he read bis answer and was sat
isfied. Bawallaa Weather.
It is said by those who have made
themselves acquainted with the lan
guage of Hawaii that the inhabitants of
that forlorn island have no word in
their tongue to express the weather.
Somehow, hi rude, barbarous fashion,
they mix with each other and enjoy
such intercourse as they may. But
with the amenities of social life, the
delicate pulsations of hearts conversa
tionally united by climate, the whisper
ed suggestions, the soft reply imagined
before it is spoken, all the engines of so
cial intercourse which break the ice of
first acquaintance and melt frozen ton
gues to talk with such things these
victims of fortune andot dialect having
notaing to do. It may be that they
are happy under it, habit is a second
nature; the Boston people eat baked
beans and still exist; Providence people
eat perpetual 'scalloped oysters, and
manage to survive. We never know to
what we may come, but we cannot help
feeling that Hawaii would lie just suit
ed to Gen. Haxen. In that remote
clime he might put away his barome
ters forever, and be at rest.
There are 2,000 clergymen in Loo
don. . .
Palnek Henry' tfou mo4 Uriri.
A writer from Red Hill, Va., says: 1
recently paid a visit to the home' and
grave of Patrick Henry, at Red Hill, in
Charlotte County. I started from Ran
dolph, a station on the line of the Rich
mond aud Danvil'e Railroad, near the
confluence of the Staunton and Little
Roanoke Rivers, which takes its name
from John Randolph of Roanoke, whose
residence stood in a grove a few miles
off, and who owned the greater part of
the laud in this vicinity. Many local
traditions of this celebrated man, I
was told, were still rife In the neighbor
hood, although few who had ever seen
him now survive. His house, which
was subsequently occupied, after being
very much enlarged, by the late Judge
Bouldin. of the Court of Appeals of
Virginia, was recently burnt to the
ground, thus meeting . w th the same
fate that had overtaken Mattoax and
Bizarre, where Randolph hail lived be
fore finally settling at Roanoke.
I turned aside from the public road
to visit the spot where the body of Ran
dolph was onco buried. Tne house was
built upon a plateau in a forest that
overlooked the wide valley of the Staun
ton. The situation is naturally fine,
but to this day very secloikd. There is
plainly discernible the Indentation of
the grave where Randolph's body for
merly rested unmarked by head-stone
or slab. A few years ago, the bones
were exhumed and removed to the
beautiful Hollywood Cemetery in Rich
mond. Ouly one person was present at
the second burial who had attended the
first Judge Hunter M. Marshall, Rich
mond bar, who, as a boy, stood by when
Randolph was laid in earth at Roanoke.
By a guide I was taken into the en
closure, half garden, half graveyard,
where Henry (s liody lies, surrounded by
the tombs of other members of his fam
ily. A plain slab which covers his re
mains bears, in addition to the dates of
his birth and death, the brief inscrip
tion "His fame, his only epitaph."
The soil is overgrown with periwinkle,
even the path is hidden by it, and it en
tangles the feet as one walks, like so
many taut whip cords. Trees go around
the wall of the enclosure, and near the
center are cedars and bushes. I plucked
a late flower to take away with me as a
memento, together with several leaves
of the periwinkle.
Returning to the house, I sat for
some time with my host, a young mau
of intelligence, who told me that be
thought of giving up his holding, as the
situation of the plantation was rather
too much cut off from the world at
large. If so now, what must it have
been in the times of Henry, a hundred
years ago? At present it is about)
twenty miles from a station, all the
crops being transported to the railroad
by batteaux, or carted in wagons to
Lynchburg. To ieich Richmond,
Henry had to travel by carriage for
nearly a hundred miles over the rough
roads of the country. Here at Red
Hill, where he spent the latter (art if
his life, he died. There was only one
stain on his character, according to
local tradition. He was said to have
been very parsimonious, but no doubt
his severe struggle with poverty In bis
early ya Ll him ail exagger
ated impression of the value of money.
One of the largest and most fertile
plantations in Campbell county was ac
quired by Henry as a fee for legal ser
vices, and is still in the possession of
his descendants.
Clgar and IMpe.
Cigars were not known until about
1S13. Previous to that time pipes were
used exclusively. Chewing had then
been Iu vogue to a limited extent for
some time, while snullirg dates back
almost as far as smoking. The first
package sent to Catharine de Medici
was in fine powder. She found that
smelling it in the box affected her simi
larly to smoking, which led her to fill
ont of her smelling bottles with the
dust. Her courtiers adopted the habit
of snuffing small portions of it up their
nostrils, and as the precious stuff be
came more plentiful the snuffing habit
became more general, until at lat a
man or womau w as not considered as
in proper form unless they snuffed.
This custom became so common in
England that a snuffbox was no longer
a sign of rank. Then it was the law
prohibiting the culture of the plant,
except for medicine, was passed. About
the same time a heavy tariff was placed
on the imported article, thereby prac
tically placing it beyond the reach of )
the common herd and giving royalty a
complete monopoly.
Since it first bean to be used as 8
luxury there have been contlictin;
opinions iu regard to its effects. The
Roman Church once forbade its use
and the Church of England declaimed
against it, Tne Wesleys opposed it
hotly, and at one time it was considered
so unclean as to unfit men for mem
bership in tlie Methodist Church. Bap
tist aud Presbyterian ministers preached
against it, and societies were organized
to oppose the spread of the habit, but
all to no purpose. Parents disowned
and disinherited their children because
they used it, and husbands divorced
their wives on account of their having
contracted the habit of smoking.
It is singular that when women get
into the habit of smoking a pipe they
prefer a strong one. There are few
men who have nerve enough to smoke
a pipe such as a woman likes when she
has become a confirmed smoker. When
they first begin puffing cigars they pre
fer them very mild, but it is not long
until they want them black and lots ol
them.
The first chew or first cigar is always
long remembered, for they almost in
variably produce a sickness only paral
leled by that of sea sickness, and. like
the latter, the victim is not at all
frightened, but wants to die, or at least
does not care whether he lives or not.
As soon as the attack Is over, however,
he is ready to try it again. By iatience
and fersistencethenauseatingeffectsarf
overcome and the deathly sickness gives
place to delightful sensations.
Spanish and Portuguese ladies of all
ranks smoke cigarettes little segars.
uot those vile paper things that pollute
the air, but fine flavored little segars.
They are also used to a considerable ex
tent in France, but the custom ha.'
never prevailed to any great extent in
either England and America. The
pipe is less popular among ladies in thu
country now than it was fifty years ago
In the Southern States, however, thf
women of the middle and lower classes
nearly all either smoke or rub snuff,
and not a few do both. Storekeepers
in many parts of the South buy snufi
by the barrel and keep it nnder tht
counter with the sugar and coffee.
Lodon nses 140 tons of chloridi
of lime to deodorize th sewer outlets
Faaiad Qarrla t Carrara.
An artist recently said I have spent
some days at Carrara, where some 6.0U0
men are at work in the quarries. 1 here
are 100 studios of sculpture at Carrar,
sixty-rive saw mills and t went) -five
polishing wheels, which brighten dull
marble and smooth the slight fortunes of
some 400 plodding workers. The hew
ing of rough rocks, huge in their propor
tions is something approaching the
marvellous here. Tlie men are hoisted
to the height of some 700 feet above the
level of the quarry, and up aloft exca
vate perfevly collosal lumps of Carrara
marble. Each gang, or the foreman of
the gang, goes down with and on the
lump as it is swung by derrick ropes
out into the air and swiftly brought to
mother earth.
One of these Italians will sing in lusty
tones. "Viva, Viva Garibaldi," from
bis dizzy eminence and suddenly appear
lelow where you are standing, his
bright, big black eyes full of mtequaled
expressiveness and his white teeth glit
tering between unapproachable smiles
the inalienable gifts of these people
and say, "Ah. SMrnore. will you go up
with me again?" just as if it were a
perfectly ordinary feat. The free, easy
and primitive style of this Carrara fly
ing trapeze work makes it appear d ubly
dangerous. Hundreds of acciden's
occur every year.
' Children scarcely out of their swad
dling clothes work amidst the glare and
dust of this lovely white marble and die
with sore eyes and stifled lungs. The
food is dry bread, a raw onion aud
dirty water. It la the only place iu
Italy where wine is not drunk. Worn
out by incessant severe toil, these peo
ple, insufficiently fed, fall into dissipa
tion, violence and crime, dying like
dogs and leaving on the white marble
the sweat of their wretched lives. We
see none of this under the hand of art.
Fully $800,000 worth of marble goes
out annually from these quarries, the
bulk of it to France. The price of it
varies according to its beauty. The
first quality is priced at WO to 10 per
square meter at the seaport. This is
what we call statuary marble. The
second quality is pricel at $45 to 502,
and the spotted at $-'JO to $00. Then
comes pure white, but uot stau-
ary, mai ble. I he price is foi per
square meter. The second quality is
$.'15 and the third is $.'J0. The veined
marble brings on the first quality f-'iO
and the second quality 113. Violet-
hued marble brings 570 to 1100 per
square meter. These are the ordinary
tariffs, aud on them the profits are ab
surdly high before the marble leaves
the quarry. In some instances I have
known fiist-class statuary blocks to be
rated at 112,000 each, legardlesa of
market rates.
Baby- ami
Tlie seasons of Laly's meals should
be household habits by the time be is
allowed to partake of cooked food. Do
not blunt the zest which he ought to
bring to the consumption of regular
rations by intervening nibbles and
lunches. He will learn to expect and
depend upen thest, a.i.l ixt discontented
when they are withheld. The practice
of appeasing him when restless, from
whatever cause, by thrusting a cracker,
a slice of bread, or wor.-ie yet, a "hunk"
or gingerbread or a "cooky" into his
hand is discountenanced by wise moth
ers. He besmears his face and clothes,
drops crumbs on the carpet aud makes
a continual want for himstlf. When
the hour comes for feeding him give him
his quantum of proper food, properly
prepared. Let him eat it leisurely, and
as soon as he is old enough to sit at the
table serve his meal neatlv in nlate run '
or saucer set on
a neat cloth, his own
d fineer-nankin Hid in
re not trifled More
j , , - -1"
spoon, china and
order. These are
Americans would breakfast, dine and
sup in healthful decorum, and fewer
"feed" if they were trained from infan
cy to consider a meal as a ceremonial
observance, and the need of popular
essays on "Table Manners" would be
less urgent.
Don't read this if you expect to find
the old stereotyped advice unamended.
Dont go to bed with cold feet, unless
they have been pickled and taken in
wardly. Don't lie on the left side too much,
lie on the right aide all you can; as it
pays better.
Don't jump ut of bed immediately
on awaking in the morning, but this
advice is unnecessary. No sane man
ever did it,
Dou't forget to take a drink of pure
water before breakfast, it settles things
after the last night seance, reduces the
size of the bead and beside makes one
appear like a temperance advocate.
Dont take long walks on an empty
stomach if you want to walk on a
vtomach at all try aud find a full one,
as it is softer travelling. A stomach
is not a very good place for a long
walk.
Dont start to do a days work with
out eating a good breakfast if you
haven't got a good breakfast, don't
commence work until after dinner.
Don't eat between meals if you get ;
hungry have the meals ofetner or when
ever you get hungry.
Don't try to keep up on coffee when
nature is calling you to bed coffee is
an uncomfortable thing to sleep on, a
sack of flour would be better.
Don't talk your sick friend to death
it will interfere with the prerogative
of the doctor.
A DMnt-miBdeilDMs anil Smiles.
A popular hotel manager of this city
has determined to abandon the tempta
tions of single blessedne) in March and
settle down to the tnp yinent of mar
ried life. Tuesday evening a cumuiir
eial angel stepped op to the i fii e desk
and addressing the mauagrr, who was
writing on delicate note paper, asked:
"What time docs the next train g )
onth to Norwich on the Ceutral? '
Manager (promptly) "March 11.
The next question was:
"I there a 'drawing-room' on the
train?"
Manager "There will be no drawing-room
about it, it will be in the
ehnreh."
The laughter which followed aroused
the manager from his reverie and after
a momecat's reflection he too srniUd !
anil WiUi nrtlicrAA tsh mala Oia
coal angels "smile' in return.
Temesvar is the first city In Europe
to have its streets lighted by electrici
ty. There is a man in this city that is so
lazy that when he once gets to work be
is too lazy to stop,
in DRrnr.
The Russian language contains 3t
tetters.
ilollie (jartie'a has entered V a
j Cellcie.
There are i acres of deer
park in Scotland.
There are now 120 girl student t
3warthmore College.
Harvard has more sophomores this;
year than freshmen.
Connecticut has 40 oyster steamers
with a capacity of 3tj. 720 bushels daily.
Buffalo, despite her proximity to
Niagara, is threatened by a water fam
ine. Birmingham, England, has the
great vt button trade ot any ciiy in the
world.
Over 5C0O Northern school teach
ers have visited the New Orlea is expo
sition.
In 18S4, 21S N't York men mar
ried under 2'i ye us of age and 2,919
women.
An ancient Egyptian idol sold at
auction In New York recently for sevea
dollars.
Tlie finest wines ar made from the
grapes that are grown at the highest el
evation. Sicilian brides are com pellcd to have
their eyebrows shaved off previous t
marriage.
Congressman Rosecrans sou Is a
Catholic priest and his two daughters
are nuns.
Electoral messengers to Washing
ton received fMCS.jO and traveled 33,
874 miles.
A tramp is said to be the impor
ter of the suail-iiox now raging in
Thomson, Ga
A necklace composed of 71 orn-
I uitura (earis LTOiigui. i.jj j : i recent
sale in London.
Fifty-eight per cent, of the poa-er
exerted in driving the propeller of a
steamship is lost.
In Southern California the pomegran
ate nourishes as it does in Italy or in
the Holy Laud.
A cremation society lias been
formed in Buffalo with a capital of tea
thousand dollars.
There was an intei val if nearly
years betweeu the hist twomar:ia0'e3 iu
Haverhill, N. H.
A garden seed war is hovering over
Athens, G, and iu cotis-viuer.ee pnetja
have been reduced.
There are seventy -eight wuiueu
studying medicine at Paris, thirteen of
whom are Parisians.
There are 6,234.9-34 persons in tti4
United Slates above the aie of 10 who
cannot read aud write.
Eggs, in some parts of Muutaua,
are rerted to command ten cents eact
or a dollar by the dor-u.
Australia boaits uf a cv lair
than the Mammoth Cave ot Kentucky.
It is ca led the Genoi.in.
Four hundred omniUi-ts p-tj
given point in London every d ly, ac
cording to a receut computation.
In Thibet one woman m.iy have
two three, tc ven four h J:
never more than the Last number.
r For sixty-Mx years a boatman at
Newport, K. I., has lieen in the employ
Ot the United States Government.
The juveniles have l et n thought of
in Montreal, and tob l-lmii slides for
their enjoyment have been prepared.
The Prince of Wales has expended
il,000,0u0 on h s Sandriiigharu proper
ty, exclusive of the purchase muney.
Six brothers who reside in Wal
palk towti.-hip, N. J , aggregate "7 feet
in height and 13uu pounds in weight.
r "uu "l " , ;
Conn., Las a collection of ,l-00 turds'
tracing nea.ly 2.0- varieties.
A young man of New Ilaveu.
iccoruit:g 10 a .Montreal paper
more fires o curred on Friday in that
city during 184 than on any other day.
For publishing a translation of one
of Zola's novels a Dresden publisher
has been Sent to prison for one month.
Complaints of the deaniess of the
New York "cheap" cabs are frequent
ly written to the newspa-rs of that
city.
A young lady acts as sexton of a
Lawrenceville, Ga., church, and is said
to be the only one of that sex in the
State.
Russia will not build tlie projected,
network of rail ways throughout Siberia
just at present, owing to a lack of
funds.
What Is claimed to be the only bent
wood factory in the United States haj
been established at Charleston, South,
Carolina.
Senator-elect Leland Stanford was
a student in Cazenivia Seminary with
Joseph R. Haw ley and Henry W. SIo
cuin in 1384.
Slgnor Rotoli, one of the most pop
ular musicians in Rome, will preseutly
come to this country to fill a prote-isor-ship
in Boston.
Several varieties of birds have ap
peared along the sea coast of Calfornia,
which were never known before to leave
the mountains.
Tlie eider duck does not take her
young into the ocean, as Is generally
supposed.but remains with them among
the islands along the coast.
Orville D. Baker.the new Attorney
General of Maine, a Bowdoin graduate
of '08, was an extraordinary good first
baseman when at college.
James C. Jamison, the new Adju
tant General, of Missouri, was a '"Forty-niner"
in California, and a follower
of Walker in Nicaragua,
Twenty Parisian duelists are organ
izing a club under the name of La
Flamlerge, whose members must all
have fought at least one due!.
The editors, bookkeepers, type-setters,
collectors and agents of the Fret
vinn, the colored organ published la
New York, are all colored men.
An Indiana husband has been scal
ded eighty-one times with hot tea by his
wife, and has now come to the conclu
clusion tliat he is entitled to a d.vorco.
An English lady, Mrs. Hayward,
has been engaged as professor of elocu
fVu in the Cincinnati Law School.and
the innovation has beeu received with
favor.
Cheshire, Mass.,has two large bald
eagles, which have their nest high up
11 the side of a rocky cliff. The hun
ters and citizens generally, with a sens
of pride and patriotism, leave them un
molested. Christopher Beckett Denison has
come prominently forward in London
society as a man who has spent H,2oO,
000 in works of art, aud who is ready to
draw his check any day for any Uubena
ChihO can offer.
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