nMttf H If II! P. F. SCHWEIER, THE OOISTmiTIOI-TEE TJSIOI-AID TIE EJTOBOIEET OF TEE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. XXXIX. MIFtfLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 13, 1SS5. NO. 20. .;. 3111. L ?AS: llFJl," .' nf of early lifn, 1 weary grown ,1. we long to rest ajt- unknown !.', ihoiigh life below l-.vi! day i :. ars, and hos ami fears, dial! 1 '?" rl I. v ii .-. J" , life H4vai ilniar? it? before? in. Im-voiiJ the tomb ... : i.. .rt bo more; , but iu that home ...... no parting day. , i., ... i t'u:i of .x pa away." tliuu'rt journeying on i....i,.- .'U high, :i..wers, iu Kdeu bowers, .-r !a-le and die; r . :i: , no touch of Time . iilul j.'.vs away, i and lone, aud weary grown, , ,, si. ill pa, away." p iI, wv hoe at last l a: L- avi uly t-hore; in care, iu nuiu.--i.ons fair, i : I ri v r mora. I . m-t no s itTUVa couia, -t..i.i iit-ver say, !. Ti.e ii-st we sweetly reet, ... -!.ao pass away." ':?. l-.r : ' ' . Ji. A ! i hi: iinii:x love. . ..i .-,-.1 and tar-perciug wail on I su'try air causes me to leave C'y Morpheus at the unac .-.1 1. ui of seven in the morning. !!;;i c at ions on that social don inii en ii y other sice, iu tiie . ! i successfully wooing Nature's sweet restorer," but, :. biped and 4uaJruiil, 1 ;....!. :! I'.o.a! bang at my dixir, an d, :i.'. execrations for weloouie,that .. - .1 nkey Dick Treniiiihere .. i y mi mi and act oss it to the . ,! a:;i'1ow, where, making an ti e n ( i!- ! I.. irK 1 u.w : a.'-: u v :w-en the blinds just large !:i'-et a strong sun-ray into V eyes, lie theu and there c -ne vocabulary of aduiir- -I'-'. a beauty? I donl wonder ale i ; i ii.'ni c (1 dtngerous. Such re.. .- A ..'1 all that long hair just ..!.' -' 1 say. Ted, you i.ever saw . .. . . ..-.. Timilile up. old man. i.,J a . il.t of her before she's off. Tiie Jo k.- i rest ive, aud all the others :e in. ted. Why, she looks lovely r.ei' oi, .at udinitesinial brute!" K. yourself I And what if I i:,'t aai.t to see her? Wouldn't turn jjT to - e t'.e most lovely Ler or him in t; k:.-a world, much less a stranger!" I srrou !. ("..ie, iw stranger, is she, when 1 r.:. " v si were at least a month with ! at Tioiiviile lat summer? Insemi ! t . ,!ur harms. Master Teddy is t!:a! : ? Now 1 come to think of it, &i,e daj s i.d to have been senilis uiou ci i . t-topix d fellow, with someluiii t-ti:. !e to ears polite by way of name 1' Snooks, or that ilk." " i !e::o!ihere, will you have the good cesstostop thht?" I threateD, in the '--t i f throwi!ig the bed-room caudle-Hl'-V at his head. He stoois, and the missile sails tliio;i'li the oenlug in the shu'ters and im-fii Is among the equestrians below, cre.o :iz great chatter. For a moment we ji-e rve an astounded silence, and I ! ave t'.e ir of sleejiing most pro foui.iliy. iletfrmlned, if any one is lu'.i.iA below, to leave intrusive Tre-Bi-!il.re to U-ar the brunt of the mis-c..:-!; h it a burst of silvery laughter r:, a. m the general safety, and so we ukr i.eart 1 .scramble out of bed, and, c!.i :ri a trnveling-rug, refresh my vls u il orp ins w itli a glance lielow. J i-t mi l. r my coign of vantage Is a yo'ttiL" j'is.iTi whose fiice I cannot see ; I it l,t-i iiut-gray dress and liubens hat of ii-- None color, with scarlet pjppies bdiio ' h the housings of her mouse-ci!i-! 1 -teed, make the ensauble less ab. l. Her dgure, aa Tremeuhere the work either of nature or of M . .-i-'ii Worth, for no one else could lu ;. I., l ire,! such a chefil'irrre. -U : ., it. Hick?" I whisier. a- that thou art, don't tell me h. i..!" !:e giayhat turus aside, and vvor looks so diiectly up at my window that I involuntarily sid .link down out of sight be-riii-cliair just as if she could i. i-eii blinds with her splen- I- H.. .1 i i-oi;..::g out of the window again, ae tl..: i.ey -lieils j.tigle down the ave oh i-xoit g ms bravely along in e ii .. -. and lhck Tremenhere lies ' 1 .p Ms heels ou my lied, slap ''Z - I'-s in a paroxysm of delighted it . ami calling out "II a-:, t ,e got you in a corner, my -'f Ami ain't you frightened, !. i iihlK-d, colilined ill tll!8 lit wi t-re you can't show a clean a r r ' ii-tU without taking all the nto your confidence?" "1: ou don't give over shouting, I'll ''k '. in uiy bath! Come out of a1 d t- 1 me when these jieople "l'fi o'i ttie half meaning the :U;-1. Mi. Ira:. ! .: 'eie ::, lie-. , tt.-:;. i!. l ,1 ; it ii y. ;.; i . ami such heavy luggage -l came up ou the top of Bt I as's foiir-in-band, while you lei ing the trout-stream w here li e meuioryof man was fish : reiiieiiiber you were late, a t ne, anil theu grumped off j.;r nil rooitiug-time, like I J.ir as you are. What did 1 tui ;it 'I'iouville thus to cur- do I, U.e v.i :r i, 'mianity 9" 'i '1 never know if I should tell It would 1 like a properly-pro-"lii'ieo! Virgil to i'arhauieuta- ... toV It'tii: "1'. .: v.iii won't cut ami run, though d.ie d,ii:oerous?:' Dick begs. I . Ttd. juM stand up to her. G n..'i!,a is f.ni:sh, you know; aud she'd toi-f oii, ,f she'd a mind, from I'aris lV;.T.i,ijr Vou'd lie no end of f' 'tl u. don,- the Parthian." iritnd of niv soul, the oracle has .,' "I'oen. Kidre nutis. I thiuk "tl-IV.liM u a stupid place." e Von "n!" !.. evithiiins di'snair- 'Tl. i.r'v. v.i o Ifr LUC l.llV3CVt iCVIUJ '" ,' atid we'll have a pool on l iV. rite as I I... ir aim to Don't Cus I l'l.ploie. Say you won't." - k not tt proticjpate. as says the 'ta s-"iey; but I think I Shall 'l convince you that you are all c ' cmiltlu't seize you and come the cuii-i y' kll,,w." persists Dick, eu- till w t l.n.f f,..t n,..i;..no ia u,1"l, a-id he dep ti Ls, while I proceed 10 ""-dilative toilet, - course Helen Trevor knows that ti4Iii Ler USUitl tactics; but 1 " not obliged to tll Dick Iremenhere caied for Miss Trevor before she showed favor to my coasla Jay, and that, even though I saw how site drew him on, and then threw hiui over when the cash failed, I am weak enough to tear mat 1 snail iorget Jay's wrongs in the soft splendor of Ler great brown eyes. Through Jay's long illness I was too loyal to think of its cause with anv tlnug but auger, liut when 1m; got well. and 1 left him so ridiculously happy with the woman who had been Helen Trevor's best friend, I took foolishly to dwelling on his good fortune in that the wrong woman had jilted him iu time to giv him to the right one. "J call that too bad,"growls Dick, as we stroll through the Casino pronienuir, uouuoir, reauing-rooui.and terrace with out sighting our game for of course mean to plunge in tiutlUis res; 4,tocome out and have a bit of healthv exercise They are doubtless either flirting in the tlai k corners ot the hotel garden or hav ing a 'goose party' with Vermouth and cigarettes. What a lot of heated, blousy fuiiei they look, those womeu in the dancing-hall. How sweet and kind of you to come over to-night, dear Mrs. Jerningham.wheu you must be so tired! tvs-st, tiyacinthel some chairs here, ne.tr the door, so that we may get breath of air." Mrs. Jerumgham and her party en tered; and in less time than it takes to tell it Miss t lorence Jerniugliam is. with himself,added to the "furies, "and whirling to the music in apparent con lent. "Adaptiug yourself tocircumstances?' questions a low sort voice iu my ear; aud, obliged at last to address her, I turu and see such a beautiful lllustia tion of falsity that the sight might have driven Truth to drown herself iu her well, in despair of eouiet ition. "How happens it that -the fairest Helen condescends to so petty a Try?' I drivel over her white lingers her fin g -rs her lingers are cold, too, ou this hot September uighll C She is slow in responding, and I have time, aud muster supercilious coolness, to look at her glossy head with its drooped eyelids aud small scarlet mouth. at the soft white bosom heaving under its foamy lace, at the lithe elegance of her clearly delined figure, resting upon slender little feet that her namesake and prototype might have envied. All men are free to gaze and why not I, whose heart stands still at sight of this glorious beauty, so fatal btk'ause it is so false Naturally Heleu Trevor does not wail to answer; she turus to respoud to some commonplace of her chaieron,aud then lifts her iierfect arm as if to give me the waltz which rings out ou the night; and I have 'even forgotten my cousin's existence while I float dowu "the blue liauube" with Helen's beau tiful undulating form. As 1 give her my arm at the conservatory door, she savs "I wonder if you quite hate me. I)o you?" I he g. oiio is waltz has not put a sha .e of color into the soft whiteness of her cheeks, they eveu look thinner than they were last year, or at least their oval is a shade huer; and, as site rais s her wonderful fringed eyelids. sea the faint violet undertintiug which S(:.ks of tears not baby-tears, like sumuier showers, but the bitter drops that come of deep pain. "Hate you?" I repeat "Well, pretty heartily, I fancy; or at least 1 did, aud still should, if I hadn't left Jay and Dolly so absurdly happy that there was no viewing it with patience. 1 don't think 'hate' is the word." M ss Trevor is looking out over a moonlit stretcii of hid and river as 1 cease, but she shows uo auger. As she pu s her hand ou uiy arm for our last turu at the waltz she shivers slightly. -Got chilly on this hot night?" I ask. She looks up into my face with her disclaimer on liw singularly blanched and colorless, while au almost defiant light Mimes in her eyes. "i knew Dolly Hetherton loved Jay Jenkins, even at Cau'erets last year," she says, with a cold laugh. 'Wounded iriendship, tool" I an swer, -'What a lucky ruin his was!" "Hah! Don't j )ke wiih truth. Aud, since you know me so thoroughly, let us be frank. What have you here worth uifttiug?" Oh, to hear my beautiful darling seal her infamy with hero wu lipsl I think it is the bitterest of all my pain. "There's fat old 1 Viucu Uortchaska, sixty, if a day, aud with quite a new aud original shade of purple for a nose. He comes often from the play-tables at Luchoii to see if we have anything striking aud eoinnie il fwd, as he has decided to marry, in thehoieof restrain ing bad young Ualitzin, who imitates hi u so tilialy. lUlher of the vulture order this, but very golden game." I could almost think that her lips tremble piteousiy as she covers them with a yel low rose probably because I wish to lleaveu they would. "Theu there's that Jew Moise, whj stopiied the play at Monte-Carlo twice last year, aud has no end of shekels of gold and silver. Clincuit a son youl, but I would almost prefer the Muscovite. "By the way." I go ou viciously, "I haven't mentioued the man in the Bath chair a petroleum lord, and as rich as the rest because I fancy Mdlle. Aline De-slange, of the Gymnase, would allow no poaching on her manor." "Take me to Mrs. Jernmghaml" in terrupts Miss Trevor haughtily; and I bow and obey. At all events she is frank with me. I wish she were n it. Then we ride and drive, climb peaks aud descend ravines, and M ss Trevor seems out of spirits and does not appear to "go for" any one. The cool October waues, aud waim us to think of flight. "1 say, Ted Livingstone," bawls that h topy youth one uay, as l am going off, wiih my gun to while away the afternoon hours, "you'll just be getting yourself hanged for murder one of these line days. The wo kIs are full of pic nics and such small dears, and you go iKippiuj about ou the loose, as it bag ging a brace of pretty girls was of uo account. ".4 i,rr,ix of nothing.'" he goes on. "I have heard something about the Trevor whic't hs given me qualms of conscience. I'm told that the fair Tro j in is reallv hard up cleaned out, you know and by some family trouble that Florry promised Heleu not to tell, as her mother and Helen's are as thick as thieves. The mother lives in an entrtmd at I'aris on 'tuppence' a year, while Helen takes to the visiting dodge a month with one and six mouths with another " ..... "Dick you are a bore!" I interrupt savagely. "Miss Trevor might not like such discussions and what possible in terest can the matter have for uW ' For a moment Dick almost looks ill humored, but all at ouee he explodes m a trenieuJous guffaw, w inks h'3 dexter tyj kuowiugly, and goes off. i sUt-D a mile aay to a Uttla singing river, and choose a seat in the fringe of willows which lxirders it. Can it be true that Helen Trevor is pinched with Hverty? Why did she not take Jay, with his still remaining thousand a year? At least she could have made her mother comfortable. There I go again, always theorizing as if she were the woman I wish to Heaven she might br! I sight a waving twig in the dis tance, and pick up my gun and cut it lu two; but a smothered squeak from among the bushes lower down tells me that I have alarmed some one, and I go, hat in hand, to oner excuses. "fiAiiifre, if I had shot her!" I traso. as Heleu Trevor tr'es to escape without shaking; but a fringe of her big silk shawl-rug catches a branch, some evil disposed briars hold her fast. "Did I frighten you, really?" I stain mer, trying to help her, "Xot in the least. I was only star tled, thinking myself alone," she au- seis, keeping her face turned from me and draggingat her captors with shak nig hands which belied her assertiou. "Dou't tear the pretty things," I beg, seeking lor conversation; but she sud denly sinks down iu a lovely heap, and, biding her beautiful face iu her hands, weeps "like a Madeleine." "For Heav en's sake, Miss Trevor, tell me what troubles you! Can a man can a sin cere friend be of any service to you?' But she gites ou weeping, the great tears drench her tiny lace handkerchief. and stream through her Diigers. Theu she ceases as suddenly as she began. aud, looking up at me with her eyes still full of tears, she laughs out, but a little hysterically "How dare you look at me weeping ? I w ill never forgive you. If 1 could but do the D ana business, and turn you into an unthinking as well as stieech'less cer' "But 1 am still your serf," I answer, trying to adapt myself to her humor, "and of course should not dare to d j what you forbid." By this time she is standing, with a very April face, holding out her little drenched handkerchief ruefully to me. 1 hasten to supply her with oue of my owu more serviceable titouchvirs, with which she dries her loely eyes. Then she dips her fingers iu the stream, and washes her face, aud finally says 'Will I do?" 'You look like lilies after ralu,"l re ply, equal to the occasion. "ow don't uare look sorry for me.-' she commands, tears trembling in her voice, "or I'il do it again. I'm one of the naughty children who cry when they are pitied. But, Miss Trevor," I urge, as she is evidently going off without another word, "please take me so far into your confidence as to let me be of service to you. Tell me how I can seive you,aud you'll do au idle fellow a good turn." With genuine surprise she turus aud looks back at me. Do you kuo what you say? Do you really meau it?" she asks, iu a kiud of breathless way, Listen." I reply, taking her hand almost roughly in ray enforced self-con. trol. "1 suppose I kuow you thoroughly aud you know tha . it is so but, if a genuine friendship can be of use to you. now or in the future, accept it at my hands, in Heaven's name. Promise!" She is gazing eagerly in my race, and her lovely lips quiver as if she would si -ak; but all at once the light goes out of her eyes. She withdraws her baud and, giving me a cold salutation, she turns again and leaves me. I sit some time, my head giddy with foolish thoughts. If I marry her. can I teach her to love me afterwards Dare I do this? .Dare I bring such a creature home to my mother's arm as her only daughter? I almost feel the courage to do it, to open my heart to the sweet old mater, and beg her to help me to win this glorious creature, to show her the beauty of a noble life, aud the happiness ot home. I will write to-night to the mater she will help me. ext day, when the letters are dis tributed, I announce my departure for Uie morrow, and every one says the usual civil things except Miss Trevor. ".Sews from your mother r1 asks Mrs. Jerui nghaui. "A long letter, aud sue is piuugeu in the depths of dark despair, as Doctor Watts would say, because her jolly little corupauion, the fair l'ilkingtou, has de cided to enter the Church or, rather to marry the curate. How to replace the gentle Pil is rending the maternal bosom." "That nice blonde creature, who was as good as she was witty, aud had such a taste in breakfast-caps? Such com panionable bodies don't grow on every bmh," says the good Jerninghara" mere. Why did she let her marry t" "Probably it is her own matchmaking that mater bewails. She is always in triguing to throw her nice creatures in the way of inflammable curates; ami when they are happy she gets time to remember her own desolation. You dou't know of an epitome of all the vir tues, with good looks, good taste, and a ready wit, who is going a-begging for three hund.ed or so a year and unlim ited spoiling at the bands of one of the sweetest of old ladies?" "I know such a nice old thing, who was Florry's finishing governess but then she's deadly pious,and she snuffs." "I beg your pardon, but how can you make such a suggestion? The nutter would sneeze her dear old head off aud she must have something agreeable to look at, now she is too lazy to visit much. Pil Is not a beauty, but she is rather pretty, and as good as gold. Think again." "I believe lean find what you require; I will think it over, and write to your mother before the Pilkingtou's exodus takes place." But I do not depart the next dav, nor for many a day. Dick gets perfectly unbearable with his slangy insinuations, for he is deprived of his beloved through Miss Trevor's severe illness a nervous fever, they say aud he revenges him self on me. "Xot going ud to Pan?" he says, in pretended surprise. "Why.Milly Whit man is there, and the Hethertous; and the beauty is an awfully stunning f rien I or cousin of Miss Dolly's, which would ensure you no end of iunings." "Pau is detestable so early in the sea son, witli tourists and roaring lions of that sort," I answer lazily. What dear little reasons the nice little boy can give for the throwing of dust in the general eye; but it is the original donkey all the sane that has cooked his goose;" and with a sort of bray he gives vent to his feelings. "Glad you haven't lost your mother tongue, but you forget what an ass you are while there's illness in the hous." "By Jove, yes! Poor little Helen! It's no wonder he carries a black dag, so heavily weighted as she is. Do you know she comes ot those Cornwall Trevors who manage to go through all they can lay bauds on aud bar cad of 1 a brother was near having to cut the service lately ou account of over-due play-debts. Florry thinks that Helen helped him out of the hobble, but she does not know how. If it should be that she borrowed of that pig Moise, who hung about her last month and comes every day for news of her, I'm afraid we all know what she has mort gaged, poor girl 1" Before Dick's speech is ended I have a buzzing in my ears, see blood-spots dancing in the air, and, feel that I am furiously angry. Have I a right to in terfere? Of course not and vet I shall. If I kick Moise aud he challenges me, will that touch Miss Trevor's good name? I cannot thiuk clearl , so I go off for a gallop, which gets the fury aud the hot blood off my brain. Coming clattering down the road I see that same Je w ou a very screw of a nag, and fancy him on his way to his daily inquiry. I fear it will be too late to go and ask news of M iss Trevor at your hotel, " he remarks, consulting his watch. "And I forbid you to make such in quiries," I say offensively. He looks very savage and astonished, and demands by wi.at right I forbid his visits. "I do not choose to explain, but they are to cease." "Jfuis, Monsieur " "Mais, Mon sieur Moise, the subject is ended." I feel awfully shabby bullying such a little fellow; but he might fight. Helen Trevor's good name must not make me act the coward, since she could take mine instead. Jews are usually plucky, and good shots. "There is my card if you wish to call me to account," 1 suggest. But he does not take the card, and stammers, hesitating j "It would be foolish in me to notice your bravado, since the lady happens to be my promised wife." His wife good Heaven! I thiuk I shall go mad with the idea; but I clench my bauds, aud only say quietly " 1 ou are mistaken she has changed her mind." "Changed her niiudl" he screams. And my twelve thousand pounds! I am tricked, robbed, swindled!" Hold your lying tongue!" I say be tween my teeth. " You shall have your money when and where you will." Words wordsl And I have no se curity!" he moans, his teeth chattering with cold and fear of loss. Whea and where?" I ask briefly; and ue at last consents to name a day and place. As he is t uruiug away to his hotel I bethink me to add, "If I hear of your mentioning this affair or the lady's name, it is to me you will ac count for it. Aud Jin that case I will break your heal. Comprenez?'" I leel really sneaking as I say good night to the man whom 1 have so se curely badgered. 1 he sum is a stiff one; but the yacht can be put down, and the maler will lend her "pickle" a "liver" without asking questions, bless her dear heart! The rest will be easy, without altering our usual habits, or restricting expend iture, which would not please my mother. When I reach the house I hear th-t Miss Trevor Is better is even by special permission to be seeu this evening iu the Jeruiughams' boudoir. I ask for a ticket, and spend the time up to nine o'clock iH telegraphing necessary orders and writing to the maler. 1 am iu a horrible fright about the confession. Vhat if she is "high ami mighty," and says she prefers Moise and the shekels? I have almost told her I despised her and it was imertl uent meddling ou my part. I must ask her to be Mrs. Ted when I have blocked her refusing by driving off the Israelite, She is lying in a great white covered invalid chair, and looks very frail and shadowy, with her two slender hands resting listlessly in her lap. Her long hair is thrown back in a wavy, curly mass and she lifts two very big beseech ing eyes, but does not smile on me. Something quite chokes my speech for a moment, aud then I break the silence iu a brutal, man-like way. "Miss Trevor Helen," I stammer. like a schoolboy, "I have told Moise that you are going to marry me that he cau't have you." Oh, the lovely color her indignation gives her, aud the tears of anger in her luminous eyes! I see I am done for; and how can I help it? I just gather her up into my arms, to hold her to my aching, longing heart once more, to kiss her white cheeks, her brow, her throat. her hands my darling, oh, my lost dar ling! She is nearly swooning, for she lies against my heart whiter than any broken lily. "Put me in my chair," she whispers faintly. Ashamed at last, I obev, and cling. kneeling, to her lovely hands. She is too weak to reproach me. I must marry Monsieur Moise," she explains wearily; "there are strong bind ing reasons." "But he is paid. Hie bond is can celled and you are free." Her eyes dilate, aud, oh, she smiles and looks content! Will you take me, Helen? Will you come to me?" I entreat. She lifts her perfect hand and motions for silence; and, when some long cruel moments have passed thus, she turns to me aud answers calmly and Urinly No, dear friend, I cannot be your wife. I will love you as a sister might, and ask of Heaven to find you some sweet, pure soul who has never been dragged in the dust of this life. You are brave and chivalrous, and wish to help me in the ouly way possible. You shall give me this material aid till such time as I can repay it with gold as clean as yours." "But if I love you if I cannot live without you?" I groan. "Oh, noble soul, you do not wish that anything should be wanting in your gift?" "Oh nelen, then you cannot love me nor learn to love me as my wife?" Such a sad sweet smile answers me! Love will not be forced, and she is grown too loyal to deceive me. "Kiss me yet once again, my brother," she falters, "and then leave me. Don't let me meet you here again," she whis pers against my fierce throbbing heart. "1 think it will kill me " She swoons quite away with these last words, aud I may kiss her whits lips at my will, for she is as dead to this world as she is henceforth to me. I pass some weeks with my mother, who has great hois of Mrs. Jerning hatn's newly-discovered paragon of com panions. When my buiiness affairs are arranged, and Pil's successor Imminent, 1 go out to India and have some glo rious pig-stickin r and other such games. There Is no shirking the fact that I am badly touched; but men do not die of such things. A bad sign for my six months' cure is the fact that I do not take kindly to the severe flirting in viceregal cii'ies, nor yet console myself with facile grass widows, of which there are plenty on the voyage home. I meau, after a good long sicll with the maler, and a turn at Mayfair as a mental hygienic, to be off to Norway. The yacht has not been sacrificed to my autumn's Quixotism, thanks to the same guardian angel who demanded frequent congratulations on the passession of Pil'e successor. Life has not lost all its savor, as I find when I once more bug my little mother, to my heait, aud she kisses and coos ove:' her prodigal. Of course I made a cieau breast of all my troubles before going away. "Be a lit'le early: for the Tremen- heres are coming to dine, and you must meet Pil's successor beforehand," says the thoughtful dear. I have forgotten the paragon! But. mindful of the probable tastes of advanced spinsterhood, I reject the buttonhole bouquet winch my man has carefully prepared, and, to his indigna tion, descend in sweet simplicity. stand for a moment on the terrace, be fore the drawing-room windows, look. ing aliout on the only place I can really cM home; aud, despite its one sore spot, I am content in my heart. I hear a step behind me Pil's successor! I turn and advance to meet a graceful woman in fleecy white draperies and can I be lieve my eyes? She draws near and holds out those two perfect hands I kissed last year, and Helen Trevor's sweet eyes look up into mine, dewy and timid, a soft flush coming and going in her cheeks. "If I might change my mind and ask you to take me, this time!" I have her in my arms next my heart close, before she can finish, aud answer her with passionate kisses. "Is that the way you present yonrsell to my couipaniou?" asks my mother, severely. "Did you conduct yoursell hi that way to poor Pil? Such unheard of behavior for a drawing-room ter raeel SupiHwe Florry Tremenhere had arrived!" Then she drops the majestic to take to the objurgative, and threat ens me with the garden engine if I dc not cease looking idiotically happy at which juncture I seize her and make her do an involuntary war-dance, iu hei b ue velvet and pearls, to the serious discomposure of her silver curls, and the detp disgust of the butler, who comes to announce our guests. My beautiful Helen had only believed In my love when she learned It from that leaky vessel of a mater, after some months' close companionship had taught theru to love each other. I feel like Mr. Pickwick.as if nothing earhly shall induce me to go to bed, lest mv happiness turn out to be a ureain but a long sweet chat on the terrace under the full moon makes it seem more real. "You were never a fortune hunter, ma Unite Mle," I blurt out, "and 1 was au ass to believe it for a moment,"! urrt li a glow of indignation. "Oh, dear, Tm afraid I was! But how could I know what a vile thing it would be until after I saw you at Cau- terets?" "Youdout mean it?" I interrupt, enraptured. "And you loved me then?" "How shabby of you to make me con fess it, when you didn't care for me theu!" answers my love, her face hid den I do not say where. "Helen! Why, I lovad you madly from the first moment I looked in your matchless facel'' "But you seemed dovoted to Dolly Hetherton. It was that which made me so desiierale and wicked then and since. What did it matter whom married, since it could not be him loved? My brother, too, had to be helped at once. Theu I saw as plain as day that Dolly loved Jay, aud so, since I could do no better. 1 threw him over, sure that the fracas would make them know their hearts and be happy to gether. I cannot excuse the Molce af fair, unless 1 tell you that it prevented my brother's death by his own hand. Aud, now that the title and estates art bis, mamma says he is all site could de sire. It is you who have saved us all." Latest in Cum, "The styles in walking canes are constantly changing," said a prominent dealer In imported canes on Broadway to a reporter. "The most popular and stylish is now made of hazel wood, with a buckhorn handle shaped like a shepherd's crook. The more expensive have silver bands just below the handle If the owner desires he can have his rnoivgram cut on the band, and if he is very lab-de-dah he will do It. They are the latest Loudon rage in canes and the dudes here are not slow in adopting them. The plain canes without the sil ver band sell at 2, and the highest at $7. But the hazel wood and the cute way the buckhonr handle Is put on make them odd and from the first in sured their popularity." "What style of cane ranks next In popularity?" "Those with small silver caps. For a long time the silver crooked handle was in the ascendency. But the street venders with their cheap imitations lu nickle handles caused their popularity to wane. There is nothing that breaks into the trade in stylish canes as disas trously as cheap imitations. Generally a man who carries a cane has a certain amount of vanity aud pride, and to see snide people trying to swell it on a cheap imitation cane disgusts him with even the genuine." "Are any new kinds of canes being introduced?" "Yes. The crystallite, so called be cause the handle is a crystallization of certain wood found only in South Am erica. They are mounted In tigerite. The handles are frequently designs of the heads of animals They are very scarce and cannot be purchased for less than f 12 or 15. They are some what too expensive ever to be univer sally popular. Oaly the very rich can afford them." "What of the gold and ivory-headed canes?" "They will never go out of style. The gold beaded canes are worn on holiday occasiens. The ivory-headed are still monopolized by old men, and probably will be for many years to come." An habitual gambler. The average hotel waiter is a perfect prodigy at cards he takes everything with bU tray. The common man is the victim ot events. Whatever happens is too mncb for aim; 4ie is drawn this way and that i war, and his whole hie is a burr. Robert cbMNMtnn. A more disadvantageous position in point of time and of famous contempo raries has perhaps seldom fallen to the lot of a composer than that in which KrllllmilTltl fnnnil himoalf t tl.a Antunl Schumann found himself at the outset of his career. Ou the one side the daz zling personality of Mendelssohn, a verv embodiment of charm, of learning, and of ready-made success; on the other,the more subtle but scarcely less fascina ting genius of Chopin, whose superla tive qualities as a virtuoso were enough to command resiect for his amazing originality and innovations. The mem ories of Beethoven, Schubert and Wel)er overshadowed him; the indomi table energy of Wagner was forcing its way almost in his fxtsteps. These were conditions to discourage any but a man conscious of his own necessity and certain of his chosen course. Not only, however, did Schumann justify his own courage, but he has earned the gratitude of the world of music by being me ursi 10 welcome tne genius ot Johannes Brahms, and by himself sup - plying the link which connects our greatest living composer wun tne cias- sicai masters. This, too, he accotn plished without any striking personal attractions to assist him, with his pow ers as a virtuoso irretrievably injured; hindered at the outset by the grave drawback of an imperfect musical edu cation, aud by the waywardness of a mind so poetically imaginative as to be more than usually resentful of dry but wholesome theory. Nor does Schuman seem to have been naturally endowed with that sH)iitaneous facility which in Schubert almost took the form of bard earned learning, aud certainly, as far as the actual workmanship and manlpu lation of his ideas were concerned, reu deretl the technical mastery of theory superfluous, though it undoubtedly in Jured his sense of proportion. The fa cility, it is true, came to Schumann later in life, but it is not difficult to trace the Influence of the one great composer native to Vienna, whose gen lus and charm came home to Schumann as it did later to the world, with all the force of au unexpected revelation. May it not have been the very sense of his own position in the eyes of the world at that time overpowered by the in. fluence of Meudelss3lm, which fanned the flame of his affection for Schubert, himself the victim of the all-engrossing genius of Beethoven? However that may be, we have at any rate to thank his enthusiasm for the revelation of Schubert's genius, and for the begin ning ot the systematic excavation of his manuscripts, which bits been carried out so far (perhaps a little too far) in our own day. Cola ud silver. It Is a curious fact that the natious which use gold and silver in measure values draw more gold from the trade of the world than do those countries that measure values exclusively on gold basis. England and Germany, gold-untfc countries cannot retain their hordes of gold, while France and the Uui'.ed States are constantly adding to their stocks of the yellow metal. Before the passage of the silver coiuaga act In our gold and silver was exported in immense quantities " When the Bland bill was passed over President Hayes' veto, there was in the couutry less than $-200,000,000 in gold. In the seven years that have intervened we have added about j-.iio,uuu,uuu to our stock of silver and $400,000,000 to our stock of gold. It is kuown, moreover, that some $40,000,000 worth of gold held abroad belongs to Americans, but is lent out on call in Lngland, Germany and other gold-unit countries, where the rate of interest is much higher than it is with us. Money is easy in this conn try because of abundance of funds due to the silver law. Times have beeu bad all over the world because of the oera tion of the gold unit of ' alue, which has depressed prices. But the gold. unit nations have suffered far more than have the silver or the bt-metallic countries. Tba frc-KlaeiBl Man. Was be black ? That we don't cer tainly know, but all analogy would lead one to answer positively, yes. White men seem, on the whole, to be a very recent aud novel improvement on the original evolutionary pattern. At any rate he was distinctly hairy, like the Ainos, or aborigines of Japan; In our own dav, of whom Miss Isabella Bird has drawn so startling and sensational a picture. Several of the pre-glacial sketches show us lank and gawky sav ages with the body covered with long scratches answering exactly to the scratches which represent the hanging hair of the mammoth, and suggesting that man then still retained bis old original hairy covering. The new skulls and other fragments of skeletons now preserved to us also indicate that our old master and his contemporaries much resembled in shape and build the Australian black fellows, though their foreheads were lower and more reced ing, while their front teeth sti 11 projec ted In huge fangs, faintly recalling the immense canines of the male gorilla. Quite apart from any theoretical con siderations as to our probable descent (or ascent) from Dr. Darwin's hypo thetical "hairy arboreal quadruman- ous ancestor," whose existence may or may not be really true, there can be no doubt that the actual historical re mains set before us pre-glacial man as evidently approaching in several importaat respects the higher monkeys. War VmmIs to Neutral Waters. On a declaration of war the British man-of-war and the Russian corvette which have appeared at Norfolk, Va., would become belligerents and the waters where they now are neutral. They would not be entitled to remain within our jurisdiction nor to make any hostile demonstrations against each other while here. This is a recognized principle of neutrality. The President is authorized by Congress to enforce it. By section 5,2SS of the Revised Stat utes be is empowered "to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States as shall be necessary to compel any foreign vessel to depart the United States in all cases in which by the laws of nations or the treaties ot the United States she ought not to re main within the United States." When one of two hostile vessels leaves neutral waters the other is re quired to remain twenty-four hours be fore starting. Closer following is looked upon in the nature of chase or pursuit, which is not lawful within neutral limits. The jurisdiction of the United States extends three miles from the coast. Beyond that are the high seas, where belligerent war ves eel" are not subject to neutrality restric- j won m men: uyoiawuua agauuo una . anouuv Ba Folk. Well.' said Reuben, the storv-tcller. Yather alwava w:mUf :i hnrw lwjins ! the folks in Greeiie lived scattered, and ' tn I...I nn i . . i . i. he had so far to go to attend funerals and weddings aud visit schools, you know; but he never felt as if he could afford to buy one. But one day he was coming afoot from Hildreth and stranger asked him to ride. Father said: 'That's a handsome norse you're driving. I should like to own such a horse myself.' 'What will you give for him?' said the man. 'Do you want to sell?' says father. 'les, I do; and I'll sell cheap, too,' says ne. ou, well,7 says father :t's no use talking, for I haven t the money to buy witn.' 'Make an offer.' said he. 'Well, just to put an end to the talk, ' father says, 'I'll give you "j dollars for , uie horse. ' 1 'You may have him,' says the man, as quick as'a flash, 'but you'll repent or your bargain in a week.' 'Why, what ails the horse? says fath- er. 'Ails him? ne's got the Old Xick in him, that's what ails him, says he. 'If lie has a will to go he'll go, but if he takes a notion to stop, all creation can't start nun. I've stood and beat that norse till tne sweat ran oft me iu streams; I've fired a gun close to his ears: I've burned sha gs under him. i mignc nave Deat him to death, or roasted him alive before he'd have budged an inch. 'I'll take the horse," says father. 'What's his name? 'George,' said the man. 'Well, father brought him borne, and we boys were pleased, and we fixed a place for him in the bain,- aud curried him down and fed him well; aud father said, 'Talk to him, boys, and let hiut know you feel friendly.' 'So we coaxed and petted him, and the next morning father harnessed him aud got into the wagon to go. But Georgie wouldn't stir a step. Father got out and patted him, and we brought bim apples and clover tops; and ouce in a while father would say, 'Get up, Georgie,' but he didn't strike the horse a blow. By and by, he says: "This Is going to take time. Well, Georgie, we'll see which has got the most pa tience, you or 1.' So he sat in the wagon and took out his skeletons.' 'Skeletons?' said Poppet, Inquiringly. 'Of sermons, you know. Ministers always carry around a little book to put things into they think of when they are out walking or riding or hoeing iu the garden. 'Well, father sat two full hours be fore the horse was ready to start; but when he did, there was no more trouble for that day. The next morning twas the same thing over again, only Georgie gave in a little sooner. All the while it seemed as if father couldnt do eno'igh for the horse. He was round the stable feeding him and fussing over him. and talking to bim in his pleasant, gentle way: aud the third morning, wheu he had fed and curried him and harnessed him with his ow n hands, somehow there was a different look In the horse's eyes. But, when father was ready to go. Georgie put his feet together and laid his ears back and wouldn't stir. Well, Dove was playing about the yard, and she brought her stool and climbed up by the horse's head. 'Dove, tell what you said to Georgie that morning?' '1 gave bim a talking to.' said the little girl. 'I told him it was perfectly 'diculousfor him to act so; that he'd come to a real good place to live, where everybody helped everybody; that he was a minister's horse, and God would not love him if he was not a good horse. That's what I told bim, and then I kisred him on the nose." And what did George do?' 'Why, he heard every word I said; and when I got through, he felt so 'shamed of himself he couldn't hold up his head; so he just dropped it till it al most touched the ground, and he lock ed as sheepish as it he had been stealing a hundred slieeps. es ,' said Keuben, 'and when father told him to go he walked off like a shot. He has never made auy trouble since. That's the way father cured a balky horse. And that night when he was unharnessing he rubbed his head against his shoulder and told him, as plain as a norse could speak, that be was sorrv. He's tried to make it ud with fathei ever since for the trouble he made him. ' When he's loose in the pasture rathe, ; has only to stand at the bars aud call his name, and he walks up quiet as an old sheep. Why, I've seen him back himself between the shafts of the old wagon many a time to save father trou ble. Father wouldn't take two hund red dollars for the horse today. He eats anything you give him. Sis very often brings out some of her dinner to him.' He likes to eat out of a plate.' said Dove; 'it makes him think he's folks.' S uk I iu-Berber lane. The journey tor troops from Cairo to Berlier by way of the Nile is about 1,200 miles, and presents more difficul ties than were supposed when it was undertaken by Lord Wolseley. From Suakim to Berber in a direct line across the desert the distance is not more than 200 miles, but the absence of water makes the journey an impossibility for large bodies of troops. Even a railroad would be difficult to maintain, owing to the need of large quantities of water for the engine and for the guards along the road. Water must be had at any cost if the attack is to be made from Suakim. The plan now adopted is to run two four inch pipes over the whole dis tance. Every thirty miles or so will be a tank and two engines with a cap acity for forcing water along at a pies sure of 2,000 pounds to the square Inch, Two pumps are used in case of acci dent to one. In forcing oil from the oil fields to the seaboard we have to cross mountains, and the work la tre mendous compared to running water along a level surface. The pumping engines to be usel are about fifteen feet long, and require from 150 to 200 horse power of steam. The contract calls for nothing but the steam tumps, troops will be neeaed to guard the engine-bouses of every station, of course. If the Arabs tamper with the pipes it will be kuown almost Instantly at the nearest pumping-atation owing to lessened pressure in case the pipes are broken or to an increase of pressure should one of the aires placed at inter vals along the lme be maliciously clos- ine memoeranip or the Mormon nuiearo estimated as 79,80. NEWS .IN BRIEF. The British army contains .'11.C04 Irish soldiers. Calcutta s trade amounted to?100, 000,000 last year. Great Britaiu ha3 700,000 more fe males than male. EI Mahdi was a Voat builder before he became a prophst. Victoria, British Columbia, c'aimt a population of 13,0u0. A Vennout individual c'ainis to have a hen 39 years old. The horse, snvs a writer, cannot jump more than 27 feet. Minnie Ilauk has bought a chateau near Basle, Switzerland. The United States sends four iroa bridges a month to lini7.il. France paid $20,000 for the detruc tion of 1,305 wolves in 18S4. The kindergarten system was firsl practiced in Germany iu ISJ'J. Over 14,000,000 pounds of dynamite we made in the United States. The Hawaiian kingdom spends $73.- 000 a year for its public schools. General Vilas made 450 new post masters for his first mouth's work. England and France find it difficult work to civilize the barbarous nations. Henry M. Stanley hopes to visit the United States at the end of this month. Germany manufactured 137,000.000 cigarettes last year and France 000,000 000. The jails and penitentiaries of the Uuitea States contain over 50 .OOOcrim iuals. The freehold farms ot New Zeal and are estimated to be worth $170,000. 000. It Is estimated that 7,000,000 ser mons are annually preached to Ameri cans. For tropical fruit S4.715.357 waj paid at the port of Xew York during 1N.S. Canada's l'X) cheese factories pro duce oS.OOO.Ouo pounds of cheese a year. Thirty thousand people in Paris are engaged in the manufacture of artificial flowers. Japan has now :!0,000 common schools, 3,000,01.10 pupils and S4,700 teachers. London has tN.iKtO people who eet their living by appearing iu public ou the stage. Oiierators in the jute factories ol Dundee. Scotland, get only $1.(32 to $4.40 a week. Piute Indians are proving success- fjl fanners on the Pyramid Reservation in Nevada. Physicians say that about II per cent of all school-children suffer from headaches. About l,250,0n0 cat-skms are used annually by furriers, and about 350,000 SKUI1K-SKII1S. A belt of solid salt 0-5 feet thick h:m been discovered on a farm near Ftst Aurora, N. Y. An English clergyman recently performed loS baptisms and 9 marriages on one Sunday". ' Indians have killed 1,500 deer in a single county in Wyoming during the winter of 1685 The thousand of finger rings worn in this country are estimated to be worth $53,000,000. One-half of the orange crop of Florida is raised within a radius of 24 miles around Ocala. The Government of Montana Ter ritory aid 12,000 last year in bounties for scalps of wild annuals. The largest vineyard in tht world is iu California ami contains between 3, 000,000 and 4,01)0,000 vines. The can and maintenance of the White-house grounds and greenhouse! costs $-,000 to $10,000 a year. The nuruler of farmers in the Pennsylvania legislature is said to be decreasing from ye;tr to year. Some genius has invented a fishing rod that registers the precise numbet and weight of the fishes caught. Coal mining machines capable ol doing the work of twenty meuare being introduced in the Panhandle mines. Patent medicines are estimated by a leading English medical lournal to cause the death of 1.50,000 persons pei year' The farmers of Oregon will sow a larger acreage or wheat this year than last, and are now busy in all liortions of the State. A bill has been passed by the Texas Senate requiring lailioad companies to give thirty days notice of a reduction in wages. The experiment of ostrich farming now being tried in California, is likely to prove a success, according to reports: from there. In 40 years the mean duration of human life in England has gained 2 years among males and nearly 3J years among females. A courtship that has covered a pe riod of thirty-one years, is said to be still tenderly pursuing its rosy way in Stratford, Conn. A Parliamentary return shows that in four years 53 men in the ranks of the British Army have been promoted to be commissioned officers. About a hundred marriages between Christian and Chinese couples are re ported as having taken place in the San Francisco Mission Chapel. American railroad securities are the ouly investments In the London market that are not suffering from the scare of a war with Russia. The total of the enrolled volun teers in Great Britaiu at the present time Is announced as 215,000 men, the greatest number yet attained. The crews of the New Jersey life- saving stations say that the weather ot last month was the most severe the ever experienced along the coast. The newspaiersand periodicals now published in the United States and Ca nada number 13,4o2,an increase of 1,000 in the last year, and of 5X13 in the last decade. A chicken with four legs is exciting no little cwriosity in Orange City, Fla., where it is walking around as bale and hearty as any other member of the feathered tnbe- The Hon. Jeff Storts, member of the Missouri Legislature fromShannou county, is credited wiih an intention to introduce a bill compelling circusses to do as they advertise. From tablss that are being com piled it has been found that there Is a d crease in the present year of ships launched in the United Kingdom ta the amount of about 450.000 gross tons,
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