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.
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.' 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,
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, 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."
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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
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:! 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
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u.w :
a.'-:
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: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.
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. 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-
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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,