B. F. SOHWEIER.
THE OOISTITimOI THE UUOI-AIB THE E8T0SOEME1T OP TEE LAVS.
Editor and Proprietor-
VOl, XXXIX.
MIFFJJNTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. "WEDNESDAY. MAY 20, 1SS5.
NO. 21.
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''t i ''l tliy j;ui!l aiul shame.
t,n: u'U of mam.ik i.oktos.
into the garden," says
: abruptly; "will you
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fr.irt. t:e
.:s invitation, which, though
- ,1'unvliut in the tone o( a
;s accompanied by a glance
IV eves most men find
.;.:, lVnnis Lynne steps after
uough Cie low i reuch win
.lies Mis. Iorton, wakinz
iowsv iHTus.il of a three-vol-
leil
Maggie to .lit ou a
Ut if "he :
C.aie that -i.i
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into the sunl I de-
lias turned into the side
ars no tnoi-e.
1 1 m i say yui a;e to put on
) ami get it for Hie. Den
(! fciiow."
.t :
ii .ii:1::.' over tlie low wall,
t.-hmg the liver glide st,
::s i t n! us. The sun is dis
r.i:m .if gold aiming the coils
:-i i.iwii liai:' and throwing
stadows across Iier white
0nvi:i..-
iif l:er liift
avi-r:i;'
tln-x". t!.i
ill Ihr tl'',
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CVriiiliL'! ' I
f..iiit breeze stirs the leaves
ilmve her.
! the river looks ou this hot
in. n Us Maggie, as she ties
I out the lioal? We can
-:ili', in the shade. Will
her !..it-'.n:..
-ii ii; I
lrei e.i t!us
Viiu C..IH-. M
L n ton?" asks Dennis
A ff hiiii-.i'.es later the smooth face
of llv .!: let! cts, lesides the trees,
;;:. I.i! 1:1 which are Sealed a youth
aial a iiuiiiini Tlie eyes of t lie youth
are with a li?;lit warmer than
tiiit nt lur e fi li'ti.Wlip.
"Km !:.t'. I'oiiit shall I steer, Dennis
tin- old uuk at tlie bend there?" asks
Mivie, .iiljustmj; the tiller ropes and
settling lineir among tlie cushions.
"Oh, it diiesu't matter in tlie least
just steer where you like!" says iufat
imtrti iN-nnis.
"V-s, it lines matter. You were quite
cross Willi ilrliert lieuson the other
day. Vuu said lie ought to fix upon
ftiiue iMint ahead, and keep the bow of
tlie Wt in a line with it."
"Tliat was ipnte different. Herbert's
af.11!. Ynu are managing splendidly.
His- Liiton.''
"Il'liich shows how much you know
Wiiu' it; for t tiaveut moved the rud
der at nu ll yet!"'' laughs Maggie. "I
am w.iiting foronleis. And don't de
peuJ on me too lunch, for I always foi-
grt, an 1, in cites of emergency, pull
tin- wrou r Mile."
Oa they :!oat througli the evening sun
slime, la.king lightly sometimes, and
ftiiiirtirnes silent. A hxk of supreme
Oii.ieni is mi Maggie's face, as, lioding
tlirtillei io-s liMisely iii her hands, she
Imiis liliy I ark. dividing her attention
U-twreii the ih of the sculls beneath
tlie glassy waters and tlie trees and
fliiuvrs iij-in the river banks, the tall
rushes and hioad leaves of the water
liiws. Kinis are singing evening songs,
and frnin aiiumg the clustering sedges
coihf the melancholy twot-tweatof the
emit and tlie hoarse croak of the frog.
With apparently little or no exertion
Imad-clu-sied 1 tennis wields the sculls,
feast iiisr ,h soul the while with gazmg
Ui!i the fai-e of his companion.
Suddenly they turn a bend 111 the
rAer; aiid. In, the western sky is before
them, with the reat red suu Iianging
Inn iii. the hoi iou. Iii)dscaie and
nvei are hat heil in the warm ruddy glow.
"lhm laiitifii!'' exclaims Maggie,
';'iiig to dabb'e her while hand in
the crinisoiie.i t1(ie. "Iviuiis, I'm a
fairv iiueen saitiiiir ,,n to mv nulace of
it ml there,
tlie siJIi, t.
he sas, pointing towards
'"Ami what
am IV" asks Dennis.
"Aiu 1 the k:?:gV"
"Kiny ( Mi, dear, no! You're only
a slavi ;i pixy tb;tt 1 graciously allow
t ferry my royal hark across this river
of liipnit gold that lli ws before my gates
of tii;'z yniider. There is 110 king, of
bmre."
'Then 1 r,aiiy refuse to be a slave;
and i won't l- a pixy either, whatever
tlut may lie,"s.iys Dennis, unshipping
""" .I s. "Your highness must sum
lumi Mint- other minion to row you to
5'll! pai.nv
"Well, hut you can't 1 king. "Who
"v"i lieai il of a fairy king?" laughs
M.ig.;:e. 11 ashing a saucy glance from
'iieath the inn of her shady hat.
"Hi ie we stop until your majesty
ni.d:, s me one;" and iH'linis folds his
""'is, and ines to look ohstinate.
'Hurt U- f,i!ish, Dwiinsl Take the
.'i!!s, and let us get luick; they'll l
'in!eriiig what has K-come of us.
Millie, H. j,,NU 1m,v."
'"I'm not a hy," rejoins Dennis. "I
am as ol.l a.-, ynu are."
''hut giils of nineteen are years older
Uiun U. ,,f that age; anv one will tell
J"'i that," savs Mag-ie loftily.
"1 don't care; I'm not almyl" reiter
jj's !e.iuis. rising lutstily, whereupou
J,.'i;ie screams
"" " i d upset the boat!"
. ss of the frailty of the little
Tail, he seats himself beside her in the
"i. There is a Hush upon his hand
iaie yming lace deeper than that cast
fieiehy the setting sun as he says
"I have often wished to tell you that
' "ii't lie called a ly. 1 wou't lie
lutiiii, ;II1V longer, Maggie. You
pl not look iike that. I will call you
-Mamiie;' ou call me 'Dennis.'"
''lH-iuiisr' is all that Maggie can ex
tUiiii 111 her surprise.
'Sin.etiuies you are kind and gentle,
ai"d 1 fancy you care for me. Theu you
'e ctild ami worse thau inJifferent.and
;and oU treat me like a child. Mag
tell me do you love me?"
'"i"ive you?" felloes Maggie.
I'dj,, I K-i,nirs His lips are quivering
HUlfllliy.
.. "Suy '"iii you do say that you do a
'"Ie. Aii, Maggie darling, I love you
'th all my heaii and soul and strength!
t' tl :lt "" c:tre f"r uie iust a ,ittlei
J-n;gie." He tries to Uke possession
J" her hand, but Maggie has recovered
krself now.
'1 Minis, you forget and you pre
WDit!, I think 1 Ls this how you repay
ii father's kindness?"
iWf forget? I wish I could," he
Mj', wiui inner nine smile.
"How me back," ordera Maggie ira
eriously.
"Not until you have answered me."
And the love that has flushed bis face
is giving place to a hard set expression.
"I will answer nothing so absurd.
How me back at once."
"1 have said I will not and I won't
. . .. 1 : 1
oniii juu mve me an answer," says
ieuiii3, wonuei ing ai 11 is broken alle
giance aliuoat as much as Miggie does.
This audacity and resistance on the
part of ber usually tractable knight
ioues Maggie's anger. Her gray eyes
darken and flash scornfully. Words
buit from her lips whicli, when too
late, she would give much to recall.
"Then, if you will have it, I do not
love yon. lAio you, a lad who from
the lowest place in my father's otlice,
through kindness and much indulgence,
rose to lie my father's clerk? You for
get your position, Mr. Lynuel Take me
back, if you please."
"1 will," answers Dennis, resuming
his former place.aud shipping the sculls:
-but first let me tell you tliat you are a
cold heartless flirt, and that I think you
will live to repent what you have just
said."
Tlie lad's face is altered, and so is his
voice; Miss Lorton is frightened,
"I am not a flirt!" she says imperi
ously. "1 have never encouraged you!"
"Then why have you been so cruelly
kind to me all these years?" lie asks bit
terly. "Why have you let me come
day after day, and seemed glad when 1
came and sorry when I left you? Why
do you treat me with more familiarity
than any of the other fellows that come
dangling after you?"
"My lather w ished me to be kiud to
you, when lie brought you to us years
ago; and 1 thought you would under
stand." "Then I Lave been fooled; and you
are a cruel coquette, Maggie,"
"1 am not!" cries Maggie indignantly.
"How me home!"
Without another word the sculls are
d'piH-d into the water, and, saving for
their nil notoiuiiis splash, the little bark
steals through the twilight shadjws in
grim silence. For the siui has set, the
tairy palace is dissolved, aud the soul
of the queen aud her attendant" sprite
are apparently sunk in gloom as deep as
that which is falling around them.
They reach the wooden landing-step
at last, and Maggie is obliged to rest
her hand in the broad palm of Denni
to enable her to laud. He holds it a
moment after she has stepped from the
boat.
"I do not give up, Maggie," he says
in a low firm voice. "In spite of your
scorn, I will win you yet."
"I believe you wish to insult me!"
she gasps angrily, snatching away her
hand.
"Xo; but while we both live, and you
are unmarried, I will not give up hope."
Maggie's pride can stand no more.
She hurries into the house, gains her
own room, and, shutting tlie door,
bursts into a passion of sobs and tears
the source of which lies in a complexity
of feelings she herself cannot aualyze.
Foreiuosl conies Uie seuse of irriUiti-ju
and anger towards Deunis. And now
niingling with ber indignation, comes
the remembrance of how she had re
ceived the confession of tlie infatuated
youth. Hot tears flow afresh.
Poor Dennis! How despicable, how
narrow-minded she must have appeared!
She had not thought herself capable of
such meanness. She might have crushed
his holies in words that would not have
left behind them this intolerable feeliug
of shame and dissatisfaction. But bad
she crushed them? Here Maggie's cog
itations relapse into bewilderment, for
the present exiierieuce of Dennis has
overthrown every previous estimate of
his character.
"What's com ta Dennis Lynne,
Thomas?" says gtod commonplace Mrs.
Lorton.
The family are at breakfast; acd Mrs.
Lorron's ample form, clad m btilliant-ly-colored
morning gown, presides over
her husband's handsoinely-apoiuted
table. There is a little heightening ef
Dm p. d or in Marrrri-'s cheek s as she list
ens very" attentively for the answer,
lliougn apparently uiiconcemeu.
I-'.ii Dennis I.viine?" savs Mr. Lor
ton alisently, raising his eyes for a mo
ment lrom me letter ne is reaaing.
"Nothing. What should come to him?"
"Well, his behavior is odd. seeing that
he used to be here so ofUiu He hasn't
been in the bouse but once these two
weeks and then he was so short with
Maggie and me wasn't he, Maggie?
quite queer ard altered.and wouldn't
stop a moment wLeu he heard you were
out."
His head is full of something it
more consequence than women's rub
bish." says Mr. I-orton, folding his let
ters methodically and placing inem
caref ully in the breast-iocket of hiscoat.
"It can't be said but it's a place of great
trust," be continues ruminatingly; "but
I think I'm in tne rigni 10 give 11 mm.
resides, the lad told me himself he
wanted to go abroad."
Abroad!" ejaculates aiaggie.
I'll do well by ttie boy for Ids'
father's sake. It was through old 1'eter
Lynne I got uiy foot to the hall; ana
I'll see his son lias a chance of getting
his foot to the ball too and then it'll
l his own fault if he doesn't keep it
rolling."
"Iiws. Thomas, is one obliged to go
out of the country to get ou? I don't
like tlie notion of sending poor Dennis
among those nasty foreigners. I declare
I never felt at home a nay an uie iime
we were in France and the Germans
are worse."
"Now,Mary,who s talking ot Jr ranee.
You women never understand business,
hikI never will as long as you live.
You're always running off double quick,
and banging your heads up against some
stone wall or other."
"Oh. very well! It's a blessed thing
for you there are some things we ve a
1 ...o;,.r r Mr 1 .or to 11. or vou'd
li'niu o. " 11 " " l - -
often come badly off," says Mrs. Lor
ton, rising and ret ring wun grace
ami the last word.
I've had it in my mma ever since
loor Kendal died." says Mr. Lorton,
when he and Maggie are alone.
"Then I suppose lie win ie going 10
New York?" interrogates Maggie.
"I've no son of my own,ana 1 aiways
i t huiinvaliiiinlsonielvbv Dennis
wait w - - ; . a 1
if be turned out anything like wnat 1
honed. I beiieve he's a gooa ieuow,
aud a steady fellow. I liked the look
of him from the first; and, if I can, I'll
keep him from following nis uromei a
lead and going to the deuce."
n it. wise then to send him so far
out of your sight?" asks Maggie in a
low voice.
Mr Lorton glances shrewdly at ins
daughter. , '.
"He wants to go, 1 m yo"
watched him. and I can trust him; and
it'll lie a good thing both for him and
me. When he comes back. In a couple
of years or so, I'll see about giving him
an interest in the concern. I'll stick to
the lad if it's only for his father's
sake, I will."
"Did his father do so much for you,
papa?"
"I ve often said I was a selMnade
man and so I am, in a way; but it was
i.yime s lather gave me tlie start, Aug
My father your grandfather, that
you've never seen to rememlier wasold
Mr. Lynne's servant What do you
lliniK ot that, Maggie?"
"Your father!"
"Ay, he was. And the old gentle-nan
tool me into the works as oflice-boy.
mat's how I began life,"
"Did these very works once belong to
Mr. Lynne, papa?'' asks Maggie in sur
prise.
"Well, I wont say but what I've im
proved them, and spent a deal of money
ou fresh machinery, and that yes, and
been at more expense than Mr. Lynne
was ever put to. lsut the place had
been in the old man's family for gener
ations, so to speak. Why, they lived
in this very htiuse we're sitting in now,
w lieu 1 nrst remember tlieml"
"15ut liow came they to lose it all?"
"How is property "lost, M ig? The
sons were a wild lot; and old Lynne had
to mortgage part of the works to pay
their debts. When he died, he didu't
leave behind him near as much as was
expected."
"Why did you never tell me all this
before, father? asks Maggie.
"Where's the good ot raking up old
things that are none so pleasant when
they do come to light? Hotter let 'em
lie. Besides, you were at school wheu
I took Dennis into the otlice."
"Does Dennis know?"
"Know what? About his father do
ing well by me and mine, and my want
ing t j pay it up to him? Of course he
does! Uo and question your mother
now; she knows all about it; and it's
t uie I was at the works. Ta-ta. Take
care of your elf, my dear."
The days speed by, and the time for
Dennis s departure draws nearer and
nearer. Maggie has seen him many
times; but not yet has she found the
chance for which she is ou the watch,
Aud now Dennis has come to spend
his farewell eveuiug with the J .or tons.
Other lieople are in the room Herbert
Benson aud his sister, and two cousins
of Maggie's all old friends, who have
gathered together to seethe last of Den-
ins, aud to bid him "liod-speed."
(Quietly separating herself from the
group, Mazgie reaches the window, and.
raising the heavy curtain, stands iu tlie
deep recess, looking out with tear-
dimmed eyes upou the night. Soon she
becomes aware that she is not alone.
Instinct tells her who it is that has fol
lowed. Without turning, she says iu a
low tone
"I want to tell you how sorry 1 am
about about everything, Dennis."
As he makes uo answer, she turns to
look at him. In the dim light she can
barely trace the outline of his face.
She cannot see the exultation that leajw
into his eyes and flushes his cheeks with
new hope, so that he cannot find words
to siieak just yet.
"i)on't you understand? I am sorry
I was so rude to you I wish I had not
said what I did; and 1 want you to say
you will forget it will you, Dennis?"
The plaintive strains of music come
sighing through the thick curtains, and
mingling with them comes the whisper:
"1 have forgotten, Maggie."
"And I want you to rememlier only
the pleasant times when we were to
gether and I hope you will be very
happy and successful."
"Dearest, this is worth everything!"
And Dennis has Maggie's band in his.
"Hush, Dennis! Don't misunder
stand again," says Maggie gently.
"Are you two playing at hide and
seek there behind that curtain?" broke
in Herbert's loud voice uin this Utopia.
"Heaven bless you, Maggie!" whis
pers Dennis, leaving a passionate kiss
uim her hand.
He is gone the music has stopped
and Maggie buds that the world has all
at once become sadly dark aud dreary.
Scarcely five years have passed away,
and Mr. Loiton's views concerning
Dennis Lyune are more thau realized.
He has acquitted himself with much
credit while abroad, and is now juuior
partner ot the firm.
Since his return to England, he has
resumed bis intimacy with the Lortons,
becoming a constant visitor to the
house, as of yore. There are times
when Maggie thinks him very much al
tered, and then again he seems the Deu
nis of old days. He has never reoined
or approached the subject that vexed
her so on that summer evening long ago,
and yet something tells Maggie that he
has not forgotten.
Miss Lorton, with many advantages
of seeing and being seen in society, does
not lack admirers. As yet however not
oneapparently of these enamored swains
has succeeded in storming the citadel
of her heart. On this evening several
guests are dining at Mr. Lorton's hos
pitable board, and it is during a pause
in the conversation that tliat gentleman
calls out
"I say, Lynne, some of these young
folk want to see the new machinery at
work I Will you show it 'em, and ex
plain? You'd rather have a handsome
young fellow for showman thau an old
chap like me, I know."
Thus it comes about that a gay little
party ot men aud maidens stand, a few
days after, within the dingy factory
walls, under the kindly chaperoiiage of
capacious Mrs. Lorton. They have al
most completed their survey, and are
now halting, talKing and laughing mer
rily, before a huge mass of machinery.
"But what's this enormous wheel
for, with these great iron spikes stick
ing cut all round it? How does it work,
Mr. Lynne?"
'Wait a moment, and I will show
you," siys Dennis.
He moves off a few paces to give
some order to one of the men, and
stands watching hiin set the giant iu
motion; theu be turns. What is it that
makes his heart stand still and blanches
his face? Maggie, deep in an animated
conversation, is within au inch of ti e
big w heel. One moment, and she
"Miss Lorton Maggie stand back,
for Heaven's sakel" lie cries, but the
noise in the place drowns his voice, and
she does not hear it.
Hushing madly forward, be thrusts
her back, and. the next instant he is
caught up and wuirieu vio.eutiy into
op.' .. . .
One zh mose Maggie uas 01 me sick-
euing sight eie she falls helpless aud
unconsciaus to tne grounu,
"I dont know," says Mrs. Lortou,
two or three days after the catastrophe, I
"that it's wise to let Maggie go alone
to see that poor lad. Folk will get talk
ing, Thomas."
It is the sight of M iggie's figure dis
apteaiiiig down the drive that has
prompted this remark and also brought
a look of i?rplexity to Mrs. lxirton's
comely features. '
"Ia-I her be, M:try; let Maggie 1.
Folk may wag their tongues off before
I'll say a word to stop Iter. It's a poor
thing if. after a fellow's risked his life
tor her, she's not to go auigh him, and
he at death's dojr."
"1 can manage once in the day," con
tinues Mi's. 1oi'Uin, "and I wouldu't
miss for worlds; but Maggie's for run
ning dowu there at all hours, just to see
if there's any change. It would lie dif
ferent if he was himself and could re
cognize us: but, dear heart, I don't be
lieve he'd know his owu mother if she
w. is to come from th grave to him!"
Come, wife, let Maggie be, I say.
If anything was to happen him, you'd
lie glad we hadn't left turn to strangers."
"Goodness knows, I wouldn't lx
likely to neglect him. Thomas. Even
if it wasn't for his saving Maggie, 1
couldn't care for one of my own kin
more than I do for bun. I'm sure,
when they got him out, and I saw him
all cut and torn aud bruised, so that
you'd hardly know him to be a human
being at all oh, dear, it .makes me reel
all of a shake again to think of it! 1
never thought he'd breathe again. He's
a wonderfully clever man is Doctor
Jenkins. It's dreadful to think it might
have beeu our Maggie, isn't it?"
In tiie meantime Miiggie is seated by
the bedside of Dennis Lynne such an
altered, mangled Dennis Lynne! His
dearest friend would with diilieulty re
cognize hiux Tears gather in Maggie's
eyes as they fall upou the poor disfig
ured features. She has been sitting
there quite motionless for some time.
"Kh, but tbis'll do him a power o'
good!" whispers tlie nurse. "Won't
ye take something, miss. You've beeu
sitting here a go mi bit."
But Maggie puts her linger to her lip,
and motions her away.
The afternoon sun streams into the
room, aud the nurse rises to close the
Venetian blinds. Suddenly Maggie be
comes conscious that Uie eyes of the
sleeper are unclosed then that they are
lixed wonderingly upou her face; and.
Heaven be praised, the light of intelli
gence is in them!
"Maggie!" comes the feeble whisper.
"Am 1 dreaming?"
"No, Dennis, I am here be quiet
now; you are not to speak," says Mag
gie, wondering at her own calmness.
So a look of perfect eace aud dreamy
happiness spreads over Dennis Lynne's
pale face.
The sick man mends but slowly, '
which is not a matter of surprise to
most people, who wonder tliat he mends
at all.
At last corre the convalescent days.
Upon the first of these he lies, covered
up with rugs, upon a couch which ha?
been wheeled into an adjoining room.
"Welcome down again, Mr. Lynne!"
cries Maggie gaily, as she enters, bring
ing with uer uebctoua g tenuis of fresh
ness from the outside world. "But vou
have too strong a light upon your face.
Help me, Mrs, Dodd, to turn the head
of the couch. There isnl that bet-
tei?"
"Where did you learn to be such a
good nurse, Maggie?" asks Dennis, with
a sigh of content. Come and sit
where I can see you. Now talk to me,"
"Then I'll leave you to attend to Mr.
Lynne, Miss Irton," says the nurse.
while 1 go and see to things below a
bit."
"You're to be quick and get strong.
Dennis; we're going to irive you a fort
night, say, to do it in. We've leen lay
ing our heads together, and we've made
all sorts of plans for you."
"Have you? You are all very kind.
What are they?"
"Well, in the first place, we are going
to take you away with. us. 1 ou know
Doctor Jenkms advises a more bracing
ituiosphere, and papa wants a holiday.
t- it is arranged that we are all to go
together not very far off, because you
must not be fatigued with traveling.
V.'e want to find some nice quiet little
wat'eiing-place," says Maggie, knitting
her brows in ierplexity; "aud it seems
alut as difficult to light upon as the
philosopher's stone. Have yoa any
choice, Dennis?"
"None 111 the world, Maggie," he an
swers.
"Then we'll fix it all ourselves. We
shall see you grow stronger and stronger
every day, and the salt sea breezes will
soon bring the color into your cheeks."
"Maggie, I saw myself in the glass
to-day for the first time.'
"Then you are not so conceited as "
"Don't, Maggie don't joke; you
know what I mean." A painful flush
covers the poor disfigured face.
'Poor Dennis!" murmurs Maggie.
"But wait a bit wait until we have
had you by the sea."
"I don't think 1 shall ever go to the
sea."
'Not go to the sea! Why not, Den
nis?"
'I don't see how I am to get there,"
he says, with a ghastly attempt at a
smile. "I must stop at home aud learn
how to use crutches first. I am lame,
Maggie I shall be lame for life."
Strive as he will, his voice trembles.
and he breaks down now and shades h is
face with his hands. There is silence
for a little time. Maggie will not dis
tress him by letting him see how terri
bly she is shocked. She makes a great
effort to appear calm.
"Doctor Jenkins did not tell us so,"
she says presently.
"I told him not I wanted to tell you
myself." explains Dennis, recovering
himself.
But you are quite sure. Dennis?
May there not be some mistake?" in
quires Maggie.
I wish I could think so," says Den
nis with a long-drawn breath; then,
after a pause "It isn't that I care so
very much about it a fellow's a cow
ard who cannot look a thing like this
in the face without perpetual whimper
ing; but, Maggie, you remember what
you said that day in the boat?"
Oh. Dennis, don't remind me of it!"
cries Maggie sharply.
'Well, you know 1 have never given
up honing. I have waited and watched;
and soon I should have been able to
come and offer you a home that But
what's the use of talking? It's all over
now. 1 can never ask you to marry a
miserable cripple," says Deunis betterly
'a fellow that cant walk across the
room without crutches!"
'Do you think I sliall forget that I
ever can forget that it was caused
thro "gh saving me?" falters Maggie.
'1 have fancied that I should not be
turned away this time, Maggie. I said
I would never give you up; but I never
thought of this maimed and disfig
ure.!. It is time I gave in."
'But I dfnt want you to give in,"
murmurs Maggie, dropping upon her
knees beside him, aud burving her face
in the rugs "I don't want you to give
me up!"
For a moment there is silence, and a
strange eagerlight springs into Dennis's
thin face.
"Maggie, this is pity. I won't 1
pitied!" he says with impatient doubt
It is not, Ilennis It is love," whis
Iers Maggie, so low that IVnnis barely
catches the words.
"Lift up your head, Maggie; lift it
up, and let me see lour face."
One long steady look he fixes upon
the upturned face glowing with sweet
miv bb shes, and then he cries exult'
antiv
"M ine mine at last! Kiss me, dear
est! No, no upon my lips! Oh, Mag
gie, I am so helpless!"
in bis clever and brilliant volume
entitled "llachel et la Tragedie," Jules
Janin describes a meeting between him
self and tlie great tragic actress in 1S3C,
when she was a plain, insignificant
child of sixteen, and he was the sue
ressful and alt powerful critic of the
Debuts. "("est inoi que j 'eta is au
uymuase," said the future representa
tive of Fhedre. "J'y ctious," lie an
swered equally ungrammatically. Be
tween this and the year IS08, when Al
phouse Karr retails with painful in 111
uleness the "vente apres deces de Ml'e.
llachel," lie all the years of triumph
aud all the years of disappointment suc
cess and suffering through which the
great actress passed. Although not
quite subscribing to the accuracy of M
Jaiu's statement with regard to ber
want of education and grammar there
is uo doubt tliat llachel is one of the
most remarkable instances of natural
genius on record. She might, like
Pasta, to Uie observation "Vous avez
du beaucoup etudier l'antique" have
replied: "Je l'ai beaucoup sent."
it was this innate dramatic appre
hension that, while as yet the names of
Tancred, Helen, Hermioiie or Pyrrhns
presented only vague symbols to the
mind, induced her to lie awake at night
in the wretched garret occupied iu com
mon with her sisters stndying the state
Iv verses of Kacine. It was this vehe
mence of appreciation and intellectual
power that enabled her to change the
voice that was pronounced grating and
disagreeable by her first master, Choron
into the most flexible, penetrating and
passionate dramatic organ ever beard.
It was his absorbing earnestness that
endows her with energy wheu the time
came to throw off Uie shabby garments
she had worn as a girl and dou the dia
dems, the draiieries, Uie sandals of an
tiquity, wearing them with Incompara
ble grace and dignity. Victor Hugo
and Balzac, representatives of the ro
mantic school, were all-powerful when
this child, unaided and alone, stepped
torward, and endeavored to obtain a
hearing for Corneilleand Ilacine. Dona
Sol had been played by Mile. Mars;
,D.rval had appeared in Marion Delor-
me; Frederic Iemaitre had been de
lighting every one in Buy Bias. How
was it possible to induce the public to
listen to poets who, almost two centu
aries before, had recounted the trage
dies and greatness of ancient Greece
and Home?
It is said that the memory of the
first friendship they have formed, or
of the first woman they have loved,
dies out from the hearts of men, but
that they never forget the first great
actor or actress they have seen
Whether this be trueor not, thetheatrer
even when by the passage of Uie years.
we have become rationalists and u 11 ro
mantic, has shortened many a dull
Lour, and exorcised many a sad thought
recreating and stimulating our jaded
spirits. Do we not owe a debt of grat
itude, then to those who have sung to
us or played to us, and ought we not
constantly and faithfully to endeavor
to clear their memories from the accu
sations cast at them by a carping crowd?
Above all, Frenchmen owe a debt of
gratitude to her or whom we write,
In her frail, weak irson this young
girl embodied what their poets had con
ceived. She was the transformation
into active force of all the tragedy and
pathos, the love and sorrow that had
laid dormant in men's hearts and brains.
she became the mouth-piece of the
ages that had passed when she recited
Corneille and liacine ; the mout-piece
ot the ages to come when wraped in
their tricolor flag she chanted Marsel
laise. " One felt In the air," says Mine.
laiuise Collett to Beranger, like a
mighty breath of hope, that bore along
with it all useful desires." That beau
tiful apparition, pale, menacing, was
no longer a woman ; she was the uod
dess of Liberty calling on her country
men to arm.
galutluc tha Kt.mcSna.
According to the custom of formei
years the Germans of I'atersou, N. J.,
greeted the rising of the sun on the first
Sunday in May with songs from one of
the highest points aliout the city. Gar
rett Mountain used to be the spot se
lected for this survival of the ancient
sun-worshiping custom, but since the
tragic affair of several years ago, when
one of the crowd accompanying the
singers was killed for tresspassing, that
lofty plateau has been neglected. On
this particular day the Arlon Singing
Society selected the Monument Heights,
just above the fails, as the point whence
they would street the first rays or the
morning sun. Long before 5 o'clock
the enterprising singers had gathered
there only to find a still larger and
more enterprising crowd of sightseers
already assembled to witness the novel
spectacle. The sun arose according to
schedule time, but a few minutes be
hind standard time, and was cordially
greeted with a ringing chorus from
lusty throats, aud if he understands
German he must have been gratified
with the warmth of his welcome. There
was not much warmth in the air where
his admirers stood; on the contrary, a
keen north wind was blowing, sweep
ing icily over the lofty heights, while a
chill mist arose from the river below.
However, as the sun arose clear and
bright this mist quickly disapjieared,
but the atmosphere remained chilly.
and, having performed their self-appointed
task, the singers buttoned their
overcoots closely around them and
hastened shiveriugly down the moun
tain and to the nearest lager beer saloon
to refresh their tired throats. The de
monstration, although a success, was
not as imposing as those of formei
years.
A bxasox. The best reason yet ad
vanced for having Monday washing day,
the next day alter Sunday, is becana
cleaulinee is next to godliness. j
What lurlooita ctwt.
"It is the general lielief that the ef
fect or African colonization is being
felt in the wild animal trade, and that
consequently the prices are much
lower," remarked Barnun
' " remarked Itarniim'. urenf Mr
r " o.Hr.k,-,.'tVm9 ??r?h
Tody Hamilton, as Jumbo was led into
the ring to go through lusjierformance.
"But it is a mistaken idea altogether.
Colonization has not extended to the
jungles of Abyssinia and the far Inter
ior of the dark continent. Even if it
had reached the outskirts of the home
or the lion. hipiioiKitanius. tiirer and
elephant, the prices of these animals
would remain the same." .
"How is that?" asked a writer.
'It requires in the first place an out
lay of fcW.OtiO to start after a batch of
wild animals iu Abyssinia. The men
who undertake to get them are not na
tives, but Europeans who have made it
a profession. They get the natives to
Hssist tliein in capturingyoung animals.
To do this the old have to be killed, and
often a fierce lion sends a Nubian spear
man to paradise.
"When a sufficient number of the
young have been captured a great ex
pense is incurvd furnishing goats'
milk to them. The chiefs and sheiks of
the desert furnish the goats, sending a
herd near the place where the animals
are corralled. Another expense is the
dejiosit money the sheiks frequently
exact as a guarantee of the return of
the Nubians who are employed. In the
uiarch homeward through the desert
he young animals are transimrted on
camels, and many die on the way. They
are cirried to the Suez canai and
shipped to Europe. If the jungles
were colonized the wild anima's would
seek other quiet haunts in the interior,
so I cannot see how the expense of get
ting them would be lessened. To sum
up, the freight, the trouble of capture
and the risks ruu of bringing them to
Europe alive, are the items which
make wild animals costly. As the
grow olderand become acclimated their
value increases. If I wauled to sell an
elephant to-day I would have to men
tion whether acclimated or not to make
a difference of a thousand or so dollars.
There is about 4,KX.000 invested in
wild animals in the United States, not
including elephants. There are sixty
elephants in the Unit-d States ranging
in prices from JJ.noo tj f20,OUO. If an
elephant is trained and acclimated 11
will briug i:JU,0UO.
Tne Cmparur. Fathar.
England has very grave doubts aliout
Itussia's financial ability to carry on
protracted war. As Kussiau bonds go
down British confidence 111 the power of
gold goes up. "Itussia," she thinks
fondly to herself, "will soon be unable
to pay her soldiers, aud then where will
she be, when she can't borrow any in
Europe?" Misleading reflection; lor it
must not be forgotten that the printing
of ruble notes is a highly developed art
in Russia; that the monasteries are still
in a flourishing condition, and the Rus
sian people are in that happy stage ol
civilized development where enthusiasm
for the Czar makes them' forget easily
scant rations and poor pay.
There ts a good story told in connec
tion with one of Czar Nicholas's loans
from Uie wealthy monasteries. The pa
triotic fathers of the l'etsherskaia
Laura, the renowned cloister built over
the catacombs at Kief, lent his majesty
live millians of rubles, for which they
received a bond entirely written by th
imperial hand, aud which for twenty
vears they reverently preserved in
jewelled casket. One day Nicholas s
successor. Czar Alexander, visitetl the
famous cloister, desirous of looking at
lite documents relating to Bus i 111 Ins-
tort treasured there. The prior.ttiink
imr that a favorable opportunity had
come for obtaining payment of the loan,
took the precious bond from its casket,
with a profound obeisance, handed It to
ihe Czar. Alexander, so tne story
ijiieth. pressed the precious parchment
to his lips and exclaimed, "in this yon
IHissess indeed a treasure worth ten
times the sum it represents," and gazed
fondly on the lines traced by his father's
pen.
The prior's heart nounaea wun joy,
He honed the Czar would immediately
order the payment of the bond, but to
his crushing sorrow the t.mieror Hand
ed it back to him, his voice shaken by
emotion, with the words, "o, uo, J
will not rob vou or your priceless ireas
lire. Jeep it as a saerea onjecu 11 is
my father's own handwriting yon
have not purchased it too dearly." Se
non e vero. e ben trovato." The mon
asteries exist to-day. and are in many
cases possessed of vast wealth, which,
in case of war, would in all probability
be placed at the call of the government.
ShakMpcara'a country
Shakespeare's country is Indeed re
plete with the magic imagery of tin
scenes of the poet's plays, from the ex
treme north, where twenty miles hence
the three tall spires of Coventry rist
faiutlv, but clearlv, against the disbud
horizon, reminding one of the exqui
sitely humorous picture of Jack Fal-
staff and his ragged troop, to where.fai
away south, a stately abbey tower look:-
down on Uie peaceful meeting of the
waters of Avon and Severn, by the ill-
fated field of Tewkesbury. 1 otidei
dark patch is the remnant of the Forest
of Arden, forever impressedwith the
delights of "As You Like It," where.
under the greenwood tree, Uosalind and
Orlando. Touchstone and Audry, lis
tened to the sweet bird's note. Behind
the hill lies Wincot, where Master
Christopher Sly drank too much ol
Dame Hackett's home-brewed ale and
below me, scattered about the pleasant
land; bidden among lolty elms, sleeps
many a rustic hamlet, bringing to one s
mind Perdita and the sheep-roiits, with
all the simplicity and beauty of a coun
try life in "A Winter's Tale."
Here, too, center all the tamiuar spots
of the poet's life. Through the rich
vale at mv feet Avon creei dreamily
down among its pollard w illows; the
eye, following its course, rests on a
gray spire, rising from a circlet of trees
the Holy Trinity Church ol Strat-
ford-on-A von where sleeps, lulled to
rest by the ripple of the river, all that
is mortal of the great bard, "whose like
we shall never look upon again." Clus
tering round thi3 solitary spire are the
haunts of his youthful days; the quaint
bouse in Henley street, where he first
saw the light; the thatched cottaga at
Shottery, where Anne Hatchaway lived
and was wooed, whose gardeu is filled
to-day, as it was three hundred years
ago, with gillies, violets, and all sweet
spring flowers.
The microphone has been successfully
nsed in studying the noises of volcanic
rnptumi aud earthquakes. j
A P uiou. Fortr.a.
The renowned Castle of Cliillon
stands upon an isolated rock close to
the road by the aide of the lake, sur
rounded by deep water, crossed by a
W",C,D'' in mike ui iuwv i.n iui -
esuue appearance. It was built iu P-i W
. ,....... 1 . . 1 . .. 1 1 ... . . r .........
by Amadeus IV. of Savoy, and is an
admirable specimen of the niany-tow-ered
metlia-val structures. It was used
as a state prison, unpleasantly known
to many of the early reformers; but the
famous lionnivard, Pnoi of St. ictor,
iu Geneva, who was immured iu the
Castle from l.".'!0 to l.VUi. is generally
received as Byron's "l'ris ner of t bil
lon. It appears that when Byron wrote
that famous poem he was describing an
imaginary victim and was not acquaint
ed with the real story of Bomiivard
though he afterwanls connected his
name with it In a sonnet. In those
days the Pays de Vaud belonged to
Savoy, and lionnivard, having made
himself obnoxious to the reigning duke.
was shut up by him in a dungeon of
Chilloiu It was only 111 1530 that the
Swiss wrested the country from Charles
HLof Savoy. Chillon was the last
place to yield, but, besieged by a ISer-
uesear-nv on the land side, aud attack
ed by Geuevese galleys, from the lake
it was compelled to surrender. Bourn-
vard was delivered, and returned ;
Geneva, where he avowed his adher
euce to Protestantism, but dissuaded
its supiiorters from introducing it rash
ly. During his captivity Geneva had
become a Protestant Republic instead
of being dependent on the Dukes of
Savoy.
The castle Is now used as a magazine
for military stores, and the interior ol
Uie building is well preserved. It ha:
become almost a place of pilgrimage for
visitors from every part ot the world,
who Byron in hand, go to study every
detail connected with the famous pris
oner. After all, to judge by the dire
ful legends of the place, supported lv
the outward and visible signs shown
daily b) strangers, lionnivard ou.'ht to
Lave thought himself a very lucky fel
low to have endured his six years' cap
tlvity without loss of life or limb. F01
here is to be seen the ylince, black with
age, from which prisoners were hung:
and here is the "terrible hole in the
wall" through which their bodies were
cast into the lake, oUO feet 111 depth
here is a torture-ciiamlier, with a wood
en pillar scored by hot irons; and her
is the vublutte a frightful place a trap
door which shut out the light, and theu
a small spiial staircase of three steps.
where the prisoner found no fourth step.
and was precipitated to a depth of ?
feet upon large kuives. But Bouniva
lived tor 21 years after his experience
of Chillon, and was twice married.
Two Cant Latter ruataga.
Third Assistant Fostinaster-Geuer tl
Ilazen has prepared for the postmaste
general au elaborate statement showing
the result of au examination into the
operations for the first year of the
reduction from three cents to two cents
in the rate of postage 011 domestic
letters. Mr. Hazeu, in his annual
report prepared iu November, 1SS:
estimated a lose of revenue amounting,
to 8,AH),U0U as the probable result ot
this change in the rate of letter postage
The actual revenue for the twelve
months ended Sept. 30, 134, as now
shown by the audited returns was
S42,ls4,8t'J, or f7,470,WfJ less than the
estimated revenue upou a three cent
rate. This latter sum represents the
loss of revenue for the year on account
of the reduction to two cents 111 the
letter rate. But Mr. Hazeu thinks there
is the best reason to believe that the
ictual loss growing out of the reduc
tion was much less than shown by these
ugures.
Iu forecasting the revenue on a basis
of a three ceut rate, allowance was
made for an annual increase of ten per
cent upou a presumed continuation of
the business prosperity of the country.
Now he says there can scarcely be a
doubt that this allowance w.is too high
in view of the depression iu commer
cial and other interests that came
almost simultaneously w ith the reduc
tion in the letter rate of postage, and
the reduction has beeu s,uldled with
such losses to the postal revenue as nat
urally resulted from the unfavorable
condition of the business interests of
the country. A loss of about IC.otV,
UUO, he thinks, represents more fairly
the lesult of the reduction in rate for
the first year in which it has been in
oiieration. However, tlie results have
more than realized the most sanguine
exiiectation of its warmest advocate.
Gen. Hazen takes occasion near ttie
conclusion of his statement to endorse
the new law, which goes into effect ou
the first day of next July, increasing
the unit of weight on letters from hall
an ounce to one ounce. Besides being
a convenience to Uie public he believes
it will prove beneficial to the depart
ment as a ieveuue measure. Unless
statistics are at fault it will not be likely
to materially increase the average
weight of letters snt through the mail;
and it will undoubtedly iuduce the
sending under seal of letters a large
class of vauable matter now sent in
wrapped parcels at the rates charged on
fourth class matter.
This location, the present bone of
contention between England and Rus
sia, is comparatively small for a place
of such paramount importance, contain
mg barely ou,(XX) inhabitants. It is
situated in a slight depression on the
summit of a rocky ridge 2CM feet high,
forming one or tne westernmost spurs
of Uie great Safeid Koh (White Moun
tains) range, whicli runs across northern
Afghanistan from west to east. It is
surrounded by a wall which, measured
from the base of the earthen mound on
which it stands attains a height of 7.1
feet, which is considerably exceeded bv
several of the 10O towers Hint strength
en it. But these defences though s etu-
ingly formidable, are now, like those ot
moat Afghan fortresses, fast crumbling
U decay from long neglect. The cita
del, like that of Cairo; stands on a steep
rock in the centre of the town. There
ire four bazaars, whicli lie just withiu
the four principal gates. The place ha
1 considerable trade with Persia, India,
Turkestan and Western China, the
chief local products being saffron, asa
foetida, saddlery, caps, clonks, shoes.
carpets, sables and dressed slieepskini.
1 tie name of the town is said to be de
rived from the Ileri-Rud," or river,
which flows along the southern base of
the ridge upon which Herat stanus.
It ia Mid that plaster of Paris ot
hardness sufficient to be employed aa
mold for metal may be made by nstne
ten per eent of alum in the water which
is intended to b mixed up with the
plaster.
NEWS IN BKIEP.
Quill pens are
fashionable.
The Canadian
again looming
Parliament costs
fl lO.onO a year.
Chicago's new buildings last year
cost il'J ,IM),W0.
Over 900 Catholics have died at
Montreal since January 1.
The castor N-au plant is said to kill
grasshoppers by the millions.
A taxidermist in Reading, Ta., has
a collection of 7."),0n0 butterflies.
Scarlet fever and diptheria have
len scourging Bloomtield, X. J.
Cinnamon cub liear steak Is served
.it several of the Western hotels.
Within 10 years the Union will
propaMy nuinlier 4S instead of :W
States. "
Tomatoes a.ie being used by a Col
umbia county, Fla., farmer to make
vinegar.
Twenty millions of acre? of land in
this coantry are held by foreign land
owners.
Over COM) sti iking coal miners
have resumed work in the Iittsburg
district.
Loudon has four lire brigade dis
tricts, each brigade having tiuo men and
officers.
Italy has 4,Snu.0 lemon trees,
which produces l.iy.ij,00 ',i,"0 lemons
annually.
In li" there were less than 2tH)
physicians in all Berlin. Now there are
over 1000.
Liquor is reported as now being
expressed to prohibition counties iu
nail kegs.
A prayer hospital for the perform
ance of faith cures has been established
ia Erie, Pa.
In Australia the jieach crop is so
enormous some years as to furnish food
for the pigs.
It does not cost much to get- mar
ried in New .Jersey; the license fee is
mly 12 cents.
The French originated the indus
trial exhibition; ihe first was held 111
I'aris in 17'.'S.
Platinum has recently been drawn
iuto a wire so line as to lie invisible td
the naked eve.
There were 4.i'e. deaths by light
ning 111 trance U-tweeu the vears ol
lS'Waml IS'4.
Fire losses iu the United Statesand
Canada during the month of March
were J;,ih)ii,inio.
Of the forty nieniliers which the
Kansas State Senate contains, all but
three are lawyers.
Telegraphing rates to some points
are now almost as cheap as postage was
nan a century ago.
Wood has Wu almost entirely sut
perst'ded in English ship building yards
by iron anj steel.
Atlanta's new council is exacted
to put up the retail liquor license price
IV.... Iiui . ft,.i
Unlike many other towns in the
South, S-lma, AU., has not had a tire
"ince last summer.
A leather cannon was proved at
Edinburgh in 177.-, tired three times
oid pronounced gixvl.
Four hundred dollars was paid re
cently by a citizen of Pitlslield, Mass.,
lor an African gray parrot.
Mile. Van Zandt's success iu St
Petersburg with "Likme" is reporteii
to have Wen very brilliant.
The world contains .l.tisi."". panel
nulls, which manufacture 1 i I in ni,ou;
pounds of paper annually.
I oik, when carbonized, hum! urea
12.S er cent, of charcoal, the 1'reatest
ler cent, of any known wood.
Palming off painted sparrows for
canaries is a fraud frequently practised
iy me bud landers ot London.
In a brief wre.'tle with one of his
cows a Connecticut fanner lost one ol
:is eyes and had hisjnv broken.
The averure cost of feedinir paiii
ers in New York City is 13 cents a day.
111 coiiaiui, me tnriiiy, 11 is i cts.
IWtween JoOO.IHio and l,OH0,0Ul
Di'th of black ieails are found each
year off the coast of Lower California.
There are 1::...000 fishermen to
France, and about four fisherman out
of every lonO are drowned every year.
Ihe inicroscoiie shows the hair to
be like a Coarse, round rasp, but with
the teeth extremely irregular and rag
ged. Rabbits in ManitoUi are nearly ex
enninateil every seven years bv a Pe
culiar disease somewhat resenililint' th
mumps.
The Japanese post-ollii p, which is
ten years old, carried !i"i,UH.i,on letters
and transmitted .'ttmO.iMi teleirraius
ast year.
April returns to the Ivpartnieut ol
Agriculture indicate a reduction of ovei
ten per cent, of last year's area in Win
ter wheat.
IVents in Mexico cost from 10 tc
;oo, according to the ideas of theottk-t
here as to the importance of the inven
tion covered.
In one New Hampshire school dis
trict is but one pupil, four districts have
but two pupils each, and two have oulv
six lietweeu them.
Shipwrecks, according to a rcuei
recently read liefore the French Acad-
my of Medicine, cause the loss of one
sailor in every 4noo.
The religious ceremonies of tlie
Egyptians were preceded by abstinence.
and the sacrificeis were allowed neithei
iwmal food nor wine.
The Lafayette statue in Union
Square is the work of liartholdi. So is
he iedestal. That's the way the
the statue came to have one.
Since five-cent fares were intro-
luced in Boston the sale of tickets has
fallen off considerably; 011 one road II
is leeu about fifty per cent.
A very old woman who grinds an
organ 111 ImksIoii is declared to lie the
relict of a French Marshal, w hose med
als decorate the top of the organ.
Taxation, some one who bas fig
ured on it, says, amounts to about $-!i
per family in the United States, $10
per family less than in Canada.
A photograph taken in NertI
Solon, O., contains the pictures of a
mother and her nine sons, the youngest
of the latter being over 40 years of age.
The manufacture of maiches is one
of the most successful industries in
Sweden. The export is continually in
creasing to China, Japan ami lately to
the United Slates.
A company at Bartlett, N. n., is
turning out wooden shoe l-egs at the
rate of 1,8"0 bushels a day, aud has or
ders on hand tliat will require several
months to nlL
1