B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE 00IST1T U TIOI TEE THnOI AID TEE ESTO BOUGHT OP TEE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXXIX.
MIFFJJNTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 5, 1SS5.
NO. 32.
TaOrGHT OF THESE BT THK SBA.
BTKFV. W. M ABOKKCM.
1 sw-; . ., stiii t their roar.
. . o' .Tie OB IUe ueac-u oj J-c,
tf, vessel, nobie uJ fr"
, ib. tood on: far from the shore.
of'the sand b. t"'' ,he
her off, Weep her oiV well may we
dr-'l
When? white caps are rolling lu glee.'
And tlioust the wonderful aeei,
the ncli treasures tlt in il there be,
ADd tbo w: 1s ho under it sleep.
Howl light -house that .tiid ou
'the shore,
A semis'"! to warn tbriu away
Ail troni lh breakers unmerciful riiar
A beafou l v uihl and by day.
IU'uiM of tl" life-saving station, so near.
Thr "b0 tiiriT bravery luli
to ic tbo wi'.J. inirs- storms do not lear,
AwiI "ui ll.e rescue!'" they go.
uf lie ai; hai't so near to the strand,
';:li ho'i-es of pie.isure and bid;
VI Otaitrrd and ouiered however Ibis sand
such treasures aud pleasures could win.
I turned aam to the beautiful sea,
Iljcbi io'' 'ul musical roar,
Aai ito; tht, ami thought of the tiiue imon
to be.
VVeL iti.Kiinds shall crowd to ita shore.
oa AHoU.ic, thou beautiful sea,
jiush aay, away to the strand!
b.Mi en-t'lfui of the vast eternity,
'lhe work of an Almithiy hand."
"HE iHKfcE BEARS.
At some distance from tne high-road,
i the summit of the steep hill which
mis down into the sleepy little towu
of lL-pUii:haui. there stands a lonelv
peyboi.se. with many old trees behind
md atom it. A long avenue of dark
n4 stately pines leads up to the house
but the great iron entrance-gates are
litver thrown oien to admit visitors.
Xearly eery day little Freda Leslie
Musts m her wa.K, aud says to the
aiirse-grl who attends her
-What house is that, Bridget?"
That theie's the den. Miss Freda,
lowers liruiizet.
"Who lives there?" "The three
hears, m'.ss.
The saaie liears that are in my story
boot?''
"To be sure the very samel"
At this po.nt me conversation usu
aUycouirs to an abrupt conclusion,
and the two scamper down the hill in
tie direction of hnuie as fast as their
to will Cam" them.
Were Freda Leslie Saltshire-boru
and bred, as her informant Bridget
she would assuredly never have com'
pieted her eicht short years without
learning the sobriquet bestowed long
ago by rv.j'.r county wit upon the own
eisof the Den, Adam, Anthony ,and Ad
rian Barre a sobriquet justly earned
tymen who hunted and tithed and shot
aLd rode with the zeal and dexterity
oftiviues, aua who as resolutely as
sr,i?es set the laws of society and con
Teuliuulity at deuance, refusing any
liiesis; iy v-itU their feiki-ieu, and
Imrg year m, year out, a selhsn recfr
tes existence, witn aims no higher than
any four footed beaft.
Siltsture, only too desirous of rereng
&2 itselt ou wealthy men who, instead
of taki:;,? their place in the country,
ecose to leal a life so unprecedented,
ws rife with extraordinary tales re
flecting the nieiiayt of the Den. The
tL-ee bears were popularly supposed to
stare all their uvea's with th;-ir horses
awi does, aLd to di-pense entirely with
a:vj and forts, preferring to tear
tLej meat to pieces with their lingers.
Euuior also whispered that they cast
aside ail tailor made garments when
witbin do. irs. wrapping themselves in
tte skins nf wild animals instead, aud
UiiiLeir iiatreu ot the other sex was
o deep that not even a kitchen maid
w kept to wa.su dishes, the entire
ork of the household devolving on au
o.a maL servant and his wife who had
lived with the iiarre family for many
years. They were absurd stones for
tie most j.art, certainly, but still with
rait sufficient truth in them to obtain
credence in a somewhat thinly
populated country district about two
Hundred miles from London
lue Earre family had been uoted for
geaeru.iorii in aitshire as eccentric.
and these three last representatives &f
lien race seemed iu no wav iuclined to
w their fame in this resiiect die out
0f the brother, Adrian, the third, was
Almost companionable, lu his young
daS, j,en the death ot both parents
Wt the trio sole masters of the Den, he
Ud separated himself from Adain and
mUiuLy, ai:d traveled a good deal
broad, returning home but at rare In
tervals, ai:d then ouiy tor a short time."
tvea'.uiiy however this taste for rov
R died out, and be settled down at
Ien, as great a recluse as Uis ehler
toothers; while Saltshire, getting tired
"ttaigtbof their strange unsociable
Ss, their determination to avoid
ffca or re eiviij'j any hospitality, left
"a entirely to themselves, till round
""tit Uiem and their dwelling there
Pw up by dezrees a tliorny hedje of
1 vf1 ,bat' 413 lm;e P8 on, peo
W became less and le anxitus to pen-
"M,,'-her, says Freda, as, with a
"Mjtative air, she rocks her doll back-
ana torwaid on her
jou said that there
"fife left in the world now.
knee, I
were no
and that
Jw of my fairy-tales were really quite
'tis a chill October evening. The
M whistles a sad low wail, wreaths
to , I:list hiing phantom-like
Y1-1" '"''f-clad trees, while in the
WtL vr"ws every brow'n audyel-4r--
; ev,ry red ai!,i PUT'e tarry
ithm-istuie. Within the cot-
fwior the fire blazes cheerily. Ten
rjd w gu Un,l coaxed it into a
name, let down the red curtain
ttTi l?'? tlie oue window, and lit
Cii ,4Pv a;J a link 8hade tue
Jui ' . rt"il's mother's nimble fingers
a.terwajds Mrs. Leslie herself
eliri,"' brown ulster wet and
Fiv- Uie f,-tt!" hair, yellow
iaort-", . 1 ' "aSiug all damp and
Tbere,
'tu a.K.ut her urcttv iula f jo
''".ut her
t ti-.. , , J f-'
s tw llU,e g.r. w(iom Mrs
fcirur 8 lltm"s:c, and there was a
te'tai h" kllitt?d Kloves as well
n tU Jf rich UVr iaen y who lived
Wt 1 "I(,e of l'PPi' Ehani, on the
JfcSr",1 Md Mrs. Les-
iutigWeekt iVCa 1683011
"M tW( hu ""e's birthday!" Freda
anrt Vi,1U8lietried oathe
toejiii!r K enran into the kitchen
wlertreasuretoBndet"
istdhorT ,m,!rnei, appearances
"er to be very quiet, for her
motners Dig desk waa opened and she
sat writing busily, coTering sheet after
sheet of blue foolscap with the funny
iwisieu umcK letters mat t reda knew
so welL By and-by that foolscap will
be made into a roll or a fat letter, and
it will be sent to the post office and
sent to London. Njtuetiuiea the pact
age comes tiack again, and then her
momer looks disappointed and sad;
Buiucuiues n remains, and a small let
ter arrives instead, with only a few
words m it- Then Mrs. Leslie smiles.
aud seems bright and happy. When
the small letter appears, a present a
picture-book, a tiny doll, or a paper of
cuucoiaie usually turns up tor Freda
Consequeutly she feels she lias a vested
interest in the speedy despatch of the
lociscap parcel, and would not do any
thijg to retard lu completion,
ller interrupting question thin even
ing Is quite an exception, and Derhaiw
Mrs. Leslie thinks so; pei haps she re-
inerouers that this small grave-eyed,
soft-voiced speaker has been alone all
day, save for unimaginative Bridget's
company, while she herself has been
tramping up and down muddy lanes
and in aud out of uncougenial houses,
earning daily bread for her child to eat
At any rate paper and pen are pushed
aside, and long slender fingers wander
caressingly through Freda's tangled
golden hair, while her mother says
"What is that you are asking about
fairies, little Freddie? Donl you
know that since the world grew so old
and practical, the fairies Iirvh left it
and gone back to fairyland forever?"
But at this Freda shakes her head.
"At any rate, the three bears are
here stilll" she answers triumphantly.
'I see their Den every day in my walks
and when I ask Bridget if they are the
same bears that are in my story-book,
she says. 'Yes. the very aame.' Fancy
that, motherl Do you think it is true!"
adds the child anxiously.
Mrs. Leslie smiles. The busy life
she has led since she settled, only a
year ago, in Uppingham has left her no
leisure to listen to and idle tales re
specting the neighbors surrounding her;
and indeed she is ignorant even of their
names, with the exception of three or
four families she visits daily in the ca
pacity of music-mistress or French
governess.
"I am sure, if the three bears do
live near here. Little Golden Hair is
not far off," she answers, falling into
the quaint conceit to please the little
one. "You should go and take a peep
in'o their Den, Freda; but don't break
the little bear's chair, and be sure not
to fall when you jump out of the win
dow!" Freda, gravity itself, stoops to pick
up the gaudy picture-book lying at her
feet. It opens, curiously enough, at a
highly colored representation of the re
nowned (xolden-Ilair taking a flying
leap from the wide lattice, while the
three bears, in frantic attitudes and
attired in very tight blue-and-green
jackets, lean out in various stages of
anxiety to watch her.
'"The Den windows are not like this
one in the picture," the girl observes,
in a criticising tone. "They r b'j
ger and much nearer the ground, I am
sure, so that I would not have to jump
far if I ran awav, which I should not
do unless I found that the bears were
going to eat me. Perhaps when I have
been to see them," muses Freda, in a
dreamy tone, and speaking more to
herself than to her mother, "I could go
on farther into the dark wood that lies
behind their bouse, and d.nd the Sleep
ing .Beauty and the Dwarf's hut, where
Snow white lived, and "
And Jack the Glant-Iviller, and
Puss in Boots, and Dame Trot's cat.
and Mother Hubbard's d g," laughs
Mrs. Leslie, as she closes the rosy mouth
with a shower of kisses." "Oh, Freda,
what a delicions little piece of simplic
ity you are, and how idle you would
make me If I had time to stay and lis
ten to your idle tanciesl I had just
such, though, when I wa your age,"
adds the fond mother, with a smile and
a sigh,
Tell me about it," pleads t reda, as
she nestles against her mother's knee
while the autumn wind sighs without.
and firelight aud lamp light gleam soft
ly on the two figures, so pathetic in
their clinging attitude, their tender
grace. "Tell me of the old French gar
den where you used to gather herbs for
the soup, aud of grandpapa s gray don
key that carried Mane to market, an I
about the church, and the great yellow
cat, and the funny white cottage with
real grapes on it, where you lived when
you was a child like me, aiomer,"
continues Freda sitting up with sudden
energy, "I cannot think why you ever
eft grandpapa to marry rattier, l win
never leave you never not to be mar
ried to anybody 1"
Large tears rise quickly in Mm. J-.es-
le's gray eyes. As ine cuuu speass.
the home of her early days, so often
descriljed to Freda, stands out, distinct
- A, . i i .
as any pnoiograpn, in me uiouier s
memory, a picture never to be effaced
the queer remote rrench watering-
place, inaccessible men save uy uoura
of tedious mountain travel, where her
father held an English chaplaincy ror
inauv years, an apwintuieut that suit
ed his feeble health and slendor means;
she recalls her ow n motherless yet most
appy childhood, that seemed one end
less round of sunny days and moonlit
nights, the joyous girlhoo that suc
ceeded it, aud then the sudden crush
ing blow, the unexpected disapioint
nient that shattered all her early hopes,
causing her consent to be ea ily won
afterwards when her friends pressed
ou her an ill-assorted and ha. ty mar
riage, a marriage that turned out worse
than ill, embittering her whole existence
till death stepped in, after six weary
ears, and mercifully dissolved tne
union.
Th loss of her father during ner
first year of widowhood left Mrs. Leslie
utterly alone in the world, dependent
almost entirely on her own exertions
for the support of herself and Fredda.
chance advertisement ior uany
goveruess led to her establishing ner-
self at L ppmgnam; anu, ouuc mcio,
her indomitable energy caused her to
unturned in her efforts
to keep the wolf from the door of the
little home that sneuereu uei umu.
During the day she taught mdefatiga
bly music, French, drawing, painting-
nothing came amiss to ner versatile
talents. At night she wrote for the
newspapers and magazines tales, verses,
translations, anything that might bring
in a pound to Uy by against a rainy
It was a bard me, a uim-wu.u-
struffsle affainst poverty: yet sne was
happy happier she often told herself
than she could nave ueuevwi f"""""
.un th inner wearv day over, she
could shut herself up in the little i cot
ti.w with Freda and feel that within
those four walls ay u "" I v
worth living for her. It was
UUJ
times for she was stOI young, and the
regrets of youth arc hard to conquer
that a chance word, such as the child
had now spoken, would bring with it
an overwhelming rush of self-pity, a
passionate longing for the joy that had
so nearly been hers, when fata mysteii
ously stretched forth a hand and snatch
ed it from her grasp. She forces back
her tears with a great effort, dreading
lest Freda should see them.
"Not to-night, darling," she says, fh
answer to the child's request. "1 re
ally have no time to talk or tell
stories with that paper for the Lusy
hodif only half done. I must fish up
the villain from the bottom of the well,
where I left him, and get Ladv Isibel
out of the attic, which has just caught
fire, in time to send off the manuscript
this week, or what is to become of the
new winter cloak and boots that you
begin to want so badly?"
"Aud of Dolly's bonnet?" adds Freda
gravely, as she deposits that much bat
tered representation of humanity in the
muslin-covered soap-box that serves it
for a cradle, aud pushes back her stool
from the cheerful hearth. "You know
you said that, if the Busy-body accep
ted 'Lords aud Ladies,' she should have
a new one, aud perhaps a red cloak as
welL I won't speak again, mother till
you have finished But mind you make
them marry, and live happy everafter,"
continues Miss Golden-Hair, who is a
somewhat severe critic of her mother's
literary performances. "All stories
ought to end like that, so that one may
feel satisfied and comfortable about
them when they are finished, you
know!"
The mellow sunshine of an autumn
afternoon is streaming through the
dusky pine-trees of the Den avenue,
bathing their tall straight trunks in
liquid gold, and falling here and there
m slanting yellow rays on the silent
pathway so softly carpeted with brown
decaying leaves. There is a suspicion
of frost in the clear air, just enough to
make the scarlet jerkius of the robin
redbreast look particularly seasonable
aud appropriate, as they hop aliout
cheerily, fluttering in their native bold
ness almost around the feet of a rash
intruder bent most resolutely on paying
the three bears a morning-call.
"Will they be at home?" That is the
est ion Freda has been asking herself
incessantly ever since she left the cot
tage, running with all her might along
the high-road till she reaches the tall
dark gates, the untenanted ivy-clad
lodge she knows so well. Once within
tae shade of the avenue, all fear of pur
suit is over, and she walks slowly, re
volving her plans at leisure.
Iter night from home has been par
ticularly well timid. It is one of her
busiest days, when she Is absent teach
ing from nine ln the morning till seven
at night. Bridget also had been satis
factorily disposed of. She hail shut
herself up in her kitchen with her iron
ing directly after dinner, telling Freda
that she would not have finished all she
bad to do till tea time, and that she
must please to amuse herself as best
she could in the garden that afternoon.
- Freda was nothing loath. Here was
a glorious opportunity for the adven
ture she had long been planning, a not-
to-be-neglected chance of satisfying her
burning cunosity respecting the in
mates of the Den.
"I shall be back before Bridget misses
me, and then I can tell mother all about
it," was her one absorbing thought as
she buttoned herself into her little well'
worn jacket and crushed her brown fur
cap down determinedly on her wayward
ye. low curls. That she should see real
bears she, in her simple childish faith.
never doubted. Nothing but ocular
demonstration would ever have con
vinced her of the disappointing fact
that they were only men, after all,
Her heart gives quite a bjund of joy
when a slight gap in the pine-trees, as
she nc.rs the house, shows her that the
great windows on the lower floor of tire
mvstenons dwellinz stand, open. and.
further, that the wide sashea are only a
step from the ground.
"I can get in there quite easily," says
Freda to herself, as she climbs the low
moss-grown paling that divides the
avenue from the lawn, waiting cau
tiously for a few moments when she
has done so, lest some apparition too
terrifying for mortal eyes emerge from
the enchanted building and confront
her. So far however there appears to
be nothing to fear. An absolute silence
reigns around, a silence broken only by
the twitting of the birds.
Before her lies the old gray house.
bathed in the autumn sunshine, one
half its frontage luxuriantly clothed in
the green and scarlet garb of ivy and
Virginia creeper. Large stone vases
filled with tawny-Ieave-i geran'unis are
placed at regular distances on the broad
terrace that stretches beneath tlie win
dows, and there also a few pigeons
coe and strut. Were it not for them
and the column of blue smoke that rises
fro:n one or two of the twisted chim
neys, the place might well stand for a
very model of the fabled palace where
the Sleeping Beauty lay enchanted, sur
rounded by her court.
Keassured by the stillness that reign
around, Freda steals softly across the
lawn, creeping cautiously over grass
and gravel, until she can peep comfor
tably in at one of the open windows.
The room into which she looks is empty
the walls and floor are of dark shining
oak, and there is no carpet, a few fur
rugs and tiger-skins lying about instead
In the centre stands a large table drap
ed with snowy damask, on which an
untouched meal is carefully spread.
Plates are laid for three, and beside
each plate, in lieu of tumblers is a mas
sive silver cup. At the further end of
the room an oak sideboard groans un
der a goodly display of eatables a
mighty roundaf beef, an uncut ham,
game-pies, cr.kes, fruit, and cheese.
Freda, contrasting this array with her
own modest dinner of mutton-chop and
rice-pudding,decides at once that such
a repast can be consumed only by bears!
A small cheerful fire crackles on the
wide hearth, where are drawn up three
luxurious arm-chairs, as though in
waiting for the occupants.
Ii jund the walls are arrayed sporting
prints, whips, foxes' brushes, and all
the usual paraphernalia of a hunting
man's sanctum. The untouched meal
is but a very ordinary luncheon pre
prepared for hungry men returning
wearied from a long day's bunting or
shooting; but to the little wondering
child; examining everything with fear
full curiosity, and viewing each unfa
miliar object the mist and glamor of
her own too vivid and excited fancy,
the dining room at the Den is truly en
chanted ground and she herself the
living, breathing heroine of a real fairy
tale.
"It's a rascally shame one
cannot
" hanl I doat baUev we get
w
half the pheasants we ought; and I told
Macfarlane so to day. He didnt like
it a bit. You're not strict enough,
either, about the preserves, Adam; the
beggars know that, instead of prosecu
ting tnem for having a fat hare in their
pockets, you'll believe any cock-and-bull
story nf it having jumped in of Its
own accord, and let them off scot-free.
I cant see the use of game laws, for
my part, if they're not to be enforced."
The speaker is Anthony Barre. The
three brothers, just returned from
pheasant-shooting in their own woods,
are seated round their well-spread table
in the waning light of the October af-
ternoon. doing ample justice to the
viands before them. Fine men truly
are the thre brothers, the two elder
Adam and Anthony, gigantic of limb
and stature, the youueest. Adrian, of
less powerful build, but lithe and active
and sinewy as a panther. Assembled
there, clad in rough suita of velveteen
with gaiters of untanned leather and
heavy 8hooting-toots, their untrlmmed
beards reaching far down their massive
chests, their appropriateness of the
uickuame they have earned in the
country is very apparent although,
despite their uncouthness, their loud
laughter, their uncultured habits, ua
ture has set her ineffaceable stamp of
geutle birth upon them a 1.
I can t help it." auswera the eldest
brother, in response to the remark that
t ... I. i - - . . . -
Auinony nas just made. L pou my
sou, I ca mot find it in my heart to be
hard ou the jxN.r beggars for helping
themselves, if they're hungry, to any
wild creature, furrsd or feathered, thai
the Almighty has made lit for food!
A pheasant or a hare more or less is of
no such great consequence to us, after
all; and think of the spite aud ill-will
one brings oneself by being too severe!
Old Harcourt would never have had
hfs ricks fired if he hadn't Great
heavens, what's that?"
He pauses suddenly lu bis speech.
the brimming silver tankard be holds
arrested midway between the table and
his lips, his eves fixed in amazement
uton one of the large arm-chairs on the
hearth, over the back of which .rmear
at this junction a rough aud very yel -
iow mass or curls, framing a pair of
large inn.icent gray eyes that are sur
veying the three brothers with an ex
pression of the utmost perplexity and
disappointment.
"Oil, please," says the intruder,
scrambling down from her hiding-place
and aiivai.Pi..ffith th At .w
nnir ta ih.
ting petrified with astonishment at this
invasion of their privacy "oh, please i
will you forgive me for ' coming here :
like this for indeed I did not mean to !
be naughty! I wanted to see if you
really were the three bears, the same
as in my book. Bridge! said you were !
and, when I got here, you were out, !
and 1 came in by the window; and the
supper looked so like the picture; and
i enmuea into one oi the chairs and
pretended to be Golden-Hair, and wait
eL"
The small voice is choked with a' sob
which is drowned by the uproar.o...
langaser of Fredas listeners; while
Adrian, who has an undisguised fond-
ness toi children, lifts the small tress-
nasser on to his knee nri nl:.e. - hn
bunch of purple grapes before ber with
one Land, while with theotherhe wipes
away the child's tears adroitly with his
own silk handkerchief.
"Dont be frightened, little one; the
three bears won't eat you this time, I
promise you," he whispered encourag
ingly; while Adam and Anthony, great
ly diverted with what they call the
"pluck of the little creature," press
every dainty on the table upon their
unwonted visitor, and soon draw from
her a full account of the circumstances
that have led to her appearance at the
Den.
"I must eo home to mother now,"
she announces at leugth, sliding down
from Adrian's knee, while she holds up
a confiding face to his rough beard for
' - r
a kiss. "I shall tell ber bow nice and
kind you are not a bit like bears, but
batter and gooderl "Yes, I will come
and see you again some day soon; and'
slipping her band coaxlngly into
Adrian's "I will let the little bear
walk down the avenue with nie, be
cause, although 1 am not frightened,
it is rather dark, aud because I Lke him
a little the best, von know!"
Winter is gone. A long hard winter
it has been, and a damp unhealthy
spri' g has succeeded it. Kound about
Uppingham, just as the primroses are
peeping forth from the brown earth, a
low anguish fever finds its way, claim
ing here and there a victim, and mak
ing the householders curious concern
ing the quality of their drinking-water.
and especially particular respecting the
coudition of their dust-bins and similar
sanitary matters.
It Is a wild wet evening, more like a
night in January than oue in April, and
Adrian Barre is seated in the library at
the Den, mending a whip-lash by the
light of a leading, lamp. Save for the
presence of two favorite dogs, a brown
dachshund and an Irish setter, which
lies watching him with faithful intelli
gent eyes, be is alone, for bis brothers
are absent attending a horsefair in a
neighboring county, and are not expec
ted to return for some days. Xear him
and looking strangely incongruous
amidst the litter of straps.bits of leather
sporting-papers, and the like with which
the table is strewed, stands a china jar
containing a large white hyacinth just
oned into perfect bloom, its scented
breath perfuming the whole room with a
delicate fra&rance; Adrian himself has
brought in the flower from the green
house to-day, intending it as a gift for
Freda.
Since her first memorabla visit Miss
Golden-Hair has paid the three bears
many an afternoon call during the win
ter, always sure of a welcome from her
strangely chosen fnend3, who indeed
vied with each other to gain the fore
most place in her favor, and who after
a time grew fond enough of the little
child to await her coming with a sort
of anxiety, as some change and varia
tion in their rough unsoftened lives.
Of late however these visits of Freda's
have mysteriously ceased, and, as five
weeks slip by and she still remains in
visible, the three brothers comment a
good deal on ber absence, and act so
strangely at variance with their usual
habits as actually to ride past the cot
tage on several occasions, with an Idea
that they may perhaps catch a glimps
of the little figure they miss so greatly
Xo signs of Freda however reward thi3
effort on their part; aud on this very
morning, as he carries in the hyacinth
on the chance of her appearance, Adrian
Barre makes up his mind that be will
wait and wonder no longer, but call
boldly at the house, on the following
day, and ask for news of the child.
A ring u tae hall bell! The circum
stances, un usual woiigb at any time,
causes Mr. Barre to raise his bead in
surprise from his employment, while a
perfect volley of barks from every dog
great and small, resident on the Den
premises resound through the house
drowning even the furv of the wind
aud the rain, and rendering old Isaac's
voice perfectly inaudible when, a few
minutes later, he puts his gray head in
at the library door.
"'Tis a lady, Mr. Adrian, sir," he
contrives to say, after sundry futile
attempts to make himself heard. "I
told her we never see no visitors here
in the day-time let alone nine o'clock
at night; but she was that determined.
like all women, that I was forced to
j ,et her have her way,
She says she has
I message from little
miss as used to
, ome here from the cottage down yon
i der, and that she must see one of the
masters. She be half clemmed herself.
t do believe, sir, she looks so mortal
bad, and she be dryin' herselt now by
the hall fire."
Hastily putting the old man on oue
side, Mr. Barre steps out into the hall
a great dreary place vaulted like a
church, and so large that the blazing
fire and the one lamp that Isaac has
deposited upon 'the square oak table
leave more than half of it still in
shadow.
Ou the hearth stands a slender figure
clad in a black gown that falls in straight
i heavy folds to the stranger's feet. The
" K-nm.n,d fu.u ' -.j1 fp, .n. Id.ian a a
woman's face is turned from Adrian as
she bends over the fire in an 'attempt
to pry the dripping fur-lined cloak of
which she has just divested herself; but
there is something in the grace of her
attitude, the pose of the small head,
that strikes him as curiously familiar.
At the sound of steps behind her the
stranger looks round quickly, and the
two stand face to face.
He recognizes her! In spite of her
wasted bloom, her lost girlhood, Adrian
Barre knows that he is looking now
upon the woman who has always been
tne one wonan in the world for him.
i t"oue? iwe ve years oeiore ne new irom
to,r 8,d.? fu.U f, .nd 8plte' !lo'nnK
a lat of d os8!P to. P th,em:
Dd without considering what he might
i M, "' hlr t0 suer f"' nim,
self down at home, where he has spent
his life since in trying ineffectually to
stamp her image out of his heart.
Of course it Is she Mildred Darrell
when he knew her, but Smith, Brown
or Bobinson now, no doubt, with some
brute ot a husband in the background.
i n i reda meir cnuai ro wonuer me
i 'dttle one's gray eyes and yellow hair
appealed to him so strangely! Why, she
was Mildred's very image Mildred as
he met her first; a lovely innocent crea
lure of nineteen, living her simple life
in the tiny Pyreuean village where he
was idling away a month or two before
traveling into Spain!
He has the advantage of her however
If every line of her delicate pathetic
fiice' hpened bj anxiety, worn with
i "
Z 8llently at h.erVhe LaS evldenUJ
become a stranger to her.
. In thf ve,be8fded1mn wh?se hair
i ?'" de'l ?treaked K1?
r"orT "T? , S
,ove who1dfSed hf " ,uid"l,,7
completely giving no opportunity of
an explanation that wouldat once have
cleared away the cloud between them,
but leaving ber instead with every hope
shattered and all faith in manly truth
and honor gone. Possessed as she is
with only one absorbing idea, one over
whelming dread, Adrian Barre is to
tally unrecognized by her; and it is as
one in a dream that l.e stands and lis
tens to the sweet familiar voice as she
begins timidly
"Sir, will you pardon the great lib
erty I have taken in coming here to
night? I am ln great trouble; my lit
tle girl " She pauses, falters, then
liegins again "Little Freda, to whom
you and your brothers have shown such
kindness during the winter, lies very
ill with fever. This afternoon she be
came conscious for the first time since
delirium set in. She asked to see you.
She is very, very weak, and the doctor
says he says "
Striving vainly to force the dreaded
words, the poor woman looks up, and
for the first time her eyes meet Adrian's.
The next moment he is holding her,
white and senseless, iu his strong arms.
"Freda," whispers Adrian Barre
sou e two hours later, as he sits, a
strange visitor, beside the small bed at
the cottage which contains a very frail
and shadowy Freda indeed, "you must
make haste and get well as fast as ever
you can, for mother has promised that
you and she will come and live with me
when you are strong enough, and 1 am
in a great hurry to have you both!1'
To this Freda, smiling faintly as she
elances np at ber mother, who is bend
ing a very April-like face over her dar
ling's pillow, replies that she will try,
aud then asks
"Will mother and the little bear mar
ry, and live happy ever after like the
good prince and princess in the fairy
tale?"
tain. Thl.TM in I rugumj.
Cattle, thieves li the land where I
raise stock," said a Montevideo cattle
breeder visiting New York, "have dis
covered a new and ingenious mode of
dUungoishing their booty. Last au
tamtv I lost several head, and half a
dozen times I and my men, with the
mounted polioemen, came np with the
thieves, and I saw with them csttie that
I knew at once were mine. My brand
was on them (J. M.) and sometimes
there were scars on the bodies that I
knew quite wall. The animals were
exactly like mine in every respect but
one. Tue horns branched differently.
If those on my oowa had pointed np
these dropped toward the ground, and
often one pointed forward and the other
backward, or one toward the sky and
the other toward the earth.
J. Mn the drover said, were his own
or his employer's initials. The cattle
were certainly mine, bnt I could not
bwear to them; and I waa obliged to see
them taken away."
"The tbieves had kept the horns
wrapped in poultices of boiling hot
meal until they were soft enough to be
twisted and thus destroyed the cow's
identity. The horns soon hardened
when the bandages were removed.
"I have been told that the trick was
iuvented by Bossian cattle thieves. I
witih they had kept it at home."
A New York man baa invented a cast
iron bnttou hole. He has been a mem
ber of Assembly for two terius.
JtjDos: "How did yon come by these
fish?" Prisoner: "I hooked them."
Jndge: "What nave you got to say, Mr.
Officer?" Policeman: "He tells the
truth, yonr honor; he did book 'em and
1 saw it." Judge: "Then why do you
bring lvua hare? Discharged. Jext
case
Partner, far m nance.
Dancing has been called the "mirth
of the feet," It is the one fine art of
which we have no account of its origin.
There is evidence that man knew how
to dance wherever there are human
records; in the hieroplyphicsof the old
est nations, on Lgyptian monuments.
in pictures on rocks, in the most ancient
writings on papyrus. The priests of
Iris and Osiris danced before their al
tars, the Hebrew children, when they
escaped from i'haraoh. danced to the
songs of Miriam, and David deuced
before the ark of the Covenant. But
suppose we skip history and come down
to yesterday. The Jlerald wriler saw
on Madison street a rubicund and jolly
individual, manifestly in that state of
happiness produced by libations of some
thing more potent thau water. To
give full expression to bis internal de
light he began gyrating and dancing to
the musical croonlngs of his own husky
voice. There was a happy but vacuous
smile upon his face, and his eyes show
ed him to be oblivious to most things
external. With appropriate but by no
means graceful gestures he waltzed
around on the pavement, holding his
cane for bis partner, having no thought
for himself and no care for the specta
tor. Nature was thus rudely vindica
ting her supremacy and illustrating
that, after language, dancing is the one
method by which the feelings are ex
pressed, and has its origin in the con
stitution of humanity. There is not an
emotion that has swept the heart
strings but what has fouud expression
through the choregragbic art. Love,
mirth, martial fury, funeral grief, re
ligion, all have had their special dances,
and a religious form still survives
among us in that eccentric sect we call
the Shakers. Among savages the glo
ries of the chase, as well as the more
heroic deeds of war are recouuted by
means of dancing, and, besides their
war dances, the .North. American In
dians have their buffalo dance, the
Kamtschatkans their bear dance, and
the Australians their kangaroo dance
For our own social dances and pan
tomime and the ceremonial have long
disappeared, and little remains but the
love of kicking and the love of flirting.
Xo one who dances a quadrille nowa
days is conscious why he shuttles his
feet in one way at one time and anoth
er way at another time, if, in fact, be
condescends to shuffle them at all.
Every motion had a meaning at one
time, though the key is now lost. For
all that, dancing still has its uses. Is
any young man short in his conversa
tional powers, and, like Orlando, easily
"graveled for lack of matter?" He
cat; still hold bis own with the fair sex
if he have but agility, a single conver
sational formula being adaptable to
many partners. Thus he may dance
himself into the affections uf some
maiden fair, though he could never
have talked himself there if he bad liv
ed a hundred years. How can a lady
show the grace of her form so well as
in the dancer lhe " ladies' chain"
was invented expressly for that, and
verv well does It fulfil its purpose.
Mit Mtlima B3T tleir cwn peculiar
dances, and we, cosmopolitans that we
are, have tnel them all. lhe country
dance is indigenous with us, or rather
brought by our forbears from Eugland,
and its hearty, social fun, its pretty
figures, its availibility for any number
and for all ages, make it a truly happy
dance, like the chorus of a song where
all the parts come in together, a hen
tbere was the stately minuet dance of
the eighteenth century, which we see
occasionally in some old comedy on the
stage. That, too, was English, and
suited the English temperament. We
read that at a grand ball given in Xew
York on the inauguration of Washing
ton, as President, and in his honor, he
danced two cotllions and a minuet.
We are glad to rescue from the idle
worshippers such a bit as this about tha
father of his country, for we have but
little other evidence that he was a hu
man being. We know of three occa
sions on which he swore, and one on
which he laughed uproariously, and
these, with his dancing, must convince
the most skeptical that he had some of
the attributes of humanity at least.
Perhaps as time goes on we will find
more.
The cotillion or quadrille we g'tt
from France, tlie mazurka aud polo
naise from Poland, the waltz from Ger
many, though it oricina'ed ln France
some centuries before the Germans
adopted it. The German cotillion,
which we call the "german," also
came from Germany. This is not so
fashionable as it was fifteen years ago,
but it is a most seductive dance. Schil
ler describes it :
See bow the couple whirl along the dao.-e i bouy
aitl title.
And scarcei- toa-b with w.Ofre 1 teet ibe fluor ou
wittcn luey untie.
Oa! are they dyiii shadows, from material form
set free?
Or eitn shapes, whose airy r uas the summer
moonbeams see f
Every accessory was called in to beau
tify its figures. Gay and many colored
streamers and strips of tarletan floated
above the beads of the dancers, while
jingling bells aud exploding bon-bons
kept time with the low and sympathe
tic music that filled the air like a per
fume. To lead the german was a post
of high honor, and one who could do it
well bad no other worlds of dance to
conquer, it required a clear head, a
fertile imagination, a graceful figure, a
handsome face, a polished manner and
a perfect dress. Some of our society
young men possessed all these, and were
heroes in their day. In the society nov
els and tales of twenty years ago the
hero was always a man who was unex
celled ln leading the german. But the
favorite movement of the cerman was
the gallop, and its vivacity too often
degenerated into a romp and general
indecorousness, which nnaiiy led to Its
banishment.
The varsovienne, from Vienna, was
a popular dance in the ball-rooms some
years ago, but it, too, has been laid
aside in favor of our modem quadrilles,
the most of which now have a waltz
movement in some of the figures.
The waltz has long been tried, and
the poetry of its motion is enticing aud
seductive, but American girls can never
dance it well, nor at all compete with
their German and Scandinavian sisters.
And the reason is that American girls
feel, or at least half suspect, that some
where concealed in the waltz there Is
an impropnety, and this restrains them
from the abandon that is essential to
grace of movement. When an impro
priety is felt, for that person it exists,
for "as oi.e thinketh in his heart so is
be." The waltz, except as retained in
the quadrilles, will have to go.
From Scotland come the strathspey
the Highland fling and the Scotch reel,
lively enough on occasion, but solemn
as the grave when danced by Scotch
people at the raund of bagpipes.
And from Ireland the lively Jig, in
which rat and Xorah try to dance each 1
other down amid much surrounding
hilaritv. "Weil done, Pat," "Step out
now, Miss Brady," with many varied
encouragements to increased activity,
constantly saiute the ears of the dan
cers, aud the fun becomes contagtou,
while every foot beats time to the music
and the dancing.
From Spain coiues the fandango, w ilh
bells, and clicking castinets, aud jing
ling tambourines. This is a love dance
full of beauty and grace, but no more
adapted to our morals or climate than
that of the autch girls from India.
We can just bear to see it on the stage.
and that is all. ln fact, we have to be
a tritle bald-headed eveu to do that.
The polka, the gallop, the va!e deux
temps, the Newport, are all in vogue
and help to euliven and variegate the
programmes or dancing assemblies, and
beautiful enough they are when joined
in by bright-eyed, merry maidens and
not too solemn young men. But f r
some young, people dancing Is a very
serious affair, and these we would ad
vise to leave their dancing pumps at
home.
Then there is the French improve
ment on all dances, from the Jardin
Mabille to the high-kickiug can-can.
Aimee and opera bouff a have fully de
monstrated to the American audiences
all the possibilities of that lively salta
tion. But 'few of the importations have
ever become acclimated, and for real
amusement and enjoyment old and
young among us still prefer the square
and country dances, the "lancers" aud
the "Virginia reel." "Moneymusn"
is as potent now as ever, the "pigeon
wlug" is not eutirely effete, nor the
"double shuihV extiuct, and the
people who cherish these can never be
come entirely bad.
i'oinfort In Ore..
A woman, of course, but one w ho
has been admitted to tlie confidence of
the charming English actress Ellen
Terry, says that in all probability there
is not a woman of the hitter's promi
nence that dresses like she does, ami
yet she gives no thought to her dress.
She wears what is comfortable to her.
and she thinks of nothing but comfort.
People who do not know her Imagine
that, being one of the leading actresses
of the world, she dresses in the most ex
pensive and gorgeous style; that she
wears nothing but thepayest Paris bats
and the most dainty Paris boots. Ou
the contrairy, she has hardly a tiling
that ever saw Parts: certainly her hat
and her boots never did. She has worn
the same hat for the two seasons that
s?e has been in America; and although
she has been here in the winter both
times, her bat is a little brown straw
turban with a brown veil wound around
it. Sometimes she pins a bunch of
nntural flowers violets as a general
thing in the side of her hat, and for
gets to take them out after they are
faded. She likes this hat because it is
linht she says her head Is always hot
and because she can pick it up and
put it on, and take it off and Llurow it
sown PU the floor or tlio luauur ur
auy where, and not bother about it. As
a rule she likes to pull it off the first
thing when she comes in the room, and
to run her fingers through her yellow
hair, which stands up around her head
like a halo. Her shoes have not the
commonsense recommendations or her
hat. They are pumps, s-.iys the female
friend referred to, that she bought for
the stage, with a great high heel in the
middle of the sole, aud the toes sharp
ened off to the finest point. They are
made of stout leather, and ornamented
with a big steel buckle.
She wears these low sh3 summer
and winter, but she says they are the
most comfortable things she ever had
ou her feet; that before she ever wore
them, she used to wear"common-sense" I
shoes, made with great attention to the
anatomy of the foot, and she never had
a minute's happiness In them. When
she played Olivia she bought those
pumps as a part of her costume, aud
they were so comfortable that she has
never worn anything else since. No
one could deny that Miss Terry was the
most strikingly dre.sed person in any
room; but I venture to say she would
be the moat inexpensively dressed. She
has her gowns made of anything that
strikes her fancy, whether she sees it
in a drygoods shop or au upholsterer's.
The stuff is the thing she looks for,
without regard to the dictates of fash
ion.
H Ktwtd it Vj.
They have a fighting dog in a saloon
on Michigan avenue, mey not oniv
keep him to fight any dog ln the State
for spot caah, but he furnishes a heap
of fan to hangers-on by the way he
picks up such canines as happen to
drop inside at the heels of their masters.
It is a poor week when he doesn't crip
ple three or four, and be has killed
several outright. The other day a
rongbly dressed man. carrying a whip
ib his hand and looking like a callous
handed son of toil, entered the place
aDd called lor beer. He was followed
by a broken-hearted dog of re pec tabid
size, and as soon as tbe loafers caught
sight of the canine there waa much
winking and chuckling.
"Better send that dog out, suggested
one.
"Is it agin the rales of the house?"
"No, bnt he'll get chewed up."
"I don't see anything likely to do it,
though be ain't no fighter."
"There's a dog in the back room
which can snake him out in ten ticks of
the clock," said tbe bartender.
"Wall, I dunno. P'raps be .eight
and p'raps he might'eut. William
Henry alius kinder manages to squeak
along somehow."
"Would you have any objections to
my bringing in my purp?"
"No-o, 1 guess not, though I never
encourage dog-fighting."
The saloon fighter from the head
waters of fighting creek was untied and
ushered in. William Henry was half
asleep iu tbe center of the room, and
the first thing be knew he was rolled
over and over, and something had hold
of him by the throat. It was a fleeting
grip, however. The fighting dog
seemed to get bold of something to dis
courage him and he let go and began
sceeziug and coughing. Then it was
lliiam Henry a tnrn and he sailed in.
ln three minutes' time be bad run the
fighter ont doors and across the street
and wonld have killed him in the gutter
if pedestrians had not interfered.
Say, stranger, how was it done?"
asked the bartender as be picked up
the remains to carry ti eta in.
"WelL William Henry hain't no
great flirhter, as I told you before, and
to kinder help him out I lue-l about a
pound of nulf around the vital parts.
irs awioi good icr fleas and it sorter
even up put-op thing !
NEWS IN BRIEF..
Camels sometimes live to the ag
of 100 years.
British railways carried oSo.COO.Oul
passengers last year.
The bee, it is said, can draw twent y
times its own weight.
A professor of natural history says
auimals freqaeutly cry.
There is an almanac in the British,
Museum Suoo years old.
The averaae duration of life in
Kussia is only 26 years.
Over r2."i.0JO Pamirs receive pub
lic aid in Paris annually.
The bankinsr capital of the United
States to-day is jTiy, 000,000.
Twenty-live incorporated cities dot
the map of Xew York State.
Nearly half the American sailing
ships are named after women.
There were about l,o0 steam ves
sels in the United States iu 1?47.
TLe leather product of this country
reaches SJu0,0 i,uoo per annum.
The aliushou-e at Orleans, Mass.,
has closed tor lack of patronage.
A rich vein of itold is reported to
have been discovered in Fannin county,
fia.
The number of scholars enrolled in
the United States is placed at 11 000 -
ooo.
It laiuuioied uovv that Emma Ne
vada will marry Dr. I'almer, her mana
ger. The free lunches iu New York sa
loons are said to cost U,Su0,fJ0 annu
ally. The greatest height of an ocean
wave is said to be .'So feet above tho
level.
Oue of the most successful dairy
owners of Sierra Valley. CaL, is a
wi iroaii.
lhe total length of the submarine
cable now in use is quoted at 0S,00O
miles.
The total number of recognized
swies of Australian fishes now reaches
l,2fl.
There are in England 157 ragged
schools which are attended by .Vt.OOt'
children.
Color blindness is said to be many
times as common iu the male as in the
female.
Moody, the evangelist, is getting so
fat that his couditiou is an inconveni
ence to him.
A gray worm, about au inch lonii.
is destroying the corn crop lu parts of
r onua, N. 1 .
Nearly OiKO.OOO shad have been
hatched at the Connecticut State hatch
ery this season.
There are 2."o disabled ex-Coulexler-
ate soldiers living iu the poor houses of
orth Carolina.
The publishers of General Gnnt's
book have already received over l'J,00
orders for the set.
The total product of copper of the
Lake Superior mines for lS&i is estima
ted at 0o.C0"w pounds
Tea cuitute iu Cevlou is making
headway. Tbe crop this year Is esti
mated at 3,5(10,000 pounds.
Ellen Terry's visit to this country
has had considerable effect upon the
styles in American dresses. '
Comparatively little mouey has been
made this season by the Southern mack
erel fleet, hailing from Gloucester.
Mass.
Missouri employed a total of IX-
J"J0 school teachers last vear, and the
average salary per month paid them waa
H7..o.
Kepre.-eii tatives of three feneration-
of the bride's people were present to
wituess a recent marnaee in New
York.
Tueopiniou is expiessed by a Ca-
nadiau physician that fifty per cent, of
all diseases arise from the use of stimu
lants. The Kim; of Bavaria has given a
donation of X 12 towards the funds of
the German Teachers' Assignation in
England.
Tbe suriiuiiies of three candidates
runMiig for an office at a recent election
in Clayton county, Oa., liegin with tho
letter "K."
A lightning expiess,at Afhenia.N.
J., a few nights ago, struck and killed
a man whose widow lost her first hus
band by lightning.
Fruit trees are so heavily laden in
places on tbe Pacitlc coast that hund
reds of lalwrers are kept employed
thinning out the fruit.
Last year ffi.70'2 volumes were
withdrawn from the public library of
Paris, an increase of IS5.-475 volumes
over the preceding year.
Oaken pillars have been decided U
be better supports for abuilding in case
of fire than iron, the Litter being liable
to Warp from the heat.
Tlie pendulum of the uew clock in
the Chicairo Board of Trade building
weighs 750 pounds. The dials are ten
feet ten itches in diameter.
Ill feeling nas Deen caused in Indi
anapolis because foreign, ii:stead of
American, marble has been seleoted for
the floors of the State House.
The population of Macon, Ga.,was
12,000 according to the United States
census in 1SS0. and is now 2.".,oOO ac
cording to tlie directory census.
Prof. John II. Hewitt, of Balti
more, Md., aged 8t, is named as the
oldest living graduate of West Point.
He belonzed to the class of lcl.
Wires and bars are sow produced
direct from fluid steel by pressing it out
through dies in a manner similar to the
production of lead pipes from lead.
An Oregon man has hollowed out
the stump of a huse tree in the fashion
of a rootn, cut a door and windows in
it, and has there taken up his abode.
There were 2o,3!0 house built iu
London and the suburbs in 1SS2. form
ing 5o8 new streets and one new square.
and covering a distance of 75j miles.
A rare book ou a subject local to
Herefordshire (from Eail Conirgslv'a
"Col'ection"), sold in London for X'3o0
in l!n. Lately the same book went
foi l'J.
A check that was draw n in 1S32
was presented for payment at a Hart
ford, Conn.,bank recently. The holder
of the check had laid it aside, and iu
time forgot all about it.
The silk worm culture in Hawaii
is stated to have been almost wholly
abandoned in consequence of stringent
unuay laws winch prohibit the gatb-
enng of mulberry leaves or the feeding
of the worms on that day.
Bulterine Is imported Into England
in vast quantities. During the first
four months of this ye.ir 5S2 ,000
worth was imported, chiefly from Hol
land, Belgium, Denmark and France,
I