rtf YU J W ttliu ill flifimf IfiVvlH 1 ? , t I SOHWEIER. VOL. XXXIX. A WOKDOrCHEEK, t we often niM ".nose gu j would liJhi. Their 'rih1,,!,, r way Wlth word of cheer. There are loads of cam l-hfull ...nyC Bu, form. would A n l k1 cU the hlrt may bold And bear with a awrefsri' " But oh, how often Slight trial often By 8i moathj's hM Miefl irunny smiie That ,! fUlJ but b,"i,m ,b hil That the frowns f iitrt mil!t UJ 1 owmuchofsaJues,, M'Uht yield to gl;idn As the soul to love would thrilL Po not connt it lost Which me heart may yearn to hear. I hat pivcious tku Ol "kindness s.keu. That cornea wiih . word of ch.wr. U T BETSY'S LEi.ltT. "Well Fanny," said Tom, laying fb ,,le,.erua,lJ lookin& t me across the table, "this is a rum start!" "TTnu-V" 1 i -ttru, ignoring iom'8 way of expressing himself, which is always more forcihia t i,un . - ...an C:KiUlU What's the matter now. rWrt" "Why, here's a letter from your " o icuer irom your aunt. Miss Betsy Clayton, Inviting her self to pay us a visit!" "Nonsense, Toiul" "Solemn fact, I assure you. But here read the epistle yourself, and then perhaps you will be, convinced," he added, for my face expressed not only surprise but incredulity. "You know the writing of course?" "Yes," I replied with a nervous lit tle shiver; "aud I would just as soon attempt to decipher Chaldean. De sides if I reinendier aright, the "sub stance of M sis Betsy's letters used to 1 just as crabbed as the penmanship. Head it for me, Tom." Tom, my husband, is a lawyer and supposed to be able to decipher the must unintelligible scrawls. "The letter is short aud very much, to the point," he said, taking it up again. Then he read "'Nephew Thomas Carroll (since you have married my niece, Frances Clayton, I suppose you are my nephew, if there is anything in marriage) I purpose leaving my home, the Crags, on the twenty fourth of thn mouth, and visiting my nieces, Martha Scott, Ellen Warburton, and Frances Carroll m turn. I intend staying one week with each; and during that time I pur pose usibg every means in my power to discover their true characters and disnositions. with a view to beaueath- me ro oue oi lueui me Binau buui ui . . . r ... . . i ii . . t money 1 have been able to save from my inhospitable little estate of Crag lands. My will is made, only th names, for which I have left blanks, remaining to be filled id on the conclu sion of my visits, Flease inform your wife of my intention, and that on her conduct depeiuU the prospect of in heriting the savings of her aunt. "Betsy Clayton'. "P.S. I have sent copies of this . F. letter to my nieces Martha and Ellen!' " "Well, it certainly is an extraonli - nary letter, Tom! As far as I know Annt Betsy lias not left her crags and i mountains for twenty years not even when mv father, her only brother, died and now to think of her starting off first to Devonshire, then to Norfolk, and then to come to us in Loudon I I wonder it the old lady will ever reach the end of her pilgrimage? It used to be her proud boast that she had never get foot in a steamboat or railway train or darkened the door of any house but her own for twenty years. Whatever sliall we do with her, Tom?" "Why my dear, bid her welcome, or course-establish her in the best bed room, Cnd out what she likes ior din ner, and otherwise endeavor to deserve "lltont want it, and I don't want her v I said a little impatiently. "You Lave no idea what a horrid old lady Aunt Hetsy is. Mamma was drend fully afraid of her, she used to scold her so a d find fault with the house keeping and coolung and everything. I'm certain she will go rummaging through all the closets and drawers, taking her nose Into the kitchen and buder! aud then Jane will give notice. iSowrtiewill-flhecau't bear being ffl with. Besides, aunt Betsy ' always dines at half-past twelve-think f that. Tom!" , . , TT "Why that's nothing, lassiel Have reakfast a little earlier, call luncheon 'ner, and dinner supper-what's m a name? If it pleases the poor old lady wTmnst try to manage it," said Tom C'-l1Xallyon know about Aunt Beted" I retorted, with a childish m S on to cry; "she always scolds and fault, nothing Phases be g Khe so rude, Tom. VV e sha n t be aoie nUtottohcw while she's ' he"Come. come, Fanny; it's not like vou to mike a mounta.u out of a mote bote. I've never seen your aunt but I Lke it she s a solitary unhappy old lady . win seized with a sudden wh0 has been relatives SKSW opinion of hu nnllure she thinks it necessary to hinUba? Lt'ehss It m her power ton v am "kindness that may be shown S? K mind the legacy. Fan; just h erC. the old eirl comfortable if you even ?K it does enUila little can, even iuo fi h pleiis. oTSstekTowsnothing. Come Jup toman! Why it's three Lteks yet before she will reach us." Ind tlenTom bustled off to the Jr. ... herful!v as if no cross, ' i fault-Sng. exasperating ruuiu ing 1- Of course he CJ " Aunt Betsy had Tl,d not know inn.- , f hf,r pulshow "fge he was the vengeance o, , th . I day "'and and over Deene to stran- marry 4,lu ' furious - - vor did Tom Know u was when our old house and estate " -.rTld after mamma's death and SrWeds divided among us children ie vwed then ..ever to look upon one J us again, formally disowned us; yet here she was cooly inviting herself visit Still, if Tom had K4"lUhis and of every other ec- ntritvof Aunt Beisy's he would have centncityoii mogt fio-n.S fellow in tne world; " - - . - - but he forgot that it was I who would have to sUy at home all day and bear the brunt of the old lady's bad ton mysein Tmt,tiugbad temped myself. I sam, 8U(ldenIy rouging !f fnm my reverie. "It's verv kind o mj r husband not to object to Vreb atives coming to pay me a visit- and if she does leave us .few hundreds? whv So much the better-though, thank ?oodess, we dont need thfm and I certainly sha'n't go out of my way to cone, ,at her for the sakeof her moJeyl Martha and Ellen may do that, they were always greater favorites, f Z ine laird disappointment, and I be lieve she never forgave me for not be ing a boy. ' When Tom came home that evening he seemed to have forgotten all about Aunt Betsy, and was very, much ab sorbed m some subject that kept him silent all through dinner. Though we had been married only four months, I understood my husband's ways and the invasion oi ms race thoroughly W henever he had that far-away look in his eyes, 1 knew he was thinking, and 1 always took care not to disturb him. tt hen he held the door ooen for me af ter dluner 1 noticed that "he looked pale and tired, aud I pressed him to come soon aud have some tea. lie nodded without answering; and I left him with a strange uneasy feeling that something had happened. But when he joined me haif an hour later he was as bright and cheery as usual. We sang a few duets together, tried a new song, talked about a party to which we were invited, and I soon forgot my uneasiness and Miss ieisy too. The next three weeks passed quickly enough, for we were out a good deal, and had friends freauentlv d roniiintr in still I could not help noticing now and again that Tom's spirits were rather variable; he always looked pale and tired when he came home, and I at- iriouiea it totroubiesome cases "cases." He did not contradict me, nor did he assert that he was 9ecially busy. Once or twice I asked him If he did not tel well; but he alway replied that he was lerrectiy well, and then he would sud denly rouse himself and he his old self again. So the time passed till the date mentioned by Aunt Betsy for her ar rival. Tom reminded me of it in the morning at breakfast, and 1 fancied he was more grave and serious than usual. "Be patient with the old lady, Fan. Who knows but you may come in for the fortune? Martha and Ellen re not likely to put themselves .much .out of the way for the sake of a few hun dred: they have plentv of their own." "Then why should I, Tom?" I asked hastily. "I had just the same fortune as my sisters!" "Y'es, little woman; but they both married comfortable well-to-do farmers while you must needs marry a strug gling lawjer with only his profession to deend upon. Anyhow, fortune or no fortune, make your aunt welcome, dear in all probability she will never trouble you again.' "I should think I know how to treat my own relativ-s without being lec tured!" I said to myself, wilfully exag erating Tom's words. "It Aunt Betsy does not like my behavior, she can go back to Craglands as soon as she likes." If Tom had grumbled a little said the old lady's visit was a bore or a nui sance, a tlang to be endured with the liest grace possible I might have taken the opposite view of it. for I believe I am naturally of a somewhat contrary disiwsition but to be told to be civil or polite to anybody always gives me a strange inclination to be unusually rude and disagreeable. However, with Aunt Butsy I resolv ed to I on my dignity from the very first. I dressed myself with unusual care, and as I sat down in the drawing room I glanced at myself In the mirror and then round the room, and smiled complacently. Our home was no roomy old farm house, or square gray-stone ugly edifice, like the homes of Martha and Ellen, but a pretty semi-detached villa near the Crystal Palace. Aunt Betsy would not surprise me In a flag ged kitchen carving boiled beef for a dozen ravenous ploughmen as we had caught Martha, or washing butter in the dairy, as Ellen might be found any morning in the week. My surroundings thank goodness, wereentirely differentl My draing-room was small, certainly but it had a lovely Wilton carpet, a high-art pair and curtains, and the regulation amount of crewel embroi orks' feathers. Japanese fans. carved brackets, and old China. There were cracked plates on the over-maniei iktIv lmwls on a carved cabinet, and curtains gorgeous with sunflowers hid ing the fire-place. Altogether I flatter ed mvself that Aunt Betsy had never in her life seeu a house as pretty as mine; and, when I remembered the rude raw-boned lll-d reused servants who al ways accompanied her, I thought with nlejisure of my short-temter- ed. extravagant, but irreproachable Jane. . t., of twelve o'clock there came a loud knock at the hall door, followed by an impatient ring, and a moment later Auui Betsy entered the room. "Oh, niece r anny," one ewwiuim .ith a romtrehensiTe glance round and a wave of her niittened hands, "you're pleased to see me, I supiose?" "'ot particularly," 1 answered, ad vancing a step. There was something so aggressive, so sardonic almost in the old lady's tone and manner that I was .min arms directly no one should speak to me in that way in my own house "Oh" and she gave me another this time from over a pair of blue spec tacles "oh, I suppose I'm not Cue enough for you-eh? You would not risk spoiling your satin gown by em bracing me, though it might be the means of getting you several others. Y'ou're very proud, niece l annyl "I'm not uroud. Aunt Betsy," I re torted defiantly, "but I dont want your money, and I'm not going to cringe to Sou for it. I know you don't like me Lyou never did-and I can't think why you warn, mj win i it':.-. oi.. vaii are here, if you choose to be friendly to me, I'll be the same to you; but I would not have you hector me as you did poor "-. '' you were as rich as a Kothschild and meant to leave me every farthing you pressed. There-I've eased my mind! You know wnat i imun. p stairs and let me show you your room. Dinner will be ready in half an h"Iioity toityl" Miss Betsy guttered as she followed me up stairs. "A pret ty welcome niece, Frances, to give relative who comes to see you with l intentions. Il's a g xd thing there are others vv t.i more civil tongues in U.eir heads, and who are apparently more in need of money. Very flue ma'am! Brussels carpet all the way and walnut furniture in the are room, t ,. be What use would, a maiden THE MIFFLINTOWN, aunt's Raving3 be here, I'd like to know?" "Not much," I said, with a smile ana a return of my good humor. "I am glad to say Aunt Betsy, I don't want for anything." I had asserted my independence, van- quisnea my formidable old relative, given her clTarly to understand that I did not want her or her money, and now I was prepared to be as civil aud friendly as even Tom could wish. I rang for hot water, helped to un strap the hideous striped carnet-haar. asked if my aunt would like a cup of tea or a glass or wine before dinner. uupeusne wouia De comfortable and make herself at home, and then sailed away majestically, conscious ' that I looked very flue in my peacock-blue satin, and had made my aunt decidedly "small" in her coarse gray stuff gown. When slie joined me at dinner she had replaced her black "drawn" satin bonnet by a muslin cap with an infinity of narrow borders, while a white mus lin handkerchief was Dinned over her shoulders and fastened near the waist by an enormous Scotch pebble and silver brooch. Tue spectacles too were lam aside as were the camlet shawl and bearskin cap, and I saw that Aunt Betsy was not only keen-eyed, but thin straight and active. "Your husband must be a man of means, niece Frances," she observed, glancing round the dining-room and scanning everything on the table. "Tom has his profession," I replied proudly, "and we have the interest of my fortune." "Three thousand in the Funds; eh, at three per cent?" "No, my guardian sold out of the Funds long ago, and invested my money in a mine. It pays ten and sometimes twelve per cjiiL, Aunt Betsy. "Oh! No wonder you live well, niece Frances. Twelve percent eh? That's something, to be sure! No wonder you are independent of your old aunt! A husband a lawyer too, who knows all about it!" "Yes, Tom was quite satisfied with the investment, or he would not have consented, you know, llow did you lind my sisters, Aunt Betsy? Were they glad to see you? Ellen was always your favorite. I think." "I found them pleased to see me, I left them still more pleased to get rid of me; but, as I went to please myself and not them, it did not m itter much," Miss Betsy replied grimly. "They're avaricious niece Frances, and you're proud. I don't know which is th" greater fault Pride goes before de struction, aud a haughty spirit before a fall. You would not have your old relative from the mountains think you want for anything, would you? Oa, no! Is your husbaud as g: eat a fool as you are, niece?"' 1 laughed heartily at her pointed and brusque question. "1 do not consider myself quite a fool aunte," I replied; "but, even if I am, 1 tlnr.;; Tom has enough sense for us both." Then I asked Aunt Betsy to come with me to the drawing-room; but.true to her character of an officious old maid she declared her intentions of going over the house from garret to base ment "Xo. no, you need not trouble to come with me," she said, waving me aside. "The place is none so big but I can find my way. I mean to see for myself aud judge for myself, niece Frances. Just you sit down with your fidd ling make-believe needle-work while I look round I won't be long I can soon tell if you are a good housekeeper or have taken after your poor mother. I'll look at the corners, niece, that's all," and awav the old lady trotted. "Let her gol" 1 said to myseit Willi a smile, "She can't And much to hnd fault with up-stairs, any way, and I dare say Jane can hold her own in the kitchen." So I laid down my embroidery and went to the piano for half an hour's practice, without a single misgiving. In aliout twenty minutes she return ed and seated herself !n a corner with an expression I could remember ever sinje I was a child. I knew there was a storm coining, and I resolved to meet it w ith good humor, and laughingly re minded my Aunt Betsy that it was my house, and if she did not like it she was of course at liberty to leave it But 1 was not at all prired tor the accusa tions she heajied up against me. I was idle, lazy, careless, untidy, extravagant, There was sinful, wanton waste in every part of ti e house. "You will ruin your nusoinui hue cried raising her hands. "Six chamber towels in your own bed-room, and four best sperm candles! Think of the wash- in!?, think of the candles endsl As for the kitchen, the waste of fat, the waste of coals, a pound of soap on the sink! Niece Frances, I'm shocked! I wonder you can sleep in your bed at night with SHch things going on around you!" "I am afraid 1 couun t Sleep, audi B etsy. if things were any different." I renhed a little flippantly. "People live differently in London, you know, from other places, and you will soon get used to our ways." "Never!" Miss Betsy exclaimed en ergetically. "Never can I get used to such waste or extravagance while I re member that there thousands of poor starving creatures who might live m comfort on what is wilfully wasted. The superfluities of the rich should De m:irl to relieve the necessities of the poor, niece; and never shall a penny of my small savings go xo a womau no wants four can-iles to look at the re fl -ctlon of her face in the glass and six towels to wipe it on!" "1 told you, aunt, that I didn't wan 't your savings, and I don't," I said gent ly. "Do try to make allowances for different habits and customs; or, if vou can't do that, take no notice at alL It really need not matter to you." "Hut I must leave my money to some one " she said, with a puzzled, helpless expression. "I'm an old woman; I must set my affairs in oruer; out uow io uc ciJe I don't know. Y'ou're all alike. To think I should live to say it oi brother Peter's children! Greedy and lazv, one's bad, the other's worse; but i don't know which Is worst I don't indeed!" ....... "Leave your money to cnarity, auui Tfet-v." I suggested. "Charitv begins at home," she cried artly, "I'll leave my money how and where I like, but not to be squandered in senseless extravagance, depend on that! I came to stay a week, and 1 11 stay; but I've seen enough to know tha. I sha'n't have au hour's peace whi.e I m in the house." B fore half the week Wis over even Tom's good nature bJan to fail; he was heartily tired of Aunt Betsy, ner carping, her fault-Bnding. and her con 005STITUTIOI THE 175101 AID JUNIATA COUNTY. tinual cross-questioning. She wanted to know everything; and, though Tom parried her questions with a good deal of lawyer-like ingenuity, she contrived to elicit a great deal of information about our domestic arrangements, and she disapproved of everything she heard Five of the seven days of her visit were gone; and Tom, having arrived at the same conclusion as myself, that, who ever got Aunt Betsy's legacy, we shoulo not, began to wish the other two days were over, for the old lady was becom ing really unbearable. She seemed deeply interested in the mine in which my small portion was invested, and my husliand appeared, I thought, strangely unwilling to give her any Information. Oa the afternoon of the fifth day, just as I was preparing to go out for a walk, an old man in a suit of rusty black, carrying a shabby bag, called and asked to see Miss Clayton, jane showed him into the dining-room not, as she after wards said, without some misgivings about the silver and on hearing his name my aunt hastened to see him. In about ten minutes she came to the foot of the stairs and called me. "Niece Frances, come here!" she cried, in a high shrill voice; and, as I looked at her fac9, 1 saw In a moment that something unusual had happened. "This is Macer, my man of business and legal adviser, and he's just told ms that I've lost all my money. lie tells me I have been swindled out of every penny I possess, and a good deal more besides that Craulands must be sold to meet my liabilities, that I'm a house less, homeless old beggar without a place to lay my head. Is that what you've told me, Macer?" "Precisely, ma'am, that's what I've told you." "Dear Aunt Betsy, I am sorry!" I said earnestly; and I really felt truly and heartily grieved for her. "No hope of a legacy now, niece Frances; so I suppose I may pack my carpet-bag aud take myself off as soon as I please!" "No, Indeed, aunt; you must not think of leaving us till your affairs are arranged; things may not be as bad as you suppose; lu any case you must ask Tom's advice; he may be able to help you! "I don't know what to do," the old lady cried, wringing her hands, "if I lose Craglands, I shall be without a home.'' "Not while I have one, Aunt Betsy," I said laying my hand upon her shoul ders. "Come, cheer up! While we have a roof to shelter us you sliall share it; aud I know Tom will say so too." "Thanks, my dear; if you really mean it and your husband says so too, I'll not be so down-hearted. It's only when trouble comes upon you that you learn to know your friends." Tom returned early that evening; and before we went down to dinner I told him of my aunt's misfortunes, and my assurance that we would never let her want for a home. "That was like you, dear your real self, I mean," he replied; "and I quite agree with you that the poor old girl must not want while we have anything But, I; anny darling, misfortune it seems to me never couie singly; I have been very anxious lately about that mine in which Evans invested your money, To-day the worst I feared has come to pavs; the concern has gone smash, and I fear every fraction of your three thousand jiounds is gone!" "Tom, you're joking; it can't be true!" "I'm sadly afraid it Is, dearl" "But what shall we do?" "Tne liest we can, darling. I mu3 work harder and you must be more economical, that 'sail. It's unfortunate in one way that Aunt Betsy should be thrown on our bauds just now; but per haps it may l beneficial in another, if you will only consent to take a few les sons in management and economy from her." Just at first I relielled; but after a little while I saw the force of Tom's argument, and tried to l more econ omical. Finally, I even condescended to ask Aunt Betsy's advice and assis tance, and the result was wonderful. I saved quite a fourth of my housekeep ing money, and we lived quite as well as ever. A fellow-feeling In misfor tune drew us closer together, and I began to see that my old aunt possessed many excellent qualities I had never given her credit for. Tom declared the loss of her money had done her good, and we certainly were no jioorer for be friending her in her trouble. Still, at the end of three months Tom looked care worn aud worried; no matter how hard he worked, he was not able to quite make up the deficiency in our in come. He never complained or spoke to me about money-matters, but I could see that ho was very anxious. I thinK Miss Betsy saw it too, for one morning she surprised us at breakfast with the intelligence that she was going away. "I came for a week, and I have stayed three months, niece Frances. I thank you for your kindness during all that time, aud you too, nephew. I am not so completely ruined as Macer said, and am able to spare you a trifle to re compense you for the trouble and ex pense to which you have been put, especially at a time when you could ill afford it; but I hoie, niece Frances, that you will think the lessons In thrift and economy I've taught you the best legacy you could receive from your Aunt Betsy," and, laying a large en velope by Tom's plate, she kissed us both, and, in spite of all our entreaties, bustled away with her carpet-bag, promising to come and see us another time. "What can be in the letter. Tom? It's addressed to us both, with Auut Betsy's love. Do open it, dear!" "My darling, look here bonds for five thousand pounds!" Tom cried in amazement. "Do you think your aunt has taken leave of her senses? Gin she mean us to have all this money?" . "I think so; she seemed sane enouirh, Tom. But where did she get it? Oh. here's a no'.e "An installment of Auut Betsy's legacy (not to be invested in a mine); in grateful remembrance of favors received.' " "My dear, she must have been try ing us all the time, Just to see how we should act. It was part of her plan, no doubt; and I remember now she never said she had lost her fortuue she ouh said that old Macer told her so." She deceived me most completely,' Tom declared. "Fancy the old lady being so artful! However, Fanny, though the money is as welcome as the flowers in May, it's not half so valu able as the lesson we have learned to know how to keep and how to spend. That is Miss Betsy's best legacy." A skw comedy u called "Tbe On with a Tin Heart." Nearly all the gir. have a tin heart when a rung wan comes around with soft solder. THE EIF0K0EME5T OP THE LAWS. I'KNNA.. WEDNESDAY'. NOVEMBER 4, 1SS5. Tlie Brokea Pronrtse. Cliffe Stanhope was a wldower.twen- : ty five years old, and handsome as the hero of a dream. ! When the pietty, doll-like creature , who had been for one happy year his wife died, he had brought the tiny child ' of their love home to the old house un der the hill, and Mrs. Stanhope had an other "CI iff ey" to love aud care for. How chance does bring about events! Scarcely had Chile Stanhope greeted his mother, kissed his boy, and asked after his father and old Dobbin, when I a horse came dashing into the clover I decked yard like the wind, and stood i quivering in the corner by the porch when young Stanhope went out Lying at his feet, trampled and cov ered with dirt, lay a mass of something. It was almost indistinguishable, but the young man's quick eyes took in ' a glimpse of silken robes, stained and torn, a dainty foot, and a mass of yel : low hair tossed over a white, still face. In a moment he held the limp form ' in his arms, and the horse, again exci I ted to fury, reared and plunged, and . attempted to run a a ay with his added ; burden. i But a quick movement freed the skirts of the lady from the stirrup, and away the horse dashed, leaving the still form to be taken into the house, and cared for by Its inmates, while the young , widower went over the hills after a doc tor. The young lady was the daughter of a reputed millionaire, who boarded at a fashionable hotel in the adjoining town ' and created quite an excitement in the place by their fashionable, stylish dress ' and manners. I The young lady, Isadora Clements, : was one of those exquisitely beautiful creatures whom most jieople see about I once in a lifetime, and everybody won i ders how flesh and blood can be so - beautiful. ! No wonder Cliffe Stanhope fell in I love with the young girl whoee life he ' had saved. And she wondered that he ' did not tell her of his love aud ask her to lie his wife. I Cliffe's first wife had left him a 1 princely fortune at her death, and she had only asked of him a promise never to take another wife. UI could not sleep In my grave if au other woman were to come into your heart and home, taking my place," she said, only a few hours before she died. And Cliffe Stanlre called God to witness that he would never, never love another woman or take to his heart or home another wife. The child-wife died peacefully, and her memory had been in the heart of her husband until now, this beautiful stranger had come. But Cliffe meant to be true to his promise, and in spite of the love which he could not control, he said to himself "I will go once more to look upon my dear old home, and the face of my ! boy, and then I will go away, where 1 ! shall not meet the beautiful f;ice which Is ever tempting me to break my vow : to the dead." And when there was enchantment in , the summer air, he went down to the farm to My guud-bye. From the gar ; den, where the roses were in bloom, came thrilling sounds of bahy g'.ee and ' girlish laughter. S iftly he stole around i the house to obtain a glimpse of the child before it should see him. He wished also to look upon the faeeof the g:rl who had awakened such a wild passionate love in his heart, which was trying so hard to be faithful to the Oead. A beautiful picture met his eyes as j she stood hiking through tlieclump or i yellow rose bushes. 1'pon the velvety green car-iet of sol t-grass the baby-lsoy now able to walk, was toddling around thegieat,. red rose bushes, which were scarcely higher than his own curly bead. Isadora was hiding first lH-hind one side of the rose bush, and then the other, ami the delighted child would walk gleefuily to the side where she was hidden, and the moment his eyes fell upon her be would shout wituehild ish gU-e and rush into her arms, cling ing to her neck and covering her hps with kisses. She in turn would strain him to her heart, return his kisses, then release him only to enact the scene agaiu. By aud by Mr. Stanhope drew gently nearer and heard Isadora say, a3 she kissed the boy: "I love you, little Cliffe Stanhoje, and 1 love to sjak your name, lieeause it is his name. Ah, little darling! you do not know that I love you so dearly because you are his loy. I love you, Cliffey. and I love your iaja too," and ' l...L.;.is-r on alia rttnot Jii tt-Wntll'lt A Vi of ClI'Te Stanhope. With a shriek she would have fled, but he detained her, and almost before be was aware of it she was held closely to his breast and her head pillowed I there, while he was telling her how dear she was to him, and asking her to be his bride and the mother of his boy. She consented, and bewildered by the oy of the new love he forgot the old, and with it the promise to the dead. Nor did he ever know that the gar den scene had been rehearsed every day Or a weeK ior uia esi-cviai ticucuu. Yet so it was. and the actress Isadora had seen him when he came down the S II .!... 1. . ...... ..I. i iarm roau, ami -.new no vs ' ing her when she uttered those passion- ate words to his boy. I But they were married In a fortnight ' after the declaration in the garden, and i Isadora became mistie-ss of the stately city home which had been the projierty of his first wife. One month after their marriage he was obliged to leave home on business of the utmost lmiortance. The credit of the firm was threatened through the rascality of one of their agents, and it was necessary for one of the firm to go to a distant city. With real sorrow he tore himself away from home, promising to return within a month, No sooner had he left the house than his wife ordered the nurse to take the child into her room and leave it there. And after that day she attended to it with her own cruel hands till the rosy happy child was only a shadow of its former self, and the happy little face was thin and tne great, sorrowful eyes looked frightened and sad. What had she done? . She had given it laudanum to stlH Its blood, and when it awoke she had met its cries with blows upon its tender flesh until it was afraid to ntter a sound, and could only look its terror from the wistful eyes. "I'll have yon on of the way berore your foolish father comes home, and the property will be all mine. 1 or I can easily persuade Cnffe to make a wilL giving it all to me, in those honey moon days," ahe said, looking into the baby's face. The child turned Its great shadowy f eyes upon her, and cried out "Papa!" i But she instantly slapped it violently ; Thirty-eight years ago the first post upon iboth sunken cheeks, and the voica ag stamps were used in the United was hushed. j states. For 175 years postage had been My love for you, Isadora, caused collected entirely Tin money, and in all . , . w "'"ucu. """- wiu " V- s.oie aispatcn. and l thought to sur- I.M.-W juu, i-ui. uuu myseii surprises, Wnat have you done to my child?" It was ynrre "stanhope returning, wno stood looking in the doorway, and who had heard the cruel words of his wife, The child is sick," returned the "I heard your threats, all," he cried, his voice rising from a calm, clear tone, which betokened the white heat of his anger, to the heights of passion. The nurse came into the room say ing: "I was not to blame, Mr. Sta.ihope, Tour wife would have the baby in there, and I would weep and cry when she slapped tne pretty cheeks and frign tened the life out of it And the laud anum she gave it was awful!" Isadora stood with defiant air. "Leave my house, madam!" cried the husband. "I will not. It is my house," she re plied. "I married you to obtain your wealth. And I would have murdered you after the will was made." "Leave my house, monster!" he cned. "Not until you have given me five thousand dollars." "I will send for the police. The con dition of the child, the testimony of the nurse, your own confession here, before witnesses, make a spleuded case for the law." "Give me a thousand dollars and I'll go." Cliffe Stanhope counted from his wal let the sum of one thousand dollars and gave it to the wretched creature, and she went away. He never saw her more. The child hovered long upon the lorders of the grave, but eventually recovered to bless the life of its father, whose one mistake came so near being fatal. W:is the child-wife satistled with the punishment of the broken vow. Ct of fari Improvement!!. Kecent accounts of the financial state of the city of Paris reveal a munitlcenae of expenditure which can hardly fail to have grave political consequences, bince 1852 the sum of j74,Gik),UOO has been laid out In the rebuilding and emliellishment of the French capital. In the outlay are included the sums of 3.'5,3G0,0OO spent on streets, 11,300.- DUO spent on the Hotel de Ville. togethei with schools, churches, hospitals, muni cipal buildings and markets; i.,s,.0).0X) on the four public parks of the Bois de Bouloene, the Bois de v mcennes, the Park Monceaux, the I'ark de Mont- souns. and the squares and gardens; and jG,25',0X) on water conduits and sewers, lhe aunual rental derived by the city from the last item of exiendl- ture amounts to iMmURi). or tit er cent, on the outlay. The rents ot the central halls, markets, abbattoirs. and cab-stands come to iNS' i,0u ier annum; and the city has to raise l's4,), by annual imxsts In order to make up the charge of JEl,720,0o per annum, for interest and amelioration of the out- standiug loan debt of JClf.'M iWh During the period in question the population of Paris has risen from M.-,0jO to 2,::',X)0. The area covered has increased from 8,4'M) acres to 1!,27J acres; lu0 miles of sewers and s7 miles of new streets have been built, and oJ miles of old streets, having a width of less than 2"! feet, have been removed. The disposable property of the city is valued at X' 1,0b j.ijuo. This does not include 3,702 acres of streets, valued at i'120,0u0.0u0, or the half share of the property of the Pans Gas Company, which, together with the gas conduits whL'h will Income the property of the city in 1'J'iO, is valued at i'..12ii.M). The ratable value of Pans, containing 77,000 houses, was estimated by Sir Joseph Bazalgette last year at -C24,iAA-000, that of ' Ixmdou, iiictudiuK the disproportionate number of 500,000 houses, lieing JS,XiO,hx. The lensth of streets were respectively 5S2 and 1,800 miles. Flirtation, In saltiui Wax. Here Is something for the la-lies; Flirtations in sealing wax are the latest racket. Bed is for business only; black wax is for mourning and condolence; pink for congratulations, and white for wedding invitations Blue means love, ami the color is used in various tints to mark the different stages of affection. Variegated colors are used to indicate conflicting emotions. Two other things 1 or whip, l ue uemanu ior tu.s ..ui. are being tried by the stationers to ment is general, and m the effort to, make wax work expensive and fash-I supply it some pretty and cheap sp-eci-iouable. They are beginning to use! mens are produced. The handsomest thiml.lM In l.e-ir seals, and hoi to make some designs a popular craze. Then scented waxes are being imported from Paris, with a variety of colors, more or Im rlpairal.ln stud costlv. It is said one French firm makes wax, the perfume of which when burning will fill a ro m, and last for hours about the envelope. The Elephant, The elephant is the large st of the land animals that now live on our earth He is very strong and very sensible. The Indian elephant does some very wise things. He is Uncut to carry peo ple on his back, and in time of war he draws the heavy guns and carries the wounded, lie will put his large head against a canuon and push it through a bog, when men and horses would be unable to move it at all. He can pile timber and draw a plough, and do many other useful things. Elephants are very kiud to little children, and when they are left in charge of them will guard them from all harm and treat them with the greatest gentleness But, although elephanU can be very kind and gentle when well treated.they are dangerous when angry. The In dian elephant has a seat or howdah fastened on his back, in which several people can ride. Wild elephants are hunted for the sake of their tusks.whlch are ivory and are very valuable. rnblie Hottfe. Two hundred public houses in Lon don were watched between the hours of 9 and 12 on a recent Saturday night for the purpose of seeing how many persons entered them. The count showed that they were visited by So,Go8 persons, men, women and children, during the three hours. T.raii'i'v I . fl wrenched a cornet from the hand of an amateur performer th other day at Lancaster, Fa. Yat then are people who don't like bghtning. First poataca Stamp. cases prepayment was optional. Good ; old John Hay wood, who m loSO became the "worthy master of the posts," at Boston, and the lirst postmaster in ! America, employed chance conveyance I instead of postage, with "by kindness j 0f some traveler at his postal service; and nothing was thought of stamping until 141. though such men as Frank lin, Bache, Pickering and Kendall had been at the head of the Post-office Department, and though the numter of offices had come to be nearly 1,400. On the 2"th of March, 1S40, John M. Niles, of Hartford, became Postmaster fvenerAl Anil airmuliTa.! rita Dilrrtin lat v.- ! tion by many reforms. He turned the . wrong side out of his predecessor's work, and convinced his party and the President that Amos Kendall was not such a great man as had been imagined. It was necessary to cap all by a genuine innovation aud he performed this by suggesting the postage stamp. The suggestion was received with ridicule, and Mr. Niles soot afterward retired. His successor, Charles A. Wickliffe, put the department into the ancient ruts again, and when Cave Johnson assumed the portfolio on the 5th of March, 184.5, he found it an herculean task to reinstate the reform measures of Mr. Niles. During Wicklifle's ad ministration the numlier of post-otlices had increased by only G9., but Johnson saw in his terra of oflice 4 2.T7 offices added to the rolls, and witnessed other tokens of prosperity. Among the treasures of Mr. Niles that he adopted was the postage stamp idea. The President had converted his Postmaster General from opposing the reduction of postage to a championship of the lowest paying rates, and Johnson garnished his conversion with fathering the sug gestion originated six years liefore. The matter took form as a biil liefore Congress, and though it was quite the fashion to opKse any Cabinet suggest ions, the act authorizing the issue of stauqis of .land 10 cent denominations w;is iiassed, ami approved March 3, 147. The date of the issue was ap pointed as July 1st, but ihere was a delay in the contractor's work, and the time ran over a month. On the 5th day of August, soon after the opening of the Postmaster General's office for the day, an old gentleman called to see Mr. Johnson on business. The gentleman was the Hon. Henry Shaw, a New Y'orker. Sheets of the stamps were laid before the Postmaster General, who, after receipting for them, handed them to hi3 visitor to iusiiect. Mr. Shaw returned them after a hasty glance; and then drawing out his wal let, he counted out fifteen cents with which he purchased two of the stam Vie first tiro erer isjutti. The live cent stamp he kept as a curiosity, aud the ten cent stamp he presented to Governor Briggs as an appropriate eift Egyptian Hft. The (lies are still one of the plagues of Egypt, as In the days of Moses, wites a hapless Cairo correspondent. Like the feminine callers in New Eng land villages they bring their work and stay all the afternoon. Their adhesive qualities are greater than those of iat eut cement. They make your acquain tance and, like Mrs. Micawber, they never, never forsake you. I have had one of these pertinacious flies make my acquaintance in one quarter of the city and follow me un flinchingly through dark and winding ways to an entirely opposite quarter. Nothing could de tach him from my person not the crowds through which I p.-.sed, the camels which brushed against nie, nor winding alleys, low and gloomy gate ways the odors of the market place, not any amount of futile blows with the cane, nor any wealth of American ex pletive. He remained, penetrating in to my ears, sitting triumphantly on my nose, and constantly finding new and unexpected points of attack, until he was tired out and left of his own accord. And jet it is a small, insignificant look ing insect. A dozen of them would hardly make one ordinary sized blue bottle. Still, it is a recogii'zl terror, unpleasaut to she well and a terror to thise especially infants having the ophthalmia. An instrument, called by the French a chasseraouche or fly-chaser, is made and sold for putting it to flight, or for Its possible extermination. This is a small handle, to wiiich are at tiehed long filaments of cane, alm reed or horsehair, after the manner of an extremely slender aud delicate brooi . are Uiooe iroui aiuuv. "-' gant ivory hanules, and are at once du rable and ornamenUI. Every one walks about Cairo armed with his j chasse-mouche. whipping right and j left- On horseback they are reany necessary, and as when so used they are conspicuous, an official on parade days will carry one corresponding with bis fine dress and equipments. Flood Bock U still Sinking. Flood Rock Is still sinking. The daily rate is variable, but the sinking aggregates In many places four or five feet The Government diver, Mr. W. L. Quinn, was under water several hours recently and examined three sides of the reef. Ou the north and south aides the rock is so shattered that it can be dredged with comparative ease. On the east and west sides the frag ments are larger, and some surface blasting will have to be done. The whole reef, so far as it Las been exam ined, is full of fissures, which follow the trend of the rock's grain. The north side of the nigger heads will probably be examined and as soon as possible dredging will begin. This work will doubtless be done by contract Mr. Quinn says the explosion was a complete success. Jiew Sonrea t Waalttt. Mr. rarnell's esUte In Wicklow, Traiaml a read v rich in valuable stone. almost exclusively used now in Dublin building, has developed a new source of j wealth in mushrooms in great profusion : and of extraordinary size. One speci-J men sent to the Dublin market weighed , four pounds and measured more than a. foot within tne cup. MABTfajred seven, but dignified) Johnny, I am surprised that jon ' should say "too previous, " m nauga rr. Johnny, fsged six, bot precocious) 'What ahoald I say Mary (loftily) 1 1 .id.. iqV. HmA hv ihA hariiTft-' " J- oT ' i Editor and Proprietor. NO. 45. NEWS IX BRIEF London has an average of 2,000 births a week. ' The Knights of Labor are rapidly increasing in the South. Mark Twain sells no article from his pen for less than 1,000. Vermont makes more cheese than any other State in the Union. French cheese-makers aim to get a profit of 2o0 per cow per year. About four thousand comets have been seen since the record began. West Virginia prays for a legisla tive session only once in four years. Progressive euchre has reached California and they have it very bad. Sara Bernhart Is in debt 1150,000, and comes to America to make it up. The tomb of Juliet, at Verona, is kept decorated with flowers by visitors. Now Indiana comes forward with a man who claims to be 400 years old. Herds of antelopes obstruct the running of trains on DakoU railways. The city of Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, is laid out like a capital U. Fire-alarm boxes have been placed in the public schools of New York city. Baron Rothschild's private picture gallery in Pans Is valued atf 10,000,000. The English sparrow has found his way into every city and town in the South. A queen bee lays from two thous and to three thousand eggs in ninety- four hours. The great house built by Story of the Chicago Times has been bought for a convent The circus manager. Cole, has made, it is said, $1,000,000, and is only Xi years old. A novelty in silver is the discovery of a process of electro-plating with sil ver Uon wood. Cigarette smokers are hereafter to le expWled from the public schools of Newark, N. J. In one of his novels Walter Scott uses the expressions "true facta" and "a dead corpse." Two lady jockies lately drove horses in a trotting race In New Bedford, Mass., for i-00 a side. In Japan, where cremation is regu larly practised, the most expensive form casts only seven dollars. The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in New Y'ork has reduced the rate of interest to 4 j per ceut The New Y'ork subscription to the Grant monument is only fso.tmo. The amount to be raised is $l,0")O,000. Female mining stock dealers and speculators in San Francisco are euplnmiously dubbed "mud hens." An eastern temperance lecturer goes around with the formidable name of Rev. Mangasar M. Mangasarian. A young lady in New York, pass ing a baseball game, was struck on the back by a ball and died of the injury. Brown, the Boston lawyer who op posed Ben. Butler in the Tewksbury Iuyestigatlou, has embezzled J20.000. In Bibbcounty, Georgia, the people of the neighborhood are called to church by the silvery notes of a bunting bugle. A Georgia negro was promised the beef in a steer if he would butt the ani mal to death. He did it at oue jump. The highest percentage ever reach ed in a civil service examination in this country was by a woman, who scored !'7. Miss Smith, the Connecticut old maid who refused to pay her taxes, married at SO, and says it is a hapvy state. Two creeks, named "Froze to Death" and "Starved to Death," are on the new map of Custer county, Mon tana. The estimated corn crop of Nebras ka this year is 120,ihhi,Ooo bushels nearly r.,0UO,000 bushels greater than last year. A County Treasurer in Iowa named King stole J-lo.oW, and was acquitted by a jury. That is a big pile to wiu on one king. A New York physician, who is ten years older than he looks, accounts for his youth by the fact that he eats 3,000 lemons a year. A grizzly lar in the Selkirk Moun Uins has eaten two telegraph line re pairers. He is suspected of trying to bear the stock. The King of Wurteniburg is in se rious failing health, aud will spend the winter at Nice in a desperate attempt to prolong his life. During the twelve years occupied in the translation of the new version of the Old Testament twelve of the twenty-seven translators died. A new steamer costing some $3O,C0O has just been constructed by the church missionary society for the use of its missions on the river Niger. The navy of this great and glorious country numbers less than 100 vessels, but we have 1,600 officers and ought to feel safe on that account. Canadian canoes are establishing themselves on the Thames, and prom ise to share with the more capacious steam launch the honors of popular favoritism. More than a hundred tons of human hair are annually bought and sold In Europe. Four ounces Is an average clipping from a human head; so that a hundred tons represent the product of from 800,000 to 1,000,000 heads. France produces 377,720,428 kilo grammes of rags a year, the value of which is estimated at no less than $.15, 34,400. The total number of persons employed in rag-picking and allied in dustries is said to be 2-S4,801. The same flag was used at Vallejo, Cal , during the celebration of the re cent Admission Day anniversary that was flung to the breeze when the news of the admission of California as a SUte was received thirty-five years ago. The new sculpture room In the Bri tish Museum, soon to be opened, will contain the remains of the Mausoleum at Ilalicarnassus, which was erected by Artemesia 350 B. C over the remains of her husband, Mausolus. The monster petition of the Salva tion Army regarding the protection of trirls. recently presented to the English Parliament, was two miles 600 yards and one foot long, and bore upward of 393,000 signatures. The total number of seoerate farms in the United SUJes is 4.000,000, the yalue of which is 2,000. 000,00a The value of the annual products of these farms is 600.000,000, and the value of farming implements in use upra th farms is 80,000,000. "I r: 4... 1
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