... ..... - - . ... , -j, . '.l'S IX ... B. F. SOHWEIER, the cohstitutioh the uuioi-ai j tee extoboekeit of tee laws. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIX. MIFFEINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, FENNA.. WEDNESDAY. XOVEMliKIl 25, I8S5. NO. 48. God Wants the Voting. r J wants the happy-hearted boys, stlrrine bvs, the best of boys, ' The worst of boys. . ,lXV, them soldiers of his cause, r Are to defend each riphteous one, .' i to uphold his sacred laws That good and true The world may lie, Kedeem from oin And misery. OoJ wants the boys. r,r1d fills the happy-hearted girls. Si , loriri sirl.-, the best of cirls, 'xte worst of girls. pe wants to make the girls his i -carls, i-i so reriec: hi holy face, .! Uin to iniad his wondrous grace, " That beautiful 5"i:e world may be, And tilled with Jove And purity. God wants the filrls. GOLDEN -AUTUMN. fceeuleiith was a quiet little place cuiet indeed that it was difficult to reaiiie tliat it formed pait of the living busting, roaring world. Births took rijeeat rare intervals, marriages were rarer still, and even death, who made i -ih havoc elsewhere, seemed to forget this I)-'' valley, 'e waited so lung be tween Lis, visits. ja ;'.., vry centre o' this peaceful s-vt Mis.-. Luttrell's cottage w.is situa ted! It M-vi just above the river, down tc which the road ran, to hide itself iraui.iie i:i the ford, from which it rose veihf.v between the green beeches opposite, to Vie itself again in the woods bevouJ. jliss Lutm-ll was forty-two, yet the loveliest woman ar.ywheie in East ffehlsalre. She had changed some what in looks sine-' girlhood, but the chafes liad all come so sweetly and cently that they had rather mellowed her beauty than caused it to fade. IJer lather had been Vicar of Beechleigh; sni, when lie die J, she had removed to the little old house which was called tie cottage, ana nau uvea on ever suite in tier quiet way. Everybody love 1 her, and sie was so Euc'a of a p.-rmaneTd "institution" that nose of the Deechk-igb folks ever wondered why such a fair sweet wo nan should v.t have married, why she should have wont:'1, love except the love that crowns a v.ou an's l.'fe. That she 8'uOulJ ilreaia o! utarrynij new was of course out in" the question. She was the last wimir.a i:i the world to marry for a Lome indeed she had 'S nice a home as at.y woman should wish to tare ar.-l siiwas not :n the least afraid of old maiUtnhco i. Besides there was nobody iu the neighborhood whom she could marry, had she so desired, iiid out of the neighborhood she never wanilereJ; and Uecch'eig'i imagination strayed no farther. Beeelikign was alaacst. au "Adaniiess EJen." The old Vicar was married; only sou was a tutor at Oxford; the doctor was also married; so were both the lawyers; so were Captain Gray, who foajjU h a uitddy at Trafalgar, and Mr. Ashburton. the curate. After many years of unbroken quir.. two stirring events happened at Beech khjh in one week, Miss Luttrell an nounced to her frienus and neighbors that her niece, Alice Went worth, wn conic; to stay with her, and Mi's Ticheil heard Irom the steward that Beechleigh Hall, whi.;!i had beeD shut up for a lengthened period, was going to be occupied again, and preparations were to be made at ones for the recep tion of its rwcer, bir Alfred Dennet, who was cousir.g down for the pheasant shooting. The Lews was sufflcieut'y startling. Kcastomed as the inhabitants of Beech leigh were to dull monotony;everybody talked sj much a;;d so fast about 'oth events that they get strangely mixed up, and all kh!d of contradictory re ports got ciicHii.ittd innocently enough. Then ALce Wentworth arrived, and gave food for gossip, to the exclusion of all other subjects foi some time to coae. Mix, Ashburton, was quite acciden tally on the platform of the little sta tion when she arrived Miss Luitrel! of course was wa.ting and, when the train drew up. the curate's wife mod tstly withdiew and occupied herself with exanii:.ir.g the station master's Loihtochs. , few passengers alighted t Beechleigh that slie had a good op ponuaity of; criticising them, and 10 spite oi her botanical preoccupation, she zave minute attention tc a neat lit-t-e ld'iy in a:- ulster, wearing a small fet hat and carrying a portmanteau, no went straight up to gentle Mis3 uuieu ana K;ssea her. Mrs. Ashburton, having thus satisfied her cunosity, employed the next few fays in imparting to those equally anx ious to obtain information concerning tae new arrival her impressions with wpect to Miss Went worth, which were ot ado-ether Haltering to that young "ay, the curate's wife not hesitating to Pronounce her stvle "fast." The ar "yal of Sir Alfred Bennett at the hall itn an immense tram of servants and panyof friends tfoi'ter-sensatiim. proved however a Alice sat at Miss Luttrell's tea-table the third day of her visit, thought "'o lieipmj herself to cake. Slie look sue nail Uvn talking pleasantly enough 3 her aunfs irienus. " is strange to think that you have an your i-fe here and uever tired 't, Aunt Helen." she said presentlv. r Hun t mean that this is not on of delightful of villages, for the iwi'ie are most interesting their char--?arc distinctly developed as thev never 1 e in the world, where ::?1 , ar-'l angles would be rubbed !m If n'-v tame, you Alice." iH- Mn sure 1 sh'.uld be lired to fori.JOt y Lo!"e if 1 ,!aJ no1-11'"? lse JL ,ailJ always; and one di3 see u-eo mauhma at Kensington ihan ,' ', , Uo11 1 You ever chafe and champ , to ste what ki.id of a .at'i i-: ,m ;o. si'le.') " " VL'r-v sorro"fn'- world out fc, , u (:e-1 !-ar. j'.lly. sparkling tinil-U"i-'!'i world. Aunt Helen!" cried 4.itth ' ''; -1 '' "-U J''t run th world H ":(;l!IH' t,l1:i,t know ii " t: . i'e you-ev, vou found your skr'':K a!! s'lnshine and sparkle? aw , I-'itt- t-lf. not looking at her eves ; ,' '' ,we i-rislieJ and whose ti-.le''!:1' ;,'"'''"i; t!'"''ii!y pazingat iy't'r''"' "' 1-nil' flowers outside. Lt.,,'.:' '"" l,,e '-'o'Kls parted, and a - IIPV. !en iylit shot out of In afew minutes The heavtus becaii"- i:y El-.,-. "'-'' (V; iOii lui-p! -, a few golden ii.l:.. th-: we-t. the diean had cVm.' for davs to the hedges and the Snrubs and flowers now became a very robe of glory "How lovely I" cried Alice. "There )s no time of the year like autumn, so "Hopeful!" repeated Miss Luttrell, amused. "It is snrinir that is hnmt ni "Spring is made up of disappoint- uicui, i. uuui, pronounced Alice de cisively; "it is all biting east wind and May snowstorms and frosts that nip up all the poor little flowers that have veu- lurea 10 peep out. Ah, Aunt Helen. uie 'promise of Mav' means blight ,n,i disappointment in many senses! Give me the golden promise of October the promise of rest!" Then, after a pause a.i:co auueu aorupuy, "were you never our, or lieechieigu in your life Aunt ueienr I ou never talk as if you had been anywhere else, and yet it seems impossible." Y hen I was a girl, I was at York," cj.iicu jiias ivuwren, in ner calm way "and ouce only once in all my life I was taken to London by my fathers sisters, Mrs. Browning," she went on not quickly, but so continuously as to leave no room for question or remark. "I did not see anything of your Loudon indeed your London did not exist in tuose days. There was literally no south Kensington, we called all that part Urompton. 1 stayed at Uamp stead. It was May the height of the season. t e went ouce to the theatre and once to a children's party, and those were our only dissipations. We were taken a treat deal to the British Museum to improve our minds;but you will hardly cosisider that a lively nlace: even Beechleigh would make a better background for a romance than that, Here Miss Luttrell rose and ranz for the tea-things to be removed. Though the garden was brilliant enough in the sunset, the room was in shadow, the fast-gathering shadow of an October afternoon, and would have been dark but for the dicker of the lire. Helen Luttrell's fair smooth cheeks had flush ed to a tender pink, and the hand that pulled the bell rope trembled, causing an unwontedly imperious peal to ring into uie suronsed waitinc-maid s ears. and Alice Wentworth's pale small face liad caught the same rosy clow, and her wistful eyes had softened and brightened; yet each was perfectly unconscious of the emotion of the other. The next morning the rain was over and gone, and the whirr of the part ridge and the crack of the suns were heard in the land. Alice remembered that the Hall was open and filled with guests, and suggested to her aunt that they should walk somewhere in the neighborhood where the sportsmen would be likely to be. "I want an adventure," she said, "and I am sure we shall meet with none in the village." "I will accompany you in any direc tion you like," Miss Luttrell responded smiling; "but I trust we shall not meet with an adventure. Adventures in the neighboiTiood of guns are generally un pleasant." However, in a stubble-Geld they came face to face with a tall elderly gentle- siau accompanied by a keeper and a couple of pointers. He was handsome and distinguished-looking, unmistakab ly military, and, in spite or his gray moostache, seemed agreeably alive to the presence of a pretty young girl in his path. Immediately after him came Imt Alfred Bennet, with another friend arid the Baronet stopped for a moment to Speak to Miss Luttrell. "Well, we have seen some people more interesting than the Ashburton set," Alice remarked, as Sir Alfred lft theaL ' How nice it will be if Sir Al fred gives a ball! He really ought to do so, Aunt lle.enr ' Alice glanced in surprise at her aunt having received no answer; Miss Lut trell was strangely flushed, and her eyes were bright, and she looked startled and excited; then she became very pale. "You are not well, aunt," said Alice "Sit, down s minute on this nice dry dry log. I am afraid I made you walk to fast up the last hill." 'I suppose so," returned Miss Lut trell. "I am an old woman now, you see, dear, and I cannot treat my lungs and limbs as I used to do. I am quite cnanged," "Changed, Aunt Helen!" cried Alice. "Why, you look years younger than I do! Just this minute you looked about twenty; and, if vou had seen me when I was 'cramming ' a month ago you would have talen me for forty-five at least." And, oddly enough. Miss Luttrell, who was always so sensible, and had never attempted to make herself appear younger than she was, and who had worn cap3 for the last six years, though her hair was as soft and brown and plentiful as Alice's, looked as pleased at the compliment a3 if she had been striving all these years to make people forget the flight of time and take her for a girl In the afternoon there was another glorious sunset. Miss Luttrell and Alice drew the table up to the window and drank their tea, watching at the same time the gorgeous crimson and blue and gold of the sky. Presently the wooden garden-gate clicked, and a step came crunching along the gravel walk out, of sight round the corner. "see who it is, Alice," whispered Miss Luttrell, pale and large-eyed. "It is not a burglar," said Alice re assuringly, "nor is it a policeman, but it's a military man." "Oh!" Miss Luttrell exclaimed, m a casping voice. "Oon't be shocked, Aunt Helen," Alice went on, quite a different creature from the pale dull little girl of a few minutes before. "It is so refreshing to see some one out of the world. You are just as pleased as I am, auntie; you look quite elated." Instinctively, she gave a few little strokes to her soft fluffy hair, while Mis3 Luttrell sat back in her chair, stat uesquely still, but most unstatues- que In her lace's cnangeiui tinting. "Colonel Xorreys!" announced the ltuwu6. , waitinir maid, with unctuous orimini. i tioa in her tone; and the man with the gray moustache whom they had met in the morning entered the little drawing room, looking very big amongst the china and spindle-legged chairs, amid the soft warm lights and shadows. For a highbred gentleman and a colonel who had won his promotion by hard fighting, he looked awkward and timed as he came in. He begau a for mal little speech that he had been re hearsing a.1! the way np tlie garden "Shall I introduce myself, or may I recall myself to Miss Luttrell's memory? I can hardly hope to have been remem bered all these years." "I remember you perfectly, Colonel Xorreys, and 1 am very glad to see .ou " said Miss Luttrell, with a faint M-ttle tremor in ner voice, um, - stateliness of utterance anu uemcui that she had never been known to as sume before. "I trust I see you well. roortbingl Her heart was beating ukeagirrs at eign teen, and she had assumed the manner of a prim fifty j ear-old spinster. She forgot to intro auce Alice, wiucn that youutr lady an grily resented, and attributed, with the sun manner, to a reproof for her own levity. -i am quite wen, except ot course for the liver," he responded; "but man or my time ot life, and who has had so many years of Indian diet, has no right to expect anything from his liver but discomfort." mi . ..... xnerewasanawKwaru lime pause Miss Luttrell caught her breath. "But you are looking well, Helen," said the Colonel, the restraint suddenly vanishing from his manner. "You are so little changed that I knew your face in a minute wnen l encountered you mis morning at least there seemed something very familiar in it: and.w hen Bennet told me your name, it all flashed upon me." -men you aid not really recognise me said aiiss Luttrell, with a cold little smile. "Why, of course not. or I should have sioppeai" Colonel Norreys actually blushed and glanced so consciously at Alice thnt miss i,uttreii instantly guessed who had been the real object of his atten lion. My niece. Miss Wentwortb " she said introductory, and then was si lent If she had spoken, she felt she must have cast aside her dignity and said something angrily stinginc she. the gentle Helen Luttrell, who was never Known to speak a sharp word. les the long gap of twenty-four years had vanished, and she was a jeal ous petulant girl again, ready to take up tue thread of her last quarrel with Seymour Norreys where it had been dropped; only Seymour Xorreys did not appear to entertain the same feelings with regard to her, she thought, with a smart or the old bitterness. She sat silent for two or three miu utes, during which her mind drifted back to Uie time when she had paid that memorable visit to Hampstead. and nad met young isorreys, then a lieutenant in the th. Every scene every incident, every emotion re curred to her mind the children's party, to which two or three grown-up people had been asked to help to amuse the little ones; her first waltz with a real officer; her first taste of admiration m the whispered flattery and the devo ted attention bestowed on her tliat evening; the night at the opera, when Seymour had made his way from the stalls and stayed beside her. and escor ted her to the carnage; the half-acci dental meetings on Hampstead Heath; i lie evil spirit or jealousy aroused by Jtnei lirowning's disparaging hint that officers did not like "bread-and-butter" misses, though they might amuse them selves with such girls in the absence of others; then that most lovely of spring days, when they all went to Kensing ton Gardens, and Seymour Xorreys contrived to get her away from the others, and told her that he loved her, and made her promise to marry him; and then the drive home, when Ethel managed to secure the officer's attend tion for herself, and said such unkind things when they were alone afterwards. The next morning she had gone to meet him alone on the hearth, as they had arranged; but she was so long in making up her mind and in baffling Ethel that she was au hour late, and met Xorreys coming away from the trysting place. She was tired and cross and somehow they quarreled. She awoke suddenly to consciousness of the present; it seemsd as if she must have been for hours in a state of sus pended animation. What would the others think? Had she looked peculiar? Had she revealed her thoughts in her face? Were they wandering and cou- jecturing about her? JJut, with a sharp pang oi humilia tion, she saw at once that they had been two busy thinking ot eacn otner to re member her presence in the room. . "He likes 'bread-and-butter' misses now," she thought sadly; "but, when I was eighteen, I could not have talked as Alice is talking now. Dear me! I thought men hated clever women, and J thought that Alice's school despised men and would never dream of laying themselves out to win admiration." Miss Luttrell went to her room ear lier than usual to put on her evening dress. She looked at herself long and wistf ally in the glass, and tried to re call her face at eighteen. She could not have looked so very different, she thought. She had grown neither stout nor thin; she had neither gray hair nor wrinkles; her eyes looked quite as young and eager and bright as they used to do when she surveyed her self before going out tor tue waiKS on Hampstead Heath. It must have been the style of dress, she concluded, that really made the difference. She looked through the photograph album that evening, and found one of her own, slightly faded, taken during hjr visit to London. It was a full length portrait, in which she appeared in a gigantic crinoline. Certainly the last she had taken looked much nicer. She showed the old one to Alice. That is what I was at your age. 1 am a great deal changed.am I not ?" she asked. "Why, what an old fright you were i" Alice exclaimed. "You look really younger now than you did then, if that photograph is anytning w go uy. i. must have been very hard on girls to make them look like old women." Girls did dress 'old' then" Miss Lut trell admitted, and then told herself that perhaps, after all, Alice was right that she did look younger now, with modern advantages of dress, than she did in the bloom of her teens. She still kept up her music, and piay- Ad well: hut she seldom sang, ihis evening she turned over ner oiu " , - J , fin volumes auu iuuuu a ovum Seymour used to be very fond of, and in which her upper notes came oul wen She began to sing it; but soon sn9 pushed the music impatiently away the words appeared so silly and the melody somehow had lost its charm. Then Alice sang a song of Schubert's, and her aunt took up her knitting with a sigh. The next day Colonel Xorreys came again, this time with Sir Alfred, who invited them to dinner on the morrow. "You will forgive the rougn ways or. a bachelor household," he said; and it did not occur to Miss Luttrell untd hours afterwards, so naturally did she take her place as chaperon, mat sne would not have been asked to come alone with Alice to that bachelor house hold unless she herself had been tacitly relegated to the ranks of said spinster-hood. Sir Alfred talked to her; so of course Colonel Xorreys gave his attention to Alice when the conversation diverged from general topics. Presently Sir Al fred spoke of a picture he had bought, but which he had not yet had hulls'. declaring that on the morrow the ladies must advise him about it. "Your Xiece is very clever, Xorreys says," he continued "she will under stand what is the best light for it- She is very accomplished, very artistic, is she not?" They both glance m Alice's direction She was talking with great animation to Xorreys, and he was listening with a smile of amused interest. 44 Yes; girls aro so much better edu cated now," Miss Luttrell thought; and then her very heart seemed to freeze as she heard what Alice was saying "I did not make much of a bag that day; but neither- did the others I brought down two brace of grouce on the wing, though, and I nearly shot a hare." Sir Alfred smiled. "That is the way girls amuse them selves nowadays," he observed; "it is a relier from Greek and algebra." "It can't be true I must have mis understood her!" gasped Miss Luttrell "Alice, my dear, you must explain your jokes. Sir Alfred fancies that you shot grouse yourself " "So I did, Aunt Helen. You look as if it were murder. It's quite the thing for girls to shoot now." Surely Xorreys niu;t be shocked and disgusted! But no he looked only in terested. Men go on with their age. I suppose and women stand stdl," Miss Luttrell reflected. "They don't grow old as we da" But then slie thought of Colonel Xor reys allusion to his health. Hers at least had not begun to remind her of the flight of time! 1 hey dined the next day at the hall. Helen tried to look as much like her old &!'lf as possible, and wore a lavender satin dress the nearest approach she cot. 'd make to the mauve silks of her you h; and very nice and fair and pret ty she looked in the solitude ot her own room. Then Alice came to her in creamy IrAlian muslin, and Helen's self satisfaction suddenly vanished, and she icit liKe a MelhuJelah. She saw Colonel Xorreys look with a wistful tenderness at Alice as she sat beside one of tne other men on a sof.i waiting for d;uner. He took Alice in to dinner, Mka Luttrell ling claimed ty the hostess, and they had a great deal to say to each other during the many courses. After dinner the Colo nel came to Miss Luttrell, Al: ;o lieing monopolized now by Sir Alfred, who liad taken her into the ante-room to show her the picture. "Then Alice, on Ni Alfred's aim. walked past them on her way to a cabi net of Indian curiosities. How exactly she is like what you were at her ae!" Colonel X.irreys ex claimed. "Is she?" Miss Luttrell asked, sur mised, looking at Alice's cropred head. and thinking of her own Madonna like hair drawn low over her ears. "I ihinK she is as different as can be." "You had a dress very like that," he went on dreamily, watching her retreat ing figure. Helen thought of her cieantic crino line and starched white muslin no, it was Indian muslin, she remembered: but to compare it with Alice's loug, straight softly-sweeping folds! (kmld she be flaytered by the remembr.mce or offended by inaccuracy? "Fashions and every thing have chang ed since then," she said rather stiffly, to remind him that, if she had been foolish in those days foolish enougli to believe any story that wa3 told her she had grown much wiser since, and had even forgotten the old folly. "les, bv Jove they have with a ven geance!" he agreed. "Alice is so much better informed than 1 ever was," Miss Luttrell went on; "she knows all about art and poli tics and philosophy. Do you remember how yon used to argue with Mr. Brow ning about the Italian campaign?" Italian campaign! Is it so long ago as that? No, no, you are mistaken it was the Servian war of 'Go." "How could it be "06 twenty years ago?" cried Miss Luttrell pettishly, forgetting her dignity in her mortifica tion at finding her memory better than his. 'Well." said the colonel, in a grand old-fashioned way, "you must not blame my memory you must blame yourself for giving me such unreliable evidence of the lapse of time. You don't look a day older!" Then Alice sang a song; then one of the men staying in the house sang; and then somebody else asked Colonel Xor reys to sing. He declined, on the plea that he had never sung in his life, and was like the man that very original man who knew only two tunes; one was "God save the (ueen,"and the other wasn't. "You used to sing 'Fading away,' " said Helen, aside. "I never heard of such a song in my life," he declared. "I am quite sure I never tried to sing it " "Perhaps you never heard of lIl Bacio ?" she said, with a spiteful into nation that he quite misinterpreted. It was Ethel's piece de resistance', but he fancied that it must have been Hel en's and that he was expected to re member it; and he made haste to atone for the offence he had given, though at the expense of his sincerity. "I remember it perfectly," he replied "how shall I ever forget it? I aure you it has rung In my ears through the din of battle and and during lonely night-watches. Do sing it, if you wish or care to make me happy!" "I never sang such a song in my life," she responded more icely than ever,and turned her head and listened to Mr. Dering's rendering of an lolanthe song; whilst Colonel Aorreys went over to Alice, whose side he did not leave again during the evening. "We cannot shoot to-morrow, as lt is Sunday," Sir Alfred remarked to Miss Luttrell "Will you and Miss Wentwortb. come here after church and have luncheon? We must have day light to decide where my new picture must hang." Miss Luttrell would fain have de clined, pleading the requirements of the Fourth Commandment. Then she saw how eagerly Xorreys seconded the motion, looking at Alice. All in a mo ment an idea and then a resolution of self-sacrifice flashed into her mind. "He is in love with her, and Sir Al fred knows It, and is helping. Well, why should it not be?" and she prom ised to come on the morrow. Sir Alfred, Colonel Xorreys, and Mr. Dering were at church, and of course they and Miss Luttrell and her niece met in coming out, and walked througn the park togetner. Miss Luttrell, in a passion of self-immolation and wound ed pride, managed that Alice and the colonel should be thrown together. She foutinued this policy until after lun cheon, when they all went in a body to see the picture. "It is one of the many pictures that were thrown out of this year's Acade my by jealousy and caballing," said Sir Alfred. "What is the name?'' asked some body. " 'After Long Years,' " ans ered Sir Alfred. "Don't you see, the old fellow and the lady with spectacles have been lovers in their youth, and have met in their old age? Look at the wrinkles aren't they good? and his bald head, and the fallen leaves and flowers about them, to show it is nearly w inter winter of life, don't you know?' "Can't say the subject U very origi nal, Bennet," observed Mr. Bering captiously. "Idea borrowed from tho Kendals' Sweethearts only comic, an-1 not pathetic." , Helen Luttrell was looking at the picture, all unc.Rscious of a great tear standing in each eye. Xoney's voice had sounded from the outmost circle of the group. There was a mo :- ment made, and she feit a hand take firm hold of hers: then she looked up. and saw that during her minute of ab straction the others had left the room, and She and Xorreyj was alone. ; "Helenl" he exclaimed, looking stoad (!y into her swimming eyes with his steadfast gray ones. She was so uunerved that the tears rolled down her cheeks she could not ktep them back; she could only loner her eyelids and try to turn away her face. Have you got over your little tit i f l.'i-liumor yet? ' heasked. "Vou have had time enough, surely!" "it is too late." she murmured sad v it would not be worth while now. All tue summer has gone out t f our lives there is nothing U ft but bleak winter. Look" they .were standing now by the window "it is like au omen. When wesaweachoth.-rhist.it was siuiu, nu all the flowers were bursting into blossom. Xowthe leaves are fallen around us." sne was so oveicouie by her mourn ful imagrv that the tears once mora welled hpinto her eyes. He stoo e l and kissed her gently and gravely. "jaxjk, indeed!" lie cried. Hid ou ever see any spi ing morning as beauti fa! as that?" The sun, a great disc of shining gold was low m tue wesc. golden light ti.nxl ed them as they stood together, Ihe :utiimu Mowers blaz jd in the beds be fore them. Then Alice came to them with a great bunch of crimson roses. "lice!'' she cried. "Vou wouldn't Have thought the summer had ku us such flowers as these!" 'l quite thought you would marry Alice," Helen said one day, some wejks later. "Alice! Thank you, my dear; but I should prefer a woman for my wife. I 'pn't wi'at a chum," the colonel an sweicu promptly. "Alice, I quite meant you to marry Colonel -Norreys.-' i ins remarK preceded the last one consmerarjiy, being made on the very evening of Miss Luttrell's betrothal. "Marry Colonel Xorreys! My dear ai.nt, don't you know that I have a 'pi lor attachment'? Dear' Aunt Helen, you are so happy, and you know what it is to throw one's youth away for nothing speak to mother, and persuade her to I;t me marry Charlie Caryl." "Cha;l:e Caryl! I never heard of him." "We v.vre drawing the Hermes to gether at the British Museum he is so clever and so nice, and so fond of me" a great bur t of tears, "lie has no money: but he will I a great artist some day and my heart is broken and do, Aunt Helen, tell mother that we won't wait twt nty-four years there isu't lime nowadays." "My dear, I am so glad! I did not believe that you girls, amongst all your arts and science, had tune to fall iu love. It seems however tliat 1 was mistaken; one can becoa.e a victim to the tender passion amongst the marbles at the British Museum, and even in middle age," A Boi-ealis Story. The place was the old Warsaw Camp ground m Milton County, Ga. The time recently. A large and seriously attentive cousregation had assembled for the night service, the negroes in the rear of the pulpit, as was the custom iu those days before the war. The preacher was a talented young man, at that time stationed in Marietta. He had reached a point in his sermon at which he held the almost 'individed attention of the vast audience, and perfect quiet reigned. Just at this moment, when the interest was moot intense, an old negro woman hopjied over into the altar, right in front of the preacher, and shrilly cried out: "Halle-lujah! the judgment day am come!" Ilex jojful exclamation caused the crowd to look out froii un der the arbor, and, sure enough, there was a striking and magnificent spect acle. The Xorthern heavens were lit up by a gorgeous aurora. Xot many in that crowd understood the phenomenon, which, iu fact, is rarely observable fiom Southern latitudes. And, not understanding, many concluded that the old auntie's explanation was the true one. "Ah! then there was hurry ing to and fro. and gathering tears, and tremblings of distress." Indeed, so great was the commotion that there was Imminent danger of a stampede and that somebody would be crushed in the swaying crowd. It was at this crisis a well-known preacher, tall and angular, and with the voice of a stentor, ran out and mounted a convenient stump. "Be calm, my friends," he shouted, "be calm. This is not the judgment day, for how could the judgment day come in the night?" The incongruity struck the people with soothing force, their fears subsided, the preacher finished his sermoD, and "or der reigned in Warsaw." "Well, how did yeu like tne sermon today?" "The sermon?" "Yes; you were at church, weren't you?" "Why, yes, certainly." "Then you can teil me how you liked the sermon, I sup pose. You heard it, didn't you?" "Heard it? Certainly not. I belong to the choir." A Texjjessee young man recently sent a fervent note to his girl, asking her to elope. The old man, however, guarded her so carefully that slie was unable to do so. But she man a: ed to send him a nice muskmelon. The "can- t elope" told him Just how matter's stood, i i Japanese Hair-Dressing. After ve-and-twenty years of foreign intercourse, says the Japan Mail, we find a society formed, now for the first time, with the object of introducing Western modes of hair-dressing for Japanese women. That it is a society of males need not surprise any one who remembers how complete is the subjec tion of the weaker sex in Japan. The women of this country may be trusted not to inaugurate any change affecting tneir appearance unless they are well assured beforehand of its acceptability to their lords and niastrs. Were it otherwise, they would not long have re mained faithful to fashions which be long to the days of quees and half- shaved polls. For even after every al lowance is made for the effect of cus torn in moulding taste. It is bard to see bow the looking-glass of a Japanese lady can mislead her in this matter. If the canons of any recognized art pre scribed dumb-bells or teapot handles as models for the coiffeur's imitation, there might be something to say for a fashion which builds and plasters hair into such similitudes. . Yet, after all, it is presumptuous to found any argu ments upon arbitrary principles of grace or taste. The simple plaits of a West ern lady's hair may outrage the notions of the Japanese quite as much as their curious superstructures startle us. Morover, Europe, too, has puffs and chignons which, In point of absurdity. yield nothing to the tabu and damon of the Japanese. Our glass-houses, there fore, render stone-throwing dangerous. In other directions,however,the ground of objection are firmer. There cannot be conceived a more uncomfortable or injurious way of dressing the hair than that of the Japanese, lt subjects the hair to a perpetual strain, and condemns the head to use a pillow which is little better than an instrument of torture. A fine lady has her hair dressed ten times a month, and pays ten sen for each operation. People to whom econ omy is an object content themselves with six manipulations, and pay from three to six sen per manipulation. Throughout the empire there are about 9,000,000 women of over seventeen and under fifty years of age. If we suppose that, on the average, these women de vote twenty sen per month to hair dressing purposes, the whole expense thus incurred is fully twenty-one million sen annually. Such figures as these are, however, more curious than useful. They may influence enthusiasts who found societies, but they will not in duce any budding beauty to curtail the visits of her hair-dresser. The promo ters of the new reform will do well to dwell rather on the charms of simplic ity, and on the incomparably greater comfort enjoyed by the European lady. who unbinds her hair every night, than by the Japanese who poises the base of her tightly-festooned skull upon a block of wood and paper. For our part, we are ungallant enough to hope that the proposed reform will not stop at the head. We should like to see the Japanese ladies wear clothes that will permit them to sit on chairs, instead of coiling themselves upon mats, and foot gear that will allow them to walk iu stead of shuttling. But these are deli cate subjects. Messrs. Watauabe and Ishikawa have a wide field before them, and we wish them speedy success. The Inch and the Ounce. As the Jews had a mystical rever ence for seven, and the ancient Welsh and Celts for three, and the Greeks a perfect philosophy constructed out of the harmonies of all sorts of numbers, so the Itomans fell back upon a scale of or, more properly, upon a scale with abase of six. According as they divided the pound into twelve unciie, so they also divided the foot, which was the stand ard of linear measures, into twelve sections, and they called these sections uncise, too. liut how did they get the inch originally ? Rather how did they get at the pound ? for that, and not the inch, is the unit. There seems to be no precise information. They would divide any unit into twelfths, and a pre vailing notion was at one time that the linear uncia? was really the original, and was then transferred as a name to a weight. This, though plausible, is hardly the case. Sometimes, especially in old books, written when philology was not what it is now, it was the fash ion to derive the unciie from the same word in the Greek, because after the revival of letters in Europe the admi- ratun of the Greek became so great that whenever words were found in it and some other language it was always said that the other language borrowed them from the Greek. This is very far from being always so; and in the present instance the very reverse ap pears to have occurred. The ounce is literally tue tweittn; and thus we see at once the sense of au ounce of land and an inch of milk just as the inch of a man's will or an inch of interest for money on loan. It was always the twelfth of an unit twelfth of an hour, twelfth of a jug erum, that half acre which the two oxen plowed in a day; twelfth of a sex tarons, or equivalent to our pint; twelfth or the entire hereditas; twelfth of the principal lent on hire when it was money on usury I. e. over b ir cent. It is accordingly as much of a mistake to say that the primary mean ing of the word is a linear, which is to say that it comes straight irom tne Greek into the Latin, and thence onto us. The riddle Is plain enough when we get to the true origin of the word a twelfth. Once, indeed, it used to be said that the true origin was that the word meant a thumb breadth, be cause its equivalent, ipollex, in linear measure was often used in its piaw. But this is not the case. Some of the old Latins themselves, moreover, thought it meant literally the unit; but even this will not hold beside the prop er signification of twelfth. The pound weight really never divided Dy inches or ounces. It was divided by twelfths, by halts, by thirds, by fourths and by sixths. And here, again, we see what a convenient base a system of twelfths Is for division compared with a system of tenths, which could only be divided evenly in two ways by two and five. For seven ounces they use the literal seven-twelfths; for eight ounces they said two parts L e., two-thirds; for nine, wanting a fourth, which with us reads like a round-about way of ex pressing three quarters; for ten, want ing a sixth; for eleven, wanting a twelfth. "Is anybody waiting on you?" said a polite salesman to a young lady from the country. "Yes, sir," replied the blushing damsel. "That's my young man outside; he wouldn't come into the shop," The Champion Poker Player A year ago I met s young man who had come out west to grow np with the eonntiy. He was a graduate of Harvard and had pleasant manners, bnt bad evi dendy left a comfortable eastern homo ' with exaggerated notions of the west. ! In three weeks after his arrival he was ' strapped and had all his best dads pawned. . I was somehat interested in ' his fate at the time, bnt did not see him again until a few days ago. He ' had the ear-marks ef prosperity about him, and I was told later that he hat! graduated from a coal dealer's clerk as a crack poker player, and he had learned it all within a few months. Some won derful stories were told of this yoang fellow's nerve, and it is said that he had a good fat bank account, and sat regu larly in a stockman's -game. The tide of Lis fortune was tnrned by his grit iu playing two deuces in a big game. He had been drifting into gambling for some time, and knew a great deal abont a deck of cards. Three of the players had laid down their hands af the drw, leaving only two contestants. The hero of this story had been winning, and bet freelo on his hand. His opponent kept seeing him and raising him, and finally, after the pot had grown big enough to be worth fighting for, raised him S'2.T00. The clerk in the coal office pnt ou his thinking cap. He had two dea-.a un supported, and he looked at them, then oooly eyed his antagonist. This lasted two or three minutes, and not a facial muscle moved. "I call yon," he said at last, throwiug bts deuces down on the table. They won the pot. The other man's hand was not ace high. I am told that this young Harvard graduate is one of the best poker players herealwuts. Ho calls a blntr instinctively. Ilia luck is charmed, and the oldest and most Incs iess players tremble when Ihey go against him. The great art in poker is to know when to call and when not to calL With SI 00 in the pot and & bet by his antagonist, I once saw the best gambler in Missouri lay down three of a kind. "Why did you not call him; it would have only cost you So?" said I. "He had a better hand hand than I did. and I wonld have been just 85 oat." Men are born gamblers, and lt is this intuition to call at the right time that makes them successful, in a bzg game at a hotel here, there was an excitiug illustration of this delirious sort of doubt. Every player had made good his ante and some of them hai put in n few hundred dollars additional before dropping out At length 10.000 lay on the table, with two players fighting for it I stood behind one of them. Ho had three qneens, having drawn two of them at the start. His opponent had drawn three cards. The latter at this junction coolly announced a raiso of 610,000. The man with three qiiuna was fairly staggared. His anta-'oniit might be bluffing. He might have drawn to an ace and king aud caught nothing, or he might have caught another king and two more aces, or he might have drawn to a pair and caaght a tail Land. Was be bluffing? That was the qnestioa. After flunking the matter over ho tial not consider his queens worth that amount of money, ao both hands went to the deck, aud the man on the other lide of the table raked in the stakes. I found out afterward that all this money wan won on the following hand: Ace, jack, ten and two sixes. The three rueens wonld have wou by a largj ma lonty. The KiikIisIi Court. A writer in the Court of St James de scribes the arrangement of the royal personages in the reception room. "The Qieen," he siys, "and not the Priucj oi Wales is at the center of the hue; next are the ladies of her family, and then the heir apparent and his brothers, or any royal strangers. Her .Majesty wears a black gown and a widow's e?.p. Ojer tha ear) is nmiallv placet a small diamond crown, while the nobon ot the Garter aud similar orders are on hei breast, as well as the Koh-i-noor aud other jewels worthy of a Queen. The Princess of Wales and the other prm- ccsses are in full dress petticoats, trains, feathers, and all. Behind them stand their attendants, 'male and female,' as the court circular eometimes dis dainfully describes them. When Ihe diplomatic corps has made its revereuec and taken its place, tne Eoglish huln s follow, and as each enters the throne room with her tram over her arm, tw j gentlemen id waiting deftly seizi this appendage and spread it before her, till it hangs like a peacocks drooping tai . Then tho lady, handing her card to a lr.r.1 in waiting cassea no toward the lord chamberlain. and stands till In prononnces her name. Upon hearing it, she prostrates herself in front of the Queen so that one knee nearly or qmle touches the floor. It it is a presentation, her Majesty extends her band with the back upward, and the neophyte pl?iui? her own hand transversely under thnt ol the sovereign, raises the royal extremi ty to hr lips. When the lady u of the rank of an earl's daughter, the Q icon bends slightly forward to kiss the cheek of her subjeet. and the homage is com plete; bat there have been occasion; when the novice was Insufficiently in structed in advance and kisses the moa arch in return, very much to thedigut of her Majesty and the hoiror-strueii amazement of the courtiers. After the obeisance to the Queen, another must be made to every one in tho royal cireU 1 In turn, the depth of the courtesy bcio.. KIHIIUIIOU .I.WI 111, , l vr tut - personage; and as the last prostration i performed and the subject raises to hei natural position in life again two otlu 1 watchful lords or gentlemen, as skilfu as the first, catch up her train and throw it once more over the lady s arm, tnu she slowly stumbles backward ontd the room, having been at court" A Growing Youth. JeanCondoist has been brought tc Paris as a medical curiosity from the of Philadelphia has ziven in five years Haute Caone. According to a medical Sunday breakfasts To 7,SlW persons, contributor to Parisian contemporary. At the close of each meal religious ser tbis youth, aged 19, took a start on the vice is held. 17th of May, 1881, being then six feel three mchea high, and found one morn ing that he had grown an inch. Every week since then has he registered him self, and on the 14th of September this human beanstalk had gained nearly five inches; he grew five inches more before the20th of January, 1872, and seven more before March 15th, and he now accompanied by great pain, in the back, and he stcops eonsiderably; but since last Jane, it is iu. legs only that have grown, and his leet are aireaay twenty- NEWS IN BRIEF. It is now proposed to heat horse cars by electricity. Paris now contains 300 Buddhists, who want a temple. Electricity is now used as a motive power for toy yachts. Land in the Island of Jersey rents for $7." a year per acre. We eat twelve millions of sheep per annum in this country. A colored Salvation Army has be sieged Charlotte, S. C. Xo Chinaman is allowed in the Cicur d'Aleue diggings. The samoan Islands are 5,000 miles south of San Francisco. M. de Rothschild's collection of stamps is valued at 40,000. One fourth of the Indians in this country die of consumption. A recent cyclone in India destroyed 500 villages and 10,000 lives. There are believed to be over 500, 000 distinct forms of insects. The different kinds of mammals are estimated to number about 1200. Saw mills are said to have been first used in Europe in the fifteenth century. Xine-tenths of the Alabama Con gressmen were in the Confederate army. There are fifteen cows in Ohio that are stumping around on wooden legs. The latest estimate puts the num ber of Chinese in this country at 75,000. The animal kingdom is now esti mated to embrace about 1,000,000 spe cies. Yale College is losing students. Costly living is supposed to be the cause. yueen Victoria keeps a swanherd whose duty it is to brand the birds on the bill. Cotton seed pressed into blocks has just been put upon the market as "kind ling wood." Entire families are fleeing from Salt Lake City, bsing driven out by diphtheria. A great deal of land around Win chester, England, may be leased for 25 cents an acre. Twenty-five thousand men and wo men are employed ;:i oyster shucking at S2 to $3 a day. Children employed in lace-makinor m ieigium work twelve hours.and earn slx cents a day. Every one of the thirteen members ef the present British Cabinet is a peer or a son of a peer. The cultivation of the vanilla bean is being extensively indulged in by Mexican farmers. Xineteen thousand three hundred and fifty more emigrants left Irish ports in 1833 than In 1882. In fifteen counties of Xew York one-half of thi3 year's potato crop has been destroyed by rot. . The Iowa Senate passed a bill sub mitting amendments allowing woman suffrage to the people. An authority on music says there are S.000 professional and amateur piano players in the United States. In proportion to the weight of its body the canary bird has a brain better developed than that of a man. Mr. W. W. Story was born wealthy, and he devoted himself to sculpture with a great deal of self-denial. The Macon Telegraph claims that Georgia chartered, built and conducted the first female college in the world. The fruits and nuts imported by the United States have a value of $15, 000,000 to 520,000,000 annually. The only red-date palms in tho United States are in Placer county, California, and Key West, Florida. There 13 in this country a medical or surgical doctor of some school or grade to every t00 of the population. The ice, old and new, on hand in Maine, iseidimated at 1.188.000 tons. auor.i iw.wj tons less man last year. Xearly two thousand square miles of Canadian timber land, sold recently, brought an average of 32 cents an acre. Boston ieople have been numer- 0us!y taken in lately bv leaden iv pieces which they (in turn) had taken in. A canary that whistles Yankee Doodle, and an eagle weighing twenty live pounds are in the bird show in Bos ton. Fare from Portland, Ore., to Van couver, W. T., was ten cents each way recently, owui'i to steamboat competi tion. -In the United SUtes tin has been fouml 10 Slate, but in slight pay- i "" ", "iqpi .1. on uuoa mines. From 1131 to 1831 edicts as to dress were issued at Berlin. They forbade women without rank to wear silk dresses. In the Isle of Jersey there are 10 women to one man. The leap-year 12 month must be a frightrul ;tffair in Jersey. The crop of raisins grown in Cali fornia has incre;sed from 1,000 boxes nineteen years ago to -I'W.OOQ the pres ent season. Danvers claims to have been the first town in Massachusetts to refuse to grant license to sell rum. This was done fifty-one years ago. Wild dogs, said to be more raven ous and harder to kill than wolve3, are rtttutr - tiiii ii iu iM-nrrn.. it.. ' ; '''"V. '..Z' ' :"uiry Buffalo lne3 bring :tt a. ton in Dodge City, Xeb., where there is a lively demand for them. The bulk of them come from Texas. A line of railway cam to be drawn "y meu nni suoruy constitute oue of uie lacunar leatures of travel and transportation in Central Asia. ai uotna, iu uermany, forty-six bodies were cremated during 1SS3. Four hundred and fifty marks or alxint 5144 is the charge for each cremation. The Sunday Breakfast Association A Xew Hampshire "weather pro phet" says he makes his predictions by giving free rein to his mind after he has sat and thought awhile. He has mure candor than some other "pro phets." The famous Rosedale uliues In lorkshire, England, which have bceD SSS&SSL a Valuable iX of je baTe tat , heeu ul3Covered on t,1A wrt, " Z mnaWiTTVgH
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