1 SCHWEIER, TEE C03STITUTI0I TEE U5I05 A3TD THE UTOXOIMEIT OP TEE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. XXXIX. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 2, ISS5. NO. 49. B.F- VOL. . i 11 lm TlftAf f.tr It rtred fr wealth an1 farae, ffj k t"3"!-'-fi-Ws and clory; l':t. r iha.i in mm and story; v-iT in-:""1 of nrtl,,tf Pr"1,, ffoT'J :'ru to liat' il a"'1 al,,10r lt; -Citiini ou love tj gr.i.le ,t-r Jtl'-t if"1 '" ani1 "BUS jj niore '" aUl1 deeds fraternal; tr work bad mor willing bands, I ,'ii'k tliix world U tl: supernatural; i- n !'rui.-J Latuau hearts wouU pour ana "uiii- would once coiu- to1 iaKrc worn ; And frw.T roii it iu rehearsal; j ..... .- , r i;fj i,b otiT wou.a sjeatue ii: nmic 1U cJ b--anit more universal; Yrno.KA, gray mui lewer l'-iii& men to adore if If a Vi !",nr Ior " ut !l aloc TiK'"riJ wouid 1,6 bet'er for if- fawn were wise in little tilings Arrtrt'o? Ira's a a!! Ili':ir ueaiincs if hM-i frWer r-W'-d s'"nS "locate their kiudly feelings, L'meo. wLenwr.-T.jt beats down the rig VoiiU strive t. -p tfcer and restore it; Ifr-LiiEaJe uiijiit in every in-lit j world would be better tur it FIVE YEARS AFTER." "Y.mare sure to like him, George; he is tie 11 fellow i e vt r know." Kih ?'id lieiTsic deiue. were aaun ih dtistv creeu railings, the two lu- ira!-loufcii: shrubs standing upacainst the front winliws, pose?sed such a Krda. A great hoary old apple-tn-9 Eoo-iintheceu're of the grass-plot; and it was heie that Georgie took tea or. festive occasions such as this even ini. wlienler brother's great fnend TviDynj-ick, whose tame had lHen a hotiseho'.d word in l.er ears for many a dav, was espei'teJ to arrive. George had dinned her pretty new gown for the occasion a dainty buff anLrie with pale blue sjots. surely shew;i3tbe sweetest little thing the June fun sitoe ou that afternoon it prl with a slim round rlgure, with soft danpled ciieets tinted with the peach -bwom of her seventeen years, golden brown innocent eyes, clouds of bronze brown hair. Bobiouked at her approviujly. lie was tig sol;d-iooking young fellow tiree years older than his sister. "Why, Georgie, yon are a great swell this evening!' he said, putting his arm aSrctionaleiy round her. "Is thai a" j . A for Will?" Georgie tossed her dainty head a little. 'You think so ninth t-f him," she rejlird, ! thought I ousht to have evwjtliir.e nice for him. Do you like ay dre &y "It's awfui'.y pretty; but you might have saved your-e'.t" tiie trouble, I think for Will never notices such thintrs." 'How stupid lie must- be!'' Georgie thought; bat Mie wisely held her toafrue. 'Of cour.-e I like everything nice for him," liob aJ.led. "I wast you and him to be great friends." "I thoiijht you said he would cot notice tre,"' :-aid stie with a little pout. "C'.i, lit "I! r.'itice you, of course, but not-ymr diesl He would have liked jon just as weil in that old blue thing ion wear every morning." "With the :Vves ail but thread bare Thank you, Bob; but I dout want tan to think we are quite paupers." "ihrvadlare. are tlie? I thought i dress looked all r) rT' . llr 1 j r V" e?riu w 111 no, " . ai aay ' Ioez, Bob?-' ueoigie usweu, ignoring htrbtoti.er's remark. "We have no ' tejnis-court. no amusements." "Oh. he will I riffht enoueh!" her brother consoled her. "He'll do the same as I do." "Is he not very clever?" a.-ked Geor- E.ie, stooping to pick a bunch of dewy try," answered Bob, with empha--.1 ...... . uu very wen our" "Yes; that is just what I admire him for. He has ?.:ue into the medical pro lesion s:mp!v for love of it; there was no need for hitu to take up any profes sion." "How nice that must 11" observed th piri, willi a little envious sigh. Look at fatherl I am sure he is as fond of his proft ssi.j-a as any one could possibly be; but think how he has to iave! it's all ven- well for your Mr. Ifimock he has everything he wants. " Mn . ... .r ... T, .. - . . . P?t ents par him," responded Bob; "it's i absurd the wav he attends them for nMniii" Bob was a verv matter-of-fact young Pa; tje was at that time walking the j hofii.tals. All the Jeffreys were doc- : tors; but. to his father's " great disatv- j Pointment, Bob showed not a spark of ; eu.ous;;i;ni for his profession. Hejtist 1'iodJed alone, passing his examination j "M snowing none of the genius l a c. i Georsie bad nffoi nipt mo,! tniiersplf I uiuru in ins inena. wKt ii'.i! t ... . i . 1 nu tyiuocK wouiu ue UKe, ne i ou d I a tail, fair, handsome man, i wited of cotirre all clever people ; ere, the airl g-.-neralized in her igno- i Ia"w Itf.ikmg with contempt on the Murtry doctor's shabby house, bjred -mjj me uui.ness of village society. Di von i. ..,.. ii,....Z: ,.e ! ou . 'then 'there is nothiug in the world I i 'lie so much as to see yon two ! "T:eii. I could give you to old Will i a happy heart." j 'Maimed! Give me!" Georgie fairlv w-'l'td witliiiidisuation, hor soft cheeks to-m? hotly. ' j t:i; why not? I suppose you will : j some d: - and Will is the best . Sl.OW in ! ... s , ' , ."I would not marry bim for anything I u'.' f'e,lri-Tie declared emphatically, j ait nniii you are asked. Ycu wou.a oe the luckiest girl in the world i V . ' "oa sa!a reasingiv ne .J" wry fond and proud of sister; "it, bnri,,i;L. i. : . . - ' we. Inn;.-' Bob said teasinIv He tip ' . eujojcu loiiucii-, ,i "" ii me reu roses looKing in at lier. ."m'vfrinlrSf "Ion't you like him?" Bob repeated.! It was Will Dymock's last day, a Cfttf't prated pa.li in theT garden ..,sn,t he an awful.y nice feliowr, pouring wet even'nsr Doctor Jeffrev Sprli Wl"SS ottle-l ?tIvtrthsawk"eiSt,ieVery ?' rl t ,r,mis in Mumf wm alwivs ... ?f1ie Yfr i Georgie was guztng disconsolately out S Jx'l , L,2ly! ' ,IIer bother's face fell a i of the roswreathed drawing-room Twr n-'el lv "tU the vVltow A -' tas that to do with it?" window. Will Dymock. looking taller rrn , tverythiiW. Xoouewhoisasug-landlankerthan ever, standing beside P.tver crLU.D..iir. ou in a.i u.rect.oi.., lv he ld , th , ,,,,:,, ' "ei a little. : saiu, . , .Ceorsie stamned l er ftxit with nas- ' I wa3 almost; but I think it is fcau. ulL,,ea toot w I,a3- j hiflh Unie tbat i woke up; you two find "I m know bow you can talk like i such a tremendous lot to say to each , '.II,,- tti.;.,i. v j i',.hi- fvmi are left to yourselves. "w-l nate him. " kind." f you will do nothintr of the ' aJU,1 Kb Le had oue too restoring f:ir the Coc-l j .-.7. 2s i UJU1 a"J eiy noou one ws busy oVtr the airan-ement of ber I tea-table, chattering blithly all the time. "Well, this is my sister! Doctor Dy mock Miss Jeffrey." Bob introduced them to each other with laughing pride. lie had often told "Will about his sis ter. Surely Will must acknowledge what a beauty she wasl And Georgie looking up with her lovely liquil eyes, thougtit with a little secret amusement and triumph In her heart, that this paragon of Bob's was the very ugliest and awkwardest man she. had ever seen. Georgie was too young and too shal low to appreciate the keen kind -eyes that looked out from under those heavy brows, the firm true mouth that one might feel could be trusted till death; and she was too childish to appreciate Will Dymocks clever conversation. Georgie liked compliments direct, and she liked to be taken notice of. It was quite true as Bob had said she might as well have worn her old blue cotton dress for all Will Dymock saw or cared. IIow stupid he was! ir t .i . . . . uuwsne wisneu mat, jie nad never come, or that he was gone, as the three strolled up and down the garden when j tea was over! ; f "Don?t you like him, Georgie?" Lob ! Jeffrey asked his sister, with a radiant i face. He had lust seen his friend ua to his own room to dress for dinner. Georgie was standing in the wide open window, abseutly pulling the leaves off I one or the red roses looking in at her. girl reolied. i nate ugly people!" These were pleasant words for Will j Dytnock, leaning out of his window np- stairs, to have wafted up to him. "I I nate ugly people," and "the very ugh- est man I ever saw," the girl had said in tier fresh clear voice. The young man's plain sallow face flushed. lie drew away from the win dow softly, and went and looked at himself m the mirror closely and criti cally, as if studying another person. Yes, it was quite true she was right he was ugly, he told himself. lie won dered iL had never occurred to him how ugly he was. "You are a nice one, Geergie, you are!' exclaimed Bob Jeffrey to his sister, in a horrified whisper. "I believe Dymock has heard every weed you have been saying. I am sure 1 heard him move away from the window; and up there you can hear every word that is said i i here." j j "Well, I cannot help it!" Georgie re- j denel at the thought. "It is all your j fault, Bob; you knew he was up there wr.y OiJ you begin about him? And j ne is uIy; he must know he 13." j ; t "AU the same, you need not insaM ' j the man in your own house." "I am sure I do not want to insult i him." j Georgie was on the verge of tears; j B ib had never spoken to her so crossly i in his life; it was all that, man's fault, ! It was only another bad mark to be i ! scored against him. j Had he heard her? she wondered, , ; sitting at the head of the table, glanc- j j ing up from under her lovely long eye- ' lashes for a moment, to meet Will Dy-! i mock's eyes fixed uion her. ! i Geor,iie reddened furiously, and drop- : pel her eyes upon her plate, never dar- j ' in? to look at the young man again all ; the umner-time. Siie was sure he had heard, the girl j thought, as she went to bed that night. , II-3 had looked at her, not as if angry. ' but Georgie could not quite de- ; scribe, even to herself, what that look i of Will Dymock's meant. Poor man-u must lie very hard for tn ao !. would be kind to him; and she would tell Bob that she ' was sorry. It was ten days later a blazing af ; ternoon at the end of June. The doc tor's garden was a perfect bower of roses, and the cherries on the old rod brick wall were ripe. Georgie had picked a great dish of ; strawberries, and was dispensing them ' wirli hnr tpa nndpr lipr fjvnritft ArIle tiee. The gin was wearing her blue i said," he remarked dolefully, "except otton frock, the short shruken sleeves ' this, that I shall never care for another showing her plump white arras. After i woman, that as I love you now so shall the first day or two, she had quite given I I've you to my dying day. That can up the idea of dressing herself for Willi not hurt you; you cannot be angry Dvmock. It was true what Bob had : about that." ; sa'id, that he would not notice what any ' "I arn very sorry," the girl faltered. ' oue 'wore j " i ou cannot help it, I suppose, fetill ' He did" not like her, Georgie was fain j you are sorry, and if it is not too i to decide, with an odd little sensation ; "uch to ask, will you give me that rose I of pique or wounded vanity rather new ; frra your dress.'' w rompmhem how vminff Smdilands, when he was home at the i i iory on leave, nuuiu ui.mc cavu-j i to comedown to the doctor's almost j evvry evening now ne wouia wais home with her from church, wait for j her at the choir practice. To be sure, j rueSplir This is like a new lire to me,"orj- sfrvert Will Jjvmocit. m ilia oiuw oeir i. 1 i ous wav. He'wai sitt ng, his long legs stretched out on the grass, his back nxtinff arainst the apple-tree, hisshock ,....;. o,riQK tho nrmlp-tr- hisahock . ; r .i. l,i V frnm hia for- I uoli t I3VoulIke that?" asked Georgia, as she handed him his tea. "Like it?" The young man looKea at hrr with that odd gleam in his eyes veYAch carried Georgie's memory back to the night that he come among them. pid here," sbe said hastily. "Xo; I don't think any one could find it stupid here." If Frank Sandiianas uaa saia mat. Geoivie knew the admiring glance he would have given her; but in uymocK lookins at her. not think ing of her apparently, as he gazed drea miiy up at tne oiue say. "I am glaa ir you are nappy oiu ici- low," interposed Bob, in hi3 cheery VOICP. ....... , t " ; forgotten his friends P'esence. , ! tiiniiffbt voa were asleep, ne W HI iiymocs buu teu, u - " - I lyoumakener talk, A ill? ohe is tne greatest cliatteroox ou eu tu uDU ! is wiih me. "One must be silent sometimes," laughed Georgie. I rtirl not know Wfl were nottalk- ,,-. iDg," remarked ill. "Well, so long as you are happy its all right. By Jove, I don't know how any one can like town better than coun try! A hot summer clay, nothing to do, plenty of strawberries acd cream that's the life for me!" " "That Is because you are so lazy. It is very nice here," Georgie said, with a little sigh; "but I like town best." "You do, do your" and Will Dv mock brightened uj. "So do I, to live in." "Much you know about it!" cried Bob, with a laugh. "Georgie likes staring in at the shop-windows and that sort of thing. IIow would you I ke to live where Dytnock does almost all the year round," he demanded "In the very heart of the city, slaving away In dirty, filthy slums? You think father hard-worked here; Will's work is something different, I can tell you " "I don't know: but I think, if I were a man, I should like it. I think there must be something grand in a life like that," Georgie returned, a graver ex pression than usual on her pretty face. Will Dymock's sallow cheeks flushed and a bright light came into his eyes, lioh laughed scornfully. "Grand! Of course it's grand; but it would not suil you, young woman," he said, with brotherly candor. "You would soon wish to be back again amongst your strawberries." "Perhaps so," admitted Georgie. She was half ashamed of herself tor her momentary outburst of enthusiasm aud she was wholly angry with Bob for thinking her not fit for such a life. "Uow clad you will be to a;ain in town!" said Georgie. -i?liadl I?" There was au odd sound in the young man's voice. "I think he added after moments pause, "it would have been a good thing for me if I had never come at all." Georgie looked up into his plain sal low face, which was now flushed. "I know you will think me a fool Miss J;1 .Trey perhaps you will laugh at me for my pains but I can't help it. I love yon so much, 1 cannot keep silence auy longer. I cannot go back without knowing something for certain." Georgie reddened furiously, then the lovt!y color faded, leaving her pale and agitated. She was frightened, surpris ed. She thought sbe was angry. "The very first moment I saw you standing out there under the tree I loved you," went on WUl Dymock dreamiiy. "I don't care how long I wait, if you will only tell me that at some future time you could care for me a liu'o, you will make me the hap piest fellow in England. Do you think you could?" t-0h, no, no!" cried Georgie. "I am sure I could cot." - "Never? Not if I wailed?" "Never; I am sure of it." There was a few moments' silence in the rooj,nnd it seemed to Georgie ttiat she .mid hear the beating of her heart above the paltering of the rain. "Ah, well, I ought to have known letter! I know I am not the kind of a fellow ladies like. I heard what you f aid to your brother the night I came. I could not help it I was up stairs." "Ah!" and the red color flushed a?aiu into Georgie's face. "I am so sorry I I wanted to ask you You will forgive me for that?" "It was nothing," be replied sadly; "it was only the truth, but it ought to have been a lesson to me- I ought to have known that you could not care for any one like me. Your brother would have been pleased, I think not that that is a reason." "Of course not," Ueorgie promptly ! acreed, j "He has so often spoken to me of his i sister." 1 "And to me of you," said the girl, : her courage coming back to her. "Miss Jeffrey, will you forgive me if ; I ask again? Y'ou are very young; per i haps you are not quite sure. Do you think you could never " Georgie looked up at bim earnestly, j "I am sure, quite sure, that I could I never love you," sbe replied. "then there Is nothing more to be .ami &:i M. was au u uu urav n S te . - ,7 ,7 . , . . acd hungry, and full of loud lamenU- - e . "Vou must run down at Chmtmas Dymock; you have quite brightened us SSinil& ."" ' T ?; "T," lllilU net IC- Li a . , nuu uuhutwk v.w- ly eyes and cheeks as red as the rose in Will Dymock's pocket "1 bat iu oi aanaiianas is uouu o- maiKea 1S0D. "i saw mill Liue iu- na wi'ca otho tfirmiivh th town." AVill Dymock. raising his eyes at that moment, saw a sudden light come into Georgie's face. "So that was the cause of her refu sal!" the poor fellow thought. "1 suppose we shall have nm up at breakfast-time to-morrow," flaid the deictor crossly. "He seems to think this his home when he is down here." "lieorgic, it is not possible, is it, that you have refused Will Dymock?" Bob burst into his sister's room the next morning on his return from see ing Will off to the train. Georgie, who had been sitting over her work with rather pale cheeks, assumed the defen sive at once. What busfhess had he to complain of her? What affair was it of Knli'nV . .. j t . "Why should l no him?sc .... .... .., T him if I sne asked. jsoi UKe nimi x have no patience with vou!" Bob burst out, "Why shonld voti not like him? ne's the best fellow in the orld.the cleverest man, the truest geuiieman I ever met; he's a great deal too good for you." "Then it Is so much the better I have refused him," retorted Georgie; "be will have a chance now of finding some one cood enough for him." "You'li live to be sorry for it some day. Georgie," prophesied Bob. "Poor old Willi I wish I had never asked him be back here; I would not have had it happen for anything." "And I wish you never had," sob bed Georgie. "He has spoiled all my summer. I told yoa ?. should hate him." Poor little wayward Georgie, sobbing herself to'sleep that night, felt indeed that she hated this man who bad come between her and Bob, who had made htr quarrel with her brother for the first time in her life. " A charming room iu a fashionable London square, the firelight sparkling over pictures and china aud every dain ty triilei that money could buy or taste suggest. At the gipsv-table drawn up on the hearthrug sat Mrs. Fitzroy Far quhar, pouring out tea. Mrs. Faiqu har was a handsome woman, fair and prosperous-looking; but at that moment there was a decidedly ill-tempered ex pression on her usually placid face. - "lt is the most annoying tiling I ever knew In my life; 1 never was more vex ed. Just fancy-how dreadful if we were all to take it! Small pox too such a frightful thing I am so afraid of it!" Miss Farquhar shuddered as she lis tened to her mother, anJ glanced up at the young man standing on the hearth rug. The live years that had passed had worked a wonderful change in Will Dymock. He carried himself erect, his lanky figure had ailed out, and, with his great height and his broad shoulders and keen clever face, he was a man one could not pasa unnoticed. "Just think of the children, Doctor Dymock! What am I to do if they catch it if she has left the infection with them?" "Oh, we'll hope not! How long has she been with you?" "Since Wednesday. On Friday she complained of not feeling well. Die tor Brown happened to be here at the time; and. when he said it was small pox, I packed her off at once to the hospital. Of course I am ready to py any reasonable expenses; but I really could not have her hero. It is dread fully annoying. ' Well, mamma, it is not poor Miss Jeffrey's fault; I don't suppose she would have had if she could have help ed it." "Miss Jeffrey, did you say?" There was an eager look in Doctor Dymock's face as he leaned forward in the fire light. Justine Farquhar looked at him cu riously. "Yes. Do you know her?'? she asked. "A man named Jeffrey was the great est friend I ever had," returned the doctor quietly. "It might be a sister of his." "She is a nice-looking girl, with fair hair," went on Ju tine. "It seems dreadful; does it not? Of course it will make a fright of her." Will was a rich man now, much re spected, welcomed every where. There was hardly a mother who would not have been well content to give her daughter to him; but he had never given a thought to any one. Until my dr ing day ,"& had sworn live 5 eai te- lore, as ne put a red rose into uis pocKet book; and now, though the rose was faded, the memory of the dear old days was as fresh as ever in Will s heart. He had lost sight of the Jeffreys for years; Bob had never asked him down to Morne again indeed Will wonld not have gone had he been asked. Then three years back, Doctor Jeffrey had died suddenly, and Bcb, soon after that had gone as a ship s surgeon to Austra lia. Doctor Dymock had never heard what had become of Georgie. 1 1 was oreadful to him to think of hBr being compelled to act as agovernes.s,to think of her sick and ailing iu a hospital- ward dainty, pretty little Georgie! As he strode away down the street in the wintry dusk, a sudden thought came to the young man which brought the color into his cheeks, the light to h s eyes. The convalascent ward of au hospl tal. A girl sitting 111 a deep arm chair by the fire, her head laid wearily back against the pillows, her eyes closed; in tense weariness and dejection in every linn of the slim figure. 'Y'ou are getting strong now, Miss Jeflrey; we snail have you out iu no time." said the nurse. The girl opened her eyes as the wo man spoke. AU her pretty color was gone, the freshness of her eweet young beauty faded. 'Now don't you be down-hearted, miss," nurse Kobins went on cheerily. The good woman had daughters of her own, and her motherly heart ached for this girl w&o seemed so iriendiess. "Take my word for it. Miss Joffrey, there's good days in storo for you yet," But Georgie sighed wearily; she did not believe in any good days in store for her. As the nurse hurried away to get tea, Georgie, sitting there in the gathering dusk, with sad weaiy eyes fixed ou the fire, went back over all the story of her life. How happy she had been at Morne. though site had not known it though she had even grumbled at shabby gowns, at want of pocket money at the dullness and quietness of her life! The tears came Into the girl's eyes as she thought of her dead father's love and pride in her. of Bob, dear old Bob, who was so far away. And then Geor gie's thoughts wandered to a kind ugly face, to true gray eyes looking into hers. "I shall never forget you until my dying day." he had said; but he had forgotten he was like the rest Poor Georgie! She locked a woeful picture as sbe sat there, with her hol low mournful eyes, the tears coursing down ber thin cheeks. The door suddenly oined and closed again; it was nurse Robins with the tea, Georgie thought. She did not look round; but she tried furitively to brush aw-iy the tears. "Miss Jeffrey P nad a voice from the dead sounded beside her, Georgie could not have been more startled; and yet bad she not been thinking of him just now? "I have startled jou," Will Dy mock went on, gently taking the wast ed little white hand into his big brown one. "Nurse Kobins and I are great friends; she gave me leave to come in and see you. I beard some time ago, at Mrs. Farquhar's, that you were ill." 'It is very good or you to come and see me," Georgie responded. She was only too conscious of the great thrill of joy and gladness that went through her at the sound ot WUF3 sou grave voice. Had Will changed so much, or had she? She could not tell; but, looking at him as he sat before her, it seemed to the girl that this man whom she had mocked and flouted long before was the fiuest-looking, the nobleot, the truest she bad seen in all the five long years past. "And you have not forgotten me?" be asked. "I was afraid you had ' ' "Ah, no, 1 have not forgotten you! You were Bob's friend she added," nasxiiy. "but not V0UI3. Miss Jeffrey. I came hereto day to ask you something again tharx asked you five years ago. If you caa only give me the same answer that yon f ave me then, I must know it at once; I could not bear to see you and know there was no hope for me," Will Dyntock was leaning forward, the Gre- ligut shining on his grave earnest face Gforgie stared at him, he? cheeks palet. if possible, than they had been before; she scarcely realized yet what 11 was he was saying. "I have frightened you, I have star tled'youl" Will said hurriedly. "Per haps I ought not have come so soon; but j felt I could not wait an7 longer dear I have loved you long and well; is it impossible now that you should care a little for me? If it is, say one word. and I will not trouble vou anv more " But Georgie did not eay that word; the face she raised to her lover was ra diant with joy. There was no need for any Words to let him know her answer. Will held out his arms, and she went to ltfno, nestling close to his heart as a tirea child might. Giily half an hour before she had been weary of her life; and now what joy nre had in store tor hen "I was afraid you might be married by row; I could not hear. Bob told me somrthmg once about young Sam!; landJ," said the doctor, when he had released her from his embrace. "I will tell you, Will," returned Georgie, reddening a little. "I thought once I did care for him, ani then I couH not not after I knew you." "Sly darling why did you send me away tbenf " "I dont know. I think I card for yoa even when I sent you away." . "Even though I was the ugliest mar. you had ever seen?" whispered Will mischievously. "Ah, you have not forgotten! Will, I was only a sillv child. You do not know how sorry I was. Ah," she cried "it is not right that you should come back to me now, when you haveeverV' thiEH and I have nothing. It U dark in here you cannot see; you don't know bow changed I am. You would not know me; it is I who am ugly now." "! cau see quite enough of you; and I wiil not have you call yourself names. I think you are prettier than ever at at all events, you are the ouiy woman In the world that I ever wanted or ever shall want to marry; so, if you can get over ray appearance " "Will, you must not!' she interrup ted. "Very well; I won't. If you will not speak of yourself as being changed, wc will agree to call each other the two han.lsomest people in the world; and the:i what matters what any one else thiirks?" fashionable "At Home" towards the nd of the Lotidou season. A large con pany was present, for Mrs. Fitz roy Farquhar's "At homes" were very poptJar. A great Busslan tenor, the lion Of the day, had been singing "Once 3-v i.'U'i'he. Inst -?ioe of tii rich pfts siouute voice kid died away, and the buzz of laughter, or criticism and con versation, had broken forth afresh. In one of the deep windows a knot of young men were gathered together. "Who is that cliaiming woman iu the black and silver dress? Does any one know?" asked one. "I don't see her now; but you must know the one I mean she came in rather Lite. By Jove, she is the nicest-look ing woman in the room!"' "She is a Mrs. Dymock," drawled Captain Sandilands, pulling his mous tache "I knew her when she was a girl; but she's frightfully gone off." " 'Gone off,' is she? Well, all I can say is that, if she is gone off now, she must have been something worth look ing at when she was a girl! I have not seen such a beauty for years." Frank Sandilands shrugged his shoul ders as he moved away. "Conceited ass that Sandilands!" sal.l Captain Hunt crossly. 'Hone off in deed 1 Shouldn't be surprised if she had refused him!" "Well, he has consoled himself any how. They say he is going to be mar ried to Justine Farquhar." Some women would marry a hair dresser's dummy," remarked Captain Hunt. "Is that Mrs. Dymock's hus band the fellow with ber," he asked presently "the ugly fellow with a stoop?" - "Yes; but you had better not let his wife hear you. It's an awfully good joke, of course; but they say she thinks him very handsome." 'Ah .well, she has good looks enough for both!" "He's a clever fellow too. I hear certain to reach the top of the tree one of these days." 'Do you hear, Georgie?" said Doc tor Dymock to his wife as the gossiping voices reached their ears. "Public opinion is against you; you will be the pretty woman with the ugly husband to the end of the chapter." "Tbe woman who can never be thank ful enough for her ugly husband," said Georgie, looking up at her husband with such a light in her sweet eyes as made Frank sandilands, looking on from the other end of the room, turn away with bitter jealousy In his heart. A Russian Sect. The Nest of the Godly People in tbe name of a Russian religious sect that has coma into existence the last fifteen years at Bender in the government of Bessarabia. The name comes from the fact that the members of this sect, who are all peasants, dig a grave in the earthen floor of their habitations, or else in their gardens, and lie therein un til overcome by hunger, in order, as they Bay, to commune, with God, to confess to him their sins, and examine their past life. To enable them the better to do this the grave is covered with a wooden box-like lid or canopy. having a door in it for ingress and egress; so that they lie in a grave as in a coffin, and were it not for small aper tures in the top part of it they would pin the risk of being suffocated. When the giave or "nest" is in tbe garden it is thickly surrounded by bushes for the sake of greater privacy, and guard ed by a savage watchdog to prevent cu rious or impertinent people going near it. These sectarians pretend that in their ; ecstatic moments, and when suffering extreme hunger, they see saints and dev. Is, and some of them are subject to hallucinations. Another peculiarity of the members of this sect is that they hold as little conversation as possible with other people, or in fact with ea.-h other; so that the kind of life which they endeavor to lead is akin to tlut of uncloisterel monks. ! I the bark and rut Frictiou cleans down the knots. lie Cuescd he'd Fight. Politeness was born in him, and he couldn't help it. He drifted into a prominent town in the South soon after Johnston's surrender, and before any body's temper had cooled down. He was after cotton, and he let tbe fact be known. He was from Connecticut, and he did not try to conceal it, II-; hadn't been in the town two hours before "an unregenerated'' pulled his nose. "Ah yes!" said the man from Con necticut. "Was that accidental?" "No, sin No, sir!" was the fierce rejoinder. "Did it a purpose, eh?" i:Of course I did!" "Well, I shouldn't a-thouttht it of you! 1'il pass it over as a case f tern, porary insanity." An hour later, as he sat in the hotel,1 a fireeater approached him and spit on his boots and stood and glared at him "Yen must have a wobble to your tongue if you can't spit straighter than tbat," said the man from Connecticut. "I meant so sir meant so! "Wanted to get me mad, eh?" "Yes, sir! Yes. sir!" "You shouldn't do so. When I'm roused I'm a hard man to handle. I'll excuse tbis on the grounds that you don't know me." In the afternoon he was given a hint that he had better leave town at once, and when he demurred a lawyer sent him a challenge. "What's it fur?" asked the Yankee lis he read the missive. "You insulted him, and he demands satisfaction," explained the messenger. "Can't I argy the case with him?" "Xo, sir!" "S'pose'n I give him five dollars to settle?" "He waul s to lijjht you sir. And you must either fight or he will horse whip you!" "Warm me t-p with a rawhide, eh?" "He will!" "Shoo! but who'd a thought ill Say, I'll gin him ten dollars." "Sir! You likewise insult me!" "Do, th! I swan I didnt mean to! Then I've got to fight?" "You have!" "May get killed, or kill the other feller?" "Exactly." "Well, I'm kinder sorry. I never had but one fight iu my life and then I got licked. I don't want to be hurt, and I don't want to injuie anybody else, and " "You'll wait to be horse- wirpp-d!" "1 rayther guess not 1 guess I'll fii'it, I'll choo-wj rifles at twenty pices, and you kin pick mu your own ground. J!st let me know when it's to conic otf, and I'll try to be thar." It came off next morning. He was thar'. They offered him an :prtunity to i.pilogizo, but he wouldn't touch it. He stool up as stiff as a new barn door and Inired a bullet through his man's shoulder, and came off without a scratch himself. "Bein' as I'm out here now, ami bein' as somebody else may want to horse wlr.p me to-morrer. wouldn't this be a good time for him to show up and save time?" he aj-ked as he leaned on his rifle and looked around him. No one showed up. The Yankee liked the town and sent for his family. The people liked the Yankee and mead him Postmaster, and he stuck tbeie until fiv years ago. An Old ( litir.Ii. The church of Benton Parish, Wil liamsburgh, Ya , while it is not the oldest among colonial churches of Vir-1 ginia, is believed to be the oldest at , which the services of the Episcopal j Church are still maintained The Ben-' tou Parish Church basin itsCommu-; niou service a gold piece which was a ' present from tuen Ante, and its silver service, consisting of three p eces, bears the mark and crown of George the Third, and was presented to the church j by him. In the church and the grave yard surrounding it are many tablets: and monumental inscriptions full of ' intercst to all who Jove old things. I Among the most striking inscriptions is J one upon a marble tablet on the wall o" j the church, and is a follows: "Neare this marble Lyes ye Hon B!e : Daniel Park of ye County of Essex E-iq. who was one of his Maties Counsellors ' and sometimes Secretary of the Colony of Virga he Dyed ye Oil of March Anno lo.'J. "His other Felicityes Ware Crowned by his happy Marridg with Rebhtkca the daugh'er of George Evelyn of the County of Surry Esq. she dyed the 2J of January Anno 1G72 at Long Dittou in ye County of Surry and left behind her a most hopeful Piogeny. The following is a copy of another ' lnscription on marble upou the opposite tide of the church from the above; "Inscnled to the Memory of Doctor William Cocke, An English Phy sician Hrn of reputable Pareuts, MDCLXXII. at Sudbury in Suffolk and educated at Queen's College, Cam bridge. 'He was learneJ and polite, of undis puted Skill In his profession, of un bounded Generosity in his practice which multitudes yet alive, can testify. "He was, many years, ot the Council aud Secretary of State, for this Colony In the Belgn of Queen Anne fc of Jving Ueorge. "He died Suddenly, sitting a Judge . upon the Bench of the General Court in ' the Capitol MDCCXX. "His Hon. Friend Alexr Spottswood Esqr then Gavr with the principal Gen tlemen of the County attended his Fu deral; and weeping, saw the Corps In terred at the West side of the Alter, In this Church." , Hop Growing. The Dnke of Edinburgh has had enough of hop-growing farming. For years past the Dukn has been carrying on operations at Eistwell Park, his estate in Kent, but ne now thinks that ploughing the watery main pays better, than ploughing the Kentish wealds.' Alfred has dropped a good deal of money over his hobby. Current re port has it. that the Q leen has had to unloose her purse-strings to help him over his difficulties; but I venture to think tbat h all nonsense, because, first of all, her Majesty is none too fond of unloosening ber purse-strings, and, secondly, the Dnke is by far the richest cf the Qieea's children, and conse quently the least likely to require pecuniary assistance. However, be gives up the estate at Christmas, and if any one wants a country mansion re cently sancuneu oy tne presence ot u real Royal Duke, now is the chance. : Do not squander time, for that is the, stuff life is made of. He Caught A Tartar A couple of young folks who bore un mistakeable evidence of being from the country, and who were mistaken by a would-be smart clerk for greenhorns, called at a well-known house-rurnishlng store on Market street, Philadelphia, andunrolling a sheet of paper as lonj; a; a man'sarm, began buying a large num ber of articles, the names of which they scratched from the paper as soon as the goods were put aside. "Two wash boilers." "Jimmlny I You folks are going to have a lot of dirty clothes, seems tc me," flippantly commented the clerk, as he set the boilers aside. "Two of these wringers," said the man, indicating the kind he wanted. "Ho, ho," patronizingly observed the clerk. "I guess you are going to start a laundry down at Squashviile." The lady looked indignant, but neith er she nor her husband, for such it ap peared that he was, pail any attention to the remarks of the clerk. "Two sets of smoothing iron3 and two stands," was the next order. "That settles the laundry business, sure as fate, buddy," chipped in the clerk as he picked up the irons. He was so pleased with the joke that he dropped one cf the irons on his pet coi n when the first smile that had been seen on either cf his customers, drew two pretty dimples in the yount; lady's cheek "Thunder! are you going to start a creamery, too?" he snurled, as the man ordered two butter ladles. "No, we are not going to do anything of the kind," said the male half of the matrimonial pair cf scissors, as for the first time ha appeared to notice what the clerk was saying. " What in sheol are you going to do then?" asked the clerk as he limped across the store with the butter ladies. "Well, you see said the man, with an imitable drawl, "Maria and I got mar ried last Wednesday, and we are get ting in our things now and a3 we don't know yet but we may get a divorce by and by. we are buying dou ble, so that in case we do conclude to part company there won't be any trou ble to divide what we've got. "One for you and one for Mariar," gleefully warbled the clerk each time he laid aside the couples after that. When the buying was completed the customer said: "Now, 100k here, freshy, I want you to divide those goods into two equal lots, without any duplicates in either lot aud send one to Abner Sheldon, Spring City, and the other to Charles II. Gurney Bmlsborough. Do you un derstand?" "Yes," was the scmewhat doubtful assent of the clerk. "Well," continued the countryman "these goods are to be sent C. 0. 1)., and if you get any of them mixed up, and i have to send any ot my batch to my brotner-in-law, or he has to send any to me, to correct any of your blun ders, tbe cost of tle freight will be de ducted from the money remitted. Now there is just oue more thing tbat I want to say to you beiore I go out. I will be obliged to you if you will tell your employer, that unless he finds a more civil clerk I shall find another place to do my buying." As the countryman and his wife walked out, and the clerk tried to make up a satisfactory explanation to tbe old gentleman, who had stepped out of tbe back otlice just before the customer's parting shot, It is probable ho resolved never to chaff a "greeuhorn" again. The Qui-oii at Ilor Coronation. The coronation seems to have been badly managed. Noiody knew what what was to be done, and the queen had no idea what she was to do next. She says to John Tliynue: "Pray tell m what I am to do. for they don't know;" and at the end, when the orb was put into her hand, she said to him, "What, am I to do with it?" "Your majesty is to carry it, if you please, in your hand." "Am I?" she said; "it is very heavy. ' The ruby ring was made for her lit tle finger instead of th9 fourth, on which the rubric prescribes that it should be put. When the archbishop was to put it on, she extended the former, but he said it must be on the latter. She said it was too small, and she could not get it on. He said it j was right to put it there, and, as he in 1 sist'.l. she yielded, but hod first to take off J.er other rines, and then this was forced on, but it hurt her very much, and soon after tne ceremony was over . she was obliged to bathe her finger in iced water in order to get it off. The . noise and confusion were very great 1 when the niedals were thrown about by Lord Surrey, everybody seemed scram- bling with all their might and main to get them, and none more vigorously than the maids of honor. There was a great demonstration of applause when the Duke of Wellington did homage. Lord Kolle, who was between eighty and ninety, fell down as he was getting up the steps of the throne. Her first impulse was to rise, and when after ward he came to do homage, she said: May I not get up and meet him?" and then rose from the throne and ad vanced dowu one or two of the steps to prevent his coming up, an act of gru-j ciousness and kindness which made a: great sensation. " Albumen in CWs Milk, Dr. Schmidt, Mulheim, has been in vestigating the nitrogenous bodies in ! cows' milk, about which so much diver-1 sity of opinion has hitherto prevailed. I He says that three albuminoid sab stances are regularly present in the milk, viz : caseine, albnmen and pep ton. Tbe average of seven analyses gave 2.43 per cent of caseine, 0.38 per ; cent of aiunmen, and 0.13 per cent of peptons. Under certain circumstances ' the amount of albumen may increase until it equals that of the albumen. ! The pepton is forme! from the caseine by a fermentative process; this ferment is destroyed by a boiling temperature, but ita activity is not destroyed by ealicyho or carbolic acid, so that in this respect it resembles the ferment that digests the albuminoids. Since milk, ' on long standing, may loae 10 per cent or more of its caseine by its conversion into peptons, it should be made use of as fresh aa possible when employed for making cheese. 'No," said a Vermont deacon, "I don't approve of horse racin'; and when another member of the church become so godless as to try to pass me fn tha rrvr.rt vmin hAmA f mm majatfn' I felt it my duty to the church to let outaleetleontherems, just to keep him from puttin' his trust in earthly things." NEWS IN BK1EF- IO.SoO more emigrants left Irish ports in 1S33 than in 1S82. There are nearly 10.000 directors of companies in Great Britain. Seventy-two papers are published iu Mexico. Four churches in Montre;il now use the electric light. The United States half dime of 1302 is a valuable coin. It 13 worth S23. The farmers cf Arkansas have a secret order celled "The Agricultural WheeU" Eighteen colored teachers are em ployed ia the Nashville, Tenn., public schools. The loss of property by the recent Ohio floods, is now estimated at some SiO.OOO.OCO. Michigan is reported to produce about two-tnh ds of the peppermint crop of the world. In some parts of California gold is extracted from the ore by electricity. It is a French idea. Two canoe voyazers are on their way from the mouth of the Yellowstone to the Gulf c Mexico. A single chandelier in the moun tain castle of that spendthrift, the King of Bavaria, cost ill.SuO. In 18S2 the emigrants from Eng land to the Australasian colonies were 37,003; in lJ, 71,000. Ireland had 32.32 per cent, of the population of Great Britain In 1S32. She now has 11.81 per cent. A colony of wine-producers will leave France abjt the 1st of January to settle in Greenville county, S. C. A Victoria (Columbia) Chinaman, worth i.'jj,000, ii to marry a white girl, with the consent of her parents. "Cascadia" Is sussted as the name of Washington Territory in the evtmt of her being admitted as a State. Seasickness was the trouble of which a man on board the coastwise steamer San Antonio died a few days ago. In a roller skating contest at New York recently, Mr. Hoffman, of Colum bia College, skated o miles iu ll.-JdJ minutes, Mrs, Lawrence, of Chicago, mother of the late T. G. Lawrence, class of 81, hasgiveu Yale College fVJ ,00O for a dormitory. Eleven thousand dollaia' worth of ink was used by the l'ost-oilice Depart ment last year in stamping and cancell ing letters. Beatrica Kin, a 13 year old girl, has just been sentenced to one month's Imprisonment !n London for stealing a (lint f milk The oldest man iu Indiana died suddenly near Vincennes. H;s name was Pierre Colter, and his reputed age was 11j years. During the last ten years the French speaking population of Canada hja iacrwisfj nt a mrch g; cater ratio than the English. From 1334 tol31 sumptuary edicts as to dress were issued at Berlin. The last forbade women without iink to wear silk dresses, A white poodie, formerly owne-1 by Mrs. Scott-Siddons, but latterly a pet t'f Mme. Janauschek, died recently. It was 17 years old. Pittsburg claims mie rich men, in prnjwrtion to population, than any city in the Union. Seventv residents asgre gate llSO.uUO.OtJO. The October term of the Supremo Court of Massachusetts was o;ened with prayer, the only instance of the kind iu that State on record. Col. William P. Armstrong, for merly Prime Minister to K;u Kala- fcaua, 13 now m cw ilaveii, aud is studying Connecticut oyster culture. The Londoners aie promised exhi bitions cf life on the American prairies by Buffalo Bill, with all his mustangs, buffaloes, cowboys and other live stock. Pine Valley, near Wocdford, Vt., which has been .1 busy place for four teen years past, i? now deserted, the last family moving away a few days ago. Washington fashion allows ladies to use perfume about their persons con cealed in satchets. etc., but forbids them to saturate their handkerchiefs with it. The report of the New Jersey State Board of Health thows the total num ber of deaths for the year ending July 1, 1SS3, to be 23.31), a death rate of l'J.43. A scientific journal in England es timates that it would take a capital of S.j,0tX),000,iXH to successfully divert the vast iower of Niagara Falls to use ful purposes. Easter of next year falls ou St. Mark's Day, April 2j, Its latest possible date. The hist time this recurred was in 173G (old style), and :t will not so fail again until 1043. Female conductors sire emploved now ou the Valparaiso (Chili) street cars. In Santiago female conductors are stated to Lave been a success for some time past. According to late reports. Fort Boss, Sonoma county. Cab, with a pop ulation averaging from fifty to one iiun drtd persons, has not bad a death since its settlement, thirty years ago. By the census of lS.W there were 40,000 working oxen in Vermont. The last census shows only 19,000 a leys of 30,000. This loss is mere than balanced by the" gain in the number of other cattle. Over 200 wild ducks were trapped in a warehouse near Chico, Cal., re cently, one of the doors having been left open long enough for the ducks to go inside for grain. The warehouse owners make a big haul of game in this manner every year. England imported 30,000 gallons less of sherry and claret last year than dating the preceding year, but of port, during the same time, she imported (j").7?5 pipes the largest single year's importation on record. In the Church of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London, a stained-glass window to the memory of Shakespeare fc.13 been unveiled. The poet was at one time an inhabitant cf the parish, and there brought out several of his plays. The window is the gift of some person unknowu. Three thousand food inspections in Glasgow last year resulted in the de struction of IG.OOQ pounds of fish. 3,000 pounds of pork. 600 pound3 of beef, and other considerable quantities of 00 d. Among the bstter class of houses 2i3 drains had been inspected, and only seven of them found to be in good order.
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