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VOL. XLVI.
MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1892.
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WINTER APPLES.
bat cheer t there that Is half so good.
In the snowy waste of a Winter's uiicbC,
a,s a dancing Ore ol hickory wood
And an easy chair la Us mellow lltcht,
Vml a pearniain apple, ruddy and sleek,
it a Jenneting Willi a freckled cneekt
a russet apple Is fair to view.
With a tawnr tint like an Autumn leaf.
The warmth of a ripened corn fleld's hue,
Or a golden bint of a harvest sheaf ;
a.nd the wholesome breath of the finished year
s held in a wli esap's blooming sphere.
IUct brln i yon a thought of the orchard trees,
In blossom April and leafj June,
and the sleepy droning of bumble bees,
In the lazy light of Hie afternoon,
and the uncled clover and bobolinks,
rider ltlie-. an l earden pinks.
It you've somewhere left, with Its gables wide,
A farmhouse set In an orchard old,
Vou'll see It nil In the winter tide.
At hi of a pippin's preen and gold,
Or a P' arnialn auule, ruudy and sleek,
J a J Dueling with a freckled cheek.
A CHANCE EX COUNTER.
1 met her just on t side the railway
itation, in one of the great Italian
towns; indeed, it was in theomnibus of
the hotel to which I was going, and
which stood there, as they all do for h
long time, awaiting the collection of
the luggage. She was quite young,
Dot twenty, a girl so perfeotly comn,e
il taut, so well-dressed from head to
loot, so evidently accustomed to be
cared for and looked after, that her
little air of bewilderment and distress,
nd the way in which she looked about
as if seeking some familiar face, was
all the more noticeable. I hope I should
have been as sorry for a more ordinary
specimen of humanity, but I certainly
should not have been so much interest
ed. She was not alone, however, at
this moment, but was accompanied by
a man, who put her into the omnibus
with sundry expressions of encourage
ment, and descriptions of how she
would find her smaller luggage outside,
etc. to which she replied with profuse
thanks, without ever ceasing her
anxious look round the wide space
before the railway station, which was
crowded with p ople coming and going.
"I'll look round in the evening and see
if yon have beard anything," he said
to which sue replied ry begging mm
not to take the trouble, not to disturb
himself, with many renewed expres
sions of thanks for his kindness to her.
fie patted her on the shoulder, as be
shook hands with her, encouragingly.
He was a man twioe her age and had a
friendly look and an American accent
There was not about him the smallest
traoe of a Don Giovanni: yet that pat
on the shoulder immediately quickeued
my growing desire to intervene. She
was not a beautiful girl in my exper
ience beautiful girls are very rare; but
her features were very agTeeable, her
oomplexion of that Olanc mat, which
the French admire so much, her hair
of pretty chestnut color, the outlines
of her soft, young face distinct, though
verv delicate and fair. But it was the
littfe air, which could scarcely be called
personal distinction, yet which made it
impossible for the girl to look common
under any circumstances the perfect
physical training and well-being, the
perfection of care and regard for her
comfort, and (he selection of the ap
propriate and becoming in every per
sonal detail, which suggested that ev. ry
precaution had surrounded her and
everything possible been done for her,
from tier cradle up which struck one
most. Her dress was quite simple, yet
of the best kind. The train by which
we both arrived was a through train,
in which most of the passengers had
travelled all night; but she had none
of the fagged and disorderly air,,
which so (almost invariably appears
in the afternoon at least, c f the day
after a night journey. It was, evident
ly, natural for her to look pale, so that
tuere was no change in that respect;
and her pretty hair was as much in
order as, on the head of nineteen, it
had any need to be.
After facing each other a minute or
two in the omnibus, which was still
waiting for my luggage which my
maid, an experienced polyglot in her
way, with a large command of nouns
and very small of verbs, was looking
after I broke through my English
reserve (which never was my strong
point,) and asked "Have you lost your
luggage?" which, indeed, was tlie sup
position I had made.
The girl seemed much relieved to be
able to speak "Oh, no," she said,
"much worse than that. I have lost my
mother and father. They were to
meet me here by this train, and they
have neither come nor sent any one,
nd 1 don't know what to do. That
gentleman said I had better go to the
hotel th.a omnibus belongs to that it
was the best, and that they might be
there; or I could send and try to find
them, or perhaps there might be a
telegram, or. I can't think how they
could have failed me: it was all settled
exactly how I was to travel, and the
hour the train arrived, and everything:.
I thought I could travel quite well by
myself, but 1 will never try it again,"
said my little friend with fervor: and
she added a melancholy story of her
troubles by the way. How she had
been placed by her friends in a sleeping-carriage,
in which she was not to
be disturbed which went through,"
that magic word to the unaccustomed
traveller and would have no trouble
till she came to her journey's end,
when she would step into the arms of
her mother. All so beautifully arrang
ed, no trouble at all instead of which
he had been made to jump up at four
in the morning, to hasten on her
"things," and to change into another
carriage; and now at the end where she
hoped all her troubles were over, there
was no mamma on the platform, no
body looking out for her and she
would not have known what to do, or
where to look but for that kind man,
who hid himself lost his luggage, and
had to go back to the frontier to look
after it. "He said this was the best
hotel, and I had better go to it, and
then telegraph," she repeated, looking
out as the omnibus got, into motion,
with wistful eyes at the passengers in
the streets.
"Yom must stay with mo till they
turn np," said I, "that will be the sim
plest way; if they are not at the Leon
d'Oro, we can send the porter ronnd
to the other hotels, and you will soon
hear of them, you may be sure. They
must have been detained somehow, or
mistaken the hour, or but till you
hear of them, you must stay with me."
"Oh, mav I? thank you so very
much," cried the girl, with a light of
relief on her soft face; and then she
returned to the tribulations of the
journey, and the horror of not seeing
any face she knew whon she arrived.
And I can't speak a word I" she added,
in a soft accent of woudering despair.
We can speak a great many words,
Johnson and I," I replied, "they are
not very nicely put together, and a
critic might object to our conversa
tional style, but we manage to got on
and nowadays there is no difficulty in
getting on, for everybody speaks
Inglish at all the hotels; so yon may
be qnite at your ease as far as that is
concerned. It used to bo very differ
ent in my time. 1 remember ," and
then I began little story of J
old experiences, hoping to divert her,
but though she listened civilly for a
moment, and gave me a small smile, I
could see that my elderly ancedotes
had no interest for the little girl. Her
eyes strayed after every new pair ap
pearing in the street, with a special
interest in stout persons, which
revealed to me the vision of a portly
mamma. And what a state of mind
that portly mamma must be in, if she
were an ordinary English mother, and
was now figuring to herself her daugh
ter's arrival in the midst of a popula
tion composed chiefly of Italian brig
ands ready to pounce upon her and
her goods, as the ordinary British
matron is accustomed to suppose, I
shuddered to imagine.
In the meantime I may as well men
tion who 1 myself am, and how it was
that I was specially adapted to take
this little stray in hand. I am Miss
Stanley-Drummond, of a family not
unknown on either side of the House,
middle-aged, or a little more (people
draw that line so differently, according
to their own ideas or shall I say their
own yearB?), one of the many unmar
ried English ladies who are to be found
in all the hotels npon every highway in
Europe, and even. I believe beyond
Europe. 1 am obliged to say that I
think there are far too many of us
about the world. I am not one who
despises my own kind, or pretends to
prefer men's society, or any of those
affectations which are current; but I
confess that I like a little variety and
that to be surrounded solely by persons
of my own sex, in pretty much the
same condition of life, about my own
age, and, in short, reproductions of me
with little local differences, is a thing
I find tiresome. At Bordighera, for
instance, and various other such places,
there were about twenty of us round
the modest table d'hote to about three
menl And such menl A mild old
parson, of whom one could never cer
tainly nay which was he and which was
his wire; a delicate youth, taking care
of himself; and some other nondescript.
This was too much of a good thing.
The spinster ladies of Eugland are a
very good thing: my dearest friends
are among them: but toujour perdrix
the proverb is somewhat mnsty.
Apparently men don't feel the same
objection to herd continually with their
liko, or else clubs and smoking rooms
would not be so attractive to them.
But perhaps this is because they
have been more widwly scattered
about the world, and have more
varied experiences with which to
edify each other. I, for my
part, should like a little more variety
among my daily associates; though I
confess I do not see how it is to
be mended. For it would be as
impossible to interfere with the liberty
of the British subject and forbid the
elderly single woman to travel, as it
would be to attempt to make them un
like each other, which is beyond the
power of man. It is true that there is
sometimes among us a married woman
in proud possession of a young daugh
ter, who makes a little varie'y; but as
she has generally been a widow for
years, and relapsed into our habits and
ways, without the independence on
which we pique ourselves, the differ
ence is often infinitesimal. The youug
daughters, indeed; but then it is hard
upon the poor girls to be bronght out
of their opening day into our robust,
hut often cynical, afternoon, and harms
their natural development. One says
to them instinctively, "Ah, in my
time!" as I could not refrain from do
ing even to my little friend in the om
nibus; and our time was much gayer
than theirs, with so much more fun,
and dancing and laughing in it, and so
many more of the other individuals to
dance and laugh with! or so, at least,
it appears now.
This would be a hopeless digression,
however, ii it were not necessary to
show how suitable 1 was to take up the
lost stranger. If there had been a man
of my party he would have certainly sug
gested that I knew nothing whatever
about the girl, and that probably she
was an impostor with designs upon my
jewel box. (N. B. My jewel box is
not very richly provided, and I never
take it about with me when I travel. )
I may be told that men are more, not
less, charitable than ladies to feminine
wanderers who are young and pretty:
but this I do not believe. There may
be cases in which sentiments other
than charitable come in; but I have al
ways found thorn very suspicious of
what they call adventuresses perhaps
because they know more of that kind
than we do. Having no men of my
party, Johnson, who possesses certain
of their qualities, assumed the part,
and looked very severely at my poor
little girl; though how anyone with half
an eye should not have seen the perfect
simple fact of that little personage I
cannot understand. However, when
we arrived at the hotel, I left the child
to give her own instructions as to tele
grams, and explain the search for the
missing parents upon which she de
sired the porter that guide, philos
opher and friend of all perplexed
travellers at once to be sent: which
she did with the distinctness of a per
son quite accustomed to give orders,
and not afraid to explain the dilemma
in which she found herself. It was
only then that I heard her name, and
I confess that it startled me a little to
hear her give, not one, but two, names
of tho persons to be inquired after,
whom she had, notwithstanding, de
scribed to me as her mother and father
with a curious transposition of, the
usual order. "He had better go to all
the best hotels, and ask if there is any
one of the name of Hall or Kobertson.
Mrs. Kobertson or Hall, or if there is
auv telegram for me;I am Miss Kobert
son," she said. It was all very prettily
said, with tho perfect simplicity of
child who has nothing to conceal; but
1 confess that it is startled me for a
moment, and Johnson gave me a look I
Decidedly, besides being as tall and
strong, and usually a sort of protector
in any trouble for her heart is as big
as her body Johnson is as suspicious
as a man. However, I need not say
this made no difference to me, and
when we were seated together upstairs
in the rooms which had been engaged
for me beforehand (I like to travel
comfortably) beside a nice little fire,
with our cloaks and wraps thrown off,
and Johnson already in the room be
yond wi'h her Etna making a pleasant
fragrance of tea, the mystery was very
speedily and very simply unfolded. I
need not say that I was full of curios
ity; but 1 am not sure that It was this
feeling or rather a still n ore natural
impulse which made me suggest that if
the porter found them, of course her
father would come immediately to take
her to the much-desired mamma.
"Oh. mother will come herself," she
said quickly; and then with a little
embarrassed laugh, "You will think it
the strangest thing bnt though, of
course, I shall have to call him father,
and there is no other name to give him
I have never seen him jet."
"You have Asver seen jour father 1"
X cried.
And then she told me w'.th a little
blush, as if she were somehow in fault,
twisting about a little ring on her
finger, with her eyes fixed upon it, that
she had been for a long time in school
in Uermany for her education, though
her home was in England: that aa
Mamma's health would not permit her
to live in either country, ahe bad been
spending the winter on the Riviera, at
Nice and other places; and that, as a
matter of fact Mrs. Robertson had
married and become Mrs. Hall since
her daughter saw her last.
"And I can't get need to the new
name," ahe said; "I am always forget
ting: perhaps that is why we have miss
ed each other, for I am afraid now that
I directed the telegram when I started
to Mrs. Robertson instead of Mrs.
HalL And 1 have never seen him at
all."
"It is curious, certaloly, but I hope
you will like him vary much when you
do see him " I aaid.
cue gave her bead the faintest little
shake, but she said "Oh, I hope so,"
hurriedly, as if that was a discussion
into which she did not care to enter.
Poor little thing! her heart was sore
over this new relationship. It must be
hard npon the children when a woman
marries again, though, of course, to
forbid a woman to marry again, or even
disapprove of her for doing so at
least, without full knowledge of the
circumstances would be harder still.
We sat there for a little very comfort
able, enjoying the rest and quiet after
the jingle and shaking of the train; and
then I proposed that we should go
down to the table d'hote dinner. Table
d'hote, like other things, are not what
they used to be. When I was a girl
they were amusing, and one saw all
sorts of people. They are not in the
least amusing now, bat I keep the old
habit of going down to them, partly
because it is less trouble, and also be
cause I object to the smell of food in
my private room.
My little companion followed me
languidly, declaring that she did not
want anything and wonld rather stay
upstairs; but 1 know that at her age
appetite comes with the sight of food,
however any contrariety or misfortune
may seem to have driven it away. We
were but balf-way down the stairs,
however, when we encountered the
minairariif th lintnl comino-nn. uvnm.
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panied by a stout and comely lady
1 a a) It a A 1 1 a :
with her full but charming countenance
half hidden under a gauze veil,
and followed by a man who was not so
prepossessing. And then I heard a
little scream behind me, and I was
nearly poshed over while my charge
made a spring into her mother's arms.
I ought to have been delighted, 1
know; but I fear the only pleasure this
cave me was the conviction that there
and then Johnson must be convinced
that she was no impostor, and that
every word of her story was true.
Of course, Mrs. Kobertson, or Hall,
overwhelmed me with thanks. What
would Eflie have done witbont me?
How could she thaDk me enough for
my goodness to her chuai Also, ol
course, the upshot was that 1 went
down to the table d hole much dimin-
ished in my prospective glory (for I
had felt that the ganeral interest and 80 much more explicit and straightfor
curiosity would be excited by the sight j war1 than anything among ua, she be-
of my pretty little companion) and
much abashed in my spirits, having a
very dull and lonely meal to look
forward to, instead of the cheerful and
amusing repast with 1 had expected,
with, what almost seemed something
like a daughter of my own by my side
which prognostic came perfectly
true It was a most uninteresting
assembly at the table a note, which was
served at small tables, very nice for a
family, bnt solitary for one person,
whr was thus made to feel beyond
doubt that she was dining absolutely
alone, though in sight of all the
world.
After dinner while I sat lonely over
my fire, feeling very tired, yet without
energy enough to go to bed, the mother
and daughter came to see me. Mrs.
Robertson, or rather Mrs. Hall bnt I
instinctively felt the same difficulty as
her child did about the name, which was
wholly ridiculous on my part, as I had
never heard of the woman before was
by no means of the perfect appearance
of ladyhood and gentleness which dis
tinguished her daughter. She was a
pretty woman, rather florid, with a
laughing, simple face; the kind of
woman one could not but like, but who
evidently was open to be married by
any schemer who chose, or to do any
thing which was warmly urged upon
ber, and which it could be made pleas
ant to do. She was dressed as like a
bride as a certain lingering sense oj
decorum and what was perhaps more
effectual consciousness that light
colors were not becoming to ber ample
figure, would permit her to be: her
hair built up on the top of her head in
all manners of puffs and bows (she had
pretty hair), and her gown made ac
cording to the last and most elaborate
ruler of fashion. How she had man
aged to exeroise so muoh good taste in
respect to her child, and to show so
little in herself, was what I could not
make out, and there was a mixture in
her of elation and nervousness which
was still more surprising to me. It
was evident tbat she was very proud of
ber new husband whom she quoted at
every moment. Colonel Hall had gone
to smoke bis cigar, "for you know,
nothing will ever make up for the want
of their smoke," she said (as if 1 either
knew or cared anything about it!)
Colonel Hall was the brother of Sir
Hubert Hall, "who had such a beauti-
ful place in Derbyshire; I am sure you
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must nave neara oi it. uoionei nun
bad a nephew with him who wonld
make it more oheerful for Eflie, "for
naturally at present, though it's so
silly of bim, he is mostly taken up with
me." All this was said with the bridle
and blush, the look of ostentatious
happiness and shy delight which is
either obnoxious or idiotic even in a
youDg bride: but in an elderly, or at
least middle-aged one, intolerable; and
yet the woman was so fresh, and natur
al, and kind so ntce in one word, that
one could not help liking her after all.
And in the midst of all the flatter of
pleasure and pride there was something
else, an occasional thrill of anxiety, a
sudden start at any sound "Do you
think that was Colonel Hall, Effie "
and "Hush, I thought I heard my
husband call" which showed me that
she was a little afraid of this brand new
possession of hers. She carried tie
girl off at last in a panic, after a furtive
glance at the clock, crying out, "Oh,
Effie. we must go, the Colonel will be
waiting," with clang of all the brace
lets and bangles with which she was
profusely hung about, which betrayed
something like a trembling. Effie gave
me a look which was full of wonder
and questioning, wistful, half frighten
ed, unsatisfied. It was evident tbat
she was very fond of her mother, but
not accustomed to be very reapeotf ul
of her, or confide in her judgment; and
be had no intention, poor child, of
asking me, stranger, what I thought,
Bat she could not keep the trouble and
the question out of her eyes.
CHAPTER II.
I am an old fool. Here I am still
fortnight later lingering on in a town
which I know by heart, every corner in
which, every church, every picture I
have seen till I am tired all on ac
count of the little girl whom I have
picked up at the station, a perfect
stranger, fifteen days ago.
In the first place, there is a kind of a
plot going on against the poor little
thing, which the mother, even if she
fully tees it, is powerless to prevent.
How can I prevent it, or do anything
at all in the matter you may well ask?
1 can't answer; and vet I keep on put
ting off my departure one day after
of use to Effie, who certainly doe's .ft VctU
cling to me as I scarcely could bm!.JJ
another, with a vague notion ol being
thought possible on so short
4 m ' i.f-i Alrl.! w-n 1
tied that gentlemen's character in my
mind. A ruined roue, orje of the sort
of people one sees about Monte Carlo,!.. ... r J
with, face full of records deep fur-
rows of dissipation dug .n it, and the ! Effi ' d j
look of one who perpetually turns night T " , " VhI7Vor,f.I
into dav; but yet a man who has always , mlnl ffi , Haliv
kept adoat somehow by good luck.good 1 8he g-J f J JJSSto whfch?I
frionHa nr tha rlnannration that tnakna " " . -
a courageous person surmount every
thing, iso mistaking me caste to wuicn
this man belongs, nor the sort of a i
,! i, .r.,1 n.K.hl.
never pays'. And he knows every
body, and does not seem to be cut by
anyone, so far as I have been able to
see; and as this place is on a very high
road to every where, of course a number
nf unifirf' twnnlA hflVA floated aprnsa
us.
he IB what he calls himself, and no ad
veutnrer. Some of my acquaintances,
however, who know him, have thrown
the light I expected on the situation.
'Where did Ned Hall pick np that wo
man? Is she very rioh? And what
does he have Freddy hanging about
him for?' one of them said to me. The
man who said this is a man whose ac
quaintances are many and various, and
who is not at ail Puritanical. That I
am one of them mytelf arises solely
irom me lact '""T" u?"
ever since he was born, and to do him
from the fact that he has known me I
ever Bince ne was uoru, uu.
justice he has no objection to decent
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pec nle. He gave me a bint. however.
1 wn ft a n V "If Vrti AQFA O rWifl C
as no wentawaj " '" 7
that htt e girl as you seem to do, get
her out of ed Hall s clutches as soon
a you CKU. uuw uu a c0 vu
of his clutches?'' said I; "he is her
stepfather, and I am a stranger. "
"Then mind jou keep her clear of
Freddy." said this oracle. How could
I keep her clear of Freddy? (What a
ridiculous custom that is, by the way,
of the "smart," to call all their own
kind by such familiar nameal Of
course, I could think of this young
man only as i reddy, as if I loved him.
man oniy rreaay,a .oveu mm,
7hflea?J k?eV0t g Ft ,
disliked his look extremely). But 1
did wnat was the only thing I could do.
I lingered on, much to Johnson's dis
eu" "J
me, orougut amrai oy one oi iuudocou-
ndences nmoug tne maids, wniou are
uaiiit; uiicrcaLOU, n't, nuu tusicwj ui
looking sulky threw herself into tffie's
interests heart and soul.
"Do you think Miss Drummond,"
she said to me one day, as she was get-
' ting something out of one of the boxes
! 1 had asked 'or it in fear and trem-
bing expecting every moment that John
' would ask me severely if it was my
wish that she should unpack every
thing, in this place where we bad in
tended to stay only two days? Bat in-
sieaaoi putting sucu an unanswerable
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question to me this was ail she said: .ch Mi8e DrnmmonJf" she said tbrow
"Do you think. Miss Drummond I j hergeIf down on the me
as our young lady u quite happy with1''h 8hock which mft(,8 the wallg
..wE f t k it
"V bat a question, Johnson, said I,
but very quietly, for my state of mind
was most conciliatory; "why ahouldn t
J she be happy with her mother? She
is very fond of her mother, 1 m
?iV . . .. -1 t i t he has set his heart on marrying Eflie
"That may be, said Johnson; she to f retiay ne saya if I oppose it I
was kneeling down with her head over1, uiiu r.i it; i ..11
the box, and sometimes was not very
audible in consequenoe. "There's nat
nral affection, of course, and I don't
say as I don't like Mrs. Hall myself.and
Miss Ferris (the maid of course), says
as a kinder person doesn't exist; but no
headpiece, aud that easy taken in."
Here there was a little lapse, or I should
not have allowed my maid to discourse i
noon the 1708B1D of the servanta. vou
may be sure W finally this came out!
, " . , ui "
M wW thetm' b"? "ft7 Ba 'n,1?U'
and the rich one is Miss tme.and that s
why the Colonel means to marry her to
his nephew right of.
Mounson, saiu j, severely -now
dare you come and talk to me of what
Mrs. Hall's maid or some other
ant "
"And that Master Freddy."
Johnson, going on with perfeot
Ber'
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COm-
j posure, as she lifted out the things
wanted and put them on the bed, "is a
bad lot."
"What can I do?" I cried in de-
spair.
Johnson had her back to me.
laying
out my things. "I know what I'd
do;
I'd ask her to come along of us
Naples, and a nice companion she'd be
be for you, too. And I'd pack and un-
Jack for her and do her hair, willing!"
ohnson said.
. I n AV T M At I noil n I riini! V
To sav that I had alreadv thou eh t of
thi8 plal Bnd inJeed had
it by 8eTerai nint8 and sngg
insinuated
it by several hints and suggestions, will
make it apparent to every one what a
greet comfort and relief it was to me
when Johnson "spoke up,'
own phraseology, like this.
t- use her
a put my
plans before Mrs. Hall that very day.
"I think," I said, "you have done
Milan so very completely, and Colonel
Hall seems to be longiug so for his
dear Riviera again, dou't you think
you could spare Effie to make a little
run with me further south?"
Eflie did not say anvthmg, but she
lilted hnr eyes to me with such thanks
in them! Her mother fidgeted and
grew nervons, though she put her hand
effusively on mine, as she had a way of
doing, and thanked me as the kindest
friend in the world,
"I am sure she would like it of all
things; but then bhe has never seen the
Riviera."
"Of course," said I, "we couli come
back that way."
"Oh, dear," said Mrs. Hall, I wish I
knew what to dot It would be such an
advantage to Effie to go with von, Miss
Drummond; but the Colonel has gron
so fond of her, and be would like to
show her Nice and all that coast him
self." "When we come back," I said.
"Oh," said Mrs. Hall again, "I wish
I knew what I ought to do!"
The reason why she thought it would
be an advantage to Effie to go with me
was, because I am what people call
well connected, and could introduce
the girl Into the society of a few lords
,'and ladies just as it was the great dis-
tiaotion of the Colonel that he was hail
fellow well met with all the titles at
Monte Carlo. And between these two
advantages, not to speak of the enor
mous influence of her new husband,
the poor lady did not know which was
befct. But her iubtinrt tol 1 her thut
Freddy was a danger from which her
little girl ought to be lit free. Mrs.
Hall's money had all come from trade;
her husband had been a wealthy manu
facturer. Ii is no unusual thing in
those circumstances to think a connec
tion with rank and fashion the most
desirable thing in the wot Id; bnt I
don't know how this really kind, simple
woman had been takeu possession of
by it. I discovered afterwards that
Johnson's communication was qnite
commercial circles), and that Efhe s
was the great foitune. Colonel Hal),
presumably, had made a mistake,
thinking his wife had everything and
the full disposal of the money, and now
was not ready with any reply.
"x think your mother la charming,
s - .
m fa V ,A. " la:
"Ah, isntshe,
he? jost as sweet as she
can be?" said the girl, with a flush of
pleasure; "and so pretty, don't you
think, and younger than I am, Miss
Drummond? Bat that is not an
answer to my question," the said very
gravely, looking me in the face.
TmLtTke
"tie is like so many men, ' raid 1,
a little
time to make oat what is individual in
him. But I am afraid I dont like the
nephew at alL"
"Oh, isn't he odious I" Effie cried.
And this was the young man who
was now constantly by her side. She
was never allowed to escape from hiin.
He sat next to her at the theatre,
gave her bis arm coming and going,
stood over her, bending down as if they
were having the most intimate of con
versations, when she sat down anywhere,
was ready to accompany her wherever
she went, to walk, with her, to talk with
. . . . ' ,i WK .
her to brin(? her flower8 .nd bonb ,ns,
.. P ..... , ,.,
vvery klwuuuij Hint tutoi vuum Ke.
He was not ill-looking, and he was well-
bred enough; and not unamusing. The
won u m t w
nnaccn8lom9d 6noh .tteution.did not
fall a victim to them; but there is an
instinct that sometimes (not always
heaven knows), protects the innocent.
Effie a very frank, little innocent girl,
thinking not yet of love at all, or,
rather, with a schoolboy's aversion
to it, than a romance on the subject,
could not endur9 this persecution. She
straggled with it, making a continual
effort to be free. Bnt what was
her j 8trenh .gain8t ro many?
r, at first, even her mother was 1
th i,;j !i I
am uw ativi warn, j w v., a w w
thinking it was a case ol love at hr?t
sight with Fred, her einple vanity
enchanted that her daughter should
so soon have fulfilled the chief end
of woman -or rather of girl. I dou't
know bo it was tbat light broke upon
her on the subject; but it did, overcom
ing both her love for, and the dread of
( her husband, which latter feeling in
creased day by day. Probably she heard
something from him at last, some un
guarded word which put Freddy's true
motives, and his uncle's meaning in an
unmistakable light. She came up to
me 1 was on the second floor, bat
ttey were au premier, living in tho
highest style. She looked like a
ghost - if such a thing as a portly ghost
-VM.V
could be conceived with
panting
breath tLa efttelt agitation,
tumble,
!)
what shall I do? what shall I
..what j. the matter?.. t CTled.
n ,,. m T t
The Colonel JhAS Rone doWnstairs to
smoke his cigar. Oh. Miss Drummond,
married m. And she
abhors bim and I don't like him my
self and what am 1 to do?"
"Dear Mrs. Ball, you are her only
protector, you must make a
staud for
J Will IfUIIUi
Against my husband!" cried the
woman wringing her hands
were so covered with
rings that
"Oh, how
' . i . a i
am I to make any Btand agaiist him?
,' and yet 1 know its only for her money,
nd she loathes the sight of him. Oh,
Mi Drnmmnnd. tll me. tll m. what
Miss Drummond, tell me, tell me, what
am I to do?"
'My dear Mrs. Hall, you must de-
fend Tour daughter
li t .,u,n,.
ho has nobody
else to protect her; surely that is the
first duty you can have."
"Oh!" she oried again, "you don't
know what it is to be divided between
Airrt anil fi a csiva aim vill Ka ilia nrn
, - . I" 7
x of fortune hunters wherever she goes,
' and that Freddy will take care of her.
Miss Drnmmond, you are so sensible.
, and you know those kind of people
I better than I do vou are one of them
you know, though you give yourself no
airs. Oh, Miss Drummond, would you
o sneak, lust one word to colonel Hall.'
One of the Monte Carlo set! it was very unlike her), an 1 had to hurry
not much of a compliment. But, to be bock to the hotel to fet-h it, and ret
sure, that was not what the poor lady ! ting in when the lights were nearly nil
meant. "How could I speak to him?" L
said, "how could I interfere when her
mother is here?
1 who am almost a
stranger? It is qnite impossible. I
would do anything for Effie, anything
but that. Aiet her como with me.
; That is the only thing to do, it would
cut the knot, if Master r reddy fol
lowed us, yon may be sure he would
get little encouragement from me."
"I thought of that," she said, sadly,
"but the Colonel would never allow it
I mentioned it, and it pnt him into
such a rage I don't mean, Miss Drum
mond, into a rage with me I but be can't
bear to be contradicted and he has so
set his heart on this. He says Freddy
will be a changed man with a nice wife
and that he is very fond of her;
. though he doesn't disguise that but for
her money And Freddy is Sir Hu
bert's son, Miss Drummond; his second
eon, bnt the eldest is very delicate.
And oh!" The poor woman clasped
her hands, and looked piteously into
my face.
"Bnt you have just told me that she
hates him. "
"That is true! that is true!" Bhe said,
"but do you think it always matters.
Miss Drummond, what a girl thinks?
one changes one's mind so, at that
age?''
"How do you think you could ever
bring her to consent?' J said; "and
besides, if yen married her to Freddy
Hall, you would never forgive yourself
aa long as you live."
She fell crying like a child while I
poke. "Ohf" ahe said, among her
sobs, "if I only could get her sent
home to her uncle, who would take
good care of her; but then all the posi
tion and all the advantages will bt
sacrificed that I've been slrugfling so
to secure for ber and she's such a
lady, qni'e a little priocss, isn't she,
Miss lrauimond? aud my pride has
been to get her into the best society.
Bat it's all mercantile, all manufactur
ing, such a different, different position
iu the north!''
"Do you think, Mrs. Hall, that Ef
fie would get into the b.-st society as
Freddy Hall's wife?"
She gave me a startled look. "He is
a baronet s son, and has the ve y be t
of connections," she said. But next
moment she started np at some imagin
ary sound. "Oh, I must go; the Col
onel must not think that I have been
talking it over with any one. Oh Miss
Drummond, if you wonld but say a
word to bim!" the poor lady cried.
Next day Effie came to me with
traces of tears about her eyes. She
looked sullen and dark, with a sort of
stubborn resistance in her, yet trem
bling too. She talked about nothing for
a little while, with difficulty, while I,
awaiting what I saw was o 'ining, made
no advance towards the one subject that
occupied our thoughts. At last she
burst forth; Miss Drummond, they
want to make me marry Freddy Hal.!"
abruptly, like a ebot from a gun.
"My dear," I said; "that he wan ted
it, and the Colonel wante 1 it, has b een
evident enough for some time past."
Uh, what do I care for what he
wants, or the Colonel! It's mother!
mother! she has not slept all night; and
she's been crying till you can scarcely
see the bine of her eyes, poor, poor
mammal And she favs what is she to
do? I think she thinks be will kill
her if I don't consent."
"But that is nonsense, Effie," said I,
"he may make her unhappy, but not
half as unhappy as she would be if you
did consent That is to say, my dear,
if von really feel that you could not
consent wit a a good grace." I said
this to save my conscience, for indeed,
it is true that girls at that a?e often do
not know their own mind; as bow
should they on such a subject, poor
littl things! She looked at me indig
nactly, the tears drying in her eyes
with the fire of her surprise.
"1 hate him," she said, "and so do
you. 1 know, 1 know you do. But
mother did say one thing; she said,
'Oh how I wish I could send you to
your uncle.' Now if I could get to my
uncle, I should he safe. Dear Alias
Drummond, you picked me up at the
railway; will you let Johnson take me
to the night train after everybody bis
gone to bed? I am sure I could slip
out, and nobody would see; and if she
pat me into a lady's carriage, the S ig
nore Sole, don't yon know, that one al
ways sees written np. I should have
nobody to meet me at the other end
tliia lima ' fiha raw! tha tnari VAllina
np in her eyes, "as I should have had
nobody here, but for von. But that
would not matter, for I have got, oh.
so much experience now. And when
Tnn ..,m .t 4rnv,i.
j wu ' AAA wvr usstw sjicav ktvuwav j v u
don t think of little things.'
Oh, the premature philosophy that
comes with 'ho first knowledge of the
world! A wild idea came into my
mi ad. At first it seemed too daring
and dreadful to be thought of, to take
such a responsibility; but then t save
the child from Buch a fate! "Eflie," I
said, "dry your eyes, and go down
st lira aud look as c lit erf ill as you ca j.
I have thought of something. Give
mo to-night to think it all over, aud
to-morrow I will tell you what I will
do."
Tbat evening Johnson and I had a
long consultation. I told ber that il
she ever breathed a word to any ser
vant in thA lion A. or. indeAd. to unv
J one for the next week I suould give
her instant notice, wages, and board
wages, and never speak to her again;
and then I unfolded my plan. 1 can
not tell the relief it was to mv mind
! when 1 found that Johnson had no ob
jection to make, if not that it was a
pity to lost the twenty-four hoars,
and tbat we had better start to-night
But this, I thought, was not at all the
wisest tiling to do. Accordingly, next
morning, I let everybody know that 1
was coin on to Rome and Naples, as
bad always been my intention, by the
niirlit tra n. I went solemnly down
ft. ;rt to Mrs. Hall, and told her all
my ila s, and repeated my invitation
to Eflie. The Colonel was present.
J which was exactly what I waited, ami
1 pressed it upon her how good it
wonld be for the child. The poor laly
looked at him and she looked at me.
with imploring eyes. "Oh, I wish,
wish we could let her go! It would be
such a thing for ber Dear Edward
don't you tbiuk for six weeks or so, at
Miss Drummond siys, we might lei
her go?" "Yon know it is perfectly
out of the question, with au the ar
rangements e h ive made," he replied.
' Bnt arrangements were made to be de
parted from, said i, "ot miue, an.
swered the Colonel and poor Mrs.
Hall cried and k used me and wished,
a id wished, but, seeing it could not be.
was glad to get rid of me and the dis
approval in mv eves.
Accordingly, Johnson and I and all
oar luggage started in time for. the
train to the south. There was anothei
train coina north, in short. fh thronirh
, train to Paris and England, a few
hours lat.T. And it happened tbat
I Johnson forcot something (which was
out, by special favor of the nndei
porter, who was a great f i tend of hers.
found what she wanted, almost in the
dark, at the top of the first flight of
stairs, and, hurryin off to her cai, be
fore even tbe under porter could fol
lowto help her, brought to me what she
ha I gone to fetch which was nothing
lets than Effie: very white, very much
excited, yet composed, and with all h r
wits about her as when I saw her first.
I need scarcely add that the train we
ent bv was the tram to Paris, and
!., ii..;n .t,.i .
IUBI UJ MUUUl KUHT 1'in.im nit wo " VJ . 1 1
a . i.,. u ,n unl.oH Pim'.n.l
" " in. "i! ' -- -'".") "Ul 1
una i
and more than that Lancashire
where I had the satisf iction of placing
her, as perfect a litt'e well-bred person '
as ever,' with scaroely a sign npon her
of her long journey, in her Uncle't
hands. He inhabited a handsome biq
bouse, in a beautiful country, witii
gardens and grounds and every luxury
though it was so near a great town:
and had an air of wealth which was not
obtrus'vo a person altogether of most
reassuring and satisfactory appearance.
Half-a-dozen Colonel Halls I could
well see would not get that child out of
Mr. Kobertson's hands.
And was this all I ever saw of Eflie,
between two railways as it were, flit
ting in and out of my life? 1 saw a
great deal more)of her, and her further
story was by no means without interest,
and'ended very pleasantly; bnt of this
no more can be said here. Colone
Hall, I believe, telegraphed all over (he
country, to Florence and. to Home tc
top us, but as we had not gone in that
direction, these telegraphs did ua nq
barm.
WOBLD'S FAIR.
TBB WORLD S COMOBKSS ACXTXiIABT.
This constitutes the intellectual and
moral branch of the Exposition. Its
motto is, "Not Matter, but Mind," and
it is organized to provide for the pre
sentation, by papers, addresses and
discussion, of the mental aud moral
status and achievements of tbe human
rice. Under its auspices, a series of
congresses will be held in Chicago dur
ing the progress of the Exposition, in,
which, it is already assured, will partic
ipate a great many of the ablest living
representatives in the various fields of
intellectual effort and moral endeavor.
The Auxiliary embraces between fif
teen and twenty main Departments,
such as Literature, Government, Ed
ucation, Music, Science, Art, Engi
neering, etc., in each of which are
sulHlivibiona. A programme is being
arranged for congresses in each of
these Departments and divisions, in
which specialists and advanced think
ers may participate in discussing the
vital and important questions, and pre
senting the best and latent achieve
ments of tbe human mind in each.
Dnrine the Exposition tbe Auxiliary
will have the use of a magnificent per
manent Art Palace, which the Chicago
Art Institute, aided by tbe jL.xpoa.tion I
Directory, is about erectiug on the
lake front. This will have two larc
audience rooms, each of 3,500 capacity,
and from twenty to thirty smaller
rooms, of capacity ranging from 3U0
to 750. The great Auditorium will also
be utilized for tbe larger congresses
nd numerous other halls are available
when required. Facb congress will be
supervised by a committee of persons
actively interested in its peculiar held.
acceptance of such responsibility hav
ing already been given. The prospects
are that fully 100 congt esses altogether
will he held. It is the intention to
publish their proceedings in enduring
form. Detailed information concern
ing the Auxilia-y, or any of its Depart
ments or divisions, can be obtained oi
its president, Charles C. Bonney.
TBB BOARD OF LADY MANAGERS.
The participation of women in the
Exposition promises to be one of its
most interesting as well as novel fea
tures. With a commodious and impos
ing building, designed by a young
ludy architect, and with an abundance
of monev, and with full recognition.
and aid by the L nited Suites Uovern
ment and the Exposition Directory,
the w imen have an opportunity of
showing in most signal manner, the
condition of their sex throughout the
world, what are the achievements of
woman in the various branches of hu
man endeavor, and what if her adapta
bility to different occupations and
lines of industrial and charitable
work. Under the direction of the
Board's president Mrs. Potter Palmer
the work of tbe organization, and of
enlisting the interest of women
throughout tbe t nited States and in
foreign countries, has progressed to a
most satisfactory stage.
PROGRESS OF CONSTRUCTION.
The actual erection of the Exposi
tion buildings began in June, 1891.
Now all of them are being pushed rap
idly towards completion. Already sev
eral are under root. About 4,000
workmen are employed- Work pro
ceeds day and night.
Women's building. This is farthest
advanced of all. It is roofed aud al
most completely exteriorly. Covered
and adorned with "staff," it appears
like a marble palace. The furnishing
of the interior is proceeding.
Mines building. Tbe framework is
up, and finishing touches are being
pnt on the iron and glass roof. The
"staff" is being applied.
Electricity. Framework completed
up to gallery floor, and nearly all of
the great steel trusses for the roof in
place.
Horticulture. The pavilions are up
to the roof line. The west curtain is
roofed and windows are being placed.
Tbe iron work of the dome is being
put in position.
Transportation. Framework practi
cally completed, as also roof sheathing
over galleries. Clear-story trusses are
being raised. -
Administration. Structural work of
tho four pavilions completed and ex
terior covering being applied. Iron
work in place up to base of dome, 170
feet from ground.
Machinery Hall. Floor and 0.000
supporting piers completed; super
structure going up, and foundation for
annex being laid.
Agriculture. Interior columns and
gallery girders and joists in position,
and tho gre it iron columns supporting
the roof being placed. Of tho 7,000,
000 feet of lumber which the building
will contain, more than half is already
utilized.
Manufactures and Liberal Arts.
The thirty aud one-half acres of floor
ing are laid, and the superstructure is
begun. The hnge steel trusses for the
roof, which together will contain more
metal, by 50 per cent, th n the Brook
lyn hridgp, s ill soon be raised.
Art Galleries. Basement and floor
are completed, and the brick walls
have reached an average height of ten
feet above the second floor. More than
5,0X),0t)0 brick are already laid.
Fisheries. The gallery trusses of
the main building are placed, and the
iron framework of both pavilions is
completed.
Forestry. This is about throe
fourths niii. he 1, and will be occupied
bv the model makers until spring,
when the outside rustic work will be
put on, and the temporary roof will be
replaced bv a thatched one.
Dairy. All the columns are up to
the roof line, and the gallery floor is
being laid.
Work on tbe Illinois State building
and on the U. S. Government building
is being pushed rapidly. The imita-
i lion paitiesuip is oompietea vo we
completed
i -
deck level.
Insurance is placed and inoreased on
the buildings as their construction
proceeds. The amount now carried is
above $1,000,000. During the Exposi
tion, it is estimated, not less than
$150,000,000 or $200,000,000 of insur
ance will be cariied on the buildings
and exhibits.
All possible precautions are taken
against fire. The Exposition grounds
are already provided with a full equip
ment of fire engines and apparatus.
In the construction of the buildings
about 60,000,000 feet of lumber and
18,0:0 tons of steel and iron will he
used. In their adornment will be util
ized nearly 84,000 pieces of ornamental
"staff" work, of which about oue-lhird
are already completed.
If toc seek rect in this life, how wilt
thou then Attain to the everlasting rest?
Dispose not thyself for much rest, but
for great patience. Seek true peace
not in earth, bnt in heaven; not in
men, nor any other creature, but i
Uxalon,
NEWa IX BRIEF.
Mexico dentists pull a tooth for
12.
There are CS7 languages spoken in
Europe.
Tonatoes wore not cultivated seventy-five
years ago.
The co I bank of Xewfoundland is
six hundred mile.' long.
Fresno, CaL, boast of a 45 pound
sweet putato.
The better class of tlie Phillipplce
Islanders smoae cigars a fojt long.
Ths Brit:sh Parliament has met at
eleven places besides Westminster.
An avenge acre or grass newly
mowed weighs nearly two and one-half
tons.
ITarry W. Wood, of Lansing, Mich.,
dislocated his shoulder while stretching
himself.
CiHgula, the Roman Emperor,
caused a poet to be thrown to the wild
beasts of the arena,
Apples were worth from 12 J to 25
cents each in the reign of Henry VII,
of England.
In the Solomon Islands the market
quo atlon on a "good quality'' wife Is
10,000 cocoa nuts.
Tbe Kuss'.an Government will lend
the Central Famine Cimmiltee $25,
000,010 ithout interest.
Immense flocks of crows have ex
terminated the grass-hopper pest in
some parts of California.
The Persian carpets which adorned
the halls of the Suah's Palace at Tehe
ran have been in use for 200 years.
taeen "Victoria's crown kept with,
other royal reg.ilia under stroug guard
at the old tower. Is worth about $6iX),
003. A deer was shot in a Bohemian
forest, on whose bead was a huge ball
of bone or bonis in the place of th
usual antlers.
Kennebunk, Me., claims tbe young
est grandfather iu tbe State, in the per
son of David Parent, who Is only thirty
six years of age.
Humboldt County, California, hai
a population of 33,000 aud $17,000,0JU
taxable wealth, but it is unconnected
with the woild by railroads.
- 15. ink notes In Austria-Hungary are
printed on one tide in German, and tb
oi her in M.tgyar, for the benefit of tbe
UuDgariaus.
The Orst vessel launched by tbs
early American colonists was the Bless
ine of the Btv, laun hed in Massachu
setts Bay, July 4, 1631.
Four skeletons of giants have been
unearthed nt-ar Florence, Ma Th ;re is
a tradition that four mule loads of gold
are buried In the same vicinity.
Fire-proof and time-proof books,
w th leaves and covers of sheets of as
brStos, and prlntlug in gold aud allvex
letters, have been sugeted.
Venezuela has Ofty-six hoi Id ay I
every vear. Oa th-se occasions tbe
p ople close their stores aud enjoy them
selves In chick -n fights and other tropi
cal amusemeLts.
Monev loaned to Luke Hayden, of
Torrington, In 1801. was recently paid
into tbe Connecticut School Fund. Six
times tne amount of the original loan
has been paid In inter-st.
The total area of bog land in Ire
land Is 2,810.000 acres, of which 1,.
254,000 is mountain bog, and the other
is available for fueL The av
erage thickness of the peat Is twelre
leet, .
A house in Dedham, Mass., built
in 1535, Is occupied by a family, tbede
S' tndants of the ong nal builder.
They appreciate the antiquity, and will
show visitors all through it for 2j
cents.
The Persian Government has abol
ished the tobacco monopoly, lnedmni
fyini the company and permitting It a
monopoly of export. Tbe priests forced
tu.s by forbidding tlie people to
smoke.
A mulatto servant named Robert
Smith, who died lu St. Louis Mo., ra
eenlly, had been employed for many
years as "hat man'' in a hotel, where
his surprising memory entbled him K
furnish every gutst who left the din
ng room with bis proper headgear. ''
The report from the new artesian
well In Huron, South Dakota, show
that it is the most wonderful weU
known to exist. The water spouts ui
a distance of HO feet, a d the amount
flowing from tho well is estimated at
8000 to 40,010 gallons per minute.
In Boktan they talk of a band ol
English crusaders who strayed awa)
from their lea lers about 1150, A, D.,
and settle! in Kurds'an, and mingling
their bliod with the native stock, so
tbat it Is ra-'gerous for the Britons to
be too severe about the fault of th
Kurds.
A curiosity has been found In a
Alpena county, Mich., wood. Two
hemlock tree, the trunks of which art
fifteen inches 11 diameter, are growini
six feet apart. At the height of tec
feet from the ?rouml the trunks unite,
forming an arch and then forma slngli
setm eighty feet high.
The creature having the greatest
number of distinct eyes is tbe chiton, I
species of mclluse, In the shell of which
has been found as many as 11,000 sep
arate and dls'inct eyes.
Bv an act of the British Parliament
which was passed March 20. 1P67, and
came into force June 1 of that er,tht
C inadian province", Omario and Que
bec and New Brunswick and Nova Sco
tia, were federally united into one Do
minion of CanaJa.
In Nicaragua, Central America,
the statues of the godf were generally
p aced at the foot of the pyramids,
while the native fathers north placed
theirs at the summit or in temples.
While hieroglyphics are common ou
dols, walls and pottery, yet t':e patint
researches of our arcliKlogist havi
recovered but little of the man
ners and habits of tbeie abori
gines. Jumbo, a horse owned by a Savir
nock shipbuilder. Is said to be the lar
g st horse ui Connecticut.. He I nearlj
seven teet high and weighs 1700 pounds.
Hp Is a power! ul animal, and has drag
ged with apparent ease a two ton load.
With tbe children he Is a great favorite.
It costs a good de tl to feed him, a bt
lias eight pecks ot oats a', each meal and
makes away with two hundred poundi
3f hay every week. His shoes are ol
unutual size aud weigh four poundi
sach.
Acookdeo to rumor, the Pope i
said to have conola led to buy the en
tire Borghese Gallery, on the BtrengU
of an agreement by which that cele
krated art collection will become the
nrofsv'J' of the Vatican.
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