THE TIMES NEW BL00MF1ELD, PA.. JULY 29, 1870
AUNT CORNELIA'S PLAN.
ACOSIEU plane than the big sitting
room at Hill-crest would have
been hard to And, If one had traveled
from Land's End to Joan O'Clront's ;
and this eventful evening, when the
destinies of two worthy people were
about talking definite form two people
who had never seen each other, and
who had heard of each other so often
that each were curiously eager to meet
on this important evening the sitting
loom at Hill-crest had never looked
pleasanter or cosier.
A huge pile of logs glowed like mol
ten carbuncles In the open fireplace;
on the tabl6 in the centre of the floor,
whose color matched the glowing crim
son of the carpet, was a silver stand that
held a dozen snowy wax tapers, whose
beaming light contrasted exquisitely
With the ruddy glow of the Are.
Beside the table, In a big cushioned
chair, with his feet thrust towards the
genial warmth on the hearth, his gray
dressing-gown sitting comfortably on
his portly form, his gold rimmed glasses
on his nose, sat the owner and master
of lllllcrest, Mr. Abiah Cresslugton,
ilcb, good natured, and fond of his own
way. Opposite him was the mistress of
the little place little, shrewd faced,
sharp nosed, merry Aunt Cornelia, his
sister, who, since her widowhood, had
come to lllllcrest to make her bachelor
brother's home as pleasant as she could.
That she had succeeded was very evi
dent by the way now in which he look
ed up from n letter he had been reading
the confidential, kindly way in which
he did it.
" Walter writes a curious letter in re
sponse to my invitation to come and
spend a few weeks at Hillcrest as soon
as he gets over his fatigue from his
ocean voyage home, after his five years
aboard. I'll read It to you."
He leaned near the softly glowing
Sights, and began the short, concise re.
ly that Walter Austin had written
from his chamber In the Temple :
" You nre very kind indeed, Uncle
Ablah, to ask me down to Hillcrest for
as long as I wish to stay, and I can as
sure you that I have been bo long a wan
derer that the Idea of home is very
pleasant to me. But when I take into
consideration the peculiar importance
you propose attaching to my visit, I am
unwilling to accept the invitation. To
me, the idea of having my fancies and
inclinations put into harness, and to feel
that I am on continual duty to win my
way into the good graces of my second
cousin, Mabel, whom you are good
enough to wish me to marry "
Mrs. Cornelia interrupted Bharply :
" Ablah, you never surely went and
told our grandnephew that you had In
view his marriage with Mabel ?"
Her tone was energetic, almost repre
henslve. " Why not V I certainly did. I told
him in my letter that it was a chance
for him he'd never get again, and that
he needn't feel under such terrible obli
gations to take a fancy to Phil's little
Mabel, but to come down and be cousin
ly, and if anything should happen, lt'd
be right all round."
Mrs. Cornelia knitted vigorously, her
lavender cap-ribbons quivering in the
mellow taper glow. '
" All I have to say Is, you're a fool,
Ablah I Walter is right. A young man
doesn't like to have his fancies under
rein and whip and the very fact that we
want him to marry will make him In
disposed to do it. You've made ajvery
great mistake In the beginning.''
Mr. Cressington looked aghast at his
sister's determined face.
" Why, I really didn't suppose"
" Of course you didn't. It's only
your natural stupidity, you dear old fel
low! Men are all alike. Don't I know
them like a book V And you've ruined
your hopes for Mabel and Walter at the
very outset."
Mr. Cressington stared discomfltedly.
"I am sure I meant It all right
enough ; Cornelia. I certainly wanted
Walter to know what a little darling
our Mabel Is, and what a nice little wife
she would make for any man."
" Very commendable, indeed; only, If
you had consulted me upon the letter
you sent, I should have advised you to
say nothing about Mabel, or her charms,
or her expectations. I should have sim
ply asked him to come and see ub, and
have left the rest to Mabel's blue eyes.
You see, Ablah V"
His lips compressed slowly.
" I think I see ; and my hopes in that
direction are all ruined 1"
The silver needles clicked rapidly, and
the snow white yarn came reeling mer
rily off the ball under her aim.
" Not at all. Leave that to me, and
I'll see what can be done. Trust a
woman's wit to get even a blundering
old fellow like you out of a scrape."
She smiled and nodded, and looked al
together so mischievous that Mr. Cres
sington became quite excited over her
little mystery.
' . " Do explain, Cornelia."
' And when she explained he leaned
back in his chair with an expression of
positive awe and admiration on his
face.
" What a woman you are, Cornelia 1
I declare, It beats anything I ever heard
in the whole course of my life."
After duBk a glorious winter day, with
here and there a star twinkling in the
pale gray sky, and the lights and fires In
the Hillcrest sitting-room making an
eloquent welcome to Walter Austin, as
he stood In the midst of the home circle,
tall, gentlemanly, handsome and self
possessed. Old Mr. Cressington was in his richest
humor as he led.forwurd two young
girls.
" Come, don't be shy now. Walter,
this Is your cousin, Mabel Cressington,
and this is her good Mend and insepara
ble companion, Irene Vance, come to
help entertain you. My nephew, Wal
ter Austin, girls. And this Is Aunt
Cornelia you Remember her well
enough, hey ?"
And so the presentation was merrily
gotten over, and Walter found himself
at home in the most pleasant family he
had ever known.
They were remarkably pretty girls,
with blue eyes although Miss Vance's
were decidedly the deeper blue and more
bewitching and lovely yellow gold
hair. Walter found himself admiring
the style of Miss Vance's coiffure before
he had known her an hour ; and when
he went up to his room that night he
felt as If between the two, roguish Mabel
and sweet little Irene, he never would
come out heart whole.
' For Mabel Is a good little darling,"
thought he, " and I will take great-uncle
Ablah 's advice and fall In love with
her, and thereby secure a generous slice
of the Cressington estates. Egad I that's
a happy thought."
But the handsome young gentleman
went to sleep and dreamed, instead of
Mabel's laughing eyes, of Irene's gentle,
tender ones, and awoke somewhere In
the middle of the night, unable to get to
sleep again for thinking of her.
And the after days were not much bet
ter. Despite the golden value of Mabel,
there was something about Irene Vance
that made this headstrong fellow very
indifferent to the advice he had sworn to
follow.
" Because, by Jove 1 a fellow would
have to be made out of granite to resist
the Bweet, shy ways of such a little
darling as Irene. And I'll marry her if
she'll have me, and the money and
property may go to the dogs. I've a
head and a pair of hands, and blue-eyed
Irene shall not suffer."
It was an hour later that he met her
in the the hall, carrying great bows of
holly, with which to festoon down the
walnut staircase.
" Give me your burden Irene," Bald
he. "Why did you not tell me you
were going to gather it, and let me go
with you V It is altogether too heavy a
burden for your arms to bear."
He managed to get the lovely sprays
from her arms, but it required an Im
mense amount of tardy effort on his
part, and shy, sweet blushing on hers.
"Answer me, Irene. Why didn't
you let me go with you t Wouldn't
you have liked it V"
He demanded her answer in the most
captivating, lordly way, and she drop
ped her eyes In great confusion.
"Y-e-s."
' " Then why were you so cruel to
me"-
" I am not cruel to an ybody. Indeed
I must go now."
Walter placed himself squarely in the
way, and was looking down on her rose
tinted face.
"No, you can't go yet. Irene, you
are cruel, or you wouldn't never deprive
one of the opportunity to enjoy the
blessedness of your society." His voice
lowered tenderly, and he dropped his
head nearer her golden curls. " You
know I think it cruel in you to be so
distant and shy and reserved with me
don't you, Irene V"
She shrank away, her lovely form
drooping like a lily, her cheeks hanging
out their signals of distress and con
fusion. " Oh, please don't talk so to me. In
deed I must go 1 Mabel is waiting for
the " holly, and she they won't like it
if"
But she was a prisoner in his tight
clasp.
" If what? If they find you and me
talking so confidentially together V"
" No, I mean if I don't take the holly
at once." ,
Walter put his arm around her waist
before she 'knew what he was doing.
" Irene, look up. You shall not go
until you let me see in your eyes if you
love me as well as I love you 1 Irene,
my dear little girl, I love you very
dearly."
She was silent for one second, and he
saw the quiver of her lips. Then she
raised her bead slowly, shyly.
" You love me Y Oh , Walter, what
will they all say K Don't you know it
is Mabel you should Bay that to ? I am
nobody, Walter, and Mabel Is an
heiress."
Walter had both arniB around her by
this time, and was looking ardently In
her glowing face.
" I know Mabel Is an heiress, and a
nice little girl, and I also know you are
a darling my darling and the only
girl I ever asked to be my wife, or ever
shall ask I Bay yes, pet."
His tones were low and tender, but
triumphant.
" And you can deliberately give up so
much for only Just me V"
Her wondrous eyes met his bravely
now, and thrilled him with the love
light In them.
" Only just you, my darling I Why,
you are more than all the world to me !
Come, we will go tell Uncle Ablah at
once. Just one kiss first you must."
And he had more than one or two be
fore he led her, blushing, with tears
trembling on her lashes, like diamonds
on a golden thread, to Uncle Ablah.who
sat In his library with Cornelia, indus
triously looking over a receipt book.
They looked up In surprise as Walter
marched In, Irene on his arm, a picture
of confusion.
" If you please, Uncle Ablah, I want
your blessing and cordial consent to re
ceive this little girl for your nelce. I
love her and she loves me."
Uncle Ablah looked shrewdly over
his glasses at Mrs. Cornelia. "
" Well, sister, what shall we say to
this youth's demand V"
A broad smile of perfect delight was
on her merry face.
" Bay f Why, tell them yes, and wel
come ; and let them know their Aunt
Cornelia Isn't a fool If their Uncle Ablah
is."
Walter looked astonished, and felt
Irene's hand tremble on his arm.
"What is it, dear?"
She Binlled through her tears as she
looked into his inquiring eyes.
" Oh, Walter, I am afraid you will be
angry. I am Mabel, after all, and
and-"
" And you have made love to your
cousin, the heiress, in spite of yourself,
my boy 1 Bo Hillcrest Is a foregone fate,
after all, eh?"
" Don't scold, please, Walter ?" Mabel
plead, in a low voice, with her blue
eyes looking into his.
" As if I could Bcold you, my love 1
Since I have you, what need I care ?"
And Mrs. Cornelia turned over the
leaves of the receipt book until she
came to "wedding cake," and avers that
she made the match herself.
He "Squoze" Her Hand."
AN OHIO merchant tells the follow
ing old story about himself.
Where he lives is a secret, except that
it is not a mile and a half from the
Xenla court-house:
" When I was about seventeen years
old I made a trip to Cleveland in the
old fashioned stage coach, with its
spanking four horses. At Mount Ver
non, about 4 P. M., a pretty girl came
aboard. She sat on the back seat, next
to an elderly farmer-like looking man.
I was on the middle seat immediately
in front of her. I soon struck up a
pleasant chat with her. She was a
charming talker, and almost as brilliant
as she was pretty.
" It looked as If we were mutually
pleased. When dark came I concluded
there would be no harm in giving her
hand a gentle squeeze by way of a
feeler. I reached behind and got hold
of the hand.
" I was a little startled at the hard
ness, but it returned a vice-like pressure.
I squoze again and it squoze back. A
sense of disappointment would steal over
me when in my mind I would contrast
the seeming toughness of her band with
the tenderness and sweetness of her
voice. The contrast did not seem to
arterlalize ray blood quite up to the point
of exhilaration.
"At last she reached her destination
and left the coach. After we had started
again that old rooster who sat beside
her addressed me thusly :
" 1 Young man, do you feel all right ?
You had a nice time tugging at my old
paw for the last five miles ; hope you've
enjoyed it.'
"The young ladles in the front seat
giggled all the way to the next station,
and the gentlemen passengers didn't
forget to smile when I looked up. I have
been more successful since in that
line."
A Nystery of the Great Lake.
There Is a mystery about the Ameri
can lakes. Lake Erie is only from six
ty to seventy feet deep. But lake On
tario is 592 feet deep, 230 below the level
of the ocean, or as low as most parts of
the Gulf of St. Lawrence; and the hot
torn of lakes Huron, Michigan, aud
Superior, although the surface is much
higher, are all from the vast depths on a
level with the bottom of Ontario. Now,
as the discharge through the river De
troit, after allowing for the probable por
tion carried off by evaporation, does not
appear by any means equal to the quan
tlty of water which the three upper
lakes receive, it has been conjectured
that a subterrauean river may run from
lake Superior, by Huron, to lake Ou
tario. This conjecture Is not impossible
and accounts for the singular fact that
herring are caught in all the lakes
communicating with the St. Lawrence,
but no others. As the falls of Niagra
must have always existed, It would puz
zle the naturalist to say how these fish
got into the upper lakes without some
subterranean river; moreover, and
periodical obstruction of the river would
furnish a not Improbable solution of the
mysterious flux and reflux of the lakes.
Juvenile Smoking.
Among the smokers In general it
rarely happens that the habit is com
menced at a middle or late period of
life. Most men who smoke at all have
contracted the habit between their fif
teenth and twentieth year ; and like all
other habits, good or bad, contracted at
such a time It Is one which is difficult to
eradicate. There is no valid excuse for
juvenile smoking. A man pleads habit,
the soothing efl'ect of tobacco, and so
on. But a boy smokes because he sees
others do so, and because he looks upon
smoking as a manly practice. He
knows that it does him no good ; indeed,
in the mojorlty of cases, boys know that
their first attempts at smoking made
them very ill, and the tolerance of the
effects of the tobacco was obtained only
after long practice and many disagree
able sensations. The mental power of
many a boy is certainly weakened by
tobacco smoking. The brain under Its
Influence can do less work, and the
dreamy feeling which is produced tends
directly to idleness. For all reasons it
is desirable that our rising generation
should be abstainers from tobacco.
Soon Satisfied.
They were an Eastern couple. They
had strolled in the moonlight, and
swung on the gate,and stood at the front
door, and sat on the sofa, and and, Ac,
for many months. They had dreamed
the old dream of love together ; they
had also munched numerous pints -of
peanuts and eaten considerable ice
cream. The fact is they had been lov
ers. But when they went and married
or rather they thought they did ; for
after two weeks of this suppositious
life, it was discovered that, through a
technical mistake, the nuptial knot had
never been really tied, and the marriage
was therefore void.
Of course this created considerable
consternation and horror in the new
household. The young man wanted to
hurry oft without an.lnstant's delay and
have the ceremony legally performed,
but the maiden, upon consideration,
concluded that the denouunent was not
so unfortunate after all. Two weeks of
married life had cured her, and thanks,
she believed she would go back to her
mother. And she went. Louisville
" Courier Journal."
How He Knew Him.
Dr. M-
-, an eminent divine of the
Church of Scotland, lately visited the
Paris exhibition. Shortly after his ar
rival in the gay metropolis.an Irishman
came running up to him on the street,
crying out :
" Och, blessings on ye, Dr. M
How are yez?"
" I am very well," replied the doctor,
rather dryly.
" And when did yez come to Paris ?"
" Last week. But how did you come
to know me ?"
" Give me a shilling, and I'll tell yez."
The doctor, curious to know how the
fellow found his name out, gave him a
a shilling, and was answered by the
Irishman :
" Sure, then,I saw your name on your
umbrella."
A Novel Cure.
Tom Johnson, of the poor house, has
a faculty of getting considerable work
out of the Inmates under his charge
There was one who made up his mind
not to work at all, although he was
capable of doing considerable. To avoid
it he kept in bed and made out to be ill,
demanding the attention of the pbysi
clan. That gentleman stated there was
nothing the matter with him. Tom
thought he could cure him and the other
night placed a coffin in his room. When
the old man awoke the first thing that
met his gaze was the "wooden overcoat"
which stood at the foot of his bed. This
seemed to animate him. He arose early,
dressed himself and informed Tom that
he thought he was better and asked the
steward if there wasn't something he
could do around the house. He has been
busy ever since. Dubuque Herald.
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