HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Sentinel, 1882-02-03, Page 6of the:bevy of .girls Wirt, were ere long to
- _ invade hiasanotum. t
The shlre of: she ratiure Lim" by a " Something for you, air The lady will
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• , Eidetic lEye. • ••waft for an ansWer,"1. timid- his office boy,
A London cablegram, says the following passing to his maatei a little note, and
apPears in this week's Par.iclt .
, THE_ snip_ or THE: yulaiRE- ." . _11" 5'°dF0-dlinlogwrga:trlidet_hditirsOtrot inlioated„ , the
.
.Sir William Armstrong, -srieaking on nautical do:Arm-saw near his EltOr an old-fashioned
defence, advocated light, swift ships, onl/ one. -horse Waggon, such as is still- occasion,
partiany armored,. with very heavy guns,- whic
he 'considered to ba far supenor to•itoncladts. .ally. :seen in. New` - it.ngland - among the
:•• It wasa gallantcaptain; 'armors who till the hatralio-soil and -rarely
And he sailed:11P= the sea; . i ind:nlge in anything net'. - On this occasion
Quoth tie : "-The limbering ironclacls - it was a square -boxed .dark -green waggon,
- Gan ne'er get hold of me.
I steam ranch faster than them all,
• So in the tithe of War, • •
•,1,111-6'mply pour a broadside in
And then ily off afar.
I can carry heavy nietal„toor
The newest of new guns,
The playthings that are rated
• A simple hundred tons.
• They'll go through every- armorplate
Like paper, such their power,
• And having fired, we'll steam away
At sixteen knots an hour,
: And should the enemy hit me .
" ICS easy. to divine-. •
*.With engines and, with boilers placed.
_Below my water line. -
They'll hardly toil& a vital part..
, Constructed as S am; -
'While am free to -charge at them .
• And use my deadly- ram. •
I ntlight and I m...unarmored,
•- Save just where ray guns are placed ;
For; like a joy. ata_weli lothinecipe"4'D4's'. ,,rsod.thmatadilts iietaai.nto
Protected at -the waist.
Before me shall each iron -clad
In fright giva up the ghost,
And Englfuicts2wooden: walls again
shalt be the standing toast."
drawn by a, sorrel hors, semetireee called
• by -the germine Xarikee "yellow,". and
driven by a white -1 rel man, whosesilvery
looks, falling _around his wrinkled. • face, -
gave him a pleasing, Patriarchal: appea,r-
ande,,whieli interested the dootOr far more
than did: the- iintter Of the blue ribbon
, beside him even. though the -bonnet that
• ribbon tiedehaded thn face 6f -a young girl.
- The note was from .-her, • and tearing it
open, thedoctor read, in a, pretty, girlish
,„ .
handwriting: ;•; •
• ” HOlbrook." t • *' • ,
Here it -Was plainly :visible:that " D
• had been Written as if she would have said
.1", Dear.", Then, evid.ently olitinging her
• mind, she had -'with he , finger blotted out
• Dr. HoLBROoK--BM : Will you be at
_leisure to examine me on Monday after -
- noon, at three o'clock?
. itifik:DELINn Clime.
• E ROY LA ; "Ts- Pe ---For particular reasons, I hope-
you.can attend to met aaearlas- Monday.
• ••
A SOCIUTy NOyETI, . - - ---
-M. A.. C." •
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'• - Dr: Holbrook knew Very . little of '-girls
By the author of "Eith Lyle," "Mildred' and their peculiaritiee, hut he thought this
. . note, with its .. P. $-, . decidedly girlish;
" Forrest House;" "Chateau. d'Or,” etc. .
. clE[ApTER L ; ' - Still he made no coinMeht, either verbal or
,
-mental, SO flurried was he_with the thought
• • TM =lame hOmn,rrEE.- •that the evil.he SO Midi dreaded hid come
•
Twenty-five years ego .the people Of upon him at. .
last Had it been left- to his
Devonshire, a little town among the New choice, he would. fat rather have -extracted
England hills, had the reputation of being every one of Madeline OlyVs teeth, than
rather: quarrelsome. SoMetimes about have set himself: hp. beihre her as Seine
•meek, gentle BIM Tiverton, the minister's herrid ogre, asking lwhat • she knew -and
wife, whose manner of housekeeping, or ,what she did not .knoW. But the choice
Styleof dress, did not exactly suit them; was not his, and,.turinhlit lasttothe toy,
sometimes about. the minister. hitneelf, Who- he said shortly, “. her to eome."
vainly imagihed.that if he preitahed three, -Moat -men wpuldi 1.4ve sought for a
sermons-awe:3kt _attended the_ Wednesday _glimpse of -the face under the bonnet tied.
eiening prayer meeting, the Thursday with blue, butDr. HOlhiPek did tot -Care a
eveningsewing society, visited all the sack, picayune Whether it Were .ugly or tali,
- and-gm,e-toeverylegger that cane:tat his though it_ did- strika.him_MiaCthe_vtlieOtas
door, lbesides Superintending the &may singularly sweet, whieh,; alter the .boy had
- Scheer he was earning his. salary of six - delivered the message, said. to the old Man,
hundred per year. - • "Oh, I am so glad, grandpa, we'll go
SoMetitnes, and that was not rarely, hom.e. I know you must be tired.".
the- quarrel crept- into the choir, andthen.. Very slowly , Sorrel -trate(' - down the'
for two orthtee. Sundays -it was all in Vain street, the. blue ribhonii flattering in the
that hIr._ Tiverton -read the psahli and wind, and. one little Um' letved hand carefully
hymn,. and. cot troubled glances toward. adjusting about the old Mates shoulders the
the. vacant seats Of his refractory sin4ers. ancient -camlethloak*Iiihh had done 'duty
There was no one to respond, except poor for many a year, and Was needed on thie
. Mr. Hodges, who usually Selected some, chill- April day. - The dc -tor saw all this,.
thing in a -minor key, and pitched ,it BO and . the ircipression left Upon his reind.Was,
high that few could follow him; whileMrs. .-that Candidate .No. Was -probably a !dee
• CaptEdn Simpson -whose daughter wasther 'kind- - a- girl,- an, - Very_ -good- to her
• organist -rolled her eyes at her neigh- grandfather.'' But:what-should heaskher,
b�, or fanned herself furiously in token- and. -how demean hiriself towards -her and
• of her disgust.
•
•
. .
. •
• - -
never failed -r himyety-eotild-surely offe-r-
some ..suggesitiOns.---Buthe.WciuldnotiPeak-
of it tust-nOV, .-he'hadi-either--niatters-tn.
talk &bent; and th;ljamniiliin=pen-
knife into apine--tablireevered wihimi
ler jams; he_Itabehiselfeso
come to Aikeneidernotwithstenditig-slie
..cleelated-she riever-Wee-ild,:when-shefeiind-
that the Whole-ofithe_Rempreperty.
belonged to your -.;.brether, .and 40'7:yout,
father," 2-
".• Ob-, Yes.- Sliete-red_filiefzpiqiie
as EioOn:afr- --nettleVa-hatideorde----
income onJeseieeandeinlact,-on. her toe;
until She infooliehenongh-Aolnatry__Main,_
when it will- Pease; of:_eourse, IT -dol -not
'feelit thy-did-YU; support-anymantswife-
_tmleali at he 'iny:Ovin,"Was
ton's- reply -;-- _whereupontlinpen-knitewent
againihto tinie-withao
'ranch fercethat-thepointwash-rekeirJoffT
'btit the-doetbr
the - jagged--",.end-2-ientinuedItat-makelagged-
marks,' -*hile __he Ainkid-:-."-Blie"-11.-liaridly
2. •
invehintarilY
yonire men exchanged
while the doctor whispe
dant-that's sure."
As Guy at nearest t
*lick -ripened it, 'while
lier soft brown eve gl'
-wonld at be well "cut- • her,''' as Colonel
Latterly; however, there had arisen' Lewis had advised him to do to one or two
new cause for quarrel, before which every - of the first? MondaY•afterhoon was fright
thing else - sank into.: insignificance. Now, _fully neat, he . thought, as this was only
though the village of Devonshire could Saturday, ; and then i feeling that he 'inlet
boast but one. public school house, said be . prepared, he brought out from the
hone() being divided into two dePartreehts, _ trunk, where kneel:ifs arrival in Devonshire'
the upper and lower divisions, -there were
in the town several district -schools: • and
for the_ last few years a Committee of three_
had been annually appointed to examine -
and
decide -upon the Merits of the various
candidates for teaching, giving to each, if
the decision -were favorable, .8; gip of paper
certifying his or her qualification t� teach
a common sehoOl. It was :strange that
over Enich an dace so fierce a feud. should
• have arisen; but •when Mr. • Tiverton,
Squire Lanili and Lawyer Whittemore, in
the lull conviction that they were doing
right, refused a certificate -of scholarship to
- nieee of .Mre. Judge Tisdale, and awarded
it, to one Whose earnings Jo. a factory had
'precureefor her a thorOugh English ethics. -
tion; the villagers Vete aroused. as they
hid never been before -the- aristocracy
. abusing and -the. demoorady upholding. the
dismayed trio, Who -at last quietly resigned
their office, and Devonshire Was vvithent a
school committee. : • --
.1. this emergency:' something must be
•Acme, and as the two, belligerent- -parties
eoulcl only unite on a stranger, it eeemeda
matter of special proVidence that. only two
•months before the 'quarrel began, young_
Dr. o Holbrook, a native of Bodoni liad
gented a pleasant little office on the village
• common; formerly occupied by old D.
:COPY; whose days.0 practice were over.
Besides being. handsome, and and
quite BB familiar with the poor as the rich,
the young. doctor was descended from the
ariatoCratic line of Reston Holbrooks„
facts_ which tended -to inake.hiro: a favorite
with both classes,. and, greatly to his sur-
prise, he found:. himself unanimously
elected to the responsible.- office of sole
- Inspector of Common Schools in Devon,
shire. It was in vain -that he remonstrated,
-saying he knew nothing ;whatever of the
aeltother; the,
0,lringvstaileoftlne.
"
.
it was, he
rine ocaine
fig with -some-
thing-like a tear; and her cheeks burning.
Witk-akeitement- as Eiliftelbok the chalk
indicated by Reininkth; . who. uncono
Seionsly fo-und'ohimselfOtoster -.cd. 'cere-
monies, and 'Whom •she thrally misitook
for.. -wh She had never-
_ .
-
mitUBLINE
hergrandfath
calledlier;land there w
I -arable. tenderness in - t
-Oo-uplevithen they spoke
thelvdirn_eyes lighted
irlyS-WheneVer they. ten
WO grandmother
•4-'4world-of-
V ices &the old
a nein*, while'
ceith.- pride and
u en -the yming
•
thatry Aikliv.hcr malde the small f. their home
young -not over 26" _She-wasthe child of -pi .daughter,
" Biblird-oes aid -had lived.With *eat eherMether's.
liersaid_Guy;--"hat.she'Enieter---forgive -(lei.tliJOi her father wk sea captain,
me if she .knew_I-JOIELyou_-that-,._--'_-SOet-it lainneVerriturned froth idlest voyage to
pass thataliefaiwentyi-eight--Shevertitinly: Cliiha,„made two rhohthlktefore
she- was
is not morithin_two-years--your sehior a o * • -
Mere nothiniff-yeirwish-tomake-herdis, For fortyyearsthe Mefi--,couple had
d f die,tilling the.
estead, and,
0Yheard that,
a, :and the far
aughter died,
• •
ing town and aek ite young ma ter _for thwe
lean of thred•huirdiel,d011001 _ o•
. He could hardly-teltwhY hiaWid thought -
Of- applying to guy: Retdington for help,
unless it were that he. one& hadastvedithe-
life of Guy's father, who, as thug .1to3 he
lived, had evinced- a. great regard for his
benefactor, frequezitly asserting that he -
meant to d� something for But the
something was never done, the father was
dead, and in his strait the Old Man turned
to the son, whom_ he knew to be very rich,
and whoiihe had been told; was exceedingly
_
_generous. - •
How I wish Leonid 10° with yon clear
_up toltiketiside - They -say it's so beauti-
ful;"-Madelizie had said, otts on Saturday
evening they sat discussing the expected .
events of the fallowing aotiday. "Mrs
Noah, the housekeeper, had Sarah -Jones .
there one, to 'sew, and she told. -Me all
about it: There aregravelled Walks; and
nice green lawns, and tell trees, -and .
llOwers-oh I so •many marbt-
fountains, with gold' fishes in the 'his' ;
and statues ;• big as. folks, all over the . yard;
with two brass lions on the .:gate,posta.
But the hone -so -le finest Of - ell." There's. a
dra,witrg-robm-- :bigger than - a - ball-
room; • with carpets - that, let your
feet sink in So far; pictures :and
inirrors . clear to the floor -think of that;
grandpa a looking glass so tall that one
can see the very bottom of her dress and ..-
khow just how it hangs. Olt, i do so wish .
I could -have a peep . it! There lige IWO
iu 01X0 teem, and the windows are like
doors; with lace °attains hnt' what Is -
queerest .6f all, the . chairs. and sofas:are
coveredwith real silk, just like that funny
lEfelbrook:;".`andf_chiy% dirk=;feyee: scanned- aye e
arw
curiously the -doptees-ifacef-as--if--seekin-t- barren soil of the rocky
there_ for the secret of .1.3a_ve onthe-night wh,
-Rithard_Clyde was lost a'
-Cornier the :methentIsh-n.___bearcf-that _Dr., Sadder morning when th
HolbroOklwasher boarder—Bntiohedheter they had been tolerably f
only langhed----inerrily-at--the-.-i&a_i-TOfs-his 'andl-trulY 'thankful for
beinglatherth•Gily;-*Wivas:„ hiscollegelong- voughsafed them,
chum and Iiing4ried-friendi--.--.-:::1:1_ • each night in peace wit
. Agnes - Reinington, _Who .was reclining:, and risen each morning
overwhelining her-fOrmet-friend-wit des -i our
- _ ,
-grandPa.31 kha,m rto signed a -note:
they had quietly lying, .boeks enough
to have frightened' an older person than
'poor little Madeline 1Clyde; riding slowly
home and wishing- so mtioh that she'd had
'-aglinapse of . Dr. Holbrook, se as. to know
what he was like,- and hoping he *Mild
give her a Chance to repeat some of the
many pages...of geography and - history
-which she IE.new- by heart.;'- How.alie Wonkl
have trenibled '..could ishe • -have Seen
the forrciidable volumes ' heaped upon
the .: -.doctor's, table. -;:-.; and waiting
for - her. -There 'were French - end
-Latin:grammars, He, iltOn's Metaphysice,-
Olnisteacrs Philosophy, Day's Algebra;
BatIer's Analogy and many other. books,.
into which poor Madeline had never Se
nitl,Oh as looked.- Arranging them in a.row,
and halfWishinghiniselaack again -in the
days when he had stUdiedlthem, the doctor
went out to -visit :his patients, of which
there Were se many tIr.ip,t4 -Madeline Clyde
ehtirely escaped his., mind, not did she
trouble him again until the dreaded Mon-
day came, and the hands of- his viatch
pointed to two. - I. . •. .
"-One hour more,' -- he'said.te himself,
that as the roll -Of Wheeis _ and a 'cloud of
dustannounced-the. of i3ome. Ogg:- -
- '"-C-an it be Sorrel and. the square . Wag---
gon. ?" Dr. Holbrook -thought. But far
different from Grandfather Clyde's thrnont
was the stylitila carriage,- and the - spirited
bays,which the colored eeachmau stopped
in front of the White cottage in the • same
yard -with -the. office, the: - hout3e where Dr.
Holbrook boarded, and villere, if he married
while in Devonshire, he ii,,tould Most likely,
_ , - _
bring his wife. '1- ------;?..• . . . ,
' "Guy Renaingtonl the Apiary chap of all.
others whOrn I'd.„ tatherkee„ and, As I, live;
there's Agnen,,owith' easil. Who - knew -she
"Was - in these part V', was the doctor's
..Chalifications.requisite for a teacher; that mentakexclamationliss,-,4inning his fingers
he could not - talk to .girlsunlese - tlytm through his hair and Making a ,feint of
• happened to ba Sick; that he- should -make pulling up the corners. :of: his rather. limp
a misetable failure, and be turned outof, -collar, he.hurried Coate the carriage; from
r '
ti▪ rom sorrow ;
blessings - se
• -had retired
tol and man,
ray. I3ut a
langindly in Mrs. Connerls=easy-Ashair and 0 ange was g in- In an evil
criptions of the _gay Parties she. ha, 10r_t_t_ neighbor 94 frie
attendell_ in :R.Oston,--.--sAid-the-,-finesighte PEW; so'it fell u
she tvi;u8-_-ih141,411duro-p--eha_4-;-:;twakhiefteert-hfolt-3,wsatt who, tpe10 to meet the .deman
haared _ding tour -would sh-4."-te tr-farticulatlY to mortgage his
recreant 'neighbor still i
flatteredi-cotild she have seen -that-slidle-,- _before t,hernortgage_was
or heard how: easily-:-from-tathing of her, ableliiiiiself tomeetit.
Dr. Holbrook-turned-te„-Jdadeline=_--Cly_de, had not done, and, alter
whenkhe-ette_Oted--etery-tnetnent., -There t-fOrielqinre, Peor old-Gta
vi.fas metry--.1augh-_---_cini-O-4--iteati-he fo_undliniself at .the Me
).11494edit9-11A1----docWit-st_Ort,'-and-ti, -TeTors9b305;----Ilaan,- intPit '
was 7fixxishe-d;-- he. said4 mortgage had b-itssed.
nothing SO yety_distastefulin7eiainining •Eo, -
'pretty girl; and Puzzling her, to see her -Slacnrinkc.---The---.-mehey
hlush. I•half wish- your -place : -forthelimilig,'- or the r
shonld-ehjoythe.lioveltyrofthething.,..? .,-..-- -sold; with its few aeres.
detc"-t-Por's-Xt-tklAmititidt4;-----eeailtig--etaike.:ra“-i.tlie---151addoe„4" ---wa_h1.31:-Iighailditle-llemig110.12117..to°1e
know re Inver tocal wailing to dose*
anaing :2 -stranger s. . - .
need. You Vent tea district School awhele- I heirld only
hei
Week thet surnmer.•-irdieh ehe .-eren.hig--vihen they
in • theconritry;_Witb -yourirEhirlrtiother troubles., "but the
You - surely - have -BOMB' .xdea what they unless IS apply for -Ou
,,,there-. notthealighteat mer Mr- Green
18 th
yen; Oily?" he _persisted--;more-,-earnestly-,:- he likes us; and I don't
as he heard *heels: in-thentreet,--and-4E-cir he'll let me have it: I
awe Sorrellad-come-a,gaur.-----7-__. • _see; -,ancl, before the
ho failed -to.
Th.Markham,
had:been :nein,.
OMostoaili the
Sting that leng
lhe Should: he .
ei however, he
ebegging off a
atherlolarklatm-
r .grasping.
,t3e hands • -the
14:3- Veit to: hope
- like ;BUSS
t
glatni-honse
land.; and
k. Was not oxie
I- -even if : they
mist leek for
Madeline_ .
.
over
s4iothirig I -ban
lihelthis
taraitteetian ;
eve but what
an. end
people - ;had
ihnient„geae-
Afid- shaiV1,:ata.
, . .
-rite .:_withr
and. as- .the
_ -strainer, the
.Herage, hoW6
▪ he mist take
thought Of •S
lilao01-Mistress.
and before
-.was:generally
the _eouthern
a, thet:ptetty.
144: engaged -ita
three dollars
Ony,Rerningteii-lilied-:anything,.sa-th-ring-
_..-:-------__ --- - .
' li r bo
nil their as
t he b nn
of afrolie, but in his • mind. there were -eel:- lit-"lid-tal*
Wei -flying down the Oa
tain. epocientiOus---sortipletInng . the
justice Of -the :thing, and- AO .-at:-:first-he ' Midelihe lvt-ts il: I
demurred, -while the,--dOetbr:TstilIinsisted,_10N-thallY *itl' -W. '
_until . at last he laughingly consented to achbOl-Wordd be. smaller
eomateice- the -•-exaniiiiation;:-prOthe PlarcetknOli-him Iavetall.
&Octet would sit by, and ocoasiotiallY come ever,. was a° °I;d6c#611! a -
tit his aid. ' .-:-._ —I-7- . - . - •---_---_ time to inquire What ot
_ • .
, ".YOU-' MOO :Write- it.lie-e,..-eertificatc.„--Of -i-ib.... like • her keeetnin
course," he 'Said; .0r:testifying that she-il- -The people_ thought welli,
qualified- t� teach:" : -... . -: .. : , the -close of the next d
.: yes, eertaiuly,. Guy, . if _she, ia. i-6ut- known though Honedale
, - -
maybe she won't be, lima my orders -are, to part of Devonshire was -
'little Maddy Clyde had
be strict -very strict at. first, .and.: out one
Or -two. - You have no idea What a :re* the- teadher, and was to reap
town is in:"- . . ..- ._ ::-'-'i 7- '- - - ' ' - i -&week, :, with- d 'XIII i ' ding that she
r _nuy:iatutifii.,_ ' Must :lard.herself. It. dithottake Made-.
.- "How did the girl look
and the dotitor replied:I:I:if-So,* nothingbutr.---11-ne---loneo halCulate ...ttat twelve- times
. her -bonnet: and &blue ribbon- Come in. a; thinedollarnwertithirty* dollars, more
dneer old-T:go-giggle et_la-Waggon-,;.-stich- an tl-An. aientli ot-v,ther,idfather muet-
Office in less than a, month; The people' Which a dashing-lookihg lady of BO, or there7
weukl. not listen. Somebody must examine abouts, was alighting.
. the teachers, and that_ somebody might as. "Why, Ages -I beg:your pardon Mrs,
well be Dr. Holbrookai any .one. - • Remington --when j did you- come?" he
"Onlyhe strict with tem and draw the asked; offering his hand ,-to the lady, who,
reins tight; find out to your satisfaction coquettishly shaking back from her pretty,
whether a gal knows her re and Q's before. dollish face a profusion ot light brown curls,
you give her a stiffunit ; we're had enough gave . him the tips of her lavender -kids,
pf your ignoramuses," said Colonel Lewis, while she told him she had come to Aiken -
the democratic: potentate to whom Dr: side 'the Saturday before and 'hearing
Holbrook was expressing his fears *that he froth -Guy - that the lady with Whom' he
should not give satisfaction. Then, as A boarded -was an 61cl:friend of hers, she had
.• bright ideasaggested itself to -the 'old gentle- driven over to call,and With
man, he added: "I tell you what, just her. "Here, Jessie; speak to the doctor.
cut pne- or two at first; that'll give you a He was. poor dear papa's friend," and
name ter beicg‘ particular, which is just something which Was intended as a, sigh of
the thing." • „ . regret for "poor dear papa,". escaped Argues
Accordingly, with no defihite idea BS to Remington's lips ;ehe pushed a little
What was expected of him, except that be °tidy -haired toward Dr: Holbrook.
-
was to find out "whether a gal: knew her .Mrs. Conner, the lady of ' the house, had,
Prand Q's," and was also to “cut one or seen them by this Ititite„ and came rimming
two of the first candidates," 'Dr. Holbrook' down the walk to meet her distinguished
accepted the situation, and then waited visitor, wondering tittle to what she was
- _rather nervously hie was indebted forthis callAtrern,One who, since
never at his ease the society of ladies, her marriage With the -aristocratic Dr.
miless they stood in need of his Profeit- Roareingtoli,-had isodiewhat ignrired her
6iOnal services, when he lost Sight of theyl, former acquaintancbti;• Agnes was delighted
ut once, and thought only of their- diabase. to see her, and: as 6,4 declined
ilis patient once well; however, lie became. the cottage. just tbeMi-Vie-.:IWolfriends dis-
nervously Shy and embarrassed, .retreating appeared; within the.4,*-= while thedector
LS soon as - possible f relit her presence to and Guy repairedot9,the-ollice--Ahe:_hrtter
the Shelter of his friendly ---office, where , sitting down chair Ariterided for
with his boots upon. his table; and his heati Madeline Clyde. Th: reminded doCtor
thrown ba,ekin meat comfortable position,: of _his perplexity!, a ,tfd also-bronght the.
• sat one April merning, in happy oblivion
gored-4°mi Of grandnia,'so up in. the oak -
Chest. .-Dear -M61. I Wouderif I'll ever -live
•in shell a plaee as- Aikenside "
•.
o "No, no; Maddy,m6,- Be eatisfi:ed :with
'the lot -Where God has pit yoti: and .dan'tit
be 'longing after, ;something higher: .
Father in Heaven knows. just What is beat
for. us, 58 He didn't see .fit to Pht- you hp at
Aikenside; 'taint no way, likely you'll. ever
-live in .the like:of -it."• . -
" Not unleas,I should happen to marry a
rich man... 'Roo like Me have some
time -done that, -haven't they ?"• :Was-• •
Macldy's demure -reply: - -
Grandpa Markham ghee -II his head::
Tberhave; hilt its 'meetly:their ruina
gen.; -se don't blind Oat& hi the -air About
this:Guy Remington." - - •
. .
. • (TO be cOndriued).
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Deceher on. Christ's Appearance.
A despatch from New York says : At the
last service in the lecture -room of -Ply-
mouth Church., Hehry Ward 130echer spoke -
of the human conception of Chtist.'" There -
is
is -no -personal deEocriptien. of Christ to be
found hi. the Scripture:3," said he. ".The
Only matter in this connection, that any -Of
the evangelists seem. to -have specially
referred to was His eyes, and - of these
some of them speak in such a manner as
to • :lead one - to infer t:hat there
waSf -wondrous magnetis in His -
gaze. All- the. pictures :of Christ are,
therefore, ' humbugs from' a historical'
point of -view. - There Wati an 'impression
of Christ's. face taken by some. Greek.
artists, it is true, but this impression is
met to be ,trusted-, as _it . presents to _un a
Greek head;and Christ was not a Greek, ,
hilt a Jew.. Probably if ' we could See:a -
pictitire-oof Christ as He really was, we
should' be shocked; an all. previous impres-
sions we had formed ,• with regard to His
appearance. would in all .hkelihood be
etairelydestroyed. Christ was: a Hebrew,
et, the Hebrews, and he probably had
strong . Jewish cast of _couritehanhe,
for ne race bas • ever existed whieh
has had more-maorkedpersOnal characiterisi--
tics than -the Jarish race.:• An fir as
conceiving CliriE4tin eYery.day life goes;"
continued- ifecher, "1 must admit
that Icannot -pie Him aketancling over
a wash tub, butwereI to imagine Him. as - •
making bread; for instance -if I -Were to
imagine Hilt in this manner. at -all,•-a • '
should -certainly tlailikof :Him as -making
the best bread. that was poSsible to 'be
made, and exercising due mpderatio.n when
your country- farm -ere -drive- There was seeixteClik_e-4 (Orttine,_
d brth in ih-g. rd she flitted
•ing arnoreetit,
bile, -she whis-
very appre:
g her grand-:
id:
an old Man With her in a camlet coat, -
silent the house, now St
Guess ahewoh't be likely to impress either -
Of us; particularly is I anxbullet-proof, and to fondle her pet 'Oen
you 'have been engaged for years. By the Vend -the_ good -hews i
way, when do You cross the -sea again. -for- cllative eari t°0° atr
father's Ealveryhair, as
the fait Lucy? Ramer say's, this Bumpier."
" Ruinor is wrong, as usual, then," was "You cantell tlfernA
Guy's reply, . a .soft 1:g_l_tutealiog_intt_iiis. _paying thirty- 84. dollars
hahdaorne eyes. Then after a niomeht, he I.dell,:triayhe they'll 1'
added "Miss 4thettitone% health hi far mean to try my --very. be
too delicate for her to incur-the-tisk-of_a, anybody before Me. tali
climate ours: - she were here I should . iffey-wereehly 14 D
he,gtad; fee it is terrible lonely at Aikenside, :ail that ?" and for 'tin i
1-minstratay -there - It would_ -childish faceisaahned- it
be a shame to let the place run down" old7fashiconed mirror, Wi
"And do you really think a Wife would eagle on the tpp.
make it pleasanter?" 'Dr-Holbrdok-asked,- look yo
the tone Of hi s• voice a little- -WasTe--9Mething_wpinanlY.
doubt as to a ina,nire,-beirce,happie_r for- -siohnftliefa,ce,---acimethin
having .ao helpmate-to-eliare his, joys and life'Sieiaitieliere_alreic
,sorrOws,. • • . .underStOod-hy-h,
I3ut ite SUOil doubts dWelt miud- of .'"If:MY hair -Were -not
_
ou are sure of,
the fall, and if
me longer. I.
I wonder if
school when
ilea as young
kant the bright,
eagerly -in the-
e figure of an
and yet there
in the expres-
Which said that
beginning to be
brt I should do
Guy. Remihgton. Eminently fitted for better. W at stop y t the last time!
dornestic happinesse-lie-----looked_forWit-d: ,have :been se---ltal and splendid
anxiously to the time '-LuCy .nTAT01-- she continued, kind of Fc6n-
stone,- the fair English girl to Whom he had tehiptlions-:,phlk beautiful
beconie engaged when he_vinited---Europe; brown hair, on which: Wae- certain
_four years_ ago, shouldbestrong:enough-to- Tight-e----reZdelk-otthge,v44 -added. to its
bear transplanting to American soil richness -a , ' • • - • -
since his -engagement he had visited her --the="h--rit addY," the old
finding her always loving . and sweet' but inah-said,__gaiihriOndly erwith a half
never :quite ready to Come with hinfi-to Sigh-as:lie -remember:3 another brown
hinhome America.- .He must Wait -a- he-ad-pilloWed:how-hene -the grave -yard
little lohger ; and he Was waiting, satisfied turf:: Maybe yon --:e* ss -Muster, and
that the girl was Worth the sacrifice, as ,_then the hair Will .make 'ffer. There's
indeed she was; for a fairer, sweeter tlevier- anew-conimittee4nani-tt -Dr. Holbrook,
never bloomed than Luby Atheratone, his troroAlosten; are apt to be
affianced bride. Guy loved to ily'" young-. (mei
and as-thedocter'S remarks brought -her -to-. .inichty lamed
,
his Mind, he went off .into a reverie -con:: andeanapeak iff !writ- gues.” • , •
Cerning her, becoraihg so- lost in thought, ---Inetantly-Maddy's feet lished with tier.:
that until the -doctor's hand-.Wairlaidlipon t; "What. if I
his shoulder, by way of ronsiiighit_naie cytUz., to do SO would
not -see that what .his friend designated. hieTaa----eternal .diSigrek, ht she; should
. a, go -Os& was stopping . of the_. cane everybody' the
office, ancl_that. from. it a,young ladywas-very test opedale school;
alighting. ' the -one whom -the teach always put fel:-
Natnrally polite, Guy's first impulsewas-ward Mien_ desiroua,-_-.td hoWing off, the
'010 to ber. Squire Lamb,
need it, as was proveh. by-the-light.:_ipiiii_g_ And Liti!Yer_j-Whit_teindr, always noticed
which she reached the -ground. The antl-praisedseinucli.--01eurse, e,h-e should
white-haired man Was Witirlier-again-rbut. not fail, -,:thougli,sli'.04741-drend. liol-
ls
•
eVidently did hot intend to stCpy and a liiii0ki,--vippdering much '11. -Sot he Would ask.
it cams to eating it,' .
. .
-Difference ilIctive-enAturettirstindr-iinyiitgit
close -obServer.might-haire-detected a shade her firstk.andhepingit
of -sadness - and anxiety arithmetic, rprOvided
Madeline calla cheerily-oat:Whim, C4--tod-2 _alpjenzdeGinialS, Where --
bye, grandpa. 7 -Doin_.:fearfetz_ he lad n-
hOpe you will have good •• luck- ; Wild out,z.
he drove 11,047.1,-iillei ,r-an-:-AL-stop after him
-.and said;lookiryi-pleaseetor
if Mr Remington Werit-tlet-----1-Onc----have-±. tlie
money,
willing_togiie try - -
you'Ve ;got. ra tb43. a-14-9=irgoltroTh
, and chirrupiog to Sorrel, the solddieve--
on, while.Madiqine walked, with aljeathig-
-heart, to the It we door, where she knocked
comforting thought ithat Guy, who had timidly.
it Guilty," came the response, and. so on I said he was obliged, to the fWarden_ for j hunt went on -wancuti Oink - - .
-
down through the panel, each one answer- I assigning guards th-biti.011,:14 they would incident.- • 'in bouquet' leaves mtich to be d
"
tild be soniettehg:
. _
did not .• sturable
e Was apt to get
tears of grammar.
6 Most obscure
-Sentences *id disseek ks. double relative
with perfect case, thOn as to geography,.
-ahe_oould APett WholeikeE-3of that, while -
ti
in---theapelling-bOok, - - foundation of a.
iho!ongli -education, :tie 'A 1iaA1 Wen: taught;
_elle badno superiors, A Otl: but few eqnals,
-Still-alie.Would he veif§lad when . it Was
..over, T --and She appoidtd_d• Monday, both
beoaant was close -a$ and, and because
thet-w,a,s the day -her andfather had set
,
• , . • • • • ..
. . . . _ . . .
"The fact 18," said old-Mis.Phippi, Who
's -down to Frisco on -a visit, "the fact is;
- - . - . „.. . . . •
y dcat Krt. Skidmore, I hadthe harrowest -
- . . ..
escape -from- beingrEsined-the otherdayystt- _
ever: heard of," , .i ' . - • . _:. ' . ,:-. :
"Oh, how : nice," said , Mrs. --S1 -pouring
out another ettp.-. "Ilirw-Waniti r
" Why, you • .ktiovi I -Seldom Use. and
let last Month„andhadthe me- 7.a11 ready
:to ' deposit .in the saVipgs. ba B . the next ,.
mOthing ` -which Was ' the vet 'day of its
failure."
._ ".Good gracious -1 .. o, .
.- "1 slept with the mohey -tinder --thy. pil-
- , .. ... .. , -
-low, and the next morning when I got ready :
to start for hank the radney, •was gain: r -
Some burglars - had taken it ' during the
pight. - At _hour- afterWard the bank burst.:
-pia you ever- hear of aueh a pie -Ce of good
luck?" ' "- - - ------------
'-' Dick `?' Why,yot 'last your coin. All, the.
.sanie." : ..- _ - . : _i : • . - -- - -
.. "'yes, but clohtt-,you see thby :caught the- -
-burglars -said on :condition of ray met-pio- •
secuting there, they returned . me lifty •
cehts on a ..doilari -- The: .bank,.p.aid only - • .
twenty-two.' :. there's - hes. • , use ._ talking,
Hannah ; between savings banke and rob-.
'berg, I'll take tity chancenwit the- burglars
..4.t
every- tihie.005cri -.Vra;ncisee p :-- -• ',. :.-
in -which -to Tide to Ai
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• •
•
A NeW York despatoh says iJemmissioner
Fink states that the agreementbetween the;
trunk Tines contemplates .a, reference:of the
'question Of differential -rates te-a Commis --
pion el three prominent men hot - identified-
itt obi way withsealioard citie8 orrailroade. -
Before this COMmission- th6 Chinaher of • .
Ctirtmerde -Ori other interes ed- parties on
i
hiani the Commission May eallo for infOr-
illation will -be heard - el:awhile the
tariff of June 16:th, 1881, will be ',again put.
infotce, Which isen -a basis: f o-20 dents per
109 lbs. on grain from C icagerto New
_York. . Westbound rates wi I be -reetored. ': .i
to the tariff of August 6tli - -.1881., Viz.; 452 .
:dents per -100 lbs. firatalitt3s, New York to
Chicago All other - question, - Stich as the .
n
method 'of maintaining -rates ereafter, Wili -
belmm.ediately- arr.anged. Each of the .
trunklines is to deposit- a um.as'ar guar- -
-`autee for the Maintenance pf-i agreement:.
-Hereafter all questionsof diference-arishig!..
Under the .agreenient . will he Arbitrated:..
I
The new tariff goes into effe t on_,Monda.Sc -
Di.- WodIlti: member - of the derman.-
Reichstag, and one of the On -lidera -of the - ,
side, in an adjoin- Liberal group, is dead.