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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-03-21, Page 2, Nicareb. .-11 1,884. Worth While. Can the flower look sunward and lovelier grow ? ones not mere than mere color with We'd over. Sow? Cottle net sweetest Of odere to float through the breeze? With the long daye of sumtner amid the green, trees? Can the river forg t the pring in the height Wiser, mem', y gleams, mountain -like, glistening 1a4 white ? Does not infancy fastea its totioh on tbe hoy— Is not roan more a man for the earlier joy? Ohl flow- re that look upward, oh I rivers and trees; Ye mountains in distance, what messages— these? AU tell the old story, the etory of life, Sometimes a carnival, sometimes a strife; Bat out of the SOS,* ea out of the earth„ The buds of r.joielag end victory have birth. Is not Bleep the sweeter that of:foams weary °yea? Are not etan the brighter that oh ne frota dark skies? is not, beteg best lived that most of life is ? Is n 1 life most of life that is nearest to Ula— Tho whom), life is Me truest of all The life that is light with no darkneas at ; Neatest Ilia Whotte life is the lieht and the way, Whom) ndle.stone is this—"I •ain with you alway." • Oh 1 sleep of the we try Who slumber awhile, Oh I .tars far above ue that sparkle and, smile, Ye are aiugina it song, the song of the aoul That, fettered eo oft, )et epeede towards its goal, Man's spirit immortal game highest of skies Whose wings most are tr adore upwards he hies, A MAIDEN FAIR. SoOttiSh iofaVO StOrv. ' BY gamma GIBBON: Oh, how brave and noble she had believed liiiiitcr be! How much above all otlo-r men in everytbitigr—how pure, how strong and faithful in all that became a mon 1 And lo, there he lay helpless—such a sorry silt! She could not bear it, and she covered her face with her hods, molting herself to and fro as ithe knelt beside him. Strange, piteous cries in her brain, but no sound miming from her lipe. The idol seemed to have fallen from its high piece—fallen so low down and Ball wasioved. She did not core now who knew it. She loved him and ehe would help him, though • everybody elseohoulci turn from him. She knew by the Bounds on deok —tramp- ling of feet, loud yob:tea—and the varyieg • movements ot the engine, that they were nearing port. Whether or not the noise had otny effect in rowing him, Ross at • length stirreddrom his lethargy. He moved alightly as if to turn on hie right eide. With anxious face and ready hands •sbe assisted him. - He muttered something iu a husky whiepee, but she was unable to make out ',Mat he said. She called him by name twin and her voice moused to reaoh him at last. There was a spe.snoodie movement of the.body; and this time his muttering was diatinot enough for her to comprehend— ' "Starboard, starboard, confound ye. There% the Dun Buy—we must hold off.' Thexestoof hie words feded into India. With a &owingin of the br ith. " And he gave it to him." li "Ay,but be mann beebal : drinking before that, becames: ae dram outdate mak' him like whet' he ie. Co e 001 o' Ibis, Bob Roes, and thank the kindly thonghts I lute aye bad for you till noo that I dims send 790 to jail Inatome of stein' you leave to walk,ashore." "Pother, will you not send for &doctor?" she pleaded onoe more. "I'll ;to hear another word, you hizzie, but VI ime something to 0sy to you iu a wee while." • To her amazement Ross stood up, un- steadily, but still maintop:dog the position He drew one hand dazedly across his eyes and said timidly -- "No for we, Annie—no for me - you shali NO Safer for me. I'll go. Your father is right. I begin to mind now, and it hi hie kiud thought that eaves me from a itil1—i0 is not all clear yet; but it is ooming book, Me 'standing at the wheel and no power to speak—send tlitit'a ail." "Bide a roinote and I'll get Jook Burne to go with you,". and she darted up the stair. Captain Duncan was puzzled. He could 'not make ont the man; this was not the waY he had ever before seen altObody who was "toe" behave. But then there Was uothino else to explMn bis falling asleep at the wheel; and so he answered the puzzle by reaolving to stick to hie first iropressidn. "1 am sorry -for you, Bob; but you hae brought it on yourser and l' monis pats it over. Had it been onybody else I would hen been on the lookout for Bie a thing, but no wi' you—no svP you." "You are doing kindly by me, captain, and I thank you," old the poor man, again posing his hand dazedly over his eyes. "1 dims understand yet; but it's coming to me, and I ken that I was wrong. I thank you &milli go," • He made e, step forward, 'staggered, and fell back .upon the oat. . He would have fallen on the floor but that the sturdy eap- tain caught him in time. tinotnees again. •• The turmoil above grew louder, and the movements ot the engine mote eocentric than before. : She dipped the towel in oold water, and bothed his face and hands..—He breathed more freely and regularly than he had been doing for some; time, and presently • he opened his eyes. . • What weary, wild eyes they were, staring at her without the least sign of recognition! They frightened her, and -yet they brought the tears which relieved her own parched eyes • • "Do you no ken nae—Bob ?" she boasted 'a little over the name. ' The wild expression—a:disappeared—and elowly there came a smile of recognition. . "No ken you, Annie 1 hoe/ could that Meer' be? lily lass But what a dream I hae had- that I got .fou and let the boat gong on the rocks and But there the pliminer of intelligeme • faded, and a vacant •expression took its plaice. This was not tbe expreseion of imbecility, but that of one who is looking •• at something he cannot see and searohiog his mind for something he cannot Sod. Soddenly he made atraftifito rise, but ' fell back helpless. • • ' "Try again," she said eagerly ; "12 'you • could only get on to the seat, it Would make Inc less wae to look at you." - Mechanically he made the effort, and withher strong help succeeded, alter.a few trials, in gettiug on to the seat:- Ile named back unable to support hit:need, still looking „at the something ne could not eee. " Can you bile there' that 'way till I get -" you a drink'?" • . She brought him a gltss cit water- and held it to his lie. He drank greedily as if his throat Were parched, and •ho seemed• to revive. She took both hie bands inhere and gams earnestly at him, eiact— , • • • " Pan you tell me how this happinied Try to mind. Where did you , Ot the • drink 1" •• " oi.nna tell. 1 got whiskeY, and 1 eaw the ), in Buy and the Bailers, and I wanted toa p clear of them. But something aye pub o the wheel out o',Etty hands. There Wss •—" . . is, -tided the sentence by shaking his her, ri pelesaly and muttering wearily, I • dime, ken."... • ' ft., -taw it was no use pressing her woes - time. [anther at that time, and indeed she had no opportunity of doing so. Although the noise above continued;the engine had stop- ped, and she knew that they were in port. Her•father oame down. Partlyin conse- quence:of his dread_oLany further aoaident, and partly out of a wiee diectetion, know. ing hie own temper, he had delayed cormug until the "Mermaid" was safely :moored • in !Peterhead •harbor. -Now when he came,' be found her holdieg Ross' hands and speaking softly to him. His passion blazed up in spite of himself. • "What are Ton ding there with that acoondrel ? Otinne out o' that this mo anent." CHAPTER X. uckevess CABE. The first .person Apnie enciountered on the deok was • Caogiil, abd for an instant she shrank from 'him, clutching the top of the cabin mak to prevent herself from baokward. He'held one•his hand to aid ler; but elle recovered herself without taking the proffered hand. . . • During the time of danger the moat ter- ror.etrioken face of all on board bad been that of Careill. He peeped ttos- merest rope of the rigging, and dung to it is if he. were already drowning, and this was the last straw. of hope. RIB flabby cheeks grew yellow, and hie fishy eyee started in hie 'lead more prominent than ever. He had never contemplated the •poreibility of .6 wreck. When the danger was over he was the firet one to recover hie equanimity; and to pretend that he 'had ' not been at all disturbed by the inoident., . He lit a cigar, and. whilst apparently looking on at the bustle which preceded the arrival in port, • he hoversd about' the' cabin skylight and the stair, wishing to go down, sod, for some reason, nimble to do so, etraiuing hie ears to • catch any sound that mightoome from below. He heard nothing.* • . ' , • He advanced to the captain sevetal times, as- if to epeak, but sow that . he would reoeive very 'little graoe if he attempted it. Then be walked book to the oa..bin skylight and hovered about i1 as .befere. But when they were.ftiet in port he met the captain, on bis way to the osbin; told him of the dram he had given to Rose, with many expressions of 'regret at the,almost fatal consequence; and taking his full share of blame. At the same time be 'offered hie flask to the captain, whO very willingly took a dram whilst seying— • "It WaEi a feolieh thing for•you to do, 'though kiodly meant; butit Woe a—weel, about that. 1 dinna wailt to be in a ps,ssion when, I gang doon to him. I'm no .gaun to prosecute him, as I might, do; but out o' this boat be goes thie minute, it he has to.be carried • out," - • " Don't be too hard' •'on him, captain. Ile meet have bad a droP, before that he did • not take into scooutit; Oae glass could never have had .euch 00 effect upon' him." . • • •• -9-Be maun hae had it guid wheen drape afere—oeufound .him 1—for You see I has: men a big dram the noo, and I'm a beep the better 0% instead o' beimr'.thewaur. But that'.. ne 'to the purpose. He had nae right- to touch onything when he was on duty." ' • "Alt the same, -eaptaiu, for your own. Ane, don't be ho.rd on, him." . " Oh; I'm no gam to be hard on-hini; as hae told you. I hoe had ower muckle .liking for him for , thot. I'llmanage quiet enougb:; • but we maim get .hiln tamore '; I ' canna thole to like hiin.near me." • ' So the captain went below, and Cargill, as before; havered about the cabin, and thile encountered Annie when he noshed up from below. . • . • ••• Do you want auythiug- con I get it for you?" he asked eagerly. ." go—yes, thank you," she said exoltedly, and with a little confusion. " Wait a minute." ' . • •She painted him and ran to the bar; where the men • stood . in *group, talking and • smoking. As , there. ,tvas to be ne dieobarge of, cargo. till • the following day, they were all taking their easeand- die - cussing the strange eientied the passage. "1 molt you to go down to the °shin, dock," said Om touching the arm of a thick- set, grey -bearded man," and bide With Bob Rosa; he is not well." . • ' "You're lashing • yoursel' ewermuokle about him, misey" (that was her name on board the " Mermaid"); "but I'll do your bidding." ' ,.• •• • • • "1 tell you , all he is not well ; he was not fou." , • " Tbe.t's just what ' I was saying," as- serted a sturdyfellow intoned Campbell— the florae who had been the lookout at the moment of peril, "for he was speak, ing to mono half an hour Mom he., put the wheel wrong, and he 'was. 'as 'sober as judge." The "Mtn 'Mad thiedoggedly, having just been contending with muoh opposition from his mates., • . • " Yon are right, Campbell," said Annie, grateful to find some one who agreed with,. bee. 'She had been much disappointed by the manner in which JO& Burns liad. obeyed her ; for she bad counted upon hint se Ross' friatid, and found that he, too, shared the common belief regarding the oho of the pilots blunder. • • "Go yotrup to the town &IA fetch the beet doctor yon oan find that willoome iiximedietely." . • . • Then she went ha& to Cargill, Wbo was waiting for her with every appearancie 02 stolid patienots in his general beating ; but the fish eyee. rolled restleeely between the shore and the.group.of,. men•to whom she had been epeaking. • It was the late gitiaming—the hour when • flea • and 14.42a appear moat beaetiful, toddled by the saddest; sweetest, most myeterious light's and shades Voides and all sounde seemed hughed, and the makes plash of the Bea IS like the low omen of, a mother singing 6 lullaby. The ehadows he1ve/20a but ono* wom dour to mom right Z. will be able to fitee your father and 4,,r • deepen .lowly, and by-and-by all ill Wished apd o et pot dark. aro- Suddenly *here eomes et glory in inielitcy ; great Bilotti of lighni of malty colon, like straight rainbowp, dire wogs it through white stream, mud the e'en ore -filled with wonder. "This is the first time I have seen the Northern Lighte, Miss Merray," said Car- gill as he &doomed te male her; "and they are oertainly admirable." "Ay, they are nue." she asswered gravely, °booking the inolination elle felt to show her dialoke for his oonventional ex. minion of admiration "we WhO hays seen them before believe they are something more than admiteble—we cannot put our wOnder int0 wart*" "That is exactly how I feel," be an- swered, evidently quite unoonsmous of the rebuke onveyed M her. simple verde. "But remarkable se these phenomena eke, will you believe it, there 10 soroethiug which occupies my. mind so much at pre- sent that am tumble to give them proper attention ?" ".Iiedeed?" "11 is true. May I tell you what it br. P.1 se Murray ?" "May I speak to you !lust, Mr, Car. gill ?" ' Even his -dull tielfoonceit waB taken aback by this curious way of replying ha his question. He fancied he had spokeu in the tones of it oharmer—he did bellieVe himself an invincible lady.winner—and she Opened all his fine preparations by a requent which he could not refuse. He had a great objeotion to be °tossed even in trifles. Yet eha had spoken very quietly;. and the wonder overhead—now appearing 08 lutoinoes white streams simply--ahone on ner calm, sad face, making it so beautiful that for the first time he became vaguely conscious that there was something in the world finer and nobler than himself. . He made the grand.bow which &dancing master bad taught him, and which he, had learned to petforerWith less grace than an etveward elephant might have shown. She 'smiled in a Bad, half.hearteti way ; but still she smiled, and his good oi inton of himself was restored. That bow had conquered her.' . . " Wall just oiog to ask you,Mr. Cargill, what did Mr. ROMS look like -wheal you gave him that drain from your flask? • Did he took as if he had been drinking ?" • This was extremely disagreeable in Bev,' eral ways, but particularly because it took fiis mind entirely away from the arrange- ment of the pretty phrases .tu which he wee to exp.ress the thought which was uppermost His &newts; was so prompt that to' her gutok witit seemed to. have peen studied. • "1 really did • not think sti, or you may be sure I would have been the last perpon in theovorld to add- to the peer fellowla afiliotiou—to say nothing. ef the foot that consideration. for our eafety would have prevented me doing so." . • "Did you speak to him ?" For a few. minutes, yes." . "And' he eminvered • , you. seielibly enough?" . " say that .50 far as My roam• tion goes he did. No-one was more sur- prised than I was when the real state of tho oase..was brought . so unpleasantly before us. But of tiouree I had no suepioion that he could be guilty cif isuchisucit etto pidity." , • • He had hesitated over the word heshoulti use; for he desired to.show it friendly dis- position towards Ross.. • . • "Thank you, Mr. Cargill. It was o pity you give him thatdram. - She turned sway, looking anxiously for the return. of Campbell with the doctor. Cargill's heavy payorested on her arm. • "'Are you forgetting, Mies Murray, that I asked to be allowed to speak to you?" • • .‘ Then permit me to citi so now" he had resumed his grand Mr and the flabby mile winoh hp thought fio Winning). "You kuow •the question 'I Want 'to ask; your father wishes you to Bay yes; and .Ineod nbe say that I desire you to 'ashy yes." • • , She turned upon him these clear bright eyes and that fair troubled f ace: • • - • I will speak honestly, Mr. Cargill, and it will save you extd ma a, beep' Of vexation, maybe; I know what you. mean, and I tell ydu OBOE for all that as long es live my answerwill be the ornate you ati at is now .—you mkt •neverhave yes from me." ' ." But your father would like it." "Ay, but he would never wish .me to do what I do uot like Iola do not thiak. would be right." • -• • . • . The, man' wam , not wooer; he had -not the teelinge of one. So, insteadof perimad; int,' instead of feeling that • he inuat-give' everything to wiu.the one object he desired,. he 'felt his pride wounded, he drew tip hio. big frame slid used reproach. • "It cannot be that after what `has hap-. relied you still think of tbii man, Bose( You yourself said that • tasu who (mold diegrace.himeelf ag he has done.would not be worth thinking about." • • . She felt her cheekti tingling and ebe looked dean as she spoke in' a low voice.', " YOu have no businese with what I may • think, Dlr. Cargilt" • . Tnen ehe lookedup and .her eyes bright- •ened again as she oried " Haree the . v. oaptor.• • • •, . • • • It was curious. how the pride-puffen form • of Cergill appeared to collar:ea at that an- eimodixtent, good he slunk back, a few. dome. . Campbell citthe forward With it grey- haired,' reiteoulittolobkitig gebtkixisii, whose teeth !nattily foe' gave evidence that he lived muoh out. of doer's. On the way to. the eteamer 'Campbell had told Dr. Pratt the thicumstances of the. cape, so that he was.ready to pee the patient at onoe. Annie went down to the cabin with him, and, 'after some hesitation, Cargill followedobut. stopped at the toot of the stair. Rosa was lying on the seat where he had fallen when he made his attempt to leave. He was again in a state of stupor. • Cap- tain Duman was, nieving restlessly about ;' Jook Burns was•standinkby, etolid and indifferent: • Annie watched the dciolior'e facie eagerly whilst he was exotnining, the patient; and waited, breathlese, for the verdiet. r. .,• The dootor treated the ease in a brisk, off -hand way as one of mere drunkenneee, and Annie's heart sailed with Mittme. "Ho ia o strong healthy foliate," he maid, "adwther° is nothing the elfatter with him except that be hit had a drop too much. 'Put him into a berth and let hint Bleep 11 off. He'll be all right When be wakens.' .. . Then the doctor; too, was against her; haltleo found the4 commokexplanotion for the Condition of Roes. Annie felt that the last hope of outdoing her Whet tbat there Was a mititaite *tes gone.' •Actairding to the doter, there had been no a, tit," OM 'Midden attailloof illfiess—obly that Vulgar dime of drunkenness.. •. But she had faith, and she . did not de - *air tome now. • Rose wakened in hie barth early in.the morning; tilt he Was _not yet "alt right;" an the doctor 'had predioted.he wetild be Ile Was ceetainly muoh batter; but ha woe atill confireed, and for a little while finable to oomprehend bia position. - • Then it flaelied upon him With Cruel vividness -41M driolt—the disgrace. He Could, not yet rettollOt all thst had him anitioue to get away from the Meet tome! ettehout wish% more pain to Annie. NEVith Abet the1110 be ttirlee4 Out of the berth and &Mod his head well in old. water. Then he had only to hull on hip boots and totem his neoktio, for Aga *thee had not been taken tiff. • That done. he made hie way to the deck, purveying Mg° on shore and take the first tram home. What was to be dope afterwards would be decided when his heed was clearer. Eitrly exit wits, however, Captain Dun. earl was already astir, and an soon as Boa appeared from below, they met, "1 am sorry for 7011. Bob, but its the beat thing you oan do to gang home by train. I dinns, think I could tloole to hae yea on board ofter what has teen place: Had you done it at ony other time, I wouldnohae thought muckle about it; but when you were at the wheel and at suoh a plitee—oh, cenfound it, I Clanna think aboot 11 wi' ony patietme." Roo bowed his head and could not spastic. Presently the coptain went on-- eas"yntre eflaerv4t3briatyII411 nco941speinaltka' w"oardrPainboilludt it, and the lane will baud their tongues for • your sake. At the game time I am done wi' you." , ',It's very good of you, captain," said HoBB, speaking low and htuskily ; but al- though you may hide it from other font, yeti cannot hide it !rem me. That's the worst of it. I don't know yet exabtly what I have done or how I did it; but I dare say I shall leorens all soon enough. Thank you, and She did not move, and Ross was appar- ently quite unconeoious of the angry and bitter wordis. ' "Did yeti no hear me?" ehouted the father. "1 tell -you that you are- no to disgrace youreel' by 'speaking another word to him."• • • " Padher, he is no weel," she said gently,• but without releasing her lover's bands. " • No weelt—he'll be weal enough when he gets over hie droOken fit.' •• "This is not a drunken fit, father. He is' really not well, And you should get a doctor to see him." "ltto get a doctor for the ocoondrel that ucarlY wined me . tta' Weel tia'drooned aa a'!" exclaimed the claptain, as muoh as- tounded by his daughter's milkiness as by her firet disobadieOtte. "1 tell yen be %van drinking when he wag at the wheel, and „ thot Would hae Men &lough for me even if Le he dm,. put us a' in salaam (Ungar." " .w do yeti know that he was chinking when at the wheel?" sheaektel calmly. " Oargill told me he, took a dram from • " The exolanantion was short, quick, good -bee." He went on ehore, the captain looking after him with something wistful in the ex- pression of his ruddy face. Suddenly Om turned and ehouted— " Campbell—here. You gang up to the station wi' Bob Rosa and Bee him safe into the train. I'm donbtin' he's no just him - se yet," Campbell obeyed willingly; he was the ouly one, except Armie, wbo had the slightest doubt as to the cause of Roes' disgrace. The captain turned to his duties with an tomes of energy, a11 anxious to forget in the bustle this painful incident. When Cargill rose and learned that his rival woe pettily off, be was in high glee. He hail no doubt that now with a clear course before him and with her fatheron his side, he would speedily overoorne An nie's objections. In bus cunning schemes, however, he did not take into account his own olumeinees. Annie did. CHAPTER XI. • • orm FRIEND -AT- LEA,T, - • 11 was a built, day for the master and crew of the "Mermaid." Tee °ergo °ou- tdated &idly of salt, 'saltpeter, and a large quantity of oil, intended for One of the experiments in oiling the angry. waves for whioh • Peterhead was beoome famous. The captain was desirous of having all cleared out before. the noon .of the follow, lug .day, and his • men found him .More impasient than they had ever known him heofoarreg.m.• wotild have 'perPuseed .Annie to scomparty him•on an exouraion inland to ViOW some • of .the beauties of Buohan; which be had . been toldwere numerous. She declined, . pleosontly enough, as it seemed, hut so firmly that he did not per. siet. He counted. Onion his vietoey during the oturn pafisage. Meanwhile he Balm tered into the town by himself, to gratify the eyes of the folk with a view of • hie manlyperaon.and the lotion style in tailor- ing. • • Aunie felt *as if the atmosphere -,were somehow purer during his absence. Without, exhibiting any deliberate design to avoid • him—and certainly without disootirtesy— she contrived to escape being: 'left alone with bitio during the next two days, when the business 'of ' unloading baying been cgorerassphated, that •.of reloading was in pro- • Oa this 'second day after the departure of Rose there was amazsment on board the " Mermaid" at sight of old Dick Better hir, ling along the quay, as calmly donee- quentiut and as much at home as if•he had been at Newhaven. • • " Dod, there are surely few beea i' the by,ke When the drones come Oa" exclaimed the captain cheerily. " Whar in'the world do ye conic frac, Baxter 2" • • "Just free bam6, captain, and I'm wantin' you to.tak' me back again:" And are you Out on business, or are you Just taking denuder • to, see- the km- " 00, baith, baitli, ,paptain.• a • Mated DEV.tr ovver auld to • learn, and 1 hue been leaf -ding a heap as 1 ourn' alatig. But I would, never ' has. started If it hadn't], been that naething would satisfy Bell Cargill except that I should gang anise errand to look after her calf." "-What's ta'ert the auld wife?" said the captabolaughing; "does she think he ciiinnot te,kecare o' blamer ?—he'eauld enough." "1 obuldna say, but Bell bas notions, and she will hae them Othrziad out." ' " A.wetl, gang you below, and.Annie will see that you hae something to eat" •" And svhar's themoor • , "'Up the town, some gate." • At that Dick Baxter hirpled down to the cabin with unusual alacrity. • To Annie hot only salutation was, Bootie ,preeented • "Bob Ross sends you that, missy." Her tope flushed with pleasure; but he put the tide in her pocket . in order to at-. tend to -the wants of the unexpected guest. Na, na.d he mid hurriedly; " read your bit letterie, and while your doing that I 'want to loolt into deems' 'cabin. I bee get • an Hee, in my bead that puir Bob ditins, gat fair play, and I went to try to melte sure o't• • - , "You think that ?". she cried joyfully. "1 hoe me doubt about it, and thadector thatoaw him in Edinbro' -hes nae doubt about it,—for, Mk' his word for it that he tooted naething a' day exeeptin' what Jeenlit gied him. 13iit we 'want to mak' euro More speaking..,Whar's hie cabin?" • She 'panted toi a door. oid Dick passed into the plots, closing the doot after him. Annie, like many others had great faith -in Dick Baxter's wisdom, for tes be (studied tile . newepapers so carefully he could always tell about everything that was going on, and no one bad ever been bold enough to queotion his jadgment on any question of right mad wrong: • bhp opened her letter with fingers whioh were not quite so steadt, as usual, and ranae.dher Arias love letter. It was a otrange o • . . • "1 write this to let you know 1 am better, Annie, and to tell you that there has been seine mietake about me some- where. . •• "Oil the way to the iliation, Cainpbell told me &Melt everything that happened, and although I oould pot take it MI in clearly at the time I have been able to do so sinoe. You Will at think thatI woadrinkt lug. You will believe ,me—I had nothing except what Cargill gave me, and that I took beeauee after what you Ina esid to me I was kind of Pitying him, and did not like to show ill -feeling. There wee some. thing , wrong shoat that whiskey. Diok Baxter had beeereading something in the paper that made him euspeot it the minute I told WM about the atoident. He is going to you. If he ebetild be the World *gain, and, beet of all, I will be iltiblesur stal"hassaY°PhirWirtrito *1441- thildithwe "It has been se hard time for me, Annie, 0,1id rdo nee think I °mild, have borne thrOugh it hut for you—God Islitee you, I am hopiug that there ie only a wipe while to wais till I Me/ Pee you afloin I W. 1ion feared that iioniething may Dome between ue yet. But nothing con change me." To be nontinned). A lotaille ninate. TheKs,r1 of Abingdon, who bas jt died, yotieh a wonderful munia. and oould personate Dr.Keitte, the head master of Kton, in a marvelloos manner. He did this on oue otelseion When at Bohol, sum - mooing the boys at a tutee's house to prayers, having first donned a master's gown, and in the dusk of a summer tiveoing his Identity was not dimoovered. Ouoe 30 the House .of Con:moue, a member could not find some papers to which be wiebed to refer, arid kept on firoblieg among a mites of them. • the Howie gcew a Ittle im- patient, and suddenly a voice iu Keate's toneii—well hnown at that data to half the House --was heard to say. "Never mind, stay afttrward," which was Keate's way of intunittitig to a deiniquent that no would be flogged for igeoremee or oexelesenees. • One at Nut:wheal, Lord Abingdon was dressed up as a girl, and made deeperate love to an elderly getitleman, who genu- inely reciprocated, and wantedto.follow.up- his mitt with a view to matrimony. The thieg was for some time kept going by letter, and the would be suitor WAS terribly chagrined when he teemed the truth • frwe Great Pileasing A barber is eo-diainotly a luxury that a pair of otties which boat of 4,000 barbers must be very luxurious indeed. New York has 2,500 shavers ana Brooklyn 1,500. . They are an army in themselves sufficient, if armed with nothing but their own razors, to overawe all the negroes in the South in osse of a colored revolt. To live, these 4,000 mut shave 100,000 men a, day; LOOM- ing out, therefore, the beardleas, who long for the snowy brush, and the full -bearded, who laugb lather to scorn, it follows that oue ehaveable person in every three -is -the Islay° bf the barber's chair. The ioduenee of the barber is tremendous. The man who is being Mimed must listen. Into his ear politioni doctrine may be poured that he abhors. To listen is often to be convinced, Henoe it become a grave •question for the a,mbitiouts in public life to know who con- trols the greatest number of barbers. They are a power, and nothing but their native modesty keeps them from piling the cities that they shave—New Yorli journal. ' . •Quaint and Curious. ittallitialelaa 1 Ask the moat ezetnept physician, (Many ;school, what li the Peat thing Us 'world betapaleting and briloNan the nerves and touring all forme of nervous coin violate, giving natural, childlike refreehing deep alwaye ? And they 1011 1011 you tinbesitatingly • 'Some form ot Hope 1" CHAPTER I, Ask any or all 01 150 most eminent physititans 0' What is the beet and oply• remedy that cma be relied on to oure all diseases of the kldaeys and *Weary organs ; such as Plight's disrase, tliabetes,rotantiori or inability to retain mine, and a1lth dioceses and ailments peculiar tat Women — " And tbey will tell you explicitly sad em, phatioally • latiohu.• " Ask the same physioians " What ift the moat reliable and 'surest cure for all liver d1se4ues or dyspepsia, conatipatIoN indigestion, biliousness. roalaxiM fever, ague eta., and they will tell you Mandrake 1 or Dandelion I" Renee, when these remedies szu combined with others equally valuable And compounded into Hop Hitters, sub. (Concluded next week.) 0 c m. •SS .4. Bite of the tope whieh hanged Kid Wade are selling like hot cakes so Ainesworth, Neb., as,aouvenirm A petrified -branch of a tree, evidently - 'white biroh, covered with oystere from the eize of a cent to that of a dining.room plate, is ownedby it citizen of Now London, Conn. A cow -horn measuring 4 feet 11 inches length and eighteen. Melee around the base is on exhibition at Monticello, Fla., and is supposedto be the largeet cow -horn in the world. •, A clerk in the Maseschusette • State Library was so deeply interested in the autograph craze that he out the eignatures of eminent men from the old documents stored in the State aohives. • ' • An old and remote °own of placing sheaf of oato. upon, a long pole for- small. birds to feast on daring the holidays was quite generally' observed throughout the western part ot the State of Minnesota. • LYDIA E. PINKHAIIII'S •• VEGETALE °MGM; • Ia a Positite Cure For all these Painful bomPlahttaandl Weaknesses , .000mwuatoourbet female popoiatiou, A Medicine for Woman. Invented by a Woman. , Prepared by a Woman. The \Orealret Birdied Diaorery aims the Dawn of Matory. Wit iroViveithe drooping spirits,in;tigerateo,kh$. harmenties the orgaula functions, gives elitiRielty and ' firmness to the step, restores the natural bare to the eye, altd &Ada on the pale cheek of woman the fresh roses of Life'il Wring and early' Bummer time. rif-Physiciana Use, It and Prescribe It Freely ". . It removes &Intim, flatulency, destroys au etastee for stimulant, and relieves weaknesa et the stomach. ' That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight and backache, is always permanently cured by its use. For thecure of Sidney' Comploiltits of either sex , Ude Compound is ,uniurpassed. .- LVDTA monarientavs BLOOD toenroran will -eradicate evert-vestige—of,Burnere. Froin the . Blood, and give tone and etrongth to the syetani;ro; man woman or ehnd. insist= 2108101111.• . Both 'the Compound and Blood Purifier are prepared et= and23-5 Wedeln avenue, Lytini Masa, Price of either, $1. 131x bottles for $5. Sent by mail the form . of pills, or of lotenges, ou receipt of price, $1 por box !or either. • Mrs. Pihhhani freely, answer's all letters of . nquiry. Enclose Sot:stamp. Sehd for pamphlet. -- No family should be without LYDIA E. MEDAN'S, Glynn PILLS. They oure constipation, b1liousness.- ..1nd torphlitynititrliver. cunt) per box. • airSoldb7 nilDruggista.-SA •'(1) " 'A 'Coloind,0 snowstorm" I have been in the midst of a vigorans Rocky Mountain snowstorm from early morning till late at night._with not a duet° cloud In the sky, and with nothiug but the myriad flashes of snow in the .atmomphere to oast a haze over the face of the sun. A mild enowatorm that may eeem to one who rem& of it, but not to one who has it 10 •fano. There are days here of oconticuous storm when the snow does not seem to fall at all;when it E001/19 as frequently to be going up ai coming down hum when foifthe most part 11 goes pluueing horizontally through the air, esenaugly with no purpose of stopping anywhere. In feet, snob a thin g as a decordus, well -ordered New- Eng-- landam_owatorm in which the enow °owes legitimately from 'a cloud and fella of its own gravity to.the earth it; here an. impos- kibilioy. We have no clouds worth men. wining. We are at the very apex of , nature's etorni-makieg paraphernalia, and the clouds are. all beluw.—Corrospondence • New Raven, Palicidiunt. • A Ibrightital Fat nioda • One Of the moat • remarkable fungi:of which there is any record grew in the aim° °altar of Sir Joseph Banks. Be received a °oak of ochre ae re g to, and, fiediug It too sweet, had it looked up in a cellar to 'ripen. There it remained for three years, „probe - by duriug the time he was with Captain Cooke in his voyage arpund the world. At the end of that period he threoted his butler to Ascertain the state of the wine; bilt the °eller door 00014 031 be opened On account of some powerful obstacle within. The door was out down, when the oeller was found to be completely filled with a fungus ao dense and firm se to require an axe for its removal. It was then diecovered that • the. fungua load ooneumed every drop of wine and raised the empty 'conk tolthe Ififoorse lincaoh. •• • • A new feature of the provision trade is smoked' goo -breasts and "hams." A dealer In the edible tells a 'Chicago Tribune. repOrter the breasts, when smoked and dried, weigh on an average about three pounds. They are oured almost the same, as pork home except that there is added a little garlic to the maw and nett. •When offered for sale the meat 15. as dry as dried beef, and is chipped and eaten raw., • It is easy to grow rich. Ibis only to truat nobody, to befriend none ; to get all you 0611 and save all you get , to stint yourself and everybody, belongivg to you ; 10 50 the friend of no man, and have no than for your friend; to heap interests upon Interco% cent upon cent, to be mean, mieekable and despised for BOOM twenty or thirty years.; and riches will come se. eure, as disease, diSappointment and death. Prenoh Galina, about onedcturth the size of Prance,- had but 27,000 population in 1867, and in 1881 this had dwindled down to 19,000 ezolusive•of convicts and gorrit eon. The area cultivated steadily dimiur ishee, but in 1881 geld was mined to the amount of S1,188,000; Neither British nor Dutch Galatia is flourishing, but they are more F10 than French 'Guiana. Cipital and labor are both conepiouously absent • . the last. Matrimonial diffioulties of it peaulfar kind have been attracting the • attention of the London-POlioe Cdurts, One bigamist gave 'as his apology that hie fir et marriage woe ilitg el lteoanse.performediftth a; braes ring, while a Polieh jaw who wag Ought by two contending ladies asked a magistrate it he could not marry both. WELLS,' RICHARDSON St. CC'S IMPROVED BUTTE:R. COLGR • "" A NEW.DISCOVERY. • PrFer several years ye have furnUilied the Dairymen of America with an excellent arti- ficialeolorforblitter,Lso rueriteripus that it met with great suceetri everywlaire re-eiblistrthit- highest apd only prizes at both. international Dairy Fairs. • larBitt by patient and scientific chemical re- search we have inipfoved in several points, and now of:feet:As new color as the beat fa the world. It Will Not coior the Buttermilk: It Will Not Turn Rancid. It la the • Strongest, Brightest and . • \ Cheapest Color Niade, tarAnd, while prepared in oil, is so compOund ed that it is bur ossiblo ter it to become rancid. fDCWARE* of all imitations, and of all ni het oil eoloN, for they, axe liable to become ranchland spoil the , • OSlea q not get.the ruproved",write us to know ‚11(00(11 bow to got it without extra, expense. •• ' . AN) • py,q, un-mN .0 norliastos, Vt. •' • • '&4 • IS A SURE CURE. for all diseases of the Kidneys and ,LIVER - It hasbpocific action 0311833 11100t bargee.= • organ, enabling it to thrOW off torpidity and inaction, stimulating the healthy secretion of the Dile, and by keeping the bowebi free ' condition, eRhoting ite regular Maoist -go. m a ati a Ifran7zi,:r:ohsaufv!hrlie;g from, ai.:o bilious, dytipeptio, or consti-pated, Itidney- Wert will surely relieve and quickly. oure...• In the—Sfidlig to gleans° the System, °tory . One Sh011id teStO 71, thorough course of it. t • 11- SOLD BY DRUGGISTS. Price El. WO ikt • ONSUMPTIONC _ . • .112800 3 wisely° remedy for the abOVEW dlB.3e0 be ne theteemes of Welt of the worst kind and ot long standing have boon cured. indeed, sostrong_leity faith in its Mussy, that I wIllsend IIVO BOTTLES FREE, to- • getbor with a V ALBA)3LE TREATISE: on this' Waste% to pay stainer. Give Express and P. 0. add rose._ _ Dn. T. A. SLOCUM, 181 Pearl Bt., Now Yorks ELI; 37. If. DO fil -MEWL! =SLEW ' ELIXIR Has stood the test for FIFTY-THREE YEARS, and has proved iiself the best remedy knowg for the 'cure bt ConsuniptIong Coughs, Colds,Whooping Cough, and,a11 I.ung Diseasesia young or Old, SOLD EVERYWHERE. 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