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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe New Era, 1884-08-29, Page 2A.ugrtst 9 its84. Hot Weather Sone, De ohatter-jacds er sinew' from do top o' do weed, do sun ano or intaglio' down his beanie; An' de mustard an' do radishes it don gout) tor seed, Oh, de BUU am or Innen' down his beams. De maw lo' birds hatched an' hab gun fur tor Id Oh, do sun am er flingin' dowo bis beano; An' ozt do young chickens de hawk hob got bis eyg Oh, de Bun an er flingin' down hie beams. Oh, de fat white man.au er huge& 0' do ;Amide, De's mos' ter lazy fur ter eat; But de ponigger's handlin' 0 de shovel an' do spade, Er raldn' up do dust in de heat. Itt er mighty long time 'fore •de condo' o' to frost, Oh, do BUU am er fiingin' down his beams; An' da'llhafter pay dear fur de sweat der nigger's lost, Oh, do sun am er ;Engin' down his beams. De Democrats er hum' and do Tubildiule iS hot, Oh, de nun am er filogin' down his beams; But drill cut er oorry ogger ef zny name ain't in depot, Oh, do Bun ara or Mogul' down Lis beams. Oh, de Ernok party man am or =ilia' wid his mouf, An' he's got or mighty twinkle in his eye,. ' An' he's got a mighty limn' fur de nigger zu do sour, at or roodin• him de sweet pertater pie. -rkansaw Traverter. PHYLLIS. BX VIE DtWEIEBB. ' Autimr of "dully Sawn,' !, The Baby," "Airy Fairy Mau," etc., etc. .. " Ha has been guilty of none.' : I 'cry, ) Indiana:MIT. "He never oared for any• ode !name, as you well know." , I Sir Mark looks down, and smiles mean - linty ; 1 redden with anger. '. • a , ,"Why are you not gone 2" I ask, Wads- • ' pitably; "you promised you would leave early this morning." - . "Grant me it little grace, Mrs. Carnieg-e ton, Had I had time, I might, indeed', have ordered it epeeist train, but, as matters stand, I anacompelled to be your gaest until one be allowed by the authorities to start. Bub for your entrance here just now, which I did not anticipate, I would not have troubled you with me presenee again. However, it is the last time you shall be SO ., annoyed, Perhaps you will bid nee good- bye and grant me your forgivenees before I go. Tea at least should find it easy to pardon, as it was nay unfortunate and u,udue admiration for yourself oaueed me to err." . . His tone is light and mocking, dyne 15 even a half emile upon his lips. He treats Blarma.duke's preeence as though he were Utterly unaware of it. Yet still something beneath his sneering manner makes 'me know he does not repent, either his false step, or ite consequences. 501 10 is with inazement I discover I bear him no ill.wil . Iudeed, I might almost be -joment a-shall-be-intensely-•relievedeande aVellteteR row for him at this present glad when he is no longer before me ; but be has been kind and pleasant to me, te many ways, during these peat two 'menthe; and I forgive him. I put my hand ta his and say "good-bye," gently. He bolds it tightly for an instant, then drops it a . Good.bye, Carrington," he nye, coolly; 1' I hope when next we weet time vvill have fattened your resentment." ' .., . tie moves toward the door with his usual carelese, graceful step. . • " And I hope," nays 'Duke, in se voice clear and eetiet, yet full,of suppreasea pas- - aion, "that the day we meet again is far distant. I have no desire to renew acqtleiet- am in the fixture with a man who has so basely abused the rights of friendship and beepitality. You have chosen to act the partatt a moundtel. Seep to- it, therefore, and avoid the society of honest men. For 'myself, 1 retell endeavor to forget I ever knew one eo contemptible." ** Tease care," says Sir Mark, in a low, • nem tone. "Don't try me too far, 'Honest men a Remember oue thing, Carrington.; you owe ale something for my forbearaticee* For a full minute me two men glare at ea each other, then the door is flung open, and Mark is gone. 'What did he mean by that ?"aitek F. • ; frightened and tearful: "What avasabet ' i he said about forbearance? Telt me, ' 'Dike."- . . Marrnadukea face is white.as death: " Nothing," he answere, with an effort. "10 is only it stagy way he hats of speaking. Let us forget him." • ' So Mark dropout of our life for the mint. Throe days later Lady Blanche Going also takes her departure. As we assemble in the hall to bid Iter good -bye -I; from an oppressive sense of what is demanded by the taws of Courtesy; the °there through the dawdling. idleness that belongs to it country house -she sweep' up to me. and, with an unueually bewitching smile, says, sweetly : " Good-bye, dear Mrs. Carrington. Thauk you so muoli for all your kindness to me. I really don't remember whoa I have enjoyed myself so well ai hereat dear old i Strangemore with you." Here she stoops forward, as though she would press her lips to my cheek. Instantly dropping both her hand and my handker. chief, I bond to pick up the latter; when I' raise myself again, she has -wisely pasted on, an BO I merge the hypocrite's.' salute Marmaduke puther, meads, trap's; and all, into the oarriage. The door is !shut; the horses. 'start; 1 ara well rid of &another trouble - Nome peat. I draw a deep sigh of relief as taro bloat present themselves before my mind. One is, that I am better out et it all them. I deserve; the second, that water again, under any oirounestanees, shall sbe • tenter my doors. It is the night before Harriet's deper4ure*, ! and almost all our gueete have vanishedeOar ' a• two military friends hose resumed th 'r i regimental duties a week ago; Sit Geer e A • ehurst has gone to London for a litt e • .while; Dora has decided on bireyitig her- e self at Summerleat during his absence: -1 ' Pappas° to meditate soberly upon the cores ing event. It is 9 o'clock. Dinner is a thiug of the past. Even the gentlemen, having tired of each other, or the wine, or the polities, have (strolled into the drawing-roora, and are now indulging in suoh light conVerse tes they deem suitable to our feeble trader- atandings. ' Suadonly the deer is thing wide, mad Bebe comes hurriedly iii -tie Inieriedly , that we all refrain frora speeoh, and raise our eyes to rivet . thole upon her. She tp nervone -half laughing -yet evidently Moue& "Oh, Martnaduke I" she says, with a little gasp, and going up to him and fasten- ing her flagon on hie arra, "1 have seen it, • ghost I" "L what ?" says 'Duke. "A ghost -a downright, veritable ethest I VOW don't look so incredulous. I am theta toughly in earnest. 1 wee never in my life before so frightened. I tell you I taw it plainly, and quite elm. Oh, how I tan t" She puts her other hand to her heart, wed toms it long breath. Naturally Wa Alt atm& at -her, Andldel . . intereetect diretaly, A real apeotre Is not it hing of everyday murtenO. I 401 aciaae^ thing stranger than intereete I am terrified beyond naueure, and ricsitig4totn My out, I look enxicasty at 'Duke. "1 Dialer heard there was it ghoet bare before " 'toy, reproaohfullY. "10 the Items° 'haunted ? Oh; 'Doke 1 you never told me of it -and I have gone e.bout it at all houre, and sometimes even without it lt,oht 1 conclude there is something comical in iny dismay, an Narmadtake aud Lord Chan - doe burst out laughing. Thogitien fairly roars, while Sir James gate as near an outburst of. metrimentoas he ever did in bit life, "Is there a ghost in ycur family?" I detaana, rather sharpla, feeling nettled to their hepatica!! mirth. "No; I am afraid We have aothing belonging to us half no respectable. All the aneeetors I ever heard of died morit araiably, either on the hettle-field, or on the gallows, or in their bade. We ciennot lay claim to a single murderer or suieide ; there its not even it solitary inistanoe of a duel being fought within them walls. 1 doubt we are a tame race. There is not a, image of romuce about us. Bebe's imagin- ation has run riot." 1004 you !saw it," pashas Bebe, indig- nantly, ,Am Ito disbelieve my own sight? I was walking along the corridor off the pioture-gallery quite quietly, thinking of anything in the world, but eupernattiral subjects, when all at once, as I got near ,the window, I saw a face looking in at me from the balcony outside." "Oh, Bebe t" I cry, faintly, casting a nervous glance behind we, as X edge oloaer to Lord (Mendes, who happens to be the pne nearest rae. "It was a horrible face, wicked but hancl- oome. The head was covered with ranee - thing clerk, and it was only the eyes noticed, they were unearthly -tie large, and black, and revengeful; they had murder in them." Bebe stops, shuddering. , " Really, Olarrington, it is too had <if S says Chips, reprovingly. • "11 you inep them at all they should at least be amiable. I wonder Mos Beatoun lives to tell the tale. Pray go on; It is positively enthralling. Did the eyes spit fire ?" "The head vanished While I stared, and then I dropped my candle and ran demi- stake, as though I were hunted. Oh, I ehall neyer forget it I" "Probably some poor tramp prowling about," says 'Puke, seeing I am nearly h. tears, " It was nothing living," declares Mae I3eatoun with a settled conviction that sends a cold chill through ray veins. -" Bebe, how can you be so stupid ?" mashes 'Duke, alma provoked. Gusts, thouget you had more sense. Come let us go in it body and ozonise this eking, whatever it is: I believe an appari. tion should be spoken of respectfully in capitals as TT. ;She maystill be on the balcony." . 0 • I think it improbable," says Chips; ** dee would see by •the aid oatliee Bea. tounesentndle that it is an unlikely spot for other spoons." " Well, if we fail, I shall give orders for a couple of men to search the shrubberies.' Audsweatteve_r theyeefind they ehall bring etraight to Beffia • The) veil! find nothing," •says I3ebe, with an obstinacy quite foreign to her. ' I take • Dlaimaduke's arm and cling to lain. He looks down at me amused. "-Why,. you are .trembling, you little goose. Perhaps' you had better stay here." . What 1 all alone !" 1 cry, aghast. " Neverel would • be deal by the time you came beak.' No,'I would rather see it out.". • So we all' march solemnly upstairs, armed with lights, to investigate this awful mystery.. • ' . . Sia James and Thom:Awl take the lead, . as I aeoline to separate from alarmaduke or to go.anywhere but in'the middle. .Not for worlds would 1 head the procession and be Otto first to come up with what may be in etore for US. With an equal Winer I shrink from being last-efearfut • of being grabbed by something uncanny in the background. , The whole mane is evidently an intense amueement to the 'men, and even Harriet, to my 'disgust, fin'ds some element of the burlesque about it. The lamp upon the staimease .and along the corridors throw shadows everywhere, and are not reamer- ing. ' 01100 Thornton, 'stalking on in front, gives way• to it theme howl, and, stopping short, throws himself into an atti- tude of abject fear that causes me to nearly weep; so I entreat him, in touching accents, not to do it even' without reason. • Another time either Harriet or Bebe -who are walking close bebind me (baying ordered Lord Chandoe ' to the extreiae rear, as it further precaution) -lays her band lightly on my thoulder, whereupon I shriek aloud and precipitate myself into Marmailukeei arms. • . ' • At length we resedi the dreaded !spot, and Thornton, after it few whispered words With Sir James, flings up the window, and, with what appears to me reckless courage) eters out Upou the datkeeme balcony alone. . . " He ie it long tune absent. To rae it semis ages. We three, women stand wait. Mg in breathless auispense. Bebe titters nervously. . , ee He it without doubt making a thorough exainination," says Sir James, gravely. • We Wain our eyes into the night, and even as we do B00 something !supernaturally tall-blaok, gaunt, With a white plume waving from its haughty 'heed -Advance!' slowly towards up, •front out the gloom. I feel paralyzectwith fright, although instinct tells IDS it it not the thing. .• " Who are ye that COMO to disturb my nightly revel?" nye the •plumed figure ; and then we all know that we ate gazing at Mr. Thornton, lengthened' by a sweepiog. brush covered with a black garment which he holds high above hie 'head. . *I Thornton; I proteit you are ineorri. gible " exoleibaa alermaduke, when at length he can command his voice; "and I thought better of you, jewels, than to aid and abet him."' • I am on the very verge of hysteric° ; a pinch, administered by Bebe' alone 'restrains Inc ; as it. is the tears ofalarm are mingling with the laughter I cannot aupprese. . My new black Ceahmere wrap, I pro. tool t" Odes Harriet, pouncing upon Ohio and his sweeping -tartish. "Well, many Chippendale-- And the teethe; out of my best Deena. Oh, this come of having one's , room off a baltiony. Why, you wicked boy, you have been upsetting alt my geode and -chattels. Who gave you permiesion, sir, to enter my bedroom r " Sir James," replies. -Chips, demurely, • who hit emerged from his aiegaise, and hi vainly trying to maim his dashevelled looks to order., "10 wail so convenient." , "Oh, jatnes I" says his wife, With it lively reproeoh, "have X lived to see you perpetrate *peke ?" "Bat Where is the speotre •I venture to remark. 14 Tot* mast really mar Mips Beatouta" says Chips. I have done ray duty valiantly; no one eau Bay I fucked it. *I hive done my very best to product° a reepeotable 'bona fide bogy; and if I have x eel not to be blamed. Now ineist on Mies Iteateurial producing Urfa WO- cannot peanibly go beck to the domes+ thei (WW1, 1 feel positive, ere cowering Upon -the' lolveat star) -empty-handed. Mimi Beatoun, you have brought no all here ot the ;peril of our lime. Now wttere is be?" "10 wu not a men," ears Bob.. " Then where it "1 ore not euro 11 woe it wow= either:* with some hesitetion. "Te powers I" cries ChiPla then what woe tat? it Mermaid? an undiscovered gmieee? Tee pita thickene. I shan't be able eeexiot t°iiplelePtlii."wwig tc"ligbt unless you be m "Then you may etay Wale awake," retorts Mani Bestoun, as I remember nothing but those horrid eyee. You have cheeen to turn it all Into ridicule ; and who over heard of it Out appearing amidst shoute of laughter? How dreadfully cold it is I Do !shut that window and let UO go beak to the drawiug-room fire." " I hope your next venture will be more suciousful," says Chive, meekly. And then we all troop down again to the cozy room we have quitted, by no means wiser than when we ideated. Somehow X think no more about it, and, except that I keep Martha boded in my room until I hear Marmadukcia step next door, I show no further ciowastelicie. The general air of diebeliefaround me quenelles my fears, andthe bidding farewell to the guests I have got to lige so weel occupies me to the exclusion of all other matters. Then follows Dereas wedding, it very quiet but very charming little affeir, remarkable for nothing beyond the foot that during the inevitable breakfast speeches ray fether actuallyacontrives to squeeze out two smell tears. The happy pair start for the Continent - the bride alt smiles and brown velvet and lace, the bridegroom, perhepa, it Wee pale -and we at home fall once more into our usual ways, and try to forget that Dora 'Vernon ws,e ever anything but Lady itehurst. Marme.duke and I, having decided on accepting no invitations until after Christ-, MSS, being filled ' with it deem to spend ales (sewn .(which • will be oar first together) in our own home, settle down for a short nom into it laza Daaaaahea•aosa existence. ; I It is the 'second of December; the little ormolu toy upon the mantle -plate has chimed out a quarter to five ; it is ahem quite dark, yet there ie atilt it gilt:dame of aaylight teat ' might, perhaps, be even more pronounced but for the blazing fire within that puts it to seuune. "What it cozy little rooin io is !" says 'Duke from the doorway. "You make ohe hate the meter world." " 013, you have come," 1 or', well pleased, " media Cane for tett. That is right. Have you taken off your shooting thiugs ? I can- not see anything distinctly 'wbere you now are . • "1 am quite clean, if you mean theta'. says he, laughing and advancing. "I sball do no injury to your sanctum. But it is too early to go through the regular business of dressing yet," "Had you it good day ?" . "Very, indeed, and. a pleasant one alto- gether. Jeokins was ivith meeand woula havecome in to pay you his keepects, but thought he was hardly tik, for so dainty a lady's inspection. • Hem yedu been, lonely, darling? How have you occupied yourself all day?" & • —eaVeryalualtsilyeal-sityeatirrenderingeaue. of My warm hands iuto his Gold ones. And thep I proceed to recount aRthe weighty affairs of business with Whale I have beetle employed during his.absence. • • But even as / speak the words freeze upeneay lips. Between me and the dreary landscape outside rims something that chills every thought of my heart. .Xt is a'nhead, closely coveted with !some dark clothing -oho fainteet outlines of it fece-it peak of eyes that gleam like living - coals. As I gaze, horror-stricken, _it diettp- pears, ao.suddenly, so utterly, as almost to , make aid 'think it wail it were *trick of the imagination. .Almost, but not quite; the eyes still burn and gleom before me, but to my Memory comes Bebee'marvellous tale. "'Duke, 'Daiwa" X 'cry, rising,-" what is ie? Mar have .1 seen ? Oh, I am horribly frightened te I . cling . to him and piiint eagerly towards the witxdove. **Frightened at what?" mike 'Duke, startled by My Manner, aod gazingigno. matter in the direction I have indicieted. " A -feee," 1 say nervously. "Io .was there only it Moneetit ago. I. saw it quite distinctly, and eyes.•so pieroing. Magma - duke," shrioking Weser to •hiw, "do you remember Bebe's story ?" . • . 'My 'darling girl, how him you be se absurd," 'exolaims: 'Duke, kindly, "letting that stupid tale upset you so?', You only iitiagined it face, my dearest.' You have been.tob much alone all day. There oan be nothing." ' • " There was," L deolare, positively. ' "1 could not be so deceived." ." Nonsense, Phyllis I Come' with me to the window and look out. If there really wasone, she -must be in view still." , • He leads me to the window rather against my will, and melee me' look out. 'I do so to pleaee him, standing eafely eneednoed behind his arra. . • • • The lawn is bare," ho nye, convine. •• ingli ; "t -here is no cover until one reaches Otto shrubberies beyond; and no one could have reached them eine°, I think: Now come with me to the other window." • I follow him•eubthissivily with the BROSO result; and finally we finish our researches in the bow -window, at the fartheat and of the room.. The prospeotwithout ie dewy in the extreme; A etormes steadily rising, and the wind is soughing Mournfully through tLie trees. ' Great mitten drops of rain fall with vindictive foroe spinet the panes. a Now; confees, you are the moot health 'child in the. world," Beate 'Deka, cheer- fully, seeing I am stilt depressed. Who would willingly be out suoh an evennig as this? Not even a.clog, if he could help it e and certainty a spectre would have Inc too much sense." "If it was family, it was very vivid," I say, reluctantly, " ana, besides, I atn not !ancientat all. I was it little unlucky, I think; it reminded me " A -Banshee?" teeksaDuke, laughirig. ' " Well, yes, something like that," I adrait, aeriously, a** Oh, Mariaaduke, 'hope no bad fortune is in store for ute I feel a etrange forebod- ing at my heart," e You feel it good deal of folly," saya ray husband, "Phyllis, I am costumed of you. The idea of being superstitious in the tune* teenth century 1 I WWI give you it good molding for thie, and • at the same time some brandy -and -water. Your nerves are unsteurig, toy ' dearest; that it att. Come, not down here, and try to be sensible, while X ting the bell." . • AB helmeake he rings it. , Tynon, )lave the grounds searched regaill directly. It it very annoying that traMps alattild be allowed the run of the pleat. A, Ater must be put to it. Halt a .glase of brandy and a bottle of eoda." "Yoe, sir." Don't give me brandy and Oda -water," / gay with sena° energy. r do go hate it." "How do you knowD' • " Became I 'Laded yours the other Oven. ing, and thought it it horrible coneution. I Was tired Of hearing ineti peels° it as a drink, iio 1 thought I would try if it was t09.11Y ati good ad they said. But it was not; it Wee extremely disagreeable." "10 Wali the soda you ditiliked. X Will put but very little in, ond thenseeneavill like better*" "But flitdeetir tdarnaidifise, r would rather not have anything," • "But indeed, Phyllis, 1 must inlet on year taking it, If we are going to be ea oittlefeelliousalle as to enoouritge o real ghost on the somata% we must only, increase oug ellowsuce of !Tithe, and for- tify ourselves to meet it. By the by, have you, decided on the scue? Bebe was gather hazy OD that point." I don't know," I say, !shuddering wish you would not joist aboutit," Then I drink whet he .lues prepared for me, and, in !mite of my aielike 00 it, feel preaently somewhat heppiee in my mind. The world is only three dart older, when as I at alone in ray own Mtn reading, Tynon opens the door, and addressee rae itt Otto eenu-mysterious manner lie affects, " There's it woman downstairs, ma'am, ea particularly wants to speak with you." "A weinan ?" I reply, "What Port of a woman, Tynon "Well, ma'am, * handsome woman as far as l can judge. A !arguer, I would tray. A woman of a film presence -as might be a lady; but I ain't quite certain on that potnta • • "Oh, Tynon, show her up," I say, hastily feeling damaged, as I picture to myself it lady left standing in the hall while Tynon Maker; up hie mind afi to what her proper position In moiety may be. His obeys my beheat with alacrity, and in it very few moments **the woraana and I are face to face; nay, as ette comets slowly, forward, and throws back her veil, fixes upon me her wonderful eyes, I know, with n sinking of the heart, that I am facie to few with Bebe% gbost. "1 am startled and impressed-unoom- fortably, impremed-as I gaze on the renaaine of whoa mut owe have been an extraordinary beauty. I have risen on her eritranoe, and we now stande-iny strange visitor and I-etaritig at eaoh other in silence, with only the little wogs -table between us. She is dressed he • the deepeet black of it good texture; I am in rich brown velvet. She is tell and full -truly, as Tynon had desoribed her, "it Woman of fine pre. eenoe ;" I am email anti very light. • fler eyes are large, and cheek, and burning -- each eyes as belong to the South alone; mine, large too, are gray -blue, and eon and natra. I feel fascinated, and slightly terrified, At last I speak. "It there anything I can do? I believe you wished to speak to me l'elittire• weakly, and with hesitation. "1 do," says .my: strange visitor, never removing her 'piercing gaze from my face. "1 ale° wished to tee you close. So you are his wife, are you? A child, a mere doll I" I am so taken aback I can find no reply to nuke to this epesch ; every moraent renders me more amazed, more thoroughly itigliteeed. • , • • • • . " You are Mrs. Carrington of Strange - more," she goes on 'in the purest Eaglish, but with sae . unmistakably foreige accent. Well, ears. Carrington, I have come bere 'to -day to tell you eomothing I fear will be tiopaiatable to your deauty ears." At thus instant it cioours to me that -iteeze_adtpiteed to my presence, • and am !shut up v,fith,•an emaped funatilreettethis- 'thought my blood curdles hi my veins;• I anoae it step baokwardst and casting a Iiiigeriug, longing glance at the bellhandle. Watching my every gesture,the iminedie ately divines my intention. "[1 you will cake my advice," she says, "you will not touch thee belt. What I have to Day might furnish too much gossip for your servanta' hall. No,I ara net mad, Pout What it fool it xe, trembling in every limb. Pray restrain yourself, Mrs. Car. rington ; you will require all your courage to 'sustain you by and ay." • She is speaking very ineolently, and there is a fiendish triumph in her black oyes; I cen hear it !subtle naookery in her tone as she utters my married name. • "11 you will be so kind as to state year business without any further dative' I remark, with 'as much hauteur as I o :n. sumraon to my aid, "1 shall feel obliged." , "Good," !says she, with a•vicnous 'smile; " YOU recover. The white mouse has found its squeak, 'Listen, then." ' She seats her- mit before the small table that divides us,' loans her elbow' upon • it, and takes her face.betvieen her hands:, Her eyes are still riveted upon mine; not for it seaond does the relax the vigilance of her gaze., "Who do you -think I arci ?" elle asks, slowly. . "1 have not the faintest idea," I reply, still haughty, though thoroughly upset, and nervous. " I -am -altar maduke-Carrington's law- ful wife," ohe eays, biting out the words with cruel emphasise and nodding her head at me' between each pause. I neither stagger nor faint, ner ory out ; I eimply,dontt believe her. She •is need, them atter all. Oh, if Tynon, or Hanka or any one, would only come! I calculate my chance of being able to mall past her .and gain the .door in Way, but ara dis- heartened by her watchfulness. I remem- ber, too, how fatal a. thing , it es to show symptoms of terror before it maniac, and with an effort 'collect myself. It yea have nothing better to iitty than 'ouch idiotio noneense," I return, calmly, "1 think this interview may as well borne to an end." As I utter this apeech in tear and trembling, 10000 more ge slowly lathe • direotion of Atte bell. , "011!must lou then see i:ay marriage - Heim ?" says the woman with sneer, draw. ing from her bosom a folded ' paper. " Is there tcio Much of the atage about my little declaration ? Come, then, behold them; but at a distance, merits, at a distance.' She spreads open the paper upon the table before .me. Impelled by some hide. ous• ourioaity, I draw near. With one brown but shapely finger, she traces the' oharaoters, and' I read -I Mad with dull eyes, the terrible Words that mat my fate. No thought of forgery 'comet to sooth mo; I know in that one long, awful moment that my oyes have seen the truth. Meobanioally I put out my hand to seize the paper, .but she pushed me roughly back. • No, no, ma belle," ahe laughs coolly; "000 that 1" • "It is a lie," I cry, fiercely; • a " lie I" Where now• is all ray nervoteniess, my ohildieli terror? My blood flames into life. For the time I atie aotually mad with pas - ;non, as mad as I ircagined bee alittle %veils ago. A cruet, uneOntrollable Imaging to kill her -to !silence forager the bitter mocking toned, to shut the vindiotive eyes that Baena to draw great dropti of blood from my heart -takes permission fa me. I oatoh hold of a heavy ruler that Hee on it Davenport near, WA make a springittiviarde her. But I am aa an Want in the hen& Of My (mount ; I feel Myself flung violently to one !tide against a wall, while the ruler fella oratihing itito an oppolate earner. "Bah !" she prim throUglx her teeth. "Can English blood get warm? I did net believe it until now. So you love the hand. seem husband, do you? That, after ell, iff bob it husbandteee you, but it lover. This is my house, This Is my room! Leave it, X ooratnanit yo ul" • She laugba long and loudly; but all nly fury has died oat. (To be oaf:teed.) TUE MANIW 0011781‘Wiffif• Illovr She Con0firya "Coop the fatale Totitilein gag gad Alm°4440 Naw York "1 with there was SOY120 way to ItaBil those children quiet on it raiPY day or Waell lite ill too warm for theta al be out in the sun playing," Baal it Weaey Mother the other day to tier friend and neighbrie. "1 always nollee what little trouble you olive with your (*flaxen, al- though ewe have three more than I attve, and I theight perhaps you could telt me bow you euenaged it." "..<1, very easy mutter, my dear," replied her friend. Children muse be &maned or they will become cross and naughty ; so would you or I, . Suppoee we were doomed to seay alt day, or half a day, in one room, were vot allowed to reed, write, or see', could only sit on ceitein eheire and handle certain articles, and there wee no one to talk to or nothing but it game et solitaire fcr us to play. Why, we'd be almost crazy. Any one, man, woman, or child, in good health, name have something to do during their waking hours. Yet how few mothers try to Kiva this something to the busy bands and tiotive brainsot the little onee. Tou notice children out in the street or garden. Are they ever still or quiet? No. It is true they find amusement in the most trivial thinge. Now, I have thought about all this, and I have fixed up one rdom itt Otto hone, the play-roona, exclusively for my children. " The room is a large one me the top floor. It is ell I had to spare, and as I could not afford a pea carpet I painted the floor and left it bare. A poor oorpet would be worn out in six months. In the winter the room is hooted by a little circular stove, and over.thie 1 put a wire threen, so there is no dauger et the children burning them- selves. , The walla are painted a delicate gray with it vele pink border, and have a wainscoting that is one of the:chief charms' of the room. " What ie it 7 Well, I collected all the &tares I could out of magaziees, illustrated papers, etc., and pasted them on the wall frena the floor almost as high -as the maptel. Pictures of birds arid aninaals and those of child -lite, are, et course, the greater number. I put the colored' prints plowa near the surface, ao that the smaller child. me could °Div them, ana they am pasted on so nicely that tearing there is lames -- table. " Then," continued this nice little raother, "1 have five boxes na the raorae all of different sizes. ,These boxee have - covers that !uteri down, and are padded on the top, with a flounce around the edge, ,ito that when Om box is closed they have Otto appearance of little ottomans. ' Each, child keeps his plaything's in the box, and 10 18 hie particular property. A Immo* rug with all kinda of animals cut out of cloth, with the name embroidered underneath, is among the furniabiage of the room. " Mchildren amuse themselves for y r houra ia that room, with only excursions now and then to the kitchen for something to play • tea-party' with, and I flatter my- self that therlearre considerable from the pietures, as well. as mamas and order with their playthings." Aishital wrades. Did you ever .read about the different liiiiarelittrades-thernany-ou.heide-clwellers- were plying? They get about their work by daybreak, when moot of the children are !steeping sw,eetly, and soundly on iliac snowy pillows. Wilson Flagg, 112 hiS book of birds, spatial of.them its musicians: He calls the robin the olarionet player, the blue bird the flageolet, the hair bird the Maya flute and the golden robin the bugle. The birds are the musical ohareaters. What .are the wasps? They, are paper makers. They make paper out of materials that the' paper maths oould not Ilse at all. Their name are made of• paper. If you examine • one you see . now they are made; but look Qua' for the wasps inside. The ostezpillar it a silk epiuner. The mole is ara engineer; he can form a tunnel quite as well as if he • had taken an engioeering course in one of our colleges. The bee, we are told, is a pro - teener of geometry. Re constructs hie cells scientifically. "All' the great mathemati- 'dans in the world dould not make them as the bee does. The nautilus iii.a•navigator,, hoisting and' taking halals sand as he floats along the water, and casting anchor at pleasure. The 'kingfisher and the heron are fishermen. When you go to the ocean beach wateh them, .and-seelow skilfully they flab. They don't often go away with- out any. fish,. as I have Many times seen Otto boye and gide go, With disappointed faces. One secret of swims may be that they keep very still end do not chatter to each other. The beetle is a. grave -digger. HO goes about Ins work very solemnly, and it would bevell worth while to watch, him at his work. In the evening the lamplight. eys isome Out and light up the'woods and mama: They' are the fire fly Mad' the glow worra. The beavers are carpenters and masons. We caight keep on enumerat. ing the different trader' of these busy little workers; but (Miry boy snd girl who herr an opportunity of watohina the busy life if] the outside world of nature will be Mit- prised. ta find now Much there is of impor- tance going on. how much thew little creatures God heal made are .oapable of doing. A ilhinese Shave. The e_ustomer seats himself tired on a stool or bench, with the knowledge that an hour must pase•beforti he is released. The barker begins operations by carefully wash- ing the victina's face, ears and head with very warm water, wiping eff the dripping 'parts with it 'wet towel. He then begins shaving the head, or rather around the crown where the oue begins, commencing over the right ear and moving along until the forehead and the lower part of the back - head are Cleaned. Fie next panes to the face and afterward to the neck. The ears 'are 'shaved and carefully brushed out and cleaned with delicate brushea and ingenioua instruments. The face, neck and arms are theta washed and rubbed until the skin assumes it healthy. pink. The ambiad part is somewhat like the "Swedish tnovetzent euro." The barber begints • to turn and manipulate the head and :wok until every cord and Muscle ham been stretehed, pinched and pulled. The shoulders, arms and back are also mientilloally pounded and pulled until the,viotina expresses a desire to have Otto manipulating atop. The OW is then Unbraided, combed and °leaned, and again braided up and put in place. ()cattail:wally when a barber desires to show great &Um,: tion to it dietinguished customer, he rubs and plata his fingers, and even hie tains, Until the joints creek.' A ourioue ClOnge village will be ifinivirt at the Antwerp Exhibition next year.: The Belgian African Association will build up a regular negro settlement, the chief hut being surrounded by the poorer native °tibiae, where representatime of the different tribes will illustrate the various. national industries. An authentio " fetieh man "will slim appear. Scatiellea t3pOrtetaen are canting • great deritruCtion among fish in the neighborhood Of Eingsten by exploding dynamite eatt. ridges itt the water. a • A. IISATT11.41% Autism , ererrula pietist lwein a a *lava areaheaf- .....0.- A number of reasons were Mending * front of the Oily Hall, Deliver, the oilier afternoon. A large euraber of *Mamma noticed running about on the step' and ground, oonettently augmented by -numbers from in -known quartero. Exeminadole revealed the WO tbat the ante were winged earl were tumbling from the air. Further inveatigittion showedthat the mote were of two speotes, And that *battle 'begin), in the air was raging ma the grunt*. One of the epodes of tbe warriegamemlie was large and red, with wines the size of a. hwt5i tube eafigiahheettrarnff we:sit wInsaell•re'dThan41 were in superior am:alters and attacked their enetnies by twin', /OM and sooree.. Several balle of the ferocious warriore. when mparated showed ite nattny SO thirty small mita on one larger one. Here and there could be seen elute • combats, the small ants in every oase vietorieux- Those that 'were clinched in the ear re- mained clinched on the ground until ODS or • Otto other was vanquished aud dead. But as a general thing they fell to the ground and at tame prepared for leattle. Eagle aide yitte under leaclere, who messed their fame and marched them with military precision upon the foe. Skirmitsh•lines were thrown out. The lino advanced,retreated, od- vanoed again, and then the battle becanae general. The rules of oivilized warfare were observed for .th while, but before the fight was over it was a go.as-yottplease affair. The smell ants were in the naajoritY, but their opponents were giants compared with them, .and they crushed the pigmies in their strong Mandibles as an ailieator would a gnat. For at least half an htitte Otto battle raged. The grouud was •thleac with the dead, s,nd the dying, the latter being despatched wherever found. • At lest. • • Otto !giants were routed. They 'fled igno- miniously, pursued by the pigmies,- who slaughtered ahem by morel; while itt full retreat/ Borne flyivg, other's rimming to escape with their lives. The visitors acted • SO it they wanted to crow, and probably did, but •it they made any noise the span.; tatora 'were , not aware •of 10. if the vanquished Were,-Denvei• News,. • - • , For and •About Women. At one of the watering place hops the most superbly dreesed Wonlan was the Wife of a grain operator who ha4. failed for it. million it shorttime ago. Her diamonds were worth 860,000, and the observer thought her hueband nanat have made a ,gootl Bettleroent. In Macon, Go., a wife has hitt been fined 62,50 for disciplining her huaband with a bed Blot, the 'justice regarding it as it. ease of malatious Miura to furniture. In Lon- don only it few days earlier it .niegietrate sent a• young woman to prison for thrashing ' Inc husband, who had complained agent Otto coffee. • • • • • For nine eertions a little eparrow with A deformed foot returned with eaoh summer • to the window of it Beaton woman and tap- ped at the pane. She always received him • kindly, and finally fell into the habit of makiog him it epeeist cake. This summer, ' -oxi•-bila.first...ealljoe alighted on her hand, showing plainly thathe was ill. Stteoarried' him out into . the freeh air; but he wouLd. not fly, and diedwhileahe still held him. . A few crazy women in Paris are wearing • • straw hats with square corners. They are ‘ittlythinglont pretty. • The latest Pariiiian agony in ladies' hata ia called "Henry the Secondon a Journey." It reumbles an inverted flower -pot. • • . An American. Woman. nained Sotoogin., was married to a Chineriaan named' Wtin Lung the ()thou day in Denver: As .neither desired to take the other's name thil corn - promised " Smith." "Little brown jugs "of tiny.dirdensione, contenting. it drop or two ot choice per - tumoral, are worn .as chatelainee. They • are nude Of common ..olay, but havegood wire atoppers. "Little Brown •Jug, . How I Love Soma is the Motto. The • most etylish Women do not now , . wear • earringa in •the day time, and only those with jewels . or rave stones in the teaming. Multi they may be disoarded altogether, MA the Money spent for dia- monds in this direction willbsfinvested in br000bee, pendants or bracelets. There are it number of Women planter(' . in Maribion Ravish, Lousianna. Mrs, M. A. Gibbs liV0B on the Hecht plantation, Which • she manages with great mums: .• Miss Lit Lucas manages a large eetate, and perrion- ally imperintendri it large force. " She . spends most of her time' in the saddle,' and looks after •plougha, hoes, drains, levees, stook and mill. Madame 'Ames owns it .. tract • of 1,000 acres; and has 800 acres under cultivation this Year. •• • ' Scientific Ithielosities. • 'Gold.beeeere,,by hammering, tan 'recluoo. gold leaves so thin that 282,000 Intuit bit laid upon eaoh other to produce the Maids- • nen or an inoh, yet each leaf is so perfect and free from holes that one of thenlaitO on 04 surface, as •in gildiog, gives the appearanoe of aolid gold: They are to thin 0000 11 formed into a book 1,500 would only occupy the swum of a single leaf ot common paper; and an octavo volume of an intik . thick would have as • many pages est the books of a well-stooked library Of 1,500 Voluroes, with 400 pages in caola.. Still • thinner than this iazthe coating of gold/ __ upon the silver wire of what is lulled gold lace, and we are not mire that such coating is not ot-Only one ' atom thick. ' Platinum and ailver oan he drawn into wire ratioh finer than humanhair: A grain of blue vitriol or . carmine will tinge it gallon of water' so that in weary drop the color may be peiceived. A grain of muak will scent a • room for twenty years, and will at the end al that period have lost littleof its weight. The carrion crow among its food many miles off. A burning taper uncov- rued for a single instant, during vvhisali it does not lose one-thoueandth put • of a grain, would fill *withlight it sphere four Telles in diameter, so as to be visible in every part .ot it. The 'thread •of the silk- worm is EIO small that many of them are twitted together to ban our finest. towing thread; but that, of the spider hi mailer still, for two drains of it by weight wouli. reach hobo, • London •to Edinburgh, or 4430 milea. Iu the milt of a• codfish or in water inwhich vegetables have been infused the raicrosoope diseovere animaloulets of whieli Ixtany thbusands together de not equal in bulk it grain of Band; and yet nature, with a !angular prodigality, has supplied Many of these with organs as complete asethese • of the whale or the elephattle and their bodim consist of the Bann' substatioe, or ultimate atonal, as that of man himself. In a tangle pound of aloha matter there are more living creatures than of Malian beings em the Moe of the globe, " Onida " writes "Until the vine leaves of youth are faded, who knows their value " eae. or sweetness 2" The English write More letters than any pm& in the World, aucording to the Pont. office returns juat issued. The tworago annual number of Written cotaunications reaches forty.one per head--thirty-eeven lettere and fear potsti41 deeds for each - being nearly double. Otto ataethet ef twenty years Since.