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14Y MOTHER'S OBJECTIONS.
Georgie had succeeded at last in her
-forte at persuasion. Georgie ,Lonox
is my cousin, and my mother's niece,
..e was married cow—married a yei.r
• to Rudolf Aronaoh, one of the,
best fellows iu the wuricl, aud thee* lead
taken stir their abode in Hoboken,, that
most 3orPharr of A.lnorican towns. It
was to the ca'ebratton of their wedding
eupiverattry that my motile. bad, after
mhos hesitation, consented .to go.
'It is to be a very quiet. dinner,'
Georgie had Said, ; 'but ltiuiolf has 80
marry friends who must be iuvited,tbat
we hevo .(healed to give it at the Ger-.
luau Club instead our owu liouse,wbicn.
i3�ruuoh to small.'
'I am afraid it will be a very gay
and worldly tartar,' sighed my mother;
'but Georgie makes sueli a poiut of it
that, fur her sake, I suppose I must
go. But remember, Fredrick, if I see
any signs of dancing, I leave, at once
for that 1 really eau not countenance
notary gatuhltrtg had already gtveu ole
good hopes.
The dinner was a thoroughly Ger7
mars affair, Servants, diallers, convex.*
station, '1tt1si0 were all Cerullo of the
!tam Timns
aisle, aud as we entered the pew later
than our wont, my crosier, who Illided
herself upon her lanuo.uttlity,was some-
what flustered by the time we reached
it,
'' i.Dearly beloved brethren ,the Script-
crest type. It Was a little slice out ore muveth its,' ' repeater, the clertiy-
r ylman in his full, rich tones.
out of the very heart of Vats' taint, aud
'Captain Jiutrs, of the' Horse Marinas t
sot dutvu bodily in the Midst of au 1give'1ny wee good can and Womb,'
Atnertottn town. My mother did not
understand a word of German, but.
Elerr Muller' evoke exoelleut English,
and I was glad to see that mother was
gradually b000miu; more and more ab-
sorbed in the conversation, When sltt3
found that herr efusal to take wine pre
yoked only a very mild surprise and
remonstrance, her last scruple melted
aud I was scarcely surprised to see her
wildly waving her empty glass, and
(shouting with rest the musical 'Hook,'
which is the Garman version of our
unrnelodtous cheer. To be sure, the
toast which she elected to honor was,
'To the health of one American friends
now present,' but as 110 doubt of the
propriety of her: proceeding crossed her
my pressure, There is a point be.
mind, it would have been a pity to en -
by
3•unit vi hieb I will not go.' lighten leer.
Of course Lsatisfied Ler with a sheer- Now there was a stir around the tee
Rd 'All right,' and she oracle her pre -
been
The band, which had hitherto
paratinus with a sort of resigned been silent, struck up a march -like
egnaoimity edifying to behold.
I1y mother was a hauduotna wotnau
s ill, in spite her fifty years.with a tall,
fiuely moulded figure. delicate, clear-
cut features, unblurred yet by Time's
ruthless toueh,soft blue eyes,'a.nd heaps
upon heaps of snow-white hair which
glistened like shin silk above Ler low
broed;foreheod. I was very proud of
lier as I looked at her that evening in
her sweeltiug dress of black velvet, fin-
ibhetl at the throat and wrists with soft
falls of creamy lace. Dress and laces
had been cry preseut to her upon her Inert, yields to the impulse. Then a
last birthday, and she accepted thein dreadful ensl'icion breaks upon her
with a mild rebuke of my extravagance, mind, and she turns to her partner,
and wore them with an air of quite with the frenzied question :—
protest, blended with subdued pride,
air, Each gentleman offered his arm
to his partner; and moFeci arouutlj the People stared, giggled, and wnuder•ed.
ay mothsr, in wrath and agony, et rug -
room iu .t dignified promeniade, while glad fiercely with her machine, but to
the waiters entered to clear the tittles no. end. '1'he stopping part was out of
and push them out of the way. Round order ; the pleviug part. was in horrib-
ly round we went, my mother beam- ly perfect condition. She thrust It iu•
to the prayer boat rack, and the con-
ing with mild enjoyment as she lean- tact with the hard wood sent forth the
eel upou her pat tner's arm. Suddenly souude with redoubled <<iatinetnesy.
the measure changes ; hand is linked She hid it in her muff, but no amount
in hand, and the loug liue winds and of fur would muffle it. She threw it
waves; weaving itself in and out in upon the seat behind her, where it rat-
tled away as merrily as ever. She was
graceful undulatious. For an instant just about to sit upon it, ben a hand
my mother, in confusion and bewilder- was extended from the pew behind ns
—a slender, delicate band, fitnit.tessly
gloved in pale silver-grey, The hand
closed over the box, and in another in-
stant we heard the soitnda growing
faiuier aud fainter, as Helen sailed
down the broad aisle, leaving a trail of
music behind her as the pasted. Just
as, with a click, the air changed to
'Champane Usurps,' the door closed
behind them: and only the clergyman's
voice broke the stillness which settled
over the church.
I looked :it toy mother. The expres-
sion of agony upon her Eno had faded
slowly to a look of intense relief. She
turned her eyes upon ane, bent toward
me to whisper sometlilug, and—broke
into a perfectly audible burgh 1 It wiz;
a laugh of sheer nevousuess, without a
pal tiele of mirth in it, but a laugh in v
ertlleless, positive and uncontrollable.
Laugh she must, and laugh she slid
nutil her fore grew aon.rlet and' the
tears r.0 dowu her che.•ks,a•i4 she .ta•
fain to hide her diminished head be
bind her muff ---laughed until, in sheer
desp{ir, she was obliged to fairly flee
from the church jest as the congrega-
tiou rose for the •Te Deem.'
v.
My mother and 1 sat for a long time
witheut speaking, nn the memorable
Sunday evening. She was calm and
composed now, tbr�tigh the traces of
recent emotion still lingered upon. her
face. I would not be the first to breech
one subject, the only one upon which 1
felt incliner, to talk just then ; 8o the
.at silent in the dusky twilight, watch-
ing the leaning violent flames which
quivered aud flickered abuve the bed
of glowing coal.. •
'Frederick,' said my mother at last.
iv. 'Yes, mother.'
It is Sunday morning—the Sunday 1 'Yew linen is a brave girl.' .
I am glad that yon think so, mo -
after mother's little eseapt.de at rho tber.'
German Club, The church -bells are 'Do yen think,' sniri my mother,
Where on, earth dol it.come from ?
Not words, yoe enderetend,oul,V a tink-
le of jig-a-jig•jig jig, jig•a.jig-jig, cur-
iously near atld distiuet, and eutiounly,
horribly inappropriate to the oeoaz'iiou.
I looked about in doubt and amaze so
;lid ever•,ybocty else, Iliad a !moose
strayed into cl.urohthat clear Nevem-
bet' morni.ig, or•-•Stlddeuly my gaze.
fell upon my mother's face—such a
scarlet, agonized face as it was 1—ae
her trembling fingers fumbled nervous-
ly but vainly with the elasp r.f the pray-
er•bonk which she held. My eye,' fol-
lowed hers dow•uward,and the mystery
was solved. Iustsad of a, prayer -book,
sho had in her haste caught up a meal -
cal photograph album, which was pre-
oisely of the same size and share,uever
discovering the difference until the
fiendish thing began to rattle richt its
rollicking tune at this horrible iuop-
portuue time.
'Captain Jinks, of the Horse Marino,'
' 'We have erred and strayed from
Thy ways like lost sheep.' '
le was all a confused Babel of enunds,
JIIST I ] C .V.k'It
ATAucn 11, {.S60
AT 'I11L
E :e GrE.0 C
which was charming.
George's fiction of the 'quiet dinner'
had hardly imposed upon nay mother,I
think. Nevertheless, I felt ber cling
closely to thy arm, with a stifled groan
as we entered the one long room which
then composed the entire second fluor
of the German Club -house, with its
'What is It ? N%iat are we doing ?'
'Doiug, media) ?' repeats herr Mul-
ler. looking blaud, but slightly puzz-
led. (We are dancing the Palouuiee, to
be sure. Do not be troubled; yuu do
perfectly well, I essure yon.'
But my mother waits for no further
encouragement. With a gasp she
wrests her hand quickly from the grasp
polished floor and brilliaut lights, and upon it, and meobeuioally; retaining
the little curtained stage at the upper her hold upon her partner, she whirls
end on vtiich her eye fell first. There
was no danger to be apprehended from
that quari,er, however, as she soon
fouud ; but scaroely hes alarming,
from her point of view, woe the array
of tnany-orlored glasses which cluster-
ed bo.aide each plate all the way down
the three long t1.b1, s.
'What sloes it mean 2' she moaned,
fain ly, 'Will they make me drink
wine ? Oh, Frederick, take me home,'
1 should not, have done so in any
case, but it was already too late, for
Georgie had caught sight of us and
hastened up,follewed by one Herr Mul-
ler, a German of the stoat, jolly, rubi-
crud type, whom she introduced to
my mother as the s.,n of a German
Protestant minister. My mother's
fas:e partially lust its luck of bewilder•
ed distn;ty at this item of news, and
she allowed him to lead her to a place
'without further objection.
I stn afraid that at t'uis point try at-
tention wandered slightly from toy
Mother, for Helen was there, the dar-
ling, more beatntifnl titan ever in }ler
draperies of pale blue aur, paler salmon,
with :tea roses and fur"get•trie-note
nestling among the ripples of her bon-
ny In own noir ; with her pure prond
face. aud lair clear stearlf.tet brown
eyes, and the gentle, trai.gnil glace
him, too, out of the ranks, and drops,
a limp, collapsed heap, upon the near-
est chair. Helen and I disengage our-
selves front the line and hasten up to
her. .But consolation is in vain. She
only raises her tearful eyes to urine and
murmurs.
'I'rederick,your mother will uiegrace
both you and herself in her oki' age•
First garubling,and now -dancing ! Oh,
Frederick, send me beck to leepoosuc
before I sink further 1' *Aid covering
her face with her bands elle bnrsts in.
to helpless tears, while her bettildered
partner looks nn, unable to fi rm the
slightest coujectnre as to the meaning
of this ratnarkrible scene. .
Obviously there is blit one thing to
be done, and that I di,, by . habtily can-
eigt.iug Helen to Herr Muller's charge,
aud leading my mother out of the room
as quickly aud quietly ab possible.
AND LIQUOR r,STOREt,
A LA1.1UE1 STOCK' OP
G1t,EE3,S, JAPAN,
0(IN (f HT SON
and 13.LACK TEAS.,
BelLSINS, CURRANTS,'
1'1iONES, DItIIL: D APPLEt3
CANED FRUIT,
SARDINES,
LOBSTERS,
'SALMON,
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SCOTCH, IRISld AND COMMON %VIIISKLUS,. TODA.UCUS AND 4)1tr Al1b,
filling the stir with mesio, church gners
throng the streets, and s'i'1 my ,nether
dues net come. I have been waitltlg
in tite ll'1l1 for fifteen minutes, and al
ready the bell bait ct'nsed chiming and
began to toll. 1 grow lineal at last,
and em half -why nn the stars, when
I met hnr e'mins* down. 'Mist hail
dellliilyd her ? H.,w mid I tell ? A
slowly, 'that she aid it' because I stn
your mother, or brcense--'
't thunk.' said I, gnickly, 'that if any
thing wnnld have prevented her doing
'it, it world have been the feet that you
ate my mother.'
'And that you were prevent,' said my
mother., nodding her headsagsoi usly.
'I thought en. Frederick, we lead tt
whirl', of alt her charms,' was the ono strict; lois, seine off, 8, button would onnversation two weeks unit—'
which most attracted ane,- not fe,'en. nr wnutethieg of that sort 'Olt dancing, gumi,ling, and 'lrengh-
Whatdn T knew r f the variene bnt tri mg in chnroh,' I suggested as my mo-
iling sccidents of n .wnntan'e toilet 2 titer pntte:e'i.
Shia was reedy at 1 I t, lel wever ; slid `1''t', deriek,' said my mother, sever•
c,tn;ht lip 1 reyer heel( nod muff, and lv• hilt y'ou be kind ennttgh to let that
hastened down to join ane. '
tisk of- breaking her own heart, had
The eervie. bed begun ns the enter-
ed the church which my mother and.1
attended. Episcopalianism WW1 not
toy mother's favorite form of wor,hip,
but site 116l o'neente(1 to go with are to
Mat, cl)tirid ), feiu•ing, I enl'prso, t hat
ntherttisn ;I wonlid not go at all. Need
I stn ibid. my choice had been decided
Iry the fact that Helen was n. member
Of sparse Helen knew nothing of the
state of affairs betweeu my mother ,aid.
rue She w.'uld brave brokeu off on
eugageuleut in art iiietaut, even at the
the faintest suspicion of it entered her
mind, Fottunntely my .mother and
strd were not likely to be bi'onghb into
gloss cuntact for the present. Even'
hail they birch, Helen would probably
account for nnv titulher's indifference
on the moiled of her b.Illg stili ignor- i (rtlli1 8 111041. 1levnnt (tilt ) of that chttt•c1L_ ,ya - - awitesR
ant f our a'ngttt;elatlut whirl► was on II cn,,Nidi't`I•d myself l'nrtnnato in having _� ._"` `�`
et'fntr' of only it Inlet,lt'H standing. A,, , been able to se1'•tit'e A hers exactly iu ��luI1 PIt EST11r� Y'.
fol` 111 • I thought 1t Fn+•t til let things l Pruitt of tinct which her family neotlpi•t r n,nlsont,t.t tit; (7..n. 2i, Ftenhl'n, Itpoat•ling
refit a'. t ;el were until the way should cd. and thither we dtreeted our etene.f heifer 'rheowt>oyisrq;taFedtnprcrnlnnperty
lsae+r ox'nousaII anti tUhc,tnr away. rx. SIdliatEAT ll
be elesreu,,of Wittuu my mothers iuvul• ,It was oil uated well up iu the middle' tJtephen,k'ebluary17,18b0, It.
subject drop 9 Beettpee i was n orate •
tank-r.nns idiot and a self-npinisnated
bii'ut, will you leave me tin" place for
repentance ? f have had now views of
the fallibility. of human nature since
then, and I stttrpr,1P I may take at wo-
man's 'v privilege or' changing my mind.'
'13y ail merino,' said 1. {rtatthing, 'ev•
pecialiy as von have ltdl!led the coon.
ditioee eo adiiliriibly� ' ,
Wholesale and Retail.
' C . ,J5,4 MACE -
Main St•reet,Eaeter.
THE NATIONAL POLICY
Having triumphed at the polio.,
ISAAC C A LIN
$ preparea to give all bus stsbomers toe bet oats Mutt will n.ocrnefrom its adoption, and Iia
hand ararge stook of
Dry Goods, Groceries, Wines ana
Liquors, Crockery, alto.,
At his Store, Main Street, Exeter, which will be sold a
which will be sold atprieesunhoard olunder Free Trade.
The farmers of the s.urroun€linn country will find it to. their ad-
. vantage to sell their pioc1iice without paying market
fees, ou the Exeter market,which is second
to none in the west, and then
call at the store of the sizbseiiber and
Se lase • IS 3.rrra.2.71c7
here to be had in Overoonuiaa, T�111_t;lotils, Bread-clothDoe skins, Silks, 'Vinceys, Deluines, ftlicl everything •�
needed in the Dry Goods line. The Grocery
Department very Oowplete. An inspection invited
No trouble to show goods ISAAC CARLING
GO TO JAMES PICICAEZ YS
SOME REASONS why these Suspenders
1.7 are better than others :--
i 1st. No Elastic required.
2nd.—Is Slack when stooping.
3rd.—It never slips off the Shoulders.
4th.—Sold at prices of common suspenderil.
Try a Pair and Bemire Comfort.
' Manufactured by O. E. RAMAGE,
282 Adelaide St. West, Toronto.
anct don't miss tho chance.
lust Received -
3rd Lvt et those Cheap Miok Setts,
3rd Lot of Robes, Hutl,:ou 13nr prices,
Dress Goods ane). Wiuceys—dirt cheap,
Blanket.* and i totfo•I at job prices.
Grey, Sear1•4 And Fancy fiance sr -milt prices,
For variety 11.214 Latest Styles, itelet fol'/ to see
ur MILLINERY.
Meths and Tweeds, never better selected, end
le beat cutter iu the county.
OVERCOATS
BOOTS AND SHOES
Bought before the big advance, and tmr c+sstomers
7M I h.' s+rlv,utt,U le not only of saluttting :o:
ru t1i.
largest Stock in town, but
AT OLD PRiets.
Our object is to boy and sell nt 't;ottna, Pti',es,
and by 'Lb• o way pt•uple aro ffockinarotiud we
think we are ctoing it.
COME AND SEE.
The UNIVERSAL SUSPENDER. 'orassortment and prier/ cough
alfad.
JAMES :I ICF"ART?
SPECIAL NOTICE!
.AL ;
P.sICKABD
Are now offerivg.at OLD PRICES a complete assortment of DRY GOOCS, mcluding
Mantles, and Mantle Cloths in. Great Variety
Dress Goods in all shades" and colors.
• WTNOE rs CHEAPER TIIAN EVER BEFORE OFFERED
BLACK LT3STB S direct from the manaacturer.
FLANNELS & BLANKETS very low,
READY-MADE CLOTHING CHEAP.
CLOTH & FUR CAPS ALL STYLES,
MILLINL'"IIY'I1'1 L.AT1ST STYLES,
ORDERED CLOTHING A. SPECIALTY.
Also full liners of BOOTS & S1IO1;S, HATS & CAPS.
& FRESH GROCERIES.
Wo'Y,ave chis a sp'cial offering of LADIES' MINK
SETS & UALS
Be sure to call axicl '-e- i,hc'rn
A lotof D111+T'ALO LOBES S at apt ein prices:
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A 11 the above goods will be .offered at
the very. lowest 'rices..
sA1. Wwtt t& 1rI(l obis.
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