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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-12-7, Page 3TV- Wearylie for Yeti. Jes' a•wearyin' for you -- All the time a-feelin blue; Wiehin' for you—wonderfn' when You'll be comin' home agon. .Restless, don't now what to d4-- Jes'a-wearyin' for you 1 Room's so lonesome with your chair enepty by the fireplace there, Jeb' eon% stand the sight of it! Go out doors an . roam a bit - JIBat the woods is lonesome, ton— Jes' a-woaryin' for you ! Comesthe wind, with soft caress, .Like the rustlin of your dress ; Blossoms fallin' to the ground Softly, like your footstep. sound; Violets like your eyes so blue Mee' a-wearyin' for you 1 Mullin' comes ; the birds awake ; ,Ude to sing so for your sake 1 But there's sadness in the notes That comes thrillin''from their throats Seem to feel your absence, too— Jos' a-wearyin' for yon 1 Evenin' comes ; 1 mise you more When the dark g ooms an the door Seerns3os' like you orter be There W open.itforme 1 Ls' ch goes tlnklin' ; thrills me through— Sete me wearyin' for you! Jes' a-woaryin' for you— All the time a-fcelin' blue ; Within' for you—wonderin'.whcn You'll bo comin' home agen ; Restless—don't know what to do— Je°. a-we,ryin' for you! 1 Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. Little Girls. Where have they gone to—the little girls, With natural manner and natural curls? Who love their dollies and like their toys, t,And talk of`` something besides the -boys 1 ,VLittle old women in plenty 1 find, ; adature in manners and old of mind, Little old flirts who talk of their "beano" And vie with each other in stylish clothes. Once in the beautiful long ago, Some dear little children I used to know : Girls who were merry as lambs at play, And laughed and rollicked the livelong day. They thought not at all of the " style " of their clothes, They never imagined that boys wore " beaus ;" " Other girls' brothers" and mates " were they ; Splendid fellows to help them play. Where have they gone to? If you see One of them anywhere send her to me. I would give a medal of purest gold ToMae of those dear little girls of old, With an innocent heart and au open smile, Who knows not the meaning of fiirb" or " style." JULIZA'S PROPOSAL, HERE was a sewing circle and sociable in thelitticBaptlatiChtarah in Stony Brook. The sewing oirole had begun early in the afternoon, the elder women had came with their beat white aprons trimmed with knitted 1aor, and their needle books end thimbld•a in their look- _ eta, and bad sewed busily, gathering aronud the greet woad stove in the vestry. Ib was a cold day. They sewed until dusk, then they lighted the lamps, warmed the tea and coffee, which had been brougbt ready made in great cane, and set out the buttered biscuits, the cold most and the make .and pies. The young people began to . 8e&r in, the young girls, with their care fat •.,arrliead tufts of ront hair, and their eh,.cfng braids at the back, gathered around the stove ; the young men stood aloof in stiff, amiable grenpe near • the doer. They made way for Juliza Peok when she entered, and ehe walked through them calmly, looking neither to the right ,. nor left, and greeting none of them. Greet - fug yenng men in theaggregate at a sociable was not in the social code of the girls of Stony Brook. Juliza was a heavily built girl, with a back en broad as a matron's. She wore her best blue cashmere dress with rows of velvet ribbon over the bast, her too her's best brooch, which was black, with a beautiful little buhoh of pearl grapes neon It, ,.nri new shoes, which creaked as sake advanced. There was a certain importance about her entrance. The young girle all stared around ab her and whispered and several women in flaring white aprons epoke to her and asked where her mother was. Juliza replied with dignity that her mother had a -mold and had not thought it prudent to ooms out. " e'poee you're all prepared," said one woman,. whsee thin, primped hair was trained carefully over thin, flushed cheeks. .She held a pile of plates under her arm, 'The plates rattled, her stiff apron crackled and her blank silk honed es she epoke with nervous haste and pleasantry. " Yos, ma'am," replied Juan. " You mustn't make us all cry, the way 'you did before," said the woman. Juliza laughed. When she approached a group of girls by the stove they all nodded st[ffiy, .and she returnee it. "-Goin' to spank to -night 2" asked ono of the girls after a little. "". Yes," said Juliza. " Don't yen dread it 2" asked another. • " Not a mite." " I don't see how yen do it." The girls all stated at Juiiza as she stood in their midst, but the did not seem to realize it. Her dark brown hair curled naturally, and she had bruited it back crinkling from her fresh -colored faoe with , its rounding profile, and had tied 1t in a bunch' et, the back. She warmed her hands, then oho eat down ; the girls did -cot talk to her any more. She was not in reality, although noar their ages, a com- Sanion of theirs. She was an only child. he had lived alone with her parenb8, had never been to sohool nor associated with girls of her Own ago; 'The result was not shyness when he was brought in contact with them—the had too steady a nervous system for that—bub a demeanor 1iko that of a woman of fifty. Sho felt years away from the other girls, and they also felt it. As she sat waiting she looked calmlyjoyer at the group of young mon at the door, .'rank Wtltiems had come ; she could see hie shining blonde head above the others. Ho was quite balleand his ehouldere eloped boyishly in hie boot coat. She looked steadily at him, and premenbly, he turned tie eyed toward her. He did not speak. nor, did she, but she could nee a wave of red flash over the long throat and hie- smooth feces. 'Juliza did not blush at ail. When they gathered around the Supper table amid au embarrassed hueh Juliza found herself rer away from the other young people, next the minister. When the bless-. ing hied been asked by the minister towering, over her. the leaked around to see whore (rank *intent was. ' He wad sitting be-. bween two young girls at the lower end of the table. Juliza eat book and ate a hearty eupper. After sapper, when the table woe • cleared away, the entcrtatement began. There wan playing on the parlor organ and' eingtng ; cad thou Julien Peek epoke. " There will now bo a recitation by Mies " a o the In r and. Peok, gnat uQ ad h m late , d Jalista arosa and went unflinchingly in her creaking shoot to the platform• took her n d and lifted u ' her voice. ceiblo ,bows , p Her volae was heavy and low•plbohod and she spoke. with a eolemn intonation; how and tfcn she guttered deliberately: She spoke a long poem describing an heroic deed and a tragic death; people had their .hkndkorcbiefe be their faces. When alio finished and stepped down from the plat- form there was a murmur of admiration all ov" r the vestry --clapping wits nob allowed in the church. "Beautiful!'" the women whispered to one anoeber and nodded. There war more music, then Julian epotse again—oho epoke three times in all—and the subdued enthusiasm grew ebronger. Juliza Peok'(' epealing was held in great repute in Stony Brook. It was quite gent eraily believed bhab very few of the people wlao go round the country ap eakieg for money in town halls could apeak as well as ohe. • Women had balked to Juliza'® mother about ib, but M -re. Peek had shaken her heed. "There ain't any need of Julizs's dotng any such thing," said she, with d gutty. " I'm wtllln' she should speak to accommodate as she does hero in town, bub 1 ain't willin' to have her go round epsakin' in public. Ib ain't a woman's plume. an' Jultza'e got enough—she don't need to." Juliza Pook was considered quite an heireee. There had been two aunts en her father's side who had boon loft widows with email properties, Jultza had been named for both of them by a judicious combination of Julia and Eliza and had inherited their money. Sho had gate a little sum in a savings bank and she owned a honed in a neighboring village.. The ®eatable ended ,about 10 o'olcok— there hod been a little imolai time after the entertatnmonb—thou people began to go home. Juliza pinned her mother's plaid long shawl firmly and comfortably over her ehouldere and tied on her blue hoed. The young men stood thickly around the outer door. Now and then, when a girl passed out, a young man left the group softly and slyly and followed her. When Jelin Peak appeared Frank William shrank back ; several of the young men tried to pueh him forward, laughing, but he stool his ground. Juliza paused in the door- way and stood locking back at him calmly, as if welting. Tote scab among the young men ceased; Frank Willtame stepped forward and he and Jabzt went oat of the door. An ley north wind ammo fall in their fusee when they turned into the read. The snow was drifted at the Bides, eo they walked in the middle of the sleigh rate. Frank did nob offer his arm to Juliza, and she plodded stolidly along ab his side with her mibtenod hands warmly folded tinder her shawl. " It's au awful cold night, ain't it ?" eel i she presently. Frank grunted assent ; his coat collar was pulled np over hie rare, and his hands were in his pookets. Julie% kept loekiog at his dusky, forbidding figure. " What's the matter 1" eafd she. " Nethtn'a the matter ; why 1" " Don't yon feel well 1" " Feel well enough." " What makes you act so, then " " Aot how? I didn't know I was actin' any way uncommon. I'm cold, and I want be gob home. " Yea, it is dreadful cold," said Jalisa, soberly. " Your overcoat's thiok, an'b it 1" " Thiok2 I've been wearing it all win- ter." "Look here, Frank ; I've got on this scarf, an' I don't need it with this shawl ; I wish you'd pat it around your throat." " Ne, I don't need ib; my coat collar's warm enough." " New do." " I don't need it." Frank swung on eo rapidly that Juliza panted keeping up with him. It was cloudy, bat there was a full moon, behind the olonde, so there was a oft, pals light over. all the snowy landscape. It was a lonely read, and they hod a mile and a half to go. Here and there hack in the fields twinkled a light in some hoose window. "Frank 1" said Juliza. " Whab say ?" " What makes you act so 1" " Act so? Well, if you want to know, mother's mtserable. She's mieerable the whole time. 1 hadn't ought to have mine off and left her to -eight, but she made me. She an't fit to do a thing about the house, and she won't have a hired girl. I don't believe mother'li ever be any better ; she'll always be feeble ; she's just the way her mother was for years. I'm tryln' to do the coakin,' but I don't make out innoh." Juliza took out a hand from ander her shawl and caught hold of Frank's arm. " Don't walk quite no fast," said she. " Leak here !" " What say 2" • Tho young man's tone was eater than before, and be slackened his pace. Juliza looked ap in hie shadowy face. Sho had to speak quite londiy to be heard in the strong wind. " There an'b but one thing to do," said she. "111 come ever there whenever you want me." " You 1" " Yee ; there ain't any need of me at home. Of ooaree they'd miss me, but mother's real strong and. well. I can coma any time next week if you say so. I haven't mnoh to do to get ready. I've got clothes enough. I never thoughb I'd want to lay in a great stook when I was married. Anyway, I always thought it was foolish." "Jnliza, you don't mean—" " I mean I'll get moiled to you right away and come over to your house. Tbat'Il Bottle ib. I'm a geed cook and a geod housekeeper ; mother says I am." . The young man fairly gasped and he trembled violently. "Why, what is the matter 1" asked Juliza, " aro you no oold an all that 2" " No, ib ain't that. Juliza, you're awful good. I know you can cook splendid.. I— don't know what to say. Oh, dear 1 I an't —thought about gebbin' married yet awhile. That's the whole of it, Juliza. I'm just as much obliged to yeu." Jnliza stopped short. " You don't mean you don't want me to' marry you, Frank Williams," she aaid. " Why, see here, Juliza—" " You don't mean it." " Why, Juliza, yen know if—I was gots' to marry anybody—I've always liked you first rate." " I bada'6 a thought bub you wanted Inc to," said .ehe, and began walking on. " I don't see what you'll do if I don't marry you." " Oh,. we'll worry along somehow. We'd better walk fast, Jallza, or we'll catch cold," He pulled Juliza's firm hand and arm closer against his. I ain't cold," said ehe, "it's you; you've been shivorin most since moo started. I'm glad we're moat home. Tboro's the light in the eittio'-room window." Juliza'® house camp first an the brow of a long hill ; the Williams henie was close to it, anti there,wae no other dwelling in sight, either way. Frank and Juliza went to her side door ; the front yard was blocked lei with snow. .Frank released Juliet's hand from his arm. " Yon muen'b think I shall ray anything about this tonight," he maid In a hesitating voice ; "I shall never speak of it." ""I don't ore if you do," returned Jullza. "•I haven't dons anything I'm ashamed of. I1 anybody has lb's you. I. supposed you itgranted I was gob:eta marr o took fory u g y r an' I don't think you show much common Ono about iii 1 don't believeenybodyelee would think so either." "There'e something to be oonsidored besides common comae eontotitnoe," said Prank, feebly. They Were' a little chef. tiered in the south yard from the Mod. Jaliza'i oat Game mewing loudly around her feet. I begin to think there is," said Julia. " Well, It's for you 0 say, of course. 1 anti gain' in anywhere where I an'U wanted, bub I mob may Poe sarprieed. Good night, Frank." "Good night, 'Janne", Juliza epened the door and lob In the oat, then she aimed look- ing for a moment after Frank's retreating figure and ltebening to the mound of his foote. stops crnnehing the snow. "Jalisa 1 that. yen 2" called. a veto from the eistleg-room, and she went in hastily cad oloced the door. When ate entered the eitbiug.room oho found her mother there alone, to the warm, light atmosphere, fall of the odor of green, dooming pleats ; the windowe were all eat with tiers of them. There was a curious majesty about Mre. Peck's large figure and long fade. She were her blank hair in .punctilious water waved around her teropleo, She eat in her rocking chair as if it were a throne, and her black cashmere skirt fell over her knees in stately fords, " You are pretty late, etn'b you 2" said she, and her voice wee deep with eolemn Lnfleatione like Juliza'®. " I don't know. The eatertninmont was pretty long." " Did they act aa if they liked your pieces 2" " Yes, I th.ought they did." " Did anybody ask after nee " Yee, a lot did." " What dad you tell'eml" " I told 'em you had a cold an' didn't think it was Quito prndeab iso go out." Jnlizt's voice took on *meetly the tone with which she had replied to the inquiring women. She had taken off her shawl and hood and was standing over the stove. Her face was ail a deep, pink glow from the cold wind. " Mother," maid she, suddenly, " what do you suppose the resesn is that Frank den't want inc to marry him 2" " Juliet Peok, what do you mean 2" " Wbab I say. What do you suppose the reason is he don't want me to marry hien 2" " Haw do you know he don't—what are yea talking about Y' " He said he didn't just now." " How came he to ?" " was bollin' mo hew miserable hie mether was an' what a hard time he had wottln' along, an' I said 1 was wiltin' to merry him an' go over there whenever he eaid. I knew you could get along without me." "Jaliza Peok, you dln'b ask Frank Williams to marry you 2' " No, I didn't ask him ; I told him I would." " Do you know what you've done 2" " What 2" " What 2 You've mado yourself the laughtn' stoek all over Stony Brook." " I don't see why I have, I'm sure." " Don't you know girla don't belt young men they'll marry 'em, unless they're asked." " I don'beeo why they don't-" " Yon needn't tell me you don't know better than that 2" Juliza turned about and fronted her mother calmly. " Ne, I ditin'b,aad I don't," old she. " I don't) sec why it's any' worse for a girl to speak than 'Ms for a mai. I always sup- posed he wanted ms to marry him, I've never wanted to marry anybody else, an' I anew hie mother was so miserable and I'd have so much work to do if I went there that he'd think ib was kieid of meau to speak of it himself. I don't see a single thing to be ashamed of." • " He'll tell of it all over town." " No, he won't, he said he wouldn't; an' I told him he could If he wanted to. I don't see what I've done to ba laughed ab. I don't think he's ,hewn oommon 8anee." Mre. Peak looked at Jalfza with angry eyes, bleak and full under her water waves. Juliza looked at her cad never flinched. "I should have thought your own modesty woald have taught yeu." " Modesty," returned Jalisa in bewil- dered contempt, az if she didn't know what the word meant. " I think ib'e you. that's immodest, mother. I'm toe modest to see howl wasn't." " Well, you've done it, Chab'e all I've gob to pay," raid her mother rising; " now you'd hotter go to bed. I've been sibtla' np here waitia' for you tibia hoar; your father went to bed at 9 e'etock. I feel like glvin' up myself ; a girl with all your advantagee, with money at interest, an' epeakin' the way you aim, bavin' a young man tell yon right toour face he didn't womb to marry you. Iy should 1lke to knew what he thinks he lo—the Waliamets waru'U never mach ; they've pinked np a little late' years, but I remember the' time when they was jolt as poor end low as they amid bo. Your father an' me look a good deal higher 'than he for yeu, I on tail him that." `" He's high enough for me," said Juliza, lighting her lamp. "I'm ashamed of you," said her mother, fierooly, " I an't gein' to run him down became he don't want to marry mo." Then Juliza went up stairs to her own room slowly 'and ponderouely. The next morning she awoke with a firm, resolution in her mind. "I'm golog to know about this thing," she muttered to hersoif, and bore dawn heavily with her' web brash spun beer crinkly fronts hate, then tied her bunch of curia with a jerk. Her mother treetgd her with cold stiff - nese when she appeared _downstairs ; her father, who was au old pian and vary atlont, ate hie breakfast and thea want away with a toad of wood. " Be auto you geb back in good soaeon," ids wife called after him, deciding in the door. ' " I want you to take me dawn to the village after dinner." The old men made no reply, but lb was oerbaia that he board and would be home in good season. He never dreamed of disobeying hie inn parietal wife, but) covered his ,doolliby with taciturnity, which gavo him a show of masculine dignity. bf ler the house work was done Mrs., Peok called,Jaltza into the slitting -room ant1. drilled her in a now selection Sho steed majestic in her morning calico, which swept about her like the robe of a tragedy queen, aepoating the poem line by limo and Juliza idle wad her,. imitating. the irsotialatlone of her voice. Her gestures. oho could vet well imitate,; there wax novicething fairly inn receive about the backward flea of her traother'e head and the awes of her teat acme her block ()yeti were fell 'of great fire: "� You plank your arm up an' down like a pump handle," said she ; ," your arm an't pat In with a hinge, ibcpub in with your foetid s, when youre epeakin'." ',Tulin worked her arm with phtienb vigor, but she could 'nob equal her mother. " 1 repine it's bocaumo yon ro built ae poltd,". scald Mfrs. Peek. ' " Weil, you speak it, pretty well. I thought it would ao o8 cod piece for bee next p dotablsr if you don't gob married." Jultza armored not a word.; she did not flash or look contacted. She eat woven and sewed silently on it drese :she wee making. ;She had a certain dignity of taaoltatrniby like,, her father abtimes. Alter dinner her father ppb the horse in the sleigh and her mother bundled bereolf in oloake and shawls until she looked like a maeelve pillar ebandiog is the doorway. Leek out for the fire, Julies," acid ehe, " an' you'd better Wendy that last piece ever some," '+ Yee'm," mid Mize. After her mother had gone she eat by the sitting, tootle window cad watched the saowy road stretching away in cold blue furrows where the sleighs had posed. Her hands lay idie in her lap. She eat there an hour, then he arose and got her shawl mond hood. When she was trying on her hood at the sitting reom glass she eaw Frank Williams plug by. She rushed to the window and pounded on ib and beckoned. He looked up, smiled and nodded con-. fneedly and wee paining en. Juliza had to reach between the flower pots and he could scarcely sec her foe behind them. She hurried to the front door, nnlooked ib and pulled it open with a desperatejerk, for the snow had ftez-n on the sell. " Frank 1" the called one, " Frank Williams, oome in here a minute ; T want to Woo you." The young man hesitated. " Is it anything partionlar," he called back. " Yes, 'tie. I've got to Woe you a minute." " I've left mother all alone, an' I've got to ge down to the store." '" won't keep you bub just a minute." Frank turned up the path leading to the aide door. Jaliza kicked off the ridge of snow en the sill, pushed to the doer, and went round to lob hint. In. " I can't stay but a minute," he eaid,oend he looked sulky. " I won't keep you bat jamb a minute." Juliet led the way into the warm sitting room. She did not ask him to sit down ; they stood confronting each other. "Father, and mother have gone to the viilacte," said she. " I've called you in because I wanted to ask yeu something and ib was a good chance." Frank was blushing ; he looked down at hle snowy boats, saw the snow molting on the carpet and thought fiercely to himself that he did not care if 16 was spoiled. He tried to smile. " Well," he muttered. " Now, Frank, I want to ask you some- thing, an' I want you to tell me the truth. I think yen owe it to me. We've known each other ever since wo were children ; you're all the one I've ever known outside Ibis house. You knew mother never lot sue go to school nor play with the girls. Yon lived 'next door, yen know, aa' she couldn't help ib." " Whab is it you want to know, Juliza," said Frank in a constrained voice. " 'levant to know why yea don't want to marry me 2" Frank threw up hie chin with a jerk. "See here, Juliza Peok," he cried, "you may not know it, bat you're doing a dread- ful thing. How do you auppeee I can answer you a question like that if I'm a man. You know 1 like you well enough ; I always have, but, oh, dear, I don't know what to say," " Is there anybody else you like better ?" Jaliza asked calmly. Frank gave a sadden start and looked at her. " I don't knew as there Ls." " Who is !t?" • " I bell you I don't know ae there's any- body." ny tied . ,� ""yNow, Frank Williams, you've gob to boll me. Yon owe it to me. Is in any girl here in Stony Brook P" " No, it len'b." Juliza looked at him reflectively. " know Who leis." she said. " No, you den'6." " Yea, I do, an' I'll tell you, too. We that Lily Emmons that cams here once with your certain Jenny." Frank blushed deeper; he cacti a glance at Jalfza that was almaeb piteous. "I knew'twas," said she ; " yea can't cheat me. She came hero last summer. I remember her. She was real pretty ; I never saw such pink choke as ehe had, an' ehe had a pink dress with cambric edging on it." " Ib'e no use talkie' about it," said Frank. "' Yea, there le, too. Sae here. Frank, have you asked her 2" " Asked her I I haven'b seen her (since .she was here." ' " Have you written toiler 2" " No. Jenny's written to me chant her —that's all." " An' you've sent a word to her some- times,, haven't you I" " Well, I don't know. I may have once or twice." " Frank, you sit done here a minute— you've got to bell me about this." Juliza pulled forward a rocking chair and Frank settled into it. Juliza sat oppaatte "Now," raid she, " you tell me the whole story. Do you think she likes yen?" Frank leaked at her like a bashful ohild, blushing and half smiling. " Tell me all about bb," said .she. " I never told a livin' soul, Juliza." " That's all the more reason why yon should. Did anything happen while ehe moue here'?" " Yon know she wasn't - here bat two weeks with Jenny," began Freak beeltat ingly. " I suppose you wouldn't think anything mild happen im than length of time, bat Jenny was with mother, an' oho aa' 1 were thrown together a good deal, an' moo gob acquainted fast. 1b eeemed to me I never got acgoaiatcd with anybody so Mot ; an' ---well, it was the day before ohe want away we walked dew in the orchard, an' I don't know how it happened, but we were etandia' there ander the trees, an' the was looking up at neo, an'—wolf, anyway, I kissed her ; an' j eat then Jemmy came ren- nin' down through the field." " Did she act mad?" " No, I den't think Rho did. I wan afraid mho was, afterward, but she didn't eat so," " Of course she liked you, then." " See here, Juliza—should yon, if you'd been in her place—that is, if anyone had acted to by yen ? You're another girl, an' you ought to know." "Yes, I should." "'Maybe ohe did like me a little, then. I don't' tee how she could. Oh, Julies, wtten't oho pretty rt • "She's prettier than any girl in Stony Brook." "" I guess she fa." Frank's face was fall of a tender radiance, bio bine erre looked ep into Jeltza's facie with the love that be. longed to the other girl. Juliza was now standing over him. "Sao bare," paid Elie, " why don't you write to her, or go to Woo her, or soneethtrig 2" "Jenny asked me' no come over to Hill- brook on' vleit. Sho hinted eontebody eise. would bo glad to nee me, she gnceeed, but 1 can't go." Why nob?" !" I can't leave mother." • " You could write to thatgirl," said Ju- liet. after a rofieethre pause. " 1'7o, tb'e no use: 1 can't. 1' tell you what 'lam Jultaa, I have written fifty lettere an torte ocn up. T don't even know how to begin'om. g" 1 circuli say, ' Dear Friend,'" said Ja- liza. " Should you ? Well, I don't know. Yen ado, 1 wasn't euro ehe was itt earneet that time en the apple orchard. T wee alratt1 tel whin' us if she Ww, and afraid 0 wribin' as if she wasn't. Then I tried tie write newt, bub•bhere wasn't any. I had be give ib up," " 1 could help you write a letter, I pup• P080," said Juliza, Pkat I think You had better get ready an' go to H11lbrook, and— stay with your mother while you're gone." " Oh, Jaliza, you don't mean it?" " Yoe I do." Oh, I toll you whab'tle, Julio, I, never taw a girl as good as you are. I den't be- lieve she is—at least I don't' believe she's any, better." "I'd just ae livers ss not," said Juliza." " Ib an't anybbing. Yon get ready WI' go, au' I'll come over any day. When do you want 6o go ?" Frank hesitated. " lb's Tharaday now," said Ge ; " when do you think I'd better go ?" " Why don't) you go tomorrow an' stay a week 2" " Had you just as soon oome to- morrow 2" " I can come to-morrew jot as weIl as any day." " Weil, then," mid Frank, getting up, " I'll go home and tell mother. I gauss she'll be witlin'. She's always thought everything of you, Julien" " How is she to -day 2" " She's mteerabbe." " Don't) ehe take nay medicine 7" " Yeo, she takes the de:Aerie medicine, en' then she bag her own little doses. I've just been reakin' her some mates seed tea." Whom Frank went Juliza resumed her sewing and waited for her father and mother to return. It was dusk and she had lighted the lamp before they drove into the yard. Juliza opened the door and her mother came in panting, in is swirl of oold air. She had her arms full of bundles and she pub them demon on the lounge with omphaefs. " It's a terrible raw wind," said she ; " I'm lanky !f 1 don't get more cold." Sud- denly she stood still and sniffed ; her thick green veil moulded itself to her large fea- ture!. " Whet's that I smell?" ehe said, " anise?" Juiiza made no reply. " Yes, 'tie anise," repeated her mother. °" Yea can't eheat me. Frank Williams has been in horn. Mie' Williams is always havin' anise tee, and their clothes are al- ways ecenied with it. Suddenly Mrs. Peak made a Step forward, slipped up her veil. and peered down at the carpet, " What's that'a great spot?" she cried out. " He's tracked in snow, an' you know water spots this carpob. I should think you were crazy, Juliza. Peck. Why didn't yeu put a mat under hie feet 2" " I didn't think." " I should think you'd better think. There's that groat spat ea the carpet. What did he came in for, anyway?" Juiiza etocd looking ab the spot. " He wants to go away for a few days, but he cant'b leave hie mother. I—told him I'd go ever there and stay with her, so he could go," did" Juliza looked at the spot. "1 guess you won't go a etep, not if I know it." Juliza had always been frank and artless, even to blentneee and atnpidity. Now ehe suddenly displayed art which would have done credit to a diplomat. "He's gobs' to Iia Cousin Jenny's," said ehe, "but he's really goin' to see that Emmons girl who was here land summer. If—I ge over there to stay while he's gone, he won't think, an' nobody oleo will think, I want him." Her mother looked at her sharply. She had taken elf her veil and bonnet, the stiff water waves were unruffled, her cheeks were a purplish red with the cold wind. "If I ever hoar anybody hint yen wanted him bl:ey'it geb a piece of my mind," mid ehe. The next moraiag .Fulfze went over to the Williams house. Her mother had made no further oppoen lou. She even helped her off grudgingly. °" Don't yen try to work too hard," she said ; " you mike Frank draw you tome water an' get in a stook of wand be ore he goon, I'll run over this afternoon an' nee how you're gebtin' along." When Juliz's entered the sitting -room of the other home ehe found Mrs. Williams sitting et the window in her rookimg chair. She was a little woman, doubled me limply in pillewe like r. baby. Her email, gently querulous fame wag tear -stained, and she looked np pit folly at Jaliza. " He's out in the hi 'abet. slriv!n'," site said. "Ht's goin' on true 10 o'clock tr+ain." ". It,is aur' I will get along firab rate," said Juliza. • Mea. Wilton:no turned her lace toward the window and isepb feebly. " NM or, rasa nimei t feel so," said Juliet ; you'll make itdreadful hard for him. He .von't take stay (matfett at all, if you do en." " 1 don't knoar—anything aboub that -- girl," eobbod Mrs. Williams. "• She's e. real pretty girl an'Jenny knows her." " I don't want him bringtn' home a etrarnge girl hero en& me not able to lift a ringer. I don't gee why he couldn'b have married yon if he'd wanted to marry any - Mks' Williams," said Jailer., " y• u c n.r-'„ do si ; it an't right. Yeu want him to ue ;sappy, don't you 2" " Oaures I do I want him to aro happy m. ire'n anything in the world ; he knows I •Je." " Then yeu masn't take on so. Have you bad any bt-eee,fent Mis' WYilliams?" • " Yee, eiI 1 want," Jails laid her stawl and hood away in a clown. She ttegan to etraighten the fernl- turt in the eir.ttng•roout and to sebthings to r et)' e. Prone -tie •+',"auk came in, all ready, hyo Weak velem in hie hand. Ka lashed ebarpty at itis mo• her, then he cot the valise down heavily. " Look here, mother," •said he, " I an't goin' a Mop if yon feel thin way. 1 think more of you than I do of anybody else, an' I asa'b going to have you plagued." Mrs. Williams began weeping again. Jaliza caught up the valise, took hold of Frank's arm and pulled him out into the kitchen. " New, you go right along," maid she, " an' don't stop ID argue. She's all right. She's only nervone. I'll look out for hoe." "" 0h, Julies, do yen really think I'd ought to go 2 " " Of ooaree I de. Don't you make any more words about it.' Go In there, and kiss her, an' say good-bye, and den'b stake any feed. Here, give me your hat while you go. It needs brushln'." When Frank was Addy started Juliza Stood at the kitchen window and watched Min down the road with' steady oyes, then oho wenbbeak to Mrs. Williams in the sit- ting room. She had no easy task during bho next] week. The invalid's feeble nerves ' were all loose ends end quavering over her eon's absence. Then, tee, there was teach to be done to pub the hone° in order. Frank's housekeeping was cooentrio ; it teemed to Ja za that everything was Where ib did not belong. Niro. Peok dame over and helped her several ttmea,, but she had a cold and there was tnaoh'stormy weather. Jultza had little ioiatare to grieve if she had wished to oven et night. She slept in a room out ef hirer Wfiliems, kept a lamp burping and was reedy to spring u' ab her slightest call. Phe day Frank returned' there Wat:a heavy snow ebermt. Ib was dark ab half peat 4, and Mee. Williams had gene to be& Jallza was oat in the kitchen, She last. been baking blecutta and bed just lifted the• pan out of the even when Frank opened Ills► deer. The minute she looked at him eke knew. His face was all wet and rosy lilau a child's from the now and the wind. Me was trying net to simile, or rather laugh oak with jay, bat his whole face *hone. ' " Well, eo you've get home?" said Judea., Yes. How'i mother 2" " She'e pretty comfortable. She's jush. gone to ted." Frank went up to the stove and stomal: ever it. . " You den'b eek me hew I go* along, Juliza?.' mid he. "How did you?" " Well, 1 guess it'll be all right." Stela danly Frank fiang up one arm on the shelf and rested hie head en it. "Oh 1" he cited` out, almesb sobbing like a child, "I'mse happy ! She liked me all along, ever Whoa- she was here. I don't know what I've dons- to deserve it. I can't believe it. Oh, I'm se happy it seems as if I couldn't live." "I'm real glad for you," said Juliza. Bhe was quite pale, but her voice was steady: She went into the pantry and brought out. some oeokiee in a plate. The table was at laid for Frank's supper. "You'd better get in an' just speak to your mother," she said:: " She mush have heard you come In, are she'd be nervone waiting." " Well, I'll go in," eaid Frank, raining; hie head, and showing his radiant, quiver- ing face. " Oh, Jalua 1 you've been the beat friend to me I ever had in my life;; main' over here. I'll never forget it." Julies. celled. " I'd juet as 'Mesas note" said she. " Go in kind of quiet." The minute the sitting reom door had o[ose& after Frank, Juliza caught her shawl an& hood from a peg, put them en, opened the door eofbly and sped out. Then she trumped: eturdily dawn the snowy road toward the: Tights of her own heme- Frenk was married some six weeks after- ward at his bride's home in Hiilbrook. Tine newly -wedded couple with quite a large number of relations came over to Stony Brook for a wedding party at the bride- groom's hoose. Juliza had a new blank silk to wear and her mother mads her take some of her meney and buy a garnet breastpin. " You. might just ser well have thingr^," she said with a defiant air. She thought to herself that Juliza, looked better than the bride, bat the bride was beautiful. She stood smiling and blushing beside Frank' in her pink gown and. her veil. Juliza had pinned on the von— the bride had brought it over from Hill- brook in a box. The evening was nearly ever when Mrs Peck came np to Ju lze and took hold of her arm forcibly. " They want you to speak a pieoe," rho whispered. " Oh, mother ! I don't believe I man to- night." " Yes, yen eau, too ; the last one. They all want you to. Mis' Williams don, an° Frank, aa' she does, too. There 1 the min- ister is via' to tell 'em." There was a sudden hush. Then the minister spoke : "Wo will now listen to a recitation by Mise Juliza Peok," raid ice. " She has kindly oonaented to grace Will further this heppy 000asien," There was a eofb clapping of hands. Jilt. liza steed forward and bowed. She was exactly in front ef the wedded pair. She began to speak, and ehe epoke ea she had never done before. Her gestures were fall ef fire, every line of her form and face eeemed to conform to the ezigenotee of the eitnatien ; her voice rang out with a truth that was deeper than her own perionelity. Everybody listened. The bridal couple ware forgotten. When Jnbsa had finished. everybody crowded around her ; the mother stood aloof, proudly smiling. The beaati- Snl bride told tier she bad never heard any- body speak so well. Frank eboed close be her, and as sown as the others drew off a little he leaned ever her and whispered " want to tell yon, Juliza," he maid` " how much we thank you for everything you've done. I've told Lily about it, an' we bath feel as if it's all due to you." " I haven't Mane much." " Yes, yes hare, an' there'd another thing, Juliza. I want you to forgive me for —that night. I haven't told a soul, nob even Lily, an' I never shall. I know you, jest meant) to be kind, that was all." Jultza smiled She had the seine proud lift to her head that she had when rotting. " I,'a all ri. hb," said she ; " don't you. worry." --Mary E. Wilkins, in Chicago 1 imeo. Cartons Condensations. England has as silver mines. Maine makes wooden bottles. Alexander had four kinds of artillery. Portugal's royal orown ie worth §0,590,- 000. A teerspooaful of baking oda, dry, will care hiccough. The assessed velaatien of the Sdatea in 1890 was $24,249,585,804. A Philadelphia hat dealer says there to least profit in lolling silk hats. Germany probibitai the employment of union men oa government works. The meet exteatatve mines are thoee ef Sasony. The galleries have 123 miles of length. Emigration from European Russia to Siberia is on the increase, and reached 100,000 in 1892 Moro than $1,000,000 to invested in aide hausee and isnok-shooting facilities along the C'ihcaapeake hay. The observatory on Mont Blanc already reperbn proof tout there is no oxygen in the atnsoaphero of the ono. The largest Trivets house in the Brtblek kingdom is Wentworth Wood House, which: betonge to Earl Fitzwilliam Salaam &tlbing is prohibited In the State of Wassiragten bet+veen 6 p. an. on Saturn day and the n?me hear oa Sunday. In nnannitaoturiug occupations the average life of roapboliere is the highest, and thaie. of grind-etoaemakers the lowest. Blamed on the Bacteria. Baoteria are likely to be blamed for elf the ills that flesh is heir M. Profaner Schenck now maintains that what we cal[. a. " cold " is realty due to the inviaible polka When one enters a cold room after bob* boated bho baotoria in it fleck to the waren body and enter by the open pores of tete skin. Whatever may bo said al the hypothesis, he soems to have proved by ent patience that beater's in the neighborhea4, of a warm body moves toward it. The Dona firmed smoker may derive dome oomfotrtt from the foot that teba000 ie inimical be them. Ab Porti Elgin on Saturday neminabione for vaoano1eo in the Legislature ware made are follows : J. ,Pierson by lie. Liberals, John George by tho Conservativea and D. McNangghten by the Petrone of In.; dustr . eeohee b mad e y Sp were ad by the me dates and Meesre. ae i J otkln en M M i .P d. Davie, M. P. P A Pee D A. F. stn boli O ALP,' G. F. Marta. 111.1'. I". O. A. Mtldor "y OWL T. O. Carne. Belleville harbor was froscos- OW ow Friday nighty