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mmos,„sa .. ...,loom ,ant thea no
WITH. TTTB T1 y ^ YEAR:
++loather, she In Ito dearest, nabloot gill' constantly together, Jauab did nob neem
j 1' �I that ovar bro4tkacr—Pnly,Ikl4ve ao little to unkappy> tllPugk she steadily rFloaad to
I offer her." hear of ouy renewal of the eugagenront,
-- 1 "If oho levee you—hub, Harry, her name When flow• Yoar'o Day came, and Iu
BY KaTSA1i.uNE ALLEN, —you havo not told me it,' and the speaker answer to hilt oaoein'a whlsperod "You havo
_T beat forward with or/wooed impatience. oomething to tell me 1" Rarity, nriirmuretl
Winter was ceasing ou upness oho tato"Iatsrnamoie--BeotriceThorrughhy,' •he Woeful ototy et 13tatriao'o love, aha
A silence full between bet two—a bIk00e anatvored, a q leer little glint of joy shining
November day a wore growing !hooter,colderIthateeu!dbefo1c, Mrs, Forbesernhwearily through the toots inher eyes1
darker, Frost was plentiful is the vialnity 1 back to her chair anti eleeod her eyes, She "Io is very old—bat I shall in your
looked ouddouly old and tired. gm non dM stepmother -in law: I have promised to
nob un•ierbtond. Eta praises of Boabrico marry the molar."
died on his lips before this inexpllnnhle It woo all exoeodingly aotontehtng, but
Harry was consoled 1 and, to four peoplo at
leant, an uuexpeeted happineoo oame Wren
Tim Naw YEAR,
Of Culver's B. Mote, a tittle village in northern
New York, and ou ocoaaional onow ttesm
sprinkled the gram it with white, ao a warn.
Ing of what was to acme later, Mango to kis mother. She opened her eyoa
To lube. Forbes and her niece, Janet! —ter voice woo cild and hard,
"Forgive m', tut: son, if I am disappoint-
ed " aha acid ; "I had hoped it might bo—
Janet, This house belonoo to ter—every-
thing; if she had not bought it in, it would
have gone to your fathet'e areditoro." firs.
irorbee rose as she spoke. '1 had hoped to
die here," she went on, "and I shall—a little
sooner or a little later; what does it mat-
ter ?„
'Mother !'
"And you oan marry that girl."
"Hover, mother, never, till I have saved
money enough to buy this house for you.
Besides, I am nob ab all sure that Beatrioe
Dares for me -1 have known her shah a short
time, I havo never dared oak her."
A sudden gleam of satislaobion lighted his
mother's eyes.
Wilmot, m their great gloomy house outaielo
the villago, the approaching winter looked
somewhat dreary.
On one of tho dullest of these November
daya, the two ladies sat over a wood fire in
Mre, Forbee'a dressing -room. They wore
there from oholoeo; tbo place waa as moth
oezler than the huge library, which even
the blaze of tho pinto logo in -the grate could
not render cheerful. The alder, a mild•faced,
Men voiced woman, with a pertain look of
iron determination about her mouth when
it was . closed, was knitting; . while the
younger, a rather plain girl of twenty, was
b'asy vtlbh her embroidery.
"It la nearly time for James to bring the
mall,' remarked Mrs. Fo*bee, glancing up
at the mantel.olock; and, jamb then, a knock
at the door seemed to answer her, " Como
in," she said ; and, sure enough, a eervaub
with the letters appoare&.
Mre. Forbes took them eagerly, with
tho air ot one who expeote something pleas-
ant, while her niece leaned forward, o look
of hopeful antloipablon lighting up her
eyes.
"Bare fa one from Harry," cried the aunt.
Aad it was rot dlih.ult to divine, from tho
speaker's joyful tore and her niecu a bright
mod taco, that "Harry" made op the world
for these two Ionely women.
The remainder of the mail was pushed
astde for tL^e present, aa'd the, mother read
the letter to herself whilo the young girl
wasted patiently to hoar ite contents, ae oho
knew she preeertly should. Ae Mrs.
Forbes'a eye ran down the sheet, she gave
A as of j.,y,
" Ha is coming home, Janet !he is coming
home 1" she c xalaimai, loaning eagerl v bo -
ward her n:ace. "Tho firm;want soma bnei-
ness tranaaotod in Anserl:ia, and they havo
deckled to send him on to do is, es he hasn't
bad a vacation for three years," she continu-
ed, glancing on through the letter.
"I am so glad," chid Jamb, gaiatly • but
there was :cal pleasure in her tensa, and tho
other knew is. It won tot Jaret's way to
show excitement.
"He will be home boforo Chrlstmao,"
went an tin reader" "Juob think of what
a merry Christm.s it sill ba, and what a
pre p ewNew-Year's we anon have, with my
Bo
The reading of the letter book much time,
and then it hod to be re -read on several
successive mornioge. The minter daya no
longer seemed dull or dreary—there was no
much to do and plan tad tack about". The
two women werepoifeotly happy,
December nnrp:d rapidly by, and the day
before Chriatmas came, The voyage from
India took ao long, thab the time of young
Forbee's arrival was urarrtaln ; but he ex-
pected to reach hone by the twenty fourth
at the latest. The mother woo terribly nerv-
one, and even Janet found her usually
patient spirit growing restlecs. So Ele mada
an errand io the village, and started forth
wall egnippedforher cold two-mile walk. No
snow had fa'len lately, but the time cf the
wood by 'which oho posted on her way to
Calkor'o Bridge wore hare, and the fence
that rage betwren her and the wind -tossed
lr.fi ss pima was white with frcit. She
tett glad of her thick fur trimmed ulster,
and worm gloves,
Janet mored the, oiling° and raw_a young„
man coming toward her. As the too ap-
proached, they luokcd into each othet's face,
and, aftera hesitation, clasped hands.
"Harry'!'
"My dear Janet! I should have known
you anywhere."
"And Iyou, 'she rejolnod. -
"But mother—'
"She la wall—aaxioosly cxnocting yon,"
anowered J+neb,
"Dear mother II did nob telegraph because
I had to stop a day to see the firm in New
York, and I warn't certain how long I might
be. Then, too, Irem tethered the d.flisaltles
of toiegraphlo eomninnication with,this dead -
and alive t 'Boge."
Janet laughed.
"We are behind the times, I admit i,rt I
love tho old place, in spite ot its clow.,: be."
The walk honra did not seem so long to
Janet, as that to the tillage had ham, She
and her ocnsin found plenty to talk about:,
Aa length they reaobc•1 Oho henna, and she
hastened to send a man after _her ,oaueln'0
luggage, while he rushed up to eco his
mother. That mooting, who can describe?
The woek which asretchedbotweee Christ-
mas and'Now'l eai'a wan a season of .perfect
bliss to the two women, and certainly a
happy one to the y ocog man. The last day
vi theear mine,.and in sire after
noon, J moby
wont over to the little churob, to A ohildren's
festival. Mother and son were alone to-
gother, and tho latter concluded that it
woull be a good cpportuniay to open a sub
sob of which he was anxious to speak.
"Mother,' be said, "you and t must
talk boohoos ; I do nob undereband the way
In whiah:my fathet'a affairs waro settled up,
You amid he left lotto hub the Immo 1 have
1 omit you ancugh to keep ib up?'
"Yon havelseen very ganeroue,'my- dear
buy; but wait for a day or two beloto wo
dlsous-business—there le plenty of time for
that."
Thla was. exabbly "what her son wished,.
"Mother," he began. , There was a cer-
tain hesitation about. his opoeohn uououal
with him, Ho stood leaning against the
mantel, They were in Afro, Fatbos'odress-,
Ing -room, whloh opened into her bed -room,
A oabinet, covered now with onriooitloe
brought by Harry from India, hong on the
wall book of him, Rio mother sat in her
favorite chair by a little table. Sha waa
looking up into his fade, not without a
oertaln anrioby. "Mother," he repeated,
" I auppooe 1 aeem r other young to marry ;
but I am twenty-four, and—"
It was nob ab all the way he had intended
to begirt; bub he must go on, and hio
mother holpod him :
"My dear, I believe in early marriages—
you the waa only twenty -throe when he
married me."
"Of oourse, 1 don b mean jasb yob—right
away`" Harty hurried on ; '.bub next year,
if all shall go woll, the firm intend to give
mea omall sharp in Oho business, they aro go
pleased with my ouooe0e, 'Then Ioould
borne homo and work in New York, We
ere prospering famously -4 should have a
wo11a-toured income of bhrot or four thou.
soma. Don t you think I might oupport a
wifo too, Oh that 2"
"It would dapand on Oho wife," answered
his mother, She loaned Dae ofhow on the
table ete she opoka, while the other hand
metal in her lop, Sho was looking up into
her 000,'0 MO with an Anxious OrproOatOn,
La hienotvoa0n0a0, Harry pntone /And in
hie pookobi Oho other bo piaood raptly
but tenderly on hie mathet'o ohoildor, Ito he
boWerd her and said fervently
"Ah 1" she ivolootayily exclaimed: then,
with a visible effort, oleo added : "I will
hear what you have 0, tell me.•'
It was soon told. Young Earbea had mat
Beatrice Thoroughby while on ltia last vaca-
tion, in the hill country. 800 was the
daughter cf a British army cffroor stationed
as Allohabaci ; poor, hub of good family. He
repeated that he had known her for so
brief a season, he had never totually made
love to her, and then there followed his
lover'a-repturoo over her perfections,
14 'hon ha finished, hio mother explained
the condition of his father's affair. Tne
eadpr Forbes had died ouddenly, soon after
Harry went to India, and the son could not
ocros book without loslrg hls.poeition. Hla
mother had begged him to remain, otsuring
hint she could attend to everything with the
apeisti me° of a lawyer friend. She had not
written hip about the house because oho
feared it might brirg him home, and that
would have done no good. The conversa-
tion was interrnnbed by Janat'a return, and
the mother and_son tried to be cheerful.
That night, the two cousins watched the
old year out and the new year in,They
wero rather silent, the young man thinking
doWhat could ho do ? He had slway:
More his mother, and ate woo so fragile—
hcw could be thwart her? Tho property
was worth a great many thousands. It
would bo yearn before he could hopo to save
enough to buy it, and, in the meantime,
Beatrice—how could he expect hor to wait
all her lifer for him, even if he might hope
that she returand his Iove?
And Janet—hod nob his mother hinted at
her oaring for him ? CouId it be ? To be
sure, she had been glad to see him ;
hot was lb any deeper feeling than a slater
might chow? He could not toll, Bub ho
owed so much to her on hit mother's account
Vast, if it were true she oared, what ought
he to do?
Tho remainder of Harry's stay was a silent
torment to boor mother and con. She waa
cortutted with anxiety. Would het perelet
In his datetininatiou to -try and .win that
Eagiieh ,girt? And, on his •side, he was
teruggliog with fate. The day before ho
went awa-r, he said to hilt ooiein : • '•
"We have always been fond of eaoh•othlr,
J.tnot; bub—do you ogre for me eoough'to
bo my wife ? It lo my mother's doareob wish,
as won:PS—mina." •
•' Yee," =ramrod Jfnet : " f you want
mo to be."'
And then he kissed her tenderly.
I oannob ask you to marry me for a
long while, Janet," he hurried on. "My
Mather tells mo pm 000 an heiress, and I
oonle not ash you to marry n0 poor a 01100 as
I."
"i em quite a0nten0 to watt,' his amain
answered.
So they parted affectionately, though
hardly line lovers; and Horry sailed for
India, leaving his mother happy.
L'fo event on in the old way with the two
women,
Oa Ma arrival In Caloubba, Harryfound
that Major Ttoroughby, had boon ordered
to England, no he did not sea Beatrice again,
It woo all for the bast, he told himself.
Nserly three years ponsed,; and thou
Hurry went book to Amerioa—hie mother
waa dead. He had never oared to coma
before. exoepb for visit ; but he could nob
leave Janet alono, atter the had spent the
dower of her youth waiting for him.
Mightn'o.wo be married at oaoe Y' ho
asked.
But Janet hogged to tooth, She wonted
to go abroad for. awhile ,with a widowed
friend. Sothey parted nhae more; and
Barry slowly made his preparations for
transfer to the New York- bneineac-house,
If he 'meant to morr
e nt'tomarr ,
he kn $
9 13must leave
/ale.
Almost a year went by, during which he
hoatd regularly from Janet. Ab lasb, he
mxdo up isle mind that the only Duro for him
woo marriage—then ho would forget. So
he wrote to Miss Wilmot : "I am coming
for you." And oho did nob forbid him,
On the day: of his arrival in London,
Janet said to him with perfect composure
"My dearr boy,'I have a1Vvaya known that
you did nob love me a0 a Man ''!Should the
woman he.intenle to marry fnin'afo,1 ham
come bo'bellevo that you love 0oilt0ono else'
You are. free to wed her," "And ,the gavel
him hilt ring,
"Do you think I would be contemptible
enough to acoe'pb my freodom, jamb, nrleae
you tell me you do not care for mo f" pried
Bub Janet was inexorable.
"I have nob fallen so low loo. 0o marry a
man who dodo not love me,' elle said;
hanghbily, Than, before he, Oonid recover
from hio aotonibhmtnt, the balmly added t
"You were going for a wally—will you
kindly take this. nota 00 my friend Mrs.
Armbruetar? Her addrotsit! on the towel -
opo. Now, den'c let's talk any more ab
preaenb : think mabtore over, and you will
neo that X am right.'
A few moments later, Barry was making
bio way up Pl000ailly, It was a otormy
Daoambar afternoon ; ram, hail, mod Sleet
combined to moko unfortunate pedestrians
utterly miserable. alto he walked rapidly on,
ho naw a figure turn bho opposite corner—a
familiar flgare—ono that made Ma hoar,i
leap madly, oven oftor all these years. A
moment later, ha stood in front of Beatrice
Thoroughby. When the firab greetioge.
were over, he osrpialnod what ho was go.
mg.
li Mro, Armbrustar—ilolgrave Square 1•'
criod Beatrice, r' Why, Mro, Armbrnotar
le my aunt, with whom I live now. I was
jaat on niy way to your ooualn'g : oho and I
aro the boat of fronds, I felt rather 0110 of
opirlto, and Oho always eheors mo up,"
A SP,E0Tj33L Tj?AGEDY.
In the mummer of 1873 I was 30 years of
age—in parfeob health and of steady nerve.
I was no believer in the uncanny—hardly in
the aupornaturas—and had always pooh.
peaked at tales of ghosta, phantome, and
V10000 of all snots, But at the time mention-
ed above the experience I am about to relate
pub my intellrot and sensibility to teat in
auoh a manner as to make me sparing heuoe-
foxward of ridicule, and forced mo to find a
plats in oredonos for the possibility of
apparition.
It is unneoesaaryto explain bow I oame
to be travelling in the farweet without Dorn
ponionr, except for horse, and dog, and gun,
Fallowfag the general routs of the old mar -
loud atonal camped one night in the edge of
a conaidcrable format and ab a point from
which I couid look forth over a broad, opeo
plain.
Ib was already after sundown. The good
horse was picketed, and, having provided a
supper for myself and the dog from a rabbit
which my dog had brought down an hour or
two earlier, 1 disposed things for the night,
and, as the stare axme ott lay down to sleep,
comfortably tolled in a biackeb,
10 was probably in the email honra of
night that I awoke and rose to a sitting po0-
tura. The moon was climbing the eaatorn
aky, with not a feather of cloud in her
coarse, .and every oljteb stood forth alt
clearly ao lathe day.
Bat it was not for me to contemplate in
gnibtnde tbo beauty of the night. in almoat
the first moment of oonooiousneoo my Oyes
fell upon a slowly moving ahj .c.b in the die
tanoe. Ib waa ono of those convas•oovered
wagons, the "prairie schooners" so familiar
in tho early days of overland travel to Coli.
fornix.
It was approaohing almost directly toward
me and my anriusity was at. once .aroused.
Why any, ono altould bo traveling thus and
so Tato at night I oould not imagine. The
movement was heavy, as if; the horaeo were
j idol, and the man who walked by their
aids hada weary step,
Twenty minutes palmed, the vehicle op
proaohing nearer and nearer. Still on is
oame, until when about thirty yards from
me it enddenly stopped, and the man look-
ing alone monied to be considering the will
dom of making camp.
Ab this point 1 soddenly realtzsd that the
approaoh of the waggon had boon utterly
nolseleee. Not a chuck of tha wheels, not
the sound of a atop either of itoroe or mac.
And furthermore there was no indication
that I had been discovered, although 1
should have been as vloiblo to thio reran' an
ho to me. What couid thin mean 1 Was I
dreamiog 1 No, I wag never more awake.
Was this halluoinatinn? No,' for the dog.
who had boon aroused by' my, Movement in
awakening, now turned his head in the
(Emotion of the now arrival and uttered a
low growl, I laid my hand on him to keep
him quint. ,
Tho man toot shoo,$ by the forward wheel,
looking in at the °pantng of tho canvas top,
and though'I beard no voloe I imagined that
he was speaking to soma one within. A
woman's head op oared and after a glance
around gave a nod of assent and biro mon
proceeded to unharness the horaeo and turn
them loose to graze. • Then, safbor e, mo• again. •
ment, in which he seemed to be anxiously I have nob' boon able to account sada.surveying the troll over :which they had fioctorily for whab1 hove related. Was this
come, he helped the woman- to alight. an indubitableinformation vouoheafad bo
And now thole movements greiatlypnzzled mo from another world as to the fats of my
me. :Walking to and fro they soomeol ;to relatives 2 'i1 ao, why was it reserved for
be eoarohing for somo' particular spot. of this bima and plaoe 7 Was it impoaeible that
ground. Ao I Bald above I had selector) my I ohould have this vision elsewhere 2 And
camping -ground in the outer edge of tho if thia is tbo cage, than why ? Had na-
forast, They Were moving about therefore taro phobogrphtd those tragic sooner and
amid mingled shadows and moonbeams, but preserved their •refieo;ion, to reproduce
tver,y motion • was visible. Finally • the them for an eye that was by oonto 000nlb law
woman pointed a apace bet -omen two .yeniog of synspabby to behold 2 Lob tiso sovante
trace, and the man after Iooking at it for a answer if they oan—I oan not—[E1ward B.
moment went to the rear end of the wagon Payne in Overland.
and brought forth a epode. With the,eidge
of this implement ho marked e8' a.reotaugu..
lar r/paoo els int five teen by taro,. and ,hogan Ile Waa Oi r Xing, •
to dig. All this, let ib he retnombored,.;tyoa Thot bho old Jacobite feeling•. still
in alssoluta a'tlanafl, Here wor,i ngparen ob ourvlvoa in Oho Highlands.of Sootlond io
living bciaga, actively engaged, and not
,
unto than 100 feet away, and yob uo sound evioenocd by the fallow -inn incident whfoh
WWI borne tosna,an Oho gnieb air. Peroamirred whilo Il teen•' Vlotoria woo in
.861M an
The dibggii1 °rooeeded,'and the soil being old tkah•lauare. ila rd toor eslarbhal nigaand when ho
soft soma five, fepb;of'doptlo $milt, on roaohod High .. iv ,
and thin themule $throw oddsbhii,kpade upon did 00,.• very graaionoey. rooeivod. hem,.
the groped, ,,The` woman;. o. "while had o honked him for canning, and then•exploraed.
lean"'liiokah trnhbhes of:&t� ' e§n, bring. why she wished to see him. "I should like
Sto know, oho aid cat ext to here
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g ' jjst ld allowed to proceed:, no farther; Instantly.
with itt r o nb $nod file aiid' eve cis Ig ti/0 whole
cavit*y.wao;lined with these allrige' /of oval .tile old ohief,anotverod, S „$e waa, ,>.pqe.;
ggroen, hh`oa� itisplaoo'iiy trli ;a,throat'into the t:ender,;tna unre hp was, ens .ktug , I,beg
banke$n.eibhar`sid'e s ; ,; '_ >r your pardoneetsalel the,fd loan, kladlY; "I
This done'tlio rain sprang- oti6 The two ought nob to have.ataod that .'word, 1 should
:surveyed their work for arhfimenb, and then ,have said Iri;}aa Ukarlaa • k]Iward, +• Than
after gazing onto moxa, 'as' if in anxiety, we way of 35umor:Mgg , the gruff old Jlaoobito,
she,
mar the route by which they hal oomotq obey added, : Y000,ltt ow thab:Ic too,, .have
approached tho wagor; Olieei 3 colied al) Stuart blood do my i eine.; • Yoe,..1 know
the oanvso on ,ono aide they Bead olio :a .10,'"wao'Otto reply, and' were ib nob' for
small mattreee de'poeiblisi' it bpgn.n blanket bisalt you weuld-nob O e'whoro yon.aro, ' 160
which they had spread' upon;Lhe ground. ' plafn•opoakrng, which rather otartled her
The t0 tO00eo'wae not wiblfoub its burden, retinue, did not dinpieaae the R teen;, on the
The bo'aind of tho 'full' inoon'enabled me to contrary, she 'Woe muntecd at•ib,, and seomed
tee bh0rson In alight Wm inthatt:of a little ' toII" rt), . and itroused. her interest in her
Rid who had so ovely lived out three year's. unoourtly-mdnnered subject, mod her • way
The nrobty ,white hands we00 folded. over of baking it went to hio heart, and natant
inn brown:, Lehangelden'ourlo kali tiff hither and soltened'his: atom: spirit. They .talkod
eide"upon 'the -tsillows-::Thu Igloo, which ,1 long' together,:' and they parted .like old
oould•ago with aatoniohing clearness, was friends, On the Queen's return to the enable
wonderfully beautiful in its nopeot 0luno- 'whore she was staying, ohs said to her hoot,
canoe and bore a 1110.1ika smile, OWElaau-
I have just mat ono of the most honeob
sorer to the ritdiaa`b spoon, of the Sky; who tion in.uy realm.
seemed to be ohsiling,; ,too, an ohe.looked '• '
oteadfastl down .n n the ll hs an the Bnodnxagiu BUMP'S:
dead, �' w v 'g ° A coutrl oto "Nature" ' recounts the
but r N
.following inotanoo Of aniami oympathy and
inattuotive example :
Somo,yoara ago wo had two oats, a tabby
and a poworful tom, perfectly White all
over. One day I happened to bo in Oho
aOtio, and no01ood them go out: on the slated,
when Tom jumped across the yard to the
next roof. It appeared to me a splendid
leap, oonofdering the width of the yard and
tho height of the roof,
'Whoa Tabby oame to the odgo of the Idabel'
hor oonrago failed, and oto uttered It ory of
dbebreto, whoraupon Tom turned round and
looped hook and givinga o1 eo fol mow, as
molt as to nay, "ook bow easily it scm bo
lone," jumped aoro00 again, thio Olmn fel
lowed by Tabby, to my groat delight,
around wan beeped, and Oho ohild tram:forred
from her mother's bosom wan aloeping ab
loot in the boom cf the grantor mothor—
hi trill, The two sad mournaro knelt again
b;oido the grove, and seemed to bo angogod
iu proyor, lifting their Mom now anti then
to the icy ae if to Ito folulte clear depths
they saw the rotor* holm,
Ail blsis—though I still thought It unreel
--had awakened in me the hoencot interest
"end sympathy, 13u0 myattostion area now
uddenly diverted to aline of figuroa in the
distance, somewhat beyoni tho apob whero
1 bud coon tho wagon whoa I fleet awoke.
These woro horn:mon, who oame sweeping
on ab a rapid pace, and engaged in eager
pursuit, Thom tho manner tel wlriohthey
rode 1 know thoy worn Indiane, Ah I X saw
it all now and understood why thane opeo
tial vieitoro had so often looked book ap-
prehonofvoly in the direction from which
they had approaohed. These pilgrims
aorc0s tbo plaino had glean nlgne of eavagc o
and had used night to push on beyond
their reach, if haply they might bury their
dead in peaoo and find aofety for themselves.
But the foe had discovered their trail and
followed them, boot on manta:re.
I laid my hand instinobively on the riffs
tinder the edge of my blanket that I might
join in the defense, and wee about to cry
out in warning of the danger that I saw
approaohing, bub inotantly bathongh0 myself
toot thin was unreality, a mere violon, call!
Ing for no prac0ioal action, and I might bet-
ter Iot these shadowo work out their tragedy
to the end. I again raatrained the dog, avho
seemed agitated, whether beoauoo ho saw
what I was seeing, or out of sympathy with
my emotion—I know not which.
The two at the grave seemed unoonsoioua
of the throatenad danger until their oacmloo
were within a few hondrod yards, when
the man sprang up and lilted the woman
also to her feet. They turned toward the
wagon as if to goin Ise shelter and secure
woapona for dafonao. It woo too late. I
Saw flsahes of fire and also a [light of arrows,
atilt without a sound, however, to break the
calm of the night.
Both tho man and tea woman staggered aa
If wounded, They stopped mad turned face
to face, throwing thole arms about aaeh
other aa if roallziog that this was their haat
embraoe. Anotbor volloy, cud, obifl cling-
ing so each other in the agony of doath, they
fell together upon the grave of their 01,111,
The Indiana were not long in oomplebing
their work. Then °etching the horses and
harnessing them fn the wagon they hasten -
cd away, a0 though themselves in fear of
pursuit. I watched them until they dioap•
pearea, and then was alone with my
thoughts and the 'brilliant night,
I realiz:d that I had seen a vfaioo, and
though I tnrnod myself resolutely to rest
my sleep for Oho remainder of the niche teas
Wu' and disturbed. When finally I
awakeuod.again the eon had risen, and un-
der the fnfluenoa of that great dispeller of
illusions and in spite of the vividness of the
night's Experience I began to think that
after all I might have boon only dreaming,
especially whon I saw that the apace whore
I had seen the bladed and the tragedy that
followed wile not open and clear bub over.
grown with brush and young trees,
Ncverthoioao, yielding to a curiosity of
which I was moanwhilo almost ashamed, I
soon made my way into the buthoo. 1'ar0-
ing those with my hands as I went forward,
and scanning the grouud closely, I shortly
experienced a now :hook of sorpaee, For
there, in the exact apob markod by the
night coons, we0 a little mound, and over
the remains of two skeletons.
And now for a retrospective foot which
gave to tide weird exporieuoo of the night a
peroonaleignificsnoe, While I wasyet a
lad in my teen nay brother, tvrenby yearn
older, had taken his young wife and only
ohiid, and sob ono across the plains in pur-
snib of fortune. The mails had brought
horse tidings of the progreaa of their j ,erney
op to a certain point, Beyond this ell
trace was loot, and we nover heard of them
The mother forthwith proceeded to' ar
range the 'spreads upon the child,•tuoking
them and smoothing them down as if the
Were only putting her, little ono to bod, al,
though while I hoard no ooh nbr any expro0
don of grief I Multi 0813 that her breast iva0
heaving with-0orrow and bar fame was; viaft-
od by tear0.
The two now knelt on Dither side, kloafng
their darliog many times and weeping ovor
her, though trying apparently to comfort
one another in thole mutual wretohodneso, if
perchance thoro might coma in their hearts
a calm lllto that !vitt whioh the moon was
still mending down hot boama to illumine the
toarful soeno,
Than laying hold of Oho blanket Choy
carried their darling to tho grave, and by
tiro aid of bho ltridlt•reinn lob bho pr001oa0 OYeTatto o:r ToAsT.—Chop Sao Shoos
burden down into tho place which they had hyotoro; add salt, popper and a IlOble nut-
Thon Harry know what Janet hud done, so °Arofully proparod, Groan bougho woro mer, 'Jake a gill of Dream and boob 10 into
The next few weeks wore delightful : the i scattered over her, until they covered the Oho yolks of two eggs; ; beat this lightly into
major, o fine-looking man of fortyfivo, wool beautiful form many Inches loop, and bhon the Okssmaring oysboro, Wlson not pour Oho
at tomo on a itirlough, and the four were the olods wero goubly replaced, and a mixture over slices of bubtored toaot,
•
YOTJNerr FOLKS.
What ABoy Should Learn,
To rnu,
To swim.
To verve,
To be n4at.
To bo honest,
To make a fico.
To be punotrral.
To do an armed.
To cub liindiinge,
fro ting if he can,
To sow on it button,.
To hang up his hat.
To hold his head erect.
To reepvob his teacher.
To help his mother or older,
To button We mothot'e bootie,
To wipe hilt boots on tho mot.
To read alma whenrcquootsd,
To help the boy smaller than himself.
To speak pleaaaotly to au old woman.
To pub every garm0nb is its proper
place.
To remove hie hob upon entering a house.
To keep his logor nails from wearing
mourning,
To lift the baby out at the cradlo and
hold it for a half an hour.
To treat the girls so well that they will
wlah he wan their brother.
To aloso Oho door quietly, especially
when their is a sink parson in the houeo.
The Little Shroud,
There once wall a woman who had a little
son about 7 yours old, who was so lovely and
beaubiful that no one could look upon hen
without befog kind to kiin, and he was
dearer to her than all the world beside, it
happened that he auddcnly fell ill and died,
and his mother would not be comforted,
bub wept for him day and night). Shortly
after he was buried he showed hi maolf at
night in the piaoaa where ho had boon used
in his lifetime to tit and ploy, and when his
mother wept, he wept ales, and when the
morning came he depar0od, Since his
mobhor never mood weeping, the child
some ono night in the little white shroud in
which ho had lain in his ooffiu, and wiOh
the ohaplab upon his toad, and seating him-
self at her foot upon the bed, he oriel :
"Oh, mother, mother, gtvo ova crying or
else I oannob atop io my !soffits, for my shroud
ie never dry bocanaa of your tears, for they
fall upon f0."
When the mother heard this oho was sore
afraid and wept no more. And the babe
came upon another night, holding in hie hand
a little taper, and he sail:
"Look, mother, my shroud la now quite
dry and I can rest in my grave."
Then she bowad to the will of Yrovidanoe
, and born her sorrow with silenoo and pa
tianoo,andthe libtle•ahild returned not agafa,
but slept iu his underground bed.—[German
;Folk L,re.j
Trying to Tame a Sly Pox.
"Da you want to see a tox ?' cried
Clarence, rushing into the farmhouse kltnhen
one rainy April day—"two foxes together 1
They are out there in the Karn lot running
and Mooing with Sancho. You would cup
polis thoy were dogs. Oh, 11 I only had a
a gun 1"
"Foxes a good deal, 1 gums," said
Clar000e's brother Harry. But their uncle,
who come in jest than, said : ' Oh, yap, I
saw thorn. Olney are foxes, sad troubleoome
neighbors they are likely to be, for they
must havo a family near by, or the dogs
would nob bo so friendly. Tame its a point
of honor among animals—to be friendly
when there ore dependaub little ones"
"Oh, lotus watoh them, acid Olarenoe,
"and get the little ones and tame them,
May wo, unole f
Certainly, you may tarns, or try to, all
tlse foxoe you bring in alive. Thera atmos
Mor. Taylor ; ho will give you anidea about
where you, will be likelyto find their
habitat."
"Their hole is, in my opinion, outthere
on the red rook ledge, " said Mr. Taylor,
"but yon boyo don't stand much of a Mame
to find i0. They are as sly as the vary old
Nick himself, and as nervy as witches. Bub
1 whore did you nee the rascals?" '
"They comedown. the hill by the big pine
' Erase, said Ctarenae,
"Yea, I know you would soy so. Foxes
have their regular 'rums,' as every hunter
knows, and thereto little use in looking for
them onteide, except when Choir appe0itea
get sharpened upaadthey start out maraud-
ing about seinepoultry house. Go up the
hill by the pino Oreo and follow the brook,
and see what you will find,"
Half an hour later the boys oame running
and puffing book, and Harry shouted "WoI •went to sae what we could find, but found
just nothing—only Sancho found a lame leg.
I wouldn'e wonder if the !bons Olarenoe
fired at the foxes this morning struck him
]instead,"
in lose than a week Clarence rushed in
with the nova, "We've Mound' the hole, It
.had two doors. I stood ab Dna cad ani
r•Harry• at the other. We ottootod to oadh
other through the t long holo ander the
gtonud, Tho old fox's ran; out, and; Haa•rtp
orawledin•wliolo ha, oould'jnao
ob:neh 0150
moat; and ha pulled out the dibblefolloWitbat
.wlO :neatoste:biir handr;I6 wasavaerm' and
soft, juob liko;a•:puppy. v•Ah, toxon him
Isn't., iso<a beap ty 7,', and, Harry Appeared,
with the laal y fax unciep11g arm ,
lfo.relate. ;Ajl, bho. funny tbltipge,.,sg did'
wonid ba p.a,;iong tlmo.i.,•AO.flrpt":Itp waif
Demoted w Olt a rope, that, goyo.p, .good: dual
of libor0y„ ant •tto Srot tiine 100 wae;fasbou0d'
to Ohe.filao Ores itebho yard habogan digging
a hole fop . himself. Slow his, feet:, flew
Gary-aoon,he disappeared under. thelitao,
and cause Milton taus other,oide. Into these
so/ate:nonean TO:trtorp he now parried hie
food•—bite of ;meat, fruit' and now and then
a bl ih' or a frog. 'eery coon, ha :began to help
himself to every chicken that oame in hie
•
Way.
It woo not long befaro lie dieoovered eh00
10 was the ropo that limited his marauding
ground, and ho obreightway sat himoalf Ob
gnawing it in two, lint Olarenoe, caught
him at ib, and pre0entlyy�fastenod him, with
a strong dog ohain, Ha did not: 'try his
teeth lent once on that, bub his efforts to
free himoolf from ib were pathetic ao well at
amusing,
All night long he would. bark; and hie.
father, mother and brothers and !latera on
the hillside would answer book, and they
fsilod the night so full of 01u010 000 Soma
quxrtoro (Oho boys had named him Sam at
first) welt moved to the little, garden book
of tiro barn, Here he immediately dug a
new holo and made himoolf vary happy and
comfortable; and hero his rolativeo nod to
coma and call upon biln in tho night timo—
a0 woo evident by Oho traoko in Oho gram:and
aor000 bho highway,
The boya thought it great fun, and laid
many piano of what shay would do with tho
money they should get for their fox skins
and the boynby the town allowed for killing
oaoh head ; for aO soon a0 the weatherahould
be cold enough 0o that Oho fur would be
heavy and thiok bhoy intended bo trop Oho
sly follows,
" 11 ave you fastened all ,the honlroaoeo
nanana ..
n
J.A.N. 10, 1890,
Cla:rnco1" naked Burry, ono ohilly Nevem
be night,
"Yea, all bub the Wyassr'tn 1 I forgot
that, and I've got my ohm 14.4.4 otooktogo
or, You go and shut it tide time,"
"1 ehamt; 1',n tired, husking corn all
day, It won't hart you to rt;n out bare-
foot,"
' Bet moll= told me not bu do bleat,"
"Weil, pub on your shoos, then; it's
your buoimeao to fasten up the fowia,"
"Its no snore my work than 'tie you'll,"
And oo the two boys biokored until after
supper, and grew spunky and contrary, as
even pretty good boyo, and brothoro at that,
will samallmee, when they are tired $ and
ab last, full an hour earlior than usual, they
stole off,, one after the other, to bod,
"I'm afraid the boys aro nob well," said
their aunt, But their uaole sold : "No,
eaoh is trying to got the batter of the other
in some way, I dont kuo:v what ib is all
about and gueos I won'o meddle." Bub
after a while he wont bo bho door of the bed-
room, where two brown heads were lying
very quietly on the pillows of the two little
white bode and said: " Are the henhouses
fastened all right, boys?"
There was no response, although he was
pratby auto both boyo wore awake. So he
lighted a lantern and went out, 13ut he waa
nob quite quick enough, for therein the
yard worn lying dead the twelve Wynn-
dobtea, and there, noar by, lying strotohed
out the full length of his chain, was Sam,
apparently otark dead.
The farmer was used to his pranks. Ha
turned him over with kis foot, and gave him
a vigorous Mak aftervard, "He is dead,
sure," ]to paid to himself. "He numb have
choked himself to death pulling so hard on
his oboist to go and help hio relativaa in their
wholesalo slaughter," and beplokod darn up,
took oft Oho chain, and, taking him by the
tall and a couple of tho dea•lohiakons In one
hand and Iola lantern in the other, ha stare
ed to carry them into ties htnso and show
them to the boys,
Re r000hod tho book stoop,ani, finding
his hands so full thab he coulnob open the
door, loo dropped the limp fox, saying
"boor Icltaw 1 The boys will havo your
pelt to morrow, and the bounty, but that
will not raconolle them to your killing your-
self, far you havo been a groat pet and have
furnished theins a good deal of amusement."
Sons, aoosproheudiog that he wan now ab
foil liberty, sprang up like a fioah and
bounded away, In an Instant of time he
had diaappearodover the hfllsida.
Tho boyo never caw the ounoingcreature
egsin.
Can We Make Olimate ?
P110 B sston "Glo13o " says : "1.0 has boon
maintained that the mild weather of this
winter thus far and of the entire period of
last winter is owing to a titillation of the
Golf Stroam. It this is ao, why could it nob
he dctinted some more, mod make New
&glom? troplcal, and raise oranges in New
Hampshire and pinoappleo in Maine? Wa
believe that certain audacious engineers
havo offered to do this, provided capital
enough 10lurnished for the nnddrtaking. To
a limited extent, even now, lb is an admitted
foot that a man oan malts his own climate.
The meteorological conditions of Oho
wesb have boon greatly modified
nines
it was fi:ab 0o0tle1 r;Perhapo
wo in New England may daoide soma day
that, iuotoad of changing our fltonels every
winter, lb will be cheaper in the long run to
ohmage our climate and dispense with flan.
nolo entirely. Of aourao io sounds preposOor.
cue to adv000te tho deflection of the Gulf
Stream, bub many preposterous thingo have
happened in the ninet000th oeubury, and
who shall soy that aohema which la proposed
for the twieutloth century is chisnerical?
after wo havo married Orient and the Oc-
cident by a bridge norms Behring': atrait,
and are able to go to Europe via Siberia In
a Pullman oar, wo may turn our attention
oerioaalyto the Gulf Scream,
Missed,
A ellea0o like the hash of fear
Fltls all the house this summer day ;
Familiar stomata startle near,
Or fade in murmurs far away,
And breaking as from diatanb gloom,
A face Dom°8 painbod on the air;
A prom:moo walks the haunted room,
Or oitO within the vaoanb chair.
The lightest wind that shakes the gloss,
The sound that stirs awhile the nbreeb,
Seemo to the Ii0Oening heart, alas 1
Like footfall of beloved feat.
Aad every object that I feel
Boerne oharged by some enohantor'o
wand,
And keen the dizzy senses thrill,
As with the touch of spirit hand.
At morning in Oho may flash,
At noontide in, the fiory glow,
4A n' eve tofi In
g
the al n nth
do h
At night ae poso,the• minutes elow,
A form beloved clamps again; '
A"Venae Waldo are deema to st'neb,
Whlle"oa nr- fi;io!eo'fllf'dhk�e brain;
And oagor.Patelons $old' Ohe hath$
tis., "t r:. s S amt.
..l 1;- r:
i
d
I♦iwyore' are gohoraliy supposed .to
• be
sinal•pQi' '$lead the !Onto elf the huusan ` cane,
bttt'dsioasfehitiiy q•wlbneas Oripo them u' , An
eminent `bi1r �g or oo go :received a repartee
bfrathb. a
10w0oo:o0, "oeridbpflitr,fhnot,gibg..p:s
p, raonwd
in ordet tea Dave his oaten; fromdefopti 10 was
neoeooary.Ohab the lawyer should' alinpoaoh
the wrbnelo; He ondoavgoel to do p on the
'pound of ago, when a lively dialogue oaatted,
gpenod by the Iawyor e , saylrg to the wit-
: 00",
"Sir, your ago 1"
" Sovonr -two,"
'• of Yoorp emor of pourmo a n
Y, , f 00 ng bril-
liant as it twenty yeare'ago, 'lo 10?"
,"1 think 1010,"
"State some airouinrtan000 which; odour.
red, say, Owolvo years ago, oast wo oha11 be
able to sec how 0011 you remember,?",
" 1 appeal to your honor if I. ani to be
questioned in this way ; it is inoolenb," said
tbo voltam, burning to the judge.
"Yon had better an0wor tics g000bton,"
repi' 3e lfed hio honor.
o0, state 10," maid bho lawyer.
"(•yell," anowerod the witn000, 't if you
oompol mo to do it, I will. About thirty
yaaro ago you studied in Air, Parohmonb a
°iffae, did you not, Lawyer L. 2"
" Yes,'
" Wall, oir,'remember your father ooh-
ing into my sop and oayfng to mo, '1Vir. D,,
my son lo to be exasninod bo -morrow, Andl
with you would lobhim have a soil of cloth -
ea on arodiO,' I remember aloo, air, that from
that clay to thio ho has never paid tbo bill,
That, air,' romomber as though it were but
yoobordat wy,"
"T'haill do, dr," roburntd Oho lawyer,
oonafdore,bly abashed,
+' I thought Ib weals#