Lucknow Sentinel, 1890-02-28, Page 6e -4
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Only a Box.
„ 404..Y..a,b,04oure and strong,
anseasteeaseseseseeef. e-erefaWees.---eite
Lyft-is herein the drieelieg rain,
'Waiting to take the up -bound train.
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be allowed to hold with you, the more deer
to nee becieuse You. linen widow, and bemuse
ere4eereeetkeeseseereesakieee-es-0.4e4onl-4-1)
efiseasaa"
ntering, M. Buffington oo OW,
acing astopielimene, firat at Ur. Eiwin-
theri at Henry Meter. •
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men
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and llebtle' both, yon know, and it take
two of us to hitch. them to -the traces ; so
t to make the, neer." '
SPRING FASHIONS.
The Tendency is to Elegant Materials and
Simple Cuts.
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- tad leo more have approve Tom Meter% taking are Buffington's hand, lifting is up, se one roused trom a areamiug weep, /IOW eza
hi k t at all with current events al to greater eleeance of material and male
•ongtit so_ be. .ue, yUga wvaa
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Only ita ourp447t, twit inside. • than he now appeelies Henry's Bait of me, and shaking it cordially, e How do, Br'er ev rig ep up ,
eimplioity in the dut of the nowd. 80
marked_ La thie. tendency to sin:shone' of
aishough les would 'neve eesesaleill zree to Bell'ret'n ? Moraine Tom. Little 'head "o his dazed eyes wandered around the room
hiin
bat better too some then too late, while he remaineci eeateek .
special on the arrant you come on- this
mornina Take a east, Br'er Ball'n't'n,
and tell me all about yourself and fain*.
Hain't see yoa. not so shake hands 'long
with you sense that day at the Shoals." •
'cold, and livid, end gliussy-eyed;
Little to him d the train be tate,
Nothing has he to do but wait:
Only an, opee grave somewhere,
Biiady to close when he gets there;
Tuve and mimes and fiowerets sweet,
Beady to press him 'neath their feet.
Only a band of friends at home,
, • Waiting to see the &svelter come;
. . Naught he will tail of distant lands,
. o He cannot even press their hands.
. •d do, •
Be kw no stories weird and bright,
, ' • • . has no gifts for a'child's delight;
o - Be did not conte with anythinS,
o ' Be had not even himself to bring.
Yet they will softly bim &whit,
• , And he will -move about in state ;
They will give him when he appears
So!cow and pity and tender, tears.
Only #1.box, secure end strong,
Rousai and wooden and six feet long;
Angie); guide that soulless breast
Into a long and peaceful rest
,—Witt Carleton in the Toledo Commer
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THE DOSTERS :
AFtornanbe of GeorgianLi&
• They hail a long talk; Rather
▪ • Ington dwelt at greatlength upon the awful
COnsequetioes of bringing into that neigh.
borhood, and into houses whiob, delioaoy
' . forbade hint to partiOularize, snob -doctrines,
afitsprinkling, falling from g.race, and in all
• dreadful burden probability infenrhaptism.
The truth of the whole husineee, on Mr.
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ought to come se nigh as anything'in bie
• , whole world could come to make Ilhe
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:.deocia.sed, to Who& reepeotful, affection
'Jillusion had just been made, turn over,in
NA coffin if he could do nothing. else. At
len h :itke ended, and after taking the
•pro , • irdelairboateesarruouris,
se tut adieu, and moved away as solemnly as
lie had eons,.• • • • .
Mre.loyner,.although much- More oulti-
• 'listed then her pastor, -and len. narrowed
•• in opinions, yet ,reverenoed.- him much;
doubtless the Metre for the sake of the
affeotionete rehttions that had existed be-
tween him runt' tide -late husband. There-
fore she was much.effected by his words,
and, when Ellen..retarned she said :
Ellen, kiity, onarseetbat I have no
2. sight to your oceilidence. or. any influence
ttpon yotvalthotigh you are my own and
only daughter, enia find to have both. I
• • forgot to ask you bowiedeter Doster."
She's well, ma "liaswered Ellen, lowly,
• lholdhingOind-lookiziters-
if she feared her mother was losing her
••, reason. •
' "-Ah ! glad to hear ; but if you have
*nada np your mind to marry that Moho-
; dist preacher, I think yon owe it to me and
to the memory of your father 10say
' nothing of poor- deAtr brother Buffing-
ton, whojt anthingija nOree off ' shoot it
than I've bees iiitIT-a9wIttSikil you !Ms
it 62' tie 1st tO SOM of understand:,
that tett are riot to be interfered with
in your religion; that ie, if- you haVen't
milreedy determined in your Own mind to
out that it le safe to•predics aFeaction mei
few seasons • but no ouch cheep has yet ,
oome, in aide of the rumors of a retain oe
hoops. Clinging °heed° ety.les will remain
in aacendant : for tne coming spring and
stimmer. „
. -New--suitings-imported- for...swam tailor
gowne. are eaceposed largely ot tine clothe
in the feather weight made eipeiiially fee
ladiea' wear by manufaoturore of men'a
enitings. These clothe are shown Wildly
in fine oliecke, plaide and stripe% in
the iridescent mixtures of color which
are so refined in effeet, relieving the eye
from the 'monotony of a plain surface.
Pinhead cheeks) in dark prune or dehha
shades and white, steel blue and white,
and dove: or ashen grays with white, are
some of the combinations in these abeam.
Fine broken stripes of hair lines and
smell broken plaids in the inconspicuouif
oombinetions of color used iu gentle-
men's business suits are shown in a me*
ley of tones of gray, tan, brown and thra
dark prune end purplish colors of the
130680n.
Lett° plaidtrin—tartan -colors- will - con- ---
tinue to be used, eepeoially in the -blue and
green combinations, which have been worn
all winter. There are oleo some large plaids
in fancy colors combining mauve dahlia .
and the new aubergine or egg -plant shade
in their make up.
As a rale All millings are made up in
solid material without combinationathough
it is considered elegant to oombine fine
pinhead oheok with a plaid having a checked ,
ground. The large plaid in such a case is
susecafersthe-front-or-for-thaanderekiraa,nd___
the fine cheek for the remainder of the cos- •
tume.
Sheph.erds' checks, in black and white, ,
are freely imported, and some of the
prettiest, of sheer fine woolens, atm
enough for ,early spring, are shown win ix
r-eeven-.1101.1mb„etripee_at raised white
anybody who could have given to him
Harriet •in exchange. Let that go. Bat I
tell you now, And you may tell Mr. Mill-
ington if yon chose, that I have no idea, at
least for the present, of quitting yours and
my father' church. Somehow, ma, my
parents have seemed to become the dearer',
if iioseible, to my heart eince—sinoe 1 haslet
been indulging another feeling." She
blued:tad deeplyqind covered her taw. " Ot
coarse," recovering, she continued, "-no-
body can foresee what changes are to oome
over their lives : but now my, expectation
ie to continue a Baptist, praying always to
be as good a one as pa was and as you are.
teen you be, initialled with that, ma ? "
"I'll heve to be, I suppose."
" Still you'd feel eater it it was Tom,"
and she playfully patted her mother's
cheek.
Removing the band, yet not rudely,
" You 'know I cannot tell a falerhood,
" Ah me 1"• sighed the sweet girl, and
went up to her ohainber.
CHARTER X.
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Mr. Bullington'ecall was on a 'Wednes-
day. On the following Friday evening oar
two girls went in the. Joyner carriage to
spend the rest of the week at Abe Ingrame'.
Tout had business in town on the following
day, and eathet was the stated Conference
Saturday forMr. Bullington's congregation
in *oath, ocearred to Toni to do his pastor
-a- little favor. So riding up to his gate
toward sunset, be called him out, and Bede ;
—.12other—Ballington, I have to go3o
town early in the morning on some bum -
Nees, and knowing year horse wee busy
helping to put in wheat. I'thought I'd pro-
• ose to take you in my -gig, it it Will suit
you and yon can make itdonvenient to start
immediately after breakfast,"
'o m —w my eon," he
answered. " It suit me wow am
mightily pnehed to git in my wheat before
the dark nights gives out. be overto
your ma's: time yon git your breakfast,
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give it up.
Elkin removedher bonnet at leieture ; re.'
• adjusted the carobs in her hale; then,
• sitting down. answered:
" Ma, Henry Doster has neves mentioned
• liethodisin to me 'a single thine that esti,
remember., Mr. Buffington lass been here,
1 see. I thought they were horse's
tracks I noticed at the gate. And. he his
eel you more against Henry. Did he have
to say anything about Tom ? "
"Some; not Very mnoh."
" What did he gay, ma 2"
" He only aid—that ie, he only intimated
that—perhaps it Wouldn't have been so
bad it Toni—. What are yon laughing
st. Ellen ?"
• '-‘‘ Beg pardon, ma ;, but, seeing whftt you
ivere going td say, I was comparing it' with
swhst 'Harriet told nie of her mother Baying,
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• so longer ago than yesterday, about Henry.
• • Doster, and of her preference for him, over
Torn. It is right curious. Yon agreed
'With Mr. BullingtoR; DOW didn't you ma ?"
Well, if you must know, I did ; and I
• •stis12 in my heart, if .you must have a Do's -
ter, that it was Tomieind that to -morrow.'
• " Well, ma 'qepliedthe daughter, after a
• little sigh, “ I'vieheard you say many and
,f 'East) y time that you married the man of
lour own &Oleo, althaughebe was not that
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t emus° to repent of it, and now yon talk to
Inn sr it I had no right to govern tnyielf
according to my own feelings. Yet, ma.
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t 'nu know thet if Tom boater and I, no
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- ( further back than six months' ago, had
taken e Utley for each other, you would
1‘. have been against it, and so would Mrs.
.)• 1 t Mity heve been me between Henry Doster
' - and Harriet, whom now she declares she
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would receive e3 a son-in-law readilYeayes,
thankfully. What are two poor, inexperi-
enced girla to do in such a case ? "
• _Ellett, notwithstanding her inexperience,
looked at her mother as it she had the
argument on her. Bat the latter confidently
responded, " No, because neither of tie had
ever hada thought of your marrying 'Dos-
• tere of any kind. Dearth% May knows not
'what she's telking about when she talks
• that way ;- but she's' no strong Baptist any
Way and never was, and she's carried away
---witbewhat.peopleetalle about what a great
end—."
"Ob, no, I wouldn't have you take all
that trouble. ride ova e.".
" All right, Tommy. ,! t, and tell
me the news."
" Sorry I °snit stay, Brother Buffington ;
no epeoial news dist I know of. I am glad
I can accommodate yon. Good -evening."
" Evenina Tommy.
And Mr. Millington thought that he felt
a littlehetter ; for this was the first visit,
brief as it was. that', Tom lied made him
iaceathe_beginningsoithe_ruraore concern-
ing him and Harries May. Next morning
he had just risen from an early breakfast,
when; going to the door, he saw Tom's gig
coming briskly toward his gate.
" My I My 1 You are bright and yearly
thie mornine" was his selatation, as he
advanced to meet hin•
Considering hie 'piiinenoe as a publio
man, Mr.' Buffington heo to a degree re -
'makable, evext in his profeasion, s, faculty
of attention, at times' of intense lietening.
Serious, indeed saturnine, in deposition, bit
the presence of one or more interleoutore
he had a habit of compressing his km,
swelling his jaws, and contracting hie
brow° while regarding with solemnest at-
tention a epeaker, whether the latter's.
remarks were meant to be taken as earnest
or sportive. Afterward be wouM reflect
most respectfully, even 'enverely, before
giving the answer which subsequent silence
might lead him to believe was expected.
Joy or grief seemed to make•no separate
impression upon thee countenance except
that the former perhaps was rather more
agonizing. He never wept, at -least with
his eyes, except, on occasions of -much
hilarity, when; sift appeared, he' wee oaf -
faring quick remorse for having been,
momentarily seduced from his habitually
solemn port by menifeetatione of interest
in the frivolities of encle a wicked world.
On such occasions the corners of his month
would let down, his lower lip 'shrink and
hide behind its superior, all making it
appear that in him, among the varions
-emotions of the human heart, that excited
by humor was the most sorrowful.
Tom was in high, spirits. Any healthy
young man with no encommon load upon
hie consoienoe ought to have been light 'of
heart driving along the road on am% a
morning in the fall of the year, the sun, the
air, the forest leaves, seeming as if they
had been created purposely to gladden
mankind. Tom rattled on gayly on this
theme and on that. He believed that' he
said -some good things, , some excellent
things' , in fact, for one used to more serious
.work than merely making merry. Some of
them must have been extremely funny,
judged by by the exorucietings grief of his
companion. When they had gotten as tar
as what town people, celled the Two mile
Branol% and the horse had taken a drink
and set ont again, Tom said ;
"1 Brother Buffington, I want you to do
me 8 favor. It won't take much time or
trouble. Get up there, Bill."
Mr. Buffington turned, and for a while
looked savagely into Tom's face, at lepgth
answering, " Youeught to know, Tommy,
if you dona, thet I'll do what lay in my
power for you, or any of your people."
"1 thought mei or' I wouldn't have taken
the -liberty of air you. Brother nli-
ington, I want y to marry me."
After salutingc) end Beatings all-- around,
kir.• Sullingtba - regarded- - Mr. Swinger
ateinly, as if so ward against assault. Bat
the latter soon put him at as meoh ease as
it was possible for him to feel in the otim•
piny of dangeroae heretioe, who, plausible
without, within were possessed of Malignity
and, eubtlety. After deOlaring over a and
over- again how glad he was to see his
brother Buffington, and to noticie how well
he held hie own, and if anything how
gladder to be told that -Mrs. Millington and
the children were well as Viimmon, and
after ,getting from Tom Doster euoh a
promise ae there would be no going bask on
to help Mr. Bpington in getting in hie
wheat during the dark nighte, he said:
" Hillery, I don't think I ever told you
how bad Br'er Bnll'n't'n got me one day at
the Shoals. I no doubt Tom heard it." •
• “ Nowenow; Swinger;" Fetid Mr.
Buffington, " you goin' to tell on your own
self that a way ? " But they knew that, in
spite of such remonstrance, he was quite
willing for the story to go on.
" Oh, yes ; good thing's a good thing,
Br'er Bull'n't'n, and when they on me, I'm
bound to let t'ether people git the good of
it, even if I can't: Well, yousee, Henry, it
were „a one Gadday evenina reok'n it ben
about or mighty nigh about, three years ago;
ain't it, Br'er Butl'n't'n ?"
" Be three year Seddeitheforeathelatert'-
Sunday o' next inonte."
That's it. Yon see he ain't forgot.: Well,
sir, after preaobin' that mornin' to about a
handful o'people at mar poor little Hope-
. well meetinahotiele Vother aide of Iggeeohee,
as rid 'by the ritow at the Shoals on my
eaTaliar
a whole lot o' men that' in the peazer, and, I
thought I'd 'light and stop end howdy, and
swap a few words with 'em all ;. for Br'er
Bull'n'tai know I always liked bim, it he is
each a rambunctious Babtie'. 'Him nor
nope of 'em notice me till they see me
oomin' np the peazer steps, bemuse for why
at that veryminute he were &in' away at
a teeble rate agin we Meth'disses, and his
worde, jts as I some np, wiz to the effeci
that it John the Harbiniger bad bene
Meth'dis', the Soriptur' would 'a nettled
him that etid o' John the Beletie' ; and be
ttp, he did, and as he howdied along with
me he user, " And here's Br'er Swinger, as
good a men as they've got, and he can't
deny my wordee—Wall, you-better-
belieTie 1 It were a Babtis' crowd, es you
know they're awful Strong, up and down, on
both sides o' the Igeeohee. Yit, I thought,
never do not take up the old men's
ohannelge, though I weren't in what a body
Might call flghtin' fix, a not a expeotin' no
seein And then it were somehoweifor,the
onlieet time in my life, my ideepented my
thoughts, and my argyments, Ade- my
words,Ind my speeches, everything I had,
they al got jumbled together, and they got
that piled up on top* one another that I
jets had to stop, and to set down, and see if
I couldn't ontangle 'eta and gether 'em in
hand. And then, right thar, at the very.
minute I begin- to think I see daylight,
' Beer Swinger 1 '—you might a heere him
a mile aWay--he bawled out, hadid, and he
hollered, and _Bay, Ah, Br'er Swinger, it
were John the Bebtisa No Meth'dis' itt
them days - lesetways o' them. names. .No
wonder you speechless; britif yon wuz able
to talk, and could stand up And talk all day
long, I'd jee take a cheer and sat down
°elm, and icasienly fling in a prim:ery
few remarks, iraid, ask you to Vint out the
chapter and the veers° whir they tells
about theaMeth'disses • in the Good Book.'
And then he shook his big sides, and the
Vothers they all broke out into a gener'l
hawshew. Well, sir, bless your eoul 1 All
• of a 'incident I got so mad that for jee about
a second it I didn't feel like hanlin' oft and
_lettin' eild, Br'er-Bull'n'ten have it right in
the mouth; for flingin' seoh a laugh on me,
onprepaek for it as I were. Bat I knew
mich as that won't begin to do, because I
know Br'er 13ull'n't'n babe big a fist ea me,
and it wouldn't do nohow."
Here all broke into heartieet laughter ex.
oept Mr. Buffington, who, what time -he was,
not wiping his overflowing eyes, eat heaving
his •vset frame and glaring upon the nar-
rator wish ferooity whose wretohedneee
wee eppelling.
• " And so Snail," resumed the historian
of Ogeeohee border 'warfare, “ what you-
reok'n I done? Why, sir, I whirled in, I
did, and Ithonght I'd try laughin' myself
too. Bat you all know what sort o' laugh-
ip' thia is when you know people see you
feel'more liking oryin' than anything else ;
and so the .more I tried tet Mien, the more
the whole kerhoot of 'em laughed' shore
enough4 and at Wit 1 got tai, and got
away, and got on my horse, and 'banished
off from thar."
It looked as it the agmiy of Mr. Buffing-
ton would soon become unendurable : but
at this.mornent the light tread of ladies'
feet was heard in in the hall, and presently
the landlady of the hotel and Mrs.,Ingram
entered, followed by Ellen and Harriet.
The lest two were bonneted and beaming
red. After shaking hands with her pastor,
Ellen said, '4 Mr. Buffington, Tom told yon,
imppose, that we couldn't think of any-
body else marryiNtfrns but yon."
" Why, Ell'n-+ny; my child—why, yes;
but Ithought—Wh'yeatelletes—. 'Yon goin'
tpoetrmentiorlirtiTroumff rane14 under the
"Well explain air that afterwards,
Brother Buffington," ?laid TOM, as he put
into hie hands the marriage Iioense, out of
which, as he gamed it with fumbling
hands, dropped- two twenty -dollar gold
pieces.' With diffloulti the preacher found
hie speotaoles, ed when the coins, s3o far
beyond What he had ever received for such
a serviceewere lodged, one in one pocket of
bis Winners and, thdh, othv in another, he
performed the rite as well as he could.
11AeS at1$2, pie i change shoed tet arttlfl' "'NltOr ofessess, PreeeP
Jokey), hittloolterer
"You hear me? " fetid Mr. Swinger, in
commanding tone. " Take them hands
'oat o' them peokete, and git up oat o' Meet
&leer, And ask the good Lord to send His
whole ratternue of angels down here on•this
•y aannewen and this, v oang 'onean thatei j es
ben jinded in the bane& Out with-lein,
and up with' yoe, and when you're thoo a
got another gold pieoe for you,"
That day was remembered by Mr. Bail.
ington as the most eventful in all his exper.
emcee. About sin months afterward, while
elling of it to the family ,of his brother
Cumming% neer Fenn's laridge, among
other things he aid:
" Hadn't ben I were a pnblio men, I'd a
be that nonplashed and palled to pieces I'd
a forgot bow to talk and how to pray tip to
the 'elision. You see, when it first got out
about them young people a keepin' 0003-
Vny, people put it that Tem was after
Sister May's daughter end his cousin for
Sister Jyner's. And they nat disputed it,
so they could get ehe mothers, and specie!
the brothers, to firin' away et the wrong
feller, a.hopin' that way.the_y'd other tisk°
some sort o' shine to the right'n, or least •
ways git rioonoiled to him. And bless your
soul 1 it done it; that is, with the rnothere,
which they.was the maineat ones. Then it
were they concluded to strike while the
iron were hot, to keep down any more
fneein' when it were found out how the land
lay shore enough. They wanted Emerly
Ingram to let 'em have the thing over at
her house ; but Emerly were afeered o'
hurtin' feelinai, so they immergrated to the
tavern—And, LtelLyaueLy_sere non olushed
bat eld Br'er Swinger, with all hie predijice,
say I come out splendid, and . he never
knowed till that mornin' no more'n Vother
people. whioh was which among 'em. And
When Henry Dorrieter hand me that
twenty -dollar gold pieee, and I tuck it, a
' heeleatied oicl
Beer Swinger's too, -adol—t•racia
the fee, I Bey to myself, here's it Meth'dis'
1114 if he's nothin' else he's liber'l. And if
yon believe me, Sister Cummins, them
female mothers aotuil laughed, and as for
Sister' lyner, ehe Retail cried, end both for
joy, when the heerd the news. And them
boys—well, they Fee, matter 0' 'course, it
were too late to call off and ripen on another
trail. Willom May, he latighed too • for he
were already promised to Mary Anderson,i
that she's now hie lawful wife. As for
Hiom, he looked =nations cowed; and he
do yit. Look like he don't feel like pattin'
into young wimming's societyarioi young
men's riuther, but he rather, when he go
out• _sa then take it ont in
roamin',.in a flock by hisself.. Heel% jes
as I expected, have took up with, the Meth •
'die'. Two kind o' wimming I've notuseed
in my expeunoe o' people. One of 'em
draws, and the tether late other people
drag them. You', for instance, Sister Cum-
mins, you drawed Br'er Cummins from
'mong the Meth'die', because he see yon
wuz right, while Heel% like her amain
Emerly, were drug off. But it some con-
eoletion that it were by a young man that
if he's nothin' else he liber'I."
THE END.
Ortator that\ Henry Doster is, and going to
be e bishop or some greet esemehony, when
therein Tom Doster joining land right next.
to her, and indnstriousest young man in,
thiii whole seotion of country, and would
make thee plantation look. another sort to
-er e what it been hie:ight, and he's always
to at 1"n a good Baptist, and he's as good -look-
•, route of the day as Meaty Doster, and to my
T. And then what is to become of
to bring out tri y only daughter is following a
farests 'of pine, eeracher Wherever they've a
him when people get tired of
• ash, sprue and panand another, and my only
known .cleposite.ef. than Will May, and
-or comfort to his mother
The goodness-- greoione, Tommy , "
clue time came the,reeponse. "Why, I'll
do it. In coarse I'll de it. When ,7 " •
"111 let you know before long. I thought
you'd do me that favor. The truth is, I
-wouldret feel exactly right in giving the
wadding -fee I've laid np to anybody else
than yon, whom ma and I and all of no
think soisiech of."
Mr. Buffington would surely have oriod
now if he bad known hove. Conoentrating
hie gaze more end more fiercely upon Tom,
he writhed and writhed, as Tone, waving
his whip now and then, enlarged upon the
pleasure it would be to hina alwayieliere-
after to remeraber the -bio own pastor, and
sandstpue. With ccrttri. .11-V8Q8° have tg hie wife's pester, and the pester of hie
°":;;AattnrikoTe.d. tido Dilator of hie wife'e Then Tatting, and p
^ Terms and Titles.
" Varlet " is the same word as " valet,"
and each is an offshoot of the fended
" venal."
Meidame is " my lady." and air has been
extracted from the Latin " senior" through
the French.
"'Dandelion " is dent de lean (the lion's
tooth), and " vinegar" was once vin aigre
(emir wine). •
"Biscuit " • keeps alive the Latin bis
cookie (twice cooked), and a verdict is
simply a vere dictum (true asying).
A "'villain," before the stigma of dis-
grace was attached to him, was a laborer
on ehe villa of a Roman ootentry gentleman.
• An Earl was an -1' elder " in the' primi-
tive society, while Pope is the same as
"papa," and Czar and Kaiser are both
e Camara" -
Queen • et first meant " wife " • or
" mother," and a survival of its early sig.
nifloation waste in 4* queen," used now only
in sebed sense.
" Jimminy " is a reminiscence of the
classical adjuration, Cagemini, used by the
Romano when' they called upon the twins
Castor and Pollux -to help them.
Redingote is “ riding coat," borrowed by
the French from our own language, and re-
turned to me in a new guise with the dress -
Maker's stamp of approval.
" Slop " shop 'has nothing to do with
slops, as some etymologists have asserted,,
but ramose clothing shop, the word coming
from the Ioelandio elopper, coat.
Lord is the Anglo-Saxon hlaford (loaf
distributor). The Latin term for "lord,"
(dominos) tide given useladominie," the old
terra for preacher, and the same root is
found in "dame."
" Roamers " are peeple who go to Rome
to see the Pope, and " saunterers " was the
appellation , bestowed on the 'religious
enthusiasts who made the pilgrimage to the
saints) terre—the.Holy Land.
wool as a border. 'It is as eoft and mate in
weave as white velvet,whioh it closely 'Amu-
lates, though woven in a plain surface with-
out a pile.
A fringe formed of the material raveled
out and knotted finishes some plaid, suit-
inge, though it hi too early in the season to
safely predict. that these indioete a general
return of fringe rather then a feature
of dress worn by a few.—New York Tribune.
Severely Condensed.
" I want to send s, telegram to my hus-
band," said an excited young woman, who
came hurrying into a Western Union tele-
graph office the other morning. ,
ery -well," replied—thoi—operator in
attendance: "There are some blanks, and
of course the briefer it is the less is will
cost to send it."
" Oh, I know that," she replied, and
then she wrote :
Dear George,—I've something too dread-
ful to tell you, but please don't get excited,
dear, for it can't be helped now, and baby
and I are perfectly safe. I don't know how
it ever happened and cook says she don't
know, end none of us can account for it,
but the "house caught fire last night and
burned to the ground. Just think of it
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A Stickier for Form.
"What is the matter with you, Mettle ? "
1' I don't ysielli to talk with yon after what
you esidet out my smile."
; I praised it. I think it is perfect,
,aptiely, enchanting."
V' That may be ; but. yon didn't put it
*.alleYon eaid it was all wool and a yard
wide., '
On the Wedding Journey.
o9
She (in the nausenen)'e-Thie is Minerva.
Be—Vea+3 she married?
She—Nb, she was the Goddess ot Wis-
dom. •
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All women aro in league against -the
bachelor—the marr,ied women from gym,
pathy with their unmarried sisters. aria,
the unmarried from a desire to lessen the'
number of apinetere. 1 'With Ale league
against him, offensive and defenkvethe
arried man may find ,peace in
tauire but lie • oan sedroe hope. to find
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Did you ever hear of anything so perfectly
dreadful in all your life ? I'm half,
wild over it. But 'please . keep calm
dear. Baby and I are safe, and
most of the things were saved, and
you muetn't think of anything, bat how
much worse it might have been. What if
baby had been 'burned. 0, George t don't
it make you shuddee to think of it ? But
the dear little darling is perfectly sate, and
of course we went straight to In0,1111Thell,
and end can't think how frightened elle
was until ehe knew we were. sate. And L
know just -how shocked you'll be, yon. poor;
dear boy, but as baby'and -I are safe you
oughtn't to mind. anything else. I can't
imagine how the are, started. • Can you ?
Do you suppose some one set the house on
fire? Oh, is too dreadful to think of..
Come right home. MAMIE.
P. S.L--Remember that baby and I are
este. • • 11.
" There " she said, me she handed the
seven bleals she had written to the opera-
tor, " I suppose it might be Condensed s
little."
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"Yee, I think it might," he replied, is
he took it fresh blank sedevrote :
Our house burned to the it and last
night. All. pate, Come home,
• AMIE.
A Bore Rebuked.
Mr. Awger (looking over the editors
shoulder as he clips an article from an
excbange)—Does that require much
intellect?
Editor—None whatever; why, I believe
even you could do it.
A Difference.
Whipper—Our young friend Soadds
memo to have a great desire to shine in
awiet•
Snapper—My idea is tjiat his. ambition
is to shin into society.
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•. An Infallible Sign
Spri g seems to be with 4 - Eli. Fox
trimmed his mane while sitting on eh°
bench in front of the court house this
afternoon. Old oitizenstey this is a surer
sign then the ground-liog.—eltehison Globe.
Tho late Mr. Talbot,' father of the Eng-
lish "louse of Commons, left a fortune of
$25,000,000. It tato be divided among his
danghtersethe eldest receiving the mayor
portion. Miss Talbot thus becomes the
wealthiest woman in England with the ex-
oeption of Lady Howard de Walden.
—Leidy Pannoefote wife of the British
Minister, hag been astonished at the effect
of a notice that the would bo at home on
Saturday afternoons from 4 to 6. -Nearly
1,400 people walled and moat insisted on
shaking hands. •
—Osman Pasha, grand marehal of the
Tuthieh army, whose heroism et Myna
was Ono of the grendeet incident° of thti
Russo-Turkish wae, hes written a Fronded
poem for the joutnel piebliehed. in New
grin , striiitittevery,one gei " 111 1114" 413
et Manatees:ea Regelay Tap d'Apery, 12. ar-old boy.
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