The New Era, 1884-02-01, Page 2•••
February 11884.
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litetween the MEW,
°Danz Mr. Brown" -I kuow the meant
"-Dear Jack:" that DI with seutiment
Is overweiehted.
Shy little love! She did not dare;
That flutter in the et slam where
Oho heoitoted.
Tha darling girl! *hat fovinlk heed
mho gives tae strokes; it doea net need
Great penetration
To Aote the lingering, trusting touch; ..
As if to write to me were ouch,
. A coneceetion.
ThellOwers came; so kind of you.
A thousand thanks." Oh, fie 1 mitts Prue.
The line betrays you.
'You know just there you sent 5kits;
Veu meant that blot to tell me tine,
dud it obeys you.
' They gave me such 8, happy daY ;"
Jove them to." she ateata 50 BF..
"Because yoxi Bent them."
But then, you see, the Page is mall;
fthe wrote in liaste-the words -and all -
know she meant them,
Atmight I kept them pear me, too,
Anddreamt of them,lahe wrote," andgautt..._
• But would erase it.
„ Dia she but have one tender thought,
That perished with the blushit brought,
• my love would trace it. •
"This morning all the buds have blown."
That Ilouri.,b, surely, is "Your own,"
. .• 'Tis written queerly:
She meant it so. Ahl useless task
To hide your love 'eolith such a mask ••
• As that" Sincerely."
',PrUdenCe.” 11.(100 tender words confess
• As much to me as a caress,
AnaPrue-you knowIt.
-But then, to tease me, you mutt add
Yhur other name, although yo e bao
Scarce space to ffeit.•
A dash prolonged manse the shoot •
To (nose the note? The little cheat -
No, when he penned it,
She meant itEl qua,vtaing length to say
That she couidavriteto me for aye,
and never one it, •
Prue Love is like tha flame that glows
Unseen, till lightly Ulm° it gnaws- ,
Too fierce td quell it.
Ana mieel ah, mine is until:Messed;
Hut now—, that dash Etna all the rest -
Pi]. have to telt it. •
"This Is Lite,"
I have • plannea much work for iny life," she
said; •
A girlish creature with golden ilea,.
• Ana bright and wiuooiue as the was fair, "
The days are full, till he. comes to wed ; .
• The clothes to buy, and the holm) to make
A very Eden for his dear slate." •
•
,But caret+ soon come to thaweeded wife;
• She shares his duties, and hopes and feels
Whichlesseu not with the waning yeare;
For a very etruggia'at best, is life'th.
If we knew tneberdens aionge line,
• We should 'shrink to receivethe gift divine.
Sometimes, in the hush cif the eveeing hour,
She thinks et the leisure ehe menet to gain,
• ,And the work she *child de with hand aud
• Wain:
• I am tired to-inght ; am lacking -power . .
To think," she says; ' I must wait until
My brain is restethand pulse is stol." .
Oh I woman and mate there ie never rest; ,._
Dream not of a leisure that will not couae
Till age •hall. xuake you both blind and
*dumb..•
You must live each day at your very beat ;
The work of the world iii done by few •
• God asks that a pare be clime by you.
Say 055 0! the years, as they pass froin sights.,
\ This, Thi
is s 'lite with its golden store:
• Ishan have it once, but it conies no more."
• -Have &:purpose to do with yopr utmost might:
• tau Will finish yeuravomon the other side,
• When you:Wake in gip likeness, satisfied.
- The Story of a Life.
Say, what is ? 'Tis to be born " • ,
A helpless bab ,to, greet tb,e light •
With a sharp Vit8.1.18,8 it maniere . •
Foretold a cloudy upon and night; •
To *cep, to sleep, and -weep again,
• With sunny 8E11108 betweyn-Fand then?'
• Ana the apace the infant grows .
To be ittughing, sprigetly boy, ''
BePPY,•despite his little woes . .
• Were he but oomadous of tie joy
To be, in short, from two to ten,
A Worry, ruoody then?
And then in coat madtrousers chid, . •
• To leartenteay the deoalegue, ,
• And break it, an unthinking tad, •
With mirth rind mischief, all agog;
• A truant oft by field and fei,.i•
And capture butterflies -and then?
And then, inereasied in strength and size,
To be anon, a youth full grown;
A hero in hismother's eyes, .
Ayouue Apollo in hie own;
i
To mitate the ways 05 0100.
in fashionable sin -and then?
• And then, et lee% Mem a naaii,•
. To fall in 'Cove, to woo andivedi
With seething brain to 801301330 awl plau. • .• •
• To gather gold or toil for bread; • .'
To sue for faine with tongue aud pen.
And gain or lose the prize -and. then
And then in'gray and wrinkled eld.
Te mourn the speed of lire's decline;
To praise the scenes our youth beheld,
• And dwelt ihthtenonnory of tang ane;:
Pp dream awhile with daritthed 1.1021.• .
T rop into hie grave -and then?'
• fettling end Larkikui..
A marten site 'it a windoW teal, '
And th.and froSWings her idle tept
• As she gazed off at the suuset glow ' •
- ; oar the tops of the hilbrof isuotv; .
In her lap rests a book, unopened, forgot, •
toil eyes are gazing ',there burg' may not,
As She dreams, and dreams.
•
VA.r up in those mountains of 'rod and gold,
; whind the snow hills so white and cold,
L. tine sees I doubt not a lever true
• 1n his fiery steed go cantering througlte
ledr.the brightreyeirtiash and the.red lips Wale
Aud she sits theregezing.a long, long while,
. Andareoans and dreams. •
Ohl the steed is eery, the lover -is true'
From the spins on his boots to bit cap of blue;.
And the 1301 eyes fiaSh and the cheeks burn fire
As he spurs his heree.throligh the Mod and the
mire ,
• At his side gleams a sword, now imbue and cold,'
With rare jewels set ill its hilt of gold •
•Thus the dreams' and, dredui. '
.„
•
He hat traversed tbe world on his eteeo so fleet
For a maid bite this i the Window sea,
• Scanned maidens of hien aud of low degree, .
And of each one said, eoftly, "Not thee, not
thee el •• •• ` . •
Will never a hand point him out the way,
I wonder? :OM you he will come 54 day,
to she dreams and. dreams.
But hark to that souud; was it out of the Street?
And was it the sound of harrying feet? •
oh, my heart, stand still and listen with rile
• Whim I press; iny'face to the pane and see,
Is it horses' hoofs on the pavement below? .
Have you come, my knight, is it yds Or AO?
__She dreams and dreams.
From the sword the jewels methlalts 1 eee
&termite the hand bf a meld like mei .
And now I can frol his breath on ray cheek,
• His hued oval- mine, Wilt he never speak?, ,
A voice through the derktuiss conies loud and
Clear;
o what, disheanot trashed yet? Howa thiamy
dean*" .
Farewell, 0 ye droanut?
-San Prancitoo
• -
•
• on the lltagned
TheNtoughing spectacle was presentediu
a New York polioe vourt recently of a mon
confronted and eltiiadairif
• woman who was accompanied by eight .
children, racist of thcot old enough to .Votit,
When ilia said to him, id a voice broken by
emotion, "Rafetrom, an your word of
honor, aren't yeti any huebatid?" he loOked
carefully at her and at each of the row *Of
ithildeen, end repliedr" 1never saw ata be.
fore." If his word • Were true, how
eatnesily h Mild heart littered thebt, and
•how sithettly he meet 'havirhoped that
• they Weald be lattlieveal
PRUDENCE HART.
By inionoucia K, cam.
Though he had @amplest howeirer, ',bon
showing tractor iu eeking Mtes Hart'
moiety, it Was by no rthane his intention
to tholude himself from thy future inter
itoutee with that young ledy. On tlie oon
trary, he had by this timo. (tenured hitneell
that it was Itie eluty, o quiet way, to learn
What Plore.of her he oould, in order to plebe
himself ioa positioit to give ouch thyme
0000erning her (supposiug that adviati were
ottotheary) as ought to be looked for from
on elder eon and brother,Without further
lose of time, therefore, he se e himself
about tide virtuoiae work, and continueit
with laudable penieverenea through week
after week of the Advancing spring and
early sumbeee, for it proved to be en under -
t train& of aga arduous sort, requiring.(or,"tet
least, eo he thought) much tinte for its due
corryiog out.
As theee weeks went on, Prudence
showed herselato bim in verioue moods.
, He ttaw a good • deal of her, one she wee
• eonietimee (though not often) Went tied
demure; he WW1 generally irritating aud
more or less mocking a she was othesieu-
--ally gentle and womanly; and in all her
Moods, eXcept perhapo the fir, she got the
better of him. They had maty encounters
together, auct ohe beat higt in every one ot
them. She wee ten times armorer than he
was - ten tomes reedier -ten tinier' more
daring. And he.fiaid to himself 'again aud
theta "She is not -the kind of. woman
"they Wilk alhe ; she iti not Beth girtas
it clan do Mabel ally good to be iutinutte
with; if my mother knew ner is I do the
would not let her Amy, in the house ;" and
yet, thaugh ate knetv all this, hei presently
loth the power of openieg his Ups to make
the °there knowit ; for, before he had been
acquainted with plias Prudence .actinple ot
months, the poor yeah& fellow' Was in love
. wttit her, ..
She had got him iu the toile before he
had even begun to • iuspect his 'danger.
Pretty 'soon indeed he begun tobe conscious
that ehe wee acquiring a oortiatt power over
hiin. He knew tuat .sb� was flirting witb
him, but he could not help offering himeelf
• Le he flitted with; she dreWlint . to her by
eatattraotioit that he did not underittaud,
but which he ;hardly tried to resist ; he
thought he was studying her, not suspeet-
Mg that While he was. at his clumsy labors
Lithe had learnt hint out kid out, sod (mold
Bee through hint as througb a glass windy w.
• After 4/, very ehort tune had: passed, he
'began. to take 'advantage d every opportu-
eity.he mobil fled for being. with her, and
ihe was uthoodortably cenecieus that be
Beige • eictortunities aft tieorebly as he
could, aud 'mimosa coneoioue (uncomfortably '
too) that she -• perfectly undere.toOd • Ms
methodof propellor°, and entirely sympa.
thized With it. . • . •
"'Yoe never talk to me before other peo-
ple," he said t� her. odoe; only half die!'
pleased at the -deriette '1318ALInpr 'that ehe
'always adopted towards him in public, and
yet, for couscience' sake, half trouble'd at:
; biit wheels maile. this' acousation, she
gave a little laugh; and, •,
''..Well-sheal we have our next carnivore
. sation before .them ?". the ,. auswerecl
instantly. aquie'wiLhog, on my:
side. Suppeth we count to the dre,Wiog400rn
new, and let . your mother have . the plea -
Sure of hearing you 'reproach me for .my
eilehtheaand nay other fanite," • - • .
al You liawitys get the better ot he
replied. "If Lever *nature t� loathe yog
for abything you alwoye turo the tattles ou
" And what else' would -you '
•have tnedo 2"
she asked, "Do' you think l' aria. fond of
'bang found fault with ?-and'what are you
to me that a ehooldtake faulafio.diet fawn.
• a ' . . •
•
4hdthen the oolot.thane to his face; and
that last queetioo of hers touched him
enough le make his speech fail him, For.
he had begun by this 'male (or,perhaps had
beguu) to, feel • a -certainerioret,cianticious-
nees"thet he eheuld like. te beeomehiug to
her.; he believed' indeed still that. there
could be nOthing serious betaielin :theme:12k-
he had thoughtottenthat he should like to
!toad her to; at least a .iantrk of feeling, to -
awake something different from this mock,
ing and challenging spirit. in her. And the
youeg man who•wee , rapidly growing more,
in .ettenest -than he yet well keew, toes
beginning to ded that 'her Moultiug werde
had.. acquited a keen lowerto sting ania
wound him: . . • . •,6 . • •
a In addition to . theie .paius, tom that -Bite
'made hilt eater, there was another matter
that, aeoubled hiat not tt-little. • • He was
afraid of Godfrey. Is wits.. true that. his
brother,. always epolle.' of Priideuce in .
slightly* *ay, widenehe on bet abide
retorned
and thet their intercourse ail fat
itS•appearek was a very easy stud indiffer-
ent. one ; but Keithhad deep expeareace in
his awn cite° that appeatenoesewhere Mies
' Hart woe noucierned, -were by no means
to be received with mipticiletrust, and once
or tiviee'at leak, if riot ciftener,itseemed to
his eyes (which were pekhape, 'however,
too haiku(' to (lee thisight) that there wee
Wore between them 'than either of them
wise diepcieed o ccioless. • .
Once he thought this so strongly, that be
riven.'olittrged her With tryitig to make hie
bat:04-401e foralier ; & bold thing to do;
,end a very utiwiee one as well,- for, as may'
,•be euppos.edoshe _rose t� thecoaasioxi, add
rooted him with humilistlen.• 7 • •
"1 trouble myself itticed your brother la
.she exeleimed, drawing hereelf u to her
uttnoot height. (elle Wee 'het a tell woman,
• but many a day she made ',hint fie); forle..11
has. • ink 'feet, as it eller towered fat above
him) Do you think I ehould be likely to•
try to get a: boy like that to there for me;
• WhenI 'woad .,not*.mciiie hand or feet to
entice anywan alive?" ..• ' ' • '
• .
And her epee was .ito superb that, ear•
tied atitay by. it entirely fur the mordent,
he • almost heMbled liiineelf an the dust
before bee to entreat. her pardou. So,
grovaeg always moreand more tender :Over
her, and move mithreiled by her, Keith
mane and weiit during these iterate and
eunanter montbs-anot a veryhappy teat,
for neither Prudence nor bie oonsaiencle
gave him an easy time of it, but yet loving
• the (Mains he. had bouhd*.hinagelf With to
wellbeeti to With to bteak them. . •
' It Wee net until August had some that,
in plain Words, be disclosed the state of his
leoliegs to Ilififf. Hart. Long before that
-time! she had, of amuse, heelte,perteotly
aware of how blotters stood With hito, for
both fiar natural gifts and her large ;toped,
euriesliaida any want of coniprelieheionon
enehtt Oubjeet Oita imptheible to her; but
it Waal Only On this August day that the
won* winch a. score of times had been
verypear-the--yoUng-teett's lips, finally
°reseed them' and got epoken.
wee a Sunday,and they had naltivearly
in the plotting in the garden -ate, 50 tell
the truthalty_e_ Jona of titeitakereaggett
iherrita done twee" than atime or Witte
before -he eonting out an hear or so hetet°
breakfalli intentionally . to fled her, and
oho demureltperetittieg halm); to be found.
On this Spada day he cote in .thateh �f'
her While the Iseads o mold' of the rest
of the househtila Were titl at peed° tipOn
their pillotele and dienevered her then In a
distant ateet of the garden, paging up and
down one -af the gravel rathg, in epperently,
Very.thoughtful mood.. • • "
"1 hope you have not been here'
. .
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he paid cheerfully, when he lighted on her,
«1 have been Isere for some Uwe," she
.tinswered rigidly.
"0h, by Jove 1 late then?" mt.
.01shieed the young man in *grieved tone,
and be looked at his watch; brit as Ale read
it hie face brightened again. " /*Zoo' it is
not hall past seven yet. Itis you who the
too early," he fetid,
"Too early for what?" she inquired
and then the looked- at him with a, look
that made him reedy to sink into his boots,
and "11 you think I only game mit•here to
enjoy the Oceania of your ooropany, tdr.
Keith, you are under a ourione deluidoo,"
ehe haughtily said. , •
Upon which he felt so confounded that
be, liela his peate,, for (10he had taken it
hitherto) he had not had a doubt that it
was for that reason that MithHart,on these
Sunday mornings, had,beeh in the habit of
slaorteuing her repose. • • •
-H.Owev et, when she rebuked. hie presump-
tuous assumption with such severity, he'
submitted, to the rebuke for a few moutentto
in intermit anti then. tuerely anstvered-
itdcweii:It gor your colliperlY that /
m
coe, any way." •
"That a very different thing," iihe
n
I suppose it he assented, a little
roefolly. "Bot, I Beyal .he ,remonetrated,
al ter another little pause, "1 thiuk you're
&tofu* hard upoultofellow. • If you. don't
• couoider that you iney gave Mae a little
encouragement after all this time -by
Jove t" -and then his eloquence failedbmw.,
".1. iion't eee why I• ueed you ally
encouragement," bbe said deliberately.'
.."I don's see why any man needs eri-
cooragernent. You are all alike, every one
of you. . You think a woinen nught DO be
grateful, and to..make o eartsey to you for
evarytivil word you spotlit 50her; but 1
thiok tliffetently..• „From we, I beg 'co tell
you, Mr. Keith, you will get neither. curt-
seys tee gratitude." •
' "Well, I am ;are I don't expeut them,"
replied Keith, rather, ithguantly ; aud their
he walked on wish his insert pretty hot
within him. , •-
* She had a light summer nattutleover her
.ehonldere, and she •folded .her 841118 and
wrapped it around her, ate if it had been as
martial •cloak; . „The movement •ehnotit •
seemed tea if it were made to idnive her.
lover haw Reg °patented owl. indepeudent
of him, she• weer. A.ud ea he iirterpreted is,
as he watched. her askance, with his heart
fell of .honest love for her, and , yet tura
with a good teeny couflicting thoughts. • -
• Dal the tett care at all for hiSo ?. theater
lod-was asking himoelf. She vise far 'more .
than a mach for him -he kite* that ;• but.
Yet he remembered Words and looks that
she had given • tia him, he remembered
(they/ Were -rarely enough, blued, °oaf ate
:thonghts) WO or three tender passages that
bad missed betweeu them, and he tioultinot
believe that her indifference was not as -
sawed. He let' a Minute pose in -gloom.,
and then be epoke to her again: • • •
"1 don't knew:why you come down otion
ine se this morning," he ettid.
,hatei r done? 1*are . sure yon'ought tri be
'friends with me. If you knew how ,I felt
50 yob., you. would see quickly enough how
•fittle I, at any rate, deeerved to have you
say mach -things," • . .
"And why you less. then lanybody'eleei
You finlike other . People I suppose," the
'anewered indifferently, • ••
• "But elt people -are not alike," he' rernan-
etrated. Why, its absurd te talk like
Out. Do • y eitathink, 8,11 women are, like
yourself ?" •• • •••. '
.• " It they hactray spirit they wointlobe like
me in one reenact," the Said.. ., •
" That le, in scenting Me (Ma allitY 'seta .
I 9bppose?" • heeeuggeeted after a atoment's
(Aleut:lea ' • ; a • ••
' " .holding proper place,,and not
lettiyg.yon or itujtef your sex ttainple Upon'
them,":themetotted. • •
-Upon which 'Keith. said nothing. : The
iroplied suggeatien thut ..he was trainpling
Linen her etruck him as something so wildly
wide' or the truth, . that no ejaculation
'eppeared adequate: to express,...hier atethe- •
went. • • •• • • a 4aZa‘,•,•*a
They.wallied agaieht silence. ai-pr. another
miente Or 80 Atter..this. She Puzzled him.
very Mitch; she froubied hut and gave hot
tuauy pangs. But yet he felt unutterably
tender to her, and longed iutenettly to
• give seine expreesion to his tenderness.
More thao once before new he had been
• ..vera ottat declaring his love for 'her, but
• some hegering settee et prudencre„ some
lingeringsense of doubt, had kept. him
itileut, But, now the Moment had come.
when it seepaed to him that he ocluidnot
bear tiabiatilterrityitta . • "
• " Well; I aught almost to be afraid, I
• sueposalo say anythmg•inote to you," he
abruptly begot, With his heart beating fast,
• after the pewee had ,liteted' a little while ;
• i‘ and I ehould becf faro:ie.' if my tiOnsoleuce
were net asalettr toward you 9,8 it is. But
yea kuota-Pretty well how tint go nye vatth
.rne, Prudence e, I never weaned you or any
°thee woman to knock under to tueabut
•"you'anow I love you with all raybeart, and
-you can only .like, me enough to'ivititfer
me tilj I have got-sebonle--tctofferyomel
thiiik I shall be the heppiest fellow live
higaalittio the tithe•boy„ vhtletather a break
in hie voice at the last words.
Is tas'; an.boneet deolaretien, and no
woman need .• have been ashained to be
•touelied • hy•it : • but. Mies' ,Prudence Hart
had, peoVed her 'Hiatt to he matte she bore
on it good •.many 'thoesions already in her
life, and *900 Keith was ttmablingahaeloa
fieithed epeakieg, the healthy colorin has
• oletelot heftily either deepeped• or' declined,
mud Me paced on eteadily . for e, dozen nape
•:ertateare after he 'had ceded bbs speechi
thoughtfully to all appearance, revoliting
the 'proposal he had made. She was am cool
tiof4 it melon, :too whim,' after . that petite,
•that
opened her lips ' •
"Ansi *hat would all your peohle hay to
you; do yoo think, suppoeing • I agreed to
tine arreageritent?" 'she conipthedly asked,
add She turned to .hith aod looked him
straight in the face. "4s things swarth
thiationtenta_they .are not=exacily pre-
pared to hear of it, perhaps 2"• .
The poor yoting was gifted with
only rib entail and ordinary sO anteent of
self-oontrol- that, at this lequiry, he .cioiored
to the "roots of his hair.
•" They May. not be prepared for it, hot-
test I ithoiild tell' them atoned, e•a course,!
he said. •• •• o •
" And they: 'woirld no doubt be highly
gratified by the iiimilligether' replied Mies
Hart suavely. . . ' •
And thou she lOoked at him again as she
Might have looked at a beetle through
which she had just steel( a• pin, and the
next moment gave a outioes AAA,. perhaps',
net a.Very plethant laugh, .
Be Was trying to ;find Some answitrato.
Make to her sitrertent, and had uttered OM
'or three words, whett she hiterrupted him,
net withoot 'a good deata of 'dignity; she
Wag SO entirely Mistress of hereelf that it
Was quite • ealty tOt* het te he, dignified,
Whereas' eVen self-pciesession tot hilt was
clearly, for the momeht, a. thing not to be
catalpa& •
"Mr, Keith, I ara noVqeite so Binaple as
not 50 know how the menet Itteitds," she
"Before you comptelhoise youreelt
any further, take beak your propthal,
'Too. haVe ,nleant it perhape, hitt
you have forgotten, "I think, to take into
theouot that I arit likely to be a little too
proad 50 accept it. If you want MO to
thank yeti, I With you, 4pda...decline your
offer. And tiow," .he Raid cemportilYt
"let us never epeak about this again.
IWO of °owes be began to speak about
it again instantly; he might have hesitated
before be opened his Iwo at all, lowing
how much reason ,there Wati 1 Or floatation i
but; after be bad once parted from his dim.
toiroeptifornolmit hweere witooutldlikkeelyep_thhaontlieadorhal•
o
he pleaded bus mope with till the ardor ana
thesarnestness he could call to his aid, ai3d
the walittarplatidly by his Bide and listenea
to hint fielding the occupation, perhaps,
not Uni/leiteant• •
"It It is only that yon mind what the
rest may Bay, you ought not to give we up
for theta* the young teen eagerly argued.
"And you are not going to tell me, Pru -
douse, that you Verge cora, at all for me?
You have as good ae amid you liked we
before now. I don't think that you would
have let things go so far as they have -
that you would have leo ane get so tuna of
you as you ktiow 1:have been gematang-
if
you had not meant to give immeshing
back to me at last."
som"You
siT,,rgaeDettlre. Iltweetill,'t'hafteptileieodPleMairees
Here to pits appeal; and then, at last, ehe
cost her eyes modeeely $o the ground. **
was very weak if I ever said I liked you." •
"But unlees nau neon trueinn.wonld
not have read • it at all!" exclaimed Keith
triunaphantly ;' and the truth ot it is ell I
wage' you to allow. If you let me know
that you like me, you can't imagine,"
,oried the young man, 0. that I am gonegto
give you up Prudence, do you like me r
And with the lase woroe, whicb came from
his bpi with a tremulous wilderness, he
ventured to touch her hand, and after a
'innuaenv, even to tole it in Ms etym. '
She submitted mi this movontent for kt
few secoude, but after that space of time
ebe gave a little, just audible sigh, .0nd
crew herself away trona him.
.soril-2eTlitilleewiew.voerrlY4 fooel.issh," :13:710110:up• .tly.
Keith, wish all hie face ou fire. " It *semi
to rue like -like et ending an the threshold of
I Foolish, 'do you lel" ejaculated
•
" Well and may not the threiliold Or a'
dete world be a very risky plate tO
on ?" iuquired• Miss 'Hart. "1 am a coat -
ere, yea see, Mr. Keith,and 1 lan afraid
of the inateovea. Come, I repeatit is all
foolish. Lee.us forget ate leathalt hone."
"How °ten you tell me to do that, as if
believed .that it, was possible ?" the
young,man brOlte out passionately. .
Yu have been very *Medea," Real Miss
Hap reprovingly. •
• " L have to •.lesan that •yet," .he replied,.
• "Surety, Prudence, I have toldoyou nothing
this morning that you dul'net knnw before!
You allow that, do you not? And; dear,"
he went, on ardently, after a moment's
eilence, " xf you have -known' that indeed,
and it you have still gone on meeting me,
how eau I believe that all this timeami he.ve
meant to, say to tri me at last? You 'cannot
have meant it ; there ie so- riff& between'
uo and yes. Give me one word-ohop
eod I will wait -you do net know how'
patiently I will wait-etor the rind "
• And then she Made no hannediate answer
to. blti3 ; WO after a little pause., she finally
'did give him one word of hope.' • `
• It was a very cool end ciautiedis word,
but, enob as it was, ,it raieed hien to the
seventh heaven: But; as tete :Went on, I
am • afraid the 'poor lad found that he: had
enteredinto. a rather siornia paradise, and
that if Nies Hart had disturbed hie repose
'an the days Itefoot he had declared liar/melt
to be her lover, shopeeked him withelenost
_unbearable torments' in those 'other days
that came after'rliem. For he goon discov..
ered that hie expecitatiotis of receiving any'
extended favor trona her hands after his
:elevation was a delueion .of..the moSt
She 'gave hilt not nhOre than
she had given hiw. before:, but lees.. She
treatedbitn' with bromiterie, with colduese,
sometioate even With mintempt ; ehts•miale
him Jealous by parading: her apparent pre-
ferenou ef other people . to hauastilt ; and
*two hareproaohedhet eitithelietie;Ruelties•
'she told him cioolly that She oetstaised there
1 or iiitiown geed, that he might, learn ptu
Seances_ efid wean his affections trout her.
" For you ktioge you are very foolish to
pare about me," ehe ofeeia • told - hill)
" There aro a great .roaety • other
.eirls that it would be far better, for you to
like."' And he Would . enumerate these
oaaideurt Botnetinhee, Wishedrove him Wild
with linpatienae.. - s• • •
•
"1 Will Marry you 'Or n�othrwmnan
ie thie wend!". betold her oue day,. with
.eveheituence. And thee • she laughed, and ,
„endtienly' stoptied. her teasing Wk. , end
looking in hietace With a•sof ter look in her
eyes then she often let ,hina.see, • •
•, 4t Well,,Itdon'tthitik you.will ever many
the," she said abeuptly. ; ';* but, if stoat an
unlikely thing should by chance happetr; I
will try not to -wake you 'unhappy -you
good old goitte. •
.--Andon this -tor :shb gave him few Imola
tender speeches-thelooliab fellow was'so
moved that, feeling an entire inability to.
express bis, gratitude in words, he fairly
went doe ti Ms knees before her, end
• kiierid the little band the gave up to
with all kinla of incohereut bletteinga
stiimbliegoverono, another on hie lips.
And i,e, with Mete vieihie change, things
went on till the • Knower had • paesed its
height, •• Long ' before this, Prudence had
• made. hereelt. Mud( at helmet in the Vernet
fainila, ;sod had wou aleigh opiutoe tothei
airtime from Mr, and Mr* Verner alike
-From:Mabel 'Ole had, :perliape, not . quite
weri-reo high an ',opinion, har Mitoel'e•
thquaintathe withber beihgmore intitnate,
led now and then to certain suipleitmit that
made that young. lady douhtidi. about the
innerineist oharaeler of bee new friend; yet
even:Mabel was attracted' by her too miteh
to be ditipenaell readily lei thiokiil of her; "it
seems to me that she lb tiOtqaite atraightfoe,
ward," be bad littiti,.heintatiugly, one° rie
twice tO Keith (who, hayloft hie own
thoughts, too, on that point,:.had not, per-,..
haps, been able to do ranch to allay his
• sister's peeplellty) ; Iuit to her mother she
had not said even so marl ea fate
was le kind-hearted girl, ' and •-hardly 'liked
• to hint at stispicions, that the could not
Wave; "for if mamma thought there was,
anything odd about het She would nailer
let her stay," she argued, "and it would
• seem eo hard to (tend her awita.--Besidee„
inat/ be wrceig, and iihe is Bo ince in Many
ways, and I don't believe she meths way
harlel. Itis 'wily that -a thiaka the deers
not tell the truth," She Would say, a little,
troubled, and yet tumble to resolve that, if'
.other people's eyes were shut, it was her
blisibeee-to open theme So she kept tilted:
end Prudence Walt on he way rejpioino.
But 00 15 00Ltain morning,, when riutunan
had begun,. and the beech -trees were geove.
ing red 'and dropping their leaves open the
lawn, the postmeat brought a letter to MItto
Hart, from whioh uneapeeted &ante
ensued. It :was -a letter addreesed in a
mated hand, 'and when elm reogiv.ed it at the
breakfast table, Pendell/tit blushed a little,
and olipperit into her apron peeket un-
opened, and wheathe meal Was elided took
her departure front the apartment tether
I:testily; after' 'WW1 for a 'good While
nobody se,Wher ally More.,
After an hour or two had passed, how'
*refer, Mrs, yerber was Wetted „by, :herself in
the diniegaomt with her deek and her
thootint-booke betake hea When false Hartat
gentle Angara opened the doer, toa .hat soft
fitep heating brought her to Mesafirtioe's,
olds, aown she nnexepeotedly plumped
thereon the floor, giving the elder lady, who
was buoy with ber bills, rather p turn.
" Whalers the matter, my dear ?" Slut Bud
qualtly, looking round,
00b, dearest. Mee Verner, nothing io the
matter," *Dowered Prudence sweetly. She
had a pretty color in her cheeks, and in
her eyes the softest look -cif modest mufti-
Biog. "Nothing is the utatter--unless you
ohould be angry; but you Won't bo that, I
think, hemmer) I ain eo haPpy. I have 001110
to tell you Bret of all. Dear Mrs. Verner',
I ani -1 am going to be married."
" Merried, Prudence!" oriedMre.Verheri,
quite taken abet*, for she had thought
bile knew alt the girl's oormerne, .and hod
calmly come to the oenclueion long ago
that she bad never hsd a lover in her life.
Yes, I IED.OW 1 slamild surprise you,"'
answered Rruderme, eoftly' h&ugbing "for
I never told you, did 1? But at has been
• Bluth a long ateachment-oh, such a long
• attaohment 1, and there were difficulties
but he oan do what he Hiles now, and nay
only trouble, dear Mrs. Verner, is that I
must leave you all, at once. Yes, at onoe,
for he is going with his regiment to Canada
almost immediately, and -and therewill
be 80 many thing.; to do yeti know." .
"But, .Prudeuce, where do you propoee to
go to ?" exolauned the matron, feeltng
almost scandalized at the rapidity with
which Nies Hare was preparing to transact
the whole affair, "You can't be married
in a moment,
• " 0 a, no 3 but he asks me to go. and stay
in London with his brother, explaieed
.Prudenoe, with another sweet and Modest
emit. His brother is ruarried. 140111
law* hie wife, hat that doesn't matter,
does it? And they have sees an invitation
to me to go to, them, and they want to have
our wedding from their house. Are they
nob kind? Wherever go people are .so good
to me," said grateful Prudence.
• The news was (denting ; but of course
the only thing was to facilitate Mimi Plart'it
departure. . The gentleman who was to be
herbusband hod:juin 001318 inte /A very good
fortune, she' informed • them."I am Buie
you will be glad to know that I shall not be
poor," she, told them meekly ;.,atict they
were very glad of (mum. Therrejoicediti
her 'happiness altogether very heartily.
"The onty thing we have to regret is that
we.mixist 'loge you," they said to her. ,
"But you will 13Ot ,1080 1338 forever, I
hope,"' Prinlenoe answeeed Very eweet1 to
thie. "My George hopes only 59 be abroad
for a very few years, and then we shall
Betel° in England, ti:nd,I .hope I shall the a
great dead you." • •-
. Arid io when Thursday came she took
her departure With ;miles and tears. It
-Was, quite au affeating parting. Ma. and
Mrs. Verner alixiost felt as if they_ were
impending from a 'daughter. They, gave
her a handsome present to help • her with
her troueseau • they told her. to let them
have' frequent news of • her. " The boys
Will be Be eurpristed," Mrs. Venter repeated,
an hour before the *end CAMEL shalt
wrtte 50 Keith this afternoon and tell hire.
They will both be go sorry when they ..hear
you are gone.," , •
And accordingly, when Prudenee wae
fairly launched On her new life,' Mrs. Verner
Wrote her uote "awl Keith got it. the next
morning: ' He foiled it on his table when
he came hi to bre .kfast, raid he read it in
•Godfreeapreeenee, and as he read it be
gave a g tep and tnrnecl deadly pale. • •
"I say, what's up?" ;triedhie brother in
Surprise; and then 'without a iverd Keith
claimed the letter, en • the 'groond,• andthe.
caber picked it up:and read it. • . •
• The next moment dolfreylaad struck his
clenched bend on, the table with a blow -that'
riutdathe claps and sateen sing.
. " Confourid her 17.. he cried furiously, `
; But Keith only 'milted at ,hini for a
moment, and then walked blindly °tit 'et
tlietoom.• Hifi brother riaieht curse her,
but be had loved her toevell for that. He
-felt as if his life was ended.' Through the
,olosed .deorp be heard Godfrey swearing
and he eet'dcivait alone, like a men who' was'
.• '•
• THE
•", Friday: an Unlucky Day
Perhaps the World will never get aver the
-idea that Friday is in unlucky day. That
the oeumfixion occurred on- a Friday is
'moriathen mot he proved.' But admitting
till that is eliamea, there have been many
eventsboeurring on thie unleoky day that
were decidedly the reverse of unlucky. Of
coinee, is loug list might be givem'but e
few, bouneoted 'chiefly with American
tory, will do. - 013. Friday, _August 3rd,
1492, Columbus soiled from petits on his
aneritorable Voyage of disoov,erY, and on
• Friday, October' 125ho he discovered the
first land, the telaria. which hernalled' San
Salvador. On Friday; Marith fish, -IteSet
fleury 1,Tflf nomenhononed John Cabot,
and thte donanalseion is 'the first English
state -paper 011 r000rd concerning America.
On Friday, September ash. 1605 St. Augus
toe, Phu was feonded-the oldest tositain
the •United States. On Friday, November
10th, 1620, tbe Mayflower • made land ea
Brinonown; and on the same (ley the Pia
grime -signed the netypeot which was the
'forerunner of • our eonetitutiom On
Friday, December 22ad, 1620, the Pilgrims
lauded at Pipe:meth Rink. On Friday,
February 22nd;,17132, Wastaingtop ware born.
On Fiiday, lune 16th; 1775, Bunke; Hill
was gazed ; arid 'fortified. On Feiday,
• October • hch, 1777; ' oceforred-the surrender
at Saratoga. On Friday, -September, 25th,
1780, Arnokre treason`wait diecOvered. On
Friday, Ootober 10ih, 1781, Cortiveallie
surreedered at Yorktown, end the war for
iudegendence ended In .00mplete victory.
Othet ovoids might be named. In the war
with Mexico the battle of Palo Alto Vegan
on .Friday. The northwestern boundary
questioo, whioh thretitened 'War with gnE
lad, was eettled on Friday of Abe same
year, On Friday, the Confederates captured
Fort Sumter, and precipitated the Warfor.
the Union.: The Port Royal forts were
takeby the Union forces on Friday; the
battle of Pea Ridge:. closed on Friday;
slavery was abolished in the Distriot of
Oolumbie. on Friday ; Fort 'Paleeki waB
taken Memphis was takete.Fiedeneksburg
borobtirded, the battle of Gettyeburg was
ended, Lee defeated, at Five Forkarathe
Uoiot; fleas teetered to Port Sumter, all on
• Friday.-,,Serona Century.
' "•
.,8 neinges in the Comet. •
E 13arnard, aisteonomer at the Van-
derbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., reports
remarkable changes in the Brooks cornet
on the nights of the 2Oth and 21st. On SO -
'
day night the nuelemewas eurtounded by a
faint calvelepe, and numerous dark rifts
were visible in the MAL .00 Mondayanight
the tail separated into three &Minot..
branithes, showing a dark .sky between the
rapid pulsation of light One degree back of
the ouoletis. -
"I wonder," said a young lady, "why
Hymen ia always represented as carrying a
-torch," TO which her boalielor unole enema
iegly responded: "To indiciate that he
always hatthea it *erne ler people who
marry,"
• .
Little do Men pereeive what Botha& i5,
Mad how far it extendeth. For a orOwd
not company, and fetes are but a gallery of
:pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there ie no lOve,,Ilaeon.
,WiteAirseearily eb0117111117-17Ww17:atellatillill4altle
'°anb0n 11;4"tioh
ial. 111908litt
111 le feet that
thousands of people are to -day enduring
the lomat intone° tartan or are afflioted by
the most nrci000tints,ble eymptioms for
whioh they than &Beige no reason whatever.
They hevetrequeutheadombes;thestrengely
languid; hove a taiieit0120 appetite One day •
aitd•uene whatever the next, and feel dull,
paint; in various parte of the body, but they .
wilagine it ie only a Old Or Immo positing
minor dieerder. Indeed, few people realize
the preeenceof grave oth, fierante dengem
until they are upon them. %lie following -
experiences of Well-kulaWn people. in the,
Proyiuce are timely and valuable:
Rev. William a'. Henderson, pastor of
the -Methodist Epinoopel Churoh of Pres-
oott„ Ontario; says: "For a number of
ytlere -and mitil reoently, I had been
gradually, hut steadily declining in he th.
1 was oubjecou to severe aline in v us
pone of nty body, thortnese of breath -
pitation of the heart,and aadistressing,
has:king %meta 1 oonsulteil phyoioians, • '
one of Whom informed me that I hod been
' earryiug too many pounds of - steam.'
etuother stated that I was on the eve Of a •
general coristibutioual 'break up ; 'another
• pronouuced me as being ler gone•in liver
oompleant,,ane feeliiag that the ittetione had
hit us, I commethed •tt 'course of his treat-
ment, without, however, .any benefit.
-
Feeling that I was going down hill very
fast, P grew itornevenet despondent, and
fleetly resigned myself to'an early death..
At this juncture I retiolved to try•Warner's •
Safe Cure, and I may say that I felt olmoet
immediate relief, and now I sin nearly as
well as I "ever was in my whole life.. MY
cough has dipappeared entirely and I sel-
dom teel any of. my. old eyniptoms. I have
'always' beeu tiOniewhat. dieported to preju-
dice againee proprietary medicines, but I .
• feel it to be an act of. justice' to wake this
statement for the good of otheraa
,_ John Evans, needing:at 139 King street,
London, eay.s i• "For two yearii I baye-been •
tronbled with gravel in nhy kidneys and • .
have suffered untold • agony: The passage ,,
.Of the gravelfrom the kidneys' iuto the ,
bladder threw me into paroicyems of pain
and oompletelytroke we down. Upon the
athotemendation" of a friend I began the •
ufte of Witenerat Safe '‘Oure, which seemed
to dieriolve the grayel and itpaseed f in me •
Safe CureWhiu
her'ff . to everybody rls ffer-
.•
411,
ha the foam of dust. I recomme War-
ing at all as I have suffeted.".
. Mrs. M. Lemon, nodding at 4 Victoria
avenue; Harcithatt, Says: "For ten ,or,fif- •;':.':
teen yeare7I luive Buffered: from -.female .
complaints end liver disease. I have von -
suited all the prominent &More in Handl- •
ton, but bone' were able to *cure 'me: • She'. :
. moths mit nt even( year I was laid up in
•bed.from nervous prostratioa and debility,- '
and frequently :while 'working about the .
helve 1 would faint and rerthinanoonsoloue, •
for more than half an hour. Heariug of.
Warner's•Safe Ohre, I began ite use and am
how in goodhealth. All previoustroubles
have left.' me, It has worked wonders in
my 'case and I can recommend:It' te all •:. .
ladies in tharienntry," ' • • •: •.
_ Mk. ()hones Ma Solite, foreman in W. H. '
.Stnitai's saw fatitory,Se. .Catharines,' Bald:
"Five years ago I %teen to he ' (dinned -
with most distressieg troubles, which , iir
areaCed in violence',until I was compelled -
mei remain in .bed.'. •-MY': symptoms Were '.
terrible,and' I kept '_getting . worse and
•Worite all the 'While. The 'dootors could not ,
agieralt to the, nature of inaraiWelealiarail 1' '
finally-loeteellbopes-roteever:gettingewell..
Learning of erime oesee similar to illy oWs,
,thathan been helped • by Werber's Sete
Cure, I began. its use ,.aild themmenced to .
iroproVe from the• first day, and 1,arn,
happy to say OtaI arn now •as.sound ite a
. .'•
dollai ttnd °en do a day's Work without its •
hurtingme." : ' , ' •
• Donor. Samuel T. Malley,. •of Chatham,
eaye : • ll. -I have .seen Werner's:Sete .0nre
-teed' very, eateneivety, end haveheard ot .
• the roast gratifying results.,:ltoneonviticed
:that it is an •uniqeitied reeditutle. for die-.
Orders of the kidheye that Urinary Cogtios„.
:itid I mai freely recommend it," . • . .
, /Er. _A. 3. DdeBle,tti• .elerk of aCittwfoed
Houma:Windsor, says : ." For seVerelactors .
1 wee lifailited With kidtha . difficulty ath
did not know what itwas to be free frono '
• eiteruoiatiog Paine, which at time were so. .
bed that 1 could neitherstand nem remove
My elothels: At that time I was'condinator
on the Denver &Ric; Grande Railroad, and :
no ,doubt the botiatant ',jelling aggravated
the disease. Noticing an rulvistisetrient of- ,
Warner% Sato :Cure, .. I procured the ...
medicine, and from. the fleet, it: anted'. like '.
magi° and .. it ' has , : completelyt • and
-permanently. • oured we. • I. cannot toe ,
highly recommend iti as 'I kite* *Mit it • ..
haeadona for me,''. • a - . '', :'
• • • The above statements &refrain people of .
ueqtlestionable Veracity, and Pooh asnlerit •
the greatest consideration.... No one who is ,
suffering from any form of phyeicalditiorder .: •
can afford to neglect even :the slightest,.
syMptoturi, which. 'can be • 50 'readily -von- •
trolled if taken in time, 'end, whinh are SO,
dangerousif pertaitted to bontinue.-;• , •
• ClillICII ()engross ter ISSd. •
,
. . .
The first chorch 'Congress in cionnection
with the Anglithabhatobin Canada Proved
• walla is elicoas last Jiine, in 'this 'city; that •
it Met been reselved 0' hold another, tome, .
time, during this yelie,in Toronte, Prepare...
thine are beigg •madis bye bonanaitte.e..re- _ ..
peerientieg'clergymen and lay tneo from eablt a •
of the ditheeste, Amongst thoth from Rainea' '..
Men are Canon Curran and Dr. Mookridge *
--thie latter settilenaan ie the Von. Ssere- •
tug. , • Amongst the sukijeetaalretalytareed
seethe' fialciwing : , "Education.: Its -De,
feats and Remedies"; "The Church. Of
i ugland .Temperange Sekiety," "The
Best, Mode • of • Attaching People' to She
Church'," • "The Chun% and .Modern •
Phoughtar " The Proper Observance ofthe
Lord' e Day." - The first general meetiog of
the Committee takes plene,on Wednesday
morning in Ttietibto.- • .'•• .
•
A ;Female Skeleton..
'They are exhibiting noW in Londeil
lady of 26, Signora Vanatelli, as
item; a po,aody of the livingelteletoo as : is
pcithible to looi
k at. She s about 'middle
'might, with a hatehetadged. face, ridged
with is hose large enough for Goliath. Thie •
is her great feature, and suggests that elie
his run into probesois as. the Thibet- '
eheep run into tail, • She nhight be peeked
in a seotion of weter pipe. Site is haped
feint shoulder to tee like a four -soars)
timber joieL The exhibitor fiat% it is
neraessary to Muff herankle boots with
cotton Wool to keep the bones from blipping
•OrgratiogittlbetajOilite:—
hfoakstbhedeanreoulimbiwshoetiperaiotoof
l
It is reported that Mosositnianeateydb..y*N.teh,ensea.vaw3otie
Moran, Bishop of Ossory, recenty named
.:,
coma to bealit9riteradte:aTiohotrd
otleotralie d ash/wee
hill residence,. Beeohhill, near Derr
early yettrit be left hie Imam fo
cheater, Where he amassed a larg
aid gained iioneidekable
arehiteet. 110 afterwards p
property on whioh his tether
tentint, arid Was appOilitedl
bus IlistiVe coda,.