The Exeter Advocate, 1891-1-8, Page 2What the "Bud" Said.
ou seem to forget 'tie my first season out—
' To.night is my formal debut ,•
row, don't be to tender—wind what Yolfro
about t
lily chaperon's looking o.t you 1
Fuliprotnised to you, Jao14—to you I belong—
I rather would have you than not ;
3312t7 then I'm a bud from this year's garden
throng,
And not a soul guesses our plot,
Let:tislwaltz 1 We eau talk thou—not so tight,
please,
Announce our engagement, you say?
You've brought the ring with you? Respond bY
ft squeeze.
•Trtto:love always frets at delay.
The ring I Will I wear it ? Yoe 1 Easy to
grant
A request so congenially planned;
rn stin be the blushing and coy debutante
By_wearing it on my right hand,
For, truly, I cannot—you dance well—forego
The EleatiOlft: gay round of affairs,
Because Cupid's airow—stop pinching, go
slew !—
Ras taken me quite unawares.
Though pledged to you truly, and fond of you,
dear,
Why should 1 "come ant" at all, pray,
To be a sweet roeebud one day in thu year,
And the rest of the time fiancee?
—Neu, York World.
"LAST GEN FLU L OVER& '
A Tale of the Ara erican
Revolution.
Serviee had already begun when she
reached the low brick bnildieme where
bonne and gige were tethered to the fence,
and a state of deeational somnia lead settled
upon the congregation, broken, iko the ad-
vent of a pebble in a stagnant pond, by her
arrived. Dr. Wells glared at her so sternly
from the lectern that she was glad to sink
into a corner of the cushioned pew.
The warm air, half light, and the Dom
tee's rnonotonona squeak were conducive to
drowsiness, but Betty was too fully awake
to succumb. She had never in her life felt
mole alive, more cognizant of her surround-
ings ; and her attention wandered sadly
from the eervioe.
The windows and doors were open, and
outside sounds intruded upon the sacred
calm. Horses neighed in the yard, and a
group of men moved in and out. Tha light
glinted over the heads of the congregation,
in their holiday finery; on the powdered
hair of the ladies and gentlemen, and the
backs of gay coats and gowns; on Mr. Ro-
eder, as he sat with one hand covering his
face, seemingly absorbed in religious mallet •
dedd then, but in reality taking a dignified and
Nurreptitions nap.
Betty was obeeing Bab' s injunction to
notice who wee in the congregation. Tom
was not preeent, and she was not disapd
pointed ; there was all the more chance of
his cointng to tea that evening.
The village people were there in their
Sunday best, inoluciog her small admirer,
Johnny Atkins, whose mother had forced
him into a tight green coat, covered with
brass buttons as big as saucers, and all but
flayed him in tying his sandy locks into an
inoh-long pigtail—a state of grandeur which
oeueed him intense misery, only alleviated
by the idiotic gyratione and futile efforts
to escape of a frog hidden and imprisoned
in his cocked hat.
The eermon began, and her wandering
thoughts were riveted when she saw that
the pulpit was ocoupied, not by worthy and
tedious Dr. Wells, but by his asaistant, a
young man natned Enderly, who was fore.
doomed to early death by consumption.
‘--Efe had had a hemorrhage that morning,
and was very near the other life, whence
his words seemed to come, as from a sum-
mit, laden with authority. His text was
from St. John, chap. xiv. : "Peace I leave
yon, my peace I give unto you. Not as the
world giveth, give I unto yott."
dm He spoke of God's love for humanity, for
the necessity on earth, among menkind, of
love, which was the peace that Christ
meant. Love, he declared, bound all men
together, and made them one with God and
partakers of that peace which could only be
attained by the turning of the heart to
grace, which he compared to the awakening
nfittence of spring.
Then, as his thoughts reverted to the fair
season he would never again see, he warmed
to hie theme.
'Is there a human being who, with the
return of spring, domenot feel a renewing of
the egirit, a feeling as of the heart expand-
ing with the buds, a love for the beauties of
reation, of God's world. Know, ye proud
ane.4 mighty, that it is not you who stand
first in Heaven; it is His little ones, the
meek and humble, His little children; even
as, while the monarchs of the forests are
still bare and brown, the smaller shrubs
burst into beauty, showing that God's fin-
ger, like His love, touches the lowliest
first."
Oat of the window above the chestnut
blooms, three swallows soared and dipped
and soared into the blue, cleaving into its
depths until Betty's eyes could follow them
no longer. In her heart there was a mys-
terious well of happiness as she eat listening
to the full tones of the organ, gazing into
ethereal apace thet hung, deep and tender
as God's love, over the noontide, ripening
world.
After service, the congregation gathered
in bright -colored groups on the grass, the
women talking gossip, and the men, around
the horse rack, absorbed in the news of the
agitating crises of the day.
There were troublous matters to be dia.
cussed that peaceful May day; for, on April
19th, the first blood of the Revolution had
been shed at Lexington, and the tidings
that Paul Revere had borne through New
England had spread like wildfire through-
out the provinces, rendering the chance of
reconoilement with England, which had
heretofore ezisted, less and loss possible.
Will Ringgold, in all the glory of light
blue satin, accosted her at the church door.
" Pardi, but you are looking fair to -day 1
What a ravissante gown, elle este bien faite.
'Yon are dangerous, enohanting. I have
looked for the happiness of to walk home
with you, to promenade." Seeing Mrs. Pace
beokon him, he went off reluctantly, eaying,
"Pardon, an instant!" But Betty did not
wait. Her beert was too fall of holy
thoughts to bear with his tattle. She
f3lipped off quietly, escaping throngh the
churchyard, checkered. with sun -gleams rif t-
ing through the drooping trees on the white
Blebs, into tbe short-cut home by to lane.
Between the hedges rhe walked alone, the
blue sky above, anct with these words of the
sermon in her thoughts, " God's world 1
, Omni world!" Suddenly she palmed and
looked around et the meadows, with cattle
grazing, the wootle softened by the mezzo.
eint oE distance, and the village roofs em.
bowered in white and green bloom, all made
clear by the fresh air and sunlight, and she
went on her way with a newly awakened
teettae of sornethirg strange and new that
glorified the earth, flaying to herself," God'a
world, God's world."
That evening, when Tom came, he found
no one on the lower floor, save MIES Bab in
the dining•room, inventing a little negro
girl who was setting the table, that was lit
by..s broad, yellow ray from the er3taing
anal in which, teeming from the dark dope.
way, he stood.
" Betty hate gone to gather some yellow
r -
roses Inc the vases," said Mien; Bab; "you
may wait here until ehe canoe."
This piton aid not ettit the impatient lover.
" I will find her," be 'said, stopping
through the low wiedow into the garden.
Sueset was bnceing into the heart of
May. The eky was ready, and over the
garden shadows were deepening amon,,," the
trunka of the sun.orowned trees. A faint
breeze roamed, bearing on its breath tmorets
of lilacs paliug wtth decay. He wandered
through the green labyrinth of walks, and
where the dogwood and bridal.wreath were
white ageinet the sunset sky, came upon
the open terrace above the water, where
stood Betty.
She stood, her lithe form oleamout
against the gold, with one pellucid palm
shading her eyes, her gown upgathered, fall
at yellow roses some of which had fallen
on the grass thai had been freshly out, and
lay around in fragrant mounds.
She did not no hire, as she looked over
the water, that, beyond the gold reflecting
the sky, was opal, with pink and blue
glearne, hate and there brightened by a
bird -like oath Over tile leViditiede the mist
W&4 creeping, anti cut on the milky waves a
boat flonted, whence came the sound of
emags aver thu omier.
He did not move forward. He hardly
dared to speak a ail break the spell.
" Betty " he said, softly.
She turned, her hair like a halo around
her sweet face and werneet, shadowed eyes,
and he knew by the soul that lit them that
the moment he had long waited for had
come—that she was his.
sai' My heart felt thee coming, Tom," she
d
He stepped toward her, end she nervously
clasped her hands, the Hems falling at her
feet.
"Betty,' he stopped and gravely said,
Goa made as for each other.
"1 have always loved thee, but I never
knew it before to -day."
" Thou dear diseerabler 1 Come to me,
dearest."
She hesitated.
" Come "
She wavered, came over the roses, and
was upgetheresi in his arms.
" lely love," he whispered. "Forever
mine—forever! -
The shadows dee.pened. A mooking.bird
began to sing. Bats were winging their
circles, and the stars cams out one by one
"Tom," the said, in a low whisperg,with
a little 'engin" only think, I fancied I was
growing, tiaie morning—when I kissed the
rosebud!"
His answer was known to the Heaven.
sent bird that swayed on the lilac near and
seemed mad with joy, bureting into music
that bore all the mystery of the opal water
deepening to sapphire, and the sweetness of
the dusky garden with its perfumed InaZ08
where lilies swung their delicate belle.
How long the silence lasted neither knew,
for their moments were not measured by
human reckoning bue by the song of the
bird, whioh remit have been the time at
whose unearthly melody fifty years became
as one hour to the monk of old.
CHAPTER IX.
When Betty informed her aunts of her
engagement, Miss Clem sniffed derisively at
whet she termed "a couple of fond fools."
"02 course it is natural enough at their
age," site said to Miss Barbara, "bat the
fighting will come soon and put an end to
their mutual endearments for a while, and
I'll be glad enough; for I protest I do not
enjoy the idea of Bob Rozier's grandchil-
dren °reveling over my deathbed and play.
ing nine.pins on ray tombatone."
Mammy Ler was most unfeignedly cor-
dial in her delight, adding wisely that she
" 'spioioned seen would be de case ebber
senoe dat fast dey dey went welkin' to.
gedder, dey jos' walk so kinder natural -like
and oonjedient."
Bound to fulfil all the obligations of a fine
cheraoter, Mrs. Rozier swallowed her disap-
proval of her son's misguided affection, and
invited his betrothed to Lord's Gift for the
day, when she catechized Betty from her
book of honselaold receipts, and, not finding
her lacking therein, except in remedies for
cases of sprains, epitomized her to a female
conein as " an engaging girl—for a Vaughan
—but hardly to be relied upon in household
ena,•reonie6 "
12114i ue,y Betty endured stoioally, Tom
having been lianishea from the house for
the sake of propriety; the ride home with
him in the gathering dusk, loitering through
kelp copses, and racing, for keen delight of
aotion after such deliomaa pause, being the
reward.
For three week, in the first blooming of
the roses, they dwelt in that Garden of
Eden where only two people enter. Betty
thought that in the whole history of the
world those three weeks would stand die-
tinot, niters from time. Never before had
shone such suns and moons, Days of gold
and silver nights steeped the garden that
long ago summer; changes swept over it ;
ahe rebelled against his growing mastery.
Tearful gusts left the roses more fervid
than before, deepening in the glowing days
when heaven seemed to have caught the
earth to its heart, all things breathless,
time suspended in that embrace.
There was much to learn of each other,
mysteriea of likeness and unlikeness to be
fathomed, divisions of the mind to be healed
by soul minglings, perilous sundered pethe
to be explored leading to heights of union
where nothing existed save themselves,
their first wonderful love that made them
one—end above all—God.
Miss Clem's prediction was too soon yeti.
fied. Every day, as tidings came of the
progress of events tending toward the in-
evitable war, Tom's fame grew more anxious
and preoccupied, and moments of happiness
were enohanced by the precaziousness of
their tenure, which Betty would not admit
to be threatened, deluding herself into
fanoied security.
On May 10112, the second General Con.
grunt assembled at Philadelphia, ordered
an enlistment of troops. On June 6th, Lord
Dunmore, the British Governor of Virginia,
fled with hie family, taking refuge on the
Fowey, one of a fleet colleoted in the lower
waters of the Chesapeake Bay, which.
became the headquarters for refugee Tories,
who thence carried on a petty warfare with
the neighboring shores of Maryland and
Virginia. The worst and final stroke to
their dream of peace fell on June 15112,
when Congrosa formally adopted the army.
Close upon that came the news of many
arrests made. by the Regulars of suspected
Tories and of persons wbo did not enlist.
The few days following this resolution,
which Tom regarded as a simnel whioh
called him to anion, wore full of trouble to
them both, touohed by the shadow of future
'Separation, that only brightened the brief
joy that had reeohed ite perfection.
Tom'a brows were straight with pain, rig
ha would urge with Betty the necessity of
hie departure, pleading honor and manly
duty, while she, for the first them, became
wilful and perverse. She would not bear of
his going. He had oeaged to care for her,
she said. She grew moody and capriciona,
and, at the seine time—oh, Complex, rays.
tery of woman's nature 1—more tender and
bewitching.
Upon the afternoon of ono of these dam
which bad been unusually weem for June,
Betty, whores ordinary even temper Weft
somewhet disturbed by leer lover's abeam,
stood in a white muslin gown en the f ront
porch, looking anxiously up the road to
nee
watch for hie expeoted approaoh. The air
was heavy with the stillness of heat, unt
stirred hy a breath of wind, In the west
°lead rieing, darkening the water and veil-
ing the sky.
She stood time for sometime, looking
toward the white line of the road, blurred
sometimes by a cloud of dust that beguiled
her with hope, dispelled by the nearer view
of to waggon or gig going down eo the wharf.
Around was the breathless hush premed.
ing a storm. A sense of imminent danger
brooded and weighed upon her. She was
fearful of Tom's absence, fearful of the
portent for the future, fearful of the
shadow that was creeping over all,
" Betty," called Miss Bab from the
kitchen, where she was preserving straw.
berries, "Betty !"
Hastening to obey, before the had gone
many eteps the lull was broken and the
wind was upon them, damming shutters,
raising whirls ot dust. She reaolaed the
kitohen-door in time to hear her aunt call:
"Betty, hasten to the barn and see if the
speckled hen and her °hicks be there" ;
and to see her disappear, a mass of buoyant
drapery, into a dark passage, hurrying to
close the parlor windows.
Facing the wind, amid the disturbed
clatter of the poultry yard, Betty tautened
to the barn in search of the speckled hen,
that being naturally of a lonely and celibate
tendency, performed her matronly duties
in the most perfunctory manner, and was
quite capable of leaving her chicks to
perish in the approaching deluge. Having
searched vainly for the fegitive fowl in the
fragrant hay, in the loft under the slanting
roof, Betty stationed herself in the open
space between the two lofts, and, leaning
against a poet, watched the approeoh ot
the etorm coming darkly from the east,
lashing the trees in rage, and spraying
with white the arching line of mulberries
againet threatening sky, whence came
already the first mutter of distant thunder.
Down the Jeno, toward the barn, onme
horseman barely to be seen through the
veil of dust.
Wounded at hie tardinese, Betty, deter-
mined to punish Tom by her coldness.
Catching sight of her he diamounted, and
stood opposite in the passagemeo,y, through
whioh the wind swept, driving resistless
swallows overhead. His riding -habit was
dusty, and he was breathing hard even
some emotion that made his face pale and
his lips compressed.
They stood for a moment in silence,
Betty looking away, pettishly interlacing
her fingers.
"Child, do not add to my despair by thy
humors. I am undone. I have been
warned that for a surety I am proectribed
as a Tory, and will be arrested to.night.
but I will outdo Philip Reed end his
accursed band of traitors. Even now Mr.
Wilmer, who is in the same case, and my
man Peregrine wait for me at the motto.
roads. We will ride down to Virginia at
once and oast our fortunes with my Lord
Governor, who still loyally Deserts the
power given him by the king's grece."
"Going 1" she faltered. You will leave
me 2 Ale, Tom, I will die -1 will die I "
"What oan I do? It is mortal agony for
me also. I knew that it must end soon;
we have been too happy. Be brave 1 Help
me bear it."
"11 is so sudden, so dreadful. How can
I live without you 2 "
She might have been a marble image of
deepeir, so pale was she, dropping against
the background of olond, her white robe
blown backward, her face colorless, save
for the °Hutson, parted lips and wide eyes
in which there dwelt tome of the purple
darkness of the cloud and the fire tend
playa fitfully in its depthA vivid flash burst aropnd
s.
stood dark against the dame. The whole
atmosphere eeemed one glow, and, simul-
taneously, a volley of thunder deafened
them, peal on peal.
Instantly they were together, sant
against heart, her arms around his neck,
his lips on hers, crashed out of existence
into oblivion, while the gods held high
revel in Olympus, and the sound of their
oharlot-wheele shook the earth. The rain,
sweeping across the water, poured down on
the root in a steady volume, veiling and
blotting oat the outside world.
Her head on her lover's breast, held ssfe
through chaos and gloom, Betty opened her
eyes, a half smile on her lips.
"The rain," she mummered, dreamily.
"You cannot go now."
His clasp on her tightened. " I must.
You would not have me tamely caught like
a timid rabbit in a trap. Hush! Be brave.
Help me to bear it."
"No, I would not have thee n coward.
Go, go quickly! "
"1 cannot until you youraelt take your
arms from nay neck." -
Holding her hands, hie earnest regard
fixed on her wan face, he said, almost
solemnly:
"Betty, though we part now, remember
that nothing can over separate us. We have
plighted faith forever. Before a year has
passed I will come to you or send for you.
Yes, I swear it—yon shall be mine. Even
though one of us should die I think that we
will meet again. If anythitag should happen
to you, and I know now 1 I wedet you—
want to take you with me, Betty 1" He
lost his self-control and oanght her to him,
but she was calm and tearless.
" Go," Oho said; " I will be true, yours
now and always. Be quiet, Tom. Go,
please."
He placed his hand tenderly on her fore-
head, kissing her eyelids and lips as one
would a broken flower. "Let me look at
you, my love—learn your face by heart.
Betty, my wife 1 "
One long gaze, a blind embrace he whis•
paring incoherently : " Think cime—love
me,"—and she was alone, lying on the hay
as one in a trance, her soul absent with
Tom as he galloped through the sweeping
rain, down the lane under the swaying
trees, along the turnpike to the cross-roads.
There she lay until late in the afternoon
when the sky was clear, the rays of the set-
ting sun glittering on the rain drops and
the air fnll of the twitter of birds flying in
and out from under the eaves.
CHAPTER X.
For seven weeka of silence, f all of loneli.
ness and desolation to Betty, there was no
word nor =same from Tom, but at the
end of that time came an anewer to her
Gamut prayers for his safety.
She was sitting in her room, sewing, and
the evening light which °erne in the eastern
windows had become no faint that she folded
her work, and, resting her elbows on the
wide window -sill, leaned her face in her
bends, gazing into the ahadovea among the
tree.tops, through which the atara gleamed.
From his accustomed bomb, by tbe
kitohen door he could hear Uncle Mose, the
centre of an awed group of negroes, reply-
ing to urgent eoliotations for a particular
story :
" Token ter grace I disremembers me or
dat story. It gone Mar out er , my °ma-
nta."
"Uncle Mose, please tell us 'bout dat ar
ghos" wet ynh seed, dat Bullingen. Wat
wuz it like, anyhow 2 "
" H'm 1 ---Well, jes welt or minit 'till I
send my remembery ter fotoh it. Remernlin
ery done tote it home an' hyar it i."—An
iteepreesive Meuse, followed by a husky
Whieper—" Listen ter me, ohillun'aPeys,
ghostiaes of die kin' and glaostises ob dat
kin,' but de wus ob a ghee' am de
Bullingen,kase it ein't all to gedder ghee'
but Seale pert debbil.
" It was to day like die, and jest' dis time
er ae dat I fuet eeed it. Deeds
mighty found er dis kin" er weather, is
Bullingens--."
Betty, wrepped in the shade of the
embowering brenchee, heard, but ge,ve Heti°
heed to the voices from the dusk below.
" Dar owe de thing, burapety•burnp,
leerflopety -flop, an' it guy a big growl--."
Here followed a terrifio grovel, feminine
shriek, and masculine expostulations. An
instant afterwarda "Mandy'a voice com.
plained trona the door -way :
" Mise Batty, yere's da pore wile Win
boy, Johnny Atkins, wantin" ter see yule.
He jes' ought ter be willoped, comin"
round, mum' folks ter death.
Betty found the disturbieg element Lind.
died into a corner of the porch.
Calliug him he came forward and etood
sheepishly in tlae lamp light, with pale,
banking orbs, mouth gaping a perpetual
Oh 1 of eurpriee, and sandy looks hanging
from a straight, round head which con-
tained more shrewdness than most people
imagined.
Struck dumb with admiration and awe
before Miss Betty Vaughan, it was aome
time before she could understand the gist
of a stammered and inooherent narrative
which, divested of euperflaons Johnny.talk,
was to thee effect :
There had been two strange men at the
store that day, and Johnny, hidden behind
a barrel of sugar, had listened to their con-
vereatioh—" lithened mighty olothe, like a
hog in a cornfield. They ith dumb, bogth
itb, but they got plenty of thenth "—and
heard that they were Britiela agents from
the fteet, that they were to return at mid-
night, and that one of them had a letter for
young Mies Vaughan at the big house;
whereupon Johnny had offered for to shill.
ing to deliver it, and return with an
answer, whioh the man said was expected,
adding various expletives and threats to awe
Johnny to Beereoy, which had had the effect
of nearly soaring him out of his feeble wits.
Tom's letter was short.
"Mr DEAREST Lon," it ran, "1 have but
little time to write to you, and none in
which to say what I would, for even now
the meesenger waits who will carry this.
He is a man engaged in a periloue enter-
prise, which oannot with minty be written,
but he will deliver this and bring me your.
answer. Should a scheme which my Lord
Dunmore projects be brought to fruition I
will see you soon, but seorets of war are
hsrdly to be eel:depend in these times, for
fear the very stones do prate. I am safe,
but siok in Heal longing for you. Write to
me, tell me of your sweet self, and what
you have been doing -all the news. You
know thet I am not gilb of speech, and Mr.
Donne two hundred years ago hath said
what I would say to you:
'1 wondsr by my troth what thou and I
Did till we loved? Were we not weaned till
then,
But sucked on childish pleasures sillily?
Or slumbered we in seven sleepers' den:
'Twas so ; but as all pleasures fancies be,
If ever any beauty I did see.
Which I desired, and got,'twas but a dream of
thee.'
"Let the letter be long—"twill be but a
letter after all. God bless and keep thee
for Thine own Tom."
She gave Johnny a pleas of cake, bade
him wait on she porch, and went to her
room, where by the light of a a dip candle,
undeterred by the insects that buzzed
around and were singed in its flamea and
by Johnny's of terepeated chant:
" In theventeen hundred and theventy.thix
The year I got my jawbone fixed,
--I hung it up upon a fenthe ;
I haven't thoeu my jawbone thence,"—
she wrote her answer to Tom.
"DEAREST Ton: You see that I hasten to
obey your command, though I never writ a
letter to a gentleman before. If you find
many mistakes in spelling herein, you must
not wonder, for I never could -remember
about the doublings and i's and e's. Here
all is es usual, save for your absence, which
mskes all changed. I will try to tell you
the news of the neighborhood first. We
are all well, save dear Bab, who hath bean
ailing of late. I am grown thinner, which
is for pining for you. Aunt Clem says I
am like one daft. Truly I think of yen
day and night, and draw no breath that is
not yours. They are drilling militia in the
village, arid the people are very aggitsted
about the fighting. old Bill Wright ia so
vastly patriotic that he gets drunk now
every day instead of onoe a week, and Bliss
Anastasia says these soldiers are so
impident, ogling everyhonest woman out of
countenance, but upon my soul they never
ogle me.
" That deleotable spark, Will Ringold,
bath affeoted me much of late. He says
that married women are the belles in
Francs; that I will be more cltarmante
when married, with more like rigamarole.
Ho was in a pretty plight the other
day. He was in the parlor show-
ing me how they danced in the
beaue monde, and was jumping and capturing
ground, cutting pidgeon wings, when Cas-
sius, which is not used to such antien,
jumped up with a snarl and seized him by
the ankle. Such a sorry plight! I wield
but laugh, though it was rude. Yon
ehould have Been his visage. Oar agreeable
rattle was muoh discomposed—vowed that
the dog had rabies and ehould be shot.
Shoot Cassius 1 Upon my soul, the fellow
must have been mad himself. Seeing that
I WM wroth, he appolligized, saying, A
mere bagatelle,' and went home, greatey
crestfallen. to change his torn hoee.
"Here is a verse I writ on a say ing of
Aunt Clem
"Said Aunt, on hearing a mad dog
Had bit poor, foolish Willy;
'I do not fear his going mad—
The beast will sure go silly.'"
"Ah Tom, I write snob trifles because 1.
cannot say what I would were you here.
Something hinders me, and the leve 'beer
yon weighs on me. I think if I oonld kiss
yon, Tom, yon would know what I mean.
(I am sorry I writ that, because, if any one
else saw it, they might think the sentiment
too amorous, for a maid.) Last Sunday
there was a great to-do in church. Dr.
Wells is as patriotic as he can be. He gets
so exoited and fiery in the pulpit. Last
Sundety he preached from the text : • He
will rule them with a rod of iron.' It was
a very hot day and there were many flies
around. As the doctor got excited, the flies
buzzed more end more arbund his head and
wig, so nicely powdered. They all but
drove him mad, they came so thick,
and every one in the chtirch wondered
why they pestered him thus. At
last, he could stand it no longer
and took it off and threw it in a
corner, where the flies still buzzed around
it. They found it had been powdered with
sugar, and the eo$ was traced to that
sinapleton, Johnny Atkins, who wes beat
by his father tintil Aunt sent a num to
town to bid him atop, saying she wonld
heve him fined for disturbing the piece, the
poor innocent bellowed so loud. My heart
bled feir him, for surely it Vide foolieh,
but not a wieked jut.
" Dear Tom, 1 chatter eo much bemuse
ea is not easy to write what I would. How
much I miss you! But 1nowti It you
love me and that nothing can parte as an
spirit, and that makes yon seem near,
beottuse we will be one even though one of
us shoald die. Bythe by,Tom ehould there
be fighting, fight yallietnely, IA do not let
them hurt you, and try not to kill a man.
Think how durnputh you would, feel with
the blood of a human an your conscience.
Pummel them sorely, Tom, but try not to
slay outright. Oh, my sweet love, I pray,
for you every night; and when I have
prayed I kneel right still and liaten, and
then God sometimes lets me hear you
whisper my name, and I feel you near.
Lately, everything hes seemed stranger
than ever, the sights around, myself, and
you. The other night I woke with a cry in
darkness, not knowing where I was or what,
an if there had been no exiatenoe before.
Aunt Bab hurried acmes the floor in her
night -robe and found me thus dazed. She
said I had the vapours and administered a
nauseus draught ot valerian. Of all things
this is most wonderful, that I should love
yon so that I am half of your soul and yet
we osn be parted -1 am sitting here alone,
not knowing whether you are happy or
not. Come to me soon, gg you can. Love
me—think of me—dear. BETTY."
Giving this precious epistle to Johnny,
she strengthened her injunctions me to
secrecy and carefulness by taking hitn to
the storemoom, sending him thencellberally
supplied with goodies, which, being ever
after associated in his confused thoughts
with lettere, calmed him to bring her several
pilfered lettere from the mail -bag, and to
experience much surprise that he met with
rebuke instead of the same reward.
(To be Continued.)
Scottish News Notes,
The death is announced of Mr. Thomas
Tennant, banker, Strathaven, Lanarkshire,
in his 81s1 year.
A gipsy woman named Benny Chisholm,
well known over the Highlande, has jest
died in Inverneemelaire at tlae advanced age
of 103 yeare.
Mr. Ambrose Bare, photographer, Ayr,
was thrown from his none whilst follow.
ing the Earl of Eglinton's fOahOlande. His
injariee termineted Welly on the Ilth
inst.
The exhibition of the Kilmarnock Fine
Art Institute was formally opened on the
llth inst., by Sir Robert Murdoch Smith,
K. C. M. G., R. E., who is a native ot the
burgh.
The £10,000 left by the late Mr. Lama.
den, of Garmond, to the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is to be
divided among Glaegow, Edinburgh, Den.
dee and Aberdeen.
• At a meeting of the Magistrates of Dun-
dee on the 1011.1 inst. it was agreed to issue
et, recommendation to all holders of
licenses in Dundee to close their pleats of
business on New Year's day.
The grand Masonic, bazaar held recently
in Edinburgh exceeded all expectations. It
extended over five days, and realized
£15,433, including £1,265 derived from the
bazaar held in Aberdeen.
The Marquis of Tweeddale, the Lord
High Commissioner of the General
Assembly, opened a bazaar in Edinburgb.
on tha llth inst., the objsot being to raise
25,000 to provide better accommodation for
the Zenana missions in India.
Evidently Earl Rosebery has no inten-
tion of taking any part in political affairs
for a long time to come. He is still stay-
ing with his fernily at Mentmore, but early
next year he is to start on an extensive
tour to the West Indies and South Amer-
ica.
The total value of fish landed in Sootland
during November was £89,578, an increase
of £13,877 on the correspondiug month for
last year. For the eleven months the value
of fish landed has been £1,536,807, an
increase of £119,528 on the take for the
same period of last year.
The returns of the Scottish Volunteer
force for this year have just been published.
The total strength as at 31st October last
is 49,466, being a decrease of 1,017 la com-
pared with last year. There is also a de-
crease of 1,351 in the number of effioients,
while the nomefficiente have increased by
334.
An inventory of the personal estate of
the late Sir Archibald Douglas Stewart,
Bart., ot Grantully and Mnrthly, Perth-
shire, has been given up at £237,574 lis. 61.
By his will he leaves all that, and also such
of the heritable estete as is not included in
the entail, to his widow, Lady Stewart.
German Cities.
The official census of Germany, which
was recently completed, gives Berlin a
population of 1,574,485, an increase of
259,000 in five years. The city containing
the next highest number of persons is
Hamburg, with a population of 570,534, an
increase or 55,534 since 1885. Hamburg,
which with the city of Altoona has 715,170
inhabitants, has aided 21 per cent. to the
population within the Net five years.
Lemeice which has 353,272 inhabitants, had
only 159,500 in 1885. This is the greatest
incree,se in any city, being 82 per cent.
Munich has 344,898 inhabitants; Breslen,
334,710 ; Cologne, 282,537; Dresden,
276,085; Megdebarg, 200,071; and Frank-
fort•on-the•Main, 189,850.
Mr. Parnell.
Physically Mr. Parnell is attractive. He
is six feet high, has a good figure, fine head,
fair hair, dark brown eyes and a marble
complexion. When in prison, from 1881
to 1832, he could turn the wrist of any man
who wrestled with him. He has a voice
of tremendous power, and, while apparently
cold, possesses a magnetic influence over
an audience. He makes no effort at oratory,
tells a direct story, and sits down without
a peroration. Gladstone says he remembera
no man, not even Lord Palmeraton, who
equals Parnell in the o,rt of saying knit
what he wants to say, and not one word
more. Intellectually he is held high in the
House.
Wun Lung.
This is the (sneer name of a Chinese laun-
dryman in Hartford, but he has probably
two lungs, like moat of no. Some crying
babies seem to have to dozen. Lunge should
be sound, or the voice will have a weakly
sound. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical DiS.
°ovary makes strong lungs, drives the cough
away, generaten good blood, tones the
mime, builds up the human wreak and
maken another man" of him. Night.
meats, blood -spitting, ehort breath, bron-
chitis, neatens, and all ala,rming forerunners
of Consumption, are positively cured by
thin unapproachable remedy. If taken in
time, Coneutnption itself can be baffled.
" Steward 1" cried the rnisereble pas.
isenger. " Yes, sir. Anything 1 oan bring
you, sirV' "Nothing, eteward, but an
acre of real estate—anywhere—hang the
neighborhood, as long as it's good solid
ground."
Mr. George M. Pullman, the posaessor
of e, 50,000,000, recently said to a cones.
pendent, when leaked how it feels to be a
millionaire " I have never thought of
that. lent now that yott mentien it, I
believe that I am no better off—certainly
no happier—than T was when I didn't have
dollar to my name and had to work from
daylight unfit dark,"
"ALL WOOL AND A 'YARD WI1DV,"
When a great bueineee house, of world-
wide repntetion for honesty, fair dealing
and finanoial reeponeibiliey, feele war-
ranted in attaolaing its oertifioste ot gutere
antee to ita goat, auoh aotion furnishee
the best possible evidencethet the prodnots
are believed, to be just whet they are repre-
sented to be. Such confidence on the part
of manufacturers and vendors naturally
begete confidence in purobasere, and henoe
it is that there has grown to be, all over
this great country, such an unprecedented
demand for, and moll implioit confidenoe
iu, that most popular liver, blood and
lung remedy known me Dr. Pierce's
Golden Mechoal Discovery, as no
other medicine has ever before met
with. It is sold by druggists, under
a positive guarantee from the menu.
facturers, that it will either benefit or
cure in every case of disease for which it ia
recommended, or the money paid for it
will be promptly refunded. It is maw:dace,
tared by the World* Dispensary Mania
Ant:gelation, of Buffalo, N.Y., a well-known
and financially solid business coreoration.
No other reeponeible manufaeturers of
medicines have put their remedies to such
severe tests 58 to warrant them to give
satisfaction or refund the money paid for
them. " Golden MedicalDiseovery "cures
" liver complaint," or biliousness, indigea-
tion and dyspepsia, all humors or blood -
taints, akin diseases, scrofulous sores and
tumors and pulmonary consumption
(whioh is only scrofula of the lungs) if
taken in time and given a fair tried.
Chronic catarrh of the head, bronchitis
and throat diseases are also cured by this
most wonderful blood.purifier and invigor-
ating tonio.
A New Departure.
from all the old established conditions on
which proprietary medicinee are sold, has
been made by the World's Diepensary Med-
ical Association, of Buffalo, N. Y., who,
having for many years observed the thou.
sands of marvelous cures of liver, blood and
lung diseases effented by Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, now feel war-
ranted in selling this wonderful medioine
(as they are doing through druggiet4
under a positive guarantee that it will give
satisfaction in every tease, or money paid
for it will be promptly refunded. "Golden.
Medical Discovery" cures all humors or
impurities of the blood, from whatever
came arising, ae eruptions, blotches,
pimples, old Bores and earofulousaffeotione.
It is equally efficacious in bilious disorder,
indigestion or dyepepeia and chronic catarrh
in the head, bronohial, throat and lung
affections, accompanied by lingering
coughs.
A. Severe Test.
When to manufeaturer, from years of
observation, has so completely satisfied
himself of the universal satiefaction given
by hie products, that he feela fatly
warranted in selling them under a certifi-
oats of gusrentee, it is very natural to
believe that such a producer has implicit
confidence in the merits of his goods, and
that, too, not without good venom. Snob.
confidence is possessed by the World'a
Dispensary alledioel Association, of Buffalo,
N. Y., in Dr. Pierce's Family Medicines,
and hence his "Favorite Prescription" la
sold by druggists, as no other medicine for
similar purposes ever was, under a positive
guarantee, that it will in every case give
satisfaotion, or money paid for it will be
refunded. It cures all those distreesing
and delicate ailments and 'weaknesses
'moldier to women. It is not neoeseary to
enumerate the long catalogue of derange.
ment, both fanotional and eugenic, of
the female system which this marvelona
remedy overcomes. They are, alas! but
too well known to most females who have
attained womanhood, to need more than a
hint to make them plain to their under-
standing.
About Noted People.
The Prince of Wales leas a collection of
over 172 walking atioks.
William Rios defeated his poor old
father for the Legislature in Kansas by 26
votes.
Rider Haggard has gone to Palenqae
to get up another of his extraordinary
romances.
Beroness von Beam, of Vienna.'has
been discovered to be a thief. She re-
ceives a large income from the Emperor of
Austria.
Squire Bob Allison, of Fairplay, the
Gretna Green of Wisoonein, makes the
bout that he has merried 800 raneway
coupler.
Anton Rubinstein, the Russian comporier
and pienist, has been offered the sum of
$300,000 for a tour through America
during the coming season by Henry E.
Abbey.
Mme. de Latonr, the well-known writer.
in a recent pamphlet defends the use of
tobacco by her sex and insists that if it ia
good for men it is not injarione to women,
while to brain -workers it is a great help and
a solace.
Care of Children's Eyes.'
lat. Do not allow the light to fall upon
the faces of sleeping infants.
2nd. Do not allow babes to gaze .at
bright light.
3rd. Do not send children to school
before the age of 1,0 years.
4th. Do not allow children to keep their
eyes too long on ono objeot at any one
time.
51h. Do not allow them to study made
by artificial light.
6112. Do not allow them to two boaks
with small type.
7th. Do not allow them to read in a
railway carriage.
811e. Do not allow boys to smoke tobaccsot
especially oigarettee.
9th. Do not necessarily ascribe head.
aches to indigestion; the eyes may be tets
exciting muse.
10th. Do not allow itinerant 'machete
vendera to prescribe glessem—From
Franklin Institute lecture.
Cost of a Society Dinner.
New York has become a oily of extrave.
gance in dinner -giving, and many of these
entertainments, with all the delioacies of
the seaeon and rare wines, cost from $20
to $100 per cover. Of course the latter in
the outside figure ;but reckoning that ono
gives a dinner once a week to a party of,
say, fifteen, at the first named figure, it will
prove A snug sum at the end of the year.
In order to render thew dinners °template
and perfect, the hostess meet possess a
dinner service more or less elaborate, and
it ie rarely, it ever, that the majority of
outsiders stop to consider what these con -
slat of, and how much rnoney is spent in
thie direction. In the old Roman days, no
greater magnificence could have existed in
the way of table decoration, wines and
service, than a millionaire New Yorker
displays When hiS wife gives a large dinner
Boggs—That was a very netball ger.
mon this morning. Trotter—Restful?
Why, I WWI nearly tired to death. It was
folly an hour long. Boggs—That's just it.
I slept through it all.
With the beginning of the new year a
line of British steamers will begin running
between Hong Hong and Vancouver.
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