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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. t.