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The Exeter Advocate, 1891-12-10, Page 2Hy Telegram. Jones of Chisaeo tell in love With a inaidga foam et. Pael. Whom he met but once at Iter father's holis When on a business call. Jones svas an active liusines,s inau, And little 111110 1111(1 he For courtieg, so he pressed. Ins suit Be electricity. " flush of work. No time te write. Will YOB haVO me ? Whee9" Flashed hie 'eve across the wires, Scorning, iuk and pen. The maiden read it and. replied, With ali tee speeashe know: " Will be 111 Chicago, to enite 'roanorrow et half -past two." MISS ITELETS LOVERS. The brawling river drowned his last words, which he had addressed moreto himself than to her. She clasped her hands tightly, and did as he told her. Sho looked and listened she forgot him, she forgot herself, her eyes grew dim with wonder and with awe, her quick- ened breath rose ancl fell sluerply, Before the eternal beauty of those hills and vales, before the overwhelming majesty of God's creation, her puny "pante of life " was annihilated. She turnecl to him for sympathy as a child might turn. And I shall go away and forget it ! " she sighed and then added, slowly— Oh, Memory shield me from the worlds poor strife, And. give these scenes thine everlastingl;fe. She was astounding him by this deperture; but he saicl again, in that faultier iermula which, like one of Humpty Dumpty's words did duty with him for a reflection— " It's ripping I" "It Makes me good," she said—" makes me want to be good. Nothing else matters. .AR the things we value are nothing—they are ridiculous. I want only to be good." He nodded. He knew, or guessed, what she meant; but he was a genuine John Bull, to whom gush is impossible. Only upon a very great emergency was a glimpse below his leveled surface to be obtained. He kept his eyes on her glowing face in lieu of those glorious waters. She caught his glance, hesitated, blushed, and then jumped to her feet. "We ought to go," she said ; and as he cid not dispute her assertion, she retraced her steps, he following in her wake. As a matter of course, but with com- plete authority, Mr. Jones took Helen's guidance into his hands. He helped her into the cart, wrapped an light rug over her knees, and negatived her ardent desire to drive herself decidedly. "Lean back," he said. " That seat is pretty comfortable, and you must be tired." "I'm not the least tired. I should like to drive." "Are you used to driving?" "Yes." She was accustomed to driving the Rec- tor's rough gray pony, which lived in the paddock, and was twenty years old. "Then you shall take the reins presently. She's fresh at starting, and I know her way eae She will soon cool down. Do you mind my smoking ?" 'Not if the wind won't blow it in my face," she candidly replied. She did not share the modern damsel's oft -asserted passion for the fragrance of tobacco. "The wind is the other way, andI'm hall a foot above you," he urged with some natu- ral anxiety. "Then smoke, by all means." He thrust his hand into his pocket. " I haven't a light," be told her, "so I Can't. And he mounted to her side and they started. Feesigenild enjoyments equal that soothiiig sense ofdrowsywell-being ia which a tired frame revels as it is driven through the balmy air of a warm summer evening, with a fresh hcrse between the shafts that covers the ground with a long, easy equal stride—. traversing, too, such wild and wondrous scenery as beggars description. Helen's face still wore the reflection of that softened intensity of feeling which it had caught by the river side. The long hours she had passed in the open air had lulled the aggressive vivacity of her youth ; the spirit of mischief no longer sharpeneal her eyes • her dimples played faintly in her soft cheeks. She was gentle, therefore more womanly, and for that reason a thous- and times more winning than before. He and she were talking as though , they had been friends from childhood. If that cool, brotherly demeanor of his was assumed for her deception, it was a clever and seduc- tive mask. How did you like Jack Peel ?" he was asking her. "You and he spent the day together pretty well, didn't you ?" He sat next me on the drag. I liked him—a little ; but he hates everybody, and doesn't admire anything." "1 suppose he admires Mrs. Peel?" " Isn't she pretty? I didn't know she was married—at least, not to him.' "You mean she flirts? Oh yes, she does." "She is very pretty and amusing." "She's a butterfly, but a man wants more than color, down, beauty, to live upon. Thai sort of thing is stunning but you want sunshine to shove it off. A butterfly isn't much to admire on a wet day. A good deal of rain falls in Devon—and else- where." "On a wet day one can stay indoors." Helen had a suspicion that she was a but- terfly, ber high spirits were fatiguing. "A butterfly indoors; think of the flut- tering on tne window -pane." "A butterfly can't help being a butter - "No more than a chrysalis can help being a chrysalis. Both are very nice in their way, but I have no wish to own either the one or the other. Don't argue with me, please, I'm not up to it, but I know what mean and I know what I like. I want a wife far better than I am myself, some one who would keep me up to the mark, some one who would do what I told her and yet some one whom I should only tell to go her own way because I should know her way to be wise and straight. I couldn't stand any woman whom I had to look after', it would knock the love clean out of me." All this rather overwhelmed Helen, she did not know how interesting this laity in the clouds had lately become to Mr. Jones. "So you would like to marry an angel," she remarked with a malicioue smile "poor rimed !" He laughed. "Poor atigel," he repeated. glancing at her. "How can an angel be poor, Madam? The sense of her superiority would keep her rich, and me humble. No angel, however angelic, for Tins." You are hard to please." "On the contrary I am always pleased but toyer satisfied." " I think a man ought to „he very thank- ful if he perseedes aoy woman, of any sort, to be his wife," retorted Miss Mitford yewning clehberately. Her word e and her peva discoitcerted her tompailion end for scene inieutes they drove Min silence. As a tale, the honored girls to whom he confided his eentirnehts concern- eelvee by no comments, looking all they did not tsay, for those eentimentsef his had, been known to change repeatedly. Minedehes had warned Helen that she wciuld require a etettely nerve and strong head if she Was to enjoy the view, and be was eight, for the road oh which she found deserve herself wes hewed i out of the hillside. It Elis eneircling agin held her more closely was a ledge cut ou the side of a mighty as he spoke, but during the pause winds cliff which towered perpendicularly over- followed, Helen, drew away from him, coy - head. oxi the left hand ancl on the right ering her face with her hands. descended a sheer precipi 0, a thousand "Look here, don't give up like this," he feet, into the sea. said, rather alarmed. "You have been so The width of the road upon winch the plucky all the time." The compliment Was dogcart was traversing was bread enough to undeserved, but she did not dislike it on admit of two carriages driving elereast A that aceoune. low wooden paling had been roughly extern- "1 can't help it—I can't indeed !" porized on the extreme verge of the preen Her voice came thick and low, her hands piece bat this every here and there had fell down from before her deathlY face ; she crumbled away and disappeared, leaving no tried to smile, and then murmuring, " I barrier, however frail, loetween the traverser don't feel very well," she fell back again of that giddy pass and an appalling death. upon his shoulder. Sho had fainted. For the first few minutes of the crossing On the summit of the hill whiclitheywere Helen triecl to admire the view. mounting was a country inn ; thither Ber- " How beautiful--" she murmured below tie, supporting the girl with a now aching her breath, struggling for those steady arm, drove fast. Assisted by the host, lie nerves with the possession of which aho lifted Helen from the cart and carried her hacl been credited. "Oh, Mr. joees," into the house. In the inn -parlor stood with a sudden collapse of cotirage, " please, that horse -hair sofa'oft described because be careful !" the memory of its discomforts is not easily At her words he reined in the horse. obliterated, peculier to wayside hostelries " Don't you like it? Shall we turn back? and seaside lodgings ; upon it Mr. Jones I can turn in a moment." laid his burden. He was almost as pale as Turn 1 her head reeled at the thought. She • he kept his head, but he was horribly " Oh, no ; go on, I like it. len not friglItenecl ; he fully believed her to be afraid. Only you won't drive fast? You dead, and would not be reassured by the will keep close to the side, won't you 9" landlady, who told hien that ". her Mary " You are quite sure that you would not Kate felled away a score o' times lest sum - rather go back? 1 can take you home the men" other way, you know." They doused Helen's pretty head with " No, no ; go on. I shall get used to it water and chafed. her white hands ; they in a moment. It is only just at first— fanner her with a newspaper and burned and those seagulls flying out below us make feathers and held salts under her nose. me dizzy, and the sea, wriggling, and like Every suggestion which the landlady made a wrinkled walnut, such a long, long way Bettie executed with feverish anxiety. But below." when at length he poured teaspoonful after " Don't look straight down; look right teaspoonful of cooking brandy between her out across the bay. There are a dozen pale lips, it had at last the desired effect ,• fishing -smacks sailing down, with those she coughed ouce or twice, turned her head tawny sails set which you admire." on the crochet antimacassar, and slowly "Oh, lovely," she said. "How long is opened her eyes. this—this New Cut 9" CHAPTER IX. He was walking the horse very slowly, and the cart was hugging the cliff side. Helen soon sat up and declared herself "A quarter of a mile," he answered. "11 quite well. She was astonished, but some - we went more quickly, it would sooner be ewhat gratified, to discover that she had over." ?fainted. ; her health had hitherto been un - "Yes, but I would rather go slowly, if romantically robust—a little delicacy was you don't mind." interesting and a novelty. Besides which, "When we round that corner" (pointing during the interval of unconsciousness, the to a distant curve of the cliff which con- agonizing agitation (which had thus culmin- cealed any further sight of the road) " we axed) had subsided; save for some throb - soon turn inland, and get into a lane with bing pulses in her temples, she felt just as twenty feet of solid bank on either side." usual. Mr. Jones was as astonished as he "We shall get there in ten minutes ?" was relieved by her rapid recovery, and interroeeatively. presently left her, ostensibly to see to the "About that. You are giddy," mare and to keep it look -out for Phil, for anxiously. "I am so desperately sorry that whose nerves great concern was cer- I brought you. You told me the other day tainly due. A minute later, Helen, that you could stand •any height, or 1 who was looking out through the open should not have thought of bringing you." window, saw him cross the road to a gate- " I'm getting better; 1 didn't know I way, where he halted, and taking both a should. mind. It is,very stupid of me. I'm cigar -case and a match -box from his pocket, so sorry." proceeded to light a cigar, there was no She was fighting bravely against her fear, dearth of matches in that box; he struck despising her swimming head and the sick- several before he accomplished his object. ening quivers of faintness that unstrung her Helen watched, her face alight with a smile. muscles. To please her he had not smoked, and yet "Will you get out and walk ?" he would not let her know that he sacrificed This palliation of her misery was forbid- his pleasure to her comfort. How nice of den by the thought that, to allow of her him! descent from the cast, the horse would In a girl's vision a little circumstance have to step nearer to the edge of the cliff, may be made to do duty for a great one: it in which case she knew she should scream. grows or diminishes at her will.. Helen She shook her head. chose that this virtue should grow, even as "Shall I tell Phil to lead the mare ?" the gourd of Jonah. He was much concerned, for she had Throughout their homeward drive his con. grown very pale, and the smile she forced duct left nothing to be desired. He was to her lips was piteously unreal. most tender of her shaken nerves—never " Yes, I should like that," her voice before had the dogcart been driven so shook. " Thank you." cautiously. Never before had the strong But, as Phil alighted to obey this aston- and surefooted, me,re been walked upleill and .41eingenelbr, iSellticidete sharp" Sound a,bove down alike to save any tisk to her 'wind in their heads startled them. They looked the first, and any danger to her knees in the up. Down the rugged face of the cliff, second, instance. Both horse and groom hurled froxn crag to crag, whirling like a were a little impatient of these precautions gigantic bird through the air, a gray, and anxious to get to their journey's end, struggling mass was seen to descend until while their master grudged each flitting it fell, with a dull, sickening thud—such a field as it passed, and reached Carnation sound as haunts memory for a lifetime— Cottage before he had told Helen a tenth of upon the road in front of the trembling the hundred things he had to tell her. mare. She stopped, backed a pace or two, When the door in the cob wail surround - plunging and rearing in terror; then, ing Carnation Cottage had closed, shutting answering to the voice and hand of her mas. the graceful, blue -gowned figure from sight, ter, she dashed forward. They passed that he heaved a stupendous sigh, for an eternity grim and shapeless mass, lying motionless lay between him and the following morning and blood -streaked on the road, insafety, but when he promised himself the pleasing duty the wheel of the cart grated against the of presenting a little enameled watch, set wooden paling that guarded the edge of with the initials H. M. in glittering brill - precipice, and shivered it to splinters. iants, now reposing in his pocket, to its Then, at a mad gallop, the mare raced on. delighted owner. The air hissed past them ; the cart rocked Miss lelitford, with a watering pot in her like a swing ; the cliffs seemed to rush out left hand and a spud, which she used, as old to meet them ; startled seagulls whirled +men use an index finger, to emphasize her around them ; below in the yawning deep words, in the right, hovered round her the sea reeled. niece until bedtime. Again and again Once Helen put out her hands and caught Helen had to retail the account of their at the reins. With rough fury he bade her escape, though the horror of the time half keep still, and she obeyed. returned as she painted it in words, and she Round the perilous sweep of the cliff would gladly have turned her thoughts they tore, whirling again, so near their elsewhere. Miss Mitford was sorry for death that he set' his teeth, thinking the Helen, but she not unjustly singled out the end had come. One fraction of an inch to sheep as the nucleus of her interst and sym- the right and nothing would save them, but pathy. She wondered to whom it belonged, again the frantic mare answered to his voice whether it was a valuable animal, why and his grip of the reign. She swerved Providence had not bestowed upon it a ever so little to the left and rushed safely greater penetration. by—on, on, scudding like a cloud before "The wantof sagacity in sheep is remark - the wind—on, on, until sky, sea, douche able, 'eve. Instead Of avoiding their and cliffs mingled in one staggering pan- natural enemy, the dog, they approach him, orama. though they possess no weapon of defense] Helen sat motionless. Once, when the They continually walk over the edge of the thought of her mother beset her, she had cliffs, following the gulls, I presume, dear, clutched at the nems; otherwise she had not moved, nor had she spoken. Through her mind the memory of heroes who had faced death without fear came and strengthened her. Though no one should know it, she would not quail or shudder; she would riot be afraid ; she would die hard. She was one of those "who do not mind death, but can not bear pinching." But when the danger was past, when the blessed shelter of high banks rose on either side, when the mare's gallop sank to a canter, and from a canter to a trot, when they were safe and the hideous sight of eea. and cliff was left far behind, then came the demon reaction to unnerve her. "r wouldn't epen them,,just yet, You Will he all righe in a minute." "1 I should net really lia've touched the reins, only put out my wale.), " was a case a life or death. hedn't time to be gentle. I'm awially sorry, I It was a deep and fervent "Thank God!" which broke from her companion, that loosened the floodgates of her tears. Till then he had not spoken, nor had be looked at her; but when he turned and she heard those words, saw the expression in his dark eyes, which met hers, she burst out into weeping. She clung to his arm, she buried her face against his shoulder, she trembled and Wrung her hands. A long hill lay before them. The mare's trot had subsided. into a quiet walk. He put his arm round her, comforting her as though she were a frightened child. Mete, there ; it's all right—you are quite sefe. Don't cry. You shall never go near the place again.' She was SO unstrung and beside herself that she sobbed her head out, as if it were her father's shoulder against which ahe hid her eyes ; she Was oblivious as to whets° proteeting arm supported her, Or whose hand patted her soothingly thoegh she was a baby to be gaieted by such treat - broiling sun he toiled up with a pot a !Melees the whole thine ! he who is right orchids to that little earsviggy place. is nett exactly elegetent, he need payee little, believe he has been there oh some excuse or and brevity is the soul of wit. other every afternoon this week. Ile went Whoa site fowl that it wee impoesible to to church twice on Sunday and walked 4vert a seem), Helen cast her eyes on the back with her after the service, carrying grouud aud listened patiently. and silently that ridiculous old aunt's spectacle case. I to what be told her. She sat in a low ern -I- SMS, chair, face to the light. Mr. Flight tried to "Good gracious, 'What am to do, Pat ? read his fate in her downcast face ; how it lf Bertie means to marry her, who is to had altered—not a touch of the disdain he prevent him ? Unfortunately, you can't dreaded, no mocking curve of lip, but a lock up a marriageable young mau, and only steady, thoughtful brow, a woman's gentle - let him loose when the right person is about. ness softening each line. Let the poor fellow amuse himself ; he A woman, conscious of her weakness, means to marry Lucy—Gussio says so. If sides, 1 think, almost without exception, we interfere it would be fatal ; he won't with the weak. Her sympathies are for the stand advice." unsuccessful ; her tenderness for the feeble "1 wouldn't interfere with him, but who fails. Her love may go elsewhere, but should like to give the girl a hint. She is her love is her fate, and with the direction very proud. I am sure she would take , the of its flight she has little to do. Helen's slightest hint at once." awakened heart a,ched for the speaker, Anastasia paced on in silence. As long though it beat BO whit the faster for his as she was allowed to remain neutral, she words. But to those who ask for love, did not mind what happened; she had few compassion is no boon. objects in life beyond the attainment of her When, with a faltering voice, Helen own desires. She wanted her brother to declared that she could never, never, never marry Lady Lucy, certainly—not for his be his wife, thet neither long years, nor his happiness, but because a Lady Lucy for a devotion, nor his prospects, nor the wishes sister-in-law was a solid advantage for of her parents, nor her poverty, nor his un - herself. happiness could ever, by any possible chance, I don't know that. I3ertie's a trenaen. alter one jot or tittle of her d.etermination, dons catch. A cart -load of hints wouldn't it mattered very little to him whether she put a sensible woman off twenty thousand a pitied or hated him. Though with her eyes year." brimming with tears she gave hint both her " shall tell her he is engaged to Lucy." hands, and. never drew them away when " She will congratulate him, and you'll his grasp crushed her slight fingers ; though catch it." she did not reprove him when he laid his " I shan't—Bertie is never rude. If I lips on them ; yet passion -blinded as he make a breach, they won't have time to was, he could not detect ally sign of re - patch it up in these three days. Once get lenting from her ateitude. him off without a fiasco, he will forget her, See who even under the suspicion of re - and be thankful to me for keeping him out proof, had flared. into hot anger and retort, of it." , now hung her head when his misery wrung "Well, Pat, do what you think is right, forth some bitter reproaches from him, and if you don't mind risking e row. Bertie murmured, humbly— , mayn't jun p down your throat, but I've "1 know, I know ; I ant so sorry ; but I seen him angry once or twice in my life. didn't believe—I didn't understand. For - Interfering with a love affair is like inter- fering in a dog fight—you don't get thanks from either side; you'll be lucky if you don't get bitten." When the sisters met before dinner, and Patricia was questioned about the success of the stratagem she confessed herself baffled. She was afraid Miss Mitford did not intend to take any hint, and Patriciate invitation she had refused. "She would hardly, speak to me," that young lady complained; "but I managed to say how good it was of her to console my brother. 'Don't over -console him, Miss Mitford,' I said, or Lady Lucy Fremantle won't quite like it, you know.' She's a collected sort of girl. She looked at me as if she had not heard what I said, then she made some irrelevant remark about the weather and. went off to play with a little child whom she held by the hand. I can't think what Bertie sees in her ; she is posi- tively forbidding. But perhaps, for all her calmness, she heard me right enough, and if so, I did not toil over that awful shingle for nothing. She is the sort of woman who prefers dignity to common sense—the very person who would fling a fortune into the sea rather than cross a gutter to get it. Meanwhile, up on the hill at Carnation Cottage, poor MissMitforcl was overpowered by the exuberance of Helen's mirth. She had returned from the shore ita fantastic and exultant spirits. She laughed and sung and joked until Miss Mitford sat down ex- hausted on the garden seat with the tears of laughter rolling down her cheeks, and a faint petition to the girl "to be quiet and go away, for pity's sake I" breaking between her gasps. But Helen was gone out of earshot, and haal entered the porch before her aunt had finished her sentence or her laughter. The wonderful vivacity of hers lasted throughout the evening, and reappeared' with her at breakfast next morning. If she was not very hungry, she was so °talkative that her want of appetite passed unnoticed. Throughout the morning she he ped her aunt to stick the verbenas and prick out the seedling gloxinias. It was urine' work ; by lunch-time Helen was looking °fagged, and Miss Mitford was full of self -reproaches when she saw that it was so. "You shall rest this afternoon, my love. You can lie on the sofa and read that charming book by Miss Gwynne-Hughes. You will be sure to sleep. I am going to call at the Priory—I have ordered a fly for the purpose—but you need not accompany me, though, to be sure, I should have liked your society." " I will come," said Helen. But by the time the fly had arrived she had changed her mind. "She was certainly a little tired ; she would take her aunt's advice and rest. The resting was of an odd kind; it drove her again and again to the glass, before which she arranged her air and prinked with deliberation and anxiety. It sent her, into the garden to gather more flowers to adorn the drawing -room, which was already a perfect flower garden itself ; it compe led her to mount to her becnroom and hastily don a certain pink cotton dress which she had heard admired not many days pre- viously. Again it drove her back to the drawing -room, whither she wandered to and fro until the tinkle of the gate bell, reaching her listening ears, seemed to re- mind her of her fatigue ; for she sank down into an arm -chair, took up a book, and was at once engrossed n its perusal. She did not notice a shadow pass the window, nor when the door was and forgetting their lack of wings. As a I opened, did she immediately look up; but term of opprobrium for the dull I should as Sarah announced.—" Mr. Flight, if you prefer 'sheep' to 'ass' as less coarse and I please, miss," she started, the book fell to more appropriate." I the floor, and in that full, clear voice, for Helen refused the mutton chop and I the tones of which this poor unwelcomed custard pudding proffered her but she made visitor had yearned to hear again, she ex - great havoc with a dish of strawberries and claimed— cream, and her spirits did not flag. She "Oh, it is you ?" never discoveseed that she was overtired un- Though this greeting was not reassuring, til she went to bed, and then she found that it had been wrung from Helen's astonish - the events of the past day had impressed ment, and the next moment she had risen themselves vividly and deeply upon her with outstretched friendly hand to meet brain. , him. In a moment be saw that she had Hitherto as soon as she had laid her nut- changed. Hope whispered that the change brown head on the pillow, she had fallen was to his advantage. Her manner had asleep ; but that night she could find no altered • the coquettish defiance, varied comfort among thelavenderscentedpillows; with cold disdain, with which she had she tossed and turned for hours. Her formerly met his advances had gone—a thoughts would allow her no rest, they flew stereotyped politeness had usurped its place. tumultuously back to that" New Cut" and dragged her again a,nd again through every Born and bred in women is the art of occurrence of that homeward drive. fence. Never did swallow swoop more lightly, more swiftly, more restlessly after Ten days after the Rivers 1VIeet picnic the his evening meal than Helen flew from two Misses Jones might have been seen subject to subject. Ifer ease, her frank pacing up and down the corridor at Newton friendliness, and her command. of topic, Hall in grave and low-toued conversation. voice, and smile might have answered Mr. The subject under discussion was of such Flight's question better than any word, if importanee as to lower their high-pitched he would have been content to read those voices and banish their eternal smiles. lucid signs, and thus 'sieved them both un- Patricia's temper was ruffled, her forehead necessary pain. was puckered, her eyes, blank and sombre At first the sound of her voice and the as holes burned in a blanket, were dark with sight of her beauty was blies sufficient, halt 000M. She took the lead in the debate. soon he grew impatient of the chit-chat in Anastasia listened; though her engagement which' he was ta,e ing a secondary part. He to Major Mason—that gentleman by whose made several unsuccessful efforts to change side she had been seated during the drive to the subject, and then, rememberig that the picnic and the inan of her ehoice—had Dr. Abercrombie remelts that net woman been that day announced and Fate had every can talk for more than twenty minutes reason consequently to be gay, eshe, too, waa without cessation, he obstinately held his profoundly ablemn. peace and waited for the inevitable pause. " He ie so obstinate," the elder Miss eante—he seized his opportunity, and hurled hie declaration into the interval. It was the old, old story, What a re. markably dull tiresome threadbare Old tale it is when told by the Wrong person— give Inc." He found it difficult to credit that such true, deep, absorbing love as Ile felt could meet With no return—that it had been born only to die : he felt that he was hardly treated, and so he was. But life is hard, and things ge wrong with us more often than they go right ; into each life the rain falls heavily, and if we do not happen to see our neighbor drenched to the skin, we may rest assured that he has not escaped his share of ducking, although he may be dry and trim enough when we chance to meet him. It was bad luck that induced Miss Mit- ford's front gate bell so soft a tinkle that the sound escaped Helen's sharp hearing; it was bad luck which caused her to stand in full sight of the open window when Mr. Flight held both her hands in his and stooped to kiss them ; it was an unlucky impulse that made her wrench away those hands and dart guiltily a yard or two asunder from the young man when the drawing - room door was opened and " Mr. Jones" was announced. If the visitor felt surprise or annoyance at the tableau presented to him, his manner did not betray him. His self-possession was admirable ; he even covered Helen's confusion and Mr. Flight's awkward pre- occupation by a flow of conversation, and when the latter took his leave, and the lady accompanied him, in answer to his earnest petition, to the front gate, he con- cealed a most rancorous irritability under a suave smile. tTo be co:mimeo, "Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen, And here's to the u-idow of forty 1" They have each reached a period in life when most females need assistance 'in tiding them over the shoals which so 'often com- pletely wreck their after lives. In pro- ducing regularity and healthy action of the female organs, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pres- cription stands without a peer. At a time when nature gives them increased burdens, so many young girls have their health for life shattered. If you wish your daghter to miss those periodical, agonizing backaches, and dizzy headaches, languid and tired feel- ings accompanied with rough, pimply skin and 'dull, heavy eyes, get her a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. If you have rea,ched the later period of danger and weakness, you will need a bottle too. See wrapper on bottle for printed guarantee. Satisfaction given in every case or money returned. A Good Word ,for the Stenogaohers.: In the District Court yesterday Judge Troup, in passing upon the question of the reasonableness of the stenographer's charge for services rendered in taking down and trenscribing the evidence in a matter before a referee, took occasion to say that in his judgment 56 a day and ten cents a hundred words for transcription was not unreason- able. The court further observed that it required more time and (inferentially) torains to become a skilled stenographer thaento ac- quire equal proficiency in the law; that probably nine -tenths of the lawyers, if not a larger proportion, never could excel as court stenographers • that out of the several hundred persons who have studied steno- graphy in this city, not to exceed half a dozen could ever attain to the dignity of a court reporter. The couet expressed itself in a manner to leave no doubt of its appreci- ation of the skilled. laborer in the steno- graphic field and places him (properly) among the higher professions. From the count; clerk it is ascertained that in this county during the past two years the fees paicl into the county treasury by the district clerk on account of the two dollar tax in each case exceeds by 5700 the amount drawn out for the same period of time by the official stenographer—an excellent show- ing for the county.— Winfield, Kas., Courier. The best of all ways To lengthen our days, Is to use Pierce's Purgative Pellets, Sir! For nine -tenths of the diseaseseof the body begin with constipation or the clogging up of the sluice -ways, through which the im- purities of the blood escape, so that they are reabsorbed into the system. The Pur- gative Pellets act gently but thoroughly upon the stomach and liver, and are the best laxative known. WithOut racking and straining the organs, they open the bowels and restore a natural, healthy digestion, Unequaled in dyspepsia, constipation, biliousness, piles, or any of the resulting diseases. Mau the Worse. She—There l I wouldn't have said any- thing half so mean as that. He—As,what ? She—That she painted. New York Herald : He--Weinen are always envioue of each other. Miss Fly. away isn't half as big a fool as she is painted. 'Why He JolneAll Indianapolis Journal : WidatVire—Is it true that leIudge has j oined the chu rch ? Yabs- ley—It is. He did so on an election bet. •,. The majority of well-read phys- icians now believe that Consump- tion is a germ disease. In othes, words, instead of being in the con- stitution itself it is caused by innu- merable small. creatures living in the lungs having no business there and eating them away as caterpillars dcli the leaves of trees.. A Germ The phlegm that is coughed up is those parts of the lungs which have been, gnawed off and destroyed. Thess little bacilli, as the germs are called„ are too small to be seeti. with the naked eye, but they are very much alive just the same, and enter the body in our food, in the air we breatbk, and through the pores of the skin. Thence they get into the blood and finally arrive at the lungs where they fasten and increase with frightful rapidity. Then German( Syrup comes in, loosens them, kills them, expells them, heals the places they leave, and se nourish and soothe that, in a short time consump- tives become germ -proof and well. a Disease. TEA TABLE GOSSIP. THE STREET CAA CONDUCTOR FAVORITE. She's neither young nor pretty And in speech she isn't witty, . She isn't cultured in the things that beautify m life, But I have learned to love her. Till there's naught I prize aliove her, And she has promised, by and by, to be my charming wife., I see her going gaily To and,from her duties daily, And while I know she's not so fair as other women are. She doesn't climb off backward With a tumble rude and awkward. I'll marry her because she knows just hourtn, leave a, car. —What greeter lots th tatatet of true friend? —Heavy overcoats are not amiss these evenings. —Ten per cent of the population of India, are widows. —The average size of an American farm is 610 acres. —There are over 9,000 brass bands in. the Salvation Army. —The Pope can speak English, German. and French perfectly. —Yesterday was the 319th anniversary of the death of John Knox, the Scottish re- former. Why does the mother so sadlyWeep As she bids her son farewell? Because he plays on the college team And his fate no power can tell. —Moody and Sankey have come together again in England. The announcement of se meeting in London packed the hall on the very same night. The opening prayer was offered by Mr. J. E. K. Studd, the famous -- cricketer. A SLFIGRRIDE. She looked so sweet among the furs I longed to press her to my heart; But with one hand to rightly drive, Alas I did not have the art. I tried, and tried and tried again, But when my arm stole round her waist The skittish colt would leap aside And make me draw it back in haste. She chatted gayly all the while And did not seem to sec me strive, Until at last she pouting said— " Give me the lines, and I will drtve.' Kincaid St., Brockville, Ont., Jan. lithe 1889: " I was confined to my bed by a severe attack of lumbago. A lady friend of mine sent me a part of a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, which I applied. The effect was simply magical. In a day I was able to go about my household duties. have used it with splendid success for neuralgic tooth- ache. I would not be without it." Mess. 3. RINGLAND. • Lady itatuittou. A most elaborate publication is about to be made of the life and letters of Eames Lady Hamilton, the frail bea,uty whom Lori Nelson, on the eve of the battle of Trafal- gar, left as a legacy " to his king and to his country," with the entreaty that they should give her an ample provision to maintain her rank. in life. His dying re- quest remained unheeded. Honors and re- wards were showered upon his family, with. whom throughout his life he had lived on terms that were the reverse of cordial. An, earldom was conferred upon his brother, veith a revenue 'of $20,000a year; 850,005 was voted to each of his sisters,and 5500,000 was assigned by the Government for the purchase of an estate to remain forever in. the family. Lady Hamilton and her daugh- ter, Horia,tia, who was the child of Nelson, were ignored and passed over. Twenty years after the battle of Trafalgar an un- known woman, BUR. preserving the remains( of extraordinary beauty, died at Calaie, where, for several years, with reduced means, she had sought an obscure asylum - After her decease the landlord discovered from her papers that the stranger who was buried by the public charity in a pauper' grave was no other than Lady Hamilton, who had been in succession a servant girl, a famousactress, the wile of an ambassador, the favorite friend and companion of the Queen of Naples, and the adored. arnie of England's most famous admiral. iVatehing the Irour-Glass. As aemiser counts his gold, night and day. Sof count the minutes told in the glass; My,ejte is dim, my hair is thin and gray, And I know I'm growing old as they pass. When we approach "the sere and yellow leaf" of our clays, we are prone to look back regretfully. A clear conscience and. sound healLh will lighten our gloomy re- flections. Health is the greatest blessmg-- Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery the greatest medicine. It arrests the progretee of lung- and scrofulous diseases, and curet consumption, or Lung -Scrofula, if taken in. time. It is the king of liver invigorators a,ncl blood -purifiers, and a powerful tonic; building up the debilitated patient to per-, eat health. Contains no alcohol. The Policeman's Varied Lot. Chester (Pa.) News : The police are not kept busy chasing elude, bathers .off the wharves these days, but they might chase the profane swearers off the corners. meat. , . , Jones was saying, "you ought to know The °Inn' of the widow seems to be en' If your little ones suffer with "snuffles" "Vhat fell 2—What was it 2—It Wa8 what he is; if 1 Was to hint that we are veloped in a haze. The widow is neither Nasal Baia, wiii give theta relief, it is 4 killed." nervous', it would probably decide it at once born nor maid. ce A sheep, poor brete ! Don't talk of it. and the wrong way, Just to show his Sn- There were 209,060 miles of railway ':errctaatinarerthir.e fS°Orladltb yf °al. VI sdoefre dealers. Try i nTtrhye' ihe a di. tng the future Mts. jones hung uptee los Think of somethirig else," dependoece, he would do it. He is quite and the wrong person eontehow seems COO" ttacks and 1,797 railway corperetioes in + , , words as though they, were oracles e• but if " I can't "enshi;flaerisg=" I tiaren't °nen infatuated; he bangs alaout the beach or the sciotts of the fallue end bungles over. ICS re- the United Statee on June 30th last, steaord- —It tones 60,000 roree te, make ear otmee hey were discieets they committed themmy eyes ; / arn frald 1ghould a s t• village hall the day. Yestercity in the cite, , emphasize thc Wrong points, ansi ing to statistics just eempleted. of attire et atoms. e1ied.'1.tSee",•'