The Exeter Advocate, 1891-12-24, Page 2Chrlistmas Eve.
The °alarms dreamea the wbole aleht through
stookings hung the hearth beside;
An& hourin to snake ch aroma come true,
Went Sisute Clime at Clue Minas-WM
Mean sem:kings, red, became, white arta gray—
Long, little, \Valle, OF Patella. elel.
The Mildly Saint fonna on hie way,
And, smilleg, popped his presents in.
Bile as ho felt his head grow light,
A toar-drop glistened in his eye;
" More ehildren on thee earth tomight,
Than tittle are twinislina iii the see."
Upon the white and tome snow
He knelt, hie empty bag beside—
" Some little socks must empty go,
Ales !° wail he "this Caratneas-tide.
"Though I their stockinge may not heap
With gifteaud toys and Uhrietmas cheer,
These little °ries Srom sorrow keep;
For each, dear Lord, to Thee is dear!
"Thou wort a little child like them"—
Prayed he—" For whom I would previa°
Lou e years ago in Bethlehem,
That first and blessed Ohristmes-tide!
As soothed Theo then Thy mother's kiss
And all her comfort, sweet and. kind,
So give them love, lest they may miss
The gifts 1 know uot where to and!
That sweetest gift, dear Lord, bestow
On all the children far aim wide;
And give them hearts ae pure as 000W"—
PrayedSanta Claus—' at Christmas -tide! "
Marguerite Merrington, di Ladies' Ilorae
foltrael.
'MISS HELEN'S LOVERS.
thing of the sort was anticipated by the M the road 011Q afternoon 'Rot week; I 'ran !Seldom the hardihooCl necessary to lead her
better informed in London. It has been and shook him by the bad—) couldn't to face a clifdcult situation when by any
discovered thee poor Sir Adolphass, whose speak --but im was 3uS6 aS usual, though a nossible action she ean eseape the ordeen
sudden deeth from epoplexy heralded the little greyer in his manner, and Ide Flight is the first and often the only avail -
pouchy os eho disaster, was a sPeoultstor face leeked older ; tWentY Yore Older able Maio, To this refuge Helen had
of colossal and reckless enterprise, "His he had grown in three Illoutles, He resorted. She had put on her coat and hat,
bileiness had declined somewhat, and his came in here 'with me and. liad some stamped atel sealed her letter to Mrs. Mit
-
expenditure was ia excess of his receipts, tea; he stayed a loug While—lie seemed feed, and, after mentioniug oarelessly to
He soughato recoup himself by a yentore pleased te stay. We talked of the summer, Belsey that she was going to the post, she
of great risk and me.gnitude ; its failure love, and of you, and I told him, of the softly crept across the ball and. let herself
hastened, if it did not wholly oecaeion, the strange generosity of poor Mr. Flight, and out by the front door. It Was dreadful to
impending calamity. I' Mader:mend that then he went away; but he proulised to leave the house, but to relnaiu there was
the fortunes of Lady Shuter and Mrs. come again if he was at Nooloombe. Re worse, she had escaped the ineetieg, but,
Mason are secure ; also that a consider- should be to and fro till the business was unfortunateln, she Mild not escape herself.
She walked very quickly, it was clerk
able sum was settled upon the widow and settled and the house Sold, he said."
son, bat thie they have decided to relin "Did he SaY anything about that girl, beneath the trees in the glen and their
branches creaked, for the wind was blowing
will in consequence be fully discharged. "Which girl? Oh, you mean Lady Lucy sharply. Down the steep, rough village
gash in favor of the creditors, whose claims auntie? " '
Mach admiration is expressed for their Fremantle. No, my love, he talked of street the sped apace --how soon, how far
conduct by the kindly disposed, though it you; men de not speak of matters upon too soon else reached the post -office and
is grievous to and how many will discover which they feel deeply. He talked much fulfilled her errand!
something at which te cavil in au action, of you. I showed him your new photo- The sun had gone down, but a full moon
however noble. The nights are very mild, graph; he did not think it at eel good, was rising over the sea, the tide was high
and I have to superintend the warming of not at all. It is a most curious and the rough waves were bellowing at the
She conservatory, john overheated the thing, fielen, I have mislaid that loot of the cliffs, ,r.ehey lashed the broken
flues one day last week, and had I not likeness ; from that day to this, I rocks—they drew Helen toward them, for
detected his blunder in time to avert clanger, have never found it, though I have searched their loud wailing was attune with her
I tremble to think of what the consequences diligently. I must have sent it back to heart; they were in sympathy with her
the library be a book, I have lost many
might have been. Convey my warmest love mood. Their might, their strength, their
to dear Honoree and believe me, your fondly letters thus rind some valuable packets of majesty overwhelmed her personal trouble ;
attached, ELIZADETIT In moat)." flower seeds. The orchid which the young she could forget all things in heaven and
The next day was Seedily, a day on man gave me ie dead—it wanted more heat earth if she might tand beside them.
Which enforced idleness begete "long than I could give it here. Good gracious, Below the village, to the right of the
thoughts." When the organ pleys and love, that is the front door bell, pull down beach, was a broad ridge of rock which had
when the parson preaches, upon what vast the couvrepied over my feet and set my been a haunt of hers in other times ; the
wanderings does an, ilaregulated attention cap straight ; the room is nearly dark. descent thither was hazardous in the faint
engage, upon what diverse tracts and over Will you light the candles on the mantel- light, but she climbed down and stood on
what- leagues of space does imagination Piece ? What? you prefer the duels ? the wide ledge, with the wind beating
travel. If Helen's mind was not under Very well. My love—Helen ! where are against hor and the salt spray wet -
proper control, her voice, for which the You going? Don't leave the room. Stay, ting her face. The silver pathway
congregation were wont to listen, and with I went you to stay." spread from her very feet to the
which she led the village choir, had grown fBdatwas shs
e had gone ; and while Miss Mit- pale moon, black western clouds were piled
in depth mad power, it rates"cleer, sweet,till imploring and commanding like mountains against the faint sky on
and rich, never faltering nortiring ' or
through her to return, Mr. Jones was shown into which a few stars glimmered. The heavy
She chants and hymns. Her eyes, deep aa the room. crested waves broke with a roar like
the sea, and very grave, were lowered to the CHAPTER xi. thunder on the crags, the cream -like foam
contemplation of her look. Greaelet me call him, for he conquered me. looked sett and gentle, now and again a
Upon Monday morning the news of Miss YOUNG. drenching, large -dropped shower of spray
Elizabeth Mitford's illness reached theHad I not toyed thee, my sky had been clear ; fell upon the rock a few feet beyond her.
Rectory, this term it was Betsey who wrote. itad I not loved thee, I had not been here,
Her style was not .discursive, in three bold
.. Weeping by thee.
lines she announced that her mistress wa,s Whether some recollection of her own
very bad with the influenza, and. that the girlhood, or whether the glimpse of her
doctor came twice a day, but said nothing." lemma wee as she es„pee, or
Mr. Mitford received the letter at the whether the intuitive perception of
breakfast -table and read it aloud to his a womaii in the scenting -out of such
companions. Both he and his wife,between "small game" as a love affair, brought
the discussion of ham, eggs and coffee, were nascent suspicion upon Miss Elizabeth Mit-
full of sympathy with the invalid. Helen ford's hitherto obtuse mind, she could never
did not join her condolences with theirs,but afterward decide. But in the flash of an
when the topic was at length discussed, she eye, the suspicion grew to certainty • she
suddenly and unexpectedly recalled it by knew that what "Thomas" had once 'been
suggesting that she, herself, shoulil go to to her this handsome but poverty-stricken
Carnation Cottage and nurse "poor Aunt and recently -jilted visitor was to her dear
Elizabeth. She loved sick nursing, she niece.
loved Aunt Elizabeth, she should love to be She had been parted fromher Thomas and
with her, might she go?" was wont to congratulate herself on that
The mild opposition of her mother gave circumstance, hut to have escaped the tor -
her resolution strength, she described the ture of that never -to -be -forgotten wrench,
miseries, the sufferings, the ravages of the she would have endured the long unhappy
Russian pest with such tragic vehemence as wifehood of her successful rival, had the
to wring the listeners' tender hearts, till choice between those two evils been
they swallowed all remembrance of the void left to her decision. She would—she would
the loss of the girl's presence would entail, indeed. Memories and half-dead longings
and told her eagerly that she should go, she were awakened by the transient glimpse of
should go at once, that very de:y. Helen's face, and she was ready for the first
"You have inherited yonr father's good time in her life to proclaim her weakness.
heart, Helen," said. her mother, fondly. She felt quite faint at her discovery, but
"You have learned unselfishnees from this did not prevent her receiving the gen-
your mother, Helen," a ded her father, tleman with great warmth and friendliness.
patting her head caressingly. He was, of coarse, totally unconscious and
These terms of approbation affected their at ease. He at down on the
daughter strangely, she colored up. to the same tiny chair as before and asked
eyes, tried to speak, but her quivering lips with much interest about the in -
would not obey her, eud then, with a mur- Sneeze. Her answers were absent and a
mut of which the words "too good for me," little puzzling ;: she hardly knew what he
alone were intelligible, got up and left the said so sick was she with the responsibility
room. of immediate actiOn. Should she -casually
" Helen has grown so sensitive, Hemy. mention her niece's prermuce and judge by
Last night her eyes were f all ot tears his face whether the knowledge affected
during your sermon, and really I hardly him in any way Se But the most expressive
thought it so affecting as usual." feature—his mouth—was hidden by a
" She is a very good girl, indeed," said mustache, and those dark eyes of his defied,
the rector, heartily; give me the Bradshaw, scrutiny, especially in this dusky light. He
Honore, I must look out her train and send went on talking ;. the frank, youthfulness
a telegram to Betsey." of his manner had changed • he was no
The next evening saw Helen once more longer deboaair and 'careless—he had grown
an inmate of Carnation Cottage—the earnest and grave, almost to sternness.
warmth of her welcome was overpowering. Every now end then there was a weary note
She.found that Betsey had not exaggerated in his voice which, wrung the old lady's
the severity of Miss IVIitford's illness, and heart ; she grew each moment more con -
Betsey herself was still too weak to attend fused and abstracted. He became aware of
to her mistress, so that Helen's presence this, and, thinking that she was weak
was most opportune. For several days she frono recent illness and therefore unfit for
hardly left the sickroom, she was a devoted, conversation, he presently rose to take his
gentle, and skillful nurse. Under her leave.
dexterous care Miss Mitford steadily gained "1 are tiring you, he said, " so I will
ground, and before a week had passed was go. I have finished, all the business down
down stairs on the sofa. here. Igo up to town to -morrow and get
Though Carnation Cottage was at its best to work next week, so I must wish you a
in the spring and summer, its winter corn- long good -by."
forts were not to be despised; heavy por- 'Von must not go," with the authority
Wens excluded draughts, the conservatory of a general in action ; " you must stay to
supplied an abundant stock of flowers - tea. Kindly ring the bell."
log fires blazed in the low grates': He obeyed her and reseated himself.
Helen loved. every nook and corner, every "1 ean never tearmyself away, if you are
chair and table in the little drawing room, so kind," he said.
she sat on a tiny chair which she had drawn, She nodded, she could not speak. "Rio
to the sofa -side on which her aunt, propped great grandfather," she was thinking, "wore
on down pillows and covered with a couvre- three hats and dealt in second-hand ward -
pied, wae reclining, and looked around her robes—he has not got a sixpence in the
with a new far -away expression in her eyes world—he has been jelted," but when the
which made them very sad and dreamy. bell was answered she spoke out her order
Presently these two began to discuss a sub- clearly and with decision.
ject which they had already worn thread- "Will you tell Miss Helen that Mr.
bare, they had talked it over me often a.nd Jones is here, and ask her 50 come down and
so minutely, that they had no new light, no, make tea."
new thought, DD new difficulty about the Miss Mitford was too agitated to take,
matter, but yet as soon as Miss Mitford had, notes, so to speak, of the situation, but she
finished her afternoon siesta and opened her could not avoid seeing him start or hearing
eyes, she naturally and inevitably returned the exclamation—
to the familiar theme. ' Helen? Helen here, in this house?"
" My love, Lady Jones had an annuity, before his calmer reception of the news by
a small annuity, but sufficient for her events! She reraerk, "I had no idea Miss Mitford
left her by her father '• of couise it was was vvith you," reached her.
praiseworthy of her to relinquish her claim As the door opened she watched.him,
to the money, but when we remember that wondering whether it was her fancy 'which
the young man has no money, not a sin- made his face look so white,but the incomer
pence, that he has been reared in affluence, was not Helen, but Betsey with the tea.
that he has never known an ungratified de- "Miss Helen went out ten minutes ago,
sire, rued that under these circumstances, ma'am, she has gone to the post." s
he voluntarily relinquished a handsome in- The news staggered her aunt, she stared
dependence, we must find. it impossible to blankly at her companion, a sudden flame
express, with adequate strength, our warm leaped out of a kindled log and played on
admiration of the nobility of his conduct." the fire of his eyes. Then for the first time
Helen had taken up the piece of em- in all her guileless life, 1Vliss Elizabeth
broiclery from her lap and had begun to createda plot.
stitch with some show of industry, she wee "Mr. Jonea," she said, " you hear that
obliged to bend low over her work, for the Helen has gone out; I am vexed with her
winter afternoon was drawing to a close, for doing so, she should have sent a servant
with the letter ; it is growing dark rapidly,
and the room Was dusk. •
"1 wonder what he will do," she said. the road through the glen is very lonely,
" He will do well, mark my words, it is not fit for her to walk alone. You will
Helen. He has many friends. I hear that think me a great fidget but it would be
alteoely he bee entered a house of business relief to my mind if you would go
in which he is likely, through the favor of and meet her," then, seeing the hesitation
the proprietor, to succeed, if he proves of his face, she went on tremulously, f ' I
himself intelligent and reliable --such quell- have been ill; the illness has left me weak
ties we know he possesses. Don't sigh, my a,nd nervous, I am anxious about her and I
love ; rats alone desere a sinking ship ; the presume upon year kindness."
captain and her crew aee the last to leave The tequeet so couched was almost lat-
her. If that unworthy woman whom he possible to refuse; he did not attempt to re -
loved chotie to renounce him at thea,pprottelt fuse it, he went. When the heard the
of trouble, she is no better than a rat, and garden gate slam a minute or two laeer, she
of such vermin he is well rid." cried, plaintively :
" Pethaps it 'WAS not quite all her fault," "Dear, clersa I am a creature of impulse,
said Helen, slowly ; " perhaps he would; after all," and sho buried her face in her
not drag the girl he liked into povetty. hands and trembled. Still trembling she
Perhaps she could not help it." left the sofa and rang the bell for Betsey.
" She should have made a point of help. "Betsey," she said, "1 am exceedingly
tired,, I shall ge up-staire to my thom and
keep miite. Ten leauisa, to brag the larepe
in here, she may put oil the new pink
shades y she //Did make up Et large fire and
keep the muffins hot. Mr. Jones arld Mists
Mitford will be into tea. before long."
"flow long, maestri, I"
" Well, indeed, I don% quite know,
Betse Give; Me yotir armeI must lean on
She had been away from home about two
months when the following letter f; nm her
mother awakened, with somewhat iusufa-
clout cause, an unconquerable auxiet e about
the dear writer's health, and drove T[elen to
return to Menton upon the very clay after
she received the disquieting allusion.
Mrs. Mitford had written thus—
"Mx DARLING HELE'N,—How cold it in
I hope that if you are tempted to wander
about under those draughty galleries at your
uncle's after dinner that you do not forget
to wear a ;shawl. I am reminded of such
dangers to your health by a tiresome
cold in my head which I caught last eve
pottering about the garden with your dear
father, who is more careful to protect his
fruit frees then his wife from the frost. I
wrapped my head in flannel and drank
several jugs of treacle posset before going to
bed. I slept heavily, but awoke headachy
and stupid, so this letter will be very short
and flat, dear. I am rejoiced to hear how
well you enjoyed the ball and how delight-
ful you find your surroundings. Do not
hurry home. I love to think of you ad-
mire-cl, happy, and making the most of your
youth. I read your letters again and again,
and you are never absent from. my thoughts,
my dearest.—Your loving mother,
110:KORA. MITFORD."
"1'. S.—By the by, your Aunt Elizabeth
has written at last ; your father received
the letter some days ego. Betsey has been
ill—seriously ill—and her time has been
fully occupied with the consequent sick
nursing ; she is better now and downstairs
again. Elizabeth seems very full of those
dreadful Jones people, who have gone a
frightful smash. The old man has been
speculating in the most reckless way—the
shock of ruin, upon all those good dinners
of which we have heerd, brought on apo.
lexy; he is dead. If I can find Elizebeth's
letter, I will enclose it"
But the letter had not been enclosed, and
very soon after Helen's arrival at Meriton
she led the conversation to Noelcorabe.
"'What was the matter with poor old
Betsey," the girl asked. She stood before
the fire with her arm round her mother's
waist Mrs. Mitford could not take her
eyes away from the contemplation of her
beautiful child. She had improved ; yes,
if it was possible, she was more loveable and
loving than before, and she had torn herself
from a household of friends and cousins,
bad relinquished the prospect of a party,
Sad hurried home to see with her own eyes
end hear with her own ears that the
" tiresome cold. of which she had. been
told was of no deadly character.
"
A. very serious touch of influenza. Oh,
Nellie, I can't bear to think that you have
left so much pleasure on my ac-
-count. It was foolish of me to
mention my cold, but I thought you knew I
only sneeze for a clay or two and put on an
-extra shawl, and then one of my colde goes.
Why, I am quite well Dwain to -day. The
delight of seeing you, my"darling, is spoiled
-when I remember what you have given up
for me."
"1 have given up nothing, mother. I
-wanted to come home every sissgle day I
was away. 'Of course I was having great
, fun—lots going on—but I was a little
enammy-sick ; I always am. How long was
Betsey ? "
I don't remember exactly. Helen, did
you meet with any very charming people?"
" Oh, yes, most of them were awfully
nice. Mother, you did not inclose auntie's
letter."
"No, dearest, your father had gone out
and must have taken it with him. I
couldn't find it. I asked him where it was
east before you came, but he had torn it up
and thrown it into the waste-pa,per basket.
Never mind, she had nothing to say; she
does write such dull letters, poor dear."
Late that night when the Meriton house-
hold had been long asleep a stealthy figure,
wrapped in a red flannel dressing -gown,
with brown hair hanging straight and thick
to the knees, and a beautiful, eager face, on
which the candle which she shaded with her
lEtand shone, crept slowly and cautiously
down the stairs and made her noiseless way
to the rector's study.
Helen—for she 15 was ---set patiently to
weie over the accomplishment of her in-
tention. Sitting on the floor by the side of
the waste -paper basket, she pieced, con-
trived, patched the severed and scattered
framn.ents of Miss Elizabeth's letter into a
legible whole. It was a difficult and
laborious achievement. She was blue with
cold ; her teeth chattered, and her fingers
were stiff and half frozen ; bodly discom-
forts were unheeded, for her heart was hot
Within her. Again and again she read
those pieced atoms, and then gathering
. them carefully together, she st,ole back to
her room. Holding them in her closed
hand, she get into bed and lay there cold,
Shivering and sleepless Instil dawn ; then
she re -lighted the candle and re -read the
letter, which ran as follows :
Ma Vann DMus 1-Inenee—I have not
Written since I congratulated and condoled
With you and yours on the sed death and
extraordinary generosity of your late
Curate, It one of elm events over
'd job tears and gratithd mingle. I do
not wonder at his atta,chment to my niece,
for during her visit at my eottage I learned
to love her dearly. Betsey has heels ill;
this must be my eecuee for an unusttally
lengthy gnome, for my time was much
occupied both With attending to her re-
• ents and fulfillin her necesSarily
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"No," she Wiaa, With le ')Ine 1- tu
;old spirit "it is not " -
" What do you mean,
ewe ereare.un CRITIC.,
" Unfathomable sea, whose waves are years,
Ocean of time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears,r
and yet whose sound is a tonic to our spirits
as much as its breath is a tonic for our
bodies.
It was long before she turned away from
the wonder of the waves way from the
beauty and grandeur of the sky, she was
calmed aud strengthened, she was ready to
"go home," Close behind her stood a figure
whose approach the roar of the water had
drowned and who had neither spoken nor
moved, but who had been standing, motion-
less, watching her.
His face was set and stern, and there was
a great sadness in the eyes which met hers
as she turned slowly round toward hinn
Her mind was so full of him • he seemed to
have been so near her all through these
months that she was hardly surprised to
find him there, in the flesh, by her side. He
spoke to her as if their meeting and his
presence were things of course, as if they
had never ported', as if he had forgotten
that last scene from the memory of which
all her meditation had been drawn of late.
"I heard where you had gone and fol-
lowed you," he said. "The tide is still
coming in; the waves lick over this rock in
a squall ; it isn't a safe place for you."
She was angry with the raging waters for
deadening the full sound of his voice. She
had. to lift up her head to catch the mean-
ing of his words.
" I was sent to fetch you home."
Alas, he had been sent ! He had always
read her thoughts, he did so now, but not
correctly.
"Mies Mitford sent me—I hope you do
not mind—she was anxious about you so
I came ; it was," slowly, "the only chance
I had of seeing you, so, right or wrong, I
took
" must go," she said.
"Not yet, not yet. Wait ; you wont
mind waiting just is moment ; it will lie
the last tiate--the only tirne--don't you res
member we used. to want to watch a storm
together ?"
So she turned again to the sea, as he
wished, and waited.
He was young; the black nightmare oft
all his troubles rolled away like a dream,
and the glamour of the past returned upon
him. He had been bereaved, ruined, jilted,
but his years were few and his love was
great—how great it was he had discovered,
when, from a cereless habit of drifting with
the tide and in pique, he had bound himself
irrevocably to another woman. Be was
free now to play with fire; he might seam,
and. scar his fingers at his will; he might
just, for this one last time, return to the dear
days -when he had been so hopeful, so happy,,
when life had beena merry game, when pov-
erty, loneliness, and failure had seemed,
remote as death. He might feast his eyes
on her for the last time ; he might listen,
once more to the music of her voice—if she,
would only speak, which she didn't. At any
rate she stood close beside him. The curves
of her graceful figure, the erect pose of her
heady the sweep of her uplifted arm—for she
held the flapping brim of her hat with her
hand—were all alike beautiful and familiar.
Before them the roar and splash of the
waves boomed and clashed an eternae
diapason.
I am glad you came here," he said,.
after a long, long silence ; "I am glad we
have seen a storm together, after alt
Come, we must go."
She turned docilely a,nd followed him,.
Heled the way up the difficult path to -the
viilage; he did not offer to help her, she
followed close at his heels. He seemed
afraid of another silence and talked fast,
but on the surface of things; she answered
in low monosyllables. They had passed the
villa,ge and were entering the shadows of
the glen ; bow the time rushed by—those
bitter-sweet moments which, the bend in
the road once passed, would be at end for-
ever. Her heart was throbbing fast with
pain ; ne was so calm, so self-contained,
while she could not command her trembling
voice so as to answer him. Once she had had
her thence, once she might have had all for
which she now pined, but she had flung it
away. "Hethatwillnot when hemay—when
he will, he shall have 'nay.'" Row was the
to know that his calmness was born of some-
thing like despair ?—that of all his troubles
the bitterest by far had been caused by her?
Ile, too, was realizing that these moments
were almost over; he, too had a pain like
knifein his breast. Staidenly, on an im-
pulse, he broke out with a fraement of a
moan. He was by nature frank and unre-
served, and the darkness, through which
they walked, made coefeesion easy.
"1 used to think I was such a lucky
chap ; everything always went straight; I
never had the heartache in my life till—till
last July, Helen. Then lny luck changed;
I changed ; and now, you know—at least,
you must halm heard—how badly things
have gone with us." ,
He could not see the quiyering face she
turned away frona him, but he heard a
smothered sob.
"How sweee you aro,t' said • "you are
sorry for us."
"Not, for you," sheanswered,despetately,
"but for myself,"
"Why foe yourself I" very gehtly.
"Because, because—I may only wetch a
storm ti,t Sea with you, and 'waist to help
you thrmigh other—lharder—ritorms," She
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nity makes you mad "
you know that this is Melt.— t
ShOUld I pity ?"
" Me."
"Why should I pity you ?"
"A ruined, jilted, obscure men gets pity,
if not contempt."
"Don't talk like that, I will not listen to
you. I pity any one who pities you. I
never uncleretood, I was puzzled, I was
angry because I did not know whet me&
me like yon ,• but I know now, I haw° are feleal.
--Leo XIII. speaks English,' German awl
yheeaarhdaivlooldv,00thee,” whole. world knows what French,
" That's as I thought," he told her
gravely ; "that is whet I feared. You
have got hold or some exaggerated tale
about this business—such as women love—
and have macle a eaint out of a :sinner, a
hero out of an holiest tradeeman. And now
you fancy things, in your generosity you
would say anything. 13efore, when nothing
stood between us, you would not look at
Inc." —The Earl of Dudley has $6,000,000 life
" Wouldn't 1? You only tried me insurance.
01100, and :1shnd then you went away, and—
with Chili.
—Dr. Talmage's voice is xaised. for war
"Hush, hush! don't talk like this now. —Twelve over age tea plants produce one
It is too late." pound of tea.
The pained agitation of his manner was
—Take a hot lemonade at bed -time to
her best consolation. break up a cold. '
"1 am not going to make love to you any
more," she said, with an itnitation of her --A woman has no right to have a die -
former vivacity, the effect of which the a.greeable voice.
hbreakavemo
whenhervolctehdroeswtegyeecleif eIt1 yYe°11-1,tr wh :and' t,
that advertise.
—Take a look at the crowds in the stores
it is very disagreeable and rude of you."
With cats quite full of fiddle strings,
" You don't understand what you offer. With drum heads on the sheep,
And all the cattle haying horns,
" Excuse me, but I understand per -
Why isn't music cheap 1
fectly."
"1 have nothing ; I have to begin work —Belgium's queen. is a clever sleight-ofs
as an unpaid clerk in a merchant's office ; hand performer.
ma mother will live with me. It will be
—Facial peralysis can generally be traced,
uphill work for years and years, even if I
to using hair dye.
am most fortunate."
"Yes," she said, "and you are a man of —The French army is three times as large -
expensive tastes, you have used luxuries as as it was in 1870. ,
necessities. Poverty will be terribly hard —A:doctor says linen should never be
on you • you will get bad-tempered, you worn next the skin. -
will wan't a vent for your anger—have me !" —The entire coast -line of the globe i
They had emerged from the shadow of
about 136,000 miles.
the glen and reached the garden door, and
through the dim twilight her brave eyes, —The moon's motions are quieleenecl If
andws117vamoiune'; and a fool.
wet with tears, smiled at him. His scru-
ples were vanishing into air, he had much to —The Persians have a different name or
do to keep cool. With his hand upon the every day in the month.
handle of the gate he pausecl and questioned
her—
refused to marry nee."
"Tell me, what has changed you, Helen?"
"1 have not changed."
"Not changed? Five months ago you
latatdiseavsejyathoitngiattiohhen, Iyowuasdhildina'dt ha—ndrshfeord3e,a0f0a0hgua ainuemasb. man gets na credit
I may be a fool now, for having never told a lie.
seconds in 100 years.
wine and spirits in pawls.
that's the beauty of it.
—Pawnbrokers are not allowed to take
—The sausage is only skin deep, and
—A pack of hounds recently changed.
but I ant no longer blind; I have seen —You can't measure a man's learning by
clearly enough since July. I have learned the size of the words he uses.
—Boston has over 4,000 miles of electrie
a great deal."
"You know so little of me." wires strung over its streets.
"That is true. I have told myself so
—Women are prettier than they used. to
hundred thousand times."
"Helen, you are torturing me, you be and neeesserily come higher.
t e mpt "Thenme openbeyond theenddouorra,nicfeyea' a
please, and whether he believes in religion or not.
—A good man is one who lives right
let me go." —We are rocked when young and dabbed
" No, no ! I can never let you go now." when we grow old. 'TM a cruel world.
"1 must have tea, you forget the time,"
—Millionaire Nellie Hayden,' of Denver,
getting nervous over the crisis which she
was a salesgirl ten years ago. Real estate.
herselt had brought about.
"Listen, Helen, I don't want pity, I He sat at his door at noonday ,-
agbluerinth nimand,sad ;
want love ; you may mistake the one for the ThHeefiwieasswleorneebliyizazinnl
other ; you probably do." Led by a blue -winged gad.
"Did I pity you last summer," she an- Not a customer darkened his portals:,
severed impatiently. " And when you left Not a sign of business was there;
But the flies kept on their buzzing
me in a moment, and went away to that
About the old man's hair.
other woman, do you think the pain I had At last, in misery he shouted,
was pity. It isn't like you, it isn't kind of "Great Scott! I'm covered with
you to make me say all this. You have And teehekzeenp:hyrs that toyed with his aeheske -
said nothing. I don't know why I should " Why don't you advertise 1"
think you care for me. Let me go."
"Never," he said; and he took her into bu—t sAheproeataty swhoomotana cannot e throw t ahitsatotna
his arms and kissed. her.
Every one said that the beautiful Miss ma—rkAetvteiricy
club " I hear you are going to
Mitford and her fif teen thousand pounds were
being thrown away upon Mr. Jones—of the marry Alice Bankbook, Joe." ' Yee.'
city. Mr. Jones himself was wont to say " Well, she's a, nice girl and she's got as
so, and to predict great miseries in store for fine fi,c,sure." "Yes ; $70,000, I under -
her. She often acquiesced ill these propte- stand."
cies; for she, except on one momentous IN ITIS FIRST FUER DRESS stan.
occasion, was chary of feeding the vanity Gaze on him !
or lavishing tender words on the lover of Feast your eyes upon his tout ensemble,
Obsehianrnedshi; s hands—his restless. hoxneless
her choice. - .
At first Mr. and Mrs. Mitford had been So undetachable—so obstinately there
He knows them, but he cannot
slightly shocked by their departure's de-
parture. Why Helen should have engaged Place them!
His trousers have no pockets at the side,
herself to the ruined son of "those dreadful
One leg feels longer than the, other, and
Joneses " was incomprehensible to them ; His feet are in his way.
but when their mild remenstrances were This is his first appearance
met by a passionate and venement confes- His
eanslweratelloiwfr-atmaile.ne neer
before hath {lecke&
sion of her great love for this undesirable in toggery like this.
person, they Instantly became sympathetic Upon Ms face v
and congratulatory. Helen had always lie wears a smile—a. wan, appealing Made—
A smile that budded and then froze to death:
been right, she was probably right now.
In the following June, upon the day pre- Look at that smile and then
And stuck fast where it died.
ceding Helen's wedding, the Rectory was Go weep!
the scene of great, though subdued excite-
ment. Bridesmaids, uncles aunts, stray
men and country neighbors thronged house
and garden. a he presents, the trousseau,
the flowers, and the bride -elect were on
view. It was to be a gay weeding (as the
saying is), every possible token of rejoicin,g
was to be manifest, every possible honor
was to,be heaped on bride end bridegroom.
"Though Miss. Mitford was making such a
bad match," the girls said, "she seemed
very proud of it."
And so she was, she thought herself the
most fortunate woman in the world. Even
when her Aunt Elizabeth, who was direct-
ing the labels for the bridal boxes, sighed
and said, pointing with an unappreciative
finger at—
"Mrs. Albert Jones,"
"1 can't make it look nice, my love."
Helen answered. quickly. "What's in a
name, auntie," and then added a little wist-
fully, after a pause, "it is better than Hogg,
at any rate."
" Bertie is the most charming fellow in
the world," Mrs. Mitford pet in, kissing
She bride -elect's fair cheek tenderly.
" Whatever his name was, if he had no
name at all, I should be glad for Nellie to
be called by it."
"1 don't know what all the women see in
him," , said the rector rather dismally.
"Fortunately he is getting on fairly well in
businese, Elizabeth, though I believe my
foolish little girl would have married him
whether or no."
ane END.
Now, as tire dying, fleeting year
On to ite ending tapers
The amateur actor eawly °ate
A.nd euttutirup las capers.
Ilia friends applaud. Bee head expande
WPM evanescent, vapors.
And then he writes ie sip eineself
And. gives it to the papers.
—Arabs never eat fish,
—All trees are evergreen in the tropics-
-In Palestine there a,re now 78,000 Jews
---" Ohio" is the Japanese for good %nor
inlet
.--edhily 9 per cent. of eases of amputatiore
Tee witeds may wave and bluster,
But etlid he takes no note;
The lengtOY linen duster
is now overcoat.
'—One-half of ti.:te people die before the
age of 16.
--California fruit will be plenty for the
holidays. ,
11„ -
relinquished, duties. 550 euffered from ing it" said Aunt Elizabeth, with energy,
Ihsfitienees and wag for mortie daye in a critical " VVhen does a, man really find comfort, in a
:eineditiOn ; she is now happily convalescent. woxnan ? When sloes is. man appreciate the
irritability --a hates/al oonsequame of blessiog of an affectionatci Wife 1 Why,
weakness, it seems—bas attacked her ; when he is hi treuMe, to be sure. Ahel. ailY
letse of that, perhaps, it is Unkind WO woman worthy the name knows it, and
eels, . Helen , will grieve With Me over; glories in the krtowiedge ; and an W Womaii
6 ead'IMin of Ottr kind. friends the Jonteers. :' Worthy of the mime Would hrsee remained
Whe news of the' catastrophe fell like" a by his side as constant as a compass and as
thiinclerbialt upon us her, thetigh 1 wider- adhesive ae a betas 8 he sbonld baliC been ' eernething, I feel se ererW Shaky- spo .
Stand feenri ll'ire. Majoribaeks that some- glad and proud to Stay by him, 1 met him A young gills hoWeeer courageous, hat "That is pity."
Successful remedies fincl unscrupulous
imitators. Ask your dealer for Dre
Williams' Pink Pills and take no substitute.
They are a never -failing blood 'builder and. as
nerve tonic.
A Liberal-llintled Minister. •
The Rev. J. H. Crawford, Dundee,,is
advocating the establiehment of a subsidizoll
theatre in Dundee. He knows not if the
theatre was to be the Church of the futuree
but he knew that "they could make very
dull people understand in the theatre; they
could make very callous people weep in the
theatre; and they could make very vicious
and bad living people ashamed of them-
selves in the theatre, and this at lease as
in the direction of doingtheChurch's w
All for a Barley Corn.
LaFontaine, in one of his fables, tells of a
barnyard fowl that scratched up a gem,
while scratching for corn. Not knowing its
value, he gave it to a stone -cutter for a
barley corn. -Thus do many persons throw
away the pricelees pearl of health. A
"trilling" cough is neglected, then comes
ConsAmption, then death. Stay the cough,
or look out for a coffin. Da Pierce's Golden
Medieal Discovery will cute eetarrh in the
heade(bronchial or throat affections or lung.
1
SCICO- la (common y known as the
eonsump-
tion Of the lunge). If taken in tine, and
gi'veti a fair tree', it will cure, or the money
paid/for it will be refunded, It is the only
gua anteed curd.
nee NOT a 44r-
go.tive ldedi-
eine. They aro a;
BLOOD Buirapna,
Ts ronnux oo, frtonicl., satabotryn,
supply in aeondensed
farm the substance;
actually needed to en,
rich the Blood, curing '
all diseases ,eomitig:
front POOR and WAT-
ERT Broon, or from.
Ihrziann Homons
the ,Bnoon, and a156 '
nvigorate and Berem
up the IlLeork and
SYSTENI, when brokert
down by overworlr,
mental worrsedisease,
excesees and indiscre-
tions. They have. &
eremite Amgen ars
the Selman Sesteenot
both men and wo.nsete.,,
restoring telt Viocis
and correcting all
EVelny MAN INIVileil:e9;;;;;Idoki.a;n:siiernmE:alk'siftt;
strrnassiond.
hid phyainal poweig fla'gginm should like, them,
Pima. They will restore his lost etierefire,both
,physierel and mental. ,
: Mare
hould take them.
EVERY
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InfThom DLLs will.
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reboipt of.nriae (ale. ppr Vox), by eddieSsing .
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rieds, five years both claim to
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have been