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WHEN WJf AEE OLD AND
GRAY.
When we ar<eld and gray, love,
When we ire old and gray,
When at last 'tis all, all over,
The tunnel of the day,
In the still, sift hours of even,
hi our life S fair twilight time,
We look upon! the morn, love—
Upou our itrly prime.
“Thauk t7od for all the sweet days!”
ire'll whisper when we may,
When we arijold and gray, love,
When we are old and gray.
IHien we were and gay, love,
When we were young and gay,
When distant seemed December,
And all was golden May :
Amid our life's hard turmoil
Our true love made us brave.
We thought not of to-morrow,
We reck’d not of the grave;
So far seemed life’s dim twilight,
So far the close of day,
When we were young and gay, love,
When we were young aud gay.
Now we are old and gray, love,
Now we arc old and gray,
The night-tide shadows gather,
!f r e have not long to stay.
The last sere leaves have fallen,
The bare, bleak branches bond,
Put your dear hands In mine, love—
Thus, thus we’ll wait the end.
“Thank God for all the gladness !”
In peaceful hope we’ll say,
Now we are old and gray, love,
Now we are old aud gray.
“For Pity’s Sake.”
“Fred, Miss Houghton is to arrive
this evening. Would yon mind going
down in the carriage to meet her? I
can’t get off myself, and it will seem
forlorn enough to find only an empty
'carriage awaiting her.’’
A prolonged whistle proceeded from
the depths of the luxurious arm chair
into which the young man addressed
(pretty little Mrs. Vere's bachelor
brother) had cscoiuled himself.
He w»s a handsome man of the
blond type, enjoying a few week’s
furiogh from the army duties in
sister’s house.
The laziist man in the regiment he
was called, but the bravest as well,
with now and then a sudden light in
his clear gr y eyes which lent morneu
tary insight into the hidden strength
and meauing of his nature.
“Miss Houghton?’’ lie now drawled
out, somewhat interrogatively, in re
spouse to the demand made upon him.
•‘You mean the children’s new gov¬
erness, I suppose—a demure spinster
of forty or thereabouts; or, worse still,
a young, gushing creature, bereft, in
one fell blow, of fortune aud friends.
Seriously, Nannie, it’s an awful
bore, and, considering that my cap¬
tain’s pay won’t admit of my matri¬
monial schemes, I think, perhaps, it
would be as well not to put false ideas
in this young (?) woman’s bead by
seuding mo to greet her.’’
“Don’t go Uncle Fred,’’ chimed in
the children, aged respectfully six aud
eight. “We don’t want any govern¬
ess.’’
“Hush, children! Don’t worry me,
Fred! Do go, like a good fellow! I
assure you, from all I heur of Miss
Houghton, she is a charming medium
between your two adsurd comparisons,
and will probably give you no second
thought. Here comes the carriage to
the door. .Now, Fred, don’t miss her?’’
“No hope of that,’’ he groaned, as
lie lifted himself lo his six-feet stature,
and moved leisurely to the door.
A half hour later, the Eastern train
came puffing and snorting into the
station. Only a few passengers had
this point for their destination. lie
watched them descend with calm in-
difference when suddenly lie started.
f * oun S lady ’ qisietl - v ’ but ™bly
dressed, passed him, the light from
the lamps falling full ou tho clear cut
features, and revealing their faultless
beauty. In her arms she carried a
little dog. She directed her course to
the station-master.
‘Can I get a vehicle here to take me
to Mrs. Vere’s?’ she questioned.
‘Mrs. Vere’s own carriage is wait-
ing. Her brother, Captain Osgood,
came down, expecting some friends.’
‘Then I will not intrude upon them.’
But at this instant the yoong officer
stepped to her side.
The carriage is at yonr service, miss,
Pardon me, and allow me to introduce
myself as Captain Osgood, Mrs. Vere’s
ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 22 , i 8 8i .
brother.’
‘I have heavdjof yon,’ sho answered,
smiling, and disclosing two rows of
white, even teeth. ‘I am very glad
to meet you.’
Aud in proof of the words, sho ex¬
tended one tiny, perfectly-gloved hand.
‘Good for a governess, upon my
word, aud dosen’t answer much to
Nan’s description,” thought Mr. Fred.
But, notwithstanding, he felt quite
warreuttd in meeting the frank ad¬
vance very Cordially, and soon, in their
homeward drive, after first disposing
of what Seemed to him an unwar-
ran ablo amount of baggage, they
were chatting away like old friends.
When the house was reached, Cap¬
tain Osgood withdrew, lie would let
the women meet clone, and not betray
the momentary weakness into which
he had been beguiled.
‘Mrs. Vere is in the library, miss,’
proclaimed the butler.
The young lady followed him to the
door indicated.
‘Well, Fred, you were disappointed,
after all,’began the mistre s of the
room, without turning her head, as
her quick ear detected the opening of
the door. ‘Miss Houghton’s letter,
apprised me of her sudden illness and
consequent detention, arrived just af¬
ter yon left the house. It was too—’
But her sentence remained unfinish¬
ed, as some one stole softly behind
her and clasped two tiny gloved hands
close over her eyes.
‘Who can it be?’ she questioned.
The bands were withdrawn. She
looked up.
‘Flossie!’ she exclaimed, and rapt¬
urously clasped the girl in her arms.
‘ Where did you come, from?’ was her
/list question, when she found bieatb.’
‘Straight from Paris, dear. When
I reached New York, I heard that you
were up in your country home, and so
I determined to coma immediately up
and take you by surprise. I intend to
spend at least a fortnight with yon »»«
cherc, so you must make the best of
i.t’
'A fortnight! I shall bold you gar
risoned for the summer. But tell me
—did you see Fred, and introduce
yourself?’
‘My dear, he seemed to know me. I
found your carriage waiting; lie pre¬
sented himself in due form; 1 accepted
the goodi the gods gave, and asked no
further xnestious. ’
Mrs. Vere hurst into a ripple of ir¬
repressible laughter.
‘Flossie,’ she excluimd, ‘lie has mis¬
taken you for tho children’s governess.
What will he say when he learns the
truth?’
And she repeated the conversation
as it had occured before his leaving
the house. A sudden idea seemed to
seize upon her listener.
‘Let us keep it up, Nannie,’ she pro
possd, gleefully. ‘We can tease him
to our heart’s contcut. I will sink my
identity in that of Miss Houghton, and
persecute him with my attentions.
For a moment the sister’s heart mis¬
gave her, hut after all what harm could
it do her? and so it was agreed, and
nextmorniug the children were duly pre
sented to their new governess'.
They had anticipated her advent
somewhat as a reign of terror. They
now wondered, as tho days wore on,
why they had always heretofore been
deprived of such luxury.
For two hours they were closed each
mornning in Miss Houghton’s own,
prelty morning-room, the prettiest
room in the house mama had given her;
but, strange to say, brother Fred
seemed to consider it quite the prop-
per thing, under the circumstances.
For two hours, then, it was their
daily prison—but such a prison! Can¬
dies and story-books were generously
distributed, with but one prohibition,
that when Uncle Fred questioned
them about their studies, they should
not divulge to him the fact that they
were growing fat and lazy.
But uncle Fred was too absorbed in
his own thoughts to watch the children.
For the first time i.t his life, he began
to make serious calculations as to how
far a captain’s pay might go, and
whether by any amount of stretching,
and aDy improbable bachelor sacrifices, two,’
it might be enabled to supply
when heretofore it bad been coosider-
ed whol inadequate for one.
‘I have sworn I would never marry
and heiress,’ he said to himself, when
the household had glided ou
changing for some three weeks,
the world would consider me that des-
pisable thiug, a fortune huntor, or
that the woman herself might one day
misjudge me; and 1 have sworn
to marry a poor woman, because it
would entail too much mutual sacri¬
fice. And yet, and yet, I wonder if
she loves me —I wonder if I could
make her happy ?’
Ho Had found in these three weeks,
the two moruiug hours of the childrens
tasks ihe longest of the day. lie had
iusisted that the governess looked pale
and preseibed for her a daily ride. She
had no opportunity, as she had laugh¬
ingly declared, to persecute him with
her attentions, blit rather, as time
wore on, to show them with a certain
shyness, new and foreign to the girl’s
nature.
Meantime the conspirators sat in
the library, scanning, with perplexed
brows, a letter open before them.
It announced Miss Houghton’s ar¬
rival ou the evening of that day.
What was to be done? The arch*
conspirators solved the question.
hSay you are displeased with me and
I will return to New York to night.
The new governess will arrive. His
leave expires in a week. After he goes,
I return.
‘Very like Victor Hugo, my deft*’,’
retorted Mrs. Vere, ‘as to the pithiness
of your sentences; but I fear it won’t
flow ns smoothly as you immngiee. ’
‘ What does this mean?’ ejneslioned
Captain Osgood, a few hours later, of
his sister. I hear the carriage is or ¬
dered for the seven o’cl jck train to
take Miss Houghton to the depot.’
‘She is not quite my idea of a gov¬
erness,’ meekly and tremblingly an
swered Mis. Vere, quailing before bis
face and flashing eye.
He cast upon her the first look of
contempt he had ever given her, and
turned a# *y ju*t in time to catch the
flutter of ft white dress upon the lawn.
Straightway he went toward it.
‘I did not mean to be abrupt, Miss
Houghton,’ he began, when, with
quick strides, he had gained her side,
‘but I hear that yen must find another
home. Would you accept one if of
fared you—very unworthy your beauty
and yonr grace, but guarded by a
man’s honest love? I loveyou, darling-
Will you he. my wife, and share a sol¬
dier’s life—a soldier’s fortunes.’
The rich color flushed into the girl’s
cheeks, ar she met the clear, frank
gaze of the soul—lit eyes.
Ah, she had meant only to play, but
she, too, hud been burned by the fire's
fierce flame!
•You offer me this from pi y, Cap¬
tain Osgood,’ she said, iu low, trem¬
bling tones ‘I appreciate your noble
generosity, but I must not accept it.’
‘From pity?’ he questioned. ‘Do
men pity thus? Look me in my eyes
—do y&u read pity there? Listen to my
voice—is it pity moves it? Let my
past speak for my future. Has pity
actuated it? Oh, my love, tell mo
that yon love me, and you shall never
more know what it is to stand alone in
the world. ’
‘Your sister has not discharged mo,
Captain Osgood. I have discharged
myself,’she said with a sudden reso
lotion.
And then, standing before him, she
told him all the story. His face, as he
listened, grew deathly white.
When the last word left her lips, he
turned and strode toward the bouse,
leaving her standing alone. His sister
met bim in the doorway.
‘ Who is slieV he qnestioed in harsh
tones—‘this girl whom you have called
Miss Houghton?’
She knew then that he would have
the truth.
‘It is Florence Maxwell,’ sho an¬
swered .
•Fred, forgwe me.’
He laughed, a jarring laugh.
‘Miss Maxwell, the heiress, eh?— the
girl whom all men seeked for her beau¬
ty and her gold. Tell her, for me, it
was Miss Houghton that I asked to be¬
come my wife, and not Miss Maxwell,
who has made my honest love her
sport. ’
And he strode out of the house again
and up the road, all unconscious of the
little white figure following him.
He had thrown himself down, under
the shadow of a great oak, when she
overtook him.
‘Pardon me!’ she said.
Aud, 1 .1 the sound, of her voice,
raisid his haggard face, with a groan.
The sight, the sound, overcame her
scruples. She fell ou her knees bo
him.
‘You loved me for myself,’ she said.
‘Oh, Fred, I am so alone in
world! Yon said, dear, it was for
sake not for pity. Now, for
sake, give me the love, without which,
I have learned, all my life would be
uoor and barren, but with which I
shall he alone nevermore!’
Then for pity's sake —only for pity’s
sake—hut with a great joy in hiseyes,
he opened wide his arms aud took her
iu.
Evils of Young Men
Of all tho evils prevalent among
young men we know of none moie
blighting in its moral effects than to
speak lightly of the virtues of woman.
Nor is there anything in which young
men are so thoroughly mis’akou as to
the low estimate they form ns to tho
integrity of women. Not of their own
mothers and sisters, but of others, who.
they forget, nresoino body else'a moth¬
ers and sisters.
As ii rule, no pen on who surrenders
to liis baser habit is to bo trusted with
any enterprise requiring integrity of
diameter. 1
Plain words should be spoken on
this subject, for the!) evil is n general
one and deep rooted. If young men
are some times thrown into Urn society
of thoughtless and depraved women,
they have no more right r.g measure
all other women liy what tiey neo of
these than they have to estimate the
character of honest and respectable
citizen by tho development of crime
in our police courts. Let young men
remember that their chief happiness
in life depends upon utter faith in
women. No worldly wisdom, no mis¬
anthropic philosophy, no generaliza
tion can weaken truth. It stands
like the record of itself—for it is noth
iug less than this aud should- put an
everlasting seal upon the I ps that are
wont to speak slightly of women.
American Detective.
How She Recognized Him.
Mrs. Julius Brown’s husband was
one of the pissengers on tho Stato of
California during its last trip, on
which it was detained four days over
time. Mrs. B. here her anxiety with
commendable fortitude until tho third
day. Sho was taking lunch with
some friends at a restaurant, where
tli i waiter helped her to some shrimp
salid in a glass that contained a small
portion of whiskey. Sho had only
eateu a few mouthfuls when stie hurst
iuto tears.
‘‘What is the matter, Mrs. Brown? ’
said the company, much surprised.
“Why," sobbed tho poor woman,
“rn m-my worst fears are realized. I
know now that poor Julius lias been
drowned. Just taste (hose shrimp.''
And as there was no denying that
they tasted exactly likeold Brown, the
widow was conducted home. She
bad just decided that she would look
well in black when the steamer ar¬
rived.
Avoid Slander.
None of us aie perfect, and we
have no right therefore to exiiect per
fection in others. So if you can not
speak well of your neighhors do not
speak of them at ail. A cross uoigh-
bor may lie made a kind one by kind
treatment. The way to bo
happy is to make others happy. To
do good is a luxury. If you are not
wiser and better at the end of the day,
that day is lost. Practical kindness,
even if be but to speak one word. Do
not seem to lie what you are x »ot
Loarn to control you temper and your
words. Say nothing behind on’es
back that you would not say to his
face. Tiiis babbit of reticence, besides
being a kindly one, is safe. Many a
bitter harvest has been reaped from
thoughtless words of censure.
‘Where would we be without worn
?’ asks an Ottumwa man. It is hard
to determine just which way the ma¬
would drift but some men we
know of would bo out of debt and out
of trouble, aud a goo i many more out
the seat of theirJiiecchea.
Vol. II. No. 38
FACTS AND FANCIES.
To get aljug well—dig it deep.
An object of interest—An unpaid
note.
Said be, ‘Let us bo one.’ And she
was won.
Money is far better to fall back upon
than family pride.
The bind' st road to travel for a
Russian Czar is the shell road.
‘Will gin sling do a man any good ?’
asks a correspondent. Yes, if lie slings
the gin far enough.
A woman’s work is never done, bo-
cause when she lias nothing else to do
she has her hair to fix.
No woman ever looks at a fine largo
newspaper without thinking what a
beautiful polonaise pattern it would
make,
A wit onoo asked a peasant what
part he performed in tho great drama
of life. ‘I mind my own business,’
was the reply.
‘Why should we celebrate Washing¬
ton's birthday more than mine ?’ asked
a touche, ‘Because he never told a
lie,’ sho ited a little hoy.
There is a hoy in town who will
buy no more Now Testaments. IIo
says with an air of disappointment,
that ther’a not an Injun story in it.’-
A big blubbering boy at tho circus,
on being asked what is the matter,
said, angrily: ‘I can’t find my mother
I told the darn thing alie’d loie
me 1
A Mississippi man puls it thus' ‘At
• be earnest solicitation of tlioso to
whom I owe money I have consented
to become a candidate for county treas¬
urer.’
‘If I should moot the dastardly rebel
that shot me,’ said a Boston war vete
ran, on drawing $1,000 in pension ur-
r ais, ‘he'd have to swallow half n bot-
i '*lu of wine.’
When you accidently discover that a
mm you admired doesn’t admire you,
it is astonishing how rapidly that man
goer down in yonr estimation. Herein
is food for thought.
‘Why, sir,' said a client to his law
yer, ‘you are writing my bill on very
rough paper. ’ ‘Nevermind,’ was tho
lawycrs’s reply, ‘it will have to be filed
bofore it comes into court.’
Huid a parent to bis -little son, who
had committed some act of imliscre-
tion: -Do you know that I’m going to
whip you?’ ‘Yes,’ Said the hoy, ‘J
suppose you me, because you are big¬
ger limn I a m !’
ItiniNo in a Railroad Car.
Husband—‘Yon are quite comfortable
dear?’ Wife—‘Y»s, love. 4 The cush¬
ions arc easy m.d soft, ducky V ‘Yes,
darling.’ ‘You don’t feel uny jolts,
pet ?’ ‘No, sweetest.’ ‘And there is
no draught on mj lamb, is there, an¬
gel ?' ‘No, my ownest own.’ ‘Then
change seats with me.’
A man from ono of the rural districts
went to Washington to seo the sights.
A member of tbo house, whoso consti¬
tuent ho was, said, ‘Come up to-mor¬
row, and I will give you a seat on (lie
floor of the house.’ *No, you don’t.’
answered Jonathan; ‘I always manage
to have a cheer to sit on at homo, and
I don’t come to Washington to sit on
the floor,’
As a train was approaching Cleve¬
land it parted iu the middle, and (lie
bell-rope snapped off like a tlmad, tho
end of it striking at. old lady on her
bonnet. ‘What’s (lie matter ?’ sho
exclaimed. ‘Oil, tbo train's broke in
two,’ replied a gentleman who fnt iu
the next seat. ‘I should say so,’ the
old lady said, looking at the broken
bell cord. ‘Dal they s’pose a trifling
little string like that would bold the
train together ?'
He entered the city editor’s room
very mad. ‘You printed the statement
that I was drunk yesterday, cut op
rough, and made a beast of myself atul
got rti.i ill.’ ‘Yes,’ replied tbo editor,
‘are you displeased with the article ?’
‘I am, sir, fearfully displeased with it.’
‘Wi ll, we have to give the nows.’
‘Yes, I don’t mind yonr doing that.
But, by tho great stub tailed dog, sir,
I want you to understand my name is
Smyth with a y, and if you spell it
with an i again I’ll wreck your old
office ! I want a correction published.’
lie got it.