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‘.‘WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION."
VOLUME XXV.
ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 23. 1871.
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“We were speaking,”said Hiram, to re
lieve the silence, ‘ Of my mother, and I had
imposed upon Miss Emma the task of sc
lacing her loneliness during ray absence.'
.“Oh, that will he a pleasing task.” re
plied Mrs. Eustace, “Emma may well ho
glad to undertake it, and I doubt not that
she will be the better entertained of the
two.”
Yes,” added Emma, “I was not alto
gether unselfish in my readiness to accept
Mr. Lavender’s commission. Indeed I
needed not the appeal to induce me to seek
the companionship of Mrs. Lavender, for I
have ever loved her as my very best
friend.”
Hiram felt inexpressibly grateful for the
ready assurance.
“And I can assure Miss Emma that it is
a great pleasure to me to know that my
mother reciprocates her friendly eonG-
donee.”
“I am sorry you go so soon, Hiram,”
spoko up Mrs. ‘Eustace, with a quick tone
not altogether careless and unmeaning.
“I too have more now to delay me than
I dreamed .of before,” answered Hiram,
with an unguarded feeling, and thenquick-
ly recovering, he continued, “Or at least
to stimulate my energies to hasten my re
turn.”
Hiram felt the hand of Emma tremble
upon his own, and ho regretted his words.
Before he could amend them, however,
Mrs. Eustace interposed,
“I'am glad that you have found a new at
traction to draw you to your Southern
home, although I opino not that you need
ed any additional stimulant to your youth
ful energies.”
Emma felt grateful to her mother for
the tact she displayed in diverting Hiram’s
temark, and Hiram as quickly caught the
cue.
“Yes, my energies will need a stimulant,
although I very much fear that thoughts of
home will not act as the most potent of in
centives.”
“You do not apprehend an attack of
home sickness ?” laughingly asked Emma.
“That weakness I thought, was only pecul
iar to school girls.”
Hiram felt that he was caught, and with
a lauqh, he replied,
“I must confess the weakness, for with
all my manly size, I have yet to be wean
ed from home.”
“And the confession is to your credit,
Hiram,” gravely answered Mrs. Eustace,
“for Home at last is the motive centre of
all laudable actions.”
“Yes, I suppose it is,” thoughtfully re
plied Hiram. “Without a home for one’s
thoughts and affections to cluster around,
the ambition of man would be like a star
without an orbit—the very brilliancy of
its velocity driving it tho more surely to
destruction.”
‘•That is very prettily said.” answered
Mrs. Eustace, with a pleasant glow enthus
ing her tone, while Emma too felt that tho
conceit was a happy one.
“All that is truly noble in man is em
bodied in the one virtue of a pooplc—pa
triotism. The love of country—that which
will inspire him to offer up his life upon
its altar, as a cheap sacrifice, which moves
alike to deeds of daring and devotion—the'
barbarian and the Christian. And this
grand principle of action is nothing but
the lore oi home. We love our coun
try because the brightness of its skies over
arch our homes. We fight for its flag be
cause its flag protects our home,” continued
Hiram, as he answered Mrs. Eustace’s com
piiment with a bow.
“And the fairer the homo, the more ar
dent the patriotism ?” asked Emma, as she
in the depths of her newly fathomed love,
was picturing to herself a home so fair as
no earthly home had ever been before.
“Yes, tho fairer tho home, the more ar
dent the patriotism,” replied Hiram, and
then he added, “Or rather the dearer the
home, for it is not alway the fairest qor the
grandest homes that are the dearest. The
peasant in his cot will offer his life as free
ly for it as will the prince in his pallace.”
Emma unconsciously looked up at the
lofty walls of hor father’s mansion, and as
her glance caught with a feeling of pride
the massive proportions and elegaut syrnet-
ry of the grand old columns that support
ed the portico, she wondered if a lowly hut
could ever be as dear to her.
Yes,” spoke Mrs. Eustace,
betrayed her. Hiram’s own was too full of
its pure gladness to leave room for an un
just thought, aud he as frankly thanked
.her.
A few moments after Hiram took his
leave, Mrs. Eustace saying, as she extend
ed her hand.
“I hope, Hiram, that you have enjoyed
your visit.”
“Oh yes, it is the happiest evening of
my life,” and a world of gladness beamed
from his eyes as he answered it.
“Emma, wbat has happened 7” asked the
mother, after the receding form of Hiram
had faded in the distance.
Emma leaned her blushing face unon
her mother’s bosom, and tenderly twined
her arms about her neck as she answered
“Oh, mother, it is strange, inexplicable
;—I am so happy.”
These words were uttered between little
broken sobs—such as the heart speaks in
the fullness of a new and overpowering
joy—such a joy as we presume Jacob of
old must have felt when he kissed Rebec-
ca, and “lifted up h's voice and wept.”—
Tho fond, motherly arms of Mrs. Eustace
encircled the drooping form of her daugh
ter, and a tear of sympathetic gladness fell
upon the silken hair of Emma.
“My heart blesses your ‘gladness, my
precious child,” she said with a mother’s
true feeling.
And Hiram,, as he rode hoc*sward, be
neath the bright, blue heaven of night,
sparkling with its myriad of little fiery
worlds, so grandly lit up by tho silvery ra-
diauceof the moon, felt too that it was
strange, inexplicable, and a life of joy
beamed upon bis soul, brighter fcy far than
the sparkling worlds of night’s blue arch
and softer, sweeter than ever thrilled tho
melody of their spheres. *
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‘Be ft over so huinblo, therms no place like
borne,” .*
True;” readied Hiram, is whore
the heat t is—’tis the templg of the affec
tions, as the body of .tljn man is the taber
nacle of the soul. The sweetness of those
affections depends no more upon the ele
gance of their home than does the purity
of the soul depend upon the beauty and
elegance of the body.”
Emma’s eyes drooped from the Corinthi
an architrave that shown so grandly in the
bright moonlight, and they rested lovingly
upon Hiram’s pleasant face, and if a glance
can be read at all, her’s told that with such
a soul as his to light up its precincts, the
humblest cot in the land would be a more
than match for her own proud halls.
“You must have made sociology a spe
cial study, Hiram.” said Mrs, Eustace.
!‘Nc I have studied it but little, nor
yet, do I speak from oxpcricneo. My own
home, or at least my mother’s, for I hard
ly know which to call my own, her’s or Mr.
SInggleton’s, has been an humble one,
and~Mr. Muggleton’s, though one of refine
ment and elegance, is by no means a pala
tial one, and "what experience I have to
Bpeak from is only on one—thehumbloside
of the ques Ion- That one, however, ena
bles me to do justice to the sweetness of
the cottage home, and it would require an
earthly paradise in tho grandest and the
proudest ones of our land to exoell it-”
“You speak truly, Hiram,” said Mrs.
Eustace, with a charmed expression. “And
I am proud of your manly philosophy.”
Hiram knew her to be sincere, and he
bowed his thanks.
Emma only whispered to her own seeret
soul, “Home is where the heart is.”
A silence easued, each busied with their
own hidden thoughts —mahaps all rippling
musically along in the same flowery chan
nel, or may bo as far as the poles apart.
After a while Mrs. Eustace spoke, “You
ride well. Hiram.”
The remark was sudden, as was the sur
prise of Hiram at its turn. - ;
“Yes,” he replied, “I am very lend ot
the saddle,” and then he tuiu-u quickly to
Emma, “Do you ride often, Miss Emma.
“Oh yes, I too am fond of the exercise,
and take a gallop almost every evening.’ 1
“May I join you some evening ? ’ he
“Yes, I would be glad that you would,"
die frankly answered.
“To-morrow ?” heagain asked,
“Major Thompson! Major Thompson!'
piped Miss Dcbby, almost ready, to burst
with the importance of the revelation that
trembled upon her tongue.
The Major answered the piping call with
an humble glance from his pale yellow eyes
and a dropping of his thin lower jaw, as if
mouth and ears were both open to the
commands of Miss Debby’s piping voice.
“Major Thompson!” repeated Miss Deb-
by seeing that the Major’s mouth and ears
were both open. “Iv’e got something to
tell you, something good to tell you.”
The Major’s palo yellow eyes took up a
slight courage, while his thin lower jaw
drooped a degree lower as if to catch more
readily the coming something that Miss
Debby had to toll; but beyond this slight
courage of his palo yellow eyes, and the
spasmodic drooping of his thin lower jaw,
Major Thompson made no answer.
Cant you guess what it is Major,” said
Miss Debby striving to sooth the shrill
pitch of her voice, and throw into her ex
pression a playful charm.
Somebody s, jilted somebody,” guessed
the Major, vaguely striking at tho Ultima
Thule of Miss Debby’s '“something good”
No not that; better than that.” replied
Miss Debby, with a kitten’s playful effort
to he charming.
“Somebody’s going to marry” again
juessedthe Major descending one degree
in the scale of. Miss Debby’s ideal felici
ties.
No not th it Major—you know that I
don’t know anybody that somebody would
have,” depreciatively pouted Miss Debby,
as if resolving herself into the somebody,
and casting a withering glance around the
cifcle of unapreeiativo anybodies.”
“Somebody’s not so good as somebody
shonld be,” again guessed the Major while
his pale yellow oyes essayed a slight twinkle
of curiosity.
“I dare say they ain’t” replied Miss
Debby, the tender cord of her nature being
touched by the Major’s last guess. “But
that’s not it.”
“Then I cant guess what it is,” said the
Major drooping the leathery lids over his
pale yellow eyes, and raising his thin lower
jaw with the palm of his hand.
“Can’t you,” half sighed Miss Dcbhy,
while a languishing smile of tenderness res
ted upon tho Major, and then seeing that
the palm still held his thin lower jaw tight
ly closed, and the leathery lids heavily sha
ded the pale yellow eyes, she graciously
continued,—“Then I will tell you.”
Quick as lightning the leathery lids went
up, and tho thin lower jaw went down, and
tho pale yellow eyes, the hungry month
and the ready car of the Major were open
for the revelation.
“There is to beaPic-nie.”
As sadden as a boy’s jack knife can he
opened, the tall ungainly figure of the Ma
jor straightened out, and his lean bony
hand spasmodically stroked his stomach.
“Lots o’ good victuals,” he said half in
terrogatively and half respondently.
Oh yes, of course” replied Miss Dehhy
with a slight shadow of depreciation falling
upon her brow.
“And you are invited?” asked the Ma
jor, while his hand was undecided whether
to continue its patronizing strokes or not.,
*“Oh yes, I am ’g°i n s” 'quickly answered
Miss Debby, drawing’a no very clearly de
fined distinction between an invitation
from others and a voluntary asumption of
her own wishes to go.
The Major’s hand was no longer undeci
ded, but resumed its encouraging strokes
at once, while the Major said:
“That’s good, when does it come off?
“Next Friday—upon Little River, at
Becchy Bank.”
“That is soon,” said the Major, and then
added, “but the sooner the better.”
“Yes,” replied Miss Debby, “and I
want us to be the first on the ground.”
The Major cordially approved Miss
Debby’s wish, and resolved that no fault of
his should contravene her punctual appear
ance at Becchy Bank.
Tho Friday came. It was the Friday fol
lowing the Tuesday evening so fraught
with the joy and the sorrow of Hiram’s
life. It was a lovely day, and the grounds
selcoted for the pic-nic were the loveliest
grounds possible.
The picnic was given under tho auspices
of no particular one, but was the spontane
ous gathering of the young and the gay to
spend a day in the woods.
No trammels of fashionable etiquette were
to restrain the hilarity of the oecasion, but
all alike were to a? aDdon themselves to the
delicious enjoyment of life—youDg life.
Emma Eustace the proud belle of the Dis
trict, was to bo there. Viola Muggleton,
the sweet pet of k'radly hearts was to be
there, and Miss Debby Seymore tho peak
nosed gossip and social vampire was to be
there too. The bird of Paradise the linnet
and tho bat.
True to her resolve to be first upon the
ground, Miss Debby and hor irrepressible,
shadow Major Thompson appeared. A
full half hour had she anticipated the very
foremost of all the other pleasure seekers,
and industriously had she oceupied that
half hour in reconnoitering the ground.
Withjhe practiced eye of a topographical
engineer measuring the field of some ap
proaching conflict, had she tafcen in all its
• nnnlr find corner—
Emma could think her briming
tion—had been accurately and precisely
observed.
“What a delightful place for a tender
We a tele," she mentally exekimed as she
wandered upon a woodbine alcove that
seemed isolated from the grove as if on
purpose. “And what a pretty seat against
this rock—just large enough for two—and
they should sit close together, or it would
not be large enough,” she thought, with
tender glance at her shadow, as she strag
gled far up the stream to a grand old rock
that overhung the bank. “And oh my,
Major,” she cried, unable to repress her
delight at the discovery, “what a nice lit
tle hole for ono to hide in and listen to
what’s going on.” And MLs Debby en
sconced herself behind a projecting arm of
tho rock, so completely as to shut out even
her shadow. Her shadow flickered about
uneasily for a moment until he found a cor
responding niche near by, into which, by a
careful tying of his legs into a tight bit of
a knot he was enabled to withdraw himself
from the world, and could catch even the
faintest echo of scandal.
“This is charming,” again cried out Miss
Dehby as she emerged from her niche.
“Why, Major, where are you?” she added,
puzzled at the strange disappearance of her
shadow.
“Oh, here I am, Miss Debby,” answered
tho Major, with difficulty untying his legs.
“Better than all,” said Miss Debby, as
she took in the situation, “you on one side
and 1 on the other; not a word, not a whis
per can be lost. It seemed made on pur
pose for the business, don’t it Major?”
“Yes’em, if mine was only a littlo lar
ger,” qualified the Major, as he succeeded
s»! length in untying his legs, and drawing
himself out again.
“We must mark the place, Major, and to
day wc may hear something,” said Miss
Debby, srith an eye to business.
After dinner.’’ suggested the Major,
with an appreciative thought of the ‘lots o’
;ood vittle?;’
“Yes, after dinner,” assented Miss Deb
by. . “Hist,” she added, “yonder comes
somebody;” and Miss Debby and her sha
dow turned from the place .end proceeded
to meet the gathering party.
In a lew moments the scene was alive
with pretty faces and merry with happy
voices.
The arrival of the Eustace carriage crea
ted a little Sutter of curiosity, which flut
ter increased into a murmur of admiration
as Emma Eustace, radiant as the mom-
_ star, descended from its steps. Netty,
her mulatto maid, was ter only attendant,
and she, in obedience to xome whispered
instructions,’ remained with ihe carriage.
Emma was received by the party yritji a
constrained deference; for though all could
but choose to admire her queenly beauty,
but few could understand her tjuo worth.
A group of little girls soon gathered around
her, and charmed with their hoyden joys,
Emma cared not for the constrained cour
tesies of the grown up men and womeD.
Directly Hiram and Viola came. They
both looked flushed with pleasure, and more
than one hello envied the lovely girl her
handsome escort, while an equal number
of beaux would have gladly relieved him
of his fair charge. They came in a buggy,
light but jaunty little turn-out, from
which liirain, after helping liis companion
to jump, unharnessed the horse with as
much grace as ho would have assisted a
lady to relieve herself of her scarfs and
veils and other travelling toggery.
The horse secured and the huggy drawn
under a protecting shade, Hirsm and Yiojo
sought the crowd. His eye brightened as
it rested upon Emma in Hie midst of her
childish circle. He eoulu scarcely restrain
his impatience to join her, and was glad
when the general salutation of friends was
over, and be was free to place himself by
her side.
You beat us, Miss Emma,” said Viola,
as she put o.ut her lips for the inevitable
kiss, so sweet and so innocent in itself, hut
so tantalizing to tho stem bystanders.
Yes,” replied Emma, “The morning
was so pleasant that John drove very rap
idly.”
‘Yes,” childishly laughed Viola, “And
Hiram would’nt drive fast at all, but just
let Tom mope along like he did’nt care
whether we ever got here, until after we
crossed the branch, and he discovered your
carriage tracks, and then I could hardly re
strain him from making Tom run away with
the buggy.”
The crimson flush mounted to tbc roots
of Emma’s hair; Hiram colored scarlet,
while the little girls all laughed merrily at
their perceptible confusioD.
Viola perceived the annoyance she had
thoughtlessly occasioned, and was almost
ready to cry with vexation.
Hiram quickly recovered, and with a
laugh he answered,
It was because Viola knew some one
else was ahead that she was so impatient
before wo crossed the branch.”
“I suspect as much,” good huaioredly
answered Emma, “Carriage wheels are
never so swift as the eager wings of youth
ful anticipation.”
“Oh, but it wa3 Hiram that drove so
fast,” readily replied the light hearted girl.
“Yes, but it was Viola that complained
of my driving so slowly,” retorted Hiram.
“Well; I don't care if it was—it is but
natural for a girl to run to her playgrounds
—is’nt it girls ?” laughed Viola, turning to
the little Misses, around with whom she was
great favorite, “And now let us leave
these grown up folks to themselves, and go
and play in the sand,” she added, as they
all chimoi an acquiescence in her proposi
tion; and away she bounded, followed by
the bevy of happy girls—themselves no
more childish in heart.
“What a happy girl,” said Emma, half
musingly.
Yes, sht is light hearted and full of snn-
ny joys,” answered Hiram, who felt a
brother’s pride in the glowing looks of Vi
ola, as she went romping down the beach.
“This is a pleasant scene,” he added, turn
ing his glance around the grove, nowbecom
ing thronged with its gay and brilliant
pleasure seekers.
“Yes it is very pleasant, and do you
know that it is the first pie nic that I ever
attended,” said Emma, with autarch tone.
‘Indeed,’ answered Hiram. ‘Then yon
have missed some of the happiest of our
social gatherings. They are far more pleas
ant than halls aad evening parties.’
‘So I should imagine,’ replied Emma.
The company is more incongruous,’ Hi
ram continued, ‘Or at least, is not bo se
lect, bnt then one is not thrown so closely
in contact with all its parts, and is more at
liberty to select one’s particular associates
than one Would be when all are the invited
gnests of a common hostess.’
‘It is an excellent place for the study of
human character, I shonld suppose,’ Baid
Emma, with a philosophical tinge in her
manner.
‘Yes, if one weie disposed to waste the
f olden moments in such an nagratefnl stu-
y,’ replied Hiram.
“Do you find it ungrateful V asked Em
ma.
‘Indeed I do, f My little experience in
the study weakens, rather than strength
ens my faith in the goodness ot my fellow
man, and for- that reason I approach the
study of human character with a silent
dread.’
This a'i’-aoswered io a voice of deep; al
most touching earnestness, and- Emma, as
nifieancc of the remark that called it onfc.
‘Oh,’ she replied. ‘I thought that your
views of life wore all tinged with a roseate
hue.’
•So they are, and it is to preserve these
same chromatic beauties that I seek not a
too critical analysis of thoir rays,’ answer
ed lliram lightly.
‘But it were better to know the truth
than to bo betrayed by a delusion,’ said
Emma.
‘Not if the infatnation be harmless,’
quickly replied Hiram. ‘One can as well
admire an ignits/alum as a star.’
‘Not so, however, with human character.
If one would not be deceived, one should
study it,’gravely returned Emma,
An& yet lhe wisest are often deceived,’
he replied, with a grave shake of the head.
‘Indeed,’ he eontinned, ‘We cannot knot
ourselves, much less hope to know others.’
Emma was silent a moment, and then
with a sudden interest, she asked,
‘ Who is that elegant gentleman ?’
Hiram followed (he direction of her eyes,
and answered,
That is a Mr. Frazee, a gentleman from
Charleston, who is spending the summer in
the np country.’
He appears to be intently observing ns;
arc yon personally acquainted with him ?’
asked Emma with an interest that seemed
new to Hiram, and Was indeed unnsoal to
her.
‘Yes, I have met him two or three times;
would you like an introduction to him, he
asked, with a ready desire to please.
I do not care,’ half absently answered
Emma; and then recovering, she said, ‘No,
not now.’
‘Others are observing us also, Emma—
let us join yonder group,’ said Hiram, un
willing to be the centre of an idle gossip.
The morning swiftly flew by, and at
noon the coolest, shadiest bank was sought,
and the dinner was spread. Major Thomp
son’s sweetest hopes were more than real
ized, and ‘lots o good vittles’ strowed the
snowy cloths, spread so daintily upon the
bright, green grass.
After the dinner, followed by its gallant
toasts, the Etringhand wqs,paraded, and the
green-sward dance began. Hiram led Em
ma to the first quadrille, and the ^couple
elicited the liveliest attention. ' r
Viola claimed his attention for the .next
set, end Mr. Frazee appearing and begging
the henor, was introduced to Emma, and
led her upon the turf as Hiram’s vis a th.
If the couple before attracted admiration,
the splendid quartrette now called for the
warmest glances of admiration from the
party.
Two or three other sets followed, when
Hiram and Viola withdrew to the spring
that came gargling from the roots of an
old .sycamore beneith the bank.
‘Hiram,’ said Viola, ‘I do not like Mr.
Frazee-.’
Hiram dooke^ at the girl in surprise.
‘Why ?’ he asked.
‘Because his .hand is cold and clammy,
and his eyes twinkle.like a snake’s.’
Hiram bad felt the .same queer sensa
tion, bathe only laughed at Vipls’s artless
aud outspoken verdict, ashe replied,
“He appears to bo a very nice j^cptle-
man.’
‘Oh yes, his manners are faultlcss^rath-
er too fastidious, and he looks as if he were
doing ns all a great condescension to no
tice us; but for all that, I do not like him;’
and Viola said this in atone that told Hi
ram that the character of Mr. Angnstns
Frazee had been weighed in the pure
seales of Viola’s heart, and had been found
lamentably wanting.
But for all that, Viola’s pare and uner
ring instincts shrank back from Mr. Am
gustos Frazee, as her senses would recoil
from the touch of a serpent, Mr. Augus
tas Frazee was a very fascinating man—el
egant in his appearance—easy, almost con
descending in his manners, and graceful in
his movements. He produced upon the
minds of the ladios a decided sensation.—
Like tho young man by the name of Brown
—immortalized in song, he wore two dang-
liog carls; and, like the self-same Brown, he
was conscious of the killing effect of his
two dangling carls. He could shake then
with as much tact as ever a laughing co-
qnette shook her own golden “bean catch
ers.” Adding to his elegant appearance, his
.graceful movements, his easy manners,, and
his dang’ing curls, the repnted wealth of' si;
millionaire, and Mr. Angnstns Frazee was
at once in a position to despise the instinc
tive aversion of a simple hearted maiden,
like Viola Mnggleton.
' It was evident that Emma Eustace did
not shrink at his presence, hat accepted
his courtesies with a pleasant air; or, at
least,Jso whispered the peak nosed Miss
Debby to her inseparable Shadow, as they
withdrew from the crowd to reconnoitre
thpse objective and defensive points mark
ed ont in the morning snrvey.
‘Viola,’ said Hiram, after they had dan
gled their hands in the gashing fountain
until they had become tired. ‘I want to
speak to Emma; yon most get yon a part
ner, and join in Die dance, or enjoy your
self any other way yon choose without me.’
“Oh, yes, Hiram, I can excuse yon, .and
I will go and tell Emma,’ and the innocent
girl harried to Emma with the gratuitous
message.
Emma looked op with a slightly tronbled
air—Hiram had followed closely upon Vi
ola, and he canght the expression of her
face. A secret chill crept in his heart and
he opened his lips to revoke the words of
Viola.
Yon wish to speak to me—certainly, sir.
Mr. Frazee will excuse me,’ said Emma,
interrnpting his half-uttered words.
Mr. Frazee bowed a very gracious excuse
and Emma arose.
“I must beg your pardon, Miss Eustace,
I was not aware that yon were so^pleasantly
engaged—1 do not wish to interrupt yon,
believe me.’
‘Mis3 Eustace has kindly promised to al
low me to wait upon her at her home, so I
can readily yield her to yon for a few mo
ments now,’ condescendingly answered Mr.
Angnstns Frazee.
A glance of withering scorn flashed from
Hiram’s eyes, and somewhat unsettled the
‘I hardly understand.’
Hiram started, with a cold - shudder,
‘You hardly understand—my God is it
possibie thatjrom have so soon forgotten.’
.‘Oh, Eqima, can it be that yon bavc de
ceived me—deceived yonrarff,’
Emma was startled at his emstioa. The'
she listened, could hardly realize the sig- surprise recalled her heart to its own self,
Frazee. He choked back his angry words,
and offered his arm to Emma. Emma took
it, and they bent their course towards the
leaning rock so happily discovered by Miss
Debby, and her inseparable Shadow.
It stood some distance Temote from the
C ered dancers, and when Hiram[had led
aa to its mossy seat, he said, os he
placed himself by her side,
'Emma, I have bnt a few more days to
remain at’home,and I wish to have a perfect
understanding between us before 1 go.’
A slight tremor of uneasiness agitated
Emma as she replied,
•sd she felt atowoe wbat she had done.—
Tears softened her:eyes, as she answered,
•Yes, Hiram, I had forgotten—forgive
me, Hiram, but I am weaker, vainer than
I thought.’
The fight of love again haloed his face,
as he raised her hand to his lips,
And may I speak on, Emma V-
Yes, Hiram, I understand, yon—speak
on.’
‘Then yon promise, Emma, to be my
wife?’
Emma looked np in his earnest, loving
eyes. She read the truth of his sonl in the
bine depths of their light. Her own were
no less loving, no less true, and she an
swered,
‘Yes, Hiram, I promise to be your wife.’
He stooped to seal the precions promise
with a Fm Bowles, for saying the woods of
Madcria trembled with a kiss, received the
incisive lash of Byron’s catting wit—a less
than Bowles are we, and a more than By
ron our critics assume to be—warned by hia
fate, wc will not indulge in any each hypo
bolical extravagance, and say that the limn
ing rock became tremulous with that kisis,
bnt the tender frame of Miss Dehby, who
was snngly ensconced in her niehe~did per
form that emotional fete, and the tightly
tied legs of her Shadow would have also
trembled in aympathetic emotion, had there
been room-in their eimpressed qnartefs for
a tremble. There being no room, howev
er, Miss Debby’s Shadow could only , ap
preciate the deliciousness of the kiss b^
sacking in his breath with a fiftic smack of
his own crackled lips.
‘And this promise, Emma, is enough for-
me; with it treasured sacredly, ob, sd sacred
ly in my heart of hearts, it is enough of joy
to inspire me to the highest of earthly ef
forts,’ said Hiram with the truth of his
sonl moving hialips. ‘Bat Emma,’he eon
tinned, ‘is it not jnst to yonr father that 1
should advise him of oar relations, - I' do
not ask I is sanetion to oar anion now, for
wc are not prepared to, marry now; but- he
has a right to know ocr hopes for the fu
ture.’
Emma shuddered; she knew the dislike,
the almost bitter hatred her father enter
tained against Hiram, and she dreaded to
expose him to the mortifying—if not insnl
ting rejection that would await his ^propo-
Hirarn,’ she said in a subdued voice, 'it
is perhaps .better not noun My father is a
man of harsh prejudices, and to suddenly
break this matter to him might exasperate
them against you, I feel sure that after a
while you can disarm his prejudices, and
tten he would bless onr love:/
lliram felt that' she spoke truly, bat his
sense of honor revolted at the idea of con
trolling the affections of his daughter with
out the knowledge of Mr. Eustace. Em
ma comprehended his thonghts and she
eontinned:
‘My mother knows all Hiram, she thinks
kindly of yon—of me, and she will use her
influence to conciliate father’s favor. Please
let it remain with her, Hiram—she thinks
it best.’
‘But is it just to your lather, Emma, to
keep him ignorant of onr hopes. Suppose
he has other plans for yon?’ and Hiram’s
voice thickened with a strange chcking.
‘Oh, no, my lather is not/hat designing,’
answered Emma with a flash. ‘He leaves
me iree to choose for myself, only he may
not now approve my choice.’
.‘Then I lea,ve it with yon, Emma,’he an
swered, “only asking thjt should it become
necessary jonyril! permit me to' tell yonr
•father all/
‘I promise’, shejsaid, ‘or rathnrjshoald yonr
strange fears ever be realized and my fa
ther should seek, to .pander my affections, I
will tell him all myself/ This Emma add-.
ed with an acerbity of tone that unpleas
antly curdled the .blood in Hiram’s heart.
‘I ought to be gratefnl, Emma,” he re
plied, ‘and not insist upon more. Monday
morning. I start for Norfolk, and from there
to Cambridge. To-morrow evening, Satur
day though it ij, is all that J cun have with
yon, may I come?’ This last was added in
a pleading tone—a one so tender and yet
so earnest that it melted into Emma's heart.
Yes, Hiram, come’Jshe answered, taming
np her face with a bright flash of glad-
"“s. Hiram’s own stooped to meet it, and
in the tender frame of Miss Debby trem-
d with a tantalizing tremor, and again
her. Shadow had to draw in his breath with
an emotional snap.
‘And now let us return’, Hiram, said as
he arose and offered his arm.
Well, well, Major—did yon ever,' said
Mii3 Debby as she emerged from her niehe
“almost breathless with her pent np feel
ings/
‘No I never,’ whispered her Shadow as
he tagged at the knots in his legs.
‘Well, what d’ye think Major?’ giggled
Miss Debby in the exuberance oi the
richest joy that.ever gladdened her fife.
‘I think, damn it—no I beg pardon Miss
Debby, drat it. I mean yonr legs—no my
legs Miss Debby, they are so scronged in
this hole, that, drat ’email, Iean’tget ’em
oat.’ And her Shadow’s face gleamed as
red as his glowing head, as he straggled in
the energy of desperation to release his tan-
K and tightly knotted legs. Miss Deb-
first impulse was to faint, bnt seeing
that her Shadow was not in a condition to
receive her sinking form npon his heaving
breast, she thought better of it,and uttered
a tiny little shriek. Her modesty vindica
ted by the tiny little shriek, ahe next
thought seriously of her Shadow’s predica
ment, and hnried around to his assistance.
‘Why, Major, what’s* the matter?’ she
cried.
‘Matter enough, don’t you see my legs
are tangled. There now,” puffed her Shad
ow as he made a desperate and successful
surge. ‘There now, they are loose—but
was ’nt it rich though/
‘Which, yonr legs,’ asked Mias Debby
slightly confused.
‘No, yonrs,’ stammered her shadow,
threatning to make a complete chaos of the
confusion. ‘I—I mean what we heard, I—-
but before her Shadow could finish the ex
planation, Miss Debby had reverted to her
original idea of fainting, and her Shadow’s
breast being now unencumbered with a
double-bow-knot of legs bad the inexplica-
‘And after taking such liberties with her
^should ever take with me. No, Bull Bun. The clerk grew v^y gentle, and
M4jor, I defy any living man to attempt * - - —
magnificent complacency of Mr. Augustus ble delight of receiving the angular form of
the precions Miss Dehby.
For • moment her Shadow supported the
blissfully nnconations Miss Debby when sud-
denly.ho thought to taste some of the nectar
ill n I Ln .1 *1 AA In J J m 1! n ■ A h _ 1 —_ .. A Y- — ? _
and with a smack, like drawing the cork
from an effervescing cider jug, Miss Debby
was recalled to consciousness.
But strangely, the' kiss, though it sound
ed mnch louded than the kiss of Hiram,
did not tasto half so sweet to her sha
dow; nor did Miss Debby, out of the depth
of her unconsciousness,- enjoy it half so
well as she enjoyed, in imagination, the
one that had bat a moment before thrilled
her tender and tremnlons form.
‘There, now, I feel better,’ sighed Miss
Debby, as she languidly opened her -eyea.
‘Did I fall, Major?’
‘Yon would have fallen, Min Debby, had
I not caught yon,’ replied her shalow. with
> manly sense ot his presence of mind.
‘Thank ydta, Major,’ she gratefully repli
ed/ ‘And you heard Mr. Lavender and
Emma Eustace?’ she oontioued, with her
old lovo warming again.
‘Every word,’ solemnly drawled out her
shadow.
‘And you heard him kiss her?’ she con
tinued, glowing with increasing warmth.
‘Yes, a dozen times,’ ^answered her sha
dow.
“And so did I. It’s shameful—a perfect
scandal-^isir'tit, Major?’
‘Disgraceful,’ tepulehraly prononneed her
shadow/
‘And who wonld have thought it?” add
ed Miss Debby, in a discursive way.
‘And she such a grand lady, tool’ Urged
her shadow. :
‘And he such an honorable man, tool’
plead Miss Debby.
‘It’s a shame,—it’s a shame!' and her
shadow bcame savage.
. ‘And a scandal!’ answered Miss-Debby,
I always thought if—I always told you so,
didot I, Major?’ JrS .
‘Yes - you did, add I alien believed you,
too,’ replied her shadow. -•
‘And he to treat little Viola so,’
sed Miss Debby. ‘After fooling that little
innocent thing like we hoard him fool her
the other day, Major/
•Ob, it’s scandalous!’ answered the sha
dow;
such liberties with me,’ and the eyes of
Miss Dabby flashed a perfect sheet of vir
tuous lightening.
‘It’s scandalous!’ re-eehoed her shadow.
.‘And Iintend to tell it!’ and Miss Dehby
felt a virtuous relief- in the resolve. ‘I in
tend to tell Viola what I saw atd heard to
day; and I inteod to tell Emma Enstaee,
Yes, prond as she is, she shall hear
what I saw and heard the other day at the
’mill.’
‘Yes, abd'1 heard it all, and I saw it all,
too,’ corroborated her shadow. .
Yes, you saw it, too,—and you heanhit^
too,’ said Mks Debby. You
on his knees to ViolSjaj^^^^^
by the ring he gave S^H^DToTed her
as his own sonl.’
'Yes, and asked her £o*be his wife, just
as he swore to Miss Eustiee to-day,’ sug
gested her shadow.
‘And he kissed her too, and put his arm
around her -waist. Ob, my, its too bad, its
too bad!’ and Miss Debby liked to have
gone off in an indignant fit of hysterics.
‘Jnst as he kissed the totber one to-day,’
paralleled her shadow.
And pat his arm around her waist, too,
—oh, myl’ and Miss Debby befteachingly
looked at her shadow to save her from faint
ing again.
Her Shadow stood ready for any emer
gency, bnt Miss Dehby recovered.
‘And now wo have eaughthim,’ said her
Shadow.
‘Yes, we have caught him,’ with a tone
of triumph, and then softening Miss Debby
eontinned, ‘Bntaint he handsome, though/
'And aint the ladies—the girls I mean—
handsome too 7” amended her Shadow.
‘Some think so,’ rather savagely criti
cised Miss Debby, bnt I never did like
their looks—I always said that no good
would come of ’em.
‘Yes, you always said so,’ answered her
Shadow, and for once in his life her Shad
ow told the truth, for Miss Debby had in
deed always said of them as she had said of
every other innocent and pore hearted wo
man, that no good wonld ever come of
them.
"“Viola is too soft and simple,’ eontinned
Miss Dehby; ‘Any scamp can fool her.’
‘Its too had,-’sympathised her Shadow
‘And the Eustace gbfl’jy* too prond and
haughty; she ought to be fooled;’ and Miss
Debby delivered her judgement with’ the
air of an outraged woinan.' ' ' * ' ' f
‘And that fellow Lavender ought to be
whipped for fooling them so,’ indignantly
spoke' np her Shadow, wtyh • .desperate ef
fort toflasn his pale, yellow eyes.
1 mean to tefi—yes I mean to tel],’ again,
virtuously determined Miss Dehby.
‘Yes, and won’t the people open their
eyes/ speculated her-Shadow, blearing one
of his own yellow eyes with his £nggr, ,byj
way of Illustrating how
opened.
•Do you reckon they saw us?’ dohionsly
W'
Hampshire, was outraged recently by H.
V. Smith, a dentist of Merredithville,
while having her teeth filled, under the in
fluence of Ether. Smith has fled to the
woods. The _peoplc of the neighborhood
are hunting him,
A Massachusetts man, who telegraphed
to New Bedford for a box of pressed ci-
ire and received a box cf pressed co<L-
ib, is astonished at the mistake these tel
egraph men do make.
A pure white deer haunta the groves of
*"iree county, and has been seen many
nq? by different persons recently.
Four hundred new postal money order
offices wQIbe established on the 1st of Ju
ly, making the total number nearly 3,000.
A friend of Ralph Waldo Emmeraon
methim in the Yosemite Valley,.and said:
“I hope you feel no disoppointment here.”
“No, no,” said he, “it is the only thing that
quite comes np to the brag.”
An economical resident of Newburyport,
Hass., applied at the postoffice the other day
tor ten cents worth of six cent postage
stamps, and when told that he most pay two
oents more, if he wanted two, he looked dis-
appeinted, pnd replied, “jVtil, I s’pose I
■ ■ ’ ' * nyhow;?— —
must have ’em anyhow; hut It seems to me
they are dreadful dear.” '
queried Miss Debby.
i seen an ele-
‘Oh.no,
phant/ replied her dbtfo.w,
moment for a comparison,
did not hardly appreciated the comparison,
bnt she grinned bevitchingly,
‘Yes—won’t they skin ‘
‘That they trill,’ replied her shadow, ap-
ilying his forefinger to his other pale yel-
ow eye, as if the illustration was not com
plete without both eyes were skinned.
'How, Major, let ns go back; this is glory
ragh for one day/ complacently chuckled
Miss Debby, as she rested the tips of her
fingers npon her shadow’s arm.
The Polities of London.
The London Daily News says:
.CoL Henderson, the Chief Commission,
er of the Metropolitan Police, is at the
bead of a little army. The huge bulk of
London ontside of the city is under his
charge, and he has to garrison it in the
name of law and order, by a force of 9,160
This garrison is perpetually increas
ing. Year by year this metropolis grows
huger, poshing oat on all tides like a growl
ing boy; rich andpeor, successful merchant
and needy adventurer, honest workman and
beggar, til swarm to London, so that in the
eleven months from February to December
1870, a new square and 220 new streets
were added to its area. •
This mere growth of eleven months add
ed 42} miles to the length of streets over
which the metropolitan polioe have to walk
in their regular beats:. The police them
selves must of course increase in number
with the increase of their work. They
have been too few for years past, and now
that they have been increased, but in far
greater proportion than they watch.
In pnrsnance of last year’s promises 262
were added during the year; and since the
close of the year the 9460 have been aug
mented by 100'added the first quarter, and
300 who are now in conrre of enlistment.
But even when this 9,560 are all employed,
. - . . ... ... . ... _ . ...» The foolish manner in which money is
that had floated so deliciously npon the air, the number will only reach what was reck- squandered under the pretense of benefit-
-inrl Wlfll -i -mtinV lit-o limnini. fUn nn.V QQQd to 1*0 CSSCDtial to the London of “ T - 3: :ii—.— - ^ T -a
1869. ~~ ... ....
The police are not all employed in walk-
; beats. On the 31st of December 1.069
icemen were employed in hired duty.—
There were nineteen at the Honse of Par
liament, forty-five at South Kensington Mu
seum; a hundred in the Royal Parks and
ChryBtal
grounds, eighteen at the
Palace,
and others employed at vat J
tablishments all over London.
These men are paid by the authorities or
private persons whose property they guard,
and the advantage thus gained on both
sides is thn! the public have a reserve po
lice on .which they can draw on aa emer-
and the shops, offices, theatres, etc.,
arc duly looked after by men accustomed
and trained to the work.
A special detachment of Metropolitan
police is employed in the dock yard, 616
altogether are distributed between Wool
wich. Portsmouth, Depford, Chatham and
Pembroke.
The work of wtiehidg the metropolis is,
therefore, done by 22 Superintendents, 207
inspectors, 828 seargenta, and 6,832 ooa-
stables—a force of 7,889 men, all told.—
This little army has the metropolis in
charge: it must lie remembered not only by
4ay, bnt by night. It is, in fact, by night
that its ehief work is done.
The Commissioner has areport that oat
qf.9460 men, only 21 were charged before
.the magistrates daring the jea£ and of
the** 13 were charged by the Commission
er himself. Daring the same period the
Commissioner has had to u'rve 626 rewards
for special good service, while on thirty-two
occasions police, other than detectives, have
had commendation and reward from magis
trates and judges.
The pofiee are, in fact, increasing in
their usefulness and efficiency, as well as
in their numbers.
Ingenious youth (whispers)—“I see you
constantly stand on one leg in cbnreh; may
I ask you why ?”
Ingenious maiden (whispers)—“You
may. It is to save my croquet foot.”—
Punch.
New York Masonry-—In the Grand
Lodge of Masons this morning the report of
the Grand Treasurer was submitted, show
ing the balance on hand last year to have
been $7,872.49; receipts daring the year,
863,854.10. -
The following Grand Officers were elec
ted for the ensuing yean John H. Antiion,
Most Worshipfiil Grand Master; Christo
pher G. Fox, Deputy Grand Warden; B.
iY. James W. Huested, Junier Grand.
Warden.
U- ;
'Raise yonr right arm,” sharply urged
the clerk of a Portland court, as a witness
elevated his left to take the oath. The
man obeyed, and np went an empty sleeve,
what btionged in it having been left at
swore the witness “over the left.”
A young lady of Monltonboro, New
Next he asked, '-Who is Governor of the
State ?” This was a puzsler, but finally one
urchin, whose proclivities are evidently
Democratic, answered, “James Pike is the
Bepublican Governor, bnt Weston is onr
Governor.” The stranger wiped his eyes and
asked easier questions.
The Boy that Stuck to Farming.
Farmer’s boys are not the only ones who
make thrifty men, though to begin with,
they have much in their favor. A writer
the Farm Advocate does cot like the
idea of so many boys getting tick or
ashamed of agricnltnre, and despising the
old country homestead when they grow np.
He says:
When I was a boy my first savings of 10
cent pieces, earned by Saturday afternoon
work—for school kept half a day on Satur
day then—word afpChded in buying a heif
er Calf:- Then I work on and-paid my fath-
— a certain som for keeping. fW J' h
. When'the ealf was one year old, I trad
ed it fdr tiro'steer calves, and now I had to
rat in good and strong to pay for their
teeping; but I occupied all my. spare time
in .teaching these calves how Ut wear the
yoke, an3 at one yeal old they would 'gee
and haw as well as old oxen, and. my Suit
er paid me for their use in leading the team
for breaking in his two and three year olds.
Again I had a piece of ground each
year after I was fourteen, that I could plant
and work on shares; and if I wanted help,
[ had to give two days of my time to the
tired man's one day. I 'grew jnst what
my fancy &qd reading dictated, and from
the proceeds I dressed as well as any boys
the present time.
I always had some time to play, time to
read, and now look back with love and
pleasant thoughts to the old farm hand who
taught me how to use tools, and whipped
me when I neglected to drive the team oat
straight at the end of the furrow in. plow
ing.
This rememberance of my own boyhood
has always induced me to favor all items of
encouragement at home on the farm; and'I
believe if it were more generally practiced
we snould have more good farmers and less
broken down merchants or loafing, hang
ing on, timeserving clerks, ready for any
thing except honorable labor and useful
ness belonging to the highest order of cre
ation.
We learn bom tho Monroe Advertiser
that a number of farmers in that and ad
joining counties have advanced the wages
employees since the harvest season open
ed at least 50 per eent. It is not believed
that the farmers are justified tn paying
this advance, and tint they will oome out
debt.
unglady who has been married six
says it is aQ nonsense to talk about
love in a cottage. There is more love in a
the Chief Commissioner reports not only full floor barrel than in all the roses and
posies and woodbines that ever grew.
Montgomery has a new fire engine nam
ed Feme Henslsv. She made a {splendid
“lay out?’ on bef first trial, is a beauty and
cost $4,500.
A Portsmouth journal tells the following
story:
“A stranger who visited pne of opr pri
mary schools was invited to talk to the chil
dren. He asked, “Who is the President of
the United States ?” One little one answer
ed. “Joseph B. Adams.” Chorus—Joseph B.
m,
i;
ing the Indians is illustrated in the case of
the Kaw tribe, which is located on a reser
vation in the southwestern part’of Misson-
In 1860-’61 one hundred' and fifty
stone dwellings were erected for the Xaws;
bnt the Indians; instead of living in them,
sold the windows, roofs, and flooring, sta
bled their ponies in the houses, and contin
ued to dwell in miserable bark huts.