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Joy met Sorrow In a place
Where the branches interlace,
Very secret still and sweet,
Safe from all profaning feet.
'Why art thou here ’” Joy, startled, cried;
‘Why art thoa here.’” gray barrow sighed
•I camo hero to weep,” eald Joy,
'Tears are ever my employ,’’
Murmured Sorrow, “yet I see
Tear* as grateful were to thee.
Come, young novice, and be taught
How to ease thy heart o’erfraught.”
Joy aat down at Sorrow’s feet,
And was taught a lesson sweet. ,
Fain would he make kind return.—
‘•borrow art too old to learn?
Nay? Then tarry yet awhUe,
Till I’ve taught you how to smile!”
Since that hour the two bare been
Bound as by mysterious kin,
since that boor they so exchange
Tears and smllee, ’Us nothing strange
If sometimes a puzzled heart
Scarce can tell the twain apart
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SlTTEftS
A WAYWARD WARD.
It it tho business of the philosopher,
as tho world knows, To find law and
order in even the most abnormal phe
nomena, to suggest at least,an adequate
explanation of every enigma. For
what other purpose does he exist than
to throw light on the surrounding dark
ness? lie ia a torch-bearer to human
ity's ignorance. If now and again, by
reason of a pessimist temperament or
defect of training, the rays he sheds
around intensify rather than dispel the
gloom, and cast shadows as of Egyptian
night acrois man’s forward path,
ly he misconstruej his mission.
Bat the wisest head is sometimes
puzzled, and tho shrewdest explorer of
the all-environing mystery is some
times confounded. A problem presents
iteelf which cannot be resolved by any
of the familiar process. The way of
some suddenly disclosed fact ia as in
scrutable as the Sphinx of the Eastern
desert. It was thnn with Bernard Rati
n'
Those who thirst for fame, as misers
thirst for gold, or coquettes Jor admira-
' m, would have found much to envy
this young man’s position. At an
age when a statesman is currently sup
posed to be studying his parliamentary
primer, and when a future general may
still be writhing under the sarcasms of
a barrack-room instructor, Bernard
Ralston had been welcomed into the
front rank of philosophical thinkers.
His book on “Instinct, Conscience and
Reason,”was read and criticised by the'
few, praised and avoided by tho many,
generally
TUTT’S
PILLS
torpid bowels,
DISORDERED LIVER,
„ and MALARIA.
From them soaree* aruo Umo-rccrti:* of
the diseases of the human race. These
symptoms Indicate tliolraxu>teuec:Ix>ss •*
*g**J*ft caatfve, Mek Head
ache, fullness after eating, aversion to
temperf*iaw
iplrlU, A aff baring neglected
some duty, Ulxxlness, Flattering at tbe
Heart, Dots fosters tbs eyes, highly col
ored Urine, CONSTIPATION/ and do-
‘ the use of* remedy that arts directly
— J i-iver. As a Liver medicine TCTT'4
have no equal. Their action on tlte
viilneys and skin is also prompt; removing
01 Impurities through these three “ scav
engers of the system,’’^producing sppe-
ikin and a vigorous tJody. TCTPS PILLS
*tue no nausea or griping nor Interfere
irUh daily work and are a perfect
ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA.
S FEELS LIKE A NEW MAN.
- Java had Dyspepsia, with Const!na
tion, two years, and have tried ten different
kinds of pills, and TCTPS are the first
that have dons mo nny good. They have
cleaned me out nicely. My appetite Is
splendid, food digests readily, and I now
liavo natural passages. 1 feel like a new
man- W. b. EDWARDS, Palmyra, O.
tx.U everywhere,ase. Offlcc.tl Mnrrsy SL.y.Y.
TUTTS HAIR DYE.
<i*ar Dai it on Whiskers change<l ln-
stantly to a Oldest Jilack lir a single ap.
plication of this I>ri:. gold by Druggists,
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A glorious harvest is at hand, and pros
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Organs for many long years will BUY THIS
YEAR. Anticipating the demand, we have
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NSTRC MENTS FROM TEN LEADING
MAKERS, which we shall offer on our
usual easy Installment Terms. To accom
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eeU Pianos and Organs at our
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$10 CASH SOWN ON A ORGAN.
And allowing three months lime
Without Interest
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after the three months, will be giveu further
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ment prices, and complying with our In
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or make a large cash payment, an equitable
price for tbe instrument will arranged. All
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trial, wliei
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SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,
** ruwnnnn.l». On..
The noisy heterodox claimed him
lew and promising recruit; and so also
!u the amusement of the oulooker, did
the stauciuBt maintained of old land
marks. He was flattered, feated, and
tho lion ct his season.
from tMs suddenly acquired
distinction that his embarassment had
approached. Tho solicitors letter that
was the beginning of sorrows made this
clear. It ran thns:
Duar Sir: We have to inform yon
that by tbe will of onr late client, Mr.
Humphrey Power, yon are appointed
sole guardian of his only surviving
daughter, Olive. As this may be in
the natnre of a surprise, we beg leave
‘ > quote the precise paragraph of the
ill: ‘And I hereby empower Mr.
Bernard Ralston to act in every respect
the guardian of my child. I am
e that Olive can have no fitter or
>er protector, none better qualified
to advise and to regulate her life; and
should he— as I earnestly beg—accept
and fulfil this charge. I give and be
queath to the said Bernard Ralston,
and above snch reasonable ex
penses as lie may have incurred on my
daughter’s behalf, the sum of £5,000,
to be paid by my executors on my
daughter’s twenty-first birthday, as a
small tribute of my gratitude.’
The young lady ia a very considera
ble heiress in her eighteenth year, and
present has a private pension in
ince. Further particulars will fol-
r on your reply. We are, dear sir,
yours obediently,
Fansiiawf. Fitch.”
The gift of the proverbial white
elephant conld have produced in no
heart a greater consternation. What
hould a retired and solitary ntndent,
of serious pursuits and courtly man
ners, answer to such h challenge? If
Cleethorpe Hall were large, it by
means followed that lie wanted ir
lifo within its bounds; and a girl in
is, a mere child, as with the sage
dom of five-and-thirty years be
considered! How conld her presence
by his fireside bo harmonized with the
quiet enrreut of the life he elected to
live?
Yet, tho bait of five thousand pounds
ss a temptation. The glories of
Cleethorpe Hall had been sadly taniah-
ed through tho improvidence of Ber
nard’s father, and philosophy is not
a particularly remunerative hobby to
ride. Mr. Humphrey Power’s leg*
if not precisely a fortnne, would be
assistance in the keeping up of the re
stricted Cleethorpe establishment.
The matter was debated long and
anxiously, and as the result Miss Olive
Power arrived at the Hall one snowy
Febrnary morning. Slight of figure
winsome of feature, with merry, violet-
tinted brown eyes, and lips continually
parting in a piquant smile over teeth
of whitest pearl, if he wan properly
protect his ward, hit position might
“it provo a sinecure. Neither did it.
The girls beauty attracted suitors
clover blossoms allnre bees; and it
ss an open secret in the conotry-side
that Miss Power, aa well as being a
lonely and lovely yonng thing, was a
richly endowed one. This brought
the sometimes lugubrious voice of
Prudence into reasonable accord, the
chorus of adoration*
Bat Olive was not minded to be
easy capture for any of her wooers.
With a woman’s instinctive dexterity
•he kept them all at hay, and at twen
ty had escaped the necessity of as yet
refusing any offer in formal and une
quivocal terms. She was derelopin
a taste (or study which half amnsei .
half interested her guardian. One even
ing he playfully rallied her on her ap
plication to sundry big volnmes in the
library.
“I shall be accused of transforming
a merry and (switching yonng lady
into a Mno-otncking—a disciple of mv
own dry as-dust pursuits,” he said;
‘•some oue soma day may have special
esnse |o blama n»i\ I (ear.”
A endded blush was on the maiden’i
uplifted. Wu tb, flesh the, gen
one of indignation, of scorn, or merely
of confusion nt n betrayed secret?
Bernard conld not gneaa.
**The nature of my employments can
make no difference whatever, in any
\ Ictn to Mr. Har-
oury, nho answered. Then—it seem-
a * tr * B S e transposition—
‘Will yon forgive me for asking a fa-
voi?” she went swiftly on; ‘‘I should
like—oh, so much!—to help in yon your
work. Could I not copy oat yoar notes
*•* revise proof sometimes?”
What philosopher conld havo suc
cessfully resisted the volunteered help
of such an amanuensis? Not Bernard
Ralston.
summer, three xuonthH later
than the date of this conversation.
Olive’s guardian was seeking his ward
in her own boudoir, with a gloom upon
fBC * *od a depression ox soul which
defied his analysis. He had a message
to convey and a proposal to informally
submit, which bn had little doubt
would bo accepted, Oswald Harbnry,
the young owner of half CleethoTpe
had asked permission to lay himself
and his fortnnes at Olive’s feet. _ He
loved her, he said; 1m would do bis
beet to make her happy.
'And I believed that he will. He
has a home to offer yon and is a
hearted honorable gentleman,
yonr guardian, Olive, I am bonnd to
give my sanction to so fair and prom
ising a suit. May I bid Mr. Harbnry
to come and plead his own cause?”
Ho had spoken hoareely and
qneer far-off kind of voice that he hard
ly recognized as his own. It we
ly singular and mast testily to
suspected weakness of character, that
' > prospect of separation from the
•rd originally received with so much
doubt and dread should thns make
havoc of his peace. He waited for the
answer in a suspense that wsb positive
ly harrassing. At last it came.
••No yon may not,” Olive said,
‘‘unless, indeed, yon wish to get xid ot
me—to send mo away. And not even
then, for I cannot consent to marry a
man whom I do not love.”
Send Olive away! Was not everf
pulse in hil body beating with fierce,
unbidden joy at the verdict she had
given? The measure of his recent ter
ror was the measnre of his present
relief.
‘‘That is a fear which my ward—my
wayward ward! caver need harbor,” he
said, with a slow broad smile; she has
brought too much sunshine into my
lonely life for me to wish too loose her.
Bat ehange is inevitable some day.”
Why?” a low voice mnrmered; and
again came the mysterious illumina
tion of Olive’s eyes.
'Because, Olive—if for
reasons—tho years of my
be at an end,” he answered
steadily, almost sternly. He mast
face the future resolutely, as benefitted
teacher of his fellows.
And a few seconds later hU quick,
nervous step was echoing in the pas
sage without.
Anearly summer vacation in Switz
land—whan the glorious Alpine flow
should be at. its loveliest—had been
the cherished dream of years of Bern
ard Ralston, and it was realized* A
woman’s hand had gnided his steps
thitherward, Olive Power had per
suaded him to lav aside his work and
make playtime of the sonny weather.
Yon can finish yonr book on ‘Va
is a Force in Ilnman Affairs’ wheii
yon return, and the critics will all say
that the last chapters are the bright
est,” she said pleadingly. And when
she added a slight involuntary expres
sion of her own eagerness for the change
he surrendered. The trio—Miss Ral
ston, Bernard’s sister and housekeeper,
Olive’s chaperon—had now been
from England a fortnight.
They had reached the RilTel and
sre thns encamped under the shadows
of the majestic (grim and uncouth for
variations of epithets) Matterhorn it
self. Here Olive went into ecstacies.
To watch the shnrise bathe the rugged,
furrowed sides with waves of liquid
light, was an occupation of which she
There is nothing for ns but to go
back.’*—
"I will not,” the girl declared, "nntil
you tell me whose"voice that i*. Hark
is no sound of wind.”
Again they listened and again with
out result.
Mark Croxlord gently lain bis hand
t Olive’s arm. ‘’Believe me, you are
mistaken, Mi>* Power,” be said,‘‘you
not suppose that any .,i.e of ns
nl.l give „j, ,1m, tfe'arch if the least
cliance remained ? But the gnide knows
And yet. as In uttered his melancholy
monstrance, there was a sound from
,’er the neighboring ice-floe, hard to
credit to even the most eerie of Swiss
breezes.
“There! snrely you hear it now?”
the gill said.
If only to make cl«*ar the girl’s folly
K K * K — recommsnc-
to herself, the quest <
Instnrmentswill be ^eeks,and her glance fell. It
imposaible that ahe should misinterpret
Bernard’s meaning.
‘‘There is Oswald Harbnry to think
of,” Olive’s guardian was daring
enough to add.
At the hotel there wa^ pleasant
pany, including a couplo of yonng
Americans, who swept tbe ordinsril;
reserved and cautions student forwan
into a participation in their own reck
less adventures by the sheer force of
enthusiasm. The three went off one
afternoon on a quest for edelweiss. The
gloom was thickening in gorge and pass,
and gray shadows were following the
crimson sunset glow on the hnge crests
aloft before there was any sign of
i. The ladies grew uneasy,
of accident and of awfnl peril were
staples of the conversational bill of
fare in the hotel saloon, and invariably
exerted their influence on nervous
minds. In this case the presentment
of evil was bnt too sorely justified.
Two of the venturesome explorers
returned weary and disheveled, but
Bernard Ralston was missing.
“We thought ho was before us,” ex
plained Mark Croxford, the elder of
the brothers. “We drifted apart among
the boulders and ice-ridges of a glacier-
edge, and we looked for him to return
at the lower end of the track. Not
meeting him we snpposed he had har
ried away homeward.”
A sadden chill had gone to many a
heart in the little group of listeners.
The thought of precipices and of their
treacherous dangers was in every one’s
mind. A search expedition was quick
ly organized and started.
“I bear steps behind,” said the guide,
halting on tbe fitst stage of the jour
ney and prominently displaying his
lamp.
“Why it iaMisa Power!’’ cried Mark
roxford in astonishment.
It was indeed Olive. With blanch
ed cheeks and agonized eyes and daunt
less resolution, she insisted on accom
panying the seekers. It was a
request that Bernard Ralston had
to Switzerland; If he perished would
it not in a sense be her fault? Better
that her own life shonld have been
rifioed! To persuade tbe girl to return
was useless—only a loss of precions
minutes. With a mattered growl of
disapprobation the gnide was compelled
allow her to proceed.
Honrs were spent in vain pursuit.
“Guide, is there any hope?” demand-
i a stout Cornishmao. at last
“I fear none!” ho answered;
bottom of yonder clu sm—”
His words were cat. short. A cry,
half triumphant, half fearful, slipped
from Olive Power’a bloodless lips.
'Listen! I hear a groan,” she aaiJ.
ed.
The quick ear of love had not blun
dered alter all. This time a chance
jteara of the guide’s .lantern j>ver a
agged precipice-side, revealed a dark
form huddled against an inner ledge.
It was Bernard Ralston,- mwmeible
from the effects of his perilous fall, and
proved that he still lived only by oc
casional groans.
“I beg pardon very humbly. Miss
Power,” Mark Croxford whispered.
“And they tell me, Olive, that I owe
y° a ’” tte convalescent said,
wheeled out^ on tho broad mountain
terrace of his resting place. “How
shall I contrive to pay yon, 1 wonder?
Do yon know—nay yon cannot know
—I had a dream this monring. After
the doctor had left my room I dozed,
and it seemed to me that—that the
dearest girl in the wide world—and
snrely the bravest—cams to my side
and smoothed down the pillow—and
dare I whisper the words?—caressed
my forehead. It was eingnli
not?
Something in the poise of the avert
ed face awakened a swift suspicion—i
keen thrill of happiness.
“It cannot be that—that it was no
a dream, he qnerried. “That my ward
is willing to be still dearer—to be my
wife?”
The smaU palm was not withdrawn,
the lovely crimsoned face was swiftly
and tnomentarially upturned, as he had
seen it twice before, and this time a
look of ineffable content was mirrowed
thereupon.
“If yon really desire so to extend
yonr guardianship to your 'wayward
ward,’ mischievous accents answered.
And Bernard Ralston’s sometime prob
lem had becone his dearest treason.
Love itself had tanght love’s lesson.
AM I MONARCH OF ALL ■ SURVEY'
(These verces are supposed to have
been written by Alexander Selkirk,
daring his solitary abode on the island
of Joan Fernandez, in the Pacific
Ocean, upon which he had been left at
bis own request, by the ship on which
he had embarked from England, ii
consequence of a quarrel with the cap
tain. Selkirk remained on tbe island
for fonr years and four months. The
island was one of the most issolated of
oceanie islands, and after having ex
hausted the ammunition and food which
had been given him upon leaving his
ship, he subsisted by running down and
catching goats which be ate for food.
A cave on the island is still pointed
ont as his habitation, and many points
thereon are connected with the strange
romance. It was said that Selkirk’s
life of solitude' gave to Daniel Defoe
the idea of his “Robinson Crusoe.”
The verses indicate (hat the eccentric
seaman was a poet of no mean order.
The poem is said to have been written
daring the third year of his lonely hab
itation.]
am monarch of all I survey.
My right there Is none to dispute;
rota the center all around to the sea
I am lord of tbe fowl and tbe brute.
O Solitude! where are thy charms
That saxes have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms
Than to reign in this horrible place.
I am out of humanity’s reach;
1 must finish ray journey alone;
Never hear the sweet music of speecli-
I start at tbe sound of my own.
Hie beasts that roam over tbe plain,
My form with indifference see;
hey are so unaoquainted with man,
Their tameness u shocking to me.
Soeh-ty, Friendship and Love,
Divinely bestowed upon man.
Oh. hsd 1 the wings of a dove,
llow soon would I taste you again
My sorrows I then might assuage
In the ways of religion and truth,
Might icaru front the wisdom of age.
ON PROBATION.
Mr. Lindsay was preaching in the
Lennox parish on probation; that ia, he
had been engaged for a year. After
that time, if he suited Miss Rich, who
had the parish in charge, so to speak,
who canvassed for money to paint the
church, looked tip poor children for
christening and Sunday school .exhorted
the young people to join the confirma
tion class,mapped ont work for the sew
ing society, and made the parish her
hobby—if he suited Miss Rich,if he was
High-Church enough for Mr. Grimm
and Low enough for Mrs. Phelps, if he
believed with Dr. Slow iu the doctrine
of election—why, then, they were sure
settle him.
“What a capital wife Lncretia Shaw
would make lir. Lindsay,” vouchsafed
Miss Rich, shortly after he adorned the
Lennox pnlpit. “She’s jast the person
*~r a parson’s wife—bustling and—”
“I’m afraid abe’d take the parish off
yonr hands', Miss Rich,” answored Mrs.
Phelps, who having no desire to do the
bard w^rk which her neighbor loved,
t grndged her the credit of it.
“Well, there’s work enough for two
us in the parish, Mrs. Phelps. I
wouldn’t he a bit afraid but I’d get my
share.”
“To be snre,” pnrsned Mrs. Phelps,
'Lucretia’s smart, and I don’t believe
in a pastor with a doll of a wife who
can’t darn the children’s clothes, and ia
too feeble to get along without help.”
“Yes,” pnt in old Mrs. Smith,“she’d
be no end of a stepmother to Mr. Lind-
•ay’s boy and if ever a boy needed a
stepmother, it’s him. Lncretia’s pow
erful smart, as you say .and she’d make
him walk Spanish.”
“Yes,” was the reply of Miss Rich;
“a widower somehow needs a wife
m _°rs’n anybody, to sympathize with
him in his loss. I shouldn't wonder if
Lncretia wonld bring the boy up to the
ministry if she had her way.”
“Between you and me,” said Mrs.
Phelps, “I think that tho parson goes
to the Shaws’ rather more than is neces
sary for the salvation of their souls. 1
“You can’t tell. Perhaps Lncretia
has doubts.”
“And perhaps,” said Dr. Slow—
“perhaps it’s Miss 8nsan.”
Everybody langhed, and cried “Mies
Susan!” with fine irony in their tones.
“Whoever heard of Snsan having
attention?” asked Mrs. Phelps.
“I’ve engaged Lncretia to embroider
a new alter cloth,” exclaimed Miss
Rich; “I raised the money for it last
month—I tell you it’s like palling teeth
to get money out of this parish—and
I suppose the parson has to advise her
about the proper designs and things;
Lncretia ain’t well drilled in symbols
and snch yon know.”
In fact, everybody in Lennox had de
cided that Mr. Lindsay shonld marry
Lncretia, and perhaps Lncretia had de
cided so too, for she was an everlasting
time over that altar-cloth, and needed
no end of advice and instruction; her
ignorance and interest were quite touch-
ing.. And Mr. Lindsay- teemed quite
willing to spend bis leisure nnder the
8haws’ roof, and watclfthe sacred sym
bols growing under the white and
shapely hands of Miss Lncretia.
••That hana or Lncretia’s will be sure
to do the bnsiness,”aomebody had said.
“Mr. Lindsay’s a man ot taste, if he is
a clergyman”—as if the two was not
usually found combined—“and I heard
him say it was fit for a duchess.
Mis Lncretia’s hand, was indeed.her
loveliest feature, so to speak—white at
snow, with the prettiest taper fingers,
pink at the ends. Once when Mr. Lind
say had mentioned them flatteringly,
Miss Snsan, who was doing the week’s
mending near by, drew her own hands
under her work he noticed. Nobody
ever took the trouble to flatter Miss Su
san. Lncretia sang in the choir, al
though her voice was thin a« muslin,
and she had no*ar, nobody dreamed oi
cared if Snsan sar.g like a seraph. She
Lncretia’s shadow, and people
almost forgot she was there, till they
needed her help. Mr. Lindsay had
tanght the choir himself, and after
the altar-cloth conld no longer bo made
a pretext to cover a multitude of calls,
there were the chan's and fugues to
•ractice. One morning, as be drilled
lncretia for half an hour ineffectually,
suddenly turned to Snsan.
"Come,” he said, “try this chant
with os. Miss Snsan;” aud Snsan
opened her month and chanted as no
body in the choir had ever chanted be-
And be cheer’d bj the sallies ot youth.
Religion! what treasures untold
Resides in that heave uly word t
More precious than silver and cold.
Or all that this earth can afford,
nut tbe sound ot tbe church-going bell
These valleys and rocks never heard;
*► a knell,
i appear’d.
Yo winds that have made mo your sport,
Conver to this desolate shore
Some cordial endering report
Of a land i shall visit no more:
My friends do they now and then send
A wish or a thought after mo?
''h tell me I yet have a friend.
Though a friend I am never to see.
How fleet is tbe glance of the mind 1
Compared with the speed of i s flight,
Tbe tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light,
When 1 think of my own native land.
In a moment I seem to be there;
But, alas! recollection at hand
And 1 to my cabin repair.
There’s mercy In every place,
encouraging thought
The wind across the glacier. Miss, 1
Two shining eyes were momentarily answered the leadet in snlky despair.
Bravo!” he cried. “ Wb*n did you
learn it?”
Why, I havo heard it all luy life;
hy shouldn’t I know it? 1 cvuldn’t
help it.”
have yon iu the choir,”he
said.
Snsan Shaw in the choir!” gasped
everybody on their way out of church,
Mr. Lindsay is bringing her out.”
you know,”
And mercy
Ive even aflL .
And reconciles man to his lot.
n affliction a grace.
: Dr. Eldridge’i) Drug
An Every Day Occuranco.
Once upon a time a Donkey fell into
deep hole, and, after nearly starving
caught sight of a passing Fox, and ii
plored tho stranger to help him ont.
“1 am too small to aid you,” said
the Fox, “bat I will give you
good advice. Only a few rods away is
a big, strong elephant. Gall to him
and he will get yon ont in a jiffy.”
After the Fox had gone the Donkey
thus reasoned to himaelf: “I am very
weak for want of nourishment. Every
move I make is jost so ranch addition
al loss of streugb. If I raise my voice
to cal! the elephant 1 shall be weaker
yet. No, 1 will not waste tuy sob-
dances that way. It is the duty of the
elephant to come without calling.”
So the donkey Milled himself back
and eventually i«tarved to death.
Long afterwards the Fox on passing
tbe hole saw within it a whitening
•keletou, and remarked: “If it be true
. „ , v , - that tha Honls of animals are tranarai-
A silence that might be felt prevail- grated into men, that Donkey will be-
of those merchants who can
never afford to advertise.”—Philadel
phia Call
plained Miss Rioh.
"And her voice rather drowns Lu-
stia’s,” said Dr. Slow.
Mr. Lindsay was giving great satis
faction The parishioneis talked of
remodelling the old rectory, adding a
wing and a bay-window, and even spoko
of taking in an adjoiuing field, so that
“Lncretia might haves flower garden,
They even meditate* an increafife of
lara as soon as he shonld be settled
the parish, and Mr. Giimm thought
he ►hould add a codicil to his will, i
favor of the new pastor aud Lncretia’
hnsband.
When they’re married,” reckoned
Miss Rich, with unchristian thrift,*
shall have all onr church trappings
embroidered for nothing, I suppose.”
“Do yon think Snsan will live with
m?” asked Mrs. Phelps. “P’r’apa he
wont’ care about marrying the whole
powerful kind to Satan,
information of the long, I came acrors
Lncretia and Sasan and Mr. Lindsay.
I must say I should think Susan would
have more taste than to follow them
anywhere. Why don’t she keep her
self in the background?”
“She’a been pretty mnch in the
background all her life,” said Dr.
Slow. “Perhaps she’s tired of the sit
uation.”
But she ought to have more consid
eration. Perhaps the lovers don’t mind
her. There they weie all three of them
watching the comet and studying the
heaven.”
'A proper study for a clergyman,”
said Dr. Slow.
'And he was pointing ont all the
consternation, and it seems to me they
were looking at him instead of tho
stars,” pursued Miss Rich.
“It wonld be a complication,” aug-
gested Mrs. Phelps, “if, while he’a
courting Lncretia, Susan should get in
love with him.”
“It wonlda’t be no are,” said Mrs.
Grimm. “Lncretia’s that smart she’d
make him believe it was her he was
dying for.”
The ShawB had eaongh to keep the
wolf from the door, bnt nothing to
■pare; they owned their house, bnt kept
no servant. "Help would be dreadfully
in their way,” Miss Rich declared. “1
wonder they don’t feel glad they can T t *.*
afford any.”
Snsan always wore the aim pleat gar
ments, which she designed and execut
ed herself, while Lncretia—“Well, if
there’s anything that unfita Lncretia
for her fntnre position at the head of
tho parish,” confessed Mr. Phelps,“it’s
her love of finery.”
Lncretia always blossomed ont in' a
pretty spring Imnnet—while Snsan
made her last year’s one answer—and
a smart new suit made in the latest
wrinkle.
It was about this time that the par-
i«h. picnic occurred—an institution
which everybody believed in. Hadn’t'
there been more matches made at the
last than daring all the year besides?
And wasn’t it a fine chance to test
Mrs. Phelps’ recipes, Miss Rich’s
cream-pies and Mrs. Dr. Slow’s tarts?
Of coarse Lncretia went, and Mr. Lind
say with her. Snsan -happened to bs
making preserves and pickets that day,
and the berries wouldn’t keep, so ahe
staid at home. At about the middle
ot the afternoon, when they had had
dinner and cleared away, and things
were a little slow, they wanted some
body to start some music. Mr. Lindsay
was no where to bs found.
“Oh, he’s gone off with Lncretia
somewhere,” said Miss Rich, who felt
it her doty to acconnt for him.
“No; there’s Lncretia now, talking
abont free will with Dr. Slow.”
“Perhaps he’s gone home to write
his sermon,” suggested somebody else
the picnic grove being only half a mile
from town.
“Or he’s finding ‘tongnes in treee
and sermons in stones’ ont here.”
But at snnset Mr. Lindsay strolled
back; with Snsan on his arm, in time
to join them at tea, and he and Satan
made the coffee, and pitched the tones
they sang before the day ended.
“Now wasn’t that real thoughtful in
Mr. Lindsay to go after Snsan? That’s
I Mil h*1 Citric*lorn. «ml a Krnth-
er-in-law worth having,” commented
one old lady.
Bnt when Mrs. Bishop, who had
staid at home with a teething baby, re
ported that Mr. Lindsay had not
gone home to write bis sermon, bnt had
walked straight into Susan’s kitchen
and had helped her seal up the preserve
jars and sat them away, and had sat
on the front porch an hour or two af
terward with her—when he might have
been with Lncretia—reading secular
poetry, and not Dr. Watt* or Charles
Wesley, either, the parish rose in its
wrath to a woman. This would never
do; Lncretia mast b«»t 1 e trifled with.
Mr. Lindsay had inspired hope in her
gentle heart; he mutt marry Lueretia
or leave the parish.
“Yon see,” explained Mr. Phelps*
“we want to settle yon, Mr. Lindray.
\ on suit ns to a T, but it kinder teems
as if you onght to propose to Lueretia
Shaw, yon have been no attentive.”
“Propose to Lncretia Shaw!” repeat
ed tbe young man, with a startled air
“What has that to do with settling
me? Is every clergyman who cotnes
to Lennox obligo to jiropoe to Lit-
eretis Shaw as a preliminary prepara-
Well, no, rot exactly,” laughed
Mr^ Phelps, “not unless he’s given the
parish reason to expect it. You know
we don’t w«nl the credit of tettiing a
plnlanderin:- parson who makes love
right and left. I’d no idea the thonght
ew to you, but tbe parish
lieatt on tbe match, you
wouldn’t like to see a man
if he was eloquent 'in piajer, who'd
trifle with the affections of one of the
flock, you know.”
Bnt, my dear air,”said Mr. Lindsay
ai not in love with Lncietia Shaw.
Yon wouldn’t have u»e pnjnrr my
self?”
reckon.”
“Well, we couldn’t think ol Milling
preacher that.hadn’t n<» more piii ci-
ple than to throw over Lncretia Shaw
after taking tea so ranch to her hou^e,
and raising her hopep, as it were,” Mid
Mr Grimm, severely.
.“Perhaps,” said Mr. Lindsay, after
a panse—“you will be rhle to forgive
me for not proposing to Lueretia when
I tell yon that I have propped to Su
san. Yon see, it wonld complicate
matters a little if I were to accede to
yonr wishes. However. I have lately
received a call from a Western parish,
and shonld feel obliged to decline the
Lennox parish, even if yon had thonght
me worthy of it, as this other farnianea
a wider field of usefulness—”
“And larger salary, I suppose,’’add
ed Mr. Grimm.
“And larger salary,” allowed Mr.
Lindsay, “double, in fact.”
“I suppose,” persisted Miss Richjif-
ter the wedding—“I snppose Lncretia
mast have refused him first.”—liar
ptr’s Bazar.
though.'
“He takes a sight of notice of her.”
“Yon kinder forgot she’s Lucretia’i
sister,” pnt it} Miss Rich, “an* all the’
got.”
It was surely plain that Mr. Lindsay
took pie ■►ore iu the society at the Shaw
homestead. At picnic, at prayer meet
ings or choir meetings, he was always
at hand to take Lncretia and Snsan
home; he lent them his books, and di
rected their reading; he brought them
floweis from town when he happened
go up.
“I aball be ro glad to give up tho
presidency -of the B 'brl nocietv acd
the Dakota League in Lueretia,” said
Mi»« Rich. “lt’« <»»»ly (•£>>per ft
clergyman’s wife to be at the head of
them.'*
“You’ll feel sorter b-»t without ’em?”
asked Mis. Phelps.
“Tbe pariah is a laige field, i think
know;* P the WS ^A^ontatg^dxM^e
to watch with Miss nart when she had Dru?r St ° re - 11 “ ^ due *
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