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in her fac? - • - Eight to ten millions gallons of
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ina hard^stHageyoieer'‘He’wastry- nest California wine <--rop.
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from this man who had suddenly come JJ-C., put np this season one thousand
between them. He turned to Yesey cans of perserved fruit.
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eyes were ML of pleading; _ “Think a ^ Winchester, Tenn., a few
wX“thS y ° e 1 ^ ago, at ten cents per acre.
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gone.
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watching the blackened mass, she
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bright-room beyond. -
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father. There is a family at the lower
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The Missing- Link.
air,
He built a nest on the palm tree's crest,
And dwelt a masiw there.
The monarch of all the earth,
The lord of wood and plain,
The lion bed when his angry tread
Shook the earth with proud disdain,
He dined on elephant, did
This cy-no-ceph-a-lus,
And rhinoceros, and the river horse,
And the hip-po-pot-a-mus.
Brawny of limb was he,
Yet supple and agile,
On rock or tree his arms were free,
For his toes were prehensile.
Yet doth the monarch sigh
As he paces up and down,
And soliloquize with-downcast eyes
And a highly regal frown.
Sad is the royal heart,
Wounded the royal pride,
For the lords of state say the king shall
mate
With a Nshiego Mbouve bride.
‘What! many a subject! I
Espouse a chimpanzee!
No, I’m not a Guelph if I know myself,
No mesalliance for me!
Perish my royal blood,
Perish the princely line,
Ere I desecrate, with a vulgar mate,
This lineage of mine.”
The monarch paused, transfixed,
Vanished his growing wrath,
And a bright surprise beamed in his eyes
As he gazed down the forest path.
A vision of beauty, such
As by Simian eye, before,
Had never been seen in the woodland green,
Or been known to Simian lore.
A maiden young and fair
As the charcoal’s ebon tint,
With teeth as whito as cowries bright
From the Royal Congo mint
Her locks of a crispy curl,
Her feet of a mammoth size,
All made her seem a bewitching dream
To the fond gorilla’s eyes.
To a high o’erarching limb
He swung by his sinewy arms,
And dangling there, ’twixt earth and air,
Gazed on her dusty charms.
“Now, by my kingly troth,
This maid shall be, I think,
My royal bride, and supply beside
Mr. Darwin's missing link.”
The thoughtless ebon maid,
Sucpicionless of guile,
To the trunk strayed, and beneath its
shade,
Tfirriiwl in tiinngki awlnlo.
Then the monarch spake his love
As he swung by the lofty limb;
He was gifted, they say, with a taking
away,
For the lady smiled on him.
He pats her curly locks,
With his great prehensile toes
Entwined in her wool—a vigorous pull—
A shriek—and up she goes!
Thus was the monarch wed,
And thus the race began,
Whence through various link, somewhat
strange, methinks,
Came the “Descent of Man!"
HILL SHE RIDE OR WALK I
IIL'
[concluded. ]
The spring and early summer wore
away. One letter came from Darrel
A letter such as lie might have sent to
any chance acquaintance, full of hints
of gay doings here and there—nothing
more. One little note Vessey -wrote
his mother, to say she could not make
the promised visit. Darrel had said
nothing in his letter of coming for
her. “And tell Darrel”—at the close
of her note—“that I am saving any
amount of gossip against writing him
some day.” But the “some day”nev
er came. Absence, like astronglight,
brings out hidden defects, and Vesey
knew now that he was a man selfish
and vain, who had played with her
heart He had held it in his hand,
weighed and measured it and her, and
had cast both aside as worthless. She
thought of it with burning cheeks.
Among the mountains, in the sum
mer, she gathered strength and life
again; for both had seemed to faiL—
Perhaps it was the heat. The summer
had opened like the tropics. With
another winter came the Winslows. If
she had dreaded it, if she had feared
for herself, would it have been strange?
But the spell was broken. Looking
back, she wondered. :
Outwardly the old intimacy was re
sumed. Darrel came and went as he
had come and gone the year before.—
But to Vesey it was only 'a shell—a
hollow, heartless thing that never had
been friendship, and could never now
be love. Paul, plodding along day
after day in the round of his duties,
saw—as though a great way off—Vesey
and Darrel .flying np and down the icy
streets to the tinkle of silver hells.
The words choked him.
you, not to-night,” he said. He .had
longed to meet her again, like this—
alone and face to face. But her light
manner, her dainty dress angered him
to-night. He had come from such a
different scene. Only a woman of
the world, after all, he thought. And
yet so sweet, so bitterly sweet, he
owned, when he had turned away and
plunged into the cold and darkness.—
Darrel was waiting for her in the draw
ing room.
“You’re like a poem to-night, in all
that rnby-red—like an Eastern song.’
“Thank yon,” Vesey said, drearni-
!y-
“I couldn’t imagine you in gray,’ 1
he went on, half to himself, “or in
anything somber, or worn, or poor.”
He had begun to study the girl in
earnest now. “Yes, you are made for
the rarest and best, Vesey; to shine in
satin and diamonds.”
Satin and diamonds! Vesey remem
bered the man she had left at the door.
He was ont in the winter night among
the hungry and naked now, she knew.
She had caught his half uttered sen
tence. And she was made for satin
and diamonds!
“Is that all?” she asked, wistfullj
“All? Is not that enough? It would
satisfy most women.”
But to-night it did not satisfy her.
IV.
Down at the beginning of the long
street was a black, low-browed house,
like many others here, with a shop in
the lower story, or, more properly,
two, since one window was occupied
by a watchmaker, and the other dis
played pins, needles, spools of cotton,
and such small wares. Above were
two or three rooms with slanting sides
where a deformed girl—a pitiful ob
ject to look at—lived with her mother,
earning enough by sewing to put-
bread into their months and scanty
covering upon their backs—no more.
Vesey employed them; from pity most
ly, since her work could have been
better done elsewhere. She stepped
out of the sleigh here at dusk one
night, and ran up the stairs, with a
roll of work in her hand. She had to
wait a moment, so she sat and talked
with the girl, who was young like her
self, and yet not like herself at all. It
made her happy in the happy lot that
had sometimes wearied her. It made
her thankful for her strong, young
life, which she had never named among
her blessings, and it shot a gleam of
pleasure through the girls dark days.
It -muj a poor room, -with, paper torn
and soiled, and of many patterns, upon
the wall; with the bare boards of the
floor yawning, rising and falling un
easily; with the dim light struggling
through uncurtained windows that
peered from under the eaves like eyes
from overhanging brows. In one of
these windows, a forlorn canary in »
broken cage—a brown little bird with
ruffled, unkempt feathers—chirruped
feebly, like a moan. Alow voice in a
continuous murmur fell upon Vesey’s
ear. It seemed to come from the next
room.
“What is that?”
“Thut’m?” The girl’s pale foee
grew bright. “It’s the minister, Mr.
Hayes. He comes and prays with
mother, now she’s sick.” The light
died ont again.
The little room became all at once
like a church, solemn and still, as the
low voice rolled on high, like a river
far away. The girl laid down her
work. Even the bird forgot its moan.
The voice ceased. She heard his
step upon the stairs. It was bnt a sec
ond; he could not have reached the
street, when a shriek came irorn the
room he had left. The girl sat like
one paralyzed. Vesey threw open the
door. A swift line ol light ran all
adown the bed. It burst into aflame,
in the midst of which the siek woman
straggled. The overtaxed candle at
her head told the story. It was an •
instinct—there was no time for thought
—which made Vesey drag the square
of carpet from the floor and press it
down upon the flames. They shot ont
into her face. They seemed to catch
away her breath. They licked her
arm. They strove and fought, and
wellnigh overcame—all in an instant,
that seemed hours to the girl, who
threw herself upon the bed, smother
ing the flames with her own weight
They conquered at last The ai-
‘Thank iig tears, of sadden faintness, that
overpowered her when she heard Iris
step. The grim-faced doctor behind
him walked straight to the bed.
“There are no deep bums, I think,
he said at length. “The blanketsaved
her. The shock has done no more
than the fire. A sponge—ah, that will
do. Now some water, and some linen
rags.” There were none. Vesey
quietly held ont her dainty handker
chief. “Hm!” he said, and tore his
own into strips.
“And now you?” He tamed to Ve
sey.
“I have ho bnms.” Indeed she felt
no pain. The doctor raised her hand,
and held it out to FanL The sleeve
was cut away from her wrist as by a
jagged knife with a blackened edge.—
The flesh was like a flame. Haul’s
teeth shut tight and quick together.—
Something sprang into his eyes—not
tears alone.
Then Vesey began to tremble; and,
concious at- last of the crael pain that
bit and tore her hand, she sobbed like
a hurt child.
“Don’t mind,” she tried to say.—
“Don’t look at me. Its only—only ”
The sobs swept all her words away.
Paul bathed her hand. She remem
bered afterwards how tenderer than
any woman’s had been his touch.
“Let her cry,” said the doctor, in a
voice that must have been given by
mistake to the grim face. “And now
she’d better go home.” He rose from
the bed. He took the unharmed hand
in his. “She’s a brave girL” He
looked away from her- to Paul, bnt
still he held her hand tight in liis.—
“God bless yon, child. Now go home
and go to bed.”
Paul lifted her into the sleigh and
wrapped the robes about her.
“Shall T go with you?”
“If I can take yon home.”
“Oh no; I must go in here again.”
“Then you need not.”
It seemed suddenly as if they had
known each other a lifetime—she and
Paul; as if they could never be stran
gers to each other again.
She held out her hand. It was the
one he had bound np. He took it
tenderly in both his own. “The
brave, strong hand!” he said, bending
over it in darkness—“the hand that
saved a life to-night.”
V.
There was to be a bazar, to raise
money for the poor. It opened the
next evening. The winter had been
hard and cruel, and charity—some-
•what exhausted—needed a spur.
Vesey had promised to tend a booth.
“You must not think of going,” her
father exclaimed. Darrel, too—who
foresaw a quiet hour with her alone,
if she remained at home. He had
something to tell—something to ask
for, and a ring to give. Alas for him!
He had kept his words too long. A
year ago they would have been manna
to her heart.
“But I am quite well,” she pleaded,
“except my hand; and that has ceased
to pain me.” Indeed her face was
radiant.
So she dressed herself with quaint
simplicity in something soft and gray
that wrapped her like a cloud, with
only the braids of her heavy hair for or
nament; only her shining eyes for gems.
Then she went and took her place.
The maidens from the Chinese pa
godas were all there. Before them,
in their gay attaire, the Queen of
Sheba, and even Solomon, the mag
nificent, would have shrunk away
abashed—their glory dimmed.
Vesey’s nun-like dress was worse
than diamonds in their envious eyes.
More gay gallants than one paused to
stare—to buy.
Tt cools your eyes, you see, and
rests you some way,” vonchsafed one
man, by way of explanation.
The evening was half over. Darrel
had been her shadow. She was tired;
tired of his eyes that followed her
whichever way she turned; tired of his
flattering words; tired of him. He
moved away at last. Then, and not
until then, she saw PanL All the
maidens plumed their gay feathers as
he walked down the hall. Bat he
came straight to her.'
‘Are you well enough to be here?”
without a word of greeting, as though
they had not ported. “Yon frighten
ed me with your white face just now.”
1 was tired. I wanted to go home.”
‘Will you go now?” he asked quick
ly. “Are you strong enough to walk?”
“Oh yes.”
“Then come.”
It was strangely pleasant to be bid-
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Darrel i ihimw h
them, with and oath upon his lips.
“But think a moment.” Paul’s"
voice grew iriore gentle now. “It will
be a hffiih long foad—it -toad that has
no turn.”
Bnt she still smiled.
“A rough way perhaps, and your
feet are tender.”
! T will walk with yon,” she said.—
Scribner's Monthly.
Stick to Your Bush.
Mr. Morgan was rich, and also a
good man. The people of the town
respected him, and sent him to Con
gress, nnd seldom undertook to do
anything without asking his advice.
If a school house waste be built, the
plan had to be talked over with him.
Widow P asked him whnt she
should plant in her field; S al
ways got his advice in buying cattle,
and Mrs. R consulted him about
bringing up her boys.
When asked how he was so success
ful Mr. Morgan said I will tell you
how it was. One day when I was a
lad, aparty of boys and girls were going
to a pasture to pick blackberries.
1 wanted to go with them, bnt was
afraid my father would not let me.—
When I told him what was going on,
he at once gave me permission to go
with them, Iconld hardly contain my
self for joy, and rushed into the kitch
en to get a big basket, nnd asked mo
ther for a Inncheon. I had the bas
ket on my arm and was just going ont
of the gute, when my father called mb
back. He took hold of my hand, and
said, in a very gentle voice: ‘Joseph,
what are yon going for, to pick har
ries or to play?’ ‘To pick berries,’I
replied.—‘Then, Joseph, I want to
tell yon one thing. It is this: When
yon find a pretty good bash don’t
leave it for a better one. The other
hoys and girls will ran abont, picking
a little here and there, and wasting a
great deal of time and not getting
many berries. If yon do as they do,
yon will come home with your basket
empty, if yon wont berries, stick to
your bush.’
“I went with the party, nnd we had
a capital time. Bat it was jast as my
father said. No sooner had one fonnd
a good bush than he called all the rest,
and they left their several places to
ran off to the newly fonnd treasure,
Not content more than a minute or two
in one place, they rambled over the
whole pasture, got very tired, and at
night had but few berries. My fath
er’s words kept ringing in my ears,
and I ‘stuck to my bush.’ When
night came I had a large baket full of
berries, more than all the others put
together, and was not half so tired as
they were. I went home happy. Bnt
when I entered the honse, I fonnd
that my father had taken very fll. He
looked at my basket fnll of ripe black
berries and said: ‘Well done Joseph.
Was it not jnst as I told you? Always
stick to your bush.’
He died a few days after, and I had
to make my way into the world as best
I could. Bnt my fathers words sank
deep into my mind, and I have never
forgotten the experience of the hlack-
berryparty; I stuck to my bosh.—
When I had a fair place, and was do
ing tolerably well, I did leave it and
spend weeks and months in trying to
find abetter one. When the other
young men said; ‘Come with us, we
will make fortunes in a few weeks,* I
shook my head and stuck to my bush.
Presently my employers offered to
take me into business with them. I
stayed with the old house until the
principals died, and then I had every
thing I wanted. The habit of stick
ing to my business led people to trust
me, and gave a character. I owe ali i
have and am to this motto: ‘Stick to
your bush.’ ” *
General News Items.
Helmbold denies that he fan lunatic.
Philadelphia thieves rob blind peo
ple.
Polk county, Florida, has a negro
witch.
Amboy, Illinois, has had a $200-
000 fire.
Paper table cloths are in contempla
tion.
Iowa boasts of a six thousand acre
dairy farm.
Ex-President Jefferson Davis fa at
the Alleghany springs.
California has raised a considerable
cotton crop this year.
Charleston .had quite an extensive
fire Saturday night.
Mobile, Alabama, exports more or-
anges tfam ]lfpssiTm.
James Gorden Bennett, Jr. t spent
$125,000 in yachting last year.
Lemons are among the most receipt
successful products of Illinois,
Twelve tbonsand acres of 1
sold near Winchester, Tenn., a few
days ago, at ten cents per acre.
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New York papers ore filled with
shootings stabbings, robberies, rapes
and crimes of every imaginable char-
acter.