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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1887 [ALLAH COURTLAND OR, An American Countess. By T. K. SHARKEY, Author of “Shadowed Hearts,” “The Heritage of Sin,” “Out of the Depths,” “Viola,” Etc. CHAPTER IX. The loue sun baking days of July bad August, though the hottest of the P* 88 ** 1 in Florida, was ushered m t'iSTphenomenal charge of blustering winds Mid forked lightning, but there was only the sjsm "3 waves of diamond powder. Yet, as ever witn ThTlovely child of nature, a southern clime with ite swift transit from smiles to tears and back To smihs again, the evening cleared off beautifully. There was the sme.l of rain-drops iTthe dust and the odor of wet leaves and flowers in the air, which w as fresh and cool without chillmess. Ker ne h was now able to sit up and in a roller chair he was moved abou. from room to room. , . . ... This evening he bad been left in the library to amuse himself with the newspapers and -ffi£h had gone for a biisk walk on the ^At'iast, Sir Richard found Kenneth alone. When Lallah returned there was only Ken neth in the l'brary. He was pate and agitated. His hands wen-hot and dry and his eyes un- “SSK is r !f ? h Vho has been exciting you?” she ask^d'with tender solicitule I ns. ant y she divined the truth. Her father L..d taken advantage of her absent e. He had appealed to Kenneth’s honor. And Kenneth wi.h a .He lifted her tearful face and kissed it many times, then pushed her gently away. “Go now, dearest,” he said brokenly. “I must conquer this pain, must meet this bit terness alone. The grief in your face, your tears will anmaa me. Leave me alone to night, tomorrow we will say farewell—God help me!” be broke down and wept bitter tears, lie was still not strong and the physical weak ness made it impossible to him to subdue his emotion. She felt his tears fall on her face. "O, is there no help for us—must we part! Can my father be so cruel!” “We must part! Heaven help us!” he an swered. “I have sworn it.” “I wi'l love you all my life—no other man shall call me wife, I swear it!” Silently they mingled their tears together; and then after a speechless, fervent embrace she left him alone. It was an hour later when she entered her fa her’s pn sence. She knelt at his feet im ploring him not to seperale her from Kenr.eth; saying that she would be utterly wre'ched apart from him. The eloquence of her appeal wiih her tears was too much for the doating father. “Separate us if yon will,” she continued, “for awhile, one, two, or three years, bit do not part us for life. I would sooner have death than life without my love.” In vain he reasoned with her; telling her that. unselfishness had consented to give j jjj not know herse f; she was so young hir up. rr. mv love, I know what has happened.” she said, kneeling beside him ’ n'^ot” tear me excite you dearest, they shall not tear me away from you. lam your wife Kenneth- no one can part us,” and she touched his cbefk with b**r sweet warm lips* “In my blind happiness, he said slowly and painfully, “I allowed your sacrifice but I will r.ght the wrong now, darling. I ■ w 1 ot, too late to restore the gift-precious as it is to me—the acceptance of which was so great a wrong to you. It was noble in you, my queen to give tills highest reward-yoursell-for the poor service I rendered your father. A i,. he is right, only just to me to open my blind eyes to the ei ormity of the sacrifice to you and to him. I would be a craven not to ac knowledge it, not to return to aim that price less gift. It has been unpardonable seih-h, and mean in me not to bavr realized it before —but I have been so happy, so yiy-blimed. Forgive me! my love—mine, for a brier bliss- ful period-mine no more. God help me to be aJ “Hush!” she whispered tenderly, tearfully “you have married me Kenneth, you are no longer free to say whether you will keep m— 1 am yours—you are mine. Ho not speak of it again! I will not listen. I thought at first it was a sacrifice—and due to you; but I m> ant that you should never know it. I think now I must have loved you then, before, and all the time. I know that I love you now, that it never was, never will he a sacrifice to be your wife. I can never be happy apart from you. The union solemnized by the holy church rite cannot be annulled—it would be a sin to do it. “Listen, my beloved. You are not of age, only with your father’s consent could that marriage be legal. The circumstances under which it was contracted will be another strong point in favor of the annuilment. It will be a very simple process to secure a divorce \wtn the full consent of both parties added to the points already in favor oi i'—your minority and your father’s protest. You will soon see that it is best and will agree to join me m a petition to that effect.” “Kenneth, your love is cold that you can talk so calmly about a separation. You co not love me as 1 thought.” . “It is because I love you so dearly that I can do it. Have you found me so sf Itishly un generous that you cau think l would do you this Wron “It is not a wrong,” she said impatient y. "You must think me vilely proud, with narrow ideas indeed, to believe that 1 would rather crush out my heart s best love than bear your untitled name. 1 here is not a nobleman in our country who is as noble as you. Humble as the name is I would rather he plain Mrs. Rayl.urne—which I am—than the proudest duchess In the realm. Will you not believe me, dearest? I am your wife, 1 need not blush to own it, to tell you unasked that I love you better than my own life. Mow, you will cease to speak >f loroug to me. 1 never before spike my love so boldly.” “Bless you for it my darling—it is a meas ureless joy to me. Bat—” he shook his head sadly, though pressii g her clo.-er to him; and he kissed passionately the lips so close to bis face, while tears were in his eyes. “Listen to me calmly,” he couth ued, “we must part. You have just said that I was no- ble—continue to believe it dearest; do not let me tear awav your faith in nie by weakness she would change; that if he should grant her prayer now she wou'd live to regret it, herself, and bitterly reproach him; that her character was unformed, her nature in it’s infancy, as it were, love was but a fancy, a romance; that he was simply saving her from hersrlf, her worst enemy, in this unfortunate fancy. “Try me! try me with a temporary separa tion from Kenneth. Test us both with absence or a; year or two. This is all I ask of you. Take no step in the matter of annulling our marriage now; give ns two years, three if you wish it, and then if we will have charged as you prophesy the divorce can be obtained.” He raised her up, embraced her tenderly, then walked the room for some moments in deep thought. Perhaps it would he as well to concede this he decided, a’osenca would do the work itself. In a year or two she would realize her mistake—and it would seem less cruel, would seem less like ingratitude to his preser ver; certainly kinder to him, and he owed h m so much.” She watched him with a desperate anxiety —would he relent? her heart throbbed pain fully. “It shall he as yon propose” he said,and her face brightened with a happy radiance that moved him. “We will go back to England at once,” he continued, “and Kenneth shall obligate him self not to seek to see you or to c- inmunicate with you for three years; which will be one year after you are of age." “Three years—and without even a letter— it is very hard; but we will bear it to satisfy you.” There was a smile of satisfaction in his face because the battle »as over; and he believed the peace would last, that, three years absence away from Kenneth’s influence, would accom plish the,linal separation. “You will promise in turn,” she su'd, “that if we are constant to thi< love you will with draw all opposition to our union?”' “Yes. i promise.” “Will you not go to Kenneth now, father, and tell him this? The agitation has already been harmful He is so weak yet. Promise me that you will make him understand that at the expiration of three years he can accept the gift of his own wife without wronging her.” “I will make it clear to him. I will release him from his oath to give you up forever.’' 1 She w<Int off to her room—tin re were *t ; li tears iu !)er eyes, nut she was humming sjflly a tender little song. When - he joined her father and Kenneth all trace of tears was gom ; she looked bright with recovered hope and was very lovely’ in the fresh white muslin dress and pink rose-buds at her throat. There was a soft happy light in Kenneth’s face. Their eyes met fondly, their hands clasped silently. No words were needed to seal the compact, to assure each other of faithfulness, of con stancy in their love, through the t iree years of trial. Sir Richard wrote an article of agreement; to which he deman led their signatures with a solemn oath, from each to abide by the condi tions therein contained—to the effect, that they would make no effort to see each other, or communicate directly or indirectly, with each other for the space of three years, and, in the event of a later attachment on the part of my care, my special charge, and whom you discovered in the Brown cottage, was Arthur’s son. I had pledged myself to his dying mother to raise and educate him. Besides, I loved the child very dearly. But under the trying circumstances 1 could not, when 1 mar ried you, take the boy into your home; be cause I could not tell you his history and claims upon me without revealing alL “On my knees I implored yon to trust me, to bear me, but you spurned me; you returned my letters unopened. You banished me in disgrace from your home. I was innocent yet cruelly treated. All the evil in my nature was aroused and I swore to be revenged on you and Philip. I never loved yon, Eric; I mar ried you to spite Philip He had taught me to love him when I was but a school-girl. Af terwards he ignored his boyish fancy for me. I was proud, yet I loved him to that I stooped to the unwomanly act of offering myself to him. He refused me. Ah, from that hour I think I became a changed woman. It was thought that you would never marry, being a cripple, and you were already past thirty. You being the elder brother, I knew your marriage would be a disappointment to Philip. I determined to win you, determined that Philip should'never bring a wifi to be mistress at ‘Delvynne Court.’ “Living under an assumed name here with the ocean rolling between you and your own country, you believed that you bad disap peared utteriy from your old world. After our separation and the publicity you, in your passion of jealousy had given to it, your price forbade you to remain in your own land and among your high life kindred. But f never lost sight of you. I lived for five years under your own roof here in your new, adopted countrv. “H:.! ha! ha! You litt’e dreamed that Dinah Holdsworth, your housekeeper of fifteen years ago, w s your discarded wife disguised. Nor have you ever imagined that the boy she brought into your home there, to whom, in your solitary’ life you became devotedly at tached, and adopted later on as your nephew and joint heir with your daughter, and to who n you have recently beiroihed your daugnter, was the son of your bitter foe, Ar thur Denver. Hi, ba, Herbert Castleton is the baby b >y of ‘Brown Cottage.’ “'Yoman! fiend! flow you have lied to me!” He tried to rise but she placed a detaining hand on his breast. “lYfiat would you do?” she asked mock ingly. “I vould destroy the proo’s 1 have gathered .through your base designs to establish a 'alse heir. Out of my way, woman! I will undo it all. Ilerveus! that I have cherished the son of mv hitter enemy, believing him to be my brother Philip’s child. Give me fiat package of papers, tin re! in recess No. 3, of my desk. Woman! will you not relent now? Have you not caused misery enough already to satisfy your unho.y vengeance? Let me do justice to the living before 1 die.” “No,” relentlessly. “You are helpless to alter what you have done. Had I not known that you were powerless to make any change I would not be here now to reveal all the truth to you and to gloat over my triumph ” “Yet how can I know your lies from your truths? You may be telling me this to tor ture me." “One thing you may believe, that Philip was innocent of the charges against him. By accident we embarked on the same vessel. He was in search of his wi e. I had driven her from him with the false story of his villainy towards her. Marvelous as it may seem she was on the very steamer that rescued Philip and I from the lost life-boat. One m >uth later she bore him a son, and that son lives.” With unnatural strength Eric Oliver sprung from his bed. His face grew purple with in ments. Happiness is just ahead of us all we think, and we lay our plans and fix our hooks and dig our bait and drop our lines in some inviting hole and by and by the hook gets hung under a root and we worry over it awhile and pull and the line breaks. Or perhaps we bang something that b tea slow and cautious and we haul up a little dirty old terrapin. Or again we hang a lively fellow and he runs round and round and we brace ourself for t trout and haul up a slickery squirming old eel But nevertheless, I am going a fishing. the(oiTnt^y Philosopher rCopyrighted by author. All right? reserved.] Note.—By special arrangement, with the author of ch. t-e articles and the Atlanta Constitution, lor which p per they are written under a special contract, wo publish them in the SCKXX South under the copy right. No other papers are allowed to publish them, I wants some chickens that won’ - , scratch up the fl iwnr seed in the front yard, nor wal low in the fr< sfc made beds, nor fly over in the garden, nor tike the cholera, nor let the hawks catch their young, nor set two in a nest, I want a dog that won’t hark half the night, and will stay at home and know an honest man from a thief, and won’t track mud through the hail nor shake bis fleas around. I want a cow that can be turned on the grass and will have sense enough to let the deute- rougmus alone, as Oobe cal s it. I want some beds that don’t have to be made up, some dishes that don’t have to be washed, some lamps that don’t have to he filled, and a book case that the children can’t get out of order. I want hats and bonnets that will hang them selves up and stay there until they are needed, and some school books and slates and pencils that won’t hide and scatter around. I want a piano that won’t have to be tuned every time Mr. Freyer conies around—one that practice makes perfect and neither moths nor rust doth corrupt. I want a knife and a pencil that the little chaps will give back to me when they borrow, aud some ink that will stay on the table, aud some pins that will stay in the cush ion, and a tawel that won’t show the marks of half-wached hands. I want a cooking stove that draws well and bakes well all the time, and a cook that don’t quit when she gets ready, and never gets sick or has a misery somewhere, nor takes the pouts, and will scour the kitchen floor without being told, and tensity of excitement. It brougbo on another I will give the dog some of the scraps from the He fell back table. I want children and grandchildren and a fatal attack of the heart, against the b- d, dead. [to be continued.] making i desirable to withdraw from the no n- inal re ationship existing between them, they would, without questions,consent to a legal an nulment of the marriage, and s gnity the same by signing a petition fora divorce. Sir Rich ard on his part pledged himself to withdraw all oppo8 tb>n to ihe.r union should they re main c instant to their attachment to each other and iu the end of ihiee years carnes ly desire to live out their lives together. A few days afterward Kenneth Raybume departed from Ra metto. And a week later Sir Richard Heartland with his family sailed tor Kurland. in tliiH would you tempt me t.oclo that which either, or of any change or cause whatsoever would t: ' ’ acter, ten.pt me to gratify my lo*e knowing that it would destroy >ou. no—I cannot, will not, dra? you down to the poor li;e of whi you cannot have the iaiutebt concep tion.” “Apou-lif ! You can call it poor when so full of love and happint ss in each other. 1 will have money enough for both of us; but even in povertv with your lov*‘ I wou.a deem my sell rich—because 1 know it to be the no blest love, and 1 love you so—; ou are ail tne world to mi.” “My d ir inz wife!” with another tender embrace, “lean call you that once more; in my hear .you will ever be my beloved wife- no other can ever take yvur place there, no woman sh all ev r bring me such sweet rela tionship. B it to c me to me you would lose your inheritance. Sir Richard lias told me that the d y y ou go away w ith me as my wi :'e you ot ase t 1 be hi? daughter and heiress, a: d that you have hoi hi lie in your own light—that 1 would have a penniless bride—God knows that is a 1 I want for in self; 1 want only your love, yourself—but alas! 1 am too poor to have such weal'h; too poor to dare ask you to share my meagre earnings. Rover.y, such as that. 1 uare a -t force upon-you. It would not mat ter to me, I hive beer.'poor all my life—but you! ih, it, is nonstrous—impossible to en tertain the thought of it fora moment. It can not be, my dar ing—vou shall leave me. If my death would benefit you 1 wou'd die for you, hut I will not drag you dowu ” Her face waa hid on his breast and she was Wi eping now. i His arms closed around her more firmly, and, kissi g her brow, he whispered: “Perhaps I may win riches—others have ma le fortunes in this country of equal rights and opportunities, I might do it too—and then, if you still love me, we might be happy; for wi'h money enough I might claim n.y wife.” Honoring Eeecher’s Memory. At a meeting of the members of the Temple Israel, St. Louis, Missouri, a proposition to subscribe §300 to the Henry Ward Beecher monument fund was unanimously adopted and the foliowii g telegiam sent: To the Board of Trustees, Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y: Temple Israel of St. Louis subscribes §300 to the fund for buiii ing a monument 11 Henry Ward Beecher, prompted by the love we grate fully owe him for the sake of the divine prin ciple of liberal thought he immmortalized by his blessed life. < S. H. Sonxescuein, Rabbi. A Well Planned Dinner. ‘if I thought it was only a question of a few ! hours?” CHATTER X. Eric Oliver was very ill. A violent spasm of li e heart had prostrated him. It was midnight. Tne lamp in the sick man’s room bad been lowered to a dim, taper light. T v > vi. men were whispering together I at an open window. Adrienne, wno was one of them, left the room abruptly. The person ! remaining was a woman of middle age, with I hair snowy white, though -she was not old | enough to justify it. It had been just that j white since she was thirty. Her eyes were in- ! tensely black, when in repose they weredown- | droopiig w ith a heavy look, as if the fire of | life had burned ou' entirely 7 . Yet, even as a deadened fire-coal will shootout sparks when j agitated by 7 a .sudden gust of wind from a bel lows, so at times an inner breath of scent pis- i sions flashed fire into these dead black eyes. t he patient waked. j This woman turned on the light in a broad t blaze and walked to the bedside, j For a moment the two glared at each other. ; The dull, black eyes expanded as the slow fire i within lighted them, i “You!” he whisp'>red faintly, i “Yes Eric, it is I, your cast off wife.” “VYhat brings you here to disturb my last With a baneful look she said mockingly: “Ho you not think it natural that 1 should A well-planned dinner for a doz-n guests at home need not be expensive, and yet be amply attractive, abundant, and enjoyable. We do not mean to say that great luxuries can bo brought into the menu; these must be avoi ied, of course. But there is no reason why you may not commence it with a few oysters on the shell, follow these up with a very choice soup, then a nice rib-roast, a del icate dessert of pastry, a garden of fruit and nuts, a bite or biscuits and some good old cb-ese, and ending with the little cup of black coff- e. A few bo'tles of native wine may be added throughout the n past to give zest to the enter.ai mient, and the entire cost'shou d not exceed a ten-dollar bill. All that will be needed to make a dinner of such moderate pretentions a success, will be the presence of one good, jolly story teller. Thus prepared you may forget, for the time, the mptr uni ties of creditors and other worries of life, and —what is not of less importance—defy the subtle attacks of indigesti, u. “Frailty, thy Name is Woman.” —Hamlet. That she is frail, often in body, “’Xis true, 'ti.s true, ’tis a pity’ And oily ’tis, ’tis true.” I)r. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription” is the best resLorative t'uii; tor physical frailty in women, or female weaknesses or derange ments. By druggists. Trice reduced to one dollar. A woman in San Antonio, Tex., bmn bltck and of black parents, and who has borne elev en black children, has, within the last seven years turned white. Don’t Read This if you have a sufficiency of this world’s goods, but if you have not, w rite to Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine, and receive, free, fu l par- ticulars about work .liar, you cm d i, and live at home, wliprever you are located, at. a profit of front §5 to §2-5 per day, and upwards. All succeed; both -exos; al aves All s new. Capital not required; Hallett & Co. will start you. Don’t delay; investigate at once, aud grand succets will attend you. Salisbury, N. C. has organized an Improve ment Association with a view to increasing its ma iufacturiug interests. A cotton lactory is the first enterprise contemplated. Tears separation I could bear it and thiuk it jjjst ami aven now, though a bitter grief to | us b >th I will say to you, that I feel that you he here to see you die? I have come to receive are right, that in’vour condition now you cat - ’ ‘ J ~ not take me—it would ou!v drag us both down together—but I believe I will die; to part from you always will break my heart. “No no do not let me think that; I could not bear the belief that I had spo led your life. Sweet as the thouzht is to me that you will love me alwavs as you do now I would not have it so. Ah, no! love for me must not mar vour fu'uro.. I will go away from you tomor row- aud I w 11 not stop there, but I will crush out the very wislt that you will go on loving me to the end of ife. ’ With a faint sad smile she said; “That is something that neither you or I can change at will. To me, to love once is love evermore.” “Not so, dear. You will grieve, but the sor row and longing will not be abidiDg; time and a' s^nce are so much at ainst it. lou will go back to your own proud land among your aris tocratic order and my life here will be so poor in comparison; you cannot help to see the line drawn between. Time blunts the edge of all sorrow, br nzs to us realization of facts, and love droops behind them, then dies out leaving only a memory that seems almost unreal, and it is without regret. You will learn to care for another, one more su ed to mate wi .h you— you are young, beautiful, rich, noble by nature anil birth —Ab, G id! so far out of my reach,” dip d away in a wail of pain, both f l , ha ' i® ibe refinement of cruelty to ^I'toach. 8 ’" 3tle 8aid in a Toice of‘passionate your last c mmauds, and also your thanks for what I havo done. Do I not des> rve your gratitude for giving up to you our daughter Adrienne, aud also for clearing away from Philip’s name the black spot of dishonor that had shadowed it unjustly 7 for so many years? Surely you wish to thank me for the true story of that shipwreck and your brother Philip’s death at sea. My silence concerning that voy- j Montana, age and it) catastrophes for twenty-three years was a part of my revenge. Indeed the scandal attached to it, involving both my honor and Philip Delvynne’s, I originated my self. My reve.ation of the truth to you, through mv letters, was not to give you the joy of recovered faith in a loved brother, nor to clear Philip's name, hut for a purpose the nature of which you will scon discover. Be fore you die I want to tell you all, teat you may understand why I dedicated my life to vengeance, and that you mav know the full completeness of that life’s work. She paused a moment, looking at lum tri- UU “You wronged me bitterly, Eric, and Philip led you to do it. The man you hated Arthur Denver, was my own brother. He had gotten teto trouble and was forced to change his name. 1 was sworn not to betray mm. Be sides you were so antagonistic to him, a-id siuco, j v nsiirip tn bad Horsford’s Acid Phosphate In Nervous, Mental or Physical Ex haustion. Dr. N. S. Read, Chandlersville, 111., says: “It is of the highest value in m- ntal a d nerv ous exhaustion, attended by such functional (listuroances as sick headache, dy spepsia, di minished vitality, etc.” Tennessee Complimented. On the 16th President Cleveland appointed Hen. Newton W. McConnell, of Tennessee, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of table. around me who don’t know how to cry and hardly ever get mad, and don’t tell tales, and are as smart as the books they have to study—or if they are not that smart, then I want books made easy. Professor Sanford says his arithmetic has no key, hut is a stem winder. Well, if it has no key it oughtent to have any lock. I have to work till ten o'clock every night helping my chaps to prize it open; but we generally suc ceed, aim I recifoii it is all the better that way. I do hate to hat e to surrender to these chil dren. It is a confession of judgment when I can’t do a su n or parse a sentence or translate their Latin. When I get all tangled up in fig ures or in algehra, and can’t untangle, I say 7 : “Weil, children, these modern hooks are all new to me. Wj don t figure now just exactly like we used tol I studied Smiley’s arithme tic, which batkflje single rule of three and the louble rule of tjiree that aid most every sum in the world. And I studied Murray’s gram mar and Day’s algebra; but now-a days they have got new books, aud short cuts, and stem winders, and al 1 sorts of readers, and eclec tics and dialectics, and epilectics, and other complicated inueMi es that I don’t exactly un derstand.” And so I get out of it without losing very much parental prestige. But the fa ri is, I have forgotten about as much as I know, perhaps more, and still have to keep pegging away. About ail the Latin T care to remen.her now is, otium cum dit/nitate. and I want plenty of that. I am going fishing to morrow and stay all day. I will rig up a big wagon and take the children along and a bas ket of lunch, and we will fish and frolic and gMlher flowers and eat and talk and laugh and get dirty ail day long. The signs are all ri.lit, for the dogwood is in bloom, and the wind is in the South, and it is the dark of the moon, and I think I see my self just jerking, the big bream from under the log. Cari knows every hole in the creek, and he can catch more fish than I can and don’t try half as hard. Jesgie wants to pick flowers, and I’ve promised her she may wade in the branch, hut her mot her don’t know it. Je<s e comes to me and Carl goes to Lis mother for favors. What a pity it is that grown folks can’t be children once or twice in awhile and w&dti in the branch too. The next time Judge Bleckley goes to S.reamer moun tain to he a boy again and go barefooted aud make hickory whistles aud chestnut fifes and catch spring iizzards and crawfish arid climb trees f"r birds’ eggs, and make black ants fizht, and run ground squirrels to their holes and dig angelica and kri snakes and rock hor nets' nests and fight yaller-jackets, I’m going witn him. I’m tired of play ing man all the yearlong v.i hout a recess It is a sort of hypocritical life. I envy the children. The sc iprures sav “uni ss ve be as one of these littl ■ ones, ye s all not” get to heaven. So i’s time to begin, and therefore I’ n going a fish ing. That’s a good Scriptural occupation ati t how 7 , for one of the disnples said, “I go a fishing,” and the teller replied, “I go with thee also.” They were just hu nan like the rest of us I wonder if tb>-y had any hooks and poles like we have. Going a fishing and coming from fishing are two things, verv dif ferent thi'gs. They are no kin. We fix up cur hooks a d line, aud split oullets and rob every empty boaie and jug of its cork, and dig the back yard ail to pieces for bait, and make great, preparations, and imagine the fish are just "waiting for us, and we cau see the pole b ndtng with a big one darting around, and that’s pre’ty much all there is of it—im agination. But it is the most hopeful thing in the world. We swear off and swear off, but in a week or so we want to try it again. We in 'St always hat g one or two, and sometimes get a big one on the edge of the bank and he gets away. Right there the dictionary is at fault, for the r; is no w >rd in it that fits the case—that expresses the inexpressible gene ness of the occasion. It makes a feller feel sick at the s’omach. But I hav. gotten to be reconciled to most any 7 thi;.g t ow and don’t take on like I used to. My business now is to comfort others and ht-lo them 11 be liapp v—an i 1 believe that pays the he t after all. Blessed is he who expects little, for he shall not be disappointed. jT/Humoh The Tramp. As recited by Dan Collyer. (Ry Request.) L-mme sit down a minute, h stone’* pot tn try shoe; I) n’t von commence your cussId’, I ain’t done noth in’ tO'OU Yas, I’m a tramp. Wbatcfit? Folks say we ain’t no pood. But tramps has to live, I recon. thr u, h f; Iks don't think we should O.ce 1 w-s stroDgaud hindsome, and plenty clcash and clothes; That was afore I tii n"d ard gin pot Into my nofe. Down In 'it- Lebtgh V iey nu and ir.y people grew. I was a blacutnuib, cap’eu—its, and a good one, too; ’■le and my wife and N-Ilte; N-Utew as jsisfslxteer— 8ne wastbepootii s creetern evabey n deverreen Beaux? Wny, she bad a dozen—Uad ’em front near and fur But tl ey were mostly fanners—none of’em suited her. There was a city s ranger—young, handsome and tat. Curse him—I wish I had him strangled sgin that wait. He was the man for N rilte—she didn’t know no ill; Mother, she tri-d to stop it but you know a young gal’s *11'. Well, tr’s the same old story—common enough, you’ll say, He wae a soft-tongued devil, and got her to run away. More than a month or after we heard from the poor young thing— He’d gone sway and left ter without a wedding-ring. Back 'o her home we brought her, hack to her moth er’s side. Filled with a raging fever—she fell at my feet and died. Frantic with shame and trouble, her mother began to sink, Dead—In less than a fortnight—that’s when I took a driDk. Gimme one glass, curnel, and then I’ll be on my way; I’ll tramp till i fl d that scoundrel, If it takes til! the Judgement Day Dickens’ Works in 15 Yoinmes! For thirty now subscribers we will send a Long Primer edition of Liokens works in fifteen volumes. Probably no author at the present time is more uni versally read than Dickens. There are in the market more than fifty different editions of his works, printed by numerous publishers, and ranging in prioe from |5 to *500 ner set. We have selected for our list the most desirable one we have seen for the prioe. The type is large (Long Primer Old Style). Die plates are new. Thipaper is exoeUent. It is well printed,and handsome ly bound in doth and gilt. The roll-page illustrations are numerous and are well exeouted. 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Fir • ers and others will And the legal loruia and information Costarica In tins LkjoJcOa grea value and of daily use. Handsome cloth ■■■>— For three new subscribers we will send a copy of this book to any address, p< paid. A Despitefully-Used Youngster. [Boston Record.] Little Grace took little Ted’s toy elephant away from him and wouldn’t give it back. Ted ran at his sister like a tow-headed fury and Grace gave him a sounding slap on the face. Ted’s cries brought their mother to the scene of action and she carried him off to bed, leaving the aggressor Grace in possession of the fii'id. Ted explained matters to the ear of maternal sympathy as he was being put to bed. Well, Grace was naughty,” said the mo ther, as she put on Ted’s nightgown. “I’ll have to talk to her about it. But you must forgive her, Teddy. And you must pray for hei, too,” she added, as Ted bumped down on l.ris knees iu his usual devotional attitude. “Just, let me go down stairs and give her one good slap first, like she gave me,” 6aid Ted, wrathfuliy. “O, no, darling, goon with your prayers,” said the mother, softly, smoothing his hair with her hand. “Tire Bible says we must pray for those who d *~pitefally use us.” “Mamma,” asked Ted, earnestly, lifting his face, “Mamma, did j ou ever try it?” What is the Use of Sighing? BY PAULINE GKEYSOX. What Is the use t sighing thus, Waen other snul3 are gi id; Assuming o’er the sable shroud When ail iu white ars clad? This i f- , at best, Is all tooshort, Tho’ ott It long may seem. Mfi ev care and woo fore’er beset, W ith no hope to redt em. What is the use of si hiflg Ihu*, When other hearts ar light? For wueri our sky is ov rcast The sun still '■nine as bright— The heaven s ill clear b yoiid the haze Tb t fl lots ’1 ween It uno earth; The flo > ers -'ill sc-atrhe ba my air, Tne air stil; teems with m roi. What Is the use of sighing thus When oth< rs constant smile? Th-y,tno, like ibee. have felt lire’s ills, Its anguish and its euiie. So s gh no mors, but firmly vow To seem forever glad; F t tho’ thy f»te Is drear, e’en that 0.~ others is as bid! NEEDLE-WORK ireedi2-^7ork : A Manual of Stitches and Studies in Em- Thisr an nil j an attempt to Edited by Jenny "June systematize air? arranRoia: i order convenient f~r workers, tho mod'ra methods ii E*nb**<tidery mid Oruvu Work. Tiio author has felt iho desi. ‘ sp-'iisibiiity Involved in aiding women to a t"ti rt and practkvl L-'ride to the beautiful nrtt-f needle work. When theAajtelor 21 rcy bor.'c 1 t . t woman might not bo created K cause s’ < wot: d bo abused by man, nsine stronger, the Lord listened, but felt teat he could not give up the whole scheme of creation, sol e fc .rr i : vtirj Angel permission to be«tow upon her a»’y c unpon- gatir? gift she ehese, and the Angel pityingly endowed her with tears and the love of needle-work. This bouk is printed on hue paper, has a handsome cover, and contains 200 Illustrations The list of stitches, with illustrations, are : Buttonhole—Hem stitch-Brier {Stitch—Crow’s Foot—Herring Bone—F- 'dd»*r btiich— Two Tie—Three Tie—Drawn Work—Stem Stitch—Twisted Chain cr Rope Stitch—Split Stitch—French Knot—Solid L- af—Satin Stitch —Padding—Dart lng Stitch—Skeleton Outline—Couching, Kensing ton, Filling, Coral, Italian, Leviathan and Holbeui stitches— __ Applique—Interlaced Ground—Weaving Stitch—(*pld aad Silver tv . . ,, __ ~ ‘ Thread— Arrasene Ribbon Work, etc. uesigrts in Needle-w ork are given to decorate T-Ty Lady’s Chamber. 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When once de ception begins, there follows so much to be concealed The boy who was secre .ly under Wife (reading the paper)—I see that money is quoted cheap. Why don’t you get some? Husband—Beeause it requires security, my dpar, and security is scarce with an upward tendency. College professor: “What was 'be principal requirement among the ancient Romans for a funeral with public honors?” Student: “A corpse!” Before the wedding day she was dear and he was her treasurt. but afterward she became dearer and he treasun r. JX. OA To all who nro sr Soring trom the errors and Indiscretions or youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss or manhood. I will send a reci;>e that will cure you, FULL OT CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America. Sen i a Belt-addressed envelope to the BIT. JOSEPH T. INMAN, Station D. .Vein York City. “Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.” I don’t say that, but Poet Young said it in bis solemn night-.houahts. And then Gold smith cipied and usetfi' in his ballad of tho Hermit. But hu ney Smith was of a lively turn of mind, and said: “Man wai te but little here below, As Betf, veal, muf on, pork aud venison show.” And next came John Quincy Adams, who set down on it ai.d wrote: ‘ Man wants but little fiere below, Nor wants that little long. ’Tis not with me exactly so, Tho’ ’tis so in the song.” I want a good deal. I want more than I get, but I don’t want it ..ad enough to mate a hog of myself nor break the tenth commandment. I a!wa\s admired the happy way in which Daniel Webster used some lines from Dryden when he said he was thankful that ‘ if he could not raise a mortal to the skies” he had no de sire “to bring an angel down.” Butstill Hove to go a fishing, whether I catch them or not. It is a good time to ruminate. The business is so tj nical of life. I; K htpes and disappoint- No Wonder He Made a Nervous Prayer. [Kingston Freeman.] “I decl're for’t, I never saw or heard a man make so nervous a prayer as Brother did the other evening,” said one Kingston City man taanother the other morning. “Danged if I didn’t think he’d break clean down at one lime.” “And no wonder he was so worked up,” was tie reply. “Why, a mouse ran up the man’s trousers just, as he started in on the prayer, and he had to let the critter play hide and seek there or else break dowu completely. His wife is deathly afraid of mice, and Brother knew mighty well there’d be tun aud a regular pan e if he shook the critter out where she’d catch a sight of it, so he bore the afflic tion like a little man till the amen came, and then be grabbed that particular part of his trousers leg that held the mouse. He showed the half dead critter to me when we were leav ing the church, aud I laughed till I cried over the story.” * If a h'di ktss a hoOy, Nred a body cry? Veil b rd'y—It - >me other body I;n’t standlne y. Complicated Anger. “You say your wife is in a bad Gilbooly humor?” Penny bunker: “You bet she is.” “What is she mad about?” “In the fi -st place she got mad at the ser vant girl, then she got mad at me because I din’t get mad at the servant girl, and now she is mad at herself because I got mad at her be cause she got mad at the servant girl. Dojcu understand?” It’s Spring to-da>; i !•, Ins all sing, A'd there’s scsrc-ly at ‘u.riu of sorrow; Bingo; lime slow, lnrail at you know A cold wave Is po«sidie ro-Diorrow. Wasted Beauty. “Why do you wear your low-necked dresses in the theatre?” asked a sensible woman of herbu'terfly sister. “To please the men, of course,” was the vain reply. “And don’t you think you’d succeed bet ter,” said the other, “if you removed your hat instead of your waist?” A lady told this story 7 the other day in Soro- sis, the incident having occurred in her own family: A small boy was requested to look up the word anonymous and use it in a sentence. He found the meaning to be “without aname,” and thereupon haDded the following to his happy parent: “Mama has given us a new baby; it is anonymous.” He appeared to he almost gone. Rolling his eyes toward the partner of his bosom, he gasped: “Bury ma ’nea'h the weepingwillow; plant a simple white rose above my bead.” “Oh, its no use,” she snapped out, “your nose would scortch the roots.” He got well. They had been engaged for a long time, and one evening were reading togeth-r. “Look, love,” he exclaimed, “only $15 for a suit of clothes!” “Is it a wedding suit?” she asked, looking naively at her b ver. ‘Oh, no,” he answered; “it is a business suit.” “Well, I meant business,” she replied. 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