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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA
, GA*
TURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1891.
mj own feelings under mg feet, yon
snould never nave known that I bad any
thought but the merest friendship tor
yon. But wnen 1 flud yon sad, neglected,
fnll
happy, with your dear eyes always
li of fear for what may happen—when
1 And yon pale and wan, the very shadow
of yourself—inay, wheu I And you wlih
your tender flesh bruised and black
enedby the cruel Hagers of a drunken
brute, l cannot be expected to be silent.
1 cannot be silent—1 am only human,
after all.”
"But what is the good of speaking?”
she asked. <■'
“My dear one,” he answered, taking
her other hand also in his and looking
down into her troubled eyes, “you were
forced into marrying a man whom you
could not love—ne is sun always has been
a brute to you—he masts your very llie
a burden. Is that not so? Well, 1 love
you—1 am not a new mend, a lair weath
er lover; you have known me all our
lives aud you know that you can tiust
me while we both live and as long as we
both live. Why should you go on bear
ing this life of wretcuedneas and misery?
It is not as If your going would hurt your
husband—ne will tot mind it—he has
long ago grown tired of you.”
“How do you know?” she said scarcely
above a whisper.
“Who is Mademoiselle Valerie?” he
asked
“Jack!”
“Why was the Major in such a fever to
know where that card came from? I will
tell you where it came from, Ethel.
About a wtek before, 1 picked that card
up at your gate, one day wnen I had
seen you aud the Major go off in the dog
cai t togetner. You uad toe bro wu horse,
Do you remember?”
“1 remem oer.”
“I wonaered where it had come from,
and today I put it down on a little table
as I went into your room j ust to see if
tbe Major knew anything about her. If
you had seen him ploa it up and heard
his 'Good God' as 1 did you would have
guessed wuo -Mademoiselle Valerie’ is—'
“i did guess,” sue broke in—“I have
known for a long time that there were
others.”
“Then what binds you to him?" Jack
cried. ‘ There are other lands far better
to live In than this If he divorces you,
I will marry you the first day that It can
be legally doue—If he does not 1 will set
tle every farthing I have in the world
upon you and be a pensioner upon your
bounty forever.”
•■You mean that we should go away?”
“Yea.”
“Together?”
“Yts—together. Oh, Ethel, only think
of it.”
“1 can’t think of it ”
“Why not—oh! why not? I would
make you so happy, 1 swear I would.”
• You would try, 1 know, J ack—but you
would never succeed. I am nottLe kind
of woman to live happily under a cloud.
1 should be more wretched too. No—no
—Jack, it cannot be. 1 married Major
Dennis for better or worse, ana though it
is for worse, It might be mucn worse
than it is. 1 would rather go on as I am
—life Is hard enough but 1 can hold up
my head amoug the best yet."
He no longer held her hands hard in
his, and sue drew them gently away.
For some minutes l.esatstarlug thought
fully Into the little, dancing stream at
their ftet, then turned eagerly back to
her again. “Tell me one tning, Ethel,”
he said—‘and tell me truly, won’t yon? ’
“1 will.”
“You do love me?”
She raised her eyes to his, so true and
blue they were ne coaid have kissed
them a thousand times hud he cared to
do it.
“1 will be quite honest,” she said. “I
do love you with all my heart. What Is
the use of pretending that it is not so?
Bat if it will u. t help me to keep straight
and true to myee.f, why ueithei your love
nor mine is of any real good to either of
“0! Ethel, my darling,” be began,
when she put out her hand and stopped
him.
“Yes, I know just whatyoa would say,
but 1 do buffer. I do have to struggle
hard to go on living at all. 1 know mat
I am rignt to say no. JoC t, dear, it Is so
good of you to wish to make me happy—
Heaven nuo * s 1 have need of love run
some one. But let us be patient—we can
always be irieuds, always the best of
friends.”
“1 ask for bread and you give me a
stone,” ho said, bitteriy.
‘ But you wul not refuse tie Btone,”
she said, imploringly.
“No, 1 will taae all that X can get,” he
answered, wlstfudy
She drew a long breath of relief. “I
have not.had mucu experience of men—
I thin-r I only know Cosmo intimately—
but 1 have read much, and in books men
always quarr-1 and are a igry with wo
man was won’t ru i avvay with them I
am very glad you are not going to quar
rel wlta me, J a :k.”
Hi oent- and Kissed her little hand
again—“my dear love,” he said, tender
ly— ‘Shal 1 quarrel with you because of
the very qualities which have made me
love you more than any otuer wo man in
the world? No—no—that would oe fool
ish—chiluisn.”
‘lam glad—so glad,” she murmured
“I have au idea. Jack, that it will all
come right bet weeu us someday—if not
here, then elsewhere.”
nerves, her changed looks, her wretched
life, he loved oer still, just •§ he had done
years and years ago. She felt now that
she was strong and brave, that she could
go through with any trials or troubles
Into frngSolomon’sCave
inat might ^‘“co^ng to her.ta I An Aladdin-like Wonder Eclipsin:
the blessed knowledge that there was
one to whom she would always be yonng
and fresh and lovely, one of whose life
she would always be the snn, of whose
dark days she would be the shining star
which would never set for him on earth.
8ne felt that she did not even mind now
those qualities of ber husband which had
jarred on her every hour of the day,
which had gone nigh to breaking her
heart.
She poshed back tbe loose sleeve from
the arm which Majoi Dannie bad bruised
the previous night and looked tenderly
at the bine ana livid mark. “1 don’t
miudltnow.” she whispered, and then
she pressed her lips where his had been
in the first horror of hie discovery of it.
A servant came to say that dinner was
•welting her, and she rose and went to
the little tiny dining room feeling as if
she were going to sit in a palace. What
an alchemist Love 1st
The room wee so small that It but just
All the Others.
For the Sunny South.
HIS OAVJS is now peer,
lees in America, surpass
Ing in loftiness, extent,
‘andragged macsiveness
Mammoth Gave of Ken
tuqky and the Caverns
of Lnray, surpassing
perhaps in startling
beauty and unlimited
variety any other knew
eaveraa in the world.
Its whereabouts ha
from remotest time
been known to the
natives, bat sapersti-
held thcMtoble and four chairs, thers was I handed down from father to son
no pretense at any otner furniture. Bat I prevented all research.
to Etnel that night, it was like • great During the maglo growth or Middles
her—end tbe very air seemed alive with I w “'°“ 18 onl ? three from that city,
the wonderful tact. I was bought by. “The American Lind
I daresay some critic will take occa- Co.,” and these now almost world-re
slon to preacb a little eermon on this I ,
text and explain to my readers and to I nowne| l caverns were discovered,
me, fer my mtnre guidance, that it was I Not one dark cloud was aeon in the far
exceedingly wrong for a married woman I off bine; the snn shone with all the splen
to have any inch leellngfor a man who dor of R Bnmmer morning, yet hisrays
was not her husband, well, I have not I B J rays
said anywhere, to the best of my remem I were softened by the near approach of
brance, that ft was right—I have not I autumn. We climbed the steep moon
held upmy dear little ungutded heroine tain elde, having for oar guide a truant
r.J'Sr.C! ■•—««- *°....
into her life did happen, and my readers !£™ 8 h „ downw "' d
must take tbe history of them exaotly 11 t came
for what they are worth. q i IIttIe hon *®
It seems to me each a mistake that o™?the In rock ’
those who have a story to tell should be I \ we
urged to paint their heroines In colors Inam °-
so delicate and so spotless that they I akimh^fr.S Chel 7?
have no resemblancT to the hnmai £“ e r d h ^ a “."““o'™£. and aqa,U
women whom we meet out in the world I ond^n'oitorf'i'io tS h * *f eetud us
of every day life. O f courae a woman of f.“ d .n^n > i!?i” t>e P rlml „
blameless reputation is a beautiful thing. I I hB JJ®
and a woman of blameless life Is more I * ®n«i hanks of moss beneath the
beautiful still. Yet in awarding tbe I 8 .. .
measure of blame or praise to those who I ».h» 6 ^i* no ® n8e °f
have sinned or kept themselves unspot 1 drinking In the
ted from the world, I do think the clr- ‘.^® Je8tl S , fore8t . “>«
cnmstances of the case ought to be taken I P ar8aaded d8 > the two
a little Into consideration. I i nor< | won d«rful than
Bat the critic seldom, If ever, takes Ar * t>lan calendars, to
anything Into consideration—he seems I en »fLV 1 rf/oJ5i.HiS n cav ?’ , ,
to tar a whole sex with tbe same brush,a I _~r„ „5J?f^. cen . n ® * 8tee P "taircase we
woman must either be good or bad, black I a n ,, er very - ver J r cold, and
or white. I should really like to know | dew ’ 11 n,ur “ n jcd mystically,
how it would be possible to please these I ??? ii ’ ^ splashed against the
exceedingly captions people. I i I *S e ?, tono wa |* 8 ' ®**ing the cave
For Instance, If I draw a soldier as a I I»,„!Lh , 2l.®V - ^l® “J 081 ® 88 It crept from
good looking, well-groomed animal, hon-1 0 « m r. er to chamber, reiljctlng and re
est aud agreeable, if not very bright of [ reUec t*ng as an Image in two poillsbed
wit, then 1 am told by one critic after an- I . .
other that my soldiers are angels without I ” oa t waa moored at the water’s
wings and the who'e story ju»t too good I ® d8 ®' “°°n wo were In it, and witbont
to be true. Tne next time 1 draw a man I or I, udder were carried to tbe farther
who slanders a woman who has bo dly I ?,\?®' The water straggled and hissed
sti-ppidin between him and a married I i , a llvtn 8 thiDg In the vain endeavor
woman whom he loves. Then up rises a I to .? p our , c° at 88 we passed be
powerful critic on a great dai.y paper I ?® at “ a * ow archway The water ceased
and discourses virtuously on my sins and I ns gurgling. We glanced around. Tne
wickedness in thus bolding up the whole I *L al \ 8 tx P a R ded until we could see only
of the British Army to opprobrium! I do I k, W8 ’ black shadows, of a Stygian
not say but I think that 1 did nothing of
tbe kino, that I certainly held up one , Uur little boat was anchored; our Ian-
evil man to the world, and if that man ler “ 8 bashed upon the high arched dome
Vappeced to be a soldier and a thoroughly and stone tapestried walls. How weird,
bad lot’' at the same time, why that Is I wonderful, une. r.i ly it all was! Prac
his fault and not mine. So the ntxt time , y and nnex piorable logic, dazed,
I waut to draw a lover who is not a model from ds . an(1 we were delivered whol
of all the virtues, I make him quite a I j unl o fanci ul, strange, mysterious
v* 1 v iiuco| x lima e. uitu inr.tu it I i » * , , ' B ” i J
harmnss character, his only si. being *? vln £ Imagination Hud her davoted pet-
tbat he suggests in a very lusitating way 8I 2? era ’ t ‘“® '‘nancies.”
to the girl ne lovtsthat they shall dls- , 1 ie .l, on f cream y stalactites that hung
pocse with the marriage ceremony, j I * rc m the fretted dome she called alabas
did not like doing this—I would rather ® en8er - , i the many colored stones
have marii.d them off happily at Urst. I ? bou .? tn , ■ ,or ’ ottomans of India; the
But I warned to show what a good Bud bould et-lllto ones of delicate yet exqui
brave girl who really loved tbe man wltn I 8 ‘t® coloring oi lenlal couches. The »ta
all her heart, woula do under such cir- Jact ltes of a pallid whiteness were grim,
curutttaDc tl j Bcntlbels which must forever
But how the critics howled over that I S u “ rd the entrance way to the great
story—one (a lady ') went so far as to write “‘w? 8 treasure house,
me a letter telling me that she bad been w .® n ? w fouQd ourselves in anitnmeas-
asked te select a few books for a voung urat,, y largo chamber, where the shad-
girl o'eighteen to read on a long voyage. 0WB were chaiiug each other in weird
She knew that the girl loved my stories, I P roct!88 i o n along the vaulted walls and
but she resolutely put this one away be oot^een the ghostlike sentinels as our
caur.e of tho immortality of a man sug lant :rns moved; showing to us but partly
nesting to a girl that they should dls I ’ ts 8 r im yet fascinating grandeur—show-
pense v.ith marriage, owing to the fact M n S to ut but partly the cunning and bolad
that he knew his grandfather had left strobes of the Artist's artist. Nothing,
him all bis properly conditionally on his I w o thought, can equal this, yet we ware
being unmarrhd at tho time of his death. M u| l on—still fanner on—to chambers
I did not ans wer tbe cltur, what was I urander, more magnliicmt unseen
the goad? But 1 have said ‘ God help the Imagination was ever bsside us, whisper,-
poor young girl of eighteen’’ very many I l n S * n our n °t unwilling ear.
times since tuen. For myseif, I have no I In what order these apartment" came,
admiration for the purity which is pure I do ? ot now remember; but many of the
only because it has no opportunity to be inimitsble works of art I can never for
3nythiug el-e Give me the gold that £ ot " Here before us was the balcony of
has oeen tritd in the fire! Romeo and Juliet Beautiful it is, with
8o I do not ask you to accept Ethel Jtihtrolllsed vine-work of stone. Strangs
oat the dark, rich draper/Fancy told
wan master statues, too. Some were
mutilated like Venue, Approdlte and the
Gladietor, la the Vatican.
stalagmites and stslsc-
formlng (arabesque pll-
carved, which seamed
the mossy roof. Near
this ohamber we stood,
m the image of the virgin
’ infant Jtsna in her
was a parti colored
ed to the dreamy god
ry stirred by the wind,
on, loeiog ourselves more
and more in the mazy labyrinth, bat, un
like Ariadne, I bad not dropped the cord
along the serpentine corridors. The kind
guide smilingly assured ns memory could
not forsake hi hi here.
As I would have finished my imperfect
description,Fancy whispers, the “Market
Chamber.” - Trot, I have not told of the
immense bananas, the fatted turkeys,
fish, pumpkins, etc , that hung from the
walls like the farmers’ display at a county
fair. On a largo rock blackberries lay as
though just overturned. Had we the
dlgeetive powers of an ostrich, that par
ticular port of the oave would have been
robbed of its most interesting sped
mens.
Under the auspices of G B. Cockrill,
General Manager of tbe American Land
Company, these caverns have been ex
piored eight miles into the heart of the
Cumberland, and now some adventnrons
spirits are making preparations to go
even farther.
As we retraced oar steps all seemed
wild, weird and beautiful os before—tne
grotesque figures on the river Styx, the
Fairy Queen's boudoir and mystical
river. The door grated hoarsely on Its
hinges, the lanterns faintly flickered; In
a moment we were again in bright, g orl-
ons day! The sunlight aeemea to flood
the earth with a richer, warmer beauty
than I had ever known before; the flowers
were brighter than two hours ago; the
torrent which this morning burst so
tumultuously down the mountain, was
music to oar ears. Even the old covered
wagons which were ever winding up the
mountain, were .possessed of-a new in
terest. Above ail was light and life
below all was lifeless, dark and silent.
Was it a dream? No; there were many
things to remind us ot that vault and
temple whici nature, unknown, silent
and unseen, had during long ages ohls-
eled for herself. In our hands was the
meerchaum which we were to mould into
peace-ptpea to smoke before the tyrants
who had forbidden us the greatest pleas
ure of our lives. Dolphia Lane,
Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
South and the Speakership.
It Is true, as Mr. ChauuceyjF. Black has
pointed out In a despatch to the World,
that Southern men will necessarily head
most of the important committees of the
next House, simply because the men
who have served longest and with most
distinction in Cc-ngress are Southern
CHAPTER XII.
Pray for the living, in whose hreust
Tje strugg.e between r ght and wrong
is raging terrible aud strong.
The sun wai sinking low down in the
West whea Trevor and Mrs. Donnis
reached (he camp again.
“i won't go In," he said when they
reached the ga e; but Ethel protested
vigorously against this plan.
“Oh! do come in—Cosmo will ask fifty
questions and I cannot ans w< r them all
—I cannot. I feel as if I had committed
a dreadful crime and that my face would
bstray mo at once You must come in,
Jack, you must.’
Dennis as my ideal of p. r'ectiou; I only
ask you to take her for what sae is, a girl
with good Instincts aud, thus far, a
rui aea life—a girl to whom that after
noon, sitting In t o sweet Septembersun-
shine beside the little brook, there came
the most cruel aud the most sweet temp
tation that Providence could permit or
the ingenuity of thj devil devise.
i do not holdher up as doing right. I
daresay she ought to have cut herself off
from Trevor forever, she ought to have
been insulted—hurt—angry! Well, per
haps, I do not know. AU I can say is
that she was not, ail I know is that the
more knowledge of Trevor's love served
ive her strength to go on living the
Hfo which up to tnat day had been al
most intoieraoie to her.
(To be Continued.)
Astronomical Coincidence.
It is very seldom that coincidenees of a
startling nature occur in the astronomi
cal world, says Prof. E E B-marlin
tie San Francisco Examiner. Perhaps
this is due iu the main to the fact that
nearly ali things astronomical are sub
Thus urged, Trevor had little or no j 9 ®!-! 0 exact calculation, and there is
choice in the matter and he followed her j nothing more chilling to the ardor of the
into the pretty little silting room where average fabricator of coincidents than
ihey found the Mrj or, if the truth be told, an array of facts and figures. Tuere has
just awatmei fr j u a long sleep. j very recently occurred, however, a most
• Weil.” he ca.Ld out apparently in the i wonderful coincidence tbit mast startle
most b-laterous of g >od spirits— have eve n the astronomical world, and this,
yon had a go-d time? Where did you ! strangsiy enough, instead of beta
go? Dij you s;e any one you anew?”
I think that nobody knew what It cos
Jack Trevor to make a civil and coher
ent reply to these questions—but for
B.helssake he did hn host, knowing
tnat she was tired and overset by tali
events of the afternoon.
“Ws went across tho Common, Bir, to
tho knoi'- ond we made a timing r jd.
By the bye, Ethel, I left my stick behind
as."
• Ns,” said Et tol—and though she tried
hard to keep the gladness out of her
voice, she did not succeed very well—
“now you speak of it, d j you know I saw
it go fioa'.iag a way do wn tue little sere in.
What a pity—was it one you valued very
male?’
“Not a bit—it was only a common
blackthorn. Weil, sir, wo made a iishlng-
rod'and tried our iuci in the not very
promising str am.”
“n nd you caugot nothing I suppose?”
“We caught no fim,” returuel Trevor
promptly.
‘ Au! I suppose not. Well, E.hel, I
hop - you feel better for the tramp.”
• Yss, out I am tired,” sue said.
“Tueu 1 will say gojd bye,” said Trevor
holding out his baud to her.
“Wou’t you stop aud have some dinner
with us?” put iu tne Major.
“Not to-night, thank you, Major,”
Trevor answered, “i m sst write several
letters before dinner time. Good-bye.”
He held oat als hand to Ethel and
gave it a significant pressure. She loos
ed up at him fora moment, then dropped
her eyes, bat not aalil he had read there
something which brought an answering
light to his.
• He's a very decent fellow,” remarked
the major a moment later as he watcied
Trevor close tne little gate and go across
the open ground toward his own quar-
tars. *'4
His wife escaped from the room with
out answeri ng aud had reached the safe
retreat of her bedroom before he noticed
that he was aioae. O job there she tossed
off her hat and gown and slipped on a
loose and volniminous affair of pale bine
woollen stuff wulch fell In soft folds from
her throat to her feet. Tueu she sat
down la a chair by the window to think
It all over— this wonderful new stale of
affairs which had male all iter life so
new and different to usr.
They had walked home almost in
silence because Trevor had fancied that
she Was very tired and that sue was
utterly overset; bat in truth althougu
she was tired, she was more happy thaa
she had uv<>r known wnat It was to be
Bince those never forgotten days at
Biankhampton wnen sue aud Jick had
been devo.ed frlmd- and p'a/feilows.
Fur after all Jack loved her! In spiteof
their having been kept apart ali these
years, iu spite of the barrier wuicniay
it was to think until these days, of mod
ern progress no human voice ever broke
the profound, the death like stillness.
Strange it was to think, on this won
Urous place the sunlight never fell,
filling it with bright, glad beauty; the
moon never shot her silver arrow headed
beams Into the trembling shadows; dur
ing the long watches of the eternal mid
night whicu had ever reigned no far-
off stars ever looked down with their
wistful light! Ouly tbe fitful glare of the
lantern ever revealed, even to themselves,
tueir marvelous beauty, aud, as If rejoic
ing in its discoveries, the light leaped
radiantly from place to place, from deli
cately chased cornice to mossy bank of
opaque quartz, which caught the rays
and glittered like a new-made snow drift
in the morning sun.
From my soul I cried, “Ob, the depths
of the riches Both of tbe wisdom and
knowledge of God!”
Tae vaulted chambers rang with the
voico, and a band of swift winged echoes
liitted along the gigantic Gothic dome to
us, bringing the words I had just uttered.
The bright-eyed, fair-haired runaway
beside me murmured “IIow beautiful!”
Ills voice Fancy likened to a silver
chancel bell struck by a kneeling boy in
some great cathedral. E -o yet the voice
died away “beautiful!” “beautiful!” was
wafiea to u*; then all, all again was si
lence, silence profound, unbroken, save
for the far away murmur of that cold
limped river.
We passed into another apartment.
Tae wise old king had imaged there
myth3 of remotest antiquity; Greacian
and Rmuan heroes; palatial halls in
wnich the chaugerm areniteeture of cen
turies is blended.
“There,” said the gnide, pointing to a
mass of granite, "is where our K'ng Solo-
man is entombed.” It would indeed
But it may be doubted whether the
fact has the Importance that Mr. Black
attributes to It, and especially whether
ought In any wey to affect the choice
ofa Speaker.
These gentlemen will head their re
spective committees, and not because
th«y are Southern men, but because they
are, by length or service and iu other re
spects, the fittest men. The country
wants the fittest men in such places, and
the country cares very little, if at all
from what region they come.
In the matter of the Speakership we
believe the indifference of the people to
geographical considerations is even more
profound. All that the great Democratic
majority which has elected a House
which Is Democratic, without couutine
tne Southern Representatives at all, de
sires is that the Fifty sscond Congress
shall be wisely directed in Democratic
ways to legislate good for the people.
Its desire is that the bast man for the
Spea jerthip shall be made Speaker, with
no reference whatever to the part of the
country he may come from.
So far as the Democrats of the country
are ooucerced, the war is ancient history.
The party concerns itself with matters of
the present and future, aud it holds
every part of our common country in
equal regard. It Is a National party and
leaves sectional distrust and vindictive
ness to itB opponents. It wants no man
elected Speaker becauuLhe comes from a
Southern State .or/ Jr orthern State.
Equally It wantf»o l9 *c’ided from
tb»t piaeo bfecau.-Jd t . B utm;;s to tne oho
region or the otb*q ttvants the best
man, l"t him corn ^.Xhence he may
New York War,
Oticcir!
,. ppi.icrr °*\ 3 *
Hi, ,£~.ciecticfi
oar ofvthe hi
Asking Her Ilia’s Consent,
The Most Trying Ordeal of a Tri
umphant Suitor.
For the Sunny South.
WOULD rather ask • lady
to be my wife any time
than to try to spread •
blanket straight on • bed.
It isn’t half the worry; and
if she says no, the success
ia about the same.
Why a man’s shirt should
wrinkle in the bsek and
his breath break off half
way down his throat,
when he offers to let a sweet
faced girl cling to him
through life in exchange for
building fires and doing the
odd jobe,Js beyond my experience.
fiat when it comes to proposing to the
mother-ln law, I tell yon, boys, there is
no shady place to loaf in. I would rather
ask tbe president to give me the United
States. He probably would refuse, but
if he did, he wouldn’t try to make me
feel the enormity of my request like
mother dose when I ask for her daugh
ter.
I got a good lesson in this at the time I
asked for Flossie.
And in truth, just at that moment
myself felt that the darling little gem
was worth at least the price of two Unit
ed States, notwithstanding that the man
who flna'ly married her would be glad to
trade her off for the swampy lanas of
Arkansas. However, her depreciation In
value hasn’t lowered the price of my ex
perience in the least.
The night before, Flossie and I were
sitting on the piazzaatepa, and while the
moon was pasting a silver lining into a
real thick cloud she murmured:
“Darling, I do wish you would shave
nice and smooth when yon come to see
me!”
frowned down oy facts aod figures, Is
strongly supported by the n.
0.1 the 15 ,h of November last Prof.
Z »aa o.’ tae Palermo o03orvatpry, in
Italy, discovered a comot in the coostal-
litioo Auriga. It wa3 moving rapidly to
tne W”st and North. Oo the following
night (November 16), while observing the bf the mightiest emparors. From our
position of this comet with the great girdles we took theloug stsmmed mald-
twenty seven-inch tslescops at Vienna, J euhair wnlbti we had gathered on the
Ur. Spitaler dlsewewd auo&har aad I eanay m m jtaia slope and laid Dtiem on
fainter co net in tne bald oi view with it; ! his Majesty’s maaoleum.
We now stool enenantei bjfore the
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This bit of sentiment so touched me
that I tore my feelings all up into sweet,
soft worm.
“Yon mast ask mama, yon know.”
Then she gave a sigh as she laid her
golden hair on my vest.
“Oh, that is easy, ’ I answered, feeling
as brave as a porcupine with a new set of
quills.
She raised her head, and even broke the
solemnity of the occasion with a snicker.
X didn’t feel the significance ot that
snicker just then; and wueu her mother
caaghea three times before opening the
door my heart was filled with hope.
1 called the next evening to propose to
th 3 mother. I found her austerely re -
dining on a sofa, and it my appearance
produced any rapture within uer breast
it was extremely temporary.
1 had spent the whole day in anchoring
my courage, and as 1 entered tne house
it felt quite secure. But the moment the
old lady’b eye grasped me she j irked it
from Its moorings and sunk it, leaving
me as limp and nelpless as a broken leg.
Wnat snould I do? Drop on my knees
to this old chunk of winter and melt her
with a lover's prayer, or stand there and
faint?
She settled the question by seating ms
with a wave of her hand; aud during the
next few minutes we filled theroom with
piinful silence. Howl wished somebody
would throw a brick througn the win
dow! I never wanted to be disturbed so
bad in my life. “Wby don't the old lady
say sometulug?” 1 tnought, as 1 ven
tured a glance for sympatny.
She Diinked contnmelioasly.
1 saw 1 must ao something bosides
perspire, sol cone uded to carrom around
ou general tonics until I gained my rea
son.
“Did you ever play hooky from scho j1? ’
I asked, trying to look pleasant.
“Did I what?” Aed she looked so mad
that 1 felt like one who had dropped a
nickel into the slot and the machine
wouldn’t sing.
I next tried a subject of sense.
“Do you think the passage of the Mc
Kinley b.ll has raised hosiery any
higher?” |
' I don’t know; I shall not wo.ir mine ;
any nigher ” she answered, with great
graMty. r
It alwajsdid worry me to be misunder
stood. However, I still held my grip and !
introduced a theme that is ev.rdearto.
our hearts.
Do you think one’s ancestors, when— ‘
that is—I mean if they think—”
“Your ancestors evidently don’t think,
or they would send after you,” she said,
as sue raised up to pull a cold shudder
over me, and then coutinusd in no bell
like voice:
‘ My daughter informed me that yon
called to obtain my consent to your mar
riage. If she doesn’t know the difference
between a man in love and an idiot in
distress. I’ll send her back to short
dresses! My daughter has been edneated
to look ap to man as a being superior and
enn ibledjon whose breast.she would find
protection and In whom she should ex
pect content, and warmth for the aeplra
tions of her heart. When she lifts her
eyes in wediocs, 1 wish her to see some
thing besides a coat buttoned over a calf.
No; you can’t marry my daughter. Go
home, and let yonr parents feed you for
another generation or two, and if by that
time you don’t develop the brains of a
dugong, i’d advise yonr mother to drown
you. Go!”
Realizing the usalessnessof resistance,
I wont. Harry Gaddis.
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Co., 9y % MariettaSt\ Atlaftt
have bean a fittin? recupUela for the ‘ Governor RiioIvmap nf
pan-iaroi’s anointed bones or for tho39 i irnur jjiiclviicr ul Ivcututky.
the motion was in the j atn3 direction
as th it of Ziaa’8. Upon the an
nonneement of the discovery of two
new coasts so close oo each other,
a8tronomsrs naturally concludsd thit
they were parts of tbs same const and
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together. It was, however, soon seen
thit there was no relaoiooshlp whatever
between tne two, for Z >na's comet rapid
ly left the other far behind, pissing
eignt hours af.er Hpitaler’s discovery
within six inlaute3 of are(one fifth the
apparent dia lister of the moon) of the
Vienna snout, si that the two mast
have appeared in toe tela330pe a. a
doable comet. By the night of the 17th,
when Z ina’s cemet could first be observ
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one would have escape! discovery. They
are now (Deo. 10) two hoars apart in right
ascension, and differ 4 degress in desii-
nation, and while one is moving aoath-
ward the other ia keeping up its nortn-
erly motion.
Any one familiar with the discovery of
comets and the comparative scarcity of
the same, and who can appreciate the
vast expanse of the Heavens, In which
the averngee vnet ia the merest speck,
will recognize in this discovery or two
newcomers within a few minutes of
each other, and In no way physically
connected, one of the most remarkable
coincidences ever kaowa. There Is no
record of any t wo comets, not physically
related, ever having been ssen within
a degree of each other, add there are
many millions of chances against the
discovery of two such comets so close
together as wer > Z jaa’s and Bpltaler’s,
and we may safely say that It will never
hanpen again.
Taese two comets are being regalarly
observed at the Lick observatory. Neith
er is brigit. Spitaler’s is exceedingly
small and faint, the merest speexofhaze
moving slowly among the stars. Its
omit has not yet need cem ented, but
there is a > doaot, from its appearance
a id slow motion, it inns: be very distant
from ns.
V San lay-school
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between them, in spite of her broken : a resi. 'iive tue girls a turn.”
queen’s private boudoir. Had her Maj33
ty of dhoba seen it she, too, would have
been enchantsd and with moreenthusi
asm exclaimed: “Not half has ever been
told.”
It was all or snowy, polished stone; the
stalactites glittered lixa pendants fro n
au ice palace; in the canter the stone
huig in volutes like a rich, creamy
tapestry, upheld with coral rastenlngi.
Tne entrance of the boudoir is a jagged
opening in ihe rocks which seems but a
rudd tear in a massive, yet careless hang
ing drapery.
As we turned away, sighing that no
such beautiful places were on, earth for
the dreamer and poet, the lanterns flashed
on a block craggy bluff npon wnich a
great white roci stood oat in bold roller,
and beside it a bUcx one.
Weirdly, Fancy wnlspcred “Hamlet and
his father's ghost,” I asked the guide.
He, smiling, said, “Fancy Is aright!”
Fearing lest,seeing ns, the ghost would
spring upon as as Intruders aid, imag
iulngour lanterns to be tne lambent tires
of his monitors, the gtow-worm, he
wonld think the morning was near,
and—
But Fancy mast not frighten as with
such pictures. At oar feet rolled a mor
bid little stream through a gloomy wiz
ard glen. Over it hnng heavy shadows
whioh wonld not be cleared away. On
the banks were black stones, like the
shroaded figures of lost souls on the
river dtyx.
We shivered with the oonjarings of
oar own brain as we crossed the dark,
freezing water; then, passing through a
narrow archway, the rays of the lanterns
going before threw open the otherwise
impervious gate of shadows, and revealed
to as the most gorgeously beautiful
apartment we had yef seen. Well, I
reokoned Fancy named that stream, with
its motionless figures; for this was In'-
deed an Elystam, though petrified. No
“soft wind stirring on tiptoe” moved
what seemed drapery ot an airy, silken
texture. No gentle wind moved with
tne perfumed soul of the chaste white
lilies beside us. We touched thsm and
were c.iilied. They, too, were but stone.
All, all was cold, hard, passionless, mo
tionless stone!
Here, again, were the many-colored
stalagmites. 'Those gleaning tnersfrom j Cough dyrup is la order,
utbimS
That was a flue passage between the
Executive of Kentucky and thewifeof
the condemnsd man, who Went to Frank
fort last Friday toask for a pardon. She
had presented her papers and sat breath
less whilst the arbiter of her fate perused
them; and, as she waited, a mastiff, the
playmate of the G iveroor’s little son—a
beast not given to strangers—uncoiled
himself from the rug wuero he nad Deea
lying, and came up ia that friendly way
wnich only dogs know no.v toaff.ct with
perfect sincerity, and, sesiag suspense
and pain in tue agitated features of the
poor woman, ne put his pa ws gently npon
ner kuessaaj begin to iiok uer hand.
Tae Governor ii lishad the papers and
tne petitioner was aojnt to speak, when
the grin old soldier said: “It is not
necessary, inidam; the dog has spoken
for you,” aud straigntway signed the
document wnich was to release a dying
naan from prison aud enable him to go to
his grave from his own homo.
One touch of nature makes the whole
world kin; and it is hard to say which
moves us the more, the .spectacle or that
orave gentleman and soldier, wnon it is
a dellgnt and pride to hail as oar chief
magistrate, stirred to the depths oy the
silent eloquence of a dog; or the thought
of that noole orate, inspired by we know
. waa W to become an irresistible
pleader for mercy before the highest
court.
The Incident makes a seasonable text,
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sarcasm in the observation of the cynic,
wao declared that the more he saw of
men the better he thought of dogs. The
love of a dog has nothing sordid aboat
it nor treacherous. Tae poor beast
knows not how to dissemble. GbV. Buck
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him. And, wnen ne saw him make com
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lead of that dog’s pity aid love, he oonld
make no mistake. And he did not; aad
taea aud there tna angst that writes in a
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