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IK SCHOOL DAYS.
Still sits the school house by the roaJ,
A ragged beggar sunning ;
Around it still the sumachs grow,
And blackberry vines are running.
Within, the master's desk is seen,
Deep scarred by raps official;
The warping floor, the battered seats,
The jack-knife^carved initiaL
The charcoal-frescoee on its wall ;
Its door’s worn sill, betraying
The feet that, creeping flow to school.
Went storming out to pitying!
Long years ago, a winter's sun
Shone over it at setting ;
Lie up its western window panes,
And low eaves’ icy fretting.
It touched tbe tangled golden curls,
And brown eyes fall of grieving,
Of one who still her steps delayed
When all the school were leaving.
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled ;
His cap palled low upon a face
Where pride and shame were mingled.
Poshing with restless feet the snow
To rUhtand left, he lingered ;
As restlessly her tiny hands
The blue-checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes ; be felt
The soft handVligbt caressing,
And heard the tremble of her voice,
As if a fault confessing.
“ I’m sorry that I spelt the word ;
I hate to go above you,
Because”—tbe brown eyes lower fell—
“ Because, you see- # I love you!”
Still memory to a gray-baired man
That swe't child-face is' showing.
Dear fcirl! the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing !
He lives to learn, in life's hard school,
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph, and his oss
Like her—because they love him.
Only Flirling.
“ I am only flirting with him aunt,” said
Grace Burrows, lightly. “You’re not
afraid of our getting married, I suppose?
Pshaw! The idea is ridiculous!”
“ I am not afraid or concerned for yon at
all. You are very safe. Nor am I alarmed
for any suffering you may inflict upon Mr.
Leton, for he will richly deserve it all. I
am anxious about one who is worth more
than both of you together—Helen Dene,
his betrothed wife.”
Miss Burrows looking round quickly,and
astonished.
“His betrothed wife!” she repeated
sharply. “I was not aware of that.”
“1 knew you were not; and what honor
or glory can you possibly derive from the
conquest of a man who already belongs to
another?”
The beauty’s proud red lip curled with a
scornful smile.
“Another’s!” she repeated, contemptu
ously. “ Why, he would throw her over
for me if I gave him the least encourage
ment. lie is completely infatuated.”
And, with an air of snpremeindifference, Ralph could infeiifere. “ Helen, my dar-
thc petted Welle and “beauty Swept m>ui iuv i wuau j^uu m. iaa»d-
room—at tiie same moment that one of the ghe opened her great dark eyes and fixed
window curtains was pushed aside, and a them on her lover’s. She read his peni-
like an ordinary woman; she had resources.
She was a writer of considerable promise, I
earnest and ambitious in her pursuit of I
The Governess.
“It’s the new governess, sir !”
Old Winifred, who had occupied the posi
literary excellence and fame; doubtless she | tion of housekeeper in Mr. Garrick’s house-
would be easily consoled. With something hold for at least a dozen yeafs stood before
of pique and regret mingling in his exulta
tion, he renewed his pursuit of Grace.
He resolved to know his fate at once. So
the next day he hastened hla^Yootsteps to
the house.
He sent *p his card io Miss Burrows’
rooms, and waited for a summons to follow
it. ; To his surprise, Mrs. Warren came
down to him instead.
“ Grace begs to be excused to-day,” she
said, very gravely. “She has company,
Rupert Walton—you have heard of him—
the railway millionaire. Grace has been
engaged to him for six months past, and
will marry him in the autumn. ”
“And for this coquette I have lost
Helen?”
“Yes,” said Mrs. Warren coldly, “you
have lost Helen. Heaven gave you a pre
cious pearl, and you flung it away for a
stone. I loved Helen; I can offer you no
sympathy, Mr. Leton. You have merited
your punishment.”
And, bowing coldly, she left him.
And Helen Dene—what of her ?
Helen’s work in the world saved her.
She had a young brother dependent upon
her exertions—had no time to sink down
beneath a great despair. But all the same,
the sweetness had gone from life—the mo
tive had been stolen from her labor.
Still she toiled on, though no longer
hopefully. And so three years passed on.
The boy of eighteen, over whose life she
had watched with almost a mother’s care,
was twenty-one now, and had chosen his
career, that of an artist.
He had much talent, especially for por
trait painting, and his exultation knew no
bounds when he got a portrait of his sister
placed on view at the Academy.
They went to the Academy one night at
an hour when they could avoid the crowd.
Right in front of Ralph’s picture, and ap
parently oblivious of all beside, sat a gen
tleman who gazed on it with a troubled
face and earnest, mournful eyes.
“Reminds him of somebody be knows,I
suppose,” whispered Ralph to Helen.
The stranger rose as Ralph approached,
and seemed about to turn away. Then,-
changing his mind, he said, in an agitated
voice-
“A charming face, sir. I haven’t a cata
logue. I wish I knew tbe lady’s name. ”
“I can tell you,” said Ralph. “3Iiss
Helen Dene, sir. ”
An exclamation from the stranger startled
him.
“I was sure of it! Oh, Helen, Helen!
Helen Dene still ? Not married!”
Ralph glanced at his sister, and her evi
dent agitation bewildered him. The gen
tleman addressed him again.
“Pardon me, sir—I surprise you, I know;
but the sight of that face! Young man, I
loved her years ago—have never ceased to
love her! I have sought for her every
where in vain. Help me to find her, and
my deathless gratitude shall be yours I”
Before Ralph could reply, there was a
little sound behind them, the sound of a
stifled cry—a fall.
The stranger darted forward.
“Helen!” he cried. “It is Helen her
self!” He lifted her in his arms before
lady stepped in from the balcony—a lady at
sight of whom she who had been addressed
as auntie rose to her feet and came forward
with a little cry of distress.
“You have heard our conversation? Oh,
Helen!”
She took the Dew-comer’s hand, and led
her, for she was trembling violently, to a
seat; then, still tenderly holding her hand,
sat down beside her.
“ What can I say in excuse or apology
for Grace ?” she began, anxiously; but the
other stopped her gently.
“ I have nothing to say to Grace in this
matter, Mrs. Warren. But for him I feel
contempt and scorn unutterable? I am re
solved upon my course, and nothing can
change me! ”
That night Charley Leton led his lovely
partner, flushed and panting, from the
waltz, to rest awhile in the cool, green,
perfumed solitude of the conservatory.
She sank, with languid grace, into a seat,
and Leton sank upon his knee beside her,
and caught and pressed her white hands to
his lips.
“You know,” he murmured, low and
earnestly—“you know how I love youl
Oh, Grace, must it be all in vain ?”
She did not answer him—eRe did not
draw her hands away. In her heart the
fair coquette admired this man. He had
gone nearer than any other to touch her
fickle, selfish heart. And he gazed upon
the heaving bosom, the tearful eyes, and a
thrill of triumph moved his heart. Was
tnis the flirt against whom he had been
warned—this soft, sweet, yielding girl ?
“You could love me, Grace ? ” he whis
pered ; and his arm stole round her waist.
“Have you the right to ask ?” she mur
mured.
A faint and sudden rustling in the
branches beside them—the magnolia blos
soms stirred as if shaken by a summer
wind, and some of their perfumed white
leaves fell into the fountain’s basin—but
the pair who sat there paid*no heed.
“Yes!” he answered, firmly. “You,
and you alone,‘possess my heart! It is
true 1 thought I loved. Oh, how we may
deceive ourselves! You have taught me
how great was my mistake. For your sake,
Gracie, I will ask her to set me free. I will
implore her—”
“It shall not be necessary, sir!”
Again the magnolia blossoms were stirred
—were pushed aside, and Helen Dene
stood before them.
They started to their feet in confusion.
“ I am not here by accident,” said Miss
Dene, with a lofty scorn. “ I saw you lead
this lady to the conservatory, and deemed
it my right to know what my promised
husband had to say to her. Well, I have
heard—and I am satisfied. Meanwhile I
wish you both all happiness.”
A moment they stood, amazed at the
spirit and beauty that flashed upon them,
and the next she had turned and passed
from their sight.
Grace caught at her companion’s arm.
“ Follow her I ” she cried, eagerly.
“Pacify her. I shall never hear the last
of this from auntie.’
And she also fled, leaving Leton standing
’ there like one bewildered.
He was free. But strangely contradic
tory is the human heart. Never had Leton
admired and valued Helen Dene so highly
as in the hour in which he learned that she
was lost to him.
Some wild wish to return to his alle
giance, some instinctive conviction that his
love for her was real love, and that his heart
would crave for her through all the time to
come, urged him to seek her and implore
her pardon. But then Grace—sweet, ten
der, childish Grace—who had shown him
so plainly that she loved him, too, and who
had not Helen’s strength of mind or soul—
could he abandon Grace? He-hesitated,
and the chance was lost, for Helen left
next morning. *
It was all for the best, he told himself,
en would not break her heart for hiig
tence, his pain, and nestled to his bosom
with a sob of joy.
“Forgive me!” he whispered tenderly.
Soft and thrilling came the gentle answer.
“ I had forgiven you long ago 1”
“And Miss Burrows?” asked Ralph,
when the story had been told him, and they
sat together discussing their new happiness.
“Pray, what became of her?”
The old wound, almost healed now,
thrilled faintly in Helen’s heart, and even
Leton’s smile was somewhat grave.
“ She is a wealthy widow, ” he answered,
“and gave me some flattering marks of
favor only a few days ago. As great a co
quette as ever, I suspect, hut let us not
speak of her. To her I owe the suffering
of the last thjee years—to her and to my
own weakness. I am wiser now. I know
my own heart at last. Long ago I found
out who was my true love. Yes, Helen,
before you had gone from my sight I
mourned the madness that had lost you !
But I have found you again, to part no
more, beloved.”
“ No more till death! ” she whispered.
the desk in her master’s study, plaiting the
borders of her apron with nervous, wrinkled
fingers, and eyeing, not without awe, the
half-completed sermon upon which he was
engaged.
G’leve Carrick laid down his pen and
looked up in some surprise.
The new governess, Winny? what of
her?” stiW he. “I hope she is not ill?”
‘Well, sir, ndl to say ill, exactly, ” hesi
tated the old woman. “ but she aint no ap
petite for her food, sir, and she pines. ”
‘I hope the boys are kind and considerate
to her, Winny?” said Mr. Currick.
‘That they are, sir, bless their little
hearts,’’cried the old housekeeper. “And
I know she loves ’em—as, indeed, how could
she help it?”
‘Then what is the trouble?”
‘That’s just what I don’t know, sir” said
Winny.
‘I must inquire into it, ” said Mr. Carrick.
‘That’s just what I wish you would do,
” and with that old Winny curtsied her
self out of the room.
The Rev. Mr. Carrick pushed aside the
heap of sermon papers, laid his pen on the
rack, and went straightway into the little
schoolroom, where Mary Neville was sitting
poring over a child’s exercise book—a tall,
pale girl, with bronze-brown hair clustering
natural ripples over her forehead and
great hazel eyes fringed with curling lashes
She started nervously as her employer en
tered.
“Miss Neville. ” said the clergyman kindly
‘you are not happy here?”
Mary Neville shrank back like a fawn
brought to bay.
“No,” she cried wildly, “ I am not!”
“May I ask Why?
For a second the girl was silent, while the
pennons of white and red fluttered alternate
ly in her cheek.
‘Are the children troublesome?” the
young wtdower asked, kindly. “Is there
anything that I can do to make your position
here pleasanter?”
Mary Neville rose to her feet and clasped
her slender hands.
“Yes,” she cried out, wildly; “ you cau
forgive me. ”
‘ ‘Forgive you, Miss Neville! ” repeated Mr.
Camck in surprise, “And for what?”
“For deceiving you, ” said the governess.
“ Oh Mr. Carrick, it has been on my con
science ever since, especially since you have
“Do not look at me so strangely,” said
she ; “I have helped to nurse you through
all your illness.”
“Then it was no vision of my disordered
brain,” cried Mr. Carrick, “but your dear
face bending over me all the time ?*’
“Were you glad to see it ?” said she,
with a soft radiance brightening her face.
“Are you glad to see it ?”
“My angel from heaven,” said he, ten
derly closing his thin fingers over her hand,
“if I could only keep you always,”
“I have come to stay with you always”
she said, kneeling at the side of his chair;
“I have^come to be your wife; you asked
me once, but I was a poor girl then, with
shadows laynig darkly over my birth.
They are all cleared away now—I am rich
and independent, and my own mistress—
and, oh my dearest, I have loved you all
along.”
The Rev. Mr. Carrick was not long in
gettingwell after this.
In fact old W iHifred declared that Miss
Neville was the best medicine he had taken.
And the clergyman’s young wife was the
pride of all the parish,
“An heiress,” said old Winifred. “®d a
beauty; and only nineteen. Well, I rfways
said as nothing in all the world coijd be
oo good for Rev. Mr. Carrick.”
Selling a Mine in Wall Street.
Sot many months ago a man pretty well
kown on the Comstock went East "to sell a
mhe lying in the Pyramid District. He
hi a map of the claim and its underground
wfkings, all done up nicely in pink and
blje ink, and it was as tine a piece of
chiughting as one would wish to see. He
tdk his maps, traps and samples of ore to
Nw York and began to “lay for a cus-
tcfier.”
Presently he fell in with a wealthy Wall
stpet manipulator, who got him on a string
ad wanted to get him a customer on com-
nfision. “Now look here, old man,” said
tfe Wall Streeter. ‘*you are from Nevada,
ad probably a little green in the ways of
tb street. You will meet some awful
sarp men here, and you must manage to be
arifle sharper or you can’t do anything,
lit me manage this thing, and give me all
Lancet over $10,000 for the mine.”
The Nevadian agreed, and the New
Inker took him into a room and began to
(ve him some confidential advice.
he afterward put out a high lateen
sail. These masts were inserted in a socket
between the navigator's feet while his body
corresponded to the hull of a vessel. The
wind, however, was very light and this part
of the exhibition was not so successful as
others. Captain Boyton then showed the
advantages of his dress for aquatic hunting.
Taking a double-barreled, breech-loading
shot gun he discharged it in various posi
tions with great rapidity. He loaded and
fired twelve times, the whole operation oc
cupying not over a minute. Besides the
tender, “Baby Mine” two other small boats
were lying at anchor near the shore. Cap
tain Boyton now paddled rapidly up to the
first of these, a small metalic boat named
“Addie.” This he towed out some distance
from the shore and took from it a snow
white kitten decked with a blue ribbon.
Stroking it gently with his hard, wet glove,
the captain swam to his raft and offered his
pet the remnants of his luncheon. Leaving
the trembling pussy on the raft, Captain
Boynton paddled ashore and taking a rope
swam several hundred feet from the shore
Polonius* Advice 1
Grandfather Licksliingle started ujfrom
a doze in his easy chair and remarke<
“And so you never lizard the I vice
that Polonius, an old chum of minegave
to his son?”
The family said no one had saidany-
thing about Polonius, neither the u of
Polonius.
“Ah, very well then,” said grandiiier,
“I—I’ll tell you about ’em. Yd see
Polonius’ son Charley—I think hisiame
was Charley—was going to Europon a
little splurge. Charley had engage* pas
sage en a Cunard steamer, an’ tliqwere
about to pull in the gang-plank. T| boy
had come back to kiss tire hired girlood-
by. ‘Yet here?’ exclaimed his jher;
‘ aboard, aboard, for shame; the wii sets
heavy in the shoulder of your sail,’i’ if
you don’t look out you’ll get left. Jre—
my ble8sin*s with you; here’s fifteecents
more for pocket money, an’ these f< pro
cepts in thy memory keep. Gii thy
thoughts no tongue, hut alius takcold
tongue yourself, when you can get itause
its easy to digest an’, besides, it’s e of
those things that admits of littler no
, — r , „ culinary doctrin’. The friends thohast,
been so kind. They told y.ou that I was a an d their adoption tried, grapple th to
graduate of Mme. Lesiarde’s school, but they 1
never told you that I was brought up there
as a charity pupil; that I washed dishes in
the kitchea and scrubbed floors in the gar
ret to earn my tuition. I was only a servant
there—a drudge—and when at last Mme.
Lesiarde discovered that I had a talent for
music, and determined to educate me as a
governess’'
“Stop!” said Mr. Carrick, half smiling, “is
that all?”
“Oil, sir, is it not enough? I have de
ceived you, I have”
“Nonsense,” said Mr. Camck; “you are
a refined lady in manner and education. My
boys love you dearly. You have not de-
thy soul with hooks of steel, for yodon’t
know how soon you may want to rrow
some money from ’em. Beware of trance
to a quarrel, but bein’ in, an’ you b no and thought it would be a sharp thing
chance to get out, then, my son^ump j take that mine in himself,
thyself. If thou canst get one in thy
“Now her’s the way to manage this
f tUng. Of course if you have a really mod 1 P ur P°f of showing the utility of his
Dine, it won’t be at ill out of the way to j ?V“! n ,? a8e of sb-pwreck. He next exhi-
utake it look big. Now. take this map-it blt8d “ 8 ?- eth ? d ° f glTlns mght 81gnal8 >
is a good map, but ain’t big enough. I’ll! a , nd “‘"S hls CIgar “ a slow-match, dis-
get an artist to put in some extra ore bodies ! !] oc ^. ets and bo ™ bs - He
—just scatter ’em through like plums in a 1 K 1C ? f . 10We ^ ^ fl° atm g powers of his suit
pudding-and that’ll half sell it The buy-: bytakjng » weU-grown boy on his chest
ers will be sure to discover those ore bodies! “ d “njeymg him about the pond The
afterwards, all the same.” la8t featur “ ° f the exhibition was the de-
Tliis don’t look to me hardly to ^ ?‘™«ion of the second of the two rafts be-
square," said the Nevadian with a deep re-I f° r , e S .! C was s , lx . feet „? r ™ ore
Hgious expression. “I want to sell my j en / th .® 1n »S ed “ S « e b ?f e
mine on its merits. I never sold a thing in ! > mihar , n ? me °, f ‘ P ', e .' 7
my life on false representations and I’m too £ ac,n * ex ,P loslTC8 . about l !* cr a }' e was
old to begin now.” blown to atoms, pieces being shot into
■Now don’t get Hied, old fellow. You ! hlghe r, , of th « rock f t9
are not supposed to know what I do. Give i f. 1 * rlsen ’ Ca P ? ,n . show \ ,bat
me the maps and tl.e ore and let me attend j , b u J . ' , 3 , 81une method ‘orpedoes can beat-
Wh'nyofx Ca,l!t be t0 ° ,rU:k -'- “ rv
After a considerable persuasion, the mine
owner turned over his maps and ore samples
to the Wall Streeter, and that astute opera
tor went on his way. He was to get an I “Freckles.'
“It S,Unple %f nd £“7 8kowed - up ! “Your wife going to the'countiy ?” asked
*1 ,° 00 to thc ton - This sct the New \ ork Green as he met Brown,
chap thinking, and he went back to Ids Ne-I “I guess not. I offered her *50 to get
vada fnend and asked him how high the ready, but she declares right up and down
samples would run to the ton. ! that she won’t go ”
“WeU, 1 hardly want to say,” replied i “Have you worked the ili-healtli dodge?
the Nevada innocent, “I guess them sam-1 “Well, I tried to; but she has gained
pies you ve got now are good for 35 or 40 thirteen pounds since last January, and
dollars a ton. Of course 1 just took an never looked better than now ”
average from the different parts of the mine. | “Can’t you make her believe her nerves
1 don t believe in picked samples. Such are relaxing ? That generally works pretty
frauds are bound to come out sooner or j well. ”
later and as I’ve got more mines to sell, I j “Can’t do it. She sleeps like a brick,
concluded to act pretty square and get a j and her nerves were never stronger. ”
good reputation for business on the street. | “And she doesn't want to see* her
The New Yorker drew his conclusions 1 mother ?”
“Her mother is dead.
“Digestion good ?”
; discovery by those on the ship, and
_ I claims that the rubber armor is destined
'! to be an important instrument of navhl
j warfare.
“I’ve found a customer, old fellow,” he I “Splendid She eats pvprvthino- frnm «
oppoaer s stomach I d have thee do If said, and eagerly drew a check for *10,000. 1 radish to limburger cheese and 1 can’t talk
it be that thine adversary has a sort.ace,; p rofessing t0 hilve tound a customer and c , o{ dict ^ her “ ’ and
hit him on it. Throwsand m lidyes, | made a neat turn on commission. “Bring, Green fell to musing and bv and bv con-
and never lose an opportunity to sei Inm ] along some more mines and let me sell ’em tinued 6 ’ y
Tound the legs an trip him that Inneels for you,” he added. “You see I
may kick at heaven. Give eveiman
thine ear, unless he he, like this onihine
opposer in a quarrel, who naturall|ould
have an object in biting it ofFn youiead.
Costly thy habits as purse can buy,r I’m
... . ,. , , have fa- j “Mr. Brown, you have l>een a good
cihties which you have not. We’ll go friend to me. ”
round and fix up the deeds.” i “Well, I hope so.”
Tiie Nevadian took the check, folded it i __ “Yes, you have stood by me like a
up, and remarked: brother, and now I’ll do you a favor. My
“Now, I hope you ve sold that mine on wife left for her mother’s, to be gone ten
thc square and not got too much for it. Its weeks. I tried every dodge I could think
antecedents and desire no information. I your tailor bills any more, an’ I fijotice worth *10,000 as a fair speculation.” i of, but she was bound“to^siav ~hrmT/“",U
am more than pleased with tne success you j now that I will veto ’em from tUime | The two men parted for good a couple of !aM I hit it She has fr^kles ”
haye lyyijy my children 8< education; and ; forth. ^ Tliis^ ab °y e _ a11 —‘° j tb “ c " \ days afterwards, and the New Yorker came ; “Ah 1 Egad ! SoTiasmine”
minds forever.” | lookout for Number One, thefc it i,ii3-* )ro , H , nv i K . i, af) ^ T-! : _‘V, n country air in June
, ,. . lookout for Number One, theh it uilx-.—property he had so slirewdlv acquired. Ar- will start freckles.
And as Mary Neville lifted her pleading, , er as the mght the day that a man 1st riving at Pyramid he asks for the Goldj “Trae-trae Peels ’em ri-ht off
graceful eyes to the clergyman s face, he he- | g C t U p tolerably early if. he would gethe R un Consolidated. i * <• a. U flt . reei , , P° m . on
The Great Napoleon's Watcli.
Among a number of objects belong
ing to Napoleon I., which passed into
the possession of Napoleon III., the
most interesting was a watch, which
the former always carried upon his
military expeditions, and from which
he was not separated until the
hour of his death at St. Helena. The
first Napoleon bought this -watch,
which was not very valuableNind was
of very ordinary appearance, at Mar
seilles, when he was still a lieutenant
of artillery, and although it had often
need of repair, he refused to change it
for a better one, even when he became
First Consul and then Emperor. One
day the .Emperor looked at the watch
before General Berthier, and found
that it had stopped several hours be
fore. In response to a remark made to
him upon the subject by the General,
the Emperor answered smiling, “Why
blame the watch? We ourselves will
stop some day.” In after years the
watch became the property of Napoleon
III., who carried it with him upon his
expeditious to Bolougne and Stras
bourg. From the day he was named
Prince President until the moment of
his death at Chiselhurst it was with
him constantly. It is related by the
friends of the Imperial family that on
the day that Napoleon III. quit Paris
and put himself at the head of his army
during the war of 1870, the watch sud
denly stopped. The Emperor, who
was very superstitious, saw in this in
cident a passage of evil, and was much
depressed during all the journey. At
the death of Napoleon III. the ex-Ein-
press Eugenie gave the wratch to her
son, who also constantly carried it w ith
him, and had expressed the wish al
ways to preserve it carefully as a souv
enir of his uncle. The Prince carried
the watch with him upon his depart
ure to the war in South Africa. The
sword that the Prince carried, eap
tured by the ZulnSihlso belonged to Na
poleon I. The gold ring found on the
body of tbe Primi? was a jewel which
came to him frona^hls father, and to
which was attach^* .seal which Gen
eral Bonaparte bfvHn^back with him
from Egypt.
schlid’s personal
,000.
came conscious all of a sudden that his boys’
governess was a beauty.
At the end of the mouth he came once
more into the school-room.
“Miss Neville,” said he, “ I want to speak
to you. ”
Mary flushed and grew pale, after her old
nervous fashion.
‘Have I done anything wrong, sir?” said
she, all in a tremble.
‘Yes, ” said the clergyman, smiling. “You
have stolen my heart away. Nay, smiling
Miss Neville,don’t start so guiltily; you must
be aware that you have been the sunshine of
this house ever since you entered it. I am
not a gallant young lover, like the knights of
romance, but I am not an old man yet. Tell
me, Miss Neville, do you think you can learn
to love me?”
But Miss Neville shook her head.
“You are the parish clergyman, ” said she,
“ and I am only a poor girl. I am not wor
thy of you, Mr. Carrick.”
“Suppose you let me he judge of that?”
said Mr. Carrick, smiling fondly.
“1 could not let you sacrifice yourself to
your own generosity,” said Miss Neville.
“You refuse me then?”
“I refuse you!”
It was scarcely a week after this strange
dialogue that a lawyer came to see Mr. Car-
rick's governess, accompanied by a bronzed
and bearded man of middle age, and after a
long interview with these unusual visitants,
Miss Neville knocked at her employer’s study
door.
“Mr. Carrick,” said she, with wet eye
lashes and cheeks crimsoned like the ripen
ed side of a nectarine, ” do you know how it
is that people sometimes live like a novel in
this world?”
“I don’t undersand you, Miss Novi
he replied.
“Because,” she went hurriedly on, “I,
seem to be transformed into a heroine of ro
mance. My uncle has just come home from
China—my uncle who has been lost to us
all for twenty years, and he is rich. Oh,
Mr. Carrick, it all seems like a dream!”
“My child, I congratulate you,” said the
clergyman, kindly pressing her hand.
“I shall lose my boys’ instructress, but you
will gain a newer and a broader life.”
But, as she turned away, there was a
certain something in her wistful eyes that
made the good man rack his brains to think
if he had forgotten anything that he ought
to have said, and on the bright October
morning when she drove away from the
door in her ancle's carriage, with a little
group of sympathizing friends and ac
quaintances gathered around the doorstep,
the same pleading look was in her eyes as
her little hand lay in the good clergyman’s
grasp.
“Good-by, Miss Neville,” he said cor
dially, “and God bless you!”
And the parsonage seemed darker and
more dreary than it ever had done before as
he crossed its threshold and saw Mary
Neville’s empty chair beside the school
room desk.
“God help me!” he murmured to him
self. “I loved her, and she is gone 1”
Perhaps it was that sickness prevailed in
the parish just then, and the good man
wore himself out with faithful vigils—per
haps it might have been, that he missed the
sweet face and gentle presence of his
children’s governess; at all events, certain
it was that the Rev. Mr. Carrick fell ill of
brain fever, and old Winifred trembled for
the result.
And in the lapses of delirium he raved of
Mi88 Neville night and day.
In the first stages of his convalescence,
when he was able to sit up, gaunt andpale,
with pillows at his back and wine and nour
ishing broths at his side, there came a soft
tap at the door, and Miss Neville herself
entered.
Thc clergyman stared, with a vague fear
that he was sinking once more into the
fever dreams of the past.
But she laid her velvet-soft palm on his
i like the cool touch of a snow -flake.
bulge on you. Farewell, my hlessinSth
thee goes; and also be careful oyer
money, and sleep with yer watch tier
yer piller.’ ”
Railroad Ethics.
. , XT . . „ | from four to eight weeks, leaving the com-
No such a mine, was the reply he got plexion as fair as a babe’s, and without in-
eveiywhere. — * * •
There is no relation of life in vch
the natural selfishness of man ues
out so strongly as in traveling. »o-
ple who, when at home or among jir
friends, are not only polite, cousr-
ate of the comfort of others, but Bn
self-sacrificing in trifles, often beie
grasping, repellant, morose, wheny
get on a railway train to go travel.
Too often they seek their own cornt
to the disregard of the rights ofotli
A man will enter a train and tala
whole seat and so arrange his bag<e
as to cover the whole of it, so id
keep any one else from occupyini
part of it. He only pays for one l
and he know's perfectly well*that ha
no right to occupy two and yet heqs
so frequently until he is forced t<rifl
and then he does so with as bad ;ne
as possible. l r "natter not that)rir
men may be standing up iu thecs.
he rarely has the grace to invite tuf
them to sit by him. He sits and Ms
as forbidding as possible or turcsB
back and gazes out of the window
as to prevent if possible anyone k
requesting him for a seat beside
The ladies ate in this respect no he
than the men. and they are more -
ftectly masters of the situation. Sis
protected by her sex in her selfishs
and her disregard of the the comfof
her sisters. A gentleman does noti
to ask her for a seat, though he ha
perfect right to do so. Even ana-
lady Is at a disadvantage in askingr
for a Beat. A cold, haughty insit
manner, and an intrenched air ofi-
session usually enables her to holer
double seat against all comers, e
politeness of men to women rarelys
in America, and it is no unusual g
ior two gentlemen to rise to giveqr
whole doable seat because aror
lady fails to offer her a seat. N«i
this case each lady secures her die
seat at the price of the discomfof
two fellow travelers. Wh6n it an
who behaves thus the remedy Is j-
paratively simple. There is even ; t
oi pleasure in applying it. The \-
senger who on entering the car &
all the double seats octupied byii
who refuse to make room for hss
often tempted to pick out the mosj-
clusive looking of them and gp
coolly and business-like, tell hiii
make room and then sit down bn
in as roomy and spacious a style a
sihle, and then hum or whistle
slow plaintive air—kind o’ sad
This inflicts agonies upon the excl
traveler and gives to the newc
that calm inward repose which <
from the infliction of righteous
ishment. Yet how much bett;
would be for the ladies to make
for their fellow female,travelerg a
exch ange the little coortesie*
brighten the journey; how much
it would be ior the men to proi
make room for the newcomers an
into frle ndly chat by the way
selfish exclusiveness in traveling
not pay. One doesn’t get the mo
of the voyage in that way.
There are a variety of kinds of chin-
chona or Peruvian bark, and in pur
chasing the sulphate of its alkaloid
usually culled quinine, one ought to be
careful to procure it from a respectable
druggist, ior, like everything else of
value in the form ot either food or med
ielne, it is very liable to adulteration
In debility of the system, either chronic
or following long illness, quinine is
a most valuable touic. It is also called
an anti-periodic—a word discriptive of
its power of checking those ailments
that are apt to recur at stated intervals
For this purpose it must be given in the
stage of intermission, that is, between
the attacks; hence it is invaluable in
cases of ague, and that painful com
plaint, periodical neuralgia. To those
who believe more in the bark itself
than in its essential part, quinine, I
would recommend its use in doses of
about fifteen grains twice or thrice a
day, taken either in a little port-wine
or in half a glass of good stout. On
some stomachs, however, neither the
crude bark nor quinine itself lies
■easily; in such cases try the following:
Get fifteen ounces of the infusion of
yellow bark and one ounce of the com
pound tincture, mix them and filter
them through strong hlotting«paper.
It will now be perfectly clear, and the
dose is a tiny wine-glassful twice a day.
From one to two grains of quinine itself
made into a pill with confection of
roses, is an excellent tonic; and there
are many elegant preparations of this
drug sold in the shops—such, for in
stance, as the tincture of quinine, and
quinine wine, and the citrate ot qui
nine and iron. And this leads me to
say a word or two about iron itself as a
tonic. The preparations of iron, then
when administered for some time, are
very highly beneficial in cases of weak
ness of the muscular system, especially
that form of debility characterized by a
pale, bloodless condition of the body,
for iron enriches the blood and invig
orates the system. It is, however, lia
ble to produce constipation; verbumsap.
It should not, on the other hand, he
given in too large doses, or over excite
ment may be the result; and in no case
should it be administered, except un
der medical advice, when there is the
slightest determination of blood to the
head. Equal portions of the aromatic
mixture .of iron and the compound aloe-
tic mixture make not a very pretty
remedy, as far as color goes, but, in
my opinion, it can hardly be too high
ly extolled. The dose is an ounce
and a half twice a day. In cases where
the digestive orgtns are somewhat
weak, but where iron is indicated, two
or three grains twice or thrice a day
of the powder of iron (pulris ferri), *n
the form of a pill, make a very handy
and very excellent tonic. Again, we
have in the granulated carbonate of
iron of the shops a most valuable tonic,
especially for ar^emic females, or in
deed for the delicate of either sex. If
the digestive powers are pretty good, I
should also recommend a trial of the
green iron mixture; dose, one to two
M&rlc Twain’s Musket.
.... „ , | jury to the most delicate eye-brows.”
. Great Cajsar! I ve bought the claim and i “You see ”
paid $10,000 for it.” j “Mr. Green, I see it all. I shall never .
‘•a io , 8Ure " it tt . . .. 1 forget your kindness. In less than a week ! ounces twice a dkv’
A man showed me<a map. Here it is,” j my freckled wife will be in Berrien county, 0UULe8 tw,te a llay ’
™ tb « New y ork< -r pulled out the map and you and I will stay out till two o’clock
which he had received from the seller. A in the morning, and then go to my house
^hed uproZsly” ^ “ d j and 8l “P- > b e bed with our boots on! Yon see, the old man was ttying to learn
"That’fr01d°Sawyer’s work. Oh, he’s Ume you w-an°- a flZ /ouVaytu mfu£ “““ ^ blaCkbirds “ d , 'i* 8 ' 8 that
a smart one ” 1 Qt m A y ay rout me U P j up the young corn and such things, so that
JuTZold Sawyer, the foremost eiti- nudal g ht a ° d command!" ! could be of some use about thef^m, be-
zen of the district, and as innocent an old 4 * Allen* a Lead.” I cau8€ * was . n 1 enough to do much. My
mine-owner as the coast ever DroducetL I. - „ r . _ gun was a single barreled shot gun, and the
came un aod bolted ovTthe man ^ 1 ^ y °T S men . ! ravebD S m Eu ‘ old man carried an old Queen Anne musket
“It ahi’t «irreet old boss ” he* said ad- 1 among them a citizen of our great that weighed a ton, made a report like a
dressing the New Yorker. “Too manv ore I Wh ,Z was 80 th '?, rou £ hly P atn ° tlc thunder clap and kicked like a mule. The
bodies put ini” ’ A b ®t he could see no excellence in anything old man wanted me to shoot the old mus-
“But there’s no shaft no maehinerv no 1 ° rld 83 com P ar '‘ d i ''’ ub bis own | ket sometimes, but 1 was afraid. One day,
mine !" roared the man from Wall street i “ )untr - v ’ yIountams , watt ‘ l r , fa a - cbu f cht ' fi , though, I got her down and took her to
"Well ” replied Old Sawyer reflectively D l on ' lnlen i ts ' “enep’, anti all, other objects the hired man and asked him to load her
“I don't see how you can scour The f<d I c! “ terest werei inferior to what the Ended : up because it was out in the field. Hiram
i non t set now you can scour, the fet- States could show His companions be- I said-
lows who bought it are the ones to ktek. ' came somewhat tired of his overweening
lou got a handsome commission, you . boastfulness, and determined to “take him
BRIEFS.
—Out of 436 missionaries in China
310 of them are women.
—FI rida has produced 6 0,000 bar
rels more oranges than last season.
—There are thirty-five million pounds
of bullion in the bank of England.
—Prince Leopold has become presi
dent of the London Musical Society.
—There are 10,000,000 barrels of lag
er beer brewed in America annually.
—The t«x on each Parisian per an
num is $33.72,
—Thirty-eigh t ladies have received
degrees in France as doctors and bache
lors of arc.
—The last vistige of Temple Bar, in
London, wa9 removed by the contrac
tors on the 13th of June/
—The Arnold print works at North
Adams, Mass., now make 125,000 yards
of prints a day.
—The receipts of the English rail
ways have been rapidly declining for
six months.
—The sugar crop of Cuba is larger
than that of last year by a hundred
housand pounds.
—In twenty-eight vears New York
has sent 48,000 friendless children to
the West and found homes for them.
—The fleece ot the common sheep
will average les9 than one-half in
weight to that of a Merlnoor Cotswold.
—Compulsory education is suggested
for Wisconsin. Nearly one-third of
the school population went untaught
last year.
—The new City Directory of Boston
for 1S79 ha9 just been published. It
contains 134,971 names, against 93,000
in 1870.
—The United States’ imports of Cu
ban productions are upward of $70,000,-
000 per annum, while her exports to
that island amount to but $15,000,000,
—The average consumption of wheat
for each individual of the population of
Great Britain is eight bushels per an
num.
—Between 1874 and 1878, both years
inclusive, 3.86J,000 persons were em
ployed in British mines, and 9058 of
them lost their lives.
—The recent State census 9hows that
the population of Nebraska is about 3S6,-
400, or uoarly 100 times greater than it
was 25 years ago.
—New towns are laid out in the oil
region of McKean county. Fa., almost
every week. No less than five were
urveyed in the month of June.
—The total contributions to the relief
of the wives and children of the Glou
cester, Mass., lost fisherman amounts
to $28,0l>3.
—The excess of exports over imports
for the year ending May 31, 1879, was
$269,709,876, and for the year ending
May 31, 1878, $241,859,939.
know.
‘But the samples run up to $1,500!
‘Salted.”
‘I’m swindled!”
“Don’t you know you said a man couldn’t
“Do you see those marks on the stock—
, ' an X and V, on each side of the queen’s
down a peg. The party Spent a winter in j crown ? Well, that means ten balls and
Rome; and one evening, having all things i five slugs—that’s her load.”
prepared, they induced their \ ankee friend j “But how much powder? ”
to join a drinking bout, and so managed “Oh," he says, “it don’t matter; put
, . . .-. . „ i that they kept sober while he got gloriously i in three or four handfuls ”
be too tricky m selling a mine on Wall drunk Thereunon thev look him into tul rn iTk a
street ?” inquired OM Sawyer, and only a ; cSmbs Kta <*refuhv down whh ‘ J, her ? P K tb f way ’ and
true Christian such as are reared in Pvra- i caiac ° 1 f u>s \ nun carefully down, *ith > an aw ful charge—I had sense enough to
mid district can understand the feelings ' ^. c f n< ^ e w,tbl f 1 reach, and retired a short j see that—and started out. I leveled her
mia aistnct. can understand the feelings ; distance out of sight to wait for the devel- on a cood manv blackbirds, but everv time
of pious elation which Brother Sawyer ex- oDments After^a while their friend mn«ed t . „ y oiac . M,irus j f vei T llme
perienced as the gentleman from Wall Z off j 1 pufl the tHgger I shut my eyes
Street acromnHined hv his eYnerto drove : P ’ P f anmKen 8tu P" and winked. I was afraid of her kick,
street, accompanied Dy ins experts, drove or, and, :n a state of some astonishment ~
furiously off for Reno, blasting the blossom
ing sagebrush along the route with their
fiery language.
In the Water.
Captain Boyton recently gave an exhibi
tion of his skill in the water near Portland,
Maine. The captain is a strong, well-built
; his face is darkly tanned, and is
tinged with red beneath the eyes, which are
nearly closed while he is swimming. His
paddle is a strong‘instrument with a round
handle in the center and stiff blades on
either end. At his usual rate of working j
, . > t Towards sundown I fetched up to the
began endeavoring to locate himself,-at the house, and there was the old man waiting
same time muttering: “Well—hie—this’s ! on the porch.
little strange. Wonner—hie—where I am,
anyway.” He got out his match, lignted
his candle, and began to study his surround
ings. On each side were shelves piled with
grinning skulls and niches filled with skel
etons, while all about were piled legs, arms,
ribs, and vertebrae—a ghastiy array and al
together new to him. He nodded to the
skulls on one side with a drunken “How de
do—hie?” and on the other with “How
d’ye feel—anyway?” took a look at his
watch, and once more at his surroundings,
in still water he makes f'-ur miles an hour, °. D f ee *» took off his hat, and hold
ing it above his head, remarked, loud
enough for his friends to hear: “’S all
right; ’9—hie—all right. Morning of resur
rection, by jingo!—hie. First man on
theground— rahfor the United States /
Alter8 ahead, 'll ah for me specially/”
Peculiar People.
and seems to accomplish this with very lit
tle effort. After giving a short exhibition
of the various methods of swimming with
or without a paddle, the captain commenced
to collect scattered beams and boards which
were floating on the water, and in an incredi
bly short time had constructed a sutfetantial
raft. He was attended by his little tender,
“Baby Mine,” a boat made of metal, with Most people, whatever their condition or
a close-fitting lid. Clambering upon his race, are so homogeneous now-a-days,
raft, he illustrated his methods of through long exposure to the same influen-
signalling with a flag, torch, rocket and ces, that it is enlivening to hear of a people,
horn. He then commenced his prepara- j even though they be savages, altogether
tions for lunch. Hauling his tender along-1 different from the common. The natives of
side, he took from it a fire-pot, shavings, I Botel-Tobago, an island in the China Sea,
bellows and matches, and having n—de : are curious and peculiar in most respects,
kindling wood of some stray pieces of j They excited the wonder of a number of
boards soon had a brisk fire going. He j American naval officers, who recently visit-
then poured water from a canteen into a 1 ed them while surveying a rock east of the
basin, which he placed over the fire. Wflile ' South Cape of Formosa. These aboriginals,
this was boiling, he took his pole and went j who are of Malay stock, knew nothing of
fishing for something for his meal. Lean-1 money, and could not be made to understand
ing quietly on his paddle he waited patient-! the object of its use. They had never tasted
ly for a bite. Soon he felt a nibble and in ' tobacco or rum, nor had they any substi-
a moment hauled out a full-sized perch. ' tutes for these. Nevertheless, the females
Taking this to his raft he stood alongside liked anything and everything of an orna-
and proceeded to dress it. Having finished j mental or decorative character. They ad-
this operation he placed it over the fire and j mired brass buttons, tin vessels or anything
washing" off his raft proceeded to spread his bright; freely gave goats or pigs for them,
table, not even omitting a tiny call-bell.
He then set forth his desert, consisting of
oranges and watermelons. When every
thing had been arranged to his satisfaction,
and his fish was nicely browned, he com
menced his repast and enjoyed his meal re
clining at his ease. After dinner he lit a
cigar, and spreading a parachute over his
head; produced a newspaper and a fan.
Having taken his ease in this way for a few
minutes, he laid aside his umbrella and
and could not get enough for their delecta
tion. Any shining object they were eager
to obtain, and they would dive lor a button
or a coin if thrown into the water, and often
seize it while it was sinking. They played
in the canoes % about the ship for hours,
watching for tht opportunity to dive for the
(to them) precious trifles. The natives are
as primitive as they can be. They wear
only breach-clouts; they live on taro and
yams; they have no other implements than
cigar and proceeded to exhibit his sailing axes, spears and knives, made of common
apparatus. 9i» first set of sails was sloop- j iron; but the females employ shells and thc
rigged with a mast some six feet high and. beards of goats for ornament.
“ Been out hunting, have ye ? ”
“Yes, sir,” says I.
“ What did you kill ?”
“Didn’t kill anything, sir—didn’t shoot
her off; was afraid she'd kick”—I knew
blamed well she would.
“Gimme that gun!” the old man said,as
mad as sin.
And he took aim at a sapling on the
other side of the road, and I began to drop
back out of danger, and the next moment
I heard the earthquake and saw the Queen
Anne whirling end over end in the air, and
the old man spinning around on one heel,
with one leg up and both hands on his jaw,
and the bark flying from the old sapling
like there was a hail storm. The old man’s
shoulder was set back three inches, his jaw
turned black and blue, and he had to lay
up for a week. Cholera or nothing else
can scare me the way I was scared that
time.
To Determine the Speed of a Train.
Travelers on railroads are olten de
sirous of knowing the speed at which
they are moving, and, as a general
thing, are not aware that w ith the aid
of a watch they may readily find out,
even when the mile posts are not placed
along tl^e track. This may be done,
says the Scientific Press, by simply
counting the number of rails which
are passed over in any one given min
ute. On the best railroads the Hammer
ing sound made by the wheels in pass
ing from one rail to another is quite
audible, and may be easily noted on
whichever side of the car the observer
may be sitting. All the rails are either
twenty-four or thirty leet long—the
length may be easily ascertained by
pacing or measuring with a pocket rule
at any station where the train stops.
Then by counting the number ot rails
passed in thirty to sixty seconds, the
speed of travel may be calculated by
any passenger. When a train moves
14.67 feet a second, it is traveling at the
at the rate of ten miles an hour, or a
mile in six minutes. *
—Henry King, colored, aged 73 years,
residing at Salisbury, Md., claims the
paternity ot 41 children. The oldest is
50 and the youngest is two weeks old.
—Lumber shipmeuts are gradually
increasing at Lock Haven, Fa. The
Republican says that, up to June 25th,
they weie 440,000 feet greater than at
this time last year.
—The Department of Agriculture re
ports that the losses to sneep owners
by the ravages of dogs reach one mil
lion dollars annually in the mutton and
^-..ni urtuallv destroyed.
—The first two days of the sale of the
late Mme. Musard’s jewels at Paris,
produced about $180,000. The sensa
tion lot was a necklace of seven rows
of pearls which brought $34,000.
—The blossoms of the ailantcus tree
are said to be poisen to young fowls.
Recently Mrs Jane Taylor, of Cecil
county, Maryland, lost sixty-one small
ducks, it Is believed from this cause.
—Mr. Henry, Inventor of the Martin
i-Henry rifle barrel and ammunition
is vainly seeking for adequate remun
eration from the British War Office for
the use of his patents by that Govern
ment.
—Mrs. Judith Mitchell, a sprightly
old woman in Ohio county, Ky., born
in 1786, has six children, 54 grand
children, 116 great-grandchildren, and
10 great-great-grandchildren. All are
living.
—A statue of Marshal Von Moltke is
to be erected in-Cologne, the city of his
birth, and the First Burgomaster has
offered three prizes, of 1500, 10b0 and
500 marks respectively, for the best
models.
—The King of Denmark is suffering
much from ill health. He has felt
deeply the loss of iiis last daughter,
Thyra, Duchess of Cumberland, and
the incorporation by Prussia of North
Schleswig was also a trouble to him.
—Gardener E. Sisson undertook late
ly In Providence, R. I.. to make 100
pairs of India rubber boots in 100 con
secutive hours, or forfeit $5,000. He
performed his task four miuutes before
tbe expiration of his time.
—Mechanics get $60 a day. and com
mon laborers $15 a day, in Buenos
Ayres. Bookkeepers get$20.000a year,
and extra zeal as a manager brings
$75,000. The paper dollar is worth
three cents in gold. A loaf of bread
costs $3.
—A bar shot, supposed to have been
thrown from one of the English frigates
which came up the Penobscot river in
1814, has been found on the premises of
Jonathan Pitcher, iu Bangor, Maine,
some three feet below the surface of
the ground.
—Miss Elizabeth Leibesberger, of
Berks county, Pa., aged 92, is one of
the wealthiest maiden ladies in that
State. She owns several large farms.
She has silvery gaay hair, is neat and
trim in appearance, and, considering
her great age, is quite active and alert
A wooden doll which William Penn
brought over from England as a pre
sent to one of his daughters is still
cherished by a Washington family.
It Is known as Letitia Penn, the name
of the great Quaker’s daughter, and is a
faded beauty, twelve inches high, with
out a joint in its body.
—There is an eccentric tramp in
Litchfield county, Conn., known as
“the leatberman.” He lives in a cave
in Roxbury during the wiuter, and at
other seasons wanders from town to
town begging his way. Iiis entire
dress, hat included, consists of old boot
legs tied together with leather strings,
—France is a large importer of for
eign stock. In 1877 she imported 185,-
000 biack cattle, 1,500,000 sheep, and
120,000 pigs, all of which are examined
iu the frontier custom bouses by veter
inary surgeons. To maintain the nec
essary staff of veterinary officialis the
expense being 125.000 francs yearly, a
small tax is exacted per head of stock.
—During the six months ending
June 30th, 366 failures were reported
in New York city, with total liabilities
of $11,582,656, and total assets of $5,990,-
347. In the corresponding six months
of 1878 there were 514 failures, with
liabilities of $39,030,795, and assets of
$11,012,662. The failures this year have
been mainly confined to the small tra
ders.