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[MAID SYBIIl’S LOVER;' J° n “,?°y R ”^ THE E°SETEEEMINE.
It was a sweet summer's afternoon, th0B ® who ^^Tfcbiquainted with his j^® birds "5® goin S aouth > Antoine,
toward the middle of the Fifteenth cen- frank and open nature would never have ““2V* early,
tnry, and the inhabitants of the little given him credit for, he carried bn his . *«, -Angelique, the winter will be
village of Friars Holt were all assembled teeulders a fat doe, which he hnmbly °®** .
upon the green, watching the attempts offered to Michael Rezthorpe as a trib- I - “?”*• MAn *
‘ - ft ^ P ate from ope who. though ignorant, was < **?%’ 1 h “ rd * «*•*»* cry m the night.
a devoted admirer of learning. j could not sleep."
The conning old a»« fathomed the “ was a devil bird, nay wife; it Hiss
handsome forester’s motive in a mo-1 *i°wly and the summer is dead.”
ment. but he was not one to cast away i “Antoine, there was a rushing of
gifts, even though he felt in his heart wmgs by my bed before the morn was
quivering in the turf, falling three yards that Hob of the Butts had a magnet in 4 < r
sliort of the butt “The king will never 8 V bil Tressider. He received him gra- ! 7* 7
complain that lads of Wainwood make , °iously and accepted the present. , i “• **
havoc among his deer if he hears of such 8 y bil and th ® forester had now many , *0* hous* andnot near thy bed,
shooting as this." . opportunities of meeting, and a strong ! . .? . ? . blac * squirrels have gone
i of some of the younger men to send their
I arrows straight to the center of the butte
which stood at one end of thecHosen
place of recreation.
‘•Another shaft missed the clout,"
| laughed an old man, as the arrow stuck
“Hold your prate, Gaffer Jenkyn,"
; said the young man who had discharged
the last shot, pettishly unstringing his
I bow; “it was a cross wind which marred
l my shooting, unless, indeed, it was the
| wizard’s ward,” he added, crossing him-
[self devontly as hecaat a glance of scorn
[ and abhorrence at a young maiden
standing some little distance apart from
[the group of rustics—a fair haired girl
|oi middle height, with a pair of laugh
ing gray eyes.
feeling of affection sprang up between
1—not unnoticed by the keen eyes ef
to
ere were times when he felt inclined
d his snow white beard with disap-
ent.
id now began a new life for Hob of
the Butts. His former sylvan haunts
and gay companions knew him not. for
he became Michael Rexthorpe’s drudge,
a mere hewer of wood and drawer of
from the hickory tree.
! “They have hidden away with the
j bears in the earthy for the frost cornea,
j and it is the time ef sleep."
1 “A cold hand was knocking a* my
heart when 1 said my avea last night,
my Antoine.”
“The heart of a woman feels many
strange things; J cannot answer, my
j wife.” r
I "Lie* ns go also southward, Antoine,
before the great winds sad the wild frost
water, and yet he felt that this nnac-
Ilor agecoold scarcely have exceeded j <mstomed toil was amply repaid by the c °”, e r . . ... . r _ _
lighten years, and the merry expres-j opportunity of breathing his love in | * 1?™ 1 th< ?’ An ** Eqn ®‘ ^ 1
she smiled at the W® «« bearing her shy answer
of her face as
voebegone look of the discomfited bow- in response.
[tan had no more wizard’s glamour j
about it tban is always to bo found in |
the rippling laughter of a pretty girL j
•Yos, there she be, sure enough,”
autterod Gaffer Jenkyn, with a glance
of malevolent hatred at the young girL
■What business has she down here
among ns? Even if she can’t cast spells
herself she can tell all about us to that
pld warlock who lives in the rained
awer in Cairnstone Chase."
By this time general attention was
Irawn to the beautiful intruder, and
reats and execrations were leveled at
ber head.
At first the girl appeared nnconscious
| of her danger, but all at once a stone
irown by a lad grazed her arm, and as
ae perceived the threatening attitude
of the crowd a look of intense terror
i across her fade and she turned to
8y.
“Do not let the witch escape,” cried
1 old crone. “I lost two sweet grand
children last autumn. They said it was
be falling sickness, bnt 1 know better.
Itwivs through the devilments of the
id wizard and his ward."
A menacing circle soon formed aronnd
be i>oor girl, whose entreaties for mercy
received with shouts of derision,
ad she would have been seriously mal-
eated had not a figure burst through
be ranks of her assailants and loudly
sked the meaning of their cowardly
ond uct.
, The man who interposed in the girl’s
plialf was attired in the picturesque
of a forester, though he wore no
;e or cognizance to show that he
the retainer of any noble house,
id the cloth of which Ids Lincoln green
bnhlet was composed was of a finer
bnracter than that in which servitors
ere attired.
‘Hullo, my masters,” cried he, step-
lug between the maiden and her assail
its; "what wit is this? By the bones
Jonathan the Archer, call ye yonr-
elves Englishmen to behave in such a
Banner?"
A confnsed chores of explanation rose
am the little crowd, bat the smith,
|rho had first suggested violent meas-
res, strode to the front.
“This is no busiuess of thine, Hob of
Butts,” growled he. “Get ye to
bur own business of stealing the king’s
L>r and leave honest men to look after
laeir own affairs.
•We will have no witches or warlocks
long us, and this wench, who lives up
Cairnstone Chase with old Michael
exthorpe, shall not come down here
sting her spell over ns and ours."
, As he spoke he laid a rough, sinewy
and upon the shoulder of the shrinking
rl, bnt in a moment staggered back
jider the effects of a heavy blow denit
by the man called Hob of the Batts,
bo, placing the girl’s arm in his, drew
through the crowd, not one of
lich ventured to manifest any opposi
te
[Neither spoke a word until they had
Friars Holt some little distance be
ad them, and then the girl said tim-
”1 thank you, fair sir, for yonr kind-
in rescuing me from that dreadful
1 thought 1 should have died
terror when he laid his hand
8."
be forester laughed merrily. “Matt
and I understand each other,
ty one," said he. "But tell me, who
1 you? Why did they onD yon a wlteh
' want to throw yon into the pond!"
■Tears started to the girl’s eyes. “1
am called Sybil Trewdder," answered
fihe, “and I am no witch, though I live
Eg in Cairnstone Chase with that fearful
man, Michael Rexthorpe.
Ij father, Reginald Tressider, whe
eved that he could find the pbfloee-
r’s stone, was the owner of the house
the Chase and Michael Rexthorpe
his trusted familiar and acolyte,
I my poor father died and the fe*r-
ae man Michael has taken every-
Dg. He says 1 am his word, and
ngh 1 am not absolutely a prisoner,
1 he has forbidden me to go beyond
in limits." , ,,
lob of the Butts stroked feds chin
One day Michael’s countenance was
full of triumph. “I have fonnd them!”
cried he. “1 have found them. I am
not quite certain of eternal youth, for
that will be a gradual process; but of
the waters of oblivion I have no doubt.
1 have, however, hit npon a sure means
of testing the latter 1 and will do so on
that jolter headed archer and see if it
will make him forget SybiL”
He hastened away to the keeping room
of the tower with the silver goblets,
each containing a small qnanity of Borne
liquid; pore and colorless as crystal.
“1 will quaff youth,” said he, “while
the archer shall drain the cup of obliv
ion to the dregs."
Meanwhile the lovers were engaged In
earnest conversation beneath a pink
May tree, which grew on the south side
of the tower.
“Have you not made up yonr mind
yet, dearest Sybil?" murmured the arch
er in impassioned tones; “will yon not
exchange this doll tower and the harsh
words of yonr guardian for the sweet
retreats of the merry greenwood?
“The prior of St Williston’s chapel is
ready to join our band and my trusty
comrades will give yon a hearty wel
come. Fly with me, then, and do not
waste yonr young life here.”
For awhile the maiden hesitated, and
then with a deep blush consented to fol
low her lover.
They returned, and as she entered the
keeping room she saw her guardian
carefully placing two silver goblets npon
the table.
. “Where hast thou been, gadabout?"
said he, with an angry frown, “and
where is that oaf of a bowman? Send
him hither and J will hasten him up by
partaking of a cap of strong waters with
him before he goes forth on his quest."
Michael placed the goblets at separate
ends of the table and then shsishfej oat
of the room. 'As his did sa the girl
caught s malicious twinkle in hte eye.
which raised her suspicions, and with
lightninglike rapidity she reversed the
positions of the cups: then hastening to
her lover she whispered a few words in
his ear.
He nodded, and in a few seconds en
tered the room, where the seeker after
the mysteries of the occult was in wait
ing.
“You want some venison. I hear,
faster Rexthorpe.” said the forester.
‘‘I can lay my hands npon a fair white
doe in half an hoar.”
"Tie well." answered Rexthorpe.
rubbing his hands; “bnt before tbon
t drain this, 'twill hearten thee up."
ie forester tossed off the contents ef
iblet and was about to leave the
when the old man said, “Whither
goesf thon. Hob?"
the broken cross,” answered the
fores!
He hath forgotten all about
the dde.” said Michael gleefully. “The
potion works already. Rear far nay
dutagel**.«
He drained’off the contents' of the
chalice and fell stricken to death, 1 while
the forester and the maiden journeyed
on to where light and happiness awaited
them, for love has been ever foe spring
of eternal youth, while it is only death’s
hand that can brew the liquor which fills
the cup of oblivion.—Sir Gilbert Camp
bell, Bart., in Boston Globe.
TrtraMe with the Eye.
To shy nothing of the thousands of
tho hopelessly blind, let any ae -go to
the foamy eye infirmaries ef our land
SDd witness the streams ef patients cra-
staofly ponripg through them, and to
the offices of our numerous oculists, and
see them, forenoon sad afternoon, filled
with shfferers patiently westing their
tan, and he will certainly come to feel
the‘urgent need on the part ef the eens-
munity in graeral of a more intelligent
and conservative use of the
Youth's Companion. ,
" . 1 ■ Am Odd A.Imat
Nb horned torto{po now exists, hat s
Is not love greater than all?"
“To keep a pledge is greater.”
“Ye* If evil corner
"There is the mine.”
"None travels hither; who should
find itT
“He said to me, my wife, ‘Antoine,
will yen stay arid watch the mine until
I come with the birds northward sgniilf
and said T will stay and Angeliqae will
stay; I will watch the mine.’"
“This is for his riehea, hat for oar
peril, Antoine."
"Who can say whither a woman’s
fancy goes? It is fall ef guecsteg. It is
clouds and darkness today and snnshine
—so much—tomorrow. 1 cannot an
swer."
"I have a fear. If my husbasd laved
me”
“There is the mine,” he interrupted
firmly. v - f
“When my heart aches so"
“Angelique. there is the mine."
“Ah, my Antoine!"
And so these two staid on the island
of Saint Jean, in Lake Superior, fiurengh
the pmgrte hare et amtmm tote fits
white briHioey of winter, guarding the
Rose Tree mine, which Folding, the
Englishman, and his companions hod
prospected and declared to he their
Ophir.
Bnt Saint Jeon was far frem the ways’
ef settlement, and there was little food
and only asm hut, and many things must
be done for the Rose Tree mine ia the
places where men sell their scute for
money; and Antoine and Angeliqae,
French peasants from the parish of Saint
Irene, in Quebec, were left to guard the
place ef treasure until, to the sound ef
the laughing spring, there should come
many men and much machinery, and
the sinking of shafts ia tho earth arid
lha making ef riches.
Bnt who" Urisiaeahd Angelique were
left alone in the waste, and God began
to drew fce pole coverlet of frost slowly
acnaa land and water and to earroumd
Saint Jean with a stubborn moot of ice,
the heart of the woman felt some coming
danger, and s* last broke forth ia words
ef timid warning. When she once had
spoken she said no more, bnt staid and
braided Che heaps of earth about the
home, and filled every crevice against
the inhospitable Spirit of White, sad
drew her world closer and closer within
those two rooms where fhap should live
through many moons.
The winter was harsh, hot the hearts
of the two were strong. They loved,
and love is the parent of endurance, the
begetter of courage. And every day,
because it seemed his duty, Antoine in
spected the Rose Tree mine; and every
day, also, because it seemed her duty,
Angelique said many ares. And oae
prayer wsa much with her—for spring
to coma early, that this child should not
suffer; the ehild which the good God
was to give to her and Antoinec
In the first hours of each evening An
toine smoked and Angelique sang the
rid songs which their ancestors learned
in Normandy. One night Antoiae's teoe
lighted with a fine ire as he talked
of happy days ia the parish of Saint
Irene, and with that romantic fervor of
his rade which the stem winters of Can
ada oould not kill, he sang “A la Claire
Fontaine," the well beloved song child
of the voyagers' heart*.
And the wife smiled far srway into the
daxcing flame#-—far away, because tha
fin retreated, retreated to the little
church when they two were wed; and
■ha did oa moat good weaken do—though’
exactly why; sun the insaiSeieht
sat declare—she wept • little through
her smiles. Bnt when the late verse
onme both smiles and tears ceased. An
toine songlf rHh’n'fnttd foonotohy:
feesfl specimen was found awhile ago
on Hard Howe’e island, in tho southern
Pacific. Whidh had four horns on ite
crest and resembled a cross between a
htfully. “A sod tale," teid he. horned , toad and a snapping turtle.—
t what doth ho np te the lonely f New* York Preea.
from whence aa I have.passed
at way at night I have aeon strangely
ored vapors issne sad olonds ef
{ht sparks float away like’ evd do-.
1 on their errand of flL"
‘He searches for two tMago—the aa-
i of eterhal youth and the waters <
ivion," replied Sybil Tressider.
lob of Butts looked puzzled. “I know
i what yon mean by the last," said ho.
“It is the draft-which- brings forget-
toess," answered the maiden.
“Then JJ.itt' Clink' often finds that
“jn he quaffs the nut brown ale," re-,
ned the forester, with his merry laugh.’
fl cannot ask thee in." replied Sybil,
from the bottoin of my heart 1
c than. 1 have not met a friend
iloaafe&otWbft* A ' <
lie turned from him with a sigh mid
her way slewly- toward-the trine
yes QUEST.
I sought Love in each highway for and wide
At every door stood long with outstretched
hands/*
Praying-for Lore’s ew«
m and&
Were met with only hate and naught beside.
At last, footsore and weary, l turned home,
- To fin* there in thy gentle, tear filled eye*
faweet tore, lone sought for—end no more 1
ream. v r "ai.
—Mary Kent Davey.
C' use ybur coualiinc and erj* y refresh
ing shimbrr, which Dr Bn ’*a : Cough
8) rap will insure yon.
“Are you going to thersces!” “Yes, and
bet on ' She winning hots “Not the
handsome Abdullah, h» it lame. oDidh*
wiant y on fcno*?” “I’ll "whi*pertn yrur («r,
. ?! apiri I n 0i!.’»
with a capital of $200,000, the whole
island in our bands in a week and An
toine squatting on it now like Bonaparte
onTHbe.”
“And what does Antoine get eet ef
this?" said Belgard.
“Forty dollars a month and his keep."
“Why not write him off a couple of
shares to propitiate the gods—gifts unto
the needy, eh! a thousandfold—whatf*.
.^‘‘Yes; it might bo done,' Belgard,
But some one just then proposed the
toast of “The Rose Tree mine," and the
souls of these men waxed preud and
merry, for they had seen the investor’s
palm filled with gold, the maker ef con-,
quest While Antoine was singing with
his wife they were bolding revel within
the sound of Bow Bells. And far into
the night, through silent Chespside, e
rolling voice swelled through much
laughter thus:
Gal Ion la, gal <• raster
Dn Jnli mois da mol.
The next day there were heavy heads
in London; bnt the next day also a man
lay ill in the lint on Saint Jean.
Antoine had sung hie last eeag. He
had waked in the night with a start of
pain, and by the time the snn was ball
ing at noon above the Roes Tree mine
he had begun a journey fihe record of
which ne man ha ever truly told,
neither its beginning nerr fin ted; be
cause that which is of the qptrtt refioselb
to be interpreted by fihe forth Some
signs there be, bnt they are brief and
shadowy; the awe of it is bidden to Urn
mind of him that gsefch Ml lonely Onto
God.
When the call goes twrtb, ate wffe nor
child nor any other eon bold the way
farer back, though he tony 1 after for ns
instant on the brink. The poor medico-’
monte which Angeliqne brings aval not;
these soothing hands and hesSag tease,
they pass through clouds ef tee middle
place between heaven and earth to An
toine. ft is only when Mei second mid
night comes that, with causciM ~bnt
pensive’and far off eyes, ha soya Mltef,
“Angelique. my wife."
For reply her lipe proa hte cheek and.
her fingers hunger far Ws seek. Then,
"la there pain now, Antoinef”
“There is ho pain, Angelique."
He closed his’ eyee slewly; ’her 1 lips
framed an Ave.
“The mine,” he arid, “the urine—un
til the spring. *? i - ’ -
"Yes.
“Hare yea east
Angeliqae?”
“There are many, my hnabemd.
“The ground is « iron; one aanaot
dig, and the water trader the tee te cruel
—is it not so, Angelique?”
“No ax could break tea ground, and
the water is cruel. *_
“You will ste my face antO tha win
ter is gone, my wife.”
She bowed her head, bnt smoothed his
hand meanwhile.
He partly slept; his body slept, though
his wind was feeling ite way to wonder
ful things. But osar the anrateg fcsr
eyes opened wide and he
one coils oat of the dark. Angel
*»Aeho withifcer-tiS
replied, “It is the s*y of a dag, .An
toine."
Bnt there are footsteps at tee door,
my wife."
“Nay, Antoine; it is the mow
upon the window."
“There te the sound of wings close by:
dote thou not hear teem; 1 AngeliquOT*
Wings—wings," she faltoringlysoid;
“it ia the hot bloat through tbs chimney:
tee Bight te cold, Antoine."
"The night te vary cold," he arid, and
he trembled. “1 hear. O ray Wifib, tee
voice ef a little ehild; the volute like
to thine, Angelique.
And she, not knowing what to reply,
mid softly, “There is hope is the voice
of a child," and the mother stirred with
in her: and in the moment he knew also
that the spirits would give her tee child
in safety, teat she should ate hi
ia tha long winter.
Tha Bounds af the harsh night hod
•used—the mapping ef tee 1
branches, tee maekitor ef tee carte nod
fihe henviag of a rock; the merits a* tee
Croat bkkd finished ' fihsir work', and juft
as tee gray ferekeodef down
beyead the sold MBs Antrim cried eat
gently: “Aageliqae. Ah, urn Oegl-
taiue. Jam," md teen, hi more.
Night after night Angelique fluted
undies ia tee place where Antoine
smiled on in his freasn silence; and
were mid for hie »oul — tee
mmem love murmurs for ha dead. The
carte could not receive hria—Ms bosom
wu adamant—hat no decay eeald toneh
him, and she dwelt atone with this; that
wu her ’ husband, natfl ‘ ana bianMfal.
hitter < dsy, wkea.'wite W eyte «MNW
God’s to see her, and me hnuaa
fort by her. She gave birth to a
child; And yet that night aha Hrfttod
tea enfidleft •* the dead rimfi hind and
Cut, dragging herself Brithar totes held.-
The people who occupy the flat imme
diately beneath ours are great diners
out; and aa their dog ia of a sociable dis
position he commonly burrows under
the doormat and howls until the return
of his proprietors. But th# howls now
heard by myself and my wife were dis
tinctly human, and proceeded from our
culinary department at the passage end.
Something must have happened to
Leu Hal We sprang frem the dinner
table, and made one bound to the
kitchen door. With Instinctive delicacy
we listened a moment before bursting
in. The enter!e# sever seated, though
at times they sounded strangely muffled.
Had » burglar dropped ia fer a late af
ternoon visit? Wu he parroting the
toe faithful creature who had refused to
reveal fihe whereabeate ef tee plate
bosket? I grasped the seup ladle—which
had ’ unconsciously retained — with
nervous detormlnafitaa. We rushed in
quietly.
There wu no burglar. Only Looeha
behind fibs scullery doer, wfth her head
wrapped up in a towel, wu^ving vent
tebnmtsef amotion which nriBMcreH
hove are need tea envy ef tee poodle
down stain. With compassion, slightly
tempered wifib severity, we questioned
the 1 girt. She took" some time’ to soar
eat of the chryerik er pupa condition,
bat family’‘emerged from fihe felds of
the towel asd explained. Mother—who
shenld have knew a better, having but a!
brief twelvemonth since interred her
Saeond—wu now receiving the address-'
u of a potential Third, himsolf a wid
ower with nine incumbrances. In jus
tice to the aspirant, we may mention
that he wu fairly well to do, being a 1
retired’ joiner by the name of Mr.
Brawn.' In Loosha’s bitterest momenta
she deprived him of tee prefix, calling
him simply, and for short, “That There'
Brown." 1
The fell news had only just been
brought by Loosha’s little stepsister Era-
seeHne, though Looeha had had a pre
monitory warn tug in the way ef creeps
dewn her hack whenever she had on-
countered th* designing Mr. Blown far
te time pash < ■ It had been e-dorning
in her mind, she arid, by degrees as
there wu sometemg up; and this very
afternoon he hod upped and spoke, most
Cyra tee rmi tree l ..
Ait Chat the fetal rree tree
Deep te tee eeSra ley.
Il-jr* tensteaye e** Ie t'i
Irak je met'aublierU:
Axgelique’s heart grew suddenly
hoasrj; Frem tee mu treb'ef' tee sOng
her mind 1 led and shivered before tee
Ice flew rue tree by the mine; and bar
aid dread esmra hack.
Of eewrae this wu foetiaa ef Ange-
Hqne; of tiionau tee wire aad "great
threw contumely en oD sate enpweti
tiens; aad yon knowing wean will
smile aft each other meaningly and with
pity fer a dull nun writer, and will
whaler, “Of course, tea chili" Bnt
many things, your majesties, are hidden
from year window and yonr
and are ^ra° tee simple to babies
end the mother* ef babies.
It wu npesr tek very night teat Fold
ing, tee Wnglishfhan, sa* with ether men
in a London tavern talking joyously.
"There’s been tee luck ef heaven,” he
said, “in the whole exploit. We'd boon
prospecting for months. As a set* of
try in a' backwater we. rowed' over one
might to an island and pitched tents.
Not a dozen yards frem whom we
camped wu a rose tree. Think of it,
Belgard—a roee tree en a ragtag island
of Lake Superior! •There’s luck in add
numbers,’ says Rory O'More. ‘There’s
hick here,’ said 1, and at it we went just
painfully breathed away tea foes* theft
ekbked it, with her ehild for menrur
and herself fer sexton and priut,’she
■buried Antoine' with maimed ritaft; but
hem were tho'pTsysu ef tke’pqer aad of
the pur* in heart, aad tee did net fret
because ia tee hour tha* hoe oootrade
wuput
wu laughing aft 1 tee te*eqhft ef earning
summer.
Before another sunrise came film own
ers of the island of Start Jean saw to
claim what wu teeirm, ad
which bad happened worked upon their
hearts, thfty called toe ehsld Sun* Jean,
ad from tha* rim* forte fooy mada
him to enjoy the goodly fruits af tha
Ren Tree mine.—Gilbert Parker in Na
tional Observer.
UNDERTONES.
We tiiv not; but tell «
la tk6 yoannky oar tugonm,
CaaMUtkA* if* m*f Hrttcewn
ar CfFsJvoaCl u lelMi
Seems re bear, while ft kanft* ty.
Thrrate undertraee •( raaa
ImmartaUtr’* See* reytrl
Fonran Y.M.C. A.—There will be
an entertainment given at the rooms c
tue Y. M. C. A. building next Friday
tjgb weekfor the benefit ofthe associ
_ atioD. Thenature <f the entertainment
Stee rose tree." WTrat’s'the result?' has not yet been determined upin, bat
Look at that prospeotus-^a company it-»ill bo" something' very nice.
* - —-
kt, -Mas. Iumms, I writ ec» de
ceive yon, that it wu just through yoe
dropping ia in a friendly way to ’elp at the
laying out of her u is gene (end her *mly
buried eleven month*) that my attention
wu in a manner of speaking drewed to
yon; md in a homely way, putting the
thing plainly for yonr thinking over quiet
by yom self, I will say yon have thru and
me similarly trine, md hath being unin-
enmbijed, why not make one extra large
table out of yonr medium md my full
siasdf Which table, Looeha parenthet
ically observed, wesiid eltimately prove
he7 Awtobod,
We tried to 'tectee the aggrieved
handmaid by every teaa.'qi In our powrn.
firing writrin three days ef Cbristmu
day, ad haying proponed to entertain
tea representative msubeas of ear re
spective families bets eg -whom, all
the year round, grot enmity exists—at
a social dinner. Ilia prospect be fere us
wu overshadowed by Looeha’* grief-
If matter* came to a crime *be would u
like u not take to tar bed md remain
there for two days. At the end ef her
period of sackcloth and aahea tee would
we knew by previous experience, reap
pear u fresh u point aad quite recon
ciled to (he dispeeitiau ef fate. But in
tee muawbik* what wouM become of
uS? I tried to vgoe. I reminded Loceha
that her mother wu etiQ young, active
md ladnstrioTw; md tha* eae could net,
While deploring tee act of Mr. Brawn,
revile him for bis choice ef a successor
to the departed; that that euecsesoi-
roigbt be celled, evu new, e’ pretty
i that men would be mea,
np ra»ttef how foolish it wa I would
have continued in tka strata, haft teat
Loerim hecama hystmisaL
‘ ’t ymmgl” tee sereamed;
—wite ne twasty-teiea, hew esaM she?
And tee riB*t pretty; er if rim Is tee
ought to be uhemed of herself! And
bote nly father'nn Ehrrateline aad It
fred’s father would say so if they were
haul And if she doee it—white aft -her
time ef • life is a disgrace—I teell tebWn
jayselfT "
Tha she went into hysteria* and
rammed J the fioor with' hm bteN ’Itaa
ie bate of-a' chair with
a alarming moaner; aad I
ent ef the kitoha test tee
t be nafes toned ad tehlcrirlfohla
applied.’ It took a whole gill
af -Tmregm vinegtf’aad’ the bate part
“ t*ul feathers ef ear Ckristmatur-
bring her to aytking like
on hearing themselves alluded as poor
lambs and joined their lamentations to
Sister Loosha’s. The tumult raged high,
though Mrs. Hemmans preserved a calm,
even, stony demeanor. And in the mid
dle of it all That There Brown knocked
at tha door.
No quick change artist ever effected a
more wondrous transformation than did
Looeha in that minute. Mrs. Hemmans
had glided away to put her cap straight
and smooth her sleek parting. In the
interval between her disappearance and
her return, Looeha and Mr. Brown had
become quite friendly. Mr. Brown’s’
manner was quite fatherly, and his fea
tures shone with smiles and gin and
water. He had been screwing np hi*
courage with that fortifying beverage.
Loosha, as she sent the astonished Em
meline out for a quartern of the best
and provided the visitor with a reliable
chair, made np her mind that the doom
of That Thera Brown, matrimonially
speaking, was sealed. Mother, without
knowing why felt uncomfortable wheti
the widowed joiner proposed taking tho
entire family (it was Loosha’s day out)
to th# World’s fair, ad Loosha warmly
responded to the overture.
They took Emmeline and Elfred and
the Islington bus, and That There
Brown and Looeha occupied a garden
•hair seat together outside, mother and
the children being stowed in the interior
of the vehicle. Brown was fatherly
when they started; Portland Road fonnd
him affectionate. By the time they
were launched amid the giddy delights
of the fair, ho was beginning to think I—
Deluded wretch! What matters it what
he thought! It was deliberately done of
Loosha, the betraying of That There
Brown. He wandered with the mother 1
and daughter', each on an arm, through
a fairy land of mingled fog and gas
light." They visited the birds. the beasts
and reptiles: and Loosha appealed ’ to
him for information es to their names,
secies and general habitat, and greeted
every remark of hie with admiring
“Lor*I” fihe never' seemed to notice
who* mixed np the Bactria samel
with the water tmffalo.
8b# went 4 npon tte eirchlsr switch-
hack with him, mother being too timid
tp venture, end became nervous ia the
middle ef the airy journey , clinging to
the arm ef ’the * ravished widower With
feminine squeaks of terror. How en
throned she woe by his performance on
the try-ywr-etrength machine, though
the marker on the dial indicated nothing
much in fhe way of a record. The more
fascinating Loosha became the warmer
end more perepiring became That There
Brown. He andgetl her frequently. All
the sensation of his corporeal’ frame
seemed to have taken np itsabode inthe
elbow to which she hnng.
Was it then that the miserable man
uttered the wofcris Which sealed His fate?
It may have been. All wo know for
-certain is that those words'once ottered,
Loosha’s manner became distant and
•ff hand. That There Brown put it
dewn to maiden coyness, and renewed
fihe siege with redoubled rashness: ft
was when the Flying Demons wore
about to take their marvelous leap
fthreugh space, arid the popular atten
tion wwr uniformly diverted to the-ceil
ing, that Mrs. Hemmans—who was not
without a consciousness that for a suitor
trembling on the brink’of acceptance
Mr. Brown’s conduct was, to say the
least of it. inadequate—felt a tug a* her
shawL
It came from the infant Emmeline,
whose watchful eye, unchildlike in its
keen appreciation of the situation, had
detected the joiner’s arm in the act of
inclosing tho figure of Loosha under the
shadow of' her bead fringed mantle.
After that the widow was taken faintisb,
and had to be revived with peppermint
drops ere the company returned to
Brompton. Mr. Brown was not incited
in to tea; though he lingered'Iorig upon
,tbe doorstop! And when he had gone
Loosha uncorked the vials of her con
tempt, and told ’ her parent that she had
been nursing a addick in her
bnt, (hank God; tt waa unmasked
last!
Next morning' a procession of. four
started for the cemetery. Emmeline
and Elfred walked in front, hand-in
had arid bearing votive garlands.' In
tee presence of the headstone on which
the virtnerof her sOfcond were recorded;
Mrs. Hemmans renewed her vows of
faithful widowhood. On the way back
party encountered That There
to
puifinia.
_ 4*”.?th*t wmThree da'
fo-Tte-'lterl^ 'SSMT '^ITa lave got 'orar tee dinner otirirtha
JTahavi
meriting of the -clam without any casual-'
'ties ether than those we write hound to
expect. And Lbeetefis preternetdrally
bright,*ska*p, tight ad brisk; As she
goto about her work she'sings.'’ “Como
‘Buy My Colored Errm" is a favorite vo
cal exercise with her. Bnt it has' been’
rapszseM- by “Take Bote the Art'
Aari, ftrsna fee piqnently expressive
meaning Loosha infosea into the opeUiri’g
line*, it is plain that she applies them to
Mr. Brown, whose addreans have been
discharged, and whose matrimonial
plane have been circumvented, thanks to
the prompt action token by Loosha'in
the matter. It may be mentioned' that
our handmaid’s baptismal appellation
waa originally derived from a popular
novel, called “Looeha of Lam Her
More," and read by mother at an impori
tat‘crisis. Mother is quite a literary
person, having worked for several ra-
thora, as of whom waa a poetical gtnius
•Mashed to a well’known firm ef soap-
maker*.
Leosha’a mother, like many email,
meek looking people, possesses a eensid-
•rable amount ef determination. If she
reofiy entertained a weakness for Mr.
Brown, the* weakness was mot to he put
dewn with Am eftrog am. Loesha re
alised tea*, aha tolls aa, ns aha stood on
the kiteba Coer and met those block
beady ayes, so like her own. True, the
"Mother just ’ung her *ed," said Loosha
afterward, “and walked by 1 him without
taking no more aottea than if ho was
Ait. But he spreads Tseelf out over too
pate and’sozeo; ‘Don’t yon reckonizri
your friends, Mrs. Hemmans,’ mum, at
tins time o'day, after all os has been
said between nhf And then I pushes in,
to he looks up' and' rest my eye. 1 give
Ini a cold star®, and yon might see *im
shrink, ns if ’e knowed what was comin.
•Begging yonr pardon,’ I says,- ‘but did
you mean me or my motherf “Yonr
mother,’ says' That There Brown, fa* I 1
think and ’ope will make a gobd trtfotb
me and mother to my nine ribUdreU.’
‘Which yon was of a different oplniori
yeeterday,’ I sharps back on ’im, ‘wl
youastmeto tuarry yon at toe Worl
fairi Per’aps you’d like to ’avena both, a
Yhe Salt Lake (Sty Morgans ain’t too par
ticular in that way, and yon may belong
to the English branch of toe dinomaga-
tion.’ ‘You’ve been and raised a no.-nick’s
nest about my yeere, you catr says That
There Brown, with a scowl; ‘Maria;’
and he looked imploring like at mother,
nhe ’nman ’ait is imptdshuoufl, especial
when led away by gin and water. Over
look the accident and yon wonThave
no reason to complain.’ T could never
’ave no reliance on yon, Mr. Brown,’
■ays mother, with her eyes cast down
and speakin’ as .if - she'd got pins in her
monte, ‘after what has took place.’ ‘So
make yonr mind up to it,’l says, ‘as
neither me nor my mother ain’t going
to be no wife-to you nor yonr nine Chil
dren, neither.’ Aad he took and hooked
U^&^That There Browff."—St James’ * '
APPOINTED FOB THE CENTRAL OF
. ^ .GEORGIA*
A PETITION* FILED
By Stockholders of the Central At
tacking tho L eaae to the Georgia
Pacific-General Alexander Ap
pointed Receiver.
Atzakta, Ga., March [Spcchl.]—
It baB cun- a*!.!
The appointment of Gen ral E. P.
Alexander as temporary rro-iver of the
Central i f Georgia on a bill filed by a
strckholder who3e home is said to be in
Charleston, but whose name is net giv
en, is the biggest - railrord sensatidn
Georgia bas had in years: ”
It is all t-ilk not only of railroad 6ir-
cles but of business circles from one
end of the State to the otheT, for tho
Central is ahorae'institation and almost
everybody in G ergia is directly oir in
directly interested mil.
Briefly put, the facts in the case fu
court are these; Attorney a Roundtree,
of Atlanta, and Perry, of Charleston,
ri-p eseuting stockholders in the com
pany presented a bill to Judge SFeeT 6f
the U. S. district court at Macon pray
ing for toe appointment of a
receiver for the property
and attacking the lease
to Georgia Pt-cfic on the grounds‘that
the forty thousand shares of it<-ck, held
by, West Point Terminal Company giv-
ingtbem control of Central Company
i legal and that therefore the lease to
’the Georgia PapJflo and • lection of toe
present board of directora* are ill* gal.
Upon the preaentatidn of the papei^
Judge Speer appointed General X P.
Alexander, of Savannah, temporary re
ceiver, and fixed M»roh 13th as the- day
for hearing of the case. In oase Gen
eral Alexander would not accept, Cap
W. W. Gordon was named by Judge
Speer to take charge of the ro;id. Gei -
eral Alexander has accepted.
, . MR. PRICE ACQUITTED.’
An tntaresttng Trial Over in Madison,
Georgia*
Madison, Ga., Mai oh 8.—[Special.]
Morgan Superior Court has been iu"
session here since the fourth Monday
fo February and will probably extend -
into next week. Judge Jenkins is de
termined e’ear the docket before he
leaves/ The Judge is' a most excellent >
officer and dispatches business wi'h- a
rapidity thati ia surprising. A great'
many cases have been dispose d f. ’
The case that has excited the most in
terest here-was the one yesterday. T e
S;ate vs. W; WrPrice,chared with an
assault ou S; J. Harris wit'i intent to ;
mui'der.' Judg: George G. Thomas -.*f
your city r» presented Mr. 4 Prior.
Tbe case consumed 1 the entire day.'^
Ths refutation of Judg» Thomas h >d
preceded hftn, ^ud hence when thec i^e
was called, the conri-room was fall : to
hear the caw, and the* ' argumm t .
J udge Thorns seemed to be at hiiT' hl^
and for about one and one half hours ha
made one of the mo t eloquent, com
plete ai d c nvincing arguments tl> t"
was ever heard in onr tfiUff^lioUse.' A t
the conclusion of thi* ap ech J ho w-ui
coDgritulated by hotb the 1 bar trill’
the p-’ople, and’ the ufnaoimdu’s vfc’- ’
idle* "#as r that ’Mr lPrio4 ; vm[-
completely-vindicated. Oae gentlem-n
said that the- last fifteen' minni«ri : •’
of that sperCh was the grand it' ’
thing ^ be had ever heard, arid the a -le
Solicitor-General ar done of the :
thorough lawyers in Georgia ‘ card' in
opening hib speech to tbe jurythitt the
speech just made Was a most masterly
effort; and established' the speaker y ct
once aa a moet gifted lawynr. > ’
The jury after brihfgbutabout’ ttferi-
ty-five minutes' brought in a verdict of
not guilty, which met the approVSl- of
every body present at the trial.
MadisOD, with her hotel > “a la Krpa-
iil,” her electric liglts, and “Ed. But-
leif as Mayor, is fast coming to the
A Populak Shbkiff,—Col. B E.
Overby, Oconee’s popular sheriffi' was
in the city yesterday-. - By the way, it ia
rnmoied that Col. Overby will be a cat!-
r: Oliver Hardy,' the proprietor of
he new hotel,'«the right -man in the
dgbt place, which is evidenced ‘Prim
the fact’that J! his hotel’ Is fhllall he ‘
while. The rooms are first class, and T
the table unexcelled. Three cheer-' for >
Madison and her progress t
l ra-.’.to. I —
* . , . .-rf • . . V J. ' - A
Carnesviiia CuUtnga.
Cabnk*vii.lX, Ga , March 3**-[Spe- -
ciai]J. R. Bally, who lives -two miles 1 ■ •
.above town "commenced planting bora
last Satuid .y. He plftnte his crop • **-
lier than any one in this scetioD, and
generally makes more.
' Deputy U.S. Marehal Thomas arritt-
od Henry Bird, CflM, 1 here Saturday *
morning f< r sellirg liquor, at d carried ’
him to Gainesville fora commit im nt>
trial.
Tbe Board Cf County Commissioners
met yesterday acdelected asa boa d ! < f
equalitora of tax returns;' Dock An- ’
draws, Neal L'ttfo, P. H. Bowers, A.
W. McConnell, f. M.. L^ney. There
was quite a lor g list of applicant -for
the offlee, and the people are as a g v.er-
al thing opposed to the office, as it ia
arguea it is a large expense forlit’leor M'fr
no profit, land it is thought the p-
here will Ask for the repeal of the lawterji^ 1
bj> the next legislature.
, Dr. E. T. Mi'lcr, of Gross Pl-rit
fito parallels, but dashed upon didate for bepresentstive from Oconee i xpresstd the opinion that, for
her subject iri a way peculiarly distinc- county in Georgia’s General Assemblv. 5 atl ' ca8 ® s 01 s yP h ' 119 rcrofu/s, Ayr."'
live. Bramalim ad Elfred, seated on n. w^nid (>ArtBinW . Bar-apaiillA" la ncqui-sitorfahie ito*‘nn >8 ,
tw. chairs aS>Bt toe waU,’paused in * » model rep-! e ff ec u ve krown
toflir onninunpti^r of bread »d treacle’ rC e UtlV ®* . Wonderful enree b*vey>(jfil«wl^f B, ' , ‘* W*
