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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*
