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Vol. Vll-NO. 1. B. G. GRIGGS, ATTORNEY AT LA W. Georgia, WIT I. areet’ce in *ll Hie oourfr, Htato aud Dedernl. Jan »3 ly. --- - -- -t ,.!, ■miii.Mdj ■■■■«■■»• * I ■ ■***_ I■* II ■ ■■■■■ F/ S. Vordery, Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE st HUDSON A EDGE’S IWUO HTORE, where he can be found at all hour* except when professionally engaged. Special attention giveu 1O Chionfc oft e», »n<i «n peel ally all oo«e* Wat have been treated ana are still uncnred. Jani# "6.1y.' IHespectfully oflter my services «« physl gianaud surgeon, to the people of Dn»r --‘ leevilie and vlolniCy. All calls will be atten ded promptly. Can be found at the drug store of Hudson* Hdae, during ths day and at night nt my ras'denoe at the house reoontlr occupied by J. A. Pittman. J. B. EDGE • DtTt. H. WHITLEY, Physician and Surgeon. I3ouslai»vllle, Osa SPEC! AL attention given to Surgery a;. Gt ironic Female trouble*. Ofttov up stair DRUNKENE3 Vurcdfi* tfx MtO<M fitwlrn for stimulants entirely removed Home treatment. 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(OpFuai s 1 Chrtwlsn Cl - tch. brtweoa Pryor «t d L >yd S>r«ete ) Send yodt (X*’g, VwW, Pants D-wwes Blhbons »r mrthlmt that ua«d« demag or clsAolttg up a» ns by r»prn». <>r brtng it in porwNe. am 4 «« will ftutraulev saiw£'e«ina. 10 S 3 Am. W. H. MALLORY. Wathmaker and Jewell wo r«> ,f f. fc\ «*i» on Iwtatl a full eud complete Uue wf C LO( KS, watches, JEWELRY. ETC he etk at Rock Bottom RISPAXBXna Wiidkh Clock*, J*w» :rj-, R'e.. Mad.* a Specialty. and aaiUfaetivn jjuMwiileuJ is*vury Ue THE WEEKLY STAR. MARGERY’S ROMANCE By TOOMAS HAKDT. CHAPTER IV. But whether the Baron, in naming such a distant spot for the rendezvous, wa< in hope she might fail him, and so relieve him after all of his undertaking, can not be said; though it might have been strongly suspected from his manner that he liad no great zest for the responsibility of escort ing her. But he little knew of the firmness of the young woman he lia<l to deal with. She was one of those soft natures whose power of adhesiveness to an acquired idea seemed to be one cf the special attributes of that softness. To go to a ball with this glori ous and mysterious personage of romance was her most anient desire and aim ; and none the less in that she trembled with fear and excitement at her position in so aim ing. Site felt the deepest awe, tend rness and humility toward the Baron of the strange name, and yet she was prepared to stick to her point. Thus it was that the afternoon of the eventful day found Margery trudging her way up from the slopes from the vale to the place of appointment. She walked to the music of innumerable birds, which in creased as she drew away front the open i meads toward the groves. She bad over come all diillculties. After thinking out the question of telling or not telling her father, she had decided that to tell him was to be forbidden to go. Her contrivance therefore wm this: to leave home this eve ning on a visit to her invalid grandmother, who lived not far from the Baron's houoe; to arrive at her grandmother’s by break fast-time next morning. Who would sus pect tl o existence of a lacuna of twelve hours, d.ring which she would be off to the ball I That this piece of deception was extremely wrong she afterward owned readily enough; but she did not stop to ; think «f it then. It wa< sunset within ChtlMngton Wood by the time she reached Three-Walks End —the converging point of radiating track ways, now ilooriid with a carpet of matted grass, which had known other scythes than the teeth of rabbits and hares. The twitter overh nil had ceased, except from a few braver and larger birds, including the cuckoo, who did not fear night at this plvarant time of year. Nobody seemed to lie ou the spot when she first drew near, but no sooner did Margery stand at the in terag. tion of the roads than a alight rha h ing Iwcame audible, and h-»r patron ap peared. He wae so tran figured in dre«< that she acar.-ely knew him. Umi?r a light coat, which was Bung open, iastea<t f hit ordinary clothes he were a suit of thin biack cloth, a waistcoat epen all down ! the front, a white tia, shining boots no ( thicker than a glove, a coat that made him look like a bird, and a bat that seemed a* if it would open and shut like an accordion. “I am dressed for the ball—nothing worse,” be said, dryly smiling. “So will you be anon.” “Why did you choose thia place for our meeting, airs" aha naked, looking around and acquiring confidence, “Why did I choose its Wall, bocauw in riding peat oae day I observed a larga hollow trea close by here, and it occurred to me when I wae last with yon that this would Jbe umfui for our parpme. Have you told your fatbsr!" “! have not yet told him, ah-» “That is very had of you, Margery. How have you arranged it, then!” She briefly related her plan, on which he made no comment, but taking her by the hand as if eb« wore a little oteUd, he led 1 her through the undergrowth to a spot whore the trees ware older and standing at wider distances. Among them was the tree be *bad spoken of—an *lm; huge, hol low, distorted, and headless, with a rift in its side “Now go inside,” he said, “before It gets any darker. You will find there every thing you want. At any rate, if you do not you must do without it. I’ll keep watch; and don’t be longer than you can help to be. H “What am I to do, tirl” askel the pus sled maiden. “Go inside, aud you will *«a. When you are ready wave your handkerchief at that hole.” She stooped into the opening. The cav ity withiu the tree formed a lofty circular apar.iuunt four or five feet in di»m-’.er, to - which daylight entered at the top, and also ; through round hold about six feet from the ground, marking the spot from e bieh a ! limb had been amputated in the tree* i prime. The decayed wood of ciunataou crown, forming the inner surface of the tree, and the warm evemug glow rsdectud iu at the top, sudused the cavity with a faint mellow radiance. But Margery had hardly given herself time to lieed these thiugs. Her eye had beea caught by objects of quite another l quality. A largo white oblong paper box lay against the inside of the tree; over It, ou a splinter, hung a amaU oval tooking giaes. Margery seixed the idea tn a moment She pecssel through the rift into the tree, lifted the cover of the box, and behold, there was disclo«od within a lovely while aptMtritkrn in a somewhat flAttenod state. It wav the bail drum This marvel of ar; was, briefly, a sort of heavenly cobweb. It was a gumsuner tex ture of iwwcious maauiacture, artistically testouned iu a dusea fiouaces or mor*. Margery lifted it, an I could bard'y re ‘ fraiu from kisdng It Had any one ud I Iter before this moment that such a dr*M could exist, she would have said, “No; it’s > impoitoibl®bibs drew back, went for ward, laughed, nuatrd ber hands. To any that the maker of that drws bad been an ludividmd of latent was simply under stetement; he was a genius, and sbo sunned beredf iu ths rave of his creation. She Item remembered that her friend witbmtt had told her to make haste, and l she apastoodicwily proceedsd to array aer welt, Jr removing the drum she foun t > aattw elippere, gtevae, a handkerchte; - ueerty all lace, a Can, and even dowers tor the hair.. ‘ <H». bow could he think at itl' • she Mtoi, clssi Mag bar bands and almost crying with agitwatua. “Ami the glass bow good of him!*' r K’nwytteag was so well prepared that to Douglasville, Georgia, Tuesday, February 3, 1885. mat-or oT ease. TaK quXT.er - d* an hour ; she was ready, evt<n to shoes and gio vex But what led her more than anything else into admiration of the Baron’s foresight was the discovery that there were half a dozen pairs each of shoes and gloves, of varying sizes, out of which she selected a fit. Margery glanced at herself in the mirror, or at as much as she could see of herself: the image pre sen’e l was superb. Then she hastily rolled up her old dros«, put it in ti.e box, and thrust the latter on a ledge at high as she could reach. Standing on tip toe, she Waved the handker. bief through the upper aperture, and bent to the rift to go out. But what a trouble stared her in the face! The dress was so airy, so fantasti cal, and »> extensive that to get out in her new clothes by the rift which had adm tted her in her old ones was an impossibility. Sbo heard the Baron’s steps crackling over the dead sticks and leaves. •'Oh, sir—” «he began, in despair. “What, can’t you dress yourself;” he in quired from the back of the truuk. “Yes; but I can't get out of this dread ful tree!” He came round to the opening, stopped, and looked in. “It is obvious that you can not,” ho said, taking in her compass at a glan e; and adding to hhn-elf, “Charming! who would have thought that clothes j could do so much!—Wait a ni n ite, my i little maid: I have it!” he suU more ■ loudly. I With all his might he kicked at the sides l of the rift, and by that means broke away several pieces of rqpen touch wood. But i being thinly armed about the feet he ' abandoned that process, and went lor a fallen branch whi *h lay near. By u.ing ■ the large end as a lever, ho tore away pieces of the wooden shell which enshrouded ■ Margery and all b«r loveliness, till the Aperture was largo enough for her to pass without tearing her dress. She breathed jer relief; the silly girl hnd begun to fear ;hat she would not get to the ball alter all. He now carefully wrapped round her a doak ho had brought with him; it was i i Baled, and of a length which covered hor » the heels. “The carriage is waiting down the other Mth,” he said, and gave her his arm. A diort trudge over the soft dry leaves >rought them to the place indicated. Thero food the brougham, the horses, the coach nau, all as still as If they were growing on he spot, like the trees. Margery’s eyes •use with some timidity to the coachman’s Igure. “You need not mind him,” said tin the Baron. “He te s foreigner, and heeds nothing.” In the space of a short minute she wae handed inside; the Baron buttoned up his overcoat, and surprieod her b} mounting with the ceeeiMnan. The carriage moved off silently over tbe long grass es vista, the ‘ shadows deepening to black as they pro , ceeded. Darker and darker grew the night as they ro led on; the neighliorliood famil iar to Margery was soon left behind, and ' she had not the remotest idea of tbe direc tion they were taking Tbe stars blinked out. the coachman lit his lazape, and they bowled on again. In the rouzue of an hour and a half they arrived at a small town, where they jiullod up at the chief inn and changed horses, all ' being done to readily that their advent bad plainly been expected. The journey wm rwsuiuod immediately. Bsr companion never doecendod to speak to tew; whenever sho teobed out there he sas upright on his pereh, with tbe mien of a person who had a difficult duty to perform, and who ummmK to perform it properly a* all costs. But Margery could aot help feeling a certain dread at her situation—almost, indeed, a wieh that she had not com*. Once or twice she thought, “Suppose hr is a wicked men, who is taking m* off to a foreign country, and will never bring me home again.” But her eharaeterietic persistence in an original idea suctained hor against these misggivitige except at odd moments. On* incident in particular bad given her eonfidonc* in her escort: sb* bad aeon a tear ih his eyes when she expressed her sorrow for his trouble* He may have divined that her thoughts would take an uneasy turn, for when they stopped for a moment in ascending a hill be camo to the window. “Are you tired, Margery f* he asked, kindly. “No, air." “Are you afraifF “N—no, sir. BalT. h a long way.* “V« are almost tlwroi” he auswsroX “And now, Hargsry," he said, in a lower > tone, “I must tell you a soereL I have ob i ttoiiwd this invitation in a peculiar way. 1 iteraght it best for your sake not to even* i in my own n«me, •od this i» Low I have i a-anaged. A maa in tti« county, for i nteian I hare lately done a service, m e «h »m ] can Cruet, aad who is | erson , ally a* unknown here as yob ami I, has qnratetyi transferred Ma cayd of invita i Mon to uuf Ho that we go under his I name. 1 explain this that yooinay not say . anything iwprudebt by ierident Keep . your eat* open and b* taaMoUs.” Having said thA the Baron retreated again to hte f “Thdn be tea wicked ' man, after all the said to hm-auif;' “for ho te going under a fal»e nam*” iut she soon bad the t«»- ’ merity hot to Mrited itt «iekeJj»e»a of that ' M.rt was |be Ojise ingredient re J aired jnat sew to Cpteh Jt.in Off «b a boro in her eyes. They dto-eud«a a bill, paosod a lodge, then up-an avenue; and presently tbev beamed Op'ti ttemn the light from other draw* up ia a row. which moved ’ te by degree*; and at last they belted be fes’O a ioage arcbed doorway, round wuioh -a group cl pooplo stood. • “Wears auUng tbe latest arrival* on • account of the distance,"hard th* Baron, k reappearing. “But Haver 1 mind; there are • ttev hours at toM* tof jo«r enjoyment." r Tbe steps were prompsly f.uug dotrn, » and »be alighted. Tbe steam from tbe ' 3anka of their swarthy steeds ascended iu 1 'foods to tbe psurapet of tbe porch, snd >wu their nostril* the hot breath jetted I forth libs smoke oat of vMcanoets bsteacte i ug tbe adteatkm of alt CBAPTCR ▼. r The l ewintered Margery wa» led by th* 1 SWu up tbe stege to tbe inters** of th* I Sum*, wtemsc* th* »wmds of moss? and - ton ing were sdreaffy proceeding. Tbe amw* were Strang* At every fourth bent j k deep an-1 mighty note throbbed through I tes sdr, rmching Margery’s soul with all to of a bfow.~ 1 "What te that powerful tune, elrl I 1 invts never heard anything like it,” she i aid. i “The Drum Polka,” answered the Baron. | . Her surprise was not lessened when, at : i ;he entrance to the ball room, she heard he natiKw of her conductor and herself ( announced as “Mr. and Mr* frown.” However, nobody seemed to take any sotice of th* announcement, the room be fond being in a perfect turmoil of gayety, uid Margery’s consternation at sailing un ’sr false colors subsided. At the same mo ment she obsmred wafting them a hand »me, dark-lMfifod, rather peftte lady in weam-colored satin. “Who is shef’ asked Margery of tbe Baron. “She is the lady of the mansion,” he whispered. ‘ ‘She is the wife of a peer of tbe i ealm, the daughter of a marquis, has 3ve Christian names, and hardly ever ipeaks to commoners, except for political purposes.” “How heavenly! What joy to be here!” murmured Margery, as she con templated the diamonds that sashed from the head of her ladyship, who was just in side tbe ball room door, in front of a little gilded chair, upon which she sat in the in tervals between one arrival and another. She had come down from London at great inconvenience to herself, openly to pro mote this entertainment. 1 As Mr. and Miss Brown expressed abso lutely no meaning to Lady Blakemore (for there were thrvd browns already present in this rather mixed assembly), and as there was possibly a slight awkwardness in poor i Margery’s manner, Lake Blakemore 1 -curbed their hands lightly with the tips of her long gloves, said “How d’ye do,” and I turned round for more comers. “Ah, if she only knew we were a rieh ■ Baron and his friend, and not Mr. and Miss Brown at all, she would not receive us like that, would she!” whispered Margery, eou- Idently. “Indeed she wouldn’t,” dryly said the Par on. “Now let us drop into the dame st once; some of the people here, you sm, lance much worse than you. ” Almost before she was aware she had obeyed his mysterious influence by giving him one hand, placing the other on his shoulder, and swinging with him around the room. At tbe first gaze th* apartment had seemed to her to be floored with black ice; the figures of the dancers appearing upon it upside dows. At last she realized that it was highly polished oak, but she was none the less Afraid to move. “I am afraid of falling down,” said she. “Lean on me, you will soon get used to it,” he replied. His words, like all his words to her, were quite true Bhe found it amazingly easy Ist a brief space -of time.. The flocr, far from hinderingJief. wav a positive a-sist uuv to ouv of her natural agility and litn*- n*M. Moreover, her marvelous drees of twelve flounchas inspired her as nothing els* could have done. Externally a new creature, she wm prompted to new deed* To feel as well ilrwsed m the other women around her is to set any woman at her ease, whencesoever she may have come; to feel much better dreasad ie to add radiance to <nmmu Her prophet’s statement on the popularity of th* polka at this juncture wm amply teVM 4UK It WM among the first bomom ed sd snovrrrtr'y the ewthnaiaam M eacited toarigtet was be yaeri disaripffs*, aari wwaaly skkHU* to th* yoMh es th* pvaMWkffa*. ▲ aww saotiv* power had baeu tafcrvdaead Into tbe world MB flb to tbe **w motive power that had been isrire duoed into tbe world of pro**—etaaoL. Twenty finished aMtsMaaae sat in Um gal lery at the end, with romantic mop-beads of raven hair, under whfoh their faces and eyes shone Are under eoal* The nature Sind object of tbe ball had led to its being very imduaiv* Every rank wm there, from the peer to the Mnalleet yeoman, and Margery got on exceedingly well, particularly when the recuperative powers of supper had banUhcd tbe fatigue of her long drive. SometinMM foe heard people sayfo~, “Who are theyf—brother and siste.— father and daughter* And never dancing except with each other—bow odd!” But of this she took *o notice. ; - » When not dancing the watchful Baron to k her through th* dmwiiag-rumite and pk-ture-gaUeries adjoining, which to night ’ were thrown open like Uitre Aof thn bouse, i and ttere. wuomg her la wm> curtain- I ed nook, hs drew her attention to nrap l prints and album* aad left her to ; amuse herself with turimg them o< er till the dance iu which she practiiwd should again be calfol. Margery woull much have prriet r.-d to ream about during them intervals; but tbe words of the Baron were law, and a« te* commanded eo she acted. In such alterations >Km evening winged away, till at lost ceexs the gtoomj words, “Margery, our ti*M i* up.’*, j “One tubre—only ane!” sb* coaxed, for the longer they staid the more freely and gwyiy moved tbe dan * Thte entreaty be granted; bat on her asking for yet anotlier, he wus inexorable. “No," he said. “We ha.w a long way so go." Theu she beds adieu to the wondrous scene, looking ever her shoe Ider m they withdrew from the ball, an I in a few minute* she wm cloekod and in tbe car- i ria«* The I neon mounted to his seat ou the Lux. -.where she saw him light a cigar; they plunged under th* tree* and sb* leaned back, and gave hera-lf up to con templatmg tbe images that td -d bcr bra n. Tbe naCarol result Icdlowod. she tell asleep. She did not awake till they stopped to change home* when she saw against the , stench* Baron rittiug as erect as ever. “He watabes like tbe angel Gabriel, when . all th* world te asleep!" she thought. W ich the rceumptioc of motion sbe slept ! again, sod knew no more till be touched b« band and said, “Onr jooruey is done— i we are in Chillington Wood." It wm almost daylight. Margery scarcely knew herself to be awake till sbe wae out of the carriage and standing beside Che | Baros* who, ba* ing told tbe coaebnma co i drive on to a cnrtaiu point indicator, turned to te*. “Now," be esdd, smihag, “rua acrom to tbe hollow tree; you know where it h IT wait m before, while yon perform tbs¥c vers* aperMtoa Chat yua did ten* nigbk" tab* took aw bead of tbe path now, »ur re garded wbeCher her pretty slipper* became scrMched by th* bramble* or a* A walk of a few brought her to the particu- Subscription: •« OMite Per Ama. lar tree wfilbh s&e~bad left aBouT muo | hours earlier. It was still gloomy at this Sj ot, the morning not being clear. She entered tbe trunk, dislodged the box ' containing her old clothing, pulled off tlie satin shoes and gloves and dress, and in ten minutes emerged in the cotton gown and shawl of shepherd’s plaid. The Baron was not far off. “Now you look the milkmaid again,” he said, coming toward her. “Where is the fineryF’ “Packed in the box, sir, as I found it." t She spoke with more humility now. The difference between them was greater than i it had been at tbe bell. “Good,” be said. “I must jnst dispose of it, and then away w* go." He went back to the tree, Margery fol lowing at a little distance. Bringing forth the box, he pulled out the dress as cara lejsly as if it had been rags. But this was not all. He gathered a few dry sticks, crushed tbe lovely garment into a loose billowy heap, threw the gloves, fan an I shoes ou the top, then struck a light and ruthlessly set fire to the whole. Margery was agonized. She ran for ward; she implore! and entreated. “Please, sir—do spare it—do! My lovely I dress—my dear, dear slippers—my fan—it is cruel! Don t burn them, please!” “Nonsence! We shall have no further use for them if we live a hundred years.” “But spare a bit of it—one little piece, ' sir—a scrap of the lace—one bow of the ribbon—the lovely fan—just something!” But he was as immovable as Khadaman thus. “No,” ho said, with a stern ga eof his aristocratic eye. “It is of no u-e for yon to speak like that. The things are my property. I undertook to gratify you in what you might desire because you had saved my life. To go to a ball, you said. You might much more wisely have said anything else; but no, you said to go to a ball. I have taken you to a ball. I have brought you Lack. The clothe; were only the means, and I dispose of them my own way. Have I not a right to?” “Yes, sir," she said, meekly. He gav* the fire a stir, and hL* nnd rib b ns and the twelve flounces, and the em broidery, and all the rest crackled and dis appeared. He then put in her hands the butter basket she had brought to take on to her grandmother s, and accompaniel her to the edge of the wood, where it tn*rged in the undulating open country iu which her graudznother dwelt. “Now, Margvry,” he said, “here we part. I have performed my contrr.t—at some awkwardness, if I wm recognized. But never mind that. How do you f*#l— sleepy ?' “Not at ail, sir,” she said. “That long nap refre-hed you, ah? Now you must make mo a promise. That if 1 require your presemw at any tim-, you will come to me. I am * man of more than one mood," be went on with suddeu soleumity, “and I may have desperate n-*l of you agaia to deliver me from that dark nvea mos Death whi. h sometime* encom passes m* Promise it, Margery—promise it, that, no matter what stands in tbe way, you will come to iu* if 1 require you." “I would have if you had not burned my things I” sh* poutot “Ah—ungrateful!" “Indeed, thou, I will promise str," s*» said from teur heart. “Wherever I *■* if 1 Lav* bodily strength, I will com* to you." H* pressed her baud. “It is a solemn promtee," be ropMed. “Now t must go, tor you know your way." “I shall hardly believe that it has net boa off a dream," ate* sold, with a eb- Mteh iaritaot to ery at tea wikhdrasroL ' Tbasa te nothing left ot last night—nsifcing *C of tbs phaNL* “You simß ratnemtesr It in this way," said h* “We’ll cut our Mttote *n tote Ire* m a memorial, so that whenever you walk this path you will see them. * Then with a knife he inscribed on th* smooth hark of a beach tree tbe latter* M. T., and underneath a large X “What, bar* you no Christian "nv—, sir:" »he said. I don't w* it. Now, good-by, my little friend. What will you do with yonreelf to day wNon you ore gone from meF’ he Ungoroi to nek. “Oh, I *!*“!.' go to my granny**” toe re plied, wl&h aaae gloom, “and have Vreah fMt and dinner and tea with her, I sup pose t and in the evening I shall go ham* to btlckleford La'ry, and perhaps Jim will ooms to meet me, and all wdl be the same m usual. * “Who te Jlmr “Oh. Us’s nobody—only th* young man I'vo got to marry some day.* “What! you engaged to be married! Why didn’t you tell tn<> thia before!* “J—l den’t know, str." “What is the young num’s name!** “Jame* Hayward, sir.” “What to be!” “A master lime burner." “Engaged to a mentor Mm* burner, and not a word of this to m*t Mji-gery. Mar gory! when snail a ttraightforward on* ot your sex be found! Subtle oveu in year simplicity' What miaebtef have you caused me to do, through not telling toe this! I wouldn’t have so endangered any body'* bappines* tor a thousand pound*. Wicked girl that you were, why dida t you tell mes ’ “I thought I’d letter not. sir," said Margery, beginning to be frightened •’but don’t you s«m and unlerstand that if you are already the pro;>ertr of a young man, and ha were to find out this night’s excursion, he might be angry with you an I part from you forever! With him already ia tbe ttrid I bad no right to to*e you at all; he uadoub.edly ought to bare taken you; which ready might have been ar ranged if you had not de rived m* b? say ing you had nobody." Margery's face wore that aspect of wo* which comes from th* repentant con*»io«*s nee* of having besn guilty of au enormity. “But h* wasn’t g od enough to take me, sir,” *be said, alm at crying; “and be tent aboolute.y my master until I have nmnrie-f him, is bsf" ’•That's a subject I can not go farto. However, we must alter our tactic* In stead of adv Mag you, as I did at fljrst, to toll this saperiimv* to your frtend* I must now impnus you that it w!U be best to keep a silent tongue cm th* matter per baps for ever and *ver. J* may ceme rigbt M»me day, and you may be abto to say ‘AITv wad that soda wa'L’ good ni wring, my frten.4. Think es Jim. and forget m*.” “Ah, perhaps I can’t Au that," atea said, wiih-Jl tear 4a bar rr.® an I a firiithroat," I : mor*” , ~ H* turned and retreated into tbe weed* and Margery, sighing went on her way. (CONTJNVID.) OH, HAD I KNOWN! [Harriet Prescott Bpc ffcrdL) If I had thought so soon sb* would bar* died, ! He said, I had been tenderer in nty speech, I bad a moment lingered at her side, ! And held her, ere she passed beyond my ■ reach, If 1 had thought so soon she would have died. That day she looked up with her startled eye*, Like some hurt creature where the wood* are deep. With kisses I had stilled those breaking sfgb«, With kis<e< closed those eyelid* into «te*p. That day she looked up with her startled eye*. Ob, had I knewn she would have died *o soon, Love had not wasted on a barren land, L«ve like tho«e rivers under torrid noon Ixxt on the decent, pourel out on the sand— Oh, hal I known she would have died so soe*. I SOCIETY AT WASHINGTON. How to G*t into the Whirl of th* XMB* . clat Circle—Weeding the Multitude. - ["Ruhsiwih’’ in Globe-Democrat. ] Matrimonially, Washington te the poorest market in the country, as many of the delude 1 ones hav* found before the first season was half over, and white to a certain extent anybody can get iffto so iety hero, and go to the publi* recep tions at the White House, and e*ll on every official family, the privilege* cease there. A bar u set against those not in official life that can only be lifted by winter residents of great wealth, whe will entertain the officiate. A very frank and a very vulgar woman bluntly asked a prominent society ma tron how she should manage it to r* into the whirl of the official elnie, and. the astute matron answered: "Feed them! Spread your table well the first time, and ail Washington will be to come on the next occasion. ” That ambitious soul was simply the wife of a rich retired tradesman who came here to spend her money, but without official posi ion, or relative in office, she had a weary and expensive up-hill struggle, and hnd to take many saube and buffetings from those who feasted, and danced in her house. It wm bettor that the r fortune from trade Was ac quired in another city thah hero, for the richest of tbe Washington merchant* have no standing i* what I* dtetUw*iv«iy « known as Washington soeteAy. A man. may make hte fortune in junk, *l4 olotiire or street-sweeping, any plaa* else, and with hte money eamo te ecu - green, and gain entrance te the gveak sooial eirele for hte family, bat il he made hte mo' . y here eootety would scorn him utte: There wae a woman here enoe. the wife of a western statmmwn, who, a dozen years before her appearance at W’aahington, xuanaged a laundry and hotel and druse med up hor patrons at the depot from her omalbue steps. Mbs • wa« familteriy known by tetr kite name everywhere. Together th* eongte ac quired a ter rim i, and, tei|»ag a hnaat eg soon aa tfww roacbad Wpahiaglon, Mmf fol the maltltode and wen ttemr way tap torrep** and ohumpcMMo to flho phMMtla ambition* wife oevwtad. Hfe ffMNMMfr wae bvyoad alt parallel and bar feagaagn net always marked with wgMteW. Thoe<h her mannQ lamed th* repose and poUsh of Ute Vce® da Verea, every one looked te bar bouae wben it waa open, danced for her fa vors, ate aad drask of her abnndsuM* and went away to ridioateber. Foreign ministers and attacba* weald go there, but ante the unmarried men, a* tbe la dies oc the foreign oirolo did at teatl draw the Uno at the ex-teundram. After a season or two th* stateamaate wife broke down and, plaint! vetyaayiag “1 have overdone,” retired from aatiee life, and f<lt th* keen sting of disap pointment and what she eaued ingrati tude at the way she waa paasod by, ever looked and forgotten, whan no longer able to minister to those who had rioted at her expense so long. Ml lta**a» ttam Sledge-dogs need no urging with the whip when their instinct Informs them that they are on unsafe foe. They flee onwards at th* spaed whiei* alons can save and, as waa experienced repeatedly by Dr. Hayee, foataad eC keeping the sledges together in a aem pact body, they diverge and separate, s» aa to distribute the weight over as large an area as poauiibte. When they begin to find themselves menaced by this fem ger, and tbe prospect ab|ad appears te t them unusually ture*teaing,”toey trem ble, lie down, and refuse to go further.” Most arctic explorer* teH of hair breadth escapes from Urechcrous iec, when they have owed their preserratten to the sagacity of their dog* Wrangell relates an incident of this nature: “Our first care waa to examine the possibility of further advance; thia, however, could only be done by trnat ing to Ute thin ice of the channel, and op mon* were divided aa tetbepoMi bdity of its bearing n* I determined io try; and tbe ad venter* sacc**d*d better than could have beon bop*J for. owing to tbe incredibly swift running of tbe -» whricii donbifoss we owed our safety. The tending stodge aetmdly broke through in rovttnd places; but warned, nO doubt. Os th* danger by their natural instluct, and animated by tbe cries and en couragement of tn* driver, ficw so rapidly over the ywldiog ice, that wo re& tad the other side without actually sinking th.-ough. Tbe other thr<>.> stedgre followed with aimifor rsjuuity each acroa* such part as to Im the luost premfoug; and w* were now all asaamMed in .mfoty on th* north side of the fissure, ft w..s nrownry to bait for a time, to allow the dogs to reviver a little from teeur extrerordipary esvfr tioaft.”