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THE GRCArCUREFCR
WHIG PILES
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wi'.r.ny i'r lco fur llm ynt. Are wuni uvor
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TruMturnt wltliimt Mudlcinu," w Itli tliouaamla of
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miry (inlt'tti-r atonr riik) with niirnf lmc uinally
worn, na try pair oi our aiairiiriii; iiw'"-
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Ua Appltmcm PiwlUrely no wild fix wtjar.
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RV I.DWAKII HXKNriiRII.
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K'ir tlif ilnw n ul tlio wt mulling liinrnitiK In
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rut-k
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A SOI TIM. H KOMAMCK
CIIAI'TKU II.
THK M IXT'ltKKH til' ATIIKKTON II ALL.
A wiltl night in the bi'niniiiiig of l'e
ciiiImt. In tlio fiilniiit'f li.tll (if a j,'rnml
c unit r v liuusp, a Hum walkn tu utnl I'ru.
lie is ii young man of cuiuiuuiuling fig
uri' mul inililii irosi'iic', a liamlsouin pa
tii.'iiui faci', uiul largf, full, hliining,
liruwn t'jcM. Hut lie walki with 1 1 n
hiivy, irri'i;ular tmail of one whose spirit
is ci uslieU beyond all jiower of endurance
and liis eyes are full of a wild, unnatural
light, that gives his face the look of sonic
nuiuial hunted to the death. His arms
are folded across his breast, and, as ho
staggers along, lie starts and listens, with
bated breath, at each sound. The wind
whistles and shrieks and roars around the
old hall. Now there is a lull, and you
hear the booming of the surge across the
beach and the unearthly moan of the
angry sea. Then the wind conies sweep
ing buck, ami rattles the windows, nud
throws heaps of sand and showers of peb
bles against the doors, and mocks, anil
threatens, and terrifies, and then, howling
like some tortured living thing, gives
place again to the thunder of the waves.
"Thomas 1" a voice calls, and lie stops
and groans. Then he follows the voice
ami goes up stairs. Half way up he stops
again, ami passes his hand wearily across
his eyes, while he struggles with his des
pair. He enters -a room that looks, in
the fliiki'iiug firelight, like some en
chanted bower, riiiweis on the mantle,
flowers on the table, a wilderness of (buy
ers in the south-window garden. The
other two wide windows that, iu the day.
command a view of the sea, have fleecy
lace and muslin hangings. The carpet, a
soil iiioss-green, haruiiuiiut's with the col
oring of tins flowers, th.'pii'lureH each a
work of genuine art the rare old china
ami other ornaments, anil gives a fresh
ness, as of the wild woods, to the apart
ment. He pauses at the threshold before cross
ing the muni to where a young woman
his wife is lying on a sofa. With the
flowers about her, in the red glow
of the oak tire, she seemed a part of the
dainty room. A fair girlish creature she
looks, with a fresh, sweet face, and Very
e truest blue-grey eyes.
A bright smile breaks over the lovely
face as be approaches, though be can
not fail to see that the long lashes are wet
wilh tears.
' Is it too lale, dear? Is there no
hope ?" be asked.
"None," bo answers. "No hope. He
sent word that wc wuht lc ive the house this
morning, or be would have us put out by
force. I wrote a few lints by his mes
senger, stating that my wile was ill that
1 asked nothing at his hand., but that it
was iinisilili! for her to leave at present
and that we should keep possession of her
apartment)) until she was better. Now I
aur haunted by the fear that 1 ought to
have taken you away to-day at all hazards.
When you lire bettor, love, I will
take you to your brother's while I begin
tin; dreary task of seeking a home. I am
brought low indeed. Ltut what if he re
fuses to let us stay ? I know 1 1 i tit to be
brutal enough for anything; though ol
course none but a devil would turn a
woman out on such a night."
Yet at) he sHuks lie starts nervously
mid listens, with feverish anxiety, to a
blight noise in the hall Mew.
' Iloti't feel anxious," says the sweet
voice. "He will not come to-night. And
Tlmuias, I think I am resigned now to
part with all I have ho much loved"
glancing around the room. "I feel
strangely at rest to night. It was very
hard for while. I'ut your anus around
me, love iny own love !" softly stroking
bis hair. ''There! O, what a comfort to
have you near uir ! So, let my head rest
on your dear breast. 1 tear not lung in
the world with you. Hut if I should
leave von, 1 nomas, oh ! that is aost linrtl.
1 had rather stay to hear the future alone,
than that vou should. O Thomas, don't
don't ! Tears from you ! I cannot
bear that, luy precious, precious hus
band !"
He has been kneeling beside her sofa
Hut now he pets up, and, lifting her in
his anus, carries her ever to the lire and
sill down in an easy chair, still holding
her arms. With infinito tciulcrntvs he
moot lis back the soft brown hair lliut
fall, about her like a veil, and kisses away
the teuri) that glisten tu her aweet cyiw.
The he lmus her to his hea"t, convul
sively. i if "me evil power were about to
smttch ber from him; protcctinglw, as if
he longs to shield her trom some dark,
inwnditig destiny. I ne wlule uer Ueai
nettles on his shoulder mil her cheek is
Dressed lovinirly iguii't his.
"My darling," ho y, "my darling!
My sweet, bravo wile! l'orgivc me
You cannot know, as I do, what it is to
love ono being as I love you and to feel
that I have failed even m protecting her,
Yet (Joil knows I tried. Oil, love
know vou" are brave, but you do not
dream what life before you. The
tliouuht of your bright bead whitened be
fore iui tiuio by poverty and pain, your
little hands hardened by toil, your young
lifo with no bcauiy in it, even should we
escape the evil that throatcni to-night
"Hush. husb. Thomas! I will sot
listen. If Owl ijwn J life, I will
make it beautiful for both otus. It will
be sweet to work for you. If you will
but try to shake off this terrible gloom !
Why, Ihomas, death itself will not be
hard in your arms. You are utterly hope
less to-night, and I so much 1 love you,
dear I am content to wait here while I
have you. 0, my very dearest, look up
and smile ! He brave for my sake !"
I will, (Jiiecuie. "ou teach me my
duty, as you do always. Hut you don't
know Neville as I do. Y'ou don't com
prehend his bitter hatred of me. Bitter
er than ever since I won your love that
lie once dared to ask for, the villain I 1
heard him swear, the night I horse
whipped him for the insult to my sister's
name, that he would never rest until he
humbled my pride that ho would scruple
at no mentis by which he might have re
venge. I defied him to do his Worst. I
felt so strong and prouml then! His
strength of will, and his hitler, unyield
ing, untiling hatred seem something
super -human. They have swept every
thing before them. He has wrenched my
idols from me, one by one. lie killed my
lister broke her trustinj,' heart. He, the
on of our father's overseer, to aspire to
her band, to flatter and turn her head and
marry her at fifteen, and cast the first blot
on our proud name ! (), (jueenie, be pa
tient with me! I ought not to talk thus
to VoU."
IJo on, dear," she says, nutting both
arms around him in her own loving, cling
ing way, and kissing Ins bared throat,
(loon. It may relieve your heart to
speak out, ami 1 do not mind. It will do
you good to talk to inc."
"J hen my mother 1 Jhs eyes,
raised above her picture on the wall, have
the dull look of one who feels that he is
doomed. "Then my home! Hut oh, my
best and dearest, be shall not shall not
tear you from nic !" Why does he sud
denly lift her face and gaze into her eyes
with a look of such hopeless yearning ?
He has succeeded, by mere lorec ot will,
in climbing higher and higher to wealth
and power, iu tightening his coils about
me, until I have no power left to resist
him. Who would have believed, two
years ago, that be would be able to carry
out his threat and turn us out of doors so
soon ? And I hardly know how he has
done it. I do not believe iu this will,
though I have no menus of combatting it,
I know that there is black treachery some
where, but I am in his hands at his
mercy."
lie was indeed.
There came a loud knock at the door
A party of men entered the hall.
A grim voice asked :
"Are they here?"
'ey is," some one answered.
'I'ut em out," said the owner of the
voice, turning to two rough-looking men.
Mister Nehble, in tie name o' (lod,
stiip!" The men were always ascending
the stairs. The man who had spoken
stood in the hall, a look of lieiidisli tri
umph iu his gleaming, blood-shot eyes.
"Mister Nebble (and ( aesar fell on his
knees before bint) "Mars Tom ml die afo'
he'd ax you a faver. Hut I axes it fur
him, iu de name o' lichen, fur tie sake o'
yo' dead wife what I'sc grieved 'bout
inorc'n ever you have an her'n up stairs
dar. It's kill her to be haiil'd rough.
She'll ketch her deth cf she goes out in
well weather as this, an' it'll be laid to yo'
dor. She won't pester you ef she stays,
nn' no mo' won't Mars Tom. Let cm be
to-night, Mister Nebble. O, Mister Neb
ble let em be jes' fur to-night, an' I giv
you my word an honor as n a as a
iiiyier one o do ole ttmey sort, flat is
I'll hav 'em out iu de niornin' soon, ef
you jes won t pester em to-night. Miss
Queente, she
"Shut up, dog ! And the brute gave
him a kick that, sent him sprawling nn his
back. "No more of your Qucenies to me,
or I'll put a bullet through your black
heart. J his house is mine. I his jiiiirr
waving a uocumeiit above ihs Head, in
his driinkm triumph "this paper that
gives it to me, is mine
nut l aesar nan scrambled to his
feet.
Stop right Ihur !" he thundered. An
ban' tin' that t liar pist'l or I'll make hasli
uv yo' plug-on cowardly liver!" with a
sudden wrench, he seized the pistol and
lealt the man a blow in the chest that
stretched him on the floor.
"Now tell me," he cried, at the same
lime planting bis Herculean knee on the
breast of bis fallen foe, whoso swollen face
grew purine with rage, "tell me, you ras
cally piece o' pu' while trash dat don't
know de right name uv yo own timiiiinv
( Pshaw ! it makes tnc sick iu de stutniek
to tech you :) lell me to 1 bfats it
wery gizzurd out n you, ef you gwtue to
ill iletn rascals down stem or no I
"No, oh oh oh !" roared Nev
le.
i oil wont, wont yer f cried t aesar.
"Well, bow do's tliit fe i? an' .r?un'
tiel up, you biaek beast I" cried Nev
ille, struggling frantically. "What! you
won t stop " 1 II show you, you stop
hI'ii ! What is that You want me to do?
There, fool! sti.p and listen! (Jet up,
and I'll do this much and no more. I'll
let you get them out of the house your
self, if you'll do it in an hour."
Caesar acratched his head (but did not
loosen his grasp of Neville's collar) and
considiTHl. lie Had tfte advantage lor
the moment, but he could net hope to
keep it when the vilhiiui up stairs return
ed. Kven now they were hurrying dowu
to compel him to show them the room his
master occupied, lie hail better take up
with Neville's offer. It wan the best he
could do, and better than he bad feared
"Will you giiu me time to hitch up de
how ?" he asked sullenly.
"You can take my carriage at the gate
to savo time.'' answered Neville.
"YV kerridge! What, To' kerridgc?"
And the scorn of his emphasis was beyond
all words. "Ao, doj-e you I Caesar
tote cm boaf on his back an' swim cross
de wido At lantic wid em he tote em
alap to do bail-place fo dey gits in dat ker
ridge. An' I aint got up off'n you yit,
an' what's mo I aiut er gwino too yit.
Fo' I gits up you got to swar on do honor
what you aint got, an' none V yo'
fautbly afore you nebcr had dat you nor
nary one o' dem devils ehau't tech my
young Miss. Swear it," pounding him
gain. "Swear it I"
"Yes, fool, get up," roared Neville
gain. I'll iwe&r to oytbtng if yeii'll
take yur black self out of my light, (jet
up, aud be quick, or it will be the worse
for you. And look out, you old rascal,
you'll pay dearly for this."
".'lake no uefferenec what you charges.
Jes put it down to my erkount. I'll pay
-arter I gits my white folks out u your
clutches."
Up stairs, Thomas Atherton still holds
his wife in his arms; she clinging to him
and smiling up at him, stroking with her
little hand the stern, angry face; trying to
soothe the anguish she knows he feels
only for her. The door is locked, but the
men are on the stain, and it will take but
the work of a moment to burst it open.
Suddenly she raises ber head, A
.loathly pallor creois over her face, and a
cold shiulderui'' horror scutes ber.
Whose voice is that ?" alio whispers,
under her breath, "Will they conic We?
O, Thoiiuis, keep him back ! He is at the
loor till
"Mars Tom I Mars Tom" !
''Courage, little wife, it is Caesar's
voice. Wo are sale, my love. (),
Queenie darling, ii lmt is it ? ttnik to inn I
Oh! merciful God! II an it come in
deed !
She has fainted in his nrms. "Follow
me, says ( aesar, "Jes wmp her up good
an' close, and fetch her along de night
ar 11 rcwivc her. i c nttis hurry, do, I ve
got de black devils locked up in de parlor,
drunk as buzzards. I gin cm de ticker
myscf, and dey iner thank dey stars, I
nebher pisoned it afo' I gill it. An' we
can git her out now, an' not one on cm'll
set dey beastly eyes on her. Come, we
in us hurry up, .Mars loin. Hats a
plenty rouu' her. Pon't kivcr her face;
let her have plenty nr, now ! Hut ef dey
don't have work a gittin' out o' dat ar
parlor twont be none o iny fault sho. I
tuck time miff ter nail a bode slam across
de do". Par now! ihe's a cumin' rouu'
lcetle. (lod bless her I His er way,
Mars Tom. lWre a keepin' up a
mighty rumpus down dar, an' taint no
place for her to be; jest fetch her right
down to Caesar's house. 1 sees you start,
Mars Tom, but its jes' fur de present im-
creencv. She won t mind, .Miss Uucenie
won't. He ole lady sho can fix her up a
nice clean bed wid de linen sheets what
ole Miss gin her when we wttz married.
She wont scorn em jes fur one night,
nit' to-morrow you can look itroiin' fur
sometliin' better, if it be yo' pledger, Mars
Tom."
They take her to Caesar's cabin, by the
sea. Ami, with the storm sun wiidiv
raging, and the wind sobbing and wailing,
and the restless waters ntoaniiii;, a brave
young life goes out quickly, hopefully,
crowned, at the last, by the joy of moth
erhood.
IJttt wilder, hercer than wind or wave
is the storm of irrief and despair in the
husband's breast. When the Morning
comes, the storm has exhausted its fury;
sea and sky look u cold, dull grey, and an
unnatural calm broods over the face of na
ture. While in nn humble hul, watched
over by a slave of the olden time, lies the
Mistress of Atherton Hall.
And most beautiful in death, the still
litiurc, the pure placid face, the meekly
folilcd hands !
Stiipilied with grief, the husband sits
with bowed head and Vacant eyes, and
none there are but those black hands to
perform the last sad duties for the dead
Hut such tender hands they are ! So
quietly and gently they do their work !
So noiselessly Caesar and 'the old lady'
glide to and Iro. while he, whose idol she
was, sils crouching in a corner I
So reverently and tenderly they touch
the lair younir form, while he seems In
shrink from contact with that cold clay
that has been bis all of waruith and
brightness !
They put about her her own beatiful
flowers, ami a lair, sweet picture she
makes, in that barren room.
For hi i the storm is now over indeed !
CI I A IT Kll III.
THK llOXlllt OK THK FAMILY.
When till has been done and Caesar has
aroused the husband and father (as he has
himself related,) be waits outside until the
passion of grief has subsided. When hi1
thinks it prudent toenter, he walksstraight
to where the stricken mau still kneels lie-
side his dead. "Mars Tom," he begins,
taking oft' his hat. ami holding it in both
hands, its he stands respectfully bclore htm.
His is wervbad wery bad. 'Pears 'ike
jo' heart's bnmi' to bust, an' no h'ep fur
it. I sir bless j on, .Mars lmn! don t I
know how while folks is. It seems harder
fur iletn, cause siimhow, 'pears like dey got
finer strung up leehiis. mi you may he
lieve it or no, but I'd rtitber see de ole
latly hersef stretched out on dat other bed
over tlar dan dat putt v young critter, an
de nrl'iil, powerful sufferance I see iu yo'
lace, Hul tlat s nciiiT Here imr tluir. I
can't do you no good, Mars Tom. Caesar
got sense iiiiff to see dat. So he's a goiu'
ter sH'ak now fur do oiiuer uv de family.
YV mar and me wuz de same age, Mars
Tom, born de same day nn' de same hour,
dat what dey toll me! Au' I had do wery
best uv raising by yo' graiinmr. Dat you"
knows, Mars Tom. An' endurin' uv de
war I staitl wid yo' mar. an' I tuck keer
on her de wery best I kuotle. An' senec
she's gone, Mars Tom, an' yo' mi' young
sister what Caesar raise from her enl'aiiey,
I ain't had no ambishuu whatsnmebcr
it'ptiu' fur to see you sot right. But I
hain't seen it yet I never thought aye
me! never thought to outlive her." He
points to the fair young creature before
the iu. "An' now, seem like it come so
miihlfiil !" Here be breaks down. "Iloiin'
to shed n few nat'ral tears. (), Mars Tom,
I set by that lubly young thing set lliut
sto' by her an' no mo' I'll beer her soft
voice a calling 1'nker Cuesar, an' a talkin'
so low an' IsMiitil'id." A short silence ;
then both voices uplifted in loud and bitter
weeping over the dead. "I lultnl her I I
litbed her"! is Caeaar's cry, aud "O, let me
die I I cannot live without her "I the hus
band moans.
"Hut dis is wery improper fur me to be
a tiikiu' on so an' a addin' to yo ditlrriu
mrut, but its bin inside uv me ill day an'
now I've done got it out, my feelings iu
rclcaved, as it war, an' de ole man's reddv
tew ertead tew jewtiea uv de hour, which
is dis you bein' so stricken down, I mus'
speak out vyioin it' Ut l do niutii
uv de Hall kan't be buried from no nigger
house, no sir ! It kan't be done. She's
agoing up to de gret house an lie in state
like de rest uv yo' illustus family. Dem
drunk dogs is a sleepin' yet, an' dry 'II he
sleep fur some spell, an' 1 11 keep 'cm dar
tell 1 step up to town on a little bmntws.
I'll turn de key in de do, so you won't be
pestered by no pttsson a cumin' iu, an' you
an' deole lady kin watch over my po' chile
tell I come I a -k. An' when I come back,
1 low to kcrry you boaf up to de gret
house"!
He slops for no answer, but leaves the
room, carefully lucks the door and pockets
the key. Ten minutes later he is jogging
along on bis grey mule, toward the near
est town, two miles away.
.Judge (iwyn, of the law firm of tiwyn
and Fielding, looks up in angry surprise as,
two minutes alter the dis k lias struck
nine (the hour when no one is admitted tj
his private office) a tall old negro stalks
into the room, doll's bis hal, and bows sol-
mn ly .
"Didn't hev no time to wait, .ledge,
please yo' oniier, an' wid de uluios' rispeit
tew yer. Dey tried for to keep me back,
but 1 know'd I'd hevter to wait niebbv a
hour or sieh a matter thoiilcu 1 push right
thew, an' so I pushed. De bi.nis what
letch me won t wait. You knows ( aesar,
ledge, an' you're well erkwainted wid Mars
Tom Mars Torn Affcrton, de best fambly
in de State, an' have bin de best oil'. I
want to know, Jedge, ef I inotigblii't see
you iu private. It's a private matter, an'
I'd, rather not hev no pitssou else arotin,"
ef you please, sar, not even to him beggiu
uv his pardin a setlin over dar ef it
won't in enways disconweiiunee you sar.''
The Judge looks at him sharply, lie
is a man of few words.
"I remember you well," he says: "I
see that your tongue hasn't forgotten how
to wag. How is Tom ?"
"Moiighn't we retar into dat nr inner
room or recess, an' I'll tell yel; wid thanks
he's but po'ly po'ly."
"Why yes 1 suppose so, but you must
be quick with your business" taking out
his watch "lean give you just twenty
minutes."
"This is a serious accusation you make,"
says the Judge. Can you substantiate it ?
'"What's dat ar?"
"Can you prove it ?''
l Ken, sar;
"Your word will not be sufficient.
"There must be positive proof"
"Hole on, sar, an' sense me, sir. ef 1
forgitsiiiy manners,'' and Caesar, who has
been fiiuibliii iu bis pocket, thaws out a
paper.
"Head dat, ef you please. In cose,
Jedge, 1 neber read dat paper. Y'ou knows
yo'sef Caesar kan't read. Taint likely a
ole feller so set in bis way gwino ter try
git book lariiin when he gits his freedom,
lie didn't want no freedom, an' he don't
want no book larnin; bill I seen dat nr
paper onct a fo,' an' de liiiiniit I slapped
eyes on tew it. 1 kimw'd it, an' I so.: Dat's
ole master's will where dey sell be lielier
lef, an' I kiiow'd all along he did, an' I'm
er goin' In lake it straight tu .ledge (iwvn,
an he kin lell me what nncn o' dem I oilier
ones don't know nuthiiig' tall about."
The Judge takes the paper ami reads it
carefully through from beginning to end.
This is strange,"' he says. "1 have al
ways heard that the General lell no will,
ami of course the cylire properly reverted
to Tom at bis sister's death. Neville's
discovery of a will leaving Atherton Hall
to his wife aud her heirs, has been widely
talked of, and nut without dark suspic
ions; but the lawyers found no flaw in it.
You maintain it is a fraud, mid you bring
this as proof. Ah, slay a Moment.
Drawn up by ( 1. I. of this place." lie
rings, and a servant comes. "Send for
Mr. 1j. Sts; that ho conies without delay.
I hope l may be able tu help Atherton
out of a difficulty."
To Caesar: Where did you find
this?"
"Iu the rascal s pocket, plfg teek him !
He killed her; and now lies a Iviu' drunk
iu de wery . Hut nebcr mind nebcr
mind 1"-
"Cat sar !" The Judge eves him sternly.
"1 think you are right about the will.
Hut you have not told me
all. If you want my help
you had better tell nie just how mailers
stand."
The old man turns his hnl slowly around
in his hands a good many times, with a
deeply thoughtful air, before he speaks.
"Mars Peter," he says (his thoughts
having travelled back to the old plantation
days when the Judge and his young mas
ter went hunting together,) "it's de minor
uv de fambly what Ceasaris a workin' fur,
an' a strivin' arter; an' of I wuz to relate
all de sad lacks uv de case, it 'ml be hu
,inilcratin' to de fambly pride in de Inches'
extent, an' seem like he can't fetch hissef
to de pint o' spenkin' on it. Hut 1 kin
say dis much: Mai's Tom's in a orful
pickle, an' Caesar tote a liebby heart in dis
old black chist a hebby heart." Two or
throe tears gather ill hi eyes ami fall on
his big bands.
"Then perhaps the best thing you can
do is to unburden your heart," the Judge
make answer. "The family honor is safe
in my bauds, of course. Though I will
say no inure about il, if it is anything that
Atherton would like kept secret. Still I
must sift the matter thoroughly, if you
leave it to me."
"Mebby you're right-iuebby, arter all,
you air right,'' says Caesar, speaking slow
ly. "You'll proiiimiis me Jedge, she shell
be kcrricd back, an' have all de propper
riles ills' ceremonials fur de funeral ?"
Whose funeral ? Not Tom's ? Speak
out. man, or I shall lose uiy patience !"
He speaks out. The Judge has seldom
listened to such a story of wrong and woo,
tohl in homely but athclic words.
''That's enough,' he says, while the
room grows misty to his sharp grey eyes.
"Hero conies the mail. Y'ou shall have
your wish, and the scoundrel his deserts."
The mime night )lie body of Malicl
Atherton is carried by the faithful black
buck to the Hall, and laid in her own
room mining her flowers. Two days
later, they lay her to rest in the family
vault. W bile only one (besidtw the family)
of those who follow her to her grave,
knows of that awful night and the tragedy
that broke a strong mail's heart.
The child, whoae first breath was drawn
nnder Caesar's lowly roof, seems to defy,
in ber tunny nature, the wd ciicumstanoes
that ushered in her life. As she grows
oltL r, the cloud that hrotals over the father
whom she passionately loves, must needs
include her in its shallow. Hut it only
sublines aud softens her natural brigbt
hearteilncss. She has her mother's smil
ing liiiiuth ami bright, sweet ways, and
her father's fine eyes and proud bearing.
The sail eyes and luiighing lips give the
beautiful face an uncommon look that has
a charm of its own. Hut nothing can
bring Thomas Athcrtnn back to hope and
haiiines.s. Crushed and embittered, be
yields himself to a settled melancholy. If
be sometimes arouses himself lo enter into
his child's pleasures ami plans, the interest
does not last. There are times w hen they
fear for his reason; when, for weeks, be
shuts himself up in bis room, and the
lonely chiltl has no livinu thing tosicak to
hut the servants at the Hall, ami the old
Inn ii iu tin' cabin by ihc sea,
fill UK CUNTINI F.l.
FEMININE FANCIES.
Patent leather oriiauii'iils are no longer
worn on the shoes of F.nglish Indies.
An exchange isauxiniis to know whether
more women write poetry than spank babies
iu the I'niled Slates.
New Y'ork girls now use an invisible lip
ointment flavored with honey; Kisses
come high, but they must have em.
Four young ladies acted us pall-bearers
at the fiincrai of one of their schoolmates
in a Pennsylvania town on Saturday.
Transparent hats and bonnets will be
iniieh worn in Isiudon this season. Col
ors: brown, mushroom and moss-green.
Now is the time for little girls to kill
themselves by too continuously "jumpim:
the rope." Little Hannah Hierman, of
Ashland, Pa., leads the procession.
"That i.-. a sweeping argument," re
marked the husband whose wife used a
broom to convince him that ho ought to
have been home several hours previous.
When n man fails in business there is
nothing like having a wife to own the real
estate; and if there is too much of that for
one v ile to own, he ought to have two or
three wives.
A young poetess says she told her
secret to the sweet wild roses." She was
very imprudent. When the sweet wild
roses "blow" she will wish she bad kept
her secret to herself.
Pretty waiter girls are already in con
siderable demand for the summer hotels in
the Calskills. The season lasts from the
middle of June to September, and the pay
is 810 to SI" a month.
A certain professional beauty has been
photographed in llill different positions.
It is said that the only person who can
heal her for variety of all iludes is a buy
toltl to sit still ut school.
Mrs. Gladstone as the authoress of a
modest lit I K' volume on 'Healthy I'etl
rooms and Nurseries" appears to vastly
better advantage than does the "Grand
Oltl Man" just now in Oriental diplomacy.
Allen Gilford and wife, of Kastoii,
Washington county, N. Y., will celebrate
nl Christmas the seventieth anniversary of
their wedding, if life is spared to them till
then, lie is '.III years old ami she is S!.
"Hangs, indeed ! ' exclaimed Mrs. Crim-
sonbeak to her friend, Mrs. Yeast, who
had suggested theui ; "even mv husband
wauls me lo wear llieui, hul he cau l pull
the wimiI over my eyes in that manner.
A fashion paper says "clover blossoms
are extensively used on small honiit'ls.
They are very pretty." There must be
some mistake alsnit this. The rule this
year is lo have milking pretty on bonnets.
Large numbers of fashionable ladies
now do their own millinery, owning to tin
fact that the small bonnets now iu vogue
require so little trimming. A pin here
and a stitch or two there docs the whole
business.
A ten-cent bounty show is now in prog
ress iu St. Irfiuis. What that city calls a
' beauty show" Would doubtless be con
sidered iu more civilized sections of the
country an exhibition of brazen faced fe
males. What a fresh complexion Miss II. has,'"
saitl a. gi iitli man lo a young lady at a
party. "Yes." if plied the latly, who was
a rival ot Miss lis, "it is quite early in
the evening yet, ymi know, ami it hasn't
had time to dry."
She was young, handsome, and charm
ing, and worn one of those wagon wheel
straw h its and a satchel with a strap, but
when she asked if an apiary was where
I hoy kept monkeys, the sjs'il w as broken
and the ehiirui vanished.
Miss Hccky Jonca has rivals. Seven
women in Georgia recently made a quilt
without sH-aking a word during the whole
oe ration. It ought to be .tided, how
ever, that they were inmates of a deaf and
dumb institution.
UOtV M A It HI. I .H AHK M AIHU
Almost all the "marbles" with which
boys everywhere amuse themselves in
season, on pavement nud in shady sHits,
arc made at Obcrstein, Germany. There
are large agate quanirs and mills in that
ncighborhiHHl, and the refuse is turned to
good account in providing tin; small stone
balls for exvrts to "knuckle" wilh. The
stone is broken into small ciiIh s hy blows
of a built hummer. Those small blocks of
stone are throw n by the shovelful into the
liopK.T of a small mill, formed of a bed
stone, having its surface grooved with con
centric furrows; above this is the"runner,"
which Is of some hard wood having a level
face on its lower surface. The upjier
bliK'k is made to revolve rapidly, water be
ing delivered titon the groves of the bed
stone where the marbles are being rounded.
It dikes about Clleeii minutes to finish a
bushel of gisid marbles, ready for the boys'
knuckles. One mill will turn out 100,000
marbles per week. The very hardest
"crackers" as the boys call them, are made
by a slower process, somewhat analogous,
however, to the other.
TALM ACE'S ELOQUENCE.
THE NATION A BAM) OF UKoTIIKHH
AMOMI WHOM ALL STIUIH Slllll l.il
FKASK.
At the decoration day services in Green
wood cemetery, New York, Friday aller
iiiHtn, Hev. Dr. Talm.igt! was the orator.
Iu the course of his address he said:
"In Greenwood to-day three armies lire
assembled. The on,! army you behold.
The two other urc invisible. Here is a
great host of sympathetic souls, their
hands mid eyes ami hp- are expressing
gratitude for what our departed brothers
del for us in agony ami lears ami IiIihhI.
If there be in all this audience a soul so
base us to feel no tenderness or thanks, let
him begone now ami take his polluted feet
out of this holy dust! Hut hail all the
sympathetic souls who have come here to
day I Hail to the living soldiery who
have collie here to look upon the resting-
places of their comrades! The second
iirmy iu Gr eiiwootl is I he army of the
dead. Walk softly about their pillow of
dust their arms of war stacked, their
march ended, their battle fought. Sleep
on, great host, till the morning strikes
through the rilta of the tent and the
triuiiH'ts sound the resurrection I The
third army iu Greenwood is the invisible
host that hovers alwvo us the immortals
who mingle iu nil grand and holy occasions
hit on by the Lord of Hosts, who is
mighty in battle.'' lie gave an eloquent
portrayal of a visit to Lookout mountain,
'I never saw so far as from the top of
Lookout mountain. Why, sirs, I looked
hack seventeen years, ami I saw rolling up
the side of that nioiiulain the smoke of
Hooker's storming party, w hile I he founda
tions of eternal risk quaked with the
I'liiiiionade. Four years of internecine
strife seemed to come back, and without
any chmnologieal order -l saw the events.
Norfolk navy-yard on fire, Fort Siiuipter
mi tiro, Charleston on fire, Chambersburg
on lire, Columbia, S. ('., mi tire, Kichinond
on fire ; and I saw Lyon fall, and Me
I'hersoii fall, ami Hishop Polk fall, and
Stonewall Jackson fall ; aud I saw hun
dreds of grave trenches iil'terwnril cut into
two great gashes across the land the oue
for tlio dead men of the north, the other
for the dead of the south. And standing
there, the future was revealed to me, And
1 looked out antl I saw great imputations
from the north moving south, and great
Imputations from the south moving north,
and I found that their foot steps obliter
ated the hoof niark of the war chapters.
And I saw I lie angels of the Lord of hosts
standing in the national cemeteries,
triuiist in hand, as much as to say, "I will
wake these soli tiers from their lung encamp
ment." And 1 looked and I saw such
snowy harvests of cotton and such golden
harvest of corn as I had never imagined;
and I found that the earthworks were
down, and the gun-carriages down, ami the
war barracks were all down. Ami stand
ing there, on the lip-lop rock of Lookout
mountain, I was so near heaven that I
heard two voices which some way slipped
from I be gate, aint they sang: "Nation
shall not lift up sword against nation,
noil her shall they learn war any more."
And 1 recognized the two voices. They
were the voices of two christian soldiers
who fell at Shiloh the one a federal, the
other a confederate. And they were
brut hers.
"Thank God for the helpful institutions
established at (he north ami south for the
wounded soldiers ami their families. They
need not so much posies as bread. I am
glad the time has gone by when it is neces
sary thai the man who lost an arm or a
leg in lighting our bailies should have to
grind band organs at the street corner,
and that women whose husbands ami
fathers perished in battle at I lie point of
t lit! sword should have themselves to die at
the h litit of the needle."
Ill K M'.VY IIOI.
When a woman has a pair of new shoes
scut liiiine she perforins altogether different
from a man. She never shoves her toes
into I In iii and yanks ami hauls until she
is it'll ill the face ami mil of breath, mid
then goes stamping mul kicking around,
bill pulls ihem on pari way carefully,
twitches t Iii-iii off' again lo taken last look
and see if she has got the right one, pulls
t Iii-iii on again, looks at them ilreainingly,
says they are just right, then takes another
look, stops suddenly to smooth out a
wrinkle, twists around ami surveys them
sideways, exclaims. "Mercy, how liaise they
are." looks at them again square in front,
works her feet around so they won't hurt
her quite so milch, lakes ihem off, looks
at the Int'l, the t'K', the bottom and the
inside, puis them mi again, walks up and
down the room once or twice, remarks to
her better half thai she Won't have them
ul any price, tills down the mirror so she
can see bow they look, turns in every pos
sible direction, and nearly dislocates her
Kirk liyili", (ti see bow liny listk floiu iliat
way. backs off. steps up again, takes thirty
or forty farewell looks, says they make her
ot look awful big mul will never do iu
i'.j world, puts them off and mi three or
lour tip ios more, asks her husband what
he thinks about it, ami pays no attention
to what he says, goes through it all again,
and finally says she will take them. It is
u very simple matter, indeed.
Among the "smart" things done by the
girl of the period is having her head
shaved, or hair closely cropped, and wear
ing a wig. "It is so much less trouble,"
they explain, "and we can have it dressed
differently every week."
Y'oiing Glueky, of the Union Club, had
been tip in Marin county shooting for a
week, when he reeieved a dispatch calling
him home." M y dear boy;" said his partnen
taking him aside," have you the courage
to bear up under a terrible blow?' " W-w-h-at
is itlf" gasped (ilueky," Y'our wife has
eloied." Great Nontt ;" said thedisturbed
husband, with whom?" "With your
tailor". "Y'ou don't say so," replied the
bereaved man, with a beaming smile, why
I owed him ail hundred dollars "Wh'at'u
you take ?" Heaven does indeed temper
the shorn lamb.
How shall we train our girls ?" aaks an
exchange. Train 'cm with about twenty
two yards of black silk, if you want to
please your girls' A silk velvet train would
alio make 'em happy.
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FOR SALE OR RENT.
About aulf tf Horn aVrw, ethos, dwtlkias.1
1 da aara afcoat
6.04MI f.ACRF.4 Of tUV
IN HALIFAX COUNTY FOB till
For further partlenlira, qartlra wiahint to buy
rent can apply In uu. In paraon or by Mter.
I am now taking; up .11 lamia parties wlah to nil
and .drartliing the tutna .1 my owa expniaa, un
lia a aala It uadv and Uitia I cbarfe osBnuiantotu.
For my Maaetnf aa a c.UaiM and a aai
worthy ki Ua anatad, I wr by pcnntiatuB to K.
SialUi, Iksrtlaud Nck : Dr. . A. Uilrfta, KuftaM
W. A. UaiL Waldos, t. W. Hurls, LUlkstea.
selltf at. F. at-IKM
THK
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