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March 27. 1891
lv
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0, 1891.
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"It'd nothing o
eaid,
me," the beauty
With a rare! -as ton of
head.
her pretty
(Tbe man ia weak if he can't refrain
From the oup you say is fraught
with pAin,w
It was something to her in .after
years
When her eyes were drenched with
burning teas,
And she watched in loner grief
ane dread.
And stf rtled to hear a staggering
tread.
'It's nothing to in," thexnother
Nttid,
"I Da?e no rVar that my boy will
tread
The dowuwaid path of siu and
shame,
And crush my heart and daikeu my
name."
It waa something to her when her
onl.v HOU
From the pnh of life was early won
And madly cant in flowiug bowl
A mined body aud a shipwrecked
soul.
uIt'd uo'hiug to me.'' the young
man ciied ;
In hia eye w a flash of scorn and
pride
"I be?d not tht dreadful things you
!,
I can rule myself, I kuow full wtll."
It was something to him when in
prison he lay,
The victim of drink life ebbing
awa ,
As he though; of his wretched child
apd wife
And the mournful wreck ot his
wasted life.
"It's nothing to me," the voersaid,
"Tne partyTs loss is my greatest
djead'
Then he gave bis vote for the liquor
trade.
Though hearts were crushed aud
drunkards mad.
Ic was something to him in after life,
When bis daughter became a
drunkards wife,
And her hungry children cried fir
brend,
Aud t emlled to her the:r father
tread.
uIi's nothing to me,7' the merchant
said,
As ovtr his ledger he bnt bjs b'adj
"I'm buy tod-y with tare arid tret
Aud have no time to fume and tret.''
It was something to dim when over
the wire
A message came from a funeral
pyre
A drunken conductor bad wrecked
a train,
And hts wlte and condren wore
amoD'j the slain.
It is uoMiing to u to idly sleep
While the cohorts of dea.yb their
vigils keep,
Alluring the young and tkoughtlefis
in
Aud c;lng In our mldat a giist ot
sin 7
It is something yes, ell, for us to
stand,
And clasp bv f&itb oar SavoirTs
baud j
To i.-ani to labor, lice and fight
Oj the side of Gel aud changeless
New York Ledger.
Vandyke and Brown
Pink. Y CXAEA MAECKLLK GBEBNS.
It might have been the daisies; it
might have been the eyes. Which
ever was the cause, there was the
fffecl-r-chrystaUdrops, tremulous
on tbo petals of the daisies, and
brimming the down-looking eyes.
The daisies were pink as a cloud;
the eyes were blue as heaven.
Now, whether tbe former had
oyer-drunk of dew and so exhaled
their redandent moiatnre to tbd
evea that bent over, or whether tne
latter had btimmed with tears and
so besprent the daisie9 whichever
way it wa3, this chronicle sayeth
not.
The daisies, a lovely, lnscioas
, buncb, were held in two hands. Two
LINCOLNTON,
pretty hands were they, white and
smooth and slender, and genimed
with a sparkling ring. Tbe blue
eyes had been bending over and
locking into tbe fragrant daisy
depths. Thus it was that there outs
grew the little confusion regarding
the origin of the crystal drops.
Suddenly there came a change, A
rosy mouth was passionately press
ed into the very hearts of the dais
ies, which were crushed against
two hot cheeks, whose burning
crimson paled the rosy petals to
their tips. JuHt a moment the
next faw the head tbrowu back.very
erect, indeed, the eyes flashing l?re,
the nosegay flung upon the floor.
It is even believed that a bronze
slipper Btamped ju-t mie little taujp
n the direction of the flowers, I3ut
i touched them not. They lay v
they fell, 'suffering no igaominy but
I. at of Utter neglect.
For Urowo-Pink was very angry,
udeed. There was uo doubt, what
ever, about it. Her eyes asserted
it, her mouth, her haughty head,
aye, her very bands looked augry.
TuesparKling ling emitted a fiery
blae.
The maiden's name was Heater
Brown. "Hettie'' to her widowed
mother and familiar friends. But
it came to pnss that a new and more
dramatic leaf of ber life was turned;
and ber name was inscribed there,
on "BrownPink.'' With that this
ohronicle has to do. It has also to
to with Mr. Vandyke, the BachaeU
facd artist, who, in bis turn, hnd
all to do with the turmur' of this
new leat in the life of little Hester
Brown,
He had come to ma'ie his summer
sketches in Hettie's neighbeibooJ.
He boarded at an adjoining farm
house, converting good ilts. Aider's
"foredoom" into, a studio, aud gar'
uisbjng the sme wi,th bits of lands
scape, sketches of old bridges, logs
arid broDks 5 heads of bovine brin-r
dies," eqaine "Fannies 'yes, and
human Jennies1' and "Kates" and
"Belles". A close observer would
have been very certaiu to notice a
maiked similarity in theso sketchy
heads. For, while the poe of each
was different, and bore the ldje,
s:rawl of a tjifferen name, it was
something remarkable to find in
each the same ronnded chin, the
sme childish month, the identical
saucy nose, the tender, heayenblue
eyt-g, the aaoie low, broad brow and
careless curliug hair.
Whether it was "Nell'' or "Sue"
or "Jenuie" or "Kate," whether
the, front view or profile, or the
quarter view, or three-quarter, the
same features were shadowed forth,
the heaven-blue eyes were there
updifted. Auother thing the care
ful observer would have been very
cortaiu to notice: tti t whil n one
of ihf&e shadowy ke.rtlies was
marked with the Mine of "Uruwn
ink," they were Brown-Piok's
features to the very letter.
But there were uo careful obseiv
era at the Aldeu farm-house. Tbeie
was a marked absence of that class
of beings. There was no one there
in fact, according to tbe chronicle,
but plain Deacon Alden, and his
wife. That was the chief reason of
Mr. Viindyke's choice of st boarding-
plae. " He loved solitude uqles
It v?a9 brolen by companionship ot
his own choosing. So when he dnl
not littr good Mrs. Alden's best
rag carpet with moe and eweet
fern aud trailing vqes or;d all m.an
ner of rvbbiisb, that good woman
bad no eye nor thought for his 'pic
ture." Indeed, it is further re-
corded that her matter-of-fact bos
om nourished for them som secret
pontem.pt.
What has this to do with the da
sies and Hettie's anger T Much bas
it, indeed ; since bnt for "thin,"
there woold have been no anger, uo
burying of her face in the flowers,
no flinging of them on the floor
Nay, neither would the sparkling
ring have gemmed her pretty band.
She drew it off now, and put it
from her with heroic fortitude. It
was Mr. Vandyke's ring. He had
slipped it from bis finger to hers one
night as they sat on the river bar.k,
saving nothing, but looking uont-
terable things with his browD, ten
der eveo bent down on her uplifted'
N. C, FRIDAY, OCT. 27, 1893.
ones. Hh bad teen taking a sun-
set sketch of the river. HeUr was
with him. It was quite an ordinary
thing, sin i he had fallen, in a
neighborly way, of making her tbe
companion ot bis walks and out-cf-door
etndie".
So it often fell ou4, as now, that
wheu the ti'ntH changed, and he
was weary of bis woik, he lay down
his bt UHbes, aud, throwing bimoelf
on tbe gi;. .-b at brr feet, would
dream away an idyllic hoar. He
would look op into the bine vaulted
heaven, and into Hettie's eyes with
his own lull of worship.
He woold talk, too not continu
ously, which would have requ'red
effort, but in a kind of cauversatiou
a! mosaic, with low one, many si
lences, rei'eved by quaint expres
sions and sparkHug with brilliant
bits of thuugbr, timed at random,
but deflly ee.
The chronicle sayeth that when
the ring changed hands, it was after
a siluece that was golden as the
sky ; that the river flowed all pea.';
fully, the valley was falling as)e?p
aud only a cuckoo called in tbe
wood'and, and tLe air was dewy
cool.
Mr. Vandyke drew the band of
gold .'rora bis finger end held it to
Drown-Pink's eye.
"Look through. What do you
see V' be said, in a voice that dis
turbed not tbe stdlnes?.
"Why, the whole of the world 1"
auswered she. in quick delight.
He took her hand in his and slip
ped the riug upon her finger. And
there were no more words.
lu the matter of the name,
"Brown-pink," this chronicle hath
ii, that, once, the first of the sum
mer, when they had met but a few
times, Hettie wore pinks in ber
bosom. Mr. Vandyke rsked for one
Sborily after, as she watched him
mix colors ou his palette, she asked
his favorite color. "Brown. pink.''
was the low reply, with a glance
brought the warm color to her face ;
and he called ber "BiownvPmk'
from that hour.
Only a week after tbe placiug ot
the ring, the serpent had entered
Paradise- A morning brought a
rustic boy, with a beautiful knot of
pink daisies, and a delicate oore,
thus :
''Mv Little 'Brown-Ptsk'
Will mi 88 her friend (may
he trust), for a few days, while he
entertains a guest from New York.
"Be assured she will not be for
gotten by
"Vandyke.''
The afternoon brought a ne'gh
bor with a shawl over ber head,
'Pears Deacon Alden's folks
have got fine company. That fel-
! Jer's got his sirl there now ; come
!laM iiioht iio.u Xew York. Makes
! t kinder haid for .Mis Alduu, liul
in haying-time, 'n she don't never
keep no help. I see 'em walking up
the road this morning rigged oat
gay, she was. I'm glad he haint'
never been sparkin' round none o'
my girls ! Tbore's uo tellin' what
these st angers mean to be a,ftert
next. Got your Saturday is chornin'
done, Mis Brown V
1
Hettie was upstairs wth the little
wooden bat ion turned on her
chamber door, by that time.
There, then was the seciet ot
the te?.rs in the eyes ad, the daises
and of the anger, too., and the pas-
siouate withdrawing of the spark
ling ring. For Brown-Pink was
stung to the quick, and very, very
angry. But she was certain she
didn't care ! H,e was nothing to
her- What cared she for either him
or his flowers ?
She knew sbe was only a country
girl, while he was ouly a great ar
tist who painted famous pictures
aud knew all the world, but he
needn't think she was going to
break ber heart for him. Besides
she kuew ho didn't mean anything,
all tbe time' The whole summer
had been uouseuse. Oa, she didn't
Car?. But here there floated
through Browui-Piuk's mind a fair
ewees vision 01 ineir long, aauciouB
1 tfieir afternoons by the riv-
er, the sunsets, the quiet hills and
sadowa, the restful silences, tbe
j.-.t i
- vagoe, sweet fragmentary words
which might mean all, or might
mean nothing. Sue thought ot it
all, and of the look in his eyes wheu
be had slipped tbe ring mi her hand
and oh, Brown-Pink did care
she cared bitterly.
Passionate sobs would come, and
the next few momenta were stormy,
Indeed. But rallying shortly, her
bright courage shook out its wings
and drooped no longer, lc was
comforting to aer selfrespect, to
find, on reflection, that she bad held
her own thoughts very circumspect
ly through all their iotei views.
Whatever seutiment or foolishness
bad passed had come from his own
lip. She had said nothing. When
bis words had moved her, she' had
not betrayed it. She was certain of
lhar, and it wk comfort. But eh
would 1 el urn the riug. No shr
wouldn't. That would show pique,
aud give him the advantage. She
would keap it, aud suspend it from
her neck chain with two others that
Jack Mayo aud Able Keed gve ber
as it they were valued alike. Thai
was what she would do. And let
him ask for it if be wauted to. Yes,
and bhe would go to tbe villiage pic,
nicnext Wednesday with Jack Mayo
She had a note from him yesterday,
inviting her, which she had not an
swered jet. Poor Jack had stood
off all summer, ou sccoont of Mr.
Vandyke. He would be glad
enough to take ber She used to
like Jack, too, uutil Ye, he
would go with Jack and show. Mr,
Vankjke there were other men in
the world besides him. H . would
be certain to be there with bis lady j
(he had told Brown -Pink he would
not miss so picturesque a
sceuce as a villiage picnie,)
aud she would go and be all devot.
iou to Jack.
Thus she settled the matter, and
thus runneth the chronicle.
Aud the picnic came to pass aud
all the towu was there. Brightest
among them ws Hettie, aud close
to her train Jack. With tbe jaun
tiest of haU and the daintiest ot
of dresses, she flitted about under
the trees, in tbe glittering sunshine,
us it ber poor little heavy heart weie
as light a3 her feet. She was alj
about helping set table?, cut oakes,
loop evergreen?, mix lemonade, with
gay littie nas and smiles for ac
quaintances, and a bewildered de
votiou to Jack, whose devotion was
full.
Good Mrs. Alden was there, chap
eroning Miss Morland, M,rt Van
dyke's triend. H,e himself was m
close attendance, but his eyes fol
lowed Hettie See gave him, in
epite of her pain, a gay little nod
and greeting whenever she eame in
his way, but was offagaiu like this
t'edown. before he conld touch her
or introduce her to Miss Morland.
:1c is even fair to infer that she
be
a
: wildered him a Utile, a well
; Jack . fur lh:s chronicle fuiibtrr sajr.
eth that he shocked good Mrs. Al
deu by offering ber slt for ber cof
fee, and caused Mies Morland some
vexation by switching ferntop-
with her folded lace parasol.
Ijt is further recorded that the
ring his ring passed him not un
noticed, as it flashed and swung,
with two others, on the chain on
Hettie's white neck.
The picnic was over. She waa
standing by the whpel of Jack's
boggyt when Mr. Mr. Vaudyke came
by, with Miss Morland, on tbeir
way to the Alden vehicle. He rais
ed his bat in passing, and it caused
BrownPink's poor little heart a
cruel pang to, Jcok merry and care
less in return,
Tbe ride home was a stupid one.
Jack, confidently bappy in Hettie's
favor, made remarks apon tbe day,
the entertainmen:, tbe people and
the weather. Fiudin? her disinclin
ed to converse, be grew tenderly
personal and solicitoca for her wear-
iuess, and. possible headache, etc ;
But Hettie nipped that in the
bod. No ; she hadn't a beafache,
aud ehe wasn't tired only tired to
death of picnics. Such a stupid lot
of people ; and the woods were hor
rid ard foil of spiders. And what
was be driving so slow lor ? She
should, have to watch the fence -posts
to tell if the noree moved at
all. Jack, disappointed and etung
gave such a jerk on the sensitive
mouth of his hosts that the nervous
animal tore along the remaining
distance at a speed prec'udisg con
versation. At the gate, be said be would call
and take ber to ride tbe following
Sunday night, aud little, wretched
wicked Hettie promised, although
she knew that be loved him not and
would tell him that.
. Poor, little Brown-Pink, ber
hours were long that night. Hei
pretty lomance bad come to an eud
her dream had had a rude awaken
ing. The intervening days till Sun
day were feverish and full ot pain.
Then she heard that Alias Morland
had gone away. She wished Mr.
Vandyke had gone too. No she
didn't She oogbt to, but she
didn't.
Tbe follow n Sumlav afternoon
Hettie wa- out under the apple
frees, pretendiug to read. But she
only read between the line-, won
dering over and over how it would
end, whether she should marry Jack
and if she should ever see Mr. Van
dt ke again it she should ever be
bappy. Some one lightly leaprd
tbe stone wall. Mr. Vandyke stood
befoie h9r, hat iu hand, an eager
look upon his handsome face. She
sprang to her feet..
''Have I disturbed my little
friend f Isn't she gh d to see me f"
Ah, that tone. How her heart
beat!
"Why, certainly, I am glad to s-e
you, Mr. Vandyke. Won't you come
into the bouse 1 Mother is in,"
"Thanks; no. I wanted oa
for a last walk by tbe river. Can I
will you !' looking down in btr
eyes wiih the pleading look so bard
to resist.
"I have not time," she said, look
ing away, ."since I am engaged to
ride at Ave." .
TorUlet With whom taking
her hand
.'It can hardly interest you,'
withdrawing that member.
Brown-Pink," in a graver tone,
drawing nearer and taking both ber
bands firmly, closely this time.
'Pa our summer beeu all for noth
ing? Have my dreams been worse
than vain ! Do not say you do not
mean. I go tomorrow. In two
mouths, directly after the wedding
ot my cousin, Minnie Morland,
whom you gave me no cbanoe to
introduce, I sail for France. I shall
not see you again, unless " touch
ing the ring at her neck and raising
it mid way ,bet ween their eyes "un
less yonr eyes will meet mine
through this circlet, and you say
aain, as I can and do, that you see
through it the whole of the world.'
The heaven-b'ue eyes were up
lifted, brimming with tear. But
he saw in tb xa, as she did in bip,
the whole ot tbe world iospbered.
4 Heady Jlcspanwe.
The six-year ola son oi a family
living on Seventy. second street was
iuformed tbe other morning that
the rector was expected to call in
tbe afternoon. After luncheon tbe
mother began to coach bim on bis
catechism, his name, age, etc.
"He will ask yon your name,"
she said, "and you mnst tell him
Frankie Jones,' Then he will ask
your age, and ycu must Bay jix
yeais old in Jnne. He will ask
you who made you, and you must
siy 'God i and theu, it be asks what
be made you out ot you must say
dirt.'
Tba rector came and sure enongb,
he asked tbe Utile fellow bis name,
where npou Frankie ehoated :
(Frankie Jones, six-year old in
June, God, dirt" all in one breath.
New York Times.
Niiialcand Married.
A native of Ireland landing at
Greenock wanted to take tbe train
at Glascow. Never having been in
a railway station before, he did not
know how to get his ticket. Seeing
i t- .
a ladv. nowever. going iu. xrai
thought be would follow her, and
he would soon know bow to get
aboard. The lady, going to the
ticket box and putting down her
money, said, "Marjliill, single."
Her ticket was duly banded to her,
and she walked off. Pat, thinking
it all right, planked down his mon
ey and shouted, "Patrick Murphy,
married." Tit&its.
NO. 23.
Two fiiniiri GlrlN.
Two young ladies, sisters, named
Healy, natives of Maryland but res
idents of Washington, have made a
discovery which has baffled all the
chemists who have tr'ed it and
vrhich will make them very rich if
no one discovers their secret and
robs them of it. Seveial years ago
they tamed their attention to decot
rating china, and in the ceramic
process used gold, which they tcuod
too expensive for the results ob
tained. They Ibeo began t-xperi
meuting to obtain gold td'ct with
out the use of so much gold. It
took time, patience, pluck, perse
verance, and failures without uum
ber, before they bit on tbe bappy
secret which enabled them now to
do what great chemists have tried
in vain for ages to do, aud what
tbey are doing eveiy day to the be
wilderment ot chemists and the ad
miration of every oue who sees
tbeir woik on exhibition at tbe
Woild's Fair, and learns what it is.
They have on exhibition two dis
play?, oue in tbe Woman's building
and one in the Maryland building,
the first ot waich is valued at $1,
000, tbe other $15,000., This coo
sists of a complete dinner et, a
complete tea set for twelve persons,
every dish, plate, cup etc, beiug of
what seems to be solid gold. Iu
addition to this a pyramid -ompos--ed
of numerous articles of the same
material. The secret, consists iu
completely coating chfnawara, with
gold, iuside and outside, by.ch.emi- .
cal process, and producing an arti- :
cle which is uutaruishable, and will
stand constant use. So nLce is the .
formula that tbe slightest variation- .
from it causes failure, .hey ..lost -tbe
secret once, aud it. took the ma
year of constant experiment, to re- ,
coyer it, but they are. so fatxHliar
with it uow that there Js no dangt.
of their forgetting it, and these two ,,
bright, plucky sisters alone possess
it. Five of the best chemists iu tUn ,
country have worked on tbeir chiua
for twelve months to get, from; it-Im
secret, but without success. . . The .
sisters now employ fourteen people
at their home in Waehiugtq'njjtoxn-.
iog out this "chrysoqeramic worfc
and have no fear of tbe secret beiiH,
wrested from them. Tbe labor-ato
ry is forbidden ground, and tbe for
mula is in their heads. . .
Cat Bono 7
A curiona feature of modem times
is that anomalous product ot tbe
nineteenth century . which custom
ha) styled the dress et reformer in
ircny, presumably, since no real and
tangible reform has ever, 10 our
knowledge, been traced to ber inn
stiumentality. Certain weird and
uncanny articles of attire, variously '
ugly but uniformly sexless, ha7e
now and again beet forced upon tbe
notion of the public ss the ideal
drt'ss for women, and the public in
its turn bas received these well
meant efforts with tolerant iD differs
eoce or good-humored satire, know
ing full well that their results would
be neither serious nor lasting.
Iu ssoms a pity that so much
praise-worthy enthusiasm which
might be prodactivo of definitive
good if it were not misapplied
should find so In tie response lu
these whose benefit is aimed at ;
though we dara to assever that tbe
reason lies rather in tbe utter uo-
lovliness of the improvement?)
sagge8ted than in tbe crass ignor
ence of womankind. It were a brave
woman indeed who would volunra
rially conceal ber shapeliness be
neath a loose blouse and "bloom
era while it has never yet been
conclusively proved that these re
doutable garments are more conda
sive to health and comfort than tbe
more gracefal one which comprise
the present regulation feminine
costume. As a matter of fact, di
vided skirts are not only hidiously
ugly bat intsnsely uncomfortable,
given to entwining themselves an
round tbe limbs of tbe wearer with
disagreeable pertinacity; while
their much vaunted hygienic pro
perties exist chiefly in tbe imaginao
tion and on paper. From Xovenv
ber Godcy's.
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