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Drama of Dunstable Farma
BT DORA REED GOOD ALE.
Having no special interests of my own,
and being of a somewhat observant habit
of mind, I was last summer a sympathetic
spectator of the little domestic experi
ence which I have called here the drama
of Dunstable Farms. I may even say
that I was a humble participant in it.
The heroine but stop! the minor
characters should appear first. Now
Patty, it must bo confessed, is a minor
character. Enter Patty, then, first, with
her apron on, and her hair rolled up
smoothly under a round white cap not
pretty at all, but wholesome and pleasant
to look on, and as satisfying for a long
journey as a lot of brown bread.
Dunstable Farms ; you may have heard
of the place, where the family has
flourished and spread like a banyan grove
since William Dunstable planted himself
here in, I don't know what, year of
grace. All the land hereabout waa
bought of the Indian tribes, the old deeds
signed with their "marks" being still m
the family archives, so that it is the
Dunstable boast that their acres have
never been owned by any white man
bearing another name..
Hither, to 'recruit," on a notable
morning in May, when the roads had re
covered from the prolonged state of pros
tration which afflicts them in early
spring, came I a spinster, reader, but
not too old a one to find young people
congenial.
Patty met me at the station. Patty
drove me home and unharnessed the horse,
and afterward set the table and brought
out the sweetmeats for sapper. Then she
superintended the carrying of my trunks
up a flight of back stairs which seemed
designed for the shaft of an elevator.
Patty was the active, the serviceable, the
delightful ; there were fire in the fam
ily now, she said her father, her
mother, herself, Norah tbe cook, and
Stephen the hired man. I was to tbe the
only boarder.
This Stephen I immediately ; seized
upon as the villain of my piece, chiefly
because of his rough, shaggyihead and
his solemn, inscrutable visage, .which
looked as if he were revolvingfthe dark
eat designs, although I could hear of none
worse than a great thirst for I learning.
It was a democratic household ,j and Ste
phen had hi seat at the lower end of
the table. He and Mr. Dunstdble of tcu
paused to discuss the care of1 the live
stock and methods of tilling.
But I soon learned that there vw as an
other daughter, Eunice, the sixteen-year-
old, and the clever one of the family.
There was always one head-piece among
the Dunstable kin, said Patty, ingenu
ously, and she furtherfinformed me that
it was odd that Eunice! should have come
into this family inheritance, because their
own father was not the bright one of his
generation; but Eunice took after he:
Uncle Erastus, she s'posedj, who studied
at AlHldlefield College andnvent into the
ministry.
It was an understood thing that the
most intelligent one, boy or girl, should
have good advantages,, and when Eunice
carried off the prize at a spelling-match,
while still a small creature in pinafores,
and in the district school outstripped all
the cousins- growing up at Dunstable
Farms, a family conclave was held. One
uncie contributed a heifer, another a
sheep, they were land-poor, these Dun
stables, and sawVvery few present dollars
m the course of a year, and the girl
was sent fifty miles away to the Young
Ladies' Seminary. This was two years
ago, ana next year sue would graduate.
I must own that my feelings received
a shock on first seeing this bright
one, this Eunice, some threeveeks later,
when Stephen lifted her and her trunks
.from the ample farm-wagon. Whatovei
the original material might be, tht
veneer of boarding-sehool life was dis
played to perfection. She wore a white
hat with some "style" about it, indeed,
but a very Objectionable style, as it
seemed to me, and a pair of kid gloves
at least two sizes too small. She could
not have handled a fork in those gloves,
nor have held up her skirt, much less hei
umbrella. Now-Patty's best gloves were
of gray cotton, with lace-work wrists,
and sometimes, I ought to add, she won
them when she saddled the horse.
It was hard to understand how any
seem to, despise the farm, but professed
an ignorance of things pertaining to il
which, it seemed to me, could not be
genuine. She Would dislike Stephen,
supposed, as a common farm laborer, and
he would find her fine-lady airs ridicu
lous. Alas, that even at thirty our wisdom
is baffled by these young folks at even
turn! Miss Eunice treated Stephen with
good-natured indifference, while he, like
the the perverse fellow he was, chose tc
treat her from the first as a kind of di
vinity. She was given to studying geometry,
and biology, too; she spent whole fore
noons over the microscope, dissecting
not only plants but fishes and mice, al
though Patty on no account would have
permitted her to joint up the chickens
for dinner. She was not an idle girL
but full of activities rathert and yet she
did nothing at all to help in the house,
except to trim over all Patty's bat and
remodel most of her dresses.
Stephen spent his evenings, alone and
remorse, in the kitchen, for Norah
ally sat in the porch ; he was working
at his books, they said, though how he
could study after from ten to fourteen
hours in the field was a mystery to me.
One evening, when the lamps had
been lighted, Norah came in, a sheet of
brown paper, covered with diagrams, in
her hand, to say that Stephen was
"wantin' to know if Miss Eunice
wouldn't just cast an eye over that, for
he couldn't mek out the throuble at all,
at all."
Patty looked up, apprehensively, 1
thought, for Stephen's requests some
times verged on the audacious, except
that they were made with so much
solemn unconsciousness ; but Eunice took
the paper obligingly.
When she saw what it was, her face
lighted up. She bit her lip over it a few
moments in silence, and then rushed out
to the kitchen.
When I followed a little later to get
a glass of new milk they were sitting at
the well-scrubbed table, with a battered
geometry between them, both heade
bent, both faces shining with eagerness,
and both tongues murmuring something
about the maximum of isoperimetrical
polygons.
That was the beginning of Eunice's
interest in Stephen. The girl thought so
highly of intellectual force that all hei
good will was gained when she found
some one who had, alone and unaided,
almost overtaken her in her favorite
study. Every night afterward she in
sisted on helping him, and did it with
only a trace in her air of the' beautiful
patroness.
Certainly a teacher like Eunice must
have put a new meaning into the dog
eared volumes. She found a place for
Stephen now at our picnics and other
frolics, plannings things so gracefully
that her father never seemed to miss the
time of his foreman, and leading Stephen
to talk of himself with the kindest ma
ternal sympathy ; he was only two yean
older than she!
Nor was this all. Early and late, in
season and out of season, Euuicc urged
on us all that the boy should have better
opportunities. He was ten times as clevei
as she, shedeclarsd, though nobody be
lieved it; it was a pity and a shame that
he did not go to school, and something
ought to be done about it. Mr. Dun
stable told her that Stephen's father had
been the skipper of a sailing vessel, and
was lost, I believe, on the high seas some
where between here and China.
"Haven't you ever seen those outland
ish knives of Stephen's, with the queei
ficcrers on cm? That s about all he left
an
him, I reckon," said goad Mr. Dun
stable.
The next time Stephen passed, he was
called up to display these wonderful
weapons, which he brought forth directly
from an inside pocket, thereby reviving
my theory as to his dangerous character,
which waa beginning to waver.
We were sitting at the time out under
the copper-leaved birches with a young
heiress, who was boarding down in the
village. She was a collector of curios,
and took a great fancy to these knives,
which were beautiful little tovs of Indian
or Chinese workmanship. The delicate
ly-curved two-edged blades were thrust
into short leather sheaths, and the round
handles of ivory carved over with drag
ons. Afterward, and certainly not with
out a mental reservation for the owner's
own benefit, she offered Stephen twenty
five dollars apiece for the two; but
Stephen, to our surprise, refused to sell
them, saying that, bis father had given,
them to him and he would never part
with them. Eunice was at no pains to
conceal her vexation. '
Meanwhile I began to suspect that all
was not right with Mr. Dunstable's own
financial affairs. He had always been the
unthrifty one of his family, with an un
fortunate tendency toward "spekilation."
He was an old man now, and somewhat
broken down, so that the management of
the place was left more and more in tXe
hands of Patty and Stephen, Patty, in-
anxious and worried that I guessed, as I
fancy she did, that some bad news was
coming.
At last the blow fell. Of the purse
which the brothers had made up to pay
for Eunice's schooling, one hundred dol
lars had been reserved to cover the tui
tion fees in the coming September. This
Mr. Dunstable had risked invested, oi
what you will, and lost it.
Now to go in debt is to go branded, in
the eye of a Dunstable. One resource,'
however, remained for Eunice. Mr. Dun
stable had a colt, raised on the farm, and
dear as the apple of his eye because of
fond belief which he entertained that it
was destined one day to develop "spet3."
It was in truth a fine colt, though a little
long in the legs and lean in the neck,
and given to sundry very lively tricks
and diversions.
This colt Mr. Dunstable determined to
sell. He was young, recently broken,
and useless for heavy farm labor. Hav
ing raised by the sale of this animal the
formidable sum, Eunice's other expenses
would doubtless be gradually forthcom
ing. When Eunice protested, her father
sternly silenced her, declaring that the
money he had lost was given in trust for
her schooling.
Presently Mr. Chichester, a farmer
from under the mountain who had long
had a covetous eye upon the colt, came
up to Dunstable Farms one bright after
noon. He looked the animal over, got
Stephen to show off his paces how
pretty and docile he was that day to be
sure! examined his teeth and bis hoofs,
and partly concluded a bargain. He was
to take him home for a wee a, at tue end
of which time, if the animal proved
sound and steady, he would pay down
the $100.
Honest Mr. Dunstable made no objec
tion to such an arrangement. He was as
blind where the faults of his xavorite
were concerned as the most partial of pa
rents. Exit Mr. Chichester exit tho
colt, quite sedate, at the tail of his
wagon.
We all lived that week in a vague at
mosphere of suspense. I could not but
think it ill-judged when, at the expira
tion of the time, Mr. Dunstable announced
his intention of sending Stephen after tht
money, especially as I h?ard him say, a
the lad was preparing to set off:
"Now, if he should think we wat
askin a leetle too much, if the colt's be'e
up to his games and he wants ye should
knock a bit off from the price, I wouldn't
stick but for a few dollars not for a few
dollars, Stephen. We could make it up
somehow so see ye don't bring back the
creatur' "
This was putting too much responsi
bility on such a young lad. I, for one,
was greatly relieved when Stephen re
turned at dusk, and much to his own
satisfaction and tbe general rejoicing
unrolled from his wallet and placed in
his employer's hands one hundred dol
lars. Mr. Chichester, he said, was satis
fied with his bargain ; he thought the
colt a fine fellow, although fractious at
times.
Matters now seemed to settle back into
the old grooves, and Eunice began to
make ' preparations for school. But
several days later she came in from a
round of calls looking flushed and dis
turbed, and asked if her father could
lend a horse the next day. After much
wrinkling of eyebrows and counting of
fingers the farmer concluded that the
sorrel mare could be spared, and Eunice
invited me to accompany her, on some
sort of a drive, the purpose of which she
did not announce. I accepted, because
I was quite willing to study the girl.
Our drive took us through a part of
the region unknown to me hitherto, and
brought us at last to the gate of a farm
house of prosperous appearance when
Eunice drew up and asked me to hold
the reins while she went in .
A few moments later she came down
the gravel walk ia a somewhat agitated
way and with eyes sparkling. As soon
as we were fairly started she turned to
j me, saying obruptly, "Mr. Chichester
gave only fifty dollan for that colt!"
"Only fifty dollarst" I echoed, as
tonished. "Yes. And Steohen sold his knives to
make it up to a hundred.
"What? Oh, I see! But how did
you know?"
"Why, when I called da M3 Willough-
by yesterday, she said something about
her good fortune in seaariog those
Chinese daggers. A sort of suspicion
passed over me. I asked her when
Stephen had sold them, and she said it
was Tuesday, she believed. He came in
Just at dark, looking 'pale and odd,' and
toW her ho had reconsidered, She gave
him the money."
"Yes, but about the colt? Did she
I know about that ?"
"Of courss not. I came here to ses
Mr. Chichester. I lookel him straight
in the eye and asked what he paid for it.
He said 'Fifty dollars' before he thought,
and then clapped his hand upon his
mouth. 'Hold on!' he said; 'I promised
fie young fellow not to mstiou tic
price.' It is sot to strange that Stephen
had to seas down. Mr. Ohiehsstsr tan
the colt can jump any fence on the place,
and made kindling wood of his best
phaeton the first time he drove him. He
will have to bs put in the hands of a
regular trainer."
"But I think it was very unwarranta
ble in Stephen," I protested.
"It was certainly unwarrantable in
him to put me under such obligations, I
think," said Eunice. The tears which
ran down her pretty cheeks were tears of
mortified pride.
I was not surprised that the girl should
take it in this way, knowing that it
often requires a more generous nature to
accept a favor than to render one. Eunice
had played the part of the fair b;nefac
tres? so well that her self-love was natu -
rally wounded. Therefore. 1 was scarcely
less astonished than was Stephen when,
on reaching hone, she walked straight
up to him in the yard, with both hands
held out, and said, simply, "0 Stephen,
I know all about it."
The school-books rested that night
while the boy and girl sat on the door
step outside, and snatches of their con
versation eame in through my open win
dow. "But I wanted to do it," I heard
Stephen say in his serious way. "Why,
Miss Eunice, what did I care about
them?"
Afterward came Eunicejs fresh, un
mistakable voice, "Yes, Stephen, I will
accept it that Is, -for the present.'
This seemed to bo satisfactory, and
concluded the interview.
Last week I received the following
characteristic letter from Patty :
"Du.xstablb Farms. January 13th.
"My Dkar Miss Fultox . You asked ms
to write to you after the holidays were over.
We all spent Christmas Day at the home
stead and had a real family party. Eunice
was at home, of course, and what do yon
think? 8be had actually bean teaching In the
night schools and brought back that Kty
dollars
that Stephen lent her. ntaph M
going to take it and go in the high school this
term. Eunice likes teaching to man, and
says she intends to devote her life to it bat
she may change her mind. I think it won
derful, though, how much rood she did
Stephen. I never saw any one improve as
he has.
"By the way, we hear bow that the colt b
going to be a great troter. Patty's ortho
graphy was not always faultless. However,
perhaps it is just as weS that we've got him
off from oar minds. And yon know he did
act awfully.
"Father and mother s;nd their respects.
We hope yon will come here next summer.
" Affectionately years,
"Pattt Dwxstabue."
So ends the drama. Patty is not yet
promoted from the farm-house kitchen.
The heroine was not miraculously cured
of her follies; and the villain turned out
to be the hero. Youth" t Companion.
" G ranger isin g."
Most of us have heard tbe term "gran-
gerisiog, ' out lew at us Know sxacuy
what it means or how it originated. To
"graogerise" a book is to take it
to pieces, inlay the leaves on
larger sheets of paper, and hunt up
prints illustrating the text which are
bound up with it, and thus a single vol-
ume is extended into two, twenty, or it
may be o hundred. Somewhere about
the year 1750, the Bsv. James Granger
was unhappily seized with the idea of
writing a History of England with the
special view of its being extra illustrated
by the insertion of prints, principally
portraits, or "headi," os they were then
called. The book took, and those who
bought it set to work to collect print
for its expansion. There are numerous
examples of grangerising in the British
Museum and in private collections.
Grangerising has its use, but the most
dreadful example of its misuse is the re
sult of the labors of a shoemaker, John
Bag ford by name, who projected a His
tory of the Art of Printing, which was
to be grangerized or extra illustrated
with the titles of rare booker This
wretched man prowled about for years
in public and private libraries both at
home and abroad, tearing out and pock
eting the title page of every rare book
he came across. After years of labor he
succeeded ia filling no less than forty
large volumes now in the British Mu
seum with stolen titles, representing
the mutilation and pecuniary destruction
of thousands upon thousands of biblio
graphical treasures. Yea, verily, the
world would have profited greatly if
John Bagford had stuck to his last.
Paper and Printing Trade Journal.
Tim art rttwvi "
In a second-hand book store on Grand
avenue, Detroit, is shown a copy of the
London Time containing the first report
of the battle of Waterloo. It would be
difficult to find a basis for a more inter
esting comparison between tiler gazette of
the time of Wellington, Blneher and
Napoleon and the newspaper of to-day.
The report simply records the defeat of
the French by the allies "with great
slaughter," and states that 341 pieces of
artillery were captured. This is as fat
as the particulars go, although there are
columns of gush. No detailed account
of the engagement is given ; no estimate
of losses is made, and four lines Of chalk
on a bulletin board would express every- j
thing of real value contained in almost 1
' pgrO pages of print. CKeac Mute.
CURIOUS FACTS' !
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The white rose is the favorite flower
France -
There ore now 70,000 widows in India
inder nine years of ago. '
The first settlement of California was
it San Diego, in 1763.
Engraving on plates and wood began
ibout the middle of the fifteenth century.
A few days ago 8000 watermelone
rere destroyed in a Georgia railroad
wreck.
It is said that Asm Low, of Springvaie,
las the shortest name of any person in
Haine.
It is not an unusual sight to see
leventy-five acres of a California wheat : .
leld covered with wild geese.
A sign over the office counter in he
ending hotel of Leadville, Col., reads :
'Dogs boarded at $40 a month."
A census enumerator discovered a f am-
ly of ten children in San Francisco,
Dal., who were all club footed and knock
kneed. In the Sultan of Morocco's stables are
Ive horses for his own use and seven)
lundred for the use of his family and
lervants.
There are fourteen pages in the United
states Senate. They serve for four years
ch, being eligible only between the
iges of twelve and sixteen.
There are seventeen bathrooms in Mrs.
rhomas A. Scott's residence, on South
uUttenhouse Square, Philadelphia. The
louse contains as many suits as an ordi
nary hotel.
A very wise citizen of Chicago, who
was seeking a boarding-house, went first
to a good meat shop and asked the pro-
v;- t i,l fe
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sold the best meat.
A horse-tamer advises that a runaway
horse be allowed to go fifty-yards. Then
tighten the lutes, say "whoa!" and it he
does not respond, to give a strong jerk on
the right-hand rein, and say "whoa"
tgstn.
The largest plate of gloss ever cast in
the world was drawn from the annealing
furnaces at the Diamond Plate Glass fac
tory at Kokomo, Ind., recently. It
measures 145x195 inches, weighs 3000
pounds, and is perfect in every particu
lar.
A tradesman named Meek en was found
recently in a street of Eastbourne, on the
English South coast, with seven long
nails driven deep into his skull. He was
removed to a hospital in a dying state.
The doctors say it is an astonishing case
of deliberate suicide. .
Mrs. Ambrose Crouch, of South Jack-
Mich., has been keeping a tab on
her family, and finds that during the
Tear 8ne has baked for them 2,163
cookies, 1988 doughnuts, 217 cokes, 36?
81 puddings and 793 loaves of
bread. Her family is not large, either,
except as to appetite. , 1 - v
A newly married Hindoo girl is inter
dicted by custom, when living under her
husband's roof, from talking to any but
her younger sisters-in-htw or brothers-in-law.
A suicide has been committed by
a little Hindoo wife in a village in Bard
wan for the pathetic reason that she could
find "no one to talk to or play with."
The UiiiversHy of Balin, with its
5000 students and scores of famous pro
fessors, has a capital of but f750,000.
Its largest endowment, that of the Count
ess Rose, is only 150,000. Neverthe
less it is the seat of the highest German
learning, and claims to have the ablest
corps of instructors of all the world's
schools.
At Mrs. Somebody's suHfptuous dinner
party in the suburbs of New York the
other evening canary birds were liberated
from their cages and flew about the dining-room
during the feast, evidently em
barrassed, if not scared. Thk "fea
ture" comes from London, where Colonel
North, the "nitrate king," had it first at
his regal banquet at the Hotel Metro-
pole.
Tht Cats ff Prlsylsv Island?.
Iti should not be omitted to state that
there are no reptiles of any sort, mosqui
tces,or house flies on the Pribylov Isl
ands, off the coast of Alaska, although
those (Objectionable cieatuies are found
pretty nearly everywhere else in tho
world. There are not even rote these,
though mice hove have been brought in
ships and nave propagated enormously.
Cats, too, have been imported and have
increased to a moat astonishing extent.
Feeding upon sealfiesh they have grown
much shorter and thicker of body than
eats ha tin part of the world; their tails
have become abbreviated, and they have
multiplied beyond all counting. So se
rious has the night concert problem be
come on the Pribylov Islands that peri
odically the natives make raids upon tho
cats, with the result of temporarily di
minishing their numbers. It ia said that
a night upon St. George's or St. Paul's is
one incessant and inexpressible cater-
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