RHINEGOLD.
Aanratli tho mynlic winding stream
The KhiiiciiiaiiU warded well the (old;
And. Iik? dim voicm in a dream.
Their Hung a thrilling legeud told.
"n who mold a ring from thU
Khali rule lh9 earth acid air above;
Mut first he niuM renounce I ho dUmm
And wondrous Joy of womu'i lore."
So ran tho old delunlre lay
That aet man's heart and brain at strife;
Bat Love proclaimed a letter way.
For be is lord of human life.
first win the woman's priceless grace.
Then weld the riiiR of virgin gold;
Upon her hand the circlet place;
Then love in xiwcr. and both you hold.
W. J. llendenwin in New York Times.
A GHOST STORY.
"All gheme hiories may Ihj explained,"
Mtitl Mrs. Marchmont, (smiling rather
icornf ully. and addressing a large circle
f friends and neighbors who, one Christ
man evening, were seated round her hos
pitable hearth.
"Ah! you think so? Pardon me if I
sannot agree with you," said Mr. Hen
oiker, a well known Dublin barrister, of
burly frame and jovial countenance,
famed for his wit and flow of anecdote.
The ladies of the party uttered excla
mations in various keys, while the men
looked attentive and interested. All
ihat Mr. Henniker pleased to say was
wont to command attention, in Dublin
it least.
"So you think all ghost stories may be
jxplained? What would Mrs. March
mont say to our old woman in the black
bonnet, Angela?" And the barrister
turned to his quiet little wife, who rare
ly opened her lips. She was eager enough
now.
"I wish I could quite forget that old
woman, John, dear." she said with a
shiver.
s- "Won't you tell us, dear Mrs. Hen
niker? Please please do!" cried the
ladies in chorus.
the wife, shrinking into herself as it were.
No one knew how it happened that the
conversation had turned ujon mesmer-
ism, spiritualism and other themes
trenching upon the supernatural. Per
haps tho season, suggesting old fashioned
tales, had something to do with it; or
maybe the whistling wind, mingling
with the pattering of hail and rattle of
cab wheels, led the mind to brood over
uncanny legends. Anyhow, all the com
pany spoke of ghosts: some to mock,
others to speculate; and here was the
witty lawyer prepared to tell a grave
- tale of his own experience.
His jovial face grew stern. Like the
Ancient Mariner, he addressed himself
to one in company, but all were silent
and attentive.
"You say all ghost stories may be ex
plained, Mrs. Marchmont. So would 1
have said a year ago; but since we last
met at your hospitable fireside my wife
and I have gone through a very astonish
ing experience. We 'can a tale unfold.'
No man was better inclined to laugh at
ghost stories than L
"Well, to begin my true tale. We
wished for a complete change of scene
last February, and Angela thought she
would like to reside in the same county
as her sisters and cousins and aunts"
"Dorsetshire, I believe, Mrs. Ilenni
ker," interrupted the lady of the house.
Angela nodded.
"I intended to take a house for my
family, leave them comfortably settled
in it, and run backward and forward le
tween Dorsetshire and Dublin. Well, it
so happened that I did leave them for a
single day during the three months of
my tenancy of tho Hall. I had seen a
wonderful advertisement of a spacious
dwelling house, with offices, gardens,
pleasure grounds to be hal for fifty
pounds per annum. I went to the agent
to make inquiries.
" 'Is this flourishing advertisement
correct? asked L
" 'Perfectly.'
" 'What! so many advantages are to
be had for fifty pounds a 3-ear?'
" 'Most certainly. I advise you to go
and see for yourself.'
"I took the agent's advice, and Angela
was enchanted with the description I
was able to give her on my return. A
charming little park, beautifully planted
with rare shrubs and trees a bowery,
secluded epot. so shut in by noble elms
as to aaem remote from the world. The
house such a mansion as in Ireland
would be called manor house or castle
large, lofty rooms, thoroughly furnished,
every modern improvement. My wife,
as surprised 03 myself that a place of the
kind should be going for a mere song,
begged me to see the agent again, and
close with hiin. It wa3 done at once. I
would have taken the hall for a year,
but Mr. Harrold advised me not to do
so. 'Take it by the quarter, or at least
by the half year,' he recommended.
"1 replied that it appeared such a de
sirable bargain that I wished to take it
by the year. His answer to this was a
reiteration of his first advice. I can't
tell you how he influenced me, for he
really said no more than I tell you; but
I yielded to his evident wish without
knowing why I did so, and I closed with
him for six months, not a year.
-Glamor, Mr. Henniker'"
"It would seem so. Mrs. Marchmont.
We went to the hull, and Angela was de
lighted with it. The snowdrops lay in
snowy masses about the grounds the
warden gave promise of beauty as the
season advanced. How the children ran
over the house! how charmed we were
with every nook and corner of it! Our
own bedroom was a comfortable, large
room, opening into a very roomy dress
ing room, in which my wife placed two
cribs for our youngest boys. Hal and
Jack" -
"Don't forget to say that our bed
chamber opened from a sitting room."
interrupted Mrs. Henniker.
"Well, for three weeks we all slept the
sleep of the just in our really splendid
suite of apartments. Not a grumble
from our servants nothing but satisfac
tion with our rare bargain. I was on the
point of returning to dear, dirty Dublin
ftnn ina rum wu.ip,
, "When? We are all attention,
Henniker."
Mr.
"Angela and 1 were sitting in the draw
ing room under the bed chamber I have
tlescrilwd. when a loud cry startled us
Mother, mother, mother!'
"The little boys were in bed in the
dressing room. Angela dropped her tea
cup and dashed out of the room, forget
ting that there was no light in the rooms
above us.
"I caught up a candle and followed her
quickly. We found the children sobbing
wildly. Jack's arms were almost strang
ling his mother, while he cried in great
excitement, 'Oh. the old woman in the
black bonnet! The old woman in the
black bonnet! Oh oh oh!"
"1 thought a little fatherly correction
would be beneficial, but Angela would
not suffer we to interfere. She tried to
soothe the little beggars, and in a few
minutes they were coherent enough in
their story. A frightful old woman,
wearing a black bonnet, had been in the
room. She came close to them and bent
over their cribs, with her dreadful face
near to theirs.
" 'How did you see her?" we asked.
'There was no candle here."
"She had light about her, they said;
at any rate, they saw her quite well. An
exhaustive search was made. No trace
of a human being was to be found. I re
frained from speaking to the other chil
dren, who slept in an upper story, though
I softly entered their rooms and exam
ined presses and wardrobes and peeped
behind dark corners, laughing in my
sleeve all the while. Of course we both
believed that Hal had been frightened
by a dream, and that his little brother
had roared from sympathy. Don't
breathe a word of this to the servants,
whispered Mrs. Henniker.
" 'I'm not 6uch a fool, my dear,' I re
plied. 'But pray search the lower re
gions, and see if Jane and Nancy have
any visitor in the kitchen,' she continued.
'She came through your door, mother,
from the sitting room,' sobbed Hal, with
eyes starting out of his head.
" 'Who, love?' asked his mother.
" 'The old woman in the black bonnet.
Oh, don't go away, mother.'
"So Angela had to spend the remainder
of the evening between the children's
cribs.
" 'What can we do tomorrow even
ing? asked she. 'I have it! Lucy shall
be put to bed beside Jack.' Lucy was
our youngest, aged two.
"All went well next night. There
was no alarm to summon us from our
papers and novels, and we went to bed
at 11, Angela remarking that the three
cherubs were sleeping beautifullj-, and
that it had been a good move to let
Lucy bear the other two company. I
was roused out of a sound sleep by wild
shrieks from the three children.
" 'What! More bad dreams? This sort
of thing must be put a 6top to, I said,
and I confess I was very angry with the
young rascals. My wife was fumbling
for the matchbox. 'Hush! she whisper
ed, 'there is somebody in the room. And
1, too, at that instant felt the presence of
some creature besides ourselves and the
children. The candle lighted, we again
reconnoitered nothing to be seen in
dressing room, bedroom or the drawing
room beyond, the door of which was
shut. But the curious sense of a pres-
f enee near us stronger than any feeling
of the kind I had ever previously expe
rienced was gone. You have all felt
the presence of another person unseen.
You may be writing you have not
heard the door open, but though your
back is toward the visitor, j-ou know
somehow that he has entered.
"Quite true, Mr. Henniker but there
is nothing unnatural or unpleasant in
that sensation."
"Nothing, of course; I merely instance
it to give you some idea of what we felt
on that occasion. We were astonished
to find the sitting room untenanted.
Meanwhile poor Hal, Jack and Lucy
shrieked in chorus, 'Oh. the old woman
in the black bonnet! Ob, take her away!'
'Poor Angela, trembling, hung oTer
the cribs trying to soothe the children.
It was a good while before they could
tell what had happened. 'She came
again,' said Hal, 'and she came close,
close to me. and she put her cold face
down near my cheek till she touched
me. and 1 don't like her oh. I don't like
her, mother!'
" 'Did she go to Jack and Lucy too?
'Yes. yes; and she made them cry as
welL'
" 'Why do you not like her? Is it the
black bonnet? You dreamed of a black
bonnet last night, you know.' said I, half
puzzled, half provoked.
" 'She's so frightful, cried Hal.
'How could you see her? There was
no candle.'
"This question perplexed the little
boys. I hey persisted tnat sne bad a
light about her somewhere. I need hard
ly say that there was no comfort for us
the rest of the night. 'If any one is try
ing to frighten us out of the place I'll b
even with him yet, said L My wife be
lieved that a trick had been played upon
the children, and she was most indig
nant. "Next day the cribs were removed to
the upper story, and Charlotte and Jo
anna, our daughters of twelve and four
teen, were put to sleep in the dressing
room. We predicted an end to the an
noyance we had been suffering. The
nurse was a quick tempered woman,
who would not stand any nonsense, and
Hal's bad dreams would be sternly driven
away. We settled ourselves to our com
fortable light reading by the drawing
room fire. Suddenly there was a com
motion overhead; an outcry surprised
more than terrified it sounded to us.
Angela laid her book down quickly and
listened with all her ears. Fast flying
footsteps were heard above: the clapping
of a door; then scurry, scurry the pat
ter of bare feet down the staircase. We
hurried across the hall, and saw Char
lotte in her nightgown returning slowly
up the kitchen stairs with a puzzled ex
pression on her honest face.
" 'What on earth are you doinjr. child"
cried Angela.
" I was giving chase to a hideous old
woman in a black bonnet, who chose to
intrude upon us, panted Charlotte. '1
saw her in our room; 1 jumped out of
bed and pursued. her through your room
and the sitting room. Then I saw her
before me going downstairs, and I ran
after her, but the door at the foot of the
kitchen staircase was shut. She cer
tainly could not have had time to open
it, and I don't know where she can have
gone to.
"This was Charlotte's explanation of
her mad scurry downstairs. Her down
right sensible face was puzzled and an
?ry. " 'So you see the little ones must have
been tormented by that old wretch, who
ever she is. They didu't dream it, father,
as you thought. Wouldn't I like to pun
ish her! "
What a brave girl!" cried Mrs. March
mont. "Brave? Oh, Charlotte's as bold as a
lion! She went back to bed; and when
we followed her, in a couple of hours,
she was sleeping soundly. Bat I can't
6ay either of us slept so well. If a trick
was being played upon us it was carried
out in so clever a manner as to baffle me
completely. I need not say that I made
careful search of every cranny about the
handsome house and offices: and if there
was a secret passage or a door in the wall
anywhere it escaped me. We had peace
for a fortnight, and then the annoyance
recommenced.
"Angela's nerve was shaken at last,
and she began to whisper, 'There are
more things in heaven and earth. Ho
ratio' "
"John, you are making a story." in
terrupted Mrs. Henniker.
"It is every word true. I am coming
to an end. Angela, in spite of her dis
claimer, did believe in a ghost in a black
bonnet Charlotte believed in her, but
did not care about her ghostship. The
nurse and cook and housemaid declared
they were meeting the horrible appear
ance constantly, and they were all three
in a mortal funk. As to the children,
they would not leave off clinging to
their mother, and fretting and tremb
ling when evening came. The milkman,
the baker and the butcher all told the
servants that we would not be long at
the hall, for nobody ever remained more
than a month or two. This was cheer
ful and encouraging for me."
"But you iiad never seen the charming
old woman all this time?"
"No; but I saw her in the broad day
light. I had a good long look at her, and
a more diabolical face I never saw no,
not even in the dock. I was writing let
ters in the study about 12 o'clock one
morning, when I suddenly looked up. to
see the appearance that had excited such
a turmoil in" my family standing near the
table. A frightful face a short set wo
man dressed in black gown, shawl, bon
net this was the impression I received.
But she looked quite human quite ev
eryday there was nothing ghostly in her I
air only the evil face curdled one s blood.
I stared at her, and then I took up a fold
ed newspaper and tlirew it at her. My
motive in so doing was to frighten her
who had frightened my wife so m ;":rh
Courtesy such a creature need not expect
from me, being, as her villainous counte
nance proved, one of the criminal class.
The newspaper fell upon the floor, after
apparently going through the figure, and
there was a vacuum where it had been
I was not much shaken, however, al
though my theory of a human trick
ster dressed like a woman seemed over
turned." "Did you tell Mrs. Henniker what you
had seen?"
"Naturally I did. At this period we
talked of nothing else. She saw the ap
parition twice herself. Once she entered
our dressing room and saw the figure
bending over a sleeping child (it faded as
she looked); another time she was with
me in the drawing room, when she laid
down her book and whispered, 'See, see,
near the door!' There, sure enough, was
the appearance that had visited me in
the 6tudy in clear daylight. 1 did not
make her out quite as distinctly now be
cause our candles did not light tip that
end of the long room, or my older eyes
were not as good as Angela's."
"What did Mrs. Henniker do?
"She started up and ran to catch the
old woman in the black bonnet."
"And did she catch her?"
"She caught a shiver nothing more!
"After this 1 resolved to give up the
hall at once, sacrificing four months'
rent for the sake of my wife and chil
dren, whose nerves would have soon be
come shattered had we remained. I
went to Mr. Harold and told him how
disagreeable the place was to us. He
was grave and very guarded in manner,
confessing that no tenant stayed more
than a couple of months at the hall
that his client certainly made consider
able in consequence that he had done
his utmost to find out what was wrong
with the house, but all in vain. Mr.
J would not speak about it, and
when strenuously urged to explain re
plied emphatically, 'I shall never tell
you the story of that house.'
"We dismissed the servants with hand
some presents at once on our return to
Dublin, so desirous were we that the
children should never be reminded of
their terror. I think they have not heard
the old woman in the black bonnet
spoken of since we left the hall, and the
younger ones have probably forgotten
her. As to us, we can only say that the
mystery is unexplained." Argosy.
Whoa.
A little Indian boy who attends school
at Old town. Me., takes an intelligent in
terest in his lessons and does not simply
learn them by rote.
The teacher had been giving instruc
tion, in punctuation, and closed by say
ing emphatically:
"Now, when you come to a period yon
must stop!"
A little black eyed girl then got up to
read, and went on in a reckless manner,
paying no attention to the periods,
whereupon the bright little Indian boy
poked her in the side and called out
lustily:
"Whoa!" Youth's Companion.
A Difficulty Overcome.
Tommy Papa, they say Jordan is a
hard road to travel, don't they?
Papa Yes.
"Jordan is a river, aki't it?"
"Yes."
"Then why don't they swim it."
Texas Sifting
County Court.
The case of A. X. Sullivan vs. the
City of Plattsmouth is on trial to
day to a jury. Judging: from the
testimony, Sullivan was having;
things pretty much his own way.
luge Chapman testified that it was
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the district court, and that Judge
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Hvron Clark testified as to the
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Sullivan placed his services at
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when he amended his bill, asking
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Jcse Koot will testify this after
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Sullivan appears for himself and
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