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a. w. FAiRnnoTnsn t co., Pjoriietsri. CALVFilT. : NRBRASKA. "GOULD M7-: BUT KNOW." Could wn Intt know th jccrot onrns That lurk In overy inorlal lironM, Wn no'or, ly UioiikIiUmii Word orrtVod, Would milt ono jihmk (0 that tuirott. Could wn hut know of cruel woundfl That thiol) anil bent In mini)' n heart. How would wo Rtrlvo, by tuhdotcu touch, Homo bultn of hcalltiir to liiipiirtl Could wo but know what thorny paths Full many weary pllirrltiift treail, Would wo not count It IiIomciI Ikioii Hweet Ho worn on mioli dm k j:ittiM to shed? Wo cannot know. Hut If wo list To what thti whippet lusr nitRuIn any. Wo, to our follow-iiii-n, will bo (lontlo and iiieicllul alway. To help th neody, choor tho snd .Ami ulvo tho orrlwr kindly euro, TIiIb this will mnko tho unoen cnwi Of hoavy heart lens hard to bear. KtncUnc Sherman Smith. "LAL" EYDQU1ST; A Story of the Land and Sea, JIV WALTER lir.lANT AND JAMKS IttCK. Truo Lovo and Woman's Devotion Ho rolo Oolf-Haorifloo Tho llappy Ito- ward of Sorrow Dorno Bravely, of Faith, Loyally, Courage and Fatlont Trust. From All tho Your Hound. CHAPTHR IJI.-CONTINUKD. Look!" said Airs. Hyilquiat, point ing cheerfully to the candlestick when Iter daughter returned with tours in her eyes tintl Ilex's last kiss burning on her lips; "there is it winding-sheet, my dear, in tho caudle. To-night a collin popped out of the kitchen-lire. I look it up in iiopes it might havo been u purse. No, my dear, a collin. Captain Zaohariason crossed knives at dinner to day. I have hud shudders all tho even ing, which is as sure a sign of graves us any I know. Heforo you canto homo the furniture cracked three times. No doubt, my dear, tlicso warnings nro for me, who tun a poor, weak ereuturo, and ready, and willing, and hopeful, I am Hiiro, to ,bo called away; or for Captain Zaehariasen, who is, to bo sure, a great age, anil should expect his call every day instead of going on with his talk, anil his rum, and his pipe as if ho was forgotten; or for anyone of tho Cap tains, alloat or ashore; tlioso signs, my dear, may bo meant for anybody, and I would not bo so presumptuous in a house full of sailors as to name tho iiuui for whom they havo come; but, if I rend signs right, then they moan that young man. And oh! my poor girl " slto clasped her hands as if now, indeed, there could bo no hopo. " What is it. mother?" "My dear, it Is a Friday, of all tho days in tho week!" Sho rose, took a candle, and wont to bed witli lior handkerchief to her oyes. CHAPTER IV. OVKIUmi! AND P08TKD. This day of days, this queen of all days, too swiftly sped over tho first and last of ilio young sailor's wooing. Lul's sweetheart was lost to her almost as eoon as ho was found. Hut ho left Iter no happy in splto of hor mother's gloomy forebodings, that sho wondered, not knowing that all tho past years had been nothing but a long preparation for tho timo of lovo, how could sho over havo boon happy before? And sho was only oightoon, and her lovor hand8omo as Apollo, and as woll-miinuerod. Next morning at about twelve o'clock sho jumped into Iter boat and rowed out upon tho river to see tho Aryan tjtart upon Iter voyage. Tho tide was on tho turn and tho, river full when tho groat steamer canto out of dock and slowly mado Iter way upon tho crowded water, a mirnolo of human skill, a great and wonderful living thing which though oven a clumsy lighter might sink and destroy it, yet could live through tho wildest storm over known in the Sou of Cyclones, through which slto was to sail. As tho Aryan passed tho littlo boat Lai srw jiur iovor. 110 nan sprung upon tho bulwark and was waving his hat in farewell. Oh, gallant Hex, so bravo, and so loving! To think that this glorious creature, this god-liko mini, this young prince among sailors, should fall in lovo with her! And then tho doctor, and tho purser, and tho chief olllcors, and oven tho Captain, camo to tlto sldo and took oll'thoir caps toiler, and Homo of tho passengers, informed by tho doctor who sho was, and how bravo sho was, waved their hands and cheered. Then tlto ship forged abend, and in a fow niononts Hex jumped down with a final kiss of his lingers. Tho screw turned more quickly; tlto ship forged nhoad: Lai lav in mid-stream, cnn.b.eu what might run into her, gazing after lior witli straining oyes. When slto had rounded tho point and was lost to view, tho gld, for tho first timo in her life since sho was a child, burst into tears nnd sobbing. It was but a shower. Ltd belonged to a sailor family. Was sho to weep and go in sadnoss becauso her lover was away doing his duty upon tho blue water? Not so. Sho shook her head, dried hor eyes and rowed homoward, grave yet cheerful. "la his shin gonoP" asked hor moth er. " Well, ho is a lino lad to look at, Ltd, and if bo Is as truo as ho is stroii" and well-favored, 1 could wish you not ing bettor. Let us forgot tho signs tuid warnings, my uuur, inn was kindly mount, but had an unpleasant and gruo somo sound, "and lut us hopo that ho tfill como back again, Indeed, 1 do not see any reuon why ho should not como back more than once. " .Everything went on, then, nfytf nothing "had happened. What a strange thing it is that people can no on as if nothing had happened, after tho most tremend ous events! Luc so changed for lior, yot Captain Zuehnrlnson taking up tho thread of her discourse just its before, and tho same Interest exported to bo shown in the timber trade! Yet whnt a very different thing is interest in timber trade compared with interest In a man! Then she discovered with sotno surprise that hor old admiration of Captains as a class, had been a good deal modified during tlto l:it three weeks. There were persons In tho world, it was now quite certain, of culture superior liven to that of a skipper in the Canadian trade. And sho clearly discovered, for the first time, that a whole life devoted to making Captains comfortable, providing them with pudding, looking after their linen, and hearing their confidences, might, without the gracious iullueuces of love, become a very arid and barren kind of life. Perhaps, aiso, the recol lection of that holiday at Hampton Court helped to modify her views on tho subject of Hotherhitho and its people. Tho place was only, after all, a small part of a grout city; tho peoplo woro humble. Ono may discover as much certainly about one's own people with out becoming ashamed of them. It is only when ono reaches a grade higher in the social scale that folk becomo ashamed of themselves. An assured position in tho world, as tho chimney sweep remarked, gives one confidence. Lai plainly saw that her sweetheart was of gentler birth and bettor breeding than sho had been accustomed to. She therefore resolved to do hor best never to make him on that account, repent his choice, and there was an abundance of lino sympathy, tho assumption or pre tense of which is the foundation of good manners, in this girl's character. Jt was an intelligent parrot whlo Hex had given her, and at this junetur proved a remarkably sympathetic urea turo, for at sight of his mistress ho would shako his head, plume his wings, and presently, as if necessary to coil solo her, would cry: " Poor Hex Armijirerl Poor Hex Ar- niiirori iger!" Hut sho was never dull, nor did she betray to any one, least of all to her old friend Captain Zaehariasen, that her manner of regarding things had in the least degree changed, while the secret joy that was in hor heart showed itself in a thousand merry ways, witli songs and lnitghter, and littlo jokes with lior Captains, so that lltoy marveled that the existence of a sweetheart at sea should produce so beneficial an efl'ect upon maidens. Perhaps, too, in some mysterious way, hor happiness aflcctcd tho puddings. I say not tills at ran dom, because certainly tho fame of Hydquist's as a house where comforts, olsowhoro unknown, and at Limohouse and Poplar quite unsuspected, could bo found, spread far and wide, oven to Doblford on tho east, and Stebnov oir the north, and the house might have been full over and over again, but they would tako in no strangers, being in this respect as exclusive as Hoodie's. This attitude of cheerfulness was greatly commendod by Captain Zaclni riason. " Some girls," ho said, "would havo let their thoughts run upon their lovor instead of their dutj whereby Iiouscj aro brought to ruin and Captains seek comfort elsowliere. Once tho sweetheart is gone, ho ought never moro to be thought upon till ho comes homo again, save in bed or in church, whilo there is an egg to bo boiled or an onion to bo peeled." Tho first letter which Hex sont her was tho first that Lai had over received in all hor life. And such a letter! It camo from tho Suez Canal: tho next anno from Aden; tlto next from Point do Clallo; tho next from Calcutta. So far all was well. Ho sure that Lai road them over and over again, every ono, and carried them about in hor bosom, and know them all word for word, ami was, after tho way of a good and honest girl, touched to the very honrt that a man should lovo hor so very, very much, and should think so highly of her, and should talk as if sho was all goodness a thing which no woman can understand. It makes silly girls despise men, and good girls respect and fear them. Tho next letter was much moro im portant than tho llrst four, which were, in truth, mere rhapsodies of passion, although on that very account moro in teresting than letters which combine mattor-of-faet business with love, for, on arriving at Calcutta, Hex found a proposal awaiting for ids acceptance. This offer camo from tho Directors of tho Company and showed in what good cstconi ho was hold, being nothing less than the command of ono of thoir smaller steamers, engaged in what Is called tho country trade. "It will soparato us for throoyoars at least," ho wrote, "and porhaps for five, but 1 cannot afford to refuse tho chance. Porhaps, If I did, I might novor get another oiler, and everybody is con gratulating mo, and thinking mo ex tremely fortunate to got a ship so carl)'. So, though it keeps mo from tho" girl of my heart, 1 havo accepted, and 1 still at once. My ship is named the Philip pine. Sho is tv thousand-ton boat, and classed 100 At, newly built. Sho is not like tho Aryan, titled with splendid mirrors, and gold and paint, and a groat saloon, being built chiefly for cargo. Tho crow aro all Lascars, and I ant tho only Englishman aboard except tho inn to and tho chief engineer. We aro under orders to tako in rico from Hong Kong; bound for Hrisbano, first of all; if that answers wo shall continue in tho country grain trade; If not, we shall, J suppose, go seeking, when 1 shall havo a commission on tho cargo. As for pay, I am to havo twenty pounds a month, with rations and allowances, and liberty to tradoso many tons every voyage if 1 like. These nro good terms, and at tho end of ovofy vear thoro should bo snmntliinc nut br in tho locker. Poor Lai! Oh, my dear anuui fjfi vn, my near urowu iihii i Oh, my dear sweet lips! I shall not kiss them for throe years more. What aro three years? Soon gone, my pret ty. Think of that, anil heart up! As soon as I can J will try for a Port of London ship. Then we will bo married and have a house at Grawsond, where yon shall see mo conic tip stream, home ward bound." With much moro to the same effect. Three venrfl nv It nibrlit. lin flvn! T.nl put down tho letter, atnT tried to make j out what it would mean to her. She ! would be in three years, when Hex camo home, one-Jind-twenty, and he would bo five-and-twenty. Fivo-aiid-lwonty seems to eighteen whnt forty seems to thirty, tifty to forty, and sixty to fifty. One lias a feeling that tho ascent of life must then be quite accomplished, and tho de scent fairly begun; tho leaves on the trees by the wayside must be ever so littlo browned and dust)', if not yellow; the heart must be full of experience, the head must bo full of wisdom, tho crown of glory, if any is to be worn at all, al ready on tho brows. The ascent of life is like tho climbing of some steep hill, becauso the summit seems continually to recede, and so long as ono is young in heart it is never reached. Hex flve-und-twcnly! Three years to wait! It is, indeed, a long time for tho young to look forward to. Such a quan tity of things get accomplished in throe years! Why, in three years a lad gets through his whole " undergraduate course, and makes a spoon or spoils a horn. Three years make up ono hun dred and itfty-aix weeks, with tho same number of Sundays, in overy ono of wjjiieh a girl may sit in the quiet church, and wonder on what wild seas or in what peaceful haven her lover may bo llonting. Throoyoars tiro four summers in the course of three years, with as many other seasons; in three years thero is time for many a hopo to spring up, flourish for a while, and die; for friend ship to turn into hate; for strength to decay; and for youth to grow old. Tho experience of tho long succession of human generations litis developed this sad thing among mankind that we can not look forward with joy to tho coming years, and in everything unknown which will happen to us wo expect a thing of evil. Three years! Yet it must bo borne, as the lady said to tho school boy concerning tlio fat beef: " it is homed and must bo linished." When Mrs. Itydquist heard the news sho first held up her hands, and spread them slowly outward, slinking and wag ging her head a most dreadful sign, worse than any of those with which Panurgo discomfited Tha.umast. Then she siglied heavily. Then she said aloud: "Oh! dear, dear, .dear! So soon! I had begun to hopo that tho bad luck would not show yet! Dear, dear! Yet what could bo expected after such cer tain signs?" "Why," said Captain Zaehariasen, "as for signs, they may moan anything or anybody, and as for fixing them on Cap' on Armlger, no reason that I can sec. Don't bo downed, Lai. Tho nar row seas aro as safe as tho Mediterra nean. In my timo thero were tho pirates, who are now shot, hanged and drowned, every man Jack. No more stinkpots in crawling boats protending to bo friend ly traders. You might row your dingy about the islands as safe as Lime' us Hcaeh. Lord! I'd rather go cruising with your sweetheart in them waters than take a two-penny omnibus along tho Old Kent Kotiu. Your signs, ma' am," ho suid to Mrs. Itydquist politely, "must bo road other ways. '1 hero's Cap'cn Hiddimau; perhaps they're meant for him." fl'licn camo another letter from Singa pore. Hex was pleased with tho snip and his crow. All was going wolj. After six weeks thoro camo niiothor letter. It was from Hong-Kong. Tho rhilinpmu had taken on board her car go of rice, and was to sail next day. Hex wroto in his usual confident, hap py vein full of lovo, of hopo and hap pinoss. After that no moro letters at all. Silence. Lai went on in cheerfulness for a long time. Hex could not write from Hrisbano. Ho would when tho ship got back to Hong-Kong. Tho weeks went on, but still thero was silence. It was whispered in tho Captains' room that the Philippine was long overdue at Moroton Hay. Then tho whispers became questions whothor thoro was any news of her; then ono wont aeross to the otlico of the Compa ny, and brought back tho dreadful news that tho owners had given her up; and they began to hide away tho Shipping and Mercantile Qazcllc. Then every body became extremely kind to Lnl, studying littlo surprises lor nor, ami as suming an appearance of light-hcartcd-ness so as to deceive the poor girl. Sho wont about with cheerful faeo, albeit with sinking heart. Ships aro often overdue; letters got lost on tho way; for a whilo sho still caroled and sang about hor work, though at times lior song would suddenly stop like tho song of a bullfinch, w)to remembers something, and must needs stay his singing wlilld ho thinks about it. Then thoro camo a timo when the poor chilli stopped singing altogether, and would look with anxious oyes from one Captain to tho othor, socking com fort. Hut no ono had any comfort to give her. Captain Zueliariason told her at last. Ho was an old man; ho had seen so many shipwrecks that thoy thought ha would toll her bout; also It was consid ered his duty, as tho father or tho oldest inhabitant of' Hydquist's, to undcrtako this task; and as a wise and discreet per son he would tell tho story, as it should be told, in few words, nnd so get over it without "beatings on and oil. Ho ac cepted tho duty, and discharged himself of it as soon as lie could, llo told her tho story, in fact, tho next morning in tlto kitchen. lie said quietly: . " Lai, my dear, the Philippine lias gono to the bottom, and and don't take on, my pretty. Hut Cap'cn Ar migor he is gone, too; witli all hands ho went down. . . , "How do you know?" sho asked. The news was sudden, but she had felt it coming; that is, sho had folt some of it not all. " Tho insurances havo been all paid up; the ship Is posted at Lloyd's. My dear, I went to the underwriters a month ago and more, and ad about her. Axed what they would underwrite her for, and they said a hundred per cent.; and then they wouldn't do it. Not a atom of hope gone she is, and that young fellow ahoard her. Well, my dear, .that's done with. Shall I leavo you hero alono to get through a spell o' crying?" "The ship," said Lai, with dry eyes, "may bo at tho bottom of tho sea, and tho insurances may 1jj paid .for her. Hut Hex is not drowned." That was what sho said: "Hex is not drowned." Her mother brought out her cherished crape she was a woman whom this nasty crinkling black stub" comforted in a way and offered to divide it witli her daughter. Lai refused; sho bought herself gay ribbons, and sho docked herself with them. Sho tried, in order to show the strength of her faith, to sing about tho house. "Hex," she said, stoutly, "is not drowned." This was a most unexpected way of re ceiving tho news. Tho Captains looked for a burst of tears and lamentations, after which tilings would brighten up, and some other fellow might have a chance. No tears! No chance for any body else! "Hibbons!" moaned Mrs. Itydquist. "Oh, Captain Zaehariasen, my daugh ter wears ribbons blue ribbons and rod ribbons whilo hor sweetheart, ly ing at tho bottom of tho Sea, cries aloud, poor lad, for a single yard of crape!" "'Twould be moro natural," said Captain Zachariuson, "to cry and adono with it. Hut gals, ma'am, aro not what gals was in my young days, when so many woro there as was taken oil' by wars, privateers, storms and tho hand of the Lord, that thoro was no time to cry over them, not for moro than a month or so. And as for flying iti tin f.ii.fi nf liviviili.nir mill enviinr ... WW ...W W. . . V. .V.W..I.W, ...... .,..,... that a drowndod man is not drownded a man whoso ship's insurances havo been paid, and his ship actually posted at Lloyd's why it's beyond anything." "Hex is not dead," said the girl to herself, again and again. "Ho is not dead. I should know if ho woro dead. Ho would, somehow or othor, como and tell me. Ho is sitting somewhere I know not where it is waiting for de liverance, and thinking oh, my Hox! my Hex thinking about tho girl ho loves." This was what she said; her words woro bravo, yet it is hard to keep one's faith up to so high a level as these words demanded. For no ono else thought thero was, or could be, any chance. For nearly three years sho struggled to keep alivo this poor ray of hope, based upon nothing at all; and for all that time no news camo from tho far Fast about lior lover's ship, nor did any ono know when slto was cast away or how. Sometimes this faith would break down, anil sho would ask in tears and with sobbings what so many women be reft of thoir lovers havo asked in vain an answer to hor prayers. Ah! help less ones if hor prayers were nioek erios, and lior lover woro dead in very truth! CHAPTER V. ' Till'. PATIKNCK OK l'KNKr.Ol'n. Tho longer Ulysses stayed away from tho rocky Ithaca, tho moro numerous became tho suitors for tho hand of the lovely Ponelopo who possessed tho art revived much later by Ninon do 1' Ku dos of remaining beautiful although shu grow old. That was because Pon elopo wickedly encouraged her lovers to thoir destruction and hold out false hopes connected with a simple bit of embroidery, Why tjio foolish fel lows, whoso wits should havo been sharpened by tho vohomenco of thoir passion, did not discover tho trick, is not apparent. Perhaps, however, tho climate of Ithaca was bracing, and tho wino good, so that they w.inked ono upon tho other, and pretended not to see, or whispered: "Ho will nover come, let us wait." Tho contrary proved tho caso with tho lass, of Hotherhitho. When, after two years or so, some of her old suitors ventured with as much delicacy as In them lav to reopen the subject of courtship, thoy woro met with a recop tion so unmistakablo that thoy imme diately retired, balllod, and in confu sion; somo among thorn those of coarsermind tpscofTnud sneer at a con stancy so unusual. Others those of creator sympathies to roilcot with all humility on tho great superiority of tho feminine nature over their own, since it permitted a fidelity wliioh they could not contemplate as possible for themselves, and woro fain to admlro whilo thoy re gretted It. TO UK CONTINUED. There is said to bo a farm in Wor cestershire, England, which stands in twelve parishes and pays fifty different rates. FACTS AND FIUUKES. Tho product of California quicksil ver mines lust year wa3 G0,851 flasks, , and tho exports by sea i and rail wero 45,779 flasks. . The free circulating library in New York city contains 6,085 volumes, and is steadily growing" in sizo and usefulness. Hut sixty-four per cent, of tlto circula tion is in works of fiction. It has cost twice as much to tako caro of the criminals as to educate tho children of Nevada, tho figures sinco 18G5 being for Stato Prison, $957,090; for schools, $'1G8,U29. -Chicago Times. In New York there are 25,271 moro females than males; in Philadelphia, ' 30,780; in Brooklyn, 211,872; in Hoston, 18,422; in Haltimoro, 18.G31; in Wash ington, 10,673; in Jfow Orleans, 1.80G; in Louisville, 5,791; in St. Louis, 6,522; in Kansas City, 8,213; in Denver, 7,410. Tho clerk of tho United States Su preme Court has salaries and fees amounting to about $ 10,000 a year. No reporter is allowed to tako notes on pa per of plea or decision in that court whilo tho court is in session. Each Jus tice has a body servant to whom the Government pays $1,200 a year. Bos ton Traveller. Statistics aro sometimes valuable The relativo positions of man and woman in tho sphere of conversation have been determined by an English statistician, who calculates that on an average every man speaks fifty-twa volumes of G00 octavo pages per an num, and that every woman yearly brings out 520 pages of tho samo sizo in talk. Christian Union. Kentucky and Illinois make tho whisky. Tho total production of the United States for tlto fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1881, was 117,710,150 gallons, of which Kentucky produced 31,869,047, Illinois 30,001,408, Ohio 17,081,264 and Indiana 8.992,417 gallons. Where "Jer sey Lightning" is manufactured is not . stated, but-judging from its fatal effect iveness it is an "out of tho world" product. Chicago Journal. It Is estimated that in Egypt thero is one lunatic for every 30,174 of the population; in Spain, one in every 7,184; and in England, ono in every 357. In sanity is thus moro frequent among thoe peoples who live indoors and aro subjected to the greatest mental strain and anxiety. In Now York State tho special committee appointed to report on the insane found that thero was ono lunatic to every 384 of the population. A gentleman well, acquainted with tlto Paris Hourse shows how 'much tho Parisiun middlemen made out of tho Quebec Government loan of 84,000,000 at 5 per cent. They took tho loan at 98 and sold it at 102, thus netting 4 per cent., or 160,000. Hut they put tho real 5 per cent, loan in their pockets, and issued a so-called Quebec loan at 4 A per cenh, thus pocketing tho other i per cent. Capitalizing the J per cent" interest over a poriodof twenty vcars, and tho amount is about 400,000, in J all 8560,000 that tho middlemen held Hut out of this came the expenses of getting the loan iloated, say the largo sum of $565. Toronto Globe. WIT ANI WISDOM. Edison is very fond of his mother Necessity. Ar. Y. Com. Adv. A fan exhibition in Philadelphia is proposed. Anything to raise tho wind. Norristown Herald. Some lives aro like a footprint in tho hard rock, enduring forever; and somo are like a footprint in tho sand, to bo erased by the incoming tide. A scientist says it does not kill an oyster instantly to open its shell. May be not, but it surprises it considerably. Midtllclown Transcript. No circus is complete without a beautiful woman, and Fogg, who is posted, says wherever a beautiful wom an is you may look out for a circus. Boston Transcript. It is said to greatly improvo tho. temper of a razor to plunge it into hot water before using. A man, however! who is plunged into hot water at homo finds his temper iucreascd but not im proved. Wo should havo a great doal moro domestic happiness if Wo would commit to memory tho Hues which .tho honest sailor composed for his sweetheart: I'll ho content with Annlo llreud, And won't huvo any lint her. It is that good old lady, Mrs. Partington, who says very wisely that there is not much dilloreucc between a poet and a pullet, except in tho spelling, for both spend most of their timo in chanting their lays. An egg broken in Hoxbury tho other day was found to bo yolkless. If Hoxbury hens can't atlbrd to furnish yolks with their eggs at tho present elevated price of fruit, it may reasonably bo presumed that when the price gets down to sixteen cents a dozen they will lay nothing but tho shell. Norristown Herald. A boy in Troy, N. Y., hid behind a lumbor pile to steal a board. A beam fell and hurt him, and the owner of tho lumber was sued for $20,000 damage. The day seems not far otl'-whou a burg lar who drops from a window and breaks his neck will sue tho man ho was robbing. Detroit Freo'Press. A two-foot rule was given to a laborer in a Clyde boat-yard to measure an iron plate. Tho laborer, not being well up in tho use of tho rule, after spending a considerable timo, returned. "Noo, .Slick," asked tho plater, "what sizo Is tho plato?" "Well," replied Mick, with a grin of satisfaction, " it's tho length of your rule and two thumbs ovor, with this piece of brick, nnd tho breadth of my hand and my arm from, hero to there, bar a finger. Bunch. X JT- 4 li V ...iA&lsn