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TUB THREE LITTLE CHAIRS. BT VMS. T. PEKBT. They aat alone by the bright wood Arc, The rray-haired dame and the a (fed sire, Dreaming of the days gone by: The tear-drops fell on each wrinkled cheek. They both had thoughts that they could not bpeak Ae each heart uttered a sigh. For their sad and tearful eyes descried Three litUe chairs, placed side by elde Against the sitting-room wail; Old-fashioned enough as there they stood, Their seats of flag and their frames o( wood, With their backs so straight and tall. Then the sire shook his silvery bead. And with trembling voice he gently said: - - "Mother, those empty chairs! They bring us such sad, sad thoughts to night, We'll put them forever out of sight In the small dark room up-stalrs. But she answered: "Father, no, not yet, For 1 look at them and I forget That the children went away: The boys come back, and our Mary, too, Vita her apron on of checkered blue, And sit here every day "Johnny still whittles a ship's tall rnast And Willie his leaden bullets casta. While Mary her patchwork sews; At evening time three childish prayers ' tio op to Uod from those little chairs ' 80 sofUy that no one knows. "Johnny comes back from the billowy deep, Willie wakes from his battle-field sleep, To say good-night to me ; Mary's a wife and mother no more. But a tired child whose playtime is o'er, And comes to rest on my knee. " 80 let them stand there, though empty now, And every time when alone we bow At the Father's throne to pray, Well ask to meet the children above. In our Savior's home of rest and love, Where no child goeth away." mtsburgh Advocate KELLY'S RUSE. BT ROBE TERRY COOKE. " All stratagems are fair in love and war." "I mean it for your good, Cornelia!" If there is anything exasperating in this world it U first to be thwarted and tormented and then told it is for your good. Pretty Nelly Gray thought so as the sat in the window biting her red lips, twisting herrings on her fingers and tap ping her little slipper impatiently on the floor. This was only part of a long dis course she had listened to so far in eilen.ee. She knew her step-mother was in mortal earnest when she called her Cornelia. Perhaps if she had been the willful little girl's own mother matters would never "have come to this pass. But Mrs. Crav had been filled all her life with a dread of being the conventional nfprLmnthpr and had indulged Nelly from a baby, lest people should say she was unkind to her. She was a good woman, fond of children and kind at heart, but an abject coward as to the opinions and judgments of her small world: so Nellv had grown up well Rnoiled. but in every other way thor v oughly taken care of. Her health had f been scrupulously considered as far as everything but food went, but Mrs. Gray ' could not let people say 6he starved the child, and so it grew up with that deli cate pallor so interesting in novels, so unpleasant 1o common sense. But in spite of the lily-like skin and frail, slen t der figure Nelly was an exquisitely pret ty creature. Iler low forehead, from - which the soft dark-brown hair was folded away in 6hining masses to be coiled and puffed and convoluted on top of her sm all head: her great, lustrous brown eyes, shy and sweet and saucy and sad all in a minute ; her delicate arched lipa; her slight rornd throat : her little bands and feet, all made Nelly Gray as perfect a specimen of real, frag ile American beauty as one could well see. Then she knew instinctively how to dress a gift accorded to few women . among us ; and even in a cheap print, with tiny linen finishings, she looked - dainty aa a princess and fair as a flower. Often did Mrs. Gray wish her father could have lived to see her. But Nelly did not even remember how he idolized hi a two-year-old baby, or bow he died, with eager, fading eyes fixed on her rosy face, unconscious of anything further than the doll with which they bribed her to sit quietly by his bed. That he was dead aflorded Mrs. Gray more reason to herself for indulging .Nelly, and made her more grieved now to think that after all her care, and all her love and patience, Nelly, the very prettiest girl in Wood- ville, who could sing like an angel and 1 1 iy the piano like St. Cecilia herself (if her saintship baa ever seen a piano), who chattered French with the greatest audacity, and had the fastidious manners and customs of a born lady, should want to marry a country doctor, it was too much! What would everybody say? JSelly Uray was fit to marry the Jrresi dent himself, if good little Mrs. Presi dent had not been beforehand with her some thirty years ago. Nothing short of a popular statesman. . a great poet, an eloquent clergyman, or a millionaire would do for Nelly, in Mrs. Gray's esteem, and here she had fallen in love with Dr. Joe Bylcs! And this '-was the theme of the morning lecture : we interrupted. , : . "I don't know what fault you can find wiuijoe, moiner, pouiea xseiiy. Mrs. Gray wat too wise to inveigh against a man whom Nelly already called Joe: that would add fuel to the " fire. "I ' have nothing to say against Dr. Byles moral character, Nell," she answered with great dignity. "I should think not!" indignantly mut tered miss, under her breath, and ap parently unheard by mamma, who went -on: - I only regret that with your very su perior education, your dainty ways and ". tastes, your beauty and your money, you should throw yourself away on a coun try doctor. It is a very nice thing for - Dr. Byles, no doubt; but I think a little cool reflection would convince you that it is a wretched match for you." Nelly blazed. She was young and romantic, and very much in love. This world-wisdom enraged and disgusted her. - "I should think you thought people went into marriage as they go into mar- kef, mother! to make the best bargain. 1 know Joe would love me just the same if 1 hadn't got a cent there!" A very angry sob pointed this cool statement of facts. Poor little Nelly! But some - time or other we have all been geese. For my part, I pity her honestly. " He might love you, my dear, but he probably would not want to marry you. Men are not lools" (with great emphasis on "men"). "But the question is not of Dr. Byles' sincerity; it is about your own happiness; and I cannot think this is the best way to secure that, which is the first thing I think of, of course." Nelly was too vexed fo be touched with the last clause of Mrs. Gray's f peecb, though she knew it was true ; but, my goodness! what was anybody's love, or care, or opinion compared with Joe Byles? And, after all, what is the U6e of being in love la a half-way manner? "I don't know what sort of a man you think I'd better marry, I'm sure," retorted Nelly. ' " I think you have seen very few gen a tlemen yet. I should like you to marry . a distinguished man of some sort, a poet t or painter, or a great political character . somebody to be proud of. who would . appreciate you thoroughly." " 1 am sure poet are horrid to be mar- tied to." They always have long hair and dyspepsia. 1 hate a man with long hair. And as for artists, they're always getting drunk or divorced, or something dread ful ; besides, they smell of paint, and -make my head ache awfully. But if they were ever so nice, I don't love them, nor anybody but Joe!" 1 The female mind does generalize in a . singular and somewhat anomalous man ner under the influence of the feminine aflections. We hope the great fraternity of Art will forgive little Nelly; all this only meant, as she admitted in its climax, "I love Joe Byles ' Mrs. Gray almost smiled in the midst of her perplexity and distress at Nelly reasoning, but she opportunely looked out of the window and the young lady went on t Besides, if I wanted to marry one of these great men, what can anybody do about it ? I can't ask them, can 1 r They don't know me, and very likely they wouldn't want to marry me if they did. They must know lots of girls as pretty as 1 am and with ever so much more money, miny inousanu uumn isn't much, even here in Woodville." " My dear," exclaimed jurs. uray, " 1 only ask you to wait a year or two. What does a girl of eighteen know about life and society? We will go to New York ana wasningion mis niuici, uu ic juu see a few people. I'm not a hard-hearted mother, am 1, Nelly? I only want to be sure vou are happy, dear." Two sincere tears rolled out of Mrs. Gray's handsome dark eyes, and Nelly's heart relented. She flew at her mother and kissed her vehemently. " You re the dearest old mammy I only you see you ve spoiled me always, ui course 1 didn't mean to get marnea De fore next June anyway. I've told Joe so over and over. I won t even wear a ring yet. Addy Morse says nobody ought to wear an engagement-ring but six months, and it's October now." So there was an affecting Parting With Joe, after which that cheeiy, handsome young fellow drove ou to visit ten mues of patients, at intervals smoking the cigar of consolation and reflecting on the last anaesthetic out, while Nelly sobbed bitterly in her own room, pressed his parting gift of a cluster of blue gen tians in her own clasp Bible and hoped he would have self-control enough, being a man, not to cry during his calls. Being a man, her hope was fulfilled. The best-laid schemes 01 women some times meet the same fate with those of mice and men. Mrs. Gray did not effect a social success for Nelly in New York. Her few friends there were sober mar ried people who did not move either in fashionable or literary circles. There were girls among them almost as pretty as our little friend, quite as well off, and with much more "ente." J heir manners daunted Nelly, their aplomb dismayed 1 her. She could not achieve their pe culiar style, and they patronized her within an inch of her life. She had some attention, it is true the attention a wild rose challenges in the midst of a parterre crowded with its nom inal kindred, the result of high cultivation and stimulation. One good young man in the shoe business offered himself to her, and a well-to-do clerk from a vast dry-goods palace laid his sal ary at her feet ; but neither mother nor daughter proved propitious, and Nelly's sole comfort was, after she locked her door at night, to sit up under the gaslight and read Joe Byles' letters and contrast their hearty, manly fun and affection with the dapper smirk and cut-and-dried small-talk of Mr. Finding and Augustus Taype. After Christmas they left New York and went on to Washington. Nelly was crushed at a few levees, had coffee and ice-cream spilled on her pink silk and saffron tulle at more than one Sen atorial reception; but her simple, bright nature was utterly out of place in fash ionable society. She was a glow-worm in a gas chandelier. The gay ripple of her speech that had made the pretty home at Woodville so cheerful was hushed entirely by the badinige of fast women and witty men about her; her low, sweet laugh was lost in the loud hilarity of the crowd; her dress, delicate and girlish as her own ladylike taste dic tated, was cast into utter shade by the glitter of costly jewelry and the dazzling color and glow 01 velvet and satin. At home she.had been saucy as a boboliDk, with the charming impertinence of youth and confidence in her surroundings ; here she was silent and shy as the chewink m a brush fence that flits in and out of its covert like a wandering shadow. Nelly was out of place entirely. She was in troduced to the renowned Mr. A, the elo quent Mr. B, the " talented" Mr. C: but they all alike found her a pretty, stupid Iitie girl, without sparkle, without repar tee, and they never renewed their atten tions. oor Welly! JNouody leu in love with her in Washington, it was wor than New York. Mrs. Gray could not understand iL She lingered in the capital till May. Born and brought up in a New England vil lage, she had quite forgotten about Lent, till a sudden cessation of gayety amazed her, and she inquired the reason. Here was a whole month of Nelly's prospects wasted; but she must needs stay through it, for her house at home was leased till May. 00 the early Maryland spring came on, and by and by Lent was over; but when parties and receptions began again they were lew and far between. They demanded fresh toilet; there were no new and eligible beaus, and the winter past had drawn heavily on Mrs. urays resources, ner campaign was lost. She went home despondent ; all the more chagrined to see how Nelly bloomed and sparkled and rippled, like incarnate spring, in the sweet, fresh air of Woodville ana the eunny presence of ur. joe. Little minx! she undertook then and there to condole with poor Mrs. Grav. " It's too bad, mamma, isn't it? Only to think that nobody fell in love with me but a shoemaker and a dry-goods clerk. O mv!" " Your year is not over yet, Cornelia," gnmiy replied ner mother. " 1 intend to write to your aunt, Mrs. Beacon, to-day, and accept for you her standing invita tion to Boston. There is a great deal of miciirtiuai Buuieiy lucre: ib wouiu De very improving for you." - jiy gooanessi wnai enouid 1 do in Boston? I don't know metaphysics one bit, and I never could even spell long woras. Mrs. Gray became sarcastic. "xaonottniDK spelling-classes are a Boston amusement, my dear." " And then all the poets and things tnere are married. Uh, no! 1 forgot Mr Dyver. Dear me! there is a chance. isn't there? He's just getting out a book about Greek specks, I believe no, that isn't it; it's particles. I knew it was some little things. Well, if I've got to go husband-hunting I'd as lief go stay wiin vousin josy as anyrjody." "Cornelia! what a coarse expression! husband-hunting! I am shocked!" A sudden flash of amusement and con tempt lit Nelly' delicate features. - x snouia iqidk me thing itself was rather coarser than the name for it" aT ar m S. . S - jurs. uray leu ine room. JNelly was not often impertinent to her: and now the impertinence had that sting of truth in it which is the venom of all verbal stings. It is hard to receive a blow, still naraer 11 we Know it is deserved. But Nelly apologized next day and kissed mamma into serenity ; and even oegan 10 inspect ner wardrobe with a view to Boston, when a letter came from Mrs. Beacon, regretting that they were to leave for Europe in a fortnight, to be gone till September, but on their return they hoped to see Nelly for a long visit ; and there were certain darkling hints in the letter as to a propitious season then, and certain pleasing events, etc and so on, which raised Mrs. Gray's curiosity. but passed vaguely in a', one of Nelly's tiny ears and out at the other, aa she sat smiling in her little sewing-chair, glad of iun : 1 1 . . . mo icuricye, iicaruiy giaa 10 De at Dome through the summer, and not sorrv to be with Joe: mightily amused also at the defeat of her mother s plans. 1 aon t know what you'll do now, mamma! the case looks hopeless. " aphony comin to marry me, Naebody comin' to woo.'' she trilled with the voice of an oriole. Mrs. Gray did not smile. " But, you aee, there's one resource left, mamma. I can write a pretty little letter, and ask somebody to marry me. Mr. Dyver, for instance. Herbert Dy ver that's a pretty name, and he's aw fully literary. Josephine knows him? she says he's good-looking. And literary peopie are always poor; thirty thousand would be ouite an inducement T ran send a photograph of me in the letter girls do do such things, they say." vwrneiia: There was enough maiestir. rrnrrinf and indignation in that one word to have awed anybody else into silence, lint ly only laughed, and Mrs. Gray left the room her last resort. So Nelly took her hat and cloak and trolled down to the postofflce that aft-r. ! noon, partly for the walk with a possl billty of meeting Joe partly to ret the noon mail. i She did not meet the young man in ?uestion, for he was over the hills and ar away, attending to a bad case of fever; but she did get the noon mail, and part of it was a long, confidential letter from Cousin Josephine, over which she dimpled and colored, and at last laughed outright; but she put it in her pocket, and mamma knew nothing about it for the next six months; when she did she wanted badly to box Nelly's ears! but we mu3t not anticipate. Now the next day was Wednesday, sunny, lovely, perfumed with fresh, vernal grass and radiant with apple-blossoms such a day as the last of May does sometimes oiler even in bleak New England; but it was the day for the church sewing society and Mrs. Gray thought it her duty to go. Nelly had different views of duty, or maybe none at all, so she stayed at home, and sitting on the south door-step, with her writing- case in her lap and the inkstand set into a tuft of dandelions beside her, she wrote a long letter to Josephine Beacon, much interrupted by the south wind softly stirring her note-paper, two orioles serenading her Irom a pear-tree close by. a hen with seventeen yellow and black chickens scratching and clucking round her feet, and the general fragrant and flowery aspect of things about her, but she wrote the letter with much smiling and dimpling all to herself, though in the midst of it who should drive up but Dr. Joe himself, bound for Logtown, ten miles off, through the most bewitching forest roads. He came for her to go with him, but JNelly was cruel; she re fused with dreadful and adamantine perseverance; indeed she harrowed up his soul by mysterious remarks as to its being kinder to him to stay and write her letter than to go in that buggy to lxgtown beside him, all 01 which prac tical Dr. Joe considered privately to be " some of Nelly's nonsense," though he only said, when he perceived the finality 01 ner reiusai: " wen, kin sorry; out i suppose you can t neip being a woman. ' "I'll try, dear, if you wish." Nellv answered, demurely. ur. joe glared at ner and drove away mucn xaster tnan tne old horse liked. Before tea-time that letter was finished and mailed, and Nelly sat down to her Dread-ana-butter ana radishes, very hungry, evidently amused, and yet in her secret soui a nine, a very little, doubttul of herself. Many a time during the next fortnight when she thought of that letter her foolish heart gave a jump and startled her; many a time she wished it unwritten, just as far older and wiser people have wished before her. Indeed, when one stops to philosophize about life and society, it seems a matter of question as to -whether women really ought ever to learn to write. From the standpoint of social economy, does not that wide-spread accomplishment on the whole cost more than it comes to? I am afraid it does. But the world still moves, for all the silly little women, and their love affairs and letters, who revolve with it. Jose phine Beacon and the rest of her family naa saiiea a wees, when one day Mrs Gray selected from the letters her man brought from the postofflce for Nelly naa given np waiKing-uown lor the noon mail or any other mail lately a thick white envelope, with an elaborate mono gram stamped on the flap, directed in man's hand to Nelly, and postmarked Boston. 1 hat young woman turned very pale, and then blushed to the roots of her hair as she received the letter; she did not mean to do either, but these in voluntary signals of trepidation fitted in with ner wicked little plot admirably though they were only symptoms of the absolute tear and dismay of her evil con science. Mrs. Gray could not but notice the astonishing blush, which deepened ana 6preaa as JNelly, alter careiully cut ting open the cover, proceeded to read this mysterious epistle. A look of mingled amusement and dismay followed me oiusn, men sue turned to poor Mrs uray, ana in a very laitenng manner, pinching her thumbs - tightly first with one hand and then with the other, while the letter fell to the table by which she stood, she proceeded in this wise: " You see, mamma, I thought I ought 10 neip you a imie; you want so much . a. "'a.a a. . u) nave me marry a distinguished man that I've thought a good deal about it I think girls are in a hard place: the neo pie their fathers and mothers want them to marry don't ask them and then they are blamed because they want to marry people who do ask them. What on earth is a girl to do? I thought about it ever so much and I didn't see any way out of it but to act for myself; so I just wrote a letter well, it isn't so dremlful, after all; I don't see any great harm in telling a man now it is mat yon aren t allowed to marry a nice respectable young man" (here Nelly sobbed effectively and went on with ghastly frankness) " be because your mother wants you to marry some body that is wonderful, distinguished, intellectual, or poetic, or something; and that you don't 6ee many such people ; and that you've heard a great deal cf one of 'em and his knowledge and his essays on the Greek little things; and you've got $hj,uuu of your very own; besides, some people think you're pretty, anu everyooay Knows you re only nine teen, and so wouldn't he like to write to you, and see " Mrs. Gray sat in her chair bolt-upright, like a petrified woman. She stared at Nelly with great dark eyes blank as gnosis; out mat nine wrctcirs eyes were cast down like a young Madonna's and the letter which she had picked up from the table she now held out to her mother. " And then I got this letter. I'm sorry. but you see it can't be helped. Won't you reaa 11, pieaser Mrs. Gray took the letter silently and mechanically, and read it through. It was manifestly written by a gentleman; delicately expressed, with no suggestion of contempt or amusement. The man said he could not reply in the affirma tive to this young lady's suggestions, as he was already engaged to a lady whom he had long known and deeply loved; but if he might offer a little advice to his fair " young friend, it would be to have patience; and if her mother found she was firm in her aire ad v formnd at tachment, no doubt she would consent in time to the marriage she now deprecated, ana ne must oe permuted to sign him sen "iauniujiy ana respectiuliy your iriena, tieroert uyver." Now Mrs. Gray was a good woman, and never usea expletives, but the occasion was too much for her. "Good heavens!" said she, dropping tne leiier as 11 11 naa been red-hot. "Cornelia Gray, what have 30 u done? What will Mr. Dyver think of me? What will everybody say? you dreadful, dread- 1 u 1 gin. Here Nelly began to cry she really couldn't do anything else; and she be gan to feel like one " hoist with his own petard;" but it was too late to help it. "I'm sure nobody will ever, marry you now, not ven Dr. Byles. I should be thankfal if he would, I'm sure!" A furtive smile flickered through Nel ly's tears, rainbow-fashion, but she sobbed a little louder: and Mrs. Grav was too angry, too dismayed to inspect that variable visage. She went on in un abated wrath: " I shall write to Mr. Dyver this very day and explain the whole thing; if he wants to marry you he shall know just what he undertakes. I couldn't answer it to my conscience not to have him know all about it." When Mrs. Gray's conscience got the upper hand of her Nelly knew what to expect; she left her mother seated at her desk with an expression like John Ilodgers in the primer on her face and a quire of note-paper before her, half of it soon wasted in attempts to write a letter that should at once vindicate her self, excuse Nelly and assure Mr. Dyver's silence. Mrs. Gray did not yet under stand the world enough to know that the man who could write 'such a letter would never speak of it. As for Miss Nellyt she washed her face of tears, took her broad hat and went out to feed the little chickens, seven broods of which were her daily delight and care. From the chip-yard where their coops stood she could see all tho domestic maneuvers of the house. And af ter lingering a long time over her speckled and downy pets she betook herself to the garden, where she trimmed and tied up roses, weeded out her mignonette bed, and pegged down all her verbenas and heliotropes Deiore she saw Hiram, the "hired man" of their establishment, come out of the back door with two letters in his hand. Very quickly Nelly went to the other end of the garden, and opening a gate mat iea to the street asked Hiram, as he came along, where he was going, innocently as an infant of days, lteceiving the answer she expected, Miss Nelly expressed great regret; she wanted him to get Deacon Adkin'8 white horse and take her to lied Hill after strawberries, and he wouldn t have time before tea if he had to go to the village, and she did want Dolly to make a strawberry snort-caKC lor tea dreadfully. If Hiiatn's stern lankee soul owned one- weakness in the way of self-indulgence, it was for strawberry short-cake a viand that while it success fully undertakes to spoil both fruit and cake, in themselves separate excellencies, is yet the great luxury of New England; . -1 r 1 , 1 ana wen aia our guneiui ncroine Know this; it was but a foregone conclusion that,. Hiram should accept her offer to lake the letters herself while he got the horse, and in due time Mrs. Gray's care fully-indited letter helped cook Hiram's short-cake, whicn xscuv ncrseii com pounded with much deftness and suc cess. But the interview with Dr. Byles had yet to come. Mrs. Gray sent for him and in a private interview laid the whole matter before him. Much as the young doctor loved Nelly this escapade on her part shocked him deeply; but nothing betrayed his feelings to her mother ex cept a firmer set to his lips and two or three lines that straightened .themselves across his forehead. When 3Irs. Gray had finished her tale he asked to see " Cornelia" alone, and, nothing daunted, that small woman went in and faced the enemy. We will not quite yet repeat their conversation nor reveal the sub stance of it ; it is enough to say that Nel lv anneased this lion in bis den, and he was even heard to give a seemingly un willing laugh before they parted. Not that Dr. Joe was fully satisfied with Ncl ly's explanations; a man's sense of honor is a thing few women can understand, which fewer still possess; but as Mr Howells says, with his dreadful acu men: "There is nothing has really so strong a digestion as love. And Dr. Joe's love was mighty and genuine.- When he left the parlor he found Airs. Gray in the sitting-room, and to that lady's unbounded astonishment asked her consent to his engagement with Nelly. Once sure that he was thoroughly in earnest she was glad enough to consent, only with the proviso that they should not be married till Christmas. So the summer went on, s long season of bloom and perfume, ol pleasant drives and moonlit rambles foi the lovers, of unlimited shaping and sew ing for Mrs. Grav and her assistants pre paratory to a wedding; for do we not all know that no girl ever has any clothes till she is married, and then has to send a list of them to the newspapers? In September the Beacons came back, and Nelly went to Boston in October for the double purpose of getting her wed ding dresses made in the city and officiating as Josephine's bridesmaid ; for Miss Beacon herself was going to marry air. Dyver, now ureek 1'rof essor in Ban vard College. As Mrs. Gray was asked to the wed ding and might produce some unpleasant complications in her acquaintance with Mr. Dyver, Nelly shut her mother Into her own room an hour after her arriva and explained how, hearing before Josey went abroad, under bonds of privacy, that she had accepted Mr. Dyver, and indeed, was going to Paris chieflv to buy her trousseau, some small imp had sug gested to Nelly herself to write an un signed letter to Mr. Dyver in the charac ter of a despairing damsel who couldn't marry the man she would, and therefore wanted to enter into a correspondence wim mm, with a view to the luture, as she phrased it. This letter, which 6he never would have written unless pre viously sure of his engagement, she had coaxed Josephine to give him "for fun," as the heedless creature expressed her self, having first exasperated her cousin by declaring' that no man could resist flirting with a pretty girl who provoked him to it, and offering to test it in this manner. Quite sure of her lover, Jose pnme gave mm JNcnys seated letter as one she had received from a little friend in the country, who did not want her name known unless he answered the let ter, in which case Josephine would direct the answer, and if any further correspondence went on it was to be with the real names. But we know Mr Dyver's reply already, and a literal copy ot it followed Josephine to I'ans as soon as Nelly received it herself, ac companied with an explanation by that young lady of her own motives in the affair. It cannot be said Miss Beacon quite approved of Nelly's wicked little plot, but it was too late then to do more limn laugh at iu l his was the rttume which Nelly offered now, with alternate tears and dimples, to mamma, having explained it to Joe that awful day when she was sent into the parlor to confront him, and came out engaged to him. Mrs Gray listened with indignant surprise to this unraveled skein perhaps " yarn would make the metaphor less mixed; but, true to her ruling passion, her first words were : But what must Mr. Dyver nave thought 01 my letter?" He never thought anything, dear. got it from Hiram to put it in the office myself, but somehow I happened to drop it in the kitchen stove! "Nelly Gray! who would have thought it 01 you! louaro a little wretch, should like heartily to box your cars!" Aliss discerned the relenting voice under this fearful thi cat, and her arms were round ner mother s necK in a moment. " I am a wretch, I ' 'fess' it, you darling old mother; but. you see, I did want to mairvJoe so much, and I did hate so dreadfully to marry anybody else ! and you Know 11 usea to say in the copy book, or l'roverb8, or somewhere, All stratagems are fair in love and war.' " llarptr't Bazar. How to Design a House. ScrrosE that the builders of locomo ives were always trying to make their machines look like old-fashioned stage coaches! But locomotives are given a form that is suitable to their purpose, and are tar from being unsightly. Sup Eose that sea going ships were built with oth ends alike for symmetry! But ships are the most perfect type wc have of a strictly utilitarian thing; every line is the result ofcarelul experiments repeat ed century after century by generations of builders seeking speed and capacity and seaworthiness; and "the lines of a boat s bow are the most beautiful that I know," says Mr. Buskin, " after divine work." If, then, the designers of build ings were to consider solidity, perfect material, the best forms and coverings for roofs, the best profile of cornice to protect the walls, the right disposition of openings to give light and entrance as required, and the best means of spanning them by arch or lintel if these consid erations alone were kept in view there is every reason to. believe that our, build ings would be vastly more interesting and beautiful than they are. But it is not meant that the designer should keep nothing else in view. Let him be ac customed to care for abstract beauty, and let him be ' self-trained to design iresn ana natural decorations lor every thing, that can be ornamented. Then as he lays out his windows and determines the angle of hia roof the question " How is this going to look?" will always be present in his mind, and utility will be modified sometimes for the sake of greater beauty of proportion, and some times sparingly-applied ornament will soften or even hide a harsh habit of utility that will not give way. The Ilouiekeeper. The Titusville Courier says that the g reduction of petroleum in Western ennsylvania during the year 1874 would fill a canal thirty feet wide at the top. fifteen feet at the bottom, seven feet deep ana over Beveniy-nve mues long. AGRICULTURAL AMD DOMESTIC Farmer's Economy. In the use and care of tools examples of the general lack of economy can be seen. It is not good economy to use poor tools in this age of good implements for hus bandry. Neglect to house and care for tools also produces great waste, ine thousands of implements all dvef the country left where last Used is ah evi dence of this, working in a sniitiess, careless way, half doing the work and trusting to luck for the results, is the rule with too many farmers. Great lack of economy is seen in farm buildings. Too many are of a cheap, inferior character, scattered in location and not arranged with reference to any plan or use in tended. They should be compactly and well built, with direct reference to com fort and convenience fdt the purposes for which they are designed. Iteeplhg poor stock is another wrong practice of economy. It costs as much to keep poor as good. I'oor stock may Dear neglect and abuse and thus contribute to lazi ness, but it results in great loss. Enthu siasm in stock-raising, as in other things, is beneficial. High, fancy prices will be regulated by a more extensive and dis criminating system of breeding. From rrtiiaerit isatcom t Addrt$s. We confess a liking for the mule. There is something honest about him; he sails under no false colors ; he puts on no airs; and he is just a little better at ten or fifteen years of age than he is at five or six. His principal growth from year to year is in dignity, wisdom and ears. He never forgets anything he learns. He soon learns all about a corn row; and if every horse ott the farm has the " epizootic" you will find that the mule if you have one Is as calmly prepared for every emergency as ever. Yes, when it comes to business we like a mule. Illustrated Journal of Agriculture. Worth Remembering. A lady cor respondent of the Country Gentleman says: In cooking oatmeal, hominy, wheaten grits, cracked wheat, or aqy of these nice breakfast dishes, cook it in a covered tin dish, set in a kettle of boiling water; in this manner, there is no danger of scorching. Corn-starch pudding, sea moss, farina and all other articles mixed with milk can be cooked in the same way To have fine tuberoses choose bulbs that have a clear skin, and are firm, and not long at the top. Bake a box of sand to have it dry, and keep your bulbs in it in a cool, dry, dark place, where they will not freeze. For early flowering, start the bulbs next March in pots, in a warm dark place, and set out after all danger of frost is passed. Toledo Blade, Tower of Growing rianls. The New York Observer says: Our readers will remember an article pub ashed in the Observer about a year ago detailing the very interesting experi ments carried on at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, to illus trate and measure the power of sap in circulation in growing plants. Presi dent Clark has been carrying on another experiment during the last season, the results of which are truly marvelous, Some accounts of the lifting power of -vegetable in its growth, as determined from week to week by putting a peculiar test upon a squash, have been published from time to time, but the whole prog ress of the experiment was detailed by President Clark at a late meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of Agricul ture, in a lecture on " Plant Growth. We take the account from the report m the New England Farmer: It had been known for a long time that plants exerted considerable force during their growth. Beans, acorns and other seeds lift an amount of weight as they rise up from the soil in the early stages of their growth. Mushrooms have been known to lift flag-stones weighing eighty pounds from their bed in gardcn-waisr and shade-trees in our streets frequently lift the pavements and even crowd in basement walls under our houses with their roots. The force measured in black birch was equal to raising a column of water eighty-six feet, while the sap was in motion, the idea was conceived at the college of measuring the force of a growing plant and a squash was se lected as a subject for such an experi ment. It seemed to be the most avail able of anything we could try. So last spring a bed of rich compost was pre pared and placed in one of the glass houses at the college, where observa tions could be made night and day through the summer and during all weather. The soil was placed in a large tight box or tank, in which the roots were made to stay, and during some of the stages of the squash'p "growth it was watched and hourly observations made and recorded for a whole week at time. Squashes are made up of fibrous tis sues; the outside fibers run lengthwise, then another set, like bands, cross these. holding the squashes together the other way, and then, on the inside, is another set running lengthwise, to which the seeds arc attached. (The unharnessed squash was now exhibited, showing un mistakable signs of having been driven in a harness much too small for iL) A strong box had been prepared to re ceive it, with boards set edgewise in the bottom on which the squash was laid, like a baby in its cradle; but, unlike the baby, it was told to lie there during its entire growth to the period of mature squashhood. Iron bolts and straps easily secured the cradle, but something must be done to keep the growth from rising, or, if it did rise, to indicate the power exerted. An iron grate, or harness, made open to admit light and air, as the squash would rot in a tight-closed box. was formed, in shape similar to the sad dle of a cart harness. This was placed over the squash, and weights placed upon it, first a light one, then, as it was lifted by the growth of the squash, a heavier one was laid on twenty-five pounds, then fifty, next 100, then 200, and after that zuu at a time. It soon became difficult to find weights or room for them. The saddle got full. Then an inch bar of steel was arranged on the principle of steelyards ; one end being fastened down to the cradle bed of the squash, and at one foot from the eno, or just over the middle of the squash, a bearing was made, and beyond this bearing weights were hung as weights are hung upon a weighing-bar. Weights were piled on till the bar broke. Then a chestnut timber five by six inches, good and sound, was put in place of the broken bar, and loaded with bags of sand and anvils till it held six of the latter and as many of the former as there was room for. Still the squash grew, and as it grew it raised the sand and anvils one after another as they were piled on, until one morning the timber was found broken under its weight, but the squash all right, and in creasing in size hourly. A heavy, wide cart-tire was bolted on to the next lever, used for stiffening it, and this one lasted till the harness crushed in the shell of the squash on one or two of its bearings. Thus ended the experi ment of testing the vital force of a growing squash. At this time it had tipped the beam under a weight of two tons and 130 pounds, and had carried on its back, but without lifting it, a load of 500 pounds for ten days. Many harness galls were made during the trial, but in every instance the squash healed itself in a short time, and came out healthy at last with perfectly-formed, plump seeds and a cavity in each half, when cut as it was before the audience large enough for a large-sized hen's nest. The meat or rind of the squash was about three inches in thickness, and by estimation contained 64,000,000,000 of cells, each of which had been formed from sap prepared by the leaves of the vine, and carried through the vine and stem of the squash itself, with instruc tions to appropriate as best it could un der the circumstances. The force ex erted by the vital power of the vine was sufficient to raise a column of water forty-eight feet high in forty-eight hours, at the end of which time it burst. And now what is the use of all this ? Simply this: We have aked nature a imple question and she has given us a 1 correct answer. There has been much dispute about the question whether trees grew except at the extremities, and im nnrtant law rases have grown out of it- Parties on both sides were sure they were right, but the weight of evidence was nearly all against the theory of elon gation except at the ends of the new wood. The story of the filbert tree grow ing up through the center of a mill-Btone, and finally, by its growth, suspending the stone several inches in the air, was hot generally credited. Our investiga tions prbve that similar effects are pro duced every year by every tree which grows, and that this rising Of the tree is necessary to its own preservation Under the influence of winds which sway our trees to and fro during their growth the roots must be loosened in the soil and partially prevented from holding the tree securely in its place. Now for the remedy. Each year, as the tree grows, it lays on a ring of new wood entirely around every part, not only of the top but of the roots also. It can not build on the under side of all these roots unless it lifts the tree from its bed, or crowds the soil away from underneath to make room for the new cells it is bound to carry there. Finding it easier to lift the tree than to sink the world the tree is accordingly raised every year by just so much as the thickness of the new wood which is laid upon the under side of the roots. And now the beauty of the arrangement is seen, when we discover that this added yearly growth is just sufficient to take up the slack in the roots caused by the rocking of the tree during storms and winds. The tree is thus securely tightened and anchored in the soil every year anew. Salt on Wheat. Some soils are benefited by an appli cation of salt, but wc do not believe there is any efficacy In it to keep wheat from freezing out. Thorough drainage is the remedy for that. Every one knows, or ought to know, the value of ashes as a fertilizer. Salt furnishes two of the most important elements of the ashes of plants sodium and chlorine and nence it will be valuable to lands deficient in these. Every farmer roust determine for himself whether his land needs salt or anv other substance. Sow Salt on al ternatc strips of your wheat, marking wher you sowed and where you did not, and then observe the difference in tne crop next vear. Where the constituents of salt are wanting wheat will almost al ways lodge, even though the crop of straw be light. If you have been troubled with this salt will be useful, though we should prefer to mix it with the manure "Prof. Mapes' famous recipe is: "One bushel salt, three bushels of marl ; let it lie under cover four months, and then mix it with one cord of muck." This is no doubt a valuable mixture for sandy land. Where salt is sown broadcast do it after the wheat is sown, giving from one to five bushels per acre. Mr. Geddcs, of New York, in an essay on salt as manure, comes to these conclusions: " Some soils have enough of salt, and more added does an injury. Lands away from the sea-coast are greatly benefited by light applications, but heavy quanti ties are injurious even there." Ohio Farmer. W ood Seasoned With Salt. It has been found by long experience that immersion in salt water while wood is seasonine prevents or retards its de cay. In Holland, where active ship building has been carried on for centu ries, this fact is universally admitted and utilized. Other maritime nations nave also known and taken advantage of it. It is found, too, that piles sunk in salt water last for an unlimited time. Ex ternal causes of decay may be neutral ized by painting the wood ; but against .ne internal dry rot this is incnective. In order to prevent dry rot, wood must be subiected to treatment when season ing, and salt seems to be the most avail able of the simple and cheap antidotes. Even after dry rot has commenced in timber, immersion in salt water checks the decay and preserves the remainder of the wood. It is said that in the salt mines of Hungary and Poland the gal leries are supported by wooden pillars, which last unimpaired for ages from be ing impregnated with salt. a) a . 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I returned home here, but had been home only two weeks when I was completely prostrated with Hemorrhage from the lungs, having fair were bleeding spells icithin two weeks, andfirht three inxide of nvie any, in tne epiemier lonowmg 1 im proved suOiciently to be able to be about, though in a very feeble state. My Bronchial trouble remained and the Catarrh was ten- fold worse than before. Every effort for re lief seemed fruitless. I seemed to be losing ground daily. I continued in this feeble state, raising blood almost daily, until about the first of March, '711, when I became so bad as to be entirely confined to the house. A friend suggested your remedies. But i was extremely skeptical that they would do me good, as I had lost all heart in remedies, and began to look upon medicine and doctors with disgust. However, I obtained one of your circulars, and read it carefully, from winch I came to the conclusion mat you un derstood your business, at least. I finally ob tained a quantity of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Rem edy, your Golden Medical Discovcrv and Pel- cording to directions. To my surprise 1 soon began to improve, the Uiscovery ana x'ci- lets in a 6hort time brought out a severe eruption, which continued for several weeks. . T - ..... 9 1 ielt much nctier, my appciiie tmprorea, ana I gained in strength and flesh. In three months every vestige of the Catarrh was gone, the Bronchitis had nearly disappeared, had no Cough whatever, and I had cntirclv ceased to raise blood ; and, contrary to the ex pectation or some 01 my friends, the cure has remained permanent. I have had no more Hemorrhages from the Lungs, and am en tirely free from Catarrh, from which f had suffered so much and so long. The debt of gratitude I owe for the blessing I have re ceived at your hands knows no bounds. 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