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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.
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Pianos and Organs
Fine new rosewood pianos for $300.
Fine walnut organs, six stops, $125.
Good second-hand pianos, $150 to $200.
Reed's Temple of Music, Chicago.
Remember that as a rule house plants
require little heat, a good deal ot sun
and moist air for their full development,
to which may be added foliage kept free
. f j . . r . . if 1
01 oust anu insects, anu son wen waivrcu.
Bleeding from Lungi, Catarrh, Ilron-
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Kothbtr, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1674.
IL V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y.:
Bear Sir I have suffered from Catarrh in
an aggravated form for about twelve years
una for several venrs from Bronchial trouble.
Tried many doctors and things with no last
ing benefit. In May, '72, becoming nearly
worn out with excessive Editorial labors on a
rarer in New York citv, I was attacked with
Bronchitis in a severe form, suffering almost
a total lo.-6 of voice. 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.
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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
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RIFLES. RHOT-OTJSS. PISTOLS.
DrT. ITflltiefs ailifornta Vin
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tive herbs found on tho lower rtitixn of
the Bierra Nevada mountains of Cattfct'
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ters!"' Our answer is, that they rcmovi
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covers h health. They are tho grcs
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history of tne world has a medicine hern
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eick of every disease mail 1 hir to. They
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relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
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