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A SPRAY OP SWSET BRIAR,
Open swlnz the long-dosed portals - ,
Of the days of Ions >to. .
And with oarer steps I enter, ?F
Down a narrow path I so.
Bordered by old-fashioned flowers!
Mountain pinks and popples brliht, --.Rs
Boune nr Bats and cabbage roses, ' t
Larkspurs, pink and blue and whits ... .*■
Bachelor's buttons, lady-slippers,
Llve-for-ever, striped grass—
Wh le tbe cheery Johnny-lump-ups
Greet me gayly as I pa s
Morning glories, cool and dainty.
With their faces bathed In dew:
Rosemary, swoet-clover. fennel,
Mournln 7-brides. sweet Williams, rua. ;.
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Boneset, saffron, pennyroyal,
Tansy, chamomile and sate.
Wormwood, peppermint and catnip—
Magic herbs, with potent powers.
Hither prised by dear grandmother,
Than tbe sweetest of her flowers.
Now I tumble In the haymow,
Hunt for eggs and gather croons,
Happier In my joyous freedom.
Than the happiest of queens
Now I sit In the log schoolhouse,
Saying ‘ Two times two ore four,"—
See the faces, hear the voices.
Known and loved In days of yore
Ah, they re gone—the Post has vanished
Closed the doors -I stand without:
And the Present sternly bids me
Struggle on In pain and doubt:
And the key that for a moment,
Opened wide tbe portals fair
Of the Pa->t so dear and pleasant
Free from sorrow, tear and care,
Was a spray of wild sweet brier,
With its breath of perfume rare.
— sylvIa Farnum
AT
A Passive Crime.
BY “THK DUCHESS.”
CHAPTER I.
The Moment Approaches.
From its site upon the high rocks
that overhang the sea, Penruddock
castle, in all its gothic and some
what savage grandeur, frowns down
upon the vale beneath, upon plain
and upland, park and winding
stream, and the pretty cottage far
below, that lies half hidden by the
spreading foliage. Although belong
ing to sunny June, the day is dark
and lowering. The ocean, with a
sudden roar, is rushing inland, to
breuk out with furious hisses upon
the long, low beach. The sky is
overcast; no faintest gleam of sun
shine comes to lighten the gloom, or
throw some brightness on the scene,
so replete with heaviness and a
vague melancholy.
“And such a winter wears the face
of heaven,” that all the happy birds
lie cowering out of sight.
Beneath, in the valley, upon the
grass-plot that belongs to the cot
tage, a man is walking slowly up and
down with lowered head, and a heart
filled with envy and vain longing.
His face though handsome and sug
gestive of good breeding, is dark,
stern and impenetrable. His arms
are crossed behind his back. Just,
now an expression, almost evil, mars
the beauty of his features. His
thoughts, busy with the past and the
present, are full of discontent.
Sometimes, as though uncon
sciously, he lifts his eyes to gaze
upon the crimson flag floating so
high above him, marking the spot
where his sister-in-law, the lady of
Penruddock, lies at the point of
death, very certainly to follow her
husband into the land of shadows.
Within twelve months they will
both lie buried, and all their goodly
heritage, these swelling fields and
softly undulating plains, will
pass into the hands of a
child,a feeble girl—a creature scarce
fit to combat with the winds that
blow; whilst his boy, his treasure
beyond all price, must through all
his life toil for daily bread.
At this moment a merry laugh
rings out upon the air, and from the
house, with fair hair flying, a lovely
boy of seven runs eagerly and joy
ously, with arms extended, to the
man so deep in envious thought. As
the sound of childish gayety smites
upon his ear. his whole expression
changes, and he lifts his head, and
gladly welcomes the child with word
and gesture, as he flings himself,
breathless upon the man’s breast.
The boy clings to him, murmuring a
joyful story of his escape from nurse
and tutor without fear of reproof,
and with no dread of the dark fea
tures and gleaming eyes above him.
that betray some sense of cruelty.
Perhaps his little son is the one
thing in all the world that does not
shrink from George Penruddock. and
is therefore, doubly dear to him on
that account.
oui lur wo puuy uaoy in ue casus
above, all these lands around him
might be the boy's, and wealth and
position be assured to him. That
thought it is which is now torturing,
and which has long driven from his
heart every feeling save only one
that should inspire a human being.
He loves his little son; for him It is
that this man is ambitious, and
would enrich even by a crime.
The daughter of Alice Penruddock
will soon be in possession of all,
whilst his little son. his pretty
Dick, must forever remain portion
less. It is this thought that con
stantly tortures, that poisons and
lays waste his every hour. The boy
has darted off again, chasing from
flower to flower a showy butterfly;
and once more Penruddock looks up
sharply to where the crimson flag
should be. But it is no longer
there; and almost it seems as though
a faint cry comes to him upon the
rising wind. He shivers, and then
cries shame upon his superstitious
fears, and tells himself it is but the
shriek of the sea gulls flying inward
from the storm. The click of a
latch makes him turn bis head. The
garden-gate is thrown wid&
a tall woman, of servant*
rank, but finely formed, and of the
gypsy type, comes hurriedly up to
him. Her eyes are peculiarly large
and dark, and there is a determina
tion, a stolidity, about her lower
jaw somewhat remarkable. Perhaps
the touch of Romany blood is rather
more discernible in carriage and
eomplexloi. than in eyes and hair,
though both are dark as midnight
Penruddock grows a little pale as
she approaches, and acknowledges
her presence, not with speech but
by a slight gesture of the hand.
The woman takes no notice of his
greeting, but. drawing horself up to
her full holght, for several moments
gazes at him thoughtfully.
“Well?” he asks, at length, as
though unuble longer to endure her
scrutiny.
“My lady is dead!” says the woman
slowly, rather than ourtly, and with
a difficulty which is very apparent
to him.
“Dead!” says Penruddock, in a low
tone. “So soon —so very suddenly I”
“Yes, it is always so,” returns she,
moodily, gazing at the greensward;
“the young and the gay go soonest
She is clay now, though a week ago
she could chatter with the best; nay,
so lately as an hour ago she called
me by my name, and held my hand—
sa I can feel the pressure still.
But it is all over, all over; she is
still and cold, now, poor soul! And
it may be happier, for her heart was
broken!”
“How dreadful it all is—bow de
pressing! I feel as though-”
••No more, Penruddock," says the
woman, suddenly raising her head,
and flinging up her hand in an un
controllable and almost haughty
gesture. So standing, sho is quite
beautiful; and though wearing the
garb, loses all the aspect of the
menial. “Hypocrisy is a vile sin;
and why try to deceive me? There
was no love lost betweon you. Even
at the last, the very last, when life
was nearly over-”
There is a pause, and Penruddock.
in an agitated voice, says, with
some excitement, “Go on! Do not
hesitate,—tell me the worst. Esther!.
At the last she spoke of me! What
was it? Did she forgive?”
“Never!” says the woman firmly.
“No, not even then. You know how
she disliked the master's will, and
your being left sole guardian of the
child in the event of her death. I sav
nothing,” slowly, and with averted
looks. “The dislike may have been—
nay must,"—with a curious contrac
tion of the brows, “have been unrea
soning, but still it was there; and
at the last she alluded to it As I
knelt beside her she laid her hand
on mine, and whispered a few words.
They were not many, but they were
of you and the child. If you com
mand that I should speak those
words, of course 1 must; but better
not hear them sir-”
“Speak, woman!” replies he rough
ly. “What could she say of me in
death that would be harsher than
that which she said in life?”
“Nay, then, if you will hear, of
course you must,” returns she; yet
she pauses as though somewhat re
luctant to proceed. “It always
seemed to her a strange thing that
Miss Penruddock (the little one)
should by the will be compelled to
live here in this small spot until her
eighteenth birthday, when in reality
she is mistress of it, and all the
lands around, and the great castle
up yonder.”
“Tell me what she said of me as
she died,” says Penruddock, impa;
tiently.
“She mentioned no names, but
bending toward me, said, with her
poor eyes wild and frightened, as it
were, ’Now that I am torn, and for
ever, alas! from my sweet lamb, she
must walk beside the wolf!' ”
“Ah!” says Penruddock, drawing
his breath quickly, and coloring
darkly; -is that the truth, or is It
only that which you have yourself
invented P"
“It is true. You would have me
speak. But”—lowering her head—
“it may have been but raving. When
death is near, how few know light
from dartrness!”
“What more did sho say?” de
manded ho, as though deaf to her
last remark.
“She made me swear that I would
never forsake the little one; that as
I had been its nurse for three long
years, so I would still cherish and
keep a watchful eye upon her. I
swore to it,” says the woman, sol
emnly, raising her eyes to the dull
sky above her, as though in memory
of her “oath in heaven;” “and I
shall never break that promise,
come what will, and cost me whut it
may to keep it."
one pauses tnen, and looks keenly
at Penruddock. who meets her gaze
as firmly us though his heart was
frank and true, his mind without a
single thought o! evil.
‘•When will it please you, sir. that
I shall bring the child down?” she
asks, presently, in a subdued tone.
“This evening? Already she pines
for her dead mother, poor bairn; but
if with Master Dick, 1 think the feel
ing of loneliness might be lightened,
and, no doubt, in a very little time
would cease to exist altogether.”
••Very well. Let her be sent this
evening,” says Ponruddock. slowly,
unwittingly, a3 it seems to the ears
of his attentive listener.
“Perhaps I hurry you?” she says,
with a certain new-born nervousness
in her. manner. "It is too hasty an
arrival. There will be our sleeping
room to arrange, and the prepara
tions for it may——”
“There need bo no trouble,” says
Ponruddock, slowly. "There is
nothing to arrange. My niece can
sleep in tho nursery with Wilkins.
“Miss Penruddock always sleeps
with me in my room.” says the wo
man. growing terror in her eyes.
“Wilkins is nothing to her; I am all
the world to her.
“For the future many things will
be changed," says Penruddock,
speakiug coldly and with singular
precision. "It is better you should
understand at once that your ser
vices in this family will be no longer
required. My son’s nurse will do
sufficient ior both children." I
The woman's faoo altors as ho
speaks, until it is almost unrecog
nizable. A gray, leaden pallor dis
color* her lips; her oyes grow
strangely dark. By a supreme ef
fort she so fur controls herself as to
spoak with some appearance of calm
ness.
•■You would separate me from the
childf" she says, in a low, anguished
| tone.
I Her hands aro clasped behind her
baok. well out of sight, lect he shall
see how the Angers, closing on euoh
other, leave white marks upon tho
knuckles.
••los; it will be better so. I will
keep no one near ray niece who may
prejudico her against her uncle,”
replios he with a slight sneer; “her
guardian, too, according to her
father’s wish.”
She makes a quick gesture, as
though sbo would dispute the insin
uation; but he prevents her.
••It is useless arguing," he says.
“Your manner bet"uys you. It is
j distrustful,and touches on insolence,
j From your mistress you have.I know
; but too well. Imbibed a hatred of mo
| strong as It is unjust."
“1 was her nurse," she says, des
| perately. "She is like my own—
[ nay, more to me than the ono I lost,
j All through her young life I have
borne with her. cared for hor, loved
her. She is part of myself. At this
bosom’’—crossing her hands pas
sionately upon her breast—“she was
fed. She is all on earth I care for—
my last tie. And will you now com
pel me to part with her? Pen
ruddock, have pity!"
"I have spoken," returns he, un
moved; “and tragic scenes have no
charms for me. I shall give you a
character, and any wages that are
due you can have whenevor it may
suit you to come for them."
But when she has gone a yard or
two, she comes back again, and con
fronts him with a look upon her
handsome face ill to meet. She is
very white, and her large, unearthly
eyes burn with a revengeful lira
“I had forgotten,’’ she says.slowly.
“My lady sent yon one more mes
sage. -Tell him,’ she said, ‘that
surely he shall be dealt with as he
deals with mine!’ ’’
So saying, Bhe moves away into
the leafy recesses of the wood, and
presently is lost to sight.
CHAPTER II.
The Guardian.
July is coma The hot sun is
pouring down its scorching rays on
tree and drooping flower, on waving
meadow and the cool and smiling
river, with its "water, clear as beryl
or crystal,” that, flowing through
the cottage garden, rushes onward
to the illimitable ocean.
Among the great roses, heavy with
soent and bloom, the children aie
playing merrily, chasing each other
in and out, hitner and thither,
through countless rows of gaudy
colored beds. Hilda Penruddock,
the little hoiress, with her yellow
locks and pleasing countenance, fair
as an angel's, and eyes, “colored
with the heaven’s own blue,” is
raclDg madly over walks and closely
shaven grass, looking like some
“milk-white blossom of the spring."
Her cousin, tall and slender for his
age. and handsome as an Italian
cherub in spite of his golden-brown
hair, is swiftly pursuing her, whilst
merry laughter from both their lips
ascends into the summer air.
“Ah, take care, .Hilda!" calls the
boy. as his cousin runs dangerously
close to the deep shelving bank that
overhangs the river. “Do not lean
over. You know how strictly nurse
has forbidden it."
“The river is shining—shining!”
cries sha “See the little stars that
dance on top of it, aad the pretty
white lilies. I wish I had a lily!”
“Come away,” returns he. coax
ingly. -'and I will get you prettier
lilies from the lake outside by and
by. Come, let us finish our game.
.Now, I am the robber chief and you
are my prisoner,, and this is my
castle. *’
[TO BE CONTINUED, j
Vujor skinner’* Veterani.
Prince Napoleon and Count Mer
cicr. with their suite, wore once
within the Confederate lines during'
the civil war, and, riding along the
Fairfax’ turnpike, they came upon
Major F. G. Skinner and a body of
Southern veterans. Skinner left his
men in charge of a junior oliioer and
approached the party. He had been
educated jn France under the pat
ronage of the marquis de Lafayette,
and l'rince Napoleon, who received
him warmly, made some remark
about the soldierly appearance of
his troops. Just at that moment an
evolution brought the men into such
a position that they turned their
backs upon their distinguished vis
itors. Their trousers showed the
worst effects of their usage. The
prince could not repress a smile as
his eye ran along the line of big and
little holes. But Major .Skinner,
with characteristic wit. said: “Gen
tlemen, you see there the side of our
soldiers which has never yet been,
and I hope never may be, seen by
the enemy.”—Argonaut
Hal way Surgeon*.
Of the railway associations of tho
country none has been more active
or more successful during tho lost
few years than the National Associa
tion of Kailway Surgeons. Three
years ago the association had 2K2
members in good standing. At the
present time the active membership
is 1,7U7.
Stunned by .Lightning.
A thunderstorm arose while the
funeral of Mrs. Daniel Veil, or
Shaghticoke. N. Y., was on its way
to the cemetery. An electric bolt
struck a carriage in which was
seated two mourners and they were
•hocked into insensibility. Tho
horses were also stunned.
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Why should not every housekeeper avail herself of
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Dr. Haines, of Rush Medical College, Consulting
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To Fat to Walk.
Sitting ns a profession would seem a
novelty, but that is the professfon fol
lowed by a man In Indianapolis. Ills
name is Harry Jenningsi lie weighs
300 pounds and his good nature is in
proportion to his superabundance of
flesh. So fat is he that walking is al
most out of the question, but he man
ages to go from place to place where
he serves at hiB profession, lie has
several customers, they are men who
conduct offices, but who employ no
clerks, and in order to keep their offices
while they go to lunch or other meals,
employ Jennings to occupy a chair and
attend to business which may “drop
in” during their abscence. One of
these offices has a telephone, and Jen
nings takes a seat at the telephone
where he will not have to stir during
the hour he is on duty. Ills great
pleasure is to sit in a revenue position
in a chair with his chin resting on the
back. He will sit this way for hours
without hardly moving. He draws a
pension for obesity.
A Floral Mysterjr.
The Chinese, Japanese and Siamese
are particularly skillful at botanical
feats. One of their wonderful achieve
ments is known as the “changeable
rose.” This bloom is white in tbe
shade and red in the sunlight After
night or in a dark room this curiosity
of tbe rose family is a pure white blos
som. When transferred to the open
air the transformation immediately
steps in, the time of the entire change
of the flower from white to the most
sanguine of sanguine hues depending
on the degree of sunlight and warmth.
First the petals take on a kind of
washed or faded blue color, and rapidly
change to a faint blush of pink. The
pink gradually deepens in hue until
you find your lllly-white rose of an
hour before is as red as the reddest
peony that everbloomed._
That Joyful Feeling
With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strength and internal clean
liness, which follows the use of Syrup
of Figs, is unknown to the few who
have not progressed beyond the old
time medicines and the cheap substi
tutes sometimes offered but never ac
cepted by the well informed.
A Brown Paper Magnet.
Poker World: A very simple and in
teresting electrical experiment may be
made with a sheet of brown paper,
illustrating in a remarkable manner
how most astonishing effects may be
produced by the simplest means. Take
a sheet of coarse brown paper, and
after holding it before the fire until it
is perfectly dry, fold it up into a long
strip of about two inches wide. The
magnet is now complete. To exhibit
its attractive power, cut some strips of
writing paper about three inches long
and about as wide as one of these lines,
then place them on the table, three or
four together. Now take the magnet
and draw it briskly under the arm
three or four times; its electro-magnet
ism is instantly developed, and becomes
apparent when held over the small
strips of writing paper, for they fly up
from the table towards the paper mag
net veritably “by the wings of light
ning.” _
“Now,” said she. after she had con
cluded a vigorous spanking for wilful
ness, “I hope you have changed your
mind.” “No, mamma,” he sobbed, “I
always said I'd rather be spanked by
you than kissed by any other lady in
town, and I think so yet.”
“Yes,” said the proprietor of the
barber shop, “he was a very good
barber, but we had to let him go. He
didn't understand the business.”
“What did he do?” “He forgot to say
to a bald-headed customer that his
hair needed trimming to-day.
“I never saw any signs of such
meanness in Hobbles.” “You don’t
know him. Why, he gave his wife a
life insurance policy executed in her
favor as a Christmas present last year
and ever since then he has been prac
ticing a regimen conducive to lon
gevity.”
He Wm Overcome.
He called himself a commercial trav
eler, bnt vulgar people style him a
drummer. He walked into a hotel of
fice and proceeded to place hia several
pieces of luggage in the keeping of a
son of Ham. Then he carelessly took
op a pen and was registering his name
when a good-sized sample of the eimex
leotularius made its way slowly across
the page of the register. The drum
mer stopped suddenly, and, after taking
a long look at the insect, he oried:
"Well, I've traveled all over the United
States, and put up at all sorts of hotels,
but I'm blessed if this isn’t the first
house I ever struck where those things
oome down-stairs and find out the num
ber of a fellow’s room.”
H* said to her: “ The moon is al
ways just the same, and yet I always
find some new beauty in it.” She said
to him: “ It’s just so with the circus.”
He bought tickets for two.
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gave birth to two children of the Siam
ese-twin order. They are joined togeth
er by a union of the breast-bone, having
but one navel, but supposed to have two
sets of intestines confined in one cavity.
They are living and attracting much at
tention. _
_ Karl’s Clover Boot Too,
The greet Dloud purifierdrives rmhoew end cleenteet
lo the Complesioa and cure, cou.tlpeilnn. 3Sc. J00..SL
France has an anti-tobacco league,
and the president of the affair haa
cordially endorsed the elevation of
M. Casimir-Perier to the chief magis
tracy of the republic because the lat
ter is not a smoker. “He does, occa
sionally, it is true, dip his hand Into
a' cigarette box, but after a whiff or
two he throws the poisonous weed
away. ” _
It the Baby Is Catting Tooth.
Re ear* and use that old and well-tried remedy, Mss.
Wikslow’i Booth 1 wa Bybuf for Children Teething.
A few weeks ago some miners discov
ered in the mountains near Bonanza
City, Idaho, the mammoth head and
horns of a mountain ram firmly imbedded
in a pine tree some eighteen inches in
diameter. The tree had grown around
the head, leaving the horns protruding.
As the horns are some twenty feet from
the ground, everybody is speculating as
to how that ram got its head into tha
tree at snch an elevation.
M Vlmnoon’s Magic Caret 8alT#.N
The finest floors are said to be seen in
Russia. For those of the highest grade
tropical woods ore exclusively employed.
Fir and pine are never used, as in conse
quence of their sticky character they at
tract and retain dust and dirt, and there
by soon become blackened. Pitch pine,
too, is liable to shrink, even after being
well seasoned. The mosaic wood floorv
in Russia are of extraordinary beauty.
TAN and FRECKLES warranted to be
removed by No. 877,840. Sent by mall
with Instructions, on receipt of price, 60c,
by SNOW, LUND A CO, Omaha, Neb.
A negro, after gazing at some Chi
nese, shook his head and solemnly said:
“ If de white folks be so dark as dat out
dar, I wonder what’s de color of de black
folks?” _
H.|.mu’i Camphor Ieo will* Olyeorlmo.
Cure. Chapped Band, and Face, Tender or Sore Feet,
Chilblain., Pile., Ac. C. O. Clark Co., New Haven, Ob
Positive oplnious are not easily pur
chased. _
There is no way of getting children to be
good like showing them how.
Billiard Table, second-hand. For sale
cheap. Apply to or address. H. C. Akin,
511 8. 12th 8t.. Omaha. Neb.
or. ST. JACOBS OIL
DROPSY
TREATED FREE.
Positively Cured with Vegetable Remedies
Have cured thousands of cases. Cure cases pro
nounced hopeless by best physicians. From ilrstdoae
it upturns d Isappear; In ten days at least two-thirds
ill symptoms remosed. Bend for free book testlmo
ital> of miraculous cures. Ten days' treatment
free by mall If you order trial send 10c In stamp#
io pay postage. DR.H.U UREBN & BoKS.Atlanta.Ga.
* vou order trial return this advertise moot to im
. OatNiiptiTM and people 1
I who have weak longs or Astb-1
I should use Piso'sCura for I
I Consumption. It has cnrN
1 tfcwwaausds. It has not injure I
I ed one. It Is not bad totak* r
I It la the best cough syrup.
Sold ererrwhsr*. %Sc.
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to unit Answering AilmUMmsn siusi,
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