» Mother to a Plf. [ireffonian: The re®enJ the Oregonian about |tll,„s among animals caus • n; to light a very singu „ e on the farm of K. J. tl ilalla Corners. A 16 lost her calf and two afterward it was noticed „,t require milking. In ,1 to the discovery of the l|,e heifer had adopted a pip, which she would call Affectionately as if it had , calf. This relation has •tl some weeks to the evi ction of both parties, and sleeker and weighs several e than its companions of the .inly to Do III* Part, a will somebody in the audi mow» of Nebraska which prepare ta *P«xes of whi>h Lby tWO Pyaroida, s‘" the auTface 0?tr,f 3°° feet hi?h' !r ,0r thk ..the water. The "as ohtan!Htl?rliflcil1 reser “Kb a canal which*™"* the Nil° r*ar had an « Sl3t months of t0 high and in-,erflow’ c°«respond <*oai water in the river. lake lias ]Q-J ®"ed with sand 'he bottom UatSfi*1”®*evaPorated, "e tracts in 'Egypt.00* °f the «; 1 ^fiSSrSMM in1, whv n°t get I00®1101! or 1 a* to S ‘6 fce8t? We h« mmM arltton v°' Mo1^ Ak *ddre»a 1 :r ““a- Wthwester£la.' or Mai°r __ern Agent, Omai 5 k4n “atureoim— ^rd u.. - 5 ‘w'£>sr««1 s 11 “■ 1-th St fh„ VAKt "• tkuaha, 1 ITnSE It NATIONAL PltlM AUH J The rain fell in Budden showers on his cap and shoulders, the wind swept toward him in boistrous (fusts from time to time, and he was wholly in* different to both. The sea was roughened by tossing surges, and of a leaden tint, the sky was gray, while the countryside had assumed the yel low hues of wet roads and drenched gardens. The scene was ugly, and even dispiriting, robbed of sunlight and a blue heaven, but the heart of the young officer rejoiced. He stepped along briskly and hummed the Swal low waltz Had Dolores slept soundly after that dream of dreams, dancing at a real ball? Would she be glad to see him? How would the old man re ceive him? The near future unfolded before him clearly, as he rashly imag ined, composed of stolen in terviews, engagements for the next day on shore, letters, and all the idle and delicious dalliance of a love affair with a charming and innocent young girl, whose dark eyes had opened wide with astonishment when he entered the garden gate, with her grandfather for the first time. He was prepared to develop a thirst for archaeology, and stock his cabin with headless idols, and terra-cotta jugs, if necessary, in order to further propitiate Jacob Deal try, and establish a footing of inti macy in the house. These meditations brought the young man to the garden door in question. He rapped on the panel. There was no sound of movement within the en closure. He repeated the knocking, for their was no bell on the premises. Florio uttered a shrill bark in the in terior of the tower. The visitor waited with a smile on his lip, and eager expectation in his eye. Dolores must have heard the summons, and would hasten to open the gate, ac companied by her faithful dog. Lieut. Curzon felt a sentiment of affection for the little animal awaken in his breast for announcing so promptly his arrival. No light footstep approached the boundary and the succeeding still ness seemed to denote complete deser tion. The sanguine countenance of the young man lengthened. 'Apprehen sion seized him. His sensibilities being highly wrought by a new and absorbing life interest, and therefore prone to swift extremes, a fear1 of some accident or misfortune smote him. He pushed the sunken door vigorously, and some slight obstruc tion of fastening yielded to the blow. Then he entered the enclosure and gazed about him. The aspect of melancholy desertion of the Watch Tower struck him forcibly, and re curred to his mind on a subsequent oc casion. The grey sky lowered above the structure, forming a fitting back ground for the dilapidated masonry, which was furrowed and stained by the storms of many years. The very garden, borrowing- a sombre shadow from the temper of the day, appeared unusually unkempt and dishevelled. Moisture hung on the tendrills of vines, and dripped from the twigs of the trees, like human tears. The water in the fountain was stagnant, opaque, and of a greenish-yellow hue. “What a dreary hole!” thought the intruder, with involuntary repug nance. How had Dolores thriven amidst such surroundings? Unconsciously he made "lazy girl!” he exclaimed. comparison between the maiden and a cactus flower, blooming in rich, scarlet tints amidst the gnarled and spiked branches of a plant on the wall as he traversed the narrow path to the door. He tried to open the portal, and Florio again barked shrilly in the halL The door was locked. He knocked and shook the knob of the handle. A window was slowly opened above, and the head of Dolores thrust forth. Her hair was in disorder, clinging in little curls about her forehead and temples, and her eyes heavy. She yawned with the aspect of rosy con* tentment of a baby. She uttered a drowsy exclamation, resembling a coo, on recognizing the visitor. ‘•Good morning,” said the officer removing his cap. and stepping back a pacs9 the better to devour her gaze. "Good morning,'’ replied-Dolores! •tilling a second yawn. "Lazy girl!" he exclaimed, laughing. "You have been asleep. You are not yet awake. ” "I was so sleepy after breakfast," she admitted, smiling. "What is the matter with Florio? Do you not find grandpapa iu the garden?” “No. The entire place seems to be deserted. ” "Perhaps he has gone to the town while I was asleep. Wait, and 1 will come down stalra ” She passed her hands over her small head to smooth the tangled hair, and withdrew from the cssement. The next moment she returned with a lit tie, mutinous grimace of vexation. "My door is fastened," she ex plained. “Fastened?” he repeated, in surprise. "Do you mean to say you are a pris oner in your chamber” Dolores nodded. "Grandpapa is often like that I can never find the key, and yet he locks my door on the other side at night If I ask the reason, he is very angry." "Perhaps he fears you may fly away,” Arthur Curzon suggested “Oh, no! I have no place to fly to," she answered, with unconscious pathoa “Then he suspects that some lover will carry you off, true Corsair fashion." Dolores dimpled into smiles, and rested her arms on the ledge of the window. "There’s no danger of grandpapa’s losing me like that,” she said demure ly. "The Corsairs do not want me, either.” . “Oh. Dolores! if I were a Corsair, I would carry you off in my arms to my ship, and we would sail away to the Happy Islanda" “The Happy Islands,” she echoed, haif-dreamily. "Our Knight would not permit it, for he guards the Tower. ” “Your Knight? My dear girl, who on earth are you talking about now?” She raised her finger with a warning gesture. “Our Knight of Malta. Have you not seen his portrait on the wall?” "Oh!” said the young man, relieved. “And, you know, the grand duke spoke to me in Spanish, and I could understand him very well, although I seemed to have forgotten all,” she continued in a tone of confidence. "What did he talk about?” inter posed the lieutenant, with a slight frown. "About Spain, the churches, the pictures, and the ladies-” “Ah’ the ladies,” with a sarcastic emphasis. "Then I knew that the knight spoke to me in Spanish in my dream,” said the girl “You see, he must have been one of the Spanish knights.” The sailor sighed. "Am I not even to shake hands with you this morning, dear Dolores?” he demanded, tenderly. “I could climb up to you with the aid of a rope or a bench. ” "Or I could jump to the ground,” supplemented Dolores, merrily. ‘We might have made a turn of the Swallow waltz together around the garden,” he said, regretfully. "Yes.” How pretty she was up there in the window, just beyond reach, and how tantilizing! “I have brought you some sweets. Can you catch the package? Well done, little girl! That is not all. How would you like to go to the opera on Thursday night, when a new singer is to make her debut?” "Oh!” exclaimed Dolores, while the color in her cheek ebbed and flowed rapidly. She had caught the package of sweets, but paused before unfolding the paper. The good age of the fairy tales had surely re turned to the earth. Supreme delight of her imagination! To be present at the debut of the Signorina Giulia Melita seemed the very summit of happiness to the girl at the moment “Grandpa will not like it,” she added, with a sigh. “He shall like it” said Lieut Cur zon, resolutely. “I will order the idols of the twelve children of the sun of him, with or without heads.” “How good you are!” Dolores sighed again, and opened the paper, which contained an almond confection, more or less tough of tex ture, and insipid in flavor, and closely related to the Mediaeval honey paste, the torone of Cremona, and the turon, fabricated in the half-Moorish town of Alicante from Saracenic recipes, to be eaten with the Christmas turkey at ' Baroellona. “It must be nice to be a singer, and wear lovely dresses, and have Mr. Brown’s pockets full of fresh gloves,” mused Dolores, nibbling ' the delicacy with sharp, white ' teeth. “She was very kind to me in the dressing-room at the ball. Oh! how I should like to hear her sing!” 1 “Beware of the glamour of the stage, Dolores.” “Will you have a piece of the paste? It is so delicious,” proffering a morsel of the delicacy, coaxingly. “Mo. thanks I am not fond of sugar,” said the masculine votary of tobacco. She glanced over her shoulder into 1 the chamber, darted back, and reap peared with a small, golden orange in 1 her fingers. 1 :.i - , - V ', . . ■ . . i, “I have nothing else," she said, with graceful depreciation. "If you would be so good as to sccept it 1 gathered it this morning." Ue received the gift in his out stretched hands "Perhaps grandpapa was vexed be cause 1 climbed on the chair, and told the knight about the ball, and the prince who spoke Spanish.’’ continued Dolores "Can he have locked the door for that reason?’’ » "I do not understand his motive for locking the door. Dolores 1 have so many things to tell you, and now X must run away to the ship.” She gave him a roguish glauee be neath her long eyelashes "Yon cruel girl! You are laughing at me,” he exclaimed, ruefully. "I believe you are glad to be a prisoner so that I cannot reach you.’’ ’ Perhaps” she said, with bewitch ing gravity. "Ah, I should know how to punish you for your naughtiness if I could gain your aids I fear 1 might kiss you. ’’ "Would you?” with dimpling smiles "Dolores do you love me?” "I think so. How am I to help lov ing you—a little?” The moisture of unshed tears softened the luster of the dark eyes Then there was silence between them, a mute gaze eloquent of all un spoken possibilities, that rendered the brain of each a trifle giddy, and caused tumultuous heart throbbings Space no longer divided them, and they circled softly together amid the roseate clouds of a boundless im agination to the measure nt divine harmonies Jacob Dealtry entered the gate. Lieut Curzon turned to him, and in sisted on shaking hands, a ceremony to which the old man submitted with a singular limpness. Then the visitor repeated his invitation to the opera on Thursday evening. Jacob Dealtry listened without consent or refusal, his features remained vacant and ab stracted, and he rubbed his fingers Blowly together. "Would you like a stone slab, with a tolerably clear Phcenician inscriptlon carved on it?” he inquired abruptly. "Oh! Grandpapa! What can an officer do with a tombstone on board ship?” cried Dolores, reproachfully, from the window. "I should like the carved stone very much,” said Arthur Curzon, seriously. "I could make a giftof it to the British museum when I return home.” "Eh! To be sure!” assbnted Jacob Dealtry, with animation. When the sailor walked back to the town he reflected, with a certain ele ment of satisfaction, on the circum stance of the grandfather's locking up Dolores in the Watch Tower on the occasion of his absence from home. y a “INSISTED ON SHAKING HANDS.” The place was suited to such Ori ental espionage of the female members of a family. Possibly the precaution was an evidence of his af fection and care for his grandchild. Was he not wise to thus protect her From the intrusion of ruthless man kind? He opened the orange and ate it with rare enjoyment. The spicy fragrance it the golden rind, the luscious sweet ness and richness of flavor of the ripe pulp, seemed to him refreshing, in comparable. He had partaken of strange and tropical fruits in all por tions of the world, yet none like this tiny ball, which had garnered and transmuted sunshine to its own uses in the neglected garden of Jacob Deal try. In the aromatic scent of the outer peel he inhaled the perfume of Dolo res’ beauty, and in the musky fruit he ilready tasted her caresses. He flung away the rind. The next time they met he would surely win From the pouting, red lips a kiss. He ooked no further in advance on the path of life than that (TO BE CONTINUED.) An Odd Crick. “Women play odd tricks on one mother sometimes,” said a lady of Fashion, “but the queerest I ever heard >f was perpetrated by one social lead >r in a western city upon another, rhey were rivals and hated each other iccordingly. though outwardly they preserved the semblance of pleas int relationa Every chance that iitber got to give a dig at be other was eagerly seized. But the Inal and most effective stroke, after ■vhich no calls were exchanged, was lelivered by Mrs L. She sent out sards for a grand entertainment and ben took pains to find out what Mrs. F., her competitor, was going to vear. 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