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November.
When tbistie-blovrs dellghtlr float
Aboat the pasture-height.
And shrills the hawk a parting note,
And creops the frost at night.
Then hilly ho ! though Hinging so,
And whistle as I may.
There oomes again the old heart pain
Through all the livelong day.
In high wind creaks the leafless tree
And nods the fading fern;
The knolls are dun as snow-clouds be,
And cold the sen does bum.
Then ho, hallo! though calling so,
I cannot keep it down ;
The tears arise unto my eyes.
And thoughts are chill and brown.
Far In the cedar's dusky stoles,
Where the sore ground -vine weaves.
The partridge drums funeral roljp
Above the fallen leaves.
Then hip, hip, 1k! though cheering so, .
It stills no with the pain ;
For drip, drip, drip, from bare branch-tip,
I hear the year's last rain.
So drive the old cows from the hill,
And call the wet sheep in ;
And let their stamping elatter fill
The barn with warming din.
Aad ho, folk, ho! though It hi so,
That we no more may roam,
We still will find a cheerful mind
Around the fire at home !
AN ILLUSION.
If Iiefebvre's two sisters and his
aunts had not treated the whole thing
so superciliously, and his cousin Lau
ra, in spite of her generous behavior,
had not every now and then looked
large-eyed disapproval, very likely it
would have come to nothing long be
fore. But of course those women,
and a host of other female relations,
were not going to be wiser than he,
Lucian Lefebvre, Captain of Engin
eers and Colonel by brevet, stationed
at the Capital, and guardian of the na
tion's citadel dancing duty, Bell
called it.
"Introduced to that doll?" said
Bell when he came up to them, at the
Secretary's, proposing the introduc
tion. Bell was the married sister;
Helen was unmarried, and a little
pasMC. buta person of dignity. "Why
does she talk?"
Quite a pretty piece of mechan
ism," said his aunt. "Very well put
together."
Lefebvre looked at them in amaze
ment and indignation. "Really,'"
said he, "it is -wonderful what women
are made of."
"NeUthis'One4taaidHelen, deliber
ately putting up her glass. "She is
false from the crown of her head to
the soul of her foot. How can you be
so taken in ? I don't know what you
are made of, Lucian, to think of In
troducing such a creature to your sis
ters, nor how she made her way
here."
He was just turning on his heel in
speechless anger, but remembering
that he had left the side of the lady
in dispute for the avowed purpose of
bringing his sisters to her, he exclaim
ed, "Whatever she is, some of you
must come with me and be presented
to her, as I am here for that pupose,
and I will not have her insulted'
"Indeed !" said Helen, looking over
the top of her fan into infinite space,
but not stirring.
"1 will go, Lucian," said Laura,
who had not spoken. "Come, Bell,
help me out.''
"Well, Laura, for a little goose!
However, I will never desert a com
panion in arms. Do you suppose she
has observed our council of war?" as
they moved off beside Lucian, with
his chin well in the air. "She is a
fine picture. A person should go on
the stage that can make up as well as
that. I should like to see her in the
privacy of her midnigiu retirement.
How old should yon think ? Forty?"
"Forty I" cried Lucian. "I heard
her myself arranging for a picnic on
her twenty-third birtyday."
"HowtoncbingI in theilife tocome.
Her twenty-third ! She'll never Eee
her forty-third again in this life."
"Bell!"
"Oh yes, Lucian ; if you choose to
force unwelcome acquaintance on
your family, at least they must enjoy
freedom of opinion concerning it.
The very set the woman is with
speaks for her. Good evening, Gen
eral. What a crush ! All because of
this young Russian hero a beauty,
isn:the? Ah, you too, are making
for the cynosure, I see ; all the world
is being presented. It will never do
not to follow the fashion."
And direotly Lucian wa3 presenting
hie sister, Mrs. Gamier, and his cou
sin, Miss Laura Nelson ; and Mis3
Nelson had behaved exactly a3 Lu
cian wished ; and although he could
never have said what was wanting In
Mrs. Garniers behavio he knew
that a challenge of'delianco was in
her very air, and that her mere man
ner had told the other woman what
she thought of her. Perhaps Bell
presumed that that was. the way to
manage him. He would shortly let
her know.
Col. Lefebvre came clattering down
stairs next morning, his horse wait
ing at the door.
"Whither bonnd, Lucian?" cried
Helen from the library.
"To ride with Mrs. DeBerrian."
"Oh, your new widow," she said,
gayly. "Have you called yet? No?
How very accommodating in her to
j ride with you first!"
"She is not a punctilious fool," he
muttered drawing on his glove.
"Certain punctilious," put in Aunt
Susan, "are only self-respeot,"
"If yon will go and call with me,
Nell," said Lucian, "I have no doubt
she will postpone theride."
"Now, Lucian dear, you know I
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hate not to gratify you," said Helen.
'Bu really the last thing Bell said
was that it would not do. Sheshonld
not call, nor could T, if for nothing
else, for little Laura's sake, who is too
young and too innocent to have any
thing to do "
"Just as you please," he said angri
ly, and had slammed the door behind
him. Tou can imagine his surprise,
when, as he reined his horse up at
the steps of the house where Mrs. De
Berrian was visiting, he saw his cous
in Laura coming down with Mrs.
Vaughn, a leader of the fashions, with
whom she sometimes went out for
Laura was an heiress, and but little
gainsaid in her wishes.
"I thought yon would like to have
me,' Laura said, timidly looking up
with her brown eyes, as he dismount
ed. She never did have any spirit.
"It is just like you, Laura," he
said, fervently.
"I I don't think you will admire
her so much by daylight," she said,
again timidly; and he had laughed
and handed her into the carriage and
disappeared before she knew she had
ventured to say so much.
But a more judicious curtain had
been dropped within the drawing
room ; and as Mrs. De Berrian sat
pensively leaning her head on her
hand that bore a gleaming sapphire,
a dark curl stray ing'over the contour
of the white band set in its lace ruff.
and a damask shadow of a great vase !
of roses on the table, taller than her
self falling around her, Col. Lefebvre
thought he did admire Mrs. De Ber
rian quite as much by daylight al
though it occurred to him later that
Bell would have called t rose light or
curtain light instead. He was con
firmed in his admiration before he
left her. He was not sure but that by
the time he saw Mrs. De Berrian
again he should be really in love with
her. And his little cousin Laura?
Well, thank heaven, he could afford
to marry when he chose.
She was rather an enchanting wo
man after her kind. "I will tell you
about her," said Laura to her cousins,
when she had endured their reproach
es. "She makes a vital point to
please, in her person, her manner, her
voice. Her face can only affurd
smiles, so she never regents, not even
. , i T-,i ri
sucn a iook as iieirs. one was
charmingly dressed. She is visiting
people just on the verge of sooiet3,l
Mrs. Vauchn soys, but she doesn't
seem to belonir to them. It is mv be-
w .
lief that she has had monev, run !
through nearly all of it, and that this
is her last throw for station and a
husband."
"Laura, where in the world," cried
her distressed aunt, "did you pick up
such "
"French novels," said Bell, who
had run over. "I must say, Laura, I
think you took a great deal on your
self. Now she will return the call."
"She she would like to be respeo
table," stammered Laura. "Andj'ou
know very well that if you want Lu
cian to go and marry such a woman
out of hand you have only to perse
cute her."
"Persecute her ! You do ue select
terms. We let her alone which you
had better have done.'
"I I didn't want Lucian to be
mortified."
"So you mortify ns."
And by the timeLucian cme home
Laura was in a flood of tears, and sob
bed out, in reply to his amazed in
quiry, "Oh, they are abusing me so !"
And then every one laughed at the
Idea of their abusing little Laura, the
darling of the house.
"Well, well, Laura," said he, "I'll
not abuse you. I invite you to our
picnic to-morrow at Great Fall3. Mrs.
De Berrian will chaperon you.''
"Mrs De Berrjan !" rose the cho
rus. "Madame Arroyo, the Spanish
Minister's wife, Invites her."
"Well, to be sure," said Bell, catch
ing her suspended breath, "nobody
knows anything about her either an
adventuress, all the legation say."
"The Count Zara escorts her. I
suppose nobody knows anything
about him."
The Austrian attache yes, he hit
Nell hard then, he thought.
"And the young Russian Duke that
enchanted you so fine men, all of
them !"
"Very fine men and Pome of the
finest ladies at the capital. I'll take
care of you, Laura, if you'll go."
"I'll go, Lucian."
"Perhaps Ehe'd best," said Bell to
Helen at the door. "I shouldn't let
him out of my sight, if I were she."
It was a month later when, Bell ran
over one evening, as usual, now the
gayeties were so few, and Bat talking
gloomily with Helen.
"I never would have believed it of
our Lucian," said she. "All but en
gaged, as he was, to Laura, and with
uer lortune, that would, have -just
doubled his own, she so gentle and
now perfectly lost and infatuated over
this French doll."
"I can't imagine that it is the same
urumer wuo turnea pale wfcen we
came down with carmine on our
ciieeKs the day after we saw thef
French play, and who expostulated
with ns so."
"Our torn now.
"He would have made Laura such
a good husband," said ona.
"But now this demoralizing wo
man "
And while they were bemoaning his
decline and fall, the subject of their
complaint was whirling away in a
palace car, -surrounded by wraps and
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1877.
. rugs and lunch baskets and perodicals
and J? rencn candy and Mrs. JJe Ber-
nan, tne -was ngnts
shining
softly
down from above on the charming
picture the lady made, a3, having re
moved har hat, she leaned back
among her cushions under the shelter
of the rose-colored scarf passed over
her dark curls. Mrs. De Berrian
had been summoned to New York on
Important business; Col. Lefebvre
had suddenly found that he had bus-
I ines3 tnere too. Mre. De Berrian
perhaps meant to give him seme bus
iness before he returned. Neither of
them was aware that behind the cur
tains of a neighboring section, whose
berths had been made up and occu
pied just asrthe train started, reposed
one of his aunts and his cousin Lau
ra. Ifsimplyian infatuation over mere
beauty were in case, no one could
marvel at Col. Lefebvre's infatuation.
By candle-light at night, behind a
veil out-doors, in the dim, deep-curtained
drawing-room, Mrs. De Ber
rian wa3 worthy a painter's pencil
delicate features, scarlet lips, deep
dimples, penciled brows, the sparkle
of teeth, the soft dark glow of great
eyes, the snowiuess of the forehead
under multitudinous waves of shad
owy hair beauty could hardly be bet
ter imaged forth, although possibly
one might lire of it, and of the set un
varying smile, for ail Its sweetness.
Lucian had Dot .tired of it yet ; once
or twice mere naa crossea ins miod a
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but whetherhe had put the thought
away as treasonable, or had felt with
a not unusual masculine vanity that
he could change all that, or had not
just then cand so much for high
principle It did not hinder his own
color from mounting when he looked
at hers, or his pulse from quickening
when this woman touched his hand.
As for Mrs. De Berrian, she was be
ginning to feel a tolerable asaurrance
that at last her pendulous position on
the "verge of society" was to be ex
changed for the fixed ami solid sta
tion of a member of the Lefebvre
family, with all their wealth and
rank, their respectability, considera
tion and friends. And when it should
be why, then she meant to ehowthe
women in that fumily who she wag.
It came near being a settled fact
that night as they rolled comfortably
atono- am
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ioJtgaj.1 the rest of tljs car
fclcfrrtalrrs, the-anftr-rhrht:
L..a r ..
wnimrroti
nal1 Kloom' uan ixgnt. foiling somy
on the lovely face, a setting moon
traveling with them and looking in at
the window at every turn. Col. Le
febvre had changed his seat for one at
the lady's side, that the sleeper3
might not be troubled by their voices
his voice rather, for it wad he that
talked; she listened with the lovely
smile," the musical word. His arm
lay along the back of the seat, his
face was bending over hers ; her great
eyes were cast up at him in the dim
light; her lips seemed to tremble.
He was noting the gentle rise 3nd fall
of her breath, the charm of every
outline of the beautifnl head resting
on that hand with its gleaming sap
phire, aware of astrange, quick throb
with the thought, half a certainty,
half a fear, that all this was doubtless
his should lie ohoose. to take posse?
sion "Tickets!" said some one at his el
bowthe conductor, who had come
aboard at the last station, and who
mistook them for a portion of the gay
party that had been taken on with
himself.
It broke the spell for that night.
Col. Lefebvre started to find how late!
it was, and went away to hi3 berth,
leaving Mrs. De Berrian, ill pleased,
to order the porter about as be made
up her own.
Col. Lefebvre awoke very early on
the next morning from his fitful
slumber, restless with feeling and
with heat, and looking from his win
dow snw that they were rolling'along
the green flats of New Jersey. Then
he half parted his curtains and took
an observation down the car. Some
one was up before him some young
girl; he could not see plainly, with
all the obstruction of drapery. There
was a familiar fling of a scarf. Good
gracious! was that his cousin Laura ?
The sight of her made him fall back
on his pillow and begin to recall the
events of the evening before. It was
just then that someone came rustling
by his closed curtains a lacjy who
wished to make her toilette before the
rest of the car was astir. The sound
stopped short ; the person did cot go
on. Instinctively Col Lefebvre glan
ced through the crack of his curtains.
A netting of the lady's fringe had
caught on the hook of some project
ing valise the porter wa3 disengag
ing it an oldish, frowzy sort of a
woman. One uplifted hand grasped
the curtain for 3upjort ; upon it
shown a gleaming sapphire-. The
drops started out on his forehead.
Wa3 it impossible! He sat up and
glared at her. She had a toilette case
in her other hand. She W8S making
for the little dressing room. There
was the same bronze green lustre of
silk, the same rosy scarf of woolen
gauze had been that instant thrown up
from her face. But that face ; No ; it
was an absurdity. And yet It had
been a horridly hot night ; the best ot
paint would run ; the best of powder
would cake and roll off-;, ths penci
ing of brows would rub all about; the
pigment that so darkened and increas
ed the eye. would smear here and
there raggedly. What had happen
ed to that mouth Or was there no
mouth there? There were no teeth
there ;. they were in her hand
The!
dimples they were two long furrows ;
the scarlet of the mouth had some
how streaked them. And a3 for the
dropping curls they were dropping
off. The beautifnl Adelaide De Ber
rian had gone out like the blown
flame of a candle, and left only a worn
and withered woman with white lips,
and a wrinkled pallor that was blotch
ed and bleared, whose face had been a
mask, "whose mother was her paint
ing." False from the crown of her head
to the sole of her foot"' he repeated,
in Helen's words, and shut his eyes ;
and there sat Laura, brown-eyed
and fair, with her smooth hair, a lit
tle Madonna of a face, as he opened
them again. An hour afterward, the
other women of the car having clam
ored in vain the last third of that
time for admittance, an elegant lady
issued from thedressingToom, crimp
ed and curled and powdered, a bloom
ing, smiling picture, seated hereself
in her re-arranged seetion, and
awaited her cavalier. She waited a
long while. While she was in the
dressing-room that cavalier had step
ped off" the train at Elizabeth.
As Col. Lefebvre sat in his aunt's
room in the Brevoort that night, he
replied to her query concerning his
gloom, "Let me be. I have escaped a
terrible danger. I have found an in
valuable possession that I had mis
laid. What did you bring Laura
here for? Her summer finery? I am
coing to take her a long drive in the
Park to-morrow morning. Say. Aunt
Maria don't you make anv purebases
till we come back. And Aunt Maria,
don't you think it would be stealing a
fine march on them all at home if
Laura and I went baok on one ticket
"One ticket?"
"Well, no, not exaetly. Husbands
and wives are not one financially, are
they? Railways haven't any senti
ment." Harper's Bazar.
Hat Hunting Snakes.
Some months ago a gentleman from
Dumphries paid a visit to a friend of
his in the township of Beverly, Cana
da, a Mr. Henry, and remained with
him several day3. During his visit
the Dumphries gentleman complain-
ed tltat his house was literally infest
ed with ratd and mice. He bad tried
every device to get rid of them, and
aU hfidjjined. Mr. Hgnrv, who is as
ingenious as he te'fond ofportf. He- -
claret! that he could battle them out
of his friend's cellar in less than no
time, loose hi-: own expression. Next
day the two drove to the gentleman's
house in Dumphries. Mr. Henry took
with him a common quarter-gross
match box, pierced with a few holes,
which he carefully placed under the
seat of the buggy. The Dumphries
gentleman, felt that his friend was
going tn give him a surprise, probably,
with some improvement on the ferret,
asked no questions, the better to enjoy
the surprise when it did come. Ar
riving at the hou.e they had dinner,
and after the ladies had retired Mr.
Henry placed the bor on the table
and removed the lid. Tn an instant
from the box leaped a full-grown gar
ter snake, measuring three feet and a
half in length. The reptile, which
was highly excited with the heat,
reared it-elf on the extremity of its
tail, and glided about the table with
remarkable rapidity, lieking its ghast
ly jaws with its nimble tongue. The
Dumphries gentleman shrunk baek
iuto the corner almost petrified with
horror. Mr. Henry showed how silly
this was by taking the snake upon hi?
arm and handling it much like a hack
driver would bundle his whip-la3h.
Finally his fears were overcome, and
when he had composed himself be
led his friend into the eellar, where
the snake was set at liberty. The
reptile immediately darted for the
wall, and the next moment discovered
a hole, into which he glided with the
greatest ease. An interested terrier
stood at their heels, and both gentle
men were provided with clubs, whieh
were trumps jost about then. The
snake had not disappeared over a min
ute before half a dozen rats bounced
out of the hole and met a terrible fate
at the hands of their enemies outside.
But the3nake was not satisfied ; It dis
covered every rat-hole in the cellar,
and glided in and out among the
rocks where even a rat could not have
gone. It was finally taken up and
put in a box, after twenty rats and al
most as many mice had been killed.
The snake belongs to the black garter
family, which are in reality the best
friend the farmer has. They live ex
clusively on the field rniee, worms.
flies and other vermin, and if they)
occasionally glide acrtasithe path of a
human being, their lives should be
.preserved, as their good qualities
counterbalance their defects. The
one possessed by Mr. Henry was
caught by him last summer in a pea
field, and since he has had it no rats
are to be seen or heard of in the neigh
borhood of bis house.
During the locg Freiiek war4 two
old ladies in Stranraer, Scotland, were
going to the Kirk. The one said to
the other,
"Is It no a wonderfu' thing that the
Breetish are aye victorious in battle?"
"Na," said the other; "for ye ken
they aye say their prayers, afore the
fechtin1 begins."
The other replied: "But tbeFreneh
can say their prayers as -wesl's the
Breetish. "
"Hoot!" said the other; "jabberin
bodies; wbjvco.uhl-undBr3tandfdrton?''one w.ho'reeojjniied him wahe4 hiinK-yk-
VOL. 22 .-NO. 22.
graxt tjxder fire.
now the General Appeared to His
3Ien Tiro Personal Sketches.
CM.
S- H. U. Byera in the Philadelphia
Weekly Times.
While I was standing by the pon
toon-bridge watching the boys cross i
the bayou, I heard somebody cheering
and, lookiugaround, saw an officer on
horseback in a major general's uni
form. He dismounted and came over
to the very spot whre I was standing,
I did not know his face, but some
thing told me it was Grant Ulysses
Grant, at that moment the hero of
the Western army. Solid he stood
erect; about five feat eight, with
square features, thin closed lips,
brown hair, brown beard, both cut
short aud neat. "He must weigh 150
pounds; looks just like the soldier he
is. I think he is larger than Napole
on, but not much he is not so dum
py; looks like a man in good earnest,
and the rebels think he is." And
this was the first time I saw Grant. I
think I still possess some of the feel
ing that overcame meat that moment
as I stood so near to one who held our
lives aud. possibly, our couutry's in
his hands. I heard him speak : "Men,
push right along;
close up fast, and ,
hurry over." Two or three men
mounted on mules attempted to wedge
past the soldiers on the bridge.
Grant noticed It, aad quietly said,
"Lieutenant, send those men to the
rear." Every soldier passing turned
to gaze onhiin, but there was no fur
ther recognition. There was no Mc
Clellan, begging the boys to allow
him to light his cigar by theirs, or in
quiring to whit regiment that exceed
ingly fine-marching company belong
ed. There was no Pope, bullying the
men for not marching faster, or offi
cers for some trivial det&it remember
ed only by martinets. There was no
Bonaparte, posturing for efFeot; no
pointing to the Pyramids, no calling
th centuries to witness. There was
no nonsense, no sentiment; only a J
phtin business man of the Republic,
therefor the one single purpose of get
ting that command across the river
in the shortest time possible. On a
horse near by and among the still
mounted staff, sat the General's son,
a bright-looking lad of about 11 years.
Fastened to his little waist by the
orod yHow belt was his father's
sword that sword on whose clear
ateatrwgwirte egrsl -Vtohe-
burg, Spottsylvania, the TVilderness,
and Richmond. The bov talked and
I jested with the bronzed soldiers near
i him, who laughingly inquired where
we should camp ; to which the young
field marshal replied : "Over the riv
er." Over the river! Ah! that
night we slept with our guns in our
hands; and another night, and anoth
er, saw more than one of our divis
ion camped beyond and over the riv
erin that last ten ting-ground where
the reveille was heard no more forev
er. I next saw Grant on May IS, 1863,
and this time at the battle of "Cham
pion Hills," in the rear ofVieksburg.
We had crossed the Mississippi River
at Grand Gulf, aud swung off" east
and north ; had fought the battles of
Port Gibson, Raymond and Jackson,
and were overtaking Pemberton's
army hastening to the walls of Vieks
burg. It was a very hot day, and we
had marched hard, slept little and
rested none. Among the magnolias
on Champion Hills the enemy,, 40,000
to 50,000 strong, turned on us. Sher
man's oorpse was already engaged far
on the right as we approached the
field in that overpowering Mississippi
9un. Our brigade was soon in line.
on the edge of a meadow, or open
field sloping toward the woods where
the enemy were concealed and stead
ily firing on us. We were-in the most
trying position of soldiers, or regulars
even being fired on without permis
sion to return the slwts. We were
standing two files deep, bearing as
patiently as we could, not a heavy,
but a steady fire from inntntry. while
an occasional cannon ball tore up the
turf in front or behind hs. A good
many men were fa!linc,and the wound
ed were being borne to the roar of the
brigade, close to an old well whose
wooden curb seemed toefier the only
protection from bullets on the exposed
line. "Colonel, move your men a little
by the left flank," said a quiet, though
commanding voice. On looking
round, I 3.w k&tutediately behind us
Grant, the commander-in-chief.
mounted on a beautiful bay mare, and
followed by perhaps half a dozen of
his staff. For some reason he dis
mounted, and most of his otficers wore
sent ofi", bearing orders, probably, to
other quarters of the field. It was
Grant under fire. The rattling musk
etry increased on our front and grew
louder, too, on the eA flank.
Grant
had led his horse i the toft, and thus
kept near the company to wich I
belonged. He now tood leaning
eoniplaeently against hi favorite
s-teed, smoking as seemed habitual
with him the stump of a cigar. Hi
whs the only horse uoax that line, and
mt, naturally, have attracted some
ofthe enemy's fire. What If he should
be killed, I thought to myself, and
the army be left without its command
er ? In front Of us was an enemy ; be
hind usv and &bo u.s and liable- to
overcome and crush us, were his rein
forcements. For days we had been
away from the base of supplies, and
marching inside the enemy's lines.
What if Grant should be killed and
we be defeated here in such a place
and at such a time ? I am sure every
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'iMi waeaBaBgeBMagaaea
away ; but there he stood olear.calm
and immovable. I was closeenough, to.
see his features. Earnest they werej;
but sign of inward movementtherewas
none. It was the same cool, calculat
ing faee I had seen., before at the
bridge ; the same careful, ha!f-cynicsi
face I afterward saw busied with af
fairs of state.
Harried II is Sister.
Thirty-three years ago a family .n 3m
med Benton, consisting of father, mo
ther, son and daeghter, resided In
one of the western states, near a smalt
town called Blank. The felher was.
wealthy and lived in style, and liia.
daughter Mabel, a ehlld between two
and three years of age. was always el
egantly dressed, and George, the eon.
a boy of seven, was preparing to enter
an eastern school. One day, little
Mabel disappeared, and her parents
never heard of her again, although
they spent thousands of dollars in
searching for her. The heart-broken
mother died soon after the loss of her
darling, and the father wanderedfovec
this country and Europe, and finally
settled in New York, where he died.
George grew to manhood; and tho
meraory of his lost sister was almosft
effiicej from hfe mind. In histwen-
ty-seventh year, while visiting a mar
ried friend, he fell in love with the
governess of hi9 friend's children, &
heautiful girl of about twenty-three,
and after some months they were
married, and lived happily for five or
six years, a boy and girl being"born to
them durin? that time.
By the death of an uncle in San
Francisco, George wa3 left a consider
able fortune, and the lawyerwhoicon
reyed the intellisceiieo to Mm also
stated that his sister's career kauYbeen
traced.
A tramp, on h.s death-bed. in a St.
Louis police station, confess d that h 6
and two of hfe companions bad stolen
little Mabel Benton for her otetbea
and a loeket whleh she wof, and she
had continued with them for several
years, when her bright.Ipretty fuoeat
tracted the attention of a kind-heart -lady
in Ohio, who adopted! her and
sent her to sehool, where she remain
ed until her patroness died. Mabel
then became a teaeher is a large.
sehool in Ctaeinuati, but as her
health began to frill she applied for a
position as govrtes awl was boa rn,
the family of Mr. M , or, at leeste
that ws the keseptaee km hm&bmAt
of her being in.
"What was the nan of th family;
she was with?"' aeked George.
"M ." was the answer.
"What name did my sister hve ?"'
"Mabel Ferrks."
"My God I" eried Georse. ia agony,
"she has been my wife for five yoana.,a
Upor. further iKvestigstfrxi thls
proved to be the truth, and the girl
nearly went eraay, as she was a de
vout Episcopalian.
A separation ensued, all property
being equally divided. The children
were placed with friends, as eltihr
parent could bear the sight of what
was to them thefrnltof aerlmesgains
God and man. The poor girl is still
living in a quiet eity to New Bg
land, while the husband and brother,
after spending all bis property save a
few huudred dollars, in dissipation,,
shut himself from all oommuRioatfoa
with his friends, and id to-dy a poor
farmer in Gtrrett ouuty,. Maryland,
among strangers, and where few
know his sadly remarkable story.
Chicago Times.
M i n.
A Xoti PaTorite Sass.
The dys of favorite ses of lS3are-.
already upon bs, and it is openly giv
en out in Washington that the tao
tioa of Samuel J. Randall to Uie
Speakership in 1S77, means his pre
sentation as Pennsylvania's favorite
son in 1390. If anybody had told m
a few years ago, ae I witnessed a des
perate fight with ice-water pitohra
bottles and tumblers, between a dreiiik-
en man and a sober man, in the bar
room of theMetropolitaavHotelofthis.
city, that the drunken men n tine
fight would be a candidate for Presl-p
deut in she future, I should afc
have bellevod him. Yet that drunk
en man was Samuel J. Randall teu
as now, a member of the Hows, from
the rowdy District of Moyame3lttg
Philadelphia. He has reformed ainaa
then, and is now. I believe, a total ab
stainer. But he wae the terror of the-bar-rooms
of Pennsylvania Aw
then. Under the iiliueueof liquefy
j be hod a most unfortunate foa.tMe
far whinotag his friends. Ho was
strong as an os, and pitchers awd
tumblers were the favorite woapoms
with which he followed up aeaaatltta
begun with & tongue, wihra rum (&
ed to an extraordinary degree. Ir
! deed, the power of the whfeky be d-
i velope the dormant devil in a
was aeer ick strongly Iliusitrateti
than in the Samuel J. Rnndm&mf 6lose
days. But he is all right w. so ofcsfff
say, and would do for s model far de
portcient to be followed by awy
yug ra aspiring to be either a a,
editor or a mincer. "Je. c
Lmm Globe DemecsaL
A Sen Fraacieeo saaidea upon, wh?& -head
bloom the defies, ander w hose
chin smile the bHttereups and arowad
whose eyes are the crow tracks asix-ty-five
KtffaRet? sttntnie?, has sued
a giddy boy who only eeaped hfe.
mother's apron strings seventy fleet-
I ing years ago. for $15,00' far breevfe
j promt.?.. 1m fathe ted5 nio
; netotty of the kw sap
the gt MV