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Morning Star and Catholic Messenger. uSW OILAI, gSUNDAT, AUGUST 4. 18. CASTLE DALY: Story of an Irish Home Thirty Years Ago. (Continued.) Mrs. Daly did not come down staire again, and esoaped the pang of seeing little Leebla occupy her old places at the hbead of the dinner able ; and Ellen was so engrossed in bearing news of the Hollow from Anne, that bshe hard ly noticed where any one sat. It was quite otherwise with Pelham. The prospect of re turning to Castle Daly as a visitor bad not troubled him beforehand. He bhad been to the hones several times since his father's death, and the changes in it were quite familiar to him. Yet it was be who was the real sufferer on the first evening f the old posserers sit ting as guests in the family rooms. He was the person to whom the trial brought all, and more than all, the bitterness that might have been anticipated from it.. It was he who, in every morsel of food that paeaed his lips, ate the bitter bread of exile and humiliation. He had not cared for the old home as the others bad cared for it; there had been times when he had deepieed it, and after hib long abseno, s in oEngland hated to come back to it; yet, even then, there had lurked at the bottom of his heart a certain pride and joy in the feeling that it was hie; that it belonged to him as un alterably as the msn to the sky. Visions of his earl days came back to him that evening, withthe haty glory hanrginround them that -Teoags F half -remembered childish-cesnes of the days when he used regularly to be mounted on his father's shoulder, after break fast, to make his morning rounds with him to to tbe stables and dog kennels, and when a babyish whim ofhis always found a dozen de pendents eager to carry it out: of the times when he rode through the villages on the estate on hbl pony by his father's side, and the people presed out of the cabins to look at him and call down blessings on his bead. He had felt like a prince then; it had been nothing to him then that his eobjecte were in rags, and the grandeur and state had all been slip-shod. It was the worst part of his pain now that the discovery and the consequent contempt had some later, for it made him feel as if his pre sent sense of low and longing was a punish ment-a weird sort of revenge whihob one part of himself was taking on the other. If he had always been loyal to his own home, he fancied he oould have let it go with more inward dig nity. At leset, he should not have felt the present appearance of the house, realizing as It did his disoontented dreams in pst times of what it ought to be, such a bitter mookery as he felt it now-a Tantalus vision put so close to him, that it seemed as if the least move ment of his band would grappit, and yet utter ly beyond Lis reach. For a few moments in the conree of the evening Pelham tried totaro the pain out of his mind by giving himself up tS a day dream. lie was not much addioted to day dreaming, but just now the vision seemed made to his band, and instead of in venti anything, he had only to forget. He was t0eda little apart from the rest of the party, n a window recess of the well-lighted, sastefully furnished drawing room. Bride Thoroley was playing soft mnslo on the grand piano at the far end of the room. Anne O'Fla herty and Ellen occupied a sofa by the fire; and Leebia Maynard, in her old pink muslin dress, of Whiteoliffe memories, sat meekly on a stool at their fest. It might have been last year, or rather one of bis visions of last year, realized by an enohu'er'a wand Tnis was home; his fathe',, boouse, to which he was heil; not as it ever had been, but as be need to see it sometimes In his thooghts, while he dreamed of the day when he would ask a cer tain little penniless gil to share it with him. It was his taste and care that, for her sake, bad brought together all the comforts and ele ganoes be saw round him. She was on a visit so his father and mother, and to-morrow he was going to speak to her and tall her of his love. She would lift up her dark eyes surprised and gratefnl; a low hesitating voice would but be shon'd look round proudly, glad to have so much to offer--o0b a worthy casket to enshrine his pearl. That was such a natu ral reading of the picture bis eyes rested on; to make it real, so little undoing, so little for getting was needed, that, in spite of all the pain she reaction would be more to bring, Pelham let bis thoughts stand still be fire it, to cintem plate it a little while. "Mr. Daly"-the voice of which he had been dreaming, just as soft and meek as he bhad been fancying it, woke him from hie reverie. Lesbia had left bet foot stool, and tripped across the room to the window reoess-"Mr. Daly, I want you to come into the ooneervaory to look at some new plants I have just had sent from Dublin, and advise me about placing them." The dream fell shattered into a thousand pleers and Pelbam got up to fellow with an inward groan, feeling as if every nerve of his body had been bruleed and wounded in the cononssion of the fall. Leabia paused once or twice in her progress across the drawing room to draw his attention to objects they were passing. "That picture over the sofa was my present to John and Bride at Christmas. It is a Landseer. They fell in love with it when it weeas exhibited in London years ago, and when I read in the Art Journal that it was again to be sold I secured it for them. Was not I lucky I That mosaic table, with the doves, and the marble statuette of Psyohe, belonged to my great noole, and came to me from Florenoe after his death. You must come a little this way to see the Psyche to advantage. Some people think is very beautiful-John doees." Young Mr. O'Roone, when Leabie had intro duooed him to the Psyche a few days before, bhad found something flattering to insinuate about the disadvantage that marble Psyches were under when animated ones stood near. Lesbia could not help wondering whether any -thought of the kind would by chanoce occur to Pelham Daly, and abe stole a glanoe from un der her eyelashes to see if there were any trace of it in his face. He was not looking at the Psyche with any favor, but neither was he lookinog at her. Leebie was not quick enough to read thesensitive pained prid ie e carefolly oompre d features expreecd, but che feltchill ed and mortifled, j tst ie she had often felit at Whiteoliffe in the early days of her acquaint oance with the Dalyc, when Connor and Ellen made much of her in their impulsive wild way, and the standing aloof of the dignified elder brother gave her the impression that she was to blame somehow, and had committed herself to something silly. 8he felt just as she had often felt then, that she could not bear to come to the oend of the evening without having gained scme little token of bhomage from the quarter whence it wasee hardest to win, to re etore her self-complacency. They had to pase through a vestibule, oonnecting the drawing room with the conservatory, that had lately been decorated and farolshed with orange trees in tube. "Look there," seld Leseble, standing stlI be fore one of tbese, and pointing upward to a moth eaten stuffed elk's head esurronunded with a deoorstion of rouaty spears oand old double sworde that oooopied one side of the wall. 'TLste souriona old things were left behind in thb hall when the qld furniture was taken away, as not worth shoving. I had them taken down carefully, and put up here after this wall was paisted, beease I thought your mother, all ofyou perhape valued them-and it nicloe to keep someothin that was her before. How do you think tha old elk'e horns and the armour look among my orange tress " hry nmsee ot f plaeaed ve ababby. hiak they Iec&4" eai6 ?lha )hLTey~~· muoh better tarn them out after thebir original owners; if the poor things could speak they would remonstrats on the cruelty of being pot up in their old pleases to sot as foils to new im portations. I pily them myself." "I thought you would like it," Leebia said, timidly. "We are only tenants bhere, you know, and your people have lived in tbis eas tle for hundreds of years. When you come back here to live- " "I never shall. I know now that it is tim possible. The misfortunes of this year are too overwhelming to leave us any hope of makinog bead agatnsetbem. We must go down. Let every srap and shred of a memory of us be put away ; it to the bet thing that can nap* p I stay to this neighbbrhood at present my mother's ake and for Ellen's, but I hate it. If I could, I would go away to the irtbest part of the earth and struggle to for get all here as bard-as hard as a swimmer struggles who is fighting for his life." The words were spoken low, but Lesbia looked up frightened at the vehemence with which they came out, and at the sort of angry light in the eyes that were fixed on the moundy reliee far above her head. "Would yonareally wish to forget everytbiog quite?" she said. There was te appealing, injured baby-look in her eye a that usneed to come in Wbhiteolife days, when Wattle tore her dress or Bobby pinched her, the sight of which had made Pelbam tingle with Indignation and desire to interfere in her behalf often and often. He eaught the look as be was turning to walk away, but it did not stop him-it was only another sting added to the multifarious pains of the even ing. He had awakened from his dream with a start of fear at s,methlog most repugnant to his pride, which euch dreaming might bring him near, and the only thing to be done was to shake himself roughly free from every trammel of illusion. The bell roangfor even gprsyers iat then, an iride, as he came frrward towards the upper end of the room from the piano, happened to observe Leabia's entrance from the conservatory, and was ear prised and s good deal amused at the dignified height to whioh she had drawn her small head, and the air of general proprietorship of the whole house with which she seated her self by John's side, while the servantse iled in. Lesbia was unusually talkative when, after prayers, she and her guests stood in a group together disoussing plans for the next day, and surprised Bride again by the sharp tone to which she contradioted some asesrtion of Pelham Daly's, and her pertness to John when be eame to the snubbed young man's resuone, and tried to prove to her that she was in the wrong. Bride thought she had oared Lesbia of Missish aitr caught from Aunt Jo seph ; and was diemayed at a relapse on this first occaslon of her being thrown with old so quaintanoes again. But her chief surprise came later In the evening, when on going, as was her custom, to take a last look at her sister asleep in bed in the room next her own, she discovered that the round rosy oheek she stooped to kiss was wet with tears, so were the soft dark curls that strayed on the pillow. Greatly disturb ed, Bride put down the candle and knooelt by the bed. The child crying herself to sleep in her own beauntifl prosperous home-what oeuld it mean? 8ee lingered a moment, hoping that the heavy wet lashes would be lifted up, and that her sister finding her near would confide to her the trouble, whatever it was, that weighed on her mind. She had rea son to suspeot that the sleep was only pre tended; but the appearance of anoonsoiose neos was persevered in, the eyelids remained tightly olosed, and she bed to get up and go away pnsatiefed. At allevents, little Lesbia's troubles could not lie very deep, Bide said to herself ; and she hoped it might be other people's sorrows, not her own, that had called forth the tears. She herself had knelt long that night thinking of their guests, and praying that the widow and orphan son and daughter who had come back to a home desolate for them might be comforted. She had had to struggle hard with her heart as she prayed. lest a grudging reservation should creep in respecting a compensation which she believed to be awaiting Ellen, and which in her thoughts so far surpassed her lose that it was difoolt not to envy instead of pits tug her. She had tried to pray : "Let all the treasure of the thoughts and tender love of the heart in whtoh I have reposed so long be made over and let me learn how to be poor in earthly love; " and she bead sucqceded at. last in win ning the glow of disinterested love, and the peacethat comes to those who arrive at hating their lives and finding them again. The sight of little Leebia's tears seemed a rebuke to her for her struggles. They no doubt had welled forth freely; without any self-regarding refeotions or far-seeing grudges; from pure pity and tenderness, showing how near the child's heart is to God. Before she fell asleep Bride took herself se verely to task for having ever looked down on little Lesbia. It did not occur to her to suone peat that any other struggle with hobilled affeotion, except of the kind she knew, could be going on near her. Her experience of sor row had all been in one direction, and sbe was not fncifol. If it had been Connor with his wninolg ways, and openlyahbown prefer ence for Lesbia, who had come to the house that day, she might have been suspiolous ; but to suppose that her little sister could. cherish a secret regard for one who seemed to avoid rather than seek her would have been an outrage to her sensitive proud maidenli nees. CHAPTER XXVI. "Of woman of t h-ee cows, atragb, don't let your tongue thus rattle ; Oh don't be ency, don't be proud because yeou may have cattle. See where Momonla's heroes ihe, proud Owen Moore's descendants; 'Ts they that owned the glorious name, and had the grand attendant. If they were forced to bow to fate, as every mortal bows,. Oan you be proud, can you be stiff, my woman of three cows t Translated iMagan. After her last night's reflections, Bride was quite ready to acquiesce good-bnmorediy, when her brother snggested at breakfast that the journey to London, on which they were to have started the f.llowing day, shonld be poestpned till the end of the week, to give their guests time to settle in comfortably, bofore they were left to Lesbia's care. She was long inr for change, for her health and spirits had suffeared much from the winter's hard work; but she saw that her consent to remain was received as a great boon by him, and that re coonoiled her to waiting. Shbe reflected that it might not be long that the granting or refus ing favors, on which John's heart was oset, would remain in her hands Her anxiety to gratify him extended so far as to make her take every opportunity that ooourred of being with Ellen, and she tested her own generosity by speakiog a good deal of John, and taking care thabt when the cabins were visited sad the arrangements for distributing food among the starving people were disouessed, all the good results doe to his foresight and capaoity for administration should be pointed out. She oould not speak of John without prei dlog him, but hitherto it had not been her practice ti speak often of him; the partnership between them had been too close; she would have felt it likhe praising here'f Now her sense orpro prletorship in him wase passing away, she had fairly seen that the Joy of hie good deeds and the pride of his talents might come to be an othetx's treasure, even more than her own. It was, perhaps, a help that Ellen did not seem in any hurry to takepoteresion. She was first critical, then surprised. It was not till shbe and Bride were returning from the village, where they had spent the greater part of the morning in going from eabin to coble, that she grudgingly made her Airt admission. "You are good managere ; there is net near ly so muh misery here as in the hovels roand Eagle's and yet yen have enly esed the ia urns ma She Iisse that yee have supplied to me. You mast have put more thought and care ito it, somebow." "And authority," put in Io:lde. 'Ye," besitated Ellen "Don't be afraid of saying exaotly what you feel," said Bride, notioiong a shade of disap proval in Ellen's face. "Well, don't be vexed at my saying it, bat neeessary.or unnecessary, I would not have said what you did to Biddy Flanagan for throwing those few grains of Indian meal to her chiokensa "Few grains Ist t was a Landful. What did I say " "You said it was sheer dishonesty ; that she was stealing bread from the moutt a of her neighbors' starving obildren." ' So she was; all waste of food is robbery of the starviag Just now." "Bat it hurt Biddy dreadfolly. She has the kiodest heart in the world, and would do any thing for her neighbors if she thought qf it, and she has always been famous for honesty. She was crying under her shawl all the time you were looking about." "I was lookingabout to ascat sin if the pre cautions against the fever we insist upon had been properly carried out. If she has snob a kind heart as you say, and cares for her neigh bore, she will show it better by attending to the roles for preserving the health of the place than by ocrying at a word. I am afraid her tears won't prevent bher wasing part of the next measure of Indian meal served out to her, and coming back clamooring for more before the proper time." "No, bea sne, you see, she does not believe what you said ; she only thinks yon very un just. She knows she is neither cruel nor dis honest. and she looks upon Indian meal as a sort of horrible staffsent here in unlimited quantity by government to punish them some bow for their potatoes having failed. She will tirow away the next basineffuoli canay her hands on with energy, as a protestagainst the injr s:ice of your opinion of her." ' She is very ungrateful, then, to tbink more of my opinion of herself than of all the efforte she sees as making for her solid benefit. She ought to pus aside any harshness there may seem to be in my words (which after all only call things by the right names,) and trust us from seeing what we do. That is what I should call reasonable." 'Ak, but we are not made like that," cried Ellen, "we Irish people. English or Scotch people may be reasonable enough to thrive on solid food, given with heart-waunds and stabs to their pride along with it, but we oan't." "Do you mean that you can't take either medicine or food unless it is sweetened by flattery t" "We cannot thrive on it if it is soured with disregard and contempt. But please excuse me; 1 did not mean to apply that to anything you bave done. I have been looking on all the morning amszed at your kiodness, and the people ought to be grateful. My thoughts flew off to larger questions as you spoke, and I was wondering how it is that this foreign charity food is so bitter to those that eat t. Why, we long so that we oould have been fed with the abundance of corn our own land brings forth, and that seems, by some ma chinery we oan't uoperstand, to be spirited away from ns." "Ah.b, your younger brother writes in the Nation newsjaper, and goes in for its politics, does he not '" "Yes, and you ere not the person to quarrel with a sister for being of the same opinion as her brother," said Ellen, smiling. Bride could not quarrel with the smile, it was so sweet, tt:ough there was a gleam of misohief in it. "I won't quarrel with you," she answered, "but putting politics aside, I should like to persuade you to modify your last statement. Borely, it is very unsafe to make pride and sentiment the guage cf acoept ablebenefits. They aredangerous guides, and might lead as to throw away the truest affec tion and most earnest kindness, laboring for one's highest good, if prtJodicelcame in the way." 'I know the sort of kindness laboring for one's highest good you mean," oried Ellen. "I have experienced a good deal of it in my life. Its chibe function is to make one feel oneself a worm, thankful to creep into any hard shell to get out, of its way. It may be a very good sort of affection, but it Just kills me." S e was thinking of Pelham Court, but "nlue . .uu-sn uu Wi, kuuw hat., so u,1 e., was a painful gravity in the tone in which she answered "I an sorry to bear you say that," which pr zzled Ellen. They had reaobed the garden gate by this time, and Ellen stood still to look at the house. The outide, though it had undergone some repairs, was little changed; and Just it the moment there was a bl ats going on in the court yard, and a sound of rising voices that brought back old happier times to Ellen's memory. Lesbia's handsome new phaeton had been brought out rf the oosoh-hooes to be washed, and a conoourse of ragged men and boys from the roadside, where they had been working, had collected to watoh the operation and assist with suggi s:ions and the oocasional more active oontribution of a shower of water energetioally thrown over wheels or onbior . as it happened, from whatever vessel they had ohanoed to snatch up. The men were sadly weak and starved looking, and many of them were s:tt ug down wearily on the upturned wheelbarrocs they had brought with them into the yard, but every now and then a shout of qnaveiing laungl ter rose up "Did yon ever see anything so ohildish I" cried Bride, in despair. "The least thing tempts them away from their work. Every day sinoe the new carriage came we have had the same scene. If John were here, he would have to be very angry," "But be is not here and you msea not be angry ; it is suoh doll, useless work that the poor boys come fromu--spoillig the green hill sides with roads that we none of ous want, and that we shall always hate to see-and it's nothing but Indian meal they'll get for doing it. You must not grudge them the little bit of respite that comes in their way; it does me good, if no one else, fr it takes me back to the times when we could not have anything pew without all our neighbors around sharing the benefit by g.t:ing some amusement out of it in some way." "Your mother found the irregularity and the interruptions very trying, she tells me; and I confess so should I. I like everybody to mind their own br ine-s." 'By degrees, I suppose, we'll learn. I say r'e, because I arlwayse identify myself wit'l tie Castle Dily village people. I can't help it. We'll learn to attend everyone to his own concerns only, and to take advice and what ever else we can get from our betters without troubling ourselves to give back any interest in their doings in retaro." -'And then you'll begin to prosper." "And to be dull and discontented and sel fish." Bride laughed a she shook her head. "I can't allow that those are neoessary resnlts of hard, independent work." she said. "You have a very one sided way of putting thines; but I have a glimmer of what you mean. John was saying something like it a few days ago. The sort of lot irdependence and mutnal affeotion and interest bttween rich and poor you look b·ack upon is a remnant of the old clan feeling and has, no doubt, a great deal of beauty and poetry about it. I can understand the revolt you feel against its being merged icto the hard individualism of tbhe itage of society that has to follow. It looks ugly in the first stern form of truoggle It has to take, but it must come and work out into its own good. You shall tolk to John about it. "I sha'n't understand him if he translates my 'good times' and 'bad times' at Castle Daly into 'stages of solety' and 'lawe.' I won't be made to look at things on a large seale, for then bh'o and you are eare to get the better of me. I shall lnsist on going back to where we started from-the tired meo sitting on their wh i bis ad sJeing ithe wshilagl of Lesbia'. carriage-and say, as I have always said, that I could never bear to think of Castle Daly withoot Daly'soorner hanging on behind it, and finding its chief solace. and all the mausement and glorifioation of the life lived there, in the connection. I don't see that one hua the least right to exist witbout the other. I suppose it ia the olan feeling I have get, but I do in earnest think there ought not t, be great places or very beautiful things unless a whole company of people are to share at least in the glorification of them. So mach ought not to be abhit up and hedged round for the delight of two or three. If everybody lives to himself, and only repreents himself, then ever body might be comfortable, but there need be no grandeur.n "We are getting into maces of political econo my, I am afraild, and had better wait for John to leap na through. There is your mother com ing to meet us with Leebia." "I wonder what they are talklng about that so isterests mamma. Shelooke quitean imated. Lesbi knows how to amuse mamma better than I do; I wish she would teach me her art," said Ellen, with a tone of selftre proach in her voice that made Bride look at her with more complacency than she had felt before. 8bhe was not quite invincible then ; everybody did not put her first. Lesbis had persuaded Mrs. Daly to take a torn in the fiAwer-garden, to see how the bulbs were coming op, and how the shrubber lee were improved by the weeding and plant ing outn that had gone on through the winter. She pergeived quickly enough that Mrs. Daly was not affected by the sight of the improve ments as Pelham had been. She liked to have them pointed out to her, and the implication running through Lesbia's talk that she had not worked for herself, but towards the time when the owners would return to the Castle again, met with no contradiction from Mrs. TTy.--eT-h--r -se or n eT i-rio:ti,]i-tetm selves about the exact bearingof whatthey were saying to each other. It wea only in thib strain that Leebia could speak while pointing out her improvements to the old m'stres of the place ; and it was so pleasant to fall into it, that sbe would not vex herself with even a remote glance at the conditions which only could make her words come true. If it-was a day dream they were making for themselves, the old lady of the Castle and the young one found equal satisfaction in upholding eseh other in it, so that no consoiousness or qsee tioning was allowed to creep in and imperil its foundations. When they had finished the round of the garden and pleasure grounds, and were slowly pacing thesonny terrace with its view across the head of the lake towards to Maa Turk mcuutains, Mrs. Daly, to her own osuprise, found herself opening out to Lesbison reoolleo tions of the first years of her life at Castle Daly. and ofPelbam's childhood. It was the sight of Lao-na-Weel's dark head, for once free from clouds, which Lesbja happened to remark upon, that made her begin. and the interest in the girl's brown eyes tempted her on to a fuller recount than she bhad ever given any one else of what she had seffared long ago, when her eldest son at six years old had et.ayed away from home and been absent fir fourteen hours. Ellen was a baby then, living with her foetor nurse in a cabin at the foot of Lao na-Weel. Pelham had been carried to se her once or twice, and, taking advantage of his nursee's careleesness, he had slipped from the house early one morning, and set forth to find his way across the mountains alone-a sturdy, fearless little fellow, used to climbing, and hard to turn back from anything he had set his heart upon. Hehad been missed some time before anyone had the courage to tell her; and then what an agony it had been to bear the slow passing of the hoors, and the return of one party of searchers after another with no news. No one had chanced to guess the direo tion the child had taken, and of course every one's thoughts turned to the lake at once, and she could not help seeing how little hope most of them bhad, and that the search was half pre tence with the greater number who went. She was ill at the time, and not allowed to leave the house bersel'; and she told Lesbla that she believed her dislike to Castle Daly arose from the painful associations that the views from all the windows had with that day's watchings. She ooald never afterwards see the shadows of the clouds flitting over the bills, or watoh the watrs of the lake deepening into the glow which that day had gone down. At last, long after dark. 'a t dil. strange, wild-looking man had brought toe child liome, with the ettry of how he had found him get tering bog-berries on the edge of the preopice that gained the mountain its ominous name, because no shep herd ventured t ) pasture his flooks on that side of the hill for fear they should fall over and be dashed t) pieces. urs. Daly paused with a shudder at the long past danger. "And then it was all over, and how happy you must have been," said Lesbla. "But, my dear, it was net all over, and that is why my thoughts go back t t tat day so often, tracing onwards from it so many of the troubles of my life. Toe man came up those stepi (I was ettnding at the t )p) with my boy on his sboulder oltobi og his elf-looks with his little hands, and whether it was that the poor child was afraid of being snolded for running away, or whether the man had fascoinated him somehow, I don't know, but for a minute he olung to him and would not g' t down even to come to me. I shall never forget what I felt - the devouring anxiety t3 have him safe once more in my own arms out of the keeping of that dreadful wild man. Forhe was dreadful man. I shall never forget his face as he stood under the light in the hall with Pdlham cling. ing to him. I knew him by report; he had a bad charactor, and was living in the mount ains almst as an outlaw. Of course we re warded him amply ; but that did not satisfy him. Ha seemed to feel as if he had a sort of right over the child because he had saved his life, and he would hang abnout the Castle even after I bhad warned him to keep away. He used to meet Pelham out on his walks when he got a little older, and tempt him to make excur eions int3 the mountains with him, and offer him present ; once it was a young eaglet that he had taken out of its nest on the top of L c na-Weel. I could not overcome the horror the useooiation gave me, and I had no peace till I had persuaded Mr. Daly to send Pelham to England and let him go te school with his Pel ham Court conusine and spend his holidays with the m. That is bow it aosmes about that Pelham had a different bringing up from Conner and Ellen, and that he bha lived so little in Ireland. It iougLt I was doing the bsrat for him, bit I oltfntm fear now that I made a mistake. If I had controlled my dread of Dennis then, thete might have been fewer d.flculties in Pelham's way now." '"But is that man here now." "I dare not ask. I know there are seuspicions about him that I must not allow my thoughts to dwell on. It is bad enough to be always saying to myself that if I had only let Pelhasm be brought up as Connor and Ellen were, he would now be as much beloved here as they are, and I need never have feared for him." "Bat he might not have been what he is it he had boen brought up differently," Leabia ventored. "Hle might not have been so muoh to yoeU.'" "Ab, there it is. I brought him up for my self, not for his own happiness in the plaoe where he has to live. He has never had a real home. Ellen end Conner cling together, and he is left out. I feel the hardship to my very hesrt. I long to see it made up to him, to get him among people who will find him out and appreoite him." "There are such people," sisld Lesbia, very low : "my bri ther and slister." "Yes," said Mrs. Daly, 'that is why I feel so much at home among you, and happier than I felt for months. too must forgive me, my dear, for troubling you with souh a long past story. Here is Ellen coaming frcan the village: she will eJealouo wbn she hsars how long I "Yes, indeed, I am jealous,' oried Ellen,who had now come near enough to bear the last seateaos. "Lasbia, you must be a witb. I always suspeoted it, and now I know: There most have been a four-leaved shsmrook in the wreath that came to you by post the other evenlng." "Mrs. Daly bee promised to come out with me after lanoheon 'said Lesbia, triumphantly. "She and I are going to drive together to Bal lyowen to fetoc the gentlimen home when their weary relief committee business is over. I sent a servant to bring back their horses, so they have no oboioe but to come with as." Ellen might easily have been jealous of the lovely mile of thanks Leabia got from Mr.. Daly in return for this speehb, if she had been able to feel anything but delight at seeing heE mother look so nearly happy again. "How oinsiderate and womanly the child is growing," Bride thought; "and surely she gets prettier every day. John could not call bee eyes brown beade if he saw them jest now. Her manner to Mrs. Daly is just wbha it ought to be, so prettily reverential and affeottunate, and yet too simple to call up any consoiousness of their ohanged positions to eaoh other. I need never fear again that riehes are spoil ing her. I must make John adumire it. He shal not be so lost in oontemplatioo of that other person's chasms, that every good quality in hi. own people esospes him." (To be continued.) DRowxIoNG or Two YouG CATHOLIC ARMY OrrFICas.-A sad oooorrence is reported from the far West. Colonels John Anthony Ruooker and Austin Henely, of the Sixth Cavalry, were drowned at Camp Supply. while bathing n the White Canon River Thursday, the llth inst., the former in his self-saorifoiog endeavor to rescue the latter from his impending fate. -Young RnaLkerwa a-on of Ge-n.t.-H.Rncker, Assistant Quartermaster General of the Army at Philadelphia,and was in his twenty-seventh year at the time of his 4eath. Long ago, when a student at Georgetow College, he won a golden reputation, andronie Booker was none the less popular from being a very fervent little Catholic. The family are all Catholic except the father. Mrs. Gan. Sheridan is the siaater of this young officer, who was fast win ning his way to the highest rank in his call ing. Austin Henely was born in Ireland, but came to this country at an early age. It was at West Point that he and Bucker became so qusinted, and this eaquaintance deepened into the warmest friendship after both were assign ed to the same regiment. May they rest in peace. The latest idea t insure purity of elections was carried out recently in the west and proved to be a perfeot failure. The ballct b-x; was oonstrtosed of thick glass, and was seven feet square, so as t3 admit of two men being inserted in it thropgh a door in the side. The idea was that they should sit there all day, and tally every vote 'ast, with a view t. preveot any stffing of the huge box by inter ested parties. They got along pretty well till noon, one .being of course a red-hot Demoorst and the other a violent Republi can, when the gless beoame clouded through the exhaltions of t r.eir breath. This prevented the bh e~anders from observing the actions of the imprisoned politioiane, but it served the purpose of the scrutineer of the Radical party to a t rn, as when the box was opened at sun down it was found that he had eaten just one hundred and eighty-three Democratio votes, the exact number necessary to secure a victory for his party. He looked very pulpy as he !eft the polling place, but he told a friend after wards that in the cause of right and justice he could have masticated eleven more tickets. The only way to secure an inoorrupt eleotion would seem to be the printing of tickets on sheet iron plates, and gagging the scrutineer. WESTERN PRODUCE° LIQUORS, ITC. HAVE IN STORE AND IN TRANSIT 50 PUNCBEONS CHOICE California Claret and White Wines. wLich I guarantee pure and of first quality. For sale low, In lots to suit purchasers. C. DOYLE, jo30 Im . 41 Tchoupitoulas street. JOHN T. GIBBONS d CO., DUALNIS IN GRAIN, CORNMEAL AND HAY, 57, 59, 61, 63...New Levee Street...57,59, 61,63 aul T7 lty Corner Poydras, New Orleans. JOHN' McCAFFREY, DEALER IN HAY, GRAIN, CORNMEAL, FLOUP, ALLKINDIS O Western Produce Constantly on Hand. 28 and 30.......Poydras Street .......28 and 30 Corner of Inlto, aulS 77 lyMaw 03.A. GROCERS-COMMISSION MERCHANTS PETER ELIZARDI, DEALER IN GROOECIBS, PBOVISIONB TEAS, WINES AND LIQUORS, Corner Burgundy and Mandeville Streets, NEW ORLEAIs. Country orders promptly filed. and all goods de:ivered de30 77 ly free cf charge. E. CONERY. Z. cOONEE, JE E. CONERY & SON, (Established in 184d.) WHOLESALE GROCEE R COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND Dealers in Western ProdueLT CORNER OF CANAL AND DELTA 8TREETS de2377 ly NEwoRLEANs. THOMAS MARNGAN, DEALER IN CHOICE GBOOEBIES, AND IN ALL KINDS OF COAL AND FIRS WOOD No. 446 St. Charles St., corner of Polymnia, NEW OR.EANS Wood and Coal Yard, No. 450 St. Charles street. AU orders promptly attended td and goods d elivered free of charge. sel 6 77 ly PHOTOGRAPHY AS A FINE ART, IW ALL OF IT MAGNIFICENCE OF SHADE AN:D COLORING, AT W. W. WASHBURN'S, 109............Canal Street ............109 All Pictures taken at this Gallary are fully guaraats for aeourasey ad au w SisLL CHARGE S UODZRATU. ag$I s S UISCELLANEOUS. SRMOVAL. ALBERT G. BLANCHARD, b Civil Engineer and Deputy Surveyor, Has removed his leos and resideae to NO. on MAGAZLxN STKLyT, n oornr of Delaabew; oe square aDove ale H is dow--torwn oleoi LIn he osehae -s under the 86. C hales o.tl--ddze Box 81. Lines and lyel even in any part of the ity Sand estimatesto oeoder. h7T Ie SFBO AND AFrER THIS DATE, Y.* TA r MADDEN has an Interest in my buaiaesi ealo~ frm -H. T. LAWLER & CO. r N. T. L"Wlq July 1, 1E78 . 3771 J. H. KELLER. SrasursACTrDus o ALL KINDS OF LAUNDRY AND TOILET 80ot D, Sp A. MURRAY, 018OXBT1BRN MAKB, No. 191 Magazine Street. ALL WORK WARRAKTRD. A lot of Cypres O/BTERNSt r 1000 to soO gallona 9an S yL. maTj. th beet material .nd wrkmaahdn_ k o. csta.tiw on hadc. ran r fa EL t ICN OO EAPEBB A THA TBA CHEBSP AKT.T o.t P11re miume wStded atg two t Loull prSt tte. trs am 10 8othor 5 egatons cpaituymndstM Industri Bxpoyition 1 18u1. SSREND FOR PREIE LISTS. D pt 78 (C'ALLERY & CO., PEICEAN ODOL88 O t E2P A U For Emptying Vaults. I WORK DONE CL=AN AND NEAT-OCXARG RBPIONABL. Particular attention paid to Repairing and Cementing Vaults. Orders left at any of toe followin places will reooiveo prompt attesntioe f 28... ........ Comeroial Place........ Botween Camp and Si. Chalnat es , 226...... ..Josephine Street....... ... Betwoen Constance and IMagaine. 87 FRENCHMEN STREET, Third DDrioat, Box 57 Mechanice' Exohange, undor St. Charles Hotrl. Prioe List ca.n be mseen at any of the above place, Our unmotto, good satrisefaction or no charge. felt ly OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN COTTON TIE CO., LINmIED, 60........C..Erondelet 8treet.........60 NrW 0dLnAusr The AMERICAN COTTON TIK COMPT (LIMITED) having fixed the proice of the celebrated ARROW COTTON TIE at8 50 per bundle, I.ees per cent discount for cub, the General A gent. hereby authoris their Sub-Agent In this city (dealer I Baling Stuffs) to sell to sam oontract with Faeotors and Countr M hnts future delvery on the bov-nod price and to qentitGes from time to time, a my be raq13 et ment beaintmde on delivery. The Company hlavlng a large stock nowon hand, a having oontracted for an abundant supply to mee the entire demand for Cotton Ties throuahout the Cdes Siates. the celebrated ARROW TtE will be pilald upon theirarket generally, and cold by their usmeess gent at theprice and terms above stated. itbesig the obJet and purpose of the Company to merit the continued patronage of the planting oommunlity. B. W. RAYNE & CO., anl9 77 ly GE]NERAL AGENTS. pARAGON ODORLESS EXCAVATING APPARATUS. SCHINDLER & CO., Proprietors, 60...... .....Exohange Alley......... 66 Work done thoroughly and at reasonable rate. Oi first-cla Apparatus ued. Perfect sstifat guaranteed. nolI 7ly JOHN 0. ROCHE, 250 and 2Z2.... Magazlno Street....250 and 95 Icear Delord. UNDERTAKERI AND EMBALMS.. All business entrueted to my care will reoeive pF5Ui and careful attention at moderate rMaes. CARRIAGES TO HIRE. 0st 7817 ANDREW LEO, CARPENTER AND BUILDER, oinE AHD snor 459 Magazine Street. near Ra-e. All order lefi there orat Box 904 Mecbaloe' nd DeIlSs' Exchange, Gravier and St. Charles streets, Wll b.U unali, promptly attended to. no4tl O .u. ,dn. 5. -. GnAt?. _. 4GOLD PLATED WATCHBE. CChpeoi luth, known world. o I'jta cA- _. GRAND OPENING Largest Stock EVER EXHIBITED IN NEW ORLEANS MEN'S, YOUTH.S AND CHILDRN'S CLOTHING Nos. 8! and 83 Canal st. From tbhi day I will cloee out my Enttro )0D Ra*d4·Ido OLOTHIRBG, unrrsoN and mATS at ,LOTEBI PRIOBS EVER BOLD IfN MDV I-