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VOL. 1.
HARTEOBD, OHIO COUNTY, KY FEBETJABY 3, 1875.
NO. 5
ADVEIVriSINO BATES.
THE ACCEPTANCE.
Bf JOEL BE1CTOX.
No more to go on weary quest,
No more to plot, or plan, Or dream;
A glory greater than I guessed
Has dawned. How strangely docs it seem!
For, out of girlhood's broad domain,
Beirilderingly looked o'or and o'er,
No flower (to me 'tis very plain)
So fair was ever won before.
The sweet, glad wonder in her eyes,
The lipl which only lore has pressed,
The warm and palpitant surprise.
The eby response ehyly oonfetsed,-
Are like the light that never was
Inhabitant of land or sea,
And of all carthlynysteries
The one bewitching mystery.
In her docs Psyche's form arise?
Is she so marvellously fair?
Is beauty's spell wore from her eycs7 '
So radiant splendors wreathe her hair?
I bare not asked. I only know
Borne sweet perfection hold, control.
And, where rare human -virtues flow, .
Beams forth the dearest human soul.
O sky! the morn that's risen to-day
Outshines the brightness of your blue;
November's serene!! turns to May,
And this bleak world is born anew.
MARIA SAXONBURV.
BY MBS. HENRY 'WOOD,
.innon or "east ltkici," "verxer's fbide,'
"THE MTSTEaf," "THE KIEL'S UIIES,"
"the CIUXKINGS, "a LITE'S
SECEIT," Jtc, ic
CHAPTER IX.
ALNWICK COTTAGE.
A blazing hot day in August. More es
pecially hot it felt at the railway station
of Offord, a quiet country village; for it
was a email, bare station, with not a tree,
and but little covering about it, to 6hade
off the sun's hot glare. The two o'clock
train came puffing up.'stopped, deposited
a few passengers and a good deal of lug
gage, and went screaming and puffing on
again.
Nearly all who had alighted were of one
party. Mr, and Mrs. Yorke, their two
5'oung children, and some servants. She
vasyoungand beautiful still, but her man
ner had grown colder. Little trace re
gained of the gay lightness ol Maria Sax
onburv. From thelorc.incidental to Englishmen,
of temporary change, of new scenes, Mr.
Yorke quitted Saxonburv. its com
forts and its elegancies, for a "shooting-
box in another county. AH Jic knew of
"Alnwick Cottage," he knew through an
advertisement, except what he learned bv
two or three letters from Mr. Maskcll, who
bad ihe cbarga-cf letting-it, furnished.
Excellent fishing and shooting were prom
ised, and Mr. Yorke had taken it for six
months. It stood nearly a mile beyond
the village. Xo one was at the station to
meet them, and Mr. Yorke in his haugh
ty spirit, wa9 not pleased at the omission,
lie deemed that Mr. Maskell ought to
Lave been there.
"It is a disrespect which he ought no
to have shown me," he remarked to his
wife, when the bustle of their arrival at
the cottage was over.
"I wonder he was not there." she an
swered. "But s6mething may have pre
vented him, Arthur; we.don't know."
"I think I shall take a stroll out and
have a look at the locality," resumed Mr.
Yorke. "Do you want anything ordered
in, Maria?"
'Xot that I know of," she answered.
"The Fcrvants can see about all that."
Mr. Yorkedeparted, takingthedirection
of Oflord. When he reached the village,
one of the first houses he saw was Mr.
Haskell's, as the door-plate announced:
"Mr. Maekvll, Lawyer andConvcyancer."
lie rang, and was admitted.
"I am so sorry not to have met you at
the station." began Mr. Maskell, when he
learnt who hi visitor was. "I wa6 called
suddenly out of Oflord this morning to
make a gentleman's will, and have not
been home halfan-hour. I have des
patched my clerk to Alnwick Cottage with
the inventory. Sir. I hope you will like
Offord."
"It seems a very poor place," remarked
Mr. Yorke.
The village can't boast much, but the
neighborhood is superior: a small society,
but excellent Capital shooting, tool"
"Have you good medical advice?"'
"He is a very nice young fellow, our
doctor. Wc have but one: the place would
not support more. Xot but what he makes
a good thing of it"
Mr. Yorke's lip curJcd. He had not
been thinking or "nice young fellows,"
Jjut of superior medical skill. "I asked
you about the doctor.before I decided on
the cottage, aud you wrote mc word there
was an excellent one," said he, in a dis
eatiefied tone. "It is most essential, where
there's a family, to be near a clever med
ical man."
"We all think him very clever," replied
the lawyer: Ha" bought the' practice
three years ago:.our6nrgeon had died, and
I negotiated its sale with this gentleman.
He has attended us ever since, and is a
great favorite. He was in London for
two years before that, qualified assistant
to a large medical practitioner. Plenty of
experience he had there it was a large hos
pital practice. He xvas smoking his cigar
with me yesterday evening; he often runs
in, does Janson; and was saying"
"What is his name?" interrupted Mr.
Yorke, his accent shrill and unnatural.
"Janson."
"What?"
The -lawyer wondered whether Mr.
Yorke was attacked with sudden deafness,
and why his eyes glared, and his teeth
shone out, so like fangs.
"Janson," he repeated "Edward Jan
son. Do you know him?'
Mr. Yorke's mouth closed again, and
his manner calmed down. "It is a curious
name," said he. "Is it English?"
"Of Butch origin, I suppose. Janson
is an Englishman."
"Docs he live in the village?"
"A few doors lower down. It is the
corner house as you come to Rye Lane:
the garden door at the back opens on the
lane. I assure you, sir, you may call in
this gentleman with every confidence,
should you or your family require medical
advice.
Meanwhile, during this walk of Mr.
Yorke's everybody was busy at Alnwick
Cottage, as is the case when going into a
lresh residence. Finch, the nurse, a con
fidential servant, who had been Mrs.
Yorke's maid before her marriage, was dc-
puted to go through the house with the
lawyers clerk and the inventory, lac
eldest child, a boy of four years, chose,
and he had a will of his own, to attend on
Finch: Finch sudmitting to the.co'mpan
ionship, failing in some coaxing attempts
to cet rid of him. But after a while he
grew tired of the process of looking at
chairs and tables and cups and saucers,
and quitted her to go down stairs.
"Go to Charlotte, Leo dear," said Finch.
"1 shall soon have done. Charlotte,
she called dut, over the balustrades, 'i
to Master Leo."
When Finch and the clerk had finished
the inventory, the former proceeded to the
small room on the ground floor, which
had been appropriated as the nursery. In
the list it was set down as "butler's pan
try." Charlotte, the under-nurse, sat there
wun uieyoungesicuiidasieepin neriap.
"Where's Master Leo?" asked Finch.
abbreviating, as she usually did, his name
''Leopold.'1 "I 'sent him here, and order-
-cd yuu nrEce alter him. '
"He didn t come, was Charlotte s an
swer, "and the little one was just dropping
off to sleep. Master Leo wouldn't come
herejto me, if he could go to hia mamma."
"You'd let him be with his mamma for
ever, you would, if it saved yourself a lit
tle trouble." cried Finch, who of course
domineered over Charlotte, upper-nurse
fashion. "I hate this movme. I dol such
a bother! nothing to be got at, and one's
regular meals and hours upset. I m as
tired as a poor jaded horse. And you sit
ting nere doing nothing, with that child
on your lap! You might have laid him
down, and got a cup" of tea for us."
"Am i to lay hira on the floor retort
ed Charlotte. "I don't know which is to
be the children's bed."
Finch flung out of the room in search
of Leo: her labors that day, and the dis
comfort around, made her cross. He was
not to be found in-doors. and she went to
the garden. Very soon a shriek of fricht
and horror arose from her. It drew her
mistress out: and the lawyer s clerk, who
was departing, heard it, and ran back in
its direction.
Leopold Yorke had met with a ladder.
reared against the side of the bouse, and
had climbed up in all a boy's adventurous
spirit. He had fallen off, poor child, it
was impossible to say from what height.
and now lay insensible on the crave, with
an ugly gash in his forehead, from which
the blood was oozing.
Finch stopped her sroans and lamenta
tions, and stooped to pick him up. But
Mrs. Yorke snatched him from her. and
crouncned down on the earth, with one
Knee raised, and laid lnm upon it. she
looked with a hopeless, helpless express
ion at the lawyer's clerk. The words which
came Irom her white lips were scarcely
auuiuie.
"A doclor: where docsone live?Il . - -"111
fetch liim ma'am; I'll run everv
step of the way; I don't mind the heat,"
cried the sympathizing clerk.
He did not wait another moment, bat
sped away. Leopold was conveyed indoors;
and, before the surgeon cot there who al
so seemed to have come on the run the
child hnd recovered consciousness, and
r inch had washed the wound, which now
seemed disarmed of three parts of its ter-
rors. jir. janson, Handsome, Irank, at
tractive as he used to be, wanting vet a
year or so of thirty, bound it up, ordered
tne ooy to be kept quiet, and said he
would send in a little calming medicine.
"Mav I dare to shake hands with vou? '
he acked, with a frank pleasant smile, but
with a somewhat heightened color, when
lie and Mrs. Yorke were left alone.
She placed her band within his. quite
as frankly, though the glow was far deep
er on her face than on his. "How strange
that we should meet here!" she exclaimed.
I recognized yoa the moment you came
"As I did yon," heretumed- "But I was
prepared. It was a matter of speculation
in my mind, whether the Mr. and Mrs.
Yorke who were coming to Alnwick Cot
tage, could be you and your husband, un
til Maskell set it at rest by saving it was
Mr. Yorke of Saxonburv. I "have been
settled at Oflord these three years."
way l ask 11 you are airs. Yorke
hesitated, but probably thought she must
finish her question as she begun it "mar
ried?" "To my profession I am. Mv thoughts
and hopes have been wholly given to it
since since I fully entered upon it."
"Will the child do well?" she inquired.
"Oh yes. It is but a slight affair. 1 was
prepared for something worse, bv the ac
count of Mr. Maskell's clerk. A little
blood, especially on the head and face,
frightens those not accustomed to it
These accidents will happen where there
are children. He is your eldest?"
"Yes. I have but two.?
"I will send un the medicine I snoke of.
and call again in the morning." said Mr.
Janson, rising. "Make my compliments
to Jir. lorke.
Mr. Janson departed, and Ifrn. Ynrlre
looked after him. As he turned to close
the iron gate, he saw her standing at the
window and politely raised' his h.it. nnd
Mrs. Yorke politely bowed in return. Po
litely: the word is put advisedly: it best
expresses the feeling each wished to show
to the other. Whatever, there may have
been of love or romance between them a
few years ago, it was over now. Whatev
er sentimental reminiscence each had hith
erto retained of the other, whether any or
none, they knew that from that afternoon
henceforth, they subsided into their prop
er and respective positions, Mrs. Yorke
as another s wife, and Mr. Janson but as
a iriend orner and her husband s; as hon
orable, right-minded persons, in similar
cases, ought, and would, and do subside.
Mr. Yorke. after exnlnrinc ns fnrna ho
thought necessary that day, turned back
to his new home. His thoughts ran not
on the features of the village, or on the
lovely scenery around, or on the fishing or
the shooting; they dweltcxclusively on the
few words or Mr. Maskell which had ref
erence to the surgeon with a deep and
nourished hate; and he would infinitely
have preferred to find he had visited a lo
cality where poison grew rank in the fields,
like weeds, than one containing Edward
Janson.
He was drawing pretty near to his own
gate when he saw a gentleman emerge
from it A shudder, strange and cold,
passed through Mr. Yorke's veins. Was
it sent as a warning the precursorof what
was to come? Surelv that was the man
of his thoughts? It was! Janson, and no
other! What! had he already found out
the way to his home? to fas tcie Mr.
Yorke'ii lips opened in their usual ugly
fashion, when displeased.
Mr. Janson did not observe hira. He
walked straight across the road, got over
a stile, and was lost behind the hedge.
He may well try to avoid my observa
tion," thought Mr. Yorke, in hiR prejudice.
Had he been told the real facts that Mr.
Janson did not see him, and being in a
hurry, was taking the short way through
the fields to his home he would have re
fused his belief.
Matters were not mended when Mr.
Yorke turned in at his gate. There stood
hia wife at the window, her eyes unmis
takably fixed on the path taken by Mr.
Janson. She looked flushed and excited,
which indeed was the effect of her late
fright about the child. But Mr. Yorke
set it down to a different cause.
"I am 'glad you have come home," she
exclaimed, when he entered. "An unfor
tunate thing has happened."
"I know," burst forth Mr. Yorke. "Nq
need to tell me."
Maria supposed' ha had eeen-the law
yer's clerk. " What else could she suppose?
"It will not end badly," she continued,
fearing he was angry at ks having happen
ed "Mr. Janson says so. Only think!
he is the doctor here. You must have
seen him leaving the house?"
"Ycs.Idid see him," retorted Mr. Yorke,
nearly choking with his efforts to keep
down his anger. "What brought him
here?"
"Isent forhira. At least. I sent"
"Andhow dared you send for him, or
admit him to my house? How could you
seize the moment my back was turned, to
fetch him to your side? Was the meeting,
may I ask, a repetition of the partin'g?"
"What can you be talking of?" uttered
Mrs. Yorke, petrified at the outburst.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean Janson," hissed Mr. Yorke
"Janson, your former favored lover. Have
I been so distasteful a husband to vou. that
you must indecently fetch tin here in the
lir t Hour ot your arrival Who told you
that he lived at Offord? How did you
ferret it out? Or have you known it all
along, and concealed the knowledge from
mc?"
Maria sank back in her chair, awed and
bewildered. "I do think you are out of
your mind," she gasped.
"Uo; I leave tbat to you: you arc far
more out of your mind than I am. List
en: I have a warning to give you," he ad
ded, nearly unconscious what he said in
his passion. "Get Janson to visit you
clandestinely again, and I will shoot him."
Maria rose majestically. "I do not un
derstand the word 'clandestine'," ohe
haughtily said. "It can never apply to
me. When the accident happened to Leo
pold and I truly thought lie was dead,
and so did Finch, and so did the young
man who had been going over the invent
ory and I begged the young man to run
-brpiic-nrarrsr Mirgeon, Tno more Knew
ttiat it was Air. Janson who would come,
than did the senseless child. But it did
prove to be Mr. Janson, and he dressed
the wound of the child, and he is coming
again to him to-morrow morning. He
came here profcsssionally. to attend your
child, sir; not to see me. 'Clandestine!'"
She swept out of the room, her face
flashing with indignation, and Mr. Yorke
strode up stairs to Leopold's bedroom, and
learnt what had happened. It cannot be
said that it appeased him in any great de
gree, for he was blindly prejudiced, and
jealousy and suspicion had turned his
mind togangrcne. Ihey had been smoul
dering there for years: perhaps the cons
ciousness had been upon him throughout,
that they would sometimes burst into a
flame. On the whole, his had been a hap
py wedded life, and his wife had not made
him the less good wife because she had
once loved Edward Janson.
On the following morning Mr. Janson
came, according to his promise. Mr. and
Airs, iorke were at breakfast. He shook
hands with Mrs. Yorke, then turned, with
his honest, open countenance, and held
out his hand to Mr. Yorke. Mr. Yorke
did not choose to sec it, but he did move
his own to indicate a chair. "Thank vou.
I am pressed for time." replied Mr. Jan
son, laying his hand on the back of the
chair, but not taking it "This is my
hour for visiting Lady Rich, who is a great
invalid. She lives a little past you. up the
ruau. nuw is ray young patient
"He seems much'better, answered Mrs.
Yorke. "He is asking to get up."
"A most disgraceful piece of business,
to have suffered it to happen." internnaed
Mr. Yorke. "I have told'the head nurse
that should she ever be guilty of such
again, she quitB Mrs. Yorke's service. It
might uave killed him."
"Yes, it might," assented Mr. Janson.
"Can I go to his room?"
Mrs. Yorke rose. "The one on the
right, on the second floor." she said. "I
will follow you directly. Finch ie there."
Mr. Janson passed from the room nnd
ascended the stairs; Mrs. Yorke stopped
to speak to her husband,
"1 must hear his opinion of tie child.
and shall go up. Would vou like to ac
company me?" she added, not wholly able
to conceal the contempt of her tone.
"No." Mr. Yorke felt anerv with him-
self. . '
They came down short! v. both Mr. Jan
son and Mrs. Yorke. "lie is so much
better that the difficulty will be to keep
him quiet," said the surgeon. "He must
he still for a day or two."
"You arc sure there is no danger?" aslc
ed Mr. Yorke, who was now standing at
the open window.
Un, none in the world. I will look in
again to-morrow. Good-.morning, sir;
good-morning. Mrs. Yorke."
Mr. Yorke had thawed very much: per
haps the matter-of-fact, straightforward
manner of Mr. Janson reassured him. "It
is a hot day again," said he, as Mr. Jan
son passed the window.
"Very. By the way, Mrs. Yorke," ad-
ded the surgeon, halting for a moment,
"you must not suffer the boy to stir out
side. The sun might affect his head."
"Of course not," she answered.
However. Leopold did cet outside. he
and his white-bandaged forehced, and
lore about, boy-like, the sun's hot ravs
streaming full on his uncovered head. In
some twenty minutes he was discovered;
tne bandage oh, and he as scarlet as a red
hot engine boiler. Suddenly he boran to
scream out, "My head aches! my head
aches!" Finch said it was "temper." at
being fetched in, and crossly assured him
if his head did ache, which she didn't be
lieve, for he never had a headache, it had
come as a punishment for stealing out in
sobedience.
But at night the child was so ill and
uneasy that Mr. Yorke himself sent fortho
surgeon. Leopold's face had not paled.
cry,
li-Ljr ut:uu, my ueiiu:
"He has been out," exclaimed Mr. Jan
son. "Why was I disobeyed? This is a
Diin.fit.nl'a '
The boy's self-will was alone to blame.
Mrs. Yorke had coaxed hira intolviniron
the sofa in the drawing-room "for a nice
mid-day sleep,' ana went into the nursery,
leaving him, safe. Up jumped Master
Leopold the instant he found himself at
liberty, and dropped down from the low
window, winch stood so temptingly open
That was how it happened. His heart
was set upon getting toto the garden, sim-
ueuuuce it 3 ucuicu lu muT
CHAPTER X.
JEALOUS POUBts.
A few days, and Lespold Yorke was, so
far recovered,-that at intermittent fever
alone remained. Mr. Yorke, in spite of
his jealous prejudice;, had been obliged to
submit to Mr. Janson'a frequent visits, for
lucre wan uu.uiutrui'uiur vviuun ten mnes,
anu tne saietyoi n is son anu heir was par
amount. Thc neighborlood had hastened to make
acquaintance with Mr. and Mra. Yorke,
and an early iavitation arrived for them
to take a quiet dinner at Squire Hipgrave's.
It was acceptel by both, for Leopold's In
termittent fever was subsiding, and thev
were no longer under alarm for him,
On the appointed evening, they found a
small party cf seven at the squire's, them
selves included. The eighth seat had been
meant for Mr. Janson, but he had been
called out unexpectedly, and was unable
to come. 7he gentlemen's conversation
turned .upon out-door sports, and after din
ner, when coffee was over, they went out,
that Mr. Yerke migbt Ece a pond on the
grounds, where the fiih was being preserv
ed, leaving the ladies alone.
Soon after, Mr. Janson came in. But
scarcely had he had, time to explain the
cause of his absence at dinner, when a
servant appeared, and told him he was
wanted.
"How tiresome!" exclaimed Mrs. Hip
grave. "A doctor's time is never hia own," he
remarked, good-humorcdly. "Is it my
surgery boy?' he inquired of the servant.
"No, sir. It ii a footman from Alnwick
Cottage. He eoys your boy sent him on
hcrc.,?
This'excitcd'the alarm of Mrs. Yorke.
"Leopold musS be wor6e!" she exclaimed.
As it proved to be. Master Leopold was
took worse, the man said, a-talkmg non
sense, and noi knowing a word of it, and
hotter than ever. Finch was frightened,
and had sent him for Mr. Janson.
Mrs. Yorke grew frightened also, and
id. she. must go home immediately.
'inn triA(lt titan (.- rt"r 1 1 1- unnt I. r '
fears. Mr. Janson said he would make
haste to the Cottage, and return to report
to her. It'was of no use: her mother fears
were painfully aroused. Neither would
she wait until Mr. Yorke came in. She
loved her children passionately.
"Then, if you must go, I will be your
escort, if you will allow mc," said Mr.
Janson.
"Indeed, I shall be much obliged to
you," she answered. And hurriedly put
ting on her shawl, she departed with him.
I.V.J IU I'Lt II llLli iluu iw OWbUC UU
one of the ladies lending her a black silk
hood tor her head, toue i;ad anticipated
reluring in the carriage. It was a beau
tiful sight in September, nearly as light
as day, for the harvest moon was high
just the night poets are fond of consecra,
ting to lovers; but Mr. Janson and Mrs
Yorke walked along, fast, and in a sedate
composure.neithcr remembering t least,
so far as was suffered to appear that
they had ever been more to each other
than they were now.
TLc three gentlemen "were strolling
along the banks of the fish-pond, smok
ing their cigars, and talking. Suddenly
one, of them espied a couple walking arm-in-arm
on the path in the higher ground,
some distance off.
"It looks like Janson," said Squire
Hipgrave. "That's juBt his walk; and
that's the way he nourishes his cane,,
too. Who is, the.lady, 1 wonder? So ho,
Master Janson! a good excuse for not
joining us: you are more agreeably em
played." Mr. Yorke smiled grimly; his eye, keen
as it was, had failed to recognize his wile,
for the hood disguised her. They smoked
out their cigars, and returned to the
house..
''Have we not got a joke against Jan
son!" cried Squire Hipgrave- "I'll rate
him for not coming, lie's walking about
in the moonlight with some damsclon his
arm, as snug as may be.''
"Is he, now?" returned one of the ladies,
humoring the joke. "Who can it be?"
"Oh, some of our village beauties.
Maybe Lucy Maskell. Master Janson
has got an eye for a pretty girl, I know,
quiet as he seems. He's making lore to
her hard enough, I'll be bound."
"Then you had better look out Mr.
Yorke," said Mrs. Hipgrave.with a laugh.
"The lady is your own wife."
She had spoken innocently, never for
a momsnt dreaming that her words could
bear any interpretation but that of a joke
to the ear of Mr. Yorke. And happily
she did not see the livid look, the strange
expression which arose to his face. He
had turned it to the window, as if he
would look out on the pleasant moon
light. "How comes it to be Mrs. Yorke?" de
manded the squire. And his wife ex
plained: telling of the summons to Mr.
janson, the fever of the child.
Still Mr. Yorke did not speak. One of
the party advanced, and stood at his side.
"A fine prospect from this window, is
it not?"
"Very."
"Will you cut for whist? How unfor
tunate to have our tables broken up! We
cannot make two, now. Janson rarely
plays at cards, but I meant to have press
ed him into service to-night
"I am going home," said Mr. Yorke.
"Nonsense!" said Mrs. Hipgrave. "The
child will do very well. Mr. Janson, did
not stem to anticipate danger. He said
nurses were easily alarmed."
"I expect he did not," drily remarked
Mr. Yorke. "Thank you, not to-night,"
he added, turning from the cards spread
out to him. "Another time."
"Yorke's in a fever over that child,"
remarked the squire, knowingly, as bis
guest departed. "I can read it in his
manner. Did you notice how it" altered?
AVbat a nuisance children must be! Glad
wc have got none."
and he still moaned out the .same
1 1 r I. i i iiii -
Mr. Yorke was not in a fever over th
child; but Mr. Yorke was in a fever over
something pli Tip wi nnsaitivplir he-
neving, in spite or improbabilities, that
the story of the illness had been a got up
excuse, got up between his wife and Mr.
Janson, to indulge in this night walk of a
mile and a hall. And be .clenched his
hands, and gnashed his teeth, and strode
fiercely along in his foaming jealousy. It
is a passion which has turned many a
sensiuic man to maaness.
He stole in' at his own gate and recon
noitered the house. The drawing room
was in darkness, its windows open: thev
were not there. A light, shone up stairs
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in ijeopoia s cnamoer, and one also in his
wife's bed-room.
He stole un stairs, stealthilv still, and
entered the bedroom; his own, jointly
with hers. The housemaid was iurnln
uuuii vnc oea.
j .iii
"Is your mistress come home?"- imVi-il
he, speaking, perhaps unconsciously to
uimseii, in a wnisper.
"Ye8,8ir; she came in with Mr. Janson
They are with Master Leopold."
Upbighcr yet. but ouietlv still, till he
Teacnea .Leopold's room, llis wife stood
there, at the foot of the bed. her shawl
still on, and the hood fallen bick from
her head, and Mr. Janson was seated on
a chair at its side, leaning over Leopold,
his watch in one hand.the child's wrist in
the other. He lay on bis back, hia little
face a transparent white, as it had been
lately, and his cheeks and lips a. most
lovely pmK crimson. 111s eyes were wide
open, and looked very bright
"Jfapai ' said he, half raising his hand,
when Mr. Yorke entered.
"I don t know whv Finch should have
been so frightened," said Mrs Yorke, to
ner nusoand. "lie isauitc rational now.
and seems but little worse than he usually
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uuea w lieu tue lever is upon ill ITU
"What do you mean, bv having thu3
sent to alarm usf demanded Mr. Xorke,
in a snarp irritable tone, as linen enter
ed the room with a night-light, which
she had been down to get "Frightened,
indeedl ma you send'
"I never knew any child change so."
returned she, almost as irritably as ber
master. He was burning with fever, as
bad as he ever had been days ago. and
delirious again. It alarmed roe, sir, and
I sent off for Mr. Janson: I didn't send
for you and my mistress. No sooner had
the man gone than he dropped asleep.
and has now woke hp 'calm almost as
much as to insinuate that I am telling
stones.
"Thi3 class of fevers will fluctuate." in
terposed Mr. Janson. ''One liourthe pa
tient seems at death's door, and the next
scarcely ill at all. Something has ccr
luiniv increased 11 to-nigac, out ne win uo
well."
it ever i saw anv human bodv so
changed as the' master is, since we came
here!' uttered Finch to Charlotte, that
same evening. "Formerly-he used to be
pleasant enough in the house, unless any
great thing crossea'him, but now he's as
growling and snappish as a bull put up
lor uaiung. i wonder my mistress does
not give mm a bit of her mindl I wish
lied go off- to Scotland as he did last
year. '
Continued next WeekJ
A GRASSHOPPER STORY.
Near Topeka, Kan.T I talked with a
farmer who planted a thousand acres of
corn, but did not gather an ear. Last
year he sold' corn for 17 cents, and this
year he was shipping it from Iowa at
$1 25. He sat on the balcpny mourning
the utter destruction of his crop.
"How did they come the grasshop
pers?" I asked.
"They came like a shower, sir," he re
plied. "They came in a great shower
from the west They filled the air. They
darkened the sun. They covered the
stalk of corn until it was black? Then
they ate the leaf, ate the stalk down to the
young ear, and then ate the little ear.
too."
. "Cob and all, sir?,"
"Yes, cob and all. Why don't you
sec that 1,000 acres of corn out there
now?" he cxclaimed-"standing like broken
whip-stocks?"
"What else.did they eat?" I asked.
"Why, they ate every leaf off the
.peach trees, ate the young peaches, leav
ing the stones, and there stood my trees
leafless, bearing a crop of peach stones.
They ate little cottonwood limbs an inch
thick, they ate my beets, turnips, and
onions clean down in the ground hol
lowed 'cm out, leaving the-rind ate cigar
stubs, sir, and "
"Hold up!" I said, "that's too much;
that's "
"But it's the solemn truth, air. Why,
one night I sat on the balcony with the
engineer of the Santa Fe road. The
hoppers had piled up against the West
side of the house three feet thick. It was
a crawling, stinking, nasty pile. The
balcony was covered. I threw down a
quid of tobacco, and the hoppers covered
it and ato it up in a few minutes, and
when I put my foot on a pile of them, the
rest sailed in and ate the smashed ones
up. Why, when I went to build my fires
this fall, the stoves wouldn't draw, and,
on examining to learn the cause, I found
the flues were full of hoppers. They filled
the air with a horrid stench. They cov
ered the pools and the spriugs with their
poisonous green excrescence, nnd made
the cattle sick, they made the hens and
the turkeys sick, and. they fairly made me
sick. Why I've seen them so thick on
the railroad that they'd stop a train
grease the track till the locomotive
wheels would roll over and over.
"What became of them?" I asked.
"They flew east They alwoys flew
in the daytime and ate at night. They
went through my corn field in a day, and
the next day they were a half mile to
the east
"And the trees?"
"Why, they all leaved out again, and
many of them blossomed over again, and
tried to bear fruit, and bore it till the frost
came. In my trees you'd see. dead peach
stones and pink blossoms all together.
Oh, it was a mournful sight, sir dread
ful" and the farmer drew a long sigh.
Cvt. New Tori; Sun.
A correspondent tells of a fisherman at
Lake Winnipiseogee, who lately caught a
cusk which was eighteen inches in length.
On dressing the fish, he found a perch in
side of him which was just nine inches
long, and inside of this a perch just four
aud a half inches long.
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
A Patterson, N. J., clergyman skates
Oakland. Cal.. has a Presbyterian Sun
aay ecnooi with mj Chinese pupils.
There are nominnllir p?ilitv.ninA TV7a
copal churches and chapels in New York
cuuuiy.
A Rhode Tslflnd mAn tiril;o TtTo fiAw'a
ribs because he would jiot attend Sunday
Five hundred find ttrantvotivlit mpba..
- - -j -' ' i - y..avna
have lOincd the Rmnblvn T1U..111.I.
within the past nine months.
During 1874 the Roman Catholics lost
by death three Bishops in this county
11 iiciuu, iiicranana ananacon,
It has been noted that of the eight
-V UUUIbli
since October last, five arp nnAnr fit-.
years of age.-
The Episcopalian;. rtrntvtaA fawn?
general Churrrh RmMinr -n..
w "-"0 ""W" - AUG
scheme has received the approval of moat
At East Elmnro Vf -
. - -' 1 'uui j ears, ago
..as uui one praying family; now
there is a church of 120 members, and the
revival is still progressing.
Father Wnnmiiv T.' "L .
1 1 - 1 -i-jcuuu convert
Jrom Romanism, is said to have induced
,. "XJ. lan""e w leave the Roman Cath
ohc Church at Putnam. Conn.
The Wesleyan Methodists arc prepar-
.-o iucu.ogicai college at St
Lambert. nnnciDallv for P'ni.T. r-.-j:
an young men preparing for the ministry.
The Bishops of Hildesheim and Mun
stcr have had tlielr.olo.:. r. o.,.
, -. BMiMnu uuui iue oi&ie
withdrawn on account of their persistent
u.sicaru oi me ecclesiastical laws.
Spurgeon thinks
to shake a conereeation intn nii-ntii.
e n.dvof.fttea o i.iw.n r vnT-j 1
shuttle-cock in the pulpit, and says he
Clergyman wno tried the experi
ment. The Delrnil J5V-. P-... iit.
wno claims to have trade?
seven times, nnd Mm-itd it..
, ... 1. v . " i.. iuau
everv time, and veltrlmt, 1,; :c. at..
other day he promised to meet her in
ucaven.
In Philadclnliia tTio TVT
79 churches and 18,125 church members:
Methodists, 75 churches and 10,770 mem
bers: Presbvterlans 72 .-j 00
uoj rnemoers; baptists, oi churches and
iwjtfui luejuuers.
There in 'ft m i -L-m! -inr.:nl .1
' i.mai muling me
Mohammpflnna n f T t.rt1,- ri 1 j -
i - u.uunt uiu, uc-
scrted temples have been repaired, and
arc eiuHueu wun WOrshinera. Ktroot
E reaching has been resorted to;and schools
ave been opened in wViIl. .. ji-
, I - - UWUJUCB
01 xsiamism are taught.
Ketnrf.i fmm rhino ,1.. .
------ .iiuiii fcue xeceui
destruction orthehomeof the two Mis
sionariea connected with the China, in,
7 I ir: r n.t -. -
un.u .1u.133.uu. xne .Missionaries were
mrccu to iiy lor their lives, leaving all
tceir property m the hands of the mob
The Tntltnmrfmf anvo. A 1 .
' " - MiUCOUUUUCUh
r 1 1. .1 : 1 1
..1 iuc ucuuuiiuauonai newspapers enron
icle the fact that a elerevmnn ".'a n;n
service in this part of the Lord's vine-
varu anu wun auspicious omens. A hap
py conglomeration oiUhnstian and Hea
then cant.
However rich ft man mnvli. T. m
. . mc, uuncicr
uiieu, ugweyer proud, let him go his way
with hDmilitr. rpmomTio.tn un I. :..
, J 1 .....11 ma, uo ib
only about the two-billionth part of the
population 01 tae world, and that he will
some day die and be missed by men just
about as much as a mashed grasshopper
is missed by his swarm.
The Western Bantlst TCdnratinnal tt-
-r- .wuu, ju
ion has nurehnRpi thn Pin rr..-. .u-
. MHZ
largest hotel at St Joseph, Mo., with the
iiiicnuun 01 turning it into a Baptist
University. The articles of incorporation
place the endowment fund of the new col
lege at $300,000, with power to increase
it. to $1,000,000.
At the ConsJslnrv lield Ti A Ol rim
'"-j nac
Pope nominated beveral titular bishops
fnr- ftilian o 1 J-
Seventeen bishops, in paribus, were also
nominated.- ThePnn in nrM
cardinals, after ihe close of the Consistory,
oevereiy censured tnose ecclesiastics who
took part in the late election to the Ital
ian Chamber of Deputies.
T)ll Tin thn Aretfirm n f li To .nnr
O ........ v 1 1 J lib II bUUIliU
at Elmira, which is to be the largest
Protestant church hmlilmr In Vw Vn.1
State", Rev. Tom Beecher has preached at
tue opera nousc,every Sunday evening,one
cent admission being charged. The size
of the audience, at this novel figure has
been sufficient tocover expenses.
The Rev. Barnabas Root a native Afri
can. was recentlv ordained hv n fVmro-
gational Council in New York city. .He
l. . . 1 TTi. 1 c 1
ua uruugui iu uie united oaies in 1007,
nnil ChArMir ftfliwawila vofnnA.I Woof
Afiica to work among; bis own. people,
lie came back again to study in 1SC3, and
since then has graduated at Knox College,
111,. Jlnd studied for three vearo in he
Chicago Theological Seminary. He goes
i nr nf.r
AleThmrlpfl hnrt A Rhrenril nnv nf divert
ing attention from his vice's. He once
paid 70 minx (about $1,400) for a dog. of
remrirlrflltle flize nnil hefllitv nnii fenernl-
ly admired for his tail. He cut the tail off,
1 1 " 1.: r: 1 - .1 1 1 1 1
uuu wueu 11 ib incuua eeuiueu uiui, anu
said that everybody was vexed about, the
dog and was abusing him, he answered,
with a laugh, "That is what I want 1
wish them to talk about this, that th
ey
may say nothing worse of me.
Tiiil it ever fsfntre tlie rpi!ir llml ll. .."
must be a great deal of skill, and art, and
conscientious edification in the buiidiiig of
a good, serviceable jail? Here is a firm
in St. Jtouis which advertiser that it de
votes itsell to .Jail iSuiIdtug. and to the fur.
n!lilnf of f?A(pn- flrtll.M Li-iL-u llan.li.i.(r-
Shackles, Balls and Chains. We shouldn't
suppose it a very jolly business to engage
in, uui uousiucnug me necessity or securi
ty, of convenience and of ventilation,
it must reauire rood iud?ment .-in.l fMoliiv
in no usual degree. At the west it isn t
merely the breaking out ol jail which is
to be guarded against, but also the ten
dency of the community to break in, with
a view to summary lynch Droceedlnrs.
We nlinnlit flntinnne tlmt n .Tail Tti.ll.lar
would now nnil then litre in refroali liim-
self by putting up a church or two but
that is a matter of taste
SPLINTERS. -
Cyclc9 oftime Icicles.
Down in the mouth Your throat
The traces of tears draw sympathy
A person who wags his. head is a.wag.
To bjil a tongue Drink scalding cor
fee.
A mortgage is a difficult thing to satis
To kill time Take a horse and sleigh
it
The stamp of civilization The costntra
. 1 a
stamp.
Chairs should not be covered with nillr
out sat-in.
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Corporal punishment Reducing him to
ie ranks.
Swallows mav slom (lie nir ' hnt Titr
th
can't skim milk.
A church fair The beaatifnl-being who
sings soprano; .
A rough estimate guessing that you
can knock a man down.
To "hone" ft tnrlrev Talra U
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poulterer is not looking.
To prevent meat from spoiling In the
summer Eat it up in the spring.
How toj make ftwl nnffo Qaml 1.
publisher 50 cents a line for them.
It s never loo late to mend, except when
stocking is worn away in the instep.
Manv neotde. have the faetKfv f 1 str
ing at everything and seeing nothing.
If a riflirTif flnefttflelea rnnld orteatr tl
historian would they name. Ea-se b:3.
In the earthquake region of California
is reported that "real estate is active.M
All ffftmea rtf enftnee T.anl .?...
for office, will bo suppressed by law in
Virginia-
Old Sojourner Truth is still living. She
centenniallr expected to ro to Philadel
phia. "
An Illinois farmer nnt n airm Aver i.tm
pond since it froze over. It reads, "Take
not ice.
Linen rnhher lined nrtae ia tuwAmtnw
verv nonular in Xe w York will. (Ti fir.
department, of course.
What class of people has done most to
ward DODlllatin? this countrv? The-Smlth
manufacturing company.
A Nevada editor gravely announces,
that he never can write flnidlv nntiT'hVi"
had a glass or two of whisky. ' '
Information Wastedl K '
Will 8nra benighn being explane to me:
Whv a do?; alwnifl tnrna nmnnrt 3"hn.V
before he lies down.
Why ahorse alwnss glfa up oph from
the eround on hia forward feet fust
Why a cow alwusa gits up opb from,
the ground on her behind" feet fust
Why, when a man gits lost In the
woods, or on the plains, he alwuss walks
in a cirkle. 4k '
Why a goose stands fust on one Jesr af
then on tuther.
Whv rntihifa hav n annrt tall nml .'
hev along one.
Whv most Of the birds hlA tneir neafu
of different materials; ''
Whv a hen alwusa known her liitleW
ones from another's, and whv she "will
hatch out 12 duck ecfa nnd then tdtnl-'
they are her own' chickens.
Why a bear alwuss klimbs down a tree
backward.
Whv a tnrkev'a nrm are neflrleT nnl
a duck's eggs blue. 4
Whether a log floats faster in a river
than the current runs, or not
Whv an nvater -An? a IrTan tl.Aft
only things 1 kno ov with animal life that
dnn't heir In mnn nnt nf-l,lh. 1.: '-.
-v w.vvhww. itibll iiw,ca w
git a living. ..-'
Whv a mnle's hnne.a nn! nit'anltd nJ
their ears twice az long az a horse's. "'
Why a pig gathers straw in his mouth'
and runs about with them iust-before'a.
rain storm.
Whv litenin? waz never Vnnnn tn
strike a beech tree.
Whv!the males amon? the feathered 1
race do all the singing.
Why natur will allow a cross between
some animals and then no more.
Why the blaksuaik iztho onlysnaik
in this country hat can klimb a tree.
Where the flies all go to when thekold
weather sets in. and where ther nil mm
from so sudden next summer.
Why a musk rat's tail haz no fur on it,
and a mink's haz.
Whv a email's tes is round and a hen
egg'iz pointed. . ' '
inereiz lotsov hily eddicaled people
who won't believe the Book ov Genesis
because they kant prove it, who kant
answer korrectly one-third ov the- above :,
questions. Jos h Billings.
A renorter.of one of the' amnller "nnr.
nalaof Paris asked the. manager of a thea
ter to give him two seats for a certain per-'
fhrmfinee Tne mi noin- Ai c . 1 . I 4f.tt
- . - .MWMQb. IklltMLU BUU II1U
journalist said to him, .Your refusal will .
cost you 40,000 francs." For six, months
after the paper praised the theater in this
wise; "Monsieur X. 13 a magnificent di-
.aiifA. TTa. T.na n -An, n 1 T.
"WUtt . I- UttO 4 ,UIUHUJ Mill
entertainments are excellent His man.-:
arement is intelligent- He lrnnn .lut
the people want What a pi. it ia that
tne staircases ot the theater are wood. If
a fire should break out th audience would
have but little chance, of escape." The
result of this was Vnat the manager was
compelled to bui'i an iron staircase which
cost him 50,000 francs.
n ut ui.iuvn . b iiiiiuuiii uj u. .
great feature of Chinese shops, and the
norjs upon mem are a strange mixture or
tLe flowery literature of the land and the,
advertising instinct of a commercial peoa.
pie. Here are some of the sign a of Peking
"Shop of Heaven and Luck. "The Shop
of Celestial Principles," "The Nine Felic
ities Prolonged," "ilutton Shop of Morn
ing Twilighl ," "The Ten Virtues all Com-,
plete," "Flowers Rise to theMilky Way."
A girl sixteen years old was found sit
ting exhausted in, theetreetat Boston, Inst
week, where her father had driven ficron
discovering that she had given birth.to
an illegitimate.child, and she was remov
ed to the hospital, where she died on Sat
urday. Though her father had just been
released from jail himself, he refused to"
i i , . . .... -
see ucr uooy.or nave anytnmgtodo wittt
it, and she w3 buried by the city.
:
It is a pitiable spectacle to see a relig
ious banker, late at night, trying to set the
"combination" on bw front door knob.