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The Way to Win Him.
(Continued from First Page )
he answered. "I have come to take you
for a long drive, away out into the country,
if you will go."
'Oh ! thank you so much !'' she cried
'I haven't seen the country
delightedly. "
for ever so long.'
"Then get ready at once."
She tripped away, and in a few moments
reappeared very tastefully arrayed. Clifford
led her out, and seated her in his elegant
carriage, little thinking f at indignant eyes
watched him through the blinds of the upper
window.
And then they whirled away. Hours after,
on their homeward drive, Clifford gave his
high stepping grays the reins, and watched
Ethel, who was intent upon .arranging the
evergreen they had gathered on their
journey. After awhile he broke the silence.
"Ethel," he said, -'what I am about to say
may seem hasty and premature to you ; but
I have lately discovered a secret that has
lived in my heart ever since my happy, old
college days. "Ethel, I love you !"
She dropped her evergreen, and looked
up, her brown eyes wide and startled.
"You were not expecting a declaration,"
laughed Clifford, seeing her evident surprise;
but pie se think it over, for I am very much
in earnest.
Ethel. I am something over
five-and twenty, and I have seen a great
many charming women, but never one
before that I wished to make my wife.
What do ;ou say darling? Can I hope?"
"Why, Mr. Murray," she stammered, her
fair cheeks a 1 aflame, "what can I say, it is
SO sudden ; and you forget that I—I—am
very, very poor."
"Money is no object to me, Ethel ; I have
enough and to spare. I only want you to
love me. Do you think you ever can ?
She looked up again, as if to read his face
and its passionate tenderness dazzled her.
She clasped her hands, and sat for a moment
in intense thought.
" Speak to me, Ethel," urged the
Impatient lover. "Can you learn to love
me ?"
She broke into a childish little laugh,
though her eyes were swimming with tears.
"Indeed, Mr. Murray," she replied
artlessly, "I never thought of such a thing
in all my life ; but dear papa tho jght so
much of you, and—Well, I don't think the
task will be so very hard. I really believe,"
she added, with a charming confusion, and
putting out her little fluttering hand shyly,
since you have made me think about it,
that I love you already."
Clifford caught the little hand, and
covered it with rapturous kisses; and that
was the end or beginning, rather. And just
here we will drop the curtain, for language
would be inadequate to portray the amazed
wrath, the bitter disappointment that over
whelmed the house of Wallingford, when it
became known that Ethel had won the prize.
Holly Oak Lots $5.00 per month,
per cent, interest allowed for cash.
JohnH. Longstreet.
Six
A Hollow Mockery.
Spillkins brought home some Swiss cheese
from an Austin grocer, which is full of holes.
He partook of it very liberally, but when he
complained a few days afterwards, of a feel
ing of emptiness, little Johnny, who is one
of the smartest boys in Austin, spoke up
and said :
"I know what makes you feel so empty,
pa. It is them big holes in the cheese you
ate the other day.
Their Late Brother-in-law.
A fashionable Austin lady, immediately
after the death of her husband, married his
brother. A visitor at the house, noticing
the picture of her late husband, asked who
it was.
"It i-i-is," she replied hesitatingly,
deceased brother-in-law.'
my
"Mine, too,
laconically remarked the new husband.
MARY HAD A LITTLE WATCH.
Mary had a little wateh
Full many years ago,
And everywhere that Mary went
The watch
She took the watch to school one day,
To let the scholars hear,
And great was their delight to see
The works and winding gear.
Next day this watch would go no more ;
She hastened to a shop j
The jeweler looked quite wise and said,
" You did not wind it up."
sure to go.
Now she would not eat
Began to wind and fret,
And if she hasn't died since then
sleep,
You'll find her winding yet.
—s Weekly
About Face.
A man's occupation or condition, says an
exchange, has a good deal to do with mak
ing his facial expression We have noticed
this frequently but never thought of writing
it out. Butchers generally have a beefy
expression, and you can tell a whisky drinker
by his rye face. Dentists look down in the
mouth while detectives look up criminals.
Victims to insomnia have a wide awake
expression both day and night. Mirth
nukes wrinkles in a man's face equal to
sorrow, and th -t is why it is difficult to tell
a comeditn from an undertaker, off the
stage. Drummers are all cheek and barbers
all chin. The majority of fighting me n
have black eyes, more or less often, but
a blue eye doesn't necessarily indicate
that its possessor is subject to the blues.
Time was when a man had a portion of
his face knocked off he had to go the
remainder of his life that way, but it is dif
ferent now. The surgeon has advanced so
much in skill that he is able to put a good
face on the matter, anyhow. He can even
face trouble, without showing where it is
stitched on. Speaking about trouble, a
well-to-do barber will "pull a poor face" if
fifteen cents goes with it. Finally, the
homeliest face can win beauty, with money
to make up the difierence, while the hand
somest man at a bar sometimes finds that
his face isn't good for the drinks. — Texas
Siftings.
A Matter of Enunciation.
"What is that?" said a traveler to a fellow
passenger on a railroad train, as they glided
along the bank of the Hudson.
"Ice saw," laconically responded the
other, as he glanced out on the river toward
the ungainly object indicated.
"I suppose you did see, or I should not
have asked you the question. You saw, and
I saw, too ; but I did not know what it was."
"I said it was an ice saw."
"Very true, it is rather an eye sore, dis
figuring, as it does, that pretty sheet of ice,
which makes such an excellent sheet for the
ice-boats to sail on, but still I am in the
the dark as to what it is."
"I didn't say eye sore. I said an ice saw."
-■'O, a nice saw. Well, perhaps it is.
Just depends on the way one looks at it.
Thank you. Looks as though we were
going to have a thaw."
The Electric Organ.
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The Joke on Mamma.
As all eyes turn to Gen. Harrison now,
and even to his own town, for everything
even of the must trifling character, it may
not be wicked or out of place to speak of
Dan Payne's little boy at Indianapolis and
his German prayer.
He had just learned the I.ord's Prayer in
German and suggested to his father that the
following evening he proposed to offer up his
new German prayer when he went to bed,
in order to surprise his mother. He added
that of course God could understand Ger
man, even our common-school German,
without any trouble.
"Yes," said his father, "but I think it
would sound a little sacrilegious, and God
might not like it in that spirit."
"No, but you don't understand it, papa,"
said the young man. "I want to do so to
'stonish mamma, you know. You see, papa,
the jokeam'ton God at all ; it's on mamma.
Bill Nye.
A train from Pittsburgh was aproaching
Chicago. On board w. s a quiet, well-dressed
copper-colored young Indian, who seemed
to have all he could do to attend to his own
business, which he did without molestation,
until a youg man, whose b ain had evidently
been devoted to his ch thing, came from the
sieeper into the smoking-car and saw him.
B r 'J/ Ue,S ' Sa .' d 1 a 6 7 °u ng
man, as he lighted a cigarette. And then
approaching the son cf the plains, he
attracted general attention by shouting, with
strange gestures:
Ugh, heap big Injun! Omaha! Sioux 1
Pawnee! See Great Father ! Have a drink
fire-water? Warm Injun's blood."
The Indian gazed at the young man a
moment with an ill-concealed expression of
contempt on his face, and then he said with
Well Answered.
good pronunciation :
"You must h ve been reading dime novels
sir. I am going back to my people in
Montana, after spending three years in the
East at school. I advise you to do the same
thing. Where I live, gentleman do not
carry whisky-flasks in their pockets."
The young fire-water drinker did not wait
to finish his smoke. There was too much 1
mirth and music in the air just then.—
Youth's Companion.
Only $5-°° P er month,
or taxes,
Free Excursion !
WILMINGTON TO HOLLY OAK.
Saturday, Feb, 9th, 1889,
After ample time is allowed for examin
ing the property, a sale of lots will be held
the " Holly Oak Cottage," which will be
open for the accommodation of the visitors.
Remember the Terms.
No interest
Six per cent, interest
allowed for cash. No cost
for conveyancing. The
deed and a policy
insuring the
title with every lot;
no additional charge No
, ^ ^ fJS' Steam
uoat wnart to be built when only
one quarter of the lots are taken,
Take nobod word for u but see , h
land - I« «ill sell itself. g
seIf t0 ev ervone
y
Make your selection at once, as the
choicest lots are going, and you can secure
one of them with but $5.00.
pared to buy.
The train will leave the Wilmington
Depot, Front and French Streets, at half
P ast two o'clock. Tickets will be distributed
at the station.
It commends it
Come pre
1
Plans and full information'ean be secured
at this office.
John H. Longstreet,
Boom 9, Exchange Building,
7th and Market Sts., Wilmington, Del.