Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1871, Page 2

hillock just raised. mi ‘waters; — uddy ; a few trees remained to show ‘They aay that she died ut s broken heart Nittle villages which where orchards had smiled; half a dozen houses C1 wil the tale a 't was tid tome. 4 and she had » on. were, the church i but not Fat ber spiris tix er is part he bad time so much as to eve: ) gamnt, wooden Gives SE hour erine “Good evening, Herr A. rr ibe rising out of the water, soli gables, posts, Her lover-was fickle apd fixe apd French; out merrily, darting away from a broken hangi Tt was nearly « bi red Years age edge. He stood poe mht, Vatchin to the side; all round a terrible desolation, a Wines, be salted away from her armspoor wemch— into the dusky shadows of the waste of wood, trees, dead an’ With the Acupiral Kocham beau, | turned round with asigh, and began to ow 2 Nhe 35 ~ Everything was invested with a eriwi, the boat. theu cou! never le, nameless drea 3 an the heart cf thie reuiteenkel Quaker, Christian Amrheim and Wittwe Rothier lived ed aud mild, but all the time flood was pot rising. It eame towards At what lac d <peech of those mish days within a stone’s throw of each other. The litt ik on mein thy heart, and } them in waves, and was at least ten feet dee; Bhe lastened—the mischief tale hert village, after maki a bold front by the wate » There could be no | below the church; but whether a large outlot has fie Sitenibins edge. and showing off its best inn with green | happiness for either of us. Look,” he said, | been forced into the lake, or from some other Bagh Soy Deze Oh Brees of meats ans shutters, and great tubs of amt smuling mite sad-smile, “thou art like | reason, it did not appear to grow higher. And faded thongh with tears «till wet creamy white, heavy-scented daturas ranged | the beautiful clear water that rushes down, _ | If only I could get out!” sighed the cure. Mer youth with their own exhaied. alon, Round spar and spire and farn Her soul went ap on that lifted clo From this sad house by the sea. And eter sines then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to root, a tlie adr ie filted thew passes through The delicate odor of mignonette, ‘The ghost uf a deat and gone bouquet, In all that tells of her story. yet Could she think of a sweetar way? Tid] one night when the era-for Wrapped shroud it in the ead old house t Myself a ghost from a And [ trust thet t du courtesy , visit mm For the teugh is fled from the porch and lawn, And the bugle died from the Ant the twitter of girtson the stairs is gons, And the grand piano is stil Somewhere in the dark nese a clock strikes two, And there is nosonnd in the sad old house, Bat the lone veranda dripping with dew, And in the Wainscot a mouse. tof my study -lamp stream: ‘Tien the Hrary doors but hae An the depths of the darkened hall But the Quakereress knows the way Was it the trick of a sense o'erwrought With vacward watching aod Inwatd fret? But I swear that the sir just now was iraucht a With the odor of mignonette! Lopén the wind. w and seem almost— So still lies the: fo bear the beat ‘Of its Great Gulf artery off ihe coast, And to beck in its tropic heat. In my neightor’s windows the chte flare od Lwooder' sew coc tatatalr ne” onder DoW co Ay the song of thio ead obd bonne: odor nette is ety eh Plana, from eansos as sitght ne Abe quaint old -gend is bors” “ the soul of that subtle, sad ; geet artes mummy past a sid fa Awakens my bi ink of the passion that shook my youth, Be ed ty mn And am thankfal now for the certain truth only the sweet remains, And I hear no rnstle of «tiff brocade, nd I seo no face at my Library door: yor arnt that the Boats of my Leart are Laid, Bske is viewless forevermore. Bat whether she came asa faint perfume Or whether a spiritin cole of whites TSS Elie eines eonternickes {Bret Harte in October Atlantic, UNDER THE MOUNTAINS. One summer’ were eve? in Lucerne, knots of Slowly up theshallow stepe which wiy ap W steps wl pres poy ope ty nd ce ter! chi hour their money, en- and seattering themselves about the No service was going on; it was the during which the timous was daily WwW oo cathedral was pfetty ~~ ° organist out a whol there were Serest crashes and ami) bail-storms. Suddenly a one held their breath, and then, from some far-away distance, sweiled up a soft processional hymn—the famons vox human stop which all the world goes to hear. 1t was not a solitary voice, but a chorus, semetimesa little veiled, in which one could distinguish the high treble of the boys, the ten- striking in, and the deep base undertones. by a pillar the wholt time it lasted. She wasa pretty girl, with fair hair plaited thickly, twisted round and round, and fastened wita a silver ar- .. She never ence leoked at her companion, bute watched her eyes: softening or glowin: with the music as it changed, and when it cease he to draw a little nearer to her, and ‘t say in a subdued tone, “ Elsic!”* She did not answer except by a kind of tmpa- tient gesture, which had the efiect of keeping him silent fer a few minutes longer, when he repeated more timidiy, ‘* Best Elsie, it is time to be going. The elurch is nearly cleared.” She turned quickiy upon him. “ Ah, beaver touch of childish —. “now thou hast spoilt it all! J had it in my heart, and thy fool- ish words have frightenedit out. pose that such music as this comes to one every day, that it weed be driven away? Do hold thy The young man looked at her with a little sad | wonder, but without answering the impetuous tirade whispered under ber breath. Nothing could be more ungrateful of Elsie. It was Christian’s thought of giving Joy to his beloved which bad breaght her there. ithe time he had lett her to herself only watching the little fair head and the rapturouseyes;in which every change in the mnsie re: itself. He could not understand it, but hereverenced it none the less. now her hasty words smote him with asor of dull pain. He only answered them with @ wistful, humble look, which ought to | bave touehed her, but whieh was, perhaps, as beyond her comprehension as the music was beyond bis. After a while, however, her heart rey her. It waa a foolish, dreamy little heart, nevertheless there lay in its depths @ tenderness which hated to give pain, and al- ready she repented of her pettishness to poor Christian Christian, who cared co much for ler ian, who biundered a hundred times a day, and wasso good all the time. She went up to him penitently, and put her hand in his arm, “Tt is time to go as thou sayest.” was all she veuchsafed, but Christian was radiant. He followed Elste when she turned int» the cloisters, by her side looking through one of the openings at the lake and the mount- alns heyon: “ Ab! but it was heavenly,” she cried rapt- urously.. “I will never believe it was not real. I think they had put up the choir there in some hidden recess No, no, that ts not so," answered Christian, shaking hisbead. “The deceit would soon be foand out. Besides, the uncle mocked me well when I thonght of thon once upon a time.” This matter-of-fact tone provoked Elsie. “Thouart too wise,” she retorted, saitrically. Poor Christian thought it was a little bit of praise, and went on:— “It is sweet, though, as thon said’st. It sounded to me as it might be * music.” That itis not,” cried the girl, pettish again; “and nobedy would be 0 stupid as to say so. Angels’ singing would not have had so much to do with ourselves, would not have gone straight into the hearts; it would have us wonder and worship, but not feel like that. It was not sweet A for angels. Dost thou not under- stand, Christian, that it was like the face in the under the bridge, which I showed thee '¥ —one of us, only more beautiful? Thou knowest which | mean.” ! Elsie turned away from him, and drummed with her fin; the stone. The poor fellow pat the Last to wee tonch to her so dense he could never da young man had stood motionless | Christian!” she said, with a | Dost thou sap- | © Saar S| under the baleony, ran backward and up- ward teward the mountain, in a kind of strag- g'ing picturesqueness. A little stream danced mei Trity over a rocky bed; the chiefly of wood, all had rough sun-shutters, they lay ina fanciful setth dens, meadows of and bine flowers, and trees dotted thickly about. These jewel meadows were kept for the hay crop; the goats and cows were kept up in the evermore dow! ees ios gn tae bande te ntoake, tA fi e let T hat as he 5 ie, his eyes fas- -tened themscives- om hee feces if to: drink in the mgigrthe lake, andT sm Uke the es-over.”* and | the happiness he was renouncing—with a spri a mn a like # deer, she darted fro: nd ran up steep path: , Christian Fisie eame down from the pastures, Amrhein went about his farm, and no one as yet knew of any igein the two—it remained a secret between them; and there was another se- the mountains at.a time when old Wilhemn | would say to himself with a sigh, all the while Sturm, the oldest peasant of the commnne, de- bs meer cutting away at the flowery as clared it to have been hitherto ut wn; since | ithe had no other thought in life. “He will | ther, cold, bleak weather had kept the snow | soon be betrothed to Anna Lenz,” mused Elsie. | from melting, until suddenly a burst of glorions How little we know of the hearts of even our | sunshine brought on the backward season with dearest! one of the old men from the tower wit voice see it.’ Despair changed to excitement, and every movement of the boat was proclaimed by eager women. it draws nearer!” “ Ah, dear Tew «Tink of the current. « Where ean they land cried out to them , in @ feeble cracked ot exultation, ‘A boat is coming! We ven! how slowly they row!” finding their summer pastures, This year they eret which they did ‘not even share with each | ‘The boat came up slowly. Some one stood up bad been anusually delayed. The iter hi other—the sorrow from which cach was suifer- | in it and waved, and a woman fell on her knees returned again and again, snow had fallen on | ing. “She is happy again now,” Christian | in the water. © It is Walther, my Walther!” she eried, sobbing and jaughi Lisa Sturm said hambly, wi juiver in her voice which went to the cure eart: * Will your reverence be good enough to tell me the moment you see onr little Marie? My eyes are not what they were, and the child issuch a litle atonee. faity-like rapidity. The lupins were springing | | Wittwe Rothier knew nomore than the rest of | thing,” and then she broke off and looked at | up tthe and tail, the flax developing, all the | the world. Christian had not heen to the house, | him wistfully. dairies in activity, the walnut mills set in order | it was trne; but to her practical soul, hay-ma-| —“ Thomas ts not there,” said old Wilhelm, the schools broken up. | Mork, digaing, ie | cheeses. Every one was hard at herding, or making butter and had_ been with the other girls at king was more important than love-making any day. She was ill, too, and Elsie was glad to re- main in the house and attend to her, rather than the pasturage, for Wittwe Rothier had but one | risk a meeting with Christian. It ‘would come cow, and her produce went into tye common | before long. she knew; the little village was too stock; Christian's cows were on the Alps with | small for neighbor. to avotd each other, and the the rest, and his mother and sieter and two | stout girls of the household besides, but he him- self had his own work on the farm to do. Elsie, w have not the luxury of the rich—departure. uch an idea never entered the young farmer's head. I do not even know wlicther to. such shading his eyes with his hand, and shaking his ead. “I think he would not come in the first boat,”” she answered in the same pleading tone; “but tlie child—the is so little.” ‘The priest took her hand, greatly touched. “Lisa,” ho said very quistly, “sometimes our Father takes hig little children from our arms | into 7? | who was under Frau Amrhein's care, cams home-lovingsoulsit would not have been even a | For he had scen that little Marie was not in | down for a few days, because her mother was | fresh trouble instead of a relief; at any rate, he | the boat. | ailing and wanted her; and then, in the midst of | would stay, work, when his tims came, die, and | ‘The boat rowed up; women rushed into the all the sweet busy pastoral work, Christian con- | be buried in the little churchard with its wooden | water and dragged tt in with cries of joy, Who trived this little ‘holiday for his beloved. She | black crosees crowned with withered wreaths | were there? Karl, Franz, Walther, Foiz Pia. had long desired to goto Lucerne and to hear | and set in the midst of qnaint little box-like ter, Heinrich Lena, two women and two dark the famous organ, and he could not resist giving | flower-beds. her the pleasure. He thought it would be alto- One evening he had tospeak about some farm- ether delightful to row her across the lake and | ing busincss with Thomas Strum, the grandson see her happy face of sa . of old Wilhelm. The men leaned against a low And now ft seemed as if there had been a | wall infront ofthe inn and looked down at the great deal that was not delight mingled with it. freon water under thelr feet. ‘The day laid been ‘and the even! Never before had he been so conscieus of ng was even more sultry, yet wall between himself and Else. Her happiness, the lake beneath them was stirred, the water ‘haps, lay ina world where he never papal tong wall, and every now and mher; how could souls so separated ever a kot cit Some into their faces. unite? ‘He thought of it sadly, without one | Nothing could have been more full of beauty tinge of bitterness; his ope tise ag = than the cloud-forms which rested upon the top never resented her little fits of impatience, but | of the mountains, softening without hiding the with all the humility which accepted resy ‘There was a curious still- from her hand, he also a solid com- | ness and yet unrest, little movement to the eye, mon-sense, which kept him from into a | but sounds of distant rumblings and wailings, as false ition. Elsie had consented to marry him, but if he were not clever enongh for her to if some a blenny i bea awing — A tame goat, pitcously, came and thrust his nose inte C! vy ‘hand; the men, lifting themselves wearily looked over the lake, love, such a marriage shoul: He had come out of and walked —now through a meadow ankle-deop in grass and | stirred to its v —and then at each flowers, up toward the little torrent, thinking | other. Fora few minutia sonties spoke; it these thoughts as he went. Just as he reach seemed as if the oppressive stillness kept them a spot where a rough tron; ms silent; then a swoop of fresher air rushed across Else. She had come out from her mother's cot- tage, and seeing Christian she stopped. | "S’Come. Elsie,” he said. “ Art thou going to the pasture, then?” she asked, wearily. | , He stood and looked at her for a moment. be- fore he answered. She wore a dark stuff skirt, | short, with an ornamental bodice; the sombre colored material set off her fair face, the shin- } ing light hair, and the gleaming silver arrow | Among the plaits. She had never looked more beautiful in his eyes, and yet it struck him with © sharp, Intolerable pang. eer he “Yes, lam ing—this once,’” ma 1, mde ia bl cage dha ear the two, ing away Tr, wal le by side silently. All the timaginative part In Else's The Fon,—a hot, sultry, furious hurricane, coming up from the great African deserts, lash. ing the lake into fury, battling with adverse currents, sweeping off every little obstacle in its way, slamming open . loose shutters, tes ing down the pretty bright flower-pots from the window-sills, unroofing sheds, scattering every- thing far and wide. The — came renning shutting, doors, doing all they could against the sudden attack. ‘The village was very like a great family, and Christian, as the largest pro- Prietor, was looked up to asa kind of head. There was no sleep that might; the Fon took care of that. The fierce, hot blasts raged with increasing violence; people hurried about in the strange sultry darkness with a horrible oppres- nature had been quickened and thrilled by the | sion weighing upon them. amusic of the Jay before—the strange, sweet hu- | When morning came they hoped that, as is man voices answering the crash of the tempest. | frequently the case, the violence of the wind She wanted some vent for her feeling; Christian | would moderate, but the increasi ng | t y | could not understand it, and she wished him — herself alone with the grass, the trees, 2 the rushing torrent. And he had’ a purpose which made him draw his breath tightly, and crush down the passionate leaping of his heart with a stern determination often excited in him. It kept him from ‘ing for a while. They went up ascrambling path into an open Space, aud tuen through a gort of = Here in the warm sunlight, with Elsie by his | side, it seemed to Christian, poor fellow, as if a subtle, delicions charm'was about him. And | yet, although they were together, were they not seemed to make the havoc more ‘were torn up by their roots, great grern branches of walnut wrenched off and tossed to and. fri other trees, that as yet had resisted the destro: ing power, were scorched and withered as if by fire; honses were unroofed, shutters hanging loose, the new-mown hay whirled far away from the meadows, the white dataras torn, broken, discolored; fierce, leaping waves raging against the wall; ali the delicate pastoral beauty swent away by this awful resistless force. There Was no shutting it out, no coriquering it. In the village the second aight was not s0 con- fused as the first, for thow alarm remained, the people had become a little used to them. Some of the women stayed com- beparated’? * He is thinking of the brook,” said Elsie to herself, glancing at him and yawni Uniortunately at this moment, Christian's | posedly in their honses, a few even slept, 0 | thoughts did not take that turn.’ « Certainly | powered by fatigue and the dry, stifliag h | the snows must be melting fast,” he said, medi- | but the greater part had taker refuge in t t cbureh, and had gathered the children there. How long will this last? st of y¥ Always the same,” thonght the young girl, A Te- provoked. ud, she said, with a certain de asked the pr ng High nm. Thomas, Thomas Sturm, when the mori vealed a further work of'destri “Only Heaven knows, ‘when even my & Fon.” y would melt faster.” mm would overtlow.” answ aS TE) old father «Aud the erops at least would be spoiled,” d Christian, with increasing gravity. “ At ail events that would maKe a little ya- one, shall be content if nothing worse id Christian, who had joined’ them. ked at her in mute wonder. To such a sentiment was so utter! at of na- that Christian forgot his perplexities in sheer amazement. “Tt wo he burst out, passionat “I am sick of hearing but one subject from morn- ing till night. Are there no creatures in this beautiful world but cows and goats? Is it to be always the same, always the same? n, what is this to live for? .” she cried, suddenly stopping in her rapid waik. But the moment he approached her she started on again. ‘No, Christian, no my friend,” she said, more kindly than she had yet fpoken, “thou canst not understand. Ido not kuow what ails me to-day—I am tired—cross—it nd then in a very undignified egan to cry. Elsie’s trouble was the complex, an- fanciful nature— »rO- Dre’? “Tam thinking of the stream. This wind will melt the snows. The cure was a brave man, bu Christian for a moment wit horror in hiseyes. ‘Tl father says the t he looked at of a h e troul mas broke in: ‘on melts too get its way better tl D fear. My for that work, and bh any man in the valle “That is true,” Christian answered,” yet 1 cannot feel at rest about it. know obstinately. dust then his youngest child, a gol: round-faced little girl, escaped from her mother and came running to’him, stretching out her little hands, half-erying, balf-trinmphant in her Struggle with the hurricane. He lifted her in his arms, held her tight, and wrapped his coat round her. So the two remained. Her head against his breast, his arms clasping her. Let us go and givea look at the stream,” said Dhristian. It is no hi, times,” said dence in old W ilheim’s experience. He had little Marie’s soft golden head pressed closely against him, and I was holding her tenderly. *«T believe it is all safe,” Christian said tarn- ing away; and then with’a sudden shout of hor- ror and actutch at Thomas’ arm—* Ah, dear Heaven!” he cried, ‘‘look—look!” For from the height where, on peaceful sum- mer as they could see the little innoce: stream dancing downwards, a vast body of ye low water was coming, leaping, Faging, sprd ing over the rock, hurling at trees before it, with a roar before which t! ‘on sank into in- Fignificance. Swift and terrible this new enemy rushed upon the unconscious village; for a m: ment its awful approach stunned Christian; then with a ery from the very depths of his heart he sprang to meet it—it was like a horrible night- mare; he ran, yet he did not seem to move, his arms were stretched out, ‘“ Elsie! heart’s bi loved!” he cried in agony. There was the farm; he did not see it; he saw only the cottage with its closed windows. Quict? ab!—the roar was haired, er than I have seen it twenty would he huve given to have taken this dear one to his pitiful heart and hushed her sobs in his | arms. Alas, was it not rather the putting her far from him that only could give her what she wanted “Ege,” he said in_a low voice which made her look suddenly at him, and turn a little pale, too—it is not very often in a life-time that a heart speaks without any veil between us and it, but when it does, it compels us to listen— “something ails thee, what isit?”” “Ido not know,” she answered in atone as low as his own. She had tomed to t 4 stand anything below the surface, that she won- dered a litile over hisdiscovery. ‘And her words were true. She did not really know what was the matter with her. “ I do not know,” sho re- yested creamily, keeping her tace turned away. “I can tell, id Chi in, sadly; ‘my love is too heavy a burden for thee.” We have known each other aiways, andso I fancied thou might- est have eared enough for me to be happy if we were husband and wife. That was my mistake,” | in his ears—upon he saw the walls rock, said the poor fellow, with his straight-forward pe, fall—one moment, and the awfal enemy humility. “I might have I was not ad him in his grasp, and was whirling him clever enough for thee. I have come with thee to-day to tell thee thou art free———”"_ Then he stopped. He meant to have said more, but | something choked him. ‘As for Elsie, she was startled altogether, startled and, it ‘must be confessed, a little pi- qued. A certain sense of freedom flashed upon her, itis true. She hd been fretting against her’ chains, and, behold! they were suddenly along unconscious, inert. : In the litttle dim church were the cure and his small con; ion, almost all the women, a number of children and a few old men. The cure who had but just entered, was kneeling in ayer; the women were huddled together in Tine groups, many had been there all night, others had now come in; one girl among these Jatter had knelt a little apart, her face buried litted off. But then—that Christian could do | in her hands. Suddenly it seemed as it the noise without her! She raised her head and walked | and fury outside increased,tenfold; with it oame on steadiiy under the fir-trees, the rush of water, and a shrill, terrible shriek, «What have 1 done to displease!” she said piercing the dull roar and the hearts of the lis- with a certain defiant hardness in her tone. teners, The women started from their knees to « Displease!”” he cried ly. Al nm | the door; the cure, who was there as soon as checking himself, he went on gravely. “I | they, was the first to open it, standing so as to have —— it before, but only yesterday I keep back the eager, terrified group. ut they knew it. But, Eisie, it isnatural. “I'saw geo | enw? terday how thy heart wasall full of beaut Some fell on their knees; others, shrieking thou, fos which Icould not reach, and that it mas!” ‘* Mother!” names wildly, “ Fritz!” “ Tho: st that moment dearer than life, tried to rash out into the flood. It was all the priest could do live apart—it would be no true | to hold the door them, and to force it back and bolt it. For, in spite of the church She at him harriedly. She had not | stan on its little hill, the yellow turbid wa- believed that he could think or speak as he was | ter was at his feet, and as the door opened, the ecttnce. ‘there is often & in | Sturm hervelf on her knees to the cure: such uiuren which, aftr all; have ‘opths bor | Thcman "Sut tess’ “end en. Ipoking she was yet 100 mudh of ed hi drgerne Beg: Ser aayeecersiy any — Batra late Sat ab tr “Yea, poor mother. With her head on her gre het owe,berty, and winking “a hi Then s young girl preseed up against him etechaps. but toed? “I must be let out,” she cried, desperate) She got no answer. Ha might sot bre been the lock. «I 1 must I am Eide able to trurt himself to this at least was gad my poor is went les how she read his silence. A storm of conflicting for ape homens not far above bim; she lived fa, me—let me out!” Delieved to be as do? The ee goat ‘bursed her the est he could. came ‘gud barren. But all under which the little yel- neath these grand aspirations, there was gurgling, he knelt aes gues acsosnain ebildren,” fhe said, ina voice of unut- step down femveren EO there is One who once sacrifice should not make hungry waves into a great calm. Let us stood still and put her hands to Girlish shametBcednes. at it calmed them, as he mee wrats had been frantic now only in his. Buthe did not break ‘onder her breath: © My" littie exclamation she expected, and Someaen hot sun shone ¢ alvin Rp by the and x‘ “Why!” she: eagerly. majestic of heaven « No; for my own. ‘in this nest She colored erimson_now, ago ithad withdraw her hands. ‘@ contrast! No tighter than he knew. left; hereand qhere alittls of the clear, sparkling, ing water toward a | the water sudden and momentary. meadow on the other side of the village, he saw os It a Fon,” said Thomas at last, breaking | spel the canses for | “My father is sure to be right,” said Thomas | ‘homas with a triumphant confi- | figures lying at the bottom of the boat. Ali the men were more or less hurt; all looked solemn and awe-stricken. In the midst of a torrent of questionings, they kissed their wives or mother without any outbreak of joy. The cure and others went to lift out the dark figures. wa in some woodwork,” said Franz iefly. Joliann Schmitt was taken out first—white, motionless, with sudden clothes. His wife was away at theSennen Alps. = is dead,” said one in & hushed voice, and no person contradicted it; but they carried their sad burden into the church, and the priest directed them how to use certain simple reme- dies. As he went back to the boat he met the second little procession—the second heavy, si- lent burden, more ghastly than the last, from a deep, cruel cut across the head. “Who is it?” asked the priest, who could not recognize the face. « Christian Amrhein,” said Fritz, to whom his mother was clinging rapturously. And then the cure saw that Elsie was at the | head. She had run out from the eburch and was in the boat before any one could stop her, kiss- ing the white, stained face in’passionate silence, and as she would let no one take her place, the men had passed a coat under his shoulders and carried him so, Elsie holding his head. The all loved Christian and were very tender wit | him, but they shook their heads in answer to the enre’s questioninglook. When they laid him down gently a whisper went ronnd, andthe good oriest tried to draw the girl away, but she lifted er head and looked at them all resolute! “He is not dead,” she said. © My moi t er is dead, I know, bit God has given me back Christia | Was it so, indeed? They cut his hair and bound up the gaping wound. The cure made a fire al which to dry the men’s wet clothes, and then, while the boat was gone to fetch another load there came a trying time of inaction. When thejboat returned there were more joyful greetings, more questions of sick anguish, more talk about what had or had not been sa So tar as they could tell, four men were miss- ing, Thomas Sturn among them; then there was little Marie and Elsie’s mother, and the two ly- ing within the church; and, when the heavy j tale was told, it was, after all. oniy a wonder that so many had been saved from death. ‘ot long after there was a stir at the coor. Other boats appeared on the lake as the storm Al, mn rowed abont outside, try ose portions of the universal W been swept into the lake. ragged ina heavier bnrden, ed directly to the church.’ Thi stir, this something— dont, br One at last di wt they ro ner. said, in a hoarse, too, clasped ti lden-haired That embrace liad never been broken; his arms were | round ber, the Lim, when quick down and riveted it., pillowed against th came leaping There tender, so pearetul, “o holy in the attitud the faces, that it hushed all mourning; the wail died away on the mother’s lips, the priest cros- sed himsélf and knelt down beside these still, | passionless figure s; Lisa glanced at him, tremb- | led, bent down and kissed each face—husband | and child—eovered the faces, and kneit down also. About an hour afterward one of the boats eame back with a doctor. First of all, the wo- men who were ¥ ig Drought him where Jo~ hann ‘ya little apart from each | other. w that Johann was gone be- ki yond the reach of ail skill Away, and it seemed mor folk that the doctor should that no more could be done only his wife was ting to these simple say in plain words anyot them. Aud | then he turned to where ie ‘still kept her faithful wateh, with the yellow sunlight shining | upon her hair, her Hand under the deer heute her ¢ closed eyes that had looked Bo saaily n last she met their gaze “He is alive—that is all,” said the doctor gravely. Aiter all he could not do much, and the woms Elsie, poor child, as the minutes came and change. here came a slight flatt the doctor was at his another, painful breath, nd fixed them= returned, the breathed ; her arms ‘ound him, and the doctor, hi half-laughing. became peremptory Cornhill Magazin driven from its stronghold, t of color has in- trenched itself in the “tie.” The old cravat partook of the simplicity of the ry (which indeed at one period replaced it for some ; it was plain black for the morning, black or white for the evening. From an ornamental } y be considered as a ackground and relief to a handsome pin. The English white tle (no longer in its diminished proportions a‘‘chokee”) has become de rit for tull dress, while the morning or half-dress cravat is anything but black, generally display- ing the same varied richness of silk or satin which once characterized the waistcoat. Saff- cient for itself and in itself as an ornament, it Mtsdains the help of jewels, usually a‘fecting the shape of the sailor's knot, which rendersa seart- pin superfluous and incongruous. ‘The old era- vat was a protection—somctimes so much of. a protection as to be an incumbrance to the throa"; the new tie is but a slender band around the neck, and lavishes its wealth of substantial reps or lustrous satin upon the chest. Stil another difference, There was a time when only *sec- ond ret” men gave each other cravats; now the article has so Increased in luxury and’ cost. that even ladies choose it as a favorite gift to their male friends. Coloredties may reem a small subject, but wsthetically and artist people has saved them from the deluge of solemn sable which at one time threatened to overs] the land, but the neutral hues which | How To See Unper WATER.—A correspon- dent of the Scientific American writes: pearmin bad am occasion ta examine the bottom ‘a mill pond, for which I constructed a float out of inch plank, was something +0 | R Chit-Chat. é (From the New York Mai!.) Some very beautiful muffs for next season ng DRY_ GOODS. amerest.} |C have sppoared, made of the feathers of ra: Py 2 ‘The shad? of red called “Sang de Prussg” | ,Cialmantawho have not sircedy died in the De- ve “Sang de - ; will be very fashionable in silks tor street cos- | P&Ttment of Beate thelr claims agalfist Great Bri CARPETS x it for setting diamonds is in CARPETS! ‘The latest style for se | filagree silver work, with uarrow rim of black Gals reece meere dee wnares CARPETS 1 | “Sytnny cashmere Teva ire ne Fins campers: | “Many cashmere sacks are made with what is broweke tho Frianal of Ar eracefal —— is very ip and ae] oane . — claim og ty A ne} or fan jus peared, made » = | ofteatin and ince, which when opeeet’ ir'ia tie at MESSRS. WOLFORD & SHILBERG shape of a buttertiy. filed can be rawn. Veils made like long searfs with square ends Claimants must_prepare for themeclres the Desires to call the attention of the general public te prow | their 5 - e id of their claims. LJ tment willon jica- , ox DILSEA mena RAtin tach | Siemtereoed echatememeaseen el Gestieeareah NEW BTOCK |” Cards are out for a large wedding on the 20th Growing the Sirmof prow tMt fo by or es e a the Department in the absence of other rules by the : : of this month, totake piace at the residence of | Sinural which will pare on the same FALL CARPETS, | the bride’s parents in Madison avenue. The eatly attention of claimants who have not al a | Gentlemen begin to prefer the stitched dog- | ri Comprising of ‘eedy filed their claims ts Invited to this notice. dla Fi s skin gloves in preference to kid, and the colors | a sw AMILTO! are considered more delicate ani varied. ENGLISH BRUSSELS, + Cameo rmgs and neckinces mounted with DEPARTMENT OF STATE. TAREE PLY diamonds or pearls are in special favor, also Wastinoton, August 28, 1872. imanatw sets of sardonyx, mounted in burnished gold. Notice is hereby given that, by the terms of the abe oubmenr en vi ity collars aro of linen trimmed with | Treaty concluded on the Sth day of May, U1, be- | sain are positives Hace, the SQrners being in the shape of a butter- | tween the United States and Great Britatm,allciatins | {itn “ary house ia the ty, with a bow of muslin and lace to mate! fo nies, or private Very beautiful waists for dinner toilette for | frainideds sisische of tn Uninnl states, aioe the | Prices ranging from 25 centato @1.73 per yard. Tadlies are of Sitite Jace over high colored silk | Government ot Her liritanuic Majcet7 rising on: f | Auso, esses ts tt the persons or 5 of cl Sa en NES DOW Aad | Head ke Cail Sac Gertar thr erkal ttc | am cadioe varity of Velvet cloaks for next season are to be made | fie Jit ot /ipetl Iai, and the 2 saul tho peta ot | FOREIGN AND POMESTIC DRY-Goops, in the shape of two capes, one longer than the | fia'vesstereionel ene Rea ome ot te 4 pe othe: and elaborately embroidered and covered the veasels referred to in Artich of reaty. | $e offored at the (generically Known as the “Alabama Claims,”) and | With jace. | which yot remain unsettled, are referred ta three LOWEST MARKET FIGURES. Bok ad IRATE Dell OC Hwee ene | Gatuation taretipetins net ence eh eek tases: | pehicall. to hin setablictonrat te reagactfallyeatittes : : = | om “investigation, and deciet, . | Delure purchasing elecw he . lh ie lhga el tage BE soe se veil asitke iadms onthe part of subjects of Her | |S KEM EER BA, 437 TRE ARCADE, | Oveasion, and also as very pretty parlor orna- | Uiitad Statess Uo the Goverument “4 ed ee “Npetween Dad it men} r «of anid Treaty, all such claims, | - — sent - A number of married ladies have clubbed to- | wir ther or uot the same may hats then’ prnented t QAnrers gether and agreed not to dance round dances | the notice of, made, preferred, or Inid before the said with any but their own husbands. Ccmmiaeion, shall. from apd after the conclusion of | ‘The latest idea is to have the instep of ladies’ | {ir prvceedings of ths said Commission; be consider. | | boots padded, so as to give the high, arched ap- | [th inedmicable ee? eet . —j JAMES B. DODSON, | pearance which is so much admire: Robert 8 Mete, of New Checks and plaids for dresses and ‘cloaks will be very fashionable this Fall and Winter. Ammonia baths are said to be very beneficial to the health as well as the complexion. The new style of lace vell ws heavily embroid- ered around the edge with floss and beads. All formal calls and ns, according to #19 MARKET SPACE, NEAR.OORNER NINTH: AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, DESIRES TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF HIS FRENDS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO under said Treaty, Agent of the United to'present and support claims om its bebait. and to anewer claims made upon it, and to represent it generally in all matters connected with the inves: | t spf dccialon thereof before the ead Com sion. Corporations, companies, or vate > viduals, citizens of the United States, having claims receptio: Against the Government of lajeaty, | 1 fashion regulations, commence about the Ist of | © ming within the terma of the above recited pro: | HIS ELEGANT STOCK OF November. Vision ested forthwith to of the Treaty, are b ‘ab-rve named, DOUBLE AND SINGLE-WIDTH VELVETS. DOUBLE & SINGLE-WIDTH TAPESTRIRS. ENGLISH & BIGILOW BODY BRUSSELS. Also. a fine tine of low-priced, all-wool In¢rains, Wool Dutch, List, Bag, and tmitation Brasscis Oar: Some of the imitation jewelry is so perfect that it can hardly be told from real by exper- ienced jewellers. » loose trousers are coming in fashion in. ‘he French twist is the twist par excellence at present. 3 of Step and flo 1 ‘Tho new bonnetsare a cross between a round | Woleesity nf & eubeacat fried Meee ial eta, | Cie eees jcewprtment of Sieg and Soot Oil hat and an inverted coffee cup, Ment, to be presented in conformity with such rules 3 » Velvet, Axminster . Ornaments for the hair are beetles, butter-flies, | or regulations as the ion on Mts ad Sofa and snails, made of small gray colored feathers, | tion may prescribe Gate. Felts, aod fastened ne in Se eoutee at Glarge ribbon bow, | 25 Borngen sear eae 6 ply oe a with three long ends. mee earl enter ye 4 The ladics’ dresses tor the Winter are to | thty shall have been respectively Cartains tn icky of price aml : Toone and full at the waist, and trom | Bf Semembers) ve Me HAMILTON FISWe | Walnut emwind wid Gilt Gorsicts, Gage haan: the description will look, we think, ‘very mach | ‘auth 'saasw Sreretary._ | Loops, and Hooks to match like the 1 blouses worn by cartmen and a te Oil Cloths, in beautiful imitations of wood small children. stone. Combe with fancy, git ernamental tops are oe eet gece, fede Sea Fade. Sed Carpet Litutness, again ve ionable for fastening the braids ; = a puffron the top of the i id ai This stock has been selected with the ereat est oar nods of their kinds and will Some of the new style of bracelets of burnished Texascry DEPARTMENT, Sey ‘at the lowest market eee as. ld are made in the shape of a li cuff, witl By virtue of anth laving excellent factlicte farnithing houses iuttons of diamonds or peatian | a> With gpmrovedS aly 16. 1670, enti ‘An Act to author: turousbour with such things ae above my: uttoned,om we wise? rong Sec Sc | Ea eerie erry | Mere green, blue here "known as Five. . “ee the oe brat peautifal = re be ie Treasary of the sels lawtw =19 Space northweat. ¢ fashion at a Philadelphts edding | United Sintes ashington, on or hae sain is for the hells to ring ahalfeour before the | Mterthe first December next, end thatthe | JEBUANT BLACK hos GRAIN SILKS aT ceremony takes place, and a half hour after- wards. W.M. SHUSTER & BRO. would call the «pectal A new style of earring is a round piece of att oft ners and the Teast gold on which is engraved the coat of arms, cof = Si en sBL mig yy rounded by a wire rim or black onyx and a : : “ . Law € <a ‘he muffs for next Winter are to be male | ss hale gs Black Silk Suit, of the same material as the strect costumes, | mone poe om 3 Hooking at oer ret Be aes = PORES SS Shy Ee - se16-dteost 9 Penn. ave...bet. deh and loth, ‘raphs. refed Sak peat Gor ee. Black 7 Pag ‘oc ne, 7 he Bde wad human face serve a few o Aostralian Craps. We; Pop ™ ty ‘The amount ontstanding (embraced in the numbers ms TH Sw veontsibate a cortaty pees | axabove) is one hundred million @ioogw0 so) doi | Hvasy Popline, Wien, All Worl Satine Clothe te 4 iy plodeed aan | te Wich Lortres, Suk’and We ing, Black Silke, fo many people who are easily pleased, and | “Ccupon Bonds of the Act of February 25, 1962, they are supposed to be valuable, as a means of | were ened Ia toee iretines cece rary, 2 10s | Black Ajpecas. Black aad 1 od facilitating an acquaintance with the physiog- | fitstseries (embracing those described above) do nat tn 3 > homies of disteut people. For these reasons the | brar the series, destgnation epee thm, while those | multiplication of portraits in little has in recent cee ty Lene guairmreaeer end FL increased at a great ratio without any- ears es securities forwarded for redemption foay apparently perceiving ‘the “absolute Id be aldressed to the “LOAN DIVISION,” | Mgereal varicts: injury they are doing to the generation. Pho- | Secretary + Office. J. F. HARTLE : tographs ina very large majority of cases are | _ seP2-lawlore Weotw Acting Secrotery._ | so1s-te os utterly devoid of what we may eall artistic quality. They are hard, rigid, blank, and ex- } miles. “They give to the face a metallic -iron character that to the instructed sense is very repulsive. Usually without middle tints, their harsh darks are sharply limned against their dead whites, so that the picture loses every quality ot gra: in shade, all softness aud ease of outline, the better characteristics of human expressi It is a dead face, and not a living one, that ¢ Reevccrion Euo VAL LADIES’ and MEN'S SATCHELS, LADIES’ DRESS TRUNES, SOLE LEATHER TRUNKS, TRAVELING BAGS, reduce our large and ¢ amp) will sell all kings of DRY WHIPS, e Hf market value. photograph give'us. Instead of a face Instinct | SADDLERY and HARNESS, Sor Diack CASH 3 and mo! with expression, rich in color and CARBIAGE ROBES, &c., &. | ocher DEEES ¢ | tone, we have only the hard In GBEAT ABIETY, OW PRICES FOR ‘h our remem CASH, at the m 6to 1Dec.; clewant Pare ace Sheeting. Sec.; Pare with the life and spirit of th xo = R droscuggin 8-4. Sheeting, S7>xc.; € acquainted with the ori | tha ad Ao Cal a ene ODHEAD & CO., npply what the pictui et 1228 F «tre 13th street first sees the photograph } JAMES 8S. TOPHAM & CO., a a = more than the most distant imy | 842529 that face really is. It is ¢ | enough fentify a photograph of a tace we are liar with, but very rarely, indeed, can we identity a tace which we have previously only known Dy its miniature in litte. Tuc however, a few good photographs: that ces sometimes in the show-cases of the photo- graphers ictures considered as works of art. Bu y + indeed, do we find in private hands unsthing ‘superior to the usual harsh, stiff performances. These choice pietures are invariably delicately pencilled, the | Skill of a draughtsman supplying the gradations and shadings which the rude work of Natare omits. Butas the majority of photographs hare notthe advantage of thissupplementary touching SEVENTH STREET, Ove door above Odd Fello’ NOTICE. McMCERYS PATENT STAYS put fn all our Best and Mediom Trunks. delg-eo B SEVENTH AND D. 400 Hal HARDWARE. ROW OPEN ry A NEW AND COMPLETE STOCK GORGEOUS STOCK those that we see in albums or upon parlor walis | go . ive an almost trightful idea of human nature. “J « bne ae ot Epoed painfol —_ 7 bod wor! BUILDERS HARDWARE js to be called upon to examine afriend’s album. — = nie ernie " What a collection of rude and vulgar faces it is AND RE: SED VARIED SSSEee sure to present! ‘The originals. may be accom- plished and worthy people, but the sun-portraits extracted the animating expression, and en to the features a Creare and coarse- ness that aresimply libellous. In all photographs | the lips are usually so enlarged that faces are made to look sensual which are not sensual; and almost every face acquires in these miniatures en indescribable vulgarity. One special injury | | that this art bas done us isin intensely ch ening and vuigarizing all our great men: H. HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, SPORTING GOODs, POCKET AND TABLE CUTLERY. PRICES VERY LOW. GEORGE P. GOFF, 1009 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Between lth and lth, WOODWARD'S BUILDIN or READY-MADE FALL CLOTHING. | ALSO, ls of celebrities were formerly engraved from por traits painted by distinguished painters, and THE LARGEST hence they had something of the ife- like character of the original. are | almost invariably engraved from photographs; | and, when the engraving is on steel, we have | the lines, magnified in the photograph into sen- | sual expression, reproduced with all their harsh- ness. We have the exaggerated lips; the lank, colorless cheeks; the sharp, rade angles, and the eneral hard. spiritless, metallic atmosphere of | he sun-picture from which it is copied.—Apple~ ton’s Journal. spirit andi ano Now th an® cotf ‘ BEST SELECTED ASSORTMENT or Hr HOMES at FINE PIECE GOODS Mopern ExtTRavaGance.—We are often asked if there are no signs that the expensive- ness of English society, especially in the higher | ranks, may speedily begin to decrease. We see | no signs of it, and hold it to be much more prob- ible that we are on the eve of an era of ostenta- tion as tawdry and of extravagance as pitiable as that which marked the regency. That is the American tendency. and we see nothing, nonew and strong idea, which should mark offthe man- ners of our society from those of the wealthy within the United States. Public lite is becom- ing rather less than more attractive to those who have a Dower. ‘The taste for art which is jeveloping rap’ e most expensive of all tastes, exce) The taste for Fambling, and that is not on the decrease. ‘The millionaires are becom- ing more numerous every day, and certainly do notspend theirwealth more forthe public benefit. ‘The electorate seem e Sd peices road ¢ great nobles experimental. THAT HAS EVER BEEN SHOWN IN THIS HUNTINGTON: city. . THEREFORE, Gentlemen who prefer having their Clothing made to order are invited to an examination of our ir meuse stock, where will be found the newost fabrice and fashions, which our unsurpassed Cutters and corps of Workmen make up in® style that cannot fail to please. ‘LNZST BUILDING LOTS IN THE MABKET! HABLE BROTHERS, _#01_B.W.OOR OF Ten AND D STREETS, Dea YEAST POWDER. PAYMENTS, ONE DOLLAR A NONTH! » Hotel and others merits and excellence. vee of this perfectly pure ond in- BAKING POWDER. It stands unrivalled for producing elegant, light nd and ‘The attention of Ik invited to the le all are BOLL, BISCUITS, BUCKWHEAR, CORN, and other Griddle Cakes, WAFFEES, DUMPLINGS, POT PLES, PASTRY, It is specially ; pe ft 20 MINUTES FBOM WASHINGTON. AT JUNOTION OF {TIMO! AND POTO- BUILDING NOW GOING FORWARD, Ly LoTs, $95. PERFECT TITLE GIVEN. use by INLAND or OcKAN impers ious thus. Eey ie, ‘THIS VALUABLE CULINARY ARTICLE Is put up in cans of 3¢ Tb..% Ib ‘States: Meta ws tet oF Cor on the Tist day of ae. ght ¢ Weckinaten naton. sents tee eee a ‘upon the Hon vt hin hankrnpt it Bu) Cuart of the said Dastric: . HOPKINS, Asem 913 Sh streel, or at office of B.D. 4 sel6-s.3t oe