Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1874, Page 2

This is the tale ofa ‘That sat on She mad And weat You a For patic Alas! how To brag of wt This wil! ap And boys a: queer oll sy throng * 0), dear’ @, dear! h A weary lot is mine,” she s ++ No gleam of pleasure do | Why don't these tiresome chickens hatch’? It worries me in beart and te To sit so long upon these eggs. pining here at home; ebicks, chicks, why don’t you come? ur little houses wh.te and warm, I've sheitered from the angry storm. « There's Mother Dominique, ne Her da: $$ number twenty-four, And they've been out a week or more And now she wanders at her ease. As proud and happy as you please. So stir your pinky litte pegs, My yellow bills come ou Or else Uli doubt my eggs are And think they are bat tum, door, ‘Then something rash and sad be! his old hen pe And, rot so wond i Her treatment, which was very rade Killed on the spot her tiny brood! And now, despised by fowls and men, She liv broken-hearted hen. This is the m ‘To reap = ork and play Why spoil w er you'vs began, Through eagerness to have it Remembr poor Dame Partlet Don't be mpatient!—learn to wait. (Youth's Companion “HOME, SWEET HOME.” Married Life and Modern Architec- re. Kev. Dr. Stone, pastor of tho First Congre- gational Church, in San Francisco, recently de- “livered a lecture on the above subject, which attracted much attention in California, and de- servedly 80. Most of it was, of course, specially led to the peculiar conditions of life in that tate, but much of it is equally well adapted, like the old-fashioned almanacs, tojany mer‘= diav. We accordingly make room tor some extracts from it, which will well repay perusal. HOME. ‘There is hardly another word in the language that goes straighter and surer to the heart, '. 40 this word Home. It includes tue teaderness of all the househeld ties, and the power of the ear- liest and sweetest local memories. | do not pro- to treat the subject as a mere sentiment for my aim is chietly practical, but to be indii- ferent to that sentiment were a picce of ism 1am not called upon to exercise? myself, or to expect in you. As we speak or hear this word effect upon us will be, at least upon those of s who are uo longer young, to carry our thoaghts back to the haunts of our childhood, the nest where we were brooded in our callow state, and whence we fluttered forth, young Hedgimgs. to try our wings uniter new skies and over strange flelds. - - : ‘ BEGINNING RIGHT. Our young people should marry. It is one step In the right direction. But these wedded couples don’t plant a vine or a Sg ree and nestle together beneath the eo. ‘Phay tax afurnisbed room, and forage among resta rants for their meals. (Or worse yet, they join the swarming rookery of the boarding-house. There they craw. and croak, and bop, and fatter with the incongruous an} as ele- ments that till this deu of fugitives. Tuey have no interest there, nothing at nvest- - ke, ment that requires thought end care, or helps ey le: domestic nurtare. y heusehokt economy, house! household rest. idie, indolent life, that must ment and pastime how ar found. The sacred ministries of mutaal bur. den- hearing; the development of personal re- sources, the charm of ordering and adorning their own unshared retreat, the charge of mak- ing strong, secure and inviting, « tortress of love and hope: the taxing of brain, and heart, nd hand to brighten and hallow a sanctaary which is all their own—these are wanting. They become self-indulgent, critical, complain- ing perhaps, expert in dissecting character, float on the muddy stream of unclean gossip and carry nothing away, when they dit to tue next conglomerate shviter, but 4 cootased and unsatisfying memory, with many a corroding sting in it. ERE? OUT OF ROARDING Horses. I know how young men fee! about these ticst ventures of wedded life. How can they ask the gentle being, tor whose wardrobe, appetite and sociai comfort they have becom: responsible, to share with them some diminutive cottage ‘The cottage advertises tacir fortunes and posi tion, and classsties them as to their social level. ‘The hotel and the boarding house do not Weaith ani retinement seek these great estab- lishment, acd their redected lustre gilds all ¢ vel even to the attic. One boards you know ats grand hotel—even if it be ciose uader the roof. ‘Then the new bride very likely wil! have her pre fereuces. The hotel parlor is her -plendid Feception room. and the elegant surroundings grace and accredit her almost asif they were nerown. She can wear her silks, and keep her hands sheatbedin dainty kid and her oran, Diossoms on her head, as she could not if she were sweeping and dusting in a lodge of which she were mistress. The home costume must, sometimes at least, be calico, an extemporized turban supersede the orange wreath, and ad- vertise not the lady of elegant leisure, but the busy and economic housewite. Young man! young woman! a don’t know what you are doing. You are making nomelifa distasteful and impossib e. You are not coming wearer together ander the pressure of a «weet and common care; you are drifting apart, with many an alien clement crowding in between you. Ah, est your bread together, even if it be coarse and brown. with no sauce to dipit in. Lie down and rise up and sit together under your own roof, if it be only thatched and iaid on unhewn logs. Shun boarding-houses as you would a hospital of incarables. ired conven: ences all sroand you, and nothing yo: Nothing that has any bond with your lif Nothing that represent your thought or taste or toil; nothing that holds you teaderly to a place, with the tie of unshared proprietorship; no memories to feed upon that shall give you one day nt contrasts with a later progress, rehearved as part of your pec Don't join yourselves to these wandering Arabs of social life, these roving Apaches that — forage where they have not tiled and scalps in cruel sport ! ‘This isthe first point,then. Settle yourselves to This old-fashioned word, not to be found modern domestic dictionary, brings in the true family life. There you are im unwatched secl » Nobody overhears your bedroom talk. No prying eye looks through the keyhoie. ‘Sareea for = eee: not he! ® carping or erowd. Your muta: Gopendence comes to the frovt. This is a pre- cious lesson to learn. It holds the key of your most solid happiness. are you, what may you be each to eack when you have ouly one another's faces to look into’ What are yoa ca- pable of to please and gratify the one compan'‘on of all your domestic hours? What charming surprises you can give to one another! How you coin your best thoughts and watmest feel- Ings into goidem speech! You discuss and your ideal, and strive to maki mine in your soul’s de; that you mg n nothing of d beaatirying, or tis with many ap empty, sek entertati- where they can acl hidden riches lay fresh treasures at one other's feet, a “incompatibili- ties" are forever outlawed. You begin to ex- press yourselves as social forces, a! bring io your distinct and special contribution to the commouweaith of society and the state. ‘IKE EARLY FoR a HOM Don't wait toolong: it is not something to he Fealized in the end, seen far up the vista with pulared porch and tower and lawn. as the cone Summate fruit of life's labor. What wil! use of it then? Many defer, ame ambition. througt indoience, if they baila now it must be Hl i i cf] i g bi th { ) of she document upon the satistactorincss of | famities who scarce enter once a year what are build late you wou't want i you cannot say “ne keep your grown-up brood 1 with you. sage And ih any cv st unsuited an fife. Jred thousand 10 I hun c well)—and I wonder wh If it isa patcio build snc narchs do, it i= a very empha’ to bis fellow sovereigns admired the ‘Crystal P. ham, and has ¢ to build j Mra iren, he might perhaps get a e of his pilgrimage, bat eded his honors. If it’ wer, simply bis purpose tu ¢ behind him « mon ument of his wealth and taste. it would serve | his end more graciously and usefully to build a college hail or a seientitic observatory tas an attempt to found a seat of successive house hold generations, which shall keep the family name cut in ite portal and insure its heritage to the family bleot tor 4 centary, ot tor cent | the scheme is utterly absard and impr We have no “law of primogenitare No one of a tamily of parceling out venof a tabsorbs anc tribution to 3 Zits magnid | he freedom of our Who of in the ho your father built’ one house inten continues in the amily through the second genera tion. ice, business, adventure, marriage will ecatrer our sons and daughters trom the parent nest over the breadth of the con! ineut. And so, discarded by necessity, or rejected of choice by all so related to it, how shail one of these grvat castles be disposed ot (iter it for sale. Bot the men who can afford castles are few (except they be castles inthe air). And every one of those few woald rathor try bis own | hand at castle building, that he might realize his own id Who will bay the castle? [t wil most likely come under the hammer, and go for half its cost to some charitable fill it with orphan chi or to some ambitious boarding-house ke: r who willadvertise, with your name asa catch: word ani premium, “furnished apartments in the Girard mansion to let.”* BUILD A TASTEPUL HOME. At the same time one ought to build neither coarsely nor carelessly; and this whatever the sum expended, large ot small. It isa duty which every man owes to his neighbore and the com- not to debsuch or offend, but to retine te the pablic taste. Kvery structure has # suggestive and educational intlaence. Ir Says to the observer, ‘Go anddeo thou likewise.” It helps to shape and color to com mend them to practical adoption. It ought therefore, to be sate aud Ot to copy. It shoald stimulate contrivance and waken and gratit the sense of beauty and harmony. [t may be oportious and dimensions, but none the more for this, it ought to ve decora tions. A bit of c! ver the main threshold w cheap verandah on the sunnyside; a laider of trellis work before the frout window for climb. a bracketed root; a panneled chim & litile irregularity in the ground le devices, within the they are of modest means, changes the ssion of the fabric, flings over it ap nee and gulture, and makes it a joy » Whick the there is hardly one man in ten that ts fit to be entrusted with the expenditare ad of Har for architectural purposes. We in nuisances pig-sties, distilleries aud bon: factories, and have them abated. We ough bave the privitege of indicting and removiag these eye-sures of characterles4 dwellings that open slong all the thoroughtares of city and c untry. It they were positively ugly it would be an improvement upon their utter lack of all expression, even a8 & haman face, rough hewn and distorted, is more attractive than smooth aud simpering insipidity. Thore are societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals. It wou'd & equally legitimate) to torm a society for the protection of peaceful landscapes, on which reckless, evil-minded and hardened men, without the fear of God and the love of human. ity before their eyes, faaten these blotches of deformity. Every man who buiids in a spirit ot lovalty to the requisitions ot grace and beauty is a public benetactor, while he who is inditfer ent to both inflicts an injury upon the comma- nity, and should be held and treated as a pub lic enemy. There ought to ve provisions by which such Inflictions might be averted or healed. Domestic architecture might well be made a branch of common se .00! education. It cannot be of greater importance that one shoul learn to draw imaginary scenes on can vas, than that he should know how to layout tae home he is to live in, rding to the csnons of taste. Candidates for the marriage vows are Gg through quite @ catechism of particulars etore they get their license. That epoch would be a goed point st which to sift their ideas ot the home structure, and to decide the granting the answer. USR EVERY ROC However ambitious the domestic hospitality, the reserved rooms of the house ought not to have prominence over those in use. There are called and what arein reality ‘‘the best rooms.” ‘They crowd themselves into straitened back apartments, that the reception room and the “spare chamber” may be kept shuttered and ‘larkened for the infrequent guest. Their daily convenience they sul;ject to these rigid re- strictions and these mean accommodations, that the semi-annual visitor may have large Space, and be duly impressed with the honors of bis entertainment. They go and come through tke back door, or the crooked base- ment entrance, bruising their e!bows and arch- ing their shoulders, lest their feet should dim the polish and wear the newness of tue front way, kept eacred to the forma! caller. There are some tine homes, or at least fine houses which I pass in my daily walk, against which I havea great antipathy, atmosta violent indignation, because I never sce any | life in them. Nothing stirs them visibly by day. | and they are dark as tombs by night. I want to stone the jealous blinds into some sense of an onteide world. They are occupied; but the whole cheerfulness of their occupancy wastes itself upon a sequestered back yard. The front ot the house is kept shut, silent and sombre. You never get a giimpse into a lighted room bere the gas shines on pleasant faces and the yous freedom of household intimaces. There seems more than an oriental strictness of seciue sion; while it is only & voluntary self-mortilic. tien to save the parlor carpet, and to I undisturbed the linen ghosts of the parlor chairs. Ithas the aspect of a mean, unsocial and upneighborly isvlation, and itis a sin against the laws of fellowship. If I felt | that the best of the house was too for me | and my wife and children, [ thin! ‘e my stateliness and take cheaper and more suitable premises. VALUE OP AN OUT OF DOOR DEPARTMENT. Not the least importaut appendage of a home in which boys and girls are domiciled, is what may be calied the “Out of Doors Department.” The house of itself cannot with safety to wall and ceiling and furniture prgvide for the tleod- | | tide of joyous and exuberabt spirits. These young Titans want to beat liberty, to stretch themselves with no fear of touching things frail | and damageable. They want to shout and hur- rah, to try issues breast to breast, and finally to grt to the bosom of the common mother Earth and suck tn health and vitallty. For such needs biessed be the home whose back windows look out upon @ barn-yard. and into the cool free spaces of a barn. In city life, the barn is a lux- ury, not always to be afforded. In the count | it lifts its homely and welcoming | most asa matter of course. But whe invaluable herit wait upon the household fecmeger gunman hy ge gy spe a eenaward, @ jen ler, @ frag- nent of a sand bank or somo equivaleutot these | open-air provisions is indispensable to the fall idea of e domestic outfit. For flesh either 1s cleaner or sweeter than dirt. [¢ nur- tures a development at ouce sunny and sinewy, and slices off the oyer-mach of boynood’s nerv- ous endowment. If this provision fails, if there be no croq vet. unds, or oaken arbor, or moesy seat, or pro for mad-pies, look out wandering feet seeking the cock-pit, or the rdep,or climbing into other forbidden | BEGIN IN A 8™. Build then as you can afford to build at the | the barbarians are coveted by those who | lege men. a tender voi voke of « ling to pay in nter n the day's earn go ysiead of opera tickets ar agality and economy will -e worth more to you than sinking fund Hahits of 1 med, that will leems your little estate, y and together on the hearth- stone and say, this is ours,” and then tarn and bug the baby till that innocent wonders at your vehwumence, it will be the sweetest and proud- est victory of your lite. he Bogiuning of th Year, [From the New York Evening Post. } It was a curious circumstance, with which our readers may not be at all familiar, that iy dh 1 that the beginning of the year should be the Istef January. It seems oad gin the year in mid-winter, expecially as # nothing inthe heavens or on earth to at asa natural point to reekon from. and equinoxes, as open to obser- ioitically rring, were “accuracy ; and, accordingly, e Oriental nations began their year at minal equinox, as the Jewsalso did in th r civil year, th stical year they dat equinox: the Mexicans ¢ ar at the vernal natio: qui t northern ork x rope, 7 mark: ificial time for New Year's. In was a se- rious revolt a; ion of Rome with the so-called Spanish provinces. The Lusitan ians, ancestors of the prevent Portuguese, and the Vettones, a tribe of Central Spain, making common cause together, defeated two Loman Governors, marched at’ will over the peninsula, and pillaged even inthe neighborhood of the Roman capital in Spain, now Cartag The Romans at home took these events so as to resolve on sending a consul to § step that had not before been deemed necessary for more than forty years; and, in order to hast- en the departure of the military, they even de- creed that the consuls for the year shen!d enter ofheetwo months and a haif before the legal time. The consuls were always elected in the fall, at the close of the year, but the day lor their entering upon office had long been fromthe 15th of Mareh to the Ist of January; and tins was accidentally establishod, as it were, the beginning of the year which we still ake use of at th y. Julius € long afterwards reformed the calendar in very essential respects, but he did not disturb the be- ginning of the vear, which remained for the Romans, and consequently for all nations and all ages, where the exigencies of a Spanish re- volt had one placed it a century and a halt be- fore Christ The Nut.Crackers. Once there came along our way aman wh s his living by making bets k Twain's hero, who would & wall-evel ng fro, specialty, which he wasn’t alow wherever he went. His specia! d he styled himselt in th the show “The Great Arkinsaw Nut- rom a when a lotof fellows got t e stove about what they coald do, he'd begin ‘oblow. No matter what the subject was, he coul! always contrive to lead ‘em olfon t ject of © nuts, which was appat strong hold. His name wa Simiing. One day when is boys, what this gen- tleman claims nay be al! very true, and I don’t doubt he can crack agiven time. I y here, just now vaca Ui toan bim of it, and I don’t min ting alevel hantre do!lars he can’t crack a hundred d breast- ed English walnuts as I'll provide for him in as many seconds.” “Its a go,” said Lew. ell, the money was planked, and whan night came there stood Lew before a big audi- ence, dressed ina pair of fancy bathing drawers, witha fillet of gold paper around his head, and 100 English walnuts on a table before him. The music tooted up, and he started, and for a time the shells flew in every direction quite lively: but all at once Lew’s jaws closed down ona rouser, and refused to open, and the spectators were surprised to see Lew hopping and twisting im all sorts of contortions about the stage to hurried music. ‘The intriguing landlord had gone and stuffed one of the walnuts with a mass of soft wax, and Lew could no more get his jaws open than tf hey had been bolted and riveted. Me didu’t win that money.—E: age. A PUNNY INCIDENT attracted the attention of @ number of the attendants at the opera on Friday night. A wiry, muscular-looking fel- ‘ow approached the ticket-taker, and ae ‘how de do?” then waited to be recognized. The door-keeper nodded, without a sign of rec ognition, and went on with Lis work without a second glance the stranger. ‘You don’t seem to know me?” said the other; ‘but I look- ed after the baggage of the company when they went from to ——., and the agent invi- ted me to come and hear the opera whenever I wasintown with the company.” ‘That may be all right,” said the door-keeper, ‘but I don’t know anything about it, and you can’t go in.” “Look here,” replied the megerareas, with | much feeling, “1 did extra work in helping to | move the trunks of this opera, and I don’t want | to be beat by anybody. ‘ere opera ever ts on our fin again, and Idon't smash every it of baggage T can get hold of, then d—n | me!” aud, turning on his beel, he left with an = of mingled anger and disgust.—S?. Louis emocrat, A GoLpEn DaEav.—It is hinted in army cir- cles in England that the expedition to be sent out to Ashantee will in all probability return laden with ‘“loot"—with treasures of gold plundered trom the uniucky savages who have called down upon their devoted heads the wrath of the British lion. All the information the English have atout these rumored treasures seems tobe gathered from the report of an agent sent to Coomasic in 1817 as an envoy, who gave glowing reports of bracelets so heavy that the laden arms of chiefs had to be supported by attendant pages; of gold and silver canes in every direction; of chairs inlaid with ivory and gol?, of death-dealing muskets adorned with rims of gold; of fall dress costumes and breast- ‘ates of solid gold, Ke. The golden accounts of the agent are now eagerly faccepted by the English soldiers and sailors who are engaged in the Ashantee expedition. Thus the trinkets of re- tend to be civilized, and who thas slow that { they have the same gross instincts of the | savages. Mcscvtar Srvpenrs.—The following is from the Willa: view: It ig evident that physical training is yearly exciting more ani more attention aniong Ameri students. ‘To the annual college regatta has been added foot-racing and a bi all tournament. We would propose a uew feature for the next con- test a gymnastic exhibition. All the apparatus requisite could be easily furnished and set up, ite nature and quantitycould be decided by a committee, also the number of prizes and all necessary arrangements. Let each college send a8 maby representatives as it desires. This would give an opportunity for colleges to be represented whose location now prevents them taking partin the regatta. We think sach an exhibition would be a very pleasing feature the next college concourse, hope its fe: bility and desirability will be discussed by col- Honse-Cax Pouirgewuss in HARTFORD.—An emineut citizen who is an ali in a horse car, in which were se A woman, evidently trom the with @ market basket on her arm e: ite him. took # seat o) little plaster. aldermen and all To bis great surprise she to her left band, and the brawn; jm of her t ‘laid ‘it on hisopen fist and closed on him chs war. grip, and then bo- heartily, remarking as she did 80, dest of me friend, but I thiak I beginning. Put up the « ait ce, and he got off the icecent wan To be nits, ates DEER was understood to say, “If you printit don’t too near the bedroom; but that saves an extra | Mention any names.”—C. Gre. itis not quite agreeable to ait in the same room in which the cooking is done; but when the cook is a favorite with you, that’ doesn’t so and all conveniences of the house were within in’ Sais S Thcgeay et ne Bat if he have Shy hy este each ame Tiber uy veaallg's Se tetiee Sarl Be would lay around taverns loose, | king around | both as regards the preseat ani the futare. There hat been no posiive engagemont to ine evening there | arry made between ns, and voa s- 1 to feel that the absence of any auch ont gave you aright to interpose your own claims lame that sprang into existenee too suddenly to bs valid. That is, it seems eo fo me."* Willis laughed, but his cigar went out. Nassan continaed: “Youand I are men of very | ment. You area man of tmpa man of deliberation. You are a ous, atheletic, anda man of th THE WiHITE-HILL PIT, ght on « pie inone of tee tary pariace Or y-houss among the Essex hills of whom was de- | had befaiten hia | re attentively At early te »men, sat opposite the fer silent and motion- the young rector o i € host, an aged gent er. On bie right ti was Godfrey Nassau lert was bis dangh student. We tty head ing apon her hand, » “softly tilaminated by the fallin pp pee sturned, like ber father’s, upon thestory- | {ft {ill be me r a ywer- ing, like honorable Bn dbs ad Domne the wives, it is preposterous that we dressed what he said solely to his vis-a-visand S'Five to secure the regard of the ss She must be entirely dissimilar to and I ¢ to the girl, seemingly ignoring the presence of t think that we can both persist in the rector. His voice waa strong and sympa- —_ thetic, and he modulated itartfally. It appear- Bogen te to eein —— planes ng a} el from what be sald that he had that day, = at whats dour thin an ragga Hi <= -— while in search for subjects for sketching, come “35 rong will rest. I'd not | suddenly and without warning upon a terrible, | $4¥ that you a omer at Se what yon immense and dangerous pit, a deserted marble- | ave Hone. and neither do I admit that I am. quarry, the edges of which were secreted by a | M¢Tely insist that the delicate, sensitive. and fringe ot Gadersrai | thonghtral girl should not be subjected to the anne * J eee . | fick Of entanglement in marriage with one of Bit ei’ om BBd explained, was the White- | oo two that ts unfit for her. Which one of us ; is the unfit one he himself must decide, and 1 ‘The narrator went on and described the place, : de. yividly setting forth ite sinister features, and | Sil"honug? ed Tercitateet negi™ the a — dwelling at great lenthg upon the horrors offall- | ¥ 4,7 we” ’ ei and to . is, Who still kept at wark, SEAT Seen prota “Phat ts very fairly put” said the other, re thatthe speaker observed it, but still he vel: ted to interfere. Nassau’s face lighted up with asudden, bril- and with subtile ‘ured into hy B: cter les ota Aawneard Then—then yon will consider it. 1 know that I sm right. “Consider i painfal the ac Certainty, And I suppose that | you will.” : ahling | Certainly Teha’l But the trial that one of "2 | as must be put to, will be a sever, ” forward ina taint, | «yes, undoubtedly,” returned Wills calmly. ion. d fromthe room was about to say : bat myself The two men e: mediate mth Nassan, wervants, atter a short i tralued to the task of ¢ sel’, felt t hastily ret vahaunon i, . that tosay more would be erous. Yot, at i Spak they need feel no apprehension in | th" same time, be was conv he char regard to her. - ter of the loo! had rece my He found them in the mitst of a hat dis- iti ee grr made but littl and aggressive 8 anXiONS face. 1 will not ruin your pretty interrupting you any further go and take my wal! “Very well, and { will goon with my paint- ing.” tand—ana, down the siop deflant He listened for a moment in astonish- OSES pute. ment. | & Said Nassau in a haif-suppressed, but still | penetrating voice Lam crrfain that that was a deliberate and ated attempt on your part to produce an It was not at ail necessary to the proper description of that terrible spot that you shou couple shocking porsoaal experiences with Jit were wanton and ernel!” pita recec 3 do not admit that you are a judge.” | , sorites “Possibly, then, you do not admit that we | CS mc Saree to think the matter over, ‘*re | plied Willis, bave had evidence? ‘ | He raised his head and looked after the slend- “It seems to me that you are showing a er tigure of his rival as it slowly moved down temper in this matter that does not become a | the oh betiowered slope. oe is ector.”” . |. “Poor devil!” retlected he; “it is lucky for “It is as mach the duty of a rector, sir, to de- | nim that he did not live in the days when the clare his antipathy to an ill as it ts to show bis | won their wives at the point ol the suerd ke love for a virtue, and when the crime that he | would not have earned milk meld.” discovers has been a covert one, he is bound to | « | Another week passed by. In it Willis showed let if, be known that he has not been blind. | no mercy to Naesau, He opened his ports ae it ON Sir!” The host here has- | ines and declared himself to all who cared to tened forward. “Nassau, 1 am surprised—I— | this is a sudden outbreak! I—” y “Tt hada sudden provocation, sir!” “But you are too hasty. You jump atcon- eture there by said he. 1 will added the rector, stepping away “we agree to tuink the matter a “Nassau! Nassau With his strong voice, erect and energetic ring, and glowing eye, he habitually over- rode the simpler aud gentier man, and yet he gave no cause for an outbreak. Where ‘ aseau clusions. Now, I did not see anything of the | would Lave been content to sit in-quiet beside fault you mention, You must remember that | bis sweet mistress, Willis talked graceful senti- | Willis there, is @ giant in physique, and thathe | ment. Where Nassau would have pondered and has naturally the feelingsof agiant. His mind | have answered gravely, Willis had something decisive to say. active and vigorous, and his imagination Nassau was satisfied to avoid paints in stronger colors. who aro slight- | prominence in manner and language, but Willis er and thinner-blooded, are acutely, and | always appeared inthe van, and@beside each perhaps, morbidly, alive to shades of meaning | cther they were as gray and crimson. » him do not exist. Astor Alice, Id doubt that she was tired, or nervous and — t, even—"" eagerly interposed Nassau. top!” interrupted the other. ‘Allow me, for a moment, I beg ot you. I wanted to say that, if she y1elds so rea lily to such mild attacks | upon her fancy, L think it is high time that she and all the household were intased with eome | strong and hearty sensations, Perhaps, we will | need the influence of an active and animated | t,and, it lam not greatly mistaken, Mr. Willis is to prove our reformer. [ am suri Nassau, that you will, after a little cool thought agree with mo. Perhaps you are somewhat | overstrung yourself. You know that your la- | bors have been severe, of late—perhaps you,are a | little sensitive, who knows”? ‘There was a moment's silence. Thethres men | stood motionless in the gathering gloom, and were ha iscernable to each other. “Come, Nassan,’’ said the host, finally, i gently-urgent tone—‘come, let me make peace; permit me to express your good- wit! my guest—may I now?” Perhaps there was something mandatorsti the request, still Nassau did not permit hims- to hesitate.’ He replied: «Certainly, if you will be so kind.” Each made a rigid and formal bow, and then, after the silence of another instant, the host essayed a new and more cheerful vein o taik. He was but partially snccesafal, however, for | the adverse temper of the moment was too | strong to be thus easily changed. Both Nassau and Willis made formal attempts at courtesy, | vut these each and all lacked the saving grace | of truth, and so they chilled upop the air, like winter breaths. In an hour the rector took his departure. He walked down over the lawns,now and then not The host, who was little else than a white- | haired boy’ himself clove openly to the strong. | er youth, and Nassau, sick st heart, relt that the ground was slipping away from beneath him. He walked alone over the hills and dales praying for means to combat his enemy, but he Ubought that he got no answer. His little world grew dark to him. ‘There was something meredible in it | There was an element in the case that seem: 50 monstrous, 80 fearfully wrong, that he often refused to contemplate it, but now, that mat ters were becoming so involved and so desper- ate with him, he was to confront it. ‘This was the conduct and demeanor of Alice herself. It he eatled and asked for her now, it was likely that he would be told that she was stroll ing with Willis. He knew thatshe praised Wil- iis. He hed seen her eyes fixed upon him. He our bad seen her give Willis her hand when she for | withheld it from him. She gazed at her father whenever he told of Willistfortunes at the troat brooks, or of bis long and rapid walks, or of bis bold riding, or of his wit. It all these tritles and their kin were indica- tions negatively adverse to him, there was | another set of ities that told positively against him MJAlas! how eagerly, now angrily, did he catch at them and apply them for his di. com- fort! She now no longer read with bim; no longer visited the sick with bim; no jooger praised his work; no longer smiled when he ap- proved; no longer blushed and turned aside her ‘ace as she had been wont to do whenever their convereations had led them hap-hazard into | Strange confessions. She was distant with him; Tererved; retreating; anxious; ill at ease. One day he saw her in the distance throw her- self weeping upon her father’s breast. “Ah,” = at the lighted upper windows of the old | ssid he to Einelt, stopping, “how she loves gtr him!” He leaped over the palings, and stepping into the moonlit road, waiked slowly on toward his distant home, with his head bent upon his breast, and his hands clasped behind him, He was passing his case and its circumstauces on review. “Come,” said he to himself “let us admit y path is becoming @ hard and thorny one. no longer refuse to be convinced of that. | Willisis my rival. Alice has grown strangely cold tome. The father’s eyes are filled with virtues of the new hero, and the old one is bein, Hardly bad he thus formulated the thought, when there opened upon his confused mind a new prospect. . It was asif a sudden fiseh of sunlizht had been shotdown in the middle of the night. He now saw clearly. She loved her father! Str: nge that he had overlooked filial love in his contem- ation of his own love range that he had | been so childishly blind! ge that he had not imagined her sense of duty and scoeantes lity might have had some force with ot | her! shed aside. That is the sum of it. It He felt in # second as if he wer Ea either more nor less than that. Willis is a | ait ee ee Se spirited man, he is fullof | still wait! He must besure of this. He must ife and oor. He sings, he rides, he rows, he | have proots. He must not make a protest until laughs aloud, he recites, he fills the house with fe must look noise and excitement. This His old heart is delighted—and it is natural that | itshould be; yes—it is natural. But Alice— | Alice now torbore to’6) voice and handsome Alice can surely find little to love in all this. It ain became uneu, — is impossible that her tender spirit can becheer- | a aud sapg, ‘aud h is gay presence still filled the eyes of the father. Finally, Alice fled trom the len, he was positive le his grounds. hard and think h: ipped by. and fea ae w pleases his host, | Another day sli ge him. His le. Willis still laugh- ed or soothed by such virtues. Yet she is grad- ually drawing away from me, she avoids me, she when ves me short answers, she docs not smile when | Nassau, one afternoon, suddenly entered it. come, or try todetain me when! go. Ab, I | Thececape was precipitate: yet, as she aisap- did not think I should be so unhappy! Still, peared, she turned full upon him a gaze of inde- how impossible this is! It cannot be! He fs | scribable meaning. cruel, selfish, heartless. lasting can bridge the guif are too dissimilar to love other. of that! But let me be calm. Let me jadge fairly and justly between us—tet me examine | vur separate dispositions, and assure myself: that I am notin the wrong. It seems hard that he, so much of astranger, should rush in and tear asunder our sweet companionship with so Nothing true and! between them. They | 5 Nasea@u’s soul arose in arms. h oth lam sure | But he retiected one more ,, Then he wentin search for Willis. He was intent upon making one more appeal to him. if he failed in it, he would hasten to the father, and, with all the stre: aud eloquence that he could command, would beseech him to jook more closely to the complication that seemed so dangerous and so full of wrong. rude a band, and assume by torce what I had He hastened first to theold domicile. varned by long waiting! But patience, pa- He found no one there. It seemed that Wil- tence. Let me study how I can undeceive | lis had guue into the woodsan hour before with his easel and boxes. Well, but is not the doctor in his study?” “No sir; he is inthe lower garden. f heard him eay that he was going over near the White- UN Pit to see if there were any trees there that ue could transplant. * them, and warn them of the impending danger. Let me think and plan what [ can do to restore the old order of things that I loved—alas! per- baps, too well.” Communing thus with himself, the rector, kept on his way, revolving his troubles in his mind, and gradually bringing out ofthe cha: “But Mise Alice?” a well-defined and necessary purpose. “She has gone out, too, sir. She has gene for tye 5 the few days that succeeded this, Wil- | a walk, I think.” lis urge is new-born claim to Miss Alice’s fa- “Alone?” vor with great persistence, and Nagsan, stand- | “Yes, sir, alone. She asked me in which di- i0g partially aside, felt the current turn more rection her father had gone, and she followed and more strongly agai mseif. bim.”” Finally, urged by hig ever-increasing pain «And is she well to-day?” and anxiety, be one ‘noon sought out his ««She is pale—very pale.” rival, whom he found at the edge of a wood Bp “abl” on a hill-side, where he was occupied in sketch- | Here there was a panse. ing the broad and glowing interval. Then Nassau inquired for the direction that fie was smoking, and was entirely at ease in | Willis had taken. his loose Legere while Nassau, in circum- He ise in the direction of the White Hill, spect black, formerly erect, at short | too, sit think he told Miss Alice yesterday eee even asa the tether scala sr e was a cliff there that he wanted to e . ly, after | paint. explaining ina few words the object of visit, bs Naseau departed on his search. He walked f that LI could persuade you to regard this mat- idly, and took # path across the fields, gazing Pi bere and there at ail the copses and The day was brilliant. The sk: sort bape nnn ever the fields ter from my standpoint. “*It would be quite as reasonable that I should demand that you look at it from mine.” “*I do not agree with you.” “Indeed!” “For I think you are the interloper, or rather, | trees were the intruder.” The rector walked for anhour. Still he found ‘Je not that a little harsh?” traces of the man he sought, or, indeed, of “Perhaps eo—I b r- pardo! There was «silence. Willis went calmly on with his painting and smo! , while Nassaa seemed to be iz no other of chosen. ssa = le gazed duwn imi ie valleys Up u the sides of the hills, but still fruitiess!; ee He anxious, and he harried. He had an indefinable distrust of the circumstances “I should like to discuss the subject with you, | which had brought Miss Alice and Willis to the Inte complex at present, snd ‘no doubt ‘we | Sime Part of te plage. He dreaded that he le complex at present, ni s could each explain enough to permit us to act her os more intelligently.” “Possibly.” “Shall I go on?” um genege “Ramit it? No, I do not admit it.” «I do not admit it, I assert it.” “Under the circ father, to seem acqaicscent i n the consammation of wh has -ct 4 plan bis what do ye eniDg colo bass me, come; lis, with h Do not b an ons im favo at belief is not only a it is insulting to al to her father, and to ms +On the contrary —" oyon tuand your belief ded Willis, rising from his ca “What ground have you? What bas | pened, to make you—" “I know it,” interrupted Nassaa, tn a and earnest voice; ‘1 know it, because have received many proofs of her love for mu before you came here, and, inasmuch as know that she isas sincere and true as woman ever was, 1] cannot admit a sug sideration for me could be quickly and t lisplaced in consideration for anocher It ts clear that ber father bas great regard you. Ido not quarrel with him for that. bo doubt, fill his tle of strength an? c Letter than Ido. Moreover, you are and know the world. it is entirely re that he one more Gt to re ceive bis treasar iM, 1 nepite of my shortcomings, Nave ears ce’s favor. Upon that f depend tor Istrive to retain it in ld be worthless withoat it. Lt 8 to pert the labors that © perform surd, b 1» A that ther lice His eyes met wasae te bec 1 ome on ag He was qu rer he He began to onger tet ne Way, exist. 1 vey wer > ye some means, that the «miles etefort of hers wast . ‘ ot stoyou are given in obetience Perhaps -he permitted > her father's clear desires, and that they do come trom her heart. You must oneiy that she does not love you, but that she loves me; that itis the agony of ‘her mward conten- tions between her heart and her sense of duty that has caus The inetant ground she fell upon i her cheeks to become so pa her step soslow, and ner votce so sad. Th hot egotiem in me, It is not the empty boasting of a vain man, or the wild talk of a }: zed her in his arms, and, gatherir trength, faced his task with an anx , en yards with his lips You and I are opposed to each othe t prayer you have deccived yourself. It is my simple erable father. reaching down bis and imperative duty to undeceive watched their slow and silent appr a Here Nassau paused. His tea begua to tremble in spite of himself. Willis’s eyes we tixed, halt-scorntully and half-pityingly, upon him. For a moment nothing was to be heard but the rustle of the leaves in the wood, the hum of the locusts, aud the faint voice of the men in the meadows below. The silence was broken by sounds on the farther side of the thicket; there were voices and footstens. The two m exchanged gla: s eyes flowed with herently, ant he t as Nastau’s right >, and a bal ory, he his eager fingers in the skirt - ghter’s dress. traggied up the last step, and thea Nassag laid bis burden upon the tlower-besprinkied grass. The other seized his hand, and, pi arm about the girl's week, bent his he recognized the former, a d “hey ing his ces. They were the voices of A and Miss Alice and her father. His was loud and pressed bis ,urrowed cheek to hers and wept imperious. Hers was low, soft, and pleading. | aloud and yet distinct and earnest. They seemed to | I» & moment more he turned to Nassaa, and e walking slowly along the path. ened “Womanlike! womantike!” dhe. “You are blind toall the qualities in a man that*tell.’ Dw you see no virtues in his experience in lit in his ability to protect you in times of danger, in his power, in Tell me!” “VYes—yee—but yet I not love him. One must go where one's heart leads, dear fatber. Ore cannot say ‘I must love this friend’ or that. There is something that speaks before one can de? ~ Suppose that I ex for you” Sup c ‘Ah, but I have only to say ‘1 do not love bm,’ and then you woula not.” “Are you so sure of that?” *Yes, 1 am sure.” * But wiil you tell me that you love the other —the minister—suill?” “It vou ask me, I must tell you ‘yes.’ At ihis point the voices were lost. ‘The final “yes,” however was distinct. Both of the in- voluntary listeners heard it. They also heard the angry tone of some of the father’s sneceod- “My dear friend, you have saved two lives in one. “Yow are the man that I seck; you havet brave heart that my poor ch was on the eve ot c¢ things. Ab hero has fle: ceived, aud yet in ti Nassau upon this letter upon his table “You are right. Iam acoward. The dread ain to my heart overcame me first, aud then the dread ot danger to my t me from acting afterwand. ¥ Won what I have ignobly lost you agair, mach less ut, Can SOU Teceive He bad disappea On the next ewe sat at tea in the an Mise Al Thank tied nt his home, fount ert my right, and decide “eo e 1 \ook upon the others, ch well wishes as I can Wits.” seo@tly. at twilight, the trioagain tent h Nas ce gazed at each oth from either end of the t irg words, but the increasing distance ly seen in the gic them trom catching their scnse. | iawn through the windo spoke tor Willis was deathly pate. He hung his head, | several moments Nothin, beard bat nd grasped his casel with one hand. the « trom the ckets in the elds tran ull, and seomed youthtal people were er Could not help say~ Itsectus that you are ri ike tiereeness in «Yes,” echoed the other, “I am right.” There was another pause, Willis’s color came back, and be gradualiy assumed an air of ease. He sat down before bis canvas again, ana wa an attempt at painting. His companion watched him. He noticed that he mixed his colors wrongly, and that he was trembling from his head to his feet Five minutes Nothing was said on either side. Both dreaded to utter the important words that must come now. But Nassau, tortured beyond expression, could restrain himself no longer. “Tell me, sir, 1 beg of you. that the field is mine’ Willis glanced furtively at him, and then let ds drop upon his knees. en it it is, P shall pot leave it”? What! do you mean to say that you will | : to her, as be had to Nassau. TI | im | "E moment after he aroce aud walked aw as one docs who had settled sat | .ctorily, aud without a fault, a great aftair. Acrear W: ght," said he, with | fis tone 3 the o as if for his Conscience’ sake t seems, hildren, that ty egotiem has d us to make a sort of loop in our careers is, a eort of roundabout excarsion inte the realms of violent passion, whence we have now returned. Yon owe me your pardon, Some day I shall ask you for it—some day when you shall have but «single voice. But, let me hope | that all isnow going on as it was going on b-- fore; that the hiatus that I wrongl | about has not caused the wretch: that I tried to make Nassau bowed silently in the twilight The dictator bowed in response, | turned to hie daughter. She had lowered ber head; and her tace was hidden. his, however, did not prevent him from bow- Do you not see “I cannot” “And why, pray? Why is it that you, who have heard what would drive a manof principle and bonor ont of sight and bearing of this place and al) the people in it, fee! that yoa cannot leave us to our peace?” am Lappy here. “That is not true! Yon mean yon would be unbappy if you were not here. “Ofcourse. I should be unbappy if I were not here. “That is, the poor, sad smzles that have been ow you have afforded you so much pleasure at you mean still todemand them even after you have discovered that they were notsiuecre? _ You mean to impese your self upon—au} By heavens, sir,” cried Nassau, carried CLOTHILVG! OR CLOTHING GO TO STRAUS’, 1011 Ponnsyivania avend. DUCED Phi Es, atSTeAUS" — BLACK CLOT! Ti STRAUS. ra former by his excitement, and rising to his full height, 829 ‘At STBAUS “then you are a cowarp!”” LACK AND BLUS DIAGONAL COATS at an Will ee his feet. ay had hedone Immense Keductie: At STHAUB’. so, when the whole air was filled with the vibra- ons of a deep and terrible thunder. It did not come from the sky, for that was cloudless; nor from beneath, —T the ground tremb'ed. It was continuocs, the earth and trees shud- dered as if disturbed byaconyvulsion. A hollow, cravernous roar burst out, and over the tops of the trees, at the distance of an eight of a mile, ‘he two men saw a wide, dense, boiling cloud of dust arise, like a cloud of smoke from a Lattie- eld, and slowly overspread the sky. oe. ve all the deeper and more awfal noise, there came a sbrill a plercin, scream. It was the undescribable utterance o: a woman in distress. Naseua cried: “That's from the White-Hill Pit!” He turned and hastened rapidly down the oa ity. Willis followed him at the top of his spect. Tle latter, being more powerful, ovortook and pased the other, and over the cr sod broken ground ‘with the lightness avd swiftness ot adeer. They ascended the height towards the woods which concealed the quarry. B th felt that the next few moments nrst, in BYce CLOTH VESTS at all wie SRAUS’. 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