Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1874, Page 2

I mused last night in pensive mood,— Albeit not often s-ntimenia’ My beart was he: ant my fr ‘aa Tacked with achos—hoth Tsay, as once I’ve said before, IY mood was somewhat sad and pensive, T cast upen the Part a giance Fond, lingering, and comprehensive. saw once more that mossy bank, y which the river ripples slowly, shadowed by the silvery veil Of willow bran. bes drooping lowly, Bestrewn with w id spring flowereta dyed In every color of the prism: Where oft we sa., May Brown and I,— Nor ever dreamed oi rheumatism. . Al | Some might have loved Before us, in their humdrum fashion; Bat never yet the world had known So wild, #0 deep, so ‘| passion! We recked not of the heart!css crowd, Nor hee ded ernel parents frowning; But lived in one long blisefal dream, And spouted Tennyson and Browning. And when the cruel fates decreed That for s season I must leave her, It grung my very heart tosee How much our parting seemed to grieve her. One happy moment, too, her bead on my shoulder! I live that scene agai my arms again eafold ® me one long auburn curl, © my pictare in « locket Her letters. with blae ribbon tied I carted in my left coat- pocket. ‘Those notes, rv i e sentiment than knowledge.) abont four times = ‘That year I was away of my dream!” ¥ line from May without the shortly meant a parson, f One morning htest warning, She rent my notes an vr And hoped I would “forget my folly.” U her letters back. her false an hearted, J with joy the hour ree. And so we parted. ron by the page " w In love with all my [Alice Williams in Nevemte sooo Waitress ror Tar Star } THE CRUISE OF THE “BLUE BIRD.” The Leg of & Canoe Voyage on the Potomae. We had been talking for two seasons of a trip in the canoe “Blue Bird,” from Piney Point to Blakistone’s Island. Leonardtown, and return. “We” comprised the writer and, at most, two others, for the “Bine Bird's” accommodations were limited, and the contemplated voyage not without tt perils, Indeed, the old fishermen those who had been in a canoe, as it were, clared our craft unfit for such a trip, and our friends, one and all, atvised us not to under- take it. I think this opposition was what finally harried us off one morning, without a moment's preparation, and with every indication of stormy weather. In the first place, however, I had faith and pride in tire canve I had sailed for so many months. I knew ber stroog and Weak points. Smaller than the average canoe, the bad been rigged for racing in smooth waters father than cruising, and she was so sharp for- ward a# to bory under a pressure of canvas. ‘Then. having vo center: board, she did not work Weil to windward, except under the most f abie etre ances. With the wind in the qu ere were few canoes that could keep ber my, and there were still fewer that could carry sail longer in 2 gale, provided there was plenty of live baliast t0 windward and a good bard at the bailer. TSE PRRILS OF THE POTOMAC. Now, the most perilous portion of the Potomac river is said to be that trom Plaey Peint to Blakistone’s Island, a distance of fifteen miles by the charts, but nearer twenty to sai! over. The river is about eight miles wide here, and on the Maryland shore there is vo stelter, no har- Dor save at one poiat, the mouth of “Herring ek. Then we were warned of the reefs about Blakistone’s Island, and of the shoals and bars to be encountered in Britton’s bay. These warn- ings were of no avail, and while a* breakfast on the 27th of July Ben ssid: ~ We've been tal ing about to Leonard‘own long enough; let's start now.” ‘Agreed,” responded the others, and. jumping np from the table, we started (or the wharf. Let me introduce you to the party. There was Jack, a tali sinewy fel- low. adored by the ladies, an expert oarsman, & bold swimmer, and afraid of nothing; and Ben, who had lost a leg im “the late unpleas- autnes«.” but isa better msn, gamer and more active than most men who have a fall comple- Went of limbs. The writer was merely the ship per of the “Biue Bird.” Modesty forbids him to say more. But right here let bim say of his companions, that should he ever be called on to leed @ for orn hope—which heaven furbid—he should place Jack and Ben at the head of the column. A “PLYING START.” As out daily costume consisted of blue fisnnel shirts and trowsers, not find it necessary to change our dress, and the extent of our pre- parations was setting the “Blue Bird's” eails, putting an extra paddle on board, and laying in a popp ty of chill preventative,” obtained from Major who ministered at the shrine of Bacchus. We did not take & mouthful of food, a change of clothing, ora blanket. A number of our iady friends collected on the whart to see us start and wish us bon voyage, and a8 we stood acro® the St. Georg hey waved their bandkerchiefs after us vigorously. Om the second tack we Ppasced through the straits inte the Potomac, and with the wind on the quarter headed up When we that noble stream under full sail. had passed Piney Point ligh out fore us | first time the significance of our craft and the perils of our projected voyage were real- ized. The «Biue Bord” was little more than a chip On this waste of waters, and caused ons to fee} something of the sense ‘of loneliness ex pe- Henced at sea in largercratts. However, we were not mnch given to meditation, and “splic- ame bead and don‘als | | jetts, an old-time Virgima gentleman, | ing the main brace” we continued our course | in mid-river, with the fail expectation of dining that day at Biackston’s Island. But where was the sland? Not one of us bad ever sailed to it. What appeared to be isiauds were continually Sppearing before us, farther and farther on, While those first seen proved as we drew nearer to be simply clumps of trees on the main- land. ROvGH WRATHER. Before 11 o'clock the wind had freshened 80 that we were compelied to take im the jib and mainsa’ d run uuder the foresail. The water Was growing rough, too, and the Would now and then dive iuto ® wave, and s0 keep one wan busy bailing. The wind con~ tinued to ine nd the and we (nally decided to bead for what ap- peared te ooded island some four or five mi ‘The sheet was slacked of, aud sway we flew before the wind, but had vet gone far when our island was transformed and. We decided to keep on, how- ¢ fortunate enough to find a little st wide enough to admit our snag t. aud in which there was perfect shelter from the storm. voRnEs’ rorr. After furling the sails and stowing every- thing snugly we climbed a stesp bank and found eelves tm a eld of stubble. with corn- Le distance. A ehort distance below chart, and toward that we directed our stepe, naturaliy ex ng to find there the residence of the proprietor. But there was only a negro cabin, with pieapnintes at the door, and an old colored man, white-headed and bend'ng uncer the weight of years, chop- ing wood cutside. He was a capital sabject for W_L. Shepperd’s pencil. He touched his Tagged hat as we approached, and in response te our inquiries us that we were on Colonel Forbes’ piace, and that the colonel’s resideace War ® mile divtant, beyoud the orebard and the cortiiclas, through which ran a path. Having the day, end indeed any umber of days before us, we decided to pay Our re-pects te the colo- nel Helping ourselves to some early winJfalls as we pasred through the orchard, and pluck ing tome of the rich clasters of blackberries which bordered the cornfield, we finally strack out through the corn for the house, the chim: neysof which could be seen un the Half an hour's waik brow, 4 “SHORT OUT.” Taking a parting glass with our host we started at noon for the shore, intending to get underweigh for Blackiston’s Island, which we bad ascertained to be some six or distant. We tried a com ively good walking. touds, which bad bees threatening sauces ve to rai the shore it was we concluded to defer cur dopasture sod Took our for shelter. This we found IN 4 TOBACCO BARN, or rather under its projecting roof, where there were implements and open stalis for cattle. The barn iteeif, with a tempting pile of corn shucks visible th in one corner were soon dreaming of t! hind them; but the writer's thoughts were on dinner, aud he accordingly interviewed the freedman on the subject. The best his larder afforded was ‘(meat and bread,” (2nglice, bacon and corn bread,) and that he promised to have im readiness asroon as posible. Eggs ho had none, and a foraging expedition ia tue rain to the neighbors proved (hen) frui-lesa, So we dozed, smoked our pipes, and waiched the rain faliivg on the trees srouad us, ant on the broad Potomac before us, and the afternoon wore slow!y away. “DIBNER’S RE OEMuCN.” Abont 4 o'clock we were summoucd to dinner, which awaited us in the little log cabin we had Visited earlier in the day. Here we found the old “nncle” we had interviewed in the morn. , who grianed of us. Oar ¥, Was as- iogized pro- othing better to set before against the wall was laid Piate of coru bread, and Ruvger sauce is a We cid ample justice €aten many a better Wohet we had dined the and we decided to cou- gaging the services of our est Loy to help us launch the high and dry by the receding We took up eur line of marc for the shore. oes and etockings off,” was the word, and after half an Lour’s bard work, the “Blue Bird” Was sliced wonderful aj to the fare. tinue our voyage. host @ “Blu APLOAT AGAIN. All sail wae set, bat the wind wis light and @ at theend of two hours we had ittle progress. We had well nigh all hope of reaching our destination bal night, when a brisk breeze sprang ap and carried us ly on our course. This was cheering, though the shadows of pight were { then gathering around us, and the “little brown Jug” ip the locker had been drained of its last drop. Soon Biackiston’s Island light shone o through the darkness before us. now to our straining eyes seeming far away, then near at band, though we knew by the rippling of the water under the “ Blue Bird's" sharp bow that we must be must be rapidly nearing our des tined haven, and—supper! Of the bars and reefs we bad been warned against we had no thought, though the skipper, from .force of habit, kept @ watchful eye on the dark watera, ON A RERP. A black object a few yards away attracted his attention, and he puinted it out to Jack, with the remark, “ I wonder what that is the words were hardly out of udven shock, and t u foutof water. What wo had seen ut of along reet, called Her. ring Island, and passing inshore uf it we had Tun upon a connecting but sabmerged bar which did not sbow itseif by even a warning At first the situation looked critical, ortunately the wind lulled just as we grounded, and’ baving taken in sail without a mowent’s delay, twooft us jumped overboard and launched our craft into deep water. Not without misgivings we coutinued our conrse in- side the reef, meeting with no more mishaps, however, and after passing its upper end, the sheets were bavied aft, and we bore up for some twinkling lights, where cordial greetings and creature comforts awaited us. Soon the out- lines of a wharf, with boats moored alongside, Were discerned, and running under its lee we made fast, unshipped masts and rndder, stowed everything snug, and then putting on shoes and stockings, of which we had been divested du- ring the latter portion of the trip, we started for shelter. BLAKISTON’S ISLAND. A drizzling rain was now falling, and cheery indeed looked the light which shoue out trom under the trees before us, and merrily sounded the volces of the guests assembled on the ve- randa. We were somewhat abashed at the idea of coming into the hight, and the presence ot ladies, ineur blue sbirts and generally roagh toilete, but were soon met and kindly greeted by Dr. MeWiiliams, who, after administering an anti-chill mixture, aseigned us quarters and ordered supper. ‘This is one of the pleasantest summer resorts on the Potomac. The fishing ix better than lower down the river, the shootin 1d, fruit plentiful in its season, and Dr. MoWitta ma, his sons and caughters. the most agreeable and at- tentive of hosts. Lhe accommodations, which are sufficient for about fifty guests, consist of a Tow of cottages, situated on @ bank which slopes down to the river. They are surrounded by trees, and command a fine view, embracing Colten’s a watering place on the Maryland shore, three-quarters of a mile distant, and the mouth of Britton’s Bay. The island is #out one mile in circumference, diversified in sar- face, dotted with groves, and has on ita fine peach orchard of 1,006 treea. The peach crop wasafailure here, as elsewhere in Maryland this season, but watermelons and cantclopes were abundant. OFF FOR LEONARDTOWZ. We were stirring early next morning, and washed down and spooged out the “Blue Bird,” and got everything ready for astart after break- fast. And such a breakfast! It waa so great a change from the greasy, ill-cooked and badly- served food we had been compeiled to partake of elrewhere, that it yet lingers gratefully on our paintes. A large haul of taylor had been mare the night before id these delicious fish, Gone toa turn, graced the table. Then there | were oysters, fried in batter yet devoid of grease and retaining the full tlavor of the bivalve, fresh-laid eggs, crisp bacon, muffing, rolls, corn breed, tea, coffee, chocolate, and milk ad iibi- fum. Breakfast over, pipes were lighted, and then the “Blue Bird's” crew began their adieux. Most of the guests, however, accumpanied us to the wharf, and great was their astonishment at sight of the little craft in which we had uader- taken ro long a voyage. When her three saila were epread to the breezs their eyes opened wider. It was blowing a stift breeze at the time, and trimming the sheets down fiat as we rounded the wharf the “ Blney” dipped her lee washboard under, and presented her keel to the spectstors. Exchanging then our last good- byes, the sheets were eased off a little, and we bore away for the mouth of Brittou’s Bay, three mles distant. The breeze continued to freshen, the waves to increase, and we shipped water a until fairly within the bay. Then, with smooth water and the sheets slacked well off, all hands had to sit to wind ward to keep the + Hine Bird” on her bearings as she sped along At the rate of ten knots an hour. It was ade- liehtful sail up the bay, and the trip from Biakiston’s island to Leonardtown wharf, a dis- tance of ten miles, was made in an bour aud ten minutes. AM OLD FASHIONED TOWN. A walk of a quarter of a mile up a steep hill, and under a blazing san, bronght us to Leon- ardtown, which is not visible from the water. It fg the sbire town of St. Mary’s oer: anda qtaint old place, consistixg of @ court-bouse, a dozen or two of lawyers’ offices, two hotels, which try to stere esch other out of counte- ‘ew etoree, # church or two, and dwell- tered here aud there under the trees. Leovardtown is quite a resort in sammer time, and during the heated term Moore’s and Fen- wich’s hotels have their full quota of guests. Quiet and low prices must be the main attrac- Uops; for, beyond excursions to Paw-paw Hol- tow, a few miles down the bay, where there is a cold spring ands plot of mint, where fishing parties rendezvous and oyster roasts take place, there sre no amusements. But those fond of “@ quiet game” can have it at any ti for Leonardtown t# famous for its card parties, at which ber legal giants recreate themselves when not heey as court. In olden times pley ran high, plantations and “ niggers” being sometim: stakedon the game; andeven at thi Guy it is said there are out for a bar just below us, we stood down the bay at4p.m. There wasa breeze biow- ing, but after the firet half mile it was desd abead. The pros; of besting six or seven miles to windward down a narrow bay was not epcouraging, bat after we bad made half a dezen tacks fortune favored us. the wind bav- ing Slanted so (hat we could bee ter cours». So | we bowled along merrily, slacking sieets now and then when struck by a squall, and once having to jump overboard to put Blue Bird” off from a bar that got in o Near the month of th the wind again ba: and became light and bafling, but when ont the Potomac we were able to head for Piney Point. The river was rougher than we had ever seen it, a nasty, lumpy sea running that was evidently the legacy of the day. Though tossed abo yolook pe Bhatt Piney Foss liskt te seven 0" m. ght t, Py sall ng, Bon bot thoakip- sight, and every drawing, Ben cc's cigat thsi we would be bane ees ercieck. he skipper, however, bad taken note of the angry-looking clouds drifting nd felt that @ storm was brewing. It w: certain, however, from what direction it id come, and it might have swept down riv. = bead “Blue Bird” on ite wings to her desti SOMETHING OF A GALB. Unfortunately it came from the opposite quarter, and with such force as to necessitate shortening sailina hurry. At8p. m.the “Bia Bird” wa: headed for the Maryland shere, stag- geting under her foresail, and shipping water from stem to stern. The gale continued to in- crease in violence, the waves to run higher, and Ben ard Jack were compelled to relieve each other at bailing to keep oar craft from swamp- ing, a fate which we several times narr caped. For an hour or more we the wird and waves. At first we had hopes of reaching our destination that night, after ail; bat fingily we only thonght of finding a harbor. All hands being worn out, and no sheiterin sight, it was decided to land on the beach, npon | which the waves were dashing furiously.’ This was a risky undertaking, #o far as our craft was | concerned. for if allowed to beat apon the shore the skipper jumped overboard. of the stern carried {t around bi leaving the how to beat the stor thing moveable was taken out, pulling together hauled the hiitle Bird” beyond the fury of the waves, ON THE BEACH, BUT NOT AT LONG BRANCH. We bad landed on a sandy and grareliy beach, above which rosea high and steep bank of yellow earth. Here we were destined to spend the night. Our “little brown jag” had been replithed at Leonardtown, bat provigions we had none, save two little pieces of corn bread.getlcs ofour-dinner in the negro cabin, which had been stowed away in sport and for gotten until now. These wera divided and made our supper. Then we had a pall at the jug. lighted our pipes, and 20 prepared to face the ight. Ben went to work gathering dry sea weed on the shore, and making himself a bed on the sheiving bank, turned {n, and was soon asleep. Jack strarged the sails so as to make a snug dormitory, aud disappeared under their folds, The skipper remained on watch, for the tide was still flvod, and he wished to have an eye to the safety of his craft. AN UNCOMPORTABLE NIGHT. About midnight, all being safe, and his com- rades asleep, he climbed the bank to reconoitre. The gale was still raging, the waves dashiog with a sullen roar upou the shore and throwing Twasses of white spray far before them. The eky was of inky blackness, not a star was visible, but up river Blackistone’s island light shone out teebly, recalling to mind the comforts of the previous night im painful contrast with present surroundings. I’iney Point light, though only five or six miles distant, was not visible, because of anintervening head!and. There was nothing encouraging in the out-look, and skipper throw- ing himself on the bare ground was soon lost ia sleep. An hour or more later the pattering of rain drops awoke him to consciousness of having been attacked by # chill, which caused his teeth to rattle like castanets, and his limbs to tremb'e is with paley. He aroused his comrades to find Jack a like sufferer, and as the rain was then falling heavily ail hands sought refageina con- venient out-building, which the lightning re- vealed near at hand, and after partaking of “forty drops” indulged in {fitful snatches of sleep until daylight, which revealed a dwelling close by, but apparently uninhabited. AN INHOSPITABLE BRUTE. We determined to visit it, at all events, buf before reaching the door saw a man hoeing potatoes in a neighboring field, and to him made known our condition and need of food. A more cburly inhospitable beast it had never been our ill-fortune to encounter. He refused to give us even a drink of milk or a mouthful of food, though we offered to pay him liberally; but be was willing to help us launch our canoe, and only too glad to leave so forbidding a place we prepared for departure. In justice to the people of lower Maryland, and to the memory of generous hospitaiities so freely extended to the writer in other sections of the state, be it that this man (whose vame unforta- n.tely cannot now be recalled) was a new- comer, and not native to the manuer born Some other section of the country is therefore responsible for this concentrated embodiment of meaness and churliness. Butlet us be off. We have lingered too long in this inhospitable place. DRIFTING AND DRIPPING. We found the “Blue Bird” embedded insand and it was no easy task to raise her, but this baving been accompiished and some fence rail | placed under her keel, she was launched. The water being very shoal we had, atter placing the sails, etc., op board to wade alongside and drag her Mmto deep water. Making fast to a stake we then set sail, a work of sometime, as everything was wet and in confusion. It was Grizzly morning, with occasional heavy show- ers and but little wind stirring, and we drifted rather than sailed along the shore. Breakfast- lessa—we bad not had a ‘square meal” since one . mn. the preceding day—wet, and out of whis- 'y, our situation was not the most delightful in the world. So we drifted, drifted, drifted, while it rained, rained, rained, now in pitiless pelting showers, then in drizzle and mist, and yet not Fowl was heard, not a pitifal note from the lue Bird’s” crew. Our shoes and stockin, lay soaking in the bottom of the canoe, while our bare feet splashed in the softraiu water that te from the sails and trom our gar- ments, hen cramped by long sitting in wet clothes we would stand up and ply the paddle a while, or use it as a setting pole, and at the end of five hours we had accomplished five miles and were close apon Pine: ‘oiut light. Here we got a breeze, and Jack and the skipper a retarn of their chilis; but we were near home now, and soon the “Blue Bird” was moored to the wharf frem which we had atarted. Leaving all sail standing, and all eur traps on board, barefooted and barelegged, we made for our quarters, food, and— medicine. The “Blue Bird’s” cruise was ended. We bad been absent about forty-hours, had sailed some sixty or seventy mileg, and, despite the stormy weather, and exposure, had had a very jolly time. CG. A. Pe A Panis ScanDaL.—A few days ago, says Galignani’s Messenger, the Figaro related the sdventure of a young woman, demi-monde, famous for her yéllow hair, and a young Bel- gian nobleman, who had made her a present of @ carriage and pair, driven by a negro. Sas cting the fidelity of his mistress, he one day lackened his face and put on the servant’s liy- ery, with the idea of catching her tripping. The plan succeeded, a8 he found that, on alighting, sbe joined @ young man who was waiting for her. On her réturn, when ehe was about to enter the carriage, he gave her two eharp cute across the face with his whip, and then droveoff, leav- ing her standing where she was. The epilogue of the story is amusing. The real coachman, on hearing of what had been done, thought his dignity compromised, and addressed the follow letter to bis master: Monsieur Le Baron:—I am outy @ poor negro, but 1 should never have conducted myself on your seat as you have done, when using my name, my wig and my coler. Nor should lever have confided them to you 1f I had known what you intended to do with them. I resign my place and bid you adieu. Tom VawKeure. ‘The Baron talks of having the letter framed an¢ hung up in the most prominent place in his artment. A Rascatty Russian Svutier.—Daring the Crimean campaign ‘one of the principal regt- mental canteens inthe Russian army was sud- denly closed in the faces of officers and men without notice or warning. Prince Gortchakoff, farious, rode up to the purveyor and deman: an explapation, whereupon the latter replied that, instead of iding him, as was commonly supposed £20 of clear caily profits, bis business was landing him in downright ruin, inasmuch gs the greater part of his receipts of false bank notes. ‘The General, at his wit’s end, telegraphed tothe Emperor,and on receiving a reply told the purveyor that if he wou!d open canteen the spurious notes in question it +» Scarcel! teen received by him tn | she would have scon gone to pieces. Taking in sail sbe was bronght in befure the wind. bow on, | and as soon as she touched the sand CONRAD'S LOVES. reat. strapp ng, rad Midburger, anc he was aduitted tr be the Dest dancer and s*oniemen in the riliage. His compl-sion was :iatker than that of most of his negbbers. for there was = tralition of Magyar bled in the fauily,and his face was by no means ‘ackirg iu intelligence of a merry aud pescrfat surt- The village had a look of being finished long ago; but a reader of men might have iooked at Conrad, i¢ he saw him there, and said: “Bat that feilow's only half done yet. He doesn't half understand himself. Pity there Lotbing 1 the sleepy vailey to wake him up. If, however, the process of waking up was to ieply any sort of sbaking, there haa been jittle evough of that in the life which Oonrad had thus tar led. The greatest events of the outside world bad been only as storms on the ocean, sending only & rippis of their uproar into the littie land-locked cove of the old, dull viliage. Gottieib BMidburger, Conrad’s father, with hi old crony avd joferdahl, had artner, Fisoz Hi 'd watches in the some di and time-worn shop where their fathers b: firea and bam before them; and one life was like another, and about as unvary! as the ticking of the fat-faced timepieces ind the cobwebs in the shop windo' Just now, however, as if the course of natare wert being disturbed. various pples were be- ginniog tocome. Kamors there were, for in- svunee that the King (God preserves him! ar ng to fight & war with somebod that all young heroes Like Conrad Midburger would soon be needed for the army. and utterly usacocomtabdie, s time of hife,olt Frane Hoter- t the emigration fever, and adfast mind to join the ‘great Geroian tide that sets perpetually towards the shores of America. Already ho tad sold what- ever he bad to sell, except bis big his daughter Christine, for these he inteaded tak- ing with him to the Western Eden. *Perbaps,” thought the villagers, “itis not so strange for old Franz as fer some of us. heen lonely since his wife died, and th veller in his younge ‘That was tue enough, for Fraez “oterdaht had been to Berlin, and America could not be so very much beyond. The old man had sold his share in tue shop to his friend Gottlieb, and had made as good bar- ashe could for his house and movable none of his anxious neigubora knew ex actly how much of ready cash he took with him when he and his weeping Christine set out upon their long pilgrimag Christine wept, indeed, as if she meant to Tuin her pretty blue eyes entirely; tor t oid viilage had been very deat to her. " grave was there. If there were ot reasons for her sorrow, Christine kept them to hereelf; albeitshe may have wondered why ons person, at least, had not asked her a question or so concerning them. As ‘or Conrad Midburger, he had said good by, with all the rest, to his father’s old trieud, and to tearfal Christine; and he bad rub- bed his at, black eyes, afterward, in a way that looked as ifthe whole thing wasa good deal of a dream to bim. If it was there was no he!p for it, since Christine and ber father were far enough away before he woke up. Never- thelers, when Conrad missed day after day, the accustomed form of old Fraez in the shop, as weil ag the cheery voice of Christine Hoferdani ealling her tather home to dinner, the expres: sion «f bis face would change at times, and one =e almost have eald be wus beginning to think. Notquite so much as that perhaps; at least not yet; but pretty soon Courad’s eyes took note ofa growing cifference In the ways and seeming of old Gottlieb Midburger himself. Just what it was would have been hard to say; bat by de- grces, the old man came to neglect bis pips, then his glass of beer, and then he took to his work, and finally, he took to his bed and died; | and the neighbors said almost with accord, that «Franz Hoterdah! had broken his old friend's heart by going away.” ‘Broken bis heart!” said Conrad to himeelt. ithe did not break mine! And [ have a too—I can feel it beat. I loved my father made and mei heai very much, and I feel #8 if Lehonld cry all day | If L were notso very big a man.” The strongest evidence that Conrad had a heart, however, was yet to come. As the days went by, after his father’s death, the shop and everythirg in it and about it became utterly distasteful to him. Day after day he sat down by the beach and tried to work; but the very ticking of the watches was insuiferably oppres- | sive, while again and again he etarted up and dropped his file or his hammer in renewed as- tonishment at the continued absence of those | two old men. “If only Christme would come,” dinner.” Bot ehe did not come, and the silence and loneli nese grew more and more irksome, and so | by and by, when @ good customer made his a pearance, Conrad Midburger almost gladly closed with his offer to purchase the shop and the house. He sold, too, everything else that his fatber bad left him, except the old man’s pire and sword, and the medal hia father before im had won inthe old wars with the French. Neither did Conrad, any more than Franz Ho- | ferdal, tell any of his neighbors how great or | how smail was the golden store he found him- eelf poseessed of; but the Midburgers had been a careful, saving and close-mouthed race for generations. And when the sales were all completed, and the transfers duly male, and Conrad stood in the moonlight, one fine spring evening, and azed at the home that was no longer his, he said to bimself: “I think I couid almost break my heart now siter all, for { did love the house, and I loved the shop; but I_could not stay there with the | empty place. ‘There were too many volces that | y | did not speak. That wasit. But what shall 1 do pow! ? Conrad’s question was answered for him by | the great French Emperor and by the King: for Napoleon bad determined in his old age, that he mast — the Germans; and #0 a great many | quiet people had to march away from their | homes to be shot at without the wisest man in the village being able to give them a reason. It was a sad thing for many, but Cenrad Mid- burger felt that he was almost glad to go. He was sure he leved his terland” im every bone of his body and if the King called for him. hewasready. Btiil,as they marched a from the sleepy old Mege Conrad said to himself: «There are the old house and the eg and the church-steeple, and the trees, a the | piel in the churchyard. I did not know my eart wasto big, for | ameure I love about everything I can see.” He could not see anything very clearly jast then however, for his eyes were strangely dim. No doubt the sun was in them, and the glint and glitter of the bayonets; and if any one had looked in the young man’s face he might have lines of strength beginning to show in it.” And then there followed swift marching, com- fortless camping, all kinds of severe aud tryin, soldier work, and a good deal of very hard fight- ing. Whatever the beech 279) and reports might say about it, Conrad Midburger and his comrades learned that the Frenchmen were brave fellows, and that the glory of beating them was never very cheaply won. Being big and strong and brave, a good swordsinan, every day growing more intoili- gent, Conrad himself won glory—that is, three or four slight wounds, a medal, promotion from the ranks, the compliments of bis commanding officer and the envy of his comrades. sai “Itis avery begining face, and there are Being a man of property, of respectable par- entage, of fair education, Conrad might have looked forward to almost anything attainable in the Germau army by @ man of less than no- bie blood if the war had not been so very briof; and if the corps to which he belon; had not been among the first to be ordered home. Be- fore a great while he found himself almost his Own maeter again, though still within the scope and control of army regulations, for no German of Conrad’s is ever beyond them, and he said to bimseif: «‘Well, I loved the army; I al- most loved Hghting. I know IL could love glory with all my heart. I know I am ten times as much of asoldier as that little white-moustachod ape of &@ baron that commanded my company. That is it. I think I could love @ coun! where there were po Barons. Let me see. think my beart has been growing a good deal daring this w: There is wore room in it thany I know of, and yet it is always full. I think there sre tome thingsin it that I never eaw therein the old times. I will and take a look st the village first, and the house, and the shop, and I will basten again to see if I can hear Christine call her father home to dinner. Then, if, I don’t bear her, whatthen? Woll, I thiuk 1 will justask my heart about it.” Now, all this time old Franz Hofedahl and his daughter had known very little of what had ta- ken place in the village they had left behind them. ‘They aaa found their long and weary enough, and they are- siding place at last; and théy had written home to theirold neighbors, as mans do, but Yery little information had come back to them. They knew that old Gottieb Midbu was dead, and that Conrad had given up the home and the shop, and that he had gone to the great war with the French, and that was nearly all. Franz Hoferdabi had not landed on the shores ofthe New World a pauper in anything but youth and etrength,and he friends readily « to take as might be; and daze and bewilderment. accustomed to the H Soecatssper 3 fellow was Con- | hs { he said to himself, ‘and callold Franz home to | And then sbe thought what a very tall, fne- 1 oking man be mu-t bs, and Low well he «oald appear in bis no orm. Bot when, -fera while, there was news of peeee, and the army was goin, home to be old Franz Hof-rdan ef Curi-tine tried tn grew leas thoughtful Tain to aroure Lim, of autumn morning be said toh ‘And the other soldiers are i think it Is pretty near time for me to go too.” “To Germany, father?” exclaimed Christine, | with « sudcen light in ber eyes. ) father.” “N ristiue,” so.emnly replied the old man; Germany is hot the ouly fatherland. i am a very old soldier, and I think this is my last campaign.” Cursstine understood bim then, bat a! ke later, she found herself ritting alone in the houre, while the cuilling wind that whisded | by the window was freigt: with the first wane barbingers of the winter. It seemed a colt, foriorn and empty sort of a world to Christine, and when she tried to think ot the village where she was born, that seemed empty and deserted, and she i the old shop shut up nd the snow fiskes =! aguinst the spider webbed windows. ‘The doer beil rang, but Christine did not hear it, nor did she know the servant bad admitted anybody until she was conscious of a heavier rep, almost beside her, and adeep, clear roize, full of manty strength, but that trembied in a ingly musical wav.said to her: Sbristine! Oh -'sti She looked up then ty the face—a scarred and wart- bronzed fuce—of 4 tall, erect, nobdie looking msn, who wore a medal of honor on his breast, and whose dark, penetrating eyes were abso- lutely radisnt as they lookea down into her n, “Christine,” be said again, “do yon under- stand we? I have come. “He had come!” she thought, for ove brief, borning moment, and it seemed as if light and lite aud bappiness and strength and the oid German home itself, had come with him. She now had anodd quick fancy that the door of the e ‘op opened, and the san began to shine, aud she could ses the two old men at their work but she arose and threw ber arms around hi | neck, aud only [ en her sobs, 0 Cou- rad, I'm so ha,py! 80 glad you havo It was a sober day anda sober meeting after all, but ome hours later, as they sat by the grate in the parlor, where the fice barnead warm and cheeri y, while the first merry snow flakes of the opening winter fitted softly by the win- Ss, and they exchanged stories of all that had pened to them, Conrad said to her: Ab, Christine, 1 did not know myself when you wentaway. Idid not know I had a heart, bat 1 soon began to tind itout. I found that it was a great, big heart, too, with wonderful things init. One love after another seemed to wake up andspeak to me, to tell me it wasithere, until the biggest love of all came to life, and it grew till it crowded out all the others and lilled up everything, and then I had to come across the ocean to Grd you, but who would have dreamed that you bad kept any thing tor me, waiting all the time for me to coms? I was terribly atraid about that.” “Oh, I don’t know,” said Christine. “I don't understand it at all. All the while it has seemed as if | were only waiting—waiting—and that, if I waited long epough you would surely come.” “And here I am,” said Conrad, “only I thiok there's & deal more of me somehow than in those dear oid sleepy days at home.” Love onthe Yellowstone. [From the Montana Avant Courier } One of Gallatin’s daughters, while returning from Wonderland, stopped with her companions ata Yellowstone ranch. They had been there scarcely av hour when one of the proprietors gained the ear of our heroine; and intormed her that hard by was one of the finest, largest. and best rasberry patches he ever saw or heard tell of. “Why, they could just scoop them up,” &e. He urged upon her the necessity of the berries being plucked immediately, as they were dead ripe, millions of them. Sne was delighted at the prospect 6f going for the berries, but when @ ascertained that our hero was bent on ‘ting asguide, then her ardor became dam- pened. However, they started. We bid alieu to avy further description of this novel love scene, as now follows the con- versation in which a mountaineer wooed a@ for- mer city belle, whom two hours before he had never seen, showing the absurdity of the old “faint beart” and “fair lady” bosiness. y, do yon see them fences?" “Oh, yes; they are pice fences. “Weil, them fences is ourn.”” “Whose?” | “My pard's and mine—haif is mine and half | is his'p, and those fields isourn, too, and the house, and stock, and chickens, and mor: and allon the ranch is ourn. half is his’n.” «‘Ah, indeed!” “VYee—and ae don’t know how much we | in the bank besides, and if 1 was to get a wite you bet I'd get more than half. And I sup- pose you den’t know that I am the best hun- ter and guide inthe Rocky Mountains? Well 1 am, and what ts morel have enough quartz to buy out all the postoffices in Montana and pay for running them besides. Why, 1 havea fd tu st in one mine alone. The boystell me ‘ass mine, but if it ain’t brass it’s gold, sure, and if it aint thatit’s good quartz, any- how, and don’t—don’t you think Iought to get married!” “Most a®éuredly Ido. A young man possess- ing your wealth and good looks should not hesi- tate a moment abont entering into matrimony. I am surprised to think you are still single. Are out * “Well, yer, I sup} . But say, do you see them granaries? Well, I just have enough grain over yonder to last two years, and #0 you seelcan standoff be grasshoppers one year anyhow. And you needn’t be {raid of Injans up here: they don’t come this high up—and aay, don’t you want to marry me? now.” “Ob, Sir, why—why this ia so enexpected, you know, besides I—I should deem it my uty to inform you that I am engaged to be married to a gentleman in the States, { regret that your affections are not bestowed on some young lady who is heart-free. Please do not refer to the subject again.” “Well; I wouldn’t have done s0 now, only I heard as how you <lidn’t talk pretty to a nice got up Bozeman chap, and him you didn’t want to marry him nohow, and I supposed after thst I stood s good show of catchin you myself. And—and (raising his voice) there's the rasp- berry patch over there, and come to think of one ink they are as thick now as they us ‘The Very Alps of Impudence. Policeman Badger, of the Tenth station, bad a bit of experience the other night which he is potfond of taiking about. It was past ze fis mine and got midnight as he was lelsurely pushing is beat throngh Jessop street, and as he came opposite to Drayton & Fogg’s jewelry store he observed gleams of light throu ait and he rapped bh the chinks of the shut- the door. 2 that you, policeman?” asked a@ voice iD. res,” answered Badger. © Well—it’sonly me—it’s all right; kind o’chil- h hee isn’t it?” “Yes.” “Thought 60. I was just fixing the fire—good night.” adger said “good night,” and pursued his way. ys hour afterward Badger passed through Jessop street again, and again he saw the light in the jewelry store. It dido’t look right, and he banged at the door loudiy. “Hall cried the voice within. “Isit you ree od “Yes.” “Allright. Won't you come in and warm you! Itwon't hurt avything for you to siip from your beat a few minutes.”’ The door opened and Policeman Badger en- tered, and he found the inmate to be a very gentlemanly-looking man, in linen duster. “Come Le up to the stove, policeman. Excuse me for a moment.” The man took the ash-pan from the bottom of the stove and carried it down into the cel- lar and emptied it, and when he had returned and wiped bis hands hesaid, with a emile: Chilly night, tsn’t 1t?”” os.? lly outside, and dail inside.” “New (Another for the spring trade, and Pour eyes open. Lonesome work all night: but I manage to finda in this. Won't you join meina tip? You'll find it the pure thing.” And the man produceda bi bottle and a tumbler. Policeman Bad, yk, and, havis tod giving his tiagera's nee the store and resumed his beat that all was right at Drayton & "s. ee the morning brought a new revelation. Dra: & Foag’s store had been robbed dar- } ee aaa ithseee Ried of watches and jewelry, a} ‘oliceman Badger car- Ties in bis mind a ‘coraplete daguereotype of the robber, the adroit rascal has not yet been found. New Haven Register. muss Bim, until ome | ing home. I | aud unreal sort of way, until, @ few | JONES’ EAR. He was a tall boy, was Jones, and he lived ont on the “divide. 0 one ever thoaght of ca’ J] ded as au e in by tender footed people, thiog Jones prided bimseli Jones’ capital stock consisted of bis car—the other one had ¢ off” extemporaneousiy by a ruth- who once accused / washed h's face twice in a month. Jones spurm nd, without more ado, proceeded to bjeot for his private graveyart, bat party in the skirmish managed t> encircie Jones’ ear with his incisors and gently puiled it off. The effort was too great for bh: endursnce—in two minates the bitist was a corpse through strangulation. They baried the ear with bim, and bad a double funeral service read. As the corpses were being interred -lones remarked, ‘There wuzn’t euch another year in Nevayda.” His consolation was that it killed the man any way. From thence Jones’ fortune. With two ears there was rome symmetry, but with that upapproachabie ear on'y remaining, he became the standing wonder of the *divide.” In its capacious depth he carried his tobacco—in the summer time be had but to the “divide” become a rephy: only to waft portion of it over hi rain ran off in cataracts. “Divide” mothers reclaimed their wayward broods by Its mention, and divorce suits arose from odious comparison. Bat aside trom these internal discussions the “divide” was proud of that ear. They took Strangers to sce it, and won their money betting ite size. The “divide” parson once fainted on seeing Jones’ ear fi the doorway, bat Jon-s fanved him back to consctousness ‘again the next Sunday's sermon was on the text that bave ears and bear not.” When Bill Stewart, the bald headed Nevada, was passing through the “divide, called on Jones’ ear and remarked that ot drawled of with anything in the Senate. there were some pretty asinine ones ther Jones didn’t understand foreign languages, but said that W! war a “bully galoot.” Alar! and alas! Great men we can have with us. One fair morning woke up to a sensation. Jones was found outside the camp sti? and cold, bis ear clean cut off and nowhere vist They buried him tenderly and shed a few tear Then they started to tind the ear, because with- out it the “divide” could never again bold up its head. They found it in the bottom ‘of a shaft, bat, sad to relate, it was too far gone to be kept. Hauling it up to the surface they all took @ last farewell, and then duinped it back again. They filled up the shaft and read another funeral ways divide” service. It was the only houor to be done—but | it is not every man who has three funerals, Apd tt may be remarked that th and never will be such s phenomenal ear as Jones’.—San Frencisco den Era. Sone Tagoat—Ticat Corcags.—Says an exchange. ‘An eminent physician, who do- voted his whole atiention to diseases of the throat and lungs, told us the other day that about three-fourths ef all throat diseases would get well by wearing very loose collars, and no necktie at all. He said that often singers would come to him for throat disease and loss of voice, and be would tear open their or: and cure them with no other treatment whe: ever. Teesure of the collar on the arter- ies of the neck is very bad for the health,” said be. He also added: “If you have a disease of the throat let nature do the curing, and the physician just as little as possible.” Dr. HOLLAND says a reign of infidelity and unbelief is approaching. It has already ap- proached—it is even here. If the Apostle Paul was installed to-morrow, he'd preach to empty benches, unless it wae proved he'd been turned out of beaven for flirting with Jephthah’s Gaughter, or Hannah Moore, or some other Bible woman.— New York letter. Rig i to go when short of money—go to work. &7-*‘ls Mike McCloskey in the ran! the commander-in-chief, as the ar line of batth ‘Here, Giniral,” said stepping to the front. “Then let the engage- ment begin,” said the general. This is the way Mike tells the story. “STACKED UP” Overcoats! Overcoats! . 354 GOOD GENTEZESL OVEROO. WARM-—DURABLE-STYLISH. 15 bd 20 AK BRSEYS—MELTONS—BEAVERS, i Fr RIC H-HAN DSOME-DRESSY, see i ez ELEGANT OVEROOATS. } = SUPEBB CUSTOM-MADE OVEBOOATS 30 ex 30 be ty ae ae i £UB BEAVERS—WHIINEY BEAVERS. 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