Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1875, Page 2

IN STRICT CONFIDENCE. vpon the minister. A sad smile gleamed fr secret sin, what mortal might not dothe s:t, shivering with the arms of death arcund © THE WRONG TRapP. Vietoria’s Private Character, =a. © fiintly from beneath the black veil, and same?” him, whi black veil hung down; awful pen Appieions’ Journ Dean N . | Hieckered abont his mouth, glimmering as he And with this gentle but unconquerable at that last moment. in the a hered terrors | T Those who have seen Qoeen Vit a T turn te yom, love, in my trowble | diss ppeared. obstinacy did he resist all her entreaties. At o alife time. And vet the mint sal smite, | In the vietnity of Drary Lane Theatre > the padi years bave beheld a very plain leiy. wits « Threw PF onght not. bat E mast ep | “How st Jeng nt. Fora few mo- so ofien there, now seem! to glim ner from | Stands a hosteiry which boast« tie curious Times or any Journal of great yery red face, that heavy face rere, I've found oo at bat that at kk veil, suc hought. coasid- its obscurity, and linger on Father Hooper's | sign of the “City of Lushington. ‘Phe howse tion, a series of sound and a short, dompy Her only , Don't think, though. with Ja probably, what new methods might be lips. is A great resort for actors and for those ge- those who will follow them jy a yery small, exquisite whitetianl Th Cee - to withdraw her lover from so dark a Why do yon tremble at me atone? nial owners of open hearts and straitened king colt No dan) more seri- peculiarity of ber family. H rar bees per. s s I “sy, which, if it had no other meaning, t his veilel face round the ¢ | pockets who glory in_ be ng to the order ous in England, as the mortality eminently. Hern every - Mr. Hooper's i: perhaps a mptom of mental disease. pale spectators. * | of Antediluvian Raffaloes. The ghier room last two weeks there ts Show band, the pb Though of a firmer hao his own, Have men av HO | of the inn ix the mecting-r« the Buifa- a Ans Can ¢ his n strangest part of the of this | the tears rolled dow s. But, inan med and fed. oaly |loes. Itis divided into = so-called, exe shi a shia . vagary.even oa a sober-mindet man like | t,asit were. took the t, but the mysiery | aid these divisions have lugubrioas Utles— whieh th impa ¥ to show myself. 7 i veil, tho: Her ore fixe insen- typifies has made this | Poverty Wand,Insanity Wanl, de Ward, is none against the px rumored disaifor of the qs ” astor’s face, throws its intlue: “k veil, slikea sudden y Of crape so awfai? When the friend Lunderties this lbolling of the evils luctant to lake of Wales was pro's . & pee and mates bin ghositk the air, its ors fell around ghows his utmost heart t tri follow the abuse of good liqu olag ited foward bina i wouki not sc» flaw Do you not tol: » and Stoo nbling before lover to his hest beloved; when mar ening in October two comet awl watenel t anad But now. spit ny srw h constr na yet ald n . vainly shrivk from eof his Croator, ve shadow of Insanity Want truths about wderty. 5 = tis I find my my wother-in law | f worker | | And fecl It, then, at last?" said he, x thsomely treasuring up t cret of his Lushington.” They were artists «f | rule, a vacue * fast wo ; ae # en 00 the cont hims | mournta siti—then decm me a f symbol a very humble stamp—pantomimists duees typhoid. t are him into dist aN pet be mn nnd Reg ok Aw enon Sy stither husband. | She ma. reply, bat covered her eyes beneath which I haye Liook picked pa living in stroiling fashion during | ¢ nsumptive pe Jennlin court had ever been one of the sev Gab coatlas thu penmnnadd-omhenas cook ond Mary was attentel with | with her Vinrnet room. around me, and, lo! on eve * A black | the summer, and whose barvest time wa. | Lome is desiial ality until the prince began his firoations Critter friends. awl polite os te Atits cone othe | He rushed veil!” | Chris avi the weeks of January and | good distr rhe ¥ popular aad goot Little pr - She tries Fail my houseb bt exp i betl tolled for the funeral of a young laly. | Have patien While his auditors shrank from one | February. One was a harlequin teal Luter i Wales Pfs mouse (avori hed kp every k e combt. im her claw ‘The relatives and friends were as | he, passionate ie, though another, in mutual affright, Father Hooper ithers, but preferriny to be called Very little is said, coales for her y sporse With «trict or aif out of wy eemses— | the house, aud the mor? dist this veil must onus here on earth. fell back upon his pillow, a veiled corps, Tae other postured as | & ot Und aa atarad | with the queen, Which is cor iy very wonder if Job bad a mother in-law’ bout the | Be mine, and hereafter there shall be no veil witha faint smile lingering on the Lips. Stitt | clow Was Patso1, avd he too had | of chole k of typhoid, or a | ty and i (her t : . And Jack, if he knew it. of coarse would be wor af the ds over iny face— rkness between our veiled, they laid him his cotta, And a | a nom de theatre, calling himself Little Pad- | bursiorscariet fever > bring oat in | "ate queen. as an ® ed by the appear: It is buta mortal veilit is not for yelle! corpse they bore him to the grave, ‘Tea | dikes. their mincs a so: ~ much to the literary re Ant StL covered with his bl etemity! Oh! you know not how lonely I grass of many years has sprang up and wita, | To dy onage, smoking in sloomy | whic: they always possess 5 Perhaps stine pong or W ¥ WAS now An Apprepriate emblem. | 8m, and how frightened, tobe alone behind erst on the grave, the burials s moss- | solit usually’ well-fillet room of | not to reniember us dithe moske ond wWintl os ndividualiiy. she ald the eetne maa stopped into the room where the ¢ | my black veil. Do not leave me in this mis- grown, and good ‘Mr. Hooper's face is dust. | te “City ushington” was that night | toosevere io be res Ver says a clever tl if we my fader ae hing= ee bd was laid. and bent over the comin, te erable obscurity for ever. bat awful is still the thought that it molderad | ern: —entered Mr. Smithers. The old col- | tle, moreover, abou | hor by ber books, but they sponk load ” —— last farewell of his dereased parishioner. Lift the veil but once, and look me inthe beneath the black veil! } Ie: sotet armiy, for the > Offex ant ber heart. Theyere pare aul sweet motes Se ball mean it: Ce , he stooped, the yeti sttid she. ————+ +e foul shared y sharloqal bat of pre Of domestic haprine, : jf from his forehead, so th ‘annot be,” replied Mr. Hooper. | A Chinese ¥: naile. ty know anit soft and wamasiy ai Just fancy “not minding” my mother in-iaw not been closed for farewell!” sald Elizabeth. Writing of the Chinese ai ringennity, | And how bas lex gone with you?” asket retinal to learn. Tasy dis: | tank in F fi - If bdare: ata party. <S omdact's improps: might have seen his f Looper herew her arm from his grasp, and the New Orleans Picayune says: “Che Fan 5 er Som tt dts, Of course, aw thaw Frey Bone Fig a Ith smile ate partner, thers eitegueway a | De fearful of her gla: sso. hastily at the door to give isa picture of the more wre ich He for the tim rswered the od ULL temp is remarkably fo : caught back the biac A person wh seemed al- ts frightful, disg . watched the interview b “a the dead and va ballet tee but thes e mystery of the biaek fora Chinaman, bein - midhis grief, Mr. Hoope: thin and em lemblem His face is living serupled not toaftirn that tour through t stant when the clergym t pretly well.” “la sie ear =: red with wrinkles, med a have been Wi rm eaene & closed, the ss, thouch like a school boy’s atias; his nose must b. | a ant there val man, @s Slightly ett w a " 4° th must be | token for granted, it is a mere suspict cleus ow ard » very Mach giv 1 relay. She a uth is a perfect gull in itse he musiehalls. That pays bes E Ti does not strike th sa atabante wpts w of the right pc nind tocul pantomime aad 8 coul Wave KITS as mai leas a bars 4 sy * ia preii yper's black veil ngs down like the hid rely.” of ehols Because stro’ Mildeon r vast and va { inty the | rect appeal, to diseove pgether Che-Fung is a You are engazet wy t he s, and by & c he hy » | was supposed to hid sus if he lad been hi - > " " r. Ttwas | etal : va be Yer, wito dagup ¢ tha ond oa sorr © imbued with is a gool ta bs | , atsiy 5 x t ne Net that t © of a heay a cyntiden , 1 ation, she w . wore 1 th the fi vole hi ‘Y in that lasguage of , t . ha . ’ " lest. an estate ina hea tat who one on t aithy pea na pened re out about one word iu be s - * . is sere hevenetdeli a with any ‘Taien- ' f t 1 st , -_ the tall of mort 1 vae+. | was he that the vl tim ynieaas- vd i 1 ver . ae] " MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL. mi; : he trusted this young | aside hat ot 5 but pa ly in ra with an 0, not your | TRE MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL. | might ve wady, as he trusted this y 4 hoo! to th human 1a “ shoul the veil f a their faces. The n factory » re ty, “High- A Parabie by Nathazicl Hawthorae. Ransens wont Kener i the aanaruers ping, wl hur a conside you Ame be mate to « et) Mewed, © lening u i t, with Ure hem, and & Hooper in his santyoa w hen he | ae there would maMy parenis who tus sacriies rvant! ivan Tonalin atsoes id one dren to ‘be f, and pam! ioean s, tript mer be ression to his — w ira of .. ae rents, or mimicke ver 2 That a fane the | d peop " atas " nud their Sunday minister and t to the ver +1 cannot exp!: WiLL KAN) off nv kel sick done, but that Hy 0 per t will give t 2 king ay pe tor . i days. That nizht, the handsomest instinctive divad him. to feel mc a chill will stunt if keep to it dov pe This misery ait | 2eyin: i into the jx rere strongly than aught else th preternatural ul size hunch- ve brought upon myself; it has | B&t * hell, keeping his eye or . Hooper's koned interwoven with the threads of is of cours Bait OC AAS GOR eke knw Na nat door. The first glimpse of the eler: a ph erape, In truth, hisown e made of any shape, frow ofa jealousy weak te ont figure was the sigual for the beil to casions. which s known to be so gre by being mouhled : summons. smile why ha me into crim * about. sine! the Forum com ter when Smithers and I omime. To my surprise irlto whom Thad been rill tell you how it | Chemy, they w passed before Twilliell you how it | ‘ 2 a still foun I com he should be mself. This was whit gave plausibility to the whispers that Mr. Hooper's conscience tortured him for some 1e too hors ck into a jaror ti khipe when youug, aud left thers to itse been thrown ws Hisposition an this. his arrival with 4 that the stra “But what aring ini about. and beheld the sem! anc Of Mr. ; trusti x wo PeM Hoope: zelowly his nestitative way | thered over him through ble to be entirely ¢ 5 bie tit is u . toward tl muse. Withone accord | now be dispelled. But such was 1 \¢ H ly Intim: ix ks « oth ster, Ul r health and cheorfata they started,expressing more wonder thaa if | sult, When Mr. Hooper eamo. the first thing | 1 Pil, part 5 : : ms to be no some strange minister wer: ing ty dust | that their eyes reste on was the sam= by “a ple a) ‘ the eushioas of Mr. Hooper's pa ble black veil, which > poor ni Mary, my dear, 0 rem “Are you sure it is our pars quired | to the fancral, and could porter hing Id neve i butdthaosteras Solan. eerily and Lappiness 1 Gootman Gray. of the sexte | evil to the weddi fmm ; outer siti, a bine was to be Lora Lorin.” — Inust ieel the amelioratie nie “OF Hooper, on the sts, aclowls h self-siuadlte serted and wor “So she is, answeret at best of consolers, aud sh plied was to exch 9 have rolled duaskily from bene he oti tween the cuticle and cutis, or “prop «What then ouiobe? Harlequin, or amatisn in moze cheerful thou palpits with Parson Shute of Westbury; but | black crape. and dimmed the light of the adow, groping darkly within h and swells out the animal to double tis size, | ayy He tsort:? her, or at: tons tt The , moo at to exc "hin miles. The bridal pair ston! up befo or gezing through «median th at the same time that it almost soparat rs mbiin ter, Ge means party with wi pachy self, yestor being to preac faner nt the bride's coll fe: the whole we > Lwo skius, he hide of th tg : c erly ignorant of her w tru nk a neue sermon.” % {in the tremmutoushiamt och g bellows tie ma mete ot Caer e Ienotant ole erst wiih ext Skea vary eee ee Bae J The cause of so much amazement may ap- | and her death-like pat ti and never re moroir ont vous * she wenton, “thatimy | #ly hizh cirer era 4 MeLeod, and she goes oflon to dine Pear sufficiently siizat. Mr. Hooper men. | that aiden who hat Mr. Hoope ed to anairt nda gallon or soofair | profecionl name is leew ee ain wintry, exposure ing ehurebes when at Lalmorat, Hor tay Uemanly } nowt 30, t stilia | hours ive as come fe f the workd tal into my system, and souk I began to | Pas orawerant . during ht month and highly-prized trier bachelor. was dressed with duc ¢ tnent- | married. If ever another Among aul it swell like a balioon. “But. Smithers cried—“Smithers have a bracing or otherw Dean Stanley ness. as if a careful wife had starched his | dismal, it was that famous one where tly Veil had the or ‘In & month orso Twas retutned to my “Lora as his gi Surely, Mary, you inded it must have onal: hand. aud brushed the weekly dust from his | tolled the wedding knell. After p er a Very rents a fat boy, and a fine specimen ofa iat i been playing both of us fal . ss, but during the remaining £ Sunday's carb. There was but one thing re | the cercmony. M Hooper raised a aid of his mys y. h only fifteen, sx wishi merkabic in his appearance. Swatehel | wine to his lips, happi girl, indee jther his nor yours, if ae tee ss to the | ne other af and 46 rc al the = es: apa ei who knew ber about his forehead, art hazing new-marticd couple, ing strain of n of awful power ov thigh. rset as welghing G0 Ste Cede m her books, ant from ail we ean se- of his face, so low as to be sh: santry ft e brightened for sin. His ¢ pounds; the truth was I weighed ouly about I should tke to know.”” ber lif, it is a character greatly to be ¢ Bir. Hooper had on a bia | tures of ‘rtal gleam from | w nselves, Is, the 80 by 1¢ Weight of 290 gallons ven dozen admirers, bat she spore 1. It is not an unusual greai character view, it seemed to i tehing a glimpse | Ing, though but figurative that aly by which I was puifed out. canrot have more than one plighted lover. if ad well ft, ou- | like Prince Albert's, nor a wonderfully mas erape. whieh « lass. th? black | brought them to eclestial Hi ‘fdon't belief that [altogether pi Hs * se of decency. any a cnline mind, Hike Uhet ¢ “ El excepé his mouth and chin. but prodatly d veil involved his own spirit in the horre th | with him behind the blac a very pretty aspect, being puite! ears tanied On tor hese flounced off, old and to children warn f She is not a Semiramis, nora Z not intercept his sight further than to give a | which it overwhelmed all othe aun : bled him to sympatl lumpy in appearsac y T noticed daring the rehearsals how shed Lit may broadly be said to be t darkened aspect to all living avd inanimate | shuddered—bis lips grew white—he spilt the | dark affections. Dying sin rather than fat. How: -¥ close Obs vowed herself exclust oly, chilliness injuring al! alike, tino: things. With this gloomy shade b him, | wntasted wind pon the carpet ashed | for Mr. Hooper. ver could not detect the impostiire, and 1 was etre ee lérent degrees. It is chilliness good Mr. Hooper waliext onwart. at a slow | forth into the darkness. For the earth, too, | bre appea exhibited for mn : » Kuglish seem not to understand. and quiet pace, stouping somewhat and look- | had ona black veil. . t whisper con ble livelihood for Will sit, not in th itin dl ing on the ground. as. is custo: The next day, the whole village of Milford | dé the veil thank Un brought me up to wk Keim lrausht talked of Such were the t a xamp they eseaped being gn asters. , Yet nodding kin ttleelse than Parsoa “The profession was not an Sp-knife into: his throat; bi bat doors in white light’ which shines upon a tH wait black veil. That, and the myste ideath had bared his vi The air made me ever fecl sleepy and sich tempt was too risky: Itmight have failed, riages—with t werk incl iit f isa hard life to live In. Had Quesn behind it, supplied a topic f came long distances to attend serv did not, however, make me Laz i and Tshonid infailibl for it. it themselves st t in trot & fire | Vievoria been a great genius and a great tween acquaintances mecting in the street, | charch, with the mere idle purpose impede n ~ Lbrooded over: but first rf Which would not draw it tt were mw ' have ruined England 1 good Women gossiping at thelr open win- | at his figur ase it was forbidden th ) SAW me axl took M. atly replenished with @ stream of colder ality in a mouar slows. It was the first item of news that the jul many were muh street wonde id. Hermetically scaled rooms are ofcourse but that admitted tact is no proof wm ofegid airon a hot skin ray 1 shoranes Tsaid. “1 don't want to speak to yor wered. tavern-keeper told his guests. Tie cl babbled of it on their way imitative little imp covet old black handkerehie®, the daring be regrelind enle improved the dre: world, but it is to be feared she di so lively, yreront fathiess Was an Assi and hilt ex me along the stre There we it.” muttere: L into the n has changed himself iz that 2 stre be benetic: a 5 expense of France. The queen has Hi * | men In China that could t ueh of English practice as to clotht U minenily home-loving genius ef hy: only by hiring his & ing his | peers that the pase seized him- ief magistrate, the couneil, and the re- | Gag pours in a foot race, anxious et her child's breast and. They like to read that sty Jar parsen has go r self, and he well-nigh lost bis wits by his own | presentativ and wrought so deep an im- “T came over here and exhibited in “Dask you ifyou love George Smithers bet- | With care which, if is not com plive | yesterd: an the terrace with th man Gray, following him acioss the waguery. pression that the legislative measures of that | In San Francisco for some ti old. It was remarkable that of all th A rumor of some unaccountable phenome- | dies and impertinent people inthe por s non hat preeeled Mr. Hooper inte the n not one ventured to put the plain question to ing-howse. and set Mr. Hoope 7 dit this thi i vor and wears flannel, he probably does not | Looped rte, Tom how ao Lknow? want, and then let Him run to school in sivas Seance “You' know e of your which, if they keep out the wet fo ot Must Know the state of your own | Which If they kee day bedore, with tb who, by the way, is t yHOt. When | her daughters. were characterized by all thegioom and | ing a sitting an Americ . sstigating disposit rept up behiat, and, per spent the congresa h eae out the deadly chill arising | Her speckless morality ix the bri at war’ th the desire of dis” Weil, he’s not so cross as you, and he’s a | from the thoroughly wettel sole. M jewel in her crowa, that and h Few coal! refrain from tw: thetr he: Hitherto, appearet . mis; Kin ering Whether a fat man could feel or not, heautite danest: ‘and rep bie gracefully | Child, and woman love for England. her devotion to h towards the door; many stoml upright, nee, he hat E itr pin or knife or sor z sharp into me s—and in fact Edo ike him.” © Z with bare feet thro band, living and dead, and her 1 turned direet!y about; while se himself | min apart from men, shunne tin While ho one was obserbing hi king in London in boys clamberet upon ‘the seats down again with a terrible ra erred at all, it was by so painful a degree of Was &@ general bustle. a rastling of the selfdistrust, that even the miklest censure man’s gowns and shuffling of the men’s feet, | would lead him to consider an indiffereat ac- greatly at variance with that hushed repose | ton as a crime. Yet, though so well ae- Which should attend the entranc> of the min- | quainted with this amiable weakness, no ister. But Mr. Hooper appeared not tonotiee | individual a:mong his parishioners the perturbation of his people. He enturet | make the black veila subject of friendly r: ya With an almost noiseless step. bent his head | Monstrance. There was a fecling of dread, | the chur mildly to the pews on each side, and bowed | neither plainly confessed nor ear fully eon: | elure Tae result hee 2 H han m children, and her faithful: de ed by their judgment. Ifhe sas kindred and old friends, will re Queen Victoria when even th noned to their but ever of an explosio s wore on, she ting and left me # th! jle veil. ho acquired | dividual as fam now. There was 1 W England churches, | blow me up scientifically; aud I th Het him Father Hooper. @ up the profession of fat man for ts water tight. They a 15 not w ter on the t the foot or a “those | Where else which harms people, but the chill | Indian empire and. th And tas | Which the water induces, and which iss ine | aula she summons at Win urions through the sole of the foot as Urrough | entertains an or in London whe rishioners who we washerwoman. [sellom it conee- | her. the chest’ or loins The cquablenessof she drives to famous old church of Bt. # was settled hart b que: from my previ ition, save | ‘This was on the 27th of December, the se- | peTature which ts so valuable in Panl's—nay, even when the last eraad pneral, he had one congre that my cuticle, or outer sitin, is alinosi sop- | cond nizht of the pantomime. At the fail of | JuSt as valuable out of doors, pageant ofall takes her to Westminster ab a, ane crowded one in the | arated ‘from myself, and, an iil-titting | the © in I sought out Smithers, and said, J Cred only by warm wool to lay her beside her royal sisters, Mary yard; and having wrought so late into itofelothes, almost drops off, or bunches | + . George, I've thoughtot a bit of | Covered with the most m Elizabeth—yves, whem all these glories Pane P ee Bis oltest parishioner. a white. | eealed. which caused each to shift the re- | the evening, and done his work so well, it was | jtseifup in a disagreeable mamion, foe business in that scene before the barber's | Chilliness, a wash leather yest, whieh is im- ] shall have faded from the purges of haired, great-grandsire, who occupied aa | sponsibility upon another, till at length it | now good Father Hooper's turn to Tesi times get cold insi t, which is no op. Igethold of your wand; you stand | Pebetrabls to draughts. It may be doubted if | and the mindsof men, i will te on arm-chair in the center of the aisle. It was | Was found expedient to send » deputation of Several persons were visible by the shade! | comfortalle. SUll the position of wast there so—now do the shivery-shaky business | fur is by any means so good protection | that Queen Victoria Was a oe os Strange to observe how slowly this venerable | the chereh. in order to deal with Mr. Hooper | candle-light in the death-cuamber of tie old manis much preferable to t of @ fat | while I tickle you up with it. Now you re- | 45 is sonietimes fmagined to be. Li keeps up | that she d through the terri! man became conscious of something singular | about ihe mystery, before it should grow into | clergyman. Natural connections he man, and I iv to stick to it.” gains it-toree me back--amt f fall int the cireutation when the thermometer is fr | Ler court, throug in the appearance of his pas Heseomet | a seandal. Never did any embassy So ill dis- | nor But there was the decorously grave, pot of bear's grease.’ below zero, and therefore invaluable in | of faitery and not fi to partake of the prevailing won- | charge its duties. The minister recei though unmoved, physician, sec 6 Ouly “GWINE FUR TO JINE THE BAND mithers agreed. Whatdeep design under- J Very cold climates; but in England fur heats der, till jooper had aseended U them with friendly courtesy, but became mitigate the last pangs of the patient whom | other night a Ey ptteville (jae Was his fooling? You will see. the wearer too much, requires to be we With Gawed himself in the pulpit. fee to face | lent. after they were seated, leaving to his | he could not save. There were the deacons | greatly disturbed by a distnal howling in his next night, just before the scene was to | Constantly, and rooms are ¥ With the ion, exeept for tt Yisitors the whole burdea of introducing | and other eminently plows members of his | kitchen, which he at first supposed was tie be enacted which we had plannal, I stole | Wem superinduces cbillness indoc 1. Th i eumbiems was’ 2 their important business. The topic, it | church. There, also, was the Rev. Mr. Clark | sad reftain of 1, grinding my tee! re | advantages shall be short-lived.” of | time it was I who turned on my heel and left - J many a and bore the temptations of enormous power, wit losing the respect of herself or her subjects. setanopimecnbscenesemenar This Tre Birex Birrex.—A dried-upold man, yWw-spiri A Pe (ler the stage, and Gabalted @ tap on lisregarded by the men who wear | of apparently about sixty years, sttelien once wit ok with ulsmeasured | might be supposed, was obvious enongh. | of Wesibury, @ young and zealous divine, | dying with. the bronchitis. ‘Tracing up the | (own wader the Teen conte conan host as inuch as carc of their exiremi- | a piltiand parlor in thineta. eek a ae breath as > psalm: it threw its | There was the black veil, swathed ro who had ridden in haste to pray by noise he found that it p led from an old nd, In the midst of his harlequin play, { | tests disregarded by women, who cover their | noon, and taking ® Scat waleinedl thee P obscurity between him ane 3 Hooper's forehead, and eon side of the expiring minister. hegro Woman that was rocking backward alved to ptish him on} this pitfall th bodies w “tl skin jackets, while their | with some interest. After he ty he read the Seriptures: and while th ed, | ture above his placide mouth, on whi nurse. no hired han and forward in a chair, ly as her feeble lungs we Whit are you d t yen at the dying | claimed the irete F: Such = the before bis ayes “ hour. Who, but i I ae there lay Pr piian se of a him = pine F erape, that m elica fret between him and them. Were the veil | ihe hoary head of good Father Hooper upon he d—T you ai are you | YS) Serer hin. & clnces 1 7 " ure, and | used fo prance around a little on'a tur rves was forced to lew ‘ but cast aside, they might speak treely of it, | the death-pillow, with the black vell still | singing?” — eee ore sad Glatom to shies with the teachings | nered table. fifteen ye perhaps tb but not till then. “Thus they sat msice swathed about bis brow and reaching down I'm a singing, ‘I'm gwine fur to jine the He did not fall! To my amaze jad some be s'pose I could bit almost as ful a sight to tl able time, speechless, confused. ands! - | over bix face, so that each more difficult gasp | band.” trap held. cir coats in warm weather, but b fangled thing, his black veil to them. ing uneasily from Mr. Hooper's eye, wh of his feint breath caused it to stir. All Well, Vd like to know what baat you Unsuspeetingly Smithers then repossessed ot enabled them to put them ho player myself, you'd bh Mr. Hooper had the reputati they felt tobe fixed upon them with aa in- | through life that piece of crape had hung be- | are ‘gwine fur to jine. himself of the wand, and pushed me back, | Tetire to their nests. Th I know; just take preacher. bat not an energetic one; he strove | Visible glance. Finally. the deputies re- | tween him and. the world; it had separate De angel band, honey—de Lord's bani!" | Wéth a sudden gasp ‘and ery, I felt myself | dress himself in his hol plished’ ™be “Wal,” to win his people heavenward by mili, per- | turned abashed to thelr contestants. pro- | him from cheerful brotherhood and woman's ow you'd make a nice angel, wouldn't | plunging down in the dark, strizing my e t, “I'l! play just one suasive influences, rather than to drive nouncing the matter too weighty to be hand- | love, and kept him in that sa:idest of all pri- | you, with the dirt au inch thick on your bows and chin on the edge of Uae open trap. * ch.” “and they both - thither by the thunders wort. ‘fhe | led. except by a council of the churches, if, | sons, his own heart; and still it lay upon his | hide, Tiny these under to cine Wh a beoken: first shot. Theol 1 Zinmon which he now delivered was marked | indeed. it might not require a general synod. | face, as if to decpen the gloom of his dari Nebber mind about the dirt honey,” | leg and fractured ribs. I had unbolted th luek, for he got the by the same characteristics of siy But there was one person in the village un- | some chamber, and shade him from the sun- | piously eaculatel Aunt Poesy, “nebber wrong trap, and fallen into my own snare ven pol: pral series of his paly appalled by the awe with whieh the black | shine of eternity. i trem el of * hinse! wo, and break Protected by silk ant fiannel worn | in the chair for some Lime he was appro Mitek . foo far from them to be proteeiors, and their | by a hanger on, on t DE wutiously I stole back again, and our in- J (el hy boots which horn, with whom to de commer After allowing hii to | them trom the javing. “Heilo ther. A man*do you ev: and wriggle in his spanzles while 1] Keep them swing the cue” said be + Wal, strar singing as voc i allow. Aunt Pegs. tevillian. . honey ¢ What “him the veil la nance. Dig h being who®h he vily on his uplifted court ewig to hinte it from the dread aS Atel ng of But that piece of crape, |, Seemed to ha symbol ofa vse affection had e1 in solitude, ami vould not ish, € net ontlook for a greea- ay and saye the cosi of could perceive the glimme smite. t, th the asy enough, nd th i the me to see ¢ nearly hopeless, An Englisiman will sometimes drink port instead of claret in winter, because he is glad of the excuse, or y mind about de dirt—de Lond he got plenty | The audience, as Lheard afterwards, clapped | Peeause he does not_Know that claret is im- pment while cars But there was something. either in the | veil had impre: all beside herself. When For some Ume previous, his mind had beet of s , he has, and he runs de ribber Jor- nd Heres ascribing my disappear: nee eo proved by belog slightly warmed; but he will was at work. and when he sel and nt of the discourse it: vin tae im= | thedeputics returned without an explana- | Confused, wavering doubtfully between tt dan, he does—nebber mind about the dirt— | a concocted part of the business.. Anapology | !v! Teilect that food, a tally meat. is | counted up, the challenger muttered an oath, of the auditors, wiileh male {t or even venturing to demand one, she, | past and the present, and hovering forward, | I'm'gwine fur to jine—!” had to be made. Luckily for the manager, a | ore Wanted in wi than summer, that | took off his cont and went to work inears greatly the most powerful that they | with the caim energy of her ubber as | Fie made five points ouly,aud the next time and that if a man the old man ran out the game. “I swow,” mount of exercise, an | said he, “I"ve had th alifiredest luck; wilt tracter, de- | 4s it were, at intervals, into the indistinet- Here Aunt Peggy's tormentor fled, and she | fellow happened tobe in the company who | #2 Esau eeps out cold by bl 1) | termined to chase away the strange cloud | ness of the world to come. Thare had been | was left to exercise her voeat powers at dis- | was necustomed to clowning in an ama- | Well as bear skins usual, | that appeared to be ‘settling round Mr. | feverish turns, which tossed him from side to cretion.—Fayetteville Express. ort of way, and he volunteered to finish | @rough (he samy sper's tom | Hooper, every moment more darkly than be- | side, and wore away what little strength he hadever heart from their p was tinged, rath With the gi teur s par ee Pee the hurlequinade, taking my place. After a | © al a day in winter will, unless he No. not by ® darned ich we | priviioge to muguted wits. it should be her | had. But in his most convulsive struggles, | Tur Latest Tamire.—A caleulation of | tury thors delay, illed an with dane he | already. st his digestion, do ‘int no sa aqurt, and be Fe Hy = ose Sitch op a privilege to Know what the black vell con- | and in the wildest vagaries of his intell the effect a slight gratuity on a hotel or re was ready for his business. harm whate On the other hand, an extra lke off to hide from our nearest and ¢ bealed : y ‘ ay for the gu Althe minister's first visit, therc- | when no other thought retainet its sobe oe ts to the hospital, and here T | SU2Mtity of bot drink, such as tea, the effect | roars of his companions the subject, with a di. | fluence, he still showed an awful solicit PO 4B sy grange gm eg sheagieted is todiminish the heat’s force, will | old man, who remarked, “| ts strange how marie the task easier | Jost the black veil should slip aside. Even if | Three cents: Slight bow; apt to inspeet coin feelings have been in the long night-watches | Jo him no good, but rather harm, more espe- | remembered to play so. well—dzmyhamton Afterhe had seated | his bewildered soul could have forgotten | as if expecting it to chang Tecan never describe. The remorse, the con- | City if he is not a man living habitually in Republican. himself, she fixed her eyes steadfastly upon | there was a faithful woman. at his pillow, sciousness how well [havedeserved thedoom | Me open air. We are not, of course, arguing the veil. but could diseern nothing of the | Who, with averted eyes, would have covered I intended for another, the bitter repentance | th&atan Englishman of ordinary healih should | SroxtaNrous Comnvstios it it the | dreadful gloom’fthat had so overrawed the | that aged face, which she had last beheld in ‘ind when George Smithers came tomy bedside | &@ Always watching the ther:nometer, or tou of spontaneous combustion erept up 1 behinl his aw- | multitude; it was but a double fold ape, | the comeliness of manhood. At length the uu, Colonel.” full of kindly solicitude, and I durst not con- | Should attempt to live by rale, or should Sac- | ed more or less Altention tes Miseovered their hoaried in- | hanging down from his forchead tolis mouta, | death-stricken old man lay quietly in the Thank you, General.” t : ch I wili confess, please God, | Tifice to mere living the things without which | 192. Various Frome excante lee cet or thought. Many spread | and slightly stirring with his breath. torpor of mental and bodily exhaustion, with Twenty cents: Low bow; tlourish ofnapkin; a = 4 when I have regained my strength—he shali | life is worthless. But he might make his lite | the phemamencnnc Sd toa eit bosoms. Tuers | “No,” said she aloud, and smiling, “there | an imperceptible pulse, and breath’ that | formula-as above, Know all. Batall this sitemeter ohare | more worthy as well as more comfortable, br ang terrible in what Mr. Hooper | ts nothing terrible in this plece of crape, ex. | grew fainter poxcapt when a long, deep and | (Quarter: Profound bow; alacrity tofind hat; | regret. and sclfreproach, of desperate doule, | Attending to a few broal rules for avol erery treme ot ig ees, aul yet. with | cept that Ithides a face which 1 ain always | irregular inspiration seemed to prelude the | felt to bruste it iit ae elbow; door held | and wild prayers for forgiveness, is only | Colds which at present he habitually neglect & Seerz emer gf his melancholy voice, the | glad to look upon, Come. gool sir, let the | fight of his spirit. open. known to heaven and me. It has been a bit- | ANd which may be reduced to two easily | cases on record, hearers qnaked. An unsought pathos came | sun shine from behind the clond. First lay The minister of Westbury be ‘hed the | Halt dollar: Hisppinsss. ter passage, but it has done me good. I am | remembered principles. The secret of tempe- gand-in-hand with awe. So sensible were | aside your black veil, then tell me why you | bedside. “Venerabie Father Hooper,” said Dollar: Bliss.—Baliimore American, . the audience of some unwontet attribut : in pat iton ‘ tuntd tee t waiter comes out something as fol- 2d ®& simile from the fain conceal from oar own even forgetting that the Omunise! tect them. A subtle power was into his worts. Each member of Rregation, the most innocent hardened 1 calmer now. If I get better I shall give upall | Tature is even warmth, to be secured by | nessed the he, “the moment of your release is at’ hand. Bee clothing and regulated fires; and it is chill, | denee of its oceurrence r their minister, that they longet fora breath |" Mr. Hooper's smile glimmered faintly. Ate you ready for the lifting of the yell that | ‘TH# WEATHER ReronTs.—A chunk of a Hhongnts of Mary, gnu resign her toone who | icc cold, general chill or local chill, which | sentias ate ree declared that the hu of wind to blow aside the veil. almost be- | “There is an hour to come,” said he, swien | shuts In tine from eternity?” boy was seen studying the weather report encourages disease. Perhaps we may be | man body burns with a blue flame and the ne eet visage seg ge tis- | allofus shail cast aside our veils. Take it Father Hooper Sroes ete —— i ag ee anes te Lee yesteru ny Tons Podson, ene Gut aot gra ap se add = —_— 2 se won etal seems ofon cmnpyreumatic olor; and it covered, though the form, ware and yoice | not amiss, beloved f ‘ i feeble motion of the ; then ay ensive, | and wondering he lwl’s interest a gentle ‘01 i , however, lasses of persons understand the deemed plausible 4 the aloohol Were those of Mr. Hooper. = = oferape till pri Pee Wea Ss ieeee rhaps, that his meaning migh be doubt- | man oprecnes him and asked: . Mary—first, because Mary deel! to be | cold, and only two,—doctors and people who | with which the tissues - Ai the close of the service. the people hur- | “Your words are a mystery, too,” returned | ful, he exerted himself to speak “Well, my son, what do you wish to find?” | given up; and, lly, because Mr. George | suffer frequently from face-ache and from urated might take fire. But, after Tied out with indecorous confusion, eager to | the young lac “Take away the veil from “Yea,” said he, in ‘aint accents, “my soul “rm looking to see how ‘the old thermom | Smithers, auiide Signor tomato, gave her up | rheumatism. drunkards: communicate their pent-up amazement, and | them at least.” hath a patient weeriness tntil the veil be | standsat Duluth,” replied the boy; “if she's | Grst. The harlequin was a gay spark, who Cor THis Ov gonscions of lighter spirits. the moment they | “Elizabeth, I will,” said he. “so fi Lifted.” Ore TOON, ene cet, SOE homie and. Bplit | soon tired of 8 fancy, and ® new tos Grove | | UP t lost sight of the Diack veil. Some th ered vow may cutter me. <o thea, this veil is | “And is it fitting,” resumed the Rey. Mr. | more wood; if she’s at zero Lean go off with | Mary out of his So Mary to w how to treat docs inflammable than that of tem person should fech wound, very | £¥en when it has been one is able to be placed in moss | foversidare, it bums wi in littie ctreles, huddled closel: ther, | at: and a symbol, and I am b t Clark, “that a man so giveu to prayer, of | Bill Jackson to see his dog fight a tame | amore constant attachment, and Tom mar- in, veins With their mouths all whi ing in the cen? | it ever, both in light and arknons, in soli: | such « blameless example, holy in deed and | coon!” —Detroit Pree Press ried her, made a clean breast of it to George, | “Way from surgical and brgeey 4 72 “it. | with alcohol, it has been found ter; some went homeward alone, wi In si tude and before the gaze of multitudes, and | thought, so fr as mortal judgment may pro- and reosived his ion. They are now doing | Where he may save his own lent meditation; some talked loudly, and trangers, if ce—is it fitting that a father in the Onr of the Paris almanacs has this story | very well; Pudson’s ittle common sense. place, the Sabbath-day with ostentations | friends No metal exe wills ite at | Rounce-is it fitting that a father, in the jgned Laboulaye:—A lazy girl, who liked to | clowned is spoiled. he has talen to si a the lige of tne wound within ane hands ami | £4; But aon sci cee Ook their sagacious heads, | This dismal shade must separate me from the | mory that may seem to blacken a life so | ive in comfort and do nothing, asker her | With his wife in the musi hn hold them firmly to check the flow | Othe M mystery wile near twoadirhaed that tase | Leiea st Fe" Eteabeth, can mever come | puret 1 pray vou, any venerable brother ft | (ry godmother fo give Hera goal genius to | Pers ee Trnor wnom | Segloot anti several tices ‘an be er '¥; while one or t re med i not is ya us ses ‘LE MAID of wi bandage 5 Hooper's cyes eent all, but only that Mr. | “What grievous aftiiction has befatien | by your triumphant aspect as you go to your | airy called ten dwart who dressel: and | TEE? 2 Alexis i inc sid | Place. a the Grand Duke Alexis married all unbe- | wound for long time in cold “Should Hooper's eyes were weakened by the mid- | you,” she earnestly inguiral, “that, you | rowand, Before the vell of eternity be titted, | wi the Uitte girl and combed her hair, | knownst to the old folks, to beas | it be painful,'s be ona ey War Suey Want Orvice the night lamp a to requires shade. After @ | shouk! thus darken your eyes forever? let me cast aside this black veil from your and fed her and soon. All was done so nico- spunky as she is beautiful. xis, it will be of burning ‘coats and sprinkle upon | cealed frauds which have pera con- interval, forth came good Mr. Hooper | | “ICit bea sign of mourning.” reptiet Me. | face! hat "they WantePPY except for the thought | remembered, was sent to Amerie that he | themcommon brows stene sroKle | Ge lepers Le cec en Erection Sor also, ia the rear of his flock. Turning Hooper, “I, pe: like most other mor- | And thus speaking, the Rev. Mr. Clark it they would away, “To ent | might her, but while that plan cured | wounded part in the smoke. In a minute or Mrs, Pearce of Jersey City, to the Women bonny Rd fron one group to another, he ae Dave sorrows dark enough to be typified | bent forward fo, reves! the mes of 80 End said the - agent eas ee io the Gi: Duke Leis Srpease his bette, two the pain ‘will bo aliayed, and the recoy- | Social Education Societ, * yesterday after, rence heads, sa- a black veil. many years. » exertil energy permanent who was sent ou! empire spect q case & rust; pee juted the middle~ with kind dignity, as But what if the world will not believe that that made all the ers stand aghast, | fingers.” And they are there train, She went to Geneva, and Tecent it nail made a bad ‘wound in my Toot. The fingim. Tne tee — Srasnee ‘a their friend and spiritual guide, greeted the | it is the type of an innocent sorrow?” urged | Father Hooper snatched both his hands from sv“Am I not a little pale?” 1 @ little pale?” inquired a | appears that Count Shouvaloff was sent to | pain and nervous irritation were severe. This ditto, and the whole a said Teta nis hands on te tate ee ove, ad mea taace meng be wasn, bee men ie Lee ne lady who was short and corpalent,oracrusty | eat with her. Tt was, proposed that she | was all removed by holding It in msoke ae omeen tiie cere by ma: ‘s stron, on the i. “ teen Pies them, Sach was always his castom on | your face under the consciousness Of secret | gle if tes minister of Westbury would con reek, com look mare likes big tub, ata and Mrs, fae Sadbath-day. Strange and bewildered | tin. For she sake of your holy office, do away | tend with adying man. ic poco i Mic aieoal owe’ Last cs on fonner Cecastons, aapieet oe cea mincuie ice into her cheeks, as she inti. Bec a ee hee kisses on her li, Torhim. & to couse ‘and take torn Tnanagement In the insti for nto nti- REV Yalking by their pastor's side. Oid Squire mantel eocoears of the rumors that were al "Dark old man,” exclaimed the affrighted § again, survived long enough to bestow them ain with jens Of the pot vo Saunders, doubtless by an accidental lapse of ready abroad in the village. But Mr. | minister, “with what horrible crime upon ] upon @responsible third ‘YY, with good oneal a ong tate poor.— memory, neglecta to invite Mr. Hooper to } Hooper's intidness did not forsake him. He | your soul are you now passing to the judg- | collateral Becutrites.—frodktyn Argus. Alexis fag nis: — Shen the en ereyman a Ss ies Kemal — ew S - sgh 40 vee aan “said Ito a cece geal aol * Sy Oun ot bar ignecant, rich — 7 I mI mer er 5 sta singe hia seithement ite tanned therefore pate | later nat cote ees ee te nis Groat bu mi with a mighty effort grasp saemhn Vets ase ulm Fusing to- | ton, has been married, with a congealiag | Jeats,ogo; refused fo contribute i to in ald of the — -; moment clos- | beneath th L forward w: is a id te Peo a eee ig look back upon | “ir htde my face for sorrow, there is cause | offife, und held it back Hill he ahouth peat, | Siricet tyne oe,“ When you sce | bacco and wearing, Slothes after the least, | own, she will never want to eutsr the mari | pers where would bediscovering 1 parecer, the people, all of whom had their eyes fixed enough ~ he merely replied; “and if Lcover it | He even raised himself in bed; and there he | git,” said Flayius, with solemnity. and $5 per week for $1,000 years is $270,000, time state again. already knowu.— Boston Transcript.