Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1881, Page 6

a = MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. THE COMING ATTRACTIONS. —The theatrical season has not been a pro- founced success thus far, even in New York, if the comic opera be excepted. — Mary Anderson concludes a week's engage- ment in Cincinnati to-night in Pygmalionand Gaiatia. Miss Anderson insists that she has a mission in the classic drama. — Miss Annie E. Ford, daughter of Jno. T. Pord, has written a version of La Fille de Roland—called The Daughter of Roland—for Mary Anderson. —W. J. Florence has very wisely abandoned the worn out ‘Almi: Dollar and bought out Captain Cuttle. oS ae — The Emma Abbott troupe close a week's engagement to-night at the Chestnut-street opera house, Phfadelphia—the handsomest theater in this or any other conntry—in the Tro Cavaliers. They have done fairly well, but it is mostly owing to the popular prices, which gave them good houses here. —The Emilie Melville (Mrs. Derby) opera troupe have drawn crowded audiences in Boston last week and this. They have not been east for many years. — Mrs. Burnett's play, Esmeralda, has made @ favorable impression at the Madison Square theater, New York. It is an interesting play, and is well acted. That it will have a long and prosperous life is hardly a matter for doubt. — It isnow confidently expected that the new Wallack’s Theater—which will be a small and very elegant house—will be opened within a month. The stage of the new theater will not be large enouzh for the display of broad theatri- eal and scenic effects. — The repertory of Mr. John S. Clarke, who will begin an engagement in this city within a few months, includes the following plays:—A Wilow Hunt, Ewpement, The Heir at Law, The Rivals, Among the Breakers, Leap Year,’ The School of Reform, Toodles and Paul Pry. — The engagement of Mile. Rhea will begin | at Booth’s Theat ew York, on the 28th inst. | She will play Adrienne Lecoucreur, Camille and Beatrice. Mile. Rhea will be supported by American actors, and her performances will be given entirely in the English language, which it is said she has learned since last May. —This week the Mahn Comic Opera Com- pany appeared at Niblo’s Garden, N. Y., in an English version of Von Suppé’s amusing opera, Donna Juanita. A chorus of 70 voices. a power- ful orchestra, a number of principal artists well known to be competent, with new scenery and costumes, combine to make the promises of the management attractive. — Joe Jefferson appears in New York on Mon- day night at the Grand Opera House in Rip Van | Winkle. He has shelved The Rivals for the present. He was in Boston this week. — The regular company of the Union Square Theater, New Yerk, will make their first ap- pearance during this season on Monday night next. They will probably perform in Daniel Rechat for a week, and perhaps in some other play from their repertory. The Lights o’ London will be produced during the latter part of the month. —Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, produced by E. G. Rice's opera company, will be the at- traction following Rossi's engagement at Booth’s ‘Theater, making the second company in New York, the other being at The Standard. — Unlucky Blanche Roosevelt made her re- ‘@ppearance at New York this week ina con- cert at Chickering Hall with Lazzarini, tenor; Lencioni, baritone: Florence Copleston, pianist, and los Hasselbrink, violinist. John Habberton’s revised version of Deacom Crankett was produced at the Fourteenth- street Theater, New York, this week. — Mme. Janauschek will add a.closing bril- Sancy to her engagement this season by the pro- duction of a new play, entitled The Doctor of Zima, which 1s said to contain a character en- tirely fitted to the talent of this fine actress. ‘The author of the play is Mr. Saimi Morse, who wrote The Passion Play. Miss Anna Story, of this city, appears in it. — Charles H. Hoyt, the “All Sorts” man of the Boston Post, has written a play called The Queen of Bohemia, which some critics are enthu- siastic over, and which, the mdications are, is meant for Annie Pixley, who certainly ought to be thankful for a new piece. — Robson and Crane, in Sharps and Fiats, pen in Boston on Monday night. They have done well for two weeks past in New York. —Audran’s new opera, which has never been heard in Paris, The Great Mogul, or the Snake Charmer, has made a hit at the New York Bijou, spite of a poorly adapted libretto. The music is not as catchy, apparently, as either Otivette or The Mascotte, and there are few if ‘say airs of much beauty in it, but the general tone of the music is sweet and pretty, and there are some pretty stage pictures. It is put consi icent, an ected well. f —Edward H. Darling’s new opera, Twelve Jolly Bachelors, was brought out at the Boston Windsor theater Monday, with Jeannie Winston = Amy Gordon in the cast. It is liked and is wing weil, and promises to do still better when the libretto is improved, for it is called Father stupid In detail just now. But the music b and pretty, with a graceful swing to it it proves enjoyable, and is really remarkable (as is declared in print and privately) Mr. Dar- ling is not yet 20 years old and cannot tell one Rote from another in a book. —WMr. Booth closed the largest pecuniary en- gazement he has played in New York since he pogessed the theater which goes by his name. ‘That is to say, he played to almost $50,000 in four weeks. The first was 11.880, the second 11.870. The average of the last two weeks war more than that of the first two. Mr. Booth’s Personal profits amount to about $24,000. —Miss Lydia Thompson, after an absence of three years from London, appeared at the Roy- alty on the 17th ult., as “Mrs. Smylie” in Nine Points of the Loe, and achieved a genuine suc- cess, if the London critics are to be credited. —John S. Clarke has just completed a new act for A Widow Hunt, in which a comic duel scene is introduced. He has otherwise amplified the piece, and it will be produced for the first time in Toledo next week under its new name, Major. It used to be called Ecery- body's Friend. —An amusing libel suit has been instituted against the Denver Trilune by one Deacon Jones, who was charzed with insisting on a front seat to see Miss Abbott in the alleged dis- robing scene in Fra Diavole. Mr. Jones claims that he has been injured in his morals and char- acter by such an insinuation. Miss Abbott's husband, Mr. Wetherell, hias sent for a copy of the charges. U. S. Senators Hill and Telier went on the bonds of the offending editors. — The Passing Regiment, a new play, or rather an adaptation of a German play by Mr. Daly, was broucht out at the latter's theater in New York Thursday night and made a decided a Mr. Daly's regular company fill the new — Miss Annie Louise Cary, it is sald, will be married after the present concert season—the fortunate gentleman being one of the Loril- lards of New York. Miss Cary has been so uninently identified with music in America hat it will almost cease to be an institution When her co-operation can no longer be secured. From her first appearance in London, in 1868, a8 Azucena to her later suecess with Mapleson and Strakosch, her career has been a brilliant one, and her sterling qualities as a woman are as well known and highly esteemed as her lyric ability. — The greatest quartette that probably ever AUNT AGATHA’S CONVERSION. CHAPTER I. “Whip it!” said my aunt. With kerchief pinned over her well-developed bust, and apron tied round her figure, she was engaged in manufacturing a batch of lemon- cheese cakes for which the materials had been brought into her neat little “keeping-room;” and, just as with sleeves tucked up, (she was rather proud of her beautiful arm,) she was immersed in the mysteries of rolling, and pat- ting, and buttering tins, and lining them with crust, glancing out of the window, she had seen the immaculate carriage of Miss Tipple stopping at the door, and a gentleman handing out that spruce and dainty little personage. Poor Betsy Ward, Aunt Agatha’s only ser- vant, had likewise taken a stealthy peep, and she now bustled into the room. “Lor’, mum,” said she, ‘there's Miss Tipple and a strange gentleman; let me clear away the things while you goand make yourself tidy. ‘They can knock again, and I'll have ‘em away ina minute.” “No, Betsy,” said my aunt, ‘Miss Tipple knows very well that I make my own pastry, and when she comes to see me she must just take me asIam. There, open the door.” And she complacently went on with her rolling and patting. The fact is, Aunt Agatha had no great opinion of Miss Tipple. Herself, though very limited as to income, the representative of one of the oldest and most respected families in Hilderstock, she did not consider that Miss Tipple, whose father she remembered as a well- to-do grocer, was at all lifted to an equality with her by her wealth, and she had not formed & very exalted estimate of Miss Tipple'ssincerity or of her discretion, so that when she now en- tered the room, Aunt Agatha, quite undis- turbed by her rich and irreproachable costume, looked at her coolly, as who should say: “I've | taken the measure of you, my lady, and J don't think much of you.” “You'd better not come too near me,” said Aunt Agatha as Miss Tipple advanced, putting out a pretty little neatly-gloyed hand, “for you see I'm all over flour. But those that fear feath- ers shouldn't go ameng wild fowl.” ““My dear Miss Gayfer,” said Miss Tipple, who | always placed a strong emphasis on her adjec- | tives, “you areso perfectly fresh and natural that it is always charming to see you; so unlike the artificial world which is made up of show. Let me introdnce to you Mr. Jordan, my cousin, our new rector. I am sure you will be delighted with him.” My aunt acknowledged by a word or two the new rector’s salutation, took a good look at him,and didn’t teelbyany means so sure about it. He was a tall pale man, much marked with smallpox, with erisp black hair, and he spoke in a low, mellow, cooing voice, which most women found it pleasant to listen to. “I trust, Miss Gayfer,” said he, “that we shall be very good friends. I understand that you are a recognized power in Hilderstock, and that your co-operation is quite essential to success here.” “If you had sald that I am pretty well known here, where I have spent my life,” said Aunt | Agatha, “you would have been well within the | mark; as to influence, you'll find that our people | have, most of ’em, got a will of their own—and it’s generally wrong.” “That's a less flattering description of my parishioners than I have had from my cousin,” said he, with a smile. “Ah, well, you'll see. The proof of the pud- ding is in the eating. I don’t mean to say but what they are honest enough and good natured. But they are shiftless and willful, so tiat it’s very hard to help them.” “Tam sure, my dear Miss Gayfer,” said Miss Tipple “that your example and your instruc- tions have gone far to cure them of both those faults; and I know you will appreciate Frank, my cousin; who is the most methodical man in the world. He has made anfabsolute conquest | of the Blackmans, and the Wilkinses, and the Wakelings.” “ Aye,” said Aunt Agatha, with a laugh,“‘new brooms sweep clean.” “Of one thing you may be quite sure, Frank,” said Miss Tipple, turning to her cousin: “Miss Gayfer will always tell you what she thinks.” “I certainly shan't tell Mr. Jordan, nor any- body else. what I don’t think.” said Aunt a; “but all truths are not to be told.” ntiy, when the cheese cakes were finished and the apparatus dismiseed, Miss, Tip- ple said: “You really must let my cousin see your ex- quisite fernery, Miss Gayfer. You have such perfect taste in all these matters, and manage them so admirably.” “It rans in the blood,” said my aunt, not Insensible to the flattery. “My father was very fond of his garden, and she that comes of a hen must scrape. But I've scarcely any plea- sure to go into my garden now, since Miss Payne has stuck up that abominable red brick wall at the end of it. It scorches my eyes to look upon it. It’s not much after all,” she , turning to Mr. Jordan, “‘but such asit is, come and see it.” She led the way up the steps which climbed into the garden from the back door, between the dwarf yews and magnificent trees of blush roses, old- ioned but sweet as the odors ofa dream, and down to a little dell where dwarf ivy and periwinkle clambered over art- fully-disposed rocks, presented her pretty little fernery, lush and delicate in its verdure, and delicious in its coolness. . Jordan examined it with a critical eye. Excellent, Miss Gayfer,” said he, stooping down ashe spoke to examine the soil. “But these scolopendriums would do better if you would give them some sandy loam mixed with leaf mould.” “The man has a grain of gumption in him, after all,” said my aunt, sotto voce, but not so low as to be inaudible to a little nephew whose | hand she held, and who, having a sense of humor, very imperfectly succeeded in stifling a laugh, as he caught Miss Tipple’s eye fixed upon him. There was an awkward hush fora second or two, andin the pause the sound of shears | was distinctly visible. My aunt gathered up her skirts with inimit- able speed, and proceeded to investigate, fol- lowed more leisurely by the cousins, who seemed to be exchanging confidences in a com- placent and affectionate manner, till they were startled by the indignant tones of my aunt's voice exclaiming: “Hi! you man, what are you doing there? How dare you?” On the Carrey side of the garden rose the hideous red-brick building which had excited my aunt’s righteous indignation. Just struggling up te reach this had been a magnificent crop of ivy; but the place thereof knew it no more, for a ian who stood there, open-mouthed, with his shears in his hand, and with the spoils of his labor all round him, had sheared and trimmed it till the wall was as bare as a billiard ball. My aunt hal followed up her exclamation by Tushing across the garden, seizing the intruder | by the coliar of his jacket and shaking him tll his teeth chattered in his head. “Come away, Frank, come away!" sald Miss Tipple, plucking the new rector’s sleeve. “The woman Must be mad.” But Mr. Jordan, without heeding the injunc- tion, with a smile on his face strode to the scene of the conflict Just as my ant, fairly out of breath, released poor Jobson in ‘a condition of extreme physical exhaustion and mental bewil- derment. “Oh, it’s you, Jobson, ts it?” she said, as soon as she had sutliciently recovered breath. “How dare you come trespassing here, and destroying my garden? You touch another leaf of that ivy, sir, and I'll make you smart for it, or my name is not Avatli fer.” ‘There was scarcely a leaf left for him totouch; he had done his work completely. “Well,” she continued impatiently, “what do you stand there for, with your mouth open, like ‘a drivelling idiot?’ Have you got nothing to say for yourself?” “Why, lord. Miss Gayfer,” said Jobson, [ey right down skeer me, that you do; I han't sich a jouncing not sin’ I was tossed in a blanket. I never knowed I was doin’ any | of my law: | such a thing a; eT 8 most vexatious incident,” sald the new | r. “Vexatious!” interrnpted my aunt with per- feetly recovered composure; “it’s maddening.” There was a curious contrast between the words and the tone in which they were uttered, and the rector smiled as he said: “T hope, after the first natural ebullition of feeling, you will be ‘able to accommodate your difference with this Miss Payne amicably.” “Oh, fiddie-de-dee!” said my aunt. “But oe now, good-by. I shall see you—on Sun- lay.” “My dear Miss Gayfer,” said Miss Tipple; “your energy of character quite astonishes mel I could no more do what you have done than ! could write Frank's sermons for him.” “* It's Just aswell the world holds a few people who have some control over themselves,” sald my aunt with a laugh. “That's a remarkable woman,” said Mr. Jor- don as he drove away with Miss Tippie, “A remarkably isagreeable woman.” says the lady with a little shudder. “Do you think so?” said the new rector, and both lapsed into silence. “Those people mean to make a match of it,” said my aunt as she waited for Miss Payne. ‘Love anda cough, they say, can’t be hid, and anyone can see that she has made up her mind to marry him. A pretty dance she'll lead him, too, poor fellow.” : Miss Payne was a lady of ponderous build, but short in proportion to her bulk, with a com- plexion like an uncooked muffin, and eyes in a chronic state of moisture, apt to overflow on slight provocation. She was elephantine in her movements, wheezy and faint in her voice, and lachrymose in her general views. Aunt Agatha, who had been chirping merrily, straightened herself in her chair as the click of the front gate announced the approach of this obnoxious per- sonae. !” exclaimed my aunt as she waddled into the room. “Oh-h-h!” sobbed Miss Payne, sinking unin- vited into a chair. My aunt eyed her with profound contempt, but gave her time to recover breath before she asked; “Well, Miss Payne, have you anything to say why I should uot put this matter in the hands and take proceedings against you for your abominable trespass?” “Miss Agatha!” gasped the offender, “I de- Glare you frighten me, and my heart is that ene “Stu” said Aunt Agatha promptly, “Only think, Miss Agatha, what's the use of going to law with me—* “I know,” broke in my aunt, “that whether you boil snow or pound it, you get only water; but to put up with such an abominable outrage as this is to invite injury. Those that make themselves sheep have no call to complain if the wolf eats thein.” zatha,” pleaded Miss Payne. iss Agatha’ me woman,” said my aunt; “it makes me sick.” “I declare, Miss Agatha, I’m more vexed than youcan think. You know damp makes me so ” said my aunt abruptly. and the ivy did make the wall “Then you should have told me about it, and not sent people trespassing in my garden,” “I never thougit, Miss Agatha, Jobson was going to do so much. I told hin’ to just trim the ivy so that it didn’t make the wall damp.” “I don't believe it,” said my aunt. “I know Jobson yery well, and you told him to cut it down or he wouidn’t have done so, and you made him believe that I knew all about it.” “I didn't really, Miss Agatha; no really, I didn’t. When I saw what he'd done, you might have knocked me down with a feather. I'm so sorry you were annoyed” “Annoyed!” said my aunt with vehemence. ‘Ofiss Payne, I could have skinned you!” Poor Miss Payne gave a start of unmistakable alarm that my aunt's sense of the comic over- mastered her indignation, and she broke into langhter after which she felt that it was quite hopeless to prolong the interview, and she ac- cordingly brouxht it to an abrupt close, saying: “Well, Miss Payne, it’s no crying over spilt milk. I don’t for and it’s no use pretending that I not say any- thing more about this atair. But if you ever do in I won't spare you, mind that. “Ah, now, Miss Agatha,” said the old lady, gathering spirit with this ‘promise, “don't halt do the thing while you are about it. Let us be friendly and neighborly.” ‘€ may come to that in time,” was the reply. “He's a fool that asks much, and he’s more fool that grants it. I feel very sore about this mat- ter, I'can tell you, and I shall take a week and a day to get over it: And now the less that’s said about it the more likely I shall be to forget it, 80 good-by.” Miss Payne casped, heaved her deepest sigh, shook her underdone head, and waddled off. CHAPTER II. Aunt Agatha pronounced Mr. Jordan’s first sermon “very sensible,” and wondered what such @ man could see in that “mincing, affected little bit of goods, Miss Tipple.” But as the weeks went by she did not hear of him quite in the way sh edin the cottages where she visited, and she heard of hima good deal more than she liked in a parson at the parish. at garden-parties, archery-meetings, and social gatherings of various kinds. Not that he failed to visit among the humbler inhabi- tants of Hilderstock, but while she heard of him as smokinz his pipe with them, talking about their gardens, or their pigs and their poultry and otherwise rendering himself very popular, he never seemed to speak to them of Teligion, or about purely professional topics. This was very different from the practice of the late rector, a zealous evangelical, whose dutiful disciple Aunt Agatha had been, though in her sturdy independence she had sometimes ventured to express her doubt as to the wisdom of prolonged exhortations in houses where the strugyle for existence was hard and exacting, for, as she would “you can’t make a wind- mill go with a pair of bellows.” Something between the prolixity of his prede- cessor and the too purely mundane converse of Mr. Jordan would have been her idea of the happy mean, “Ihave just been telling Mrs. Gimpson,” said he one day when he encountered herat the door of a cottage, “that if she wants her hens to lay she must vary their food a little. “Don’t you think there are some things more important than hen’s eggs you might speak to ny Gimpson about?” asked my aunt, look- im full in the face. “I’m afraid she’s dreadfully ignorant, and they say parsons are souls’ waggoners. yfer,” he answered, erful, active old lady; stricken with pain and with years, making the thinnest of livelihoods by unremitting care, yet always contented, I feel that it is for me to Jearn and be silent; is the teacher.” My aunt was silent fur a second or two, and then answered. ‘There is a great deal in’ what you say, but it is a way of looking at things that is new to me. If itis the right way, I think I have wasted a good deal of time.” * Assuredly not,” said he, ‘you have carried brightness and order into many homes, and wherever I go I find you have been an influence for good. Sympathy is the true ‘open sesame’ toa human heart, and in power of sympathy we men lag far behind women.” From that time a gradual change was obser- yable in Aunt Agatha’s dealings with the poor folk whom she ited. It would have been dificult to say exactly what it w: A more frequent touch of tenderness, a greater readi- ness tomake allowances for the circumstances and difficulties of each. A greater readinesa to help there conld not be, but there was less readiness to scold. Sometites, in the course of her indefatigable rounds, she would meet with and have pleasant converse with the rector, aud would come home quite radiant with pleasure. At other times she only heard of him as having been the life and soul of some party, rowing Miss Tipple and friends down the river, organizing picnics, and other frivolites on which Aunt Agatha looked with scant toleration. “That man,” she remarked one day, “might put new lite into the whole parish, and he’s be- coming a mere butterfly. It's bad enough now; what it will be after he geta married to that shallow, worldly-minded woman, Heaven only ows. One day inearly autumn, ss Aunt Agatha was mee, sony a ong bee — and chrysanthe- musing pro! of these matte a uarsh crashing noise and @ shock as of carthe she said the ivory made her Iwas to come over an’ cut it. ae | ne rudely broke the current of her reflec- u ‘urned In the direction from which ee come, and th e's diaun' eyesore of story had = Ae Payne's directly. There has been an accident there: the new story has fallen in.” Hastening with them round the corner of Horn Lane, she came upon Miss Tipple, escorted by tre eee, ‘With whom she was gaily con- versing. “My dear Miss Gayfer!” said Miss Tipple, ad- vancing with her everlasting wintry smile. “What is the matter, Miss Gayfer?” asked Mr. Jordan. ~Can I help you?” Just then a small boy came running by, and thinking he might’ be useful to run erands, Aunt Agatha impounded him by clutching the collar of his Jacket,.a piece of his ear, and a handfal of his hair, holding him in firm grasp while she explained to the rector briefly what had happened. “You may as well come,” she added, ‘though 1 don’t know you tan do anything. Better a lame foot than none.” And without further parley she hurried on. Miss Tipple, who tlung to the rector’s arm, and with @ soft invincibility declined either to hurry her steps or tobe left to herself, so in- led his motion that Aunt Agatha, with her |- followers, was out of sicht in no time. When at last he came up half di the shrinking and reluctant Miss Tipple, whose strong objec- tion to imperilling ‘either her mn or her millinery quite overtastered her curiosity, she heard Aunt Agatha's voice ringing out from the dusty confusion with anything fut compli- mentary exhortations to her recruits, who were pushing Irresolute at the entrance. “Don't you goin, Miss Agatha—now don't you,” shouting one ef the men. “That ain’t safe, really.” “You cowardly loons,” said my aunt, “would you let the woman die without help?” “Don't go, Frank,” said Miss Tipple. “You hear it is not safe, and you'll get your coat all over dust.” Mr. Jordan firmly, but not ungently, removed gras] “Where there 1s danger and distress, there Is the parson’s piace,” said he, and in’ another moment he had followed Aunt Agatha, the men timidiy imitating his example, and leaving Miss Tipple alone with little Job Chalk, of whom she did not condescend to take any notice. ‘The ns ickety building was ‘a mere heap of Some villaze wiseacre had superimposed r basement a brick upper story. This anzle of the building had fallen in, and ‘in its fall had dragged with it older por- tions of the house, so that now timbers were sloping in all directions, and what had not. ac- tually fallen seemed tottering to its fall. Am! this dangerous debris Aunt Agatha was making her way, when some of tle boldest of those who were following her started back with a shout of alarm. A thin blue smoke, followed by hungry, vicious-looking gongues of flame, was apparent, | and even Mr. Jordan and Aunt Agatia, who vere now side by side, paused for an instant on of peril. The hesitation, was but momentary. did not survive the fled sound of moaning that broke upon the t Aunt Agatha was no longer allowed to the command. The soft coving voice to ich she had at times listened with sometiing akin to contempt could assume tie tone of com- mand, and, strong as she was, and “masterful” as all the village folks said, Aunt Agatha was woman in her heart, leaning with gladness and jon ona stronger will than her own. ‘ou will wait here,” said Mr. Jordan, “for a few moments. I will call you if you can be of help”; and then, with keen‘rapid glance sweep- ing those who were present, he singled out a robust young man. and ina voice that might have led soldiers on to battle, said: “Howard you come with me.” © young fellow obeyed “as a matter of course, and then ensued a short pause of pain- ful suspense. Presently Howard reappeared with a flushed and frizitened expression, but evidently putting a strong restraint upon him- | If. self. But Bob Howara’s voice had not the magic of Mr. Jordan’s, and she would wait no loner. Pushing her way through the ruins and the ke with those that had been summoned into had been Miss Payne's little parior, she pressed her lips tightiy together, and the color fied her face as she saw the motionless form of her old enemy stretched on a couch there, and standing by the side of it the rector, blood streaming from a wound on his head, his coat torn, and one arm hanging listless by his side. Some falling bricks and timber had struck him. and had disabled the arm, and lest his appear- ance should excite alarm he had sent Bob How- ard with the messaze for help and a strict in- junction to say nothing beyond what he had been told. In a few seconds Miss Payne, more frightened than hart, was moved beyond the reach of peril; and was conveyed to Aunt Agatha’s cottaze. accompanied by the wounded rector. Aunt Agatha’s foresight had already summoned good Dr. Holmes to the place, and hurrying as fast as his lame foot would permit, he reached the cottage almost at the same time as the cayal- cade. Miss Tipple, indignant that her cousin should have deserted her for “that woman,” had not awaited the issue of the investiga- tions. Dr. Holmes pronounced Miss Payne to have sustained a very severe shock from fright; but tobe free from bodily damage. The rector's arm was broken, but the wound on the head was gnly skin deep, and not thuch more serious than the torn coat. From that time, tor many months, Aunt Agatha’s house became Miss Payne’s home, and her hostess tended her with all the solicitude of adaughter. A great poet has told us that “the learned eye is still the loving one.” and it so happened that in this unwearied tendance and ministration Aunt Agatha discovered not a few unsuspected virtues in the fact, wheezy, pufly old soul, and something like genuine attach- ment sprung up between them. A very constant attendant was the Rev. Frank Jordan. Even when his arm was still very painful, and he might weil have been ex- cused had he abstained from visiting a parish- ; oherwho was In no imminent danger, his solici- tude about Miss Payne was remarkable. In spite of the severity of winter snows and frosts, his arm secured by splints and bandages, he would come, and sit for a wholeten minutes with Miss Payne, and for whole hours talking with Aunt Agatha—probably about the ° pa- tient’s symptoms. : But the snows melted on the high hills, and the brooks, swollen with their muddy tribute, chattered noisily down the slopes, and snow. drops and crocuses, daflodils and violets bloomed again, and in due course the breath ot the blush rosesin the garden was wafted into the cottage. And then people in the villave said, and laughed at each other as they said it, that Miss Tipple was goin to give up Barham House and to leave Hilderstock. She had indiscreetly spoken to some bosom friends of her approacli- ing marriage with the rector, and before the chrysanthemums had opened out their ragged beauties to the next autumn sun it became known that Mr. Jordon’s consent had never been asked forthis arrangement, and that the parson had, with good success, asked that ‘remarkably disagreeable woman’ to be his bride. Miss Tipple reftected, however, with some complacency that the living was a very poor one, and that Miss Gayfer’s fortune, for all her ridiculous pride, was barely enough for her to live on in decency. But even in this she fell into her besetting sin of premature talk; for when poor old Miss Payne died a year or so later, it was found that she had left the whole of her not inconsiderable fortune to Frank Jor- dan, in recognition of the great kindnesses and services that she had received from her dear friend Agatha, his wife: the Year Roung. oo ‘Two Kinds of Collision. “TI knew you would come, my preciousone,” he murmured softly to the girl, as he took a re- cess on the osculation racket. (He had kissed her tor ten minutes before she spoke a word.) “Eyery fibre of my being told me that my Mig- nonne would be waiting for me at the old tryst- ing-place, that hallowed spot where we plighted our troth a year agone, when the daisies were too ardent of the sun that was kissing tito life the ee forms of vegetation that come trooping forth from earth’s bosom when the snows have gone and the robins are twitter- ing their twits in theleafy branches of the sturd oaks. I knew you would not fail me,” an bending over the fair face that looked so trust- ingly into his, Mit gently touched his lipsto nevThen it camo to steady kissing Mit conld go fast heat. a “Yes, my only ownest," ded the girl, Tespon 4 uld come, but you cannot know ony autor hag = MEDICINE FOR WOMAN. A DXVENTED BY A WOMAN. PREPARED BY A WOMAN LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND ‘Is 4 Posrrive Cue For all thoes Painful Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population. It will cureentirely the worst form of Female Com- Ovarian Troubles, Inf Pi jammation and Ulcera- tion, Falling and Displacements, and the consequent Spinal Weakness, and to the Changes of Life. It removes Faintness, Flatulency, destroys all Cra- vings for Stimulants, and Relieves Weakness of the Stomach. It cures Bloating, Headache, Nervons Pros- tration, General Debility, Sleeplessnees, Depression and Indigestion. The feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight and backache, is always permanently cured by its use. SY-PHYSICIANS USE IT AND PRESCRIBE IT FREELY. aa It will at all times and under all circumstances act in harmony with the laws that govern the female sys- tem. For the cure of Kidney Complaints of either sex this Compound is unsurpassed. LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND is prepared at 233 and 235 Western avenue, Lynn, Mass. Price $1. Six botties for $5. Sent by mail in the form of pills, also in the form of lozenges, on receipt of price, $1 per box foreither. Mrs. Pinkham freely answers all letters of inquiry. Send for pamphlet, Ad- dress as above, family should be without LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S RPILLS. ‘They cure constipation, biliousness, LI i | Sud torpidity of the liver. 25 cents per box. z E2-Sowp Br ALL Deuces. eg B3-e0 A®* IRON AND COPPER INVESTMENT. In 1876 the incorporators of the NORTH STATE MINING COMPANY | began the examination and development of the mineral wealth cf North Carolina, and, after five years of labor and expence, became @tisfied that they were possensed of rich and valuable mineral properties, that only re- quired a railroad to enable them to pour into the pocketa of their stockholders thousands of dollars of dividends. ‘The principal properties being in Ashe County, remote from transportation, the Legislature of North Carolina was asked to grant a special charter for mining, railroad and telesraph purposes. This charter was granted February 11, 1881, incorporating the North State Min- ing Company. Under this charter the company have acquired very valnable privileges; power to buy and sell mines and mineral lands, to carry on the mining and reduction of ores, in alt ita branches; to construct railroads and telegraph linea connecting its mines with trunk lines of railroad and telegraph lines, and for the aurpose of constructing said railroad and telegraph lines, it has power to issue bonds to the amount of | $25,000 per mile. The capital stock of the company is | $10,000,060, divided into 400,000 shares, of par value of | $25 per share. In Stanly County, 23 miles from Salisbury, on the Piedmont Air Line Road, in North Carolina, is the well- | £nown Crowell Gold Mine, which is well equipped and developed. The estate consists of 850 acres of land, | rich and fertile coil, covered with heavy growth of timber. It has numerous veins of gold quartz upon it, | and about 300 acres of auriferous gravel, which yields numerous fine nuggets and coaree gold. The company also own and operate a large saw-mill i n connection with the mine. In Ashe County the company have large tracts of | mineral Iend. Among them a very valuable Copper , carrying gold and silver, which is a property of | 350 seres, covered with heavy timber. This mine is fully equipped with modern machinery, and has already produced a large quantity of rich and valuable ore. Prorrssor Emsows, late State Geologist of North Carolina; Pror. Kenn, State Geologist of North Caro- lina; Pror. J. H. McCursyex, Mining Geologist; Watres Hamiuron, M. E.; Puov. R. M. Eames, have made most favorable reports about this mine. They concur in the belief that if gives indication of great commercial value, and that by the character and grade of the ore, it promises to be one of the best paying Cop- per lodes in this country. When the smelting furnaces are finished the daily prevent yield of this mine is estimated as followd: ‘Thirty tons of ore per day; average, 20 per cent. cop- per and $40 in gold and silver per ton, will equal $3,000 per day, and average 300 days to the year, will equal £900,000 gross earnings per year. When the new shaft is finished, and cross-cuts are made to the vein, the output can easily be doubled, and by the end of the first year the mine will be earning (ore averaging as at pres- ent) over $1,800,000 per year. ‘The Soapstone quarries, Kaolin mines and Mica mines are situate about four miles from the Copper mines, on the way to the Magnetic iron ore beds. ‘The estate consists of over 1,000 acres of fertile lands, covered with a heavy growth of timber, and also in- cludes » water power of about 800 horse-power. 5 The addition oF railroad transportation is only re- quired to turn these iron mines into a bonanzaas wealth. Pror. Kenn, State Geologist of North Carolina, re- fers to this property in his report to the State in 1875, ‘on page 267, Vol. 1. He concludes his remarks by say- ing: ‘This is manifestly an iron region and worthy thorough investisation.” 2 ‘The value of these magnetic iron ore beds cannot be easily estimated, at the lowest calculation there isin sight sufficient ore to last for 100 years, with an output of 300,000 tons a year. ‘The company are preparing to build a line of raflroad that will connect their iron mines with the Ohio Valley; and at the same time be a trunk line from the North- west to the Southeast. This road will be known as the CaRoLina, VIRGINIA AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD, and will connect at the most feasible point with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in West Virginia, thus giving direct communication with the Ohio Valley and the Northwest, and at the same time the construction of the railroad from Jefferaon to Wadesboro, will give ‘an outlet south to the Atlantic Seaboard. Judging from the present average of ore from the Copper mine, it is estimated that DIviDENDs to the ex- tent of TWo AND ONE-HALF ($2.50) DOLLARS per share can be paid during 1882. ‘Khe completion of the com- panies’ railroad by 1883, will give a market to their valuable deposits of MaGwetic Inox Ong, which will enable them to pay DIVIDENDS of at least FIVE ($5.00) DOLLARS per share, THE STOCK OF THE COMPANY CAN BE OB- TAINED THROUGH ANY REPUTABLE BROKER CONNECTED WITH THE MINING EXCHANGES, AT THE CURRENT MARKET RATES. Mapes, pamphlets and full information can be obtained at the Company's office, No. 52 Broadway, New York City. n8-t, t, &s-6t 1 EES STATE LOTTERY. UNPRECEDENTED ATTRACTION! OVER HALF A MILLION DISTRIBUTED. ‘A STATE LOTTERY COMPANY. corporate i 186i for twenty-five yar by the Lagan lature for Educational and Charitable ‘with = a Iming popular vote its franchise was mas ry wa of ie eet ‘State Constitution adopted December . D., 1879. Eviit SCALES OR POSTPONES 1391u GRAND MO: NARY SEMI-ANNUAL DRAWING TUESDAY, re, ler the personal supervision and management of MGT BEAUREGARD, of Lo and GEN. NS BARLEY, of Vindnia ” Louisiana, PITAL PRIZE $100,000. CTckets are en Dolce ab8 Bessyeuenes 888 2823222223 5 | URNISHINGS. NGS._ HOUSE PALETOTS, JACKETS AND SUITS. CHILDREN'S AND MISSES CLOAKS. ‘The largest and best assortment in the city. FUB TRIMMINGS in different widths. M. WILLIAN, 7 Cite Trevies, Paris, 029 907 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUF. ‘RS. SE! RUPPERT. . M Le TD NNT STREET, sted of ren ZEPHYRS, CREWEL AND GERMANTOWN Tein WORSTED GOO! ANID REY EMBHOLDEKIES, AI OUTLINE WOU a ata = mei - MES: 5. P. PALMER, Importer axp DEsiGNER oF Fasnions, 1107 F STREET, BETWEEN lira AND 12rs, ‘Most respectfully announces to the Ladies that she has now in Stock a recherche assortment of FRENCH BONNETS, ENGLISH HATS AND PARIS NOVELTIES. og etEorep PERSONALLY WHILE rx Evrore. M®. M. J. HUNT ‘Lovites the attention of the Ladies of Washington toher superb stock of FRENCH BONNETS and HATS. These are her own importation, and the handsomest styles ever offered in this city. She also solicits an inrpection of the Bonnets of her own, design, which she wili be prepared to exhibit during the coming week. _olt 621 axp 623 D Srnver Norawest. E= ¢, 618 ‘TH Street Ne AY ac see TS and ROUND a er eetection of BOS x HATS on TUESDAY, October 18. ae ols 4m OUGLASS’, NINTH STREET. 8. Croup Bur-pixa. HOSIERY, FALL AND. WINTER STYLES FOR LADI MISSES AND CHILDREN, — NOW READY. JOB LOTS OF FINE FRENCH AND ENGLISH HOSIERY, AT ONE WAL PRICE. DOUGLASS’, om 9TH STREET. M ME. WASHINGTON, al FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING AND TRIMMING STORE, D Suitn, Contamen, Cleake ee Roretyle * at short notice. “Ladies can have Dresses cnt and basted, and a perfect fit guaranteed. ‘aps FAMILY SUPPLIE [Aste LUXURIES, RECENT IMPORTATION— PETITS Por! CHAMPIGNO! TRUF! E FOIE GRAS, ANCHOVIES T. OLIV CAPERS, PICKLES, SAU WITMER’S, 29 1918 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. ow STAG PURE RYE WHISKEY is unequalled for smoothness, flavor and purity, and for ‘the sideboard and sickroom is unnvalled. HUME, CLEARY & CO., 28 807 Manner Space. V N BEIL’S RYE AND ROCK, ‘Tue OxicinaL any Best. VAN BIEL'S RYE AND ROCK is pronounced the GREAT NATIONAL REMEDY for COUGHS. COLDS AND CONSUMPTION. ‘Trade supplied by B. W, REED'S SONS, 031 1216 F street northwest. Ro AND FRUITY, NEW YORE SWEET CIDER. Also, Delicious; in color, pale amber, CRAB APPLE CIDER, Superior as s beverage to the Juice of any other apple. For sale by HUME, CLEARY & Co., 28 807 MARKET SPACE. ‘AT SPLENDID Ts MINNESOTA FAMILY flour, favorably known as the SOVEREIGN, {elds im perfection, white, sweet and wholesome HUME, CLEARY & CO., 807 Market Space. ns Alt WHEAT FLOUR, ALL-WHEAT FLOUR, JUST RECEIVED DIRECT FROM THE MILL. ‘Families and the Trade supplied. ELPHONZO YOUNGS, GROCER, WHOLESALE AGENT, os 504 NinTH sTREET NORTHWEsT, JP)OAEE BETS, TEA sera, 5 DESSERT AND TONLET SETS, IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH OHINA, OF OUR DIRECT TMPORTATION, AT LOW Prices, nS J. W. BOTELER & SON, GERMAN STUDENT LAMP, DRICKEL PLATED, LARGEST 6IZE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENT, ONLY $4.50, J. W. SCRAFER, 1020 7TH STREET, mm Apove New Youre AVENUR. PPconaTED POTTERY AND PORCELAIN, ENGLISH, FRENCH, DRESDEN AND CHINESE. RODGERS’ ENGLISH CUTLERY, FINE PLATED-WARE, AND FULL LINE OF KITCHEN UTENSILS. M. W. BEVERIDGE, (are Wenn & Reventor,) No. 1009 Pennsylvania Avena, IF YOU WANT A HEATING OR COOKING STOVE, ‘Do not fail to call and examine our lange assortment of Doth. Agents for the RADIANT HOME HEATING STOVES AND FURNACES ‘The best of their kind made in the country. Also, LATROBES, SLATE MANTELS, GRATES ANB BRICK SET RANGES, Please call and examine ou ste . JENK o12 717 SrventH Sraeer Nonrewrst, Pres TED TOILET SETS. A most complete line of medium price English Toilet Sets. Antique shapes Just opened. FINE GOODS, in rich Cut Glasa. French and Ex and Tripie Fiated Silver Ware, «uit WEDDING PRESENTS. A complete stock of HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS. WILMALTH & EDMONSTON, 709 MARKET SPACE. PIANOS AND ORGANS. _ T iE STILE AND. THE KRANICH & BACH K ANOS, and ESTEY ORGANS ‘Lowest ‘Terms at BRO.'S lish Fancy Wares ple for oS 1 ices and Faxiost G. L. WILD& New Pianoand Organ Ware-rooma, ‘709 7th street northwest. J M. KNABE & CO.’S PIANOS, Grund. Sauere, and Uprient Pu Celebrated ‘Bne stock of Pianos for rep ou terms, at REICHEN BAC! Warerooma, 433 Lith st..a few doors T ALLET DAVIS & CO’S Al Celebrated 7 a HARDMAN UPRIGHT PIANO, only reliable low Fond prieht i. L. SUMNER, Souk AGENT. H. L. 8723-20 811 Orn Staeer Noutuwes, SIDNEY T. NIMMO'S Puaxo Wanenooma, 433 rm STREET NORTHWEST. New and Second-hand Pianos and oncans, of all First-class makers constantly on hand. fre? ol SEWING MACHINES, &e. SON AND DOMESTIC, and Lixhtest Ri tobehad. Sold et the | oo possible peton, emats ‘in- : at the lowest poss or: stallments. Singer Style slachinen, ew. with leaf and $25." Other ‘makes at equally low prices. WM. STIEBLING, 1717 Pennsyly: oran Art Galery. Good Machines rented at §2.50 per mouth. Ali ki repaired. nl0-im ELDREDGE SEWING MACHINES.—Ite success tion without = peer, cover, drawers ‘without a paraliel. Its iw durability demonstrated. “A taumnph in wnechatiead art that shall be pointed to as amarking a period in imme wement in Sewitue jachines. PiWe solicit the attention of all who are desirous of pro- sare cae pees ay cal utiity, mecha fection and > may, aueal erfection ad beauty Ei OPPENHEIMER’S, J 628 9th and F streets northwest. fiveevery chance to examine Mr clilues, Wil Nee ou oftee open toda Bee UERBACH’S SEWING MACHINE AND REPAIR OFFICE COR. 77H AND H STREETS. Q2HE SELE-THREADING QUEEN in the latest mechanical, ius in Sewing Machi The New Queen in a comMination of the good paints of the Singer and Domestic, and sells at lees price than either. ‘The Queen has a very lange space under arm. is stri noiseless and. ‘simplest, mort durable lichtest running Shuttle Machine ever made. Look as Machines of ew ton'eold, rented ‘smd . ec. AUEEBAG corner 7th and H ERBAC Men's Furnishing and ole Agent for the §sxony Wool, German Hand-knit Jackets for Men and vB 2S 00K ALL AROUND, GET PRICES, THEN GO to McKEN ‘Al Aidit NcRENAY'S for SEWING MACHINES. All s pairing. Remember, Sheet nortiwet Oe eer olt SPORTING GOODS. _ GF°- E. KENNEDY & SON, Dealers in STAPLE anv Fancy GRocenies, ‘We are making a of OLD GOVERNMENT JAVA COFFEL. “Iti provounced by ail who asolt te best in the city. NEW RAISINS: NEW FIGS. NEW CURRANTS; MALAGA GRAPES. BRUNSWICK SOUPS. and 200 au S08 Noches dobar "Riatkeling Galvered free of charge to all parts of the PALACE MARKET, Corner 14TH STREET AND New YORK AVENUE, FRANK J. TIBBETS, Proprietor. All londs of MEATS, FRUIT, VEGETABLES, BUT- TER, EGGS, etc. Everything the best. a0 PROPOSALS. Par 01 =! Wasurxorox, D. C., November 11, 1681. ivered at the ‘Navy "Yard, Waskmneusn ered at ary pense to the Goversiment, and ‘BUREAU YARDS AND DOcES® Requixition No. 48. White Lineeed Varnish, &c., echedule in dotaif at this omics. aha nisition No. 49. 50 boxes beet quality I. C. Charcoal 4in (equal to Dean's ran to ‘or all bids not Po ROUGE Ogawa Seda “0 enna ae awarded separately. ‘Blank forms for bids to be had at J. ADAMS Pay Inspector U. 8. N. ceived on ved on ep \HR. RUPPERT, NOS. 403 AND 405 7TH STREET NORTHWEST. HEADQUARTERS FOR THE WHITNEY CHIL+ DREN'S CARRIAGE COMPANY, the cheapest for beauty, comfort and durability in the market. INSURANCI 1A FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, oie EDK B. HENRY A. WILLARD. (eS SAFE DEPOSIT CO. Security AND SAFETY. NATIONAL SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY, 15TH Steer axp New Yor Avenve. FIRE, BURGLAR AND DAMP PROOF VAULTS. road and other posit rabies Of ail des