Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1892, Page 7

: THE EVENING STAR:- WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDA S tapi x che sy | tree = little waves of frosty particles on| The corners of the senior’s month twitched, | so bitterly, but whom none seemed to know ‘The other made no answer. “POOR JOEL PIKE. ~ = entered the service as a bor, and remembering. rither side, which in the sunshi if | but he kept hi the cob or cared to know. “You're a queer man, Joel. They say you y the experiences not particularly striking, |i ew ver say. Come of wie vapor | "an Eat Sd the imperaribelien,_ | "ie nit fried his head and glanced qeia-| wanted i> antes the angie ater be tee} THIRTY YEARS AGO.|2 este ee 4 BIG SUNDAY scHooL, shot from t z t i Officers and Teachers to Sit Down to a Bam ir nostrils, congealed in the frosty | _“Can’t Iattend to your business, Mr. Pike?" | zically at the imperturbable client. Then he re- | was gone?” eoldier, 1 ave but thoughts of thnk ato fir and settled in nowy rime upon their furry | asked the junior blandly. sumed his inspection of the scene: without and | " “I offered her a home, told her if she’ come fulness and gratitude that I was one of = lanks, ‘The drive inat the | “Not this time,” was the answer, in a decided | continued the monotonous tapping with his | and live with me I'd give hr the best education ‘ those who fought for the preservation of the . WAEFIEN TUR THE EVENING GEAR BY | Tees ita high wood sue Woakion thls ey | tone’ heer ae ee ee | oon upon the window pane. PS to be got and leave her everything when I was | Recollections of a Massachusetts Sol- | Union” Icom nmssine the thouchts and. fork, | THE CALWARY RAPTIST scmOOL AND UTS RURVES ALBION W. TOURGEE. and that at the unnsual spec ‘His whip | talk to you when I come to settle.” “How about the Widow Harrington, Joel?” | through with it.” 1.8 NOW IT OVERFLOWS THR lash dragged over the side, making a long,wavy A snort from the senior, . *, ings of the thousands of veterans who will HUNDRED he asked at length, in ‘a bantering tone. “You wanted a daughter, then, not a wife?” dier Who Came to the Capital. come to Washington next September and par-| cmeren “The Widow Harri atin the light, flocculent mass. Occasionally | once from the ceiling to his cl THE SUPERINTENDENTS AND TRACE- answered the old | sarcastically. ticipate in the grand review of the Grand Army | yp annaNoraents Yo THe BaNgUET. E | he raised it in absent-minded fashion, only to | good-natured “Bet you will!” from Ruggles | man, with severe dignity, “is dead, eit.” “I wasn't particular—I didn't want her to— of the Republic. Mang of them have not been | CHAPTER I. | let it fall back again into the snow. were the result of this sally. The lawyer did not scem to note the rebuff, | to go-to the folk down salts WASHINGTON CITY TN 1862. | Nashington since ‘they marched past the | oy og pa eae ey T WAS A STINGING | He waked ont of his difference, however, Joel Pike did not smile.” He sat with his feet though one was evidently intended. “Her father’s people?” = - = “+ | President and Gen. Grant in June, 1865, when anc achers of the big Cavalry | as he a the office of Harmon & Rug- | on the fender, his whip on the floor by his side, “Are those the cattle that ran away with a| The other nodded. | gles. His right arm shot out, the long lash un- | one elbow on his knee and both hand: load of your wheat and upset it over in her] “You would have married her rather than for two days the grand army of veterans Bapitst Sunday echoot midwinter morning. re arranging for a new marched up Pennsylvania avenue, giving the and quite novel departure from the ordinary The day before the | coiled and the cracker snapped in the “near” | out to the stove. He was looking straight ahead | field?” he asked, looking around and pointing | have that happen, I suppove?” q A Boy's First Experience Under Arms—In | thousands of people who lined the sidewalk On efforts of «nc hh organizations, Next Wednesday earth had beem covered | ox's ear; then it hissed through the air again | under the brim of a much worn hat of stiff | with his thumb over his shoulder toward the | “It might have been for the best,” said the| the Forts Around the Federal City_The | every side an opportunity toeeeto what manner | Cvening. in the dining ballot the Reston Hones, é Jeet, which had | 8nd fell sharply on the flank of his mate. | black felt. street. other simply. Spirit That Animated the Volunteers—The | °f Men they owed the preservation of our na- these day Nehool works eab with sleet, whic aw! Haw!” shouted a shrill, metallic voice. | When the senior had had his laugh he sat and ‘They might be.” “It was a good offer, and she ought to have tional existence. Those veterans deserve and Gintny nace WaaEp ane Sogie ela fallen upon a foot of | rie obedient beast broke into an awkward trot, | looked at his client. for some minutes with | ‘You were too mad to pitch it on again, they | accepted it,” witha covert sneer. “I should} Coming G. A, R. Encampment. will receive the warmest welcome. Already the quct, and every arrangement is being made te hard-beaten snow; then | veered to the left and at the word halted before | amused intentness, as if he were a half-pleasing, | tell me?” like to have seen her mistress of the old place. work of the executive committee and the vari- ws. The school is so large that it the wind died away, the | the office de threw up their heads, | half-annoying puzzle. What he saw was a slen- Somehow I have always thought Stephen Ged- ous subcommittecs indicates that they fully ry part of the church, t reury crept below stuck out their white dripping _ noses, | der man, who might have been of almost any ney’s heir ought to have it.” ‘Written for The Evening Star. comprehend what is expected of them. The sero and thelght flakes | about which hung mawes of short icicles, | age from fifty upward. His features wers “So she ought—so she ought,” said the old TWAS THE 19TH OF | ©°™*Tibutions from the citizens of this District zero and the light fla rolled their bright, liquid »eyes set in a| small, but of classic regularity, his lips and man earnestly. “It's more'n a pity it ever went | have been very liberal, and when Congress nity to bescme noqustuted at Ge of frosty network came | circlet of frosty lashes and watched the | nostrils thin, a slight musta rown, out of the family.” soft waveringly out/ driver until he ha of the dull, leaden sky through the ill freez- | ing air, lodging on every twig, hanging in great aves of all the houses, * The banquet is to furnish the 1 alighted, stamped | a little tuft of beard upon the chin and just a m the porch, and, with the lash of | hint of whisker under each ear. Elsewhere his about his arm, entered | skin had that peculiar smoothness which char- their heads drooped, | acterizes the fxce of a man of middle age who nd in a moment they | does not use the razor. His eves were of a “It must have been hard for Susan,” con- tined the lawyer suggestively. He was leading his client like an unwilling Witness to confess what he believed to have been a wrong. One could see the professional instinct iving in ‘September, 1862, when | shall have appropriated the sum asked for ne 40th Massachusetts | bears Sh ic oss re apy pro- y. This Sunday school has reached tat into | Vide for the hundreds of thousands who are ex- id wikia to niece a taoaalan paiomt sila tate) ek te putidigus tn aa gned an. poiat where it begins to compare favorably Washington and were | campment. There is not a Union sole *ith the great schools of the country, ‘There B dumped into Soldiers’ | dier im the whole land whose Beart | Will be from 109 to 1 met white puffs upon the their cuds as contentedly as if in | steely blue and the brows above them long, but wait for any lapse—any weak place in the old Rest to spend the night. | will not fill with patriotic pride at the thought and the responses, be ped on every railing, cushioning everything | their stalls, three miles away. thin and gray. His hair fell to his neck behind man’s guard. It was not that he meant him The next day we were | Of having this encampment at the national cap- | of such a ech: insure the ould hold a feather’s wei Ail night j the ears, and when he raised his hat showed any harm. He would have scorned to take ad- ~ . freezing ealm had con- greatest degree of interest’ in them. long the silent flakes had | this breathle j at first ordered to Fort.| il It was this capizal city that they fought that it was cut square across just above to defend for four long years and vantage of anything he might have admitted, the eyebrows in what would now be known as a | Three Congressmen, two of whom are regular but he could not endure a mystery. He had : a . ress Monroe and after | proprietary imterest in it on that ac teachara. and one who hee often served ue © morn: ame the | “bang.” He wore a brown cloth overcoat of a tried a hundred times to. probe this one, and it having been cooped up | is not a Union v substitute, will be on the li : p teppei style which had been old-fashioned in my boy- irritated him that he could get no nearer its in the care for tee dee, | tat the coming encamptment will be the grand. | resentatives J. H. Walker of Maw nsdown and as light. | hood. it a cape, fastened at the collar solution than he was when he began. ** | est that bas ever been known in history of Seott of Illinois and 3 « “of tiny, many-hned fires in with a frog, and had a double row of great brass buttons up and down the front. Around his neck was a string, from which depended an enormous pair of what were then termed “It was awful!” said the old man, looking down at the floor with a long sigh, “awful! If I'd dreamed of half the trouble und_worriment it would bring I—if seems tomeas ef I wouldn't —for the trip between | the Grand Army of the Republic and who has ington was not made as rapidly | not resolved that he will do all that lays in bis | at that time as it is now—we anticipated a | POWer to comtribute to that result, il filled the shadows with pale did not retl bed it, giving back « The other responses will be jor of the church, Mr. Mr. D. A. Chambers, Mise by Mr. David Haynes, who aber of the i Fraxx T. Hows. Annie Bell and Miss Sa: White ’ tones, rather than the hard-glaring light fringed mittens,” which must have come have done it, ‘squire; but 1 would—I coe | teem eee Potomac. Before noon, Peron NE It will bea matierof interest to those whe the ordinary snow surface. The work ly to the elbow. Inside of these he wore a would. There seems ‘some things a man can't | however, the order was changed and we were STORY OF A VIKING SHIP, care to know of the success of Sunday school ke a marble tomb for whiteness and for pair ‘of dressed buckskin, Hix hands were help doin’. told to goacross the Chain bridge and report — endeavor to. be acquainted with some like a coverlet of down for softness small, with long fingers and narrow, filbert- larrington was never any account after | to Gen. Abercrombie at Fort Ethan Allen. It| Bullt 1,000 Years Ago by Norsemen—A Ves j fact the school at Calvary a pose. | shaped nails. On the whole, he reminded one : ie A was dusk when we got over on to the Virginia | sel Used for a Tomb. | chi takes am nches were bare, seen at @ strongly of the portraits of Aaron Burr. There His voice trembled with scornful | sido and marched up the steep hill to the broad | One of the most interesting exhibite at the | %" i" and this to, the universal white was tha: about him which gave the idea of a| THE MAN BY THE STOVE MADE No ANSWER, | emphasis. a Plateau in front of the fort. It was too late to | National Museum isa miniature Viking chip. | SOU ® &reat eloment in ite success, ness; near at cemed a network of man intellectualiy at variance with sur-| ‘the sian by the sove mace no answer. “Well, he wasn't worth much before. It | pitch tents and so we bivouacked on the ground | > : : oe ae ITs GROWTH IN THIRTY YEARA roft white tiln ted the eve to roundings. The quietness and evenness of his} «1¢ jen’t true that you told the man who waa | Must have been hard for Susan Gedney, drag-| knd as most of us were very tired, for it was | 87 exact reproduction on a small scale of one of} 4 i wilt boas mess then Ohio. pursue with anc tthe intricacies of fence, the absence of all expletives from his | working for her he might put it in the barn and | 826 out life with that drunken brute.” ’ | our first march, all were soon sleeping the sleep | the vesssle used by the Nerenmen im © comi-| on Sieu oe tn of the banquet, having “ch pattern. The evergreens in conversation and of all excitement from | [uy nothing about it?” A spam of pain which was terrible in its in- | of worn out soldiers. I know, as for myself, 1 | heroic age, 1,000 yeare ago. In such craft they | 5 . aes a a the public squares and on the | his manner served to deepen this im-| “Sil no answer. {eneity passed over the old man’s faultlessly | slept eo soundly that I was conscious of nothing | were accustomed to scour the oecan, veritable | P&e® Organized April 15, 1862, ‘The firwt mect= hillsites bore tiny heaps of down upon | | prese Well dressed. he would have| “qe isn'ta fact that you were see ‘i features, 5 |, | Until about midnight I was awakened by my = on z in the old Franklin Hall on the flattened surface, and above the sprend- | “I vow, Ruggle d the senior member of | heen pronounced a handsome man; in any garb | oornont of your Orn felt ay Sight end weang | "Squire," he. said huskily, “a man don't | cham seking we by the shoulder and eay- | %TTOT* of the seas, pillaging communities along b and D streets northwest. The vals were great swelling heaps as | the firm, turning from the window as soon a | ap observer would look twice at his face.” He | {up gu here, watt the wack stood most as} never know how much it costs to try to smuggle | ing: “Get up if you don’t want to be | Shore and dixporting themselves in a thoroughly | fir«t superintenlent, was Mr. Dc. Whittene ahd weeded aud en while anud rifty | be coer ve een — fol te one of = richest and tn- | thick as the hills had been, is it?” ‘| up 2 wrong—till-—till he’s tried it—never.”” drowned.” TI got’ to my feet and then | freebooter-like style. Many of their national | and he was f honsewife’s pillows. A hint of green showed at e at do you suppose could haze | Guestionably ingiest_and meanest man in | \e very tips of the bent-<« mbes and in ¢ tled the old cuss ont at this time of day? bestia = ~ aanegnee eon The | He’s coming here, too! Bet you anything he’s | em e from the chimneys in straight dun | fot another, €10 suit for uetodo €100 worth | was said columns, the tops flattened into creamy waves | @f work in!” ee “ which melted cons eptibly into sunlit space. | _ “Weil, he pays for the work, —— emg 35 The snow was se light and the flakes of flat, | He was the business partner who made the ganzy network were so solidiy frozen and so | lections, kept the books and handled the 7 The man moved uneasily in his ehair, and | _ He turned back to the stove, took his leather | realized that I was thoroughly drenched with | poems, called “aagas,” have been preserved. to |= ntry round, Slight as he was he was | grow the colle. of bin we i his | mittens from his pocket, held them to the fire a | water. A terrific thunder storm was raging |). 2 : ; ee Rash | ss untistal physical strength. It] neck as if about to depart | nt MOUS BH) moment and then drew them on. slowly, one | and bad Ser denne, Siorm. Wes FAEINE | the present day, which give most intere ting | tend no one had been found able to They do ray,” continued the badgering law- | *fter the other. ‘The firelight shining on his | gutter surrounding a former tent, which had, | *C°UNtS of voyages in these great and staunch |. work with him, stroke for stroke, day in ard | yer, «that her little bit of poor land raised the | ve the appearance of tears. He took off | of course, become filled with water ant! had | boats for war and other purposes. day out fora month. Despite the numerous | higtost crops ever known in this country after | ns. drew out a spotless handkerchief. | poured a beautiful stream right down the back | ‘These classe verses, however, do not call up | men nd been brave enough to tee: eonclwsions | He ueband died, though it wasn’t haf tended, | lew is ose vigorously and turned agaip | uf 1'the whole command. scomed ia'be enforing | ©,th mind #0 vivid a picture of the lives thet ‘ : recher Solved | mez had e eno rlusions | ‘They even say her chickens laid two eggs apiece pea Ss : and the whole command seemed to be enjoying ed by those hardy people yrese Getty intertocked that it formed great eashione | While the other argued cases and resolved | with hi rand cnce had been enough | grerr der in the roses ‘SBS ap) “Good. mornin’, gentlemen,” he said, as he | the absurdity of the situation. Fires had been | WeTe Hel by th er frurlintgasiondary ar aa on jail surfaces approximating the horizontal | Knotty questions of Pag ane Arid n. The stories told of his She needed "em bad enough,” was the dogged | Patsed with his hand on the knob. ‘There was | lighted throughout the camp and around each | discovery P praxis without crushing and sliding. In the streets or f dene Penge psy ogee = fieaener eithont . : a ee, some amen = a hint of something very like a sob in the un-| blaze was a group of men in various stages of | belongings “ou the level,” ¥. it came above the | hav at | true, and some quite incredible. People seemed elinets. ily as if it | ‘ all the co or. perintendency inas been held Mesers, L. A. Taylor, 1. H. Kendall and W. Prentiss, Last summer Mr. ach as was made a short time ago | was called toa chair in a nort No doubt of that,” said the senior, coming | Wonted huskiness of his voice. deshabille trying to dry themselves and their | at Godstad near the mouth of Christiania Fjord. | ¢ ere Was a vacancy in ral supe nee, but one waded through it a a : k that nothing could be too bad to say of | 4, pag C titer TS de opealiaded next ar wet garments. It was our first night in regular | There a burial mound of the 8 was un-| tendency until J last, when Mr. P, Seat tie seme oe eee Te was not| "Of course he does.” answered the senior: ono who made no pretense of caring what. was kal ad sel ena eons t peg oct scldiering and of couree the discipline wee not | earthed, and in the middle of it was found one Bristow w: place. > enough to pack beneath the fect nor hard | “but wh hers = fig! bps ia? 'T svcas Pin | HA of him. Yet, with all the antipathy existing | “"T'gon't know as there's 4 y harm in helpin’ | Written for The Evening Star. as strict as it afterward became. The shower | of their ships—an open boat of great size which] Whe rganized in 1863 there gh to grind like sand. In truth, it | cues even if he docs get. paid? I swear I'm | against him, no one ever scriously questioned | gem that Soda it replied the other, be < vase lasted for perhaps an hour and then the moon | Was constructed on such scientitic principlesand seemed rather to yield in_ all directions | downright ashamed ty gpa rs boy ean his ver By eigesogy ey My Boy. _| came out beautifully and shone upon what to | With such excellent workmanship as the art of like vapor than to suffer compres- | ®¥ing: “Your honor, the “hear atitter behind | 4 4!%¢% 8 moment the senior rose, threw off his | ""*And after all the widow wouldn't even look ¢, oh, give me back my child! oh, give me back | me, aboy of seventeen, scemed a weird and | shipbuilding even now would hi rdly be able to sion like ordinary snow. Dogs — ran|Jehn Doe” I'msure to hear a titter Tench, | Shawl, laid his hat on the top of his desk and | at him! Poor Joel? my boy wonderful scene, Most of the men remained | improve upon. The craft was about in it where it was above their he ay- | me and perhaps see a broad grin on the bench. | «yantered to the window. His stooping shoul- ‘ ‘yes shone with satisfaction | That I might see his face again or but the thought | up the balance of the night and we told stories, | length by seventeen fect beam, inkerb and his face twitched with merriment. He was|_ ¢?! accustomed to roast 4 witness and could not | That it the temptation to tease a cli | business, though profitable. was full Of | able to one of his ct like | got angry? What did E: mory | His patronage ¥ ing only a trembling, #i1 as line. marked, per- ng tail showing ab. little way the would abandon this method and proceed by series of leaps above and plunges into the yield- I believe he’s had a case every term for twenty nd the pose of his shapely head, whose d I don't believe the whole amount in| black hair was just beginning to chow signs of roversy would foot up a thousand dollars.” | rae" told the secret ef hu waiee telicctual His would.” said the other signiticantly. | Hower snd an immense eapacity for continuous joel Pike isn’t half a bad client; he pays on the | Mental effort. “That he was an ort ail and no grumblin thos, was only an ine humor and p his thorough legal equipment and e sang songs and made an amount of noise that | —that is, pointed at both ends—and till lives and feels the love that binds him | was wholly at variance with army regulations | throughout of oak timbers and boards put to- to this earth— and which finally brought an officer from the | gether with iron nails, the seats being caulked ‘The greatest of all love sublime, the love that gave | fort to tell our officer of the day that if we were | With oakum manufactared from cow's Suppose he did him birth! going to be soldiers we would have to stop that |_ The ship lay on an even keel, mon & luggles care? racket: that this wa# no pienic, but we would | been placed or: in the burial mound, and were two or three y was greater than th a on. 8 years marking these half ttle town of Hardinsville the people |. “Of course, if a man will indulge in such a m = ; IM abot es cas Tt cannot be, it cannot be that he is dead and gone, | find ont before long that being in the army was | on board of bi e found the various enrollment for the month of May for the The frost hae crept into the | MWXUrY as usciess litigation he's got to pay for | that never lost the impywion of ntact." meh tae toe Oe When softly beamed the rosy light of manhood’s | something more than having « holig ments and articles of furniture which be past three years and the present, is as ax fol= led the ho dor, while | it. ony | _,ttugeles resumed the conversation with tho | tim's patience was finally exhausted’ and there |__ happy dawn, Alas, some of us realized that only tooserionsly | to a vessel of the Vikings. There was a single | lows: 1889, S10; 1899, 1,003, 1691, 1, breathless ealm with 1 deceived the | “Then, too, you know he never lost @ ease;| client. paying no heed to the rebuff he had re- was a hint of firein the steel blue eyes as he | When life was but awak'ning to the joys and | in the days that followed. But even when we | Mast, which was unstepped when there was a | L110 sleepers, accustomed to have th ' worth something. him-| C28 ; pleasures here, had become more severely disciplined, when we | head wind or when a battle was imminent. | "The enrollment is now kept very eh the clanging story which lock’s. brazen he takes all the credit of that to him- at’'sa fine yoke of cattle you have out Squire Harmon, I never had any more idea | With love and hope the morning star to guide his | Were making forced marches or waiting for our | Ths mast bore one large square seul, How who are reasonably regular in attend ancushail, with cleeumsbuntial ovitanse |,” é ae Mr. Pike. ndeinnta Wile taciceerinn oan |. aie turn to go to the front in battle, or when we the craft depended chiefly for motiv ko while it scems to bea little less than last year that the world was awake and astir. But even ‘Well, yon can't deny he’s entitled to a great ‘one else addressed him by his He laid especial stress upon the name. stood where shot ands] upon great oars twenty feet long, of which there | t rage at nee is greater at the preset | soem ny enor ae ge ee ho but Rugg! s young and not Then what made you do such silly things?” | Life of my life, soul of my soul, he was my light, |as the rain drops on that first night, I don't | Were sixteen on each side. They were pliel not | tite thaw ever before: e.and the outside world was as si up @ good many time touch of policy in his nature, as we have it as the realm of shadows. When thev at length ; 4 uppeared outside their doors they noted | Harmon, impatiently. “I don’t see how he gets some curious effects. The snow was | into so foaty, 238 emrapalir tet sora so light there was no resonance. Voices near | CaU8¢ everybody hates him and can’t help try- at hand so week and thir Fi ‘The stillness | img to impose oa him. Ishould think tl seemed really palpable. One saw that people | S¢t tired. He's as , were clearing off the sid+walks and shoveling | tlesnake, and as certain to win as if he played wore calling to each other acrors | With loaded dice. ‘Then he’s as. cold as a frog; to note the ‘change of my joy think there was a man who ever forgot his | in rowlocks, but through holes in the sides. var Teacunes, ° ays aetny tis acred soil of Virgini Whether ‘the oarsmen stood up or da she didn’t seem to have nove too | An, vengeful fate! oh, monstrous death, to choose | Looking back thirty years one . put] Persible to state with certainty, but it! when organized and now there are between si? thes: thatolaimed to be her| lasreee pea J ooking bacl ph no one cannot but | {, probable that they did the former. masmeuch | eighty and ninety. In 1889 the school had ed to have pretty much forgot that | To pluck the fairest bud on earth and leave some | M27! at the way in which the men of the | asno trace of thwarts or seats was found, and Grown oo mach that a reorganisation became e a ‘a oncebicy stat = = sie north promptly responded to the calls made by | they could hardly have managed such big oara he tanita at tn ‘The hit was a palpable one and the lawyer : President Lincoln for volunteers during the | otherwise than standing erect ‘ fore’n one has made that remark afore, Mister Ruggles,” the old man answered quickly, looking around with evident satisfaction. “Good blood, too, { should say? ; don’t have go awhite hair on one $f paths: th: = Whether more | ood dar. i “ih jected ite ape 6 a fro ye the yoke. On, tell me not in cheerful voice that all 1s for the | early part of the war. ‘They came from every | than one man worked at cach oar cannot be | 2% a: aa he - ‘ the ‘streets that “ren and dogs were play- | Hever elated and nover disturbed, never saw gn you s0 fond of Devon ibang tes ercareonet as Wieuasieeay (one cule te Wie aad wotwal cond age tekeeds | Sik. Beal oumhs auketie ees Benin — adult department wae formed ing in the dowsy enow; bat only those sounds | ee a eee crn tate old beck, y Kept, step lively and know enough to| was meant for charity, instead of sneaking | That it is better he should be forever now at rest, cepted by the examining officers. The | ® complement of at least forty sailors, has a great deal of attention.” The close at hand could be heard, and they were Pe 5 3 around as if you were ashamed of it?” ‘That none should murmur 'gainst the will, the will | spirit of patriotism was so strong that men who | As has been said, the vessel was built after 7 greatly softe yee shutapalben “Well broke, I suppose?” The town was nsnal! morning no one seeme busy one, bat this |, He drew a gray shawl about his shoulders, for} iqoner OMG ESuPPOsE” | ‘The old man turned on his questioner and| of Him above, had reached an age beyond which had be % * gn id, with reproachful emphasis: to think of work. Clerks | the air in the oftice was stil frosty, though the | gtrcet, let em go ex fur ec they kia. Heat wre | Si reproachful emphasis: ¢ fashion of a 4 is teatr eusl @iee ‘ment in this department alone ix between fixed as the limit f tance did mot hesi- See Gh graceful linea There wasn | 400 and SON,” Mr. Earil hs been. the aoistant ‘Who thus in mystry manifests his never-ending | fixed as the limit for acceptance did not hesi- a s 4 mit for - : periutendent in charge wince the organizes " : Lie Maegan Grater? Todi aoed tate to prevaricate in order to get an opportu. | deck, but boards were placed across, readily | Se and employers alike sto.d gazing out of the | big bapreniag~enpr oat cently yoo ado m, turn em round, an” back em up t0! to claim tobe ber friend Da ay an eee | tore. amity ib eee connie SLySuG price oll | maniehin, meelbs Marval Gad UE Bema i eee a oe . ee, windows. The cobbier sat with his awl hand | his eee ee door in the village without goin’ nigh ‘em. | have taken anything from me if she'd known | ’Tis well for those who 80 belleve—they know not | grown would urge that they were eighteen when | beneath which articles were stowed away. A | IL Mimball it the time of the re sale Game upen the awl which he had driven home, but | 8 # poe his a his great brown | Know any hoss team that'll do ae much?” liv what is grief; perhaps they lacked one or more years of that | tent cloth was stretched over some part of the | Y8 P& ate ~iee 7 weg ad forgotten to draw out, while the blucksmith, the | ¢¥¢8; welling over with humorous ben rapa jo, Certainly not: but Tshould think you'd | “she said she'd go to the poor house before | No light has gone from out thetr lives to dim thelr | bee, that they mi ht be permitted to shoulder a | craft, under which those on board could find | prensa! sitvengh ©, number of clas depart- earliest and noisiest of workers, let the fire die poole, Setgekatt habiad’ Ga bapeierees keep s horse, for all that” Just to do your run- | she'd eat a crumb you had touched, E believe." | cold heitef, . | musket an march into'the field. ‘These ‘men | she ioe Seen oun or nein. | Be tho chip Geocttoel | a, aude them bono continually ta- place I bad chosen since the cold weather eame | YN ever owned bat one hose and never expect | py, ¢iythdyshe'd have died there, too, if Joc! | Bat, oh,what mockry "ts to think that to amotherss | did Not go into the army for the. money which | were discovered four wooden supports: for the as both more comfortable and less liable to ra a Pike hadn't befriended her—uubeknownst; an’ | “hente they received, but because they believed it their | tent, together with portions of the tent cloth | Cressed. | The primary department is | also own another. 't bofrie ecanae t an |the largest it hae ever before been, " 7 " er 7 " juty to do what lay in their power to uphold | and of the cord employed for fastenin ' Petar Oe eaat Ce ee Why not? TeEGh nok ea bet ns. that T gues,” anewered | O*4, ards o+8 ooneolation bring. orSecntott eT ee ee eee Te tee cont ecient eg, ene fulastiina whe kas’ san eae Gadeor: Pile ele sey lt er cena ag Sei ‘use for ’em.”” the lawyer a little confused by the directness of | ‘Patt as 053s saouth to them? Thorn ‘wore in may |fsbelo of Ade texters with ‘wel stcipen| Sooo os medaiennoeniete cheaerat ae inedinamanne’ Cor | “But they move so much quicker than oxen.” | the accasution. A Amotier’s heart, @ mother's love can know no| own company men who were worth their thou-| sewn upon it. | The supports were “heavy | 1he general superintendent ia im. chang eo ete one ene fer see much gain in it, forafarmer,| “I never heard of anybody else crowdjn’| — regson why sands, men who had been getting, good saleries| boards twelve feet long, with heads of animals | rir, ccuool, MED. A. Chambers, the pros: CHAPTER IL : ne favors on her—did you?” Her loved, her own, her precious child should thus | a# clerks. bookkecpers and professional men, | fantastically carved and painted at the upper | ut librarian: " ‘Oxen are so infernal slow! “Well—no; but for you—Jocl Pike—to do| — ne doomed to die. young men who were at school or college | ends. They were intended to be placed | Ol? ruse nage “ffello!” exclaimed the junior, holding out “That's a great mistake. Such cattle as these | uch things now wasn’t it queer?” It must not be, it cannot be, oh, world bereft of | 4md whose parents were in good circum- | obliquely, 80.28 to form two crutches, on move nigh about as fast as hosses at farm work, chool of “It's been 2 good while sence I came of age, a hishand to the newcomer; “what's brought | nn’ shy th of ‘em'll di Take it Je oe iber th sen eee cen a cp ae eee oe ee rs i an’ the same wuth of ’em'll do mot ake it | *squire Harmon,” said Hegisked < See : was either to earn a cent of money or | a pole, thus forming a guble-ended roo! : D Pasubek ee oe you here at this time of da now in hauiin’ logs or wood—that's about all | pt uhicand oulitanns the other as he picked up | men oS See Ok ae SER, a Od a ae eee Ones elnces dl baie ae | Wes omneeeeen the eel tate oa ee oe yen [mom een ent ah onal mem “Thought ez Thad to come to town I'd start | farmers do in winter—I keep three pairs of ‘em| "And. then to think it was all lost—all back my boy? Tsay again what was the pay that they received | Among the interesting objects found on board | $7." | ce wiaeeh uate ata early an’ bring the children to school,” replied | an’ generally have another yoke comin’ on.| wasted! Poor Joel, Pike! continued’ ihe May 14, 1992, —CUFFORD HOWARD. } from the government to them? Itwas cer-|of the ship were sleeping berths, very much | ctavol wah Ss, Wi. WL. Basson tie eanaaee, Sho the client, pulling off his mitten to shake hands. | Now. [ take ‘em all an’ go to the woods—three lawyer, regardless a oda vitiii'e “secede. ny 16, 1801 tainly no inducement for them to endure the | broken, which were made exactly like the low | “C2 oss othe saiond will cnheuaeiiy do T didn’t know you had any children,” in af- | sleds an’ only one driver, you sec—but as much | and acts. “One who had waited watit your time Worry In Trout Fishing. hardships of camp life, the fatigues of the | bedsteads in common use today among the | > bona tedesaaicas telecine couneatiie with fected surpri as any hoss team’ll haul on each sled, an’ start | of life to begin his courting deserved. better ratte mareh or the dangers of actual conflict on the | Norwegian pensantre. They were constructed | [10h (aan Hite great echool. o need on't,” said the other, in his thin, | "em back. A man can drive three yoke of | juck, eh, Joel?” Brom the Amerioen Angier. field of battle. “I remember after we had | 80 a8 to be easily taken to pieces and stowed | ¢ "0" ‘my neighbors have—enough for us | cattle just as well as one. Now, it'll take a < Now, as to the fishing ground. Keepin the | chased Lee down through Virginia after the | away in small compass. Parts were discovered Fi RA f little longer for the oxen to make a trip, but main river as much as possible and don’t try | battle of Gettysburg we halted at Catlett station | of a superb wooden chair, which was probubly ‘The Hat Had Some Value. Why don't you let them haul their own | when it's over I've hauled three loads an’ the re brat other fellow one. some on ‘em hain't got no team, an’| ‘But yon must admit that horses beat them on z . some wouldn't do it ef they had.” the road.” “aX OX TEAM'S MIGHTY HANDY TO MAUL cHIL-| “You must be a very pleasant neighbor, Mr.| ‘Well, yes, ef ye're goin’ far enongh, and‘ not DREN witH.” Pike?” too far an’ don't have too big a load. upon his forge while he stood in the door of his} ‘Better ask them that knows about it,” an-|Ef one's only goin’ a mile’ or two, shop gazing im silence on the unwonted scene. | swered the other, significantly. “But Idohate|a brisk stepper'll get there while a man ty in its highest manifestations touches all | to see a lot of little ones wallowin’ through such | would be hitchin’ up a horse. And take it day natures and bushes them like the roar of the this to school, an’ won't if I can man- | in an’ day out with a load behind ‘em, the oxen eataract. And this was a sight so unusual that | age to happen along about the right time, An | are apt to come ont ahead.” ¢ven one accustomed toa snowy region would | ox team’s mighty handy to haul young ones| ‘They say you used to drive a whole train of hardly see its like twice in a lifetime. Even yet | with, Mr. Kuggles—no danger gettin’ on an’ off | them yourself and be on the road twenty-four it is remembered as the “winter of the feather | or spilled out, you see. Mornin’, ‘squire,” to | honrs a day?” many of the brooks that flow into it, although | and were there paid by a paymaster who had | the seat of the commander and chief. ‘The rans | From hw Chivas Tribane, Spring brook is an excellent place if you wish | Come from Washington for that purpose. We | of the chair were carved to represent grotesque | Fweddy—“Cholly, to fish without using high wading boots, ‘This | 84 not been paid for four months, and conse- | heads of animals, ‘There was a great variety of | think Pl soak my he 5 , ng high wading boots. NS | quently there was due each private the sum of | cooking utensils, including a large and massive |" choljy n't fetch anything, desh boy, brook flows into the Beaverkill about one and a | 252. [know when the amount was handed me | copper kettle with a gracefully wrought iron enlees the bent gous witht. ° half or two miles above “Gum is fished by | I putt in my pocket without looking at ig, and | chain for suspending it over the fire. Likewise caaahl b60sun ‘ybody, and immense quantities of trout are | the rayne Paymaster said tome: “‘Hadn't| tubs and buckets of wood, wooden CHECK. taken from it each year, yet there seem to be | Yu F count sev é By all 7 correct?” | Treplied: “It don't make so much | drinking cups. The cooking apparatus re Just os many left. By-all means steer clear of | Giterence to me, I didn't come inte thine | was Bat commonly used on board the | Mow the cae con: — Berry prook. | This stream flows into the river | for $13 a month.” My eaptainafterward told | vestel, but on shore at landing places, Al- acid sie about four miles ubove gtockland, but don’t 0 | me that the old man said to him I would prob- | though the Vikings did sometimes ‘make long | Prom Puck. there, a dhere are trout there, but the meanest | ably be more careful about my money as [grew | Forages across the seus, they usually kept 1 "m feeling wocky. & ur money and see if it is| plates and several emall and finely carved A row . set of small pirates own the pasture lots through | older, but that the spirit of the reply was all | near the coast as was practicable. Another are mow.” Lean never forget. Harmon. “Yes,” said the old man, with an absent which the brook flows, end your life. wil | gigwt’ = ae ticle of practical use was a landing stage, 25 T had built the fire swept the floor and| ‘Morning, Jocl,” replied the lawyer, searcely | smile, ‘turning toward his interrogator and be worried out of you before you have Se SR Eee fect long and 20 inches wide, for crew and’ pas- cleared the walk before our office before most | taking his eyes from the ceiling. throwing back his great coat, “that’s one of the fished half a mile. You just hook a’ fish when e - of the inhabitants were astir. I say “our’ sengers to get ashore with. tice | Joel Pike took off his other mitten and un-| queer things I've heard that’ people tell about 1 then a student in the office of | buttoned his coat. Glancing around the stove | me. ‘The fact is Lhad a lot of lumber to haul Harmon & Ruggles, the lewling practitioners of | his eyes fell upon me. My attention just at | to the harbor, twelve miles, you know. Lum- the The law styled me an “articled | that moment was given more to him than tomy | ber was up just then, but not warranted to stay bat. asa matter of fact, the chief serv-| book. up. There was enough on't to keep four hos ices I had been called upon to render as an cod mornin’, sir,” he said, pleasantly; | teams hanlin’ all summer, That meant four lent for the privileges n| “heard you was readin’ here; glad on’t. How|men torun’em. Ifound I could take ten er seribed. was added | you gettin’ on?” twelve ox teams an’ do it in less time with two becanse I ‘ou will hear a little squeaky voice behind you| The first winter of my army experience was | “°F ey co many more thiags would have been “You know my rules, twenty-five cents | spent in the defenses of Washington. From | found in this wonderful = -¥ tomb, had it not a head for fishing on my property.” You turn | Fort Ethan Allen we went to Murson’s Hill, | evidently been visited previously by grave rob- ground and behold ‘an immense, hungry-look-| which had beeome famous as the place where | bers, presumably during pagan times. ‘There ing dog, xccompanied by a poor apology for a | the rebels had mounted. their Quaker guns and | w2s built in the middle of the vessel a kind of man, dressed in a worn-out, faded set of over- | had kept MeClellan in terror for some days, | sarcophagus, composed of loge. in gable shape alls tucked into a rusty pair of cowhide boots | and then we went to. Minor's Hill, where we | and planked up at the ends, “Tnside'of this was t This is the lord and master upon whose domain spent the most of the winter. That was about | originally placed a bed, on which was laid the &n occasional dusting of the books and the do- m hardly the one to ask about that, ‘That's all. ARES {gu Bave unwittingly trespawed. You chuck | cight miles from Washington, and ss I had | corpee of the great personage in honor to whom ing of such errands es the members of the firm | answered, very much surprised at this recogni- nd you didn’t work ‘em all day and all ee him a quarter in disgust and continue been detaiicd at the headquarters of the com-| the monnd was constracted. Unfortunately, the might require. I did a little copying and now | tion. night, too?” asked the other, banteringly. ‘The man made no answer, but twisted his| ing. After you have gone a few rods mb | manding general {had no difficulty in coming | wicked persons who disturbed the repose of the and then wes asked to write some formal “Didn't think Td know ye, rr see anything of ming that looked as if | whip about his arm and started toward the |a fence and again hear the same squeaky voice | Into Wealtanron quite froquently. ‘The nm |dead chieftain, having merelf pillage In consideration of these services I en; sharply. s short of hay an’ corn?” door. peenpancing, the same words. You turn in in- | tional Capital was then, of ecatve, great mili-|and_no scientific purpose in view, took privileges which, to my mind, seemed infinitely | don’t make fr n't believe Lever did—now that youspeak | ‘I suppose she couldn't get over the way you | dignation at this second demand, but you see a | tary camp. Officers ‘and soldiers were seen | away everything they could find that more valuable, as, indeed, they were. I was f - got the old place.” different colored dog, but just as big and hun- everywhere, and the regulations in regard to | was of any use to them. What they chose allowed to read the books of the firm, to sit by | yer mother when she was a gal—good woman_ ory ht, E speak, of it? | T'spose ye never | | “That was just what was the matter. squire,” | ery lookings the same suit of clothes accompanies | the lntter were Vers stringent. No soldier or | to leave behind indicates that there must have their fire and hsten to the conversation tha | Betsey Holeombe—good woman—an’ thinks | thought of it afore. ‘Well, let me tell you, you | said the other earnestly, pausing by the door, | him, but the thing in them has a different face, officer was allowed to be in the city without a| been originally a great collection of valuable went on in the It might not be suy wk BEF gon; too: ain't no ways anx- | never saw a horve or an ‘ox, no, nor a tian | “It wasn't any of her ‘fault—she just didn’t | and'you at once realize that yon have passed Proper pass, and I remember the impremion | wenpons, ormamenta, Se, dopeatiad tn’ the posed that this latter privilege would be of any | ious "bout him, I find. I'm glad. on’ either, with good cover on his ribs, that didu't | know.” from the two-acre domain of ‘pirate No. 1 and | tnade upon me the first night I attended the | tomb. Among other things several iron fish great moment, but to me it was worth all the | good sign.” haye plents of sleep and have it at night, too.” | “Of course: and none of the money paid for | you are now upon the small patch of ground | [pace Upon m shortly after the curtain went | hooks were found in the grave chamber. A rest. Iwasa whose mother Thad tanght school in Joel Pike's district| “So you didn’t drive all night? the place being found, it certainly did Jook rather | owned by pirate No. 2. You pay him his quar- | gown on the first act a file of soldiers marched | great number of animals must have been sacri- worked and saved life to the winter before, but had never spoken with| ‘Not exactly—vou see it was this way. | strange.” ter and think you are free for w while, bat be- | as" 0" building and the officer in charge | ficed at the burial, inasmuch as the bones of au ciucation. She was not poor. but the | him beyond the ordinary greetings. Ihad no | hired a man to help me load and dr We'd| “So it did,” said the old man candidly. “I | fore you kno you are addressed by pirate | visi i ier it i at least twelve horses and six dogs were dis- Tike es he makes a living out of little farm | idea that he still remembered my existence, and | lond the wagons in the morning, drive to the | never blamed Susana bit hot for thet, at| No. 8,and he ia accompanied by a bigger and | tnd farpecied his pass, Theos wits cout | covered inctde the neseel = like ours must often work as hard and use 2s | few things could have amazed me more than | harbor, get them unloaded by dusk and be | least.” hungrier-looking dog. srogpe 3 you have plenty | show the necessary credentials were placed be- ———_——+e-_____ mutch econoray as if she had only her daily | that he did so. eee tireduidnight, I drove the heed team | | “And your failure to produce the deed until | of “stay” in you and lote of quarters in your | {ov ieralee ah Crsvemtials were j Loff to| ‘The Too Enterprising Book Collector. Bor to ely upon. She had early set her | “See, here, Mr. Pike, what's happened to | and the hired man the hind one. We generally | his death naturally arodsed her suspicion.” clothes, and. possibly you pay Ho. % bat by the | 5 ieoensk guar hocse, When oe didiee] Wise meee me Beart upon my being a lawyer, a: fter a few | yous” exclaimed Ruggles, jocosely, winking at | elept a great part of the way home.” “But Thad the deed and a receipt, with a| time that No. 4 comes along with his big, big— come into Washington there was certain enjoy-| ‘There used to be a book collector in this city, terms at the academy and a winter or two | me and looking suggestively at theclient, whose | “That was pretty long hours, wasn’t it?” good witness, too.” and awful hungry-looking ~ you give it Up | ments that we could have in the vicinity of our | «4 New York hk he eae qeent in teaching I had begun on my | face was now glowing from the effects of sudden | “Not abit. Men and cattle had. plenty of | © “Her husband?” snd follow the rosd down: tothe: river, whee | Sot “ana there ‘ware covers fomnilioy $i faachecmaticen Serge Siig tae mea org twenty-tirst birthday the study of my | heat after long exposure to cold. time to rest an’ neither got poor at it.” ‘The other nodded. there are no dogs or pirates. I never heard of | Shout there with whom the officers became quite | th¢ terror of all who knew him, He was well- Eider the tuitions of Re emt” ee | pe tink Fed turned preacher?” was the quick | | ‘They say you made just a mint of money by| “He claimed to have been drunk when he | any one who had “and” cnough to fich Berry | intimate. ‘These Virginia people pretended to | to-do and a very learned man. He was a great under the tniti of the fi but | reply, with the suggestion of a smile. that speculation.” eigned it.” brook its full length. I would like to mect be extremely friendly to the United States, but | buyer of books and owned a fine library, but aside from an in ¥ talk by the senior,| “Didn't know what had happened. Don't re-} “I made something, of course, an’ when it ‘He never swore to that, did he?” some one who did. The dogs get bigger and | every now and then they would let fall « remexk nobody else’s library was safe if it contained a in regard to the b and the | member to have heerd you speak quite so well | come to the ‘clean up” I was lucky. The war| “I never heard that he did; and. don’t know | hungrier looking as you 0 down this stream to | that indicated that their real sympathies were iy gg heen sang 8 dy eager order in which they should be , 1 do not | of any one before.” had come on an’ cattle were in demand. I had | as anybody would have believed him if he had.” | the icaverkill. I would like to find out how with their state, However, it was pleasant to visit | Yok he coveted. For e long time his victims remember ever to have received a suggestion n't often heard me speak ill of any- | quite a lot that were in good condition, an’ got} “Ido,” #aid the old man, almost fiercely, | big the lust dog is. Don't attempt to " . did not suspect him. | He would call, spend an from either of the partners. But if their tion was of the scanti office more than mis ° ; Bg Bir them, and as the Lead’ of the of house was | unr ort Tc ghee Yonge for "em. Them that talked ‘bout | “the lyin’, white-livered skunk! I'd give a| with any of these Berry brook lords, as ey it cue ae Swe meneey tee > aay. Dou't kuow that Lever did. Never heard | me might hev done the same ef they'd worked | year’s work to have ven him do it, an’ then | are not open to. argunient. ‘They claim thet | {"a¥# Possessed of a first-class thirst, a bottle | Finally one biblicmaninc, who had suffered t, the freedom of t le up for it. Exe " ; ‘ ey ! : f commissary whisky would usually insure the | most “severely, hed iis azonsed. | you say much about people, anshow. their head an’ hands harder an’ give their | have heard you ak him, in your very grandest | they can't have their crops trodden down with- | °! most ‘severely, wae discussed in open council. Iwas expected |" “There's not. many I care to talk about,” an- | tongues a vost,” : way, just to please wipe his’ eyes on a certain | out pay. Aa you have been fishing through a | ™0% Courteous and polite treatment. Petey ange eat gig Rg in eg to hunt authorities and was free to ask any | swered the other, dry “You seem to think horses and women very | other paper you'd have handed him. You'd have | cow pasture, you fail to see the crops, but “that ON THE PENINSULA. a mh —— question Tehose in regard t “Well, I'm glad you've taken a fancy to Hol- | mucli alike—both unreliable.” enjoyed it, too,’ squire, It would have been | don’t matter—a city chap is not supposed to| In the spring of "68 we were ordered south, | him make out a list of the volumes ae hand. The result was an om combe,” said Rug, {You can let him have | “I don't know nothin’ "bout women,” said the | worth remembering by every one that heardit.” | know field of wheat from « pasture lot—it is | going first to Suffolk, then Participating in the | vere all of extreme rarity and great value. bat ith ite appleratne Biciples of he las, | your law books when he puts out his shingle | man with a singular dignity, “an’ eo prefer not | ‘The man’s vengotal glee Lough very. quict, | 5 cents or the dog take cons dnt campaign on the Black Water, which was quite | Armed with this list the lawyer called on the sus- . ‘but with its appliention, ‘und a readiness in the | and so give himastart. They tell me you've | to discuss thens” was apparent enough. lively as long as it Insted. From thence we went | POcted, mau and introduced himself asa collector use of that wonderful array of books which are | got a better library than Your counsel.” ‘The tone and manner as he turned away from| ‘What paper was that, Joel?” asked the The Money Value of Pure: Water. to West Point and Yorktown and then marched | fom. the west, | He had heard of the genth the real tools of the profession, which cannot ie Sot w few books.” said the old man, | the junior indicated that he did not wish to | senior. He was not to be diverted from his | From the Ensineensag Marecine. up the peninsula to Gottom’s bridge, in the feint | 1ajn bibliophile of authority and wishe ae well be otherwise acquired. It is this which | glancing at the cases around the room, as if | continue the conversation. Mr. Ruggles wheeled object by the other'sanger. Aside from all sentiment and duty, the im- | tint Gen, Dix made upon Richireed wa eke ae | salt him “erway wale a1 a eed takes the country lawyer's office the best place | comparing their contents with his own store, | around to hie desk with a carcless’ laugh, while | “No matter he knew portance of pure water may be considered | hold Longstreet theretaed prevent hie pean, | ered him ee ig in the world to study law. | “but Taint through with ‘em yet. I like to | the senior continued to drum on the window as| “There waen't any love lost between you Li perf Ie into Maryland and Penhaylvonia- ad ae The labor required of me did not seem menial, | read ‘em, you know. “And even if I don't read it he had heard nothing that had been said. two?” froma pecuniary standpoint. All sanitarians ot adorn cunpelen ie ems conte Mae nn wit would now, and I looked forward with con: | ‘em it's deal of company Just to look at ‘em, aici “ff you knew about half as much as agree that a majority of typhoid fever cases in it save for a few’ skirmishes, but sill | yi rat fidence to the time when T should be a full-| ‘specially in long winter evenin'a.” x CHAPTER MIL think you do. ‘squire, you wouldn’t wonder.” | come from polluted water, while some eminent | {tnget in ' ty Of finding out what zeal | "2 eaia his host. fledged attorney, own house in that village or| “You couldn't spare them to Holeombe, “1 ‘don't know much,” authorities claim that the disease is transmitted | Wer wus ai thn Sasded ota mane-aae Komgetey some other, have my mother—aud some | then?” So re St dloraret’ saan Dene yun teem, Lone te eniy: else—to live with me and be ou the road toward | “How long ‘fore he'll want ‘em?” Joel Pike gazed steadily into the open door of ay, ts 4 that success which every man desires. I | About three years.” the stove as if oblivious of the other occupants ucTites, peare chi” Likely TM not need em buckskin glove in either hand, ever en,” said the man seriously, “| e Lif she guewed | ‘em if Idon't:an’ I hope he ll make good use of | *he fringe mittens hanging down on either side she truth it was without conscious hint from | em.” He was warming his hands at the stove | 4nd his black whip coiled like a snake on the isd wus tmiatiimbperwiom thas she bac doue so | as he spoke, glancing’ now and then at the | floor beside him. With his face lighted up by and war thinking of her while Jocking out of | senior, who seemed absorbed im thecght great surtout thrown wide open, the window that very morning when the part- | did not once look in my diction. Ten dled c penpals mp baba bas eid aes Hcy ateting the sem of Harmon & Kaggles | Lis words, regarding both the books and his | ig cola “if = - reached the office. The younger soon turned to | pu: to bestow them ‘equally | the stiff-brimmed felt had seemed to rest upon his work, but the senior could. hardly to | mythical. = insane warm his fingers before he sauntered back to ‘Not need them? You'll never be ithout which had somehow missed its the window to gaze upon the acene without. | lawsuit. But sit down, Mr Pike,” said Hage Fomkings sad ‘Wises aise Greta even gone +0 far as to ture to myself wh » though I had ls word of it to her, ! 3 u j : | E é i F | Ei E up ties he possessed came to the surface and were | did so as one ‘8 necessary evil. Ordinarily, the streets of the country town | gles, pushi chair toward him. “Sit down | fashion Jess fastidious readily recognized ype = were thronged with vehicles at an early hour, Sd tell me Shat Teun do fer gece lance At him fat th toe could Wot bat be rades. He grew 4 ee Well Siecinlly if the slcighing were good. On this} “I want to see 'Squire Harmon o minute or | !mpressed us Thad often been befure eith the after his ‘was more fitted to | From the Clothier and Furnisher. ory < Semml te wees pow ” answered the other, a of his f=. a take up the real duties of life and to become a fou weulda't think I had hed sled, drawn by oxen, ting himself. . manner, the intentness ‘look . ioe HAG a ote" weoteart’ icant | ing! “Hc gor sa erase ne marm | nly coftain, wad wet of spr ee ree oe ean veeename, | Sei cten eit cght year won your” "I er an ‘thirty years fog through the dacp snow, the cham wets | Si ne weer Should be the Joel Phivot vibes seas. ale to the time when I | You don't hove onvasion te