Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1887, Page 13

A4t P P e P e S A b AR e s i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: IN THE FEMININE DOMALN. His Ideal Girl-A Lady's Kindly | Tact. A YOUTHFUL GRANDMOTHER' A Feminine Legal Fighter-She Frightened the Tramp A Fe- male Captain A Typi- cal Woman, Only a Woman After All Sundday Demoerat., T met hier at a country plac And m Likewise her sparkling ¢ She was a Boston girl, but wos Nor spectacles nor gogple glas pugh she of learning had a stor As rich as other Boston lass The maiden was of beauty rave, ('Tis that, not learning, that doth sway us) As Aphrodite she was falr Or Helen, spouse of Mentlats; But colder {han Dian far., Who made a stag of poor Acta And distant as the furt That glitters in the ¢ St stul ipyrean. 1 loved her, and T think she knew That much from iy adiniring elances, imes unbent to my ad But when my love I would ha T felt a dréad a terror seize me, red if 1 became so bold, The maiden with a look would frecze me. At length a firm For I was bor slve T made, ring on distraction, T the proposal, long delayed, I'd make, w might be her And having thus made up my mind That evening when alone I found her, Before she my intent divined, T boldly threw my urms uround her. I felt her tres Their faint, swi senses, I clasped her in o fond embrace, Regardless of the cotisequences, 1 kissed her lips—oh, houeyed bliss ! action. vusiomy face, ot pertume thrilled my 1 gave her hand a thousand squeezes, Aund all she s “John, ar 1 to me was this: you sure that 1o one sces us." His Rleal Gir weler: Do you know my ie is seldom to be met rtheless she exists, She modest, girlish sort of & way about her that i very likely to deceive, but to those who knoiw h he is the hap- t, wittiest, brightest of girls, and inch the h\ll‘ woman when fairly aroused to action. She may not be the srettiest of girls, but when she gets fairly sturted in conversation you feel as ry soul is being drawn through brilliant eyes, and become fully con- vinced that there is comething else to live for tn this world than uply your When you are strong, - before you, she is and song: but when n wounded, and the you is dark and treacherous, find this ideal girl of mine individual self, girlish, full of p your heart has bl path befor you will both tender in her sympathies and strong in her womanhood—a divine light to lead you safely through the channels of davkness” and despair, There : in particular that T admire in this ideal girl of mine, and that is she never finds time to gossip over the defeets of her weaker sis neither does she find any particular fas- cination in a man who has, through cunning and strength, caused the nln\\n» fall and ruin of sowe poor, w minded givl, A Lady's Kindly Tact, Boston Cour [t would be hard to afford a stronger evidence of being well bred than that of a socicty ler who llud among her dinner gu e evens € wrelative from a distant rural dis- who, though refined and well edu- cated, knew but little of socicty ways and manners. Soon after the dainty finger-bowls were placed on the table the rustic visitor took up her bowl and drank from it. The hostessobserved it, and ~I\m\ml admirable tact a moment after | inking from her own bowl, thus sparing her guest the mortifieation which might otherwise have resulted, Another case where generous cons ation and tact were shown was wher known lady of Boston was travel- n Burope not long since. She went or two for the ing a friend who, by onged to the nobility L o ing to London for only a d sole purpose of s the way, When strongly urged to meet a few friends at dinner next evening she de- clined, and on being pressed a good reason was frank uunm'h to =ay that she had with her no suitable dress for such an ocension, but only a black si SWear your black sille and T will wi one, oo, so you may feel quite at case said the hostess, and o promise w given to bo present. prise of the Boston lady, drawing room, to find_all the ladies in black sillk gowns, Lady Dash had writ ten her requesting them to **wear ( black silk.’ Whatwas the sur- A Youthful Gran ther, Philadelphin Press: Ounly thirty- three, o grandmother and’ twice a widow, isn’t found cvery day in the week, 'but there was_ o pretty litle woman on Chestnut s afternoon who enjoys that able di rirude inction. Her Gadden, the widow of . Gudden, of San neisco, At e of fiftcen she married a gentle- man named Herbert, and a year later the mother of o girl baby, At age of twenty Mrs. Hevbert lost her name is husband and donned widow's w which she wore for twelve ye: daughter, rather pregocious, mer and physically, follawed examplo on the day Ms, her mothy came Mrs, Gadden. A child was born to the months before this M. wlden was Killed by being thrown from u horse in Los Angeles. Mrs. Gadden is a e checled, pretty little woman, and looks very little older than her daughter, Feminine Legal Fighte The fivst lady who has ever attended the sessious of the Interstate Commerce commission apy d lust week, She is the youn and haudsome daugh- ter of the Marietta oil man, who has muade such a brave fight for life against the whole power of the Standard Oil company. L sits every day by her father's side facing the fifty re than less) whom the rail- , summoned by Riee before the commission 1o answer to his charge of discrimination before the Standard Oil company, have sent here to represent them. Miss Rice knows as much al her father's case as he do She t charge of part of the papers, watches all the procecdings, and from time to time m futhe cos suggestions to_hor counsel, John Randolph Tucker, Jud Loomis and Mr. Follett, of Cin- cinnati. Her suggestions are always —the and seoms lawyers anet with advant to tive through all ament and testimony which o commission, She is a heros ghts in this logal warfare as 1pon them o, at once, nover tedious wenrios t ino who bravely and zealously as though raining shot and shell. From the time e commission mects until the time it adjourns she is the most. interested, as sheeo rtuinly is the miost intevesting, it was | porson in the big room. Yet withal Khe i ns modest and as winsome as girl in the drawing-room. Hor f is a six-footer, with c ven blonde hair and v teyes, ||. \.‘..\\.n'. yter that he e hasa very h.‘,... ful hw\ thes . for Hn» end of his long fight scems near. There appears m\.»-m..].d»m. to believe 1t the imission will decide in his favor. o decision would compel the rail- roads to give him the equal and fair itment from which the Stanc has hitherto excluded him. Frightened the Tramp. Dodd is the handsome venr old daughter of Dodd, who lives near $ho keeps house ind i known as the shot gun in the » she was alone vinous lookir seated himself in «l the six- best shot with rifle region. A few days in the house when a vil tramp slouched up. a chairon the porch and o girl to get him some dinner. She went into the house and took down her double-barrelied fle and téld the tramp to leave® h,' he replied, 1 of any woman shooting. At that moment a chicken ran across the yard. When it was several rods away, and still on the run, Miss Dodd brought the rifle to her shoulder and fell dead. The ball had cut its head square off. The girl looked around to note the effeet of her shoton the tramyp. He was half way across the and making for the fence, with his { cont tails straight out behind him. never stopped or looked back as far as he could be scen flying down the road. 1 pulled up to noteh his ear with the other bullet as st over the fence,” i Lin telling her father of but I had to laugh so to see him scoot that T couldn’t take aim.™ fired. The chicken Insuring Women. “We don’t care about insuring women,” suid an agent of a Mgssachu- setts company the other day. “We take women in the compan) never seek thems and at - most we insure them for $2,500. Some com- panies refuse toinsure them at all. Let us hope thhit none of us will be so ungal- lant as to say that they are not as valu- able as aman,” and the old bowed with great suaveness: arc other reasons which compel us to be cautious, The expectaney of life is not 0 great with them. The liability which the are under in bearing children malkes the visk in insuring. 1 have no doubt that the decision of the insur- ance companies s based on mortuary statistics, though I know that the popu- lar impression is that a greater wo only but number of women live 10 ex- ceeding old age than men. It is true that men qre more liable from the nature of their lives to be killed ac- cidentally, and it is also truc that their s catuse much physical degener tion. But, on the othe are subject to many compla to thei them bad in- vestments from the standpoint of an in- suranee agent. am not among those who assert that they will not insure women because they do not wish to have business dealings with them. I have heard it said that they were not prompt in keeping up their policies, but that is not my experience. It is even said that the examining agents cannot trust woman to tell the trath about herself—that she will neither con- her age, and atements t about he would belie woman, How ancestors, Pe a man_as quickly I have heard Ilml objection se v urged. The New York Mutual is the only company 1 know of which will insure a woman forr £50.000, and it is also one of the very fow which will insure a man for $100,- 000, ““In England, though a woman cannot insure herself, yet her husband can in- sure her annuity, if she has one. The inference is, that if he has a good reason for killing her off he will, but if he rance at the termina- tion of an annuity, which is more- valu- #ble to him than the insurance, why it able that he will allow her to live on. The women of Great Britain should be very thankful! It is not only possible but casy, I suppose you know, to insure a dog or a horse. member [‘enn\suus line: hetter th a little dearer than his horse iid hfe insurance companics don’t even go that far, Of course it scems hard when a widow is working for her children that she can- not insure herself for them for a good round sum. It s not that herlife is not valuable, but simply that it is uncer- tain. Sho is more apt to break down than a man would be under. the same umstances. And so it stands, and wnd fora good while to come I A Female Captain, The presence of Col. Higginson at the vecent meeting of the Woman's Suffer- upe wion convention says Tho Philadelphia Press, recalled a remark- able und romantic military caveer of a lady now living in Philadelphia, who for'n year was a commissioned captain in the United States army during the war, and who sent a well drilled and efficient compuny to Col. Higginson's regiment, In Junuar, s0C ddward L. Pierce, of Massnchusetts, was sent by Secretar, Chase to Port Royal, €. to ingu into the condition of the negroes on the sea-island cotton plantations, and to re- port on the feasibility of opening schools at that place for the benefit of the in- habitant As the masters had abandoned these plantations and had fled into the inter ior, Mr. Pierce returned to Port Royal with a Iarge company of young men and a few women to begin his experiment. Of the women there were Miss Susan Walker, Mrs. Johnson, and Mrs. Donell- son, of Washington. Among those that offered to g0 we two untried volunteers, who were so youthful that Mr. Piece declined to accept their service, One of these returned to her home, « The other would not be de- nied, and her patriotic devotion was such that she finally overcame the ob- }vvli'ms of Mr. Picrce. She plead or the right to serve her country in this manner, promising to supplement by her strength and activity the waning physical endurauce of her superiors in age. Soon all of the ladies were in- stalled in the home at the headquarters of Mr. Pierce, on Pope’s plantation, St, Helana island, Under the same juris dictign was also the I lants of Lady's island. On both plantations were 500 field hands with their needing ey kind of care telligence und humani They were accustom 10 work only under the compulsion of slaver was dif- ficult tobelieve in the direction of white persons. The first thing to be done wis to persuade them to work for a just pecun veward, When the found that ssa Lincum meant fr dom and gold dollars besides, goodly crops were soon on the ground and cheerful obedienee was rende Schools wore established, the young l:\ it the older by ign of order and pro The older ladies are sooiy: compelied to - roturn north. The young men were distributed in” va- rious duties. and on the voung devotee, who was Miss Nellie Winsor, of Boston, rged twenty-one, fell the sole direction | of the 500 She appointed them their daily task in the morning. She wus their paymaster their | work was done, and in n she was their teache: physician, a1l in o i'he duties of t shared by Miss I delphia, by Miss F minister, nurse, and n Murray, and by others, but the young givl Milled every promise made to Mr. Pi by the full surrender of her strength and activ She began by determining to finish énch day's duty before she elosed her eyes in sleep. » soon found that her nnflhl‘vlit offices brought ever de- veloping duties. and that these never could be finished. Sleep she must for th yming day, and sleep she did, and thus preserved her youthful vigor. A pressing necessity was now severs re- vealed. The plantations were defense- less. A pickett-guard was offered, but for prudential reasons Miss Windsor strongly. objected rely on her” own whom the most amicable alrendy been estublished. She thore- Selected from them ‘100 able- bodied men, drilled them daily in the manual of arms and established her guard, which did good service for over She preferred to 500 field-hands, with slations had r held W the this period Mis§ Wind acaptain’s commission and dr pay of a captain. She was oflici cognized by the United States go mment. Her duties as captain oc pied but one hour daily, and, in fact, constituted but a small portion of her labors. Tt is, however, pos ble that these duties proved he as competent to cast a vote ainy one of the five hundred men whom she divected in the labor of rais- ing cotton or the one hundred men whom she drilied in the manual of arms. When the neces: for protecting the lantations no lomger existed, Miss Winsor's company entered Colonel Hig- ginson’s First South Carolina regiment with the advantage of a year's drill in military After the close of the war Miss Win- sor married and became My . Cushing. She went to Burmah as mained inthat serv 1S, e 15 now in Phil- lelphia retary of the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary socic While Mrs. Cushing still feels that she gave the best she had to the Port Royal experiment, that, in fact, her efiorts there were the glory of her life. she nevertheless rejoices in the prospect of a reference of national difficnities to arbitration, and, with every other truly christian woman, looks with ardent hope for the day when there will be a universal brotherhood among the na- tions. missionary and 1 for fourteen ye A Typical Woman. Philadelphia Times: good luck would have it [ was domiciled” while in Atlanta in the house of a charming southern woman. My hostess, of Vi ginia decent, was born and educated at I le, Tenn., at the famons Pres an college in that ¢ The professors were graduates of Yale eol- tege, and the cirriculum the most Lhm'nu;:h in the south. This school girl, marvied at twenty,at the close of of the il war, has gone through many vicissitudes. A student of T and Greelk, accomplished in music the ornamental an uhlu write versed in political economy, of the Confederate Memor ml u«-}m tion, shc is an instance of the h type of southern women,not only in k‘”“n and elasticity, in energy and in pluck, but also in nn unusual conbina- tion of great goood sense and knowledge combined with intelle culture. A woman with four childre and many houschold cares, who yet finds time to study Bancroft and revis the Iliad and Odyssey at odd moments. Types of American Girls. Tondon Truth: The American girl has neat features, a delicate skin and o flne, nervous system. But in the restof the organization nature has been want- ing in generosity. The western woman or girl is a finer human being than the castern. In the southern states woman- hood is nearest to perfection. Women there are reposeful—not precisely amu ing, but intelligent, sweet and inter- esting. HONEY FOR THE LADIES. The collapse of the bustle is impending. Artistic simplicity is the word nowadays. Pinked edges are the latest fancy on tailor gowns. Gloyes are worn as long as ever with even- ing toilet A woman's tr: trail o1 her dre Floral patterns still enjoy popular favor for brooches and lace-pins. Round hats are far more popular traveling costumes than bounets, “Hump (h) ! exclaimed the cynical old bachelor when he first saw a bustl Fans as well as shoes and stockings are matched with the evening or ball dress, In evening dress it has become very much the fashion to veil the neck and arms with tulle. Felt, velvet and plush are the approved materials for winter bonunets, with the odds in favor of velvet, The lust sweet thing in ribbons is a hand- some Ottoman with a cord-like edge of either velvet, gold or silver. Clay county, Il has a female register of deeds. She is ademocrat and her name is Miss Mary B. Coleman. u of thought is usually the with Mrs. Edwin Steven’ of Ne k, enjoys the income of $15,000,000, which her hus- R e A velvet peasant waist, of the same_color u bull gown of veiling, adds much to its ssy effect at a very small cost. Costumes _with collar, cuffs, revere vest and pancl of : on fine felt are consid Muny of the clasp: d of fur in antique silver, and in well modeled clouks show eclaborate igns, borrowed from medimval times, Sealskin garments are the first choice of all womien for wraps of high ceremony, whil they are equally suitable for the demi-toilet. Francis Willard wants the W. C. T. U. to include something else in its work beside prohibition. She says she is tired standing on one foot. A tramp’s philosophy—"“When a woman merely dislikes a thing she throws cold water on it. When she hates it like pizen she throws hot water on it.”” A new use for camel's hair shawls is to cu® them into long dolmans. These are wadded with a layer of gray cotton wadding and lined with heavy silk. It is a well known fact among artists that a maidenof thirty-fivesummers and £00,000is a more beautiful being than one of eighteen winters and 1o cash to speak of, The most stylish muffs are soft—even when of fur-~with a velvet ribbon througn them that ties in a rosette, and passes around the neck of the wear “We don't care for the rain,” said one Bal- nother, as she raised an um- ieither sugar alt. 1 the other, *“but we is the foundation color in many of the new shot woolen goods,which are changeable in _effect, the favorite combination colors withi it being blue, brown, green and gra, Last week the custom house officers at New York detected not less than eighty-six women with contriband articles on their' | sons. The value of the smuggled goods was §0,71% Not content with the disfiguring light gores betwe are now tr i thb fingers, the glovemakers ing on a patient and long suffer- ing public those with five rows of stitches up the back. Vory maiy of the newest tailor suits show two colors of the same cloth—ihe darker, HELLMAN'S Great Holiday DeroaléSuiSae GREAT HOLIDAY Cor. Farnafl and 13th MEN'S SUITS 80 SEE THEM $10 FEEL THEM 312 COMPARE THEM 315 Criticize Them $20 Buy any of Them $30 And we Guarantee Satisfaction, HELLMAN’S GREAT HOLIDAY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 Overcoat and. Suit Sale | Cor. Farnam and 13th. — - 1887 ~SIXTEEN PAGES DT A s G WO NI 13 HELLMAN’S OVERCOAT AND SUIT SALE. During this sale we propose to give our many patrons who have known and dealt with us ever since 1856; and the ever increasing trade, who adp'oreciate our square and one-price method of doing business, an actual and bona- fide bargain in every article. As usual every garment is marked in plain figures, from which thereis nodeviation. Indeed the most preju- diced could not murmer at the marvelously low price thatis put on the really good clothes we offer during this sale. Overcoals $5. $5, $8, $10, $12, $13, $15, $16, $17, $20, $22, $24, $25, $26, $21, $32, $35. These prices are 33 to 40 per cent lower than ever offered before by any concern, new or old. The last five weeks has not made suffi- cientdifference to cause our prices to change. Our long experience teaches the amount of goods required for each season, and it is either a poor business man or al--r that have to advertise his own mistakes. For 31 years we have catered to your trade and we can look every man in the face and truthfully say we merit your trade on account of the quality of goods we sell, their per fect fitand honestly low price. HELLMAN'S Great Holiday DvercoatdSuitSale Cor. Farnam and 13th Men's Overcoats, $ Wonder at Them, 80 See the Quality, $10 Examine the Make $12 Look #% Trimming $19 Buy Any of Them §32 And be Pleascd. HELLMANS’ GREAT HOLIDAY Overcoat and Suit Sale Cor. Farnam and 13th. strange to say, forming the accessori lar, cuffs and S0 on—and the bri body of the gown. A very new and handsome fun has leave: of black or brown gauze puinted at top in gi- gantic pansics and the upper petals cut out to form a deep scallopped border. The sticks are of violet wood or ebony The rule for ball or evening coiffures is profuse decoration of jewels, fancy combs or hairpins, feathers, aigrettes, flowers or rib- bon. Al this however must be high on one side or on the crown of the head. The Princess of Wales jockey cap, of the same stuff as the coat, the correct wear with long English nowmarkets, ulstors, and raglans of homespun, Irish blarney o ber o o uating suitings. Checked and plaided Scotch tweed, rough- surfaced meltons, tufted ser brics, coarse all-wool came! like materials, are the textiles for thos aspire to the “very English” in dress. Two Toowooba girls won a prize given last month in Queensland, Austr for “the best young lady of the colony.” It meant the one who could 1the household ofa colonial womun. The prize was - Lovely dresses for home receptions are of finest white flannel embroidered in colors, and worn with handsome cord and tassels looscly waist and falling at one: side almost. to the bottom of the skirt, A variation on the plush wraps so popular just now is to have the outside of cashmere edged with fur and the lining of plush of a contrasting shade. A pretty oue is of pale brown, edged with brown for and lined with emerald green plush. Curled lamb's wool is something lik Astra- khan, but is much softer and finer and more expensive. Tt is much used in its natural white tint for trimming evening and opera cloaks, and is shown in brown, black and for street w The Covington (Tenn.) Leader claims to have discovered in Tipton county a maiden who rivals Rarey in her power of magnetiz- ing the equine spe . She can ride and drive at a moment's notice horses and mules that nobody else can handle. Mrs. Flora Caldwell Sf d l;mnk agent, has recov ic Clair, a black- od at_Honolulu r breach of ainst Walter M. Gibson, ex-prime minister of King Kalakaua's government, who is seventy years old and an old Mormox missionary. Underskirts of plush or velvet, both plain and figured, & shionablé with dra- ot of woolen or sill and not iu- frequently, if plain plush or the sleeves of the basque are same waterial as the underskir r One of the handsome women who never outgrow the naivete of their youth_returncd from the dentist's the other d ra pro- acted siege. *Did it hurt you much{” she wasasked. “Yes, but'do you know my den- tistis such a grim, sober mun, Thave to talk to him all the time to kl‘(‘]l his spirits up.’ ub of eighteen igiously seven me strong and They are very ex ifidently expect to club of gentlemen that may robust from the exe: pert at the game and ¢ vanquish an challenge thém. A Paris correspondent tells about the new handke fs the ladiesare carrymg there. ncess de Sagan’s favorite b The g strong perfume extracted from the sume flowers. Mrs. Mary on, of Vineland, N. J., does not worry much i ove the l\IIHIII labor unions, Althou she is building a hou her own architect, ¢ miscellaneous labor. She has no strikes and no lockouts, and the house goes on prosper- ously. & The latest new thing in the tonsorial line is a woman's barber shop—a shop where women can run in any time of the day and have any thing from & plain hair-cut to a shampoo, justas men can in ordinary barber shops. There is a lurge one on Fourteenth street, in New York., Its furnishing is quietly sug- gestive of a parlor with three or four chairs in a row along oue side. The dancing n grows shorter rather than longer, us the scason advances. and there is more and more a tende o make it full and undraped in the skirt, low and V shaped in the neck and sleeveless, Debut- antes, however,and brides wear their gowns high or half high in- the neck und with half or three-quarter length sleeves and debut antes, like brides, wear white or ereamy, or ivory tinted fubrica, | out so eurily nurse who has been called in to attend my uncle knows, she, doubtless, thinks MARRIED IN HASTE. A GIRL'S NARROW ESCAPE FRON BEING | I have been into town on some house- i DISINHERITED. hold errand e Thhe wight before | About my ving. T must hide it; but T New York Journal: t my wedding day! Was ever night so full of hours— ever hours so full that seemed to crawl after each other through its dead, cold gloom? Yet it was, by my own consent, to be T had said cannot take it off. T hurry up into my room, and hurriedly turn over the con- tents of an old musty dressing-case that had been my father’s, Where can it be? That old et ring with queer under-groove in it that I feel sure will let this queer wedding-ring slip into it and so keep my secret from pry- my wedding day to-morrow. i ing eyes. it; T had not only said it, but I had #aid | Ahl with hot, trembling fingers T I should never repent. find it. It does exactly as I thought it As the early dawn breaks through wnu}gl do. the glooom of night I hear the old cock “l"fh that hlx_'nnd old ”“.:’5 alw : lm\, 1 i P AT e ST need fear no discovery. None but my- in the farm yard give o dismal hoot | NGed fodn no discavery. | None hut my- preparatory to his first crow to the new duy. And, utterly tired out, I drop One—two—threc seven—eight beats of the tall old on the stair-head outside my door, and I jump wildly to my feet *At 9 o'clock, then,” T had only one hou be Norah Glennie. other, the tiny circlet of gold binding me stronger than iron bands could do to my *“dear love.” During the day my old uncle is taken much worse and he ‘will let no one be near him but me. William comes in and out of the room, but I am tied to it nearly all the day, till towards evening my uncle falls into a deep sleep and 1 safely leave him with his nurse. It clock he had said. —only one hour to Atthe time that clock struck 1 | wasarambling old house, Norlington should be Norah Mapleson a wife, a | farm. and it had been my only homo S O T TR now for nearly seven years, all of which time William Maplc uncle’s steward and same roof. It has been a hard, self-denying life for him, perhaps; bat for me—or rather for his love for me—he would never had borne. Till latterly the hard old man had never discovered dur love, and when he had there no more for us undaer his roof. He had raged and stormed, declaring on had lived as my I rearcange my dress with a feverish 3 DL haste. T only stop to drink a_cup of milk ere Ileave the house, only just in time to catch the train as it passes our country station. Iam in time. Once more my hands ave clasped in v no word; only hurry through epy streets till we ‘enter the office where, by some strange method, | thatno niece of his should marry Will wo are made man and wife. All is a [ iamm Mapleson, on pain of disinher- dream to me. itance. 1 wonder vaguely where are my | Mine wasalways a weak, timid na- bridesmaids. where mother? Bah! wh dead long, long ago. old uncle, and he is lying bedridden at Norlington Farm. How could he be here? The only thing that seems real to me is the shin- g ring on my finger. I'look at it in a kind of fear as T draw my old kid glove over it before leaving the house into which Norah Glennie are my father and of course they are I have only my ture Perhaps some wom s young gir had “come und cly resented his (I was no my thirtieth birth- gone) would have tyranny and as- ted their individual rights, 1 could not. I was in his power; for when my parents died he had taken me in, penuniless girl, and had from that time ven me, in his particular hard way, all that [ necded to live—not but_some would have felt they fully earned such had gone a few minutes ago, and out of | keep. which now a white, startled woman was | I searcely ever looked at it in that issuing—Norah Mapleson. wiiy. “Don’t be so distressed my Don’t look so or I cannot bear it. I draw a deep breath; I stretch out darling! ss, alone alth, fun- T had been weak and help in the world, not very strong in h when he had come to my father’s my hand a little wildly, T suppose, for | eral; and saying ull expenses, had hé takes it firmly in his and lays it on | simply ;. “Now go and pack up his arm as he I|\|nu-~ me through the | your kit. You must go with me streets back again in the direction of | to Norlington Farm Cuan’t say, I'm the railway station, sure, what old Betty will say; but Once more we are in the train, there’s nothing else as I see, to b done. Remember, my girl, 'tis not ali s | life Tam ing you; but I suppose you are not too [uc a lady to know what Work means?’ 111 had bee vs. | by now. do not fear the future now!” is all my husband s but there is a world of love in his eyes. Poor William! Ina weeks time he will be on the ocean and we will 1 parted for many months—pe: X “*Mine—mine forever! I 1 then, all was corrected During these seven ars [ in {Ih He lets me rests quictly rms | have worked hard and lived hard, during the very short urney back Yet the those who say that old again to Norlington. I get out of the | Peter Glennie is worth half a million -ain alone, as he is going on some busi- ness two stations further on; then he will come back for the rest of the week tothe farm *Before you go into his room, wife, darling, you will take it off?”- touches my finger, on which the bri new wedding ring glitters, T cannot!” 1 say. shuddering, It is unlucky to remove n wedding ring!” of money. My golden week of happiness is gone; but “although William is gone, I am trangely content. [ do not regret this step I have taken, Since the morning after my m age my uncle had been better and quieter, Old Mr. Barnes, the lawyer, .A.H been with a him a full hour, "that morning, and old Jenkyns had been called Into 3ut, my durling, his sharp cyes | his room to sign his name to some docu- will"— ment together with the hi “The train goes on, and I am alone, “He is o miserable old man T see his face ook at me from the win- | to e the same day, I suppos dow, alarmed and anxious; but I nod ve- | will he signed, "hat a grudge he has ngly and he smiles, It causes no remark that I have been this motning, for every- thing lately is 50 upset by reuson of my uncle’s illness and - Willlawm’'s near de- parture, Then, ngain, there is only only B in the kitehen; and perhapsshe scarcety kuows that ['have been out, and if the us He growls continu- nH\ in his sleep, about fools getting ried,” \lA ried.” 'Isaid, “he has never mar- lavghed. wis the I should not loser by that, 0," she anyone either.” He lad called her ty | say at this woment, and T was left alone to overhear a con- versation between old Jenkyns and Betty; who, being both deaf, were talks ing ‘over the same matter in the kitchen. “Ah, well, Betty, it's a hard day for the furm when Mr, William goes away; and how'll the old master do wi'a new ard at his toime o' life, T wonder?” “He knows what he'sabout, never you ar. Do'ee (hink for a moment as how he don’t know o’ letting him go is the ony way o preventin’a marriage be- t n he and Miss Norah? Ha! ha! ha!” As I heard her cunning old laugh at my expense I sit hugging my love to my heart. Old Betty always owed me a grudge for coming to Norlington Farm, although sho had heen compelled to show me ording How little she knew we were married only yesterday, under hier very nose as, it were. So far T had deceived him and the few other people T knew—deceived him through his own hardness; for so far as I was conrcerned T would have told him, only I knew and my hushand knew, that any sudden shock would in all probabil- ity kill him. We should have parted and kept truo faith with eacn other if my strength had not been weakened when that good offer to go to Canada had come so sud- den, Then he had prayed me to marrey him before he started. so that it my uncle died I might at once come out to him as his wife. And now William was gone. Theship had sailed and [ was alone, but happi far than as if T had denied him = his prayer. Sincothe day after my mavriage,when Mr. Blaines had been with my ‘le,he had been quieter, but strangely anxious not to let me out of his gight. All through the week I had not been once out of the house. Of this he seemed to take full care by keeping me near him by every pretense e could think of. The ship had sailed onl when my uncle died saddenly on the day of his lonely fune the reading of the old misc v I cnme down with my w \hhug ring exposed for the first time. I waus noticed at one Miss Glennic and Mr, Baines looked aghast at me. The doctor who had attended my poor uncle looked horri- fied, us well he might, knowing that it meant disinheritance to mo if I mar- ried. Old Betty's ¢ in them us she ¢ ! didn’t know, you and \\ 1H).m| son, that you ‘d lose everything married?® ; “We did not cave to think ofudt,” + sailed with him said, T should had not my duty kept me wigh your master,” At that moment I “my uncle,” Betty ious. “And s0,” she said, and lost a fortune— married! I eannot deseribe the insolent sheer with which she hissed out the words. I made his will the 27 of this month, my dear lady, decyeeing itso. Wheén were you marriec “On the 26th, Mr, Baines. The old gentleman stared at me; rapidly read the short will, l was to be disinherited of more half a million of money if I mar from that date it worded I was murried the day befor —— Noway. Colo., cow is to next sens son make her home on the top of Pike’s Peuk. She will be the highest cow on carth. A stable will be built for her, and a burro will pack the feed to her. She is to be kept there for her milk, one week y and then could not say looked so malic- “you have lost a fortune gone to get then han Table beds ar from one to used us either, ted hl;,und muy be