^^?j^'^^'^a^ygg| B^^'^g|^ 9l'jtig^J^fi!wity!f. '^gjftlaaft-1 y$tffM%i'nft- fe*y*$jgWb$" %& men received ugly knocks tnre MARSHALL'S BAR J*. "No one but you aid, of course, you down patiently to endure, when, ihough aftero timber came tumbling to the ground. kept His word. He has repaid me for wouldn't testif,y against me." a cure was not to be hoped for, matters Tw i all 1 have done. This tning has made might be at least mended. The mountain "Indeed I should," returned Mr. Dean, and hard bruises, but all escaped without an old man of me, and there's no teiling A :NE\V BNGL'JSD STORY. with the air of a stern, impartial judge. would not move for Mahemet. and the serious injury, with one exception. John now how long 1 shall last. I want to O, papa, I won't believe it!" 1 Silverton is a quiet, old-fashioned barn was not likely to be more accommodating Marshall lay upon the ground under a make my peace with you, Richard, and And Alice took a seat upon her father's but something might, perhaps, heavy timber, with a broken arm, and a New England town, lying in as charming your family, and to live as friends for the knee. be done in way ot hiding it. And Alice stream of blood flowing from a wound in rest of my days, if you will let bygones a bit of country as one would wish to "Yes," said the inexorable father, I, was to be seen daily on the lawn, busily his head, cut by a sharp stone, upon '"s be bygones." see Soon after leaving the village, the mean it. If you burn Mr. Marshall's barn, at work with her own hands, and superintending which he had struck in falling. "With all my*heart," said Mr. Dean, road towards the south passes an old I shall tell all I know about tne matter." the labors ef others Hitherto He was taken up insensible, and laid grasping in bo*h his own the thin white stone house which has been standing "And send me to prison?" the balcony had been left entirely open, upon the grass: water was dashed in his hand held out to him. "We shall have "To he sure. I would be sorry, of there since Kevolutionaiy times, and still with nothing to intercept the beautiful face to revive him, and his head oound you a hale, hearty old man yet, and we course, as it would deprive me of a valuable up in handkerchiefs to stop the blood. looks strong enough to be the future western view but now vines began to shall begin anew and from this day housekeeper. Nevertheless, I A doctor was quickly brought to the spot, climb there, something to vie with each home of generations yet unborn. henceforth Marshalls and. Deans shall should feel bound to do it." sewed up the wound and bandage his disabled other in hastening upward with their delicate, dwell taeether in unity." About and beyond it lie: broad fields of And Mr. Dean, looking into the large arm. leafy wall, and hanging baskets "That's just wnat Alice has promised grain, growing yellow under the August blue eyes which gazed at his with such "What is to be done with him?" he with tall plants and long streamers of ivy me," said young Marshall, twiaing his a serious expression, seemed half in earn sunshine, and acres of corn rustling asked with a grave face, as he concluded did what they could in the common cause. arm about the blue-eyed girl by his side, est. the summer breeze. the operation. To move him any distance Here and there screens of lattice-work all tears and smiles and blushes, while the "Come, come, Alice,"' he exclaimed, at in his present condition would surely were set up, where, one of these days, And all this is the property of one two fathers gazedone with astonishment length. "It is high time for us to put a prove fatal." roses would bloom and a hawthorn hedge which soon changed to gladness, and the fortunate man. Standing upon the stop to such talk as this and, what is Bring him into my house, and we was planted, and coaxed with every cunning other with a satisfied look in his eyes, broad balcony ot the old stone house, he more, you must promise me not to har- will do the best we can for him," said device for speedy growth. which had long seen what was going on can look toward the east, and toward the bor such dangerous notions in that busy Mr. Dean, who came out on hearino- of between the young people. All this did very well while summei brain of yours." the acident. west, and call it his own almost as far Meanwhile the sun went down upon a lasted font when the autumn winds and "I can't promise. It is impossible to So tne unconscious man was carried in as he can see. group the like of which was never seen frost had laid bare every tree and slirub, control one's thoughts, you snow," re- and placed upon a bed: and there he lay Silverton. But some yeais ago the fxrai had wo stripped the leaves from the vines, and turned Alice, with a shake of the head for many a long day, piostrate and helpless The lovers have long been happilv carried destruction among the flowerbaskets, owners, and Richard Dean, who lived in that was comically serious. in the house of him whom he had married, and an orchard of apple trees is then the barn stood torth again the stone house, and John Marshall, who "Very well," said Mr. Dean "Then I hated and injured. His son had been nowgrojving where once stood "Marshall's in its nakedness, a great yellow blot up must put you in a strait-jacket, and keep owned the land opposite to it on the sent for, but the messenger was long ia barn." on the landscape. In fact, as they looked you where you will be in no danger of finding him. When he arrived the crowd other side ot the road, were no friends. out of the balcony windows of the doing mischief." had dispersed, and Mr. Dean was standing There had been some ancient quairel A Lonely Funeral. stone House, it seemed the only thing Here the pretty incendiary burst into at the bedside of bis father, while Alice about landmarks and Capulets and Montagues that was seen. her usual merry laugh, kissed her father was bataingthe invalid's head, and striving The Kansas City (Mo.) Times sketches the families had nursed their Mr. Dean tried to take the infliction bade him good-night, and went to her to keep it cool with applications of this tearful picture: It was raining, and enmity, and transmitted it from father, philosophically, since there was no remedy room, coming back to say. ice. the streets were gloomy and uninviting. for it, and succeeded in putting it "I won't burn the barn to-night, papa, to son along with the family acres An express waggon headed the procession, "Mr. Dean," said the young man, aftei out of his mind about as well as people so you can rest in peace." gazing silen ly for some minutes at his in which sat a gray-haired old ladv beneath Theie had been Deans and Marshalls generally do when a thing is const{itly It was late in March, and the day had father, who was still in a state of stupor, an old umbrella, which partially in Silverton almost fiom the time when in sight. But Alice, who was a lady of been very warm one of those sultry days "I should in any case be extiemely sony heltered her and the driver from the rain. the town first had a name, but they were some spirit, was at no pains either to which come unexpectedly, and, taking us for such an intrusion as this but, under She was bowed with grief and sorrow, from widely diijerent walks in life. The lessen or conceal her indignation. Her unawares, half prostrate us with their the circumstances, I feel that it is trulv and wore that tired weary aspect of despair mother had been dead for many years, sudden he at. Clouds had been threatening first of the Deans was an English gentleman unpardonable. I will have my poor father which betokened hopelessness. Just and, on coming home from school a all the evening, great masses which removed, to-night, if it is possible.'* of fortune, who, in travelling through behind her was a rough coffin, of plain, undressed year before, the marriage of her seemed to gather blackness as they rolled "You must not thinfc ot such a thing," pinea pauper's coffin. What it the country, was charmed with the natural only sister had left her sole westward, and at midnight low growls of Mr. Dean replied, warmly. "The doctoi contained could be guessed by inference. beauty of the place, bought a large mistiess of her father's home. thunder began to break the stillness, and ,has expresslv forbidden it. You must In a lumber waggon, just behind the tract of land there, and built the stone She had the greatest pride and delight the big drops of rain to patter noiselessly take caie of your father here, and in doing coffin, came a family of children, drenched in her ancestral home, and these feelings, house of this story. against the window-pane. so I trust you will spare yourself al with rain and shivering in their wet together with her artistic sense of Alice awoke, and lay watching the uneasiness as to intrusion. Make yourself The fiist of the Marshalls came into Silverton rags. But they were all ciying, and bowed the beautiful in nature, were so galled vivid flasheses which now and then light as comfortable as you can, and allow with anguish. It was a sad sight, and with all his woildly goods in the by this hideous barn, set unie her very ed up her room and left it in blacker us to render you any assistance in our told a tale of poverty and sorrow in language bundle which he carried under his arm, eyes, that she could never look at it without darkness than before, when suddenly power." which spoke* louder than words. and the bundle was not heavy. He came a flutter of wrath, sometimes silent, there came a sharp, deafening ciash, then "Good Heavens! Are we to thrust ourselves An aged widow, too proud to give her deceased but often outspoken. peal after peal of taunder, which seemed as "hired man" to one ot the farmers in upon you in this way?" exclaimed consort a pauper's buria!. to shake the old house to its very foundations, the neighborhood. After a year's service It w?s during the winter which followed young Marshall, halt beside himself with and to shiver and vibrate through A sad and sorrowful family in a borrowed the building ot his barn that young anxiety for his father's safety, and mortification he mairied the farmer's daughter, who, its every inch ot mortar and stone. waggon. No frinds, no hearse, no coffin, Marshall &s lie was called, returned from at the embarrassing position in being an only child, in process of time Alice buried her head among the bedclothes, but a rough pine box, no carriages nothing Europe. John Marshall had bestowed which he found himself "I beg pardon, dutifully inherited her fathers acres, and and lav quaking with fear and but a drenching rain, a dreary journey, upon his only son every opportunity for sir: but your generosity makes me feel handed them over to her lucky lord. half benumbed by the shock. When she and a gloomy return. It was the that extended intelligence and culture more painfully than ever that all claim Since those days 1heie had been great at last ventured to uncover her head and which those of his name had hitherto most affecting funeral that ever passed to it has been forfeited. I ean only assure changes. None of the Deans had evei look out from her retreat, the room was considered of little worth compared to through the streets of Kansas Ci'y you that even you yourself cannot added to their original inheritance, aDd all aglow, every object in it as plainly the accumulation of lands and stocks. have regretted the cause of trouble more one ot the 1 ace had so ciippled his resources seen as at noonday. It could not be the "There is money enough," he said, and than I have doae." Beware of Old SnioJcing-Pipes. by extravagant living that it became lightning, for it remained, steady and uninterrupted, John shall have what he wants provided "I believe you!" said Mr. Dean, cordially, necessaiy for him t sell a portion each moment growing brighter Nicotin is not the only poisonous substance he does not squander it." much affected by this impulsive of his estate. and brighter. Jumping from her bed, in tobacco. It has been found A sin which the young man did not seem expression of feeling. He extended his she rushed to the window, and saw a that old smoking-pipes two other The Marshalls, from father to son, had inclined to commit, since, though he hand, which Marshall leceived gratefully sight which chained her to the spot, forgetful poisonous compounds are collected ever been a frugal set, and the grandfather knew how to spend generously, he had while Alice, who had melted at the first of every thing but what was before namely, pyridin and picolin. The cause of John Maishall -was, by this time, never yet exceeded the ample allowance signal of distress, wished from the b*ottom her. ot the investigation was the death of a able to buy the land his fast-living granted him by his father. of her heart that she had treated the child who had been blowing soap-bubbles The barn was in flames! neighbor was forced to pait -with. It was Sole heir to the Marshall farm, which young man with more consideration. Her from an old dirty pipe. It was The lightning had struck it and set fire from a dispute as to landmarks, arising had grown to be the largest in the blue eyes weie swimming when he said first put down as a case of nicotin poisoning, to its contents. Tons upon tons of hay fiom this sale, that the quariel which we countiy, good-looking, frank and jovial, to her, "Pray let me relieve you. Miss but further investigation showed were burning fiercely. Their dry mass"es, have mentioned sprung. The case was and with an ease and grace of mannei Dean I fear you have tired yomself al the correctness of the researches ot kindled into a huge led mountain of Gained to law. the Deans caiae oft'victorious, conferred by three years of foreign travel, rjady." Vohl and Eulenberg in legard to the roaring, leaping flames, shone luridly and trie Marshalls never forgave it. he speedily became the linn of Silverton. Weeks had passed before John Marshall poisonous effects of what they call the upon the black sky, and glared over the Moieuvei, it was lumored that when At the village parties and social gatherings became fully conscious of his situation. pyridin series, a pioduct of the dry distillation country for miles around. Richaul Dean, of this story, married the all united to welcome and do him Fever set in,and he grew delirious of tobacco, which acts by paralyzing beautiiul daughter of the old Silverton honor, with one exception. A haughty In the weird, fitful beauty of the scene and when at last the delirium passed the respiratory nerves, and clergyman, it touched John Marshall bow was the only acknowledgement that Alice was for the time totally unmindfuthat away, he tell into a stupor, which seemed causes death by exhaustive convulsions, very narly so that between the old Alice Dean would vouchsafe his presence. it was of any direct, personal interest almost more hopeless than his former teiminating in total asphyxia so it was wound to the affections, the family quarrel She could not be brought to include Herself to her but whf it suddenly occured state. He had been lying for a long concluded that the child did not die seemed in no way like to die out. in afly conversation in which he took to her that it was, she flew to her time with scarcely a sign of life about from nicotin, but from pyridin. This It leached its lniax when the two part, and her cool withdrawal from a father's room, half wild with excitement him, except the feeble fluttering of his now may be ail the same to the public, farmers, who belonged to opposite parties group which he chanced to join would and delight. pulse, when his son, who had watched but it is not the same to the physician in politics, became rival candidates for often place their mutual friends in embarrassing Mr. Dean's room was on the opposite over him night and day, saw him slowly and chemist, whose duty it is to ascertain election to the State Legislature. John positions. Her father, having side of the "house, and he had seen no open his eyes and gaze with a look oi the correct causes of disease and Marshall was beaten, and choosing to noticed this on one occasion when they cigns of the fire. Being a sound sleeper faint wonder about the room. He was death, in order to profit by this knowledge consider his defeat as a direct personal had been out togeter, remonstrated with the thunder had only partially disturbed too weak to speak but when days had for the benefit of mankind injury inflicted by his neighbor, vowed her on their return home, mijcly suggesting him, so that he was no more than half elapsed, and he had gained sufficient Scientific American. that he would be even with him. And that she should endeavor to keep her awake, when Alice came bouncing to his strength, he asked no questions. The _^- Richard Dean, when he came hoj\e at angry feelings a little more out of bed-side, exclaiming- barn, or rather its skeleton, which had the close of the session, found that this sight. O, papa, papa! the barn is burning Things Worth Knowing. been left on the day ot the acident, was had been no idal threat. "This young man is not to blame for but I didn't do it. You see I was right, in plain sight from a window neai his Across the road, directly in front of his father's conduct, you know," he continued. What neat housekeeper is not annoyed though for Providence has taken the bed and he would lie hour after hour his house, loomed up before him the when she sees on the spotless woodwork affair into his own hands, and saved me gazingat it,silently closing his eyes at any frame of a huge barn. Workmen were "Of course not,"' said Alice "but he's of her doors or windows those long daik attempt at conversation, and scarcely giving the trouble." buisy plying their noisy hammers, loose scratches which reveal that some one has his father's son, and a chip of the old an answear to the few questions which "Alice, are you crazy?" said Mr. Dean, timbers were sacttered about, great heaps tried to light a match by drawing it acioss block, I dare say. "No," she added, after were put to him. as by the dim light of "the night-lamp he oi boards lay piled up here and there the paint? Now this is sometimes our experience, a moment's silence, "it's of no use trying. saw her whirling about the room, performing Young Marshall was sitting one day ready for use, and all the dirt and rubbish for servants will be forgetful or I can never be civil to a Marshall, with a rapturous pas seul, and looking, sadl^ wondering what were the thoughts of building defaced the once beautiful careless, and the tell-tale scratches greet that hideous yellow barn staring me in in her long white gown, like a very over which he seemed brooding, when our eyes in most unlooked-for quarters. meadow. the face." frisky gort She had no little trouble in the sick man turned slowly in his bed, But we have found a remedy for the Mr. Dean stood aghast, and could Five minutes later, Mr. Dean, who had convincing her father that she was in and, in a quiet way, as though it was no marks, which, as every one knows, quite scarcely believe his eyes. His pretty taken up and was looking over his morning her right mind, and inducing him to uncommon request that he was about to defy soaj) and water. Cut a sour orange or daughter tripped out upon the balcony paper, laid it down in a hurry, as follow her, as she hurried bacfc to her ir.ake said to his son: lemmon in half apply the cut half to the to meet him but almost before the kiss Alice remarked in a slow, deliberate way post by the window, to watch the remainder "John, I should like to have you see marks, rubbing for a moment quite hard with which she greeted him was off from as though she had at last made up her of the brilliant spectacle. that every thing belonging to that barn then wash off with a clean rag, dipped first her pouting lips, she exclaimed: mind: There was no more sieep that night for over there is carried off, and the place in water to moisten it, andjthenjin whiting. "O, Papa, is it not a shame? Could "Papa that barn will be the ruin of my. the family in the stone house and when cleared up. Do it as soon as possible Rub well witht this rag, dry thdroughly, you have believed that any man would temper. I am going to set fire to it!'' morning broke, cloudless and beautiful will you?" and nine times out of ten the ugly marks be so mean? Is there nothing to be done Mr. Dean glanced about the room, half after the storm, tnere lay the untarnished will vanish. Of course, sometimes thev are "Certainly, fatner, if you wish it," his one, before he Must we have that horrid barn aiways before a1 afraid that they were not landscape spread out before them in all burned in so deeply that they cannot be son remarked, not knowing whether to be our eyes?" replied: its old familiar beauty, and Marshall's eradicated. All fingei-niafrks on painted mosf astonished or rejoiced. "Yes. that barn was there, and stayed "My child, that may be a pleasant little barn a heap of ruins .-it their feet. walls, etc. should be rubbed off with a little "Perhaps you can attend to it now," Mr. Dean found himself powerless. A joke of yours, but it is lucky that For one short week Mr. Dean and his damp whiting in the same way, rad said Mr. Marshall. "I do not need you. man has a right to build where he will there was no one to hear it but myself," daughter rejoiced over their unlooked for never washed with soapsuds, which destroy I think I shall go to sleep." And he on his own land, and the law cannot prevent "It's no joke at all, papa. I am" quite deliverance They blessed the storm, the paint.Golden Rule. closed his eyes as if he wished nothing him putting himself to any amount serious. I have been thinking about it and congratulated themselves morning, more said" of tiouble, expense and inconvenience foi for some time, and I mean to do it." noon, and night, as they gazed upon the I Young Marshall was not slow in the very laudable object of executing his exe- Mr. Dean took off his eye-glasses and Tthat Washington Lacks. unbroken prospect which had never cuting his father's wishes and two spite on his neighbor. In the eye of the davs looked attentively at his daughter. seemed half so charming before. Then law the barn could not be made to appear had not passed before all traces of the There are ome very elegant and accomplished "Upon my word, I believe the child has there began to be a stir among the few a nuisance, whatever it might be to the barn has disappeared. A few days more young men in Washingtonsome some such intention," he said to himself charred and blackened timbers which dwellers in the stone house. So theie and Mr. Marshall signified his intention who could be classified with the wTere deposit- To her he said. tire had sparedfresh ones was nothing to be done but to pocket of going home, firmly resisting all persuasions Count d'Orsay and Beau Biummells of '^It is your opinion, then, that you have ed beside them, load after load of building their wrath, and, if possible, to possess to the ccntrary. historybut, as a general thing, the a right to make way with your neighbor's materials arrived, and, to their utter their souls in patience, while the monster "I shall leave here to-day," he said to Washington beau is a churlish and selfish property whenever your pleasure is cot dismay they learned that the barn was to grew, day by day, until at last it stood his son. "And when I am ready to go, cub. In most places young^ men take a consulted in its situation?" be rebuilt. Mr. Dean remonstrated to no complete in its ugliness, cutting off the John, 1 should like to see Mr. Dean and pride in rendering their cities entertaining "It is my opinion," said Alice, with the purpose, and friendly neighbors vainly his daughter. Ask them to meet me on view of the beautiful western hills and and attractive to young ladies visiting confident logic of eighteen years, "that tried their persuasions on the obstinate the balcony." the pretty pond which nestled at their them but here, if a poor girl has a my neighbor has no right to set up an old man. Young MarshaJl, who was deeply So, leaning upon his son, a weak, feet, hiding the big knoll where a group few acquaintances, she not only has a abominable nuisance under my very nose. mortified and grieved at his lather's broken-down man, he tottered across the of gigantic pine trees kept watch and chance of making more, but those she And if be can't be made to remove it, I course, exerted all the eloquence which threshold over which he had been carried ward over the meadows below them, and knows avoid her, for fear, as they say of think I should be justified in getting rid he possessed to prevent the carrying out two months before. Sinking into shutting out even the sunset. "never-changing partners." Girls in reremote of :t in the easiest way possible." of this malicious design but the only reply an arm-chair, which Mr. Dean made The acme of ugliness was reached, and cities think, "If I could only get And you think also, upon mature consideration," which he received was, "See here, my ready tor him, while Alice softly arranged the disappointed farmer's revenge must to Washington, what a dash I would cut said Mr. Dean, "that you boy. you come and go as you choose, and the pillows about him, he said, have been fully satisfied when the building in no time I would catch a rich husband." would prefer the view of four walls,in the I interfere with none of your plans. You in a voice shaken with weakness and had been painted the brightest Poor, deluded children! Do yon know State Prison, for the next ten or fifteen act your pleasure, and I shall act mine." emotion: tawdriest yellow that ever disgraced a there is more real fun, more genuine enjoyment, years, to that of your neighbor's barn?'' So the work wen. on with all possible "Richard Dean, I never thought I paint-pot, "Marshall's Barn" had become at any provincial Virginia reei, "Is that the punishment for arson?" speed, and the raising day was at hand. should haVe to thank jou for any thing a by-word in the neighborhood. any old-fashioned New England candypulling, "It is-" A crowd had gathered, as was usual on but I have been brought to it. You and "'What can't be cured must be endured,' or Western house-warming, than "O, but I should not be caught. I have such occassiens in the country. The I never were the best of friends, and a Mr. Dean remarked to his daugh at a baker's dozen of these official receptions. several plans, any of which is quite safe." huge frame was slowly being hoisted to year ago I swore to do you harm as long ter, by way of saying something original There the old adage, "No goose "But unfortunately, you have a witness its place, with shouts and cheers and as I lived. But the Almighty set his and comforting. so gray but soon or late finds some honest of your intentions," said Mr. Dean, quite heave a-ways, when seme part of the face against me. 'Vengeance "is mine gander for a mate," is true. Here oldmaidism But Miss Alice had no idea of sitting seriously. structure suddenly gave way, and timber I will repay,' saith the Lord, and He stares every girl in the face. I %& "L ..^.mV" mHii58A4, &&*,,.