New Ulm weekly review (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892
October 9, 1878 · Page 2 of 8
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'f-4" of people thronging all about me Their garments HOUSE AND FARM. me in the aspect of a prophecy. It was easy Two Moods. time to gain the cover of the trees before brushed me, and their fingers touched to laugh, and talk of conincidences, but such Charlotte appeared. I hurried away across I. HATE. my hair, but they never seemed to see talk explains nothing. "Dreams are but the fields, and reached my hotel about midnight. Drawn o'er tlie airy sapphire of the day me. Suddenly they vanished, one beautiful foams," bays the German proverb. Is it always HoageitolU Recipes. Next day I started for St. Louis, in vague perpetual way, lady alone remaining. She stood just there, true Are there not, may there not be whence I had just returned when I reached He sees one dulling film of dreary gray. Hard Sauce, for Puddings.- Stir tocream behind that long branch. She was all in green mysterious intelligences which, when our your house." The fragrant sward, or dewy leaves thatshine and I could scarcely distinguish her from the grosser sensses are locked in slumber, have one cup of butter with three cupspowdered "And did you then recognize Alice?" Flower, bird, lissom vine, trees. She spoke to me with a charming their hour of communion with human souls, "No. I remember that at first sight her sugar when light beat in juice hand, waved All ho'd weird hints of something saturnine! whit*1 smile, and then lifting her and breathe into our consciousness the loftier face seemed slightly familiar, but the impiession of a lemon, two teaspoons nutmeg. Big weights of wrong and insult, always it slowly through the air. I looked and papa thoughts, the purer emotions, the larger passed qaway. Until to-day I piessed stood beside me. I could not move or speak, knowledge, of theirs Pop-overs.One pint of milk, one pint never for an instant associated her with the Upon his tired-out breast, but his dear eyes looked into mine for a moment It was a fine morning in June, nearly a vear heroine of my almost forgotten adventure. flour, butter size of a walnut, three eggs,. Imperiously distract him with unrest! then the figure slowly faded. As I from the period when this veracious history In that uncertain mingling of twilight and beaten light, pinch of salt, add eggs last. And thiough his mind quick ghastly fancies gazed other figures came by, brightening and commences. In the cheerful breakfast room starlight, features were not accurately distinguishable. Bake in cups, filling them half lull. float, fading before my eyes. I saw yourself and of my sister, Mrs. Edward Granger, still lingered The only wonder is how she managed, Where sometimes he can note Frank, mamma, just as she used to look, and a party of three, the young mistress of undetected, to get so good a view of To Prevent Stoves from Rustinq.Kerosene His enemy's loathsome shape, and clutch its many more, all familiar faces, all perbons who the house, her husband, and myself. I had mine.' applied with a rag to stoves will have had some part or influence in my life. throat. arrived the previous evening, and having "Now, Edward," cried Alice, in a tone of keep them from rusting during the summer Last ot all came one I did not know. I turned been separated from Ali during the six real distress, "you surely do not believe" II. LOVE. to ask the lady who he was. She made no answer, also, tjood lor iron utensils on the weeks which had elapsed since her marriage, For him alone the exultant thiushes call, He stopped the reproach with a kiss. "No, but smiled and held up a ring. I thought we had, of course, many things to talk over, farm. The grand sun rise and fall, darling of course I do not believe anything I knew him for my future husbond, and turned So, though the morning was wearing away, Odors from cooking prevented.Put oneor And the sweet winds blow benedictional! of the kind. But, Charlotte," he added, "what to look at him again. As I did so I thought we still sat there, Mr. Granger considerately A sovereign sense his being seems to brim, a strange thing it is, this blending of two red peppers, or a few pieces of he bent over and kissed me on the lips then leaving us to ourselves while he read his paper Thrilling heart, brain, and limb, the events actually passing around us with slowly faded as the others had done. The charcoal, into the pot where ham, ca bbage, by the window. I had forgotten his presence, That all this radiant world was wrought for the fantastic images of our dreams! What next I remember, you were calling me Now till a sudden exclamation from him etc., is -boiling, and the house will faculty of the mind is it whiih remains awake him' don't laugh, Charlotte," she added, catching drew my attention to his part of the room. not be filled with the offensive odor. to take cognizance of things outside the closed One blissful faith his life divinely cheers the expression of my eyes. I had come to Alice's from grandmama's, eyelids With heavenly joys and feais, Lemon JellyGrate the rind and take Indeed, love, I shouldn't think of such a where I had been making a visit, and bad That sometimes leaves his sight in wholly "The prophetic faculty, it would seem in this the juice of one lemon, pare and grate thing. I am too deeply impresbed by your brought with me among my luggage the portfolios tears! instance," I answered, with as much gravity doubtless prophetic vision." of sketches aud drawings which she had six sour apples, one cup pf sugar,one egg, And through his soul, rich-waimed by sacred as I could assume. "But perhaps that is peculier "Now, Lottie!" left behind last year They were lying on the one teaspoonful of flour beat all thoroughly heat," to the dreams of Midsummer-eve." table, and Edward, having finished his paper, "Well, dear, why not? Remember this is together and let it come to a boil. Dear memories move and meet, Edward laughed. "It is an odd thing, any- and getting no attention from us, amused himself the eve of St. John, and your birthnight. Like shadowy ripples of golden wheat. This is very nice to use between cakes in way," said he. by examining them. When we turned Everyone knows that children born on Midsummer-eve I think it odd myself, but it is true.Ear. place of other jelly. round, he was holding in his band the spirited are the especial favorites of the per'* Bazar. sketch of his own features which I so well remembered. fairy folk, and subject to their influence on THE EVE OF ST. JOHN. Preserved Currants.Ten pounds of that night. It is plain to be seen that the currants, seven pounds of sugar. Take lady in green was your fairy god-mother, and It was a warm June day. The sun was already A Diminutive Stre et Sweeper. "Why, Alice," he said, "where did you get your vision must be prophetic." the stems from seven pounds of the currants, half-way down his western slope, moving this?" Alice laughed, but in a shy, absent way, lazily, as if weary with the long march ot "I made it, of course." and press the juice from the other Persons passing through Broadway late and her pretty blush was visible even in the the summer solstice. A gauzy haze veiled "But I never sat to you." three pounds. When the juice and sugar at night may have often seen a diminutive starlight. In answer to my railleries, she admitted without obscuring his brightness, and lent a "No I drew from memory." are made into a hot syrup, put in the currants figure, with a broom a yard taller dreamy charm to the scene below. Soft rollin that before falling asleep she had been "How came it among these things that and boil until thick and rich. than himself, engaged with the night indulging in fancies about fays and the like, hills a stream winding between green Charlott brought from your grandmother's?" naturally suggested by the place and time willowy shores seen far away, a broad blue gang in cleaning the street The little "I left it there last summer." To prevent the hair from falling out.The but as for the young man, she stoutly declares river, and the spires and roofs of a town "What a little story-teller! At that time sweeper's name is John Boilan, and he common application, in Oriental countries, she had never seen, or imagined, or these were the outlines of the landscape. In you had never seen me. lives at No. 539 East Eleventh street. the cool piazza of the old white farm-house, previously even dreamed of, anyone in the is the bruised bulos of the Aphodelut "No, nor any picture of you yet I had Next to "Tom Thumb" or Commodore least resembling him. her home for half a century, stood my grand bulbosus, garlic or onions, mixed with drawn you, as you see." mother, a smile on her placid face, and her Nutt, "Little Johnny," as he is called, is Alice was up early next morning, not a "What does she m-an, Lttie?" said Edward. gunpowder. A infusion of the small mild eyes drinking in the serene beauty of the whit the worse for her greenwood nap, and "Theoiiginal of this must have been myself perhaps the smallest man in this country. leaves of the orange or lemaa tree in red scene. Alice and! came flying down the hall yery busy with her drawing. I supposed she or my double He lives in a small, dark, rear room of a wine, containing twenty grains of tannin stair case and stood beside her. was finishing tha thorntree sketch but hapto "Precisely. It was your double. Alice big tenement house. An old woman who Eening perlitre, has also proved serviceable. "Good by, grandmamma," cried my sister. look over her shoulder when she knows that as well as I do." occupies an adjoining room was asked if "We are going to leave for a little while." ad been at work for and hour, I saw it was "Will you ladies please explain," said my There are two way3 to judge silks. "Must you go to day,my dears The horses a portrait on which she was engaged. It was she knew him. brother-in-law, throwing himself back in Note the closeness and evenness of the the likeness of a young man, apparently are away, and it it a long walk to S whimsical perplexity. "Know Johnny!" was the reply. "Bless rib in it, and hold it to the light to judge twenty-eight or thirty years of age. Why net wait until to-morrow?" Alice laughed. "You will not believe me if me! I have known Johnny for thirty "You forget," I said, "that Frank comes tomorrow "Who is it, Alice dear?" the better of this That shows the texture. I tell you," she said, seating herself upon his years. Why, Johnny is next to Tom and he shall be so busy with packing, Alice laughed, but blushed a little. It is knee. And then crush it in the hand and release and all the last things. And it is only the face I saw in my dream last night," said Turn yoii've heard tell of Tom Turn?" "Well, love, tell me for all that." it suddenly. If it springs out quickly and two miles to town, after all." she. Alice began the story gayly, but, as it proceeded, The old woman went on to relate numerous leaves no crease behind, it has verve, and "I suppose you must go, dear but it is a "Is it possible?" her sportive tone became serious, and anecdotes about the smallest man in the quality of the silk is denoted by the long walk for Alice in this hot sun," grandmamma "It is the best likeness I have ever made. her large violet eyes deepened with an expression New York, when he appeared in person. added, glancing from my gray walking That is, in every feature, the face that was of earnestness and wonder. When verve. dress to my sister's cloudy muslin and slipers. came up the steps and walked briskly bending toward me when your voice broke she ceased, it was with a cheek somewhat To Cure a Felon.--Take a pint of common the spell of my dream." flushed, and a sensitive quiver of the lips into the room. is not more than soft soap and stir in air-slacked lime "Well, my love, you have wonderfully vivid "Oh, I am not going, grandma I shall only which she could not quite control. Her three feet tall, but very broad for his size. dreams. We must take care that you do not walk with Charlotte down to the thorn-trees husband had listened at first with smiling interest till it is of the constancy of glazier's putty. His head and neck are out of proportion to take that sketch I have promised so long. sleep under the starlight to often." but this soon gave way to an ominous Make a leather thimble, fill it with to the rest of his body, being as large as We rahall both be back early to spend a long Frank Baldwin arrived that afternoon, and look of exaggerated gravity: and when the this composition and insert the finger evening with you. This is my birth-night, we hastened our preprations for departure. story was finished, he burst into a peal of uncontrollable those of a full-grown man. He was reticent therein, and the cure is certain. This is you knowjust think! I am nineteenand I He kindly offered to assist us, and stood laughter. He laughed till the at first, but gradually became a domestic application that every housekeeper want you to make a festival of it." round, man fashion, in the way, putting things tears came into his eyes and when we thought more communicative. said he was "Be sure we will. And good-by, now, my in the wrougtrunks, and making confusion he had done, he suddenly started off again, can obtain promptly. forty-six years old, and was born at Bally children, for you have no more time to spare." generally. We were limited in trunk room, and laughed till he was tired. Alice and I Cream Beer.Two ounces of tartaricacid, Alice and I walked slowly down the erreen and Alice declared it quite impossible to get joined in the mirth, but my sister not very hochie, County Cavan, Ireland. There path which wound its way across the fields to in her voluminous sketching-books. They heartily. two pounds of white sugar, the jui^e he lived until he was twenty-one years the brook. Following this for some distance, were accordingly laid aside to be left till they "My dear little girl'" cried Edward, as soon of half a lemon boil five minutes, and old. In the old country Johnny had a we came to a rude wooden bridge by which could be sent for, or until we should make as he could speak, "do vou hope to persuade when nearly cold, add the whites of three small hoe and a spade made tor him, and wo gained the other shore and soon a sharp our regular visit next year. Frank, roaming me that you really dreamed all that about the eggs well beaten, one half cup of flour, bend in the stream brought us to the thorntree^ restlessly about, tired of our inattention, spied contentedly raised potatoes until his parents green lady 1" of which Alice had spoken. A miniature the books, and began to look them over. He one-half cup ol wintergreen essence. Take died and his brothers and sisters "But it is true, Edward." promontory, covered with the most softest was silent for some time but at length he a teaspoonful of this syrup to a tumblerjof "And you dare aver that you were asleep. came to America. and most velvety turf, was washed on two looked round with an exclamation of surprise. am corfident you peeped." of% water, then add one-half teaspoonful sides by the waters of the brook, while the Deserted by his relatives, Johnny felt ''You impertinent boy! Small advantage in saleratus, and drink at once. third was guarded by a semi-circular line of "Edward Granger's portrait! Alice, where lonesome, and when the ship which took peeping,wLen you were not there." nailed and twisted thorn-trees. A belt of Apple Dumplings'Quarter and core did you ever see Ned Granger?" "Do you presume to say you did not know them away returned, he went to the captain similar tiees upon the opposite shore rendered'the "I ne\er saw him to my knowledge. Pray the apple for each dumpling, then put I vxus there?" and told him, he was going to America seclusion of the place perfect. It was who is he?" the parts together with' sugar in the middle 'What do you mean, Edward?" also. The captain advised him to a Bpot which Titania might have chosen for "He is the friend of whose adventures with "I mean that my recollection of that kiss surround each apple with pie crust h"r couit, so still, so 6ecret and so green. stay in County Cavan, but his resolution me in India I have frequently written home. is as vivid as jour own, only I do not pretend Thi ough a partial opening in the trees was it you wish to bake them, put them on a Is this your drawing was taken, and he came to New York. to have been asleep." visible a lovely bit of scenery, a sketch of "Certainly." pan like bibcuits, and set them in the oven. His small stature was a sore trial to him "My de ir Edw ard, at that time you were on which Alice, who draws with rare skill and "Is it meant for anyone?" If boiled, tie each in a seperate cloth, the Atlan ic, a week's sail and more from at first. He was sensitive on the subject, fidelity, proposed to take in my absence. Seated "It is a fancy, meiely." and boil for half an hour. Serve, both, home It was ten days after the eve of St. heie on the warm gras&, the stream murinuung and when lie ventured into the streets a "Well, it's a most surprising accidental resemblance, John that jou reached our house, and you had at her feet and the leaves fluttering baked and boiled, with liquid 9auce. large crowd would follow him, and their considering you never saw Ned onlv arrived the day before." over hei, I left her to her pleasant task and N water that has stood in open vesselsduring curiosity so annoyed him that in sheer and of course you never could, as ho is at this "My dear child,whotold you that I had just legaunng in a few moments more the frequented moment on his way home from India, where the night should be used for drinking desperation he at last made his way to arrived from India?" path, took my way by the long yellow he has lived for ten yearssince you were a or cooking. By exposure to the air it "No, one, perhaps but we supposed so, of lugh-ioad to the distant town. his friend the captain and told him he ahild in a nursery. By-the-way, I see that he course." has lost its "aeration," and has absorbed wanted to go back to Ireland. The captain Alice and I had been spending some months "mogul," in which Edward sailed, has been "Nevertheless, on that night of the 23d of many of the dust-germs floating in the with our grandmother, and were to leave in a soothed his wounded feehngs and spoken only a week out. So we may expect June I was near enough to get my first kiss few days for our home Philadelphia. Our apartment. If convenience requires water to sec him very soon..' told him that onoe he became known from your lips. It was a mercy Lottie did no own mothei was dead, and the warm-bearted A day or two later we were at home, and to be kept in vessels several hours before catch me, though. I had just time to gain persons would stop annoying him. So though rather eay and fashionable step-mother quickly launched on the stream of gayeties shelter of the thorn-trees before she came use, it should be covered, unless the he went back and stolidly took no notice who had taken her place did not come so always flowing through my step-mother's round thepoint." vessels are tight. Wherever practical, all near to our hearts as did the gentle old lady of the attention he attracted. has house. Fresh from our six months' seclusion "Now, Edward," cried I, in amazement, at the farm. A part of every year we spent distributing reservoirs should be covered. at the farm, we entered with zest upon this lived in New York for twenty-five years, "explain your part in this mystery." with the latter, always leaving her with regret. new course of pleasure. Frank Baldwin was Filtering always adds to the purity of and for eight years has been employed There is a little mystery about my part, I should mention that my step-mother our constant ally. Alice had always been water. Drinking water should not be taken et is true that when Frank Baldwin left CalIutta on the street-cleaning force at full pay. had a son, the fruit of a former marriage,who rather his favorite, as, indeed, she was everybody's I was intending to come home the from lakes or rivers on a low level. had been absent several years in India, and "I can sweep two piles to any of the others' for beauty is a born queen even in the sailing vessel Mogul, which belongs to our at this time had just returned As we had no Surface water, or water in lakes, pools, or nursery. She had changed in his absence one," he said, sturdily, straightening his firm. But as I found it would be necessary brother of our own, Prank Baldwin, who was from a sweet child to a lovely woman and he rivers, which receive the surface wash, little shoulders. Gentlemen sometimes for me to go to France, anyway, I took the a few years older than I, had filled nearlv a seemed so charmed with her now that I began should be avoided as much as possible. steamer route by the Isthmus of Suez, and offer him money, but he retuses all alms. brother's place to Alice and myself. He was to think this brother by adoption might was in Marseilles before the Mogul had pass. not drink much water at a time. now to be our escort home, as our father was P. T. Barnum once offered him a large become one in reality. ed the Cape of Good Hope. 1 stayed in prevented by some business from coming for More than two tumblers full should not sum to exhibit him, but tbe proposal was We had been at home a week, when one France several weeks, crossed oyer to England, us himself. be taken at a meal. not drink between refused.New York Tribune. day on returning from a drive, we learned and took the steamer from Liverpool This afternoon I had to make some trifling meals unless to quench thirst, as that Frank's friend Granger had arrived A to Quebec, arriving on the 20th of June. It purchases at the shops, and pay a few parting good deal fatigued with traveling by sea and happened that one of our clerks in Calcutta, excess of water weakens the gastric juire Didn't Konw was Loaded, visst. of friendship or ceremony. We had many land, he was still in his room, but would join a faithful, excellent fellow, has a mother and and overworks the kidneys. Excessive friends in S, and the farewell calls consumed us at dinner. There were to be other guests, sisters living on a farm not far from S so much time that nine o' clock was "You will please observe," said old potations, whether of water, or other fluid* and Alice and I went up to dress. fdo not and I was the bearer of letters and gifts from ringing from all the steeples before I was able Mr. Lamoweli, as he led us through his relax the stomach, impair its secretions^ know that we "primped" more than usual him to them. I might have sent the things to leave the town and turn my steps toward that day: but I remember feeling quite satisfied school the other day, "that the boys are and paralyze its movement?. B$rinking by express, of course, but I thought the women home But the way, though lonely, was safe with my fresh summer toilett and Alice might like to see and talk with some required to display th3 utmost attention a little at a time the injury is a voided*. and I enjoyed the quiet walk ia the evening looked supremely lovely in a pale green organdy, one who had come from Fred so, having to quietness and discipline, and in a short air. It must have been ten o' clock when I which would have been fatal to a complexion Curejfor Aatlima. plenty of time at my disposal, I concluded to reached the gate which communicated with time become even divested of that most less dazzlingly fair. "You look like visit them myself. You see, no one in New I have been fortunate in finding a the foot-path across the fields. Of course I the queen of the faries," I said, and wondered annoying disposition to tease each other York knew of my arrival, or expected me for remedy for terrible affliction from which had no idea of meeting Alice at that hour for, why she should blush so at the sisterly flattery. in short, they soon settle down into the a fortnight. I made a detour, and reached though she had promised to wait for me, it was I have been a sufferer for fifteen years, S on the afternoon of the 23d. I spent gravity of mature years, under the wholesome in the expectation that my return would be "ihe blush had not quite faded when we (asthma,) and since last October have several hours with Fred's family, telling them much earlier." Yet when I came to the turn of system I have introducea." entered the drawing-room, and Frank brought been able to do as much work as I could everything I could think of about him, and the path leading to the thorn-trees, my steps W at this moment arrived in front forward his friend. Mr. Granger was presentented praising him to their hearts' contentthe twenty years ago. Will send you therecipe half involuntarily took that direction. first to me, which gave me an opportunity of several boys who were standing around good fellow deserves it all. Walking on slowly, I had reached the broek, which I hope you will give a place to quietly observe him while he It was quite late when I started to walk a bucket of w^ter, and one had just and rounding the point where, hours before, paid his compliments to my sister. I saw in your paper, that as many as possible back to the town. The evening was so fine that charged his mouth with the contents of a I had left my, sister, when I was startled by his eye light with a flash of admiration for who are suffering from the affection of I felt in no hurry to reach my hotel, and I perceiving what seemed in the uncertain starlight cup, while the old gentleman was stooping her singular beauty but this expression was strolled along quite regardless of the way. which it has relieved me may have the to be her figure reclining on the grass succeded by one of perplexity, which did to recover his pen from the floor, Perceiving afoot-path which seemed to lead under the thorn-trees. Involuntarily I paused, benefit without delay or cost. There are not pass away for sometime. when another, passing along behind, through some pleasant fields to a brook, I left half in doubt, half in fear. At that instant few who have suffered more from this terrible As I studied the face of the stranger, I was the main road to explore it. Where I went I snapped his finger quickly beneath the there came from far away in the south the instantly reminded of Alice's drawing of what disease fhaH I have. Have tried the am sure I cannot tell perhaps you, who first low breath of the night wind sighing drinker's ear, and caused him by a sudden I called her "dream love," aud I no longer know the localities, can form a guess. I know best physicians without relief, and all the across the fields and stirring the stiff leaves of start to eject the contents of his wondered at Frank's surprise on seeing it. It that I passed through a deep, lonely glen would-be cures were total failures. This the old thorns with a pound as of innumerable was, indeed, an astonishing resemblance. You mouth over the pedagogue's bald pate. from which the brook issued, and, following airy footsteps. With a sudden thrill, as if I recipe was sent me by a friend. I tried it could have sworn it was the same face. Not the windings or the stream, had just succeeded Starting upright, with his hair and face had been conscious of some invisible presence, only was every feature the same, even to the as I had hundreds of others. I still feel in making my way through a dense thicket I called her name, but in a low, frightened dripping, the master said: cut of the beard and the parting of the hair, of old thorn treoe, when I was startled by the threatened at times: but one dose, or at voice. There was no answer and, springing "Who did that?"' but the expression of the whole was identical sight of a female figure lying on the grass. I most two or three, is a perfect relief: 2 forward, I knelt beside the figure of my sister, the same soul seemed looking through the The party unaimously cried out, "Jim drew near and found a young girl not dead, lying fast asleep upon the grass. Her flushed ounces of iodide of potassium, dissolved eyes. Whether Alice noticed this or not, I but sleeping sweetly. What brought her Gun, sir," Icheek rested on her round white arm, and a could not tell. She was talking in a gay, animated in one quart of water. Take one tablespoonful there at such a time was a mystery. The smile like that of dreaming infancy parted her "Jim Gun, you rascal, what did you do manner, and there was a soft light in three times a day. It takes hot delicate texture of her dress and the gleam of beautiful lips. Lifting her long hair, on which that for?" her eye and a flush of pleasure on her lovely a heavy gold bracelet on one of her round water to dissolve it: After using, according the night dew glistened, I took her hand, exclaiming, cheek which made her even more than usually Jim, appalled at tho mischief he had arms showed that she was not probably under "Alice! Alice Vane! what are you to direction,for a short time,I only use charming. the necessity of choosing such abed-chamber. done, muttered out that it was not his thinking of, asleep in this damp night air?" it when I feel a return of the disease. I have no occasion to prolong this story If I had remembered what night of ihe year fault, but that Tom Ownes' had snapped Slowly she opened her large eyes and gazed making mysteries so I may as well say the it wasthe chosen hour of the people in green J. s- him. around with a bewildered expression. case of Mr Granger and way sister was one of .I should probably nothaye attributed to her "Dear Alice, do rouse yourself," I cried. "It love at first sight. Their two souls melted This changed ffce direction of old a mortal character at all, but should have supposed A ttooa aiiltcr. is past ten o'clock, and grandma will be into one at their first meeting, and the affection that she"had merely arrived too soon Lambwell's wrath, and. shaking his cane ^T he Michigan Farmer gives the record crazy." which then sprang into life seemed to at the rendezvous, and was waiting for her portentously over Owens' head, he asked: of a cow owned by John Heath, near Tekonsha, She obeyed the movement of my hand, sat grow with every day. There were no serious sisters to begin the greenwood revel. Whether up and allowod me to wrap my shawl about "Did you snap Gun?'' ,r Mich., three quarters Short-hern, obstacles to fret the current of their loyes under such a supposition I ceuld have her. I gathered up hef scattered drawing The culprit, trembling with fear, murmured therefore its course ran smooth.-" My*father?s ientured to take toe-liberty I dtf I dare not and one-quarter Devon, the daily yield, materials, and again begged her to rouse herself only objections rested upon the fact that Alice say, but, as it was. I think my guilt had some being in pounds. The cow calved in and go home. was still so young and their acquaintance so extenuating circumstances. The dewy red ."Yes. sir I snapped Gun, but I didn't March, and was milked three times a. "Yes, we will go," she Baid but I have been brief. Against the match itself he had nothing lips through which the sweet breath came so know he was loaded. day. The record is as follows: Mav 1, dreaming so long, I can scarcely find the to urge, as the young man's family, softly!why it was not in human nature to boundry line between my dreams and reality character and fortune were all he could ask. resist the temptation! Blushing to the soul 57 2d, 59: 3d, 55 4th, 58 1-2 5th, 623-4 "What were you dreaming of?" So the young people had it all their own way A coroner in Arkansas, after empanelling for the depravity of my race, I admit my 6th, 62 1-2 7th 62 1-4 8th, 65 1-4 9th, and the ever-beautiful drama, so old, yet "Oh so many things! I must have been crime." his' jury, said, "Now, gentlemen 651-2: 10th. 62 1-4 11,64 12th, 65 eternally so new, went on once more. sleeping a long time,ior the last thing I can you are to determine whether the deceased "Your contrition is somewhat tardy, sir," 13th, 63 1-4 14th, 65 15th, 64 16th, 63* remmember the sun was setting, and I For me, I hope not to wholly lose the reader's replied the blushing Alice, trying hard to came to his death by accidence, by tyMk 17th, 58 18th, 57 1-2 19tb, 59 20th, 61* thought you would soon be here. I was awake respect when I confess to a slight feeling frown. "Pray, how long were you there incidence, or incendiary." The verdict then, and I am sure of it. All at once thera 21st, 58 1-2 22nd, 60 23rd, 62 1-2 24th, of superstition in this matter. The singular "It could not have been more than five came from far up the glen a faint sweet strain was that "The deceased came to his circumstance of Alice's midsummer-night 58 25th, 60 26th, 62 27th, 621-4 28th minutes at most. I was revolving the chances of music. Then I distinguished voices singing dream, so strikingly and so quickly put in death by accidence'in the shape ofga of getting another kiss without waking 63 29th, 58 30th, 61 31st, 5 June 1 and presently I was surrounded by a crowd process of fulfillment, would present itself to you when I heard footsteps, and had just bowie-knife." 61 2d, 58 1-4 total, 2,016 1-4. 2\* J1 -,^Z.*:. a .Ja^Jta^1^ll(tftl1ll ^MkM,