I iiwinwtinrtiMw Wf^M^^^^^f^lMf^l^f &: ^w~?w After describing the second days THE OLD HOME. saw such a little wild thing as she was. 'Lorchen is goneclean gone sheis not hung thick and black over the political i The Battle of Gettysburg. fighting, Gen. Walker, coming to the They called her 'the bird,' because she in'her hiding-place and if I could find sky. There were no christening The sixth lecture in the Lowell Institute third dav of the great battle, said: yd was so quick and graceful, and had her to-day, where's the use, when tomorrow feasts when our little ones were baptized, remember an old gray farmhouse, course at Boston on the great "All that is hideous in war seemed such bright eyes in her pretty little that French villain is coming All mossy, and stained with time and, in spite of our real happiness, battles of the civil war was delivered head. There was not a prettier girl to have gathered itself together, to "With a film of old age upon it. to carry her off! I'm a poor, miserable, a good many tears fell on the While yet it stood in its prime. far or near, and there was something burst in one fell tornado upon Cemetery by Gen. Francis A. Walker, who took helpless womanwhat can I do? ^little heads. But at last there was a about her so different from other girls, Ridge. The cannonade had lasted Oh, this dreadful war!' the place of Gen. Alexander S. Webb, a change! Suddenly it was as if a A broad, low-browed old homestead, that one could hardly take one's eyes an hour and a quarter, and the "But the young man only laughed in fresh wind had begun to blow. No on account of the illness of the latter. Where clambering wild woodbine off her she was so dainty and so distingue. ammunition of the artilleiy is getting an embarrassed sort of way, and then -Hang out its flames in the autumn, one knew whence it had come, but it The subject of the lecture was Gettysburg. low. And now, in the edge ot the Like wreaths on a holy shrine. said: was there, and we all felt invigorated In opening he said: "And Lorchen herself was so well wood, the column of attack is seen "Only trust me mother, if I may call by it. Lore and I, too, soon noticed 'Great, drooping elms swa jed o'er it "The month of June, 1863, found awaie ot the fact, that she was a perfect foiming. There stand the Confederate you so, and depend upon it I shall be that there va a great deal going on And blossoming lilacs tall, the power and prestige of the Union little despot. All the men old chiefs, grim and resolute for their able to take good care of Lorchen, behind the scenes, which gave us 'Thrust their purple plumes in the windows, arms at its lowest ebb. For weeks and young, did. her homage, and many great emprise. when once I have the right. In the plenty of food for wonder and conjecture. the very blackness of dispair seemed a one did his best to catch and keep With the bees they held in thrall. cellar she is, however, at the present Well they understand the desperate Wagoners, who did not look to envelop the Union cause. But the the little bird. But this was not so moment, though not in yours!' hazard of the struggle in which they at all like wagoners, were constantly AH under its roof so mossy, natural buoyancy of the national easy, for Lorchen was obstinate, and "So saying, he led the astonished are called their practiced eyes measure bringmg heavy loads of merchandise And around its heart so warm, temper caused some anticipation of her greatest delight was to tease and dame into his house and down ever so the intervening spaces, and glance to Karl, and. my Fritz, who was Jtgathere its happy children, better fortune to mingle with a stern torment her admirers whenever she many stairs, and there sure enough up the rocky wall beyond, and they In a merry, busy swarm. a lawyer, and nothing naturally resolve that had never failed. Now, in had the opportunity. I often used was the captive in his cellar, doubly a know that at the best thousands must to do with such matters, was always addition to the two disastrous defeats 'With the beat of rain on its shingles. to scold her for it for, being her most captive now, and a little shamefaced fall, and that it may all be in vain. present at the unloading, and that had caused us the loss of It lulled them ajl to rest, intimate friend, I acted as confessor, and tearful, but still looking very happy Up the slope they rushed with magnificent helped to carry the goods into the cellar When fcpring brought themutteringshow- 30,000 men, a fresh cause of anxiety and she always honestly told me her as she fell on her mother's neck, coumge. At 200 or 300 yards as soon as it was dusk. It was ers, appeared. The army was now weakened misdeeds. Sometimes, we got really and begged her to give her and Karl the Union infantry opens its deadly quite Qlear that there was some secret Surging up from out the west. by the expiration ot the terms of angry with one another after a ball or her blessing. And so it came to pass fire, but still the Confederates push which our husbands were keepingfrom the nine months' men. The return of picnic, when her list of confessions was As a hen soothes her sleepy chickens, that they were betrothed in the celler, forward undaunted, though Garnet us, and after bearing it patiently for the nine months' men to civil life withdrew unusually long. But where was the Beneath her wintjs widespread, and immediately after all sorts of mysterious falls dead in the van. The Union infantry a little while we determined to put an So we heard the soft, sweet wind-song, use? She knew that 1 could not help some entire brigades from the preparations, were made in has come up somewhat tumultuously, end to such an unnatural state of -Of the old roof overhead. 'forgiving' her, as she said, directly she Army of the Potomac. The effort both houses, and at last the good pastor it is true, but courageously, things. asked me, little fondling puss that she was to reduce the army to very nearly 'And now when I fall a-dreaming, himself was called in to give his nay, enthusiastically, and has formed "Well, we found it all out, and was and she knew, too, that all young an equality in numbers with its When it rains, and the wind is strong, advice. At 11 o'clock that same night around the head of Longstreet's column, learned that Karl and Fritz were men she had fooled and tormented deadly foe, the Army of Northern Virginia. I hear again the deep murmurs there was enacted one of the strangest four ranks deep. Armistead is members of a secret league which had would be at her feet again directly. And beat of the old roof's song. The events of the preceding 12 scenes which our peaceful, sober-going down. Every field officer in Pickett's branches everywhere throughout Germany, You know that song: month had not been of such a nature little town ever witnessed for a young division except Pickett and one Lieutenant-Colonel And the years fall away and leave me, and was formed to deliver the as to encourage recruiting at the A sleepy child once more couple were married in the darkness, has fallen. The time Fatherland from her foreign masters. "I know a maiden fair to see. north. On the other hand, Lee's Slow rocking on grand wild surges, Take care! in the old chapel, outside the Martini has come to advance the standards of The "wagoners" were members and army was at the very height of pride Toward some dreamland shore. She can both false and friendly be! gate, and you may imagine my utter the Second Corps. With loud cries the goods they bought were arms, and conscious strength. Should I "And it goes on: amazement at being mysteriously and a sudden forward surge in which which they stored in the cellar and "Now drifting among the tree tops, say that there was on the Union sent for at such an hour, and then all semblance of formation is lost^h Now floating o'er ri\ er* deep, there, in what had been Lorchen's She has two eyes so soft and brown." side a corresponding discouragement 'Till I sink in that rushing, sweeping sea, finding myself taken to the chapel to Union troops move upon the now faltering prison, the confederates held their Take tare! I should lie and should slander She gives a side-glance and looks down. Down to the land of sleep. be one of the witnesses to Lore's marriage foa. One moment more and all meetings. On these occasions, now both the living and the dead for Take care! Elizabeth Cole in Good Houskeeping. the others being her mother and is over. The most of the surviving that we knew what was going on, we the heights of Gettysburg were Trust her not, she's fooling thee! Dernau's most intimate friend, Fritz Confederates throw themselves on the used to do our part by lighting up the yet to bear witness that the valor and "Well, child, that was Lore all over Berger. ground, a few thousands seek to escape chandaliers in the drawing-room, BETROTHED IN A CELLAE. the endurance of that long-suffering just as if it had been written for her. It seemed uncommonly dismal to a capture and retreat hurriedly clinking glasses together and carrying army were not to be destroyed by adversity. But you mustn't think badly of her, girl of seventeen, as I was then, with down the hill and across the plain, wine bottles and dishes to and fro, to Yet it cannot be denied'that for all that. She was a dear, sweet my head stuffed full, too, of all sorts which is once more shrieking with the divert the attention from what was jPVom Household Words. in the different temper of the two little thing and in spite of all her follies, of tragical stories. It was a mild, fire of the artillery, now reinforced by going on down below, and to throw By making a gigantic effort I had at armies lay the secret of the great she had a good, honest heart. As dark night the sky was much overcast Fitzhugh's, Wheeler's, Alexandier's, dust in people's eyes. last succeeded in pushing up the military advantage on the part of the I said, she was universally admired and ever and anon a distant and other batteries. Then did the "As soon as ever our good king issued confederates. Fortunately there was heavy sash of the old-fashioned guillotine and so it seemed strange that young flash of lightning announced that a Second Corps go forward, gathering his appeal 'to my people,' we saw no doubt who should be calkd to window, and now, sitting in the Dernau, the merchant, who was a storm was coming up. The feeb'e up battle flags in sheaves, and gathering the result of all these secret preparations. lead the old corps of Sumner. To the next-door neighbor of hers, should be broad window-seat, I was enjoying the glimmer from the two tapers on the in prisoners by thousands. Thirty-three The enthusiasm was tremendous,and majestic chieftain .who, on the field of so stiff and cold, and take no notice scent of the great syringa bush, which altar seemed only to make the darkness standards and 4,000 prisoners every German heart was all Antietam. had caught the sword tnat at Ml ot her. Sometimes I twitted darker, and the flames are the fruits of that -victory. And grew so close to the house that it aglow. Oh, child, it was a grand time dropped from Richardson's dying her with the fact that he had never flickered incessantly as the so Fredericksburg was avenged! One and I shall never forget the day when pushed its branches inside whenever hand who at Fredericksburg, in December, once danced with her, and was quite wind came sweeping in gusts, man's words spoken there on Cemetery the pastor read out the king's proclamation ife had the opportunity, so that sitting had led the brigade of Look. insensible to her charms. That always and making the boughs of the old limetree Hill, amid the graves of 4,000 in the market-placeand there in the window was almost like be Meagher, and Caldwell in perfect form, made her angry, and she would rattle against the church windows. Union soldiers, have forever made all was not room for the crowd in the in unwavering lines, across that plain sng in an arbor. I was in Germany, of pout her rosy lips and .say: It was enough to make one shudder, other men's words concerning Gettysburg, churchand called on all the men to of death, swept from end to end by course, tor guillotine windows, as we child, I can tell you' The venerable except in simple narative, poor 'I'm sure I don't want him, Christel come forward and take part in a holy enfilading fires, against two tiers of ca 1 hem, are still the fashion in England, old paster who had married Lorchen's and trite, empty and vain: 'The he's a bear?' war to expel the enemy. There never musketry, up to the new stone wall I hear. father and mother, and baptized Lorchen world will little note nor long remember was such excitement before or since! "Well, you know, bad times came at the foot of Marye's Hill who, on herself, gave only a short address what we say here, but it can never Yes I was in Germany, and it was Friends and acquaintances embraced for poor Germany. The French conquered the 3d of May formed his division on but it was all the more impressive forget wh-it thev did here.' fcheday before Whit Sundaya lovely one another, and the most bitter enemies us, and the King and our beautiful Chancellorsville plateau in two lines, for that, and we were all very May dayand I was just 16. shook hands. The first to volunteer Queen Louisa had to fly with back to back, one fronting Gordonsville, much touched by it. When the ceremony I am a good deal more than 10 now, to fight for wife and child, and their children and it seemed as if we the other Fredericksburg, with and Celia Lieutenant Greely was over I helped the sobbing hut still, olton, when the syringa is in home, were Karl Dernau and my Fritz, should all become French subjects. his artillery firing down the line between Thaxte r. bride to take off her wreath of myrtle blossom, and the delicious fragrance and numbers and numbers followed It was A bad time for us in our little holding back the countless ho- ts and put on a very large hood, which comes floating round me, the whole their example. Then came the leavetakings, town, for the authorities favored the The Arctic explorer says that his of victorious confederates then swarming was part of the peasant's costume, scene rises, again before my eyes, and I and those were sad enough.-I enemy, and we were disturbed by men, when surrounded in from eveiy side, until the road by the awful piich as used to be worn about here, see the old-fashioned garden, with its fainted away, but Lorchen behaved sounds of fightingfo all round us. Ah, it cold and snow of the Arctic night,never to the Bullock opening was cleared all prosperity was which she was going to wear as a disguise. quainfcly-cut yews and box-hedges, and like a little heroine. sad1 was terribly tired of hearing read Mrs.Thaxter's and the moment had come for his 6\\ The poor mother was speechless the apxl trees loaded with blossom "We two kept together through all at an end, and we spent our days in poem, "A Tryst." A lady correspondent orderly and slow retreatto him, the with grief, and seemed quite dazed the wainscotted room, with the faded that time of terrible waiting and fighting, misery and anxiety. Poor Lorchen ot the Philadelphia Press who witnessed lionlike Hancock, the corps tinned at the prospect of losing her beloved Ted carpet, and antiquated furniture and misery. But at lastat last had, too, a special trouble of her own, a meeting between the explorer with one spontaneous impulse as its daughter. and ornaments and, looking through came the news of victory, and all the for accounts of the wild doings of the and the poet thus describes the tcene: new commander, [tremendous applause,] &h<* i'oldmg-door3 into the diningroom "Meantime Karl Dernau, who had hill? blazed with bonfires! The Fatherland French reached us from all sides, and It was a few weeks after the lescuing and, oh! that the thousands be\ ond, I see the long table also dressed himself like a peasant, was free, and cur loved ones were it was said that they had a very vessels had returned, bearing the tew who had fallen in the useless slaughter decked for some festal occasion, two had brought a poor, miserable, onehorsed safe and coming home crowned with rough-and-ready way of courting, for heroic survivors of the ill-fated expedit at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville chairs wreathed with flowers, and before covered cart to the door of the laurels! We had suffered a great deal, if a German girl took their fancythey on. Greely was established at the had been with its colors on that day 1 horn, on the table. t\\ bouquets chapel, and, after the most heartrending but wv thought ourselves fortunate in just sent their soldiers to carry her off, navy yard at Portsmouth, N. II., and when Hancock, proud, confident, and composed of sprays of myrtle. leave-takings, Lorchen was having been allowed to look on while and then took her away with them to was slowly recovering his lost health glad, superb in manly beauty, and, lilted in, weeping bitterly. The night such great events were doing. I see, too, sitting opposite me in a the war. We were constantly hearing of and strength, though it was doubtful breathing the courage which makes had grown pitch-black by this time capacious armchair, my grandmother, deeds of violence and lobbery, and the* at that time if he would ever re-establish "But wheie have I got to with my all men braver, drew his sword at the the lightning flashed and the thunder a. little old lady in a white lace cap, laws, being administered either by the either. One day it was announced chattering? I was only going to tell head of that corps which, in losing rolled in the distance but under cover with a prayer-book on her knees, French or their adherents afforded us at the Shoals that the government you 15,000 men in battle, had never loot a of the darkness, the pair safely effected which she was reading here at home no redress or protection whatever. tug was approaching from Portsmouth "Oh, Granny," I interrupted, "you color or a gun!" [Renewed and prolonged their escape across the neighboring because she could not get as far as the What could we do? People hid their and the notel piazzas were at once have not told me a bit too much I applause.] frontier, to where the French had n6t ^chapel beyond the \Own gate. valuables as far as they could in hollow thronged with spectators eager for could listen all day After describing the many and important yet gained a footing, Lorchen passing trees, behind walls, or in the the least excitement. As the boat 1 had been there myself that morn"Btig, "Well," said she with a smile, "you roads from the North centring for a sick peasant-girl who was being ground, and whenever any Frenchmen approached the wharf word was passed all in a hurry, just to see how it deserve something for giving up going at Gettysburg, roads on account taken to some famous, wonder-working were known to be in the neighborhood around that Greely was coming to visit looked before I brought Granny to the to the chapel to sith with an old onvan. of which Lee had determined to seize doctor. As Karl Dernau drove off they hid their wives and daughters as Celia Thaxter, who inhabited a cottage house, and I had seen that it was beautifully When I began I only meant to and hold the place, and after narrating on his strange wedding journey he well. Poor Lorchen had the hardest near the hotel. It was almost decked with flowers, and that tell you how Aunt Dernau was imprisoned the incidents of the opening of the looked so brave, and tender, and selfreliant time of all, tor her mother was so with feelings of awe that they saw the there were wax tapers enough to dazsle in the cellar, that j^ou might see battle, the speaker continued: that we who were left behind nervous that she was always seeing man, who seemed, indeed, to have the one. what a dangerous gift beauty is!" "It was about 1 o'clock that to felt a comfortable assurance that our danger, and she insisted on the poor seal of God upon his brow, disembark. After that I had come back to the "Hm, Granny, I don't like your Meade's headquarters was borne the little bird would be safely hidden in her girl's spending the greater part of the But as he came up the plank walk, "wedding house" and waited, for I moral!" I answered. "The French ghastly tidings that Reynolds had nest with him for her protector. Two day down in the cellar, and many an his tall, emaciated form supported on -could snot leave granny quite alone are far enough off now, and for my been killed, to which Gen. Howard years passed, and in the meantime I afternoon I spent there, too, keeping either side by a sturdy companion, -and while I waited I puzzled myself to part I shouldn't mind running the had made the addition that the First i*' had been married in a regular, ordinary her company. the feelings of the people weie too make out why Uncle Dernau, as we all risk of being tolerably nice-looking." Corps was routed and in flight, astatenient way, in broad daylight, mujh for them, and some one proposed called him, and his wife should have Granny was going to scold, but the based on the appearance of two 'Look, said I, on one of these occasions, with bridesmaids and weddingbreakfast, a cheer, which was given with a will, ^chosen to celebrate their golden wedding corners of her mouth twitched, and regiments which had been outflanked, 'you can see straight into and without any of but with voices choked by emotion. in the little country chapel inafcead before she could recover herself, I and had come back in disorder. Immediately Neighbor Dernau's garden, "through the rather uncalmy romance which Greely could only rejily by an inclination of in the large town 'church, had jumped up exclaiming: on receiving this intelligence this little window.' had attended Lorchen's wedding. of his head and by thanks from which seemed so much more appropriate. "Listen, the bells have been ringing Gen. Meade went to Hancock's headquarters Still, who knows whether the "But Lorchen blushed and turned his hollow eyes. this long time the wedding is over, at Taneytown, and directed mere fact of our having taken part together her head without answering. One and they will be heie directly!"' Then, too, I wondered what could him at once to go to Gettyburg to assume Not stopping, they proceeded slowly in this romantic affair did not Whitsun Eve, a lovely May day, just be the meaning of sundry mysterious I went once more hastily through command of the broken forces across the rocks to the cottage where lead to our own marriage? Be this as like to-day, a number of the enemy's allusions which I had heard made in the rooms to see that everything was to save, if possible, further disasters the poetess was awaiting the man it may, it is quite certain that the troops passed through the town, and 4fo coarse of the evening before. They in order, and then I strewed flowers of the day, and to report whether the who had come to honor her. As thev next time Fritz Berger and I found of course Lore had to sit in the cellar Ikad seemed to amuse the rest very all down the stairs to the front door, position was one which should be held. reached the porch Mrs. Thaxter came ourselves inside the little chapel, it and get through the time as best she mtich, but 1 could make nothing of and then Granny and I waited at the Gen. Meade's attention was called to forward and extended her hand. was for our own wedding. might. As soon as the terrible fchem. window. the fact that Gen. Howard was senior Greely took it, dropped on to "Parlevouhs" as we called them, had Uncle Dernau's little wife was a favorite Soon the head of the procession to Gen. Hancock, to which he replied "After a time things went better in one knee and kissed it. "I all gone through and out of the town little woman, with bright eyes, made its appearancesuch a long, that he could not help it, that at this the town, and as the French were less have come," he said, in his husky, gate, the captive was let out, and tewn hair without a touch of grey in long procession! First came the old crisis he must have a man he knew favored by those in authority, it was trembling voice, "on a pilgrimage to what must the silly girl do but go 1 tffe, and. had very small hands and feet. people, several couples, and then the an I could trust. Hot was the haste thought safe for the fugitives to thank the poet for the lines that have the sitting-room window and lean out. Mow we had all admired her the night young ones, and lastly the grandchildren in which a soldier like Hancock would come cack and, as by the death of lightened many a weary day and night After being in prison so long, she 'fcefcre, when, for "the very lasttime," all decked with flowers, but proceed to execute such an order in his father, Karl had become the owner for a handful of men who never expected enjoyed the sweet spring air doubly, .as she said, she had danced the the bridal pair, who were that day such a crisis. Only those who have of the house Lorchen's parents had to see their home and friends and it amused her to watch what was daartning minuet, which had been arranged celebrating their golden wedding, were been in a case like this know how long rentedthe very house we are in todaythey again." Here he had to pause, and, going on in the street. But misfortune in hev honor. I can see her the most beautiful sight oi all. a road can be. Yet as mile after mile came and settled here, and raised by the kind, motherly woman, never slumbers and, as it fell out, a was spurned from the clattering hoofs JKVOW inberold-tashioned, marvelously Aunt Dernau looked lovely in her her mother with them, and all lived sank into an arm-chair. Amongthose young French officer came past leading -^faort waisted dress of silk, with a of the staff every feature of theground blue flowered damask and three-cornered happily together. How happy we who witnessed the scene, it is needless his horse by the bridle, and looking Tthjsee-cornered fichu crossed over her on either side was eagerly scanned for lace handkerchief, with the golden were to be together again! and the to say, there was not a dry eye. for a blacksmith, as the animal 'fftest iittle shoes without heels, wide possible lines of defense. sprays of myrtle in her hair and very first time we had a quiet hour, had cast a shoe. He had no soonei After he had rested a little and had ribbou sandals, and embroidered Uncie Dernau, with his snow-white Lorchen told me the story of her betrothal, "Upon the field of wreck and disorder caught sight of the lovely little head told of the many times he had read stockings. Uncle Dernau himself was curly hair, and tall, upright figure, which I had never properly now appeared Hancock. And, as among the roses which clustered aloud the poem "In the Desolation of Sier partner, and at the close of the looked most dignified, and quite understood till then. the sun shining through a rift in the round the window, than he threw the the North," he asked her how she *dance he made her a low bow, saying grand, too for besides the golden sprig IF clouds may change a scene of reins to a boy and dashed up the 'You see, Christel,' said she, 'you could have written it, and if she had ^with a gleam of fun and mischief in in his button-hole, he wore the orders gloom to one of beauty, so did steps like a madman. It did not take and I were very intimate, and you did ever seen an iceberg. "No" she replied, ej^es: i and decorations which he had won the coming of this prince of soldiers him a minute, but Lore was as quick know all my secretsalmost but you "but I have lived by the sea, in summer during the war. How tender and "Madame, you dance like a Frenchwoman, bring fresh life and courage to the disheartened as he, and had slipped back into her did not know that I had cared for and winter, and I suppose imagination careful he was of his little wife, too. and I believe I made a mistake bands which were halting hiding-place. Still, where was the use Karl for a long time past. I was has done the rest." "Wonder- after all in carrying you off from Just as tender and affectionate as uncertainly upon the new line of defense. of that, when the Frenchman had ashamed to confess it either to you or ful!" was all that the pilgrim could fae French monsieur!" he had been to the young beauty At his call the brave spirits seen her and was bent upon finding myself. But when he came to the cellar reply. In a little while, for h"i3strength /Everyone laughed at this, and Aunt when he married her in the sunny flamed to their height the weaker window that dreadful day, just began to fail him, h fi,nAj him he returned to Dernau blushed like a young girl. May-time fifty years before! souls yielded gladly to the impulse of when I was in the greatest danger,and Portsmouth. "I want to see the pretty demoiselle," What did it all mean? Could I *sk that powerful, aggressive, resolute drove it inI was too dazed to dare he cried in his broken German, Granny? I wondered. She had told nature. At once the doubtful halt to open it myselfand when he lifted Growth of Home Rule. and he insisted on searching all the ome once that Aunt Dernau was her Tatooing at Yokohama. on Cemetery Hill was transformed into me up, and before I well knew where I rooms in the house, then the garrets, -srfdesfc and her dearest friend, and that From the London Truth. the confident assumption of a new was, took me into the cellar of his A gentleman writing from Yokoha and finally the cellar! It was useless -'Some day she would tell me her his- It is passing wonderful how the line of battle the tearful stream down own house, well, then I knew I did care ma says: "The Japanese have acquired to say him nay, for he was master of 5$ry- Could I remind her of her home rule question has grown. I remember the Baltimore road was peremptorily for him, and I began to cry. And such a passion for being tatooed the situation, and Lorchen's poor ^promise now? when Colonelthen Captain stopped shattered regiments as they then he sat down by me and quietly that a law has been passed forbiding mother followed him down the cellarstairs As 1 looked at her she took off her Nolan was regarded as little better reached the hills were halted and reformed. took hold of my hand, and when I was the marking of natives. The law does trembling. spectacles and closed her prayer-book. than a traitor tor owning himself a On every hand men began to able to speak I thanked him and begged not apply to foreigners. It is quite and slipping down from my throne in Home-ruler, and how it Avas urged seek their regiments with alacrity commanders But, wonder of all wonders, the nest his pardon for having made such the thing now to be tatooed, and elaborate the window, I sat myself on a stool rectified their lines and prepared that he ought to be dismissed from was empty, the bird had flown! Finding, fun of him before. You can guess designs are traced on many .at her feet. for whatever might happen the a.-my. In the parliament of 1878 therefore, that his search was what followed. Our betiothal was travellers as an indelible reminiscence "Granny," I said coaxingly, "could ammunition was brought up, a part vain, the young officer flew into a rage, Mr. Parnell had but two or three followers. not very romantic, Christel, for we ot their sojourn in the East. The aaot you tell me your friend's story of Wadsworth's division, with the and snatching up a little ivory miniature They were insulted wherever sat upon an old sugar chest, and my sons of the Prince of Wales, when here Fifth Maine Battery, was dispatched of Lore, dashed out or the house, dress was torn and dusty, and the air they spoke. In the parliament of TSOW? You know you promised, and a tew years ago, were tatooed, and it is just the right day for it. They to occupy Gulp's Hill, skirmishers vowing that he would come back next of the cellar was dank and musty. 1880 his followers were more numerous, several Russian dukes and sprigs of won't be back for a couple ot hours were thiown out on the front and with a whole squadron, and stay till But what did we care for that? There but he was only joined by two or nobility have undergone the process. yet, what with the service first, and right at all points commanding positions the girl was found. As soon as he was were roses all round us, and we were three English members, while members The son of Longfellow recently submitted fchen the wedding, and a long sermon, were occupied with the bravest gone, Lore's mother sank down in a in Elysium: and as for the romance, in office and out of office vied with ft to a very elaborate tatoo decoration, atnd all the congratulations so we show of force that could be made with chair and burst into tears, feeling utterly we had enough before tha day was out each other in denunciations of so horrible and for more than three Jfetave plenty of time." a view to deterring the enemy from bewildered and altogether at her to last a whole lifetime. a scheme. And now! The Liberal months was the hands of thetatooer, attacking until the reinforcements, Just then we caught the sound of wits' end. But she had not wept long leader has declared for it the "This was Lorchen's confession, who did an amount of work on now rapidly approaching the field, 'distant church-bells, by which we when her neighbor, young Dernau, very official Liberals who were the and we both thanked Heaven for making him during this time that is usuafiy should arrive. At 4:30 o'clock Hancock knew that the bridal procession must made his appearance, and, to her extreme loudest in denouncing it are either its us so happy and bringing us together spread over a period of three or four dispatched Major 'Mitchell, of his be getting near the chapel. surprise, asked her with all due advocares or are mute against it. The again. We were happy, indeed, years. This caused, of course, a severe staff, with word to Gen. Meade that form and ceremony to accept him as a "Ah, child," said my grandmother, majority in the House of Commons and this helped us to bear our daily nervous shock which he was only Gettysburg offered a suitable position suitor for her daughter's hand. *1t was a beautiful time when we two is for it, and so, too, is the majority cares, for we were still in a great deal able to withstand by application of were young, Lorchen and I you never for defense." 'Ach!' cried the poor woman, in the country. of trouble and anxietv. and the clouds hypodermic injections of morphine