:7t\ Mr. Dunrobin! No, thank you. I'm A Novel Bit of Brain Work. rier all the rest of the night. It's killingthis ALONB. Bettie was promenading the piazza Fatal Results of Religious Mania. not content. But I shouldn't have plaee. Do you think I am that evening after dinner, and before A Springfield, Mass., .bookkeeper has A traveller lately returned from gone into all this extravaganceit Said a maid, my fortune telling,* falling off any?" the concert and the dancing. He perfected a. machine that is designed Australia tells the following story, Loan ago, in days of old makes my very soul ache to "Fallingoff?" said I. "There's nothipg wasn'-t a dancing man He was only a to aid brother bookkeepers and accountants "Never heart will ache for you, some of the details of which were published see those sownsif I were not obliged to fall off. You'll be the more piquant millionaire, well born and educated, Never heart will break for you, in running up long lines of in The South Australian Advertiser: to be all the time en evidence." and taking the more faded you a quiet, middle-aged gentleman of unassuming sShould grief strike your soul with anguish, figures. He has been at work on the "I don't really see the need of that." Are. You'll be prettier at forty than Charles Hampton, formerly an manners. She flashed me a Or you lie beneath the mould." "I do. If you're to beasuccess. And you are at twenty. But, oh, Bettie, invention since 1873, and had the glance as she passed that might have overseer of one of the trades in Pentridge -Some one near me kissed me softly I didn't come here to go home again. you're awfully old at twenty!" put out the evening star. He sat beside thing patented something like a year Prison, lived with his family, "Heed it not, dear heart," she said And I came here not only to rule this "Well, my dress is new. And isn't her at the concert he went with ago. The machine is cased in a light consisting of Mrs. Hampton, age fiftyi "Fate or fortune, who can know it? summer, but to have my rule remembered it lovely?" her next morning to the archery he wooden box about eight inches square Or the future who can show it? and several boys and girls, in Coburg. in all summers to come." It was a bright colored gold satin, rode beside her all the way to the JMind you not the idle talking, and three deep, and, lifting the cover, The mother for some time had shown "Noble ambition!" fitting like a glove and with it sheWells he sat beside her as they sailed Of a foolish gypsy maid." the interior is seen to hold an enamelled symptoms of weakness of mind, "It isn't ambition, I tell you it's wore a quantity of topazes, and there to the Red Reef Light. He walked white surface, on which are .And I said, my soul unfearing, though the fact was known only to business." was a black swan's down wrap to be with her the next day after dinner, All rny blessings unforgot two dials, and which shows the brass "But, Bettie, you're not a beauty." her household. On the night of January left on her chair or to pull up if she but this time they stepped down and "It were well I gave no sorrow "So much the more to my glory." keyboard in the lower left-hand corner. were chilly, and set off with its soft away from the lighted piazza, down 25 she went to bed with her From, that thought my strength I borrow "You ridiculous midget!" shadow the perfection of her perfect the pebbly walk, down the rocks and The larger dial of the two i on daughters in one part of the house can be content, my darling. "She's little, but she's shrewd." little shape. "Topazes, are cheap," out on the sands and along the beach Other lives to darken not." the left of the machine, and is divided and the father and eldest son in rooms And off she sped as young Penny castle said she. "You can buy beauties as in the starlight. When Bettie came into 100 sections. The rim of the in another part. At midnight the son Uut, ah me! the thought is dreary, came along for an hour at tennis and big as the tip of your thumb, for two in she was drenched with dew but she smaller dial is likewise cut into twenty was disturbed by a cry of distress Musing by myself to-night. I saw her coming back in time, surrounded dollars and a half apiece, in the old looked divinely happytoo divinely sections. The hand which moves "All alone!" the words keep measure from his mother's room. He got up by an awkward squad of the country jewellers' shops. It's the setting happy to notice the dark disapproval Gone is all the old-time pleasure about the first dial is called the unit and. awakened his father, and they young society men. that costs but nobody need on the brows of all the mammas. I. can see but sweet dead faces pointer. That which moves about "Yes, they are an awkward squad," went to Mrs. Hampton's room. The know that it isn't eighteen carat. I And the next morning Mr. Dunrobin Upward turning to the light. she said, in answer to me by-and-by. the smaller one is called the hundred isn't everybody would dare to wear door was locked, but their alarm was was gonehe and his trunks, and hi3 What the wonder! What the wonder "And stupidstupid beyond anything'" topazes with yellow satin no contrast pointer. A little finger play on the horses,and his yacht and his man. It allayed by either the mother or one of That my soul is numb and cold? you know. But don't they make me was a little yellow wreck of Bettie that brass keyboard makes the object of the daughters, who said that one of Never heart may ache for me, "The idea of taking so much trouble, look just dripping with light?" came into my room and threw herself, the dials and the reason of the pointers' Never heart may break for me, the girls had been taken sick, though Bettie, to please them, then!" "Yes," I answered "they make you face down, on my lounge, and sobbed 'Should grief strike my soul with anguish, names quickly understood. not seriously. The father and son "I'm not doing it to please them, look like a constellation half seen in Or I lie beneath the mould out the story. The nine keys on the board are returned to bed. the jackanapes! Yes, they are jackanapes! sunset. But you're wasted here, Bettie. "Well" I said, soothingly, feeling it Annie B. Bensel in the Lynn Union. numbered from one to nine, and are They don't know anything You ought to be in countries no time for a homily, and pitying the At six o'clock the son was ar jused placed in regular order, but also in but society small-talk and attitudes. where there are kings you'd be directing little wretch for all, "there are plenty by one of his sisters, and the story she MI) BETTIE BENNETT. two rows, 2, 4, 6 and 8 being above, They can danceoh, how they can affairs of state presently." left." told induced him to hurry to his mother's and the odd numbers, below. The key dance' First one and then the other, "I shall be content if I can direct "There's nobody!" she cried. "There's room. There the first object that is a brass upright, and as the finger till there are holes in the soles of your this affair," she said, with her gay nobody. I'd just as lief you'd know met his gaze was the dead body of his BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. draws on it a spring allows it to slip slippers. Sometimes I go to bed so laugh. "Come! I've just given Caro it as not. I 1 love him! And oh, youngest sister, Ethel, aged nine, rolled back toward the lower end of the box. There is no moral at all to what I tired it seems as if baths of hot alcohol my turquoises, by-the-way. To tell the worst of this is, I deserve it! But I up in a blanket and "covered with The pulling of each key on the board -am going to tell you about Bettie Benin*tt. wouldn't put any life into my you the truth, they're not in the least can't let these people see. I must go blood, with the head almost severed sends the unit pointer along on its thefeet. But I'm up in the morning as At least the real fact of becoming to me, and she admired them on just the same. "I'll put a little from the trunk. His mother and her journey around the dial as many fresh as a rose with the dew so. There's another part of the labor rouge on. My heart's broken. I'm elder daughters were lying down, case is that it is all very immoral. points as there are units in the number on it. I have to be. It's what I'm you have to keep on the best terms dead, dead, dead. I shall look in the smearad with blood, traces of which -But that's neither here nor there. of the key. Pull the 9 key. and here for. And they're a part of with all the other girls, unless you are glass while I'm doing it, though, and could be seen all over theroom. Two the dial set at 0 goes to 9. Pull the I had been watching the play some my success, these little swells. I've so perfectly assured that there's no say to myself, 'And Bettie, give this daughters had a frightful gash in each same key again and the unit pointer got to go about with a train of them titneI generally looked upon by the need of it,or else they will tear you to cheek a touch of red one need not.sure, of their arms above the- elbow, from moves to 18. Pull the 1, 2 and 3 as certificates of it. They're just like pieces. Sweet life!" look ugly, though one's dead.' But which the blood was flowing freely. fortunate others as an old maiden keys now, and the pointer goes consecutively itwhere one goes all go.Oh, yes, indeed It was a tiiumph that Bettie had let me hide here this morning. Have The other girl was similarly cut in one *Iady probably without experience,and with a hop, skip and jump to thank you, Mr. Vonderbust that night. The beauties,the heroines, you got any rouge?" arm. The mother was not wounded twenty-four. When the unit pointer, certainly without hope. The play you're always so kind! It is just what the bas-bleus and the sangre-azuls at all. Search was made for the weapon Nobody would have dreamed that keeping up its agile athletics, has I was wishing. Do you know I sometimes went on at the sea-side serious play, were nowhere.as she said afterward,in with which the crime had been Bettie was disappointed, brokenhearted, reached its starting point again, there think you're the most" And her own dialect. She was surrounded committed, and a white-handled penknife, dead, or anything of the sort for the stakes were high, high as when is a quick little motion on the right I caught no more of the silvery sentence, r\ like a queen bee with workers. She stained with blood, was found that night. She was recklessly, desperately hand dial. The pointer then has .some old eastern potentate risks his for she had gone off with Mr. had bouquets by the dozen, so that hidden between the mattresses. Mrs. gay. Dancing on the edge of "dotted and gone one." Tne machine's ilovely Circassian girl, body and soub Vonderbust, catching upherdraparies her lovers had to help her hold them. Hampl on appeared to be perfectly unconscious the volcano, she called it. And so internal clockwork is more as she flashed along all light and grace, his antagonist. The players were She gave some quietly to the bouquetless of what had occurred. The she was the next night, and the next, accurate than a human head can and presently tripping down the stairs girls, in pursuit of her plan, you girls were much excited, and being and for a week running, till all the mot eastern potentates, but all the hope to be. It isn't troubled with in a close-fitting dark serge, with a might have said, but really,I daresay, asked how the crime was committed chaperons in the house were getting malaria, nor is it ever larger in the the same, lovely girls, body and soul, cock's feather in her little turban hat because she had a kind heart under said that they had all sworn not to wild about her and expostulating with rwere the stakes. I used to think of it morning than it was the night before. and half a dozen other youths had all her artifice and audacity. I only tell. The police were soon on the spot, meand that was the way I learned All the accountant has to do is to run sprung to hold her parasol, to button iwhen I saw Laura Stock wood, that gave one to Helen Patterson and another accompanied by a medical man. The that I was supposed to be her chaperonand his eye up and down the columns, her glove, to walk beside her to the to Virginia Lamb, that happened wounds of the girls were dressed, and I couldn't think where it .stately beauty, and Jeannette Dean, pulling each respective key as he reaches spot where Mr. Vonderbust waited to be duplicates of some I kept, because the flow of blood, which threatened to would end. And then she went to bed ifche dashing one, and Caro and Elsa the corresponding figure. A day is with his new Hambletonian, whose their mothers were getting so be fatal to them was stopped. sick for a couple of days, and then I sufficient in which to learn the keyboard, and the rest. And among the rest pace they were going to try together. mad at their neglect, and I was said to myself that this was the end, and the motion of the hand Eventually the youngest girl made a could one forget Betty Bennett? She afraid they might begin to show their anyway. And then one morning, when When Bettie came back she came directly quickly becomes almost involuntary. confession. Her statement was to the claws," said she, next day. "Why, was not a person who allowed herself I thought she was in bed still, and was to me where I sat on the piazza The expert can run the figures in his effect that something was influencing didn't you see me go and sit down by just getting ready to go and see her, with my crocheting. "If you don't Ao be forgotten. head and on the keyboard simultaneously, them to be wicked and their mother Mrs. Lamb? I was praising Virginia she burst into my room, radiant, rosy mind going in to lunch with me?" she thus "proving" his work by asked them which they would choose And yet you did not understand to her. I was wishing I only had Virginia's U3 a peach, fresh as a new-blown flower, said. I didn't understand till afterward one trip up or down the column. death or a wicked life, and they decided -what it all meant, this furor about complexionand I wish I had! and caught me, and covered my that I was apart of her role too. Carrying is performed by setting the for death. They agreed to put iher. She was not a beauty she had Oh, you have to kotou to the chaperons, old face with caresses. "Oh, I must It gave people pleasant things to say pointer at the number to be carried. an end to one another's lives and too, or else they'll ruin you, the aio accomplishments to speak of she kiss somebody!" cried she. "And he of her kindness to a forlorn old spinster, TIonecessary is to hold down set the unit pointer all that is asked God if they were doing whatf He ai3 old tabbies! They put me in mind of isn't here. And I must tell you. I for one thingand I'm afraid if I was not an heiress. But she had everything wished TfT^dl'T^hi*e^^kl3o window^ rd key 1 and hens, pecking the heads of the other tur can't let anybody see it, actually see had comprehended it in the beginning her own way the summer rh in tilht S torww a number hens' chickens. It's apart of the labor it, it's too precious!" I should have put an end to it out of ^through. If you had to describe her they which they took to be an answer i A one les- than th one carried. On releasing you think so lightly of. Why, I handwas that, quite innocent and And it was a letter from Mr. Dunrobin, the affirmative. Aft or a conference you would say she was a dark and the lk^y the pointer is on the actually got a partner for Julia Drinkwater! ignorant of it all, 1 was her chaperon. and in it he told her frankly they decided upon killing Ethel, the slender little person, with arch ways desired number. The hundred pointer Oh, I tell you, if I do get an "It is such a misfortune," she said to that he had run away from her, if she youngest daughter5?Thedmothechil first. and one ..and the gayest laugh in the world and can be moved in either direction. hel the down establishment and a fortune, I shall the right people, "that my own dear chose to call it so, because he felt there of the pfchat would be all there was about it. The hand easily operates the nine keys, do lots oc good things. I shall make chaperon, who always takes me about, would be no happiness for him, or her and hacked her to death with a penknife .All there was about it? Oh, not in thus: Nos. 1,2 and three with the first any number of people happy that was obliged to leave almost as soon either, in a marriage with such difference and a razor. Then they be^an finger, 4 and 5 with the second, 0 and wouldn't be if I hadn't the fortune. I the least! In the first place, there was as we came and I should have had to in age and taste and temperament. to kill themselves. Th^y cut one another's 7 with the third, 8 and 9 with the shall make it a particular charge to go too, and beburied alive somewhere, "the readiest wit, the greatest good And now he had discovered arms with a view of severing fourth. The inventor claims for the establish girls in life, to give a nice I suppose, if my dear little Miss Buggies ^nature, the most perfect grace. In the that there could be no happiness without the main arteries and bleeding to machine unerring accuracy and surprising wardrobe to this pretty person who had not happened to be here, and next place, there were the most wonderful it. And he was coming back to death. After a while, however, the rapidity. He says an expert wants itwhy, sometimes a wardrobe she has taken charge of me so kindly!" learn his fate. bleeding stopped, and other incisions toilettes. This morning robe can add 240 figures a minute with it. is half the battlelook at me! People Take charge of that minx! I should were made. Thsn they held another "Oh!" she cried, bursting into tears, ot filmy blue India silk, garnished with will think a world more of you with as soon have thought of taking charge socouncil and decided that the mother "it's perfectly dreadful that I'm ,|ace of the same slight hue, and finshed one than without one, let me tell you. of a will-o'-the-wisp. should not be killed. Mrs. Hampton wicked. I'm not fit for him! I don't Lincoln's Diplomacy. I -J with a collarette and chatelaine of Yes, a particular charge to have one waited to see the others die but in the deserve him! I ought to be punished! "Now, you see what I mean when I -old carnelian beads, not to be bought taught a trade and one set up in business A New York special to the Philadelphia meantime day broke, when one of the I shall beoh, I shall be! shall tell say it is necessary here to be always now for love or money this bathing and I shall have a matchmaker Press tells the following: girls fetched her brother. him everything. I shall tell him just en evidence. You're forgotten if of matchmakers. I've felt the need of *dress of burlap dripping with rockerystals, how I manoeuvred and schemed and A new light is thrown upon one of you're not. Out of sight, out of mind. The general belief is that the tragedy it. So you see I'm not 'so unprincipled and worn under a cloak of plotted and" the most famous dispatches sent out I am here to be seen. If I hadn't been occurred through religious mania. The as you think." white plush, thrown off at the right "Bettie, it will finish everything." by the Government at Washington sitting here with you, that absurd little mother, who was arrested showed unmistakable xnoment for the wave this distracting "Bettie!" Vonderbust wouldn't have asked "It ought to. I can't help it if it during the rebellion. This dispatch signs of insanity. dinner dress of white silk bound about me to drive, and the others wouldn't does. I won't let him take me believing was from Secretary Seward to Charles "I'm looking out for a great many with autftmn leaves, nothing but a all have gone to pulling caps about I'm all I'm not. If there's another Francis Adonis, who had succeeded others than just myself." Tlie Tragic Death of Mrs. Longfellow. waiting on me to the dog-cart, and world, he wouldn't know me in it. strip or the bright vine making the George M. Dallas as the American "At any rate, it's doing evil that Mr. Dunrobin wouldn't have seen it And, oh, I'm afraid he wouldn't want Minister to Great Britain. It was in shoulder strap and to-morrow's bravery good may come, Bettie!" From the popfs biography, by Rev. as he sat there with his cigar. When to! Oh, isn't it too bad I should be so "Well, it's better to do that," said the troublous time just after the firing as fine as this, with soft, creamy Samuel Longfellow: "On the 9th ol I have filled everybody's eyes, Mr.the wicked, when I'd die to do him good' incorrigible girl, "-than nothing at upon Fort Sumter, and while there wools made softer with their edgings July his wife was sitting in the library Dunrobin will begin to see me. So I And perhaps the best good I can do all. Now tell me did I dance well?" was no longer a question that much of ostrich tips, cambrics sheer as hoarfrosts, am always very plainly visible with him is to die." with her two little girls engaged in "Like a little flame. Yes, I must blood would be shed. Mr. Seward's and covered with thread lace, my train of idiots. Oh yes, I am as But when that night she came in sealing up some small packages of admit that you danced like a ball of dispatch was dated May 21, 1861, lustrous satins of pale rose fittingperfectly froth, but its a game as deep as the thefrom the beach, dripping with dew their curls, which had just been cut firelike a golden butterflv on and such was its fineness and strength the perfect shape, and dark velvets sea underneath." again, and hanging on Mr. Dunrobin's off. From a match fallen upon the wind." that it did much toward keeping the and tulles and gauzes and now arm, her face pale and shining as a "Bettie, I'm ashamed of human nature floor her light summer dress caught "I don't know how well that would British Government out of the great star, she stopped and bent over me, a brocade stiff with gold thread, such when I hear you talk." fire the shock was too great, and she be. But that's the way I like to hear struggle. This fineness and strength, facing a line of angry mammas, and as they might have worn in the days "No occasion," crumbling her bread. you talk: so I'll reward you. Look died the next morning. Three days as it now appears, was due largely to kissed my forehead. "You wouldn't be ashamed of me if I of Msdici and now a black Spanish here." later her burial took place at Mount Mr. Lincoln, for to him Mr. Seward "Well, what did he say, Bettie," I were trying to make a fortune by what It was a basket of the most superb Auburn. It was the anniversary of Za.ce, with high comb and mantilla submitted the draft of the dispatch, whispered. you call honest labor. Well, if this orchids that I ever saw, a priceless her marriage day, and on her beautiful t&ww*, taken with her little foot, made and by him it was handled with a "He loves me, he adores me," mur isn't labor, I should like to know what affair, from which she drew the scarf head, lovely and unmarred in -an Andalusian of her. skill quite remarkable in view of mured Bettie. "Hehe said he didn't it is." she had thrown over it. death, some hand had placed a wreath his many distractions. In June ot care."Harper's Bazar. "Labor!" "Well," I said to her, after a week "With Mr. Dunrobin's compliments. of orange blossoms. Her husband that year congress asked the president "It's labor enough, let me assure or so, as she rested by me a moment, Eh? He has seen me you see." was not thereconfined to his chamber for the original draft of the dispatch, you, just to talk to these whipper "it must cost all of a fortune to dress "Well, then" Was The Man. by the severe burns which he had but it was not furnished for state reasons snappeis. It's more trouble than it you. I don't see where you get it." "Well, then, this morning Jeanette himself received. These wounds healed Probably every one has his detractors, well understood, and no copy of would be to write a book, tograduate "So it does," she said, with encouraging Dean is going to mount her hunter and with time time could only assuage, the draft has ever appeared in print. your conversation to the level of their but it is not always that a man is frankness. "Take my toilettes leap five barred gates and things I never heal, the dteper wounds that Allen Thorndyke Rice now conies forward little intellects, if they have any intel- .and gloves and boots and folderols shall let her do it. And Laura Stockwood innocently informed of the opinion burned within. He bore his grief in with the original of the dispatch lectsPenhurst and De Lacy and Van .-and 8/11, and the interest of it would is going to drive into town shopping which the world entertains concerning silence only after months had passed and a fac simile of the text, showing Stout and the whole set. You have 'take care of one poor person for life. she'll go alone. And Elsa and could he speak of it, and then only him. A stranger in Maine desired to to make believe to each one that you Mr. Lincoln's corrections in Mr. Sew^ Itsn't it wicked?" and she looked at Caro are going to the woods let them in fewest words. To a visitor who enter into negotiations with a farmer find him perfectly delightful. If you're cne with an irresistible drollery. ard's copy, will be published in the go. I am going to findJVIr. Dunrobin expressed a hope that he might be the least atom above his comprehension April number of the North American "Yes, I think it is," said I. For I and to thank him just as sweetly and in a town in that State for the purchase enabled to 'bear his cross' with in your talk, or silent, or slow, had known Miss Bettie of old, and I Review. modestly as a little milkmaidI do of some live-stock. Meeting a man patience, he replied: 'Bear the good-bye and good-bye to one, goodbye knew that if she got through thissumjmer write such a bad hand! And then I A part of this great state paper, in driving an ox-wagon, the stranger inquired, cross, yes but what if one isits to all. If one of them sees another alive, she wouldn't have one pena am going to get my water-colors and original form, is in the handwriting stretched upon it?' Whennot till hanging over your chair, he thinks left. go out on the rocks. I sha'n't do of Mr. Seward, and other parts of it five years laterhe began again there's something worth while there, "And the worst of it is," continued much sketching, every man in the "Can you inform me where Mr. West were e\idently written, at his dictation and he is coming in for his share but to write verses of his own, it is only :she, "that when you think you have house will be down on those rocks. lives?" by several ol his clerks. The president if he doesn't see anybody, he's going infrequent phrases and lines that reveal ^enough for a queen, you find you've Then I am coming up to read with "There area number of Wests living went over the document thus where it is plain there is something the the sorrow lying ever at his heart. only made a beginning, and have to youthat means get a nap and then about here. Which one do you mean?" prepared, and ordered numerous other fellows admire. Do you see? Eighteen years afterward, looking over Jkeep ordering more from Pelisser and lunch. And after that I drive with Mr. changes. He directed that omissions "This one owns some fine oxen." Here they come I thought they 4rom Bobinet and the others. It won't Vonderbust, and later I sail with Mr. an illustrated book of western scenery be made he smoothed asperities he "They all own pretty fine oxen." would." do to be suspected of any tarnish. Kilgore, and then it's dinner, and his attention was arrested by a picture heightened the dignified politeness of "I don't know thi? man's Christian* You must be fresh, or nothing. Why, then talking and promenading on the She ran into my room one night before of that mysterious mountain upon Mr. Seward he changed even the syntax name, but he has oxen for sale." I'm in debt up to my eyes!" piazza, and then the concert and supper. going down to the german. "Am whose lonely, lofty breast the snow of the paper, and no unprejudiced "I guess any of'em would sell if they That's 'Well, then.' And tomorrow I all right?" she said. "Come down "Bettie, I don't know what you can mind can fail to admit that every one flies in long furrows that make a rude, could get their price." there's the archery and the with me, that's a dear," think of yourself!" I said, in consternation, of his changes was an improvement. but wonderfully clear image of a vast "Yes, but this Mr. West is wealthy." picnic to the Wells and the yachting "You have nothing to pay "Why don't you rest to-night?" I In the general opening of his dispatch cross. At night, as he looked upon "They're all fore-handed." out to Red Reef Light." asked, not yet aware of my chaperonage. Mr. Seward bad said- "We intend to with. It's dishonest: it'sit's swindling." "But this West is said to be a closefisted the pictured countenance that hung have a clear and simple record of "For gracious sake, Bettie, day after man, and hard at a bargain." upon his chamber wall, his thoughts "Rest!" she said. "As if there were whatever issue may arise between us "No, it isn't. It's my business. If day, it will kill you!" They air all of them kind of closefisted." framed themselves intothe verses that any rest in the middle of a campaign! hisand Great Britain." Mr. Lincoln 1 carry out my plans, my pin-money &> "You can't stop. You have to keep follow. He put them away in mext year will pay my debts." I'll rest when I'm through." wrote "Leave out." it up. Stay to rest and you're like "Well, I don't know as I can give portfolio, where they were found after "And if you don't?" "Bettie, I'm afraid" the dead man in a battlethe others any other quality by which you will But the most important chance his death." These verses never before "What of? That I shall fail? Well, "Well, then, they can have the things walk over your body." know which West I am after. Oh yes, made by the President was probably published, pear thedate July, 1879: what if Ido? Folks have tailed before. fback." I did hear that there was a story afloat "Does it pay you really, Bettie?" thisMr. Seward had said: "When In the long, sleepless watches of the night. P^ 4 And if I fail, life won't be worth a cent, "Bettie!" that this West once robbed his own "It will pay. Don't you know how this act of intervention is distinctlv A gentle lacethe face ol the one long dead "To look out for that is more troubthan and there's always the river, you brother's hen-roost," said the traveller, I love ease, beauty, splendor, luxury, performed, we, from that hour, shall Looks at me from the wall, where round know." I can take, with all the rest laughing. Of course it was only a fine houses, equipages, gardens, laces, cease to be friends, and become once Ahat I have. I'm in for it. I've got story." "Bettie Bennett! I'll have nothing jewels, bank accounts? Well, that is its head more as we have twice before been be to do it. And I've got to be a suc- more to do with you at all. I think what I play for. My little pittance The ox-driver smiled grimly. "Well, The night lamp casts a halo of pale light. forced to be enemies of Great Britain cess." you are" Here in this room she died, and soul more would board me in a country town. stranger," he said slowly, I reckon Hefiist changed, and then struck out, Tvhite "Bettie, if people knew about you, "As bad as bad can be! Then come I had rather die. So I throw it all at I'm the man." the most vehement words of Mr Never through martyrdom of fire was led you'd be anything but a success." down and help me not to fail. I've one tossheads I win, tails you lose. Seward's dispatch. With reference to To its repose nor can in books be read "I don't intend they shall. And it's got to dance to-night to the last dance, I shall have not a basket of orchids, The legend of a life more benedight. England, Seward had said: "If that Illinois has more miles of railroad A pity if I can't trustyou." and take ices and drink champagne but an orchidhouse. I was made for ft There is a mountain in the distant west nation will now repeat the same great within her limits than any other "You canyou can. I don't approve with the best of them or the worst of it all. I perish in any other atmosphere. That sun-defying in its deep ravines crime. Lincol^nm changed both phrase.eth grar of this State. The six having the most miles of you, but I shan't hurt you. them, just as if I were to the manner It isn't like a girl that wants Displays across of snow upon its side. th Kl^w are aa follows: Illinois, 9,204 New Such is the cross I wear upon my breast If you were content to sit still, as I do born. If I don't dance the first dance, money merely for the sake of money. If that nation," said he, "shall now These eighteen years through, all the changing York, 7,406 Ohio, 7,352 Iowa, 7,- //in one or two gowns, and see the show then the others will think something's I want it for the sake of living, living repeat the same great error." Here scenes tgoby up, or nobody wants me, or I'm an my own life." 530 Pennsylvania 7,943 Texas, 6,- t: And season changeless since the day she the President relieved England from, "And let somebody else marry old story, and I sha'n't have a part 338. It was Mr. Dunrobin with whom died. the imputation of culpable motives. Ui i 'i ^fW^^m^f-:,l.rj^M&^jM^ii't-. &? ^M^'l't^^^ 4 '*,*e