W1 I Private Retreats in Iemand.T A frild Engine Behind, f:% from the rear coach and cast it off. THE CONVICT DEAD ing day when Mabel rose suddenly might fail to comprehend, she had Sew York Mail and Express. This was on the eleven-mile run, and from her knees. "Listen!" she said, understood the touch of those baby New York Sun.I had a ran out of Thff alarming increase in nervousand There's a plot of ground in WV^Tsfield, the coach had about two minutes to sharply. lips. Columbus, O., ten or twelveyears ago, mental disorders, consequent upon Where the grass grows rank and tall lose its momentum before the runaway With a kiss that was even more tender There were hurried steps coming the habitual use of stimulants and and several things conspired to bring 1 -A. place of dread to childish hearts struck it. The pilot ran under than usual, Marion Heriot took across the parade, and it flashed about the incident I am about to relate. When evening seadows fall 'narcotics, has resulted in a corresponding the platform, the end of the coach was her boy on her knees, and told him through her heart that no one hurries I had a passenger run of nine The voice is hushedthe laughis mut* increase of private "retreats" lifted up, and the next moment engine fairy stories until dinner time, to the to tell bad news. The door was pushed 'Ti8 passed with quickened tread hours, beginning at 7 o'clock P. M. within the past year. Though given and car were in a ditch. Neither one utter neglect of the undarned stockings open by a soldier,foronce too eager This little plot of God's green earth, For nearly three year* I had a locomotive in the less offensive titles of "retreats" Where sleep the convict dead. of them was ever repaired, the *Teck and the torn skirt. to remember ceremony. "The squaw named after a railroad official, and "homes/' the places are really has brought him bask," he cried. being too complete nor did the officers AH that day Mabel felt strangely "Ben Davis," and I got to know that How many sons that promised fair nothing more or less than mad-houses, of the law ever succeed in laying anxious and restless whenever Trottie Yes she had brought him back for i: piece of machinery better than any In boyhood's earthly time, where patients are placed under medical was out of her sight. But by the there she stood in the doorway, hollow-eyed, hands on Roby. -"Lie stranded herepoor battered hulks man ever knew his horse. You may surveillance. They flourish in the next morning common-sense had and dust-stained with her On the wreck-strewn shores of crime' buy two watches of the same make of iBut the little mounds that dot the field, rural districts, hat pay best when near gotten the better of imagination, long tramp over the prarie, while out the same jeweler, at the same time, Death of an American Outcast, metropolis1- New Jersey has And the grass that o'er them grows, and, absorbed in her everyday duties, from her blanket, where she had carried some and while one will keep excellent time May cover hearts more sinned against Fanny Lear died the other day in she allowed him to play with the other him pappoose fashion, looked many of these homes, where the unlortunate and give good satisfaction, the other Than sinning, ah! who knows? children on the parade ground. At Trottie's tired little face and anxious from New York, Penny^ will have off spells. It is the same with Europe, an outcast. The N. Y. Herald 2 o'clock the maid was sent to bring blue eyes. sylvania, Delaware and Maryland Qod help the many anxious ones, two locomotives. While "Ben Davis" tells this story of what it calls her him into dinner, he having failed to In near and far-off homes, For a while there was a breathless, would make regular trips day after find refuge. Connecticut and romance: Who wait with eager wistfulness appear as hungiily prompt as usual. blissful confusion of kisses and sobs day for months without givingme the Rhode Island offer like accommodations For him who never comes' "Fanny Lear was the daughter of In a quarter of an hour she returned, and tender half-uttered words, as least trouble ar wanting a cent's worth to New England patrons, while 0 may they in their stormy lives Dr. Ely, a protestant clergyman of full of mingled excitement and fright, Mabel with eyes and lips and fingers of repairs, other locomotives from the Have done some deed of love, Nebraska is the favored state for victims Connecticut, a man of some distinction and said that, not finding Trottie on assured herself that her boy was safe same shop were in the hands of the That has balanced all their errors the west. The south is as yet the parade she had gone to the houses in science and letters. If she had and sound as when he had been taken repairers as often as on the road. In the "Book of Life" above. comparatively unprovided^ inW thisf pa-fthat of the other officers' children, only to gone wrong early in life it was because ~r*- from her.. Ah! surely there are moments ^.aon An Ex-Convict in the Hartford Times. be told that Trottie was not with any of this sad world whose joy One of our freight engineers was a She had been left too much to a hot- tieular,,though sectionit is a notable fact this of the country sends of them. Nor had he been seen for tempered, bigoted and narrow-minded heaven itself can not surpass, and no man named George Roby. He came as many patients to the New Jersey STOLEN FROM THE FOKT. some time. Then Mabel, a terrible mother, who had been taught the doctrines angel's song will ever thrill Mabel's to our road from some line in New institutions as any other. Although certainty stabbing her heart with a of passive obedience witha thick heart with more perfect rapture than England, and gave good satisfaction all classes are admitted to these "re- pang that made her fair face look suddenly stick. Her daughter, however, had did the weary content in Trottie's for about three months. Then whisky The sun shone as brilliantly on the formatories," the majority of them gray and aged, cried, sharply, been well schooled and had Beamed little voice as he tucked his head down got the better of him and he went are treated for chronic alcoholism. parade-ground at Fort Fletcher as "That Indian woman has taken him! French, Latin and music. close under her cheek and murmured: to the dogs. One day, after his fireman Opium and morphine eaters come ne\t My baby' my baby!" though it was an earthly paradise instead "Her romance in life was in connection had brought the train into Columbus, "Trottie does love his own mamma on the list, while the "hopelessly in* with the' Grand Duke Nicholas with Roby drunk and asleep more dan tongue can tell." In vain Tom Heriot assured her of a bleak and ugly bit of Montana sane" receive no treatment at all. The^ ti Constantinovich, nephew of the emperor on the floor of the cab, he got his blue "Pietty boy happy now," said the that their naughty boy, who was a prairie, cut off from its parent young man about town, who^ has indulged of all the Russians, whom she-met envelope. The idea somehow lodged Indian woman abruptly, yet with a great pet in the regiment, would surely his appetite to excess, "goes to 'wilderness only by some rough defensand at St. Petersburg. Her appearance in his head that the officials were certain grave satisfaction in her harsh be found in one of the soldier's Europe- for his health." Europe in then must have-been very fascinating, two rows of sufficiently ill down on him, and he swore he would tones. They were the first words she quarters, feasting his eyes and ears his case, however, is oftentimes- a retreat from the following description: have revenge for being discharged. had uttered, as she stood silent and with strange sights and sounds. fbuilt quarters. wherehe remains with his tongue One afternoon he turned up down the "One night ins the winter of 1871 dry-eyed among all those happy, tearful "Go and see," she said hoarsely Mabel Heriot, sitting in a small porch hanging out of his mouth in anxiety road and was noticed to be drinking there was a masked ball at the Opera women, and as she spoke she turned "but you will not find him unless you for one drop of whisky until it is time in front of her husband's quarters, heavily and to have the bearing of a house of St. Petersburg. Among the as if to go, but Mabel's voice stopped will find her." company present was an American for himtoretarn from his trip abroad '.her lingers busy with some large darns man bent on some desperate deed. her. When he came back presently, very gir- _... .d! This was at a station eighteen miles of extraordinary beauty. Sh ha "Why did you bring him back to white and quiet, from his useless iiy- takes about six weeks. Tn un a pair of scarlet stockings, turned uana "There-are as many ways of treating from Columbus and on a gloomy dark hair in great profusion, and an me?" she asked, hoi ing her boy tightly search,the alarm had spread,and there her pretty, discontented eyes, more confirmed drunkards and opium April evening. I was due there at 7 28, imperial sort of forehead, broad, open to her breasta passionate wonder were kind faces and anxious suggestions often than was good for the progress eaters as-there- are physicians to treat and it was a two-minute stop. A mixed and white as ivory. Her dark eyes that any woman having once possessed and offers of assistance in Mabel's them," said ai physician to a reporter. .-of her work, to another pair of scarlet freight always side-tracked there flashed under her Ioug lashes, like diamonds, him could give him up again overcoming pretty little drawing-room, which suddenly "If a little-judgment is used they can for us to pass and then followed us and were all aglow with wit all her shrinking horror. looked so desolate. stockings which flashsd in and out be cured and that too quite thoroughly. down the line. and kindness. The hose was. firm, yet "Him pretty boy, but not mine," Nobody but Mabel gave the Indian among the group of children with an They imagine they must have of that delicate aquiline which denotes the Indian answered. And then, laying Well, I was there on this special woman more than a passing thought, activity which promised her more their favorite- stimulant and if possi resolution and courage. The mouth one hand on her breast, "Me not evening on time, as usual, having baggage, for they were all used to daily visits ble they will get it. Some physicians darning in the near future for they was wondrously full and soft, the upper want white mother to feel ache here, express and three coaches. It from Indians, who had long been perfectly use the padded cell. The poor inebriate lip small and formed liked a bow. like me feel so me bring her bov back began to drizzle ]ust before we reached peaceful, and were believed quite 'belonged to her small son, and though is brought iii suffering with th^ Her teeth were as living pearls, and to her." the station, and I saw that we were incapable of a bolder crime than petty Trottie was only 3 years old, he had delirium tremens. After large doses her complexion dazzingly fair. Little in for a dark night and a slippery "But why did you take him, then?" dishonesty. Besides, what motive -early manifested a positive genius for of bromide of potassium have feet, small hands, and taper fingers, a track. I did not see Roby, nor did cried one of the ladies, eagerly. could tempt them to steal a child been forced dowm the poor fellow's wear and tear, holding his own in figure such as a fairy might envysuch any one tell me that he had shown up whose discovery in their hands would "Me not take him," she replied and throat he is thrown into the padded is the description of the American there. I noticed that the freight tram that, as in other boyish attributes, be most certainly severely punished, very briefly, in her imperfect English, pell, where he groans and moans beauty who on that night stole the was unusually long and that it was while even his undiscovered possession she told them what had happened. among the elder children with a cheerrful tor days sometimes ia despair. Often heart of the Grand Duke Nicholas of pulled by one of the biggest engines on could not avail them in any way? It On her return to their camp the self-confidence which filled his times the poor wieteb beats his head Russia. the road. Three or four people got was not long before a soldier was sent, day that she had first seen Trottie, against' his cell walls in his frenzy. mother with mingled admiration and offr "A sad story of his- arrest on a after a whispered consultation, to she had told her husband that he reminded and perhaps as many got on, and Such treatment is. positively cruel, we were off On the second. It was a tregret. charge of stealing jewelry, and subsequent climb down the bluff at the further end her of their dead boy, and her and the-patients' many times are ran of seven miles to the next stop, banishment to the Caucasus, of the parade, toward which the mothers husband, believing that the child would i Life had been very easyno cares, seriouslyanjured. Thetheoryof 'stop and my schedule was thirty-seven also caused the expulsion of Fanny in the garrison had been comfort her, had gone to the fort the -no responsibilities, no anxieties a man's whisky and he won't get miles an hour. We had not yet come Lear from Russia. For some time glancing ehudderingly ever since next morning, without saying anything -while everything a girl could desire of drunk,' maybe very good as a theory, to a standstill at the next stop when after Fanny Lear resided in France, the news of Trottie's disappearance. to her of his purpose, and had -luxury, amusement and admiration but it does not stand' a practical test the telegrabh operator, whose face where she again got into trouble in the In a terribly short time he returned, managed to get Trottie under his 'had been showered upon her as the was white as snow, ran alongside and following manner: About eleven years To suddenly stop araything to uhich tne tears filling his kindly blanket when he was playing quite adopted daughter of a wealthy and called to me: the system has long been accustomed is Irish eyes, and in his hand Trottie's alone on the parade, and had persuaded ago a book was published in Paris generous, though rather tyrannical aseriousthing.is Thegradually most judicious decreasdan little fez, which he had found half-way the child, who was as little which caused a decided sensation. It "There's- a wilu engine behind you uncle. It had all been quite perfect jplan to humane down the bluff, just where a rock overhung heav, afraid of an Indian as of a white man, was called 'Re Doman d'une Americaine for until she had danced with Tom Heriot the amount of tbe^ patient's stimulant the swift Yellowstone. A great that if he would keep quite quiet he en Russie,' and was written by He ran back to the conductor, and at a West Point ball, read something until he can do'without it altQr silence fell upon the fort, which had would take him to see a very wonderful Miss Hattie Blackford, better known in ten seconds that official rushed up an his blue eyes, heard something gether. This accomplished the tretff* been so full of excitement, and the sight. In this way, after having as 'Fanny Lear.' In it the authoress, and shouted to me: Ihis pleasant voice, that stirred her ment begins. The drunkard is not voices which had spoken of hope and thrown Trottie's fez down the bluff to aided by some hack writer on the "It's a runaway enginepull out at heart with the conviction that, charming cured when he finds he can exist comfortablywithou courage to Mabel were hushed when avert suspicion, they had passed the boulevards, related her amorous adventures once!" as her life had seemed, it would his^glass. Neither is Tom Heriot, sinking down besides his sentry without difficulty. When he with a personD./ whomdshe de- He yelled, "All aboard!" sprang for henceforward be very empty and 4G an whom he ready to be discharged. Unless his wife's chair, laid his head on her knees brought the boy to her, and she tried lighted to call the the steps of a car, and away we went, desolate if she must banish those eyes impoverished system.is- built up SIT and sobbed. to make him understand that neither the Almanach de Gotha called the some of the people getting off or on being and that voice from ita conviction months after he leaves- the institution she nor Trottie would be happy together, Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, flung down as they jostled each other. It was Mabel who spoke, almost at strong enough to support her through he will be as bad as before he had ordered her to be silent, nethew of the then reigning Czar, After we left thestation where the once, in a strange strained voice that all the stormy scenes which followed he entered the institution. He and for this the authoress was expelled freight was- side-tracked a brakeman was yet instinct with energy, and forbidding her to return the child to her uncle's bitter opposition to her requires tonics until his system from Paris, and her low victoria ran down the track to open the switch. the fort. The camp had been broken something which, if it were not hope, engagement to a penniless lieutenant rallies from the shock caused by the with Russian horses were seen no more As he did so Roby mounted the engine up at once,and through all their march yet was resolved that it would notbe strong enough to make her reply to poisoi. of the alcohol. Morphine pa on the Bois." with cocked revolverin hand, and that night he had kept such strict desnair. This final declaration that she must tients should be fed on-the drug regui drove the engineer and fireman off. watch of her that she could not carry "Tom, darling, do not give him up. choose between her lover and him by larly. The doses should be decreased* He had previously uncoupled her out her plan of escape. But when, having Our boy never went near the bluff. He Belle and Shopkeeper. ^putting her hand in Tom Heriot's, daily. This can be dona by substituting from the train without being detected. reached a hiding-place he thought promised me again this morning that with the passionate protest that From a New York Letter. some innocuous white substance He ran the engine' out on the main safely distant, he left her, to hunt he would not, and he would no more ^where he went there she must follow, so as to keep up the size-of the dose in No fun was in the repulse by a belle line and half a mile beyond. Then some game, she seized her opportunity, break a promise thanthan you even though it were to the world's appearance, until finally the patient he filled upth fire boxr at the Orthopedic ball, of a young and taking Trottie on her back,set would, Tom. That Indian woman has and saw that end. instead of taking morphine is taking she had plenty of water, pulled the out across the prairie. man who there renewed a slight acquaintance him. Find herfind her quickly, dear regular doses of some effective tonic throttle wide open, and jumped off. I cannot wait much longer." with her. This was a Short as she made her story, Trottie, and he is soon in a condition to lea\ That was how we- came to have a tired out with so many griefs and More to soothe her than from charity affair, and hadadistinguished Her thoughts came back suddenly runaway engine behind! us. As soon the institution. joys, was fast asleep on his mother's any hope of finding her belief true, characteristic. Hitherto on occasions as the engineer was- driven from the "Women addicted' to* the opium to the present at a more uproarious breast but when the Indian paused, Tom, with another officer and a few of festive philanthropy the lines between cab he ran irato the station and informed habit are the hardest class of patient3 shout than usual from the children, and turned again in her swift, silent soldiers, rode to the little Indian the self-constituted aristocrats the operator,, and about the to treat. They are naturally more and she saw Trottie cantering toward fashion to leave the room, Mabel rose camp about a mile from the fort, only and other respectable folks had been time the runaway started off we got delicately organized'than men and it i her astride of a stick, while half the and came toward her with him in her to find that nothing was left of it but relaxed for the sake of th.3 cause, and the news. We were about six miles requires a much longeu time to cure pleats ot his kilted skirt trailed behind arms. some burned-out fires. Something of the proudest Astor naatron or maid ahead of her. That meant six minutes. them. Unlike the men^however, a woman him. "Oh, what a boy!" she his wife's strong conviction seemed to "God bless you, you good woman!"' condescended to mingle-with ordinary once cured seldomhas a relapse cried, rising to catch him as hepassed. When I pulled out I supposed the pass into Tom Heriot's heart at she said, softly. Then with all her mortals but this time it had been programme wasfor some of the station An old Indian woman, with a basketful the sight of that suddenly deserted voice shaken with a tender joy, and ordered that the nicest circumspection folks to run.downandopen theswitch, of beadwork strapped to her back, camp. the manner of one who would fain Treatment of Settmer Hens. be used to make are exclusive assemblage, so that the runaway wouldfoeditched, share it if she could, with this other -stood gazing at the mother and child, "We must make up several parties American Rural una-.- and each purchaser of a but it appeared that the agent was desolate mother, to whom no one with a look of yearning sorrow in her and search for them," he said, briefly, ticket had been critically considered Every summer poultry raisers, if so dreadfully rattled that he did not would ever bring her child again on eyes,which half touched, half frightened to the officer with him, as they rode by a committee of society dames. they Siave such fewis, are troubled attempt this- step until too late. The this side heaven: "See how happy he Mabel. "What do you want?" she back to the fort, but there was the Somehow or other, hwever, a retail moro-or less with setting-hens. Some switch was forty rods from the station, looks. You may kiss him he will not asked, quickly. light of new hope in his eyes. and just as an employe reached tradesman .got in. He looked all right of thfese are very obstinatey and thoug' wake." "Me want nothing white mother can There is this much of resemblance it the runaway came roaring past. maaf signifv their intention to the he in his faultless evening: dress, his character give," the squaw ansAvered, gravely, to a family in such a small and isolated My next stop was ten miles distant. I of opposing her apparent desire to was above reprac and he was laying one brown hand on Trottie's community as the garrison at Fort They kept her a few hours they reasoned it out in about a minute raise-a family, by giving:her a narrow, a figure of erace as h& leaned one elbow Fletcher, that, however much they bright hair. "Him pretty boy," she made her rest and eat a little. But that if the runaway was ditched the darkened house, with as tub or such may quarrel among themselves in when Tom Heriot, in the first joy of said, slowly, a hard breath between dawdhngly ooi a flowerstand fact would* be telegraphed ahead. If hk^-as a principle figure &ead, she goes prosperity, the touch of a great sorrow his return, would have bestowed upon each sentence. "Me have pretty boy while he politely saidir "good evening" so big. White mother very happy. she wasn't, that fact would also be araumd for weeks.clucking and hunting 1 on one of its members effaces all her all sorts of kind rewards, she would to the daughter ofta first fam3y. She clicked over the wires, and I would get her nest. Nc^ I want to ad\j# asperities for the time in the remembrance take nothing. She keep her boy. Great spirit take identified him with3azs inward spasm some sign or signal as we passed. If Tlae American Rural lome readers, of how close and entire is their "Me want nothing white mothercan my boy." Then with a gesture of despair of horror, for she h&8 bought shoes of she was following us there-would be neve* put a hen ander a tub, or duck mutual dependence on each other. give," she answered, gravely, as she which all her wonderful savage him many a time and. oft but outwardly no time- to switch in. and my hair From the colonel down to the latestarrived hwrhead in watf, or tie her legs to had answered Mabel on the day that endurance could not subdue, she she was -caijao and very cool, stood upa the idea of trying to outrun recruit there was no heart in had first seen her. And then waiving break her rrom sittingj-fever, but put diasped both hands before her face wfcire there while lost a littte- of his salf-posses her. I made the tern miles in les P open-, space, enclosed with the regiment that did not feel a pang her hand toward the prairie: "Me go dancing]"hRmn i and sank on her knees, shaking with t&s sion" as he" umbled'with a 1 twelve minutes and a hair". A mile at-the thought of the blue fearless back to him out there. Him very sobs which she still struggled to silence. 5 o.r\ *.l l is a away I began tooting the whistle, and eyes and straight baby figure which, good man to me." ih^sluthe.girl, with the shght-i "SfS.Ki ?SZ\?Llt The tears filled Mabel's eyes, but she Car as we neared the station, stilt flying, whether carried away in the rush of And so she left them.Nellie? Mackubin If you do not ^sish t take time, or stood hesitating what to do,her aversion est possible elevation of her eyebrows I leanediout to look for thee agent. He the Yellowstone or across the prairie in Harper's Weekly. l&&or, or spacs-'to. make a place for to Indians, which was the natura and a steady gaze- of mild* impudence was oiii the platform. If he- held up to some Indian hiding-place, they had night lodgings,., why, it is an 3asy result of four years spent in their into bis flushing face, "have you his hand I would stop. But he did little hope of seeing again. There matter to transfer her to the henfor near neighborhood, striving with her brought your bill to me &ere? That Washington's Rrodesty. not. On the contrary, he waved his was more volunteers than were needed you.,IJouse the aight, Imt I prefer leaving compassion for the grief which most really seems very/ urgent but if arm down the line for me to keep on, for the searching parties as soon as her in the-stall tfll she proposes to There is a story told of: Washington's ..appeals to a woman's sympathy. need the mone^, I will hajre papa pay and I knew that we were for it. The Tom asked for them, and with the last Jfcegin doing wftat she- was created for, first appearance in the-house o! But no doubts troubled Trottie. you/' runaway could not be* over three Grief was evident in every line of the one to set out Tom went himself, after that is, what you wish her to d: lay burgesses. He was something more minutes behind, and these* would not a sharp struggle between his restless eggs. I find that aealt is an excellent /bent, trembling figure, and for every than a new member he was the late Tha Mara&ttas Style of- Whist be tim&to turn her nt on the siding desire to do something toward finding food for fowls. I speak from experience. grief in his experience there was one commander-in-chief of the Virginia army, Flaying^ herei his boy and his sense that he was leaving remedy sure and unfailing. He applied the foremost man in a military Mabel to bear the heaviest burden The next stop was. eleven miles IhJQ corresnden of a Bombay, It at once. way, in the province be- had just re of suspense alone. It was she who away, and it wasagood'pieeeof track. pamper saysthat the Mjarathas play a The Washington Silver. "Not cry any more!" he said in his turned from the successful expedition sent him away in the end. Little by little I gave her more steam, game veryvsiaiilar tewhist, and this cheerful little voice, and kissed the A granddaughter of Augusun Wa^. & against Fort Duquesne. Sothe house, and after the first mile I knew that we Before midnight they were all gone, gj*me, w&hiiaodificatlons, is played in only bit of brown cheek which her mgton is now living in the cit^-ofWashngton, were reeling off a mile* every minute. resolved to welcome-him in a manner and she was left to wear through the xlasped hands left visible. aaany jgarts of native India, The in? ourenmstances 83 reduced There was train enough to hold us becoming so gallant a. Virginian,and it long hours of waiting in the rooms She turned as though she would game is called koto piseno and is that she- is forced 1 sell the family steady, and the track was straight, where all Trottie's life had been spent, passed a vote of thanks for the distinguished fhave flung her arms about him, but iplayeclby four playe-rs. A Marathas plate, o which a large portion cametO' and but for the awSil roar it would and where every chair and table grew military services he had! Mabel had clasped her boy fast, with her by inheritance. Augustin was st iwhist player deals* the wone way have-been easy to imagine we were flying. precious to her in that long watching, rendered the country. The speaker, a sudden terror, sharp though inde half-brether of George Washington, The agent ahead would let me TOunA and in this order the cards are because they seemed to assure her, Mr. Robinson, rose when Washington /finable. know by signal, as the other had done^ and the quiet, elderly liy who now afterward played. He first gives four with the dumb force of everyday association The Indian rose slowly, her face recovering came in to take his seat, and made a He was on the platform, with a great represents the family is at grand-niece carcls, at once to* each player. The with him, that it was impossible its usual calm'as she did so. little speech of praise and welcome, crawd behind, and he motioned me of bc&tii George Washington and o oneonhi right look 3 at his cards, he could be really gone forever. "Pretty boy very good to me, white presenting the thanks of the house. on. The runaway was still after vs. Mrs^ Gustis, whom he married. She aniifchen names i*hetrump. Thedealer mother not afraid me hurt him," she Everyone applauded and waited! foi She must have gained some, but how has some beautiful silver and a go&l again gives foiy cards* to eac&, and All that night and the next day she .said, and walked away with a grave much I could not say* It was eight the tall colonel to respond. There he tbm* looking afc his own cards, de- deall of heavy cut-glaes lived through her suspense as women and. amoffi dignity which brought a shamed color miles and hall to the next station, stood blushing, stammering, confused. termines whether to imrn upor not the* family treasures, is a bedquilt live through such agonies. Sometimes to Mabel's face. and I could dot do better than fortyfive He could give his orders to bis* men on her knees, sometimes pacing up and tura up a sing round. Whether he made from pieces of ^Lady Washing- She stepped forward with an impulse or eight miles a a hour on tbaup down, answering when she was spoken easily enough,, and he could even say djoes-this ornat, he deals tfee round, tonn's" gowns. A few days ago a to say something kind, but grade. The runaway must catch* us to, and eating and drinking when told and again deals fou* cards to each. TiBitor in Washington bought the what was necessary to Mrs. Martha jpaused wifch a smile at herself, half in the next six or seven miles. We to do so by the friends who took it in Each player now hashis thirteen cards. silver bow from which George Wash- Custis but to address the house ol oilvoi* 4r*r\im n3s*^Vk f^^s^^m. XX7 shy, half amused. What could she had gone about five miles whesh I got turn- not to leave her alone. But The game i* played as in whist the ihgton was christened. Ithasasquare burgesses in answer to a. vote o* say of consolation that an Indian the signai on th* bell-rope to stop.aud whatever she did, her whole heart, her call for trumps is not used, but the-' stand and is of the heavy, plain old thanksthat was another matter woman would understand, whose religious as soon as I had slowed down a little whole soul, was one wild prayersuch writer believes thax a player may asJfc silver, that is very handsome. The faith was probably even more Not a plain word could he-get out. It a brakeman came over the twderwtth a prayer as most of us make in our his partr#r which is his strong sujfc. only ornamentation is a beaded edge, -vague than her knowledge of English' was a capital answer, awl thespeakei instructions to stop at thestation. bitterest needs, and whose passionate The object of eachplayerissoto manage and the engraved letter W, surrounded And she shrank from offering a grief interpreted it to the honse. The conductor, knowing that we rebellion against what may his, trumps as to bring in his long by a wreath. that was so real and so dignified the be His will, the God who made human "Sit down, Mr. Washington," saic could not outrun the wild engine, and suit. Whether the game is a purely It seems v#ry sad that family pla* usual very substantial cure of squaw love so strong must surely forgive, he. '*Your modesty equals your valor, that there was no show to ditch her, nat\re one, or whether it is ai modification 1 and especially the plate of the* Wash- ^troubles. No, Trottie has done all even when he does not heed it. and surpasses the^ower of language.' could think of but one plan to save of whist, thwriter an.pe.axs. u& fagton family, should come into, the. Jlthat could be done to show their syn St. Nicholas, the train. He called the passengers It was nearly sunset on the. follow- I a&Le to, tawl*^ J^c market in titus wy, ^Sjatliy. Poor soul' whatever else ".he