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i’ By the time commencement day came the occasional presence of Miss Nellie had become - a, sort of necessity in the young professor’s daily existence, and the desire to he with her led him to spend the summer at Cape May, whither her father annually took her for the season; N ow Cape May is an expensive place, as watering places usually are, and so Mr. {obert [l’agebrook’s stay of a little over two months there made a serious reduction in his reserve fund, which was at best a very limited one. Before going to Cape May he had ceil- eluded that he was in love with Miss Nellie, and had informed her of the fact. ' She had expressed, by manner rather than by spoken word, a reasonable degree of pleasure in the knowledge of this fact ; but when pressed for a reply to the young gentleman’s impetuous questionings, she had prettin avoided com? mi-tting herself beyond recall. She told him she might possibly come to love him a little after awhile, in a. pretty little maidenly way, which satisfied him that she loved him a good deal . already. She said she “didn't know ” with a tongue and manner which con- :vinced him that she did know ; and so the (‘zqw May season passed oil very pleasantly, , “unub mu, Apaovun, uuu J J V .4 “ wmuhow the afternoon seduce: over the granh mar were contmued, though it must be con- fessed that the talk was not largely of verbs. MR. PAGEBROOK Gills UP AND CALLS ONE 01’ THE PATHIARCIIS. Mr. 'lobert l’agebrook was “blue.” There \\ as no denying the fact, and for the first time in his life he admitted it as he lay abed one September morning with his hands looked over the top of his head, while his shapely and muscular body was stretched at lazy length under a scanty covering of sheet. He was snappish too, as his faithful serving man had discovered upon knocking half an hour ago for entrance, and receiving 9. rather point- ed and wholly unreasonable injunction to “ go about his business,” his sole business lying just then within the precincts of Mr. Robert l’agebrook's room, to which he was thus do.- nied admittance. The old servant had obeyed to the best ofvhis ability, going not about his business but away from it, wondering mean- while what had come over the young gentle- man, whom he had never found moody before. A President (,‘urrier, of the collegiate insti- llltk‘l' had a daughte, Miss Nellie, who wanted to study Latin more than anything else in the world. President (‘urrier particularly dis- liked conjugations and pal-sings and every- thing else pertainin r to the study of Ianvuage ; and so it happenet that as Miss Nel ie was quite a good-looking and agreeable damsel, our young friend Pagebrook agreed to give her the coveted instruction in her favorite study in the shape of afternoon lessons. The tutor soon discovered that his pupil's earnest wish to learn Latin had been baseduvas such desires frequently are in the case of young women‘upon an entire misapprehension of the nature and difficulty of the study. In fact; Miss Nellie’s clearest idea upon the sub- ject of Latin before beginning it was that “it n'iust he nice 1" Her progress, therefore, after the first week or two, was certainly not remarkable for its rapidity; but the tutor persisted. After awhile the young lady said “ La'ti‘n‘wasn’t nice at all,” a remark which she ~1nade‘haste to qualify by assuring her teacher that “it’s nice to take lessons in it, though.” Finally Miss Nellie ceased to make any pretense of learning the lessons, but A MAN OF HONOR. Under the eh-eumstanees, therefore, it is not probable that this energetic and self-eon- lident gentleman would have suffered the loss of his professorship to annoy him very seri- ously if it had not been accompanied by the other trouble mentioned. Indeed, the two had come so closely together, and were so in- timately connected in other ways, that Mr. {obert Pagebrook was inclined to wonder, as he lay there in bed, whether there might not exist between them somewhere the relation of cause and effect. \Vhether there really was any other accidental blending of the two events 1 am sure I do not know ; and the reader is at liberty, after hearing the brief story of their happening, to take either side he prefers of the question raised in Mr. Rob's mind. For myself, I find it impossible to determine the point. But here is the story as young Page- brook turned it over and over in his mind in spite of himself. ()ur young gentleman acknowledged, as l have already said, that he was out of spirits, and in the very act of acknowledging it he contemned himself because of it. His sturdy manhood rebelled against its own weakness, and mocked at it, which certainly was not a very good way to cure it. He denied that there was any good excuse for his depression and scourged himself, mentally, for giving way to it, a process which naturally enough made him give way to it all the more. It de- pressed him to know that he was weak enough to he depressed. To my thinking he did him- Self very great injustice. He was, in fact, wry unreasonable withhimself, and deserved to suil'er the Consequences. l say this frankly, being the chronicler of this young man’s do- ings :md_not his apologisth any means. He certainly had good reason to he gloomy, inas- much as he had two rather troublesome things on his hands, namely, a young man without a s;ituation and a disappointment in love. A virmnnstanee which made the matter worse mm that the young man without a situation for “hose future Mr. lolwrt l’ageln'ool; had to proyide was; Mr. llohert l‘ageln'ook .him- wilt. This alone would not have trouhled him greatly if it had not been for his other Lronhle ; for the great hulkin" fellow \i'holay tin-re with his hands claspet over his head anw Very well haw to take care of himself. llu had (lune farm labor as a buy during the, lung v.1 unions, a task set him by his Virginian futhvr, who had Im‘riml a. brilliant intellect in (L frail hmly tn a \Vustcrn state, when: he haul married and (lied, leavinghis widow this mm mm, for whom in his own weakness he 1lkzsi1'ctl nothing su much as physical strength and hmlily health. Thu lmy had grown intn .‘L sturdy ymith whvn the mother died, leav- lugr him with little in the way of earthly pos- ussions ccpt well knitlimbs, a clear, strong, active mind, and an independent, 9e1f»reliant It was clear that Mr. Robert Pagehrook‘s reflections were anything but pleasant as he lay there thinking, thinking, thinkingâ€"re- solving not Ato think, and straightway think- ingjr again harder than eyer. His disturbance “as due to a combination of causes. His muddy boots were in full view for one thing, and he was painfully conscious that they were not likely to get themselves blackened now that he had driven old Moses away. This reminded him that he had showed teni~ per whem Moses‘s meek knock had disturbed him, and to show temper without proper cause he deemed a weakness. “'caknesses were his pet aversion. \Veakness found little toleration with him, particularly when the weakness showed itself in his own person, out of which he had been all his life chastisv ing such infirmities. His etulance with Moses, therefore, contribute to his annoy- ance, becoming an additional cause of that from which it came to an efl’eet. “gogitnting,” as ho, woulil have phrasml it, had to much physical force, too much good health and consequent :uiin'iul spirits, tn (lis‘ trust (either the future or his nwn ability to cope with whatever difficulties it mighthriug with it. To men with hrond chests and great lumniy logs and arms like his, the future has :L wry promising way of presenting itself. Besides, our young man knew himself wcll i'nruishi-il for a, light with the world. He :tpirit. \Vith these he had managed to work his way through college, turning his hand to anything which would help to provide him with the necessary meansm keeping hooks “coaching” nther students, canvassing for various things, and doing work of other sorts, curing little whether it was dignified or un- dignified, )rovided it was honest and prom- ised the {desired pecuniary return. After graduation he had accepted a tutorship in the college wherein he had studied~a position which he had resigned (about a year before the time at which we find him in a. fit of the blues), to take upon himself the duties of “ Professor of English Language and Litera- ture, and Adjunct Professor of M athematics,” in a little collegiate institute with big preâ€" tensions in one of the suburbs of Philadelphia. l 11 short, he had been knocking about in the world until he acquired considerable confi- dence in his ability to earn a living:r at almost anything he might undertake. BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON‘ CHAPTER I “VVhat a‘ passion my cousin has for abre- viations ! One would think he had a grudge against words from the way in which he cuts them up. And what a figure of speech that is l ‘ As cross as a twenty-dollar hank note I ’ Let me see. I may safely assume that the lot- ters ‘Thrs7 with an elevated ‘d’ means Thursday, and as this is Thursday, and as the letter was written last week, and as my watch tells me it; is now ten o’clock, and as my boots are still unblacked, and :15 Moses has not yet made his appearance, it seems altogether probable. that my colmin’s break- An amused smile played on Mr. ‘mhel‘t’s face as he read this note over and over. \Vhat he was thinking I don’t know. Aloud he said : positi6n of afi'ufi‘s to keep up 11171 interest in them, “A little matter of business takes mo. to Philadelphia. next week. Shall be at (limrd Ha, Tllursd moru‘g. M eat me there at break fast, but don’t come too early. Train won’t get in till three, so I’ll sleep a little late. Sh’d you wake me too early, I’ll be as cross as a $20 bank note, and make a, bad impres- sion on you.” with-just _en9u_gh of ‘uncertaiuty about the fast fvill he Postponed until the middle of the As the season drew near its close, how- ever, Miss Nellie suddenly informed her lover one evening that her dear father had “ plans " for her, and that of course they had both been amusing themselves merely; and she said this in so innocent and so sincere a way that for the moment her stunned admirer believed it as he retired to his room with an unusual. ache in his heart. \Vhen the young man sat down alone, however, and began meditating upon the events of the past summer, he was unreasonable enough to accuse the innocent little maiden of very naughty trifling, and even thinking her wanting in honesty and sincerity. As he sat there brooding over the matter, and half hoping that Miss Nellie was only trying him for the purpose of testing the depth of his affection, a servant brought him a note which he opened and read. It was a very formal affair, as the reader will see upon running his eye over the following copy : “ I shall certainly be very happy to inform the gentleman,” thought the perplexed young man, “ whether he may or may not (by the way he very improperly omits the alternative ‘or not’ after his ‘whether’ ). whether he may or may not ‘ count upon’ (I must look up that expression and see if there is good authority for its use), whether he may or may not count upon my acceptance of the position ofl‘ercd me just as soon as loan inform myself upon the matter. As I have not at present the slightest idea. what the ‘position ‘ is, it is somewhat difficult for me to make up my mind concerning it. However, as lam with- out employment and uncomfortably short of money, there seems to be every probability that my unknown correspondent's proposi- tiony whatever it is, will be favorably consid. ered. Moses will come after awhile, 1 Sup- pose, and he probably has the other letter caged as n. ‘valunble,’ Let me see what we have here from \Villiam.” \Vith this 0111' young gentleman opened his only remaining letter, which he had already discovered by a. glance at the postmark was from a, Virginia cousin. It was a. mere note, in which his cousin wrote : Taking up the note again he read it, al- though he knew perfectly well everything in it, and began speculating upon what it could possibly mean, knowing all the while that no amount of speculation could throw the slight- est ray of light on the subject in the absence of further information. He read it aloud, just as you or I would have done, when there was nobody by to listen.. It was as brief as a telegram, and merely said : “ \Vill you please inform me at once whether we may count upon your acceptance of the position ofl‘ered you ? " It was signed with an unfa- miliar name, to which was appended the {lln‘e- viated word “ Pres‘t.” “ CAPE MAY, Sept. 10th, 18*". DEAR Sn: :"vlt becomes my duty to inform you that the authorities controlling the colle- giate institutes affairs having found it neces~ sary to retrench its expenses somewhat, have determined to dispense altogether with the adjunct professorship of mathematics, and to distribute. the duties appertaining to the chair of English Language and Literature among the other memhers of the faculty. in consequence of these, changer: we shall here,» after be deprived of your valuable as anee in the collegiate institute. There is yet due you three hundred dollars ($31)“) upon your salary for the late. collegiate year, and I greatly regret that the tr asurer informs me of a pre. ent lack of funds with whieh to dis- charge this ohligation. l personally promise you, howeyer, that the amount shall he re- mitted to whatever address you may give me on or hefore the fifteenth day of Novemher next I remain, air, with the utmost respect, Your ohedient Servant, Irwin Cl'RRllHi, President, &e. To Professor Robert l’agehrook. “1 send this hy a messenger just as i am upon the point of leaving ( ‘ape M ay for a hrief trip to other parts of the country. I). (‘. " ()uryoung gentleman was not, ordinarily, of an irritath disposition, and trifling things rarely ever disturbed his equaniinity, hut ho was forced to admit, as he lay there in bed, that he had been a very unreasonable young gentleman on several recent occasions, and naturally enough he hogan to eatalogue his sins of this sort. Among other things he re» inembered that he had worked himself into a temper over the emptiness of the matelrsafe ; and this reminded him that he had not even yet looked to see if there were any letters on the table at his elbow, much as he had the night previously hewailed the impossibility of doing so at onee. Somehow this matter of his correspondenee did not seem half so im- perative in its demands upon his attention now that he could 1‘ :ad his lette "5‘ at once as it had seemed the nighthefore when he eould not read them at all. He stretched out his hand rather languidly, therefore, and taking up the half dozen letters which lay on the table, began to turn them over, examining the superscriptions with small show of inter est. Breaking one open he muttered, “ 'l‘her’s another forty dollars' worth of foils I did not need that coat, hut ordered it (Npressly for (‘ape May. The hill must he paid, of Course, and here I am, out of woak, with no prospects, and about fire hundred dollars less money in hank than I ought to have. ! " After he had waked up whatever echoes there were in the building by his crescendo calling for Moses, besides spoilingr the temper of the night editor, who was just then in the midst of his first slumber in the room oppo~ site, Mr. Rob remembered that the old col- ored Janitor who owned the patriarchal name, and who fora trifling consideration ministered in the capacity of servant to the personal comfort of the occupants of the rooms under his charge, was never known to answer a call. He was sure to be within hearing, but would maintain a profound silence until he had dis- posed of whatever matter he might happen to have in hand at the moment, after which he would come to the caller in the sedate and dignified way proper to a person of his im- portanee. Remembering this, and hearing some ominous muttering’s from the night editor's room, our young gentleman withdrew his head from the corridor, put on his dress- ing-gown and slippers, and sat down to await the leisurely coming of the serving man. This latter had L‘UIHC tn Mr. Hubert very unexpectedly, and its immediate consequence had been to send him hastily hack to his city lodgings. He had arrived late at night, and finding no matches in his room, which was situated in :1. business building where his neighbors were nnknuwn to him, he had been cmnpelled to go to bed in the dark, wit]an the possibility of :stm‘tnining whnthm' or not thew we)”, any letters mutitiug him on hi, table. 1 am really afraid he [dosed that sentence with an ejaculation. l have set down an ex- clzunatinn point. to CUVCI‘ the pusflillility of such a thing. H0 wentvon with his letters. Presently he opened the last but 0110, and immediately pro- ceedud to open his eyes rather wider than usual. Jumping out of bed he thrust his 110m] out Of “10 door and 04111041 “ Mus-0% l" “ Moses! /" “ Mum ,‘u Mil. PACICHI MOSES 00K IS IN ITEM '1‘“ 1H} lit-'A (‘HA I’TER “Pray tell me, Billy, do Virginians ever throw rocks? I am interested in muscle, and should greatly like to see some one able to throw rocks. I have )aid half a dollar many a time to see a man iit extraordinary weights, but the best of the showmen never dream of handling anything heavier than can- non-balls. It would he decidedly entertainâ€" ing to see a man throwin rocks and thin of that sort about, even if m were to use filth hands in doii it.“ “ U170n my “fowl,” said Mr. Billy, “ that‘s a polite speech. If you'll only say you’ll go, though ldnn’t cure the value of a. herrilm’s loft fore foot what use you make of me. 1 m yours to command and ready for any sport that suits you, unless you take a nation to throw rocks at me.” u ‘ .V . v. ‘ 3.10115. '_ 1’02 roz,’ now, IS enurer new to me, and 1 might make sonwthing out of it111 a philologmal way." I tell you it is the delightfulest two hun- dred year old establishment you ever saw or didn‘t see. As the lrish attorney said of his ancestral home: ‘there isn't a. table in the house that hasn‘t had jigs danced upon it, and there's not a chair that you can‘t throw at a friend‘s head without the slightest fear of breaking it.‘ \Vhen we get there we'll have as much fun as :1 pack of hounds on a fresh trail." “Upon my word, Billy," said the professor cousin, “your metaphors have the merits of freshness and originality, at least, though now and then, as in the present instance, they are not very complimentary. However, it just occurs to me that l have been wanting to go to Shirer ‘ovorsince ] was born,‘ if you will allow me to borrow one of your foreile phrases, and this really does seem to he a pc- culim‘ly rood opportunity to do so. I am it good (lea interested in dialects and promin- eialisms, so it would be morth my while to visit you if for no other reason, because my stay at Shirley will give me an excellent op- portunity to study some of your own expres~ in - ~ day if he waits for me help him out it. I am afraid he will be as cross as a. dozen bank- notes of the largest denomination issued when we meet." n “Did you call, sah ‘Z' asked Moses, coming very deliberately into the room. “l am under the impression that I did, though it requires an extraordinary exercise of the memory to recall an event which hap~ pened so 101w agn. Have you any ‘valla- hles‘ for me ‘3 ’ Moses thought he had. This was as near an approach to anything like a positive state- ment as Moses ever made. He would go to his room and ascertain. Among many other evidences of unusual wisdom on the part of the old negro'was this, that he believed himâ€" self fully capable of recognizing a valuable letter whenever he saw it ; and it was one of his self-imposed duties, whenever the post brought letters for any absent member of his constituency, to look them over and sequeste- rate all the “ vallables ” until the return of the owner, so that they might be delivered with his own hand. Zeturning now he brought to “vallables” for Mr. Pagehrook. One of them was a printed circular, but the proved to be the desired letter, which was a formal tender of a professorship in a New England college, with an entirely satisfactory salary attached. Accompanying the oflicial notice of election was a note informing him that his duties in the event of acceptance would not begin until the first of January, the engagement of the retiring professor ter- minatng at that time. Under the influence of this news our young friend’s face brightened quite as pereeptibly as his boots did in the hands of the old ser- vitor. He wrote his letter of acceptance at once, and then proceeded to dress for break- fast at the (Girard House, whither he walked with as light a step and as cheerful a bearing as if he had not been a sadly disappointed lover at all. “ But, my dear Billyâ€" " “But my dear Bob, I won‘t hear u word, and I wan't take no for an answm: That‘s pnz ml and the king's English. 1 am nmnag- ing this little job. You can give up yuur moms tn-«lny, sell out your plunder and stop expenses. 'l'hun youneedu‘t open your pocket book again for 90 long that you‘ll forget how it looks inside. Put a few nim-penceg into your hreeuhes pocket to throw at (lm‘keys when they hnhl ynur horse, mnl the thing's done. And won't; we wake up old Shirley? 1 “ Now don't, I beg of you. ('ull me Billy, or Will, or anything 0ch you choose, old {el- lou', l)11t(ll)ll‘t oall me \Yilliam, whatever you do. Nobody (ever did lint father, and he never did eweptof mornings when [wouldn't get 111». ‘l‘hon he'd singr out ‘ \\'ill-_z/um’ with a. surf, of :1, lllll‘N‘M'lllI) snap at the end of it. ‘\\'illi:s.nl' always reminds me of disturbed slumhers. (kill me Billy, and I'll call you Bob. 'l‘ll do that anyhow, so you might as well fall into familiar ways. But come, tell me how you are and all about youmelf. You havn‘t written to me since the flood ; forgot to receive my lust letter I suppose." “l’rohiihly l (lid. l have. been forgettinsr :1 good many things. lint I hope I have not kept you too long from your breakfast, and especially that l have not made you ‘as cross as a twenty dollar hanlmiote.‘ l’rafltell me what you meant by that figure of speech, will you not? I am curious to know where you got it and why." " Ha! ho 1” laughed Billy. “ You’ll have a lively time of it if you mean to unravel all my metaphors. Let me see. l‘nmst haVe referred to the big X‘s they print on the hunk hills or something of that sort. But let‘s go to breakfast at once. J’m as hungry its a Vll- lage editor. \Ve can talk overa heefsteuk, or you can at least. I mean to he as still as. :Llnill-pond of a. cloudy night while you tell me all about yourself.” And over their breakfast they talked. But in telling his story, while he remembered to mention all the details of his situation losing and his Situation getting, Mr. Robert sonic- ]iow forgot to say anything about his other disappointment. He soon learned to know and to like his cousin, and, which was more to the purpose, he began to enjoy him right heartily, in his own way, hantering him on his queer uses of English, half in sport, half in earnest, until the Virginian declared that they had grown as familiar with each other “ as a pair of Irislunen at a Wake.” “ \Vcll, ] reckon you \‘aii't," said the 'irâ€" gininu ; “ lK‘e been inviting you to the ‘ home of ymn' fathchy (ever since 1 was born, and this is the very first time I ever got you to own up to {L scrap of leisure as big as your thumb nail. I've got you now with nothing to do and nmvhere {in go, and I mean to take you with me this Very evening to Virginia. We‘ll leave on the eleven o‘clock train to- night, get to Richmond to-nmrrow at two, and go up hume next morning in time for mack." ltoln-ri l’ugohrnok had never seen his cous~ in, and yet they were not altogether strangers to each other. lohert’s father and “'ilhmn Barlcsdule’e mother were brother and sister, and Shirley, the old Virginian homestead, which had been in the family for nearly two centuries, had passed to Barksdale’s mother by the Voluntary act of Robert’s father when, upon coming of age, he had gone west to try his fortune 111 a husier world than that of the Old Dominion. The two boys, \Villiam and Itohert, lmd corresponded quite regularly in boyhood and quite irregularly after they grew 11]), and so they knew each other pretty well, though, :er l have said, they had uevar met. “l mu glad. very glad to see you, “'il- limn," said liuhort, as he grasped his cousin‘s limn, hand “ No," said Robert. “My duties will not begin until January, and meantime I must go ofi'on a tramp somewhere to get my muscles, physical and financial, up again. To tell the truth I have been dawdlin r at Cape May this summer instead of going 0 ‘ t0 the mountains or the prairies, as 1 usually do, for a h :alth- ful and economical foot journey, and the re- sult is that my legs and arms are sadly run down. I have been spending too much money too, and so can not afford to stay around Philadelphia until January. I think I must go ofi‘ to some of the mountain counties, where the people think five dollars a fortune and call anything less than a precipice rising ground ” \‘ l m H‘ (mac, f 11% : with as if luv (21' “I suppose you are off at once for your new place, a’n’t you? This is September,” said Billy, after his cousin had finished so much of his story as he cared to reveal. M! ICU HIUOK 'I'S HIS HREAKFA CHAPTER III DURING the past year 145 new streets \vcm opened in London, and 7,764 new house: built. D,” “ \Vzuizel‘ E,” and “ “'anzer F.” The first two can be worked either by hand or foot, and, being very simple and portable, are found to be a great assistance in families. The F is calculated for heavier work, and is only used as a treadle machine. It has a. re- versible feed, sewing both backwards and forwards. The I) is especially ada ted for heavy tailoring, and the l“ wheel eed for leather work. Purchasers are respectfully requested to examine the above machines be- fore making a final choice. Tux-1 \Vanzer series of Sewing Machines are 110V considered to be second to none eith- er at home or abroad. Every Machine is well finished and carefully adjusted, and un- less pronounced perfect by a competent me- chanic, is not allowed to leave the works. The series embraces live numbers, viz., the “ Little \Vauzer,” “ Wanzer A,” “ Wanzer D,” “ \Vzulzel‘ E,” and “ “'anzer F.” The The best method of (Rising a 1011in is to resist it with all the force of will possible, un- til the accumulation of phlegm becomes great- er ; then there is something to cough against, and it comes up very much easier and with half the coughing. A great deal of hacking, and humming, and coughin in invalids, is purely nervous, or the resu t of mere habit, as is shown by the frequency with which it occurs while the. Imitent is thinking about it, and its cmnpamtive rarity when he is so en- gaged that there is no time to think, or when the attention is impelled in another direction. “Nonsuggp,” said Billy ; “I‘m not one of your students getting a dictionary lesson. \Vaitex‘!" n “Vtht will you have, sir? wait-er. ‘ “ Some hot biscuit, flea/Be.” “They a’n’t no hot iscuits, sir “ “"011, some hot rolls then; or hot bread of some sort. Cold bread for breakfast is an abomination. " ; 7‘ You iinpei-tinentâ€"’ “My dear Billy," said Bob, “pray keep your temper. ‘ Impertinent’ is not the word you wish to use. The man can not well be impertiuent. He is a trifle impudent, 1 ad- mit, but we can afford to overlook the impu- dence of his remark for the sake of the philologieal interest it has. \Vaiter, you ought to know, inasmuch as you have been brought up in a. land of free schools, that two negatives, in English, destroy each other, and are equivalent to an affirmative. But the matter in which I am most interested just now is your remark that hot bread is not healthy. Your statement is erfeetly true, and it would have been equal y true if you had omitted the qualifying adjective ‘hot.’ No bread can be ‘healthy,’ because health and disease are not attributes or conditions of inanimate things. You probably meant, however, that hot bread is not wholesome, a point on which my friend here, who eats hot bread every day of his life, would naturally take issue with you. Please bring us some buttered toast." This opportunity to visit the old homestead where his father had passed his boyhood was peculiarly welcome to Mr. Robert just now. There had always been to him a sort of gla- mour about the name Virginia and Shirley. llis father‘s stories about his own childhood had made deep impression on the mind of the boy, and to him Shirley was a palace and Virginia a fairy land. Whenever, in child- hood, he was allowud to call a calf or apig his own, he straightway bestowed upon it one or ihe other of the charmed names, and fancied that the animal grew stronger and more beautiful as a consequence. He had :11- ways intended to go to Shirley, but had never done so; just as you and ‘1 reader, have always meant to do several score of things that we have never done, though we can hardly say why. Just now, however, M r. Billy‘s plan for his cousin was more than ever agreeable to Mr Robert for various pres- ent and unusual reasons. He knew next to nobody in or about Philadelphia outside the precincts of the collegiate institute, and to hunt up acquaintances inside that institution was naturally enough not exactly to his taste. He had several months of time to dispose of in some way, and until Billy sun ested the visit to Virginia, the best he hadglmen able to do in the way of devising a. time-killer was to plan a solitary wanderin r among the moun- tainous districts of Pcnnsy vania. Ordinarily he would have enjoyed such a journey Very very much, but just now he knew that Mr. Robert Pagchrook could hardly find a less agreeable companion than Mr. Robert Pago- brook himself. That little affair with Miss Nellie Currier kept coming up in his memory, and' if the reader be a man it is altogether probable that he knows precisely how the memory of the story affected our young gen- tleman. He wanted company, and he wanted change, and he wanted out-door exercise, and where could he find all these quite so abund- ant as at an old \'ir inian country house? His love for Miss Nel ie, he was sure, was a very genuine one; but he was («lually sure that it was hopeless. Indeed, now that he knew the selfish insinccrity of the damsel he did not even wish that his suit had prospered. This, at any rate, is what he thought, as you did, my dear sir, when you first learned what the word “Another” means when printed with a big A ; and, thinking this, he felt that the first thing to be done in the matter was to forget Miss Nellie and his love for her as speedin as possible. How far he succeeded in doing this we shall probably see in the se- quel. At present we have to do with the attempt only. New scenes and new people, Mr. Pagehrook thought, would greatly aid him in his purpose, and so the trip to Virginia seemed peculiarly fitting. It thus comes about that the scene of this young man's story suddenly shifts from Philadelphia to a Virginian country house in spite of all I can do to preserve the dramatic unity of place. Ah ! if I were making this story now, I could confine it to a single room, compress its action into a single day, and do other drav matic and highly proper things ; but as Mr. '{ohert I‘auebrook and his friends were not stage people, and, moreover, as they were not aware that their goings and comings would ever weave themselves into the woof of a story at all, they utterly failed to regu- late their actions in accordance with critical rules, and went roving about over the coun- try quite in a natural way and without the slightth regard for my convenience. “ They ain't no hot bread in the house, sir. \Ye never keep none. Hot hmad a‘n’t heal- thy, _§ir.' _ \Vith this the young men sepaaated, the Vir- vinian lawyer to attend to the taking of some (Reposition; and his cousin to surrender his lodgings, puck his trunk, and make such other arrmngunwuta as were necessary fur his jmn' y. “ ’l‘ell mew” “ Nu, I won't describe l’lxil, because I can't, and no more can anybody else. l‘llil must be seen to be appreciated. lint come, I‘m all fur the untm‘y's, and you must get you gone too, for you mustn't lm late at dinner” that's pa" “ \VeI], I meant for one thing to keep you from losing your temper and so spoiling your digestion. Human motives are complicated affairs, and hence I am by no means sure that “Return we to our niuttous, then," said Billy ; “ I’ll finish the business that brought me here, which is only to be present at the taking of :1 short deposition, by two 01' three o'clock. \Vhile I’m at it you can be getting your traps together, send your trunk to the depot, and get hack here to dinner by four. Then we must get through the rest of the time the best way we can, and :Lt eleven we'll be oil'. I‘m crazy to see you with Phil oucu." “l’hil, who is he?” “0h ! Phil is a characterâ€"a colored one. l want to seehow his ‘ dialet’ will effect you. I'm half afraid you'll go crazy, though, under it." The waiter went mvuy bewildered "quesâ€" tinning the sanity of Mr. Bub in all proba- bilityv * a questioning in which filly WM half inclined to join him. “\tht 51) earth do you mean, Bob, by talking in that way to a waiter who don‘t know the meaning of one word in five that you use ? " I can further unravel my purpose in this .. case. ['m m: mwmmzu] Coughing. asked the This system of M. Fortinu [Ul‘lllalln enlarger; very greatly the capacities of all locomotives for an rumlu, and will allow of passing tln‘ougl ground where roads have not been constructed, and up grades of one font ':1 tan. S'I'RAI‘I'HVILIJE, Ohio, prnpfiscs sending totlw Centennial a single Mm]; of ma] Weighing two tuna. The experiments made by the Eastern llail» way (,‘ompany at ‘aris with one of these ma- chines havc demonstrated that, when the feet are shod with soles of India rubber weighing one kilogramine (2.21bs.) each square centi- meter (4-l()th inch), an adherence to the rails or road is obtained equal to three-fourths of the weight of the machine itself. In the 01'« dinary locomotive this adherence does not go beyond one-lifth of the weightof the machine ; it may be added that this adherence is, in point of fact, variable ; on wet or damp rails it is not more than one~l1alf; but in the newly invented locomotive of .\l. Hermann, although the state of the rails or ground will always have an influence, as in the ease of the ma~ chines in actual use, it will always be greatly superior. The experiments made thus far prove that this new machine will drag on or- dinarv roads, or on rails, a train four times as heavy as the ordinary trains ; the cost of this augmented train will not, it is said, vary materially from that of the ordinary ina- chines with the usual trains when used on equal grades ; but the increased adhering power of the new locomotive will permit of ‘ the employment of a lighter _built machine for the usual trains, as well as the power to surmount steeper grades than are usual on the railways of the present construction. The Shop, the Houééiioid, and the Farm; CIDER may be purified by isinglass, about 1 oz. of the latter to the gallon. Dissolve in warm water, stir gently into the cider, let it settle, and drmv off the liquor. TO PREVENT condensation in a. steam pipe laid under ground, place it inside another larger pipe, filling the intervening space with pulverized charcoal. The outside pipe should be watertight. THE MORDAX'I‘S used for dyeing with Sumac are either‘tin, acetate of iron, or sulphate of of zinc. The first gives yellow, the second gray or black, according to strength, and the third greenish yellow. At .1 recent seance of the French Academy of Science, some interesting particulars about a new locomotive of M. Fortin Hermann were given : lts propulsion is produced by the ris- ing and falling of six articulated feet, which strike the ground or mils something like the feet of a qumlruped. 'l‘hese feet are arranged in two groups, three support the fore part of the machine, and the other three the after part. The two middle feet are connected to- gether by a horizontal shaft ; the four others are independent, and strike the ground suc- cessively in such a manner that, while the middle feet move at :1, moderate pace, the others have a. highly accelerated motion. Each of these groups of feet is aflixcd to a single trunk. The force of the st unn is ap- plied in such a way as to drive these feet to- ward the ground. ' A SCREEN or blower of wire gmiz _. from 36 to 40 wires to the inch, placed in front of range 01‘ stove fires, will prevent, it is said, smoke coming into the room when the chinr ney fails to (11' ' well. SOME weeds can he killed and prevented from growing in garden paths by watering the ground with 3 Weak solution of carbolic acid, 1 part pure crystallized acid to 2,000 parts water. sSprinklo from a watering pot. VIENNA bread and Vienna beer are said to be the best in the world. Both owe their 311' periority to the yeast used, which is prepared in the following manner : Indian corn, barley, and rye (all sprouting) are powdered and mixed, and then mascerated in water at a temperature of from 149° to Hi)” Fah. Nuc- charifieation takes place in a few hours, when the liquor is racked off and allowed to clear, and fennentation is set up by the help of a minute quantity of any ordinary yeast (2 r- bonic acid is disengaged during the process with so much rapidity that the globules of yeast are thrown up by the gas, and remain floating on the surface, where they form a thick scum. The latter is carefully removed, and constitutes the best and purest yeast, which, when drained and compressed in hy- draulic press, can be kept from eight to hf» teen days, according to the season. BROWN bronze (lip, for wanting hat hooks and similar small hardware articles, is made of iron scales, 1 ll). ; arsenic, ] oz. ; mnrintic acid, 1 1b.; sine, solid, 10 axes. The zinc should be kept in only when the bath is used. The castings must be perfectly free from sand and grease. To MAKE a handy paint, break {L11 egg into a dish and beat slightly. Use the white only, if for white paint; then stir in coloring mat» ter to suit. lied lead makes a good red paint. To thin it, use a little skimmed milk. Eggs that are a little too ohl to eat will do for this very well. A {‘HEAI‘ frx‘mlizer (:ulmists of sulphate «If ammonia, (it) lbs. ; nitrate of smln, 40 ll)s;; ground lmnv 2501M. ; plaster, 2.70MB. ; salt, é bushel ; wnml when, 3 bushels 1 stable man- ure, 20 bushels. Apply the above amount Ln six acres. Labor in preparing included, it, CUHtS about $l5. It is said to 15M guml results as most of the mmIm-I‘ciul lua‘tnlizm‘s costing 3350 par tun. BY mnwnu: 111) the earth nwr the puth in sloping ridges, the plant is deprived of its due supply of moisture by rains, for when they fall the, wait-1‘ is mutt into the ditches. Further, in regard to the Man that, by thus earthng up, the mnnlwr of tubers is increas- A CEMENT, impenetrable by air and steam, and especially well adapted to use for steam or gas pipes, is made of powdered graphite 6 parts, slaked lime 3 parts, sulphate of lime 8 parts, and boiled 0i] 7 parts, well kneaded. Cmm: may be preserved sweet for years, by putting it up in airtight cans, after the manner of preserving fruit. The liquor should be first settled and racked nil' from the (lregs, but fermentation slmuhl not be, allowed to commence before canning. A GOOD test for ghlll or silver is a piece of lunar caustic, fixed with a pointed stick of wood. Slightly wet the metal to he tested, and rub it gently with the caustic. lf "old or silver, the mark will lie faint; but if an inferior metal, it will be quite black. ‘VHEN Bonimsarc ordinarily fed with hard water, it is worth while to save the drippings of the exhaust pipe the condensation of the safety valve blow-off, and that from the cyl- inder, and use the water thus obtained to till the boiler after blowing oil. The nlt will he surprising in effect in loosening scale. TAR \VA'l‘m: may he employed for dyeing silk or wool {when gray. The stufi‘ is first mordanted with weak perchlorlde of iron, by soaking in the solution some hours. it is then drained and passed through the hath of tar water. The oxyplwnate of iron which is thus precipitaer on tho Faln-io gives a. very solid color. ed, thy-‘49,“th is quitu the reverse ; for expo- riencu proves that :L potato, pluvml an inch only under thu surface of the earth, will prov dune more tubers than mm planted at the depth of :L font. 'l‘nr: sulvunt pnwm' of glycerin upmi several snhstannm unninmnly used in medicine and the arts is as follows: I p.111; of sulphur 1‘0- quiros 2,001) parts of glyucrin; iodine, 100 parts : n‘d iudidu of mercury, 3»H)1m‘t>4 ; cor- rosive sublimatu, 141mm}; sulphate of qni- nine, 48 parts; tannin, (5 parts; Vumti‘ia, 96 parts; uh'apia, 50 parts; llytl)‘00lllOl‘Zl.tU 01' mm‘phia, 19 parts ; tartar (emctic, 50 parts ; iodide of sulphur, 6().])a1'ts; iodide of potas- sium, 3 parts: sulphide (if potassium, 10 parts. Gmssnn Smm‘ {rm-mm. Take two ounces of fine white gum m‘ahic powder, put it in :x pitcher and pour on a, pint or more of water, and then, having covered it, let it stand all night. In the morning, pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork and keep it for use. A teaspoonful of gum water stirred in a pint of starch, made in the usual way, will give to lawns, white or printed, u look of newness, when nothing else can re- store them, after they have been “shed. USEFUL RECEIPTS. The Steam Donkey‘ Caluluguus and testimonials sent on npplit‘utiml. Every Ipmmmcm,warranted {orlivc years. Agents wanted In uvm‘y County of the Domlnlon. 13 without uxccptinn the bust, medium priced in- strument, in the market. Mr. Fischer commenced hi businms in 1824, and may claim rank as the oldest in New York in the Piano lmdu, 'l'm-ix‘suc coasfui bush 8, of hqu a century enables them to other a fl‘rat-cluw piano 211 uuappi'mwlmhlc price '. The oldest an}! bust, and gives hotter satisfaction than any other 01% m in ms market. hlmssns. HARLOW & MXTnUsnh I Cannot, refrain from a frank nvmval 0f the very great superiority ol' the Munhuahek Pianos, as in every respect superior to all others. The " ()r- choslral " is a marvel of puwvr and mvcclncss. and in all respects equals any Concert Grand; while the “ Cohln‘i” possesses the pawn of any main» my square piano by our host, malm's, and roully has no equal in purin and sweetness of tone. (8‘ vncd,) CHARLES FnAImL. Compos :- mul Pianist m Ills Royal Highness the Due Gustave of Suxe Wcimcr. MATHUSHEK PIANOS! STILL UNRIVALLEDI -M. - v ._ luuu‘. .uuuu u “nun. mu 1. . .e aroxlntht-ck; size around Chem; uizo m-mmd Waist; size around Wrist; Frmncteulrvof Buck 10 and of (MIT; for Studs, Eyaleta 01' Buttons in Front; for Studs Eyclcts or Bunmmin (vtull': plain Frmn, 01' X m‘ 5 Plain; wlmn wanted; prim; quzm tilv. Batistgnes .Shatterni- Eullroad: Tmifi ‘ A and “rounding t 9' Passengers. ' [From the Denver Ncwia] At Potter station, on the Union Pacific Railroad, on Friday night, a train was just pulling out from the station when a storm commenced, and in ten seconds there was such a fury of hail and wind that tho engi- neer deemed it best to stop the locomotive. The hailstoncs were simply great chunks of ice, many of them three and four inches in diameter, and of all shapes~squarcs, cones, cubes, &c. The first stone that struck the train broke a. window, and the llying glass severely injrued a lady on the face, making a deep e‘ut. Five minutesafterwards there was not a whole light of glass on the south side of the train the whole length of it. The windows in the Pullman ears were of French plate three-eights of , an inch thick and double. The hail ln‘oke both thicknesses, and tore the curtains into shreds. The wooden shutters, too, were smashed, and many of the mirrors were broken. The deck- li rhts " on top of the cars were also demolish- ed. The dome of the enuinc was dented as if . p . . it had been pounded With a heavy welght, and the wood-work on the south side of the cars was ploughed as if some one had struck it all over with sliding blows from a hammer. During the continuance of this terrible fusil- lade, which lasted fully twenty minutes, the excitement and fear among the passengers ran very high. Several ladies fainted, and one lady, Mrs. Earle, wife of the superin- tendent of the Mountain division of the road, went into spasms, from which shc did not recover for over an hour after the cessation of the storm. Several persons sit- ting on the south side of the cars were more or less injured about the face. As soon as the storm abated a little, the matting in the cars was hung up in front of the windows, and the train moved ahead, the drifted hailstoncs proving an obstacl: for some miles. At the next station, strips of tin wcre procured and fastened over the windows the entire length of the train. The cars have been run into shop for repairs, and the damage will amount, it is :stimatcd, to several thousand dollars, Dominion Shirt Factory 1 No. 8 King St. East, This standard article 15 compuunlled WM) 1110 est care. It effects :ch :Ls wonderful and satisfactory n It, restores gray or fzuled hair to its youthful It removes all eruptimzé, itching, and (hunlmf the scnh) hv its use becomes white and clean. By its tonic prnpt-rtics it restores the uplllul‘y glands Lu their normal Vigor, preventing baldness, aml linking flu: hair grow thick and strong. This elegant prcpumtion may be relied on m «111m n ‘nu color of the ham] from gmy or (my ()thvr umh n n‘nlc shade, to brown, or Mack, at. discrutinn. It, i mu;in applied, being in ONE PREPARATION, um] qui. . and effectutu produces a. pen-uncut culor which wil neither rub nm‘ “ash off. As :1 dressmg nuthing can be found so cfl'cctunl desimhlc. an) s inter Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine. Northrup & Lyman, Newcastle, General Agents. THE FISCHER PIANO! $100 IN CASH FIRST GRAND EXPOSITION Cancers Efl‘eotually Cured, HAMILTON, ONT 8 Adelaide Sin-01 East N0. 1 GORDON PRESS! ()l’ [JAN () U" l' UUKINGIIANI’S I)" E" FOR THE \VHISKERS. 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