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“ Ah, well 1 Your father and Mr. Joyner set a great deal by the hopes they had about their children. If they could have lived to raise their boys so as to be fit for making the right sort of husbands, things might have been different. As it is, they‘ve nobody to blame but themselves, though I’ve always tried to count on nothing else than for poor William to get Ellen. It would have been the making of him. As for Hiram, I was always afraid of such as that with his rough temper and his dis- position to rule everybody about him. But poor Will i ” Then she shed tears, “ But, Harriet "â€"â€"suddenly rousing her- selfâ€"“ if I was in yours and Ellen’s place, after such aâ€"I suppose I may call it dis- appointmentâ€"I just declare I wouldn't be engaging myself to the first man that altered himsslf. I have nothing against Thomas, who is a good, industrious young man ; but I’ve never even so much as dreamed of your marrying him. The whole thing has taken me by such surprise that I hardly know what to say about it. As for his cousin Henry, I don't know that I ever met a more gentlemsnly. well-mannered young man, and between the two, even it He rose. and, mounting his horse again, galloped back to the field. M re. May, com- ing in short-1y afterward, asked what had they been talking about so loud that she could hear their voices from the door of the kitchen, where she had been standing. When Harriet had answered, she sat down, and utter sgmejefleofiien, said : Then he laughed outright, and continued : “ Harriet. that young fellow don't know Hiram Joyner. He don’t know anything at all about him. You are going to hear of some interesting news when Hiram finds out what you tell me, By the way, Cousin Emily told me this morning in town that you and Ellen had promised to spend camp- meeting at her tent.” " Yes, I’m going, it me does not object. haven’t asked her yet.” ” Methodist stock seems to be rising down here on Ogeechee. Wonder what old men Bullington will think of that ; and Hiram â€"- I tell you, and you may tell the rest of them, that when that boy finds out how things are, they’ll hear from him.” v “ Oh, confound it all 1 I take that back, of course. Indeed, as between Henry Dos- ter and Tom, I rather think, it I were u womanâ€"However, I ought not to any that either, to you, though you haven’t told me whether or not there’s any truth in the blamed re ort about yourself. The fact is. Harriet, t e whole thing has taken me by such surprise thatâ€"~â€". Hang it all! let it go. I'm left, it seems ; and it’s some satisfaction to find that out so soon. and by you. All right. I shall bother with the thing no more. I can outlive it, I‘m thankful to believe. But Hiram I ” “ Brother William l ” She was about to respond With the generous indignation pro- voked by this insult to an absent friend, but she repressed it, and said : “ I choose not to betray a trust which Ellen has not given nie permission to reveal. I said what I did for the purpose of convincing you of the useleseness of any further indulgence of whatever expectation you may have had. Honorable, noble girl that she is, she would not object to that, but would rather desire it. I will not say if the man to whom she has given her affections is or is not Henry Doster,ot whom my brother, I am snre,for- got himself just now when he spoke in such grossly unkind anti unjust words.” " 3mm FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SAY." When McGinty slipped away, iaith said he I think I‘ll shtay Till the neighbors give me up a. drowndid man ; Then I'll‘bpbyp to the top, and hustle round “ What ‘2 " he orfed. " You mean to tell me thn Ellen Joyner is going to throw her- self Eway on 11191 whip_i_ng~prenc_her " and find a cop. And lg) dhrop around and call on PM; Mcâ€" sun; I the Emory gets about that five dollars sold me out, In the ruiantion of Beda‘ley'a heart. So I’ll_ate_p no toot ashore till this wonderment is o‘Br. For McGinty has the name of being shmsrt. CHORUSâ€" Up comes McGinty with a. sculpin in his fist, And a. fish hook in his nose. And a chain around his wrist ; He's n.11_ gesdy to: a. tussle or a. social game of h " ’wmst. ' 1213111: Item the bottom of the say. When he found Bedaley Ann she was married to a. man. By the name of Dennis Fa. an o'er the way ; 1nd 3139 tynughfi a splendi dish was McGinty “ And you would take her on such terms ‘2 Yes,” blushing with pain, she said, “ my own brother virtually admits that he would, it he could, barter his sister to a man in exchange for that man's sister to wire, although well knowing the infirmities of that man's nature, which would make it impossible for any women of spirit to live with him happily. Well, my brother, I cannot be a party to such a bargain, even if it were possible it could be made. But oh dear! oh dear 1 how you have mistaken that sweet girl! She is too fine a. gentle- woman to talk, even with me, her most in- timate friend, about such things ; but I am without a doubt that Hiram often and often hes conducted himself towards her in that same wny. but more oflensively, according as he has a domineering spirit, which you have not, and little of afiectioneteness for his sister or anybody else. Now let me tell you: Hiram J oyner's interference has been the worst possible for you. But for it I am inclined to believe that you might have gotten Ellen in time, if you could have shown to her that your hope and your wishes to win her were based only upon honest endeavors to deserve her. As it is, brother Will, whatever chances you may have had are now gone.” _‘ “Idr'thé fish, While he slumbers at the bottom of the say. Bone Pooh a. drop of gin, tam: says he I'll now Up comes McGinty and he looks his very best, With a lobster in each ear, And with seaweed in his vest ; And he wgaqtgs >120 fight the Emma and the judge 7 fund all the Hist, Right from the bottom of the say. Now MpGipgyltgyg‘ my hand, says his good V " friéhd Fat McCanh, ' . Amee'n call the think a. mighty funny Joke ; Tell the__fo_1_ks you lo_st yopr route, and you couldn’t qu'ite swim But, For your head was rather dizzy when you woke. Go and gag a. parry new suit. and give this old ’ 'chiu, “ ' And we‘ll. pan ggopnd tho-night. and we’ll set the V begin, For to straighten all these funny matters out, If they tgkq Dan 10; a tool, or they think his ' "3b: the shoot, Take a._l.}atchet, scrape them whiskers from your 'Eead ain't cool. ' Share they'll find McGincy about. And Bedaley‘ll take you to her heart again. CHORUS-â€" Up comes McGiuty and he raps upon the door, And Beasley ivea a. yell. And the Kid 831115 to roar ; For she saidrshe never saw Dan when he looked “ Like Tom Doster, eh ‘2 ” “ Well,” she replied, in yet more animated tone, “it you so mind, I'll answer, yes, Tom Doster l for he is moving now, or it he ever be will moving, in the matter of which we are talking, it is or it will be on that line, just as he has been doing ever since I have been old enough to form any judgment on his movements compared with other men’s. Now, my dear brother I am going to ask you a question, which, of course, you'll answer directly or not, as you choose. It you felt perfectly sure that Ellen would never consent to marry you, would you be entirely willing for me to take Hiram ‘I ” ARomance of Georgian Life The queskion embnrraaaed him, but it fretted also. He dnswered. petulantly, looking away from her, “ If you’d accept Hiram, Ellen would engage herself to me to-morrow. Vic fine before; Rigm from the bottom of the say. THE 'DOSTERS: Up Comes Mommy. CHORUSâ€" knows what he’s CHAPTER V. ‘ To an old-time Georgian it is very pleas- ‘ ing now to recall the camp-meetings of the long ago, particularly those in the county wherein the scenes recorded in this story are laid. ' Four miles south of Gateston, and nearly one mile distant from the public thoroughfare, ground of about ten acres, parallelogram in shape, had been selected by the Methodists for this purpose shortly after the first settlement of that region. Here the level land on three sides ended, and at a few rods’ distance in their front declined several feet, becoming some- What precipitous shortly after leaving the camp at a spot where was a spring of abun- dant cool water. A large wooden shed, called “ The Stand,” without floor or weather boarding, capable of covering, soy, four thousand people, stood near the centre. Rudely constructed tents of unplaned boards, also without floors, were on three sides, and on the only rising ground of the last was one floored and otherwise more elaborate, known as “ The Preachers’ Tent ” ; for the elergy, married and single, during the camp, which lasted four: days, not often longer, were domiciled together, but took their meals promiscuously among the tent~holders. Observing the waggons and ox-car‘s during a couple of days before, laden with hon ehold goods of every kind, moving in One direction, a “ranger might be led to 'But a deEp groan told that this reflection had brought no relief. “ Thar, no}! "he exclaimed to his wife; for of these oouusine he ever had I: dread, not unmingled with horror. “ However, mighty nigh everbody, special young people, will go to that whirlypool. A body must try__and hope for the besbf’ he is a Methodist preacherâ€". Oh, you needn’t be smiling in that way, when I’m in dead earnest." For two or three years last past he had been counting upon being called to the Maye’ and the Joyners’ on some fine evenings at candle-light, where he would feel euremthey being the richest and most liberal among all his peopleâ€"that handsome things would be done for him who should tie the knots ae fond as indissolnble. Only once had he encountered face to face his rival, Mr. Swinger, and the latter admitted afterwards that he had the worst of it. Now that Mr Swinger, or any other Methodist preacher, would come within the verge of Horeb on a mission which, next to his public mmietratione, it had ever been his loudest pleasure to serve, had not entered his mind, liable as it wae to gloomy appre- hensions. Therefore, when the report arose about Ellen Joyner and Henry Doe-V ter, a sprout, as it were from the trunk of Mr. Swinger, he tried to scout it as an evil, malicious, idle tale, Yet he could not but be anxious, and, while meditating on his own most prudent line of action, news came that both the girls were going to the Gama-meeting, now at hand. “ I beg pardon, ma. I was smiling at your speaking so positively just after de- claring that you knew not what to say. I am not going to not precipitater in this matter, my dear mother, and I shall hope to have your apprOVal ct whatever I may conclude to do. I’m not much surprised at your preference for Henry over Tom, partly because he is not in Tom’s place, and partly because you consider him more brilliant, perhaps ; and I haven't a doubt that Mrs. Joyner has put before pccr, deer Ellen the same comparison reversed, em- phasizing Tom's being such a. good Baptist." This good man lived in a small house with a small farm attached, about a mile north of the Dosters‘, and about halt that distance from Hotel). Tall like Mr. Swinger, but much heavier both in body and in spirit, gloomy-looking at all times, his brows grew darker at any thought of harm done or meditated against either himself or the religious faith of which for many years he had been a very hold. a very loud, and a reasonably acceptable public exponent. It was not often that he laughed, although he did laugh, at least he tried to laugh, sometimes when he had gained some personal or denominational triumph or believed he had some well-founded hope of it. The seasons of his heartiest gayety, if the word could be employed fltly in his case, were wedding feasts, the degrees of his enjoyment thereat depending upon con- tingenoies. Country churches in those times contributed but small stipends to their pastors, some excusing themselves with the authority that at its first institu- tion, and admitted to have been done then at its very best, preaching of the gospel Was furnished without money and without price. Mr. Bullington perhaps had never said so in words, yet he honestly suspested that somewhere or other there might be a flaw in this argument. Still he felt con- tented tc think that the sums received from his four churches, with the occasional mite dropped in from a filth Sunday, were at least as much as he could have earned had his powers been exerted in other pro- fessional or in agricultural endeavors, Specially consoling and grateful was the supplementary help of fees, ranging from one dollar to five, obtained from liberal, happy bridegrooms; so much so that he was a noted enocurager of marriages among his own flock, not only early but repeated, whenever death had made them possible. At wedding feasts, notably when the enclosure in the license was at maxi- mum or approximate to it, and when he was full up to the brim of good things, his struggles to be merry like the rest were both commendable and interesting. If his face on such occasions could have corresponded with his huge body, those efferts would have been entirely, even immensely, satis- factory. As it was, when his sides were shaking, that countenance, as if restrained by a sense of duty behind an expression of hilarity not becoming his sacred ofiice. took on a most painful sternness that seemed to fix 3 just equilibrium. ‘ “ You are right there,“ repliea the mother. her natural oheerfulness somewhat restored. " I was over there a little while this morning when you and Ellen went to the Andereom’. Hiram came in where his mother and I were. and he went on terribly about Henry Doeter.” “ What did Mrs. Joyner say ‘2” “ Not one word. She knows she can’t stop Hiram when he begins. But I told the young gentleman plain that I didn’t agree with a‘ word he eaid about him.” 1,,,, " I'm glad you did. Bless your dear heart, ms, it was like you to refuse to hear in silence abuse of a man who in your opinion had fairly supplanted your own son. Hiram will not hurt Henry Doster by such talk, especially in the estimation of Ellen, grown as she has at 1th to ignore his imperious- ness. If it hadn't been for him, Ellen. I do believe, would have tnken brother Will. His constant, dogged interference prevented. Did he‘say anything against Tom 7 " “ Didn‘t mention Tom’s name ; but his mother did, and while she was praising Torn to the skies he looked out the window, and let on as it he were not hearing. Poor sort of behavior. to my opinion. Well ! well I but it showed that if he finds out there’s anything serious between Henry Doster and Ellen, he’ll do his very best to break it up. They are the strongest kind of Baptists, you know ; that is, all except Hiram, who, I’m afraid, has no religion of any sort; at least not enough to do him any good ; but Ellen and her mother are, Mr. Joyner being the original starter of Horeb, and Hiram, it he can’t work it with Ellen. will bring in 016. Brother Bullington and set him at his mother. I pity the poor little'thing when that’s the osse.‘_’ L1, t Then Mrs. May laughed, this charitable thought having brought that much relief. Harriet joined in heartily to enhance this frame of her mother’s mind. Indeed Mrs. May, though a good Baptist woman. would say sometimes that in her opinion there were in the world people as good as those of her own denominationâ€"an admission that Mrs. Joyner might have feared and MLBullington would have known to be imgrudent._ “ Feet of the business, I were sorter mad. and I had to let out Then, spite of it all, I couldn’t be conwinoed in my very bones but what so much good preachin’ and eg‘ortin’, and so much hard wrastliu’ in profit, wagn't {Lgoin' to be let trazzle out jcs so to the little‘ e130} 0’ nothin’. I had heard older people than me any the darkest tune o' nighc Iajes before day, end I deter- m'ed to govern myeelt occardin’.” 0n the whole, therefore, the state of mind in which Mr. Swinger found himself all that afternoon was far from confident or cheerful. Yet he was not a. men to be put back by such considerations from the prosecution of his duty. Indeed, they con- spired to make him more eeger to put forth his word of exhortetion. He field after- ward : It was not that Jerry was not a. hard- working youth ; but ever since he had grown too big to be whipped for doing such thmgs slyly, he was in the habit of playing marbles openly on Sunday, and going with others to the creek a-swimming. and by his mother was suspected even of occasional swearing. I should remark here that although he had not sought from his young friend the confidence which he doubted not his having good reasons for withholding, yet he had been intensely interested in the rumor con- necting him with Ellen Joyner, and he had been as deeply resentful as so pious a man could be at what he had heard of Hiram‘s fierce hostility, as evinced by utterances not only most disrespectful, but threaten- ing, towards Henry. Other things had con- tributed to put him rather out of his ac- customed humor by this time. A much smaller number of mourners than with some confidence he had counted on had responded to most persuasive and urgent appeals to come up to the altar. Never before, it seemed to him, had sinners been more obdurately unconcered about their spiritual condition. More talk than usual, he felt sure in his mind, had been about politics, crops, money-making in general, county and neighborhood news, than at any camp-meeting in he would not like to say how long. Lastly, there was a. matter of ‘ family trouble on his mind. Jerry Pound, son of his own dear, widowed sister, a great, lubberly, careless fellowI his mother had bescught her brother to try yet again to do something with, as it did ’ seem to her that he cared no more for his soul's salvation than it be new: had a soul to be saved. Mr. Swinger during the two past days had held some talk with the youngster what times he had been able, in spite of his dodging, to catch him within hearing, and had he- come sufficiently disgusted with the little impression made by his remonstrances. , That very evening he had said to Jerry, loud enough to be overheard by several young persons of both sexes who were sit- ting or standing near : " Jerry Pound, your hide’s as tough as the jography books tells about them rhincsercuses that it ain’t worth a man s while to shoot a rifle at ’em ; and your back is hard same as a logger- head turkle that you has to put a coal of fire on him before he’ll move when he don’t wa_nt to. But never you mind.” suspect that a large number of the popu- lation were emigrating to foreign parts. By Friday night, where three days ago naught of animate nature was to be seen except the birds and gray squirrels in the sur- rounding forest, was a village of several hundreds cl inhabitants ready for the entertainment of relatives, friends, ac- quaintances, and strangers of almost every degree. On either side of the passage, ex- tending from the front to the eating-place in the rear of each tent, were the sleeping- chambers. In front was a shed to defend from the sun’s rays the men who sat there and smoked cigars and chatted, while the women, except in the evenings, remained within. Behind the tent was another shed for the cook and her utensils. If she slept anywhere, I suspect it must have been under the dining-table. Further yet in the rear were rail pens holding pigs, lambs, and domestic towls. Vehicles of burden travelled back and forth continually for supplies for the ever threatening void. Hun- dreds of waggon-loads oi wheat and cat straw were brought daily to be spread afresh upon the ground inside. Beyond the carriageways some near the edge, some deeper within the woods, were booths whereat one could purchase cigars, confect- ions 01 various kinds, and perhaps, in a quiet way, a bottle or a flask with some- thing which could not be licensed, but which claimed to be excellently good, con- sidering everything. At night the grounds were lit with bonfires kindled from pine knots upon wood scaffolds thickly covered with earth. Public services were held four times a day, at eight and eleven in the fore- noon. three in the alternoon, and candle- light. All were expected to rise from bed ‘ for morning prayers, which were oifered by one of the preachers or other pious person, and to retire at bedtime, the signal for which occasions being announced by along tin trumpet. After the services for the whites were over, reasonable time was al- lowed to the negroes beneath the trees in the rear of the stand, ,who, then as now, preferred to do their own worship among themselves. “ Young men like Henry, you know, brothin, it’ll mayby sorter encourage him up in the beck to know his old father, as I 03119 myself, is behind that e-ready and n- waitin’ to prize him out if he git stuck in his first camp-meetin’ eplurgin’ He's a powerful modest boy, but if he can keep his head clear before so many people, I ehe'n't be oneaey ; for the the thing’s in him, if he can fetch her out. Let me back him up in his first off start. He know, Henry Dew- eter do, he can ’ pend on old Allen Swinger till everything turn blue.” The numbers eating at any one of these tables in many rounds of seatings were very large. People from all parts of the county, from several adjoiningâ€"cotton factors and merchants from Augusta and Savannah, from Milledgeville and Macon, some with pious, the greater number with other intents-resorted there. Housewives vied among one another in putting forth abundance and variety of hospitable enter- tainment. As for Gateston, particularly on Saturday and Sunday, not a fourth of its population would be left at home, those not having tents, and many of other religious denominations, unwilling to en- dure the solitude, repairing, some with their wives and young children, to the general rendezvous. Mr. Swinger, devoted with all his heart to his calling, always feeling prepared with a. sermon of any length requisite upon ezfi text of Scripture, yet, with becoming con eideretion for visiting brethern, had re- quested thnt he be not called upon during the meeting, proposing, however, to “ do the ex'ortin’,” as he styled it, after the ser- mon of Henry Duster, which had been up- pointed for Sunday night. Among the clergy were several possessed of ahigh order of eloquence. and others less gifted in this regard, but hoping to links up by abundant strength of lungs habituated to sounding on loltiest keys platitudes of warning, mainly upon the con- ditions of the internal world. With four sermons sday, most persons, except the notably devout, as well inside as outside the denomination, the young especially, elected which they would attend. It was in vain that, in order to prevent such dis- crimination, announcements were withheld, and it could not be known who was to preach at any partiolsr hour until after the first prayer and the second hymn, for from nearly every tent door the pulpit could be observed, or, when not. the speaker could be gassed from the numbers seen hurrying to the stand. On the east aideâ€"called by humble: folk “ Quality Row," because taken by the lead- ing familiesâ€"were the Ingrams, wherent the Maya and Joynera sojourned, not only the girls, but the young men also. Tom Doster. although invited there, was busy with saving his crop of fodder, and did not appear until Sunday, and that with expect- ation of returning home in the afternoon. A bill to increase the day’s hours of labor sndi us to reduce them have been intro- duce in the Mnsgnahgsatps Legislature. Said a. mem to his bosom friend, who was about to get married : “ I suppose I ought to wish you both much happinass ; but, as I don‘t know the bride, I cannot congrat- ulate you. On the other hand, as I know you only too well, I cannot congratulate the bride." Reform Demanded. Aunt Mirandaâ€"Wall, I never. These modern ways he too much #01: me it dew seem that there is no liberty in this world utter all. - Mollieâ€"What is it now, auntie .? "I was jest a reading, child, that five American girls, all as hamsum as picture, were presented to the King of Sweden. No Rebate. We desire to state in the most explicit manner that no rebate will be allowed to any of our subscribers who may be obliged to leave town for the benefit of the community, or who may be hung and buried for the same reason. In several late instances friends of such subscribers have called on us and asked us to cash up for the unexpired term, but we have invariably refused. Sub- scriptions to the Kicker run for one year. We contract to deliver the paper for that time. If the subscriber is arrested, driven off or hung it is no fault of ours. Please bear this in mind and save yourselves troubleâ€"Arizona Kicker. If you are skating with a girl and both of you fall it is more polite to Lat your put- ner fall on you than to do the reverse.â€" Judge. better than you ; is is not wise. In taking out accident insurance policies always state whether you know how to skate or are about to learn. Thus far Henry Doster had seen little of the Ogeechee girls, except when in the great congregation, or at the Ingram tent doorway when happening to be walking past. People said that it looked well that at such a solemn time he postponed for a more exalted society that of Ellen Joyner, whom they were sure that, preacher as he was, he was dying to be with. Onceâ€"Sat- urday afternoon it wasâ€"he did stop in for a few minutes only, but even then he talked more with Harriet than her. At the time of this visit Will May was not present, being at the tent near by, where Miss Mary Anderson, whose family dwelt across the river, was staying. Hiram was on hand, and sticky as a leech, some said. He barely nodded to the visitor on his entrance, and, when the latter left, was so absorbed in the Milledgeville Recorder, a weekly newspaper then four days old, that he did not notice him. It looks much bett’er when cutting fancy figures on the ice to use your feet rather than your head. NeGer give your sweetheart a pair of skates for Christmas if your rival skates begter t_h_au you ; is‘is not_ wise. Somevmen dnnée welf and some can never legqâ€"ghat’s t1_16_way wig}: skating, “ What! I have more time than you My dear child, I’m fairly rushed to death all the time." “ So am I.” “ I really don't see where the time goes. Good-by, dear.” “ Good-by.” “ It you don't come and see me soon I’ll â€"oh I where did you get that lovely chair eonrl ? I hadn‘tnotioed it before. It‘s a perfect beauty 1” ” Do you really like it 7” “ Like it ? It‘s just eweet l Did you embroider it ?” “ Yes.” You did ? How lovely 1 I wish Iâ€"but I’ll never go if I stand here much longer, and I’ve five other cells to make this after- noon. Good-by l” n By3_by.n “ Lovely day, isn’t it ? It’s a. pleasure to be out, endâ€"Oh, my dear, it I didn't; nenrly forget to tell you about Maids de Vere’e wedding, and thats’ just what I came for. I must sit down and tell you all about it." Two hours later she departs. after a pro- longation of the good-by business for fifteen minutes on the atepe.â€"â€"Time. Rules for Skaters. Ioe an eighth of an inch thick isn't ice an! longer wh_en you fly; to_ska.te on it. As soon as Tom reached the camp on Sunday, leaving his horse at the publiorlot. be repaired to the Ingrams', where he ex- pressed himself sorry to decline the invit- ation to dinner, being under promise to one of his neighbors, a humble man on the op- posite row. Mrs. Ingram declared that she was just as mad as she could be; but she was sppessed when he said that, having decided to remain until after the nighfi servioethe would sup there. “ And don’t he look splendid ? ” she said to Harriet, when he had gone out to sit with the men under the front shed. “ I declare, when a. man like Tom Doster, who has been working herd all the week, comes out an a Sunday in his nice broadcloth and the other nice things he'sgot to put on, 1â€". But bless your heart 1 child, I’ve got too much business on my hands to be running on about Tom Doster ; and indeed, hand- some ne he is. I think Henryâ€". However, many birds of many kinds, and I've got to miss Brother Duncan’s sermon, and look after Simon and that pig in the pit. Mr. Ingram will have n duck-fit if it isn’t barbecued just rightz"_ Merrily she kissed her beautiful cousin. and retreated to those regions, in the rear, out of which to this day it remains a my- stery to me, and to all except such house;- wives as she was, what breakfasts and dinners and suppers, and handings round on waiters between times, were evolved. When a man far away from such scenes, both in space and in years, begins to talk about them, he is prone to indulge too loudly. He cannot at least but love to muse, amid other recollections, on those long, so long ago, camp-meeting days, and more on those camp-meeting nights. Religiously inclined, earnestly so, indeed, but not taking part in the exciting scenes which so many with varying purposes gathered there to witness, when the bugle would sound the call for silence and repose. when even all mourners’ wailings would be hushed, it was a. pleasant thing to take a. rustic chair, and, leaning against a post of the tent, sit and listen to the night music then rising in the woods, and dream and dream and dream of hopes and destinies for this life and the life eternal. “ Oh, thanks. But I just must go now. You’ll come to see me real soon, won’t you, dear? ” “ Yes, indeed. andâ€"" “ Well, do now, andâ€"ob, were you at the concert last night ?" “ Yes, andâ€"«3' “ Lovely little affair, wasn't it ? How charmingly Mr. Tennereon sang." " 0 , beautifully I And I liked Miss Saree , too." “ Oh, so did I ; very much. But I really must, must go now. Good-by, dear.” “ Good-by.” “ Mind that I expect to see you very soon." ” Oh. yes; but don’t you wait for me. You have more time than I, you know. andâ€"” “ Well. I'm always délighted to see you, andâ€"” She Got Away After a While. but Mean- while the Town Clock Laughed. Mrs. Gabbler (arising to depart after a. call on Mrs. Wenryaome)â€"â€"Well, really, I mggt go.__ I’ve staid ngyv later thnqâ€" “ Mrsv. Wearysoma~â€"Oh, no you haven’t. You come so seldom. andâ€"â€" “ So seldom ? Why, I call here oftener thnnjlgmgp any other_p}q.u_e, a._ndâ€"â€"-â€"â€"” A Peculiar Prcdlcament. BER GOOD-BY. (To be Continued.) Mt. Westwyldeâ€"Wellâ€"yes-â€"st least, partly. There ain’t muoh fancy oookin’ a. cowboy can manage. but some of us can flip a pancake with any hotel cook alive. Miss Eyeglasae, of Bostonâ€"I should think, Mr. Westwylde, that life so close to nature’s heartâ€"out on the great plains, face to face with the splendors of sun, moon and stars, the sweep of the winds, the majesty of the wide preiriaâ€"would tend to make one a. Pantheiet. Is it not so 7 “ Be calm, Esm-erelda, be calm. I’m going to go back on that other girl, too.” “ You are engaged to me, has withfiBirdig Molipnipin_.'_I Hoatetter McGinnisâ€"What’s Eamerelda 7 Miss Esmeralda Longcoflinâ€"Hostetter McGinnia, it is outrageous the way you treat me. New reporterâ€"I say, Mr. Editor, I’d like to knowâ€"â€" Editorâ€"Wbat would you like to know? “ A prominent citizen has broken his neck on a toboggan slide." " Well, what of it ?” “ I'm puzzled to know whether the item comes under the head of 'Sporting News' or ‘Sooieiy Gossip.’ " 5‘ Sir," replied the lovely young maiden as her eye lit up with the deathless flame of a pure young heart’s devoiion, or, as another puts it, with the sincerity of a smile on the lip, but a tear in the eye, “ I do not love you well enough for a. brother, but I have no objection to take you as a husband." "Miss Gladys," said old Moneybsgs, “ if my suit is not agreeable to you say so frankly,but do not. I beg of you, tell me that old, old story that you will alwayslook upon me as a Prgthgr.’_’ The Omniprenent Insect Posts of Warm Countries. I am not sure if Indian ants are identical with thoae which are the subjects of Sir John Lnbboek's interesting experi- ments. When a man arrives in Calcutta his acquaintance with the small red ants soon begins. I shall never forget the jump that a friend gave when he first saw a train of red ants on the floor. He was a stout Englishman, newly arrived from home, and with an innate horror of insect life. He thought the train of ants was a snake. They were merely a mauranding party out on an expedition to plunder the sugar basin on the breakfast table. Some active ant scout had discovered that one end of the tablecloth touched the ground, and so afforded a passage to the sugar on the breakfast table. Instantly the expedition had been organized, and there was a Sleeves of real tapesptry cloth are put in long wraps of velvet and. brocade. The contrast is novel, whatever may be said about the taste.â€" World. Lithle toquea of close-fitting bonnets are always appropriaze for the street. Llrge hats are seen on the promenade, but the dress with which they are most effective is unsuited to: a public thoroughfare. The Four Hundred put run-abouts in dead black with black felt hats and velvet Dutch dresses. Infants wear all white, and nothing but woolen cloth is used for yogpggirls. Striped chevxot is the been and most serviceable stuff that can be had for street wear. Brown is a good color, and a few ornamental buttons are the only decora- tion required. N eve} since the Puritan days have the American ladies been so quietly dressed for ohggoh 5nd svgget gs tyey now are: CONTINUOUS STREAM 0F ANTS from the hole in the wall wharf; they dwelt, along the floor, up the tablecloth, on to the‘sugar basin. With a. sideboard in which anything sweet is kept it is usual to put brass saucers full of water under the feet. so as to keep the ants out. The water must be constantly changed, for it it gets covered with dust or any debris that will carry the weight of an ant, the little creatures soon find it out and cross the moat. It is always expedient to have the feet of your bed planted in brass saucers full of water, so as to prevent the ants get- ting up into the bed. I was acquainted with a lady who suffered severely from neglecting this precaution. The doctor had given her some ointment to rub on her arm for a rheumatic pain, and she applied it when she went to bed. During the night she sufiered considerable pain, which she attributed to the working of the ointment. When daylight oame, great was her horror to find that she was being eaten alive by a swarm of red ants, which had been attracted by some sweet ingredient in the ointment. and had bitten through her skin into her flesh, so that she carried the scars of the wounds to her grave. No doubt the rheumatic pain was cured, but the remedy was Street Costumes Have Not Been an Modest hince the Pilgrim Days. Genuine antique Persian embroideries are worn on cloth and cashmere dresses. CONCEALING THEIR MISCHIEF. But the tunnel fortunately betrays them, and no time should be lost in breaking open the tunnel and destroying the work- ing party that will be found inside. If an unwary traveler, arriving late at night, leaves his portmanteau on the floor of his room in the vicinity of white ants, he will probably discover in the morning that the enemy have found their way in and made havoc of his garments. They will carry their tunnel up the leg of a table or side- board to get at the contents of adrawer. Nothing is sacred to them. In the public ofliees of Government the white ant is ready to make himself record keeper. He gets into a bundle of papers and eats them. It a reference is needed to some old paper, the clerk who goes to the bundle finds that it has been resolved into a mass of muddy pulp. I knew a case where they ate some bank notes in a native merchant’s chest, but luckily for him, the fragments were identifiable.â€"0’. T. Buckland in Longman'a Magazine. The large red ants, similar to those described in the Queen's Scotch journal as attacking a. royal Princess, are usually met with out shooting. As you are passing under a. tree in your howdeh the elephant puts up his trunk, at the bidding oi the muhcut, to break 03 some projecting branch, and in an instant you find yourself covered with a shower of red ants, who have been picnicking on that particular branch. The rapidity with which they will attack you on your face and hands, get down the back of your neck and up your legs, is more easily imagined then described, and you will have a very unpleasant quarter of an hour until you can get rid of them all. I had net many encounters with the large black ants, which affect a rather drier climate than that of Calcutta. But ina house where there is a colony of large black ants established no place is safe from their ravages, and their bite is quite as savage and painful as that of the large red ants. The white ants probably " take the cake” according to modern phraseology, as the greatest nuisances of their kind. A white ant has several forms, but perhaps his most dangerous form is that in which he is more like a white maggot than an ordinary ant. In this maggot form the white ants work under cover of a. tunnelling of suit mud, which they manufacture for themselves, possibly with the intention of A GOOD DEAL WORSE THAN THE DISEASE. 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The Mr. Callicot referred to, editor of the Albany Times, and recently chosen friend of Governor Hill, was at one period of his career in the Peni- tentiary for betraying a. public trust. Our Elmira contemporary doesn't seem to mind a. little thing like that, end regards the crime for which Mr. Callicot was thus punished as entirely consistent with up- rightness It is odd that opinions should differ on a subject like that, but they do.â€" New York Herald. Description of the Country England and Portugal are Quarrellnz Over. The New York Sun furnishes the follow- ing description of the country in dispute beggeqn Euglgnd my? Pprtuga}; _ We know Mr. Callicot, and have known him for years. We respect his ability, admire his many excellent qualities. In all the relations of life he is an upright and clever gentleman, and as such is entitled to fair and honorable treatment at the hands of his contemporaries â€"Elmim Advertiser. Of the two large districts which Portu- gal, under compulsion, has agreed to evacuate, the Shire region lies north of the Zambesi and includes all the river, valley and the surrounding highlands between Lake Navasea and the Rue River, an effluent of the Shire River, over 200 miles south of the lake. The other region is Mashonaland, a. large dietriot about one hundred and fifty miles directly south of the most northern part of the Zambesi. The Portuguese for over two centuries past have never made any attempt until recently to send expeditions into these regions or in any way to control them. Miniature Lamps. Some of the small lamps designed for writing tables are a test of the artistic skill and ingenuity required in this line of decorative art, says the New York World. Whether a. lady uses sealing-wax or not, a. pair of candles or a vests] lamp is consid- ered as much of a necessity as a. letter rack or an ink cup. Candle-sticks are seen in fine porcelain,old china, solid silver and carved bronze, with candles and shades to suit the fsnoy of the owner. They may have been purchased or handed down from an old aunt, but they are sure to be beauti- ful. The miniature lamp, with a body of opal or Bohemian glass, mounted on carved brass, provided with burner, wick, globe and lace shade, is newer and quite the prettiest ornament on the table. These little lamps, if turned low, can be made to burn three or four hours. You can buy some as low as 50 cents, in amber or tur- quoisa tint, but if the shade is real lace, the mounting genuine brass and the glass pure Bohemian were, there will be nothing left of $15 for fragment ooins too insignificant for reckoning. A while ago the Portuguese captain, Gardoea, led an expedition up the Shire river as far as lake Nyassa, established a ghein of military stations along the river, and declared the entire region to be under Portuguese sovereignty. He informed the British missionaries, who have been in the country 29 years. that they must consider themselves as under Portuguese protection. Recently the soldiers under Oardosa‘s command seized one of the steamers of the African Lakes Company and hauled down the British flag which it was flying. This British company has been in the country for 11 years, has three steamers on the river and lake and a chain of trad- ing stations, and it has done much to develop the region and promote its best interests. u yum». Auwvaba uu uuuuug nu: a. Luau. uuu u. wm Lulu yuu. nuuxcas c., Bram: omée, l86 WEST ADELAIDE STREET, TORONTO. About the same time a Portuguese force under Major Serpa Pinto attacked and defeated a. number of Makololo chiefs along the river who were flying the British flag. and declared than: they were under the jurisdiction of Great Britain. The British contention is that Portugal long ago forfeited all claims to these re- gicne by her failure to occupy and control them, and that she never thought of reviv- ing the ancient claims until after Bririeh interests in these districts were deVeloping, and a large part of them had already been declared to be within the British sphere of influence. Portugal bases her claims to these re- gions upon a. series of conquests and dis- coveries made by her forces and explorers two or three centuries ago. The records of these early events give us verylittle idea of the country. and our present knowledge of it is derived almost wholly from the discoveries of British explorers. Until other recent British activity in these re- gions Portugal has not been heard of for over two centuries. The dispute over Mashona-lend is entirely distinct from the Shire River troubles. Mashona-land has for many years been tributary to Matabeie-land, whose power- ful king about a. year and a half ago placed his dominions, on paper at least, under the protection of Great Britain. About a year ago the British South African Company was organized, with a large capital, to carry on trade, and in November last its charter was finally signed by the British Government. This charter gives it large powers of administration, similar to those formerly granted to the British East Indian Company, and Mashona-iand was included in the region which was to be its field of operations. The news of these proceedings prompted Portugal to start an exhibition south under Lieutenant Gordon, who established him- self in Mashonaland and established a military post there. Meantime the Portu- guese Government issued a proclamation annexing the whole country up to the Zambesi River, the region including about all the country in which the British South African Company was to operate. and moat of which had been declared 18 months ago to be within the British sphere of influence. MaahonaJand particularly the country that Great Britain coveted, is said to be a magnificent plateau with a rich network of streams, a fine climate suited to European colonization and a wealth of alluvial gold. _ TEE SHIRE REGION. The Nicaragua Canal. What is a Gentleman? The San Francisca Brawere’ Union has $4,000. QUEENSLAND, Australia, lays claim to the gre‘utest and richest gold mine in the world. It is called Mt. Morgan, and will this year pay to its owners not: less than $6,000,0QQ, with the promise of a great increase when more completely developed. The gold ob, tained from it; absaya 99 3 pure, steel; which is believed to be Without ma parallel. The original owner of this property bought it for a shilling an more and sold it at about one pound sterling per acre, or in all for about $3,000. In is now valued, judging by the price of the company’s shares, at $50,000,000. That Cstarth will in time wear out. The theory is false. Men try to beligve it because it would be pleasant if true. but it is not, as all know. Do not let an acute attack of cold in the head, remnin unsub- dued, It is‘liable to devrlop into catarzh. You can rid yourself of the cold and avoid all chance of catnrzh by using Dr, Sage’s Catnrrh Remedy. It already sfflloted rid yourself of this troublesome disease speedily by tbs same means. At all druggisls. ' A Chicago Man Lays His Floral Tribute on the Wrong Deceased. The Secretary of a certain organization had a novel experience last week. It is a joke on him, and he feels too "sore" to make it advisable to publish his name. A member of his Order had died, and at a meeting it had been resolved to send flowers to the funeral and have some member attend as arepresentative. The Secretary was the member selected. He was directed to procure a suitable floral oflering, engage a carriage, and be on hand. The Secretary had never been to the brother’s house, but. of course. he had the street and number, and he told the driver of his carriage to go to such a corner. The driver followed directions, and reaching the corner and seeing a funeral the driver took his place among the carriages along the line of the curb. The Secretary was abstracted; he got out and went into the house; he took his society's floral ofiering and entering the house of mourning he went forward and placed the flowers upon the casket. He did not recognize any one in the room, but that was not at all strange, as he had never seen any of his dead friend's people. THE NEWS BEST FRIFNE The services at the house were gone through with, and the pan-hearers took up their burden and bore it to the hearse. The Secretary went out with the others and took a seat in his own carriage, giving no directions. The driver naturally followed the others, and when the cemetery was reached it struck him that the place looked like Oakwoods, and he knew his friend's remains were to be buried at Waldheim. Being worried at this thought, he asked who was being buried, and receiving in reply a name entirely unknown to him, he knew that something was wrong. He got into his carriage and was driven back to the house he started from. There he dis- covered it was not the right number, though the right street. Finding the right num- ber, he learned the funeral from that house had started a short time before he had appeared on the scene. He had made a mistake all around ; he had got the wrong house and the wrong funeral, and the flowers his society had presented had been left with strangers. He could say nothing ; it wasasad mistake, and the feet that there had been two funerals on the same street within a block (if each other, and that the one sought had gone but a few minutes before the one he found, was his only excuse for the anonâ€"Chicago Herald. Le Diggsâ€"Hello, Sappy, what'sthe mat- ter with your McGinty ‘2 De Bappy (mystified).â€"My what ? De Diggsâ€"â€"Yonr mustache; it’s down, you know.â€"Piusburg Chronicle. “G M. D."; in fact Dr. Pieroe’s Golden Medical Discovery. the unfailing remedy for consumption (which is lung-scrolula), in its early stages, as well as for chronic cutarrh in the head, and bronchial, throat and lung affections generally. It is s. nutlibive, tonic and blood purifier, and builds up the strength and flesh of those who are reduced below the usual standard of hmlth in a most marvelous way. 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