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Retake of Preceding Frame I in i y -f - r nn v PCBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BY COLL. VANCLEVE, W THE REGISTER BVUDINB, Corner ,frrj and Firt Street. TEUM3-IX AIlVAJiCE. One copy, one year .2 SO One cony, six months t 60 "To clnbs of twenty, each copy f3 00 single conic .....Ten cents. ' SnbstTilMTs outside of Unn eonnty will he clmrjfod o cents extra 2 70 for the year as tllltt 19 tit amount of MMtura wtr n iiti ii ti i which we are required to py on ettch paper Ajrrnts for the nrrfster. The following named gentlemen ro author ized to receive and receipt fr snltacriptions to the RHiiaTEK In the localities mentioned : Messrs. Kirk & Hume. Brownsville. Rolert UUtss CniwfordsvUle. W. P. Smith Ilalsey. O. P. Tompkins..... Hurrishnrg. H. II. Clunghton....... Lolw.noi. A. Wheeler Co .....ShetM. Messrs. Smith BrnsHeld .Junction City, J. B. Irvine , Scio. Tbos. li. Keynolds Suluin FRIDAY.... ....DECEMBER 15, 187G. AXALYSLS OF THE VOTE FOR ritESIDEXTIAL ELECTORS, A'0U. 7, 1876. States of Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, etc., with tlie State Governments and all the machinery of election under the control ot the Confed erates, no Republican organization or canvass was permitted, and tlte pre tended popular majorities returned are simply the handiwork ot their returning boards or State officers. Iu North Car olina the Republicans carried the State by a handsome majority on the legal vote. The returns show that their can didates polled a heavier vote than was ever before polled by any party in the State, but the ballot-box stuffing in the Vance counties disfranchises the legal popular majority in the State. In Ala bama and Mississippi crime rioted in all manner of deviltry. In the two States, both coi.fesscdly Republican by at least sixty or seventy thousand votes, the pretended Democratic majorities reach 80,000 ; and as in Mississippi and Ala bama, so by systematic intimidation, through organized violence and blood, they desperately attempted to wrest South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida from their legal Republican majorities, Hence, if we strike from Tilden's poll the majorities thus obtained through gigantic fraud, ho has not carried six of the seventeen States claimed for him, and he stands in an immense minority of the legal popular vote, as he does in The infamous and violent fraud, in the form of an election just closed, has no parallel in the history of free govern ment. In 18GI the Democratic rebel- The following statement, compiled from the census ot 1870, shows the rela tive geographical area, wealth, popula tion and intelligence of the Hayes and Tilden States : Aggregate area of all the States,2,- the representation of the wealth and in- G88,9G7 square miles ; the real and per- telligence of the nation. sonal property, $29,842,778,443 ; popu - latiou, 38,155,505 ; number of persons who cannot read, 4,444,503 ; number who cannot write, 5,559,311. The States claimed for Tilden embrace an aiea of 850,237 square miles, with a . population of 19,764,292, possessing wealth to the amount of $14,468,7 04,- 871 i ot this population there arc 3, 257, C84 who can not read, and 3,G73,- 611 who cannot write. The States that have cast their vote for Hayes have an area of 1,238,750 square miles, a popu, latiou ot 18,391,213, with wealth ag gregating $15,374,073,572: of this papulation there are only 1,184,7 .3 jorities ot the States, to subvert Use who can not read, and 1,575,700 who Constitution, to destroy the Democratic can not write. 1 principle underlying it and our law Hence the btates represented in the i and substitute for it. in the rule ot the vote of Hayes, it elected, contain nearly governnieut and nation, the old oligar- 400,000 square miles more of territory chical tyranny ! than the area embraced in the States on bis hands once, and it will be a very small matter for him to mash this little one. Despite the brag and bluster ot the Democracy, Hayes will be inaug urated, if he is declared elected, and he will serve his four years. It is a sig nificant fact that while the Republicans here insist that they will not have the Presidency unless Hayes is fairly elected, the Democratic leaders say nothing ot the kind. They have declared iu ad vance that the count must necessarily be a fraud, and they will haye the con trol of the Government whether they are entitled to it or not ; and as noth ing is done in Democratic circles ex cept by the direction ot Tilden himself, all this inflammatory talk may be charged directly to him. If we have any trouble he will be responsible for it. THE 1IENZIES LIBKARY Which was so'd at auction, taking five days ot last week was one of those col lections which give the ordinary reader new ambitions m the world of books. To give some ordinarily appreciable idea of its value to begin with, the library brought nearly $75,000 at auc tiou, not one-fourth its real worth. Some black letter books brought over a thousand dollars apiece, being a mat ter of 300 years old, and among the earliest specimens of printing in exist ence, but these would not compare in the sight of enthusiastic Americans with the original manuscript order book of Valley Forge, faded and with the pages tendered with time, and handling, but preserved iu a cafe, of heavy morocco, There were many specimens of the lion was, by force of arms, to destroy : earliest printing in this country, but in the Union, to Wot out the Republic from I any eyes save those of a book collector, the family of nations, and to erect an oligarchy, based upon negro slavery, upon the ruins of American liberty. In 1876 the Confederate Democratic con spiracy is out slightiy modiued a re bellion by all malignant agencies, by systematic intimidation and fraud, thrcugh organized violence and murder, to disfranchise the legal, popular ma- the ends snugly tucked under on the left where they meet, two standing loops in front aud a feather or two lying demurely over on the crown fin ish the most stylish bonnets. The face trimming of some rich soft-hued velvet between these close bonnets that are was Georgie Jones, as pretty a little witch as ever worked mischief ; she it was who first discovered his one weak ness, which, let as add. was not the re. suit of baahfulness, but merely of a thin skin. Ferhaps there was no less bash ful man in the world than Mr. Heed, and Miss Georgie was a match for him thorn a rwl AlA nwlttoef -nf tim entirely in quiet b rench taste, ana iue to confusion. She sketched his unmis- flowing plumes and grace of Gams- , takable caricature on the blackboard, borough hat, there is complete contrast; where she had been sent to work out ... ; an algebraic equation, of which he anu jet wueu wen-worn, " h, - r,mra- v;a j .a. . -... rr-i I " ! . & as nioaest a me oiuer. xuo opportunely. Uetore ber quick hand borough needs only a scart ot sott ricn i couia erase it he had stayed the move silk drawn close about the crown set ty tus own. represented by the vote of Tilden. and nearly $1,000,000,000 more of the wealth ot the Nation ; while those rep resented by Tilden's vote embrace nearly all the ignorance and consequent crime ot the Nation, and those represented by the vote ot Hayes its very highest in telligence, the noblest culture and learn ing, as they do its greatest wealth and taxation, and the largest portion of its geographical area. By a singular per versity of things, the vote ot Tilden, the candidate ot the men and party who OIK SEW YORK LETTER. POLITIC A I.- TWEED-MONKV. THE MEXZIES LIBRARY FASHIONS HCSINKbS AND Xfav Yokk, Xov. 21, 1S7G. the prizes of the library were an Ab bottsfbrd edition ot Walter Scott, and one ot Ruskin's works with proof en. graving. Such luxury of type and delicacy of illustration was sent the poor book lovers, who cannot afford editions at three and four hundred dub lars, away saddened, but g'ftd to have rejoiced their eyes with such elegant volumes. Mr. Menzies had what had cost him over 00,000 in his library, and in ordinary times it would have realized twice that amount, for some of the books extant, and were priceless. Cut books, like real estate, have lilt the effect of hard times, and so the whole lot sold for what collectors would call "a song," It is understood that the owner was compelled by stress of bad financial weather to part with a collection that had taken a life-time to get together. POLITICAL. Probably the most desperate set of men that ever existed are the Democ racy of New York. The certainty ot Hayes' election has maddened them, for they were near enough the plunder to smell it, and to have it taken from labor to disfranchise the negro, to wrest their very claws is a little too much for from him all political power, represents the great bulk of the negro population, and Hayes' vote a vast majority of the white population, as it does the land, the wealth, and the intelligence of the Republic Analyze and run the parallel as you will, the result is the same : in the rela tive number of libraries, public and pri vate, and in the number of their vol umes ; in the relative number of insti tutions of learning aud school facilities and attendance, in the relative number Ot authors and works published and read, and newspapers and periodicals printed ; in the relative character ot populations, their relative thrift, indus try, wealth and morals ; under every their patience. They do not propose to give it up, and have already fixed up their programme. They propose to deny the legality of the election ; the Democratic House will assert that there has been no legal expression of the will ot the people, and that consequently the House must, as in case of a failure to elect, proceed to the election of a President. It will refuse to join the Senate in counting the returns, and will go on and elect Tilden and inaugurate iiim. They claim that he can be in augurated anywhere, and the House will recognize him as the President,. re fuse to recognize Haye, and will call upon the Governors of the States to recognize their Government. That this TWEED. The champion thief of the nineteenth century, is once more in Ne v York, and iu durance vile. Ho landed last Thursday morning from the United States steamer Franklin, and was turned over to sheriff Connor from whose cus tody he escaped two years ago. He got away in a yacht, landed in Cuba, was protected by the Governor General of that island, at a cost of $300,000, aud when so closely pursued by the American officials that hiding was im possible, he fled to Spain whero he was apprehended and returned. I lis history is suggestive. A few years ago, he was worth his stolen millions, he was sur rounded by parasites who flattered him to the top of his bent. Tilden was his obsesqious tool and partner, he made Governors, Legislatures, Senators, and Representatives, he disbursed millions unquestioned, and his ambition weut beyond his state and he was reaching tor the control or the country. Now he is a poor, old, broken-down man, analysis and comparison, the dread col- programme has been determined upon or line ot ignorance and crime bounds by Tilden, is shown in the fact that and darkens the Tilden States. That, every Democratic paper in the city that too, while giving Tilden all the advan- , is owned by Tilden bad articles simul- tages of the notorious Democratic taneously, insisting that if three doubt violence and fraud at the lata election, I ful States were counted for Hayes it whila counting for Lira all the States would be an usurpation which no Dem- thus carried. Thus the electoral vote I ocrat coo Id possibly accept , and resist of New York will be counted for him. I ance by force was not at all dimly hint- But is be legally entitled to the vote ? I ed at. And Tilden's editorial bureau, He carried New Yorkjcity and its sur. I which he personally directs, is Bonding roundings through the terrible frauds ot I flf articles to picked Democratic papers its vicious classes. The State was I in strong Democratic sections of the heavily against him. Thus the city, by its frauds and crimes, disfranchises the Ieal majority in the State, and Tilden will count its electoral vote as the rep- most inflammatory character, and cal culated to fire the Democratic heart. They reiterate the statement that Hayes will be counted in by fraud that Til resentative, not of its legal popular ma- j den will resist, and they call upon all jority, but ot its Five Points and ita J good Democrats to be ready to tustain criminal classes. J him. Add to this the fact that the In the like manner, and for like rea- j rifle clubs in the South, another name sous. Tilden will count the electoral rote of Indiana, only carried for him by the fraudulent Kentucky vote, prin cipally in three counties, against the le gal popular majority of the State; aud ot New Jersey and Connecticut, only carried for him by colonization, talse naturalization and registration, and wholesale repeating, violently disfran chising, as in New York, the legal pop ular majorities of those States; ' f ' In the South the violence and fraud sras evea more notorious and flagrant, find the pretended, popular majorities Vcn greater cheats, The election, n i! i was simply an infamous and t;io3y farce; it wasjno election. In the off by the very softest of curling feath ers. For a last item, the newest dress trimming is a button with three drops, to be liberally sprinkled over costumes and cloaks, making a combination ef fect of buttons and fringe together. USIXESS ANI MONEY. Business is terribly dull. No one seems disposed to do anything till the Presidency is settled. If Tilden steak Louisiana, it will continue so, for no one will know, till after the meeting of his Congress what will be his policy. If nayes is elected business men will breathe free, for they know what his policy is, and can calculate. Buyers are cutting closely and sellers are equal ly indifferent, tor unless a man has cash it may possibly be unsafe to deal with him. Theatres are full, for the strangers keep them fed, bat I notice lewer rich dresses and less display of wealth than usual. I observe furs two seasens old, dresses that have been made over, &nd hats that new trimming has made presentable. Women haven't the mon ey to sper.d, and economy is the rule. We want to know who is President, THE LAST SCAN DAI.. Is the old one. Rich Cuban young and beautiful lady slips and falls Cuban picks her up acquaintance- Cuban fancies he has a young, innocent, virtuous girl calls, makes love and finally takes her to his house in Pougl keepsie, as housekeeper. Intimacy girl blossoms out not quite so innocent as Cuban supposed demands of money, scheming old father Cuban bleeds awhile, but finally refuses. Shyster l.iwver suit for breach of promise in which the girl swears everything blue one way, ami Cuban swears everything black another. Crowds every day in the court, and but the trial is not over yet. This, in brief, is the history ot the Del Valle-Martiuez case, now in procress. While there is but little doubt that Del Valle fell into the hands ot an expertei cod schemer, I am glad to see him fleeced. He supposed her an innocent girl and set about to rum her without any compunction. When such get hoist with their own petard, a good lessou has been taught the world. PlK'J'RO, disappointed in you."' "In me!" looking up archly, "i hadn't promised anything, that I'm aware" "I wish yon would be serious, Miss Jones," he pursued. "I assure you this seems to be a matte of too much importance to admit ot trifling. I could not believe that yo? would stoop to such devices and deceits ! Don't you see how yon wound, how you disappoint roe ? How hard it goes wii h one who has formed an ideal, and " he paused iu his eloquence ; Miss Jones was re garding him with an air ot surprise ; he blushed and stumbled in his speech "and and I don't know what I was about to say ; however, I hope you are i : ' : t" sorry, I'liooocuigici "I am dreadfully sorry to lose my tea ; we were going to have hot muffius. Aren't you hungry, Mr. Reed ?" "You don't mean to say that you are not sorry ?" he flashed. "It can not be possible that you have so little regard for truth, you in whom I have believed, with whom I would have trusted every thing and any thing, you whom I love " He paused again confounded by his own words, which seemed to have slipped from his lips unbidden, "Mr. Reed, did , you keep me after school to listen to a proposal?' she asked, rising quite angrily. "It is something quite unusual." "I did not intend it, believe me, Miss Jones. Pardon mo; but c ut of the full ness ot the heart the mouth speaketh ' I must have been thinking aloud. If you have found out my secret, I dare say you are none the happier tor it." "I suppose I may be dismissed it you have nothing more to say?" There were tears ot anger or of something standing in ber eyes. "You may be dismissed. I have paid too much ; you have been terribly non, committal." He held out his hand, but she did not choose to see it, or the dusk prevented. The stars were coming out in the evening sky, scents of wild rose and sweet-fern were blowing in through the open windows, and a bell was toll ing softly in some remote church tower, "Shall I walk home with you, Miss Jones?" he asked, as he locked the Aunt Sue; call Urjcle True. Run for the doctor, Jake run tor your lite. Oh! oh ! Is a sunstroke very danger ous? Cant I bathe his poor head, er do something? Poor fellow! it'll break somebody's heart. Why, it is itw," with a gasp "it is Mr. Heed I Go, both of you, all of yon go for the doc tor. I will take care of him. Mr. Reed dear Mr. Reed speak to me look at roe. I am your own Georg-e, and I am so sorry so sorry, and I will never,, never vex you any more if you will just sav. I love von ' szahi. ifit onee again !" and the tender word oosnehow sir. ist-nirs way The Wildacre School was universally thought to be the most unmanageable iu the State, though it was only a girls' school, Wlien Miss Brierly kept it, the trustees voted it little short of Bed lam. The young ladies were down in lower hall, chatting and flirting with the young men who chanced to lounge that way, or droppit g billets-dottx out the window with a cord, and pulling up the answers by the same means, aud "Is that your unknown quantity. Miss Jones?" said he. "Please to fin ish your problem." Miss Georgie seized the crayon: in an instant of dariug impudence, and wrote off against the caricature, "plus his Diusn equals and then she paused. rsow, the woman who hesitates, we know, is lost. Can't yon finish it ?" askod her teacher. "I thought you had commit ted your lesson. Give me the crayon, it you please." lJquals Miss Jones plus her Imper tinence," he wrote. A. lirnVD It CIP C .Jntt nlnncn ' ' said Miss Georgie, demurely. x ou may take your seat, Miss J ones. and finish your lesson after school." But presently the bell rang, and the young lady whoso business it was to an, swer the door brought up a note, which ran thus : "Will Mr. Reed kindly dismiss Miss Georgie Jones at 10 : 30, and oblige her aunt?" "Miss Jonos," said he,- "you may be dismissed." Z?" she asked, with an air of sur prise. "1 was to remain after school." " l our aunt requests that you should be dismissed." "Oh, thanks." There was a general titter as Miss Georgie decamped, cast ing a triumphant look over her shoul der, for they were all very well aware that the note was a fabrication of her own, carried out by Jiss Kew, who had been dismissed on account of a vio lent tit ot fiieezing, and returned by school-house door; "you have quite means of a small urchin she had biibtnl ! walk over a lonely road." with a noiinv. "You might have thought ot that Uuforlnnate'v for Miss Gcorcrio- Mr. earlier. I am not afraid, thank you. Reed, having an errand at the railway know every rock between here and the station ofier school. piimimLerpd hpr farm " she answered. R he held the aunt itist steit)iiir from thn train. gate open tor her to pass. .Mr. Keen s :.-." : -- . " .. ' - "J didn't know vou were, out ot ! emoiions were noi oi an e town." said lie. "Have vou been awav i as "e walked home alone u.at evening: Ion" ?" i he had proposed to that iittle wucn, 'Only for a week's shopping. How I whom he found it impossible to l ate, is Georgie doing Mi. Reed? Do you i and she had rebuked him. A pretty think she will graduate this year ? I'm na'r between teacher and pupil, enly! liecause she will have to teach j How pleasant it wou'd letoopeii school when she gets through." lnueetl J I hope she may nud pu- , pils as docile as herself." 1 he next time Miss Georgie brought her pencil and requested .Mr. Reed to sharpen it, as sue sometimes did, he asked, "Are you going to write me an other note. Miss Jones? "Another note!" she repeated. "When did I ever write you a nolo?" "Can you sav that you never did ?" "What do yon mean, Mr. Reed?" "What does this mean J" and he pro duced the note in question. She gave a light laugh. It means that you havn't proved your problem yet. All's fair in love and war, they say.'' Mr. Reed's face did not reflect her smile, aud Georgie noted the fact with astonishment. "Do you think this quite honest ?" he a.-ked. "Honest P' she repeated coloring. "I certainly do not think it is polite to call me dishonest." defiantly. "Was it polite to deceive me ?" "Please give me my pencil," aid Miss Impertinence. "Your riddles are too hard for me." "Vou may take your scat, Miss Jnes." readied the half-conscious ear, and be moved his lips feebly, whispering, hatf- inaudibly, ''Love I love you I love you j ' - And so it happened that Mr, Reed did not resign bis situation at Wildacre, thouerh the trustees were obliged to find a substitute for many a week, while He was recovering from the sunstroke, while he made a wedding tour. And so it happened that the Wildacre school became the most orderly m tbe country, perhaps because be married tlie ring leader ! Harper's Uazar. . Tbe sad intelligence comes that the orang-outang in the Berlin Zoological Garden died recently of consumption. His loss is deeply telt, As an orang outang he was an ornament tQ his pro fession, and in the social oirclo ho shone pre-eminent. He was always kind to the female chimpanzee, and toward the gorilla showed no envy nor petty mal ice, lie wore his whiskers in the style of the kaiser, aud, though he hadn't at the time ot his death evoluted his tail off, was always manly in his ways. In the midst ot lite we are m debt. JOB PUUsTINO. i. : .1 : at: :i 1 rench candy. If Miss Kew tainted as an(, lt, tI)e rang iu the loweJ she had a nervous trick of doing, half ,.,, 1 A ' i a:- the school would rush to a neighbor's ., ...,:" i,., .. hnt f lo I ihcc I- - for the camphor Brierly could look about her, and it was ten to one it many ot them return ed for the remainder ot the session. "Miss Brierly," Georgie Jones would say, m tne Dianuesc lones ot trtenuiir l ess "aliss Ijrieiiy, tlte braid is rip- Gone are the friends who shared bis pod off tl bottom of your skirt half a 1 n ie prosperity gone is his money, gone is - fhank von. tliank' vou .' Miss Bri- his power, the man whom he befriended, I erly would reply iu her nervous, bnrri- facts : but the young ladies were allowed to answer the bell by turns, and it so happened that it was Miss Georgie's week to perform that pleasant office. She rose quickly to the performance of her duty. "Compose yourself, Miss Joues,'Faid Mr. Reed. f'Miss Samp son, it you will take charge ot the school I will answer the bell mvself !" There was a general titter, led by the dis- i i . i . and who shared his pluder, is at the ed way.jrfecUy congous of her slov- & rStk SwSy head of his organization and is trying ffi r I1! was to be seen, not so much as a naugh- X ty urchin scampering down the green or oionsuen would give her the tame dis- , . an . . M . to 6teal the Presidency, and of the throng of followers and flatterers who j agreeable information, drank ins wine and took his money, three years ago, there is not one so poor as to do him reverence. Itdoesen't pay to be a thief. The old man is well aware of what is before him. There are indictments enough on him to keep him in the penitentiary three times as long as he is likely to live, and he will get the full benefit of them, tor no one dare say a word for him. It is curious how that old party went. Fisk was "The braid's off your dress, Miss Brierly.'7 "Yes, thanks; I've just been told ;' and thus, ju her progress about the school-room, a dozen other mischievous girls, as if by preconcerted movement, would announce the same pleasing fact -a dimpled hand would be lined from one seat and another to ask permission to tell her the braid was ripped off her dress till Miss Brierly, out ot all pa tience, would cry out, 'the hrst young lady who speaks about the braid on my dress shall lose for organized militia, are 350,000 strong. and that arms were sent to them from the Democratic National Committee and some notion of their designs may be formed. It has been established be, yond a peradventure, that the National Democratic Committee did self New York State cannon at a merely nominal price to South Carolina, and that very large shipments of muskets have been sent to tbe same parf'es from this city. They either mean busiress or they ape indulging in a remarkable game ot bluff. The. Republicans take it all very quietly. r Grant, no Buchanan, ' is President, and ho knows how to stamp out rebellions. He bad one large one shot, Genet, Sweeny and Connolly are a hundred marks and her recess J w siilkino- ftbo.it. Vnrn and fta a hroVor. ! "But it isn't Oil your drCSS, M.ISS Bri rt- i ... . . . I erly; it's ripped would be the last mftn TvMHi 117 ill itio in thd tvnttntiQrv I J ' r 1 ' . " ,ao . , , shot trom tne mogJ. darmo. tbe anu iiiuen wen, me less saiu auout him the better. It may be a little troublesome to be honest, at times, but it is better, in the long run, to keep on that side. FASHIONS. The felt bonnets are almost quakerish in their snug fit and close trimming. Bottle green, black and dark ash-gray are stylishly worn, trimmed with heavy silk, or ilk and velvet, lt takes a nice hand to adjust the trimming which looks so modest, and is so : precise, A Sometimes the theme was her hair. escaped from its confining pins ; and as Miss Brierly wore a 6witcn, and switches were something to blush for in those days, it was naturally, enough to vex the heart of a saint. The girls of Wildacre were too full ot vinegar to re flect whether they would like to stand in Miss Brierly's shoes ; and it was through their persistent mischief as much as her own incompetence that she lost her situation, and Mr. Reed came to take ber place. Even he found it do bed of roses -a handsome young fellow, with an eye like Mars, which was greatly needed at vvildacre to threaten silk binding or piping finishes the brim or command, and the muscle of an ath- even when there is a velvet facing : lete. But Mr. Reed had an inherited three-eighths of bias silk at least, is habit of blushing, and the young ladies laid in four or five folds close round the were not slow to take advantage of it. crown, reversed on the right side, and Perhaps the ringleader of the school quietly up stairs, but paid nothing. The next afternoon tie bell rang again. "You may go down, Miss Georgie," ho said. Miss Georgie did as she was bid den, for a wonder, and, returning after a reasonable time, reraaiked that Miss Kew was wanted. Miss Kew was on her feet before the words were well out ot Georgie's mouth. "Sit down, if you please, Miss Kew," said Mr. Reed. "I will go down my self and see your friend ! it it is any thing urgent, yon shall follow," Mr. Reed accordingly descended i nobody was there, "You may remain after school, Miss Jones," ho said, when he returned ! "and in the meantime I will, to prevent any further interruption trom visitors, invite you to take this seat, which, I think, is more than armslength awav from the belbwire." Miss Jones had' sat where she could watch ber chance, touch the bell-wire, and take an airing ; followed by her favorite chum. It must be eontesssd that after the last lingering girl had disappeared and left Mr. Reed alone with Georgie in the echoing school-room with its paneling of blackboard and chalk-marks, as if it had gone into half mourning, that be telt just a little nervons and uneasy. It was rather ungallant to ask ber to come to him, and it was equally undignified to go to her ; however, he went present ly and sat down in the seat just in front pf her, facing, and leaning one arm up? on her desk. Miss Georgie," hp began, "I am next day, with each young lady rendv to touch his wound with the scalpel of his ridicule, and Miss Georgie more au dacious than ever! But Miss Georgie did not present herself, and the mischief of the others seemed to proceed lamely without her. Mr. Reed thanked Heav en that it was a halt-holiday, and in stead of going home to dinner like a sensible man though what lover is sensible, for the matter of that? he struck out for the woods aud the river, a long tramp in the burning sun, and being exhausted on his walk homeward, he threw himself down in the shade ot some wild blossoming shrubs and fell asleep. He was awakened by the sound ot voices. ere the leaves talk. ing? Was the wind syllabling familiar words ? "Georgie had a headache this morn ing when I called for her; lectures don't agree with her digoslion." All at once he sat upright. It was Miss Kew who was speaking, and he could see her and half a dozen oUiers through the upenings among the boughs, weaving oak leaves and gossiping i-d ly. "Poor Mr. Reed looked like a ghost this morning a broken reed, indeed ! I guess he found that Georgie belonged to a stiff-necked generation." "I wonder what they talked about. Do you suppose she promised better behavior?" "Maybe she promised tor betlpr or worse. ' "Pshaw I" put in Miss Kew: "1 asked her if he said anything tender, and she said. 'Tender! is a bear ten der?" "lie hugs!" "I've told her that he was dead in Jo niany's the lime," continued Miss Kew. "and meant to marry her some day, with all her imjter lections on Iter head." "I dare say she wouldn't say 'no. ' "Indeed, vou needn't dare say any thing of the sort, Georgie Jones is above marrying a poor pedagogue, 'She's poor herself. Her uncle's only a farmer, and she's got to teach." "But a beauty like Georgie doesn't need to jump out or tne iryiug-pan imo tlie fire. What sort of match would Mr. Reed be?" "A lncifer. I guess." Surelv listeners never hear any good of themselves, thought Mr. Reed, as he picke4 up his hat and strolled quietly awav. screened by the friendly leaves. He felt as miserable as a man of twenty- nine is capable ot foeling who has been o-uilty ot nothing but an error of judg, ment. jus term wouiu enu in a ion night, however, and then be would throw up his situation and leave Wild- acre forever, lie walked ou aud on in an unnatural mood, taking any route that invited, tresspassing over corn fields, limbing stone walls, crossing lazy streams, till all at once the sky seemed to change to inky blackness, shot across with blinding flashes ot light ; an At las weight seemed pressing upon his brain, the sound of roaring cataracts was in his ear, ad upconsciousness followed. There was a young girl rocking and 6ewing in the farm-house near, who, roused trom some absorbing reflections of her own by the approaching feet and tho tremor of anxious voices, moved leisurely to the doorway, and encoun tered the hired meu bringing in a bur den. ;Kr "It's a sunstroke, I reckon, said one. "Don't ye bo seaTed, Miss Georgie; 'taint none ot your folks." 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