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WEEKLY COR V ALUS GAZETTE
OORVALLIS.
APRIL 23, 1880.
THE SEA'S ANSWER.
The ple moon rushed along the stormy sky,
Now bid, now seen, like some belated bark,
That drives among the breakers aimlessly.
Their white crests gleaming silver through
the dark.
Pale as the moon, beneath the light-Louse
cowered,
The silent watcher on the great stone pier,
She saw how black the gathering cloud wrack
sue hcaru ine gale's hoarse warning mutter
ing near;
She fell the kindred tumult In her breast,
With Noture's angry mood was prompt to
blend;
Yet lue .. answered, stilling ber unrett,
"Tue hardest bap comes ever to the end."
Though the great waves roll thundering to the
snore,
Ann u'ci ihe reef the cruel surf-clouds foam,
Though fierce and high the crashing breakers
roar.
Between the weary fisherman and home;
Ca m to lis depths the tide will ebb at night,
Tue waves creep whispering backward from
tbe Hear,
And as the cottage hearth shows welcome
light,
Tbe laden cobel leaps the harbor bar,
Kara that cau hear, hearts that can under
"d. . .j
Know ocean tells us, like a staunch old
friend,
"Ood holds the future in His loving hand.
Tu- hardest bap comes ever to the end."
The red-roofed bouses plied beneath tbe Head
In silent separate lights began to shine.
The struggling moon her tearful radiance shed
On the grand beauty o' tbe ruined shrine ;
Kiom the quay-side, laugh, snatch or song, and
Cause fl'iful to the pier upon the breeze.
And, regular as pulse's rise ana fell.
Boomed the long echo of tbe breaking seas
And htill the watcneron tbe great stone plrr
Ungerei above trie eternal waves to bend,
Taking tbelr answer borne to buh and cheer,
The hardest hap comes ever to an end."
Mr. and Mrs. Bondurant.
BY BONNE HTJEBE.
"I think you will find a document un
der your plate that may interest you,"
said Mrs. Bondurant, addressing her
husband, as he took his seatat the break
fast table.
The words were uttered with a look in
tended to express severe censure, with
some itv and contempt, and rather
more of the latter.
The husband slowly turned over his
plate, took up and read a errocer s bill
5?50 34. On the margin were the words,
"Check expected immediately.'
"1 would rather not send tins man a
check just now," said Mr. Bondurant.
"it is true 1 have a little more than a
that amount in the bank, but I shall
need all I have and more also to-morrow
to pay the costs of the suit I am con
ducting."
"This is about the answer I expected
to receive," said his wife, "and I must
tell you that your paltry excuses will not
answer for the purpose. That bill must
be paid at once.'
"It is scarcely worth while, Julia, to
speak so emphatically in regard to this
matter, said Uie husband. "l am do
ing a little business for these grocers,
and, although they do not owe me any
thing now, I can, I suppose, got them to
wait a few days in the mean time let us
have what goods we need.
"They will do nothing of that sort,"
said Mrs. Bondurant. "And if the bill
is not paid before 3 o'clock to-day they
will send it to my brother, Alfred , who
will pay it and take an assignment of the
claim.
"Then let him do so," said Mr. Bon
durant, quietly breaking a piece of hard
cracker into his coffee, at the same time
deliberately watching the softening
process. "This is what thev call hard
tack. I believe. It is better for sailors
than for us pour landsmen. They have
more time to spend soaking it, nnless
when the rough weather comes on, and
then I suppose they dispense with the
ceremony of eating until the storm has
expended its fury.
"Your insinuations are intended to
exasperate me," said Mrs. Bondurant,
"but I warn you, f-ir, that you are tread
ine on treacherous ground."
"If the ground, madam, on which I
am treading is composed of your feel
ings I would not expect to find it uncom
momly delicate," was the retort.
"Are you wining, sir, to have my
brother pay that grocer s bill?
"I con Id easily have arranged it in
such a way that it would not have gone
into his hands, but as I infer from what
you say that the matter has been talked
over between him and you and the
grocer, and that he has agreed to take an
assignment of the bill if I do not pay it
before 6 o clock to-day, I shall allow the
matter to be disposed of in that way, and
give myself no other concern to it at
present."
"Then it seems you are willing to have
my brother provide for your family?
That is just what he told me it would
come to when we were married, and in
fact immediately after he first learned
that you were visiting me. My father
and mother also gave me the same warn
ing. They told me more than fifty
times that you would never be worth a
dollar in the world, and they would have
to support us."
"And you are sorry you did not take
their advice?"
"Sometimes I am, if I must tell you
the truth. You know 1 could have mar
ried Rocky Billings, and I had other
good offers. As for Rocky, he was al
most dying for me. His social standing
was not, it is true, quite equal to yours,
and he was not so good-looking, but he
had more business capacity than a hun
dred young lawyers like you. With him
for a husband I would never have suffer
ed the mortification of seeing a grocer's
bill paid by my brother."
"Mr. Billings is still unmarried, I be
lieve," said the husband dryly.
"What base insinuation are those
words intended to convey? You are now
my husband, and I have no wish to ex
change you for Mr. Billings or any one
else. If I have made a bad bargain it is
right that I should suffer the conse
quences of it, and I intend to do so as
patiently as I can."
"Whenever you wish to be released
from the consequences, madam, and the
bargain that has led to them, please let
me know," said Mr. Bondurant; and,
without a word more or any token of af
fection, he passed down the two flights
of stairs that led to their hired apart
ments and was on his wav to his office.
But, before leaving the room in which
he had breakfasted, he placed on the
table a ten-dollar bill.
There was an inside history which this
table-talk may suggest but does not ex
plain. Julia Henderson was the daugh
ter of a proud, ambitions family, who
had a little means that they were fond of
displaying to the greatest advantage.
fteir daughter Julia was a young lady
of recognized beauty and more than or
dinary attractions, and they had hoped
that her marriage to such a man as they
would select and approve would be of
some benefit to them as well as to her,
and lift them up considerably on the
scale of worldly prosperity.
"Can it be possible, Julia, that you
are receiving the attentions of that young
lawyer?" Mr. Henderson had said.
"Well, no, father," Julia answered;
"not in any other way than that I find
him a pleasant companion. He calls and
takes me out occasionally, in which I
hope you see nothing wrong."
"I don t like the way he looks at you,
Julia. He evidently admires you, and
admiration sometimes changes to love so
easily that it is scarcely possible to say
when or in what way the transition takes
place. I understand he is a somewhat
able lawyer, but is very poor and is no
doubt likely to remain so in a profession
that is crowded until there is no longer
standing-room left. You had better have
a talk with your brother and hear his
opinion in regard to this young lawyer
before you allow him to call many times
more.
A scornful and defiant look was the
only answer this suggestion raised, and
the next moment the young lady had left
the room.
"You see how that girl takes and sets,"
said Mr. Henderson to his wife, who had
been a silent listener.
"Yes, my dear," said her mother, "and
I am now satisfied that her feelings are
more deeply interested in the young
lawyer than any of us had supposed.
But let Alfred talk with her, and he may
be able to turn her thoughts away from
young Bondurant and get her to en
courage the attentions of Mr. iiiiiings.
He is rather a low-bred young man, it is
true but he is making money rapidly,
and his uncultivated manner need not
alarm us a few weeks spent in society
will make them all right."
"Qerhaps so," said Mr. Henderson,
with a look that betrayed more scepti
cism than confidence,
"I had no thought of seriously en
couraging the attentions of Mr. Bondu
rant," said Julia, the moment she began
to feel the pressure of her brother's de
terminations to prevent the acquaintance
from proceeding any further, "But
now, if you please, Master Alfred, I
shall do exactly as I think best in re
gard to this matter."
From that time onward the young lady
found employment for the whole of her
life-will and she had a good deal in re
sisting the effort of her parents and
brothers to compel her to dismiss the
young lawyer.
"If you marry him we shall be obliged
to support you both, no doubt," was her
brother's frequent and tantalizing sug
gestion. "The young fellow is not mak
ing a dollar more than he needs for his
own board and clothes, and he hasactu
ally been obliged to give up smoking,
because he could not afford cigars, and
was to proud to be seen using a pipe."
The young people had been married
four years when the conversation oc
curred in regard to the grocer's bill.
Young Henderson had been making
some money, a little of which he had
found opportunities occasionally to give
to his sister, and in every instance had
reminded her that he was fulfilling his
predictions. In fact he, and her parents
also, had been continually reproaching
her for her folly in marrying the poor
lawyer.
The unfortunate woman for so Julia
began to consider herself had no chil
dren now living. One little girl, born
about eighteen months after their mar
riage, had lived nearly a year, and when
its death and burial came the feelings of
the parents of the father especially
had been wounded almostbeyond endur
ance by their being made to realize their
inability to provide for the funeral ex
lienses m a becoming manner.
"I must take care of the dead also, as
well as the living, was her brother s un
feeling remark, made while the funeral
preprarations were in progress.
The stern logic of long continued ex
perience had finally exhausted the spirit
of the poor wife, and she gradually came
to believe that what she had so often
been told was true, and that she had
made a great mistake in marrying the
poor lawyer. The persuasion, having
become a settled conviction, soon found
expression in complaints and reproaches
which were not very patiently borne by
the man who was conscious of doing all
in his power to make his wife comfort
able, and never spendihg a cent for any
personal indulgence. Besides, the
amount earned would have enabled them
to live in a style of moderate comfort
had not his wife s family continually
urged her into expenditures beyond
what her her husband could afford.
The young lawyer, had, however, at
last got hold of a case winch he felt cer
tain of gaining, and which, when decid
ed, would bring a few thousand dollars
He had taken the case at his own risk
and cost, and was to receive one-half of
the amount received, his client having
expended his last dollar in the suit, and
being unable to do anything more. In
the meantime that over-assiduous and
agonizing brother-in-law, who was ready
to pay the grocer's bill and take an as
signment of the claim, had an interest in
defeating the suit and was actually fur-
msiung money for that purpose.
But these legal and business compli
cations the discouraged wife did not
know much about. She knew that the
grocer's bill and other bills were unpaid.
and that the brother had already paid
several of those bills and was holding the
claims against her husband.
"Well, Julia," said Mr. Bondurant, re
turning from his office on the evening of
the day when he left without saying
"Good-by;" "I hope you have been able
to get up a plain dinner with the 810 I
left on the table this morning.
1 have not used the Sit), nor any of
it, said his wife, handing the money
back to him. "I have had a long and se
rious talk with brother Alfred to-day,
and have come to the firm conclusion
that under the circumstances it will be
best for me to return to my father's
house and remain there until you are
able to provide for me and yourself also
For the present yon have as much as you
can do to take care of yourself, and my
brother has promised to see that 1 am
comfortably provided for."
Mr. .Hoik lu rant regarded his wife for
a few moments in bewildered amazement.
He was carefully holding the 810 bill
which he had accepted from her, but
without knowing why she had handed it
hack to him. He now dropped the bill
on the table, and clasping his hands, as
lie was in the habit of doing sometimes
when trying to get a clear view of some
question that bothered him, he looked at
his wife for a few moments in a solemn
and earnest way, and then said :
"If our dear child had lived I suppose
you would not have left me ?"
"No, I presume not; she, no doubt,
would have kept us together. I would
not have taken her from you, and I know
ybu would not have gone to live with me
at my father's house. I have no thought,
Alfred, of really leaving yon, but shall
be true to my marriage vows, and shall 1
be ready to return to you as soon as you
are able to provide for me, but for the
present we must part. My brother tells
me that the claim you are prosecuting
will end in nothing, and that you are not
worth a dollar to-day, and it is not likely
you ever will be."
"And if that is so, it would seem that
you are leaving me with the expectation
of returning no more."
"That must depend, Mr. Bondurant."
said the wife, steeling herself to a cold
and firm look, "on the possible contin
gency, at some future time of
your being able to provide for
me in a comfortable way, which, I am
sorry to say, does not now apper very
probable."
"Then good-by forever !" said the hus
risingand withdrawing from the room,
without tking any further notice of his
wife ; nor did he even look back.
The marriage, as a legal relation, re
mained undisturbed- The husband and
wife, when meeting occasionally on the
street or elsewhere, bestowed upon each
other a bow of civil recognition, but
without exchanging a word.
In this way eight years had passed.
At the end of five years Mrs. Bondurant's
family, including that devoted brother,
had been both unable and unwilling to
do anything more for her, and for the
last three years she had been supporting
herself by performing the duties of sec
retary for an insurance company. Why
that situation had been given to her just
at a time when she had no other means
of support, and at a salary much larger
than she had expected to receive, was a
mystery about which she had her own
private suspicions.
It was a cold morning in mid-winter,
and the sidewalks were covered with ice.
Mrs. Bondurant, on her way to her
office, had just passed the manly form of
one whom she had never ceased to ad
mire yes, love, for his image had al
ways remained in her heart. Every pho
tograph, piece of jewelry, or other
memento that he had left with her had
been looked at and handled again and
again, and some of these articles she had
often bathed with her tears.
On passing him this time she had re
ceived the usual look and bow, and
nothing more. The poor woman could
not, however, refrain from casting a look
back for an instant to catch a glimpse of
his receding form, and while she was do
so the treacherous ice, as if intending
some mischief, permitted her to fall sud
denly and at full length.
"Are you hurt, my dear?" were the
first words she heard, and her quick,
spontaneous answer was:
"Not much, 1 hope, darling husband !"
And as he lifted her into the carriage he
had hailed and took a seat by her side,
with his arm around her, she added,
"How glad I am that you were there to
assist me."
"Yes, dear, that was a slippery path,"
he said softly.
"Which I hope I may never pass over
again!" murmured the wife, earnestly.
"I gained that suit," said the hus
band, as the carriage was taking them
to his home, which could now be hers
also.
"Yes, dear, I knew you gained it, and
I was so glad! I have saved more than
half my salary the last three years. You
know, and so do I, that most of that
salary has come from you."
The long embrace and fond kiss which
each received and returned was a mutual
assurance that through their long separa
tion their hearts had become united
more firmly than ever.
"It was all my all my fault," was
what the repentant and now happy wife
wanted and endeavored to say, but she
was stopped every time.
"No, no, my dear!" her husband
would answer. "These self-reproaches,
coming from you, are painful to me.
The past has done its work in its own
way, and now let us remember the les
sons it has taught us, and forget the sor
rows through which those lesson's have
been learned!"
Machinations Foiled.
The Harbinger. When ancient roy
alty traveled, there was much fuss, up
roar and turmoil. If it pleased his
majesty King Charles II., of jovial mem
ory, to ride to Newmarket or other places
of joyous resorts, there was a person
called a "harbinger" who went before his
royal person an avant courrier, in
short who, after the manner existing in
Oriental counties even to this day, clear
ed the way and requisitioned suitable
lodging and food for his master and his
attendants. The sovereign does not now
ride along tracks more resembling
sloughs than roads, nor drive in a right
royal carriage, with six or eight animals
to draw the same. There are people yet
living who can recollect the royal car
riages and post horses, with the red
coated out-riders, which conveyed the
august person of the sovereign from Lon
don to Windsor and back in the remote
period when the collars of men's coats
grew up behind their backs into a kind
of Gothic arch, and nearly all the mate
rial of a lady's dress was put into the
leg-of-mutton sleeves. The harbinger
appears to have departed, and the very
name of "out-rider" is in America, at
least applied to the postilion instead of
the purely oi namental riders who keep
pace with the leaders and the coach door.
Not one "young person" of the age in
tended by the statute in a thousand,
could give the faintest idea oi what a
"running footman" once was, and the
work of that functionary is as mysterious
to this generation as that of the bygone
clerk of the pipe or teller of the ex
chequer. Royalty no longer travels
along the queen s highway, but upon the
road owned by the greatest of monopo
lists since John Company died. the
railway companies.
Talleyrand's Death. As Talley
rand was dying, Louis Philippe was
announced, accompanied by Mme
Adelaide, "I am sorry, I'riuce, to
find you so ill," stammered tbe citi
zen-king, so confusedly that his voice
could hardly be heard. "Sire," re
plied the dying man in that deep and
powerful voice which contrasted so
singularly with his frail frame.
Sire, you have come to the bed of a
dying man. Those who love me can
only have one wish that they may
soon see the end of his sufferings."
The calm and bitter reproach of the
words completed Louis Philippe s
confusion; he stammered a few set
phrases of condolence, and rose.
Talleyrand raised himself slightly,
presented to tbe King those around
him, bis doctor, his secretary even
his valet, which was regarded by
some as a malicious act ana saia
firmly, "Sire, our house has to-day
received an- honor worthy of being
inscribed in its annals, and which my
successors will recall with pride." J
When Lena Rivers was seventeen, her
father died insolvent, and she,
the luxuriously nutured, rich man's
petted darling, was thrown out of house
and home, with no idea of how she was
to procure the means of livelihood .
"She might go out as governess," said
Mrs. Major Cordleigh, "but it would
never do to have it said that a relative of
ours was drudging for a living; as she
will have to come her, I suppose!"
So Lena went to live at the grand
house on the avenue; but she found it
quite different from her former life of
easy independence. Major Cordleigh
(her mother's brother) would have been
kind to her if she had been allowed to
exercise his inclinations; but, being an
easy-going sort of a man, he had been
overruled by his wife (who was decidedly
a different temperament) and daughters
so long, that he dared not show his real
feelings; so everything rested in their
hands, and be sure they did not
exert themselves to make her life
pleasaut.
Lena was beautiful, but her beauty
was not of tbe kind to attract the atten
tion of beholders at first sight; indeed,
many would have called her plain. She
had a nice complexion, great innocent
looking gray eyes and really beautiful
brown hair. "A very common make-up,"
you say. Granted; but when you come to
know her, you found her such a gentle,
winning, loveable little creature, that
you couldn't find it in your heart to call
her plain.
Eva Cordleigh had always been jealous
of IB beauty, and of the attention she
received. Not that Eva was unattractive ;
indeed, she had often been called
beautiful, but she had such a proud,
haughty way, and was, withal, such an
arrogant, selfish sort of a being, that one
could not help disliking her any more
than one could help liking Lena. But
she was rich or her father was, which
amounts to the same thing and so she
moved on so the so-called best so
ciety.
She had never dared show her real
feelings toward Lena so long as the girl
had a home of her own, and could hold
her place in society; but now that she
could do so, she exercised her long
pent-up spite by making her cousin s
life as miserable as possible. She de
termined to keep her out of the wav of
callers. Lena was handy with her
needle, so she kept her busy altering
dresses, or some other article of finery
for her own (Eva's) decoration, as much
as possible. But she could uot exclude
her entirely from the parlor for Lena
had many friends, who always asked for
her at first; but they gradually dropped
off, till at the end of a year she seemed
utterly forgotten.
She seldom went out, for she knew her
aunt and cousin did not desire it; and be
side, her once beautiful wardrobe was
getting old-fashioned and shabby, and it
was not replenished. But she bore her
troubles without a murmur, and if she
ever felt a pang of regret when she con
trasted Eva's gay life with her own dull
existence, she alone knew it.
At the end of a year, Mrs. Cordleigh
gave a party. She and her daughter
would fain have kept Lena in the back
ground, but a lady who had but recently
returned to the city after an absence of
two years, and who had known Lena in
better days, expressed a desire to meet
her there, only the day previous. So the
young girl came down in a soft white
muslin dress, with no ornaments save
rosebuds in her hair, and catching the
lace at her throat, looking so graceful
and sweet that Harry Arlington, the de
cided catch of the season, whose favor
and fortune Eva had been angling after
for three months, must needs become
fascinated, and pay her more attention
than he did to any otner lady at the
party.
After that, he always asked for Lena
when he came to the house, which was
pretty often, though Eva managed to be
in the parlor when he came; and to be
sure this did not improve her temper
toward .Lena. To cap the climax, she
happened to be out one day when he
called, and Lena saw him alone. Indeed,
it soon became evident that it was Lena
that called him there; and Eva grew
alarmed lest he should slip through her
'fingers entirely, and cast about her some
means by which she could create a mis
understanding between them. Let us
see how well she succeeded.
The next time Harry came Eva was in
the parlor, and, when he asked for Lena,
she pretended to go in search of her, but
in reality only went into the next room
for a few minutes, and then returned,
saying that "Lena begged to be ex
cused." This course she kept up for
two weeks, never telling Lena that Harry
asked for her.
At the end of that time, a friend in
vited the girls to a party. Lena would
have declined the invitation, but Eva in
sisted on her going, and was so unusu
ally kind that she yielded. Now Eva was
playing a bold game, but she knew that
if she carried this point or at least she
thought so she could win Harry in
spite of everything in spite of himself.
She knew Lena's proud nature well
enough to feel certain that she would
avoid him, after this seeming indiffer
ence, and also that Harry felt piqued by
her seeming avoidance of him, for lately
he had not asked for her. But she did
not know how completely Lena filled his
thoughts. He was certain that some
thing had occurred to cause this sudden
coolness, though what it was he could
net imagine
They met at the party, and Eva's plan
worked to a charm. Lena flirted desper
ately with a conceited little fop that she
would not have noticed at another time,
and Harry was surprised yes, shocked
for he had not thought Lena capable
of such folly. But once, as he looked
suddenly at her, he caught her eyes fixed
on his face with such a reproachful, lov
ing look that his heart almost stood still
with its sudden joy, and he started to
cross the room to her hide but she turned
with a light laugh at some remark of her
companion and took his arm for a stroll
m the conservatory, thus preventing the
explanation he would have asked and
afforded if she had only permitted. As
it was, both carried home heavier hearts
than they had taken there.
Harry called the next day and asked
for Lena, for he could not believe that
she was indifferent to him; could not
bring himself to believe that she was act
ing during those few, short weeks when
he was learning the sweetness of love.
But Eva was on the watch, and, as usual,
was m tbe parlor, and though greatly
surprised when he asked for Lena for
she had kept strict watch, and knew that
they had no explanations she went
through the old trick of pretending that
ber cousin wished to be excused, and he
gave up all hope.
now .Lena did not know that Marry
was in the parlor, and, taking a book,
she started to go to an arbor m the gar
den, as was her daily habit, hut stopped
to admire a half-blown rose, whose
parent stem was twining lovingly around
a pillar of the veranda, directly in front
of the parlor windows. Harry did not
see her, for he sat with his back toward
the window, but Eva did, and was in
an agony lest she should come into the
room. So she asked, in a tone too low
for Lena's ear:
"How did you like Lena Hanly's man
ner last night? Don't you think her a
shameless flirt ?"
The Lena alluded to was a mutual acquaintance.
"Well, to tell the truth, he answered,
I do not admire Miss Lena's style at
all. I despise a flirt, and she is de
cidedly one!"
Poor Lena! she recognized the voice,
and thought she was alluded to, so, like
a flash, turned and fled to her room.
Eva was happy. The end she had
worked for so long was gained at last;
she knew that Harry would not ask after
Lena again, and, if he should, she would
see him; and she felt pretty certain
thot she could catch his heart in the re
bound. Matters were at this pass, when Mrs.
Arlington gave a grand ball the grand
est of the season. Harry sent out the
invitations, and, of course, one to Lena.
But, as fate would have it, Eva received
them both, and resolved to destroy
Lena's. Not that she was afraid she
would go; she knew she would not; but
she also knew that Lena would take the
omission as a great slight, and so widen
the gulf between them. She had only
time to slip it into her work-box as Lena
came into the room.
And Lena? No one likes to be
slighted, and be sure she was no excep
tion to the general rule; and, consider'
ing the source from which the slight
came, it nearly, broke her heart. But
she bore it bravely, giving no sign of the
pain, and even assisting Eva to dress
for the conquest of Harry's heart, she
had no doubt. Eva did not forget to tell
her, in a burst of cousinly confidence,
that she thought nay, was sure that
he would ask her to marry him that
night, and Lena, seeing no other reason
for his frequent calls and attentions,
which were greatly magnified by Eva's
telling, believed it.
Left alone, Lena busied herself with
some task which Eva had set her; but
her thoughts wander to the gay ball
room and Harry. Ah ! amid the whirl
and glitter would he think once of her ?
No, his thoughts were all for Eva.
Perhaps he was even now bending over
her in that tender, loving manner she so
well knew. But, after all and her
cheeks blazed at the thought he had
been deceiving her; seeking only to win
her love to cast it aside ! He had
succeeded only too well. But the retro
spect was trying, and, burying her face
in the sofa, she gave vent to her long
pant-up anguish in bitter tears.
"Lena, darling !" was murmured by a
dear, familiar voice.
She looked up, gave a low cry, and
was in Harry's arms. For one brief,
never-to-be-forgotten moment, she lay
passive; then he murmured, re
proachfully :
"Why have you avoided me so of late,
Lena ?"
She remembered all remembered all
her fancied wrongs and slights, and
sprang from him.
"How dare you?" she panted, pale
with conflicting emotions. "Why are
you here ?"
"Pardon me, Miss Rivers; I forgot
myself at sight of your distress. I will
explain my seemingly untimely call
briefly, since my presence seems to be so
unwelcome. I asked your uncle why
you hail not honored us with your
presence, when he answered that you
could hardly be expected to do so with
ovt invitation. Now, Lena, I sent a card
to you, with those for the rest of the
family, and I cannot imagine why you
did not get it. Who received the cards
from the servant?"
"Eva, I believe," she answered, qui
etly. "It is very strange," he said, mus
ingly. "I cannot think that John lost
it, for I questioned him closely, and he
was positive that he left four there.
"Excuse me a minute," said Lena;
and, leaving the room, she went directly
to Eva's, for she had suddenly remem
bered her cousin's strange manner after
she had received the cards, and, knowing
her nature so well, suspected she had
something to do with the matter in hand
uomg to her worK-box she opened a
drawer, and there the card lay.
Lena took it down to Harry, and told
her story.
"I had hardly thought that of your
cousin, he said gravely. ".But, oh! you
can't know how glad I am that you found
it, for now you know that I did not
slight you. But you, Lena," taking her
her hands in his, "why have you avoided
me of late ? In what way have I offended
you ?"
Then she remembered his cruel words
and drew her hands away coldly.
"I never received any intimation that
you wished to see me ; and if I had, it's
not likely that I'd care to see one who
does not admire my style, and despises
me as a heartless flirt !" she answered
haughtily, turning to leave the room.
"Wait, Lena Miss Rivers! You shall
explain yourself!" he exclaimed vehe
mently, placing himself between her and
the door.
Something in his manner caused her
to obey, and she explained the circum
stances as we know them. As she ended.
he laughed, but stopped suddenly, for
the tears began to fall anew, and taking
her hands, again he said :
"We were not talking about you at all.
but Lena Hanly. as you would have
known if you had heard all the conversa
tion. Did not Eva explain ?"
"I never said anything to her about
it."
"But why did you not come to the par
lor when Eva uold you that I wished to
see you ?"
She did not tell me, she answered.
surprised. "I did not know that you
were in the house at all till I went out
on the veranda, and heard the words I so
misconstrued.
"But your cousin pretended to go in
search of you, and came back saying that
you wished to be excused, as she had of
ten done before."
) "She never told me that yon asked
j for me, at that time or any other."
Lena, he said suddenly, drawing her
to his heart. "I see that we have been
the victims of misplaced confidence.
But it is all explained away, and now I
can tell you what I have so long desired
to tell that I love you and want to be
mo wife. Oh, tell me, darling, that I do
not sue in vain."
home, as soon as they could do so with
out exciting comment, for she had a pre
sentiment that she would find him there;
and sure enough, when she looked in the
parlor there he sat on the sofa, his arm
around Lena, and her head resting con
tentedly on his shoulder.
"Why, Mr. Arlington! Lena, x am
shocked !"
"You needn't be," said the gentleman,
coolly. ' 'Miss Rivers has promised to be
my wife next month,"
And then Eva Cordleigh knew that her
machinations had been foiled.
Rupture
Miss Eva grew uneasy. The heir of
the house was not visible, and no one
seemed to know where he was ; she had
seen h im for a few minutes after their
arrival, but since that he had not been
visible. So she coaxed her mother to go j
Hour People are Taught to Throw Youth
Away.
There is too much education into old
age. We don t recognize it as sucn, yet
the young of both sexes, on arriving "of
age" are virtually taught to become old.
A girl, on leaving oft short frocks, is soon
taught that it is unladylike or improper
to romp. She must cease the impetuous
run of childhood and walk in a dignified
manner.
Custom gives her every encouragement
to become sluggish. Her dress is a fash
ionable system of fettering the body.
When she marries, the restrictions neces
sary for the cultivation of old age are
still more strictly enforced. She must
then associate only with married women.
She is received in full membership with
the female married clan. It is undigni
fied longer to associate with young girls,
if she so disposed. She may do so for a
few years, but the unwritten laws and
social mandates of the period are more
subtle and powerful in thoir working.
A hundred unforeseen influences force
her in the conventional path. Friends
and relatives reprove, advise, censure or
ridicule any habit of an unconventional
character. She finds herself in a thicket,
where, to do aught save advance in the
narrow path trodden by conventionality,
is to encounter a myriad of thorns. So
she is doomed to the company and asso
ciation of those who have involuntarily
made it the business of their lives to
grow old, and she grows old with them ;
cultivates sluggishness, walks as little as
possible, and gets the liver complaint.
Age is developed in many ways. Through
weight of domestic cares and duties.
Through dress, which imprisons and fet
ters. Through a life five-sixths spent in
the house, and when not in the house
shopping at the store. Through culti
vating the habit of looking on the dark
side of everything. Though grown-up
dignity which can never unbend into a
run or a romp. Through constant re
pression of the playfulness which was
checked when she donned the dress of
the grown-up woman. People who play
and who are not afraid to "make fools of
themselves" retain their youth much
longer than Mr. Practical Sobersides.
The habitudes of the mind influence the
condition, and go far toward shaping the
body.
The difference between the face of the
man who laughs and the man who smiles
proves this. Probably a corresponding
difference could be found in their lungs
and livers, were those organs examined
after death.
Ruts and grooves of occupation pro
mote old age. The man of fifty who has
spent his life in travel, and has lived in
many places, and whose associations and
societies have been constantly changing,
will, presuming he has taken ordinary
care of himself, show less signs of age
than the man chained for a similar
period to a desk, who moves pendulum
like from house to office, day by day, and
who has made scarcely a dozen new ac
quaintances.
Contrast the hod-carrier of forty-five
with the man of like age who has exer
cised moderately, lived generously but
temperately, whose mind is active, broad,
full of ideas and plans, and who is con
stantly on the move about the world.
The first shows marked signs of prema
ture age; the second is in his prime, full
of blood, vigor and vitality. Breadth of
mentality, fullness and activity of ideas,
frequent change of place and association,
added to temperate habits of body, are
preservatives of matured vigor. It was
said of old: "Man shall not live by
bread alone." Every new thought,
every fresh idea in a balanced brain
brings with it a certain healthy stimulus,
which imparts new life. Philosophers,
scientists and writers are longer-lived
than those engaged in purely mechanical
occupations. The cause of this goes be
yond that limited range of deduction and
conclusion called reason. But statistics
will verify the substance of the asser
tions here made. It is not, then, reasona
ble to suppose that as the range of hu
man knowledge widens, and minds be
come more and more quickened with the
living fire of thought, that existence up
to the point of three-score and ten, and
even later, may become an experience
fuller of life, light and happiness than
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W. J. Home, Proprietor California Elastic
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The Truss I purchased of you about one year ago
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W. J. Heme, Proprietor California Elastic
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