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The Bewitching Widow. Jast before dark one evening Tom Courtney came into tna little office vhere Frank Wortbington kept his dusty law books and helped himself to a chair and dear, with a quiet .make-yourself-at-home sort of cool-' ness which showed he was no stranger to the premises. Wall, Frank" said he, "we got through the last case to-day, and I'm ready to be off to-morrow. You prom ised to go homo with mo, you know." "No need to remind me of it, old fellow," laughed Frank. "I've en dured the horrors of a boarding-house too long not to lump at the chance of .Winn nnnnfra lit a aurltiln " "Can you be ready by morning ?" "Ob, yes; it won't take mo long to pack my kit. I haven't any Sarato ga trunk to fill with flounces and fur belows." "All right, then. We shaH have a cousin of my mother's to go down with us." 'The deuce we shall. Tom, if it's a girl I won't go, by George ! ,1 got enough of traveling with girls last summer." "You will go! I'll novcr lorgive you u you don t. "Is the cousin of tho femiuino per suasion?" "Yes; but she's not a girl. She is a sedate widow lady, who goes down to make an annual visit to us every Christmas." "Oh! that alters tho case. Ono or those motherly, middle-aged ladies wuo make a lei low look respectable, as if ho was traveling with his moth er.' Tom repressed an inclination to laugh, and replied soberly : "Yes, no doubt Mrs. Cameron will appear like a mother to both of us." "Mrs. Cameron. A good, old re spectablo name," ropcatcd Frank, "lias she money. Torn?" "Well, yes, a fair littlo fortune." "And you may stand a chauco in hor will?" "rossibly." ( "Yes. Well, my boy, you are quito right to bo attentive to your mother's elderly relations. No doubt Mrs. Cameron will bo an addition to our journey." "Decidedly," said Tom, feeling it about time for him to get out of that office, whero ho could indulgo in the laugh ho had reasons for wanting, and arising ho said: "You'll meet us at the depot at 7 in the moraine?" "I will." . "Sharp 7, remember." JYes. As timo and railroad cars wait for no man. or woman either : depend on mo, Tom: just look after mat elderly cousin." "I'll do it. So good nijjht, then. And. as Tom went out, Frank arose and bogan to put his cllloo in order and to make some preparations for his Winstmas journey. He meant to bo very early, but ho overslept nimsolf, and reached tho do pot only five minutes boforo train time. Ho went hastily into the la- cues' room, supposing that Tom would be there with Mrs. Cameron. Tho room, however, had but one oocupant a bright-fucod - lady, in a stylish black and white traveling suit, with a long white plumo drooninc over a coquettish black hat. Slio turned a pair of brown eyes upon Frank as he entered, nastily glancod around, and retreated. "Whow! what a pretty girl! glad I don't have her to danglo after and wait on thought," thought ho. "But where the dickens is Tom?" Ho hunted through the crowd, and fust as tho train was starting, he louua Mom on ino piattorm. "Oh, here you aro. Ho quiok now.' t-.ti-.i ro ft t .i . ' ubiiuu aoiu. i luougnt you were about to five mo tbe slip after all." "No danger, I only slept lato, that' all." Thoy went into tho car and the pondorous whoels rollod off. and. as thoy oponod tho door, Frank got a glimpso of a protty girl with a white pluniod hat inside. "Did your cousin come?" ho said to .loin. . "Yes: I'll introduco von." Tom marched straight down the narrow islo to that very girl's Beat, and as sho rose, with a bewitching snnlo. lorn introduced: "Mrs. Cameron, this is mv friond, Mr. Wortbington. My cousin, Kate Cameron, Frank." 1'oor Frank! You might have kuocked nun down with a knitting noodle, liut ho was gentleman enough to stammer some responno to tho beau tiful lady's courteous greeting, aud to try to recover from his contusion as best bo might. Half au hour later he and Tom stood together on the car platform. ana men ins wrain tound vent. "Tom Courtney, 1,11 never forgive you!" "You will. I bad to deceive you so you wouldn't act like a fool aud disappoiut me of your visit. Hut Ksto will neither cat you tip nor full in lovo with you, so you needn't bo scared." "Don't expect me to pay any atten tion to her." "Hold on there ! She hasn't given you. the chance yet. Kate is quite a belle in city society, and awful panic ular iu her eomnnnv. S,l l.ur i;l you and I woulJn I stand a guost of cnanco. "I don't know that she rould do better," growled Frank, with man's usual contrariness, taking tbe oppo site track. ''She might not think so. I am go ing to tho smoking car, Frank ; come along." "No, I don't care about smoking now." "All right; look after Kate till I come back that's a good fellow." Now b rank bad not the least inten tion of looking after Kate, but when be approached her seat she looked up wim suca a iranK, peasant smue,anu moved her shawl from tbe seat oppo site to make room for bim with such a cordial air that be could not resist tbe temptation to sit down and enjoy her society. Not much of it did he get, howev er, 10k, after the first pleasant recep tion Mrs. Kate betook herself to her book again, and never even looked at him. By the way of revenging him self Frank looked at her, and the more he looked the prettier she grew. "one a widow, he thought, "one is not a day over 21, it she is that ; I wonder if sho is Tom's sweetheart?" And strango to say this reflection made Frank feel like grinding his teeth at she unconscious Tom, calmly enjoying bis cigar in the smoking car. Tho journoy passed without any special incident, and without Mrs. Kate's troubling Frank in the least for any attentien. At the station they found Black Bob awaiting them, and a few min utes' drive brought them safely to the door of Tom's home. If Frank had found Kato Cameron pretty in her hat and traveling wraps, when she took them off and showed her slight form, with graceful curves and arch es, be thought her bewitching. Of course he didn't care anything about her; but some way it was a relief to find a certain pretty Minnie Brown, who was one of tho holiday party, un mistakably occupying the position of loin s sweetheart, and putting Hate out of the question. Beforo they had been there three davs Frank be?an to have uncomfort able sensations under tho left of his vest whenever Kato was near; and Sunday morning, when she came down dressed in a dewiluering suit ot blue velvet, ready for cLurch, he quite gave up that he loved every inch of Her, from tho heels of her boots to the lips ot her little blue gloves. Mrs. Kato was sharp enough very speedily to see how tho land lay, but she never gave one sign that sho cared a straw for him, and Frank torment ed himself daily with hopes and fears, after the usual fashion with lovers. The holiday season was to close with a grand patty on New Year's night, and all the young people in tho neighborhood were iuvitcd to assist in the merry-making. Late in tho evening a silent figure sat by tho library fire, having stolen away from tho revellers beow stairs to iudulgo in a moment of reverie. Presently the door was opened, and tho faint light glittered on Kate Cam eron's blue robes, as she camo for ward and addressed tho figure in the chair : "Why, Tonywhat is tho matter? Have you got a fit of tho blues ? A deep High was tho only answer. "Why. dear, dear, it's worse than I thought, laughed Kate. "Havo you been quarreling with Minnie Brown ? Tell mo about it." And with cousinly frcodom she laid her'hand upon his head. The littlo hand was quickly inipris oncd and carried to tho lips ot the si lent figure; and then Kato stooped and looked into tho face, not of her cousin, but ot 1' rank Wortlungtou. She gavo vent to a low exclamation, and would have tied, but Frank took good care to hold fast to his little while prisoner, aud detain her. "It isn't Tom, but dou't go," he pleaded. "May with mo, Mrs. Cam ertn dear Kate, Tom does not love you half so well as I do." "How do you know ?" whispered Kato shyly. "Because Tom only loves you as a cousin, and I oh Kato, I love you better than my lite I "But you Lave known mo such a little while !" "Yes, and might nover have knowu you at all it Tom, tho blessed old boy, had not deceived me, and mado be Hove it was au old lady who was to oomo down with us." "I know Tom told mo all about it," laughed Kate. "Did he ! Hut'you will forgive me, ivaiy uaruiig, ueeuuso i lovo you so, and learn to lovo mo a little, won't you ?" pleaded Frank, boldly throw. mg ono arm around her, and drawing lier down by tier side. "I am afraid I have learned that al ready," she whispered frankly. And then but neither you nor I reader dear, havo any business listen j, wv iv . v rvia 111 IIJU HIU" lighted library, so I Won't tell you what then. But I will toll you that when the next New ear camo Frank and the bewitching widow were visiting Tom's again, but she was a widow no longer. 1 hey called her Mrs. Worth ington. PoiM'I.AII.PhirL-ll.ni .iUM.hl.M .M r- T" nlsr lo Wisconsin not saving th chickens bowtrtr. lioAiT. Ban. Vt. boejU of fnnr last. Jtn who do Dot use profane language, tobac CO or strong drink in any form. What kind of a picture would too pre fer, Miss?" ioqairtj Newark Dhotoirranher of young Udj customer. Well," wu I be reply, taks u with m ipressiug m if 1 were writing a poam on tos OnUnniaJ." fat-id: "VTillyoa icum sir rand th. reotlemso ftddmwod eicused bim. II continued: I am not in the habit of Ur ging. And the (ooiWoMa said b wu gUJ to ber it, aaJ walked off. DBEAKIS. ' 'Dreams Ant lit if tnforlti.lj.. -.1.1-1. f-.w ..Irfta .n niutu " , 1 wnen monarch reason aleepe tlrii mimic quakes; Coufounda a medley of disjointed things A court of oublilen and a mob of king." ' We preteod not, in these few remarks, to account for or explain these mental phenom ena. Even Dryden himself, lo those master ly lines of (is above quoted, takes good care to eschew everytbinr like Dhilosoohical con jecture in his description of dreams employ ing, on tbe contrary, in bis description, that very "fancy" which the poet find the dream er alike bare recourse to when ratiocicatloo refuses to afford its aid in tbe solution, of a problem so mysterious. That "monarch reason sleeps" uninterruptedly during our oours or sleep, we hold to be a proposition altogelber unsupported by evidence! every rational creature that sleeps being, io our opinion, conscious that bis or her reasoning faculty'not un frequently fdurioir the hours of sleep) exerts its legitimate vocation. It may be urged, and perhaps with some force, tbat, in our slumbers especially when they sre unusually sound that "medley of dis jointed things" Dryden mentiooa is apt to confound somewhat by the notorious! "mim ic" (Fancy); and it is in admirable keepinz. therefore, with her character that she should, in ber quaking mood, associate courts with coblers sod Biobs with kings. IVpresent Ibis san.e "mimic" however, as exercising exclusive control over tbe mind in our hours of sleep, is to represent a state of things wbic'u every rational individual finds oneself abruptly able to contradict and refuse. Tbe powers of ratocination, are wholly suspended during sleep, becomes a monstrous supposition in presence of the Tact tbat thousands of individuals (intelli gent individuals) are to be met with who. could their evidence be conveniently secured, would promptly testify to the fact (m their own cose) that "dreams are not always "in terludies which fancy makes." Tbe writer's owe experience, as regards this matter, is decidedly opposed to Drydeo's highly po etical notion tbat "Monarch Reason" fwho in many cases, it is true, "just does nothing all tbe day") is very apt "soundly to sleep the nigbt away." On tbe contrary he (th writer) "many a times and oft," is apt to hod bis own slumbers shaken by the remon strances of this same "Monarch Reason,' whom we ever find just about as vigilant by night as by day. And, as a very popular conclusion to these rem rks, tbe writer is prepared to add and to state as a fact that, iu quite a number of attempts at "prose and rhyme," on his part, during sleep, the intellectual monarch bas exercised far more of control than he ever did in si milar attempts during the writer's walking hours Would that we could recover tbe things from tbe "vast det" of oblivion. . , Christmas at Sorreuto. An ancient custom, religiously observed at Sorrento, decrees that po the night of the birth ol Christ, a real child, living and beau tiful, bball be chosen as tbe representative of tbe Divine Child our eyes are not blessed in beholding ; that the faithful, like the sheD- crds of Kethlebem and the Eastern kings, shall come and pay him homage. He was a beautiful, dark-eyed boy, about three or so, clad royally in a cloak of scarlet wool, tlis mother Disced him. sittinir. in a gilt and red-velvet chuir, placed at the left ol ioe aitar, ana removing tbe cloak, showed him lo his littlo white shirt, bare-footed and bare-armed. A gilt basin, so ewer and a sponge were handed to tbe priest who took them, and kneeling before the child, washed his feet, then shod him with stockings and embroidered shoes. After this the child stood up, and a little blue frock with pink bows was put over him, and the priest placed on bis bead a crown of Bowers. Shots were fired, and ill, risiug, opened the T Dtum lie stood all the time, his father helping him to hold his little right hand iu the act of ben ediction. Foiuiurly the poorest child was chosen : a nun embroidered bis habit : and kept bim at her cost for a year ; but now tbe nun is dead. Beauty is tbe greatest recom mendation ; next to beauty comes poverty I; is a beautiful custom. I felt as t looked on that child, born to sorrow, sin, death 1 felt that it U frn.nl in l ruinimlu.l of mysteries we treat so spiritually that we Htrgn mem. uo we inured always remem ber that Christ became a weak little child for us T We know it, but do we think much of it? Ay, truly I felt as I looked on, as I saw the ardent laith of this simple people ay, truly this is tbe flesh of Christ ; this is the real humanitv la vliirh h hnxnina ded, which lie redeemed by Un blood. .4 oummer aim 11 row in me Iko Sicthet. "What kind of a pielure would you prefer, miss!" inquired a Newark photographer of a young la iy customer. "Well." was the re ply. "take me with an expression as if 1 were writing a poem on tue Centenuud." Swinos Ovkr. A cunning Kentucky hog chew off grape vines growimr from tree, and boldlliff one end in tha nuinik itself over tbe fence into a corn-field. 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