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THE GLASS EYE.! A GREAT FARM small cottage, so very small that (more gentle, more lover-like. The William E. Dodge's estate is said I ¡ doctor was not very gentle; his man When the nun are home from tha fields at Delia said, “Oh, look! I wonder how ner was clearcut and decided, but if to be worth $15,000,000. A Young Mxn Who Hesitated to M< people live in such a tiny bit of a night. Description of Gen- Harding’s 4,000 acres in 1 she would only have looked at him! His Ocular Defect- And tha hooM made clean, and the labor house?” Judge Moran, of Chicago, has Tennessee. done, "How soon will you come home*” granted Mrs. Scoville a decree of di The doctor ’ s brow grew dark. “ In Willie happens along by candle-light, such a house as this,” he said in his he repeated. “ I want you to come A DEER FARR OF VAST EXTENT. vorce from her husband. THE jnet when the evening ia well begun. He talks with father and mother awhile; most impresssive manner; “ in such a home.” The Rev. Phillips Brooks is home (They talk of the same things o'er and house as this my wife and I lived in Then, slowly, she lifted up her eyes sick in India. He writes to a Boston o’er), to his. Was this the way he used to Then he says “ Good-night ” with a pleasant the greatest of happiness when we Those unacquainted with the South friend that the sun never warmed a A young man with a glass eye «J look at Becky? Not quite; no one were first married.” smile, dearer part of the earth's crust than And I go with him to open the door. engaged to be married, but he diflu J Had Delia been suddenly shifted should ever see that look again in the ern States will be surprised when America. doctor’s eyes. But Delia did not told that what is as a whole the We stand in the starlight a minute or two, from India’s coral strand to Green Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes writes like to inform his betrothed of l,iS(J There are whisper'd words and a loving land’s icy mountains the shock could know that, and it seemed very good greatest farm in America is in the t|" with a broad gold pen fixed into a ular defect. A week previous previous to totuV.i kiss; hardly have been greater. “His wife!” to her te be looked at in this way. I State of Tennessee. It is owned by quill handle. The |>en is said to have day named for the we< 'dding lwcwB But Willie is honest, and good and true, will go whenever you like,” she an she thought, “ then if she is his wife, And I’m sure there is nothing in that Gen. W. G. Harding. It contains done duty for twenty years. He tided in his future father-in-law wlj what am I?” Peculiar reasoning, I swered at last. amiss. Then the doctor did say something 4,000 acres of land in one body, in writes only in the morning for three to his surprise, received the infortj Yet Aunt Polly is cross as she sits and sews. perhaps, but Delia knew very well Bays "Men are fickle, and false, and vain; what she meant. All that evening gentle and lover-like. the highest state of cultivation, with hours a day. And it seme girls did what was right, she William K. Vanderbilt’s bouse is ation in a highly amused iuann«l They were married already. Let oat a single rod of waste in the entire she sat silently sewing and answering knows. us hope "they were happy ever after considered much more artistic and “1’11 make it all right for you, nJ the doctor ’ s remarks with a primness They never would—open the door again.” tract, and cultivated in the most elegant than his father's and is the boy; you imitate me exactly inag9 of dignity that surprised him. But wards.” I glance at my father; he aits and smokes, he asked no questions and took ref intelligent manner. It is called Belle only residence in this country where thing I do aftei supper to-night, av® And thinks over things in his qniet way; A PAWNBROKER'S TRIAL- uge in thoughts of the old days when And Jamie ia busy with slate and books. Mead. It is six miles from Nashville. the’ servants and lackeys appear in see how good-naturedly Maria ( For he is just as eager for study as play. Becky sat in that same chair, sewing She was a woman evidently in not The turnpike leading to it is lined silk stockings and knee-breeches and Ir'e my sister Belle and my sister Jane was the lady’s name) will take it'flH That titter and wonder, as often before— too, but with such bright, loving very comfortable circumstances, with with shade trees and adorned with with coats covered with gold lace. looks, such an interesting way of care on her face and tears only half “ Whatever it is makes Kitty so fain Richard A. Proctor, the English Accordingly, as soon as the evening the well kept lawns and villas of For Willie Blantyre to open the door!” saying things! And now, what a dif concealed in her eyes. A young girl, merchants and professional men. astronomer, is indignant because meal was concluded, the father loo Then mother looks up from her corner ference! What, in truth, was this neatly attired, her daughter, sat be The land of Belle Mead is gently some Christmas presents addressed at the young man and began to sing woman to him? Not a wife, not even side her on one of the comfortable place, to him by Americans are held for Oh, do you know the glass-eye mu, " Whist, lassies,” she says, " let us hear a companion, only a housekeeper. I leather upholstered chairs in the rolling, all tillable, and with grass duty in the New York Custom-house. growing on the highest points. There The glass-eye man. the glass-eye mao; no more!” And he gazed at her reflectively. It Mayor's office. Mayor Edson wheels In his small anger Mr. Proctor sug Oh, do you know the glass-eye man For she reads the love in my blushing face— so happened that Delia, who had I about in his revolving chair, and are no stumps, although originally gested that the raven, instead of the Who lives down our way? Hhe knows why I like to open the door. been making desperate efforts to over I glancing at a contented-looking covered with a heavy growth of tim eagle, should be our national bird. And she rises and put her knitting away. ber, and there is no part of it on And, as lie concluded the last line, And gives me a look that makes me feel come her sulky mood, looked up at ( young fellow near the two ladies, in Mrs. Augusta Smith of St. Louis | took out his left eye and placed it She has said the words I want her to say, which the most improved implements that moment and caught the full I quired: Though she only speaks of the morning be used. Dish shaped, it is is one of the lightest of sleepers. She a plate in front of him. The yo meaning of the doctor's eyes. Had "Well, Mr. Gorsch, have you cannot meal. surrounded by hills which gradually is awake twenty-two hours out of man was very much astonished he slapped her face she could not brought the shawl as directed?" That's a week ago. Now I do not need inward to Richland Creek, a every day on the average, and when tind his Maria's father as unfortun have felt it more, but she gave no The contented being began to look slope To blush when 1 go to open the door; live and most valuable stream run she iloes slumber it is scarcely more as himself, while at the same time sign. With white fingers that trem For my lover and I have both agreed troubled, but the young man. his son. To be man and wife when summer is o'er. bled a little she folded her work and looked as if he would like to do some ning through the farm. The Nash than a doze, during which she is gave him courage to reply: Ha kisses me now before them all, ville and Chattanooga Railroad also partially conscious of all that is going Oh, yes, I know the glass-eye man said, “ I am tired, I will go to my thing desperate. And I love him better than ever before; on around her. She is strong ami Who lives down our way, through it from east to west. room.” "I am a pawnbroker,” admits Mr. passes But vet, I think, whatever befall The farm is well fenced with a healthy, and has a good appetite. and to deposit his crystal optic on Delia did not sleep much that Gorsch, "ami have to take a great I’ll mind the kiss at the open door. night. " I must leave him,” she de many risks. I brought the shawl stone wall on the outside, of which The physicians are unable to bring table. Maria was convulsed v THE DOCTOR'S SECOND WIFE. there are some sixteen miles, costing on sleepiness, except with drugs. laughter at the proceedings, but cided at last. “ I will not live with yesterday.” him unless I am really his wife. I The Mayor picked up a shawl near eighty cents to $1.40 per running A Washington letter says that Miss future husband was ready to beli Dr. Brinsley belongs to the noble yard. The inner fences are post and army of martyrs and heroes known as cannot.” Leave him; but how? She him, and the elder lady, Mrs. Annie plank and rail. The farm is planted Bayard is not only very pretty, but all humanity one-eyed when She was the trebled forth: “ country doctors.” He was the sort could not go back to her mother’s I J. Smith, denied that it was the one about as follows: Two hundred extremely bright. I also know the glass-eye man of man you could love if you loved house where questions would be she pawned. "I gave him one that acres in wheat, 200 in oats, 350 in young lady who so astonished Oscar Who lives down our way, him: otherwise you would probably asked which she was determined not cost $100," she explains, although I corn, 50 in barley. 400 in timothy, 200 Wilde by’ her keen repartee to his [ patronizing remark. "Are you going I and dropped her eye into a glass dH dislike him, for he was peculiar; to answer; and besides it was too only borrowed $3 upon it.” Her in clover, 100 in orchard. 150 in pad everybody said so. Now there are near. Where could she go? A few daughter and several other witnesses docks, the latter sown with barley to the german, Mr. Wilde?” she asked ! water by her side. the night of his lecture there. "Yes,” , Frequent assaults and battery hat several ways of being peculiar, and hours afterwards that question was united in saying that the shawl and blue grass for winter. drawled the esthete, "if my lecture I been made by sternly virtuous femal the doctor’s ways were not always answered. She received a letter formerly owned by Mrs. Smith was a A deer park contains 425 acres, doesn't fatigue me too much. “Are : i in cars on glass-eyed men. Only pleasant ways—unless you loved post marked "Denver, Colorado;” it beautiful broche one, with pattern and there are 1,300 acres in woodland you going, Miss Bayard?” “Yes, if I cently a gentleman was enjoying t nim. His wife had loved aim, and to came from " dear cousin Mamie,” and and monogram in the center. The Mayor had been studying the pasture, in inclostires of 200 to 500 your lecture doesn't fatigue me too | scenery through the car windf her he had seemed the most perfect as she read her letter Delia’s face ! with his natural eye, unaware of of men. He suited her and she suited brightened; “it is just whaNl wanted,” complainant. “I must ask you a acres each, sown to blue and orchard much!” question, Mrs. Smith.” he said at grass for beef cattle and sheep. All him, and they had been very happy. she said to herself. The richest widow on the Pacific ■ fact that his glass-eye was stari One evening, when the doctor came last, "and I do it simply as a matter of the woodland on the place, includ coast, or in the country for that mat I | straight ahead at a maiden lady It must not be supposed that her love had been of the cooing kind. home, Bridget met him at the door of duty. Y’ou are evidently not very ing the #>er park, affords good pas ter. with the possible exception of Sunday school principles. She put' Perhaps the doctor would not have and said, ‘ Missus has gone, sir; she wealthy. How did you come by a ture land. The timber embraces Mrs. Cornelia Stewart, is Mrs. Mark | up with it for half an hour, and the. | ft almost every species, including the Hopkins, widow of one of the Cen got up and, smashing his hat orftfl 8( enjoyed that Darling Becky re had to go a kind of sudden, but she $100 sliawl?” Sorrowfully and with tears in her shittimwood of the Bible. It is all tral Pacific syndicate. Her husband's his head, called him a licentious vii-M tc joiced in making bright spicy, impu said she would write and tell you.” dent remarks to her husband. Re “ All right.” answered the doctor. eyes Mrs. Smith explained that when of original native growth. In one estate proved up to $23,000,000, and liau and other complimentary epi marks which made his big brown “ Gone to her mother’s,” he explained she bought that shawl she was worth pasture of 100 acres the wood is all the only two men in California who ! thets. and was only prevented fro« m x.i 1 — re. R eyes sparkle with delight; then he to himself. " I suppose there is some $90,000. Inside of three years she walnut; another is a black locust could justify on the widow's bond as ■ scratching his face by his 1 timely j. ¡t would meet her half way, and they sort of fandango going on there.” He had lost her husband, two children forest for fencing posts. On the executrix were Leland Stanford and ; treat to the smoking car under th w would fight the most interesting lit made himself very comfortable. It and her money. The shawl she had hills are tine yellow poplar, white Charles Crocker, two of her bus-! supposition that he had been attack« at tle duels, followed by the most affec was a cool evening, and he smoked tried to keep as a memento of better oak, pine, oak, and ash of the finest band’s business associates. They | by a mad woman. ai growth. tionate reconciliations. But it was his cigar, and put his feet on the days. were compelled to justify in twice the Fifty years ago, when Californii fr. Belle Mead farm is conducted by a amount of the estate, and each swore was under the dominion of Spain,« la; now three long years since poor stove, with “ no one nigh to hinder.” "You must produce this lady’s Becky had been resting in her quiet But what the doctor really liked was shawl within twenty-four hours or master mind. Method aud system that he was worth $46,000,000. Mrs. one-eyed commandant ruled at Safe an grave and the doctor’s friends had to be hindered; he enjoyed watching take the consequences,” decided the i are everywhere shown. Every fence ■ Hopkins is an elderly woman. They i Francisco, who was the terror of alffi in rail is in its place, every corner is had no children, but had adopted a ' the Indians in the vicinity. A Yanka decided that he needed some one to the mild shadow of disapproval steal Mayor, turning to Gorsch. ing over Delia’s face; if she had frank keep house for him. "Then to-day v e go out uf peez- clean, every rod of land shows the son, whom Mrs. Hopkins has just I skipper traveling that way induce# ag ’ After much persuasion he had been lv and briskly expressed her opinion, ness,” angrily remarked the defiant ' effect of intelligent cultivation, and married to a Miss Critten den, a pro- I the Spaniard to purchase one of tb< g th. every animal presents an appearance , tege of hers, providing her with the then newly-invented glass-eyes oB th< particularly introduced to Miss Delia then taken it back prettily, he might looking young man. ------------------------ -4- - Swan. “ What a name!” thought the I have fallen in love with her; but denoting intelligent breeding and dot of a princess. There are other him. and, to the fear and surprise om tis proper care. The tools and imp'e heirs to tli» estate, but the adopted the red-skins, the commandant sui Bit doctor, but as he looked at her he saw ' Delia always relapsed into meekness, STREET ARABS. and all was lost. As the days passed ments are in their places, the yards son, "Tim,” will get the bulk of it that she was fair, gentle, healthy and denly appeared with two eyes. Th»a an The reporter of a New York paper are clean, the stables very plain, but 26. “A good, sensible age; must be | the doctor began to miss his house- was recently applied to for help by a The Marquis of Lome is a man of was too much for the braves, so our- da. neat and orderly,” was his verdict j keeper. “ Why does she not write? commodious and comfortable, and t > as 7 ow _ boot-black, who said his box had been the highest-bred, purest blooded, commanding figure and of exception of their number was deputed In a moment of enthusiastic selfish Cold blooded creature!” n ' k be He managed The cold blooded creature wrote. stolen, and, after giving the little most spirited horses in the land, one al beauty of countenance. Tall, sassinate tke senor. ” ness he had proposed te her, and in a gain access to his chamber, but.oij era moment of enthusiastic devotion she Her letter was dated from Denver. It fellow a few cents, he went to the alone representing a value of $30,000. broad-shouldered, with free move approaching the couch,’was terrified ti > fee Superintendent of the Boys ’ Lodg ment, his head is thrown back with a said ; had accepted him. are as gentle and tractable as any tind the commandant sleeping wifi S They were married. She lived in i D kab S ib —I thought you would be happier ing-house to inquire about him. "A ordinary horse. Four of these noble certain dauntless grace that has in it one eye closed and the other wide', - 1 I without me, so 1 came here. I am visiting small boy is often robbed of his box his house, she poured out his tea and Cousin Mamie. With best wishes for your animals are worth about $100,000 no self-conscious haughtiness; rather open. The amazed Indian gave ai to. t but and brushes,” said the Superintend together. And yet the methods em it is the unconscious expression of a coffee, she entertained his friends,and happiness, I remain sincerely, ent, "and when we know or believe ployed are within the power of every fine character, the fine carriage that unearthly yell and threw himselfl Ian D kua B binhlby . everybody Baid: “Oh, how much headlong from the window. for nicer she was than that other woman!” " A pretty letter and 'dear sir ' to him to be honest and industrious, we farmer, for everything is done on the may become the inherited grace of a of the most curious stories ir.- wa She was very popular with everybody, me! Gone to Denver! Who could start him afresh. But some of them simplest plan and in the most inex lofty race. His features are fine and I the One case of a supposed blind beggafl dan but she was not at all popular with have supposed she had spirit enough will sell their kit to go to the theater, pensive way. It is only common strong, especially his brow and chin; .. in Paris. This man was arrested fo ga or to see Jumbo, or anything else but a picture which gives merely the the doctor. farming done intelligently. The $30,- for that? Little goose! Gone to some trivial offense, and, on his wa) irr< that ’ s going on, and then they ’ ll try outline of his features can impart no To him “ that other woman ” was Denver, by Jove!” « 000 horse is not surrounded by any prison, one of his eyes fell out oi if h still all the world and the brightness The doctor laughed, he blessed to beg money for a new kit. Ik you more fancy conditions than the $200 idea of the charm of the face, lit to thereof. So homeless did he feel in himself, he was delighted. The next are ever asked again, tell the boy to animals of foolish city people, but alike by coloring and expression. So the sidewalk. On being examined i rate presence of this much nicer woman evening he was on his way to Color bring you a note from me; if he de they are attended with more common blonde a man is rarely seen, for not was discovered that for a long tim< and only is his abundant hair golden, but he had been in the habit of wearing chi that his visits to Becky's jjrave were ado. That same evening, in far off, serves it, he'll get it.” sense. ingeniously-contrived porcelain evei “How many of those who began as the only happy hours of his new life. lovely Denver, Delia and Cousin The 425 acres devoted to the deer his eyelashes are of the same hue, two After awhile he became more accus 1 Mamie were comparing notes about newsboys or bootblacks have suc park is covered with a natural growth long and curling outward; the deep covers to his real eyes, which were oi up< tomed to Delia, and then he began to ! their husbands. Delia had been very ceeded in life?” of timber, in which the grass grows gray-blue eyes that gaze through a different aolor to the sham one* try. give her free and frequent lectures ; cautious ami Mamie wfts enthusiastic “Hundreds! Why, the other day a and cattle run. The deer numlier them take on a remarkable expres and he was at once recognized as I She on Becky. “ She " used to sav so and I about the doctor. “If he was my man stopped me in the street and about 350, and may be seen at any sion, so purely spiritual one instantly criminal for whom the authoritiet read sitt. so, she used to do this and that, and , husband I would flirt with him and asked if I recollected him. Of course time, leaping and running over the ceases to wonder that the Marquis of had long been in search. A glass eye once figtued in a civi pel as she had been right then, she must make him fall desperately in love I didn't, but he soon recalled himself vast tract They represent their own Lome writes poetry. to my mind. He had been under my increase from a few animals since the trial. An optician sued a woman fo: nigh be right now and forever, and in I with me,” she declared. Engineer Melville’s pretty home at everything. " Flirt with him!" exclaimed Delia. care, and he told me that he was now war. The herd was started with one Sharon Hill is deserted and desolate. the value of an eye he bad insert« Io I for her with the promise that shi At Delia bad married “ from a sense “ Certainly, it wouid be all right, owner of a factory in Newark, em animal caught on the place in its Melville and her children are in would find it both ornamental an< had of duty." and deserved to be punish and so interesting! Now. John is so ploying two bookkeepers and sixty original, wild state, gradually in Mrs. West Philadelphia, and Mr. Melville ed; but it seemed to her that her good natnred and always the same. I workmen. the number by catching is in Washington. Maud, who was useful. The woman declined to paj beg;, " Another man visited me lately who creasing punishment was greater than she de j sometimes wish he would lie a little three or four year, until at the given into the custody of her father her defense in court being as fol’ei'- mam had been picked up, wandering about beginning of each "I have false teeth; I can eat witl rep. served. She would not have wished bit cross, just for a change.” the war there were 300 by the Court, has not been given up. that her husband should forget the " What a sadly funny world this i the Bowery, and hail been brought to or 400. He also had about fifty buf The furniture of the cottage has been them. I have false hair; it keeps in knot head warm and is ornamental, ofli- wife of his youth, but she had ex ■ is,” thought Delia when she was the lodging house. His parents were faloes, some elk and water ox. All pected that he would have some re | alone, “ no one is really contented j dead. He is now proprietor and ed but the deer were destroyed during seized by the Sheriff' to satisfy some have also a false leg; I can walk witl call- of the debts incurred by Mrs. Mel gard for the woman whom he had in and happy." Then she became very itor of a paper in Warsaw. Ind. war, and most of these also. ville during her husband’s absence, it. But—taking her glass eye ouffl La "There are Aidermen in this city the vited to preside over his household, home sick; not only did she miss the and dashing it to the ground—I cai wal They were driven off by the soldiers and she had hoped to make him doctor, but she also missed herself, who begun life under our care, but of both armies, the estate frequently and the house and grounds are in neither see with my false eye nor ii acc possession of the officers, a mortgage comfortable; to "do her duty by she had always lieen so prudent, so some of them are ashamed to have it being used as a camping ground. it an object of beauty,” She gained visiti him,” as she expressed it. Part of submissive, and now she had done known. They ought to be proud of Occasionally a deer hunt is enjoyed of $2,300 held by Miss Polls having her suit.—| Philadelphia Press. Wan lieen foreclosed. Recently a Phila that duty she had performed in the , such a wild, wicked thing! Had she it bar by the visitors to the place, but the “Many of the little liootblacks intention is to preserve and increase delphia piano manufacturer took pos-1 "WASN'T THAT CLEVER!” most admirable manner: never had | not promised “ for better and for he < \ session of the piano in the parlor and , work for the big ones, who sit ma- the the doctor's house ls>en so clean: 1 worse?” Jan herd. There is a story told to illustrate the carried it to the city, claiming it as never had his shirt bosoms shone One morning there came a tremen jestically on stoops, or in doorways, The live stock of Belle Mead, repre ruling passion of the parrot, whickiPJ*?1 with such lustre; but the heart which dous ring at the door. Delia knew | looking on; and the big boy feeds senting at least $250,000 in value, is his property. It is said that Engi I may or may not be true, but it is as'^ neer Melville will apply for a divorce j the little one. giving him six cents be lt behind them she had been un that ring, she heard it all over her. moi in charge of Robert Green, a colored in the spring. The house and grounds follows: ab!e to conquer. and turned pale. “ Bound to get in,” for his lodging, and pockets the rest man. now silvered over with gray. at Two sailors once went with a tanif« Sharon Hill are worth considerably Was it her fault? Had she not said Mamie, as she hurried to the | of the day’s earnings. It’s wonder He is about fifty-eight years of age, more than the mortgages held against parrot to a show in Tokio, where tried to lie kind, to be patient, to be door. “ Is Mrs. Brinsley in ?” asked fnl how faithful the little ones are. was born on the estate, and has alwavs them, and it is not probable that Japanese was giving an exhibition iff*V“ meek? Yes, but it was the trying a big voice. Mrs. Brinsley was in. I too. I supjawe they are afraid of I remained there. He handles the they will be sold at Sheriff’s sale. sleight-of hand, interspersed with that spoiled it all and she lacked the She came forward smiling, < rosy getting thrashed.” valuable stallions and mares, and acrobatic feats. At the’end of ercbi .?•*’ ► <♦» < sweet boldness which love alone can cheeked, collected, transformed. She Among others who gathered at the , superintends everything pertaining Ogden depot to take a look at the trick, the sailors said,— «V " give. She was almost afraid of that held ont her hand: she was glad to A man on horieback in the moun- “Now isn’t that clever? Wonder! ungracious man, and she was jealous see the doctor; she presented him to j tains of Virginia the other day felt ' to the blooded stock department, train robberB on their arrival there, of Becky, much loved, happy Becky. Cousin Mamie. They sat down. his animal sliding down the bank on assisted by three or four subordinates. was Ross, the heroic express messen what he’ll do next?” W ith each act of the performance!. ' " At the end of six months of such a “Where are you stopping?" asked one side of the bridle path. As there It is a pleasure to see him handle the ger, who, it is said, has an old ac life the doctor noticed that Delia Delia. “ At the Windsor.” And she was nothing to do but to hang on. he horses. Enquirer. Bramble, Great quaintance with Frank Francis, the their astonishment increased, and,' looked pale and thin. " You need a became as deeply interested in the did so, and. to his amazement, found I Tom and the other noted animals, chief of the gang. The Pilot savs: they kept muttering. “Wonder whai W ’ little more fresh air," he prescribed. Windsor as if the doctor had come that his animal, with all four feet which in his hands are as docile as The greetings between the wotild’be | he 11 do next? ’ The parrot heard tbi? “ ^4 n«l I I uhnll v«i»i I out evil 4 as often as» And shall tul-n take yon as . expressly for the purpose of ending bunched together, was sliding on his kittens, and the liest behaved of their robbers and the man who stood them exclamation so often that he pick«! SJ? I can." Not without some inward his days there. But Dr. Brinsley haunches down the ice formed by the class we ever saw. He is an invalu off were quite cordial, and Francis it up. Presently the Japanese tried •'■'I'Jther fear, but attired in her very best, > was not altogether defenceless, “’ll I frozen water of a spring. This eon- j able man. faithful, kind, intelligent, remarked that if they had known . —» ----- honest and truthful. He was never keep in the air a number of bamboo LnB1 , Delia sat i~ *u * _ , ■ „ __ in the buggy by the side of came to ask if you would take a ride : tinned for a quarter of a mile when known Ross was in the express car thev I to strike an animal. Robert sticks ignited at both ends; but barB her lord. It was a balmy spring at with me. The carriage is at the door. f they reached the valley below in takes great pride and interest in his would have let it alone, but thev1 ing his attention distracted, he &. u., ': ternoon, nature looked so ______ fresh, ____ so “Oh, said Delia. And she went J safety. They were then thirteen employers, their families and their thought it was the mail car. “You I lowed nna of fk« a _ j ____ I was In bright, so happy, that a little of this see what yon gave me." said Ross. I lowed ona of the sticks to drop. The mountains were “ perfectly miles, by path or road, from their I nfortunatelv. it fell upon a heapl ny. V' i happiness breathed itself into Delia's magnificent." ns Delia remarked, but j I starting point on the mountain. The property, including the stock, and holding up his hand. "Well. I got his faithfulness and ability are highly of tire crackers, bombs, etc., which exj sao heart. The doctor must also the doctor made quick work of them them. that can. without a blush, in- prized. ' J it afterwards," said Hawlev, “so we re ploded, blew ont the walls, blew ofl *5. have been touched by those benign in “How soon will __ even." Ross asked the‘men why ill yon be ready to j v,'nt «uch a story as this must, like The principal building on Belle they did not come into the car when the roof, scattered the audience in all that 1 fluences, for never before had he lieen come home?” he asked quietly. 'to.1 .-.ntailv | his horse, be a terrible backslider of Mead is a large mansiou. standing the door was split up, and one of directions, eo kind, so attentive to her. so talka and sent the parrotJ was th “ I don’t know. I intended to stay some sort I back alxiut 350 yards from the main them said that they did not think it minus its tail feathers and one eye.) remtm tive. She smiled several times; twice all summer I think I think road on a beautiful lawn, shaded with she absolutely laughed, she sat a little But she could not tell him what she four hundred yards. ter pe It is said that the late Marshall great trees and sloping to the road, was healthy in there just at that time about nearer tohim.her cheeks bloomed aud thought. She was glad he had come; I Jewell After some further conversation with j As the bird came down with a flop provided in his will for the 1 she was beginning to feel quite eoo she wanted to go back home with him; I sending of fresh flowers every Satur portico is supported by the men, moved on and the 1,, ^rieked. "Wasn’t that clever’ fortable. when, as luck would have it. she loved him, now But did he love | day to his daughter. Mrs. Strong, of maasive and beautiful marble col crowd had I Ross "under what hall do next? ” a chance to gaze on the ~———— ----- - they happened to ride past a very | her ? If he would only be a little j Detroit, as long as she lives. unios umo» uuarned quarried on the piace, place, ana and it devperadc desperados desperados until the train started for is probably the finest in the country., the West I • •>I8“ ‘ a^waJ3 the flower of tin I family that makes the beat bread. PERSONAL. THE KIM AT THE DOOR. _____ ■**