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GOOD BT, OLD YEAR, GOOD BY.
The belli ring slow, in tnutllcil tone,
The chillintr wind makes sadder moan;
The fl iwera arc dead and all must die,
Good by, old year, good by.
The laughing streams run coldly now.
Stern winter reijius, with ice crowned brow,
Jfair summer is dead and you must die,
Good by, old year, good by.
Once yi u were young, but now you're old,
Our youth can ne'er bnjiougbt with gold;
Your youtli is dead all youth m it lie,
Good by, old year, good by.
Your glory came, your glory's gone
.AU glory fades time luvathes upon,
All grandeur and pride shall surely die,
Good by, old year, good by.
You brought us many glittering joj s
That cluyid and broke liku children's toys.
Our joys you have killed, now you must die,
Good by, old year, good by.
You brr.ught us much of galling grief,
Jlut, like our joys, its ein'irt was brief,
Jf joy must 11 yj die, then grief must die,
Good by, old year, good by.
Thou wast a year of a hundred years,
Of glorious triumph that endears
Hut. ah 1 as the others, thou must die,
Good by, old year, good by.
Thoutdi busk must die and kernel live.",
So dotli the truth each yeir o'er gives;
Thou brought'ot us much that will not die,
Good by, old year, good by.
The dawn was a dawn of splendor,
And the, blue of the morning skic3
"Was as placid and diep and tender
As the blue of a baby's eyes;
The sunshine flooded tho mountain,
And Hashed over laud and sea
Like the spray of a golden fountain
Hut thu wind the wind ah me !
liiko a weird, invisible 'pirit,
It swooped in its airy (light,
And the earth as tho storm drew near it
Quailed as if in mute affright;
The grass in tho green fields ijuivcrcd
Tho waves of the smitten brook
Chillily shuddered and shivered,
And the reeds bo.ved down and shook,
Like a sorrowful Miserero
It sobbed, mid it wiiled ai.il blew,
Till the leaves on the trees looked weary
And my prayers were weary, too;
And then, like tho sunshine's glimmer
That failed m tho awful strain,
All the hope of my eyes grew dimmer
In a spitter of spiteful rain.
-j. ir. iiiifj.
Aunt Agatha's Conversion.
CHAl'TKK I.
"Whip it I" said my aunt.
With kerchief pinned over her well devel
oped bust, and apron tied round lur figure,
f be was engaged in manufacturing n hatch of
Jemouchceee cakes, for which the materials
had been brought into her neat little "keep
ing room;" and just as, with sleeves tucked
up (she was rather prouel of her beautiful
mm), she was immersed in tho mysteries f
rolling, patting and buttering tins and lining
them with crust, glancing out of the window
she hail seen the immaculate carriage of Mils
Tipple stopping at tho door, and a gentleman
hsnilini' nut that sprucu and dainty little
personage.
I'oor Hetsy Ward, Aunt Agatha's only ser
vant, hail likew iso taken a stealthy peep, and
sho now bustled into the room,
'Lor, ilium," Bind she, "there's Slits Tip
plo mid a strange gentleman; let mo clear
away thu things while you go and m.iku jour
sel( tidy. They can knock again, and I'll
havo Yin ivvay in a minute."
"No, ltelsy'sud my aunt, "Miss Tipple
knows very well tli.it 1 maUo my own
pastry, ami when thu comes to tee me she
must just taku mo as I am. There, open
tho doe."
And she complacently went on with her
rolling and putting.
The fact is Aunt Agatha had no great
opinion of Mini Tipple, lleiaelf, though very
limited ns to ini'iime, the representative of one
of the oldest and most respected families in
Hildirstock, Hlieulid not consider Miss Tipple,
whoso father she lenu'iubered as a well-to-do
grocer, w.ts at all lifted to an eipiality with
her by her wealth, and she had nut finnieil a
very exalted estimite of Miss Tipple's sincer
ity or of her discretion, so that w hen she now
entered thu room Aunt Agutha, ipiite uiidis.
tuilnil by her lioli and irreproae liable cos
tume, looked at her coolly as who should say:
"I've taken thu iiie-imuiii of jou, my deir
lady, and 1 don't think uiich of you."
"You'd better not ennui too near nio,"
aid Aunt Agatha, as .fi-s Tipple adviuiee-d,
putting out u pretty, little', noatly-gl o.l
hand, "for, you see, I'm nil over flour. Hut
thoso that ftar featheis shouldn't go uiuong
wild fowl."
"My dear Miss Gayfer," said Miss Tipple',
who always phiee'd a stiong emphasis on her
aeljectiws "you nio i peifectly fria"! and
natural that it is always ehaiimug to seu you
o unlike' theartitUl.il win Id, w Inch is made
up of show. Lit me introduce to you Mr.
Jordan, my cumin, our iie-w rect r. 1 am
sure that you will 1m very inueli delighted
with him."
My uuilt aekuenvleeU'i'd by a word or two
tho new rector's s.ilut.itlon, took a good lenik
at him, and didn't feel by my means so sure
about it.
Ho was a tall, pale man, much marked with
tnulhpoi, with crisp, black hair, anil he
spoke in a low, mellow, cooing voice, which
most women found it very pleasant to
listen '.
"I trust. Miss Gayfer," said he, that We
ball Ih very good friends. I understand that
you ire a rcoognircd pjwer iu Understock,
nd that your co-operation is epitte tuseutial
to suivrss hero."
"If you had said that I am pretty well
known here, where 1 hav spout my life',"
lid Aunt Agatha "you would have Ixn-ii well
within the mark; as to influence, jou'll find
that our pooide have, most of Ym, got ill
of their owu ud it's geuerally wrong."
"That's a less flittering description of my
parishioners than I havo had frommycousin,"
said he, with a smile,
"Ah, veil, you'll see. The proof of the
pudding is in the eating. I don't mean to say
but what they are honest enough anJ good
natured, but they are shiftless and wilful, so
that it is very hard to help them."
"lam sur., my dear Miss Gaffer," said
Miss Tipple, "that your example and your
instructions have gone far to cure them of
both thoso faults; and I know you'll appreci
ate Frank, my cousin, who is tho most mo
thodicil man iu the world. Ho has made an
absolute conquest of the Hlackmans, and the
Wilkontes, and tho Wakelirgs."
"Aye," said Aunt Agathi, with n laugh,
"new brooms sweep clean."
"Of one thing you may be quite sure,
Frank," said Miss Tipple, turning to her
cousin, ".Miss Oayfer will always tell you
what sho thinks."
'I certainly shall not tell Mr. Jordan, nor
anybody cle, what I don't think," said Aunt
Ag-itha; "but all tiuths are not always to he
tald."
Presently', when the cheese cakes were fin
ished and tho apparatus dismissed, Miss Tip
ple said :
"You really must let my cousin see your
exquisite fernery, Miss Gayfer. You have
such perfect tasto in all theso matters, and
mamgo them to admirably.
"It runs in tho blood," laid my aunt, not
insensible to the flattery. "My father wnB
very fond of his garden, and she that comes
of a hen must scrape. Hut I'vo scarcely any
pleasure to go into my garden i.ow, since Miss
l'ayne ha" stuck up that abominablo red brick
wall at the end of it. It sc robes my eyes to
look upon it. It's not much, after all," sho
said, turning to Mr. Jordan, "but such as it
is, come and see it."
Sho led tho way up tho steps which
climbed into tho girdtn from the backdoor,
between the dwarf yews and magnificent
trees of blush roses, old fashioned but sweet
as the odors of a dream, and turning down to
a little dell where dwarf ivy anil periwinkle
clambered ocr artfully-disposed rocks, pre
sented her pretty little fernery, lush and
delicate in its verdure and delicious in its
coolness.
Mr. Jordan examine j it with a ciitical eye.
"KxQcllcnt, Miss Gayfer," said he, stoop
ing down as lie spoue to examine the soil.
Hut theso scolopendnums would elo better
if you would give them some sandy loam
mixed with leaf mould."
"The man has a grain of gumption iu him,
after all," said my aunt, sotto voce, but not
so low as to be audible to a little nephew
whose hand she held, and who, having a sense
of humor, very imperfectly succeeded in
stilling a laugh, as he caught Miss Tipple's
cyo fixed upon him. There was an awkward
hush for n second or two, and in tho pauiie,
that ensue el tho sound nf shears was dis
t'netly audible.
Mv aunt gathered up her skirts witii inim
itable tpced anil proceeded to investigate, fob
lowed more leisurely by the cousins, who
teemed ta be exchanging confidences in a
complacent and alfectionato manner, until I
they were startled with the indignant tones of
my aunts voice, exclaiming :
"Hi ! you man, what are you doing there ?
Hi w daro you J"
On tliu opposite side of the garden roso the
hideous red Lrick building which had excited
my aunt's righteous indignation. Just strug
gling up to reach this had been a magnificent
crop ot ivy, but the place thereof knew it no
more, f r a man who stood there, open
mouthed, vith his shears iu his hand, and
w ith thu spoils of his labor all round him, had
sheared and trimmed it till tho wall was as
barons a billianl bill.
My aunt ha 1 followed up her exclamation
by rushing across the girdcn, seizing tho in
truder by the collar of his jacket, and shakine;
him till his teeth chattered in his head.
"Come away, Frank, como away !" said
Miss Tipple, plucking tho uc w rector's sleeve.
"The woman must be mad."
Hut Mr. Jordin, without heeding tho in
junction, with a smile on his face, strode to
the seeuu of thu conflict, just as my aunt,
fairly out of breath, released poor Jobson in a
condition of extreme physical exhaustion and
miiital bewilderment,
'Oh, it's you, Jobson, is it?" sho said, as
soon as she had Biitlicicntly recovered breath.
"How dale you como tri'spasoiug hero, anil
elestreiying my garden ? You touch another
leafed that ivy, sir, and I'll nuke you sinait
for it, or else my name is not Agatha
G yrer."
There was scarcely a leaf left for him to
touch, lie had ilono his work so completely,
"Well," she continued, impatiently,
"what do you stanel there for, with your
mouth open, like a drivelling idiot? Have
you nothing to say tor yemrelt !"
"Why Lord, Miss Gayfer," slid Jobson,
"you right down skeer mi', that jou do; I
hadn't had sueli a j .uncling not sin' I was
tossed in a blanket. 1 never knowe'd 1 was
doin' any harm. Mss Payne she said the
ivory made Her walls daniiyind I was toconm
an' cut it. Shu ton Id me', mid 1 thought it
was all righ'. 1 never know ed 1 was doing
any harm. Why, lor, theio "
"And are' you such n bom fool, then, as to
go mid do what ver Miss Pay no tells you?
Don't ou know I could luvo you prosecuted
and imprisoned for trespass and wiltul
damage? and 1 don't know but what I shall,
too. Hi that will needs blow iu tho eliist
mint lexik to till his cyi's with it. Xonv you
go and tell Miss l'.iyiui that if she's got any
ihin to say by way of excuse, she hid better
s.ii it at once, or it may be ten) late'."
"Stake's ! Miss Gayfer," bewail Jobson, "I
lie ver "
"l'ou't stand talking there', man, but go
and do as 1 tell you."
The unhappy Jobson githered up his tools,
climbed up the short ladder by which lie
had made his de'scent, drew it after him and
diiiipe.irtd.
"Its a mostti'xatioiu incident," slid the
new ri-ctor
"Vexatious !" interrupted my aunt, with
perfectly rce'overeel composure, "it's perfectly
maddeuiiig."
There was a curious contrast between the
wouls and the tone iu which they were
uttered, and the rector smiled as ho said t
"1 hope, after the ti st ebullition of feeling,
you will lie able to accomiuoelate your differ
eiu'o with this Mm l'avu amicably,"
"Oh, ti idle -de-dee I " said my aunt. "Hut
there now, good. by, I shall tee you on
Sundiy.
"Uj darMifs Gayfer," tald Mist Tipple,
"jvur euerity of character nuite astouisheu
met I joulii no more elo whst sou hve done
thau 1 could writd r'rauk's seruiou for him."
"It it just at well the world holdt a few
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people who have some control over them
selves," said my aunt with a laugh.
' That's a remarkable womsn," said Mr.
Jordan as he drove awav with Miss Tinnle.
"A remarkably disagreeable woman," said
the lady with a little shudder.
' Do you think so?" said the new rector,
and 1) ith lapse el into silenoe.
"Those people mean to make a match of
it," said my aunt, as sho waited for Miss
Pajnp. "Live and a cough, they say, can't
be hid, and aay one can sec that she has
made up her mind to marry him. A pretty
rlntsnA ahu II l.nil Vt I r trti sm fallneir '
uuiibo ono is imi iitiijf nu1) u jvk iciiuni
Miss I'avne was a ladv of ponderous build.
but short in proportion to her bulk, with a
c .mplexion like an uncooked muilin, and eyes
in a chronic state of moisture, apt to overflow
on slight provocation. Sho was elephantine
in her movements, wheezy and faint in her
voice, and lachrymose in her general views.
Aunt Agetln, who had been chirping merrily,
straightened herself in her chair as the click
of the front gate announced the approach of
this ohnoxions crsonnge.
"Well I" exclaime-d my aunt, as she wad
dled into tho room.
'Ch-h li! sobbed Miss l'ayne, sinking un
invited into a chair.
My aunt ejeel I er with profound contempt,
hut gave her time to recover breath b'.foreshe
asked :
"Well, Miss Payne, havo you anything to
say why I should not put this matter in tho
hands oi my lawjer, and take proceedings
against you for your abominable trespass?"
".Miss Agatha I gasped the oueutlcr, "1
declare you frighten me, and my luart is that
bad-"
"Stuff " said Aunt Agatha, promptly.
"Only think, Mis Agatha, what's the use
of goiiu: to law with me "
"I know," broke in my aunt, "that whether
you boil snow or pound it, you pet only
water; but to put up with such an abominable
outrage as this is ta invito injury. Those
that make thamsclvcs sheep have no call to
comnlain if the wolf eats them."
"My dear Miss Agatha," pleaded Mi s
Payne.
"Djn't 'dear Miss Agatha' me, woman,"
Slid my aunt, "it makes mo sick."
"I declare, Mis Agathi, I'm more vexed
than vou can think. You kr.ow damp makes
mo so miseraiile,
"I don't know," said my aunt, abruptly.
"It really eloes, and the ivy did make the
wall damp."
'Then you should have told me about it,
and not sent people tresspassing in my gar
den." "I never thought, Miss Agatha, Jobson
was going to do so much. I told him iust to
trim the ivy so that it didn't maku the wall
damp."
I don t behove it," saiil my aunt. "I
know Jobson very well, and you told him to
cut it down, or ho wouldn't have done so, and
jou made him beli.vo that I knew all about
it."
"I didn't, really, Miss Agatha; no, really,
I didn't. When I saw what he'el done, you
might have knocked me down with a feather.
I'm so sorry you were annoyed "
"Annoyed!" add my aunt, with vehe
mence. "Miss Payne, I could have skinned
you."
Poor Miss Payne gave a start of such un
mistakable alarm that my aunt's sense of the
comic over-mastered her indignation anil she
broko into laughter, after which she felt that
it was nuite hopeless to nrolonir tho interview
and sho accordingly brought it to an abrupt
"Well, Miss Payne, it's no use crying over
spilt milk. I don t forgive you yet, and it's
C1UBU, Hiiyiui'
no use pretenmng mat i do, but I will not
say anything more about this affair. Hut if
ever you do such a thing again I won't spare
you
'Ah, now. Miss Acatha."said the old ladv.
gathering spirit with this promise, "don't half
do tho thing while you are about it. Let us
be friendly and neighborly. "
"We may come to that in time," was tho
reply. "He's a fool that asks much, and he's
more fool tint grants it. I feel very soro
about this matter, I can tell you, en I I shall
take a week and a day to get over it. Anel
now the less that's said about it tho more
likely I Bhall be to forget it."
Miss Payne gasped, heaved her deepest
sigh, shook her underdone head, and wad
ellcel oil.
CHAl'TKK II.
Aunt Agatha pronounced Mr. Jordan's first
sermon "very sensible," and wondered what
a man could see in that "mincing, affected
little bit if goods Misa Tipplo."
H'lt as tho weeks went by sho did not hear
of him quite in tho way she liked in tho cot.
tages whero sho visited, and sho hea-rd- of- himi
a good ileal more thau she liked in a parson at
the parish, at garden parties, archery melt
ings and social gatherings of various kiuels.
Not that ho failed to visit among the humbler
inhabitants of Hildcrstock, but wlnlo she
heaiel of him as smoking his pipo with them,
talking about their gardens or their pigs and
their poultry, pud otherwise rendering him
self very populir, ho never seemed to speak
to them of religion, or about pursly pre fes
sional topics.
This as very different from tho practico of
tho late rector, a zealous cvangeli al, whose
dutiful disciple Aunt Agatha had been,
though iu her stuiely hub penitence she had
sometimes ventured to express her doubt as
to tho wisdom of prolonged exhortations in
tho house whero thu sMugglo for cxistenco
was hard and exacting, for, as she would say,
"you can't mako a wind-mill go with a pair
of bellows."
Something hetwom the prolixity of his
predecessor anil tho too purely mundajo con
verge of Mr. Jordan wcuhl have been her ideal
of the happy mean.
"lhivo just been telling Mts. Gimpson,"
said hi', one daj when he encountered her at
tho door of a cottage, "that if sho wants her
hens to lay she must vary their food a little."
"Don't you think there aro some things
more important th in hen's eggs you might
peak to Xauuy Gimpson ah, ut?" asked my
aunt, looking him full in the face; "I'm
iitraid shu's dreadfully ignorant, and they say
parsons are soul's wagoners."
"Do you know' Miss Gayfer," ho answered,
"that when 1 see that chei'iful, actlvo old
lady, stricken with pain and with years, mik
ing the thinnest of livelihoods by unremitting
cart) yet always contented, 1 feel that it is for
nio to learn and be silent, she is the teacher."
My aunt was silout for second or two and
then answered! "There is a great deal iu
w hat you say, but it is a way of looking at
things that is uew to me. If it is tho right
way 1 think I have wasted a good, deal of
time. "
"Assuiolly not," said he; "you have car
ried brightness and order into" many homes,
and wherever I go I find yon have been an in
fluence for good. Sympathy it the true 'open
sesame' to a human heart, ami in power of
spmpainy we men lag ur iH'huin womeu.
From that time a gradual change was ob
servable in Aunt Agttha't dealing! with the
poor folk whom the visited. It would have
beeu diihcult to say exactly what it was
more freeiueut touch of tenderneis, a greater
readinett to make allowance! for the circum
timvt and elitlicultiet of each. A greater
rera linett to help there could not be, out there
wtt less readiness to tcolel.
Somrtimrt, in the course of her indefati
gable rouu It, the would meet with and hare
pleasant converse with the rector, and would
come homo quite radnnt with pleasure. At
other times she only heard of him as being
the life and soul of some party, rowing Miss
Tirpleandher friends elo a n the river, irga
nizing picnics and other fiivelttics onwhi-n
Aunt Agatha looked with Beant toleration.
"Thit man." she remarkeel, ona elay,
"might put new life into the whole parish,
and he's becoming a mere butterfly. It s bad
enough now; what it will be after he gets
married to that shallow, worldly-minded
woman, Heaven only knows."
One day in early Autumn, as Aunt Agatha
rnovinir softlv among ner asters aim
chrysanthemums, musing probably of these
matters, a harsh er shine noisa and a shock as
of an earthquake rudely broke the current of
her reflections. She turncu in me nirecuuu
from which the sound had come, and there,
where Miss Pajne's flaunting eye-sore of red
brick upper story had been, was a cloud of
dust, momentarily thinning and leaving the
clear blue of a bright October sky.
"A good riddance of bad rubbish," was
Aunt Agatha's brief exclamation; but, then
the possibilities involved suddenly flashing
upon her mind, sho added: "Heaven forgive
mn I Whv. the woman and that poor, little.
half-starved Lucy Chalk may be buried in
thnee ruins 1"
In an instant sho was rushing out of her
garden, b mnet flying behind lipr, quite un
conscious of the amazed look of the butcher
over tho way, the gr. up of milliners at Miss
Firmin's, and the portly landlord of the Red
Lion, who, ignorant as they were of what had
transnircd at the reirof AuntJAgatha's dwell
ing, were half-amused and half curious about
he- deshabille and her histo.
"Here! hi!" the called tj two men who were
passing. "Jobson, Tyler, come with me to
Miss Payne's directly. There has been an
accident there; the new story his fallen in."
Hastening with them round tho corner ot
Horn Lane, she came upon Miss Tipple,
escorteet by the rector, with whom sho was
gaily conversing.
'My dear Miss Gayfer !" said Miss Tipple,
advancing with her eve'Iasting wintry smile.
"What is the matter, Miss Giyfer?" asked
Mr. Jordan. "Can I help vou?"
Just then a small boy came running by, and
thinking he might be useful to rue errands,
Aunt Agitha impounded him by clutching the
collar ot his jaek-t, a piece of his ear ami a
handful of his hair, holding him in firm g'a?p
while she explained to the rector what had
happened.
"Vou may as well come," added she,
"though I don't know as you cin do anything.
Hotter a lame loot than none.
And without further parlej' she hurried on.
Miss Tipple, who cluns to the rector's arm.
and with a soft invincibility declined cither
to hurry her step, or to be left to herself, so
unpe tcel his motion that Aunt Agatha, with
her followers, was out of sight in no time.
When at last he came up, half dragging the
shrinking and reluctant Miss Tipple, whose
strong objection to imperilling cither her per
son or her millinery quite ovirmastered her
curiosity, she heard Aunt Agatha's voice ring
ing out from tho dusty confusion with any
thing but complimentary exhortations to her
recruits, who were pausing irresolute at tho
entrance.
"Don't you go in, Miss Agatha, now, don't
you?" shouted one of the men. "That ain't
safe, really."
"You cowardly loons!" said my aunt,
"would you let the woman die without help?"
"Don't go, Frank," said Miss Tipple. "You
hear it is not safe, and you'll get your coat all
over uust.
Mr. Jordan firmly, but not ungently re
moveel her grasp.
"Where there is danger and distress, there
is the parson a place, said he, and in another
moment he had followed Aunt Agatha, the
men timidly imitating his example, and leav
ing Miss Tipple alone with little Job Chalk, of
whom she did not condescend to take any
notice.
The rickety building was a mere heap of
ruins, homo village wiseacre had superim
posed on a lath anel plaster basement a brick
upper story. This angle of the building had
fallen in, snd in its fall had dracged with it
older portions of the house, so that now tim
bjisw re sloping in all directions, and what
hid no1; actually fallen seemed tottering to its
fall. Amid this dangerous debris Aunt Agatha
was making her way, when some of tho bold
est of those who were folowing her started
back with a shout of alarm. A thin blue
smoke, followed by hungry, icious lcokiiiir
tongues of flame, was appirent, and even Mr.
Jordan and Aunt Ag.tha, who were now side
by side, paused for an instant on seeing these
evidences of peril. The hesitation, which was
but momentary, did not survive the stifled
sound of moaning that broke upon tho ear.
Hut Aunt Acatha was no loneer allowed to
take Hie command The soft, cooling voice to
which she had at tun s listened with some
thing akin to contempt could assume the tone
of command, and, strong as she was, aud
masrenui as an the village lolks said, Aunt
Agatha was a worn n in her heart.leanini with
gladness and submission on a stronger will
than her own.
"You wait here," said Mr. Jordan, "for a 1
few moments. I will call you if you can be of
help;" and then, with keen, rapid glance, I
sweeping those who wero present, ho singled
out a robust young man, and in a voice that
might havo led soldiers on to battle, said:
"Howard, you como with me."
The young fellow
obeveei as a matter of
couise, anil then ensueel a short pauso of pain
ful suspense. Presently Howard reappeareil
with a flushed anil frightcneei expression, but
evielently putting a strong restraint upon
himself I
O
er. rushing her way through the ruins ami
the sniokewith those that hail been suminoneel
into nil it hail been Miss l'avne'a little nnrlnr
she pressed her lips tightly together, ami tho I
euior ueei ner lace as sne saw the motionless
form of her olel enemy stretched on a couch
there, nud standing by the side of it tho rec
tor, bliiod itreaming from a wound on his
head, his coat torn, and one arm hanging list
less by his side. Somo falling bricks aud
timber had struck him and hvt disabled the
arm, and lest his ap, earance should eneite
alarm he had sent Hob Howard wiili tho mes
sage for help and a strict injunction to say
nothing beyond what he had been told.
In a few seconds Miss l'ayne, more fright
ened than hurt, was moved beyond tho reach
of peril ami was couveyed to Aunt Agatha's
cottage, accompanied by the wounded rector.
Aunt Agatha's foresight had already sutn
mouod eood Dr. Holmes to the place, and
hurrying as fast as his lame foot would per
mit, lie reached the cottage almost at the same
time a the cavilcule. Miss Tipple, ind'g
nant that her cousin should have deserted her
for "that woman," had not awaited the Issue
of the investigations. Dr. Holmes pronounced
Miss l'ayno to have sustained a very sever
shock from fright, but to be free from bodily
damage. The rector's arm was broken, but the
wouud on the head wat only skin deep, and
notmuch more serious than the torn coat.
From that time, for many months, Aunt
Agthas house became Miss Payne's home
and her hostess tended her with all the solid
tude of a daughter. A great poet has told us
that "th learneel eye is still the loving one,"
and It to ht peued that in this unwearied
tendance and ministration Aunt Acatha dis
covered not a few unsuspected virtues in the
IlL-ll. lll 1 . I
--aiauvDras-i ana wan. vou ho to cnm w-ir
with m 1.'.a nUn .... :. i i ?nKtU for family Btove.wo.Kl. ami
" -inii, u no iu au. xinsr, it is peorie3 ana unnvaieu.
liut HobHov, i,l', voice ha.1 net the irncio riU,SK,ir!,:.iS,,;oS?-.-.sM.
I .Hr. JUriiail u. mill SIlH lenn ,1 u'nif t n,,n. i Mention thu
fat, wheezy, puffy old soul, and something
like genuine attachment sprung up between
tnem. ,
A vrv rnnatnnt attendant was the Uev.
Frank Jorelan. Even when his arm was still
ery painful.and he might well have been ox
,,.o,l 1,1,1 hn abstained from visiting a parish
ioner who was in no imminent danger, his
solicitude about -Miss rayne was remarnuuie.
in .n,n nf the severity of winter snows and
frosts, his arm secured by splints ami band
ages, he would come and sit for a wholo ten
minut.-s with Miss Payne, and for whole
hours talking with Aunt Agatha-ptobably
about the patient's symptoms.
But the snows melted on the high lulls, and
i,o i,rnnk. Rwnllen with their muddy tribute.
chattered noisily down the slopes, aud snow
drops anel crocuses, iiauouius ami vioiees
bloomed again, and in due courso the broath
of the blush roses in tho garden was wafted
into the cottage.
And then people in the village said, and
laughed at each other as they said it, that
Miss Tipple was going to give up Harhani
house and to leive Hildcrstock. She had
indiscretly spoken to somo bosom frien Is o'
her approaching maniige with t' o rector, and
before tho chrysinthemums hid opened rut
heir raiiced boiuties to the next autumn sun
it became known that Mr. Jordan's consent
had never been asked for this arrangement,
and that the parson had, with gr.od success,
asked that, "lem.irka'dy disagreeable woman''
to be his bride.
Miss Tifple riflected, lnwcvor, with so e
complacency that the living was a very poor
on", and that Miss Gayfer's fortune, tr.r all
her ridiculous pride, was barely enough f r
her tn live on ill decency. Hut even in this
sho fell into her besetting sin of premature
talk: for. when poor old Miss Payne died a
year or so later, it was found that bIio had
left the wli le of her not ino msiderablo for
tuno to Frank Jordan, in recognition of the
great kindnesses and services that, sho had re
ceived from her dear friend Agatha, his wife.
AU the Yetir Hound.
I'oimutiptlun Cured.
An edd physician, retired from practice,
hnvinu had nlaced iu his bands by an Kist In
dia missionary the formula of a simple vegeta
ble remedy for the speedy and permanent
curs for ponsumption, Hronchitis, Caiarrh,
Asthma and a'l Throat and Lung affections,
also a positive and radical cure for Ncrvouj
Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after
h.ivincr tested its wonderful curative powers
in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to
make it known to his sullering lellows.
Actuatedby this motive and a desire to relieve
suffering. I will send ficeof charge to all who
desire it, this recipe, in Germa'i, French or
English, with full elirtctions for piepiringand
usiug. Sent by mail by addressing with
ct imp, naming this paper, W. A. Noves, 14
Power's Hlock, N. Y.3 mo.
m yi,ir."urf.i7gjs3TinKaEsrji3: 7?7iTiTtnn3
APPARATUS
Cheese ! act or v find
Creamery outfits, Cheese
ami Creamery Vats,
Clitese Presses, Creamery
.ind Family Churns, Nut
ter Workers, Salt, Color
Incr, Cheese and Iluttcr
Cloths, Iluttcr Tubs and
Itoxes, and everything
used in Cheese Factory,
Creamery or private dairy.
.senu ior xree copy ox
catalogue.
WILLARD St CO.,
CHICAGO.
CHAS, P.
20 La Salle sr..
MALES' "PERFECTION'1 RIDING SAW.
Three Dy Trial Given.
tri tj nght of operttor. rum lichter, hu
tower, iunnr ana quicker voic, mating
iui siiuaii r uiiuuii. uuf nud ooea
2 men work mih cue. A toy n
inc wim pi
.AcrhtftWlllU
ttT. Uk roar
dialer. (Ir
rulir fret,
Th 8. BiIm
Ajr'l to
lUBlItoa.O. Q'
ueen the South
Foavr a Tvr.Ti
FARM MILLS
For Stock Feed or Hell for
Famlljr uie.
10,000 X2T TTSE.
rite for Funpblet.
Simpson is (fault U'fg Co,
SucccBBori to Stbadb Mill Co
riVCISNATI, 0.
AN OFFER TO FARMERS.
I haeo Invented aSell Supporting Board Fenec.needs
no posts, i an be made in the barn en rainy diys: costs
30 et a rod le-.s than post and board fence. U in nnt
patented, bul tor SOcenti I will semi iLLl-hTRATED Fencr
TinivriiK telling huw to make It, and ONEol thofol.
lonii tr I'lemimns: 1st, aonc foot boxwood pocket rule.
2d Kendall's Ilor.c Hook, 100 pagK, 35 illustrations.
3d, one package of SugarTrough Oourd, Acme Ti mito,
l'rizo Head Leutlee, erbena, l'hlox, or all the above
for m ecnU. Address WALDO F. IIUOWN.
dec'2-5t ' Hox 75, Oxfcrd, O.
Sawing Made Easy
With the Monarch Lightning Saw !
Sent on SO l)ar.
Test Trial.
Aboyiore.ir. old eaneawiocra.i and ?. mm
McRlUY.I'orlnc-e.Mlrh .writ' "Am much pleawd ith
.-: ,u.,n,ivu ,.uu,,.,iu un...
i..iu(h1 on a
icli inpr ill 'i minuted. ' or paw tnif I
opNlnto Miltable
allfeort.of lou-cut-
, ptnil havine
miK-r. Acl.ln-... HOSAUCl! LKUII.NLNO
BAW CO.,
103 KASdulpb btrtet, Chlcazo, 111.
TWO THOUSAND ACRES
. OF FARMS
Xcup Willamette Hirer, ." miles
Xortli of Salem.
VIE A110VE CONSIST OF VALUAM.E FAUMS.
In
en iniproi cu ami unuer g on cultivation, and
Udcs lAceltf'llt lVliul Ijiml. Tim IlAMfl t
lliili Liiml, and is all iuil I iiriiilni: Lie ml. It
Is favorably utuatnl, bclni; aithin live miles of Salem
and close to the Willamette river.
1 ill sell at at a bargain in one body, or In lots to
sent on libejal term.. ,pplv to
deoS-itt TIIOMAs C110SS, Si!em Oreiron.
A First rate 450 acre Wheat
and Sheep Farm for Sale.
FIVE MILES FROM SALEM. THREE iIL'NP
red and tllty acres In cultivation. One hundred
acres beaeer laud, which makes a capital uierdow.
stock water In each Held; all well fenced. Health'
location. Trout stream a mile lone through the faim.
Apply to K. K. tTKlEK.
noimtt Salem, Marlon County, Oregon,
Compton's Automatic Gate
THE IU.ST THI or THE KIXD.
Works Perfectly & Cheaply, nil
Iron nud Durable.
VTE AKErREl'AREPTO MAKE THESE GATES
Jn ,,00il hare bought th pitcnt rlzht.
vVl.ndse It .prV.t KOSS MICE'S SHOP, oppc
it new bank, Salem. je 29mJ
Price: : : $18 to $80.
DAIRYING
lil
HOT
KwwBa Sl
jjJBJfJri
,'flrsjj 1W.1
vVLH sTlmfl
ill MfTpssiLj J& &3
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TUTFS
PILLS
8YN1PT0M80FA"
TORPID LIVER.
tK&Pwfb
b?k part, Vnn under the Should.!
blade, fullness after eatlnp. with a dffl?
cllnatlon to exertion of body orTpii?'
Irritability of tomper. Low spirits, win,'
a feeling of having noRloceV-d some elm?
Weariness, JJlzzlne-s, Fluttering at i Si
Heart, Dots bofore tho oyes. Yellow Ski,'
Headache generally over tho right?,
Kestlessness, with fitful dreams, hjlffl
colorod Urine, and, 8ai'
CONSTIPATION.
TUTT'S riLLSnro especially adopted i,
such eases, una doso ellects sueli n chani.
of feeling na ': nstonlsli the siHTerer.
. ! " V""w '. "Piwine, anel cause is.
in.lv In 1-a.lin ... Vlh .,... .1 ' "al IOC
uuuj ,, ,i,ui- iirui, mils the )-.-,,
noiirUhcHl. and by their Tonlr Ai-tlon em ,k.
niKnllirft Organ. IlegulHr .miU ".&
elucetl. l'rlce IS cents. 33 Murray M jrf
TUTT'S HAIR BYE,
riRAYlTAinoiiyitrsKEns chnni-ptl toaOtn.
Ill.ACK byaslnElenpnllcatlonorthlsDyi- im?
Enrts a natural color, nets Instnntaueouslv siii
y Druggists, or sent by express on recant Sff
OFFICE, 33 JIlItltAY KT., XE1V Tord
(Dr. TCTrS aaSCit, or V.ln.hl- l-frnnll . iT
C..flil U.lpU -III b. mlled HIEE .. ";J,iu,J)
T!
GREAT CURE
RHCUM-ATISM-
ab 11. u ior iiu mo painim diseases of the
A. i. .- ... . .. T .. w
It cleanses tho vstm nf v 4j .'
Muncia.L vtK and Rnuftm
that causes tho dreadlul auflbrlnff IJX
THnuI!iHni;I,a,BU"
of tho worst rorms of this terrible eUjau,
havo boen quickly relieved, and In short time
rcnrcuikl UUKED.
rmcE, i. HQtin on miv, sold nr uuccisn
"- -ii -"" "" "win oy man,
WE1X3. lUrjIIAIUISOlI & Co.. Uurllm
'MIllMIMeMSI
!1S I iliiilnllliiii-t I
MS
K UC vmiwlll
J I'.lln or t.,,1,-
only use
i.oi-i': its i.ikiiics mux ci'isn
I !en.id It drle Instantly, hulls nollilnij. omlt&ta
Mr. I . rn i.ir ei,., time. Ti lc I'llee 2.',el by mill.
:uie. Tin ffnuii.e ueup In AWliiivivrn)i..-Haiia nnnn.
fi.turi.l ,.ily liv Jll, It. IIUFII.IS, U'bslnal
flelull DruuKl.l. M i-iinedl., Minn.
GREAT.WESTERM
G!JHV;0RK8,i
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Writ hr Lire Illatf nitt-1 Cittloeot.
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ADO M CTCDC Tfitrmometer$, Compom,
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Microsropea, and Tsfttcnpet, H, tV IILlhf
5Iamifocturinir 0ticiuun, riillndrlphiaf Pi
Ci?" Bend for Illustrnled lrlcvu C'utalogie.
JOHN A. MACDOiYALD,
Salem Marble and Granite
Works.
Commsrcial St., South of Post Offlct
(Post-Office Box 39, Salem, Oregon. )f
"mTANUFACTl' UEK B
Scotch and California Oraojt
and Marble monuments, Ilead Stots
CEMETERY LOTS
Enclosed with California Granite vt
Stone Walls built of every descrlptloi
Prices Seduced One Hall
COUNTRY ORDERS PROMPTLI
ATTENDED TO.
Garmore'!
. Artificial
JjEar Urunt
Aa liivpntrtl nnd worn b all
nerfceUr restorlnff the hearing l
tirely deaf for thirty years, he heaniu
them even whispers, distinctly. An
not otiPH'Muhli't and icmain in pow
tion without aid Descriptive Cirrelir
Free. CAUTION l Do not be drd
by bojjus ear drum. Mine Is tneorJy
successful artificial Ear Drum JWa
factured.
JOHN GARMORE.
Filth Si KiCC Sts.. Cmdnnlti, 0.
DKXMSOX WATSOiY.
ATTORNEYS AT - LAW,
Boom 31, Union Block, Portland, Oregon- .
JESSUP
THE DENTIST,
(UP STAIltS)
Cor. 1st and Salmon Portland, Oregon.
itiBi.Nr.ss i:ui'CATit-
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Practical Institutions for the Business Trainlnjcli"
Yoiinffand Middle Acid of either eex, itm ijn
application. fVMuilenst .silmlllnl J ""'
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