CONQUERED FOR EVER.
spirited girl, that Miss Lin* Westfield,
but a woman is nothing more than a
“I’m sure I beg your pardon.” said woman
after all, and I don’t see for the
Mr. Dalton.
hfe
of me how she does it. A house like
“There is no occasion for apology,” that costs money to keep it up! How
•aid Lina, looking like a queen—or, does she get it? Embroidered frocks,—
rather, like a beautiful young princess blue velvet blouses,—rose« and cabinet
—as she stood there in the soft, daffodil pictures! Edwin Dalton certainly mar
glow of the spring twilight, with a little ried a poor girl, and neither of them
«urly-headed girl in either hand, while left any estates but debts By Jove; I
a chubby boy of five played in the grass mean to be at the foundation of this
at her feet
family enigma! The girl will find that
“Oh, but I beg your pardon—there’s she can’t blufl’ me!"
twice I’ve done it—there is occasion for
But when the curtain rose and the
apology,” gently uttered Mr. Dalton. beautiful actress glided on the stage.
“Just look at the awkwardness of the Mr. Dalton had neither eyes nor thought*
whole affair. Here I’ve been abroad for for anything else.
five years; and when I come back, I
The next day he drove out ouce again
learn that my poor dear cousin is dead, to the cottage. It was noon, the chil
leaving three children. I at once re dren were playing under the shadow of
oognize that it is my duty to provide a monster elm on the miniature lawn,
for them. I come here and discover to and in a blue-ribboned wicxer chair,
my surprise, that you, the sister of their with a book in her lap, Lina sat watch
mother, have assumed the charge—that ing them.
you decline to give them up.”
“Again?”
The girl drew up that queenly figure
She raised her queenly black brows
of hers straighter than before.
as he advanced, dotting his cap, so that
“You have expressed yourself correoi- the sunshine turned his ruddy Saxon
2,” said she, “I am the sister of their hair to gold.
sad mother. Do you think it likely
“Yes, again.” he said, smiling. "Miss
that I wanted them to be bound out to Westfield, I have your secret. You,
respectable farmers or apprenticed to and no other, are Leonora West, the
trades?”
superb actress whose grand impersona
A pained expression stole over Mr. tions are now stirring the heart of thia
Dalton's face.
great city.”
“I shall be more than glad,” said he,
"An open secret,” she said, smiling.
“to assume the care of one or all, if—” “Well, and what of it? You know, now,
"I want no help,” interrupted the how I support these bttle ones—what
high-spirited girl. “We have learned has bought my cabinet pictures and
to love each other, these little ones and paid the wages of the groom who takes
L Henceforward our lot must be cast care of the Donv? It was neeessarv to
in together. Will you walk over the no sometning, ana 1 uo not Deneve in
garden? We have some beautiful roses doing starvation work for starvation
m bloom, and I have been unusually prices.”
“Miss Westfield!” he cried, "I honor
successful with my carnations this sea-
your spirit—I respect your independ
•on.”
The young fellow eyed Miss W’estfield ence.”
“Because I have chanced to succeed,”
as if she were a riddle that he could not
she
uttered, not without a certain royal
read.
“You have a lovely plaoe here,” said scorn. “And if I had failed----- ”
“If you had failed I think I should
he, tentatively.
have
honored you still more,” he said.
“Yes,” said Lina.
There was something in his earnest
“But is it not lonelyP”
look, bis frank tone, that established
“Not at all."
friendship
between them at once. She
“Wouldn’t it be a deal more amusing
smiled, and the little cousins flocked
in town?”
eagerly around the new-comer.
“Not for me,” decidedly.
"May I stay?” he asked.
“But you are forgetting plays—operas
“Yes,” she responded; "you may
—theaters—all the delights of an even
”
ing in the city,” argued Mr. Dalton. stay.
And,
when Mr. Dalton went away,
“These little cousins of mine, now— there was
strange, uncertain stir at
won’t you let me take them in to see a his heart, a a new
revelation.
real playP Just for once?”
When the season was over, the man
The children’s eyes sparkled—they ager
of the theater respectfully inter
nestled close to the fascinating stranger viewed
Miss Westfield as to a second
whose proposals were so entrancing,
contract
and cast pleading glances in the direc
"Judging from our receipts,” said he,
tion of the princess-like Lina. She “we shall be able to pay you a «till
■hook her head gravely.
higher salary. And I may venture to
“I do not approve of the theater for
hope----- ”
children,” saiu she.
"I shall not play anywhere this sea
Mr. Dalton lifted his hands in comic son.” she said; “to tell you the truth,
amazement.
Mr. Daly, I am going to be married.”
“But, Miss Westfield,” said he. “how
"Married!” gasped the manager.
exceedingly narrow-minded ali this is! “Heavens and earth! At this rate the
Our theater, for example, is the ed.uca- tragic stage is going to be ruined! You
tional level of our age. The superb les geniuses leave the footlights——”
sons which it impresses on the----- ”
"Not at all,” said Lina. "We only
“I beg your pardon. Mr. Dalton.” change our audiences.”
•aid Miss Westfield, “but there is not
Ana so the matter was settled. Mr.
one of your arguments which 1 have not Dalton too* the beautiful young actress
listened to before. I am excellently to his home, and with her went the
well posted upon the subject. But it is children.
getting late—my engagements—”
"1 could not part from my little ones,”
“A thousand pardons!” cried the said she. wistfully.
young man. “If I must say good-even
"My darling.” cried Edwin, “every
ing----- ”
thing that you love is doubly dear to
“Good-evening.”
me!
There was no temptation to further
She had conquered him— conquicrbd
lingering in the crisp, curt tones of her him for ever !
voice. Mr. Dalton turned away not
without disappointment
WILD DOGSOF ATLANTA.
“I don’t understand these girls,” said
he. "There isn’t a trace of the ‘Jolly a Carious R.*«ult of tho !.••• Roboll*
lOB.
Girl’ element about this one! Well—
one can tlway* consol* one’s self by
Did you ever hear of the wild dogs
Soing to see the divine young actress
lat Hillsdanie raves about—the cold, of Atlanta? At one time th$ country
the calm, the unapproachable beauty around here was at the mercy of the**
savage animals. Horse*, elephant*, and
oi the tragic stage.’
And so Mr. Dalton bought himself a camels can be mad* to take an almost
white silk tie, a pair of primrose-color- human interest in war. but dog* can
stand the racket The din of battle
ed kid gloves, and a bouquet, and went not
and the smejl of villainous saltpeter
to the theater.
But while he eat there, waiting for breaks them up entirely.
Our dogs had a bard time daring th*
the gold-fringed curtain to rise, his
siege.
were thousands of them
thoughts wanaeted back to the cottage in tbo*e Tnefe
day*, and when the season of
•mec he had left
“My unknown cousins!” he mused. •bort rations *et in they were th* first
feel it In manj instances they w*r*
“Pretty little sprites they were, too. Yes, to
abandoned
by their refugeeing owner«
it would have been a pity lor them to
and
bad
to
literally
forage for a living.
be sent to the workhouse. She is •
ine thunder ot the Ing guns, the un
"Tlie Idcwl
earthly shrieks of the shell*, the noise
of falling buildings, the rattle of mus
ketry. and the heavy tramp of march for young people is what the paper*
ing soldiers all struck terror to the ca call St. Nicholas. Do you know about
nine contingent Toward the close of it,—how good it is, how clean and
the siege nearly every dog in the city
was half rabid or in the last stage of pure and helpful? If there are any
nervous prostrution. The wretched boy* or girl* in your house will you
brutes sought shelter under houses and not try a number, or try it for a year,
in bomb-proofs. Majestic ni .stitts and
surly bull-dogscuried their tails between and see if it isn’t just the element you
their legs and yelped mournfully at need in the household? The Lmdou
every unusual sound. Hundreds of the rime* has said, "We have nothing
bolder ones made a frantic break over like it on this side.” Here are some
the breastworks and ditches, and made
their way through the lines of both leading features of
armies, never stopping until they reach
St. Nichol*» for 1886-4887.
ed the woods.
Stories by Louisa M. Alcott and
It was even worse after Sherman'*
army entered the place. The citisen* Frank R. Stockton,—several by each
were driven out in such a hurry that author.
they had no time to think of their pct*
A short Serial story by Mr*. Bur
and uo means of transportation for
nett,
whose charming "Little Lord
them. Later, the destruction of the
city by tire, and the general pandemo Fauntleroy*' has been a great feature
nium that ensued, scattered the few re in the past year of St. Nicholas.
maining dogs.
War stories for Boy* and Girl*.
These innocent victim* of the ravage*
of war had a terrible experience during Gen. Badeau, chiel-of-staff’, biographer
the rigorous winter of 1864-5. Their and confidential friend of General
misery drove them to form strange part
nership*. and it was a common sight to Grant, and one of the ablest and most
see them roving in bands of a dozen or jnipular of living military writer«, will
more. The old saying, “Banish the Contribute a number of pap'r* de
dog from bis kennel and you have a scribing in clear and vivid style some
wolf,” was illustrated in this ease. In of the leading battles of the civil war.
the course of five or six months the They will he panoramic description*
country people for fifty miles around of single content* or short campaigns,
were spinning marvelous yarns about presenting a sort of.literary picture gal
"them wild dogs from Atlanta.”
lery of the grand and heroic oontent*
The dog belongs to the genua which in which the parents of many a l>oy
firoduce* the wolf, the jackal, and the and girl of to-day took part.
ox. Tame dogs of course lose many of
The Serial stories include “Juan
the characteristics of these animals,
and
Juanita," an admirably written
but when persecution aud misery cause
them to relapse into a wild state they story of Mexican life, by Francis
take the appearance, the habit* and Courtney Baylor, author of "On Both
the tastes of wolves and jackals. Such Side*also, “Jenny’s Boarding-
was notoriously the fact with the Atlan House," by James Otis, a story of life
ta dog*. They lost every trace of domes in a great city.
ticity. 1 hey grew to enormous size,
Short Articles, instructive and en
with savage eyes and cruel-looking tertaining, will abound. Among these
fangs.
are: "How a Great Panorama ia
Occasionally a gang ot these ferocious Made," by Theodore R. Davis, with
beasts would swoop down on a farm profuse illustration«; "Winning a
yard, devouring chickens and pigs, and commission," (Naval Academy), and
attacking men when they stood in their “Recollections of the Naval Acade
way. It took the liveliest kind of shoot
ing to drive them off. Sometimes they my;'’ "Boring for Oil" and “Among
would surround a lonely cabin and wait the Gas-wells," with a number of strik
for the inmates to come out They ing pictures; “Child-sketches from
even made raids into little villages, George Eliot,” by Julia Magruder;
forcing the inhabitants to shut them "Victor Hugo's Tales to his Grand
selves up in their houses. The disap children," recounted by Brander Mat
pearance of many a negro in those thew* ; "Historic Girls,” by E. 8.
perilous times was fwlly accounted for Brook*. Also interesting contribu
when his skeleton was found witii every tions from Nora Perry, Harriet Pres
particle of flesh gnawed off and with cott Spofford, Joaquin Miller, H. IL
the ground around showing evidence* Boysen, Washington Gladden, Alice
of a desperate struggle.
Wellington Rollins, J. T. Trowbridge,
Early in 1865, when a few refugee* Lieutenant Frederick Hchwatka, Noah
began returning to Atlanta, they had to
struggle with these wild dogs for the Brooks, Grace Denio Litchfield, Rose
possession of the ruins. Bloody en Hawthorne Lathrop, Mrs. H. M. Piatt,
counters occurred among the ash hea|>* Mary Mapes Dodge, and many other*,
and piles of debris. Every cellar and etc., etc.
The subscription price of 8t. Nicho
hole in the ground held these raven
ous brutes, and they leaped upon men, las is 93.00 a year ; 25 cent* a number.
wom«*i and children without the slight Subsciptions are received by b«x>k*el-
est provocation. At that time it wa* lers and newsdealers everywhere, or
dangerous to ride or drive out in the by the publishers. New volume begin*
country. On the main road between with the November number. Send
here and Decatur, in broad daylight, for our beautifully illustrated cata
dogs were known to attack horses at logue (free) containing full prospectus,
tached to buggies, forcing their driver* etc.
T he C’ bnthry Co. New York.
to open a hot fusilad* with their revol
vers.
R. G. Head, whose signature as
After getting this taste of a wild life
president
of the International Range
the Atlanta dog* went to the bad alto-
Ether. They never reformed. A to association of America, demands jus
illess warfare was waged upon them tice at the hand« of the president of
from Stone mountain to Kenesaw, and the United Htates and an act of con
one by one they bit the dust until they gress to suppress the rebate system of
were all wiped out. The reader at a shipping cattle and to check pleuro
distance must not jump to th* conclu pneumonia. formerly stock type as a
sion that this indiscriminate slaughter printer in Corvallis. Boh has made
has caused any unusual scarcity of dog* the riffle, and rounds up a handsome
in this region. Thank* to the univer pile. His present sddre«« ia Denver,
sal human weakness for pet*, we ar* Colorado. In his letter to President
abundantly supplied with bench-legged Cleveland he say« : MI am empowered
tices, terrier*, pug*. Newfoundlanders,
mastiffs, and bulla If some unexpected by the live stock men of the plains,
calamity should cause them all to go who have more than fiffOO,000,1)00 In
wild, after the fashion of tkeir predeces vested in cattle alone, to respectfullv
sors, they wopld be an uncommonly invite ;h« attention of your excel
tough crowd to deal with.—Allan«» lency to the imminent danger threat
ening our herds by the existence of
ConsiituUon.
contagious bovine disease«, which, if
There ie only one job printing of once introduced to th* open rang*«
fice in the county.—D. C. Ireland A of the west, will sweep our entire in
terests from the earth.
Co.