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»•. n'Miivi is ..km a great cowaru. i
dr w the trembling and terrified girl
nto the lions- h.» following with a
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storm »f
ths m l threatening*. At
.ast I tori'. >ly sii .. '.he door up n him,
McMinnVille, ()r - '- Feb. 14. 1SS7 an * b->|te«| h tn • if. Whether this in­
dignity was to.» m teh for t -* valorous
soldier, or win tu a' he felt s re t u.t all
ehmce was over. I know <»t; but when
I >.»ked »’it ten min ,te.s after th •ion.-;
w is clear. I took my erring, wr : d.
yet st !! more wronged '.han .-..-.ar
eld’d nto my Itosorn, and thanked
i i- avi‘!i she w as saved.
1 e .>xt ’iinning Mr. Slither «nd ar­
AN OLD GOVERNESS’S TALE—
rived.
Arter Chis n -Jit's events I have lit t ie
FO'NDED ON FACT.
to a ,. or rath» r 1 prefer to s;iy but
;. •,«»:’ vl
1 s • I during the remain
der of tl a; -.iiiim. t . M e a traveled
to Eng
i together. going round by
RY MISs MUI OCK.
Y uk-iine ,n order to leave Mr. Lo-
laughters .it Ill ’ll' IWII hotD’*.
" leil me.'iny cniiu, the plain trutn,
as you always do—where were you go­ r.i s u is Mr. Sultiei'l.u I’s kind plan,
• g.r!s ;nig!.‘ :»•• <eptin ig­
th "
ing?"
ni 1 e.sp •<•-
. tie ilfl
She stammered out: “I was going : »F U'.
>!
■ : itimr's iil->te eds. A liât
to—to Belfast—to be married.”
• » ted 1 know not; they wei e
“Married to your cousin?”
..» 1 'li it it was th rt desire <>i'
She hung her head and murmured:
/ . : i s g •.:• 1 ■<'! tv» take her md her;
‘Yes."
na w t |i ■
At this frank confession the bride- . so v-’ p > ired
Halifax ami 1 neve:
froom interposed. He perhaps was all siw my u'’tie ar.
family
again. I ha« I no
he braver for rede ting that he had
only women to deal with. He leaped ■i.-iupl.’s diout tir.s quit.ng them, is i
from Nt.
■ '. 'hat 1'
in at the ohamber-window, and angrily
had
been
engi.i
s<»!-»lv
is
governess
asked me by what right 1 interfered.
“I will tell you,” said I, “if you have to his w ild, an I t n q) bil himself
enough gentlemanly feeling to leave my paid my salaty in ulvm .a: the whole
apartment, and will speak with me in of which, in some way or other had
been Intercepted by Mr. Le Poer. The
the open air.”
He retreated, I bolted the window, money of cour.s« was gon«*; but he had
written to me with each remittance,
and still keeping a firm hold on the and
I had lost, his letters. That
trembling girl, met him outside the was thus
hard!
front door. It ceitainly was the oddest
I also foitutl out. with gt ■ it joy and
place for such a scene; but I did not comfort,
that my Zillah was truly Zil­
wish to admit him inside the house.
lah Lc Poer—her father's legitimate
“Now, Mjss Pryor,” said he impera­ daughter
and heiress. All I h id been
tively, but still politely—a Lel’oer could led to believe
was a cruel and wicked
not be otherwise—“will you be so kind lie. The whole
history of her father
as to relinquish th it young lady, who
mother w is one of these family
has confided herselt to my are. and In­ and
tragedies, only too frequent, which,the
tends honoring me with her hand?”
in them being dead, are best for­
“Is that true, Zillah? Do you love actors
I shall not revive the tale.
this man, and vottntarily intend to gotten.
Ih
'ate
autumn Mr. Sutherland sailed
marry him?”
for
India.
Before he quitted England
“Yes, if you will let me, Miss Pryor,
he made me sole guardian in his stead
lie told me you would be so pleased. over
Zillah Le Poer. assigning for her a
He promises always to be kind to me,
and never let me work. Please don’t handsome maintenance. He said he
we should ill live happily togeth­
be angry with me, dear Miss Pryor! hojted
er
—
she,
my mother amt 1—until he
Oh. do let me marry my cousin!”
came
back.
He spent a short time with
“Listen to me a few minutes, Zillah,”
Baid I, “aad you shall choose.” And us ill at his country seat—a time
which, ’ookihg back upon, seems in its
then I told her in as few words as I eight
days like eight separate years.
could, what her position was—how that
I ought t<» speak of Zil!ah, the un­
it had been concealed from her that stw
center of so many convolving
was an huress, and how by marrying moved
fates.
She remained still and silent as
her. her cousin Augustus would tie
master over all her wealth. So un­ ever—dull, grieved, humiliated. I told
worldly was she. that I think the girl her gradually and gently the whole
herself hardly mid rstood me; but the truth, and explained from how much
she had been saved. She seemed grate­
lieutenant was furious.
“Lt is all a lie—an infamous cheat!” ful and [»enitent; it was clear that her
he cried. “Don't believe it, Zillah! heart had never been touched by love;
Don’t l»e frightened, little fool! I she was yet a mere child. The only
promised to marry you, and, by Heav­ evidence of womanly shame she gave
was in keeping entirely out of her
en! marry you I will!"
"Lieutenant Lb .Poer,” said 1 very guardian’s way ; nor did betake much
quietly, “that may not be quite so easy notice of her except in reproaching him-
as you think. However, I do not pre­ Betf to me with being neglectful of his
vent you, as indeed I have no right; I charge; but he had so thoroughly trust­
only ask my dear child Zillah here to ed in the girl's uncle as being her l>est
grant me one favor, as for the sake of protector.
The only remark he ever made on Zil­
mv love to her”—(here Zillah sobbed)—
“Ï doubt not she will; namely, that she lah’s personal self was that she hud
should do as every oth'-r young woman beautiful eyes, adding, with a half sigh,
of common sense and .elicuey would “that he liked dark Oriental eyes.”
do. and wait until to-morrow, to ask One day his mother told me something
the consent of one who will thou prob­ which explained this. She said he had
ably be here, if he is not already ar­ been engaged to a young lady in India,
rived—her guardian. Mr. Andrew Suth­ who on the eve of their marriage had
died, lie had never cared much for
erland.”
Lieutenant Augustus burst out with woman’s society since, and his mother
an oath, probably very mild in the thought would probably never marry.
mess-room, but very shocking here to After his departure 1 learned the whole
two w omen's ears. Zillah crept farther Story. My heart bled over every pang
he had suffered; he was so good and
from him* and nearer to me.
noble
a man. And when I knew about
“I’ll not tie cheated so!” stormed he.
“Come, child, you’ll trust your cousin? his indifference to all women, I felt the
You’ll come away to-night?” -and he more grateful for the trust he showed
tried to lift her oti the car, which had in me. by making me Zillah’s guard­
approactied—the Irish driver evidently ian in his absence, and wishing me to
write to him regularly of her welfare.
much enjoying the scene.
“No. pousin, not to-n ght,” said the The last words l»e said were asking me
girl, resisting. *‘I’d rather wait iuid to go and see his mother often; and
have Miss Pryor with me, and proper then he hade (rod bios mu. mid called
bridemaids, and a wedd ng-di ess, and me “his dear friend.” II • was very
always!
all that—that is. if I marry you at all, kind
We had a quiet winter, for my health
which 1 wont unless Miss Pryor thinks
you will I m * kind to me. sb good-bye was not good—I being often deiieste in
winter limo. My motini and Zillah
till to-morrow, cousin.”
He was so enraged by this time that took care of me, and I was vt ry grate
he tried forcibly to drag her on the ar lui for their love. I got w 11 at last as
springtime advanced. and went on
But I wound my arms round iny dear the
in mv old wav».
child's waist and shrieked for help.
There are sometimes long pauseV/m.
“Faith, sir.” said the sturdy Irish­
’s life—deep rests or sleeps of years
man. interfering, half in am seme.nt, one
in which bioiil I i alter month and season
half in indignation, “ye’d bettlmr lave after
float on each the same:
thq w«>iuyi* alpue. I d rutfiey npt med­ during season,
which the soul lies either ouiet
dle with ."tn abduction.'’
torpid, as may l»e. Thus, without
So Zillah w as set free from the Heu- | or
any
trouble, joy or change, we lived for
tenqnt'a gust». for. as I said before, a several
vears—mv mother. Zdlalu-Ix>-
THE HALF-CASTE.
Fottr and I. (flie' nlorun'ig T Tdffud,
If you want your piles cured
with a curious surprise, but without and are willing to pay for it,
any of the horror which most women
are auppoMd to feel at that fact, that I call at the office of Dr. Johnson,
was thirty years old!
We discovered by the same reckoning t on (’ street. I am not working
that Zillah waa just nineteen. 1 re­ for fun, or for glory, but for
member she put her lang.ung face be­ money, No charge for consul -
side mine in the glass. There was a
great difference truly. I do not mean tation. 1. C. 'I'aylor, M D.
the difference tn her from me, for I >
never compared that, but in her former I ;
N’EW TO-DAY
self. She had grown up into a woman,
and, as that glass told me. uid my own
JOHN J. SAX,
eyes told me, a very str king woman
t<»o. 1 was little of a jud re in lieauty I i
Has his
myself; still I knew well that every­
body wr« met thought her handsome,
l.ikew is , she had grown up Iteautiful
in mind ¡is well as m body. I was very
proud of my dear child.
1 well remember this day, when she
was nineteen ami 1 thirty. I remem-1
-AND—
ber it, 1 say, because our kind friend in
India had iemembered it likewise, and Will chop Feed for $2 per ton
sent us each a maguilicent shawl; tar
or one-tenth toll.
too magnitkent it was for a little body
like me. bul it became Zillah splendid­
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ly. She tucked me under her arm as if
Farmers and others having grain to chop
Iliad been a little girl, and walked me can come to my mill, and attend to any
up and down the room; for she was of a bnsineas in the city to (»ettvradvantage than
cheerful, gay teni|*r now -just the one driving two miles out of town to get their
JOHN J. SAX.
to make an old heart young again, to chopping done.
McMinnville, Or.
flash upon a worn spirit with the I
brightness of its own long-past morn­
ing
I re«’olleet thinking thus at the time
—1 wish I had thought so oftener! But
it matters little; 1 only chronicle this
day, as being th« first when Zillah un­
consciously put herself on a level with
McMinnville. Oregon.
me, becoming thenceforward i woman,
F. Multner, Prop.
ami my equal—no longer a mere pet
and a child.
I.ate of the <t. Charles.)
About this time—1 may as well just
This Hotel has just been refitted and new­
state the fact to comfort other maidens
of thirty years’ standing 1 received an ly refurnished throughout, nnd will be kept
otter of marriage, the first I had ever in a first class style.
had. He who asked me was a gentle­ The table is supplied with ail the market
s, and gm sts oan rely upon good oleau
man of my own age, an old acquaint­ ' affor,
and comfortable rooms.
ance, though never a very intimate tM'ds,
Special accomodations for commercial
friend. I examined myself well, with ■ traveler*.
great humility and regret, for he was
an excellent man; but 1 found I could
SEVENTH ANNUAL
not marry him. It was very strange
that he should ask me, 1 thought. My
mother, proud ami pleased—hrst, be­
cause 1 had the honor of a proposal; j
secondly, that it was refused, and she
kept her cliild still would have it that
t he circumstance was not strange at all.
She said many women were handsomer
and more attractive at thirty than they
had ever been in their lives. Mv poor,
fond, deluded and deluding mother, in
whose sight even I wiis fair! That
night I was foolieh enough to look long
into the glass, at my quiet little face,
ami my pale, gray-blue eye* -not dark
—OF THE—
like Zillah’s foolish enough to count
narrowly the white threads that were
coming one by one into my hair. This
trouble—I mean the offer of marriage
—I did not quite get over for many
weeks, even months.
The following year of my life there
befell me a great pang. Of this, a grief
never to be forgotten, a loss never to
be restored—I cannot even now say
more than is implied in three words—
my mother iliedl After that Zillah and
I lived together alone for twelve II
months or more.
There are some scenes in our life
LIST OF PRIZES.
landscai»e scenes I mean -that we re­
member very clearly; one strikes me
There will be prizes given on the following
now. A quiet, soft Mayday; the hedg­ utimed exhibits:
1st and 2d prize for best and 2d beat ex­
es jiust in their first green, the horse­
chestnuts white with flowers; the long, hibit of Kensington painting.
1st and 2d prize, for best and 2d beat ex­
silent country lanes swept through by a
of Kensington embroidery.
traveling carriage, in wliich two wom­ hibit
1st
and
2d prize, for best ami 2d beat ex­
en, equally silent, sat Zillah Le IV»er hibit <>f outline
work by a child under ¡4
and I.
years of age.
It was the month liefore her coming
1st and 2d best, for Lest nnd 2d teat ex­
of age, ami she was going to meet her hibit of work of any kind by a boy under U
guardian, who had just returned from years of age.
India.
1st and 2d prize, for best and 2d liest ex­
Mrs. Sutherland had received a letter hibit of ornyon work.
There will also be a prize given for the
from Soiitliampton, and immediately
sent for us into the country to meet her heaviest, lightest and prettiest baby under 1
u»n. her “beloved Andrew.” 1 merely year of age.
Following is a lint of prize* offered: For the
lejieat the words as I rciuiunber Zillah’s
I g, while she laughed at the ugly prettiest baby, gold necklace; lightest and
heaviest baby cm er one year of ape, each a
name. 1 never thought it ugly.
ring; outline work by a , hild under
When we had really started, however. gold
years, first urize, ear rings, second
Zillah ceatwal laughing, and became fourteen
prize, strap Look; Kensington «mbroidery,
r ive, probablv at the recollect ion of first prise, napkin ring, second prize, box
that humiliating circumstance which writing paper; ktnsington pa riting, first
hrst brought her ae<|uainted with her prize, manicure set, second prizt- bracket;
guardian. But despit ■ this ill-omened crayon work, first prize, papi r holder,sect nd
hegiuiiing, her voutli had blossomed in­ prize, pitcher; boy s work, first prize, paper
to grej.t p 1 icci n. \s sue sat there holder, second prize, inkstand.
Ijefore me. iair hi p”rs»»n, well cnltui <1 PitrHde «»I l'iretn«*ii T iu - m I b } h I-
in mind, amt pure an I virgin in heart—
tern«*«»n.
.or 1 ii:ul so kept, her out <»f harm’s way
hat, ihough uc.jly twenty-one, I knew Doors will be «»pen hi 7 o'clock,
sl;e hhd fiever been “in love” with any
p. in. «I h II j , «luring ||i<>
iian -as she sat thus, I felt proud and
I'alr.
glad in her, feeling sure that .Mr. Suth­
—All an- invited to Attend—
erland would say I had well fulfilled the
chanre he gave
Admission 25 Cents.
Feed. Chopping Mill
In Running Order,
The Central Hotel,
„
Dining Station of the 0. C. R. R
FIREMAN'S FAIR
Garrison Opera House,
To be Continued.
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