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Tlie profe«*or gpraYely raised hte hat, and prewmtly Mr. Morten, with a b o q W W browr tind answers, in hw l(And, Htepped our from one ofj no, I love, dear Ferdie:

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•*»•• aaautai * ' I * \ %Hllli*lal 1W#l| lna*-|W <4 4u*1% IMfreJr, VtalkUk,

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HEAD C A B E F U L L Y ! * II

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EiciMor' Cratittoi Powders M^braUd ftoiflera m the moat Mlanfe

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Wedding Invitadons,

AN^OimCBMENT CARl'ia.

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Wedding Stationery' Wo at* tfmraforo, fully prtfpaml U> aupply I ha

wanla of our otntoiiiara, In tpa moat ap nrovad atyla. Wa guarantao to , fumlah aa finm A UKT or .

Waooiaa HtvtTA* * <* tioaa oa AmioOTK'AifAjtt ./

faaoa ai vtm bo prooutwd al any $0y othor pHnttng aaUbllnhibant In North*

am Now York, ami al Ik* lowaat |ioaalbk9 prtcoa.

dna tint* 1 mad d* (H4l«m «*rr>p waa K lnt* tt>r turn j oui |(oV An41 looikt at my ffi'-akar pat U ativ wimht I UjU

aoAiaiiio'; , aV^afnf kaT Bruddor ZatwU^Vi an* boiigbtttp'

hinfuobaam ; j . Aft* I nolo H fat dr wlntvr/ an* ynn biit I niata a

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tfttllapou Hoaao*l ifUfgltilu*proud,an*Uto'tHe\l aoi ma low,

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I foiio' out UWAJI a f**biin afi* a ftwitlsli kin* # o'Dlay, ,

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JEWELER!

Knives, forks, Spoons, Ac. • t t/KiCii, AiXNTYtni \NI» rat(.m/ \

If ymt watit a iroud^rallabWiwaloli unit Ami <*# tha

CINUINK AMERICAN '' Thait1! am n+iun* ft»* | 1 0 .

% . *. *""'' # Napalrtiur1 In all Ita bram*noii. itona promptly

and at raaaonalita prkwa. Call and aa tna Haat Hawing Mnoliina In tna Markat, maa f W a r * and kiu^kwanl ami atwa Jttat tin* nam** If Am want a maohlna bo'aia/a an<l aaa tba

ROYAL 8t. JONN t Bafoiv btiyht* alaawttfra. Hathambar tba plaoa

Rferl'a Work* OoiiYemeiir* N, Y.

PIANOS J OSCANS I *

fTTlR HEAfiON WHY > ' •

W. f. irtina, | i aatttat IManoaVnd' Organa lowar Ikan any olnor daaJar la not only that ha buy« laaaa for oaak bat thai ha liaa no afanla, nor mnd man* to pay out of Ilia low \vr\e* ua praif.

TITK RKArSON WHY

f i r aatla bettor matrumaiita than moat other dual* arat la that ho la hltitaalf oompatant to taat thant In atart raapaot, whlla nlna tantha of UM daalara araaffarly i*€Qmp*t+pt to tali a good limtniniont from an inferior ona, 4

TFtR RKASON WHY ' ; • . " > ' , . : • • . ' .

Tt» efffana ha aatla AM ttiparlor to atul .trnUka all other*, |A baoauaa thay ara mndt to his wd*r and dincHon hjf fAa ht§^makft in fA# trorM*

• E. P. Carpenter, Worcester, Mass. . • •• *

fla aaia ttw H a a r y r . Mtlfep, W o W r f Mai • t l tar FtAfioa, a^l kaapa on hand all klada of Moafeab MaaraairotAi, from a Jawabarp to a fraud pkao, worth 11.400, and aalla both oraaaa and plaaoA, when daairad. on monthly laatall-maota, or rantl thorn until the rant pay* for thorn, and cuat^mantwUI rradlly paroolva

tHRRRA«ON WHY • i

nwmpaythotntowrltafo#pHcaaciraaJt bafora ptuvhaaftna alaawhara^

iJ^TWT AND WOT FOR CTTtrfeCH CHOllOl ANTHKM (1KMM-VOU. I AND II, v

TATXNT AND M&IT KOR PIANO VVVTIM NATIONAL RCIIOOL FOR PtANO.

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MNI r i i « « Y m v jMldtttt' Afparafiav Twa Warn Old.

E ( ubbaffa rUnta ^ L t t m l Mnda, CNiut

iflowara, Oeh#y» and Tomato. Plai»J#of \m l»eat rarietifa

< ut FlmfMH matft up or hv quantity.

Wo ate ptaparad tdlfunuah Doalfna of ana «iu»|u>aaUa4|aiaaato4U<ntatoiiutra. laakelaoi dl kawki ooaataaUy a i hand and mada ap to oath*, Qradaaimff ekjLav win ^ndttt to their In. < araj to aaaaaR oar pa|Mt and atyly of kaakata

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W.FtSUDDSrM^BIC STORE # OOUVIRNBURV!? Y. - '

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fine Job Printing , A T L O W H A T M . I

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AtTER'I'ION.

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To which wo am oontlnuaily adding, aa fail ai fawaluoad by tho typa founilrlaa of Iho country,

. K v a r y t t l a a Flow a a 4 N o a h y l a t l i a ^ ^ • • • • • M l * Art» *

Wa art propaVad to awouta ail ordan rapMly, aad fuaraatoa aatlafaotioa.'

A ttaa atoek of rutod aad Flat Papara, tkval* opaa,RawM,Oold Idgod, teboaaod aad flala C*Jda.Ao>,aJajAJfio«hAod*

at. 6 . > A » a t m i f €a«Tor«o«r 9 ft*%%

ftt)o daman* la atip*n wonVrful. an* all da1 buttaaf

bowartt • 6fy wt{3 bor obmtgar, co*n© II ba aa full m

j Ruuflowara. I port o* ohuoklo tar myaaf-'Dem yailar old

i alUl•flowora^,

An' 1 'rnanead d-dl|<a(ii4 purty paart afo% a many * hotva, , ^*

Dat aprwf— taa* aprlnf—my tardon waa a funny , alahttaraaa: g f

1 pkiitad nary tatar, nary cabbage nary paa» Wan* fla tlma waa coma far totln' wagtabla* hitor

town. All do noabora kap* a axl»\ uWatcV» inatt^r,

Rrothar Bixiwnl"

lnot^aaawaYa4lhoth1n\on*yn<Klkniy hoad, an-, amlla

At do way TMO a#ma tar %«ionlah d*»ni old tilggofit nrtor whlla* •

W*an day aaadapaoplaoomlu\an* apuUIn' monay

Wr tor buy <letn ola mmdowar* day bin al) a-larfln*

Da auitfloVara coma up InhJJr, an* day waa a pow'< fill k)t,

'Caaa 1 ao'd do atad on ibary bit o* p/ardan 1 l»fot; Da yailar hoada waa op*nin*, an* day lodkt oncoin*

mou nlca, WVn I tho't about dalfa#«hun, an* 1 riJkprlato4a

* ***** \ ' 1 -Wall, I waltad, an* t walUnl, an* <ta pinipla tiabar

» coma, . . . ." t \ An* 1 toll you what, my hradraii, I woradlaarplntad

aoma.: Do aanfkiwara opana<l wklar, afi* da m**d bairun.to

rtrap, . ^ • • . Han I tho't parhapa- da la*ll©M hodn* hoard about

* my crap. ' .

present* fi*om mp,M Ferdie in ( reat agitation; ^

••Oil/* ^xclaiiiuxl Blanche holding the ffift* in rather a (fiiiga>Hiy way ! the long windows pinched kin dnugh-ln'twetMi Iter Hri|rer and thumb* "what tern ml eiieokKf made tfii old gentle-a gvtiernttM lx»yl I must findr~*' here maua gallant bow to Blanche, tlieu *ilic HUM>]MHI to the level of hiV shyly said. *'An>riifi, hew'ii miinethinfr about a verted cyea—^that nice plat^ on liin the tertiary fommttona I Vi»lt. you'd forehead whew* there are no frwklei,.; look over.'* t* *; * IL and ifive him u little kiitv'- • A Profeitsor AngUi wntk the book, nxid

At the wottL up went Ferdie's elbow just then ntme davthing up the drive a acroMfthh face, 4*No-t>r he' MlrinitefUj sparkling pair of l»yv and a trap. >Tl»e and shot out of the houae, \ ; '' | gentleman driving, on whoni ilie Pro-

A young man may obaerve the star j fesaor fixed for a moment hin quiet,un* of his existence' through eitU'kji* and:l observant gaw» waaj|^ll,handi(omefel-arotuid <*orneyit, tuid yet find the full. j_ blaae of her nearer glon* aomethiug of '

first thne ttl^t #day her lovely unWrtnk ' I

An An1

11 tuk a markii Uwklt, an I uat it* I fullod It up an' pJlia', ai» 1

da rtowara down, totad it tor town,

I Ink afn tar da houaaa, an* I *aaiidad an1 T * triad, . - . • ' • Aa* not a aoul 'ud ouy 'aoi. an* tley tarf^d ontw^tl

<b*y wriad.

Wtu.I tola %«m how d^ papar aakl da fAahun far rtayaar ' 1

Waa Arawlna tor mak annfiow« tw IWAM* aall Vm . 'mighty daar, # ^

Da Indian larfad a c'ln, .an* taM, "A irinoina oaf-

Buvlahtikmy head moa* nollum, an* 1 aald, **A % • raa'larrft'at!"

Da "/a#r* tlon*t maka noaanaa nohow, hut sho'ai •Wa* la affirm,

A bkofar oat dan t la nabar atood uf oh hia laAWi Far tlo faahun waa far pletar flowers, an' my oia

yallartraah, ^ I don* kaor wbar t aarM 'am. wonldn* fatHi aijrnt

o' OAah. ' • .* , - • * . • •

At laa* 1 foun* a lady what *iat buy a quart o*na*u\ An* aha aaid day wa« |iartlcklar good far duck an*

ohk**ufo*l; Ro I aolo my trap out datway, an* d^ neaboiw how

doylarf • 9 . W*on my auntmar wtik' It Totcb bia; In n daltoran*

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Rut Fm dona wld.wldkatlon, far It turnn you but afool, a ) 9 V

An* 1 tuk Maria Jan* au* 8ar> Ami away from akool,

Alt' wan you katvlt maraadln' ob da tNoem any mo*, / , t

Of a foUarin' ob da faahun, you kin call uio ***** \ fta/^iho*.

,"' : ,BJLN : ar ' . A ROMANO* OF TH« S'OUIITM. /

Ho lov ed her—devotedly, mad)y. tt©.watched her ever)- look, hung upon her every word, dogged her footsteps. He had momenta of delirious Joy, and

His name waa name was

hours of black despair. Ferdinand Morton. He Blanche Lavinc. 8he wits his sister Jenny'* dearest friend, add she tame every summer to pay a long visit at tha Morton country seat He1 fully ex­pected to marry her on some future happy day, and meanwhile his expres­sive glances, his delicate attentions, his Aery Jealousy, should have made the whole desperate ease plain to her. without the emhairasament fend' insuf­ficiency of words, Not that Blanche was cruel or unapproachable. She waa\ on the contrary, most gfcntle;-playful, aad affectionate toward, her adorer, but—he was just nine years old, and aha Was twenty-three.

A year before, Blanche had Inadrer-te*«y called him a "small boy";but this year* this summer, which was to* see his love affair brought to its start­ling crisis, sty remarked*- on her ar­rival: "Whyf Ferdie dear, how you've grown! You're almost a .man." ..

After dwelling fot several weelcs Upon this open encouragement, Ferdi-naad, on the Fou/th of July, the glo­rious day of his own country's freedom, attempted to achieve his own emanci­pation from the baahful habit of ador­ing through cracks of doors and taking fond but brief observations around the corner of the plana. He resolved to offer boldly a gage iCamour. Blanche had just come down, as was her royal habit, very late to breakfast With her golden head and in her sweeping white draperies, she looked like a prin­cess out of a picture-book. .

"Oh, lTerdie," screamed,Jenny, who waa embracing her friend's slender waist, "you are all smudge, and you smell of powder! Do go 'way.f*;

"Wont" and a grimace was- tin* proper fc^id brotherly reply, and at the same time he/orced into Miss Lavine's hand two smaJl articles.

"What ara they?" asfced that divin­ity, smiling down upon him from the heights of her tall blonde beauty.

"Bunch o* firecrackers an' a piece o'

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a nervous shock. ...} ! v Tlie two girls, lahghing, went to die

breakfast table kept stauding so late for their tartly higlmoaMCsV and began eating stmwb)eiTik»i with their fingem byway of apj^ttsser.. Ferdie in hw headlong esc*ape jva« brought upjahprt, just^utside'on the piozxat by coming in contact with a slender, piile, scholar­ly-looking gentleiaan who waa quietly pacing up and dow'n there. .

"HallfK)! my boy," said the gentle­man, setting up the small human cata­pult that had sprung and oyertoppled directly against hisdiaphmmr'Halloo! what's the matter/' ,,

"Notliin," answered Fei*diej with 'the pardonahfc mendacity of a loYerf and in that choice American language used among small boys. "Nothin*: I'm only goin'ter fix lip my fire-works." Yet he lingered about, and a thought­ful shade crossing the intellectual and unfreckled portion of his face, wound himself around a piazza pillar, an<l at last opened conversation in this Way:

"Say, Professor Angus." "Well, Ferdie?" The 4uiet mitn re

plied. * ' "8ay, I like you: and I was' awful

glad when you canrje last night." "Thtfnk you." ."••'. "You come to see father every smji-

mer, don't youfV • / .' " Y e s . " . • • . " • • •[ • " : • • . •

"And you just come to talk about books and lots of other dry old things, don't y o u r .

"Ofcourue.'4 • ' ! ".' ;• A" "that's the reaaon 1 like you^ And ^ou1!^ gettin' bald, ain't you?" This with that cheerful interest withr which children remark misfortunes. . 'It's a sad fact, but undeniable," said the Professor, ruefully feeling the top of his head. V

"Well, yott're'a brick* anyway., There's that Mr. Ous Clair—he own* the big house, over therfc" (Professor Angils followed the line of Ferdie^s pointing finger to some ElUabatharr chimney-topa not far off)-r "that Mr. Gus Clair he don't come to see father t"

"No? Doaenl he caintere?" _ "LotSr~«very daj% "most." . . ] *

• **Oh! Then does lie come to see your • ". , ;; / t .••••».

"Me?" with the greatest indigimtion. "I be t I don't want to see him* Ho\ he comes ter see Miss Blanche." ,

"W^ll, that shows he haa very good taste, dpaen't it?" said Professor J^n-gus, stopping hi his walk just before t]ie pillar around which Master Ferdie had twisted his knictkerbockered legs in quite an iniricalefiashion*

"I hate him, 1 do," and wicked, tragic little face came around the pillar with the last; successful ttriat. r ; '*•• -.,v . ;j;,.. . . . .

. -rWhyrv •.-; •••* • ?r *!-: •: "'Cause -he comes ter see Miss

Blanche, and he's tryin, tier make love to her. I know.". . ,t j # •

The Professor scanned small Feitlie sharply for a moment, seemed to form a conclusion, and trying to control a quiver of amusement about his lips," remarked, "So you're in love with her yourself, eh, Ferdie ?"

1 'How * did you know that P the young man exclaimed; with that affec­tation of gruffness we use to cover the most delicate feeling. Then softening to confidence as,he looked into the Professor's calm and pleasant face, he added; "I ain't tall enough ter marry her yet, but I'm growin'." ,-;,.'

**So you are, gi*owing finely; and yOu must look sharp and try to marry Iter by all means." Ferdie's little black eyes were keen, but this friendly ad­vice and sympathy were delivered with a gravity that disarmed suspicion. u8o," Angus went on, "Mr. Clair come here often?'' . *

"Yes; become^ wifti Jack Pinner. Jenny's goin' ter marry Jack Pinner. But Jenny's only my sister; I don't care who she marries, anyhow."

"Of course not." ; "Clair said ter Miss Blanche the

other night; T m octtnin over the Fourth of July, and you must gimme a few minutes alone. I've, something ter ask yer'. Then I jumped out from behind a rose-bush, 'where I was hidin', and lie sdjrs, 'Confound the boy!' and then he says, 1 hope the next time we meet will be the happiest hour of my life.' Bay Professor, Fm goin' ter fix himso's he can't say nothin' t# her all daylong." ;

"Bravo! Ferdinand, iPhen you must ask her to marry you; but don't let him speak first." T

"Bet I w o b V Say"-and Ferdie put the question with honest self dis­trust of a true lovfer-r-"do you think Miss Blanche likes me?" T*

"I'm sure she doea." ' 1 . Away went the p^irpfkfickerbockers down the garden walk in a dance off triumph and delight v .

Presently the two girls eiune loiter­ing out on the piazza, with* arms en­twined in the wonderful fashion that girls have, and making qtute a bewil­dering cloud of white muslin, fliating ribbons, straying locks, and flower-laden, coquettish hate. Discoverable out .of the pretty confusion was a little round rosy-cheeked face with bright blhck eyem and jet off by crisp ten­drils of dark hair that was Jenny s face. Six inches higher up was a vision of blonde loveliness—pearl white skin,

'great slow limpB gray eyes, all won­derfully removed and heavenly except for a certain ripe fullness about the lips; »,nd that was Blanche's face.

How of twenty-five; % man a trifle too stout perhaps for his years,, but ftiosi comely | a trifle tooloud, peahaps; but a young chap what drives *l*H o w n rtyie

horses and* has haj own £lizal>ethan mansion is readily pap^mod a little self-assertion, This,as Ferdie telegraphed to the ProfissOt* by means of an otttmge-ous contortion, was Mr. Gus Clair. With him was Jack Pinner, little Jack Pinner, the stock-brbjeer, free and 6aayt

expensively dressed, liberal, shrewd, successful, much liked and admired among "thf boys.M :"'•'• J

.tack jumped down, *hd w i t l i ^ dis­regard of elders that marks his caste, gave Mr. Morton a nod and a "How d'ye do?" and ftxed his round practi­cal eyes in open adoration upon his af­fianced Jpnuy. Jenny made*him a fascinating little pucker of the face that meant half defiance, half playful surrender, and clasping her plump hands over his arm, they )pent off wri­te the house, looking most unmistaka­bly engaged. Mr. Morton, impatient for a scientific discussion, drew the Professor into the library; and so Mr. Clair and Miss ^avitoe were left to­gether. Clair, after gazing critically first at the sky, then at ths toes of his boots, remarked, by way of introduc­tion to an important subject, "It's ft warm mojtaing." ' V ; ' -, Unluckily, as he spoke, he looked

down upon hef lovely blonde Jiead in an ardent way that conveyed subtly a notio/i of proprietorship. She moved off a little, as if he had touched her, plucked a rose, bit the edge of a leaf, and answered, slowly, "Yes, it is warm." p "*. \

Ther4 fell a silence. Clair plucked a rose too, and dashed its life out with one stroke against the railing. Pres-

waijfruiy, "'Oh he'aaA^reat ad­

mirer of mine." ."Hump! 1 "hope you're as pitiful to

all brutCH that admire you.- Miss La-vine." : j .

Again that guieloM look,and she aim* \vers: "Whyi I've great patience with any sort of f$ pjague. providetl' he— that is, prrfvided it—keejjH WMthin bounds.'* j i

Mr. Clair'scatiped her placid face, coughed,, frowned,'" laughed, lookwl very much puzzled arid walked, the rest of the way with acai*(ttl:regdrd to making a neat foot-print, as if an­nouncing that he had no morn peis plexing interest. .. . ..

The drawing iiiom and the piano were his next thought. The toi«nrirjg small l>oy would ceHainly find the •mler and debenej- of that appartment not to His liking. : . • • • t

t. "Would you kindly play for trie, Miss Lavinef"

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. Jack and Jenny came rushing to the scene. Mr. Morton was buried in the tertiary, or he would have ctrnie tdo. Mrs. Morton cried out from an upper window, "Oh, dmi't let the house get on tire!" : Then* was general conlTusion, aijdClai'r, trying to rememljer that his iaKflkvoi'ds were Mcalm* bright, and still,M. ill oitler to take up the topic at that point, stamped and threw water and jumped I savagely ujKin dangerous

; blazing hit?*, while, in the midst up ! comes Muster Ferdie, heel and, toe. his ! task accomplished, and saying: ^ ; j

'Oimme the dollar. I done it/' j , Savagely Clair clapped * dollar oh

his tot|gh young palm, demanding, • | "How did you manage toset off your

explosion at that distance, you young Nihilistf : . , • ' - ^

"Fusee," responded Ferdie, grfhning like a monkey. **Set a fusee." j ; :

Presently everbody went for a drive, btit there were four ii* each cArriage,so there could be no mote chance for ten­der passages until after dinner..( ,)

If any time belongs exclusively to the small boyf that time is Fourth-of* July evening. Every main is bound to

"Well, Jack, you know I was never refused, for i never reallv offered mv- j aelfV , . . - . . V *

Jack turned upon hi in the shtewd eye with which he \^ews the market, slapped him on the iia^k, and answered with a loud laugh: "Guess yqu didn't, old boy. Bang!" . . . . . . .

Ferdie soon fell in love with af very*} young lady who had a lisp and yellow curls, and at Blanches wedding he overate himself fearfully, and threw (the slipper after ihe bjride. with hia wildest leap and his loudest Hi! Hi!

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ently he asked, "Won't you take a stroll^ '-.• : / . ! . • :- «. o •-:' . ' "I dont mind/' said tilanchcj ^though I think We're well enough here." Listlessly she dropped one slim slippered foot after the other down the steps, and they entered a shaded walk. I ".Won't you take my arm!" was Clair's -next advance, and he tried hard to meet and read her eyes. , ->t

4Thank you, but I must hold up mydreas." v *

Clafr bit his* mustache, and relapsed into silence until they reached a sum-mer-houBe all covered with irrfeet-brier.

• Then he said; "sit here, and let me speak with you a. moment.*'^ I '

She turned a little pale, then lightly red, but answered, indifferently, "Oh

While she was arranging her dresa about her, brushing down a frill there,,

quiti a ftfti*1* WP a ribbon' liere, Clair waited restlessly; then, as she folded her hands, he threw himself beside her; his impetnons breath swayed the loose locks, of her hair, as he began: *Bianche, you are an angel. All these liappy weeks I've eeen longing to tell you how devotedly I h>V* ..*,'•

Bang! bang! bang! dame a hideous explosion close behind them from out the tangle of sweet-brier. :. i V

Blanche started up with % scream/ :\ "Who's that?" exclaimed Clair, rush-ihg out to find the cause of the distur­bance. "Oh, it's you, is it ?" he re­marked, with a growl, as he found Ferdinand; cheerfully and industrious­ly reloading a small, cannon., j -

"Yes," replied the imp; "I'm keepin' theFourtli/V , , -.-# j

'That brute of a child has stationed, himself here. -I^t us go to the river," Mr. Clair suggested to^Blanche.

She rose passively and walked by his side, keeping always a good space between them. It isn't, easy to .Say confidential and important things to a listener who edges off; so Clair made for the boat-house, selected the shady side, again seated his irresponsive com­panion, and again plunged into the whirlpool of his declaration. . : "Blanche, I've promised myself that to-day should seal, m y happiness for life. Let me tell you how fondly, how madly I lo—", . <

Bang! bang! "Hurrah! hi! h i r and the boat-house was quivering like a Russian palace from the force of the explosion. k

"Its that d—" Mr. Clair finished his phrase with "detestable imp," and sprang round' the corrter* of the build­ing.* Ferdie, rocking perilously in a small boat a few feet distant, nodded up at him a friendly way. The suitor, trying to recover something of the eager yet languishing expression pro­per to his position, returned to Blanche and recommencd: "It's* in your power to make me a very happy or a very desperate man. You are the loveliest woman in the world. Will yon be my

Crack! sputter! bang! and a smoke and smell of powder comes up from the boardajbeneaih their feet, - "Oh, well be on flte presently," Blanche cries out, with a nervous laugh. "Letusgo'V V

"Look her*, ajyoung* man," Tfati shouts to Ferdinand, "we've had quite enough of your ammunition.!'

JThreecheers for the Fourth! ffi! hi!" is Ferdie's enthusiastic reply. Then he scrambles up from the boat, opens a bunch of flnfrcrackera, and dancing before them; behind them, right and left of them, tt*ke» follow­ing the pathway- to the house like treading the o r d e a l ^ Are*

"Tliats the most \icious little brute I ever saw," says Mr. Clajr, between his clinched teeth. ';*;..* .\

Blanche turns up towsrf him for the < • • • ' • • • • • 1 ^ - " ' ' . • ' • •

siv4» were stoml, and every t h i n g s e e n i 4 h e , P . h i m ** c ^ w ^^ta and Roniap ed favorahle. Blanche chose to play the noisiest music, to be sure,and chose to watch the action of her liands in the most coiun ion place manner; still Clair twisted himself about, and bent over backward, until by a good deal

\^l discomfort he brought his face near­ly opposite tohefs.

"I seems," he began "as if I were never to have the chance to explain my­self, to declare to you that I. am Mis­erable forever unless you will be my

-"• '.. ! I .." ' : Crack! crack! crack 1 right under his

feet, aud crack! sounded all about the parlor floor.! • j *

'Torpedoes!'' exclaimed Clair; and* Blanche sprang up, quite scared, and looking after her light skirts.

A villainous hoot came from the. doorway where a little frecklefaced lin­gered a moment, then disappeared just in time to avoicl the descent of Mr. Clair's angry haud... f

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This episode was hardly over before Mrs. Morten carfie down stairs with her' headaclie# her talk about' neuralgia and dyspepsia, and physicians and their ihcajpocity. All of which Mr. Clair .listened to until the lunch hour.

At this time of general stir in the household, Ferdie found a moment alone with Professor Angus and jump­ing up and down lijke the imp in a bottle that chemists have, he said: "I've fixed him. I've followed 'ern up with crackeryahd my cannon all themorniuY Hf> ain't had a chance ter say nothin' to her. But say,Profes­sor, my powder's most out, and pa won't gimme any more money." ,

The Professor in his quietly benevo­lent way put jhis hand in his pocket, drew out aj handful of money, and gave it to Ferdinand without a word.

"Oh, thank yer!" screamed the de­lighted youngster, and made off to the neighboring village, whence, by the time lunch Svas oVer, he had returned with enough powder to explode a hun­dred trembling declarations. § . *

When^the whole party strolled' but again to the shady piazzas,* Angils et* plained tertiary formations to the ladies, and Clair whispered!to Pinner,

'Who's-that infernal bore, Jack?^ "He*s considered , clever," Jack

whispered, in return. /"All science;* never could understand him. Guess he's only a 'formation' himself. Been here two summers with Blanche, and she might be a megatheriuVi for all the gallantry he ever shows her." _ ; .

Clair answered by a contemptuous ex; pression, and occupied himself hi lay­ing a trap for the active and canny small boy. It was Ux> delicate a shat­ter to explain just how Ferdie liad been obnoxious, and HO secure parental in­terference. There seemed to lie noth­ing left but stratagem, and on that Mr. Clairdecided. .*# *

Toward mid-afternoon everybody grew rather inclined to y&Vn, and be­fore* the drive there Was V ^general scattering—Mr. .Morton and Angua> to the library* Mrs. Morton to her rosfh, Jenny and Jack to the river.side. An­other chance now for the declaration. A certain corner of the piazza was em­bowered in wistaria. Just the spot, provided the enem(' could be drawn o f f . ( • • • * . '

"Ferdie,w da ir began/with treacii-erous biandness, "I l>et you a dollar gold piece you can't walk down to that big oak-tree" (point ing across a wide open space and two meadows) "and back again in ten minutes/' '

"Bet I can!" # A - V "All rightr-try it:" and Clair had

ensconced hinself by Blanche's side on the shady seat. "Now then. One, two, three." j

In the most showy pedestrian style off went the chathpion, and Clair, with the great satisfaction of having his re­treating figure in sight, began a new sort of phrase to introduce the whrld-old subject i ^

"I've often thought,'' he said, "on a summer afternoon like this, how alone, how unhappy/ a man is without com­panionship." | \ l ' \ . • • f *

"Yes," replied,Blanche, with child­like, grave simplicity, "one is generally alono when there's nobody with him." . He looked at her but could see noth*'

ipg but ingenuousness, and went on; *The fact is, Miss Lavine- Blanche, I neeyl a wife; and in moments like this, when everything is calm, bright, and st i l l -" v [• >\ - ^ V

There was ah oni i nous grumble. Clair knew the sign, and held his breath. Then'came such a burst and crash and splinter, that Blanche, with a shriek, ran away, and Clair saw through the vines just outside of their retreat fl>> ing fragments < of . wood,/ sputtering crackers, nameless dangerous ifercels going off one by oue. In short, an old. barrel had been dlled with explosives, the thing had gone to splinters with one great throe, and now the scattered lighted fragments were l^ing about in j every direction. H f

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candles, and every woman to ejaculate^ her delight Ferdie forced U}K>niUlair all the biggest "{jieces"; Clair must stay but upon the lawn, Clair must be burned and smudged aud made odorous with powder smoke. Tired of so much honor, theiiViptftient lover escaped, and oif some sftallow pretense led Blanche to the end of the piazza. It was so dark that the group they had left, though nothing intervened, could not see them, and Clair, made desperate by so many unhappy experiments, boldly clasped Blanche about the waist, im­prisoned her cool white hands, and be-gttti: '- \ ' ' v . • ; j . .

"My love, my d«irest—" r She wrenched away from him, but

not before a-white fire from a belching, exploding'object held bv a little danc­ing fiend had lightened all the* scene. The eyes of every one were upon them. Blanche stood anart dishevelled and angry, then hurried to where Jenny* stood. Clair followed meekly, and Jack Pinner—brazen Jack Pinner, who never^ knew the meaning of delicacy himself—actually-drew him away and J remonstrated. i *

"Say, Gus, really' that's x going too f a r . " i" • ••

Clair muttered some bad Words, avoided the Professor's mildly observ­ant eye, was not even grateful for Mr, Morton's polite pretense that nothing amiss had. been noticed, but rushed down upon the lawn'again and gave himself up to Ferdinand; his tormen­tor. He stood in green light like a cofpse, in red light like a hero,- in changing yellow, 1)1 ue, and purple like some horrible fabled monster. He wa»\ singed; he smiled under fiery rains; hardly winced under a descending rocket stick; but no more did he attempt the vicinity of the beautiful Blanche, who looked out from a cloud of white lace as serene as ever, and to whom the changing lights brought wonderful arid lovely transfiguration. •

At last, disgusted, he called out, "Jack, it's time to go." - Mr. Morton made some civil protest, and rang for the groom ^ but Clair flung back a hasty "Good-night; I'm tpo smoky to be formal/' and strode off toward the stable**. Jack Pinner and Jenny stole away somewhere into space (nobody knows just what retreats lovers, find), Mrs. Morton %ielted into the house, and Ferdie looked out of the rain and sputter of a Catherinf-wjieel; master of the situation. t '': &jt, i

"Hi-o-o!hi-o-o?"he yelled, with art ear-piercing yodrf; then as he stamped put some few sparks and smouldering fragments, he announced to the ele­ments, **I bet I fixed him. , %Hi-o-o.

The young hero then executed a war dance up the steps of the deserted piazza, and in his gladness felt impelled to continue it. . So, with a hop and a leap and a victorious "whoop!" he rounded the comer, and came to the wistaria* shaded seat, now checkered with ligh^ from the just rising moon. > Here he stopped short, and asked, "Hello, Who's thatr for a strong hand had phfjcked his, career, and held him in a tight c lutch . • • • . > . '• t ;} • *

"Oh, it's ybu, Pmfesaor/'said Ferdie, as he recognized that the hand belonged to Angus- who was sitting in the flecks of moonshiue. * 4HH lo! who—"Ferdie went on; out he ffeot no further, for there, beside Angus, her heavenly face laid against his shoulder, his arm hord­ing her closeUnd flrili, was—pianche.

She laughed a little, and stammered, "What shall we d o r as Ferdie iftood with his begriihed little face all stony with surprise. Angus answered:

"The small chap has done us service today. Tell him." •'"

Blanche drew the suit of knicker­bockers close up against her white* dra* peries, and whispered, ^Pve just prom­ised to marry Professor Angus," and she put a gentle kiss on the round,

1 freckled cheek. * 1 Ferdinand raised one* howl—a roar

of misphWd confidence and unhappy love—then, with a prolonged boo-hoo, sank down at Blanche's feet, all on her pretty white dre*s» ancl sobbed out "I —j wantr-iwanted to—to marry you

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Poor li&le fellow, he's all tired out" said Blanche, and wrapped hyn up in her knitted* shawl; while he cried and cried awayJWlrst aloud, then more and j more quietly*, until ht; fell fast asleep.

After a while the two happy lovers piloted along between them ayvery limp and. worn-^uITsmall boy to his own

I room. 1%#re Angus Indued him off j with those fenickerboekers, while Fer-| die, between sleepy sobs,* ejaculated at j intervals (with all the feeling of a j Ci«*ar exclaiming. **Kt tu, Brute!';),

"I thought you was a brick, but you aintahrick." \

\t last he tu moled into bed, and was playing marbles or flying kites in the land of drAms within half a minute.

Clair remarked airily to Pinner, when they heard of the engagement:

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'Will BrodtW t>red ScOtt Kastiiigs jstep.dis way?" inquired the President after the votes s ere counted, v

Brother Scott stepped up with a grin Ion his face as if he expected to draw a (chromo, and the President continued; -

"Brudder Hastings, fo' weeks ago |you was tooken sick." • |*

"YeiLsah." • - -"You called in de doclpr, put a hot

brick to yer feet an' sent word topur relief committed to file your cluim for *#* per week." :. - \

"Dat cotmniUee reported favorably on your case, an' de money was sent y o u - ^ p e r week fur two week*. /Yefr illness w&s Said to be chills an' fever."

"Dat was it, salt/' , f

"Just so; but what brttng'emori? Brudder Hastings, I diskivered yester­day dat you got into a dispute wid a i nabur about the age of Moses when he died, W i a fight an' w u tfhodce^ into a ditch full of water, pat was what started yer chills an' IeVeiv".

"I—I-Yes, sah." ' '; "AH'.you lied to de relief committee

when you claimed to. have got wet corn-in' hotne frum a funeraJ!" . . ' I—I didnt mean to,!sah." •' ••'.•

"An1 you uipo wilfully an' mali ^ ciously put u p a j o b t o r o b d i s c l u b o 3 f | > * ^ ^ ^ ^

• '111 pay h back, sail."" "No, you won't! You liivenH seen

de time in de last fifteen y'ars dat you had $6 to spdr'. ^ Dat money-am gone, an'you am gwine^ to toiler artfr it! You kin take down yfcr hat an' walk out of Paradise Hall fur de las' time! We want no men in dis club who cares wheder Moses was 70 or 700 y'a*s okj when hie died, an' we will not keep de name of a liar an* deceiver on our books. Walk out, Mister Hastings— walk right out!" . /

Mr. Hastings walked, and it was no­ticed that several parties sitting near the water pail Rooked as if they ex­pected another bomb-shell to fall some­where. : ^-" t

Brooklyn's taxis this fall wUl be -about $30 on every $1,000 of assessed . valuation. ' . i ; •,"** --;f

C'hk-agolsprcmilii^anewK v hotel by G. L. I^riter. one of tier nier- V Pliant princes. -_ / ^ ^ *

Tbji Clayton county/ p**, convicts "werWsold at auction the other day for $45 pir head per annum. \ * j 1: ^Utstralia can produce fin^ wine at <10 per doa&iand the London dealers

\ can adulterate it one-half and sell it -| | d r $ 8 Q . _ . ' • / •>. . * * '-}

i The recent gift of $100,000, from ;; an anon^tmous benefactor to Har^sjrd university for a new law school b*uld-:

ihg was a princely one. V Amonament has just beenew^ed

over the gwtve at l i tt le Compto^of Sirs. Saizab^h Pabodie, the first white^ woman born in New England. < v

Gov. Crittende* of Missouri is dis- %

tributingfkudons to oonvicted gamblers with-the same lavish hand that libertr * tod the Jesse James assassins. 1 j - Telegraph offices -have \#m opened

stNa&reth and Bethlehem, and it is reported that an enterprising Jew has opened a beeisdiop on the Mount d

'plives. .,.;•••••. V • J , V ^ "• •• :•• ' v • \v-^' VelloW fever has visited tha country ^

65 times. The last visitation, i a 18J8, / caused 100,000 cases, 80,000 deaths and cost in direct and indirect fosse*$100,-000,000. . . « v ^

A farmer in Rutherford county, Tenn., who has followed agricultural pursuits for over 50 years, has never v owned a wagon, hut does all his haul­ing on a slide. \ r

C6L Bagley, of Caitngton, Ga.:own» i mule 80 yeaTS of ige, and will soon pettish his pedigree in order to con- %

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A couple left the train at the Union Depot and walked up Jefferson avenue yestesdayj&»J$£ had long curb and a pink dress ana yeftow sash, and he had a standing collar sawing his ears; off, a buttonhole boquet and a pair of new boots freshly greased^ and one size too.' small. They hadn't walksj&jro blocks when they came to a man sitting on a box in front of a store, and he caught sight of them a grin crept over his face like molasses spreading out cm a Shin­gle.- ... . . . • y

"Grinning at us, I s'pose/* queried the young man, as he came to a halt

"Yea/; frankly replied the latter.. "Tickles you moat to*death to see us

take hold of hands, don't it?" ) "Itdoes.r . *.:.."'-• W - / ;

"And you imagine you a n see irf feedin' each other caramels, can't you T

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* * And you shake all over at the way we gawp around, and kee£ our mouths open?'1 • * "That's me." / * ^ ;

"Well, this is me? Pm * not purty and I haven't been cultivated between the rows, nor hilled up, nor fertilized 1 aint what you call stall fed and the old man looks twenty per cent worse than Ido, but it wont take me over a minute to jam you 7 feet into the ground! 1 told Lucy I was going to begin on the first man that looked cross­eyed at us, andt yoji are the ( chap.—: Prepare to be pulverized!'^

*4Butnow, I heg your pardon; I didin't mean—" \ * "Yes, you did. Liicy, hold my hat, while I mop him! w I *.;'; ; i

' 448ay—hold on--s|ty—"-. '•' \ He took up the middle of street

lilr$ a runaway horse, and the young man took after him, but it was no use. After a race of a block the man who grinned gained so fast that the other stopped short and went back to his girl and l\is hat. - Stretching forth his hand to the innocent maiden he re­marked: , •

^Lucy clasj) on to that, and if you let gO for the next two hours to wipe your nose* I'll never call you by th£ sacred name of wife!" ; , , :

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: The New York, Chicago* and # S t louis. between KuffsJo-and Chicago, has received rolling stock and motive

IAx>wer to the amount of 2,000 height •^ars and 70 locomotives.

In Union county, 8. C , the other day, Rishard Paulk, a white man, was convicted of maiTyinir A colored wo­man, and sentenced to a year's impris-

f onment or a fine of $500. He paid the Hue. • . « , ^ !

The Searcy (Ark) Record lay that While the n^rcury stood at 100 in that town on the 12th u l t there was a shower of snow from a cloudless sky. -Enough fell to have wvered thl ground if it had not melted.

Taxation in Canada has increased 188 pw cent, sifice 1865, whfle the pop­ulation has Increased oply S9 per cent during the same period of 15 years,and the debt increased from $75*000,000 to . nearly $800,000,000.

It is estimated that the South has this sefson paid to the North $55,000,-000 for wheat $50,000,000 for corn/ f?S,000,b00 for meats, and about $85,-000,000 for hayf butter, cheese, oats, apples, potatoes* etc.

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^ Notes on Bar*«»'s Big Show*

There are 880 horses in the show. , w Mr. P. T. Barnum is 71 years old. . Lithographs last season cost $3O,0P0.

An elephant limner gete $50 a week The railway stock comprises eighty-

five cars/ - • •> * % . ^Good elephants are worth fi«om $5000

and upwardf. - V Zaiel, who is fired f rem a* cannon,

gets $300 a week. < *Agood agent gets $100 to $150 a

week and ekpehses. * y >•• :

The expenses for the show this season are $5000 a day. . > • » ,

The printing hill last season was $180,000. This season it will amount to $800,000. .;; t .*> - -

The new tent for'this season holds S»,000 people and cost over $10,000.

Columbia, baby elephant No. 1, has. be^n taught to sit in a chair kndfan hereelf. .

Seventeen big chariots were made for. this season. They cost fron^$1500 up­ward. ••".*• ''.:,r..*^-j\ • •• , •••» White or gr*y^hoiftes are mvariably used by circus riders because their color docs not betray the thick coating of rosin on their backs.

The giraffe is the only animal in the "world that.never utte« a sound, either of rage, pain or fright He is a verita­ble dumb animal \ »

The salaries paid some at the Bar* num. Bailey A Hutchinson performers thi* season are as follows: Mme. Dock-

vrill gets $450airoek, as she dkllast year, together with the keeping and transportation of eight horse* and their grooms, hotel bills, carriage* to and' from demote, hotels anil the g lands— t

all of which foots up pretty <jlo*e to $100<) a week, J5oa, a woman whe slides oil a wire from tlie top of the tent down to the ground, gets $300 and all expenses, ZafH who is fired from a cannon and caught in a net receives.: the same terms.. A Norwegian giant called Brusted, assisted by Chenudi, %\ Chinese dwarf, wiU be paid *»}0 and expensai.^. Major Atom, anotheruVarf, $100 r the Gilfort brothers,/ acrobats;

self into a seat: Before reaching Tren­ton he was asleep, feet on the opposite cushion, and his satchel for a pillow. The porter finally got.ready to make his bed" and gave him a shake to arouse hinh . ' • • • - ; : . ; . v . |-\-*', . ' • ' . ,

"Who in blazes be y o u r growled the man, as he opened his eyes. -

"De poster, sah." v .•:• "You AreJeh! Well! now", you look

here! I never 'saw * you before and never shall again, hut I want you to understand that Tip rio, chicken. I paid $2 for the privil^re of sleeping in this car. and just as I got into my first snooze along you came and wake*ne me up!. Jf you want a chaw of tobac­co or a match you can have i t but don't brteak in on my dreams again if you want fo be alive when we get to Buffalo! When I buy certain rights fc'm going to have 'em or bust."—De­troit Free JPrese,

miUtd to the car, and soon settled him-1*250 a week; the wild w e n of Boreifqt $$75; a new English clown *ho brings some trained donkeys, $150 and hi* fare'from London and back: a new two-headed girl named Myrtle Corbin, who eats six meals a day ~ three to each head-plays thi pi^np and has other acboxnplishments, $«50 a week.

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