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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
wll communications for this paper should be
accompanied by the nuiiio of (ho uutlior, not
necessarily for publication, but us evidence of
good fuitli on the part of the writer. Writ*
only on one side of the pupor. lie particularly
careful In giving mimes and (lutes, to huvt
all letters or figure# plain and distinct.
1IF.R MAJESTY.
You're proud of your Freedom,
Hun I of ray Queen,—
Most absolute sovereign
That ever wu seen.
Bin- fit111 tn and torment* me,
Yet holds main thrall.
And day-time or night-time
I haste at her call.
She has horsemen and horses,
And soldiers who keep
Their solemn eyes open
When 1 n asleep!
She has maidens of honor,
All silant and fair,
ith state robes, and jewels,
And wonderful hair.
She speaks a strange language
None other may know;
I only divine it, ■ MM
Thtough loving her so.
Her Majesty's tinners,
Tliat'never are still,
Play tunes on my heart-atringa
Whenever they will.
As wayward and fitful
As April is sho.
Yet loving and lovely
As lovely can lie;
The tiniest monarch
#th ■■ J
abroad Edna shared; she was Pretty, bright,
well dressed, and well-bred; tlie few
1'bat ever was seen.
They call her the fiaby:
But she is my Queen.
—Louite Chandler Mo niton, in Youth't
ponton.
Com-
A HYSSOP CENTIPEDE.
M A lie has a hundred legs, the truth but one."
—Jtalian l*rovtrb.
Mrs. Green opened her eyes, and thought it
was daylight; the, bed-hoad was turned toward
the window, so she could not see' fully how
bright it was out-of-doors, but having been
stless ajl night from the heat, she was glad
went
l did
so, the church dock struck two, and she saw
that it was a cloudless night now, though it
had rained heavily the past evening, and the
full moon rode hfgh in a solitary heaven.
The niglit was fresh and fragrant; its dewy
coolness soothed her hot head and tired eyes;
8q she shut the outer blinds, turned the slats
Straight, and sat down to enjoy the calm and
refreshment of the hour.
Kigbt opposite was the village bank, and as
she looked across at it, and wondered if John
Ilaekett was not sometimes afraid to sleep
there alone, she saw two women coine quickly
and silently down the street, steal up to the
window of the bank, and tap on the shutters.
Her breath came quick; here was an adven-
ture. Immaculate John Ilaekett, indeed ! And
there was his head put out, arid the women
talking earnestly with him; then they all three
laughed, and John withdrew his head, shut and
locked the window—she could hear the fasten-
tngfcnap In that stillness; but still the women
lingered, talking softly to each other, with now
aud then an irrepressible little laugh, and in a
few minutes John emerged from the front
door, locked It behind him, put the key In his
pocket, and walked off with a companion on
either arm.
Mrs. .Green fairly gasped. Here, Indeed,
was food for gossip. Here was a veritable
scandal. John ilaekett was a youth supposed
to beas good as a boy in a Sunday-school book.
Nobody in Hyssop had a bad worilto say about
him, except the wild youths who called hirn
Miss Nancy, and laughed at his disgust for
drink and tobacco. As for anything bad or
vicious about him, even in Hyssop people would
have smiled at any such accusation against
John. He was teller in the bank, slept in it
always by way of guarding it, nnd was fully
trusted in all his business relations.
Mrs. Green meant to be a good woman, but
Sho did like to discover aud relate other peo-
ple's faults and follies rather too well—partly
on the old principle that
" Satan finds some raisohief still
For idle hands to do,"
partly because her life was dull, aud she longed
for excitement as some people do for drink.
She had no fixed home; her husband was a
physician of 'lie specialist tribe, and went about
the country from place to place to heal peo-
ple's eyes and ears—or at least pretend to—
and having no children to tie, her to domestic
life, she went about *vitli the doctor. Hyssop
was licr native place, and she felt more at
home there than elsewhere, so she sometimes
staid at the Hyssop House, and let her hus-
band travel on his rounds, while slie enjoyed
herself among her friends. To-night, after
she had feen John Hackctt go away, she left
the window, and sat down in her rocking*
chair to think the mutter over. John she was
sure of, but who could the women be? She
thought and rocked in vain, and after an hour j
of fruitless speculation, felt so cool and sleepy I
that she wout back to bed, and never even
dreamed of the matter.
Early V.otA mowing, after breakfast was
through, she repaired to the dress-maker's
over the way, who was an old acquaintance,
there to unburden her mind, and lay the affair
before an expert. Uristling with importance
and full of tidings, she proceeded to tell lier
tale, but was Interrupted by the entrance of
Mrs. Parke, a ladv well known and highly re-
spected in Hyssop, a w idow, and the mother of
two or three children, one of whom, a boy of
Sixteen, was in the bank with John Hacliett,
as errand-boy arid general runner and doer,
hoping to be promoted in due time, and pick-
ing up a knowledge of the Imsiness to that end.
Sirs. Green did not like to go on with her
tale before Mrs. Parke; it would probably k"
back to Mr. 1 lackert at once if she did so; so
SJie pursed up her month, and waited for Lu-
celia Pratt, the dress-maker, to tit Mrs. Parke's
dress, measure her skirt, decide upon trim-
mings, and make elaborate calculations as to
the yards and inches of lace and velvet; for
this was to be a gown of state, and figure at
Lucy Pat-kc's wedding. She found no time to
finish the detail of her story that morning; be-
fore Mrs. Parke left, other customers came In,
and the tale had to be left halt told. Only
enough of it to make plenty of mischief had
reached the ears of Jenny Peters, a young girl
who worked for Miss Pratt, and sat near enough
to the sewing-room door to hear how two
women knocked at the bank window, and
called out John Hackctt at two o'clock in the
morning. This was enough to set her silly
mind agape, and she revolved the precious
morsel under her tongue till it grew and flour-
ished out of its original size, and developed
locomotive powers that worked any amount of
trouble to various people.
It was a great pity that Mrs. Parke was quite
so much respected in Hyssop. If Mrs. Green
hod been a little less afraid of her, and gone,
on with her history, my oiVn story would never
have been told, iior any centipede crawled
•bout, the little village over John Ilaekett's
Character and happiness; but "so it was."
Some weeks after the aforesaid event—Mrs.
Green having, by-the-wax, been suddenly called
to Join her husband at Chicago that same day,
and so never'finding an opportunity to further
enlighten Miss Pratt—Jenny Peters went to a
dunce at the village hall, where the clerk of the
Hvssop House was her partner in tin! first co-
tillon. John Hackett danced in the same set
and \va so occupied with his own partner that
lie merely nodded at Jenny.
Now degrees in society are all unknown in
Hysson; everybody Is just as good as every-
body else, if not a little better; the butcher
and baker and candlestick-maker dwell togeth-
er in unity with the doctor, the minister and
the lawyer; their wives wear as good clothes,
their children infest the same schools, they
practice socially that democracy which is else-
where theoretic; and John Hackett had not the
least idea of despising Jenny Peters because
•lie earned her living by sewing for Miss Pratt,
and he earned his by writing aud clpherlug for
/ the bank. They sat side by side In the choir
on Sunday; they had learned their lessons on
the same tiench,-going to the district school,
{ears ago; but to-night he only nodded to her,
olng absorbed in the pleasant talk and sweet
face of Miss lieatie, a young lady from Dart-
ford, who was boarding for the summer at the
llyssop House with her father.
"Alotrto Fillev, the clerk, had himself meant
to dance with Miss DeanC; but she, who had
always lived in the city, llad no idea of so de-
meaning herself, and made him understand it:
couseuuwitly he too had a grievance, and
when .lane expressed her contempt for John
Ilaekett's " stuck-up ways," Alonzo chimed
In, and tliey said a goou many disagreeable
little things about these unconscious sinners,
til) at last, getting more and more exasperated
as she watched Miss Deane's graceful figure
aud stylish dress, aud John Hackett's evident
devotion, Jane burst out with:
" Well, I uhist say John is real airy to-night,
and that, city girl seems dreadful taken up
with Lhn; maybe if she knew all I know about
his goln's 011 she wouldn't be so sweet."
" Nor if she'd seen what I see, not a hundred |
years ago," sniffed the injured Alouzo.
" Vou don't say so'I 'Twau't of a moonlight
night, was it?" gigglod Jane.
" You better believe it was," returned Alon-
zo, with a sudden Hash of snappish Intelligence
in Ids little green eve's. Just then the figure
was called, and as it ended, somebody recalled
the Hyssop House clerk to his duties- a party
of excursionists had just arrived—so nothing
more was said between him aud Jane; but the
He had begun to limp about, as lies will, with
alacrity aud vigor.
John, however, enjoyed the evening, all un-
conscious of his enemies, and even asked Jane
Peters to dance, but she tossed her head, and
informed him her card was full, with such an
air of im|ierttueiit superiority that John .
laughed and turned away to lltid another
partner.
Miss Dearie and her father spent a long sum-
mer at the Hyssop House, for Edna hated to
go back to their stuffy city boarding-house,
and they had no other home; they two were
alone In the world, and Mr. Deane liked to he
free to travel, so that he would not keep house.
Besides, Hyssop was a pleasunt little town
among the hills, and whatever gaycties were
"wight,
young
men in Hyssop all admired and liked her, aud
sho enjoyed Iifciug and admiration quite as well
as a woman should. John Hackett called as
often as any one, and Mr. Deaue took a great
faucy to him; be was an Intelligent, kludly
young fellow, paying a deference to age which
is uncommon lu these days, and which pleased
Mr. Deane peculiarly.
As the summer wont on, however, Jphn ob-
served that the old gentleman's manner toward
him cltanged; he was no longer cordial, no
longer ready to converse, to borrow books, to
play cribbage with him; and if he came to in-
vite Edna to drive with him, unless he saw her
first, he was sure to meet a refusal.
John wondered very much at this change in
their friendly relations; he would have tried to
solve the riddle in the only legitimate way to
solve such problems, by direct inquiry, but for
the fact that Miss Deane herself was as sweet
and friendly as ever. If she was a little shy,
and her pretty blushes came and went more
swiftly than before, that did not at all dis-
courage John, who was heartily and thorough-
ly in love with her long before summer had
gone, and who began to hope she did not al-
together dislike him.
If John Hackett had not been absorbed In
this new and joyful emotion, he might, have
seen that other people besides Mr. Deane
seemed to have lost their friendliness a little.
The clergyman of the church lie attended
bowed to him now without a pastoral smile
upon Ills long serious visage; Deacon Grlswold
eyed him from under his shaggy brows in a
way to have daunted a less absorbed man;
several old maids frowned at him, when they
met him, with a frown of virtuous reprobation;
and more than one young girl of Jenny Peters'
class looked askance when they met, and re-
turned only a cold slight nod to his pleasant
greeting.
He was a busy man and a happy one just
now; nothing could trouble him much, and
being peculiarly unsuspicious by nature, lie
did not dwell on the chill of his social atmos-
phere as a more conscious person would have
done.
There was another person besldps Mrs. Green
who had seen John's visitors that night,.
Alonzo Filley had risen from his pallet in the
inner otllce at the same time Mrs. Green went
to her window, and proceeded to the front of
the house to unclose the shutters, thinking,
likelier that it was day; so he too beheld the
dubious circumstance, and judging other peo-
ple by himself, put the worst possible con-
struction upon the matter. However, as John
was a regular boarder at the Hyssop House,
the clerk knew his business better than to talk
of what lie had seen; his anger on the night of
the dance had made him incautious, but his
sense forbade him to say anvthiug more.
But what he did say w as enough to confirm
Jane Peters' opinion of John and his " goings
on." She told her story to seven dear friends,
adding her own ideas as to the persons and
purposes of the visitors to the bank window;
aud by the time each of these seven, all of
whom Were pledged to profound secrecy, had
told the tale to fourteen more. Under like
pledges, these suppositions were incorporated
into the scandal as facts, and the legs of the
Me increased in due proportion as each of the
fourteen lent her aid to spread it with great
reserve and caution.
It was hut a few weeks after that June night
that Mr. Pratt., Lueella's cousin, who kept Hie
llyssop House, had occasion to say to Mr.
Deane, in answer to some particular inquiries
of the gentleman, that nobody in Hyssop had
anything to say against John Ilaekett; and
hawing borne tills testimony, he walked into
the office with a pleased and amused smile on
his face, and leaning up against, the desk, said,
" Well, I guesstlohn Ilaekett's in luck."
" Eh I" said Alonzo.
" Why, old Mv. Deane's been asking about
ldm—character and so forth. Looks mighty
like a wediliu' ahead. John'U have to ask me
to't for the good send-off 1 give him. Fact is.
there wa'n't, nothin'but good to say, though."
"il'in!" growled Alonzo. "'Still water
runs deep,' they say."
' " l.ord, now, 'Lonzo, did you ever hear man
or woman speak ag'itist him in your life'"
" Well, 1 shouldn't want to sw ear I hadn't,"
said the clerk, mysteriously.
"Why, what on earth be you hinting at?"
inquired Mr. Pratt, w ho could perceive a bit, of
gossip as far off, and hunt it down as perti-
naciously, as any of that much belied race, the
old maids,
" I don't say notliin'. I know where my
good lies. 'Taiii't in tcfllin' tales out o' school,*'
replied Alonzo. "But that Deane girl's a
nretty girl an' a good girl. I should hate to
liev lier come to grief anyway. Tell vou what,
Mr. Pratt, you must step over and askLucelye
if she don't never hear nothin' said agin John
Hackett. 'Don't mention my name, for the
land's sakes. I don't want John Hackctt a-
buzzln' round my cars; an' 'tain't none of my
business anyhow."
l'oi.'.lering deeply, the landlord made his way
to l.ueclla Pratt, who was his cousin, that very
evening, and put her to the question. She was
a busy woman, and a deal of talk flowed past
her ears without affecting lodgment In her
brain; but, after some effort, she did recall
Mrs. Green's half-recited story. And the next
morning, finding Alonzo in* the inner office
alone, Mr. Pratt told him the circumstances.
"AVcll, I'm free to confess I see the same
thing, 'Squire; anil I see more. Betwixt you
an' me an' the post, 1 see John Hackett come
out an'go off with them two females; an' I
never see him come back, neither."
Alonzo, with the true gossip memory, forgot
to state that he went right back to bed and to
sleep himself I
"Well, 1 wouldn't never lvave believed It if
Miss Green hail been the only otic that see it.
Jshe's considerable tonguey anyway, an' tne.bbe
she might ha' made halt'. It's safe to allow
somethln' for women-folks' stories always, I
guess; but sence you see it too, why, there
ain't no doilgln' of.it, as 1 sec."
" Shall you tell the old man?"
" I do.no; really I dono. Seems as if I had
ought to; but I guess I won't,—not unless he
asks me, anyhow. I like John Hackett first
rate; I should hate to do him a harm. Likely
enough 'twas the fust an' last time of trip-
pin'.'7
But ho had done John a harm; for coming
Into the outer office to get Ills New York pa-
per, delayed over night by a late train, and
wanted so carlv because lie was going into
Durtford—Mr. |)eane overheard this last sen-
tence, and it was enough. He was both proud
and obstinate. It was enough for him that
John Hackett was oven suspected of evil; lie
should never have his daughter Edna. He
would break off the Intimacy; he would take
her away, to Europe, If necessary, but some-
where out of this fellow's reach. From this
arose the coolness John had noticed in Mr.
Deane's manners, and Edna, with the quickness
of her sex. had also perceived it. but laid It to
her father's habitual jealousy of any one she
seemed to like, which she had experienced often
before. It was a consciousness that she ilid
like John Ilaekett which called the blush to
her face and the shyness to her eye.
Things did not seethe silently very long.
Edna showed more plainly to her father than
to her lover how much her feelings were inter-
ested; aud taking advantage one day of her
abseyce In Dartford at her dressmaker's, Mr.
Deane called on John at the bank, requested a
private interview, and to the poor fellow's as-
tonishment aud dismay forbade him to pay any
further attentions to his daughter. In vain
John begged to know the reason. * Mr. Deane
grew pompous and dogmatic as fast as he grew
angry, lie (lid not choose to give reasons f<Tr
his conduct, if Mr. Hackett parslstcd lu his
unwelcome devotion he should take his daugh-
ter abroad.
John was so astounded by all this thut it
never occurred to him to Inquire if Miss Deane
disapproved of him as well as her father; he
only sat down when that gentleman dlsap
peared, put Ills bead in his hands, aud felt
stunned.
When his senses returned, It occurred to
him that ho had engaged to dilve Miss Deane
to Snlpslc Falls
this must be given up. He was not yet him-
self enough to see that If the daughter agreed
uext afternoon, and
J;li to see that If the daughter agn
ather, it was very odd she Bhould ac-
' atlons ana a
ote a short
told her tl
■bilged to
Sad looked forward to yltli such" pleasure; he
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copt all bis invitations and appoar to enloy his
society. He wrote a short note, accordingly,
to Miss Edna; told her that he deeply re-
nted he was obliged to give up the drive he
must refer her toiler father for his excuse and
explanation; and signed himself licr's. with
"deep admiration aud respect, John Hackett."
Now Mr. Deane fn this matter showed him-
self an old fool; but there have been so many
like him since the world began that the char-
acterization is not peculiar or outrageous. If
bo wanted Edna to give up Joliu, lie should
have sung his praises day and night, had him
in their parlor constantly, advised Edna to go
everywhere he asked her, and deferred to his.
opinions even when they were most crude or
pretentious. Other things being equal, this
would have disgusted the girl thoroughly; the
world is not changed since the Athenians
stoned Aristldcs because they were tired of
hearing him called the Just. As It was, when
Edna came back at night from Dartford, and
found that note on her bureau—I am afraid
John bribed tho chambermaid to put it
there—she
an i
and
not want him to commit himself to her, and
make a distinct issue between them. She had
enough of that tact which serves women in
lieu of strength to know that she had better
discover the facts from John than from Mr.
Deaue; so she in her turn wrote a little note
to Mr. Hackett, and dropped it in the post-
office ; it was brief but satisfactory, running
thus:
" Dkab Mil. Haokktt—Since I am to be disap-
posntsd of my drive. 1 shall console myself by
walking up to tho lake. I forgive you, for I aim
sure you are not to blapie.
Yours, very truly, Edna Dkank."
No sooner was the Hyssop Bank closed that
uun orioeu me cnamoermaiu io put it
icre—she was, to begin with,, furiously
ngry. She did not go at once to her father
ad inquire the matter out, because she did
August afternoon than John Hackctt went, off
toward the lake at a pace that would have clone
credit to a professional pedestrian; nor did lie
wait very long before, by a strange coincidence,
Miss Deaue appeared, having chosen the hour
of her father's dally nap to take a little air.
There were plenty of boats about, and it cost
but one or two suggestive remarks from the
lady to induce John to propose a sail, and soon
they glided into a deeply shaded bay, rested on
their oars, and might have listened to the high
benilue. I am aware many people will dlsap-1
prove of her. There are persona Who think the
relation between parents and children involve*
triplet obedience on the child's part to the
parfutal dictum, however unreasonable; there
are oMrers who think it unwise, and even wrong,
thirt a child should sacrifice u lifetime's huppi-
iicos in tlie tyrannic demands of an Inconsldi i
ate patent. Between these two poles Edna
must take her ehai.ee. I am merely her histo-
rian, aud I must say that, dauntless as her cour-
age appeared when challenged by interference
or oppMttlon, there were many sad hours when
her heart, loving, tender, and'desirous of right,
\va.s torn by Inward conflicts.
In tlie mean time John Ilaekett, aware for
tlie first time In nis life thut he had enemies,
and was injured by their tongues, was yet ut-
terly ignorant of any special charges against 1
him. Had he once' known of Mrs. Green's
story, and Alonao Fllley's confirmation of it,
he could aud would have set things straight at 'i
The Car
Clothing.
Concerning tho 'fashion of clothing
and tlio various fabrics of which it is
made information in full and frequent.
Vory little, however, is said about the
caro of clothing, and the ways in which
it may be preserved for the longest time
jminte
back i
.%sible condition. To
inge their garments with
every change of style this is
fl blue
f the
TJ o
ambe
once; or had Mrs. Parke heard the slander, she
too was in a positlou to explain aud Justify;
but phc had left Hyssop to live with her daugh-
ter lit the West, aud,"as we htfve said, Mrs.
Greftn unluckily broke off her story on Mrs.
l'arke'ji arrival at Lucelia Pratt's room. Had
Is
e
Ot
nectlon,
not this mischance liave stopped Mrs. Green's
tongue my pen would liave l>een idle, and va-
rious other things besides—at least in this con-
Edna, however, was spared her voyage. The
first ley day in November, lust as they jvere
ready to go to Euro|>e, even their passage paid
and Btatc-rooms secured, Mr. Deane slip|>cd on
the pavement, as he was on his way to the
bank to procure money for the Journey, and
broke his leg and arm. It Is bad enough for a
young and amiable Jierson to contemplate six
weeks in tho house as inevitable; but when
one is old, cross, obstinate, aud Just ready for
a voyage to Europe, such an accident Is not
calculated to produce peace or pleasantness.
Mr. Deaue, laid up for the winter in a board-
silver carol of the wood-thrush if they had not
preferred each other's voices; for then and there
John Ilaekett told Edna Deaue that same old
story everybody tells somebody sooner or lat er
—stale alone to the old and world-weary, sweet
beyond its intrinsic sweetness when its telling
defies authority aud laughs at obstacles.
Yes, while Papa Deane slumbered on his bed
that warm afternoon, with a silk handkerchief
decorously spread upon his face to warn off
trespassing flies, the youth he had so bullied
and forbidden was making love to bis daugh-
ter, out of sight, and reach, mid bis own folly
had precipitated the crisis, perhaps created it".
But blessed as the two lovers were when they
glided softly back in the sunset, to the tiny
pier, and parted with that lingering haml-clasp
so dear to people absorbed in each other, their
troubles had begun.
In a town like Hyssop a perpetual little day
of judgment dawn's with every, sun; there Is
nothing hidden from eyes that make a business
of seeing, or ears that have nothing to do but
hear. While John and Edna planned their
meetings, and took drives and walks together
that they fondly fancied no one discovered,
since each left the street In a different direc-
tion, wherever they met afterward, they never
met or drove or walked that somebody knew it,
and somebody told everybody else of it.; had
they conducted their affair on the house-top it
would have been less patent. Now the young
men who had called John a milksop, stung
with envy to think he had succeeded in monop-
olizing this pretty girl, got. hold of Mrs.
Green's scandal, and helped the story to more
legs; it ran all abroad, till Edna's friends in
Dartford heard it, anil wrote her letiers of
warning aud remonstrance, which she angrily
burned and more angrily answered; at last, her
uncle in Dartford heard*the story, and wrote a
long and solemn letter to her father, full of
reproach and remonstrance.
This woke 'fr. Deane to a full sense of the
situation; lie bestirred himself to examine tlie
facts; charged Libia with being in love with
" that fellow Hackett," and felt, his scant hair
rise up on his head as she said, very coolly.
" Yes, 1 do love him, aud mean to"marry him,
father."
The man was dumb with rage; lie recognized
a new liyht in Edna's eye, and ring in her
voice. It seemed she too could dogmatize.
It, is an unfortunate tiling for us sometimes
that our children do resemble their parents in
character, and people hardly make enough ac-
count of It. It seems preposterous to an ob-
stinate man that his sou or his daughter should
be obstinate; yet what could be more natural?
Indeed, the trait becomes a deeper offense
to the progenitor from his own possession of
It. Mr. Deane was outraged when he found
Edna had a will of her own when lie "chose to
have her follow his will. As soon as his voice
returned he said, with a sort of cold fury:
" Pack up your trunk, miss. We return to
Dartford to-morrow morning."
Edna was not daunted.
" First, 1 want to know, sir, what is your
objection to John Docket."
"I've got plenty of objections. I hear bad
things about him. 1 hear lie is a very immoral
young man."
" I don't believe It," said Edna, indignantly.
" Of course you don't. But I intend to act
on my own convictions, not yours. You will
get ready to go to Dartford at once."
Edna was furious; every feminine instinct
told her that John Ilaekett was not a bad man; I
she felt sure of his delicacy and self-respect
long before she had loved him, and these are i
not tlie traits of an immoral person. She
turned as she left the room, and said; "Very j
well. I shall go to Dartford, of course, if vou '
say so; but I shall not give up John HacKett
because he Is lied about."
No, indeed! If John bad asked her to stay
in Hyssop us his wife, and let her father go to
Dartford alone, it is the present chronicler's
belief she would have consented, but he was
not so selfish. He did not want to destroy Mr.
Deane's comfort and happiness to build up bis
own in its place, or to separate Edna from her
father; he preferred to try conciliation, pa-
tience, time; and as he sensibly said, there is
no real separation now for lovers, since
even paternal rage can not do away with
railways, telegrams, and the postal service,
so he"and Edna parted sadly enough, and
the Deatics established themselves In Dartford
till needful business arrangements could be
made before going to Europe. Daily letters
(to receive which cost Edna some ingenuity,
to be sure), occasional* telegrams, interviews
now and then when John could run in and
spend Sunday at the nearest hotel—all served
to keep the lovers tolerably patient. But Edna
had lier own troubles. Her friends—that is,
those of her own age—stood by her manfully.
But relatives are not necessarily friends; and
such as she had, moved by her father's mis-
representations—which, to do lilin justice, be
believed in honestly—used all their efforts to
persuade her from marrying John Ilaekett,
and there eaine from Hyssop reports now and
then which served to exasperate this well-
meant opposition. A girl who had also boarded
at, flic Hyssop House, and angled openly but
unsuccessfully for John, visited in Dartford,
and having gathered up the centipede that
scut tled about bis native village stinging John
Hackett's character, brought It. with lier, full-
venomed and many-legged, to tho city, and set
it at work there.
But all this did not move Edna.
" I am going abroad with papa," she said,
" because 1 want to give him a good ehanee to
see filings in a right light, out of this chatter
aud gossip, but 1 give you notice I shall marry
Mr. Hackett when 1 come back."
And such determination rang In her positive
tones that aunt* and uncles and cousins quailed
before her, and thanked their stars that there
was a Europe to go to.
1 do not present Miss Edna Deutie as a model
ing-honse, fretted himself into a nervous fever;
his age, aud the feverish action of his system,
Ere vented the bones from knitting, aud ex-
austcd bis strength; his vitality was used up
too rapidly, and by spring lie sauk into his
grave.
Deeply as Edna regretted her father, she
could not blame herself for his death.. He was
just as liable to slip on Ice at, one time as an-
other, and that he uever carried a cane was the
result of his own obstinate vanity. There
were people, to be sure, who said that if her
father had not been obliged to take her abroad
in consequence of her undutiful conduct, he
never would have gone to the bank that day,
and would have lived Indefinitely; but Edna's
mind was too healthy for such moral wire-
drawing. Slie did not feel, either, that her
father's death changed her affection for John
Hackett, or her opinion of him; nor yet that
the must defer to his wishes when he was dead
any more than when he was living, but rather
less, for she was iioLsciitinientul or morbid,
like the young ladies m books.
In six months she married Mr. Hackett, and
went to live in Hyssop, being as happy In that
relation as fallible mortals can be, aud devel-
oping into a wonderful housekeeper. But the
Hyssop centipede did not die yet, and often
after Edna had told John what "her father had
said about him did they both wonder what he
could have meant; and though like a good wife
she kept from her husband the various insinu-
ations and hints that Hyssop dames could not
refrain from dropping 'in lier ears, she could
not but meditate with curiosity on the cause of
all the talk, for she had too youthful an opin-
ion of human nature to credit it with tlie en-
tire creation of a scandal.
lint it was not till some three or four years after
their marriage that they found out till that lay
at the bottom of their troubles. They were at
a picnic one day, held oil the shores of the lake,
and John had just introduced his wife to Mrs.
Parke, who was visiting In Hyssop.
" By the way," said that lady, lu the course
of conversation, " I heard of you out at Medi-
na last winter, .John."
" How diil I come to be known in Medina?"
asked Mr. Hackett.
" Our old friend Mrs. Green came therewith
the doctor; he seems to have worn out New
England, and has taken to the West lately.
She met Lucy at a sewing circle, and asked till
about Hyssop people. Lucy mentioned your
marriage, and Mrs. Green tossed her head with
that indescribable sniff she always gave, if you
remember, and said she pitied your wife. Lucy
was indignant—you know she always liked you
—and inquired why Mrs. Hackett needed pity;
and tlieu the whole story came out. 1 hap-
pened to come into the room behind her and
heard K. all. Do you remember that afternoon
you sent. Will, over to Canaan and forgot to
send line word! about, 11.1"
" Yes, I do," said John. " I never quite for-
gave myself for making you so anxious. You
see. Edna," he went on" turning to his wife,
"Will Parke was in the bauk with me, to do
errands and such things, on his promotion;
and one afternoon 1 had to send him twenty
miles on a moment's notice. I promised to
send his mother word, and 1 wrote on the edge
of her daily paper, which Will's "Id dog used
to take home every niglit, where Will had
gone, and that lie would not, be home till uext
day; but the dog followed Will instead of going
home, so she never got, word, and about tw o
o'clock in the morning down came Mrs. Parke
and her sister to the bank, knocked me tip, and
demanded Will. 1 don't wonder they were
frightened. 1 ought to have gone up myself
instead of relying on Hose."
"That was Hot all," added Mrs. Parke. "It
was a moonlight, night in June, anil it very hot
one, which made Mrs. Green restless, so she
left her bed and sat at her window hi the Hys-
sop House, and saw two women whom she aid
not know go to the bank, knock at. the win-
dow, talk to you, and then you came out and
went away with them, and she did not wait to
sec you come back. This was enough for her
active mind to interpret into scandal: and if
she had not left, Hyssop that night for Chicago,
I don't know what would not have been said
about you."
Here John and Edna exchanged looks.
"Vou should have seen her face when, as
she concluded her story with, 'I never knew
who those women were, but. of course—' I
suddenly stepped in front of lier and said, ■ I
was one"of them, and my sister Adeline the
other,' proceeding then to tell the truth of the
story."
"Do you think she ever mentioned it to any
one here?" asked Edna.
"1 put. that question to her, for I knew her
to be a busybody, but she declared she never
had. She began to tell it to Lucclia Pratt, t hat
morning, but I came in and interrupted her.
She said she knew 1 was 'dreadfullv down on
folks that said a word about anybody, if it was
ever so true,' so she stopped when I came in."
"It was too late," said John: "the story
must have been overheard, retold and
amended."
And then lie gave Mrs. Parke a brief sketch
of the trouble he and Edna had been through
with, undoubtedly from this report gathering
length and strength, and legs to run with, as
it went about, till it became a veritable centi-
pede.
"You might ask Miss Piyitt if she ever rej
peated it," suggested Edna to John.
"Don't!" said Mrs. Parke, energetically.
"There is no time worse wasted than lu hunt-
ing a lie. You have outlived its stings, and it
would be nn ire than useless to hunt it up again
into fresh action; besides, perhaps it bus done
you good service. Who knows that you w ould
nave been so constant and persistent under
other circumstances! Nothing grows faster or
flourishes better under contrariety and "adver-
sity than a love affair."
Edna colored indignantly, and turned away.
She has never liked Sirs, l'arke since; but Jolin
only laughed.
And this is the true story of a Hyssop centi-
pede.—IlnrjM'r's Bazar.
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the
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and
chauical skill
Tho floors are
marble fireplace is in t
and in a rack at its sid
and tongs all ready to
fire" which men
grate. The chairs are us nicely made
and upholstered as though they had been
intended forthe President of the United
States. The walls and windows of the
room are well adorned, and the house as
a whole is a complete gem.—N. Y. World.
Old-Tluie Superstitious.
In 1474 the May bug became very troub-
lesome in the neighborhood of Derne,
Switzerland, and the people, after trying
in vain all other means, called upon tho
Bishop of Lausanne, who solemly excom-
municated the insect aa " an irrational,
imperfect creature, whose kind was nev-
er enclosed in Noah's ark." Tho bugs
were warned to disappear in stx days, or
if they did not, to appear for trial at
Wivelsburg on the sixth day at one
o'clock. Neither command was obeyed,
as a contempory chroniple says, •' be-
cause of our sins." In the Tyrol, in 1519
-20, a civil suit was actually begun
against the lield-rats! One Simon Fuss,
a peasant, entered a formal complaint
before the Jtfdge, William of Ilasslingen,
that laid lield-rats were doing great dam-
a<je in the parish. Fliss chose Schwara
Minig' as his attorney, and the Court
showed its fine sense of justice by nam-
ing Hans Grinebner to defend the cause
of the rats. But the witnesses were all
on the side of the plaintiff, and the decis-
ion was rendered as follows: " After ac-
cusation and defense, after statement
and contradiction, and after due consid-
eration of all that pertains to justice,it is by
this sentence determined that those nox-l
lious animals called lield-rats must, within
two weeks after the'promulgation of this
judgment, depart and forever remain far
aloof from the fields and the meadows of
Stilf. But if one or several of the animals
are in delicate health, or unable on ac-
count of their youth to follow, then they|
[shall enjoy, J
land after these two weeks depart.|
Whether the rats recognized the author-
tyof Judge William, and emigrated in
obedience to his orders, is not stated; but
the probabilities are that they gave' 'straw
bond" and appealed the case—as a great
many rats do now-a-days.—N. Y. Even-
liny Post.
during further two weeks,
safety and protection from everybody,
aud iu the best p
those who cbanL_
matter of
slight importance, but to those' who pur-
chase a silk dress or a broadcloth suit
only once ill a series of years it is a mat-
ter of interest and Value. Silks, cash-
meres, cloths of standard style and
quality, are very little affected by the
various current* of fashion. They hold
their own through all the years and are
always good, always " stylish," always
suitable. While new fabrics are for the
hour of their popularity high-priced,
these standard goods sell at the standard
price and know little of rise or fall In
standard voluo.
Negleot and carelessness deteriorate
clothing a great deal faster than steady
wear does. Tho housekeeper who in-
stead of changing her nice dross when
she passes from the street or the church
to her kitchen, keeps it on and ,takes it
with her through tne various processes
of dishwashing, sweeping and cooking
will soon rob it of all its nicety while she
who wears her fine clothes only in places
where fine clothes are suitable may koep
them in pood condition for an indefinite
time. To dress according to one's work
is good taste, good sense and economy.
The careful person will take pains to
preserve a new calico no less than a new
silk. We knew a young lady once who
put on a ni'ce new calico which she had
taken great pains to make, and wore
it through the morning dew to milk the
cows. To keep her arms from being
soiled or tanned by the sun, she declined
to turn up the sleeves of the dress. In
two days the nice new calico looked like
all the rest of her dresses; dowdy, slat-
ternly, unclean. We knew another
young ladywlio had six silk dresses, ami
not one of them was lit to wear, though
none of them had been made above a
year. They were spotted, draggled,
tumbled, mussed, abused. We knew
another young lady who was the fortu-
nate possessor of one nice black alpaca
dress which she wore on all occasions the
season through, always appeared fault-
lessly dressed! She had no work to do
that would specially soil her clothes. If
a stray drop of anything that could make
a spot fell upon her dress it was at o-nce
removed. All dust was brushed off, a
sponge dipped in ammonia water bright-
ened faded places, and snowy collars and
cufi's suggested dainty habits of cleanli-
ness.
The care of clothing to be easy must
be habitual. The hardest part is in form-
ing the habit, and this cannot too early
in life be formed. Most children love to
make mud pies and play in the dirt gen-
erally and give little heed to keeping
themselves clean. This is all well enough
at times, and they should be indulged in
their mud pies provided they are dressed
for the work. But it is "poor-folksy"
in the last degree to allow a child to play
iu the dirt with nice clothes on, or to per-
mit a young person to dress inappropri-
ately while at work. It is vastly easier
to change a good coat for a poor one
than it is to restore to its pristine condi-
tion a soiled coat. It is vastly easier to
put on a pair of overalls than it is to
sponge thoroughly a pair of pantaloons.
j But tlie worst of it is that those who neg- j past he has been a busy man. For every
I lect to change the coat and to put on the "function" he receives forty silver
overalls neglect also the sponging and | roubles—about £(> sterling—from the
cleansing processes, and let dust gather i Russian Exchequer, but that official fee
and spots remain. by no means represents the total einolu-
A clothes brush, a wisp broom, a hot- j mont lie derives from the practice of his
tie-of ammonia, a sponge, a hand brush, ; gruesome handicraft, for he is permitted
a cake of erasive soap, a vial of alcohol, | to trade upon the superstition still cur-
should form a part of the furnishings of ! rent in Russian society respecting the
every toilet. After all dust has been re-
moved from clothing spots may be taken
out of black cloth with the hand brush
dipped in a mixture <>f equal parts of
ammonia, alcohol and water. This will
brighten as well as cleanse. Benzine
is useful in removing grease spots.
Spots of grease may be removed I bers of the t?
from colored silks by putting on | to pur el'
them raw starch made into a paste I
with water. Dust is best removed
from silk by a soft flannel, from velvet |
with a brush made specially for the pur-1
pose. If hats and bonnets when taken '
from the head are brushed and put away
in boxes and covered up, instead of be-
ing laid down anywhere, they will last
fresh a long time. Shawls and all arti-
cles that may be folded, shjjuhl bjj folded
when taken from the person in their
original creases and laid away. Cloaks
should be hung up in place, gloves pulled
out lengthwise, wrapped in tissue paper
nnd laid away, laees smoothed out nicely
and folded, if requisite, so that they will
come out of the box new and fresh when
neoded again. A strip of old black
broadcloth four or five inches wide, roll-
ed up tightly and sewed to keep the roll
in place, is better than a sponge or a
cloth for cleansing black and dark-col-
ored clothes. Whatever lint comes from
it in rubbing is black and does not show.
When black clothes are washed, as they
may often be previous to making over,
fresh clean water should be used, and
they should be pressed on tho wrong
shio before being quite dry. IT washed
in water previously used for white cloth-
ing they will be covered with lint. In
securing clothing against moths," if linen
is used for wrappings no moth will mo-
lest. Paper bags tire equally good if
they are perfectly tight, and so are
trunks and boxes closed so tightly that
no crevice is left open for tho entrance
of the moth fly. As the moth loves
darkness, it will not molest even furs
to air and
The Russian Headsman's Revenue.
There is but one state executioner in
the vast Russian Realm, and he is a par-
doned malefactor named Froloff, who in
the old pre-Nihilistic days, when the ab-
olition of capital punishment was still
maintained in Muscovy committed three
successive murders and was condemned
to penal servitude for life. When, how-
ever, revolutionary successes rendered
the services of an Imperial hangman in-
dispensable to the Ministry of Justice,
Froloff volunteered for the office on con-
dition that an amnesty for his past mis-
deeds should be granted to him. His
otter was accepted, and for some time
lttek conferred upon gamesters by the
possession of a morsel of the rope with
which a human being has been strangled,
either by the hand of justice or by his
own. Immediately after voting Mladetz-
ky had been hanged, only the other
day. Froloff was surrounded by mem-
sian jcunesse cloree eager
raps of the fatal noose;
ana he ised of several dozen such
talis'v .. it from three to five roubles
ap: o. ob'urving, with cynical corapla-
cei v, hen he nad sold oft' his last rem-
nant, that "he hoped the Nihilists would
yet bring him in plenty of money."
There is, indeed, even- prospect if the
Melikofl' regime only last long enough,
that Froloff will speedily become a
wealthy man.—London Telegraph.
—A Kentuekian. writing from Wash-
ington, says: " Ilero worshipers ought
to come to Washington. Their idols be-
come mere images of brass and clay when
seen at short range. I have been intro-
duced to all the big men of the country
who are congregated here, and find
them wonderfully like the rest of man-
kind. There are Senators and members
of Congress with less sense than many
citizens of Clark County, with whom we
are all familiar."
—A savage bulldog broke, his chain,
at Harnsburg, l'a., ran into a juvenile
school, and ferociously attacked tho lit-
tle girls. Tho mistress told the pupils
to stand on their desks and they aid so.
but not before fourteen lmd been bitten.
hung up in light rooms open
sunshine.—N. Y. Tribune.
A Murderer's Toy.
Haynes, the Rockland, (Me.) mur-
derer, has recently made a toy house
after the French style. It is about four
feet high, by two deep and four long; is
as nicely built as the best mansion, with
slate roof and fancy chimneys; has two
stories, the lower one being devoted to a
kitchen and a dining hail, the upper
story to a drawing-room and best cham-
ber. The -floor of the dining hall is in-
laid with cherry and mahogany, one
thousand and t wenty pieces of wood be-
ing used in laying it; the kitchen is also
inlaid, but less expensively. Tho fur-
nishings are somewhat regal for a small
personage. They consist of the usual
kitchen paraphernalia, including hard-
wood tables with drawers in them, roller
or long towel, dishes, even to an old
ady with specs.
The Cheapest Place to Live.
" Coming down to the question of
cheapness and comfort," said Mr. Bridge,
" 1 believe that the Island of St. Michael,
the pearl of tlie Azores group, is about
the best place iu the world. The cli-
mate is soft and agreeable, the scenery
lovely, and the people noted for their
simplicity and kindness. Labor is very
cheap, and consequently the roads lead-
ing from the town of St. Michael are of
the finest character. The streets are
kept marvelously clean. The island is
about thirty miles square and picturesque.
One can buy five eggs for two cents, a
chicken for twelve and a half cents, beef
for three cents a pound, and hire a good
house for seven dollars a month. You can
live well for $G00 a year; handsomely on
$700, and live in superb style, keeping
carriage and horses, for 91,000. The
gardens are beautiful features of the
island. In one garden there are 4,000
plants of different varieties. The land is
owned by a few rich people and rents
very high. A quarter of an acre bring?
fifteen dollars a year. The peasants or la-
boring people go baVefooted and live very
economically. Probably 8100 a year sup-
ports a small family. The fashions m
dress have not changed within a hundred
years, and this applies to the best socie-
ty. The women wear copakes, agarment
reaching from the neck to the feet, and
bearing some resemblanco to the ' ulster'
which the ladies of San Francisco wear.
The head covering is called a ' capilla,'
and is like one of the old-fashioned New
England bonnets, but it is attached some
way to the copake. A girl, seeing a
stranger approaching, conceals her face
with the capilla. The native people rec-
ognize their friends by their feet.—San
Fivnrisco Bulletin.
—The wealthy miser lives as a poor
man here, but he must give account as a
rich man in the day of judgment.
—One life, a little gleam of time be-
tween two eternities; no second chance \
who eyes the visitor to us foreverniore.
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