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Show THE WORLD. VOL. IV, AMERICAN FORK, UTAH, SATURDAY JUNE 12, SISTER ELIZABETH. walk and the delightful sail by moonlight.. There had. been a pleasant company. Do Oh, Elizabeth!" said. Cornie. JmOTHING to Bore mortifying to per- you know we saw an old friend qf son, especially If yours? And he to coming to call on that individual to a you An old friend of mine?" 1 quarrmaiden ' lady of than ied1. th1 Yes." Lottie repried. Mr. Loftus; the consciousness is he viHiling at the Armenia, and has others begin that to think her too Just returned from a long foreign old for the society tonr. Will Loftus!" I exclaimed. Is It of young people. on possible?" It is a laying I felt the warm blood tinglng in my the shelf " that Is by no means agreeas if i had been only fifteen. cheeks able. of Instead Memory was I as At least such was my feeling sumthe recalling busy glanced at the invitations to a little mer, and how often I used to see my which moonlight excursion on the lake since lost sight of for many were handed In by John while we were Ours had been one of those in years. seated at onr cosy breakfast-tabl- e youthful attachments which but selSnow Cottage, one lovely morning In dom ripen Into first and only love. June. The note was directed to Miss are often hut the prelude to the They not Lottie and Miss Cornie Whittaker; before the song is sung. We strain, addressed, as previous envelopes had were on the verge of an engagement which been, to the Misses Whittaker, when Will was suddenly recalled to would of course Include Elizabeth his distant home, and I had seen him 1 word Whittaker, spinster. The last no more. foolish as it may have Yes, announced almost audibly, with a bit- been, I had always kept one corner of ter smile, which attracted the atten to his name, and it sacred heart my tion of my pet, Cornie, who said, ten- was with a strange thrill that I heard derly, Sister Elizabeth, does your he was again near me, and that I soon head ache this morning?" should see him. How my heart yearned over that faThat day he called with his friend, vorite sister of mine, the very Image Mills. He was a tall, Harry of her lost father. We were now layman, polished, refined and fascining aside the sable robes worn for ating in his manner. I could hardly three years In token of our loss, but identify him with the slender youth it seemed to me that I should always that I had once known; blit he referred wear the calm, sober tints of second so to our former acquaintgracefully mourning, and in my inmost soul the ance and expressed so much pleasure would memory of that Idolized parent at renewing the intercourse so suddenbe enshrined. ly Interrupted, that I felt perfectly at My own mother T cannot remember; case. s she drooped and faded when I was an How were the days that kind and followed!pleasant Infant; and my We called each other Will" Indulgent as she ever was to me, was and "Lizzie" in the most friendly way, not one to call forth the ardent affec- and Lottie and Comte seemed already tion, which but few had power to to regard him In a very sisterly manawaken in my heart. Gentle, dignified ner. We read, walked and talked toand reserved, she had bequeathed these and night after night his deep, same characteristics to her eldest gether, rich voice would accompany those of Lottie. child, the golden-haire- d sisters, while I played the old faRut Cornie was like our father, the my tunes upon the plana miliar same buoyant spirit, strong will and I fancied that my own voice might impulsive affection, the same dark, have lost a little of its early sweetcurling hair and eyes of toughing ness, and so did not attempt to Join blue. the others, whose melodies were so I thought of all this as I watched harmonious. her fondly on that June morning, and Several other Invitations were sent recalled how I had been a second as of yore to Misses Whittaker, and I time orphaned when her mother was was fast forgetting that I was an old taken from us fifteen years ago. Since at an maid, party I when, four was that time, when Cornie years overheard the enviousevening and old, she had been to me. as much a remark, Just see that Elizabeth 'Whitdaughter as a sister. taker. What youthful airs she does Lottie, who was five years her on! Trying to catch Mr. Loftus, I put senior, had always been so dare say. and womanly that I could never regard How those words rang in my ears long after the lights, the music and the dancing were shut out, and I was alone in my own room. How I catechised myself, and tried to reason with my poor, foolish heart. Yes. I had been trying to look young, and had appropriated Will's attention as a matter of course. What right had I to monopolize his time? Was it not far more likely that be would choose Ioltie or Cornie if Indeed he were to pay court to any of us? Even this was by no means certain; he might go again as suddenly ?s he had come; and I was startled to find what a sad , void his departure would make in our circle, and still more In my own heart. Ah. Elizabeth. Elizabeth." I solilotake warning era too late!" quized. YOU OLD DARLING. The next morning 1 rose with a new her as needing that loving watchful- resolve firm in my mind; I would not ness that our younger sister seemed yield to the sweet delusions of love to require, and the relations between would not. unasked, give my heart. us eould neve.' be so tender and affec- The world should not have cause to laugh at the silly fondness of an old tionate. As I reflected thns, long after we had maid. Strengthened by these purposes, and were seat- I was the better fitted fur tbe trial left the breakfast-rooed in my little parlor, I reasoned with that awaited me. That very day Will Loftus came, and myself that it waa but natural that I should be omitted in the plans for en- inquired for me alone. I caught a joyment formed by the young people quick glance passing between Lottie of Caldwell. The mothers were not and Cornie as I left the room, and invited with the daughters. Why there was a more rapid pulsation at should I expect to go with ('ornle, my my heart as I entered the cool, dim room where lie was seated. ? These reflections made me more calm Elizabeth, lie said tenderly, as he end content, and I could bid my sis- took my hand, do you know what ters a smiling adieu when they left me priceless treasure have come to ask? 1 hardly dare to be so bold, and yet, early in the evening. Cornie ramc back to give me a sec- faint, heart never won fair lady, and ond kiss, and whispered, "I wish you 1 must not lose my murage." How very timid he has grown!" I were going, too, you old darling!" Can he not see that he has Yes. thought. Old, I repeatei to myself. but to speak la order to win?" that is the word. I smiled assurlngly, and he proceedAnd that r.isLt I locked more attentively than was my wont into mv mir- ed. "Do not think nte precipitate In my ror. and tried to realize that I deserved the rpithet. Rut I saw no nffictiou. though the acquaintance has threads of silver in my dark, heavy been so brief, for 1 cannot bn mistaken braids, and' but few lines of care on in iny feelings, and only wait your permy fair, broad forehead. Anyhow, my mission to offer my hand to your pet heart felt young, and with a sigh I sister, Cornie. You stand In the place tried to realise that I must accept the of a parent to her. and therefore I position in which, of necessity, 1 was asked your consent." Ah. Will, Will! It was well you placed. The next morning my sisters were rnuld not read my heart Just then! e vger In their recitals of the oharuing With a mighty effort 1 choked down to-day- ." I rty-llv- e. ty. long-vanishe- boy-lov- d er, fine-looki- step-moth- er, self-relia- nt m sister-child- . 1 . a ronvufclve sob, and replied that he A SOUTHERN TOWN. had my full, free permission; and adding that I would seud Cornie to- him directly, left the room a sadder and ALEXANDRIA. VA.. CONTAINS a wiser woman. MANY PICTURESQUE SCENES. There Is not much to add. Cornles love was already given to the handsome man so recently a stranger; and Old I'.rljrl. Htu aad ft. Memories Tha M jslsry af tha rsmslo Strang-e- r a very few months later she became his A Taw a Tbal II aa lire. Aslsrp wife. Y fur I'oatary. Lottie was a fair and stately bridesI maid. while witnessed with maternal complacency the ceremony which unitLEXANDKIA has ed the destinies of the only man I so been asleep had ever loved and my long, the sunshine Cornie. has been dreaming sw were inv Peace and contentment undisturbed in her xS' 'jfyM guardian angels that night, and with Quiet streets for so x Iff a serenity that was sincere ami unafmany years and her fected I returned the kiss which the quaint old houses bridegroom gave me, as he said tenhave such an air derly and gently, Sister Rllzu both!' of mysterious waiting in their A DISAPPOINTED BANDMASTER grandfie Old Hie it eat and Wat lenouital-oualj- r eur that It seems almost a sacrilege to tear away the curtain of contented siKiiuelrbada Earthworks had been thrown across lence which time has hung there and the neck of land upon which City to gaze with modern eyes half blinded Point is located, says the Century. by the dust of unceasing whirl at the This Intrenched line ran from a point bright, stately days of patch and powon the James to a point on the Appo- der, says a corresiondent of the New mattox river. A small garrison had York Tribune. Nearly every house has been detailed for Its defense, and the its bit of history, its comedy of dances commanding officer, wishing to do and assemblies, or its darker tragedy of misfortune, death and evpn murder. something that would afford the Among the places crowded with hisspecial delight, arranged to send the band over to the head- torical myths and shadows the old for quarters camp to play for him while he Carlyle house stands was dining. The garrison commander it has played its part in all the warwas in blissful ignorance of the fact fare of the country and has had no less that to the general the appreciation of a share in the heyday of Alexandria's music was a lacking sense and the mu- glory. Built of stone and Holland bricks by Hie early settlers, supposedsician's score a sealed book. About the third evening afier the ly in 1640. it was used during the ba'ud had begun its performances, the French and Indiau war ns a fort: and in the old kitrhen that is now falling general, while sitting at the remarked: "I've noticed that that band into decay there is a well that has always begin its noise Just about the supplied the place with water through time I am sitting down to dinner and all the varied phases of its long existwant to talk. it was in the house that rose I offered to go and ence. make an effort to suppress it and see above the fort, which, by tbe way, whether it would obey an order to made a most convenient foundation, "cease firing." and my services were not to mention stables and dungeons, The men wen that Hraddock. in consultation with promptly accepted. gorgeously uniformed ami Jibe band the governors of five colonies, planned seemed to embrace every sort of brass his campaign; here young instrument ever invented, from a George Washington received his first diminutive to a gigan- commission; the war of 1812 saw it tic doublebass horn. The performer in use as a powder magazine and a who played the latter Instrument was prison, while In the civil war It was encaged within its ample twists, and used as a hospital. Around the cololooked like a man standing inside the nial period, however, when Alexancolls of a whisky-stil- l. d dria's gln was brightest, most of the The bandmaster waa puffing with all interest centers; for, though the old the vigor of a adver- house Is now comparatively unknown tisement, his eyes were riveted upon and obscure, being hidden by the surthe music and It was not an easy task rounding wings of the Braddock to attract his attention. Like a sperm-whal- house, in those days its pillared portihe had come u$ to blow and co looked down upon long terraces, was not going to he put down till he bordered with slender Lombardy pophad finished; but finally he was made lars. The wide hall is flanked on eithto understand that, like the n er side by quaint little rooms, the most man, he was desired to move on. famous of which is tbe blue parlor," With a look of disinheritance on his unchanged since the days of Washcountenance he at last marched off hts ington, where the white cornice la band to Its camp. carved in queer little roses and thistles On my return the general said: I to remiud them, perhaps, of the old fear that bandmaster's feelings have English days of Merry Carlyle." It been hurt, but I didn't want him to was to this room that little Sallle Fairbe wasting his time upon a person who fax tripped down the mahogany stairs has no ear for music. A staff officer to dance at her first ball with Gen. remarked: Well, general, you were at Washington and in the tiny antechamleast more considerate than Commo- ber in front Gen. Braddock slept. Updore , who. the day he rame to take stairs the rooms are small and the command of his vessel and was seated modern housewife would look In disat dinner in the cabin, heard music may at the rupltoards, for they are on deck and immediately seat for the scarcely more than two feet square. executive officer and said to him: Havo The windows which front the river orthe instruments and men of that band iginally opened upon a balcony that tlrowu overboard at once! overhung a most enticing garden, but the balcony has gone and the old garden. with its circular patli of brick, Working on llu Itonk S.14 I'nr. The largest work on one subject u its great, and wistaria vines, the Acta Sanctorum," or "Deeds of is fast becoming a dream of the past. the Saints. most commonly railed On the third floor the rooms are smallLives of the Saints." it was begun er and so still that but for tbe spotless by the Rollandists. a community of the whitewash they might easily lie peoSociety of Jesus. The first volume was pled with ghosts. At one end of the volcompleted in 1tii:i and sixty-oupassage that runs between the rooms umes have altogether been Issued. there to a door leading into a corridor Other volumes are still In preparation. of the old hotel and down its length -- Boston Globe. of blackness It to said that the wailing of a baby, long since dead, often breaks through the silliness of the SI Mrs Out or tlir Way. Many curious mistakes nee-iIn the night. So much for (lie gliosis, who. puHiiifflee, but one which came to the unfortunately, do not walk in broad notice of a mall clerk on the train be- daylight, bur the old vaults, far down tween Boston and rortkind lust week below, are surely spooky enough, even was out of tbe ordinary. A letter ad- where the sunli irlit pours its warm uivhwav. dressed to a person at Fran k fort on II (sal through tin doorh-in Germany, had sent In one of fin partitions above the here from England, ami was being car. vaults stands an old cupboard. made ried to the slate or Maine. Boston iiy the Indians, witli truces of beading era Id. thickly covering f hi floors. Tin? beads, however, have ail disappeared, Down the stone stairs agaiu, to Hie left, there ii.vliig l'h Two men called upon the mayor ol is supposed to he an underground way which in those led to the Llndsborg, Kan., the other day and that was nearerriver, several hundred by days sum the him which II. the city paid had paid for their lodging one night in feet than it is now, but the vault has long been walled In. and its secrets July last, when they were caught short are The Hrnddoek still unsolved. there. They explained that they had HtirmiiiuN ibis relic of which house, In life which mads reached a condition it practicable to pay what they consid- a bygone stateliness, is of a much later date, but a quaint, rambling enough ered a debt. - . child-siste- r. general- -in-chief pre-emine- mess-tabl- e, ill-fat- ed cornet-a-plsto- NO. 28. 18117. ns old place It to. The front was originally built for a bank, and the rest of the house wae added afterward. It, too, baa aeen many rhangea and much degeneration, and it wings seems fairly to shake with holy horror at the bussing of the telegraph wires that hare their home in Ite staid and proper walls. Straight down the street from the Braddock house to the old Clagett tavern (they were all taverns in those days), whose lower floor has been degenerated into something that to more like a Junk shop than anything else, hut upstairs are the assembly rooms, whleh. it is said, George Washington often honored with his presence. There is a queer little musicians gallery looking into it that was accessible only from the lower hall by means of a ladder. aa the tiny door leading Into it to high up In the wall. When the musicians had assembled the ladder was takrn away, leaving those unfortunates no way of escape. This room, now divided into three, Is used as a club room by an organization tbat has done much to preserve and care for It. The carved wainscoting and molding are still the same, though the place baa been, of course, much modernized. On the opposite side of the hall to the room occupied by the famous Female ' Stranger," and it Is still pointed out to all other strangers, male or female, for wherever there to a mystery unsolved, mid a trifle uncanny, the Interest always seems the greatest This person, who is known only as the Female Stranger," came to the tavern early in the century. She stayed Just four days, and during that time held no converse with any one save her servants. to whom she spoke always in French. At the end of that time she died, but just before her death her husband arrived and in his arms she breathed her last. The monument he erected to her is still well preserved and slands in St. Itoul's cemetery, out beyond the city. The stone to a little dark, there Is a coping around the lot and a willow tree bends over her head. The words seem to have a peculiar significance, could the mystery be fathomed. perhaps lire tragedy of the Ufo cut off so suddenly, r perhaps the struggling soul that had found its peace: broad-belte- quack-medici- ne e. hand-orga- box-tre- es e r s -- he-Main. 1 1 t Agril a toll. years anil I months. This stone is erected by her connotate die Husband, In whoso arms ah sighed out her Latest breath, and who, unde Uod, Did hie utmost to soothe even tli cold dead ear of Death. : How loved, how honored once, avails thee not : To whom related, or by whom be- got : A I leap or dust alone remains of : Tie all' thou art, and all the proud shall be. To Him gave all the Prophets : utterance that, through his name. : whosoever helleveth In Him shall : receive remission of sins. Acts, 10th chapter, 43d verse. : : ; : : : : : : : : : Strange words for a soul released from its bondage; stranger still the unsolved mystery that hangs about her. Many are the speculations made, some even averring that she was the daughter of Aaron Burr, the unfortunate Theodosia, but this seems in credible, and nothing definite can be learned concerning this episode of a life to which, perhaps, it was the calm and peaceful ending. ndeslrshle Iniuilgrsnts. The last of seven escaped Siberian convicts who were found at sea in a small Imat and taken to San Francisco a couple of years ago has recently been disposed of by the state authorities. who sent him to prison for twenty years for burglary. One of his fellows was some time ago hanged for murder. I I.HHmilt lijr Telephone. novel suit at law was tried in the circuit court at Goshen. hid.. Monday, it w:ik submitted by Elkhart attorneys A over the telephone and witnesses examined in Hie same manner. Judge Warner deciding in favor of Hie plaintiff. I'oppeil All (lie Coin in Mglil. Thomas a. Linns and his son Fred have left liiiiitingloii, Iml.. in a hairy. It is said that they have stolen JJa.iihu. They were in the abstract ami loan business. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: "I see where ihe Queen of England has sixty pianos and doesn't pln.v uny of them." "That's a good girl. I know of a woman who has only one piano but she plays like sixty." |