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Show but it restored her consciousness, and she answered calmly! a day, though mournfully; r way. ini tSdgS the VI have no home no Let me take you to friends!" one who will tbe Plow. rejoice In being all to you," was the ?at niy back fS tb answering entreaty of the student, a track; the he in maiden looked but once torminglabor bare into his face. She plSced earnestly In & iEow for the share. her arm undoubtingly into his; and a U brief, walk brought her beneath JS5Swngh constancy-MfeI- I0t the iTtoo faithfully SAetefinfr roof of an bumble friend of hath no art Adolph an aged and lonely woman, IB ? heart. whose benevolence and worth were S'tothe a Unf alone ? Praise of all who knew her. spoaks Adolphs explanation was soon given numbing tone, The story of the maiden was necesrePrroath and fortune fly, & the eye, sarily longer. Bon in a distant records at CariS est tne humbler walks of society, uninvited ?n oft c? not to be repressed, Bertha Lindorf had been deprived in . of kin, Infancy of a father's ivilege care, and left the sole chargeprotecting of a widowed ,thj? litcb. and pass within mother. But their vilstraight way thou dost and friendless lage was ravaged by an epidemic, and the mother was among the earliest vie tims. Her only relatives, her mother's sistersurviving and her family, liv- - at length, self-sam- e PfilS , - , ft 4 fti -- a11 . vil-l?ge- Y rfie Sthe j mine! and my. after life shall be one intense study to banish care and evil from your lot, until the past shall seem to your tranquil and blissful spirit but the phantom of a fearful dream!" He checked his rhapsody for a glance had outpouring shown him that the maiden was unconscious. Recovering1 from her swoon, she broke the silence as soon as her strength permitted: "My preserver! I am yours forever! Heaven sent you to deliver me from a fate more horrible than death! May its mercy have granted you to be my guide and my guardian through life. I am yours in all honor forever' Adolph resumed his studies with calmness and assiduity, If not with the enthusiasm of his' earlier devotion. Bertha gave her best energies alike to book and toil; and Adolph had no reason to complain of her proficiency in the former, however he might have wished that the lessons which pertain to childhood had not been deferred to this period. Yet it was not long tef fore the student :began to feel a painful suspicion that all was not as it should be to suspect and accuse himself of adoring his betrothed with less intensity than he ought.' Even before a single month of their engagement had passed, he had learned to feel far less than rapture in her presence; less than misery when absent from her side. His visits were neither frequent nor protracted; yet the conversation often flagged for want of topics of mutual appreciation and interest. The silence bf a few moments was succeeded by a feeling of constraint. "I hear you are to be married, my sen?" was the well meant interroga-torr- y of the professor, as soon as his I. greeting had been returned. "You hear it truly, I believe," said Adolph, coloring, "And to ,a young, uneducated peasant girl from a secluded hamlet, whom you have known but these two months?" "Neither is that unlike the truth," was the cold response. "Are you not about to commit a grave error?" was the still kind in- quiry which succeeded, accompanied by a searching, though a parental each had blindly looked to marriage to reconcle differences which its intimate relationship could only serve to display more prominently, and to supply deficiencies which it could but render 'more painful. The very devotion of Adolph to his engrossing pursuits, which in a lover she had regarded' with pride, Bertha found in a husband to require an abstraction from and a neglect of the petty but still needful cares of daily life, and a habitual taciturnity, Her most urgent question often remained unanswered because unheeded ; his thoughts were wandering afar Often did she desist from endeavors to fix his attention on some topic in which she also could feel and express an interest, and retire to her chambers to weep tears of bitterness and despair. Her sky had now no gleam ; her future no hope. She had doomed 4 herself to bear the heavy curse of a lite devoid of sympathy, and must reap as she had sown. Adolph felt, at times acutely, that he had indeed committed "a grave mistake," j and that it was now truly too late to repent it. One (evening Adolph was absent from his home, as was not unfrequently the case, when a rap at the door apprised Bertha of his supposed return. , She opened, and Albert stood before her! "Do not spurn me, Bertha," he implored, as with a shriek of surprise she had motioned to close the door; "I am very ill and wretched." In hurried, broken accents, but with a firmness of purpose, he unfolded to her the dark picture of his blighted. hopes, his crushed (affections, his sufferings and his intense despair. Bertha could not summon! words to command him to desist and leave her presence; for it , ; : Story by Horace Greeley. was written while Mr. was was a voting man, and - , periodical In "obscure in an 4 . one; two; three; had been tolled by all the docks Prtt4en;the most inveterate forborne for; that iyTiad further prosecution of their hardiest revelers had reel-f- t; e sol-- 4. slumbers-th- e their turbid most wakeful dullness of the to. - the professors had bowed L-tb- ! soporific of his. own "Deareit Bertha, Be Mine." Stations. Nature and men are a consiaera Die distance and n ea ai "C buried in darkness , and repose; the vicinity of Gottingen; thither she window gleamed bore the burden of her sorrowjs, Judgfe, from a single when on of a student who seemed then, her consternation, reaching the. place she was Informed U tooutwatch the stars! her relatives had, emigrajtcd some had been a dreamer that olpli Bruner weeks earlier to America, lecving her and none to lean upon, whether k ndred or a tis Infancy. Born to penury ren-his life had been j friend. She had arrived at the end (of - her sorrowing journey that Very day, waknot its less by endurable but to find new and unexpec ed cause dreams than its stern exertions.; of grief; the house she hal sought '?by step had he won; his way: stood tenantless, and no rite of hospi,j t,y that pood Providence which; tality ha 4 been tendered by Jts cherished and from fortune miscall unheeding "neighbors. irreverently Desolate and distracted, she had wanignorance' and destitution . of bis dered in ilts vicinity until nightfall, to the higher sources of know-- j half hoping, in her deep despair, that the most Providence would restore toj that deand instruction to serted tenement those from whom tjA uniTersity of Germany. Here alone she look for al welcome might bril-- S ' i career had been a "brief but a J home. a J ; J. and enthusias- one. Adolph listened with soft attention with, no prospect in to the simple narrative, and soon after jud devoted commended the fair stranger to :he i bat such as flowed from or Inter-- j rest she so much needed, and bade A themselves with his achieve-- ; her and her hostess adieu till the mor. ::j as a, scholar his progress bad row. The morning call of Adolph at the a most rapid, and bis deportment was brief and constrained; for cottage as to win for him the undisguls-- j ' " the first glance sufficed to show that probation of his fellows. to both rescuer and rescued .the night :k now the thoughts of Adolph,. impetuous and engrossing" In : That evening found each more comr wide career had found a channel posed. Each, since their last meeting different from that which they had had bowed to the spell of 'Nature's :erto traversed. An incident had sweet restorer," and been refreshed rred the evening previous which its Influence. The maiden met jher itsned to influence the whole by at the door; of the cot, f ith preserver .icter of his after life. i gratitude, If njt with! cheerfullively .turning on that? evening from his ness, arid for a few moments their d walk; in which he was accuse the effort tola void) the,, :A to ramble wherever accident or thoughts flowed,more became and more appar-- ? future 7 should suggest, he had been at ent; the. conversation flagged, at : an involuntary; spectator of, and i became evident ceased. it It length lately a participator in, a scene that the point to which the thoughts likelj to be soon effaced from his tended could (not of both irresistibly A 5 j hr f e j Single-hearte- d, ; - j ii ; " ; -- seemed 8 t j ; : . , . i ,- j have arrived at what should be years of discretion," re turned Adolph," in the same calm tone. "At any rate, the question comes too late to be profitably pondered." V A new incident soon marked the progress of Bertha's for some time monotonous and tranquil life. A youth of her native village, Albert Korlerjby name, who had, tied from the ravages of the pestilence which bereft her of her last remaining parent, had wandered to Gottingen, and, hearing that his former playmate had found there a residence, he sought and found her. The meeting was to her one of lively pleasure, though the memory of former, joys and sorrows eventually gave to this and tneh succeeding interviews a more pensive interest. To him, alas! that meeting was one bf, mingled rapture and despair. He had loved her from early childhood; at first with a boyish preference and admiration, which grew with adding years into the wild Idolatry of a doting lover. No word of this had he betrayed to the object of his intense devo tion. But now, when she met him among strangers, after an interval most sad andeventful, she had grown wiser in the knowledge of the heart, and the truth flashed, though doubtfully, upon her.- - Albert was in no haste to confirm her suspicions. So long as he remained avowedly but a simple acquaintance and a friend of her childhood, she could not deny him her presence without implying all that, were it true, she 'would be most anx "I believe 1 in-closu- p . -- ! e ob- any plans for the future, and whether character the he would be allowed! to assist in (pu- happened to meet. The It had suited to misunderstand; and, accosted insolence being repelled with to more they were-fire- 3 d in-"itio- ose n. un-Jtrjib- le rudeness and insult. pretty lips shall answer for . - impudence with ; ) r. a kiss," rwe will see If ' is equal to their tart's, weetness and, with a single spring, he CMght her so tightly In his arms J repress the shriek of mingled and terror that rose to and exolairrf-ricgleade- ; Jn-rf- on ;pon her lips, jvi ph ... . ... stood for one moment root- amazement to the earth. The tsta.nt he had bounded with an Ration of rage and horror Into - t of the group, ind the Infur- : - i - this inquiry ;and ie fair questioner - tulaln felt himself hurled with : srssztn from his victim and i to earth with the momentum of the forest, you are safe! I my ...life shall bard; she doubted not; but the 2? sensations of one terrible not to be dissipated by J. andereneither the scene nor Its j-- J It'. ' j -- -t- icca - were 'calculated to re-; if r to composure. She shrank ir : tting them in execution. Aj blusli at tne vivia recollection or ner uepeixu- ence, succeeded by a deadly paleness and a sob of deepest intensity, consti tuted the response. She could not summon words to reply. Adolph was pained, but not sur-hnrised. He felt the diflicultles of Dosltion as truly, if not as keenly, as the sensitive being at her side. But he felt also that any, proffers of assistance, much more any protestation's of devotion, which might have preceded this question, .would have been jstill more embarrassing, besides seerbing" to be untimely and obtrusive, In View . - er ( I . ! f : . for-this- , ; ! If SithSkl hokedj t!?5ioflst Bertha, be mine! be mine Her Preterrer. nQt '1 trembling s.nd lrreco-wa- s forever! God h W must h j compelled to SiStrmWe X? with you it will -- -- :t 5amble povertv and want your friends may I ever be a gcholar; are the aPnn?enthe heaviest t love response; Bq t to destroy, Ccd. ana uium buf-bu- liL-el-y . -- of her bereavement and desolation. (one, Gently urging the subjecttheasfrank which necessity required consideration, he forebore to aggravate her painful sense of dependence that she would be most by assurances welcome to such a home as jhls means so long as she might provide her, his hands. This at chose to accept it was sufficiently understood, and needed not the empty parade of words. But when at length he had drawn her to speak of her plans and herinhopes, he was startled and shocked Inturn the barrenness. by their repulsive dreamed had he his heart simplicity of some scheme of life) not out for her' a situation as own his to dissimilar or, at the fprst, teacher, governess, more the graceful of!(delin some of her mechanical employments icate fiiture sex, in which the immediate could be passed tranquillyis And soothingly leaving a brightvague butbeyond, blissIrradiated by Hope's these none of Alasrfor ful gleanings. qualified! filer was the maiden fitly seclusion from in been passed life had mother her society; the instruction meager able to impart was not was long indeed; and, the student crushed her. spirit discovering that no higher than to. ome SStlon in which she would be allowuned to earn the bread:of poverty bytoll-and drMdgery of menial remitting her failing neither even calcunature nor jwas gentle etrengtn lated to adapt her. in. his, whlh3 his H Jumbled hand and his witSemo- - ainBhed Wildly to thie Rlver. with rapid strides approaching. The Intimate communion of months had still more the taught Her to respect of Adolph and to eslorf ty character Yet her spirit virtues. teem his many: was awed rather than attracted by the greatness of his intellect and the maja esty of hie contemplations., as brother she would have gladly soothed his hours of depression and cheered him on to labors of which she woulcD know and seek to know only that their aim was worthy even of him. As a lover, she was chilled by a sense of his superiority and sat mute and .constrained In his presence. How strange how painful was the contrast between an evening shared with her lover and d one enjoyed with the admiring, friend of her childhood! Bertha had instinctively concealed from Albert the day of her nuptials ; indeed, she had not trusted herself, nor allowed him to speak of the matter fell, at all, and when the thunderbolt was over. all The that announced It consummarriage had been privately had the immediately parties mated, set off to visit the widowed mother of disAdolph, living at a considerable Albert heard from Gottingen. tance hear no farther. A this, and sought to delirium overcame and fever raging consciousness his when and an;d him, health were restored, Bertha, in happy of his misfortunes and wonignorance his sudden disappearance, at dering some time quietly settled for had been in the discharge of her matronly duties as the head of her husband's humble household. In the union of Adolph with Bertha j , ; simple-hearte- j - re hap-pen- ed -- of "Bertha!" and she, started as the sepulchral sound fell upon her intent ear, "by a single act of folly you have destroyed your future peace and mine. I was standing idly at the door but now, when my attention was attracted by, a rushing noise in the garden. I looked and saw the friend of your childhood, whom you once introduced to mei fling himself madly from the and fly ,as- if in terror. His was marked throughout by a flight band of reprobate students who to be1 passing, who saw me standing as if in waiting at the door, and who instantly set up a shout of merriment and derision.. Tomorrow your jname will be the jest of every vile heart and scandalous tongue in Gottingen! How could you so. distrust and mistake me as to deem me capable of vulgar suspicion as to resort to this wretched and ruinous subterfuge to conceal from me the visit of one whom as your friend I would": He ceased, for she had fallen heavily and senseless on the floor. By the application of every restorative she was at length awakened to consciousness, but not to the clear light of reason. Her mind wandered; the past and the present, the absent and the near, were blended in inextricable confusion, and Adolph; could only understand that his presence was painful to her, and that she entreated him to retire and leave her tb compose her troubled thoughts. He obeyed, but not without misgivings ; slumber was out of the question, and he proceeded to his little study and was soon immersed, so far as It was possible at such a time even for him to be, in the perusal of a favorite volume. An hour passed; he found that he was but deceiving himself; the words burned and danced before his eyes,) but no corresponding Images were; imprinted on his brain; he became alarmed at the profound silence maintained by Bertha; swiftly he revisited her apartment, but to find, it vacant; he called, but received no reply, f Slowly and in agony wore away the remaining hours of night; the morning dawned but to confirm his worst forebodings. Distracted, hopeless, and burning with shame and contritionshe had stolen noiselessly from the home which by a venial but fatal error she had disgraced, and rushed wildly to a neighboring river; a plunge, a moment's struggle, a gurgling, choking sound, and all was over. A lowly grave in a secluded dell, a weepa humble stone mark ing willow and rest of the hapless victim the earthly of a rash, misguided union. - -sly 3 she . 4IIe savs I -- "And won't he it''" "That's the worst of it.. He that he doesn't care if I have rav says own all the time; l"won't that make up my mind it is" Washington Star. An Appalling ConUlUou "Did ye'z rade about Mexico her indepindence day jist recently?" said Mr. Dolan. "Oi did," replied Mrs. Dolan. "An' phwat av it?" "Oh, nothin' much. Only Oi'm glad Oi don't live there. Think av a coun-thr- y so much behind hand that the, Fourth av July comes in Siptimber!" Washington Star. have let-vm- ay b-b- ut wh-wh- at j n' . article. ?fot! to Blame. "Oh," said the other, "I didna leave "Hear the wild waves beating on it in this shop, for ye were ower by in Nelson street when ye got it." the shore?" said the hotel clerk who "That imust have been a long time has spasms of poetry. "Yes," replied the landlord, who was ago," said Mr. Muirhead, "for we left Nelson street in 1878 ;" that is seven- looking over his ac' teen years since." so "the count; much poor things ain't "But I; left it wi' ye for a' that," said to blame; not after the example of those summer guests have set 'em." the man; He was asked for the name; and Washington Star. number (of the watch, which he deJealous of Philadelphia.scribed, land on opening the repository "What are you so cross about?" said it was found safe and sound. years had pass- one card sharp to another. Exactly twenty-tw- o man handed the "That duffer did me out of $10," h9 since the ed away called he for for in watch growled. repair, yet had "That's nothing. You'll get It back it at the; end of. that 'time as if hePear-eonoff the next man that you meet," the left it week, only preceding "Oh, it isn't the money that makes Weekly. me mad. It's the disgrace of the thing. Another Whiskey Trust. The cove said he was from Philadelphia." Detroit Free Press. ss profit-and-lo- ; . . - i 's Professional Courtesy, i .Two doctors met on the street. "I feel sorry for you. You ought not to be out in this kind of weather. You are a sick man," said Dr. Blister. "I am feeling very "well," replied Dr. Soonover. "What doctor is treating you?? "I am prescribing for myself. ": "You shouldn't do that. You are liable to be arrested for attempting suicide." Texas Sittings. . Artificial Leg for a Canine. New& Nearly a year ago valuable; foundland dog belonging to Max Beale of Norfolk and valued at $400, had one of his legs cut off by a coal train, and it was decided at the time to shoot the animal, but Dr. Ralph Bendon went to work and arranged a leather leg! with such success that the dog now walks as well as ever. Newport , before: him. -- e Some little time ago an elderly man called at the shop of a Mr. Muirhead, a jeweler in Glasgow, and said that he had come for his watch, which had been left to be repaired. As Mr. Muirhead had no remembrance at the moment of having done business with the man, he asked when he had left the - y s, ctle-brati- frenzied man. Another knock! What clouds of it did it not sophistry and serve to dispel! Bertha felt now criminal; hov insane had been that interview, and how deep had been her guilt in listening passively to avowals of love.; from another beside her husband. Gladly would she have welcomed the bolt of death; she would even have met Adolph's gaze and revealed all the truth. But Albert, enfeebled by severe illness as well as shattered in intellect by his great despair, had I ious to conceal. And thus he tottered cry. young female alone and be avoided in their words; the exertion on In the gloom of a fast deepehing a stranger In the city was was painful, and could be sustained twilight, to find its only consumma ".rachinjr it from abroad, and perr but unmeaning commonplace, or by tion in a night of blackest despair. by :ei and bewildered the dark- - emphatic silence. The pause wasl but by And. Bertha; too, even she had learn4 closing In upon her novel and untwas broken a few for moments; it by ed in her inmost soul to fear, if not toi ied condition, had addressed Adolph, who forbear1-ancfarther deeming dread, the great event xf her life, nowj natural Inquiry: to three of the useless and unwise, frankly asK1graceless of young collegians, ed his charge if shej had yet formed I Brieltt Scintillations of Wit From the Pens of the Professional Fun Makers Humorous Ileacliiij? for Young? and Old. and heart-broke- n "Y-ye- w-w- a needless less fortitude or a deeper consciousness of wrong. VI cannot will not meet him!" he exclaimed in agony; "let me fly!" She pointed to the door which led into the little garden In the rear of their little cottage, and in a moment he rushed through it. Sick at heart and trembling in every nerve fiber, 'Bertha? Xmfastened the door at which her husband waited; she had neither; strength nor courage to open it; and Adolph, who had fallen into one of jhis habitual reveries, remained for some minutes without. Alas ! when he did enter, his eye had a fearful brightness and his voice, preternat-urallcalm, had a sternness which might jwell appall a bolder and loftier spirit; than that of the wretched being . j torture a PASSING OF THE HO Lit. ; : look. mom'ent self-dece- . - at that - you? as.:,.i i;rr Tigitor; solemnly. she sobbed. in- want- my own way all the time.": JESTS SOME SIDE. SUNNY ; . . ; cruelty-t- o . - ' tortocible ' ' LIFE'S News-Commercia- l. Would Necessitate a Tailor's Bill. "Smedley'B best girl gave hitn a tall hat as a present on his birthday,. and ";'; ''wh he's awfully embarrassed." 'X ':) k':, " '"'.' ((' "Why, tell him to brace up and wear it." They Understood Each Other. "Look here, you're drunk," declared "Oh, it isn't that; you see he has Jones, jas he confronted his blear-eyebut short coats to wear with cook. ("What do you mean by coming: nothing it." Chicago Record. home in this condition?" The wobbling cook commenced to A Play Cyclist. -'- . ; . rf..'' Vi.,;:i , ?'' ! : f..;:iv : . J i ; . d j ed-O- ' whimper. "Sure, sir, I haven't touched a dhrop. dacent lady, sir," I'm a she moaned. , "Oh, that I'd ever see the day that I'd be ' towld I was dhroonk." "Oh; none of that. You can't fool me," growled Jones. "I've been' there too often myself." "Sure,, then, Mr. Jones, we oonder-sthan- d aich oother, don't we?" And cook nodded her head and wiped the tears and beamed on Jones. her away San Francisco Evening Post. JHllE self-respecti- n' I it ut t" ;sW- ' i L Rather Unexpected Advice.: i ' Her Mother Bessie, dear, I am very ,.a to see such show little my girl eorryj First Cyclist Are you pneumatlo-tire- d lack of respect for her seniors. When or cushion-tireda neighbor comes to call on us you Second Cyclist Damn tired I should sit quietly and not speak unless you are spoken to. You do not mean to be disrespectful, I am sure, but you Very Douhtfal Assurance. should think of the impression you are Away out West: and you will makihg on our neighbors, Conductor See here, we dont stop hereafter, I hope, to tryBessie1 that station. You had better look out, atTenderfoot .out you see my ticket mamma. You'll talk yourself to death. calls for to stop there. you Boston Transcript. Conductor (after a moment) Well, let it go; we'll probably be held up j' BIhllcal. along there somewhere, anyhow. Chi- SSw... - ,1,- ': - i ? t cago Record. : In the Alps. ! On reaching a certain point the driver turned round on his seat and ob- Id it W served to the passengers: . "From this point the road is only accessible to mules and donkeys; 1 must therefore ask the gentlemen to pet out and proceed on foot." Feuille d'Avis de Vevey, jK i' Not Always Symmetrical. "Has Clara taken to wearing bicycle bloomers yet, Jennie?" "No, not yet. I don't think she will, either. Do you, Mame?" "No, those sawdust leggings they sell are so unreliable." New York Recorder. l ' A Place for Everything:. Its Mother Oh, John, John! What Ml shall we do? Baby has swallowed his 'r After Man Came Woman. m m Its Father Do nothing. Now hell always have; it with him, and we won't have to be forever looking for it when, , A Valuable Help. Teacher In what year was the: bat- he cries. Town and Country Journal. tle of Waterloo fought? Moved. I don't know. j Fupil Irish here? Tourist Everybody Is . Teacher If It simple enough you Native Yes. We used to have on only would learn how to cultivate arti- Chinaman. ficial memory. Remember the twelve Tourist What became of him? apostles. Add half that number to Native He moved to make it unanithem. That is eighteen. Multiply! that mous. Detroit Tribune. 1800. Take the twelve by 100. That's Politeness.. a of Add their quarter apostles again. Additional Torture. A New York clergyman, whom al- number to them. That is 1815. That to see, date. Quite simple, you most everybody knows by reputation, is the if you will only adopt dates remember time same had a laughable and at the American Youth, system. my unpleasant experience recently, One How He Judged Character.! Sunday not long ago he was going up "So you want a situation?" said the the steps of his Fifth avenue church, business man. when he was asked by an old lady Yes, sir," replied the applicant. "Hum do you ever go fishing?" (who, of course, did not know him) to "Occasionally." help her up the steps. With his usual "When were you fishing last?" rewith her he complied courtly grace i u v,. 'Day before yesterday." quest. On reaching the. top steps she . Gatch anything?' halted, breathlessly, and asked him a "Not thing." who was going to preach that day. "Ton can come to work next Mon"The Rev. Mr. Blank," he replied, who "Here is the account of Isa man if you like. If you keep on telling to suffer he and giving his own name. "Oh,meLord!'! day down the truth like that ycu may be a part- had four wives, exclaimed the old lady; Mhelp , for it" listen to a man ner in the firm one of these days." Life. again. I'd rather again?" "What, help me Washington sharpening a saw. Please la Bliss. down again. I reckon I won't go in." Vhn Isrnorance Cruelty. a month The clergyman smiled and gently asOnly fancy She (dreamily) "Oh, dear," sobbed Mrs. Hunnimune, from be we shall married. sisted her down the stairs again, re"I knew it would come to this, but I He (absently) Well, let'a be happy marking as he reached the sidewalk, diSn't expect it so soon." can. Illustrated Bits. "I wouldn't go in, either, if I wasn't Has your husband been mistreat-- while we paid for it." New York Journal. , 4 I j . i II i r . : to-morr- |
