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tne story of a girls faithful lore- peace at last when im a man yon shall have a proper horse and not a thing like this he said grandly perhaps we shant play together then though she aniwered oh yes we shall he said thoughtfully you know he added patronizingly i may marry yon that is if yon are pretty and can spin a pegtop and dont funk jumping a ditch or do stupid things that are of no use at all perhaps i shant want yon to marry me the replied scornfully i should like to inarry a soldier v 1 shall be a soldier and yon are sure to ant me to marry yon he said with deci sion and she believed him and from that day forth she considered the matter settled and when many a yeir later he told her laughingly thit he was only a poor soldier and mnst marry on heiress or remain on foreign service all his life she was not very uneasy for aho felt sure that then he was only joking they had many a talk and walk together ere the first spell of foreign service came alio grangers uncle lived next door to maggie dutlop8 parents and as her father was an invi lid and her mother was wholly engrossed in attending upon him the gomga out and comings in of thai young lady were not aubjeot to the amount of at tention they might otherwise have received che consequence was that when alio granger came as he did at every available opportunity to porlook to visit his remark ably welloff uncle he beguiled his time away by talking with pretty maggie dun- lop until he also beguiled her heart away i have got some news for you maggie he said one day about eighteen months after he had gained his commission guess what it is they were walking along the green lanes of porlock listening to the ceaseless murmur of the sea as at intervals they had walked and listened ever since they could remember at any rate for she was six years younger than her former playfellow you are going to be promoted she said promoted you little goose 1 no one ever gets promoted in the british army gnesa again you are going to marry an heiress there was a lump in her throat as she said u wrong again no inestimable young person with green eyes a turnup nose sus ceptible heart and fifty thousand a year has turned up yet but its something nearly as good im ordered to china oh alio i she gasped and burst into tears it was very foolish of her bub then she was only sixteen and had not yet acquir ed the piaiseworthy art of concealing her feelings why whatever are yon crying for he asked and kissed away her tears hed kissed her ever since she was five and thought ho more of it than if she had been his sister or the cat excepting perhaps that it was nicer which it was no doubt i shall be away only five years at most and when i come back ill bring you a pigtail and an ivory toothpick and a whole lot of things and- yea ahe said listening attentively but then youll be a young woman i forgot and out and all that sort of thing and wont condescend to speak to a poor lieutenant you will have all the squires and foxhunters about the place at your feet oh no indeed i shant alio she said eagerly but i tell you you will i believe you are a born little flirt and i shall come back and find you but she burst into tears again and put up her pretty little hands as if to stop his teasing which she could not bear just then it seemed so cruel of him to laugh and joke when he was going away for five years he did not seem to care a bit and she could have broken her heart on the spot and would have gladly done so and thrown the pieces away so as never to be bothered with it again then seeing her mournful blue eyes he was mer ciful i believe i shall come back and find you just ns great a little darling as you are now and if we have got any money well get married and live happy ever after and if we havent well get married and starve- ever after unless of course the heiress turns up oh i hope she wont 1 said maggie like a truthful little idiot shall you ever write to me alio y os of course i shall and i shall ex pect you to write baok six pages crossed and all that sort of thing you know poor mag- fie itll ruin you in postagostamps its a bob to china i dont oareshe answered recklessly for maggie was a fearful little pauper whose father had ruined himself long ago and just kept up a patched up sort of appearance and didnt know what would become of them all if it ever seriously occurred to bis creditors to pounce down upon them maggie was twenty years old when her father died and the oreditora did pounce down and she and her mother were sold up and all porlock and ten miles round talked about them for porlock and ten miles round loved her soandal as much as the rest of the world and though it griev ed over the misfortunes of others it still ap preciated the subject for discussion they afforded mrs ounlop was offered a home in london by a sister who was well off and bad tempered and it was thankfully accept ed maggie was informed that she must got her own living which being precisely maggies own opinion as well as intention she advertised for a situation as governess now maggie had a very modest idea of her merits and therefore only asked for twenty- five pounds a year and a comfortable home so no less than five answers came to her announcement that she could teach english french music and the rudiments of draw ing one of these answers was from wool wich and stated that mrs marshall required a governess for her three little girla maggie thought she should like to live in a garrison place she might even some day see alio there not that she would condescend to speak to him after his neg lect of course and not that she cared oh dear no only out of curiosity she should like to see what the chinese wife he bad no doubt picked up was like so to woolwich she went mrs marshall was a stiffnecked sort of woman and stared at poor little maggie who looked almost as childlike and twioe pretty as ever through double gold glasses col marshall her husband was a nice old man with a bald head and an irongray moustache and there was a grownup daughter a miss patterson mrs marshalls daughter by her first husband whs was really the mistress of the establish ment for maria patterson had a strong will and she was an heiress a very nasty heiress too poor maggie thought and she was right for maria was skinny snd twentyfive if she was a day and thought herself sarcastic and al vays said nasty things to people who did not due say them back agan bnt maggie had not much to do with any of the family but her three iittle pupils and was quite contented with her schoolroom and liked to read quietly of an evening and seldom went into the drawingroom after dinner as she was invited to do and maria was glad of this for there were often guests in the drawingroom who would have admired the pretty governess more than would have been agreeable to the heiress so alio granger went to china and maggie waited hopefully enough for a letter but six months passed and none came perhaps it takes longer for a letter to get here from china she thought knowing about as little about the means of transit and the time it took as if the celestial city had been in the moon but a year passed and no letter came perhaps hes ill or its miscarried she said tearfully half wondering if it conld be possible that a chinese heirera had turned up and that was the real reason of alics silence poor little maggie 1 she was very miserable about him for a girl frets and fumes and worries herself about her first i dont know what yon mean miss pat terson 1 maggie said indignantly i only speak out of kindness ahe said fiddling at an emerald ring which maggie had never noticed on her finger before of course mr granger is ao very very intimate here that we should never misun derstand anything he did she suddenly dropped the ring and proceeded to look for it it had rolled to maggie8 feet and ahe picked it up and handed it back thank you the heireaa said i dont know what mr granger would say if i told him id tried to lose it already maggies heart stood still then he had given her that ring 1 ws are going out with him thia morning ahe added and with a gracioua smile that froze poor maggie she disapear- ed then maggie went into her own little room the one place she had in the world entirely to herself and cried till her eyes were red and ber head ached the lessons did not progress that morning maggie was thinking of alio who was no doubt strolling about the common listening to the band and making love to the heiress the children were more than usually stupid too and all the world seemed upaide down and all ita ways turned crooked suddenly at about twelve oclock just when maggie was in the middle of expounding as best she could the eccentricities of the french gram mar there was a knock at the schoolroom door come in she said the door opened and there stood before her astonish ed eyes the form of alia granger and be hind him was a man evidently his servant with a box on his shoulders all right tim put it down thats right now be off there ive brought the curiosities round maggie i thought youd like to see them oh what will mrs marshall and miss patterson say said maggie in consterna tion nothing to you for the next half hour or bo for i have just seen them safely on j their way to woolwich and thought i should just get a quiet chat with you my deara he aaid turning to maggies wide- eyed openmouthed pupils im sure youd like to be let off yonr lessons so ill let you off for halfau hour run along my little dears and he opened the door for them and shut it after them oh alio 1 she said in fear and trem bling oh maggie 1 he answered mimicking bat did you mean by going away from porlock and not leaving any address j i couldnt help it and you never wrote she answered helplessly sweetheart more than about twenty after ones all put together even thongh she may not really love him half so well as acy of them and she could not satisfy herself by making inquiries of the welloff uncle next door for he had let his house and the pad dock and betaken himself to cannes in order to live the longer at last the brilli ant thought struck her that shed write to alio and she did and then for maggie was getting older pride stepped in and would not let her send her letter two years passed and never a word its too bad she said bitterly and wondered rue fully if he really had married a wife with a pigtail and the days and the months went by and maggie jonrneyed on into woman hood but no word or sign came from alio granger and at last she gave him up alto gether one evening when maggie had been about ayearat woolwich and she was sitting alone in her schoolroom as usual for her pupils had just said goodnight and been delivered up ro the tender mercies of their nurse miss patterson walked in very much dressed and rather flushed and excited miss dunlop she aaid we shallhave a few friends this evening and i know one or two of them like an impromptu dance will you be rdy to ojmeinto the drawingroom and play i we should want you 1 lur 1 can not play dance musio very well i never keep time said maggie yes i feared so an thought i would come and tell you so that you might prac tice for an hour or two till after dinner and ahe sailed out of the room evi dently considering the matter settled and maggie after relieving her feelings by making a few elegant grimaces after her retreating form meekly proceeded to praotice the mabel waltz and the flick and flock gallop then she put on her shabby black evening gown and stuck a spray of whits flowers into her golden hair and waited patiently for a summons hoping she would wait in vair it very soon came and with a roll of music under her arm a flush on her innocent frightened face and a scared almost hunted expression in her eyes she descended and timidly opened the draw ing room door and then stood still for a moment staring in astonishment at the scene before her there sat tho heiress with an eager pleased expression on her face and leaning over her talking and laughing and more handsome than ever and sunburnt and soldierlooking was alio granger there was no mistaking him the color ruihed to maggies face as if to say a hurried good bye and then left it altogether she recov ered her selfpossession however and walked with what she flittered herself was great dignity towards the piano she felt rather than saw him raise his head and look at her and the next moment he was by her side maggie my dear maggie 1 why fancy you being here where did yon come from 1 have been trying to find you out for months i thought you and then she did not know how to go on she added almost piteously i am th governess here are you oh i see then that is the reason i have not seen you before i sup pose co you really know miss dunlop v the heiress asked coming up and speaking in her coldest manner maggie wished sincerely ahe could sink nto her shoes and bury herself why of course i do we have been playfellows ever since we were born havent we maggie and maggie feeling she was backed up answered bravely yes oh indeed how interesting 1 then turning to maggh will you be so good as to begin a waltz miss dunlop this was to be our dance i think to alio and she sail ed off with him triumphantly and maggies fingers pit tered valiantly over the key board but her poor little heart felt a terrible load within her alio had always told her he must marry an heiress anc the whole thing was plain oh she was so miserable i that was why be was evidently on such intimate terma with the family she didnt care ahe had got over her foolish feeling for him long ago but she would give the world to be at the bottom of the ssa or a thousand miles away he came up to her directly the dance was over i went down to porlock to try and find out where you had gone to he aaid but nobody knew it didnt matter ahe said huskily let ting her fingers wander vaguely over the keys to make believe she wasnt very inter ested in what he said yea it did it mattered a great deal why ive got a box full of curiosities for yon clubs to fight with and a little heathen god or two and a statue of buddha and all aorta of thinga i told you i should bring you them home do you live here i mean in the house he said these last words under his breath for the heireaa came up and the next minute he waa carried off to dance with mra somebody at the other end of the room but not before maggie had nodded a reply to him soon after this miss patterson came np to the piano and saying she wished to play herself and that maggie looked tired dismissed her without her being able to get even another look at alio the next morning to maggies very great surprise miss patterson came into the schoolroom before the children had assem bled miss dunlop she aaid stiffly i should like to know whefe you say you met mr granger at porlook his uncle lived next door to my mother he is a very old friend in deed thank you i merely wished to inquire because of course you must bs aware that it is not usual for anyone in your position to make herself remarkable by having long confidential talks with any gentleman who may visit the house no i never write letters dont know how to spell enough but xhave been hunt ing for you all over the lace and nevei dreamt of finding you here- now well unpack the box i had it opened before i came so its only fastened by a lorsk bur alio theyll never forgive me never mind it doesnt matter because if you are good ill take you away next week besides theyll forgive me anything i saved the colonels life when he was in hong kong at least so he says there now what do you think of these for fighting with got them at java on purpose for you and he held up a pair of heathenish looking clubs and brandished them over her head and then proceeded to pull out the rest of the contents of the box and to decor ate the schoolroom with them theres mr buddha and theres why- whats the matter maggie nothing only you will get me into dreadful trouble you will indeed miss patterson came in this morning and scolded me for talking to you last night never mind she waa only jealous he laughed now tell me how soon you can leave here what for she asked innocently wh you havent forgotten that we agreed to get married when i came back have you you little coquette j and he put his arm round her waist just as of old and was not reproved it was so very comfort able she thought no but you are epgaged are you not yes of oourse i am to you oh i but alio oh i but maggie and then he stooped and kissed her and nothing more could be said for the door opened and there stood the colonel and there stood mrs marshall and there stood maria pat terson miss dunlop acreamed maria horror struck mr granger 1 said mrs marshall in astonishment hoitytoity 1 exclaimed the colonel what does all this mean she must leave the house at once said the heiress of course she mnst mrs marshall said i never heard of suoh a thing in my life no more did i pnt in alio who was always irrepressible to deliberately send the children out of the way and have mr granger up into the schoolroom and what is all this rubbish pointing to the curiosities my dear mrs marshall said alic looking ts if he were beginning a speech it is all my fault you told me and so did tho colonel to consider yonr house my home and i have done so miss dunlop here was a playfellow of mine once and when i went away we were engaged but somehow we lost sight of each other when there were a few thousand miles between ns and it waa the happiest moment of my life to meet her again last night and so i took the liberty of calling on her this morning and we were just arranging to get married next week when yon interrupted ns quite right quite right my dear granger said the old colonel heartily yon shall be married from here oh 1 please let me go to mamma do let me go at once pleaded maggie finding her little tongue at last i think it would be- much more satisfactory if miss dunlop went back to her relations said the heiress sourly so they all finally agreed and that very afternoon maggie picked np her modest be longing and all the cariosities and went to the well off and badtempered aunt but alic she asked in the railway carriage for he escorted her to london of course why did yon give miss patterson a ring i tnought you where going to marry her did you miss goose j well you see miss patterson is a charming girl no doubt bnt somehow the men dont see it and in spite of her money and best endeavors she has not got off yet not that i suppose she would have had me but about the ring r dont know anything about a ring ex cepting that i bad one mended fcr her 1 broke it in showing the colonel a conjuring- trick any more questions well only dont you think you really had better marry an heiress dont you think you had better mind your own business however i dont mind telling you that poor uncle tom died at cannes last year and left me all he had so you see i can afford to have you miss and i hope you feel much obliged yes alic dear i do she said truth fully the badtempered aunt received her niece very graciously when ahe found she was go ing to marry well the following week it is amazing how fond people are of rich rela tions even though the riches concern them little personally as for poor mra dunlop she could have jumped for joy only she vas too old for such violent exercise pray miss what are you laughing to yourself about asked alic the day before their wedding day nothing alio only when you were away i used to think sometimes that perhaps youd married a chinese heiress with a pig tail the sort of thing you would think he said grandly as it is you see i am going to marry a little girl without a pigtail and i am very happy my darling are you 5 very very ahe 8aid and ahe waa is stanley alive henry m stanley accompanied by nine hundred men started from yambuza on the congo on the 23d of june 18s7 for the relief of emin bey his objective point was wadelal the distance in a straight line is about 660 miles bat the region being unknown and the impedimenta fre quent tho journey probably aggregated 790 miles stanley expected to make twelve miles a day and join emin in azguat and be back in november this was rather too sanguine however for the average rata of stanleys march in 1870 from zanzibar to victoria nyanza was only six miles a day but even with the full allowance for inter ruption a long time has elapsed one year and six months have gone and his fate is un known is stanley dead the question is the subject of a valuable symposium in the december number of the north american review the writers are lord wolsaley president dily of the american geographi cal society and james m hubbard and m franz boaz two authorities on african ex ploration general wolseley says i feel convinced that he has reached emin pasha he further declares that the circumstances atrepgthen the assumption that stanley and the white pasha are one and the same person he continues as far as one can gather from all we have learned from zanzi bar the country between it and emin pashas headquarters has been so disturbed by this war that no news or messengers have been allowed to pass through the line of contending tribes it is not only that we have no news of stanley since last november but neither have we had any from emin to me it is quite evident that we shall hear of both at tno same time end i believe it will be to the effect that stanley reached emin about the end of last year upon reaching wadelai it is certain that stanley would give his men a rest the four ex perts all believe that stanley is alive let us hope that the conclusion is correct f baltimore american talking dolls and now mr eiiaon has invented a genu ine talking doll he calls it a dollphone he puta a little phonograpa with a clock work accompaniment in the dolla back and by pressing a spring the doll will say i love you mamma i love you dearly mamma but 1 am tired and sleepy now pleaae put me in my little bed or some thing else equally astonishing the reporter of the chioago tribune visited mr edison and saw these wonderful dolls he says mr edison wound np a brunette doll with jet black curls and sparkling brown eyes the doll started off at a brisk rate with the following twinkle twinkle little star how i wonder what you are up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky another dollbaby sangin a sweet child ish treble rocka by baby on the tree top all the way through with good expres sion and without a false note she sang it quite loudly too so that any one conld have heard her across a moderatesizd room still another sang a pretty german song it ia so constructed that phonograph cylin ders- are interchanged and new sets of sen tences may frequently be introduced into the toys talking maohine in oldtime wedding feast- in an acoount of the expenses incurred at a wedding in 1530 the following items are remarkable in toe menu of the dinner two oxen 3 seven calves 19s seven lambs 10s 8ix wethers 14s twelve bwans 3 eight oranes 1 6s 8d sixteen hearon fews herons presumably everyone 141 ten butters bitterns everyone 14d sixty cowple conys rabbits every cowple 5d sixteen capons of grease fat capons every one 6d thirty other capons ten pigs four dozen chickens etc spices innumerable are mentioned and materials for sweet dishes among them are 3 lb marmelet 1 lb turne- sall 2 lb flour of portingale 3 lb orange budds 4 lb orange syrroppe etc among the dress items are twentyone yards russet damask every yard 8s six yards tawny velvet every yard 14s twelve white bear skins twelve coneys skins thirty white lambs skins three black velvet bonnets each 17 a wedding ring of gold 12i 41 a milieu bonnet dressed with agletts 12 1 4d a pair of mytten sleeves of white satin 8s eto thus we see that in those days a yard of velvet was worth as much as six wethers sheep and that eight lambs would just abont equal the wedding ring in value the worst on eeoord hans van spigen is notorious for the quality of his cider and he is furthermore notorious for being the meanest stingiest dutohman in existence he was never known to give a living soul one drop of his delicious beverage now at the time of the following occur rence our friend john barnes being on a visit and hearing of the excellent quality of hans oider rode over to his farm one morning when the following conversation took place good morning hans coot mornintr zhon hans you have a fine orchard oh yes coot orchard fine press that of yours yes vine press vine orohard hans i hear your oider is the best in the country zhon to his son go down and draw us a mug of cider john braught up the desired mng and hans drained it to the bottom then turning rornd to the astonished barnes aaid if you dont believo dats goot cider smell de mug albany argus he brushed the spider off old mr collamore ia very deaf the other sunday in the midst of the service mr hoff who sits immediately behind mr callamore saw a spider crawling over the latters head which is as bald as a billiard ball his first impnlse was to nudge him and tell him about it but he remembered that mr collamore was deaf so be lifted up his hand and brushed the spider off hoff didnt aim quite high enough and in his nevonsness he hit old collamore quite a servero blow the old gentleman turned round in a rage to see who had dared to take such a liberty with him and hoff be gan to explain with gestures but colla more in a loud voice demanded what it meant it was very painful to hoff the eyes of the congregation were upon him and he grew red in the face there was a spider on your head a white place on my head hey spose there is whats that to you youll know what it is to bs bald- headed aome day yourself it was a spider shrieked hoff while the perspira tion began to roll off hia face certainly its wider said collamore and got more in it than yours but let it alone do you mind yon may let my head alone in churoh mr collamore shrieked hoff there was a spider on your head and i brushed him off this way 1 and hoff made another gesture at collamores head the old man thought he waa going to fight him then and there and hurling a hymn book at hoff he seised the kneelingstool on the floor of the pew and waa about to bang mr hoff when the sexton interfered an explanation was written en the fly leaf of a hymn book whereupon mr collamore apologized in a boisterous voice and resumed bis seat they think of asking mr collamore to worship elsewhere a btriotly business basis a wretchedlooking tramp went nto an austin saloon and begged with tears in his eyes for the barkeeper to give him a nickel with which to get something to eat he got it as soon as he got it in his hand he slap ped it down on the bar and said in a loud vociferous peremptory tone of voice beer 1 it was several minutes before the barkeep er could catch his breath and then he waa eloquent well if that aint gall hope may never live to see any why you you you eto no speeches begging is my business and beerjerking is yours just yon attend to your business and ill attend to mine it is going to be a cold winter and if you want to keep your job you had better attend to it said the mendicant the partially paralyzed barkeeper handed out the schooner the tramp downed it slow ly and drifted out perfectly satisfied with that little business transaction good seasons for nonbesistanoe freedwoman lizzie a good servant was married to an unworthy husband and made complaint of his nnkindness one of the young ladies of the american family in which ahe served desirous of knowing how she happened to be so married asked her abont the lovemaking and courtship lizzie what on earth did watt aay to you to make you marry him law miea sallie answered lizzie you know i couldnt make no anawer to watt when he oome cotin of me cause watts edloated 1 and he got aome on his words out de jogafy and some out de dicshnnary and cose you know miss sallie i couldnt make no sls- tanoeto watt the donkeys punishment there was an old sootohman who always rode a donkey to bis work and tethered him while he laboured on the road or wherever else he might be it waa suggested to him by a neighboring gentleman that he was sua- peoted of putting him in the fields at other peoples expense eh laird i could never be tempted to do that for my cuddie winna eat onything but nettles and thistles one day however the samj gentleman was riding along the road when he saw andrew leslie at work and his donkey up to his knees in one of his own clover fields feeding luxur iously hallo andrew said he i thought you told me your cuddie would eat nothing but nettles and thistles ay was the reply bnt he misbehaved the day he nearly kioked me owre his heid sae i put him in there just to punish him his choice for dinner unto a little nigger aswimming in the nile appeared quite unexpectedly a hungry crocodile ivho with that chill politeness that makes the warm blood freeze remarked ill take some dark meat without dressing if you please 1 the things she liked mr pumps visit has lasted nearly two hours they are talking musio languidly the younglady suddenly brightening upl oh i like french opera it has suoh a go to itl i like anything that has gol ha goes