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WON AT THE ALTAR
"Why, no, I couldn't, Charlie—I
really couldn't marry you," said Net-tie
Travers, with a rippling laugh, as
she looked innocently into Charlie Al-ton's
grave face, feeling just a trifle
guilty as she saw the despair sweep
over it.
He had always been a dear friend
to her—nothing more: He had fought
her battles at school in childhood ;
he had found the pliimpest, ripest ber-ries
and' brownest nuts for her especial
eating, but now—now he had actually
made her a proposition of marriage!
A very matter of-fact affair he bad
made of it, too—not at all as she had
imagined that an offer of marriage
would come to her.
I t may be that that was the reason
of her prompt refusal.
Why not, Nettie, darling ? • I have
always loved you," he pleaded.
" That's just it !" she exclaimed, pet-tishly.
"I've always known you—
always since I remember. We have
fought over mud pies—"
" No, nefver ! We never quarreled
—we always defended each other," he
interrupted:
"That's it again!" she cried im-patiently.
" If we never did, it is no
sign that we never would. - No, Char-lie.
I like you--as a friend-of course;
but when I do marry—well, my hus-band
won't be one who has hauled me
to school upon his hand sled."
" Who will it be?" he asked bitter-ly.
• • '
" 0 , 1 don't know yet. My prince
has not yet come to me," she answered,
softly. " He must be handsome ; you
look quite well, Charlie, but yon are
not dark enough. He must be taller
than I am by at least four inches ; you
are two, Charlie—exactly two. He
must have a lovely moustache, black
and heavy : yours inclines toward red,
Charl'e, and you can't deny that—"
That'a enough !" ejaculated the
tortured young man. " You need not
sing your unknown hero's praise
further. I see plainly that I can neycr
hope to rival him. Good-bye.
And without another word or glance
he bounded over the stone wall; and
walked rapidiy down the joad, leaving
the girl by the maple tree; strangely
perplexed and uneasy.
" I declare I didn't think Charlie
would get mad so easily," she mused,
stopping absently to gather the crim-son
and gold leaves which fluttered to
her feet. " It was real mean of him,
to be sure. Why can't we go on as we
always have been? I'm sure it's
nicest so. I don't know what I will
do without Charlie, but I can't marry
him,and I won't. So! How absurd!
He must see it, too. Of course he will
when he comes to think it over."
But he didn't, and the days passed
swiftly.
The crimson and the gold faded in-to
the dreary brown of late autumn,
but still Charlie didn't come back to
her.
" I don't know what ails the child.
She is strangely unlike herself," said
her fond father, anxiously one evening
when Nettie listlessly left the room, ;
after gazing silently into the fire for
fully two hours.
" She is losing flesh, too, and grow-ing
pale. She eats scarcely; anything
—not enough to keep a canary alive,"
sighed her mother.
"She used to sing songs and play
chess, my dear," grumbled thé father.
" I think I will send her to her aunt
Mary in Boston at once."
" Perhaps that would be best. If it
is change that she needs that will be
change enough. I'll get her ready as
soon as possible."
Mrs. Travers instantly left tbe room
to look over Nettie's wardrobe and
tell that young lady of the good for-tune
in store xor her.
" If you wish it I will go, mamma."
That was all the thanks she got for .
the ofler.
" If we wish it ! Something does
ail the girl—something serious, and
the sooner she goes to Boston the bet-ter,"
cried Mrs. Travers, when she
had repeated Nettie's words to her
husband.
_ So Nettie went to Boston; and Aunt
Mary, well advised in the- matter,
plunged her into a dizzy whirl of
sight-seeing ; yet she grew paler and
thinner daily.
She made many acquaintances, and
suitors came to woo her ; among them
Clinton Ames, a young man whose
peronal appearance tallied with that
of her ideal admirer. .
" He is a fine young man, my dear,"
said her aunt, briskly, after he had
called one day. " A girl might do
far worse than to marry Clinton
Ames."
~ " What business does he follow ?"
asked Nettie, absently?
" Hear the child !" ' -laughed the
aunt. " I did not think that you we re
so worldly, Nettie; and really I can
not tell you. What I said was merely
the popular opinion of a popular
younsr man. He is very much wel-comed
in our sets, you know, but your
uncle will'inquire if it is anything
serious—"
•' I t isn't—no, indeed," cried the
girl, with flaming cheeks. " I only
asked because—well, because I did not
know what else to say. He has no
serious intentions, I'm sure Aunt Mary
and it would not matter to me if le
had."
But she was greatly mistaken both:
in Clinton Ames' intentions and in the
answer that she would give him.
The carrier brought her a letter
from home that morning, one sentence
of which burned into her brain.
" Charlie Alton is payiDg great at-tention
to Jennie Wells," her mother
wrote/" and people say that there will
be a wedding soon."
Why should Nettie's cheeks flame
and pale so suddenly as she -read it ?
And why should she care who Charlie
paid attention to ? Jennie had been
her dearest friend, but—
The d.ior bell rang at that moment
and a servant came up with Clinton
Ames' card.
"Did I surprise you?" he asked,
after an impetuous, airy declaration of
love. " You must have read my feel-ings
toward you, dearest. Tell me
that you return my love!"
Why not? Charley should never
know that she cared.
" I will marry you," she said, as
with averted face she placed her hand
in his and coldly permitted his be
trothal kiss. " Only I beg that our
engagement be kept secret."
" If you will not make me wait too
long for my bride," be assented."
" Two months only. In two months
come to my home and I will be ready."
The two months passed away only
too quickly, and the wedding day
dawned. Nettie had overcome all op-position
to her preparations with a
resolute,'defiant air.
She had not seen Charlie Alton
since her return, and Jennie Wells
had called but once, to go away in
puzzled resentment at her reception.
" Delay the wedding. Your uncle
is making inquiries, and they may not
be answered to our satisfaction. We
had no idea matters had progressed so
far," her aunt wrote, in answer to her
mother's anxious letter.
But Nettie would consent to no de-lay.
The wedding was to be at the church,
for th~ bride willed it so, and many of
the curious villagers assembled there
early.
Charlie .Alton was there in the dark-est
cornerrr—there to witness the death
of his fondest -hopes, simply because
he could not stay away.
The-village pastor arose in his place
and there was a flutter of expectation,
followed by an ominous pause; then
he said, in an embarrassed voice, plain-ly
audible :
"No license? Then the ceremony
cannot proceed. By the laws of Maine
the parties wishing to be united in
marriage must be published upon the
books of the town clerk where they
reside five days."
Charlie Alton stole out, with the
feeling of a reprieved criminal who
has stood in the shadow of the gal-lows.
"We might go over into New
Brunswick and buy our license," ven-tured
the dissappointed groom, when,
with Nettie and her parents, he sat
uneasily in their parlor and listened
to the amused chattering of the won-dering
villagers, as they returned to
their homes.
" No ¡" answered Nettie, impatient-ly.
" I t was.stupid of me,'' added Mr.
Ames, in deprecation. " But we can
be published at once, and the wedding
will-only be delayed-five days."
" Very well," answered Nettie, with
an ominous flash of her eyes, which
he failed to understand, and he took
an awkward leave.
" I 'm so relieved! How fortunate
that he was so forgetful!" cried Aunt
Mary, who had come in haste, and
arrived shortly after Mr. Ames had
left.
And then she told the story—com-mon
enough—of an extravagant
young man who wished to batter his
condition by marrying the daughter
of rich parents.
"True—every word,"' added her
uncle. " No doubt he liked you, too,
but it was the money—. Why, she
has gone?"
For Nettie, snatching a wrap, rush-ed
from the house to the old try sting
place by the riv.er, where she and
Charlie had met often—before he at
tempted to be her lover. The place
was occupied, and- before she could
retreat Jennie Wells blushingly dis-engaged
her elf from a masculine
embrace, and cried, with a nervous
l a u g h : .
"We can't keep our secrets any
longer, Dick, and really there is no
need, the time is so near. This is
Dick Wilder, Nettie. Dick, Miss
Nettie Travers—he—I—that is—we
are going to get married very soon,
but we did not want to make the fact
public, for his father and mine are
not excellent friends at present. We
never should have succeeded without
Charlie Arlton's help. He has paid
me such marked attention—oh, dear,
Dick was nearly jealous."
Nettie never could tell how she
managed to get through with the next
half hour, and talk and laugh while
her heart seemed breaking.
But hearts do not break easily, and
people can do things which they
never dreamed possible.
Jennie and her lover went away at
last, and left her alone with her misery.
Then another sought the familiar
spot, and she sobbed out the whole
story, with her head upon Charlie's
shoulder and his dear arms holding
her closely.
" I could horsewhip him for being
so careless, yet I bless him for i t ! " said
Charlie.
"SJ do I ! " she breathed softly.
" Oh, Charlie, what if he had thought
of the license?"
Clinton Ames understood many
things when he returned to claim his
bride, and she met him at the door,
leaning upon Charlie Alton's arm.
" f t was all a series of mistakes !"
she cried sweetly. " But it is all
right now, and I'm sure that you will
forgive me. This is my husband, Mr.
Alton, Mr. Ames. Charlie did not
forget the license, and we were mar-ried
an hour ago "
Clinton Ames bowed gracefully, and
returned to his unpaid bills and im-patient
creditors. Somebody had
made a great mistake, and he vaguely
suspected that it might be himself.
Beauty and. Character.
If beauty were as substantial as the
homlier virtues, perhaps we should
all want to possess it. Nature, how-ever,
is not lavish in its gifts. It is
eminently fair. It strives to equalize
the desirable treasures among human
kind, by giving this one beauty with-out
the noblest traits that make the
fine character; and this one character
minus the suotle essence called beauty.
Which is the greater jewel of the
two ? Is it beauty, or is it character ?
The answer should come, unhesitating-ly.
It is character. What the fra-grance
is to the flower, character is to
man and woman. Take away the fra-grance
from the blossom and the
color aud outlines remain, it is true.
But without the penetrating and in-toxicating
odor is the flower so at-tractive
as when it has the fragrance ?
Consider the: poppy or the dahlia.
Both are imposing in the eye. Com-pare
either with the heliotrope or the
mignonette. There is no comparison,
judging by the standard of exterior
beauty. But let the senses catch the
fine perfume of these modest flowers,
and the gaudy yet odorless beauty of
the larger is wholly overshadowed.
So it is,with character. Character
will wear, while beauty will fade. Not
only will character wear, but it be-coines
brighter as the years roll on.
If this earth were a garden of Eden
where men and women might live
without toiling and without sorrow; and
where every condition served to de-light
and stimulate the senses, beauty
might be of more value than it is.
But this existence is a material one.
And where there is just as much wear
and tear on the physical, moral and
mental organism as there is upon the
clothes, character is a better possession
than beauty. It will help to buoy us
up when adversity comes. It will aid
us to withstand prosperity. It is ever
a wise counselor for ourselves and
others in times of trouble. It is a
friend when friends are needed. It is
reasonable. It is helpful. It is our
strongest bulwark.
Wealth did Him Little Good.
An old man hamed Thomas Gary
died recently at a boarding house in
Fort Scott, Kan. No one imagined
that he was a person of means, but
after his death $27,000 in bills was
found concealed in his vest. He had
been a farmer, had toiled hard, saved
his money, and never expended any-thing
even for the rational enjoyments
of life. Now strangers are quarreling
over the cash which brought its
accumulator no pleasure save that of
possession. '
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same liberal provision for their com-fort.
It is located in the immediate
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as well as all parts of the city, a*,
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oc7-ly Propr.
Aphorisms.
We can be thankful to a friend for
a few acres, or a little money; and yet
for the freedom and command of the
whole earth, and for the great benefits
of our being, our life, health and rea-son,
we look upon ourselves as under
no obligation.
The chief secret of comfort lies in
not suffering trifles to vex us, and in
prudently cultivating our undergrowth
of small pleasures, since very few
great ones, alas ! are let on long leases.
It should seem that indolence itself
woulcfinduce a person to be honest, as
it requires infinitely greater pains and
contrivance to be a knave.
I t is impossible that an ill-natured
man can have a public spirit; for how
should he love 10,000 men who never
loyed one ?
A good inclination is but the first
rude draught of virt ue ; but the finish-ing
strokes are from the will ; which
if well disposed, will by the superin-duction
of ill habits, quickly deface it.
An indiscreet man is more hurtful
than an ill-natured one ; for the latter
will only attack his enemies, and those
he wishes ill to; the other injures in-differently
both friend« and foes.
Good manners are the blossoms of
good sense and of good feeling. If the
law of kindness be written on the
heart, it will lead to that disinterested-ness
in both great and little things—
that desire to oblige, and that attention
to the gratification of others, which
are the foundation of good manners.
HORROR AT A BAPTISM.
A Brave Baby.
A plucky four-year-old baby lives
in O^kalooso, l a . It is the child of
Mrs. Wilson, and, while playing about
the mouth of a-deep well covered by
loose boards, fell in. The well is thir-ty
feet deep and contained ten feet of
water at the time. The mother saw
the child iall, and, frantically grab-bing
a clothes-line, lowered it into the
well. The child grasped the line, but
of course could not- hold on tight
enough to be drawn out, so the mother
tied her end above.
" Will pet hold on tight till mamma
runs for papa?" tremblingly cried the
mother to the little one.
" Ess," came a brave little sob from
below.
The mother hurried away and soon
returned with the father and several
other men, who, after much difficulty,
rescued the child from its chilly bath.
The little ope was almost uncon-scious
from cold when taken out, but
had bravely clung to the clothes-line
all the time, holding its head above
the water. The happy mother hugged
her rescued one and wept for joy,
while the assembled crowd threw up
their hats and cheered in acknowledg
ment of the babe's grit.
Au Iceburs a Mile High: Oyer All.;
Can you grasp the idea that an ice-berg
such as reported, 700 feet high,
that is 700 feet out of the water, and
seven miles long, must weigh thousands
of millions of tons ? Fresh water, you
see, and only about an eighth of their
bulk: is visible. Which means a
mountain of ice 5,600 feet high.
Higher and bigger than any one of
the Adirondacks, say, about the size of
Mount Washington, not as we see it,
but from the sea level. Something
has been happening ^ip there among
Greenland's icy mountains.
Praying with Her Hair Aiire.
Peter Machata is a Bohemian who
earns his living making buttonholes
in New York. He lives on the sixth
floor at 629 6th street. He was away
from home and his mother Josefa, an
old woman with beautiful long snow
white hair, was left at home to care
for her year old granddaughter. As
supper time approached the old wo-man
left the baby in the front room
and began making up a fire in the
kitchen stove. A spark leaped from
the new-made fire, into her lap, and
set her elothes on fire. She sprang
into the middle of the room and shout-ed
for help. Mrs. Annie Hecker, who
lives in the next rooms, found Mrs.
Machata standing upright in the cen-ter
of the room, with upturned face,
praying. Her hands were clasped
above her head. Her long white hair
was ablaze and the fire surrounded
her from her waist upward.
Mrs. Hecker wrapped bedding
around her and beat the fire with her
hunds. Before it was put out she was
badly burned on the hands and face.
Her wounds were attended to by her
own doctor. Mrs Machata was taken
to Bellevue hospital. She cannot
live. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Get au Ignoramus.
Seven of the supposed-to-be sharpest
and wisest lawyers in the country have'
made wills, passed away and the said
wills have been broken all to flinders
by heirs and other lawyers. A great
lawyer, it seems, can't make a will to
stand. An ignorant Missouri farmer
wrote his in four lines on a slate and
it stood three lawsuits and ten law-yers.:
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Four Mortally Hurt by a Crash of a
Crowded Bridge.
SPRINGFIELD, O., April 20.—A
frightful accident occurred here to-day.
Four persons are „known to.be fatally
hurt, and over fifty have received in-juries
ranging from broken bones to
bad bruises. The scene of the acci-dent
was the old Limestone street
bridge over Buck creek. A colored
baptism, under thè auspices of the
Third Baptist Church, had been an-nounced
to be held in the creek near
the bridge, and the beautiful day
brought about 200 white people to see
the ceremony. The banks were lined,
and Hundreds took positions on the
bridge.
Amid songs of praise most lustily
sung, Elder Green marched into the
water, staff in hand, and found a suit-able
place for the immersion ceremo-nies.
He was walking out of the
chilly waters when there was a load
crashing sound of the breaking of
timbers, followed by shrieks, screams,
and groans commingled. A portion
of the bridge had fallen and 200 peo-ple
went down with it.
The iron guard-railing held together,
while the floor fell toan angle of about
forty-five degrees, the people thus slid-ing
right off this position of the
bridge. Had this railing broken
many people would have been killed
outright.
Four had limbs broken, and some
were severely injured internally»: Af-ter
Mrs. Myers was injured she ran
around frantically after her boy.
Her ankle had been broken, and the
bones by running around were forced
through the bottom of her foot. Hun-dreds
who escaped came to the rescue,
and doctors had their hands full.
Over fifty persons received injuries,
ranging from sprains and bruises to
broken limbs and internal injuries*
A colored boy swam around in the
stream and recoyered a number of
floating pocket books on the water.
Anxious pèople beseiged the scene in
search of friends supposed to be injur-ed,
and for a time the greatest confu-sion
prevailed. Several damage suits
are likely to result from the accident,
the bridge having been practically
condemned and half repaired six
months ago.
The colored people, when the ex-citement
had ceased, finishèd their
baptizing almost unmoved by. the
many touching scenes incident to the
accident.
Secrets of Mormonism.
A despatch from Nauvoo, 111., says :
A singular discovery was made here
last week by laborers in excavating
near " French Fort," a relic of Mor-mon
days, and later a noted spot on
account of Cabel and his Iearian settle-ment
having settled near there. A
large outhouse on the premises of the
Catholic convent was being removed.
While the workmen were engaged
part of the flooring sank out of sight,
an investigation revealed an old well,
thought to be fully. 1,000 feet deep.
This discovery goes to strengthen the
supposition that during the Mormon
regime many hidden wells and sub-terranean
passages existed in the city
whose uses were never wholly account-ed
for. . _
Men Women Like.
Women, I think, like manly, noil
ladylike men.
They like honesty of purpose and
consideration.
They like men who believe in women.
They like their opinions tò be
thought of some value.
They like a man who can he strong
as a lion when trouble comes andyet,
if one is nervous and tired, can but-ton
up a shoe and do it with an
amount of consideration that is a men-tal
and physical bracer-up.
They like a man who can take hold
of the baby convince it of his power
and get it to sleep after they have
been worrying with it and walking;
with it until their eyes are tired and
they feel as if they had LO brains.
They like a man who is interested
in their new dresses, who can give an
opinion on the fit and who is properly'
indignant at any article written against,
women.
They like a man who knows their
innocent meokness and caters to them,
who will bring home a box of candy,
the last new magazine or thè latest
or the latest puzzle sold on the street,
that will do more than its duty in en-tertaining
everybody, for the whole
evening.
They like a man who is master of
the situation—that is, who has brain
enough to help a woman to decide
what is the best thing to do under the
circumstances and who has wit enough
to realize when one of the fairer sex is
slightly stubborn that pursuasion is
more powerful than all the arguments
in the world.
•••;• General News.
United States Express Company
employees all over the north are pro-testing
against the reduction of their
wages.
Senator Cameron was at Donegal
oyer Sunday overlooking his farm and
in consultation with friends.
John Geiselman, aged 90 years, the
oldest Mason, probably, in the state,
died Saturday evening at Gettysburg.
There were 1,578 desertions from
the regular army during the first six
months of the fiscal year.
Asa R. Waterman, manager of the
Lyceum Theatre, in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
shot and killed Peter Doran, aged 29
years, on Saturday night. Waterman
was with Doran's wife, who was in the
habit of accompanying him . to the
theatre. She is only 19 years old.
Doran: attacked waterman when he
met the couple on the street afier the
theatre.
The anthracite coal trade is show-ing
signs of improvement, though
there is little prospect of much ac-tivity
being developed until after July
1st. The Philadelphia and Reading
coal and iron company's coal sales
agents gave notice last week that they
would sell no more coal either for
tidewater shipment or the line trade
excepting a t the full published prices,
which is equivalent to an advance in
the actual selling quotations of from
10 to 25 cents per ton both at New
York and Port Richmond.
, Mary Stewart, of McKeesport, aged
sixteen, is in jail charged with having
administered poison to her family.
John Rhoades, a well-to-do farmer,
living near Greencastle, Franklin
county, shot and instantly killed his
nephew, William, Saturday night.
Wm. P. Boger, draughtsman in t he
office of the Lebanon manufacturing
company, has been appoin ted su per in -
tendent of the Basic City car works
located at Basic City, near Staunton,
Virginia. He will move there in two
weeks.
H. Murphy, aged 35 years, was in-stantly
killed by the premature explo-sion
of a blast in No. 11 Colliery at
Plymouth. He leaves a wife and six
children in destitute circumstances.
Phares H. Heller, *of Allentown,'
has brought suit against the Philadel-phia
and Reading Railroad to recover
810,000 damages for injuries sustained
that will cripple him for life. He was
a brakeman, and alleges negligence
on the part of the company in not pro-viding
secure coupling for its cars.
: The body of young George Garber,
who was killed by falling from a Penn-sylvania
Railroad train at Lewistown
bridge last week, was found on Sunday
and taken to his home at Carlisle.
Thomas Leonardj of South Easton,
is dying from blood poisoning. A
few weeks ago a Dominick rooster,
weighing fourteen pounds, flew at him
and sunk one of its sharp spurs in his
ankle. He paid no attention to the
wound at the time, and now the doc-tors
give him up.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com-pany
began running its passenger
trains over the new tracks in Allen-towii
on Monday.
The house of Mr. William Marten,
of Shippensburg, with its contents, was
entirely destroyed by fire. Estimated
loss, 11500; partly insured.
David Bly, William Erb and a Po-lander
were seriously burned by an
explosion of gas in a slope at Nanti-coke
on Sunday. Their injuries are
not fatal.
Martin Gorick, a Hungarian burg-lar
in jail at Steelton, attempted to es-cape.
A shot from one of the jailor
brought him to terms, and he was
locked up.
The 3^-year-old daughter of Joseph
Heckmen, of Point Phillips, Northamp-ton
county, was burned to death vdu-ring
the temporary absence of her mo-ther.
A Hungarian woman with'two chil-dren,
who had just arrived in this
country to join her husband a Sieg-fried's
Bridge, got of a train at Cata-sauqua
on Saturday night. She was
directed to go up the track. An hour
later the bleeding and mangled form
of the woman, with a leg and both
arms crushed, was found on the track,
with the children by her side crying
and unable to render an assistance.
She .was: taken to the hospital at Beth-lehem,
and the mangled limbs were
amputated.
Drunkenness—Liquor Habit—In all
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; : It can be given in a cup of tea or coffee
without:; the ¿knowledge of the person
taking ityeffepting a speedy and perman-ent
cure, Whether the patient is a
moderatedrinkeroran alcoholic wreck.
Thousands of .drunkards have been cured
who have' taken 'the Golden Specific in
their coffee without their knowledge, and
to day believe they quit r drinking of
their own free will. No. harmful effect
-results from its administration. Cures
guaranteed; Send for circulars and full
-particulars. Address in . confidence,
Golden Specific Co., 185 Race Street, Cin-cinnati,
O.
QWEN P. BRICKER, Esq., attorney
at-law, is in town every Saturday and
Monday morningand can be consulted
n all legal business. Lancaster office
48 North Duke street.