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DOSE’S BUBAL NEW-YORKER 
) called on Mrs. Depress and saidYester¬ 
day, Mrs. Duprebs, you congratulated me; 
since then I have heard some news, and have 
come In to congratulate you." 
Mrs. Dcprebs blushed scarlet and stam¬ 
meredHow? what do you refer to, Mr. 
Gordon ? 
"I hear that Mrs. DUPREBS has come Into a 
fortune of a hundred thousand dollars.” 
"Oh, is that all?" she asked in a relieved 
tone; "I thought you referred to something 
else. Yes, I suppose my good fortune is a 
source of congratulation. 1 admit I have 
worked for It, but that was because I consid¬ 
ered myself rightfully entitled to it." 
It was Tuesday when GoRnoN returned 
home. Thursday evening an aunt of the bride 
gave a reception for them. It was getting late 
and Mrs. Dcprebs bad not yet arrived, and 
IIarry Gordon sought Nellie Maxwell and 
asked, "Is not Mrs. Depress coming this eve¬ 
ning?'’ 
" I believe so," replied Nellie. "A friend 
she was not expecting till next week came un¬ 
expectedly, just an she was getting ready; so 
she sent her regrets and an apology to Mrs. 
Merton, who sent back word she mnst surety 
come and bring her friend with her. There 
they are now," she suddenly exclaimed, and 
following the direction of her eyes Gordon 
saw Mrs. Depress leaning on the arm of a tall, 
handsome man, paying her respects to the 
hostess, Mrs. Merton. He saw Mrs. Depress 
present the gentlemaD, who bowed low, and 
then in turn presented Mrs. Depress. lie saw 
Mrs. Merton lift her hands and gaze at Mrs. 
Depress In wonder and astonishment, whilst 
she returned the look with a calm, sweet 
smile. Ho noticed that Mrs. Depress had laid 
aside her mourning robes, and was looking 
wondrously lovely In some white, floating 
fabric, with a cluster of scarlet verbenas and 
rose geranium leaves at her throat, and an¬ 
other cluster In her rich brown tresses. Then 
ho turned his gaze on her companion -some¬ 
thing familiar in I he appearance of I lie gentle¬ 
man riveted his attention, and soon, to his sur¬ 
prise, he recognized In Mrs. Depress' escort an 
old and valued college friend of his, Edward 
Webster by name. 
Gordon stared spell-bound. What did it all 
mean ? Wkusteu lonkod with worshipful eyes 
on the lovely woman at his side, whilst thoro 
was a look in her eyes Gordon had never seen 
there before—a proud, happy look, ami once as 
she raised her head to reply to some remark of 
her companion, there was such a world of lore 
and unutterable tenderness in the liquid depths 
of those beautiful orbs that the scales which 
vanity and self-love had placed before the eyes 
of Harry Gordon fell away and he saw bis 
mistake had been greater than he supposeu. 
His mistake ■was in thinking that beautiful 
woman ever loved him. 
Rallying himself, Gordon at length made 
his way where they were standing, and gave 
his friend a cordial greeting. “ Ned, old boy, 
I am very glad to see you ;" and then, "Good 
evening, Mi's. Ditpress." Mrs. Depress said, 
“Good evening,” and she and Mr. Webster 
exchanged a significant smile. After a mo¬ 
ment’s pause Mr. Webster said “ Harry, do 
you remember my writing you about a certain 
young lady ?” 
" Miss Leland, to whom you were affianced." i 
“ The same. Allow me to present her to you. 
Miss Leland, my old friend, Harry Gordon, 
of whom you have often heard me speak.” 
“And whom I have esteemed as a valued 
friend for your sake and his own," said Mrs, 
Dupress, bowing low. 
Gordon was too confounded to reply for a 
few moments. At length he said " I do not 
comprehend; this lady is Mrs. Depress.” 
" Wat Mrs. Depress,” returned Webster, 
whilst hiding from her cousin—or. rather, not 
her cousin—but is now herself again, Miss 
Gertie Leland, just fora few days, and (lien 
she will be Mrs. Webster," and his eyes rested 
on her blushing face with a proud, fond glance. 
" But come, Gordon. I bear from Gertie that 
you are married; are you not going to present 
us to your wife?" 
Thus brought, to Ills senses, Gordon went In 
search or his wife, and soon returned with her 
leaning on bis arm. She was a plain but stylish- 
looking woman, with very prepossessing man¬ 
ners, and Mr. "Webster and Miss Leland were 
both much pleased with her. \\ hllst they were 
chatting with tho familiarity of old friends, 
Mrs. Merton approached and said : — " My 
guests are dying of curiosity, Mr. WEBSTER, 
and It i3 your duty to Inform them how it 
comes about that our dear Mrs. Dupress Is 
M iss Lelanp. P)ea3e do satisfy us with an ex¬ 
planation." 
Thus urged, after a pause Mr. Webster said, 
"Friends, at the earnest solicitation of Mrs. 
Merton I have an explanation to make. Per¬ 
haps the present la a proper time to Inform you 
why Miss Leland camo among you under an 
assumed name and character. Left tin orphan 
at an early age, she was adopted by an uncle of 
hers—a widower, childless and Immensely rich. 
From the time of her adoption until about live 
years ago she was the acknowledged heiress of 
his great wealth. At flint time a nephew of his 
departed wife came to visit him, and wit h spe¬ 
cious sophistry’ ingratiated himself into th * old 
man’s favor: but Gertie Leland from the first 
regarded him with aversion. Gertie and I had 
known each other ever since she first came to 
live with her uncle, and were betrothed before 
Ralph Morgan came to our place. Her uncle 
sanctioned our engagement too, hut after 
Ralph Morgan had been there awhile, (by 
the way he never said a word about leaving 
after he carne there,) after he had been there 
some time, Gertie and I discovered a great 
change in her uncle. He manoeuvered every 
way to keep us apart and at length commanded 
Gertie to break our engagement and marry 
Morgan, Gertie gave him such a scathing 
answer, and displayed so much spirit, that he 
said no more about il, for he was very depen¬ 
dent on Gertie, who had always waited on 
him and nursed and petted him as a mother 
would a baby, lie w. s afraid "ho would leave, 
and she was indispensable to his comfort. 
About six months after that the old gentleman 
sickened and died, leaving a very singular will. 
It run thus; ‘If Ralph Morgan proposed to 
Gertie Leland hoforeslio was SI and she re¬ 
fused him, tho property was to all go to him, 
leaving her penniless. Rut If he did not pro¬ 
pose to her in that time, the property was hers.' 
Gertie lacked a few months of nineteen at 
the time, and she resolved to outwit both her 
unde and the scheming Morgan, who wanted 
her and the property too the property at all 
hazards. In vain I coaxed and plead with her 
to lot the fortune go and give me the right to 
protect and provide for her. She would not I 
listen ; she said the property was hers by right, 
and that intriguing adventurer should not 
touch one penny of II. 
" So we concocted a plan which has worked 
admirably. Having a natural taste for millin¬ 
ery, she secretly loft home and went to Roch¬ 
ester, where she entered a millinery establish¬ 
ment as an apprentice. She had been I,hero 
about six months when we found Morgan had 
in gome way got a clue to her whereabouts. A 
little time previous a lady one day came Into 
tho shop from this place and casually expressed 
a wish that a good milliner would come here. 
Gertie remembered It and she determined to . 
take the place. Donning widow’s weeds she 
camo here as a widow and assumed the name 
of Durness. This put Mr. Morgan off the 
trail and lie never found it again. GERTIE has 
no longer cause for masquerading. She was 21 
(lie second day of this mouth, and will -oon 
leave her pleasant circle of triends In this place 
and resti me her old position In the social circles 
at home. I thank you all in the name of Miss 
Leland, for the patronage extended to her." 
Ob! what a crowd gathered around to con¬ 
gratulate Miss Leland at the close of this little 
speech. All were sorry that she was going to j 
leave them, but were glad she had succeeded 
in baffling Morgan. 
Next day Fred Willis sauntered into Gor¬ 
don's office with his quizzical look upon his 
face; but Gordon pretended to ho very busy 
just thou with legal duties, 
"Isay, Hal," at length broke out Fred; 
“ wasn’t you just the least bit In tho world mis¬ 
taken about Mrs. DC TRESS, nr rather Miss Le¬ 
land, being so much in love with the Honor¬ 
able Harry Gordon? 8he wears the willow 
gracefully, eh ?” 
"Fred Wu.lib, shut your mouth! and if 
you ever breathe a syllable of what a fool, dolt, 
donkey I have been In thinking she ever cared 
for mo I will guillotine you !" 
" Well, having a horror of that obsolete inode 
of punishment, I will keep quiet. But I do 
wish s/i c knew It; and to think all her partial¬ 
ity for you was because you were an old friend 
of Webster’s. Oh, il is a good joke !"—and he 
laughed out again, leaving Gordon like a col¬ 
lapsed balloon,The conceit all taken oul of him. 
The next Sabbath there was a quiet wedding 
in the church. The bride, Miss Leland, looked 
more beautiful than ever n white silk with 
white bridal veil and orange blossoms, whilst 
the ladies all declared the bridegroom, Mr, 
Webster, to be the handsomest man that ever 
graced the village of L. Harry Gordon gave 
the bride away. 
done the work that gives them their fame. 
Portraits of great men are a delusion; statues 
are lies. They are taken when men have be¬ 
come famous, which, on the average, is at least 
twenty-five years after they did the work which 
gave them their fame. Original work requires 
enthusiasm. If all the original work done by 
men under forty-five were annihilated, they 
would he reduced to barbarism. Men are at 
t heir best, at that time when enthusiasm and 
experience are most, evenly balanced; this 
period on the average is from thirty-eight to 
forty. After this time the law is that experience 
increases but enthusiasm declines. In the life 
of almost every old man there comes a point, 
sooner or later, when experience censes to have 
an educating power. 
SPARKS AND SPLINTERS. 
“ SOCIETY ” REQUISITES. 
WHEN MEN ARE AT THEIR BEST. 
A dog well-dressed wears a collar and pants 
In the summer. 
A CORRESPONDENT saya:—"The countersigns 
required for admission into ‘good society' are 
characteristically demanded by the several 
cities. Boston draws herself up severely, and 
while raising her eye-glass to scan the celebral 
development Of the importunate one, coldly 
asks, ‘What do you know? New York, vulgarly 
displaying her silks and diamonds, looks at the 
costliness which the applicant's apparel de¬ 
notes. and pertly says, • What are you worth?' 
Philadelphia, proudly drawing around her her 
covering of pampered aristocracy, demands, 
blue book In baud, and lips pursed Into prunes 
persimmons, and prKms, * Who was your grand¬ 
father ?’ While Washington stops a moment in 
the gliding German, and while trying to obtain 
a sly glimpse of your pedal extremities, with 
glowing cheeks and heaving breast, inquires, 
‘Can you dance?’ ” 
Dr. Beard states that from an analysis of 
the lives of a thousand representative men in 
all the great branches of human effort, he made 
the discovery t hat the golden decade was be¬ 
tween 30 and 40, the silver (0 and 50, the brazen 
between .’0 mid 30. and the Iron between 50 and 
00. The superiority of youth and middle life 
over old age in original work appears all the 
greater, when wa consider the fact that all the 
positions of honor and profit and prestige- 
professorships and public stations—are in the 
hands of the old. Reputation, like money and 
position, is mainly confined to the old. Men 
are not widely known until long after they have 
j&tMmth Iteiulmj}. 
AN AUTUMN DAY. 
IIY DE FORREST P, GUMMERSON. 
An early Autumn day—a glorious day, 
The sunlight all around ; 
The soft wind whispering through the maple trees. 
And sweeping o'er the ground ; 
And bright-hued flower? on every band. 
Spring into bloom, as if by fairy’s wand. 
How bright they aectn ; and yet how soon 
Will cruel Winter come; 
To rob them of their brightness and their blood. 
And they be gone. 
Ah ! there are fairer flower* than these 
That pas* away upon each Autumn breeze. 
Imitate a good man, but never counterfeit 
him. 
A noisy piece of crockery—The cup that 
cheers. 
What word is always pronounced wrong? 
Wrong. 
Hotel-Keepers are people we have to put 
up with. 
Young ladies' economy — Never throw away 
a match! 
A SHOE dealer advertises "Woman’s Rights 
and Lefts." 
A goat is a good milker, but succeeds better 
aH a batter. 
No other living tiling can go so slow as a hoy 
on an errand. 
Warn is a young lady like a whale ? When 
she's pouting. 
A horrible cannibal advertises for "a good 
girl to cook." 
And yet He knows, and docth all things well, 
Woundetb that He may heal; 
The sorrows oft that, seem so hard to hear 
Are sent but for our weal. 
The brightest things of life that fade away 
Come back to us in that eternal day. 
CHRISTIANITY IS FOR MAN. 
A barren rock — When tho cradled baby 
refuses to go to sloop. 
Why Is a chicken like a farmer? Because 
both delight in a full crop. 
Farmers gather what they sow, while seam¬ 
stresses sow what they gather. 
“ Money Is very tight," said a thief, who was 
trying to break open a bank vault. 
A little girt in Des Moines wants to know 
why there are no he dolls. Sure enough, why 
not ? 
Why is the person who never lays a wager so 
bad as a regular gambler? Because he is no 
better. 
Although the Parisians ate 5,000 horses last 
year, many Frenchmen say “nay” to hoise 
steaks. 
The more a woman's waist is shaped like an 
hour glass, the quicker the sands of her life 
run out. 
When may two people be said to be half¬ 
witted? When they have an understanding 
between them. 
What is the difference between a mouse and 
a girl? One harms the cheese and the other 
charms the he's. 
It is apparent to a parent that a great many 
children get on the wrong track because the 
switch is misplaced. 
What is the difference between a barber and 
a mother? One has razors to shave and the 
other has shavers to raise. 
A chiropodist announces on his cards that 
he has *• removed corns from several of the 
crowned heads of Europe." 
At what time of life may u man be said to 
belong to the vegetable kingdom? When long 
experience has made him sage. 
Having seen gentlemen of three hundred 
pounds In their seats, we are ready to allow 
that a fat man is always a cheer—full. 
" Have 1 not, my sou, offered you every ad¬ 
vantage? *' " Oh, yes, sir ; but I could not think 
of taking advantage of my own father.” 
"Gracious me!" exclaimed a lady in a wit¬ 
ness-box, “how should I know anything about 
anything I don't know anything about?" 
Some Western ladles complain that since 
their husbands joined the Patrons of Husband¬ 
ry, they have sown nothing but wild oats. 
Dr. Holmes being asked by a young physi¬ 
cian whit sign to put on his door, replied, 
"The smallest fevers gratefully received." 
Now that skating has set in, care should be 
taken to avoid the air boles. It Is surprising 
the amount of moisture an air hole contains. 
A Wabash editor returns thanks for a centi¬ 
pede sent him by mail from Texas, being the 
first cent of any kind he had seen for a month. 
An editor, in speaking of the miseries of Ire¬ 
land, says:-*-" Ireland's cup of misery has been 
for ages overflowing, and seems to be not yet 
full." 
A man in Waterbury has christened his 
daughter Glycerine. He says it will be easy to 
prefix “ Nitro ” if her temper resembles her 
mother’s. 
Michigan moonlight is dangerous, we should 
judge, from the statement that “two men 
were robbed In Manchester, Michigan, by 
moonlight. 
A wag who thought to have a joke at the 
expense of an Irish provision dealer, said: 
"Can you supply me with a yard of pork?" 
" Pat, give this gentleman three pigs’ feet.” 
The use of Christianity is coming to be seen, 
more and more, to lie in what it can do for 
man. It has helped God long enough. Theo¬ 
ries have had their day greatly, and the specu- 
lations that once ruled the world are no longer 
among the powers that he. Mon ask: What 
the use? Faith cries out herself: Where the 
benefit? Who is hotter fur the Christian re¬ 
ligion, lives better, l abler, more truthful? 
Where do we see the evidence that Christianity 
holds practical powers for man-building, 
forces to exalt human nature and make man 
like God ? There arc difficult lc- In the way of 
accomplishing this, and they arc the practical 
difficulties of the hour. The great call of God 
unto us all Is for righteousness, doing right 
and being right. He h calling us away from 
those old fighting posts which men occupied 
when t hey contended for the fait h in certain 
exigencies no longer existing, against certain 
adversaries long since gone to their place. We 
arc to lie righteous now, day by day, all tho 
time, ns true men before God, doing (,hc work 
of life in life's hour. Contend against all diffi¬ 
culties in the way of that,and contend earnest¬ 
ly, personally, liev. J. L. Dudley.', 
THE BIBLE WITH PINS IN IT. 
It was an old Bible, a family Bible, a well- 
worn Bible—the Bible of an old lady, who had 
read it, arid walked by it, and fed on it, and 
prayed over it, for a long life-time. As she 
gre w older and older her sight began to fail and 
she found it hard to find her favorite verses. 
But sho could not live without them ; so what 
did she do? She stuck a pin in them, one by 
one, and after her death they counted one hun¬ 
dred and sixt y-eight. When people went to sen 
her she would open her Bible, and, feeling over 
the page after her pin, won id - ay “ Road there,’ 
or "Read hero;" and she linen pretty well 
what verse was stuck by that pin and what by 
this pin. She could say of her precious Bible, 
"I love thy commandments above gold, yea 
above fine gold. They are sweeter to rne than 
honey and the honey-comb.” 
SPURGEON ON PRAYER. 
Spurgeon, writing of “prayer," says:—“Let 
us not employ prayer with a view to our own 
work alone, for narrow-minded supplications 
cannot be acceptable with God. Some prayers 
remind me of the story of the Virginia planter, 
who owned a slave in partnership with one of 
his neighbors, and, being a pious man. was ac¬ 
customed to wind up bis prayers by saying: 
■O Lord! in thine infinite mercy and goodness, 
bless my half of Pompey.’ When Wesleyans 
always pray for Methodism, and Baptists for 
their own congregations, and Presbyterians for 
their favorite confraternity, I would urge them 
to get a little farther than Bless my half of 
Pompey.’ ” 
HELPING THE MINISTER. 
“ One thing helped me very much while I was 
preaching to-day,” said a clergyman. 
" What was that ? ” inquired a friend. 
"It was the attention of a little girl, who 
kept her eyes fixed on me, and seemed to try to 
understand every word I said. She was a great 
help to me.” 
Think of that, roy little ones ; and when you 
go to church or chapel, fix your eyes on the 
minister, and try to understand what he says, 
for he is speaking to you as well as to the 
grown-up people. He is telling about the Lord 
Jesus,’.who loves the little ones.— Missionary 
Echo. 
He who lifts up, by suffering, any single 
quality, and makes men feel—" I never could 
have thought of and never could have done 
anything so noble if it had not been for his ex¬ 
ample," filling the world with an enthusiasm 
for a morel, Divisible principle—he who does 
that uses suffering divinely. — H. W. Beecher. 
I think It Is the most beautiful and humane 
thing lu the world so to mingle gravity with 
pleasure that the one may not sink Into mel¬ 
ancholy and the other rise up into wantonness, 
—Pliny, 
