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THORNS AND ROSES. 
(Continued from paste 859.) 
CHAPTER XV. 
EVENING. 
It seemed a longtime since Edith had gone 
away, and the thought of her return pleased 
me, whilst aunt was busy with preparations, 
brightening her already bright room, and col¬ 
lecting the old songs. 
There was no letter from Nevil, though an¬ 
other week had gone since 1 had seen Mi's. 
Verner; but I felt now that he would not 
write. And hard though the silence was, I 
tried to bear it patiently, to think it was as 
Brandon had said. How happy his letters 
would have made me, how they would have 
cheered me. and what pleasure I might have 
had iu replying to them ! It was not to be, 
and why should I repine ? 1 had his love, and 
a letter could not have increased my affection, 
I was inclined to say with aunt: “ If this be 
the new school of courtship, give me the 
old;” but Nevil knew best. I would tell him 
when ho returned, all my thoughts, and very 
soon now should 1 see his loviug face. 
This week we. expected Edith. The weather 
was hot and fine, the garden rich with flow¬ 
ers, their bright colors standing out against 
the prim dark hedges and trees cropped into 
fantastic shapes. Pleasant it was to ride 
through the green lanes, and to see from their 
cool shadows the sun-glare on the river, to see 
how motionless was the long grate, and how 
lazy Were the cattle ! 
1 was returning home this bright evening 
from a long ride, feeling hot and tired, as was 
usual in The summer. The hull-door was open, 
and I entered quietly, going upstairs to my 
room. As I entered that apartment, someone 
sprang from behind the door—a figure clad in 
white, like the heroine of a ghost story. 
“ Edith !” I exclaimed, for it was indeed my 
cousin ; and she laughed merrily at my 
surprise. 
“ Did I frighten you, Kate ?” 
« When did you come ?” I asked. 
« This afternoon, and you were not here to 
meet mo. ' I have waited, and wuited, and 
still she cometh not.’ I said. Thought you 
had melted away !”’ 
“ I did not know when you would arrive,” 
contemplating her as she stood by the win¬ 
dow, her white dress only relieved by a knot 
of purple pansies. 
• < Are you glad to see me, Katharine ?” 
“ Very; and you are looking so well 1” 
“ Wish I could say the same of you ; but 
your hair wants brushing, and your habit is 
dusty ! You are looking pale, though aunt 
said yon were well.” 
“My ride tired me a little.” 
“ Hurry, there’s a dear girl, and come 
down.” 
With these words she left me, and I heard 
her clear, somewhat metallic voice ringing 
through the house. The spring was like a 
dream, and we might have been back in the 
first summer of my return. 
“ llow is the prince of gentlemen, Nevil 
Verner asked Edith, when we were sitting 
together. “ Any chance of his favoring us 
with liis presence to-night?" 
“ Scarcely. He is out, of town.” 
« is ho well? And Brandon, is he still af¬ 
flicted with moping melancholy and moon¬ 
struck madness? It is like entering another 
world to come among you grave Lovels ?” 
“ If you had not liked it,, you would not 
have come.” 
“Ob ! I was tired of home. I was expected 
to amuse the little ones, or sew for the Dorcas 
Society, and a week of it nearly killed me 1 
I thought I should have got to Brighton, but I 
quarrelled with my bosom friend, so she didn’t 
give me the invito, after I had refused others. 
Such are human hopes; and having nowhere 
else to go, 1 came bore !” 
“ Very kind of you !” I said, dryly. 
“ Would yon have me stay and fight with 
Mrs. Hays 1 Not that she is unkind, but 
she’s too good for me 1 She wished me to re¬ 
main, but I didn’t quite see why 1 should 
waste my sweetness on the desert air to save 
the expense of a governess. 4 All I Edith,’ she 
said, when I declared 1 was bored, ‘ there is 
no place like h< me.’ 4 There isn’t,’ 1 answered, 
* and that's the rea-son why I wish to go away.’ 
Don’t look shocked, aunt Dorothy !” 
Apparently Spring had brought no change to 
Edgar Dana’s ladylove. She said nothing of 
Cecil Ilays, but occupied herself with de¬ 
scribing the costumes worn at a fancy 
ball given by some friend; and when aunt 
asked lier if she had seen her relative, she rose, 
yawning: 
“ I’m tired with traveling, and I’m off to 
bed! Ob! yes, I saw Cecil.” 
“ 1 did not tell Edith that Nevil had not 
written,” said aunt Dorothy to me, and we 
separ i d. 
Morning brought_no letter; but now I had 
ceased to look fov one, and only waited his 
return. Edith did not make her appearance 
for breakfast. I went out to the greenhouse, 
and I had been working among the geraniums 
for nearly an hour before she came. 
“ Industrious as ever!” Blie said, breaking off 
one of my finest sprays. “ I suppose you 
read, and talked and botanized whilst I was 
away, just ns you did when I was here.” 
“ Was your visit, a pleasant one ?” I asked. 
“In some things. The house was filled 
with visitors, and we had plenty of dancing, 
riding, boating, and picnics. There were 
some nice girls and some agreeable gentle¬ 
men, and papa iB a splendid host. But I was 
horribly disappointed! How taken in I felt!" 
“ How?” I inquired, puzzled. 
“ Do you remember what I told you about 
Cecil Hays? That came to nothing. Oh! I 
am so sick of everything? Papa told me one 
night 1 was too extravagant. He couldn’t 
afford to go on paying such heavy bills, and 
it was really time for me to be settled. Oh! 
if I had married wealth, I should not have 
had that to undergo. I nstead of black looks, 
papa would be at my feet with smiles; and I 
did think myself sure of Cecil. 
“ What caused the change?" I asked. 
“ He has lost his heart to one of Mrs. Hays’ 
proteges —a girl who won’t ride because she 
is afraid; thinks hunting cruel and steeple- 
chasing barbarous; doesn’t know a retriever 
from a greyhound, nor the difference be¬ 
tween a billiard-ball and a boxing-glove. Al¬ 
together, she is the style of girl you meet 
with in novels—the one who is always called 
Lily, and dies of a broken heart or consump¬ 
tion—sweet, wingless angel! 
44 Cecil prefers this member of the Lily 
class to me?—to me, Kate, the best looking, 
the wittiest, the most stylish there—I say 
it without vanity; to me, who devoted myself 
for a season to Lira! I’ll never forget one 
night when I was on the balcony, after din¬ 
ner, and my beautiful Cecil joined me. I 
thought it had come at last, and was pre¬ 
pared to say yes. He began by reminding 
me of our old friendship; how he had always 
liked me; how there were few he could con¬ 
fide in, but that he came to me as a sister. I 
thought it a queer way of making love when 
he revealed his boundless affection for the 
angelic Miss Marsh; knew he was wild, called 
himself a few hard names, expressed his peni¬ 
tence, and wound up by asking me if I 
thought he might win her—if she would 
marry him? On my word 1 nearly fainted; 
and 1 was tempted to exclaim, 'Mv good 
sir, I came here to marry you myself!’but 
bore his rhapsodies like a martyr. Imagine 
him selecting me for his confidant, and rav¬ 
ing about his lady love to me!" 
“Extremes meet,” 1 said. “Does Miss 
Marsh return my kinsman’s affection?” 
“ Of course she will marry him when he 
asks her. She pretends to fear him—to look 
on him as a Don Juan; but that is just her 
artfulness; girls with sweet doll faces and 
timid baby ways are always artful. Mrs. 
Hays favors it, and talks such nonsense about 
love redeeming people! Bo there’s another 
blighted hope, Kate! 4 Oh, ever thus from 
childhood’s hour,’ et cetera.” 
“ 1 have been longing to see you, Kate, and 
it seems so long since you were here. I am 
so lonely without Nevil. You have heard 
from him ?” 
“No, Mrs. Verner, I have not. Not a line, 
not a word ! Oh ! what has conie to hirn ?" 
“ How strange ! I had a letter the other 
day.” 
“ You had 1” I exclaimed, feeling as if a 
cold wind hod swept over me. 44 Is he well- 
safe ?” 
“Quite well. It is only a short letter, for 
he is busy. The change is doing him good, 
and he is staying with a friend of Iris, Mr. 
Raymond.” 
<< Was he ill before he went away?” 
“Not ill, but rather dull and spiritless, 
dear.” 
“ Mrs. Verner,” I said, lnying my hand on 
hers, 44 what have I done? Why does he not 
write to me? Have I offended him, or why is 
he angry?” 
“ My dear, don’t look so sad! It is singular 
that he has not written to you, but he dislikes 
writing, and even I don’t expect to hear from 
him until he is coming home. He will write 
to you soon.” 
“ Does he mention me in his letter?” 
She handed me the letter, and I read it 
aloud. It contained what she had told me, 
thus concluding: 
“I am staying with Frank Raymond, so 
address as above. Had I not been terribly 
busy, I should have written at greater length. 
Please forgive haste.—Your loving son, N, V.” 
Neither my own nor the name of anyone 
else was mentioned; and Mrs. Verner con¬ 
tinued: 
“ You see, dear, it has been written hastily. 
He is hurrying through his business to return 
soon, ami lie would think that I would show 
you this letter. You are not angry ?" 
To be Continued. 
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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 31, 1881. 
Guiteau passed Christmas Day in his cell. 
Warden Crocker has issued an order prohibit¬ 
ing reporters from visiting the prisoner’s cell. 
Mr. Scoville does not wish to have any of 
Guiteau’s literary productions” reach the 
public. Mrs. Scoville has fears that her hus¬ 
band is in danger, as she thinks the whole 
country is against him. Guiteau still clings 
to the belief that he will be acquitted. The 
Only witness called to the stand on Tuesday 
was Dr. A. E. Macdonald, Superintendent of 
the New York City Insane Asylum on Ward’s 
Island. His testimony was of the greatest 
importance and was exceedingly damaging to 
the defence. He did not hesitate to pronounce 
the assassin sane and to say that he has been 
playing a part in the court room. He said 
that Guiteau in his cell spoke to him of his 
conception of removing the President and not 
of an inspiration forcing him to the act, and 
also that the assassin spoke of being ucqui tied 
on the ground of legal insanity, and of then 
being released from the asylum by a commis¬ 
sion. After the usual recess, on Wednesday, 
Guiteau, who had been comparatively quiet, 
became iusultiug to Judge Porter, ami pre¬ 
cipitated a demand that the criminal should 
be remanded to the dock. The District Attor¬ 
ney stated that he wanted no more special 
guards about the assassin, and tha t be wanted 
the Marshal to take him to the dock. Mr. 
Scoville accused the District Attorney of giv¬ 
ing notice that the prisoner was to be placed 
where be could be shot, and of virtually in¬ 
viting assassins to shoot him. Judge Porter 
characterized Mr. Scoville’s words as a vile 
imputation on the District Attorney. Justice 
Cox finally ordered the assassin to be placed 
in the dock, and the order was obeyed. Such 
impudence as Guiteau has shown ought long 
since to have caused his removal to the pris¬ 
oner’s box. 
On the question of the permanent location 
of the Ktate capital of Colorado, at the 
November election, Denver received 30,248 
votes, against 15,240 for all other places. 
The Boston city council has appropriated 
an additional $710,000 for the establishment 
of public parks in the suburban districts of 
that city, including a provision for the pur¬ 
chase from Harvard College of the Arnold 
Aboretum in West Roxbury. 
William M Evarts, Edwin D. Morgan and 
Parke Godwin, representing the committee 
formed several years ago to provide for the 
reception and erection of Bartholdi’s colossal 
statue of 44 Liberty Enlightening the World,” 
announce that the full amouut needed to com¬ 
plete the statue — $250,000—has been raised 
in France, and that the work will soon be 
ready for shipment. The previous efforts of 
the committee have been directed to securing 
necessury Governmental action to authorize 
the plucing of the statue upon Bedloo’s 
Island, in New York Harbor. Now an appeal 
is made for subscriptions to build a pedestal. 
It is estimated that a pedestal worthy of the 
noble uud majestic figure it is to support will 
cost about us much as the statue itself. There 
ought to be no difficulty in raising the sum 
required. 
Dr. Leonard Bacon, the venerable author, 
professor, and preacher, died at New Haven 
on the 21th ult. 
Smallpox is raging in Chicago and subur¬ 
ban towns. At Mount Carmel, Ill., the mayor 
ordered all the churches to be dosed. One 
church refused to recognize the order, and 
held a festival on the 20th ult., and the 
mayor telegraphed for advice to the State 
Board of Health who instructed him to com¬ 
pel obedience. He was also Instructed to have 
ull the people attending the festival vac¬ 
cinated. 
A bill to divide Dakota on the 40th parallel 
and admit the southern portion as a State will 
be brought forward for action in Congress 
soon after the holiday recess. The people of 
both sections want to retain the old name, uud 
it is proposed to call one division North Dako¬ 
ta and the other South Dakota. 
An English company haaconcluded the pur¬ 
chase of 1,300 000 acres of laud from the State 
of Mississippi. 
Benjamin Fhilbert has just died in St. 
Louis, 1 le was worth $300,000. His other no¬ 
table distinctions were that ho has not been 
out of the city in sixty throe years, and had 
never ridden in a steamboat or steam railroad 
car. 
The Mississippi is now open from St. Paul. 
Navigation was resumed on the 27th ult. Lake 
Pepin is also open; it was never before known 
to be open at this season of the year. 
Newport lawns are as green as they were in 
June, and on sunny days in sunny places dan¬ 
delions oecasionly venture to show their yel¬ 
low faces. On porches and piazzas honey¬ 
suckles still support crisp, green leaves and 
now and then put forth a blossom. Two 
weeks ago there wore English violets in the 
grass. 
The travel on the elevated railroads in this 
city last Saturday was the largest in the his¬ 
tory of the roads. Ou the Sixth Avenue line 
alone the passeugers numbered 99,000, and on 
all the lines over 206,000. Somebody must 
have gone somewhere for something. 
An explosion occurred on the 20th ult.. at 
West Point, Va., on the steamer West. Point, 
plying between that place and Baltimore, 
which resulted in the total destruction of the 
boat and the loss of 19 live-;. 
The sum of $3,985 has been subscribed in 
Rhode Island, for the statue which it is pro¬ 
posed to erect to the memory of the late Gen¬ 
eral A. E. Burnside. There is every indica¬ 
tion that the amount necessary to secure the 
memorial, which will be a credit to the 
State, will be raised early in the new year. 
Between five hundred and six hundred ne¬ 
groes, from Edgefield County, S. C., passed 
through Augusta, Ga., on their way to Ar¬ 
kansas. They are under the leadership of a 
colored preacher named Hammond, who 
promised to have a chartered train waiting 
for them at Augusta, but failed to do so, and 
flio party had to pay full rates to Atlanta. 
They say they found it too hard work to make 
a living in South Carolina, and determined to 
go elsewhere. Hammond, went to Arkansas 
some time ago, examined the country and on 
his return advised the negroes to go out there. 
It is expected that altogether 1,000 will go. 
Can Sleep Wlihont Anodynes. 
“ Since using Compound Oxygen, my sleep 
is natural ami good. My spirits are in a 
much more healthy condition. I have no 
need of anodynes—have more actual strength 
than for years past.” So writes a patient. 
Treatise on “ Compound Oxygen’’sent free. 
Drs. Starkey & Palkn, Philadelphia, Pa.— 
Adv. 
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, Dec. 31, 1881. 
Late telegrams fromWashington declare that 
Capt. Payne has not established a colony in 
Oklahoma, as telegraphed to this place from 
Texas on December 10, and announced by us 
in a “Brevity” in the issue of Dec. 17. 
United States troops are reported to be so 
stationed as to prevent any invasion of Okla- 
bomu by Payne or his followers, and should 
any le found there they will be promptly 
arrested and expelled. Payne, however, in¬ 
sists that some of his followers are already 
settled in tlio country and that, others 
are pouring in_Australia is taking steps 
to prevent the destruction of her forests. It is 
proposed in South Australia that, a block 
of 290,00(1 acres be reserved for systematic 
tree planting, and that in the first year ?70,_ 
0()0 be expended on it, and in each of the 
eleven following years $52,800, a total ex¬ 
pense of $650,000. After the first five years 
there would be, it is estimated, a revenue from 
periodical thinnings of $175,000, and in 21 
years they would possess 310 square miles of 
forest....Bagasse (sugar cane fiber), cotton 
stalks and jute are now spoken of as likely 
to become additional sources of revenue to 
the Louisiana planter, and to make his busi¬ 
ness profitable. The first two will lie used in 
making paper, and the last in cotton bagging. 
.... Seven new cotton mills are in process of 
erection in Canada, and nearly all the old 
mills are increasing their facilities, or are 
about to do so. Sinc<*lK78 the Canadian pro¬ 
duct of cotton goods has been nearly trebled.... 
Statistics show that in the last fiscal year our 
grain exports exceeded our cotton in value, 
the former being $260,983,744, and the latter 
$247,695,746. Third on the list, came pro¬ 
visions, with a value of $151,528,268. The 
mineral oil exports were about double those 
of tobacco, the former being $40,315,590 to 
tho other’s $20,868,884. The sixth highest 
export was “live animals.” It reached a 
value of $16,112,393. These half dozen classes 
comprised about five sixths of our total ex¬ 
ports in value, our manufactured articles 
falling below the aggregate of a hundred 
millions. ...The rage of a Minnesota farmer 
at his balky horse did not subside when the 
day’s work was done, but. rose higher as he lay 
in bed thinking of the annoyance he bad en¬ 
dured. He dressed, loaded a gun, went to the 
stable, and deliberately killed the boast... .On 
Christmas Day an Oswego, N. Y., farmer wrote: 
“The opening of the present Winter has sol 
dom had a parallel in this part of the State. 
In many parts of this county farmers have 
sown wheat, and rye this month. Many of 
the lands burned over by the Bunmur fires 
have been broken up and seeded with grain. 
Field strawberries and the small fruits grow¬ 
ing along fences and in ‘clearings have blos¬ 
somed and are setting a new crop, and the 
