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to her at last.
ON THE HEIGHTS.
"Alan, Alan, I am really and truly
going to papa to—morrow.”
The girl’s face glowed with happi-
ness; her little feet kept time as if to
some gay march, and her fair curls fell
about her face; truly, her Quaker-like
garb was a mockery to Elizabeth Wes-
ton.
Her lover took her hands in his, s33-
i'ng wistfully,—
“You will leave me alone?”
“on, Alan, I could not stay—I could
not!”
“You are young; you will outgrow
this restlessness, and I would make
you happy.”
“You would maize me happy here in
poverty-stricken Orroway? but
from the world by the hills,
your love, you do not understand what
this narrow life is to me; to you, who
are of the elect, it is happiness; I look
at you as you sit in meeting on Sunday,
and you look as if heaven were near
while I feel as if the bare, white walls
were crushing me; and I long for music
and flowers, for a beautiful home and
costly gowns, and life! I must suc-
creed. Alan! Ambition beckons me to
come to her, and some day I shall reach
the heights.”
“We might reach them here. Love
beautifies even whitewashed walls, and,
you can have your flowers, and sing. I
shall‘be desolate when I lose you. Is
love nothing to you, Elizabeth?”
“Nothing, nothing!” she repeated, as
if to convince herself; then she went
on, “My restlessness would disturb
your peace. I am like my father, of
the world, and you belong to Orroway.”
Then, entreatingly, “Do not look so
grieved, Alan. I love you dearly; I
could not have borne existence here
without you. I shall always remem-
ber your goodness. Kiss me now—~and
so.”
He kissed her slowly, sadly, and
walked away from her, with bowed
head, through the arbutus scented
wood; and once, while she watched
him, she stretched out her arms to-
ward him, as if to draw him back then
let them fall by her side; and the pur-
ple twilight fell upon her.
.In the after years there was no time
for dreaming—scrambling over rough
places, slipping, falling, then going
bravely on again, following the gray
figure, until at last Elizabeth stood face
to face with Ambition on the top of
the mountain. Success and Fame came
to her, placing the hard won laurels
on her fair hair. R
Then she looked about her for some
one to give her a word of praise. There
was no one. She had had no time to
make friends; her father had died be-
fore she learned to know him.
“If Alan were only here,” she cried,
“he would rejoice to see how I
make people laugh and cry at my will;
he would say, “Thou hast bravely
fought and won.”
She looked down into the Common-
place Valley and saw the women clasp—
ing their babies, and wondering if love
really made the valley beautiful; then
she said,—
“They tell us one cannot have every-
thing. I have success—I will be con-
tent."
She went on working still, as if she
had not reached the t0p, and wishing
vaguely that she had not so much time
to look down.
“A gentleman to see madam.”
Alan Maslin, her dear, kind Alan,
stood within her door.
It was a foolish man
who said ‘ hom success crowns have
abandoned love.” Success had crowned
her, and now Love, too, had come.
“You have come, after all these
years, these long, long years, Alan!”
“They have been long to you. Eliz-
abeth?”
“Very long. You need not be afraid
you used to kiss—only a. little whiter
than when I helped Martha with the
butter."
“They are very small and white. You
have changed, Elizabeth."
“Grown old and ugly?”
“No, no—more beautiful!
happy?”
“Is one ever happy?”
“But you have all you desired—suc-
cess, beautiful gowns, and,” glancing
about him, “you must be rich.”
How slow «he was! Why did he not
take her in his arms and tell her he
loved her still? She would prove her
love for him by giving up all for his
Bake~hushing her beautiful voice, and
going back to dreary, whitewashed Or-
roway.
“You are rich?" be repeated.
“Yes. But tell me of yourself, of Or-
romy. Martha has never written to
me since I left the sheep for the goats! "
“You are not'married?"
“No; I never had but one lover."
Surely ,now he would speak!
“I remember you thought love folly.
Perhaps it would have been for you;
but mine for Anne grows greater every
year.”
“Anne?”
“My wife, Anne Hilary that was. I
thought you knew I married her.”
Then, looking into her white, drawn
lace, he queried, anxiously,—-
“Are you cold, Elizabeth?"
She shrugged her shoulders and
Imiled brightly, as she answered,—
“A little, Alan. One is always chilly
on the heights."
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Finished Her Education.
“The parcel postman has just called
t the‘Twickenhams’, next door, and
It a football, a bicycle, two cricket
balls, a. package of sweaters, a pair of
spoon cars and a bundle of golf
sticks.”
“Then theird'aughter must. be home
from college and her education finish-
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OPPOSED THE STAGE COAC,H.
"II Ancient Economist “'ho Thought it
Would Ruin the Country.
The first stagecoach seen in Eng-
d was about the year 15,53, and
Pnother 120 years passed before stage
Immhes began to run; they were not
lreceived with much favor. In 1673 a.
,treatise was published in London by
FA Lover of His Country and Well
3Wisher to the Prosperity Both of the
Eng and Kingdoms,” in which were
, ed many elaborate arguments and
'violent tirades against them.
“These coaches and caravans,” said
{the writer, “are one of the greatest
‘Imischiefs that hath appeared of late
years to the kingdom, mischievous to
ibhe public, destructive to trade and
prejudicial to lands.”
He laments the decay of good horse-
,manship, which would follow if every-
.”bod-y rode to London in a coach. He
calculates that a coach from York,
[Chester or Exeter would have forty'
horses on the journey to the capital
and carry eighteen passengers a. week.
In the whole year it would carry about
1872. Suppose they were returning:
passengers, there would be 936, and,
for these forty horses would be s-ufli-‘
cient, but if people travelled in the
igood, old-fashioned way, then at least
#500 horses would be required for the
work. The use of so many horses
would give employment to many who
are by the stage coach thrown out of
work, such as cloth workers, drapers,
tailors, saddlers, -tanners, curriers,
shoemakers, spurriers, lorimers and
fellmakers. The inns would also suf-
fer, for the stage coach stops only at
('a few, but when gentlemen travelled
on horseback, accompanied, as they
fusually were, by two or three servants,
they stopped at any and as often as
they liked, and thus encouraged trade.
l Farmers will be ruined, he says, by
the stage coach; for how can they dis-
pose of their hay, straw and- horse
corn? Moreover, the influence on
health would 'be bad; men called out of
their bedsbefore daylight, hurriedfrom
'place to place until far on into the
night; in the summer stifled with heat
and choked with dust; in the winter
starving and freezing with cold or
choked with filthy fog, obliged to ride
all day with strangers and with sick,
ancient and diseased persons, and
with children crying, poisoned with
fetid breaths and crippled by the
crowd of boxes and bundles. Be}
sides all these troubles, there:
were accidents arising from the rot-i
ten coaches and foul roads. I
In short, the writer is fully convinc-_
ed that if stage coach traveling be:
comes popular the country will go to'
ruin. Had he lived rto see the rail-
way he would have been bereft of his:
senses—New York Telegram. }
SUBMARINE MINES IN HARBORS.
Colonel Samuel Colt First Demonstrated!
Their Pructicbaility. ‘l
The term “submarine mine” is ap-
plied to defensive mines or to those
which would be used to obstruct the
channels of a river or estuary, or the”
approaches to a fortified or unprotect-
ed seaport. Colonel Samuel Colt, the
inventor of the American revolver,
first demonstrated the practicability
of blowing up vessels by submarine
mines fired by electricity. In 1842 he
blew up the old gunboat Boxer, and
in 1843 be destroyed a. brig in the
Potomac river while the vessel was
under way, sailing at the rate of five
miles an hour.
Many forms of mines were used
here and abroad, and they were suc-
cessfully employed against us in It’he
civil war. Every system of coast de~
fence concerns itself with their distri-
bution and use, and every well-known
harbor of the world is at this day so
mapped out that the planting of these
mines may be done on a. plan which
promises the greatest utility. Some
of these are constant depth mines—
that is, such as will float always at a.
certain depth below the surface, no
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some are fitted to explode on contact,
and most are so arranged that they
may be exploded at will by observers
stationed at points of refuge, in bomb-
proof and look-out stations ashore.—
New York Herald.
Cattle Used for Smuggling Opium.
“Some of the "Shrewdest‘tricks ever
played are by the smugglers of opium,”
said H. A. Fanning, or Seattle. “A
very unique smuggling scheme was un-
earthed a few years ago by United
States Secret Service officers in North
Dakota. It. was noticed that an un-
usually large number of cattle were be-
innr driven across the line to the North
Dakota markets, and the Secret Ser-
vice mcn planned an investigation. For
some time their work was in vain, and
they had about given up hope of dis-
covering any unlawful operations
when an accident revealed the fact
that the nostrils of the cattle were
stuffed with opium wrapped carefully
in tin foil. In this way each steer was
worth twice its normal value. Hun~
dreds upon hundreds of animals had
been driven across the border with
their nostrils loaded with opium, and
it was estimated that the smugglers
had cleaned up a profit of $25,000 be-
fore the discovery was made. But
the smugglers were sly and they es-
caped and were never captured.”—St.
Louis Giobe~Domocrat. ‘
Hi5 Opinion.
"What are you doing, Jimmie?"
"Reading th’ dictionary through."
“How do you like it?”
“Oh, some 0’ th' words is good, but
others hain’t~ much sense in 'em."—-
Judge.
A limibuui Conipiimont.
Miss E;u2.n.eipated.-—I hope I have
.-uc:1eeded :2. making myself plain.
i)idl~.ach—~-M‘adam, it was an unneces— ;
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