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Entered ancotina to dot of Conoress, én the year 189, by NORMAN L. MUNRO, tn the oft of the Librarian af Conaveds, at Washington, D.C, (Bnlcred at the Post Otc,
New York, as Second Class Matter.)
Vol. VILL. j,8Qinianzaausne, “ NEW YORK, JANUARY 2, 1881. Pyomne ae! No, 878
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| Love's Potency.
Her bim and he
te hi wea rhng iis clenched baad .
Dx bentfal morn,
tet love was born
renee for i ; we Yfowe dare you speak thus?” he
Jo my, heart for my pretty Nell; foams | buehievae tk impotent—she
“a
owBteike!™ thesaye coldly, strike
We ered of love, and kill me, for St would be 8
stars abore, w to rid
We tale Noe the ecpa below,
me from the tor-
y heart is fs your
: * not crush it to
; 4 hs Ato in sering it as you
Nellie nothing loth, x 2 ons See : 6 z : a dor You have mapped out tbe fa-
fe pledied our roth, Ze . . $ do you think you
win bn fea ashore to hear; or
ate ld, ? No! a thousand
ibe dover
ines, no! and even when I obey
your dictates and strike im to, my
feet, the blow will ken by a
‘Tried to'piace oh the finger near,
manly &
a
| : Wy . = . ; LS i rallous. and unfearing
} won rene hereto tears, \ Fs es | r , ey t fend, bis the devil, whois writin
i i j J vive
“Tine veneer shalt wed Angel away? "You are dead to re-
i ‘Througi tiecoming months and years!” on
Linused her fears nt
ised nway her ly “
soccer: = ; At — image come tolyou, sometimes
Aud voy Eo oo J 5 3a E Let there bean end to our
ga ct wo Satined away. 4 3 : ya and
e Reginald
Blooming.
i ‘On, those good old days of bygone
‘thatttt
ne'er can come again,
When the joyous pons ofthe marriage
and so pass out of ‘seat fe forever!"
fo!” he says coldly.
oust er the game to the bier
sitter
hinies ton has not seen
Made the heart to leap amaint Sone
‘When {of love from the heart's “ Dow cogld bet Lonly entered
Va cheek di stain: the house this afternoon—1. would
The
an ‘he be Cheek sins unded ‘| never have cn it at all but for
Not grating ‘eross man's grain!
Ta those olden days when words were
when
‘And used with plain good
pipoiing was bent Fresh as tho dew,
ne face,
pie Garling's, halr'was hier own which
“Father, if you please,” he as-
serts mockingly
$Ob, there is ho need of that
Clust’ring with snowy Ince,
And her lung, plain gown, so seldom
new,
* Showed well the maidés's
¢ “Touching up” was ante” ia in
vat was thickly laf,
And Time's hand, now stayed In divers
Was scorned by maidens staid,
and ¢:
He
away q yiiekly, pulling open &
i galing:
woines iavched ae Hpetes 7 HTT Fam, grandad,” alow
replies, and then a vis
cbsiarst ishewasamaid, | (I must remain,” she answers him, “ for Tam your lawful wife in the sight of God and man!” A shiek burste upon the air, white figure falls limply ion of cial loveliness glides for
‘And fora husband stayed. the window ledge, and the cruel blow has fall ward and s the doorway.
— d a inixture of this! She vouchsafes. no word of greeting, but moves |in a wretched frame? ‘That is how little Rene
[ere nctvers Pleasant to hay we about the louse, | quickly into the hovel, throws off her roaking | looks now.
3 for no one knows how to take fuck a personage, cloak with a Paf!” of ‘igo and by the ight ot She is not more than six years of age, but she
feartat that in the midst of the mere Anuiablé ja tallow dip on the rickety old, dresser int fs ueautiful asa cherub and asymmetrical as
a | m004, he may be nsddenly. converted into. dor hen ‘You see ata glance that it is Agatha Baud, | Ven
of is virtues, or failings, as ie inay bests ult You j down upon the roof like mad and the storm bowls “Your mother, dearie!”
estio Vesuvius and shower a lava ot hot words | oy : 7 Her complexion is like the pink lining of x sea-
onall who are unfortunate enough to be within ea Sire Dent iene avermoce want i thle but in | Shell her hnit is like threads of spun sunlight, ber
i reach of his voice. he woods at ty ear ot the night? and bow | ¢¥es are brig] tly blue, but a learn the erm
i ‘You are not a phys “sommes yet when you ig Woods, at this hour of the, night! and bow | truth from thelr eet and Vacant expression—poor
; - Jook upon the face oof Reginald Dainton and read served and hee tor return under similar circum: | ttle Rene is blind!
1 his charaster as above, you make an estimate so «Who's here, granidaddy?” sho says, stretching
{ . . « |correct that T have noditing to we chal see, forth her bands and groping her way into the
} clits Been a wanderer on the face ofthe wrth Fim soaked through and brough,” she snarls, | op,
{ BY, T. W. HANSHEW. r five and twenty And is master of wn /as she wrings out lier cloak and hangs itover a| | Her clothes a rand cheap, but she is
ininense for ort \inbovited from an uncle or an | chair to dry.” “ltea fearful uight!™ ngely carefil of Theta.
aunt se M1 Years AZO. There is nothing strictly novel in ber last re- snes ig no. ett’ her “words: yen Solomon is
Axthoe of * Handsomest Woman én 4m Shawns" “No Man's Wi Jo Living Witneu:” |» He ae vised every quartorof the glebe, speaks mark, an wna the creature who hns admitted Ler ie and ‘stands with her bead bent
“Strangers to the Grave," oTSthe ‘charictie ones" Marcon Phe Sbicet Singer five or six dil erent linguages, spends hia money | ra Dw ;
i a Mother'a Devotion’ tive, E recklessly an oF acratttances: 4 | Itdpeont ted Agatha Band's wonds to assure a here, granddadds( tho child asks
tarural consequence conatiering thease secerded ',ire esas eet agauns, Blane wards to assure | again, anu the reply comes ba
vi sho: ‘any | around the old shanty as th: his particular
CHAPTER I. wilder and howls ina way not at all calculated it is preter viet, thie fuer spot. was the birth place of the four winds,
j to inspire one with pleasurable emotions when Ahi, they were having @ carnival among themselves CHAPTER IL
Pl rable 7 W
e's thoughts are of ‘a troubled and distressing | “thy rarely ever sone js an evening by her side, | before rushing upon the world in general,
‘Tene is no doubting it, wiz ofoek tr itis, and no ature, whieh happens to be the cerrect state of | put, in one of bis is ge entle moods this morning, be | He draws his pipe forth from the mass of bair
mistake. in Mrs, Danton’s case at the present | has'prom! rome at six and here itis ear that atoms hig face, pushes back the bolt and | A10 -y escapes the child, and she
4 She bas counted every stroke of the clock in the mone ont Jy halt past © ight and no sgn of him yet s himself upon n steol with a singular grunt | foters vfoewast a Soee or two, putting ous her
t bitty anid the lust one says “six,” justas plainly | She is a pale, delicate little creature, whose Sire e sighs a little, lowering her eyes and letting aug ‘h might mean anything—or nothing, for the | bands and crying
48 though it nd the power of luniahatterance, || years at the most. do not score a notch above five | her head droop upon her haud again, while @ tear mate might 1 5 «Mamma, intimal oh, how glad Iam you have
repentes sadly, litting the) ad twenty, but, atthe same tne, ‘winlete cannot rolly gently dover her chek, come at last!
and looking out u that failsin | be said that she js a gloriously beautiful woman, |" Of, it is 80 Toneiyi” she aya, and sighs litte Any new developmentst” be asks after a] °Aii the pentiup passion in tho mothers
‘Geizaling mist over pethe lands six oclock | You see at a glance thatshe has more then.commen as she ie gives the words uttera en Seat head and looks at I breaks forth in fone mighty torrent, and with «
ig ent not back yee iain to loveliness, |} ‘The clock strikes ‘the bal€ hour, and she fancies) AE Ne ah cage chovtie oT he cet think | Sd, animal-like ery, she fin a erste upon her
Ske sighs a little, and sinks ss back into a chair,| Her features are not partiewarly regular. Her aba! ‘hears the oor open and close gently, | the end will nevey e shortly gin to think | [nes and crushes foto her bosohn,
clasping her hands and moaning in| mouth is, perhaps, a trille too large, nese a ae ie not tho ‘alarm is very noisy.” |*hg.end will mever come, father.” “Rene, baby dart ng she pants. “Oh, my
CP] Sg er nas rer per roa eee rer aap Lowe], on gO inn one i rae, anabeikeres
The shades of uight deepen over the world, and €yes are very, very. beautiful, ond there i amex: quite still, and she comes to the conclusion that it Me Wvon'e f : . 1
the storm grows heavier, until the wind howls Brossion of sweetness upon her faco L must leave / Qc ont funey after a on's itt , if it don’t it will be all your sigilders of the
tion te ees ke ‘a brute in p you to imagine, for it comes under the head of |“ Thyt ‘hist ite a mista, for acloaked figure | fault, my lady, and you may as well learn first as lened expression crosses the face of the
wos not lift her bend, only. sita there and things set down by poets and authors, for has glided softly airs, opened the door, | 28st that T won't stand any of yeur infernal non- little one and the bands stray gently over her
|: moans ca & though all fe sword js one dreary, end: | out Gt mind, as. indescribable” a word quite | ene ‘again sey and now hurries across | he hen Tset_ my foot down I mean to keep | mother's face. '
‘blank, and she is sick of life with its obliging and generous in its way, since it forms a} the lawn with a ‘solos i thereand ‘all the prayers in She world won't save Oh: mamms, you are crying! she says in a
very. pretty ‘cloak for inability’ and laziness, a |“) iN WANS bane anton for t re I have mapped out | startled to n't, please don’t, it makes me
door opens gently and a woman glides| couplet well understood by both the wortbies tun tse ra ° for him and the guicker you find thatout ie bet. have such a lump 1 in'my throat. Besides, you'll
across the threshold.” She is not beautiful, this | aforemention see ereste ‘once tha er for Your spoil all my pretty dress, and granddaddy says it
now-comer, and yet her face is attractive at first| ‘The clock on the mantet strikes seven and then again uy pthe pe path ‘ el Sena fae the gates of | Agatha “oes not rerly at first, but the scornful | Cost such a riot oe vey
eight, and Mrs. Danton's mental. soliloquies are | Darien p of dark Virginia pines |CUTl of her lips beurs pretty positive evidence] | She draws a rem her mother’s embrace and
neon, it is fou, Mise Bland? the woman in the | sit ieerrupted by any new-comers, nor by” ins | Daneon, Ho beyond. hat she has,no resp n she addresses | stands off ho oe ent her cheap nd \airty dress,
hair gays, Jovking wp. “Have you come for) Euith's earpiercing, tones, either, singe that) “sie does not seem to m ind the storn at all only as «i father” wife n amie of levee irradintes hi
Euith?” 5 I draws her cloak closer about her and hur Solomon Bland, too, notes the look, and says} ‘Isn't T hatte is see. vy sro T almost
Gand
‘THE OATH OF THE BLIND,
iy
“Yer please, Mra. Panton,” a the low | hour past, and fs quite ‘oblivious of all: exis feng ware “nnd. fit of the curtly: fancy is ean
reply, delivered Fin singularly c metallic thing to to'say noting of tho fact that she is the Teen gats uate clock when she reaches the| None of your tantrams, my lady, for T want gol T dow
voice,” “ It is bed-time, you kno owe wr of a pair of lungs ina high state of health strip o of pines, and you 200 at therpathway stra, stand it. Don’t twi ur mouth "vp fn that fara ae but femust nice, it "cost bo
Mrs. Danton faserts that she does know, and | and preservation. gles on through the woods, but at this pout it 4s| style or I'l veach you that you haven't grown teo| Ist
adds mildly: ‘She fell asleep in my arms and 1 The write, {eticate figure r remains ite s al in Guarded by abarred gate” Jarge even yet to get a tasta of the cow-hide, Now She knows nothing of her squalid surroundings,
placed her upon the sofa, itschair beside vw, and tl ‘The woman pases this open quickly and hur-!#"S*et me plainly, where's Danton to-night?” and they do not undeceive her,
‘Agatha Bland bows her head lowly and glides sos ‘aginst ‘mh : pal ‘ot lass ‘he ef ries up the pa “ T don’t know,” the woman answers him, “ He} _“‘Itis very beautiful, dar! dee her mother re-
Gye glides is the word, for she is singuian vidently striving to pace with ‘te TR guike dark, nothing but the flashes of war, to be home early to--to—" plies. “You are like a im your little
Foon ant ner’ actions) toward the sole [Four of the wind which owls nth vor ry rapid rate }yightning which occasionally light up the w «To what? hang you!” Palace.” aa ve
hers @ little pink bundle of humanity sleeps | shriek after shriek of unmelodious music. aids her in finding the way, but she wreases ood “To spend the evening with bis—wife!” randded y's San Re good, i ther fbe obild
ly. Apparently Mrs, Danton has quite forgotten | steadily, a fact which proves conclusi Je tha She utters tho ord huskily, and it is plain | S825, $2! ith hers mothers oH
she Tita the little one a bar aren, tnd without the storm, for her head bas fallen upon ber bids, is well soquainted with Bia and ecm tied th a ei ine Bive
a word further, very quietl; open ste door and|and her white, patient face is bent down’ “ile into the strip of ‘ood-| Solomon Bland ‘smiles coldly and lifts his pipe | were fix: fied minced for vay "heir palaces
bot sight Sod mind too, as far as Drs, | while one ting’ fbat follows the tins and outs,” of | jaunt mdse suddenis: greounears @ bright plares and | Ei wails toatl eilver and the ceili 1g is blue, like the
isc fod, for her thoughts have drift-|n elaborate scroll upon the earpets.a fact which me next fist of lightening 36 ean plainty bo}, T2,3 0 his—wife!” ho says in a cruel way.| ty. Is the tky bles mor ee Oe e
: ed back into tie old ‘channel, and her face is | bears pretty positive evidence that her thouglts hat this emanates fro inbledown, itis niuuicking her tone. Why dow’ sou'speal oot Tyee Gua Sky blue, mar
clouded once a; @ busy somewhere, but just where is uncerta’ y, stan ding in the me of is tangle of Vir ‘ke gous and not Tike a sick girlt . Haven't ang 1 ae * jue.”
“Tie clock ont the ‘mantel ticks with a steady ™ Nor are these thoughts of a very pleasant na- forgotten that thing yet?" aaa wl hen p At poises 15 Tike it it does to-nh abe gre Liat
for some moments, then & shri, chit ture iC one can judge by the look of sadness. upon xr is drawn ctosty | he rises from her seat and faces him, are retire "ine vd silver. That must
Soren pierces the air, and Mrs, Danton becomes | her face, fd the face is often a fair index of the jeetanas upon the J ledge She is trembling sily, and her voice quivers ra re ,, Like Hau fiver; es uch
wantally mvware, that litle ait is retin minds i we are to believe all that phys i enc der, golden thread ‘as she speaks. aote word to npeak. i wish I could avirel
‘ugainst the very nv lication tell us, on “Fo she says “ 1%
rer befoye sli is Dut te eel toe the ithe.” She| “Sho remains in this attitude for precisely eight in moves forward quickly, reaches the |T oniy She Pre ote aie sue ‘yt a it Hie i ke, to see sou, to, mamimay Leno
wer, Very much troubled by this shrill | minutes and four seconds, necording to the clock | doorstep and then strikes the Worm-eaten punels T onl could coer ‘You ela fan | re so, bent fa Bnd Kod land she bites bi
and inmusieat ‘accompaniment to her thoughts, |on the mantel, then she lifts her head suddenly | with her clenched hand, mae could ever aoe nel, me. hilde~ re eemother’s ace bent low and she iss ay
for the: se invisible choruses are of nightly occur’ |and lets ber exes rest upon pict ‘tured fuce over! ‘There is the sound of feet scuffing feross 8 less as mine? It ix the past that Buriens all my | despme, ° eof apguts
Fence fat Danton House, and with another sigh she | the arch that leads to her bow sanded Boor r, the rattle of & bolt, then {fe—the cruel, deathless past in which 1 have sué.| "Good! she h her breath: “ob.
Feturns toher thoughts and her position at the) Tt js the face of @ man probably thirty-five | opens va diomal squeak and a shrill, veeping | fered 30, anid—God pity me—L suffer stil itl because | merciful Father, if Theealy knew the cruel truth
vet | voice excinins: Thave mot the evurage to rise up and erush vou | "™ And grandinddy aa a eT and
window. years of age, dark and singularly” laden ren Sen :
nues to close in darker and ark with a ey! expression about ipa ‘euta| “Come in.” ut, Solomon Bland, the man who haw made me beautiful too,” the little childish vo -
ae once Ines and repe repel ‘You seo by this that the woman i expected and what EL am tonight Gutonst from heart and home, | conssioun oe’ thw cruel wieacheeae ia oe
to see it pains here
er, and the storin, as if taking up the scepter of | sadue
Gying day, in a defensive wool, grows very much {lente "You goo at a glance be cau be as teu that she is no stranger her an branded With the infaiy of the world! brings to the mother's heart, “alsa z