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NEWS SUMMARY.
Important Intelligence from All Parts,
Domestic.
! The value of domestic provisions, tallow
and dairy products exported from the
United States during tlie six months ended
June 30 was $71,156,930, against .$69,4:25,829
during the corresponding period of last year.
The total value of the dairy products exported during May and June of this year
was$3,S35,9Si, against $4,945,004 worth exported during May and June of last ye^ar.
A statue in honor of the Confederate
dead in the cemetery at Culpepper, Va.,
was unveiled on the 21st, in the presence of
ahout 10*, 000 spectators.
During the fiscal year of 18S0 over twelve
millions of dollars** worth of gold and silver
were used in the arts and manufactures in
the United States.
The railway building since January has
brought the tracks of the United States to
an aggregate of 100,000 miles.
The Red River region of Dakota promises
the largest and best crop of wheat- ever
harvested.
It was stated on the 21st that there were
good grounds for believing that the arrests
made the day before at "Wilkesbarre, Pa., of
liquor-dealers, charged with violating the
city ordinances, were made for blackmailing
. purposes, and the persons on whose information the arrests were made were themselves
arrested and sent to jail in default of $3,000
bail. The Justice before whom the liquor
men were tried had been arrested on the
charge of extortion.
DURING the year ended June 30, 660,000
emigrants landed in this country.
A few days ago a former chaplain in the*
army sent from Vermont to the conscience
fund of the United States Treasury the sum
of $100, being an excessive allowance for
forage.
The Chicago Times of the 23d contained
reports from nearly every county in the
spring wheat region. . It reaches the conclusion that the yield will not exceed half the
usual amount. Corn bade fair to prove a
full crop. Oats were abundant, but the
army-worm was greatly damaging the crop
in some'localities.
IDs consequence of the rapid advance in
wheat in Chicago on the 22d, the commission firms of T. M. Baxter & Co. and
Francis J. Keniiett & Co. were forced to
suspend.
The comet recently discovered by Prof.
Sclueberle, of the observatory at Ann Arbor,
Mich., is said to be a new comet, and has
been given the name of its discoverer,
through an official circular issued by Prof.
E. C. Pickering, Chief of the Corps of Observers at Harvard University. A Cincinnati special of the 21st says Prof. Orniond
Stone, of the observatory in that city, and
his assistants, were watching the new comet
with interest. They say the comet will be
in its perihelion about August 19. Itwas
approaching the earth very rapidly, its distance then being about 150,000,000 miles.
"VFIien it reaches itsperihelion it will .be from
us about four-tenths of the distance be-
- tween the earth and sun. Prof. Stone
thinks it very probable that this is the great
comet which was observed by the Chinese in
1337, as its orbit is very nearly the same.
TTtt.t. & So^r, paper manufacturers atMid-
dletown, O., made an assignment on the
22d, with liabilities of about $125,000.
Arrangements have been made by D.
L. Moody, the evangelist, for a second convocation at JTorthfield, Mass., beginning
August 3 and. to continue through the
month. Dr. Andrew Bonar, of Scotland,
and many other eminent Bible scholars are
expected to be present.
A mob in Perry County, Ark., recently
warned Judge Harris and Editor Matthews
to leave at once, but a truce was effected.
On the night of the 2lstMatthews was killed
by an assassin, and notice was again Served
on Judge Harris.
The total value of the domestic breadstuffs
exported from the United States during the
twelve months ended June 30, 1881, was
$265,561,323, against $282,132,618 worth exported during the twelve months ended June
30, 1S80.
There are held by individuals in the TSew
England States $70,972,050 worth of registered United States bonds, in the Southern
States $13,139,800, in the Western States
$54,418,750, m the Middle .States $279,008,250,
and by banks, insurance and trust companies $227,451,550.
At Hadlyme, Conn., on the afternoon of
the 21st, hail fell to the depth of an inch,
breaking all the glass on north fronts, and
destroying the tobacco, porn and apple
crops.
The mills of the Pennsylvania Paper Company at Lock Haven, Pa., were destroyed
by fire on the 22d, the loss being $160,000.
A few evenings ago the people of
Antonito, Col., turned out and hanged
George C. O'Connor, a Justice of the Peace,
who was believed to be in league with a
gang of robbers, and who rode through the
streets, heavily armed, threatening everybody he saw.
Postataster-General James warns
postmasters that their accounts must be forwarded to the Auditor of- the Treasury im-
t mediately after the close of every quarter.
Pour armed men, believed to be the
James boys and their accomplices, went into
camp at the ferry landing near Lexington,
Mo., on the evening of the 22d, and were
driven ten miles by a party of United States
river employes. The squad were thought
to be the "Winston train robbers.
At the Chicago Driving park on the 23d
Maud S. trotted against her former record
" of 2:10K* The time of the first heat was
2-2l>f; second, 2:11^; third, 2:11—the
second and third being the fastest two heats
ever recorded.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
requested the Poncas, Oinahas, "VVinneba-
goes and lower Sioux to send three delegates
each to Washington, for a conference in regard to settling the Boston Poncas on the
Omaha reservation, twenty-five miles south
of Sioux City.
Standard silver dollars to the number of 249,000 were distributed during the
week ended on the 23d. During the corresponding week of last year the number distributed was 117,000.
A S"ew York special of the 23d says, the
Commissioners at Castle Garden reported an
increasing demandfor labor,which they were
utterly unable to supply. Agriculturists
were wanted for Florida, Louisiana and
' West Virginia'; smelters for ihe milling
towns, and graders for the railways being
laid in the Southwest.
_^ At Stockton, Kansas, one day recently the
thermometer was 113 degrees in the shade,
and the citizens Wre compelled to take iref-
Uge in their cellars.
IIEISVOMBD by recent legislation, the
Health stuthorities of E"ew York have set out
to stop the adulteration of milk, commencing the raid by having an extensive dealer
held for trial.
Personal and Political.
The Ohio Prohibitionists met in convention at Cleveland on the 20th, "and nominated
a full State ticket, headed by A. R. Ludlow,
of Springfield, for Governor; Jason McVeigh,
of Columbus, for Lieutenant-Governor, and
Gideon T. Stewart, of "Norwalk, for Judge
of the Supreme* Court. Among the resolutions adopted was one declaring that '' the
time has fully come when temperance men
should unite in a political organization
whose leading object shall be the suppression
ofthe liquor traffic."-' The platform also,
declares in favor of Local Option, and demands of the next Legislature astringent
Local Option law. A resolution of sympa-
th3r with President Garfield and his family,
and of rejoicing over the prospect of tie
President's recovery, was also adopted.
Arecent Harrisanburgh (Va.) dispatch
says two members of the State Central lie-
publican Committee, who had previously
acted with General "Wickham and the
Straightouts, had come out in favor of
fusion with Mahone's forces. Feinall,
United States Internal-Revenue Collector of
the Fifth Virginia District, formerly a
Straightout, had also declared for coulition
with Mahone.
It was stated on the 20th that Guiteau
was complaining of his prison treatment.
He thought himself a person of great importance, ana that, his offense being of a
political character, he ought to be treated
with more consideration than ordinary prisoners. He claimed to be a gentleman accustomed to luxury, etc. The jail authorities
did not take him at his own estimate of
himself, however, and had commenced to
treat him as an ordinary felon. This was
said to be having a good effect on him.
Under it his vanity was diminishing somewhat, and he was not so lordly in his manners as during the first days of his confinement.
Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commissioner of Georgia, has been elected President of the National Educational Association
for the ensuing year.
The Kew York State Senate on the 21st
passed.the bill abolishing tolls on canals in
that State.
A conference of the Republican members of the "Sew York Legislature was held
on the 22d, at which a vote was taken as to
preferences for candidate for United States
Senator to succeed Mr. Conkling. Lapham
was named by sixty-one members, Conkling
by twenty-seven, Evarts by ten, and "Woodford by one. In the Joint Convention of the
Legislature, subsequently-held, the vote
was: Lapham, 92; Potter, 42; Total, 134;
necessary to a choice, 6S. The Chair then
announced the election of Elbridge G. Lapham in place of Roscoe Conkling, resigned,
and the Joint Assembly dissolved.
The Legislature of JTew York has passed
a resolution to submit to the people a Constitutional amendment making the canals
forever exempt from tolls, and levying a
State tax for their maintenance.
The widow of Rev. Dr. E.. H. Chapin
dropped dead on the piazza of her summer
residence at Cape Ann, Mass., on the 22d.
A citizen of Illinois has commenced 9,000
suits against the Indianapolis & St. Louis
Railroad for failure to keep axes and saws
in its cars. The aggregate claim is $1,800,-
000.
In a personal note received in "Washington on the 22d Mr* Gladstone, the British
Premier, pays a glowing tribute to the heroism of President Garfield
bors of his wife.
A statue of General J. B. McPherson
was unveiled on the 22d at Clyde, Ohio, in
presence of twenty-one posts of the Grand
Army, the audience numbering IS, COO.
General Sherman was present, and ex-President Hayes delivered an address.
The ijew York Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 23d.
Early on the morning of the 23d considerable alarm was caiised by an unfavorable
turn in the President's symptoms. The
wound, which had for several days discharged a considerable' quantity of healthy
pus, had apparently become obstructed
near the inner end of the drainage tube,
while the process of. suppuration in the
deepei parts of the wound continued. The
patient was taken with a chill, which was
followed by a high fever, the pulse rising to
130 and the temperature to 104. His condition caused great alarm, as it was feared that
blood-poisoning had set in, or that an abscess
had begun to form. Drs.Hamilton and Agnew
were summoned to "Washington, and on the
morning of the 24th a critical examination
of the wound was made by the surgeons in
attendance, and it was .shown beyond a
doubt that a "pus cavity" had formed in
the track of the ball and beyond the point
where it glanced from the rib, and that the
cavity could only be reached by an incision
three inches below the mouth of the wound.
The incision was made by Dr. Agnew,
and the cavity was reached at a little
more than an inch below ,the surface.
A tube was inserted into this incision, and the pus commenced to flow
freely, and the discharge was entirely satisfactory to the physicians. An examination
of the pus discharged showed no indications
of blood-poisoning. The condition of the
President at once began to improve. At
11:30 on the night of the 24th the attending
surgeons reported that the patient was resting quietly, and, although they had not
thought it best to disturb him by taking his
pulse and temperature, they believed he was
free from fever. There were no indications
of a recurrence of chills. The President was
reported to be resting comfortably at 2:30
on the morning of the 25th
The death of Hon. Nathan Clifford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, was announced, on the morning of
the 23d. His health had been for some time
precarious. Mr. Clifford was bornl'n New
Hampshire in 1803, and at the time of his
decease was nearly seventy-eight years old.
He was a member of Congress for Maine
from 1839 to 1843. In 1846 he was appointed
Attorney-General of the United States, and
in 1847 went as Commissioner to Mexico,
and afftsr peace was declared became a Minister to that country. Returning, he resumed the practice of law in Maine, and in
1853 was placed on the Supreme Bench by
President Buchanan, where he has since remained.
Foreign.
The announcement is made that Egypt
has decided to allow no more persons to be
enslaved in the future. (
The farmers of County Cork, Ireland,
have yielded to the demand of their agricultural laborers, and the strike has ended.
A Paris dispatch of the 20th says the
troops of the Bey of Tunis were -leserttag in
great numbers.
and the loving Ia-
DoNtJARLOS, the Spanish pretender, has
issued! manifesto complaining of his ejection torn France, and charging that the
massasre of Spaniards in Algeria is attributable to the French Government. I
CHtRUES Bradlaugh, the radical M. P.
for Nottingham, whose atheistic views
prevented his qualifying for the seat in Par-
lianent to which he is otherwise entitled,
hirted to the police on the 20tli that, when
heattempted to take his seat on the 3d of
Ajgust, he would be escorted by a mob.
It is stated that Ireland Will this year
lave a crop of potatoes large enough to supply the home demand, and a liberal margin
also for exportation.
The Canadian team won the Kolopore Cup
inthe rifle contest at Wimbledon onthe 20th,
by twenty points.
A destructive cotton-worm has appeared in one of the provinces of Egypt, and
the cattle-plague in another.
ArthurLeeroy, the London journalist,
has been committed for trial on the charge
of murdering F. J. Gold on the Brighton
express train.
The Sultan of Morocco has appealed to
the Porte to stop the agitation in North
Africa, lest insurrection and the separation
of the Barbary States from Turkish rule
shall be the result.
Courcia, the Catholic Archbishop of
Egypt, recently died while on his way to
Italy.
The Elcho Challenge Shield at Wimbledon, Eng., Avas won on the 21st by the English rifle team, which made 1,642 points.
The Irish team scored 1,549 points, andthe
Scotch 1,501. .
The Colonial Governments of New Zealand, New South Wales and Victoria have
agreed to enter into a convention for the exchange of monej-prders with the United
States.
Bradlaugh has been mulcted in £500 by
a London jury foil baving sat and voted in
the House of Commons "without taking the
Parliamentary oath.
On the 22d the British House of Commons,
in Committee of the Whole, concluded its
examination of the Irish Land bill, and
ordered it to be reported to the House.
This disposition of the bill was accompanied
with loud cheers.
Rev. Arthur, Edwards and son, of Chicago, recently traveled from Edinburgh to
London on bicycles.
It is announced that the draft of the Convention prepared by the Royal Commission
virtually retrocedes the whole of the Transvaal to the Boers.
In the Cork (Ireland) Assizes the trial of
criminal agrarian cases has been stopped at
the request oi counsel for the Crown, on the
ground that juries persistently decline to
return verdicts of guilty, despite the strongest evidence.
Two employes of the Spanish Bank atMa-
tanzas recently robbed the institution of
$200,000 in specie, and sailed on the steamer
Alicante, which they had previously chartered under pretense of bringing cattle from
Mexico.
A fire In a warehouse at Bordeaux,
France, on the 22d destroyed eight thousand casks of wine.
The customs officers at Liverpool report
having recently found on the steamer Malta,
in what purported to be barrels of American
cement, six zinc boxes containing infernal
machines prepared with dynamite. A similar discovery was made on board the Bavarian.
Announcement was made at Dublin on
the 23d of the death of the Most Rev. Daniel
McCarthy, D. D., Roman Catholic-Bishop
of Kerry.
Andkoee, the Socialist banished from
Hamburg, sailed for the United States with
three companions on the 24th.
A LiiSD-LEAGUE demonstration iu Dublin
on the 24th was pronounced a complete
failure.
The church bells at Geneva, Switzerland,
were.rung by a shock of earthquake on the
morning of the 22d. There was a perceptible tremor at Lyons and Grenoble, France.
SIX YEABS OLD.
LATER   NEWS.
The physicians' bulletin issued at seven
p. m. on the 25th says: " The President has
done well during the day. His afternoon
fever did not come on until after five o'clock.
Itis somewhat higher than yesterday, but
there have been no chills. At noon his pulse
was 104; temperature, 98.4; respiration, 20.
At seven p. m. his pulse was HO; temperature, 101.8; respiration, 24." Dr. Agnew is
reported as saying on the 25ththat the President's chances of recovery were good, but he
was not out of danger. The doctor thought.
T;here might be another chill resulting from
the condition the, patient had passed
through, but no more serious complications
were looked for in the case. There were
evidences of the old wound's healing. The
President was sleeping quietly at 1:30 on
the morning of the 26th, and his fever had
subsided.
Judge Robertson took the oath of office as Collector of Customs at New York on
the 25th.
Rev. T. H. Tibbles, of Omaha, who has
become prominent for his labors on behalf of
the Ponca Indians, has wedded Bright Eyes,
the daughter of Chief La Fleshe.
It was announced on the 25th that James
R. Keene was organizing a telegraph company to cover every paying point now
touched by the Western Union consolidation,
with a capital of $10,000,000.
A cable •••bam from Glasgow on the 25th
announces the arrival in good condition of
the consignment of Minnesota wheat sent
down tbe Mississippi by barges, and shipped
at New Orleans.
The-Fourth of July was being joyously
commemorated at Yokohama, when jiews
of the attempt on the President's life caused
an abrupt stop to the festivities.
Baron DE Fava has been appointed Italian Minister to the United States.
The funeral of Dean Stanley was held at
Westminster Abbey on the 25th, the attendance being twice as large as could enter
the building. The Prince of Wales was
present, and Queen Victoria sent a wreath
of roses and an autograph note expressing
her affection and esteem for the deceased.
The announcement of the death of Judge
Clifford, Judge of the Supreme Court of the
United States, at Portland,Me., on the 22d,
was premature. He died at Cornish, Me.,
on the 25th.
The French Chamber of Deputies has invalidated the election of Emile Olivier o»
account of bribery.
The request of the Porte that the foreign
Ambassadors delay the cession to Greece of
the second zone of ceded territory has been
met with refusal.
ON the 25th the Pennsylvania Railroad
sold tickets from New York to Chicaso for
$8.50, and to St. Louis for $13.75."" The
scalpers sold tickets to both points a half-a-
dollar less. The Grand Trunk Road opened
a ticket war in Boston by advertising a $5
rate to Chicago, and the Albauy and TunneJ
lines at once made a similar cut,
Between the springs of six and seven
Two fresh years' fountain, clear
Of all but golden sand lor ]eaven,
Child, midway passing here,
As earth, for love's sake, dares bless Heaven,
S3o dare I bless you, dear.
Between two bright well-heads, that brighten
"With every breath that blows
Too loud to lull, too low to frighten,
But fain to rock, the rose.
ITour feet stand fast, your lit smiles lighten,
That might rear flowers from snows.
You came when winds unlashed were snarling
Behind the frost-bound hours,
A snow-bird sturdier than the starling,
"A storm-bird fledged for showers,
That spring might smile to lind you, darling,
First born of all the flowers.
Could love make worthy things of worthless,
My songs were worth an ear;
Its note should make the days most mirthless
The merriest of the year,
And wake to birth all buds yet birthless
To keep your birtnday, dear.
But where your birthday brightens Heaven
No need has earth, God knows,
Of light or warmth to melt or leaven
The frost or fog that glows
"With sevenfold heavenly lights of seven
Sweet sprins* that cleavethe snows.
Could love make worthy music of you, -
And match my Master's powers,
Had even my love less heart to love you,
Abetter song were ours:
With all the rhymes like stars above you,
And all the words like flowers.
—A. C. Swinburne.
VBAB'S FIRE-CRACKERS.
An Accident.
"Here  comes a country-woman  of
mine," said Fairweather, of New York,
to Count Oscar Von H^eld,
young men were strolling
as the two
along the
Unter den Linden.
" I never yet have known one of
your fair Americans,*" answered Von
Held. •' I fancy they are a charming
mixture of grace and republican simplicity."
" Simplicity! You Europeans won't
find much of that in our girls. Why,
they ought to be Al. We spend plenty
of money on them. Now this Miss
Warren we're just meeting, she's had
thousands spent on her education."
Von Held responded with an inscrutable German "So!" the only word
of his native tongue that forced its way
through his fluent and excellent English. He found it impossible to conduct a conversation both politely and
prudently without using the familiar
syllable that lent itself to any meaning,
or covered all meaning.
" She's with her father," Fairweather
went on. " He's rich as Croesus—
large mill-owner. Til introduce you
as they pass."
"She is very beautiful," said Von
Held; " tall and slight, brown eyes,
lovely chestnut hair, and what a perfect
crimson on what a perfect cheek! She
has the softest and brightest of your
autumn landscape, I fancy," and. he
flushed slightly in the fashion peculiar
.to tbe German blonde. But Von Held
was neither bashful nor awkward. He
was a tall, good-looking fellow of thirty-
five, with a long yellow mustache,
pleasant blue eyes, much experience in
the best society in Europe and much
given to formulating his views in neat,
careful phrases.
" George!" exclaimed Fairweather,
as Miss Warren came near, "she's
grown handsomer than  ever.   She's
fot  chic.   That's from six months in
aris.   Why,   that  girl's music .alone
cost at least ten thousand dollars."
" Then," observed Von Held, interrogatively, " she may be said to represent capital invested?"
" Exactly. Here they are." And
the Count was duly presented.
Mr. Warren's greeting was: "G-]ad
to make your acquaintance, sir. Hbw
are you, sir?" in a very loud voice, and
with a show of feeling perfectly at home.
Then he shook hands with the friendly
grip-current among brother mill-owners
in Eastern Massachusetts. The Count
bent his blue eyes on him in the quietest observation, and returned the "How
are you, sir?" and the grip with that
last test of true politeness—the sacrifice of personal taste and pride to put
another, of inferior breeding, at ease.
But Miss Warren was unimpeachable;
dignified, calm, slow of gaze, apt in
speech, everything that the father was
not.
" Where did she learn it all ? How
did she come by that grace and propriety?" asked the puzzled foreigner,
when he had parted from the Americans.    "Is the mother charming?"
"Mother's a manikin," answered
Fairweather; " dried-up party in black
silk; never says much. Dora Warren
is the new American girl; just adopts
luxury, accomplishments, manners,
style, and wears 'em as she wears her
clothes—as if they were made to order
expressly for her. She's the only
daughter, too; going to have a fortune
—cool million -at least.''
" I've always been interested in
America," remarked Von Held just
here. " The notion of a Republic has
long held a sort of* charm for me. I
think 1 must make a trip out there."
Fairweather kept a discouraging silence, frowning slightly, and staring at
some distant object.
"From boyhood," the Count went
on, " I've had a dream of republicanism
—no caste distinctions, only those of
personal merit. Le Comte' s views have
impressed me strongly. I feel our Old
World manacles of dignities and prejudices slipping off. 1 want something
fresh, pure, simple. I hope to find it
in your country."
" You'll find nothing 'green' (as we
say) in America, Count," answered
Fairweather, with an attempt at goodnature. Then remembering an engagement, he walked off, muttering to himself: "The fellow's poor. He'd .like
some Yankee money,
duceel him.   Dora's "a
A few days later,
called on the' Warren
of. his intended trip,
Warren said: " Well, we can't brag
castles, butsL'H show you mills. We
shall be at our seaside place at Rock-
port the 1st of June. Come there, and
stay with us."
Von Held explained, while thanking
him, "I go to America to gratify the
longing of years to enjoy a young civilization; to find something more natural, more vigorous than our old types
of humanity.
After the German had gone Warren
nodded knowingly to
"Talk to the marines.
Sorry I intro-
beauty."
when Von Held
family, he spoke
whereupon Mr.
of
his wife  with:
I've found out
all about that young Count.   Ancient
family, splendid education, nice old
castle, but poor; actually hasn't means
to keep up the place."
" He's agentleman," remarkedDora.
"What's that, miss?" said Warren,
in the tone, half banter, half reproof,
yet wholly pride and affection, with
which he always addressed this handsome creature he had the luck to call
daughter. "What's that, miss? Agentleman, is he? Well, we don't want
him, do we? Let him keep to his aristocracy, eh?"
"There is something in birth and
breeding, papa. Fairweather, with all
his money and all his boasting, can't
impress one as this quiet German does."
" Impress? Whom does he impress,
miss, eh?   Me or you?"
"O, have your joke, papa; but you
know what I mean, perfectly." Dora
was never embarrassed about men. As
an American belle, she had been too
long surrounded by admirers to treat
their existence otherwise than a matter
of course. So she straightened her
fichu ia front of the glass quite coolly,
and met her own reflected eyes with a
calm acceptation of their limpid beauty
that was something more dignified yet
more vain than vanity itself.
When she had left the room, Mr.
Warren said to his wife, "Sarah, do you
suppose our Dorry is taken with this
foreign fellow?"
Mrs. Warren had a strong claim to
gentility, based upon being naturally
not giving to much talking, and being
artificially barricaded in the best of
black silk, which her husband thought
the clothing most suited to her years
and estate, and always bought himself
in the heaviest grades. She answered
slowly, "I think, Samuel, our Dora is
fit for any society, and could grace any
European title."
" So do I, Sarah—so do I. There's
no discount on Dorry; but the question
is, is this chap worthy of her, and will
she be likely to accept him?"
"Somehow I think she would. I
never heard her say as much in praise
of any man before."
" All right, Sarah; I've got money,
and I'm not going to stand in Dcrry's
light. She shall marry just whom she
likes. Of course, I'd rather she didn't
fancy a nobleman. I'm a republican
to the backbone. Still, if it's Dorry's
whim, why—r-1'
"Don't make believe to me, Samuel," Mrs. Warren gravely reproved
him; "you want Dorry'to marry high
just as much as I do."
"Now, Sarah," he laughed, good-
humoredly, "don't you get too sharp."
Then he kissed her and whistled a tune.
Just before dozing off to sleep that
night he asked: "Sarah, can Dorry
speak in this Count's own language?
All his family mightn't speak English
as well as he does."
"Dora speaks German, her teacher
says, well enough to talk to the Emperor himself."
'* All right, Sarah; I thought so, but
wasn't certain;" and he fell tranquilly
asleep.
About the middle of the following
June, when the family were home from*
their European tour and settled at their
Rockport place, Mr. Warren announced
one day at the dinner table, "I've a
letter from Count Von Held."
Mrs. Warren, long unused to changing color, actually Hushed with delight,
and looked significantly at Dora, who
returned the look with frank complacency.
Phil, the only son, and future inheritor of all the mill property, bawled out,
in a loud voice that was his most remarkable characteristic, "Who's Von
What's-his-name, anyhow?"
Dora calmly explained, "He's a German gentleman whom we met in Berlin,
and found very agreeable."
"Is he coming here, father?" demanded Phil.
" Yes, he is coming to-morrow."
To-morrow, accordingly, he came.
Dora floated into the drawing-room,
lovely as a dream, dressed in white
muslin sublimated with Valenciennes,
and directly from the hand of Worth.
". Very glad to renew your acquaintance, sir," was Mr. Warren's greeting.
" I hope you'll get along with our plain,
republican way of living."
*«Plain ?'' echoed Von Held. '' Why,
this villa is one of the finest I ever saw,
and your grounds are almost an English park. There's nothing here but
taste and opulence." *»
" Well"—and the happy proprietor
smiled contentedly—" well, Count, I
don't mind confessing this sea-shore
place cost me something like half a
million. A little money, you know,
buys everything."
" So!" responded Von Held, resorting
to his useful German monosyllable.
' The guest was soon at home in the
superb house, and filled it with plenty
of distinguished callers. Members of
the German Legation dropped in, in
friendly fashion; so did the French and
Italian Ministers. Dora conversed with
each* in his own tongue; then she would
play and sing to Von Held all the summer evenings, while the perfume of
rare flowers and the flood of moonlight
made a sort of witchery in the room.
The Count said to her one day: "I
never cease to wonder at your varied
accomplishments, your taste, your perfect self-possession and perfect—pardon
me." . He stopped, cheeked by the slow
gaze of her brown eyes; but she understood the compliment as plainly and
with less sacrifice of dignity than if she
had received it in words. " You have
nothing of what I expected to find in
this new country. You would fit a
European court."
"Thanks," answered Doravwith the
languor proper to a much be-flattered
woman. ' 'I hope you won't be shocked
by such crudities as still exist in our society here."
" O," responded Von Held, "understand me, pray. I like all strong characteristics. Independence; freedom of
speech, originality of thought, quaint-
ness of expression* I admire, even if
they are not always in the most refined
taste."
Dora smiled, and understood another
and subtler compliment that embraced
even her Surroundings.
Von Held's patience With Phil, the
most noisy of Yankee boys, made Papa
Warren remark, with a signific ant
laugh, "Yousee, Sarah, ourguestwants
to be friendly with all the family."
Friends the two certainly were, and
went off on long tramps and fishing ex
cursions together.   On such occasions
the boy, finding the foreign name too
hard, addressed Von Held  as " Mr.
Count," or oftener with only the jolly'"
" I say!"
One day Phil screamed from a long
distance down the river bank (it was
Phil's peculiarity to yell his conversations across' wide distances): "Mr.
Count, I say, to-morrow's the Fourth.
You'll have to get up early if you go
out with me."
"O yes, P11 get up. It's your National holiday."
" Bab and me always get up early to
fire crackers.    Got a bite ?''
"No.   Is Bab the dog?"
"Dog?   No; Bab's a girl."'
A laborer in a field across the river
looked up, and answered, "Hallo!"
thinking the remarks were addressed to
him. "Ain't talking to you," Phil explained, fortissimo, then trumpeted out |
the information: " Bab is Barbar Chase.
She's my cousin. Her mother is father's sister. Her father's dead. She's
awfully poor. We ain't. But she's a
nice girl. She's seventeen. She's a
little taller than I am* I'm thirteen.
I'll soon catch up to her."
"I'm glad to be in New England on
your great National holiday," said Von
Held to Dora that evening.
"O, you mean the Fourth of July.
Let me see. It's to-morrow. Such a
dreadful bore! but we keep out of the
blare and glare here. Fortunately the
grounds are large."
" Then you don't care for the day?"
" Only children and the lower orders
celebrate these dreadful National fetes.
Of course patriotism must be popularized, and this is the unpleasant, noisy
form it takes."
"You are entirely cosmopolitan; you
have no National enthusiasms," remarked Von Held, politely observant.
Then he strolled across the lawn to
smoke a cigar.
While he was gone a box arrived by
express. Mr. Warren ordered it brought
in, and explained, "It's full of firecrackers for Bab."
"Surely, papa," exclaimed Dora,
"that child Bab isn't coming here tomorrow?"
" Why not?"
" Because she's such a queer, plain
little thing that "
'' Samuel, you ought to know better,''
remonstrated Mrs. Warren, "than to
let Count Von Held see such a girl as
Dora's cousin."
"Nonsense! Bab's not very stylish,
but she hasn't got money to buy that
sort of thing. She's my sister's child,
anyway, and I mean to give her all the
fire-crackers she wants, and a place to
fire 'em off in." Mr. Warren was
conscious of having done but little practically for his niece, and was tenacious
of doing something sentimentally.
"It's your own fault," snapped the
wife, with an energy born of her new
ambitions, "if the Count is disgusted
with such queer-looking relations,"
"Barbara was dressed in common
coarse blue flannel when I last met
her," said Dora.
" Don't you worry about the Count,"
Mr. Warreii. answered, soothingly.
"I've shown him all the mills and the
Boston house. He's no fool. He won't
mind Bab any more than he minds
Phil. Money's money, my dear; money's
money."
The family (as ill-luck would have it)
were seated that evening in a full light,
the weather being cool, and into tile
parlor came the dreadful Bab, dressed
in ihe condemned blue flannel. It was
an old dress, and notpretty; nor was Bab
a very pretty girl. She was rather small;
had warm reddish hair dressed in two
hard, ungraceful braids; good, fearless
gray eyes; skin slightly freckled; nice
dimples, a little cleft chin, and a fresh
childish mouth.
"I came for my firecrackers, uncle,"
she said.
There was a murmur of introduction,
she bowed to Von Held, then, with a
laugh, tucked the box under her arm,
and throwing back some jest at the
uncle, who saw her off from the front
door, she ran across the lawn, toward
the village.
The next morning at breakfast Von
Held remarked:. " Phil audi have been
enjoying the Fourth of July. I' Ve been
to the village, and I've fired off crackers with, your cousin,.Miss—Miss Bab,
as ypu call her."
Mrs. Warren frowned with vexation.
"That girl is quite a trial to us, Count.
She's so very queer about her dress.
Why, Dora has often sent her rich
clothes that she had done with, and the
child refuses to wear them."
"Yes,"- said Dora, "the poor girl is
very unconventional."
"So!" the Count responded.
That inevitable Bab came to the
house that evening again. It was her
usual Fourth-of-July custom to fire
crackers from the end of the big piazza
with Phil for companion.
"The noise is- so unpleasant, let us
go," Dora xn'oposed, "to the other side
of the house."
"O no!" answered Von Held. "I
rather like it all. It's something new
to me. It's quite refreshing to see
those two young people absorbed in such
child's play."
Soon Von Held's visit had ended. He
was going to travel. The Warrens
Would spend September in the mountains. October would see him at Rock-
port again.
With many compliments upon his entertainment, with renewed expressions
of surprise at the advance, cultivation
and wealth he met in America, he took
his leave.
"Did he Say anything—anything in
narticidarV whispered Mamma Warren to her daughter.
" Not .yet," answered Dora, in a tone
that was perfectly satisfactory.
During the visit to themountains,
Fairweather overtook the Warren family. In October he returned with them
to Rockport. Von Held they found already at the hotel in the village. He
had been there a month or more.
Fairweather muttered: "Thoughthe'd
be on hand in time. Didn't count on
seeing me come home with Dora." Then
Fairweather ordered the most extravagant of bonbonnieres sent up from New
York to Miss Warren. The fact was,
he recognized a dangerous rival, and
so spent thousands of dollars at once in
buying horses, briuging his yacht to
Rockport, bearing the expense of all
sorts of festivities,  aiid. hunting up
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costly fruits and flowers; ,then rjb.g
scowled constantly upon Von. Held, ana
generally played the desperate lover.
Both men-were leaning over  DQfa'S'^
piano one evening,  when Mr. Warren
chanced to  pass through* the pktior.
Von Held, with a hurried " Excuse nie/JU
overtook  his  steps, and  Fairweather
could hear these words: " May I speak
to you privately, Mr. Warren upon an
important   matter?"    Then   the; twx> .
passed out upon the piazza together..     A
Fairweather felt that he understoods
the purpose of that interview, and he
exclaimed to Dora.    "If  I'd known
that foreign adventurer had followeji-j
you  home   I'd  have   come *back six*
.months sooner."
Miss   Warren rose,  turned.. toward
Fairweather,  swept him* once iip and
down slowly with her eyes, and walked1"'
deliberately out of the room.
The suitor felt such a pang of .lo^e
for her in that repose, that seofnVlSfat
general superiority to his own natitrep
that in a moment he had lashed him-^
self into a jealous fury, and he strode
toward where Warren and Von Held
were sitting outside on the* piazza. •.;.■.'
Coming upon them unawares fwmijg
one of the draperied windows, he hear,d„
this from the Count: *     *
" I wish to ask your sanction for the",
addresses I have already paid her*"     ^
" Already paid her?" repeated Mr.
Warren.    "I'm astonished."
Fairweather sprang forward, forgetting everything but his anger,      ■*'. i-• vy
"Mr. Warren," he vociferated,*,-i[ J»
protest against this. This man is poor, *
doesn't own fifty thousand dollars in"
the world. He wantsyour daughter foi>'
hermoney. I warn you, and I accuser
him of base motives."
Von Held started up as if he had been
dealt a blow; then, meeting the^liyrd
face and angry eyes of his accuser, 'he.
laid his hand quietly on the back ota^
chair, and  so stood at  ease, almost^
smiling. .*"   *
" He's a fortune-hunter," Fairwfea'ffi-**
er went  on.    "He spoke of *a.trip to:*
America just as soon as I spoke of your
daughter's   wealth.     And,   moreover,
he's''—Fairweather swaggered up. veiiy
close to Von Held—"he's a—he's a—"t=
The word "coward" was forming itself
on his lips; but the quiet eyes that'niet''
him, the unchanged color, the Steady***
mouth, checked that word, and left.**
silence, during which  the. Count.. i"er£|
sumed his seat, while Fairweather siqpcl
quivering with unmastered rage. *"* ""** ""'
" Much obliged for your impertinent
interference, young man," Warren,;an-
swered at last, rather dryly,. " but.j^y^
daughter isn't in the question at all.""  ;.
" What!" exclaimed Fairweather! •* "*
"No; it's all about my—-*"      * i-vKf.
""Allow me," interrupted Von Held.**
" I am asking the sanction of Mr. War?,
ren upon my engagement to his * niece,""
Miss Barbara Chase." "' '""*' iT
Fairweather's shame was swallowed
np in astoiiishment. ^..
The German went on: "I have foulid
in this young girl all niy ideal, all that"
I have so often declared heldrpeculiaiift
charms for me—freshness of heart, simr.,?
plicity of taste and the richness of nat-7
ure and imagination that finds aii "ex-1**
eellenee in pure childish ettjoymehtsP^
Accomplishments, beauty,wit,.1 Can ades
mire, but I tire of them soon; they are
nothing  new.   Every* city 'in Europe
gives you plenty of clever and handsome women, but your niece, Mr. Wai'r.-,
ren. has qualities that I far prefer.''
"Yes—oh yes; take her, sir*, by^fiT"
means," stammered Warren. "But.she**
hasn't a dollar in the world."      .        .3
" I would be sorry if she had." , .. .v.,*t
"See here," said Fairweather, siam- "
mering too.    ' T ve often heard you talk
this way before, but—-—" .     *.
"But you didn't believe me?  I see—":
I see.   There's a vicious effect from this
American prosperity.    This great and
successful struggle for wealth^lend# an
undue  weight to mere wealth*;  -rlfete
that you don't use it well, not that ypu,?
don't appreciate the refinements it buys;?*
but your minds will run back and meas-7
nre everything by the outlay entailed'.-'
I think you sometimes forget the value'*-
of such things as can't be valued.    Paiv.
don me if I say that 1 find you apt, with,
just pride in your own honesty* and- in-;-
dustry to judge harshly of certain classes '*
in  Europe.     If   we ' have aristocratic r
pride and prejudice, you have repu.br >
lican pride and prejudice.    If we can't*"
.realize there are taste and refinement in
America, you can't realize there are genuine impulses, honesty, and singleness,
of purpose amongus. I' ve learned recently that the villain of an American ro-?.
mance is commonly a European noble--^
man."     Von Held laughed outright,
and Fairweather felt more at ease, and,
ventured: -     - •'•
"Count, I hope you bear me no"
grudge; I--—" .
*" You insulted me because you knew
no better, sir," was the subtle answer
that Fairweather construed as a settlement of all dispute.
Mr. Warren had hurried in-doors tb *;
tell his daughter the news.  Immediately she appeared in the drawing-room, .a
overflowing with polite congratulations.
'\You see, said Vou Held, "I fell in*
love with my little Barbara that Fourth
of July, when she was so child-like, and
unaffected and inexperienced, and enjoyed those absurd firecrackers so heart-"*
iiy-"
Within a week Dora had seornfully;
rejected Fairweather, and Von   Held,
and  Bab   were  married  and off  for
Berlin. -
On their wedding night Mrs. "Warren
found her daughter in tears.
"To think," cried the indignant
mother, "that he should, marry that
plain little thing! She couldn't touch
a feather to you. It was all an acei- ;
dent, any way—all those horrid firecrackers."
"I suppose it's an accident to meet
an honest man now and then. And—
audlove's an accident," respondedDora
bitterly.    Then the tears came again*
Mrs. Warren stole softly away.    She .
said to her husband, "I think  Dora
liked that Count.*' ' ■       "
" Sho! did she?" answered the kindly old father. «' That's loo bad. We ■
must go to Europe and buy her another
—I mean we'll meet more of those foreign chaps. Dorry shall take her pick.
I've got the -money. Tell Dorry not to '
cry."—Harpers Bazar.       ^       "    t    ,
—Two things that go off in a hurry—""
an arrow dismissed, by a bow, and a/
b&au dismissed by a he\\§,
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