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Mokes tlie food more delicious and wholesome 'NO ??O.VltB CV. KfW TlHK. GE?, JA* KMON'S LAST DISPA'I<SM A K^?^Pt"' ??nlederaUJ Ucnrrnl Worth lifri,f;>^-?U? Verbal Ortlcr cm ? h- Kield. Mr A. E Morrison, o( 1.?Osburg. V? , has left wlt*i the Mercantile T u?t company (if IK timore (or ?afe-keep n* the last dlsoa'- h written by Stonewn I Jack?oo. Tho dispa'ch wns directed to Gen. L ^ and was writton at 3 o'clock on ?V? afternoon of May 2 18?3. Ofu Jackson * billed about 7 o'clock he fi do tiny. Yho dispatch wttM lostrti'tt ii to Mr Morrison for de livery, bot r. vnr reached its dc?tna tion an tho I" !irrr wns wounded in hi* efforts to "< i through the lines nod wit unf?bl" tn proceed or to turn tho dispatch ov-^r lo anetber courier. Mr. Morrison ha* since koot tho papor, which t ? pr i- s >? 1 ?r hl v na beiDp perhaps the last action uf tho famous Confeder ate general Tho ("mpatch roads as follows : Near Six Miles V\Vft Chancellors Tille, 2 p. m., May 2, 'oil General : The enemy has made a stand at Chancellor?, which is about 2 miles from Chanccllorsvillo. I hope so soon as practlcabio io attack. 1 trust that an eTcr kind lJrov;dcnuo will bloss us with success. Respectfully, T. J. .Jackson, Lieut. Gea. To Gen. Robert E. Lee. P. 8.?The leading division is up and next two appear lo be well closed. T. J. J. Capt. Charles Petty, of tha Carolina Bpartaa, adds to tho foregoing an in teresting reminiscence of the last vor bal order givn by Gen. Jackson, nnd which was given to Mc.Gowan's brigade of South Carolinians : Tho last verbal order General Jack son gare to any command was about four hours after tho above was frit ten. When tho extreme right of tho F?deral lino had been surprised and doubled up and routed in tho greatest confusion, they hurrlod back to Cban oallersvlllc whoro tho main body of troops wero massed. About 7 o'clock or just a short time before (lark, UiU'g Light Division, Mi.Gowan's Brigade in front, reached the woods near the Chancellor bovse. Ii ffMtban getting so dark that tho bursting shnlls, which were coming rapidly, lllurainatod tho field and woods. The 13th regiment was marching in front, led by Colonel Edwards. The regiment was marching left In front whloh brought Co. " C," D. R. Duncan, captain, In front, with Colonel Edwards riding closo to tho company. Suddenly tho colonel was called to a ha'.t by sons* ono. Inn mo ment It was seen that General Jackson hud.called tho halt. Some of h's staff were with him. Ho said " whoso com mand Is thin?" When Informod that It was McGowan's hrigadn ho asked where the Genoral was. Ho was in formed that he was hohind with tho brigade. General Jaokson then asked Colonel Edwards to give an order to General McGowan to fllo to tho right aad form line In woods. Then ho or dered Colonel Edwards to begin the Movement at onoo and not wait for General McGowan. Tho reglmont tiled into the pino woods on tho right About tho time they did thin Goneral Jackson with risslatT rode to the front, either going down tho road or Into the woods on tho right. In a fow minutes after bo left there wan a brlak plcKet firing in front and not far from tho lino that McG^-van's brigado ?ras forming. A nlfbt attack was contemplated and they woro* ready nnd anxious for it. For serer*! houra orders wo'o expocted to move forward, but they never camo. Our great leader watt stricken "own a few minutes aftor ho gave his last or der on the n>ld. - E?rly next day Col onel Edward? to whom IbO last ortfo* was given reoodved h>H death ?ound. The four surviving officers of Co. "C" were present and Haw General J*ck#o and heard hit* order. Bcvorat of the ?urf Ivlng privaten of the company re member the Incident. Too offlo^rs of the company are D. It Dunoan, oap tala; J W. Carlisle, A.B. Douglass, Ohas. Hetty, lleut nant*. i^m i ? ?It Is human nature to attrlbuto the success of others to chanco. thm WINDOW IN T II n) tknt. An Old S>l<li<-i't4 Way of Seoariltg V?u*ilaUoii Wh?-i> in iIn? Field. ' I ??-Vr:- pull d'lWU t? W.'tddW ?I lh? toy to '?V ia ? llltii fresh air whon I ro to hod,'' ??id the o'd l?idier, "?? \lV'?uthi?t1 pjt of how we iiaod to onen the window In the tonts in the army in wartimes An A tent, F<~von (f -t rq urc at ! t ? lj?f?o an.: running up, wrdge. ?haped, to a rldgopole eo<en f**t g'nofj \he P'-oni'i'i, made com for ta* b\* e^">n>"> qo^rtrtr* ,r>% 'our men II you could leave, the fnt oneo, which rqniva ont to loarJutf i (T ?ha fror t of the hnuM, hut i? it *ere cold or rainy n-A the wild b!ow <..-. the 'ror.tof the tent so that you had to e.:oso It, why then von wanted ventl a'.ion some where, and you cot it hy making an opeiin? in the. back of the tent. "Thor* irn* r> seam, overlapped, run nine down the middle of the hack of tho ten., from the ridge polo to fie ground, ar.d we u?ed 10 out tho a'Itches alone ihnt s"nin, up near tho top of the tent., ami spread the sides apart hy putting in a etiek six or eieht Inches lone across the middle makine there a diamond sbapod opening about a foot 'one, which nerved tho purposo ad mir ahlr, ?"The men's (runs stood at that end of tho tnn\, butts resting on a p'eue of oraoker box, ihn barrels held in some sort of a holder secured to tho tant pole. If the win 1 changed on somo Tiiny nieht nod camo around to blow against the hack of tho tout, tho rain would como In on tho guns a-io on us, and then somebody would get up and ehut tho window ?that in, tako tho Ktlck out anil lot tho cnnv;ii)s como to gether apain then1, und then open tho trnt a little at tho oth^r ond, at tho front. "This all used to Kcnm kind o' ? trance, then somehow, though practi cally it was Just what I would hare dono In tho oid houso at homo and just what I'd do hero now." a monsteh Locomotive-?tv hat Is prohahly the largost locomotivo ever built, and tho largctt ono likely to be constructed anywhere, in tho world for some time, haa j?i*t heon turned over to tho Illinois Central Rallro&d company for frolght ser7.ee hy the Brooks Locomotivo wurke, of Dunkirk. Its weight, not counting the tender, is 232,000 pounds, or 116 short torn. Very few engines In the world weigh over 100 tons, so that this pro duct of mechanical skill and business entorprlse greatly exceeds the limit for such ohjeu'a. No. 640, as It is known, has eight driving wheels, flfty seven inches high, and two twowhool od trucks besides. Without Itn tender the length of the engine is a fraction of an inoh moro than forty-two feet, and tho fconder adds t*onty-throo fret ?evon and ono half Inchon. The boat ing surfaoe of tho tub** and liro hoz combined amounts to 3.500 square feet. Tho hollers are expeeted to carry a working pressure of 210 pounds. When to those facts Is added the statement that the cylinders havo a diameter of twonty-threo Inches and a stroko of thirty, tbo expert will at once reOOff* n'ao tho tremendous power to bo devel oped. ? A Now Jersey court hn handed down the opinion that \ orruroh sub scription mado on Sunday Is collect! bio, and an O'jIo Judge has decided that a man who engages in a pamo of ohenoe with others oannot recover his looses from the proprietor of the placo wivre tho g&inlng OOfi'lrred. 8 in'i d ?? cislony '?? ,,:> ee minder? that law a> d common sense j'?g along together v. ry comfori.ably most of tho tlmo. ?a WfB'orn olorgyman denounced Sunday funerals. Most people aro In favor of postponing thorn Indefinitely. For Infants and Childron. The Kind Yon Have Always Bonght Bear* the ?f ig S] "conE in, h jjl new year." i? $ BY PRANK R. STOCKTON. Ol! O ($ OovvrttfW, JSS?, hy th? Author. i i J2 Ii In a line old country mansion, c im ittodious, somewhat imposing aud i? ? >~i tivtlr heavy in its style ?>r architecture. resided the lion, Horace llruudcr, now iiu elderly niuti, aud Mrs. Uruuder, Ids wif??. for several years these two had luudc up (lie fuiuily- u very ?mall fund ly for I.wire a bouse. They bad uo children, and. although they were very good company for euch oilier, they felt as ihey dully grew older that they could not of themselves make their borne as cheerful und us pleasant as they would have it. They felt this the more forci bly because there had been many years when thai bonne was very cheerful and very pleasant. Therefore it was about six months before this story opens this dl ti><> i|uiel couple bail taken into'their tiotue a young girl, Murgey (SrilHth, the niece of Mrs. rounder ami oue of a large family <>f fntherless hoys ami girls, T'ur lion. Horace bad never been fond ? if children, ami at one time in bis life it might have been said (hut be abso lutely disliked boys and girls, but now. since be bad ceased to go out in all weathers and was feeling n growing de pendence on the Indoor pleasures of bis home, he bud agreed with bis wife that it would he a good thing to have some von..': life in the house and that of all ibe persons they knew I he niece Mar gey t.iis hest adapted lo supply the miss ing and needed element in their house bold life. it bad been considered by Murgey's fnm ly that it was a most fortunate thing thai ber rich uncle, who did uol eure for young people, should take her into bis bouse, and for a time the girl herself was very well satisfied \\itb the change from the somewhat contracted suburban house and the active hustle of a large family to theipiiel rural beauty of the old mansion, its garden, it< lawn mid it* woodland. Itnt jis summer passed and a* autumn, with its bright lined foliage, came and went and as the rigor: of winter settled themselves upon the land. Mnrgey often thought of the stirring life which was go ing on at home, where winter was the liveliest time of I he voar. At last Christum* i-ninc, tiul it uns :i dull ihuc Chi Mnrgey. There were neigh bors invited, hut they were -dl elderly people nnd nf ii reposeful turn of mind. Mnrgey received several presents, among tin-in ii heniitiful little wnteh from her uncle, mill, nilliotlgh she had never re I .-{v.-1.' anything which could compare with these Chris'Iims i-'ifts. they did not compensate her for the loss <-.' 'i." hoi1 '<v atmosphere "f her Iioiiip. During flic whole dny she felt ns though i h" were nt tending the funernl of Santa Clnur,. I5-.it on the Inst du.V "f the year her spirits sank stiil lower. With her broth ere and sisters and the elderly members of the family she had been accustomed ever since she could remember to make n greet deal of New Yen.-'s eve. and among the observances which were never omit ted was tin- traditional custom of opening the front door of the house e.vnt tly as the cloel; struck the hour of midnight in or der to let the New Year come in. Then nil together, young and old. they would shod as the door swung hack: "Come in. New Veer! Welcome. New Yenr!" And when it was considered that the newcom er had really crossed the threshold they would turn (?> each other, each wishing hII n happy New Year nnd ninny more to come. Tills time honored ceremony was to Marge; one of the most pleasant fea tures of the holiday season, for it con cerned not only the joys of the moment, hut those of happy days to come. On this New S'enr's eve Marges felt herself in a truly dolefe mood. Her nnd? and aunt had gone to their room , at 10 o'clock, nnd not one word had they said ?\hich indicated that they consid j ored this evening to he in any wny dif I ferent from the ordinary evenings of the year. To Mflrgey this seemed like n sort j of domestic snerilege. If she could hnve I done so. she would hnve sped nwny to her I home, even if It hnd been neecssnry to ] speed bn<ngnin before the cock should crow. She went to her room, not became she wnuted to do so. but beenuse the Ii*1'!* were nil tint out down stairs, but she did not pro to bed. She sat thinking of all the lively scenes that were going on at home. Most likely they were playing chnrndes. but they would be sure to stop them n little before 12. Her mother and ono of the girls would be getting things together for a little supper, for they al ways began the New Year with some thine to eat. drink nnd lie merry over In tills big, old house It would be high treason to eat between '.2 and 1 o'clock at night. The hands of Msrgoy's new watch moved on and on until they pointed to a quarter of 12. and then the eyes of onr young Isdy opened wider and wider as she sat and gored at the wall and saw the fntnily nt home. Rhe could see them just as well ns though they were there. "They are all looking at the clock," ?he said, "wntehlng nnd waiting and talking. They always begin too soon for fear of being too late. Tom Is standing at the front door now so that nobody ?hall get ahead of him when the time ?omea." For a few momenta she sat as though her eyes were fixed on the tnergetis Tom, when suddenly she rose to her feet. "I'll do It," ehe said, "even If I havt to do It all by myaelf In the dark. I'll go down and let the New Year In." Slowly and on tiptoe she descended the ?oftly carpeted staircase. At the landing which overlooked the hall there was a round window, through which came ths ?ays of the full moon, lighting the hall and atalrway, so that Margey could bos her way without tho slightest trouble. The hlit clock waa In the shadow, but she knew It was not yet 12, and. stepping lightly to the great hall door, she went qr.letly to work to unfasten It. There were a bolt and n chain and a lock. The flr.rt allpped back easily and without any noise, and the chain wbb removed In a moment, but the lock turned hard, and as ihe forced the big key around she was afraid that there might he a audden click which would he heard on the floor above. It would be a dreadful thing if her aunt ?uuuiu near ii, ior it und bCCD thoroughly Impressed on her mind tbnt if thnt good lady should be suddenly startled nobody would know what might happen. Hut, although ahe moved the big key slowly and with much difficulty, sho moved It Bteadlly, and finally It went around aa far as It would go and without a click. The door was unfastened. She turned the knob aed stood holding It firmly, waiting for midnight. Very soon she heard a whirring aonnd in the big clock ?? the landing. Then there came the ?fit ?t.Cfike_of 18, and with that Margey stepped buck uui) opened wide the door. "Come in!" bin- said, (ait before she could utter the words "New Year" sue ?topped suddenly, for <>" tbe portico iu front of her sbc saw a man. Tbe girl was on tbe point of ? ??:: ::vdng, but eveu ut thin dreadful Moment sbc remembered that if her tie.nt should be startled no body could k'.lOW what might happen, and no she clapped her hand to her mouth. She sprung back, however. She could not help that, am) at the same moment tbe man stepped into the ball. "You are right," lie said lu a whisper and looking at the baud which was still over Murrey's mouth, "1 understand, 1 won't make the least noise in the world. I Let me ah it the door. I can do it very quiet ly." If tbe col l nir which rushed in through the open doorway had frozen Margoy as stiff as a statue, she could not have been more incapable of speaking or moviug , than she was at that moment. If she had dared to cry for help or tried to run away, she would not have been able to do cither. She stood and stared, whiter than the moonlight. The man was re fastening the door, and as he did so h ray of blessed relief came into the mind of Margey. He bad put down on the door a valise ami an umbrella. Surely no burglar, no wicked man of any sort, would go about with a valise and au um brella, and he seemed to know- all about fastening doors without making a noise. Tbe ray of relief was a very little ray. but it revived Margey stlflieieiltly to en able her to drop her band from her mouth. The man now stepped toward the li brury door, ami with one finger on his lip he beckoned to Margey. She was si astonished at this action that almost without volition she followed him. She was so thoroughly frightened that she could do nothing herself. Shi- bad not even tbe strength to disobey, but as she Stepped into the library she hugged to her heart the thought of the umbrella and tbe valise. Tbe man took from his pocket a box of matches, and, striking a match, be stepped without the slight est hesitation to die corner of the man telpiece, on which stood a great candle stick, and lighted the candle. Then he (piiei ly closed t be door. "I du flint.*' lie said. "Ill-cans*' if yoin aunt should hear our voices and he star tled there Is no knowing what nullit happen." "How could he know that?" Margey nsked herself, and a third ray of coin tort \\...? added to that furnished by the umbrella ami .valise. In the light of (he candle Mnrgey eoulo si. .'hat the mini was rather short, very well wrnppod up and wore n fur enp, which now, however, he removed, showing II head of reddish brown hail a little curled and with some streaks of gray on the temples. His face looked as if he had lived out of doors a good deal in all sorts of wentli er, but his eyes were bright, nnd there wns a pleasant expression about the month, as if he would he glad to laugh if there were anything to laugh at. "It was very, very good of you," lit snid. still speaking in an undertone, "to come down and let me in. You ninst have seen me from your window. I wai nfraid there was no one awake in the house. I heard yon at work at the bolt and the chain, and I knew why you were so slow ami so quiet, (if course I can not he mistaken in supposing you to be Miss Griflith." Now Margey found her voice?-that is, a little of it. "Yes." she said, "and who, I beg of yon, sir-- who nre you?" "1 am John Blunder, your uncle's brother. Bin ply you hnve heard of tue?" "A very little," said Margey. "And how much, may I ask?" he said, showing some surprise. "I never heard you mentioned but once," she replied, "and thnt was one day when I found Aunt Ellen in one of the bedrooms which 1 bad not seen lie fore, the door having always been lock ed." "Had it n bedstead in it," said be. "with n curved footboard?" "Yes. It had," snid Mnrgey, more nnd more relief coining into her mind each moment. ' And did yon notice nnything in the wny of sporting articles?guns, boxing gloves?" "Yes." snid Mnrgey. "There were box ing gloves and foils on the wall at the head of the bed and two guns on n rack, and there were some enses In the corner which looked ns If they held fish Ing rods. I wns surprised to see these things nnd asked Aunt Ellen to wlioin they belonged. Rhe snid that the room naod to lie occupied by Upele -Horace's brother John, but thnt he did not .... here now." "Is thnt all she told you?" he naked. "Every word," said Mnrgey. He gnve bis bend a little nod. "Per haps it was as well," he said. "There's no use In raking up disagreeable things before young people. But I ntn glnd to hear that my old room Is kept Just as It used to be. Thnt's a good slater-ln lnv? of mine, and I hope I nir.y not do a tiling to startle her, knowing as \ do thnt no one could tell"? "Whnt might happen," added Margey involuntarily. "But you ought to know all about me," said be. "It will not do for you to be Ig norant any longer, especially as you were so good ns to come down to let me In." "Rut I didn't," snid Mnrgey. "I didn't come down to let you In." . "Thon who, in the name of common sense, did you ask to come In? There was nobody but me on the porch." "I opened the door for the New Year to come in," said Margey. John Brundor stood and looked nt her In amazement, and then Mnrgey, w ho had almost recovered her self possession, told him nil nbout it. "Well, well, well!" he exclaimed. "You're the kind of girl I like I knew thnt n niece of my brother's wife wns liv ing here, but I had no Idea she was such a?such n girl ns you nre! Whnt is your aamo?" "Margey." "Miss Margey," snid John Brunder, ex tending bis hnnd, "I wish you n very hap py New Year." "The same to you, sir," snid she, giv ing him bei Im d. "And now yon want to know why I don't live here," snid John Blunder. "You certainly have a right to know, and I will tell you in ns few words nn possible. I waa born In this house and hnve lived here a good deal, off and on, nnd the last time I took up my abode In the room with the bedstead with the curly footboard 1 thought I was settled for life, but my brother _n_nd I are very different In dlspo ?itton. id' is more sciIkt it ml quid than I IUU, ami 1 am a great deal more lively ami restless than be is. and there you have our characters in as few word- ::s possible. About six years ago we had a misunderstanding. I will not say any thing about it beentuse he is not here to present bis side of tbe question, and un der the circumstances it would not be fair for IllC to present mine. However. I am very hotheaded at times?uot al ways, mind you. f< r generally 1 am very mild indeed, but at this particular time I Ignited and went oh HUe a firecracker, and you know that when a firecracker goes off it doesn't come back again." Margey was listening with great inter est. She and her companion had seated themselves, and she was rapidly losing all fear of him. "As 1 told you," be continued, 'I went off and did not intend to come back, but gradually my ideas began to change. My brother was getting old?so was I. for that mutter- ami I determined to try to he reconciled with bim. I started out this day thinking it would be a i.1 thing to begin the New Year in harmony and brotherly love. I expected to be hero early in the evening, but my train was detained for a long time, and I really did not know how late it was when I walked up here. 1 was dlltnfuuudcd at finding the house all shut up and dark, and I could not think what to do, for I knew very well that if 1 rang the bell I might startle your Aunt Ellen, in which ease nobody could know- wliul might happen. So I stood there dolib rating, and I really believe I was on the point of walking back to the village when I beard some line opening the door so gently and quiet ly thai I was positively certain that it was highly desirable not to make a noise. So, you see, I was not surprised when the door opened. 1 supposed (hut some one, probably Joseph Buckle, had seen mo ar rive, Hy the way. is Joseph still here?" "Oh. yes!" said Margey. "I am so glad of that." said John Brun der. "Joseph was always a good friend of mine. Now you sec," be continued, "just bow things stand. Von come down to lei the New Year in, and in I pop. I hope the New Year came in will) me and away by mistake m??l left mine. If be refuses t<> be reconciled wltb tue. we can fhanir?* umbrellas anyway, so that my time will not he entirely lost." Margey ?;..;!. I. "I thlllk thai is ? queer way to prove your identity," slip said, "but us l truly believe it doesn't j need any proving it does uot matter." "It is a very good proof." persisted the other. "If I were an improper person and had taken that umbrella, do you Blippose I would have brought it back? And now let's (jo into the pantry. I'm nearly famished." Si> saying, he picked up the candle Stick) and. shading I he llatnc so that no ray of it should g?> up stairs, he crossed the hall into the diuing room. Margey followed, ami as she saw how deftly he made his way around the furniture nud toward the pantry she felt positively as sured that he must at one time have been very much at home in that house. Iu the pantry John ItrUlidcr put (he caudle down and looked about him. "Do you si ill eat Albert biscuit V" be asked. v "Oil, yes! replied Margey. "Then I knov where Joseph Ruckle keeps them. Joseph never changes. If a thing belongs in one place, it belongs there always. There," said be, opening a dresser drawer. "Here is the tin box, just where I have found it hundreds of times before." Margey now thought she ought to help a lit lie. To be sure, this genial gentle man seemed to know so well where to (llld the eatables (hat she might have gone to bed and left him to take care of himself, but Ibis did not suit her IdCU of propriety or proper hospitality, so she opened another closet. "I>o you eat cheese at this time of night, sir?" she psked. "Oh. yes," he replied, "when I am as hungry as I am now! And isn't that a box of sardines? open top! Now, let us take these things over to the table. No, I don't want any plate. All I want Is a knife to cut the cheese." And as be spoke be opened a drawer and took out a knife. "Now, my dear," said he, "if Jk'oU will ???WLY AND ON TIPTOS) SUB DESCENDED TUE STAIRCASE. thnt it will prove to bo the happiest that any of us has yet known." "So do I," said Mnrgey, but she had nl wnys wished that ever sinee she had known what a New Year meant. John Brunder ?rose. "My denr young friend. Miss Mnrgey," lie said, "what are vre going to do next? And if you will al low me to inswcr my own question I will ?ay that the very best thing you can do for me Is to give me something to ee.t, or, if it will please you better, allow me to get it myself, for if the panlry of this house is still under the charge of Joseph Buckle I know where to find the eata bles." For a minute Mnrgey stood and look ed earnestly at the good nnturcd gentle ninn. She believed just ns firmly ns she believed anything that he was Mr. .lohn Brunder, the younger brother of her Un cle Horace, but still she bad no positive proof of the fact; she had only his word for it. Was it right for her to nllow him to go about (be house and eat things without giving the family notice of Iiis presence? Hut If she were to go up Stairs nnd knock at her uncle's door her Aunt Ellen?oh, no; she could not do thnt nt this time of night. Il<> Inughed. He wns almost on the point of laughing nloud, but he cheeked himself. "I know what you are thinking about," said be, "nnd it Is perfectly right for you to think no." "Oh, I don't really think," said Mnr gey apologetically) "but, you see, I"? "Of course 1 see!" be answered. "I see perfectly. Just wait n minute." So enylng, be picked up his umbrella. "Now, plense look nt the name on this silver pinto." snid he, holding it close to the cnndlo. Mnrgey obeyed. "Hut thnt isn't your name!" she exclaimed in surprise. "That la my uncle's name, Horace Brunder I" "To be sure it Isl" snid he. "I took It look in tho corner <>r that second shelf anil see if then? is not n box of preserved ginger there 1 shall he much obliged to yon. .Joseph always kept preserved gin ger In that corner." Mnrgey Inughcd as she produced the tin I" :. "You do sepni to know where things ore kept hi tills house." she stfid, "And I don't believe anybody has eaten cheese and sardines at this time of night since you went awny." "No," snld lie, seating himself ut his impromptu menli "my brother Horace never indulges in such improprieties, hut I was always much more imprudent. Hut, so far as I enn see, my imprudences have agreed with inc." Margey was looking at him with great interest, thinking it must have boon a long time since he bad bad anything in i eat, when suddenly she heard a little noise. It wns like a person coming cau tiously down stairs. She started and lis tened earnestly. There could be no mis take. She beard footsteps on the hack stairs, tbe door of which opened not far from the place where she stood. .lohn Blunder slopped enling and half rose from his chair. "Homebody coining!" be whispered. Now the door of the stairway slowly opened, and from behind It protruded the head of Josep h Buckle, the butler. His face was pale, bis eyes and mouth were wide open, and a bite club, which he thrust out In front of him, trembled in bis hand, .lohn Brumler rose to his feet and pushed back bis chair. "Jo-soph 1" he exclaimed. "And, upon my word, It Ir the same old Joseph! I say, Joseph, how do you do?" Tbe old butler stepped down and stood motionless on the lloor, bis big stick In one band and a lantern In the oilier, lie looked at Margey, and then he looked at John Blunder. "Mr. John!" he exclaimed in a voice mulUcd by rrlgbt, caution and ininse uicnt. Then, tinning bis bead, be aftided, "And Miss Mnrgey!" "Give nie y?'iir band, my good Jo seph," said Jobn Bt'UUder. "1 don't won der you don't believe your senses. But What are you doing with that club? Did you think we were burglars?" "1 did) sir." said Joseph. "1 heard Voices, and 1 was sure there was some body in the house, and so 1 came down." "W hy didn't you bring a pistol? What woidd you have done with that club if we had reull" been burglars?" "Oh, I couldn't bring n pistol, sir." said Joseph, "If I should tire a pistol und Mrs. Brutlder should hear it. there's no knowing what might happen. So I had to collie down w ith nothing hut a club." "You're a brave fellow." said John Brutlder, "and a loyal one, and 1 am glad for your sake as well as for our owu that we are not robbers. You sec, Joseph, I have not forgotten where you keep the good things to cat." Mnrgey now took pity on the bewilder ed butler and told him everything that had happened. "Well, well!" exclaimed Joseph. "I'm wonderfully glad to see you. Mr. John. It's been a different house here since you went away, sir. Don't you remem ber, sir, we used to open the frot < door for the Nt W Year when you lived here?" "Of course 1 do." saiii John Hrunder. "I always used to have some youngsters here, and we had tine times." "And if I had had any idea, miss, that you were used to that sort of tiling I'd have some down to help you." "Oh. she didn't need anybody's help!" said Mr. John. "She did it as well as an angel could have done it. If I had gone hack to the village, I believe I should have been so cross that I would have started for the city early in the morning. You know that's my way, Joseph." "Yes. sir," said the old man, "and sometimes it lias been a pity that it wus "our way. Hut would you like me to go ami waken Mr. Hi under, sir? 1 think 1 Cttn do it without making any stir." "Oh. no. no, no!" exclaimed Mr. John. "Don't think of it. If either of you ever wants to he reconciled with anybody, don't make him get out of a warm tied of a cold night to do it. No. I'll wait un til morning. You can get me into my old room, can't you, Joseph, without dis turbing anybody ?" "Of course I can." said Joseph. "We'll go up the back stairs." "Then I'll bid you good night." said Mnrgey, "as I can do nothing more for you." "Mori-!" exclaimed Mr. John. "If it is all right between my brother and me to morrow morning, there isn't a being on earth who could have done as much. And I am very sorry indeed that 1 have kept you up so late." With this he picked up the candle, nnd be and Joseph escorted Margey to the foot of the great stairway, where she bade them good night und went <|iiietly up in the moonlight. When Mnrgey reached her room, she did not go to bed. It was very late, not far from 1 o'clock, but she did not mind that. Some of the family at home were up yet. It was thi' most natural tiling in the world to sit up late on New Year's eve. Then she began to think of all that bad just happened. As slif thought iiiul thought th<> affair of the evening seemed like n romance to her. If all I timed out well, it would real ly he a holiday story. And yet there was an imperfection in the romance. It was not altogether the sort of StOr.V sh* would have mnoe if she had noon writing It. and neither was it exactly the sort of real happening that it would hare Keen if she had arranged it. Mr. John was as bright and as cheery as anybody could he, but still if she had had the management of everything mid was going to make a ro mance in real life, which it might just as well have been, her own personality would not have been the only element of youth in (hi, | lensnnt invention. Margey I was capable of being very fond of elderly people, but still she was young? she was not yel 20 and if the person who cntUO with 'he New Year bad been just like Mr. John, only younger - Hut she would not (hink such thoughts as these. She ought to be ashamed of herself. Still, for all that, fjfl was pretty old. Everybody In that house seemed to be so old! Her fa vorite maid, Mary, had a married daugh ter, and, so far as the romance of the evening was concerned, things might have been different just as well as not. When at last she pressed her faco to tin- pillow, she was still thinking. "Fifty six." she said to herself, "and it might just as well have boon?have been" .\ Mil she had not decided upon tbe exact date it might have been when sbc dropped asleep. Tbe next morning Margey was down stubs very early, nearly a quarter of an hour before breakfast, for she was anx ious to know everything which should happen. In the hall she met Jofioph. "1 Wish you a very happy New Yea.', miss," he said. "I forgot it last night, being so rattled, and if anybody de serves a happy New Year yon do, miss." All the romance had gone out of Mar gey's mind, and things seemed very com monplace to her in the cold light of day. "I don't believe I had anything to do with anything," she said. "Mr. John Blunder would have waited a little while longer, and then he would have rung the bell, even if it should stnrlle my aunt." "Oh, no, no, no!" said Joseph. "IIa wouldn't have done that. Nobody knows what might have happened if be had done that. But you'll be glad to bear, miss, that everything is all right. They've been up since a quarter past 7, for I told Mr. Rrunder the news when I first went into his room. I bnvo not known such early goings on nine* Mr. John went away." "And they are truly reconciled?" fsked ! Margey. I "Indeed they are!" answered Joseph. "They're all up stairs in tho study now as,merry as crickets. ICven Mrs. Brun der wasn't a bit startled, or if she was it didn't hurt her. There, miss, that's the study door now. They're coming down and In a fnmlly party, just as they ought to be." And with this he retired. Margey waited in the hall. Tho ro mance of the nffalr bad vanished. Down stairs eamo tbe happy party, morrily talking. Her Uncle Horace was first of all, his face brighter than she had ever seen It, anil as soon as ho per ceived her be called out, "Happy New Year, Margey!" in a voice s# strong and hearty that sho could scarcely believe it belonged to him. Then her aunt, who seemed really in a hurry to come down stairs, gave her the same greeting, which was echoed loudly by Mr. John, who was a little in the rear. "Happy New Year to?you all!" sho was about to add, but she did not. She simply stood and gar.od, her face turning now a little pale and now a little red and her eyes wide open with wonderment. The last person of the pnrty coming down tho stairs, a little behind Mr. John, was a man evidently young. He bad no beard, and bis face was very fresh col ored. He was tall, too, taller than her Uncle Horace. She thought he looked as though he wanted to hid her a happy New Yoar, too, hut he did not do it. Now Mr. John laughed aloud, and they all laughed, excepting the young man, who apparently knew what they were laughing about and who turned a little red, and excepting Margey, who did n ,t know what they were laugblug at and Who turned somewhat pale. _i__ "Ab, Margey," shouted Mr. John, "L know what you uro thinking a bout I You're wondering where he came from? you're wouderiug where he came from A good deal more than you are wondering \.h?> be is. You don't know whether 1 brought Iiitu in my valise or (.old cd up In side the umhrella." "Now. John." said Aunt Ellen, "you nre positively cruel, Margey, this Is Ar? 4 thur, your Uncle John's son. Aud. Ar-^ thur, I must make you acquainted with my niece, Manny Griffith." The young people silently shook hands, harmonizing in color as they did so, fjr the recollection of her romantic fancies suddenly came across Margey's mind and flushed her face, "Oh, I am not going to be cruel!" cried Mr. John "This young man made the trip with me yesterday, but I thought it better for me to leave him at the village und to Come to the house by myself, for When Arthur went away he was nothing but a b >y, scarc ely 15, ami I did not know how he might he received." "Which was all stuff and nonsense, snid Mr. Horace Blunder. "You ouglit to have known that be would be wol cotne." "Well," said Mr. John. "I thought I could manage things better by' myself, and ns you sent for him early this morn lug be has nothing to complain of. More over, if I had brought t rthur nlong with me I don't believe 1 should have had enough to eat last night, for he's a gn at deal worse in regard to choose and sar dines in the middle of the night than I am, but everything's all right now, and as this young lady is really to consider me as one of her uncles she plight as well begin instantly and so l am going to bid her a happy New Year again and give her a kiss." which he did without delay, and then Aunt Cllojp kissed her. and then Uncle Horace did so. ? No. nut Arthur. It wns not unti. .' 7th of April of that year that be ton himself entitled to that inestimable pi', lege. * There were a great many things whf had to happen before the 7lh of April., In the Ii est place. Margey had to tlf :.ll n'?oUt the trouble which had res' in Mr. John's leaving the old- r home, and when she discovered tttfVt . quarrel between the brothers bad been caused by some mad pranks of the hoy ' Arthur she set herself earnestly to Work to analyze the mind of the young man Arthur and to lind out for herself the in teresting series of developments which must have taken place in his character to change hitn from the reckless young ster to the exceedingly kind hearted and considerate young man that he now was. Like many other persons in-this world. Margey was very fond of the study of human nature, meaning thereby, as is often the case, that she had formed an Ideal concerning u certain subject and that she hoped to be able, to convince her self that the subject was equal to her Ideal. She did not have uninterrupted oppor tunities for continuing her study, for aft er n week or two Arthur was obliged to go away, but he came back as soon as he could, and he assisted bur so much in coming to a satisfactory conclusion in re gard to himself and bis relation to her ideal that by the time the 7th of April came around her education .in this branch was entirely finished. Du tho next New Year's eve. a little be fore l". o'clock, every member of that family, including Jo?epli Buckle and some other mm^hold Knrv>nts?-ftsseml?led in tbe great hall to Invite I be New Year to enter. To Margey was assigned the duty of opcnii g the door, and she did it nil herself, refusing any assistance, even from the very urgent young man who stood close beside her. When (he great door was opened wide and everybody all at one,, cried out cheerily, "Come in, New Year!" there en tered nothing but a great blast of cold and frosty air, but everybody knew that tbe New Year had come in, and the door was closed, "Now-," said Mr. .lohn, "(his is all very well, hut I Clin tell you, my g.I relatives and friends, that no happier New Year will ever pass that threshold than when last year and 1 came in together." Margey and Arthur had r.ome doubts about this, for they were to be married In the spring. fnttle Dividends. A Colorado cnlllc company reports dividends of 125 per cent on Its last year's business, says The National Stockninn, Yot this snmo company was only saved from bankruptcy iO or 12 years ago by the fortunate purchase nnd sab- of n Mrr herd of cattle which made ;i profit and staved off the sher iff. 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