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^ intend to marry tor H "Why, Neva?" J^L The eldest Miss T^eker^rl^B^O HBened Geneva. 90 "How can you say so?" cried h? |^0rounger sister, opening a pair of big ^Hlue eyes, mystic and tender, witl HHbickly-curling golden lashes. "] SHhiuk it would be the nicest thing it ... , . ; ii. . i .1 Ine woria to tan m iuve wim ? uuuu ome young man, with eves as blaci ,s coals, and live.in a pretty cottage 11 covered with vines." "Stuff!" interrupted Neva, suap lishly, curling her red, but rathei hrewish lips, in a scornful manner, 'Love is all bosh! I wouldn't care il I never saw a cottage, or a vine! Tc be mistress of a brown-stone house ir the city, with frescoed walls, ant Tnrkey carpets, and a boudoir paneled iij blue velvet, is my ambition, anc I'll accomplish it. too! With servants in livery, and a superb dining-room, handsomely furnished a marble-top sideboard filled with silver-plate and painted china, cat-glass decanters anc ' goblets, and pickle-stands if I could have all that, I wouldn't care a snap ft* for such nonsense as romance and R* ^0 "The entrance of Tom, the hired ^ hand, bringing a fresh back-log foi the fire, interrupted them. He stirred * n 1 ,1 i:i. down tiie emoers tin iney giuweu n&t a bed of molted rubies, threw on s huge, spice-scented log, fringed with scarlet licheus and gray moss, and turned to leave the room, a handsome, manly-looking fellow, in %pite of his homely suit of butternut jeans. "Tom!" >Ii9s Geneva snapped out the word as if disdaining herself for speaking ' at all, and determined to cut it as shoH ou noaaihlo "Bring a bucket aud .take these ashes up!" she commanded, haughtily. "And stamp the suow off jour feel before you come iuto the sitting-room again** ^"Oh. Neva! You've hurt his feel ''yiugs: how could you?" cried Honors, hev blue eyes flashing, aud her cheeks globing indignantly. "Feelings!" sneered Geneva. "The idea of a hired man having feelings! That's one of your odd notions, Nora. Besides, if he don't know his place better than that, I'll teach it to him, that's all." lorn re-appearea wim u oauset ami shovel and proceeded to take up the ashes, while Miss Tucker cast a withering glance at him, as much as if she were a detective, and he a gardened criminal, in the act of com^ initting burglary. "Well, Wfll!" muttered Aunt Betsj Tucker to herself, as she turned the heel of the blue yam sock she was knitting. "Who'd a-thought, aftei two years at boarding-school, Genevj would hev come home with sich no tions as that? Shacks! I'd rather be an old maid forty times over, than marry a man fur his money, like she talks of doing. I don't believe in nc sich! It's nothin* but riches an' fine clothes from mornin' till night witL her. Her head's plamp fall of it. But Honory, bless her! nothin' could spile her. She's got a heart as sofl as a robin-redbreast's, and while Genevy is a-naggin' and a-scoldin' at Tom from mornin' till night, Honorj more'n make3 np far it bj her sweel words an' smiliu' looks. An' thai makes me tbink. What was it she said about coal-black eyes? Tom's eyes are blacker'n any coal ever I see, an' the way he looks at Nora out oi ^mis enough to turn any girl's head. might do wuss than to marrv was Ver^ as ^HBQ9BOBBB9Hn|B|08e^ and marry An^^^HB^fl^^HHH wants Tom DacK, ry whoever he pleases^^^^^^^^Bs "Yes. whoever he pl^H^HH| j peated the judge; and if he live in the country, he shall have^^B best farm in the State, and the finest house money can build; for Tom's my only child, and all I have is his." "But you must stay to dinner with us, Judge Alderberry," insisted Miss Geneva, hospitably, as soon as she recovered her scattered senses; "you and Mr. Mr. Tom, too." And she hastened to congratulate the once despised "hired hand." But Nora, blushing like an October peach, slipped away to the vacant sitting-room to quiet the sudden beating of her heart. Tom going away! Tom, with his ^ handsome coal-black eyes. "Nora," whispered a tender voice. j "Xora, darling, will you love nie ana i be my little wife?" And there was Tom, with her hands I k in his, and her head drawn close upon | his breast. ? * * * * "Sarves Nevy jest right," soliloquized Aunt Betsy, as she dished a jar of ruby-hued quinces into the oldI fashioned china preserve dish. "Sarves her jest right. Mebbe she'll lam a ; lesson arter this. But I d'n know; 'nears like some folks is as hard to r lam sense as one o' them antymires 1 that pesters so in the summer-time, a-gitten inter the vittles an' things." And it is presumable Miss Geneva never did "larn sense," as she is still on the unmarried list. Saturday Night. 1 The Window Cleaner*. The curious jointed ladders used in \ window cleaning, running up to a very narrow opening between the sides at the top, so that the ladder can be placed securely against tne corner or | a window, and jointed for convenience j in carrying, are now more often seen than ever a3 they are carried from place to place by the men who' use | them. Many banks and stores and other buildings of a more or less public character have for a long time had their windows washed by professional , cleaners, who are employed by concerns that make a business of it and ( make contracts with their customers to clean their windows a certain number r of times yearly for a certain amount, the amount, of course, depending on the number of times they arc cleaned. There are private houses whose winoxrv vormlorlrr nloonp/1 Iw nrnfAS WHO ?io mjuv. . ~ ~ -j i sional cleaners. The number of stores and places ia general that have their windows washed by professional cleaners is increasing steadily and includes , now many small establishments as . well as big ones. In stores the wojk ' is usually done once or twice a week^ . so that the windows are easily ke^fl ' clean, and it does not take very . It is done, of course, on fixed^flH nnd at r^crnlar hours. The [ work is laid oat ia routes time. New York Ituftpla Russia the B^H kind policeman^^HB^^HflH^D^^^^H room when his cage was ^ B^BBI Tt was a hard matter to nHH^n 'was the worse frightened, the the people. Many funny incident^^Hfl the event are related. When the lion^B T.O.I Mttiad frr.m flip font Mr I "R I I Peterson lost sight of Mrs. Peterson gr and went*to seek her. He raised the flap of tlie tent to go out and jnst as ga be did the lion met him coming hack and he and Mr. Peterson came near <jr kissing each other. The lion passed ca] in and Mr. Peterson passed out, both wa very much frightened. Mr. Henry E. ca] Fairson seized a largo sledgehammer and held it alcft prepared to defend liia towitnw ATr D<ir>k flrnmnlfir -r?i .415, J . 1 | ijl, seized a staall log and dared the lion f0I to come bis way, and the lion didn't. A number of the circus people climbed pj, up poles and ropes out of danger's way. we Mr. Tom Wash Crumplercame up and wj startled a group by exclaiming, "My a j God, men, the British lion is loose uo and almost frightened my little boy to ^ death." w Mr. Sparks informed this writer tj(, that after the stampede was over two to infants were found on top of the tent, ?r wbere their frightened fathers or wc nuMns bad thrown them for safetv "" *** "w~ " - ULL and then fled out of daDger. There has been nothing so exciting in Clinton since the earthquake. Little else was talked about for a day or two fol- an lowing the event. They tell some ^0 good ones on how fast some of our brave fellows ran. A Pugnacious Moccasin. Fishing one day in a bayou of the JM Pearl River, with one companion, weJ^m sat in opposite ends of a long, lig^HB boat, which tapered equally at ends, but did not come to a rolafoQ a cnrrpsnnn Purest and Stream. iHHOM My end of the boat^B^^BH^H^ toward the nearest bai^^^^fl^^HHBj distant about thirty^flH^H^H^^n asleep at Signaling^^BS^BH^^H^^^HHH to the ca: i^nHK9nH^HMU| ou^HHH^nHHn| ian mgHHHn arc con(iuct^^HHIH|j^n rescued Miss owing in Sligo Bay. uuot swim, was bathing^^^H >s caught by the swift current . J ... 1 A Imi rt .IwaiI f^ [Tltu Ullt UUC UUUUICU JttiUO ore into ten feet of water. Peter Hughes, farmer, Mullim ackwatertown, County Armagh, med a difficult and daring rescu igust 18. Sarah McGlone, a cty, accidentally fell down her ,11 IKa rlantl* r?f trliiMi ia fnrfxr i Ill} IUO UU|? ?M VTA " "?VI1 AW twmj 4 th thirty feet of water in it. ( ad was present, and he could rtA assistance, but his cries atjB e attention of Hughes, who^flj snt to the place, and tindij^H| (t it round his}l*gs, givn^^BI the boy to hold, and^JHH^ st, down the well. iman, he caught he^fl H d shouted for th^^^^^^BB lis, however, he do, and Hugh^^HH^HBl perilous an lding roaP ary, pere ou r^HHBDHI