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CASTLE ETTRICK. An Old Soldier's Love Story. [CONTINUED. J Veronica, happily, was able to speak for them all. ‘‘We shall stop at York, I suppose. That will be in the middle of the night,” she said. “One of you must just peep in. If we are not all of us asleep, we might like a cnp of coffee. When shall we reach Edinbugh?” “Very early in the morning,” said Percy, “and unfortunately there's not a train to onr place until nearly mid-day.” “Oh! but I call that fortunate,” said Miss | Browne. “We can breakfast at an hotel : and go round together. I have never seen Edinburgh. My Scotch friends tell me it is the most wonderful place in the universe.” “All the universe but Glasgow,” said Percy, with a laugh. “Well, good-evening. We must take our places.” A few moments later, and they were moving slowly out of the station. In the ladies’ carriage everything went smoothly. Veronica, who could be, when ! she chose, one of the most charming com- I panions in the world, set herself at once to ; win Milly’s heart and to conquer Letty’s shyness. Before they had been an hour in the train she had succeeded. The young girls had forgotten that she was a rich, handsomely dressed woman of the world. They were listening to her stories, which were exceedingly amusing, and giving their own little siories in return. They were telling her what they knew about the towns and villages which were, or seemed to be, flying past them, and admiring with her the brilliancy of the July sunset. Milly cried out that she would see far better skies in the North. “Wait till September,” she said, “or October. Then you will see. You would think sometimes that the moors were on fire. ” “But I don't know that I shall stay in the North so long,” said Miss Browne. “Oh! I hope you will, I hope you will.” cried Milly, and timid little Letty echoed the wish. “Well, I must see how I get on. If you are all very interesting. But I *think you are,” said Veronica, with a smile. “Percy is interesting,” said Milly earnestly. “Oh! Miss Browne, you ought to see what he is. But I’m afraid he won't be at homo very long. I think it’s a shame that people should have to go away so far. And there are lots of soldiers wanted in England.” “You would not have your brother a stay-at-home soldier, Milly?” said her governess. “Yes, I would, I would,” cried the child. “I should like him to stay atJ»ome always. Why shouldn’t he? We want to be taken care of as well as the people in Africa.” “Os course we do,” said Miss Browne. But Letty said softly, “I am afraid we can’t choose, Milly. We mu-t all be contented to go where we are sent.” In the carriage where Colonel Lyndon and Percy had seats there was very little conversation. Percy, who was tired by the raoid traveling and successive excitements of the day, dozed off early. The Colonel remained aw ake, gazing out quietly upon the changing sky and revolving many thoughts in his mind. He was accus omed to long vigils. Seated at the door of his tent, in the sweet starry nights of the Indian winters, or in barracks at a station in the plains, when the earth was steaming all night with the heat which the fierce tropical stin had drawn up out of her bosom, or riding in the small hours of the morning from barracks to camps, he had often outwatched the stars, and such moments be had found favorable to aiought. Many a knotty point he had settled with himself, many a problem he had striven to solve, many a hi.h thought—such thoughts as make the cheek suddenly flush, and the eye to kindle—had come to him when the world around him was wrapped in slumber. He had no particular problem before him now, nor any hankering after abstract thought. And yet he was glad of the quiet hours. He was thinking of the strange inequalities of fortune—wondering why one human being should be born to every sort of privilege and observance, while another had nothing. This puzzle followed him through the night. We shall think, perhaps, that our Colonel was a man of violent theories—one who thought lightly of loosening the laws of property ard bringing in anarchy, by destroying the bands that hold society together. It was not so. Had we asked him, in fact, about his politics, he would have told us that he was “a faithful disciple of the old School.” Whence, then, had this new feeling of discontent against the general order of things arisen? The image that followed the Colonel through the night, haunting him even in his brief half-hours of sleep, may partially explain the mystery. It was of a fairhaired girl, dressed in plain traveling garments, with timid, appealing eyes as blue as the sky of the East, and most delicate features. That a creature so tender should be cast upon the world, should have to earn . her bread by the labor of her hands, should ; live in the houses of strangers, this, to the great heart of the old soldier, was inconceivable. Occasionally, through that long night, he thought of the other girl whose acquaintance he had made, and whenever he thought of her he smiled. He admired her; no man with his full senses about him i could have failed to do so. But take care : of her! It was absurd. She was more 1 than able to take care of herself and of any I number of people besides. Strange, j strange were the inequalities of fortune! Further than that, the Colonel, with all his ; deep thinking, could not advance. At York he peeped into the ladies’ carriage, and, finding them awake, brought i them coffee and rolls. There were no other stoppages, except of a few moments at a time. Finally they all met safely on the platform of the station at Edinburgh, where they found—and this did not surprise ; Colonel Lyndon in the least—that Miss ■ Veronica Browne, who looked as fresh and j brisk as if she ha 1 been all night long in : a comfortable bedroom instead of a railway : carriage, was prepared to take them all in ! hand. “We are all going to the Palace Hotel,” she said. “My uncle wrote for rooms there, and to have breakfast ready. We’ll rest for an hour before we look round Edinburgh. Milly has promised to show me everything—the Castle and the dear old town, and the Calton Hill and Holyrood. I think,” turning to Colonel Lyndon, “one of you had better telegraph to Lady Flora Winstanley, for we shall certainly not catch the forenoon train.” The Colonel would have demurred at this, for he did not know how Lady Flora would like it, but Percy took the lull responsibility upon his shoulders. “Come along,” he said. “IB telegraph in your name. My moth r hau such confidence in you I know she won’t mind. ” CHAPTER IV THE TRAVELERS ARRIVE AT CASTLE ETTRICK. The little party of travelers spent a pleasant lorenoon in Edinburgh. Captain Winstanley and his little sister knew all the Ins and outs of the beautiful city, and Colonel Lyndon, who had spent some of the best yt ars of his boyhood in Scotland,

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was, Miss Browne said, laughingly, as good I as a guide-book. | To Letty Morrison, as well as to Miss | Browne, the sights of Edinburgh were new', i and in her quiet way she enjoyed looking J about her. Now and then she was troubled by a pang of uneaeiness as to what Lady *lora w ould say when she received the telegram; but the matter had been taken so completely out of her hands, and the Colonel, who, without appearing to take any particular notice of her, was con- । tinually on the watch to save her sen- | sitiveness from being alarmed, had inspired i her with so much confidence, that she was ; able to shake off her timidity. I “You will say it is my fault,” the Colonel i had said to her; and really, when Letty I looked up at him, sne thought him large ] enough and broad enough to bear a heavier I burden. As for Captain Winstanley, he was not ।so ready of speech as usual. It iS to be feared that he was impressed, more than a person of his experience should have been, by the handsomely dressed girl, with the flashing brown eyes, who had virtually taken the conduct of the party into her own hands; and who, being in her element, showed herself to the best advantage. The accidental meeting with some of those who were to be her nearest neighbors i for the next few’ weeks had delighted her. I It was one of those things, as she observed i to her companions, that only happened to fortunate people. Ami Veronica, at this period of her career, had no doubt but that she belonged to this category. Her good-nature and overflowing spirit of fun and happiness during that day were delightful to witness. At Castle Ettrick, in the meaniime, the Colonel’s telegram had produced some surprise. Lady Flora and her husband, with General Mackenzie, of Deep Deane, who had ridden oyer to see Mr. Wins’au'ey on a little business, were breakfasting together when it was handed in. They had just been talking of the Colonel, to whose arrival in the neighborhood his old friend and comrade, General Mackenzie, was looking forward with great pleasure, and Lady Flora, who was a little puzzled by the telegram, handed it to him to read. The General took in his ideas as those who w ish to live long should take their food — slowly and with deliberation. He adjusted his spectacle-, held the little piece of pink paper at the proper distance from his eyes, read the message to himself without any change of countenance, read it aloud slowly, put the paper down, and, just as Lady Flora was going to ask him what he thought of it, broke suddenly into one of his tremendous peals of laughter. It was no light thing, this laughter of the old General s, as Lady Flora knew; and, tapping her foot on the floor to repress her impatience, she waited till it had subsided. “Pardon me, Lady Flora,” he said, “but” —wiping bis eyes—“now, really you know it’s irresistible. Lyndon, of all people in the world!—and Smith!—sly old fox—his domg. you may depend—introduced them—asked him to help her on her way. Help her! Why, Veronica could take all of us in hand to-morrow- think nothing of it. She’d manage a province — an army." “Are you speaking of the visitor you expect to-day?" asked Lady Flora, coldly. “Yes—yes; she's the Miss Browne of the telegram. Don t you see? I call her Veronica. Her father, poor lad! was in the same regiment with me once. Well. 1 must be off. We expected her by an early afternoon train. We shall have to make different arrangements.” “So shall I,” said Lady Flora; and then, feeling that she had been a little abrupt with her old neighbor, she said courteously that she would make a point of calling on Miss Browne soon, and that she hoped she would enjoy her visit to the North. A curious old man, and as shrewd as he was slow, was General Mackenzie, of Deep Deane. Wher jogging along quietly on his strong chestnut mare, he reached the bend of the avenue, he pulled up, and gave way to another of his gusty tits of laughter —laughed until his eyes were red and his cheeks purple. “Ha, ha! my lady!” he muttered, delightedly. “Caught out. are you? Janet Mackenzie is good enough for you in the North, but not in the South. Janet Mackenzie’s friends are a different manner.” And thereupon he touched up his mare with the w’hip, and she started off at a gallop, taking him for a clear tw o miles across the moor at a single stretch. After which, having given sufficient bent to his youthful exuberance, he drew np. and trotted on steadily to his pretty old home in the Deep Deane Valley. The evening of that day arrived in due time. The General took his village cart to t e station, and Mr. Winstanley his wagonette. As for Lady Flora, who had been unusually depressed all day, she dressed herself in a black velvet gown, trimmed with lace, put on a becoming i little matronly cap, and sat out on the terrace in the soft evening light, to watch for th ■ return of h r guests. Lady Flora was sitting alone, as wo have said, upon the terrace, but a faint pink blush tinged her cheek. It is curious how even our small social sins find us out. The Mackenzies’ youngest daughter, Janet, had । been in London that season. She was 1 a pretty, lively, and amiable girl, but she was poor; she was staying also with people who did not move in quite the same circle as Lady Flora. Fer Percy’s sake—Percy, who was so romantic —Lady Flora was careful ! to see as little of Janet Mackenzie as posi sible. She felt now’ that she had been mist taken. Poor Lady Flora! She meant well, I and she was angry with herself when she ! made a mistake; but only those who have J tried it know how 1 ard it is to steer one’s b irk sa'ely through the rocks and shoals of ' a London season. It w’.is very still up here above the moors, and long before the carriage was in sight j Lady Flora heard the rolling of the wheels. I 'J h m the ring of voices came tow ard her on the air- That was Milly’s laugh. How । gay and pleasant it sounded! She was ; listening with a smile, when a sound for j which she was wholly unprepared fell upon her ear. Percy’s voice! But it was impos- ! sible! He would be leagues away from England by this. I She stood leaning over the parapet of i the terrace, with her hand pressed to her • heart to still its beating. If she had believed in phantom voices—but she did not; and if she did. what would it -what could it mean? It came again—subdued this time, and mysterious, as if it were traveling away from her. Feeling almost sick with expectation and surprise, she looked out. The carriage came in sight at last. She saw it winding slowly up the long avenue. Yes; there was one figure more than she was expecting to see—a figure that, even in this dim light, she could not mistake. “Percy!” she cried out—“ Percy! At the sound of her voice the young i soldier sprang from the carriage, scaled the side'of the hill round which it was winding, raced up the steps that led to the terrace, and, bes ore his mother had fully realized what bad happened, caught her in his arms, and kissed her pale face again and again. “Why, Percv,” she cried out, breathlessly, “is it you. or is it I “Not a wraith, mother, I can assure you. I Come into the drawing-room and have a | good look at me, and I'll tell you all about i it. I haven’t really startled you too much,

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! have T?” he said, anxiously, for there was I a curiously bewildered look in her face. । “I should have telegraphed or written, but I I couldn't resist the temptation of dropping down upon you like this.” He told her rapidly about the accident t« the Samarcand, and his consequent leave, and by the time he had come to the end ot his story Lady Flora was herself again. “So that I have you home,” sho said, “home safely, what does anything matter? Aon know it was never my wish that you should go.” “But I must go sooner or later, mother.” “ Well, we shall see about that. We need not begin to talk of it yet, and there is the carriage drawing up. Come down wiNi me to the hall.” As, leaning on her sou's arm, Lady Flora went down the old oak staircase which led to the inner hall, she looked so comely and young that Colonel Lyndon could have imagined that time had stood still since, long ago, this beautiful woman had captivated his boyish fancy. She went forward to meet him with outstretched hands and beaming eyes. “A thousand, thousand welcomes. Colonel Lyndon,” she said, “ and a thousand thanks. I asked you to bring me my daughter, and you have brought me my daughter ami my son.” There was a pleasant smile on the old soldier's face as he took his hostess’ hand. “It gives me the greatest pleasure in the world to have obliged you,” he said gallantly; “but as for this son of yours, I can take no credit to myself; he acted on his own responsibility entirely.” Milly, who came rushing in at this moment, heard what the Colonel said, and called out to her mother not to believe him. “He brought Percy to the station himself,” she said. "I was so surprised, mother, and we had the most delightful journey. Veronica Brown says ” “Yeronica Browne!” echoed Percy. “She told mo to call her Veronica; and sho is the kindest and pleasantest girl I have ever met,” cried Milly. “Ask Letty.” “Where is Letty, by the by?” asked Lady Flora. “I suppose she has slipped away to the schoolroom. Just like her. Kun up and bring her down, Milly. Bring her to the drawing-room. We will have a cup of ; tea there now, ami supper in half an hour.” She led the way to the drawing-room, followed by Colonel Lyndon, Percy, and her husband. This room, which had a sort of notoriety in the neighborhood, deserves a few words of description. It had been lately refurnished and decorated nt immense cost, under Lady Flora’s personal supervision, and was full of beautiful I things. But that which made it really most lovely was the prospect that could be seen from its windows. These were four in number. Two of them commanded the terrace from which Lady Flora had been watching for her visitors, and faced to the setting sun. The others were north and south. They let in, at this season, a marvelously, indescribable glory of color and light. Sweeping stretches of purple moor; : lochs, large ami small, a great multitude, now blue as the noontide sky, and now I flashing bright as if paved with living tire; on this side the silvery bosom of a broad j sea-loch, so encircled with heather-clad hills that it looked like a lake; on the other the sweep of a river w hose serpentine windings, seen far across the plain, seemed to i end only with the dist mt range of moun- I tains this, and much more than this, was :o be seen from the windows of Castle Ettriek drawing-room. On this July night the windows that looked out to the terrace were open, and the solemn twilight, which lingered nt this season all night upon the hills with the ! sweet, wholesome breath of the moorland, can ' into the lighted room. “j .iter than London, isn't it?” said Mr. i Winstanley to Colonel Lyndon, as they stood together near one of the windows, while Lady Flora, at the other, was eon- i tinning her interrupted conversation with her sou. “Bitter! I should think so,” answered । the Colonel; “but there is no comparing the two. I wonder, as I look out, that I could have spent so many weeks of the summer there." “Fashion is a queer thing—quits unac- j countable,” said Mr. Winstanley. “Colonel Lyndon,” called out Lady Flora । from her w indow, "I wish you would come । here and tell me something about your journey. Percy can tell me nothing; not even if the rich Miss Browne is as handsome as people say.” “Miss Browne is certainly handsome,” said the Colonel, with decision. “Do you mean to say that Percy ” “I could not describe her to my mothers satisfaction,” said Percy. “I was never a good hand at descriptions. But here are Milly and Miss Morrison. You had bettor ask them.” Letty, who had fhrown off her traveling hat and jacket, and brushed her pretty brown hair, looked, to the Colonel’s eyes, more charming than ever, as timidly, and with a bright pink color in her cheeks, she followed her pupil into the drawing-room. His impulse was to go an I meet her. and leail her to the group round the window; but, thinking that to take any particular notice of her might embirrass her the more, he remained where he was. Lady Flora, who vss exceed ugly kind at heart, and to whom L tty Morrison was som thing more than an ordinary governess, soon set her nt ease. “Come in, you foolish child,” she said, taking her hands and giving her a kisL “Did you think 1 would forget you because my boy had come home?—hiding away up-stairs as soon as you came.” “I told her she was silly,” said Mildred. “Letty must get over her shyness now,” said Lady Flora, with a smile. "She has a verv important position in this house, hasn’t she, Milly ?” “I know I had rather she filled it than I,” said Percy. “I ought to tell you, Miss Morrison ” “Don't listen to him, Letty dear,” cried the child. “I ve often tried to keep her in order,” persisted Percy. “Don’t listen to him; he tried the wrong w ay. So did everyone else, until my Letty came,” said Mdly. “Give her some tea, Percy, and don't talk so much.” But Colonel Lyndon, who had, in the meantime, found a comfortable chair foi Letty near the window, was already at hei elbow’ with a cup. “Oh, thank you! thank you a thousand times,” she said, looking up at him, “But why should I be helped first-?” “Because the rest of us can look after ourselves,” he answered. “What else will you take—a biscuit? You must be hungry.” “I am not in the least hungry, answered Letty. “That is because you are excited. Y”ou ought to be hungry after so long a journey.” |TO BE CONTINUED.] Filled His Flusli. “You seem prosperous, this morning, Harry,” said young Fastboy to Lis friend, who was spending money freely. “Where did you make the raise?” “I found a diamond last night.” “Found a diamond! It must have been a big one by the way you are setting ’em up.” “No; it was only the deuce; but I held four before the draw, and raised it the limit, ”

SPIES’ ROMANCE. w A Handsome Chicago Heiress Falls in Love with the Condemned Anarchist. Romance and Sympathy Combine to Turn the Head of the Giddy Girl. [Chicago Telegram ] One of the most regular attendants at the trial of the anarchists during the closing days, was a tall, fair, and handsome girl, w’ho dressed in fashionable garments and whose appearance generally was suggestive of refinement. Sho was apparently Mds VAN ZANDT. about 1!) years of ag ■, and on nearly every occasion she was accompanied by an elder- ; ly lady. She evinced the deepest interest in the proceedings, and it finally became i evident that she was more than usually inI terested in one of the prisoners. As the days passed by it was ascertained that her admiration extindcd to \ugusl Spies. At I the conclusion of the trial she visited the County Jail to proffer her sympathy to the [ prisoners, and on this occasion she introduced herself to Spies, and from that day became completely infatuated with him. The feeling which she entertained for the । anarchist leader was evidently reeipro- ! rated, and her visits to the jail to see her Inter became so frequent that she finallv came to be known to the jail officials as “Spies’ girl." She would stand nt the iron grating of the “cage" and talk to her lover until the jad hour for locking up the prisoners arrived. Her identity finally became known, ami sho s proved to be Miss Nina Van Zandt, oniv ! daughter of J. Van Zandt, a chemist employed in Kirk’s soup factory nt No. Ti’J North Water street. She would bring all sorts of dninty edibles for his use. and also articles of feminine nianufiwturc for the adornment of his cell. It was vvidt ntly a case of “mash,” mid a severe eas< at that. But Miss Ann Zandt seemed to glory in it. । and was apparently proud of her powers of conquest. But nobody appeared t<> be prepared for the news, winch was made public through the local press a few days ago, that August Spies nud Miss Van Zandt were to be married in a short time. Ilie future Mrs. Spies was l-orn m riiilmlelphia, Jan. 5, lSf>7. Her father »s said to belong to one of the Knickerbocker families who moved from New York State to Cendai Pennsylvania about fifty years ago. Her mother comes from a Scotch-English t'maily named Clark,, Hint has lived in Pittsburgh for many years. Miss Van Zandt attended the Friends' Central High School in Philadelphia until her parents moved to Chx-ago, in INN 2. Here she attended the Misses ! Grant's Seminary for young ladies, as a boarding scholar, and remained there one I year. In the fall of IssJ she entered Vassar College at Foughkee| sie. N. ¥., staying there two years and taking Latin and mathe- : nuitical courses. She is a member of St. , Janies' Episcopal Church, together with her father and mother, mid is well known m church society. She has attracted the attention of many young men. some of whom were members of the congregation. A young Canadian, who is employed m a La Salle street insurance oftice, was understood to have been regarded with more than passing favor until the trial of the anarchists began. Mr. and Mrs. Van Zandt mid the prospective bride have been regarded as rather extreme in their views toward alleged stiff, ring humanity, and. like Captain and Mis. W. P. Black, perhajis. look upon the anarchists as having been more sinned against than sinning. When the new sos the coming marriage was quietly circulated in North Side society circles, to which Miss Van Zandt bt longed, and became known at the St. James’ Club, to which many young men of the church belong, the utmost consternation and surprise was manifested. 'Die fact is indisputable, however, that within a very few days Miss Nina Van Zandt will be Mrs. August Spies. Miss Van Zandt has also lieen one of those who united with the Central Labor I nion and contributed money to have Spies’ speech to the jury during the trial printed. Miss Van Zandt’s home is at the corner of Cass a id Huron streets, almost the center of the aristocratic portion of the North Side. Directly opposite is the ultra-swell Episcopal Church of St. James. Within tavo blocks of her home are the stately palaces of S. M. Nickerson, Henry Field, E. D. Watkins, Cyrus McCormick, Henry Willing, John T. Lester, R. IL Cable, A. A. Carpenter, and perhaps twenty others which are the homes of millionaires. A reporter called at No. 33 > Huron street for the purpose of getting a look at Miss Van Zandt. The young lady was not visible, but her father, Mr. J. K. Van Zandt, obligingly gave all the information in his power concerning the proposed marriage, stipulating that Lis remarks should be treated seriously, and without prejudice or unfavorable comment. Mr. Van Zandt is a fine-appearing man of about 45 years. His ancestors came from Amsterdam, Holland, and he claims relationship with aristocratic Knickerbocker families of New York. He is a chemist by profession, and Las charge of the chemical department in Kirk’s soap factory. His daughter, judging from a photograph shown the reporter, is a handsome girl 20 years old. with an intellectual countenance. Her father said that her acquaintance with Sp os was brought about by the loss, four years ago,of a pet dog. Miss Nina at tkat time lavished her spate affection on the small animal, and when he disappeared she made extraordinary efforts to recover him. She advertised in all the daily papers, including the Arheiler Zeitung, offering a liberal reward for the restoration of the poodle to its fair mistress’ arms, and it was while on a visit to the Arbeit' r Zeitung office to see if the lost puppy had been heard irom that s'ic first saw August Spies. It was a case, on her side at least, of love at first sight. Eugene Seeger, clerk in the Marriage License Department of the County Clerk’s office, received (he following telegraphic dispatch from the grandmother of Miss Nina Van Zandt, the fiancee of August Spies, Monday: Pittsburg, l'a., Jan. 17, 1887. Eugene Seeger, Clerk of Marriage lAceuses: Issue no license to Miss Van Zijmlt and Au-

gust Spies to be married. Wo forbid the marriage. Mus. John Abthub. Mrs. Arthur is the lady from whom Miss Van Zandt’s legacy is expected to come. Mr. Seeger said: “That dispatch confirms me in my resolve not to issue a marriage license unless I am compelled to. 1 believe that this whole thing is got up by some sharp-witted friends of Spies who propose to use an innocent and foolish young girl to create sympathy for him, in the hope that the Governor may pardon him or commute his sentence. The passage in an interview with Miss Van Zandt where she says Spies has experienced a change of heart and will be a better man if he is ever liberated convinces mo that the scheme is to represent him as reformed and entitled to executive clemency. I know Spies’ nature too well to believe that ho loves the girl. I don't believe that she loves him, but sho thinks she does. I think that the real affinity is between Miss Van Zandt, who has nine dogs, and Mrs. Capt. Black, who has sixty dogs. I regard it as an outrage on decency and an insult to the law that this man Spies, with his neck in a halter, should defy all the dictates of honor and manhood and seek to drag down to his own disgrace an innocent and foolish girl.” SPIES. The Coixleinned Auarelii-t Talks About Ills Love A Hair. “One day, during the trial, while George C. Ingham was making his argument,” said Spies, in an interview, “Miss Van Zandt came to the court-room. She hud read in the newspapers about us condemned men. hud seen our pietuies, nud Lad formed the impression that wo were a lot of wild beasts. Her visit to the courtroom disappointed her. After '.he verdict was given she camo in contact with certain people who had interested th tn-elves in onr persecutions, and concluded that the whole trial was nothing but a vast conspiracy against us. She wrote to the newspapers to explain certain matters that would throw light on the trial, but the editors refused her articles, being unwilling to say anything in our favor. This strength' nod the young lady in the belief | that we were going to lie murdered. “ Subsequently Miss Van Zandt came | here and introduced herself to me. When I she found 1 was neither an ignoramus, monster nor beast she camo regularly and I took an interest in my companions and my- I self. At last, said Spies, blushing and ! hesitating “Oh, well, you know what to I say." Then I” added, slowly: “Yes, a mutual agreement was arrived at. Put it i in your own words. Miss \un Zandt, " the ] anarchist continued lifter having n gained his usual culm demeanor, "is an only child, and her parents are rational, reasonable jM-ople. Cnpt. Black is now making the I arrangements for our marriage. The lady I is not the one who attended the trial and sat next to Mrs. (’apt. Black, in some peopie seem to have thought,” he remarked in conclusion. Spies is 31 wars of age an I was born in Castel-I-amL-k. He se. IL b. lives that the sentence against h m w ill never be car- , riod out and that lu- will soon be given his fiee.lorn. I'KOSTKATEII WITH l.Kll t. Miss Van Zamit’s CraiKlstre (’rn-lied I lie Ctrl to Ite I •l-inlK l iteil. [Pittsburgh special j In an interview with Mts. Arthur, the ■ aunt of Nina Ann Zandt, at her n sidenee . in Oakland, the following information wa gl ‘aued concerning the young lady and the ’ attitude of friends in regard to her con duct. The shock to Mrs. Arthur and her distinguished father and mother can readily be imagined, especially as Miss A'an Zandt s mother, who is the only sister of Mrs. Arthur, had been visiting lu r parents and sister just two weeks previous. and with the exception of jokingly remarking that Nina expected to many some nice young man in the spring, had made nothing known, and had not given the slightest hint in the true direction. On reading the news, so great was the prostra ion of Mrs. Arthur's father. Air. AVilliam B. Clark, that Airs, Arthur was obliged to write to the A an Zandts the message he wished to send. Tho letter was mailed by 10 o’clock Saturday morning, imploring them to prevent the wedding. This was closely followed by another, and the Van Zandt family were informed that henceforth they were not to be considered in the light of lelations. Every connection, socially and financially, was dissolved forever, and Aliss Nina utterly disinherited. “She will receive no more (han our dog lying there on the rug. Every dollar will be bequeathed to charitable purposes,” said Mrs. Arthur, as she wiped the bitter tears from 1 er eyes. Airs. Arthur is a very wealthy society queen here, and holds Miss A’an Zandt’s future wealth. This morning a letter was received from Airs. A'an Zandt, from Chicago, WTitten before the receipt of those sent from Pittsburg, in which she informs her relatives of Nina's approaching marriage to Spies, the anarchist, and invites them to be present at the ceremony, which is to be peiformed on Thursday in the jail at Chicago, adding, also, that she and Mr. Van Zandt could find no fault in the man and had given th ir full consent to the nupt als, and that she hoped the friends here would not worry themselves. “This letter,” continued Airs. Arthur, “which shows Nina's parents to be as highly blameworthy as Nina herself, has made father and all of us more firm in the determination to disown the family forever. Air. AVm. B. Clark, the grandfather of Nina, is well known in Pittsburg. Both he and his wife look back upon a long line of ancestors which shows not a single biot on its proud integrity. They and their daughh r, Al is. Arthur, are members of the First Presbyterian Church, and for their active religious works are widely known. Air. ( lark has but (wo children living — Mrs. Arthur and Mrs. Van Zandt—and Nina is t he only grandchild. Pretty, bright, and a good conversationalist, she made a host of friends in this city, and at the wedding of Aliss AValker, given at the residence of Airs. George AVcstinghouse, she was spoken of as tlie “I rightist, handsomest" lady present, A clerical error—a sermon more than twenty minutes jn length.

THE FARMER. H’hg Hoads Are Poor. Every year the attention of tho public is called to the miserable condition of the roads. The papers discuss the matter at great length, State and county conventions aro called in tho interest of good roads. At those gatherings resolutions aro passed, and much legislation reeommended. Tho proprietors of tile factories, the owners of deposits of gravel, and tho patentees of road-making machinery all present their plans for making and keeping up good roads. L resolutions, legislation, speech - es, and appeals to the public would insure good roads, tho facilities for travel would be most excellent in all parts of the AVest AH these agencies, however, appear to exert very little influence on tho condition of tho public thoroughfares. Most of the plans suggested for making roads in the country are too costly to be put in practice. They require the expenditure of a sum of money that cannot be raised by farmers, many of wliom aro heavily in debt, and nearly all of whom aro desirous of improving their places, erecting new buildings, buying new stock, and purchasing implements necessary to work tho soil and harvest crops. A tax that would put all tho roads in a new country in good condition would result in the ruin of most of tho farm rs. Roads are poor in most parts of tho AVest, not because little money is raised to improve them, but because it is injudiciously expended. Much labor is spent on roads to very poor advantage. The men who know how to make good bridges and culverts for earth roads, or to grade the roads, are somewhat scarce in every county, and they are seldom soloetod to superintend these operations. A man is generally chosen commissioner of highways, or district road surveyor, because lie is a member in good standing in some political party, or is known as a “clever fellow.” He would not be employed to make plans fora man who wished to construct private roads, or lo superintend workmen engaged m making them. He is generally free to acknowledge that ho does not understand tho art of planning and constructing roads, bridges and culverts: that he has given very little attention to these matters, and that he has no taste for them. It is likely that there are more men in this country who understand the construction of railroads than of common earth roads. There aro ten books on tho subject of railroad construction to one on the making of dirt roads. AVhen the directors of a great corporation wish to construct a railway they employ a competent engineer to plan ami direct ail the । work. He, with the aid of suitable assistants and special exports, prepares plans and speci- | flcatiotiH and lets the work to contractors. Tho j road is kept in suitable repair by the direction ! of trained experts. Those roads aro constructed and kept in good condition by the । expenditure of tlie smallest amount of money possible under the circumstances. The road . beds, tracks, bri Iges, and culverts are conI stantly watched and are repaired as soon as they get out of good condition in any way. । It is not likely that wo shall ever have’ good i wagon-roads till they aro (milt and kept in rc- ■ pur m the same manner that railroa Is are. 1 Men must b 1 educated and trained for tho work of constructing and repairing earth roa Is, and the bridges and culverts that must be built in connection with them. In order to prepare tin in for this important service, I they must have suitable text books to study ami proper teachers to instruct them. They must b' employed in the capacity of exports by county and town officials in tho same manner that engineers are secured by tlie directors lof railroad companies. I'hieago '/'inns. Harm \otes. How no you strain your milk? If you use a doth, now often do you wash it ' Too much of th impurity of milk comes from the Is THERE any reason whv a sheep can not mad t > work a light dog power lor run ning the churn: Here is a good chance to make capital out of the surplus energy of tho ! old ram. To have a fine crop of large, rich currants, enrich tlie ground, make it rich and mellow, and thin out tho brush. Cut away tho old ! woo I after fruiting, and leave the vigorous | young shoots. The value of the hen manure from a single bird for one year has been quoted at fifteen cents. This is, we think, a very low estimate, and vet, < ven it this rate, the total value of the manure from all tho poultry in the country in Inn) would be $ I'Anoop W. The total value , of tin fertibz is manufactured during the sam>- year was s23,(>.'>('GtlV li may not be newssiry and yet not amiss to urge larmors to sow or drill a good supply । of sweet corn to cut up and feed to milch cows during the month of August, when ;as tn res dry up or partia ly so. There can be no doubt that such corn is a wholesome and profitable supplement to pastures at that time, or if there is, a single experment will dispel tho doubt. Oats may not be a profitable crop to raise, and in some sections it is not, but a few acres, to be fed by cutt ng tho bundles in a cutting-box and feeding th‘in with bran in connection With oth r winter feed will pay i well. The whole art and mystery of planting consists in placing the tree as nearly as possible i in the same comht ot. with respect to contact with the eartli as that in which it stood before ! removal. To this end a wide hole should bo | dug, allowing tlie roots to be spread out in i their natural position; and tlie richest soil, i made tine with back of the spade, is to be shoveled in carefully and worked well among the roots with the hands. In successful planting water is one of tho most important elements Given plentifully when almost done plant ng, it settles the earth around the roots, shuts np every crevice, and, with some gentle pressure of the foot, after throw ing on more earth, makes the ground solid. THE COOK Cheap Erait Cake. Gao cup of butter, one-half cup of molasses, two eggs, one cup of sugar, tlireo cups of flour, one tablespoonful each of cloves and cinnamon, a little nutmeg, one teaspoonful of soda, and fruit to taste. This recipe makes two loaves. Hean Salad. AVax beans make a delicious salad. Choose young beans, remove the strings, break in meh long pieces, and cook in salt and water. AVlnle still warm cover them with a dressing of oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Be sure and remember in mixing salads the old saying, “A spendthrift lor oil, a miser for vinegar, a wise man for salt, and a mad mm for mixing.” Use at least twice as milch oil as vinegar. Soft G i ngerbread made with sugar instead of molasses helps to give variety. Half a pound of sugar should l>e rubbed with three ounces of butter until the butt ris soft as cream. To this should be added two well-beaten eggs, 1 I teaspoonfuls of ginger, half a spoonful of soda dissolved in a little water, and .half a cup of milk or cream and flour enough to make a soft batter. Buko as soon as it is mixed m a hot oven. Eat while fresh. Orange and Apple l‘ie. Cover a tin plate with puff pastry, and place a layer of sliced oranges, with tho pips removed, on it, and scatter sugar over them; then put a layer of sliced apples, with sugar, and cover with slices of oranges and sugar. Put an utiper crust of nice pastry over tho p:o and bake it for half an hour, or until the appl. s are perfeetly soft. Take the pie from tho tin plate while it is warm; put into a china plate and scatter sugar over tlie top. Tongue Sandtrich. Take a beef’s tongue, freshen, wash, and place in a kettle with plenty ot boiling water and a little salt Boil gently and continuously for at least six hours. Take up and remove tho skin, immediately laying it over tho meat again to keep it moist. This should also be done tho day be^ro the sandwiches are wanted. To make tlie sandwiches, cut. the crust from the end of the loaf, spread tho crumb end of the loaf with nie g fresh butt'r, which has previously been kept in a warm place to softon un il it can be spread evenly and without lumps. Then cut off a thin, even slice, and to do this you must have a long and sharp knife. Cut this slice in tho middle from top to bottom, and lay on one half thin slices of the cold tongue on which has been spread a very little made mustard. P ace the other half of the si co, buttered side down, on tho meat and twim the edges till ih y are even; if you are very fastidious, out away all the crust. Fold them in or cover them witli a damp towel till ready to send to table.

NUMBER 30.

CONGRESSIONAL, Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Senator Cameron introduced a bill in tho Senate on tho 13th iust. for tlie appointment of Commissioners to represent the Federal Government at the centennial celebration of the forming and promulgation of the Constitution to be held in Philadelphia. The Senate passed a bill to pay M. C. Mordeca $37,000 for carrying mail between Charleston and Havana before the outbreak of tho war. Senator Wilson (Iowa), from the Committee on Postoffices, reported favorably a bill providing that no third-class postoffice shall be changed to fourth-class if it appears that the receipts for the year amount to $1,900, or that the box rents and commissions constituting tho Post master s compensation amount to SI,OOO or more for the year. Senator Plumb introduced a bill providing that whenever any attempt is made to secure any rights in lands belonging to tho Cherokees, Chickasuws, Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles, under the treaties xvith the United States, tho Indians shall be entitled to all the rights before the law now granted to citizens ot tho United States. A communication was received from the Secretary of the Treasury calling attention to tl»e importance of correcting tho unhealthy condition of the Treasury building. Tho Senate voted to nonconcur in the House amendment t > tho anti-polygamy bill, and a conference was asked. Senator Vest’s resolution calling on the Secretary of tho ’Treasury for an itemized account of money paid out in prosecuting Federal criminal cases was adopted by the Senate, after being modified so as to include civil cases. Mr. Evarts denounced the interstate commerce bill as unconstitutional. Tho House of Representatives passed bills amending the law regulating the removal of causes from State to Federal Courts, and authorizing tho service of civil and criminal process issued by any territorial court within Indian and military reservations. The House Coinage Committee ’ .ported back the resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to monthly purchases and coinage of silver during the last fiscal year and tho first six months ot the jiresent fiscal your ; also information as to whether the law requiring tho purchase and coinage of not less than $2,000,00;) worth of silver bullion has been complied with. The interstate commerce bill passed the Senate on tho 14th inst. by a vote of 43 to 15. An effort to secure tho recommittal of tho measure was defeated—yetis, 2>; nays, 36. Following is tho vote on the passage of the measure : Yeas Messrs. Allison, Beek, Berry, Blackburn, Bowen, Cockrell, Coke. Colquitt, Conger, Cullom, Dolph, Edmunds, Eustis, Fair, Ferry, George, Gibson. Gorman, Gray, Hale, Harris, Hawley, Ingalls, Jones (Ark.), Jones (Nev.), | McMillan, Manderson. Mitchell (Oregon), ; Palmer. Plumb, Pugh, Subin, Saulsbury, Sawyer, Sowell, Sherman, Spooner, Teller, Vance, Vest, Walthall, Whitthorno, Wilson (lowa) —43. Nays Messrs. Aldrich, Blair, Brown, Cam- ' eron, Chase, Cheney. Evarts, Hampton, Hoar, Mitchell il’a.). Morrill. Payne, Platt, AVilliams—--15. Y’eas Republicans, 23; Democrats, 20. Nays Republicans, 12; Democrats, 3. In tho House of Representatives Mr. Caldwell submitted the conference report on the electoral-count bill, and it was agreed to without debate or division. Mr. Dibble presented the conference report on the bill increasing the appropriation for the public building at Fort Scott, Kan., and it was agreed to. (The increase is fixed at $40,IXMI.I Thu joint resolution for an investigation of the books, accounts, and methods of tho Pacific railroads which have received aid from the United States was culled up in the House, on the 15th inst., by Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, but, after some discussion, action was postponed. A message was received in the House announcing the concurrence of the Senate in the conference report of the interstate commerce bill. The House bill for tho relief of Elon H. Marsh, of Battle Creek, Mich., to validate a patent for improvement in steam-engine-valve gear, was passed by the Senate on the 17th inst. Ilie Senate also passed the pension anpropriation bill, setting aside $75,009,000, and the army appropriation bill. Bills were introduced to bri tge the Missouri at Sioux City and tho Mississippi at St. l,ouis. A resolution was adopted directing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to supply information as to the number of places in the District where liquor is sold without license, and the reasons why such places aro not suppressed The Senate also adopted a resolution instructing tho Attorney-General to investigate and report the liability ot the United States for judgments and awards arising under the Act of March 3, 1875, to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, Senator Cullom presented a petition from a i number of citizens from Streator, 111,, respectfully roiresenting that the present system of collecting revenue for tho support of the General Government by import duties and the internal-revenue system is unjust and ought to cease. The President sent the following nominations to the senate : John F. Norrish, of Minnesota, to be. surveyor general of Minnesota. Postmasters: i At Pittsfield, 111., James H. Crane; Mendota, 111,, George A. Kellenberger; Baton Rouge, La., L. A. D, Conrad ; Chagrin Falls, <)., Tyron Bailey ; Conneaut, 0., Stephen B. Atwood; North Yakima, Washington Territory, George AV. I Carey. The House of Representatives passed a bill for pensions to dependent parents and honorably discharged soldiers and ; sailors, disabled, and dependent on their j own' labor. It affects about 33,000 i jiersons, involving tho disbursement of $6,000,UOO per annum. Bills were introduced for a i pension of $25 per month to Walt Whitman, the j poet, to appropriate $600,000 for the colored ; people's world's fair at Birmingham, and to nej gotiate for a site for a custom house and api praiser s stores in New York. Mr Belmont introduced a bill “to protect American vessels against unwarrantable and unlawful discriminations in the ports of British North America.” The President is authorized to prohibit vessels bearing the British flag and coming from such pints from entering th > ports of the United States or from exercising such privileges therein as he may define. Mu. Gorman offered a preamble and resolution in the Senate on the 18th inst., whose terms are similar to those of the bill offered in the House by Mr. Belmont. It authorizes the President to prohibit the transit through the United States or the territorial waters, of any engines, cars, vessels, or goods proceeding from Canada. A bill was reported from the Finance Committee of the Somite to reimburse the depositors of the Freedmen's Bureau. The President sent the following nominations for Postmasters: At Lagrange, Texas, Arthur Meerscheidt; Fostoria, Ohio, Lear Wooster; Eureka, Nev., Mason B, Bartlett; A’acaville, Cal.. James M. Miller; Lamoure, D. T., Foster M. Kinter; Park River, D. T., Oscar A. Trovatten; Provo City, Utah, James G. Kenney. The House of Representatives passed a bill to declare forfeited the land grant of the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Vicksburg Hoad, and a joint resolution for an investigation of the accounts of the Pacific roads. The committee on invalid pensions reported a bill increasing from $72 to SIOO tho allowance of soldiers or sailors who have lost both arms. A motion to lay on the table a resolution setting aside January 29 for the consider rtion of the Blair educational bill was defeated by a vote of 76 yeas to 165 nays. Mind Cure. This is extremely fashionable now in the large cities, and is rapidly spreading among the smaller ones. An organ of the mind cure fraternity has been started in Boston, of course. It is called Alental Healing, and is published monthly. Many of the most intelligent persons in the country have given in their adhesion to the faith. Phys’cians have long been agreed that the m nd has the greatest possible influence on the body. If a patient can be persuaded that he is getting better, that very thought draws to him healthful currents from the atmosphere, and he recovers far more rapidly. In brief, as concerning the mind cure, all intelligent persons are agreed that there is at least a grain of truth in it. California intends to beat the cheap labor of Spain in raisin growing by labor-saving machinery which will stem, grade, pack in boxes, and fan the fruit by steam power, at one running. “Prisoner, were you not afraid to take that money from your employer’s till —you, a mere child in years?” “Oh, yes, sir; I xvas afraid I’d becotched.” He who beholds the faults of others through his oavu a irtue is always disposed to forgive them. Indulgence is the child of purity of heart.