The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-02-27

other To speak.
She was pale and trembling, too much
frightened to realize the fact that she was
happy and blessed beyond all expI essien,
| finished and faint,yet calm and collected
in the wretched knowledge that the
warmth aud daylight of my life was chill
ed and dead forever.
| broke the silence.
IL should ask your pardon, Miss Heath
cote" | said, both for my instrusion just
now, and also for LAYING taken possession
for this year past Of what was yours by
rights. Will you shake hands with me,
and let US be friends?
| She has great brown eyes, this Birdie,
and round dlmpled face. She gazed at
me IL wonder before taking my out
stretched hand. Presently she excaim
ed:
ooh, do no be angry with him! 1t is
my fanlt-ali my fault loved him so,
and l ldn't think he cared for me in
earnest, and SO thought | had better
forget him and he is 50 proud that he
could not bear Tue to think he still loved
me after my treatment of him. | know
it was very wrong OF him to make love to
you; it was cheating you But now see
you, feel that he must love you, you are
SO beautiful as well as rich. | thought
you would be old and ugly. And you
will forgive him. will you not? Idaresay
he will soon forget me-"
And she stlftd bitter, choaking sob,
as Colonel Forbes and Mr.. WynGham en-
tered the room; ann almost Immediately
after them Haiold appeared with my
shawl, still looking Very shame-taced and
agitatpd Mr. Wyndham was, as usual,
| very mitch obliged to me for taking him
away from the hot crowded hous and
kissed Birdie Heathcote, shook hands cor
daily with my love, and went out into
the chilly starlight.
1t was a story much as is only too often
repeated in this world
Two years ago Harold and Birdie had
met, and fallen in love, and though with
out positive declaration on either side, had
dreamed and lived for each other through
just such happy, blessed summer as l
had passed.
But with the wind and rain of winter
had come doubt and unhappiness Some
well. meaning friends warned Harold that
his angels wings had butterfly tenden
cieS-that she had damaged one or two
hearts in her time. Birdie,tco, was fool
ishly induce TO believe that Harold was
simply amusing himself with her, and so
recklessly involved herself in perilous
| frtarion during her absence on a visit In
the country. Such reports of her incon-
stancy reached poor Harold as to deter
mine HIM never TO see her again and 1t
was about this period that be was intro
duced to me, and found in my society
something soothing and grateful To his
injured, wounded heart.
was unable to see Harold and Birdie
Heathcote married,a as was i'll and abroad
at the time, and my wedding visit to
them was not paid till Birdie had been
Mrs. CORTLAND more than yea Rand was
the proud mother of little girl, whom,
she shyly told me, they had named No
rah.
hope, I pray that they are happy, but
l wish that they were little less poor.
| could not help thinking, as / drove
away from the house where they lived in
mean, pokey little lodgings that it would
be hard struggle for pretty Birdie to re
tain her beauty and cheerfuness as the
years passed on, and her family increased
, and the income did pot.
This year people are not telling me
! how pink my cheeks are. Mentone has
not done wonders for me this time, AND
nv cough is worse than before.
But teel strangely happy and content
ed, even when Harold comes to see me
! =, d sits by my sofa. awk wardly twisting
ssg old ring (Which I requested him t.
- A gage d'amitis) on his white finger
-, contrite aud furious with hlmsel
81. 80. g broken my heart.
lam W., y peaceful now. The summe
dav when p arold gathered his rose fer M
hair seems 8. far distant, and the tin
80 rbe q nrt ands will be rich and pros
49, "mom az Ara W. be utifully near-for hav
IF nv money 20 my little namesake-
on,i another summer day will soon com
whsn shall close HDy eyes and be at res
and thew will lay me IN rose-stre"
crave Roses will bloom at my Ieet'
have done with the thorna oil llte hf
SquieScGm. -
4 CoFFEE-MAhING,-Prof. Lieb'g' Tn
German chemist, says good coffee shoui'
he rich in two principles, extract and arc
mo When boiled long time coffee
rich in extract, but deficient in aroma; ane
when boiled only short time, 1t Is TIC
a IN aroma but deficient in extract. In o.
der 70 obtain both of these propereie
Prof. Liebig directs to take two-th'foS
Il the ground coffee needed for meal p
II il to the water and boil briskIy Co
.; aerable time, and when the meal
H. arly ready, take the coffee from the u
-. add the remaining third of grou'
coH e; stir it well, let it stand ie" MI