Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-06-23

4 .A-SA@e O1 ot4C xOuIbu obOIy VI t<-~ --Oe~~ -
!: Bland street. "a literary gentleman"
Mrs. Parley had called him; while Mr..
johnson asserted. with less elegance, that
he was "owl-editor of. one of them pa
Ipers that never tells the truth. -
Poor people assimilate more readily
than those who surround themselves with
the barriers of form and ceremony; and,
lin one week of their peighborly prox-
unity. Mr.. Harley and the Miss Eliers-
lies had become the best OF friends.
"The loop has come off my necktie
lapain.n Mr. Harley began, apologetically.
I"Dare venture to ask you to sew it on q
second time, Miss Emily ?" ~
Emily smiled and nodded as she
Threaded her needle with black silk, and
put. on thrifty-looking thimble. ~
us anything the matter, Miss. Kate ?"
asked Harley, as he observed the elder
sisters flushed cheeks and discounted
mood. ~
Nothing" she answered, petulantly,
put the Old stOry-poyerty and humil-
latlon. Oh, wish I,were dead; or, bet.
ter still, 'she went on. with increasing
energy, IL wish the william who cheats us
out OF all our money were dead!' -
Mr.. Harley WINGED. a little, and no WON
der, Emily thought her sister had spok-
| ELI with unrestrained yehemence.
"Kate, Kate J" she said softly, "you
don't consider. He is not to blame be-
cause. the law has given him what was
rightfully hislown.
"He is, sayl" burst out Kate, but
| then she repressed herself. 'Give me
the shirts, Emily she said resignedly.
I'VE can't starve. Now the foOtstoOl
and the work basket. And Just draw that
curtain the sun, is shining in enough to
dazzle forty pairs OF type. s.
Patiently Emily trudged hither and
thither for her sister, only too glad that
the storm of Hates temper was tempo
rarily averted by Mr.. Harley's presence.
rhe young man, quietly observaIt of all
that TRANSFERRED around him, began to
think that, after all, Kate was not so
beautiful as he had at first supposed.
Emily had the sweeter, more Madonna
| like face. Then she was so gentle, SO
quietly resigned. 81
Emily always was a drudge said
Miss LEllerslie, cOntemptuously. 'sShe
never had any more spirit than canary
| bird"
- SO Emily did the work of the contract
eel little room, washed and IL oned Hates
laces, arranged her sisters luxuriant
dark hair, sat up at night to finish the
sewing that Kate bad thfownAsside "be-
cause it made Her nervous hours before,
and was sunny and happy through it all,
while Kate sighed over her fate, and per-
suaded herself that she was the most
wretched ofcreated beings. edi ~
And one day Mr.. Harley astonished
Der out of her equanimity by proposing
to marry her.
r"Upon-my-wordp' calculated she
! 'the young MANN have very good
opinion OF himself! OF course you said
Nor
Emily hung her head until she looked
like q sweet-pea vine that has been ex-
posed to the July sun.
"IAI'm afraid said yes,", she falter-
ed. e,s v,i,,,4,.r 81 I'D 4 -
sWhat on earth could have induced
you to accept him?" demanded Kate,
with both hands implorinlgy uplifted.
. because L love him ~ said Emily.
Iplucking mp courage.
1.-The seltishness of some peoplep sob
bed Kate, burying her face i'm her peck
et-handkerchief. IL suppose you never
once thought what was to become OF
4 me r. &. aef...,l iesscisf.I- -.fi1 1901
4 Innocent Emily felt that she had in
deed been monster of ingratitude and
egOlism. sd3 ala..<s t.a.,saa
We must provide for our sister Kate,
in some way or Other,' said Mr.. Harley,
when Emily tlmidly confessed her tribu-
latiOn to him. .HlVf fa
"Wait and see, little girl" =
| Kate Ellerslie gave her brother-in-law
elect rather a cool greeting that evening
4 when he dropped i'll us usual, about 8
o'clock. gus ioof'
sLhope you congratulate Ius?'' he
said cheerily. aisi '''n isgd q ilsHo
/ s''Ot course you have my best Wishes
she answered with some little acerbity
1T will be your turn next, Kate.n T.
I She tossed her head haughtily. =
80 nm in no particular hurry" o1 -
"Wouldntis be nice chapter of ro-
! nance in real life,s-be added smiling
'iif Murray Lennox. to ,.wfora the Law
has awarded, property that was ,nct
yours, Should come and marry you ?''
.sNonsenser' said Kate, sharply. s.Sucl
things don't happen in real life. neHa
do they not? But Just let me sup
pose it Only for once. What would YOU
say?" Oh
mo, of course"
1es'And you, Emily.ni9 = . .srlt .,go.
My heart is already given away" she
} answered, smiling and blushing. esai
10 Murray Lennox :" q
She looked at him in surprise.
MY oarling," he said, II have gde.
ceived you all this time. am not JOhr
Harley, but Murray Iennox, your dis.
:. tant cousin. / came here to study your
characters apart from the disadvantage
which would surely follow me were !
+, known as the unwilling usurper of youl
, fortunes. Nor do regret the ruse. Up.
= on my wedding day, Kate, / shall; settle
upOn'yOu enough to make yor4 eutirel,
Il independent AS for Emily.n with Z;
, smile, .'she must be contented with be-
fortune as my wife, issia3J b1a19
IT, Certainly Miss Emily looked more thai
! contented. .bihns'qs mshi :. -
sits quite an unusual proceeding,
said Mr.. Arkwright, when he was callet
, upon to draw ont the papers; s'but Nv,
! lived long enough to cease being aston
ished at anything. And love is certainly
!; better mediator than law oasia -
Who can doubt that Nh. sArkwrigh
was correct in his conclusions?h f"
What Totty Taught the Deacon.
From the Christian Union. u. sifig '''
Carefully Totty stepped along the
!. street. It was the first time in all hel
life that she had been to the minister's
and lofty felt very grown up indeed.
But to tell you what she has i'm hel
basket, and why she is going to her min
3 ister's, 4 must go back week or two
} Three weeks before, Mrs. Dallas (Tottys
mother) was Very i'll, so i'll that,i the doc
tor said she might not get we'll, and Mr.
Duncan, the minister, came to see her
Now Mr.. Duncan had children of hi.
. aim q nd no kpau bo wv lor1aIvg fba Mo-,