News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-22

*:It may have been carrying that
bucket of coal up stair5 Slb -
softly to herself as sb@
obey Lho mandate ga,
f,sgsesH'N l.]y's ej45t1
more serious cause,
| whom [ oft have tossed in%
arms, will think she has strucES
belt when the old lady begins to paw trre~
air
Just then Maud fell over a coal scuttle
! that had been careIessly left in the cor
ridor, and, on rising, met Beryl, who
was intentIy reading a note.
edo you wish to see me, mammal
asked Beryl, tripping lightly into the
room where her mother was seated.
eyes, my child, was the reply. 81
fain would speak with you on a matter
that doth nearly concern your future
happiness-your marriage"
The girl shrank back instinctively,
and the happy look faded from the pretty
blue eyes. Plunging her right hand i'm
pulsively into her pocket, she discovered
the last letter from Vivian Perkins, the
man whom she loved with all the pas
sionate intensity Of last-chance affec-
ton, was still there.
Her secret was safe.
81 am ready" she said to her mother
in the respectful tones which ever char
acte1ized her speech, ''to hear you twit-
ter
81 know" said the mother, speaking
calmly, "of your love for Vivian Per-
kins."
BeryI mastered her emotion bravely,
and gave no outward sign of the battle
that was waging in her soul
''You wish to marry this man?" said
the Lady Agatha.
81 do, replied Beryl, "and nothing
but his word, his act shall ever keep me
from his side. I love Vivian with a
Wild, four-track-and-a-sIeeping- -car-on-
every train love that will brook no re-
straint, and some day, even though the
fiery Jaws of hades itself We're opened to
stop me. [ shall be his.
Il know all this" said the mother;
81 know that you viii marry Vivian, and
[ have but one request to make
.sWhat is that ?" asked the girl.
s.Tt Is " said the Lady Agatha, ''that
YOU will arrange to have the nuptlals
occur as soon as possible
but why ?" asked the daughter.
Because" was the reply. 81 am
thinking of making a similar break my
self. = chicago Tji6m1c.
QUESTION OF INFORMATION.
The only time Sam Cox was ever
sQuelched, not counting the ''shoo fly
of Ben Butler, was when Owen Love
iov, of Illinois, did it in 1902. Mr.. Cox
had been making a long and exhaustive
speech in the House on the tariff. The
members were all tired. In the middle
Of the speech the solemn form of Mr..
Loveioy arose, got the eye of the Speak
er, and said:
''1Tr. Speaker y
"The gentleman from Illinois :" said
the Speaker.
Il arise, Mr.. Speaker" said Mr..
Loveioy, ''to a question of privilege"
"Does the gentleman from New York
Weld the floor ?" asked the Speaker, adj
dressing Mr. Cox.
81 will yield for question OF IN
formation and not otherwise" said Mr..
| Cox.
81 do desire to ask question for in
formation, - said Mr. Lovejoy.
every well, Mr.. Speaker, sad Mi.
Cox, q yield to the gentleman from L.
linois."
''The gentleman from Illinois now has
the floor" said the Speaker.
Mr. Lovejoy now arose slowly and ma
iestically
'NIr. Speaker" he said slowly, Il
arise for information. [ wish to ask
the gentleman from New York ques-
ton. "
Mr.. Cox-'Let him ask it"
81 wish.' said Mr.. Lovejoy, "tO-ask-
the-gentleman-from-N Newly -YOrk-if-he-has-
got-most-through ?" Loud laughter all
over the House, when Mr.. Cox moved an
adjournment 1-Chicago Irib1llSnsss
TWO KINDS oF
There was storm-G
sidewalk on Larned a
saloon, says the Detrs
and a pedestrian matted and int sIseg
matter.
"VheII. you see, put dot door oop
dis morning to keep oudt d cold. ="
q see"
"Eaferypody who comes in pushes ON
der door when dey should pull, und so L
puts oop a sign of. Pull on him..
''That's right.
"Vhell. along comes man un,, Ae
saws Gcr sign is too small. Itvhas sooch
a Ieedle Pull dot no, 5dy pull hard
enough to open der door.
"Thqt's philosophy.
"TTuu so [ take off dot sign md put
up great big Pull, rmd der first mar
who WANTS to come IN takes long
breath, braces his feet, und pulls de-
door off her hinges"
"And what will you do now?"
"VheI. l guess I haf my son Shol
sthand oudt here und tell folks to pull
Ieedlc hard. but not too hard, und
somebody pushes When he should pu
[ pellet dot [ keep der door wide ope
/ uud put up some sign Of "Bleasc Nhal
! Right In"
TIcKLED HOOsIER.
, An Indiana farmer walked into tn
e house the other day with a tickled loo
3 ON his face and his hat ON his ear, an
i called out:
e by gum! Hammer, what do yo
n think ?"
$ "What's happened now?'
e ''You know that fellow who sold N
Il the chun and had me sign papcr?'
II ''Yes.
h ''Wcn. that paper was note f"
4 $50.
- ''Noa !"
t "True as preaching, And what els
do you suppose o.