Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-05-23

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and more puzzled with her rnanoeuyres,
has almost made up his mind to betray
himself But. perhaps this dell may
tell its tale and cautiously he too dives
down into the bracken, and is lost to
sight to third person Gypsy Will
himself gnn On shoulder, who, unknown
to either Of the others, has been keep
ing pace with them through the frs to
the left more puzzled spectator than
even the young Squire. 2.
The young Squire he had known ut
once, but Patty was not 50 easily rec
| ognized, nor the reason for Her being
there and being followed.
There must be something wrong about
this. And he,z too, disappeared under
| the green blanket Of fern. converging
so as to meet the other two at the bot
tom Of the dell. .$ ...s
Not twenty yards apart do the two
men reach it, and twenty yards ahead
Of them on the tinkling oor-stream
side, hedged in with silver birch stems
| stands Patty Holden in the moonlight,
! shaking into her platter giant frond
| Of Osmunda RECALLS Chat towers above
her head, while her face shames the very
moon in paleness; and the two men see
| her hole form quiyering with emotion.
! The young Squire first recovered his
sang froid, and jauntily stepped out
| from the shadow with "HuIlo! little
Patty!"' u
The girls wild shriek as he stepped
! forward to put his arm round her reused
all the slumbering devil in Willis heart,
and. clubbing his gun, he sprang for
The The 'squife's sword wa, out in Sec
ond, and, ere, the gun stock descended,
was through Wills left arm; neyerthe-
less, the blow fell fair on to the young
mans shoulder, cruising him senseless
to the earth.
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About two months afterwards, the
door of a cell in Winchester jail opened.
and a keeper said to it's inmate. "Will
Halfacre, you're in luck! The young
Squire of Branshill is better, and in
stead of proceeding against you, they
have withdrawn all charges; and here's
Patty Holden brought the warrant for
your release"
In another moment Patty was nest
ling in his bosom, and telling in dis
| jointed sentences how the young Squire
had said it was all his own fault, and
how he had frankly forgiven; and how
| the old Squire, though he could not
| keep Will on the place, had got him q
! headkeepership in Herftordshire, and
| that he was to go there immediately !;
| and how she loved him., and that they
were to get married at once, and that
she'd tell him how she got his release
by and by, and twenty other things-all
OF which VIII quite forgot in his bewild-,
erment. And to the day Of has death he
never remembered rightly what passed
! at Winchester Jail, except that he got
out, and that Patty there and then exI,
| tracted promise from him that he
should never refer to the subject Of
picking fern seed on st. Johns Eve.
Initividua1ities.
We shall not be willing to acknowl-
edge Mr.. G.. W. Curtis the greatest liv.
ing American orator until we hear
again from Congressman Warner, OF
! Tennessee, who in a recent speech al
luded to Liberty as a "lovely babe
| perched upon the Nations brow"
President Porter, of Yale College,
receives for his services about 81 900
year. The professors receive about
$500 and the tutors from $1,000 to
So, 800. Harvard tutors are paid st..
600, while most Of the professors get
$4,000 and some $1,000.
Bjornstern, the Norwegian poet, has
left Paris to- take his trial with the other
liberal editors of Norway who. are being
prosecuted by the King. The King: and
he are enemies since che day when the
poet challenged the King to mortal CON-
bat and was ,ontemptuously refused.
Olive Logan writes that Mrs. Victoria
Woodruff is married to John Randolph
Martin, q rich London banker, "and any
fine day You can see the pleased and
a1niable face of the now Mrs. Martin
side by side with her faithful sister,
Tennie G. Clafin, as they sit together
in their comfortable carriage and roll
toward theirsplendid residence in Court
field Gardens over the smooth avenues,
Of lovely Hyde Park"
When Senator Palmer, Of Michigan,
goes to New York and stops at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, he always carries loaf
I OF Graham bread in his satchel. Before
going to his meals he cuts couple OF
| slices from the loaf and puts them in
his pocket. At the table he pulls the
bread out, and has always something
| before him he can eat. In his house at
| Detroit he has q mill constructed on
| purpose to- grind this bread, and at
home he will never eat bread made
from -four ground at any other mill.
Talking once with General Sherman, >.
the Rev. James Freeman Clarke said:
"Oh, general, there is something's want
to ask you; something I ought to know"
"Well, what is it," inquired the gem
eral. II don't know" said the other;
Il can't think what it is, but am sure
there is something you know that ]
don't know, md I ought not to let So
! good an oppor tnnity Of asking it go by
unimproved." But it did 60 by:
It lis stated that the late, Charles
Reade has not left nsore than about
92O 900, the bulk of which goes to his
| godson, Mr.. Charles Liston. To his
brother the testator leaves the house
at Homheld villas, Shepherds bush,
and g30O q year; to his nephew, Major
l Reade, 81 900; to his niecas, $500 ach !;
to the Rev Compton Reade (the testa-
4 tors eldest nephew, yeag0; after the
death Of the testator's brother the an
1 nuity Of $500 year left to him reverts
to the Rev. Compton Reade and the
testators two nieces EGO per annu
each. ss.5., s55 Il L sss.s. ...g @Gr. 49,
Ruskin is sixty-five years old, but is
said, to act like q man Of forty-fve. He