The Springdale news., 1889-11-01

cherishes dn ideal of womanhood which tle tends and honors with chival- rOuS devotion Does he perhaps fear onat contact with society may shatter this idealp Certain it is that once in bygone years. when Alicia, carried away by excitement, had been indulg- ing in noisy repartee, he had been overheard to mutter to himself: "I canna bide to hear the lassie dafiin."
 And now on this blazing July after noon, when the air is heavy with the scent of new-mown hay, Bingo is dis covered conversing with Fife Vivian, whose golden hair and orphaned con dition appeal so strongly to his eyes and heart, that, forgetful of time or place he lays himself open to the raillery of Fanny and Joe Chat night the two small culprits repent their in- discretion in the solitary banishment to which they are sent at an hour while the sun is still bright in the sky). For days after this interview Bingo goes about his work in a blissful dream, and Alicia captures stray page from his pocket book, on which are penciled the words lem on the old sty," words which her quick fancy construe into "Poem on the Old Stile,a until, on turning the page. she reads "sell the three black Berkshires, when she unwillingly comes to the conclusion that the mutilated words are. '.Mem. on the old sty;' whereupon in a fit of disgust she pronounees her brother to be utterly uninteresting and heartless.
 Miss Vivian's aunt, Mrs Maitland, remains apparently blind to the con stant meetings in meadow and glen and pursue8 her daily round of self-praise and f-glorifcation with vigor and energy that cause her to be the mingled terror and delight of all the young people in the neighborhood, while Biago lives in fairyland-and Miss 1 Vivian?
 Miss Vivian is shy and sweet and seventeen. King Midas touched her hair when she was born, and turned it's luxuriant wealth to burnished gold, and the Elf of the roses famed her cheeks as she slept, until the snowy surface blushed. Very dainty and sweet she looks in her white dress with its black and white ribbons, and with the great bunch of white roses at her throat. Very dainty and demure, very fair and bright aud girlish but, ah. Bingo! Bingo! are your eyes blinded by the intensity of your love that you fail to miss one charm of budding woman hood ?-that you fail to note that to 1 Etfie's cheek comes neither paleness nor color when you address her? She is sweet, Bingo, and very gentle; but her sweetness is not to be your portion. Many miles away there is a certain Prussian officer who won the girls 1 heart while she was still at school in Germany, and if Fife were not such a pitiful little coward she would tell you quietly one day, i'll her hatf-frightened tone, that that Iong-legged Uhlan' s 1 photograph is stitched inside her dress and worn there from morn till night l But Fife is q rare coward, and like all such, she temporizes. She draws out the photograph at night when she is alone and talks to it and cries over it, tells it with piteous quiver of her un- derlip that she is so, so unhappy, and oh, why does he not come here at once and tell her for the hundredth time that he loves Ter? She is sure that if only he gets chance of tac.lling Aunt Maitland, that lady will be worsted, and will flee away before the all-con- quering invader.
 Il can not tell Mr. Bingo." she con- fesses to the photograph with many sob5 He is SD nice, but if tell him about you, Wolfrath, he will go away, and will never walk again in the meadow with me. And then Aunt Maitland will find out at once that 1 have sent him away. Oh! Wolfrath dear, she would be so dreadfull She has never seen you, so she can not be- lieve how noble and perfect you are you always admired me, always and so she says that she will never let me marry a foreigner. She drags me about with her from place to place, and she says that if ever mention your name again to her she will make me marry that horrid Mir. Trelawney, whom 1 can not endure. She has left me in peace the last month because she thinks that Mr. Bingo likes mo. And l do feel so unhappy apout it all. Wolfrath. come to me, do come to me-
 This is all very well, Miss Fife! All the world knows that when two young people determine that in spite of all opposition they will marry each other, they are sure to obtain their hearts desire. Therefore, in spite of all your present woes, say that is all very well for you, and also for the long-legged Uhlan, though at this moment he is existing in d state of deepest gloom because he can not obtain foreign leave.
 But how about Bingo? Has he not I-H. L I