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The Springdale news., 1889-10-04
MIRIAM.
The Romance of Heatherleigh Hall.
By MANDA L. CRoCKER. COPYRIGHT, 1889.
CHAPTER III.


 The tall black chimneys stood out against the gray October sky like ghOstly silhou- cites, and the evening breeze swept around the lonely old structure when 1 arrived at the Hall. The heavy shadows were trailing over the neglected grounds and settling themselves in scores of uncanny hooks, and 1 shivered with nervous dread put my hand on the great brass knocker of the western wing-the servants quarterS-and waited for admittance
 Heatherleigh Hall stands desolated The building itself, a stupendous, roomy affair of red brick, with great festoons of the native English ivy wreathlng the dark gables and running over goodly portion of the front, relieving the frowning severity of the weather-beate and time-worn colonnade.
 Three great yew trees, black as the shades of death, hover over the extreme western wing, and 1 imagined the evils of the Hall concentrated their forces ill the heavy branches in the hours of sunshine, and stalked forth from their gloomy tops at night on their mission of terror.
 The railways are wide, deep and dark, and the ponderous doors of heavy oak changed ominously after me as l slipped from one apartment to another in awe of the mystery.
 Yes; l found there was a cruel legend connected with this once grand old place, which, for two centuries or more, sheltered beneath it's ample roof-tree the descend ants of the proud, hot-headed Pereiyal house. But, under the influence of an an- cestrai malediction, they had dwindled down and scattered abroad, leaving the old Hall with but few inmates, finally Sir Rupert and his daughter being the last le- gitlmate occupants.
 Sir Rupert, after the death of his wife, lived hero alone in the great house with his ir-fated daughter, keeping but few serv- ants out of the grand retinue of former years.
 The fewer there were about him the bet ter Sir Rupert was satisfied. As to being happy, or even halfway joyous, he was never after that stroke of sorrowful fort une known to be; for all pleasure went out into q blank solitude with the flight of Lady Percival's gentle spirit
 The merry makers and social visitors who, in Lady Percival's s time, thronged the hlth- erto convivial atmosphere of Heatherleigh, gradually dropped off after her demise, never again to enter the hall as welcome guests. Every thing changed at the Hall under the masters regime, until, i'll time, not a solitary visitor came to cheer or break tho silent monotony of its desolatlon.
 Sir Rupert was given to morose and mel. ancholy days, and it was no wonder, under his spell, and grew to be an inhospitable old gentleman who in his seycntieth year, had come to even dislike a merry face.
 Miriam had but few assoeIates or visit ors that she dared entertain at the Hall on this account; and under the influence of such distasteful solitude she grew taciturn
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and her husband, who were still occupying the servants quarters, as 1 had rightly heard It was in accordance with Sir Ru- pert's wishes that this faithful couple still kept their rooms n the west wing, and oc- casionally showed curious visitors over the main building. In the absence of visitants the Hall was kept locked, and the supersti- tious old pair never intruded on it's dismal silence alone.
 These two old servants, I soon found, were very much devoted to the memory of their dead mistress and the long lost daughter. When l heard their lamenta- tions for the young mistress" and beheld their tears, was tempted to disclose her whereabouts to the sorrowing twain, but on reflection 1 remembered she would never return as they desired, nor hold converse with any one within the environs of her birth place, and as she was virtually dead to them might as well hold my peace. But when the conversation turned on Sir Rupert they had but little to offer in his be- half; although their tones were respectful enough, could see they had not forgiven him for the merciless doings of an unnatural father.
 ''You must show me the hall and tell me the story" 1 said, as we sat around the x chimney that filled up nearly one whole end of the apartment. This room was so cheer full and pleasant in the glamour of the fire light, as looked about me and enjoyed it's cozness, that I could not clearly connect it's genial air with the huge, shadowy pile l had viewed with such distrust from the outside somehow it seemed impossible and 1 said as much to my entertainers.
 'Oh! indade, an it's your own swate self that knows nothing about this ghostly ould place; no, nothing at all.'
 Peggy turned her chair around quickly and faced me with this exclamatory burst of Hibernian elocution because had vent ured, presume, to throw a shadow of doubt on the superstitious stories rife about Heatherlelgh.
 Facing me, she looked as much like gen uine ghost as l ever care to see, in her broad, white, ruf1ied cap and snowy van dyke, illumined, so to speak, by the keen light of her wide-open blue eyes.
 "No, perhaps not, 1 acquiesced, but you must take me over the hall, tell me of the spiritual visitors, and then 1 may under. stand 1t better.'
 That 0i will, me Leddy, in the daytome. whln tAe spirits rest an' there be no fears ov botherin' yes Oill show you the gloomy ould apartments.n
 Spirits never bother me- 1 answered, bravely. But my courageous and daring sentence did not fall on Peggy,s ears very kindly, 1 found, for she grew excited at
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MENTAL ALERTNESS.
Why It Is the Hardest Part of Any Ones
 Business.


 There are different ways of being busy, and the busiest way of all is that which often looks least like business. ltis sometimes derisively said that one is .busy doing nothing" But doing nothing may mean one thing to one kind of worker, and another thing to another kind "'Your work is only lleadwork, said the college white washer to the college professor quite contemptuous!y. The locomotive en- ginecr on the lookout of the fast ex- press, with his hand on the throttle, may seem to the purely physical labor CT, or to the purely intellectual toiler, to be ''busy doing nothing" He calls no muscle into action, he involves no abstract thought, no philosophy, no science. He appears to be enjoying the view from his cab-window just about as idly and complacently as does the recreating tourist behind him, whose very life is committed to the in- active hands of that engineer. The engineer to all appearance is 'busy doing nothing.o But the difference is that the tourist-passenger is inert, while the engineer is alert And this unbroken alertness, this sense of q tremendous responsibility unified for one moment, is the busiest of all ways of being busy. Every muscle is ready, every nerve is tense. The whole man, physical, mental, moral, is exhaustingiy engaged albeit the whole man may oatwardly seem to be doing nothing" The hardest part of any ones business is that part of it which lives and dies within himself. The unceasing. un- broken alertness, the ever-conscious re- sponsibility for right action at the right time. is the busiest of all businesses, the first business of every business-of every life.-S. $. Times.
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RESURGAM.
"Ishail erise." For centuries

"I hall erise.n For centuries
 Upon the gray old churchyard stone These words have stood: no more is said. The glorious promise stands alone, Untouched, while years and seasons roll Around it; March winds come and go, The summer twilghts fall and fade
 And autumn sunsets burn and glow. "I shall ariser' O. wavering heart,
 From this take comfort and be strongl "I shall arise;'' nor always grope
 In darkness, mingllng right with wrong; From tears and pain, from shades of doubt, And wants within, that blindly call "I shall arise," in Gods own light
 Shall see the sum and truth Of ali. Like children here we lisp and grope,
 And, till the perfect manhood, wait At home our time, and only dream
 or that which lies beyond the gate; Gods full free universe of life,
 No shadowy paradise Of bliss, No realm of unsubstantIal souls,
 But life, more real life than this. o soul where CT your ward is kept,
 In some stll region calmly blest, By quiet watch-fires till the dawn,
 And God reveille break your rest. o soul! that left this record here,
 read, but scarce can read for tears, Ibless you, reach and clasp your hand, For all these long two hundred years. "I shall arise" o clarion call
 Time rolling onward to the end Brings us to life that can not die,
 The life where faith and knowledge blend Each after each, the cycles roll
 In silence, and about us here The shadow of tho great White Throne Falls broader, deeper, year by year George E. Jackson, Tn Philadelphia Ledger.
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Animals That See Behind Them.

Nature has enabled some animals to See objects behind them as we'll as in front without turning around. The hare has this power in marked degree It's eyes are large, prominent and placed laterally. Its power of seeing things in the rear is very noticeable in gray hound coursing, for though this dog is mute while running, the hare is able to judge to a nicety the exact moment at which it will be best for it to double. Horses are another instance It is only necessary to watch horse driven in- variably without blinkers to notice this. Let the driver even attempt to take the whip in hand, and if the horse is used to the work he will at once increase his pace. The giraffe. which is very timid animal, is approached with the utmost difficulty, on account of its eyes being so placed that it can see as we'll behind as in front. When approached this same faculty enables it to direct with great precision the rapid storm of kicks with which it defends itself.- Science
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once. Hitehing her chair closer to mine, and putting her shaky hand on my arm in 1 solemn warning, she broke forth:
 "Me Leddy, am it's yerself that'll pay for yer wild spaches this noight in this awful place. An yes nlver lived at Haythurleigh naythur; an niver hearn O the masthur walkin' an walkin' all the long, ghostly noight until the cock-erowin'. No, yes niyer hearn tell O the loikes O thatn "Howly mother"' she began again, let ting go my arm and dropping into an atti- tude of resignation, ian the masthur was terrible man, an outen his head for the most part O the time long to ard the last. An to this day, me Leddy, his ristliss spirit be a rovin' through the great rooms, and repintin uy of his thratement uv the proud hearted childer Oh save us, a-worryin' and repintin' yet. ,
 After this burst of the determined old | housekecper l gave in and let her have her own way on the spirit question. 1 saw at once that it pleased the two old servants exceedingly to think that Peggy had con verted me to their belief in spiritual mani festations, so l consented by my silence and let them believe as they chose They little imagined l might be convinced against my will. was not permitted 10 enter the main building that night, of course not. The masthur moight be a-wall1in'," Peggy explained, with drawn brow and confiden- tal t0ne
 Il should suppose that you would not dare ve here at all if Sir Rupert is so restless. Are you not afraidl' l said when l found was refused an evening glimpse into the hall proper.
 "Oeh, no,n exclaimed Peggy; we niver bother with his part O the establishment, an he's too much ov a gintleman to inter the servants dingy rooms.'
 laughed at her view of the matter and began to suspect that there was no spirit about Heatherleigh that wandered at night and dubbed by the inmates Sir Rupert.
 My room was made ready for me in the wing and adjoining that of the old couple, for which l felt thankful After such d vivid recouutal as l had heard that even ing, 1 felt 1t a privilege to be near fellow mortal in the midnight watches After re- tiring, l found that my nerves were all un- strung and l could scarcely close my eyes. Sleep l could not.
 Tick tock, tick-tock, went the great brass clock in Peggy's room, and every vibration echoed in my weary head. faneied could hear the tread of ghostly feet on the roof overhead, and felt certain that the tireless feet of Sir Rupert had stepped down and out of the deathly skalows of the dark, danl1 yews and were now on the repintin' promenade.
 Alas! if 1 had but known just what 1 was fated to experience under the Heatherleigh gables should have died of fright before another day had dawned!
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JEWELRY NOVELTIES,
Unique Articles for Personal Adornmen
 and ParIor Decoration.

Unique Articles for Personal Adornmenr
 and Psrlor Decoration.
 Included in the variety of hairpin headings is diamond and ruby edel- weiss.
 A novel idea in decorative table ware is acut-glass bon-bon dish shaped as pear.
 An attractive little triile worth notic- ing is matchbox formed wholly od heavy silver wire interwoven.
 Chased gold crescents, adorned with enameled forget-me-nots, are another species of that favorite brooch design.
 Individual peppers are now on the market, fashioned as miniature cream pitchers, with closed and perforated tops.
 e The range for fancy quarter-clasps is again assuming extraordinary pro- portions Pathological heads in TO- lief are the latest craze.
 White enamel daisies, with gold hearts strung on slender gold wire, a diamond star occupying the center, is bracelet of recent origin.
 A brooch has been introduced that represents horizontal bar of gold with opal ends, on which is seated an acrobat in suit of varicolored enamel.
 Across a white enameled imitation pad in gold mount rests tiny gold pencil, forming together an appropri- ate scarf-pin for penny-a-liners.
 Though so many silver toothpick stands have of late been introduced the newest creation in this direction, miniature anvil, hollowed out, is the quaintest.
 Hairpin tops, or rather the larger portion of them, are detachable, thus enabling their possessors to utilize them either for brooches or pendants.
 Figuring among the newest creations in queen china pendants is fac-simile in a gold harp The entire frame is set closely with torquoises and pearls alternating.
 A huge silver urn, etched with scenes of bacchanalian reyelry and and supported by four elephant heads, is presentation loving cup displayed for the public's editication.
 An uptown retailer has exposed in his window silver flask inlaid with red gold and green leaves. The work is so perfect as to create an impression that it is produced by closely woven gold wires.
 A new device that is likely to make name is long silver vessel wherein are half dozen spools of cotton. Each one is threaded through with blue silk ribbon, fashioned at each end into d small bow. On these ribbons the spools reyolve.
 Something very unique in photo frames consists of polished mahogany posts holding between them a mother of pearl gate with gold latch. ..Please shut the gate,' in raised gold letters above the doorway, gives addi- tional effect to the design.-Jewelers' Review.
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VERY ANCIENT JEWELS.
Rich Discovery of Gold Ornaments in an
 Old Italian Tomb.

From the province of Grosseto, Italy, comes news of rich discovery of gold ornaments at Fetulonia, in one of the circle-tombs peculiar to the metropolis of that place (so called because sur rounded by rude stone circle, in con- tradistinction to the still earlier we'll tombs found at the burial-places of the other cities of the Etruscan confedera- tion), and dating from the seventh century, B. c.
 Between two layers of corkwood, be- ing all that remained of coffin. were found four bracelets of gold band, ex- quisitely worked in filigree; three brooches of gold; an amber necklace, consisting of nude figures of women and of Egyptian dog-headed animals crouching; two chain necklaces in bronze, several amber brooches; others of bronze and iron; 6 very original ear ring in bronze; and many fragments of bronze vessels, and batch of twenty seven double-faeed cylinders in earthen- ware, with vases of fine red clay.
 Among the stones with which the trench was filled were found two bronze bits for horses, ornamented with a human figure of very primitive design; four bronze rings for traces. and two bells belonging to the trappings-all things appertaining to the btga, and not commonly found in tomb where female ornaments abound. Within one of the bracelets some human teeth were found, though there were no remains of the burnt bones of a corpse in the tomb Jewellers Weekly.
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A Poetic Ianpuaye.

The language of the Films is peculiarly adapted to poetic form The Hexbilitv of it's construction, the variety and pict- uresqueness of it's expressions, the album dance and originality of it's figures, all tend to made it the fit vehicle of that poetic in splratlon which the Finn receives from his environment-the long, dark stretches of birch and pine forest wreathcd with gar lands and ffngcs of lichens, which in this northern climate are particularly beautiful and whose somber shadows form telling background for the leaping cascades and waterfalls, clad in their white mantle of fo2m.
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CHAPTER ".

The next morning, however, my latent courage came forward, and in the smile of day laughed at my trepidation of the pre- vious night. Of course l prevaricated to some extent to Peggy, by replying in the affirmative when she asked me if 1 rested well.
 After our late breakfast she conducted me through the silent, shadowy railways, up the dark, lonely stair.cases, through the hoilow-echoing corridors, and into the most important apartments of the hall.
 The rooms were just as Sir Rupert left them, the housekeeper said, with the excep- tion, of course, of growing old from neglect and the accumulation of dust which was running the silken curtains, damask hang ] ings and once hrighthued carpets "It is
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TIE British Consul at Havrc sags thatthe complaints of British shipmasters against the British tars are constant. He has hoard captains say frequently: "Giye me Nor Wegians, Swedcs or Germans, uHtno En- glish sailors for me- They have their old. time ability as seamen, butare ailn1er and insubordinatc.
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''The gallery nixt," murmured Clarksen' locking the door of the drawing-room be- hind us. 'Oi don't moind the gallery, ma am, though it's histhory is forninst the whole of Haythurleigh in it's theribleness. ;"
 made no reply. l was coming closer to the object of my visit, the portrait of Mir jam, and my promise to be fulfilled.
Telegram-herald., 1889-07-09

used to sail and row along the shores
of Lake Ere, gather pond lilies III
some of the little bays of the lake or
fish or bathe by the hour in Erle's cool
waters. This afternoon visited a beau
tful spot that WAS similar to the white
sands and high bluffs Of that part of
Lake Erie of which / speak, and must
confess | am somewhat Lonesome. Lone
some because the days past events
have stirred up those gone by, lone
some, because | am forced to while
away few hours tonight in a aquaint
looking and quiet little country town,
after just seeing a place similar TO the
surroundings of my old ONO home. a
newspaper correspondent life is not
always one filled with enjoyment, and
If there is one thing he dctests 1t Is to
stay in place where, atnight, there IS
not even the slightest scmblance of
amusement of any description. ! am
in Holland, located ON the c. q W ".
Il. l.. Nearly 1000 people live IN this
town. and though with the shades
OF night itapparontly falls into a sleepy
siupor, It cannot Ice denied that at day
time the place is n hustling, thriving,
little city. have devoted the day 10
Black Lake and It's resorts, and tonight
am trying % collect my thoughts 80
that | can give q rather bret descrp-
ton oi what saw. Ii Is diihcult.
though, because am having heated
battle with Holland mosquitoes.
Oae OF the prcttest little
spots that VIII hc found ON Lake Mich
igan's shores is the strip of land bOr-
dered ON oue side .y that lake and on
the other bv Black Lake, and owned by
the Macatawa Park Company. How
Natures hand can carve out such en-
tcrtainng spots for God children 10
while away the summer months IN IS
hard to tell, bat It rsaliy docs seem
tnat those of us that arc fortunate
must not suffer during the heated
term. because GOd ha given us natural
resorts within easy reaching q distance ct
the Citv- This il tDo case I'D almost
every State in the Union, and the cty
that has not a resort &c some dcscTIp-
ton 81 easy access IS indeed uutoFfu-
nate Macaiawa Park has al tae aa-
vantages ct a summer resort. g. hss
it, surf on broad Lake Michigan
shore. It has Is u.a-u-fcfnt iaflirz
beach lofty nils covered win fore sts
forming SCENERY that 81 ludrfd
hra,-t-f1l. lt has It's f-hina
fae fites. row.u- ard sailing outfits aHd
other suerfs. has ilrsi-riass notoi ae
...-...s - .7. t.f.fs fr.e fftt1UF1- and f~
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Has taken Office room iD the -. Denis. first
stairway on Monroe-St west of Spring 81
The doctor has opened his new sanitafium ~
Uakdale Park. corner of Hall and tast SIS.
supplies all The necessities and All The comforts
fer the s.ca aud feeble aud those in need of
surgical operations af any description. Dis
easps carefully studied. Proper diet, baths,
electricity. massage aud train a nurses sup
piled AZ "A very moderate cost. Address n.
Neenhoer 4 NJ. VI. u. 10 Nonrot-ei. Gran 4
Rapids Mich Graduate Of the Physio. Medi
cal College Of Indiana. since lsl1. Lecturer OF
Hygiene At the above college since ls-1. Ap-
pointed Professor Of Materia Nedica IN the
Florida University iu lssL. Post Graduate 81
the Pulycliuic of New York since I.>i y here
surgery Diseases 81 Women. Diseases ~ Chi
dren and Urinary ANALYSIS in all chronic as
cases n ave been studied As spccialties.
Also offers for sale or 70 exchange lots,
houses and lots and farms cheap. his home.
g. Bosfwick St - for sale or for rent.
o nee hours. e. 20 a. m, - m. o. .. m. and
6to =. m. Telephone 10
Telephone connections for residence and
saniiarium Will be ready next week.
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ments is demonstrated 10y the larg
number oi friends I has among seeker
Of a pleasure resort. I'm past seasons II
was apparent that the one great OBJECT
of the landlord was to- make ms guests
comfortable and feel ut home. 1t was
not u difficult thing to do though
for the weary Traveller after arriving mt
the hotel would soon bc 30 absorbed ID
the picturesque scenery surrounding
him that be would forget all about any
shortcomings if there were any. Stand
ng on the walk leading 60 the boat
landing, and looking west, a most mag
niiiccnt panorama LAYS bef0rcth visitor.
To the right are seen huge hlils oi
sand, drift probably OF centuries
standing. The slopes and summlis are
literally covered with dense woods.
The left Is similar, only aiiordng more
beautiful scenery. The hills seem 70
slope down into a large ravlne, IN
which Macatawa Park ls located. The
colony lays before you, and IN the
background IS to be seen the dark
green water Of Lake Michigan. Along
rs shores where the park = situated
j. probably the finest bathing beach 10
bc found anywhere, and II T. unnccos-
sary 10 say Il Is appreciated hy every
one. such IS only a partial description
OF the scenery surrounding the Ma
catawa Hotel The hotel ever since It's
opening was managed 10y MIR. Ryder,
the proprietor. 1t was through hls
earnest work that Il came to- the front,
and IL seemed that just as he got to the
zenith of his glory IN the
hotel business, God summoned
hlm to the beyond. IL VIII be rcmem-
hcrcd hy his many friends that the gen
tlcman dicd last winter. The man
agcmcmt OF the hotel has fallen upon
the shoulders 81 Mr. Riley, the clerk,
and that hc is the right man ID the
night place none VIII dispute, a. be has
started out under the most favorable
auspices. Tho hotel Is comfortable
place 80 rest in the rooms are fur
uishcd nicely, and nothing Is found
wanting that usually seen IN a sum
mcr resort hotel. The table board Is q