Connecticut western news., 1891-08-06

voice honey sweet, and as low as summer winds breathing OCT the twilight sea.
 And when he left the Price mansion he had the satisfaction of knowing that he was Miss Lettys accepted lover.
 He plunged ruthlessly into more debt the very next morning to the amount of $s00, to buy a solitaire diamond ring to deck the fat forefnger of his affianced.
 'It will be a mere drop in the bucket" he said to himself, "when 1 come to handle her cash. hope the old gentle man means to place it entirely at her disposal, and I'll see to the rest"
 And Maj. Monthill contracted for pair of cream colored horses, yacht and a cottage at Newport for the sum- mer season, on the strength of his known engagement to old Zadoc Prices grand daughter.
 Just at this time-ife, we all know, is proverbially uncertain-Mr. Zadoc Price took it into his venerable head to have stroke of apoplexy, and depart this exist ence without the ceremonial of more than two days illness.
 "The most sensible thing the old fudge could possibly have done," thought his dutiful grandson-in-law elect. "Letty'n come into her fortune now without any difficulty, and I shall be made ind- vidual!''
 He stopped at hat store to get his hat draped in suitable mourning weed, and thought it very becoming. The third day after the funeral he called on Letitia
 Miss Price received him in her new black suit, her nose swelled with much weeping, and her eyeids as pink as If they had been painted all round with red lead pencil. ...
 "Dear Letty," murmured the major, his voice attuned to the tenderest sym pathy, ''do not mourn too deep1yl We must all die-and our departed friend had lived out the threescore and ten years allotted to mans life here below"
 "I know itp' sniffed Lefty, taking out her black bordered pocket handkerchief.
 "You are not bearing your grief all alone? he asked.
 "No; Cousin Bethuah Jenkins and her husband have been here for week." Lefty lugubriously answered.
 Maj. Monthin pricked up his ears. Cousin Bethuah Jenkins? He had not hitherto been aware that his Letitia had any relatives save her grandsire. How ever, the $200, 900 would we'll bear few reversionary legacies, and this Cousin Bethuah was doubtless an attached rela- tive whom it would be scarcely credita- ble for the old gentleman to omit entirely from his will.
 "The only thing that regret in this sudden and unlocked for dispensation of Providence, dearest Letty," went on our smooth tongued major, ''is that it makes an heiress of you-and believed that have before expressed to you my horror of the imputation of wedding rich wife,"
 Don't let that trouble you, Marmy, dearr' cried Lefty hysterically. ''I-I meant to have told you all about it be- fore, but somehow there never was real good opportunity"
 "Told me all about what, Letitia?" asked the major, in some surprise.
 "About my quarrel with grandpapa last month. He said you were fortune hunting miscreant-you dear Marma- duke!-and never should have a cent from him if I married you. And then l repeated to him the noble words you had spoken, and he said-grandpapa always had an inelegant way of expressing him. sef-'that he'd settle your hash for your And he called me fool, and we had an awful quarrel, and he made new will, and left all his money to Cousin Bethuah Jenkins; but I don't care, Marmy, darling, for I knew," cried the disinherited damsel, with fresh br rst of tears, "that you loved me for my self alone, and not for mere filthy lucrel" And so speaking, Lefty Price flung her 167 solid pounds of dumpy humanity fondly into the majors arms. Marmaduke Monthill felt like the man in the old tale who has sold his soul for forty pieces of gold, and finds the treas ure changed into dead leaves. He had got Lefty Price. but not Lefty Prices fortune.
 He went home, promising to call early the next morning. The next morning came, but not Maj. Monthill Miss Lefty Price is living, disap- pointed damsel, with her Cousin Bethuah, who is a good natured soul, and does not grudge the "bite and the sup" to the poor girl whom she really thinks has been used very ill both by her grand father and the major. As for the gallant Marmaduke, nobody knows what has be- come of him, not even his Jewish credi- tors, who would certainly be the ones to find out, if any one could. The diamond solitaire is not yet paid for, and some body else is living in the cottage at New l port this season.
 But, after all, it is only one more illus tration of the daily lesson we all read the mutabiity of human affairs.-Helen Forrest Graves in New York Weekly. Photographing Clouds. A good suggestion has been thrown out for the benefit of those who have not had much experience in making cloud