Annapolis Evening Capital Newspaper Archives
June 07, 1884 Page 3

Annapolis Evening Capital (Newspaper) - June 7, 1884, Annapolis, Maryland Fame. Jhn Tif and by Al Hiu Friendship sought with i Alth and a famous a a in tin Pri Daof i h Art rethought he Wool 1 have undying Fatna proudly he Nurod the thought at he died and the funeral Over a Little month had Hardy passed. And his Nauvie was head no to Owen Joice what my love forgave. I was Young Strong Rich and engaged to the Man i loved with All my soul and yet i was so miserable in those Days that even now the old sick Desper ate feeling comes Over me for an instant As i look Back u on them Only for an instant think god borne Home n Are so Happy natured that where they love they give Faith a Solute and a shadowed which Only sternest proof can shake and when con Vinced of its unworthiness can withdraw the love with the Faith and after a Little go on their Way rejoicing thit they have been a deceived while it was yet time to escape. 1 am not such a woman. All my life i have loved few people but of those few i have been jealous with a ten Der and passionate jealousy in proportion As i loved them. As a child i was j punished and reasoned with Al out it As a girl i was half pitied half teased by those we guessed the weakness of which j i had grown terribly ashamed. I think the evil originated or Drew its chief bit j Ter Ness from my being left an orphan heiress in my Babyhood and having had it taught me As one of my earliest lessons by a Well meaning but sadly mistaken aunt that u great Deal of the Praise and caresses i seemed to win so easily were and always would be due to my Fortune. Jealous As i knew myself to be i had not the faintest Conception of my capacity for it until i loved Max Erroll. I loved Max from the first time i saw him. He knew it too for my wooing was a very Brief one and he took Possession of me when we were engaged with a Gay and tender masterful Ness which con j Vinced me that lie was sure of my love before he Hsk d for it. Never were two j people More utterly unlike than he and j i not in appearance for there was a certain general resemblance in height and colouring Between us which it was one of my foolish Happ Nesses to hear j people remark but in every trait of temper and character he Light hearted Frank sunny tempered liking the pleas ant things of this life and with an impartial admiration for everything Beautiful from a Tine Sunset to a pretty woman yet with a Force of Pride and determination underlying this surface easiness i jealous reserved and passionate to. Whom life was a serious business interested Only in what concerned myself and those i loved. Perhaps it was i natural that our love making should lie 1 Stormy from the first but it seemed very terrible to me and worried him More j than his Pride would allow him to admit j and so left me the belief that quarrels which made me wretched until we had forgiven each other were the Meriest Grilies to him. We had first known each other in Switzerland in the sum Mer anti we were a tending the Winter in Paris where my aunt and i occupied a pretty Little ent Resol in the champs Elysee and where Max and i were to he marred in the Spring before returning to America. We went out a great Deal for it was one of the last win ters of the Empire and very Gay. This Gayety was one of the first sources of my troubles for Max enjoyed himself so Evi Dently at dinners anti balls when i spa much More bored than amused though to Plouse him 1 tried to like them and owing to my heiress ship i used to Tell myself bitterly was quite enough and mired to make me feel that if i were Max i should be uncomfortable but he Only i laughed when l hinted As much to him j smoothed my hair lightly with his Strong White hand and told me that i was a vain Little child who could not shake his Faith in me try As hard As i might and i pulled Down that dear hand and kissed it thinking How much nobler was his Trust than my jealousy and so was Happy until when he had gone my a i Miliar Demon Tome that it was easy not to he about the safety of j a treasure whose loss would bring no in curable regret. Now Max knew of my jealousy of the slightest admiration which he showed for other women and he treated it As a silliness Vav Hin if he yielded to it might i Darken our future lives. So after telling me that he could Only love one woman 5 and that he had Given me the Best Sofij proofs who that woman was he would con Tim his Gay and pleasant friendships 1 with whoever among our acquaintances was prettiest and wittiest. He never guess is the real Root of my misery for some instinct told me that unless 1 did indeed wish to end everything Between us he must never know How often i believed that he had wooed me for my for tune and not my love. Soon after Christmas there arrived in pans a mrs. Wharton about whom every one was j raving As the most Beautiful woman who had dazzled our american Colony for Many a Day. She was a widow Young and wealthy and it was of her Max had i told me months before that in his col lege Days she had been his first love a hopeless love he had said laughing for i she was even then engaged to or. It har Jon. But that Max could love any woman without Hope seemed impossible j to me and 1 tortured myself with half a dozen stories of romantic troubles by j which i imagined they might Haw been i separated Only to meet now with the embers of a dead love still in their hearts ready to be re kindled and from the evening when i saw mrs. Wharton is Radiant smile at Maxis greeting i never knew an hour s piece of mind. Tie balls and dither grew 6,1most unendurable when i saw those two so much together and i would go Home to a sleepless night which would leave me Pale and Haggard to lament to myself ail the morning that what Little i possessed was leaving me now just when i most needed it and j when Max came As he always did in the i afternoon Between headache and heart ache i was either so Dull or so irritably j reproachful that we Seldom parted pleas Antly. Of course there were times when j everything went Well and i would Tell myself that i could never be miserable again but As soon As he had left me the doubts would return like a legion of devils. Oddly enough i w t to had hitherto been Only too Frank about my jealousies could not bring myself to utter mrs. Wharton is name to him for i dreaded with abroad worse than any Susji Ense to read the truth of my suspicions in his eyes. Buch a state of mind however could not endure Ldhl with a girl of my disposition without a crisis and one Day in february my self control came to an end. Max had for the first time missed com ing the afternoon before and my aunt being ill v had been obliged to remain at Home in the evening so that i had not seen him for two Days. It was a Brilliant afternoon and i can see when i shut my eyes just How the Sun shone through the Muslin curtains on the Hya cintes which filled the Jardiniere in our windows and i never hear the shrill Sweet singing of a Canary that i Ido not remember How the voice of aunt Katess Bird rang in my ears All through those miserable hours. I was walking up and Down the Little Salon for sitting still would have been impossible in my Susie use when i heard his cheery voice in the Hall sea Kim to the servant who took his overcoat. He entered drawing off his gloves and looking of so handsome and so Good Burely surely if he were false no traitor had Over looked so True since Geifer Xmas an Angel Are you not glad to see me i feel As if i had been away a week he said gayly. Then As i made no answer but stood with my Back to him looking at the fire he came close to me and Drew to to him. Is my foolish child angry with me again he said softly bending his head to look in my averted face. I loved him so dearly that at the Caress of his touch tie tender tone in his voice i Felt my anger going my suspicions fading just As they had so Many times before. Or a Why did not you come yesterday i have been so miserable 1 i murmured but my head rested on his a Pounder and the Happy tears rushed to my eyes Witolf a blessed sense of peace and safety Yir did not you get my note Pootz Tuple thing that was too bad i Why you did not get it. If fort is mrs. Wharton was me to i help her about . I meant to you of r a few minutes before Dan but Safe kept me until it was too and i enacted you at the night. J aun Kati if ill i answered mechanically but had withdrawn from his Arm looking kit the fire again. A neuralgia was it mrs. Wharton said had better ilk of mrs. What top i said my voiced Embling in spite Jeff myself for i Cou feel that he wast Jokim keenly at me. Enough i did not Speet he he said at list Pery old la it is Folly of wire ceased. These explanation Flower me in i. Bui Vett feel no degradation in forc ing me a them 1 him passionately you care pitching for what i Fuff Ifer before i can Brj jul myself to i this. R \ what in you mean we had of mrs. he demanded without not ii not outburst. I gleam that for Pierot Tjio months my life Hardeep tirade a Iris Ryno me by seeing you with he. Ask any Ope who knows us if it Ikaku uprising that i should Dean and of you you mean by such Devil i who ought to Mirner you wittier and More Brilliant thaa a woman ten years your elder and apes toted to hold her own in society before you had your first governess love is Blind but not quite so Blind As that you baby and Max laughed teasingly and tried to Pul my i. Mils Down from my face but i had been too wildly miserable these two last Days to be pacified like a spoiled with even a Promise of the future. Love i cried bitterly wrenching myself from his hands. How can i be Lieve you love me because you Are to be my wife Evelyn he said with sudden Gravity. But 1 had lost All control of myself. What has that to do with it when you neglect me so do Wou suppose Ido not remember that my Fortune May be a better reason than love for marrying Mere a the room seemed to swim about me in the silence which followed and i knew before he spoke that i had lost my cause. This then is the reason for All your taunts and reproaches Yew pretend to love me and can believe me capable of the Forrest hypocrisy to which a Dan can stoop. I have reached the end of my endurance. His voice was very hard and his eyes met mine with a look which i told my breaking heart was contempt. He took up his gloves from the table and walk Ltd to the door. I am going he said la that Stamige voice. We Are neither of us fit to talk calmly now. What comes next will be for you to decide but if this be the end your temper and no fickleness of mine is the cause. Then the door closed behind him and i was alone. How i passed the remainder of that Day and the night and Day which Fol Lowed has always been a very chaotic remembrance to me for Between my Long j ing to Send for Max and beg his forgive Ness and the jealousy which would not permit me to so Humble myself i was almost in sane. Aunt Kate was confined to her room so that when the second evening came and i had promised to take part in some Tableaux at the House of an old Friend there was no one to notice my i wretchedness and oppose my going. Asj i was to appear in Only one tableau i dressed at Home and was dimly conscious i that i had never been so nearly Beautiful in my life As i was in the Black velvet dress puffed tulle sleeves High Ruff and Pearl bordered Cap of Mary Stuart. Excitement had Given me a color and my Blue eyes were burning and Black. I though with a bitter sigh As i turned i from the Glass How unlike i was to thei Lily which had been Max s favorite j name for me. Mrs. Butler our hostess met me and we entered the Library which was to be our greenroom to Gether. Ail who took part in the table ans were assembled and i knew Max could not fail to be there As he had several roles assigned to him. Between Hope and fear i shivered from head to foot. Would he come to me As he Al ways did and with a word or a touch make me feel that or e belonged to each other or would he my Hopes and fears came to a sudden end As i saw mrs. Wharton looking wonderfully Lovely As Max leaning Over her chair so absorbed in what she was saying he did not even look up when we passed. People came to me and talked and i suppose i must have talked too and said what was Cor rect to say. For no one seemed to notice anything unusual about me the Tableaux began and still Max and mrs. Wharton talked earnestly and in my agonized watching i could see that people would look at them and then at me As if they wondered How i fancied such a monopoly of my Fiance. Once As he passed me i muttered Max and he paused an instant to say in a Low voice and without looking at me this is no place to say what we must to each other and passed on be fore i could speak. My tableau went off very Well and people i believe praised it and then some girl asked me to help her in changing her dress. I was in one of the dressing rooms i mechanically doing what she asked me when some one called from the next room miss Wynne is that Yon please come Here just one instant. It was mrs. Wharton is voice and sent a thrill of intense repulsion through every nerve but % obeyed. She was standing by the dressing table the Light of a dozen cantos falling brilliantly upon her and Eveirl in my deadly hate confessed to myself her wonderful Beauty. She was dressed As an Angel in Clouds of tulle her Golden below her Waist and wings of Swan Down taller than she fastened to her Lovely White shoulder. Wil Nwosu see if these wings Are right dear miser Lynne she said turning her Back to to dressing table so that the full Light of the candles should fall upon the wings Shile i tried their clasps. Then it was that hatred and despair i took Possession of my soul and made me l mad. The candles were so close to her Golden hair mid Fleecy wings this Beau i Tifful who had stolen my Lover 8 heart from me just a Little nearer and then a flame More yellow than her hair hot up above her Fead and with a wild shriek she. Yaliz what her wings were thank god 1 thank god my ser Escame Back to me then As with the is length of ten in my i desperate grasp i flip cig her on the floor and with my heavy a covet dress Smoth ered the flames which had caught at her tulle draperies while Tore off the Burn ing wings and managed to throw them far from us just Ash cries had brought a crowd of horrified men and women into. The room. Then through a Mist of smoke and pain i suddenly saw Max s j face above me heard Otiis voice passionately repeating my my Dar Ling and with a last agonized wonder did he mean me or the woman i had so nearly murdered i fainted for the first i time in my life. I it was not until two Days later that i was conscious enough of anything but a bewildered sense of pain for aunt Kate and mrs. Butler to Tell me the result of the Accident As every one supposed it to be. Mrs. Wharton had escaped As if by i a Miracle Only her hair was burned quite Short. My velvet dress had saved both j our lives but the puffed tulle sleeves had 1 burned on my arms while i was tearing off her wings and they would be pain Ful for weeks perhaps scarred for life. How i thanked god with passionate tears which frightened my nurses for the mercy which had made All the suf Fering for my sin fall upon me those j blessed tears which were the Only utter Ance i dared give to the thanksgiving j which will underlie every thought so Long As i live and which then made me j forget even Max until aunt elate in her desire to soothe me spoke of his grief and anxiety. Then i heard that it had been almost impossible to persuade him to leave mrs. Butlers House where i j still was even to sleep and that he would scarcely speak to mrs. Wharton 1 whom he seemed to regard with aversion As the cause of my injuries. Then in i deed my feats ceased and except that i shrank and shuddered with bitter self -1 contempt when aunt Kate would Tell Mej of the Universal admiration for my hero i ism and interest in my health i was j gentler and More submissive hum i Hadi Ever been in my life. Had i not reason to submit to any thing whatever might come to me of misery had i not More than deserved it i gave myself no Hope for the future for even if this appearance of love on Maxis part were real and not remorse which i believed it to be i had that to Tell him which would destroy the deepest love Man Ever Felt for woman. Not even to keep the Only happiness which could Ever make life precious to me could i keep my terrible secret from him. So i Lay and waited very quietly my nurses said until the doctors would let me set Jax very quietly for despair is never loud and Only those who still Hope make clamor Over their grief. The morning came at last when i was to see him and i dressed in a White wrapper with a Blue shawl Over my bandaged arms was lying on a sofa in the Little Salon next my bedroom when mrs. Butler entered with an exquisite bouquet. Evelyn dear mrs. Wharton sends you this with her love and wants to see you As she is going to Home this even ing. I can not i can not it would kill me i cried turning my hot Facea inst the sofa with a Wim feeling that 1 must never dare see this woman whom i still hated for her gratitude would Force the horrible truth from me and for aunt Katess Sake As Well As my own no one but Max must Ever know How nearly i had been a murderess. To mrs. Butler afraid of bringing Back my fever yielded and sent mrs. Wharton away while aunt Kate having settled my Blue shawl More picturesquely Over my White wrapper kissed me and room saying i shall Send or. Erroll to you he will do you More Good than we doctors and All. Will he i said to myself with a shiver and Lay waiting in such calmness As one under sentence of death might wait for the coming of the executioner Only that no death could Ever be so Terri ble to meet As the horror and aversion i must read in my lovers face when i had Tell him All. When the door opened and i knew that he was there my heart beat so loudly that i could not hear his step but even my dizzy eyes could see the passion of pity and tenderness which kept him wordless As he Bent Over me. Maxi Max i cried you do love me after All love you my Darling How could you Ever doubt it i was a brute that night but you had Hurt me so the Day before i was mad. Max a began and then broke off and looked up at him with such dumb misery in my eyes that he kissed me. My poor Little Hurt love he murmured. You will Hever Call me that again i cried. And then in gasps of words he never could remember the Story of my sin Ana its repentance was told. His face was hidden in his hands when i had finished and i could not stretch out even one of my helpless fingers to make him raise his head that i might know my Fate. Max i whispered piteously i was mad and it was Only one Little moment. I had meant to say no word of excise to utter no syllable of pleading but i could not Bear the silence. He turned and Laid his face wet with a mans bitter tears softly against mine on the Pillow. Forgive me my own he said with a sob. I shall never for give myself. Of my True Over my eng of men whom i had so loved and so wronged not All the love of All my life can repay you for those words Harper s weekly. Zofe and work. near a Good Deal about the rapid decay of human faculties in this country As if there was something in our climate unfavourable to and bodily vigor in bid Menand women and in contrast with this we hear a Good Deal about great age to which people i Europe maintain their physical and mental efficiency. But Only one half the truth is told. A Man will accomplish twice As much in an average lifetime in this country As any where in the old world and this is True of Naan in All positions the lawyer in his office the physician in his chaise the Machanic in Nis shop and the operative in the Mill. An american Workingman who recently returned to Pittsburg from a visit to England expressed his Surprise at the comparatively Small amount of work done by labourers in that country. They ? move slowly and leisurely they take their time about everything and seem never in a hurry All in striking contrast with the fierce unsparing vehemence with which men pursue their vocations in this Cotin try. There is no doubt that americans overdo themselves. They accomplish As much inside of fifty years of Etc As euro peans accomplish inside of seventy and if life were measured by the amount of work done our people Are the longest loved in the world. One reason for this is the immense amount of work to be done in this country and the comparatively Small number of skilled persons to do it. Another reason is the american aversion to idleness. Even our wealth pc v men die in harness not so much because they covet More wealth As that they re quire the excitement of getting it. The centers of Power Are to be found in the whirls of Active movement. It is in these a Man s name is mentioned his wealth taken into account his influence made a Factor and his talents carefully measured., when he retires from Active life he goes into oblivion and it is the americans aversion to this dismal be culture that explains his habit of standing to his desk till he drops into his actual Louie Republican. 1 authorized agents of the turkish government Are endeavouring to close schools in Asia minor conducted by american missionaries. An Era unknown to women is the mid dle weekly. A dude. This is a dude his ears pro Trude in most expansive mag oni Trode his col alar of the late u at Date surrounds vane cd a t t e n uate ten inches Long at any rate. A Gaudy tie surrounds his Throat Belo w this e ones a Cut off coat with far More buttons than ago at. Neath All the rest Here is his Vest with Pia Ted watch Chain not the Best these spindles 1 Are his T legs you see his Pant Are tight As tight can he and fit him tighter to an his skin his spin die legs be and but and in his feet the size of a Coal bin this is a dude. A. Nuckle in scissors. Pungent paragraphs. Cremation is one of the burning questions of the Post express. A member of the Harvard class of 1888 has just been appointed a Pitcher for a base Ball club at so too a year. Still there Are people who turn up their noses at College bred men. Courier journal. Ella danger is the Belle of a Wisconsin town and that very town i boasting Over the Possession of the bravest Young men in the universe. Every one of them is anxious and eager to Marck Tribune. If he was the last Man on the marry him said Ethel in Odi Ousby. No indeed dear replied Elfrida calmly what would to the use of marrying when there was nobody to envy you Hawkeye. A a How they do promote Mem. Or. Edmund Jones of Caldwell has grown into a full fledged colonel. In the newspapers. Why the most of us up in Caldwell Call him coot Jones. Naco chronicle. Bad lad Shad and dad. There was a Small boy who was bad. And Delight 1 to anger his dad he St Jck a Wax Roe right on his a s nose and Tola him it came from a Shad. New York journal. The lady who wrote in the Lioam ing is said to have cleared Sio too out of it. Pretty Good pay. But the Young Man who popped in the gloaming made $50,000 out of it. His i fees wealthy father died three weeks after their marriage. Travellers Magazine. When. When the Vinos Are softly blowing round the airy Dogwood tree and the Apple limbs Are snowing Shell like blossoms on the Lea and the roosters loudly crowing when the Dewdrop richly spangles every Lovely Rose wind Bent when the landlord loudly wrangles with the tenant Over the rent. And the Gate your thumb Nail mangles when the wild Flower is careening by the Jab Ling Forest Stream and Bright leaves the nest Are screening then we rave and jump and s Ream Over the horrors of House cleaning. Learning Wisdom. A peasant who had seven daughters wearing out sole leather for him went to the Cave of a Wise old Duffer and be sought his advice As to How to bring them up. Marry them off As soon As possible and you can then break up housekeeping and go boarding among them. After a few months the father re turned to to the Cave and his Phil had such a lonesome expression that the Wise Man cried out a you must follow my advice to learn Wisdom the trouble is that i did follow it but instead of having seven places to Board around at i have seven sons in Law to Boardl on Mel ral. However the peasant had the free press. It took. How about that Book of poems you were going to publish asked a gentle Man of a publisher. Of it was published two months ago. Was the reply. Lid it take questioned the gentle Man somewhat interested. Take 1 ejaculate the publisher with a Grunt take did you say Well i should think it did take. It took every cent i had and i a vent got a cent Back yet Yonkers statesman. The dynamite taken from France to England. Is conveyed by persons who conceal the explosives Between the lining and the cloth of their Coats. The Dyna mite is wrapped in oiled paper in cakes like blacking. The cakes which Are an Inch in thickness and five inches in diameter Are left at one place in eng land where they Are joined into on my