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GREGORY, Marblehead, Mass. 52 Gold, Crystal, Lace Perfumed & Chromo Cards, name in Gold and Jet, 10c. Clinton Bros., Clintonville, Ct. Α The White House, Alive, weekly, po9litical newspaper, opposed to secret societies. By Hon. M. Langhorne, 621 E St., Washington, D. C $2 per annum. in advance. Every subscriber gets a premium worth one dollar and a quarter. 50 Chromo, Snowflake and Lace Cards, with name, 50 Elegant Scroll, Motto, Wreath, &c., Cards, al 10c., 40 all chromos, 10 cts. Star Printing Co., Northford, Ct. now styles (just out), name on, 10c. Card Mills, Northford, Ct. BHOP BITTERS. (A Medicine not a drink,) LION, and the Purest HOP BITTERS Is a preventative and cure for Weakness IN the winter of 1877, Frank Russell, a sophomore from Dartmouth, was installed as teacher in the school at Westfield Centre. Before entering upon his new duties, he had a long and confidential chat with the "prudential committee," and asked if the school would be difficult to gov ern. "Not very," replied Mr. Ladd. "The big boys will do well enough, I don't doubt, and the little scholars you'll manage without any trouble; but there's one you'll have to let do about as she's a mind to or have a fuss." "And who's that, pray?" inquired the young man. "Katie Keech." "A girl, then?" 'Yes; and nobody can do anything with her. If they try, they give up beat." "Describe her to me, so that I can know her at a glance." "Well," began Mr. Ladd; but at this moment he was called away, and Russell did not have an opportunity to resume the conversation. The next morning, however, he found himself in the desk of the schoolhouse, with scores of pupils seated around him. The opening exercises over, he proceeded to take the names of his scholars, and classify them according to their respective ages and acquirements. Whenever he came across "Very well," said Russell, and passed on. ear. "And if Katie Keech comes to be in the class with me, I should like to study natural history." At recess, too, he heard somebody mutter: "Well, this new master thinks he'll do great things, but he wont make Katie mind, I know." "We shall see," said Russell, half audibly; and when he left the schoolroom at night, he took care to gather a few rods from a thicket near by. He had laid them in his desk, and was regarding them with stern satisfaction, when he heard a step "light as the fall of a flower." He looked up; there stood the most beautiful vision that ever crossed his path-a young girl, with a form which had the lithe grace of the Arab maiden; a complexion of dazzling fairness, and flushed on the rounded cheek with a peachy bloom; large laughing blue eyes, and a profusion of golden hair floating from a coquettish head. Her thick blanket shawl had fallen back, revealing a blue merino dress, with a fril! of delicate lace about the slender neck, and a black silk apron with velvet trimmings; while her boots and gloves were faultless. Frank Russell bor ed low, and asked, gallantly: "To whom am I indebted for this unexpected musing?" "I wonder if Sarah Graham kept my seat, as I asked her to. I like to sit here, because I can see everything that's going on in the schoolroom, and take a peep at the stage coach, too." "Your friend reserved the seat," replied the pedagogue. "Well, then, I'll put my books in; I ran over on purpose." She arranged the books to suit her, and then skipped across the room, humming "Away with Melancholy." Suddenly she stopped opposite the "master's desk," and said naively: May I peep in?" "O, yes." The next moment he had raised the heavy lid, and she was taking a bird's eye view of the con tents. "What are those for?" she queried, pointing at the rods he had gathered. "To punish refractory pupils. Do you know I was thinking of a certain Katie Keech when I got them ?" "Ah! Well, suppose you try them now;" and she drew off her glove, and extended a dainty hand, white as a lily and soft as velvet. Russell held up the rod in mock authority, but it dropped from his grasp, and murmuring "I cannot, Katie," he lifted her hand to his lips. Katie colored, but she was the first to regain some degree of self possession. "There you're like all the rest; you can't find it in your heart to punish me, so I shall be-what is it you call me?" "A little autocrat—” "Yes," interrupted the girl; "I shall have my own way this winter, as usual. "Nous verrons," was the reply. "Nous verrons-I know what that means, for I have studied French. We shall see! But I must'nt stay. Aunt Jane will scold me now. Good night, Mr. Russell." "Good night, Miss Keech." In another instant she was gone, and locking the schoolroom door, the young master proceeded to "O, I am Katie Keech," murmured a sweet, his boarding place. low voice. "What a strange, incomparable little witch she is!" he soliloquised. "I believe I fell in love with her at first sight; but I must not forget myself! I must keep up my dignity, and require the same obedience of her that I do of the other pupils." His resolve was commendable, but how he kept it our readers are yet to know. It is true Katie made no rebellion, but she was as much of an autocrat as ever. He prohibited eating; but she nibbled away like a bird at bits of French confectionery, Katie laughed a most sweet, silvery laugh- sent her by city cousins. He forbade all commuand continued: "What did they tell you about me!" "That you-you-you were-the autocrat of the schoolroom, and would have your own way." "Ha, ha, ha! I wont have the name without the game!" rejoined the girl; and with a coquettish toss of her head, that sent the golden curls all over her bright face, she darted away to the opposite nication by whispering or writing; but her gold pencil scribbled many a note to her schoolfellows. But she was not only autocrat of the schoolroom, she queened it over the young sophomore's heart! The day was long and dark when she absented herself; the singing-school had no attractions when she was not there; the sermon was pronounced “ confoundedly dry," when she was not in her accustomed place in the choir. Squire Thither Frank Russell followed her, and she Keech had hired him to give his daughter lessons went on chattering like a blackbird. corner. in French; and it so happened that two other young ladies in the neighborhood desired to be accomplished in the same branch; so they all met in Squire Keecu's parlor two evenings in every week, to recite their lessons to the school-master, while Aunt Jane brought her work into the room, and seemed vastly interested in the proceedings. SEE ENGRAVING. Those were halcyon hours for Russell, but there was one evening that was particularly pleasantwhen his other two pupils were compelled to stay away, from some cause or other, and Aunt Jane retired early with a headache, leaving him quite alone with Katie. He staid later than usual that night, for it was delightful to sit there and hear her pronounce in her sweet voice after him, and then have the conversation drift gradually to other topics till the lesson was temporarily forgotten. She was conjugating "aimer "-to love-when Russell suddenly said: "O, Katie, there will be a time when somebody will teach you this in good earnest! To love and to marry is the lot of the young and the fair." The girl blushed, but she sprang from her chair, and chasseeing across the room, sang: "I will not have a man that's tall; A man that's little is worse than all I will not have a man that's fair A man that's black I cannot bear; A young man is a constant pest An old man would my room infest : A man that's rich, I'm sure wont have me A man that's poor I fear would starve me!" "Strange little Katie," resumed Russell; " 'twill be hard to suit you, I fancy!" "I never shall be suited; I'm going to have a gay time till I am twenty, and then join the Shakers. But where was I? J'aimerais, tu aimerais, il aimerais !" Wild words rushed to the young man's lips but he silenced his heart, and went on with the lesson. The very next day there came a decisive hour in his destiny. He had heard rumors that he was partial to Squire Keech's daughter, and he resolved to clear himself of that charge. For some trifling misdemeanor he ordered Katie to "stay after school," and she obeyed. What passed during that interview I cannot tell, but the girl came out with a radiant face, and Russell's eyes beamed and his lip was tremulous with smiles. From that time no pupil was so obedient as Katie Keech. When Frank Russell graduated, the following summer, he claimed her as his bride, and through several months of wedlock he has continued to bless the day when he met THE AUTOCRAT OF THE SCHOOLROOM. Longfellow looks upon Sunday as the "golden clasp that binds together the volumes of the week," but to one who never indulges in romantic flights of imagination, it is simply an ecstatic season when you can lie abed late in the morning, and have something extra for dinner. "Who will write the music of the future?" asks a New York paper. "What troubles us," replies the Detroit Free Press, "is to know who will have patience to listen to it ?" MRS. GREENLEAF'S PLOT. HATE him," said Mrs. Greenleaf, vindictively, "and I will ruin him if I can." The speaker was a tall, and somewhat stately woman, with a face whose regular features might have been considered as constituting a claim to beauty, but her heart was cold, and her disposition unamiable. The spirit of envy and malevolence found ready entrance into her heart. She had been a portionless school-teacher, but had managed to throw her fascinations around Mr. John Greenleaf, a substantial and wealthy citizen of the town, whom, though twice her years, she was quite ready to marry for the sake of the social position he could bring her. When she entered his household as its mistress, she found it a small one. Besides her husband and herself, there was one other member only, and this was Frank Bradshaw, the son of Mr. Greenleaf's sister, who, from early boyhood, indeed from the time of his mother's death, had been under his uncle's charge. During this time a strong, mutual attachment had come to exist between the uncle and nephew, and previous to his recent marriage, it had been supposed that he would be his uncle's sole heir. He was now in his uncle's counting-house, a trusted and confidential clerk. As Frank Bradshaw was an attractive young man, social and agreeable, and a general favorite, it might have been supposed that Mrs. Greenleat would have liked him. But the following conversation which took place between the husband and wife shortly after the marriage, will explain the cause of her antipathy. Laura," said Mr. Greenleaf, "I want to have a little understanding with you on business of importance." "I am afraid you will find that I can render you little assistance." "I do not ask for assistance, but I think it right to have an understanding on certain matters-I am much older than you." "But I don't think of that," she said, in a tone of very well simulated affection-for of real affection she had not one particle for the man whose name she had taken. "I know you do not, my dear. But I only mention it in order to add that in the course of nature I must die years before you." "Do not mention such a horrid thing," she said, putting her handkerchief to her eyes to wipe away the tears that did not flow. "Would you indeed regret my loss so much," said Mr. Greenleaf, tenderly. "May I hope to live for many years yet, but I only wish to suggest what will probably sometime happen. When that time comes you will find that you are well provided for." Mrs. Greenleaf began to listen attentively, for it was his money she cared for, not himself. "I suppose I am worth seventy-five thousand dollars." His wife's eyes sparkled under the carefully veiled lashes. 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