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SALE OF VALUABLE LAND.
ff 'i'v l'i"' f " flocree of the Superior court
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K. W.-TlMBBULAKE,
t OInml(isloneJ.
By UATHAKIEL EAWTEOEITE.
The scarlet letter btimed on' Hester
Piynne's bosom. Here wa3 another
rain, the responsibility of which came
partly homo to her.
"What see you in my face," asked the
physician, "that you look at it so ear
nestly?" "Something that would make me weep
if there were uuy tears bitter enough for
it," answered she. "But let it pass! It
is of jxmder miserable man that I would
speak."
"And what of him?" cried Roger Chil
Ungworth eagerly, as if he loved the
topic and were glad of an opportunity
to discuss it with the only person' of
whom he could make a coniidant. "Not
to hide the truth, Mistress Hester, my
thoughts happen just now to be busy
with the gentleman. So speak freely,
and I will make ausw-er."
"When we last spake together," said
Hester, "now seven years ago, it was
your pleasure to extort a promise of
secrecy as touching the former relation
betwist yourself and me. A3 the life
and good fame of yonder man were in
your hands, there seemed no choice to
me save to be silent in accordance with
your behest. Yet it was not without
heavy misgivings that "I thus bound my
self, for, having cast off all duty toward
other human beings, there remained a
duty toward him, and something whis
pered me that I was betraying it in
pledging myself to keep your counsel.
Since that day no man is so near to him
as you. You. tread behind his every
footstep. You are beside him, sleeping
and waking. You search his thoughts.
You burrow and rankle in his heart.
Your clutch is on his life, and you cause
hnn to die daily a living death, and still
lie knows you not. In permitting this 1
have surely acted a false part by the
only man to whom the power was left
me to be true!"
"What choice had you?" asked Roger
Chillingworth. "My finger pointed at
this man would, have hurled him from
his pulpit into a dungeon thence, per
ad venture, to the gallows 1"
"It had been better so!" said Hester
Prynne.
"What evil have I done the mail?"
asked Roger Chillingworth again. "1
tell thee. Hester Prynne, the richest fee
that ever physician earned from mon
arch could not have bought such care as
I have wasted on this miserable priest!
But fur my aid his life would have
burned away in torments within the first
two years after the perpetration of his
crime j.jjd thine. For, Hester, his spirit
lacked the strength that could have
borne up, as thine has, beneath a burden
like thy scarlet letter. Oh, I could
reveal a iroodlv secret! H-it pnon-ri,'
"I have left thee to the scarlet letter."
replied i:v;ger Chiliimrworth. -If that
have not avenged me I can do no more!'
He laid his finger on it with a smile.
"It has avenged thee!" answered Hes
ter Prynne.
"I judged no less," said the physician.
"And now, what won List thou with
me touclring this lfiaii?"'
"1 must reveal the secret," answered
Hester firmly. "He must discern thee
in thy true character. What may be
the result, 1 know not. But this long
debt of conSdence, due from nie to him,
whose bane and ruin I have been, shall
at length be paid. So far as concerns
the overthrow or preservation of his fair
fame and his earthly 'state, and per
chance his. life, he is in thy hands. Nor
do I whom the scarlet letter has dis
ciplined to truth, though it be the truth
of red hot iron entering into "the soul
nor do I perceive such advantage in his
living any longer a life of ghastly empti
ness that I shall stoop to implore thy
mercy. Do with him as thou wilt!
There is no good for him no good for
me no good for thee! There is no g;xxl
for little Pearl! There is no path to
guide us out of this dismal maze!"'
"Woman, I could wed nigh pitv thee!"
said Roger Chillingworth, unable to re
strain a thrill of admiration, too, for
there was a quality almost majestic in
the despair which she expressed." "Thou
hadst great elements. Peradventure,
hadst thou met earlier with a better love
than mine, this evil had not been. 1 pity
thee for the good that has been wasted
in thy nature."
"And 1 thee," answered Hester Prynne,
"for the hatred that has transformed a
'wise and just nam to a fiend! Wilt thou
yet purge it out of thee and be once
more human? If not for his sake, then
doubly for thine own. Forgive, and
leavo his further retribution to the Pow
er that claims it. I said, but now, that
there could he no good event for him or
thee or me, who are here wandering to
gether in this gloomy maze of evil and
stumbling at every step over the guilt
wherewiih we have strewn our path.
It is not so! There might be good Cor
thee, and thee alone, since thou ha,-t
been deeply wronged, and ha.-t it at thv
will to pardon. Wilt thou give up that
only privilege? Wiit thou reject that
priceless ber.eht?"
"Peace, Hester, peace!" relied the
old man, with gloomy sternness. "It is
not granted me to partb.n. 1 have iu
such nower as thou telle st mo nf Vv
I w,..-. u; im:i naps as ueep a
I dye as the one betokened by tbo Pcai let
; letter. But. partly th-.it t he dreaded the
I secret or undisguised interference or old
,' Roer Chidi:)"-vorth jml rvirtlv lKi
her conscious heart imputed futspicion
where none could have bom felt, and
partly that both the minister and nke
would need the whole wide world to
breathe in while they talked together
for- all th.-.,. reasons Hester never
thought of mcetin- him in any narrower
privacy than beneath th open sky.
At last, while attending in a sick
chamber, whither the Reverend .'Jr.
Dimmesdale had been summoned to
make h prayer, she learned that he had
gone the day before to visit the Apostle
Eliot among bix Indian converts. He
would probably return by a certain
hour in the afternoon of the !,m -row
Betimes, therefore, the nest dav Hester
took little Pearl, who was necessarily
the companion of ail her mother's expe
ditions, however inconvenient her pres
ence, and set forth.
The road, alter th? two wnvf-irers h,i.'
crossed from the peninsula to the main-
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land, was uo other than a footi.nt
rttti.
st r- fro-
led onward into the mvsterv 1 f the
primeval forest. This hemmed "it in so
narrowly and stood so black
on either side, and disclosed
perfect glimpses of the sky ah
Hester's mind it bunged not
moral wilderness hi which t
long been wandering. Tno
cniii and somber.
Overhead was a gray expanse of cloud,
slightly stirred, however, by a tuec-ze.
so that a gleam ef flickering sae.-hme
might now and then be seen ;.t its s - 1 i -
tSry play along the path. Tin, fiit
cheerfulness was always at the fai
extremity of p. .use long vista tin.,
the forest. The snoriive suidi-
i! l O.eiiSO
PUch 1Q1
ve. thr.t to
ambs the
.e had so
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fear and tremulously, and, as it were
1 by a slow, reluctant neces. iy, that Ar-
thur Dimmc-.dale put foith'hii hand,
1 chill H8 death, and touched the rhili
1 hand Hester Prynne. The grasp,
! cold oj it was, took away what was
I dreariest in the mtt. rvi-. Tk.-v m,w
I felt them-. I ves at least inhabitants of
; the SHinc sphere.
J Without a word more spoku neither
' he nor she assuming the guidance, but
! with an unexpre.-ed consent - thev
glided back into the (had.e.v of the
woods, whence Hester had emerged, and
sat down on the heap of moss win-re .-he
and Pearl had before been sit tin". When
1. ey lo.ma voice to speak it w.os ut litt
only to utter remark.-and in. '-.i,:e.s sach T t, ...
, as any two acq-.amiances m-ht have Let her rc ' )nm w,th akl?9
made about the gloomy sky. the threat- '- fro v. n.
cuing f.tonn and next the health of e .ch
Thus th. v vent onward o. r ' 1...
step by s'en into the thrmes that were they are one.
: brooding deepest in their h.rt.s. So
long estranged by fate ;.; .? circum
stances, they needed som ; hi:- ; ..pljt
and casual to run before a;:. 1 ::.r-w. -, ,.n
the doors of i-jtirc.'uw. .. that tt'..-.r
real tlae-hts mi-ht to ! d aem-wbe
threshold.
After awhile the mir.i r fixed bis
eyes 0:1 lie.-:, r I'l vnr.e's.
"He-:, r." r;'.i i i;e, -'ha t thou brand
peace
Marriage Utiles.
Kvery roan who does right is
helping 'on' toy to gooxj.
If.irir.c: n-1 t rv h tW o p f ,r
i' t eacii r-Mi,,? the fai . that i,.-v:rC .i.r-,-! .,. ,. frrtu
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i.ifc ii:e 1.0: i.e.
Let the ha-band froUorit h:
lome, i.ot the club.
t.u:, l,
f. ,11 r U km
ra ' ' ! :
L- t hr r.ot narra.- Mr-
Door's g 'Ss 1 .
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She snijl-d drearily, I hia ' d r.vn i"-;:.v troo.-v.
fe
e'oly sportive at be:.t in thi
old faith, long forgo
me and expiaiiis all
we stuTer. Bv thv !i
:ten. comes bad
thai we do and
rst sten awrv tl
de.lst pbmt the germ of evil. Lnt s
that mtiuant it has all been a
necessity. Ye that have wronged
are not sinful, save in a kind of" t;
all
;oil
u-e
irk
tmg
: i.vr
.U'h
ht-
1 : It 'tai-
nant pensiveness of the day and :.ceue
withdrew itself as they came i.ij-h. and
left the spots where it bad danced t be
drearier because they had hoped to find
them bright.
"Mother," said little Pearl, "the sun
shine does not love yon. It iv.ia awav
and hides itself becanso it is afraid of
something 00 your bosom. .o.v, see'
There it is, playing, a good w.-.v off
Stand yon here, and let me n-.e. and
catch it. 1 am but a child, p wiil not
dee from nu. for i wear uotb.iag oji my
botiom yet."
ever wiil, my child,
said Hester.
"An J why not. ni-;hor?" a
stoprang .-ho:!, j,-.-t at the b.-g
her nice. "Will ia t it cone- 1
accord, wh n ! ;.o. a C(!r,i,,;i
):' an
k f.j-. I--n
a !;:
la :: !'
uji-m h.-r bos ,a.
"Ilri't tbo-.,'." she a.-kr- ',.
"None re -t i::i, teit .! -.
sveered. "'i..tt ei-ecov.M
ing wim: I am. ;:..! '. .
as mine? W, -,. .
Void. a o..:.. :,.- . . ,t .,, t ,
and brutal it.-tir.ets -I might h. and
peace I n rr ere n.e.v. Nay. ! n -v r-h add
liave I.-: if. It it as m.i.-rs e, ,:i 1
tny soul, wliatev r of :. i i a : v t i., re
originally v.-as in v.-w ;u . f M.d's
that wi re r'ao ( !i , . -t have t- eo: : ;.i .
mmi-r -rs of -'in::;:.i ran. ;.:
1 am nio.-t mi-ci abh-l"
"The i" 1 ;'.e reverence t!
Hester. "A:, i .tr.dy tho-a v. ,
ainomr t a: -ml De tti tbid brmr
Let hiru s: eu'v to hi- wife :
y-.f at !e r.
Let her in -ike .,nje :n, ri
ant t h an he c'. . b .
Let Icr 'i invi i v, . : .
bll.-llie-s cares.
L -t h !tn b-- a- ' . ar'.e ;,
marriage a- bef. re.
l.-t th
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t e. ., ; h 1 m is f.
lie-e no
r .-: r a 1 1
L-t her n f:
N-igi.' ..r I. 1- a
t e.-:i .-e
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art Cain do 1 have exhausted
That he -now breathes and
1 creenr
sa
What
him.
aoout on earth is owing ail to ira
"Better he had died at ouct
Hester Prynne.
"Yea, woman, thou saves t trulv?"
cried dd P.oger Chiilingworlh. letting
the lurid ire of iris heart blazo out be
fore her eyes. "Better lia.d he died at
ence! Never did morlid suifer what
this man has sunered. And all. ail in
in the sight of his worst enemy! He
has been conscious of me. He has felt
an ir.lhiciice dwelling always upon him
like a curse. He knew by some spirit
ual sense for the Creator never made
another being so sensitive as this he
knew that no friendly hand was pulling
illusion; nebh'.-r am 1
have snatohc-d a fiend's
hands, it is cur fate,
llower blossom as it mac
ways, and deal 1
man.''
He waved his
self again to hi-;
ing herbs.
"Be it sin or r.
bitterly, as she s
hale the man!"
Sae upon
meat, but c
lL. 1 L L . 1 1 1 e
those long j
when he r.se
the seolnsio;
in the hreii;;
light of her
i.e?;
old;
Let
N e
the a wilt w:
'i-'re
o (
rem la
bia-
rou !or
d ami b
eb-ymcut
said He-t
g.i.ed a!)
m-
r Pr yr.n
r hitii. "
for the sen
1.
ivlill
motu.i-. "
Wiil Seen 1
Pearl set
Hester saii
cat Cil the' :
i'a the :aih
splendor ;
vacbv e.'e :
Win n I
Hester i';-y
ward tin- :
e. t . but
s ha -low
i-'iiUi.-te
tir-. iy
l w : 1 v
'an
!.:!. 1
1 catch the
for
at a
p. -re
air
.nsw. r.
sun-n:
t pa- -, j
hlld ;u
ood
e
!ai
in it
d sc.
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. laot 'a 'U.
d iiad
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at 1 v
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r i
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comfort.- n : in con ;oie m 1,
"More misery, Hester! on.ly the mere their it.t-r.-t are . . ;
uii-e-i. a:..-. 1 1 ea t n.e c le rf; y in a : 1 , wen
a bitter Mm!.-. "As conc-ms the g.r.nl
which 1 tnay ;ip;.-.ir tod-.. 1 have n...
faith in it.' I: lm.-t n.-. : .. H ,u
What can a mine I ni i -:Tect
toward tic redeu p; . ,.: , : , '. r s
or a pollu'e i ii :..v.-ard ;. ,r pai an. a
tion? And as ,r th- : .pi- '- ; -. . r.-re-...
Would that :; Were t 'an. d '. -e. -r:: ,.nd
hatred! aa t thou d . m 1:. i !.-,;er. .1
coteelafioa ti:.. t 1 u.u: .-t.m ! n;. in my
I'll!; it am; nice: - many i ara. ',
lio'.rr.rd to my t e. . a- 1: '.no I: ;i:t t
Li' a en we; ,. U. - f. ,. . , .
my il c i: iir.':.- rv t r the ; : a ' 'n and 1 n -in-;t
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end not overcome
ting to do so flic rh eight
iast daws in a d-.-s ant la-
1 to emerge ateveuti he from
1 of ids study and sit down
;ht of their home an ! in the
nuptial smile. He needed
. 1
m
at his heart strin
an
that an eve wj
. .. ..
looKmg cunousiymtoinm winch sought
only evil and found it. But he knew
iiot thr.t the eyo and hand were mine!
With the superstition common to his
brotherhood he fancied himself given
over to a fiend, to be tortured with fiight
frd dreams and desperate thoughtsfthe
sting of remorse and despair of pardon,
as a foretaste of what awaits him be-
.-,1 -1 T i .
OiiJ Lilt? eIaAe, mlt jr w.,g ttl3 con.
to bask himself in that sinil:, he
order that the chid of soman-,
hours amoim: iris books mr'nt 1
said, iu
lonely
taken
off tlie scholar's heart. Such scenes had
once appeared not otherwise than happv,
of ti
ad v.;
al-.ue
wd'.icn he hao
looked ini.'-a.ai
a !:orcir
wmci; had 1 ever ;
terired him 111 !.:.
tlement. n or m
where he deemed
lice. lie;-,. K
this intense
which of itself
trial to the spirit?. TI
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j but nov
I medium of hei
j classed themse!
: remembrances.
j scenes could have
. now sue could ever inve been wrought
j upon to marry him. She deemed it her
; crime most to be repented ef that she
as vieweu through the dismal
subsequent life, thev
res among her nglie.-t
K m-ir-..'.wl l,.,h,--..a.
. - ...... ,viw .5i-teil
been. She marveled
, - -- 1 -ii.. "u.o. 1.. i.c ie..jij.e.i -i unit .-ae
stautsnadowot my presence the closest ! had ever endured and reciie-ccated the
propmqrnty of the man wiiom ha hael
most vilely wronged and who had
grown to exist only by this perpetual
poison of the direst revenge! Yea, in
deedlie did not err there was a fiend
at his elbow! A mortal man with mipp
a human heart has become a fiend for
his especial torment!"
The unfortunate physician, while
uttering these words, lifted his hands
with a look of horror, as if he had be
held some frightful shape, which he
could not recognize, usurping the place
of his own image in a glass. It was one
of those moments which sometimes oc
cur only at the interval of years when
a man's moral aspect is faithfully re
vealed to his mind's eye. Not improba
bly, lie had never before viewed himself
as he did now.
"Hast thou not tortured him enongh?"
said Hester, noticing the old man's look.
"Has he not paid thee all?"
"No! no! He has but increased the
debt!" answered the physician; and as
he proceeded his manner lost its fiercer
characteristics and subsided into gloom.
"Dost thou remember me, Hester, as 1
was nine years agone? Even then I was
in the autumn of my days, nor was it
the early autumn. Eut all my life had
been made up of earnest, stoidious,
thoughtful, quiet years, bestowed faith
fully for the increase of mine own
knowledge, and faithfully, too, though
this latter object was but casual to the
other faithfully for the advancement
of 'human w"feila , ;u been
more peaceful and innocent than mine;
few lives so rich with benefits conferred,'
Dost thou remember me? Was I not,
though you might deem me cold, never
theless a man thoughtful for others,
craving little for himself kind, true!
just and of constant, if not warm affec
tions? Was I not all this?"
"All this and more," said Hester.
"And what am I now?" demanded he,
looking into Iter face nd permitting
the whole evil within him to be written
on hia features. "I have already told
thee what I am! A fiendl Who made
uie so?"
"It was myself!" cried Hester, shud
dering. "It was 1 not less than he.
Wliy iast thou not avenged thyself on
; lu.-rewarm grasp of his hand, and had
suffered the smile of her lips and eves to
! mingle and melt into his own a'pi
seemed a fouler offense committed by
Roger Chilli ngworui than any which
had since been done him that, in the
time when her heart knew no better, lie
had persuaded her to fancy herself happv
by his side.
"Yes, 1 hate him!" repeated Hester,
more bitterly than before. "He be
trayed me! He has done me worse
wrong than I did him!"
Let men tremble to win the hand of
woman, unless they win along with it
the utmost passion of her heart! Else it
may be their miserable fortune, as it
was Roger Chillingworth's, when, some
mightier touch- than their own may havo
awakened all her sensibilities, to be re
proached even for the calm content, the
marble image of happiness, which they
v.ill have imposed upon her as the warm
reality. But Hester ought long ago to
have done with this injustice. What did
it betoken? Had seven long years under
the torture of the scarlet letter inflicted
so much of misery and wrought out no
repentance?
The emotions of that brief space,
while she stood gazing after the crooked
hgure of old Roger Chillingworth. threw
a dark light on Hestershctate of mind,
revealing much that she might not oth
erwise have acknowledged to herself.
He being gone, she summoned back
her child.
CHAI'i,
PASTOR AND KA WSM ! N l.H.
Hester Prynne remained constant in
her resolve to make known to Mr. Dim
mesdale, at whatever risk of present pain
or ulterior consequences, the true char
acter of the man who had crept inrn his
intimacy. For several days, however
she vainly sought an opportunity of ad
dressing him in some of the meditative
walks which she knew Inin to be in the
habit of taking along the shores of the
peninsula or on the wooded hills of the
neighboring country. There would have
been no scandal, indeed, uor peril to the
holy whiteness of the clergyman's good
fame had. she visited him in his own
study; where mafay a. penitent, ere now,
tor taking one step tar; her, nor felt any
desire to do so. but would have U en
glad, could he be glad of anything, to
ding himself down at the root of ;he
nearest tree ami he there passive t.-r
evermore. The l-.ves might hestivw
liim and the soil gradually accumulate
and form a little hillock over his frame,
no matter whether tie re v. . ax- life in it
or no. Death wa.- too definite an object
to be wished for or a d ied.
To Hester's eye the Reverend Mr.
Dimmesdale exhibited no symptom ,.f
positive and viva. 'ions suffering except
that, as little Pearl had remarked, he
kept his hand over his heart.
Slowly as the minister walked, he had
,' almost gone by before Hester Prvane
r could gather voice enough to attract his
observation. At length rhe succeeded.
; "Arthur Dinime-dahd" she said faint
ly at first; then louder, but hoursedy
i "Arthur Dimmesdale!" "
"Who speaks!" answered the minis-
; ter.
i Gathering himself quickly r.p, he
6tood more erect, like a man taken by
surprise in a mood to which he was re
luctant to havo witnesses. Throwing
; his eyes anxiously in the direction of the
voice, he indistinctly beheld a form un
der the trees clad iu garments so ecur
' ber and so little relieved from the gray
twilight into which the clouded sky and
the heavy foliage had darkened the
; noontide, that he knew not whether it
: were a woman or a shadow. It may be
j that his pathway through life was
i haunted thus by a specter that hati
I 6toIen out from among his thoughts.
I He made a step nigher and discovered
j the scarlet letter.
; "Hester! Hester Prynne!" said he.
"Is it thou? Art thou ill life?"
j "Even so!" she answered. "In such
; life as has been mine these seven years
j p;ist! And thou, Au.u.i ...nmdaie,
I dost thou yet live?"
I ft was no wonder that they th:i3 ques
tioned one another's actual and Ivdily
existence and even doubted cf the ir own.
So strangely did they meet in' the dim
wood that it was like the first eneonntei
in the world beyond tho gravo of two
spirits who had been intimately con
nected in their former life, but now
stood coldly shuddering in mutual dread,
as not yet familiar with their state, nor
wonted to the companionship of disera
bodiedbeing3. Each a ghost and awe
stricken at the other ghost! They were
awestricken likewise at themselves be
cause the crisis flung back to them their
consciousness and revealed to each heart
its history and experience, as life never
-does except at such breathless epochs.
than u
no ; .'-, .- ;-i do
i.n I v - d
v. de-re-!' ore sa ad
"No, H : . n-.." : yd I t
man ' fie ; - n a;.
h e. a 1 an I d e. 1 aa 1 - .., ,; .
me. p.-ninee 1 ..ie la.
Of vial -ae- r-- has b .-a t.
1 scold 1 ! .ri ; a.' . '. .v.- t a .;T :'.
garments, of mo. k. !., ate s .ma h.i .
shown my.-.' If to maul.md a- :n- v will
s e in-1 at the js !.-!:. nt f.-at. 11 v
are " :. J ie-ler, ta.it wear the - ..ii.;
letter ( p i ly n;e; yonr m. rime
t-anas in .-.-.. t. '!:. ! 1 :::!..- .'... :-(
what a relief it i-. .a: : r ta- t.am.i.t.f
a seven .ir .' ch. .-.;. ; .. I. vk into un i v,.
that re.-.. ;mr' - i ., ; : u h .t I am. ihsl
1 e no Jr. .-mi , r v.-i ,. u n,- wv.r-t on.,
my to v. :..!-.. wh n si. ion-l with t:
praises of a'd ..tier i...n. I e.re.1 i d.oi
betake mvo lf an I lc hi wn as ;':..?
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cat..-, three lb.;. a
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vacancies, th- ' .- :' Mo:. i-.
a- h i : : tT t 'i; liT.d V, v ' ei i . : r4 , .
llig b'lt en s.'U i'..: ..l:', '.!'.g
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to -ct a;.d :!.- .
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ills ir. v s .a!
might ketp r.seli a.de t'eicby. I. van
thus miicli of tr-fh ronld save n...
But now it is all f..l -be"l aii empti
rie-ss- all death!"
II enter Irynn- H- 'k. d in'o Ids far
bat lie.-itated to -;.,ik. V--;, ntt m
bis long ie.-l : am. i . i:.ot;,,,i;s s.. ( -,. -mently
as lie did. hi, u re- b. re mTen-l
tier the very p. ant ..f co cumsiaiic. m
which to mte q. '-e what she c.-ur.e sav
She conquered ber fear- an i -;h ke.
"Such a friend as ila u bast even r.t w
wished for," said she, with whom :
; r i 1 of aa
s c ' . .
I i.. t '.. t e.'ir
-tag a a 1. 1 a t e r .
A 1 - ft f o.l i
r ; w
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v. : .
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ae
weep over tny sin
a ha.-t in nie t
.'ie
l : . g u i . i give xce
I : . com p ':-te 1 v r.ii.k-.i .-o w - 1.
a teiol.-n.-v to ei i in . :. i - li ;!..-;r
yieid.
Mere than ..ne-1 alf - d" a.', ;.
'l'.ir prodiire.i j,, ,.. ,;
is ebtain-tl f in th- i'.ir I
Th- farmer s L . - 1. ; - -: . .
o niftrk-t half fifen. d m a-'. --
we w.Barber Shop.
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N a r .
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rp. ni 1 K- i
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Kh'V..!.!' I'-'i.7b
partner of ii I" Again th" In -:;ated. hut peet to -t low pric-- for :
bronglit out the words, wit a an effort,
i uou nasi Mag ii.ni buc.'i an enemy.
anl tiwellest with him under t'no saiae
roof!"
mo minister started to his fe-.-t. gasp- "- b1' --' ." r. ".- a n--ing
for breath and clutching at hi heart l!"v- t,-.H'" l''r;i'r
UNlYERilTT :F NQHTH CAFDLIKi ;
La iripp-.
Durtr.. '1.- j v ..1,-ne- f th- .r;;-p
: fur
;- a It
1 1
as if he would luvc loru it out of his hllu"-v v ''' " ' 1:l " !
bosotm -pr-ly r.-e.e..-ry. h i- - p-i .i . f th- ,
ii iri, . .. ii t r ait bsotr.e ,.J ter s l '. h- v! v
H.i! hat . ayest thou.- cried he. : . , - ,
,, . .ii o::s pmu'-iv v.-ns . i.s- i--th:.ir 1
An enemy! and under mine own roed! iW,.r :u Hp...,. r...,i , ,r,., . v .
V. lua mean vour :n cas., ,f I.a (.r ; ,-. t. t m a. I d.-' :
(To uk cotim ran ! of tbr.f. f'n.r and lun. a..1
hm onr.-d . f a.'hu.i a a 1 !.-vv r
.f 1 nig' Mtan.hiiir. Try :t aal b- a
v inc.- L 1 1 ' a' t d )-(; . a a' ! 'r-.- r .
al l''.tl.-i at Aye :.- ii .'..' Pru
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rr.r-ir-KXT win.t-v
This is (he Hifirht Sort of Talk.
A Beautiful Stylish She
for Ladles.
If all the ehnredifs in the Un 1 wer. to
re.
turn out membra w ho r-fu.' to wv . , , , ,
. . , . , , 1 , Snecofs 'hat i 1 1 o t deserveu
their debts tiiere wonhi Le fewer mem- . i i
, , , ,. , cantiot be enje'ved.
bers. but the world would have connd. nc "
in those who wer? h-ft in Zion. Then, L-efn't take very much
membership in the ehuoh would bf a ; nionoy to make a CK.d man rich.
badge of distinction worth more than '
gold and rubies. It is a good tdgn to .ve ! Strrr.jrth ud Health.
the religious pre3 agitating the subj-cf. , If VOu are not f.--liiK strong and
It is a theme for th pulpit and for the j healthy try Electric Bit'er. If "La
prayer meeting. Dishonest men fhordd ,' Gri PP'" h? ' .fl Joa J'V tai
, ... . ... , . , use 1'. lectric isitter. Tins rvranlr -4ct
have their place with scandal raonrj ; dirffly n ,her sforaacL an! kiQ
and blasphemers and should wear a cl- -rntly aiding those oran to r-rf.-rm
lar or badge of a-eriminal. A healthy their function. If jou ape afflrti
sentiment is growing against disbonnty. j wi ,h "ick headache yoa w.II find "p-edj
n . . , , , j- . . . and iwrraanent relief br takiog Llet:
One of the chief cause., of dishonesty is j ujc mttrrtm Gn- trial will entice
extravagance and an attempt to fly high, j Tou that thia ia the remedy vm ned.
when yonr wing arc too abort. Ashe- I lare brottle only 50 cents at Aycoke
boro Courier. . ' A C.' drag strira.
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