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X Vol, XXIII. LOUISBURG, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1801 NUMBER 40. I I T,,rr n l i c s cno o l tea chers, Franklin county will be i - , ... fliA corTn1 Thnrs. iV!;narv, April, July, Sep- i in- Seiioo in ' ,' ,"' , i,',. purpose of examining appli ,ts to re n il in the Public Schools ' ,-,.u!iiy. I will also be in 'l ,, n-i.nrir on Saturday of each , .!; .tn l all public days, to attend . a'nv biisin.-HS connected with my (,lh' '' J. N. Harris, Supt. THE SCARLET LETTER. By NATHAKEEL HAWTEOME. coir.e. c. M COOKE & SON, Will ATTORNEYS-A.T-LAW, L'lelSBlRG, N. C. ,t..;l th ) ourta of Nash, Franklin, , a u-rvn an V WiiR..; counties, also the . . ', art i f North C .rolinp, und the U. I 1 K I K M ALONE. ,. t-A.i u.nrs ".elow Thomas & A.ycocke'3 .t,,r i-lj. iuiiig lr. O. L. Ellis. NiCEIOLSON, I'KACriCINO PHYSICIAN, LOClKBURCi, N. O. , TIMBERLAKE, ATTORNEY-AT-l. AW, LunsB 'i'.o, x c. on N'isli street. 1 Si'Rl'ILL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LOrlSBURO, N. c. Will -lUervUhe courts of Franklin, Vance, Or.pvill" Warren ;tn.t Wr.ke counties, also ,!,. Mu.r-'me. Court of North Carolina. Prompt i,u- ul hi given to collections, &c. Y. QULLEY. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, FKANKLINTOX, C. All legal business promptly attended to. 'II OS. B. WILDER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LOrlSBCRti, N. C. n:!l'-n on Main street, one door below Eagle I - i t 1. T Vs. Vr:v'1i linn-. M. PERSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, L'lLI-IU'RG, N. 0. 3 in all courts. Omce in the court WHAI ( IS IT ft HAS IT DONE ef CAN JT DO i Hester Prynne was now fully sensible of the deep injury for which she was re sponsible to this unhappy man tn per mitting hira to lie for so many years, or, indeed, for a single moment, at the mercy of one whose purposes could not be other than m...,. . .. very uontiguity of his enemy, honeath what ever mask the latter might conceal him self, was enough to disturb the magnetic sphere of a being so sensitive' as Arthur Dimmesdale. There had been a period when Hester was less alive to this con sideration; or perhaps in the misanthro py of her own trouble she left the minis- J ter to bear what she might picture tc ; herself as a more tolerable doom. But ol late, since the night of his vigil, all hei sympathies toward him had been both ' softened and invigorated. She now read his heart more accurately. She doubted not that the continual presence of Rogei Chillingworth the secret poison of his malignity infecting all the air aboul him and his authorized interference as a physician with the minister's physical and spiritual infirmities that these bad opportunities had beeu turned to a cruel purpose. By means of them the suffer er's conscience had been kept in an irri tated state, the tendency of which was not to cure by wholesome pain, but tc disorganize and corrupt his spiritual being. Its result on earth could hardly fail to bo insanity, and hereafter thai eternal alienation from the good and true, of which madness is perhaps tht eartlily type. Such was the ruin to which she had brought the man once nay, why should we not speak it still so passionate! loved! Hester felt that the sacrifice ol the clergyman's good name, and death itself, as she had already told Rogei Chillingworth, would have been infinite ly preferable to the alternative which she had taken upon herself to choose And now, rather than have had thi? grievous wrong to confess, she would gladly have lain down on the forest leaves and died there at Arthur Dirnmes dale's feet. "O Arthur," cried she, "forgive me: in T in:il and only genuine fomponnrl . ii rner.t. that of Drs. Starkey & .i o-.e-iitHi" adjustment of the ele f o -,--n and Nitrogen magnetized: i- cu';nii)u;iil is so condensed and n-i.i!)!;' that it is sent all over the '.i '!! in n-pfor over, twenty years; i i . .if patents have been treated. ." ..- tho',i: -id physicians have And yet they lingered. How dreary !ked the forest track that led back ward to the settlement, where Hester Pryune must take up again the burden of her ignominy and the minister the hollow mockery of his good name. So they lingered an instant longer. No golden light had ever been so precious as the gloom of this dark forest. Here, seen only by hi3 eyes, the scarlet letter need not burn into the bom of the fallen woman-: x. . . . her eyes, Arthur Diiume:-.--l;:t:. u (Jod and man, might be I'ur ono moment true! He started at a thought that suddenly occurred to him. "Hester," cried ho, "here is a new hor ror! Roger Chillingworth knows your purpose to reveal his true character. Will he continue, then, to keep our se cret? What will now be the course of his revenge?" "There is a strange secrecy in his na ture," replied Hester thoughtfully, "and it has Krown upon him by the hidden practices of his revenge. I deem it not likely that he will betray the secret. He will doubtless seek other means of satiating Ins dark passion." "And 1 how am 1 to live longer, breathing the same air with this deadly enemy?" exclaimed Arthur Dimmesdale, shrinking within himself and pressing his hand nervously against his heart, a gesture that had grown involuntary with him. "Think for me, Hester; Thou art strong. Resolve for me!" "Thou must dwell no longer with thi3 man," said Hester slowly and firmly. "Thy heart must be no longer under his evil eye!" "It were far worse than death!" re plied the minister. "Cut how to avoid it? What choice remains to me? Shall 1 lie down again on these withered leaves, where 1 cast myself when thou didst tell me what he was? Must I sink down there and die at once?" "Alas, what a min has befallen thee!" eaid Hester with the tears gushing into her eyes, "Wilt thou die for very weak ness? There is no other cause!" "The judgment of God is on me," an swered the conscience stricken priest. "It is too mighty for me to with!" Heaven would snow mercy, ro- Eeemea wiUiin ms y He repeated the word. , "Alone, Hester!" "Thou shalt not go alone!" answered Bhe in a deep whisper. Then all was spoken! struggle tn all things else 1 have striven to be i joinetl Hester, "haust thou but the true! Truth was tho one virtue which I might have held fast, and did hold fast through all extremity, save wheij thy good, thy life, thy fame, were put in question! Then I consented to a de ception. But a lie is never good, even though death threaten on the other sidel v. - ' r oiumended it a very siguifl- i i und Oxvsjen Its Mode of Action i; -':i!n." , the title of a book of 200 -:. ! by Drs Starkey & Palen. ir.v to all innuirers full information . ' ,i-'f ii irkable enrative aent and a 1 r 1 of eurpririn- enres in a wid 'if lirMTiic eases manv of them after ' i'. .i. lnncd to die bv other physi- w;n be mailed free to any address 'l"p. STARKEY & PALEN, r.'b Street. Philadelphia. Pa. 1 jn S itter Street. San Francisco, Cal. ' i.j.i' mention this paper. strength to take advantage of it." "Be thou strong-for me!" answered he. 'Advise me what to do." "Is tho world, then, so narrow?" ex claimed Hester Pvynr.e. filing her deep eyes on the minister's and instinctively exercising a mrrjruetic nower over a snirit Dost thou not see what I would say: FO .cwtered and subdued that it could That old man, the physician he whom I hardiv hold itself erect. "Doth the nni- they call Roger Chillingvorth he was j vcrse "lie wi.thiu the compass of yonder my husband!" i town, which onlv a little lime n-ro was The minister looked at her for an in- j mt a leaf strewn desert, as lonely as this stant with all the violence of passion j around us? Whither leads yonder forest which intermixed, in more shapes than ; track? Backward to the settlement, thou CHAPTER Xin. A FLOOD OK SUNSHINE. Arthur Dimmesdale gazed into Hes ter's face with a look in which hope and joy shone out indeed, but with fear be twixt. 'Jiem, End a kind of horror at her boldness, who i... . . .oi bi vaguely hinted at, Lut ih.rcd uut speak. But neste Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and" fox 6o long a period not merely estranged but outlawed, from society, bad habituated herself to such latitude of speculation &t was altogether foreign to the clergy man. She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; ae i vast, as intricate and shadowy as the j untamed forest, amid the gloom of i which they were now holding a foll'oqny ' that was to decide their fate. Her intel- I lect and heart had their home, an it j were, in desert places, where eh roamed as freely as the wild Indian id his woods. j For years past she had looked from j this estranged poir?t of view, at human i institutions, and whatever priests oi legislators had established; criticisms all with hardly more reverence than tht Indian would feel for the clerical band. ' the judicial robe, the pillory, the gal lows, tho fireside or the church. The tendency of her .fate and fortunes had 1 been to set her free. The scarlet lettei was her passport into regions where ! other women dared not tread. Shame, j despair, solitude! These had been iu-i teachers stern and wild ones and they had made her strong, but taught hei much amiss. I The minister, on the other hand, had 1 never gone through an experience calcu lated to lead him beyond the scope- ol generally received laws; aUh.e.i :h, in a . single instance, he had so fearf.iliy trans gressed one of the most sacred uf them. Thirs we seem to fee that,:is regarded Hester Prynne. the whole seven wars of outlaw and ignominy h:id l eon little other lhan a preparation for this very hour. But Arthur Dimmesdale! Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in exteimati.ni i f his crime? None; unless it avail him ,-ome-wh;;t. that ho was brckon ihe.VTi by lr.g and exquisite suilering; that his mind was darkened and confused by the vtry reiuorse which harrowed it; that. U- deep eigh. In wtiicu tho tmnlen or shamo and anguish departed from her spirit. Oh, exquisite relief ! She had uot known the weight until she felt the freedom! By another impulse she took off tho formal cap that confined her hair; ul down it fell upon her shoulders, dark and rich, with at once shadow and a light in its abundance, and impart ing the charm of ecftnes-a to her fea tures. There pxayed around ber mouth and beamed out of her eves a radiant and tender snr.le tint s-c:u-U gnshm from the very heart of womanhood. A crimson flush was glowing ou her cheek j that had been long so pale. Her sex. her youth and the whole richness of hei j beauty came back from what men cal. j the irrevocable past, and clustered them- j selves with her maiden hope and n bap- 1 piness before unknown within the inau circle of this hour. : And, as if the gloom of the earth and ; sky had been but the effluence of thest i two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. All at once, as with r i sudden smile of heaven, forth burst thf i sunshine, j luring a very nool into thf obscure forest, gladdening each grew leaf, transmuting the yellew fallen ori I to gold and gleaming adown the graj trunks of the solemn trees. The obj.-cti that had made a shadow hitherto em bodied tho brightness now. The o.nrst of fhe Utile bruk might be tr..ci-l b its merry gleam afar ritu the v.-ir.l heart of mystery, which had becuuie a raysiei-y c f joy. Such was tho sympathy of nature that wild, heathen nature of tho f "rest never subjugated by human law. i: r il lumined by l.igh- r truth with th l iis? of these two spirits! Love, wheiiei Highest of all in Leavening Tower. Latest U. S Gov't Report. ! Li. Powder ABSOLUTELY FWRS LEUlSLATIMt MOUALITV. Love and neceraity are the onlj cures for laxine?. Every legislature that rnet finds tome rneajure proposed looking to legislating ni"rali- ty- Too much of it causes the home res pen? i b ; 1 i : ies to b'e delegated to other shoulders. It is rirht, just and necessary to legislate for the protection c f the general public, f r its com fort, pace and ha pin- --. it Sat ,x . April t. i.m HaTirig lhr hci d p p ',,r h e. ;in; d'rlT. jc"ni brt.ft? frti tL irt. liaTiOj: jriu'l 11 r'Tiinjii rgttt Tn- ix. l. .t to li ur..'i-:ite "l - n : trc!r Orm .r J V V-rTr it Irosst ) ;;!., ! I ; -,:JO 1 ,H if r !.i v.;.n;, r, 'H: - "virub 'i ' 1 ' i i i : l ti '. ii n t' when '.egis'.Ht ires Lsve 1 late laws to govern ii. in those matters That : home raising, it isl.eei m.ngtre t v rickety. : ro t :. i .k ' k-v ;X TmtI ! f ' i -1 i T 1 Ir V J' P o r. r T r , ""K-1 J 1 r-H' - r: .'r r r. .( - - rr n n . r. ; ' :r. :. p v r i r p it - ! -r if i ' ' r ' j : p b i n newly lorn or aruu-cl frmn a ithhkt slumler, must always create asun.-hme tilling the heart so full of radiance th it it overflows upon the outward wn! 1 Had the forest still ke;it its ghcin u would have been bright in Hosier's eyes and bright in Arthur Diuiinc; dale's! Hester hooked at huu with tho thrill of another joy. "Thou must know Pear!!" s.v. 1 sh J'o Stl. arette. fore tl.em t;o mil''! of the j.;iretit. exjiect the Mate w h it he ( i d d s :n 1 r sir.o i of a !. a.' to f'- "Our lirtlo Pearl! Thou lust set. u yes. I know it but thou v.i now with other eyes. She :s child i hardly comprvh'-nd thou wilt e !:er d'irl v n.-i h. It s. a !-! i . H - I d her a'i Bat and Collins and Gasket 3 Us one, witn tnr, mguer, purer, sorter qual ities was, in fact, the portion of him which the devil claimed and through which he sought to win th9 rest. Never was there a blacker or a fiercer frown than Hester now encountered. For the brief space that it lasted it was a dark transfiguration. But his character had beeu so much enfeebled by suffering that even its lower energies were inca pable of more than a-temporary struggle. He sank down on the ground and buried his face in hi hands. '1 might have known it," murmured sayest! Yes. but onward too. Deeper it goes and deeper into the wilderness less plainly to be seen at every step, un til some few. utiles hence the yellow leaves will show no vestige of the white man's tread. There thou art free! So brief a journey would bring thee from a a world where thou tuist been most i wretched to one where thou mayest still ; be happy! 13 there not shade enough in ; all this boundless fore-t to hide thy heart from the gaze of Roger Chilling ! worth?" W n avc add Jd to our already "Yes, Hester; but only under the he. "1 did know it! YV as not the secret , fallen leaves!" replied the minister, with told me in the natural recoil of my heart j a sad smile. at the first sight of him, and as often as j "Then there is the broad nathwav of I have seen him since? Why did I not the sea!" continued Heater. "It hronVht tween fleeing as iin avowed criminal and remaining as a hypocrite, cons, icnce might hud it hard to strike trie bala.'uv thai, it v.-as luiman to avoid the pail f death and. infamy and the in.-i ;; table machinations of an enemy; that, finally, to this poor pilgrim, em his dr--ary and desert path, faint, tick, miserable, there appeared a glimpse of human affection and sympathy, a r.ev life audi a trucne, in exchange for tlu heavy doom which he was now expiating. And 1-e t he stern and sad truth spoken, that tho breach which guilt has once made into tho hu man soul is never in this mortal suite re paired. It may be watched and guarded, so that the enemy shall not force his way again into the citadel, and might even in his subsequent asiults select some other avenue m preference to that where he had formerly succeeded. But there is still the ruined wall, and near it the stealthy tread of tho fee that would win over again Ins unforgottcn triumph. The struggle, if there were one, need it sufhee that the to flee and not red tl -e (!. ar I I w wilt advi.-e me !;. w to d.-al with her." "lkt thou think tne child will S glad to know m. 'r' a.sked the mini-ter soni-v.'hat un -:'.. "1 have long shrunk from ch.mrer. 1 '. -y-.se th'-y of:, n show a distrust -a !.. k w..r it. '-s to U familiar with me. 1 l.ae i-'.i-u it-t .. afraid of little 1 earl." "Ah, that w r sal!" nr.-o.v mother. "But s..e will I.e..- tl: and thou her. Sh.- ; . m t tar o call her! lYarl! Pearl:" "l ice th" child."" oU-rvod tho minis ter. "Yonder .she is, .-i.tndirig in f stri-ai; of sun.s'ame. a gini-1 wav af -n tiie , th'.-r side of t he. bn m d child will 1. ive me?" Ibester Fiii'.li"! and Pearl, who v:i-s l-ai h as t'ne minist.-r Lad ! a bright apn .r-led i- whicli f"ll down up. a le-r arch i f 1 cighs. The ray and 1 ro making her tic ire Kv-TV '. i or two a g a i c : s' a r e 1 1 . t o farce. Th same atol re- . f th:- b A - h s - tn w 1 '3. 1 1 It n. :i- a V ".v do'-b" i oani i ' i e Sj thou thmki-st tht : gaiti at -. m -t ri ' i n-.il the sp 'tl . d h fcloV cal'.e.l t ilbt.ir.ro - d h r. liio i a sr. i; o"am ti.r.'t;.;.: at. qtuvered p. d:ai or dis now like a or went and .r ttio;h"r.j t hem Tl. are ii m a kin are v o -1 1 boys ar A tnft 1 e n i i : to t if : r v w rri' v, i. a It ii u a v now 1 K a r ' as ma: l . lv thr. cover' . -1 1 1 1 or wood ana ciom 'oidins and Caskets WALNUT COFFIHS AND GASKETS. A !so a line of METAL1CS as nice and fine goods as is car ried in anv of our cities. Our fctock id complete in every line. Respectfully, R. R. Harris & Co. understand? O Hester Prynne, thou little, little knowest all the horror rf this thing! And the shame! the indel icacy! the horrible ugliness of this ex posure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! Wo man, woman, thou are accountable for. this! 1 cannot forgive thee!" "Thou shalt forgive me!" cried Hester, flinging herself on the fallen leaves be side him. "Let God punish! Thou shalt forgive!" With sudden and desperate tenderness she threw her arms around him and pressed Ins head against her bosom, lit tle caring though his cheek rested on the scarlet letter. He would have re leased himself, but strove in vain to do so. Hester would not set mm tree lest he should look her sternly in the face. All the world had frowned on her for thee hither. If thou so choose, it will 1 bear thee back again. In our native land, whether in some remote rural vil lage or in vast London or surely iu Germany, in France, in pleasant Italy thou wouldst be beyond his power and knowledge! And what hast thou to do with all these irem men and their opin ions? They have kept thy better part in bondage too long already!" "It cannot be!" answered tho minis ter, listening as if he were called ujmju to realize a dream. "1 am powerless to go! Wretched and sinful ar. 1 am, 1 have had no either thought than to drag on my earthly existence in the sphere where Providence hath placed me. Lost as my soul is, 1 would still do what 1 may for other human souls! I dare not quit ray post, though an unfaithful sen tinel, whose sure reward i3 death aDd seven long j'ears had it frowned upon j dishonor, when his dreary watch bhall Louisburg, N. C. ank of Louisbun Uoe3 a General Banking Business, C-dlections made and returned promptly Northern Exchange bought and sold. CDUNTY ORDERS CASHED Interest paid on deposits after three uiUUtUS. W. P. WEBB, President. BALE OF VALUABLE LAND. liy virt ue of a decree of the Superior court of rranklin county, made in the case of F. o Oancy vs. Mrs. Julia Thomas. I will sell .1 pul lie auction at the court house door bomshurg, on Monday the 4th day of ''epinber next, the tract of land in Sandy 'eek township adioiuinir lands of J. F. loneR ami others, containing; 415 acres, be- o, Mini conveyed by mortgage of Joel uMiutlH in. arif lrtli li It JoinaH and wife Julia, to F B. Danev.and "lieu in Kegister of Deeds office r rank!,,, county. Terras f sale. one-fourth ''Ha. balance on credit of 12-months with 8 i "-iu. interest on deferred paymeut. V , E- W. TlMBE BLAKE, 'y. 3rd. 1803. eomraissicmer- this lonely woman ind still she bore it i all, nor ever once turned away her nrm, sad eyes. Heaven likewise had frowned upon her and she had not died. But the frown oS'this pale, weak, sinful and sor row stricken man was what Hester could not bear and live. 'Wilt thou yet forgive me?" she re peated over and over again. " Wilt thou uot frown? WTilt thou forgive?" 'I do forgive you, Hester," replied the minister at length, with a deep utter ance out of an abyss of sadness, but no inger. "1 freely forgive you now. May God forgive us both! We are not, Hes ter, the worst sinners in tho world. There is one worse than even the pol luted priest. That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and 1, Hester, never did so." ".Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own. We felt it eo! We said so to each other! Hast thou forgotten it. "Hush, Hesterl" said Arthur Dimmes dale, rising from the ground. "No; 1 have not forgotten!" They sat down again, side by side and hand clasped in ha.ndr on the mossy trunk of the fallen tree. Life had never brought them a gloomier hour. It was the point whither tlieir pathway had so long been tending and darkening ever as it stole along, and yet it inclosed a charm that made them linger upon it and claim another and another and after all another moment. The forest was obscure around them and creaked with a blast that was passing through it. The boughs were tossing heavily above their heads, while one solemn old tree groaned dolefully to another, as if tell ing the sad story of the pair that sat be neath or constrained to forebode evil to come to an end! "Thou art crushed under this seven years' weight of misery," replied Hester, I fervently resolved to buoy him up with her own energy. "But thou shalt leave it all behind thee! It shall not cumber thy steps, a 3 thou treadest along the forest path; neither 'shalt thou freight the ship with it, if thou prefer to cross the sea. Leave this wreck and ruin here where it hath happened. Meddle no more with it! Begin all anew! HaM thou exhausted possibility in the failure of this one trial? Not so! Th2 future is yet full of trial and success. There is happiness to be enjoyed! There is good to be done! Exchange this false life of thine for a true one. Be, if the spirit summon thee to such a mission, the teacher and apostle of the red men. Or as is more thy nature be a scholar and a sage among the wisest and most renowned, of the cultivated world. Preach! Write! Act! Do anything, save to lie down and die! Give up this name of Arthur Dimmesdale and make thyself another, and a high one, such as thou canst wear without fear or shame. Why shouldst thou tarry so much as one other day in the torments that have bo gnawed into thy life! that have made thee feeble to will and to do! that will leave thee powerless even to repent! Up and away!" "O Hester!" . cried Arthur Dimmes dale, in whose eyes a fitful light, kintlled by her enthusiasm, flashed up and died away, "thou tell est of running a race to a man whose knees are tottering be neath him! I must die heret There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world alone!" It was the last expression of the de BDondencv of a broken spirit. He lacked energy to grasn tho belter fortune that not bo described. La. clergyman resolved alone. "If, in all these past peven years," thought he, "1 could recall one instant of peace or hope, 1 would yet endure, for the sake of that earnest of heaven -mercy. Cut now, since I am irrevocably doomed wherefore should 1 not snatch the solace allowed to tho condemned culprit before his execution? Ur, if this bo the path to a U-ttcr life, as Heste- woulu persuade me, I surely givo up no fairer prospect by pursuing it! Neither can 1 anv longer live without her com panionship; so powerful is she to sus tain so tender to soothe! (J thou to whom I dare not lift mine eyes, wilt thou yet pardon me?" ; "Thou wilt go!" said Hester calmly, as he met her glance. The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over tne trouble of his breast. It was the exhilarating effect upon a prisoner just escaped from the dungeon cf his own heart of breathing tho wild, free atmosphere ot an uureueemed, un ehristainized, lawless region. His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and at tained a nearer prospcct of the sky than throughout all the misery which had kept him groveling en the earth. Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of tho devotional iu his mood. "Do 1 feel joy again?" cried he, won dering at himself. "Mcthoaght the germ of it was dead in me! O Hester, thou art my better angel! 1 seem to have flung myself sick, sin stained and sorrow blackened down upon these for est leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify him that hath been merciful! This is already tho better life! Why did we not find it sooner?" "Let us uot look back," answered Hes ter Prynne. "The past is gone! Where fore should we linger upon it now? See! With this symbol I undo it all, and make it as it had never been!" So speaking, she undid tho clasp that fastened' the scarlet letter, and taking it from her bosom threw it to a distance among the withered leaves. The mystic token alighteel on the hither verge of the stream. With a hand 8 breaatn farmer flight it would have fallen into the water and have given the little brook another woe to carry onward, besides the unin telligible tale which it still kept mur muring about. But there lay tho em broidered letter, glittering like a loet jewel, which some ill fated wanderer might pick up, and theneeforth be haunted by strange phantoms of guilt, sinkings of the heart and unaccountable mxsicrmr--. The stigma .gone. Hetcr beayetla lonjc tniet now a child's spirit came again, voice and ; the forest. Pearl had te t f -und tho h weans, niely while her mother ing with tao eh r;ym m. T black f'.re.s -st.-rti as it show, tho.so who brought th" gtalt an of the world into its- In., t.i t--c playmate of the l.-te '.y infant a.-, it knew how. S-.mi-T .s it wa. on the kinde-' t of its i:uxis to w.-ic her. And she wa.; gentler here thai; in grassy margined streets of the he meut or m her mo;her s o.ta". flowers Htvir.od to ki" w ;t. and one bn. k ward at. 1 t to tctify t" '"hati -" that ar 1, I a (-... 1 1 V ' l 1 o-r- fr. I: i ,- u .1! . . u. cir jvass sat talk . gi v y It.self t troe.l ... .iii.i' ; ex .1 m.. If yo tl," ;iert rs 1 e .m b w a l . Lang" " -;.. a n:ny .m.-e-.f .1 " P. i.Kl PISA IT" tl VI I.I IN i hi: w r.sr. It :rau ger. iv. in l th a t.t "t had the .d f nl v ir. ii. n i ; 1 1 1 r v ect v e .tr. otuer wtu-pe-rei: as o, thyself with ni". then adorn thyself with m pas, !. .dorn beau-ifnl child 1" and to pi"a-se them Pearl gat hi red 'ae vi.J.-t.s ;n 1 ;vn eir.or.es and columbines and some f.vig ef the fri-spe..: gn u. which the oil trees held down In-fore her eyes With these she decorated her hair and he-r young waist, and lufanw a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else wai in closest sympathy with the antique wtv;xi. In such guise had l..rl adorn. ; herself, when she heard her mother is voice and came slowly ha k. Slowly, for she saw the clergyman. t .. few an 1 it s ail o . . r r r hea.i a . . 1 s Ifart. o ir b ; i . ' ., r. i It wl be do . i i est f..r we are al 1 us a -i .11. " O 1 o s tl t . :ir, a . d a r I e r w a r d t he v uas th i n g- w c v o 1 1 t i . i i . k v . m - - Mo . .h p t 1 - t r o v a'.d I,- Wi- -v. '. . L i . : Y-t. . - L : i la lar ir. P.. i 1 r 1 e CHAPTER XIV. the emu at Ti;;t nr.' jksite. "Thou wilt love her dearly." related Hester Prynne. as she and tho minister sat watching little Pearl. "Dost thou not think her laitir"ul? And seo with what natural skill she hxs made those simple flowers adorn her? Had the gathered pearls and diamonds and rubies in tho wood they could uot have locom" her better. Ske is a splendid child! But I kuow whose brow she has!" "Dost thou know, Hester," said Ar thur Dimme.stlale with an unquiet smile, "that this dear child, tripping about al ways at thy side, hath causal me many an alarm? Methought Oh. Heater, what a thought id that, and how terrible to dread it! that my own features were partly repeated in her face, and so strik ingly that tho world might seo them! But she is mostly thin!" "No. no! Not mostly !" answered the mother, with a tender smile. "A little longer and thou necdest not to be afraid :f". I CO nvg a n , Uel h -h to trace whose cluld she is. liut bow strangely beautiful she looks, with thot wild flowers in her hair! It w aa if on of the fairies, whom we left in our dear old England, had decked her out tc meet us. " 'Then mistake in moving1 it 1 1 r tl. nut?" 1 mistake of n.v Back thar in Iov. a the church be! . a Sondav tnornin' far ' i.ur out here the nigh"t ihore en mile away." "That's a g'reat l.ard eoarfe. ' ' "Back thar, w hn I k" atol w uti t e 1 to blow m : . d could k' cmt iti'" tlo v," r; p the leaves o!T of n t rees and pull thug- i o roots. Her'"1 1 hev l ot!. prairie land, with -ke. tree in ik.'ht, ai d cu--;; do m a mite g ... I me homesick everv t." "But perhoj s t h . i: gs will prove l r-' m The New Barber Shop. , V , ft- r ? ,i e v r v .v. ;t&' D'-s. ; r it' ' i n Na1i tr.-. i . '.-r r.- ! Lrr . ir. 1 1 fc ! !:'. v . 'v a ;t i , p, .;..!: i i'Vl ITT :F 1 1 o nia'i Q 1 1 . 1. h t ; m. V tl." .' 1 t . " ! y & . d'.n't 1 try :m- A Beautiful Stylish 5 he for Ladies. To BR CC5T irrF.p ordd of Wilom. "Work for eternity mnst re6t on a solid basis. Bees fed on sugar huntiug for flowers. , There is a z"0sjel in kiud of a handshake. Mehho so. b it 1 doubt it Back thar every strngr lo who comes r.lonwr vili,ti' to peel off his coal and try to lkk me, but out here 1 can't tt up no row with nobody. I'm a home sick, discouraged, dishr artened critter, and if yon happen tomeet a feller who thinks this world is goinf; to end up in about two weeks please direct him here t soon stopitindtny shanty, and tell him I that all I have shall be his'n if richt I he'll only (um this way I" b J M. Quad. the h rrtAiat IU mil tt-Jkpn ha MWf xm f i PRICES, t2 82.SO. 3, 3AO. 1kszZhti Skt IX Kin, Lpa. Krx FOB AjLL BY PERRY A PATTER SO YOU.NUdVlLLE. V i: I. : - - 1