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BET GOODS
W. H, Murray,
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j)! . , WbOlMal Grocerlei.
Blnford, Crow Co.,
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Jobs II. Allea, Jr.,
Jeweler.
George Hrers,
Groceries.
C. D. Myers &
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Hartdc Bailer,
?r5 ' Iroa, Works,
Parker 4 Tar lor,
Hardware.
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Furniture.
James JHcCormick,
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Marble Tard,
Within a cottage window smiled,
With happy eyes, a cottage ebUd. 4 ? .-
The southern wind) so soft and sweet!
Scattered the rose leaves at her feet;
While climbing flower and leaf of green'
Laughed sunnily the hours between, -
And o'er her glowed the tender dyes
Or Bommer skies. ,-.v i-nx
i Bweetwere herliftod eyes snn-brigut '
,Wkb light of joyous Innocence
And at her glance a dream of peace
Stole o'er the sluggish tide of sense.
I knew not whether blight or dew
Fell on the flowers; I only knew "
That some long-sought, divine delight, ,
Filled all my soul, and at the night i
Twould still be light.
A little nearer to the child ,t V1 i v
' 1 crept her brow serene and mild, 1
Her dark eyes wells of holy light;
Fair . cheeks than rose more fairly bright;
Her dimpled chin, her smiling mouth,
The tender, transient charm of youth,
All pleased me; yet twas none of these '
That made her, like 4 flower there, :
To adorn the air. . -
Pure little flower, aloft to God " , ,
Thy fragrance rose from nuragle sod, . ,' ,
The soul of sweetness kept thee from ' '
The taints that to another come;
For Jo my kneeling-place I heard
That timid, soft entreating word ;
"Our Father I" This it was that made
The forest smile, a dewy glade;
That every leaf and flower arrayed
In blithe colors; lent the bee
Its summer song of ecstasy;'
That sent my soul its dream of peace;
Tha'i sin-sick, brought me sweet reiease;
That gave me faith aloud to cry; T ,, j
Father, have pity, leai I die 1'Vi, 1 t J
w.. t.'. .ii.. nt 1
juyi amor uvra uuu uiuiu i Deuoili I
The heavens shine, a sea of gold ; i
The fair earth blossoms, and Day smiles
Like happy shores of sunset isles.
SENT BY EXPRESS ;
; 1 'r ob, i' '
1 WHAT FPANJK jETAN3 MISSED. ;
. Marian Harlan was alone in the world
lier mother Just buried. ,
She was a beautiful, brown-haired girl,
v. ith soft, shy eyes of violet gray, and rosy
lips compressed to a firmness far beyou.
her years. For after all she was scarcely
seventeen, and so deacon Gray was telling
her, as he sat by the fire spreading his huge
hands over the tardy blaze, and asked ;
'But what are you goiii to" dd to' earn
your bread and butter, child?',, ' .-f- , t
. 'I dont know I havn't thought. Mam
ma had an tincle in New York, who"
' Tes, yes I've heerd tell about Mm he
was mad 'cause Jour mother diUnt marry
just exactly to suit him, wasnt it T
Marian was silent Deacon Gray waited
a few . minutes, hoping she would admit
him, Into her secret meditations; but she
did not, and 'the deacon went away home,
to tell his wife that Harlan gal was the very
queerest creetur he ever had come across.'
,' In the meanwhile Marian was busy pack
ing her few scantly things into a little car
pet-bag, by the weird, flickering; light of the
dying wood fire.' Vj : , ,.?
! 'I will go to New York, she said to her
self, setting her small pearly teeth firmly
together. 'My mother's nncle thall hear
my cause pleaded through my own lips,
Oh, I wish my heart would not throb so
wildly I I am no longer meek Minnie Har
lan I am an orphan, all alone, in the world,
who must fight life's tattles with her own
single hands.' , , .., . ' : ;
Lower Broadway, at seven o'clock in the
evening I What a Babel of crushing wheels,
hurrying humaiiity, ' and conglomerate
noises It was I ' Minnie Harlan sat in the
corner of an express office, under the flare
gaslight, surrounded by boxeand wonder
ed Whether people ever went crazed in this
perpetual din and tumult. Her dress was
very plain gray poplin, with a shabby, old
fashioned little straw ' bonnet tied with
black ibbons, and a blue, veil, while her
only article of baggage, the carpet bag, lay
I in her lap. She bM sat there two hours,
and was very, very tired, e gfcfr i , .
'Poor little thing!' thought the dark-hair
ed young clerk nearest her, who inhabited
a sort of wire cage under a circlet of gas
lights, , And then he- took up his pen and
plunged into a perfect Atlantic ocean of
acTOunts.--':'5!""!;, .: .. 'v. '
"Mr. vans.' ' ' , '
The dark-liaired clerk emerged from his
cage with his pen behind his ear, in obedi
ence to the beckoning finger of his superior.
1 have noticed that young woman sitting
here for some time how came she here T
Expressed on, sir, from Millington,Iowa,
arrived this afternoon.'
As though poor Minnie Harlan were a
box ot a paper parcel. - - i -
Who for ? ty- -. - f-
'Consigned to Walter Harririgtor, Esq.,
'And why hasn't she been for V ! . , '
1 sent up lo Mr. Harrington's address to 1
notify him sometime ago; expect an an
swer every momeat.' ,
! Very odd,' sad the grey haired gentle
man taking up his newspaper. .
Yes, sir, rather. r
; 'Some tliree-quartera of an hour after
ward, Frank Evans came to the pale girl's
side with indescribable pity in lus luue'
eyes." Wt f '
Miss Harlan, we hare sent to. Mr Har
rington's residence . - J ;
t MlnnIe looked up with a feverish red
upon her cheek, and her hands clasped
tightly on the handle of a faded carpet bag.
; 'And we regret to inform you that he
sailed for Europe at twelve o'clock this
day.;"l; ':'V:-..-'!
. A sudden blur came over Minnie's eyes
she trembled like a lead In all her cal
culations she had made bo allowance for
an exigency like this. I r. .7 ; v
, 'Can we do anything further-for you?'
questioned the young clerk, politely. i :
. "Nothing no one ca do anything note!'
, Frank Evans had been turning away, but
something in the piteous tones of her voice
appealed to every 'manly Instinct within
him. . V .,--v -'
' Shall I send to any other of your friends!'
: r'I have no friends." ' f
j Perhar) I can bave your things sent to
some quiet family hotel v., , 1 r ,n , .. , , ,
i Minnie opened her little leather purse
and showed him two ten-cent pieces; With
a smile that was almost a tear. .
I This is all the money I have In the world
liTr" ' -r-rr!--TH--,-T ,j
'So young, so beautiful, and so desolate I
Frank Evans had been a New Yorker all
his life, but he had never met with an ex
actly parallel case to this. He bit the end
of his pen in dire perplexity.' " ;
'But what are you going to dor
"donrknow, sis.Isn't there a work
house, or some such place J. could go to,
until I could find something to do?'
' 'Hardly.' Frank Evans could scarcely
help smiling at poor Minnie's simplicity.
'They are putting out the lights and pre
paring to close; the rBce, said Minnie,
starting nervously to her feet. I must go
somewhere.' j ... 4
Mln IlmiiMl,- miUf -Tnuitc,-iftatsitf,my
home Is a very poor one I am only a live
hundred dollar ' clerk but I am sure my
mother will receive you under her roof lor
a day or two, if you can trust me.'
'Trust you ? Minnie looked at him
through violet eyes obscured In tears. . Oh,
sir, I should be so thankful I . . ,,
'now late you are, Frank! Here give
me your overcoat it Is all powdered with
snow and 1 ' i Mui rt'fix'sfy A-''
- But Frank interrupted his bustling, cherry-cheeked
little mother, as she stood on
tip4oe to take off his outer wrappings.
; 'Hush, mother; there is a young lady
down stairs.' i
A young lady, Frank? - -,
! 'Yes, mother; expressed on from Iowa
to old, Harrington, the rich merchant. He
sailed for Europe this morning, and she is
left entirely alone. , Mother, she looks like
poor .Blaucbe, and I knew you wouldn't
refuse her a corner here until she could
find something to do.' . J, , ',., , ; . s
i Mrs! Evans went to the door and called
cheerfully out : ' . , ..
j Come up stalrs,'my dear you're as wel
come as the flowers in May I Frank, you
did quite right ; you always do.'
"; The days and weeks passed on, and still
Minnie Harlan remained art inmate of Mrs.
Evans' humble Jdwelllng. , , '
' It seems just as though she' bad taken
our dead Blanche's place,' said tlie cosy lit
tle Widow ; 'and she is so useful about the
house, I dont know how I ever managed
Without her. NowMlnnie, you are not in
earnest about leaving us to-morrow T '
'I must, dear Mrs. Evans. Only think
I have been here two monlha to-morrow,
and the situation of governess is very ad
vantageous.' " : 'i ;i
i Yery well. X shall tell Frank how ob
stinate you are.' V 'I , feifi Ji
; 'Dearest Mts. Evans, please dont. Please
keepmyiecret.,,iii , ..-1
j 'What secret is itthat la to JbesoreligA
lously kept ?' asked .Mr. Frank Evans,
Coolly walklug Into the midst of ths dis
cussion, with his dark hair tossed about by
the wind, and his hazel brown eyes spark
ling archly. ' '." ' ' ; f";
; "Secret V repeated Mrs. Evans, energetic
ally wiping her dim spectacle glasses,' Why,
Marian is determined to leave us to-uior-row.
'. J . . . .-;
j 'Minnie !' ,. ' . . . , , v
'I must, Frank. I have no right further
r trespass on your kindness. .
No bright, 1 eh t . Minnie, t do you ; know
that the old house has been a different
house since you came into it? Do you
suppose we want to lose our little sun-
bean? J.-'r ' "JV J.'.; t
1 Minnie smiled sadly, but her hand felt
very cold and passive in-Frank's' warm
grasp.' ';-'-',.., . .
(Youll stay, Minnie ? '
'No.' . -
She ahook her head determinedly., w ,
'Then you must be made to stay said
Frank. 'I've missed something of cut
value lately, and I hereby arrest you on
suspicion of the theft V ...
Missed something t
Minnie rose turning red and white. '
01i, Frank, you can never suspect me T "
'But I do suspect yau In fact, I am
quite sure tliat the article is In your pos
session.' 1 ,
The article! . .,:'
'My heart, Miss Mlnnls! Now look
here I know I am very young and very
pxr, but I love you, Minnie Harlan, and 1
Will be a good and true husband to you;
Si ay and be my little wife r '
So Minnie Harlan,' Instead of going out
as a governess, according to the programme,
married the dark-haired young clerk in
Ellison's express office, New York. ,
,They were very quietly married, early
lathe morning, and Frank toolrtlinnle
home to his mother, fend then went calmly
about his business in the Wire cage, under
the circlet of gaslights. ' ; ' : J
: 'Evans!' ; -..i.i't-L L?
j'Yea, sir.';
Frank yrtlh his pen behind his ear as of
yore quietly obeyed the behests of the
gray-headed official. c I ' i '
'Do you remember the young woman
who was expressed on from Milllngton,
Iowa, two months since f ; J - "
'Yes, sir I remember her. '' ' ;
A tall, silver-haired gentleman here in
terposed with eager quickness: 'h
'Where Is she? I am her uncle, Walter
Harrington. I have Just returned from
Paris, when the news of her arrival reach
ed me. I want her, she is the only living
relative left me.' ,, 'JtiXv v
'Ah 1 but, sir,' said Frank, 'you cant have
her,' -vlf. :v:: t. 1 ,l ,
Cant have her t Wnat do tou mean ?
Has anything happened r f t , '
'Yea, sir, something mvi happened.1 Mis
Harlan was married to me this morning1 '
' Walter Harrington stared. i( f
'Take me to her,' he said, hoarsely '; 1
cant be parted from my only living rela
tive for a mere whim. '- - ' ,
'I wonder if he calls lha marriage servical
ana weaamg ring mere wnims moagnt
honest Frank ; but he obeyed in Silence.
, 'Minnie,' said the old man, in faltering
1 accents, 'you will come to me and be the
daughter of my old age ? I am rich, Min
nie, and you are all I have In the world.
But Minnie stole her hand through her
husband'! arm.'. ' V -v"
'Dearest uncle, As was kind to me when
I was most desolate and alone. I cannot
leave my hushahdi "Uncle Walter I love
him!, " '- ' ;
' 'Tlien you must both of you come and
be my children,' said tho old man, dogged
ly J 'and you must come now, for the great
house is as lonely as a tomb.' f :
, Frank Evaus is sn express clerk no lon
ger, and pretty Minnie moves In velvet and
diamonds ; but they are quite as happy as
they were in tho old days, and that Is say
ing enough. Uncle Walter Harrington
grows older and feebler every day, and his
two children are the sunshine of his declin
ing life. . , : . , . .- .
A MATCH NOT MADE
IN HEAVEN.
! ' My mother was determined" I iroould
'make a good match,' and on short notice
she married me to a Mexican, Don Pedro
Aldeio, one reputed of immense wealth a
lion at Saratogo, where first we met.
He wore diamonds enough for a prince's
ransom, and letters of credit were uidlmN
ted. '- '. f
My mother informed me 'her mind was
made,' the day we returned to New York.
Six months later I was the wife of Don Pe
dro Aldezo, and had accompanied him to
his native land.--fc ir -. .
To my surprise, after spending- a few
days in each of several Mexican cities,. In
cluding the capital, Don Pedro ' bad con
veyed me to a lonely hacienda, Situated on
the broad, wild slope that stretches Inland
toward Uie mountain regions.
He told me this was a temporary resi
dence until some repairs could be made
upon his anoeitrial palace, to fit it for my
abode. - -i- - -:
I made no objections to this plan, lonely
and monotonous as It was, for the truth
was) the tittle lore I had felt for my bus.
band had ere this been lost in the intense
but mysterious fear with which be" inspired
me. . ',-,. ' ......
No thought of dlsputfng his wlUewn
tered my mind,' and life seemed but a
sheer - dead monotony, of self-sacrifice
as the early age of an eighteenth birth
day. , . ...... 1
But as the weeks grew Into montlis, -1
began to question why we did not remove
from that ruds hacienda. I had no books,
nonew8papers,no lettcrs.and my only resort
Was the final question.
My only answer wm a alow lifting of the
fringed eyelids, and one of the lurid hate
ful glances that always t drove me
dumb with terror. -Never agatodid I
allude to the pallace, nor did I ever behold
tt. ""' :' ""
I was much alone In the hacienda few
travelers ever visited us; my only society
being half-breed servants, a dlrty.lgnorant,
qualid set, sauk in the lowest depth of
social degradation. My husband would
mount his horse and ride away over the
Elalns, and often days would elapse before '
is return, and then sometime lie would
appear followed by a numerous retinue of
travelers,' as he informed nie, whom he
would feast in that distant 'portion of the
strapgllng . hacienda set iipait as the
dwelling place of his , retainers, .where
the loud discordance ' of their revelry
would . make the night hideous to my
sjwb.. ;,;,..'..;. ,,.',:-ft-...
: One day when he was absent two travel
ers stonped at the door of this building.nnd
asked for food. I saw them as they arriv
ed, and something familiar iu their air and
gait attracted my attention. The servants,
who seemod to know them well, set
food before them, which presently 1
saw them eating In the open, air within the
court. . . ; v: ."V ..
As I looked memory strengthened, and I
knew them for a couple of vile fellows who
lutd annoyed me at Staraloga two yeais
before, and with whom I had seen Don
Pedro conversing. They loitered about
all day, as I learned, for my husband's re
turn. , At nightfall he came, and he held a long
conversation with them, before be came to
greet me. . . . ;
. As the moon arose they galloped out of
the court mounted oa two of my husband's
best horses, and struck straight across the
plain. . !
I saw my husband watching me, as
if to detect my knowledge of these visi
tors A". ..I.-' ..; J.V-- f,
But I had long ceased to question him :
he seemed SAtisBed with my silence, ami
no allusion was made to the strange
gUeStS. - 'i': ' ."TU-iiij'iw r f) :. i
All the next day lie wandered about
the place, moody and sullen, ' and
evidently brooding over bitter thoughts.
, Some crisis in my fate, I felt, drew
nigh.' " -t . 1 1' j '-1.' .'i v. "U-- 'n
My suspicions long active, but vague
now rested on the fact of his fellowship
with those prowling vllllana who had just
left ua. . . . .- - ' -.
That mysterious fellowahlp was suffi
cient to brand him with .crime, though
of what nature I dared not hazard a
guess. - ,u- -.a--1.;rtS.4-fr :,;
, I felt dangeiy and my whole soul cried out
for help and mercy, t v 1,1
; At midniKbt the tramp of hones and jin
gle of bells was beard, and amid the furi
ous yelping of dogs a party rode Into the
eourt. ' .-. . 1 - .
My husband arose and went out to meet
his guests. I detected among the voices
those of our stranse visitors -
My husband returned and feigned
..wbtt feftUna , soma. . great
event awaited me, sUll kept 4eut
watcn. -
My breakfast was brought to my room,
and when I would have gone forth, I found
myself a prisoner.
The loticf,weary day passed at last and the
nornuie metit came on. . .
1 My husband did not present himself,
but his voloa was heard mingling with tta
revels' v -.e.- ,. : . ... . :, '
Midnight came and all was hushed, 1
Could not Bleep, -and wrapped securely
In a dark shawl, I sat at my window
behind the sheltering Jalousies, land cas
ed out upon the wondrous beauty of the
nigni.-.
I I bad sat thus an hour when low voices
attracted my attention. One I detected
my husband's voice; the other a woman's,
unfamiliar to my ear, and hoarse, as if the
speaker struggled to repress some profound
emotion.
Why did you come Y 1 heard my hus
band say., 'I forbid you, and If Helena
should learn of this, she would Drove troub-
i lesoine, pauent an suouuea as she now ap
pears. ..;.-.'
So you .have crushed the white bird's
fluttering wings, have you, Pedro r the
woman answered. . 'Icu well know how to
perform such feats.' . - ,
Ha ha t , Well said; but yours was nev
er crushed, my proud Lorena. , You will go
at noon, wiu you 1101. : 51 -
On, no I I must remain one day more I
have come aoUar and waited so long to see
you.' ' .v ., : , ,-. v.
But Helena ;
Ob, I pity ber I I must sUy, bat I pity
her I .
'You need not. 1 tire of the puny, pale,
spiritless creatue. Sue'll die some day
disappear as many others have done ; and
tneu you snau come back aud reigu sols
mistress.'
Wbat stain that pearly skin with her life
blood r .
'Ha ha! Who, I say can stand In my
path, when I wish thein removed ? But
hlst f yonder is her window speak lower
And they1 moved on, while, I, sick with
horrorralled to my couch, to lie and think
shudderliigly what I had heard,
Hist hist P . '
There surely my name wu whispered
under the window. I crept through
ther lattice. A note was pushed through
the Jalousies, and dark figure glided
away. -'? h;.- ' : i
It turned at a distance, and the rays of
the moon fell upon an uplifted fce. Oh,
horror t It was the face of a euban lady,
whom also X bad seen at Saratoga, a
reigning belle at the time I met my hus
band. - -
When the flnt daws of morning appear
ed, I read my note. s
'I am a woman, like yourself,' it said,
'and once I was Innocent. Butow I am
guilty and would risk much to win back
that devil you call husband. Be resdy to
morrow at miduight,and I will aid your es
cape from this deu of robbers and send you
to your friends.' ' ' ---:-
liow the hours dragged on In tbelr in
terminable length. Presently at midnight
my doorswung open. 1 followed loedaik
figure to hre out spirited animals were
tied, and la the deep Ullues of ahe rvghi
we sped with an arrof-like swiftness ovir
the plain. ; t- ,- - r ;
In three days we reached a sea-port,
A; vessel was ready to sail for New
York. My contpanlou aocumpcuiled inn 04
board. ' - 1'v ' ' " ' '!
: Ou my twentieth birtb-day I drove! to
my mother's home, aud 'tis not strange she
failed to recogulze the blooming iri she
consigned to S fate worse than de itlu I
am now twenty-five, but I look as though
filly whiter had shed tUelifnows up?n me.
' -' ? T.; ''f !v ' v:," ,' v..,
The brilliant match I nude was to a note
riotu robber chief u tuiror aud dread to all
the land. ' . - ". , -
Motlters. this U ho iaiicv akntph. tint a
true tale anil remember, in making your
daughter's future, look to true worth aud
less glitter. - ',.', r
tu IFroia the Detroit Free Press,
t.ltt 1 Xsvn. ...
You see, the people at the Post Offlce
soon recognise faces and names, and after
a man or woman has appeared at the geat
end-delivery window three or four times,
they are pretty well known-,, It la a real
pleasure to hand out letters to some, while
the clerks care little for the calls of others
to get bold of their letters. ,
; One day a year or two ago, a funny-looking
little old woman, wearing faded gtr-
nients, but having a tidy look and a moth
erly face, appeared at the window aud ask
ed for a letter. There was oue for her,
sent from a distant city, and any oue could
have told that an unlearned boy directed
the envelope. There was a . little "d" la
"Detroit,", with a big "T" to end the word
aud it seemed wonderful that the . letter
ever reached its destination, . . ;
The old lady felt so good that tears hi
her eyes, and yet trying bard to smile, she
put ber head Into the window and said ; ,
: 'Thanks! It's from my boy Dan,
and you dont know how good it does
mol v.,' jv
1 The lady delivery clerk roso to look after
the old woman, and when a second letter
came she was looking aud watching' for
mother' a whole day before the letter wu
passed out. '., ,
n 'It's from my boy Dan, again I cried the
old woman, as she noted the superscrlp
tIoiu -"He's in Buffalo, learnlug a trade,
He's only a bit of a boy, and there wasn't
show for him in Detroit,, and, .besides, be
was running out at nights, aud going to the
bad. I seut him away, and he's working
bard and trying to be good., God bless my
Dan ! I'm a lone widow, with ouly him to
love, and I hope he'll be good l , ,
X hope so, too, added lhloik, and af.
let that the two were frlenda.. BometJmesL
the letters were far between, and when the
old woman would worry over tho delay,
and the big tears would fall, the lady would
almost shed tears witlijber. 'Mother would
open her letters at the window, and if Dan
was feeling brave-hearted and getting
along well both would rejoice, while both
Would still be anxious If be complained
and was discouraged, . "7
Almost every week for a year and a half
the old lady received a letter, and Just ss
regularly she came to post an answer. She
wrote in s quaint old hand, but the boy
eould make out every word, and once
when be wrote that her writing wu Im
proving she felt all the pride which a school
girl eould have shown. He Improved as
welt By and by he wrote 'Detroit', plain
and fair, and he took extra pains to Com
mence hi 'Dear Mother, with a grand
flourish, and to add something extra after
the words . 'Your Sou Dan. '.f
The letters were food and drink to the
old lady, and she seemed ' to actually grow
younger. '" Little Dan bad many friends In
the Post-office, and had the mother been
ill any carrier would have hunted till mid
night to And ber and hand her the looked
for letter. Three or four weeks ago sh
wept and smiled as over the first. Dan
wrote that h was coming home for a week,
and ber heart wu full. She said she'd
have the cottage looking like new for him,
and abe'd be at the depot to welcome him
first of all , Everybody felt glad with her,
and the lady clerk wu to go up some even
ing aud have tea with her; .and see little
Dan, and praise and encourage him, for
Ihe more kind words a boy can have ths
better will he seek to do, ;
There wu so letter the next Tuesday,
but the two excused its absence by saying
that pan wu getting ready to come home.
That wu early In February, and be wu to
come about the -first of March. . The neat
Tuesday there teas a letter,' but the hand
wrlUna- wss not little Dan's. It wu a
strange, business hand, and the clerk felt a
chill go over her u she turned it over. It
might be good news, but aba feared not,
Mother came In at the regular hour, sod
she turned puis as she took tL envelope,
Her fingers trembled u she opened It, and
she bad to wipe the mist out of her eyes
before she could decipher a word. Sh
hadn't read over four or five lines when she
uttered a moan, and sank right down, lilt
one crushed by some awful weight They
lifted her up and took her home, the letter
cliisped In her stiff fingers, and though she
came out of the faint after a while her
heart w as jtrokon, en lu ft week she wa
In her grave. ; ! " , ?' ?f :
Dau wu dead! The letter said that ht
had beer, taken suddenly ill, and that noth
ing could save him. - The blow was too
iie.ivy far one with her grav hairs and child-'
isi li- t, aud her little old cottage is with
out a tenant "V .'"
No more letters commencing "Deaf , Moth
er,' cume fir the dead, aud the trembling
hands which used to linger fondly over the
words.: 'My dear boy, Dan, were folded
over a lifeless breast, there to reet till the
angelMunelasp theuu .
A Obost Story. ' "
Somewhere about the beginning of tiie
last Century, an Edinburgh clergyman was
called out of hi bed at midnight, on the
pretext that be was wanted to pray with a
NtHAH ihA hnliit ftf dentil ' The ffnftd
man obeyed the summons without hesita-
ItriM l.ntfLil.lMS ha Vin ,1 twit Jlnnm M rT.j.n
....... WM. V UWI ..... w - . U U ,
wuy part Of the City, lis bearers ins! ,ud
upon his being blindfolded, and cut his
pro's ta4ons short by threatetinj to b o v
hta brains out If he refused to do Uielr bid
ding. Like the sensible man he was, lie
subnillted without fit: ther parley, and the
seduu moved on agalnv-,
By and by, be felt lie wu being carried .
trn stairs : the chair stODDed. the clenrvman
was nanaea out, ni eyes uncoverea, aiut
hi atteution directed to V young and
beautiful lady, lying la a bed, with an In
fant y her side. Not seeing any signs of
dying about her, be ventured to say so, but
wm commanded to lose no time in ottering
np such prayers at were fitting for a person
at ths last extremity. Having done his of
fice, he wu put ' into sv chair and taken
down stain, a pistol shot startling bis ears'
on the way. II soon found himself safe
at home, a parse 'of gold in his hand, and
his ears still ringing with the warning he'
had received, that if he said one word about
the transaction, his life would pay for the
indiscretion. At lant he foil off to sleep, to
be awakened by a servant with the news
that s certain great house lo the Cannon
gale had been burned down, and the daugh
ter of IU owner perished in the flames. The
clergyman had been long dead,' When a
Ore broke out on the very same spot, sua
there, amid the flames, wu seen a beautiful
woman, in an extraordinary rich nightdress
of the fashion of half a ceatury ; before. -While
the awe-etruck spectators gazed in
wonder, the apparition cried, 'Aims burned,
twice burned ; the third time I'll scare you
aiir . , .
As a Council Bluffs woman was ' doing
her washing, one of her children full Into
a kettle of waterv!rThe mother seized-tlio
infant,. whose heart-rending cries indicated
the terrible nature of ita injuries, aud de
posited tt upon s bed, while she ran to a
neighbor's to get him to run for , a doctor.
Before the doctor arrived, all the neighbors
had gatliered, and among thera .baduu
drecsed the screaming infant very care
fully, so that the scalded skin should not
peel off and sprinkled ft with flour. At
length the doctor arrtL lmnL t tl
muiv uiuuieiii. wi.m uig verror-flu ickcu Hus
band, whom also the messenger had fbuud
and big to go home and prepare for the
. . . . 1 . . . . . . .
ful examination of the infant, and prompt
ly advised the mother to put a shirt or some
thing on the clilld, so it mlgU not freosa to
death. .The assembled neighbors one after
another. felt' of the wrter in the kettle,
found it icy cold, and quietly separated, - ,
An Interesting collodion of stone mining
too U, discovered last year at Aklerley Edge,
In Cheshire, has recently been exhibited
before the Literary and' Plillosophlcal So
ciety of Manchester, by rrof. Boyd Daw
kins. The tools, which are f&iefty ham
mers formed of stone boulders, nr; '.ir'to
have been used In working the cor r ores
of this locality."' It fa) difficult to do ermine
the precise period at which they were in
use, but It appears safe to carry their data
back to pre-lioman times, and thus to class
them among pre-hlstorlc rtllca.
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