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.1 '- AW W ,: .'. ' v6l.,iii . A . ' " r II - " I . . .. i I I 7 'f "" ' - i ii ,-i n , OFFICIAI, oiaAIf OF THE GBASD LODGE her OF THE IJfDEPEiDEXT OE Herbert left OF GOOD TE3DPLAIIS OF IOETH CAROLINA neart. A terHhTnoi uuu . nnntr nn ; hat and raar.tle, and 'then loolr a a i a. -. . . i i j c ij. . - - . w urn AA . nuuub OH lier. stirrnnn; : . . vw.wwio, tear IIO? Lf A Mte cot, a 2r; f. . m.tfci, oi carpet,, one chair, no mt r ' ' " v,u,iV tnem:iia (was this. ooiWusW hi; r7 r8 looK'DO tangible shal or . i V . ; wan,-, ana a "Oh ? iue W3II finH m I icrtL in the doruer hoMii 7 "21 M me ia in -th v l "S1. iu cnensii and ;fitect is, in the cominsr her tA ton i... - - "J: - ; u tut) cominer indefinite time; this one roona, for she was determiner! r,n w.: ' - ? , . . vv tuiJL any i more with the hnar1 nA 11 VUttU I V vis lieiuiums. I hifl in . . pi . t.t . ; t -m - " vftju LjU i I iiiiir .1 ri or -fc 1 1 - cried heabstrantfvrt.tr iva I " WA winuova. ot the r was whirling-bimjifarrawa .F oniy woman he harl i Martha Bp!m 'fV? na.tl - town once 1 slight and del oate in 'fini -SS 7 dshed Hto busi,1t;; k,:r i V , te 10 t,Sure with a a zeal that 'tnnLUoA,-i.:J whjte hand, that"8'" one over the other,- a8 if testing K-'tff?.'? al lueirtrength ,to battle-with the irkS6nie wnk'- - ; WArLl TI- f-iL i . - I 11 KJume .Waiting. n moanf succumb ng. to h s misforh nX V u-,l? gopowiil off -it v;; fu? iflisiortunes, rents a atom.Cfi, jiau aiea iaa mad-Knneo ;rt c:J ! u r . . vuci,fiau . iasn- molhersaelicate rafia - sImV ?;V n" u u" HrVcWhe'Yl hi faVbr v.ck " wibck oi her ,r Le im ked that rom ved. hed. with ther, ir of s pa fash-1 V-. ,vviuio. ou ieu to ner child with hef blessing;. Her watch jewels, ana ; trunk . containing a six et us now tn 'hV l Sm-.u Seated HI her liftla months after herlfirRt. i;trt.,rtirrt to the reader. ;i hlhlf in nspiri in Rir.khpss and with dis-Tan I 1 - 111 ... A a A M M n M n m MB . ' n 7 II r ITT TV ' ..'V cretion corapieieu vue cucuw i puicuniuaiui uaa wmMy".' more curious boarders, comment ing on the change in tha still beau tiful girl, who was such a slave to appetite The truth was now ap parent to al 1. : Her ; u nsteady step told the tale that awoke only pity in every breast. ; The year of ;Herbert's probation was nearly over. . ' In one M-eek he would go to New York to claim his bride. . Ho gamed the consent of his parentK -andhad ritteu to Martha to that' effect. "There is a young gentlemen to see Mis Benedict, . marra." ; tWeli, go uWnd tell her, Brid- 'I have been up, but I can't . get in. , She, hasen't ate a bit or sap to day, and I thinks she must be pur tyv bad, ra arm.? . ( v : , ' " "Is Miss Benedict' sick ?" -cried Herbert excitedly, as his' ear caught: the servant's words. ., ' ; Yes," said the -. kind-hearted landlady willing to 'veil ; the poor girl's real - state; "sick and very poor. I hope you are some relative who has come to Make her home." " "Yes," said Herbert, the love light shining iu his eyes at the thought of sheltering his sorrowing: which they are engaged. Vim ttll" v -r T - . ! ,mm " 1 1 P Ut!UUcibUCU. - i ik 4 otnviH; -. v ..w. . . .... .-f., - - , Iow good ol poor, dear mamma i ts empty. , r a musb uc lepiciuoucv, i piu cu u t . . r if..i -i .,. u I ..r. aCirt' Vio nonl nf a 1 TTorhrt Srpnrfr. Herbert tore it it ? Delicacy. 2 A maf&ianyTcdse thing white under UUU1, JLV ( ' : LIOENSIUa AIT BTOi.' : - f .. -kMMMM ,.-. r. - i '7 : ' ", - - ' ' f ' t ' . ' S .BY ALBEKT BARXES,' D. D. -'. ': i '' .:-;. ' ., , , A; law which assumes that it thing ia wrong and yet tolerats ;itj which attempts only ' to check and regulate it .without utterly prohibi ting it; which: aims to; derive, a revenue from it for the purpose, of government ; which makes; that which is moral lyjn wrong. ) legal is one of those things in human af fairs with which the throne of God .can have no fellowship. His throne is a throne of righteousness. ; He makes no law to protect or regulate an evil. -. His laws, in relation to all that is wrong, only prohibit and condemn; They; who practice ini quity in any form, can never take refuge under his statutes, can never claim that what they do is, under his administration ; can never plead the patronage of his govero inent; can never appeal to the sario tiou of his laws against those moral influences which may, be employed to induce them to abandon their, course of - HIV br the business in wine 1" said Martha, as she opened soul," says conscience. Habit yre- case, arid feured a draught of rosy alas ! it is a true one. Better would liquid intbvthe little silver cup that it have been for roud Martha bene shd btfd owned since she, a baby in diet had she "mixed iwilh the long clothes; wa christened, "lhey boaraers"; naa sne tuKea muic will have none here, and I have interest in plain wife Jones, the been used at least, to a glass cf sallow seamstrees, and the widow wine at dinner." ft Norton, whose, tongue ran irora Herbert Spencer was the only morning tui nigni ; or eeu uiu one among their large circle of Mr. Brown, who had invited her to open, fearing the worst. It ran thus: ' ' . . "Dear Heebert: Under the light oi the calm summer moon I rr r mv laat. rest. When VOU : hrt At iff. auu hv tion of manv DersonrntO course fashionable acquaintances that had not turned his back on the Bene dicts on- the day of their great trouble. He had loved Martha since thev went to school together, and J v .' ' , - w t a nnv. though she was aione ana a lecture, andf because she rtfused tn (rft shed. tear theT next dav in his breakfast " plate. ) Anything, anything to i have separated her from herself. Shut up in her room, with a little A. kktttia THE FATAL LEGACI ' BY'irjBS. M. A. KIDDER. hie heart Dromoted embroiderV or painting: morbidly vuuvUUj , x i - , - . 7 1 j . i. T. J tinn I rinnc ninna : ' I IPOI 1 1 II CT tin ftiT Dim lO St OITCeIIiaKU a ucwaiaiiuu j Beu-tuuoiuuo, ---- nflhis ardent and true love for her. troubles and loneliness; how ; she Martha knew nothing of his deter- could get .: her livelihood (for her rain at i on, sue not ;iiaviijg seen uu muucj for montlis So it was vvith sur- she was married, it she ever was; Drise tnat sue,, one pieasauir-uuuc I imaiuuig iiciov4x i.t "S5" morningj received an oner oi -mar- crease ner giass ui.wmo LV' riaae from him, . X; two; after that, a's the weeks wore t"lle will change his mind," saia kon, ana tne ioiig syiiuinei u j,' thing &7aJ is to make? it morally right and an employ moot which is legal is persued by them; with few rebukes of conscience and with little disturbance from and refer ence to a higher than human -: au- J read this, the waves will have tnonty. moreover, inis iact ooe closed over me lor ever. I love much to deter others from opposing vou still, but I am not the same the evil atid lrom endeavoring; w eirl von lelt. 1 am a arunxora. turn me puuuu jumguaMuu Baiu It. XU IS HI! UllWWUUUlO tUlUg iWl good man ever to set" himself against the laws of the land, arid to, denounce that as wrong which they afhrm "to be rig M: r It is a virtue to be law-loving, and law-abiding; and ij a princi ple which every good citizen cher ishes tb do what he can to give ad- ditional force to the authority ot law, and not to ieuu uie sauuiiuii ui his name to that which would. weaken its moral power. Hence . i j i such men are oiten siow ana reiuu- Pray for my soil. "Martha." How Herbert Spencer got home he never' knew ; but long, long weeks afyer, when ho arose -fro ni ' va,l nf jJr.lrnPK . his head ' was .A white' as snow. What Causesjt ? Ulie. "when he finds me in a com- r "Well lam out', on the sea of mon. New York boarding house, life-it last, alone, and with storms, They are all. alike, these rich people tempests, and breakers ahead for -f sensitive to a fault about vulgar , all that I know ! Launched by ad- associations, until they are driven , versity and driven on by neces- 'to them by compulsion, as I have ' sitv !" And pretty, pale Martha been." . , TT t, . Benedict sat down by the one.win- f Martha was mistaken. . Herbert Mow inherhallbed roora and looked came to see her, and cared nothing ; out , , . ' ibr her surroundings.. He brought 'rThree dollars without board ; his heart in his hand. geven' dollaas with board ! Reason- Darling," said he, "marry me ' able ! Not so bad an outlook either, itow, if you love me. Delays are ' A tenement-house opposite, to be dangerous. Something might nap . i:4 ,. A mnAV npTi to ; DrfiVent our union. .- from the very poor as to make one i "Ne, Herberf," .said Martha ; "almost content withstanding even 'although It love ' you, I will not . i a v.:i1A' rAnspnt to oiir marriasre until you . . : have the ful consent of your pa- Your things is conic, miss' rents. Desist in your visits to me ai nf TVTiao 1 for n vear. If vou keen true, tney 'Benedict, as the door was pushed may finally consent, and that would ; m a T? ri a fro." make us both happier, Herbert. ' ; ushered in the expressman. ' ' Fear nothing; I will be true to What causes men to forget that thev are men. ond transforms tbem J - into fiend? Rum.. WUot iupu mfln tn lift in the 1 J 1 J I i ' v - - - - 1 fT.itiPi- fund the mud and filth ? taut in attacking that which is. an i.im , . undoubted evil, for the attack W At causes men to use lan- seems to be made upon the legal fa- thnt wnnld almost make the bricas such, and to Uo iuSO much ,,.,V- r-nntra blush ? Rum. t a weaken the authority. oHaw. The ! What causes our jails, prisons good are deterred from opposing it; . on-i dec nm rr nn nvon iiwui r wilii i 1 r 1,1 ev iiu uub wisa-.iw ouni-n ntolerable, to three, four and Hvand hvithfi wine crave out. tc Wht oTh ol 1 T ?" fiityhnd the inmates ? Rum, doomed girUfc I must -take some- What causes so .much poverty, thincr for a tonic; my appetite is misery, sutlenng and crime an o.ei good for nothing of late, just as our land I liura. - : pOOr papa USed lO DC, anu, iiuu i i uai uconujo F :-l'r r oWoii hvn m nlro .a -1it.ff.lA hrandv homes and families ? Rum. , ,7 i ; a , ooi Hatw-minat.inh vv har. is snrcaaiiiir uesuiauun I Ml if M. 'till i t,r.l a - - DUU U,WV4luiMiw t - w . I o K,it;fnl rnni. Innd .lovflstjition aliroad all over onr that whicn is levai. iiiey can 1 ' r L,mnfrp9 "Rnm . imrsiift their conrse in snite ot all fipTI 1 ( i . I vvtlHH J . -wm.. 1 1J T ' - rru '-A- 4t,ru TOr,t An until a ArP mm is the cause ot all tnese others can do. inus ine evu grun in strength" by an tne ooiuusss ffiven to them by the sanction of jthe laws, and by all the reluctant of the friends of reform to denounce that as icrong which the la'.v affirms lo be right. arrayed against the laws. The bad are confirmed in their course, ior they feel that they are sustained bv the. laws of the laud, and lor them that is enough. I hey can claim, too, some popular sympathy when they are denounced lor doing xuna n""p " -- - 1. . ,,m - . - . . ... tno mnhnaanv case things. Rum is the demon that is was empty: ay, empty more than leading men astray; causing them ..iAniKhni thunnrrhtho nin ni 1 rrt 1 pavp inp imi.m!k i uiuiaiikv nuu UUUC ICUlCUiOUCUj VUi ugu u- -.1 .w . t . - ... . ' 1 I . . 1 J .4A. - 4tiAaA ' a! the washerwoman's son who : was Martha's errand-boy. After a while Martha would ab sent herself ! whole days from her meal's sleeting away the golden minute s in a stupor sad to con- finding her door unlocked, looked ble evil. George H. Smitu, tn rrtitndA and enter those of im morality and sin. Oh, God I how long shajl this state of things last ? Friends of temperance, let us be up and doing. Let us work as though our lives depended on it, art A Rt.rivft to OV erthrow-this terri- .. It is estimated that the clergy of; the United States costs annually 12,000,000; the lawyers, criminals, prisons, etc., $90,000,000; and in toxicating liquors $73J)00,000. v Martha paid him quietly, shut you in upon ner, as uiu aiau owinc i 44& rwyw v --"- vv"- J5
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