Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 18, Number 15, Jasper, Dubois County, 21 April 1876 — Page 2

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SJXUIXO. 11 iu einuit Ui the Aon of lit th.tt wo Have tunic together frm th Urt ull now; The itiiilp Wiy rhyme ol luril ml Ut, Of aii no t lar.i'f nvnm an. I liloiii houh. Tim dsr-r mume o( our youlti' nrw oiif , In U) Hlii-n life Kx'ke.l won.U'rtully lair; XV ben iohii wtre lUrmtf, I'Uisfi quick and flOrouK, W lieu ti not, au-l Joy m everywhere. ' The w il.h r :ranii ol ii.icxi.ni, mnile mi l tear, W hen lovi- awuke ilh power to luy i-r ave; ' The rainier uielo'iy el pr.tvt-r yearn. In minor ley, like niuxic I y a rrnve. An.l uow we h.tve another U W'.irn. 1 1 wt ituu for ui, but we wait our turn. I often tlimk this linmvn. unnutiit Ming, With al lis in u". will have ui we know. An. I we i-fiiill le.ir ita awful rorl auioug Tde nittiitleil iiiu-ut of our hii ago. The milc t.auiii oj our Iwihy -rhyme; The Uirilhii l. inof youth' triuinh:u.t (-train ; The (H-nlnof meiiNlv, like wel.laiK iliiine, Thitt linn i-ur Mitniiier lo'tMinc bark m,':uu ; It may U Hits lu w 1011 it hurl to kinjc ; Ism nh.ul ( ru.l?j to learn it, wh have prow ii Tnv.1 aii'i voiorh'U In earth' rarolinir. Yet lam weuM I sve miie inel.ly our own? n. llioiu-h it I the nor if of le:il)i, we know That niKii'if it, to einUee lite we iro. Ail J'h )fir JUL UEAMAYS XlNTAKL. An Oll-l'aliloiiril Story. It was the close of the afternoon service in the village church of Hy field. The la.t notes of the doxology were still echoing from the sm-in ;ailery ; and the congregation, with a rustle and n ;t(r, t'irl thir fares towanl ttie inini'tcr for the benediction. I the brief pause before it was t-poken old Mr. Heaman, the Town Clerk of Hyfield, stepped in front of the pulpit, and raising his hand, said, in a loud, clear voice, " Know all v, horn it may concern, that Mark Uoynton of this 'town and Llizabeth Heath of the same intend marriage " There was a movement through the whole congregation as if it were pervaded bv an electric shock, and looks of surprise pasted from eye to eye. Dut there were three persons present to whom tiie eierk's nnnotuaeineiU fell like a thunderbolt. One of thrte was a youn jrirl with a pale face and a subdued and downcast eye. When Mr.Ueanian bciran to speak she listened with a kind of patient composure; but as the names were announced a wild, startled look came into her eyes, she sank back np u her seat, and buried her now burning face in her hands. Not many slips removed stood a man of perhaps forty a rrave and sober person, with hair slightly turning to gray. His face, habitually a somewhat sad one, had worn throughout the service that dav a look of eheerfnl content; but as Mr. iieaman made his announcement it took on the paleness of death. His head dropped upon his breast, and he stod like one paralyzed, clasping the railinir of the pew for support. Very ihtlerent was the c fleet produced upon a yuung man, the solitary occupant of a pew not far away. He had been standing with a drooping head and downcast, heavy look ; but as he heard the words of the old elerk he started visibly, the blood mounted in a crimson flush to his forehead, w hile his eye flashed with a look blended of triumph and defiance, and his lips closed with an expression of stern resolve. There was a painful hush over all the "hou-e, as if every one present wcro strargely moved tc- syzrr.nihy v.Uh one or another of those so cpfy and variously alTeottd by what had leen said. It was broken by the voice of the minister saying solemnly, "And now may grace, inerey and peace, the love of Hod, and the communion of I lis Holy Spirit, be and abide with you all for ever. Anien." And the people moved silently out of the church. The pale and stricken man on whom the ifhl clerk's iiKt-t unoxpeeted words had falN-n so like the stroke of doom was Hubert Jocelyn. He had listened thit day to hear his own name coupled with that of the lovely girl who hail promised to be his wife, and the voire of the clerk had joined with hers that of am ther and a younger man! To understand th full force of t lie blow which had fallen upon him, it is necessary to g ba k to a time, nearly twenty years I m-fore, when as a youth" lie had won the love of his pretty and gentle oouin l'loi I e Jocelyn. I'ho be was the im eliest girl in all that country round, nnd had admirers by the score, but Uobert was the choice of her heart, and to him so was tenderly attached. Ilut though capable of loving with devotion, pir Pho i.e was weak-w illed and timid, ari'I otiite powerless to resist a resolute and domineering mother, who had cho-rn a very diilerent person to be her daughter's iiwshaml. William Heath had more money than Uobert, and was a showy, plausible fellow in whom the ambitious mother fancied sho saw a more brilliant match for her daughter. Mic plied the yielding girl with arguments, reproaches anu appeals to filial duty, till she was quite bewildered; and almost before she was aware of it she had given up her cousin, and was plighted to William Heath. Hr married life was fortunately brief,' for she knew no happiness in the three weary years she lived with her husband. At the end of that time he left her in poverty, and no one in Jlyfield ever saw him again. l'oor IMio be, sinking under the pressure of grief, neglect and privation, lived but a few months after his desertion. During that time she was tenderly cared for by her cousin Uobert, w h supplied all the wants of her- - nclf and her infant daughter, and found

fir them n nereno asylum under the roof of his brother Kzra and his w ife. This kind couple had no children, and when her mother was pone the little Liz.io was adopted by them a their own. Kobert Jocelyn had never married. He lived on, a Nad and silent man, old before his time, but he had no heart to 1 1 tier to another woman. Ho had loved l'hicbe so unsclfishl that he eonld have borno to lose her if hhe hint been happy: but to have her taken from him to sutler nejjleet and cruelty was hard indeed. It was with solemnthanWfiiliu'-s truit lie saw the sod laid over her faded beauty and broken heart. Years passed, and l'hube's daughter was a eharniin, bright-eyed rirl of eighteen. I'nder the fostering eare of F..ra ami his wife she had :mwn up cheerful and happy, loving and dutiful, a favorite with all". Like her mother, she had many admirers ; but it could not be positively determined that .ht' favored any. Still, there were shrev d suspicions, and more than one youn.ir fellow would have been plad to stand in Mark Uoynton's place, and would have felt rich indeed with but a portion of the smiles which shone on that fortunate youth. Mark was a neighbor of the Joeelyns. He had inherited from his father a tine, well-stocked farm; but unfortunately there had hern discovered a llaw in his title; and ever since his majority he had been involved in a tiresonio lawsuit, which it was now generally belieu'd would o against hi in. Should it so result he would be a poor man, if a youn; man with strong hands

and a eouniireous heart can ie poor. i itli all the strength of an earnest and I ,Uanlv nature Mark loved Lizzie Heath: i i, ; . do withheld him fropj vyipjj j Prt until he should know whether indeed I ie had a home to oiler her. If he won j his case, he would ask her to share the : wealth that would then be his. If lie j lost no, ho could not resign her: but if she loved, she would wait for him. He was not a vain man, but his hopes I . .... . . . r ' riwo lin'li 1 1 1 IihiI ;on hiivir l.ru- 4 ! eve w ould brighten and her color glow at his approach, and had marked the innocent arts by which she sought to avoid the attentions of others while his own were gladly received. As for Lizzie, her ideal of manly beauty and excellence was embodied in. Mark lloynton; but, maiden-like, he would not own even to herself the reason. Of late, too, she half fancied that he avoided her; and," interpreting that fact backward, felt not piouc, lut I just enough uncertainty about lus sentij ments to be resolute in concealing lu r ! own. J And so matters sbxnl w hen one pleas1 ant afternoon in summer Lizzie sat j sewing with her mother, as she always j called Mrs. Kzra. There was an unusual shade of pensivfiiess on the young' girl's faee, and her mother watched j her narrowly. At length the latter said : I You seem very sober to-day for vou, ! Lizzie. Has any thing happened to j make you so?" A bluh and some low, inaudible words were the only reply. Mrs. Jocelyn went on : "Are you thinking of any thing that brother Uobert said to vou last night as you walked through the orchard together?" " Why, mother, didyou know ?" a-ked Lizzie, looking up in surprise. "Yes, dear; your father and I have known all along that Kobert was fond of you. What did vju say to him?" "What could I "say," replied Lizzie in a broken voice, "but that sueh a thing was impossible?" "I don't see, dear, why it should be impossible. You are surprised because you have not thought about it ; -but when you come to reflect I hope your answer will be different. If your father and I have a wish in the world, it is that you should marry llobert." "Oh, nioUier, how can I?" exclaimed Lizzie, looking up in astonishment. " Why not, pray? I am sure it is not every girl has sueh an opportunity a man of character and position, and so good and kind as he is. Then you know he is well off; you would have even- thing that money could buy. j, ' , ,,'y j. nd I always thought you weie fond of mother; but not that way. He is my uncle." know you have called him so. but you knew all the time he was only your t ....1 : ri 1 1 "idiiu cousin, jneiu is 110 leason wnv you should not love him in 'that way as you say, unless you like somebody else. Is that it?" "No indeed, no," poor Lizzie faltered hastily, turning away her face, now burning with blushes. The eyes of Mark Koynton rose up before licr with a glance of reproach at this denial; but how could she confess a love for one who perhaps did not care for her? "I am glad to hear it," Mrs. LV.ra went on, "for I am sure you w ill in time return UobertV affection. He loves you dearly, and you have it in your pow er to make up to him in part for what he suffered through your mother." Li.iii looked up with startled eyos. "What do you mean, mother?" hhe asked in astonishment. Then Mrs. Kzra told all the story of Uobert's love and blighted hope, and his delicate kindness to poor I'ho-be during the sad years of her married life, and how in her last distress ho had succored her ami her child. She reminded the young girl of his generous and watchful caro over her own childhood and growing youth. And then, though the good woman had no idea of taking a mean advantage, she was yet so anxious to win Lizzie's consent to the match she thought best for her, that she

did work upon the gill's gratitude to heisclf and husband, tbotiglt ordinarily it would not have occurred to her to think whether or not she had conferred favors 011 one bo was almost hke her own daughter.

Their talk was long, protracted, and often renewed, and Kobclt added his pleadings. Ho told of the years during which he had watched her growing beauty, loving her first for her mother's sake, but as she bloomed into womanhood so like that mother, he found himself renewing the dreams of his youth, daring to hope that happiness might et be his. The strongest, the best fortitled woman's heart must ever he more or less moved by the evidence of a deep and earnest atfectiuii ; and poor Lizzie h id tlie y iclding, pliant nature of her mother. And Maik Uoynion was away she had not seen him for weeks; and not knowing t hat he w as occupied at the county tow ti with the final trial of his case, she felt herself neglected by him. Why, if he really loved her, was he not here to say so, and to stand by her in this time f trial? So it came about that, helpless ill the hands of her affectionate but ill-judging friends, she yielded, and promised to marry Uobert Jocelyn. It was a day or two after she had formally given iier word, that she was returning one evening alone from a neighbor's. She had not walked far wiicn she heard ainiick step behind h r, ainl turning saw .Mark boyntou. He greeted her gayly, and the dim light prevented his observing her pale and troubled face. He took her hand ami drew it through his arm with an nit almost of ownership, say ing, as he did so, " 1 his w as just what I wanted, Lizzie, j to meet you. I was going to your night that I want to tell joti about it." she made no answer; indeed, he gave her no time, but went on: 44 1 have been all the week at Midford, attending court, and 1 have gained my ca-e. My farm is my ow n at last, and I am an independent man." She murmured suine half inaudible expression of pleasure in this result. 44 Lizzie," he said, stopping suddenly and taking her hand in his, "there is only one thing I want now to make me the happiest man in Hvticld. I want yon to come and share niv home with 1 me. Here Lizzie drew her hand hastily from him, ami said in a frightened tone, 1 "Don't! don't, Mark! Vou must not i talk to me so." j 44 What ilo you mean, Lizzie? Why j may 1 not tell yon that I love you better than all the world? I think'yoti must have known it without my telling.' l'ooi . 1 ie burst into a passion of tears, i,- r.ould not speak. .Mark drew : her gent. out of the path and seated j lu r upon a stone, placing hiiu-wlf beside her. He waited some minutes for her' answer, hut she remained silent. "Pear j Lizzie," he said at last, "you must know j that I love you. Can I be mistaken in j thinking you care for me?" j lie drew away the hands with which she had coveretl her face, and begged i her to .speak to him. 44 oil, Mark!" I she gasped out in a kind of depreca-! tion, " I have promised to mary Uobert j Joeeiyn." Mark Uoyntoii flung away the hands he held with an angry gesture, and sprang to his feet. 44 Lizzie!" in; cried indignantly, 44 you are mt, you can not be in earnest." No answer from Lizzie. Her voice was choked wir Ii sobs, peur Mark broke out in bitter reproaches. He accused her of cruel trilling with him, and declared his belief that she had accepted Jocidyn because he was the richer man, and his ow n cae a doubtful one. Lizzie had but ore answer to his reproaches ; she cried as if Per heart was broken ; and the strong, tender-hearted fellow soon grew pitiful of her grief, and soothed her, and begged forgiveness for his harshness. After a while he drew from her the whole story. lie understood the pressure which had been brought to bear upon her, and how powerless she had b"en to re-i-t it. He saw that she loved him, and that if she had felt sure of his affection, she would have stood on, against them all. If he had but spoken out before! Hut his own pride had been to blame. Though lie argm d lung and earnestly, he could not convince Lizzie that she had any right to draw back. She hail given her word, and she held herself bound by it, pet si-tently declaring that he must riot talk, or she listen. So at last he gave up in despair, and the two walked home in gloomy silence. In Hylic M every body's affairs are known to everybodyel.se; and so it was but a few days before the whole neighborhood was informed of Lizzie's engagement to Hubert Joeeiyn, and by some mysterious agency, known only to rural communities, the secret of Mark Loynton's love and disappointment was also generally understood. The t ircum stam.es created a kind of excitement. The general opinion was that the two young people were being sacrificed to the wishes of their elders; and sympathy was strongly with them, as always w here true love is crossed. The young people blamed Lizzie for her w ant of lirmness; but parents, interested perhaps in the cause of authority, exonerated her, and censured those w ho were taking advantage of her filial duty. Uobert, too, came in for his share of sympathy. The sad story of his love for I'luebe was well remembered; nnd there were not wanting some, romantic souls who thought it fitting that the daughter should compensate to him for the pain her mother cost. Of course all the neighborhood gossip was known to Mrs. Lra, but she took good car that very little of it should

come to Uobert's ears. She had made up her iniml that she knew what was best fur Lizzie, and she did not mean to let her plans fail. And Uobert! Was he ignorant of the state of thing? He might have seen, but he would not. Ilehearditsaidth.it Lizzie loved Mark Itoynton, and he would not believe it. Had he not loved her all her life as no young man could? Had he not a right "to her? He had missed happiness once, and now it was again within his grasp, who should say

lli.it lo, timrlit t,i triv. it 1M1 Li.io would be happy. She loved him already : she would love wholly when she was liis wife. That other was but a passing fancy. 1 le hut his eyes to t he evidence or iter pan and surrow itu lace, ilenced all inward remonstrances, and held his way. The preparations for the marriage were rather hurried forward, for Mrs. Kzra thought the sooner it was over the better. Lizzie made no objection. Sin. -o it was to be, all times were alike to her. The day for the wedding was fixed, ami they only waited fr the regular three weeks' "publishment," one of the legal forms cs-.ential in those days. There were to be "cried" for the first time on that pleasant Sunday afternoon on which this story opens. 'And Mr. l'cain.m, whose duty it was to perform that of. lice, stood' up b. fore the congregation and published the banns of marriage between Kliabeth Heath and Mai k Hovi.ton! No wonder the people were thunderstruck, and that the moved in silent amazement out of the i hun h. I'.nf tl. .tow. I w .s fn.le ..ot. side the sacred edifice, comment and j ipiestioii ware fret'. Mr. J'lcamnn was, beset by impiirics. Kzra Jocelyn was there, angrily accusing him of wanton-, iy iiisiilling li.s datiglilei' and lus hi other, '''he poor man was euinph tclv bewildered. He did nut uuderstaixf that j inn' tli in i' U'K urnli" I In lint I ...!! 1

. rhiuise f and Lizzie Mcatn. and lie had done it. 44 Why, man alive !" exclaimed a bystander, 44 It was nut Hubert Jocelyu's name that you called, but Mark lloynton's." The unlucky clerk could not believe

called upon by Hubert Jocelyn to pub- i laiici lu Keep r.tilli Willi Koo.-rt .Jonlish the intention of marriage between ) " ' nothing to you. A girl is m,t

it possible that he had ma le such a mis-1 loc me, for you have admitted it w it!i take until the reiterated assertions of i our own lips. Oh, Lizzie! don't oa all his neighbors convinced him. lie ; know that love has some rights as well could onlv exp'ain it by the fact that i :4S hity?" he had thought a good 'deal of the pe- ; Wht answer Lizzie might have madculiar circumstances of the rase he ! I cannot tell, for just then the sound of had heard, he said, the women folks ! ftep in the grass made them both talking it over and had pitied the ad- ' turn, and there stood Hubert Jucelv ;. verse fate of the two young people ; Mark straightened himself with a !.- crossed in love; and h-must have had ' ,i:Ult l'"k, but Lizzie sat silent and Hark Hoynton o much in his mind that trembling. It was to her t;.' u w-co,n-he had spoken the hitter's name uncou- ' r spoke. sciotisly. A tine diminution his bum- 44 1 tle-iight to find ymi alone," he dcr had raised. 1 said, 44 but perhaps it is better as it . Mrs. Jocelvn, with a flushed and an- I have heard a part of your on.r,gry face, took Lizzie's arm and hurried tion, and what Mark says is right. I her away. She b.-lieved the w huh- have thought it all out myself to-dav. tliimr w is i tr. L- of ! uL- .111.1 and came to tell vou so. I have mad.-

suspT'cted that Lizzie mi'ht lie privv to it I'.ut she urn. lent v renres,.-. o r

anger until they reached home, and hope you will forgive me, Lizzie. I there Lizzie .piie'kly escaped to herown . ,,:m' u"1 ,,, n faithful to your mother, room and locked herself in ; so the good ' i,,r promised her up"ii her dying bed woman's lecture had to be postp.med. ,,,:it 1 would watch oyer the happiness As for Mark r.ovnton, the last svlia-, '"'r hild : and I have not kept my bleof the benediction was hardly s'pok- word, but selfishly sought inyown hapcn before he was out of the house. Cu- i p'l'ess, forgetting yours, l.pg ago I riouseves followed him, but no one h id regarded you as my child; it wa- p retime to speak to him, fur he ipiieklv : Mimptioti in me to think you could he sprang over a stile leading from the : ny thing else. Uut my eyes are forchurchyard to a foot path across the , tunately opened. It will be all right fields, and disappeared in the wood be- between us, f,,r I have found my child yond. again." l!ut doubtless the saddest, the must 1 He stooped and kissed her tw ice typifying sympathy of the crowd went tlie lips so like her mother's. 'I h- n, after Uobert Jocelyn, as, with a face taking Maik's hand, he said calmly, white and immovable as that of the i "This hild has promised to be m dead, he moved through the throng, i I Pv' -r to you. He good to her. and which divided to let him pass, ,u,d I may IJ.mI bless jmi both. " walked away to his home. He sat down Then he walked slowly away in the by the open window through w hii h tie j direction of his brother's house. The pensive autumn sunshine streamed in voting people looked after him in siwarm and sweet, and burying his face in ' lence, their own great joy forgotten f"i' his hands, remained a long time lost in ' the time in their sorrowful sympathy gloomy thought. bitter memories j for him who had resigned to thcin o crowded thick upon him. The struggle j much. in his soul was a cruel one, but it was i Uobert Jocelyn made it his rare to the better part of him which conquered. ' reconcile Kzra and his w ife to the change After a longtime he lifted his head, and in Lizzie's destiny. fy what arguments drawing out his watrh, took from t he ! he did so, and how things were ainner part of the obi fashioned silver j plained to the public if explained at case a lock of hair, fiiddl now, but once ' all I am unable to relate. It is sufa bright warm brown, (her it lav a ' tieient to iy that on tl et vu Sun ! c -little watch-paper, on which was paint- immediately following old Mr. Iieaman cd in water-colors a wreath of forget-1 again announced to the deeply inter-ine-nofs encircling two clasping hands. eted congregation the intention of inarrnderneath the whole was the name i riage between Mark Hoy ntou and Kliza"rinrbo." He gazed at these treas- beth ll-ath, and the intention was cartires long and steadily, w hile the hard I l ied out at no distant day. look of suffering went out of his fare, j H was many years ago that tlie-e and his eyes grew tender and niuit , things happen'e.l, during which the wiih tears, lb- leaned his elbow on the I p, ntons have been a happy and a window sill and looked out across t he ; pro-pemus couple, with no reason to happy autumn fields to the churchyard j regret Mr. I'.eainan's mi-take. Strong where for so many years poor 1'hobc had sous and pretty daughters have grown tested from her sorrows. Then his eye up around them. One of these, a genwent on to his brother's house, from t he J tie, blue-eyed girl, ncars the name of door of w hich he presently - saw little j phu lie. With lu r h often seen an aged Lizzie pass out and tiike the path totln' I man who leans upon lu r arm, or folorchard. At sight of her his lip pii v-j low s her movement s w it h eyes full f red slightly ; he heaved one great sigh, tenderness and live. "I'ncle Uobert" and then said, as if summon;' gstrength is the object of affection and reverence i..r .i ' i mi . ... t

ior some nnai resolution, i cs, i win go and tell her." I'oor Lizzie had thought her cup was full before; but this day she was sure she could bear no more ; and escaping as soon as possible from her mother, she nought the ouly place w here she was likely to be uninterrupted, that she might cry her heart out alone. She hurried along till she reached her favorite seat beneath an ancient apple tree whose long branches drooped so low as to almost touch the ground. On one side was the wall, and on another a huge barberry bush, so that she was almost entirely shut out from view, and anyone approaching could not be seen until close upon her. Now, not far distant from the .Jocelyn orchard, and separated from it only hy

a small field, was a pleasant strip of woodland. It was a part of Mai k n. ton's farm ; and up mid dow u its n!,:i,. ed paths theirowner had been restlessly walking ever since he left the chureli. He alone, of all present that day, h.j understood in u flash the old 'man's blunder and its cause. In that moment when he drew himself proudly up 'u the face of all who looked at him, 1M. was saying to hiniseif, "Shu belongs to me, and she shall be mine. That notice shall be repeated here, and it slu be no blunder."

Now, as he restlessly paced to :un I fro, piite convinced that affairs I j reached a crisis, and could never stMy ;is I they were, he was fully resolved to luukc a goon ugnt tor nis rigms. ue vva-ln-t making up his mind to go to Uobi-rt Jocelyn and have it out with him ,u once, w hen he chanced to glance a r,,, the field to the orchard beyond, and Ins j 'ye caught the flutter of a l ink-.liv among the tress. Hell lie knew who muslin in church ; . knew ,tou,the nook under tic- old :i;i. ph'-trce, for he had sat there limn-1 hi'm OI"'' with Lizzie. Without a momci,!s j hesitation he sprang o er the low wa!! J w'"t straight across the field (. i "''l tree. There, as he e.xpe. ted, he i found Lizzie. It is unnecessary to iv. : late all the arguments he used to brin' ' ,M'r ,0 '' ay of thinking; at 1. .tst t!,rV were not immediately effective, for t hi. j l,,M,r Us conscience and sense (.f duty ' were unfortunately arrayed upon the ! wrong side. They had been thus , u. j l'''''1 f"r perhaps half tin hour, inid , n. '" the verge of a genuine ou.irrcl. I.'. zie, with tcar-stameu face, s;.t p;, nervously at the Imiggrass. M irk -before her talking earnestly, she said sunn-thing about repairing ! oi n had ' r inol her' wrun-r. Me iiiterrimt,.,) I,,.r almost angrily ; " I low can you repair one vvi ' iig i v doiu:' anuther? That your lnutlaV !,. . .... . '"" marry every man ner niuiin r jilts. If she did wrong ly him, y can tnt make it right by duing me the same wrong. I teii you that my claim is bette- than his. That he loves .u I do lmt doubt how could he help it but I love you as well as he, and vu -i g'f'at mistake. Lit, thank tiod, I haw l-'iuiu 11 oui oeioii It is ioo mic i from all, lint I lio lie is ins own especial darling. It is her gentle ministry which sheds light and beauty on the evening of his day s. He is only waiting how, serenely waiting, for the happiness w hich shall soon be his. And "(.race, mercy nnd peace, the love of (iod, and the communion of is Holy Spirit," do abide with him now, and shall for I'vcr. Emma It. ('f'b, in Jinl - Lad' Fijr.. cup of butter, cups of sugar, .". cups of flour, I eggs, whites and yelks beaten separately; add just enough flour to make the dough into rolls the size of the linger; it will spread in tin oven to a thin cake; tlaor with lemon; when baked dip in chocolate icing.