The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 50, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 April 1875 — Page 1

The Fladional Lanwner - “Published by - | JOHN B. STOLL, LIGONIER,NOBLE COUNTY,IND, - ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : Strictlyinadvance...ccceuaiiieiiiini., o ..82.00 ~ & Thispaperispublishedonthecashprinciple, itsproprietorbelicvingthatitisjustasright for ﬁm* 10 demand advance pay, as it is for City publishers,’ E¥ - Asyperson sendinlg aclub oflo, accompanied with the cash, willbe entitledto acopyof thepaper.foroneyear free ofcharge. B

:.=:": ? /" . e :%.)i : ) # , / »3to:i A K s fy Y s Fyin. | v . i N N * 5 ks ) - 3 Y/ i D .\¢pe s : S ‘ 2 G 2 Y ke / Neaighaat PR ) zé $ 4o a 2 -t s } e \ g % s o = S Lioc R g 3 Y, - u/ : ! Il Ml R e > ~ , 20 __ g/ !/ e R ST ARINBI s B [ ] . weze =N, R 2y ; = [ r”‘-\ {4 i AL e ‘’ : - 77 b s {;%‘ ||' 7 & % M ,/ e ; b : Tl i i 1 ; TAN i - A eLU A : ; i ‘l‘ A ’ . . . = 45 . ; ¥ g : ; NP = o ——— ey P <= - . £ y i —_—— . = ————————— _——— e ¢ = . . —_— e = 3§ - 7 ¢ e e === <— = ——— — == ———n -0 = ——— = = i ; , e — ~.§‘—E\? = : e— —— = T e e e —_— = ’ e e e N e = e : , e e R = e e e e ey - e = e e P e e et O == == = S T e e e R e = T — = 3 = = — R e e e e e e e = puph’ > O e e = : J%_;;:‘f:"::'.i,%?x:;_-fj;_,:;?; S S e N A R oen

1000 FARNERS OF NOBLE CO

Oliver Chilled Plow!

And, would space permit, we could produce the testimony of those one thousand men, each certifying that they are the most complete implement on their farm and would use no other.

YOOO FARMERS IIN NOBLE COLNTY!!

Who do not own, and many of this number who have never heard of, much less tested, the superior merits of this most popular labor-saving implement, and it is for the benefit of these two thousand farmers that we issue this appeal to-day.. Not for the “ninety and nine” that are | [t ~ safe, but the one that is “astray” is our motto. Catert ‘

AT THE CLOSE OF THE YEAR 1875 !!

We do not want 1t said by a single farmer in Noble county that he did not, at some time dﬁr-‘ ' : ing the season, at least TRY one-of these @elebrated Plows? . - From small beginnings in 1870, (the dawn of the great revolution in Plows) our sales have steadily incteased year by year-until 1874, when we sold from this point alone the unprece: T - .~ dented number of 383 Plows. - G S e

Certainly an implement having such a wide reputation and giving such complete and universal satisfaction; must possess no ordinary merit, and what we propose for the year before us, R g ol Y ‘agin yests past, iy that ewery. o o - 00 0 '

PLOW SHALLSTAND WHOLLY UPON ITS MERITS

And not upon mere theory. Let us briefly examine into some of these merits and notice the points of superiority over lival plows The first, most prominent and distinguishing featureis

This is not mere theory but incontrovertable; stubborn fact. Not only are the Mould-board, Landside, Standard and Points made upon strictly scientific principles, but the metal itself being Chilled admits of a higher polish than Cast Iron or ordinary Steel, and is so hard as to completely resist the action of the soil, hence the Mould-board is not cut up with myriads of fine furrows or grooves, (as in ordinary plows,) causing the dirt to “stick” and thus matetially increasing the draft. The sloping landside, the peculiar eonstruction of the point, and ‘the “manner in which it fits up to the mould-board, also contribute largely to a light draft. - -~ A The second point of superiority is : i -2 Ease of Adjustment. e Taking a wide or narrow furrow at will, and by means of a slotted brace between handles changihg from a two to.a three-horse plow in a few moments time; also adapting the plow -, perfectly to the team are strong features which to be appreciated must be tried. . - e b - The thwd point of superiority Is* - b el . Kase of Handling. e

This is a prominent feature readily attested by all who have used thé plow; being ,],)erfectly balanced, a mere boy can do successful work, and plowing, instead of being a “drudge” as heretofore, becomes now a pasTiME. It stands to-day the Steadiest Running plow in existence. - IR The fourth point of superiority is o £l Sl o G Best for General Use, -- - . 0 v

Working equally well in Sod, Sft_tibfbl—_e, Marsh, Prairie, hard Clay Soil, or light'feathery:Lba;m’ - and WEEY SGOUBR when ordinary Steel Plows will not. =+ . ] - The fifth point of superiority is . Ay =

This is a feature of vital importance to the farming community, and one which every owner ' of this Plow fully appreciates.. We unhesitatingly affirm that this is the :

The Mould-boards of Plows sold in 1869 are in use yet, and no perceptible wear ‘is noticed.

Remember Every Plow is Warranted fully to Perform a.s:Repre-l P . sented or no Sale! . . ; oot oh oo o 1 The Jointer Attachment, . - - o %Xs geen.in cut;) completes the merits of ‘this Plow, which must be tried to be appreciated;;j-‘ ; ith it you eﬁectuall{ bury all Stubble; Manure, Corn Stalks and Litter upon your fields.— . . + While in Sod it is unequaled for completeness ot work. _ : : : _ , ST s P g : Lo ~ Don’t Buy a Plow Without a Jointer. = If you have no desCrip‘give circular of this Plow address me, giving name and P. O. address, . and one will be forwarded. immediately. Ask vour Hardware deale;”tq send for sample, but . DON’T Neglect to TRY ONE OF THESE PLOWS ;th'e?(':o;mipgfs_eason-“ : T FOI' S’ﬂe'by o - - e R e s oSN AN

VOl. 9:'.

"THERE ARE TO-DAY

Each owning and have, used the Celebrated

THERE ARE TO-DAY.

Lightness of Draft.

Most Durable Plow Ever Invented.

he National Ranner,

Durabhility.

LIGONIER, INDIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL Sth, 1575.

l ROSALIE RATHBORNE; "Mi'\". : .‘ ‘: OR, soan | SIN AND SORROW. ' : T IBY WATTS I’HILLIPP‘S,, lnrrnon OF ‘““FOR A WOMANS BAKE,” “DRIVEN FROM HOME,” “JENNY GRAY; OT, A WOMAN’S % VEXGEA_NC!_:‘:," ETC., ETC l A — & e CHAPTER XIV. i : A WIFE OF TWO HUSBANDS: ' Ularence Hartley and Rosalie were again in - England, and at that wesidence of Hartley’s which ‘was near the mansion 'which Sir Jonas Rathborne had bequeathed to his niece, and in which Mistress Camelford still dwelt. :

On the very same day, and almost at the very moment that her son had been found by Margaret Burford perishing in the snow, had Rosalie reentered the well-warmed and luxurious manmsion, of which she was the mistress.” | ' =~

Time had déalt more gently with Rosalie than might have been expected; grief had committed its ravages, but, nor time nor sorrow had destroyed, though, doubtless they had lessened somewhat, the beauty which both Arthur Gresham. and Clar‘ence Hartley had been unable to resist. -Still was Rosalie young, still enchanting, still possessed she her old, winning manner; her face denoted not the grief which had never left her heart, her features had been softened, her mind spiritualized by a sorrow to which she had grown accustomed, and which had long sincé become soo calm and gentle that she cherished it as something holy, which would ' make her better in this worldy~and more fitted for the world that'was to come. No children had been born of Rosalie’s second ' marriage, to the great regret of Clarence Hartley. A son had been needed to make perfect the felicity of his union with Rosalie, and he thought that perha,fs his wife’s constant melancholy was that she was childless. ¥ !

' And he was right; though not at all in the sense which he believed. S

‘ And Arthur Gresham had, at last, returned to England! ' ' - And so altered wag he by time and consuming grief, that when Hartley, about two months after his own returh, encountered his former friend scarcely was he able to recognize him. . | It was near Hartley’s mansion that these two, for so many years sundered, now met once again. - T ' : Arthur Gresham had. been approaching his friend’s house as Hartley was quitting it, and so had they encountered. : - How warm were the“greeting, how welcome again the sight} of?each to the other. “What excuse can you offer,”’ Hartley after a while saidy “that' for more than twelve years you have not written a - single word to me ?” ’

- “I was wretched, desperate,” Gresham replied tothe reproach; “and wished -not to disturb the happiness of your life by relating to you the miseries of mine.”

“Why should you have hesitated to confide your griefs to g friend who would have sympathised with-them ?”’ : ; : “l ~wanted comage for . the task,” responded Arthur. 3 ; . “But you will te]l me now the cause of your-long sorrow, ¢f your many years selfbanishment from your native land ?*’. : “Tell you?’’ Gresham exclaimed, with strong surprise; ‘'there can be no occasion now for that, for surely you must have long since heard—~—" ?‘% have heard yothing concerning you; how was'it possible that I should "

“You have heard nothing concerning me ?”’ Gresham ggked, amazedly. = = “Not a word !> replied Hartley, and proceeded. “That, wealta and fame flowing in upon you, you should -remain in Italy surprised me rot; but that which first drove you thither is still a mystery to me.’? «Is it possible !” exclaimed Arthur—and then, as if struck with a sudden thought. #But, perhaps you; too, have been absent from England ?*’ L ‘ i+ «For the last twelve years, and returned but-a few weeks since,” replied Hartley. That Hartley had heard nothing of the calamity which had befallen his friend was now, Grésham believed, well accounted for.

«Yes; Ihave résided with my wife on my estate in Scotland, almost the' whole time since .oyr ma.rria,ge:”m L :

“You are taen married ?” said Arthur. “Oh! yes--most happily married,” replied Hartley; “as you will say, Arthur, when you have made the acquaintance of wy Rosalie.” “Rosalie !”” exclaimed Gresham, and seized with a sudden trembling., - * ' “Why that exclamation?’ asked Clarence, with some surprise. : . “The name—the name is one that—-"’ “Ah, true,” interrupted Hartley, “I had forgotten that formerly you were a resident in the mansion of Sir Jonas Rathborne. Go, then, and renew your acquaintance with my wife. And lam glad that lam not now compelled to return with g)u to the house, and to introduce you to. Rosalie; for I am somewhat behind a rather important appointment to which, for my own interest, I must not fail—but I shall not be gone above an hour, and meanwhile, I shall expect that you will make yourself at home at my place—we have been too lohg staunch friends for, any kind of ceremony between us.” - G ; ‘ All this Hartley had spoken very rapidly, and while mounting the horse, which a groom had been holding in readiness for him, and ‘went away ata smart trot, and without having at all observed'that Axthur Gresham was deadly pale, and with difficulty kept himself from fa.l]ing, to the ground. “Qh, horrible ! horrible !” Arthur shrieked forth, his wild cries rendered inaudible to I%artley only by the clatter of the horse’s oofs. : -

‘Not for one moment did Gresham doubt, could not. Rosalie, his wife, she .whom he had been made for long, long - years to mourn as dead, whose loss had made him insensible to every hope, tfo every joy that had been offered to him ; whose image as a sacred thing, had lain within a heart whose very pulsation had been hers, was living; had forgotten him, who had never for one moment ceased to think of her; and was wedded to another, the wife of a second husband ere the first, whose heart she had striven to break, had sunk into his tomb. ‘Presently he rebounded, shudderingly, as some thought more terrible than all before smote upon his brain. “Mistress Camelford! Mistress Camel ford!” he gasped, and buried his face within his hands, and prayed of heaven to have mercy on him and kill him there and then. s :

- It had been announeed to Rosalie that a gentleman, who had been sent by Clarence Hartley, solicited permission to speak with her. SO . i

Conducted to the appartment in which she was seated, Rosalie rose to receive this visitor, and then was silent, expecting him' to speak. ; But he did not speak, and Rosalie was commencing to fear that a messenger of some further woe to her was this stranger; that he had come to tell her of some accident that had befallen Hartley. . - At that moment a deep groan smote upon her ear, and her own name was with }great anguish pronounced, and Rosalie was transfixed and terror-stricken. +“Oh! if he were not dead, if he were not idead 1” ghe faltered. = : Another moment, a few more words ‘mken, and Rosalie knew, beyond all doubt, t Arthur Gresham was living still, and was again before her. Zaßbu L Her first impulse then was to fly into his arms, but she remembered what now she was, and staggered back and shrunk from him ; and then she stood and gazed upen him, and he on her—with what tortured feelings, with what terrible agony, who could d_exict. ' e “Oh, Augusta, Augusta !” ,notned Rosalie, as :{::trmﬁ&::lfw&ﬁ that moment ‘entered the room; not stalking g in as formerly she would have done%— tress Camelford was no longeras we haye

seen her—but creeping forward with body bowed and wrinkled face; the wretched work which she had done, although as yet she repented it not, had been, spite of all her reasoning, and the supposed wrongs which had driven her to it,a constant torture to Mistress Camelford’s guilty heart, had made of her a haggard, aged-looking, and almost decrepit woman. ; ; Augusta had heard of Gresham’s return; had known that to Clarence Hartley’s mansion he first would hasten, and so had herself followed thither. S :

“There is no need you should reproach each other,” after a while she said.

And then she explained what she had done; in few words made clear to them that which, even before she had spoken, the wretched pair had almost perfectly comprehended. e "

- *My boy, my little ‘Arthur!” Rosalie cried, imploringly, “say that the seeming proof you gave me of his death was false‘as all the rest that you have made appear so real and true to me? Say that that one solace is left to the hearts you have so fiendishly tortured—say that my boy is living still I” e Sl

And Rosalie bent eagerly forwards towards Mistress Camelford, who, turning from her, said with-a nervous twitching of the lips, which belied the assamed coldness of her tone. S

“Yonrgonis dead!”? * s And Rosalie, with a convulsive cry, and wringing her hands despairingly, dashed from the apartment. £ i “You have told me much,’”’ Gresham ksid, sternly, addressing Augusta, “but there is something I have yet to learn ; I must know if my son has been stricken by Heaven, or by you; if by your hand, or through your means, he has E:rished, I will be merftizless tox;u, as you have been to me and mine !”’ d Mistress Camelford trembled; hér former agent would not dare to speak; she was well convinced of. that; for, to confess ‘his guilt, would be to doom himself to the scaffold ; but might not his wife’s suspicions have been aroused? It was Margaret Burford whom Augusta dreaded now. . Margaret jealously gunarded Rosalie's son ; her husband had commanded her to be silent ¢concerning the boy; but Margaret had resolved that to young Arthur’s mether she would make known that still was living the son who had'so long been wept as' lost to her for ever. | ‘

Finding that he could by no threats shake his wife’s resolution, Adam Burford then condescended to entreaty; implored MarEa,rét to be prudent, and to obtain for her usband & promise of immunity for his past villiany, and to secure for herself a reward: ~—which soon would have passed to Adam’s hands — for having protected and given back the boy to his natural guardians. To all of which Margaret, with seeming readiness, agreed; and her husband was forced to appear satisfied. Though, in reality, Margaret. had no intention of making conditions with Rosalie for the restoration of her son, but had-determined to give happiness to the so long and cruelly bereaved mother, come what might to herself or to her wicked husband.

Margaret had but just explained to young Arthur that the portrait he so cherished was that of his mother, who still existed, and to whom she shortly would conduct him, when even as she said this, that iﬁ‘o’t}g er was herself before them. o

Rosalie had fled from Clarence Hartley’s mansion directly to the miserable dwelling of Margaret Burford ; with no hope that her son was living had she come, but to -question Margaret fully as to how he had died ; for to her, too, had come the horrible thought that he by foul means had perished. i

Pale as a sheet, and trembling in every. fibre of he frame, was Rosalie, as now she darted into the room in which were Maxrgaret and young Arthur, and then stopped ga.g})ing and panting before them. o sooner had the boy’s eyes fallen on Rogsalie than he sent forth a wild, inarticulate cry, and hurrying to her, he sank on his knees beside her, and clung convulsively to her robes ; and as he gazed up, pleadingly, into Rosalie’s face, a strange thrill s hot! through her heart; the features she was' looking on a.gpea.reg familiar to her; partly, indeed, she had divined that a seeming impossibility was about to be accomplished ; her heart had recognized that it could only be her son who thus could stir it to its utmost depths. ; i i Ere she could falter forth a question, young Arthur had displayed before her worldering eyes that locket which she herself, long years before, had placed around his neck ; had discloséd to her that portrait of herself which surely had been sketched beneath the guidance of an all-foreseeing Providence. :

It was at this moment that Rosalie’s first, her true husband, Arthur Gresham; appeared at the door of this tavern, and remained for a moment, and gazing amazeddy, on its thresheld. His arrival had not ‘been perceived. , : “Has Heaven, indeed, reserved for me this great solace to my misery ?” cried Rosalie, looking towards:Margaret, and asking for the words which should confirm her glorious hope or crush her lower still with an overwhelming despair. ' “Oh! dan it be P—if it were but possible that this boy, indeed, could be——""' and she paused, unable to pronounce another word. - ] And:Margaret said solemnly— o “As there is a Heaven to judge me, he is yourson!”. . e ‘With what emotion, with what delicious rapture Rosalie clasped young Arthuf to her bosom no words could describe ; but the cry she uttered was echoed by another as strange, as wildly joyful almost as was her. own, and Arthur Gresham, advancing, exclaimed— ;

“He is my son, also, Rosalie; suffer, then, that I, too, may embrace him?” But Rosalie would not for a moment even release from her arms her so newly-recov-ered son. y ‘ 5

“Yo‘p, would take him for ever from me !”’ she said, wildly. “You would teach him to feel ashamed of his mother, and I should never see him more. Do not go from me, little Arthur—do not desert the mother to whose heart you have conveyed a rapture it had seemed impossible it e’er again could know!? ° s :

And her son answered this appeal by clinging even more firmly to his mother, and by shrinking away from Gresham, and causing him & cruel pang. - But never before had young Arthur seen his father.. -Nothing had prepared| him' to love that parent, while his mother’s sweet image had rested always near his heart—had been through all his young. life his dearest earthly treasure. “Long years of suffering,” resumed Rosalie, “have produced their tetrible effects upon my frame; the last blow stricken at my heart,” —and she 'glanced towards Gresham—has crushed it-quite; even the restoration of my poor boy has come too late for all, save to comfort me during the little while that only will elapse ere I shall sink into my grave, glad to escape from a world which has been without pity for me. and in which, but by no fanlt of niy own, I am unworthy longer to dwell.”” . ; “Rosalie !»{ reproach you not for the past for kmow I mnot_how terribly you ‘were iried 7’ Gresham mournfully said. “Oh, speak not to me! TLet me not hear your voice again !” Rosalie cried, in tones of deepest agony ; “for are we not for ever sundered here on earth? Let me go from ‘you; and, with my boy; seek not mow to tear him from me; wait but a very hptle. time, and he will then be all your own!” Gresham was silent, and Rosalie relaxed ‘not her hold on little Arthur. -

~ Of her love for the boy; of all that she had done for him ; of all she knew concerning him, trusting her husband. to the mercy of those who were now listening to her, Margaret told. TR e e

And when she had finished speaking, Gresham implored of Rosalie that sggaw'oufd E:Brmit'him, if only for a moment, to hold is boy within hisarms =~ . *“No, no—not now I’ Rosalie wildly cried, straining Arthur to her bosom. “You wounld not restore him to my embraces! I should never more hehold him !-—dead to me would he be again !” -and then she whispered to Arthur: “Do not leave ,me!.~Do not let

thém tear you from mel” : : And this poor mother was reassured by her son’s animated and expressive gestures, for she read in them that he w'onlg sooner die than be separated from her. ‘ Cruel boy !” Gresham mournfully said; | for a heavy pang was at his heart. “Heaven hasg, at last, had pity on. me; has, by a miracle, caused me to behold again the son, whom, for twelve wwetched years, I had bewailed as dead ; and now, at sight of his' father, that son remains cold a.nlg insensible; repulses his father’s caresses! Oh, Heaven! enlighten his reason! touch his ~soul! Arthur, I cannot live now without your love! Without that, I have 'nothing —a barren desert -henceforth, as so long already it has been, must this world prove tomel’ . = ; ‘Young Arthur could not longer résistrhis father’s tears and pleadings, his heart ‘throbbed tumultuously ; and suddenly, firm though it was around him, he wrenched himself from Rosalie’s clutch, and flew into his father’s arms. : i ° Rosalie shrieked and sank upon her knees, extending her arms; and wildly imploring’ that Arthur, her son, would return to them. S “I am your father, and you will love me, will you not, Arthur; will remember. that in you is centred now my only hope, my all of happiness on earth I” ° ; . |Gresham while saying ' this, had relaxed -somewhat his hold of Arthur; and Rosalie, with a cry of joy, loud and shrill, snatched hér son back to her own arms, and enfolding him there securely, hurried with him rapidly from the house. 5 S But hardly had she crossed.the threshold, when she beheld & form which at once transfixed her with a greater terror than the most appalling spectre could Imve caused her. . .Clarence Hartley was before her, - And he was seen, too, by Gresham and by , Margaret Burford, for they' had followed Rosalie from the house. ' Hartley was on horseback, as when last 'we parted with him ; and had been returning home from the appointment which he had quitted Gresham to fulfill, and at the . 'moment he had been about to pass Buiford’s taveru, Rosalie, grasping the boy, and he clinging to her side, had hurried forth. : . - Hartley dismounted, and pleasantly greeted his wife, and his friend ; they were silent. Too greatly agitated were they both, and one of them, at least, too terrified for utterance of words which would acknowledge and return the greeting which Hartley had bestowed on them. . : Hartley, looking closely at the boy by Rogalie’s side, presently exclaimed : “Why, surely, that is the brave lad who so lately ventured his life at the launch. of the new vessel !’ s : And: Margaret answered, and told how she had found Edmund, and she laid a strong emphasis on that name, and glanced significantly from Rosalie to Gresbam as she pronouneced it, perishing with co'd and hunger, that for his benefactress, to procure for her the means. to avert a great misfortune, he had risked his life at the launch. | “But, his parents, who are they?”, in. quired Hartley. o And Rosalie and Gresham averted their faces from Hartley to conceal from him tha increased agitation: which that question had brought to both of them. And Margaret hastened to answer: ° He is, unhappily, an orphan !”: | ‘ . Young Arthur was listening wonderingly to this conversation, and looking ocecasionally, with great earnestness, into his mother’s face; and those glances Rosualie - dared not to return, only, more than once, she stealthily pressed his hand. " That her terror was very great will not ' be doubted; but she had resolved that, - come what might, do what they would with " her, her son should not, while she had life, - again be taken fronr her. S “But the boy has given you some account of himself and of his parents?” Hartley - next said, addressing Margaret, and she re- " plied, evasively : : ; ““Alas, sir, he is dumb I : . “Poor boy,” exclaimed Clarénce, taking Arthur’s hand, and looking earnestly and ' compassionately into his face, and was struck with its beauty and its very pleasant - expression, while to Hartley also it appeared ‘ as though he now were gazing on features which somehow were familiar to him. : = - Addressing Margaret, Hartley said: o " “You are an excellent woman, and in sheltering . this .poor boy, have acted | nobly:! - . ‘ Margaret curtseyed humbly, and Clarence proceeded : : : Rl “You have well doné your ‘part, and will ‘not perhaps object that in the future I should charge myself with the fate of this orphan child !” . s e And Ma,rﬁret ‘expressed her gratitude ' and delight’at the generous proposal, while with the happiness: which was in the thought that so her san would be always near her, was mingled in Rosalie’s mind a sense of shame that to accomplish it Hartley’s noble heart must be still further outraged and deceived. S ’ ‘%ut she still continued silent; so, too, did Gresham. - < : Hartley asked of Rosalie, if his proposal concerning the dumb boy was approved by her, and she bowed, but did not raise her eyes to his %e. ; : ,Clarence Hartley’s love for children, as | with all really good men, was very great, and he had tﬂought thatperhaps the adopt-+ tion of Edmund—so had the boy been named to him—might fill the void which, as he believed, was in the heart of Rosa-. le. . ; i “Come hither, poor boy,” said Hartley. And then, seeing that Edmund hesitated to q;rxit Rosalie’s side, he added. ol “You will soon learn that you have nothing to fear from me!”. while his thoughts . were that the poor lad must formerly have - encountered very cruel treatment that he now should be so timid and so fearful. - Urged forward by Rosalie, her son quit: ted her side, and slowly and hesitatingly approached Hartiey, who said to him : “Your conduct at the launch of that ves gel has proved that you possess a good and. noble heart—that with your own life you were willing to repay your obligation to your benefactress ; you merit the interest which you have inspired, and that which worthy Margaret Burford would be unable | to do gor you, another will perform. ( The boy turned his gaze, wistfully and -anxiously, towards his mother, and Hartley ‘ answered to that look : S : ~ *Yes, Edmund, that lady will be to you hernceforth a protectress, more powerful, certainly, but not more devoted than she whom you are about to quit.” e And Hartley then passed the boy back to Marga¥et Burford, Baging to her: - “We will not so suddenly deprive you of him ; you will come with him to-morrow to the hall, till then we leave him with you.” Rosalie started, and her son would have flown back to her side, but' was withheld by Margaret, who, addressing Hartley, but’ looking e?ressively towards the boy’s mothet,sadd: . - oo o 0 “I answer for his safety ; and to-morrow, if I live, will bring him to you.” .. : - And almost forcing little Arthur with her hurried back into her house, . Gresham refused for that day Hartley’s invitation to his mansion, but promised ‘that on the day following he would be there, and turned and% Hartley and E.oss,lié to proceed together on their way. ome. el e - But ere he had quitted her, Rosalie had »inqnirin‘ilo’ok: S e . “Was he about. to obtain possession of tio Assharp TC T nd Gresham answered that a ng ook with a gesture which ,uﬁqﬂed%ab that far from him was any such intention. Rosalie, praised her for an interest in the poor boy of the launch, which had caused ¢ to seek him out at the hut of Margaret her generosity towardshim. ©~ | . And then he spoke rejoicingly that his friend Gresham was at lengt restored to

No. 50.

_ And Rosalie’s mental exclamation ‘was, *To. what wretched hypoerisy am I compelled? A second treachery must Imnow commit towards this noble-hearted man, so blindly : confident’ of my ‘integrity -and trath % .- : R e

And what a tempest of despair was raging in the breast of' Rosalie’s first and'lawful husband ¥ - G RN e

- How to act, on what to- resolve, he knew ot : e i Yot G

When all those who had been so lately. conversing before Adam Burford’s so-called tavern had dispersed, and gone on there several ways, one ‘of its small windows on the ground floor opened slowly, and Mistres Camelford looked cautiously forth. It will be uked.‘hozﬁme“si;‘e\ther"a‘, P Not without alarm had she ‘heard Gresham declare -his resolution fo ascertain, if Eosaible, what had reall? been the fate of little Arthur, @ -0 A ovome oo

She proceeded ‘hurriedly, and without a moment’s delay,:to follow Gresham, and, by a small door which'was at its back, had contrived to steal, unperceived, into Burford’s hut; had made her way to a small room which adjoined that’common one in which Rosalie had found again' thé son -of whom she had believed herself for ever bereft, and had heapd every word of the exciting conversation which there had taken place ; and of that also which had been spoken without; sufficient: had reached her ears, by listen--ing at: the partly opened 'window of the room in which she had concealed herself, to - inform her of the arrangement which had been made concerning Rosalie’s son. And Mistress Camelford was in'an agony of rage. How feeble, after all, would prove . her vengeance?' Was ‘her own suffering, after all, to be the greatest? Was she to be a dupe, and at the mercy of those whom she had sought.to crush?. No! The perfect vengeance she long years since had ' contemplated, and had believed achieved,: she now, at every hazard, would at last accomplish. ' Sl et el % Mistress' Camelford quitted the tavern . unseen, and as stealthily asshe had entered-. it, and from theledge. of a small copse but a short distance from the house, waited and: watched for the’ arrival of Adam Burford, who, as she:soon discovered, was not within his hut. - e e b

But fortune appeared to favor Mistress Camelford, for after having waited about about an hour she was "able: to ga.rt from the copse and to contront Adam Birrford on the road, to upbraid him that Rosalie’s son was living ; as twelve years before, he had suddenly, and in the samé way, crossed her path, .to assure her that the child was

. Burford fairly trembled as he thus beheld, rising from the earth as it appeared to him, his former employer. - i lAs usually, frightfully he leered ; and as twelve years before upon . 'the road, his oblique eye seemed as though fixed upon the bushes by the wayside. . . B Mistress Camelford beckoned him, and he limped after her t 6 a spot:where it was certain they would not be observed. - - ~ “I have not deceived you,” whined Burford, even before Mistress Camelford had spoken a word to him. “When I gave you thaa:i. c’zfrtiﬁcate I believed the child waa He had not waited for Augusta to speak because the first glance at her faz?e m him that she knewall, = ¢+ ..

“As you know, I have made you powerless to injure.me,’’ said Mistress g amel« ford ; “but your fate is. certain—your wife has told all; and Gresham is not the man to spare yow,¥? i ecy LI “He is returned ?” Burford exclaimed, in tones made up of : terror -and .of hatred together mingled. - -~ : L . “But,’? said Mistress Camelford, significantly, “you might obtain from me a sum ?afn xgogey@and an agsured flight to.a foreign 179 - ; s 2 s . ‘4

- “The boy shall not a second‘timé‘eséape with life,” was Burford’s reply to his employer’s last uttered words. =~ . . ..

~ “I'do not mean that he should die!” : Augusta said, shudderingly, for she remembered the many pangs of a terrible remorse which had been hers while believing that - little Arthur was nomore. * . ¢ = . Burford leered into Mistress Camelford’s face, and recognised that there was no du-: plicity in the words which’ she:had just spoken. . Lk gy S ey ' Mistress - Camelford thrust a bank-note into her agent’s hand, and said to him: “I desire only that the boy should again disappear.? - naedin s L e S

“He'ghall,” « =ni e o “This very night?——""" - Burford leered and noddeld.

“And forewar¥i et ol Burford lecred and modded as before.

“And what shall ‘have become’of him; I alone must know.” s bl “You alone ! - ¢ T i “Stir not from this -spot till T am safely away!” PR Lion 'Mistress Camelford ‘thus concluded the conference, :u'’set forth on her'return to Hartley’s v ansion—not by :the high-road, but by a path through the copse,;and across fields. - A very wary, as, well as a ‘Ve"iY clever woman was Mistress Augusta Camelford! AL e ;

; . -[ToBE ooxonuﬁnn_ux‘x'r"wyxx-] R The Apoplectic Stroke. . . A middle-aged physician said one day to the writer: “As I was walking down the street after dinner I felt a shock in the back eof my neck, as if some one had struck me; I have not felt well since. I fear 1 shall die, just as all my ancestors have; of paralysis. What shall T do?” The answer was: “Diminish the tension on:the blood vessels, and there need be no ‘fear of tearing them in a weak place.” - Now, this expresses in plain terms the exact cause of apoplexy in'the great majdtity of instances: and it is one, too, which every one has h&d it in his power to prevent. ‘A blood vessel of the brain, for causes which will presently be mentioned, has lost some of its elastic. strength; food is abundant, digestion is. good; blood is made in abundance, but little is worked off by exercise; the tension-on every artery and vein is a maximum rate; .the even; circuitous flow is temporarily impeded at some point, throwing a dangerous . pressure - on sanother; thevessel which “has- lost its eélastic strength gives way, blood is poured out, a clot is formed, which, by its: pressure on the brain, produces: complete unconsciousness. This is the apoplectic stroke. It will be preceived that there are two leading conditions upon which thke production of the stroke depends; a lessened stréngth in’ the vessel and an inereased tension on ‘it.— Popular Science Monthly for April. e rsE e

The Times says: The question “does prohibition prohibit?” has just been answered negatively in-Massachusetts by the repeal of the law which had stood ‘on -the statute books for seven years. That the system was an entire failurgggrom the first, was admitted even by the strongest friends of total albstinence. Whisky did not flow as freely in Boston, perhaps, as it does in Philadelphia or Neéw Yerk, but its procurement was an easy matter.. The donstabulary which was created for its enforcement developed into an unpopular, inquisitorial and corrupt machine and a burden upon the tax-pay-ers. ‘The repeal’of the law was, there-. fore, dictated for a variety of reasons, not ' the least of which was. a moral one. And thus Maine again becomes entitled to the distinction of beingthe only State in the Union in which “free rum” is not permitted. ' The example of Massachutetts has importance for Pennsylvanin -~ ° oo o 0

-RATES OF ADVERTISING: ‘0nce01nmn‘;;0nq:m,.....‘........t...e....ma0 ] mte0!m.mnu..........-.....L{...... 60.00 - gumere01nm,0nemr.....;....‘......... in.oo ‘Bseinch,onoye'u Ssessadsansscnnsnsnsdves 10.00 sinesscards, xfneh. ONeYeAr......ieevs 5,00 Legalnotices,eachinsertion, perline. ..... 0 ‘LocalNotices will be chnrged forattherat - Afifteencentsperlineforeac insertion. Alllegaladvertisements mustbe paid for when affidavitis made; thoserequiringno atddavitmust b }:uidror in advance, | | early advertisementsarépayable quarterly. Nogratuitous ndvertiﬁnior “‘puffing donein this g)aper. Allnoticesofa’ usinesscharacterwis be charged for at nsnal rates. ; Marriageanddeathnoticesinsert’dfreeofcharde .

GENERAL ITEMS.

F' The Governor of Michigan has approved the act repealing the law creating the office of county superintend- - L-Bntiof‘schools'.' R e - It is estimated by the Boston 7'ranscript that Daniel ‘Webster,during his‘public life, received over $1,000,000 in gifts from his friends and admirers., - Judge Emmons, of the U, S. Court,’ at Memphis, has rendered a deciston - adverse to the Civil- Rights bill, ifi: . structing his Grand Jury to find no ° indictments under it. M .- Shearman, Beecher’s lawyer, says only two jurors believe in Beecher’s guilt, and they are fast coming around. - The .question.is how does he know it unlesss he. has been fooling around | Bheny =t soran G N ;

- James Lick, the California millionaire, who made a magnificent donation to San. Francisco, for an observatory, has: withdrawn his gift. * He has been ‘puffed to the skies for his fenerosiﬁy, but now he takes it _all back. :

" It is probable a very stringent liguor: tax law, affixing.-heavy penalties to the sale of liquors to minors or habitual drunkards, will pass the Michigan Legislature, instead of the measures of a teetotal cast heretofore before that body. - 3 : : : Grant has found pleasant and profitable places for eleven ex-Congress: men who were open advocates of the third-term system. A few are left yet unprovided for, but vacancies will be created for those who firmly stand by the third-term idea. : ‘

.~ Apropos of the spelling mania, it may be of interest to know that a lady of Providence, R. I.,during leisure moments, has spelled six hundred and fifty words out of the word “congregationalist,” and in no case repeating a letter in the formatior of a word.

In the great revival meetings of Moody and Sankey in London, thieves are plying their vocation in a novel way. They kneel between two devout sinners, and while they are praying l}d, be relieved of the burden of theirsins, | the light fingered gentry ané%?etly relieving them of their loaddof filthy lgerer: s i o ik

The last Congress signalized their closing hours by changing the postal law so as to permit their own speechs to go through the mails free, and ‘then doubled the prices charged the public. . The first may have been right enough, but there is no justice in making the public pay an additional tax for their enjoyment of this luxury. - It.is reported Jg,n apparently good ' authority that the excursion of Senator Cameron:and others to Mexico, is for ‘the purpose of arranging for the annexation of a slice of Northern Mexico: to the territory of ‘the United States. This country has an abindance of territory, and any measure ‘looking toward annexation, especially ‘of Mexican territory, should be sternly discountenanced.

. In one of the New York courts, lately, there-was a long and heated : discussion between the counsel as to - whether a witness should be allowed _ to answer the following question:— “What did Mary say?” Three Judges took mearly an hour . to decide the: point, and atlast allowed it. The question was put to the witness by the defense, and the reply 'was ,ghort and gweet: | “Not aword?’ -~ i+ - -

Twenty years ago the mineral resources of America if suddenly dis‘covered to the word in full- would have astounded ' thé, most sanguine. People build towns and cultivate the country, digging wells nearly but not quite down to the treasures under them, and:live and diein ignorance of the wealth only a few dozen feet from them. It is being gradually found:that coal exists:all over thig continent. The latest discovety is in Patagonia, where three rich beds of ‘coal have been found. One is of a minimum thickness of 614 feet,anotheris hl4 feet thick, and the third is 16 feet in the clear. - Gyl 2

- In response to questions from Gen. Sherman, Gen. Sheridan tells what he knows ‘about the; Black Hills region. He states his belief:that not only the Black Hills explored by General Custer, but the Owl Creek Mountains, Lower Wind River, and the Rosebud, ‘are gold-bearing to a greater or less extent. 'He proposes sending expedi‘tions thirough these tracts (which are . not reserved by Indian treaties) the coming summer, and hopes to open a country rich in more ways than one. In ' the meantime, he means to do whatever lies in his power to keep intruders out of the country that is ‘reseryed to the Indians. o By an act of the Legislature, Connty Commissioners are made the guardians of county officers, to whom they must ' apply for a steel’ pen, lead pencil, bot- " ‘tle of ink, books, blanks, or anything ‘connected with their office; and if, in' their judgment, it -.is deemed proper that they should ‘have what they ask for, they will award the contract for furnishing such articles to the lowest ‘bidder. -« If at any time 4 county offi‘cer: should purchase any ‘article for the use of his office without the consent of the’County Comimissioners, it . shall be optional with them whether - they make -any allowance for it or not. If any commissioner shall engage in speculating off his county ‘more than the article cost, he shall be* guilty of - a misdemeanor, and upon ’ ‘conviction shall be fined in ;any sum not exceeding $5OO. If either county : officer or commissioner *shall receive; - ‘any present. or per centage for influence in securing contracts for any ‘parties, npon conviction shall be fined in. any sum not less than $lOO nor ° more than ssoo.—Rochester Sentinel. - Veterinary Surgeons all over {he ‘country are recommending Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition Powdeys for the. following trouble in horses:—Loss of - appetite, roughness of the hail, stop_page of:bowels or water, thick water, coughs and: colds, swelling of the. glands, worms, horse ail, thfck wind, . ‘and heaves. g s s - A friend or ours who is chief ¢lerk in the Governmental Dispensary, says that no medicine chest is now com- - plete withdut Johnson's 41wdgne Lin iment. We always supposed it was prescribed by law; if itis:not, it ought to be, for certainly there is nothing in =~ the whole materia medica of so mnch, importance to the soldierand the;”‘;gfi. or.as Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. 'i The South Bend Tribune sdss the inquiring prices of thgir™ { ebrated < wagons, and have been solicited byDaea g T R e e O SeTSg R K TS i %MMWM