Plymouth Democrat, Volume 16, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 October 1870 — Page 1

POETRY.

YOITHS' DEPARTMENT

MY t' AMI LI Alt.

BT JOHN O. A.K. Art ain I hear that creaking step! H riiii,- at the duur! T' well 1 know the hoding eonud That i.shers iu a bore 1 do uot tremble wheu I meet The stoutest of my foe?-. But heaven defend iiie from the frieud Who come but never goe. lie drops into my easy chair, And aks ahout the newi; He peel m, mY manuscript. And irivec hin candid Tiews; He tell ine where h I like- the line. And where he forced to grieve; He take rite MlMfMl littrtie But never take hi? leave! He read niv daily paper through Before I'm- Ten a word: He scans the lyric tthat 1 rote), And think ft quite ahsurd; lie calmly mktt my Iat ciar. And coolly a.-k for more; He opens everything he eet Except the entry door! He talks ahout his fragile health, And tells me of the pain He Miffer- from a score of ills. t which he ne'er complains; And how he struggled ouee with death To keep the fiend at hay; On theme like tlto away he ijoert but never gase awav. He tells me of the eatsaag words nie -hallow crilic wrote. Aw! every precious paragraph Familiarly can ipiote. H- think the w riter did me wnmj llc'd like to run him through! Hi- says a thoiiaud pleasant thiaj; But never .-ay -Adieu!" Wheii'er he come; that dreadful maa Di'uise it a. I may, I know that, like au autumn rain. He'll lat throughout the day. In vain 1 peak of urgent ta.-ks. In rain I -cold and pout ; A frown i no extinguisher it doe not put him out: I mean to take the knocker off, I'-u crajto upon the door. Or hint to John that I am 'oue To stay a month or more. I do not tr'inle wheu I meet The -tintc-t -f my foe; But heaven defend M from the friend Who never, never .'nf! MISC ELLANEOrs. HOLDER CHAIN. "Ok ci Urse you think me and selfish, Mr. Rylston. I ha i ll hearted suppose it is in the natural order of thimrs that youth should look upon age as a tyrant, hut the! tittie a ill come when you will thank MB for my precaution. I have or perhaps j ought to say my wife has married oil' rive j daughters. :uul o Lucy licing the last has ' been a bit nnofled. If I had a fortune to 1 give her, I'd say take her,- hul six girl.. have Urn e.eniv lu.virie.- my sjmcu lation have not been very succe.fiil lately, and the couple of thouand sbfl will have I would not Ik much good.1 " I Jut, Mr. Linsden " " Hut. my dear boy, 1 would almost soon- . er ee my little Lucy in net coffin than see her married to a elerk with a hundred and tiftv a year. No doubt scntatncntalit would ery shame at me for such a speech. My wife and 1 loved eaeh other dearly, and we thought we wen- doing a tine thing when we married on exactly your salary well, she had never done hard work and . had not the physical strength for it what Mi the conetpiencc r We lud very well by ourselves, but children came one after an -J other: we could not aflbrd to keep a good 1 servant, and so what with broken re.t at nights, and continual work and worry in ' the lay time. I aw her grow pale and thin j and brofcea spirited ; while 1 was power-1 less to prevent it : though Heaven knows the knowledge cost me many a heartaehe ; and when at lat. after year of hard work, I could give Iter the comfort she had been HHllWI d to have before her marriage, they nune too late to bring back wasted youth and light hcartedness. Our e. perl erne, however, had a happy ending; though with some the straggle lats as long as life itself, and with others the end comes to j find love, faith, and all that i liest and brightest in life, ended too." "Still, Lucy and I are so young," said tibi voting man. " Then, can't you wait? F don't Tike long engagements, and don't believe in them; lut I hall nawif hurry Lucy Into' I 1 1 1 ill! against her inclination. My wife I ..I i l.i i an I ike von. ami woum sooner give our little irirl into your keening than th ... any one else we know, n youinmayou can make your fortune, for goodness' sake a and make it. She won't Ik- twenty one for three years yet,- but. mind, you will have to tnit each other. I'll have no letter-writing, nor anything of that iml; so now, good-bye, and don't look so disconsolate. Vou know the oU adage, faint heart.' " PtivateW thinking lovers I great bore, and wondering why in the world his daughter seemed o anxious to h ave home, Mr Lansden began collecting his rations belonging. pretaratory to paving his daily visit to the city; while George Rylston, looking very much as if he had made up hi mind lo !c mi.crablc for life, wandered off into the garden in search of Lucy, all the more disappointed because he and that young lady had. before hi interview with her father, settled everything o entirely to their own satisfaction. The fact was, (Jeorge had. a lew days liefore. received a letter from an old uncle in India a letter that had placed him on the pinnacle of happiness; and he and Lucv. . . rending it over, with their heads very dose together, could not close their mental eyes to ihe vision of all.. sort of good ortune. Certainly ; it UHM not very affectionate , but then, it i too hot in India for senti- i inent, although Mr. Landsen wan obstinate enough to see nothing very 'promising in I the follow ing : ' )kI! Xkimikw: I have thought severs times since my sisters death." ("Humph' that'- -ix years," muttered Mr. Landsen,) that, perhaps, I could do -ome-Infeng better for you OUt here than you will ever do at home. So, if you like, you can come; hut you had lietter make haste, sdtout it, for these confounded doc tor ay I may go otr any day. Your-. " r'i!Ki"Ki;i( k Hkdoks. P. s. Mind you pay year bill before yen wtrt. ' S41 George had given up his -ituation, the clerk-hip of which Mr. Land-en had spokes o sligbtingry, and In-fore starting for India he lound time to tell the old. OM story to pretty Lucy Lin-den. w ho.it mut 1m- ensdbased, Bsaraed to it with far mace pntience than her father displayed, and so, terribly erestmHen, George went hack to the summer-house, where he had le'l Lucy, and very nioolily seatetl himself Is-side her "Ssll tliat's at an end,' he mil:,. "What is ?" asketl Lucy. "Why. our engagement, and my happiness." "Nonense! Why. George, What can le the matter ' What did papa say?" "Say' Oh. I upMse he said what all father say to any nor fellow who goes to them without his rent roll and cheque I" .ok in, his hand. I thought I should have gov oul so cheerfully to work for vou. Lm. . and he's sent me ofl'w it'i asori heart, that's all." "Now, Qenrnje, dear, I will not have M lK-rros; come, now, tell me w hat is the matter. I am quite sun- apa would not say word or do anything unkind.1 "Well, jierhaps not," said George.- "but it's not exactly pleasant to have one's feel injjs coolly put aside, and Ik- told that one i- next door to a ltrutp for thinking of get ting married at all." I )id papa say that?" ejclaimrd Lucy, onin her eye- very wide. "Oh, George, I think you must tie mistaken." Aller nraeh coaxing the histoi of Hi Landen's re.solve was told.- but Lucy did not seem near so disconcerted by h as her lover bad been, Ibr al its conclusion she lamJied a little oft laujrh, and said, look bar down: Why. George, dear, yon did not think thai wi we tduld be 'married batore you went out !" "And I don t ee that there would Inve been anything so very dreadful in that," vjtid George. " f tn t w enty three, old enough." "To know better, - vou gooe! Why, Giirr.'. dear, we are in just the same o-i lion we were before. I in sure I shouldn't like to faee your unele at tirt j and bBsidba, I don t wan' lolie in liulia Why. thi morning you were talking alout what you SOUUI do in ttire tirs.- and I do not -e that what papu ha said need make any diflerence.

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VOLUME XVI. "And suppose1, in the meantime, you see some one you think " " George,1 said Lucy, rising, and Awing him with u very grave look ou her usuallv unn V hue. " it we trust each other at all. let us do it thoroughly. I MO going to tav at home, seeing the same place, meet iug the same people that I have seen and met w ith you, and which w ill insensibly be connected with your memory. You are going into entirely fresh scenes ; and it SSeaM to me. now you have brought them so vividly before inc. thai you arc most likely to find temptation to forget me. Of course 1 should have liked to write to you, and hould have dearly liked to have had letters from you: iut stfll I don't suppose that peopk Wen less faithful when there were no such things as post -offices.' Lucy put bet hands on George's shoulders, and looked up in his face with a smile on her lips, but with more than a suspicion of tears in her eves; and George t bought he would have some difficulty in finding in India a picture fair enough to 'face the memory of his first love a. she lood there, the sunshine peeping down through the branches of the laburnums that shaded the summer house, lighting up their cluster! of yellow blofloomg, and resttng lovingly on the girl's fair hair and sweet, earnest face, until, a George gazed, the last remnant of his bad temper vanished. " My darling." he said, almost cheerfully. "1 shall think of Jon every day. every hour; but somehow, of all the times and plate in which I have een you, 1 think it will be this, our lat meeting, that will be moat impressed on my memory. I don't suppose there am any lahurniuns in India, but " "Ah, then, you shall take some to ren tut tuber me by; and George," continued Lucy, "you could have chosen no better type of our parting and our next meeting Don't you remember the old childish name we had for laburnum in the country (bilden Chain.' Well. these flowers." land a- he -poke she plucked a handful of the blossoms.) "even when they are ; nothing but dry heaves, shall be a chain between us." " Which your father w ill not recognize until it is a golden one," said George, laugh ing slightly. After tha: came a little love talk, sounding very sweet to those two, no doubt, but which would have seemed ridiculous to any one else ; and then came the parting, bitter as such partings usually are, Lucy ! going back to the house with beul head, the large hot tears she had managed to keep back while in her loser presence , fid ling fast almost before she had reached ; her own room. But she had put away her ', grief with her share of the laburnum blosi soma, and Was at the garden gate a usual to meet her tat her that afternoon, only in the evening, she slopped short, with something like a -mothered sob, in the middle of " Logie ' Buchau;" and though her lather made no remark, from that time the choice of her Bongs she sang was left to herself. For a whole year from the time of George's departure, there came no word nor sign from the absentee, but on the anniversary of that day Lucy received a letter, the w riting on the envelope of which was sufficiently unlike that belonging to any of her lady correspondents to make her curious as to its contents, and it was opened nit her hastily, and (afterwards Lucy was glad she had been ahme) she had no sooner done so, than she covered it up in her Ihthblack .-ilk apron, and rushing up stair into SH own room hu-U'ed tlie door. IM ' "' herself, her hand tightly clasped over her treasure, and a happy smile resting n her face, a through the onen window came the ru-tle of the laburnum, and the date when it had been gathered, but Lucy understood the meaning it was intended to convey.and though she told herself over and over I again tluit no change of circumstances, no lapse of time. eoUM make her waver in her ; faith, still this proof that George was unchanged in-en-ibly strengthened the lie between them. "Dear George,'1 murmured the girl, .is she caught the reflection of her glowing face in the class on the table, "how 1 wish i 1 could do something to help him. instead of silting idly at home, and waiting C snd Lucy felt hall indignant at Fortune, who asked nothing of her but passive endurance, , instead of giving her some means of displaying her hero-worship; yet the next moment -he caught herself wondering how she could n 11 her parents of the packet she had received, and questioning herself as to whether they would consider ii in . the tigbl of a letter, and w hether a such it : v.ould meet with but scant approval However, the task of introducing George and his various merits into the conversation proved an easier one than Lucy had anticipated.- for when she re-entered the breakfast room she saw her parent- standing in the garden, inspecting a bed of spring nowora, Mr. Lansden' especial fa orit -. F tan her seal in the window Lucy could overhear their conversation; but the golden glory of the laburnum blosBflins had Minded her io the beauty of everything else, ancLahc reasabsed absorbed in her own re Sections nntil a remark of her mother's roused her from her reverie, sending Ihe blood tingling to her cheeks; snd yet the remark itself was only commonplace. " Hv the way, Walter, it i- exactly a vear mf w ej since Mr Ryiston was here. "Ah, yes; well, I suppose it i," eras the rather absent rej inder. " Lucy never -peak- of him," -aid Mrs. Lansden. " I wonder whether she has quite forgotten the liking she used In have for him r " Forirotten it." sakl Mr. Lansden : " no doubt he baa, BhC would have talked ahout him fa-t enough if he had not. I never heard of a giri yet who could keep1 bet own counsel in a love allair." " I am glad if she h is done o," replied Mrs. Lansden; " Gut Lucy is not tickle." ' No." returned Mr. ' Lansden ,- 14 but -till it would be bi tter for her to look t"i a husband a little nearer home. India and doubtful expectations are a poor ground- i work for housekeeping, I am afraid." " Here Lucy thought she had heard enough; so. stopping through the open w indow , she laid her hand on her mother' s arm, and said, with a downcast face, on I which -mile and blushes struggled for the BHwtery, " tfanuna, dear, you must tell papt that he is iniite wrong. I have not spoken sbom George lecaue I fancied that if I did o you might think I wns fretting hut I have not forgotten bhn ; and and I know he has not fbrgottea inc. " Not so fat, puv," said her father ; " you may be fidelity itself but how can you be -lire of George ?" " Because hp hm sent me something thi norning," she replied. And I rave Inn to understand Hint I would have no letter writing," said Mr Laneden, rather testily. " I lid not say a letter, papa.1 ' Well, then, a pieent t hat '- worse ." rong airam hut you can sre it it you like, papa," and Lucv placed her t ....... - - - . A- A . " 1 A reaiire in icr iai ne r s nnwi t ie moment after, shwldering lest a puff of wind, or Mr. Lansden' i imsympathette touch, should bring it to grief. " Why. what in the world i the mr-in-ing of thi rubbish?" reclaimed Mr Imkm den, an he opi ned the ic-noild envelope; and what extraoi ".nart event i. to take j.lace at this date t Dead h ave and the day of ihe month so ihat'w the novel aryk of kmc letter, i- u f" " Oh, no. papa, you don't uiidertand," aald Luey 14 No mv dear, I eertainlv do not. Parhalts v ou w ill Im- kind cnomdi to evofibi" i o .-, ..... . , replietl Mr Lansden. "Why. when tii-orce went awav. we gathered some lahumum together. We

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were to remember eaeh other by it . ami so. now the day of our partim: has COBM again, und a you said he must not write, he has sent me this to show me he ha not chanced Mamma, von understand. .don't you.' Mrs. Lansden patted the little hand that rested on her arm, smiled assent, and then the trio went to breakfast From that tiim forward, at regular intervals, on Lucy's birthday, Christmas day, ami the anniversary of their parting, came similar packets, always enclosing the same kind of blank envelope, containing a spray Of "Golden Chain," each one drier and more withered a the time passed on, and the date that had indelibly fixed itself on Lucy's mind grew more a thing of the past. Ami so the three years wore away, and Lucy Lansden. still true to her first love, began to think the days passed very -lowly, and to grow a little impatient for the happy ending that, in her simple faith, she felt sure must come ooner or later to the love that had stood so sure a test. Just at the end of the third war. when the ground round the sunnner-hou-e was yellow with the fallen blossoms of the laburnum trees, Lucy, it must be confessed, rather unwillingly accompanied her moth er to the seaside. Mrs. Lan-den was the victim of certain somewhat imaginary ailments, the BUCCessful treatment of which necessitated frequent change of scene and air; SO Just at the time when Lucy had come to the conclusion that George might arrive any day. she was hurried ut of town, consoling herself, however, with the reflection that should he come from India for the purpose of seeing her, be would not much mind a journey to the seacoast. It was too quiet a place to be the resort of ordinary summer tourists, and the towns-people seemed utterly ignorant of the natural charms of which, in the estimation of weary Londoners, their little sea side town was possessed, so that Lucy's ramble were very solitary,- but she would sit contentedly for hours, apparently absorbed in her lxik or work, or watching the waves rolling up on the sands, but in reality buy w ith some happy day-dream .- and her mother would sometime notice with a smile her anxiety to appear in the color and dresses that suited her best, or her careful arrangement of the fresh flowers of which she insisted on having such an abundance in their sitting-room; but the days and week passed by. and autumn was close at hand, yet Lucy's Dopes were vague SS ever; nt length the -ill grew strangely restless, looking forward to her birthday with a dim presentiment of evil, that gn-w stronger a the day drew nearer. Had Lucy's twenty -hist birthday been spent at home, there would have been a party in honor of the day ; but us it w as, it bade fair to resemble every other day, except that Mr. Lansden was to j ay them a visit. Lucy awaited her father's appearance with an impatience that was not entirely on hi account ; and when the bracelet he bmught her had been admired, her tir-t question was, "Are there any letters for me, papa ! " "Letters, pussy? Why, what a con science you have! I sent you four yesterday," replied her father. " I meant the one from George,1 said Lucy. u No, I did not leave home until the post was in, but there was no letter tor you; and Lucy, my dear," continued her father, kindly, as he noticed her disnpiuliiitil looK, a..j' tliliiK ii i.ll I -1 as well to try and forget that affair altogether Vou know I don't want to pain you, especially on this day. when I wish to make you so happy; but I cannot help thinking that if George had been good for much we should have beard something definite about him before this." " Lucy's lip quivered as her father sMkp. w hile there was B tinge of sadness in her tone as she aid. " Not today, papa. Please don't speak of it to day;" and so the subject was allowed to rest. During one of his frequent visit to Brent, Mr. Lansden renewed an acquaintmce wliu-n lial neen commenced vears before, and at the house of this gentleman, now a country magistrate, it had been agreed that the evening of Lucy' birthday should be spent. In Lucy's estimation at least the quiet family party assembled at their friends' house threatened a dull evening ; she little though! with what agony of mind and prostration of spirit that day would close. Whether the .conversation had been un-u-ually dreary at dinner time, or whether the ladies did not care much forth charms of each other society, Lucy found her companions in the draw ing room very uninteresting, and not at all inclined for conversation: so, sfb r one or two vain attempts to sumse herself ami others, she took up a liook of engravings, and soon grew so interested in it contents, that -he scarcely noticed the entrance of the gentlemen, two of whom her host and another seated themselves mar her, and continued a conversation that had apparently commenced in the dining room. "And did that happen this year?" iniplll'cd the guest. Ye ; in 1 he early spring. was tin reply. And the lo was greal J inquired th guest. Entire the Sill parted, and went Tin- men on shore down lik itone. w re fiantic, and evaa tried to launch the life Intal, but of course in such a sea it was impossible. It was madness to attempt it, ana ever) soul on board waa lost There were a few bodie Washed Ofl ahore.n " But I suppose you had no clue lo their identity v" " No,- in the majority of morn they had been too much disfigured by coming in contact with the rocks, to Im recognizable. There was one poor you up fellow, though, evidently a passenger, w ho had escaped all injury, and he had i small water-proof case strapped round him, but unfortunately there wa no name. " He had papers, then v" " Only a love-letter, Hr loy, with a sprig of btbarnum In it, that he spoke of as '(toltlen Chain,' evidently some partim; token, and Mr. Wheeler d'nl not finish his pooch, for al that moment Lucy rose, and totter ed, rather than Walked, to w here they were sealed. " Have yon can you show me that letter?" she pasped, laying hrr hand, part lv to steady licrself. on her host's arm. and he, too surprised to be cautious, simply answered, " Yea " " Then you will let ire sei1 it I I think I know -that i, I knew the writer. No, do not call mamma, please," she added, ashe saw Mr. Wheeler's eyes seek Mrs Lansden; "I will not give yon anv I trouble.'' Overpowered -i a the girl's earnestness, and feeling that, havinp pone so far. equivocation would 1' use teas, Mr. Wheeler led the way to the library, and then, aller a -'arch that seemed longer than was nrce ;arv tudirrntr bv the ornertT appearance of the desk, and which was m reality, pro longed, in order to give Lucy time to collect herself, he placed a letter in her hare! snd the instant she had taken out the cn closure, the ileal spark of hope died out. for the writing was George's, and the la I ram urn the pouaecrpari of those ii.oii which had come to bar from time to time, mute assuruuee of her lover's con stancy ; and. like a message from the rrave, came the words of Lucy's tirt and last love lei ter : "My rhnjing. my aarhag for at last, a'fler all Ihi weary working and Waiting, the rieht to call yoti mint is won-thank tl... Uot. ,...11 -n mi.in u., n ilmnlnil ui;in mi i mi '-iv i.. ...... tthnl this is my lät tlay of Indian life.- ami wem it not tlmt 1 have a atranev wish to I write you my tirst letter, here in the place

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from whence with the laburnum blossoms for me nearly, three vear vou gathered ago, I have sent you so many unwritten messages, 1 should do nothing to-night, for I am o weary, Lucy love. "I start for England to morrow, so I shall see you long before v our birthday,but as I may be delayed a few hour., I shall send you this the first opportunity, and I shall expert warm welcome, for my work is done. My uncle's death has made me lonely, and rieh even beyond your father expectation; and. then the 'Golden Chain' is completed; and so now, Lucy, my own love, tried and true, I am coming to claim your prnmiii Ihn promise that has held firm in spite of time and absence. Yours forever, "GSORGK." To say that Lucy understood the mean ing of the words she read would scarcely be right. She knew that George was dead, that her happines was wrecked, and that the treacherous sea, to whose summer song she had so often listened, had come between her and her love; but as yet she scarcely felt the force of the blow ; still Mr. Wheeler was alarmed by the whiteness of her face. Deeply vexed with himself for having so abruptly brought thi-trouble to her knowledge, he went in search of Mrs. Lansden; but, i all her inquiries and attempt- at comfort, Lucy only moaned out some indistinct words about George, coupled with a request to bu taken home; and o, back to the pleaant sea side cottage, that henceforth would be associated with misery unspeakable, the balf-uncoh-scious girl was borne; and thus ended Lucv Lansden s birthdav. " Heaven knows I did it for her good. 1 Wanted to save her from the misery attendant upon genteel t,Hverty! and instead of that, my precautions have broken her heart. 1 declare I could bear anything, any reproaches, better than the gentle, uncomplaining manner in which she goes about. 1 never thought to pass such a ( hnstinaas this." The sjteaker was Mr. Lansden, the place the breakfast jiarlor of his own house; the time, the Christmas day following the summer they had spent at Brent. As he finished speaking, Mrs. Lansden came to his side, and there was a pained look on her face. " Walter," She said earnestly, " I wish you would try to throw aside this intense feeling of self-reproach. No one would think, Lucy h ast of all, that you are to blame in the matter; and when she i a little reconciled to her loss, it w ill be fresh pain to her sensitive nature to see you looking so worn and haggard Do try and be ebeerful just for to-day,- depend on it. it will do the child good; for my sake, Walter " The sound of a light step on the tairs made her turn away to the breakfast table, and Mr. Lansden, with a sigh he in vain attempted to conceal, looked in the direction of the door, where the next moment Lucy entered; but so unlike was the pale, fragile looking girl to the one w ho had stood with her lover under the pendant blossoms of Golden Chain," that it was little wonder her father mourned the change. During the illness that followed close upon the information of George1! death Lucy's hair had been cut short, and it now curled in rinn round her head; but it was in the hopelessly sad expression of her face that the diflerence was most marked,and though she smiled as the wished bar jmrents a Merry Christmas, it was such a t iii t u-.iii irlwwt j 1' ik . mi In tlii! tii.iVL lilllll. 'IUI, IlW.b Vl 41 HUH I' 1 would have seemed almost les sorrowtul. while the deep mourning she wore made her intense pallor still more perceptible. Besides her unw illingness to meet strang ers, Luc' was still too weak to bear the excitement of company, so th; ir Christmas party that day consisted entirely of members of tbeir own family circle, and Mr. Lan-den uttered an impatient exclamation w hen, on hi return from church w ith Mrs. Lansden and Lucy, he was told that gen tlcman was waiting in the library to see him on business. Tin ir interview must have lasted about a quarter of an hour, when Mr. Lansden. with an ext i-.iordinary amount of haste for one of his phlegmatic temperament, went in search of Lucy, whom he found alone in Ihe dining room cutting cake, for the luncheon of the juveniles of the party. The girl thought her father, with his us ual love of general superintendence, had come in to see how her work WSS progressing, and looking up with a smile she -aid, "I have nearly finished, papa; will you have a piece of cake?" 14 Cake!1 he repeated; " bless tin- girl, there are better things about today t han cakes.'1 " Not better than this one," said Lucy, " for I made it myself." "Ah, well!" said Mr. Lansden. "on that -core perhaps our visitor will have a pit ce, though 1 doubt if he has much appetite. M A visitor !" exclaimed Lucy; "who is it ? Are Anna and her husband come after all ?" " No. it is neither of them. iu will be very glad to see but some one " replied her lather. " I oh, you must tell me, papa I can't guess." Instead of the immediate answer Lucy exnectMl her father took the knife from her hand, ond leading her to the couch he Stood Ibra moment looking down into her face with an earnest gaze which she could not understand, saying at last, in a voice tremulous with emotion, "Lucy, my own dear little daughter, you have lieen brave and patient under a sorrow, the preatcst, perhaps, thai can befall a giri. Do you think you could be equally courageous and bear the excitement if some great pood were to happen to you?" "I think I could make that promise, papa, quite safety, for I cannot Imagine anything that could concern me much." '" My darling, don't say that ; why, Lucy, I believe you will be the happiest girl alive. There, I'd pivc a hundred pounds to have it told, and see that it bad-done her no harm." said Mr. Lansden to himself, and then he continued aloud, "I'll tell you w hat it is. Lucy, I'll give you a diamond bracelet if you'll puess quietly (mind, quietly!) who it is that is waiting for you in Ihe library." " Well, papa dear, you must give me seine clue." "(hi., "said her father; "1 don't see howl could do that without teMinp yon outright. However now mind if you scream .or faint, or make yourself in the least bit ill, you shall lc shut up in your own room for the rest of the day; but if you are pood sou may go and chajuze this;'' and very cautiously Mr. Lansden touched his daughter's black dre Lucy looked at her father for a moment as if in vain Irving to understand him, and then her white face growing still whiter, she w hispered, " Papa, it i im possible it cannot be ieorpe v" " But it can be, and it is, pussy," said bar lather. Almost iM-ftire the wools wert uttered. I Lucy bad freed herself from her father' einorace ano naneu From ine loom; ano of the intense happiness of the meeting between the lovers, we leave our readers to lodge. Of all the happy family parlies assembled that (Tiritmas Day there could eareey have lieen one as happy a that of which Oeorge Rylston had so unexpectedly become a member ; and tears of ifladnesn rose to Mr. LamaSen't ayes when Lucy came down lo dinner with a face Oil Which a taint tin -h already appeared, and w ith bei bhu-k dress exchanged for a w hite one I 1 . 1 Al 1 w ith blue ribbons. titiiritllv the conversation tinned niton a..... j i - - J the mbtaks4hst had causetl so much grief ; lait rf all nresent Lncy seenn 1 hast inier esteil ; and when Ueorge laughingly chid

her for being an Indifferent Desdemona, and for caring very little for his " hair breadth 'scapes,1 ihe replied that she could understand nothing yet but that he was back again with her; w hereupon Mr. Lansden called her a eltih little puss; al which George laughingly asured him that there was very little to relate. " The time I spent in India," said he, " was (piiet and uninteresting. I bad a good deal of hard work and very little pleasure : for though my uncle w as kind, he was just a trifle exacting, (and besides, 1 had a motive for industry), so I must BSV I wa urprised when at his death all hi- property ;i found to have been left to mc. After that, my sole thought was to return to England as soon as jMissible. and I made all necessary arrangements for my passage in the Oheron ; but the evening before it sailed the evening on which I wrote that letter. Lucy I was fairly knocked up, and the next morning when Fred Gordon, the poor fellow who took my place, came in to bid me good-bye, 1 was too ill to move Much a- I rebelled against w hat was inevitable, I was forced to yield; and Fred. who ao seldom had anything to do. thai

when he had raged about like an earth-j Quake, and when he bad tried too late to J get a passage to England in the Oberon, begged me to let him lake my place. I consented; and not knowing how long it might be before I should be able io write, 1 gave him my tetter, and told him your address, and left him to explain matters. How true he was to his trust you know already." (JcM'ge's voice had grown somewhat husky while he spoke of his lost friend, and it was only after a long pause that he could proceed. "1 was dangerously ill for many weeks, and there was no one with me who knew anything of my English friends. As soon a I Was aide to write, I thought T was able to travel ,- and well, jvcrhaps I was a little hurt that no tme cared enough for me to answer my letter; so i Bianca ior England, and you don't want to be told the rest." "The part that puzzle me, though," observed Mr. Landsen, "isthat Mr. Wheeler's description of your unfortunate friend resembled you." "Well, said George, "we wcrcsuhVicntly alike in height, the color of our hair, and so on, to make a stranger's description appear similar. What are yon thinking of so deeply, Lucy ?" " Only only that my happiness is bought with some one else's, pain." Lucy's spoken thought hushed the circle into solemn silence ; but so it is that Nature's balance of joy and sorrow is righted ; and amidst the ciash of the Christmas bell was heard the dirge of the wave, athey rolled upon on the Aore of the quiet sea side village, where Prod Gordon bad found a grave. Curious Dream. As evidence against the view that the action of the brain i continuous during sleep we may adduce cases of apparently very long dreams that have been comoleted. troni beginning to end, m a very a very e netted fy ng ex j lew seconds, and Which have been i by external influences. The followin amples of such dreams prove how great i the activity of the brain during sleep com panel with the actual lapse of time: A person, who was suddenly aroused from aleep by a few drops of water sprinkled in hi face, dreamed of the events of roVwelmBe5hana wi.icV tinally terinitiated with an altercalion BpOU the bur-d-rs of an extensive lake, into which bis exasperated companion, after a considera ble struggle, succeeded in plunging hjm. lr. v arpeiuer mention me ww; ;i clergyman falling asleep in his pulpit during the singing of a psalm before tin- seo inon, and awakening with the conviction that he must have slept for at lea-t an bofjr, and that the congregation must have hfeen waiting for him ; but, on referring to his psalm book, he was consoled by tin ding that his slumber had not lasted longer than the singing of a single line. Sir Benjamin Urodie, in bis " Vsychological Inquiries," 1854. mentions the following fact of the late Lord Holland: "On an occasion when he wa. much fatigued, while listening to a friend w ho was reading aloud, he. fell alcep and had a dream the particulars of which it would take him a Harter of an hour, or longer, io express in writing. After he awoke he found that he rememoerea the neginning ot one sen tence, while he actually heard the latter pari of the sentence Immediately follow ing it; so that, probably, the whole time during w hich he had slept did not occupy more than a few seconds. A lawyer found it necessary to obtain the exact age of a client of his. who was also his cousin. Their grandfather, w ho was rather an eccentric person, had died w hen they were boys. The lawyer often told Iiis cousin that if the grandfather had been alive the desired information could have been readilv obtained, and that he had a dim recollection of seeing a record kcot by the old gentleman, and of then being some peculiarity about it w hich he could not recall. Some months after tjie search had been given up as hopeless, h(' dreamed that their grandfather came to him i and said, "Vou have bean trying to find Ollt when .J was born. Don't you recollect one afternoon, w hen WC were fishing, I read vou some lines from :m BI sevir 'Horace,' and showed you how I had made a family record out of the book by Inserting a number of blank leaves at the end now, as you know, I dt vised my lij hrarv to the Bev. . 1 was a irn at fool for giving him books w hich he w ill never read ! (Jet the 'Horace,' and you will discover the exact hour at which .1 wa born." The lawyer, deeply unoressed with the dream, stalled by the first mora ing tram to visit the clerirvinan, who lived in a neighboring city.; found the "Horace," ai d at the end were the pages constituting the family record, exactly as had been described in the dream. By dq effort of his ni 'inorv could he call to his recollection the incidents of the lishing excursion. The following case, in which a dream in other respects highly reinarkabl" occurred tw ice on the MBBB night, came under the notice of the writer of this article in the year 1848. Our readers may recollect that, in the year just recorded, mere waa a terrible case ,of murder, Dr. Webster, Professor of Chamistry in Harvard Collage being convicted for the murder of his acquaintance-- we can hardly say his friend I)r. Parkaaaa. A lady wa call her .. V. well known in the literary world, and then residing in London, had, some ears previously, paid a lona visit to ihe aited States, during which she became intimately acquainted frith Dr. Webster and his family, who showed her much kindness and attention. After her return to Knplaud she continued to correspond with the family; and one day in the early autumn of is is, gentleman related to Dr. l'arkniati t ailed upon her with an IntrodtH lion from Professor Wehster. On that night she Went to bed at her usual hour, but soon experienced a horrible dream She fancied that she was being Brged by Dr. Webster to assist him in concealing a set of human bott l in a wooden box; and she distinctly recollected that there wa a thigh-boae which, after failing to break it in pieces, they vainly attempted to insert, but it was ton long. While they were trj ing to hide the lox as she fimoiad, under her iK'tl she woke In i state ..f ter ror and cold peraulratloo. s,M. in stänth itruci a lutht, and tried to dispel the recollection of her horrible vision by niadirur. After the lapse of twf hours, during which she hail deter i .- .. , . I iSllietlly USI tier jtlteittHUi on ?hc put oiit the itghts, aud wain the liook, tell asleep, T r The same divaui again occurred; after

w hieb she did not dare although a woman of singular moral and physical courage to attempt to sleep any more that night. Early on the following morning she called upon Ihe writer, and told him of her fearful experiences of the past night. Nothing more at the time was thought of these dreams,- but shortly afterward tin- news

reached England that Dr. l'arkniati missing; that the last time he was U'asi teen alive he was entering the college gates; and that the janitor was susjK-eted of having murdered him. On the writer mentioning this to X. Y., she at once exclaimed : " oh. my dreams f The next mail but one brought the news that the true murderer had been detected ; ami that, at the very time when X. V.'.dream occurred, he must have been actually struggling to get the nonet tin- flesh having been previously burned mhos wooden box such ax she had seen ; and that, after attempting in vain to break the thigh hones, he had hidden them elsenhcrc. CSbfaaV re' Jwraaf. MISCELLANEOUS 1TEJIS. AS Inn-vocation Tending bar. A Bad Dkht The ow ing of a grudge. Many men are worth nothing, and some are worth-less. Wheu is a black dog not a black dog! When it is a gravhoiuid. "WaSCHIXO DI N HEAR," is the way a Chicago laundry ha it. YViiK.N riding a donkey, what kind of fruit do you represent ? A pear. Dobs a mosquito draw Iiis hill at sight when he draws it in the dark? OHE of the tew things thai may as well be run into the ground a plow -bare. A Fki:m iiMAN wishing to compliment a girl as a "little lamb," called her a "small mutton." WOT i- a young lawyer like the national currency ! Because he is a legal tender and somewhat green. "Mother," said a dirty-legged youth who was washing hi leet, I have just got down to a stocking.' It is nearly as impossible to get money out of a niiaeras it would be for a butcher to get lamb chops out of a battering-nun. THE Mutual Life Insurance ( onipanv. of Chicago, is the oldest Life Company in Illinois, and second to none in the Union. A LOCAL editor of a pajx-r having recently got married, a cotemporaiy say: " .May bis father in-law die rich, and enable ioor Stephens to retire from the printing business and set up S cake shop at some railway station.'1 SIDNEY Smith savs, regarding the unI necessary consumption of food; " AccordB I l ... i ... l ing to niv computation, i nave ewetsu ano drunk, between my tenth and - rentieth S .IS . vear-, lorvy-iour wagon loans nw retuan was ood tor inc. Lady 44 Pour of those hairs which I so lately purchased of ydu are broken." Upholsterer " Indeed, nnsdame ! The onU way that I ran accoant for thai i that xiuic one must have been bitting on them.'' ThKODORK lb" l iiiulv pom iva: r,,an once saw an exceedwalkine in a street in London whoa he immediately accosted thus: " Sir, may I inquire it' vou are anv ! body in gMUTOCUlar f1 Be then walked off without waiting tor a reply. M.BS. Paktim.ton want to know it' it were "ot intended that Woman should iJvc their husbands, why are they put tniOIUrh tlx. l : i i 4 vivtaSu 't ha aoaiething plausible in ihe mnginsition, for nearly all the ladies are providing themselves with switches. At the annual meeting of the Boston Soldiers' Fund Association, held a few days since, the Treasurer's report showed that during the past year Sli,7's7 had been disbursed to soldiers' families. The fund now amounts to '28,T7.iS, and since the organization of the association, in lst;-j. about 7,000 applications for aid, amounting to 170,190, have been granted. A, child while walking through an art gallery with her mother, was attracted by BtahinnrirSnorn " Whn la that " doSH -lit-. " Mv child, that is Minerva, the .rod dess of wisdom. her husband too none, my child." Was wise, wasn't it ' Why didn't they make " ' Because she had " That was because she mamma ' was he artleva reply. Gail Hamiltok said recent that hoop skirts were the one thing on earth for i w hich there i no secondary use. This, the Boston yw now says, is a mistake, j He adds. " Passing by an the cars a thrifty -looking farm house Deal Lancaster, a few days ago, we saw two of these ' tUngs I properly suspended and ballasted, under j which were hived I tine lot of young tur- j keys." At a French fair recently in San Francjsco, for th' benefit of the wounded French soMBets, a bottle of cordial which ; was danil out in a tiny gold cup realized i $1,380 ..me thousand bottles of brandy sold til -10 per bottle; and a matron who ! atteaaled the fair with a box of snuff in a . half hour's time sold the snaff by the ; jiiiuh for (900. Hall, a queer genius, had made frequent 1 promises to bis friend. that he would put an - nd to himself. One stinging cold night he rowed he would go out and freeae to death. Ahout seven o'clock he returned shivering and snanpiniE his fimrers. " Why don't I you freezey" asked a loving relative. " llv J 1 , .love:" said the pseudo suicide, "when 1 ' freeze I mean i take a wanner night than ' this Ibr it." 11 khk is a verbatim copy of a paper posted on the walls of the Kxclwmge at Bristal: "To marchants, traders, and nthera. A young man, about thirty years of . - i . i ( mid husbandry, would be glad to go to ane, wno untiersiantts tue naKkcr ii.ness A merry ka or any outlandish place as over seer and like of that. Enquire o the 'Change keeper. N. ll. has no oMecshun to go to Uottomley Pay as a Skool Maes ter, on condition his life can be mshured to I the wild Savvaiii's." Pi nni.Ks. A bubble rises ou the rtSMUB, Autl datxvtt aoWB tha title: BaaMSh Um m bright -oir gkawa, And j.'lititt'it on it siclo. What tltotiL'h, before h nrttntent's punt. It ail 4imi burnt iu air Thm iMOm rhl) tbiu It may last, The (tiuinbino itKikct it lair. I uill not enrr sHboagh my tlreni lie wbat J itf 'er may fce; M hoi"" It'.''4-! au make it oeni A lliouirb it yet alight be. A little louder, ami I Know liill itiity ia awav: Cava, aaea i must, rtl let ii 1 tut keep it while I may. r fmiiilurii Journal. 'I'm: Oafc (Ontario) Ihjwrtrr Ml; A young man named QeorgO Mays, of hul hur township, recently went in pursuit of a deer, w hich took refuge in a pond. Being without firearms, the hunter boldly Jumped on the back of the animal, which Started from the iwnd and took across the tields, May clinging to the horns. The deer jumped the feme, and the young man's head, coming in contact with one of the stakes, was badly cut Kalling from hi scat, he grasped the deer by the hind legs, and was again mounted and forced his prize to the ground, after receiving a severe cut in one of his legs from the animal's horns. Mays received assistance from some neighbors, who brought an axe and put an end to the struggle. The carcass weighed 148 pounds.' A Ni:w ToM letter sa "A few Sundays ago. as Mi Beecher wa about commencing Id sermon, a stout, father! looking man Was endeavoring to make his j way through the crowd, to gel within a better hearing distance .' the distinguish ed orator. At that moment Mr. Beecher 's

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voice mug out the w ords of the text : 'Wh" art thou v' "Who art thou-;' again cried on the dramatic preacher. The stout party, thinking himself hi the wrong, perhaps, by pressing forward, ami bettering himself tobe personally addressed, startled the brethren and non -pluased their reverend chieftain by sedately replying: 1 I'm a pig merhaut from Chicago, ir. I hope you ain't mad. There ain't nary chair or else Pd ot down.' Plymouth Church didn't recover it serenity for ten minutes." , Not long ago an apparent Prussian oflh ei. escorted by one lander, presented himI self at the mart of one of the principal communes of the apper Rhine department, and demanded, in the nameof the Pnuwum King, the sum of 80,000 francs. Mayor, council, and parish priest were all struck dumb with terror and astonislunent. Fifty thousand francs: and there was not one franc in the communal treasury, for the raaesesr had bolted several days back So they haggled and begged and protested their impossibility to comply w ith the re quisition. and tinally convinced their unwelcome visitors that they could not poeaVhlv get together more than live thousand franca. Hewaaaioa enfntU though, aald the Mayor, as the officer pocketed nie cash, saluted gracefully and rode away, and it was not Until next day that he discovered his importunate tisitors to be an other than two professional thieve Barr. residing at The Sie of Atoms. A. CORRESPONDENT has asked ill what solution is the exlreine.-t division of matter apparent, and the nearest approximation to the ie or bulk of the atom made. The first part of thi. query may he answered; the second is unanswerable, btiamtf th: size of neither the atomic or molecular -:n terstk&eJ spaces are yet determined, I that if we could determine that a definite, num ber of atoms were mingled wHfe a green number of atom of another kind, we should still lack data of p.x estimate of their relative size. Assbnng them to be spheres with their äioVai in absolute contact, such a calciilytlor might be made, hut all vi- know of Ihr variou state which I matter assume tenches that they do not : touch .-ach oiK r. To answer even the tirst part of tile query would, however, rej quire niucb research. V shall content j oiusehe With giving some remarkable in j stances l' extr ne diviihility. One three hundr d and sixty millionth of a grain of . irold may he seen by the use of a micro- ' sro'jK- rnagnifying 500 diameter. A rrain of , copper dissolved in nitric acid, will, upon addition of ammonia, irive a blue tint j to 90S CUbic inches of water,- one threehundred aiul-nincty two millionth pari , of which may Ik seen by the aid of a BÜrxOSCOne. The ammonia coumined in a small drop of water may be deI tected, though only one part in two hsul dred thousand, by the ose of chloride of ! mercury. Thompon, the celebrated pay I sicist, has lately been pcrforminir a very I interesting oaküation with a view to deJ hTininc approximately the size q atoms, j the ealeulalion being based upon the phei nomenon of capillary attraction, the work performed m overcoming the contractile , force of soap bubbles, the kinetic theory of , eases (first suggested by BetnoJvHU, and since worsen out ty lterapath. Joule, Clausius and 'Maxwell), together with the laws of optical dynamics A ihe result of tin e calculations, he Ooncludes that the diameter of gaseous moiocnlca or atoms of clemeii arv . m, arc not less than UNjHMjX)Oo7fM'.2 of ;..a.. o.. uu.il! l over than this they may be. he does not eay, but if a drop ot water should be mas nified to the size of the earth, and each molecule magnified in the serae proportion, the molecule would even iheli be smaller than cricket balls. ScietUQic American. Invisible Capital Money and bouses, nd stocks and reat eis and railroads are not the only capital In the world. There is a kind that politi ' (idsis make no mention of khooKn the material-minded men rer I OgTli.' and admit it value. It i within the reach of men who are destitute of all Other kinds of capital within the reach of the very poorest, indeed, then- i many a man who ha started in life with nothing else, but, by the judicious use of it. baa been enabled to prow rich and powerful. It is a good character. This is the ti r-1 thing a young man needs in life. It is the tirst demand in business. There an' manv business men who do not jtosse it them selves, and who do not attempt to cultivate it ; but even thesu discern and esteem it in Others. There is no dishonest man who does not exact honesty of those whom he employs. He may deal unfairly with others, but he wants to be dealt fairly with himself. Inflexible inteprity and pood moral habits are the elements of irootl Character: and though they may not command their real value at tirt. thev will in the end. The world will, sooner or later, detect them, or do homage to them. The complications and suhdn bnons of business require thai the heads of houses should place huge trust in somebody ; and here is when- the arithmetical value of a good character is exhibited. In whom, of all the clerks and assistants in a large business, shall thi trust be placed! Who shall Ikselected to share the employer's conti deuce? Not noccssarily the smartest of his assistants, but that one whose proved inteprity and known good habits mark him as the most reliable and faithful All may possess these attributes; but. unfortunate lv, all do not posse them; and thoe who really do possess them are o few in num ber as to make the attribute themselves the more valuable tor their scarcity The young man a ho i strictly upright in all his dealings, who 'oils nothing but the truth, who faithfully fulfills his pledges ami keeps hi engagements even to hi ow n detriment, and whose moral habits are correct this hi the person to w hom em ployers love to ounfide Important trusts, and whom they select for rare revvanl and good salaries No young man who possesses these qualities can be esteemed poor; and no young man who i destitute of them is likely to be steadily prosperous. Jfljdksanu. Fruit as a Medicine. Tiik worst case f dyspepsis can ha cured without the least particle f medi Icinr, irlmply by rating nothing la which bud is an ingredient, using butter sparing lv. eating bread made of .u bolted hour, ami inaUiiu: free uc of fruil. t Bpecfadbj np pies. In fact, mot people would ix- much batter off if they sal meat not more than once or t w ire a week, and used fruit and vegetables instead Path and lard arc great promoter of dyapcpnia, and fevers ami bilious diseases are led by keeping up bodily heat of mid-winter to June and July, August ami September, and never changing our diet from the heavy meat of January. An eminent French i hvit iaa say that the decrease of dysriepsia and billion afleotioas In Paria is owing to the bicrcased consumption of apples; a fruit. he maintains, which is nn admirable pre venlive and ionic, us well as a t ry noiir ishing and easily digested article of food The Parisians devour one hundred millkms of them every winter, and we do not doubt that these statements are perfectly correct In feet, Instances have come Budes our ob servalion. where fresh fruit had nn im mediate effect in cheoking bilious tendea cies in indh (dual, and WT have heard of W hole districts w her bflfrnjM dl-i a c liccome prevalent apr.n the failure of tha fruit crop. Fruit jrrv, en mmj. therefore, count usai a constancy increasine. demand ftr the products ,i tin ir orchard and g:uxU us, as the hl SS0, giving pnpertics of fruit In come kup A ... Ehanyt.

TUE Ii I BIMS Ii R ' U TB UBM'ILNV. Wuat hires perked the cherries on Barnthy'ttree I eoka tln-in ft.r ou." fail a bold C'bit-karise. Ami n dkl 1 peek tbeni." 'aid Kol.iu Kedlrat; - ai ': w -:.. -r-. the liarrhs 1 pacha aersayi lt." Ptdti't be bave eowe red flannel, one day. Put up iu the tree juM to NM nie away? But I'm not afraid of red flannel one bit.'' And I'm not afraid'." paid a little Tomtit. Didn't he aim with an old ructy pun At meV sitid a Sparrow. '-Oh. wasn't it fuu! He meant to frighten me ; but 1 didn't care : I ju-t chirruped out to hiui. 'Shoot if you dare!" Uear me. my brave bird." aid a eolemu old Crow : M Thi llarnaby I have j;ood reaon to know; Iii iiiMiitr for manv a ve:ir I have lorte. When peii efully trying to barvet my corn. yiv treatment of him ha een civil and fair; rveatwaja leeu willing to v'he him a bare; I never have prudiTod him my con. or my 1-ean. But nothing uu teach htm what -.Tannine meau. " Mv friend. I fhall soon lav tef jrc you a plan To '' 'I' " M thi- hwoleut creature called "man.' A creature that ha neither feather- nor wiu. Yet set itself up to e very L-rcat thing. " I herebv pnnlaim in the plainest of word. Thai henceforth mankind must euccunib to the hirda. . I'm Bjtai that this Barnr.by'- cherries you pecked: The man ha no right that a ird should reiect."

; This jeech was received with a round of applause. 1 nur i net is, :tm im uv". o "ar-rue well for the cause ; : W"h-ii next we a--inlle. mv jilan vou shall learu : There's Barnabv coining 'tis time to adjourn." KUTirs RESOLUTION " Kitlie. Kittie, come home, dear,"' aid Mr. Blown, as she tenpnd la tie- door, worn and heated with her tnoniin.i: walk. " dear' it is always just so as soon a we Bet nic. lv at play, mother i sure tocall me' said Kittle, bniwticntly, pitbcrinsr up ber dot! and box of ananas. "Tberc' I hear Freddy st naininu'. 1 supioe khe wants ase to take care of him.- 1 wish I wa like von. ami diduoi have any brother to bf plairued with." "O how dreadful! to wish your brother wa dead." cried Annie Norton. "I did not s-.u I wished he was dead I oady saai MI wfah 1 didn't have uuy. mid Kmv. getting over the fence. u If I had a little brother. I am sure I vvocVl rather play with him than do any tb'mr eke " said Annie, thinkimr how she I wished her only brother who had died when she wa a wee baby could have lived till now . For Annie s mother often talke! with her about her brother in Heaven, and told her of the cunning' things he used to say and do. "You will have to take baby.'' said Mrs. Brown, as Kittie came into the kitchen, throw mg her hat on the BOOT and her doll on a chair, and muttering " 1 don't see w hy he had to wake up ami spoil our fun. it does not seem as it he had lieen asleep two minutes." " 1 am sorry I bad to call vou so soon, but ii i almost time to pet dinner, and I want to finish Walter's coat." "I wish you would keep a servant, ma, tor Saturday is the oiilv day I have to play." said impertinent Kittic. taking baby from the cradle with a jerk and frown, which of coarse did aal stop bit ryinp. Mrs. IJiown' eye tilled with 1ears as she heal over her w ork, f r it pricved hat that Kitlie should show such a sMrit. Two rears ln-tbre Mr. Brown had lieen left a widow with three children, and with little la-side their home. She was oblige! to economize in Older to keep Walter and Kittie in school ; but be wa willing to make any sacrifice herself, that they might be happy, and feel a little as Kssible thw los Of I rather. Jast a the e'.ock struck twelve Walt i came iu hot and tirel with hi long w..lk from the tore. u Isn't this a scorcher I'm almost tMiked. 1 wish Mr. NrUn would move his store further up town, it is so far to go. if other, you know school closes next week, and Mr. Norton asked me 'o day how 1 would bins to go into his store foi the vacation. He ay. he will gtva me fifty cents a day. 1 could earn ever so much before school begins again. Let me see if I can do it in my head. Fifty cents ' U'.V tad ,ix days in a week i work, and tell week. vrrt.ne.... thirty dollars. Just to think: WoWtl le rieh"? I could get lots ofthing wiih that. Can I go, mother? You look H ober donft you like the iilan?" And Walter stoped for want of breath. "Yes, mv son. I wa thinking how thankful we ought to In- that God ha. will US SO kind a Mead aa Mr. Norton. Your thick suit will be too small for you next winter, and 1 did not s-e how I was going to irel vou a new one. but you see if we are oniy patient, lU things wi"ll come right in the end." Mr. Norton lived next door to Mr BrWWB, and since her hne'iand's death had been very kind and helped her in many ways.- Walter had been in his store after ncJm Mil hours and on Saturday, as cm ml Itov, almost ever since his father died . he had proved himself so active and tnit worthy that it was I ph aure for Mr. Nor ton to help him all he could. Annie and Kittie had Imvii playmates fema the time that they could run alone. Although o different m deposition. Kitlie willful and impetuous, Annie so tpiiet and gentle, yet, unlike most children, they sei doni quarreled; if they had anything, they always shared, and used to tell each other all their little trouble. Alxtut a week after Walter Went to the store a. a clerk, he and Freddy were Is.th taken ick ; tin ir mother thought at first it was not him: erions. but it proved to te cartel fever, and they lsth pn w npidl worse. Kiltie had UaI it while spending the summer with her grandmother, a lew eara before. She was not sick, but was obliged to Ik- very quiet, and as she wandered about the houc, and saw the ad faces Of thoSS about her, she was very lonely, aud wished her brother were well again One evening a she sat at the fot of the stairs waiting for some one to come down, that she might ask how they were, aha I gan to think: What if they should aal Z'et cllv and how unkind she hail some Ihnes been to them, and she rcnieimVred what she had said to Annie Norman, thai she wihcd "she had no brothers." Sh--put her head down on the stairs ami cried as though her heart would break, and won dared how she could have said such acruel thing. .Iut then h r mother came down tairs, anl took her on her lap. ami toU her N al ler was better: but she was afraid Fmldy would not net well. She clung to her mother's neck, crying aad sobhtag, and wanted to go aad sis- haw; bat her aarthei told her that she could not. a. the l ai noise might make hhw WOTSe, but that she might sec Walter the ncl day if he were better. Kittie lav awake a long time that night, thinking how lonely Annie must 1h- without anv brothers; and felt that if Freddy should die she could never forgive herself for feeling as she had toward him. Tha next morninc. tH-f.o- Kittie waa np. her mother came to her room and mid her that both her brothers wen- better; that she had watched w it Ii lr. tirey by Fneddv 'a Ik lsitle all through the long night ft arins he would not live till morning; but just before daylight he opened hi eve amt called "mamma: the doct.u aid he wai better, and hoped he would now get wen When her mother had gone back het brothers, Kittie knelt down ami thanked Qod that he had spared tin in. and aked Him to help her to keep her resolution never to he unkind to them again She aw Annie out in the yard, ami called to her b come to the fence, ami told her that Waller ami Freddy wen- both bctU-r "Oh Annie' do you rvmcmlier I od osmday that I wished 1 had no brothers r I thought of it when thev wen ' MCI, and it ma.h me fed dreadfully. 1 snt w it they did not get well, I could never te hapov acnin. and now I aw cine to try and innrer In- cross oa i''1 " ,n"'v Kittie sometime fevgot her resolution, and got impatient . hut when, ver she spoke unkimllv. she wss sorry, and tried to do better She felt she hud learned a leson that he should never forget Tiik. onh mention of paiwr money in the Bible, sayt an exchange. i whare it -lhai the' dove brought the " green liack to Noah. A mistake w hen the twelyi wen- ent it. taiy were commands ' take n ' scrip " with them.