Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1877 — Page 2

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PAPER

FOR THE

PEOPLE.

TERHE HAUTE, JAN. 27, 1877.

HER ANSWER.

All day long she held my question I her heart: Hhunned my eye that craved an answer,

Moved apart:

Touched rav hand In good night greeting, "Hosier grew— Should I

leave

to-morrow?—early?

Then adieu!"

Bent her head in farewell courteous, Onward passed, WhileacoM »iitndaiipp« my heartstrings,

Held them fast.

Still I waited, still I lisr.-»ed: All my sonl Trembled in the eves that watched her

As she stole

Up the stairs with measured footsteps. But she turned Where a lamp HI HRUZ'-N bracket

Brightly burned,

8ho\red me all me Klintlng ripples Of her hair. Veiled her eyes in violet shadows— iimmered wlure Curved her mouth in f-o compliance

As she bent

Toward me from the dusky railing Where she leant. Ah, rnv love! One white hand wanders

To her hair,

Slowly lifts the rose that nestles ftly there Breathes she in itshe trt my answer

Shyly sweet,

And Love's in.•-sane mutely flutters To iny fe »t.

The Dead Secret.

BY WILKIE COLLINS.

I ThIs intensely interest ini?serial was conimenceil in The Mail of September 23-Vol. 7 No 1.5. Back numbers of tlie paper can be procured at the otllce, at the new.- stands, or

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CHAPTER XXVII. FOHTY THOUSAND POUNDS.

No popular saying is moro commonly accepted than ihe maxim whieh asserts, thai Time is the great consoler and, probably, no popular saying more im perfectly expresses the truth.

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that wo must do, the responsibilities that wo must undertake, the example that we must set to others—these are the great consolers (or these apply the first remedies to the malady of grief. Time possesses nothing but the negative virtue of helping it to wear itself out. Who that has observed at all, has not perceived that those among us who soonest re -over from the shock of a groat grief for the dead, are those who have most duties to perform towards the liviig? When the shadow of calamity rests oil our houses, the question with us is, not how much time will suffice to bring back the sunshine to us again, but how much occupation have wo got to force us forward into the place whero the sunshino is waiting for us to come? Time may claim many victories, but not the victory over griet. The great consolation for'tho loss of the dead who are gone is to be foil rid in the great necessity of thinking of tho living \yho re main.

Tho history of Rosamond daily life, now that the"darkness of a heavy affliction had fallen on it, was in itself the sullieient illustration of this truth. "When all tho strength even of her strong character had been prostrated by the unspeakably awful shock of her mother's sudden death, it was not the slow laose of time that helped to raiso her tip again, but the necessity which would not wait for time—the necossitv which made her remember what was duo to tho husband who sorrowed with her, to the child whoso young life was linked to hers and to the old man whose helpless grief found no support but in the comfort, she could give, learnt no lesson of resignation but from t!co example she could set.

Fiotn tho first, the responsibility of sustaining him had rested on her shoulders alone. Before the close of day had been counted out by tho first hourof tho night, she bad been" torn from the bodsisle by the necessity of meeting him at the door, and preparing him to know that lie was entering tho chamber of doath. To guide tho dreadful truth gradually and gently, till It stood face to face witli him, tosupport him under the shook of recognizing it, to help his mind to recover after tho inevitable blow had struck it last, these were the sacred duties which claimed all the devotion that Rosamond had to give, and which forule her heart to dwell solfishly on its own grief. If was not the least of the trials she had now to face, to see the con dltlon of vacant helplessness to which he was reduced under tho weight of an aflliction which he had no strength to bear. He looked liko a mm whose faculties had been stunned past recovery. He would sit for hours with the musical b-x by his side, patting It absently from time to time, and whispering to himself as ho looked at it, but nover attempting to set it plavlug. It was the ono memorial loft that reminded him of all tho joys and sorrowe, the simple family interests and affections of his past life. When Rosamond first sat by his side, and took his hand to comfort him, he looked backwards and forwards with forlorn eyes from her compassionate face to tho musical box, and vacantly repeated to himself the same words over and over again: "They areall gone—my brother Max,mv wife, my little Joseph, inv sister Agatha, and Sfcrah my niece! I and my little bit of box are left alone together in tho world. Mozart can sing no more. He has sung to tho last of them new!"

Tho second day there was no chango in him On tho third, Rosamond placed

the

hook of Hymns reverently on her mother's bosom, laid a lock of her own hair round it. and kissed the sad, peaceful face for tho last time. The old man was with her at that silent leave-taking, and followed her away, when it was over. By th-' -do of tho coffin, and, afterwards, when she took him back with her to her husband, he was still Mink in the same apathy of grief which had overwhelmed him fror Uie first. I'.sit when they began to speak of the removal or tho remains they next day to Porthgenna church-yard, they noticed that his dim eyes brightened suddenly, •and that his wandering attention followed every won' 'hey said. After awhile lie rose from chair, approached Rosamond, and looked anxiously in her face "1 think I could boar it better if vou* woul.1 htino go with her?" be «id Wo two should have gone back to Cornwall together, if she had lived.

Will you let us still go Kick together now that abc has died Rosamond gently ntnor.stra'ed. and tried to make him see that it was best to leave the remains to be removed under the charge of her husband's servant, whose fidelity could bo depended on, and who"!' position mad« him the Attest person to be charged with cares and responsibilities which near iclations were not

capable

of undertaking with suffi­

cient coinposur'. She told blm that her husband intend dte stipin London, to.

give her one day of rest and quiet whloh she absolutely needed, ami that they then proposed to return to Cornwall ii time to be at Porthgenna before the funeral took place and she begged earnestly that he wolld not think of separating his lot. from theirs at a time of trouble and trial, when they ought to be all three most closely united by the ties of mutual sympathy and mutual sor-

r°He

listened silently and submissively while Rosamond was speakine. but ho onlv repeated his simple petition when she had done. The one idea in his mind, now, was tho idea of going back to Cornwall with all that was left on ear-h of his sister'schild. Leonard and Ro-a mond both saw that it would be useless to oppose it—both felt that it would be cruelty to keep hiui with kindness to let him go away. After prl•ately charging tho servant to spare him all trouble and difficult}', to humor nun bv acceding to any wishes that he might express and to give hiin all possible protection and help without obtruding either officiouslv on his attention, they left him free to"follow the one purpose of his heart, which still connected hirn^ with the interests and events of thf passing day. '*1 shall thank you bettor soon," he said at leave taking, '-for letting me away out of this din of Ijondon with all that is left to me of Sarah, mv niece. I will dry up my tears as well as I can, and try to have morecour age when we meet again."

On the next day, when they were alone, Rosamond and her husband sougnt refuge from the oppression of the present, in speaking together of the future, and of the influence which the change in their fortunes ought to be allowed to "xercise on their plans and projects for the time to come. After exhausting this topic, the conversation turned next on the subject of their friends, and on the necessity of coummunicating to some of the oldest of their associates the events which had followed the discovery in the Myrtle Room. The first name on their lips, while they were considering this question, was the navieof Dr. Chennery and Rosamond, dreading the effect on her spirits of allowing her mind t« remain wnoocupied, volunteered to write to the vicar at once, referring briefly to what had happened since they had last communicated w\th him, and asking him to fulfill, that year, an egagement of long standing, which he had made with her husband and herself, to spend his autumn holiday with them a* Porthgenna Tower. osamond's heart yearned for a sight of her old friend and she knew him well enough to be assured that a hint at the affliction which had befallen her, and at the hard trial which she had undereone, would be more than enough to bring them together the moment Dr. Chennery could make his arrangements for leaving home.

Tho writing of this letter suggested recollections which called to mind another friend, whose intimacy with Leonard and Rosamond was of recent date, but whoso connection with the earlier among t,he train of circumstances which had led to the discovery of the Secret, entitled him to a certain share in their confidence. This friend was Mr. Orridge, the doctor at West Winston, who had accidentally been tho means of bringing Rosamond's mother to her bedside. To him she now wrote acknowledging the promise which she had made, on leaving West Winston, to communicate the result of their search for the Myrtle Room and informing hitn that it had terminated in the discovery of some very sad ovents, of a family nature, which were now numbered with the events of the past. More than this, it was not necessary to say to a friend'who occupied such a position towards them ai that held by Mr. Orridge.

Rosamond had written the address of this second letter, and was absently drawing lines on the blotting-paper with her pen, when she was startled by hearing a contention of angry voices in the passage outside. Almost before she had time to wonder whaf the noise meant, tho door was violently pushed open, and a tall, shabbily-dressed, elder ly man. with a peevish, haggard face, and a ragged gray beard, stalked in, followed, indignantly, by the headwaiter of the hotel.

I have three times told this person," began th9 waiter, with a strong emphasis on tho word "person," "that Mr. acd Mrs Frankland—"

Wore not at home," broke in the shabbily-dressed man, finishing the sentence for the waiter. "Yes, you told me that and I told you that the gift of speech was only used by mankind lor tho purpose of telling lies, and that, consequently I didn't believe you. You havo told a lio. Here are Mr. and Mrs. Frankland both' at homo. I come on business, and 1 mean to have five minutes' talk with them. I sit down unasked, and I announco my own name, Andrew Treverton."

With those words ho sat down coolly in the nearest chair. Leonard's cheeks reddened with anger while he was speaking, but Rosamodd interposed b3fere her husband could say a word.

It is useless, love, to bo angry with him," she whispered. "The quiet way is the best way with a man liko that." She made a "sign to tho waiter which gave him permission to leave tho room —then turned to Mr. Treverton. "You have forced your prescncce on us, sir," she said quietly, "at a time when a very sad affliction makes us qnito unfit for contentions qf any kind. Wo are willing to show more consideration for your ago than you have shown for our grief. If you have anything to say to my husband, ho is ready to control himself and to hear you quietly, for my sake." "And I shall bo short with him and with you for mv own sake," rejoined Mr. Treverton. "No woman has over had the chance yet of sharpening her tonguolongon me,orevershall. I havo come here to tell you three things. First, your lawyer has told me all about the discovery in tho Myrtle Room, and how you made it. Secondly, I have got your money. Thirdly, I mean to keep it. What do you think of that?"

I think you need not give yourself the trouble of remaining in the room any longer, if your only object in coming here is to tell us what we know alrvady," said Leonard.

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have got tho money .ul we neVCl* doubted that you meant to keep it." You are quite sure of that, I suppose?" said Mr. Treverton. "Quitesure you have no lingering hope that any future twists and. turns oi the law will take the mo»ey out of my pocket again and put it back into yours? It is onlv fair to tell you that there is not the shadow of a chance of any such thing ever happening, or of my ever turning generous and rewarding you of my own accord for the sacrifice you have made. I havo been to Doctors' Commons, I have taken ont a grant of administration, I have got the money legally, I have lodged it safe at my banker's, and I have never had one kind feeling in my heart since I was born. That was my brother's character of me, and be knew more of my disposition, of .course, than any one else. Onee again, I tell you both, not a farthing of all that large fortune will ever return to either of you."

And once again I tell you," said

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Leonard, "that wo havo no desire to hear what we know already. It is a relief to my conscience and to my wife to have resigned a fortune which we had no right to possosss and I speak lor her as well as for myself when I tell you thai your attempt to attach an interested motive to our renunciation of that money, is an insult to us both, which vou ought to have been ashamed to offer."

That is your opinion, is it?" said Mr. Treverton. '-'You, who have lost the money, speak to me, who have got it, in that manner, do you? Pray, do you approve of your husband's treating a rich man who might mako both your fortunes, in that

way?"

he inquired,

addressing himself sharply to Rosamond. .. Most assuredly I approve of it, she answered. "I never agreed with him more heartily in my life than I agree with him now." 0!" said Mr. Treverton. 'Then it seems j'ou care no more for the loss of the money than be does?"

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He has told you already, said Rosa mond, "that it is as great a relief to my conscience as to his, to have given it

Mr. Treverton carefully placed a thick stick which he carried with him, upright between bis knees, crossed his hands tho top of it, rested his chin on them, and, in that investigating position, stared steadily in Rosamond's face.

I rather wish I had brought Shrowl herewith me.'' he sai'* to himself. I 'should like him to have seen this. It staggers me, and I rather think it would have staggered him." "Roth these people,"

continued

Mr. Treverton, looking

perplexedly from Rosamond to Leonard, and from Leonard back again to Rosamond, "are, to all outward appearance, humau beings. They walk on their hind legs, they express ideas readily by uttering articulate sounds, they havo the usual allowance of features, and in respect of weight, height, and sizegeaerallv, they appear to me to be mere average human creatures ©f the common civilized sort. And yet there they sit, taking the loss of a fortune of forty thousand pounds as easily as Croesus, King oi Lydia, might have taken the lo3s of a halfpenny!"

He rose, put on his hat, tucked the thick stick under his arm, andadvan?ed a few steps towards Rosamond.

I am going now," he said. "Would you liko to shake hands?" Rosamond turned her back on him contemptuously.

Mr. Treverton chuckled with an air of supreme satisfaction. Meanwhile, Leonard, who sat near the Sre place, and whose color was rising angrily once more, had been feeling for the bell-rope, and had just succeeded in getting it into his hand, as Mr. Treverton approached the door.

Don't ring, Lenny," said Rosamond. "He is going of his own accord." Mr. Treverton stepped out into the passago, thou glanced back into the room with an expression of puzzled curiosity on his face, as if ho was looking into a cage which contained two animals of a species that he had never heard -«f before. "I have seen some strange sights in my time," he said to himself. "I have had some queer experience of this trumpery little planet and of the creatures who inhabit it—but I never was staggered yet by any human phenomena, as I am staggered now by thos9 two." He shut the door without saying another word, and Rosamond heard him chuckle to himself again as he walked along the passage.

Ten minutes afterwards, the waiter brought up a sealed letter addressed to Mrs. Frankland. It had been written, he said, in the coffee-room of the hotel, by the "person" who had intruded himself into Mr. and Mrs. Frank land's presence. After giving it to the waiter to deliver, he had gone away in a hurry, swinging his thick stick complacently, and laughing to himself.

Rosamond opened the letter. On one side of it was a crossed cheque, drawn in her name, for Forty Thousand Pounds.

On the other side, were tho39 lines of explanation Take this. First, because you and your husband are the only two people I have over met with who are not ikcly to be made rascals by being made rich. Secondly, because you have told the truth, when letting it out meant losing nion9y, and keeping it in, saving a fortune. Thirdly, because you are not the child of the plaj'er-woman. Fourthly, because y*n can't help yourself—for I shall leave it to you at my death, if you won't havo it now. Good-^y. D-^n't come and see me, don't writs grateful letters to me, don't invite me into the country, don't praise my generosity, and, above all things, don't havo aaything more to d» with Shrowl!

ANDREW THEVERTON.

The first thing Rosamond did, when she and her husband had a little recovered from their astonishment, was to disobey the injunction which forbade her to address any grateful letters to Mr. Treverton. Tho "messenger who was sent with her note to Bayswater,returned without an answer, and reported that he had received directions from an invisible man, with a gruff voice, to throw it over the garden-wall and to go away immediately after, unless he wanted to havo his head broken.

Mr. Nixon, to whom Leonard itnmedi ately sent word of what had happened, volunteered to go to Bayswater the same evening, and make an attempt to see Mr. Treverton on Mr. and Mrs. Frank land's behalf. He found Timon of Lon don more approachable than he bad anticipated. The misanthrope was, for once in his life, in a good humor. This extraordinary chango in him had been produced l»y the sense of satisfaction whi he experienced in having just turned Shrowl out of.his situation, on the ground that his master was not fit company for him after having committed such an act of folly as giving Mrs. Frankland back her forty thousand pounds. "I told him," said*Mr. Treverton, chuckling over his recollection of the parting-scene between his servant and himself, "I told him that I could pos*iblv expect to merit his contiued approval after what I had done, and that I could not think of detaining him in bis place, under the circumstances. I .jpgged him to view my conduct as leniently as ho could, because the first catiso that'led to it was, after all, his copying the plan of Porthgenna, which guided Mrs. Frankland to tho discovery in the Myrtle Room. I congratulated him on having got a reward of five pounds lor being the means of restoring a fortune of forty thousand: and I bowed him out with a polite humility that half drove him mad. Shrowl and I have had a good many tussles in our time he was always even with mo till to-day, and now* I've thrown hitn on his back at last!"

Although Mr. Treverton was willing to talk of the defeat and dismissal of Shrowl as long as the lawyer would listen to him, he was perfectly unmanageable on#the subject of Mrs. Frankland, when Mr. Nixon tried to turn the conversation to that topic. Ho would bear no messages—he woald give no promise of any sort for the future. All tbat be couldbe prevailed on to to say about himself and bis own projects was,

tbat he intended to givo np tho house at Bayswater, and to travel again, for tho purpose of studving human nature, in different countries, OK a.plan that he had hot tried yet—the plan of endeavoring to find oat tho good that there miirht be I In pooplo as welLas the bad. He said the Idea had been suggested to his mind by his anxiety to ascertain whether Mr. aiid Mrs. Frankland were perfectly exceptional human beings or not. At preseut, be was disposed to think that they were, and tbat his travels were not likely to lead to anything at all remarkable "in -ho shape of a satisfactory result. Mr. Nixon pleaded hard for something in tho shape of a friendly message to take back, along with the news of his intended departure. Tho request produced nothing but a sardonic chuckle, followed by this parting speech, delivered to the lawyer at the garden gate:

Tell those* two amazing people." said Timon of London, "that I may give up my travels in disgust when they least expect it and that I may possibly come aud look at them again,* for tho sake of getting one satisfactory sensation more out of the lamentable spectable of humanity before I die."

CHAPTER XXVIIr.

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THK DAWN OKA NKW LIFE. Four days afterwards, Rosamond, and Leonard, and Uncle Joseph met togeth»r in tin cometery of tho church at Porthgenna.

The earth to which we all return, had closed over Her: the weary pilgrimage of Sarah Leeson had come to its quiet end &t last. The miner's grave, lrom which she h«d twice plucked in secret her few memorial fragments of grass, bad eiven her the homo, in deat which in life, she had never known. Tho roar of the surf was stilled to a low murmur befoir it reached the place of her rest and the wind that swept joyously over the opvn moor, paused a little whan it met tho old trees that watched over the graves, and went onward softly through tho myrtle hedge, that held them all embraced alike in its tircle of lustrous green.

Some hours had passed since the last words of tho burial service had been read. The fresh turf was heaped already overthe mound, and the old head stone, with the miner's epitaph on it, had been raised once more in its former place at the head of the grave. Rosamond was reading the inscription softly to her husband. Uncle Joseph had walked a little apart from them while she was thus engaged, and had kniltdownby himself at tho foot of tho mound. He was fondly smoothing and patting the newly laid turf—as ho had often smoothed Sarah's hair in the long past days of her youth— as he had often patted her band in the aftertime, when her heart was weary and her hair was gray. "Shall we add any new words to the old worn letters as they stand now?" said Rosamond. "There is a blank space left on the stone. Shall we fill it, love, with the initials of my mother's name,

and

the date of her death?

I

feel some­

thing in my heart which seems to tell rae to do that, and to do no more." So let it be, Rosamond," said her husband. "That short and simple inscription is the fittest and the best."

She looked away, as ho gave that answer, to the foot of the grave, and le't him for a moment to approach the old man. "Take mv hand, Uncle Joseph," she said, and touched him gently on the shoulder. "Take my hand, and^let us go back together to the house."

He rose as she spok-*, and looked at her doubtfully. Tho musical box, inclosed in its well worn leather case, lay on the grave near the plane where he kad been kneeling. Rosamond took it up from the grass, and slune it in the the old place at his side, which it always occupied when he was away from home. Ho sighed a little ai he thanked her. "Mozart can sing no more," ho said "He hassung to the last of them now."

Don't say to the last, yet," said Rosamond, "don't say to the last, Uncle Joseph, while

I

am alive. Surely Mozart

will sing to me, for my mother's sake?" A smile—the first she had seen since the time of their grief—trembled faintly round his lips. "There is comfort in that," ho saul "there is comfort forUncle Joseph still, in hearing that."

Take my hand," she repeated softly. "Come homo with us now." He looked down wistfully at tho grave

"I

will follow you," he said, "if

you will go on before me to the gate Rosamond took her husband's arm, and truided him to the path that led out ®f th church yard. As they passed from bl-rht, Undo Joseph knelt down once mor•' at the foot of the grave, and pressed his lips on t*io fresh turf. "Good by, my child," he whispered, and laid his cheek for a moment, against •the grass, before ho rose again.

At tho gate Rosamond was waiting for him. ller right nd was resting on her husband's arm her left hand was held out for Uncle Joseph to take.

How cool the breeze is said Leonard. "How plo'i^antly the sea sounds! Surely this is a line summer day?" "The brightest and loveliest of the year," said Rosamond. "The only clouds on tho sky are clouds of shining white t!- only shadows over the moor lio light as down on the heather. The sun glows clear in its glory of gold, and the sea beams on it in its glory of blue. 0, Lennv, it is such a different day from

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that day of dull oppression acd iniety heat when we found tho letter in tho Myrtle Roout! Even the dark towerof our old house, yonder, gains a new lH»auty in the clear air, and seems to be arrayed in its brightest aspect to wel COIMO us to the beginning of a new life. I will make it a happy life to you, and to Uncle Josepi, if I can—happy as tho sunshine that we aro all three walking in now. You shall never repent, iove, if I can help it, that you have married a wife who has no claim of her own to tho honors of a family name."

I can never repent my marriage, love," said Leonard., "because I can never forgrt the lesson that my wife has taHght me."

What lesson, Lenny J1. An old one, my dear, which some of us can never learn too often. The highest honors, llesamond, aro those which no accident can take away—tho honors that are conferred by Love and Truth." [THE END.]

THE DEAD SECRET.

This mysterious narrative,by the great novelist, Wilkie Collins, commenced in The Mail September 23d. Wowillsend the entire set of Mails containing the story nineteen copies to any address, post paid for 50 cents—a very cheap package ofgood reaJing.

Golden Words

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Consult more what thy duty is than what thy difficulty is. Birth is a shadow. Courage, self sustained, needs no ancestor.''. I am above descent and prize no blood.—[Hill.

A man will never know how much good ho can do in the world until he tries to do something worthy of manhood.

Reputation is what men .and women think of us character is what God and the angels know of us.—[Thomas Paine.

Not nations, not armies have advanced the race, but here and there, in the course of ages, and individual has stood up, and cast his shadow over the world. —[Chapin. -'A1"* 'v fy-

With the old yearlet'all your'animosities die out: There is no more useless old lumber than a feud. The sooner you split it up and make firewood of it the better.

Beware of him that is slow to anger. Arger when it is long in coming is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused pat'.enco turns to fury.— [Quarles.

Profanity never did any man the least food. No man is richer or happier, or wiser for it. It commends no one to society it is disgusting to people refined, abominable to the good.

An exchange remarks: "Thi^isthe time to go out wolf hunting. Nothing will give you higher percentage on your time and money t^an chasing the wolf from your po :rer neighbor's door."

I have known folks who have never committed a blunder, whoso hearts are as dry as dust and others who have constantly transgressed, whoss sympathies were as warm and as quick as those of an angel.—[Celia Burleigh.

The shepherds on the plains, the pilerrims in the desert, and the sailors upon the sea turn to the stars for guidance in the night time. So when our lives are darkened we 1-ok upward to God to be led aright.—[Duff Porter.

Gross and vulgar minds always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent for they may fawn upon wealth and be rewarded, while talent recognizes their meretricious designs and treats them with becoming disdain.—[Lacon.

The traveler, with empty pockets, will sing in presence of robbers. Though poverty compels us to submit to manjr unpleasant circumstances, the poor are exempted from a thousand anxieties and apprehensions which are productive of infinite pain to the rich.

Marriage is the nursery of heaven. The state of marriage tills up tbe number of tho elect, and hath in it the labor of love tbo delicacies of friendship the blessings of society, and the union of hands and hearts.. She that is loved is safe, and he that loves is joyful.—[Jeremy Taylor.

Sidney Smith cut tho following from a newspaper, and. preserved it for himself "When you rise in tbe morning, say tbat yen will make tho day blessed to a fellow creature. It is easHy dono. A left-off garment to the man who needs it a kind word to the sorrowful an encouraging expression to the dejected —trifles in themselves as light as airwill do at least for tho twenty-four hours. And if you are young, depend upm it, it will tell when you are old, rest assured it will send you gently and happilv down tbe stream of time to eternity. *By tho most simple arithmetical sum, look at tbe result. If you send one person away happily through the day, that is three hundred and sixty-five in tho course of a year. And suppose vou live

forty

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years only after you commence

that course of medicine, you have made fourteen thousand six hundred persons happy—at all events for a time."

TAX SALE of Lots ami Land- in the City of Terre Haute for Taxes Due Said City and Now Delinquent.

NOTICE IS hereby given that on Monday, the 5th day of February, 1S77, I, John Paddock, Treasurer Terro Haute, Vigo Conntv, Indiana, wiU offer for sale at Public Auction, at the Court 1 louse dan ui^ sud (,ity and lots hereinafter described, on whicn taxes shall remain HnpaHlonsaidchijorsomnc ivi-lv as Miav be uecessarv to uav said taxes, penalties, interest, and all costs and charges macio Dy reason oi tno iai.uir pay said taxes, including also the taxes, penalties, interest and costs charged sale'wilTcommenco the owners of such lots and lands, respectix oly, to make which no goods or cbattta lands noon which the taxes at ten o'clock, a. m., on said day and at said place, and will continue »»tilallof sa dI lots^and "J as aforesa renniningnupaid shall bo sold or offerod for sale. Tho said lots and lands aud taxe* now due and 1 on n.v/.vo.. .v.. ilngnupaid on each pare.-!, are described and set out as follows, to-wit:

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BltOWK'S MATRIMONIAL METHOD. [Dubuque Telegraph.]

Brown, I don't pee how it is that your iris all marry off as soon as they get old enough, wliilo none of mine can marrv."

Oh, that's simple enough. I marry my girls off on the buckwheat straw principle."

But what is that principle? 1 never heard of it befere." Well, I used to raiso a great deal of buckwheat, and it puzzled mo to know how to get lid of tho straw. Nothing would eat it. and it was a areat bother tome. At last I thought of a plan. I stacked my buckwheat straw nicely, and built a bish rail fence around it. My cattle, of course, concluded it was something good, and at on tore- down the fence aud began to oat the straw. I dogged them away and put up tho fence a few tinie^ but tho morel drove them away the more rfhxious tbey became to eat the straw. After this had been repeated a few times the cattle determined to eat tbe straw and eat it they did, every bit of it. As I said, I marry mv girls off on the samo principle. When a young man that I don't like begins calling on my girls, I eueourago him in every way I can. I tell Lii.n to come often, and stay as late as ho pleases, and^ I take pains to hint to the girls that I think they'd better f»et their caps for him. It works first-rate. He don't make many calls, for tho girls treat him as coolly as they can. But when a. younsr fellow that I like conies round, a kian that I think would suit me tor a son-in-law, I don't let him in iko many 5 calls before I give him to understand that he isn't wanted around mv house. I tell the girls, too, that they shall not have an3,tblngto do with him, aud givo them orders never to speak to him again. The plan always works firstrate. The young folks bepin to pi3y each other, aud the next thing I know they are engaged to be nurried. When I see they are determined to many, It always give in and pretend to mako thobest of it. That's tbe way I manage."

A LIFE SA VED.

The following incident occurred during a general review of the Ausir:an cavalry a few months ago: Not Jar from 30,000 cavalry were in line. A littlochild—a girl—of not more than fouryears, standing in the front row of spectators, either from fright or some other cause, rushed out into the open tiold just as a squadron of huzzars came sweeping, around from the main body. They made the detour for the purpose of saluting, the empress, whose carriage was drawn up in that part of the parade ground. Down came the Hying squadron, charging at a mad gallop—down directly upon the child. Tho mother was parlyzed, as were others, for there could be norescue from tho lino of spectators. Theempress uttered a cry of horror, for the child's destruction seemed inevitable— and such terrible destruction—tho trampling to death bjr a thousand hoofs. Direct1v under the feet of tho horses was the little one—another instant must seal its doom—when a stalwart hussar, who was in the front lino, without slackening his speed or loosening his hold threw himself over by the side of his horse'sneck, seized and lifted tho child, and placed it in safety upon his saddle-bo*-and this he did without chancing, his. pace or breaking tho correct alignment of the squadron. Ten thousand voices hailed with rapturous applause tho gallant deed, and other thousands applauded when they know. Two women there were who could only sob forth their gratitude in broken accents —the mother and the empress. And a prt ud and happy momentrmust it have been for the hussar when his oisiperor, taking from hisown breast the richly enamelled cross of,, tho Order of Maria Theresa, hung it upon tho brea3t of his brave and gallant trooper.—[London Standard.

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