Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 January 1878 — Page 8

THURSDAY. JANUARY 31.1878.

A Card.

To all who arc suffering from the errors and indiscretions ot voutb. nervou •weakness, early dec fly, IOSB of manhood &c.. I will rend a receipe that will cure you Free of Charge. Thin erezrt remedy was discovered by a missionary in South Amcnca. Send a self-addressed envelope to Rev Joseph T. Inman, Station Bible 1 louse. New York City.

MONEY MARKET.

New York, Jan. 30—Gold, 2^.

West's L'ver Pilld cure Liver Complaint.

FKANK MAYO as Davy Crockett, on February 14th. 1

WHEN- thall we behold that new hoik and ladder truck?

T11 P. poRters of Buflalo Bill 6 crowd are extremely exciting.

CMILI.Y weather but not cold EI.oujjh for ice on the river.

SAY npw won't you please fix those /.•Kmnable sidewalks.

WIIKAT is becoming very hard to get. Very little is coming in town.

FALLOWS who live on tick, and they make money ft it,are the telegraph oper ators.

IT is a matter of regret that Pro!., *Fowlcr cannot fulfill his engagement to be here.

SEE the ice and coal dealers laughing at winking to each other about this cold bnnp. 1

TUB dreaming Way -hash is on a r:6e with over twenty-eight feet of water in her channel.

BUFFALO BII.I., or, as the hovs call him, Beelalo Bull is attracting all the attention now.

AND now one of our enterprising saloon keepers has invented a delicious concoction called "blue ribbon."

THIRTY-EYGHT marriage licenses granted up to this date at the county clerk's office in the month of January.

A GOOD cigar in a vest pdeket is a joy lorevcr. A good cigar can bs purchased at the stand in the lobby of the Teire Haute house.

THAT If^.ooo approbation for the funeral ditplny of Gov Morton has been voted hack 1o the treasurer oflndiannpolit by the city council.

THERE will be a grand ball t:iven at Turner Mall on Febuarv sixth, under the auspices of l.ouis Banganz. ft i» to be a very select, pleasant affair.

JUDGING from the hotel registers Terre Haute is in danger ot being captured by Massachusetts. The city is filled with drummers of shoe houses of that st .to.

AT that grand social ball to be given at Turner hall on Wedne-sday evening February 6th, the drawing for that elegunt shawl at Ehrllch's will take pl-ce.

PUBLIC desire to know the "ped'« ree" of the Damascus battle nx 'vhich Judge Long bought at the McDonald sale is very great. Wili the Judge rise and explain?

WHY does not our street commissioner punch up the own* rs of those bad sidewalks on sou ill Fourth and on south Fifth strc-fts more "sharply to decently repair their sidewalks?

CHICKKN thieving has got to the country, find reports says that the farmers oast some five or six miles have captured the chaps while in the act ofcleaning out their poultry roosts.

Tiir. former proprietor of the Lafayette street drug store is thortly to open out a new store on Seventh street, at the Vandali.i eross:ng. Tlv's time it is to he a groccrv a there is a great scarcely in this branch in Ihe north end.

IT c^t $t,000 cash down to get the Ik-ss opera troupe here for two nights, ye' i* !ett a neat little balance on hand to the daring caterers to our nm.«ie loving citizens. But its risky wor^Xhe two managers cleared $40,00 each.

ALITTLK son ot Mr. Evans livint* wear, Sandford on the I. & ""t. L. rail sroad had the end of two fingers fallen

joff

bv a h' XZ uv one day last week, 'ilis injiv ies were promptly dressed and the little fellow was doing well at last accounts .-

ONE of those fellows in the Buffalo «Bill trounc is a wonderful dead shot. He fired a Colt revolver and hit a fiea sitting on the edge »f the upper cnllerv rail, and he does this guided sole by the ftpound made by the buzzing ineect«\glle "is wonder'u!.

SF TIIK driver of cne of the erect cars W as *rted vosterdav morning a™plyims his j,/* to $' voral yourg ho\ for hanging toa" of th^-car. It is hopt he

Hime thitv well-b^gun work, as th p.m of this driver trmv a or possibly hi* life.

•h&V r-iife',

'•liee'' from each bushel ^-d.stillsrv is increasing ii"aof rv mam»cr,

The lale cha-'gc

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ve been a good employed is We business *op exiniirv of

DIIT VnilB^FLF IN KIS PLACE, until the miserable man, torn this way PUT lUUnotl-r III no rLHUL.

twenty days, as they promised, we were six weeks at sea, and what with all the fighting and the threats—-I had another letter signed with a coffin just before I left that beautiful town—and the irritation at loosing so much time on the ocean, it ail brought on a fever, and I have no recollection of leaving the boat. When I came to myself, I was in a house near Boston, belonging to the gentleman I spoke of. He and his nieces nursed me, and now I am as well as ev«.r. only rather weak. "Mr. Ironside, that is his name, but it should be Mr. Gold heart, if I had the christening of him—he has been my good bamaritan Dear Grace, please pray for him and his family every ni*ht. He tells me he comes of the pilgrim fa thers, so he is bound to feel for pilgrims and wanderers from home. Well, Ue has been in patents a little, and, before I lost my little wits with the fever, ne and I had many a talk. Sw now he is sketching out a plan of operation for me, and I shall have to travel mapy a hundred miles in this vast country. But they won't let me move ti:l I am a little stronger, he and hi. nieces. If he is gold, thev are pearls. "Dearest, it has taken me two days to write this but I am very happy and hopeful, and do not regret coming here. I am sure it was the right thing fjr us both. "Dearest, agreed to take BO much a ear from Boh, and he must fight the trades alone. Such a life is not worth having, Bayne won't wrong me a shilling. Whatever he makes over his salary and men's wages, there it will be for me when I come home so I write no one at Hillsborough but you. Indeed, you are my all in this world. I travel, and fight, and work, and breathe, and live for you, my own beloved and it any harm caine to you, I wouldn't care to live another moment/'

At this point in the letter the reader stopped, and something cold seemed pass all through his frame. It struck him that all good men would pity the writer of this letter, and abhor him who kept it from that pale, heart-broken girl inside the cottage,

He sat freezing, with the letter in his hand, and began to doubt whether he could wade any deeper in crime.

After a minute or two he raised his head, and was about finish reading the letter.

But, in the meantime Grace Carden had resumed her accustomed place on the varandah. She lav upon the couch, and her pale face, and hollow, but still beautifui eyes, were turned seaward. Out of those great sad eyes the sad soul looked across the waste of waters—gazed, and 8i arched and pi..ed in vain. Oh, it was a look to make angels weep, and hover close over her head vvih restless, loving pinions, longing to sh idow, caress and ileal her.

Coventry, with Henry Little's lelkr in his hand, peered through the leaves, arid t=aw the woman he loved fix this look of despair upon the sea—despair of which he was the sole cause, and coulu dispel it with a ges-.ure. "And this brings me back to what is iny only great trouble now. I told you in the letter I lett behind me you would hear from tne in a tnon.h at farthest. It will not be a month but eleven weeks. Good la-a*en6! when I think of what anxiety you may have suffered on my account! You know lam a pupil of the good Doctor, and so I put'mrself in vour pla.e. and sav to myself, 'If my Gfrace hud promised to write in a month, and eleven weeks hud passed without a word, what would my feeling* be?' Whv. I think should go mad I should inai eure you were ill I should fear you were dead I thould fancy every terrible thing on earth, except that vou were false to vour p.ior H?nry. That I should never fear: I judge you by myself. Fly, steam boat, with this letter to my love, and set her mind at ease. Fly back wiih a precious word from her dear hand, and with that in my boso i., nothing will ever daunt me. "God bless you! angel of my lite, darling of my heart, star on which all my hopes are" fixed! Oh, what miserable tools words are! When I look at thern, and compare them with how I love you, I seem to be writing that I love you no more than other people love. What I feel is so much greater than words. "Must say tarewell? Even on paper, it is like tearing myself away from heaven again. But that was to be: and now this is to be. Good-bye, my own beloved, -Yours till death,

A: HENRY." Coventry read this sentence by sentence, still looking up, nearly every sentence, at h»-r to whom it was addressed

The letter plead his knee," the pule face pleaded a few yards off he sat between the tw. bleeding lovers, their sole barrier and bane.

His heart began to t-iil him. The mountain of crime looked high. Now remorse s'.ung him deeper trian ever jealnusv spurn, him harder than ever a storm arose within his breast, a '.empe^t of conflicting passion, as grand and wild as ever distracted the heart a grand and wild as any po.t has ever tried to describe, ano, half bii-ceding, won lintii jr' tai'ta-ne. "See what I can do!'' whispered conscience. "With one bound I can giv^ her the letter, and bring the cokr back to that Ciieik ano joy to that heart. She will adore me for it, she wi'l be irue and tender 1rie.1t till dc-ath. She will weep jpon niv neck and b!es me." "Av," whispered jtaouy. '-and then she will msrrv lleury Little "And am 1 sure to succeed if persist in crime? Deserve her tired and contempt. and is it certlin they will not botn tall on .n*-?"

The fauit beg 11 with thern. supplanted me—she jilted me. I hate lutn I love her. I can't give her up now: I have gone toa tar What is intercept-

ing a lsuer? I '.ve been too near mar dcr to op at that."' "But her pjie face! her pale face!" "Once marrntd, supplant him as he has supplanted you. Away to Italy with her. Fresh scenes—constant love—th* j^n-s of wedlock! What will this Henry Liitle to her then?—a dream." "Eternal punishmeut! if it is not a fa ble, who has ever earned better than I am earning it if I go on?" '•Her pale face! her pale facet Never vni: him, look, at her. What sort of is this that shows no pity? On. mv w1,

girl, don't look so sad—so pale! shall I do? Would to God I had •en bjm, to torture myself and

andthatj ended

angel fought hard for him ht and struggled and hoped "should" cane

the .truggle with a blas

phemous „y«.-il by tearing the letter to

rContinued from Fifth Page.j atoms. iu The fatal act ti.rnnl the scale The next moment he wished he had not done it.

But it was too late 11 could not go to her with the iragmentF. She would see he had intercepted it irposcly.

Well, all the better. It was decided. He would not look at her face any more. He could not bear it.

He rushed away from the bower and made for the seaside but he soon returned another way, gained hi own room and there burnt the fragments of the lettar to ashes.

But, though he was impeninent, remorse was not subdued. He could not lcok Grace Carden in the face now. So he sent word he must go back to Hillsborough directly.

He packed his bag and went down stairs with it. On the last landing he met Grace Carden. She started a little. "What! going away?',' W •'Yes, Mtss Carden."

The kindly tone coming from her, to whom he had shown no mercy, went through that obdurate heart. "No—no," he falterjd "but the sight of your unhappiness—Let me go. I am a miserable man'"

And with this he actually burst out crying and ran pnst he Grace told her father, and asked him to find out what was the matter witli Mr. Coventr

Mr. Carden Idlowed Coventry to th^s station, and Coventry, who had now tecovered his self-pissession and his cunning, told hiin that for 6ome time $li*s Carden had worn a cheerful air, which had given him hopes but this morning watching her from a bower in thj garden, he had seen such misery in her face that it had quite upset him and he was going away to try and recover that composure, without whiih he felt he would be no use to her in anv way.

Tnis tale Carden brought back to his daughter, and she was touched by it. "Poor Mr. Coventry!" said she. "Why does he waste so much love on me?"

Her father, finding her thus softened, p'eaded hard for his friend, and reminded Grace that she had not used him well. She admitted that at once, and went SJ far as to say that she feit bound never to marry any one but Mr. Coventiy unless time should cure hi n, as she )ped it would, cf hi-t unfortunate attachment.

From this concession Mr. Car Jen urged her daily to another, viz., that Mr. Coventry might be permitted to try and win her affection.

Her answer was, "He had much better contend himself with what I can and do give hiin —my esteem yratitude and sincore pity."

Mr. Carden, however, persisted, and the deep affection he had shown his daughter gave hiin great power. It wai two against one and the two prevailed.

Mr. Coventry began to spend his whole time at Eastbank cottage. He followed Grace about with a devo tion to which no female heart could be entirely insensible and, at last, she got used to hiin, and rather liked to have him about her. lie broke her solitude as a dog does, and he fetched and carried for hei, and talked when she was inclined to list.en. and was silent when hs saw his vo ce jarred U( on her bereaved he-art

TVithout her father, matters might have gone 011 so for years but Mr. Carden had now so many motives for marrying his daughter to Coventry, that he used ail his judgment and all his influence. He worked 0:1 h-2 daughter's ori le her affection, her se ise of honor, aid her sense of duty.

Siie struggled, she sighed, she wept but, by little and little, she submitted. And, since three months in re passed with no striking event, I wi.l deviate frotn my usual custom and speak a little of i.it passed in her mind.

Fir-,t of all, then, she was so completely deceived by appearances, that She believed the exact opposite of the truth in each particular. To her not only did black seem vvliite, but white black. Her dead lover lud only given her but half his heart. Her living lover was le soul ot honor and true devotion It was her dutv, tl:ou,h not her pleasure, to try and love him to ma. rv Ivm would be a good and sell-denying action. /Vni what could she lose by it? Her own chance of happiness was gor All she could hope for hereafter was the gentle satisfaction that arises from making others happy. She had the choise of two evils: never to marry at all, or to marry Frederick Coventry.

Thus far she was conscious of her own feelings, and could perhaps pu'. th.rm into "vords but here she drif td out of her dep h.

Nature implants in worrtm a

ienuin,

love of offspring that «ver.iN u- u.iconscious child it governs the half-conscious mother who comes fro.nihrt '.ovsiup •vtli a waxen child tor her gir., and a drum for her bo\.

Men ties-ire ollVpri.jg—w.tcn tn desire it all— rom va .ity alone. Women des'ue it tru-n pare love of i*\

This instinct had obai»Iy its sh ir« in A ithholdin, G. ace fro tkiag up her snind never to marry, an I so operated negati ve! v, though not »sitively, in Coventry's favor.

A i.i "s b/de^rj-js aid in course of time, nftjr saving 'no" a dozen timej, t-he said "ys" once in a morient of utter lassitude, and afterwards she cried and wished withdraw her consen\ but the were two one, and had rignt on their fide/she though..

They got h#r to s.iy she would irry someday »r otner. Coventry intercepted several letters, but he took ca*e not to read them with Grated sa 1 face in sight. He would not give conscience sach a power to torment nim. The earlier letters gave him a crael sati-faction. They wtre each written frotn a ditf.trent city in the Unired States, and a!l end^d to shw toe writer had a vear or two tj trav.-l yet, before he could hope to return home hi- tryu np'i and marry hi.s G» ace.

In all these letters she was requested to send her answers to New York (and, now I think of •?, th re was a oo^tscript to that effect in the very letter I have given in extenso.)

But at last came a letter that disturbed this delightful dream. It was written fro the western extremity of the States, but the writer was in high spirits he had soid bis patents in two great cities, and had established them in two more on a royalty he had also met with an unexpiitea piece of good-fortune his railway clip had e.i appreciated, a man of large capital and enterprise had taken it up with spirit, and was about to purchase the American and Canadian right for a large sum down and a percentage). As soon ,as this contract should be signed he home and claim Mr.

Card en's promise. He complained a little that he got no letters, but concluded the post-otfice authorities were in fault for he had written to New York to have them forwarded. However, he »oon should be in that city and revel in them.

This troubled Coventry, and drove him to extremities. He went on his knees to Grace, and implored her to name the day.

She drew back with horror and repugnance said, with a burst of tears, she was a widow, and would not marry, till a decent time had lapsed since— then, with a sjdden doggedness, "I will never mairy at all." "And so she left him to repent his precipitation.

He was'at hia wit's end, and could do nothing but look unhappy, and temporize and hope the wind might change.

The wind ditf not change, and he passed a week or two of outward sorrow, but inward rage.

He fell ill, and Mr. Carden pitied him openly. Grace maintained a sullen silence.

One day, as he was in bed, an envelope was brought him, with a large "L." He opened it slowly, fearing the worst.

The letter was kill of love, and joy, aid triumph that made the reader's heart faint within him till he came to this sentence: "The gentjeman who treats with me for the railway clip makes it an express stipulation that I shall spend a month in his works at Chicago, superintending the forging and perfecting of the clip. As he intends to be there himself, and to buy it out-and out if it answers his expectations, I shall certainly go, and wear a smith's apron once more for your sake He is even half inclined to go into another of mv projects—the forging of large axes by machinery. It was tried at Hillsborough two years ago, but tne Unio.i sent a bull jt through the niamitactur.r's hat, and he dropped it."

The lettjr from which I give this extract was a reprieve. He had five or six weeks before him still.

Soon alter this, his AH hful ally/* Mr. Carden, worked on Grace's pitv and as Coventry never complained, nor irritated her in anyway, she softened to him. Then all the liattery of imploring looks was brought to bear on her by Coventry, and of kind admonition and entreaty by her father and so, between ..hem, they gentlv thrust her down the slope "Stop all their tongues," said Mr. Carden. "Come back to Hillsborough a wife. I gave up my choice to yours once. Now give me mv way. I am touched to the heart by this young man's devotion he invites me to live with bitn wheo you are married. What other young feijow would show me so much mercy?'' jr"* "Doeshe?"8aid Grace. "I will fry and rewarc him for that, and for speaking well of one who could not defend himself. But give me a little time."

Mr Carden conveyed this to Coventry with delight, and told him he should only have another month or so to wait. Coventry received this at first with unmixed exultition, bat by-and-b} he bfgan to feel superstitious. Matters were now drawing to such a point that Little might very well arrive before the wedding day, and just before it. Perhaps Heaven had that punishment in store for him the cup was to bj in his very grasp, and then struck out of it.

O.-.ly a question ot time! But what is every race? The space between winner and loser strikes the senses more obviously but the race is just as much a question of time as of space. Buridan rnns second for the Derb., defeated by a length. But give Burigan a start of one second, and he shall beat the winner —by two lengths.

Little now wrote from Chicago that everything was ging on favorably, and he believed it would end in a sale of the patent clip in the United States ami Canada for fifty thousand dollars, but 110 royalty,

This letter was much shorter than any of the others and, from that alone, his guilty reader could see th.it the writer intended to follow it in person almost immediately,

Coventry began almost to watch the sun in his course. When it was morning he wished it was evening, and when it was evening he wished it *asi mornin 4.

Sometimes he half wondered to see howcalmlv the sun toie and set, and nature pur-ued her course, whilst he writhtd in the agony of suspense, and would gladly have given a year out of his lif„- for a day.

At last, by Mr. Carden's influence, the wedding day was fixed. But soon after this great triumph came another intercepted letter. He went to his room, and hi* hands trembljd violently as he opened it. 1 is eye soon fixed on this passaga: "I thought to be in New York by this time, and looking homeward but I am de rained by ano: piece of good-fortune, if any thing can be called good-furlune that fcO'ips ini a iv from you. Oh. rnv dear (.trace, 1 am dying to sec your handwriting at New York, and then flv home and see your dear self, and never, never quit you more. I have been wjndertul lv luckv I have made my loriune, our fortune. But it hardly pays me for losing the sight of ya)u so many months. But what I was gofaff fo tell you is, that mv method of forgflRjarge axes by machinery is wonder ¥Jy.praised, and a great firm takes it up on fair terms. This g'm has branches in various parts of the world, and, once my 'rtliichines are in full work, Hillsborough will never forge another axe. Man cagnot suppress machinery the world is too g. That buiIsisent'through Mr,* Tylers hat los»sGfeat Britain a whole trade. I profit in (Hi.-y by their short-sight id violence, but I mu pay the price fr this will Keep me an rner week at -Chicago, perhaps ten days. Then ho.ne I come, with lots of money to please your father, and an ocea.i of love for you, who don't care about the filthy dross no more do I, except as the paving-stones on the road to you and heaven, ray adored one."

The effect of this letter was prodigious. So tearful had been ths suspense, so great was now the relief, that Coventry felt exultant, buoyant. He went down to the sea-side, and walked, light as air, by the sands, and his brain, teemed with delightful schemes. Little would come to Hillsborough soon alter the marriage, but what ofthat? On the wedding-night he would be at Dover. Next day at Parts, on his way to Rome, Athens, Constantinople. Tne inevitable exposure shouid never reach his wife until he had so won her, soul and oody, that sne should adore him for the crime he had committed to win her—he knew the female heart to be capable of that.

He came back from hia walk another

man, color in his cheek and fire in his

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He walked into the drawing-room, and found Mr. Kaby, with his hat on, just leaving Grace, whose eyes showed signs of weeping. •'I wish you joy, sir," said Raby,

am to have the honor of being at your wedding." "It will add to my nappiness, if possi ble," said Coventry.

To be as polite in deed as in word, he saw Mr. Raby into the fly. Curious creatures, these girls," said Raby, shrugging his shoulders. "She was engaged to me long ago," said Coventry, parrying the blow. "Ah! I forget thai. Still—well, well I wish you j«y."

He went off, and Coventry returned to Grace. She wis seated by the window, looking at the sea.

What did godpapa say to you?" "Oh, ha congratulated me. He reminded me yon and I were first engaged at his house." '"Did he t::ll you it is to be at Woodbine Villa?" "What?,'

Ihe wcdvlin^.1' And Grace blushed to tne forehead at having to mention it.

No, indeed, hi did not mention any such thing, or Ishoul^ have shown him how unadvisable—" "You mistake me. It is I who wish to be married from iny father's house by good old Docter Fynes. He married my parents, and he christened me, and now he shall marry tne." "I approve that, of course, since you wish it but, my own dearest Grace, Woodbine Villa is associated with JBO many painful memories—let me advise, L't me earnestly entreat you, not to select it as the place to be married from. Dr. Fynes can be invited here," ••I have set my heart 011 it," said Grace. "Pray do not thwart me in it."

I should be very sorry to thwart you in anything. But, before you finally decide, pray let me try and convince your better judgment.'

I have decided and I have written to Doctor Fynes, and to the few persons I mean to invite. They can't all come here and I nave asked Mr. Raby and it is my own desire and it is one of those things the lady and her family always decide. 1 have 110 wish to be married at all. I only marry to please my lather and you. There, let us say no more about it, please. I will not be married at Woodbine Villa, nor anywhere else. I wish papa and you would show your love by burying me instead.'* ihese words, and the wildund panting way they were uttered in, brought Coventry to his knees in a moment. He promised her, in abject submission, t.iat she should have her own way in this and every thing. He petted her, and soothed her, anu she iorgave him, but so little graciously, that he saw she would fiy out in a moment again, if the least attempt were made to shake her resolution.

Grace tilked the matter over with Mr. Carden, and that same evening he begged Coventry to leave the Villa as boon a* he conveniently could, for he and his daughter must be there a week befure the Wedding, and invite some relations, whom it was his interest to treat wiM ri-speet. x'ou will ?pare me a corner," said Joventrv, in hi* most insinuating tone. •'D.j&r Woodbiuei 1 could not bear to leave it." ,'Qh, of coarse you can stay there till we actual.y co ne bat we can't have tho bride and bridegroom under one roof. Wny, my dear l^llovv, jou know better inau that."

Die. was no help for it. it sickened hi:ti with fears of wuat might happen in those few latal days, during which Mr. Carden, Grace herself, and a household ov.-r wnich he had no control, would ojca,jy the house, and would receive the po.sitnan, whose very face showed him incorruptible.

He «ta'd tiU the last moment stopped a letter of five u.ieslro.n Little, in wnich he said lie M.oald be in New York very soon, en rojtc fur England, and the very next d..y ne received the Gardens, with a smiling countenance and a fainting heart, and iti.iri vacated the premises. He ordered Lall tonang aoout the Villa at certain hours when the post catne in, and do his best. But this was catcning at a straw. His real hope was that neither Little himself, lior a letter in his handwriting, might come in that short interval.

It wanted but five days to the wedping. Hitherto, it had been a game of skill, now it was a game of chance and every morning he wished it was even.ng, every evening he wished it was morning.

The day Raby came back from Eastbank he dined at home. and, in an unguarded moment, said something or other on which Mrs. Little cross-examined himsoswifly and so keenly tiiat he stammered, and let ou Grace Carden was on the point of marriage. "Married! while my son is alive!" said Mrs. Little, and looked from hita to fael Dence, at first \f ith anazcinenr, and af.vards with a Strang.- expression that showed her mind was working.

A sort of vague alarm fell upon the other two, and they waited, in utter contusion, for what might follow.

But the mother was not ready to suspect so horrible a thing as her son's death. She took a more obvious view, and inveighed bitterly against Grace Carden.

She question^ R«bv as to the cause, but it was Jacl IjfhQ, answered her. "1 believe nobody pkws the rights of it but \'isj Carden hejrs^lf" "i'he cause is her utter fickleness but she never really loved him. My poor Henry!" "Oh yes, she did," said Raby. "She was at death's.door a months ag ." "At UeataV doj" for one man, and now goWiij to marry another!" •'vVhv no'.?" said iby, hard pushed "she is a woman." ".And why did yotl not tell me till now?" a-ked Mrs. Little, loftily ignoring her brother's pitiable attempt at a sneer.

Raby's reply to this was happier. "\Vhy, what the better are you for knowing it now?" We had orders not to worry you unnecessarily. Had we not, fael?"

"That is all very well, in some things. But. where my son is concerned, pray never keep the truth from me again. When did she break off with Henry— or did he quarrel with her "I Ivive no idea. 1 was not in the country." "Do you know, ar?" "No, Mrs. Little. But I am of your mind. I think she could not have loved Mr. Heniy as she ought." '•When did you see her last?" "I could not say justly, but it was a long while ago."

Mrs. Little interpreted this that Jael

had quarreled with Grace for her fickleness. and gave her a look of beaming afsection then fell into a dead silence, and soon tears were seen stealing down her cheek. "But I shall write to her," said she,: after a long and painful silence.

Mr. Raby hoped she would do nniMnj of the kind. "Oh, shall not lay much. I shall put her one question. Of course she knowa whv they part."

Next morning jael Dence asked Mr. Rabv whether the threatened letter must be allowed to go. "Of course it must." said Raby.

have gone as far off the straight path as a a gentleman can. And I wish we may not repent our ingenuity. Deceive a mother a|out ner son? what can iustif* it, after all?"

Mrs. Little wrote her letter, and showed ittojeel: "Dear Miss Carden—Thev tell mtyOU are about to be maried. Can this bo true, and Henry Little alive?"

An answer came back, in due courte"Dear Mrs. Little—It is true- and I am miserable. Forgive me, and forget m«

Mrs. Little discovered the niaka of tears upon the paper, and was sorely puzzled.

She sat silent a long time: then, look ing up, she saw Jael Dence gazing at her with moist eyes, and an angelic look ot anxiety and aff.ction.

She caught her round the neck, and kissed her, almost passionately. "All the better," she cried," struggling with a sob. "I shall have my own way tor once, You shall be my daughter instead.'Y-"* '.'t

Jael returned ncr embrace with ardor but in silence, and with averted head. When jael Dence heard that Crace: Carden was in Hillsborough, she felt very much drawn to go and see her but the new the meeting must be a sad one to them both and that made hur put it off till the very day before the wedding, Then, thinking it would be too unkiud if she held.entirelv aloof, and being, in truth, rather curious to know whether Grace had retlly been able to transfer her affections in so short a time, she ask ed Mr. Raby's leave, an 1 drove one of the ponies in to Woodbine Villa.

TO BE CONTINUED.

The Teeth an Advertising Medium. Rvery inea laly, wheuses fragrant SOZODONT opens her momh. she advertises the articlo. The statu ot har teeth is a certificate of its efcteUcno". No spot itnrens their snrfiioti no impurityOIIUMS tothem. heonshione which they are set tra rosy, and thejoreatb this swells through hem as sweet aSatba breeze of une^ Spalding's Liquid Glue, always ready to use

•VEG-ETIf'E-

An Excellent Medicine.

flpRIjroriKLO, O., 1) 29, 1877.

Th is to certify that have ii#ei Voget!u miiiufactnml hv II. It. Stev ius, Boston. iss., for rtieum it s-n and goneral pront-ntloti of thi nervous system, with good til cess. ronomineml Vegct'noas auexcellen ino llc.lno for such ^o nplalnU.

Yours very truly, H. \v VAlOEflRTrr.

Mr. VavJegrlft, of tho firm of Vuntogrltt & II ffiii .n, is well kio\v« huSHie*s man in thfs pt'ce, havlngonoof lh-j largest stores in Sprinpfleltl, O,

Our Minister's Wife.

J. LOCISVIOL*, KT., Fob. 10,1877. MR. H. TO. FTTCRITM: no'ir 81 r—Three years ag^ I Was suffering terribly witlilnflsmatory ihoumatlsm. Our minister's wi advised mo to take VegeMne. Aftor taking one bottle I wasontlre'y relieved. This year,feeling a roMirti o( the disease,! aitalu com iencel taking It an' am being uiefl tcil if cat y. (t a ^o grently Improves my illgds'.l.yn.

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Kespecifully, MBS. A.. RALL4RD. ldli VVe^t Jufforson St.

SAFE AND SURE.

MK. K. R. STKVRTFG:"

iu 1872 your Vegetine was rccommendod to me and, yielding to to the perauaqlons of a friend. I onsent«'{ '.o trv it. At the time 1 wan sufTor'ng trom gen*'rai debility and nervou* prostr? tion, sunerindrnwi bv ererwork Mid irregular habit*. Its wonderful strengthening and curative nrop rt es seemed to atTe *.t my debilitate 1 system from the flrstdosc and under its p«rst»tear- use I rapidly recovered, gaining mor- than usual health nndgood fcelng dincethnn I have not hesitated to give Vegettne my most unqualified Indorsement. a« bolnjr a xafe, sure and powerful agent in promoting health and restoring the wasted ncstem to new life and energy. Veet!ne is the only mea cine I mse, and ts long as 1 !lv.:, I never oxpoiit to find a bettur. Yours truly, •t W, H. CLARK, 112J Montgomery St., Alleghanny, Poan.

VJEGETIXE.

The tol owing letter from r. W. MansHeld, lormariv pastor the Methodist Bpis o: 1 burch, Hyde Park, and at present' settcd'in Lowel't mnst cmvlncn everyone whorii'shis lottor of the won litriul curatlvu qiiii es of Vegstme a thorough' cleans ir and purifier of th* blood

HTOE PARK. MASS.. f\.b. 15.187®.

MR-II. R. HTKVK.VS: JDe.vr Sir— About ten yo4r* 1% mv health

pepsin ne irly a year ister I ta attacked by typhoid fnver in its worst form. It settled tn mv back and toik the urm a large (ieep-sert'ed abcess whit was fl 'Oijn month* in gat-it--rintf. 1 had two surgical our rat Ion* iiy.thob si skill inthciJ ato nut row v«'l no perm an nt -ure. I snU^ed cat puiii at times, and was constantly woiike -od by a

ir lu«e

discharge. 1 also ust i-m ill piuci-s of one at different times.

Matters ran on thus aboat srvon year*, till May, 1874, when a friuii 1 rootn.wsmie me to go t« your office, and lal* with »uof the: virtue of Vegetino. 1 did so, ami ly joar' kindness passed throngu rour nnnnfactory, noti ig tho ingredients, Jfcj, iiy which your remedy Is produced.

By whit I saw and huard I gtin some "oniiitence in Vegetinis. Iwmmqnced taking it soon afto" felt worjc :rom its effects still 1 pers vcred, and soon felt it was benefitting me in other respects. Yet dldnutsie the results I le sired till I had taken It falth'ully tor little moreth\n ayuar, when the ulrtlcu'ty in the ick wa* cured tndfor nine months I bavo enjoyed the best or health.

"my life,sn I was never inoro able to peror in lalioi'than now. During the past few weeks 1 had a serofu•ous sweUtagas large as my list gather on another p.i r. of my oody. 1 hob Vogotine faithfully, an 1 removed It level *1 tueanrf* -e lu a mouth. I thins I should have leen :ured of iny uiaJn trouble •irei become accustomed to I

pounds, being heavier than ever before in

sooner if I had taken larper doses, after having become accustomed to Its effects. Let your patrons troubled witn rofala or kiduey sease understand that it takes time to cure chronic a

se-uies

and. if t.iey will

pstieutly 1 ak Vegetine, wlll.m my Judge* men t. cure them.

With g. cat obligations lam ifours very trair,

MANSFIELD,

Pastor of the 31. K. Caurch.

VEGETINE.

ll£PAltKI UY

H. R. Stevens, Boston, Hass.

Vegetine is told bylall' Orb gglits