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M., 6.10 P. 1%1 15 P. 11 ME! ig are nom ,one ing have otos- Mums- ____., ._ ~........................:b . .._ .: :..., ,_ 4 . ~.f L„,........... ) .,: • , ..:.. I ' . . 4' . ...ft... . , . , :.:,. . . Ilfistris. For the Columbia Spy, I Loved thee Once. BY FINLEY J01E",..750N I loved thee once, but it was when Thy heart was free from guile ; Whcn purity was nestled in Thy gladsome, winsome smile. When faith and hope thy guardians were, !I st Down time's resistless tide; milove and truth io c , ,, etber were • .. ttendants at thy side. I - loved thee once, but it was when I shared thy heart alone ; When all thy actions seemed to prove Thy heart was all my own. When on thy finely chiselled lips A. smile of welcome played ; When thou wouldst chide my tardiness If from thy side I strayed. I loved thee once, but now I tear Thy image from my heart, And to their fountain backward send The burning tears that start; I cast aside tpti chain of love Which hip* nd my heart to thee, I loved thee once, but now, but now My heart is once more free. I never thought that in thy smile A serpent lurked beneath. That poisonous were the flowers fair Within affection's wreath ; But now may eyes pierce through the mist Which round my heart was cast, Thank God, thank God, my love for thee Is buried in the past. if tiginat. Written for the Columbia Spy BEATRICE & GERTRUDE, O It TILE CONVENT NUNS. ____ o _ BY JAMES S. WATKINS. I=l Well has 210 flow like a woman scorned!" =I In presenting this little sketch to you, friends, I do so, hoping to gain for it the . approbation of its ()yeti; reader, even of those of the delibini tram herein alluded to The world-renowiigd Phitarch once st'''lf you- - 4rour enemies, you w nta:act such a vicious habit of mind, iti as bMgrees will break o t'ppon those 444 0 ,i44FC..filimilk or :tirciiEtlo. different to you." No trl Sr words ere escaped the lips of mortals, for when our hatred is too keen, it even places us be neath those we most hate. It is well to be ola "religious turn," yet,it so happens, that in all places, and at all times, those religionists who have believed too much, have been more inclined to violence, and persecution, than those who have believed TOO LITTLE. lle is, indeed, a “Sluvo to no 4octivito takes no privito road. Rot looks, through Nature, up to Nature's Uod.” Those who have surveyed the cloud capped belt of mountains, rising in gran deur, one above the other, in the good old State of Pennsylvania, and extending, with many of their highest peaks, kissing the blue of Heaven, through the Western portion of Maryland, to the beautiful Alleghanies of Virginia, cannot but im agine them mere pigmies .to the rock bound peaks of the Itocky.Mountains of distant West. And yet this little range, the Katoctin Mountains, posess a rare magnificence of scenery, even unexcelled by their 'more towering sisters of the the great West. Here are never seen the white wreaths of an everlasting snow, nor frowning rocks in a naked, modest sublimity ; but beautiful groves and for ests of unfading green crown their cloud capped, cloud-dimmed summits, and the white-washed fronts of many a tastely built cottage lie scattered along their base. Here, too, superstition has found a home, and the solemn bell of the Cath olic Convent, is daily tolled in a thous and doleful:echoes. It has been intima ted that within its walls,4re n crime has found a refuge, and many haws victims of avarice and ampi4ii;U: ttecp unheeded, and, perhaps, forgto,:t ; even by those for • whom.thoy mourned, "For Virtue's Pelf may zoo much zeal be had, The worst of madmen is Saint run mad." It was very late on a stormy evening in July 18— that we chanced to come in sight of this Convent, which is situated on an elevation, near the base of the monn 7 'mins—Whence the eye is gladly saluted I th the brightand flowery fields efldary 'l; which glide in mazy wanderings Id the base of this most beautiful of mountain-hills, until their pure Maces seem lost in meadows of their `ersld hue. The white and point rose proudly, as if in mockery seems beneath them ; and as Maker and Divine Ruler of mld not be worshipped amidst irks of his own creation, but voices of prayer swell up fame of incensed with the factitious pompi I ar • 1 g r 0wn,...: 1 , ed ate to the though all the lave must he " front the r each Burr. of ram: , .w" r ooth ivixds alum g* t u tr • ' s i c * ge l m bel f ir se ,* We belong t:a3 • .gi'cras denomina tion, y et, . DW I/54 'ero Oespouse anY me "IP" • '1: '-out choice would "NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS REA:DING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA; SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1864. be any, rather than with those, who wor ship within the cloister of a Convent. "I venerate the man whose heart is warm, [life Whose hands are pure• whose doctrine and whose Concident, exhibit lucid proof That he is hottest in the sacred cause" The . day had been one excessively stormy .—the most terrific thunder-storm I ever witnessed, had just swept over us, and left the sky still o'erclouded and threatening; the fair and blooming fields and valleys were deluged in water; the mountain torrents, too, had been swollen to such an extent that we decided, after a little consideration, to crave the hospi tality of the inmates of this Convent, or holy-dwelling house. The road by which we gained the outer gate was even and hard ; inside this gate were lawns sur rounded by box and thorns, and shaded by Lebanon cedars, and the silver-leaf maple—with many other rare and beau tiful shade trees, yet, bearing a quiet and sombre look as though the pious medita tions of the nuns within, were never dis turbed by unwelcomed visitors. After no little difficulty we wee admitted by the keeper of the outer gate, a gruff, ill- I looking species of humanity, and by him conducted to the Convent door, where we were met by a very genteel looking lady, wearing a long dark gown, with a large brass crucifix and beads strung in great rofusion beside, her head was covered with a white, wagon-shaped hood or bon net, familiar to the dress of all good sis ters of charity. She bowed us in, and to our utter as tonishment, the bare walls of the hall or parlor, with its scanty and exceedingly rough furniture, was quite unlike the luxurious decorations of the Convents we had often visited in and around our city. We were told, after we had explained ilie: nature of our call, that we could proceed no farther—coA no main in the Con vent, but if it won l tisfactory to us, we could be very 541 ,0 _- 3- accommodated in the hut of an old ga:vitner, who, verily, appeared almost evil with the walls of' the Convent. The night proved exceed !g-3gveein:,3PUtinknol ,ttr*ll- in torrents, a r eve a lodging, sheltered from its fury, with so. uncouth a lord as the Convent gardener, was by far the preferable to a road without shelter from so terrific a storm. We managed to spend the night with our new friend, and hailed with joy the faint glimmering rays of approaching day. As soon as it was fairly light, and the door of the hut was opened, we strolled the yard and garden, accom panied by our friend, the gardener, who by this time had become more acquain ted and communicative. Everything look ed as fresh, and "blooming like the rose." Soon the Convent bell tolled the hour of prayer—our new friend left us, and, in a few moments, we again found ourselves back to the door of our lodging-house. We sent for the portress, and sued ad mission;—she retired, and in a few mo ments returned with the consent of the Abbess, to conduct us through the In stitution; we visited the chard, and other parts of the interior to which strangers are usually admitted ; our portress rarely spoke, and seemed fearful, even at the sound of her own musical voice; however. we soon had the pleasure of a change, and received the guidance of a lay sister of the Institution. Fortunately, she did not prove as taciturn as the portress, but il lustrated each chamber with some legend of the olden time. It seemed as though an unnatural gloom pervaded the entire dwelling-place, and, Booth, the spectre like forms of the nuns, seen gliding in the distance, sent a cold shudder over ns; and if, perchance, their voices broke on the silence around, the sound issuing from beneath their pale hoods and long veils seemed so unearthly,-that, really, it ap peared as though we were gazing on the inhabitants of another world. After passing through many halls and narrow passages, we at last gained the chapel. It was very simple in its decor ations, and derived its greatest interest, in our minds, from tlany kneeling figures, which were het f .e and there dis cerned, and'which might almost have been mistaken for marble,. had not the wind occasionally moved the draperywhich enshrouded them. A small, but neatly arched door-way admitted us in the cam etry, and the fading day was just sufficient to enable us to discern that the graves were destitute of all needless ornament. A simple white stone alone marked out to their friends,- if they posessed any who retained an interest in their fate, the spot of their' last, earthi l y' resting-place: As we passed two apparently new mounds of earth, which marked a recent vacancy in that most holy sister-hood, our guide in voluntary maned, and crossed herself with a deep devotion: We stooped down and read their 111131111, but they gave us no possible clue to the' emotion of our conductress; and when we turned to her for an explanation, behold, she was en gaged in a ferventprvg. Aswe passed on, however, she rejoined us, and we ven tured to comment, indirectly, upon the emotion she had so suddenly exhibited. She was silent for a few moments, but presently, kindly requested us to return, t Z si with her, to the par ' e did so, and on arriving there, our elm 'ties was so much ..... excited, thi.t we again; renewed our in quiries concerning: ~ seemingly mys • terious graves, when to. ur utter surprise, she communicated to*us the following story : "Gentlemen, the oiler to which this Convent belongs, is unprecedently severe; but there were even here two nuns re markable for the austerity of their lives. Their faces had seldom been seen, and when they were, the beholders regarded one with pity, but turned from the other as from an unholy sight. They were generally known by the names of Beatrice and Gertrude, and had both been resident here many years. Nothing was ever known of the causes which first induced them to renounce the world; and if curi osity had ever been awakened concerning them, it had, long • sitrie r slumbered.— They held no communion together, and each regarded the other as a stranger; yet still it seemed as if a mysterious tie connected them, which neither could de fine ; and they were oftener seen kneeling side by side, than any other two in the Convent. 'On the attenuated form of the sister Gertrude, sorrow had stamped all the ravages which 'Time% effacing finger' usually accomplishes. The light of her eye was quenched, and the smile, that had once beamed on her lip, had fled.— Her cheek was deadly pale, and she looked as if waiting with anxiety for the time when she should 'be called hence.' But her habitual expression of grief was sof tened by a natural mildness, which* ap peared, for all the world, like a ray of remnant of many Whi once shed 'glad ness on many an admiring heart. "But far different were the dark work ings of the mind of Sister Beatrice. The remains of beauty, that once had 'been dazzleing, still retained their haughty character, and her beautiful jetty eyes still emitted glances which all her penan ces had failed to soften. The wreck of her many charms seemed wrought by some sudden paroxysm of passion, like the bursting of a voleanorikich destroys all within its reach. The repentance that is seated deep within thelieart, she had not yet felt; and although she bowed without', a murmur to penances from which a stern er form would have shrunk, and was ever ready to inflict more than was exacted, as though outward suffering could efface her crime, yet, placed once more in the world, her unsubduod ;Ikt - would proba bly have again accomplished its works of desolation. "Mr Mother Earth ! And thou,frenh breaking bay,and you.ye Mountains, Why are ye beautiful. I cannot love ye. And thou the bright eye of the Universe, That openest over all, and unto all, Are a delight—thou shin'et not on my heart." Silence does not always mark wisdom, "and yet the silence which had so long subsisted between these two sisters, was destined, at last, to be broken. Beatrice, poor Beatrice, was found one morning lying on the pavement of the chapel, be fore the image of a saint, to whom she had been offering up her prayer for mer cy, and for pardon." Of God she sung, and of the 111 di d, Attendant Mercy, that beside .. T His avrful throne forever led, . , Ready., with her white and, to guide His bolts of vengeance to air prey— That she alight quench th at on their way" "When. found she .waLutterly senseless, and we conveyed' her to , her cell, where she soon recovered Indficierotiftii' ask for Gertrude, and to desire, for the first time, to be left alone with her in the cell. My capacity as nurse rendered . my presence necessary, lest some sudden attack should again overcome her, and I was therefore, permitted to remain ; for it was apparent that her strength had so rapidly declined, she could not possibly survive trecich longer. Poor Beatrice 1 I could but weep with sympathy when I heard her voice grow ing gradually fainter day by day, yet she exerted herself to repeat her tale of hor ror "'Years we have dwelt hem,' she be gan, 'yet scarcely has a word bean utter ed between.ns;hut I have thought when praying by thy side, that my spirit was absorbed from • half it sin. I now feel that I shill soon meeb the reward due to my misery. • In vain have I oonfessed.— The priest has no ?hoer to pardon.' • In vain-have I lacerated my body. I can not kill the undying worm "Her voice became more piercing; her eyes aeemed:bursting•from their sockets, and• wandering amid het chamber, as if in pursuit of some object seen_by her self alone." "Famine in thy cheeks, Need and oppression starreth in thy eyes, Upon thy back hangs ragged Misery, The world is not thy Friend, nor the world's law, "'ln sleep I see them !' she at length murmured, 'awake they are ever.before me ! Soon shall Ibe even as ye are I No," she shrieked, "not as ye are, for ye were innocent, and are blessed, while I—" "She paused, and turning toward Ger trude,continued:—Wh ile I have strength let me reveal to you my dark transgres sions. Look !' said she, throwing back her long veil, 'and see if ye can discover the beauty that was once my boast " "In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the meet tried, most troubl'a, and dis - tresh'd." "Her dark eyes flashed proudly, as she spoke, but the brilliancy soon died away, and in the meagre form before us, we could scarcely imagine that aught which was lovely had ever there its chos en seat." "'Many were the suitors that the fame of my wealth and beauty drew around me; but I listened to their tales of love with a haughty indifference, and felt a secret pride in the pangs they appeared to suffer. My insensibility to other's woes has been punished by ray own. I, too, have loved, dear Gertrude,—wildly, madly loved !" "There are in love, the extremes of touch'd Divine; The noblest brightness t or the coarsest Fire: In vulgar bosoms vulgar wishes move ; Nature guides choice, and as men think they love. In the loose passion menprofane the name, Mistake the purpose, and - pollute the Flame: In nobler bosoms Friendship's form it takes, - And sex alone the lovely difference makes." "'I was in Baltimore, surrounded by all that was noble and magnificent.— Among those who came to,,see, if report spake truth, was one whom no female eye could look upon and not remember. He seemed perfectly dazzled with.my beauty, and I exerted myself to captivate him. Accustomed to homage, I deemed that I could command *. From him, alas I never received it ! In vain I tried the power of music. It could not melt him. The eloquence which had so often charmed others, he regarded with cold :indifference. I raillie 1 all my captivating powers, but ;94 1 k,.../It'7'..t.'.:4 S , ace 9 A n Pl i f im -': might idve a* his Venuer, - ut they did not touch his heart. I grew silent and timid in hispresence, and from being the delight of society,•l became apparently indifferent to all around me. But, alas! it was not indifference ! Too great a desire to please, had taken from me the power! My books were unopened, my guitar untouched, and the strings, as they brake, sounded to my ear the pres age of my own dark fate."! "I had once been a coquette, and a very thoughtless flirt—now had come my time to bend and bleed before the blast, and justly, too—l could not weep—for "She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs on alms: Depends on others for her daily food, And ha the very servant of her slaves ; Tho' ofttimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not enables, but degrades her Oak." "'Driven almost to madness by the in tensity of my suffering, I forgot, for a moment, the dignity of my sex. Iknelt, —yes,' she continued, a transient crim son flush suffusing her palid countenance, 'I knelt to him, and told him my shame. With a look of mingled. pity and scorn, he turned away ! Years, good Gertrude, have passed since then, yet the memory of THAT LOOK is deep in my heart !" "'I never saw him more. He became A SUITOR /0 another—one who was in deed lovely ; yet, in my pride, I never dreamed that she . could rim/ me. 'Can it be,' said I, 'that for her, I am scorned —perhaps despised ! And shall he, with all a lovers' ardor, Drink the rich fragrance of her breath — and sip With tenderest touch the roses of her lip,' while I am cast off with contempt !' The thought was the bitterest agony.'" "'Who can paint my emotions, when every one around me spoke of their ap proaching nuptials?" For whole days, and even weeks I was lost to - myself, and to all who 'watched beside me; and when I first returned to a sense of my misery, it was to burn with a fire that even now scorches my very heart and brain ! Ha tred toward all human kind, but above all, toward her who had robbed me of all I prized, was my consuming passion. E'en he, 'the loved one, did not escape my hate. All my tbOughts were directed to the one great object, and that object, good Ger trude, was 'TEM:II:ADM!' With a gasp that seemed her last, she added :—'And I have HAD it ! The bridegoom and the bride now sleep in the same cold gravel"' "No I no ! Beatrice, that bride still lives—ram Mere—the• cup was death to him alone r'—shrieked Gertrude, and clasped her in her:arms: * * * * * "Mod Sir, .Ileatrioe never 'recovered the shook of that moment, and Gertrude did not long survive the destroyer of her happiness. Two ttones now mark the spot where the vietimand nturdereassleep side, by side; andininy has been the pray . • . , $1,50 PER YEAR 21 ADVANCE; $2,50 it NOT PAID EV ADVANCE ers offered up by our holy sisterhood for their salvation." • Thus ends my little sketch,' though written not exactly from fact—it has a truth in its characters; known only to few. I trust I have amused, and, not= a little, interested you. lam not a story teller, and if I have failed in my attempt, you will not crititOsl me unjustly. Swift once said : "Story-telling is subject to two unavoidable defects ; frequent repetition and being soon exhausted; so that who ever values this gift in himself, has need of a good Memory, and ought frequently to shift his company." BALTIMORE, MD., APRIL 7, 1884 Emig. Written for the Columbia Spy "THEY CUT THEIR WAY OUT." (A War Record.) ST JAMES A. C. o'cosNon. The First Alabama Regiment (Union) Cavalry were surrounded by an overwhelming force of Rebels. The regiment broke tiro• the 'Rebels• circular lines—one third of the regiment being cut to pieces,—while two-thirds successfully "cut their way out" and es caped.—Edgar Starr. Surrounded by rebels-I O'erpowored. as well, The First Aktbatna. Cavalry, soldiers tell— Charged strait on the rebels, With yell and with shout, Atid , from their imprisonment They—"cut their way, out !" At Russeilvala village ; Ili old Alabama, - 1, Our cavalry loyal, Played a glorious drama: Enclosed in a circle— Half frenzied, no doubt, They charged on their captors, And—"cut their way out !" 0 ! most adlant horsemen, And, 0! glorious "two-thirds," They carved out their liberties With their good swords ! And with ready pistols, And hearts bravo and stout, They spurred on the foes' linos, And—"they cut their way out!" Alas ! for the wounded, Alas! for the slain, •. And alas! for the "one-third," • Who fell on the plain! But cheers fur the 'two-thirds"— (Let every ono shout,) Ave, circuits for the warriors Who—"cut their way out !" Souls irrepressiblo „ A IGtt i•••••X•Mer-1%-. 4 2.1N , , , ,t , s , - - Long life to you, Ah ! never surrenderl;-, •• Your prowess ne'erdonbt, But spur on your horses; And—"cut your way out." • , 0, thus in our earth-life, 4 Gainst Error and Sin, Let us be well-drilled sold/Ors, Determined to win. And tho' sin, encompassed, (God aiding) no'or doubt, But that we, like those horsemen Can—cut our way out! gratrtett. EDITING A PAPER The truth is, an editor cannot step with out treading on somebody's toes. If he expresses his opinions fearlessly and frank ly, he is arrogant and presumptuous. If be states facts without comments, he dares not to express his sentiments. If he con scientiously refuses to advocate the claims of an individual to office, he is 'accused of hostility. A jackanapes, who measures off words into verse as a clerk doei tape— by the yard—han — ds him a parcel of stuff that jingles like a handful of rusty nails and gimlets, and if the editor is not fool enough to print the nonsense, "Stop my paper—l won't patronize a man that's no better judge of poetry ;" as if it were pat ronage to buy a paper at about one-half more than so much waste paper would cost. A subsc — riber murmurs because his paper is not literary—another because it is literary—another because it is not literary enough. One grumbles because the advertisementsengross too much room —another complains that the paper is too large—we can't find time to read it all. One wants typo m i en:tall that a microscope would be indispenitibloin every family— another threlterui to discontinue the paper unless the letters are half an inch long. Every subscriber hainplan of his own for conducting a journal, and the labor of Sisyphus was • recreation when com pared with that of an editor who under takes to please all. Something tole ThankfalFor. The bat was passed around ins oertain congregation for the purpose of taking up & collection. After it had made the cir cuit of the church it was handed to the minister, who, by the way, had exchanged pulpits with the regular preacher, and he found not a peony in it. - He inverted the hat over the:pulpit cushion andshoak it, that its emptiness might.be known, then raising his eyes towards the , ceiling, ho exclaimed with great "I thank God that I got back my hat from this congregation.", Time were uaiz hundred . thousand pain's - of shoes: . .iinnufaottlnid in.,Aubtirn, Main — e; hot Poac,, giving employment to Eftenci liiindroctpeivoin. [WHOLE Di - UMBER 1,754. How Coffee came to be Vied: At the time Columbus discovered - Amei: ice, coffee had never been known or used.' It only grew in Arabia or upper Ethiopia,. The 4iscovery.of its use is a bmage-, 40 ascribed to, the superior of a monastery , in Arabia, who, desirous of preventing . the monks from sleeping at their nectar narservices, made them drink the 3nt'z. sion of coffee, upon the-report of some shepherds, who observed thi.t.theirlocks were more lively'after browatube--- frait of that plant. Its reputation rapidly spread through the . adjacent - countries;- and in about two hundred yearsit:reached, Paris. A single plant, 'brought here in: 1514, became the parent stock out 'this coffee plantations in the Ws.st.lndies. 7 -;,4 The extent of consumption can now hardly be realized. The United Statesahme an nually ,eonsume, at the east of Its landing, . from fifteen to Sixteen million of dollars. ' You may know the Arabia or Mocha, the best coffee, by its small bean of dark color.. The Java and East India;the next qual ity,' a larger and paler yellow. The Vest India Rio has a blueish, greeniah,gray tint. SENSIBLE ADVICE.—HaII's journal of Health says : If the body is tired, rest ; if the brain is tired, sleep. 'lithe bowels are loose, lies down ,in a warm bid 'and remain there, and eat nothing till you are well. If an action of the bowels does not occur at the usual hour, eat riot' an akin till they do act, at least ,for hours ; meanwhile drink largely of. cold water, or hot teas, exercise in the open air to the extent of a gentle peraPiniticin; and keep this up until things are riglite4; , this one suggestion , if practised, naiad save myriads of lives every yeti?, bcth the - city and the ' country. pie 'best ' medicines in the world are warmth , ab 2 -• stinence and repose. - • " A beautiful specimen of,-photovaphic - ... engraving on steel - in ` other words;:al) 61 , hoto raphyo., plot* lairstcel .1-• ,; ~, ~.., .„ IT ti,,... n. tr 5„. .110 `7 - 1, • ZiliMilas "7 ? , ~ '. •..1i.V , ,, ceifia ' . ..:chemicai -, buiagneen -x , . greai " attention in,;,lJondon '"Th , speci men...a said to-be untouched. It repro seats an exquisite , scene in . Java—a ca. vine an4ivulet fringed withbananatreee. . Now the' mast wonderful circumstance • connected with it is,,that at least 5,000 copies can be taken before the plate de teriorates. .. ~ A. widow in Union, Igo., who has 12 children, 11 of them boys, has jut sent the eleventh son into the army: . On the' occasion of his enlisting, some officers'and friends made up a purse of $2OO, and pre lianted it to this patriotic' matron, who said she was sorry the oth'er child was not a boy,. so that she' might make still nother coffering to her country.: A little daughter of at proprietor of _a coal mine in Pennsylvania , was inquisi tive as to the nature of a hell, upon which her father represented it to be a large gulf of fire of the most prodigious extent. "Pa," said • she, "couldn't you git the devil to. uy coal of your The Springfield (Masi.) ado* tells about an enterprising young man, with a - portable glass eye, who' goes about en listing, pockets the bounty, goes to ca mp, suddenly loses an, eye-rgetia discharge, re-enlists at anotlier atationand in ths - way "turns a penny." 'The young man has been arrested. A lady having:spoken sharply to Dr. Parr, apologised by, saying, "it . was ail' privilege of woman to". talk. simian*" the doctor replied, No, t .zossiam,. it is; Ta there privilege, ,but Ducks would walk if they could, bid nature aid: - ferers,them only to waddle!, 4 A Country editor reoeiye l, with A request to 'Send ',ilia, parr long is the 'money lailteCt l ;Bei ed in'a bit of a "spree 4 the !nift week", got broke, and respeotfully:AiniOnneed his subscriber that' atieongiii•to his own' tams lie.subieniptioe was out. • A .gentleznan, whose wif' awayeafir , * visit protracted long berjUsittlie prumbw ed return; wrote - asf. - *Adam; said, that absenle longer you stay away Are better I. like! you." He expects her on amain& train. "Kelley Oil, ecimpisYri7 at Pitt 4. 440 ,. On the Allegheny Itiver;wai meld s days ago t (ew York for` 166, WO, cash. The infa n t non dthe PrisibibbfWatia, it is said; wan born %sail's" ao6rniii7; wing but three' ail's" on one et" hands. Ahole two litioimddell to WhkeigtAtiltiot Worojost placed hors Zit tkeroatutoap lIM
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