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be more analog than the
ikil i aw °4l l l 4 - 1 'l4 ll lB 4tho's nano In.unknown, but
M deeming a high place in the Tomtit) ranks 3]
Oh 1 the snow, tbr beautiful euow,
7/11kM the sky' sad earth below ;
Over the house tops,. over the street,
Over the heads of the people you meet,
. • Dancing,
Itfilinoging along; '
Deattliful snow ? it Can do no wrong,
Plyin; to kiss a ?Melody's cdeek, .
Clinging to lips in a Arolicunne freak,...
'Henan] snow trout The Heil:nen "kbore,
Pon as an angel, gentle as love!
Oh ! the mow, the beautiful anew,
Hew, the fi .I:es gather and laugh its they go!
Whirling about In its maddening fun,
-. lt ; 00610 Its glee with evely one,
Chasing, 'e
Laughing„
Hurrying by ;
. - 4tlUhte.ott_tbe fare? and it - entirkier the eye;
And et an the dogs, with a bark and a bound,
Ban atthe crystals that eddy around ;
The townle alive, and its heart in a glow,
Makereleente the coming of heautlful snow!
Inteir l 'iie Wild crowd gees swayilig along,
Hailing twit other with humor RIO song!
How the gay illeftg.es. liket meteors flesh hy,
Bright fur the inewient they lost to the eye;
• Flingleg, • .
Dishing they ge:
Over the crust of the beautiful snow;
nue* se pure when It falls. from the Ay;
T/-be trampled In mud by tho crowd passing
by,
To be trampled middricked by the thotutands
of feet,
Till it , biendi with the tilth In the horrible
street..
Ones 1 was pore as the snow—but I Leg!
,Fell like the- Snow anises, from Heaven to
Doll ;
' Pelt to ho trampled as filth of the street.
•• Fell to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat ;
Pleading. ,
- ' Cursing, -- - .
' Dreading to die,•
Selling my soul to whoever woad 1, 0;
Dealing In abdulefor w mental of breed,
Dating the liv nq pad fearing the dead;
Merciful God! hove I fallen se low ,
!Lod yet I ;vat oneo !Not& beautiful snow
A THEORY WORKED OUT.
My refusal of Asher Alleyne was the le
gitimate result of much rotnatieweinting
" a ir7fi3 - ii - o - finTeTri Te - filifti njg — c7r - TiftHT•l=riiii
ifierc:ses whole ultimate ussuElted been the
establishment of my theory of. layer. as
rap
plying to my own destined expetteneein
the matter. Out from the nebulto of men 1
Till — flcat one must crime whose flee
figure shottld wear an tusiant pleneingness
In toy eyes beyond those of any 'Alberto
!loon, or to- be seen forever thereafter. Be
hind them wool I lie surly n soulto the
61trelliOdt. Innti or I.ollllle iltorttil capnetty,
strong and earnest--1 sonl so high that
through all the years 1 sliould feel Ito hand
stretched out Shove ate, perpetu illy lending
mu on to altitudes I should "'lei or else
Lave rdnolied. 'What ri selle f or Navy l a y
in deltnuat ion of the extol 111 1.1 Of this eozn-
ing m,tn. t neNer max a liand.oule
an air graceful or noble, but I approprtated
it in him lil3llllq ibe drawbacks accompany-
tog its actual posss•ss,ir,
Bub I ass not .111 empty headed nonentity
by soy means Thp very 6ch e r Asher
Alleyue's havtly, heti 8.111 • tied IT my side
in so stony lei,-tne, hours of the past tun
,s, ears atm prom enough of 't Ins. I could
keep pies with him, trust in the man's deep
stride, yet with the woman's nervous mul
tiplit 1 step, in all themes of irlitelt men and
'women talk. - had gone with him abreast
in threading the •uhtletles of Locke mid
Bacon 5 eXpl.lllslloll of the how, rid shy.
and wherefore of the soul for the body, and
the body for the soul. And, there sine
lighter hours for crowning bith tiowers Of
rosy, whose nook", in their hest and most .
eternal freshness, nose knew better alters
to seek than he. I, 'sitting at his side free
of heart, would listen as he rhymed the
passion*l-c.tdence of the love and longing
the strongest hearts had so felt nut! told ut.
If in hie heart there opt ung up the as
eertion, "Awl thus I feel for thee," the re
sponse •'And I for thee," payer echoed in
the faintest out of mine. ',Ater Alleyne
wag nu! 11, man to catch and hold the fancy
of fair women by their will as much as his;
he was in every outward particular a plain
Juan. " One shout none are surpri.eil to find
single at any age, and he was getting pant
biS first youth a little. He was nut a fasci
nating homely man, or a surfacely brilliant
ono in conversation; though whatever
eeemed visibly to waursaying he said always
and well.
, Jie was in nowise demonstrative, not
even in that oftanmost effective patiently,.
the eyes. lie never "made eyes" on any
°Catalan ; indeed I scarcely knew the color
of those ortaiis, though I remember once
seeing his eyes—not turned on me, however
7 --Lwitliiin expression I had never beheld or
thought of in them before, as . I made an end
of the story of some man alone who "saw
the light in happy homes" and felt such
radieuce nut for him. I had always lived
iu the fullest of that kind of radicncc, and
thought there must be a irep.djfference in
• his life and mine to make such a lonesome,
empty look in his eyes possible ; thinking
also that he mast tind Lis year after year of
boarding house life even' less beartsome-than
moat men. Yet, further than friendship
and its degree of sympolby went, it wan not
uwy k affair. And so I sat in his presence,
nuthinking,of him, my heart tuail-clad iu
far-off dreams of a man to come and blessed
things to be.
And I too thrilled and glowed as be read
words that stir up women's hearts, and
wished, with, a yeatulug that was almost a
prayer, for the time when the full realiza
tion of those dainty dreams should come to
me in the voice that read of them 7 -shoUld
glow upon me out of the eyes which held
the answering soul of my beloved.
And like unto whit similitude was this
chosen one to be
So far different from the plain, grave man
w)o due day, after his !voice had rung for
me the last exquisite chime of "The Lady
deraldine's Courtship," turned to me with
the quiet of a cool.nature, or the still molten
glow of en exceeding greet desire (I never
thought which), asked me to make his life
a •ownod sqd radient, as the gendroue woman
etbitiiirme had done that other men's. So
far diffeitinit . Was ho from the man in my
dreams *at, to make me at heart queom
and regdanOluttl, ivitk no thought for him
but, tuiturtri (olds% cry, "Thyself first of
atiang_aild lantana in nt # replied,
ourprlfed, !Hit unhesitating and calmly.
- no, kfr:Ailetne, that never can be."
4UP 11(
VW. 10.
lie sn With evident unproparedness and
pain how new and unthought. 'of his propo
sition was. We had tallied so well in so
ninny thoughts and pursuits, that he forgot
to take aceounl of how much of a gie.'s
heart might he left given over to dreams of
stitch he hod no knowledge. lle rose up
froin his 'chair, and •laid the book down
quietly. and stood for a minuta• before we,
and said,
suppose pride ought to prompt me to go ,
out.frout before you at once and forever;
even though I esti:mot tell you, if I would,
bow greet a gift God ha; denied me through
- your words. Some better man may wjn you:
but be sure of this—there never will be a
man •who through every circumstance of
his life could need you 'mite surely; to
*limn your life would liaitTlieen n riohet•
endow - meld ; to whom iour love would hate
been a Mote sufficient possession; niulap
heart *mild havefolded you in more closely
or have been more entirely mei kfitul in yo u ."
And so lie went, and' assoncerned being'
worthily touched by theta, or feeling" a title
estimate of their value, I heard his wends
an if I had not heard them; though they I
woke iiime a sympathy which made me re
gret that he had felt a lICUCHNIty through me
which I could never fill, and brought the
bent gift of his humanity to one by whom it
was unneeded and unasked.
EM
posit ton in souiety—whai_ people
soy of him, his appearance and doings—ha.
a nearer coalfeetion with roost t:oung holy
likings ilinp they are aware or would eon
.fen True. there—are women wits
grown into IoN ing men whom the w 21.1 know
not, or knbwing. fail to favor; but they are
somewhat the exception. rm. a young Intl)
to hear of a tutu possessing. Ftt fu I lean,
allotted to separate mot tuts. the gins of
and feature tlesiitthle in Marl, 1100,
not invph in bee" emnal,tl3 the 11,11, la
avoid ban Mil Icily. We all have an linprev
slim, and daub' le.l in themnincmTcel,JJot
the vcrdi•:t g*•ueral society passes upon 11
ihernher is usually ju+r.
I-hadfounti 110 orcamont to g tin-ay it, nn7l
linlph ll,ootelttne came to mr bringing 1.11
him face tint] figure. not only.thome fair out
flees %Ilk!h ono oetol hot ore to re.ol and
approve, but general sieciety'v verdict of
what I prized infinitely MOM` —4 true and
genial soul. Others hail appeared Hai, fur
nished I 'wilt—but Italph sup
pose few gills who have nucP4l ideal, bate
ever 01 I anything, specially like them litil
I do not think any 'mini alive could hate
come nearer mine externally than Ralph
ine.
.111 1 bad foredreattied, the geettl Alvaro
of pate•ion 1111,11,1 up into the owittng
of icy life Simultaneous with his hem, ap
pearing. Sr. Speedily flint 1 think I began
Incto lout I/0101 e lie eciiseiuusly knew
at till. 1.11:t voice bad attracted tile tient A
-little weaned try - n--rwtrr .11Aeweirttig pot;
I had left the Ow.) Od out fares. and going
into the bno}: room, began a ',Pale!' for stone
what with a tre.dier flavor, albeit it had lain
hundred years or more.
Somebody plii . yeil.tt the piano, and he
car e lessly caught tip the tag end of the time
and added words. it was a 1,41 CC is young ,
girl 'dips to hear, telling her, however little
she mo t s analyze the' fact, of great store of
life and freslitiesratill readiness lot
I turucvl front the books and took position
wherg I could zee him in the parlor The
figure, carried wilt subtle uttse,iof gen
tleinanhood, seennal perfect, 'The soft light
ft OM the elthildelier fell on him graceful head
and gave his locks.Yhe true hero's purple
blaCk. I knew hint, having heard his name
and !Weill I fame before. I ;lid not find the
latter boned whttv I met him in pnriorAltik
and presence that night and thereaftpr.
I began
~t o wonder if it woe at all qua
Amber Alleyne had felt in our firut acquaint
ance; for lons before Ralph Haseeltine gave
me vow for vow I loved hem. I loved lulu
--the fact deblared itself in me with still
persistence when away from Ii m. it sprang
ttpiu -foes in glowing assertion when I
metrdiim, peen in the street. Around hint
centered the gathered halo of all the it utl
and tentlernes's, depth and loftiness of soul
which I had eves/ seen or 'read as man's
possession. I loved bids as only t ley lore
who have read wise books, have planned
high labors .and great joys for their lives.
and feel some innate breadth of soul which
only needs right kingtip to gum full expan
sion. I felt the fulfillment of my utmost
dream the night Melt his arm around me,
and his lips seal 01,6..1 lo've you" they had
just uttered upii'!itnd.
It watt n most fair fabric I began straight
. . . .
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way to weave . New thoughts and wishes there was no more In Ralph Hasselcing
revealed themselves full grown in the light: than he showed out inillose hours. Silently,
of this new Aurora. A wife—alt, word anxiously, as if the out hope of my Me de
ost subtly sweet ! The light of one more : PClllied on the happy issue, I tried ham test
happy home to shine forth in the land. That kly test. ~
happy hom-there was one special picture; - "Ttu was a pretty good Christian, he
of it I had at heart' 'Which I was continually thought—neither lied nor stole, and liked
stealing in to contemplate. It was a scene' church going-tirst rate. It was delightfully
of long evenings after daylights and their, soothing arid comfortable there at font; and
duties overpast and well fulfilled. ,One only 'When the dominie bqgan ro make a fellow
beside me, who should be to me as I to him, I quake on the crimson v lvet cushion, it car
my sufficient possession ; having whom my ried out Ole rule of contrasts capitally. It
heart should acknowledge no oilier Wfillt•ill was not difficult to imagine the angelic elle
' the world outside, however active my work merit of religion in the ladies:, faces there,
thertsmliOt be, and however, pleasant a ,unless the sun threw the shade of a yellow
' Welcome roiled there have. For this one or green window across them. It was a
should walk with ,me into all realms of self evident fact, he thought, that if a fellow
thought and feeling—should join me in all minded his own business and did the best
study and research commpn to man—would he could he would be savod; and it was
penetrate with me the utmost limits of those only dyspeptic fools who bother6d their
spiritual glories whereon a man out look beads with controversy and theological met
and
,ive. Together we would enter uponlllllolos. , _ _ _ _
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life—together smile in its serene joys—anti And according to my lover's standard-be
together inset and comfort one another under was going Illthe best be oould." Perbapd it
its Inevitable and thick coming woes. Evcrl was scarcely the -province of his to dy-love
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VIM in
BE - LEFONTE, L A., FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1865.
minding to, kelp each other, keelkin view
that it is not to live care free and at'ease,
but to show all quills within our tin,;st
. reaclr that life is worthy the noblest ausi
holiest living—since Christ died for it—that,
shall guilt for us at last the Ineffable son
tence—,Servants of G o d, w e ll done."
:Snell ninon were itnkied of lore. We
could not be married at ottQe, and the tender
th,wers of courtship bad a whole year to
blossom in. What a blessed. prowerptts .
achmon I felt thin would be. We bad 'token
one en r ol her, each instinctively tonactous of
the pilt . er4 merite; deubtless, yet for all, as
it wore. upon trust..
Well. Raft& came to ace me almost daily.
The a /Wiliest maid could not, have desired a
more . 111 ronseioned and detnpnstrativc lover;
but' 1
had an instruct that we could not
spend it year in caresses, even if their zest
and freshness did not 'fail us So for ale
must part I. kept hint seated reasonably dis
tant. And for me it was joy enough to
watch, and batch in mine now owl then, the
various expleMSloll of a pair of me most
tnaleble.a eyes winch 0501 °p(•Ilul on lhe
world: getting by heart the while every Itirn
of Irk tithe and figure. But we can 1.;ok our
till • upon the fititust pleibtOnild ihni was
1(111p11 piciolnd phase t•inrply ;
and Ire beholding it way 1101 the deepen(
burils7.leau4,3 wen!, plell 8111 n 4 W was
WW=En==l
oil thc A 104114: Jot' elly Journey relation;
1{11(1 1 began to feel the old eNer)duy Opt
rttool - and liiern'ty Walltf4 C111111)1g bock
W.ints not to be filled by the innol - vorkling
Lalk abopi_lhe weather. octpluintAtice!toto
ctety ip general, rind 0110 . 0 1 011.111 particular:
and mootcurtottoly it mooned to me. it woo
&dicta! to haul Ralph till these topic. thittigh
I hod not al tirot not tuktil hit habitual oil
itearottco to thou
I put otio the Ittook or my ',rinds...,
10er—through college long Igo--olie of the
(I'Vlyq Mr. Alleytte too: I used to tend
together, begging him to adorn the fe.tratel
--lettlettees mob the beauty of lov voice
Flattered, lie retail a poke or Iwo, when 1.
fallen into full enjoyment of the nmple
thoughty it held, was stun tied 145.4ii4 , throw
ing the book carelen , ly Joni, with the Sim
ple explit lilt ion of “Itimli :"
It wad frum this evenweg I think, that I
began In leel the •Irwle of the Muhl broil II
eluml rt-lng over the derv. , winee•plowe in
the eky oh my love. It 1114 not Ore oemt
diunal, and on, !otrdon ti le fre di•meli
II 01011 10 consider weigniy mines, and tithe
mober %Mit"' of lity . Mill 114 0bi1 . C1.4. the 111001
efficient feel now nail !ben The I itile gay
eties, courtesies, and successes of sin Ince
life, :oleo awl drawing mon - butterfly life,
seemed sufficient for bin.. lie reigned it
prince in theme, null it was for such supre
macy society I ttl given hi t 1 ifs dirlantn,
udl•r au eves for which, nt — frt winning
grace nod pet feenim, seemed the tilting
rat vitttral type-of—noble, net unlities:-beltitnl
there lay a mind . whioh, though not bad, was
tight and slallow.
Lint 1 h,td built my castle, "en 14spagne"
though it were, quite too firmly to admit ui
its toppling about my taw. at once Did I
not 10NOe as t hail so long plLned to love?
Hat noalthe duo ine ittilay6 entered in and
yllis.e.eted my soul siiktlioroughly as that
soul was capable of bei tilled? Then let
that be authetent for me. But it woo !Mi.
I felt it plainer and plitiller every day., l'or
the 'pliy‘ical and e tithly loud col lute Italith
answered abundantly, mud was
capable col utsp.riiig no higher save to the
loud or fancy solely. It 11441 tented to 11/e
Ll+ll it %could lie so bles.,tl to draw neater
and nearer him mentally and spit itually ,
in those quiet hunts whet' COIIIIIIOII talk nas
done. But cowmen talk done, with Caliph
all 15415 dine.
lie liule thought how be startled my,beart
by a quiet, careless speech of his about
show deuCedlyinatedruin some folksonade
their [mimeo lives," laughingly dechiting,
••we would show viicimy that people need
nut necessarily inept( in duel tor the lest of
their lives in back pallor because they
Lad answered altirouti lady in the presence
of witnesses, sonic polite inquirrei in the
Troyer book. iite little wile need not (Link
Le was ION; to make her bury her beauty
just because she bad given him its guardian
'ship. No; it would be his first anduiition to
display treasure—and !liaison besides, I
know you are thinking," he added, gayly.
••Well, it will be bui an old trick at an old
dog, who enjoys it too well to wish to be
taught anew."
1110 first :mint ion : What sort of realt
zation, then, was my heart iptettiro and life
progttuuu e like to meet 1 1 would not be
he‘e-1 absolutely would not believe—that
M!n • FM ll .7Mr i 'rn7+ MrPlrE7l77.lg
to wilt Ititti whet worthy-mbar° he w taking
in the world's great. h trd, neeessary Chris
tine work., which lily' 0111 for Ids doing
plant before biot—in what r . tri.cultr 1111
lite oiling:al pion that of tito,e or old Greece
awl Rome, whose biller condemnation wa+
in being "lovers oration) more than lovers of
God."
If.she did not ask Idle' 43.1113 asked herself.
With n i eluct Mit (west uut,w I hag 1? ad
inu but One aAvrer ans'irer (1:41 not
_lli all come Putting aside, as I Iva's, ena
bled Ledo in this strait or life. mere phirti
cal passion, I nnw that Iliere 1 . 114 not that in
Ralph Hasselone which .-atilt warm:int-me,
as at'liristtsin and true tot Ouil, nor even to
n woman and trite to him, in carrying nut
lie ,pluitnise I had abide to tutu to jum hut: ,
life to Me rind make it even as his.
Jly lifelike bid! Why, he wits the corn
tented epitome of the trifling, unremitting.
to-day living exiblunee 1 Ivas trying to
Prum, away tit myself In gi% c room for
worthier glue th.
Ana yet Tier could I give him tip, 0114
win , owe, MIIOIIIIII, loving mot
tot ' I let in lily weeks glide by, notseeing
or willing to bee Just how.
We }rid it I.llg will , el evt.imig In.fore ui,
and 111 , 111 g gull It 1e11,41 1111 u.
light 1411. :111.1 I 1 . 1 vel .ti Lir . ) ,
Who
••WQ h.we rattled
. 10g enough, hive we .
not? tlph, suppose you give ii.e .intl tone
self n. deep glitnp-e into 11 . 1. 1 ing -WOlll rut' ,
heart through these "Sonnets II nit the Pit
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Ile took up the hook I,olTered lum. ••Oli
I.lron mug:" hold he,
.3n witAig
••11other [fake her an,l all.. the noti,of -le .1
el, w who effect her Lin—met vauon of
present company always tintl.t.tood.';
Aud replacing the book on al!. .t-fol. I.
teleele:llly-lt:
and leaning tialolefittly hick. is his than.
began paring it. A silence fell between it , .
he looked Mk: :lie tile. althl I info hi, eyes
They were the ideal eyes of tile nu to I 11."1
4411 4 / 4 11,41 and Ilia the ":.4.40 of
the than 1 bah awaitetc he beltlnfl thew:
I thonght era pat.,age I htpl culled fur
Ittmenibrance out of ••.'talant Ihsle, — of eye,
whose eipt no S arrant or es.-
pl tonuott In 111 e , out 1 , 14104 1 :1 111‘ . 111
111111 401 . 111 10 exple , 4 13111 51111 i.:
01 101Ugtille geneo — i n eat thought •
:Ltyl tenderlies.es—inot ell perhaps with pale
eyes ivhlc6 ean see nothiti;r, eye+ lull ul
alleaumgm not I heir own, Just a, a o tt halal
Language may be Instinct Wiih puetri' untelt
by the lips that use it 11 ere these Dalph
Ila.sellitie eyes' IVnat eke were they '
I could not perhaps hod the mobsiailte, the
,eahly of their expresiun In the wet Id, and
~h otri./.4.4ake the 3uniblaueir of a y and teach
tny.soll content 7, •
No' not it I walked emptily to my last
As I thought these„thing,alby lover 4pioh
al the apple and tnrew the - eure upon the
:rate. We both watched it crisp and clear
"away in the b;aze. So my di k...tm had burn
ed into Id tekne,t—ail the soul and tretvh•
!less gone out tit'
1 took Mr my tlitinbleand rolled up my
sewing, putting all in the iv and
shutting don n the ltd; then riving from my
chair and guiug round the nitric 1 stood be
fure lover • lle -rectified out his artii
II It it C31(..., , ittg motion is ishing to draw
me close,iatill ircluvug, the thottAlit struck
Me surely, that it 1V.I•1 cite
. 3113 which Lad
clasped the cxeete i lupe4 of lily Isle into
my heart, and must hill non Wan' er trout its
othce.
••Italph," I began at once. “I told you I
loved you, and as tar as flesh and since is
cuaorrnael I love you still Rai the title
Ralph lias,eittueHie who I his visible
one has fallen into the dust —*r the fair
earth it‘ielf hiss waxed ill like a garment,
and been folded :Lau). as a veionre, I do not
love Aiakyoiyou w me nom my
promise as treitly as I I can ask it of
you, since the seeing with which I made it
was as
lie sprang to his feet Itmazed, remonstra
ting, protesting, and soon, lyttli bort 'pride
nd disappointment working high .in
augry
IVite this. tam. the legitimate work of
.
such great souledaess hbuttl always pro
feaseik? II 1 , 14,1 bola a tho.ightless h igh=
'gown, 011.1 owe like coalition fulks.operliwit
I might tire kept my facli ii little better.
Ile could nor . uirtlerst Ind me, eVou.in thin:
and lath as l y was to let him go forth in
anger, I felt it impossible to prevent it by
any thing short of retraction. And so" the
grAcetul figure which It td brought Such
great joy in to me. which I tiled loved with
almont ..tuortlivate ttlfectfbri," went out over
my threshold to return no more forever.
If I had Imovrit him lens well myllteart
Would have been sorer for ..bim than for
myself. But though he loved me as such
men May love, I feel he did not need me.
Ills soul wan not enough in eapaelty to feel
a Ifick,of which a true woman alone could
be the complement. I warm to Lim but ne
of many pleasant thing tof life, and losing
me enough remained fur his full desert.
What thousands of won c lin have sat before
sloWly dying tiros far into nights, as I ant
on the one where I, by my own will but not
wish, had laid the dear dream of my theory
upon the altar of holocaust, and watched its
fair proportions drop into annihilation.
And it was gone with no whit lelts bitter a
sense of lops and failure than if it bad been
true, anti of substantial and logical base.
JAI It was. I had staked, my happiness and
satisfaction so thoroughly upon toy:snarl
@nos of itt success, that when, after. begin-
t Ci •
T',l
ning to -be wrought out so nobli s it had ais rime, And opened two° the irords
Puled 1)1111 fallen, l felt as if all the rest Gods holy opostlo, Paul, "commending to!
event With 't • it. other the brattier of his afflicti,pn.
At Icast• I fell so, in the lonesome hours I ••Whieli in time past was to thee unprofit
before the waning fire. But other 1ln.) .4 able, but now ppefitable to thee and to roe;
dawned, and the great strong march of
~ t rhoiii I have scut again thou theriThe re
life went on—acitlici.'had beauty mid joy eerie him: But• without thy mind would I
Laded out of it for such as were willing to do nothing: that thy benefit slould not be
take it without too tamidions selection. It its it were of necessity, but gillingly. . For
was not to my nature, as in hinny pert ups he therein e departed for a season,
to fail or suffer, and by shiuthei ing and ig- tint thou shopldst recelVe him forever. Not
•noring the matter to get over it. sly reliefnow as a - lotrvant, But above a servant, a
I
was to argue it out befiMe I cotdd,forget it. brother beloved, specially to me, but how .
took coy old'ilicory of love in hand, and much more unto thee, both in the tie-it anti
lit.id it up to my tests of religion and logic. ,itt the Lord V s. .
I found that, though applying the homer I Hod toy answer. I took it as from the
gouge to all' things else, I had hitherto Lord. "Not of -Deeesxity, but willingly."
neglected rii do it here. I believes...l 'Ited1•0.11, most willingly I . I felt at my very soul
unconsciously considered love—lieiiii); n , in the string true spirit that . , through no desert ;
lore"—the roll onic issinii I hail sought, of mine, and in spite cif iny bWtlnosy, bad
its Ilse one 'thing nut olScripiure province' been girep-to me of God. Over my las I
:s t ow looking in rite Bible for irdrrant' for tell the, soft clasping of a great ceht ent.
my ihei ty of lots, I iditiol•none whatsom vr. ; For though tint , ' man Ifad gone from me'.
Ills ehousdig totem:dad, 111011.11 hem among : finally, I never dofibted Inc . a moment now,
I lie 11,1, and mve,ilog the tety that lie hail been my appointed and chosen
tidies his !muds touched—with LI sort of ft oni the first, withheld from me till I had 1
et ahote all else. . , I learned to hold bun at his won 1,, as I could
Thia a ill iiignetis to bring all the bent re not doainder , those fnnt ticlighty of fancy :
meta ion 111111 kindline-a, nod etlort, and hut the sheer day lit,l come, and in ill wrote
ih them o i l a , lll, 111 , 111 10 tll^ eicl n yina of to him imply:
Colory seen candkllght do not lock
Pt tier , . 1% hat &se, 1.,11 br I LIM. •Illeldlimie
ttlect tun ' again,t wo tea we are w t hied
el wee ot IllNlrl tage we
11.111101
nud iliery u degy,e of idlt tel lon alio wed, nay,
seLund only In 04 degree to
„a.ll we give to God And et
‘ , lll Into Is he Irgwwleuu ll vtdi, Ili ilie
eiirrjrtai vii e 1r.,. tiu
of
nest uwuL. I %,iitioud thought tot
-tt.t, ,t-stitell that e•Lun tole put, 'lto ques
"on 111 pi tvate happipttJs ul ul 11101 1011111-1 .
II 1010 111.4100.1
lu thr matter tit love In tot og• I had
e•rn-aleied lay own ply I,llle solely, without
,nought ut ttotityttng the Cause to which 1
thid ptydged all lily life's tonne and oiloa to.
\ll now 1 tame ro tee that the eadkaalun
and mai rying el n ItOband, whsle not to be
undertaken - without gloat per,onal pieler
enee and plcabure,..ru%OlNeu a greater privi
lege and duty, anti ig guided 1.).y tit higher
nod outer !Übe than that ola.being
I 0,1 , t a groat help to recovery . so. It is tron he runs Congress and sevril
and lOgUiller Utill my touroughtyc Tie.tlitly ' other public grosserys. But we've got the
1/.1/ ute, !111/1110,101 . yd me to it very cut.) ablel Afrikans or he's got us rather; now, what
at mospuele. ut being. though tile latottow I are we going to do about it? Ile's titt'urfol
badlady4or buy Neu tut ba..o to it,: notisance. P'raps be isn't to blame fot: it.
Irratts lie was created for suit' ;71strptir
po5e, like Bill Ilatding and New England
twt, but it is flirty hard to seeit. A. any
rate lic'ttittel•t: , , and it's a pity he Iptn't go
orf sum Wilnietl quietly 'by hinotelf whore
he cond gratify 'his ambition in ...arm wave
without havin—an eterattl . fuss loft_ up
ttbuut hint.
het I I%W all woman. And being =itch had
hem t and hope. Idu nut Lave what IN When
say. 1 knol o thel it Hetet has been one et,
nut divot lied away train the Itkenesh ut that,
wundei tat trot one, whose ••notate in her vo
.
wrougni. in het days ut mess, that she,
elley utter Itta, note recognized at Iglu
81.141 ed wit h
. tihod wan nut truly their UWII
wish but his right 4101h:seri. Ana su, even
putting the queethUl of personail Implant/scat
the nuttier (which I did not do) aside, 1
telt it NoUl4l,be pet leetl3 wale Upon the ba SI •
at thorough liking to Juan lily lad to 'bat tone
which ol all utheas I could taunt blebs.
And now for the first into, in their true
uu erp, et..tton, 1 understood Abner Alley Ina s
parting trot as. Ile had spoken trout a
statical pout atud with a knowledge I had not
gained. Able now, tat the light 01 My !Mil ,
eVeliellee, it, see tacit with a utter NlSlosi,
began•la, Lung Asher Alley ire to the test, us
I had done ELIO 11/inset' lire.
I until) zed the fours,w e had spent in the
old 'true. 11 ito.llot here it man whose pur
pose in !de—wore firmly held and it uly
wrought'—WAS ittentleal with toy own Fur
shining and turthei nig every worthy aspt
ration, lair all qiWtt lioursdiu less than batter
straits of hie, o,uld not a WOlll3ll put her
hand in has and hay —lSullicient
Yet could it to possible that in this plain
man lay the true win Id at realization, which
overloollang hum wholly, had located so'
far beyond him." Did the best proof I
could give to (hid of my devotion to him, in
losing Joy to bi, et eatui cs, come to the]
thiough .I , her Alleyue ?
I sat lamer my room wit thise thoughts
in mind and the 'bible in my hand. As I
loolod down upon Ice open' page I remeta
bered,eurimpily enough, the good man who:
afisins life refrayer from tnarriageirecniuse
dielaring the book should guide hint in the I
'nailer through the text he, olosing•tbe book I
and placing his finger upon, should open at,
found it tell of hunt who tell ow he threshold
of his bridal chamber dead. I did not be
lieve in that sort of thing al all : yet the
impulse came upon me strongly all at once,
to decide this duettion of Christian service'
la the meteetlen of a husband tf possible in 4
the same way, awl to take the text 1 opened
upon, if it had any bearing at all upon the
subject, 'as conclusive And it was in no'
spirit of trifling or irreverence that I placed I
my finger between ['lto leaves of afe New
Testament, and liolfllng it firmly, opened!
upon the words: .
"Inasmuch as ye do it unto one of the
least of these toy brethren, yq do it unto
me."
I was most astonished! „'One of the least
of these." Aa mortal could judge of mortal
Asher Alleyee stood in God's sighr hs one
of his first and best appyo*elid as such
must not reootstenec for Joy bestowed on
him be doublt great I But I could not be
lieve inthiS emphatic, unoompulsory, sharply
to the pita text. Such things, of course,
must commonly be Awe coincidence ; end
if such, are not likely to happen twice i so
I will try again, and if I find another pas
sage which tallies with this text I shall
deenat
' I made the trial farther back in the book
the same by thy"
Ind lie eat*, back to me and t ool•
place at toy side„and 'a new one id my heart,
110 L trivtm till I , ol.oll—religion even—die
tilted, but once 'riven rm.•• tie b e y on d the
province of reeson and will, into that of
l i bymy former then;:y, arid - That of ninny
people, I am not ”inlove :" yet it willbe the
swyetlid, no less Nan the proudest day of
in lit' when I come to stand besides this
plain man aid call him "my husband "
- -
Ann u't .• rue NEGRO —Feiler
siter.mitis: The African ma be our brother:
Seyeril btly respectable geittlemen and sum
fentails tell its so, and for argymeut sake I
mite be induced to grant )t, rho i don't.be
lieve it myself. But the African isn't ou.
sister, and our wife, and our Uncle. lie
sevril of our cousins, and all our wives
relashuns . .. lie -isn't our grandfaiis and
our aunt in the country. Scarce ffir And
yet numerous persons would linen you think
THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHER
-11appinet.s grows at our own firesides,
Is not to be picked up in the straniier's
ECM
—Twenly five thousand widows are
receiving pensions under the act passed re-
MEI
—A sincere word is never lost—but
advice CMlTlier It, example is always sus
pected. Both cannot be true.
is nu error to think that a long
face is essential to good morals,, or that
laughing is an unpardonable crime.
%% hen 3 our friend dies. you intuit no lon
ger say "peace to his ashes !" It is treas
onable to say pence, and you
_would be called
—peace sneak" for the utterance.
—lf thou art but a dunce heaven Will
forgive thre, , for wisdom has not been given
thee; butt if *ou art dishonest who can
forgive thee?
—Kind words do not cost much. They
never blister the tongue or lips :•nnd we
have never beard of aoy mental trouble
arising therefrom
—We may havo ottigreins tilled with
knowledge, but unlessit be brought to bear
ott the duties of life it can never DC trans
formed into true wisdom.
cotemporary, noticing a school
master, says— , •lf he attends to the males
as he does to the females, ho will make a
very attentive and efficient officer . ."
.t .
—nSonny, do you know your letters!"
"Yes: sir, two of 'etn." "Possible! what are
they ?' ••Let 'er go and let 'er rip r"Stuart
boy ; ;le to the tub and wet your haifi
brain of each fertility can't bo kept too
moitst.."
—A caustic :wit alludiug_to their... Traits
losses of life in the campaign on the James,
remarked; Tho 'key of Richmond said td
live been in the possession,of 'Grant, must
be of the decript ion knownters skeleton. The
only lock to it:bleb the Lituteitnnt General
has had - au opportunity of apply ing it, may
be very justly declared a dead -lock.
• —The New York Times boasts 'that the
Administration ltrorksecured to u'r the
gotten of the Mississippi - Oh yea, Low very
secure the Administratioe-:bae made the
navigation of that stream. How would the
Administration like to take a trip.Nist nqw
from Ciiro to New Orleans and back, if it,
should lire long enough !—Louisville Jour
nal.
—Augustus P. Dumont, a iontraotor
with Captain D. W. Moulton. A Q. M., at
Cincinnati for the supply of a large quant
ity of hareem for army uniforms, having
felleditiMiii his cengagements, has been
sentenced toa fine Of $1.060, and until the
same is.paid, not exceeding one pax, to los
confined in the Penitentiary at Columbus.
Somebody has commit*. th paper As
following common sense adv.*, wing
tho duty of the sterner sex. Let Opole who
are blessed with a partner of •their toils
have it printed in letters of gold resit It
over onto a week, and radios it io daily
practice,' and our word for it, it will-bring
blessings innumerable around the dumbed°
Itearth.
' -i tirslse your wife, . men; for pity's sake
glee her a little encouragement; it won't
hurt her. She has made your home com 4
fortible, your hearth bright and shining,
your food agreeable ; for •pity's • sake toll
bor you thank her, if nothing IDOM. lbw
don't expeo - nr)-.ft will rods bar olaropon
alder thin the" have done for these tan
years'; but will 4q her good the ari this,
ant you too.
No. 4;
There are many women to-day thirsting
f , r the word of praish--the language of
encouragement. Through s iimmer's beat and
winter's, cold, they have drudged uncom
p'alningly, end so accustomed have their
fathers, brothers, and husbands bones" to
their monotonous labors, that they loorfoe
and upon them as they do the dlily rising
of the son and its daily going down.
'Wady every day life may be made beauti=
tjtl
,by an appreciation of its very
homeli
ness. You know that If the flosr liciettn;
manual labochas Veen perforated to make
it so. You know that if yoti can take from
your' drawer a 'eleandhirt whenever you
want it, somebudy!ifingers have ached jn
the toil of milking it so flesh and *getable,
so smooth,and lustrous. Everything that
pleases the eye and the gentles hae been
produced - by constant work, much thought,
great care, and untiring etforts, bodily and
mentally.
• ir is not that many men do not appreciate
these things, add feel a glow of gratitude
ft,r the numberless attentions bestowed upon
them in sickness and health, but they are
so selfish in that feeling They' don't come
out with a Lenity' hy, how pleasant you
make things look, wife ;" (4'4 am obliged
itryolt torTaking — tfosllftly
thank the tailor for giving them "fits;" they
thong the - man iii a full 'omnibus wlio gives
them a seat i • they thank the young lady
who moves alimg in the concert i room ; is
-stem they. theiricavaryleady _ad_overythlng_
out of doors, because it is the esistettn, and
come home, tip their chairs back and their
heels up, pull out the newspaper, scold if
the fire has gone down; or, if.everythlng is
lust right, shut their mouths with a smack
of satisfaction, but never say to her,
thank, you."
tell you what men, young and old, if
you did but show an ord%ary civility toward
those common articles of housekeeping--;
your wives: if you gave . .the one hundred
and sixtieth part of the compliments Yin
almost choked them with before they were
married; if yoy .. 7outd stop the badinage
about who you are going to have when num-'
ber one is dead {such things wives may
laugh at, but, they sink deep, cgmetimes);
it you would cease to ape* of their faults,
however banteringly, before others, fewer
women irould seek for other sources of hap
pluess than your colt!, so-so-ish affections.
Praise your wit:. then, for all good quali
ties alto' has, and you May rest assured .
that her defeieneies, are fully coonterbal
anced by - your yarn.
Tuz BONN ET..=".The,botinet is said to have
been first broughii from Indy, in the reign
'of Queen Elizabeth. The material. then
employed were cloth of gold, crimson
and other rich stials, and the form„ of some
thing between the round Italian_ hat and
the French .good. The large Leghorn fiat
was the first head covering which toor,the
true bonnet form ; and all bonnets and cope
tes, up'to the present dity, have been modi
fications on the original model. It had first
a perpendicular crown, with a large brim
standing out high and wide ardund thelooe,
and covered with immense bows of ribbon,
intermingled with artificial flowers. From
that time variations have appeared in it.
shape every two or three season!, and it
has gradually become less and less—at one
time close and narrow in thirtirim, at anoth
er wide and open, more or less trimmed,
according . to the caprice th j e mode, but
' alwaye having a decided peculiarity of form
'opposed to the hat shops. Bid neetberthis
' nor any other style or shape can,,it
thought, approach, in eiseet becomingtio..,
to the charming cottage bonnet, of
which all recollect, but which is now
extinct.
A nnsitrut. youth was paring his addres.
nes to a gay lane of the Country, who hnd
long despared of bringing thinge•to a crisis.
He called ope day when she was of home
alone. After settling the merits of the
weather, Miss said, looking slyly into hi
face:
"I dreamed of you last night." .
-Did ,iou? Why, now:"
"Yee; I drenmeu that you kissed me.".
"Why, now! What did
_you dream your
mother said '!"
"Ott t I dreamed she wasn't at home."
A light (laved on the youth's intellect,
and directly something was heard to crack—
perhaps his whip, and perhaps not.—but In
a mouth they %ere married.
EWIIICANGTILL tirlitlLlN or NEW roar.--
Very -few. pelse..s- h . ..., .i -,' uncap - tut - of
the magnitude of the work to be performed
in cleaning the streets Of a large city tike
New York. The thrall!, iu an article, on
the subject, remarks:—Theft are two &indeed
and sixty-eight - Miles of paved atreetlt in
t his eity,averaging thirty-t heft feet In width.
This gives an area ef.oue thousand eue'hen
deed and thirty-nine eery; to he 'clealeesk
The City .inspectdr has the wliole area swept
once every fortnight; about one-quarter ie
swept three times : three hundred Mid forty
tive acres are cleaned six limes; and sivelt
t y-Cre acres twelve times in the same epsmc
pt time. Thht te equirxiont_ to cleaning .
three thousand live hundred sad tifty,•thr,o
acres onne in twit'iteeks. In additiou to,
ect F izeit
this work. the sth oapti tray arty ; I*
of the stiiets, on . MiaktOsi
day excepted. l'hii 11
4 .
verging Eve hundrot; !oil 140.4 .
day, and eimvert oo h littisil::
. , ... . 4
of this Inegnltietal
~ it oir ..
penis) der erest.l4itaidtg k
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