f For the \VetenMAN JUNE. By 11. E. IDE The sweetest of the seasons Hes blorsetned into birth, lode Heaven for an instant . is itnaged on the earth. June's glories flout around us, A on 41 gold and green; We Out our oyes boholding Too vividly the Wren.). The liquid ettnehine flovreth iothickly through the air, Thal everything appoareth More golden and wore fair ; A flood of gold ie lamming. ROM) every rook and tree— The elc.ude en) golden Waldo, 'Within a silver en. If earth itill had nu Eden "f would be a Titles of bliss, 1 Ihct who to taste its glories Weald think of leaving this? We wsiuker in a stupor, As people walk in ctreiims;• Not Icnovritig it this Inlaid" Ile rest or only seems. The whole from ill the ocean Are blowing o'er the grim, Each 'lender item and floweeet Ben& bock to lot them pale. And or cry tree 111 waving, And every lent ie etirred, And every branch in swinging Same sprightly hale 4ird. Thu billow. of the rye field Are drisen by the wind, iVith u Frei that leaven the lap wing A lagging far behind. The young red headed clover le bowing to r .the Loewe, Or nodding to hty nOlgill)014 Whichever way you please. And in a kind of dreaming I nee the mountains Woe, 1 1 / 4 11 , 1 rant to walk and to rrete Arr ileiming on my view; Anti knlghti in burn tithed armor, A bright anti glittering train, Wall banners, plumes and lancer Are pictured in my brain 1 , 14:1U110 ywur golden glories, Ton soon N II I tulle Away, An Earth's bleak bills and volleys 1 flu mono( airways stay Flll uv hearts a ill lugging Fur that immortal clime, Where j rternmi blmoiom, Boroad the Te 1.311 0l Iljne. MuPTIANOIv, l'A., June 22, 1888 For tho W ATOM MAP ,The Chronicles of Tatttetown. I=l CIIA I' T It .X IX- The next few Jaya pinged happily for the inintit..n of Compton Hall Out door r.tott4eutentn Were tiol needed to pass the lime away, there was so much to be talked over among those who had for so long been separated. Charlie de clared himself delighted with his aline- lion as the only beau of the party , Eu gene being, considered mortgaged pin petty Ellie Burke, had returned home on the morning after the arrival of Charlie, but the communication was kept up be tween i'Loafer's lietrent.' uud the Hall by the numerous •inil r of the girls.to Yay nothing of the frequent visits of Charlie. which would have satisfied Ills most ex acting of maidens Ile fot(nd Ellie much changed, hut in the 'first iltish of happi neer in havNig him with her, this change was not no apparent To Charlie's ear nent mollcitattonn that she would name an early Jay (or their marriage, she would plead tho recent death of her only brother and the titling health of her mother, an an excuse for . deferring it indefinitely. Ile sow that the subject was' one she avoided, and after two or thkee attempts he give it up, content with ills present happiness Claudio hod returned' hor old life thankfully tt wfH nyrave, quiet hap -1»/)(SN, it is Irde, but euro withal She believed, in the light 'of her ' , let euffer tins, ahe court be mote than contented, and would ut tune leArn to look upon the harptnest, of ('hat Ite rind 1.:/l/e without a regret for the pat,b. • The old Hall Imre more resounded with tike Hong and laughter of the young and It and lira Comp Lou, an 2110 looked into their happy faced, saw but a reflection of her own happy childhood and youth • The lines of grief and care were no longer vinible_ upon the tinier, happy lace, and Lhe pattern of Eugene no longer rendered that their brother's tAtuldious choice , ahnll fall on the daughter of swell 'll wolgan i A and dr:tenni d ‘leets. p11.9n011 titaney, null the Afternoon • preoe mg . le wedding day arrived, Mk, and height, foretellinga Nit and hiiatitiful morrow. Ellie Burke lind conic over to remain un til after'llte weld tog and now with Eugene and his pirtrre, had etaritt,il to the grove for evergreene,fert4i,entl other forest treoutires wherewith to add to the floral bentitiee of the gardn, destined to di rotate the old boner on the morrow and Itiguetaeilt upon the port i enjoying the cool Lirmze that swept through the lindens and into. Churbo in Lie own room who engaged in writing Attirs to lie volt %toed to Vitigene'm Core fir tlttfttntl:eicn to Eiclip,or.i &P r Miff( [ 1 VOL. 13 BELLEFONTE, PA., FRIDAY JULY 3 'Link Ellie Burke has changed very muoh ?" "Iu what way!" "1 do not know that I con explain ex actly. I know ilia feels the loss of her brother deeply, also the !Ailing .1141:81.th of hex,molher p still I cannot nucribo change in her to that alone. I asked Charlie the other day if she had consent ed to naming an early day for their mar riage, but he rattier evaded the Atm- I ion. I think the question pained him, ao I did not press the matter, though I know he ia anxious that it should take !dace at an early day—this fall, at least." I have noticed a change in her, but iccounted rot it by her recent bereave ment, also her own health, whtch she told mo was not good." “Then you noticed that her health wan not so good ?" "No, I Jo not think I should , ' have dobe so had not eh'e called my nttentlon to it." "I suppotto," said Augusta, "that knowing the family,to be a delicate one, and constimption au hereditary disease, renders' us more nitiColifi'bn her a - oz count. Ellie, though, seemed remarka bly healthy, and we tradtoped elle would prose an exception to this terrible ilia- = Charlie from his window overhead had caught the name of Ellie in the conifer cation going On down in the portico, and with trembling interest hmened,while he knew every word but confirmed hie worst retire Alm Compton's appearance changed die subject Of °notarisation .•1 have just received a note from the village, Augusta' It is from Mr. Gard ner. who at Miss Natic Peck's request, or rather hire Cummi e, as she calls herself, wishes me to come and see her. She has, I suppose, I road that her mother made me execu of her pro perty, and will call me to account for it But where net the other young people'!" 'Not yet returned from walk Charlie 18 busy writing letters "Claudia," said Augusta, after her mother had left them once more alone, ...lid mamma tell you of the conspicuous part Mioe Nancy played in the capture of brother Charlie ' ••tin, I knew it before,'• replied elan din, quietly. "Claudia!" esolaitned the astonished Augusts, ••is its possible you knew it, and ye permitted ns to mourn bun as fen t for so many sad motttlig"" "1 ex, hut you tmlxt remember I left shortly after, mud for months seas as ig norant of his fate as youraelves I said nothing to you then, hophag some means would be triel to secure his release." It is strange—very strange," said Augusta. "Yes, it is natural that you should think it strange, and my Etariiago to Colonel liell seems more so. A few words would explain my conduct in both oases, yet. I would prefer to say nothing about unless it he vindicate what, naturally to you, seems an unkind and ungrateful return for the love anti ten derness your family hose shown me." •Your share w this unfortunate affair, dear Claudia, neothi no explanation—we can trust you for doing what you deemed hest As to your marriage, you your self can he the hest and only judge of that." ^See, I know It Colonel Bell may have Ind faults, hut certainly he poll seeped none of the heart Ile loved me truly--more se than I deserved he should. and yei I married ham• Trial oh feelings cave those of respect and en lcem.'• did yourself the greatest wrong then, .lette glister' There oertat nly could be no noceasity tlr marrying at all. You leave un independent income of your own, and khorrift so long an you choose to make Comptob hall suet." "Augusta, do you remember ibo eve ng or - tnttrillghc Itrrcrugtt tire—wee. avoid (."clonal 801 l and Lin conspautoneY" "Yee Why do you ask 7" “Do you !mollifier your eurmisca as to tlio ()Wok of Lea rink to tho ?" 'd do, aerrsiniy. "And my reply'?' • •4 cannot recall your words. hat did you soy •"1 said ~ 1 would not marry him under any eircumstinmo, not even to save my snits. but to ra4omoo I lovo, as 1 do your mother, your pivter, and bro:ber, I would." '•1 cannot underetand what that haa to du with [Jollier elmlie's betug 'cap tnreal 151 5 \r~ t~-~ - - - - "SWAT') 14."0 NTS AND • TEDDRAL UNION." •'INo, how should you ? But you can understand perhaps when I tell you that to save your brother and mine I did marry him. Be was very kind to Char lie, and did all he could to effect hie re lease, for your brother wee condemned to die oe , a spy. 'Perhaps I believed I could in - rerson - a - doompllsh that which Colonel Bell's influence hod failed to do, and I marri,d hlin that co his wife I conla appeal to the Pcdoral authorities at Washington for his . re lease, but after all, I have the bitter sat isfaction of knowing that the sacrifice was in vain The Providence that frowned upon mf marriage chose not to consider the sacrifice worthy, and by means far worthier then mine rescued him " She ceased speaking mil leaned wear ily bask againtit thO column of the por tico near which she sat. Augusta's eyes were full of tears as she laid her hand upon Claudia's. "My noble, generous sister, how little have we dreamed of this great lose file us.--of this greater sacrifice made to sb cure our happiness! May God bless and reward you se we Beier can " and she leaned forward and kissed tbetrem bling lips of the girl beside her. "Augusta, you must premise me to say nothing of this, will you" "But Claudia, does Charlie know of this?" "No, and he, of all otherb, I WOlllll have remain ignorant of it " • wieli," said Augusta, after a while, '•you wou'd not bind me to this promise " "It is butter 11111 it is, dear Augusta," said Oiaudia, sadly. "14 would but. re onll the saddest period of my sad life, and I hare borne it better than I leered. •Let the dead past bury its dead ''' But Charlie from his window' above them had heard it all, and with the knowledge of the saccificeieamo also that of the great lore that prompted it The afternoon *bre on, and stab', sat at his desk, his head bent over the unfinished letters lying upon it Was no emotion awakened save that of gratitude and brotherly affection * for the woman who had done this fur him , Ile felt humbled under the great sense of. his'unworthi nese. Then, as if afraid to trust himself to think longer of it all, ho recalled Au gusto's words in regard to E lie, and for a time every feeling was absorbed in this one fear, that she was slowly but too surely passing allay, and he renewed his vows of allegiance to her whose Ter: helpies•nes9, and hoitHsleeittnese of the fu• titre appealed but theumre effectually to his stronger nature Yet as the -mo meats went by his thoughts went hack involuntarily to Claudia, and as be re called the four years of her residence among thew, he recalled also many things which. until now in the light of this new revelatiuM, had passed unnoticed. The tea bell aroused him from his painful re vertu, and hastily coolecttng his writing liZertaio, he pktett them together with din unfinished letters in his writing drsk. and then jo,ned the group upon the °Moo If there was a shade upon his hand some lane when, lith the others, he seated himself Lt 'trio supper table, none noticed it og the chatty party unless it imglit have been Claudia, who of late bad sees thu shadow often there "Eugene, 'eau you not be prevailed upon to remain some days longer—say until next week s" askel Charlie, as be helped hit* to the dish before him. "Easily, my dear sin; o but unfoytu uately the authorities in Richmond are not so easily persuaded Ant why do you ask "Jecaude,/ im,e concluded to go to Itrehumud, there to obtain some employ ment until the term; of my parole ndmit of my entering the at my again." in mother looked up eurpiered, no in deed all of them were, at this sudden de termination. '•So goon, my son? 'Auraly you eon and ibe (etas gathered in Ji soft, loving eyes.- It t. mint be ottlfdEnt — intfrb'et dear It ti hut It neeessaTy•fr'e t Kairon, for should t ohonee to be taught hero by the Pedernin, I cannot think they will honor my parole, And it may ho the means of untold troubio to you ; fur the crime of Itarberiog a rebel to the wont heat 0119 Is their opinion " "Uut wha 1111:4 hti o?" - aaked Au MEI in no baKte, I assort) you, to Io•we my home, but if it dietrvsses umm ma, I will wait milli Iluggne obtains a Hit mit ion fur me In thu meantime lum = -1J 1 -*9! , < •c - at the service or these !adieus's gallani extraordinary, or ord;ihry, ae,the ease way be," and he bowed to the ladies around the table. As lie looked around upon their smiling laces be caught a glimpse of Claudia's face, and as their eyes met, bhe knew he had overhead the conversation be tween Auguala nod hersey As they rose from the table, be called to her, but burry log past him, she quickly gained the quiet of her Wien room How could she forgive herself for drivinglim from his home 7 for she know he woo leaving it, that for her sake it might he n peace ful one. it was late in the ei'aiing when fear ing her presence 'would ho missed, she went down stairs to 30111 the group, who were enjoying the beautiful moon light, and cool breezev wt Sue of the Ivoellest. of summer nights. Ac the reach ed-the foot of the atitira some one came out of the library, and in another mom ent a strong arm encircled her waa,it sod drew her into the room, and to the windowtiat lookfd out upon the hal cony. I was Charlie. - lel easier—darling I" he white. pered passionatery,. '1 know all--your love, and geneilovity,—my unworthiness, of it•" ' Charlie !" moaned Claudia "this is wrong. all wrong " Yet he only answered her by mute caresses, and passionate kisses on brow, lip anti cheek In vain she endeavored to free herself from the Asp of his CM "Dear Charlie, remember Ellie, ail any. if this s right,"..sho pleaded "justice to her—justice to me "I do think of her dearest, but it is to ask if she loved me AB you did " "Charlie ! Charlie I would you be false la the woman, you have promised one day shall be your wife I" “Never I I lore her still, but not with the love she should claim Do me justice Claudia, and believe I am not the heartless man you think nifS, for I swear to you that I believed my love was true until the knowledge of your generosity, awakened in me eentimenis that I tremble now to admit, and which comes only to make me the most wretch ed of men, l'tty me, Claudia!" But she tore herself from his embrace, and without another word, left him, and gain. .1 once more the solitude of be{rwan chamber, a guilty, frigAttened thlaki trembling In eiery limb she mink upon 4141 011011141A1 beside the bed, and buried her face in her hands. A light tcuch upon her shoulder (mus ed her to start from her scat, and look tog armed ahe lir Ellie Burke stand ing near her .•Lease me Ellie, dear Ellie ! Leave me to my shame and homily." ••No Claudia not until I've • said that for which I've Bought you here," ... knd seating herbal( upon the side of the Itw be. she drew Claudia back to the 01.10 man, and kissed the tearless eyes, and dashed cheeks —Claudia I know it all--all, and yet I do not blame you—nor him. Once I loved bun as well perhaps as yourself, hut for the loot few months, since I heard of his safety, and since his re lath, I've lanown that I will not live lung, and I havo Atli to wean his love from me Parliaps the task, has proved lees painful since I know your secret and his, and when I am gone, I would wish him no greater happiness than tour love. I was in the balcony of the library to night, and was an unwilling listener to his confessions. I will not pain him by telling hint this. Let time work out my plan for his happiness. A few months,' and I will be no raore,.and , he will be comforted for my death by you " Elite how'can you speak so calmly My heart is tremkk,ing for you." •'I speak calmly because I wish you to think of this matter as I do. Will ? 314,114111 AV me voi14 • 11_1 0 }tel., him hero. Let me, the little AIM I have on earth, have him 'near me. It is all 1 ask." " ."ClaudMit" called Deitty from the open doorway• -Mamma has neat me to ace if you are too unwell 'to give us some Ilkother Charlie said you were not well,,and had gone to your room. IVIII you have lights brought, or have Mammy to assist you "•' "Noolcar. I willjust keep quietawbile I wish you would excuse Int; to al,lof them lewu alone. My head does ache sadly , •Cerialitly T. will, but wont you let me come up and bathe your head Cloudy I'd like co much to bit hero smith ,you," WI 1868. NO. 27 "No but you roust go down ngnin, and Conte to rue after a while, if you will ' "I've bean looking every whernfor Ellie Burke . ' paid "llave you igpilior since lea?" “yes, she Wati in bore a moment ago. irotiwill find her on the portico when you go down, I darn say." llaivy went or, and Ellie coming out from her hiding place at the foot of the bed, hurried down after. Charlie must not ituspect she bad been with Claudia': [ro no CIONTTNI;11) The Word of God Abideth Forever Wo 119.1 the follow iqg boautifullhought North British kenos: '• It is a mAtter of congrltulation,that the Bible has passed triumphantly through the ordeal of verbal criticism. Enghsh infidels of tho barn century pre mature peen ever the discovery and pub . - lioation of no many various readings. They Imagined that the. popular mind would he nude.ly and thoroughly shaken so that Christinnity would he placed In imminent pertl of ev.tittetion— and that the Church, would be dispersed and. ashamed at the sight erne MagnitChrtela but the results has blamed all their hopes, acid the oracles of trioil are found to have been preserved In Immaculate integrity. • • "The storm which shakes the onk,only loosens the earth aroud its roots, sad its violeaoe enable fha tree to strike its root" deeper in the soil. ' So it is that Scripture hart gloriously surmounted every trial. These gather around the Bible a den.e 'cloudif wit ness,' from the ruins br Nineveh and the valley of tie Nile; from the slabs and has reliefs of Sennacherrib, and tombs and niouptaine of Pharaoh; from roots of Chaldes parephrasls, end Syrian ver sionista, from the calls and libraries of monastic scribes, and the dry and dusty labor, of MO ulars• and antiquarians ••Our present Bibles are undiluted by the tepee of ages Her oracles, written amid such strange diversity of time, place and condition—among the sands and cliffs of Arabia, the fields and lulls of Patent ine—in the palaces of Babylon, and in, the dungeons of Rome—have come to us in such unimpaired fullness Ind accuracy, that we are placed as ad vantageously towoid them as the genera two which hung on the lips of Jesus, as lie recited a parable on the shores of the lialilean lake, nu Chose churches whim. received from I'aul or fetter one of their'epiet tett of warning erpositioq; '•Yes I the river of life, which issues out from beneath the throne of God and the Lamb, as it flows through so many countries, sometimes bear with it the earthly evidences of its canntieido, but the great volume of its seaters has neither been diminished, nor dimmed in its transparency, nor bereft of its healing DE= Tuea■ is a delusive promise that the "General of all our armies - will at onoe issue an order for the withdrawal of the troops from Arkansas The reservations destroy all hope that any confiding per sons may have derived from the decep tive promises of the Radicals. General kleDowell is to sotthrpato at fir as porta ble the milttury controltt over the Slats. This COCOON that. just as much military force is to he maintained there us shall be necessary to hold the people in sub jection. Re repeat that, in /pile o Radical pretenses to the oontrary, it is the deliberate purpose of 'Congress, and their military 'candidate, to hold every Southern State tinder military power un til after the November election. The liadicajs know thir, and on tibia and this aloht, lase their hope of euccece. The Freedmen's Bureau in to be main tamed, too, notwithstanding Radical promises that it will .be discontinued. The very bill which professes, in its t 1 tie, to put an end to the Bureitn, is, in Iset, a WI fur its continuance, with in: a. The desperate trick to whinh the Radicals ere compelled to resort. ere evidence of their own dread of Itio coming judgment.--liarrishurg • Fern - !—Motnebow it• to Very still now since Joboyou was impel o zod ! Wad; dote not make 'melt a bad Vreli dati I after ell' to a few mootbm we oboll bty cleared ltio bonne of oil ?hid Republicatk Valty will 144 , oti fzzllng out, growing lees and beau tifully loon by degrees ell there will ha none An poor an to dolt homage. wt.' NT- iv Yon t: k Hoot with toittirtiO, c 1.1,1 Mr Pendleton e Plan. The financial plan of Mr. Pendleton which has heeome so Molar at the Weal, does not propose to increase the taxes or ddd one farthing to the carrell. oy, It a.sumes that the bonds are pays= ble in legal ienderh, nod ought to be paid as soon as possible.• The public debt which bears interest is of three kinds, and Mr McCulloch sous 800 millions of this debt cannot be redeemed before 1874; that 800 milieus cannot be redeemed beforc 1881; and that the rest of the flebt Amounting to $1,700- 000,000, is Comprised in flve•twoaties end bonds which bear interest in cur rency. Seventeen hundred millions of five twenties and bondiWnlith sear Interest in currency, will jell due witbib the next five years; but the government need not pay the five twenties Wall lateraly years shall hive elisjised. Mr. Pendleton argue* that the 6 21:0' betide should be paid without Meting the currency'. The 'unliktii - dated &kW !one* of greenbacks and claims * with* • have not been adjusted and amounts to , $800,0011,000, payingno interest-088,- , 000,006 of bonde . and are deposited As• security fore bank oircultition $BOO,- (01,000---thie circulation ought to be called to, and 'these bonds redeemed with legal tenders, wbioh will lake the place of the notes of the bank's. The effeet oflbie be says, would bete reduce the $1,700,000,000 of interest-bearing bonds to $1,400,000,000; and save $20, - 000,000 tc the government from the in terest whiob is raid to the bankers on their deposited bonds. Take this $20,- 00(1,000 whieh it is said cap be paid trout the current revisoutl,''and you have $68,000,000 year - by year, and if you convert that sum into greenbacks at 140, you havo $100,000,000 a year, and if obis is appropriated as a sinking rand; the whole debt can be gaid oti in less • than fifteen' Oars without adding one dollar to the taxes or currency. Ile al en shows bow', by loping oil radical ex trairagence, the oinking fund can be brought up to $280,000,000 annually, with which in five years every cent of pri,tcipal and interest at the public debt can bo paid, without the - addition'. of a dollar of lazes or currency. Ile also shows that by his plan, the $300.- 000,000 which fall (hie in 1874 can be paid with a redution SIOOOO,OOQ of taxation : that then taiation may be reduced 200, millions more, and by re tiring greenbacks, the debt maturing in 1882 may be paid, when the country may return to its "Conaitutional our rency."—Ex How to cure a cancer A Milwaukee paper elates that some eight months ago Mr. Mason, of that airy, ascertained that he held a hencer on his face the size of al pin It was cut by Dr Wolcott, and the wound partially healed. Subeequntly grew again, and, while ho was at Cincinnati on business, it attained the size of a hickory nut He remained there since Christmas under treatuient, and is now perfectly cured. The process is A piece of stick ing plaster woe put orer the cancer, vfith a circular piece cut out of the centre a little large than, the cancer, no alai the cancer had a small circular rim of the healthy skin next to it exposed Then a plaster made of choir de of zinc, blood root and wheat flour tv.is apraed on a pleae of muslin the sine of this circular opening, and applied to the mincer for i 4 bourn On removing it, the cancer gill ho fdtind burnt into and appear of the color and hardnes of an old shoe vote and the circular rim outside of it will appear white and parboiled, as if scald ed by the hot steam. The wound is now dreeseri, and the (Weide rite soon sepa rates.-and the cancer otimeel out in a hard lutuP, and the place Ace's up. The plaster kills the cancer, so that it eloughe out like dead flesh, and never grows in again. The remedy was dis covered by kor. Fell, of London, and has been used by him for mix or eight years, with unfailing success, and not a case has b.. known of•tbe reappearance of P cancer when phis remedy hits been applied. i‘111)111ELL L1\11(11 1.191T1O)1 TO, TllI PUIRLIO num.—No statement of the pohlie debt will be ptiblished On-the Lt of July, as the month will terre‘date the fiscal year, and the condition of the na tional debt will be included in the An naal,report or the Secretary to Congtifes. The result of the finiteolal transactions of the vreeentjeonth L it is thought, will show a smell reduction of the debt. On the lot of July, however.about 5t16,000,- 000 In coin wili bare to be I peid' out of ihb Trossury,, $28,00i5,001) of which is inlereet on doreave.lweniina and Biz. per cent bonds of 1881, and s7,ooo,oollprine oiPal on the loan of 18451. These expen dlturee sill cense the,,neet, flitell year to begin with aoothee largo ndtlitiou to the nistlerinl indebleditese.— Lark:aster loidifteltitut'ltn ti Po poor ant' w,uatlee.a4.4o, utIPMIL 'gel rich. Me "Parks kartl,ille day and apeu.l4 all hi.. eftruiogrn alObiltia a ratoon. We (la J t peo , stby Ito 'should he poor et thin . „ rate. _ 'ILA* gollig to Chicago spilt 11
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