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the office, and state the reasons tor its n >t being
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ter "ji.-wW. to the publishers for the payment.
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uence until the payment is made.
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stopped at a certain time, and the publisher eon
tioues to send, the subscriber is bound to pay for
it. if At bide it out of tbr fast OjS-e. The law
proceed# upon the ground thai a man must pay
for what be uses.
3. The courts have decided that refusing to take
newspapers and periodicals from toe Poet office,
or removing aud having them uncalled for, is
primu facia evidence of intentional fraud.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
C. HOLAHAN,
ATTORNEY -AT-LAW,
BEDFORD, PA.
Jan. 28, "Tfi-tf
\LEX. KTNG. In.,
A TTOItXE }*-A T L A W.
BEDFORD. PA.,
All business entrusted to his care will receive
pr- mpt aLd careful attention Uffice three doors
South .if the Court House, lately occupied by J.
W. Dickreon. nuv2G
MM ELL AXD LINGENFELTER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, aauFOßn, FA.
Have formed a partnership in the practice of
tee Law, in new brick building near the Lutheran
Church. [April 1, 18S9-tf
yt. A. POINTS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
t< the public. Office in the Ixqci nzßvtild ing,
jecoud floor.)
Sir-Collections promptly made. [April, 1'69-tf.
r*SPY M. ALSIP,
Vj ATTORNEY AT LAW, BEDFORD, PA.,
Will faith folly and promptly attend to all busi
ness entrusted to his care in Bedford and adjoin
s g counties. Military claims. Pensions, hack
pay. Bounty, Ac. speedily collected. Office with
Mann A Spang, on Juliana street, 2 doors south j
oftbo Mengel House. apl 1,1889. —tf. '
T R. DURBORROW,
.J . ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Beironn, PA., i
Will attend promptly to all business intrusted to
his -are. Collections made on the shortest no
ti e.
fie • , *iao, a regularly licensed Claim Agent .
and ail give special *rteniion to the prosecution ■
'rir sag -inst the Government for Pensions, i
B#< k I AT. Bounty, Bounty Lands, Ac.
Office on Juliana ?treet, one door South of the
lutju, rer office, and nearly opposite the Mensre!
House" April 1. 18f.3:tf i
It. U RCSSKLU 1. H. LOXQEXECKER
RUSSELL A LONOBNSCKBK,
ARTTOB-NKRS k COUNSELLORS AT LAW, :
Bedford. Pa.,
Will Httetid promptly ard faithfully to all basi
nes? entrn*ted to tbeir care. Special attention j
sriven to collections and 'he prosecution of claim*
f..r v.ack Pay, Bounty. Pensions, kr.
on Juliana street, south of the Court i
H j*e. Apri 1:119:lyr.
J M*D. SHARPS E. r. EEUR |
CTHARPS & KERB,
0 A TTO&NE YS-A T-LA W.
Wjp practice in the Courts of Bedford and ad- ■
joining counties. All business entrusted to their
cart will receive careful and prompt attention.
Pensions, Bounty, Back Pay, kc, t speedily 'col
lected from the Government.
Office on Juliana street, opposite the banking
house of Reed k Schell. Bedford, Pa. Apt l;69:tf
PHYSICIANS.
B. F. HARRY,
Respectfully tenders his professional ser
vices to the citizens of Bedford and vicinity.
Office an i residence on Pitt Street, in the building
formerly occupied by Dr. J. 11. Hofius. [Ap'l 1,69.
MISCELLANEOUS.
JACOB BREXNEMAW
U WOODBERRY. PA.,
-CRIVENER. CONVETANCER, LICENSED
CLAIM AGENT, and Ex-Officio JUSTICE
OF THE PE ACE,
Will attend to all hnsine## entrusted iota his band?
with promptness and despatch Will remit mon
ey by draft to any fart of the mas try. 17 -e I j
DBjBANIEL BORDER,
PITT STRFST, TWO DOORS WIST OF THE beo
r. nt> RtrsL, BKirißti, PA.
WATCHMAKER AND DEALER IN JEWEL
RY. SPECTACLES. AC.
He keeps nn h.nd a stock of fine Gold and Sil
ver Watches, Spectacles of Brilliant Doulde Refin
ed Glasses, also Scotch Pehhle Glasses. Gold
Watch Chains. Breast Pins. Finger Rings, best
quality of Gold Pens. He will supply tu order
any thing in his line not on hand. [spr.2B.'6J.
j\ WTCROUSE ,
1 * • DCALKR IJF
CIGARS, TOBACCO, PIPES, AC.
f >n Pitt street one door east o 4*©o. R. Ofter
k Co.'s Stiire. Rwlfoni, Pa., i* now prepared
t< by wholesale all kinds of CIGARS. All
orders promptly filled. Persons desiring anything
in hi- line will do well to give him a call.
Bedford April 1. "69-
( a NTHICK OK,
V'. DENTIST.
'.•See at the old stand in
BASK BrtLtuso. Juliana st. BEDFORD.
11l "peratinns pertaining to
Surgical and M tcha ni cal Dtntirtrti
performed with care and
WARRANTED.
.4 wtirl fns administered, irhrn desired. AT
t 'it teeth inserted at, per ttt, (B.Oil and up.
As I am det.imined to do a CASH BUSINESS
or none. I have reduced the price# for Artificial
T'*?b >.f the vannua kinds. 2u per cent., vr.d of
'i !d i tilings ner cent. Thi# reduction will be
:: -! le only to strictly Cash Patient#, and all snrh
receive pr. mpt attention. TiebfW
W M LLOYD
" • BANKER.
Transacts a General Banking Business, and makes
collection# on all accessible points la
the United States
OJVERNMRNT SECURiriES. GOLD. SIL
VER. STERLING aad CONTINENTAL
EXCH ANGE bought ami sold.
I. S. REAENUE STAMPS of all descriptions
always on hand.
Accounts of Merchants, Mechanics, Farmers and
til other solicited.
INTEREST ALLOWED OX TIME DEPOSITS, j
Jan. 7, '7O.
EXCHANGE HOTEL, !
T-J HUNTINGDON, PA.
This old eotaldisbtnent having been leaed by
J MIIKMISoN, formerly proprietor of the Mi>r
r;#oo House, has been entirety renovated and re
-1 -rai.h-d aud supplied with all the modern its.
I'ireoients and convenience# necessary to a lr#t-
Viass Hotel.
i ne dining mom bat beuti removed to the first
ffin-r and i# now spacious and airy, and therhnm
-cr? are all well ventilated, and the nroprttrtor
will endeavor to stake hi# gwesfs perbclly at
r-ddreea, J. MUKKIrON,
, Excaaxiis UOTKL,
vljiLJfU Pft,.
LI TZ & JORDAN. EtdUmr*ttntl Proprietor*.
gfnquirrr CDIHMU.
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3 3Local anli (Srnrral Brbotrfc to politics, Gfeuation, iLitetaturc aitfc Jfiorals.
ITEMS.
LIBEL nit igainst newspßpers have not
' thus far pM the p'amiff yery well. Out of
tifty kuitit of this kind that have been insti
tuted during the paet ten years, only three
thousand dollars damages have been award
ed. According to tLis there is little en-
C luragecnent offered those who take tfc.e
' S id of litigation against newspapers.
SULPHUR DISCOVERIES. —One of the good
' results growing out of the con-truetion of the
Suez Canal, ha? been the di-covery, on the !
; i-hoivs of the Red Sea, at the entiarice of
j the Gclf of Suez of two inexhaustible j
deposits ofsntphur. One of these is located
in a prrftct'y rainltss desert, on the Afri
can coast, and eonists of a hill six hundred
f et in height which iscomiosed of sulphur.
The sulphur is obtained by blasting, as
rocks are blasted in a common quairy.
Arab workmen, under French supervision,
are employed, and the product is ten tons a
Cay, lor the transportation of which to re
fining furnaces, a railroad is being construe- !
ted. The Viceroy of Egypt has contracted !
for the entire yield, at eighteen d' liirs per ;
ton. The other locality is five hundred j
miles distant from Suez. In thi- case the
sulphur also appears in the form of rocks.
It is much purer, but is underground, and
must be obtained by tunnelling.
MR. IIUBBARD presented certain statistics
of teh-grai h> in his address before the Sen
ate Postal Committee net much to the credit
i of the monopolists. In twenty-one States
i of Europe there ate 594,793 miles of wire,
■ lasting $41.300.'300, in gold. In thin coun
try (he Western Union Company have ll>4 -
534 miles of wire costing $4*,000,000 in cur
rency. It would appear Irom ihis that gov
ernments can construct four miles of wire at
the same cost involved in the construction
of one mile Ly a corporation. Over the
j European lines 29,33,3.000 messages cost
513.5C7.300. Over ihe Western Union lines
I 3,400.770 tues-ages cost $5,737,627.
THE Dominican Republic has formally
; declared fur aim xatiou to the United States, i
The vote, which was officially propo.-ed to
I the people by the eoverntuent, has been
1 taken, and as recotded here, shows an owr
: whelming majoii'y in the affirmative. The
1 towns of Santiago, La Vega, and Anziia led
! the demand for admi-sion to the Union and
nowhere was there any visible opposition.
l The I nited States steamer Swa'ttra, Cap
taiD Allen, arrived yesterday in time to hear
; the vote declared. The Council of Minis
t# rs estimate the public debt at less than
1 $11,500,000.
j STEEL RAILS A SUCCESS. —In their report
the Massachusetts Ratltoad Cotumi-sioners
-ay that ou the 1-t of January, 1370, tbete
wtre at lea.-t 100,000 tons of steel rails Lid
down on the railroads ol this country, aud
: probably 10,000 tons of steel hi aded rail be
' sides. Tne euinmis.-iontrs sent a circuiai
containing interrogatories in n gatd to the
1 u-e of these ra.ls to a iaige number ol road.-
j ihiimghoui the country, and from the re
I pltes received conclude that extremes ot
temperature do not injuriously affect the
steel rail#; that their durability far exceeds
that ol the best iron rail-, uo steel tail hav
ing yet been reported ss worn out; that
heavy grades aud sharp curves do not Diateri
ally affect their Wtar; that rails should be
cateluiiy inspected before laying, and that
u-uail} ail flaws and imperfectioun eau ihen
be discovered, aud subsequent bre-akuge in
the track prevented,
J. SOUTHERN ICE MANUFACTURE. —To meet
| the anlictpaicd Uemaua for ice Uurtug the
e-ouiiug summer, and the prospective high
; pi ices, au enterprising citizen of Culumbia,
S. C., has Oiuertd an ice machine Hum
Europe, wbteb is to turu out 1,000 pouuus
of ice au hour, 'i he process is chemical, a
soiutiou ol ammonia being the agency. 'HK
uacuine costs $9,000, Lesides the Ircight
I tiour Halle to Columbia, which is serera,
j buudreel dollars more. Ttie mauufactuters
ilurttish sufficient ammonia to run the ma
chine for years wiih a siight occasional re
plenishing to keep a given SireUgtb. The
| machine is worked by a sream eugine oi
! ihrce-horse lower. The cost ot manufsc
| lure' including labor and material, aud u.-iug
! Ihe largest machine, is estimated at nine
cents lor 100 pounds ftTce. A firm 1U Mo
j bile is said to be aboU to engage in the
1 manufacture ol ice also the Cuming summer.
It is reported that they are to Use a ma
chine luveuted in New Uileaus.
THE CADETSHIP BUSINESS. —Deweese, of
North Carolina, anu Goltaday, ot Kentucky,
have both resigned their Seals iu the House
to avoid expulsion. Mr. DeWetse is a Re
publican and served m the army. Mr. Gul
.aday is a Democrat, aud on the 29th ol
Jauuary last he made a sptech in lavur of
repudiation. The investigation has un.
t covered a pierlect nest ol nadirs in uadtt
ebi('S, aud two cases appear to be quite
pliable. That of Butler, Ot Tennessee, is
aoout the hardest jet. He, being ceitatu
ul expuisiou, telegraphid tns resignation to
Govtruor Sinter, who, beiug a bait way-
Democrat, declined to accept it. Auotber
haid case is thai of some uunaurod Dcmu
erauc member from Onto, who, having sold
his cede t#hipi to a Republican, has the who e
Democratic delegation iu the lluus dowu on
him. It is pruhable that he too will be un
able to resign, as the Governor ot Ohio is a
Republican. But the hardest phase of the
j story is that the vote ol eeusure on poor
\\ tiittemore was a unanimous one, aud all
! these self righti our individual, cast th ir
censure upon that un onunate sjeculutc.
lor the very crime ot which they al o were
guilty.
CHICAGO, March I—Red1 —Red River advices
say that Rich! was unanimously elected
I'resident ot the Provisional government af
ter the adjournment of the conventiuu whicb
trained the bill of rights. The English
residents are reported as greatly incensed at
the manner in which their dek-gat.ou knuck
led to the Freuch iu the latecuevcutton, and
an uprising was rega ded as imminent. A
['•iter Irom Pembina, dated February 17,
says that Colonel Bolton, ot the Dennis
: survey party, has a loree of loyal Eog i,h
and Canadians, with a liberal sprinkling ol
Indians, and was moving upon Fort Garry,
where Presid' nt Riehl ws waiting IO re
ceive ibem. The following are the other
provisional officers e'ecte i wt'h Mr. RiehL'
James Reise. Chief Justice; Thomas Bunk
•r. Seen tary of .Sate; W f . B. O Donohue,
Secretary ot the Treasury. 'J"be Nttc Na
tion considers lhe bill of rights adopted a
very moderate one. A general amnesty for
po it#-al off-neen will tie putilished. Gov
ernor McTavi-h and it is ooulreres had been
i-et at lila*rtj-. The convention appointed
.Judg; Biaek, Revnm Rice, and Allied S- 0t(
detegrteß in I ehaif t the seitlernent. A
Pembina let'er <>( February 18 te,ea's the
o d story of a Sioux Indian raid upon the
1 Red River insurgents.
BEDFORD# PA.# FRIDAY. MARCH 11. 1870.
KISSES.
IHIIDUEN'S KISSES.
Scattered from among the roaea,
Where a budding wealth repose*,
Little dimpled lips invite;
Springing from the heart's deep treasure,
With a never failing measure,
Given with a pure delight
ROC CI Ml KISSES.
Muffled footsteps softly tripping
Up behind, and softly slipping
Uouud you dear, familiar arms;
Though warm hearts may touch unbidden,
Where ynu keep your kitties bidden,
Shelter them from rude alarms.
MOTHER'S KISSES.
Little urchins, full of badness.
Little faces full of sadness,
Claim a mother's tender kiss.
Every little childish sorrow
Finds a solace none can borrow.
In a mother's soft caress.
FRTESnSHIP'S KISSES.
A kiss is friendship's highest token;
A sympathizing language spoken
By tender nature for distress,
'Tis friendship's sweetest mute bestowing,
'Tis admirat.on's overflowing
That loving lips so fondly press.
CCPID'S KISSES.
Prompted by some wild emotion
Of tbe heart, that bidden ocean,
Throbbing in tbe human breast;
It may be love's incense burning
On the lips, or Fancy's yearning,
Like ''a bird without a nest."
SILENT KISSES.
Some strange, sweet cord of kindred feeling,
Some nameless yearning softly stealing,
Earth has no dearer tie than this.
Heart to heart in sacred meeting.
Does heaven afford a purer bliss?
PARTING KISSES.
Tbe last, and it may be the dearest.
Fur hearts ir parting seem the nearest,
Closer for the dear "farewell."
But oh 1 the !ast that cold lips never
Give ani-wering touch, the last forever,
Are sadder than the funeral bell.
CAPITAL PL sill M EST.
Old master Brown brought hit ferule down,
His face was angry and red;
'Anthony Blair, go sit yon there,
Among tbe girls," he said
So Anthony Blair, with a mortified air,
And his bead hung down on bis breast,
Went right away and sat all day
By the gill who loved him best.
3sisrrUaui i ous.
OUT I.N THE KAIN.
SPRINKLE! rain! shower! right down on
Millie Warner's tasteful little hat and grace
ful shoulder, unprotected save by a thin
shawl, notwithstanding the beseeching
glance of the prettiest pair of hazel eye
'hat ever looked up to a cloud in that way.
The inexorable, stony-hearted thing jusi
{mured out its deluging treasures without
minding them the least bit in the world.
Now, Millie wasn't afraid of a shower,
unless there was thundering and lightning :
but she had quite a regard for her pretty
hat. which was not two weeks old, and did
hate dreadfully to hare it spoiled. Besides,
she knew—vain little girl—that it was ex
cedingly becoming. Her glass told her
that, aud Squire Johns, tbe great man of t
ihe town, bad whispered to her just the I
same, looking at her very admiringly all I
the while. It was too, too had. And out
catue Millie's handkerchief, which she j
ihrew over the hat, just about half eoveriug
it. She drew it off, the next moment, and 1
laughed. As if such a deluge of hand j
kei chief c< ttld do any good, she said to her- :
self. "How could she be so silly ?"
Millie, n>>t so very wi>e yet, tried next I
to run away- from the shower; but, in her I
haste ran into several mud puddles, thereby i
muddying the pretty little feet in a perfectly i
-eientific manner.
She walked quite leisurely, after that,
*aying, philosophically:
"As my hat is spoiled already, there can
be no use in hurrying, I am neither sugar
nor salt."
Nevertheles, when Millie came to a large
white farm-bou>e, she very gladly, and
rather hastily —for jnst then there was a
heavy peal of thunder —opened the gate
and went up the flower-bordered path to
■he house, and knocked for admittance.
Nobody answered, and as another peal of
ihunder was heard, accompanied by a vivid
fla-h of lightning, Millie entered without
ceremony. She took in at a glance the
contents of the first room she came to —a
isrge square room, plainly but neatly fur
oi-hed —the cane-seated chairs, the pretty
chintz-covered lounge, book case filled with
books and sheet music; the violin in its
case in the corner, the vase of faded flow
ers and ornaments OD th mantel. There
was no one there, but she heard childish ;
voices in the room, and again knocked. A J
dark eyed girl of ten or eleven years opened
the door.
Millie explained why she was there.
With the ease and good manners of om
much older, the child bade her welcome,
placed a chair near the stove and took Mil
lie's dripping hat and shawl.
"I was just beginning to get dinner. That
was the reason I didn't hear yon knock. It
will be a long time before the shower is
over, aud yon must stay with us to dinner.
It will be ready by tbe time Ben comes;
out that will not be for about a half or three
quarters of an hour. '
"E*, dinttie'll be weddy when Ben turns,"
lisped and laughed a little girl of three
years.
The elder child, whose name was Hetty,
resumed;
"I can't get a very good dinner, I ain't
quite old euough, but Ben says I do nicely.
He puts it on for me, and I see to it. But
he does not allow me to take off kettles,
for fear I will burn or scald myself; but 1
think I am large enough to do that, I like
to have everything teady for him when be
comes in tired and hungry. I cau't make
bi-cuit—l wi.-h I could—for Ben likes them
ever so much; but Martha who comes in
to make bread for us, says she will teach
me."
"Where is your mother " asked Millie
of the little Eva. when Hetty was out of
i the room.
"We is got no mudder but Ben," the
I litt'e one li-ped.
When J) w caue back, Mill e said;
i "Now 1 ve got nicely warmed, and
any dres will dry just as well at work a9
filling Btitl; so I will help you get dinner.
If you like I will make some biscuit, and
we will have dinner resdy in a very shrol
time."
Hetty was delighted. Ben would be glad, j
Might she look on and learn how?
Millie was young, and frank, and gay, i
and she and the children soon became very j
well acquainted over the bi-cuif She aaid, !
prewntly, trying a potato with a fork :
"The potatoes are done. I will pour the
vater off so, then put them on again fodry.
That will make them mealy. In a few
moments we will peel them, and then din
ner will be all ready except taking it up."
The dinner seemed very meagre to little
Hetty as she run over the items in her mind
potatoes, pets, pork, biscuit, butter, cu
cumbers, milk, water. She had wanted to
make tea for her visitor, but she decl ncd
decidedly. The poor child said, apologeti
cally :
W hen father and mother were alive we
used to have a good manv things for dinner,
sod Martha, our hired girl, used to get
then all, but when they died, and Squire
Johrs said he bought a mortgage on our
farm, arid that we bad got to pay ever)
cent the day it was due or lose everything,
we aad to do without a good many things,
and are very poor now, and Ben is afrsid
we can't have enough to pay it. and they
all say we may look for no mercy from
Squire Johns, for he is a very hard man to
the poor, and he has always wanted our
farm, because it join* some of his own land
where he wants to build. I heard all about
it when one of the neighbors was talking
with Ben, though he didn't want me to
know about it."
Millie had listened to this with a curious
mixture of feelings, for Squire Johns was
declared lover of hers, and though she had
not yet accepted, she had been both pleased
and flattered with his attention, and had
certainly given him encouragement. More
over, he was to receive his final answer in
three days from that time, and she was no>
sure the answer reserved and Lid away for
that lime was "no." True, Millie was not
io love with him, but the had waited so
long in vaio for that ecstatic state of feelini
she had heard and read so much about, tba
she was quite dccidi-d that she was not ca
pable of love, and that to like any- one wa.-
as much as she could expect. But she cer
tainly liked Squire Johns as well if nor
better than any one, and his love mu-t cer
rainly be disinterested, for he could not
know that . But now Millie stopped.
Could he not? Might he not have found
out iu some way? II this story were true,
would such a man be likely to marry a pooi
girl? For Millie Warner was really au
heiress in a small way. She was sole inher
itor of a fine unencumbered farm from her
father, and five thousand dollars io bank
stock. But the farm was two hundred
miles south of this town, where she w
visiting a cousin, and nobody knew of it;
and during her visit she had helped hei
cou-in in her work as she had always helped j
her mother when she was at home —capable. '
industrious little girl that #he was.
This story agreed with thing# that she had
heard hio'ed at. but only hinted at, and
even that the next moment was smoothed
over, for Squire Johns was a rich and influ
ential man, and people could not afford
without some reason, to lose his favor. Shi
remembered it all now. Could be in reality
be such a scoundrel ?
She could judge better about the truth
of the story when she had seen Ben. Who
was Ben ? Two or three enquiries ban
amounted to nothiog. The children spoke
just as if everybody must know who Ben
wa.*. Was he an uncle, csusin, hired man,
or what ? Evidently somebody very old b>
the way Hetty spoke of him. Whoever ii
wa#, what would he think of her intrusion?
But she couldn't help what he thought,
i she shrugged her shoulders as she looked
1 out at the still pouring rain.
Young Ben Hazwell, out in the field
pitched up the last hay on the load, leaned
i his pitch-fork against a tree, and took off
I his straw hat to cool bis moist forehead
Hi# gaze followed the hay cart, went over
the broad lands and returned.
"The hay has gone in," he said with a
long breath of relief. "I could not afford
to lose even one load now I don't know
that I can do it; but if I can sell part of
the land I may. It will lea hard pull
though."
There was a noise of carriage wheels, and
tie looked towards the road. His brown
face darkened as he looked.
'T could, perhaps, have got an extension
of lime if that vidian had not .jot the
mortgage in his hands; and, dastardly ras
es!, who makes it his business to rob and
defraud the po >r and the fatherless, he may
lake this farm; he will if he can; for he
has been manaeuvering fur it a long time;
but he shall have it with the soundest
horsewhipping that ever a man had.
Twiee ! thrice the number of strokes of the
united years of my tender sisters; and my
I arm is strong." And he looked after the
j carriage with bis Hands firmly clenched.
'"My two years at college did me but
little good. If I could have finished, and
got a profession, or had a good trade, 1
should not have been so helpless, if the j
worst comes to the worst But I won't
look on the dark side."
The young man followed the cart into the j
barn. The storm was at its height when he
went toward the house from the hack way.
He stopped in surprise, as he saw through
the window some one standing at the taole,
with arms bare to the elbow, mixing flour.
It must be Martha's, neither her's, the
slender, graceful figure. As he came near
er, he could distinguish the sparkling piqu
ant face. She was laughing and talking
with Hetty, and evidently giving her the
directions for what she was making. Hetty
was gazing upon her, eager and much ab
sorbed. Little Eva was sitting at the table
in her high chair, working at a piece of;
dough.
"A take for Ben." It was as black as
ber soiled little fingers could make it; hut it j
did not occur to Eva that that could be any j
objection. It was a pretty, plea-ant sight j
> in that long desolate borne ; and he stood
there, unconscious of the pouring rain,
eagerly gazing at this fair young stranger,
himself a picture of manly beauty, till the
voice of one of the men calliDg to the oxen,
awoke hitu from his reverie.
By and-by there was a spluttering of water
heard in the next room by Hetty.
"Ben has come," running hastily forward
and opening the door.
"Ben has turn 1" echoed the little one,
; clapping her bauds and lisping, as he came
in, bright and smilling, what she had in
fitoit) for him : '"I is made a take for 00, I
i.'
He caught her up in bis arms and gave
her a kis, while she laughed snd shouted ;
but his eyes were seeking the stranger.
Hetty said prettily ; My brother Ben."
Then to him : '"This lady got caught io the
shower, Ben, and is staying until it clear#
ur. She has been so kind as to help to
get dinner, and has made some splendid bis
cuit."
They both stood mute a moment, she
with surprise at the real Ben, youog hand
some, and well bred; he with admiration,
and a strange new feeling be could not de
fine. He had hardly made her welcome,
with a return of his self-posession, when
there was a loud rap at the street door.
Hetty went to the door, catne back pale,
and whispered to Bi-n ; "Squire Johns."
Millie drew quickly back from the half
closing door. Ben went in to his visitor,
closing the door after him, but every word
was distinctly heard by Millie, tor Squire
Johns did not speak in the low, suave tone
-he was accustomed to hear him, but loud
and peremptory.
"I am io haste, young man ; I just stop
ped to say that the time for the payment of
the money due me, being day after to-mor
row, if it is not ready I shall be obliged im
mediately to resort to severe measures.
'"lmpossible !" exclaimed the young man
in • surprised and excited tone, "you are
very much mistaken. It is not due till the
28th, and it is now but the 18th. At thai
time, if I sell the piece of land I partly ex
pect to do, I hope, with some other money
coming in, to be able to pay it."
"You are laboring under a singular mis
fake young man. Here is the mortgage
and you can see for yourself that is the eigh
teenth."
"loet me see it."
The figures danced upon the page. He
passed his hands over his eyes and calmed
himself with a great effort. He grew ashy
pale as he read.
"It reads so, certainly, but I ean't under i
stand, it." He went to the desk. "Here j
is a note my father made of the circuro- !
stances, and it is the 28th, and he was a
very sure, methodical man, and would Dot
he likely to make a mistake that might In
fraught with very important and evil conse
quences to him. '"I believe—" a sadden
#u#pieion coming into h'.s mind, as he de
tected a larking triumph in Squire JohDs'
eye, "I believe there's some villiany about
'his matter, and that you are at the bottom
of it," he exclaimed eicitedly, fixing his eye
firmly upon the lawyer, who changed color
in spite of himself.
"Be careful what you say, young man, or
vuu may get yourself into trouble," he said
angrily.
"Yes, sir, I believe that you are a base
villian! I remember that you are the lawyer
who made out the mortgage at the time, and
know that you have been aching for years
to get hold of this property. If there is jus
tice in law you shall be exposed."
"In the meantime you had better have
the money ready," coolly and insultingly re
plied Squire Jobua.
That is impossible as you know. You
know very well I could not rai.#e so much
money in two day#, when you made your
diabo'ieal plans."
"Then you know the consequence."
"And what is to become of my young sis
ters?"
"I neither know nor care. That is your
lookout."
The young man strove to repress his pas
sion yet.
"Squire Johns, by the 28th I can pay
ihis debt, I expect."
"That will do you no good. It must be
rt-ady by the ISrb, or I take possession. I
might have shown you mercy but for your
iDMnuatrons. Now, none."
"That is false! liar ! villian ! and you
know it. You never showed mercy in yonr
•ife. You have won your ill-gotten wealth
hy robbing the widow and the fatherless.
If you take this property may it bring you
a curse with it, now and evermore ! But
while it is in my hands I'll kick you from
it, you dastardly scoundrel!"
The Squire was a small man as well as a
coward, and while he wa# being ignomiDons
ly ejected from the hou#e by the angry and
excired young man, Hetty was crouched
down close to Millie, pale and frightened.
Eva was sobbing in her lap, and Millie —it
would be difficult to describe her feeling.
Ben did not eome Into the room for some
time afterward. When he did, he looked
haggard and aged, and was passing through
hastily, as if to escape notice, when Millie
business like and straightforward little giil
that she was, began :
"Mr. Hazwell. I want to talk to you a
few minutes. There would be no use in
pretending that I haven't heard what you
and Squire Johns have been saying, for 1
beard every word. I think I know of some
one who can help you; but first may I ask
you a few questions?"
Ben, at first, looked displeased and lnugh |
ty ; but her kind, straightforward manner j
disarmed him. He bowed assent.
"What is the amount of this mortgage?"
"Two thousand dollars and interest," was
the brief reply.
"What is the total value of the farm?" j
"My father valued it at ten thousand do!-'
lar.."
"Are there other mortgage*?"
"None."
"Very well, I am quite positive I know j
gome one who can loan you the money. I j
am Millie Warner. Call on me to-morrow,
at my cousin's, Mrs. Sanford's.
Ben's dreams were strangely mixed up
that night with mortgages and hazel eyes.
The next day was a long time of suspense
and anxiety, and early in the evening lound
bim at the Sanfords, where he was received
by Millie herself.
The next mornirrg, accombaoied by a ;
neighbor, be called on Squire Johns.
"He was at breakfast," the servant said.
An angry light shone in Squire Johns'
cold, gray eye, when he heard who was his
visitor.
| "How dare he come hero? I warrant,
I though, the chap isn't quite so high and
mighty as he was the last lime I saw him.
Humble enough this morning. I will ho d
ou: hopes of mercy until he grovels and
j begs ray pardon—grovels low as be laid me,
and then I'll be revenged. To-motrow this
' splendid farm, added to my other property,
and the possession of Millie \\ arner s hand
and fortune, will make me a rich and happy
man. indeed. I will tantalize him to his
hear:'* content.
; He went leisurely into the other soam.
VOIs. 43: NO 10.
"You are early this morning young uian.
I conclude you have come to pay the ntoo
ey," he said ironeaily.
"That's my errand," replied Be# oouiy.
Squire Johns started back aghast and
thunderstruck.
"Do you mean to say you have raised the
mrney ?"
"1 do, and have brought Mr. Foster to
prove that it is all right. There is two
thou-and dollar.-. We have each counted it.
There is the interest. Now I will take up
the mortgage, Squire Johns."
Livid, and trembling with passion, Squire
Johns was compelled to yield the mortgage,
and execute the usual release.
"Now, Squire," said Ben, "I have one
word to say: Don't you ever dare to set
foot on my land again, or I'll kick you off
Mind that. Nor never dare to speak to me
again. I don't know such rascals as you !'*
"I'll have satisfaction of yon!" and the
Squire literally foamed with passion.
"Hvve it and welcome," replied Ben.
cooly, "as long as you haven't got the farm.
Come Foster."
There was no trace of the violent pas-ion
to which the Squire gave free license, when,
the next evening, he drove up to Sanford's.
fie looked happy and smiling. There was
a queer little smile on .Millie Warner's face
as she saw him through the closed blind".
It was a little ominous that he was com
polled to wait in the parlor alone five, ten.
fifteen minutes. Still more ominous that
-he came in at last, distant and unsmiling.
! Still, he could hardly believe he heard aright
when, to his sui', she gave a prompt nncnm
promising "DO!" He urged; she was film.
He threatened; she flashed out, brave and
' indignant, something of what she knew and
felt, and spurned him and his suit with
scorn and loathing.
"Such a threat to a girl is worthy of vou!
of a piece with your conduct to the Haz
wells!" she ended.
"To the Htzwells! What do you know
about them ? Perhaps you are the one who
loaned the money to them?"
"Yes it was I. I went io there for shel
ter from the storm. I heard it all; every
word."
The Squire muttered curses low and deep,
but Millie did not stay to hear them. She
only saw him ride away, with that same
queer little smile on her face.
Squire Johns rode a long distance out of
his way, six months after, to avoid a wed
ding party just returning from church—Ben
Hazwell and Millie, his wife—which be
came very near blundering upon.
HOW TO BE HANDSOME.
Most people like to be handsome. No
body denies the great power any person may
have who has a good face, and who attracts
you by good looks, ev :n before a word has
been spoken. And w j set- all sorts of de
vices in men and women to improve fheit
good looks—paints and washes, and all kinds
of cosmetics, including a plentiful anoint
ing with dirty hair oil.
Now. not every one cin have good feat
ures. Tbey arc as God made them ; but
almost any one can look well, especially
| with good health. It is hard to give rules
in a very short space, but io btief these will
Jo.
Keep clean—wash freely and universal'}-
with cold water. AH the skin wants is
leave to act freely, and it will take care of
itself. Its thousands of air holes must not
be pingged up.
Eat regularly and simply. The stomach
can DO more work all the time, night and
i day, than a it must have regular
• work and regular rest.
Good teeth are a help to good looks.
Brash them with a soft btu>h, especially at
□ight. Go tc bed with the teeth dean. Of
course, to have white teeth, it is needful to
let tobacco alone. Any powder or wash for
the teeth should be very simple. Acid
may whiten the teeth, but they take off the
enamel or injure it.
Sleep in a cool room, in pure air. Xo one
can have a clean skin who breathes bad air.
But more than all, in order to look well—
wake up the mind and soul.
When the mind is awake, the dull, sleepy
look passes away from the eyes. I do not
khow that the brain expands, but it seems
so. Think, read —not trashy novels, but
hooks that have something in them. Talk
with people who know something; hear
lectures and learn by them.
This is one of the effects of good preach
ing. A man thinks and works, and tells us
the result. And if we listen, and hear, and
understand, the mind and soul are worked.
11 the spiritual nature is aroused, so much
the better. We hare seen a plain face real
ly glorified by the love of God and maD
which shone through it. Le tus grow hand
some. Men say they can't afford books,
and sometimes they don't even pay for their
newspaper. In that case, it does them little
good—they must feel so mean while reading
| it. But men can afford what they really
choose. If all the money spent in self-in
dulgence, in hurtful indulgence, were spent
in books, and self-improvement, we could
see a change Men would grow handsome,
and women, too. The soul would shine out
through the eyes. We were not meant to
be mere animala. Let us have books, and
read them, and sermons, and heed them. —
Health Reformer.
YOING MEN.— An exchange truly says:
• Thousands of young men are to-day drift
ing helplessly about on the ocean of life,
vainly hoping that ere long some favoral le
breeze will spring up and drive their vessels
into some safe harbor. \\ here that safe
harbor is they have no idea; because they
have no defioite ot ject in view. They have
never decided upon any course of life, bui
permit their actions to be shaped aud mould
ed by the circumstances of the hour. Is it
any wonder that disasters follow each other
in quick succession? More men are ruioed
through indecision than from a wrong deci
sion. Few men will deliberately lay out and
pursue a plan of life that will ultimately
work tbeir ruin. Most young men of the
present day enter the great battle of life
without any well defined system of warfare,
and consequently spend their best days in
aimless pursuits. Indecision is the banc of
our existence. Could we look into the world
of spirits we would find but few souls in the
j dark regions of woe that had resolved to
! reach thit goal; nearly all who are th.re,
and those who are hastening there, ate iu
their present condition simply becau-e they
never decided whither they would go and
tbeir indecision has been their ram.
Gratitude is the music of the heart, when
its chords are swept by the bretxe if kind
: oess.
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BEHAVIOR IN CHURCH
.Mr. Beeeher is making u very lively pa
per of the Christian Union. Here is a par
agraph on beitavior in church, which ha" a
-ocular application:
We may classify the petty incivilities of
church life thus:
1. SMELL?. —Violent per: uiiitf, especial
ly those containing musk, are disagreeable
to uto6t persons, aod to some positively dis
tressing. There is no siuelt -o universally
pleasing as HO ISOFLL Never scent yoursell
• hen going into a crowded assembly. The
same is true of the residuary surel! of tobac
co which hangs about the garments aod af
flicts the breath of those who habitually
stuuke. But tobacco aitc >.-t invariably
makes men self-indulgent and regardless of
others' convenience. More brutal yet are
they who go to church reekiog. like a
Dutchman's soap, with the smell of onions.
There are scores of people who have lost all
profit of a Sunday service by the sickening
smells which surround then.
2. Sounds.—Whispering in eburcb dur
I ing the service is an affront to politeness.
Much of the coughing which goes on io
church arbes from the poisonous ga.-se? and
personal effluvia which exist in unveotiiated
churches. But the power of the will over the
muscles which do the coughing is very great.
A heedless person will cough twice as much
as needful, —will ecugb at the worst time
possible, will c-iugh plump upon the necks
of those before him. instead of embalmiug
the sound in his handkerchief as, with a
little skill and politeness, be might easily do.
We would not forbid men who cannot sing
to "make a joyful noise ' —but it should be
a soft'y noise. In all cases when it is a man's
duty to sleep in church, it is bis duty also
to snore with the soft pedal down.
3. SlGHT.— Every one likes to see the
minister. It cannot be done through your
body. True, you cannot help being before
•omebody unless vou are on the back seat.
But with a little thought you may very
much help tho-e behind you. Any conduct
which shall divert the atttntioo of others
from the service, such as ostentatious play
ing with a watch or opening and shutting it,
reading looks or paper?, lookiug about in
quisitively, is impolite.
Many churches have the Ten Command
ments set np upon the wall, in sight of the
whole congregation; although not one of the
sins reprobated therein is likely to be com
mitted in church time. Would it not be
well to have another tablet enumerating the
sins which men are prone to commit in
church time?
AN ORIENTAL NIGHT.
ft is impossible for those who have never
visited the glowing East to form an ade
quate idea of the exceeding beauty of an
Oriental night. The sky- which bends
enamored over clusters of graceful palm
trees fringing some slow-moving stream, or
groves of dark motionless cypresses rising
up like Gothic spires from the midst of
white, flat-roofed villages— is of the deepest
darkest purple, un.-Uined by the faintest
31m of vapor undiinmed by a single fleecy
cloud. Ir is the very image of purity and
peace, idealizing the dull earth with iu
beauty, elevating sense into the sphere of
soul, and suggesting thoughts and yearnings
too tender'ani ethereal to be invested with
human language. Through its transparent
depths the eye wanders dreamily upward
until it loses itself on the threshold of other
worlds. Over the dark mountain ranges
the lonely moon walks in brightness cloth
ing the landscape with the pale glories of a
mimic day: while the zodiacal light far more
distinct and vivid than it is ever seen in thi
country, diffuses a miid pyramidal radiance
above the horizon, like the al'terg'ow of
sunset. Constellations, tremulous with ex
cess of brightness, sparkle in the heavens,
associated with classical myths and legends
which are a mental inheritance to every
educated man from his earliest years.
There the ship Argo sails over the trackless
upper ocean in search of the golden fleece
of Colchis; there Perseus, returning from
the conquest of the Gorgons, holds in his
hand the terrible head of Medusa; there the
virgin Andromeda, chained naked to the
r< ck, awaits in agony the approach of the
devouring moo-ter; there the luxuriant
yellow hair of Berenice hangs suspended as
a votive offering to Venus; while the dim,
misty track formed by the milk that drop
ped from Juno's breast, and which as it fell
upon the earth, changed the lilies from pur
pie to a snowy whiteness, extends across the
heavens, like the ghost of a rainbow. Con
spicuous atnnng them all far up toward the
zenith, old Orion, with his blazing belt,
meets the admiring eye, suggestive of gentle
memories and kind thoughts of home; while
immediately beyond it is seen the familiar
cluster ot the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, glit
tering and quivering with radiance in the
amethystine eiher, like a breastplate of
jewe's—the UrilO and Thutarnim of the
Eternal.— Hugh Marmillan.' s Bible Teach
ing in Nature.
HOPE —Hope is the sweetest friend thit
ever kept distressed friends company; it
beguiles the tediousness of the way, ar.d
the miseries of our pilgrimage. It tell* the
sou! sweet stories of the succeeding joys;
what comfort there is in heaven; what
peace what joy what triumph, what mar
riage song* and ba'lelujahs there are in that
country, whither she is traveling, that she
goes merrily away with her present burden.
YAI.CAB' K PRESENTS. —Some one speak
ing of presents, says; " The best thing to
give your enemy is forgiveness; to your
opponent, tolerance; to a friend, yonr heart;
to yonr children a good excropie; to your
father, deference: to your mother, love; to
yourself, respect; to all men, charity; to
God, obedience.
Truth scorns all kind of equivocation.
Never sport with pain or poverty.
Cleanliness is the elegance of the poor.
Experience is the mother of science.
He who opposes honesty never had any.
A knave discovered is the greatest fooL
A man had better be poisoned in his blood
• than in his principals.
The faculty of genius is the powtr of
! lighting iu own fire.
Endeavor for the best, and provide for
1 the worst.
A knowledge of our duties is the roost
useful part of philosophy.
Let your pnuri-es be sincere, sad wiih-
I i J the CO).p.lis of your ability,