41als triitting:
UDLIP LIMPL7GI24I2P UD1ANC416121aUtP913•120:105.31.
Neatly and Promptly Bageuted, at the
ADVERTISER OFFICE, LEBANON, ?BAWL
Tire nntablishtnent is now nupplind with en exteusive
ansortment of JOB TYPE, which will be Increased an the
pamnugo demands. It can now turn out FIRCNTINO, of
every description, in a neat and expeditious manner—
and on very reasonable terms. Such aa
Pamphlets, Checks,
Business Cards, Handbills,
Circulars, Labels,
Bill Headings, Blanks, Programmes, Bills f Pare,
Invitations, Tickets, &c., ao.
- titrDnene of all kindle, Common and Judgment BONDS.
School, Justices', Constables' and other licaume, printed
correctly and neatly on the bast paper, constantly kept
for sale at this orrice, at prices "to cult the times."
*0 Subscription price of the LEBANON ADVERTISER
One Dollar and a Half a Year. •
Address, Woe. M. Duestitt, Lebanon, Pa.
Private Sale.
THE Subscriber olfers at private We all that certain
farm or tract of lend, situate partly in Pinegrove
township, Schuylkill county, and partly In Bethel town
ship, Lebanon county, bounded by landeof Eck
ert and Guilford, UelljPlTliti Ayertgg, Daniel ~,
Gaubert end others, containing one hundred and !, 1
forty-eight acres and a quarter, with the appur
tenances,
consisting of a two story log dwelling. ease,
(weather boarded) a 136 story log dwelling house, a new
bank tarn, other ottkatildinge, and a new water power
saw mill, or terms, &a., which will be easy, Apply to
G. W. IiIATCLILS, Agent.
Pinegrove, April 20, 1869,-tf.
Out. Lots at Private Sale!
WILL be sold at Private Sete,
8 ACRES OF LAND,
' situated halLong Lane, near the borough line, in Corn
. wall township. It adjoins the land of Widow Fulmer,
.on the North, Wm. Atkins and John Krause on the East.
There], a one story LOG noun, weather boarded,
~erected on the lanq, and good WELL in the garden.—
iThe lend has Pim stdiles for quarries. This tract will
make a nice home for a small family.
twa,, It Is tree from Ground - Rout. Good title will be
rgirea.;ADAM KITCHEN.
N, trait to now covered With fine grass, bait'
'of which will be given to the purchaffer.
'Ldbaoon, Attie IS, MM.
A RARE CHANCE.
U. KRIM offers his well known PELOTOGRAPIIIO
t stiIIUSIIMEN T for sale. Thorough instruc
tions will be given t any one purchasing not acquaint
ed with the business. Yor garteularscall at bis rooms,
in A. Rise's building. (Lebanon, March x'Bl-3m.
Blanket Shawls,
CLOTH, WOOLEN CLOTHING of all colors, dyed Jet
heck or Glue Klock, pressed, the color warranted
end goods turned out equal to now, by
LYON LEGBERGER,
Fast lie:toTer,
Sir Articles to be dyed can be left at Joe, L. Leather
pre s s Drug Store where all orders for the above will b
attended to. [Pub. S. 1860.
NEW CASH STORE!
NEW GOODS
AND NEW PRICES.,
If. BWARTZ hereby inform the public that he
„ his Just opened a stock of YEW GOODS at the
old Stand of Swartz & Bro., flail Building, whin), will
be cold for cosh at prices to suit the times. All aro In
vited to rill and examine. [Lebanon, April 10,'61.
NOTICE.
Tlll4 greatest variety of etyles of CANE SEATED
CHAMP, now selling at a great. reduction: whole.
sSale and retail, on account of rebuilding the
Factory and Warerooms_ j NOR. 223 and 22b North
6th street, above NAM PHILADSLPHIA.
N. B.—The stook comprises very handsome
new patterns, for Parlors, Dining Booms and Chem
berm: handsome new styles of !Attlee' Sewing Rocking
Chairs, Reception Chairs, Arm, and a large variety of
Canip Chairs, ell warranted to bo my own manufacture.
March 21, 1801.-ly. , T. 0. WISLEIL
Mational Mouse.
NORTH E. CORNER of Plank road and a u Went Streets
NORTH LEBANON, PENN'A.
TO Tfl Ptrlll.lo,
110 I all ye thirsty come and drink. for nice cool
mineral water, the choicest t !aloha°, and the pureetmalt
liquors grace my bar. And ye hungry come and eat, RS
the table is loaded with the moat substantial tare, and
the richest delicacies of the meson crown my board—
Vonte man and beast; my house is always open to the
stranger and the friend, and for miltnals the best of pre
tender, QM' etabling, and attentive butlers, are ever
toady at my stables.
Yours, Respertfnliy,
North Lnbanon,Bept.l4,llBs9. HENUY totaz.
Lebanon remale'Seminary.
RACHEL F. ROSS, Principal.
JULIA ROSS, Huscial Department.
GEORGE LICHT, Drawing.
I (MU NINTH SESSION will cotnitionce Soptcmber 3,
MO. This School le dellgued to elevate the stand•
and of female education, and to offer superior advanta
ges at al MAX alto cost. The school year le divi‘led into
two sessions of five months each. Charge per session,
from 7 3 ,4 to 25 dollars. according to the studies of the
"choler. Extra for Music, French, Latin, and German.
*0 Particular attention given to the musical depart
ment. Inetrnction upon the Plano. Melodeon and Gui
tar 51)11 In Singing. Pupils not connected with the
School will be wafted upon at their homes, when desk.
ed, and at the usual rates
F. srly application should be made to
S. J. STINE, et
J. W. 111511.
hoard of Directors:
B. D. LEEMAN, S. J. STINE,
0. B. FORNEY, J. W. MIMI,
JOHN NIEILY, 0, OHEENAWALT,
0. D. OLONINGER,
BECKLJOSIE YAH /HECK,
ISAAC , .
Lebanon, Fob. 27, MI,
f fft if iff fr '4
Geo. 11. Stoat 4' Co's
IMIP'IIO LOCK-STICH
FAMILY SEWING MACHINE,
MARKET STREET' LEBANON.
1 1 11.1CMS.—$50, $OO, $O5, $75, $B5 and $lOO.
These blachinei make the SritrelLe OR LOOK•STITCH.
4lir alike on both siderrairottwithout the use of the leather
pad. They have an entire NEW xcvlion of forming the
stitch—simple and unerringinits operation. They have a
New Patent Under Tension and a New
Upper Tension.
Which can be regulated without stopping the ?Jachlue
—simple but effective. They will sew with greater speed
never drop a stitch, and do more work in the same time
than any other sewing machine ever invented. These Ma
chines bare power sufficient to sew
'THIRTY THICKNESSES
Of heavy sheeting. They wiltetitch, run, hem. gather
cord, quilt, felt. &c., Le., and for Welding LINEN have
no superior. Also,
Sloat's Improve& Shuttle Machine
For tailoring and heavy work. Thur Machines Aare
been well tested atuobg tailors, and are pronounced
equal to those sold elsewhere at double prico.
Let all who Intend to purchase ,a Sewing Machine call
at our Balm Room and see our Machines practically
tested, or send for a circular.
J. J. BLAIR
WATCII3IA KER. AND JEWELLER,
Market Ntreet, Lebanon,Pa., or
(MORON H . BLOAT &
July 3, 1361. PHILMALPHILA
k i.O
Hooks and Stationery Em
porium.,
AND
TEACHERS' HEADQUARTERS!
( MOW
RAS REMOVED
Mae removed hie Hook Store to Market Square. Let anon,
IXT SIEUE may be bad, on reneonabie terms a general
assortment of SCHOOL, SUNDAY SCHOOL, THROLOO
IICAL and MIROELLANCOUS BOOKS of ovary description.
Copy-Hooke,Cypherlug Books, blabber and paper bound
ram Books, and every variety of STATIONERY, Ac.,
wholesale and retail.
WINDOW SHADES.
A large Of variety . Pia* Panay, BUM Croon, Gilt, AG.
PAPER SHADES.
Neat Patterns, Plain, Green, Blue and Gilt. Also this
latest and almpleal
STYLES OF PIXTOEVE.
AMP" CALL AND EXAMINE.
WOrnon, Beptambar 2T, 1880_
AVE. MINIM JONA. OEMANIAN. D. 5. LONG.
•' ' •
New Firm.
Cheap ea sh Store, and Milling and
Grain Businea
/THIN undersigned having formed ispartnership in the
j. MERCANTILE, 'MILLING AND. GRAIN BM
EROS, would respectfully invite the attention of the
piddle to their establishments. They will oontlue to
keep, at the isle stand of SilEgli A LONG, a most com
plete stook of all kinds of GOODS usually kept in a
country store, which they will retail Cheap for CASH,
or COUNTRY PRODUCE. They also want to buy for
cash
60,006 Bushels of WHEAT,
80,000 Bushels of RYE,
. 20,000 Bushels of CORN,
25,000 Bushels of OATS.
For which they will pay the h Wiest Market Priem--
They will also take GRAIN on &imam The will keep
always on band and sell at the lowest prices, COAL. by
the it Laud or by the Ton; all kinds of MILL FRED,
SALT, PLASTER, Se.
Sir They solicit the business of all their old friends
end the üblic, and will endeavor to deal on such lib
eral and j ust principles as will give malefaction to all.
SHEEN, GESSAMAN E LONG.
North Lebanon; March 13,1561.
SALT FOR SALE.
rPUS Subscriber bas on band and for sale, Wholesale
1 and Retell, a large quantity coarse and fine SALT.
June 19, 11301-3 m. • ABRAHAM` STRICHLMR.
jarY & STINK are dally receiving fashionable
- rase Goode, Duch lU3 Clatelles. MosArtiblques, Me-
Imes, balm., Level lei °fell kinde for traveling dresses,
SDK Challys, fillic Themes, ()rape Pe Spumy, OlogAm!
Audi:trey Dress Doodle, or every deedilption, offered at
unusually low prices by HENRYdo STIRS.
Air AU the above geode offered at very low prices.
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VOL. 13--NO. 13.
` They go Right to the Spot.'
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They are delightful to the taste.
They are made of simple herbs and cannot harm any one.
I advise every one who has a Cough or a Husky voice
or a Bad Breath, or any difficulty of the Throat, to get
a package of my Throat Confections. they will relieve
you instantly. and you will agree with me that "they
go right to the spot." You will find them very useful
and pleasant while traveling or attending public meet
ings for stilling sour Cough or allaying your thirst. If
you try one package I am safe in saying that you will
ever afterwards consider them indiagensible. You will
find them at the Druggists and Dealers in Medicines.
PRICE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.
My signature is on each package. AlVisthers are
counterfeit
A Package will be sent by mail, prepaid, on receipt. of
Thirty Cents.
Address,
KENNY C. SPALDING,
No. 48 CEDAR STREET, NEVT,YORK.
Al;* -431 ct .4e%
diN l Aleatia p 1)
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CURE 07
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za ßE as
Headache.
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at the commencement of an attack immediate relief
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TIVEN
Fer LITERARY MEN, STUDENTS, Delicate Females,
and all pereons of SEDENTARY lIABITS, they are
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giving, TONE and VIGOR to the digestive organs, and
restoring the natural elnaticity and strength of the
whole system.
The CEPHALIC FILLS are the result of long inves
tigation anti carefully conthicted experiments, having
been in use runny yearn, during which time they have
prevented and relieved a vast amonr.t of pain and nut.
tering ROM. Headache,
whether originated in the ner
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They are entirely vegetable in their composition, and
may be taken at all times with perfect safety without
making any change of diet, sod the absence of any dis
agreeable taste renders it easy to adminiettit them to
children.
BEWARE or COIIItEItFEITS
The gen nine base five signatitres of llenry C. Spalding
on each fox.
Sold by Druggists and ell other Dealers in Medicines.
A Box will be sent by mall prepaid on receipt of the
PRICE 25 CENTS.
All orders should be addressed to
JUNKY C. SPALDING,-
43 Cedar Street, Now-York.
TUB FOLLOWING ENDORSEMENTS OF
SPALDING'S
CEPHALIC PILLS,
WILL CONVINCE ALL wno RIIFFER FROM
USABiterL,
THAT A
SPEEDY AND SURE CURE
Is WITHIN THEIR REACH.
Is these TettimaniatS were unseticited by Mr. SPALDING,
Mew afford unquationabte pronfof the efficacy
of this truly scientific discovery.
Mahwah):lle, Cohn., Feb. 5, 1861
Mr. Spalding.
Sir:
. I have tried your Cephalic Pills, and I like them so
vieil that I want you to send me two aollare worth
more,
Part of these aro for. the neighbors, to whom I gave
a few out of the first box I got from you.
Send the Pills by mail and oblige
Your ob't Servant.
JAMES KENNEDY.
Haverford i Pa, Feb. 8,1881
Mr. Spalding
Slif
I wish you to send me otio afore box of you Cephalic
Pills, I hare received a great deal of benefit from them.
Yours, respectfully,
MARY ANN STOIIIIIVISSM •
Spruce Creek; Iluntingdtm Co. Pa.
January IS, 1801.
lI C. Spalding.
Sr:
You will plea-se sewl. !no two boxes of your Cophdic
Pills. Sent them humediately.
Beepectfully yours,
JOAN SIMONS.
P. S.—l have used one box of your Pills, and find
tqem excellent.
Belle 'Vernon, Ohio, Jan. 140.1361:
Henry C. Spalding ran-,
Pleats find inclosed twenty-live cents, for which send
me another boa of your Cephalic Pills. They are truly
the best Pills I bays ever tried.
Direct A. STOVER, P. M.
Belle Vernon, Wyandot Co., 0.
` _Beverly, HIM, Dec. 1.1, 1860.
H. C. Spaldlng, Esq..
I wish for some circulars or large show bills, to bring
your Cephalic Pills more particularly before my emu.
mere. if you have anything of the kind, please seud
to me.
One at my customers, who is eubjoct to Severe Sick
Kea. ache, (usually lasting two days,) wee cored of an
attack. in one hour by your Pills, which I sent her.
Respectfully yours,
W. D. WILKES.
Baynolilaburg,'Frankl in Co., Ohlo,}
January 9, .1801.
Iltairj , O. Spalding,
No. 48 Cedar et., N. Y.
Deer Sir:
Inclosed And twenty-Arc cents, (25,) for which send
box of "Cephalic Pils." Send to address of Rev. Wm.
C. Filler, keynoldsburg, Franklin Co, Ohio.
Your Pills work like a charm--sure Q eadache al
most instanter.
Truly yours,
• WM. Q. FILLER..
sar A Dingle bottle of SPA LD USW& PREPARED GLUE
will save ten times its coot annually. 1W
SPALDING'S PREPARED GLUE
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BATE THE PIECES
'ECONOMY I DISPATCII I
lift- "A STITCH IN Tata SAVES NINE." ^ DDR_
As accidents will happen, even In well regulated fam
ilies, it ix very desirable to bare Borne cheap and conve
nient way for repairing Furniture, Toye, Crockery, dm
SPALDING'S IREPARED GLUE
meets all ouch emergencies, and no household can af.
ford to be without it. It is always ready, and up to
tile stick ing point.
"USEFUL IN EVERY HOUSE."
N.B.—A Brush accompanies each Bottle. Price, 25
cents. Address,
HENRY D. SPALDING,
No. 48 CEDAR Street, New-York.
CAUTION.
As contain unprincipled persons are attempting to
mint off on the uustomseting public, Imitations of my
YftkPAll* GLUM,' would caution all persons, to ex
amine' before pnrch'asing,and see that the full name.
w, SPALDING'S PREPARED GLUE, .110 Z
lw on the ontaide wrapper; All othero are, swindling
-ounteradts. [Marc& 43i 1861.
LEBANON, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1861.
etvitr tbetrg,
WILL HE BE HOME TO-NIGHTI—A SONG
OF THE "OLD LOVE AT ROME."
The light fades out from the purple hills,
The woodlands are turning brown,
On rock and river, and musical rills,
The shadows are coming down.
A faint blush lingers along the sky,
And over the mountain's height—.
Ohl speed deck hours like swift birds by,"
For he must be home tonight.
- See? nestled eo, In their snowy beds
O'er which the fire light glows,
Peer out three golden corly.heads
And cheeks of richest rose.
The board is spread with its dainty cheer s ,
The tapers are all alight,
My flowers in bl - om—but—ran tidal* fear
Oh I will hi come home to-night?
Nine eyes are bright—its because they see
And mirror with faithful shine,
The stars of love thou wilt bring with thee
In those soft dark eyes of thine ?
And the golden gleams like the sun on the streams
And the floating of fancies light,
That will dance o'er my heart in its gladsome dreams
If thou wilt come home-to-night?
My cheek's aglow it's because drest
In his fancy's favorite hue t
Come tell me Elsie. do I "kook my best"
In this robe of richest hue t
Is my hair in the way be loves you know
Is the fall of the ringlets right /
Do you think me vain t And, is It mit so—
But—he will be home temightt
"Look Well" you say I—l am glad the while
And I hope he will note the glow,
And the lighted eye and the Bunny smile,
'Which charmed him—an long ago.
I know my summers are passing away,
That I'm not as beautiful—quite—
I know what he'll say, with his smile so gay
If he should come home tonight!
Yes--I think he'll come o'er the crimson key*
Oh my heart doth a music swell,
Like the soft, sweet chiming of distant seas
Through the folds of a lonely spell.
And something that's neither of earth nor air
But endowed with angel's might,
Roe met my spirit and whispered there,
"Rest! he will die home to-night I"
Oh! God be thanked who bee kept him safe
In his wandering wild and wide;
And guided trim back like a precious waif
Astray on a stormy tide.
Ha I there's the train with a signal shrill,
Oh dark hours speed your flight I
Oh I soul rejoice, oh I heart be still,
He has come—he has come to-night
fftisefttansoitos
MY HUSBAND'S CHILD.
A SECOND WIFE'S STORY
I had a little dauglitei,
And she was given to me
tejeatl me gently backward,
To the Heavenly leather's knee
I had married a widower. 11 - 0 W
many times I had wondered, blamed,
laughed at such marriages. How ma
ny times said that I would remain
single, if Fate so pleased, to the end
of the chapter, but never, never mar
ry one whose first love had been giv
en to another-- , --who offered me the
ashes of a heart. A second-hand gar
ment, I had said, was bad enough ;
still, were it a choke between that
and freezing one might wear it; but
not a second-hand husband. Better
freeze than warm one's being at such
a fire. I had said all this, and yet I
wedded Hiram Woodbury. When I
first met him, however, I did not
know that he had ever been married.
Our acquaintance came about odd
ly enough. 1 was staying with my
old school-mate, Elizabeth Simms,
now Mrs. Dr. Henshaw. I had been
there for a week, er.joying myself
heartily. It was a pleasant change
from the boarding-house in 'the city,
where I lived, in three rooms and a
bandbox, with my guardian and his
wife, to Lizzie's pleasant and spacious
country house, with the wide, hand
somely laid-out grounds around it,
and the free range of wood and hill
in the back-ground. I had thought,
at first, that. I should presently wea
ry of the monotekhy, hilt each day of
seven I had grown mot% ilhd there
charmed, until I began to believe my
self in love with nature.
"1 like it," I said to Lizzie, throw
ing myself down, after a long morn
ing's ramble, in the easy chair in the
sitting-room. She looked lit me fon,-
ly with her kind blue eyes.
"I knew you would like it. Look
at yourself in the glass, Agatha Ray
mond. See that strong, well rounded
form, those great, black, earnest eyes
—the forehead with more brains than
beauty—the dark fate with the crim
son blood glowing through its olive
Does it look to you like the face and
form of one to be contented with
confinement, and sloth, and fashion?"
I langhed. . .
sq. never had the means to be fash
ionable, Lizzie: My poor five hund
red a year has to find me food and
shelter, besides garments. Even if I
had it all to spend in personal adorn.
ment, I could only stand in the outer
vestibule of the temple of fashion."
"If you had five thousand a year,
instead of five hundred, fashion and
frivolity would never fill your heart.
It is a good, honest, true heart; tho'
it is proud and wayward-1 know it
well. I can see just the kind of fu
ture you ought to have. You should
marry a man who is a worker, a bold,
strong Worker in the strife f life--
one whom you could be proud of
and look up to—one whom you could
silently strengthen and help. You
would be at rest then. Failing such
a husband, you will have to make a
career for yourself. Some way the
world must be better,for your living
in it, or your heart will know no
peace."
1 made no answer, but her words
touched a responsive chord. I felt
that she had painted the future which
I needed; but would it ever come?-
1 had never yet seen a man whom I
could look up to and trust entirely—
fearing nothing earthly so he was
mine. Kind and good as Lizzie's hus
band was, I sever could have married
him. I have never seen the man I
could have married. It was notlike
ly, I thought, that I should see him.
If not I must do something myself.
What path would open for me—what
and where ? I. looked listlessly from
the window. A, man was coming
,pp
the walk, dusty and stained with
traVel, carrying a heavy portmanteau.
—a man not handsome exactly, nor
graceful exactly, but with a good
face, a face expressing dignity, kind
ness and much power—the ability to
command himself and others.
"Who is it ?" I asked, beckoning
Lizzie to the window.
"No other than Hiram Woodbury,
the Doctor's fast friend, and certain
ly the last man I expected to see to
day. He's always welcome to Dick,
though, and of course that makes him
so to me."
I ran up stairs to smooth My tan.
gled hair, and make my costume a
little more presentable, and when I
came down Mr. Woodbury was en
gaged in an animated conversation
with the Doctor and Lizzie. .He was
a tall, powerful man of thirty.five„
with lightish brown hair, bold :and
somewhat massive features, and eyes
of Saxon bine. I learned, afterward,
that he was a remarkable mechanical
genius and had realized a handsome
fortune by some of his investments;
also that be was it iehlous reformer,
leading.the van, of every noble work.
I lied nut known Mr. Woodbury
four days befole I felt in my heart of
hearts that here was a man whom I
could entirely trap and reverence,
nay, whom I could entirely love.—
Still 1 was proud, and strove to retain
my affections in my own keeping.-
1 'did not feel sure that he was inter
ested in me, but sometimes there
seemed a language in his eyes I dar
ed not trust myself to interpret.
By the time he had been there a
fortnight, we knew each other better
than we could have done in a year
bad we met solely in society. It was
on the fifteenth day after his coming,
that he told me ho loved me , and
asked me to be his wife.
We were alone, sitting under a
clump of pines at the west of the
house, where he had gone to see the
July sunset. We had watched the
clouds silently as they changed from
gold and 'crimson to the softer shades
of rose and azure, until they were all
gone. Then I looked up and saw his
eyes were looking at ine very earn
estly with a strange tenderness in
their depths. As he met my glance
be spoke—
"l have only known you a short
time, Agatha, but you are already
dearer to me than I can say. Do you
think you could ever love me well
enough to be my wife .1"
<I do," I answered struggling with
d. strange sensation of fullness at my
heart, which seemed almost to choke
my utterance. .
"God bless you, Agatha. i tod are
what my soul needs."
His words wore strong and fervent,
and he gathered me close in his arms
to his breast—me, an orphan since
my earliest recellections, and realiz
ing now,
for the first time, what it
was to be intensely loved by any hu
man being. We did not talk much
about our emotions. I think we both
liked best - to sit there, hand clasped
in hand, feeling how utter was the
happiness and satisfaction of each in
the other's presence. At length he
said—
"I know that I shall be giying a
good mother to my little Laurie. I
should be cruel were I to forget her
in my . joy."
"Your little Laurie?"
"Yes ! my child, my little girl.—
You knew of her existence, surely."
N o.
"I had supposed that the Henshaws
had told you all about my history.—
Did you not know I had been marri
ed ? My wife, my Laura, died five
years ago, and my Laurie is just five
years old."
What could I say—l, who had said
so often that I would wrong no dead
woman by taking from her, her hus
band's love ? I could g ive up Hiram
Woodbury, perhaps, but I could give
up my life as well. I clutched at a
hope. I asked—
" Did you love her—your wife?"
"Tenderly—most tenderly."
"And she loved you?"
"With ail her heart."
"She was your first love r'
"Yes, the love of my youth. But
Why these questions, Agatha ? Are
you not satisfied with the love I pledge
to you—a love as strong and as true
as man ever gave to : wornan ?"
"I must be," I whispered in a voice
whose calmness startled me, it eon.
trasted - so strangely with the tumult
of my heart. "I must be, I love you
so well, Heaven help me, that I have
no other .choice. And yet I had
thought to be the first love of the
man I married.•"
"You are. my love, Agatha, my
dear, true love! You will be Laurie's
mother; will you not?"
Ilea:von - made me truthful. I did
not deceive or belie myself in that
hour. I answered honestly.
"I will be Laurie's mother, so far as
seeing to all her wants is concerned.
I wilrlove her if I can. If. I cannot
you must not blame me. We cannot
force our hearts to love, merely be
cause it is our duty. I was born jeal
ous, and it would be hard for me to
forget that you had loved Laurie's
mother before you loved me, perhaps
better than you ever could love me."
He looked at me sadly, yet trust
ingly still.
"1 believe you are better than your'
own estimate, Agatha. At any rate,
whatever you are, I love you." .
It was with such an understanding
as this, that we were married, but my
wedding day was not as happy as my
girlish hopes had always pictured it.
A. phantom seemed continually at my
side—Hiram's first wife. ' She came
between his lips and mine, and made
his fondest kisses seem cold.
"How did she look ? 1 wish I
could know."
I asked him this question, as we sat
alone together on our weddin g night.
Had he been thinking of her too?
He understood me atonee. Reopen
ed his trunk and took from it a min.
iature painted on ivory, and placed it
in my hand. Oh, how lovely she was
—just the being to be cherished in a
man's ininest heart; idealized, wrap
ped around with love's idolatry.
She looked like one to die young,
with that clear, transparent skin, the
In'ol,V so white and the vivid rose
bloOnt in the cheeks. The eyes were
large and blue, with an innocent, ap•
pealing, unworldly look, and the hair,
in the picture, was dusky gold. how
could ho ever lave me, with dark Paw
nee face ; and if.tegular features after
that? I asked him the question, I
Voillet not help it,.
do love you, dear, Is not that
enough ? I love you as tenderly as
any woman's heart can ask."
I was silent on the subject after
ward, for very shame, but the demon
Of jealousy made his lair in my heart,
and I am afraid his wicked eyes look
ed out of mine now and then.
For five weeks we wore traveling
together, and this our honcymoom
was a happy one.
For the most part, my jealousy
slumbered, for there was nothing to
arouse it. Sometimes I tormented
myself with the fear that there might
have been some charm in the earlier
days of my husband's first marriage,
which was wanting now. But hisjoy
was so evident, his tenderness so con
stant, that I had little opportunity
for such gloomy thoughts.
After our bridal night until the day
before we were to go home for the
first time, I had not alluded again to
his first wife or his child. It was
while I was packing my truck pre.
paratory to an early start the best
. morning, and he was talking to me of
my new home, that I looked up and
asked—
"Where is little Laurie ? has
she passed the time while we were
getting acquainted, and those weeks
since our marriage?"
I suppose he interpreted the ques
tion as a sign of an awakening inter
est in hia child, for ho bent over me
and kissed me before he answered.
"Thank you, Agatha. I am glad
that you think of Laurie sometimes.
She. has been spending the summer,
so far, at my Bisteks'e, but she will
be there to welcome us to-morrow.-
1 have taken care that she should be
taught to love her new mamma."
It was a beafitiful home on the east
bank of the "Judson, to which. we
Went the next day. A handsome car
riage met us at the boat landing, and
the drive wound from the river along
the ascent of a wooded hill, every
moment revealing new glimpses of
beauty. A short turn brought us in
sight of a stately stone house.
"With the battlee:ecits high In the rusk of the air,
And the turrets thereon:
I had not been prepared for so
splendid a sight. It was a perfect
architecttital inspiration. The emi
nence on which it stood commanded
a fine view of the river flashing in
the sunlight. The rocks left as Na
ture had hewn them out, were gay
with climbing vines, and the air Was
full of the oorous breath of sweet
scented flowers.
"I never saw anything half so
beautiful," I Whispered ecstatically
to Hiram, who sat enjoying ,my sur
prise.
As the carriage stopped 6, little
girl ran out upon the piazza. I think
I should have known her anywhere,
from her likeness to her mothces pie
tu-re. Shohad the same innocent, ap
pealing blue eyes, the same trauspa•
rent skin, the same features; only the
gold of the hair was lighter and sun
nier than the picture. It lay about
the child's head in lights rings, such
as you have seen iu paintings of cher.
übs. My husband stepped from the
carriage and only paused to hand me
out before the little creature was clasp
ed in his arms. .
"And is that New Mamma ?"
heard her ask, as -be•put her down.
lie nodded:.
'P.May I kiss her ?"
MEE
She came up' to me little timidly.
I bent over her and received her ca
ress passively, but the kiss I gave her
was a very, cold ono. Selfish heart
thati was; I could not love her for
she was-her mother's child—a daily
reminder, so 1 felt, to her father, of
my dead rivaL
should blush to describe all the
incidents of the year which. followed.
How putisently theToorlittle mother
less girlmotherless still, though I
had taken het Mother's name and
place---:strove to propitiate and please
me. How cold L was to here I neg
lected' none of her bodily
: needs, but
to the little heart Which asked me , for
bread I gave only a stone. Not once,
in arl these' twelve months, did 1 gath
er her into my arms and kiss her; not
once did I bestow on her any volun
tary caress. I wonder I did not soft.
en.. to her, for I was myself expect
ing to give welcome to a little child,
who might be left motherleSS as she
had been: Perhaps this hardened me
the more. If my child were left, I
questioned, would its father love it
half as well as- he loved Laurie ? She
is his idol I said bitterly, to myself,
his idol, as her' mother was before her
and I who give him fa' spite of • my
self such absorbing love, hold only, a
second place in his hetert. Looking
back those days I really wonder that
be loved me at all. I had disappoint
ed him so thoroughly. Ho had be
lieved me noble and generous. He
found me selfish and exacting. Yet
I do not believe his great, noble soul,
for a moment, failed toward me in
tenderness and patience. He bore
with my way*aidness as 'one betirs
WHOLE NO. 635.
with the faults or an irresponsible
child. Perhaps he never lost his fitith
in ray regenetiition.
think Laurie suffered beyond
what I had supposed a child's capaci
ty for purely 'Mental suffering. The
disappointment to her was most cru
el. She had longed all her little life
for a mother to love her as she bad
seen other children loved. For ma
ny weeks before I came she had been
told that she was to have what she
most craved—a new mamma, all to
herself. She had lotthd in me less af
fection than she would have received
from a governness or a housekeeper.
I knew all this. I had never been de
liberately (cruel before but I was now.
All Laurie's gay vavacity was gone.
She seemed all the tune learfarot dis
pleasing the." She moved and spoke
in a slow, iltrititway, that I could see
it was excititaitety painful to her fa.
tiler; to behold.' .1 do not know how
it was that his' love for me was not
utterly qu'enehed, his patience, all
worn out. Perhaps he thought that
I was not well, and that the sweet
new corner, for whom we hoped would
heal my nature of its pride and pain
and passion.
At last my day of trial dawned.—
There were many hours of terrible
suffering, during which my husband
hovered over me almost in despair, re
vealing his depth and the fullness of
his love as I had never divined it be
fore. I lived, but the baby they laid
on- my breast was dead. No faint-
est thrill of life shivered those deli
cate limbs—no pulse fluttered in the
tiny wrist—no heart-beat stirred the
little still breast. The delicate blue.
veined eyelids would never lift; the
lily bud mouth never open, This lit
tle cold dead thing was all. Where
was the soul ? Would they treat it
tenderly In the country of spirits , ---
that soul so young, so tender,- going
out into the Infinite Dark ? Had
God Measured out to me such meas.
tires as I had measured, and to nty
cry for bread given a stone f' My
husband could not fully share my feel
ings. He was disappointed, it is true
but in his thankfulness for my spar
ed life he had little room for grief.—
It was not his first child—the loss
could not be to him what it was to
me.
I had been ill three days, when one
morning, my nurse went out for a few
moments leaving the door open. I
lay there with closed eyes, my heart
full of bitter rebellious grief. I heard
little footsteps crossing the room soft
ly. 1 know Laurie had coins in. I
did not move. I wished her to think
I was asleep. I felt that I could not
bear to speak to her then. She came
to the bedside and looked at me for a
moment, then she knelt down and
murmured a little prayer, whose words
pierced me like a sword.
"0, Father up in Heaven, please let
dear new mamma get better, and
make her love little Laurie."
I believe since that hour there may
be sudden conversioma—single mo•
meats Which change the whole tone
and Current of a life. Mine was
changed then. I open my eyes, my
arms,,my heart.
"Come up here little daughter," I
whispered, with such tenderness as
she had never beard in my voice be
fore.
She crept up beside me - , and I drew
her to my-bosom—a mother's loving
bosom to her forevermore. For a few .
moments I wept over her silently—l
could not help it. Then I told her of
my sorrow.
"Laurin," I said, "God gave me a
little daughter, and the same hour
He gave it He. took it from me.—
Your mother and my baby are both
in Heaven ; will y:Jf be my little girl
on earth in place of the dead 1 "
llext eyes - brightened. She cried
eagerly, plaintively!
"Oh, I love you now mamma, I al-
ways did. Will you love ins too, and
let one be your little girl ?"
"Forever, my darling whom God
has given me."
When my husband eame in half an
hour afterward, he found mo asleep
with Laurie watching me.
"New mamma loves mc—loves me"
dearly," she whispered joyfully; and
her father's tears,..which fell on her
face•and mine awakened ine.
There was never any jealousy in
my soul afterward. The fulness of
Hiram Woodbury's love satisfied ev
ery longing of nay heart, and Laurie
was as dear to me as him. •
I snmetives think the institutions
of childhood are deeper_ than the love
of philosophers. It . was Laurie's
childish faith that "the Heavenly ba
by," as she, always called my lost One
had been given in charge - to her dead
mother, who was nursing it tenderly,
as I her child below. It was a child's
conceit, but it has dwelt pleasantly
in my heart.
Laurie isgrowing toward her sweet
womanhood. I never had another
child. Igo alone sometimes, to a
Mae - grave, where the blue violets
spread their canopy, and weep above
it tears Which long ago lost their-bit
ter-nem But esen if its tenant could
have lived to bless . my arms and' htart,
she could hardly have been dearer to
me than the sweet daughter of my
adoption.
HUGH MILLER & MARY DUFF
Hugh Miller, the geologist, joinmal.
ist and man of genius, was sitting in
his newspaper office late one -dreary
night. The clerks had all . left, and
be was preparing to go, when a quick
rap came to the door. He sa id
~ c g tee
in,' and lookingtowards the entra:ticc
saw a little ragged girl, all wet with
sleet. 'Are ye Hugh Miller ?' 'Yes.'
'Mary Duff want's ye,' 'What does
she want P 'She's goute
Nrbanou Stifevlissr.
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fn Pfrilthvivakdo, out of Lebanon county, .P.. 34. cents per
quartor, or 18 route, a yoar.
anisiegze...ia-oFFm:caFalinagEsffle
ty renotlettion th. name made him
at one a tut 22nd. ‘viLL his well
known obl:d and sting, he was soon
striding ofter the. 'Add, who trotted
thrOugl; tha now tkni'taii street
into the can in.=ll(vate. By the thee he
got to the OiLi.Pkyhollae close. Hugh
had reviewed ids ntcrnory of Mary
Duff. a lively girl who had been bred
up beside him in Cromarty The last
tittle he had seen her was at a broth
er mason's marriage, where Mary
was 'beat ms.id,' and he tbest,
Ile -tmmed still to sue her bright
young. eareiens fime, her tidy short
gown, and her dark eyes, and to bear
her bantering merry tongue.
Down theclos'e went the ragged
little woman, and up an out side stair.
Ilugh keeping near her with difficulty
in the passage she bald out her hand;
and touch ed,L im; taking it in his great
palip, he felt she wanted a thumb
Finding . her way like a eat throngbi
the darkness, She opened a door, and
saying. 'That's Ler,' vanished. By
the light of a dying fire 'ue saw lying
in the corner of the large empty room
something like a woman's clothes;
and on drawing nearer becam e aware
of a thin pale face, and two dark eyed
(oohing ,keenly but helplessly lip to
hith. The eyes wore plainly Mary
Duff's, though he could recognize tin
other feature. She wept silently;
gazing steadily at hiw. 'Are you Ma
ry Duff !"It's a' that's o' me, liugh. ;
She then tried to speak to him, isome
thing plainly of great urgency, but
she couldn't and seeing that she Was
very ill, and was making herself worse
ho put half a crown into her hand;
and said be would call in the morn
ing. He could get no more informa
tion from the neighbors; they were
either very surly or asleep.
When he returned the next morn.:
ing, the little girl met him at the stair
head, and 'she's death' He went in;
and found it was true. She lay near
the fire, her face placid, and the like.
ness of her maiden self restored.--:
Hugh thought ho would have known
her now, even with those black - eyes
closed as they were in aternum. Seek.
ing out a neighbor, he said he would
like to bury Mary Duff, and arranged
for the funeral with an undertaker in
the close. Little seemed to be known
of the poor outcast, except that she
was a lieht,' or as Solomon would
have said a strange,woman: 'Did
she drink 7' 'Whilos.
On the day of thetunoral one of the"
residents of the 0050 accompanied
him to the Cannongate church yard;
He observed a decent looking old wo
man watching them, and and follow
ing at a distance, though the day was
wet and bitter. After the grave was
filled ; and he had taken off his hat,
as the men finished their business by
putting on and slapping the sod, he
saw this old woman remaining. She
came up and, courtseying 'Ye
wad ken that lass, sir ?"leB, 1 knew
her when she was young.' The wo
man then burst into tears. and told
Hugh that she keepit a bit shop at
the Closemouth, and Mary deft with
me and aye paid regular, and i was
feared she was dead, for she had awin'
me half a. crown and then, with a
look and voice ()Lime shetold him on
the night be was sent for, and imme,
diately aft , r he had leit,she had been
awakened by some onein her room;
and by her, brip:ht fire [for she was a
bein well to-do Kim had seen
the wasted
dyi ll er f7reature who c'ame
forward and said,' 'Wasn't it a half a
crown r .Yes. There it is,' and put
ting it under the bolster, vanished !
Alas! for Mary Duff! Her career
had hotel a sad one from the day when
she had stuod side by side with Hugh
a t th e wedding of their friends. Her
father died net loo;; after, and her
mother supplanted her iu the affec
tions of the man to whom she had
given hor heart. This shock was
overwhelnuuo, and made home in tob:
orable. Miry fled from it blighted
and embittered, and after rife of
shame and sorrow, crept into a cor
ner of her wretched garret to die de:
serted and alone—giving evidence iti .
her latest act that honesty had sur;
vived amid the wreck of nearly every
other •
Cheap Food
Advices from all sections of our coun-•
try indicate that the husbaudman has been
amply rewarded for his industry, and that
the forthcoming crops of cereals will by
largely it , excess of those of a former sea
son. The breads hof wheat planted was .
finfnense, and the' samples of the new crop
which have already made their appearance,
indicate that the yield is not only larger,
but of superior quality.
The crops of rye and oats are also large,-
and the present condition of the growing
corn is most encouraging. The importance
and necessity fur cheap food; particularly
in the present aspect of our national affairs,
must be evident to every one. The pOorer
classes arc comparatively bare of employ: -
meat, and to them cheap bread is u vital'
necessity. Flour has been gradually re-"
ceding in value for weeks past, aud wheat,
corn and rye are lowet.
The following are the average prices oe
flour in the market, in July, for sixty-six
years past.:
1551
1550
1859
$l7 5.3
~ 3 ,•••
si;lS,
1858
1, 7
1858
1555
1854
18:3
4:37
6 ‘ , 7 IS - 2t
d 5118
031'1
00'1 ta)
41x;1&10...
4'La,7538..
s f o"
-.1.
5 FI 1311„
:5#;1313..
.51.
1350.
1840
IQ 47
ls
1845 4 4,..q151 ' 855'
1844 ' 41x '1811 , ..... . . ........- ....... ...1.0 5W
1843 , aii gr......:.. -.. . ... . ....... -.10 iiKi
-ISt ' 6 43:1800 . 656
1841 5 37.1808 5 87
1840 • 5.2x11807 ' 575,
1V,9 ...- 8 0
1.8.38 • :6'781181 4 6..... ...... .....-.. ...... 9. n , * .
18379173.1804- ......... . ...... ..,...... 7.75
1836 ' i. 7'00,1818 7 00'
18'6.... ' 6 81=180'
1831 - 6 !.7011. . . 11 26 '
18."3 • _613,180 10 •.!6'
1832 .. ... ...... ..... . . ... .:..- 660 ilgg • • ' g 76
11 , 31
1830........- ...... ~...... 4 5711757.. 8 10 -
8 5 fW06...... ...... . t ,.... - ...., 11 '4'
....#153
.. 5 (10
TOO
. i 0
425
4 62
. 600
.. . . 900
.. - 7 12