VOL. LXIV is to see .a stove all aglow , like that 1 Yon are cold,' said his new friend.-- Where did your coal come from?' Come, let's step into yonder shop, and o,' said Mrs. Stone, Sidney brought talk over matters. ' me three dollars to-day ; and the children Roger hesitated. were all a shivering and chattering over They turn me out, sir, when Igo there the little wood fire„ so I took it into my to get warm.' head that these three dollars should go to- 'They will not turn me out,' replied the wards making us all warm once, if we nev- other. So come along. er get warm again in our lives. So what They entered a common refreshment did I do but go and order a quarter of a saloon, and by the countenance and pro ton of coal, and the young ones have been tection of his new friend, Roger was per as merry as crickets ever since. They're , mitted to enjoy a seat by the stove. quite content to go without their snpper, Yon look like a man who has seen hard so there's a good fire for them to cuddle times,' observed the stranger. down by. Come in ; it's a free warm, I have suffered almost everything, Johnson. As long as the coal lasts I want sir,' replied Johnson, in a subdued, nn every body to enjoy it who can. You steady tone. don't know why lam left shall' sit with us this evening—your room to live.' is awful dreary, Johnson." But you have some idea of happiness in The frozen tears thawed in the old man's store for you yet ; no man is without that, eyes, but his voice was so choked that he you know.' could not express his thanks. Seating I sometimes dream of such a thing.— himself in a rickety old chair; he warmed I have hopes, sir—rainbow-colored some his cold shins ; and tubbed his shrivelled of 'eat are, too. But it's all delusion.— hands over the stove, patting the child- My castles are built in the air, they are ren's heads, and ended by dividing the forever tumbling down about my ears. I larger portion of the loaf among them, re- know what would make me happy, sir ; but serving but a scanty fragment for himself. what's the use of talking 1 It's something Mrs. Stone remonstrated against his I cannot have.' generosity. But the children seized upon ' Speak out, friend Johnson,' cried the the food so eagerly that the grateful old stranger. But bo careful not to place your man declared, with tears running down his expectations too high. The gods love cheeks, that it did him more good to see modesty, you know.' them eat than it would to sit down to a ' Well, sir, it is just this—nothing more most bountiful feast. I or less—three. meals a day.' The meagre Meal was soon concluded, Three meals a day!' when heavy footsteps were heard on the ' I knew you'd call it extravagant,' said stairs. The poor woman's heart ceased to Roger, with a faint smile. But I would beat. She turned so pale that the old net mind your rich dishes ; only give me a man observed her change of countenance plenty of bread and potatoes—with now even in that dim light. and then a bit of cheese, or salt fish, or ,It is father,' whispered the children. may be a morsel of smoked beef, or dried At that moment an angry voice demand- bacon. Make me sure of that, day after :_ed, with an oath, why she did not hold a day, as long as I live, so that I can keep clear of the alms-house, and you'd see me Hush!' said Mrs. Stone to the cower- a happy man, if there's not another in ing little ones. creation.' She opened the door, and presently a ' And haven't you as much already shabby, frost-bitten, middle-aged man, cried the astonished stranger. came blustering into the room. It was Roger replied that, with his poor health, the woman's husband, who always, when he it was difficult to get work that winter, had money to spend, deserted his family and it was so painful to ask alms that his I for the grog-shop, and who returned to subsistence did not average half a meal them for shelter. a day. He was a brutal, tyrannical man, tho Ugh Good heavens !' exclaimed his friend ; be had not always been so, in sooth—and in all this wasteful city, is it possible that his appearance was the signal for general one man can be found reduced to such trouble and fear. It made poor old Roger extremes ? One, too, whose happiness ohnson's heart burn in his bosom to hear can be so cheaply purchased—three poor Jacob Stone demand money of his wife, meals a day !' and curse her, because she had that day ' Cheap, if one had the money,' sug spen t all of their oldest son's earnings gested Roger. for fuel ; and when the unfeeling father I 1 have the money, and, by all that's snatched from the hands of a sickly child precious, 1 will devote so much of it to a the crust that Lad been given to it to pension that will afford you this royal gnaw, the old man spoke out his indigna- ;bliss.' non. This led to a sharp quarrel, and he 0, sir, don't jest with me.' was driven with oaths from the room. Ja- lam not jesting, friend Johnson ! To sob slammed the door after him, and the show , you how earnest I am—waiter, cook feeble lodger crept darkling up to his cold ; for this man the choicest stealP'you have. and windy attic. ; Or would you prefer mutton chops, or OLD - ROGER JOHNSON. He sighed as he sat, there in the gloom ; anything else on the bill I Speak for Ten cents ! ten cents !' murmured on the uninviting bed. The comfort he ' yourself.' old Roger Johnson, fumbling the bit of had just tasted made the present desola- As soon as the old man had sufficiently silver in his palm. Ten cents,' lie re- tion more bitter by its contrast. The old recovered from his amazement to realize peated childishly, a feeble smile flitting man huddled together, with the tattered his good fortune, he made choice of some over his lips with a sickly glare on his hag- bed covering wrapped around him, and cold fowl, with hot biscuit and coffee, be-, gard features ; 'tisn't much, but it will sobbed like a little child. It seemed the ; cause these comforting items could be most buy me my breakfast, dinner and supper— darkest of all the dark hours he had yeti readily procured. all in one—and God be thanked for that.' known. Always, until now, he held some / The sympathizing stranger—who, by the His words died away to an inaudible little ray of hope when the gloom was way, was a fine-looking man of forty, with whisper, as hugging his tattered garments thickest, but in the present anguish noth- tasteful whiskers, and an exceedingly plea around him, he tottered along the street. ing was left bim but to die. sant eye—scorned to enjoy the meal, al it was at the close of a rude winter's Once the old man started up, and curs- though he had tasted nothing, quite as day. The evening dusk had fallen, and a ed himself for a fool. He was half fain- much like a fairy story, or dream ! few flakes of snow fluttered doWn out of ishcd in a wintry garret, and the reflection If you don't believe me, look here ; the dark, gray clouds that fluttered over that he had givoa away to the greedy ones this is my business card. You ought to the city. As old Roger picked his way of Jacob Stone' nearly the whole of his know me—perhaps you do. I am rich carefully across the ley slabs, a gay young last loaf fired him with indignation at his enough to afford any little caprice of this lamplighter passed on his evening rounds, folly. kind, as you will see by calling at my store set his ladder against a post near by, I deserve to starve !' he muttered. in the morning.' mounted smartly, and touched with a The world is all selfishness, and he who Roger began to be convinced. By this match the eager jet of gas which east a g i ves anyt hi ng i s a f u ll d o lt ; l e t him suf- time the stimulus of food was having its yellow radiance all around the old man's fer ! But, 0, this hunger and cold ! ; eflect, and the happiness found expression feet. Have I deserved so much 2 ' in deep quiet laughter, and tears. 'Ha!' said Roger, with the very ghost of There were others well fed and warmed, Now, are you sure you are going to be a laugh flitting airily from his numb, cold that night. Roger thought of them ; he perfectly happy 3' asked Mr. Upton.— lips, ' that's a good omen. Light, li g ht, saw happy families, with smiling faces, sit- Three meals a day—all the world has golden light, too, all over my poor old rag- ting around glowing hearths. Then he that—but I don't know two really happy ged shoes. So in my life I have been wept again—not now with e nvy and re- men. Isn't there something else you would groping, though Heaven knows I capered I worse. He thanked God there was corn- ; like 1' as gaily as any school-boy once, and walk- fort in the world, although his lot was to I 1 forgot my clothes,' said Roger. ed as proudly as any youth afterwards— I suffer. He thought of the man that gave I should like a good ,warm coat, and whole till now the cold w inter n i g ht i s se tting in, ; him the money that purchased the loaf; of trousers, and shoes, for this cold weather ; and it's all powerful dark before me—so ' him who had lifted him up when he had but then if I have plenty to eat I can dark, and chill, and threatening ! But fallen, and spoken kind words to him ; of I manage to keep warm.' there will come a gleam soon, just like this the good and patient Mrs. Stone, the moth-; The clothes you shall have,' rejoined which brightens all around, and—and— er of the children he had fed ; and for all I the other. I had forgotten them myself. and—' his hungry pangs he felt richly compensa- Waiter, call a hack for me. You shall go The old man was mumbling again, with tad for having done one self-forgetting, , to my house, friend Johnson, and I'll a sor t of childish, dreamy glee, when, set- charitable act, which made him, in spite of look over my wardrobe this very evening, ting his foot incautiously upon a piece of his poverty and rags, a b ro th er t o all the and see if 1 can't furnish you with an out ice, he slipped, and fell helplessly upon good end noble hearts that throbbed in he'- fit.' the frozen ground. I man clay. The old man's heart leaped with joy.— ' Hillo, old man—you hurt ?' cried a I The old man's limbs, meanwhile, grew Still he seemed to be more than half numb and cold, and he was wondering merry schoolboy. if ; inclined to belidve it was a trick, even He's down there looking after a pin,' it were p oss ibl e f or hi m t o ge t warm if he : after Mr. Upton took him with him into a laughed another, sliding by with a sled at wont to bed ; when he heard a step on the : hack. his heels. stair, and presently saw a light shining made sure of my supper, at any The boys passed on, and the old man through th e w id e crac k s aroun d th e door. I rate,' said Roger to himself. There's no struggled to regain his feet. But he was ; Have you gone to bed, Johnson ?' : trick about that.' feeble, and rheumatic, and the fall had I It was Mrs. Stone's voice, and the old They alighted before a handsome brick well nigh shaken the life out of him.-- man aroused himself to answer. ; dwelling house, with a silver knob on the When he came a little to himself, he ob- No, I thought I'd try a sitting freeze I door, and a silver bell handle, and the served that a kind gentleman was assisting : first,' said he, with a sad, playful humor. I name of Upton on a silver plate—as the him with cheering words. Anything wanting I' ; old man saw by a bright gas-light that No, lam not much damaged,' said Yes,' replied the woman, there's a I burned before the just painted steps. Roger, gratefully. Thank you, sir ; it man down stairs wishes to sec you.' The merchant entered by means of a wouldn't have been much matter if I had I 'To see me !' echoed the astonished , night key, showing that ho felt at home on broken my neck. I ain't of much account lodger, starting up. You didn't mean I the premises, and presently the old man in the world—nobody will miss old Roger I me 1' was introduced into a snug little library, Johnson out of it." I Mrs. Stone did mean him, indeed, andwhere among other comforts, there was a 'Have you far to go 1' asked the stran- he hastened to shake the coverlid from his I fire glowing brightly in the grate. ger. I shoulders, and accompany her down stairs. I The adventure looked more and more 1 1 Not to night, thank Heaven. I live All was quiet in her room, Jacob having' like a reality ; and, when with his own or rather stay, right around the corner I fallen asleep by the stov e , s t u p e fi e d by the hands, the merchant brought, from an ad here, third door up the alley.' heat. The caller was waiting in the dark I joining room, coats, vests, pantaloons, and 'Well, good night to you. Mind and I entry-way below, and th e women held I shirts, all good, and whole, some scarcely keep your legs under,' cried the stranger. the lamp while Roger went to speak with worn at all, and told him to choose what Ho passed on and the old man dragging ' him. suited him best. Roger chuckled with a his sinking limbs into a provision store on I The old man man was tremulous with a d eep inward joy, scarcely clouded with a the corner, purchased a loaf of bread : with vague apprehension that something was I doubt. the bit of silver to which he had clung : going to happen to him ; nor was this fear But I ought to have a good wash, and tightly all the while, then creeping with ; entirely dissipated when in the person who I shave, before getting into anything rcs unsteady steps into the alley, entered a I took his hand, and addressed him in kind- I pectablo in the shape of clothing.' dark, dilapidated d oor , w ith his supper Ily words, he recognized the man that had I thought of that; so . 1 ordered a warm under his arm. ; so lately helped him to regain his footing I bath, which will be ready for you in a few As he was stumbling up a dismal old in the slippery street. I minutes. lam determined to see if it is , staircase, a sharp feminine voice called out ; ' I was afraid I should not find you,' possible to make ono man perfectly happy. to him from the foot o f the first landing : I said the visitor : but from the time you , You've chosen a promising subject,' Is that you, Johnson ?' , left your words—' Old Roger Johnson— said Johnson, with a smile of quiet glee. I , suppose it is, though I sometimes around the corner—third door up the I've a good natured capacity that way ; i more than half suspect that it is somebody alley,' kept ringing in my ears, and I was and if any man is suffered to appreciate ' else,' replied, the old man. I finally compelled to come back and look comfort I can set up a modest claim!' Why didn't you speak I I'd opened , for you.' So the old man was put into a bath, the door so you could see,' cried the other. ' God bless you, sir,' articulated tho ' then barbered by a fellow skilful with a Where does that light come from? shivering old man : this is an -honor I razor, and shears ; and finally clad in gar asked Roger. Do you indulge in lamp- I know not how I have deserved ; your must ments that would have been respectable light before it is hardly dark, Mrs. Stone ?' have made a mistake.' on 'Change. Come in here, and you shall set , . There, ' Not at all. I thought you might have Then Roger sat down in the easy chair, you did. not expect such a fire as that, did need of assistance.' • which Upton placed for him before the you, Johnson 1' True, true, I am -poor enough, Lgrate, and wept like a child. • Bless you, woman, that I didn't. You Roger's voice failed 'Min and he'began c What is the `matter with you?' 'asked are - as warth as • toast here .- How jolly to shake agaitt as with ague. • f4Ond. PRE LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER bLISE6D FCE.ST RUMAT, LT NO. 8 NMI! DUISE . STEM, BY GEO. SA.NDERSON. TERME. SUBSOSLIPTIoN.—Two Dollars per annum; payable in ad vance. No anbactiption discontinued until all eirrear aare paid, unless at the option of the Editor. Anvaas73EMlltrre.--AdVertieements, not exceeding one square, (,12 lines,) will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional inser tion. Those of greater length in proportion. JOB PaLerma—Snell so Baud Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Labels, itc., ,tc., executed with accuracy and on the shortest notice. ON THE. SHORE One of the most gifted and beautiful of our lady correspondents went to Portugal with the promise that she would let us hoar from her during her resi dence in the Consulate there. The following exquis ite lines are the first fulfilment of the charming promise.l—Ed.s, Home Journal. If an an artist soul were here, - What joy it would find, In the grand old domes of the Spanish town And the Moorish towers behind ; In the purple mist that veils The hills so tenderly In the golden clouds, the perfumed air, And the white sails on the sea ! But I—the cold surf breaks And brings on iLS graceful swell A song from the heart of the moaning sea, Sometimes a broken shell ; Which speaks not of the waves, Beauty and life are flown, And Its mute lips have, of the past, no song Worthless—lifeless—alone ! I throw it back to the sea. it lost in your ratiess deep The grace and oharm of its life, now room That its sorrow there may sleep." Oh Heart ! the broken shell Says saddest things to thee ; This sunny land, this purple sky, Are the cold white shore to we, On which the restless waves, The pitiless waves of fate, Wrecked—wrecked and spoiled of my life's young hopes, Have cast me, desolate I sigh for the past. Oh far, Far rather I'd be to , day, In that western land, where the north wind blows, And the sky is cold and gray. Leaving the orange groves, The vines—the blue, bright wave, For a quiet churchyard far away, Where the dead leaves wrap his grave And, kneeling, I would move From the sod the leaves and snow, And lay my head on the cold dead heart That was mine a year ago. 'rho heart-prayer from me wrung Such a bitter cry would be, Forgetting his calm, in my wild unrest 0 come—come back to me' See, for thy children's sake, liow can! be their guide, Weary and fainting? 0, would to the That 1, in thy stead, had died !" Blind ! that I never guessed What my life•cup held before ; Too late, I would live its pains, twice told, To tnste its joys once more: When the master chord is still How all life's music jars, And tear-dimmed eyes, Clare' the dark look long Ere they can see the stare. But, over the saddest heart, The light of the cross shines clear, And "lover and friend put far front me," 0 Lord, thyself, be near ! MALAce, December 7, 1862. 4 TIL&T COUNTRY IS T;8 I aPILO a 4. 01713 ":1 . : .CO I . ops T:1 c • t v . LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1863. 6 , This reminds me of better days—it brings such strange things to my memory I' muttered the old man. Is that all? I thought there might be something else necessary to complete your happiness. Nothing—nothing' Nothing at all ? Are you sure there is nothing more Indeed'—a cloud passed over the old man's face—' there is one thing I would like to have mended a little, but I had no idea of asking the favor of you." Speak out, I tell you, old man. I knew there was something else.' My lodging is cheerless and cold. I freeze there these raw, raw nights ; and I an't sure that three meals a day, and, the warmest clothing, will be sufficient to carry happiness into that gloomy hole.' What will you have then ?' 6 0, I ask nothing ; but the truth is, if I was able to rent a little more comforta ble lodging—' What would you fancy I 'Twill do no harm to talk." I am well aware that the only genuine civilized way of living is to have a house of one's own—but that of course I am not foolish enough to think of. But supposing you were to have a house, what sort of a house would you like V If you mean just such, a house as I have died in some foreign land ; but when would like—why, I'd say some such a my good husband here came home this house as this of yours. Everything seems evening and told me of an old man calling so comfortable here ! A man ought to himself Roger Johnson, something said to be as happy as Adam in an Eden like this.' me, deep in my soul, that it was you. I Now, I tell you what, old man,' said told him of this scar uponeyour cheek; he the enthusiastic merchant, can't think observed it, and no longer had any doubt of turning myself out of doors, even for that you were my father. How 1 wished the sake of philanthropy; but if you will to go with him when he went back to find let me live here, and have my own way a you. But he said the truth must be dis little, I'll give you this house to be your closed to you carefully, and by degrees, home as long as you live.' for he thought you ill, and feeble, so I Old Roger Johnson opened his eyes wi- have waited patiently for this moment, der with wonder. when I could safely throw myself at your It shall be as if you were my father,' feet, and call you father ! said the eccentric Mr. Upton. Every- is not all a dream ! It is all real— thing I have shall be at your service. You you are, you are, my child !' said the ex shall sit with me at table, and enjoy three cited old man, 6 0 God be thanked !' meals a day ; my baker, my tailor, my Amen !' responded the generous servants, are yours, 'Twill be worth half hearted merchant, looking on with glisten. my fortune to have a happy man in the leg e y es . house. What say you to thatl' Don't weep father,' pleaded Edith, Now you are mocking mc,' said the old weeping herself all the harder •3'our trials man, deeply troubled. are all now over.' So you thought at first ; but I'll teach You have every wish of your heart, and you that I never was more in earnest in my all you have to do is to be perfeetly happy, life.' added her husband. But I can never pay you.' You will pay me, 1 tell you, by being Yes, yes !' said the old man ; but why,' patting his grandchild's neck with perfectly happy.' tender playfulness, why did you tell Inc It is too much, too much.' • your name was Edith Johnson ?' Not a jot too much, old man. And, take my word for it, it won't be long be-Upton.hat is my name,' replied the young Edith Johnson U And if girl—'you my grandfather, I am so glad ! ford you will think of something else no- are I shall cessary to complete your full:bliss. I see love much !' • you so by your eye that you have already thought I shall be afraid to go to sleep to ot something—am 1 not right'?' night,' mused the old man, for fear that Indeed, said the old man, letting fall when I awake I shall find myself in Mrs. a tear ; I can never think of being happy Stone's attic, and this will be a dream that until I know whether my child Edith still has passed. But if it isn't a dream, there is lives, or what has become of her.' one thing more that is necessary to give Ho, then you have a daughter V rue perfect peace of mind. I had a daughter—to know that I have I thought as much,' laughed Mr. Up one, and that she is still fair, and good, ton. Speak it out.' and happy, would be worth more than all the blessings you so lavishly bestow upon Poor Mrs. Stone, and her children— something should be done for them. me,Pro to know that is all I ask of Heaven—tea her from her brutal husband, and pro then I would be content to die.' cure her eldest son a situation, where his But how did you lose sight of your child V. poor family,' time and talents will bring comfort to that 0, it would take a long story to tell you that ! The poor thin 's mother mar- That shall be done, if tbere's.any vir ried me against the will of g her family, who tue in money,' said Mr. Upton. Is there hated me because I was poor. But I was anything else V fortunate in my business, and, in the' '-Nothing—only let me know your his course of time, 1 was able to invite my j tory, my Edith. wife's proud parents to my own house, and You shall lie down, father, and I will treat them as such people ought to be talk to you about myself until you fall treated. Edith was our third child, and i asleep.' all the dearer because she (lame late to fill Don't be afraid,' said the young wo the places of a brother and sister who, one man, tenderly. I will take care that you after the other had been taken from our , don't wake in Mrs. Stone's attic.' hearts and laid in the grave. When she , So the old man was conducted to a corn was thirteen years old a failure of a large fortable chamber ; and, when he was peace firm in which my fortunes, and my repute- , fully enseonsed in the soft sheets of the tion were staked, swept everything I had couch, his daughter came to him, and sat earned, and left me penniless. In the by his side, soothing him with gentle midst of my trouble my poor wife died; speech, until all his happiness dissolved, and necessity compelled me to commit and entered, fantastically mixed, and in Edith to the care of her grandparents. 0, I terfused, into the fancies of a dream - . the sorrow of that time !' said the old man, Late the following morning she went ! herself to wake him. How soundly he trieve my fallen fortune, I made a voyage weeping again. To forget it, and re- slept ! His thin hands were crossed upon ! to the East Indies. It would take all , his breast. There was a smile on his wan night to tell you what chances befel me, • lips ; but not a motion, not even a breath. on sea and land. Let all that pass. It is I Edith touched his brow ; it was cold.— enough to say that after an absence of , She - felt his lips ; they were rigid and chilly. twenty years; I returned with broken She did not shriek, or sob, or shed a tear, health; and poor as when I went abroad. but with a feeling of awe she turned her Then commenced a search for my child, ' eyes upwards, and, with clasped hands, but her grand parents had been dead many murmured : .) ears—she had been thrown upon the 0 God, thy will be done !' world. I could find no cue to tell me No more earthly sorrow could the old what had become of her ; no one had re- man know. A happy door bad been open membered her even.' ed to him in his last mortal hours, and • And is it so necessary to your happi- through it his spirit had passed into the ness that you should find her V asked Mr. blessed country where alone perfect hap- Upton. Consider how changed she is by piness and peace await us. this time; if indeed the still lives.' I have thought of that, sighed Roger ; SWEARING ALONE.-A. gentleman once 66 but 0, she was the sweetest girl ! If I beard a laboring man swearing dreadfully , could but find her as I left her, still a in the presence of companions. He told ! child, then my cup of happiness would be him that it was a cowardly thing to swear ' I full.' in company with others, when he dared The merchant arose, smiling, noble not do it by himself. The man said be was brewed, and radiant with the inspiration not afraid to swear at any time or in any that filled him, ! place. Have faith!' he cried, have faith, and ' give you ten dollars,'said the gentle miracles may yet be performed. I have a man, if you will go to the village grave power to do good beyond anything yet yard at twelve o'clock to night, and swear ! conceived. Speak the word, and it shall the oaths you have uttered- here, when you be done. Shall I restore your child, are alone with God.' lie looked and spoke, like a prophet. Agreed,' said the man, it's an easy The old man was thrilled, and awed. His ' way of earning ten dollars.' lips move with a feeble murmur ; and on Well, you come to me to-morrow and the instant open flew a door at the mer- Lsay you havodone it, and the, money is, chant's touch, and, in the fall flood of ! yours: . . • , light from the astral lamp, stopped the The time passed on ;,.midnight oame.— ! graceful form of a young girl, &bill and! The man went to the graveyard. rt was beautiful, and glad, with bright ,curlp,rip- ia night of pitchy-darkness. • As he enter-- , piing over her head and neck. I ed the graveyard not a sound was heardt ! My own child—my own Edith !' cried all was still as death. Then the gentle- - the wonder-struck old man. But it can- man's words, 'Alone with God,' came over not be,' he faltered, sinking back upon the ! him with wonderful power. The thought chair from which he had risen in the ex- ' of the wickedness of what he had been eitement of the moment. alt cannot be.' i doing and what ho had come to do, darted Look at her,' said the merchant, and across his mind like a flash of lightning. have faith. !He trembled at his folly. Afraid to take The old man looked again. Those another step, he fell upon his knees; and melting blue eyes, that sweet and cherry , instead of the dreadful oaths he came to mouth, those dimpled cheeks, the fair , utter, the earnest cry went up—'.God be white brow, and demure chin, every fea- , merciful to me a sinner.' - ture was his child's—his Edith's. Yet it - 1 The next day he went to the gentleman was not his child that stood before him, I and thanked him for what he had done, and else she was something more than human ; j paid ho had resolved not to swear another else she was an apparition that might at loath as long as he lived. any time vanish into thin air. • I Who are ,ycni, - darling asked,"in broken secants. , e I am • E i dit)a:Johnion; said the child, with a bashfal,emilo, The old man took her in his arms, and bowed his face over that fair head, and soticed out his emotion. I understand it now,' he said speaking with an effort, f tis my child's child—my Edith's Edith ; the woman, the mother, where is she V Already a slender female figure was kneeling at the old man's feet ; affection ate lips kissed his hands, affectionate eyes bathed them with tears. 4 Father—father?' The kneeler looked up. It seemed that his lost wife had come out of the past to embrace him there again. 0 Time ! 0, miracle of life ! 0 wondrous divine law ! ever working in the broad day, and in the silence and secresy of the night, when we sleep, the same push ing forward the germ into the plant, from the plant producing flower and fruit, evok ing new germs, creating all things new, each hour and each moment in the day, parent and child forever. Such thoughts whiled, and burned, in the old man's brain, as his daughter and granddaughter lay in his arms, and his hot tears rained down upon their heads. How is it that I have never found you before, dear father 7' asked Mrs. ,Upton, for she was the merchant's wife. F How I have longed to hear from you—to know if you were still alive. I thought you must Corals, agates and crystals are found on many-a stormy shore; Oiris the sold' finds God's most precious ,gifts in the - rugged path of sorrow: Take Care a Yourself. 4 Take care of yourself,' is a principle which,lin some respects, is not negleoted by mankind in general, but is not often carried out in the way it ought to be,— Take care of yourself ; for, be assured, from the very outset, that if you do not take care of yourself, there are none to be found who will perform this office for you. In taking care of yourself, your health, your reputation, your interests, your happi ness, are to be considered, and whatever else combines with them to make up the individual known as yourself. A contrary coarse; may seoure:your temporary popu larity, but nothing more. People may call you a clever fellow, and all that ; but heed them not, for the day may come, un less there be a prudent change in your tactics, when the same people pass you with a smile of contemptuous pity, as the man who did not know how to take care of himself ; and this you will find but a poor reward for sacrificing to the good of others, Your individual self, remember, is a sacred trust confided to your keepina b ; and as that trust is discharged, so will be your happi ness. It is a great fault to neglect your own advancement in life : see to it always, by , every means of a fair and honorable char acter. It is folly to stand aside while oth ers pant and struggle for a prize which might as well be yours as theirs. Assert your own claims, your own dignity ; and heed not the sneers that may assail your coming forward. It is ever so. If you are successful, these sneers will be chang ed at last into applause. What are great men, successful men, selfmade men—all men whom the world admires 1 What, but mon who have taken care of themselves 1 It is not perhaps, that all of them are endowed with lofty quali ties : this was not neesary to the end ; but , it is evident that they have been firm and 1 inflexible in taking care of themselves.— Those nearest to them have doubtless of- I ten thought that they were cold, selfish, and wanting in generous sympathisers— perhaps, even considered them mono-man iacs. But let it be remembered, that if you take good care of yourself, it is essen tial that you devote yourself to a purpose, always fixing your energies upon the end you have in view, and laboring steadily until that view has been attained. All else must be secondary and insignificant. If you pause to chase butterflies, and play among the roses more than is necessary to nourish strength, some one else, who bet ter understands how to take care of him self, steps fleetly beyond your place of enervating repose, aad you will never re cover the lost ground. Up, then and be doing. Waste not, want not,' was well writ ten on the walls of the industrious man's kitchen ; but Take care of yourself,' should be placed in letters of gold before the eyes' of the young, that it may never, even for a moment, b forgotten. Pay no regard to unreasonable sneers about tak- I ing care of Number One. It is your spec ial business on earth to take care of that number, and to have a sharp eye of Num ber One's welfare. Who else is there but you to take care of that number ? Will Toni do it or will Dick 1 No, nor Harry either. If you acknowledge the correctness of this maxim, awake at once from your dreams of interestedness, and look at the fate of those who were careless of Number One. See them in middle life ; observe them in old age. Alas ! what sorrow, what suffering, what remorse ! Be wise, there fore, while it is morning ; for in paying attention to yourself, you will be able to assist those who stand in need of your as sistance ; and there is no greater happiness than this. QDon't be bashful, young man.— Don't be like the person who rode ten miles in a sleigh with a prettygirl on bright moonlight night, with the intention of pop ping the question, but all he said was.' It's quite moony to-night : 6 Yes,' she replied, 'muehly.' And there was not another word spoken. r piTE LANCASTER. INTELLIGENCES 1 JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. No. S NORTH DUKE STREET, LANCASTER, PA. The Jobbing Department Is thoroughly furnished with new and elegant type of every description, and is under the charge of a practical and experienced Job Printer.- - The Proprietors are prepared to PRINT CHECKS, NOTES, LEGAL BLANKS, CARDS AND CIRCULARS, BILL HEADS AND HA P R OGRAMMES AND POSTERS, PAPER BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, BALL TICKETS AND INVITATIONS, PRINTING IN COLORS AND PLAIN PRINTING, with neatness, accuracy and dispatch, on the most reasonal hie terms, and in a manner not excelled by any establish ment in the city. Orders from a distance, by mail or otherwise, promptly attended to. Address a PO. SANDERSON k SON, Intelligencer Office, No. 8 North Duke street, Lancaster, Pa. THE DAILY -L. EVENING, JOURNAL AND T 11?. rr EEKLY DEMOCRATIC LEADER. These Democratic papers, lately published by Albert D. Boileau, (whose connection therewith has entirely ceased,) ore now published sad edited by CLIARLES N. PINE and ALFRED E. LEWIS., and will, hereafter, be conducted fear. 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This alone will place the Lady's Book in a literary paint of view Ear ahead of any other magazine. Marlon Harland writes for no other publication. Our other favorite writers will all continue to tarnish artiolea throughout the year. - , THE BEST LADY'S MAGAZINE IN THE WORLD, 'AND THE CHEAPEST. THE LITERATURE . . is of that kind that can be read aloud in the Welly. circle, and the clergy in immense numbers ere trabseritere tbr the Book. THE HIIBIO . • . le all original, and would cold 26 canto (the price 'of the Book) In the musk stores; bat moat of It to copyrighted, and cannot be obtained except In .Goday." OUR BTEEL2NORA.I7.DIGS. All efforts to rival us In this have ceased, and - we now stand alone in this department, giving, as we: do, - many more and infinitely better engravings than are published in any other work. GOODY'S IMMENSE DOUBLE BILEET FABBION - PLATES. CONTAINING! From five to seven fall length Colored. Fashions on each piste. Other magazines glee only two. FAR ABISAD OF ANY FASHIONS IN EUROPE OR - - I=! Godey's is the only work in the world that gives these immense plates, and they are such as Ito hare excited the wonder of publishers and the public.' The publication of these plates cost $lO,OOO MORE ' than fashlon-plates of the old style, and nothing but our:: wonderfully Large . circulation enables na to give them. Other magazines cannot afford it. We never spare .money when the public can be benefited. These fashions may be relied on. Dresses may be made after them, and the wearer will not subject herself to r1(1111' cule, as would bo the case if she visited the large cities' dressed after the style of the plates given in some of our-; so called magazines. ' OUR WOOD ENGRAVINGS, of which we give twice or three times as many as any other magazine, are often mistaken for steel. They are so tar superior to any others. • IMITATIONS. Beware of them. Remember that the Lady's Book le the original publication and the cheapest If you take. 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The undersigned, having made arrangeementa -with 'Mr IL JONES, for all his best quality of PEACH BOTTOM SLATE, for this market; and a similar arrangement with tho proprietors of six. of the principal and best quarrieein York county, be has Just received a large lot of these superior qualitities of Building Slate, which will be pnt on by the square, or sold by the ton, on the most reason able terms. Also, constantly on band, an EXTRA LIGHT' PEACH BOTTOM SLATE, intended for Slating on Shingle . . Roofs. As. these qualities _of Slate are THE BEST IN :THEL MARKET, Builders andothers will find it to their interest Di to call and examine - Wriples, at my'°Ma STREAMER'S, Now Agricultural and Seed Ware•rooms. GEO. D. SPRF.OIII3I4 N 0.28 East King 5t.,2 doors West of theGourtMense. • . Gr This Is to certify that I do not sell my best qnality of Peaeh Bottom Ganged Slate to any other person • in Lancaster, than Geo. D. Bprecher, ss abov ß. e, stated. ' • • JONES, - Mannfattarer of •• Peach Bottom Rooting Sias: ; 37,7 • r, IA AN. II 0. -Lf AW: K. LEONARD, Paoassuoit, - ' Main' Bred, ditorma. • • , I Citizens, railroad paaaangers and travelers generally von find this an,excollent and pleasant house to Idop at; It • convenient to the railroad, and has bean matted. and furnished in the best atyle, and the plopTlotoz..will, Rfr t e,vr no pains to bantribute to thb comfort °UM' ;pinata; • His table is always supplied with tkwlaxtutwand Seth' , " ; 'stantiala °f life, and his liar is stocked. w1.140,h••.0b9W . . lianwpeettcdly invites one-and all - to : lOW and ensures them that their every went will be athillCllidell to. Chorgosmodarato, Isiet.7,l°lngt NO. 15. A. S. GRIEN, President
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