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All calls prozaptly Attend- Varmsw. jT !BLACK, General Fire, " f ife; re and Acridenlal hurl/ranee Agent. Offic*ttJ. p,r.;wn's Wyalneltig. Pa. - inn2,lo-43m w.WALLAGE, , REELER, - r ,cE,. SIGN AND FRESCO "PAINTER, 15, 18711-yr. & VINCENT, INSURANCE A,FsTs.--Ofnee fortnerly occupied by Mercer (WO door...el:web of Ward Houle. w. d. ereczwr: r.. cAmp. 'inayl.o27o • p_ FOWLER, REAL ESTATE PFAI.EII. jilo W e tshincton Strrset, be i,,,. n I",:iSallt , and Wells Strisfts, Chicago, Minot& i',tat , • purelos.d and sold. Investmenta mita". lt,r.ey Loaned. 3ra,,T _ PA'r'rERN erTTIF.'d AND MENG in all fashionable ..hpri notice. ROOMS in Mereur's New Mai,t.,jorcr Porter .k.R.jrhy's Drug Store MRS. H. E. 47FAR T Pn..l 13. 1870. • JTAIR, .ORE:. OF ALL, KINDS, i ns SINTTC'EIkS. CURLS, 1311.AIDS ‘ FUZZ es, rralo in the best retanntT and latest style!, w4:-,1-11..r.5b Barber Shop. Terms reasonable. wanlia , . Dec. 1, 15f9. _ • VITAGIS E. POST, *PAThrI'ER, I Ma '11 , 13. Pa., wltli trn yk.rs experienno.,ll4rok ! nt b, , ,1T1 givrAli c A bet . Ptistartion in Planting, l , ".•!1:11', St:.fningC.: ~ .inn. Paprring, ke. I , ,vst , r 114 r 1,11 vn l 'on , aiena your brow i) loAl ic;nlc;ng ind I locia you nosy." Sho Sal t s on'hia licarteter palllng We - ; • Ho It i oki f a bet close in 'dug embra,co.. .- • • Slowly I#4l4l.ber,Roniolthia bi - caat - Back to lierl ong Ixrflreamlesirreat. Ho bond's an& ;- Whiter than inatblo And cold. so scion He 1%116i:ie .. rs low, " ven • Reinsn ,145 me when we mect in ' Alas! the secret of many a fate' • Then two words tell, "Too late, too late!" . TED DOOR : IN. TH:F., HEART: ." mat Irrli away up a great many pair stairsri,hcr heart, was adoor easily passed by, and on that door was written weimax.' < .".Mot so it is wad - the drunkard ; far away:rip a great many pair of winding Stairs in hislctlrrt there is'a door easily_pasSed by, And bn must knock.:3 that dar ' , once, twice, seccu times, yes,_Senty times sevi , ft.to open it.7--.f.ouN 8.. (lout - 3m! . He w as an old man! Not so very old; either; for the - :wrinkles, that marked his visage were not•the auto graphi pat time's finger .had laid there,. and the hand.that placed upon the loW,pine -.table the well-drained glasi, did not tremble 'so with ' the weakening that age induces;- yet very old od very wretched lookeV.he sohr, occupant of that narrovi'll3o . --- nl - ,' - ivith: 'its red curtain, and floer stained with tobacco Saliva, and an atmbsphere abundant& seasoned - by the bar-room, into which_it opened. • A hat—it 'must have been infended for one--lialf concealed the 'owner's ' iinporabed locks; and unmistakable evidence of a_ familiar acquaintance with brickbats and the gutter did , that' same hat p'roduce. Then _there. was; a coat, out of whose sleeves peep s; ed a pair of elbows in rejoicing con-,; sciousness that they "could afford to be Ont." Add to theses reader, a tat tere - d pair of trousers,' and you havg the picture of the wrotched.being who has just commenced his 'daily" pota tions in . the only " grog-shop' he was allowed to enter. And yet the wretched, •friendless,- man that , - sat - there, under the stupefying effects of his morning dram, had-a - heart; and, far away up a' great many pair 'of winding stairs in that heart was - door easily passed by, and on that door, covered with cobwebs • of time and neglect, was written, " 51A N." 'But nobody dreamed this; -and - When the temperance than had gone to and promised him employment and if he Would "'sign,' and others (well-meaning men_) had rated hina soundly for his evil7ays, arid he had turned a deaf to all these things, and gone back with pertinaci ty to his " cups," everyliqdy said old Bill Strong's case wiAa hopeless one. Ah ! none of these - had' patiently groped their way up the heart's wind ing stairs and read the inscription on the hidden door there. • Bat while the untapPy man sat by the pine table that morning, the bar keeper suddenly entered,,followed by a lady with a pale, high. brow, mild, hazel eyes, and a strangely winning expression on her mild face. The man looked up with ii vacant stare of astonishment as-the barkeeper ten dered the lady a seat, and pointed / to the other, , saying, "That's Bill Strong •nia'ani," and with It glance that in i ditecl very plainly his w9n der at whrit - she - could want there, left her akind with the and now thoroughly sobered man. , The soft eyes 'elf the lady wandered with ii, sad, pitying' expression 'over old till'irfeatitires t and then, M a low, sweet voice, she asked, " Am I rightly informed"? Do I. address Mr. William Stien..?" . Ali! with these few words' the lady had got.farthei up the winding stairs and nearer the - hidden door thin all who had gone before her. ‘ "Yes, that„is my natney mit'aie," said old Bill, and he glaneed flown at his shabby attire, and ;actually tried to hide the elbow that` NN'Eris . peeping out. It was a long time since he had been addressed as .111r.Willitun Strong, and somehow it. sounded . very pita sant to liim.. ' ' " - .. I am very glad to meet you, Urr. - Strong;" responded the lady; "I hawk heard my.fathee speak of you so' of ten, and of the days when you and 'he were boys together, that I almost feel as if we were old ,acquaintances: .You surely cannot .have' forgotten Charles ortison ?" " Oh! 4?, Charley and I'used to be great cronies," said old Bill, with sad - den animation, and a light-in his eye, such as bad net shorie there for a long time - esdept when rum gar's it a fitful brilliancy. • Ah ! the; ? : • did not blow, as per haps-tbe an. : did, that she had mounted th :- . l ' airs and was 'Softly I,feeling for unseen dcor; 80. she W. - - Went on: ~ , most *a, Mr: Strong, iisii I . 4. , the old spot upon Which 'four' ~ ,inaeitradr s tood,- I have heard my ~ !4ier - descnbe it-so ofte.n. The ' ... wi • of crown•of old °aka tit the,: -Wt. of lt house, and thrilieid of Pellour . • t grain that wav6d in fay- - ~ there way ho green - -Ailp frogt k iloor,•.with the that - - i its sha llot th' N ".. . I poitico' •• . 'le that bed-over i m roses - • t peeped t wind ' , and the nia and.hub pbe4tegreen taint hoitise." = . - • • • 1' _ _ . ESE $2 p4*:,A3' intpn A.4.va,nee.i• +"F00 - LATE. aad uneasily ' in .his Aselea around hia occasionally, but im- 4-7 1 mindful otthis, the lady kept Ori in the same low, melting voice : - ; , , Many and many werethe honr§ ', lio father would say, 'that WillieCl I used to pass under the 'shad° of. . that old 'apple tree playing at , 'de v and seek, or lolling on the grass: d • telling each other-the great thingi we meant to do when ,ewe' became I big men, while Willie's blue eyes • weird sparkle with hope and 'happiness; and'when the sunseflaid a" crown of gold on the tOpof the oaks on the hill, Willie's Mother. might - he sees standing . in• the' portico, with her e,aiowy cap and clieoed apron, end we would hear. her voice mlli.ng, i Come; boys, come to slipper-7 l'. ' One after another the.shig,-warm, blessed teataivent rolling down old Burs a - eeks,.ltrid fell_ on the Eine.* ble.- -Al t _ the' lady 'milt at t e ,deor then.. - 1- 1 --..._-••?•,,- 5 -,- " ',-_-,,-- ----- 1 - tiais.awaystitlionie' at -Wit lie'l3,!litlieewould siiY, ` and used AO have 7 ray - lbawl -of ,-- _,A•e:a milk' and bread, too; and , wheirtliese• hiur-dis-. appearect Willie would draw his lit tle StoollO his mother's feet and she would tell'him .sothe. Pleasant story of Joseph, or. pavid, 'or some good , lioy who afteniard became- a great Man, and then - the-wOuld part Wit lie's-bra,Vri curls from off his --fore head,-yd-Say in a- trembling voice I can never forget, `Promise me, Wit : , lie, *hen• yoU are. a ihan,__Eunk tya gray hairs off , your motlieEicre resting; in the church yard yonder, feu will never disgrace - her memory.' 'And Willie would draw up his slight form, lift his blue eyes'proudly to his moth er, and say, =Never fear mother,. I ,will make a good man,. and a unfit one, too,' andllien, after we had wit'd purl evening •-prayera, we • would ga, contented arid hapl4 astlie bird that nestled in the - old aPple,tree ; to rest. Than; just as we'were sinking' into some pleasant dream, we would hear a well-known footfall on the stairs, and a' kind face . bending over, would inquire - if ive=were nicely tucked: up. ° ' It is a long. long tinie,' father would I say, 'silice'ljiesairl from Willie, but_ I [unsure hohi - sieyer fallen into any evitwaYs. The words of his - inother roiild keen-him from that.' i , Pap ! rap"! rap! went the words of the lady at the door . in.old -Bill's heart. Creak! - creak ! creak! -,'vent the diJor on its `rusted hinges. The lady - could. only see the subdued man bury-his face in his: clasped hands, and while his frame shook like an as pen,leaf, she heard him murmur, .ami childlikeliobs, " My mother, eli -•ray mother 1" With a . silent prayer of ihankfulness r ahe, resumed: • -.".But there was-ono thing my lath 'or roved to' talk ofbetter than all the rest: It was of the morning you were married, Mr. Strong,. 'lt was enough to do ours cy:es good tolook at them; 'he would say; 'as , they walked up the old elniiiett,aisle; he, withlia proud, Manly tread, and she, a delicate, fraw ile creature, fair as the orange' ' blos oms that trembled in her ° hair: .1 remember how elear and confident Willianni ioice sounded through the old chnrch; as he promised ..,. : to love, protect and cherish the bright, con tiding creature 4s side, and I knew he thought; as he 1 oked down upon (1 7 3 her; tlratthe win of Heaven would -never visit her fate tog r,oughly ;". and m then y father wold tell us of •your pleasant homier; an of the bright-eyed di boY, and the f '' -haired gni that came after a _while tcrihidden's4 and then you know ho removed to anoth er part the•country, Mi.. Strong, and lost sight - of you.' . 4 Once again the lady paused, for the, agony of the strong man , before her was fearful to behold,' and, then in a lower 'tone she spoke' thus i , "I did not, forget the promise I made - my father previous to his 'death, that if. I' ever visited : his .native place, I would seek out. his old friend. ,But when. l. in • ' ed for you they unfolded a' ter:- rible . • ery to nie, Mt. Strong. They told e • of a 'desolate and broken household. _Of a blue-eyed boy that a father's heart might so •well delight in, whO.had left his home in disgust, and-despair, for one on the hoeoless -Valera; of the gentle,„suffering wife ; who, faithful to :the last; went'. down with a prayer on her lips for her err - - ing husband, brOken-hearted - to the' grace, and of the rairhaired orphan girl, who followed her mothe - r, in- a little while. ~, Oh ! 'it is a sad, gird sto-. ry Lhave heard of ray father's, old friend." -, - ' "It was I ! -it wits I that did itl-,I killed them! cried old' Bill„-lifting his to - wed head, and :gazing on the lady, every feature expressive of such wild agony and lielplesSremorse,that she.shuddered at the despair her own words had causal. (Wide, mile open stood , the -- iloOr then, and the lady passed •in• ) -, • - ~, -, A_soft hand was laid soothingly up on old Bill's arm; anda voice fult of hope - murmured: . "-Even for all this, there is merc,y,. There_is a redemption through the atoning merits of Jesus, and you well -now ,youirSrsl, ;step toward it. :Sign the,,pledge.Q In the r.ame of the last prayer of yPar dying' wife, and of the child that sleeps by her side, I ask you; as your friend, Will you• do it?" "I will!" said • old Bill,' while he. brought down his closed liand-• , with such force on the rickety pine table' that it rocked beneath it; aw i i ft. gleam of hope lighted up his-features, as he seized the pen and paper' the lady placed bifore him, which paPer con tained'a declaratiOn, binding all who signed it to abstain from the use,..-of intoxicating beverages; and he returned it to her—in bold le 'tile characters; there Iv -written benea itthe name ; of , ' : There was an expression4most ht dicrous from its intenseness-6f char acter, on'the bar-keeper's physiogno-, my, as the lady, after her long inter-. view with old Bill, passed ;quietly =through the shop, andthe expression was not jesseried, when old Bill, a frit moments after, walked through With outtaking another glass of grog; and ho nevar passed over the threshold kgnin. - • .-- , Earnest-hearted reader, yoii - whoae 'soul may be glowing with symPsthY for,. Your erring •brother man,- who would gladly raise .hint from the depths of sin and degradation,: and , point him to. 'the - highway- of pac6 I . iiiid prosperity„ remember, tlier& is a door in , every hiiman breast.. See that - you , pass not by it,-British Inirktnen,. • . iiiiiiENl A Hard-shell Baptist ministerliv- iii somewhere .. on . the - frontier of • • _ llhasonri, was -in - the habit of:4By ing. to his family mid to his "Friends, you flitted not take anynn- noel care of your lines; the moment • of your death was written before the • foimdation of the world, , and ion - cannot alter it." - Ins wifeA:observed__ . when-he left on Saturday, .to. meet `• one of his 'frontier nussnmary en. igagemenb3, that he 'dressed the flint ~ of his rile with . Williftlia care,_pnt. in -' dry povider,__lresk tow, 'and' ' took- ' ~ every Foxing to 'make ifiree that ! the .. .. cap *gran would go off in '' -he came up on an Indian. It atm ' her one, day OS she saw him .in th saddl ,e -..with his rifle on his shoilder, that * his condnet contradicted hietinns* . - and alio said to him.: • .. ..- ' • . -/ ) NUMBER 43. "My dear, why do yen: take this ' rifle with you ? If it WILS 'writ fore the foundation of the world that r'. you were to be killed, of course the rifle is unnecessary; ,so why take With you atall?" 'Yes," hekreplied, "of course; my.dear, yeu are` all very right, and that is a very raver view; but, see here, thy dear,—now—real lyr—but then; you see, my tlear sup pose I shoidd meet an Indian while t - Ifam gone, and :his time had come, ' and I hadn't any rifle, with me, what Would ho do? 'Yes, my dear, we' • must all contribute our pat toward 2 the bin:me:it - of the decrees of Prey idenca." • • SECRET_' orHirrnuiss.--=-, An thON-whO had • struggled thr