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OitT IN THE GOLD: • With bine. cold hands and stockingless feet, 'Wandered a child In the 'cheerless street ; • ciblictren were many, who,housed and fed, I.ocingt4 nestled. dreaming In bed,— Carrolled their joy in a land of bliss, IVlthout a Cain or thought of this; 'They were warm tri'huntantty's fold, • BUt albs little child was ottt In Alta cold?— . • : Out In the cold. ' wartvii' , Otti l ln the coil on the , Thetaintill face of a mother ' A Aster ilressed on her brow a lifss Led her 'tithl scenes of heavenly anger,; gathered into. their told • That ' night the little one ont of the cold— out of the cold, A LION IN THE *AY: A little headstrong piece, a pretty littleiheadstrong piece, every old wo man in the neighborhood called Bes sie Allan ; and when she and Georgie Knight, her mate in , most of her frolics anti . adventures, were t o!ret her, any . thing, the same authOrities de clared, might be expected. Never theless, all the - neighborhood were Bessie Allan's friends; they all loved the little bright head, the dimpled mischief of the rosy face, the glis tenin7 ofthe , brown eyes, with their long, bright, half-curled lashes that knew so well the demure trick of veiling the lustre underneath them at the an4icions moment, and mak ing the face too tempting for any thing but foqriveness and kisses. he was seventeen, and though all the neighborhood. might'in some way be called her lover, yet she had never had that single and individual loser who belongs to young girls' dreams; for with all her -gay spirits there was a certain . shyness—almost 'like that OfAhe little wild-wood animals, which allures you and then escapes you— and no . admirer had ever approached the lovely, frolicsome, piquant thing near egottph to become a lover. That is to say., until this present epoch, of which we are about to speak ; and then one (lily the new.minister—yes, the new min ister. young. heart-whOle, handsome. mill believed by some of the old women , of whom mention has been math.. and some of the young ones i - oo,tO be nothing .less than an angel id.dis!mise, for it' such things had' happened once, they reasoned, then they:might happen again —just as he roselin the pulpit, saw Mistress Bessie 'come walking into church, and it wai all over with Mtn.- l'ray (het think ill of the young thinner. ' It was no earthly love of which he. was Conscious during the brief hour of the pulpit. Only to him, Shat early summer day, thesky was Moor, the. rose was rosier, the Sunshine seemed more than ever to be flowing out of heaven itself, like the shimmer ofthe river.of life. lie was not "exactlyaware that he had ever sc.en Bessie, Allan ;- all that lie was entirely . conscious of was that :tuldenly, at; if he were in'nhi ceStacy, the whole worhl had brightened and lifted ifself.•and he prayed and read and preaChed after ft manner that made the congregation talk, during all the intermission, of Tobit and the angel ; and - then he went home to dine with Mr. Allan. As for Bessie. shc,,sat very still be tween her father imd mother in •Ittlrelt, and forgot all about , her roguish plances hither' and yon, all alaint this body's ribbons and that body's hat. and beard the preaching lint the - praying with anew light in her eves and a new comprehension in her mind ; joithol in the 'Singing- of the hymn with her whole soid, and a voice like a bird's; and perfectly agreed Tor, the time being with the old women ( and ''the. young women that thiS was' nocotamon minister, hut morakely tO be a spirit in mot-- taViguise than' any mere graduate of th&orry • „yet Mr: beck - with was not of such imamterial form' as • might lead to sujli opinion. . He was a deep-chest ed, broad-stOtildered • fellow, with short brown curls 'clustering in thick rings upon a head of antique outline, with a steely glance in a pair of great blue, eves, andwas byno means ; any mote ethereal in , apperance than a man of proper proportions and natural emotions should be, except in such moments *as those when ,his excited asPirations lent a singularly pure and-holy expression to the face that was usually rather' 'severe than otherwise: . • But if this young gentleman had not 'been :self-conscious of Oessie's presence iii church, he beeanie - very conscious:Of ,it in-her father's house. Not imnrliately. to be sure, for the awe in whielt she had been spell-bound did not.wear off at once, But 'when she found' that the minister liked plenty of gravy, when she had helped him twiee,. to dumplings, when she had discovered :that he had a good hearty heathen appetite, then - the mischief..in her began to get the up per. hand, and' almost before she knew what she Twas about, the eyelashes .Were doing. their wonted .execution. Mr. Beckwith saw the rosy roguish, fade before'him' on the darkness 'as he Walked "tome that night; it made a picture in the sunrise clouds when Ire :woke in the morning ;. and after hi - had know n her a fortnight,. there Mal I. .71. 5(10 N. N. SETT, Ju. S. W: ALVORD O Publisher. 1 Selech:d &Or. 11lent blew the w(nd through the cheerless rect. Dashing along through the nierelless AU fuired and shawied, luau. woman and child, liurriett . along, far: ate etonu grew wild; They could not bear the r iclete's Winter so tittle Willi* pathway cast; AlasPxonc pltled 7 no one consoled The ',bee little wanderei out In the cold— ' Out In the cold. She had no father, she had no mothei, Slster6 time. and never a biothert They had pascPd on to the star-worid above— sne rent:thya here, with nothing to love. Nothing, to love.,"—Oh! men do not know . What wealth of joy tlnkt child could bestow; So they Went by and worshipped their gold, Leaving the little one out In the cold— Out In the cold, vdrandert‘d ,he on tal the shades or night, • Yelled the shivering form from sight; Thet t icL.h cold hands over her breast, SIP' prayed to her Fathor- in Heaven for rest. When hours hail 'neath the world's dart: frONVIL Hungered and chilled. she laid herself down; Lay ,I,Av4 to rest while the Wealthy rolled earrla;;es past her oot In the cold— Out to the cold, Out In the coil—to: an angel feror itrotight her white rubes that were rich and &lairdfora. , , was not a day or an hour in which that face did not. seem to. be lurking somewhere about him—on his sermon paper, between the leaves of his com mentary, in the very sunshine that fell across him. Mr. Beckwith was not the man to consider this a•mawk sentiinentality, or a thing to be checked by ilagellations and mortift (Title-us of flesh and spirit. He knew, in fact, that his hour had come. He sat down acid reasoned the matter out himself. A child, indeed, she was, he. confesSed, but then an utterly lovely one. • Not precisely the mate rial for a- minister's wife, according to old-fashioned- theories, but then he.had abandoned old-fashioned the ories in that respect. His wife was. to belong to hiin, not to the parish, and in time she would be every thing the fondest parish could wish. And. as for any thing more that could be urged,. theie was but one, answer—he loved. her. A mouth 'ago he had never seen her, yet he was sure 'he had only beenjouineying toward her, and he was as determined to make her his own, and as confident that he should 'do so, as if he had seen it written in the book of fate. When Mr. Beckwith determined on a thing, lie was . iii the habit 'of accomplishing it. But still fir. Beckwith had perhaps had different subjects to • deal with hitherto ; as well Calculate on a will o'-the-wisp, he presently &find, as on Bessie Allan:, TO 7 day she_ was all melting smila and glances, to-mor roWshe was remote as a star; to-day she was like a bird on which he was just about to put his hand, to-morrow she was singing and soaring far be yond his reach. After he had met .her in sonic of his' walks, and had spent . an hour beside her, sometimes strolling, sometimes sitting 'on a mossy stone, and had been amazed. at her acquaintance with , the things of nature, at the insight into: spiritual things Which tier young mind in this (quiet moment showed, tits sympathy ;with all sweet and innocent influences, its reddy acceptance of the great truths to the statement of Which his words were apt to tend—after all this, he would be just as likely as not to catch his next glimpse of her, down in' the meadow, in company with Georgie Knight, Making cheeses with her skirts, us if she were ten years old, or racing.. like a madcap through the.tstraight lines of lie or- chard; stopping only for, whirls , and twirls "and swift waltz steps as she went along, like .one of the old pica tures.of the sylphides; or else call ing the filly to the bars, and catching her by the forelock, and gallopping away down the, paSture . Without sad dle or bridle, hair blowing in the Wind, as Wild as !MadgeWildfire her self. lllr. Beckwith was not sure that there was not something unre generate in his heart still, for,. if he acknowledged the truth to himself, he.loved the little baggage at such times more than ever. -It actuallyseemed to all the neigh bood, at about that time, as though BesSie Allan were beside herself with exuberance and the mere delight of youth and health , and sunshine. The sewing circles and the prayer-meet ings were only so many places for wiles and witcheries—possessed with glee at the one, a c6quettish little Puritan .at - the other under all her' glances—always contriving to go hoine. with some other gallant than the minister. The Bible class was the'only place that_ttuned her much, and there' she grew more and more silent ; her veil gradually lowered and lowered till it shielded her face ; and as long as her unaccountable tears could lwitely,..and only blister the leaves: of her Testament unperceiVed,' she Staid ; and when a hysterical burst became inevitable, without a word of warning she would rush away, 'as if in danger of her life. Nobody else dreamed what it meant. Mr. Beekwith thought he kneW.' Poor little Bessie! If ever a young falcon out of the forest ob jected to the' clipping of her wings,. she was one, for she : felt the band tightening around . her. Evidently she wns in the mood of .those who mean to have their fling out because they know an end is coming. And yet if you could have seen" Bessie's face sometimes as she at in the twilight,lhere was such a serene content in its half-hidden smile, you would have said to yourself that here, if any where, was supreme happi nes. But the child did not know herself, for. close upon any such brief experience - of content, there would foliow such a restive rebellion against all chains that even Mr. Beckwith was startled, if he happened to be in the house on some. Parochial errand, and saw her dancing down the stairs and through the halls, vouchsafing him neither word nor look, answering neither father nor mother, flinging down her hat if any body called to her to put it on, whis tling to her dogs; and making off for . a tramp that was to tire out with its fatigue / some of the refactory spirit: Mp4t men would have hesitated a while after one or two such scenes; would have foreseen the plucking of a/little termagant from this nettle; Would have anticipated trouble in the flesh after the battle was won, Not so Mr, Beckwith;-' If so good a Man could be piqued, he wit perhapS piqued into the resolve for conquest; he was determined to teach the tan 4 talizing thing that it was 'happinesi she was flying from, and not torment, as she seemed to believe; ; he *as all the more.fixed in his intention to win her,- . -to win her and to, tame her. But not one chance for his winning and: aming did he get, that is to say, not one chance after the abrupt end of the single opportunity he had .eun-, trive4 to seize and lose. . - . Ile bad been called that most three months since' he first saW, Bessie—to visit a dying person across the hills ;- for ninny of those who did not exactly belong to 'Mr. Beckwith's parish used to bor'' for his Ministra tions ; and in the little time. of hiS residence' among them,, more than one soul had. seemed to wing away the easier](in their eternal path for the rapt prayers with which his presH once had upbuoyed their flight. The roads being roundabout, and thc bridle-path direct, he had bor rowed a saddle-horse—a.valuable one,, as it chanced-- returning, now in the twilighte loot in thought,. JV . TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL S, 1875. and coming slowly, his horse's feet falling so softly on the turfy 'ay that one could hardly hear thcza, when a sudden scared cry; as Ifie turned a curve of the winding lane, told him who was, wondering there before him, with her light garments fluttering in the wind, at sight! of which his horse had reared rind swerved aside; and he cast himself from the saddle and caught Befisie Allan's hand, begging her not to be alirmed. t ".But I have been!" cried 'Bessie. I was thinking,"; said Mr. Beck with, i " and ! had forgotten myself. Ad when I saw your white dres4, it seemed like a continutttion of My tkought." Were you thinking of my white dress, then ?" asked Bessie, aptly.f . iu No, of another; a whiter dress," said Mr. Beckwith, gravely—" of a white dress that I saw a soul put on to-day, winging its heavenly Way.l A little overawed, Bessie was silent. have just come from a death bed,Bessie, said Mr, Beckwith, tak ing advantage 'of the mood. ' peaceful and beautiful it Was that it makes the things of this life seem too pdot• and small for thought beside that everlasting one." - • I " Is Miss Barton dead, then ?" she asked, though no one knows how she had learned where the minister bad been. :" Yes, she was a saint. i I wouldn't like tobe so good." . 0 Bessie!" .1! mean it would- be so stupid,!" "But at the last ?" he queried, pa tiently. "I—l don't like to hear about death," said Bessie, with half a - pqut, half a !ling. 0 Few of us do when we are •youn said the minister. "Yet we are all drifting on the tide that takes lus there." • •' I "Don't !" she cried, "Ah, I have felt it . myself," said the: minister. '"Youth is so. of vitality that l it is antipathetic to death: There are only two things that reconcile us with the inevitable fact—one, weariness of life, and the other, that exceeding love • which makes the liOurs seem long. I hope thetirst will never come to you, my,--" "No indeed," cried Bessie. "How could I be weary of life—how emild any one be ?" 4 If such an hour as this were per petual," said the minister; taking off his hat, better to enjoy the perfuMed breeze upon his brow and in his hair —"this purple air, with the scent of the, hay fields :floating through jit ; this tender sky,. that trembling star, and the young, strong health find heart. 01 no, if such an hour were perpetual 1" "It is!" said Bessie. "It comes day after day, summer after summer. It always will come•to me as long as I liVe. No, I never shall be willing to (lie and leave it; never shall . be Willing to lie in my grave, and know other girls are walking in the lane these summer nights, with the sweet wind blowing over them, and the— the'—" • Bessie stopped in confusion. What was it 7 she had been about to say ?' Perhaps` the young minister was not aware that ,he still held Bessie's hand ; but Bessie was. She essayed to Withdraw it, and then the grasp tightened, She. blushed red and red der; she felt an arm stealing roUnd her; and then, looking defiantly tip, there was the minister's face bending before her.' She knewwhat 'he *as abOut to say. She didn't want to hear it; not yet, at any rate, did she want to hear it. Butt she (lid hear, it. Thht arm held her Close, close to a plunging heart; thal voice way miir inuring in her ear; those lips, they sought her own ; and her own—yes, indeed, -Mistress Bessie—half eager, half unwilling, were; answering them —were answering them ! And shd denly, almost ,as if she did not know what she did,'she had lifted her hand, with the willow switch in it -with which she had been playing, and had dealt the horsebeside.them a' swift little' blow that startled him into, a rear and a Bound, 1 - tore the - bribe frotu other hand, wheeled Ml'. Beckwith shortly atiut, and sent the horse; off at a pithy. There was' nothingfor Mr. 13eckw,ith to do but to hasten after the horsiH so:valuable a creature, and not his own—and - then there was nothing for the wayward, wicked Bessie, toldo lint to sit down on' a stone and cry, and go "home at last all dew-bedrtg. gled, and dash past the family room like a wraith, til) the stairs to her own nook, bolting the 'door with a resounding ,echo that might have dispelled any fear of the supernatural. She sat down in her dark room then alOne, dazed, but safe. She loved him —7-iyes, she loved him, she was afraid; but he was a minister, and she.didn't want to love a minister. She was half promised to him, but in ber thongtits there in the dark room she defied him to exact the proMise. 4 ‘ What in the world is the matter with the girl said her mother.. • 'But the father ilnly nodded ids wise head, and bade the mother 'to leave her alone. He looked at the absurd little portrait of his short whisted Aunt 'Dorothy, of whom BeSsie Was the image and superscrip.- tion, and remembred the storyiof her courtship as he had heard her tell it; it will all come right, mother," he said. - "It's all wrong now," said the mother. " And thee tantrums will he; the death of me if they clop% come to an end soon." ,Perhaps Mr. Beck With thought they would be the death of him. If he did, he could devise no way to over come thern. Half promised as she was by those melting'lips of hers, he could not arrive within sufficient dis tance.of the rebellions little maiden to exact the rest of the promiSe. That his power was felt, and not only felt now but recogniied, was evident enough, or she would never , hive tried to escape him so. In the mask of . hoiden, or in the mask of, non nettle, whichever way it was she iVas equally inaccessible. if there was to Lei a picnic nowlin the . parish, an occasion where were on a- level, this young woman announced her intention of going,he fore Mr. Beckwith had the chance Ito invite her, in the company of anoth et suitor, and nobody in that house hid ever been • much 'J in the habit iof REGARpLESB.OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. gainsaying Bessie Allan. When even ing meeting was over, she was not the one to wait for the minister; she caught her father's arm, and said, " Quick I Don't let any body take me " And after that mark of con fidence, the proud and loyal hther, happy slave of a spoiled mistress, would not have surrendered her to the minister himself, who was, it was very likely,splodding on behind with her mother and the lantern. When the sewing circle closed its sessions, Bessie said Yes to the first spruce young Corydon that stepped forward. and when three weeks had passed after that twilight in the lane, Mr. Be.ckwith had , not spoken one word with her. . But, tor all thatthere was a chan_ • in .Bessie. Nobody ever heard her voice caroling out of the window now; nobody heard her old sweet laugh, • like the-lriusie•- • ._V a brook ; there wlis a curious little frown be tween her eyes when on her maddest escapade. 3.1 r. Beckwith, looking at her unperceived, with his' longing pain, felt that he did not conquer soon, it would be the worse for Bes sie. He knew well enough now—af terl the. innocent kiss whose remem brance so thrilled. him—that she loved him; he knew well enough that it would bteak her , ' heart should he abandon his "attempt; he.knew well enough those . hidderi springs of reel- Ingil which reacted so' upon the young, 4iatiire of which she was ttally ig '*norant, and whose 'first sti iring so di4urbed her; he knew well enough that he. could make her so blissful that she would . one day wonder at and despise this time. of doubt and ,fear and this desire for longer liberty 'from the ,great thrall of rove. ~.But not one chince was• he finding to. make her learn these things. It was just at this season, as it hap-* pened, toward the close of the bright September days, that flaming hand bills were posted up at every corner and, on every empty 'fence, proclaim ing 'the approach of Eden's great Scriptural Show arid Gymnastic Eno tertainment, which the villagers were 'not, however, deluded into supposing any thing other than a circus. Miss BesMe, of conrae, read the handbills in common with otheis, and straight way, announced to her astounded fain- ily that she was to be ii patroness of the great Seriptural -Show to the ex tent, of a single ticket. is Go to the circus !" came the as tonished chops of remonstrance. "It isn't a circus;" said Bessie., "it's a Scriptural show. ; There are texts froth the Bible on every cart." " They take the.- livery of God to serve the Devil in 1 . 7 exclaimed her father. . " I don't ;'sce any such necessity," she rejoined. "It's an opportunity for studying- natural history such as Mdom occurs, the hills say." "Much natural history in those dancing_womcn nmTh!iding men!" r " Oh, as for that 'part, I shouldn't think there could be :any thing more 'interesting than the sight of those people springing through the air fiom their trapeze," said the *ell nformed young person,." arid 'showing what fine bodies they can make for them selves. Like pictures of the heathen gods ! " " Nonsense ! " said Mrs.. Allan; " nonsense ! Your head's turned. You!'a deacon's daughter I" " Yes, my child;" said her father, " I agree with your mother here.• I have never denied you much, Bessie, but I feel that I must deny you this. You can't go to the circus," _ " You," said the mother," that the minister has paid attention to !" That settled it. Nothing but irons could have kept Bessie front that cir cus after those fatal words:- She con fided to Georgia . Knight once her intention'of going to the circus; and when. the mighty show came into town, she watched her chance and harnessed the Bliley herself into the little open wagon, and set off with Georgie Knight., unseen and untnissed .for a time; to visit the beasts and the gymnasts of the forbidden entertain ment. "What the - minister can see in that girl," Said old Miss Sparks, looking through the windoW as the wagon whirled by, " I cant see. She'S - an engaging rogue, that's true, but I 'shouldn't want to marry, her." _ Bet as nobody wanted Miss Sparks to marry her, it didn't so much signify. Bessie was in great spirits. She was disobeying; that in itself idways kindled her merriment. Then she: felt sure that Mr. Beckwith would disapprove, and that was an other excitement. She had a : fore boding that the time was coming presently when her free agency would cease; till it did cease she_ was, defi ant. And accordingly,.. well-pleased with her success thus far, she and Georgie sung and laughed till the. road' rang with their overofiwinggay. ety as they drove along and put the filly through her paces. It was onlya couple of miles be fore • the road grew' dusty . _ and thronged. . People were coming and people were going, All sorts of ve hicles jostled together. Far ciff they could hear the strains of a band ris ing and falling on the wind till they were in an ecstasy of expectation, as theY grew silent and listened. Booths began to line the way, with lemonade and mineral water and worse; and presently the tents rose on their sight like white clouds, the .flag waving its long folds ..over: them.- And • now they were in the great space before the tent, crowded with teams, with foot-passengers, with men leading pie-bald horses 'and Shetland ponies; with boys crying their - wares, with the voice of the Boanerges who pres sed the claims of the fat woman and the learned pig on the attention and through it all came the ; burst of the band again, in some tripping dance Music, the roaring of the beasts and screaming of monkeys and parrots ' • and then the great tent seemed to swell and soar, and a girl all gauze and flowers, was running up the air on.a 'rope stretched from pole to pole, far overhead, dancing from sunbeam . .to sunbeam as it seemed to the rapt Bessie. What transportl she thought.; and she sat with her head thrown back,Jegardless of everything but thisl flying wonder in the air, till sud denly a shriek rose. from the „.great tent.r.a shriek that was repeated In the crowded stisre.the shriek of. s • - 1 tk . • " Oh, you kiiOw it," she eried,•and fainted on his shoulder, just as the keepers sprang with their ropes upon tie poor old, toothless lion, who loved his frolic and enjoyed the scare,' and of whom Mr. Beckwith,--a muscular christian, with a pistol in his pocket, having made.'his harmless acquain tance, moreover, inside the tent— had not felt it necessary to be much afraid. thousand voieea—one awful cry of fear and agony from 411 the people, echoed again by all the beasts within —the lion had broken loose! . What a scene it was! What a dreadful scene ? Men were yelling as they ran, children were screaming, women were fainting, horses ivere rearing and snorting, the crowd was surging and plunging this way and that in a frantic effort to escape. Bessie, suddenly called from her rapt reveling with that spirit in the•air, gave one look—one look of horror— tried to pull therein, then, weak as a Child, fell back upon the slat. The filly turned her head, and then, with starting and foaming nostkil, stood upright one moment, - and the next bolted away from the broken traces, and left altstanding. Georgie Knight, With a screech, flung herself from the wagon, and was swallowed in the fly ing multitude; but -Bessie sat stone still, her heart beating- with great knocks, as unable to move as one paralyzed. What swift thoughts swept through her mind ! This was. the 'end of all• her wickedness.: This was what she deserved for alit the pain she had given - father and mother—she, 'their only child, their hope,- who should have been their joy!. This Was what. She deserved, •it flashed across- her, for making bleed the heart of the Man that loved her. Deserv,ed ? Ah, no one could quite deserve .to be torn to pieces by the, teeth of a wild beast; If, she had but' been true to herself, to him, liked less to see her power, feared ess for her liberty, what peage and pleasure might have been 'hers this instant! And now— She .re membered. the Christian girls in the ROman amphitheatre ; she was not even a martyr. She had wanted to study natural history; she had a fine Chance. She could not stir: In anoth er moment the brute would be done his havoc there, and come leaping through the canvas: Another'ehriek ; great bursting wave of shrieks. Ah, yes, there he • came, tail. in the air, tawny mane bristling, eyes blazing— coming in great bounds through the already half-deserted - place, coming straight for her ! She cowered an instant, then sprang to her feet, and glared full at the advancing monster. was too much. With a wild cry herself, she tiirned--but only to hide her face in Mr. Beckwith's breast, as he climbed into- the wagon behind her. Thought is fleet : instantaneous Was the rapture mingling with the q'fl'ony, instantaneous the motion with • which she pushed him from her. "Go! go!" she cried. "I can't hav& my folly kill you too! Oh," as he did not Move, "it you love - me, g r c i ," it is because I love you that I shall stayrinurmured Mr. Beckwith, sWiftly, in her ear; "that I shalt never go until I hear you say .as much.", It was Georgie Knight's seat that Beckwith occupied that evening as they drove slowly home, after the recapture, of the filly and the mending of the broken traces, Mr. Beckwith htiving made the Most of the three hours in which he had had Mistress Bessie on his hands; and Bessie her self, tired and weak, lying restfully, i(you will believe it, within the arm that enfolded her. " Bessie," he was saying, "this is Only the second lion in the way. What wasllat first one which always drove you from me so?" '1" I—l was afraid," murmured Bes sie. Afraid of me !" . 44 And then—and then you took it So forgranted!" " Oh, indeed," said the minister, folding her eldserstill ; "and what if li.ook it for granted that you were going to the parsonage with me next month ?" Oh, I'm hot fit !" cried Bessie,, with a start. • • you make one objection," said her lover, "I shall stop at Justice 'Pettigrew's on .our way. - and take you home with me to-night !" And there, with that _tender •arm about her, that face beSide her own, all in that soft September twilight and tin der the lamp of the evening star,. What could Bessie do but yield Y don't know what father and ;•mirther will say," she whispered, as nOast, having left. the wagon, they - climg together one moment in the 'porch, and saw the father and mother ;hastening toward them - down . . the long entry. Father Allan," said the minister, walking in, with his arm round their nanghty darling, this is a kill-o'-the that-Lhave eafttured, and that I intrust for just - three weeks-longer to your care. It has come from the :circus, and it is bound for the par sonage and there," said Mr. Beck with, "it is going to turn into the light of the house,' the spirit -of the fireside, the sunshine of home!" -- /14rper's New .3ffmthly: • ONLY ONE . DOOR.--It is said that the ancient city of ,Troy had but one entrance, and all who would enter the city must enter by this gate. A man might go round the walls as much as he pleased, but he would find no other entrance. ' It is just•so with that glorious and beautiful city, the heavenly Jerusa lem. Only:one way leads tolt, and it can be entenled only by onedoor,and that way, that door, is the Lord Je- BM!. (John x, 1-9). He alone is the Way - (John.xiv, 6.) No one can enter there, unless he goes by this way and enters by this door. Header, would You be a citizen of the New Jerusalem? Then you must enter by this way. You must leave behind all that you. loved in! your old paths, for "atraight the gate and narrow is the Way that lead eth unto life."—From the German:. said a sorrowing wife, L4low peaceful. the cat and dog are." " Yee," said ths raftlaat husUnd i 4 ! but jultila this icfgai and aenhow , 1 . • i , •' ) . - • -" ' , c • . , 1 * r[tiplioilootilluipl: 1.114(01. I Amon, f 1 11 , 11-410 LORN TEXT; Ia crl43. - Swain QUART34I.. The book' of Judges is the second of the historical books It is so called because it is occupied with the , history of the Is raelites during the period when they were under the. general administration of judge& These men must not be ear. founded with the ordinary - judges. under the Theocracy. Exodus chap. 18.) "The office of these Judges (Shophetim)," says Kurtz "was not of permanent character. They were raised up by the Lord in cases extraordinary affliction, for the purpose of delivering the people,and spirally retained, evenafter their task had been performed a judicial and magistratic 'power as long as they lived. Their position and duties wore allied to thise of the prophets. They were propluits in action." The condition 'Of the nation during the period • of the Judges will appear as we study thelook. l It is generally described as a non-regal state. " Ther6 was no King in Israel?" (chap. 18: i; 1941) There was no regularly orginized central power in the nation. It was a condition of pure "states' rights." The tribes act ed in a great measure independently of each other. ThiS condition was.not so fa, vorahle to military development as the're gal,(hence, afterivardi they determined to have a King, so is to•be able 1:p 'vie with surrounding nations), but it was far bet ter adapted to their moral and religious advancement. It taught them the neces sity of depending upon Jehorah,and of so living as to be worthy or his presence and help. The chronology of thili period is dif ferently calculated. Some make it 310 years, some 320, sotrie 315, sad some less than 300. (Scel 1 Kings;6ll and Acts 13:20. Also consult commentaries and works on biblical chronology.)" The precise date of the composition of the bOok cannot be determined,. It must be assigned to- a time after thh eAtablisli ment of the kingdom; (18:1: 19:1.) 'And it must be asskgiied 'to the period before David's conquest of Jerusalem,' (1:21; 2 Sant. 5:6-9.) JeWiEdi traditions state that Samuel was theLauthor. It may -have been written during his life, and under his supervision. Whoever wrote it must have availed himself of earlier written . documents. Our space will not permit us to give an extended annlyisS of the contents of the book. It is enough to say that there is a two-fold introduction; the first extending from chap. 1 through chap. 2:3; the, sec ond from 2:6 to, 3:41.. The body of the book, 'containing ' [ an account of the seven servitudes and the Judges raised up for he deliverance of the people, extends to chap. 17. Then follows l a two-fold appen dix, made up 'of events 'contemporaneous with those recorded in the - body of the book. • Our lesson is apart of the second intro. duction. We may analyze it into three parts: (1) The sin of the, people, (11-13). (2) The punishMent, (1445). (3) The mode of deliverance, (16). • 1. The Sin. - 'The children of Israel 'did evil," or "did the evil," as it might be rendered. The sin is then specified : "They served Baalam," (1. e., Baal under different forms and names: Baal:Nor, Baal-Gad, Baal-Aaman, etc.) , They followeg other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about' them, and awed themselves, unto thein." "They: , served Baal and Ashtareth." This means in few words..that they adopted in heart, and to a considerable extent in 'practice, the Canaanitish worship of Nature. This was essentially the deification of Nature. , The, Mosaic religion regarded the Deity as entirely distinct' - from Nature—as the the, Personal, supra -mundane Jehovah-- who yet used it as an instrument for the accomplishment of his beneficent pirrpos-: es; 'whereas the heathen nature-vrorship, by which it was antagonized, regarded the Deity astthe, 'same identically with the hidden power of nature—the generating„ preserving and destroying power thereof. In the Canaanite' worship of nature, Baal, • (the Sun) represented the male, and Ash toreth (plural; Ashtaroth), sometimes called Baal-tis, and in Greek, - Astarte, (the "Moon) represented . the ; female prin ciple of the Deity; both 'cfnu worshipped with rnani , impure and abominable rites. The sin of Israel, therefore, was the de desire after and ;adoption of nature worship; the very "same sin into which men are running headlong today. • But this involved a its Condition the rejection of Jehovah and hig warship. It was apostasy froni revealed to natural re ligion. ,Soit is said that they forsook the Lord, etc.; verses 12, 13. Or. as it is ex pressed in the 16th verse, they "knew not the Lord;" f..e., they -ignored Jehovah. They did not publicly renounce Iris serv ice, as they had publicly adopted it a feiv years before, at Shechem, but they ignor ed him altogether," as go many men are doing in Chriiitian lands now. Yet ho -Was the Lord e., Jehovah, their na tional God); be eras the God of their fa therS, who had proved, his love for them by delivering thCm from Egypt, (Josh., xxiv: 2-43) This was a heinous sin. • 2. The Punislmpnt.7"lir the—very_fl zt steps of their apostasy they provoked the' Lent to angere' verse 12. AB the apostasy ,team o more flagrant, "the an ger of 'Jehovah was hot (or burned) against Israel; v 14. The. word "auger." expresses the neeesgary . :iud ardent oppo sition ' of God's nature to sin. In this. sense it was a, judicial *anger. It also ex presied the warm Indignation of his fa therly heart, in view of 'their ungrateful, disobedient conduct. In this / sense it was a paternal aiger. The con Sequence this anger is stated (1) negatively; v. 14. He delivered them and sold them •by withdrawing his favor and assistance. (2). Positively; v. 15. He hoisted his hand (or power) against them in all their Undertakings,go that they constantly. failed. Their enemies succeeded in all their mok-ementS; they failed in all their'ti. The inevitable remit was that "they were greatly disttessed;" or reduced to ex tremest straitS,l This was jii'st what GO had threatened.l chap, xxvi.; Deut. chap. xxviii. t . 3.' The Blode of Deliveranee. n " The Lord raised up 'Judges, etc.;` v.'! 10. The reeerd , of these I*3liveratices makes up the body:-of.the book. There tiere seven v itals of ifervitt*, and- from these they ware delivered by thifillaktillfelk.,'• • WS . IIIO Use this Ism, Att twit (i) p2MIII APRIL, 11, UM IN per Annuin In Advance. NUMBER 44. , that maxima. wors t * some superior ob jeet, or objects. (2). Jehovakis a jealonS God. (8). Ens favO . t to us is Conditionea upod our following hint, (4). Without his favor and-help we; can do ixothing.: . (5). 'Even if we do sin and forsake him, he will return and deliver us, $f we repent and do works meet for repentance.' "lie will not keep his oxigefAleiver." (6). Our Judge ti. e., Delivered Christ Je ns. j A VISIT TO THE : OBELISK Or OH. Brightly shone the !Alp on that clear December 'afterntion, and the air was mild and Pleasant as we drove from the busy streeta - of 'Cairo on Our way, to see the 'site of that famourS city of the priests ; the acible city of On,-;and to look' ,upon the Oldest obe, disk' in Egypt, bearing date, it said, about 2,000 years before Ottrist. Our way lay along a pleasant road, shaded with green trees, while around RS stretched - fertile garde4s and gated. flekia 'of rite and corn. Now and then a little , donkey-boy passed us singing his monotonous song. . Miniature specimens of ,ithe rising Egyptian generation occasionally plored us for _baeksiiee.sl Yonder, like a phantom _procession, passed it 16fi g i stiring of camels with silent. tread. Hero a pertly Turk, balancing himself with difficulty On a very small donkey, ambled along. times' a carriage rolled , . by, Within:which women With veiled faCeS looked curiously at, us from their dark, languid eyes. , ire first stopped to examine the famous sycamore under whose braneli es it is said the Holy Family : rested in their flight into Egypt..: We drank twin the waters of the well li ,whie tradition says wereelichiged from bit ter to sweet by the tOiich Of the Vi gin Mary's lips. , Then we sat down eneath the old tree; while thought erosided upon thought 'as we leaned' .1. against its sides and looked up at the blue,sky through its ffreen. foliage, It might not, indeed, l 'be the same tree which shaded the face Of the in , fant ' Redeemer, tholigh theSe trees live tcl ft great age, and it, is not roi -1 possible that, this -niay have lived through all these years guarded by k so zephyrs and smiled upon b ever: sunny skies. Precise spots are, after all, of . little meMent; or surely we should not. meet, as We do, with the believer of Scriptitre On these and ,- kindred matters, about which solna 14- 4,-not angels—have desired to leek into? Yet'it seemed tOlbring the Saviour nearer our hearts to think that he, a little child, looked op these very scenes; for it IsS-as in this -part of Egypt . that long after the .Christian 'era, a.colOny of Jews •rii, sided, and very likely it Was the diS triet where Joseph and Mart would have sought refuge from the blood thirsty Herod; ' ! After remaining a While; and pluck inma leaf or floWer here land, there, to aild• to our box . of `'treasurers, we Went on to' Heliopolia, of which now'little•renfains but a i:vast - aeen. 'inflation of 'debris, reaching over.it farge, area, the -long lineS of unburnt earth marking clearly the,site of this r ' Once celebrated' - seat of ~ learnincr.H: And here, among the rUlthish pf ' once grand city stands :•the single Obelisk, covered with hiCrogl3plueis Still 'sharp and clear, though it was it diundreil - years old When Abraham . Caine into Egypt,' and, mayhap, stood in its shadow even as we were stand ., nifi• them' It is of red nite, about sixty-two feet - in height, and six feet ip .diameter. at the ' ; base; weighing more than taco hundred tons, and ;Mist have been hewn froin the quar ries' Rt Assotian, eight hundred miles away.. . We looked Up at' the l• silent atone, and thought Wird scenes it had gazed upon through all :these ages.. Here,, it is. claimed, Joseph stood ,bride, Asenath ; "here Plato s'ndPythagoras "studied ; here Moses learned the wisdom . Of the-Egyptians, and here,' tells us; Jeremiah wrote' the Book of; LaMentations'; and bere stands in lonely grandeur twin coMpanion - gone (obelisks always stood in Pairs.)—is ifdefying . Time and Fate—Tointingi to the im perishable, unchanging lit*eni3L--the, •obelisks of On, fit monument for the dead city and its vanished glory.. It is not wonderful that the city of Oil lies in ruins, for in the lapse of time all things must die, and 'nearly"- 4,000 years have passeA since this city was in the height of its glory), It' is only wonderful that anythimi fashioned by..4mman hands, like this obelisk, has lived' through the ageS of change and death; has stood thrOugh Storm and sunshine inimoVable, unchangea ble, while empires . have risen and fallen bekide it. • - WARNEEs-A- ) Stery is;' a told of little child who; having, slipped the' sidewalk one frosty; morning; stood' and kept over the 'spot, warn.' ing all passers-by ;of .411 e danger and I doubt much if there were any' Who did not;need his advice, And yet there are thousands of good men standing by every danger ous spot in the pathway,of life; warn the - inexperienced . of ' l ithe dang 7 cis of. the way, and many are they who,. with a Sell: conceit jthnost un iniaginable, Pass Q n with 'a scornful; laugh, and repent toq Or perhaps, although the danger of the' plade be great, they may not fall; they Tags on to where another good Samaritan is, waiting to advise thetn; having gathered bravado,'!theY Vasa 'on with a sneer as Much to say, ‘ l ' Oh I 'hoW Weak are they who have fallen! 'Ara strong, .1 can keep my balance," but sooner or later they will fall. It is inevitable ; arid:the longer they .continue their course the greater will be.the shock and the more com plete his destruction. , - • The little boy. had, his reward in seeing people act upon his -advice ;! ; but those . whole-sonled, generous men. - who are laboring for the gaud of un-I appreciating fellow] beings, Seldom' have this. satisfaction. • - Yet let thempreSs on their work] patietittir and well, for theyshall their reward in the great hereafter as - surely as those :who heed !'them not shall be punished. I • "Julius, why didn't ,youlen your stay at the Springs?" "Kase ! , Mr. Snow, - deraharge totgaueh_ , _."' "Hew au, 'alkali" 241:4a bafflxd ohargad die! oolorod u.ma& yid OWN, 4, avow • 1. THE HAMM' TRAOffift, Jane - Only- Bwisebelm writes tPe fejloWink to thet-l' Tacittnt. Can. I. tr dal, rhick'xontalift V Much - W 1 vice and words ofif.:st r atilt to - laktenlis:. Bafore, this Hattnlet, horror pusits out of the public kind, penalt ine , to call attention to the, lesson it One*" on the common" habit 'of leav: g, children to the care of Servants & a t Othei irresponsible persons.' it -* possible that OrtWein 'told the ' truth in hiS last - confeSsion, and - that ' e had Simply , been Waiting an otporth; nitrwhich would 4ertainly Itave come sooner or later, but the` - probabilitSs ,are,"tha i t he lied .tO the last, and only meowed that punt of, .his crile which his 'shrewdness told him it_ Was ,useleS to deny; bat, however . thls may be, the parents who Went, out for- a soelal visit, and left two little girls, from 'dark until bedtime and 'late !n the night, wholly - in the isoweriof sin apprentice boy and tramp, eannot-,he held. innocent 4 the catastrole which followed. •Toor Mr. and M . llarrinet paid a 'sad, penalty for ~,theF' Want of prudence I . but while We re gard them as victims,.public safetly requires that their neglect of duty should not , go_ unnotieed. 1 , It is the more important that at tention be called to this _view of the case, since their delinquincy was a. a kind so common in all classes irf society. There ate perhaps few- rents who do not, Sometimes, go Tr+ home and lease their children with persons to whose care they would,* entrust fifty dollars in cash., True, few 6f the little ones are murder4(l. ,outright by theleguardifins, becauic ihd number of absolute monsters of, ,human form is lifnited ; but' manyla 'child dies from unsuspected injnriks . Ireceived at the hand of those, to whoiie care itlhas bee n c onfided, while , , Mather and mother took tea with la -a neighbor., attended lecture, aco - 'theatre, , evening l eert.'a a party or prayer meeting. :Many a seed otdit3- sown , is so , and many alesson . in morality taught n ever dreamed of by the confiding pare nts. Those parents ... who, to enjoy any; pleasure Or memo of improvementj leave their iittle ,ones to the care of .Biddy,picked ti; :in an intelligence; office or , a tram 'called fromthe - roadside, are either !groS. 7 'ly deficient in prudence - or in Aatural affection 1- and ceitainly , ac morally responsilde for the consi- Auences of their 'neglect of duty. m 9 1 it seems bard" that a other shoul d be ." tied at homei" but this 'is one of the conditions of motherhood; and 'no Claim of ,society, no pretense dr culture, no religious dutY, no mil - sion ever can , 'release 'her . trim tl e obliontion of personal care of NIA* --` ,childrca. . f i MI Mill i ' , • • •; I Only when.sheos obliged to leave,! theni - to earn thetr bread can she - be! .niltleas,in forsfikinfr her post,lfor art 1 'hour, without prdriding a substitti .- lon - whose sense o'f honor' and eft .- 4i(int'slie can rely g ; !.. ' . . - This duty; of .eZconstant l personal , care! devolvea, principally, upon, _tile mother, because it is.the father's.titk' to 4.:i? •out•and ._„wi:jt their; bread ad& whin she goes foOelaxation,it shoal' be When he can sflppFy* her place 4t houle. Society , "should not •Pepe t, the ;father and mother of a family gn Out , togetheo'or, evening amuse. insinnts, except 'whim a g`rnildmothei.,, or : Other relatio#, takes - . their . plad at To m e. The birds Mighrteach lis its, lessons on?, this .subject: bee nest +bile the - other• - . p:no.rds the aniUif this terrible, tragedy teach i s onr'people. to thipk more of "the dan-- ger ;;;Of leaving chxklren' to, the care : serVants it Will be something gaine i..f ince .ants, Jverit to heaven I am ** than ever glad there are "mai4 maiiSions!' in that country, for if"e'tle I rn s° fortimate as tUT..get there, iI ani.Sure I shoul¬ want him:in the houSe with me. !I .;" ' :.. . • 1 . . . KAPPPY l'lnitm--We. pity the Man i 5 however proSperons his itectima condition, or liett*er great his fain , whOhas not a ItaopY home. ' A happy home is the heaven of th Is life. 1 Yet many pf Or most distlit 7 ; guifilied men have not been fortunate in this respect. tr - :- - ! •-..- They have beeli made to feet hol. unsatisfactory wits the world's- at, platiSe, or the pOssession of 'official power, while all *as cold and, heart less. or unsympatbizing in their . p9IL rate homes. ' . have not; these I.intiappy--Matelies liar ;alWays, or generally ? been mule from motives of ttmbition. They hae seemingly . beenl the misfortune f chnnce. But what a terrible misf H. tune: L i All the t: distinction in t e world affords nd compensation fin. suet', deprivations There.di sotrip-* thing ,inexplicable .about many 'un happy Matches. r 'A, young coupe marry from actual preference ..f r each other, and trim no motive h t sineere affection ;1 hut . a Want of co -. geniality is subsequently ' develo , p and la wretched home for life "is, the result. Blessed, indeed, and ind i st highly favored„ are they whose homes froM beginning to end . are "always happy. . • .!! FUN, PIOT .110ETTE.. " I At,Low that ,ob, was palm:it," re 7. marked a farmer, !'but nevertstel , determined Shanghai hen sitting Oa nest full Of boiled eggs.? • . 1• , . •.• I • A MAN up the Hu son.,, who advertises his country seat fcni sale, centimes it to the '4dimple on beauty's -cheek' , Mote cheek than dimple, inobly.' 1 -' "Oh I've loved before,", said a Dettioit woman to her fohrtli haishand ? ae she took a handful of hair from his head becanse . he ebsectcd to hangout • the week's waiih .,4 : 0 • • . ‘P.ellow-citizenit; . said a carpet- r. addressing an audience of colored peo le in gonth Carolina, ' Via) , skin! is whitey " it is trtie, but my soul blacker thanyours.", 1 • .. t DeAn . nr," mad good old lady, Ito was Unable to keep hp with her work, I shall:he glad when I get into Eternity so as fp 4ave, 'plenty of time to do eve • ." AFTER Waiting four years, a Mi • . lover:Anally pepped the tjuestion, and Ithi answered, 'Of course, I'll have yint. Wlty;l you fool you, we-could hive beep married three years ago."' • • - a. *iayr.usa editor SllllllB,u the calaini-. ties of 1874:--, First that Beecher busiOss,' the* the grasshoppers, then:the Dente cratielviCtories, and now an increased iax on-Whisky. What is this 'poor, country coining to?" . "Where's themolaasee; Bill?" - sak a• red-headed woman sharply to her min,' who shad returned with an empty. Jim., "No* in the city,' mother: Everygnxtry bas •al large board- outside, with hitters chalked on it,: "N. 0: Molasses:"` • I • X 31 : Ali out West who :martiedt,a widow has invented a devim to cure her of "etkr nally?.! praising her former husband. Whenever she begins to descant on !Os Tiobieipialities, this dear No. 2 m y /re-' ly says: "Poor, dear man! Now I sit he liail . not died I" " DIED very seddenlY," said 9ne fenaale to another at the Post Office vtin.. dow in . Detroit. "and did tte bum ihis life insured?" asked the other. " TOW"" three thousand dollars." , Ob, col, then it tat so had, 'His vrifs cm bays &Aiwa .set, !Nam *IOW - 6141 1 a- silk titian ) . 0.0 saw& tam*/ duff . to Ott tgs wartik . - • II II