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The REPORTER °Mee is well supplied with power presses. a good aSsort .rnent of new type, and everything in the printing line can be executed in the most artistic manner 'and at the lowest rates. TERRIS INVARIABLY CASH. Business Carii, W. It.X A.N G. COr:RTY SL rERINTENDENT Office day last Saturday of each month, over Turner Gordon'sdt Drug Store, Towanda, Pa. Towanda, June 20, 1578. EI i SBREE & SON, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, TOWANPA, PA. C. Et.snnzt. TIA.IN-'TIGS. • _r PORTRAITS AND LANDSCAPES Pali!tett to order at anv price front tzi to VOO. oil Parings Rk,l'aluted, Re-Touched, or changes paile Wi desired. AB murk (lone In the highest style of the Art.. - JOHANN F. BENDER. To- l itell; Pa.. April IF:. 1878. T ROGALSKI, 1. • Employed with 3f. Ilendelman for the past four _ y . ears, begs leave to announce to hi friends and the puplie ,getterally ,that he has rumored to the Boston 99-Codt store,: one door youth of the First National Bank, nod - opeoed a shop •for the repair .0 : of NVatehos. Clocks. Jewelry. ac. All work war= a ranted to give entire, satisfaction. (Apr47s, we J. YOUNG, A.TrollN I.'N-IT-I . A W, . . TOWANI)A. PA. Office—second door e•outh tit the First Natlcinal Balk' Main St., tip stairs. .D KI\NEY, • ATTC•r.StiI -AT-1....V.. '. OP3ce—Room, f,,rrnerly occupied by Y. - M . C. A Reading 11 ,, (nu. .• Zjall.lfl's. WILLI.A7SIS. A:CGLE, ===i OFFICX..-zFormAly occupli.,ll.3* Watkin: ;," 11. N. LLIA - Nt. (6ct. 17. '77) L. a. ANGLY— , T L• A T7IIIINtV-AT-T. 4:NV 71 , WANDA. PA. Diet AWL, Era 4, Co MAS9 , N it HEAD, ATTC•II.VETF—AT-LAW., Towanda, Pa. Office. flyer Barth , tt &T. ;try, aln-at. l'a`.l -4 77; Anti! vr t ItLap.. T: 4 l L. 11114.15, ATTOirN EY-ATI.A NV, TOW AND A, A'A. E. F. QOFF, Ey-AT-L:ov Main Street (4 doors burth , of Ward Hous,..). To iranda, Pa, ;April 12, 1877. .IkV H. TTIOTP.SON.- ATTORNEY V V • AT LAW, WT , At.U , Ivr:. WIIt atter.d t buslue,s entro-t'ed to 6i, care to Bradford, Sullivan,and W3'011114 Counties. Ottice with F.N. Tarter. inesl944. Cri L. LAMB, . . A TTOTC.VET•AT4.,Avr, WII.IIES-BARRE, Collicgons promptly attended to. TWIN W. MIX, ef ATTORNSY-.17-LAW AND 1.7. S. cO.ll-NIZAADNXII., Toy,' A NIIA, rA. Office—Nona Stile rubiic D AVIES & CARSOCITAN, ATTORNISE-AT-LAW, SOUGH SIPE Sq , WALD 1101 SE. Dec,23-73. • TOW,AND.A., PA. Tilt. . M., WOODBURN, Phys - Jur thin and Surkeon. 011 Ice over 0. A. Black's cr , :rlkery store. Towanda, May 1,18721 y.. : 71‘1 , ADILL JIFF, ATTOR 'N EY F -AT-L ANC', TOWANDA. PA. Drace In Wood's Block, first doorsouth of the First National bank. wk.'s:airs. - H. J. MADILL. rjarts-731y) J. N. CA LIPP. GRIDLEY & PAYNE, AT - 1 - 4,Er,—.lT-L Ave. ..South slae3loreitr Block (rourns formerly occupied by Davies 3; Car:lot-Ilan), TOWANDA. PA. art 1) I= ARIES 'WOOD, ATTORNEY-AT-I. ANC, TowAND A, PA. 133153 CFI A 5.. M. HAIL, ATTOUN EY...AT-L . AW AND NOTARY, Wl3 Ore etrefill attention to any tirisitie‘setittuft eLI D , him. Office with •Patricki it Foyle, .toser .7-nrna2 Office), Totramt!, Pa. cJune7,77. GEORGE D. STROLTD, ATTORNEY-AT-L AW 4loorA North of Ward House: Pra , tlces hi s'ilprelLe Court of I'enn.yiraula 31/41 TOWANI)A, PA Status Courts.—;hee:.•;a. • fL STREETER, ATTOIINEV-AT-L ToW.k.l'ilt A. PA.. i 1 uglo OVERTON & MERCtR, ./LTTOTIN TTF...AT-L A Tr, TOWANDA, P. Once Of er 3iontanyes Store. [MaY 67S . D'A. OVERTON. ROD].IF:T A. MERCUR. WM. MAXWELL, At - veil:ET-AT-LAW TOWANE/A, Office over Da) ton's Store. April 12. 1576. PATRICK. FOYLE, • ATTOWNEYS-AT.LAW, • • TOWANDA, PA. OtsCe, In Merv:l.ra Block. JA.NDREW WILT, • ATTOILICILY.AT-LA4 - • - , Otee - oterOm' Book store, two doors north of teeolis k Long : Towanda, Pa. May be consulted n German. taprll Ta.) I • C S. RUSSELL'S GENERAL 7NSITRANCE AGENCY Itists.7ott. . TOWANDA, r.A. INSURANCE AGENCY. The !ollowitkg RELIABLE AND FIRE TRIED . . , , • Comp:mit:4 representel; Alie3lllll . E,III I .ENIX,IIO3I.4,_ItERCHAITTS, Match 16, 74 . ' 0: If BLACK. OVERTON & SANDERSON, ArrosszT-AT-L►Sv, - TOW A' PA: E. Orsitrox, JR. ionsy.4lArimutsox VTB. KELLY, DEsiisr.--,Ofilee . o..r.][. E. Solenttold's, Towanda, P. Teeth Inserted on Gold, Sliver, Rubber, and Al. esanlnzo tem Tee th extracted wi th out pitti. T -T A. . 1 " D. PAYNE, M. D., 'Pint - SIC/1N AND StrUGIOX Once over Montanyer store. Once hours tram 10 th 12, ♦. L, and from 2 to 4, P. x. Special attention Ornate diereses of the Eye and Ear.-0cca11,,764f. D\' \T. B. JOHNSON; - , PIITSICIAIg AND Spnoso yr. Ocoee over, Dr. Porter k Sou% Drug Store, Towanda. lattUrStf. , • ' . 1864. . • - 1876 r WANI)A. INSURANCE AGENCY / Val* fitted, opposite tile Coot HOUIC W. W S. INCEN T, MANAGER. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, CAPITAL .PAID SURPLUS FUND..:... .... . . 60,000 This Bank offers, monst facllities forth° traria. action of a general banking bnsiness \ JOS. POWELL, President EA.GLE HOTEL; • \ , (so sivr. RrIILIC SQUARE.) \\,, Tbls well-known house has been thoroughly ren\ not - abed and repaired throughout. and the proprte-' tor Is now prepared to offer first-class accommoda tions to the publie,'.on the_ most reasonable terms. E. A. JENNINGS. Towanda, Pa, Slay 2.. ISZS. . . EINRY HOUSE, • L. Etsßnir.g. (ON THE EUROPEAN PLAY.) CORNER MAIN & 'WASHINGTON STREETS This large, commodious and elegantly-furnished house has just been opened to the traveling public. The proprietor has spared neither pains nor expense hl making his hotel first-class in all its appoint ments, and respeetf Tally solicits a share of public patronage. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. .Terms To suit the times. Large stable attache& WM. TinSll.Y, PI3OI . RIZTOR. Towanda, June 7, .77-tf. V 4 LIVELL HOUSE, TOWANDA, PA, • • - JOHN SULLIVAN Haring leased this bonse, is now ready to accorn mcilate the travelling public., No pains nor expense will be spared to give satisfaction to those who may give him a call. sir North side of Public Sy are, east of kfercurs new block.. T HE CENTRAL - HOTEL, 171;STri. PA. The undersigned haying taken P4)69%25.5i011 of the ahovehOtel, respect fatly solicits the patron. age of hie old friends and the Wine generally. auglG4t. • M. A. FORIWST. -QEELEY'S OYSTER BAT AND' F.T.'IIt)PEAN 116USE:—A fcer doors sontbor t:ie Mean, ifouse. I:4ard hr the day or week on reasonal , le terms. Warm roosts served at 'all hours , Oysters at whole ate and - telyll7. rtel).l'79 EMOIEI [novll-75 SUMMER July 27,16 CASH PRICES ! .Tin. 1, 1875 I HAVE NOW ON HAND A FULL LINE OF Figured Lawns, Figured Lawns, =I White .Goods,„ . White Goods, Buntings. Fans and P arasols Ilyl7-73 IN GREAT VARIETY. AT REDUCED PRICES. , Tow-soils, Pa., J!apell , , Iffe. 1114 Business Car& TOWANtp.k, PA 0123,000 N. N. BETTS, Cashier ireh,14.1978 \ I Hotels. TOWANDA, PA J. L Etnt. GOODS ! 1 4 Buntings, (NT. J. 14. KiINT. . . , .., . „ . . . . .. -.. . • . . .. . . • , • . . ~. .. ' • • -.. ( , , , . . - . .. . .. .. , . .. - -. , .. ~ , • ,-,.- . . ... :-.: • ll' . _ ..,,,,. , • . ' . . . •. . ~ . .T - -- ;..1f2 i t. ' ' • . . .... . - ' -..... - .. . . - . . . . - . . . . . . Poe iFor ;be Itlyorrie..3 TO TEE WEARY RESTIS SWEET. • _ To the weary rest is sweet. They who felt the terient heat - Of the morning snn, wbobent Underneath the harvest sent ; Who amidst theripentsg gr.in 7 'Patient tolled, till drops of pain • Gathered on their brows; whose .sore And aching hands the sickle bore Tlll the shades of evening (elf And the 'welcome. curfew Miring softly o'er the lea, called to home, and memory. Of days well'spent, and rest' Well earned, and bread Ws Justly vim, • (Yew, they heti stood the Masters test. And gulped Ills plead well done: 311N.1:2 C. BALLARD AO • ;roe the ittroltistt.r ALCOHOL'S OONFESSION. Cti:me Alcohol, now answer ant The!t. queAlivhs I shall put to thee: What Is thy age' What Is thy aim? What is thy.trade ? What LA thy name? 3fy age It N teti thousand years; My aim to 1311 the world with tears: trade to kid and snake exiteuse; My name It It! Inhinperanee. Long dace I ruled Tarpon the earth, To every crime have given birth ; pa rattler to all grief and woe, 3 spread distress-where ere I go. My abiding place In at the bar; My customers ate near and for ; My pleasureis to gender strle, And put asunder tr.and wife, GOOD NIGriT- The clock ktrlkes ten : its warning sound Reproves me long delay : Yet who from scenes where bliss Is found ivb.h. to' aste away? • And tt ho would stop and count the hours \Where every path is strewed with flowers, And.b , autcous prospects charm the Aght Porglve my fault Good'uight I gOod night And eh.: if other WIITIS than these • A warmer wish convey. My heart the welcome phrase would seize. its feelings to Frtray.: Whatever comfort nature know's.. Whatever, blessing heaven hes t tous., May these thy peat:Jul heat t !tithe To constant joy. (:,nod night ilgood night is.weet and refre,hing he thy And.all thy visions Lest Angelqtrlo . ir watchful guard 'sitatt Nor evils dare And In the silent tuld::ight When fancy with h..r magic poiver Paints distant forms In colors blight,. Remember me. (4: - .K4 night grid night Miranda Belden's Wedding. The for the extensive erection of grave stone over the .body of Be hemoth Belden had been presented to, and paid by, his sole heirs and ex ecutors: 31 iranda and Beulah Belden. Every. little claim had been punctu ally and pleasantly met. The funer al sermop—preached the Sunday sue ceedino• the -sad 'event—had be e n printed and circulated in black-bor dered binding by the suffering sisters, and now, such mortuary duties over, the two sat down to confront the sp*cetacle of their future lives and the spectre of their past. The day was lona aolie when beauty (suck as youth had bestowed) had Gparted, Miran da was ! , rin and: gray enough in all - conseience, without the added gravi ty of bombazine and English crepe. Poor' Beulah contemplating the spectacle from across the heath, this 'sight—seven weeks, Bitting from the .great event—thougt her stern sister had never seemed so dark. and cold and forbidding, There was not so much difference in their ages. but nature, endowing the yo.finzt:r sister with pale blue eyes anal a brindle sort ,of chore/ ore, had placed a sci.mingly great disparity between them. The dominee'riiT spirit of Miranda added aged lines to her hard features, and the olde.t friend of thefamily hardly remembered : Miranda Baden as a young woman. Behemoth, the lately deceased, had given his . lead. ing traits to. this his,eldest girl—and to those characteristics the great wealth -which ' unincumbered, had been 'divided between them at.the old man's death, was largely due. 'Even the equality of that division had been a source great trouble to the grently.troublld.elder sister. To share mail share.alike. with that foolish, improvident creature—Rho bad never had the bandlingOf money, who bad no respect for it when she . (lid touch it—was a : sore cross to Mi. randa And it seemed asthough old Deacon Harris and Squire RoWe.de-. lighted in angering the sour spinster, so soon did they. rush through .their duties and hand over her balfihe es tate to the hitherto impecunious Beu lah. From her (earliest years, the sorrel-topped secjind born had been under the supervisipn Of the elder sister,; her food bad !-been porthOaed out, her clothes. bought and cut, her whole life fashioned and arranged by the staid. Miranda.. k_ Therefore Was Beulah crushing down the 'evidences of great. joy which now . oceupied her soul—for with the possession Of this wealthar rived a train of blissful anticipations —the principal one-being an immedi ate emancipation from the. iron rule of the oppressor. . Tlie curtains had been sharply drawn„tbe fire venom ously prodded by the angular arm of : ,the despotic ruler, who had sat down with an air of determinatimi:and fronted round upon the exultant Beu lah. "What did the Squire's raan . come . about to-day ?" - The ball was opened,-and the weak er female slowly folded tip her, cro chet work, feeling no waste of forces could be allowed just now. " He:carne in reference to the stone cottage over the hill." -" What's the matter with that?" "I am thinking about buying it." "You?" ;Miranda sat bolt - upright and ceased rocking. , •.• . t; "And what on earth for ?"•• " To liVe in." - " Beulah Belden, you must be in - • ; sane." -It was in an altogether newlight the weak sister stood before the otk. er, as she made her first more in open rebellion. "To live in repeated Miranda, half comprehending; "I havo;no earthly intention of leaving thebome stead." TOWAND.A I BRADFORD 00pNTY, PL, =MAT MOBITING; SEPTEMBER 12, 1878, " But I haye l " quietly replied Beu lah. " Yon don't mean to take the stone °cottage, to occupy it alone 1 1 " almost shrieked Miranda. ___ . "I have taken it ; Loomis is 'fur nishing it, and I shall occupy it, in company with a servint and _,' Nurse Adams next week thiatime." • . • "In the • memory of Beulah there lived mauy 'stormy scenes between herself and the irascible Miranda, but they all faded into insignificant outlines beside the convulsions of the next few hours. It ended by Beulah's hasty retreat.with a small Bethel to the-house of Squire Rowe, and to an earlier itistallinent of the poor maid en lady in her new home, the "stone cottage." • The gossip-loving village had work enough.to discuss the sud den separation of the sisters, and the two old crones—the -peripatetic 'pz etteers of this partiCular town—jog ged back and forth from the Belden villa to the stone .cottage with. un flagging industry for weeks. But events of this magnitude have their boundaries - of interest, and after a while it settled into an old story: • Miranda, stern and dignified, weed ed her flower-beds in black kid gloves andra- huge sunbonnet loaded with slats of pasteboard, as much like bar rel staves as possible, while', Beulah, in a straw hat, barehanded, tied up the struggling • honeysuckle that clambered in endless profusion about the porticoes . of the : . stone Cottage.. The village paper reproduced the fa mous trials. of the day, and in those days will trials were as frequent as in the•present. Therefrom, the elder. Maidcn .Belden imbibed 'certain wild ideas of breaking her. father's . wised -division . of his 'property, and rescuing the portion of Beulah and recovering command of her reason, As she dwelt on this scheme she suddenly resolved to engage the ser vices of a lawyer in a neighboring city, then conducting a notable will case, and to that end Miranda wrote a note and stated her plans and wish es. In due time Ephraim Sheppard arrived—a legal light . in the judicial circles of Boston—a sharp, eager man of 40 years-25 of nein lived in the polishing precinct of a law. oflice—an immaculate man, a man for all the world like a new, sheep-bound •voI, lune of criminal practice, so clean and, orderly without, so palidly proper the way of sheep-skin, so heat - injt.,crap of black leather and crimson letteting, so nicely marble-. white and .smooth about the edges, and so.chuck full of villainy inside. Friend Sheppard passed an hour in the villa, became possessed - of the facts in the case, and then accepted the'undertaking, and undertook alit, tie something for himself. Miranda; ta11,., skinny, lank, and' bloodless— hollow of chest awl sunken of eyes— holding- unineumbered an estate .of $500,000;- was not a party to he dis pised. Ephraim went direct to the' house Of the village doctor, and un; der pretest of making some inquiries concerning the health of Beulah's Mind, learned a good deal of Miran da's physical condition. . " Going to try and break old Be bernoth's will, is sh'e ?" chuckled_ D. Blake. "Why; I don't know Sir, just•how she can. Little Beulah is not over and above wise, - but she isn't out of her head by a long way." " She is surrounding_ herself Stith unfit associates, according - to her sis ter'," remarked Mr. Sheppard. " She's going according to scrip. Lure. The stone cottage is a-;big rambling place on the seashore, and from time to time the sick ani netly have been taken in - ; to-day, I lielieye, she. has a dozen poor dependdits around her, and she enjoys her Self among 'cm, and it's nobody's busi ness-is it ?" • "_Miss Miranda argues therefrom an unfitness-to manage the large for tune left by her fqther, - And is pre pared .to show her weakness of intel lect from her youth up,,and the fail ing of her parent's faculties •before making this will;" tetorted the astute Sheppard. "Nothing will come of it, be iissur.: . ed, and the very accusation argues something not quite right in Miranda Belden." " b!" exclaimed the . . lawyer, "is anything amiss with that lady ; she is not, yen; stout, and still she seems rugged—is there any trouble with 'her health'?" . . The doctor eyed the speaker in a suspicious matter as he -trade an swer : " Yes, she's got a' fatal malady, an incurable disease;" or, he added to himself, " got a temper the devil couldn't cure her of, but which won't be the death of her in 40 years." "An - incurable disease?" echoed the lawyer. "-What is it?" " I am not at liberty to disclose. A physician is ~as safe a repository fot_secrets, Mr:Sheppard; as a priest a lawyer." " I understand ; yes, thank, you; the confidence of a patient should be respected. ' Poor woman, poor Wo man!" lAnd very much encouraged by a diagnosis of this case, the legal gentlemiln departed—to. appear and reappear in the village from time to time—gfadually dropping the char acter of. solicitor and adopting that of -suitor. . . All this while Beulah pursued her pleasant life with an old nurse, who had been in the family from the Bel den girl's childhood. Wit an ener getic country "'help," the.li tie house hold at the stone cottage i passed a quiet, peaceful existence. 1 The various ailing mortals, to be fon, d in all places, had discovered in the rich Miss Beulah a sympathiz ing friend and cheerful, ready helper. What wonder, then,if the, lady bad become the Lady. ountiful of the killage, and was wasting her patri mony (according to Miranda)in red flannels for rheumatisin and quinine for. Chills and fever. The deep-laid schemes of the elder sister had not been, as yet, made pub lic. Lawyer Sheppard saw less . ,ad vantages accruing to himself in con ducting Miranda's lawsuit than in conducting his own courtship, and was bearing his whole influence in the latter direction. The "stone . cottage," as has been said, fronted on the sea; and many ordinary fishermen's houses stood about on the low leyel lands lying be low., FrOul one of them onentonny REGARDLESS OF xastawLILTIONFROM ANY _QUARTER. night, late in Autumn, a poor woman kl.d come for Miss Beulah's aid and advice. ' "It's a bard cue, dear lady," said the woman, standing on the porch of the stone . cottage. "My old roan, coming in from a day's fishing, found her wandering uncertain like among the rocks. What's REMAIN', pays be. 'All the world,' says she, and going on for. to speak, he comes . to the truth. She's *Tong in her head, and was straying about with murder in her mind." . " urder ?" "Murder to herself, Miss Beulah, and she only 17 years old'; it's, piti ful ; so pretty and young. 1 She lays beyond at the boathouse, where the men fetched her." • "The men fetched her to the boat house and not to you?" "Why, lady dear," rejoined the simple-minded creature, I'm not tell ing my story at all. After she spoke with my old man she turned and ,walked • away toward the town, and John just pulled in his nets and was coming comfortable toward his sup. per, when he see something whitish flutter on the big rock we calls the Pulpit, and in a moment he thinks of the woman, and just then something was alight on the water off the rock, like a-wild duck, and -in goes my old man, and the wild duck was ashoie in, no time, for he's a strong arm, has , John an d poor young creature don't weigh more'n eighty pounds." . " This poor girl attempted sui cide ?" • "That's what I'm trying, to get at, ma'am. I'v not the wherewit h to do if I had t e whereby," ratheram biguously e idained the boatman's Rife. "The efore every one . said, ' There's Miss Beulah, go ask her;' and here I am." Beulah Belden made answer very directly. "Bring her up. to the cottage at once ;• it's a raw night. A delicate young girl wet and miserable will perish in that drafty old boat-house." "I knew it would ue so. Miss Beu lah. God bless you. You'll have your. reward in heaven, dear, lady." Beulah interrupted her humble friend and hurried her away. Then blankets were heated, a hot bath,got ready a cup of tea prepared, and the charitable . .soul awaited her newly-as sniped charge.- - Not fur long. - Through' the early evening two or three rough men pre ceded.a dozen-of the fishing colony,' bearing a slight, dripping figure un an improvised litter, steadily up the porch and into the attic sitting room, Beulah walking - beside it the last few steps, and laying her hand on-the covered hand. At last, as the burden was tenderly laid on the lounge, and the lamp turned up, the men fell back, and Beulah looked at the face- of the would-be suicide. . She almost exclaimed at the palid marble beauty disclosed—it was the • face of an entire stranger. She had expected to see the familiar features of some unhappy village girl, but the large, sitet blue eyes; the small plead inginouth, the dripping masses of yellowish hair had never. met her gaze before. " One of you go for Dr. Blake," said the mistress of the cottage. "I hardly know what is to he done in such a case." The object of their solieitude moved, reached out a fee ble hand, and murmured weakly, " No, no; please do not send for a doctOr ; I: do not need one." She appeared so distressed that Beulah-yielded, - "At all events, you must get dry things on, and have a bowl of hot. tea and some warm supper.; it's •enough to give one their death to siAp in your condition." And then, recollecting that her pa tient had been seeking death, Beulah abruptly turned and dispersed the curious crowd, still hanging about the place, and then followed the ser „vant and the strange woman into the room. prepared for her. , " I will not ask you what dreadful strait you are in, my poor girl," said Beulah, in her kindest vein, ‘, 4 to do so desperate thing but. you can set your mind at rest; you are with friends, who will , assist you, if need be. You, have ,nfr reason to give way . Ito such grief. Your Wants will be provided for. You can return to •youliome,without this fearful heel dent` ever being knOwn." • • • The weeping girl buried her lace in hefhands. " I have no friends or home," she sobbed. " Well. then," returned Beulah, " stay here ; there's' . always a place for an industrious girl in my family." ."Alas ! that also is impossible. You can't help me lady. There is nothing for thei--no escape *oil my trouble but in "death." BeUlati began to think of strait jackets, and.escaped lunatics, but the *wild lights were missing , in the eyes, and only settled misery possessed the -sad face. With sobthing words and kindly touch the good woman sought, to comfort the stranger; the wet bright hair was carefully pinned up, and Beulah - unfastened the clinging gar ments and laid out the dry ones.— Suddenly the great sorrow which brought the stranger to think, of ig e death n ce. a llshed on the•old maid's intel- I You poor.young thing," she;stud " have you come far ?" " No, madam, not'very." "And you have no friends?" ".10, madam." " But there is—tht person who is your husband—or should be—per haps you are a widow?" No, no, only a wretched, deeeiv ed woman. Oh, madam, do not ask my wretched story. :You are good, and kird, and rich. Shelter me for to-night. Tomorrow I will go away. I will never seek_ to take l imy life again, but bear my fate without a murmur."' The halfArowaed girl i s'bbbed as f..her heart would break.. Beulah inwardly determined that the acquaintance should not end thus ab ruptly, and long after the worn-out girl slept, she cogitated a prOblem which was solved for her before, morn ing. - The family at the stone cottage were tearlfastir with unusual excite ment; into their midst, Unexpected ly and unhidden, had dropped a wee blue-eyed angel. l'oor Beulah was at her wi 's end.., A baby, s, real live helpless baby ; for the first time in her life she touched one of the new. comers, - and her wonder grew as she viewed the tender mite. ' "Of course;" said • Dr. Blake, "you'll send mother and child to the, Home, " (as ' the poor-house was designa ted.) "Of course I shall do no such thing," retorted Beulah; " why should] I ?" "Because Christian people - pland your efforts among our deserv ing poor, but this miserable stranger it seems rash- to succor- who shall say what her part his be en I" "Who cannot say what her future I. will surely be, if we desert her ?" warmly defended Miss Beulah. "No, Dr. Blake, that girl and her baby are sent to me for a wise purpose—if the Lord hadn't ;designed her spec laity for my care, strength would have been given her to pass my door." "And the baby ?" "The, baby is the gift of God." Therefore the gift of God and the medium of its gift . remained ht the stone _cottage. Miranda raved : " What court in the land could refuse such evidence of incompetence and imbecility ?" sbe asked i)fevery one, and of Lawyer Shepperd in particu lar,,but the wily Ephraim °alined the pertubed spirit and whispered words to advance his own case, but for reasons best known to himself Mir anda's lunatico inquirendo made no headway. The waif born in the stone cottage grew and thrived, and the benevol ent mistress of the place can* to love little Alice Mann as one of her own blood. "'And it's no disgrace itself as some think; it's born in wedock," bridled Miss Beulah. " Marion Mann has her marriage lines and Was mar ried in holy Church ; more the shame to those who deserted her." "'then she has a husband ?" queri ed the gossips. . :" That she has, such as he is, to desert a sweet young thing, alone in the world but' for him." And then Mis Beulah would re count the tale of her protage'deser tion. The tether of little Alice had been at a;watering place where r Poor friendless Marion had been employ. ed as a seamstress: He had:met and professed an ardent love for her, and what could she do 'but believe? He ins not a young - adventurer, but a man staid, proper, and `respectable. . So respectable,he bad insisted on A -silence respecting his relation with .her till such time as his !dab connec tions would be won over to counta ance his foolishness. But Marion had rightly held out against protestations, and Horace Mann had been infatuated enough to pursue the girl to a neighboring town and there marry, her; There, -- - after six months' rural felicity, bis artier had, cooled,. and Marion received a note one day from her absent husband, was told that he had lrfkber forever—that is was use less to search for him, be had yield ed to the solicitations of his relations and gone with them to his patriarch ial acres.in Europe. . Her slender stock of _money soon exhausted, broken in health and spirit, it seemed to the suffering girl as though no peace but that of the grave remained for her - on earth. She had wandered on from place to place, until surden sight of the sea impelled her to make an end, and in its . hidden.depths seek rest and oh- livion. Bnt here, she was; the day bright with the.sun and flowers and smiling earth gladdening the - month of .tune; her baby, a chuckling, roly poly bit of humanity, lying on a rug on the broad piazza; herself belovid, contentOind busy, sewing, reading, working continually for her patron saint, Beulah * Belden. . Mrs. Mann had by degrees won the regard of all 'who had met her. " She's a sensible fine- young , -wom an," said Dr. Blake and Dr. Blake's opinion was echoed by them all. Dr. Blake arrived one day all excite inept: the news he bore was so im ,portaut for his dear friend.. for of sudden—although talked of, stilt surprise—Miranda Belden was to 'marry Epbriam Sheppard the next night. • For all •the world;" gagped Beu 11h, "and she 45 years old." • • " Of course it's for her money—.we all know that," said the doctor. " Still,Pni sorry she's so Silly.", •" I hope he may treat the poor thing well, sighed the sister. " it's hardly to be expected ; he's not a gentle-looking person by any means:" "I'd like to see him, my fuiure brother-in-law," said Beulah. " He—that is, they are to be mar ried in the little chapel. Why don't you go ?" suggested Dr. Blake: " I will," responded Beulah. "I'm sure I wish Miranda all happinness. I will go, though not a bidden wed-. ding guest. And Marion, put Alice early to - sleep. We'll over the hill to the ; chapel ; the first time I have been .there in over a year." - Did I say the seperation of- the sisters woke the echoes .of.eonsterna tion in that sleepy town ?, - Well, the marriage of Miranda filled the entire public mind--- 7 nothing else was thought of or talked about; and when, with a beatin g heart, poor Ben lah approached the chapel . on the eventful evening, she found-the whole population, - to a woman gathered within and without.' Dr. Blake was on the outlook. He - was bound his friend, the - "sensible Belden girl, after all," should see the performance. Through the - crowd he bore the two ladies, for Beulah was supported by her protege, Marion Mann.. , ' The organist made a great .ado over his small choir and. parlor organ. The " Wedding March " swelled out arid the choir piped np, and Miranda clad in a pearl-colored silk with white veil d and white glovesl ar.d bouquet, leaning on the arm of , the Boston lawyer, cameslowly up the aisle. Dr. Blake's pew wat well up front. ;Beulah did not turn- her head as the 'murmur went round of " here:they Come." When the brigsl party were abreast of the seat she occupied, her eyes met her sister's for the first time in the many. months of their separa- - tion. There was a 'giitu smile of 'satisfaction on Miranda's hard face, but poor little Beulah, try as she did could not keep the - tears back. Dr. Blake controlled a smile, for the angular spinister was a spect cale in the low-cut, short-sleeved pearl silk, and surmounting the veil sat a stiff crown of white dead flowers, which contrasted with the saffron colored brow deneath in a ridiculous way, 'fhen,Miranda was square and tall and ha horribly - red, sharp elbows, which protruded Several inches be hind, as trussed like a chicken for roasting. she pressed her wings close to her sides and clutched Ephraim's arm with one hand and her bouquet with the other. "The poor old thing," thought Beulah; "how could she think of such a dress at her age." "The confounded old fool," thought most of those gathered," to make so public a display of her fol ly." _ And that's your sister," whisper ed Marion as they passed. " How very unlike you are•Hwhy, I should think---," But we' shall never know what Mation was .about to think, for the pair arrived at the altar rail, and the occupants of Dr.. Blake's pew for the first time got a view of the husband elect. Marion's 'remarks.• fainted out on her lips; she turned whiter - than the flowers which crowned the bride's head; she sprang one moment to her feet,.and then, before - Beulah or the Poctor could detain her, she stopd in - the aisle, pale and determined.. The. The Crowd arose . simultaneously. Amazement sat - on evezy face! " Stop!" cried - Marion, in a clear unshaken voice, " stop!" "rhe offi ciating minister looked horrified. Miranda shook from the top flower of her chaplet •to her weak knees. Beulah ntarly fainted with dismay, but it was afterward remarked' that Ephraim Sheppard was the most truly horrified : of the party.: "That man canna marry that .woman," spOke . the voice of the icon oclastic Marion_ • "Yon must not disturb the eere: mony;' murmured some, officious Deacon, pkireking at her sleeve. Marion c4mly put bis hanil away, walked up to the - astonished, - pair, slightly motioned. the bride aside stepping in between 'them, and said, in a voice' heard - by the listening crowd in the galleries: .‘ This man cannot marry you since he is my husband. We were .tharried. by Rev. Chauncey Homer in St. 'John's Church, Montreal, the : . ?lst of August onast year. He was married to me under a false name, but he is none the less my lawful husband ; let him deny it if be dare. Ask him.,7,1 she said bitrerly turning.to the gasp: ing Miranda ; "if he passed two ! months two years ago at St. Cather- . ine's.Wells. Let him prove he did not.' Let him disprove, if he can, his marriage with me, but let him do that before you marry him." • There are some scenes which defy. description, Miss Belden's wedding was one of those. The minister clos ed the book•with a slap. as if he felt there was no further use for it that day. - The lawyer's syes protruded with 'horror, and yet he could sum mon no Word in defense or denial, while, as for . Miranda, she, gave one . despairing look .at the stern fake of the young wife and the guilty dum founded Sheppard, and she straight ened ont'and fell like a stick across the. altar step. Beulah had her in her arms in a moment, and 'amid the confusion ensuing, the poor! woman was carried to•the vestry, and Shep pard turned suddenly and was lost in the Ifandering crowd. Perhaps Marion would net - er have been believed had he staid and faced her out in her .accusation, but Eph raim- was a wily but weak scoundrel:. his flight and his continued absence were confirmation of the wronged woman's story. • Thee-barrier which long months of coldness and estrangement had raised, between the. sisters was not thus lightly to be tlfrown down. After the first excitement; Beulah and her protege went mornfully back to . the stone cottage, - while Miranda, more . dead 'than alive, was conveyed by curious fiiends to the decorated mansion, destined never to receive a bride. All night, within the big par lor, surrounded by her wedding trap pings, Miranda paced up and down. Through all the dreadful details of that never-to-be-forgotton secne came the remembrance of Beulah bending, over her. ' Poor old Miranda ; she clutched at her gray hair cursed the hour of her birth. An object of ridicule thence forth foi her neighbors, what had she the miserable dupe, to live for' Some way the question was answer ed by the image of little Beulah, her pale-blue eyes moist with sympathy, and the pour old woman sobbed out the dispised • sister's ,name, and in contrite spirit knelt • and asked that heaven would grant one consolation in her miseryher sister's love. And Beulah. Late into the night she sat and talked with Marion Mann of the strange way in which she had avenged her wrongs. Then, when left alone, her warm heart turned . hp that desolate creature, stricken down in the hour : of triumph. The loner she dwelt on the unfoAnnate Mir anda's troubles then smaller seemed the cause of offense between them. liermind Was : made up ,:- as the day broke she. silently and cautiously crept out the front door, and took her way up the road toward her old home.. At the head of the hill divid ing the old town from the newer set dement - by the sea; Beulah beheld advancing to . meet her. a tall, warlike figure, striding on in the early morn ing, now and then fishing up a large handkerchief and Wiping her aching red eyes. As they approached each other—Beulah sturdily trudging un der a huge sun-umbrella, - the sec ond•matunial pedestrian , So occupied , with her woe and hef haerlkerehief-:-, neither saw the othem till Close to gether;. then came a cry of delight and the Belden girls were united, heart and . hand. It was many years before Miranda recovered the-shock . of that awful day, and it made an other woman of her, a gentler and -a better. one, Poor Beulah' was all the world to her, and Marion and tho.little Abet. - shared the new and , - friendly emotions 'which sprang,ap In the braised-heart of the spinister. Shepperd wa never heard of again. This time he really fled to Europe, and the sisters became models of family devotion. - The stone cottage by the sea' is the Summer-home of all, but beside the the hearth of the homestead every Winter sitthere united "Beldengirls, ll their constant companions the de serted ivife and her child ; and not a stranger gets within the gates ofhat town but hears - the strange story of that dreadful time at Miranda's wed ding. , M. IL F. NY LITTLE LOVE. Thine is a little hand— A tiny, tittle hand; • - Yet if Itclasp - With timid grasp Mine own, ah me I I'well can understand The pressure of thatiittle hand Thine is a !IBM mouth - A very little mouth 7, But, ah I what bliss • To steal a kiss, Sweqt as the honeyed zephyrs of the South, Front that same rosy little. uicutb : Thingis a little heart— . A little, fluttering heart ; 'Yet It h . :rearm' And pure and calm, Aial !ores me n•fttr its whole, untutored art— That fend" and faithful little 'heart Thou art alittle girl— , Only a little girl; • • • Tel, art thou worth The wealth of eartti=.; ••• plarantsl and ruby, sapphire, gold, and pearl-- To me, thou blessia little girt: • - • FUN, FACT AND FACETIM • MALI. due The miller's toil. • , F't,,N}: talk : "$25 and costs." • To:: dowers for young fathers--The PoPPY , - • THE best style of . ties for business men —Advertise. You - cannot set the river on fire with a rowing match. THE carrier-pigeon never . tthvels - vith his cote on his arm lIE who loses Ws temper in an arg,u... ment, los.e3 . the argument also . t:' I. Goo)) place' for chirpodists— Among Corn-ish men. • - Wnvr a dressmaker can' boast- 7 ---'q'm engaged to 'Sew and sea•." TlrEir :ire very' - few 'men so . brilliant that they can be looked at through smok ed glass. . LITTLE services are willingly apprecia ted. for tbeyare not worth the trouble of ingratitude. TitiNd condc.mns more' powerfully the riolence of 'the wicked than the mod eration of the good. A mAN is called selfish, not for finrsn ing his own good, but for negfeeting that of his neighbor. • • EvIL ministers of good...things are as torches—a light W . others, a waste to .none bnt themselves Only. • • 'tiftot - .1 - Ett .isin a hurry shows that the thing he isaboutis too big for him. - Haste - aria hurry are two different things. • • • • Fur this in incubator.' The question is asked whether poaching eggs can be , considered sportsmanlike behavior.. I RAVE played the gross fool to believe the bosom of - a friend wouldbold•a secret mine own could not. contain.—lftmoi;ger. Z. RIETIZSOMIEIt has likened our exist.: ence to colffe, but omitted to say whether Le roastik; -process is included in the • smile, • en n YSOSTOU says that fire is not quench ed with fire, but with Water ; nor is wrong and hate - with 'retaliation, but with .gen thmess and humility.- ALL deception ija the course of life is in deednothing else than a lie reduced .to prailtiee, .and falsehood passing . from • words into things. ' D1T1:17. 4 3T isstlic death of the soul. 'be lief is its life. The just shall live by faith. Infidelity A the • abandonment ofi life, a suicide of the spirit ~ IF religion be • your • vineyard to labor in, eternity shall be your bed tarest Upon. Every grace that is here exercised, shall there be glorified. THE More .destitute we are of „human aid, the - more we ought _to trust that providence which (loci is pleased to dis play, in our necessities; r we toiled, as listlesslzpver the thingi of the world as over the thing,s of heaven, the merchant, would become-a bankrupt, and the busineSs man a beggar. ' II E , 'ItET uot.a Vdden a-,i7',e'tlia , . is behind. There is one before, and it beckons you, _Tts reward are not for the, idle, but for the brave hearts disciplined to toil. • A s - ikit,On who jumped overboard to save another, Was asked if he was fit to die. "1 eviild : not be more he re plied, "b)' declining to do my duty" Tut: first duty of a man 'whip founds' a town. according to the Detroit-Free Frew is to name one of the .principal,streets Af ter IVashington and another affer himself. An•old soldier states . that during the late war, -a six-inch shell , was -lodged in him while - defending the Old flag, and lie lives in constant fear of an explosion.. lle drinks merely - to keep the fuse wet. N exchange says: " his just awfully discouraging .Just about the- time wa ier-melons hegira to come in, the i.oor man has to scrape together every cent-he can r:ti e to pas' the tax on his dogs. Wily cant this do;;;•tax:1;e. collected some time in the whiter?" • IssunoranNATtox—Englisb diner (sus piciously): " AMI do Voustick to the tee to-t,d principles yoursxlf,•waiter ?" Wait er: "Jit business, yes, sir, always, sir.! In business I am subordinate ti my prin cipals; Mit out of business, s ir r it :is (Wee ent —my pri - neiples are subordinate tome." Civit.iTv 7 is to .man what beauty is to roman. -It creates an instantaneous im , ressionln his behalf,' white' the, opposite quality e:- . x:ites as quick a prejudice against . •Itim. . It is a real ornament, the most beautiful dress that a woman - can wear, and worth more as a means of winning favor than the finest; clothes and jewels ever worn. - HOME OF DISEASES Logan, in his work on the '" Phys, ies of ieTt. !pus Diseases . ," cites the follow in; as the original' soureis 'ot infeetious . diseases: The cholera--Ilas its home in In 7 The small-pox—ln theesgt : known in Chind nearly 1,200 _years before Chfist. - • The Plague.:—An Oriental disease ; as a distinct geograPhient range. The Typus Fever—lreland is its irtkplace. - • . . The Typhoid and Relapsing Fe vers---.Have.fixed centreTs . in' Ireland,- Galicia,'Upper Silesa awl some prov inces of Northern Italy.' - The Military- Fever—ls' epidemic in a few provinces of -Franee. Germ any rnd Italy. - Searlatina,Probably .' native to Arabia. ' Epidemic Dysentery---ilume . in the'tropics. The. 'Dengue— In Southern intl. itudes; with sharp geological limits. The Yellow Fever—Distinctly tra c*d to Antilles. / The ChaboloUgo—:Chili. The. Versuga—l'etu. $2 per Antinm in Advance. NUMBER, COLORAD(I,B MOSS-AGATE FIELD The agate covers large areas of the middle: park, scattered over the stir: face in chips 'and laiger fragments, and occurring, also, in massive ledges.' Only a' very small petientage of it, however, contains the curious and delicate crystalization of iron known as moss: Curious notions prevail re lative to this substance. Formerly it was a common opinion that the " moss " was fixed in the stone .by a photographic process, and 1 have be. tn. often the finders, • ed contains faithful pictures of -lui ups of bushes, groVes , ___ of trees an extended landscape visible - from the point where.' they were picked up. The -agate is hard; tough and susceptible of a high pol ish. Specimens are valued according" to the perfection and beauty of the moss cluster . ; contained and the clearness Ot the stone apart from the moss. • _The great agate is south of the Grand and west of Williams-RiV;: er, on a high sage plain.. It is.sis or eight miles -in length, and neatly as great in width, though agates are not found all over this area. It has been culled and - picked over by hun dreds of :people, and thousands . of jewels worn to-day. all over the Uni ted States bear settings froth this' "agate patch.". Some -agates are found north of the, Grand directly Opposite, and the largest . and finest specimen I ever saw 'was picked -up there- in . 1863. There is an agate patch—or several of. them, small in exteht—on the divide between Trou blesome,,River and Corral Creek, north — of the Grand. b Two or three . " years ago a small deposit 'of than, was found near Fraser River, in the eastern edge of the park, not - far from where the Berthoud .pass. and ` , Rollins wagon roads come together. , In all the 'localities .thus far de scribed the " moss" is black of dark brown—the usual Color. Near Grand River, on the north side, and about tliree miles west of Hot Sulphur Springs, is a small area where - red moss agates are I found—that , is, the " - moss'' is red, or reddish brown, in: stead of black. Nearly opposite,- acrois the river,near Beaver (Creek, is another " patch 7 ? of the same-kind: Red -moss agates Are very rtirt and curious. NO search has . .ever been made in any of these localities . - neath 'the' natural surface of the ground for valuable' agates. , Those gathered have-been, picked up on the surface, generally In broken • frag inents.of stone that showed the Moss naturally.— Cor;•csponderice :of the • Ic, ,irer s. BE, Wu T.'ING TO LEARN. : A man progresses just as long as he is willing to learn, but progression ceases whenever he reaches that.point where he places his knoWleilge in the balance.against that of all other men.. Strange as it may appear, there area, good many just such men in the world. Some, cannot be taught any, no - inatter -.to what. branch of knowledge it. belongs.. And others are perfect only in one- thing, and that relates to the busintss they fol low. .It is here that egotistical im, portance does the most mischief, for it.al ways cripples - a manVusefulness in life. There is another class •of persons who' will accept knowledge only from, _those whom. they acknowledge as su , periorS. They must first know ,the r source of every itein of - inforrnatton, and it is accepted_ns truth or reject jected as error, accordingly., They never think; reason or experiment for themselves, and hence their belief' - - and practice - exhibit a strange-Mix t-u.re_ of the impracticability of - truth -- and error. .. The truly progreSsive class accept truth wherever they -find it, and re ject pOtiiirtg because of its source. A - hint dropped.from the beggar's lips is just as valuable as though it came froM royalty' itself. ! These are the - men who do think, ri, 4 ason and exper iinent foritlieniselves, :Like the- min-: .er„ , it is gold they, are hunting for, and-like him ttey - never reject 'it be cause it is associated with dross and dirt, but go • resolutely., to • work to separate the pure from . the impure, retaining only the former. .. man, witlr broad, liberal views of his occupation, and whose eyes and ears are always open, and willing to accept and use every fact that comes to him, no matter from what source, 'is a man to he admired and.reSpepted ; 'wherever you find' - him., stands in cleli?htftil contrast to the.min who I. blindly reffiseS` all aid, and scoffs at all authority whic:ll - contradicts - his lopinions. • - =I THE I2iItITENGE OF .N.EWSPAPEBS. A 'school teacher, who had :been a long time engaged in IfiS professioh, anti witnessed the influence of. a newspaper upon the minds of a fam ily of children, write's ss folloirs - ; .• I have found it to .be a universal fact, without exception,. that those scholars of both sexes, and of all zees, who have access to newspapers' at'home, when compared with those who have, not, are : - 1. Better readers, excellent inpro nunciation, and consequently read more and understandingly. - • 2.. They are better' spellers, .aid' . define Words with case and accuracy, They obtain practical knowl edge Of geography in almost half the time it requires •of others, as the 'newspapers hasernade them acquaint ed with the location of the important places, of : nations, their government -and doings on the globe. , 4. They are better 4rammaritina for having become so familiar With, every variety of style in the news: papers, from the common-place ad vertisement-to the .finished and etas: shad oration of the statesthen,_ they more-readily. comprehend the mean ing of the text and constantly analyze its construction with, accuracy. 5.- They write- better compositionf‘ using - better language, con ng more - thoughts, more dead and • correctly expressed. • 6. Those yomer.men who haVc or years been 'readers of newspapers are always taking the 'lead in, debating societies, exhibiting ; a more exten sive knowledge upon a greatei..varie ty of snbjectS,and expressing their views With greater fluency, dearness and correctness. • II 11 U ICS /2
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