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TOW ANI)A, PA. -1 1 IRST NATUYN A L:KAN K, TUR'A\ 1 .PA PAIL) IN S1'I:I'l,1:S 11. w. otter, unti•lial fart - lit:tis for ihe trails At :Atm .or a g,:neral Nanking business. N. N. SETTS. CaMlier .1 , Pro<ldolit. Aril I. 187.9 4:. I EELEY'S OYSTER BAY AND 1 7 N 11012; , .E.—A few doors .00utbof Meat- 11.41 rd by the day vr week on ttrms. Warm meals nerved at all hours , ytters at whole Kile ruQ retail, • febrr. OGLE IIOTEL,. 1 . 1"10.1C 5Q1....411E0 This poll-knowti house hav I..een thoroughly rert t,,,ate.l and rr!..itroti throng:ll"U4 and the prolrit 14:t is leAv I.tertleti to otter tirKt-vlas3 acrmitmoda... to 1/..1,111f1i0, Oh the 1tt..4 rea , nnablo terms. E. A. .117:NNINGS. Too - nutta, ra.. May 2. HEN . Itl TWITS E, (ON TIIE Et!lopr_NN COItNEI: MAIN & NWA6IIINGTON STIIEViS TOW.k:: DA, PA.I This largo, commodious and elc'gantly-furntsbed h••uvr hay just twen tiro I r.velingptidle.. The PrOloriCit.r has span.] rwilltor.pains uorexpcn ,, , In making his hotel lfirst-c'as% lij all -11.3 appoint' minis, and respect tally sulfrlss %share of puhthr patronage. Mt: SAT ALL 'HOURS. Terms 'alit the times. Large stable attached. %NM', Pnorigrron. Towanda, Juue 7. '774 f.. COO,DRICH.Itc HITCHCOCK. Publishers. VOLUME~XI. A I,.ilJy. en pi to his !zithers knee. A IA %VAS iirtiAl up mut lulletno rest, Till the blue eyes closed. !,o lived was And Ms little head fell peacefully At eat,e am the rt a ly i.h(ell!er . NV tille the 1.a1 , y lewd; so suit aed.tati,- Lay like a shield aaa his fathers breast n 1 -7 '73 Of old 'l.v.:l;;:a!ilrbat when ?yen dreir near To liar,: temptation ur leattly Aod lost their wav in a maze of fear, Ur perllvl their soul&for wor:dly gear, illy a nay unknown an angel hand Would lead them rut o! a - dangerous land Intii the light of a noble life. The story klitte fur the werbi ; We see Lb ultiteuoln it angels mild Itta-tatt of t!e• stark and pia toes way Where Mit nod wemnen forget to pray. lied the peace and purer land They are led hy a geathr, shiuhllng hand— The II:m.1 1 4f a little, s:e%re:ay Na:ia. • • It was not long ago that, being. in the City of Mexico, I•made an Oppor Utility of visiting the magnificent ca thedral there, which, it is well known,: is superior in size. costliness-and ar chitectural - splendor to any other re ligious edifice upon the Western I lemisphe rc: After having spent several hours in wandering about the interior, un der the guidance Of .a ogre-footed friar,.who was privileged as one of the exhibitors of the place, and whom I had propitiated at the outset by a {imicent of four reals (instead - of twin his usual perquisite), .1, was passing out into the piazza—still 'under his guidance, for I wished to ask him some more questions concerning the numerous statues ranged about the esplanade—when my attention Was attracted by a large, flat flagging stone, seamed across by a zigzag fraeture, with a rude inscription un derneath the widest crack—" El liedo ilrl Ilretru," • That was the purport of the in scription that I read in the stone, bending clown to do so—for it was nearly effaced by the -action of the weather, and 14:Eh:vs the friction of thousands of feet that had passed and repassed over it since it was 'rudely chiseled there-Land I then turned :in inquiring glance upon my guide. I " nark, ddl Bravo," l ' 'tepeat&l. "That means in English, `•The Doom or the Bravo.' And pray, good padre, what may thr. rc fer to • " h,senc ' s 7d he, smiling, `the ominous stoi !ring is - so much worn now 4 0;.:?' " risilors . find'ocea sion *to ask its meaning; but there is lEREE= ESE MERIES3 TOW kiNf).k. =1:0 an old muleteer, accustomed to loiter hereabouts on the plaza at, abOut this time of day, Whom perhaps it would be well for you to meet.- ITe not, only inscribed the stoneflius as you see it, many, many years -af , o, but •ould be more than willing, for a .eal or two. to rise you its history, • in which is.a terrible one its way. There he is now," he added, indicat ing an old, decrepit, and miserably ragged man, who was lounging, with SEEM an austere but purposeless air, at the shady; side of a public fountain not far'awa3, in. company with n large grotip or muleteers, water-carriers, fruit-veinlers, and others, apparently as lazy and contented as himself. "Shall I call him hither, senor? ;Oh." he added, again smiting, as he 'noticed my hesitation, " I w.ll only leave von with old Oasco half. an hour, mid then return to finish the task for which the senor has -already paid me so liberallj - ." I -then signified my assent, and the ' padre straightway Summoned the old :Mexican, who came with a good deal of alacrity, when he had been given to understand that it would be worth his while. Si, senor; it was my own hand that cut those words in the stone there," said be, when we were left alone. "-But the. stm fairly . blisters here; pray. come into the shadow -of those aloes yonder, whence we - can• see the front of the cathedral just as -. well, and tell you the story. Cara alba ! but it burns even here,'' he added, ;when I had Ifollowed him to the shelter indicated; " Ah, if I only had the whetewithal for some cigarettes, hOw it would refresh my memory now But-we muleteers are . so poor:" I hastened to supply him with to bacco and paper .for smoking, and then tendered him with a real, to` gether with the intimation that he should have another if be gave me his story in detail; and without etk MI 01125,000 66.000 .10 , reration. e•s .3.Cothing else was needed to set hip going with the regularity of music:- box, and, between the twistinF , and lighting of his everlasting cigarettes. there was scarcely an interruptior to' the old fellow's narrative, whit{ was as follows: My name is Rafael Casco, senor You'd hardly suspect it to look 1.1„ ire now, in my rags and tatters, an , with this sk'n ref mine,. Which .mor, resenibles smoked parchment than real human skin; but it is ucvertit:- less -true, that on the 12th of April, just forty4lx 'p . ars ago; • 1 was Imarty-and devil-may-care a young. ealiallero as one would he likely to ineet in a {lay's ride. P;it- Diga was all that ; and in' white 11011 W. 1 SIMMER .104 D WINTER. Iti the inelkaor t h of JIITICt \V 411 the tais:ny Ihru,heS2,lllg, tho yenouncowsltri spring vroin the nee:Wows by the brimio,, \T hen In dusky fursst unokg, livatsultin tvitul the hotii, And the elt.vec-scented merit I:tinlir Into the elhnillions Then I love Wile alone - In the grass.en souie-rpol tan, the.tnestlow:arks all shrill "Life Is inuslc,' , Care and pain Fare hut 111 In ...ainnier's When the-hilla are wral ped lu bheett;, When the snow whirls on the lea , , Anil the try-fingered tree' tipar&le ht the mou n es cold tight, \Viten the - clouds In the long night. •, Weave a pall for the dead yrar, 14,11111 the,laten nlnl heats Its pear Right at every one it meet's, Tlwn my heart Is never sad,. For I thlt ft'o b—ezy Spring . And the jeys that It will brier„— Of the robins on the lawns Piping in the den r y day ti , ‘. —Sera no' for Jun t THE SAFEGUAItb eletted Fah% 'The Bravo's Doom. of having passed Om: of the best years of my life in the convict silver, mines of Chiindium. 4 ' t got sent up there, together with n fellow cnoaitvediet. ancient comrade ref mine, m r e am ValdL;mar, for having engaged'in a sort of: individ ually revolutionary moveracmOvhiell the authorities' Were stupid enough to misconstrue inti) a highway robbery. licit, roivinba We won't split hairs about it - at this late day. Pedro and I were rivals, as well as friends. That is, we were I , otit in- love with Carmen Corea, 5 lettutiful Mexicana, whose father used to keep' a pretty little posada on the Vere. Cruz road. was the more fortunate, and Car men and I were one day Married. "I, was arre,..tid-so.soon , after my marriage as at firAlo make me .sus pect that Pedro had giVenittorma -tion against 'nit ont of jealousy and - pique; for he haullwen my onlycom rade in the little revolutionary affair that was p r o v i n' i! so troublesome. " But when he, also, was arrested, 'and we were-both subsequently con victed and scut to the mines - together. I thought that Ilu wronged him in thought, and we shook hands .cordially over our shackles, and be-. came chums.' :;s of old—hoping, des pairing, groaniqg, and sulfering tc gtither; through thick and thin, as iniscrable convicts will. • " It was only after we had tried to escape together that became con vinced of his treachery—convinced that he' had ev , u shared my penalty for the fiendish pleasure of seeing me suffer at. his 'hie. • W e h a d :wen filing at our fetters secretly for many days, so that at last a stitch y wrench Would break the links, and 11:1 , 1 fixed upon the evening of a cert:;l7; feast day, when our guards wou'd be apt to have theit attention liiverteil by a solemn pry cession tln Ilas to pass near where we were tit work, as the time when we woulll vamowie. Everything worked like a charm. • tzt The churell-kkis were /-tollne. , - the {nest: , eliantino, and a vast crowd attuuleil the' holy proeesSion that was swee2ing along. the moun tain road; r,e:.r the sluices in which we were w , rhing the ore, when Pedro and I si,l our irons flash, leaped ie , ,• leig•liboring ravinc,:ind made a ibrthe wilderness, with out beim; ati once observed. The alarm of eta . ir, : ight was quickly sound ed, 4nd we bad the prison uards an•l snldiers after us. pc " - Car'! r: how we 'ran ! I;ut, just as we w••,• turning •A -sharp turn in the hollA•w. with. Pedro a little in the advance. 'xi. suddenly came upon • a small gut:. : liouse,• of- n hick l v e . had been wIt”i!:,- unaware, and a trio of sentries w-iting to receive us. 'They were rvi!!,,, a few yards of.us ;' to re treat ens impossible. They pres.4ent cd their : , !ns, and called fur us to surren•ic:•. • • . " While 1 - was Itesitatim: what Bourse piusue, the companion of t.tirntal upon no like a wolf a t hay. '• • r,/;,, he roared,: 'stay Whet are, and be taken ! 1 have you?' " _Na 1. with that, he dealt• me a treinc,: , :iiis blow in the. face.. " DOv It I went, as if struck iby 141 g .1: Miner.. As I Ml, I saw him soldier ,to the ground, dart • past iLc remaining two, heard a shot, and all gre%% dark , „ and I knew no :i: , 1•0 fur many hours, when 'Came to my senses in my dun geon all, bruikal aril bloody, and road,.d down with triple irons. . " 1 uldn't discover from the pri son ~ ! :;;vials whether Waldemar had etli e;,..! his escape; or been "kiiled. They are profoundly secret about I:ings in the' minesl 'suppose fur ib purpose of adding mental d is- Lres:- suspense to the bOdily pun ishiamt that one endures.- However, it vvs enough for the that I had been recavared, and Unit I should in all prch:Mility have to serve out My , term—wine!' I 'dick. !'inally, I was.discharged. 1 re tnrit to the capital, ruined in for tm.,• as in reputation, and only to :.bitterer blow. l'oor Carmen, beloved bride, had pined away of r during my captivity, and had dead and buried several month's' my.release. Her faller drove ui.:'7orri his inn,-with' curses and re prolehe.s. whe:n I presented ' Myself t 1 My ow-n relatives and former fri• ads shunned me; I was a miser al::.,-ruined man—a beggar in the r , ets.! * The second day following my re ti,:a was Easter Sunday, Which was to hr the occasion of am immense fes tival—a holy day t and civic eelebta tmt combine], wOlse crowning rya= t;,ie in the eyeni.hg ,was to be the LlMaination of tht: cathedral, which just been completed in CAT ry I !rt, and-was to receilie,a sort of re. !lication. . - eared nothing for these things I wandered, on the preceding Sat; I.rdny, rugged and inmgry, through the t zar and crowded streets.. But (.!:ante led me here to the front of cathedral, :when I read a placard -.)neerning the illumination, than .zave me new hope. " It announced that one hundred Torkmen were required for the light: of the dome and (mimic), three undred for the cornices, pillars, col- nnades, and the like; and stated; in -ortelusion, tlu every - rsorlrinati ern ,iloVed on the outside of the dome nct eupalo should, on account ott the yxtreme danger attending the em iployment, receive in payment ai Ilear ty dinner and the sum of twenty pesos i—the wages of the rest bt.lng less than one-half of that sum. - ".There were few applicants for the dangerous posts; ddsperate work at fair - pay was just in my line. I went at. once to the major-domo hav ing charg,e of the illnminatiou, was entered upon his list-, received two pesos as an earnest of • the contract; and engaged to present myself punc tually at noon of the/ following day. That evening I supped well at a street-stall, and bought . leave to sleep on sonic straw in a stable, 'at the back of the- Calle del Theatre. "I was, at the office on time next dsy„ . and, together with a rabble or poor fellows, doubtless as miserable Aral desperate as myself, was ushered into it hall where two tables had been laid for our accommodation. We ' ._ f:: TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 5, 1879. were ushered inbyra file of sentries, and, as. we st.lioit around the table, t' "'Mee was read by a good old padre, who I .had known and loved in better days, but who had quite forgotten me. ." As he began :to read, a magnetic thrill shot through me. It inipelrati me to look across, to the oppoSite ta ble, and there , --yes, by all the Saints! -there 1. 8:4 Pedro Valdemai7, • ,".lle was looking full at' me, 'ba ld's eyes dropped" on meeting mine; and I saw him turn perfectlylivid (iaramba ! what a sea of -revengeful recollections surged upon me. Oh, that I might live to meet him yet, under the free sky-, where no priest was praying and no guards were by " The dinner lasted long, and when no one seemed able to eat more the tables were cleared. Most of theinen threw - themselves upon the floor and benches, and 'went to sleep in prva ration of the hazardous night-work that was before uS-L-Pedf o among the number. I could not refrain from going, over 'and spurning him with my` foot. ‘"Pedro, you know 'me?! I hissed. "‘ Diablo ! he growled, looking, sullenly up ; t thought-you Awe in the mines.' . "' is not your. fault that .1 am not tqre still,' I muttered. ' But harken)! If- you no survive this 'night, 'yon shall answer for your treachery.' " Ile only glared at . mefrom under. his bushy eyebvows, and without re plying turned over„ort his side again; as if to steep. " tic had evidently gained little by his . villainy, for he was dirty, ragged, and apparently as - friendless as I. "The guards aroused us at seven in the evening. We wi,tre then march ed in doubre file aroMid by the back 'of the cathedral,. find-conducted by inclined plane to th.'roof below the dome. Fran this point, a long series' of * staircases, and:Winding passages. carried us, up between the double walls of the dome; *and at different stages in the aseentaa, certain number of.us were detached': nd posted ready for work. 1 was detaehed about half : way up, and I saw Pedro going high- er still. " - When we were all. posted, the su perintendents came around and in= strileted us. At a given signal, every man was to pass through the loop hole, or window, before which he was stationed, and seat himself astride upon a narrow Shell of wood hanging to a strong rope just below. •'this rope came through the window, was 'wound around a roller, and seenred fom within. ' :::At the next signal,l a., lighted. torch would be put into his right hand, and he was to grasp the rope firmly-. with his left. At the third sig nal, • the rope was to be unwound from within- by an assistant, placed there for the purpose ; he vas to be allowed to slide rapidly down over, the bulge of the dome, and while thus sliding was to apply his torch to eve ry lamp he passed in his downward progress. remixed these instrue= tions, We waited, each man at his window, until the signal should be given. l'or diox l bzit it was desperate work. run your eye up . over the cathedral dome yonder, senor. and you will understand the method of- the thing better than I con tell it. Those window's circling it midway np look like pigeon-holes from where we stand, but, heaven preserve you,! they would look • like church-doors were you sitting just outside of them, as I was sitting on that terrible night. "My window must have been that one directly over the_ centre of the facade yonder. At any rate, a heavy body - dropped .from it would have struck plumb in the middle of that Bravo Stone there, and given it the zigzag fracture which you see upon it. That I am perfectlYt.tertain of this, you will presently,be_aware. - " Well, there wel.Were all stationed, and it was fast growing dark All , the great ribs of the dome, as far as I could see. and all the cornices, friezes, columns and parapets surrounding the 'plaza, three hundred feet below, were traced out in lines of paper lan terns, which .gleamed with a silvery lire tlat had a most faivy-like and marvelous effect.. " Scattered between and 4mong these paper lanterns, at differ, nt in tervals all over . the roof and dome facing the plaza, were iron cups,filied withrtallow and turpentine. To light these with our torches was the .peri lons task of the gall . * to %chichi be longed, :id then_ the illumination would bc complete. . " A moment of intense suspense elapsed. The darker the evening grew the brighter the little lanterns shone, while the surging hum of the thotiatuls • in the plaza and streets below rose louder and louder to our " I felt the .quickCmling breath 4)f the assistant at my shoulder—l could hear the beating of my own heart; Suddenly-, the first sianal flew froni lip to lip. , I got .out instantly and straddled the bwird ; there came tht second. signal, and I seized the torch; with the third, I felt myself launched, malt ligliting,every cup as I glided pack saw All the enormous • dome 'above and below' me spring into lines. of . gor g eous, dazzling flame. The bells began to 01, and a great, ocean like roar 'arose from :the multitude below, seemint to shake the very Thor against. which I was clinging; and feeling Ipie the tiniest atom in the immensity of my danger: " But, having-dropped safely to the full length of the rope, and lighted awl allotted share of iron cups, I was -really 'at that moment sitting in_ se. cure enjoyment of the stupendous scene. • • "All ati once, I felt the rope.vi ;butte /. I looked up-4 saw a man clinging with one hand to an iron rod, and With the other—saints - of heaven I what did I see ?. It was my fellow-convia, Pedro Valdemar, fir ing the rope above me with his torch! " I acted upon instinct—l had no time for thought. Everything was done.in onel fearful moment. 1 clam bered up like a eat—l .dashed my torch full iii his felon-face; and then clutched the rope an inch or two 'shove the spot where it was Miming. " Utterly- blinded and , baited, he uttered an awful cry, and dropped ME Mil MEM REGARDLESS Or DENUITOLATION FROM. ANY QUAXTER. „ . . like a stone: .Then be hOundedi . an India-rubbi ball,,doWn the round= , ed roof, and 'over into the !Mullions abyas.. - • Well, that is 'abont the whole q'to rysenor. When Pedro was picked .up froni;,the stone - flagging of the plaza, there wasn't a whole bone in his body, and his own mother would not have recognized, him. • - ” Yonder broken stone marks the place where lie alighted, and one of the holy fathers afterward gave me permission to scratch uponit the . iw seription which it has - borne ever since--'The Booin of the Bravo,' as ityoull read in English." "But how were you 'saved - your self r' I exclaimed, niwost horror-, stsicken with his story.! . , • " Cori/alba I never - exactly knew myself," said- the muleteer, drawing a long breath, us-he rolled And light ed-his last cigarette. " - Scarcely had the 1 ravo's deuthArick ceased-ring ing in my ears than I found "myself being hauled up. The assistance eaule . not a moment too soon, for I vvas sick and giddy with horror, and swooned dead away as soon as 1 was safe inside the window. - - • The next day I w aited on the gcneral Superintentlent;and told him how it all had happened. The vacant rope by which Pedni descended, and the burnt fragment--by Which I bail bten ,draWn up, sufficiently corrobo rated,' my statement; which was after ward repeated to the archbishop and others high' in authority. "I not only received much sympa thy, Mit some pecuniary assistance.; and for a long time they gave inclu endive menial employment about the cathedral here, which was finally lost .to 'me, hoWever, through my own roi ly,'and—must I say it?--my love of •aguardienle, as well. But somehow was never the same man after that "ohor of the dome. " What l• these four reals for my simple story? But you Amerir•onos are always genetons. 3lillcs vra c io s - , senor! , Seel here comes the padre totake charge of you again, and I have pnly bored you for half an hour. dig., senor!". • • WANTED MORE. OINTMENT,' 'A Washington correspondent. tells this anecdote : not , many years :'go an official from the regions of l'ugcst sound came to the capital to transact some important busi»ess with one of the Executive Departments. It Was his lirSt visit to the seat of Gov ernment.of his conntry, and it was evident, from his dress and manner, tba' he was infinitely more at home on the frontier. attired in buckskin, and sleeping with the blue canopy of Heaven for a covering, - and living, on his round of official duty, on the pro ducts of his rifle. The amenities and comforts of eivilizationriiterc niiw to him ; but, with genuine A mericau self-assertion, he purchased an i ; ;' - ont.- fit" of broadelothoniiinlY a" swallow tail," on•the " slope;" . and traveled in Pullman pars over the mountains' and across the.plains .and prairies to the capital. Arriving here, he sought but the best hotel, anti put up there. At dinner that day,- :tact astounding the waders by his exratordinary gas tronomic capacity—having tasted of every dish on the nwn a—the Puget Sounder touched bottom on the des sert: Among - other things there were apple dumplings, with a sauce of sugar and butter and a strong in fusion of cognac-.-a combination of ineTedients'imt objectionable to the frontier, ,ollicial. The steward, in dol ing out his , deunplings, assigned to each a becoming ration of sauce. The Puget Sounder, by a partiality for sauce, caused it to fail in its distri-* tuition to dumpling, ro that the sup-- ply of the former was prematurely exhausted; leaving but ' •Itathery mass of bare dumpling: The fron tier official, in his time, had swal-, lowed worse things than Washing ton-hotel dumplings ; ibut after nib blip... around the doughy mass and selecting from beneath the covering all the apple lie could serape out, the waitei, noticing the Situation, step . - ped up and inquired.: "Governor! will you have some more dumpling?" The official, first looked at theAvait er to see if he was in earnest, and then at his plateful of excavated dumplings, replied : i'"No, thank ye; but, if it's all the. same to you, take a leetle more of that i-iidenicial" A ORILD'S HEART. Detroit Free ntess. The other day a curious old woman, having a bundle in her hand,. and walking with painful eiTurt, sat down on a curb step, up Wood Ward avenue to rest. She was curious - because a smile crossed her. wrinkled. face as children pa3Sed her It might have been this smte that attracted a group of little ones, the oldest about nine. They stood in a row in. front or the old woman, saying never a word,, but watching her face. The smilebright ened, lingered and then suddenly _faded away ; and the corner of her old calico apron wept up to wipe away a tear. Then the oldest child stepped forward and asked : " 4re you sorry because you haven't got any children ?" "I—l had children once, but they are all (I—;dead," whispered the woman; a sob in her throat. "I'm awful sorry;", said the little girl as her owp elfin quivered. "I'd give you one .of my, little brothers here, but. you see 1 haven't got but two, and I don't believe I would like to-spare-one."! " tlod :Weis you, child.; bless you forever," sobbed the &d women, and fora. full minute her face was buried in 1 Tier apron. r Ilut'l'll 'tell you what I'll do," seriously continued the child. " You may. kiss us all once,. and' if little Ben -isn't afraid -you may kiss him Tour times; for he's just as sweet as candy 1" . . • I ; edestrians' who 'saw thfie well dreised children put their arms around the strange old woman's neck and kiss her were in - tatty 'puzzled. They didn't know the hearts of chil dren, and they didn't hear the old woman's words as she rose tO'go: "Oh! el,il.iren, I'm only pony old woman, believing , I'd nothing to live for, but yon've given me:a-light er heart than l'ed had for ten long years." - . . VIOTOBIA• TOLTRINO . INCIDENT. OF lIER EARLY ulsTony, - The Queen was - not twenty years Of age when-she ascended the throne Coming into -' possession, of power with a heart fresh,' tender and pure, and with all her histinets inclined to mercy, .we may be sure that she found .Many things that tried her strength of resolution to the• utmost.. On a. bright, beautiful morning, the young Queen was waited upon at her. ace, at Mindeor, by the Duke of Wellington. Ire had brought -from London various papers requiring her signature -to make them operative.. One of them was a sentence of court martial pronounced against asoldier of the line, that sentence that:he be shot dead. The. Queen looked upon the paper,land then looked upon the Wondrous beauties that nature .'had spread to her view. "What has this man done ?" she .asked. The duke looked at,the paper, and replied :. "Ali! my royal,:inistress,• that man, I - fear, is incorrigible. He has de serted three times." "And can .you not say auvthing in his behalf, my lord ?" Wellington shook his - head. "Oh, think again, I pray . you!" See ing -that kfer Majesty was deeply moved and ;feeling sure she. would not have the man shOk,in any event; he finally: eonfessed that the-man - was brave and -gallant, and really a good soldier. - "But," he added," think of the influence." "-Influenee !" the Queen cried, her eyes flashing and her, bosom heaving with strong emo tion. "Let it be ours to yield lnJlu ence.: I will try Mercy in this man's ease, and fcharge your Grace, to let me know the result. A good soldier, you, said. Oh, I thank you for that. And you may tell him • that your good word' saved him." Then she took the paper and . wrote, with a firm, bold hand, across the dark page, the bright, saving' word—" Pardon ed !:"flie Duke. was fond of telling the story, and he was willing also to confess that the giving of that. paper to the-pardoneilsoblier gave him far more joy than he could have experi enced from the taking of a city. =CC EvEnY INCII A QV EEN.—The queen of lta!y, writes a Roman correspond ent, is a woman of - great spirit. She stands by her' i ordrr 'pluckily as did Marie Antoinette, of France, whom she resembles' in person and face. She has no idea of yielding; an inch for the faintest line of an inch in her royal pl'ercgatives. She is a Sabaudienne as well as her husband by blood and character, and is a tine' representative of the: ruling idea of Italian power which has possessed the Savoy house ever since the elev enth-centuq, when the son. of Iltun bert. of the 'White Rands married Adelaide, the heireSs of Snsa. She is a true royal Sabaudienne also in her virtue and honorable . character. The royal women of her house have been noted through, centuries and centuries for spotless liVes. Queen Marguerite, of Italy, is likOvise,, woman of her day, and has all the versatility which characterjzes, our sex . of this generation,- and. Which sweeps over so wide a range of 'sub jects a n d objects that it makes an old fashioned woman breathless. The royal . woinan of Italy takes an inter est. in everything, from the last.fash ion to the last parliathentry. debate or squabble, from Dante to the last " Sonnet to Tier - ,Nlajesty,' from arch 'aolog to chidrons,'froM St. Angus- Gne to the last novel. She' reads a little of everything; laughs over Prete 'Tarte . and Mark Twain and discourses patly•and aptly upon so cial science, -" Shakspeare and the Musical Glasses,' and takes the trouble to . eram herself for certainin terviews with literary celebrities, WEsTEitm Wrr.—We tion't,if know the reason for it, but certainly' it ap pears to be fact, that persons prize -an -occupation in proportion to the fancied-ease which it will admit. Of this case is an Old women whom I met in my travels. 3Ve had been busy during the day running a line through 6 dense piece of woodland; The old women gazed on us some time in silence. We all saw. that' shc.want ea to enter into convesation; -and none with the exception of myself wished to gratify her. I soon com menced a dialc gue. on various sub-- jects and thingf.', - , and,. as a matter of course, I put :my - "lest legs' fore most." Struck with my language, she exclaimed in - a tOne-quite flatter ing to - my vanity, "La l how jarned you are 1" -But the complitnent re ceived a deathblow: "If 1 was as high lamed a - scholar as you," cOntintied she." I'd quit injineerini and go to keepin' a little grocery !" Western Paper. Oxt man of strong convictions anywhere can arouse and energize and lead forward .a multittide. The (*mat ivant'in the church and in the world is men of convictions; men who believe something; and - who, be cause they believe, can make others . believe. The attempt has been sue: cessfully t rode to transfuse life from a person'in full health and vigor to. one of wasted , vitality, by opening the veins of the one, that the hot blood 'may course therefrom into the exhausted channels of the other's life. A man of red-hot, convictions has blood enough for a thonSand dead-and-alive-doubter:4. If he will but open his veins of thought and feeling; he can "create an epidenile . of nobleness" in the - sphere of, his living and doing. . t . TuE constant wash of the semtf life undermines the cliffs and wastes the coasts. Tlie tear and wear of exter 7 nsl occupation is. ever acting upon our religious life. Travellers tell us the constant rubbing Of the sand on Egyptian hieroglyphs rem'uves every trace or colors, and even elf:ices the deep-cut characters froin baSalkrocks: So the unceasing attrition of multi tudinous trifles will take all . the bloom of your religion and 'efface the name of the king out of the tabletsdrycitir hearts if yon,elo not eon:der:let them by constant, earnest .effort. Our de votion, our faith, our love is only preserved by being - constantly. re-. MeLaren, 1). lf. . . .. •. _ . . -..-... - _ ~ - ‘ - , . . . . ILL 1 . . , . . .. ~ i - .. i t : • - , "The fart is, it was the Democratic party : that tired the 11111cizi., " —Senator Beek. "We join the Democrats of the North 1.64..au5e we 44:111.mtheir course during the war.."—Ncuater nat. . . (.41, Bung.in Bo:moth:tie' Cfmgrekebaaal, Cancun. _) General Wade Hampton : • - ' We fought for the Union in the EN nth,' . • And saved Its life at the cannon's mouth; • With trumpet and nag, and rifle and sword, • We met the invading Yankee horde.- And !million of them•are camping. stilt In low green tents on a Southern hill— Eaton: • raised the white llaga at home, ant drew 'A picture of war of the ghastliest hue To keep nor fellows front fighting you— And I know I did discoutago a tots— All : And so we caved the tillett ! General Ilen 0, we were the genuine Union men, With the ripe pit and the prison pen; We fought the. cowards of no) aceount. l • From Thasaehusetts, Ohio, yarinuunt." „ Our loyal Army le a d to slay • The traitors that came-froze up that w rendletra: : • I always said the South was brave And always s.ang , a swag when you gave The eautlng, nlveling Yankt4.l knave A battle yell and an °per. grave— . All: And so we &wed the Union General Butler, of South Carollna4 We snood the Unlonwe Aid, you Wt., • And , we made live Moue:110 . 101110ns of dcbt ; We never slapped, go great was the gain, . To count the cost, to loss and lain, , - Dot we cm Candy must, while In control, Put the "rebel ^ dead co the pension -roll. Seyinotir : • When Chase Ids worthless greenback* &pea. 1 sthouteil i •' The utoney Is-fraudulent'; Lilts will never be worth a cent :" • 11-ardly ever. you know, I r.:ennt_ : And so we saved the Uuten • General Chalmers : WC btormed Furt Ptllow, la halt co hour • After the idgi.iers were lo one. power , More than a hundred dropped and died l They imlst..havo COI/Milted suicide, Forlt ala't Pm North and It ain't-the West But - the :eolith that treats the ulp,gers the best Fenian+) Irood : !Exactly what L have al W 33.13 tald! slave is always . sure of a lied . 'you'll give him tlribk awl sec thal, he's foil The tame as you veoultl All At,l so We saved the nth)lt! IEII=i!MMI Tbc war is over—l.:: strife atirl hates; Satikbary : Thu - Nit:tun bows to the Sovereign States : taton The Nation's rights? Beek : • Vol have vanished Eatt tt : Why, • You porthlvit, 'on all In a midget's eye - And not make him witiL: Bayard: • -it Is That the Many gocs - withant pay or food. Stephens: how different this from 'a former day W 0,4 : When Fort 'Lafayette yawned down the bay For the patriot Northern {rays in gray— Voorhees : Ycs. I had a prdtty loud call that way All We have saved the Con federate : 4 7 .37. Y. Trilionc. • "To tell. the truth,-" said John Trainland, -as he threw aside the eve ning. paper and faced the little group in the parlor, " I I ant fjtst growing out of patience with this te4--.‘ A woman at the bottom of it.' :It would be strange, id this world, made up as far as we are of-nothifig 'nit' the two sex: es, if a woman wotild not occasionally be found at the bottoni of anything good..:lt is the injustice of the thing that makes me angry. Now there are a huadred of as poor fellows who owe all we are, all we have, and alive can hope to becoro in this world or . the next, to the unselfish love of Women." • The gentleman's face was flushed, and he 'spoke very warmly and feel ingly, so much so that his wife, rock ing her baby to sleep in the further corner of -the room, inquired: ." But why should yohcare, John? It has always been so, and always . will be so., We . don't think much 'about it now, because we- have been taught to - expect it." " - 13ut you should Care! and you should fight for each other More than you.do. There is..one. chapter in my life's history that I have always kept locked hi my heart, but to-night I feel as it, it were my duty to open it for your inspection; and.l do it for thb love'Of woman , --for the love - of. woman who made me what I am wor thy to be, the husband -of a good wo man." " Why,John !" said Mrs. rlaviland, softly approaching-baby still held tight to her bosom" you absolutely frighten me.". Let's have the .story," said the rest of the eoup, certain that some- thing good might be anticipated, and John commenced, at first a • little timid, but gaining confidence as he proceeded: " When_l first came to New York, at the age ,of twelve years, to. seek my fortune, I can call myselt a pre cious chap without danger of being accused of an unusual degree of selV appreciation. I was quick to learn everything; the bad as well as the goeal. My employer used profane laUguage. I picked up the oaths that he would drop with a naturalness that surprised even myself. The boys in• the otlice all chewed tobacco. This was the hardest jolt. I ever attempted, but after ,two weekS of nausea and indescribable wrenchings, Lennie Ea victorious, and could get away with as much as the best of " True, every word of it," saki the speaker. " One - afternoon I- was sent with a note from my employer to a house .in the upper part of the city. I hadn't. anything to read, but I had plenty of tobacco, and with that - I proposed to entertain myself during . the two or three hours I must spend in the pas sage. • For some - distance I - did not notice who were beside me, 'bat by aud-ty a lady said, very softly and pleasantly, Wou!d you please, little boy. be more careful ? 1 am going to a *Patty this afternoon, and should hate to have my dress spoiled.', ".1. , looked' intolier faCe. It was the sweetest face I ever saw. Pale, , earnest and loving, to my boyish heart it was the countenance of ,an • '• NV hat. in the world did- you. say ?" interrupted Mrs. Havilandi her bright eyes filling with tears as she saw how the memory of this 'beautiful - woman affected her husband. • "Say! There was try little I eouhl say. 1 think all I did for some time was to look. I managed to dis pose of the tobacco, however, and wiped my mouth very carefully, all •Of which I . tek, certain she saw and mentally conunented upon. BOURBON BALLADS4-NO. 20. AND 60 WE 6 VIED THE UNION WITHIN THE FOLD. 191.00 per Annum In Advance. Rave you a mother, little boy?' she -next' askcid in the sal e loisr tone. ''• T"' NO, ma'am,'" I..,answered, and I felt AV throat filling ap, and I know I must swallow mighty fist .to ,keep from . sobbing. '. . . . . 44 4 You'hare a father; then, I sup pose?' she kept on. . , " ' N.O, ma'am; no father.' - • . "' Brothers and Sisters?' - " ‘ geither, ma'ron. .. '. " 4 Then ' the 'little boy is alone-in i the .World ?.'_ . - . " 'All alone — . ma'am.' - "' How 'Ong has his•mother-been dead P- and the dear woman. loOked away from my face, and waited till could speak. • . •• .• , "' Two years,' I replied.- • " you loved her P came nest. . Dearly,' was all I could say: " She was silent for a moment, and then she said so sweetly—WO I shall never forget it-- •u 'And what do you . kink your dear mother would say , -ow do yoU think Stu) would feel- - -to know her bpy was . guilty of suel.i.a nasty habit as this ?' pointing/to niy cheek, ',deli the . tellAallc ,quid to. stand . "1 must icare,you . norrj she con tinued, 'but here is my card, and if you come tome most any evening I shall be glad to see yoti, and perhaps we can be of some service to each other.' • • . . " She gave me her little gloved hand, and . to my dying day I shall never forget the sensation of that moment.: I could not bear to part with her; without her I felt that I. could do nothing—with her I could_ grow to man's estate--a man in the truest sense of the word. ProM that moMerit tobacco never passed my . • . - • "As soon as ! could summon cour age I called upon- the lady. Well do I remember how my heart beat as . t Waited in ,the elegant parlor for her to cOme down and how awkward I felt as I • followed my guide to her 'private sitting room. She -got at every point.of .my life ; and before 1 W:de her gOod-bye it was arranged that I should spend- two evenings of each week at her house, and • study on the occasions just what she thought best. " No lover looked forward 'to meet ings :%vildi the mistress of his heart anymore ardently than k l did tothese meetings with my friend. ‘.• I grericareful of thy personal:op-. pea rai.ee, careful of my ebnyel7a.tion, and strove in every way to beyresthy of the friendship. TWo years passed in this delightful - manner-- two ycars,that made me.- .My friend not only attended to -my .studies, striving also all the While to son- the right kind of spiiitual seed, but she procured me a business situation with a . plytieniar friend of hers, where 1 retain to this day. Nobodybut God knows what -I owe this woinan. -Du ring the last three months. of those two years I noticed that she grew pale and th; n ; she never was betrayed speaking of herself. Sometimes *hen I would ask her if she felt worse than usual, - she would.reply Oh, no! I am only A little tired —that is all.' . " One evening she- kept me 1)3- her. sofa_ ninth longer titan Ac-a§ her en-- tom, while she arraked lessons, and laikont work enougr4 it - seemed to me; for months. Why so much to-night?' in quired,conseiouthat My-heart ached,. and vaguely suspecting . the Cause. "' Because, dear,'-she answered, do not want you to come for the next week, and' 1 am anxious that you should have sufficient work-to antici pate;-as Well as to keep you busy- I think I can trust - you to be a good boy, John ?' ' • .".1. think you can, ma'am,' I an swered, almost sobbing. . ".• If I should see yonr inother, dear . boy, before long, what shall 'I say to her lbr you 'O, `• Then I knew all, and my grief knew no bounds. It. sno use to go on. She died two days after; and when I hear folkssaying, 'There's a Woman. at the bottom of it,' I feel telling the whole world what a 'Woman did for me." AN ENRAGED FEMALE .:•;as Francisco News Letter. • " Hotfsehold Departments " ate very good adjuncts -to a-newspaper in•their way,when-edited bYA woman,' but;the male journalist who dabbles with the hearenly4nspired mysteries of cooking runs :a frightful risk; The editor of the 11'ee471y Pelahrm. Pea bine started a coluMn of .that kind recently, and a few 'dap: after Wards .'tierce-looking female , came into the oillee, carefully concealing some ob ject behind herapron. ".Are you the Man that published that new and improved way to make currant, cake ?" • • He said he was. *on said to - mix. washings.:soda with ,the flour, and stir in a little cornmeal and a . little sweet oil .to give it.a consistency ?" " BO." " And to add fifteen eggs and Some Molasses,- and two s .ounceof gum arable, and put in a cool place to-bake?" . • " I think that was it."' ",Well, take that then !" and the imlignant housewife floored-him with a weapon that Alt, : like a sand club, but which he felt in 'his heart iniist, have been a half baked hunk of cake, constructed on the _Pea vine pd,ttern. MANY triS;:ipNe, • are inclined .to think that the apostles, and those that dompitnied with the Lord while he was here, ought : to : have been ex- Optional Christians; that we :in these dhys, have no such 'reasons for faithand.falelity: as they had. But 'what' advantage had they that we have not.? Simply .this.: they saw the. body of Christ. 'Whatever aid to faith can come thrOugh the senses they had a little -more fully than we have them. But it is not '.much, 'after all, of spiritual enriching that the senses can' give us. - Merely to behold. the tabernacle or flesh in Which the Sun of God abr:de would profit:us little: While "we have the mind of Christ" let us not go about deploring our misfortune. in riot be ing,able-to look - upon his- body.— teeted. i • - Utah Miner Two of Our . !spOrting •fraternity*_ whom we will call Smith and JoneN' : recently became engaged in a game of poker with a big, raw-boned, green looking stranger, and, as sometimes will happen when professionaW are playing, the .stranger found himself looking at four queens, while Smith had four kings and Jones calmly re•• garded four - aces—the .best hand. The betting was. pretty. livelY,and - .. finally - the stranger - called for a: " sight," as alibis Money was npiantl . said he had four queens. • Smith - said "No good—l've got four kings." ' • ' "The thunder you have!" yelled the stranger, and let fly his. right fist; , about the size, of a peek orwal: nuts, plump between. Smith's eyes';' , . knocking him across Ithe room. " What .bave you': got ?" sneered the stranger to JoneS. With a dance - at • that 'big fist,,- Joicea: it,:vstened to reply. "Oh, I. havenit got 'anything, - I was only bluffing," and - the - stranger raked in the "pot," and as lie lleparteiVsnut-, 'toted : ".You can't ring in any cold decks on e!" • NUMBER 1 JUsTICE MILLEt, of the Su.,` preme Court,- is quoted as relating a story told him of Daniel Webster: by: the bite Judge Curtis.. it illustrates: Webstei's cave-in the coristruCtion c f his Addresses. Early in Curtis's fessional life he had been employed as a s juniiir counsel to Mr. Webster in " au . important case. A consulathire being neces::ry, Mr.-\lebSter invited - him to call. at his olli 2c at ass early an hour after daylight as he could find convenient. When he arriVed he found Mr Webster, with the papers on the table before him,. a pen in hand,' and . several sheets of paper - written-over. ." I am very glad to see you," said Mr. Webster: "I have been taxing my brain for the last five minutes for the- proper wordin the sentence I am just writing, and can't call it up. . Perhaps you can assist , me." After some suggestions the proper word Was found . ,_ to gr. Web- • ster's diliglit, and the consultation proceeded. You hear old Christians say,"Well, it's all for the best," and you may think it is cant. There is-no cant about it. They have learned that.all is for the best in their life's hiStory. • Bernard Gilpin was to be tried Sor • his faith hi God, - and to be put to death. He was . in the habit or say- • , ing, "It is all for the best, it is all for the. best." *Starting to London to be tried for his life and to be ex ecuted, he broke his leg. His associ ates said in derision, " I suppose you . think _this - is for the best ?" "Of eoinse," said he,- " it is for the best my leg is broken:" So it proved. Before he got well enough to go to . London Queen Mary". died, and, in-. . stead . of Lenard Gilpin going to ion, don to be 'tried and' burned for '• Christ's sake, he went home free. It is always for the heat. "All things work 'together forg(.;otl - to those. hat love God."—E.relynlge. - • Joa:4 Olaso'N's fourielr-cild daughter, at Mal:LI - AI: wr:l killed . recently t),y swal; lowing a .10,x ot* , WE,TERN iu.pc...rs, as - a rule, are so un ,el:ahhs, that it is unsafe to trust thtan 6ven fur the iktrof the nriuth. . TRUST rio, the circus athlete a , :the flow ingly entets the arena. He is it man ri ret - 4,lutionaiy intentions.---Mpitor, Tiitfabsoulliug questkii—{' What will you drink Therjucstii , n 4tr the hat time is it - 1 . -- Iruttr:o , , 01, . NV r. have - not said it before, and eiomtn stane2s ptiryt:(l Ulu' we. were rill.bt we say It nvw : 'J' 't your ulster. —.Lex !!1;, ,t. - .ft:D , lrt—crave you-anything to o!nr to . the etpt:[ bc.foro ~ e llfoicti I, fi s se d o n you t"' • Pri,oner,—•• No .1%.1:1;.(-. I ha' tell dollars. Ina lay lawyers tot'dr-tat'Y A (1" N ICAchat; in the-Hartford - Jcotr , deseribt's a piano ;us an instrument which tortures a gnat ha - tuber of persons for the satisfaeti9n of pne,---Cintihiofti En9);E:re'r. _ A,I;Cits7.I4 , .NTUM AD HOMINT.M.—YOIIOI up the apikk , trt2t2 to Sturdy farmer under- neatiC: •• Well, when you , was a boy, I .idu.'t you never stint no apples'yourself What, IleVt'r • SCFsr.: C',.rnbridge 111711 SCh49Ol -CIaSS • in Mythology. - Teacher-:-Who was hebe First (iirl—Wife of lies tiles, and first cousin of fir -Joseph Porter, K. C. lb/77mi Grit/tsar:. - " You. dog, what does he want here '.'• into teed a dry-goods dealer of a eustoml er,'whOseitig Newfoundland dog was up settingithings generally, "-Muzzlin," was the anWer.—New Orleans Picayune. ."Ttith you began to think,- young man, that 3 - i - intik won't last forever:" "Permit me to suggest,my.respeeted grandfather, that a4e.k not m hat you might earl per- mantnt; either."—Pitek. A LlyTl.l•;.•girl, where . a minister- had been invited to dinner, was privately 41 on her good behavior. Finding a hill hi the eanversation at the table.she - folded her hands and said, "Oh, please pass the butter." A NOil City fi - iy whci had ripe away frOut hotad and at, last returned, was asked if his father killed the fatted calf fur the " Net nuteb,"-he replied : didn't kill the fatted calf,' but he wanted to slay the plodigal." • `" WELT, BeSSIC," Said her' mother, "have you 4eit a good girl today !" "No,•mamma:" `• Why, Bessie, I imped you have not been a Y liA girl '.7 ..No, mamma," said the little r thing,-."not wed dy bad, nor weddy good, just a etanfer.; able little girl." " . . soino .Of our photographers, would maul; copies copies of a trout for our fish ermen to take a10n . ..r, to look at once in a while, it would be a comfortable; and a Christian deed. Of course, it M ould bo difficult to get the trout, but one might be found in some inuseunt.--41aftm nd bra. Tlin following answer was• recently given to an examiner at an examination What do you know of the partriarchal Adam?". " Ile was the father of Lot; and hal, two wives, rfishmala' and Vogler Haygur ; one .became a pillar of salt. in the daytime and the other a pillar of fire at night," . . • A little ..Terseyman, whose relig ious education has - been neglected, was picking flowers near a Methodist Church on Sunday, when the congregation sud denly struck up with a hymn which float ed out upon thq soft spring' sunshine. Looking up, be said. - "Papa r isn't that a nice tune ? It is true that you ne%er miss thelager till the keg runs dry :"' A 1.1111. F.: fire year old child of thisty who had just lost her father, received ticket of reward from her teacher:A few days ago. As soon as school was out she marlin:no to showlthe ticket to :.:or moth er, and When she Showed it this child said: "..Mother, .I..have held the ticket up to the sky all the nay home, so that my -father might see how goodl have been." —NO: //area Puitacfkma; . A Nrmncir of young lad - es from a South End Church have conducted . a sewing school at Children's Mission, on Tremont Street. At the close of-the season,' after lug• their best music and 4ingin7, their buf.t sr.ngs to then: iinOr tile!! , gave them a generous treat of-oranges, Amte and -candy, "and ono little pupil. with • sparkling eyes ..and glowing checks, ex claimed, " 0 teacher ! is heaven like this:" - • DIDN'T lIA.VE A P. FUN, FACT ANDfACifLE. .I)u`olit tbrougli the c..;.lestlal rafters catuy A stnattertu ,, of wet, A...A A l rtl clouds the whdlow-panes - Of heart' n and shut'. A littld boy looked Cu. and saki. sober IS a deacon. guess It'si attgel crish4lay, Ina, ' A adl all the tubs Is lealdu'r7 • MIEMM ~; r, xi..f~'wgq .1. _... ~ ~ '~'~'' ' =:<f<r ':v,1.'~"i9,. '~: J. BM
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