' " I I .-i..n. . .1 ....... , ' - ' " "' ' 'L" l T . "t 1 I Margie's Letter. fctT) ALPH, hore Is n letter which John X jut brought me, saying that he found it iu the bottom of your sleigh when he was harnessing Selim, and he added the melancholy fact that tho sleigh will be at the door in five minutes." "So soon I Ah yes, It is already ton, but I could have swam we had not been ten minutes lining from our eight o'clock breakfast ; all your fault, naughty one." Yes, sir, but the letter" " O, yes, the letter ; give it mo, please." " Not till you tell me, traitor, who it is from. The handwriting is extremely pret- tv. and the seal of rose-colored wax is stamped with tlia motto, ' Ever thine 1' Ever thine, indeed 1 Come, tell me at once the name of this sentimental correspondent or rather g ive me leave to read the letter ; shall 1 ?" " Indeed no. What ! betray the secrets of one fair lady to the scrutiny of another, especially when both ore young, beautiful, unmarried, and fond of the same unworthy follow?", "Then she is all that!" "All what?" "Why, young, beautiful, unmarricd,and and fond of you." " All especially the last." "Now you thall give me the letter, sir," and, although the young lady still smiled, there was an angry color beginning to deepen the rose of her cheek, and an angry light kindling iu her hazel eyes. , Ralph Morton saw these symptoms, and just the least shade of sternness and de termination peeped over the smile upon bis lips, as he answered : " Mall, Margie? That isn't a pretty word for such rosy lips, child J and to pun ish you, this unfortunate letter shall at once be condemned to an auto-de-fe, and its con tents at once be lost to mortal ken." A the young man spoke, he Bnatched the letter from the young girl's hand, and cast it into the midst of a fiery sea of blazing coal which filled the ample grate. Hot words rose to Margaret's lips as she saw the flames wrap themselves around the devoted letter, and that which till now bad been only a playful wish now rose to vital importance." " I will uever forgive him," was her first thought, but she bit her lips and walked to the window before she spoke, and then she turned, and said calmly and politely : " Your sleigh is at the door, Mr. Morton, and I have the honor to wish you good morning ; and she moved to the door of the library, where her father sat. "Stop, Margie, one minute ! It was rude of me to snatch the letter from your hand, and for that I beg your pardon. Kiss, me, love, before I go, won't you?" " I will forgive you, and, when you tell - me who wrote the letter, and what it was about" " Have you not yet learned, Margaret, that demands do not succeed with me so well as requests ? Kiss me, and be my own sweet Margie, and I will repeat the letter verbatim." " Repeat the letter firsthand then we will speak of the other proposition." " No, Margaret, not if you never kiss me again." And now the look of stern deter . mination was unmistakable, and the proud lips, instead of smiling, pressed hard against each other. " Good-morning no farewell, Mr. Mor ton." And the angry rose and the angry light burned bright on cheek and eye. " Farewell, Miss Leslie !" And in anoth er minute the jingling sleigh-bells made music which Margaret did not hear, for her bright head was buried in the oushions of the couch, and the voice of her own weeping filled her ears. What ! Ralph gone without bidding us good-by ?" said a cheery voice, as the door opened ten minutes after, and a face beam ing with love and geniality looked into the room ; but when Mrs. Murray saw the lithe figure lying so crushed and forlorn upon the coach, and heard the stifled sobs, she came quickly in, and, shutting the door, approached her niece with a face so full of sympathy aud grief, that one could well see that "she, too, had wept." " Margie, darling, what is the matter? These are not the light tears which Ralph's departure might cause. Is it anything which you may tell me, dear?" "O, auntt" sobbed Margie, without lifting her bead. " It was a hateful letter, and and lie called me Miss Leslie, and said farewell, and so " " Margie, Margie, you bave not parted in anger I Do not tell me that." The low voice, usually so calm aud sweet had in it such a tremor of apprehension and agitation that the girl Involuntarily looked up and saw with alarm that every vestige of color had faded from her aunt face, and that her eyes were full of anguish and alarm. "Aunty, darling, what is It? Why do you look at me so ? You do not think he will never " A fresh burst ot sobs choked Margie's voice, and ber head went down again upon the cushions. "Child, if you know what I know, if you felt what I bave and do, you would not ask why it fills my 'heart with sorrow and dis may to know that you and your noble lover have parted In anger. Listen, my darling, and I will tell you what I bad thought never could pass my Hps ; but I bcliove there is no saorifloe, dear child, doar daugh ter, that I would not make to save you from trending the dark and bitter path through which my steps lay for so many years." . " . ' You, dear aunt I I thought you had Always been as happy as you have made every one about you ever since I can re member." ' " When you were born, my darling, my sorrow was tnany years old, as fien count, though new and ever young to me. " Time was, Margaret, when I too was young . and gay and fair, . and I too loved and was beloved. Every one that knew him praised and admired Henry Murray, and those whom be loved loved back again with a passion that was almost adoration. My father and mother gave me to hiin more willingly than they had thought they could yield their only child to any one, for they felt sure I should be happy. And so we were married, and went to Henry's mother's for our bridal tour. O, those few weeks 1 what promise of a long life of hap piness was bound up in them 1 and then wo came home, to our own wedded home, The fairy cottage I see it now, nestling among the trees and shrubs which quite hid it from tho road. Often, between ilecping and waking, I distinctly perceive that delicious aromatic perfume which con. tanlly filled the air around it, from the millions of flowers that were in their glory that balmy month of June. ' " It was the second month O, my God ! inly the second month of our marriage, when one delicious morning Henry came to give mo the kiss and embrace without which he had never yet loft me? even for a few minutes. His horse stood saddled at the sate, his hat and cloves were in his hand as he entered the room. O, how handsome, how beaming be looked I how mv whole heart went out to him, and thanked God for making me bis wifo 1 "My darling," he said, 1 1 must entreat your pardon for my forgetfulness ; here is note which was left by a footman at my counting-room yesterday for you, and which in my joy at coming home and see ing you again I quite forgot." " He handed me the note, which I took with a look assuring him of pardon. I found it was from an intimate friend of mine, who had been married upon the same day that we were, and whose hus band was dear to both Henry and me. It announced their intention of coming out to dine and spend the day, and told me to beg Henry to come home early, as James had something in particular to say to him. You will come home to dinner, love, won't you?" said I, after reading the note to him. I don't know, petite," said he; "I would like it, of course, but I have an en gageniout for three o clock, which I am afraid cannot be postponed." But it mutt be postponed," said I, with the willfulness of a petted child, who has never been deuled an j thing. "It is the first time Emma and James bave been to seo us, and you must give me a post tive promise that you will be home to din ner at two." " Don't ask me to do that, Mary dear, for perhaps I shall find it impossible. You know it won't answer for a young merchant like me, just starting in business, to be negligent ; and unless Mr. Monroe can see me this morning, I must wait in town till afternoon." " And so this Mr. Monroe is more im portant to you than the wishes or your wife !" said I, pouting. " Don't talk so, Mary, for you know it is unreasonable. " Promise, then, to come home to din, ner." " I bave told you, Mary, that I cannot properly give you a promise. I will cer tainly come if I can." i in sure i don t oare whether you come or not, u you won t give up so much of your own way as to make the promise." " Mary, I know you will be sorry, when you think about it, that you have said that." " Ills tone was so sorrowful, and his words so true, that I could bave cast my, self weeping ou his breast ; but an evil spirit, I believe, withheld me,and I answer ed very coldly : " l ao sot tnink l snail ever regret so true an expression of my feelings." " Do you mean, Mary," said my husband in a deeply-wounded voice, " that unless I will conform exactly to your wishes, or rather commands, that you donot care for my society?" " Exactly." " Henry did not speak again, nor did I turn my head ; but as I still gazed from the window, I saw him mount bis beauti ful black horse, Sultan, aud ride away The expression of that noble face haunts me to this very moment so deeply pained and wounded, so justly displeased. Had he looked round, 1 would have rocalled him, and mode peace ou any terms ; but bis looks were to the ground, and his move ments so rapid that before 1 made up my mind to call him he was gone. " As he disappeared, a terrible feeling of despair aud wretchednoss came over me. I would bave given the world, had it been In my grasp, to recall him, to humble my self, and ask his forgiveness ; but the mo ment bad passed ; no tears, had they been of blood, no prayers, had they been an agony of supplication, could over recall it. "Ah well," murmured I, " ft will be but a few hours, and be will be at home." Even as I spoke, a deadly shudder shook my frame. A few hours I My friends arrived, and I strove to greet them gaily and "cordially ; but my thoughts, , my attention, were not with them I tny ear. was constantly4 strained to catch the hollow sound of horses' feet upon the little bridge just below our cottage. At last 1 heard ; them in the distance-?- furious clatter over the bridge and up the little avenue ! ' "but I knew it was hot him I longed for. A nameless dread crept over me, and I seomed frozen to my chair. "Heavens! Mary, what is the matter?" cried Emma ; and at the same instant a sharp peal from the door bell rang through the house, and in a moment the servant said at the open door t A gentleman would like to speak a few words with you in the hall, Mrs. Murray." " I rose and went out as if in a dream. A stranger stood there, looking at once embarrassed and sympathetic. Before he could speak, , 1 said, in a strange muffled voice i . "Is he dead?" " Then you have heard, madam," said the stranger, somewhat relieved ; he said something else, I believe, but I beard it not, for I was again gasping out "Is he dead 1" , ,, "No, Mrs. Murray, he still breathed when I left, but if you would see him alive, I think you should come at once. I left word at the little tavern in the village for a chaise and driver to be sent up, and here they are." " By this time Emma and her husband, hearing something of our conversation, had come out ; and it was her kind hands which arrayed me for this terrible ride, and her husband placed me in the chaise, and si lently, after a few directions from the stranger, took the reins, and drove rapidly through the village, and about a mile be yond. We stopped at a common sort of a house, ' in the yard of which Sultan stood tied to a tree. "Come right in," said a woman who seemed to be watching for ns at the door. But I'm most afraid he's gone. He was sinking fast when I came out to look for you." My friend led or rather carried me into tue room mat room where lay my darling, my noble, gallant husband where he lay dying. O my God 1 1 did not know till then bow keen an anguish the heart may bear, and yet survive. The sight of that dearly-loved form, that morning so replete with manly grace and strength, now so crushed and helpless, aroused me from the stupor into which I had fallen. I rushed forward, exclaiming " uenry, llcnry I don't you know your own Emma, your wife !' 'He smiled faintly, and opened his eyes, but be could not see me, and in another minute they closed gently, the smile faded from his face, and I was alone alone with my great sorrow. i beard long afterward, for it was months ere I could hear bis name spoken, that he had exerted himself that morning to find Mr. Monroe, had transacted bis business, with him, and was riding at a quick pace toward home, when, in passing a heavily-loaded country wagon, Sultan shied violently throwing hiin among the wheels, which, before the horses could be stopped, passed over him, cruelly mangling his limbs, and injuring bim internally so severely that death was the only relief to which he could bave looked. : " My child, do you know why I felt so agitated when I found that Ralph and you had parted in anger?" Mrs. Murray rose, with a oountenanco sadly moved from its usual serenity, and left the room ; nor did she leave her cham ber for many hours. Margie raised herself fiom the couch with the look of a sudden resolution in her eyes. She walked steadily into the library, where her father still sat reading his morn. ing paper. " Father, can John be spared to go into the city for me this morning ?" " Why, I don't know, you hussy ; what do you want now ribbons gewgaws eh?" " No, papa, but a note" " A note and who is it for?" "For Ralph, papa." " For Ralph I Why, It isn't an hour sinco he left here. Well, well, you puss, don,t look as if you were going to cry, and send John to the world's end, if you like." T be note was sent, and was worded as follows : " Can a kiss be sent in a letter? Makoik." Tbe answer was as follows : " It can. May a man Lave a sister, young, beautitul ana unmarried IUli-h. tW A young man in Lawrence, Mass., was paying attention to a girl, gave her some trinkets as tokens of bis affection, in. eluding a ring, bracelet, car-rings, Ac Seeing ber tbe other evening with 'another feller,' be walked up and demanded bis love-tokens back, and being a special police officer informed ber that if she did not comply, be would take ber to tbe polios station. She surrendered tbe baubles. SUNDAY READING.' : do something.. ... ' - '' (' ; If the world seems cold to you, 1 Kindle fires to warm It I v V Let their comfort hide from you , Winters that deform It. , ' ' Hearts as fror.cn ns your own To that radlanco gather) You will soon forget to moan, All I i.hn nhiwl-lpaft VMtlmr 1' If the world's a " vale of tears," - Smile, till rainbows span U Breathe the love that life endears v l 1 5 Cleur from clouds to Ma IV. Of your gladness lend a gleam Unto souls that shiver Show them how dark sorrow's stream Blends with hope's bright river! The Prayer-Meeting. An earnest prayer-meeting is the life of a Church, -and a dull otie is pretty sure to be the death of it. , The attendance upon this service is a better indication of the spiritual interest of the peoplo than in the morning or evening congregation. Your church may be crowded on the Sabbath, but you are reasonably certain to havo a vacant pulpit within a year if you have thin, yawning, and bored audiences in the chapel when you meet together to pray. The prayer-meeting is the point where the minister's hardest blow should be de livered. Itis a good and necessary thing for him to work over his sermon, and to in terest and attract the ncighberhood in crowds if possible to the exposition of the Bible and the interpretation of daily exper iences, which mark the worship of Sunday; but this is not a chief means of insuring a long and steady spiritual success. People go to church largely through habit, and because of the cessation of all business pursuits, and bucause it is the fashion to pny a proper respect to the day ; but they go to the prayer-meeting because they want to know more about religion, and because they are interested in the grand verities of Christianity. Fashion and the general dullness of life are not' impelling motives. Drones my gravitate towards the pews, but only earnest meu and women, the bone and sinew of the society, will fill up the lecture-room. You may have the congregation boiling with interest aud curiosity, but it will bub ble and bubble until it has all evaporated into thin air unless a steady and increas ing fervor is kept up by means of the work ing organizations, tho central impulse of which is to be found in week-evening gath erings. ' " f : Young ministers begin at the wrong end. They are too frequently mere declaimers about the Word of God, or, as they like to be called, orators. They spend the bulk of the week ou the manuscript, which is to startle the refined and select who rustle along the road to glory in silks, aud make the Sabbath glitter with costly jewelry, and put off to odd times all preparation for the simpler gathering of this weekly service. Our advice would be to do the heavy pound ing at tho prayer-meeting, and skirmish more on Sunday. It is a very curious and significant fact that the wealthier, more refined, and more Influential part of the society, as well as the minister, are apt to regard this meeting as of secondary importance. It ia left to the care of the few earnest souls who are pretty sure to get to heaven without the aid of any meetings at all, or terrible fate, to the tender mercies of certain talking machines who are self-constituted itinerants, aud who go from one church to another to air their vagaries, to make humbler Christains cringe and shiver at their daring and reckless assertions of sin- lessness. If we would persuade the zeal ous-hearted among tho more influential classes to regard the pruyur-meetiug as of supremo importance, we should do a great deal toward changing tho Christianity of the day from an immense talk to an im mense work. A Mechanic. A young man commenced visiting i young lady, and seemed to be well pleased One evening he had called when it was quite late, which led the young lady to in. quire where be had been. "I had to work to-night." " What, do you work for living?" "Certainly," replied the young man, " I am a mechanic," and she turned up her pretty nose. This was tho last time that young man ever visited that young lady. He is now a wealthy man, and has one of the nicest women for a wife. The lady who disliked the name of a mechanio is now the wife of a miserable fool a regu lar vagrant about grog shops, and the soft, miserable girl is obliged to ' take iu washing to support herself and children 3T Chastise your passion tbat they may not chastise you. No one who is a lover of money, a lover of pleasure, or a lover of glory, is likewise a lover of man kind. Riches are not among tbe number of things that are good. It is not poverty that causes sorrow, but covetous desires. Deliver yourself from apetito, and you will be free. lie wbo is discontented with things present aud allotted, is unskilled In life. tW There is too much of the Divine in man to render, blm less than a mystery and too much of the human for bim to under stand tbat mystery. Never Known to Fail! : Tiiottrsox's w' Fever fc Ague Foivders PERMANENT CUBE OF CHILLS AND FE VEK, DUMB AGUE, OR ANY FORM . ., Or INTERMITTENT FEVER I Tho Greatest Dine very of tho Ago ! riUIERE are no diseases so debilitating in JL their effects upon tho constitution as the above, and none more difficult to cure by the usual modes of practice. The Fever and Ague Powders will effect acute In cases of the long est standing, as well as prove a preventive in the forming stages of disease. Being purely Vegetable, they act with certainty on the dis ease, totally eradicating It from the system, and preventing a return ot any future period. vrny waste your money ana neaun in trying every medicine you hear of, when Thompson's r ever and Ague powders nave never tailed to cure the Chills in any case. REASONS WHY THEY ONLY SHOULD BE USED i Thtir Reputation U Ettablitfied. Thousands of testimonials have been received, showing that those Powders have performed miracles ia curing cases of long standing, many of them considered hopeless. . Thert U no llttk in Taking Thtm. They contain nothing Injurious, and, therefore, cause none of those lingering diseases so often the re sult of the mauy nostrums of the day. Physi cians recommend them as far superior to Qui nine, or any other known remedy,forthey leave the system in a healthy state, and the patient beyond the probability of a relapse. BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS. The genuine are put up In square tin boxes, with "Thompson's Fever and Ague Powders" stamped on tbe lid, and the signature of "Thompson & Crawford," on the wrapper. No others can possibly be geuulne. PRBFARKD ONLY BT ' ' CRAWFORD & FOBES, 141 Market St., Philadelphia. THOMPSON'S It HE UMATIC AMD HORSE LINIMENT, The Great External Remedy for Itlicum at luiii, Neuralgia, Sprains,' Bruises, Ac, Ac. EQUALLY GOOD FOR MAN OR BEAST. This Liniment has earned for Itself a reputa tion unequalled in the history of external ap plications. Thousands who now suffer from Rheumatism, Neuralgia, dec., would find im mediate relief from all their pain by using this ccrtuln remedy. Jt Is equally effectual in Cuts, Burns, Scalds, Stiffness of the Neck, Sore Throat, Swellings, Inflammations, Frost Bites, fains in tbe Bide and Back, Bites or Holders or Stings of Insects. One rubbing will in all cases give immediate relief, and a few applica tions complete a cure. On account of its pow erful penetrating properties it is beyond doubt, the SUREST REMEDY for tbe most trouble some diseases to which horses and cattle are liable. It cures Scratches, Old and Fresh Cuts and Sores, Chafes produced by collar or sad dle. Injuries caused by nails or splints enter ing the flesh or hoofs, Bruises, Sprains, Swee ney, Bpavin. lnrusn, ana an diseases wntcn destroy the hoofs or bones of the feet. Fnll directions accompany each bottle. Prepared only By Crawford & Fobcs, 141 Market Street, 29bly PHILADELPHIA. Why not have a Beautiful Complexion ? BX HI ANKOYKD WITH CHAPPED HANDS oa ROUGH 8KINT when such an agreeable and effectual REMEDY CAX BE OBTAINED AT SO SM AM. A COST. BY USING WRIGHT'S ALCONATED GLYCERINE TABLET." Sold by Druggists & Dealers In Toilet Articles. 00 I. U. OIRVIH. 1, H. OIBVIR J. M. OIItVIN A SON, CommlxMlon BferchantB, NO. 8, SPEAR'S WHARF, IUI 1 1 more, Jld. srS-We will dsv strict attention to the sale of al kinds of country produce, and remit the amount promptly. fiMly Neiv Pension Law, UNDER an act ot Congress approved March 8, 1873, widows ot officers who were killed, or died n( disease contracted 111 the service, are now entitled to iiOO per month for each of their chil dren. The guardian of a minor child of a soldier who heretofore only received 18,00 per mouth pension Is now entitled to $lu. per moth. Soldiers who receive Invalid pensions can now have their pension Increased to any suiu or late between tit. aud IIS. per month. Hauliers who have lost their discharges can now Obtain duplicates. , Fathers and mothers who lost sons In the serv ice upon whom they were deneadeut for support, can also obtain pension. The undersigned having had over 10 years ex perience Iu the Claim agency business will attend promptly to claims under the above act. Call on or a4drs LEWIS POTTER, Attorney for Claimants, New Bloomtleld, 7 20tf. perry Co., Pa. JOBINSON HOUSE, (Formerly kept by Bweger and Khuman.) Jftw hlootnftehl, Tnry County, Pa. AMOS ROBINSON, Proprietor. This well known and pleasantly located hotel has been leased (or a number of years by the pres ent proprietor, am! he will spare no i.alns to accom modate his guests. The rooms are eomfortable, the table well furnished with the best in the mar ket, and the bar stoeknd with choice liquors. A. careful and attentive hostler will be In attendance. A good livery stable will be kept by theproprietor April ,mi. tf Dissolution of Co-Partnership. Tk.TIVTir:K l hereWv ulven that the eo nartner- T ship heretofore existing bet ween the under Signed, under the name ot Rough. Hnvder & Co., Is dissolved by mutual consent. The hook of the Arm will Im found w ill J. W. n. houizh. and no tice is given tint accounts must be settled within thirty day. Torn j, w. H. KOITOH, ' W. 8 KNVDKK, W. II. KOUUtl. Newport. Aug.,2U. ls'3. The business heretofore conducted by Kotigh Hnvder Si Co., will be continued by ihesnhicilben- j. w. tf. Kotum. W. 11. KOUllli.
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