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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.
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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
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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, '
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The business heretofore conducted by Kotigh
Hnvder Si Co., will be continued by ihesnhicilben-
j. w. tf. Kotum.
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