lje Simca, New SHoomftcfo, Ja.
Tho Wrong Man. v
TIMIE distrlct-choo1 of Long Bridge was
I over for the day, and only one or two
stragglers yet lingered, while the teacher, a
pale, wearied-looklng girl, stood putting
her desk to rights.
The children had been unusually trouble
some that day, and the discouragements at
home oocmcd to culminate ; a shiftless
father, sickly mother, and"Marm,"as
she was called short for Marmora the
eldest of five. That horrible mortgage on
the farm was always swallowing up money,
like an insatiable tiger, to be constantly
prohibited for fear of its tearing them to
pieces, and ooe hundred and twenty-five
dollars was wanted now. How in the world
was she to get it? One or two tears fell
into the open desk, for there was no one
there to be troubled by them, and it had
been such a pressing day.
September airs came in softly through
the open doors ; and there was beauty in
the distant hills, with their soft purple
haze ; beauty iu the clustering maples,
hanging out here and there a banner of
flame ; beauty in sky, and earth, aud air ;
but the poor little teaoher saw it not, far
more lovely, to her tearful vision, would
have been a roll of crisp greenbacks.
A boy came in and handed her a letter,
lie had met Sam Wild In the road, and
Sam had been to the post-office.
Marmora didn't often'get letters ; and
like most persons to whom letters are rar
ities, she studied this for a minute or so
before opening it. That well-defined, gen
tlemanly hand-writing was quite unfamil
iar; but the address " Miss Marmora Brado,
Long Bridge, County, New York,"
was quite correct. Who could be writing
to her?
Presently, as though she had not thought
of it before, Marmora read her letter.
When she had done this, she grew white,
and almost gasped for breath. That doo-
ument of two close pages was her first offer;
and it came from a roan whom she had
only seen once, and whom she had never
expected to see again.
The circumstances were peculiar, aud
happened thus :
About two weeks before, she had return
ed from a visit, made during her vacation,
to an aunt, who lived fifty miles away ; and
although she could ill be spared from the
home routine, she had been running down
so during the summer, that the change was
absolutely needed. The poor, overworked
mother saw this only too plainly ; and
cheerfully took the additional burden,
while she helped her daughter to get ready
for a month's sojourn at aunt Talbot's. '
That month did wonders for Marmora.
She had nothing to do but eat, sleep, and
grow fat ; and the plump, rosy girl who got
into the stage on her homeward journey,
was quite a contrast to the white, shadowy
damsel, who might have been living on a
diet of slate pencils, dropped at her aunt's
door by the same vehicle a few short weeks
ago.
There were only two other passengers,
and both of them were gentlemen. One,
a fresh-looking, middle-aged man. with a
slightly bald head ; the other, young, tall,
ana interesting, nut the elder man was
much the more cheerful of the two, for he
kept op a lively fire of remarks, while the
younger one acaicely spoke at all. He
looked as though he could talk, if he chose,
but be seemed sad and indifferent ; and
when Marmora occasionally encountered
he glance of his dark eyes, she turned her
own away in blushing confusion, as if she
had been guilty of an impertinence.
She was somewhat given to dreaming,
this little, country school-teacher ; and
several times since, she had thought of
these sad, half-questioning eyes, and sighed
a little, perhaps, with a sort of Maud Muller
reeling.
There was several miles of staging before
the cars could be reached ; and the ride
proved quite an eventful one. . ,
A sudden shower came up, a pitiless,
drenching rain, with thunder and lightning;
and after struggling on for ft little while,
the stage came to a stand-still, and the
driver, battered and drenched, appeared at
the door. , . . ,. ;. , .
" Well, folks," he said, "I guess you
may as well got out here, and, toddle into
the bouse, the off-horse Is scared to death
at the lightnin', and I ain't over fond of it
myself. It'll come handy to take your din
ner, 1 expect, though Mm. Jacobs '11 never
be bung for her cookin'."
That " Mrs. Jacobs" ought to be " bung
for ber cookin' " had been the conclusion
of other travelers besides themselves ; but
they did not expect much, at the outset,
from a tall, worried-looking woman, with
her face tied up for toothache, overrun by a
swarm of dirty children, who whooped iu
and out of the ball and sitting-room like a
horde of young savages.
iue gentlemen looked meek and re'
signed, when Mrs. Jacobs, after surveying
them hopelessly, said that "she recly didn't
feel equal to fixin' up anythin' "she'd
told Jacobs, over aud again, that she didn't
set out to keep a hotel, but folks would
keep droppiu' in," eto.
Tbey begged her not to put herself out
in the least ; they only wanted a shelter
until the storm was over ; but Marmora
knew better. '.' The poor, hulf-drowued
creatures, she decided, ought to have some
thing hot ; and she felt the keen demands
very sensibly herself. So, following Mrs.
Jacobs out to the kitchen, she soon explor
ed the capabilltes of her larder ; ' while the
washodout-looklng hostess watched her
movements with unresisting surprise, she
got up a hasty, but attractive repast, of
which the foundation was eggs, coffee, and
biscuits. ,
Mrs. Jacobs became so interested, that
she produced some wretched pie,some hard
preserves, and soft pickles, to help out tlio
feast ; and Marmora, with rolled-np sleeves,
bright eyes, and flushed shocks, laid the
cloth herself, in the sitting room present
ing suoho, pretty picture, as she did it, that
her traveling companions gazed upon her
with very evident admiration. The elder
gentleman advised her 'to hurry her prep
arations, or they should certainly begin
upon heY, just to find out whether cheeks
that looked like peaches tasted like them.
Marmora blushed vividly aud disap
peared ; and the speaker remarked to his
companion, that slie was ft very nice little
girl, and would make a jewel of a wife for
any man who had common sense and the
young man as usual said nothing.
The iinpromtu cook and serving-maid
entered into the fun of the thing in the
most spirited manner ; and they all looked
upon it as a regular frolic an impromtu
picnic of the first water. Marmora was nc
customed to bring order out of chaos at
home ; and, somehow, she managod to
make the dreary sitting-room look cozy and
attractive. The children were banished to
the kitchen, where the good-natured stage
driver took them in hand, and told them
stories that made their unkempt hair stand
more on end than ever.
It was really a cheery, refreshing meal,
after all ; and the gentlemen gratefully ac
knowledged that they would have been
poor, forlorn creatures indeed without the
bright, presiding spirit, that had cast such
sunshine over their path.
The storm cleared almost as suddenly
it bad lowered ; and the stout gentleman,
declaring that he must have his share of
the pleasure paid Mrs. Jacobs liberally for
the viands consumed by himself and Miss
Brade. lie would also have paid for the
other traveler,but that haughty young gen
tleman would not permit it.
Marmora blushed again, and allowed the
gentleman, who seemed to have taken her
under his supervision, to help her into the
vehicle. He paid her a great many com
pliments during the remainder of the ride,
and, at parting, laughingly aBked for her
address. He did not wish, he said, to lose
sight of such a girl as she was.
Marmora thought it rather funny, but
as she was much younger than himself, she
didn't mind it. She gave him the address,
and then, with a low bow, and some half-
murmured thanks from the owner of the
dark eyes, she took her train, and went
homeward, while her companions were
borne off in ft different direction." '
And now this letter, bad corrfe from her
elderly admirer, saying that he had not
been able to get her out of bis mind ever
since she had made such sunshine for two
forlorn men, in that very Bhady place, Mrs,
Jacobs' sitting-room.; and if she could be
persuaded to make his sunshine for the re
mainder of his life, he would feel illumin
ated at once. Ho was older than she, he
added ; and he thought quite lately, that
be had buried his hopes for this world,
("ft widower, of course," commented Mar
mora,) but he now felt that the earth had
much brightness for him yet, if the only
woman who could make him forget the
past would listen to his suit. He could of
fer ber an independent fortune, and the de
votion of a lifetime ; would she give him
permission to visit her, and bear from ber
own lips what he had to expect? ,
This doeument was signed " Your stage
coach companion, Edward Forbes," and
then followed bis address in New York,
Marmora-could, scaroely think connect
edly. Surprise seemed to have paralyzed
all her faculties. But hurriedly finishing
her work in the school-room, she thrust the
letter into the satchel, and hastened home.
Mrs. Brade looked up iu astonishment at
the strange conduct of her daughter, who
burst into tears, and handed her the letter,
"Oh, Marmot a I", said the sick woman,
when she had fairly taken it all in, "If be
was a nice kind man, and you thought you
could like him, I should be so glad 1" . ,
"But, wouldn'tjrou miss me, mother?"
asked the girl, with ft quivering lip. It
hurt her that they were so , willing to let
her go.
, " I should like to have you settled," was
the reply ; "and, perbaps,Marm, we should
get the mortgage paid off that would give
me a new lease of life, I think."
" Bought and sold," thought Marmora,
bitterly. That was just what it seemed to
be ; and she sank iuvoluntaiily, as she re
called Mr. Forbes' prominent light orbs,
full, rosy face, and decidedly stout , figure.
But, then, as ber parents urged, she did not
love any one else, (good reason why,
thought poor Marm.) and Mr. Forbes
might, at least, come on a visit, and be
taken into consideration. Perhaps, she
would get to like him very much indeed
And so, Marmora, urged on all sides, and
vainly wishing that . the dark eyes, with
only ft clerk's small salary, perhaps,, had
laid themselves at her foet instead, indited
tbq fateful letter. She only wrote one
word, " Cotna ;" but that cost her more
than the longest epistle she had ever at
tempted. '
Two or three times she was on the point
of tearing it up. Once, after she hd de
posited it in the post-office, she started to
got it back again ; and when the letter was
fairly off, beyond all recovery, she devoutly
hoped that Mr. Forbes might change his
mind before be got it.
But not he. The letter seemed to have
reached him" with the speed of a telegram,
and, In the same lightning like way, came
back the announcement that he would be at
Long Bridge the following day.
There was hurrying to and fro in the
Brade domicile, and ' general putting of
things to rights. The unlucky farmer was
usually smiling and contented-looking ; but
now he fairly beamed with complacency
and the pink ribbons in Mrs. Brade's new
cap seemed to, cast a faint glow of health
on her cheek. Marmora had a delicate,
lady-like ptfettiness about ber, that emotion
always heightened ; she could not look
upon this matter-of-fact Mr. Forbes quiet
as a lovor ; and yet, feeling that he had a
right to her at her best, she dutifully put
on a white dress, and her mother insisted
on pinning a bunch of pink chrysanthe
mums in ber bosom.
The flowers were ft lovely color, and so
wore the cheeks above them. Marmora,
slipped off very quietly, threw a shawl over
ber arm, and walked out into the lane at
the side of the garden., Somehow, she
could not meet the man in the house ; and-
felt as if she should choke within four
walls ; and if be cared to. find her, he might
search for her outside.
It was all very queer, she wondered, if
she were not dreaming it? She believed
Bhe would just walk on, away from the
fate, not caring what she came to. Why
should she?
Presently, she beard footsteps behind
People seldom passed through that lane.
Who could be coming now ? She fult
cold chill creeping over her at the thought
of Mr. Forbes. He had managed to dis
cover her already ? It seemed like witch
craft.
Marmora turned suddenly, and saw the
last person in the world whom she wanted
to see, except Mr. Forbes the man who
bad been so persistently in her thoughts
for the last few days.
Oh, why did you come !" she said in
distress, putting out her hands as though
to push him from ber.
" I have come In answer to the word you
wrote me," was the smiling reply. "Sure,
ly, you do not regret it already ?"
"You!" she exclaimed, growing white
and faint.
" Yes, I, Edward Forbs ; did you not ex
pect me ?" t.
He hastened up to the tottering figure.
For the first time in her life, Marmora bad
fainted.
Mrs. Brade wondered what had be
come of ber daughter, and also of the ex
pected lovor, who should have been there
by the train that came an hour ago ; but
when, just as the last rays of sunset glinted
over the hills the two walked in, radiant,
the astonishment of the parents was su
preme. Could this very prepossessing young man
really be the Mr. Forbes whom Marmora
bed represented as middle-aged and unat
tractive? What did it all mean?"
But Edward Forbes' bewilderment was
quite over, for Marmora bad told bim the
whole story ; and if, at first it was not
altogether pleasant to think that the lady
had been ready to marry some one else, he
remembered the peculiar circumstance of
the case, and forgave her. ' '
He had told bis story too. When they
met in the , stage-coach he bad just been
made miserable by a fashionable coquette,
and the world, of course, all seemed stuffed
with sawdust. He bad felt, Marmora's
sweet brightness, through . all his misan
thropby,aud basked in it like the sunshine.
He had found himself watching ber move
ments, and speculating upon ber home sur
roundings, as he sat there buried, apparent
ly, iu his own thoughts. He had experi
enced flashes of Indignation at the forward
ness of his companion ; but the man so
evidently meant no barm by it, aud the
girl took it in such good part, that there
was nothing to be said.
He listened eagorly when Marmora gave
the elderly party her .address) though no
one would have supposed bim to be think
ing of anything but the straps of his valise,
which be was carefully securing; aud when,
after bis return, he found himself constant
ly dwelling on the girl's sweet, deft, house
wifely .ways, and her smiling, changeful
face, he resolved to venture on the bold
step of writing to her, and asking ber to
be his wife. What did be care what her
father, motler,sistera, or brothers might be
like, when tbo girl herself was neither un
grammatical,uor unlady like? With a little
training, she would grace the first society in
the land ; and, fortunately, be had no one
to consult but himself.
She looked very young, this Marmora.
What a quaint, Eastern sort of name I She,
looked seventeen, but was twenty ; and as
Edward Forbes had reached the venerable
sge of thirty, he wrote the words which
helped to cany on ber nimtuke. lie did
Dot know bow she would receive his letter.
Perhaps she would feel indignant that the
acquaintance of a stage-coach ride should
presume to address ber in this way ; and
"- ; r 1 T
until her charming little answer j of one
word reached h!m,he was almost miserable;
for he had quite set his heart on this little
wild-flower of a girl, -who was In. snob
sweet, fresh contrast . to; that somewhat
worn camnlia, Florence Hastings. '
The mortgage on the farm was paid off,
and the Blades were prosperous nd happy
ever after.
As to the worthy individual who appear
ed to Marmora In the undesirable light of
a probable husband, for a few wretched
days, it, I only just to say that nothing
was farther from his thoughts ; for as be
was the lawful property of a severe lady,
Who ruled him witli a rod of. iron,' and his
eldest daughter was just about Marmora's
age, he scarcely bestowed an after-thought
on his stage-coach companion ; and when
be met her, as Mrs. Edward Forbes, he did
not recognize her. reterton'e Magazine.
A Foreign Railroad Story.
A young lady belonging to the highest
circles of society in Holland met recently
with ft mysterious adventuro which has
excited a good deal of speculation. Hav
ing occasion to go from Rotterdam to
Utrecht, and being alone, she took a
covpt ' for herself. The Instant the train
started a well-dressed gentleman of dis
tingue appearance jumped into the eoupe
and seated himself opposite the young
lady. After the expiration of a few min
utes, the intruder suddenly addressed his
eis-a-eu with the words : " Mademoiselle,
I must ask you a favor." "Me, sir?"
."Yes; and a very great favor at that."
"But I do not know you." "Oh, never
mind ; it will not inconvenience you much,
unless you should refuse, and then" hore
he drow a pistol, carefully examined it, and
put it away again. " I am waiting for an
answer." What could the young lady do?
Pale with terror, she promised an j thing he
might ask. " Well," replied the intruder,
pulling out a pocket handkerchief, , "I
shall tie this over your eyes. You must
neither move nor cry out until I remove
the handkerchief. That is all I desire of
you." The young lady suffered herself to
be blinded. After half an hour's painful
silence, Which seemed to her ft century, the
frightened girl was permitted to remove
the handkerchief. But who can describe
her amazement ? , Instead of a gentleman,
an elegantly dressed lady sat before her.
"Mademoiselle,','' she said, in the most
polite manner, " you have rendered ma an
invaluable service. . I hope some chty to be
able to prove my gratitude. . Will you
promise not to uieution this little incident
before the expiration of six weeks?" " I
promise, madame." "Thanks, a thousand
tbauks ; you will not lind me insensible of
this kindness." Arriving at the next sta
tion, the guard opened the coupe, the
stranger bowed and disappeared. In con.
sequence of the excitement the young lady
suffered for many weeks irom a nervous
affection, and was more than once despair
ed of by her physicians. Not until after
the stipulated period did she relate the ad
venture of the eoupe.
Remarkable Verdict.
The most remarkable verdict, ever rend
ered by a Coroner's jury iu Lancaster Co.,
is that which was rendered in the case of
Henry Walters, whose suicide was record
ed the other day. The verdict, as returned
to the county Cainmissioueis, was as fol
lows : " That the deceased, Henry Wal
ters, by nut having God before bis eyes,
but being seduced and moved by the in
stigation of the Devil, and in a oertaiu
woods in Mount Joy township, belDg then
and there alone with a certain hempen
cord which be there bad and hold in- his
hands, and one end thereof put about bis
neck and the other end thereof tied about
a bough of a certain oak tree, himself then
did there, with the cord aforesaid vol
untarily and feloniously and of malice
aforethought, hang and suffocate himself ;
and the jurors aforesaid doclared that the
said Henry Walters then and there iu man
ner and form aforesaid (as a folon himself)
killed, strangled and murdered himself,
against the peace and dignity of the Com
monwealth." A Cheerful Conductor. '
A Nashville man bad occasion to go to
Memphis over the Northwestern road re
cently. There were but few passengers on
board, and during the night the conductor
came and sat down by him.' "Goiu'to
Memphis, are you, stranger?" be usked.
" Yes, sir," said the Nashville man.
"Mighty rough road, ain't it ?" queried
the conductor, with a yawn. " Very" was
the reply. " Last time I went over the
road this car we're in now was ' upset, and
ft man was killed all to smash," said the
communicative ticket-puncher, with another
yawn. Then be added: "I've got the
most feckless engineer on the road with
me to-night, too, but I bops we won't have
any accidents. " I certainly hope we will
not," responded the passengor with feel
ing of uneasiness. Wall, I don't know
as it would maka much difference to you,"
said the conductor cheerfully ; " you'll die
any way if you're goin' to Memphis."
ty If you are in a dishonorable business
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New Pension Law,
UNDER an aot of Congress approved March 8.
1873, widows of officers who were killed, or
died of disease contracted 111 the service, are now
entitled to liuo per month for eacli ol their chil
dren. The guardian of a minor child of a 'soldier who
heretofore only received 18.00 per month pension
is now entitled to t 10. per moth.
Soldiers who receive Invalid pensions can now
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between 18. and 118. per month.
Hoidlers who have lost their discharges can now
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Fathers and mothers who lost sons In tlin un.
tee upon whom they were dependent tor support,
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The undersigned having had over 10 years ex
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1JOBIN80N HOUSE, , .
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(Formerly kept by Bweger aud Hhuniun.)
Neu Bloomfield, Terry County, Pa.
AMOS ROBINSON, Proprietor.
This well known and pleasantly located hotel
has been leased for a number of years by the pres
ent proprietor. and tie will spare no Mine to aunom
modate his guests. The rooms are comfortable,
the tab! well furnished with the best tn the mar
ket, aud the bar stocked with choice Ihiuors. A
careful and attentive hostler will be In attendance.
A good livery stable will be kept by theproprletor
April 8. 1871. tf
Dissolution of Co.Parluerslilp.
"VT"JTfCE j, !,(,rehy KVen that the co partner-
snip heretofore existing ueiw
signed, under the name of Kough,
ship heretofore existing
between the under-
Knvder & Co..
Is dissolved by in ut on 1 consent. The books of the
firm will lie found with J. W. H. Kough, and no
tice Is given Hut accounts must be settled within
thirty days from this date. .
J. W. B. KOI'OH,
W. H HNYDKIC,
W. 1L KOlKiH. f
Newport, Aug., 20, 187.1. , , , .
Tii business heretofore conducted l Kougli,
BuyJer Co., will be continued by thesiihscrlberr.
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