_;. ._~ -, MMME lI,&W'LE'T,' Proprietor. guointoo eardo. 3.lffeligarelg. C. C. Fanner; W. B. Wean. • — •"'Ettingszing, FAVUOT & CO. '. 4e l 1 n Cloth i n g , Ladies. and Misses floods, sairsaoci. also, agents for the great American •wiTeaisi Cabe Company. -- Viiontroms, Pa , aro. 1,1% :t"111A111LES. - 111. STODDARD, Dater ta p, abo Al o la and Stu*" be Cape, Leather and in Btreat, ad door below Searle's Hotel. Mr made to order. and repairing done neatly. Matron. 7an.'l, LEWIS KNOLL, SHAVING AND HAIR DRESSDIG to the *near •Portoffee 'bonding, where he will be found ready to attend an who may went anything x.aa Ids Use, - • liCrattme, Ps. Oct. 13. ItijO. P. REYNOLDS, AVCllONKliqt—tiell• Dry Good 2. and Mentaxdze—also AttetAbAt NapdAm AU ordere left et my . henna will - 'lFacette incatptittterittost: [Oct O.llL' a&WiLEX, Ot jilt t he - Y nardirsie;liats,„,v, Read C Made CR OCK ERYo hisr, Mats, 011 s, ere., New Milford, Pa. ISept. A. 'TR. W. PAYTO.N, 1916Kc1att' ‘BUBI3I.IS 4; tendent his senices to "thittedtltens'of - area Bend and Nit lnity. Office at his lestesoce. opposite Barnum 110 , 12 e Irt. Bend village. hnsliept.iswiEwo.—er • t • • 'LAW OFFICE crapatsmcnc:& IdcCOLLUM, Attorney, end Conn. senors at Law. Wilco In the Brick Block over the - [Montrose Mtg. 4, 1869. cluxistra.m.. . - J. 13. McCou.oll. A. Ac D. R. lIATEIROP, DEALERS .in .Dry Goods.. .Groceries. erodret7 and Veniality, table and pocket cutler,. Paints, one, dye strafe, Bats. bonus and chem. mile imam Perfumery .Lc. Brick Block, adjoining the ...Bilakddeuttese.[augustll, 161:0.-4r - - D. S Lacrinor. AL, 0. MARREN, inn' 2.. -. l.kw. Bounty. lliacit Pay. Pension. - and Ykreta • on Claims attended to. Oillee dr oor below Boyd's Store, Inontroee,Ps. [Au. 1, VI, 'l4 055.1111../N, 4fteri ei at Law, MontroSe, Seines Co. Pa., can be • lona at all leasoneble business honrset the County ~..,47entunlestoriers' Office. [Montrose, Aux. 1, ISM •'" W. W. WATSON, ATTORNEY UT LA V. Itontrala, Ofilite with, L. F. Nita. (Montrose, Aug. I. IRO. , - suTToN, biiitioieer, and kuntrance Agent, iLI wits Felendsville, Pa. C. S. GILBERT, -- marl Ott Great Bend, re A !HI ELY, 13*. 'lll. Bttotioaso ©r. Aug. I, Mk Addrerr, Brooklyn, It JOHN GHOITE'S, rsismomonz TALIOR, Motartrre. Pa. Shop • over • almodlarce Store. Mit - advt. !Mod In An kyle. lantras done on short notice. and warranted to dt. W. W. . CiDttiXT AND CRAM MANL ACTCRERS.—Y. O of !Ws strew, Montrose, P. Islay.. 1. I. U. BIIIIIIIITT, MIAS= in Staple and Pane, Dry Goode, Crockery. • Hardware, Iron, Stores, Dry pg. Oils, and Paints. Maittand &wee, Mats & Cepa:Pam Maffei o Robes. • fivoiliries.Provielona, ale., New Milford. Pa. DR. E. P. HINES, arrperee r anentiv a locate e d di e c t . Friendovitie for the Deo =KZ Heta g y f„toti ' sl n tte s Ti= AOC:: Ofllea boars from 8 a. to., to 8. p. m. Pricadavllla, Pa., dug, 1. tem. • r liOtro ' & BROWN, it - Rit Ai) . Lll , ll Am suaAxce AGENTS. Al: Wetness attended tripromptly, on telt terms. (Mee 'lleet-deoraorth or "•11lontrose note]," west elde brablleAsenne, litnrtrose, Pa. (Aug_ I,IBBR. *waft Brannn. opium 1.. 'Mown. JOHN SAIIT7'EH, —. • - annulment that be I, OJW re, wood: to cat all kinds or Garreenu , in the pea, bisiOnable Style, warranted to dt with eletrana• ad ease. Shop oast the. Post Otte°, ldonleamr. Pa. WI D. LIIS, ATTORNEY AT LA* lii , Monticaw., Pa. OM= oppo. rens the Tarbs lion., Cleat tha Court Masc. avg. I. 1809.—ti :*e• . 1 DR. W. W. SMITH, anernir. Rooms over Soya & V.rwit`e ford Ante Store. Ocoee hours [omits. ra. to 4 p. m ,Montrose, Aug. 1, 1859.-11 • ABEL I"UBBELL, mum tn Drum Paten 'KeaWant, Chtintraia dalmsors, Paints, 011a,Itge Sltuffs. Varnlabea,,Win Assoc Groceries, Klan. Ware, Wall and Wlisdo or Pa, SitafAltoneirare, Lamps, Kerorene, 312dd:wry Oils. Guns, Ammunition, Katona, Spectacles arnalsta„Pans - y Goods, Jew:n.l'7, Peen no. JEc.— ,brimg save ofthe most numerous, vat:melon, and Valutae cofteetlema of Goode In Suggortuturin Co.— Itatabllehod In 1518. f Montroae, D. W.' Airromair AT LAW. oilier over the Store of A. lathrop. bathe Blieklilock:Montrose, Pa., [10'69 -DR. W. I 1111CHAIID805, PICEEICIAN & BURGEON. tenderseliii . professfoimi *Mice* to the citizens of 31ontrostrund Mee at his rosidernee.,cui tho ; corner east of Sayre & Amu, Foundry. /:-.119. •• • DR. E. I. DADDNMR, finehilblltt{ON; XOnir nse. Pa. Giver =latteution to diseases of the Heart and and all Surgical diseases: Ogles ores W. B. RM. , Boards at Seurle's Moak • farm.. I. mac BURNS & NICBOLS, DZAA. Alta Drag, Medicines, Chemicals. Dye- Katt, Paints, Oils, Varnish. Liquors, Apices- Fanny a rpm, Patent Medicines, Perftnnerl and Tgitet Ar ennui. arPreseeptions earetaliy esanjonundesL. Peelle Asenne,abore.isensteesilotel.Eloatross, Pa BVINS, AZOS 2itCHOLJ. Aim a. 12/22 DIL E. 1. '11.4.111LM SITAGEON, tajoehtally teitiere hie pebfeeetottal writes to the ' titer' Orrtieederitte cad vicinity. farOlffec IntheotheofDr. Leer Siege et J. Hadord's. • • - dng. 1, 'sat -. Sbi.DIERS' 80U14TY.;,, • PRIORS, BACK PAY. Tbe costendgned. umrszto AGENT of the GOY, 1121111tENT, fitting obi:aloud Oho• nrcoung= am.o4l.llglceprompt atteaticorto dam SAW "-111"4 ' 1F: Itootrose. Jose 11041161L' - Wibrirlsrity. •', ' ' ' 'b rallthose in cant or to te TeethotOdieriletital irtnk• abaidottall at the °Moe of the atitoalbars. :who 'are prta pelttdl kinds of wortheir line an abort niler : attoatbin paid tot maitior llan& p a artial lasWeilNiradii on Rohl. see. or kloodean: plate also on Weston's esat compodritat.tilhataro hter prferable e t ih o sabsiancea atop sallorAoal pa - SPtTt , s itialPrade topes tat ltbaistrastage barb* irtaltdcale 1116 fdationstbk parties. must he IMMO to at ain wort vantoitill. Plana, tiattand alumina igied+. tam qtplate work at oar Once. user Po's hard. min me. W. W. Marikit-IMMEE:II. Ang. la, .._„. . iteilago;Com 'PEBBLE SP AM' 1". folcil e l p ec tacka,a new Orpal 21, NOT loasea• iszr . . . In this 'dull whit trotible rife, 'Tis sweet to meet n maiden With winsome Glee, a fbrm of grace, And nature's treasures laden One orthese girt, with waving curls, And eyes that shone like stars, -I met tine day, in Tommy gay, While riding in the cars. She cast.hy chance a Andive glance At me .while I vas seated ; That look so nice-was once or twice Coquettishly repeated.' Pre seen fair maids, both Frenchand Dutch In (orimrt, rooms and bars, But none that pleased the halt so much — As this one In the ads. With sidle so in4ght she did invite " Your uncle" to sit next her; I didn't choose thisto real:se- 4 . For that would much have vexedher, Tier breath With spice was very nice, Like flavor of cigars, As I sat near this pretty dear, So snugly In the cars, We soon per force, hafnium° discourse-- I breathed my fond affection, . My arms embraced bar slender waist, t3he hadn't much objection, But uterely said " 'tis hard for maids Who have no pa's nor ma's, To keep in safety-from the ' bladm' • While riding in the eats." We rode all through the city throng Far past my destination, To leave my seat and then retreat, The thought was desperation. I couldn't start, while my poor heart Was fall of Cupid's scars Thus I was smitten and badly bitten, While riding in the cars She simpered—" Pm from boarding school You'd easily discover; Diy guardian, he has made a rule I shall not have a lover— But soon a husband I must get To shield me from life's jars ; You are the nicest man I've met In these horse railroad cars r 'Twould be amiss to ask a kiss In such a situation, But on that Me I deeply sigit'd, For that sweet salutation. For truth be told—l am not bold, Like any son altars ; But it VIM plain, " Love on the basin," Possete'd me on the cara. With sudden start she did depart As quickly as a rocket ; With hitter curse, I missed my purse Front out my trowsene pocket. The bird bad down—l-was alone— Oh, my unlucky mars! To be betrayed by lardy maid, And "shook down" 111 the can The first- notice that was taken of me, when I 'settled down' recently, Was by a gentleman who said he Was an asa , isor; and connected with . thernited States In ternal Revenue DeFp-ft-dent. I said I had never heard of this branch of business before, but I was very glad to see him, all the-same—would he sit down° He eat down.: I did not know anything particular to say, - and'yei I felt that peo ple who have arrived at the dignity of keeping house mast be conversational— must be easy and sociable in company. So in default of anything else to say, I asked him if he was opening .his shop in our neighborhood. - lie said he was. II did not wish to ap pear ignorant, but I had hoped he would mention what he bail for sale.) I ventured to ask him bow was trade?' and he said so-so. - I then mid we would'drop in and ifute liked-Litabouseas-well-aff-any:other;-wo would giro:him:our custom. _.-. lie s..tid he thought we would like his establishment well enough to confine ourj selves to 'he never saw anybody who WOuld go off and 'hunt Up another Mall in his line after tradim, once. That soundedpre{ty``eoirtplacent, but barring, that naturalexpreTsFiuntaf . villainy which.we :have given, the' , tuati looked honeit enough. A do not know how it tine about, es -,actly, but gradually tre appealed to melt Alowil and run together, conversationally speakiogi and tlieueyeitliiue wCut along I as comfortably as Clock'work. We talked, and talked, and talked—at least I did. And we laughed, and laugh. ed, and laughed—at least he did. ' - But all the time I had my presence of I mind ahoutm-1 bad mviiatireshreird- CIeSS turned - On,'" full heid,7 - .lti the engi neers say. I- was detelialaed . ti) ,Oild out all about Ids Inisiness, ,in spite or his ob scure atilawers-and I.*M3 determined I would have it out of him-without his atm pecting what I was at: -Intent to trap him with a deep, deep . rase. •I would.teil him all about my business, and he would nab:mulls - so warm to me during this se. ductive burst of confidence that be would forget himself still tell me all abont hit af fairs before be suspected what rtntiabottt. I thought to myself, my son, 'yob little know what sin'tald fox "yon are defil ing with. .1414:' ; " NOW -.you-.youcOuld never : eguess what I muds lecturing this winter and last sprinfr , , , „, t?- 7 d on't believe I Uo - uld'idiaie,i, - ; Letvia see—let rac.see, About, twothous. - andsloilammar be Pi But no, sir, I knoii potatildn'ttiite Made :toy seventeen hundred, masher , .1 •kilellrpt • couldn't'; INCA lei - tar/4 lag.wintei and dila „ w i n , were feerte9ll4" d:foetren hu lEarintififty4thinkat ",Why t , Ais ainuahigrfectly aatazt : uo§4,d'' Attd-Zoi aff fyikintan't allr - IBSEN All! Why bless you there was my ,i`; 4 i,;.1 I ' • • • . , -I . • r; - R ..• ........ .. .„..... _ „.., ,t,.... ~.. . - '•.-E' . . ... . .. , , . •. .. .. ~ .. ~,.. ~,":3•1- 7 1 ii t• 7 ;4' -4 .-- . • .: I ' I :;.i ' .014164... •':: Votfo forint. RIDIM; tri Tug CARL ; piatitailtoo. A MYSTERIOUS VISIT. 4.1,1111 v - ft "to 4.4.'5-34A' li'" : - :X9I . 4P§P'I .- -I."A- income tax from the. Buffalo.. Express for four months—about—well, what wonld you say to about , eight thousand-dollars, for instance . .• • • - "Bay I. --.Why, I should say I would.like to see myself rolling in Just suck another Axe= of affluence, Eißght thousand ! make a note. of IL , Why maul—and on the top of:this I tun to understand that you have still more income r Ha, ha, ha! Why you are only in the suburbs of it so to -speak. There's, my book—r' .rhe Innocents Abroad'—price, $3.50 to .$5, according to the-binding.— Listen tome. Look me in the eye: Dar- ing that.. four months and a• half,.saying nothing of sales before that,. but simply during four months and a half ending March 15; ,•1870, we've sold nlnety-five thousand copies of ...that book! Ninety tive,thousatid I Think of ito Averaget4 copy,; say.. nearly four hundred dollars, my son. I .get half 1" "The suffering. Moses - set that down. Fourtwu—seven—fifty—eight— .two hundred. . Total, say—well. upon my ! word, the grand total is about two hued red and thirteen or fourteen thousand dollars. • Is it pomible , " l'ossible,l If there's any mistake. it's the other way. Two hundred and four teen thousand, cash, is my income for this, if !.know how to cipher.' Then the gentleman got -up to go. It came over me most Uncomfortably that maybe I had made my revelations for no thing, besides being flattered into stretch ing them Axiusiderably- by the, stranger's astonished exclamations But no ;at the last moment the stranger handed me a large envelope, and said 'it contained his telserthiemeut ; and that L would find out all about kis-business in it ; and that he would happy to have my custom—would in fact be proud to have the custom-of so prodigious an income ; and, that he used to think there were several wealthy men in Buffalo, but when they came .to trade with him he discovered that they had barely enough to live on ; -and that in truth it bud been such a weary, weary a ,, e since he had seen a rich man face to face, and talked with him, and touched him with his hands, that be could hardly refrain from embracing me—in fact would esteem it e great favor if I wonld let him embrace me. This so pleased me that I did not try to resist, but allowed this simple hearted stranger to throw his arms about. me and weep a few tranquilizing tears down the back of my neck. Then he went his way. As soon as he was gone lopened his tub vcrtisement. I studied it attentively for four minutes. I then called up the cook and raid : " Hold me. while I Lint. Let Maria turn the hatter cakes." By and by, when I came to, I sentdown to the rum mill on the corner, and hired an artist by the week. GI sit up nights nnrl curse that stranger, and give a lift. occas ionally in the day time when 1 came to a hard place. Ah, wfuit a ruiscnind he was ! His "ad vertis' etnent" was nothing in the world but a wicked tax retnrn—tt string of im pertinent questions about my private af fairs, occupying, Thel4;tter.ixart of four foolscap - pages of fine print—questions, I may remark, gotten np with such marvel ous ingenuity that the oldest man in the world couldn't understand what the most of them Were driving lit—questions, too, that were calculate& to make a man reti krt about four times his actual income to eep from Smearing ton lie. I looked for a loop-hole, but there did not appear to be any. Inquiry No. 1 covered ply case, as gen erously and as simply asnn umbrella could cover an ant bill : • . . , . "What were your profits, in 1869, from any trade, limitless or vocation wherever carried on 1." And that inquiry was hacked np by thirteen. others of an equally searching nature, the, most, modest of- which requir ed.information as to whether I had com-• mitted any burglary, or highway robbery, or by any arson or other secret source of emolument, had acquired property which was not enumerated in my statement of ineome as set opposite to inquiry. No. 4. It was plain that that stranger bad en abled me.. to make an . ass. of myself. It was Nery, very plain, and I went out and hired.another artist. By workin.i , " on my vanity the stranger had seduced me into declaring an. income of $214,000. By law, tlOOO of this was exempt front lucerne tax—the only, relief I could see, and it was. Duly a drop in the bucket. At. the legal fire per oent. Linnet pay over to the guy. ernment the.appalling sum of ten thous. and six limitlred and fifty dollani; Mame 1 mai ientprk in this place that I did not do it_ .: lam acquainted with a very opulent man whose house is a palace, whose table ia regal, whose outlays are enormous, yet a mart who, has no income, as I have often noticed bEshe revenue returns; and to him I Went for4alvimin my - Aistress. He took-my dreadful exhibition of receipts,be put on his. glasses,lic , ,took his pen, -mid prestOl I was .a pauper l It was the neat est, Altingthat ever was. Redid it simp by.deftly.manipulating the bill of "dt: ductione • aro set- Alown "State, tistiotml aml municipal tares" .at so mach"; my losses bv. shipwreck, Are, etc: at' so 'much • my' kisses on =lest/treat estate, on live ;tack sold, on payment for - rent of homestant on repairs, improvement, interest, on pre viously taxed salary as an o ffi cer of the 11. amiy,'"uavy, revenue' 'service, and athet 4 3 1 13 0 , , Ilegotastxmishing“ deductions" Mita eachmid every one of th6xt: And when' he was done ho tandodliie the'paper, and I sawist a glance that during the year .1869 My income, in theirakef profits,lad been cad thousand two bundicdratid iffy' dadaist and.forty. cent - - ' ' 7 • ff'-'IZOVV;MEZidIhe; •." is exempt byltivir. „ - What'ytyit'want bido is ta plaid swear thisdocathilitin,'lnd 'Wax ;bravo, htnidred 'ad= While be -watt nishingthiS4ceeli , his little boy Willie lifted a twodollari.rwM: back out of his pooketrand vanished with Lwoulit betwnytlung thatifeany 102 4gliNg werc4o,callatt thstlitde morrow, lie would make Llahrezetnintif his inconit. /.a ♦ • ;, ,:f, ;. ; r .s. ~ , . . . vi t tr oanai* i:fr,,A.C4LbWI 4401 1 4:4 ra47.4. ~., r -.<.., ~ NffISZI . Do you," sai4:o l do yen alisaysltot:k - up the 'deductions after this fasbion.m your own case, sir-r " Well, I should : En:4o I If it weren't fair those eleven iti*Mg clauses unit:tr . : 4e head of deductioiejahould be . beggafe.o every year to supNrt this hateful-and wicked, this extornate and tyrannical government!' , -,. This gentlemailaMpde aisiy,:tipamong -the very best of the Solid men of-Buffalo"; :the men of moreaaight, of commeicial integrity, of unimPeachable social 4 lesSness—and so I,tiOwed to*B', 0 itfesample. Ilvent down to the revenue : office r and under the accusing eyes of the my.old--vis ' itoril swore to lie taftkr lie, fraud after -fraud, villainy after villainy,, till. my fut -mortal toad was coated _inches and inches !thick with perjuiy, and my self-reset • was gone forever:- —r: • But. Ish'svof P ' nothing . : more; -than fbousands of thenighest; and ncheit and prOuthat, and' most -respected' and honored and courted men in America:4lo 1 every 'year. And so I don't care am not ashamed. shall simply, for the present,italk4it tle, and wear fire-proof gloves, lest I full into certain habits irrevocably. MARE TWATIT. Three Day* in ioWatuan's' Life.-; Then was it written in the sky And in the stars above, . . . That but three noeirients should be giyen i . To me for life and love. , One moment for ns td meet, And one to part, and then One moment fora rainbow dream To melt in tenni "gala. Yos thus'twas writtatin the sky, 'Twas thus tie stars derived, And we, far parted, wander on Where'er these slant may lead,* But tilers's a happy distant land Where the bon&l'Clf 'fate are riven, And there we twO shall meet again Beyond the starry Heaven. —r- Translated from Me Genneta • Yes, it. is very trne, though life belong; yet as one looks back, a few days only stand out from its monotonous level and give their color to one's existence. One such day—divided from me by forty years —rises on me now in undiminished bright. ness, and neither time; nor space, nor any other thingg, nor death itself, I sometimes think. shall unite do away with its influ ence upon my soul. I had risen early, and as 'I tbreir open my bedroom window and breathed the dewy freshness of the morning, I turned snap in discontent at its calm brightness, for today he mist go away! • ' This thought had repeated itself in' iny uneasy dreamland troubled waking, till I felt angry withinymelf, but neitherinide nor reason can avail tigaind the ptin that trnirriai my, hclari that Tra , ...;.. e . dressed myself and wandered' out into the garde,n..., I stopped little sparkling ronntaiti".-and, ,E4ca 1)1 0 4 14 14. 6 4 1 Y sparkling waters, and ribs waving: , trees, and brilliant flowers—gazed and thought. To-day ho is going away. 1 sat down by the fountain brink tind, dreamed passed scenes overagainonixed with vagna fan cies of what the futitro might have ;in store. I was-OwOre Suddenly of a shadow twee , me an d . the sun. I looked ns Ralph Traffold stood before,me. Witlk a suppressed cry I !started to my feet, for it dream that changes to reality, a thought that becomes a bodily presence, has some thing awful in it;, my face must• have ex pressed as much, for with an-.amused smile ho said, "I .am bony , I frightened yon—but what makes me so very. alarm- . ing this morning " . MI my heart's blood rose to my face ,Itrle4 to. spank and could not; but the teats „came 'instead, tears that washed away_tho last slight•de reuses that kept, our hearts apse; and oh! what echoes of heavenly music did the voice I listened to Awaken in my heart, what strange glory passed over the face of the eart,j3-1,, , nett fell-the shadow, and the drnp .of gall from which no earthly happiness is free, and mingled ;it self sillily ?cup; of bliss. His eyes 'were looking into Auto with tender pity, and his tone of rice was sad, almost remorse ful, as be said, "Forgive me, Alice, I did not mean this." , • -- "Row ? I do not Understand yon." "!:.have been Weak, base, selfish. What right lad-I to throw the smallest show of my.own trials on your bright young life? A few more hours of silence and forbear ance, and I, with my wretaed_ .fortune,• would have been out of your, ivay.forever. I shouhl speedily have been forgotten, oud some one withu home to offer,-." , "Oh, "Hy poor hste!,,-do not look as if meant a reproach; hiit my prwspects and so - knows -whether , it• will. ever in,my power to claim.you 'as my ,wife, It would be the very, height, of selfish ness _tosacti,fice your-future to *vis ion that possibly, nay probably, coold• never be realized ; -better- be nothing to you than airairrlie' utet !" . ... - .31,1"ar.; _ 7 4 -4"&oli,-BulPli, 1 it is you; irho-, do"i not understand ms now. , 10itild•it'have. been • ' better 'for I ute I to..•believe•.that•lon 'bad tousle its day's imusementl to Akin • my beast-and gone away to ,play--the stun careless „tole perhaps with another? To have: both .my-.self-respect and' trustl in others poisoned by. the Intrassint'doubt whether I had bren misled .by -my own silly ;vanity; or onr:cruel Hencefinth coma what may ; litxin, bear* I maY,nevet see yon again, but • 1 , . have your, love:: Yon may: forget rue, may trander:yonr. love td anothet ; but I•shall haditonce. •Yua csuitsondeprive me of -that comfort. bowl" ; ; •;- .1 His self-Idistuel was ~ e hased; away,' lit least for siaimment, seiltwn4at together 'by theffonntainosiletst , and,"happy ! i-the ,post.forgotteisoinsithe fatimv.onthonght :of,thetpzeseist nre:leved :.fit 'Mather, .'ba•-..se knew: at`: A. kit, Uunobonts,!and•haiirais goneaway. into thstivideltork4the.degr Seri , between'', us,: an.dtarriel alkt isiore'iMpansaldnditiding us ftom each other forever! I, too, tnrned to my own bbl :and no trace re mfdlletint4W &Ilea , hila Mugu* atlittyllt‘iliTetiinnthecAlgthi ottnyoutis 4»4d'l I have nevitilbisAltill garde* %pin-, but hence since / have been old I dressed ? '.'.d i.4'r. t . . . . ••• - ; , .. ..,...i ~.. ' ..... • - . ..,. ' • , 3.-.A.t. -.4 r , ,t."... , •-; 1 ""' "-, =ME 'that I Wris,there. 'o46' me're. the 'Rini- Sparkled in the sunshine, the trees - waved, the birds sang, , the very seent of . the flowers = -a11,.a1l was ason thaeday in Tong 10, . • Ear mon - ii4itTitillyoing figitin-;--it'Ainti . a istrente'Sentiatiiini the =next theie Wars aliarig - of something bait of mislaid, a dritibt - as of . my own identity, aCitruggle tei think and recollect;, and. I awoke: i'ditinril nay, Only - the" telliktiotitif diton=--"the.. sliadow,of RANO& ;r ' Misi - gailier alert*, ;bogie', glaia They - clear,', and - anothkr - picture I'os itself to My Minks eye. ' I tint in'toy olkoeiiii heme. The shadMis' of levelling-are 'darkening in the : autumnal sky, thelarge heavy clouds drift -atioutlike•urteasy-spirits. , I riiheiny - eyes .to,thosasemelity.indo*: andrr.watch .the filliing-Motes flutter - 1y and &apish - like thelione and Dromisd of 'my-youth. Theirnetioiag-of. thewindeonnds 'my cars like the , 'dirge:l°f' the past, Mid•the fast darkenipg heavens seem- the emblem, of my fa ture.•:Witn-a heavy sigh „I stirred thestuouldering fire into a blaze, and stopped to read bvits light.those sen terices..of' the letter I held, and- which .were already impriuted in fiery eliametem on my brain. It was my sister Eleanor's kind,- now escious hand- that had -.given me the mortal,blow—yes, a mortal blow ! for that which•lital been for -throe: years, the lifej3f iny•life, died out as LI -read-- Iliell,and made no ,sign. - Her story •was merely this: "Do . you: remember Ralph Trafford:7 -.Perhaps not:, it- is so long since you met him ' • though you aught, for, by-the-by, he used to be- a great •nd ruirer of years, chair. Alice. Well, Mr. LOWlB,ll4oeen at hinnich r t here he 'law a good deal of him. Just before he left, it came out that Ralph been privately married for some weeks tti the widow ; of Cometwho died not. „above six months:ago. There had been some Beate. dal about - Ralpliiniff.this weaken last year, so Mi. Ii says, but whether. the rep:iris were true or not; of eourse•lie .could .not say, but, at all has, it Was not the fi iiit scandalshe has, been the heroine' of My husband is vereit.for he,,has, always had a great regard for Ralph ; and what makes the matter more annoying is that biselder brother is now quite given over, and only sent to Maderia - to die, so that we may soon expect the-bride and bride groom to take possession of D-- Hall, and I must decide what to de about call ing-on her;" etc., etc. :Not I, then, but another, was to share his hoffie, when be had one to offer. I crushed the letter together in my hands. and dung it into the lire. The feelings of my heart, as I watched it shrivel and per ish, f tunas unable to describe as to for t , Lhadanswered - qtdetly and' colkettedly when asked,'"What does Eleanor say TWUCUIIIR= 65 i put down the letter to pour out my mother's tea, that I searched the sugar-basin with minute perseverance, in order-to find a tamp of the precise size. I went through the ordinary occupations of the nayens usnaL - inner life bad long bees too distinet from the - external for this to be difficult; but tirkst„ - alone in my awn room, the icy numbness that had gathered round my heart' gave, way. I flung myself on my knees at the bed side, and covered my face with niy hands, though there was-no one to see the tears that came to my, relief., Ab I vain., trust. Abr . ! rio li sh But he, lihd loved me'onize, and there Was still comfort the thought. Whalias not, once. in his life been happyin : visionary Paradise and beep amen Out h the fteitith,,, , isworii?. Bat the de of .suffering depends : apart, the 'eafrici y to suffer, and mine was great: On collie Inds an impression is no soon-.., eitiadellian it tiepins tete effaced. Tillie I alone, With. light, ,I,lniperceptible tenches, suffices to 'smooth itway its tr4Ces a but on others, a Strong iinpiessien'ence made is, ineffacable. Like characters chiSeled on a hardstone the rciiiki-triay be ove brown, butitenealltrAlle- meefs aridrfichfin that bides them they. still remain, till the stone itself Shall perish.' . The 'letter was con sum: I started up and paced the nar row room with -the • -feelings of a • caged animal. I longed, to rugh out into the woods and fields and there, in solitude, under the.etormy.sky, do battle with the fiery.paiu, that gnawed at my heart; but no, I mast wrap myself, in the , Spartan cloak of -resolut© reserve,-and I did it, but it was a hard strnggle. Ido not love to eontemple it even now. Let the pictured go t , • • . • Years passed away, and another day sr rives-tbe:liest on which I was ever dealing.' to feel ti,strong emotion. I had arrived at the- ago of thirty; I was iu. the drawing room of a `Small house iu Torquay, where we- were passing the win ter. for' the sake of my mother's failing health. She, wrapped in •a large shawl; is sitting in the warmest corner by.` the ' , fire , talking-with:unusual cheerfulness-to my brother Charles and -his wife. who were staying with ua; but I, withdrawn from the bright and cheerful talk, sit, by the, iviiidniilpoking inta the drerigStreek bleak and 'dismal in' the Vrigilieuin _g days -and linen 4- Oath'. days or Febru ar y .. . Ah mother I w4„fcheerful.'l h so i& Oti that day reigtedati eligible offer - of Marriage. al can denait - in peace now," she said, when I showed her ,Coloriel ."I shall seeion in ts' heat° of your own, :My Alio' • Yes; itwould- he abetter' 130 ,4 ~ : w i g a 'very fortunate woman. ColOnel.Grifli the would - I:M*8141m 8'164 match for; me :when waste the rzen ith'otnirbiNtoty;= . low tacky sheriao snake -snob .a-marriage now! , -, Flied straggled *aged. love, tartaiwregrets. Them - 'was seine thing hilted deepdowp nty-heaß, bat it lay tery,stilL -.lt gain no sign' of I wished. ;to forget itzwawther e. Yet low .. . this iyiy. the ominous thrn age and :.hearmgsthe graM white 'Ult . ,* bid; at aorta coniah3imsobB7hat no t r. mid be -. dead:FAL- hadrbeett so' Inirrltaried? Why also ld. not. tay -fel:am/U. bobsight? -and-Them : eyci arid id 'to the. epPositolhotille- lclihad , lieenaten; =WI byis lady of whom all I' knew Vinni that she Tito bohtakysul Widowi;butPl hoitioihStrherignednoldeelirOvitirizi , litijit,thapraatutirpiejMillerdi eta'. dy - 4thiltoira • soul The that looked out of her ry.a- : : a• F.l L;.--*.! _ ~,,,,- 0 1:.,7, 4)1:1 it; rff-...1:-.1... - ....., , 1 - ri ..11. i„,•1 •' •-• • - .I.r; • : , t,T ,71"-.A:L'. tfr brightitimpid .f.y‘lra! • 4ePartultUto • TO eerie isle; teglcli of :eternal ; for me; bow Many weary.years had to be traversed before my pilgrimage shotdd be -over? dyin,g among .stmngeks, so lonely and:futon:4.lms asad and-pitiful sight ;-.butthat .was all over now, she had- dephrted, and. the hearse which was to entry her:frail, faded form :to *distant grave stood -at-the - door.; .A travelitigw-srris,ge Was. , there too;` that I must belle the lirather,!: who. had come -to het only the day before she died. Very aed'antl:drziritesiut i^ wee:feeling, the liZentetaplation of death swab 731014, con genial to md.thari thin thought -of life.: I -continued to look ea dreamilyi but when ;the door opened and he, her brother,: ,ad vanced to:the threshold, what made l 'my . !heart- stop mei ; throb as tumultuously. Nay Were life and death And eternity-al lirgoltea mu theiabserbing ilgiany of ex (pc-dation -with, which. I watched to- , see to see his face. I did see- it; he looked Inv .Ohl: will nothing keep him one mo ment whilst I look at the grave careworn features once. more Chico morel No, hei.gets. into the carriage,, he pulls down the blinds: and he. is: gone! I walked .slowly back towards the-fire. "Why, Alice, you look as if you bad seen a ghost !" was the exclamation that greeted:me...Amino I had. I had seen Jane- who for mo had . longer •an exist cum-upon earth-..-I had seen Ralph 'lnf. ferd, and,: like an. apparition from the land of spirits, he came in time to warn me from the evill was about to do. Yet, after that strong yearning to look upon his &ea. again had passed, it • was not -so much love that woke in my heart as a desixdring conviction that this man 'was my fate. That to be his-sacrifice was•my destiny, and that I couldnot fightagaiust it. had never been sernear hating Ralph as.at the time. when "resolved to offer up all the remainder of my life to the mem ory of. the here lOW* bore him; `never felt so tender,a gratitude:to the; other as when I. determined to -reject:him; but! that one electric moment had lighted -op every hidden corner of my heart, and shown WO the dishonor itmite i d Abtiodyistiqkin . gbilleagithathuichFeh -ar val tithite4 Itc*4l.4e; it u Ziefuteg the'talea t i l into tants on.