fly D. A. & C. H. BUEHLER VOLUME XXIII MORE NEW GOODS. GEORGE RXOL D HAS just received from Philadelphia an additional supply of those cheap Long Slum's, Cloths, Cassineus, Lawns, Voplins, Alpacca Lusters, Flanue/a, Do mestics, Fresh Groceries Alto., all 0 which will be sold at very reduced vices. Pleash call. N. B.—l wouM inform my customers and the public generally that I will remove my Store to Sella Corner in the spring. where I will be pleased to se all who may favor me with a call. GEORGE ARNOLD. Nov. 28. 1851—tf REMOVAL. sziorArromt TEA ZEE TAKES this method to return his thanks for the liberal patronage here tofore bestowed upon him, and to inform the public that he has removed his watt -1 ishment lathe room adjoining M iddlecon 'Store, and opposite Christ's Church, on 'C:hausbersburg street, where he has on hand a very lino assortment of CLOCKS AND WITCHES , •- Jewelry, fail a dfa Spectiteles, and every thing else in his line, and at such prices as cannot fail to please. Ills stock has recently been enlarged, and lie asks all persons who may want Clocks, Watch es, Spectacles, Ear-Rings, Finger Ring*, Aireast Pins, Watch Chains and Guards, Watch Keys, &c., &c., to giv'e hint a call. Clocks and Watches REPAIRED ns usual, at tiro shortestnotke ; also Specta cle Glasses changed. Gettysburg, April 18, 185l—tf. WHAT IS TREASON • Fir HIS is the question now-a-days j which has swallowed up all others, Alien "Will Nalipetre explode !" "Who threw that last brick !" and "Who struck Billy Pimento's'?" his a hard question to answer, but there is no question whatever, that the largest and best selected stock of BONNET RIBBON'S in the county is to be found at KURTZ'S CHEAP COR NER. Oct. 10, 1851. Diamond Tonsors—New Firm etpton St Zrottitr, FASHIONAULI HAULIERS AND HAIR - - llissEltS, VAN at all times be found prepared to ‘--/ attend to the calls of the people, at the Temple, in the Diamond. adjoining the County Building. From Long expe rience they flatter themselves that they can go through all the ramifications of the Tonsorial Department, with such an infinite degree of skill, as will meet with the entire satisfaction of all who may submit their chins to the keen ordeal of their razors. They hope, therefore, that by their attention to busi ness, and a desire to please, they will mer it as well as receive, a liberal share ol pub lic patronage. The sick will be attended to at their plicate dwellings. 'CoUnion, Cala . flotict. rip HE Collectors of Taxes in the dif -0- Intent townships of Adams county,' ate' hereby notified that they will be re- Auited to settle up their duplicates on or befOre Thursday the lat day of January 'next,' on which day the Cmtunissioners will Meet at their office to give the tiecessa 'ry exdrit rations JOHN MUSSELMAN jr., JACOB GIREISTI ABRAIIASI WAVER, CUMMiIiTiMerS J. lvowtNn oH, Clk. Nov. 21, 1854.—td NEW GOODSin GREAT MARIE' Jr SCHICK'S. 'Atte•t— THE subscriber has just returned from the city, with a very large assortment 'FANCY 86 DRESS GOODS, 'lsevaried as it is beautiful, to which the 'attention of the public is invited. ICreall and examine for yourselves. His goods 'and his prices cannot but please. Odt. 17, 1851. , SKELLY & HOLLEBAUGS FUL for pastTavors, respect- L fully inform their Mends and the public, that they continue 'the TAILOR ING business, dt the old Stand, and solicit +a contingence of the public patronage...- Garments made in the shortest time pos sible. IlizrThe New York and Philadel phia MI and /l inter Riskions have just been received. Oct. IV, 1851% MONEY AND WOOD WANTED. JILtIE subscriber earnestly requests those Wetted to him on accounts of long standing to tall and piy him ; and those persons Who have contracted to deliver WOO% are notified to bring it in as speedily as possible. Now is the time to prepare for Wittier. W. W. PAXTON. Oct. 81. KEEP WARM. A DESIRABLE assortment ofoVElt. no' COATINGS, such as brown, drab and grey Beaver Clothsy Petersham Clothe dui:. cheap and good, can be found at "'SKELLY 'it. HOLLEBAUGH'Sb 001.'17, 1851. desetinneetnls. 'rear. driliOTHS, Cassimetes, Ceseinets, Ken& 11 -14neks , Jesus, VESTINGS or anklet's. ISOmpitidete, Handkerchiefs, 011401 - 411%. &0,, dee., may be found, good and outwit NEW YEAR'S NY. HT MIME CATHARINE M. EIEDOWICK in the year 1836, when speculation— that black art evasion of the laws God has instituted between labor and pover= ty, laws for the protection of human vir tue—was at its fever height in the city of Now York. Mr. Lyell, a gentleman ' whose yekis and position seemed to have moored him in one of those bays past which the stream might rush without dragging him with the torrent, returned to his home much excited. lie was too much occupied with his own thoughts to observe that two young persons, whom his entrance discon certed, were at that moment threading to gether ono of those tangled paths that but for his ill-timed appearance might have led them into the bright world of their hopes. Ellen Lyell threw back the curls that had fallen over her burning cheek, and resum ed her, worsted-work, heeding neither colors nor thread, and Haskctt Mercer snatched the evening paper and seemed devouring its contents. "1 am glad to find you here, Meteer," said Mr. Lyoll ; "it. is not. often 1 leave poor Ellen alone. Anything new in the paper ? have you looked at the stocks ? Stilt rising, are they not ?" Mercer turned mechanically to the stock table and read it aloud. "Yes, up—up—up," resumed Mr. 'Mer cer. "What is thu world coming to? ev ery body is getting rich. William and Gordon lows LI, matter of forty thous and dollars since last week, Ellen.'' "Forty thousand since lust week r re peated Ellen, without turning her eyes from her work. "Yes, forty thousand. Is that such ev cry-day news that you answer we likoa fain% echo. Forty thousand dollars aro worth' lifting your bright eyes from your work, Miss Ellen. I f your brothers' luck holds, titty will soon be the richest men of their "Will they be the happiest ?" "To he sure—that is, they will be so much the happier as they are the richer. Mercer, why don't you go out into this shower of bold ? What's the use of al .,r, 1.4%•;116 lAUMJ ward ?" "I am afraid, sir, that we are deluded by a false light and that which now seems gold will prove to be mist, and melt away." "Nonsense, Mercer, nonsense I Don't I tell you my boys have realized forty thousand dollars ?" "They have capital, Mr. Mercer. I have none—at least none but my regular busi ness education and my industry. These afford no basis for speculation. Indeed that has no basis. The indolent, ignorant, and unscrupulous arc the most daring in these times, and, for the most part, the most successful." "It was so in the beginning, I admit, but now every body sees the times are pe culiar, and are putting into the lottery.— Town and country are alive I Prudent old merchants who have gone into the jog-trot way the last thirty years, aro studying charts of new lots and maps of Western lands ; lawyers are getting up monied in stitutions ; literary men aro in Wall street, and widows are speculating in the stocks. IJommon rules won't do now, Mercer. Ev erything goes by a succession of accidents. I sin sure nobody can explain why prop erty, real property, should be worth fifty per cent more than it was two or three years ago." "Perhaps, sir, if ynu were to say why it should Fell for fifty per cent more, next year may solve the riddle. Tho present prices cannot be sustained. Land is at this moment selling upon a hypothesis of our having in a few years some millions of population on this island." "Well, if it be a delusion, why not take advantage of it, Mercer ? My sons offered me a share in the purchase' they aro to make to-morrow. I promised them to con sider of it. I have done so during my cool walk home this evening, and come to tho conclusion to follow the good old rule and let well enough alone: Atmy ago the care of now riches would be burdensome: I haVe been just as I email my life, which, in this up and down city, few can say. I am not far from the and and I had rather finish as I began. I have enough for Bl en and me, and my sons are getting rich on their own account. But you, Mercer --you arc a young man ; without a money capital, you will have a long struggle of it. You will grow gray before you will dare to ask a woman to marry you, if, instead of taking advantage of this strange Mato of things, you plod on 1" . • "But what am I to do, Mr. Lyoll 1" re plied Idercer,-whose pulses were quickened by some of Mrlyell's suggestions.. Ihavo no money for the venture, and if I could obtain credit, I would not without proper ty to sustain lb. There is quite too much of this dishonorable mOde of Willem ear • tied on aniongus.''.. , • Ellen for the first time put in her word to say ) seemn to . mothismriremal.ruk. sloe Or Eint*y Ore is something *Ater atoktuiblidit'o4.worioi to struggle for." someiri. GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 1851. "Wh', Miss Ellen 'Love in a cottage' is it ? That 'is bon pbur la eampagne; as the French say ; 'very welLout of the bush,' as your old Dutch grand-dame would have had it, bit in town (and Mr. Lyell winked at Mercer) love can't live in a cottage.— It must have at least a neat two-story house, with money enough to go to market in the morning and pay the servants on Saturday night." "Now, Mercer, I am a prudent twin, and Iwo no fears. I will endorse your note. You shall enter this speculation kith the boys, and as matters arc going, you, may sell out at the end of a month at a very de cent little fortune. Your share of the put chase will be about twenty thousand dol lars." "Enter not into temptation, Mr. Mer cer," said Ellen, with an arch smile. But Mercer had already entered in. His male was already built in the story of a neat two story house, and the conviction that Mr. Lyell had discerned his hopes and had pre sented the only mode of attaining them took possesSion of him. After a short si lence and a stolen glance at Ellen, which conjured up intoxicating images in his bruin, ho snatched his lint, saying, "I Will see your sons this evening, Mr. Lyell, and if they are disposed to let me into this part nership I will accept your very kind of fer." "Not so very kind', no, if there were the slightest risk I would not make it—for twenty thousand dollars is nearly two-thirds of all I am worth in this world." "And if there be risk, I would sooner cut off my right hand than take it, ho as sured of that Mr. Lyell." And never was there a more conscien tious assurance, but unfortunately Mercer i3r i p beginning to feel the general intoxica tion. Ile found the young Lnlls eager to admit hint an equal partner in their speculation. They particularly liked him. They suspected their sister was not indiff erent to him. They knew be was not to her. They were elated with their recent success, and fancied Mercer had only to embark with theta to launch on the flood that led to certain fortune. But, alas! the ebb tide had even then, unperceived, begun. Th.( porebnott• Wag II Win, all the late gains of the brothers invested and the father's name pledge(' fur Ilaskett Mercer. Shortly after Mercer was employed by a company in New York, to go to Illinois to examine sonic recent purchases of "fancy bits" made there. Before leaving the city he went to Mr. Lyell's to take leave of El len. It was four o'clock—the steamer left the wharf at five. lle had but fifteen min utes to spare. Ile had no purpose what to say, but he was in that excited state of mind when fifteen minutes gives the color to one's life. Nature is in some minds more rapid than the magnetic telegraph. "Miss Ellen is not at home," said the servant who answered to Mercer's ring.— "She and the old gentleman have gone down to Mr. Gordon's." Poor Mercer turned away thinking how interminable the four weeks of his absence would seem, but vainly casting the fashion of the uncertain future, he little thought that was the last time his foot Would he on Mr. Lycll'a door step. As he hastened up the street he met an old mercantile friend of Mr. Lyoll's, one those men infallibly weather -wisp in the trading ivotld. • "I hope," he said, "the Lyells have not made the purchase they were talking 07" "They have." "I am sorry for it. It will be a bad concern. lam glad, at any rate, that my old friend's neck is out of the scrape. It may prove a giMil lesson to the young men." Mercer had no time to hear further.-- , lie went on his way, and carried with him a load of remorse and anxiety, His journey was lohg and painful.= Wherever he went Ate demon of specula tion had been before him and ruin was fol lowing in his train. His business was perplexing and detained him through the sickly season. to too' the toyer of the country, bad enough . under any circum stances, but alarmingly aggravated by his complicated anxieties. Happily his ra vings of K i llen Lyoll, of an angry father, and of bankruptcy, fell on the ears of strangers. His discreet physician with. hold the letters that came for him, till, though staggoritig with debility, he was on the eve of beginning his homeward journ , noy. There were several from the broth. era Lyell, ono from their father, and one from Ellett. The last was first read and ran as fellows : "My dear friend, my fath er told me yesterday that he had written, to you. I fear .his letter is filled with re' preaches. You will not be ,surprised that disappointment *a loss should irritate his Um susceptible temper. Your agency in this unhappy affair will, I know, grieve you, but you should be consoled by remota• boring that you entbarhedin h at my fedi• er'° urgent Forest, aid - with expressed re ludonoe• For myself, I have nothing to teiffet , Ma'oendition is yet far abovi went. e wise 'people tell us that forttmo and „ !lab are net t the best munsters to the na. mad Ouirsater, '4,1 I already find that mi lkweed - Oismipitiott.” if it does not sod the "FEARLESS ANTI TREE." evils it oppoks, at least furnishes a pano ply divine against ennui and repining.— My brothers have waked from their dretuus of illimitable fortunes and have entered up on a career of patient industry. This etr ly check is likely to prove a great blessing to theft'. Already they have time aid traquility for domestic enjoyment. Ve have heard of your illness. l)o not lot your friends continue in ignorance of pin precise condition." This letter was four weeks old. If tlie tears were unmanly that fell upon it, they must be divided between the weakneatef Mercer's body and the weakness of his heart. Its generous tone . fortified him fer the shock that was to follow. The father's letter began: "Your, se,- drully conduct, Mercer; in sneaking outtof town, and hiding yourself in the Westl4.ll woods, while I was loft to bear the bruht of this ruinous business, is not to be gotten. Never presume to come into tty presence again, nor, on any pretence, to speak to my daughter. Fast friendslips are forgotten—past injuries, which haw in volved me in retuediless ruin, can neverbe." The brothers letters wore filled vial de tails of mercantile disastors. - Theyinkirm ed Mercer that, in default of his parent of his purchase money, their father, at a great sacrifice of his property, had met bis engagements, and that, after satisfying the debt, nothing remained tt hint but his house and a few thousand dollars. They absolved Mercer from blame, and vrote with the courageous hope of youth. But Mercer could not absolve himself. Ile had weakly yielded to the first tempta tion to join the rash and wicked. throng who "make haste to be rich." Ile had de parted from the principles which Ite bad adopted as the rule of his life—the princi ple that fortune is the legitimate resuk of labor, and the representative of the ecosom ical virtues, and that it stands low i iu the scale of human felicities. Expiation of his fault was aIP that now remained to him, and he deternsinett to wasto no time in weak inaction and vain repining. "I . have lost," he said, as his thoughts reverted to Ellen, with an Voguish that cut through his heart, "the gnsatest blessing ever within the grasp of Man. I will not, too, lose true honor." It was a brilliant New Year's morning in the year 1841. Ellen Lyell was still Ellen Lyell—but how changed sinee e that memorable evening five years before, when love and its bright train filled the imagina tion of the young woman of Mildews ! Sudden and sharp disappointment had fol• lowed, and to that softened, thougltful re gret, which gave rather a pensive. tupect to a life filled with rigorous duty. Sho occu pied, with her father, a very small house in Madison street, where, by the rent of their nice house iu Chamber street,_the in come of the wreck of her father's property, and her own earnings, she coutrivedto con tinue to him the ease and comfort of his more prosperous days. She had risen ear ly to arming her household for the day, and make her preparations for this pleas ant gift season. She dud her little Ger man house-maid,her maid of all work, had, before the day dawned, put the last polish ing touch of studious neatness, that adorn ment of a modest condition, to her two small communicating parlors. "Now, Miss Ellen," said Gretchen, "ev ery thing is ready and right." "Not quite, Gretchen ; this window curtain has been pulled out of its ?lace.— There, now the folds are even : do iou hold while I do it." This was done, and both mistress and maid turned their eyes towards tic sky at the same moment, and saw the moon still shining through the immeasurabk depth of a clear winter sky. "There 1" exclaimed Gretchen, "is the waning moon seen over the right shoulder of us both on a Now Year;s morning ; the best token of all the year, and sent, not sought,--for no i eye but yours, Miss Ellen, would have seen the curtain was not straight and but for your seeing that, we should not have seen the 'neon." "Well, dear Gretchen, what particular happiness of the happy New Year does this lucky sight betoken 1" "Ah, that the (lay must show, Miss El len. If you have a betrothed, he will bring you the gifts you desire, or if you have not one, the day will show him to you. Some thing will chance concerning what maidens think most of. I see you don't believe a word of it, Miss Ellen, but it is so in my country. Among my people there are signs and omens for every day in the year, and unseen spirits for every dark hour ; but hero, you only see and. hear with the eye and ear of Hash ; not even the blessed Christ-child, that cornea to prince d pea sant in my country, comes to. • dreary land." "Dreary and'disenehanted ms 49 all of yen, Gretchen, but our ma fleet lives save usfriun idle expectations Now, tor instinoo ) if you and 1, boliovin in this sign of Your, were looting & 4nr trotb ed or his gifts te-dsy, it would be moon shine." "Oh, as to me, Miss Elle% I an‘ away from my people, and have loft my luck be hind me; but you—what does Mr. Law rence conic every day for ?—and why is it that one bunch of flowers has never time to fade before another comes in the place of it r "Nonsense, Gretehom we are wasting time ; bring me down the covered basket from my bureau." "Miss Ellen," thought Gretchen, as she proceeded to obey her, "thinks I. dont know; but I can tell her there are some things Chat speak the same in all languages. I can tell what that look iu the eye, and that melt in the voice, means, as well as another. Well, Mr. Lawrence is a nice young man ; good, every body says, young and rice, and that is what few ladies . despise ; and Miss Ellen knows the worth of it by the want of. Its only by working and sparing from year's end to year's end, that she gets wine for her fell: er's table, and cigars fur him to smoke..--- It's strange how some people do all the work in this world and others all the play. The old man is often fretting and Miss El len never is. The workers. aro the hap pleat, may-be, after all :" We did not get at Gretelletes-thosights by any• necromancy. She was one of those liberal people who inflict the reveries of their solitary moments upon the first doom ed ears they encounter, bCginning their so cial chats with, "I was thinking." The basket was brought, and Ellen ar ranged the gifts she had prepared for her brother's children on her beautiful lituris tine, whose tepossitsbxml in the corner of the room, brushed the ceiling. Net pur ses, gay colored bags, embroidered suspen ders, for a favorite little nephew, and dain ty little bright slippers, peepiug front a mong the rich flowers. Skill and love were iu-wrought in all these pretty gifts. Every stitch in them had been set by Aunt Ellen's kind hand ; every flower upon them was an em blem of her unwearied love. MiMey could not buy gifts so rich. "There is something fur you, my good Gretchen," said Ellen. Gretchen's eyes smudeed as she took e from her mistress' hand a small, pretty plaid silk shawl. A show er of thanks was pouring from her lips, when Ellett said, "do you not see there is something within the shawl I .'" Gretchen unpinued and opened it. It was a picture, a .colored view of a small town on the Rhine, done with great exactness of coloring and drawing, by a young artist friend of Ellen ',yell, at her request. firtchen's words were checked for a moment, but tears, far more eloquent than words, gushed front her eyes us she turned from the picture to Ellen. 11:!3 "Oh, dear Miss Allen," she said, "who but you would have thought of this Y And . now don't you believe the blessed moon, this morning, was a true token ? Ah, Bradawl; !my dear old home I Alt, Miss Eaten, look here, look here just under that part of the castle. There is whore we liv ed ; there all the Wepels lived back and back in the ages, when the old castle that atands there new, on the very top of the rocks on that high hill—Oh, many's the time that Brat and Ilildergund and I, have climbed to it. What was I saying ?—Yes, when the castle, that's as old as St. Mark, had its jolly knights, the Wepels lived in the cottage below it; and. when it was a pris on of state, it was one of my forefathers that kept the keys of the discarded room of torture, and when it was turned into a hospital, it was my grandmother's mother that tended the sick. There is the old c h a teau, too, and there the old stone bench, and those parings ; and there the very pile of dirt always before old Weisen% door; and there, where you can almost tobeh the boats as they pass up and down, the ter race garden to the old chateau ; and there you turn and go up to the vineyard planted among the rocks, and so steep that they go on ladders to the sines. Oh, my beau tiful land I—my home'--dear old Bran back I" Poor Gretchen had forgotten 'herself— the picture of her home had worked a spell upon her imagination, and her last exclamations Were in German. •'What is all this lingo about t" exclaim ed Mr. Lyell, entering the room, and effec tually breaking the spell. ""Thu little, dir ty village of Branbaek," he added, tatting" his eye on the picture. of remember ,it well, and-the greasy dinner I got there.--.. I see no sign of breakfast, Ellin. bo you think I can eat your New Year's gifts 1" ..Not eat them, but wear them, sir," re plied Ellen, placing at his feet a pair of new slippers. We have set the breakfast table In the next room ► it is quite ready. Sting up the coffee and cakes, Gretchen." 461 t win be cold there it's always cold in the morning► What did yOu put it there f r ay?" • "The children beged to have their pea nuts 'hung on a 'tree, and I could notmove my lau !Latina," "And they MINA have it th'ir own WRY. It used to be “first come first served," bat how the very last dome is first and best served i the'brat of a baby before its rand father," Ellen 'mode tePIY, but opened the door into the nest room, •*hem, did Are having been kindled long before day-light the airwu warm. the noels glowed ht the full grate, the coffee lent ep its aromatic perfunte—incenie fit fur, gods—ated the lightest backwhents were temeking on the table. There *as sausage, too, (Mrs Ly ell's sine rid ti on,) and fresh hone3r, and . Scotch mitrmalade, his favorite) dainties, got by Ellen with some trquble. by way of a New Year's treat to her fattier. His frosty humor melted ; the slippeO, he said, tvere a nice fit, the room was warm. and, on the whole, he did not care the children fur once had their owe *Wend it was thoughtful of you, Ellen, 10 gel this delicious honey for me." Ellen was not hardened to the caprice* of her fatheremper. She wets fortified by the resoluti n not to resist, but' enduret, She had long ago made up her mind that it was an infirmity not be cured, but that Fatience was armor of proof against it. Patient continuance in well-doing is it sovereign remedy agaiDsi most of the evils of life, and a certain miltration trim its worst reifiorse. "Where is the morning paper. Gretah4 ea_ Asked _Lyell—_Aeatet_ynu_ (- member to put it on the tablet You know I always want it." "There is no morning paper on New Year's morning, Mr. Lyellt" ..Ah ! true Give ate last evening's pa per then." ..The old gentleman-must have his mor ning and his evening papers" said Gretch en to-a viatter-inthelitchestotthough-Miss Ellen would not even buy herself one new gown tit - lir — New Yeses ; well, she looked pretty enough hi her old ones. It seems as if her beautiful soul came out more ev. ery day into tier face." Mr. Lyell's eyes ran over the paper carelessly. Suddenly hie attentitm was arrested, as Ellen observed, by something keenly Anterssting. He knit his brows, bit his lips, threw down the paper, lighted his bigar, smoked a few Whirs, then threw it away, walked up and down the room biting his nails according to his habit. when excessively vexed, and was leaving the room when at the duor he met Gretch. ed. all smiles, bringing lb a very beautiful, lady's writing desk of ivory, Wahl its ony : "Where did dial come from he ask. "ft is for Mies Ellen, Or, add the tier. yam that brings all of Mr. Lawrence's flowers and things, brought it.' 4 • "John, from the Astor House I was there no message I'4 "No, sir." "It is from Lawrence, of course i Ellen splendid, it it not I Do you hear, Ellen Do you see I" "Yee, air, " replied Ellen, looking cold and impassive. "I would not advise himi to waste his gifts here. Strange—strange I" he mut terred,“that the only men you ever cared for should have been that rascal I" do not deserve that, nor does Mercer," she thought., .1 wish Lawrence.. would send no more of his gifts here; they rufile my father; and are emberrasingto me my father was just getting into the spirit of the day. But it was something in the piper that turned the current. Stocks have fall. en ; I suppose ; but what is that to us 1" She was familiar with the stock-table for she read it every evening to her father.— She 1 1 looked it over. Stocks wbre rising, and she came to the natural conclusion that her father was vexed that he no long er had any interest in the prosperous turn the affairs of the city had taken. Tliat an old age which should have been serene and grateful should be chafed by sorrowed cares—that all her pains to sof ten it with the luxuries that habit had made necessary should be unfelt, filled Ellen's I bosom for a moment with sadness and a souse of injustice. It was but for a nne- , ment ; she wiped away the gatherini liars - and turned to receive with smilee and Caresses the children who were bursting into the'. room +with their elamoroue,".Har pyplew Year to Aunt Ellen." The swell m Must deposit° a portion of the gold en sends its channel is bearing onwartl.---. Ellen Lyell could not be unhappy while she was the source of happiness 9r cheer fulness. There are those who Would have ree honed It a hard fate to minister to . the thankless. fretful, exacting, old maul, to have been cut Off in the prints of youth from the . dearest expectations to receive, as, Ellen.did at first, emtdoyment as' favor and patronage ;to see her. gay young . friends, and fashionable itegettieultlette rialiete-WeY from tier, to be obliged to ,contract the circle of her wants, and to cat off the ac. cuitomed gratificsadone of her pain piiiitiOn and the Omen -natitral . to tier time tit life. In all thin *ale were elements ,e• tough of discontont to . a. common charge- But my friend Ellen's arts not a com mon character. She began with the great truth that It matters not au much' how we ere, as What we are—that it is not our ei r cmatamaces, but what we make, that btir great concern: aot the agreeable sen sations of to day dutt are theism* impor• TWO DOVLARIVPIEV.AMIiii. NUMBER 42. " tart to us; but the retrospect of So-morrow. If her father was more than usually mares seeable, she doubled bet patience. 'She smiled at the auperciliournese of rate friends '(friends after common perlanee) become patrons. and she received grate , fully employment from those whose 'te epee: was enhanced by the maniketetion Of virtues which the change of her ,cotitti. Son brought into action. If hergay young friend. fell away from her she felt Mt as. parity towards ,them ; they htuf their pleasures. she her duties ; there' Were few' points of 'ehl sympathy between th 4, and in , her *egret heart she might , welt hare, thought she was rather the gainer 'than bast, by the change in' their refs. dons. ons etii there was in her' rendition which was , a serious unhappiness/ twine, The Mr. Lawrence to *hoar we hays Wearied, Was be/persevering loser. liar Osier was her faturite friend. Its had en immense fortune. He seas a young, man of good principles and good feeling*. The world said "a splendid match for Ellen Lyell." "Yon know the most Nive#l Wish of my !mid i " Margaret Lawrence* once - said - usher, and - shr said - mrln orei, +•You must just do as you choose ; '"WI young people do so noW-a4lays." said het rather ; ..but I would lay any wager are the only woman in the United . *takes who would not snap at Arthur Lawrenesiso ""Do as you think bask my desesieter," said her brother Gordon. Mbual ciiblitAisfy there are few Worth's*. Men thali Laweenetr.••- **You woultEmeny Arthtir Lawrie* Ellen," said her biotite. , William, 41 ; fah could forget anti those shoulkOlpf who are forgotten 14' "Yon ,noisunderstand me, William / NM replied, provoked to , emptess the lOttor her delicacy kali nustraiued ; "I wiinkkitoi— , marry Aithur pawrence were be tho,oots man in the vrovld. I o I love kinsithut should be reason. enough, 1 eanfiOt a man whose eharaiter In Odatittsev z iict4 with mine. Arth u r ' 1 .1 , 0rnace . 1034414 know it. William, a comuton'onan,-tatothe ing more nor (en; of virtuous habks4 ho doubr; amiable and well diippeirrrl *ottid-yon.trtuticher,, • don. tigidtkirfaillfi . Wnices ' A a suitable match for me were he stripped of his fortune i Inlay seem to Yoe Proit or vain, or both ; but 1 1 0 1 011111 tbitillOi L ?d* my husband some Forrespintde nes), s al endowment, of cultivation, on capability* . of taste to my own. and :l hold thei.lintr . to be pure marriage where Al* I have not forgotten," she added,htushink to her temples, "that such . a muriage wog once within the oircle of my hope4i mar del I forget that it no longer .le. ehtirlhlte no vain wishes nor vain regrets: rs!frijOK danger of uselessness or dreariness, ALk, single lint 1 nOilalliter' - Phniillitl4lT3ibillgar for my affections whileyoor and Clerthmoiti families are multiplyingehtery year."'''}: , "Forgive tbe, dearshiter." Said het er, "we have °MA in ineasUriug.Yois: by common women." ‘,l la not quite, qi . .your ttsl Meet, ; woven are not allowed 14;milie their poker. of indoperhrnee. , gar world hair made marriage, a Ismarmigro to then). and they ilare not.follow 1114011104 impulses of their hearts-.the bonsai monde of their natures and thus ft ' ltotti't~t that marriage, tiod'a own moat bleat iii. stitistion, is so often perverted to what it' is." But we have left too long the conclusion of our short story. The day went on i Ellon's visitors . were not numerous, bet they were old and well tried friends, with a sprinkling of young ones, Who were tramixl out ditto fashionable beat by len Lyell's charms and grace% which. it , they, bad lost the Mho of novelty at twee.. ty-four. in our world of Spring blossoms;;' , had gained, by their maturity, expmsslitit and 'tome. - -• ) r Arthur Lawrence Caine with the .thet,, and lingered to the last.: 'I hare noeseen:yout father whye?'. he said to Ellen. ' ..You can see him,' laid little Pliny top , ell, ""fur t saw lilin take a big parcel °fps.' • pars of r the entry table. and 'go up stalls;` ' with it, and I went up to show hitia 'Ant: Ellen's new desk 4 I could not make ; look up (Aim his paperet.ha he Aid hot look civic; and he did not scold, me. thowili . I spoke twice to , him," • " • ' "Have you seen Aunt Ellen's tie* Mr. Lawrence 1" 4itio. Nally, I did not know your suar. had a 'new (incl.!' Ellen look4.at him with surprise, bUI Lawre tete was.one of those podia 11M., never ambush_ their actions,, shs,..ii winced he, was innocent of tbeigill: • . "Don't Aunt Ellstu,*ho you the desk 2" pursued tke'liide "No, Nally, I cannot eien gaols." "Oh, she does, know ! she does knoW I"' insisted the child, mischievously; "slit knows it's yon---because you know ygmg send her everything; lots of ilowlim44essar lots of'booki.; 1 ;Moak' lota yeis 'if liiil l % gave me so many things, don't yea haff him, Lunt Ethel"
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