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VOLUME 6.
rvIRECTORY.
Post Offices.
Post Masters.
Enoch Reese,
Joseph Behe,
Henry Nutter,
A. G. Crooks,
Districts.
;ethel Station
Blacklick.
Carroll.
Chest.
Taylor.
Washint'n.
farolltown,
k'hesa Springe,
Conemaugn,
Cre33on,
Ebensburg.
fUett Timber,
GftlUtzin.
J. Houston,
John Thompson, Ebensburg.
;saH. Fisko White.
J.M.Christy, . Gallitzin.
Wm Tiley, Jr., Washt'n.
I. E. Chandler, Johnst'wn.
M. Adlesberger, Loretto.
E. Wissinger, Concm'gh.
A. Durbin, Munster.
Andrew J Ferral, Susq'han.
G. W. Bowman, White.
Stan. Wharton, Clearfield.
George Berkey, Richland.
B. M'Colgan, - Washt'n.
B. F. Slick, Croyle.
William M'Conncll Washt'n.
Morris Keil, S'uierhill.
flemlock,
Johnstown,
Loretto,
jlineral Poiat,
Muaster,
Phittsville,
KoseUnd,
St. AUgUaiiuv,
Scalp Level,
5onman,
Summerhill,
Summit,
Kilniore, ,
CHURCHES, MINISTERS, &C.
Presbyterian Ret. D. Harbison, Pastor.
preaching every babuatn morning at iu
o'clock, and in the evening at 6 o'clock. Sab
cith School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayef meet
ing every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. J. S. Lem-
103, Preacher in charge. Rev. W.II. M'Bkioe,
distant. Preacuingevery alternate oaDDam
awning, at 10 o'clock. Sabbath School at
o'clock, A. M. Prayer meeting every Thursda
evening, at 7 o clocK.
ifdck Independent UEv LaL. u. 1'owkli.
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
10 o'ciock, and in the evening at 6 o'clock.
Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, V. n. i'raycr
r- . r i ' r .1.
seetine on tue nrsi aionuay oeuiug ui.racu
month ; and oa every l uesaay, l uursuay ana
Friday evening, excepting the first week in
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t.'.CIl UIUI11U.
Calehiistic Methodist Rev. Joht ILLIAMS,
Fiitor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
:&aA 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at lr o clock,
r-. - 1
A.M. l';ayer meeting every r riuay evening,
at 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
t 7 o'clock.
Discii'lesREv. W. Lloyd, Pastor. Preach-
z every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Particular Jiuplistt Uev. .UAvio jexkins,
Pnitor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
3 r ;.c!-:. S.ibbath School at at I o clock, r. u.
CithoHcllEv. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
rvices every Sabbath morning at 10 J o'clock
au-1 Vespers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
EnEXSISl'RG MAILS.
MAILS ARRIVE.
Faftern, daily, at 11 J o'clock, A. M.
V.stern, at 11 1 o'clock, A. M.
MAILS CLOSE.
"astern, daily, at 8 o'clock, P. M.
Western, " " at 8 o'clock, P. M.
efjrTho mails from Butler,Indiana,Strongs-
tuivn. acc, arrive on 1 hursuay oi eacn week,
t 5 o lo k, P. M.
U'rive Lbensburg on Friday of each week,
t S A. M.
VThe mails from Newman's Mills, Car-
t''i!tr.v,n. kc, arrive on Monday, Wednesday
mi KrH-iv of ench week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
I.ftave Khensburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays
Uil Saturdays, at 7Dclsick, A. M.
RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
CRESSON STATIU
West Bait. Express leaves at
8.18 A. M.
9.11 P. M.
9.02 A. M.
7.08 P. M.
3.15 P. M.
8.38 P. M.
12.30 A. M.
7.08 A. M.
" Fast Line
" Phila. Express
' Mail Train
" Emigrant Train
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East Through Express
" r ast Line
" Fast Mail
" Through Accom.
10.39 A. M
COUXTY OFFICERS.
Judges of the Courts President, Hon. Geo.
T.tvlor. Huntingdon: Associates, George W.
E'isley, Henry C. Devinc.
i rolhonotartf Joseph M Donal-I.
Register and Recorder James Griflin.
Sheriff John Buck.
District Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
County Commissioners Peter J. Little, Jno.
Campbell, Edward Glass. ;
Treasurer Isaac W ike.
Poor House Directors George M'Cullougli,
George Delany, Irwin Ratledge.
1 oor House Treasurer leorge c. K. .anm.
Auiitors William J. Williams, George C.
K. Zahni, Francis Tierne-.
County Surveyor. Henry bcanlan.
Coroner. -William Flattery.
Mercantile Appraiser Patrick Donahoe.
Sup't. of Common Schools J. F. Condon.
EBE.VSBl'RG dor. officers.
AT LARGE . .
Justices of the Peace David II. Roberts
Harrison Kinkead.
Burgess A. A. Barker.
School Directors Abel Llovd. Phil S. Noon.
Joshua D. Parrish. Huch Jones E.J. Mills.
David J. Jones.
EAST WARD. .
Constable Thomas J. Davis.
Town Council J. Alexander Moore. Daniel
0. Evans, Richard R. Tibbott, Evan E. Evans,
William Clement.
Inspectors Alexander Jones. D. O. Evans.
Judge of Election Richard Jones. Jr.
Assessor Thomas M. Jones. '
Assistant Assessors David E.Evans, Wm;
p. Davis.
WEST WARD.
Constable William Mills, Jr.
Toxcif, Council John Dougherty, GeorgoC.
K. Zahm, Isaac Crawford, Franc i 3 A. Shoe
maker, J amea Todd.
Inspectors G. W. Oatman, Roberts Evans.
Judge ef Election Michael Hasson.
Assessor James Murray.
Assistant Assessors William Barnc?, Dan
elC. Zahm.
The Ripening Corn.
How sweet to walk through the wheatland3
brown
When the teeming fatness of Heaven drops
down I
The waving crop with its bursting ears
A sea of gold on the earth appears ;
No longer robed in a dress of green,
With tawny faces the fields are seen ;
A sight more welcome and joyous far : ;
Than a hundred blood-won victories are.
Beautiful custom was that of old,
When the Hebrew brought, with a joy untold,
The earliest ears of the ripening corn
And laid them down by the Altar's horn ;
When the priesthood waved them before the
Lord,
While the Giver of harvests all hearts adored ;
What gifts more suited could mau impart
To express the flow of his grateful heart?
A crowd awaits 'neath the cottage cave3.
To cut the corn and to bind the sheaves ;
At length is heard the expected sound
Put in the sickle, the corn is browned ;
And the reapers go forth with as blithe a
soul
As those who joined the Olympian goal ;
And sorrowless hearts and voices come '
To swell the shouts of the harvest home.
And there is a reaper on earth well known,
Whose deeds are traced on the burial stone ;
He carries a sickle more deadly and keen
Than e'er on the harvest field was seen ;
He cut down the earliest ears in spring,
As well a3 the ripest that time can bring;
The tares he gathers to flames are driven ;
The wheat is laid in the garner of Heaven.
A HOUSEKEEPER WANTED.
WANTED A Housekeeper. No one but
an elderly person, competent, and of
the highest respectabilitj-. need apply. Call
between ' the hours of 'd and 4, Thursday,
April 6, at No. Michigan avenue.
Kate Franklin rad this in the paper
which lay on the counter in the little gro
cery, while waiting to hayo an ounce or
two of tea done up and a roll of baker's
bread.
She repeated the number of the house
over to herself, as she received the change
from the grocer.
She prepared the tea after she returned
to the little bare attic, and ate her scanty
meal mechanically. She forgot how
unsatisfied her appetite still was, in her
bu-y thought.
Yes, she must descend to menial service.
"Why not this ? It would be better than
a lower grade. Yet her soul and pride
shiank from it.
A stranger in a strange place, succes
sively she had tried to find a situation as
teacher, copyist, in a store, and sewing.
She had failed in the first three, and was
starving on the last.
She would apply for that place, but she
i would need references. Only one person
she knew, in the whole great city, of suf
ficient influence Mr. Davenport, the
rich, haughty step-sister, who had illtreat
ed her geDtle mother while she had lived,
and had hated Kate herself with double
hatred since the first and only one she had
; over loved had turned from htr brilliant
beauty to offer heart and hand to the young
; aod disliked step sister, only to be rejected
in his turn, lhe beautuui, imperious
beauty had soon after married au old man
for his wealth, but she had not forgotten
her hatred for Kate, and disowned all
connection with the now orphan and pen
niless girl. Perhaps though, Kate thought,
she would permit her to refer to her be
cause glad to have her descend to menial
employment.
; Kate felt competent for the situation,
for during her mother's long illness, and
her father's absence, she had entire
charge of their large family and splendid
house.
Hut "an elderly woman." Now Kate
was not an elderly woman, being only
twenty; but she remembered, with a sort
of pleasure, that io private theatricals, in
happier days, she had imitated the voice
and assumed the character of an old wo
man with great success. .She knew how
to stain the skin to give it an old wrinkled
appearance, and she had, in the bottom of
a box, some false gray hair, and a muslin
cap, worn on one of these occasions. She
did not need to look so very . old on ly
to present a mature and matronly appear
ance. - !
Mr. Edward Dayton waited at home
after his dinner lo see the respondents to
his advertisement, lie was a handsome
man, not yet thirty, with a gay, frank,
good natured countenance., r . s .
- "Now for - a dazen or two of good old
dames, all competent, all respectable,' and
each confident she would give satisfac
tion." - '
lie lighted a cigar.
"I shall shock the dear old souls, but I
shall take the liberty to smoko in my own
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1864.
house, in the parlor or anywhere I please:
mey may as wen Know wnat to expect."
lie leaned back in a nonchalant way,
with his feet on another chair.
"There ought to be, I suppose, a Mrs.
Dayton to manage these housekeeper mat
ters. Well, there's time enough."
Two applicants were seen and dismissed
in Mr. Dayton's gentlemanly way.
"Would let them know if he decided to
engage them."
A third was ushered in. Mr. Dayton
instinctively laid ; aside his cigar, and
placed a chair for his visitor.
The lady likeness and propriety of her
manner pleased him at once. "Fallec
fortunes," he commented to himself.
She answered his questions readily, but
in few words.
"A silent woman a good thing," was
his inward remark. -
"I' think you will suit me, Mrs.
what did I understand your name?"
"Franklin."
"Mrs. Franklin, you will be required to
go out of town, about seveu miles, to my
country house Oak Grove in the town
of Embury, on the great Central Railroad.
The salary I propose to pay is six hun
dred dollars per annum. Do my terms suit?"
Suit! Six hundred to the half-starving
person before him seemed India's
wealth.
She answered quietly that they suited.
"Then it is all settled. By the way, I
suppose you have references, thought all
that is a 'mere matter of form.' "
The name of Davenport was given. -
"Davenport! Robert Davenport!, I
know them. All right, then. If conve
nient, you will please go to-morrow, Mrs.
Franklin, or the next day. I shall not
come down till the middlo of next week,
and shall probably bring a friend or two
with me. Have the chamber in the cen
tre and wings prepared, if you please.
The housekeeper there now will not leave
until Saturday. She will show you all
around."
"Is Mrs. , is your wife there, or to
go soon ?"
He laughed.
"Mrs. Edward Dayton ? No, she is
not there, and I do not know of her going
at present." Adding' more seriously, "I
have not the pleasure, Mrs. Franklin, of
having a wife," with a slight stress on
"pleasure."
A vivid color came into the brown
cheek of the housekeeper, and her man
ner showed evident embarassment.
"I thought I believe I cannot "
And stopped.
He did not notice it. His mind had
already turned to other things.
He rose.
"It is all settled, I believe. By the
way," his eye falling on the rusty black
dress, "you may like an advance, as an
evidence of the bargain. It is quite cus
tomary I believe to do so.'
Much Edward Dayton knew about the
custom of such things, but it was like his
kindness and delicacy to say so.
The housekeeper's hand closed on the
fifty dollars he gavo her j and the words
she would have said were left unuttereJ.
She moved to the door. He opened it
for her couitcously.
"Good morning, madam."
"Good morning !" she replied.
"I caunot starve. I must go. I can
keep up my disguise," she murmured.
Mr. Dayton, accompanied by a friend,
arrived at his country house the middle of
the ensuing week. Everything within
and about the house was in perfect order.
If the new housekeeper had made a few
mistakes at first, they were soon rectified.
Every room that she had touched showed
a magical change.
.Her predecessor had beca one of the
kind who believed in the sunlight never
entering a room for fear of fading carpets
and curtains; whose watch word was "or
der," and therefore, the furniture was set
primly against the wall, as if fixtures, and
their position had not been altered for
years ; and who moreover conscieutously
Delieved cut flowers in a room unhealthy.
The new housekeeper's belief differed
in" these respects. The cheery sunlight
was allowed to enter when and where it
would; flowers were on the tables and
mantle pieces ; the furniture was disar
ranged with careless grace ; ornaments
were taken from drawers and closets where
they had been carefully packed away, and
spoko for themselves ou etegres, marble
shelves and mantle pieces.
Mr. Dayton felt the change without
knowing the reason of it. He looked
around him with a satisfied air. ' '
"This a grand, cheery old place, after
all ! Do you know, Lyon, I have always
shunned it as the gloomiest of all gloomy
places. I haven't stayed here a fortnight
all put together, for the last five years.
It must be your presence, old fellow, that
has brightened it up so, or the gloom was
all in my imagination."
"Not altogether; for I remember it just
as you do. You forget I have run down
here with you once or twice a day. Didn't
you tell me you had a good housekeeper?
Perhaps the change may be owing to her
some women have a singular knack at
such things."
"Very likely your are right. I remem
bermow, that notwithstanding all I could
say, Mrs. Stone would exclude the sun ;
and the furniture is certainly arranged
different from what it was'. A marked
improvement which I hope will extend
to and beyond the dinner table."
It was not possible to find fait with the
variety and quality of the food placed be
fore them, nor the manner of its being
served ; and the table appointments were
perfect ; and Dayton congratulated him
self upon having secured such a jewel of a
housekeeper. . -
The two friends passed their time in
reading, driving, fishing and occasional
visits to the city ; the' housekeeper hers
in earning to the extent of her power, by
attention to their bodily wants the six
hundred she received. She had an easy
master. Mr. Dayton was never fault
finding, always pleasant and courteous.
lie remained after his friend departed.
Usually, if he did not go into town, he
spent his mornings between the library
and garden ; the afternoons in driving
himself; sometimes in takiug the young
ladies of a neighboring family, Lilly and
Maud Grandison, to a drive. They were
the only family with, whom he visited fa
miliarly. Through the servants, the new
housekeeper heard rumors, of an attach
ment between the eldest daughter, Lilly,
a fair and amiable girl, and Mr. Dayton.
The weeks passed, and a holiday came.
31 r. Dayton had gone to town the day pre
vious, to remain the rest of the week.
The housekeeper had given permission to
the servants to go also. She felt it a wel
come relief to have the house and the day
to herself. She lacked the door carefully
after the last servant. She would make
the most of the day. . She would have no
dinner only a lunch. She had almost
forgotten her real character in that in
which she had assumed ; but to-day she
could be herself witl out fear of intrusion
or discovery.
She laid aside her cap and grey tresses,
washed the stain from her skin, arranged
her luxuriant hair in becoming curls, and
donned a pretty fresh muslin, which fitted
well thesljght graceful figure. This done,
she entered the parlor and stood before the
mirror, as attractive a figue as one would
often see.
"Truly, I had forgotten my own looks !
I am Kate Frauklia, after all!" she
laughed.
llemcved from the long restraint, her
spirits rebounded. She felo gay, light
hearted, and like committing any foolish
ness. "Miss Franklin," she said, in mincing,
affected tones of an exquisite, "it would be
irrepressible pleasure to hear the music of
that long silent voice."
"It would bo a great , pitty to deprive
you of it then," she answered, iu her na
tural voice, "and myself, also," she added ;
and going to the piaco, she opened it and
played a few pieces with exquisite taste
and skill, and then she sung song after
song, in a sweet clear, cultivated voice.
She chose at first brilliant and trium
phant, then the sad and plaintive succeed
ed. There were tears in her eyes when
she rose. But to-day moods were capri
cious. .
"Mrs. Franklin, who is playing on the
piano ?" she asked, in an excellent imita
tion of Mr. Dayton's voice.
"It is only I, sir, dusting the keys.
They need dusting so olten,'' she replied,
in Mrs. Franklin's mature tones ; and she
dusted them vigorously with her pocket
handkerchief.
"Ah me I". she said. Now, what other
foolish thing shall I do to prove . myself
that I am not an elderly housekeeper, but
a young girl who, by virtue of her age,
should be gay, by right of birth, wealthy
and of consideration visted and visiting,
as Mr. Dayton's lady-love visits and is vis
ited. He is noble, and good, and hand
some," she said with a sigh. "She will
Do happy. How gracefully she danced
here, at the party, , the other evening,
when the old housekeeper was permitted
to look on. She looks good and amiable,
too. ' Mr. Dayton danced with her three
times. I wonder if I have forgotten how
to. dance!" and humming an air, she
floated gracefully about the room.
She stopped breathless, her cheeks bril
liant from the exercise, her splendid hair
disarranged. -
"I-believe I feel like stiff old Mrs.
Franklin, with whom dancing doesn't agree.
"One" more song - from that heavenly
voice, Miss Franklin, and I shall go away
dreaming I have heard the angels sing,"
in the ludicrously affected voice she had
before imitated.
"Ah !" she laughed, yet half sadly,
"the compliments poor old housekeeper
Franklin receives I hope won't spoil her,
and turn her silly old head."
She 6at down again at the piano, and
sang "Home, Sweet home;" then played
one of Beethoven's grandest, most solemn
pieces.
She rose ; closed the piano.
"The carnival is ended, Kate Franklin
disappears from the scene, and 3Iadame
Franklin enters."
Neither Mr. Dayton nor the servants
would have suspected from the placid,
dignified deportment of the housekeeper
when they returned at evening, of what
strange freaks she had been guilty.
The housekeeper, as usual, when Mr.
Dayton was alone, sat at the table. It
had commenced to rain violently, and the
weather had grown suddenly cold. .
Mr. Dayton, as he had done occasional
ly, invited her to the library, where was
a cheerful fire in the grate. He read the
letters and papers which he had brought
with him from town, while she knitted.
. An hour or more passed in silence ; in
deed, the housekeeper seldom spoke, ex
cept when asked a question. At length
Mr. Dayton looked up at her, ami said,
abruptly :
"Yours must be a lonely life, Madam.
If it is not a painful subject, may I ask
how long since you lost your husband?"
Two hands suspended their employment,
two eyes looked up at him with an alarmed
expression. In his serious, sympathetic
countenance, there was nothing to fright
en or embarass, but the red grew deeper
in the brown cheek.
"It is a painful subject," she said, at
last, falteringly. "If you will please ex
cuse me."
"Pray pardon me, .Madam." It was'
farthest from my wi&h or thought to give
you pain,", he returned, with grave court
esy, nis manner after this was even
kinder than before. It became his cus
tom to invite her to sit with him every
evening.
. She commenced to decline; but as he
invaribly insisted upon a reason, it was
not always easy to find one. If she gave
household cares, he called one of the ser
vants to attend to it. Once, she frankly
told him it was not agreeable, but she
never did it a second time ; for a week,
he had wrapped himself in impenetrable
reserve, looking cold and gloomy, never
speaking, except from necessary civility.
At last, the poor housekeeper could
bear it no longer. After tea, without an
invitation, which had been extended since
that night, she took her knitting, aud
went into the parlor. The first approach
to a smile she had seen on his face for
many days brightened it then, but he did
not say a great deal.
After this, it became the regular cus
tom. There could be no danger to him
in the gray hair, the seemingly aged face
and figure before him ; but was thero none
to her, evening after evening, sitting op
posite the manly, handsome fellow, know
ing his goodness and large heartedness,
listening to his intelligent and polished
conversation ?
Ono morning, he was speaking of the
great loss to children, in being deprived
of their parents.
"I never knew a mother," he said.
"She died before' my earliest recollection.
I believe that, mau as I am, if I had a
mother, I should go to her with all my
griefs, as a little child would. I have
sometimes thought of asking you to act as
mother in these quiet evenings, when I
have longed to confide in some one. My
mother would have been about your ace,
I think." .
Again there was a vivid color in the
brown cheek of the housekeeper, such as
is rarely seen in the aged, and it . wan
accompanied by a quiver of the mouth,
and a smothering noise, which ended in a
cough ; but both mouth and check were
quickly covered with a handkerchief and
quite a violent fit of coughing succeeded.
Mr. Dayton, however, had not seemed
to notice, though he had given her one
curious glanco, instantly withdrawn, and
he continued : .
"For instance, respecting matrimony,
whose advice of so much value as a moth
er's ? Who so quick to see through char
acter, and make a wise selection ? Had
you a son ; who about here would you se
lect for a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Franklin ?"
"I am not acquainted with any of the
young ladies, Mr. Dayton," 6he answered,
faintly, after a pause, during which she
seemed to wait for an answer. . :
"True, you have seen them all, and
aro I should judge a good discerner of
character, from observation. Who should
you select from those you havo seen I" ho
persisted. ' .' ' '
She reddened and paled. :
"I have -heard the Misses Gandison
highly spoken of. Their appearance would
seem to prove the truth. I doubt not you
NUMBER 3.
agree with me," she responded ouietlr-.
It was now his turn to color, which ha
did, slightly.
"I do agree with you," he answered
emphatically.
"It is to be, then, as I supposed," said
the housekeeper to herself, as she went to
her room.
It was late in September. Mr. Dayton
and the housekeeper were both in the par
lor. He had been unusually grave all day.
It seemed to the housekeeper that his
manner had changed towards her. f- . .".
"I have a few questions to ask, if you
will permit me, Mrp. Franklin."
She felt instinctively alarmed at his tone.
"Certainly," with an effort. , . .
There was an ominous pause.
"I have been told," he said, "that Mis
Kate Franklin, a young girl, by disgui
sing herself, palmed herself off upon mo.
for several months as a Mrs. Franklin, au
elderly lady. Is there any truth in this
story t" looking searchingly at her. -
She had started to her feet, then trem
blingly sank back into a chair.
"I confess I fail to see for what"object.
My heart you could hardly expect to gain
in that character."
"Your heart," she repeated scornfully
"I had no such laudable ambition ; I bad
never seen nor heard of you till I saw.
your advertisement. Would you like to
know for what purpose I took upon me a
disguise so repugnant ? You shall. To
save myself from starvation. I had eaten
but one meal a day for a week when I.
applied to you, and was suffering with
hunger then. My money was all gone,
except a few pennies, with which to buy a
roll of bread for the next day's meal,
and I had no prospect of more, for I had
been refused further sewing. But why
should you find fault ?" her pride rising.
"What matter if I were Miss or Mrs.
Franklin, old or young, if I fulfilled the
duties I. undertook? Have I not taken
good care of your house ? Have I not
made you comfortable ? If I have not,
deduct from this quarter's salary, which
you paid this morning, whatever you like."
"I : have no fault to find, except for
placing yourself and me in an awkward
position, were this to become known."
Waves of color mounted to the poor
housekeeper's temples.
"I thought I meant no one should'
know, least of all, you besides I I
thought when I engaged to come that you
were married. Oh, what shall I do?" ',
And she burst into a passion of tears.
Mr. Dayton's manner changed.
"Kate! Kate I I did not mean to dis
tress you. Nobody knows but me no
body shall know." And he soothed her
tenderly. "Kate, look up. I love you
with my whole heart, and I want you for
my little housekeeper my wife always. 1
Kate, what do you say ?" taking her in
his arms, and laying his cheek against
hers. "My own Kate, is it not ?"
She murmured something between her
Eobs, that she must go away that minute.
"Nonsense, darling! Haven't you
been here for months? You are safe with
me, Katie. Oh, because I know who you
are. Miss Franklin, will you give me the
inexpressible pleasure of hearing a' song
from that long silent voice? Oh, Katie,
you fairly bewitch me always. But,
Katie, let's off these trappings," untying
her cap ; and removing the gray hair, and
with the action down fell the wreath of,
brown tresses.
"Oh Mr. Dayton, you were not surely
you were not at home that day V looking
up and covered with confusion. .
"Yes, Mr. Dayton was in the library,"
with an acctnt on his name which Kate
understood.
Oh Edward ! and you teased me with
all those foolish questions when you
knew "
"Yes, my Kate, why not ?"
"But you looked so innocent."
He laughed. ' 1
"I soon shall, I hope, have somebody
if not a mother, to confide ; and, Kate, it
is my duty and pleasure to give you a
husband, so that in future, you can an
swer without so much pain when he v
inquired after." . ' 1
"You are too generous. - '
"I can afford to be generous," he 8- ?
earnestly, "when I havo had tho prer , '
gift of your love. Kate, blest forov '"V"
the day th'atlfirstengaged myhouaelr eeper
fipguLong John Wentworth, in
at Valparaiso, Illinois, said: "T.efri
of slavery contend it is a divine icstirv
and a delegate to the Chicago ri tl0"i
told me he believed it ori-,;- VV,cutl0
God, who would protect it w!:wil.h
suggested a new idea, ar1(l s .7 r" .V113
then let us leave it U 'God iJ
zens, I go' for that. Y !? How-cti-
. us leave ihi
institution of God to Gad Ti,i .
slave law is repealed, now a'S
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