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VOLUME 30
NIV K. A.
Art,.... •T LAW - her. on ~t.ll n r..
uearir opposite the Court pour, Kn.., Pa
ILILT E. NU GILL, ••••
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autelfa Block, korai' aislha of the Part. Erie,
i 11.1.1 AM THORNTOPI •
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meat Bond' sod lloalpiras, Laura, kr, accurately nod
earelully draara. Olga oft Primal, stn.at, la.
Terrell, Grueery Store Krt.. Pa.
J. C. BURGESS l& C( )•,
GROCIERTE.9,
FLOUR,
PORK, a 60.,
AT VVIIOI,ESA
No. 7 Bonnell tit s•. t
Oct r . 11149
E. P.. MIDDLETON & BRO.,
COON AC & ROCHELLE BRANDIES,
.11ECCOLIAALIVX) Cfrxiv
Scotch and Irish Whiskies,
PuRT. SHERRY, MADERIA A N I.
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Choice Old Monongahela,
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Fine Old Whiskey
au, .I.alvra lu th.J nil,ul States; all .4 h whbe I. h
1 , trupf,,,o ..•r I. I'. wpm-nos k . H.,.
5 North Fretit at
J. N. KLINE & CO.,
Wines, Brandies, Gins, &c
\„ llt, ‘N alum Street. *la'' Ii
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/larch 3, 1484/
J. 0. BURGESS & CO ,
WHOLESALE GROCERS
Ih..4Norstia for
PAIRBANK'S SCALES !
Block
lcrie, a•t A, 1644,
L. A. ItiORRISON,
Flour, Pork, Beef, Salt, Grain,
chol'En. TIM9TifY SEED, ,i
No. 1, Commercial Buildings,
Nom /1 SIDE SRK PARK
11411.44 n 'eta. 4.141 PrAtA •t•
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DE FOREST, ARMSTRONG, tic CO
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SO a 84 Chambers St. N.Y.
wnotify tlit. Trade that they ii
opening uew ot,,d banitell pahomp. t
W A MSIITTA PRINTS!
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A 1.. hint, h everts every Print la the Couutr,
perfection of executton •a 4 desteu to Mall Illaddier
..or Prlnts are ...I.eapar than .at in martet, Co.) t.
Ith ettensite pair
Cr Orden prompt', atteloted lo
(;P:()RGE W. SAUTII.)
Brewers, lalsters and Hop Dealers
- LT A VIM; purellas...etl tlectitin intri,-
of I; LONG th. OW awl wail %I.
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Point Brewery, Pittsburg,
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VINE DOUBLE NEcTIVIEI. n MART%
OLD RYE
BOURBON
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BRANDIES,
JAMAICA AND NRW ENGLAND Kl% •
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WIZICES—CORDIAL AND tATAWRA BYTTEX , ,
Warrantroi Purr for Medical lborpurt,
Arrat fur ibberies Af Vonre, "Skoog die 1.11.
a can t Gm late* string Is always out. (41: •
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Magazines, Paper, Stationery,
PARK ROW BOOK STORE
D. Y. EV..II(iN. ?rope . lctet.
kru., Feb 111, 1669.
M a 3L II 3EI
wIL LUCE, thankful for the
• patronage five* kin, announces that haring
procured the utast/meg of O. J. LITE. be ti prepared Li
do all kis& of Dental work promptly end in the leteet
sad most lotproeed sty lea, and the eitenttin of ti.. p ot.I•
stain relied to the
CONTINUOUS GUM IAI Witt.
baa bra engaged in making to, IL. poet %.
to the entire eatidairtion ni hie patrrine,
to pat op Tewta 00
YULCANIZLL
whia has the mine advantage, poseepenl by it.,. t 4,111111 .
0000 GOll Work, leaving no reams Or osol4olll fare 0,0 ...eels
mutation al foal, ao.l giving fo liar face a pert" fly natend
expmsioa, and for amps It I. preferabi. 1,, 4 ,„,
atrial aa.l,„as it will not ...az the teetb Teeth pot
ON gold or silver for Uwe. who prefer it-
Partienlar atteibtion paid to lilting sewi preaeit iiatil
ral teeth, aad also to the riirrertion of llregal...lqm.
Melee in Reatty's Block, York New
aloe, her 240069 , -6mlll h Il LI if
lI EDGE SHEAIt.:. Pruning Knivt—,
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retaining the 011 4 (10111 def., lo
rOO.l lOr leanly YON 00 gale at
kite. June 11, ink —1
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A(i. POD WARRANTEE) AXE (Ito 1.0
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iteta, smarted qualities. damp b. I ltd., tor her expie-- delight . an , l here.
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SPICES of all KINDS, owl sew, and Nonlettrne , would fall it,leel.
at Ns. 2. Wil=telk .
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April 11. Ma. . KR:rpm/We ,
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PARIS FANS, COMBS & HAIR PINS. iln after/them I had ..... li. , inn-, and
111X . tA 1 •st Ittlitik—putt °wood at Ow
West Park Jewelry 1' 11 ACSTTII rune to fifth bN Ow water I.le, nn - mother
rob 24. 111111. being away upon .1 vis.i. There It;t4 t o
SPALDINO'S LIQUID - di.t7E.- B} the $ one in the liou=e hut a stupid blaek ser
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issured that it came from some burning
I ittilding 'Trembling with apprehension,
I thing away my rod„and made with all the
...peed I could muster toward the spot,
dreading I scarcely know what.
How it ever 'tapered, no one knew ; but
••t•.• I re f itcthed the garden, the truth was
h.., eVident : the slimmer-house was in
thitin-4, awl iiliir wait fastened within the
doming wall,. I sought in my poi:bete
lot the ket i ainly. I had lost it. Oh,
Heaven ' what a Wiling of despair came
upon me as I realised the fact. The black
a omen ,tood near, Mtinging her hands and
• , seaming helplessly, The nearest house
,Ca , 24 mile or more May. There was no
mortal aid at my rotrenand, so I prayed to
i ;,-.,1 for help, awl inietresigthened me.—
f li , • building was of alining, well-seasoned
~,, 4 . Last I -trove with all my strength
• sin •t the door —hi* long I know not ;
o. -vented to inc an W--Wt, at last, just
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,-1 i,-, i to ••••11 i.• elope MO* their red embrace,
ii. • door guave wa), and s staggering in, 1
•w m) darling lying gym the - rudebeinch,
11,1 Isvre her forth unkintlid, unhurt, from
out the fiery furnace.- lent, In coming out,
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I hail to force my ' a sheet of
lurid flame,. Ire audit searched
illy forehead and da my eyes; but I
hoe:lnto unronscinus, - biad w I TINCOINV
..,I. I iound myself I,7b)g. with bandages
ishout my head and yea, upon a soft, cool
1 4 h., . :in,' hoard though the darkness,
'chi, h -eemoil deeper 'than any I had ever
kn•,,, 11 • Iwo one weeping softly. close be
hind iiii- Enough :li bere is no need of
i•iinhal ,1..i.'11. It 'MI : been night to me
• , "-I -inc. , hot I tisasaved my darling—
,, -, in, 'l.irling. Front that moment, even
.i v,,)inan love, the babe for whose birth
-he -utters, so I loved Elsie Russell, for
olio,e -.weer sake I had lost the greatest
I,lei,ing !trot possemer ; and from t h at mo
1, wii t , Le Laid repaid gay sacrifice by care
in] k indite--; the mostdevceted. The only
1 1 ., • I or. , of my life has been in her presence.
-n, • • I lie hour o lien 1 knew the sun would
.: i 11,. again to use, her little baud bad
~..1 111,• I.• llt fic•l'l l and cheerfully as though
It had 1,...-n 2 . . -io ter'..
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murmured aloud,
:eh for the scorched relic of the
to•It tittw :I stranger's step must come
1 ••• t ••••ii n "Ile sound of my town voice,
t 1.,• onnt a i r , the quiet. brought beck my
r.• 4rn 1 weighed my own sotiotte in tie
of my conscience. "Paul Blair I"
lid to you have not dared to
tti.n th,• soiing years of one so fair as
, 1,1•• 1tii....11 ‘..111,1 be wasted for your
-.1:.• that fin -t range eye would spy out
‘‘,.l ,t lurk nu. blind and helpless as
••••..t•1 never hope to claim; that
1 , •••• niii••h ••••nte- Aoolter or later to every
would never come to
bars?
Paul Itkir have not dared to think
I I. \ .‘Vell cal bowed insinuate at
of my own heart, I abnoet
" vrt cwt--not yet • let bar be Oen
t html, i• I,,nger ! and I laid down upon the
nol.• hench and wept 111 r bad not wept
• tor trom the inosa, core of wry
- t.l 11.-at I u orshipped
trembling roionitindlindionna.
;•itil'" it Band: " . fitoiii!
-fa% in this .ad - • •
ii•• my
my-. • • .
-101
:n ‘1.4
MEE
lAA lier hand within my arm. and
;iii back into the house. I had
n. 1%. l nil .It 10 beer the Sound of the
tolliLF,. lOW t. p 11PrOle I reached the tar-
I•bt, I w ritzlit when I thought that it
,%ettl.l ..trot tween tt • Elsie was as kind
1.•1 lii .4 , 111010%. whenever she was
,e.r.t, •
I. he t.r tendon! to me, or when
.,,•r,• a alkoly tu the garden, or
tho t.. 11 , I would hear the
upon the path. and it
tt t,‘, t ter t 1,. .i..% in; and by. I al-
IMMI
Ii
IMEIM=I
h.• 1...1 gone to walk
it, Hteti ,11.1 of late, Da!,
t cheerful click of her
1.. • Wt--. pleasnutly.
to) tlear, tt [)r.
.ti-i‘ ~ .frnir., t i our Elsie. I
fr.! h.•,- 3 fine nruto--is he not,
=I
E
th,• affirmatoe, mind she,
I API 111111 li%ing here in this .
1nt).•1% Louti.. F.l -1e would lead a dull life
gre.o tilaer It is not as though!
(.41i.i p)s) lier those little attentions
-. I ou know, and really
1) 1 . t ui -What is the mat-
Paul •••
MIS
Lain the pt.-ople will give un
t 1.01 ' It was a pang at my heart,
:it in ) head, although I told my moth
. ,•1 tli:it it a IC II iel/ made me start and
•thrtipth 010 , e her aittweh. Only for the
11,,wwter. I was doomed to hear of
I , r 1:1 more'. attention and Elsie's beau
t... the little signs by which my moth
' .•1- auoired that the happy climax was ap•
• l t,ru hing, until I could have prayed to be
.I.:a IN 141 3'. blind.
I t-1 vt
AII 1111. wearlllg out my soul and
1... t. ;ii.l my brain seemed to he on Bre, 1
e,“11.1 u u think, eulleeteilly, yet I grew
...lent and sail; althouiqh my mother
tl% tl. it .utuething wah amnia, she never
,1,- ...I Ow truth. der greatest pleasure
v iii.tke in. lie upon the sofa, with a
underneath my. head and talk to
:t —ti t Elsie and lir. Claymore. She
" sin it did me good."
I l ~~l
=I
OM
n
MEMO
Int. d.iv I awoke with 1 strange giddi
- .in.l level upon me. It was late, and
the sir-t tae‘s , I heard was that Elsie had
1., ride with Dr Claymore.
•• nd I shouldn't wonder, my dear, if
going to propos*, to her. He 100k
...1 rat her agitated, and certainly had some
thing on mind, - said my mother.—
" 1.-t me get you it pillow on the sofa,
I II t,.11 you what he said to her, so
flint hale her interest almost as much
at heart as I have, my dear, and it will
li,•••r %. , ta to talk it over."
I ~ , ,111 I 11,4 bear it;asly looser. 1 said
lug about headache and the air, and
tii.inag, I to ....Ape out into the garden.—
There I wandered wearily up and down,
b•eling ilelerium rapidly clouding my mind
Ind mriirgling wildly against it, until, as
th. rhos k -truck twelve, I groped my way,
fault and trembling.. to the wreck of the
.itritt -iluirner house, and sat down once
,ro upon tit.. little bench where Elsie
had le-en , lippine alien I rescued her
from the ilium... I struggled no longer
,vith un reaQou. hut muttered wildly with
in% -.•li • leer.. lsere—ves, here, where she
, litt 1 . 1% .lie, and she shall never know
that I t1i..l tor her love. Ha! ha! ha! how
t would laugh nt the idea—a blind man
to '•
•• Sla,•tet Paul. curve to luncheon !
I lon't it her. looking so Cid-like." said
oLi Dinah. who nag close beside me.
l knew the voice—l heard what she saki;
I,ut I went on talking.
• Wit) don't you laugh, Dinah?"
• What at. young mama 7" asked the wo
man.
• • A t me. at mr--at a blind man in love^
111, Massa Paul, what alb Mr' B C 4).
bed Dinah, What bas happened yet?"
" Hugh !" 1 vrhispered. " You hare
heard tlo. step coming, night a n d day—
that ha+ killed me ; but do not tell her, for
he will be her husband then, and she
would grieve.
-Tell her how I loved her, thouch, aad
ho‘l 1 would have cared for her, If I had
been like other men. She will not laugh
then. for 1 shall be under the sod, and we
RNING, MAY 12, 1860.
never
rot ] ,
at the dead ! nark 1 the step
is coming '
Firmly i came along the path ; and as
I, stretchin out my . arms,seetne.ct to spring
from a b precipice into a gulf of deep
est, p dest datknesa, where bearing
and mo were buried in oblivion. I
heard her Gelling out:
"Oh ! Massa Doctor! Mania Doctor !
here's young Massa Paul gone dead all
along o'you as I knowed he would !"
The first of my after memories that is re
silty, is in the sound of that rmm footstep
which Iso hated. It was very kn. now,
and it came and went constantly, unwei
riedly. With it there came cooling draughts.,
soothing change of heated pillows, refresh
ing moistanings of parcd lip and brow,
and tenderness equal to any I have ever
known ; but I hated it, and drove it away
still. I knew my mother was there, and
Elsie ; but that step destroyed my pleasure
in their presence. Not, until nay so weak
that an infant could have prevented me
from making the slightest move, but nev
erthelem safe on the road to health again,
did that step cease to haunt me. But that
hour mane at last, and for three weeks I
never heard its echo ; and Elsie never left
me. As I grew stronger she sat beside me
and read to me, as in the old times, until
that day came when propped with pillows,
I sat in my old chair in the parlor, close
by the open window. My mother had
kissed me, and was singing over her house
hold duties for very pleasure. There was
no one in the room but Mae Russell and
myself. My heart was very so ft and warm
that day. I longed to thank them for all
their care and kindness—even the remem
brews,' of the step I hated was no longer
terrible to me. Something of my first
thoughts I tried to my, but Elsie placed'
be hand upon as, arm as I spoke.
"Paul," she caul, "I have not spoken of
it yet, but you owe your life, so far as a
man is concerned, to Doctor Claymore.—
We could have done nothing. He did
everything. He never left you for a mi.
ment, Paul, until you were out of danger.
We can never forget any of us his kindness'
and devotion ; but for that we must have
lost you."
"Paul ! Paul '," she said, reproachffilly,
with her hula hand upon my arm again ;
"0, Paid !"
"And why should you you r.' I contin
ued. "A, blind mole. useless to you and
himself-4 sightless thing to be led and
leaded and used for, where he would Wive
his life to guard and cherish instead ! Why
should you grieve for it, Elsie ? You would
not long."
"Paul, Paul, you break my heart It is
1 who am the cause, the innocent cause of
your blindness. It is I who have made
you so wretched. Why did you snatch me
from the flames, Paul? My death would
not have beep as terrible as this."
Mae spoke with a suppressed agony in,
her voice whieh I had never before heard
flows human beim& and I involuntari
ky wtretahed out my *remand wound them
about her waist.
paavo use, my more than sister,"
"It is worth al to feel your sweet
pity, to have you thus Dear use. Let me
hasp you thus awhile, Mae, as though I
asulkiz.reweiseashar+-sa , Lhalaeva.
• any ion! t shall forever bless you and
any one who makes your life happy, be he
who he may. I have seen it all along,
Elsie ; and if at first bitter thoughts would
come when I remembered that as he would
gain, so we must lose you, believe me, dear
Elsie, they are over now, and 1 have no
thought that is not kindness, uo feeling
that tr not a brother's for him or you."
As I spoke I heard once more that ring
tug step upon the path, and she started
from me. - The new step, go and tneet it,"
I said.
She turned and paused. "Pau& " she
sail, "do you think that any new step
could be as dear to me as the Old ones
have loved so long? Oh, Paul!"
"It is-right, it kg natural, k.isie ; do not
blush to own it," I said, for 1 had resolved
to look my hard fate full in the face, and
be unselfish at least for the future. 1 could
say np more for she was gone, and he had
come in her stead—he, the owner of that
step which I had heard first coaling up the
garden path a year before.
"You are looking better," he said.
"I thank you, Doctor Claymore ; I find
1 owe it to your kind attention that I am
thus far recovered." I answered. "I fear I
have proved a very troublesome and very
ungrateful patient. Accept my thanks
and apoloiciee; they are all the amends
that remain for me to make."
He laughed frankly. "To tell you the
truth Mr. Blair," he said, "only your fever
and delerinm saves you from half a dozen
challenges, and as manor duels. You ap
peared to have considerable animosity
towards me, for some unexplained reason."
I felt myself color so he spoke, but cou ld
make no answer. He went Ott :
"I did not come to speak of this," he
said. "Are you strong enough to bear
. s.
little setatiour
"I believe I am." I replied. •
The Minor ame, and leaning over me
prelims, his fingers upon my eyelids very
softly. "Pardon me," he said. 'lran must
have been blind a long time ?"
"Ten weary years," I answered.
"And you have never thought of regain
ing your sight ?—bare you never hoped to
do sot" he asked in a gentle tone, still
keepingdose beside me.
ought of it? often, often ! hoped for
it., never! It ts a blessing denied to me for
ever. I shall never sae again."
"I think you may ; I Sin almost certain
of it," interrupted the Doctor rapidly.—
..While you were iU, I examined your eyes
carefully. .11y dear boy, I think I may
promise you that you shall see again, and
--well, never mind ; the rest will follow of
itself." - •
"It would have been a loss to deplore,"
1 said. with something of the old bitter
ness. "Would you have grieved much
Elsie?"
Whet that last inexplicable senthnce
meant I did not dare to think ; the prom
ise of the firm wee too glorious to realise at
acme. We talked it over calmly, however,
and it was arranged that I was to keep the
whole a secret, and to seedmpany him to
the city, when I was strong enough, that
he might have it in his power to - perform
an operation in 460111 he religiously believ
ed. For my part I could not believe ; I
could only hope and prfy.
I left home us a fortrught with Dr. Clay
more; during that time I had been think
ing sad reasoning much with myself, and
had grown very calm. If I had ever Lad
any hope that, Elsie could have been my
own, it would have been harder ; but I
had always felt that I must some day lose
her, and now at least, I knew that the one
she had chosen wee worthy of her. I be
lieved that when I beard that step on the
morning ofAtgrjommy_ I listened to it as
the step of nas's betrothed husband, with
out any thought to my helpless self, and
thanked god that it was so Arm and light
—so it a step to walk beside her through
the toilsome tom& of life.
A meth had passed ; I was in town sail.
bet was pies home an the morrow. When
I weal. i should see the old
mother's hoe I should laok, h irlast — Ta
Shim Rummell's eyes sad thank her for her
Misdeals to the died man, who almost
sassed like some one else, w difillrowe did
lifizoor to see now that sight was re
stored
"And, far all this, I must thank
you, Doctor Claymore," I said . gimping
his hand and lookingthamMully into his
handsome face "but for yam I Amid still
$1,50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 4
grope my miserable a►y through life. --
You hare given me the power to he a man.
I can be my mother's protector now, in
stead of the burden I have kern so long "
“And. Paul Blair, )4u can tell Elsie lin.-
sell that you love her," -mil . the voun i g
doctor quietly.
I started and Inked st Inn) in .p.n.ns.ti
went.
"I understand, - he -.aid, •'1 know whet
you have thought, but than pur,• heart is
free, Paul-Blair, and at 10%., you."
Still I stood motionless and pondering.
"Yon were right," he continued. ••1 did
love Elsie Russell ; as a brothel. I love her
still ; but you, Paul Blair, I have read
your heart from the first— I know all that
you have borne for something of its -orrow
I have felt myself. When I tir'-t to
your borne," he went on, "I saw that you
loved Elsie, and knew that.l came there a.
a rival; but what man duct eonsideted
another when he was himself in love. I
wooed Elsie Russell, and hoped to u in het,
feeling all the while that I was breaking
your noble heart. You remember tile •i l y
whenyou were fi rst taken ill f"
"Indeed I do," I answered. •• ,hall
eier forget it '
"That day," continued the doctor,
bad ridden out with her upon the , f uiet
river bank ; 1 told her of my heart's love,
and found that it was hopeless. The knowl
edge was very hard to hear, Paul . but
when, in her ninoeent pity of any grief, she
told me that she esteemed and liked me
that she had no friend she valued more,
but that there was one whom shee had al
ways loved, who neemled her inure than I
did, for whose sake she would remain sin
gle forever, if needs must lie, then, Patti
Nair, I felt that coining there, I had come
between a pure and holy lore -seldom seen
or telt on earth—and -1 prayed to thral for
pardon. When, riding homeward by her
side, I found you lying prostrate on the
ground, and learnt from your raving" and
the words of the old servant, that my sur
mises were only too correct. I leaven knows
that all the anger in my heart was for my
self ; for you I felt nothing but compassion.
For that strength which made me -trine
to bring my rival back to heatlli :net hap
piness, which put at to nay heart to pray
for your restoration to sight. it. though it
had bean my own. I thank the mother who
taught me to pray, and trod who gbiv.• her
to me. Paul Blair if I did not know you
had a noble heart, I would Ile% er tell you
this ; but knowing that I would make d nu
yet happier by giving you the knowbslei•
that my stepcan never come between you,
save to your ears—that you have not to
win a heart., but only to clans it. i
bye!. Uod bless you' tin home to F-1-te,
make her joyful."
I listened to his tep a, it faded :ova) in
the distanne, and could have wept - how
good and great Ito was.
At home they knew nothing, ot %%hat
had happened. As the carriage din up
at the gate. I looked out and aw light
form. that I knew must he Elsie's tripping
do*n the path, I stepped out anti tvaited
until she came up. As ,he ilrew elo,e to
me 1 shut my eyeA.
"Dear Paul, you are At hoint• again -
Your mother has goneAlliiwn t,, t he llag
to meet you—yon must have rt-sed
she said, taking my hanil in hers
"Then you are alone. El.ie 1 sal
"Yes, Paul."
"i will Act if you. will liatsl we, El•ste,. -
S'he astinierfiirme by drawing h Ind
through my arm and wslkow on We -.it
down together in the little p.11.1, , r, .111.1 I
ventured to steal a glance at he'
altered very little since her
Her solemn eyes and golden hair were.iu,t
the same. She was looking at me sadly . I
arose and crossing to the soft sat 4lown be
side her. "Elsie Russell." I said. "I have
something to say to you no titter oppor
tunity clua come than thi- Will you listen
to, and answer me!"
"Surely, Paul,' II)
And there and then I told her of not
love, of my adoration - and 'ware J for hers
in return. How 1 told u. what words I
uttered !,,never knew Liut ere I ha , l end
ed ahe was weeping on my ho-oni.
"And you rememlM•t that I aiii I dins.
Elsie ; that you must lead me ahout, and
care for me as l should for )ou that the
world will call this a sacrifice. and hlacue
a blind man for winning such a treit.sun .- -
You remember all this, darling, and will
not repent—you are sure of that v"
"Paul, your misfortune makes you , lou 1,-
iy dear to me," she said "do not speak of
It again. You know it i.s no sacrifice to
love and be loved—it is the logite , t
nets man can know—tile eri. it e-t earl hl) .
blessing."
'But, ,Easle, It I could ould
love me still--you would b.• glad
“Oh' frau:. it' that could '- fiqr
ling Paul :"
- "Come to the window and look at me.
Dale, - I said. - Look iuto my dar
ling; what ou 'f
She gazed. tremlileil, ga 7 eil an d
reading there the truth, elalied li.•r hand
topetber linii faulted in my arm.
Oh! how happy we mere that tie2iit in
the same eheerful parlor where a year slid
More before, the strange -tep broke
my ear l How happy {ler.. we nt thn! glad
hour when I chortled ht•r for nn• wife in
the little eliurch hear 1. Anil the -t.•p
that I had hated hail lirought it all
IME::31
liar MORF I HA:. 7 LIEY W rile i , .1-
l ow i ng is attributed t., the cr.i..iir.tl .•• I liAm -
land Hill :
Two strangers passing s
he waa preaching. entered, walk-Al up the
aisle, and finding no 4eat..tood for
and listened to the sermon.
they turned to walk out. Before they lia.l
reached the door the preacher -1111. "Hut
I will tell you a Itory." This arre--1,..1 the
attention of the stranger-, and they pau-4.1.
turtle(' again, and It-stew-41 • t met- there
was a man, - -aid the tprakt•t. • who -
that if hp had all the axes in the uei
made into one greet iixe, and all t h e tr....-
in the world were male into one pre.! tree,
and he could wield the 10:.• 311 , i rut .torn II
the tree, he would take it alto .ttir gr..it
whip to thrash ungo4ll) men be torn
away from the grope' and ".top te Iota! :t
story." The stranger, thought the! Inel
heard enough to swterfy their curi.e.it att.!
resumed their walk in the :street.
Rot.t.rnc,"—Tin•re is a capital an
ecdote of James tltitliiie's tint contest tor
seat in the Sienitte. the opi.laition coarli
date being Frank Johit,on. a ti lend ol
Henry (lay, and t le9det in tit.• WII::
t WILI the practice w dint *his. It is
now, in Kentucky. tor rival candidate- to
meet each other in tilsite at differen pl•t•
ces in their district. It happened that
Johnson and tiuthrie had an appointment
at a place about ten miles trout Louis% ilk.
At a mile or so from this place a settler
was at the time engaged in raising a ham,
and, aecording to The usage of the country.
his neighbors had collected to help him.—
The day was warm, and the men, getting
hold of-an unusually heavy log, failing to
lift it readily into its place. came to stat.d
still. They began to consider whether
they should not give up theljoh for the day,
and try the log when they were fresh next
morning, when one of the party proposed
that, as the rival candidates would soon be
paring along home, the whole party should
Tote at the coming election for whichsoev
er of them who gave assistance, be he Whig
or Democrat. It was agreed to. Mr.
Johnson was the first candidate who ar
rived on the ground. He stopped his horse
spoke kindly to the teen, enquired - into
their difficulty, advised them to rest satis
fied for the present and come fresh towork
in Ihn mewl' WET, and, temintling them that
• rleLu,n, took phi/re mew* a day,
'when he expected to la • all 'his Mends,'
passed on. Alter a while Mr. Gti=
along. Ile enrired into the
and heard; the propcsition to adjourn until
morning. 'My friends,' said he, 'my rule
is, never pig off till to-morrow what can be
done to-; and if one good strong back
can do any good, here it is.' Thereupon
he tied his horse ; they all went to work
and got the log in its place. This is, per•
haps, the first and only attempt of Guth
rie at log rolling. It need scarcely be
added that the whole crowd voted for him
and many other. who heard the story."
Tar. Muslim Max.—He has been found!
The man who hired his little boy to go
to bed without his supper, and stole the
money from his pocket after he was asleep
with whist} to repeat the operation the
next day. was rather close; the country
customer who brought an egg to the store
to exchange for a needle, and then insisted
upon the merchant's treating him with a
glass of wine with than identicle egg in it,
in how* of his custom, (the egg proving
to have a double yolk, he ought to have
anaker needle.) had terrible little souls,
but u, doubt whether a more legitimate
illustration of downright meanness war
ever known than one that transpired yes
terday in the shop of John Brown, the
Barber, whom everybody knows.
1 certain gentleman, well known here
abouts. who makes Cleveland his general
abiding place. and who prides himself
greatly upon his good looks, his reputation
a., a ladies' man and his unimpeached re
rpeetability, entered John's establishment,
and was put through tonsorial course
of sprouts by the proprietor. He was
shaved. oiled and brushed, and put in com
plete presentable order. Turning to go, he
handed Brown on: cent.
Six gents, sah, if you please " gently
in•inu:►ted our loquacious friend.
-Look here. my friend, isn't that a cent'
• Ye,'. sah."
• Well, don't that come within five eent4
of %our regular price !"
ertainly, sah."
Well. you wouldn't be mean enough to
stand out about 1.41 f a date, would you ?"
The sable philo..opher allowed that that
man could perambulate "am suddenly as
he wished. Ile never would ask him fni
that other Its ,• eertts.—C , nelentd Leader.
111 I , NI A 1 I s WAN Ts To Sis Tnza.—A
young man, a nephew, had been to sea.
and on id, r.-turn. he was narrating to his
uncle an tigkenture which be had met on
board a ,lalp
•• I w out' night leaning over the tan'-
, atl, looking down into the mighty ocean,"
-41.1 the tiepli , vr, whom we will call
• o hen in) gold watch fell from my
t..h sold sunk out of sight.--
'1'1..• I WA.. going ten knots an hour ,
1411 /1..1h11):: dannted. I sprung over the
tl., it tittwn. and. after a long search,
I .1, .. 0 t.. u!. close under the stern,
',it .• I to the deck, without any
• k !lowing I had been absent."
• • William." said his uncle, slightly elf
% Ming his broad brim, and opening his eyes
to their widest capacity, - how fast did the',
-a) the vessel was going'!"
Ten knot , , uncle."
And then thee dove down into theses.
and ca►ue up with the watch, and climbed
up by the rudder chains ?"
Yes, uncle."
And thee expects me to believe thy
story ?"
-4 - kf course' You couldn't dream of
ailing me a liar, would you uncle?"
•• Williani," replied the uncle, gravely.
thee knows I never calls anybody names;
hut William, if the Mayor of the city were
to eome to me; and say, ' Josiah, I want
thee to find the biggest liar in all Phila
delphia.' I would comp straight to thee,
aml put my _hand on thy shoulder, and say
try hei;, 'W7r,•m, ritr TRyor iierals to see Mee F"
POT's. o' THE (iFST LEK EX-11rrear Coes
it.it -.—Zell Foot. a charming little corres
pondent dui, hts.n ironing her husband's
-hirts, and thilb relieves her mind on the
übjeet in her journal. She don't like it
•• I have been thinking, this evening, in
a calmer mood, that starched shirt bosoms
are a great trial to women who have to
.1.) up " Ilm% much men talk about the
ab-urilitie. of our dress—our full and trail
:ng .thirt. our dipping sleeves, our cabbage
bonnets, our lamp-mat head-dresses, ke.
But arc not the stiff shirt bosoms they
.near rt... %%4 , 11 a other articles of their ap
_
parel which 1 might mention if I cared to)
also opelii to eensnre and ridicule? One
lady venter protest. against them, belie's
that tb4l were invented to deprive
woman', head of her mos., comfortable
resting place she means married women
eour.e "T hese =tiff dickeys cannot be
comfortable or convenient, and they cer
tainly are not beautiful. I like the snowy
linen. but the starch—away with it ! Let
the linen lie in soft, graceful folds, not in
till, unnatural ones, pasted together with
-tarch. So one knows bow many women
grow iterrow, and acquire a habit of fret
tulne-, in the • doing-up' process which
t lie.o things demand."
g i ts l . A yottruz man attempted to poison
turn-elf at the Revere House, in Decatur,
Illinois, on 11 ednesday night of last week.
Ile had I , e.ti drinking immoderately for
soveral .lay. .krtil hail got pretty well sober
whon h.. gh , l the act The porter of
the h..trl i.,t , • the alarm. and the young
a n soon filled with.a crowd.
lie caught op a ilirk knife, and (trove the
erowd down •lairs in a rapid Manner.—
were summoned quickly, and
reinathed with him most of the:night.—
II e was rav in s crazy for several hones after
tAking the poi -Ai, anil the only, way his
.trength ,- , uh•l mastered was by tying
hi- hint , . with stout ropes. The letters
which ht• laid upon the table wheftlie first
etit.•rwl the room, were directed to his rel-
Ativc., infornung them that he ;was de
t.•ruuned to kill himself. He 'kook an
dune a of Arsenic' -enough to kill !lye hurl
dr.4l penons—and the overdose acted as
an emetic. thus saving hi► life.
tut. t)u,lts•tt. !roasts PILL.—A
of the Cotton Planet says •
„ i , gall you an infallible method of
„ imp A pull up a hill or anywhere
,•I-•• that I. mu,,es are able to wry him.
F tko rope la plow line for ex
ample., it. Make a loop of the
double end. and araw it qnt:,C l 7 around the
im.ler taw of the animal, just behind his
leeth. witli the loop underneath. ThrOW
th.. over your i.houlder, and walk
in the WUV be should go, holding fast, and
and firmly. Don't be
tro u bled si,out him, be will follow without
tail, after lie has discovered how you have
got him Ili" will also compel an animal
to stand .till to receive the bridleor collar."
EttAt. I.ltr..—The following
nei.lent in the life of the grandfather of
the Lite tam ornor Caleb Strong, of Massa
quite romantic:—" He had
1.31.1 some attention to Maryldaughter of
t 'apt. inhn Sheldon, of Dee ld, Mass.,)
and there wan love, but no engagement be
tween them. thi the fatal 'D. th of Febru
art . 1704. .the wa.4 taken prisoner by the
French and Indians, and carried to Canada.
where she remained two or three years.—
It is stated that the first question she asked
of those who came to redeem her was.
whether Jonathan Strong was married.—
lie was married—her return being consid
ered very uncertain. After her return, she
also married. But, 1761, her husband and
Mr Strong's wife both died ; and these
aged persons—he in his 80th year, and she
in her 76th—renewed their attachment.
after a laps of 58 years, and were married
in 1762." Sylvester Judd, Esq.. of North
ampton. says that a third of a century av,
people were living in Northampton who
had seen the venerable couple ride through
the streetA of that town : rho *este." on :a
pillion behind her husband.