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Coma! ealth to thatohn Brown ' Who, in Edinboro' town, Practices for , evor3r,body, Pay or no pay. There's noshoddy \I In his sterling-fine condition, He is such -a :.:'good -PhYsician 2) ' Givp Jive st9Wart' health To him WM'rs - grand,things by stealth ; Him yotellileTl.4 _find i-sleeping • When there i S - .Wnit or' Setrrow weeping : When there's "something ko be done," , Straight to Putlda Street folks run. , Here's a. forehead without frown, Signed and countersigned John Broion. What a brain ! itselt's a , bumper : Did you ever see a plumper, _ One,more full of strength and kindness, One for faults more prone to blindn,i Written so with -love all over,' Like a hillock thick with clover, • , Like that dome, When Chritsmtis comes, Stuffed with everlasting plums ? Here's John Brown engraved before ye Here's, a head that'tells a story ! Srectactes on nose ,—d'ye mind 'em And.a pair of eyta behind 'em . Throw such light, on this old planet, All your Tyndalls could notppan it. Come I a rouse to. Doctor John, Including Jack, his brainy son, Ineluding every dog he owns; And dear old Itab—ileaventeep hikones I For, when .th 4 Doctorts sight grows dark, • That dog will give a kindly bark, And lilt his bead once niore to feel A friendly arm around him steal, And though in ghost-120, tar away, Where dogs' (who: knoWs'l) are all at play, Will start to` bear his 6cottish name And lick the 'band that. 'gave hlm lame. ND YOU pcisitively refuse r' /1 _ . "Positively—absolutely." A peculiar sound; siioh as; might issue froth the lips of a woman who strives to repress an exclamation of pain came.from the room beyond; but the two men were, so absorbed by their conversation that they did' not heed. it. There was a singular ,Contrast between . the pair and no observer, looking at them as - they stood tozether, Could poisibly have guesse&- thatsthere, was bat ten year's difference in their ages.' The first was bent and broken in form ; cheek and forehead were deeply, lined, an in hair and beard the silver threads had, long predominated over! the gold. Yet the man was .not snore than fifyears old. His companionlaged forty a ppeared simply to have-leached- that time in life when the creature to whOm was given "dominion over all things" seems worthy of his grey t.cortimission: The latter was handsome; the 'former had been. _ . • "I could scarcely have expected this, Hastings," said the younger. "And I could scarcely ha've expected that von would fall in love .with the girl.' We were boys together.", ' • ..Aild now 1' Hill . an old ;man .decaye.d and broken,, while you aro`sin th prime of bfV, with all the world before, you. After some. Fuel] , fashion, - tans Our lip.uglir, does it , ' not ?" An . answer would -- have. involved :Pre- Ftt I.,e it i ion or a lie, O.,nsequen fly mine was !wide, anti whPn:- the rilan'tbus.question-. spoke again it, was to ,attacii the bob-, j -et fr.tn anoth. , r qiuirter: 1: gi . ve tne.,a rea'son ?" "("ertainly -31 y reason for:refii•iing• tb accept, you as_ a Son-in-law is—Felfishness, pure and . siinOle.". "You. irttelid that Zillah Ball remain - all her life?" "I intend nothing. She is happy. Let "Hilt suppeßing t,bat that point NI are mistaken ?1,, : 1f her happines s wPre already involve ? }Takings,. .be 'too D able, Lainnot "a . vain man, but think she lovelfme:" „ "Por God's k' imare rue. that:" "I will not... Why should I: 0 It is natural, snitable..,_ When ever yet 1141.0 man hesitate;'t,O'tfaito the -,vvoman lotO, knowing,, feeliug that, she loved: hit ? What has own experience liPen.l Did you nelierl,l love stitne,: fair fragile girl better that, 'Your own .1110" f. "I loved her. - mother,', Patton. Look at my bent ,head 'und withered ,franie, and ask me:if .I`,tieier "I never net; her you , know." There trts a halt apologetic toriein the -words. —The speaker had '&14.4 unaware upon a bitter theme: "No, von " nev er her, l and 'probably, lik e a thousand,9thepi whOhase loq,ke4- Upon Zillah's 'sivartlq elleekailinclave , l 4 , 4l _r r er:but never dared to ask, TIT was who-firatthe.. - • - ZILLAH. -The 'Vest the nearly room beyond son made its way through 4losed: dOor, and into the where a girl with the Ins-: yes Uric) full crimson lips ) owy one race on earth lis le intentness that longs for lx a'coming reiebition: • r, Dalton, continued the the miserable story of my. Ike You , any. less intent up., le of my.child ?", call it robbery." trops black that baking tened t and yet area , wonde older : m_an, fe. wolilhi on robblng:' - Abi but lier from MI; - do. Not rubbery to take . .heart to dwellibeneath your' and serve you, .to .becorne , of your house; to, cradle ,your z : '- her breast, until she had nor strength nor inelination_ ught, to. 'me ! Call - it what name. matters:little." e- about to tell me of her roof; t9.lcove, the taiptoo4 children neither time !xi'gtve a titi you hke;:th "You we "A.nd tot the parepial rally yon are interested in !e ofjbegifL i you- propOse to per the ti übletn- I. -7 name is not; . 0t course, un the section , of thUt noble marry. Pr ished Dalt° becoming i ree." "Have dp Tell your* defy you to e with sneers, Hastings.-- ry or not, as you please. I eep me from my.wife, if I can win he , "Then ha , e your tale,. and if you do not yield to pity, perhapa...,you will to shame. First of all, there is half an ounce of lead In the region of my lungß that year by year makes long continued talking tuor painful. Will , you grudge the service one by bringing me a glasi of wine ? 'Der that I Fhall Offer you a chair." .• 1 • - "It seems an i r tripertMence, my friend," began the elder,. when they were both seated, "toai l ik a man so young looking as yourself ,to g o back into the past for such - a diStalice as - twenty years. How ver, it must be done, and out of the mists and obiciirity I make no doubt you will . remember - Harry Hastings as he was." • . c , "I do ,re' ember hini—a handsome youth,,pron r talented,, and - the favorite of the whole village where he lived." "Yes ;an just in . the same ratio that the whole vi lage was fond of me; I hated the whole vi lage." • "But not he Wises." - "No. ' Dallton,- there are men in the world to whb, m the influence of women matters little. 'They have little taste kik' or interest it anything feminine. When they lore an . marry, they manage the ; business . in commonplace manner. If their wives , re.congenial, very-..we1l ; if not,they ha : other other interests and occupa tions... And. should, theirs whole menage be .pverturn, d by , infidelity and crime, they locik neon, , the business as - "spilled milk. Thei esclandre -annoys them, but they go on. - They succeed jin their pro-, fessions, rest h the top of the lodder,vrrite their names lon the roll Of, fame. They decline to, b victimized by circumstances, and hold th it lives out of reach of the disturbances caused by domestic infelici ties. The'r - are other men—a weaker class—who women have it in their power to TO 2 1 . lan 011 E. • "Yiin Fay after a mom indifferent ti yet I do not having may never did moat' .truly," he. continued, 'nt's . pouse,,"that I - was not the girls of, the village, and think you ''ean accuse me of. e lope to' any of . them. I a., Only a coarse natnre,l think, e;er Which • the h depend. - - .Tli tiebtive. towti tO.'theitpere, Of their re.ll ful..profundi! ant RS: a :co I would nave . heart. Iri .n 'the sweet yo tyky.pwn,.shd an. lospiratii earvating. i Ohanced *earinesfs do Bred the pro business of earth in Jail' trik'Way to • I That. agitad mown as'Etl en Lich for rni Not 'to' beh • ouUterfeits an emotion upon ; eppines of a ivhOle life may 'es fair :Yodikee girls • of our lid `no t 'suit me; ,I:Objected . lA:pry manners,thestrength , Pious - prpjudicesand the am.- iy of . their • learning.. Pleas 1 pillor, any-one of them een- intolerable• -as a sweet:. in ,I- looked. among. -the m : for fingAile that, : absorbedinto ;Rid give it ,a .purpose and en, and .left - -me, above the en fluence : of the future.l bad. inherit...• : . 'Finally, ..absolute, ove me abroad,:..lt 1 8 bOnsid.. ,. : per thingjorieimes,se : dore. to 'cordially : a8 : !I: detested the : ushing over the face of.. the; car. 'pr. steamboat, I..di4Tmake ngland.. tur'nn - ; further.-.: - d ' mass •-cif 'liquid* iniquity e English Channel : IVagloo !•'• T. declined''' - tb* cross 'it.L-. d . the land' o nf 'Claude' LOr; I again' trust. my stotnaolle of the waves. ,But I had that. it Was My' infeation artist. Neveitheiess, such' . The fancy, so natural - to a raise would to`the - mere i49t. tol4 yo beCotne an was.the 'drearily yid Ii with . a delicate constitu i tion, bad fu I possession of, me. I lo l veu fair McAbee ' aturey and I longed to re produce so. etbing of beauty ' Upon can. vas. So I sketched' many _A ' beautiful Spot on the :bores of, 'perildlone!, 7 Altiion; and deferral ed not to "leave-: hq, until a bridge silo ld be built', to protect : me 9 1 trom.the'Terile of the sea.',": _ Occasionally: I_went into, inky , but, the, prim .'gng liqh 'inaiilen, I'fpund on ',acquintane.e eve 4 more tOlerablp, than .tl),e , Yapkte, 'girls::' ','. . , _ ~ . ' i . 6 Orie lip oink I *aiiioei:4l.,Abroiiih ,a , , , . , • einali forest and enaccongilk,,myfelf undgr. 2 11. gloriptur 11-0 4 ak ttee bent upon elielebl. mil MONTIO.Z . : PA., ...SEPT, ' ' 6,1.. :1876. rf 1, - .1.1.'.. , ..)-';_.:-.',_.• .(, , , , ,::.: i - it' , ;.. .. .' 4,f'., . it-1g one of those' strange relics of a lost fatal, a heap of rocks supposed' to have been in times pasta Druid altar. The ,Drulds did not, inspire ',me, however, for I went to sleep leaving my. can vas.to re tain its pristine purity, Suddenly I was awaken by a violena altercation lust be hind my -luxurioni °cinch. The con testaLtti might - hive _been Jews, liere titl,l3, or any other species of, heathen, so far as:their language . was concerned, for ricita single word . of: it could statid ;-buta - mow- mitst — need — iiive very diill - ears — whO does' n ot= etn bend the cry of a woman Who is being ur . sprang Up and . plunged• . in, among the trees. Before me stoOd . a man Etnd,a girl, itartted into Silence. by my unexpected appearance; In later 'years, Dalton, I have 'traveled in many climes and among Many people, but never have I seen two mere beautiful snecimens .of our race, than the.two that confronted me. , The man did not give me much nine to study his swaithy, handsome face r for On catch ing sight of me suddenly turned-and strode in among the thicket. The girl however, • remained gazing at me with her great Nitrous eyes, not in the least disposed to look upon me as ,a rescuer, bU l t apparently doubtful whether the man just arrived were riot, more dangerous than the man just departed. 1 address-, ed her in -English, and saw at a glance that, however ignorant I might be of her language. she at leait was partially' fain liar with mine. Reassnred by my quiet voice, her face lost its expression of terror and, -we glided insensible -into a conversa ticin, I exerted myself to the uttermost to detain.her. So bewildered was 1 with her extraordinary beauty that I felt the , light 'would go nut of the heavens if she left me. When at last she did go, Thad won from her a promise to meet me there, again.. . • . By this time you have probably divin ed who my wild bird. of the forest was : a !stray little wakf from one of- those wandering tribes of Ishmaeliteo that hipilization is_ so rapidly , exterminating: a dusky little fairy,: deheate.and graceful as', a sapling wonderfully, exquisitely beautiful. The •qUarrel which I had in terrupted was nothing more, it appeared than the violent, arguments of a gypsy. !Over who endeav ored to forward his suit by crushing the. hand ht. desired to pos -1 seas, '"Orcctirse I fell in love with her. For th,is it appears, I.had passed by some of the fairest: women in England and Anerica. An my hopes of happiness and every longing of my soul entered in the little, woodlan,d nymph I had found b the old. Druid stone. And I had no , doubt that I had won her to love me. In my besotted,• idiotic -infatuation I could not remember that a great impulse had been given . to our acquaintance by the surrender on my part of a large sapphire , lit hung from my watch - chain. That reed cotton mill in Massachusetts fornishsd such things too liberally for me to value them. It took some time for my imagination 'to grasp - the fact that the little hand that passed -caressingly' oVer my bosom was. attracted thither by - my shirt studs. And yet I dare say that I jam inisrenresenting. , : her. , She was sO young and childish,dand passion for or i l rament, w'as out the instinct of her 1"In my case the' conrse of true love ran, or appeared to.rult; with remarkable sntoothitess. The sight of golden circlet. that was to he her wedding ring did :not alarm her as a similtir suggestion had dOnA on the part of her last lover; and one day a romantic ' cut;ate . of the neigh bOring parish, whose acquaintance I had made pronounced US 'Tan and wife,' in the very shadow of:' the old Druid oak.' Then, in 'a shooting'bOX amidst the Scot ti3h heather, whither I Itook my bride hir three short monthv, I endulged 'in, all the luxury of loveLs young I dream. And she too was happy. It takes fully three months fora woman to explore - all the miracles of finery 4141 furniture, with which the fashion of the present day ,surr . ounds l a bride ;* for. although I shad married her in her, wild gypsy garb, Lon thin iiilliners and uphelsterers had pre pared' her home. I l"It" was ' knowledge that broke the' charm in. Eden. Well,.the first cloud gathered over us- upon the . day that -I ga"ve up wandering ov the hills with my gypsy bride, and having unpacked 4, cafe of books, venture, to appear before her in:the character' of a pedagogue. i was just explaining o her the awful,.. I . meaning and significance of the letter A. asL it appeared on 'th first page. of a primer, when she - bro: : , . away from me .and rushed away through the'garden and Into•the wood!). Smiling at the result of ~,, the first lesson, I lit a cigar and fell to drciaming- of the :pleas re T should -yet ..l have ii, guiding- my., dainty little wife along the rough road_ that l led to know', edge. It would'be a labor . of loVe, and. howeyer painful,Ahe result would surely repay us both..:. Aud surely her ignorance wag sweilter hart all till accoasplishments • ~ . . • . _ of any °the -,!VP1X141:1..; d • ~. "Matt' y nigkti as I was Closlps' ihe e i :shutters of my'roon3 t**nsiO retiring,: I. was atartled -byittie Ogilvie a Man'ttri -1 on the lawn. Something in gait re minded red the lithe form that strode away from us on the first dayl met my love. I attached no. importance to it, _however : and yat, during the months that followed, I "met tdm three times, always apparently on 40 way; to orfrom my house. "But a great anxiety -was upon me.—, The cheeks of my, gypsfmaiden were los= lug their losts; she could no longer -roam. _through-the- heather. with her hand in mine; and 1 shuddered as I thonglit -, of tti_consuramatiou of the trial in store for her. At laSt I,orkfered the servants ,to pick up our' belongingi, and I hurried away with, my bride to one of the suburbs of London, where she _might have the. most skillful physica.a to. attend her. L i will spare you the record of the long weeks during which I had , no !other care in life than to watch over, wait upon,andi care fOr‘the,frail form of a- woman whose heart had long 'since passed out of my keeping,,if I had ever posseesed e it. For . what I mistook far disease was nothing more than .the longing of the Zingari ' blood for the freedom of its- native for eats. Like a bird in a cage I was ,killing her by my -very care , for hei. I cannot tell you how well I loved her,' ; still less could I give, .you an idea of the rapture of thanksgiving that possessed my soul on the night that , they put her baby in my arms, and told' me her life was safe. Yet mindful . of my ditties 'as a host, I quietly surrendered the infantile wonder, and hastened to accompany 'the weary physician to the door.'of our house. I lingered a- moment, watching , ' him as he passed the gate,' when suddenly there darted from among- the , trees the same I figure that had grown so familiar in the Scottish highlands.. The moonlight fell on the handsome face, and showed the same anxious• expresaion my own bad worn during the past week. The man siezed the doctor. by the arm,,apparently asked same eager question, to which he received an affirmative - answer, and then disappeared. • • "1 never saw him but once more. A month. later—l, had nursed M y darling back to health—when, coming back from a short journey to London, I saw a car riage drive rapidly away from, my gate.--- There were only two'occuoants—my wife and her gypsy lover. Instinctively I rushed toward them ;:and. siezed the horses by the bridle. Then a sudden flash. followed by a report, and the bul let intended tor my heart buried itself in my- It ngs.. "I can not tell you • what followed.— All I know is that when I saw my child again it was over three months old. After that I .went mad. They tell' me that 1 wandered from place to place all over Europe, while people wondered at the silent man, ,ever in motion, and always accompanied by a b arse andinfant At last a circumstance aroused tfie. The news 'came- that the executors of my' father's will had contrived to - hnie my for tune, and 'I was, poor. -Then we came to New, York—My little Zillah, whom I named after my, mother, and I. Here we have. lived, ;Dalton ; here." have dragged out the miserable existence of an invalid, here I have - brciughe up my child froin infancy to womanhood, until she has be come -to me soinething of what her moth er might have been• we t w have -been tile:her through better, through worse, and much of it. 'has been worse. - Now you propose:N take. her from, roe, know irg that she is all I have in the .world— that whatever she may he to , you, I can not live without her. it is an awkward thing to' wind all ones heart about a wo man, lie she wife Or child. have done it, and mine is a claim .no one. `should dispute.. Will you withdraw , your de. mand, Dalton ? Methinks _there is 'a parallel 'to it in 4he story of, David and '•llid you ever: hear of the Mother again, Hastings ?" - "Only that she died. The .habits of her people; where marriage bOnd.S gaickiy.shakeG loose when hive fails;made it seem no crime to leave me•; but When the ?wild desire-to be free'. was gratified; they say she pined . and died.. But vou have, not, answered. my .queetian.. yob leave me my child ? ' you let me decide ?" In the Silenws that iolloived,. Zillah. stood in the. doorway:: Slenderand bnan tiful, with the.longing or love the soft dark eyes and the stern rigor of deter mination around, her mouth .; 'the clear voice answered : ' "1 have decided!' "To become Dalton 's wife It queried the. bitter yinee of the invalid. A singleword, shaft) with pain, cut the iti - r—'qsiever !" - "Yet you love' Ile,' Zillah ?" pleaded the fhis time the- girl spoke with less etrort - < ""No,, I do. not." . • Angry and talletil Dalton went his way. Yet She, did love hitri, , and'tiOth . and Ilastingis knew it, tile•• .giOrieB;: :Of eels= u e are / 10 k ,for- the ,