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I , EpiE OBSERVER. 1 WosteseasGemeemek, " aid di Uma i ir la Aß ittils likerie,
1% ' ', iv , i 1 car .3.41 vows rBY f MIA .s. Sakti nee. Tobacco, Nen, DU, eV. dee., Ite.„ No.
• r I. 9/- 0 I', SeeneU Igeek, Isege sitireet, Ilk le. N.
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DA. X . $ lll 009 11, A. 1.401a7. F. P. nazis.
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J. W. DOV
....0 ; i -T %TT. AND FIFTH Sn'S. Auposarer ea kair.--ftarettesanted le " Je lfi tirgieterstlitleala
, • • Strait, ea UM aerie sat et tee
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ammo dim Peat, ever Claalt dr Illeteedrs er•
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A 1• OA N Killitrag. -
N i • • • • J6kl6llli /14.1PULKILAVP Art.
tiasvgArruass et /karts Ara Oboes. el ' ' baked, sad &Oak
~,. ...Anka% ot witaill I 11 ••• •11 •• $ 1 Ila r If dealer% Oak moaDistemit Rd. 1 • ' Amemiria
'' $ -.. . t.... aerie& cave/dm, Ilserimoo, 1W. ,,. ...,71Vta, newt
'' - ' t e ply 'Otitis 0110 104 6 M.........__5eief 6 1 1 Wets, lesele. Lee%
~ding ink fAlloul iod4 lo.lm .
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.... woast/1 111 In* • Pont' '"" 0 " - to en .' i fillet , g
Pa. limqa, Teak Peri. Oahu, 4.e. Aisetielle
altreatres,
`t ';.)l' ..Y ADVIINFOUNGe I ----- n
la Mee% &Wm
irkeiesel ---
10/11)01118TT, SAY; as 00.
.. ack or 1•01 OLIN a wham .43
:T . '''. sos feessaik, sai l Deakee
~ t f 75 [ OM glare I sittutbul 1111 419 I I
Waft ate., Stage meet, Ikte, Pik.
iOO Use " 6 " 600
.Drs.••l ts Or W 9 . 676 ----,--- w S. A. INIVIIMPIDIVIP t
, ATTOLSIIT •T LAW, 01100 sillidy 690001101 tub sew Court 606110
...- ...If rhstptabl• at pleasure, st ,
a
i 6 months. $6; V Itiosttui,lll 60; 1 I fate, 161 i
3 /.18. o
CULL IBILS, UM, PA.
• 1. , • o , - our )ear , gg g, g gigighg . 1134 3 I JANINN liieJ.II,CANIONe Wluelesse arid Itelutt Xmalichinie aC
1 ?LOUR CORO 11142., ancteriza, slum *c, *c
_, .. LA the BYLIOANIA Dlreelorf 61 06 pot eseeele- Gab paid p m a u 1 i i.d.,,,g g a s.. 2 9
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for ~ I, A nd, over eta, and Rader eight, 11.7 I
f.,, t. rm. Douce* 10 uelll4 a line. park Ella
'3, • ra creopeey nod elbow PAACOA, Witt* above
k
LA GE Lod eenemediees Hall ter GeseeN i teliekand Pub
, it lie Suallap et WA kis* Do ids 40! Vt• gaqielee at
~., •.. I . others requiting froquest cluing.' In tbbir, the Banking Nice of II Saufbrd k Co., No . I, 11044 Hoots, fa.*
3 . to allowed two arum, paper, andeard, for 1116. , peas,
ipe ,,,, the ebargee lull be La leteportlea, turd tlee 1 Zeta, Sept. t 7, 1066. 204 f
,•,. m .., ba stnetiv eondeed to tb• lepitioate beat's= , - --- - at--- -- -- -- -----
.....-• Payment for tesesturat almet t le , :esate ever w e i t ial i MIIVIN MUM
t.... for yearly aCeertislarg wftl proems
~, a “rlO per seat will be MOM Oa 431e.a.24 Serer I
...,, , whew paid la adreao.
v s tist3 DIRECTORY. SPRING ARRANGZJIENT.
JANES LYTLE,.
?mins run through tb Wheeling A Pittsburg.- 0
~.., ,;,r ~ e .tupi.tt by James 6111, Eut Ana ON a O4 utter 316441 ). 111 •Trh Valf 11 1 5 1. betel rub kW , : Nue
-cure of N. Murphy between tbe Mad 1 (eye eaoretod, sewadieg te the following
• , 44 1 . 1:112 ?AUL Z. .
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10eXPI1 SI CL - Alii. 10fAtION. Telles Amyx
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•. N. P V ,p. lc 'A.ll.•p.bs P. 16
t. 'WI 11116 feTOR36O4. , 7:65. 260 614 elevelited 11:111 4.42 950
4. -, sad Retail Dealers Is every dal. 1r.21 - 4-42 lleifeni, to sop lel
. . , ...ante Dry Goods, Gryetlage , oft , 6:42 3.44 6:lOSlie4soa, 10110 344 8.43
........ etroet, comer of Fifth , 2 Pe, I 0.11111 4:13 1 666 Manua 0:21 g Ig i it 12
S - 1 940 - Atwater, 2:43 7:19
61141L0 t LOTH/436 ISTORIi e 110 3 440 , Alliance, , 2:211, 722
i ~.•: e, : Uanatartarer la OM opealitl Bead/) 10:43 4.19 flayed, 1.46 6.50
~44,e1ie1t,011. 1 . foribbitthig Goods. No 7, Wawa a 111:04 -1 Ifseereet, , I.le 6,26
~,d t,nr, l'a ) 1144 e, 66 Sallaelille 12:49 5-S6
r. .6 HECKER.
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--- 1 12' 10 0. is Y' hy Creek 12:10. bat
' Wetibillo 11-89 6 ta
.. . -oft:us and Provia.e.aa t Cagan, tea Teo 1, 2 1 0 „ w e 36 ,
Liverpool, 11:44 407
-is b • tmet.. Casemate, ads, PIL 47. 12.43 - • Rodtlee Farr)
- ~, . - 11:32 443
It ILIA AM TFIOMMkIII6I, Lea -1 , lodastry • 43:16, 4 39
•ee .1, l ik...4), Agrill6lllla SOWS bad Metroce- l: 30 7 : 37 Rooleester.
i 10:66 4 10
i e,, /reu4y and earetalty dzsene. 0•06 ea 2,26 0. 401 I , Pittsburg I I 9.46 3b161
~r JO. . 4 Sterrett, Grocery Store Mrla, Pa. —_ --
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11 I . 'ool BANYMBD,
p r o, Produce, Pork, Fish, Ash, Greta,
pan !.lael Sails, Brooms, Pals, llremhes,
, Terms Cash. Pliees low. No. 4 "fi g ht's
4 .Dore the Post 01100, Itrie, Ps. 47
WAYII.IOII.
No 1, Arnotienn 81013- Colter-
Prloopal Cain' of the Catod States mod
•••••1.1 pt•flopily ?omitted Book It atm, Gold
I ntrql•st pord on Urns anponits. Mo
t • Warrinta nosed, sold sod loomed
Wm, I+7
J. F. DOWNING.
NT, J t 41 . 1.`g or rat P 1.431. Will preetioal
i.ne ousty, acid pia prat sad telehLal
catenated to We Wad , 'Uhl* eli 41:1
rr 011ke to Rmplea &oak carper of
A • Ll*, I 60.
‘..TIERM",
Dealer in Wet end !try Geontrfiet,
- . domestic Fruit, W gotten, Wik
• • t lett, Salt, G Phan, ?nyder,
French street. watt, the Raid
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Ill!. kr. V & MIVONIES.
• carman and ♦meriaee ttedimm and Calliory.
• ~ t wee, Irmo smillbseL, Via.s freed limme,teia,
1/10 1 . SKIMS Sc. DICKINSON;
o Co-ourtooraldp, would rewportrully ONW tlN tr
•es to the atlases of LA* aad !Wady.
ftya
gireu to obstetrical
.T ULU dr PAYNE,
, t I "WO" ditircat rrt, Deddste lir Cad, rub,
and Platter. I%lWe Dock, east of Stator
~.txt. a. WISICALS
Reuses., Erb. Va. sneered oei
.c•• 3ight Drafts. Cheeks sad Specie. vm•
..14, -tad A trniuts bought sad 80114. Calieeeions
tree In the Celled sist•O; ruMNI
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.,•ett tempesethiltiy. 33
ue 1.. STRWA -.— ,
• •-• .itltuaox. olio. Stewart t Sine sir's
state and ?kraut], streets. Rasidirormi,
r mat of Saarafra• •trant.
W. MOIL&
• .ims 4•11, •••••••••~, .1••••
- nt Foreign and Dorneorie Dry Gonda, So.
, men Street.", Yew York.
ri 113 I.S. HAYS 4cC0.4
- I.E..u.gas In Valley and Staple Dry Geo , bl.
Lotha. Ate, Jo. I 'trowel', Mork Erie. ra.
TA, wiltialle their oSII la bustrs Mork,
thh• of the Publk Sitesre, are prepared to
with all other operators ia pima, slaw
stmq e.th seetteihts to its gitaitty hod nal nice.
ALLAN A. CLtIG.
83. t,' .—wk., is S•w Block coraor of Perth
le , quatt, Pat* Po,
U.
E. It. ABELL,
to MHO= H Sharsais,)
man. between Übe Heed House Mg
e4:ntre. taken in tho WA R& of the sit Jed
111011 AS K. Av"mut,
Lao .1 t 4. firla et G Lawns if a..)
ru Wakite‘ .I..ralry, Sliverillpfivit l / 4 /budasil In
-ttskit Warw. Limps and i wIS rluddril•
1111081L4 KENNEDY,
WAVNIKAII l• GNIWeil &MI Beseat.).
4 rr...n. Dealer, in Nudes:l4 Crockery, Olummia.
`,.• II and 12 F.mpir• }bock. earner at MI and
L've, r. 83
J. Izarrrirr,
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auogiL, KEPI..I3IL, -
• • • Aeon Boilers, Vault Doors,
ANN, Immo. of Brebekiareeer sal Fewei s Cant
' urger
t. ilArt,i,
Narrise--43See sa the Arearlesa Black
"0 - `ate .trot and the Hublic Square, up
remematile, and all were uratrasiVa&
as
•CYOVOICIO de CO,
twoc Notes, Cert Ablates of Deposit, ea.
,p,atiial calm. rolunillotiv for lia
tViir }.rte
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T. HERRON 147111111.• - -
•Fifth strict, s Sew do:n goat at
ow door Rare of the old
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*KITH dt- 'STK WANT,
i4a.• Galen is Finer and Steele Dry hoods and
"..-41tue fleod Rossi and ktrow-g's
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H. CUTLER, -
~ .oanty, Pa. Collections and
pr..nupto.• and dispaish.
VILTEM. A; BROTHER,
m Nista. Oa'.
Reed Hour, Erie. Ps- 33
4011 KWEENY.
• , ffice 1,1 BMW, • Rutkiing, ap-stilts.
JOHN liE.Ali."4 at Co.,
k ,,, n Virretmut,, LA CO4l, Flour,
• 1.„ • :owe .f l ypor Late Stamen, habits
1 . 1 E011.1.1V. .1. " 11 111T0N I
~ _ “tnrutt•awn filnretmot Ent., dealer
ri•• , ,1,-,1.• 1',•,:• •
C. B. WitIC,HT A CO., .
11,Cer,In aLC
,114 rerwiratrie, , , Depordt. Al"
no q rams in the t mon, and all parte of
B.mttv's Bualth MAIM
.ttr k \ nrth •ado SS
f OuLirr, L Omni mow.
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T. K. 11 11.4.1(.13.,
bolefale sod P.,tatl Leveler la Forsigu Yd
• R, tr4eaal Flowers, gibbous, Silks, Loom
wot‘..
Loon , u. 6 Rani tatettesiit, gee,
•n ;Aid thlers.
(Mkt' dc CLARK,
ta Domestic and Imported wises
Fruit, Fish, Ult. mid A 8 1444
7 St•se atev.l EA*,
` r. • j?. .".?in 1, ! - Ft... tVI ' U . : 4 4 is all kin.la of Von.Y.
Dtat hg CheArs, yo ♦ Ker•
lind
11 . 41 0 4 HALL t - 7
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,I..up-•taarr Taanasay Hatt buildiski.
C/60.
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.• ~ .r ... • ' P... sad Farridir, t.t
-, ...7.... eery Deolorlfrobinow
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• ' 4,,, hi. ...rriois to the petals. He trill
h
~,.. awl londtoe ' "'berets* Trill be glad to
TI ..- .
,^ •tie vrrst W. C. IHRALEY.
J. J. LI 'ST Pl. --
\ M..ntnlr Itatrazioas, Chop P•111ea
G.nld Peat' Pelciirt estkry, to
'2l
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IV. 01.04 0101.9 -
• ••-. • •nd Retnll tenon in Well amid Cla
•" chtapoat amid brat sow la lac
at.h. Edo, R.
oolot lot family, beat or aseartalual
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AICKPILFY
k 1:4 CROOK At
••• 4 4.11. Donn sod Blisdy Nook at..
t.r Huria J 0...
CHI - 1W
HILL.
to ik.1.4 Wldlim
Wl[ flit,
• T —Ofie*LAl4ll4/416th"at Car.'"
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( 1.% It k 84 lIRLDWriIi,
try v i rAti. Pelt
MAP ma
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""" 0. S ,, 5 it.. 4 housenmsbee ial4. Pa. as
11. A. SAL .
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WA _
li f. :; 4 • ~...• 4 KLY ,
A .
Luirs.
A. M. P. X,
900 11.1
918 1355
9.54 2:25
19:06 2.:44
10.24' 3:66
Uri,/ 3.301
11:12' 4120
11:40 4:48,
1210 6:26
aao 6:66
•12:31 e•4il
12.43
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?roan leaves New Philadelphia 7:46 • lt,Doetrat 8.60, Ware*-
, burg at 9:26. Arrives at Bayard at wag, calmed' with ?rain
oaMain a L l ine, , !n m e
liyTardr
ta..Clanna
rrled at
land, Pltl•Sn• tr i e ttad 1g..,
ty
Barg and Wheelt Sratiseatwiri at ra. Arrives at Dover
as wad Kew phis at DO r a.
No Cb&riff• Of W 1 Wire.* Clevelaad and Pittsburg mid
in( and Potallmorg.
The balm connect at PI with the Peannyleania Railroad
for Hartishurg, rbaidelphis, ne, New York and Booton.
At Steobeartlle with theNirralmnialM sad lantana RAWoad far
Ndie, Coshocton, Notlark, Cabbalas aid Ctsietamitt.
Al Wiwi.Hoe with ttio anithnore and Ohio Ratterad for Cumber
land, Pkwdrlehabam, Washington Mal Atm, wtth Stea
mer. tor Bartels, Parkorsburg and points on the Ohio Aiello.
At Moreland with the LA* nom sad Ornised t Tbiois Un
made for Buffalo, Niagara Tana, Canada sad New York; Toledo,
Chingra Harlington, Rook Ishitut, Damaport, (nalesa, Rank*, leg
walks., At Paul sad the North Wad.
S. psciturros
Thlketi OM be perehteett et the Mee he the Use, also at
alithe principal Ticket (Mese of the carte.. enneeetleg Reeds.
ar- Flue as ion as by any ether Rasta.
4nporiatentiant'm (IMOr c. k P R. R.) t
1 , a4 U. Pants
Ca....Auza A. Sairnzah,
CArrxs A. SAL :maw
to Mali olterigg those Wafer% to the Public, they were tho
13 row►ly teolool, nod the Propii4ors aal leetteeosedlestly
mmemod tbem se a agnate Neuseely for
Thew cattalo no Calomel or Ilertury-ta say thrut, or soy other
injurious lagrediesta, sad may be ems to the yonagest &ghat 'with
pertaine=4l7 Wafers are tree froth Um objections to innet
other V ea earl PLIGItANT TO TEM TAM. "ChU
dres will eat t sa readily as Candy."
They hors bseo before the public laps than one fell, sad within
dud time have won for themselves a reputation unprecedented ul
H. wallah at teedielee. They are aced and tueotomiseled by oar
YTOIT PIIITSICIASII and most respectable tuntime with the moot
marked mom&
Cr Prepared and cold, Wholesale aad Retell,
by,
( heoeseer At Mertes 4 filoysa,)
Wholesale and Retail Drutirloi, No. 6 Reed Rouse, kni 4 Pa.
ars.Paxx k co,
142 latanibms Stem. N. Y. Who Made
PriceSi Conte pet Sox. Dm. IWI-Iy.
Rare, liew.l2tli, NM.
Mew*, Climb ir"Boilbella —kimes.-41 bays br semi Um out
bass preecribidg your "Anthelmineie Web's." and I mast my that 1
In my beg prattle I haw sever yet brad as awnera a end
=remedy for worm" as the Withers peeve themelse, be!
ay recommending them to ney friends and patieeta and .
am happy to say to every lastanee with the most marked somme.
They here never hailed in a giggle me opmeting as elleeteeßy upon
Mutts of children. They have the adesatair, eve reredisies bie
tag se ...pleasant Is the tam that children win sat them M reader
so candy Being personally emendated oath their ecompoeltion 14
nabeeitatisey prone/Lace them the beet worm goods sow la ma,
l I
sad it mot le administered to the you agest Want with perhei
moat conadeutly recommedd them to the perseap
thdxylc. P. FACIRWRit, W. D. r
For mle In Girard by J, A. White sad Job. Fester ; • Wa
tarrd by Copp at Curtis: Sather° bY R Terry and W.
Proudht: Wlllcherk by S. N• licerearyt Lockport by J. W. Strom
and WM. Tyler, Albion by Dateopeet At Flowers; Comord by J. M.
Fay Springfield X Rands by Wm. Ti. Townsend; Went Springfield
by Paley Potter; Fairview by R. Pettis; North Rost by Jame A
Jewett, and by Draggiets generally.
PLASTER AND COAL DEPOT.
soderolirsimi thookbil tor the gems& patroaoge which ills
cilium el Etto and vicinity here herriptove eves Mini solid
mipaettally inform the public that he now has mad wlll hasp
oo hood
•
Plaster in Bulk or Barrek
of tb. boat guilty, at Woo 711111100 i or Cara Xi* or at his Coal
Vert en ttglitti Stew, test of [toes Melt Rome. Timm, ewer
is the time to
DOI7BLE YOUR CROPS,
plenty of this fertilising upsets'. It will pay roar mane
bock with large pronto. Also Um 6.„.
Blacksmith or House Coal!
` `'pß constantly on hand: 'mermaid to giro estialketton, nr money
and p►J for .11 trerable. en Mom nttles coal. The posi
tton bra Coal Irard is the very twenahl the city; Mani on &level
with the town, thine is DO 1014 and ramp hill to encounter le
Minting.
Eighth Street and the Canal ,
East of Zing's Malt House,
Is the place to bay your Coal, where you can
have it weighed on a pair of Fairbank's Hay
Scales,sod save one Bastille
13.434:nMELD & NWEI
Dontspt, sad no other which art the beat In the narket.—
at TB A CALL. m Ire test tittemogh th e Post
Olive,to the Coal Oleo of
Site, blotch 7,1567.-11 y. V. N. TITONNPON
ICU 1106,0101 bet of pal WIDTD WOOD sod crent-
I V BEN FLOORING, 117 nubse thick said train 6to 30 inches
wide at oar Plas_i_pg NW on thrrentit Nowt.
We.* F.b A. /A 7. CARTER 61 NALLENY.
.1. etas*
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To all whom it say c_ween.
A LI, perilous who know thonaokfoo lueobSOG to the oubseribera
od,bor ay Vote or Book Aeossolt, lootlfili that 11014 IS par
moot to ouolo on or bolero 010 trot day of n_pril moat, taadr *otos ug
appughla W W ho loft wa.k a ANN' of tail Amoco for innatioNi.
Eric, Horeb 41. 1137. gliwpare, BARB L CO.
N. Grocery and Prcrirtdon Store,
In Beam?' Block, West Park
sow sweefeisir es OWNS heat rid New Mari of fllnft
cgor&t.. erne tam Now Tort, which I Ake to soli to tie.
!public .t price* that pool be beat by any other oetabliotwoest to
wpm., full hiwit es Nod tames' MOLY of mil Wade
et pRoVVSOIII, ?Rome". rzeiwri.st.sa, &L. ises. Review
%resew. emesissei ta time iivoessy aatirriniaioa ilweiaert I tat ,
etyroiffelly orpablo to la op with the tiara
Aril 4 . TW 114. 1. SINDUXECZT.
GreCertin,
ishila ole &IL
T a w= to Clwa l iZ et nose *arta ' alio de; wipZi.
sa,4 tu. Put, wren hot is lbw Is wiemilt. of tans awl oploadiel
oloortweat of sitocißlNS sod PitOVPUOICS, owaohittaa of .wry
article to that tier, w kWh 111110 *sad
.00110.1, TOLL Spiess,
erfory oarbiti awe doWitt =roan . mole ettesSes
to may god* at
Clllol4ilt szaasio
aampriaiwir the miaow' brawls and qualities, eli „
cit will he midst
rerieweit saw IhtdronlaN ft I hitlisiaele, 1 fellWelitnf
*Midi a ea !Who imatebsows.
Mee, April, 4.—a. P. A. 111101:11L
V L Low
Olt
Artl 1. .mwartox 61110`1.
131‘161.-41 wary *lima NMI& at Clailassilit . Cis --
ix yawed liiiiisio, awe 41 9• 11 ftsiadihr 11 " al
rat% V v . Mg. KAMM%
pgir llll.l'
, Wltre e set*lia nr i Pan% Mool:;
. ea. se • • J. & era.
Ca etemTmeiiiffm#r seini bun at Mold 340. 1
likosaviihoot so 4 limeelha bff
WA, Amin 2T, Mt , ' • A 220062221 t, .
qTATIONSI
Belle Atr
B
Portland. na
itorls Ram
Lorimar,
*t.utouviii•
Jedde.
McVey's.
Yana.. Creek
Wirtknille.
Liverpool.
..48sitil Perry ,
trateetry.
Roe!looter,
Prrreiraw,
130 727
2'25 6.W .
TUSCA SA WAS BRANCH
CONNICTIONS
-wd_y
EXPT.LLING WOR nevi THI SYSTEM.
1.
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LITTLI POOLS AID &NM OEM
Aud If a Woad doortwed You 6110 L
Moan paw bums Mad.
Sur rag scalagt year fallow loan
With MOAN to your Elba;
But la you dolly 111411111111001114
allaillgime but yurlldir
That little fools confide too marl,
But greet ow. not at all
to Wok or ploooore, to or drlak,
You rube he 1111 W the wome—
Your work sot toll, your *sure pure.
Your lore • study luswa,
Your drink sot wriNklksolug, bat to User
So Mull your Otto• sot 'DU—
Fur bale tooLs sum t o wult.
But great owes sot at all
TS4I Ns imams
Y. M P.
16 3160
344 1:66 .
3110 7 14
2:44 7:16
2:26 6616
1.64 T 6:46
1:10 1 4:06'
1140, 6:60
12.16 6:314
11:49 6::10
11144 4:67
1 1.1:412, 4:14
4:30'
10414 , 4:10 ;
6. 3:00
THE night, with its wakeful anxieties, wore
away at last; and the morning light dawned hope
fully; for it'brought with it the promise of an
end to Rostainood's esspenee.
The first event of the day was the arrival of
Mr. Nixon, who had reoeived a note on the pm
vions evening, written by Leonard's desire to in
vite him to breakfast Before the lawyer with.
drew, be had settled with Mr. and Mrs. Frank.
land all the preliminary artsagesaants that were
necessary to effect the restoration of the purchase
money of Porthgenos Toiler, and bad dispatched
a mesmenger with a letter to Bayswater, announc
ing his intention of caning upon Asnileersr Treys
erton that afternoon, on private bushlike, of im
portance relating to the personal estate of his late
brother
Ttiward noon, Uncle Joseph arrived at the ho
tel to take Rosamond with him to the house where
her mother I ay ill.
He came in, talking, in the higheet spirits, of
the wonderful eltangs fur the hotter that had
been wrought in his niece, by the sifeetiosate
message which he had taken to her on the pre
vious evening. He declared that it made her
look happier, stronger, younger, all in a moment;
that it had gic. u het the tangent, quietest, sweet
err p she had enjoyed for years and
y are pa -t; and, last, Bert triumph of all, that its
r(7,;:•;,;,°,(:;•. - c, `,l - (7,t,,r — tre;ZW - itossammd
listened th tekfuit. but it was with a wandering
a , tenti , u. \soh mod tit at aRe When she
had e of ier husbauJ, and when she
sad I7nc'e Jos( ph were nut in the street togeth ,
cr, there was eoe t titing in the prospect of the
agproochiug iutetNw between le r mother and
which, in spite of her efforts to resist the
sensation, street daunt, d h er If t h e y cou ld
bare come together, and have recognised each
oilier wit bout time to think what should be first
void or dun.' on either side, the meeting would
have bleu oothieg more than the natural result
of the tic-eovety of the Secret. But, as it was,
the waiting, the doubting, the mournful t story of
the poet, which had filled up the emptioess of
the last day of *itemise, alt had their depressing
effect on Roaaniond's impulsive dispositiou.—
Without a thought in her heart which was not
tender, compassionate, and true, toward her
moths r, she new felt, net ertheless, a vague sense
1 of embarrassment, which inereised to positive
uneasinese the nearer she sod the old mat drew
to their *hurt jairsity's end. As they stopped at
last at the house door, she was *booked to lad
herself thinking, before hand, of what first words
' it would be best to say, of what first thiuga it
would be beet to do--as if she had been about
to visit a total strangpr a whose favorable opinion
she wished w secure, aid whose readiness to re •
eeive her cordially wu a matter of doubt.
The first person whom they saw after the door
was opened, was the doctor. He advanced to
ward them from a. little empty rani at the end
of the hall, sod asked permission to speak with
Mrs Frankland fur a few minutes. Leaving
Rosamond to her interview with the doctor,
Uncle Joseph gayly ascended the stain to tell
bas niece ut her arrival, with as activity whisk
might wall have been envied by limey of hall hie
years.
“Is she worse' Is there any danger in my
seeing herr' asked Hammond, as the doctor led
her into the empty room. g
J 11CRASI), Aup't
"Quit-) the contrsry," be replied. "She is
much better this morning; and the improvement
I fled, is mainly due to the composing and cheer
ing influences on her mind of a message 'blob
she received from you last night It is the dis
covery of this white makes me anxious to speak
to you poi, on the subject of omo particular symp
tom of ber mental conditios, which surprised
and alaraiLd me when I first discovered it, and
which Gas perplexed me very much ever si p oe.
She is eufferiug—uot.k , detain you r -sad to pot
the matter at once in The plainest terms—under
a mental hallucination of a very extraordinary
kind, which, a) far I have observed it, sleets
be toward the close of day, when the
lig r lit g. li''
gei r - a‘ o li tb Y eeure. At such times there i s an
ezprva , tuu in her eyes as if abe (eluded some
persou bad walked suddenly into the room. Bbe
looks and talks at perfect vacancy, u you or I
might look or talk at some one who wu really
standing and listening to us. The aid man, her
uncle, tells nu that he first observed this when
she carat to see him (in C brnwall, I think be
said) s' short time since. She was 'peaking to
him then on private affairs of her own, when she
suddenly et. Aped, just u the evening was dial
ing in, startled hint by a question on the old
superstitions subject of the reappearance of t h e
dead, and then, looking away as a shadowed nor
nee ul the Pew, began to talk at it—exactly as I
have Wen her look end heard ber talk Cif stain.
Whether she fancies that she is pitiktiod by an
apparition, or whether she imagist* that some
living person enters her room at certain times, is
more than I can say, and the old as. gives me
no help in gnawing at the truth. Can you throw
any light on the abetter?'
"I bear of it now for the first time," answered
Rosamond, looking at elw doctor is amassment
and alarm
"Pular'," be rejoined, "she army be more
sommulticative with you thee she is with me.—
If you could mousy to be by her bedside at dub
today or to-secwrow, sad if you thiskit - yam ors
ttoi Maly to be frightened by it, I should wry
ouch wish jos to us sad hair hit whoa A* is
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nos Wes loots vAtill ittiit too ass*
Bat gnat saw MAO •t sA.
And stns in youth's toe Ileottne bows
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And hose sot aimed mom kolas Wert.
That you ray sake yew *vs:
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And Mak Won pismeme
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THE DEAD SECRET.
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CHAPTER XXV I
THIS CLYDE OF DAY
it SO A YEA. IN ADVANCE.
ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 11,1857.
under th e l e ifi seere of her delusion. I bate
tried in rile to dnw atteutitro away from it at
the tiateor to get bar ti . sieak cf it afterward.
Too hate eridestly sousidsrable iulluence over
her, and you ml h t, therefore, summed where I
have failed. le - her smite of health I attach great
i m p or t atme to sl a w*" bat milid,of ever, thing
that elouds and oppresisit_ . it, and especially of
such a serious hallucination **that which I have
been describing. If jog could hummed in com
bating it, you would be Aoi!tg her the greatest
service, and would be i =enalLY helping my ef
forts to improve her Do you mind try.
isirittlt a e experinientr'
m on d pr e mised le devote herself Gore.
servedly to thitanernes 0' to any other which wa,
for th e p a ti e nt' s good.,Tha doctor thanked her,
and lad the way back into the hail again_ Uncle
Jos e ph g y m d e m e ndieg the stairs as they same
oat of the NOM. "She is ready and longing to
see you," he whisparedia Rosamond's ear.
" I mu mirel need set impress on you again
the very serious aseessity of keeping her com
posed," said the doctor, hail/ his leave. "It
is, I
furore you, no exaggeration to say that her
life depends on it "
limituiend bowol LiefeLin sii. mo e, and i n si,
leans followed the old iliac up the-staira
At the door of a bask room on the second floor
Uncle Joseph stopped
"She is tbere," be whisptred, eagerly "I
Isere you to go in by yourself, for it is best that
you should be alone with her at first I Aall
walk about the streets ia the fine warm huoshine,
and think of you both, and come back after a
little Go in; and the blessing and the mercy
of God go with you!" He lifted her hand to his
14 4 and softly and quickly descended the statio
again
Rosamond stood alone before the door. A
momentary tremor shook her from head to foot
at she stretched out her hand to knock at it
The same sweet voice that she bad last heOd in
her bedroom at West Winston answered her now.
As ite tones fell on her ear, a thought of her
child stole quietly into her heart and stilled its
quick throbbing. She opened the door at once
and went in.
Neither the look of the inside, nor the view
from the window; Whir its characteristic orna.
meats, nor its prominent pieces of furniture;
none of the objects in it or about it, which would
have caught her quick observation at other times
struck it now From the moment when she
opened the door, the saw nothing but tbo pillows
of the bed, the head resting on them, and the
face tainted toward hem As she stepped across
the t iresbold that hoe changed; the eyelids
drooped a little, and dat pale cheeks were tinged
suddenly with burning red.
Was her mother ashamed to look at her?
The bare doubt freed Rosamond in an instant
from all the self.distrust, all thesembirrassment,
all the hesitation about choosing her words at.d
directing her actions, which had fettered her
generous impulses up to this time She an
the bed, raised the worn, shrinking figure in tier
arms, and laid the poor weary head gently on
her warm, young bosons. "I have come itt last
mother, to take my tarp at nursing you," she
said, Her heart swelled as those simple words
came from it; hen fall eyes overflowed; she cool]
say no 1110114.
"Don't cry :" murmured the. faint, L .w ec t.
voice, timidly. "I have no right to toing yon
here mud make you sorry Don;t, don't cry:"
"Oh, hash! bush! I shall do ;nothing to/kery
;lt u , forget that we nave ever beot parted.
Call me by my Speak to ine as I shall
speak to my own child, if God spares nue to ~.
him grow up Say 'Rosamond!' and—oh, pray.
pray—tell suJ to do something for you :" So,
tore asunder passionately the strings of her bon
net, a nd th r ew it from her on the nearest chair
"Look! here is your glass of lemonade on the
table. Say , Rosamond, bring me my lemon
ade: say it familiarly, mother! say it. as if you
knew that I was bound to obey you
She repeated the words after her daughter, but
still not in steady tones—repeated them with
sad, wondering smile, annvith a lingering of the
voice on the name of Rosamond, as if it was a
luxury to her to utter it
"Yon made me so happy with that message.
sad with the kiss you sent me from your child,"
she said, when Rosamond had given her the le:
monads, and was seated quietly by the bedside
again. "It was sash a kind way of saying that
you pardonsd me. It gave me all the bounage
wanted to speak to you as I am speaking now.
Perhaps my illness has changed me, butt don't
feel frightened sad strange with you, as I thought
I should at our first meeting after you knew the
Secret. I think I shall soon get well enough to
see your child. Is he like what you were at his
age? If he is, he must be very, very—" She
stopped. "I may_think of that," she added, of
tar waiting a little ; "bat I had better not talk
of it, or I shall cry, too ; and I Want to have
done with sorrow now "
While she spoke those words, while her eyes
were fixed with wistful eagerness oci her daugh
ter's see, the old instioet of ueatness was still
meehanisally at work in her weak, wasted flu.
gen. Rosamond had tossed bet gloves from her
on the bed but the minute before; and already
her mother bad taken them up, and was smooth
lag them out carefully sod folding them neatly
together, all the while she spoke.
"Call me 'mother' again," she said, u
stand took the gloves from her and thanked her
with a kiss for folding them up; "1 - have never
beard you call me 'mother' till now—never, ne•
ver till now—from the day when you were
born l"
Rosamond cheeked the tears that were rising
is her eyes again, sad repeated the word.
"It is all the happiness I want, to lie here and
look at you, and bear you say that! Le there
any other womaa in the world, my love, who
has a face so beautiful and so kind as yours?"
&beaad smiled, faintly.
44h100k at those sweet, rosy lips now,"
she said, "without thinking how many kisses
they owe m et"
"If you bad only let me pay the debt before!"
said 'Rosamond, taking her mother's band as sbe
was accustomed to take her child's, and placing
it oe her neck. "If you had only spoken the
first time we met, when you tame to nurse me!
How sorrowfully I hare thought of that since !
Oh, mother, did I distress yea much, in my ig
norance ! Did it mate you cry when you thought
of me after that?"
"Distress me ! All my distress Rosamond,
has been of my own making, not of yours. My
kind, thoughtful love, you said, 'Don't be bard
on ber'—do you remember? When I was being
sent sway, deservedly sent away, dear, for fright.
ening you, you raid to your husband , ' Don't be
bard on her!' Only live words—bat oh, what a
comfort it wu to me afterward to think that you
bad said them! I did want to kiss you so, Ros
amond, when Iwu brushing year hair I had
such a hard fight of it to beep from crying out
toed when I heard you,
behltil the curtains,
wiehing your little child good-sight. My heart
was in my mouth, choking ate all that time. I
took Tom part afterward, wheal went back to
my msstsms. I wouldn't beer Om my s harsh
word of you. I could have looked a hundred
mistresses in the face then, aid cootradieted
than all. 011-00., so , D o! you ipver distressed
me. My worst eat 'going *way was years
sod years belbre Tame to osnit you st West
Wisdom. It was when I iefil my pisee at
Porthsolms; whim rank into per warsery on
•
that dreadful morning, sad when I saw you with
both your little arms rowed my master's neck.
The doll you had taken to bed with you was is
one of your hands; and your bead was resting
on the eaptaia's bosom, ju.t as mine rests now—
oh, so happily, Rosansond!—on yours. I heard
the last words he was speaking to you—words
you were too young to remember. 'Hush! Ro.
sic dear,' be said, 'don't cry any more for poor
mamma Think of poor paps, and try to oom.
fort bine!' 'There, my love, there was the bit
terest die rein, sad the hardest to bear! I your
tiers tuotiker, standing like a spy, and - hearing
him say that to the obild I dared not own:—
'Think of poor papa!" My own Rosamond, you
know now what father I thought of when he said
those words! flow could I tell him the Secret?
How could I give him the letter, with his wife
dead that morning—with nobody but you to
comfort him—with the awful truth crushing
down upon my heart at every word be spoke as
heavily as ever the rock crushed down upon the
father you never saw!"
"Don't speak of it now:" said Rosamond,—
"Don't let. us refer again to the past. I know
all I ought to know, all I wish w know of it
;rill talk of the future, mother, and of hap.
pier times to come. Let me tell you *bent my
husband If any words can praise him uhe
ought to be praised and thank him as he ought
to be thanked, I am sure mine ought, I am sure
yours will! Let me tell you what ho said, and
what he did, when I read him the letter that
foetid in the Myrtle Room Yes, yes, do let
me!"
Warned by a remembrance of the doctor's last
injunctions; trembling in secret as she felt under
her hand the heavy, toilsome, irregulsr•heaving
of her mother's heart., as she saw the rapid
changes of color from pale to red, and from red
to pale again, that fluttered across her mi.
face, she resolved to let no more words pass be.
tweet' them which were of a nature to recall
pitifully the sorrow and the suffering of the
years that were gone. After describing the in•
terview between her husband and herself which
had ended in the disclosure of the Secret, she
led her mother, with compassionate abruptness
to speak of the future, of the time when she
would be able to travel again, of the happiness
of returning together to Cornwall, of the little
festival they might hold on arriving at Uncle
Joseph's house in Truro, and of the time after
that when they might go on still farther to Portb
genus, or perhaps to some other place, where
new scenes anti \ new faces might help them to
forgot all sad associations which it wan best to
think of no more.
Rosamond wits still speaking on these topics;
her mother wpb still listening to her with grow
ing interest ' every word that she said, when
ITnele Jo . returned, lie brought in with
him a , et of Bowers and a basket of fruit,
whi , he held up in triumph at the foot of his
ecta's bed
"I bare been walking about, my chili, in the
fine bright sunshine," he said, "and waiting to
give your face plenty of time took happy, KC,
that I want to see it always, for the rest of my
life 'Aba, Sarah! it is I who have brought the
right doctor to cure you: - be added, gayly, look.
iug at Rosamond "She has made you better
already; wait but a little while longer, and she
shall get you up from your bed again, with your
two cheeks as red, and your heart as light, and
your tongue as fast to chatter as mine. See! the
Ave 1 34"nges ariotir'udikir; intitiliest or an to put
tuts your mouth. It is festival time with us
tn,day,and we mast make the room bright, bright,
lez lit all over And, then, there is your din
ner t corm , 4..ntt; I have seen it on the dish—a
olwrith atit.,o‘t chicken fowls! And, after that,
there is your tine sound asleep, with Mozart to
sing Ow cradle song, and with me to sit for
and t•p gr, down stairs when you wake up
again, and fetch you your cup of tea. Ab, my
child, my child, what a fine thing it is to have
'sine at )sit to this feitival day:-
With a bright look at Rosamond, and with
b , th his bands full of thwers, be turned away
from hiA niece to begin decorating the roolg—
Exeq4 when she thanked the old man for 'the
presents be had brought, her attention had nev
er wandered, all the while he had been speaking
from her daughter's face, and her-first words,
when he was silent again, were addressed to
Rosamond alone.
"While I am happy with my child," she said,
"I am ke ping you from yours. I, of all per
sons, ought to be the last to part you from each
other too lOng. Go back now, my love, to your
husban4o your ohild; and leave me to my
grateful thoughts and my dreams of better
times."
"If you please, answer Yes to that, for your
mother's sake," said Uncle Joseph, before Rosa
mond could reply "The doctor say* she must
take her repose in the day as well as her repose
in the night. And how shall I get her to (dose
her eyes, so long as she has the temptation to
keep them open upon your"
Rosamond felt the truth of those last words,
and coosented to go back for a few hours to the
howl, on the understanding that she was to re. ;
eume her place at the bedside in the evening.
After making this arrangement, she waited long
enough in the room to see the meal brought up,
which Uncle Joseph bad announced, and to aid
the old man in enoouraging her mother to pars r
take of it. When the tray bad been removed,
and when `the pillows of the bed had been com.
fortably arranged by her own hands, she at last
prevailed on herself to take leave.
rler mother's arms lingered round her neck ;
her mother's cheek nestled fondly against here.
"Go, my dear, go now, or shall get too selfish
to part with you even or few hours," murmur- i
ed the sweet voice in its lowest, softest tones.
"My own Rosamond I I have no words to bless
you that are good enough ; no words to thank
you that will speak as gratefully for me as they
ought: Happiness has been long in reaching
me—but oh, how mercifully is has come at last!
Before she passed le door, Rosamond stopped
and looked back into the room. The table, the
mantle piece, the little framed prints on the wall
were bright with flowers; the musical boa was
just playing the first sweet notes of the air from
Mosart, Uncle Joseph was seated already in his
accustomed place by the bed, with the basket of
fruit on his knees; the pale, worn face oa the '
pillow was tenderly lighted up by a smile: peace
and -comfort, and repose, all mingled together
happily in the picture of the sick room, all Jain.
ed in leading Rosamond's thoughts to dwell
quietly on the hope of a happier time.
Three hours ppelf..; , The last glory of the
sun was lighting pi** summer day to itajest
in, the waiters bsiOns, when Rosamond returned I
to her mother's bedside.
She entered the room softly. The one window
in it looked toward the wed and on that aide of
the bed the chair was ignosnit which pude Joseph
had occupied when she felt hica:"Mid in which
she now found him still seated on her return.—
He raised his finger to his lips, and I4nlFed toward
the bed, as she opened the door. Her mother
was asleep, with her band resting in the hand of
the old man.
As Rosamond noiselessly advanced, she saw
that Usele Joseph's eyes looked diet and weary.
The constraint of the position that be occupied,
which made it' impossible for him .to move with.
out the risk of awakening his niece, seemed to
be beginning to fatigue him. Rosana d tem ()red
her bonnet and shawl, ask made a lap to him
to rims spa lat her take his Owe.
" Yes, yes!" she whispered, geodes bito Maly
by s shake of the beet "Let tae Wow ay try
while you go out a little and enjoy the and eer
ie` air. There is so fear of waking key: her
hand is sot eluipiNg yeas, but oily resell% la
it—let Ole steal mute lab its plan gently, sad
we shall sot disturb her."
She slipped her band ender bar mother's
while site spoke. Unale Jos* ensiled es heroes
from his ohm, and ',signal We base to her:
will hare your way," he 'alai "you are
too quit& and sharp for an old man Wm me."
"Bag she bees long Weep?" asked Rosa.
mond.
" Nearly two hours," saswered Uncle Joseph.
"But , t bee not bees the good sleep I wanted kw
her--a dreaming, talking, restless sleep. It is
only tea little minutes sines she has bees so
quiet se yen see her now "
" Surely you let is too meek light?" whispered
Rosamond, looking round st the window,
whioh the gioer of the evening sky poured=
into the room
" No, no!" lie hastily rejoined. "Asleep or
awake, she always wants the light. If I go
away for a little while, as you tell me, sad if it
gets on to be dusk before,. I use back, light both
those candles on the chimney-piece I shell try
to be here again before that; but if the time
slips by too fast for me, and if it so happens that
she wakes and talks strangely, and looks much
away from you into that far corner of the room
there, remember that the matches and the egad
les are together on the chimney-piece, and that
the sooner yon Hight them after the dim twilight:
time, the better It will be." With those words
he stole on tiptoe to the door and went out.
parting directions recalled Rosamond to a
remembrance of what had passed between the
doctor and herself that morning. She looked
round again anxiously to the window. The sun
was just sinking beyond *distant housetops:
the close of day was sot far of. As she turned
her head once more toward the bed, a momentary
chill crept over her She trembled a little,
partly at the sensation itself, partly at the read.
leetion it aroused of thee ether chill which bad
struck her in the solitude of the Myrtle Room.
Stirred by the mysterious sympathies of touch,
her mother's hand at the same instant moved in
hers, and over the sad peacefulness of the weary
feu there flattered a momentary trouble—the
flying shriow of the dream. The pale, parted
lips opened, closed, quivered, opened again; the
faint breaths came and went quickly and more
quickly; the head moved uneasily on the pillow;
the eye-lids half udelued themselves; low, faint,
moaning sounds poured rapidly from the lips--
changed ere long to half-articulated sentences—
then merged eoftly into intelligible speech., and
uttered there . words :
"Swear that you will not destroy this paper!
Swear that you will not take this paper away
with you if you leave the house!"
The words that followed these were whispered
so rapidly and ao low that Rosamond's ear failed
to catch them. They were followed by a short
silence. Then the dreaming voice spoke again
suddenly, sad spoke louder.
" Where? where? where?" it said. "In the
bookcase? In the table-drawer?--Stop! stop!
In the picture of the ghost—"
The last words struck cold on Romunond's
heart She drew back suddenly with a movement
of alarm—eheeked herself the instant after,
and bent down over the pillow again. But it
wuen ene drew Week, sod her mother woke with
a start and a faint cry—with vaunt, terror
stielten eyes, and with the perspiration standing
thick on her forehead
" MAaer?" she repeated, in mournful, ques•
tioning tones "Mother?" At the second re
petitim of the word, a bright flush of delight
and surprise broke out on her face, and she
clasped both arms suddenly round her daughter's
neck. "Ob, my own Rosamond!" she said. "If
I bad ever been need to waking np and seeing
your dear face look at me, I should have known
you sooner, in spite of my dream! Did you
wake me, my love? or did I wake myself?"
" I am afraid I woke you, mother."
" D.u't say 'afraid.' I would wake from the
sweetest sleep that ever 1110M1111 bad, to see your
face, and hear you say 'Mother' to me. You
have delivered me, my love, from the terror of
one of my dreadful dreams. Oh, Rosamond, I
think I sboold live to be happy in your love, if
I could only get Porthgesna Tower out of au
mind—if I could only never remember again the
bedchamber where my mistress died, and the
room where I had the letter—"
" W will try and forget Por4hgenna Tower
now," said Rosamond. "Shall we talk about
other places, where I have lived, which yob
have never seen? Or shall I read to you 'bother?
Have you got aoy book here that you are fond
?"
She looked across the bed, at the table in the
other side. There was nothing on it but some
bottles of medicine, a few of Uncle Joseph'.
Bowers in a glass of water, and a little oblong
work-box. She looked round at the chest of
drawers behind her—there were no books placed
on the top of ,it Before she turned toward the
bed again, her eyes wandered aside to the win
dow. The sun was lost beyond the distant
house tops; the close of day was nearer at
hand.
If I could forget Oh, me if I could
only forget !" said her mother, sighing wearily,
and beating her hand on the coverlet of the
bed. •
" Are you well enough, dear, to amuse your
self with work?" asked Rosamond, pointing to
the little oblong box on the table, and trying to
lead the conversation to * harmless, everyday
topic, by asking questions about it. "What
work do yon do? Mar I look at it?"
Her face lost its weary, suffering look, and
brightened once more into a smile. "There is
no work there," she said. "All the treasures I
bad in the world, till you came to see me, are
abut np in that one little box. Open it, my love,
and look inside."
Rosamond obeyed, placing the boa on the bed,
where her mother could see it easily. The first
object that she discovered inside was a little
book, in dark, worn binding. It was an old copy
of Wesley's Hymns. Some withered blades of
grass lay between its pages, and on one of its
blank leaves was this inscription: "Sarah Leeson,
her book. The gift of Hugh Palwheal."
" Look at it, my dear," said her mother. "I
want you to know it again. When my time
comes to leave you, Rosamond, lay it on my
bosom with your own dear hands, and put a little
morsel of your hair with it, and bury me in the
grave in Porthgenna 'church-yard, where ate has
been waiting for me to come to him so many
weary years. The other things in the boa, Ros
amond, belong to you; they are little stolen keep.
sakes that used to remind me of my child, when
I was alone in the world. Perhaps, years and
years hence, when your brown hair begins to
grow gray like mine, you may like to show these
poor trifles to your children when yow'talk about
me. Don't mind telling them, Rosamond, bow
ppm mother sinned and how she suffered—you
eaVal ways let theme little trifles speak for her at
the end. The leant of them will show that she
always loved you." -
She took out of the box a morsel of
folded white paper, which had bees platted seder
the book of Wesley's Hymns, opened it, aid
showed her daughter a few faded laburnum learn
that lay {aside. "I took theme from your bed,
Rammed, wham I tam a a onager, to earn
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after I bad takes the Bowers—a ribbes
knew bad bees Amid yam 'seek. Bat'
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. folded the paper tm again; laid kW& as
tali and drew from the boz ant a small
print Web bad been taken from the illsetrelless
-a poeket-book. It i•eprestnted $ Mkt girt, in
a :ply bat, sitting by the waterside, sad insi4 •
daisy &sin. Asa design, it wilriiikb•
keg u a pnist, it had not even the met'
merit of being a good itaprisision. trislaysi*
its lies Wu wr itten in faintly-penciled bitswik
"Rosamond when I last ow her."
u It was never pretty enough for yam," 41
said. "Bat still there was something yt It that
helped me to remember what my owl love was
like, when she was a little girt"
She put the eagestring aside with the
leaves, mad task from the box a leaf of seen.
book, folded in two, oat of 'high there droillped
a tinyattof mer, covered :
letters looked at the strip of paper Bret.--
'The advertisement of your marriage, Raw
mond," she said. "I used to be toad of seed. '
lag it over and over again to myself whew i was
alone, and trying to (limey how you looked sod
what dress you wore. If I had owly
when you were going to be married, I world
hare ventured into the church, my love, to leek
at on and at your husband But that wit lea
to be—and perhaps it was best so; for the RAT
you in that stolen way might onl y made Sly
trials harder to bear afterward h ave held so
other keepsake to remind me of you, BOsaisamid,
except this leaf out of your fleet copy-book.—
The nursemaid at Perthgenna tore up the rest
one day te„light the fire, and I took this leaf
whet she was not looking. See: you liad sot
got, as far as words then—you could only pp
strokes and down,strokes._ Oh me: ho! .teattz
times I have sat tooking at this one leett if
paper, and trying to facie) , that I saw your small
child's hand traveling over it, with She pea imoid
tight in the rosy little fingers. 1 think I have
cried oftener, my darling, over that Ant oopy
yearn than over all my other keepsakes pat $0
gather." .
Rosamond turned aside bek laoe toward .
window to hide the tsars which she sold mania
no longer. As sho wiped them ainv, the Ma
sight of the darkening sky warned/her that She
tifflight dimness was corning soon. How doll
and faint the glow on the west looked now: how
near it was to the close of day ! ,
When she turtiod toward tho bed spit, her
mother was still looking at the leaf of the sow
book.
"That nurse. maid who tore up all As resbnifii
to light the ere," she said, awes a kind friesitio
me, in those early days at Porthgeurns. she sod
sometimes to let me put you to bed, Itoessemeer
and never asked me questions, se the rest et
them did. She risked the loss of her phase s
being so good to me. My mistress was
my betraying myself and betraying her, if I was
much in the nursery, and she.gave orders that I
was not to go there; because it was not my plow
None of the other womiti•servants were eo iii
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ten stopped from playing with you and
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friend. I often lifted you into your little eat,
m 7 love, and wished you g )od night, when Of
mistress tLought I was at work in her room.—
You used to say you liked your nurse bettor
thln you liked me, but you never told mit Ow_
fretfully; and you always pat your laughing!.
up to mine, whenever I asked you, for a
Rlmmood laid her head gently on the pirtuy
by the side of her mother's "Try to thick leek
of the put, dear, and more of tho futare," stie
whispered, pleadingly; " try to think of the time
when my child will help you to recall those old
days without their sorrow—the time when you,
will teach him to put his I:ps up to yours, as I „
used to put micro. , '
"I will try, Rosamond—but my only thoughts ~
of the future ' for years cad years past, have bseg ,
thoughhrof o ineeting you in beaven. • If Bush*
are forgiven, how shall we meet there? Shall jsms
be like my little child to me—the child I sasessuk ,
saw again after she war five years old? , Immo
der if the mercy of God will recompense me he
our long separation on earth? I wander it poi
will first appear to me in the happy world with
your ohild'e face, and be what you should hate
been to me on esrtb, my little angel that I men
carry in my arms? If we pray in heaven, Asa
teach yon your prayers there, as some immfort to
me for Dever having taught tbem to you hen?"
She paused, smiled sadly, and, clog*/ ber
eyes, gave herseltio silence to the dream
that were still floating in her mind. ?hi
that she might sink to rest again if alts was
undisturbed, Rosamond neitbir moved nor ryas.
After watching the peaceful face tar some
she became conscious that the light wag brae 0111
it slowly. As that conviction impriaed ksdf
on her, she looked round at the window awe
more. The western ci43it wore their quiet twi
light colors already; the elose of day had wow
The moment she moved in the chair she bit
her mother's band on her s hnuider. When dm
turned again toward the bed, "the saw her M.
theee eyes open end looking at her—looking it
her, se she thought, with a change in their est.
preigeion, a change to vacancy.)
"Why do I talk of heaven?" she add; torah%
her face suddenly toward the clarkenlng_aky, sod
speaking in low, muttering totes. "Row do I
know I am fit to go there? And yet, Roamed,
I am not guilty of breaking my oath to my still
tress. You can say for me that I never destroyed
the letter, and that I never took it sway with Ise
when I left the house."
"It will be dark - soon, mother, let me get uP
for one moment to light the candles."
Her hand crept softly upward, and clung fast
round Bosamond's neck.
"I never swore to give him the letter," ale,
said, "There was no crime in the hiding of
Yon found it in • picture, Rosamond? They
used to call it a picture of the Porthgenna ghost.
Nobody knew how old it was, or when it tame
into the house. My mistress hated it, bemuse
the painted face had a strange likeless to lutes.
She told me when first I lived at portliest's, to
take it down from the wall and deetroy it. I waft
afraid to do that; so I hid it away before ever
yo& were born, in the Myrtle Room. Yon found
the letter at the back of the pictuse, Rosamond?
And yet that was a likely place to hide it in.—
Nobody had ever foaled the picture. Why she'd
anybody Sad the letter that was hid is it?"
"Let me get a light, mother! lam sure you
would like to have a light!"
"Nol no light now. Give the darkness time
to ether down there in the corner of the room.
Lift me up close to you, and let me Whisper"
The clinging arm tightened its grasp as Rosa
mond raised her in the bed. The fading light
from the window fell fall on he lam and war;
relleeted dimly,lu her mystic eyes. "ism waih
ing for sometitieg, that comes at d before thi
candle. are lit," she whispered in low,
tones.
"Down there!" and she pointed sway the'
farthest weer of the roes& neat th e doer.
"Mother! for ('od's sake, what is it! what ,
you for'
right! say 'Mother If she does oturce\
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