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While t\•'n \ vesper bells were. ringing, When:thp b'ir( \ ls had ceat.d their singing, To my heart swe \ e s t. mem'ri4s bringing Came the music'f the - rain. My childhood days s bright :Ind - fleeting Tiny rain-drop; see..imx.d \ F -Ocating, \ Waking joy at thoughts of)tkeeting Those I ne'cr may sco agilin. 0. Merriries sweet and ;ad we blenr • g, \ Joy and sorrow both were lending \ Voices which were ererending: . Sweet the 1111.1iie of the rain. . From my heart I may not serer Mern'ryla index. pointing ever Backward to the jov diet never Will revisit me ag r in. , . ERE 2 50 4 tPO 51., 0 01: 3 00 50 15 00 lu Q 0 7 09 30 /A to GO 2 00 1 50 1 5,i 1 00 Tbor.gli to-thy is foil of sorrow, From the p2st we stiil ma}' br.trrovc Joys ouee tasted, while to-morrow Whis , )ers ever, ho: . se. in slvect li.srp-stririp touch' d lifZutl7 Dre:‘ms the rniricz tVP:t.Ve its ni.4htly— Come :,:in drops israilin 1 7, brightly, Dripping from eneb warin_7 tree. Jeweled. bl , ):;:zorns. brig,htiy Like the stars of Heaven beaming,. While a muffled voice is seeming .Still to hum the mystic Btrain ; Music of those tlowi t ng numbers Lulls the heart to ,apanty Slumbers, Waking still a thot4:lnd Iv-enders Of the magic voice of rain. •s..fifftt (.:(11t. 'I LIE 1'1.11.S DOW. Ida was a bri4e. Onward, through a whole year of patieiit waiting, laid she moved toward this blessed.estate, all her thoughts golden over, all her fancies radi ant with love and beauty. And now she was a bride—a happyAiride. Ile who had won her, was worrh:i- to wear her as a crown. hind. honotiable and gifted—his praise was on the lips of all Yes. Ida was a h4py bri\le, it was the blooming_..-tragrant z vin -time. iaa iii = birds were in all the. trees: musical wa ers thrflrjh the pvacelnr Irk"nd se:ip, ; and a cloudless sky bendia7 over tn. The 1,1,:•:-.—cdtie;,..s of this nuv. - hie was ii“.,11:-.llc kid ert Li. it, ail iiC lv:o-tr.z!I Ui her ni;:ikkm fan eies A h 1;:.0 uzilcd zlhd wan'cd : : , ,ince.the liecawe the Lusixil; a r4un drop: tia• sweet:: of M'ount Ilybla. It ms exenin::, and Ida stood by the window out thrchigh the dth-k wiiitino• and wi›iiin; , for the return of her.liik.band. Ivho waA later than'usual froni home. At last, her glad eyes "cauLdit 0111;1)mi - ids well known form, and startiq,- back from it lama . l:. .... .*:11 the window ~ she went sy:le,:liug steps to meet Lim at the door; 6pening it ere his hand could ring the ‘•ltear Eriwm3 1" 1 1 ;hilt a gm,:ting lore in Ler vie She raised her lips for a kiss. nrpl a kiss was !riveu: But some how, its 17:11.11th did not go (town into her heart. IMMEM "Are yell not well' dear ? pile asked, Vef y eritvd re :cut little pail,)rt and slte iit. 111 , flee tried to i•ta(i .e):l.i.essions, litit the twil;ght was too crap '4,iuite as well is nFutd. love." The voice or her litn•band was low and gentle;- lbw it had a new and charged sound fl the young wife's ear—a tound that made her heart trethble. Ids .arin was around. her, and be held one of her hands tightly couliires'siWz it within his I own. ii grew dark in the room before the f -, as ligb te - cl. When the: strong, rays fell suddenly upon the fade cit' hhi' husband, Ida saw a change there-also: - It was cicala ! ed. .NoL heavily clouded-lint in shadow. Steadily 2nd earnestly sheiooked at,hhn, !Until he turved . hhi head :plrrtly away, to I escape the searchive scrutiny. "You are not well Eldwadr Idalook- . ed serious—almost "Don'ttrouble you riielf; I'm very well." lie smiled and pitted •lier : cheek 'play rather with an attempt at j)lay fulness. Icl4 w s Eiot deceived. Aelia . nge had passed over hell 141Shzmd,. Tai- ©mas not as he had been: _ln due time tea was announced, and the I I little family party of two gatherod aroctild ectotea -to ti l e, i'l•loziple.,s of Imp ,DeiTwilail, fix, bisseh)iliqtiort:of i7roi.42ll,'llitzt;4lltte, 40-I(cins. Ey T..S.IAfITUVR COUDERSpORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA, TRURMay, 00T03,BER 26, 1857. the bble in the , neat breakfast room. • ••"Burnt toast and dish' water tea, as usu-• all" Thcs . e were the first. cords spoken by the young hushaud,,after sitting down to the table) and the manner in which they were uttered, left Ida in no doubt as Ito his state of feeling. ' How suddenly i i was the fine gold- dimmed. . : ' A'few hours earlier the young husband -bad called to see his mother, an orderly industrious woman, and a notable house -1 keeper. As uSual,• he was 'full of the 1 prais of his beautiful young wife, in whom . ill,: bad yet seen nothing to blame--noth -1 ing below perfection. But his mother ' had lvoked at her with different eyes.— L. -ins in the_world was,_ with her, no hol iday --fiitir, and marriage no mere honey ' moon N e was, too serious e in all her views and feelingt:, to have much patience with what she! estee . edruere playday life. • A \ little jealous of -r son's affection, she was, Withal ; and his , ing forth-to anoth et, with au ardor so dif . ent from what it had ever gime forth to he (4f,. made her feel cold 'toward the dear littlov,ife of Li- ward; who .was his favored object - "It is time," she said, with a disc of manner that surprised her son, "for yo‘ and Ida to be a little serious. The honey moot; is uver, and the quicker you come down to st>l)..r realities the better. There iS one 'thin- , about Ida that rather disap points mc." Edward was too much surprised. at this unexpected annunciation. to speak. His mother went on. "She's noliouskeepo• "She's 3 - cum!, mother. She'll learn," . be said, interrupting her. "She bad no right to nutrry until she knew how to make a cup of tea?" The old lady spoke with considerable asperity. Mother'." "I say just' what I mean. Not a sin ale cup or tea have I yet tasted in your house that was lit to drink ? I don't know how you can put up with suchstuff. You wouldn't have done it at Ind' table, I'm sure." "Picai:e mother, cl , M't tali: sb auy more ibout Ida! I can't bear to hear it.'' "You can bear to hear the truth, Ed- wart;. fur fc;:t's good tnd vour own too. a \vie nulv ; a *Mere And she's your housekeeper besides, with so—thin:L. more to do and :., Pi eet h cart care for, than drei.s, music. - party going and enjoyincnt. I must sae, as I said a little while ago, thai I am disappointed in her. What are girls thinking ttbout when they get nu :Surely, not of their hu:rband'S household comforts." . "If you pleasconother, we - will change the subject," said the ycung man, who was exceedingly pained by the strung 'lan gunge he had heard: He spoke so firm ly that the matter was droppcd, and not again alluded to at the time. V\-e have,, now, an explanation of the change iu the yowl , husband's state of There were some truths in what his mother said, and this macre it so much harder to bear. The first shadow had fal 7 n, chat dimmed the briL:htness of his new and happy life. Stiii the defects in Ida—very small to his eyes, even after they Wer3 pointed out by his inother—were thiU!rs of no mo went, He had not iutende:d her ibr household drudge. Was she not loving: hearted, accomplished and beautiful?— What more. could ISC ' flgr • True, he had intended her for the pre sidinfx genius of his -time; and there. were tuatter-arfact .things - :to be done in all homes. But, her devotion to these would came i good:tiine, How Edwiird came-to Spud: us lie dittaboUtihe te . 7i and ; toast; was .almost :on the; ia.stivat'. that. he hadgiveit utterifice-to 'his words, a wys tp r ry_to lie .sfarted. witlt the start • that he gave ltiS young Wife, and trembled ' fin'. the. effect ;tit* his' unkindly uttered. words. Ile would have- given ; mueli.could Ile have recalled them. But they were .said beyond Any power of unsaying,- The reference mother.tu the in-' different tea with which she iiad been s.er -wed at his table; had not only mortified him, but made some things distinct in his memory,. which, before, vreve only seen 1 and, as - matters of indifferenee.— Where ail 'was so bright, Irby 5h0 , ;2,1d he !tutu his, eyes . apon a flra - crtwaleztiglig . . . . I clouds skirtiug the far horizon . ?,' • 120 I mouth, that She,had not forgotten, their 1 would not have done ea if left tohimself.l intery'lew of the Pteeding day; and that I The clouds Until d spread might hasteveri l 1 hei"state of mind was, not a whit more; I ninth larger than .., 1 . . .. i • * Man's hand, • befOre i charitable. 1 " Id t .li's - face ma, a little shad i their murky aspect weuld"hate drawn his; i owed; .but-slre Was .cheerful, and very at. I l happy vision: - from the all-prevailingl tentive to his Mother—ind, happily igno i , - brightness. , - I rant of his.titic feelings. ; She came: and 1 Ida's hand, which was raising a.cup tO,;Went from the breakfast roomto the par- ; her lips, fell alniOst as suddenly' as if pal ldr, frequently, evidently with sied; a paleness oVeri;pread her counteL F ; cares upon her mind. - • mince; her lips had li. uo between a Tea was :it length announced. Edward's quiver and and a spasm." From her eyes heart trembled: • His mother arose, and which seemed bound,,as bra spell, to her with a cold, air accompanied her children husband'alace, tears rolled out. and fell in to the room ;where the evening meal await large drops over her Cheeks. led them. The table had an attractive look, Never before, Sinee i Edward had loolied ' new to the; eyes of both Edward and his upon that dear, young face, had he seenlniother. It was plain that another hand its bragehtness so veiled. Never before, j besides the servant's had been there. Ida; had a word of his. been answered by any.l poured the tea, and . Edward served the thing but smiles and love responses. - , hot biscuit and cream toast.' The eye of "I'm sorry, Edwaiiti. • ''ll(.:w the sad{ the latter was tixed on his mother, as she tremulous voice of Ida rebuked the young I lifted, with an air which he understood to husband's unkiudries4 "It shall not :I,)e ; say, ." Peor stuff: !" the cup of tea to her so again.!' , !lips. She tasted the fragrant Veverage— . she kept her word. Suddenly he (set the cup' . down—lifted - and tasted had aw-' -d her fr - - 1,- n a bright d. ''''• ' The'inflr ''''' '''. Avife ~ :ak enec, .ier from a bright dreamy insion. She had been!in J akind of fairy a‘n - ce ! land., The hard, erery-day working iworld, I with its common • working-day wants, by ; a):1 \ unlooked-for shifting Of Scenery, had 1 struek with an unlovely aspect upon her , startleiNsion; the. jagged edges of the real woundi g painfully her soft ideal.— ' But, once awa -ened, she neveralept again. - I R was the firsts - uloW that tell dimly and !coldly upon her ut \ at ied heart—the first, and to the life experie eel, we need not !say tlicelaSt. . ! Burnt toast and bad. tea !\ L that common things like then !have power to shadow a young heat t ! king in the sunlight of - love ! . Ida h. I thought of her husband as almost itadit: iferent to the vulgar wantsihis words Made I manifest. :She sawclearer.now. lie was • but flesh andrblood like the rest. Very, very tenderly spoken were all the words i.if - ildward to his young wife, du i ring the shadowed evening that followed this first dimniug of their home light.— And Ida, - who felt the kindness of his heart, tried to amile and seem as of old. But, somehow, she could not force into eziste - nee, the- smiles she wished to send out as tokens'of forgiveness. Thoughts of the had tea and buret toast, the "usual" —and there lay, the smart l—entertain , ment she had provided; or, rather, suffer ed to be provided by unskillful hands- Were her own any more skilful ? for her returning husband haunted her all the while. r ! "It shall not be so again !"!, Not idly uttered were these words. _All the-eve ningshe kept repeating them to herself, with a steadily increasing purpose and a clearer vision. "Edward shall never have : another oceasitin fur rebuke." Several times during the evening, the young husband was tempted to refer to the conversation held With his mother, in explanation of his own conduct, but he .wisely .kept his own council. Of all things he dreaded an estrangement be tween his wife - and mother. . On the next morning, Edward noticed that the young wife left her chamber ear lier than usual and went down stairs. Not, however, to fill their home with mnsie, as she had often done. Her matinee was the singing - tea kettle, not the stringed piano. She had a heightened color, when She took her place at the breakfast:table, and pour ed_for-her husband the fragrant 'tetrad, :Lade with ler own hands, because she tad discovered that her indifferent cook was ignorant of her art.. How did she know the, art ? • It was :dim:Est:accidental : theinnvcArife's .had bUTCa - her iri s the right The warat. praise that :Edward bestowed on the coffee ivas ample reward. • •Ida had bou s lita 'cook look during the . day. That s . dnads Unromantic. .But it was even so; and she it udiedlt for hourg. During the afternoon her inothcr,in,law came in; and Ida urged her-te stay for tea. 'The old lady, :n'lcentecl the invitation ; not, we are sorry tOsay. in the very best spirit. She had opened the war on Ed- ; - "No,":Said ward's butter Sly and she iueant.toi "I - wasbrought once'," said •he to my folloW`it np.• When Edward camel:ionic informant, "drunk-in-your presence, on found that his inOther teas there his !shipboard; you were -a.. passenger; the - spnitzifell: Us saw by the &amen of het Captaiti kicked me.. aside you took me usien Was faiiltless Yes even to_ her criticar,taste • Next the bis cuit, and next, the toast were tried. Mrs Goodfellow conid not have surpassed UM them. 'Have you changed your cook?' The old lady looked across the table-at Ida. 'Lo, mother,' •auswered..T.da, Knifing.- 9nly the cook has found a 'mistress.' 'ls this all your work, Ida?' The old lady spoke in a half incredulous tone. 'Yes, it is all my work. Don't you think, if I try hard, I'll make a housekeeper.?' This was so unexpected thatthe husband's mother was delighted, Ida had gone right home tb her matter-of-fact heart. • .`Why yes, you precious little darling,' answered, with an enthusiasm almost fo • , ign to her character, 'I couldn't have done The shadow pasied \from' the heatt of Ida, as her t'? , y reed oh the pleased coun tenance of herinlibandll It was the Ant shadow that had • lldlen since their haPpy: wedding da)' and . ntaedhn quickly; bht its memory as left behind. It was like the drawing of a veil,Whieh partly coricedls yet beautifies a countenanie, revealing the enchanted expression. , • • Ida's 'husband was a manlike the ret, with man's eointnon wantS and weaknesses; and her married world one inwhich hands must take hold of cot - Union duties: But she soon learned that, in the real world, were real delights, •s'ub4antiai and.abid -13nively did she walk iti,the new path that lay at her feet,• She had her reward. Tea and toastlbutexpresfied her household duties, pone o ff ' which were rightly perform .ed daring that delicious Ithoneymoon.--- But, she tailed in nothing afterward; and soon _learned that the; ground in which true happiness takes /deepest root, and front which it springs up with strongest b::•auelles, is t i he grotind of common home , duties. To flunk shoOld bas g.rtatti glistfilipg. Power ofa. V4-ortl. I was told :t . .story to : day—a temper ance story. Amother,:en the green hills of Vermont, stood at her garden- , gate, holding by her right-hand ‘a son - of six teen years, mad with loveof the sea. " Edward," :aid she, " they tell me that the great, temptation .of a seaman's life is drink. - ,Promise; me. Wore-. you quit-your inotherls band,. that you- will never drink?' :- :• ' . Said bo--for he told the the story— •l gave her the :promie.. .1. went the bread Cuba', 01;•er—Calcutta, rano:), Sanl3kauciscoi:the - 4apc of. Goo4l, hope—and for -for Ly.: years,.Trhenever.l l 514 w liquor„ ;motif, er's form by the p,.ardemgate of• tlia. side- of,Yerroaut rose up before me, and to r clay, at, sixty,tuy lips are innocent of the taste of liquor." ..Was not, that sweet evidence of the power ofn single Word ? And yet it was but half ; for said he— • "Yesterday there came into my room a t -39upg man of forty; ai;►d stiedme"— ".Do yOu know me?" FOUR CENTS TELOIS.4I;IS PER ANNUM.' into Your berth, kept me there till I bad ;slept off the intoxication, and,you asked me if l had a mother. 'I _.said that I never kn l cw One ; I never heard a moth= ices Voice. Yon told Die of yours at the garden gate, and to-day, twenty yearsla ter, 't am master of one f the finest pack,. ets in New York, and I came to risk you to come and see me." tew far back that little candle throws' its betuu--that mother's word on :t1;16 . °Teen hill-side of Vermont ! God be' thanked for the ahnighty flower of 41 sin.' gle word.— lVendelt Phillips. . • Recez.ence.. Where is the reverence_ of: the oldeiii thue? Men with grey hairs, women . wtill' wrinkled faAs, and some who Irii,s'e` not so far. advanced in life, speak of it as a thing that was, arid they Mourn thet they do not see it TIOW-a LltayS,' Age was respected because it was.ago; without regard to titles or 'riches; the very;ehildren in 'the street paused'as the. old -man tottered by then, leaning ou"hii, stick, - his loilgWhite" . hair . - ifiutteriiii the breeze, 'and his"' dina - 'qa lighting up at the:sight - of their pleasant smiles. We were visiting lately in tt family where were Several pretty •gi'rls. ' Beau. tifully attired, well e'duented, literally loaded with accomplishments, - for they could sing, dance, play embroider, chnt- . ter French, translate Latin, sing Italian, and withal were very handsome..' The door opined and in came an old dy—very- old. She looked about her as she slowly moved forward,.: bot u head bowed iu token of her preienoe—no ond moved-to give her a seat. "Louisa;' whispered one, " give grandmother - a chair." I shan't ; she might as will stay up stairs," was the ungracious reply. .• • Presently one of them (shamed, at-Our disapproval, for we immediately arose and conducted - the aged,woinan . towards our own chair) offered her the seat with \rock,. ers, but she declined it, prefering to fake what was given ungrudgingly. During all her stay, these very genteel youngt la , dies noticed her no more 'than as if she was not in the room, except when she made an odd or ungramniatical expres, sion, they tittered and ridiculed it among themselves. 0, it was thouroughly - revoltinrs to see this crown of grey hairs despoiled of its glory, mocked by those thoughtless crea tures. And soon those trembling feet would be treading the verge of the grave, and the mould crumble find fall on the coffin, and!they would think of her as the Old Woman whose presence was a nuis, ante—a check upon shier pleasurcone who was always quoting' 0h.1.-flihmect songs or singing them through. her nose, whose homely gown, with its crossed handkerchief, was distasteful to their fashionable eyes, and of whom even: the Matron would say-,."We1l real - ly, mother was growing so very child ish, I could hardly mourn that she was gone:' _ . .Thus it is and,in this way that msay . of the aged are treated at :the present. day. Their sorrows-, theiris,ars, their sacrifices; their - humble, hard toils,: for: children 'who have , grown to-manhood, are all for- gotten, and those to whom they have . given birth are ashamed of them.: that it should. he so—that While.ted; „ the; great bein* towhom ice owe all' that. we are, treats the gray hares with 'revers enee„callingthent crowns . insult theth in our condu'et 'toward them o 4 t in public an;'private.:,`, eno one who has any regard fir; his own Char acter, his . oira . Purity the aged with'irre4e' retiee—they' etaad very near - doe - .; . AMERICAN • I‘ILLTIPLICATION, TABLE. —The terms ,are simply stated-, and tbo problem easily .soWed. aiven- 7 .% . young man of twenty-two; a. young woman of eighteen, a log cabin and a quareer-Seetion of land . in the "far west.' Rroduet4- forty years afterwards, boundlesa.posseis= ions and about two huadred < deseendants: Readthe-following statement of fact: Itt:,:ti• eently a - lady stopped. at; :the,,. idadison House, •CoOngton,,licy,, with her.' hus 7 band-And.Oirty-twa children.i She . .Was about sixty years of figd, but looked young and . hearty. this can.be bliat,...we are ready tp - ohroiAiolo•the • . IS 1