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THE MCSIC OF TRE RAIN
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DT 131.1.R1NT11 ...i.COMINEZN.
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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,
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Waking joy at thoughts of)tkeeting
Those I ne'cr may sco agilin.
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Merriries sweet and ;ad we blenr • g,
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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. , .
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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* 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.
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l happy vision: - from the all-prevailingl tentive to his Mother—ind, happily igno
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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.
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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
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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 • .
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