C a 11E=111 • FFICE in Croll's Row,—.Secon.l Stor Front street, live doors below .I‘ll . . Hotel, Marietta, Lancaster County, l'enn'a. If subscriptions be (belayed beyond :; mon , $1.25: if not paid until the expiration 0f!,,„ year, $1.50 will be charged. No subscription received for a less period t 1..„ six months, and no paper swill be disconi.t,_ tied until all arrearages 'are paid, unles. the option of the publisher. A failure to tify a discontinuance at the expiration of term subscribed for, will be considered a 1,.„. engagement Any person sending us FIVE new subscribr :3 shall have a sixth copy for his trouble. ADVERTISING RATES: One square (12 or less) 60 cents for the first insertion am 2., cents for each subsequent insertion. Prof.,.. i stone] and Business cards, of six lines or at $3 per annum. Notices in the reaC,h,, columns, five cents a-line. Marriages s:; i 1 Deaths, the simple announcement, EriLF: • but for any additional lines, five cents a-ln e , l square 3 months, $2:00; 6 months, $3..:0. 1 year, $5. Two squares, 3 month's, 6 months, $5; i year, $7. Ilalf-a-colwr le , 3 months, $8; 6 months, $l2; 1 year, S::0; One column, 6 months, $2O; 1 year, $2O. Having recently added a large lot of new .Ten AND CARD TYPE, we are prepared to do all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING, Such as Large Posters, with Cuts, Sale Bills of all kinds, Sall Tickets, Circuiars, Cards, Programmes, lye., &c. Everything in the Job Printing line will be done with neatness and dispatch, and at th e lowest possible rates. To tig 'People, of fin, tipifeo Sfee,s, TN the month of December, 185 S, the under- J. signed for the first time offered for sale to the public Dr. J. Borer Dods Imperial Wine Bittergiund in this short period they have gi ven such universal satisfaction to the many thou sands of persons who have tried them that it is nOW an established article. The amount of bodily and mental misery arising simply from a neglest. of small complaints is surprising, and it is thotefore of the utmost importance that a strict attention to the least and most trilling bodily ailment should be had ; for diseases of the 'Emily must invariably street the mind. The subscribers now only ask a trial of .1)r..1. Lovee Dods' Intneriai Wine Bitters! From all who have not used them. We chal lenge the world to produce their equal. These Bitters for the cure of Weak Stomachs, General Debility, and fur Purifying and Em riching the Blood, are absolutely unsurpassed by any other remedy on earth.' To be assured of this, it is only necessary to make the trial. The Wine itself is of a very superior gustily, being about one-third stronger the other wines ; warming and invigorating the whole system from the head to the feet. As the* bitters are tonic and alterative in their charaCter, so they strengthen 'and invigorate the whole system and give a fnic tone and healthy action to all its parts, by equalizing the circulation, me moving obstructions, and produding a general warmth. They are also excellent for Diseases and Weakness peculair to Females, where a tonic is required to strengt hen and brace the sys tem. No lady, who is subject to lassitude and faintness, should be without them, as they are revivifying in their action. These Bitters will not only cure, but prevent disease, and in this respect are'doubly valua ble to the person who may use thern. For Incipient Consuii2ption. Weak Dings, Indigestion, Dyoepsia, Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, Piks, . DR. D D'S' • CELEBRATED WINE' BITTERS see: UNSUItrASSED Fur Sore Throat, so common among the Clergy, they are truly valuable.. , For the aged and infirm, and for persons of a weak constitution—for Nlittisters the Gas pe', Lawyers, and all puttlic speakers---for Book-Keepers, Tailors, Sea instresses,Studim ts, Artists, and all persons leading a sedentary they will prove truly beneficial. As a Beverage, they are wholesome, inno cent, and delicious to the taste. They produce all tile exhilarating eflects of Brandy or Wipe, without intoxicating; and are a valuable rem edy for persons addicted to the use of exces sive Strong drink, and Wlnt 'wish to refrain from it. They are pure and entirely free from the poisons contained in the adulterated Wines and Liquors with which the country Is flooded. These Bitters not only cure, but prevent Dis ease, and should be used by all who live in a country where the water Is bad, or where Chills and Fevers aro prevalent. Being en tirely innocent and harmless, they may be giv en freely to Children and Infants with im punity. Physicians, Clergymen, and temperance ad vocates, us an act of humanity, s h ould assist in spreading these truly valuable Bitters over .the land, and thereby essentially aid in bun , - ishing Drunkenness and DiseaSe. In all affections of the .Head, Sick Headarhe, - or Nervous Headache, Dr. Dods' Imperial Wine Bitters will be found to be most salutary and efficacious. ----- FEAA:LES. The many certificates which have been ten dered us, and the letters which we are daily receiving, are conclusive proof that amen?: go women these hitters have given a satiantotico whith Ito others have ever done , before. .Ifti woman in the land should be without theiri; `add those who once use them will not iiiioo keep a supply, Dr. J. Bovee Dods' Imperial Wine Pelf's Are prepared by an eminent and skillful physician who has used them successfidiMm his practice for the last twenty-five years , , tle proprietor, before purchasing the evil!" lie right to manufacture and sell Dr. J. 11 ' cte Dod's gelebrated Imperial Wine Bitten, ad' them tested by two distinguished isedisal practitioners, who pronounced them a valutiVe remedy for disease. Although the medical men of the con ...,, as a general thing, disapprove of Patent i‘fr . Mines, yet we do not believe that a respeetail e Physician can be found in the United sts acquainted with their medical propeitiei, A' !. will not highly approve Dr. J. Bocce Do'h Imperial Wine Bilierh • ). In all newly settled places, where there, , always a large, quantity of deca) in; Inn 0 : from which a oisonous miasma is crea ~ , these bitters sh o uld d.be used every morning it fore breakfast. Dr. .T. Boyee Dods' Imperial Wine Bid. Arc composed of a pure and unadulterd Wine, combined with Barberry, sow , . Seal, Comfiey, Wild Cherry Tree Bark, Sp; nard, Chamomile Flowers, and Genota ., They are manufactured by Dr. Dods blurt. who is an experienced and successful Ph clan, and hence should noP be Jested so.' the quack nostrums which flood the c on: and against which the medical proles:4.m so justly prejudiced. These Wily valuable Bitters have bee thorougly tented by all classes of the condi )i ty for almost every variety of disease incl' to the human system, that rhat they ere , L deetned indispensable as a ,Tonic, Medicine and a Beverage.—p Ores BOTTLE!—IT COST BUT LITT' Purify the Blood I—Give tone to tR, Stomach I—Renovate the system and Prolong Dle. ytitioE .1 PER BOTTLE; 6 FOR :'; PREPARED AND SOLD BY CHARL.ES WIDDIFIELD ,ts , CO., SOLE PROPRIETORS, No. 78 New - York. - • For sale by druggists an grocers , ” , .. eIIT throughout the country. FL . ---•••m•• •••11111A" • . Great Discovery. Ihere made a discovery of the utnicr ; m Poitance to every married person of e he sex, and will send the lull particulars cone:ern jag it to any one en receipt of a stamp A* Pa return postage, Ad4ress DR. J. 14. MA.RTELL, Alfred, Ma*. +. + • -I'{r''' - ~..:....: . ~ , 1 z 11 T, 1 4 1 . ;, - ' it c , '`4 A .rte,,.` Li- 32.adELer, Proprietor_ VOL. 8. OLUMBIA INSURANCE COMP A.N Y 'his Company is authorized by its charter sure in the county, or in boroughs, against or damage by fire, on the mutual plan, for length of time, limited or perpetual, either cash, premium, or a premium note. .PRE4-11UM NOTE SYSTEM: rose who insure for a premium note will &mil for five years, and subject to assess : ts in case of losses. CASH SYSTEM. - ose who insure for a cash premium will sured for any term not exceeding 5 years, not subject to any assessments. One per urn premium will be charged on farm pro tor the term of five years. DEPOSIT SYSTEM, rm property will be insured for the term en years, for a deposit of three per cent. of mount insured, the whole amount of the ium note to be returned at the expiration he policy, without interest, or the policy be renewed for ten years, without any ex .e, at the option of the insurer. C. S. KAUFFMA Ni PRESIDENT. ROE YOUNG, JR., Secretary. Directors : MICHAEL H. MOORE, Vice President. M. M. STRICK LER, Treasurer. JAcon B. SH UM AN, WYATT W. MILLER, HENRY R. KNOTIV ELL . , ABRAHAM BRUNER, SR., HENRY E. WOLF. Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. J. S. ROATH, AGENT, Maytown. ".• arch 30, 1861-1 y SUPPLEE & BRO„ IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, d General Machinists, Second street, Below Union, Columbia, Pa. hey are prepared to make all kinds of Iron s. :fings for Rolling Mills and Blast Furnaces, tea, for Steam, Water and Gas ; Columns, t nits, Cellar Doors, Weights, &c., for Buil d gs, and castings of every description ; STEAM ENGINES, AND BOILERS, IN THE MOST MODERN AND IMPROVED utter; Pumps, Brick Presses, Shafting and Boys, Mill Gearing, Taps, Dies, Machinery Mining and Tanning ; Brass Bearings, •am & Blast Gauges, Lubricators, Oil Cocks, lees for Steam, Gas, and Water; Brass Fit t gs in all their variety; Boilers; Tanks, Flues, ; • aters, Stacks, Bolts, Nuts, Vault Doors, ashers, &c. BLACICSMITHING in GENERAL. am long experience in building machinery we ttcr ourselves that we can give general satis- Bon to those why' may favor us with their ers.lG-- Repairing promptly attended to. Orders by mail addressed as above, will meet th prompt attention. Pricm to suit the times. Z. SUPPLEE, T. R. SUPPLEE. Columbia, October 20, 1860. 14-tf LARKIN & 0 . 0., V 11411114) s,'floforff•ap(? B. Corner _Eighth and Arch streets, [ ENTRAK'E ON EIGHTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. FTER many years' experience in all the trious branches of the Alt, the Proprietors nfidently invite the attention of their friends nd the public to their extensive establishment, • hich presents the opportunity for procuring w best pictures, equal at least, to any first ass - Gallery in the United-States. Preparations are complete fru executing all le improved styles known to the Art. They aye a patent arrangement for copying Da tierreotypes, &c., &c., making them Life size, desired—the only one of the kind in this ,mittry. Attached to this establishment are iree coloring Artists. Photographs, including Painting, as low as $2 00. Photographs, with Frame as low as $2 62 Photographs at 75 cents. Extra copies 50 PHOTOGRAPHS AT ONE DOLLAR cts. or sii per doz. Life size Photo graphs as low as s6,and I vorytype at same price. Durable Ambrotypes at 50 cents and upwards. A most extensive assortment of Gilt Frames, rnbracmg a select and choice variety of the :.test styles. Prices from 62 cents and up :ards. Especial attention bestowed upon Life-sized hotographs in oil, transferred from small plc 2res, and from life. Prices from $l5 to $lOO. Instructions given in the Art. February 23, 1813 1 -Iy. E 0: W. WORRALL, .3r SURGEON DENTIST, Ling removed to the Rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Swentzel, adjoining Spangler 4 Pat terspn's Store, Market .Street, where he is now prepared to wait on all who may feel d r isposed to patronize him. * O Dentistry in all its branches car led on. TEETH inserted on the most approved rinciples of Dprital science. All operations n the mouth performed is a skillful and :orkmanlike manner--:on fair principles and ON VERY REASONABLE TERMS. Having determined upon a permanent loca on at this place, would ask a continuation I the liberal patronage heretofore extended o him, for which lie will render every possi. le satisfaction. • Ether administered to proper persons ri HEAP READY-MADE CLOTHING!! , tJ Having just returned from the city with jt- nicely selected lot of Ready-made Clothing, ig the undersigned is prepared to furnish at 'educed prices; havinglaidin a general assort , e :tent of men and boys' clothing,.which he is cutermined to sell LOW, FOR CASH. His stock )nsists of ,Ovxn-Coals, DRESS, FROCK AND i- , ACK COATS, PANTS, VESTS, PEAJACKETS, I • lOUNDBOUTS, (IvliI) OVERHAULS, CRAVATS, V JRAWERS, SHIRTS, HOISERY, UNDERSHIRTS, ';LOVES, SUSPENDERS, Bre.. Everything in the E Burnishing Goods line. Call and examine he :are purchasing elsewhere. Everything sold at •Jrices to suit the times. JOHN BELL. ..orner of Elbow Lane and Market St. next door to Cassel's Store Marietta, October 29, 1856. THE American Watches are among the best timekeepers now in use, and for durability :trength and simplicity far surpass any other Attach made in the world. H. L. 4- E. L ZAH AI Corner of North Queen-st.,and Centre Square Lancaster, Pa., have them for sale at the very 'owest rates—every watch accompanied with the manufacturers guarrantee to ensure its gen 'aineness. BARRELS Monongahela Whisky jus GsJ received, which will be sold at the low est market rates by the barrel or gallon at the Enterprise Wine & Li4upr Store. 4.1). REESE, Mount Joy.. 'ltubtributt VennsAtnia ( *mat for iljt MARIETTA, SEPTEMBER 7, 1861. DR. MOTT'S CIIALYBEATE RESTORATIVE PILLS OF IRON An Aperient and Stomachic preparation c r on purified of Oxygen and Carbon /ombustion in Hydrogen. Sanctioned bye highest Medical Authorities, both in I and the United States, and prescribed ii FEZ: The experience of thousands daily • ores that no preparation of Iron can be compared with it. Impurities of the blood, depression of vital energy, pale and otherwise sickly complexions, indicate its necessity in almost every conceivable case. Innoxious iu all maladies in which it has been tried, it has proved absolutely curative in each of the following complaints, viz : in Debility, Nervous Affections, Emaciation, Dyspepsia, Constipation, Diarrhea, Dysente ry, Incipient Consumption, Scrofulous Tubur cutosis, fall Rheum, Alismenstruation, rosis,Whites,Lirer Complaints, Chronic Bead aches, Rheumatism, Intermitlent Fevers, Pim ples on the titre, 4.c. in cases of General Debility, whether there sult of acute disease, or of the continued dim inution of nervous and muscular energy from chrdnic complaints, one trial of this restorative has proved successful to an extent which no description nor written attestation would rend er credible. Invalids so long bed-ridden as to have become forgotten in their own neighbor hoods, babe suddenly re-appeared in the busy world as if just returned from protracted travel in a distant land. Some very signal instances of this kind are attested of female Sufferers, emaciated victims of apparent marasmus, sane guineous exhaustion, crittical changes, and that complication of nervous and dyspepti aversion to air and exercise for which the phy sician has no name. In Nervous Affections of all kinds, and for reasons familiar to medical men, the operation of this preparation of iron must necessarily be salutary, for, unlike the old oxides, it is vitio rously tonic, without being exciting and over heating; and gently, regularly aperient, even in the most obstinate cases of costiveness with out ever being a gastric purgative, or inflicting a disagreeable sensation. It is this latter property, among others, which makes it so- remarkably effectual and permanent a remedy for Piles,. upon which it also appears to' exert a distinct and specific action, by dispersing the local tendency which forms them. In Ds spepsia, innumerable as are its causes, a single box of these Chalybeate Pills has often sufficed for the most habitual cases, including the attendant Costiveness. In unchecked Diarrhaut, even when ad vanced to Dysentery, confirmed, emaciating, and apparently malignant, the effects have been equally decisive and astonishing. In the local pains, loss of flesh and strength, debilitating cough, and remitten, hectic, which generally indicate incipient Consumptron,• this remedy has allayed the alarm of friends and physicians, in several very gratifying and in teresting instances. In Scrofulous Tuberculosis, this medicated iron has had far more than the good effect of the most cautiously balanced preparations of iodine, without any of their well known lia bilities. • The attention of females cannot be tno con fidently invited to this remedy and restorative, in the cases peculiarly affecting, them. in Rheu?4atisrn, both chronic and inflamma tory—in the latter, however, more decidedly— it has been invariably well reported, both as alleviating pain and reducing the swellings and stiffness of the joints and muscles. • - . In Intermittent Fevers it must necessarily - be a great remedy and energetic restorative, and its progress in the new settlements of the West, will probably be one of high renown and use fulness. No remedy has ever been discovered in the whole history of medicine, which exerts such prompt, happy, and fully restorative effects.— Good appetite, complete digestion, rapid acqui sition of strength, with an unusual disposition for active and cheerful exercise, immediately follow its use. Put up in neat flat metal boxes containing 50 pills, price 50 cents per box; for sale by druggists and dealers. Will be sent free to any address on receipt of the price. All let ters, orders, etc., should be addressed to It. B. LOCKE Sr CO., GEneral Agents, 20 Cedar-st., N. Ir T 0 WARD ASSOCIATION, Philadelphia. A Benevolent Institution established by special endowment, for the Relief of the Sick and Distressed, afflicted with Virulent and Epidermis Diseases, and especially for Me cure of Discasec of the Sexual organs.. Medical advice given gratis, by the Acting Surgeon, to alt who apply by letter, with a description of their condition, (age, occupation, habits of life, &c.,) and in cases of extreme poverty, medicines furnished free of charge. Valuable Reports on Spermatorthea, and other Diseases of the Sexual Organs, and on the New Remedies employed in the Dispensary sent to the afflicted in sealed letter envelopes, free of charge. Two or three postage stamps will be acceptable to pre-pay postage. Address, Dn. J. SKILLIN HOITMITON, Acting Surgeon, Howard Association, No. 2 South 9th st., Philadelphia. Ily order of the Directors. EZRA D. HEARTWELL, President. GEORGE FAIRCHILD, Secretary. ELECTRIC OIL. The cures made by Pro trj lessor DeGrath, with his " Electric Oil." are so nesr miraculous as to resemble the fam id Scripture accounts of similar cures in an cient times by the anuointing with oil, and these cures are so wonderful and instantan coos, so satisfactory and mitigating of human ill, as to call upon public functionaries, and those hawing charge of public institutions for the sick and suffering, to look well into the well-attested merits, the simple efficacy of this " Electric Oil." Professor DE GRATH, therefore, has deposit ed $lOO with the Mayot, the same to be foifeit ed if the " Electric Oil," sold at Philadelphia, fails to cure a single case of Rheumatism, or Pains in the Back, or Limbs, Piles, Sores or Burns, Fever Sores, Ulcers, Caked Breast, Sore Nipples, Bronchial Affections,Swelled Glands, Felons, Stiffness in the Joints, Sprains, Bruises, Bruises, Sores, on man or beast, or Scratches or Splints on horses ; also Deafness. Price 25 cents, 50 cents, and $l. PROF. CHARLES DE GRATH, Philadelphia, Pa. 111 None genuine without signature of Prof. C. DE GRATH. Labels signed in writing. Principal Depot No. 217 South Eighth St. Philadelphia. Country dealers and druggists can be supplied wholesale and retail. Price 25 cents, 50 cents, and $1 per bettle. Try everything else; give this one simple trial. CAUTION—Be careful to ask for and get DE GE kill's Electric Oil, as worthless imitations abound. There are nurherous imitations sprung up on the reputation my article has acquired. The public must beware. They are worthless. For sale by all dealers and druggists. Prin cipal office 217 South Sth street, Phila. Feb. 2-ly] • TkORTABLE LAMP 5.4 new and most ilconvenient abd perfectly safe lamp, called that "Portable Coal Oil Lamp," for sale cheap at Grove 4- Roth's Drug Store. When summer wanes, and autumn's chill 1 Das hushed the voice of Whip-poor-will, Then, when at eve all else is still, 1! We hear the noisy Katydid. the .rope thei. In mute repose all day it sleeps, Or on a twig its vigils keeps ; But at dim twilight out it leaps, With the salute of" Katy did." Upon a leaf 'tis'sonnetimes seen, Grasshopper -like and very green, Lociking quite too small and mean To sodnd the note of " Katy did.” 'Tis said the insect does not sing, But, with a membrane of its wing, A little harp, or guiter string, Vibrates the tune of" Katy did." But why this music? dost thou call Thy mates, to hold in festive hall A banquet or a carnival? What dost thou mean by" Katy did 7" Perhaps there is some worthy Kate, Whose deeds thou wouldst commemorate ; Then tell us what achievement great That heroine, Miss Katy, did? The mystery we shall ne'er explore, For still we hear the same thing o'er Just " Kary did," and nothing more; No tell-tale is our Katydid. We will not urge thy answering, So keep thysecret, verdant thing, And make the ambient welkin ring With monotone of " Katy did.,, Thy note is harsh, and yet despite Its harshness, thrills us with delight, And cheers the lonely hours of night; We like thee well, Miss Katydid It is a happy life you lead ; Nature's hand supplies your need; You neither toil nor spin, yet feed On food prepared for Katydid. Life's fleeting day to vs is lent ; Would that its hours might all be spent As cheerful and as innocent As those of humble Katydid! The Runaway Marriage. A runaway match I Ah ! it Lad seem ed very romantic in the golden moon light of that summer evening when pret ty AEC° Ray met Herbert 111 ehvyn in the black-green shadows of the solemn grove of old cedars, and s they fled to gether—but years and troubles had some how rubbed the sentiment off. Nobody had supposed that the wealthy. merchant, Herbert's father, would be so unalterably firm in the resolution formed in the first moment or his wrath, never to see his only son again ; Nobody thought he would turn coldly away from the peach blossom face of that first grandchild, when Alice herself carried it to the lodge gates of the pillared mansion. It was on a chill November evening, that Alice Melwyn toiled up the steep ascent leading to those very lodge gates, with little Herbert clinging to her hand. The delicate roses had long since faded from her sunken cheek ; the blue light 'that used to .dance so playfully in her bright eyes was quenched by the flow of many tears. She had wasted perceptib ly since the dreadful day when the gray headed old sailor knocked at her door with the dreadful tidings so plainly written in his face that she knew, with out need of a single question, that she was a widow and her babe fatherless. Yes, lost at sea. She never had dreamed that it would be so when he had . left her in the bright flush of youth and hope—she had looked forward to his re turn with such a thrill of joy, through long months. It was all over now. wonder that she shuddered when the wind swept through the leafless trees with a hollow, moaning sound—no won der that she fancied how it was tossing the great green-crested waves about with its cruel and relentless hand. "Who are you. woman ? and what do you Haut?„ It was old Mel wyn's voice. He check ed his horse with a sharp, sudden jerk of the hand as the young widow shrank back. His face was as hard as if its muscles had been cast in iron, but she knew it was her last resort, and spoke with a boldness of desperation. " Father, I am Herbert's widow, and this is his - child. We are poor and homeless 7 —will you take us in ? ". " Never I " he spoke between his clenChed teeth ! " you knew perfectly well what you had to expect when you married him. I never change my mind. Take care of the horses feet." He drove on with the same iron, face, and Alice entirely bereft of the momen tary impulse of strength, sank white and breathless on the roadside. Not even little Herbert's piteous cry of "Mamma, mamma!" roused her from the oblivion despair. "Poor, pretty thing!. it's the biggest Terms—CDiae Dc)lla,r a 'Year.. ATYDID shame that ever was. I tell you what Melissy, I never wished so afore, but, between you and me, I'd just like to be the old fellow down below for 'bout half an hour, for the privilege of pickn' out the biggest kind of a millstone to hang round old Melwyn's neck when he gets ready for it." "Why, Jethro Parker, ain't you 'sham ed to talk so? There, lay her down on the bed, and get me the camphor bottle. Where's the poor baby ? That's right, Jamie, Set him close by the fire, for he's as white as a sheet !" • "Why don't you send her to the poor house at once?" croked Jermiah Jackson, the village news vender. "She haint nowhere else to go that's plain." "Send her to the poorhouse!" kindly ejaculated Mrs. Parker. "Why, look at them white hands o' her'n. She's a born lady, if ever there was one." "That's so," assented Jethro, "she ain't the kind o' stuff that poorhouses are made of. No, sir.ree; her own folks have turned her out, but we'll give her the shelter of our roof and a crust of our bread. Won't we, Melissy ?" "Didn't know you'd got so much money to throw away," said Jermiah, drily, shaking out the folds of an im mense bandanna handkerchief. '"Always s'posed charity begun at home." "Well, who's denyin' of it ?" said Jethro, putting his hand in his pockets with rather a puzzled air. "Nobody, only 'tisn't very likely Squire Melvyn will be willing for you to keep this here thrivin' farm o' his'n if you go again his wishes; and the lease runs out next month, don't it ?" "I hain't no objection to his wishes as long as they're decent and Christian like; but I shan't make a heatheal Turk of myself on his account." "'l'hen you'll lose the farm, shore as Christmas." "Well let it go then. I've lived here a pretty consid'able spell o' years, and I won't deny but what I'm attached to the old place! but sooner than sell my soul to Squire Melwyn, I'll try the exp:ri ment of pulling up stakes !" "Jethro, Jethro !" whispered M Parker, pulling a little nervously at he husband's sleeve. The possible risk they might encounter by sheltering .the squire's outcast daughter-in-law had nev er presented itself to her in this mat ter-of-fact way. "Nov, look here, Melissy,"' said ber husband,tnrning good humoredly around; "would you turn out this poor creetur for all the farms that were ever tilled?" "No," said Melissy, with a warm color in her, honest cheek as she turned away to smooth the fair hair that lay on the pillow; and Jertniah knew that the ques tion was definitely settled. Jethro Parker stood whistling at his door the next morning as Squire Mel_ . wyn's agent, a grey haired old man, rode up and paused at . the threshold. - "Good morning, Mr. Parker." "Good mornir.', sir." I understand," went on the agent, in a slightly lowered voice, "that you have extended your countenance and protec tion to—to 'young Mrs. Melwyn." Jethro nodded. The squire is particularly desirous that you should do nothing of the kind. He wishes the young woman to feel the extent of her folly and imprudence." "Can't help it," said Jethro, coolly. "Do you mean to say that you will presist in sheltering her, in spite of Mr. elwyn's wishes ?' "That's my meanin'." "And are you aware that in this case the squire will certainly decline to re new the lease of your place here ?" "Let him decline and be hanged to him," said Jethro, coming the nearest to an oath than he ever had done since he married red-cheeked Melissa Hays. The agent slightly elevated his eye brows, shrugged his shoulders, and rode away. Jethro entered the houSe with an unruffled countenance. "I'm a poor man," he muttered to him self, "and pretty much all the money I ever had has gone into the land and im provements here. But I'm an honest man and a Christian, and that's' more'n Squire Melwyn can say, 1 reckon.— Melissy, hey I done right ?" "You're always right, Jethro," said Melissa, throwing her rosey arms around his neck. And he was convinced. "Well, this aint quite such a crankly place as t'other was," ejaculated Jethro, looking round upon the bleak, bare walls of the comfortless cottage into which his family kMd just removed, "and it's santhin''new for Ateliisy to bo work. Bat r can't say I'd have crept." .fezou hare made this airicrettefelly. clothes Riudow,. with, And Mediet, While forlorn young cznided had indeed found 141).- The children were alk, little Herbert sleeping in <a. corner. Jethro was at worlre), sa absent on some bouseholettArcr, and Alice sat alone, playing her needle• and listening to the tick of the old clock on the wall, when there came a tap at• the door and the latch was lifted', NO. 6. "Can you tell me if dethro Parker lives here ?" her feet " Ohl it is a dream—a dream: I have• seen you so many times in my slumbers ; and oh! the waking was worse than death." h's arms " Alice, it is no dream. Sweet wife,. lam your own Herbert. Sit down., love,. and let me tell you of my perilous jour ney and hair-bretb escapes. Believe me,. it is no dream." And, as he talked, she heard the roar of the great foam-clapped breakers climb ing up the topic shores, and saw the pink shells lighting up all the waves with their crimson glow. Ah 1 it sounded like a dream ;. yet when she placed little- Herbert on his father's breast, the child. clapped its hands in ecstasy, and cried— " Papa l papal" Then for the first time she knew she• was a widow no longer. "I never can find words to thank the friends who have been so kind to you, my love," said Herbert, gravely, wharf his wife had told her simple story. "But• there is one subject which remains un touched between us. I have just come from Meiwyn Hall, supposing, erroneous ly, as it seems, that my father's hearth-- stone would have been the place or refuge for his son's widow. But when I saw the old man all upbraidings grew silent on my, lips. Alice, he is •dead" Dead I" " Ile died in an apoplectic fit this. morning. There is no will—l am the only heir." Both were mute for a few minutes.. Alas I the father who had gone to his last home never taught his children to love or cherish him. They could not grieve, yet there was a thrill' of awe in , their hearts. Within the last few hours they had passed from poverty into &band— , ant wealth. ' COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE.—The fa mous Dr. Miller, in a lecture on the above interesting subjects recently de-- livered in Birniingham, England, defines falling in love into two methods, which he calls proper abd improper Falling into rove proper was falling in to lore when one could not help it; in oth er words,love at first sight. Love improp er was defined as the case of a man who looked about for a wife because be want ed one: and the lecturer pointed oat the distinction between the man who wants to marry because he has fallen in love, and another who falls in love be cause he wants to marry. From what ever motive marriage was contracted it was a most serious step. - There was an old saying, and a true one withal, that no man was thcironghly ruined' unless be were badly married. As regards fitness for the marriage relation, the lecturer believed that a woman who , was wise enough to understand " Bailer's Analo gy," and housewife enough to cook an ap ple dumpling, was fit to become a wife. The doctor was of opinion that there was not much need for young folks to wait until they got comparatively rich before they married, but contended that they would be improved by - having a few difficulties to contend with now, and in the outset of life. As for the great "obe dience" question, he rested on the phil osophy contained in the following quaint epitaph, placed many years ago over the graves of a husband and wife, who hall lived a long and happy life on a system of mutual obedience. "These two were so one that none emit truely say Which ruled, or whether did obey .; He ruled b land she tar The ly visit. ed a village in __.ntry of his kingdom, where he was so much pleased at his reception by the mayor. that he said, in a regal manner, frote'his carriage window, " I am very well itatis fted with you." The mayor, witimit hesitation, replied, " So are l we'iith you." The king felt sal delight st'the. naivete of the official's answer, 'that he dismounted, shook hands with him; and promised soon to call again., dir Gracefulness of manner is partly the result of mingling in good society ; partly, and by far the largest part, the result of that self-forgetfulness which arises from a desire to make others happy. Alice uttered a scream and' sprang to "Alir.e—rny wife r She shrank away as he faded her ill I fie:" .
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