vMMUb Till: TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA., APltlL 23, 1878. ler w ith Niun J" Ho lionest, and tmy Just what you think." 'Yes." . " Dravo ! that Is what I wanted to come at. And now I have a secret to tell you, and you must break It to her." Mrs. Cobb looked seared. "What Is It 1"' ; "I want you to go and see her, and ay to her : Maria' What makes you MtartsoV" " Nothing, only you pprnk so like one I used to know." "Do IV Well, take the rest of the message. " Tell her that Sam loved her through the whole; that Is, when he heard she was free he began to work hard at making a fortune ; he has got It and he Is coining to share It with her, If he will let him. Will you tell her h1sV" The widow did not not answer. Hlie freed her hand from his, and covered her face with It. By and by she looked up iigaln. He was waiting patiently." "Well?" t will tell her." He rose from his Beat and walked up and down the room. Then he came back, and, leaning on the mantel-piece, stroked the yellow hair of Bowse with his slipper. " Make her quite understand that he wants her for his Wife. Hhe may live where she likes, only It must be with him." "I will tell her." " And what do you think she will say V" he asked, In an altered tone. " What can she say, but come V" "Hurrah 1" The stranger caught her out of her tbttfrns If she had been a child, and kissed her. " Don't, don't!" she cried out. " I'm "Sam's Maria." Off went the dark wig and the black whiskers ; there smiled the dear old face .she had not forgotten. . I leave you to imagine the tableau. Even the cat got up to look, and Bowse sat on his stump of a tail, and wondered if he was on his heels or head. The widow gave one lit . tie scream and then she ll But stop I Quiet people like you and me, dear me, who have got over all these follies, and can do nothing but turn up our noses at them, have no busi ness here. I will only add, two hearts were very happy, that Bowse concluded after a while that all was right, and so laid dowa again and that one week after ifcwe was wedding at the house that mado the neighboring farmers stare. The widow had married her " fivst love." A SCARED BEAR. li ryELL you what, Roxie, I wish k. father and Jake had some of these hot nutcakes for their dinner ; they did not carry much of anything, and these are proper nice." Mrs. Beamish set her left hand upon her hip, leaned against the corner of the dresser, and meditatively selected anoth er nutcake, doughnut or cruller, as you may call them, from the great brown pan piled up with these dainties, and Uoxie, who was' curled up In a little heap on the corner of the settee, knit ting a blue woolen stocking, looked brightly up and said : " Let me go and carry them some, ma. It's just as warm and nice as can be out-of-doors, real springy, and I know the way td the wood lot,I'd Just love to go." " Let's see ten o'clock,'' said Mrs. Beamish, putting the last bit of cake In to her mouth and wiping her fingers upon her apron. " It's a matter of four miles there by the bridge, Jake says, though if you cross the ford it takes off a mile or more. You'd better go around by the bridge anyway." "Oh no, ma ; that Isn't worth while, for pa said only last night that the Ice was strong enough yet to sled over all the wood he'd been cutting," said Roxie earnestly, for the additional mile rather lerrifled her. " Did heV Well, if that's so, It is all vight," replied her mother, in a tone of relief, and thcu she filled a tin pall with nutcakes, laid a-clean, brown napkin over them, and then shut in the cover and set It on the dresser, saying : " There, they've got cheese with them, and you'll reach camp before they eat their noon lunch. Now, get on your leggings and thick shoes, and you coat and cap and mittens, and eat some cakes before you start, so as not to take thelr's when you get there." " I wouldn't do that, neither; not if I never had any," replied Roxie, a little resentfully, and then she pulled her squirrel cap well over her ears, tied her pretty ecarlet tippet around her neck, and held up her face for a good bye kiss The mother gave it with unusual fervor and said kindly: " Good-bye to you, little girl. Take good care of yourself, and come safe Lome to mother." " Yes, ma. But I may wait and come with them, mayn't IV They'll let me ride on old Bob, you know." " Why, yes, you might as well, I sup- jjose, though I'll be lonesome without you all day, baby. ' But it would be bet ter for yi.u to ride home bo Btay." It was a lovely day in the latter part of March, and although the ground was covered with snow, and the brooks and rivers were still fast bound In Ice, there was something in the air that told of spring something that set the sap In the maple trees mounting through Its million little channels toward the buds, already beginning to redden for- their blooming, and sent the blood In little ltoxle's veins dancing upward too, un til it blossomed In her cheeks and lips fairer than In any maple tree. " How pleasant it is to be alive !" said the little girl aloud, while a squirrel run ning up the oak-tree overhead stopped, and curling his bushy tall a little higher upon his back, chattered the same idea In his own language. Roxie stopped to listen, and laugh aloud, at which sound the squirrel frisked away to his hole, and the little giil, singing merrily, went on her way, crossed the river on the lce,and on the other bank stopped and look ed wistfully down a side path leading into the dense forest away from her di rect road. " I really believe the eheckerberrles must have started, it's so springy, " she thought ; " I've a mind to go down and look in what Jake calls 'Bearberry pas ture,' though I told him they were hot bear-berries, but real checker-berries." Bo saying to herself, Roxie ran a few steps down the little path, stopped,stood still for a moment, then slowly turned back, saying : "No, I won't either, for maybe I would not get to the camp with the nut cakes before noon, and then they would have eaten all their cheese. No, I'll go right on, and not stay there any time at all, but come back aud get the checker- berries; besides mother said she'd be lonesome without me, so I'd better not stay anyway." Ho Roxie, flattering herself like many older persons with the fancy that she was giving up her selfish pleasure for that of another, while really she was carrying out her own fancy, went Blng- Ing on her way, and reached the camp just as her father struck his ax deep into the log where he meant to leave it for an hour, and Jake, her handsome broth er, took off his cap, pushed the curls back from his heated brow, and shook out the hay and grain before old Bob, whose whinny had already proclaimed dinner-time. " Why, if here Isn't sis with a tin kettle and I'll be bound someof ma'am's nut-cakes In It 1" exclaimed Jake, who had rather mourned at the said cakes not being ready before he left home, and then he caught the little girl up In his arms, kissed her heartily, and put her on Bob's back, when she slid down, say ing gravely : " Jake, ma says I'm getting too old for rough play. I'll be twelve years old next June." " All right, old lady ; I'll get you a pair of specs and a new cap or two for a birthday present," laughed Jake, -uncovering the tin kettle, while his father Bald: " We won't have you an old woman before you are a young one, will we Tib? Come, sit down by me and have some dinner. You're good to bring us the nut-cakes In such good season. " The three were very happy and merry over their dinner, although Roxie de clined to eat anything except out of her own pocket and the time passed swiftly until Mr. Beamish glanced up at the sun, rose, took his axe out of the cleft In the log, and, swinging it over his head, said : " Come, Jake, nooning is over. Get to work." " All right, sir. You can sit still as long as you like, sis, and by and by I'll take you home on Bob." " I'm going now, Jake," said Roxie, hesitating a little, and finally conclud ing not to mention the eheckerberrles lest her father and brother should object to her going alone into the wilder part of the forest. " Ma said she'd be lone some," added she hurriedly, and then her cheeks began to burn as If she had really told a lie instead of suggesting one. " Well, you're a right down good girl to come so far and then to think of ma instead of yourself, and next day we're working about home I'll give you a good ride to pay for it." And Jake kissed his little sister tender ly, her father nodded good-bye with some pleasant word of thanks, and Roxie with the empty tin pail in her hand set out upon her homeward journey, a little excitement in her heart as she thought of her contemplated excursion, a little sting in her conscience as she reflected that she had not been quite honest about any part of it. Did you ever notice when a little agi tated and troubled, how quickly you seem to pass over the ground and how speedily you arrive at the point whither you had not fairly decided to go Y It was so with Roxie and while she was still considering whether after all she would go straight home she was al ready at the entrance of the sunny, southern glade where lay the patch of bright red berries whoso faint, whole some perfume told of their vicinity even before they could be seen. Throwing herself upon hep knees, the little girl pushed aside tho glossy green leaves, and with a low cry of delight stooped down and kissed the clusters and fragrant ber ries as they lay fresh and bright before her, " O you dear, darling little things!" cried she, " how I love to see you again, and know that the rest of the pretty things are coming right along !" The she began to pluck, and put them sometimes In her mouth, some In her pail and so long did she linger over her pleasant task that the sun was already In the tops of the pine trees, when re turning from a little excursion In the woods to get a sprig from a shad bush,' Roxie halted just within the border of the little glade, and stood a moment transfixed with horror. Beside the pail she had left brimful of berries, sat a bear cub, scooping out the treasures with his paw, and greedily de vouring thein,apparently quite delighted that some one had saved him the trouble of gathering his favorite berries for him self. One moment of dumb terror.and then a feeling of anger and reckless courage filled the heart of the woodsman's child, and darting forward, she made a snatch other pail, at the same time dealing the your robber a sharp blow over the face and eyes with a branch of the shad-bush in her hand, and exclaiming : . " You great horrid thing ! Every single berry is gone now, for I won't eat them after you. Ho now!" But, bo far from being penitent or frightened, the bear took thlslnterfernce and especially the blow, in very bad part and after a moment of blinking aston ishment, he sat up on his haunches, growled a little, showed his teeth, and then intimated very plainly that unless that pall of berries was restored at once, there would be trouble for some one. But this was not the first bear cub that Roxie had seen, and her temper was up as well as the bear's. Ho, firmly grasp ing the pail, she began to retreat back ward, at first slowly, but as the bear dropped on his feet and seemed Inclined to follow her, or rather the pail of ber ries, she lost courage, and turning, be gan to run, not caring or noting in what direction and still mechanically grasp ing the pail of berries. Suddenly, through the close crowding pines which had so nearly shut out the daylight, appeared an open space, and Roxie hailed it with delight, for it was the river, and once across the river she felt as if she would be safe. Even In the brief glance she threw around as she burst from the edge of the wood, she saw that here was neither the bridge nor the ford which she had crossed in the morning ; a point altogether strange and new to her, and, as she judged, further down the river, since the space from shore to shore was conisderably wider. But the bear was close behind, and neither time nor courage for deliberation was at hand, and Roxie, after her mo ment's pause, sprang forward upon the ice, closely followed by the clumsy little beast. At that very moment,a mile farther up the stream, Mr. Beamish and his son Jake were cautiously driving Bob across the frozen ford and the old man was saying : " I'm afraid we'll have to go round by the bridge after this, Jake. I shouldn't wonder if the river broke up this very night." " It wouldn't do for Roxie to come over here again alone," said Jake, prob ing a crack in the ice with his stick. And Roxie poor little Roxie whom Jake was so glad to think of as safe at honie,was at that very moment stepping over a wide crack between two great masses of ice and staring forlornly about her, for a little way in advance appeared another great gap, and the bear close be hind was whimpering with terror as he clung to the edge of the floating mass upon which Roxie had only just leaped, and which he had failed to jump upon. Shaking with cold and fright, tho little girl staggered forward across the ice un til at Its farther edge she came upon a. narrow, swiftly rolling tide, increasing in width at every moment the current of the river suddenly set free from its winter bondage, and rapidly dashlug away its chains. Roxie turned back ; but the crack she had stepped over was already too wide for her to attempt to repass, and a gentle shaking movement under her feet told that the block on which she stood was already in motion and that no escape was possible without more strength and courage than a little girl could be ex pected to possess. The bear had climbed up, and now crouched timidly to the edge of the ice, moaning with fear, and seeming to take so little notice of Roxie that she forgot all her fear of him,and these two crouch ing upon the rocking and slippery floor of their strange prison, went floating down the turbulent stream. The twilight deepened into dark, the stars came out bright nud cold, and so far away from human need and woe ! Little Roxie ceased her useless tears,and kneeling upon the Ice put her hands to gethcr and prayed.addlng to the petition she had learned at her mother's knee some simple words of her own great need. A yet more piteous whine from the bear showed his terror as the lceblock gave a sickening whirl, and crawling upon his Btomach he crept close up to the little girl, his whole air saying as plain as words could have been spoken : " Oh, I am bo scared, little girl, aren't you ? Let us protect each other some how or at least, you protect me." And Roxle,wlth a strarge, light-hearted sense of security and peace replacing her terror and doubt, let the shaggy creature creep close to her side, and nestling down into his thick fur, warm ed her freezing fingers against his skin, and with a smile Upon her Hps went peacefully to sleep. She was awakened by a tremendous shock, ond a struggle, and a fall Into the water, and before sue could see or know what had happened to her, two strong arms were round her, and she was drawn again upon the Ice cake, and her brother was bending close above her, and he was saying: " Oh, Roxie ! are you hurl V" " No, Jake, I-I believe not. Why, why, what Is it all V" Where is this, and oh, I know. Oh, Jake, Jake, I was so frightened !" And turning sud denly, she hid her face In her brother's coat and burst into a passion of tears. But Jake, with one hurried embrace and kiss, put her away, saying : " Wait just a moment, sis, till we finish the bear; father will shoot him." "No, no, no 1" screamed Roxie, her tears dried as If by magic. " Don't kill the bear, father I Jake, don't you touch the bear ; he's my friend, and we were both so scared last night, and then I prayed that he wouldn't hurt him." " Well, I'm beat now "remarked Mr. Beamish, as with both hands buried in the coarse hair by which he dragged the bear to the surface, for it had gone under when the icecake had been broken against the jam of logs which had stop ped It, he looked at his little daughter's pale face. " You and the bear made friends, and said your prayers together, and he can't be hurt, you say J"' "Yes, father. Oh, please don't hurt him!" " We might take him home and keep him chained up for a sort of a pet, if he will behave decent," suggested Jake, a little doubtfully. " Well ! I suppose we could," re plied the father, very slowly and re lunctantiy. " And see how good be is to roe," said Roxie, eagerly, as she patted the head of her strange new friend, who blinked amicably in reply. " Oh, Jake, do go and get Bob and the sled, and carry him home, won't you V" " Why, yes, if father says so, and the critter will let me tie his legs." The ox sled was close at band, for the father and brother had brought it to the river lfore they began their weary search up aud down its banks not know ing what mournful burden they might have to earry home to the almost frantic mother. And Bruin, a most intelligent beaet, seemed to understand so well that the handling, and ride, were all for his own good, that he bore the humiliation of having his legs tied with considerable equanimity, and in a short time develop ed so gentle and gentlemanly a character as to become a valued and honored member of the family, remaining with it for about a year, when, wishing, pro bably to set up housekeeping on bis own account, he quietly snapped his chain one day and walked off Into the woods, where he was occasionally seen for several years, generally near the checker- oerry paten. The Rightful King of England. It is a curious fact, and one that is not generally known, that King Victor Emanuel was, by the strict law of sue cession, the rightful king of England. He was descended in a direct line from Charles I. The youngest daughter of that unhappy monarch, the Princess Henrietta Maria, married Gaston d'Or leans, the brother of Louis XIV. She died leaving two daughters. 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