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LEBANON, OREGON.
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GEO. R. HELM,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
Will Practice im all the Courts of the Slate.
OFFICE: ALBAXY. OREGON.
Nor. 11. 1870.
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ATTOfiSETS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW.
ALBANY. OREGON.
Partners for Linn County.
'5Cee op stairs ia Post Office Building.
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OFFICE if SCHOOL SOTNTEND'T
FOB
AT MARRISBURG.
J3h7jl. , " ' . T.J. STITES.
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Brraist.atd Apothecary!
DEALER KS D3CCS, MEDICINES. OILS,
Paiata, Window titaaa. Dyeatufls, Liquors,
Fancy geaays. BrasBa,raiariea, Ac.
Prcicriptisffx iftt&if Csmponadcd1.
All art claa aad Btg In oar iiao wartaatod of
ah. best quality.
First street. Peat OeScebuCffliag. Albany.
jalMriaeSyl
CONSTANTLY; OX HAS AH EEC Ely.
IS a a large stock of Greoertee aad Frori
aiaaa, Vixd and Wills Wars, Tewecee, Cigar,
Caaeetteaery, Yank: Notieaa, etc., etc.
Wholesale sad Retail.
.sr-Oppeaite B, C. Hill A Sob' Drag f tore, Al
baay. Oregea. jualerJwtSyl
O. S. RICE, M. D.
JTKrJCXCIAX ASTD SUBGEtr,
XLBANY, OBEOOX.
atr-Oaee-t a Sooth aide of Main street.
tRaaideaae r Ca-Ccoad atreet, opposite Pern re's
tinny. " aprl5r5oo3tf.
,ILCBAirOB,
Atllim XICilEIL.il IT 11V,
Orricc-Xsi KaceMaa' Brick BsubUag, ap-ataira
Ahaaj, Braajaa, au.
effaf. whitset,
Special attaatioaa girea to oolfcrf ioaa.
Ornea JLa lha Court ifieaaa.
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P0VEIL at I1IXK,'
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ALBANY, Oregon. Colleetiona aai eonar
ansa promptly attended to. oe20Bl01jr
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UILTABIDEL. off CO.,
' ar halkrs in groceries and provi.
jgjp aiona, Wood and Willow Ware, Conleotioa
JL Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, Notions, etc. btora
4i aUaina street, adjoiaiog the Bank building, AU
waay, uregea. aeZBT3n7u
JWT COUNTY CLERK!
CLERK OF THE DRUfi STORE!
. O- A. HILL,
' WITS
3Ett.;. O, Hill & Son,
' r Will take pleasara in waiting on the needy with
Brag, Heftacina. Faints, Oils, BfwstniSs,
filui, Vamiaaea, Patty, PexAtmerf,
Fancy Seapt,Comba, Broshee, Ac
' 'Phvaiciaiia' Prescriptiona carefully Com
pounded. ' Doom open all times of night. f i ' -fiTQt&ce
frout tha Interior promptly attoaded
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AD VKKTISKMENTS.
DANIEL GABY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
SCXO, OREGON.
S-Spoll attantioB giran to the collection of
antea, acooanta, Ae. dol8v8ol8
JOHNS & GABY,
SCIO, OREOON,
Real Estate Dealers
.
LAND. IMPROVED OR UNIMPROVED,
is cheaper ia tha Furka uf tha Saatiaui
tuau ia any other part of tbo State.
drlaqulrc of J. M. Johsb, Marioa Statioa.
or wf DaitiKL OaBT, Kio, Linn auuuty.
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E. W. PIKE,
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER I
AND DEALER IN
rJisro-'sr ooodsi
ALSANT, OREGON. f
la additioa la a full supply cf Staple Oooda in tha
BOOK LINE,
ELEGANT GIFT ANNUA US.
PARIAN MARBLE VASES.
STATUARY.
BOHEMIAN WARE.
WRITING DESKS,
POTFOLIOS.
WOKE BOXES.
BIRD CAGES,
PI AN US,
ORGANS.
VIOLINS.
GUITARS.
LUTES,
Aad many other
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS!
ATTRACTIVE TOYS!!
Including the Champion mechanical
Velocipede , All of which, a. a nutter
of evuro, to be had aa Ktamvmukl Tarsae.
6nliyl
RATES OF TOLL,
or a a tbb
WILLAMETTE TALLEY A.D CASCADE SOC.V
TA15 WAliOS ROAD.
To Daachuttoa River, e-bers or mule team, ft 4"
To " " S ' " " 3 Cu
To " 1 " " " 2 Otf
To " r team. 3 yoke . 4 5"
To M " every additional yoke. iO
To " - " loose b.rm, per bead. 2i
To " " cattle. li
Te " - abeep or boss, 3
To " pack aaimala, load.d. 50
To . " " " - - aaaoch'd
To . M - horse and rider . 1 00
Teama retaining empty, half price.
To Fisa Lake:
4-bune or mule team, each way. .. ... 2 00
1 - " . 1 ba
- I' 1 CO
Pack aaimala, loaded " .. 40
" anluadod, " , 24
Tforao and rider " 75
Oz team, S yoke " 2 00
To Urraa S.B Sriise :
4-borao or mule team, oat and back 2 $0
2 - " " " " 2 00
1 " - 44 " , " I 00
Horse and rider " 50
Loose animals, " 25
Oz teama Uie same aa bora teams.
LUTOER ELKIN8. Pres't
Jsa. Elki5S, Sec'y.
April 22, 1S70. 5n3tf
STORE AT LEBANON!
A. CO WAX & CO., Prop's.
8. U- CXAUCBTOIf, Af ent.
Fresh Stock Just Received!
DRY GOODS!
GROCERIES!
CLOTHING, HATS AND CAPS!
Boots and Shoes X
GLASS AND QUEENSWARE!
Iron, Hardware, Ac
Wkiek mill all ea Ximmcs! e at Albany frUe!
PRODUCE TAKEN FOR GOODS!
ae25r5ntf. - A. COWAN A '03
JOHN CONNER'S
lAIIUNG AND EXCHANGE OFFICE,
ALBANY. OREGON.
t)EPOS!TES RECEIVED,
SUBJECT TO CHECK AT SIGHT.
interest Allowed on Time Depositee ia Coin.
EXCHANGE ON PORTLAND. SAN FRANCIS
CO, and NEW YORK'for sale at lowest rates.
COLLECTIONS MADE ANO PROMPTLY REMITTED.
arBanking hours, 8 a. bt. to 4 p. v.'tfcs.
'Refer to
II. W. CORBKTT.
Veb, I, 1871-yl ;
HENRY FAILING,
W. 8. LADD.
A18ANY BROOM MANUFACTORY!
THE UNDERSIGNED IS NOW MAKING
BROOMS OF THE BEST IALITY I
Whiah he designs selling
AT . PORTLAND PRICES ! ! I
These Brooms will not be excelled aa to durabili
ty aad euality -on tbo Paoifio eoaat.
BLAIN.TOUNO & CO., Albany, QgiL,
AcEsra roa Obeoos.
W. D. BELDING, Mannfaetnrar,
rSolfiyl.
Albany, Oregon.
WOOL! WOOL!
Wl WILL fAT TUB
BEST MARKET PRICE;
. FOB WOOL.
(. .SACKS AN TWINE FURiUSIIIO. ,
COX & CARHABXV
o34tf Commercial St., Sr.loiw. .
WILL SHE RIDE OR WALK?
BY MISS TIUTTON.
1.
The centre of tha city is like tha
palm of a hand. From it tha long
lingers stretch out; ona over the
mill-dam; another along the flute;
the longest of all bridges the river,
and then going on and on, the
straight ' wide street, Bteadily rising
until it overlooks the bar, suddenly
bends like the crook of a finger, un
til its tip touches the water.
It is a Judder a hill of difficulty
to the dwellers at this end of tha
town, most of whom began life at its
foot, in the dingy shops and tene
ment houses there, and have slowly
struggled up; soma to the long
blocks of comfortable dwellings;
others, going on still farther, have
reached the most pretentions point
of all that luying close down to tha
water upon the other side.
There is air of newness, a flavor of
Jonah's gourd about the Italio-Chi-nese
pagodas with French roofs here.
They seem, indeed, to have sprung
up in a night, the dampness of the
mold still clinging to them. There
is a straining alter pinnacles and
towers and topknots in architecture
after effects quite ditproportioned
to means in landscape gardening,
and in fact, au evident attempt Ua
crowd to their utmost capacity the
present limited space and time.
This is the found ition built upon a
rock gold. Another generation
will develop the tine arts and possi
bly the sciences.
In the meantime, I will tell ' my
story.
Paul Hayes was sent here to preach
tha gospel, for there are churches.
Soma of them, even so soon, are be
ginning to pride themselves, not up
on their sanctity, but upon the high
social position of their members in
other words, upon, the distance at
which they live from tba foot of the
street, which is their social scale.
Fortunately, Paul's church was
not among these. If one has to
deal with ignorant people, it is bet
ter to take them in the rough. Iron
in its natural state holds wonderful
possibilities' But iron spoiled in
the smelting what can one do with
it?
His church was only a mission
chapel, supported by a richer society
of the same denomination ; his peo
ple the men and women to whom
one goes with ungloved hands. But
he was young and strong, and be
lieved himself called to God, which
ii the best preparation for any work.
He threw aside his books and read
men.
There are a few exceptions to the
houses I have described in the more
aristocratic part of the town. One
will suffice to prove the rule. It
stands away from the street just be
low the staring white hotel that
crowns its rise. It is . square, of
stone, and painted white. Upon one
side is a pleasant garden. Possibly
it was built in colonial times, when
the salt, salt wind swrpt in here from
the sea, unbroken by anything, save
theae walls and a few scattered rem
nants of forest trees. It has so far
cougbt the rpirit of modern times as
to 'don a mansard roof, but the tall
.Cornithian pillars still remain, as
well as the wide stone steps, with a
lion coucho.nl upon either side.
Vesey Welles stood upon tha
hearth-rug in the long, low drawing
room, awaiting, tba coming of her
guests. Ordinary, she might be a
trifle pale quite, possibly though
with depths quickly stirred by the
dropping of a careles stone. To
night she was flushed, tremulous,
excited.
"By the way," said her father,
pushing at the door as he passed
through the hall, "I met that young
minister Hayes, you know this
morning, and - asked him up to din
ner. "But I don't know," responded
Vesey, as he passed on, her eyes
growing wider and wider in dismay.
"I don't know him at all. And to
night of all nights!" she half sobbed
pulling at the flowers in the porcelain
vase before her, until the one red
rose dropped all its petals at her
feet.
It was to be the pleasant evening
that had brightened all the winter.
Darrel , Winslow and bis mother
were coming to dine with them once
more before going home. They had
been boarding at the hotel just above
two or three months. Vesey had
built so many hopes upon this even
nig. 'But now
She was fastening a bunch of daphne
sweet-scented, velvet-leafed into
her belt, when Paul entered the
room. "Passing fair!" he said to
himself at a glimpse of the bent
head.
"The Rev. Paul HayesI" announc
ed the servant. Bho turned quick
ly, not catching the name, hearing
only the sound of feet and. the open
ing of the door. The maladre&te with
which she hesitated and then came
to meet him was something strange
in Vesey graceful, self-possessed.
. "I I am Miss Welles," with rath
er unnecessary frankness. " My
father will be down in a moment.
He was unusuallv late from' town to
night." The last words were uttered
with; her grandest ir, in her efforts
to compose herself.
"But haughty iand cold," Paul
added mentally, and he turned away
to meet her father.
Then -at last Mrs. Winslow and
Darrel came..
"Who the ss-is this man?" looked
out to' Darrel's feyes, as Vesey,1 grown
suddenly hy, presented him to Paul,
and Paul to DatTel'a mother. ' . .
. '"So ' glad, Vfn sure," murmured
Mrs-. Witislow-, effusively. "Always
delighted to meet our clergy. ' Hayes,
did Voa say? And where ," :, i
Vesey interposed. - It would never
do to chill the air, already frigid,
with theological differences. Mrs.
Winslow was a staunch church
woman. Paul, she knew, was of an
other faith.
"Let me wheel ' your chair to the
fire. There so." bhe seated her
in triumph. The gentlemen gather
ed in a knot at a little distance.
"Are you really going home to
morrow?" Vesoy said, sitting down
beside her.
"Yes. I have done all my shop
ping. My mauve poplin came home
to-day. There is nothing to wait for
now, and Durrel does not care to
stay. The opera season is over, you
know."
So it was for the gayeties of the
town be had lingered week after
week, she thought, with a sudden
sinking of the heart. Oh, how blind
bhb had been I His careless laugh
came across the room just then as if
to mock her.
"You'll not come back before an
other season?" She could not bide
the pain that quivered in her voice.
But the limp little woman crushed
into the depths of the arm-chair by
her side did not heed it.
"No," she replied, simply, "I sup
pose not."
The gentlemen joined them.
"Sit down here by me," said Mrs.
Winslow to Paul, motioning to a
chair at her side.
"It is of no use," whispered Vesey
to Darrel, with a hysterical sound
between a laugh and a sob.
"What is of no use?" .lie followed
her away fiom the fire.
"Trying to avert grim fate. Your
mother is determiced to discuss
church affairs with Mr. Hayes.
What will she say to find he is not in
the succession at all? That be simp
ly cares of the souls for our butcher
and baker and "
"Canndlestick maker," suggested
Darrel.
"Yes, for aught I know. I have
tried to keep bcm apart, but "
"Extremes will meet. I believe
there is an attraction . between the
poles. But what portend, this in
vasion? Are you about to axsume
a stuff gown and plain bonnet? Or
do you propose to briug him into ttie
true church? Not a bud addition, I
should say," fixing his eyes upon
Paul, who hod won the respectful at
tention at least, of bis rather light
minded audience in the arm-chair.
"What were you saying? ' Venev
asked, absently. Her eyes bad fol
lowed his. "How he chanced to be
here? Oh! father has met him oc
casionally, and so asked him to diu
ner. I was sorry be came to-night."
"Ah!" Darrel looked down upon
her with a conscious air. She had
spoken truer words than she intend
ed. She went on, as though she had
not heard him as though the color
was net flaming her face.
"Because I knew you would have
little in common, and thought it
might be awkward for us all. It
does not matter." Nothing did or
ever would any more. A gray wall
seemed to shut out all beyond this
night.
"But I am not to be defrauded of
my right. I am to take you out to
dinner, am I sot? You surely won't
throw me over at the last, VeHey?"
He bent his bead close to her face.
"I don't know; you can sit upon
one side and Mr. Hayes upon the
other, if he will." She moved awaj
towards the others; leaning over his
mother's chair she pretended to
listen, smiling assenl to what she
never knew. She was tjinking how
pleasant she bad hoped it would be,
with only Darrel and bis mother
here they four around the fire in
the twilight, Darrel by her of the
words she had thought he would
speak. 'There was a ring banging
upon his watch-chain. It fitted her
finger. He had tried it once in jest.
"Vesey!" called ber father. And
then she knew the others were rising
that dinner was announced.
"I hope you and Mrs. Winslow
have become friends," she said to
Paul, as they were going out.
"One hardly gets so far as that in
a half-hour's chat," he answered
pleasantly.
"And just before dinner," added
Darrel, from the other side. "That's
tha time to make enemies, Miss
Vesey."
"Then to hasten to be served gen
tlemen, lest you quarrel."
"And the cause?" queried Darrel,
in her ear.
She turned away from him to Paul.
And yet what should she say? What
do people say ,to minsters? she asked
herself helplessly. And to young
ministers above all? Oh, if he had
not come! If he would only go!' If
they would all go and leave her alone
with her disappointment and shame!
How she passed that long dinner
hour she never knew. She talked of
trivial things as we all do, though
beneath the outward calm our very
souls are seething. She dared not
speak of others lest she break this
crust. Paul judged her. She has
found her lowest depth, he said,
when she chanced to name a ribbon.
Her spirits rose; buoyed by his
light words and laugh perhaps.
vvnen tuey were back in the drawing
room and the others fell into the
quiet, desultoiy chat that follows a
dinner, she alone could not be still
Her cold hands refused to lie Quietly
in her lap, as shapely white hands
should. Her feet beat an impatient
waltz under ner gown, bhe glanced
at Darrel. He bad thrown himself
back in an easy chair; his hand under
bis bead. There was no feverish glit
ter in his eye. He looked simply
bored; He yawned! furtively, bho
pushed her chair back. , . .
"How stupid we are! Ja the fire
I think. It always dulls everybody
but itself. : Will not some one sing
or play?" And she sat dawn herself
before the piano. . , v
' She .struck a quick eharp chord
"I could dance to-night!" She had
forgottea the young minister and his
probable prejudices. He caught a
glimpse just then of the flushed, in
tense face. But in an instant with
the minor chord that followed, it
changod. Tears rushed into her
eyes. "If I hadn't lost ray slippers,"
she breathed to herself. His back
was turned to the others. Only
Paul saw the saddening of the face,
the fall of the wet eyelids.
"Such wonderful spirits!" exclaim
ed Mrs. Winslow. "So light-hearted
Vesey always is!" .
"Ah!" responded 1'aul.. .But be
fell into a reverie.
Darrel leaned over her. "What
has come to you?"
How? Why? She did not pause
in her playing. '
"You're 1 simply glorious now.
You hardly need a crown."
Her bands went wrong. A quick
clash a discord then she went en.
She was growing strong, equal to
the strife. There is nothing so
deathless as a woman's pride. It had
risen at last. Iter bands flashed
over the keys, throwing off sparks of
the wildest, gayest music.
"Not that!" Darrel whispered.
"Play something soft and low. Do
vou fortret it is our last evenine?
You're not sorry after all, then?" for
the face never changed, bhe laugh
ed a low, quiet ripple in her throat
"Sorry? "Oh, yes;" lingering
over the last word. And still her
hands toyed with the keys. "But
one can't cry at bidding, you know;
I dare say I may to-morrow." And
again the low laugh welled up,in her
tliroat. She looked up fearlessly.
It had been all husks she knew now.
But at least he should not triumph in
her shame. - She had worn her heart
upon her sleeve; bu though it bled
he should not know it. Sie might,
indeed, cry to-morrow, but not now.
As for the man, he experienced a
new sensationof doubt, mingled
with amazement. He had read her,
as he thought, like an open book.
Ho even fancied he hod cut the
leaves. "Poor little mouse!" he bad
said to himself, "I really ' must go
aay. She is certainly growing fond
of me." He almost wished now he
bad decied to stay. It seemed there
was a sequel to the book. He was
tempted to fall in love with her on
tho pot. "If she is acting, she's by
far more clever than I thought; and
if she is really indifferent, Ave been
a conceited fool."
"Good-night, and good-by it must
be," he said, detaining her hand
when they separated. "We shall
tale the early train."
The flush hod died out of her face.
She looked worn and tired. Upon
the' whole he was not sorry be had
decided to go.
"Good-bye," she said, quietly.
"You'll come and make us that vis
it in tha summer, Vesey. Oh, my
gloves and my veil! thank you," be
gan Mrs. Winslow, fussily.
I don't know. Perhaps so."
, "Of course you will."
"To be sure," added Darrel. "I
shall come for vou myself."
They were gone at last.. She turn
ed away.
"But Mr. Hayes! Vesej?"
She had forgotten his existence.
"I am afraid I am rude." And
she put out her hand. "Good-night;
but indeed I may confess now that I
.have a wretched headache, and and
" that was all she said. The nlay
was over. -
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s
ui.
The spring and early summer wore
away. One letter came from Darrel.
A letter such as he might have sent
to any chance acquaintance, full of
hints of gay doings here and there
nothinir more. One little note V esey
wrote his mother, to say she could not
make the promised visit. Darrel had
said nothing in his letter of coming
for her. "And tell Darrel" at the
close of ber note '.'that I am saving
any amount of gossip against writing
v : ,1 T.. . tv.. . .J"
never came. Absence, like a stron;
light, brings out hidden defects, and
Vesey knew now that he was a man
selfish and vain, who had played
with her heart. He had held it in
bis hand, weighed and measured it
and ber, and bad cost both aside as
worthless. She thought of it with
burning cheeks.
Among the mountains, in the sum
mer. Bhe gathered strength and life
again; for both had seemed to fail
Perhaps it was the heat. The sum
mer had opened like the tropics.
With another winter came the Wins
lows. If she had dreaded it, if she
had feared for herself, would it have
been stranger Jiut , tne spell was
broken. Looking back, she wonder
ed.
Outwardly, the old intimacy was
resumed. -Darrel came and went as
he had come and gone the year be
fore. But to Vesey, it was only a
shell a hollow, heartless thing that
never had been friendship, and could
never now be love. Paul, plodding
along day after day in the round of
his duties, saw as though a great
way off Vesey and Darrel flying up
and down the icy streets to the tinklo
of silver bells. , , ,,, , x ,
One night, Vesey, glowing in crim
son.hvith white chrysanthemums in
her hair, tossing thiough the hall.
The outer door was open wide. : Paul
stood outside. The wind, raw and
wet with the breath of the sea, caught
at her hair at the silken ruffles of
her dress.' -. - ' r.
"Oh, is it you? .-But you are coming-in?"
v":
She little knew how her words
tempted him how the vision temp
ted him', as shepau8ed with clasped
hacds under the gap-light, and with
the warm, bright room beyond.
Ml cannot, lam waiting for your
father. There is a family at the low
er end of the town; starv y
The words choked him. ', "Thank
.you, not to-night," he eaid.! He had
longed to meet her again, like this
alone and face to face. - But her
light 'manner! her dainty dress, an
gered bira to-Oght. He had 'come
from such a different scene. Only a
woman of tho world, after all,- he
thought; And yet so sweet, he own- i
ed, when he had turned away and
plunged into tha cold and darkness.
Darrel was waiting for her iu tha
drawingroom. ;
"You're like a poem to-night in
all that ruby-red like an Eastern
song,"
"Thank you," Vesey said dream
ily. .
"I couldn't imagine you in gray,"
he went on half to himself, "or in
anything somber, or worq or poor."
He had begun to study the girl in
earnest now. "Yes, you sre made
for the rarest and best, Vesey: to
shine in satin and diamonds."
' Satin and diamonds! Vesey re
membered the man she had left at
the door. He was out in the winter
night, among tha hungry and naked
now, she knew. She had caught bis
half- uttered sentence. And she was
made for satin and diamonds!
"Is that all?" she asked, wistfully.
"All? Is not that enough? It
would satisfy most women."
' But to-night it did not satisfy her.
jv.
Down the beginning of the long
street was a black, low-browed house.
like mauy others bare, with a shop
in the lower story, or more properly,
two, since one window was occupied
by a watchmaker, and the other disp
layed pins, needles, spools of cotton,
and such small wares. Above were
two or three rooms with slanting
sides, where a deformed girl a piti
ful object to look at living with her
toother earning enough by sewing to
put ' bread into their mouths, and
scanty covering upon their backs no
more. Vesey employed tbem; for
pity mostly, since her work could
nave been better done elsewuere.
She stepped out of the sleigh here
at dusk one night, and ran up the
stairs, a roll of work in ber hand.
She bad to wait a moment, so she sat
and talked with the girl, who was
young but not like herself at all. It
made ber happier in the happy lot that
hod some times wearied ber. It made
ber thankful for her strong, young
life, which she bad never named
among her blessings, and it shot a
gleam of pleasure through the girl's
dark eyes.
It was a poor room, with paper
torn and soiled, and of many . pat
terns, upon the walls; with the bare
boards of the floOryawning, ris
ing and falling uneasily; with
the dim light struggling through
uncurtained windows, that peered
from under the eaves like eyes from
overhanging brows. In one of these
windows, a forlorn canary in a bro
ken cage a brown little bird, with
rufiled, unkempt feathers chirruped
feebly, like a moan. A low voice, in
a continuous murmur, fell upon Ves
ey 's ear. It seemed to come from the
next room.
"What is that?"
"Tbafm?" The girl's pale face
grew bright. "It's the minister, Mr.
Hayes. He comes and prays with
mother, now she's sick." The light
died down again.
The little room became, all at once,
like a church, solemn and still, as
the low voice rolled on and on, like
a river far away. The girl laid down
ber work. Even the bird forgot its
moan.
The voice ceased. She heard his
step upon the stairs. It was but a
second; he could not have reached
the street', when a shriek came from
the room he had left. Tha girl sat
like one paralyzed. Vesey threw open
the door. A swift line of light ran
all adown the bed. It burst into a
flame, in the midst of which the sick
woman struggled. The overturned
candle at her head told the story.
It was as an instinct there was no
time for thought which mode Vesey
drag the square of carpet from the
floor and press it down upon the
flames. .They shot out into ber face.
They seemed to catch away her breath.
They licked her arm. They strove
and fought and well-nigh overcome-
all in an instant, that seemed hours
to the girl, who threw herself upon
the bod smothering the flames with
her own weight.
They were counquered at last.
The silent, breathless struggle was
over.
"If some one would only bring a
light? Ob, dear! what shall I do?
Don't," to the deformed girl, who
shrieked and callod upon her moth
er. Vesey had not heard the . strong
step springing up the stairs the
opening ; of the door. Some one
stood beside her in a moment, , lamp
in band. It was ifaul.
"Is she- dead? ' gasped Vesey,
shrinking from the bed.
He threw back the scorched blan
ket that hid the motionless form
"No not .dead; but I think she has
fainted.' Or the flames I must go
for a doctor. Stay . here, if you are
afraid. Oh, hush ! hush I" to the
frightened girl: '.'it is nothing, I
hone. Get some water for the ladr:
and sprinkle her face," he said to
Vesey. Then he was gone.
She did as he had told heir wait
ing, watching the blackened mass.
she dared not touch. It was fright
ful, with that still, white face shining
out of the darkness. Was it death?
1 No; there was a faint quivering of
the eyelids that first sign of return
ing conciousuess a feeble moan.
Then Paul came. Oh! the rush of
joy, of blinding tears, of sudden
faintness, , that overpowered her
when she heard his step. The grim-
faced- doctor behind hint: walked
straight to the bed. ' c
' 'There are no deep burns, I think,"
he said at length. ' 'The blanket sav
ed her. The . shock has done , more
than the fire. A sponge ah, that
will do. Now some water and some
linen rags. . There were none.
Vesey quietly held out her dainty
handkerchief. "H'znl" he said, and
tore his own into strips, , '
"And now yonf" Hj turned; to
Vesey. ' . ; ' c"--
"1 have no burns." Indeed she
felt no pain. The doctor raised ber
band, and held it out to Paul, The
sleeve was cut away from ner wrist
as by a jagged knife with a blackened
edge. The flesh was like aflame.
Paul's teeth shut quick and tight to
gether. Something sprang into his
eyes not tears alone.
Then Vesey began to tremble; and
conscious at last, of the cruel pain
that bit and tore her hand, she sobb
ed like a hurt child. i
"Don't mind,", she tried to ssy.
"Don't look at me. It's only only
." The sobs swept all her words
away.
roui oatnea ner nana, sue re
membered afterwards bow tenderer
than any woman's had been his
touch.
"Let her cry," said the doctor, in
a voice that must have been given by
mistake to the grim face. "And aow
she'd better go home." He rose
from the bed. He took the unbarm
d band in bis. "She's a brave girl
He looked away from her to Paul, but
still he held her hand tight in bis.
aS 11 e
"uoa disss you, cnua. ssovr go
name and go to oed.
Paul lifted ber into the sleigh and
wraped tne robes about ner.
"Shall I go with you?"
"If I can take you home.1'
"Ob, no; 1 must go in here again;
"Then you need not.".
It seemed suddenly as if they had
known each other a lifetime the and
Paul; as if they never could be stran
gers to each other again.
one Held out ner band, it was
tba one be bad bound up. He took
it tenderly in both his own. "The
brave strong band!" he said, bend
ing over it in the darkness "tha
hand that saved a life to-night!"
r.
There was to be a bazaar to raise
m jney for the poor. It opened the
next evening. The winter had been
bard and cruel, and charity some
what exhausted needed a spur.
Vesey had promised to tend a
booth. i
"You must sot think of going," i
ber father exclaimed. Darrel too,
who foresaw a quiet hour with her
alone, if she remained at home. Ha
bad something to tell something to
ask for, and a ring to give. Alas for
him! He had kept his words too
long. A year ago they would have
beeu manna to her heart.
"But I am quite well," she pleaded,
"except my baud; and that has ceased
to pain me." Indeed her face was
radiant.
So she dressed herself with quaint
simplicity in something soft and gray
that wrapped her like a cloud, witn
only the braids of ber heavy hair for
ornament; only her shining eyes for
for gems. Then she went and took
her place.
The maidens from the Chinese pa
godas were all there. Before them,
in their gay attire, the Queen of Sha
ba, and even Solomon the magnifi
cent, would have shrunk away abash
ed their glory dimmed.
Vesey's nun-like dress was worse'
than diamonds in their envious eyes.
More gay gallants than one paused to
stare to buy.
"It cools your eyes, you see,' and
rests you," some would say by way
of explanation.
The evening was half over. Dar
rel had been ber shadow. She was
tired,- tired of his eyes that followed
her whichever way she turned; tired
of bis flattering words; tired of him.
He moved away at last. Then, and
not until then, she saw Paul. All
the maidens plumed their gar feath
era as he walked down the hall. But
he came straight to her.
"Are you well enough to be here?"
without a word of greeting, as though
they had not parted. '-You frightened
me witu your white race just now."
"Will you go now?" he asked. Quick
ly. "Are you strong enough to walk?"
un, yes." ,
"Theu come."
It was strangely pleasant to be hid
den, to follow meekly.
They had reached the stairs descend
ing to the street, when they met Darrel
Winslow.
"Vesey! where are you going?" He
scowled and nodded at Paul.
"Home."
"But it is beginning to rain, you have
no cloak. Go back and I'll get the carri
age." He laid his hand upon the wrap
over Paul's arm. - Paul looked at Ves
ev. What did he read in her face?
"Let Miss Welles decide." he said,
in a hard strange voice. He was try
ing to be calm to keep his bands from
this man who had suddenly come be
tween them. He turned to Vesey
again. His face was very pale; his
eyes were full or pleading, "mink a
moment. .Will you ride with him, or
will vou walk with me?" ,
She did not speak. She only smiled
and laid her hand within his arm. '
, He would have been more than hu
man to have kept back tba triumpn in
his eyes. . f ;
Darrel stared; then wheeled and left
them with an oath upon lips.
"But think a moment." Paul's
voice grew more gentle now. "It will
be a long, long road a road that has
no turn." , s
But still she smiled. ,
"A rough way perhaps, nd your
fecfc are tender." -
"I will walk with you," she said.
. A Southern paper finds it necessary
to denounce "tne practice oi carrjiog
dogs to Church. ., .,.;.. i.,
" i
.' Io Switzerland a law is proposed mak
ing it unlawful for; soy one aoder 14
years ol age tu sutoke tobacco. .
v A large cavern coutainiag many istvr
estioir reniaiot of: the sbwigtutd inhab
itants of the country has been discovered
in Columbia couoty. ua. : ' -
A Springfield, III., girl stld her lover
to another girl for a black silk tires, and
eo managed matters that the couplo
were married withiu a tnooth alier the
bargaiu was made. ,.
The hrtdx'e serosa the Niagara river
at Buffalo, is soon to ,be, begun r The'
means to build it have, been obtained,
and it tevxnected that-It will he finished
and ia use ia the course of tho year
. ; ROBERT. EDWARD LEE.
Tbe following be uitliul peen, eonrpreaol by
Professor Morgan E. Looaey, of FeyetwUle,
Arkansas, Imawdi .tely after tbe death of Oea.
Robert E. Lao, U treat Tkt Jeartera ClUjiai k,
" . as soweae Lai. ;
Oat ob the treiaeleae wire,
Afar ea tbe wings of tne wind, ' "i
0a irva steeds broalbiag with Sre,
On atoansbips that leave earth behied,
Away orer maiaUad and oeeaa,
' To tbe CertberB'.ost ejriJiied bore, :
The eawa has filled eartb with enoetloa-
Tbo news that oar Lee la ao aaero.
And bow, Soothers jrawtb sad tweet aaaUtaf ,
- Ho twine ma a wreath foe tbe brarej
firing rosea, bring hyacinths lades
1 W ith perfeme to garland hie grave,
Aad while year grief swells like billow, , ,
O coma aad tread softly with ate,
"Aad let ae bang wreaths es the willow . .
That droop e'er the dast ef ear Lee.
To Statoa that so long hare beoa voiceless .
And erowaleae ia national won,
While tba tear-drop are gaabiag aa aeieole, '
AdowB Southern ebeeks they aow Sew. .
Coma out from defeat and disaster.
Each wreak 'aeath tba liberty treej , -
Come, moura fur tba loss of the Blaster,
And hallow tbo graro-ateae of Lee.
-S itvU thy name. A!abana
And sweet is thy fi ewer-lade gate,
Bat bark I from each winding (sraeaa, .
' Come forth tbo low tones ef a wail'
Tbo wail that ao respite eaa hetrow.
The dirge of all juy aad glee.
While wrapt in tbo maaUe of sorrow
Tbwa ttearaeet ear brave chieftaia Lee. ' ,
Arkansas, throned ea thy moantaia
Afar 'mid tbo Wilde of the Wsrb . t
Thy glade aad tby silrery foaataia ' ' '
, Still shadow tba ielae of tbe bleat.
Though oppressor would felp star tby boaaty
And tramp on tba eoarta of tbe free,
Tby son are atill tree to tboir -tety,
Aad hallow the Basse ef ear Lee. ' f
F erids, true was fiy host, aad
Tboir deeds are the theme of the oreee )
Bat shadows bow rest oa thy eoast lead,
Aad gtoons settles dowa oa the wave.
Beautiful briie of tho essaa.
Sweet qeeea of tbo far-Bsoaalag aea,
Wa know that thy patriot derotiea -
I true to tbe memory of Lee. , . - -
Tho Mother of Georgia are weeping
Tbair wail nay be beard oa tha air.
Tor many a lored oao lioa rleeptng
Where Sbenaaa broagbt death aad despair.
Bat deeper thaa all ia tho sadness
Tbat brood from ber bill to the aea. . -And
bashed 1 the lat tone of gladsea
Sice Death Wared hi sceptre e'er Lee. '
Kentacky. perplexed oa the border,
' How stands thy aeeouat With the breret
Thy eons will tbay spent tho "sew order, "
Aad gather with aa at tbe grave T -Let
tbe shade ef "Old Hickory" mber
Tby rinse tbat flashed fur tbo fro ,
Let partisaa faetiaa aow alam ber,
Aad mourn fur' the great ehirftala. Lea.
Beaatifal Loaisieaa,
Bealsa af the eottos aad ease,
Kow eoft oa each Terdaat aavaaaa,
- Steals mournfully oaward tbe suets.
Each field and tha dew spangled aaeadaw.
Each foaataia that mUt to tbe sea.
Grows aad ia the edbwl of tho shadow .
Tbat loom ia the death of oar Lea. - t
Aad Maryland, mother of Howard,
Of Carroll, of Hay. aad of Key,
Sweat lead tbaae'er nurtured a coward,
Now what need we aay a a to thee ?
While Potomae roil aa to tha urea a.
And Cbesapcake kisses tha sea.
Oh. come with e heartfelt emotioe,
And mourn at U grara of ear Le.
Itiseoari, redeem thy ideal.
Come back to thy faita aad thy leva f
Aad lot tho dark elead ef tha real
Tby ool from iu lethargy mere.
Remember the daya of thy glory
Remember the brare and the free; '
Let Shelby and Price tell the story, -
And honor the gnat aamo of Loo.
Trent the realm of the rich Hiaaiaaippi, ' .
Where the oottoa waa picked by tba elate,
A requiem aaeoadetb to Ilea Tea, -
Wrung oat from the hearts of tha brare.
Ia the wail of her aad desolation.
New bushed ia her joy aad glee) -While
bee's swells the grief of a aatlo
That mourns for tho lose ef ear Lea.
On the plain of eld Sorts Caroliaa,
. -The borne of fall many a brare, ,
While tyranny's fetter ooafiae ber
To a doom worse thaa that ef a (lava. '
While her ten aad daughter are weeping
. That oppression aboald laugh e'er the- free.
The fall tide of woe ia now aweeplng
All thought to the mcm'ry of Lea.
Oa tbe rice fiolda of South Caroliaa, . '
Who e A'riea's Sag t uararled.
Where the jet et a Philli aad Dinah
: Ji'ow Tie with the qaeen of the world,
A still deeper gloom is bow stealing
From Pickens clear dowa to the aea.
Aad a depth ia the deep of her feeling
la eOrred by tbe death ef ear Lee.
Coma, Tennooaeo. join ia ear number.
And help ia oar roaoiem otraia ;
The shade oC the hero that slumber
Deserre bow thy dee poet refraia.
While graatnesaie honored forerar,
Aad virtoe immortal must be,
Come stand by the beaatiful rirer
And bang up a trophy te Lee.
The daeghter ef Texas areeaddeaed
While bar eons feel the terrible blow ;
Each hall that with joy waa onoe glad ilea ed.
Is draped ia the cerements ef Woe.
We com with the offering of Borrow,
And humbly we aow bead the knee
We feel that oar night hath ao m arrow,
S ha grare will sot (ire ep ear Leo,
Virginia proud "Old Dominion,"
"Queen of tbe cliff and the ware.
No alime from the kin of a mlaioa
Haa sullied the hue ef thy brare.
Bat atill ia tbe high court of glory
Thy records the kind aagele keep ;
Aad the od is (till daw bright in story,
v "Where the who ef Weahiagtoa sleep." ,
Bleat mother of horoa and sages,
Whoaa fame shall but brighiaa with year.
Who name through e loag lice ef age.
A nation shall hallow with taara.
Thy Lea is aow laid oa thy boaem,
Where Waabingtoa aluetberod before ' .
Their dust shall but mingle to blosaoom
; : Till time and its sorrow are e'er. - -
Bat the portal of bearea are swiagiag t
A spirit from Earth' at the door ! .
And choir ef aagele are singing,
- "Coin rest now in blisa erermere.
And far oa those upper height lades'
With tower immortal aad free,
'Neath the sweet-gleam ing splendor ef Aides
Now Wasbixotoh waeesas vim Las I
. The Journal of Chemistry announces
that the human body contains phospho
rus enough for 400 boxes of matches, but
net quite sulphur enough for theu. ,
Minister Washburn has sent to tha
President a fragment of . shell which
dropped within one square of his resi
dence during the bombardment of Paris.
Camping-out parties nre going to be
all the rage ; this Bummer. The Lake
George region ia much favored by ladies
for this purpose, as being withiu eall of
civilization. ' '
- r i . ' . f .e ' 1 i i
. Ex Congressman Cake, of Schuylkill
county, Pa., was ia his seat six days da
ring tbe last session of the Forty-rst
Congress, for which he received 5,C00.
or $833 per dayVfl r J -w .
' Toe following short rubs for the care
of furniture aro worth ' remembering
"Keep water away front erorythicg po-. .
rous, alcohol front varnish, aad acids frca
marbla."
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