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EVERT WEEINTESDAY MORN~ING. At Newberry 0 L BY TI~108. F. 01HEIKEllf, rePmns, I-142,1.5 per~ .1it-if-il A Family CJompaniioli, Devoted to Literature, Tllseliy es giutr, akt,&.tI1.jbIt,I Vl Thei. X an.tuIA deoc(xpirttimi of' VLub Nrol. I~ X( WO. 44.S A M R EG od1U. UESSJE AND i, IN TWO PARTS. From?f JN(lynwia11. I. Enjoy'd your dinter, have you, ty boy Well, come, tat' jolly, you know, Tin111gh I wj-h that flesso had been ler toll,- lie's loughisg to see youk so. Here, boring your chiAir to the fire, old anal and don't be ae'ral o' the wino; A nd we'll havt) a quiet weed, If you like, and ehat on "auld lang syne." So, '.I- seven years sice you went awa gad I have been married live; IV h:t I you thought I 'hadn't the cheek, t liropose to a girl? Why, mana alive, 'Tis the ctrallgeit, the most dul;ghtful thin that ever hapiblpi'd, you see: I didn't 'popl tle quesilon' at all. 'Twi iesale proposed to mel Hiere, EdlIe and Shd, y-ou may run oIf no%% und Iave a gaine o' play; Com-, you know what mamnina was to brin, youl home01, if you be good children to-day Your Uncle and I have a lot o' things that w want to talk ubout; And] you tiall vomne i agaii, my dettra when we've hail our gossip Out. And now for ny title, thoule I hardly kno% what Bessie would s.y if she knen By Jove, how sle'll Open her eyes when sIt vomios'to be introduced to yo I As I told you, sho's spending it duy wit] a frienid-her cousin, by the lya Who'sjust been obeying tie old command to increase and multiply. Well, you know what onr prospects were old man--our imothet's and Ktte's am mine When you bade us good by to go to sea h1 the navy-doctoring lite; With the mother's pensioa and joitnture yol know, she was pretty well oft', and thenl W4e thought I wai suro to maku my smarl what with the bar and with the pean. I kemember how you laughtd at my rhyne you unbelieving .ew, And used to rout :Ae out flom my books 14 go gad idle with you; Dut the moth-er uand Kate believed [it me, a our foolish womanan folks will, And Ilessio dubb'd me her laureate, alt knight of the gray goose quill. You know what Bessle was its a child, it th,e dear old bygone days, With her brown eyes anld golden hea" ait her pretty wilful ways ; How she plagued, and cltartn'd and queon't ito'er us youngsters oft and oft, Yel 'what a dear little .heart it was, hov clinging and tender, and soft I [ier brother Williu and I were "old partlen lars," bear in mind, And the good old rector and his wife were al i ways hearty and kind: So that hardly a day would pass away but I found myself, you see, the quaint old garden with Hiesste asm r aing III, and who so happy as we? that If A Igol they were pleasant tines, old nan Iote1' fresh, and hopeful, and trsue, a large Ire the foot of i'lne iad trampled and soll't well U the sheen of life's mnoi nig dew I wllat #hen I think of these garden walks ant i a pranks what tender memorios rise. With Hessio tihe cenfre figure all, with hei merry, miscieous eyes I Nell, I went to Hoeldelburg, as you know, t< finish my schor,l career, .si that quaint old htome of spectacled lore meeorschsaums, and itager beer, ~And when I camne back, my cild11 pltaymnat html vanisha'd 'antd isn her plae Was a fatir giri-wo,ata, shy and sedate wit] a getv wisome face. And I loved her, I loved haer fonidly and hoi 4' wal lifrum h o r first slay, woleCominl tho er Wha a passion as stronlg and tender, 3131 wo as the !ovc,of old1 iRomance: - hoe?-aahIwas alays piuemsat ated kiat E ~ kth~Ii'id o6thofichidhood gdy1 uat whetther my dtainsg loved ine or tno wa SAs6, more ithan K could say, Villie. and Kate wvere enigaged, you knuow 4atad they'd log.kso condsious and slay, Colu "w \o used to toase and bimrnthenbor linery Iis sistor oes'sle sund I; leiibl nl ndjvhen thtey'd begin to whisper and sigh, 4 4 -ldn't do iess, you'll owsn, >Tha'l'daw -sweet lessie away witha me, an leave the lovers' alone. A o were out-liftthe fields one summer eye--how well I remember it still! A$4Pmai6w no two ihad. wvandered awa:l fM lon ove-logni Kaitle an) Wvili, y twe came Ina thte dusk to the lonte blae mere, where the aspen branchrs wvave, /'And she coax'd mae fo tell her its legend grii ofta love be3'oed tite grave. Then I looked1 down into hier soft brow [eyes, with their witching and Iustros shell, And I whispor'd;"Dear, I've atnothier tale thti I should lke to tell!'' Whens heard a merry. shout from behind, an upecame Wille ant Kate, And, the hidiing ,words'dlqd out:on my lipa eanid I knew my story minl wait. Dp she godef;font $hat, very time to gre more shay and distant, yoo see: ,laer to welk with pie: ~Anidwhea tried to- draw her asidq tq whi per is ofiag,word. Ij She'd dlush'and fremble, and flutter awaj like a pretly frigh;en'd bi3rd, -Is sat she'shusnna'd me, iI'nd said to maysel S witti a proud And passionhate thrbo, "She loves me not, and would spaare un bol the pa%n of (91iling me so; a" And I'd raltier, God iino,ws, that may 1oal shaould break, h its *ilence bitesz an drear' t.a wor wth wbhgisets a teh4and6M caro t ear i' tv i I P %i Ii th ltsat liiint sIietk of dan n, And with pi allist 1ii l..ggartid looks, to -L i ifi itight I 'M 11itimi 1ie wi it eling heaid i y I bal:l bell.:ini: ivlrlm b4-.)!;s. sit .%ud yoil know iih' teid!-how a mii would And t:o ,-ny ti obluobliot waiking eye:, Wi Ail vreles quiver aliout the lights in dtiz- ' fwi zling 11tilbow iyes: oi] I hll.n stirane dhui belur of letteri and lines, For aid eiit -- all dti knevs thete 1 an ? Ai it poor ,ind man upotin his knees, in an I fell ligi-Ity of pr:1 tr. dai ' Oh Jack, dear brotherl 'twas hard-'twas That hard I so youing in Sorrow and strife, - tie STo be h-it agightless buildon, old man, for all No'ei iy iieLe life die a Never to see the -in or time flowers, nor the Nor starmy heavens above, 4310t Nor look i tihe deir ione faces again, so Tle full of lity and lovel tihg oI know that Kattie wrote to you. lad; but sho ThO couldn't tell, dear liart, wil g Of her suootling words, and patient help, and 0 Ja letder oisterly part: ing a For how the dear old ntotlier wottld say, Wiei while her pitying tears would full, Her Poor buy, lii ]ionie must be always here; Whili there's nore than enonghi for all I" wal liut I must be a burden ont then, I knew, as But ( I bitterly felt ut times, pra e And by itid by I took again to weaving And i stories and r yiiivs; alit Aid KLtie Would write them out for moe, and Wit someliow they seem'd to "iake," tod For I did my best, leaven knows, for lies To lit r ind the mother's sake. to I And quiet and peace at I.t,t eatme down, In So tl grucions an.,wer to imy lriiyer; ofit 'Tho ehitstailng Ilitnd dhat hud deult the iut V blow lielp'd the imourner to beart; onc Auid I camne to think, with a liert resign'd, -WI of even the brief love-dream _4old That ha11d brighten'd and blighted my by. I'd t gone life ihll its fickle and fleeting gleatm. the I seldom saw her-llessie, I nmiean-for Let i tle wound would rankle still, firs But i'd liear of her itlinoit every day front That either Katie or W ;.I; lik. And when tla y tilked oft a legav) tha1t had At i left her rich. you know, cre My broken priyer's went tip to God for ler ilt happineiss below. tio liut it chimced, am I sat imid brooded alonl-', Neve oie stimner's at'ternoon- he1 By the pleasaint warmthl iad tihe scent o' the To ki flowers I knew It wis 'leal'y) Jnitle'- fim Kate caito mi coax'd mne to take her arm, But I and walk ont wit her, to call suu At time rectory houic, or our friends woild TI'lho think I'd quite forgotten themn all. get And Dessie% wis therel I could not see her lien winaome, Welcoming face, phr But that very sonso of' her presence seem'd to But I glorify the place; to i And I trembled anid flaisl'd in the fooli Auid way that lovers undermstand, ee At the gentle soumid of' her pitying voice, and Fogr I the tomnch of her dainty land. or I \Ve sat in the quaint oak parlor--ah, how Site I well I kntew it of' old! dol 'Atd th*goo4 old rector prosed away about All sc [his church and his 1bhd' se The0 pai'lslm schools, and time state of tle 'I'd gi roads, ned the probablu price of hay, hI 'Till Bessie at last jump'd up from her' clairli, Ad in her old impulsive way. to "Come, who's for my summer house?" site said; for it is so hot lit heral yol Whati none of you speak? Then Charlie here MYo I shall be imy cavalier. My0 Mamma, dear, where is that mnagazinc? 0, lol hero it is, I see: Co Ile I want to read him the poem, you know, AntI that so delighted i:eI" abli Thelmn she took my arm and led mse out, with a tOtier siterly caro, wa Tote l gad tl drk to me, to heri got ~o blo'oming ond fair, And TiI*o came t9the ~rbor,tho scne of someth of m y hdippigst hours p' life c .wnn Deari Erd' 'd ptot fr 4 my lotIts creig wm hiope of calIitt i rin ,'The ben S'a Te)i$Qg~s '~ new peot sho; rend,An nt4b yhave$u YeryAisAn t'b hoow her? Wust vbice' trembled so thm inuoh I coubil horilly',folidw a line; "O, I Atd at last site' gave it up with a sIgh, andw laid the book away,. t s "I think it must be the heat," she said, ''bttt t I canniot read to-daiy '' Who Thencu there came a pause-a dreamy pause whmen in fancy I could see 'The frair fiuaht'd face of tIme gentle hrJenid soO full of pity for m'e;A, T lhen'shte laid her' dalinty hand oni mine-her ho hand that trembled soi Ai IAnd the fears were In her tender voice as site li whispered soft and low: And S"CharlIe, we two are such old, old friends, that youi mtusn't thintk me bold "" If I ask you to tell mue a secret thait else wouldw kever bie untold'? And -What was ityou wanted to say to me that tot evening by the mecre ? . So I SCome, I'm sure you'll tell moe, wvon' you An now ? for I shmould like to hoar!iAn n~ What! 'i loudre not toll me, you say l-ah,Yo w iell, I thinik I camn guoss I-Yo it Aiid, Clharlie deam', I'm sure yoiu know my antswer woultd have beein "Yes l''An dYou kntow I loved you, without need of eithcr in, d And promise or vow; An A nd yet-how crueoli how crul-you thought A ' I should tuirn away from you now. Asi Now, when your poor dark lIfe has need of a tendler and trusly guide; Deai t Now, whmen I'm prouder of your loyo thant of fa aught in the world beside: Witl Anid did you think that this wasi the time I thi slmdt:ld'ahose to coldly part? Swo Alh, 'tis little-indeed you meni can know of .to flue depths of' a wvomanm's heart I (God - do g, Charlie, don't thlink me unwomanly, dear unwoumanly and weak- Shte h* Decansoe I give a voIce to the love I know tol you wonkd thever spoak! Led rt 'na better so thain that bioth of our lIves tu; d should be forlorn and lone ' And Al so"h you careo,fa have. sie, dear-you ki iy tae me feo ytur ig9illI" WIsi Whlat need to teol my answer, Jack-of my lo t e tobles the happy day that br6nt,Ihtt *e She ltA ~ 1a~ibi at tih#es 'lee a,. bIos.Dt tvi han u, swoot wife; e t$ t,' Mbgve toi 14 The hft o atu4 60i wealth sho tiroughit, I As I - nr%e the rL'fenewalth of het tove:o, she tried to per-suile lte that I tlVlp'd pay otirl Waly, YOU seV, lie stories and rhy itn in1g., grave and gay, c loved to scriibl,' for lile children was ',orn to us--irst a girl, io'd her m1o1ther's eyk., they said; ,q then that I wept m1y aiddest tears ce liossio and I were wed; hen they laid the wt:e mile in my atins, I spoke of its 1) thy giace, it hard I shou!d never lvok it mly little -hIng's face; I never in all the years to comne her gen. face should see, - looc in her laughing h'aby eyes as I iced her on my knee; marked, as the happy years roll'd on, Ih varying, changing mood )aby pranks, and the childish grace, and blush of maidenhood. our boy was born, and life stood still, It a sudden horror and Fright I :k, old man, shall I over fNrgot the try awesome night, i I paced this room here, through and Augh, with groping, helpless dread, 3 my durlitag's precious life up stairs I hanging on a thtcad ? od heard my prtyers-the blind inanl's yers-and spared her to me, my swcet, >tr home grew merry with cradle songs, the patter of little f'ect; tie patter of little feet, that would lIe up to my chair, y a soft head onl my knee, that loved testlie there. 0 yoars pass'd on, and even life now :n seen'd hard to me; lici I sat in the eventide, with mny little s ott mny I; lice, ie Bassie would sing us sonie quaint song of love or of doughty deed, Iiink how good and pleasant it was iIIe I had thought to lead. no see, 'tis a twelve month ago since L I noticed, with strange surprise, the darkness seei'd to grow lighter at times to maly poor blind eyes, L yeartiing, pastionate, lienibling hope at into any heart and braiN; over a word I said to the wife, lost nay ighats should be false and vain: ' a nord I said to aiy love, lest her rt should be overcast, iow I had chorish'd a hope like this, to it a myth at, last: quietly told my story to Will, as we titer'd up and down gatdtn, and we thought of a plan for tiig ine up to town. I spoke to the wife of a book I'd In'd, that I fancied would answer well, wanlted some talk with a 11m in town, ce If they thought t'would sell; W'illic had prom ised to go with mae and thaongh it, I saild, knew that sie couldn't leave the bairns, 'd lik6 her to go iptiead, ied to plersuadc me frotm it at first, and !fully prophesied rts of accidents and mishops, and then, pleaded and tried t me to tako her with wiu, too; but at wc settled it right, Willie was pledged again and again not rust me out of his sight. went to town for a week or so, and '11 easily understand luttering hopes, and doubts, and fears, v test was near at hand, g1a, that one wondrous day, Saulliko, scales dropp'd oir frot my sight, [ fainted in Willie's brutherly arms, in idden buarst o' light I dazed antd giddy for a wilie, but I soon routnd again; 0, the grateful, passionate joy that )bb'd itanmy every veit God, whtat a hlappy wvorid it wvas-howv some anti fair to scel very stones of London streets seem'd utifuil to me!i Ieep, deep downa in my heart of hearts re nestled this crown ing bliss: what wvill she feel, my liessie, my love, sn shte comes to hear of thIs? le tars of joy, 0 the clasping arms, 0 bonumie head on my breast, a I come to tell her the glorious news, beautiful, any besti'' att far into thtat happy night, I and dear the rose-like spell of those rich deep irs is a fragrant mnemory still! we tatlk'd of the dear ones down at no, and thte story we had to tell, the wondrous love of the Master above, o "doetht all things well." poke of Boeslo agalta and again, and al ya with moeiston'd eyes, we felt 'twould he best to spare my love sudlden a glad sutrprlse;. wvas to keep on my old blue "speeks" by y of a loving ruiso, patiently bido the fliting time for genttly iklng the news, can easily guess what mpy feelings were en I got back home at last; how, as I trod on the threshhold here, heart beat thiek and fast; how I htad nearly told her all in a burst passionate bliss, ny darling flew to welcome me home th a loving clasp and kiss. 'heart, 'twas the same sweet bonnie ~e, nay bonnier than before, the old soft charm in the lustrous eyes it had won my heart of yore! at eyes, that wore moist with tender irs that it went to mny heart to see: knows that I neover knew till then the pthts of her love for mel put mny hat and may stlck away, and witht uder anti wifply c4re me, wvho seem'd so helpless anti dark, to r' old accustom'd chair; there shet left me.a minuto or so, with a as an a gentle word,' to shOie a tolbring the oblldren, down; d may heart was strangely stirr'd. NaWio o4oi come skutsrr fgoR, *etcomo fu tme again, 4~i4~ ne an fie , old din abit lpngpaqo cant hter pait h~ : :egept 1h41 crowning see *n wea, an$t feeble, and faint, ~lfee4o boo tythe.o~ ma bos I dareliay y'oid ,e ploturo it all tar better ~an wojde o4v1R teil, ould tearooly see 1heta at Avet fors the ire that dimna'd my yearaling sight, hey ran to meet me, with eager joy, my unalnga bonnia nd heteht; A'd then, they eY i r'111)d II#p on imly kimec-. with muerry welcominig e ics, Anid I lik'd for tle fir3t thue ini my' :fe in mly itle din ling's eyesI Andl what didi I see? A wee .irl-f-e, light, atid eager and ftir, With her motlher'* lips, anid lustrons eye. anid iripplie ot goldenl h1air, N ad a itrliig roguet' of a babt b.,y wIth mrt. ry black eyes; and, ali, 1lhy both were pleaIdinig with lips amid eyc a for "A story, at story, papul" 'What sort of a stoly, mny dears?" I said; "a' fairy story, el ? y 'Vell, come, us yol'vc bee :-;ood elli(renl 1 d hear, I must hutmitor you to-day : )uce on a lme, inl a beautiful wood there 0 lived a faiy you kntow; 'T couldni't tell you tie year, of course, but '1Is t ever so long aig). Lnd all the people they loved her so, tia. g fairy in the wood, it or she wits never cross amid proud, limy dears, but kind. and gentle, and good; I Lud she always was l.lpplost when she made V some neighbor hap,-y and bright Julike some little clilldreni, I know, who teae, and quarrel, and fight Im lot you, my dearl Why, of course iot child! Did you fancy I should suppose 'hat ldie and Sid would ever do such Ci naughty things as those? ris only bad boys and girls that plagne and quarrel and shout; lilt now for this baiutiful fairy, dears, I wit telling you about. Viat was she like? Why, Eotio child, what a little plague you areI C Voll. I fatnef --I ouly Iancy, you know-slhe il was something like amataa; lae'd ulco brown eyes, and--let me tlinik yes, beautiful golden hair; Lnd her tace wits quito a trett to see, it look ed so pleasant and fair. fow in this wood a hermiult dwelt, in a cot- il tage lonle and ploor: Ic was blind like poor papa, mny dears, and Ihi., leart wts heavy and sore, 'll the fitiry thund i m out one day, as lho sat in his lonely cot, Lnd thought, 'Poor maim, I must do my host I to brighten and cheer his lot! 0 o she'd come and chat, and tell imi the news, till he grow quite merry and bright, Lnd shle gave hin all that she could-food a gold, and everything, but sight; n Lnd sie brought little children to play with f him-such nice little children, miss Lnd he'd hear their prattle and tell them tales, and pull their cars-like this! c Voll, the fairy had abrother, my dears, who 0 was quito a giant, 'tis said, Il Lud could do, 0 my, such wonderful thinigs : when he took it Imto his lead; t ad when his fairy sister wias out on amn errand of good one day, Il to went alone to tihe blind man'j taut, uat I gently led imm away. to led imin away to a secret cave, where at i nmighly genii dwells, S Lad with curious bottles, and drugs, ant books, works wonderful cures and spells: Lad Ie touclh'd tihe main with his magic J wanid on his poor, dark, sightless eyes, i tnd line saW-o, time joy 1-h1e saw again the beautiful fields and skiesI le was cured, my dears-ho was blind no more; and Io thought with a happy smile, 1 won't lot her know it all at once, but keep it secret awhilo;" 'or the dearest thoughtof his licart was this, "Ilow glad time fairy will be, Lad wat fun I shall have with the cildren n now whmen thmey come to play with me! y VeIl, lie foumnd tihe fairy waiting at hmonme, t and she started up from lier chmair, ii Vith hier face all flush'd and eager like, as t mammna's is over there; Lnd shme press'd her hamnds as mamma does, now, tolmer throbbing brow, jusat here Vimy Bessle, my darling, whmat is it ntow? a hmow you frighsten a fellow, dear!"~ for, aIm, shme had read any story arighmt, and v was sobbimng on mmy breast, >Vith lher arms about thme ch ildren and mes, thy fairy, bonmio mand best; knd 1 clasped lier to my heart of hearts, C white any brimuming eyes o'erran rime truest helpmeet, time sweetest ife God ever-gave to maul told lier all as she lay emn my breast, hmand f Tovingly clasp'd la hamnd, and thaen the dear childram had to be kisstl'd and-mamdc to uniderstanid; t,nd I hatd to teil whio Edio was like, withm lier mnother's eyes, dear hmeart, And whethmer little Syddie was not my very counterparti [ And of course had to be taken out around our little domuesno, C Where all Its beatites were pointed out, and 1 admsired agaimn and again; Ansd thmen, las the midst of a mnerry lauagh or a lighatly-nttored jest, 8 Poor liosslo woumld quite breask down agaIn, t and he weeping on my breast! yIalk of the-tem! why she theme isl-tham's ler knock, ats sure a sa gummi t Now take youmr cue fromn me, old man, amndj .I'tl show you a lit tle fun a "liessle, my dear, thmis gentlemnan hero is a very ol friend of mino Mr. Smithm, Mrs. C.. Mrs. C., Mr. Smith-In thme briefiess-barrister line! 1Ima, hmm! why, whmere is your memory, dear, as the singers say, 'Try back,' Iliave you quite fotgotton our old playmate, the litustrious Din. Jmack? IIliol what new? WelI upon my word this really is a surprisel Kissimng amnother feliow, by Jove, unidor my very cyos i. Only look at her now~ old mans-thoro's a picture for you, oh ? Whly site's getting younger, and rosier, and handtotaor,oyery day).1 Come, get us some tea, thero's a dear, geod girl, and don't stand laughming there, And we'll maske it a jolly mieeting to-night, with-Dr., Jaqhc.fiasthe chair I" kon de ,), e#u 1 to 1p$s wit. Abtht wy As e4~~ t rIodg atd'his wi' ,untolngly put in her. oat- A'op,eaky for' her With al our nowspaprm In theo Un4ed. Stteow w have only one newspalper to ovory 5,033 inbi- 1l tantea A lite girl bolag askod what dust was, replied that It was "uud with.tho haina adnnaamaa Gut 94 0-- je jo BY MAMI: LEE. I Circumstauces took me early 114 way from school, and the Christ- tl ias that I was sixtoen found me gk b homo again; and once the now h< oar was in, how I counted every - 1y till February the 14th, when al Lir theatre re-oponed atDinnoford. th 'he longod-for timo cajmo at last, tu Iough my mother's health pre- tl enited her going, she Inost indul. fe ently allowed me to go whenever et was possible, and among our m an1y friends thore was nearly al- et ay1 some one willing to take of large of me. Fred my brother, to li y great grief was absent in the L1i Ly, and I admost fancied that his se tters toichod in a slightlysuper. w lou1s man nor on ourcountry thea- w 'icals. .lowever, that did not af- - et me much: ifhe was enjoying it inself, so wa I-t;-rthor too mIch niI >, as will shortly appear. im As overy on knows, in overy al )>1)LtIr coi pany thero is a "lead- di g gentleman ;" and, whon I have ei tid thatt, I need scarcely add that tc ith the oespocial leading gentle- d( al offthat season I fllI hopelessly Iii love. lie was a very young ti, a 1numor said, beloiging to ia n( )od fatn.illy-aid certainly a man M Imlore than average ability, I d( link now ; the very fillest actor s1 at over trod the stage, I thought et ion. It makes me fbol quite hot Cr V'en now, after so many years ei ave paised away, to think what et fool I made of myself about that os an. The stage had no interest I >r ie when lie was not upon it; tu io other c h arac tors had no cc biarms for me; the other men of g4 io company wore more sticks in li iy eyes ; the funny man who Na iid dis.agroublo things to my horo; ti 10 villainl, who stood botwoon hi ii and the object cof his affec- ei oniq (0, happy object!); the old riy geitlemanl, who so often had i enrso him or scorn) him, and W )>metimles kill hii-these I hat. ofI J; while the lady who played et uliet to his Romeo, Pauline to tI is Claude, anld i dozeii other sim. e< urly dolightfi charactors, 0, Ol ow I onvied her, and how jealous t( was of her i If I could havo had w% or figuri' and her nose, and the ce ilanlco of playing her parts, how w appy I should have been I I did ci ot kinowi thon that sh was ten al car's his senior and had three lit- ti e children and a driviking bus. ci and at home; andiC that her' fine fig- ti re was altogether a work of art, h s much so as hoer acting ; or else vi should not have envied her so g inch perihaps. But my passion a v'ow as the soason wenit on ; anid ti lhen the manager avnnounced to rard the end of' the month that h i consequence of the groat suc nss of the company the season rouild be prolonged aniother fort- ti ighit, nto wVords could expriess my , y:it. was a resp)iLo from misery : n )yr that, IL seemed to me vmy lif'e g (ould be after he, the loading gen. o lomnan,was goneaway. Then--un- a xp3cted happiniess-I sawl hiimi a if the stago, oniceivi a shop1, twice a assing our house for a walk ini b lie country. Th'e last time I cr'icd b ut to my mothoer: "There's Mr- b 'awsett " so loudly that he beard j, le, and, turning, gave me a half- dj miling bow. Oni that bowv I lived i r days. If any one wvho reads his has ever been in vmy state of' ainid (at my age, too, remember), i lieu they can realizeo what I felt ; r I' they never have beovn wildly in ove with an actor, then they can't ndorstanid my condition, and it's r oet muchl use tr'ylng to exp)lain T.Lhe forLnighit, likoe every other lmn of happIness, drew toward ~u end. By coaxing and persuaCd nig 1 had wanaged to got to the heatro nearly every night thatI ast woeok, andC I felt growing des. >orate when Iheard announced one >f my favorite plays for' the last iight of the soason,and for the ben It of Mr. Fhawsett. If only I could nmavo joined the company then and ~boro, I would have done it-~any. ~hing, so as to be near my Idol; to Why the very though6 tprned afbemo*di god I 'resolved that he I houlId nobf4OAVe the town without t'knowledge of my devoted iadmi 'aLion for him. I know the play~ for-that Friday ight so well--in one soone ho nvted a boquet to present to a I t lady. That boquot l resolved to 'urnish, bit6 was pussledhow to do I 1o without any one else knowing I about, 16. However I contrIved to I tainl difyorent, flowers from dilror it places and arranged thom my. If very fairly; and then--olh, )Oo that I was f-1 went to a welor's expended overy fartihing was worth in the purchase of tds that, were to go with the >wors. How I trembled for fear C man who waited on me should loss for whom I meant thorn >w I blushed when ho suggosted -ho knew all our family, for we ways dealt at tle shop-that "if ey were for Mr. Fred, lie likod rquois bust ;" how I botight, om,and wont away burdond with mr that my soorot should bo dis vered how I ,inlmy intonse foolish. iss, wroto a lotter in my unfbrm I girlish hand, the remembranco which malces me half laugh and dif cry even now. Fortunately, o whole procooding was liko my if, childish for my ago ; still, I ill confess that, if the man to h1onm I liellt this precious pauket -the noto signed with my whole mio and address--had not boon >rightI and honorablo, the affair ight have had a difforent ending together. As it was, having spatched a box containing flow .4, studs and note by a safo h'and Mr. FaWsott's lodgings, I sat >wn to wait for 7 o'clock, tremb )g with excitement and anticipa )m. The worst part of the busi. 8s was, that of courso 1 told my otlher nothing of' what I had no ; and I felt so guilty when c kindly noticed my unusual qui noss, that I had to run Away Din the ton-table and have a good y before I began to dross. Fred to home the day beforo; but 'en to him, my usual confidant, had told nothing. Ite was to ke me to the theator, so that we uld have one evening thoro to ithor; but Icould not respond to s jokos and anticipations, being r too nervous and excited to ink of any thing but my stage ro and his reception of my pres. It. With a throbbing heart I took y place in the familiar box, and atehed the house fill for the ben it of the favorite. Thoro was a pital audience, but, as is always o case with a full house in the 11nt ry, the occupants of the gal 'y mado a groat clamor, calling their friends in the pit, joking ith the people in the upper box , saluting the arrival of any ell-known townsman in the low tier, and finally,as seven o'clock )proached, anid they grew inmpa ont, calling and whistling for the urtains to draw up. At length io play began, and through two ours or more lhe was here. before e, playing with all the spirit a sod house infuses into an actor ; id for the last evening I watched 1o triumph of my first love. The flowers-my flowers-bo old in his hand, as lho gave them the lady by his sidle, lie distmnot '-I was certain of it-most dis netly, lifted his eyes to No, 4, !hore I sat. rThe glance was omontar-y, but it set my pulses nrobbing, and of what followed r burlesque or farce I remember othing. At the end of the play speial call wvas raised for him, nd, as lhe walked before curtain olding the heroine of the piec y the hand, 1 felt that life would o a burden rather than otherwise me, unless I might hope some ay so to wvalkc before such a cur. un, with him holding my hand. I was so thiankcful when the hor. idl farce was over. Pred had th< ad taste to laugh at It, in com ion, I fancy with nearly oer3 nie in the house; and lhe told mi a we walked home that lie dit Lot thinkc much of the man (him' rho played the Prince. Pred wvat loarly ruined by his city exper-i ace. I don't know whether I expect d Mr. Fawsott to speak to me o *lgn to me from off the stage >orhaps I had no definite Idea o hat I did expoect; but I had ~onorai feeling of disappointmeni nd somehow rather an unolins ion to cry. Then-ah, nove hali I forgot It 1--as we en tore yur house, the first thing 1 sr..w -o I.he hall table w as a small pack4 caddreed o .e Of coure Mme Bes4 t an ~Iayin n Ast*flIh'e4 -btothet. inishe ftior 1Ighting a oandle,. I tor t open, Rtm4 found-my staa oturned I with...yes, aetually ote fV'om hIm; and suoh a note f he had been fift5 insteadof'fivc mnd-twenty It could not hato bosi noro sensible or more caloulate< o knock the nonsense out of m<( 'Ho thanked me," so hoesaid, afo ny very kind admiration of' ht mting, but could not venturo t mecent the handsome nement sent; doubtloss I should find somo friend for whom It would be bot tor suited. The flowers he would not return, but would use them t that evening, with many thanks. Ieo could not recommend my adopting the stage as a profession until I had consulted my parents 8 or other friends; it was a life full h of changos and difllculties." And c that was about all; not a word of V uncouragoment to me throughout --coldl,gentlemanly,isonsiblo, hato. ful. I sat down and burst into 0 tears as I road it, and refusing P Fred's entreaties from outsido the r door that I would go down to sup por, said I was too tired, and stayed up-stairs alono in a very t* passion of grief and mortifion tion. iat droadfiu troubles a some things soom at the time, that n after the lapse of a fow months or si years wo can afford to laugh at 0 heartily I Perhaps I never was P much more unhappy than I was 1h that night; certainly I am now t' Very thaanlful when I think o. t the sudden downfall of my wild r, ficholmes. 11 Fourteen years have passed a since that memorablo time, and circumstances have so changed t with me, that it is long since I t sOt foot within the walls of a thea- I ter; but I should liko to go onco more to a cortain fashionablo " house in the city. Fourteen years 0 it- has taken him to work his way up from the country to the city b boards; ho might well say patience " was wanted for his work. I often wonder if the opisdod that covered me with confusion in d my own eyes is over remembered It by hm, and if ho has over told*,it b to the charming young actress to whom he is now marriod; but I am not likely ever to know or soo more of him, and can only heartily wish him that success in his ca reor which he has struggled for so 0 long. For myself, my passion for thoatricals died a natural death noon tfter that memorablo Sprinls$ Fred, wont quio away from home ; and 1 felt so thoroughly ashamed of mysolf, and so much afraid of being found out, that I shunned the theator and every- 0 thing connected with it for long a after. A few year- ago I brought. forth v my unlucky studs from a corner S of my dosc, and gave them to my v husband, telling him and my mo. t ther, who Was staying with us, their full and true history, and oh, how unmercifully they laughed at me about it I TIEREE GREAT NIATTLES. An article in the last number of the Mfilitair-WIachaenblatt on the three great battles--Koniggratz, Gravelotto and Sedan-contains some interesting details regarding the relative p)ositions and tactics of the armies engaged. Grave lotte was purely an infantry and artillery fight. A.t Koniggratz, on -the contrary, the cavalry of both armies engaged in frequent smaller oi- larger;conflicts,especial ly Lowards the end of the battle. A t Sedan, again, the French cav airy only iittacked en miasse, and were invariably driven back by the German infauntry. T1he hand hing of the artillery showed a groat advance at Gravelotte and Sedan compared with .Koniggratz. While in the artillery combats of the contre on the 3d of July, 1866, there is no trace of any uniform plan on the part of the General in command, at Gravelloto and Se dan the artillery was splendidly handled. After none of those bat tIes was there any protracted pur suit. The numbers engaged at Koniggratz, wore much larger r than either of the other two bat tIes. The Prussians numbered 215,000 men, as agaiust 220,000 ustrians and Saxons, whereas at ,Gravolotte there woero only 420, 000 French against 200,000 Ger r mans, a n d at Sedan 130,000 d against 200,000 Germ ans also. n Konlggratz was in point of num it bors the greatest battle of the een d trians and l$axons as cosepared bD wi 0,000 Prusasans or a total 'g .af 40,000 meon. At Gravolotte b oro wore -14,000 Frenoh ahd 20,. S000 Gprnarna killed and wounded, or 84,000 men in all ; whle at 8e. .dan the total 'loss was. 24,000 a nameoly, 14,000 French and 10,000 ( ormans. Thua KConlggrats also -shows, the latgest num ber of kill. r oe1 and woun4gd-muoeb -larger thaR we Rnd In the greatest -en Sgagoinents of the war of 1870 A VERY BAD BO. -- 11< Max Adolor mentions a report U, bat tle chief astronomer at the thi Vashington Gbsorvatory was readfully sold a few days :ago. th , wicked boy, whoso Sunday. bi chool experienco sooms otly to avo inado him more depraved, 4 iught a fire-fly, and stucle it, o ,ith the aid of som1 mucilago, in bo contro of the largest lons in ad io toloscopo. That niught, when no lio astronoior wont to work, he a orceoivod a blaze of light appa 3ntly in the laivens, and, what Lh mazod hin moro,was that it oid ,ould give a couplo of spurts and aft ion die out, only to burst -forth gain in a socond or.t -vo. 1e ex- ov minod it carefully for a fOw mo. do lonts, and then lo bugan to do ba lins to dis(ovor wihore in the hoav. im that oxtraordinary star ws tl laced. He thought lo found tle g oality, and tle noxt morning lie ti )Iograplhod aill over the universe iat he had discovered a now and thl 3aarkablo star of the third mag. an itudo in Orion. In a day or two roi l1 the astronomers in Europe and Lt .morica were studying Orion, and he hey gazod at it for hours until aoy wore mad, and then they bo- de an to tolograph to the man in do fasluington to know what -ho an konnt. The discoverer took an- so thorlooc, and found that the new lar had moved about eighteen in illion miles in twenty-four hours, oa aid upon examining it olosely ho ml as alarmed to perceive that it th ad leg8l Whon he wont on the ha omle the next morning topolish up is glass he0 found the lightning. ug. People down at Alexandria, h 3von miles distant, heard pat of 8V lio swearing, and tlhey say he in. to isod into it much wholo-souled ti inceority and vigorous energy. pt 'ho bills for tolographie dispateh- h, s amounted to $2,600, and now in boastronomer wants to Aud that M 0y. He wishes to consult wih at im about something. i ri Sroon Ir LiKE A LAbU,-,-Whei 1y was a little btbyj galsk. uI over "lot me be," for every on di 1ould Sniatuh mile ill) atd plaom Of n hor knoo ; thon so kiss, an4 t jueozo, and lang me, I'm sure is hat "Dad" and "Mani" mst. hav i ondered I survived it-but l' 1 tood it like a lamb I And ait' W hile bift in boyhood, they LI empt Ie from my- home, through tc ardens and througlh pleasuriD 11 rounds, over fairy spots to roan4 Ij hon1 with luscious fruits aag u weetmocaLs my small tummy theg je vould orum,anad half stiflo e iltJ T :lssos-but, I stood it like a lamb c Vhoen older still, they'd lure m g brough dingle, dale anid dell, to ge ;ather nuts, or flowers, or ferns---. mnd they seemed to liko It well~ h (oet started oft at triflos, w,th~ v brick that seomed no sharig , hoy'd fling their arms arounx4 ~ ne-but I stoodl it like a .aal i.t last ono charmning .oreaturo g who could may soul entraog I >y? wondrous wInning archnosag mad ar tenalr, moeltinlg glane% cerned to say3, "You know yo. ove me, whly not Lake me as~ L imn ?" and I felt obliged toldo TN >ut I stood it, like a lamb!i Tiuq ,haough childhood, you th a llanhood-ay I ech mom)ent, my life-my heart ffa felt Lthq witchaing power of girl, or maid oa'L wife, and the spell will leave me never, for, like a potent dram, wo. maln's charms subdue me over but "I stand it-like a IambI ----Li Our Teutonic friends may enjoy a the following story of an mncident n that haappoened in Atlanta a fevw i (lays ago, As given by the Sun:; During tiie trial of a ease in thyp , Superior Court recently, a T.outori e W as requested by the yudge to payg a fine of ten dollars. ils explana( tion was ludicrous, yet earaposk Mine Got in Heimol,Shudg,vot le you miake mne pay him so? I shas$ ask der younk man vy ho no see some1 ings. Veil ho tolL me aan4 vas shust saying dat ad Cincinnatt vas do same ding hiappon t*nd I vas sory,und so; den you say, N.r.4ury, you must pay tenl dollars for do4g dhings you say to him. 14a VftSrry% Shudge, for him uand I 4 a tsry~ hna~n opf ang?re.ele *1 aW the Judge p r hoft pl was fotw4 prost.ate I~ hind fb9p6 in 3 4t61 of tti. 91a0 o o tI~A~2 that theopooet, anIsa. ggtto foot o Make not~ a foo of thysi makeo oth4ws mn. -U1io8IT.E Op JoUntNALIIM )w T11EY RIEAD N'wa5AR5a leo Nod first hunts up a f ng, then laughs with a &unt Sue first roads t "n turns to the 'Lhs and deaths. 'ile laborer looks -1nts," hoping to find\ oling in hlhnstnes, Uiss Fora seeks out the now vert01timen1ts to asoortain the West iliportations in bonnets Li kids. Ir. Pleasure Soolkor turns to > AusOmint column and do. 08 which entertainment will ord him the groatest enjoyment. liss Prim drops a tear-first 3v the marriages, then over the Iths, "for," says sho, "one is as i as the other." L11r. Politician commenoH with 3 oditorials, then scans the tole. iph, ending his porusal with 3 speecho8 quoted. Nfr. Professor slowly examines 3 editorials, its rhetoric, syntax A logic, then glancos at the cor ipoudeno, finally returns to his tin, and quickly forgets what has road. Mr. Marvollous looks for acci. nts, murders, inquests a n d aLIs, roads the county record, d ends with the stories, in rrch of something sensational. But why oxtenl the list? Each lividuial roads for himself and if eh, does not find a. column or )ro to to his particular tasto, e paper is insipid, the editor ,y and deserving of consure. "NFAHER MY GOD To TtEE." IM-ORTALITY BY O N E SoNG. rah Fowler, the writer of this nelohig hymn, was worthy of 0 name, for Sarah signifies a -incess, and sweeter fragrance is rarely exuded from any flower the garden. The gifted girl arriod Mr. William B. Adams i English civil engineer, of supe or abilitie. Rho -uV I-Cuh mUstitution, and amid many bodi. - suflorings, she kept her pon at ork upon various poetical pro. jctions. At What time she jught, the inspiration to compose kat one immortal hymn, which now sung around the globo, wo Ive never learned. Probably it as soee season of peculiar trial, lion the bruised spirit emitted to odor of a childlike submission a chastening father. It must wve oozed from a blooding heart. or hymn first appeared in a vol no of sacred lyrics by Mr. Fox, England about the year 1741. lhe authoress (lid not live to tch the fame it wvas to bring, r she died in 1749, aged forty. ur. She was buried near Mar w, in Essoex. Presently the ymn began to work Its way in ririous collections of songs of orship. It was married to the meo of "ilethany," and everybody iught the strain. In noonday atheringa fhr enaa- naanha. ume so ijamilliar that, if' anybody struck up" the hymn, the whole Lidienico joined in. A Q UAKER's TEMPERANOB E Jo. tR E.-A fe w years ago, seve ral Drsonus were - orossing the A lie. tiany Mountains in a stage coach. mnong th'on was an honest Quak. .As considerable timeo was on oeir hands, they naturally enter I itto kouvors'ation, which took oe direction of temperanee, and on became quite animiated. One the company did not join with oe rest. He was a large, portly an, well dressed, and of gentle. anly bearing. 'There were sharp brusts at the liquor business, and hose engaged in It. Indeed the i'hoto subjoect was thoroughly anvassod and handled without ;loves. Meanwhile this gentleman ,towed himself away in one cor icr and maintained a stoical si ence. After enduring It as long is he could, with a pompous and nagisterial manner he broke when Ghoir oharacter and snoney are gone,thokcs thiem out and tRrna them over to oth4r' shope to be finished off; and then thee o. snares others and' sends themt on in the same-road to tuln.P* erely the good, Quaker had the beut, of thesa#ganRgss4Ak b4 Ihol on his sIost-G6hrothemday, ety4 4 **b4resedlt hd ostrao 4thron A P' #7on "ok