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|| l??*t my window. cloud or shine, ? f { Through tho ruin, or *iud, or aleet, w On the coht or icy ft roe t, Putter daily litfclo feet. In First I hoard them in the Spring, Jii When the golleu ventured hours ?? llroiurlit tlio Aral vaiiiio <ln? ? ....... From the Southland's fadeless bowers, To. this Wintry realm of ours. 'u Some were rough, and brown. tin<l bare ; Some were droned with nicest enre ; * Some wore merry, chubby, fair; iSomo were slow, mi<I scarred, and spare, w Tntiglil too soon life's toil to share. In ii But llicso varied little feet . Palter up (lie self Same street, I 'u Hun,ling oft along tbe edge ; >' On the green turf by the hedge, So to fool the soft caress 1 w Of tho violets they press ; i Hut tbe violets, 1 \vect, , ' ,l M endorest were to scarred feet, j *' Unlike sellisli, human love, > tl Soothing leait what needs Its love. tl Kvery morn 1 list en now For the sound of little feet, " 'Neath my window in the street ; | k And I wish to be n child, m With heart free, as tresses wilil. > From t lio world's restraint nn I rule, : n Hurrying to the country school. , . I N I, A DIAMOND ROMANCE. J, HY MIIS. M. J. UOI.MKS. ' The boys musn't look at the girls, nnd tlx* y pirla mu?t look on their books,*' was s:ii<l at v least a dozen times by the villdgo schoolmns- ^ tor, on that stormy morning when Cora ]>lan- j. chard and 1?she in her brother's hoots, and ! ^ J in my father's seeks?waded through drift! after drift of snow to the old brown sehoi 1- " house at the foot of the lon^r, steel hill. We wore the only girls who had d.-rcd to ^ brave that wintry storm, and wc felt amply re- j paid for our trouble*, when wc saw how much attention wc received from the tea tall boys who had come?some fur fun?some because they saw Cora Hlauchanl go by?and one, Wal- ^ t^r Uoaumont, b^oause he did not wish to loso the lesson of the day. Our teacher, Mr. f (irannis, was fitting lttui for collcge, and every moment was precious to the white-browed, ^ intellectual student, who was quite a lion j. among us jjirls, partly because he was older, ^ and partly because he never noticed us as T much as did the other bovs. On thi* n<>..u. tiion, however, ho was quite attentive to (?'oro, j f nt leo.stj pvillinp off her boots, removing her j hood, ana brushing the largo sudw-Hakes from t her soft wavy hair, while her dark brown eyes t smiled gratefully upon him, ns he gave her v his warm seat by the stove. That morning Corii wrote toiucslilyon her ^ slate :?" I don't euro if mother does say | Walter Beaumont is poor as poverty?I like ^ him best of anybody in the world?don't y?u ?" . . 6 I thought of the big red apple in my pocket, nnd of the boy who had so carefully shall... ... C -a- ^ * nuuvr 11vim uu my iamor h socks, nnu ^ answered, "No"-?thinking, the while, that (( 1 should say yes, if Walter had cvor treated jno ?s he did my playmate and friend Cora t Blnnchard. Sho was a beautiful young girl, (| a favorite with all, and possessing, as it seem- f cd, l>ut oneglaring fault?aproneuoss to esti- , > iimujpeople tor tnetr wonlcti rather than ihelr j worth. This in a mensnro was the result of her home training, for her family, though far ( from being rich, wore very aristocratic, and j strove to keep their children as muoh as possible from associating with the " vulgar herd," j as they slylod the laboring class of the community In her seerot heart Corn hurl lnnrr cherislied a prcferouoo for Walter, though | never, until the morning of which 1 write, ' had it been so openly avowed. And Walter, too, while knowing how far abovo him she was in point of position, had dared to dream of a time when a bright-haired woman, with j a face much like that of the girlish Cora, would gladden his homo, wherever it might be. That noon, as wo sat around the. glowing r stove, we played as children will, and it iame j my turn to " answer truly whom I intended j to marry." Without a thought of the big apple; the snowy socks, or of anyone in par- ' ticular, I replied, unhesitatingly, " The one , J love best," and the question passed on to 'i /1 1 .1 ' - *" v/l?iu, wi.u \v;is situug uy me sine ot WaMer Beaumont. He bad not joined in our sport, but now Jii.s eve left his book and rested upon 1 Oora with an expression half fearful, half ex- v peetant. She, too, glanced at him, and as if the spirit of prophecy were upon her, she said ?" i shall uot marry tho one I love the best, but tho one who has the most money, and can give mc the handsomest diamonds. Sister ( Fanny has a magnificent set, and she looks so ! beautifully when she wears them." Instantly there fell n shutfow on Wulter J Beaumont's faoo,. and his eye returned again to tho Latin lettered pago. But his thoughts 1 were not of what wr 3 written there ; he was I ! thinking of the humble cottage on the borders of the wood, of tho rag-carpet on the oaken 1 floor, of tho plain old-fashioned furniture, and 1 of tho gentle, loving woman who called him 1 her boy," and that spot her home. There ' wcro no diamonds there?no money?and Cpra, if for these sho married, would nover be Ms wife. Early and late he toiled and studIied, wearing his threadbare coat and coarse 1 brown pantn?for an education, such as he must havo, admitted of no useless expenditure, and tho costly gems which Cora craved 1 were not his to civo. In tho rmro. nnselfiah Jove springing up for lier within his heart, 1 there were diamonds of imperishable value, und these, together with the name he would make for himself, he would offer her, hut nothing more ; and for mnny weeks there was a shadow on hit) brow, though ho was kind 1 and considerate to her as of old. As the spring and summer glid.sd by, however, there came a ehango, and whon, in the uutumn, he left our village for New Haven, there was a happy, joyous look upon his faco, 'While a tress of Co '# silken hair was lying noxt his heart. fcvory week he wrote to her, and'Cora answered, always showing to me | what she had written, but never a word of his. ** Thero was too much love," she said, " too much good advioe"in his lettors tor mc to hco," and thus tho time paused on, until Walter, who had entered the junior class, was graduated with honor, and was about t^? oommonco a theologioul oourso at Andover, for he jkjft ;?m n?tido tho ministry his choico. lie was i twenty-one now, and Cora wan nix teen. Won| J drously beautiful wim she to look upon, with her fair young faco, her soft brown eyas, and ,1 wavy hair. And Wajter Beaumont loved he^ devotedly, believing, too, that she in turn loved btin, For one summer afternoon, in ' the Kceu old wood.-) whioh skirted tha little tllhod JStt by bin side, and with tho MTrfK* gh^fiig ttotfn upon bor through * -k\ ' " SWUIUMBI ic overhanging boughs, sho lmd told him so, id promised some day to bo bis wile. Still, ic would not hear of u positive engagement -both should be frco to change their mind they wished, she paid, and with this Walter i as satisfied. i 4' I havo no diamonds to give you, darling," a so id, drawing hor close-to him ; and IVtrn, flowing to what ho referred, answered that his love was dearer to her than all tlie world < \sidc8." Alas, that woman should be no i sklo ! The same train which carried Walter away, ought Mrs. Hlanchnrd a letter from her I iughter?a dashing, fashionable woman,1 ho lived in the city, nnd who wished to bring s *r sister Cora "out" the coming winter.? i She is old enough now," she wrote, " to bo 1 < oking for n husband, and of courso she'll ?vor do anything in that by place." j ! This proposition, which accorded exactly 1 ith Mrs. IJlntichurd's wishes, was joyfully :ccded to by Corn, wb^, while auticipating ic pleasure Yu.ich awaited her, hod yet no ^W^at of proving false to "Walter, nnd in ' ic letter which slie wrote informing him of er unchanging fidelity, little dreaming that lie promise thus made would so soon bo bro- \ en ! Petted, caressed, flattered nnd admired, n she was in the circle of her sister's friends, 1 ow could she help growing worldly and vain, r avoid contrasting the plain, unassuming Valtflr. Willi till* r\nli?linrl i>t./l jv...??.vv? IIUM , utterflics who thronged Mrs. Burton's draw- j ug room. When the summer came again, ; he diil not return to us as we had expected, 1 ait wo heard of her at Saratoga and Newport-, , he admired of nil admirers; while one, it ras said, a man of high position and untold ' roalth, bid fair to win the beauteous belle.? Meantime, her letters to Walter grew short and j ir between, ceasing at Icu^th altogether ; and : tie day, during the second winter of her resloncu in the city, I received from her a pack- j ge containing his miniature, the books he had iven her, mid the letters he had written.? 'bene she wished 111c to give him when next saw hiiu, bidding mo tell him to think no ( lore of one who was not worthy of him. ? T.. l.~ ..I,!.. I Ml ... -r. j v uu j/iuiu, i.umu, sue wrote, *' I ra ngaged, and though Mr. Douglass is not a it like Walter, he lias a great deal of money, rives splendid horses, and I reckon wo shall ;et on well enough. I wish, though, he was ot quite so old. You'll be shocked to hear hat ho is almost fifty, though he looks about orty! 1 know I don't like him as well as I lid Walter, hut, after seeing as much of tho j rorld as I have, 1 could not settle down into ho wife of a poor minister. I am uot good inough, ami you must toll him so. I hope ie won't fool badly?poor Walter. I've kept he loek of his hair. I couldn't part with J hat; but, of course, Mr. Douglass will never] ee it. His hair is gray ! (Jood-by." This was what she wrote, and when T heard rom her again, she was Cora Douglass, and ler feet were treading tho shores of the Old I iVorld, whither she had gone on a bridal tour. ! In the solitude of his chamber, the young ' tudent read the sad news from n paragraph in ' city paper, and bowing his head upon the taile, lie strove to articulato, " It is well but he flesh wjuS weak, warring with the spirit, ud the heart which Cora Blanchard had cruilly trampled down, clung to her still with a leatli-like fondness, and, following her even cross the waste of waters, cried out, " How tan 1 give her up !" Hut when he rciuciiiber: sd, as he ere Ion? did. that 'twas a sin to love ler now, he buried his face in his hands, and, mlllnn nn (InJ 1.!? : ^ vtj mwu iu itcip iimi hi Li)ih iigur 01 i iced, wept snch tears as never agaiu would nil for Cora IHanchard. The roses in our garden were faded, and the eaves of autumn were piled upon the ground, ?re he came to hi.s home again, and 1 had an opportunity of presenting him with the packipo whiv'h many months before had been committed to mv care, if is face was very pale, md his voice trembled as he asked me, ' Where is she now ?" ' In Italy," I answered; adding that "her iu?batid was s aid to be very wealthy." Ilowing mechanically, lie wnlked away, and i year and a half went by ere I saw him again. L'hen he came among us sis our minister.? I'lio old, white-haired pastor, who fur so long tad told us of tho Good Shepheid and lliO )cttcr land, was sleeping at last ill tho quiet rravo-yard, and tho people had chosen young Walter Beaumont to fill his placo. lie was t spleudid looking man?tall, erect, and fincy formed, with a most winning manner, and l face which betokened intellect of the high;st. order. Wo were proud of him, all of us ?proud of our clergyman, who, on the third Sabbath in June, was to be ordained in the >ld brick church, before whoso altar ho hud ,-cars ago been baptized a smiling infant. On the Thursday afternoon preceding the >rdination, a large travelling carriage, covered ivith dust and laden with trunks, parsed slowy through our village, attracting much atten:ion. Seated within it was a portly, grayliaired man, resting his chiu upon a goldtieaded canc, and looking curiously out at the peoplo in tho street, who stared as curiously at aim. Directly opposite him, and languidly reclining upon the soft cushions, was a white, proud-faced lady, who evidently felt no interest in what was passing around her, for her Byes were cast down, and her thought seemed busy elsewhere. I was sitting at i.iy chamber window, gazing out upon them, and just as they drew near the gate, th/* lady raised her eyes?the soft, brown eye* which once had won the lovo of Walter Beaumont, and in which there was nuT an unmistakable look of Anguish, m if tho long eyelashes, drooping so wearily upon tho colorless check, were constantly forcing back the hidden tears. And this wan Cora I'ouglass, come back to us again from her travels in a foreign land! Hhe knew mA in a mnmnnf ?rwl ?% *1 .V...VUV| UIIU III UC1 l?UU I IMT115 WIIH much of her olden look an, bending forward, uhe smiled a greeting, and waved toward me her white, jewelled hand, on which the diamonds flashed brightly in the sunlight. The next morning we met, but not in the prescncoof the old man, her husband. Down in the leafy woods, about a quarter of ? mile from Mrs. Beaumont's cottagc, was a running brook and a mossy bank, overshadowed by the sycamore and elm. 'l'his, in the days gone bv. had boon our favorite linn. Urwl wo built our play-house, veiling our bita of broken china in flic rippling stream-?here had we watohed the little titdietf oh they darted in and out of the deepor eddien?here had we conned our doily taaks?-here had she listened to a tale of love, the memory of whichjteoni* ed but ? mocking dream, und here, as I faintly hoped, 1 found her. With a half joyful, half nw>aning cry, who threw her arum around my neck, and I could feel her tears dropping upon my face ah Bhe whispered, " Oh, Jxittio, lx>ttio, we hove met agian by the dear old brook." I'or a few momenta ?he sobbed an if hw heart would break, then suddenly drying her tears, fihe assumed a calm, cold, digpificd mantl uau uounu ncr, nnu every unK was net with diamonds and costly stones, but it liatl rusted and eaten to her very heart's core, for the most precious gem of all won missing from that chain?love for her husband, who, fortunately for his own peace of mind, <>'ns too conceited to dream how little she ca/ed for him.? lie was not handsome, and still many would have callcd him a fine-looking, middle-aged man, though there was somothing disagreeable in his thin, compressed lips mid intensely black eyes?the one betokening a violent temper, and the other an indomitable will. To mo lie was exceedingly polite?rather too much so for my perfect case, while toward Cora lie tried to be very nfl'ectiomitc. Seating himself at her side, and throwing his arm around her, he callcd her a " little truant," and asked "why she had ruu away from him V' Half pettishly she r. us we rod, u Because I like sometimes to be alone;" then, rising tip and turning toward me, she asked if ' the woter still rati over the old mill-dam in the west woods just as it used to do," saying If it did, she wished to sec it. "You can't go," she continued, addressing her husband, " for it. is more than a ruile, over fences and ploughed fields." This was sufficient, for Mr. Douglass was very fastidious in all matters pertaining to his dress, and hud no fancy for soiling liis white pants or paient leathers. So Cora and I sot off together, while he walked slowly back to the village. Scarcely was lie out of sight, however, when, seating herself beneath a tree, and throwing her hat upon the ground, C'ora announced her intent of not going any further. " T only wished to be alone. I breathe so much better," she said; and when T looked inquiringly at her, she continued. " Never marry a man for his wealth, Lottie, unless you wish to become nshard, as wicked and unhappy as I am. John Douglass is worth more than half a million, and yet 1 would give it all if I were tho same little girl who, six years ago, waded with you through the suow-drifts io senooi on tnatstormy day. Do you remember what we played that noon, and my foolish remark Ihut I would marry for money and diamonds ! Woe is me, I 've won tliem both!" and her tears fell frwt on the sparkling gcuis wliTCtf covered her slender fingers. Just then T saw in the distance a young man whom I knew to bo Walter Beaumont.?lie seemed to be approaching us, and when I'ora became aware of that, she started up, and, grasping my arm, hurried away, saying, asshe cast backward a fCarful glanee, " 1 would rather die than meet him now. I am not prepared." For the remainder of the way wc walked on in silence, until we reached her mother's gate, where we found her husband waiting for hyr. Bidding me good-moriiing, she followed him slow!? the graveled w*. Ik, and L saw her no more until the folll^iiur Sabbath. It was a gloriously bouutiTul morning, end at on early hour tho old briok church was filled to overflowing, for Walter had many friends, and they canic together gladly to- see him made a minister of Clod. During tho first part of the service ho was very pale, and his eye wandered often toward the largo, square pew, where sat a portly man and a beautiful young woman, richly attired in satin and jewels. It had cost her a struggle to bo there, but nhe felt that she must look again on one whom she had loved so much and so deeply wronged.? So she came, and the sight of him standing (here in his eirly manhood, his soft brown hair clustering about his brow, and his calm, pale face wearing an expression almost angelic, was more than she could hear, and leaning forward she kept her countenance concealed from view until tho ceremony was ended, and Walter's cloar, musical voice announced the closing hymn. Then she raised her head, and lier face, seen through tho fold* of her costly veil, looked haggard and ghastly, as it a fierce storm of passion had" swept over her. By the door she paused, and when the newlyordained clergyman passed out, -die offered him her hand?the liand which, when he held it last, was pledged to him. There were diamonds on it now?diamonds of value rare, but their brightness was hateful to that wretched woman, for she knew at what a fearful priec they had been bought. They did not meet again, and only wee more aid YYoitor boo her; then, from out door, ho looked out upon her as with hei husband she dashed hy on horseback, hei long cloth skirt idinnnt sweeping the ground, Hud the plumes of her velvet cap waving in the air. "Mr?.. Douglass is a fine rider," was fill Walter daid, and tho tone of his voice iiv dicated that she was becoming to him an object of indifferftnoo. Desperately had he fought witli his affection for her, winning the | victory at last, and now tho love he onoo bad felt for her wns slowly and surely dying out, The next week, tiring of oar dull vilwgc I life, ('ora left lis, going to Nuhatit, where | itho spent most of the summer, and when in the wintor we heard from her a^itin, ,?h( 1 w.18 a widow-?-tho Bole heir of her husband, | who had died suddenly, find generously lift her that for which she married him?hi> money. " Wi)l Wa'tcr Beaumont marry Cora now ?" I had asked myBelf many a time, without, however, arriving at any definite ! conclusion, whon a littlo mora than a yeaj succceding Mr. Douglass' death, she wrottf, focggiag tne to come U> her, n# she wa'n.verj lonely, bimJ tlio prcsonco of tfn old friend w . A ; ^J > would do lier pood. I complied with her j request, ?ud within a f?w da\s wuh an inmate of hc?- luxuious hoiuo, where everything indicating tho wenkh of its possessor. And Com, though robed in deepest black, was more lil<? hcrRolt more like tlio (,'orn of other days, than I had eecn her before since her marriage. Of her husband she spoke freek1y nnd always with respect, saying he hud been kinder far to her than she had deserved. Of Waller, too, she talked, Appearing much gratified when 1 told her how he was loved and appreciated by ) i.i people. Oiio morning wii?n we sat together in I her little sewing-room, she said, " I bavo , done what you, perhaps, will consider n very : unwamonly net. I have written to Walter j lJcnumor.t. Look"?nnd sue pli.ccd in un . hr.nd n letter which she bade mc rend. it w;.s n wild, ?lia:.?c tiling, telling him of . t'.io anguish the hnd endured, of the tears ' she had shed, of the love which though all | she had cherished for him, nnd begging of ' him to forgive her if possible, and be to her j again what he had been years ngo. f*!ho was j not worthy of him, she said, but he could j make her better, nnd in language the most J touching, she besought of him not to oast her off, or despise htr bce.'.usc she h;.d stepped so far us-idc from womanly delicacy j as to write to him this letter. " I will not I insult you," she wrote in conclusion, " by I tolling you of tho money for which I sold myself; but it is mine now, lawfully mine, and most gladly would 1 share it with you." " You will not send him this?" 1 said.? " You cannot he in earnest?" TJut she was determined, and lest her resolution should give way, she rang the bell, ordering the servant who appeared to take it at onco to the ofliec. He obeyed, and during the day she was unusually gay, singing snatches of old pongs, which for months liad stood unopened end untouched. That evening, as the sun went down, and the full moon roec over the city, she asked ! me to walk with her, and we, ero long, ' fouud luraclvea several streets distant j from that in which she lived. (Jroups of people were entering a church near by, and from a remark which we overheard, we learned that there was to be a wedding. " Lot us go in," sho said, " it may be some one I know," and entering together, we took our seats just in front o" the altar. Scarcely were we seated when a rustling of satin announced tho approach of' tho bridal party, and in a moment they appeared moving slowly up the aialc. Ny first attention was directed toward the bride, a beautiful young creature, with a fair sweet face, and curls of golden hair falling over her white, uncovered neck. " Isn't she lovely ?" I whimpered ; but Cora j did not hear mo. I With her hands looked tiglitly together, I her lips tightly compressed, and her cheeks of an ashen hue, she whs gazing fixedly at the bridegroom, on whom J, to, now ; looked, starting quickly, for it was our minister, "Walter liouumont! Tho words wore few which made them one, Walter nud the young girl at his side, and when the ceremony was over, Cora orose, and leaning heavily upon my arm, wont out into tho open air, und on through street after street, until her home was renchod. Then, without a word, we parted?I going to my room, while she, through the livelong night, paced up and down the long parlor where no eye could witness the working of the mighty sorrow which had come upon her. The next morning she was calm, but very, very pale, saying not a word of last night's adventure. Neither did who speak of it for several days, and then she said, rather abruptly, " 1 would give all 1 possess if I had never scut that letter. The mortification is harder to biar even than Walter's lohS. Hut he will not tell of it, I'ui sure.? He is too good?too noble," and teais, the first she hud shed since that night, ruined through her thin, white fingers. It came at last?a letter bearing Walter's superscription, and with trembling hands sin opened it, finding, as ahe had cxpeoted, his wedding ? *: i?* .'<< viv>, niiuc uu It llll_) Slivvt WilM WlllU'll, " MOll pity yon, Cora, even ns I do.?WALTi.it." "Walter! Walter?" sho whispered, and her quivering lips touched once the loved name which she wua never heard to- brent ho ngniu. From that day Com Dougla&fl faded, and when the autumnal days were come, ami ihc distant hills were bathed in the hazy October light, she died. l'ut not in the noisy eity, for she bad asked to be taken home, and in the pleasant room where wc had often sat together, she bade me her hist good by. They buried hor on the Sabbath, and Walter's voice was and and low as with Cora's coffin at his feet he preached from the words, u I am the Resurrection Jhid the Life." Ilis young wife, too, wept over the early dead, who had wellnigh beon her rival, and whose beautiful face wore a calm, peaceful smile, ns if she were at rest. There wa?? wilf, they stud, tend in it Waller was generously Temembercd; while to his wife wis given an ivory box, containing Cora's diamonds?nccklaee, bracelets, pin and earrings?all were there; and Walter, ns he looked upon them, drew nearer to hiiu his f:\ir girlwife, who but for these, might not, perohance, have been to hiul what sho was?his dearest eathly treasure. T:(tB Farmkr'b TjIkk.?The farmor's life is not to scratch with tho pen?rap, rap, with the Hammer?not for an everlasting unpacking am) repacking of- another's liibur.? lie walks forth under on open sky, his broad acressproud out beneath his!feetj the I* bluo concave, sunlit or sturlit, or shrouded in Clords, is still above hiui. Ilonlth claims him ;is her favorite ohild, and the glorious sun loves to ki$s a check that is not Mhaniod kto wear the r\iddy imprint of suok affection. i Nature's or/u iniitiitHbln babbling brooks, birds, breeze, rustling foliage, enters bis cat I on if? glad mission to his hcurf.. lie listen* i to instructing voices continually speaking i from the universe around Win. Each day, > month, season after season, year after year, ) these touchers are uiven to him, infinite in | variety slid endlow in extent. When, towards thrt closo of fc sultry day, , the summer's blessing comcs pouring down, , ana, as in ma ijeoiHiTttl: poeUy'of lha Bible, i tlio trees of the field clop their hands, nut] . the valley* covered with corn, aliont for joy tho farmer, retiring from Jiis labopa .to the r friendly shelter of bus cottage roof, Utiprovcj , hi? loicure hours with measures of wliidorti.? Ho, too, while his fields ore sleeping, bcncatl l frost nod snow, what profession afforda n?on available opjfortuhitiei <of Relf-culturo ?? I W^orywp* tho Jyriq fldetty <$oiftpo&d thai innda Scotland prouder of her Burns than ol all h'jr fncion| race of yjirllke kinpw?? t Wad It wilt'between tlio hanulcj of the Moa? i gaii"plow? 1 ,.v ,^ W ' k 4 m , V' / * " " " W ' ar. -S The Needed Buppljr. motor a talk hy t. s. authir. n As they were nil about drawing up to Jhe J table, there was a loud knock at the door, *u which Mru. Jurvis immediately oiiPwcred. "Does Mr. Jarvife live here?" asked a rough voice. 0A " Yc?, sir," was the reply. Pi " Well, here is a barrel of floUr and some groceries for him. Shall I bring thorn in b> here ma am ?" w' " There roust be some mistake, sir. They do not belong here. We have bought no i barrel of flour or groceries." ? " Is not this Mr- Jams' ?" 44 Yes." r I 44 Aud number 40 ?" 44 Yes." 44 Thco this is the plaoc, fur that was the >j>( direction given roe." ] w, 44 Yen, this is the place?bring thoiu in," , wl i spoke Mr. Jurvie in an animated tunc. at I The drnyuion of course obeyed. First lie , ! rolled in the barrel of flour, then came a j * j number of packages, evidently containing | groceries, and finally, one or two pieces of i meat, and sundrv lots of ve?rotiihh'H. ! \r ^ . -? t I i'l " How much is to pay !" askcu Jarvm. | K; I " Twenty f.vo ccnts, sir," responded the i drtiyu.au, Lowing 'i'ho twenty fivo cents wr.8 taken from his i N pocket with quite an air and handed over.? : Then the drayman wont out, niul th:it little ! fumiiy wore alone again. Dui.,.g the pas- V I hagc of tho scono just described, tho wife ^ j stood looking on with a stupid and bcwil- ? dcrcd air. When tho drayman had departed, she turned to her husband and said? "John, where did these thing eosuc from ?*' " i bought them, Juno." " You bought thorn ?" " Yes, I bought them." | " And pray, John, what did you buy them I with f" nt " With the quarter of a dollar you gave to f,, me on Monday." M "John." " It is true, Jane. With that quarter I _ went and joined the Washington Total Abstinence Society, and then went to work at n Mr. Lanklbrd's. Here is tho result of one V, week's work, besides this silver," handing her all that remained aftjr making the pur- Jt chases. "Oh, John, John," the wife exclaimed, ,j, bursting ir.to tears, uo >ot mock my hopes.? ul I cannot bear much il?i rc." ^ " In the strength of Ilim, Jane, who has promised to help us when wc call upon him, I _ will not disappoint the hopes I now revive," Jnrvis said, slowly and solemnly. "1 The most hoirt-broken wite nod mother leaned her head upon the shoulder of her husband, and clung to his aide with a newly revived confidence that she would not be disappointed, while the tears pourechfrom her cyea like rain. But her true fcelinpr we will not attempt to describe?nor dare wc venture . to sketch further the scene we Imvc intro- | ducod. The reader's imagination can do R it more justice and to him we leave that pleas- ?" ing task, with only the remark, that Mrs. Jurvi.V newly awakened joy and hopes were *"j not again disappointed. ^ Mind Yofit own Business.?-Yes, it you c? would succeed in the world mind your own ol bus'.i ?s; let other people's business alone; attend to your business strictly ; be prompt in business, and do your business in a business- T like manner. Many persons waste time enough in looking after the business of other persons to grow rich upon, if properly employed. Let ,p other men do their own work and you do yours. If you are a farmer you need friend*, neigh- J bors and helpers, and you ean only have theiu v;, by rendering to every man his right?doing li your own business and letting others do theirs. <1 If a merchant, you must havo patrons or cu?- ^ toincrs, and you can only havo thoin by at- ~ tending strictly to your business and allowing y others to do the su.ne. If a lawyer, a physi lt einn or a preacher, you can oul}' succeed by requiring a character for honesty, promptness and sincerity of purpose, and this you can do by minding your own business and doing ^ justly to all men with whom you havo dealings. Yes, whatever your profession or occu- , a. I _ t 1 * ' - * jiiiduu iiuiv ue, icaru 10 Keen your tongue in ' your nioutn nnd your JiHiidn fast hold of your iinpiements of labor?mind your own business rj and 30U will succeed. It is enpy in tlie world to live after the ,J woild'c **?'n?on ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; Lut the great man is lie who, in ! the midht of the crowd, keeps with perfect I fWCOtufciM the adepcudeucoof Bolitde. HOOP SKIRTS, 3 BONNETS, MTJSMXS, &c., * I^OR sale low by 4 J. .1. LEWIS. * . INiwllctm, April 0. l^fiO ftt tf Til IC ?S'J ATM OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 'I ' IS EQUITY-*?PICKKS8. Elizabeth Evatt | E vs. > Bill for Partition, .tc, Jcc. T J. F. Sr. "Evatt, et.als,) IT Appearing to 111c that Thompson Evatt and A Rial U. Evatt and wife Abby ltillor, defoliants in this ca^c, resides without tho limits of ? tfiis State: On motioi) uf Harrison and Pnlliam. complainant's Pjdicitora, it i? ordered that the*? novernl absent defendants d'? nppenr nnd plead." nnswer or deniur to tlio complainant'J mud bill of complaint, within threo month* from, iho publication' hereof, or their consent tu the Mime ' will ho taken as ooufcs?ed by an order pro eon ^ ROB'T, A. ThOMPSOi/, c.*.r. I March 20. 1M0 ^ 3m , IScaiI Quarter*. J j ORDER NO. d ri^ll B Battalions composing the 6th Regiment, t J, IS. C. JVf., will jmrado for instruction, drill f '.I and review at tho tilofa mid places following. H 1 The first liattujion at i'iokenttville.on Satur- ? day the 5th day 'A May uext, and the 2d liat- 11 tniion. nt Mrs. Barton'*, on Saturday tlrt) 12<h F day of May next, <wmed and eompped aa the | " law mreotfl. Comminflionod ana uon-ootmuls- c i siuned officera will attend the days urecuding 1 (heir rMMclive review*, for drill ana iustruc- . I tloo. Tiiq 'officer* in. cojpfunnd are olwwged > with tl>6 extenmon of the!? orders. Ky order r , of Col. It. Y. II. Grifpim. i JOHN II. BO WEN. AdTt.. , April 2. *W*J_ ; '-6 j . to <;omafjttFT t v?i . And Nervous Sufferers> riMIJS(Subneriber, (or mvom! jeare a renideat ' X of difooTcred while there, a ?imp!e J , vegetable roin#(ly?a nor# en re fr?y Consumption, Asthma, Jironchitie, Votiffht, C\M?, a)id Set' j vptA JJtbility. ?ur the.benefit of GjprtsumntlVes '' . and Nervous Sulfer^rs, hoi? witling to. inako the sttint -fublio; f ? 1 To thotn wfco doxire If, h<5 wilt send tlie Pre- " 5 Mriptlon, Wltfffull direction* {Jrte of fhari/e;) 1 also' a sample t>f the mpUetrie, which they will J t find ft beautiful eetablTifttron of Natur?'p aimplo f hftrk*. 'Fhoee dwlring Romfcdy 6nrt Ob^in , , it fcr rotufi nwij, by atlilfonMUjr ' . J. K CUTHBTinT, [ Botwnio PhysWan, No. 4?* K. y. 1 37 ' aw. J Ik *. 4$' * h 9 iwtfi? ? ? -* ?-1 ' i itfl* nl r.ta. fr.-i. .I'm i .fc.. imi,-. f I Taxes! Taxes! rIIOSJE-,who have not, yet paid tlioir tnxes must do so by Saledav iw May, as 1 lmve turu tho money over to tfio proper authorities h short time. Longer indulgence will greatly nbarrasf me, and, therefore, ennnot b? given. he low js inexorable vritb rne, nnd I must in an Sciftl capacity exact its execution of others.? romptness is better for nil parties. Magistrate*, clergymen and others, roquirod r law to returii birth*, dent lis and nmrriago*, ill flud blanks for that purioie in tho Clerk's fieo. J. W. L. CAIIY, T. C. April 5. 1800 ,ii) "> GUBENV1LLK MAKULK YARD. MIIE subscriber Ims on hand nnd is constant* L ly receiving a lurge and varied assortment of American and Italian Marble, ) which he would call the attention of lLosein lut of a suitable Monument to ninrk the spot lierc repose the remains of their departed relives nnd friends. Carving and lettering of I Liiidn neatly and promptly executed. tejjrl'nrticulur attention paid to orders bv mail JAMKS M. ALLEN. Greenville C. II., S.C.. Feb ?2 31-tf N. li. lie refers to D (? Woetficld. Oowor.Cox, ark I v A Co.. Dr. M 11 Karlo, W II Watson, I . Col 1) Hoke. K McKay. K*c,. _ w. xoftftis, .ti\. j. w. ii a an isox. i. r. I'Ci.i.iah. MUUs7 JI \lliuSON & PIJLL1AM, Attorney* at Liiw, AND s o 1.1 r I t ??u ? ; \* KOtriTV IT 1I.L attend promptly to oil bindne?B entrusted T io their corc. Mb. Pvluam chu h'.wuys b# uud in the Office. OFVIGK AT I'ICKr.XS C. It., f C. Sept. 0. 1850 0 <f. Pickons?In Equity. 0 M Doylo ) vs > Petition fur Relief. J T Drown, et. nls. | TNUKH an order of the Court of Kquity. in _ thinonco, nil the creditors of John I. Brown e roquired to prove their demand* legally hero mo on or boforo Monday the 11th day of ay next, or the)' will thereby hp barred. ItOBT. A THOMPSON, c.e.r.n. CJoni'r* Office. Feb 7. 1800 3m Lost, IN Thursday 20th Docembor list, n sniull red ' leather Pocket Hook, containing some money, e following Notes, nod other papers, to vit: On urtos Uoorge Si Co. for $00, A. pent eh for $55, i John Muuldcn for $-f>, find one on 11. Ilnhntgo r $17. These persons nro requested not to p:?y ese Notes to any ono but myself. My nnmo is so in the book. Any Information in relation ereto will be thankfully received. DANIEL HI LEY. Jon. 2^ 1 (WO 23 , % tf UTTITO A *m T? A titr JliAA/JjkJ AJL11F HAIVJCVi [TTILL liK BOUGHT AT FAIR TRICKS )\ by J. h. N. SMITH. Ton Yn'ril. .Tim 4. 1?r,8 2A-?r II13 StfATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, PICKKNH IS ORDINARY.' Jacob I.CWIS 1 vs I I'. Uion for Partition. Charles Wood et.als ) T appe'.rlu^' 10 my satisfaction lh.it William Morgan and wife y.'irah, Alox. Wojd, John Wood, ob''. Wcod.Tilinan Howard and wife Ann, dcfvnrtit", in this case, reside without (he limits of this late: It is ordered, therefore, that tho said absnt defendant* do personally appear in the Ordiiry's Otlice, at Pickens Court House, uu Monday le 21st tiny of May next, and object to the divbn or gulo of the Heul Instate of Joseph Wood, do ased, or their consent to tho same will bo entered "record. XV'. K. HOLCOMDE, o.p.n. Feb JRi 18RO 4 Hut UK STATE OK SOUTH GAttOLlNA, rjCK*:x??IN ORDINARY*. *? K*'ur'1 rolilion tor .cttlo H Ib>wcn, ct. ol-1- j lll0U'.* FT nppenniip to my sht infliction tbnt Thnmns L II iWta. Thornton Ucnsonnnd wifo Elizanth, defendants in this gn?e, reside without tho in its of this State : It is ordered, therefore, lilt tlinv lit* *K>Vrtl'nlliT nnrvoflf i ?* ll*/\ - ; "ri""' M,"IB viKi'lUij o flieo, nt HTcVena Court Uottsc, on Monday (ho l?t day of May next, to Hiorr 'can 4o, if* any ley can. w hy u final fottlemont oftlifl estnto of irm. Urn, en. d?'?o?fcd, should not be lmd, unci deoroo made theron. W. K. IIOLCOMBE, o.r.o. Feb lt?. 18ft0 , 3m ~~i. H. voightT T ?1b, CoitpcrNiiiltli & Mill illnkcr, WALK ALL A, S. 0., 1,TILT. give strict attention to ull bus'mecs c-ntrusI i ted to his cure. Tenim lite most reasonable. Jhii. 12. 1HAO 2ft . tf * ~ll E STATE O KT SOUT11 '7? AUOMN A, IJt tyt'lTV?PiCKENH. ,> , \ . W. Gva^Maetor in Kquify, ) Rm (o Por#clow J. n. Fiticliosser. J T appearing to the Court that J. B. F?acltc.?scr, the defendant In this ciiho, resides without tho niitaof thi'i State: On motion of lUrripon and ullinin. (jompluinant's solicitors, it if ordered that lOHaid absent defendant do appear in tbis lloiiotblo Conrt, and plead, answer or demur to com. Uiiiant's said bill of cbmnlain*, within threw lontha from the publication hereof, or an order ro coiifato vrill bo taken as to him. llOB'T. A. TUOMPfON, c.n.v.n. March 28. 1BG<* ' #> \ 8?n . ....... - - m. * m . - - . yrVA.r'C^ Uiji STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, IN OlU>l*ARV? II Griffin. 1 ' ? 4M. UrlHin, Adin'ra. } V0 [ Petition for final net.vnrilla Griffin &.t>l Iters, ) . tleiuentT appearing to Iho Ordinary that 1 U Manaell . and Vurthtl his wife, Barton GriDin. Benjamin . iflln, Sargent Qritlln, B jyGr|tfin,JI A HiUingn r ?imc nm mnim vi?, mo ueire-ai law or Jfatiey iriffin, deo?A?ed, (o wit : Avnrilla Griffin. Sargent Griffin. Joseph Griffin, and the itcirn at -law of niliatu Grilh.i. deceanad, uamely: 1 Avarim A IritUn, Nanoy Y Griffin, E H Griffin. Ruaannah M Irillin, G 11 Griffin-.- Mary L M Griffin. BaifoV ft. Irillin. Gliomas V Griffir Margarot T Griffin, larlha V D Griffin, Juno M H Griffin, defendnnt;* n tills cme, resido without tlio liinlttof tl.'s SUto : t in ordered, thcrofore, thit the sftld absent doendants do fldrcrally appear beforo in* in the Orilnary'ii Office, at Picktn? Court Uouw>, on Tueiu lay Mio 1'Jth day of June next, to shew o>iunr, if hey enn; rfhy a final tfedlcmcnt of the Estate of lArgont Gri'nn, deceased, should not l>o made.? )he hetr* at Aw rnd distributees ofTmid deceased i re alto h? jt>y requfred to render tnelr ruJvMire-. uenfH, o?v the said liith day of Jnno next, und be ireaeni and receive their respeothe distributive haras, as a final decree will bo rendered in the * axe nt that tigk , . . . .? w W. B. HOT COMDK, o.r.p. March ft, lftHO " 3m *" " '* t " '?? < "" "fF Law Notice. hue ????? " -* " " ? - I >?? uMuf;*?i|uou pjii ucfOil DilliP*"IT (rYlHvcljf L t? tW pructioe of LAW and Knotty on the VeHt?rn Clrcjlt. Mr. JHai>i>kh k Ilia partner it .'ioltcnn. JAMKS 1.. OUU. And?rson fl. 11., May 10. 1K59 42-?f ~8TATE OP ftX c JTHTOA HO UNA, $ PICKES8- IS EQUITY. Toaeph 8. Oasawny, 1 - by his next friend, ^ HfM for partition, fle* T5. ",. | l)ef, Account, J. If. Johns, Admr, ei.ul*. J 1 IT appearing to my iatUfrfotlon that1 William (1. L (lnttsuway. Fl If. Thlirber and wif?> Matilda, md Thomas H. OoMM/v^fty, defendants in this cave, eidde without the Untile of this State; on nietf'ou f llarlnon ~h I'ulliam, complainants solicitors, it ordered tint tliepe iwivornl absent defendant* do ippear In this Oenrt, and plond, answer or rtemui' o naid bill, writ bin three months from thii publtra. inn hereof, or their oowteat to the Mm&fettl be nken as confoshed by a? lAat- firo <Hiv/r*t+ r\^ain#t dm , HOB'f A. THOMl'Ssjtf, an. Jow'j*. Office, March 20, 18.1U Cum* 0 ' nor, such a.s I had never seen in Cora lJlanchunl Very composedly she questioned mo of what I had done during her absenco, telling mo, too, of her travels, of thepeople she hud seen and the places she hr.d visited, bu? never n word said she of him she called her husband. From the bank whero we sot, the village graveyard was discernible, with its marble gleaming through the trees, and at Inst, as her rye wandered in that direction, she said? " Have any of our villagers died ( Mother's letteis wero never very definite." "Yes," I answered, " our minister, Mr. Pnuiner, died two months ago." " Who takes his place V' she risked; and, is if n suspicion of the truth wero flashing upon her, her eyes turued toward mo with an . ager, startled glance. " Walter lieaumont. lie is to be ordained next Sabbath, and you urc just in time," I replied, regretting my words the next instant; for never ; aw I so fearful a look of anguish as that which Jwcnt over her face, nud was suecoeded by a cold, hard, defiant oppression, scarcely less painful to witness. She would have questioned mo of him, I think, had not an approaching footstep caught our car, sending a crimson flush to Cora's hitherto marble cheek, and producing on me a most unpleasant sensation, for I knew thr.t the gray haired man now within a few paces of us, was lie who oallcd that young creature his wife. (Jolden was tho ch.'iiu by which ho