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TO * * *
Bi' JOANNES.
Deep in my heart a memory dwells?
A mentor/ denr and lingering sweet !
A fondness o'er1 my bosom swells
To hope that we may meet *?niu
The calm ntnl happy loving past
Steals o'er my senses brighly clear;
It. loo, bar vanished, all too fast,?
Too fast, but ah i so warmly dear,
[u I ace a vision f?r?
A viHlon'nU So gvaniTiy bright
"With glowing cheeks and raven hnir,
And eyes as dark na night !
Fhe smiles?and in that smile I aco
A heart an I min i so innocent?
So calmly pure und fancy freu?
So loving, kind and cloquont !
An nngcl pure as llenven's own ;
Her blithesome form rtnd winning ways?
Aa happy aa the morninr dawn
As cheery as the sweetest rays !
And while my memory bears me o'er
The scenes and Illings of other days ;
To come again?no more, no more?
I murmur low bei sweetest praiwe!
'Tis meet a heart in homage truo
Should bow unto its idol queen,
And tender all its own love pure,
With all its thoughts serene !
And thus it is with me, my love.
My heart is all thine own!
And next to Cod in heaven above,
I'll love thee?lovo thee, all alone !
[W BITTEN rOB THS ORANOl'.DUnO SEWS.]
.A. TRUE STORY.
BY JOANNES.
CBAPTEIl IL
Several days after Osmond's visit to
JKlia, she had entirely recovered from
tier spell of sickness, except that she had
lallen oiT a little in fk*h
As soon ns her father thought her
mind sufficiently settled to receive and
properly appreciate the lecture he had
in store for her, he nvailnd himself of
an opportunity and unbosomed his do
K termination, nsi to his nttitudc towards
t?sniond and herself.
Sho hoard what Jic said without being
povod aL all, or expressing either by
sjign or word, any regret.
In her heart she had placed our hero,
and big image,she averred, should never
bo eradicated from her bosom.
Her father left her for tbo second
time, llo thought tb it the girl had
really become demented, or was laboring
unde?, a temporary aberration of the
mind, uud that, it would be the better
part of wisdom, not- to trouble her im
mediately.
Uux If euer a; watchful an 1 anxious
paj;ent was- mistaken., us to the true, con
diLion of a child's mi mi. old Mr. Oswald
? was iu this instance
Ella was uot orazy, uor was slio at all
incline;! to lunacy.
If her conduct seemed strange to her
father, and he could not understand it,
ho ought to have gone to work properly
to ascertain the prime cause from
v. Ii ich it sprang. If he had done this,
he would have learnt that what ho took
for mental disorder was nothing more
than a resoluto determination to follow
out the holy and sacred dictates of love.
That whilst bis daughter had rcspeot for
him, and desired in her heart to obey
parental authority, there wns a stronger
passion than that of filial affection which
directed her course.
Months elapsed, and to Ella's father
sho appeared uo better. He thought
her mind still affected. She hover
spoke of Osmond onetime to him. She
seemed brooding over some horrible
thought all the While.
But it was not so. Sho was on be
thinking of tho time wheu sho hoped to
leave her father's roof for tho man she
loved.
At last the day arrived. By appoiut
meut she met her lover one afternoon
along a cool, shady path, in which she
had been accustomed to stroll uf even
ings.
Osmond soon led her to his carriage,
aud drove rapidly to the minister's
house, where friends were waiting to
sec the marriage ceremony performed.
Before the suu had gone down beneath
the western horizon, our fair hcioiuo was
the wife of Augustus Osmond.
A message was sunt to old Mr. Os
walt) telling him of her marriage. It
was surprising to see with wliat stoicism
he rcue.ved this intelligence. In fact,
alter he came to consider it, he concluded
that, perhaps, it was all lor the best,-ami
it behooved him to reconcile himself to
the change.
But BrTrfortutiately for tho fair hopes of
the newly married bride, her happiness
was of a short duration ; Ivor dream ot
connubial bliss was short lived.
Before six months bad elapsed after
the marriage, Osmond was taken very
ill, and was confined to his bed many
weeks. His disease was typhoid fever.
Never did a case seem so stubborn and
unwilling to yield to the influence of
medicines. At last nil hopes of his re
covery were given up, and one bright
morning bis spirit left him. Tho last
word be murmured, as bis weeping wife
leant over him, was "Ella !" and he was no
more. Through all of bis sickness she
administered to bis wants with unremit
ting earnestness. The grief sho expe
rienced, in consequence of her husband's
death, wns indeed intensely painful.
But like all earthly bereavements the
pain, the seemingly premature death of
Osmond brought to Ella's bosom, was, af
ter awhile, assuaged *nd softened by lime.
One thing, though, connected with his
df.nlh ??>?? -UJ? I'uigu* w..o i-'nw |
careful and unwearying attention paid
to him by the physician that attended
him during his illness ; and meeting him
afterwards she almost felt as though he
could Gil the place lott void in her hcirt
by the death of Osmond.
So tender and so delicately had he
sympathized with her, in her hours of
grict, that she felt like repaying him for
bis sympathy by surrendering her heart
to him.
OHAI'TRIt 111.
The physioian mentioned in the pro
ceeding chaptor was named Morgan.
And now let tlo reader imagine
that several years had uoiiiq am) gone
betwuon tho death of Osmond and tho
timo in which we shall net introdnae
Ella.
Aud let it not surpriso nuy ono to
know that we present her in (his chap
ter as one blindly infatuated with Alo>
gan,although he bad never uttered ono
syllable of love to her. She would even
thro v aside her widowed modesty and
doclare to him that sho loved him. J
With considerable embarrassment ho
would sometimes listen to her declara
tions, till at length they becamo ex
cessively annoying, and hd concluded
that his best plan was to evade her uo*
ciety if possible. This bo did effectual
ly accomplish by removing to another
place, some distance from the one in
which our heroine rosided.
As soon as she ascertained of his de
parture, her mind did really become
affected. At about this period of time,
old Mr. Oswald died, and left his wid
owed daughter to hciself. This cveut,
added to that caused by the absence of
tho uiuu ubout whom she became cruzed,
increased her lueutal disorders; and we
hud ffbr lust living the lonely and isolat
ed lifo of one whoso love wus unre
quited.
The man of her first choice dead, and
the other almost ashamed to have it said
?
that she loved him.
After her father's death she bocamo so
eccentric in her maiiucrs as to alienate
her former associates. The only con
versation that she would hold With any
ouo^wns about Dr. Morgan. She lived
in a house to herself, and after what
little money her father left was expend
ed, in tho purchase of articles suggested
by her diseased imagination, she cro
cheted, and made all kinds of needle
work for'sale. Thus the once sweet aud
beautiful Klla Oswald was brought, by
circumstances, and tiW grids of a heart
too ardent in its affections, from a posi
tion of case and comfort to one of pov
erty and want.
But even to-day she wiH tell those
who pa)* her visits out of curiosity that
the doctor is "mining next, wook, stud
that she will soon be married."
For frt'teon years fhe has lived under
this delusion, ami those who know her
say that she has had a wedding dress
which sho tnade nearly thirteen years
ugo, awl in- which she ?'intended to marry
Dr. Morgan."
Weekly she writes and sends letters
to the po-t office, addressed to "the doc
tor." The young men of the town un
derstand her, and to humor her notions,
forward her bouquets in return.
Not long since a number of ladies,
who \?cre on a visit" to the town In which
this now uncarcd for woman lives, call
ed on her at her houso.
She met them at the door, and with
a kind of wild and Unintelligible smile
said, on discovering who it was that
knocked for admittance, "Oh, I thought,
it was the doctor'" and letting her head
fall for a few moments, said, "but come
in."
The visitors stated that they had
called to purchase some of her needle
und wax work. "Oh, yes," said she, and
she soon had spread out before tho as
tonished ladies a variety of beautiful
pieces of work. In tho colioction there
?jj _ .....w. ivinUv gjvuvil. \Ji)ti
of the visiting ladies inquired tho price
of it. ''Oh," said she, "lhati made for
the doctor, and can't sell h. He's com
ing to-inoilotf, you kuow." And then
with a kind of dreamy air of abstraction
she resumed, "Yes he is coining, for ho
sent me a bouquet yesterday. I will show
you my wedding dress, so you wi'l know
that 1 am prepared."
11? re she withdrow from the room a
moment, und when she returned, she
held in her hand a dress that had been
made so long that it was evidently rot
ten, as well as badly moth eaten. She
explained how much it cost her, and
even desired to try it on j but at this
juncturo one of tho la lies *i nailed to the
rest to go. They paid our faded heroine
lor what they hud sclented, aud hade her
good byu. At tho door she tuld all
they must oumo buck next week, lor she
intended having ? brilliant and happy
wedding.
To say these ladies got a topic of
which (hoy can talk for mouths, would
only equal the KCal with whioh they
make use of it. Dut they never sne.?k
of availing themselves of tho invitation to
tho wedding.
And thus tho once beautiful and admir
ed Ella is situated now. Young men who
years ago would havo thought it an
an honor to kneel at her feet, now laugh
at and dnrido her. Her cheeky which
were, not many years ago, full with the
health and beauty of youth,. are now
pale and thin. 11 er once proud, elastic
step too is gone, and sho is loft solitary
and alone, with uo ono to'care for or sym
pathize with her heart. And no it is with
thousauds of other girls sjhom wo kuow
nothing of. When they were in their
teens, perhaps they could boast of a train
of admirers; uow they are friendless
and receive sneers from ihoso who once
fawned upon and flattcr&l them. Sic
transit gloria mundr.
Taking Things Without Asking.
When I was a boy, I was playing out
iu the street one winter's day, catching
rides on sleighs, and it was great fun.
Hoys would rather catoh rides any day
than go out regularly nuu^Droperly to
take a drive. As I was CatoreHg on to
one sleigh and to another, some times
having a nice time, and ofttimcs getting
a cut Iron a big black whip, I at last
fastened like a barnacle to the side of a
countryman's cutler.
An wld gentleman sat alone on the
seat, and he looked ut me rather benig
nunlly, as I thought, and neither said
anything to me, nor swuughis whip over
me, us 1 ventured to climb upon the side
of bis cutter. Another benignant look
from the countryman, but not a word.
Emboldened by his*upposid goodness, I
ventured to tumble into . be cutter and
took a scat under tho waiv.i buffalo robe
beside him., and fi^u-. ?se? ^flL?. Tin
colloquy was as follows :
??Young man, do you like to ride?"
"Yes."
"It's a pretty nice cutter, isu't it ?"
'? \ es, sir, it is, and a uiee horse draw
ing it."
"Di* I ask you to get iu ?"
? No, Mir. '
"Well, then, why did you get in ?"
"Well, sir, 1?1 thought you looked
so good and kind, aud that you would
hare no objection. "
"And so, young man, because you
thought I was good and kind, you took
advantage of that kindness, and took :i
favor without' alking for it?"
"Yes, sir."
"Is that ride worth having?"
"Yes. sir."
"Well, now, young man, I want to tell
you two things. You should never take
a mean advantage of the kindues* of
others; and what is worth at least ask- ;
ill?? for. Now as you tumbled into this
...
sleigh without asking nie, I shall tumble
you out into that snow-drift without ask
ing you."
And out I went, like a shot off a
shovel, and bo didn't make much fuss
about it cither. I picked myself up in
a slightly bewildered state, but I never
forgot that lesson.
??m? ?
Wash.\u other People's Time.?
A COUlUlitteO of cii'ht ivenflntnnn t>-..l -i.
appointment to meet at I?, o'clock.
Seven of them were punctual, but the
eighth camo hustling in with npologics
for being a quarter of nn hour behind
time. "The time," said ho "passed
away without my being aware of it. 1
had DO idea of its being so late," Ac.
A quakcr present said, "I am not sure
that we should admit thy excuse. It
were a matter of regret that thou
shouldcst have wasted thine own quarter
of an hour; but there are seven besides
thyself, whose time thou bant also <? >n
suuied, amounting in the whole to two
hours, and oiio-eightl) of it only was
thine oica property.
"Maria." said a lady to a colored scr
Vltnt, "thai'? tho third silk dress you have
worn sinoo you came to mo; pray, how
many do yon own ?" Only seven, mis
sis; but \'h saving my wages to buy
nnuder !" Seven ! wljat use aro silk
drosses to you ? why, I don't own so
many as that." "SpOCt not, missis,''
said the smillmg darkoy, "you doesn't
need 'em so much as I does. You see,
you quality folks everybody knows is
quality; but wo bettor-most kind ofcul
lud pusSOIlS has to drOSS smart to dis
tinguish our.selves from common nig
THANKSGIVING DAY.
Proclamation by the Presi
dent.
Washington, Oot. 21).
Tho President on Saturday issued his
proclamation naming Nov. 30th as a day
of national thanksgiving, as follows :
By the President of the. United States of
America.
a proclamation.
Tho process of the seasons have again
enabled the husbandman to garner the
fruits of successful tA). Industry has
been generally well rewarded. We are
at peace with all nations, and tranquili
ty, with few exceptions, prevails at home..
Within the past year wc havo in the
maiu been from ills which elsewhere ,
have afflicted our kind. If sonic of us*
have had calamities, these should be an
occasion for sympathy with the sufferers,
of resignation on their part to the will
of tho Most High, and of rejoicing to
the many who have been more favored.
I therefore recommend that on Thurs
day, the thirtieth day of November next,
the people meet in their respective places
of worship, aud there make tho usual
annual acknowledgments' to Almighty
(iod for tho blessings He has couferrcd
upon' *hcm for their merciful exemption
from evils, aud invoke His protection
and kindness for their less nufortnatu
brethren, whom, in His wisdom, He has
deemed it best to chastise.
In faith whereof I have hereunto set
my hand, aud caused the seal of the
United States to bo affixed.
Done at the nity of Washington, this
twenty eighth day of October, in tho
year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-one, and of the in
dependence of the United States the
ninety-sixth.
TJ. 3. OllAltT.
By the President ?
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.
Mow Hint Horn.
Some years ago a gentleman was trav
eling throng!) Mississippi, on a collecting
tour for a commercial house, and as tho
facilities for transportation were not ?o
good then as now. he purchased a horse,
and, like King llichard is said to have
done, ??went it on horseback." Just as
the shades of evening Wero closing upon
what hud been to him a long and tire
some day, he emerged from the woods
aud found himself ou the banks of a
river.
On the other side ho saw what looked
like an inn, and reclining lazily in the
end of his boat ho discovered the ferry
man. .
"Hallo! I want to get over," the
traveler shouted.
"Then blow the horn," carelessly re
plied he of tho ferryboat.
Now, being "city bred," our friend
had never seen a horn, much less blowed
one?in fact, ho was novdr kuovfn to
even take a horn."
"I want to get over," ho shouted
again.
"Then blow the horn," roared tho fer
ryman.
Thn tfnvolor rnvf. bin ovi><i nhnnt him
i
and,discovered the horn hanging to the
limb of a neighboring tree, but feeling
his utter inability to blow it, said :
"You can hear me well enough ; Come
set me over.
'?Blow the horn, I tell you," was the
reply of the obstinate countryman.
'1 can't blow the horn/' shouted the
collector
?'Then stay where you arc," said tho
disgusted proprietor of tho ll.?t, "if
you're Blich n denied tool that you can't
blow a horn, it can't make much differ*
ence which hide of the river you're on.
An invalid oil CO complained to a
neighbor of a shaughi which the latter
kopt, Tho bird was a tcrriblo nuisance,
and gave him no peace day or night,
??lint," said tho akoptical owner, "my
cock only crews four or. fjvo times a day.
I don't see how that can annoy you so
much." ''Because," roplied the Buffercr,
"you don't take into account all the
times when l um- crjicctiuy, kim to
crow.'"
An Irishman who was recently run
over by a whole train of cars got up and
asked for his cap, and said he "would
not run stish another risk. 08 that for
tic dollars
?.?,?.-.-_?- / t -:
Female Tnnity ia Chuck. 51
People aro generally supposed to go
to church for devotion, but, if they do
devotion hnd vanity are twin sinters.
Look at tho number of pretty hands
whreh find it absolutely necessary topull
off their gloves, and which are always
wandering up to tho face in becoming
gestures, and with tho right curve. Or,
if the hands only uicdiocro, the. rings
arc handsome, and diamonds sparkle as
well in a church tis att'ywhorc else., Aud
though ono vows to renounce tl\e Just
of tho world ns well as of tho flesh, there
is no use iu having diamonds if ouSa
neighbors don't nee them. -Look, tcb,
at the pretty face? which knows so woll
the effect produced by a little paint and
powder beneath a softning mask of thin
white lace. Ts this their best ooufession
of sin ? And, again, (hose elaborate
toilots in-which 'women come to pray for
forgiveness and humility; caro they for
tho honor of God? It strikes us that
the honor of God has very littlo to do
with that formidable, and may bo unpaid
milliner's bill; but the admiration of men
and tho envy or other women a great
deal. The Popo is wise to make all
ladies go to his rcVgious festivals iu a
uniform costume, and iu black. It nar
rows the margin of coquetry somewhat,
if it docs not altogether remove it. But
dress ever was, and ever will be, as'
webs spread in the way of woman's
righteousness; and we have no doubt
that Eve frilled her apron of 6g leave3
before she had worn it a day.
Here trip in a couple of giggling girls
conscious of their youth and good looks,
but mainly conscious of. their bonnets.
They look with tittering dismay at the
crowded setts all along the middle, and
when the verger nia&csthcm understand
that they must go to the back of the
side aisle, where they oau be seen by no
ono. but will only he. nbln to hear tho
service and say their prnycrs, they hesi
tato and whisper to each other beforo
they finally go up, feeling that tho great
objoct for which they camo to church
has failed them, and they had" better
have stayed away and taken their chance
on the parade. Wlren they speak of it
afterwards, they say it was "awfully
slow sitting there;" and they determine
to be earlier another time. Thero sweep
in a triad of superbly dressed women
with fans and scent-boltlcs, who dis
dainfully decline the back places which
tho same vergor, with a fine sense of
justice, and beginning to hS\ a little in
temper, inexorably assigns them. They
too confer together, but by no means in
whispers; and finally elect to stand in
the middle aisle, trusting to their mag
nificence and quite determination to get
"nice places" in the pewed sittings.
They are fine ladies who look as it they
were performing an act of condescension
by coming at all witlrottt special privi
leges and separation from the vulgar; as
if they had an inherent right to worship
God in a superior and aristocratic man
ner, and were not tobe confounded with
the rest of the miservhle sinners who
ask for merey ami forgiveness. They
are accustomed to front seats everywhere;
so why not in tho. place whore they say
sweetly they are "nothing of themselves"
ami pray to be delivered "from pride, and
vajn-glory'?'' That old Ihdy, routed and
uyeu, ami urcssed to represent, the bey
day of youth, who also is supposed to
cotno to church to say her prayers and
confess her sins, looks as if sho would
be more at home at the green tables at
Homburg than in an unpretending
chair of tho strangers' quarter in the
parish church. But she finds her places
iu her 1'rayfcr-book, if alter a time aud
with much seeking; and when she nous
during the sermon, ."ho has the good
breeding not to snore. She, too, has
the odd trick of looking like condescen
sion when she cornea in, trailing her
costly silks am! IncCfl behind her; and
by her manner hho leaves on you the
impression that she was a beauty in her
youth, and has been used to the defer
ence! an 1 admiration uf men, to servants
and a carriage, and purple and fine lin
en, and that all you, whom ehe has the
pleasure of surveying through her dou
ble eyeglass are uobodios, aud that shu
out of plaoo amongyou. She makes her
demonstration, like tho rest, when she
finds that the best scuts aro already
tilled, and that no ono offers to stir that
sho may be well placed; and- if she is
ruthlessly relegated to tho back, and
stays tiiere, as she doe* sometimes, your
devotions aro rendered uncomfortable
by the unmistakable protest conveyed
iu bec o.vn. 0:?ly alow bumble ("bris
jians jn.. fashionable| ?Uirel l*ck
ofa^cs cjjo^ly^,^ th4e>sW&aft?ettis
tmns'in fusbio^tyjr r^W?f?^W?^?4
the old difficulty, abrfut.-Ahft caineLatecl
the ntratfo^a A^tfg | #ght,aen*aW
dred years ?e^A*emfl\irfcio fOl?*.,?Jl
A westoriji paper tells o <!?pilai.ti(iffjf
of a deaf gentleman's mistake. It scerna,
that in the-procession that followed good
DdacOn Jone? to the grave, last summer,
the Rev. Mr- Sampler,.ythe?e# o4*r*j&*
men of East Town, found himself itV-ttHP
?amo carriago with an elderly, map whttu
he had never before met. They rode iant
grave silence for a few moments, wb,en
the clergyman endeavored to improve
the occasion by sorious conversation.
"This is a Solemn' duty in which, we....
are engaged, rarfrjend '\he?t>idL
old man returned.. "Can't you MJftfc
louder? Fm hard ?fMiearHrV'J
*" I "I if.-is remarking," shouted the cler?
gyman, "that this is a Solemu r?ad(
are traveling, and East Town does g$r
ahead of all creation for t id.' ii&VL
Tho young clergyman looked ffHnjjK
the unexpected turn given to 'th^a r?p.
mark; but quickly recovering hirosefc/
and raising his voice to its highest pitch,
ho resumed the conversation.
"Our frieod has done with au ta* ,?(
disoomforls of earth, he said solemnly.
?? A smntt spot of ground will aoon oo^aj^^
his poor ?senseless clay ." '.r?lt
"Did you say ; clap, sir?" dfieJ.41?^
old man, eagerly- "TVt nigh so good (\
to coVcr snnd'wiih as meeder loam. 8api
I to'Mr. Brewer, last towfc-meetin' day,
"It you'd cart on a few dozen loads, and,.
thcro's acres of it ou ,he river Bhniry " ;f
sez I, "you'd make as pretty a ^ieoe of.
road as there is in Hartforo unnty."
But we are slow folks in East Town,
sir."
It was, perhupw, njrtuuaiu Air tue
clergyman at that moment that the
smell of'A'cW-made hay from a> neigh
boring field suggested a fresh train of
thought.
"Look," oaid he, with a graceful wave
of the hand, "what an emblem of the ?
brcrity of human life! "As the grass
of the Geld so man flourisheth,and t o- mo r
row ho is cut d'own." (
"I do:/t calculate to cut mint? iitf .
next week,*' said his companion. You
mustn't cut grass too early; and than
again, you musn't cut it too late." ^ ^
"My friend, shrieked tho clergyma??,^,
iu a last desperate attempt to make him* a.
self understood, "this is no place for
vain conversation. We arc approaching
the narrow house appointed for all the
living." : '; ?*?
They were entering tho graveyard*,
j but the old man stretched his neck
from the carriago window in the oppc
j a^ite direction. . i :i
"Do you mean Squire Hubbardfr ?Hraj^' I
yonder ? 'Tis rather narrer. They'
build all them ncw-far.glcd- houswrtbat {,
way. now-a-days. To my mind they
ain't nigh so handsome n jr so handy as
the old fashioned square ones with a
broad entry runnin' clear through to
the back door. Well, this is the gat-'
ting out-placo, ain't it? Much obleeged'4
to ye, parson, for your entertaining*ri?'
marks."
The last joke at the expense of taV
French Society for tho Pro tec* ion- of
Animals is to thn following effect :- A
countryman, art.: id with an immense
club, presents himself before the preai
dent of the society and claims the first
prize He is asked to describo the act
of humanity on iio founds his elaico-.
"I saved tho life of a wolf," replied tha
countryman. "I might easily have'
killed him with this bludgeon;" and he
swings * his weapon in the air, to*
tho intense discomfort of the president.
"But where was the wolf?" inquiredtho^
latter; "what had he dono to you?" He
had just devoured my wife, is tho reply.*
The president rflccts an instant and then
says : "My friund, I am- of the opinion1
that you have been sufficiently rewar
ded."
Having exhausted the "ol lest Mason"
business) the papers have begun on tho*
oldest Methodist. At prosont she is*
"Mother- Winslo-v," of Ca?ton> aged
105,
"I believe that mine will be the fate'
of Able," said a devoted wife to her
husbaud one day. "How so?" inquire1
od tho husband. "Beoftuse Abel was
killed by a club, and your olub will kil*
mc if you coutiuue to go- to- it evjh>
night."