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electdt Iory. e YOURS TRULY. a BY MRS., M. L. RAYNE. 'Amazing Grace,' said Mrs Pils- v bury, as she sat with her daughter a at their afternoon sewing, 'be yew e goin' to piece a quilt?' 'What fur, mother?'. D 'Why ain't Mr. Van Vleet been s to see you twice't runnin' lately ? t He's, axed ye, I s'pose, to hev s hi Mn?, 11 'An' I gav him the mitten.' 1: 'Sho! You wouldn't be half so 9 silly I Why, he's wuth a dozen or- r dinary men. You mought go fu- e ther rnd fare wuss.' 'Jest what I'm goin' to dew.' c 'Did yew tell him so?' 'No, I writ; now, mothier, let me ( be ; I ain't a goin' to marry no man t thet thinks I'm jumpin' et tlie 11 chance. I'd a heap rtuther be an 1 old maid.' There was nothing said for some, time; then the widow asked: a 'When did yew write, Mazin?' 1 'A day or so past.' 0 'Where did you git a pen?' 1 'I borrowed one. Mebbe you'd e like to know what I said tew him.' c 'You've guessed rite,' said the a widow eagerly. 1 'It ain't nuthin to nobody but us, mother, s'long es I didnt have him,' C said the girl curtly, and no more ' was sai(d, but the Widow sighe I h heavily and held her hand to her left side t Amazin knew that, it meant her ( heart, for she had been brought up f to res)ect that organ as an intimi.c dating power. This time she did not relent, but wondered why she c could not like that big, goodlookingW VnVleet well enough tomarry ( him, for they were poor,% poor as I that historic church mouse, and hej w as well off. I But they were not mercenary- 9 P'eople called them simple folks; p.erhaps because they lacked edui cation, and they b~elieved1 every thing that was told them. But It they were good as gold. The wid ow's face and form, lank and un- I gainly were famnilar in every sick e room. They rendlered1 unto Coisar 1 the things that were Cosar's. r They owed no0 man11 anything, ! though they worked early and Iath i to accomplish it. They were good to everybody and everything, and Amazin Grace--her mother had e named her after the hymn begin-v ning, 'Amazing Grace, howseti the sound'-was really pretty. So d thought big, hu tlking, shama faced 'i Van Vieet, when he came a court- ii ing her, with his trousers tuckediJ ap tied down over his ears. She ras the only girl he wasifiald 6f, nd he wasn' afraid of her, to come ight down to it. le was an honest, decent chap, rith a fist like a sledge hami'ner nd a heart like a child's. le wanti d Amazin Grace, and he couldn't nagine any reason why he shiould ot have her. When he got her imgle little letter of refusal, writ en out with infinito difficulty and pelled on a new plan of phonetics, e read it over and over, smoked is cob. pipe, read the letter again, rinned a good bit, then folded it everently, and put it in the pock t nearest his heart. 'That's all rite, my girl,' he huckled. A couple of months passed away. )ne peculiarity of time is that it reats all - people alike. It does ot fly from some -ind stand still rith others. It was spring at the ran Vleet farm, which was one 1ass of apple and cherry blossoms, ed it was spring at the Widow 'ilsbury's little lean to house, with ut shrub.or blossom. The widow >oked out of the window and sigh d. Sne had never hear(d the 'Soug f the Shirt,' but she had sung it 11 her life. It was her bread and utter, 'There's Van Vleet !' she exelaim d, looking up from her lap-hoard Well, I declare! What brings him ere?' 'P'r-aps he's commi' Io ask yew hev him, mother,' said Aiazin ,race, liaughing, while a sweet ush of pink stained her round heeks. 'I wish he should !' said the wid w, devoutly ; 'I should consider wus f1 in' in the face of Provi lee not to marry such a man-if Le asked me,' But Mr. Van Vleet stalked in vit~h a brief 'good day,' threw an .rmful of blossoms into the lap of 'I'm readly for a wedding.' 'Did you git my letter?' asked he girl. 'Yep ! It warn't, to say lovin,' ~ut I Look yer meanin.' I've fenc d in the hull north lot, and fur ushed the house up, so yor would Ot know it, an' I kalculate ef we in git married next week, it wont treewith my spring work ey .' A a zin G1 race se t back and look d the pictu e of surprise. The idow thought she beard the cat the pantry and discreetly with rew. As the door closed Farmr 'an Vleet took two little red hands m his, and bending forward gave Lmazin an awful smnack. 'That seals the bargain, he said, but the indignant girl jtunped up and ordered him out of the house. To her astonishment he did not budge a step. 'Not much I reokin I've a right to kiss' yer now,' lie said boldly then he stepped to the door and called loudly: 'Mother! kum here!' The widow must have been con veniently near, for she almost fell into the room at his first word, and he bestowed another sounding smack on her. 'It's all rite,' he said, 'me-an' Amazin Grace is goin' to. be mar ried, and you kin dance at the wed dinc.r 'But-but the letter,' gasped the girl. You ain't understood a word of it. 'The fact is.' said Van Vleet. 'I ain't had no education to speak of; been too busy grubbin' land all my life. I didn't raly read the letter to sense it, but when I see how you signed it that was euff for me. I knowed you wouldn't hev writ that way to a feller ye weren't goin' to marry. I dont know much about bals, but I know that?' W:ien it was all settled that they were to be married the next week, .Sunday, Farmer Van Vleet rode off iand the two women put away the hy-board, and resigued the univer sal shirt making business forever. 'I'd give the world to know what I writ to him,' said Amazin. 'The world aint you rn to give,' corrected her mother, piously. Iin sarclin sure I told him no, said the girl, 'but I reckon lie was bound to hev me, and I dunno e2 1I Sorry, either, now.' When they were married and A mazin and her mother had gone out to the new home in the smart new sj ringwagon, the bride returnedI tc the subject of the letter. 'I hev a burnin't cur'osity tc know what I writ,' she said, cause (blushing) 'I thought I riffused you.' 'O-ho, I guess not,' said the tri uimphant lover. 'Look-a here, Mrs Van \ 'eet, here's the letter. Taint but a fe~w words. There ain't nc tieular meanin' in them, but its the sighning of them. Do you see that ? Them two words would stand iu law to mean plain yes; there's nc gittin around them!' Amnazin and her mother 'both read: 'Mr. Van Vleet: 'DEER SIR : I am sorry to inforni you that your attenshuns are in nowise Recipperkated. Yures trewly, 'AMAzIN GRACE~ PILeBURY.' 'That fetched me,' said Mr. Van Vleet, looking admniringly at h is new possession. 'I doan't kno much, but I rokin I kin tell what a girl means when she writes to a feller and signs herself 'Yures trewly.' AND R. M. MAcDONALD, PropYK. an,(di nufiacturer of all kinds of Ma chinery, Brass atidiron Castings imade to order- .. I amr. agent foi- the Judson Governor, and Can liplicate any part ; also the HAIMCOCK INSPIRATOR, vhich.I ca .lit t p ally olJle. The safest and sin plest Inanis of injecting water luto I boiler. Infor'mation cheer'fully furnislied ot application'. I have on hand Steam Ganges, Fittings, Valves.and Steam' Pipes of all sizes. My stock Is first-class and from the best manufactures. Write for prices. Rt. M. 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