Lancaster Examiner and Herald

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LANCASTER, PA.,
JUNE 8. 1870.
NO. SOI
EXAHOTEB & HEBATO.
FITBLISEED SVSB.Y 'WEDirESDAT, At Ro. 4 Horth Qnoon Street, IincaBMr, p».
TEBMS-$2.00 A TEAB I" ADVAHCE.
JOHN A. HIEST.VND & E. M. KLINE. Editors nnd Proprietors.
THE BKAUIIFITL lAKD.
Tliere's a bcantlnu land by the spoiler unlrod.
Unclouded by sorrow or care; It is lighted alono by the preseuecofood.
Whose tiironeand temple nre there: Ils crystalluo streams with a niurmnrons How
Meander throUL'li valley.-f of green. And Its mountains of J.a-spor aro bright in the glow
Of a splendor no man hath seen.
And Ihrougs of glnd singers Willi   Julillnut brealli ...       ,,
Hake the air Willi tiieir roeloilies rife; Aud oue known ou earth as liic angel of death.
Shines here lU. au augel of Ule. .\nii inllnile tenderne.ss lu-aius from his eyes.
Oil liisbrowlsa lu-uveuly ealui. And hisvolee, aslt Ihrllls liirough tbo depth of liie skies.
Is as sweet ss tlie seraphim s psalm.
'Through tho uiuslc;il groves of this beautiful land AValk the souls ^Yhleli -were fnUhftil in this, Aud their puro white loreheadBbyzcphyrsare fanned That evermore murmur of hllss; 'They taste tlio rich frullago that haugs from tile trees. And breatlie the swoel odor of flowers Alore fragrant tliau ever were kl.ssed liy tiio breeze In Arahy's loveliest bowers.
Old prophets, whoso words wcro n .spirit of lliiuiu Itla/ing ont o'er tiic darltue.ss of time. And martyrs, wliose courage no lorlnro could tamo. Nor turn n*om Ilicir iiurpo.se sublime ; And   .saiiils   nnd   confessors, n   numberless throng. Who were loyal lo trulh nnd lo rigiit. And Icftiui tbey waiiteil througli tliudarkness of wrtuig 'Their fo<it-i>riuls encircled "Wllh light.
And tiic dear litlle childreu wlio went lolhelr rest Ere liieir lives had beeu .sullied liy sin, WliilB Ilic angel of niorning silll lurried n gneiit Tha spirit's pure (cuiple within— All are lliero. ail nro tlierc—in llio iicnullful laml. Tile land bv tho spoiler nutrod. And their i-adlaul foreheads by breezes are fauncil That blow from tho gnruens of God.
My soul hath looked lu through tho gatowiiy ofdrcams On the cily all pnvcd ¦with puro gold. ."Vnd heard tho sweet How of ilsiunruiurous streams. ..Vs through lile green valleys they rolled: And Ihougii It slill waius ou tills   desuiate slraud. A pilgrim and sti-auger on earlli, Yet ilknew.ln Ihalgliiupseof Ihe lienutiful laud. That It gazed ou the homo of Its hirlli.
SACHEL'S WAE.
jris. Petligrew Iiaii come in ostensibly to borrow Kachel's large ilripping-pau ; and slie meant to ini|Uire, Iiefore the eall wns over, whether Rachel intended to use her preserving-kettle ou the fol¬ lowing week. But there was aa admi¬ rable indirectness about the good woman's mode of proceeding; so slie nettled down in a comfortable rocking chair, wliich er.noked with her weight, and took oH'hersun-honnetand smooth¬ ed out the folds of her gown-
Baehel was making pumpkin pies ; nnd the etiquette of the country did not oblige her to forego her occuyatiou on account of her visitor. There was a pan of sifted pumpkin upon the table, and a pan of goldeu milk, showing the rich¬ ness of fall pasturage, and eggs, aud butter, aud whills of cinnamon iierfunie were coming nnd going. Rachel helii up a blue pie-plate upon her hnnd, and slitted the crust from about the edge with dexterity. Atthcmoment, in that not unpictuiesciue attitude, with the plump bared arm and well poised head, Rachel was a lit representative of tho genuine Yankee girl. Nature had put no journey work upon her. The clear, positive lines of her face told that. If she was not strictly liandsome, there certainly was no other girl in Basset with the spirit and courage of Rachel Henderson.
" Have you got airquaiuted with the Braytqns, Rachel''" Jlrs. Pcttigrew was inquiring, as a sort of roundabout introduction to quince -sass and the pre.'^erving-kettle. " You know, tliat family that h:is bought the old Shorter place."
"No, I haven't," returned Rachel, with a slight jerk in her tone, which showed her disposition was not unmiti- gateii sweetness ; " but I know their pigs and chickens too well," she added. " They have been over-running the garden for a month past, and father is so easy he won't saj' boo to a neighbor, whatever happens ; hut, at last, I h.ive taken matters in my own hands, and have declared wnr. We keep our ani¬ mals al home, aud expect other folks to do tlie same, or else take the conse¬ quences."
" I know what you can do, Rachel, when yon .m't 3'our dander up; but seems to me yon have got a breachy cow of yourown," rem.trked Jlrs.Pettigrew, who took peculiar comfort iu touching up her friends on their weak points.
" Oh, yes," returned Rachel, careless¬ ly ; "old bess was trying in that respect last summer. But we always paid dam¬ ages, and now father keejis a board on her head, and looks well to the fences." "AVell," and Mi's. Pcttigrew sighed, " I don't know why the Lord put such propensities into critters; but I 'spose rooting and scratching is the way pigs aud chickens have of arniiig a living, though some of 'em do seem total deiiravity, I'd jiint to them sliotes we had a year ago, come next spring."
"Asa geuernl thing, if piga and cliickens have enough to eat nt home, tliey won't trouble the public," remark¬ ed Rachel with a littlo a.sperity, as she tipened the oveu door and tried the temperature with her h.and.
" The Braytons haven't had time to getthincs.slilp-shape. Old Eli Shorter was dreadful shiftless, and let the jilace run dowu at the heel. Besides, Racliel, ilou't spile your market. There's a like¬ ly young man over there. Everybody luus a good word for Herman Brayton. Folks say he has been tlirough college, and kuows asiglit; but he dou't put on mauy airs, and has chosen to be a farm¬ er, rather than go into lawing or doc¬ toring."
" 1 am not acquainted with thej'oung man," said Rachel, coldly; "but I can tell him one thing—it takes more than college learning to teach some iieople to observe the rights of others."
"Ijook out, Jtaehel," and old Mrs. Pcttigrew screwed her eyes into an odious wink, " I'v heard girls talk just as you do afore now; but there's no knowing what may happen. I must tell you of a remark Philander made last uight just as he was blowing out the caudle.. It seemed to strike him suddenly ; and says he, ' Huldy.' says he, ' I shouldn't be a bit surprised if one of these times Rachel and Herman Braylon struck up a match. For j'ou see the farms jine, and it would look, as we might say, providential.' "
"Folks needn't trouble themselves nbout making matches for me," broke iu Rachel, with her face iu a tlame. "I can attend to my own aflairs without anybody's Interference; and Herman Brayton is the last man I should look at."
" Come, Rachel, don't get riled," the old lady made haste to say in a purring tone. " It was all a joke, and Philan¬ der, says he, ' Rachel Henderson is as smart as a whip, audany mau who gets her will be doing plaguey well; but she'll be awful partiekerler, I know she will.' Now 1 think of it. Rachel, could you lend me your big dripping pan? Sister Blake is coming over with her family to-morrow, aud mine wou't take in an cxtra-si'/.ed roast."
The negotiations for the preserving- kettle alao accomplished, Mrs. Petti- grew went ott; swinging the dripping pan lustily; and Rachel, in the iuter- val of watching her pies, stood at the window to cool her Hushed face. Con¬ stitutionally, she hated the gossip of a little country neighborhood; and it nettled her to know her name had so soon been joined with Herman liray- ton's. Now, with a positive feeling of disliko, she looked across the pleasant fields—with broideries of red and purple and gold hung upon the fringe of forest trees, nnd corn lauds ready for the sickle nndulating upon the little knolls until their ru.sset touched the blue of the sky —to where the chimuey-stacks of the old Shorter place came out from amidst tlieir nest of trees.
"Rachel! Rachel!" called out a half- grown boy, running at the moment round the corner of the house, and hold¬ ing up the lifeless form of a Une cock. " •you told me to let Hy ifl see any of the Brayton's hens on the place, so, when I ketched this tall strut at the cabbage, I just chucked him a stone, and he plumped as dead as a door nail " "That was right, Jack, but, upon my word, you have killed the Sbanghae rooster." And Rachel felt alittle twinge of remorse knowing the expense and rarity of the dead specimen before her.
"However, 1 am not a bit sorry," she said, after a moment's relleotion. " Ex¬ perience costs dear, as the copy-hook says, and I guess, In time, our neigh¬ bors will find out that we are not to be imposed upon. Take the rooster home. Jack, and throw him over the door¬ yard fence. It will be a declaration of war."
"If fathar should iind it out," said Jack, reflectively, "liemightscoldlike ¦Sam Hill. Then, I spose, you could staud tlie brunt, Rachel, eh'?"
"Did you ever know mo to shrink responsibility?" inquired Rachel, lofti¬ ly. "Go along, Jack, and don't bo a coward."
' When Jack came iu with tho men- folks at dinner time, he looked sulky and out of sorts, and kept telegraphing iu dumb show to Rachel across the ta¬ ble, until, at last, when she got up to cut the pie, he followed her into tho buttery, and shut the door.
" I Cell you what it is, Rache," he broke out, " that was a sneaky piece of business, and I don't mean to do any more such jobs. I threw the rooster over into Brayton's yard, aud then I got behind a tree, and jiretty soon one of the girls came out ami found it, and be¬ gan bohooing like a baby. As uear as I could make out, it was a present to her, nnd she had raised it in a basket; aud I felt just ns if 1 had been stealing a sheep."
" Let them bohoo," replied Rachel, with severe dignity. "They ought to think euough of their choico fowls to keep them at home."
After the dinner dishes wcre out of the way, aud the chores all done iiji, Rachel re])lonislietl her lire, and])utou an extra si-/ed keltle of water to heat. 'I'hen she went up stairs and changed her dress, and when she eame down ngaiii tliere was a bit of a lace color with trausfcrrod work, and a cherry bow at the throat of ber delaine dress, over wliich she wore a jaunty black silk apron with braiilcil iiui'kets.
She .seated herself with her work li.T-i- ket at the sitting-room window, almost as if looking for company, and let her gaze wander dowu the visible stretch of road, where goldeu-roil and asters bloomed, aud thesuinaeh bushes beside tho old stone walls apiieared to drip with scarlet color, and thu poke-berry was turning a vivid purple. Presently lier eye lit uj) with a gleam of triumph. Tliere were the Brayton ]>igs, nosin.g along through the dust of the road, ami, for once, she was glad tt> see the jiests. I'hey were long-snouted, .slab-sided jin i - ninla,witliplentirul marks of the slough on their coats, and unappeasable appe¬ tites. Rachel watched with a grim species of amusement, tosee tliem turn ill from habit toward tlie Henderson side gate, which was shaded by a huge black-cherry tree, aud hegin tlio pro¬ cess of rooting under. They dug witli the nozzle, bent the fore legs, inclined tlie dorsal column, anil lifted powerful¬ ly, until the gate was unlatched, and the whole bristly tribe poured iuto the yard with grunts of satisfaction.
Under one of the kitchen windows l.iy a tempting pile of jiotato parings, previously prepnred for the bait, which a vicious oid female, the mother of nu¬ merous disreputable children, immedi¬ ately scented. The.v gathered logelher, pushing and struggling for the tit-bits, when slaii-dnsh ! down come a pail of boiling water upon tlic backs of the miscreants, and witll heart rending squeals they galloped in a body from tho yard. It was evident to Rachel's mind tliat the hair and hide of her ene¬ mies had suflered con.«idcrabledain.ige; but still she replenished the lire and put on more water, determined to be prepared for action sliould the porkers return. However, during tho rem.ain- der of the afternoon there was peace along the border, and Rachel went to hed that night Hushed with a conscious¬ ness of victory.
The next morning early, Mr. Hen¬ derson and his men went oil' to a tlis- lant meadow, to do a job of top-<lress- ing, and took tlicir dinner with them. The p.irtritlgcs h.id been heard whir¬ ring tlirough the bright woods forsome days pnst, ¦which caused .Tack to shy away witli the long-shooter from the garret—au ancient Hre-arm, supposed to be worthy of much reverence, he- cause of a tradition which connected it with the war of 'V2. It would "kick beastly" as .Tack expressed it, and, by agood deal of coaxiug, managed to go one time in ten.
Rachel had enough on hand to keep her plea-santly occiijiietl for two or three hours. There was a tray of .solid, gold¬ en butter sfniidiiig ujiou the shelf, wliich must be M'orltcd over nnd laid down for winler use, and the last scald was yet to he given to her sweet pick- le.s. .She opened the Avindow and let tho warm air in, laden with the mel¬ low ripened smell of applies dropping from the orrhard trees, anil thecrysnn- Ihemiiui nnd zcnias blooniingabouttlie dooi-.vard. Over the prismatically tinted woods, softened liy a tender haze, crows were circling, and tlieir loud caws nlono liroke the countr.v slilliiess, whicli always seemsileeperofadrenmy autumn day.
Rachel was contented iu the midst of her busy loneliness. There was some¬ thing about the mild glow of the morn¬ ing, and the beauty of the world, and tbe soft wind coming in through Ihe south window.s, that Hlled h-..'r with rest. She had almost forgotten the an- iioyanecs of yestenlay and tiiose pro¬ voking Braytons, and wns siejipiug aliout her work, singing " Greenville," in a clear, but untutored voice, when .1 gawky lad, all of a color—from his tow trowsers, hitched high iu the back by improvised suspemlers, to the str.ig- gliug locks that strayed from below tiie rim of a torn straw hat, mado his ap pearance at the door.
"I thought I'd stop and tell the folks," .said he, putting his head in, " tliat Brayton's cows are in your coi'U. Oosli! tliey'vestnU'ed themselves unti! they're rendy to bust."
Instantly the .strain died on Rachel's lijis, Ihesiiirit of peace went out of her, anil she was prepared to act on the old law of " an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth."
" They shall go to pound instantly," she exclaimed. " The men folks are away from home; but if you will help me, Tim and I will see you get paiil for it."
"I'd do it to oblige you, Rachel, as quick as wink; but, you see, inther sent me dowu to the blacksmith's after a coulter. The horses are up ready to do a job of fall plowing, and if I should stop by tlie way he might whale me." " Go along, then," said Raeliel proud¬ ly. " I will drive them to iiound my¬ self," and at the moment she looked and felt equal to anytliing. At .start¬ ing, Rachel tied on her suu-bonnetaud armed herself witll a long carriage whip, having a particularly'vindictive snapper.
The corn-Held, which -ivas rustling AVith ripened grain almost ready forthe sickle, l.iy on a cro.ss road, aud it gave Rachel a peculiar fee-ling of satisfaction to know that she would be nble to drive the eows pnst her enemy's very door, .ind thus cast auother actof defiance in tlieir teeth. Secretly she ho|ied to lind tlie whole Brayton dairy ot thirty cows browsing and crushing the tall stnlks; but instead of that, only two animals had broken bounds, and having eat to the point of satiety, they were now stu¬ pidly slauding by the gaji in the rail fence.
Rachel drove them out into the road at a smart trot; but as she neared the Brayton jilace she slackend her gait, nud looked up at the frout ivindows. But none of the family wero visibio, aud thus half of her triumph proved abortive.
The pound was a good long country mile distant. Rachel was in a liurry; for she had left unlinishetl work at home. The heat of the autumnal mid¬ day seemed to come straight down, with scarcely a breath of air stirring; and Rachel did not spare the cows. When she arrived, hot and tired, at her desti¬ nation, the pound-master, who was a jolly, fat man, eame out to meet her.
" Well, now, Rachel," said he, as he took in the situatiou, " you are a spunky littlegirl; butl told my wife I wouldn't give n briLss fnrthing for a girl thnt hasn't some snap to her."
" We couldn't stand it any longer," eaid Racliel defiantly. " The Brayton animals were over-running us, and it's my opinion tbat ther's a iioint where patience ceases to be a virtue."
"That's true as preaching, and all the better for my trade," snid the mnn, walking around one of the cows, that was shaking nnd quivering now, ns if in au ague fit. "But it strikes me you must have druv a good jog," lie added, with a refreshing disregard for gram¬ mar, "This one acts as if she was sick. She had eat herself as full as a tick: aud it ain't safe to stir critters much in such a case. They sometimes die in less than twenty-four hours. That would bo a bad piece ot business.
Y'ou would not liko to kill a neighbor's cow, now, would you?"
" Of courae not," returued Rachel, sharjily, with a dreadful sinking of the heart. "Y'ou don't mean to tell me thero is au.y such danger?"
"I am afraid so," he replied, eyeing the cow professionally; " it looks a lit¬ tle scaly; but you hnd better go and fiud Herman Brayton, aud tell him all aboutit; he is better posted on cattle diseases tliau half tho cow doctors iu the country; and if any body cau save the critter's life he can."
Rachel turned hack ou the road feel¬ ing halt dazed and wholly frightened. Her father was slow to anger; but she did uot like to think what the conse¬ quences might bfe should he discover that his girl had beeu instrumental in killing a neighbor's cow. Her pugilis¬ tic spirit oozed out; aud left her in a bad scrape. How could she fnce those Braytonswith her story ; and how could she beg jiardon and .issislanco as it were, of Herman Brayton, toward wliora sho had liegiiu to feel a settled dislike?
While sho was hurrying along, with burning cheeks, turning over those wretched thoughts iu her mind, and feeling very humble, a young man sprang over the low wall b.y the road¬ side, and politely raised his hat. He wore a farm laborer's blouse and check¬ ed shirt; but the lines of bis form were graceful, and his manner had a charm quite foreign to tho homespun youths of Ihc neighborhood.
" Excuse me, l\Tiss Henderson," he snid, at ouce. " I knew yoii by sight, and, seeing you go hy, thought I wouhl like the opjiortuuity to send word to your father that six of his cows aro in my barn-yard. Old IScss, I believo they cnll her, hns a vicious jmir of horns. She slijiped her hamjier, and let tlio others into m.v buckwheat field. I shall leave it to Sir. llendeison t-.; estimate the damage, for what rejiort says of hira I kuow he will be inclined to do the fair thing."
For a moment Rachel stood ijiiite overwhelmed by the lessou in Cliristi.111 forbearance whiehHermau Bray touhad unconsciously taught her; hut at last tho te.ir3 would come to relieve her painfully excited state of feeliugs, and 1 must admit that for tho momeut her conduct was not at all in keeping with tlie character of a high strung and sjiiritedgirl. How confe.ssioii was made 1 do not quite kuow; but certain it is tliat Herinan, as old IVfrs. Pcttigrew ex- jircsseil it, "toolv a shine" to Rachel, even iu lier tears.
"Dou't distress your.self about Brin- dle," lie said, sootliingly, as soon as matters were made jilain to him. " I understand cow-iloctoring pretty thor¬ ougiily and think I know just what to dofor her. Y'ou have been sadly j)0.=!t- ered witii our unruly animals this sum¬ mer; butl must snj', b.v way of ajiolo- g.y, that the old jilaco when we moved ill was neither hen nor jiig proof. Crops were pres.'*iiig and hands short; and, of course, some tilings were neglected. Be assured you shall have uothingof the kind to complaiu of in the future. Miss Henderson, unless you take me up for tresjiassiiig; for I mean to come ovor some day aud see if wo cannot arrange a treaty of peace."
That evening Herman sent a messen¬ ger to say the cow wns out of danger, aud a strange new flutter awoke iu Ra¬ chel's heart.
A few weeks Inter, when the first snows were l.ying ou the ground, one Sunday moriiing in church the parson took for his text these words: Love your enemies. Do good to them that hate you, spitefully use you ;" aud Ra¬ chel, turning round, caught a glance from Herman' Brayton's eyes, which shot forth miscliief and triumjili.— When she walked aw.iy at noon, Her¬ man joined her in the ni(«t n.itural manner possible.
"Do you know, Rachel," said he, " how I construed the minister's text? To me it sounded like this: Love them that stone your chickeus, and scald your pigs, and drive your cows off to jiound, and it did not seem a very dif¬ ficult comniaud to obey."
j\rrs. Pettigrew who w.is walking be¬ hind nudged her daughter, Kstlier, and whispered, "I alius told you how it ivould come out."
Now the Henderson and Brayton farms are united iu oue, and Herinau lias ilemoiistrnted to his neighbors, by his tall .grain, and fat meadow, the rea¬ sonableness of scientific farming. He never tires of joking his wife Rachel .ibout her war, anil if sho exjiects to hear the end of it duriu.g her nnturnl lifo I fear sho will be disajipoinled.
THE CITY SEWING CIRCLE.
NI-Ii-lDl.l-S;   AND TONOIIKK.
Asl'iilly eiileied the Shaw's jinilor, an appidling army of well dressed yonng girls ajijieared, each jirovided witli tlainty rc!ticule, basket or bag, nnd eneh tongue going a gooil deal faster than the needle, whiie the white lingers stitched sleeves in ujiside dowu, jiiit Ilannel jnckels together hiud jinrt iKifore, or 'gobbled buttonliolcs witll the best in¬ tentions in lifo.
" You are a dear to come so early. Here's .1 nice pInce lor you betwoeii Belle and Miss Perkins, and here's a sweet little dress to make, unless you liko something belter," said Fanny, receiving her frienil with warmth, ami jilacing her where she thought she would enjoy herself.
" Thank you, I'll lake an unbleached cotton shirt, if you have such a thing for it is likely t<t be neciled before a cam¬ bric frock," replied Polly, subsiding into her corner ns quickly as jiossible, for at least six eye-glasses wore up, and she didn't enjoy being stared at.
Miss Perkins, a grave, cold-looking young lady, with an aristocratic nose, 1/Owcd jiolilely and then weut on with iier work, whicli displayed two diamond rings to great advantage. Belle, being of tiie demonstrative sort, smiled aud nodded, drew up her chair and began a whisjiered accountof Trix's last (juar- rel witll Tom. Polly listeued with in¬ terest while she sewed diligently, occa¬ sionally permitting her eyes lo study the elegant intricacies of Miss Perkins' dress, for that young lady sat like a shitue, quirking her delicate lingers anil accomplishing about two stitches a minute. In the midst of Belle's story a more exciting bit of gossip cauglit her ear and she plunged into the eouversa¬ lion goiug on ncross the table, leaving Polly free to listen and admire the wit, wisdom and charitable spirit of the ac- comjiiished young ladies about her. There was a perfect baliel of tongues, but outof the confusion Polly g.itbered serajis of fashionable intelligence whicii somewhat lessened her respect for the dwellers in liigli places. One fnir crea¬ ture a.sserted that Joe Somebody toolc so much champagne at the last party that he had to be got away, and sent home with two servants. Anotlier di¬ vulged the awful fact that Carrie P.'s wedding presents were half of them hired for the occasion. A third circu¬ lated a whisper to the eflect that though Mi's. Buckmiuister wore a thousaiitl dollar clonk, her lioys were not allowed but one sheet to their bed.s. And a fourlli young gossiji assured the conijia- ny thnt 11 certain jierson never oll'ered iiimself to a certain person, thougli the report wns industriously sjiread by in¬ terested jiarties. The latter remark caused such a clamor that Fanny called the meeting lo order iu a most unpar¬ liamentary fashion.
"Girls! girls! you really must talk le.ss and sew more, or our society will be disgraced. Do you kuow our branch scut ill less work thau auy of tlieothers last nioulli, and Mi's. Kitz George said she didn't see how Hfteen youug ladies could manage to do so little?"
" We don't lalk a bit more than the old l.idies do. I just wish you could have heard them go on the Inst time. The w.iy they get so much done is, thev take work home, and make their seam¬ stresses do it, and then they take ciedit for vast industry," said Belle, who always spoke her mind with'charming itandor.
" That reminds rae that mamhia says they want as mnny things ns wo can make, for it'a a hard'winter, litid the poor are suH'cring very much. Do any of you wish to take articles lionie, to do at the odd times?" said Fan, who was President of this energetic Dorcas Society.
" Mercy, uo! It t.ikcs nil ray leisuie time f o mend m.v gloves and refresh niy dress," answered Belle.
" I think if we meet once a week it is all tliatshould be ex|iouteil of ua, with our other eng.igements. I'oor peopio always complain tliat tlic Winter is a hard one, aud aro never satisfied," re¬ marked Miss Perkins, making her dia¬ monds sparkle as she sewed buttons on the wrong side of a pink calico apron, which would hardly survive one wash¬ ing.
" Nobody can ask me to do any more, If they remember all I've got to attend
to before Summer," aaid Trix, with an importaut air. " I've got three women hard at work, and want auother, but every one is so busy, and ask auch abominable prices, that I'm iu despair, and shall have to take hold myself, I'm afraid."
"There's a chance for Jane," thought Polly, but hadn't courage "to speak out loud in meeting "just theu, and re¬ solved to ask Trix for work in private. " Prices are high, but you forget how much moro it costs to live now than it used to do. Mamma never allows us to beat down workwomen, but wishes us to pay them well and economize in some other wny, if we must," said Bm- ma Davenjiorte, a quiet, bright-eyed girl, who wns called " odd" among the young ladies,because she dressed simply whon her father was a millionaiie.
" Just hear that girl talk about econ¬ omy ! I beg yoiir pardon, slie's relation of yours, I believe!" said Belle, iu a low tone.
" Very distant; but I'ra proud ot it, for with lier economy doesn't meau scrimjiing in one placo to make a show iu another. If every ono would fol¬ low the Davenports' example work¬ women wouldn't starve or servants bo such a trouble. Emma is the plainest dressed girl in the room, next to rae, yet any one cnn see she is a true gentle woman," said Polly, warmly.
" Aud you aro ouother," answered Belle, who had always loved Polly, iu her scatter-brained wny. " Hush ! Trix has tlie Hoor." " If they spent tlieir wages properly, I shouldn't mind so much ; but tbey thinic they must be as Hue as anybody, and dress so well that it is bard to tell mistress from maid. Why, our cook got aliounct just liko mine (the mate¬ rials were cheaper, but tlie eflect was the same,) and had tlie impertinence lo wear il before my face. 1 forbid it, anil sho left, of courae, which made pnjia so cross he wouldn't givo me tho cnnicl's hair shawl ho jiromised this year."
"It's perfectly awful!" s.iid Miss Pericina, as Trix paused, out of breath. " Servants ought to bo made to dress like servants, as thoy do abroad, then we should have no raore trouble;" ob¬ served Miss Perkins, who had just made the grand tour, and bronght home a French maid.
" Perky don't practico as .she preach¬ es," wliispered Belle to Polly, as Mias P. became absorbed iu the chat of her other neighbors. " She pays her chamber girl with old finery; and the other day, when Betsey was out parading in her missis' cast-ofl'purple plush suit, Mr. Curtis thought she was mademoiselle, and bowed to her. He is as blind as a bat, but recognized the dress, and pulled off his hat to it in the most elegaut style. Perky adores him, .ind was mad enough to heat Betsey wlien she told the story and giggled over it. Betsey is quite as stylish and ever so much prettier than Perky, aud she knows it, whicii Is an aggravation." Polly couldn't help Itiughing, but grew sober a minute after, as Trix said, jiettishly;
" Well, I'm sick of hearing about beggars; I believo half of them are humbugs, and if we lot them alone they'd go to worlc and take caro of themselves. There's altogether too much fuss made about charity. I do wisli we could be left in jieace."
" There can't be too much charity!" burst out Polly, forgetting her shyness all at once.
" Oh, indeed! Well, I take the lib¬ erty to differ from you," returued Trix, putting up her glass, and bestowing ujion Polly hermost" tojilofticnl stare," as the girls called it.
I regret tosay that Polly never could talk with or near Trix without feeling irritatetl or combative. She tried to conquer this feeling, butshe couldn't, and wheu Trix put on airs, Polly felt an intense desire to hox her ears. The eye-glass was her especial aversion, for Trix wns no more near-siglited than herself, hut pretending to be becauae it was the fashiou, and at times used tlie innocent glass asa weajioii with wliich to put dowu any oue presumed to set tliemselves UJI. 'rhesujiei'cillious.glaiice which accompanied her ironically jio- lite sjieccli roused Polly, who auswered witll sudden color and the kindling of the oyes that alwaya betr.-iyed a per¬ turbed spirit.
" I don't tliink many of us would enjoy that sellish sort of jieace, while little children starve, and the girls no older than us kill themselves liecause their dreadful poverty leaves theiu no choice but slu or death."
A sudden lull toolc place, for, tliough Poll.y did not raise lier voice, it was full of indignant emotion, aud the most frivolous girl there felt a iittle thrill of symjiathy; forthe most utterly fashion¬ able life does not kill the heart of a women, till years of sellish pleasure have pjUMsed over their lieads. Trix W.IS ashamed of lierself, but ahe folt the same nntagonism toward Polly that Polly did toward her; and, being less generous, took sntisftiction in jil.iguiiig her. Polly diil not know that the se¬ cret of this was the fact that Tom has often held her up as 11 model for his linance to follow, which cau.sed that young lady to dislilco her more than ever.
" Half the awful stories in the papers arc mailo uji for a sensation, and it's absurd to believe them uuless one likes to be harrowed uji. I dou't, and as for Jieace, I'm notlikely to get mucli while I have Tom to loolc after," said Tri.\, with an aggravating laugh.
Polly's needle snajiped ill two, but she did noi mind it, as sho said with a look tliat silenced oven sharp tongued Trix—
" I can't help believing wliat my own eyes aud cara havo aeen and heard.— You lead such safe and easy lives, you can't imaglMe the misery that's all around you; but if you could get a glimpse of it, it would mako your hearts ache as it has mine."
"Do you .suffer from heartache? Some ono hinted as mucli to mo, but you looked ao well I could not believe it."
Now that waa cruel in Trix, more cruel than any oue guessed ; but girls tongues cau deal wounds as sharp and sudilen as tlie slemler stiletto Spanish women wear in their hair, and Polly turned pale as those words stabbed her. Belle saw it, and ru.shed to the rescue with more good will than wisdom.
" Nobody ever accused you of having any heart to ache witli. Polly and I are not old enough yet to get tough aud cool, aud we arc silly euough to pity uniiapjiy people. Tom Shaw especial¬ ly," added Belle, under her breath.
That was a two-edged thruat, for 'Trix was decidedly an old girl, and Tom was generally regarded aa a hopeless victim. Trix turned red, hut before she could load and fire again, Emma Davenport, wlio labored under the de¬ lusion that this sort of skirmishing was ill-natured, and thereforo ill-bred, sjioke  up  in  her pleasant way—
" Speaking of pitying the poor, I al¬ ways wonder why it is that we all like to read and cry over their troubles in liooks, but when we have the real thing before us, we think it is uninter- esiiug and distigreeable."
" It's the genius that gets into the liooks, whicli makea us feel tlie jioverty I fancy. But I don't quite agree with you that the real thing isn't interesting. I think it would be if we knew how to look at aud feel it," snid Polly, very quietly, as she jiushcd her chair out of the artic circle of Mi.ss I'erkiiis, iuto the temperate one of friendly Emma. "But how shall we leaiir thnt? I do not see what wegiris cau do, more than we do now. We hiive not rauch money for such tilings, sliouidn't know how to use it if we liad; and it isn't jiroper for us to go poking into dirty jilaces to hunt up the ueedy. 'Goiug about doing good iu pony phiotons,' aa aomebody says, mny succeed in England, but it wou'twork here,".snid Fanny,who Inid begun lately to think a good deal of some one besides herself, and so found her iulerest in her fellow-beiuga iu¬ crensing daily.
" We cnii't do much, Jierhaps, just yet; but .still there are things left iindone thnt nntiirall.v fall Ui us. I know a hou.se," .said Polly,.sewiiig busily asshe tallced, "where every servant wuo en¬ ters it beconies au object of interest' to the mother nnd dnugh tors. These wo¬ men are taught good habits, books are Jiut wiiere they can get them, sensible amusements are planned forthem some¬ times, and they soon feel thnt they nre uot considered mere scrubs, to do as mnch work as pos.siblcforaslitticmon¬ ey as possible, but helpers iu the family who are loved nud respected in jiropor- tiou to their faithfulness. This lady feels her duty toward them, owns it, and does it, as conscientiously as slie wants them to do theirs by her; and that is the way it ought to he, I think.
As Polly jiaused, several  keen eyes
discovered that Emma's cheeks were
i very red, and asmile was lurking in the
corners of the mouth that tried to look demure, which told them who Polly meant.
"Do the Biddies all turn out saints in that well-regulated family?" aaked the Irrepressible Trix. .;
"No; few of us do that, eveu in the parlor; but every one of the Biddies is better for being there, whether tbey are grateful or not. I ought aot to bave mentioned tbia, perhaps, bnt I wanted to show you oue tfaiog tbat we girls can do. We all complain of bad servants moat as much as if we were housekeep- era ouraelvea; but it never occura to us to try and mend the matter by getting up a belter spirit betweeu miatresa aud maid. Tlien, there's anotlier thing we do," added Polly, warmiug up.
" most of ua flnd money enough for our little vanitiea and pleaaures, but feel dreadfully poor when wo come to pay for work,—aewing especially. Couldu't we give up a few of the vanities aud pay tho seamstress better?"
" I declare I will!" cried Belle, whose conscience suddeuly woko and smote her for beating down the woman who did her plain aewing, iu order that she might have an extra flounce on a uew dress.
" Belle haa got a virtuous flt; pity it won't last a week," said Trix.
" Wait aud see," retorted Bello, re¬ solving th.it it should last, Just to dia- appoint "that apiteful minx," aa she sweetly called her achool-mato.
"Now we shall behold Bello gallop¬ ing away at a great jiaee on her new hobby. I ahouidn't bo surprised to liearof her preaching iu tlie jail, adopt¬ ing a nice, dirty little orjiliau, or pass¬ ing round tracts at a woman's rights meeting," said Trix, who never could forgive Belle for having a lovely com¬ plexion and 30 much hair of her own that she nover patronized either rata, mice, waterfalls.switchesorpun" combs. " \Veli, I mightdoworse,and! think of tlie two I'd rather amuse myself so than as somo youug ladies do, who gut into the jinpers for their pranks," re¬ turued Belie, Willi a moral air.
" Suppose wc have a liltlo recess and rest while Polly plays for us. Will you, Polly? It will do us good; they all want to hear you, and begged I'd aak." "Theni will, with pleasure;" and Polly weut to tho Piano with such obliging readiness, that several re¬ proachful glances fell ujion Trix, who didn't need her glass to aee them.
Polly waa never too aad, perturbed, or lazy to sing, and seemed tho most natural outlet for her emotions. For a minute her hands wandered over the keys, aa If uncertain what to play; then, falling into a aad, sweet strain, she sang " The Bridge of Sigha." Pol¬ ly didu't know why she clioao it, but the inatant aeeined to have been a true one, for, old aa the song waa, it went straight to the hearts of tho hearers, and Polly sung it better than ahe ever did before, for now the memory of little Jane lent it a tender jiathos which no art could give. It did thera all good, for music is a beautiful magician, and few can resist its power. The girls were touched by the appeal; Polly waa lifted out of herself, aud when ahe turued round, the softened lookonallthefacea told that for the momeut fooliah dilTer- ences aud frivolous beliefs were forgot¬ ten in the one womanly aentimont of pity for the wrongs and woes of whicii the 1 isteners' hajijiy 1 i ves were ignorant. "That song always makes me cry, aud feel as if I had no right to be so comfortable," said Belle, openly wiping her eyea on a crash towel.
"Fortuuately such cases are very rare," said another young lady, who seldom read the newspapers.
" I wish they were, but I'm afraid they are uot; for ouly three weeks ago I saw a girl younger than any of us, and no worse, who tried to destroy her¬ self, siinjily because she was so discour¬ aged, sick, and jioor," said Polly.
" Do tell about hor," cried Bello, ea¬ gerly.
Feeling that the song had paved the way for the stor.v, and given her cour¬ age to tell it, Polly did tell it, and must hnve doue it well, for the girls stopped work to listeu, and wheu ahe ended, other eyes liesides waim-heartsd Belle's were wet. Trix looked (|uite aubdued; Miss I'erkins thawed to sueh a degree that aomething glittered on hor hand aa slie bent over the jiiiik jiinafore a- gain, better and brighter thau her big¬ gest diamond ; Kmm:i got uj) and weut to Polly with a fnce full of affectionate respect, while Fanny, moved by a sud den inijiulse, cnuglit uji a costly Sevres plate tliat slood ou the ctagerc, and laying a five dollar bill in it, passed it round, quoting Polly's words.
"Gills, I know you'll like to help Jioor liltlo Jenny; begin aguiu, and do better this lime."
It was good to see how quickly the Jiretty puraes were out, how generously each gave of its abundance, and wliat hearty upjilause broke from the girls, as Bidle laid dowu her gold tliimble, saying, with an Ajiril face :
"There, take that; I uever have any money, somehow il won't stay wilh mc, but I cau't let tho plate pass me thia time."
Wlieu Fanny brouglit the contribu¬ tions to Polly, she jiistgathercd it up iu her two hands witli such a glad, grateful face, the girls •wished tliey had had more to give.
" I can't tliank you enough," she aaid, with au elegant little choke iu her voicij.
" This wiil help Jenn.v very much ; but the way iu whicii it was done will do her more good than doublo the mouey, became it will jirove to her that sho isn't wilhout frieuds, and make her feel that there is a jilaco iu the world for, her. Let her work for SBU in return for this; she don't ask aims; she only wants employment and a litlle kindness, and tho best charity that we cau bestow is to see that she has both."—i'^; ont Miss Alcolt's Oltl- Fiishional Oirl,
THE  EVILS  OE  ANXIOUS  FOKE- THOTTQHT.
The vexations that come to ua from lookiug down into the future are dust rubbed off, mostly frora vanity, from pride, from avarice, from appetite, from the various malign feelings. If you take tliese thousand little frets that thought breeds, aud that make you unhappy; if you lay aside physical causes, and come to mental, you will fiud that most of them are selKsh, aud so arc malign. And when a man broods anxiously, lookiug dowu into the fu¬ ture, two things take place: flrst, lie loses the use of the correct inatrument of his mind—by thia overheating; and secondly, he brings his mind under the influence of these malign feelings, which seem to rise up aud take posses¬ sion of that great untrodden pasture- ground of the future. His mind is brought insidiously under the domin¬ ion of these things.
In a critical time tho man of the household goes to the window, and looks out, aud says: "Who cau tell what theae signs mean on the horizon ? Who can tell what that banner means? Who eau tell what armed host that is coming ?" And thousands of men say to Fear, " Go, sit in the window and watch ;" and fear, siting in the soul's window, and looking far down into the future, says; " I see something there." " What is il?" saya Avarice. " Loss of money—bankruptcy—trouble is com¬ mencing!" "O, Lord! O, Lord! trou¬ ble iu tlie future. It is all trouble. Mau is born to sorrow as the sparks fly up- ujiward. A few daya, and full of trouble. O trouble! trouble!" And for daya anil weeks the mau goca round crying. "Trouble! trouble!" What ia it? Money. Nothing iu the world hut money. It ia avarice that haa made all that fuss about the future—all thai dust. It Avas because it was uot golden dust that tlie man was troubled. Fear still sits in the window. " What see.stthou?".s.iys Vanity. "Whisper¬ ings arc abroad," saya Fear. "Men are pointing at you—or they will as soou as you come to a poiut of observa¬ tion." " O, my good name!" sa.va the mau. " All that I have done; all that I hnve laid up—what will become of that? Wliorcia my reputation going? What will become of me when I lose it, nud wlien folks turn .iwivy from me? O trouble! troublo!-^it is coming!" Wliat is it? Fear is sitting in tho win¬ dow of the soul, and looking into tlie future, and intorpreting the signs thereof to the love of approbation iu its coarsest and lowest condition.
Feiir still ails lookiug into the future, and Pride, coming up, aays, "What is it that you see?" "I see," saya Fear, "your castle robbed. I seo you topple dowu from your eminence. I see you uuder the base men'a feet. I aee you weakened. I aee you diseateemcd. i see your power scattered aud goue." "O Lord! what a world is this! says Pride.
No, that man has not had a particle of trouble.   Fear sat in the window and
lied. And Pride cried, and Vanity cried, and Avarice cried—.and ought to cry. Fear sat and told lies to them all. For there was not one of those things, probably, down there. Did Pear see them ? 'Yes. But then Fear bas a ka¬ leidoscope in its eye, and every time it takea a new form. It ia fllled with broken glass, and it gives.false pictures continually. Fear does not aee right. It is forever seeing wrong. And it is stimulated by other feelings. Pride stimulates it; and Vanity stimulates it; and Lust stimulates it; and Love it¬ self finds, sometimes, no better business than to send Fear on his bad errand. For Love cries at the cradle, saying, "Oh! the child will die!" Itwill uot die. It will get well. And theu .you will not be ashamed tliat you prophe¬ sied tliat it would die. Y'ou put ou mourning iu advance. "Where will my family be? Where will all my chil¬ dren go? What will hecomo of me?" aays Love iu its lower moods. Love without faith ia aa bad aa faith without love.
So Pear sits lu the window, to tor¬ ment the lower form of all our good feelings and all our malign feeliugs. Aud under sucli circumstances how cau aman do anything? He has smoked glass beforo his eyes when his feelings get before them, aud they are ina mor¬ bid state.
How many times, iu summer, haa that black cloud wliich was full of a mi"hty storm, and wliieh came rising, and opening, and .swinging through tile air, gone by without Iiaving a drop of rain in it! It wns a wind-cloud. And after it had ali ilisnppeared, men took brealli and said. " We need not liavo cocked up the lin.Y in sucli a hur¬ ry:" or, "Wo need not have run our¬ selves out of brealli to get shelter under tills tree." And how many times have there been clouds rolled up iu men's lieaven, which havo aiiparently been full of bolts of trouble, l-ul wliicli have nothad atrouble, in them! And when tlieyjaro gone, nioii forget to get auy wisdom.
They do n.ot say, " Next time I will do better," Tho next time tliey do just the same thiiig. Of tiie thought that excited them, that haunted them, that fevered them, that disturbed their sleep, setting them whirling around iu eddies of thought wheu they get past, it, they aay, "All that I suffer for nothiug." But will you be any wiaer for thnt exjierience? Probably not. You have the bad habit of looking iulo the future with a hot brain; aud you will not euro youi-aelf of it by any amount of fear.
Meu get into a state, aometimes, in which they rather want auxiety aud trouble. As poison becomes stimulants, so tliese corrosions aud cares not unfre- (jueutly become almost indispensible. There are many people who not only suffer, butseeksuffering. Theylookat everything on the dnrli side.
If you present the bright side tc them, they do not want to see that. They are in a minor key, and they w.int every¬ thing to wail. They not only are sick, but don't want to get well. They do not w^nt to have peopio say to them, " Y'ou look better to day thau you did yesterday." If oue says to them, "I congratulate you on having fewer jiains," they resent it, and say, " I have not fewer jiains. 1 never suffered so much in all my life." They begin to have a morbid desire for sympathy on accouut of trouble. They are very much like what are called " weeping" trees. Tliey have a downcast tendency; and if you uuderUiUe to mnke them straight you break them. Tliey are determined to be weejiing-willows. Tliey are many people of whom it nia.v bo snid that they are never happy uuless they are miserable.
Suppose everything should befal a mau that could liajipeu to hiiu, wliat would il matter? How long would it be beforo he would be out of the reach of his suffering? Wliere are the fa¬ thers? Where are the Puritans tliat died the firat winter along tbe co.ist of Brassachtisetts? Their trouble waa long since over. They have forgotten it, un¬ less now aud then thou.ght comes to rai.se a liigher strain of triumph.— Wliore are the witnesses of God that perished in dungeons? Wliere are the meu thnt suffered cruelties rather llinn abandon their faitli ? AVhere are uii- crowueil kings tluit made the earth ricli ? Wliere are tlie.Y wliose neck the halter found, and wliose body was found by the rack ? Tlie whole creation has groaned and travailed over the sufl'er- iuga of meii who aro now where uo suffering cau get to tbem.
Life is but n, handbieadtli. Each .venr is not so much as the bend that the be.iuly wears about her neck.— Pearl though it bo, or iron, it soon jiass- es away, 'i'ho jilaces that know you will soou know you no more forever. The cares that made .you fret yesterday are already below tlie horizon. The troubles that make .you anxious to-day will uol he troubles when you meet them. Eut whnt if they were? A cloud no bigger than a man's haud is swelling ami filling tlio wliole lieaven. What tlieu? To-day its bolts may sniile; but to-morrow you will be iu heaveu. Y'our children have died aud goue home; but what of that? Y'ou will.soon be with them. Your life is full of troubles and miscliiefs; butwhat of that? Those mischiefs and troubles aro nearly over—ne.irer than you think. Thu glorious future is almost yours.
O Grave! tliv hand crowns aa no monarch can. Knighted are we, nol by the touch ofthe sword of the soldier, or king or jirince. Trouble, it is, that lays its sword on men's ahouhlers, aud says, " Rise up, sir kulglit!" Tliere are things in tliis life that give men great victories all the way through; but oh ! the victory of oue iu the future is wortii more than all those earthly victories. Oue look iuto lieaven pays better than the whole e.xperieuco of a life of joy here. Aud the ble.ssedueaa of the world to como ought take from this all its frels, all its fears, all its dis- .latera, all its troubles; aud we ought to be ashamed to be as anxious as we are. —Henry Ward Heecher,
FOE THE LITTLE FOLKS.
GOXNG TO SCHOOL.
Ou Snndny morning carl.v, Whiie yel tile grass is pearly;
Tile air Is bright and cool; Ail clad iu our best graces, AVIth rosy moruiug faces.
We go to tho Sunday School!
To-day Is life in blossom: IlearlJiea-so In vxcry biwisoin.
And all is beautiful. A spirit within us springing At Heaven's gate wlli lie singing
Thanks for tiio J^uuday Seliool I
"We sun OS in Ite lirightncss; Weclotiie ns in its wliiteucss.
As doth the wayside pool. That holds from Mom llll Even, Its little lilt of Henven—
The gladsome Sunday School 1
Here learn we how to tighten Tile heaviest lol. and brighten
The day most dark witii dilie. And lay np ChlliUiood.H treasure. To reap Immortal pleasure
Eveu lu u Suuday Suhool I
The .summer Kartli rejoices. With iier's we lift our voices,
Aud Heaven liluiids the wliole. Aud when God's Angels cover us. Drawing lhc davkucss over us.
Tiioy ble-ss tlie Sunday School!
HOVr EDGAR IjKFT irOMK.
Loud acreama iu the wood-.shed friglitened everybody in the house; and Mrs. Drew ran lo see w'hat was the mat¬ ter. She opened the door, ami thero slood her son Edgar by tho work¬ bench, looking proud and fierce, with his fist doubled up; and lliere snt his lillle cousin Walter 011 the floor, his eyes shut tight and his mouth wide open screaming aa luud ns ho could scream.
" Children ! what Is the matter? cried good Mrs. Drew, liasteniu.g to- see if Walter had bad a finger cut olf, or nn eye put out, or a leg liroken, for she was always afraid some such accident would hajijien to those lioys.
" He—struck—uie !" screamed Wal¬ ter.
•'He sha'u't have my jilnythings !" said Edgar, looking prouder and fiercer than ever; aud witli liis foot he begau to push them under the work-bench, there was an express-wagon witli four wheels, and a cart with two wlieels, and a wheelbarrow with one wheel, a bow aud arrow, a box of blocks to make liouses of, all India-rubber dog that would bark and a cat that would mew, whenyou squeezed them, a jumping Jack, and I don't know how mauy more things. Edgar had had most of the toys a good while, and had played witll them till they uo longer interested him, and they had long lain in his tool-cliest at the end of his work-bench neglected and forgotten, and of no use to anyjiody. "When his little cousiu Walter cume to live wilh Iiim liis molh- ersaid, "There are thoae old playthings of Edgar'a ; they are juat what we want for Walter."  	
Walter waa of couise delighted with 1 drops before.
them. But Edgar, aa soou as ho fouud out that .somebody elso wanted hia play- thinga, thought that he wanted them, and waa uuwilling to ahare them wilh Walter. If hia cousiu wished to take the express-wagou, Edgar said he waa just going to take it, and Waller ahould not have it; theu if Walter gave that up, and chose the cart, Edgar declared he must have the cart,—he was just go¬ ing to draw chipa in it. And ao they quarreled, in apite of all Mra. Drew could say to make her son ashamed of hia selflahuesa.
But to-day ahe thought tho tirae had pome to put au end to these diaputea about tlie playtliiugs. So she stooped and put one hand kindly on the weop- iug Walter's head, aud lookEilgar's un¬ willing hand iu Hie other.
"Tliere, Walter, don't cry ; you shall have the playthings, for I said you might. Edgar, how can you ti'eul your litlle cousiu so? Remember, you are a great boy, nlmost eleven years old, and he is only live.
"I dou't care! Inin'tjgoing to have him coming iuto this houae, nud getting all my things away from me!
"Have you forgotten what you told me wheu his poor mother died? Said I, Edgar, your iittle cousin hasn't auy motlier now, and he won't have auy home, unless we let him como hero ; liow would you liko lo have him for your llltlo brother ? Y'ou snid -you would lovo hiiu, aud be very good to him.
" Yes!" muttered Edgar. "I thought we'd play Iiorse, aud he'd let mo drive; but ho wants to drivii lialf the timo. Tho idea of 7us diiving mc! I ain't going lo staud any of that non.serise, now, come!" ¦ ,
"Look here, Edgar; do yon kuow .you aro lalkiiig to your ihother?" said Jlrs. Drew.
" I can't help that! Y'ou always take his pari against me. I've stood it long enough. I aha'u't atand it auy longer." Mra. Drew looked at her boy in aaton¬ iahmeut. After a momeut'a pauae she .snid calmly, " What will you do about it?"
"I'll havo Walter go aw.iy. If lie stays in this house, J won't! "
" Very well. Waller is goiug to slay in this Iiouse, and havo kind treatment from everybody in it. I have talked lo you enough. Your father uud I have dono all we could to make a good, gen¬ erous, happy hoy of you ; nud now if you wish to leave us because you are too selfish to have your little cousiu here, and too ungrateful to remember how you came by these very playthings —why, you cau go. Aud ifyou are re¬ solved to be such a bad, rebellious boy, the sooner you go the better.
"Well, I'll gu theu!" said Edgar, snatching his hand away, and walkiug, fierce aud straight, up to his littlo bed room, to jiack his things.
Mrs. Drew did not believe he would have tho courage to go, or perliajia she would not have aaid what she did; but having suid it, aho determiued to wuit and see what ho would do. She went into the silting room, aud aat dowu to her work (she was making Edgar a skatiiig-caji), but left the door <ipeu, so that she could see him aa he jinssed through the entry. Sho trieil to ajijiear calm, but she could not help feeling very anxious all the while lie was in hia room ; aud when at last he came dowu stairs with hia best clothes oil, and a little bundle under his arm, her lienrt gave a great throb of love and grief, and it wus ull she could do to keep from Bobbing outright.
Edgar, on hia part, had not believed that liis mother would finally let him leave Iho Iiouse, any more thau she had believed that lie would go; aud he thoughl it would be a great triumph to have her at the laat moment entreat him to alay. So he made a great noise tramping tlirough the entry, iu order to attract her attention. As ho looked in, und saw her at work on his skating cap, ills heart almost failed Iiiiii ;* but lie was too jiroutl to stop theu, and aa ahe did not speak, he stalked out of the door, tliinking she wouid call liiiii back before he got jiast the gate.
"Edgar!" she said, rajiping ou the window ; and glnd he wua to turn back, although he did so very sullenly.
"What!" suid he, with acros.s, im- jiatieiit look.
" You aro not going away without bidding me goud-by, ureyouV" anid bis mother, cheerfully, for she hnd got the better of her eniotions by this tiinc.
"I didn't know tuiybody wanted to sa.v good-by lo me," rejilied Edgar, glooiiiily, hugging his bundle.
"Why not'i" .said his motlier. "If it Is beat for you logo, lam willing; but let us Jiart friends. And C must aee Whalyou have iu your biiudio."
" O, 1 liavcu't anything Walter will want; dcm't bo afraid!" anid the cu- vioiiaEdgar, bitterly.
'Mrs. Drew jiaid no attiintion to this remark, Aviiieh was inleuded to be very stinging, but quietly undid the bundle. "What! nothiug hut a sliii't and a night-sbirt, a jiair of stockings uud a h.'iudkei'chief? AVhy, my cliihl, itwill never do to go away from homo wilh so few things!"
" Tliese aro enough," said Edgar, stilling his remorse aiid.gricf. " You'll be glait lo give thu rest to Waller,"
" But you wiil have to go lo work, if you leave home, and you will want some every-day clothes."
The boy had not thought of that, and
the jiroajiectof liviug outsonicwhero iu
the aervieo of strangers was uot very
encouraging.
"I iiau't carry a big bundlo," hesaid.
'.' Well, tlien we will send you what
clothes you want, if you will write to
us after you have found a place," said
his mother, tying up tho bundle agaiu.
" I shall go to sea, and you will uever
hear  from   me  agaiu!"   said  Edgar,
fiercely.   He thought that would bring
her to terms, but she appeared quite
unmoved.
"Iluveyou mouey enough for your journey?"
" I have three dollars and a hulf." " Where did you get so much ?" "It—it — it's some you gave rae!" Edgur faltered. Then, finding that ho wns beginning to soften, he added, vin¬ dictively, "I can leave it for Walter, if you want me to!"
" No, my child; you will w.int more than that: and you know I have never taken anything from you liiat you needed, to give it to Walter. It isn't liecause I dou't love you, and would'nt do everything in the world for you, that 1 iusist ou your being kind to your lit tie cousin. After you have been away from Iiomo awhile, living among stran¬ gers, who will not he to you what your father and mother and sisters have beeu, then you will wish you had been more kind to that jioor little homeless, motherless boy."
Mrs. Drew wiped awa.y a tear as she jnit buck the boy's jnirse. How he longed then to throw his arms about her neck, aud ask her forgiveness, ami promise uever to be unkind to Waller again! But he was too proud for thut, and he was angry because she seemed willing to Jiart with him.
" What ahall I sny to your falheraud sisters when they come homo and aak for Edgur?"
" ABylhing you like; I suppose you will make out as bad a story as you can ubout me!
" O, Edgar!" aaid his mother re- proaciifully. Theu, showing the skat¬ ing caji, " Whut sliall I do wilh this? I have spent so many hupii.v hours over it,,uuticIjiatiiigso much jtleasure seeing you wenr il thia winter; and there will be skating now in a Cnw weeks."
" I sha'iit want it; and I dou't sup¬ pose I could have it long if I did ; you'd give it to Walter the Ilrst timo he teased forit," muttered Edgur, turniugtogo. He knew how cruelly unjust this taunt waa, and hu wuiited her to rejily lo it. But she only said, " Well, Wal¬ ter shall hnve the c.ip. He will be the only boy we shall have to love and cnre for now. Iiut Edgar, it is going to rain. There is no ueed of your siun¬ ing ill bnd weather. You cau wuit till morning, ifyou like."
" No I'd rather go uow!" And nway he strode, with a tragicul air, ao full of sorrow and anger and remorse that he could not aay another word, nor look b:udc williout bursting iuto lenrs.
Iiiltle Walter, uow just begiunin.g to comprelieiid what the great troiible was, ran after him, and caught hini by the arm. "Don't go, Edgar!" lie jdeaded: " don't go! Come bnck, and I won't aak for your jilaytliings uuy more!"
But Edgar shook him oH'rudely, nnd slammed the gate, and so b;ide good liy to his comfortable, happy home, und went out into the great, lonely world. It was going to ruin, suro enough. Tbe sky was darlr, and a few drops al¬ ready began to sprinkle the dust of the road. Oue fell on Edgar's hnnd and another on his cheek. The earth had never loolced ao dreary to him; he lind never felt auch cold, ominous rain- She'U ba certain to call
mo again before I'm out of sight," thought lie; aud O, how he hoped she would!   But slie did not.
She saw him go up the long hill, cir- rying his little bundle, further and father, dimmer and dimmer, under the darkening clouds—her darling boy! Would she oversee that little coat, those trudging feel again? Every moment she expected he would relent and turn buck. " The rain will certainly aend him home!" tliought she; and aoshe watched and prayed till ho was out of sight.
The rain set in, .slow and chili,'not likoaahower, but like a long, dismal atorm. Au hour jiassed, and uo dis¬ heartened little boy with his bundle was seeu coming down the hill. Then it grew so dark and rained so hard that his niolher could not havo seen him even if he bud come.
Edgar walked 011 very fast at first, witiiont nny ideu where he was goiug, crying bitterly, uud muttering to him¬ self, "I wou't go buck now! I dou't cnre if I do get wet! I'll drown my¬ self, theu I guess she'll feel bud! iqi go to sea—1 will! I'll come home a rich man, und put uji at the hotel, aud not goto see her; aud I'll drive a fast horse past the Iiouse, und make all my old friends preacnIs,uml boo-hoo-hoo!" wept the wretched, ungry boy, uiiuble to support his heart with theae spiteful fancies.
Putter, patter went the r.iin, darker and darker grew the way; aud now tho serious qiieslioii forced itself uiion ills mind, where was he to pass tho uight? W'hj' uot go to the hotel now? Because everybody kuew him iu the village, and it would look sostruuge lor lum to go thero for lodgings, so neur home. "I'll go whero UDbody knows nio; I'll crawl into a barn soniowiiero, and sleoji on the hay.'' ,
Lights began to appear in tho fnrm- hoiises he. Jiassed, tlieir cheerful beams ranking the ruin and darkness seem all the luore dismal to hia lonely heart. J11 one warmly lighteil doorway a womaii upjieared and called, "Come, my sou, come tosujiper." "All riglit, mother," answered a cheery boy's voice from the door of a barn close by; " I've got the chorea all doue uow." And Edgar aaw a lad about bis own age go into the iiouse with a brimming pnil of a milk, —go iu to light and warmlli and suji- per, and the comfort of a mother's presence, whilo he, hoiiaeiess, mother¬ less, hungry, d(.^uclied, wundercil on iu tlic durknesa nnd ruin.
" I'll go into the uext burn I come to," thought he. And there was one near by; but just aa ho was gliding stealthily to the door a man came out, and seeing hira, exclaimed gruHly, " What do you want here? Clear out, you little beggar!"
Edgar was frightened, and ran away us fast he could. He walked about half a mile farther, then .sal down on a stoue wail hy the aide of Hie road. Not a jiersou was pussing, not a light was to lie seen anywhere. Light h.id now fairly closed in, and it waa raiiiiugstiil. Aud there Edgar thought ofthe p;u)t and of his dismal jir-Dsjiects.
" I wish Walter had never come to our house! Staking a row 'twixt me and mother! I was hajipy aa I could be before. I didn't use iiim very well, I know. I'd got through with the Jilay things, and he might have had 'em. I dou't blame him for wanting lo drive me once in a while. Aud I don't blame mother for takiug his part. I mas menu aud selfish. I wish 1 was bnck there. Father's got home by this time, and Jaue and Ellen. They're eatiug auji- jier now. I sha' n't ever see uuy of motlier's good tou.st ugain! I wishl W!ia dead!" And JSdgur, jumping from the wall, whicii tumbled down after him, walked ou again blindly aud mis¬ erably.
In the mean while his father and sisters And come home, und his motlier liud anxiously told them what hail happened.
'"Don't be frightened," said .Taue; " lie'll be glad to conic bnck again."
" No he won't," aaid Ellen, "he's ao atulfy."
"Iwish,"—Mrs. Drew, now grcitly alarmed, upjienled to ber husbaud,— "I wisli you would go ufler him, aud see if you can Hnd him, or hear from him. It don't seem lo inu tbnt I can live tlirougli tlic night uule-ss I can know that be is .safe."
But Mr. Drew snid, "The rogue! I'm of June's opinion,—lie'II come home for supjier ami a ilr^- bud. At all evenis, be wiil kuow enough logo Iu outof the
LEBAL NOTICES.
EXECUTOIfS NOTKIE.
Estate of Isaac Fasnacht, Inte of Jte- chanicsburg, LTjiper Leacock towu¬ sbij), deceased. JFrrrKItS lestaiuei,:;iry on llie estateof said J deceased liuvlug iiceii grauted to the un¬ derslgued, aii persons iiulebteil tiierelo nro reijiiesled to make immediiite paymeut, and tiiose Iiaving claims or demanda agaiust I lie sniiic will preseut them for setiiemeut to thu undersigned, residing In said township.
.MAIIIA FABNAtlllT, mail li*t 2»        Kxccntrix of said deceased.
EXEIIUTOR'.X WOTKX.
Kstatoof Philip R. Wlker, lateof Enst Lumpeter townshiji, ileceascd.
rKTTEUS tesuiiuculary on said eslato - J liaviug iieen gtaul-eii to tiicuiidei-signeii.ail persons indeiited tiierelo. aro reiiuesled lo make Immediate payiucut.aiiil tiiose Having eliiiliis or demands agai list Mle same, will pre¬ senttlieni WithouL ilela.v for.Hi-ttiemenl lo tho uudersigned, residing in said Iinviisliip.
I11-:.N.I. I.A.^dJIJS, Kxeeiitor. J. II. I.lvI.vtlSTo.v. Alt'y. fmayli ll^t-ll .
T,XF.f!U'r»R'fi NOTKIE.
Estnte of Jaeob t'nriiunler, lute of West Enrl townsIiiji, deceased.
IETTKUS tcsUilueuljiryon tiiu last will of J saiil deceased lULving heeu granted to tlia nudersigued, Uii per-sous iudehied thereto are requested to make iuimcdiale settlemeut, and lho.se liaviug clai ms or dcmniids against tlie siuue, will pre-sciil. tiiem without delay for settlemeut tu llie undersigned.
.T.\0I>11 (JAHl'EN'TEH. Itesidillg iu West Karl township.
.lOlI.V U.M'J'KNTKlt. Itesidiiigin Upper l.i-aeock lwp., inal.S-llt'a j.:..:e,ailo!s:
i-:.xi:<iti'i'»itN' si»'i'ii:c.
I'jstate of Bartholoiiiew Garber, late of iMniior tuwnsbiji, deceased.
rI-rrTI-:i!.ST..-sIaiui..ulai-y on said eslal« hliv- jiiig iieen grauled tn ihc uiiiK-rsigued.aii persons indebleil thereloarere<iiii-sli.iUi, make iminediale paynieut, and Liiose liaviug elaiins or dcman.is agaiust liie same will pi-i-seiit tiiein forsel.tii:iiii.iiL to Ihu undersigned, re- Niiliug in said lowuship.
.lOif.V s. Ivi.sK. Safe Harbor. ItUllULl'II A. l-'IttV, lliuhviiie. mayls tiH. Tt I.;.vi-eiilor.s-
,\i)™i.\isritAr<iit.s> .vo'i'K'i;.
Estate of Nancy Gerber, Inie of ICjdira¬ ta lowiisbii), deceased.
JK'i''i'l'^ivSor ailuiiuistralton ou said estaio J having iieen graiileil to the undersigned, ali persons indelited thereto are re.|uesled lo niaki.'illlinediate |iayiiii-liL,and those having claims or Ilemands agaiust Liiesame w-lli pre- welit liieiu for settlement lo tlie tliidersigned wilhoiitdelay. JOSiill'U UKlCllKIt. mayll IJ^tJlii A.liiiiuistratiir.
Anni.M.S'ricA'roR.s' kotici:.
I'lstate of William Ciiuurd, lute of I^nst Lumpeter township, dec'd.
T' KTTKIW of admiuistr.itiou ou said eslato jhaviug iieen granted to tlie undersigned, ail persons indebled theretoare reiiuesled tomake luliueiliatepaymeiit,and those liaviugelainis ordemands against tiie same vv-lll present Liieni rorscltleiueiit to Liie undersigned.
SAM [IKl, i;oNAUl>. South E. corner of iltii  and Market SI., i'liii. .lOSKl'lI 0).N.\Ui>, East I.ampelcr Lwp., lilaySlfi*t 2S Admluislralors.  .
AnmNiNTR.vrons' ?i«ti<:e.
Estute  of Benjnraiu   Chnrles, lute   of Lancaster townshiji, deceased.
LKTrKlcs of admlnlslratioii on said eslate ha¬ ving been granteii to the undei-signed. aii riei-sonsliideiitcilLliereli.aroreijiiestedtouiaku lumediate payincur. and tlmse I-avingeialuiK or deiuaudsagainsLtlicsatiie wiil present them witliout delay for settlemeut to the undersign.. ed.
11EN.I.«I IN U. CIIA UI,l--S. Uesldiiig iu ijiiiCiLsler liiwii.siili.. IJKENNK.MAN U. .SllU.-HAN. Itesldiug lu Manor tiiwnship. Cir.\ nT.r-S DKNiitis. Att'y. iny ls.i;i--_7
AnMINISTIl.VTOns SOTK'E.
Estateof Dr. John W. Lullier, late of New llollnnd, Enrl twji., deceased,
Le.TrEltS of admlulstration.on said eslale. havingbeen grauled lotheuiidersigned.aii persons Indehied tlu-relo are l-eijuesleil lu make iminediale seLtleiueut. nnd tiiose li.av- ing claiius ur deuiands against tlic same will jireseuL liiem for seltlemeiiL lo Iho underslgu¬ ed residlug in said Lownshlp.
KOLAN'l) UlI.I^En, mayl.S Ot 27 Adniiuistralor.
A I>Wrsri.STKATOIf.S KOTK'E.
Estate of John (jyger, Inle of Enst Lam¬ peter townshiii, dec'd. rETTEas of aduiinisliatliiii on snlde.slalo J having been granted lo tbe undersigned, nil persons indelited therelu, are reiiuesled lo make HCttiement, and those haying claims or ilemands against tlic same, wiil Jire.setit them witliout Ilelay lor sellleuicnt to Llie under¬ signed, resiiling in said tinviiKliip.
El,l/.Al!l--riI tl. 1-1S11I.I-;.\IAN. m.iy:i>(it:M .Vdioinistralrix.
The family satdown to supper; buta sad sujiper it was. All were anxious about Edgar, uud as the ruin beat against the windows, they could uot help wondering if he wtis out in it.
After siijijWr Mr. Drew snid, "I believe I will go out uiul .see-if I can truclc hira.',' So he ligiiled u luiilerit, und took nu umbrella, uud went olf in jiursuit of tile fugilive.
In au hour ho camo back^-wilhoiil him.
" Couldn't you fiud hiiu'."' crieil out the ilesjiniiing mother.
" What! bas n't lie come homo yot? I expected to liud bim here'bel'iire me. It's an awful night!"
IIWas now growing late. Bfra. Drew did not dare lo say what slie felt; slie could not stay in the presence of the family: but she went 11 p stairs to her lioy's little bedroom, and ¦ entering where ull was darU, threw herself ujiou her knees by his bed, nnd begun to jiray,iii a voice convulsed wilhuugiitsh, for tbe welfare und safe return of her denr lost child.
" Motiier!" .sobbed out u well-Icnown voice by her side.
" Edgur, you here!" slic cried. "Yes, moliler!" snid   tiie jieuileuL, under the bed-clothes.
In her joy she tlirew her arma about him, and it waa a minute beforo ahe could control herfeellngasufiiciently to ask, "How came j'ou here? how did you get in?"
" 1 was ashamed to have you see me, und I climbed up the ajijile tree 011 to the piazza, aud gut in at the window, about half au hour ago. And, O moth¬ er, I have been so unhapjiy-and I I've been a bad boy—I kuow I dou't deserve it, but ifyou will forgive me—" Forgive hint! Why, the happy mother had never loved him so iu all her life. She went and told liis father and sisters, and brouglit hini up a plate ofto.istahe had kejit warm for him and stood by while he ale it, sitting iij) ill bed.
"I tell you, mother," said he, " I've found out what home, is, aud you won't catch me leaving it agnin iii u hurry. I thought of it, sitting on thut stone¬ wall iu the raiu, und I did n't go much farther after that, you'd belter believe; but I turued round iu a litlle while, aud carae as straight buck as ever I could. I crossed by Towner's Lune, and that's the way, I sujipose, I iniased futher. O, what toast! It's the beat toast, .ind I've got the best father anil mother, and the best home aud sisters, there ure in this world! Aud see here, mother,"—Edgur looked up earneatly in her fnce,—" if I caii.'t afford to be a decent sort of boy iu such a home ns thi.s, just scud mc olf again, that's ull!" Need I udd thutahehsis ueveryetlind occasiou to send liim olf ngnin?—Our Young f'olLt.
,injnxisTK.\Toifs x«ri<'K.
I'Jstate of Jncob l'"rniilz, Inle of West  Cocnlico township, dec'd.
rEl'Tliits of adiuiuistratiou ou salil estate J iiaving iieen graiili-d lo tiic nudersiglu-ii, ali persons iiidehteii lo .said deeeileut are re¬ iiuesled lo luake iiumi-di.-ile setllciiieiil, and Ihose iiaving claims orileiuands against lbe same w*lii present liieiti llir setlleiueut to the uudersigned, residing iu said lowuship.
rA'rilAllINK l-'UANZ. .iUilN W. .MKNi"/I-;i:. miiyS'i 11*1 US Alliuiliislr.-il.ir.
Ai».wi>'i.srK.V'ron-.s >-«Ti<'E.
Estate of Jacob Jlyers, lale of .Slras¬ hurg townshiji, decensed. r Km-'les of adminislralion ou said eslale J having iieeu granted lo the undersigned, llll persons iuiieliteil llu-relo are reiiuesled to make iiitliiediale p.-iymi-lll. and Iliose iiaving ealiiisordeiiiatids ugainst thesame will pre¬ sent llieiii for.settleiui-ut 111 the uuilersigiied, residing in said lowuship.
AllIt.VlIA.M MYl'.Its, Adm'r. .Sli-ashurg Itot-iaigii. A. IlEitlt S.Mrrir, Att'y. mayi ir«l i".
Al'I>IT«R'S .VO'I'ICE.
Estate of Beiijamiii  Reinhold,   lali- of
Lancaster Cit.v, Pu., deceaseil. iplIE nndersigned andilor. iippiiiiili-d In- liie I Orplian.s' Courl of Ijiineasleri-oiiulv. I'a.. lo di.stritinleliieliahini-ereiiitiiiiiug in ibe bauds of Joiiu linker, admluistralor of liiee>tate of said ilei-eased. lo auii iiuiong liiose legall.v eii- t ilied 10 Iliesame. will alleml for Ihat purro-sc ouTlII-><n.\V. .IITNK'iMli. IS71I. at '.: o'l-loeic. p. 111., ill tile Library Itoom of iheCourl House, in tile Cii.v of Lani-asler. i'a.. where ali per- sons inleri-sled in suid dislriluilloii mav at¬ lend. 1-:. II. VI.'NIVI'. .jnu ill a .Miilllor.
ASiVKlNEE.S- .VMTICE.
.•Vssigiied esMlu of Edwin Stubbs and
Sliiry H  bis wife, of Fulton twji.,
Lnucnsier county.
17I1WIX STUnllS.of I-'uilou lowusliip. liav- Jinigiiy deed llf voinnlary assignuieul. ilaled iM.'WIr, l.STO, assigned and Iranslerri-d ail iiis estate and elfeels lo Ihe nndel-siglii-ii, f.ir lhc beiieflt of the creditors of the said Kiiivin Htulilis, tiiey tliereforegiveniilii-etoali per-sous iudeliled losaiil a.ssiguor. lo iiialle pa.vmetil lo Ihe uudei-signed wlllmiit delay, ami Ihose having claims lo present llii-m lo
COIll'i-lil-'^TLM'.r.'?,
s. w. i: iiiivii,
-t.ssignce.s, i-esidiiig iu Kiillon Iwp. mySi-a-2S
At'<'<UIX'r.S«I-' TKl'ST EHTATES. .K'.
THE ai-counls of the following named csinlea will lie preseuled foreonliriualioiion .MON¬ liAY, .iUNEai. iSTil:
11. V. Houston's assigned estate, Amos .s. Hen¬ derson, assignee. Saiiiuel Hess and wife's a-ssigned eslale. K. A.
Kvnns and Geurge K. Ueed. juisigiii-i-s. Win. U. Cusler's lessigtied eslale," .lolin .«tyer
et al.. assign ces. Kratik fj. Calder's assigned estale, II. it. Hren-
ciiiau. i-t al., assignee. N. H.Uillesple'sassigncdestate,C. lUaekhuru,
a.sslgiiee. Edward If. Bryan's .xssigui-d eslale, .Tacob il.
Meckle.v. assignee. Springer .V Weldler's a.ssigned eslale. Hugh K.
Gara. assignee. David H. Iliaekiiiii's trust eslnle, .lohn Ilraek-
hill, truslee. I'elcr 11. I-'rey's trust eslate, .Iiicoh l-'rey, et al.,
eommiliee. .lai-oli laitz's trust astale, Henry troiii-iiheU'er,
Irnslee. Marlin lioillu-ys Irust t-slale, .laeob I,. Sleli-
man. etal., truslee. .Susanna I.aiiili.s's LriisL esL-ilc. .Sauiiiei  Royer.
I ruslee, Ueorge itrctilierger and wife's assigiii..d eslale,
I',, i-'. Iviiwe, leisignee.
W. 11. .SI'AIIKI'KK. I'rolliouolary.
I'mtlionolarj-'s OUlco. May i1, i-s7ll.
ma:!.3 it'.ls
.xori<:E.
rpH 1-: unilerslgnisl I'omtii issioucrs, appoititcil 1 iiy an actof lbe Cetieml As.sciulily, enll¬ lied " An act auLliori/.liig lbe (Joveruor to in¬ corporate n eoitipaii.v to erccla brldgoovi-r the Susi[iielianna river at or near .Met^ail's Kerr.v, in the couuly of Laucasler." iiereliy glen no¬ tice tiiaL hooks Ul receive suiiserl|ilions lo tlie stock of said Company will he openeil on Hie •211 b day of June, 1.S7II, at Ihe lollowlng places, viz: Tiieslorc of George .M.st'-iniuaii .t Co.. In West Klngstreet, Lauc-isler eiiy ; Ihejitili- iie iionseof Michael ]loualioe,iit Mi-Call's i-'er- ry, aud tiie pulilic house of William i;. i;olviii. at Ccntrevlllu, Vork conniy. autl at tiie olllce of ll. W. MeCali. York horoiigli.
Sahl books wii i lie kept opeu for at Icieit two successive days.and at least four lioura in eaen liny, and as luiicii louger as may iai necessary. b.Voueor uioreof said Commissioners, when and whi.-re all pei-.soiis of full age iiia.v have au opportnuily to siitiserilie for said sloek.
S.VMIJKL liOUOHEltTV. JAMhW nOYU, .lUIlN Ot.lllS, UiJilKItT S.MlTir, MIOU.VEL llON.\HOi-:, 1,. W. i-'lNllI.EY. fli-Xl. -M. STEIX.MAN. J1AVI1>.W1I,S11.S, Jun l:i'f2!ll 11. W. .MiC.Vl.L.
E.S'ril.W XOTIITE.
CAME Ul the premlscsof the subscriber near I'ei|ilea Valley Inn. lanciLsler county, I'a., oil the .'illl dav of May. 1S7I1. a dark SUItitELHUILSE. nve years old aud, iliiuil.     Tile ow-lier Is reiiui-sleil   lot eoine forward, prove propeity, pa.v-.C_ diai-ges. and lake liittl axva.v.oliicrw'ise lie will be disposed of as liic law directs. uiaiilPflS HENltY ECIv.MAX.
»:.STlt,VY XilTK'E.
ciTIlAYKl) away from Hie residence of Hie O sniisi-riiicr. in Kiiri lowuship. i,.aui-asl. rei... ou liie'.r>lllof May, near Hfw lloilaliil. Ihree slioals and one Sow. A n-a-sonalili- i-eu-ard wiil be given for iiifuruuiliou wliieh wiii lead lo tiieir recovery, junl Itai ili-:.NIlY SHKAVEl.Y.
Xo. O. ]Vo. «.
NK\Y WATCir A JKWy.].KX STOI!K.
NOTICE.
fllHEundei-slgnedagi-iiLlor Lancaster eouiilv. i for Hie sale ol BANiCKN'S CO.Mi!INATI0N SCHOOL IIKSICS. uuiiiuliietured by Geurge !¦'. McEarlalul and C. It. Sehaell'er. Harrisliurg. Pa,would respeclfully iwk the illrectors of public and Principals of pri vale .scliools local 1 at the Couuty TreiLHUrerH ollico, at tjanea-ster. and see Hie uiudel, ami get Hie prices oftlie desk.s, Iiefore purcha-singelsew-liere. Theyare in use at tiie Ciilldrcu's Home, Lnncasler, .soi- dlel-.s' Oriiliau.s' School, .ML. Joy, Eustand West JlemiUlcld.and oliier townships In the eounty, and give full satisfaction wherever used. ma'JSS't'JS       JOHN .•«. ORIDKK, Agent.
MOTICE.
I HEREUY cantlon nil persons huylng or receiving a promissory note agaiust me. In favorof Abrahaiii Dehaven,lailliug for KMlfU, payable In IKl day.s, dated May lilh, ISTll, with¬ out Interest. I will not pay said nole, as I have uot received any value for the same. EiLst Earl. May lOlh, IbTil. mnylSltZI M0SE13 SrENGLEB.
IIAKRV L. ZAHM,
(Of llll! lato lirm of II. I,, .t E. J. /.Ail.M.)
n.^S .IITST OI'EN l-:U a new and Hue assort¬ ment of
W,\TC'IIES, CI.Ot'KS.
Sl"E<T.\<'r.KS,
JEWELRY. HILVElt ANU I'L.VrEI) WARE.
No. 1»    Xortli Queen SSeiccI,     Xo. 9
liANCiVSTEIS.   PA..
fipposlle .fohn llaer's sons* Uook store, and
ne.xt door to Long's iJry tlooiis Slore,
SPECIAL ATTENTIO.V PAIH TOAPJUST- JNG al.A.S.-<l--1 TO Till-; EVKS.
Glosses tilled lo Old I-'ninies. and Frames Re- pal reii.
51AS0NIC  .MARKS it EMIlLEMATIC I'INS FURNISHED TO ORDER.
UT^ Personal attention wiil be given lotho ICEPAIKINO
of Watches. Clocks and Jewelry: nnd having iiad THIRTY YEAKS' EXPERIENCE in the buslnesii, be feels coulldeut of heing able lo glvo callre Mtlsfuctlon. [muyH'70Iy
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