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fsrmmr PaMUked everj Tbartuay Afternoon AT ST. CflOUD, MINN. OAce—Cermer of W a a Avenue »md CHskpol Street. "VST. KDITOR AND nOrRIBTOR. S S I I O N TWO DOLLARS, rATJ^BUt IXf ADrAXCH. An Eatra Copy will b* s«rt jruNs to tho ««U*r up of club of rive 8ubs*rlbers. I O A E I S I N I 9 it»are. 1 1 100 175 •2 SO fib 475 *U0 3 200 350 450 6i» Oil 1100 1400 2000 3 4 3 mo. 3 75 500 0 25 7 50 12 00 14 00 3300 4000 3 mo. 000 800 0 0 1**0 1650 2250 3000 5000 1100 Ouio 1000 14 00 1300 2930 3000 37 50 4500 7:00 150 -'75 Mb 4T6 7 00 900 1125 1850 In adranceor upon deUveri el the-aBMavit. 3 Local Notice*, 15 cent* per line to transient, and 10 cent* per line to regular, advertiaer*. 4. Notice of death [simple announcement] 25ceat*{ obituary notice*, 5 cent* per line marriage notice* 30 cent*. 5. All political, rellgieu* or other notice*, 5 cento per line. «. Special place advertisement* to be inserted at rate* agreed upon. 7. Yearly advertiser* to pay quarter• y. 3. Stranger* must pay in advance, or give satisfac tory reference*. JOB PRINTING Of all kind*, plain or colored, executed on short no tice, in the best style, and at St. Paul prices. Print ing done in German and Norwegian, as well a* Kn£ Itoh, and warranted to give satisfaction. OSCAR TAYLOR, A O N E A A W ST. CLOUD. MINNESOTA. 1. 1. HATS. CHAS. D. KBBH HAYS & KERR, N AT A W ST. CLOUD, MINN. 0jff«# en Washington Avenue—formerly Moore Kerr's. aiWAS» o. *. WM. s. MOOES HAMLIN & MOORE, A O N E S AT A W ST. CLOUD, MINN. Office over Edelbroek'a Store. J. S. RANDOLPH, ATT0RNE7 AND COUNSELORAT LAW ALEXANDRIA, MINN, CHARLES B. HOWELL, (Late of the Oemtrat Land OJIce,) A O N E AT A W A .. QtiHUu, MICKEK Co., Miss. Special attention to case* coming before Local U. S. Land Offices and the General Land Office, Pre-emption, Homestead, War rant, Cash, Scrip, Town Site, B. R. Land Grant and other land cases attended to.— Collections made titles examined taxes paid for non-residents, &c. Satisfactory References furnished. Tlln30-tf A E. SENKXER, M. PiirSICIAN,SUR0E0N4ACC0UCHEUR *T. CLOUD. M12Y1V. .•flcelnAlden'aBrickbnilding.Wuhingtonavenn Kfsidenee, Richmond Street opposite Wright'* Fer examining Surgeon for Pensions. Regular oCBce hoar*10 to 1 and 2 to 4. v9 W. M. BURCHARD, M. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Offiee over Pickit Abbott's Dry Goods Store, ST. CLOUD, MINN Office hours from 10 A M. too p. u. Night calls at the office will be promptly attended to. n29 CHAS. S. WEBER, M. D., JIQMEOPAIHIC PHYSICIAN, 8T. CLOUD, MINN. Office en St. Germain street, 3d door east of Catholic Church. Offioe hours from 10 A. M. till 3 p. M. WM. R. HUNTER. PHYSICIA N A N SURGEON, Ml CLOUD A. A ST. 9M09D MUTjf CHARLES H. ALSOF, CIVIL ENGINEER AND DRAUGHTSMAN, {Late with the Northern Pacific R. R.) LaSd. Surveyed, and Plans and Specifica tions for Buildings, Bridges, &c, carefully prepared. Office over Pickit & Abbott's O. E. GARRISON, CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT, "Ml ST. CLOUD, MINN. Having had twenty yea?.' experience en in GoTernmeat survey,—I hope to give atisfaction in all branches of Engineering Pine and other Land, entered and taxes paid for Non-M.id.nts, and full descrip tion given from personal examination. Office over. Smith ft Herbert's Store St. Germain Sire.. Map. of Stearns County for sale. a. pinsnr. wn. •OLLIXXX PINNE l/IULUKEN, REAL ESTATE AGENTS Opposite V. 8. Land Office, ST. CLOUD, M1N Will buy and sell RIAL ESTATK on com mission. Locate Land Warrant, and Agricultural College Scrip. Pay Taxes, and tran.net allBn.iaea.eon neeted with such an Agency. v8n44-ly VIR HOESEM MITCHELL. REAL ESTATE AGENTS, AbixASonia, DovoirA. Co., Minn. Sell Real Estate on CommUnlon, Pay Ttzee for Non-Residents, And. .elect and locate Government Land. rother» with cash, scrip or warrants. I N E A O I S MARBLE_WORKS! American and Foreign Marble,Head-Stones,Tombs —AHD-— 'lULQlSrUAM.'EnA o?s Furnished to order. MANTJLES^ "TABLE-TOPS, Etc., Etc H. HEBRICKt SON, Cor. Nicollet Third 8t... Minneapolis. Work Mi in St. Cloud, without antra oharge. Tll-n29-ly VOL, XI. 15 00 2250 3000 3500. 4000 5250 7300 12500 V. and Government aavertiaemea».75 cento ''per •iu*re for the erst insertion, and 37J$ ceuti utr square far sub*aqu*ntiuser tiou a. AtteVueyeoKtoHngin t«*al auf.rUstia.nt.nra regarded a* eoeonntaWeror the eo*t of the same, mi less there is a special agreement to charge the saine to another party, payment tolall caaee to be made BANK O ST. CLOUD. GENERAL BANKING AND EX CHANGE BUSINESS TRANS ACTED. O A 1 I S I 2 2 M/ -LAND WAWANTfM qjJUog«S9rip«fc^Pfei8nBxohange BOUGHT A N O a A to a it T. 0 33 .A. 3ST lECIE AHD LI0EH8EDDEALERII ttxeh.-*. W a A O a i«» a E a Col^tions and Remittances promptly made. Taxes paid for Noa-rcsMeBta. Also, gent for the sale of PASSAGB ICKETS to o- from all the principal GERMAN. ENGLISH AND IRISH PORTS Office on Wa.hingtan.aven*., ""Jff a „uth of the Central House. T7n—-« LITHRO MHME RBAL ESTATE AGENTS, N 0 0 0 CO., MlMS. BUT AND SELL REAL" JsSTAtE ON COMMISSION, P» Tatei im of tb.e State, Select and Locate Government Lands for Other, with Ca»h,8cri» or Make e«i Homeitead and Pre-emption Paper* And Abstracts of Title, and buy and sell Connty and Town Orders. nJb GO TO ME^ZRiO^rk'S For the" BIST SUITS, BEST OVERCOATS, BEST HATS, BEST CAW. BEST GLOVES And the beat of everything yon want in the way of Clothing or Gents' Famishing Goods. ., The Finest Cassimeres, by the yard or piece, at low prices. ALIBGESTOCKOFBOY'SCLOTHING Suits made to order from tha best good, and in the most fashionable styles. J. W. METZROTH. St. Cloud, Oct. 5,1868. v9iill-tf r. DAVIS. L. CLABK. CLEARWATER MILLS FLOUR & FEED STORE, DAVIS & CLARK, Dealers in Flour, Feed, Grain and Agricultural Implements. Cash paid for all kinds of Grain. Washington Avenue, St. Cloud, Minn. vl0n44-tf SMITH & HERBEBT, DIAL KXCLUSIVBLT IM BIGOTS, SHOES, a Leather Buy of them and Bell's Block, St. Germain Street. St. Cloud. Minn. vllaJO-tf THO SEAS S I (SVCOCSBOK TO O. I. MjBTEB,) a Dealer in -j-: Groceries, Provisions, Flpur, "GRAIN AND FEED, W a in to a a a a Hard Hall, ST. CLOUD,- S M. BECKER, BOO AND SHOEMAKER. Boots, Shoes and' Gaiters Made in the latest style ana" of the beat .tock. Good fit. warranted^ Quality of work guaranteed. EA8TERN WORK always on hand for sale cheap. AL80 LEATHER AND FINDINGS. Shop en St. Germain street, next doorto Rosenber re. St. Cloud, April28,1868. *vl0n41-6m LEWISTON HOUSE, ST, CLOUD, MINN. QfC" ZlV1*-'?"'* This'House h.s just been greatly enlarg ed andfittedup in good style for the ac commodation of gne.ts The' Proprietoa would bo pleased to see all his old friends who .tapped with him at the Minnesota House Z"^ ALL SBALL BE MADE QOJtMRT ABLE. CITY BESTAUBANT. S A 1 8 1 8 8 1 XB. HARVIN & SON. Importer^ and Jobbersof ADD EARTHENWARE, MI?er Plated ana Brittanula Ware, LA&pS and 1 to Offioe open from 9 to 12 A. U. St. Germain Street, St.Cloud, Minn. J. Q. SMITHi Cashier. St. Cloud, Sept. 16, 1867- vl_ TABLF CUTLERT,- LOOKING GLASSES, &c, 122 Third,' and 20 Robert St., ST. PAUL WILLIAM LEE, •UPOETSB AKD WHOLISALX I A DR 600DS & NOTIONS .*«« N 1 5 6 S 4erwe* ST PAUL, MINN. My arrangements with one of the oldest importing and Jobbing Houses of the East, e.nd having a buyer in the market all the njne, and buying my Goods all for cash, MwnesotarMerohants will find bargainsat all times in my Store. T9nl8-t CURTIS & NASH WHOLESALE DKALEBS IF Shelf and Heavy Hardware, S O E S And Tinner's Stock, 185 Third Street, 8T. PAUL, MINN. 42 Livery! Livery! Livery CENTRAL HOUSE Livery andjSales Stable. My friends and patron, are hereby noti fied that I am prepared to furnish them with EVERYTHING IN THE LIVERY LINE, On the shortest notice and most reasonable terms-. Office at Central House. J. E. HAYWARD, Proprietor. NEW LIVERY STABLE. Chas. E. Foster & Co] have opened anew LIVEHY, SUE, AND BOARDING STABLE In" Hansons stable on Richmond avenue, where they will keeyat all times, for the use of the pub lic, a splendid lot of HOUSES^BUUGIEg! & CUTTERS,of "Which willbe let at reasonable rates. Their stock is all of the very best,and they are confident will be appreciated as such by their customers..' Leave your orders for livery with •...CHAS.: E. FOSTEd & CO. St. Cloud, Dec. 13th, 1866. v9n2„ HARRISON & CO., North Star Iron Works, MAIN ST., OPP081TE.THE FALLS, S A in Manufacturers of Steaxa Engines, Boilers, Gang, Circular and Flouring Mill Machinery, Architectural.and all other Castings of IBOIST O A S S Job-work of K-rery Description. November 28, 18(68^ no!9-tf STRONG & WILLIAMS, (SUCCESSOR^TO R, 0- STRONG,) aaS'Tliird street,.St. Paul, Dtangs,Curtain EALERS in Carpets, Oil Cloths, Mat Materialsand Trimming. Upholsteries and Furnishing Goods, Win dow Shade! Wall Paper, Mattreses Feathers, & v7n4U-ly G. P. PEABODY, WIIOLEBALH DEALERIK Wines, Liquors and Cigars, 107 rAsrd Street, ST. PAUL, MINN. MINNESOTA MARBLE WORKS Corner Robert and Eighth streets, near Vv the International Hotel, DESIGNS OF SCULPTURE WORK, Monuments,- Gravestones, Mantle s, Tab Tops,&c, made andfurnished to order. J. S. O S E N PO. Boz940, St. Paul N O a a a a a Produce of all kinds taken in Exchange or Good*. apr9-tf ROORVILLE EXPRESS. will run an Express Wagon from St. Cloud to Roehville every SATURDAY. Pas sengers willbe carried either way for fifty cent, each. .' package, and freight at the rate of thirty cent, per hundred poun is. I am also prepared to carry either passen gers orfreight on nny other day, npon no tice. Orders may be left in St. Cloud at the Post office, or at P. Kramer'. Hotel at Rockville, at my hotel. Thits LEWtSXElilSTOK. -I St Cloud, Doe. 16,1868, n2l6n* SXnVKD tJP IR AJIT STYLE. .-, Fresh and Canned Fruit of ait kinds, Con-I fectionery, Pastry, «je., MEALS AT ALL HOURS. Regular Boarders at reasonable rates.. 1 LOUI8 QOTETTE. St. Cloud, NOT. 18,1888. vllnlt PETER LOMMEL, Mail Contractor on Route. Rockville, Aug. 17, 1868. n6-tf SUiVER TLATING AND O I I I I N Th»Ml»Krib*rbegpl*a,Te to nnnounce to his friend* and ws public ganentUy, that he ha* secured the service* ef an experienced plater, and is prepared to do anything io tn^ lioe«f Gold and Silver Plating in the beat possible nuiiner, and on short notise 8POOHR- FORKS, KNIVES, CASTORS. CAKK BASKETS, BtnTRR DISHES, OORIETS, i*3* te:, ex., replsted and made"as good as new, at about half the cost of-new articles, and warranted to be aa well doss as csiHte at any place. -Having had several years ex perience in this branch,. I feel Justified in saying that I am competent to .do good Work, and would aesnra my easenaers that I will spare no pains "to give satisfaction. is'to certify that I have had Electro Plating a tfa* establishment of R. Schoenemann, In the most satiaatctory'aianner, and cordially recommend his wothite any ehp who may need anything in tha 1-ne of silver plating, and believe that he is new pre pared to do Electro Plating as well, and much cheaper than it Baa be done elsewhere. A._W BUSII. imsi B. SCHOENEMANN. vll.n40 St. Cloud, April 22, I860. tia E N WW W E A €ARKIAGIKMAKER A E remored trmy new a&opaear the Bridge, here I am preparedtodo allkind. of work in tha Carriagemaking ine. Wagons, carriages and sleighs made a neat and substantial manner at low ates ParticnlaraUentionjaidtoreptic, E 3HA.XIOJNA.I- Life Insarance [Company ovsas United States of America, WASHINGTON, D. C. a S a A a A 5 1 8 0 8 CASH CAPITAL §1,COO,000 Branch OtBce, Phaadelphia. FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, Where the general business of the Compa ny is transacted, and to which all general correspondence should be addressed. I E O S Jaj, Cooke, Phila. J5. A Rollins, Washington, c. Ktark, i-iulii. Henry I). Cooke, ».li. f.itulcliu.iaiS(err,Phila. \\m H. Chandler, Hash. Win. u.Mborhead,Phlla. JuunU. Ueireea, V)abh. Ueunjtji. ijtlei.pnila. ituwaidUOUK*,A*SWVork J. liiuckley Uarit.fnila. H. C. Faimestock.M. S I W 1 3 A Philadelphia, President. TtV.r *k V»»»niU8.wi, V.cei-re»iueut. ^vHlikJa, Ciutiiiiiau ciiuuiut and Executivecom luiiieu. JtMEli&uA W. PEETE, Phila. Sec'y and Actuary. *.. a. xuiiMisn, HasuiiiKtou, Assistant secretary. *KAM,la U. a ii At. l».,ii«uicai llu-ecivr. J. JSVtlEU JlKAitiS.M. i)., Assist. Aleu. director. A1K11CA1/ A S A J. K. BAllShS, burgoou Ceueral U. S. A., Wash. P. J. UukVYil/, cuiet Heuical Uepartment, V. 3. R., Wasniugtvn, B. W. BLISS, At. it., Washington. S O I I O S A A A O S S WM. E. CHANDLER, Washington. B. HEORUEHARBINo/l'hilaa.iphTa/ia. This Company, National in its character, offers, by reavon ol its Large Capital, Low Kates of Premium, and New Tables, the moat desirable means of insuring life jet presented to the public. The rates ol premium, being largely re duced, are made as lavorable to the ihwir ers as those ot the best Mutual Companies, and avoid all the complications and uncer tainties ef Motes, Dividends, and the mis understandings which the latter are so apt to cause the Policy-Holders. Several new and attractive tables are now presented, which need only to be un derstood to prove acceptable to the public, such as me INCOME-PRODUCING POLI CY and RETURN PREMIUM POLICY. In the former, the policy-bolder not only secures a life insurance, payable at death, but will receive, if living, alter a period of a few years, an annual income equal to ten per cent, (10per cent.) of the par of his poli cy, in the latter, the Company agree, to return to the assured the totat, amount of money he has paid in, in addition to the amount of his policy. The attention of persons contemplating insuring their lives or increasing the amount ofinsurance they already have, is called to the special advantages offered by the National Life Insurance Company. Circulars, Pamphlets and full {articular, given on application to the Branch Office the Company in this city, or to its Gen eral Agents. E&- LOCAL AGENTS ARE WANTED in every City and Town and applications from competent parties for such agencies, with suitable endorsements, should be ad dressed TO THE COMPANY'S GENERAL AGENTS ONLY, in their respective dis tricts. E N E A A E S O E O A JAY COOKE CO., New York, for New York 8tata and Northern New Jersey. S. W. CLARK A CO., for Pennsylvania and South era New Jersey. JAY COOKE A CO., Washington,!). C, for Maryland. Delaware, Virginia, District Columbia, and West. Virginia. J. A. ELLIS A CO., Chicago, n!lnois,forIllinoiaWls! cousin and Iowa. S E A I St. Paul, for Minnesota. A SPECIAL AGENT, For Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin, Headquarters, St. Paul, Minn. J. E. WEST, Agent at St. Cloud, Minn. lylstploO- MINNESOTA IRON WORKS in a is Iron and Brass Founders A N MACHINISTS. SHOPS AND OFFICE, FirstStreet, corner of Marshall Street. Mill FurnishingWarehouse Washington Avenme, near First Nationa Hotel. Plans, boecifications and Estimates On Short Notice. Steam and Water Hills Built on contract and furnished complete with MACHINERY, MILL STONES, MUT AND BRAN CLEANERS. SEPARATORS, BOLTING CLOTH, BOILERS, ENGINES, WATER WHEELS, ftc. Address all letters and order. MIJJJTKSOTA IKOW. W O S llnO MINNEAPOLIS. E N O N WHOLESALE DIALER IE SADDLER HARDWARE E A E E E I AND SHOE FINDINGS, !SS7 W a I I W A Orderspromptly and carefully filled E W E S Agent for the Old HartfordFire Insurance Co., Of Hartford. JO"DPAPEBB flCftj ersaUat ATTHIPO?WfJi "f'i ST CLOUD, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1869 THE BUilLD ORGAN. Var iuavallsygrsMiaudlont, Lying within setae legend old, Sometimes is a*ard an Organ's ton*, Trembling, late tit* aU*ne»n*Wd: In vauisb'd year* (the legend ataads) To save It from the nnhalowlng prey Of foemau's saaruaglous hands, The monks their Organ bore away None knows the spot wherein they laid That body of the heavenly soel Of Music: deep in forest ahad*. Forgotten, lies the grave they stole But oftentimee. In Morning gold, Or through the Twilight's hashing air, Within that valley,green and old, The Organ's soel arises there. Oh, low and tweet, and strange and wild, It whispers to the holier air, Gentle as lisping* of a child Mild as a mother's breathless prayer While silence trembles, sweet and low: Then rapture burst* into the tales, And chanting aagels, winging slow On wings of music seem to rise I The herdsman sometimes, all alone, Is lost within that haunted air: He hears the burled Organ's to Hi* bands are eroes'd, his breath Is prayer, And, while into his heart it steals, With hushing footsteps, downcast eye Some grand cathedral's awe he feels— A church of air, and earth, and skies Often, when the sweet wand of Spring Has flU'd the woods with flowers ansown, Or Autumn's dreamy breeze's wing Flutters through falling leaves, alone I wander forth, and leave behind The city's dost, the sultry glare: A lonely dell, far-off, I find— I know the Buried Organ there I Within the city's nsisy air I leave the creeds their Sabbath held I cross my hands, my breath Is prayer, Hearing that Organ's mystic swslls. The sweet birds atng, the soft'winds blew, The flower* have whispers low, apart All wake within me, loud or low, Ood's buried Organ—in my heart I [Bnterel according to Aet of Congress, by Mrs. JaneO. Swlsshelm, in the year 1803, in tb* Office of S 8ta»eeIHetrietC«mrt forth* District of Western Pennsylvania.] MARGARET MERLYN. W a it VOB THB ST. 01OUD JOUBVAI, BT MRS. JANE O. SWISSHELM. CHAPTER X3LXIII. A GENEROUS PROPOSAL. Windermere walked home with Mar garet, and on the way indulged his laugh over Mr. Twinzy'a defeat. Mirth was not the feeling she wished to ex cite, and this was tbe third time in this investigation, in which she had been dissatisfied with herself: viz. in ber impromptu rejoiners to Mr. Brown low, Dr." Dreaming and Mr. Twinzy. These were ail like her attack on Mr. Twinzy, in her frenzy at his insult, outbursts of some internal force of whose existence she had been igno rant. In her happy childhood and youth she had been esteemed a model of gentleness, so loving that the thought of having given pain to any living thing, was the most serious punishment she ever incurred. Her sympathy with suffering was such that her parents had carefully guarded ber fom the knowl edge of sin and woe, and she did not realize that this sympathy was simply a latent force now coming into action, lifting her above the plane ot ordinary aims and motives, and compelling her to tobs aside as baubles, the impedi ments which to most pesons were se rious barriers. The impertinence of the imposing legal gentleman, the pat ronizing contemptuous condescension of the great divine, and the self-impor tance of Mr. Twinsy, were as thistle down in the path of her straightforward urpose to rescue those helpless chil. dren from the grasp of this Iron wo* man, and she was dissatisfied at having called so much attention to herself.— In reply to Mr. Windermere'd remarks she said: "I wish I had let some one else si lence him." "Oh," said he, "no one eould have done it as you did, and I should not have missed the scene for several shares in railroad stock but how did you come to oall him Johnny "I do not know exactly. A neigh bor in New England had a little boy that was making a disturbance about half his time, and his mother seldom spoke two sentences without that in junction, 'Johnny, bo still I" It be came a byword with us but has lately quite passed from my mind." "Why is it you so associate Twinzy with little folks He is taller than the average of men." "Ob, but bis aims in life are all so little.. He is so far below my standard ot manhood that I cannot for a moment think of him as a man but I wish I bad not said that this evening. It may look as if I bore him some ill will." "Not io the least, and I think left no such impression on any one. Your manner was just that of a schoolmarm quieting an urchin. Oh, I hope I shall never win your contempt. No bitter ness of denunciation could have equal ed your unconscious assignment of the gentleman to his proper level of insig nificance." After some time, he remarked: "I fear there are few of us who may hope to reach your standard of man hood. It appears to be high." Ho spoke with difficulty, and for the first time it dawned upon Margaret's senses that tbii man was a lover. The knowledge gave her a pang, a feeling of desolation. She must low him, and needed him so muoh. It was some seconds before she could trust her voice to answer, then she said: "It ought to be high for do you not know it is my great ambition to be as much like a man as possible 7" "You?" he inquired, looking down into the face which scarce reached to his shoulder. JliH. II ,' vr ,-* p. After a very apparent effort, he said "Do you tell me all this seriously, Miss Merlyn t" "Seriously, euob are my life plans, and 1 have looked on them until they are pleasant. My prospects appear good for making a home for mother here and winning a competence. I have made some valuable friends, and am somewhat ambitious to count you in the number." "Do you tell, mo all this," he said, "to prevent my asking you tbe ques tion you must have known I wished to ask? Do you think that you alono, could oare for your family better than we two together, if you were my wife I have neither mother nor sisters. My business is very prosperous. Your friends should be mine, your cares mine. We should have no separate interests. Providing for your mother, brother and sisters would be a small matter, and then they could come to you at once and I should be all the gainer." His manner, was so full of agitation and earnestness, and Margaret had had suoh bitter experience of the pain of disappointed love, her nerves had been strung to such a tension that evening that this unexpected and generous pro posal quite overwhelmed her. She clasped her hands across bis arm, burst into a fit of weeping, and sobbed "Oh, I am so sorry you care for me. 1 wish you did not. I am very miser able. I thought you knew that I should never love any one. It appear ed to me as if everybody knew it. 1 was engaged once, and shall never love any one again but I need you for a friend and brother so much." He laid his hand kindly on hers, saying: "I should not have distressed you with this sudden proposal. Forgive me.. I had no right to speak to you so, on so short an acquaintance. I will be to you whatever you will permit me to be." They walked on past Judge Ken don's talking earnestly, and each recov ering from the first 6hock of a great disappointment. It was. evident there was something he wished to say that was difficult to elothe in words, but at length he said: "Before accepting the position of friend, there is one thing I ought to tell you—something I have always lacked the courage to tell you. Do you remember once being accosted on the street, near Mr. Walter's house, in tbe evening, by a puppy "I remember being spoken to by a stranger." "I was that impertinent stranger— that puppy." For an instant her hand relaxed on his arm, then she elapsed it closer. "You do not threw me off?" he said. "I would follow my brother or friend to the gates of perditioo, and grapple him there until the angels came to res cue him." "Would you not be afraid of being drawn in he asked. "Oh, no for the Savior has prom ised to keep that which I have com mitted to Him unto the 'perfect day, and none ean pluck anything out of Hfcliand:'* -.:r- "Then you can pardon mo for this?" "If God can pardon you why should not I It is His pardon you most need, and you never can need that more than I." After a pause she said: "I wish you would read the 22d chapter and 15th verse of Revelations to-night and think how it would be to be shut out in the kennel with the dogs, when our Father's house is so full of glorious beauty and blessedness. I was once very near being numbered in tbe catalogue of those who are to be without, for I was very near being a murderer, and am often afraid I may yet commit some terrible crime." "You he inquired. "Yes. I once had a paroxysm of rage when I think I felt as the most desperate murderers do, and was capa ble of any dreadful, savage crime." "How could that be possible 'i You appear to have such oommand of your temper, if you have any. I am snre throughout this investigation, your good humor has been the subject of comment by every one." "Nevertheless I have a dreadful temper which borders on insanity when roused. I never was angry but the once, and trust Gol I never shall be so again, and it was from no greater prov ocation than that miserable puling Twinsy. While I was at Mr. Walters' he came where 1 mm and he had no business to be. He made me very an gry, and there was a great hatchet there that I had been using. I never intended anything so muoh as to kill him and out him all into pieces. Oh, what a dreadful, fierce, blood-thirsty, savage feeling it was, and I was so long getting it conquered." "I think you were under strong mor al obligation to have carried out that iiinal "Yea, 1 even 1 wish you would not think me quite unworthy the hon or, but rather adopt me aa your little brother. Yon know mother', eiroom •tances. I hare pledged myself to fill aa best I can to her the place ot the •oni who are in the church yard.' I am almost twenty-six now, and so am dreamed of being. I was at least a safely anchored in the harbor of old murderer in heart, and why should I maidenhood. I hare rewired to be a Jud8* ***nlj of the fault of another ^e-i-w*™-., &S55^w5Saw* S a mission, a blue, lawyer and every thing else that is hateful. I begin to put on manly aim. already, I oaugbt myself yesterday swinging my parasol cane-fashion, and expect you will soon meet me with my bonnet set on one side as Mr. De Baun wears his hat and am afraid you will not own me for a friond muoh longer." purpose but what prevented you?" "Kate eamo and called me. I think I was insane, and look back upon it all with a shudder, feeling afraid of my self. I think I shall all my life feel that my conduct depends more on cir cumstances thaa on myself, since I could once be so unlike anything I once all that I so much condemn in Miss Ironton." "I should not think it likely, and do not wonder afr your disposition to kill Twinzy. Some one should have killed him long ago." She was silent several moments then said: "And who knows what evil influence made him what he is We need to bo very merciful to each other." "You do not appear very merciful to Miss IroBton or Mr. Twinzy either," he replied with an effort at" cheerful ness. "It is mercy to her to take away her power to do wrong—to deliver her from temptations she cannot resist—as it \s nwrcy to restrain a lunatic from injuring himself and others but if it were not, the greatest good to the greatest number requires that others should be protected against her evil passions. As for Twinzy, it does him no real harm to humble his ridiculous vanity, and help him if possible to a little self knowledge but if it were ev er so wrong I eould not help it, for he would provoke me to speak before I could reflect." After they had walked back and forth on the quiet street until both were calm, he went with hsr up to the door, and as she stood on the step and gave him her hnnd at parting, ho drew off her glove and pressed it to his lips, saying: "If I am never to call this mine other than as brother and friend, I may at least seal that compact thus." Stooping, she kissed his hand in re turn, saying: "And this shall be to me tbe hand of a true friend and big brother. I am to be the little brother jou know if am good" With a smile which was not all a smile, he turned away arid she went, with a sad heart to her room, but not to sleep. A E I I N WHICH DR. DREAMING A N MAR- GARET COMB TO A N UNDER- STANDING. The fourth evening came in which Margaret was to meet the committee. Judge Kendon brought the welcome hews that Miss Ironton had left The Home. The managers had borrowed money and paid her two hundred and fifty dollars, claimed as due her for ser vices she retained all the contribu tions sent from the East, and had giv en notice of her intention to take cway tbe bcbool furniture. Margaret raised her hands with a fervent "Thank God," and the Judge responded tha^ it was cause for thankfulness but add ed "I do not look upon her as finally disposed of. Reformers as a class, are obstinate people, and we American Abolitionists are about as obstinate as tny the world has yet produced. Get one of us wrong and we aro dreadfully wrong and experience proves that it is impossible to combine us in one course of action. We have bsen train ed in a school of opposition. This en tire party from A to are Abolition ists more or less. Dr. Dreaming has fought a good fight on tbat question. He as fi: mly believes that Miss Ironton is persecuted for righteousness sake as you believe the opposite. He has an almost unlimited power of explaining away troublesome facts, which lie in the way of a preconceived opinion and he, with Miss Ironten and her party, will nover rest until she is reinstated." "I wonder," said Margaret musing ly, "how it would do for mo to make affidavit of her treatment of Peter, and have ber arrested on a chargo cf man slaughter or murder?" Mrs. Kendon sprang np, and coming behind her threw her arms around her, and stooping kissed ber forehead, say ing: "I declare, Maggie, you are tbe right bower, but you do not know what that is. You know the Sunday Herald says you're a strong-minded sister, but you are not much more than about half large enough. You 'ought to have great fierce black eyes and broad shoul ders. What a determined little thing yeu are, and if ever my children are or phans I hope you will take charge of them. Don't you ever let any step mother have them. You remember Mathew, if I die Maggie is to have my children." "Have you any premonitions he inquired, smiling. '•Oh, you big wig!" she rejoined, pouching her lips at bim and taking Margaret by the hand, said, "come and play a polka for us, I am going to make him dance, then I'll go to that horrid meeting with you and make him go along. It is a regular shame tbat we have left you to fight this dreadful Lu crecia Borgia, while I have been drag ging bim off to the opera." The dancing was rather a one-sided affair, as carrying Freddv in bis arms he walked back and forth, while she danced the polka around them holding the hand of littlo May. It was a beau tiful family group, and a scene that Margaret long remembered after dark ness bad settled on tbe devoted house. That evening Miss Ironton came to the investigation, attended alone by her attorney, who still maintained a general silence, leaving his work to Dr. Dream ing. Mrs. Bateman was called, and testi fied that when she went to The Home, she found the distress of thirst so great amongst the ohildren that a drink of water was the highest reward tbey could be offered. She described the condition of the ohildren as heartrending, suffering an they were from hunger, thirst and ver min. The lady managers had first waver ed in thoir support of Mrs/ Bateman, about taking thw ehildren Wo the drawing-room on 8av baihi evenings, and the house dining-room fire on chill: mornings. They also disapproved of her permitting them to go on the grass, at the front or sides of the house, or to come up on the front porch but still argued with" her about giving them mo and better food and sufficient drink, until Mies Ironton had persuad- 1 h. «J i# HRIf NO. 41. ed them tbat this was unfavorable to their health. She had at length be come so insulting and abusive, that Mrs. Bateman, acting as mistress of tbe house, refused to eat with her, and sent her meals to her room. Mrs. Bateman had also locked her out of the drawing room, for insolence in presence of the children. This brought matters to a crisis, and tbe majority of tbe mana gers voted to sustain Miss Ironton. Then Mrs. Bateman resigned. Boy. Dr. Donaldson was examined, had raited The Home on the day the new Board of Managers was elected, had found the children in a miserable condition, without fire on a cold spriog day, feeble and apparently suffering for want of food. Mr. Windermere asked some ques tions, to which Mr. Brownlow arose and objected. He stated that g0mo member of tbe committee had made statements to a local reporter of one of the papers, showing that he had pre judged the case 31r. Windcriterc said he had made the statement on which that reporter has based a para graph. Mr. Brownlow refused to pro ceed with the investigation until he should consult the friends of Miss Iron ton, and asked an adjournment until the next evening. Mr. Granger opposed postponment on such ground. Dr. Dreaming, chair man of the committee, had made an elaborate public statement over his own signature, before any testimony had been taken, showing that he had pre judged the case. The prosecution had proceeded with it under this disadvan tage, and the defense had no right to object if other members of the commit tee had expressed opinions. There was much discussion of the question, and Messrs. Windermere and Brownlow ex changed angry words and looks. The result was that Dr. Dreaming and the brisk attorney, refused to permit the investigation to proceed until thev had had time to consult, or until Mr." Win dermere withdrew. The m-eting was therefore adjourned until the nexUven ing. Margaret felt that it was the pur pose ot the Ironton party to weary her by these delays until she should give up in despair of results, then claim that she had failed to sustain her charges. Tho next meeting Mr. Brownlow ap peared on behalf of his client, to say that Miss fronton's friends refused to permit her longer to give countenance to this mockery of an investigation in which she could have no hope of jus tice, since the case was prejudged by at bast one member of the committee. There was no means of compelling Miss Ironton to appear or the committee to proceed, fielding to necessity, the in vestigation must cease. Dr. Mild nay embraced the opportunity of urging tbe importance of putting a good face on it. There had been unfortunate differ once of opinion between the managers of Tbe Home, but it was a nble "in stitution, had endowments worth two hundred thousand dollars, and a large income to boot. The true friends of the Institution had been grieved that some abuses had crept into its manage ment they were deeply grieved that it should have been so roughly assailed, but they wished to have no bard words. Tbey cast no reflections on any one, and were willing to forgive and forget. What tbey, the true friends of the In stitution, now had to propose was christian forbearance, mutual forgive ness and reconciliation for sake of the Institution. Miss Ironton and her friends bad acted with consideration for the good of tbe Institution. What he, Dr. Mildmay, now proposed on be half of himself and other true friends of the Institution, was that Miss Mer lyn and her friends should follow the example set by Miss Ironton and ber friends, and withdraw from *bis inves tigation, shake hands, make friends and go to work harmoniously for the good of the Institution. Miss Ironton had withdrawn from the Institution, and he thought it would be but right that Miss Merlyn should reciprocate and with draw ber charges. This proposal was received with very general favor. The law of inertia com pels tbe waves to settle into a calm as soon as tbey are relieved of the dis turbing influence of the winds. In this the great mass of mankind resem ble the waves, and the few original thinkers Bent amongst them are in some ages too few to prevent the green scum of decay from covering the whole sur face of the moral world. Those good people were weary of agitation and wanted rest. Not a few of them would have been willing to purehase it at the cost of permitting Miss Ironton to re sume her place in The Home, and have contented themselves with hoping that she bad learned wisdom and mercy through the hard ordeal through which she had passed. Nations not unfre quently yield the victory of a well fbnght war through this inertia of tbe materials of which they are mainly composed, aud the loss in battle of tbe spirits whieh stirred, them to resist ance. Margaret was soon assailed by en treaties to withdraw her charges, to which she replied: "I have stated the truth and noth ing more, and shall never do anything which might be construed into admis sion that I had been a false accuser of the innocent. I cannot press the in vestigation here, and will let it rest, provided Miss Ironton is not returned to Tho Home or placed elsewhere in charge of children. If she is, I shall have her arrested for causing Pet Vs death, and brought before a court of Justice, so tbat the public may be fully informed of her character and child ren protected from her cruelty." After some time spent in discussion as to the best mode ot putting a gc-d face on it, Dr. Dreaming came to where Margaret stood by a piano, and leaning on it, be brought his cynical face to a level with hers and remarked: "You think me a very bad man, Miss Merlyn." "I think you very wrong-headed." "Ah. When we meet up yonder in our Father's house, you will find me a very different kind of fellow from what you now suppose." Aa he spoke, he turned his eyes upward and aighed. She was startled by his use of the word "fellow," as she had been in their first interview by "fool," but afterwards learned to account for these occasional contradictions to the general cold pol ish, or what a plasterer might term •'hard finish" of his speech, as the "cropping out" of a contradictory char acter. She replied to his stiange re mark "I hope we shall meet there, freed from dross, and reflecting the image of Him whom we both believe to havo been the only perfeet man." He bowed and after silently toying with bis watcbebain with tbe hand which rested on the piano as he leaned on bis arm, he continued "Are you not a very determined wo man, Mas Merlyn "I hope so." "And you would carry your point at allhazzards?" "1 should try." "In this case you will carry it though Mi« Ironton lay in your path, and you, must trample her life out to succeed." "I think I should not trample any living thing unless I thought it a dan gerous reptile. I do not find Miss Ironton prostrate, but erect and defiant, a powerful oppres or of th* weak, and as such Ideal with her." 'Yes, and in your stern determina tion you forget tbat she is a woman." ".No, Dr. Dreamin.', nor that her vic tims arc babies—are of those little ones of whom our Lord shall say, 'In as much as ye did it unto one of the least of the*e ye did it unto me.' Miss Iron ton is totally unfit to have any power over children, and if ever you again place her in a position to exercise any, she may expect to meet and count me her Pbilippi." She waited for no answer, but left the room and the investigation was end ed. CTO BE CONTINUED.) —Jim .Smith was a noted auctioneer. One day he was selling farm stock. Among the articles to be sold was a heifer, very a Itractive in her appear ance. a»rd consequently "Jim" dwelt quite extensively on her man excel lencies, winding np with bis eloquent flourish that she wes as "gentle as a dove." Thereupon, a long, subsided countryman, whose legs were some twelve inches longer than his pants, approached tha heifer and stooping down commenced handling ber teats Bossy, not relishing such familiartij, lifted her hoofs and laid t:Greeny" sprawling some ten feet off. ''There," said Jim, "tbat shows one of her beet traits, she'll never allow a strange calf to come near ber I" "Greeny" mean while pick° himself up, and giving his busy pate a harrowing scratch, ex claimed "No wonder, when her oicn calf has been Heating around her all day —•'Walt Whitman," says a Wash ington letter, "although really Demo cratic, still retains his old desk in the Attorney General's office. Age is tell ing on the old man, and his disor dered hair and heavy beard grow whiter and more patriarchal every day. After office hours in the afternoon he saun ters slowly np the avenue, or mounts the platform of a street car for a ride, sometimes going to the end of the route and returning on the same car. He is a quiet, benevolent-looking, blue-eyed old gentleman, who makes but few ac« quaintances, and eschews parlors al together for the promenade. He writes now entirely for English peri odicals, believing bis productions bet ter appreciated in that direction than at home." Si —Two medical men were recently called to decide the cause of illness of a very sick man. "It is a severe case of typhoid fever," said one. "I think not," said the second. Tbey disputed and discussed, till the first said "Never mind, we shall fiad out when we make the post moitem examination." The sick man did not smile. —Victor Hugo's new story, "The Man Who Laughs," is no laughing matter. The title of the story is drawn from one of the most horrible events of French history—tbe defacement of tbe children of certain proscribed class es and Thommc qui rit is a man who had been so defaced in childhood as to present a constant grin upon his coun tenance. Tbe story, so far as it has progressed, is filled largely with Hugo's philosophy, and apparently random speculations. —The "Liberal School" feel them selves quite fortunate in having Mrs. Julia Ward Howe a? one ot their public teachers, in her late Sunday discourse in Horticultural Hall, she affirmed that "the atonement of Christ, taken in the usual sense, is but a heathen sacrifice to a heathen deity," and ridiculed the Orthodox Church as "busied with act ing over the tragedy of Christ's death." OLD MAIDS—Embers from which the sparks have fled. —Will sticking a stove-pipe in a hole stop the hole —If you and your sweetheart vote upon the marriaga question, you for it and she against it, don't flatter yourself as to its being a tie. —"We see," said Swift, in one of his most sarcastic moods, "what God thinks of riches by the people He gives them to." —The empress of Austria is called the best-dressed European princess. —Queen Victoria still wears the deepest mourning. —The only protest against female suffrage made to the Massachusetts Legislature, came frooi women. —A Shanghai rooster killed a small child in Kentucky the other day. —Wade Hampton has been buying a thousand mules in Illinois, for use on his Southern plantations. —-By a thoughtful, but henpenke o'd boy la our schooldays, the "rule of three" is proverbially trying—how much harder, in after life, do we feel the rule of "ono —Joe Jefferson's income from "Kip Van Winkle" is about one hundred thousand dollars per annum. —Camilla Urso is negotiating for the famous violin once used by Paganini, and now belonging to the estate of a French nobleman, recently deceased It is a Cremona, we forget of whieh make, and is considered worth any sum inside of 910,000. —A publishing house of Yeddo an nounces the issue of the one hundred and sixth and last volume ot an inter esting Japanese novel. —Thomas Nast, the artist, makes $200 to $300 a week by hie cartoons and sketches lor Barper't Weekly and other illustrated periodicals.