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j TERMS, 81,25 LV ADVANCE.
VOLUME 1,
IRASBURGII, VERMONT, FRIDAY,- SEPTEMBER 12, 185G.
NUMBER 37.
nr.:
et
iUrarg Selections.
A DANGEROUS PASSENGER.
A col J winter's night found a stage load
of us gathered about the warm fire of a
tavern bar-room in a New England vil
lage. Shortly after we arrived, a pedler
drove up and ordered that his horse be
stabled for the night. After we had eat-
IE
ea sapper we repaired to the bar room
and as soon as the ice was broken the
-conversation Sowed freelj. Several an
ecdotes had been related, and finally he
pedler waui ashed to give us a story, as
men of Lis profession were generally full
of adventures and anecdotes. He was a
short, thick set man, somewhere about
forty years of age and gave evidence of
great physical strength, lie gave his
Siame as Lemuel Viney, and his home
was in Dover, New Hampshire.
" Well, gentlemen," he commenced,
knocking the ashes from his pipe and
putting it in his pocket, suppose I tell
you about the last thing that happened
to me of any consequence ? You see I
am now right from the far West, and on
any way home for winter quarters. It
was about two months ago, one pleasant
-evening, that I pulled up at the door of
a small village tavern in Hancock County,
Indiana. I said it was pleasant ; I meant
jt was warm, but it was cloudy and likely
to be very dark. I went in and called for
supper, and I had my horse taken care
of, aad after I had eaten I sat down in
-the bar room. It bejran to rain about 8
.o'clock, and for a while it poured down
.good, and it was awful dark out doors.
" Now I wanted to be in Jackson early
next morning, for I expected a load of
goods there for me, which I intended to
dispose of on my way home. The moon
would rise about midnight, and I knew if
it did not rain, I could get along through
-the mad very comfortable after that. So
I asked the landlord if he could not see
that my horse was fed about midnight as
I wished to be off by two. He expressed
some surprise at this, and asked me why
I did not stop for breakfast. I told him
I had sold my List load aoom n m)t an
-that a new lot of goods was waiting for
jnie at Jackson, and I wanted to be there
before the express agent left in the mor
ning. There was a number of people
eitting round while I told this, Vut I took
littls notice of them, one oiy arresting
my attention. I had in J possession a
small package of plds which I was
40 .deliver to the-eriff at Jackson, and
they were p"ieej fr the detection of a
jjrioprobber named Dick Hardhead.
ljgbilLi gave a diseription of his per
son, and the man before me answered
very well to it. In fact it was perfect.
He was a tall, well formed man, rather
slight hi frame, and had the appearance
of a gentleman, save that his face bore
those hard cruel marks which an obser-
5 vir.g man cannot mistake for anything but
cm bet .the index to a villainous disposition.
fj-'z-: . " When I went to iny chamber I asked
im ; the landlord who that man was, describing
i!zll the suspicious individual. He said he
ikE 5 -
did not know him. He had come there
, :-,"J ' that afternoon and intended to leave the
'Jj. -c next day. The host askd why I wished
r to know, and I simply told him that the
5.-463' man countenance was familiar, and I
, merely wished to know if I ever was arf-
quainted with Lim. I resolved not to let
. the landlord into the secret, but hurry on
.to Jackson, and there give information to
the sheriff, and perhaps he might reach
.the inn before the villain left ; for I had
.to doutts with regard to his identity.
. il had an alarm watch, and having set
it to give the alarm atone o'clock, I went
" What could it be ? I looked quickly
around, but could see nothing. Yet I
knew that the sound that I heard was
very close to me. As the hind wheels
came out I felt something besides the
jerk of the hole. I heard something
tumble from one side to the other of my
wagon, and I could also feci the jar oc
casioned by the movement. It was sim
ply a man in my cart I knew this on
the instant. Of course I felt puzzled.
At first I imagined some poor fellow had
taken that method to obtain a ride ; but
I soon gave this up, for I knew that any
decent man wonld have asked me for a
ride. My next idea was that somebody
had got in to sleep ; but this passed away
as quick as it came for no man would
have broken into my cart for that pur
pose. And that thought gentlemen,
opened my eyes. Whoever was in there
had broken in,
" My next thoughts were of Mr. Dick
Hardhead. He had heard me say that
my load was all sold out, and of couise
he supposed I had some money with me.
In this he was right for I had over two
thousand dollars. I thought he meant
to leave the cart when he supposed I
had reached a safe place, and then eith
er creep over and shoot me, or knock
me down. All this passed through my
mind by the time I had got a rod from
the hole
" Now I never make it a point to brag
of myself, but I have seen a great deal
of the world, and I am pretty cool and
clear headed under difficulty. In a very
few moments my resolution was formed.
My horse was now knee deep in the mud
and I knew I could slip off without noise.
So I drew my revolver, I never travel in
that country without one I drew this,
and haviDg twined the reins about the
whip stock, I carefully slipped down in
the mud, and as the cart passed on I
went behind it and examined the hasp.
The door of the cart lets down, and is
fastened by a hasp, which slips over a
staple and is then secured by a padlock.
The padlock was gone, and the hasp was
secured in its place by a bit of pine so
that a sliorht force from within could
u Finally he stopped, and in a few
minutes came the report of a pistol one
two three four, one right after the
other, and I heard the balls whiz over
my head. If I had been on my seat one
of those balls if not two of them would
have gone through me. I popped up myj
head again and gave a yell, and then a
deep groan and then I said "O, God
save me I'm a dead man !" Then I made
a shuffling noise as though I were falling
off, and finally settled down on' the foot
board again. I now urged up the old
mare by giving her an occasional poke
with the" butt of my whip stock and she
peeled it faster than ever.
" The man called out to me twice more,
pretty soon after this, as he got no an
swer he made some tremendous endeav
ors to break the door, and as this failed
him, he made several attempts upon the
top. But I had no fear of his doing any
thing there, for the top of the cart is
framed with dovetails, and each sleeper
bolted to the posts with iron bolts. I
had made it so I could carry heavy loads
there. By and by, after all else had
faired, the scamp commenced to holler
whoa to the horse, and kept it up, until
he became quite hoarse. All this time I
kept perfectly still holding the reins firm
ly and kept poking the beast with the
whip stock.
" We was not an hour in going the
dozen miles not a bit of it. I hadn't
much fear, perhaps I might tell the truth
and say I had none, for I had a good
pistol, and more than all that, my pass
enger was safe, yet I was glad when I
came to the old flour barrel factory that
stands at the edge of Jackson village, and
in ten minutes more hauled up in front
of the tavern, and found a couple of men
in the barn cleaning down some stage
horses.
" Well, old feller," says I as I got down
and went round to the back of the wagon,
"you have had a good ride haven't ye?"
"Who are you?" he cried, and he
kind of swore a little, too as he asked the
question."
" I'm the man you tried to shoot," was
rve to'
and i':
DYING ADVICE OF HON. ME.
SHIRK.
Simon Smirk was on his death bed.
His son Samuel was standing by his
side ; and while he was holding his fa
ther's hand, his father spoke to him as fol
lows :
"Samufy I am dying at the age of fif
ty five. I wish you to pay strict attention
to my dying advice !"
Father I will."
" And I wish you to follow my advice
after I am dead.',
" I will, father." . . --w-k
"Sammy, the neighbors, and all my
friends tell me I haven't au enemy ia the
world, and I believe I haven't. I ant
you to understand why I haven't. It's
all owing to policy Sam; policy, md
nothing shorter. When I was of your
age, my boy, I was poor as a broken dwn
village horse turned out to die. Age las
at last broken me down, but I ain't por
thank policy ! Follow my example, md
you will become richer by far, than yJur
father, Sammy, and die without an ene
my, as I do.'! '
Sammy wept, as in duty bon'nd, tut
grief and his handkerchief choked hs
utterence, so he said nothing. '
" It has always been my policy," re
sumed the dying Smirk, "to avoid giving
offence to any one. No matter what peo
pie said or did to me or any one else
right or wrong I have always endeay
ored to submit, wherever I could ; to bi
calm and cautious on all occasions, and t
avoid the exhibition of any sign of resent
ment. By long experience in this course;
I have found that by persevering to agree
with everybody skilfully, is a sure event
ual guide to universal popularity."
" But have you never had any diffi
culty with any one T
u Not since I was twenty-one," said
the dying man grasping for breath.
" Reach me a little water, an4 wet my
lips they are too patched to speak plain.
There, there," he added as his stn obeyed
him: "that will do, and you shtllbe init
iated into my invariable, and invaluable
s'.e ST
'TV"" .to sleep. I was aroused at the proper
:time and immediately got up ad dressed
32'. S - -V"-
When I reached the yard, I
Tflr oand the clouds all passed away and the
j-e-TO 9 moon was shining brightly. The ostler
-1 was easily aroused and by two o'clock I
jgiSi. was oa tig road. The mud was deeo and
..-.w j
UjV' " truck that the beast made more
cl it work than tLere was any need .cf, for the
cart wa3 nearly empty,
n ntQi - "However oa we went, and in course
ef half aa hoar I was clear of the village.
At a short dkJ&nee ahead lay a large
tract of forest mostlr of mat r.inp;
i c:.-.e2 - . " c
a Tirtf8 "t The road fey Greedy through this wood
LS and as near as I could remember, the
-:.' distance wa.f twelve mile. Yet the
k aiooo in the east, and as the road
break it. My wheel wrencn nuns in a
leather bucket on the side of the cart and
I quickly took it out and slipped it into
the staple, the iron handle just sliding
down.
"Now I had him. My cart was al
most new, made in a stout frame of white
oak and made on purpose for hard usage-
I did not believe any ordinary man could
break out. I got on to my cart as noise
lessly as I got off, and then urged my
horse on, still keeping my pistol handy.
I knew that the distance of half a mile
further I should come to a good hard road,
and so I allowed my horse to pick his
own way through the mud. About ten
minutes after this I heard a motion in
the cart, followed by a grinding noise as
though some heavy force were being
applied to the door, I said nothing, but
the idea struck me that the villain might
judge where I sat and shoot op through
the top of the cart at me, so I sat down
on the foot board.
"Of course I knew that my unex
pected passenger was a villain, for he
must have been awake ever since I star
ted, and nothing in the world but abso
lute villainy would have caused him to
re main quiet so long and then start in
this particular place. The thumping
grew louder and louder, and pretty soon
I heard a human voice.
" Let me out of this," he cried, and he
yelled pretty loud-
" I lifted up my head so as to make
him think I was sitting in usual place
and then asked him what he was doing
there.
" Let me out, and I will tell you," he
replied.
" Tell me what you are in there for?"
said I.
" I got in here to sleep on your rags,"
he answered.
" How did you get in," I asked.
" Let me out or IH ehoot you through
the head," be yelled.
" Just at that moment my horse's feet
6truck the hard road, and I knew the
rest of the route to Jackson would be
good going. The distance .was but twelve
miles. I slipped back on the foot-board
and took the whip. I had the same
horse then I've got now a tall, stout,
powerful bay mare and you may he
rn t reply.
" faere am
ways praise generous people. Chip
your hands for philanthropy, and then
clap them in your ioeket, and keep them
there."
" Suppose a Ix-ggor aaks alms of me or
I am called to contribute to some chart ia
ble object?"
If any jterson bogs, say certainly, my
poor woman, or my man, or my child,
and then quickly fed in your pockets.
You will find no money, of course ; but
you must say with a sigh and a bitter
tear in your eye, if you can scare it up,
I'm realjr ashamed to own it, but unfortu
nately I haven't a cent about me. If
you don't get a God bless you, for that,
I'm mistaken. I never found it to fail."
" But a subscription ?"
" Read the paper, praise the object,
but say that you have just subscribed for
more than you could oflord for another
object of similar nature. If your appli
cant believe this that you are in the char
itable line, he will let you off, whereas if
you refuse out and out, without an ex
planation, he might abuse you behind
your back. I have made myself a reputa
tion for benevolence by merely refusing
to subscribe in this way. This is a
queer world Sam."
" Here the old man was seized with a
violent fit of coughing, which aearly
took him out of this queer world.
" I fear father, that talking so much
will be fatal to you," said Samuel.
"No, uo," resumed his father, " I'm
determined not to die till I get through.
As I was saying, Sammey, this is a queer
world, as you can't get along iu it with
out religion."
"Without what exclaimed his son, in
amazement. He never mentioned relives
, ion before in his life.
" Without religion. Hire a pew by all
means, talk religion occafionally, and
you can soon get the hang of it. Profess
and practice when you are obliged to.
But, at airy rate, profess: it helps a fel
low along in business. I got some of the
most profitable customers and best friends
by professing religion, l'ew rent is no
" God blest you my dear father! what
ia the matter T
" I am going Sam, I shall be off in
minute. Call in th ministers quick ! but
remeaiber policy, Sam, policy."
And with the unfinished words, winch
had been bin guiding slur through lifu,
upon his lij, lion, tjiinon Smirk expired.
Intelligence of his death was telegraph
ed all over the Union, and a great many
editorial obiturary notices wrc written
ujion him ending with
" N'ou knew Him but to kj Cim.
Nui Duied lhe bat to prsiae."
You seem poor," remarked the man
ger, carelessly i
"I .4fHpoor"heeplied.
" Got a family, I suppose ?
" Four little boys, sir; I am a widow."
" Humph, humph, so I supposed
that's the old story."
" Ask Mr. Hart, the tailor'" criej the
widow, stepping forward a little ; " he
knows m we!l s he knows if I am poor I
am houest."
A bright red spot burnt on her cheeks
as sho spoke, and she forced back the
tears.
SARAH GOODWIN AND HEIi! ."N0W cvofvM' " tho stranger,
BOYS. ' tm"s "ml w!k,r'g '"! fro before the
ore, -c-aiilirss that yen expected a lart
reward for this."
policy. B deferential. Sam, i-trffby- fta
;iiki cuuirui run--
yelled.
" Look here, we've come to a safe
stopping place, and mind ye my revolver
is ready for ye the moment you show
yourself. Now lay quiet."
" By this time the two ostlers had come
up to see what was the matter, and I ex
plained ail to them. After this I got
one of them to run and rout out the sher
iff and tell him what I bcleived I'd got
for him. The first streaks of daylight
were just coming up, and in half an hour
it would be broad daylight. In less than
that time the sheriff came and two men
with him. I told him the whole in a few
words, exhibited the handbills I had for
him and then he made for the cart. He
told the chap inside who he was, and if
he made the least resistence he'd be a
dead man. Then I slipped the iron
wrench out, and as I let the door down
the fellow made a spring. I caught him
by the ankle and he came down on his
face and in a moment more the officers
had him. It was now daylight, and the
moment I saw the chap I recognized him.
He was marched of to the lock-up, and
I told the sheriff I should remain in town
all day.
" After breakfast the sherif came down
to the tavern and told me that I had
caught the very bird, and that if I would
remain in town until the next morning,
Sarah Goodwin was the name of a oor
seamstress residing in the city of New,
loik. She was not wholly fricudU-W
... .i i , , . "
oui uiose wuoin Mie Knew, ana would
have aided her in her struggles, were
very poor and could not. So she, a wid
ow with four boys, from the ages of four
to niuc years, struggled through winter's
could and summer's heat, providing her
little family with bread, aud that was all.
Meat and luxuries were denied Sarah
Good jin and her boys. The latter were
good children, always iu their homes after
nightfall, and giving their mother every
cent of their litilo earnings as often as
they found work to do.
At last the mother fell sick.and through
a weary illness she had no other attend
ance, save the occasional help of a neigh
bor, and the constant aid of her poor lit
tle boys. They were never from her
side, and it was touching to behold their
sympathy, their gentle ministrations;
evrybody prophesied that they would
be blessed in coming years, for their
thouhgiful kindness toward their mother.
The widow rccovcrd, but it was now
the heart of a bitter "winter, and their lit
tle stock of fuel was nearly gone. As
soon as her ctrencth nennitte.l. sh
walked through the cold of a cheerless
day to the shop of her employer, and told
him her pitiful story. But it was hard
times; her illness had made room yr others
ance. havoabow,
and a smile, and a shake of the Lani for
everybody, mark ! everybody ; and then
you srill get along."
" But I musn't be friendly to villains,
must I ?'
" Friendly ! humph 1 be friendly to no
body ; seem so. Villains ; they ccmpose
two thirds of the community, aid are
most influential. As for the oiher third,
though it is well to keep their goo! opin
ion, they are only subordinate agents in
the building up of a man. But don't get
affronted with them. Oh, no Sam; never
do that! Never kick a dog unless you
are sure he hasen't any owner, then kick
away, if you like.
Though his father was dying. Samuel
could not help smiling at 6uch laiguage.
" That's right," said the elder Smirk ;
"I like that. Smile again, San, Smile
again. By smiling I have gaiitd many
a friend. But be careful you don't
smile at the wrong time. A smile is a
powerful weapon, but must be used with
judgment.".
"Do you know, Sam, why I wss always
such a favorite with the women?"
"No father."
" I was always carefuL in the first place,
to feel my way with women ; took care
to underestand their character, their
sentiments, their particular vanities and
bobbies, keeping my own ideas in the
will have to defend its doctrines ; and re
ligious controversies create enmity, don't
they?"
"Sometimes. But whenever I found
that I wa3 getting into trouble on acount
of my religion, I was always careful to
yield a point or two, or smile iu a chris
tian like way and then back out of the
scrape. That's the way to do it, Sammy,
that's the way to do it."
"It is bebt. I suppoj-e, to be some
kind of a political! ?" inquired the son.
" By $11 means : but take care and al
ways be on the strongest side. You cau,
though, be rabid as a mad dog in your
views, when nobody but your side is pres
ent; affect to be very liberal in your
sentiments when you talk with thone of
an opposite political . creed. Mankind
love a liberal man ; and if you flutter your
foes, you disarm them.'
"There's a good deal in that," observ
ed Sammy, musingly reflecting on many
existing instances of its truth.
" That there is," responded the sick
man, nearly exhausted, and his lips as
pale as aches. " Double dealing does
welL When I lived in Squealbury, a
hoggish set there, Sam, I was a great gun.
I was a general favorite, owing to my
management, and I bad money. They
were going to build a town house. There
were two parties each favoring a different
6ite. They sent committees to ask my
opinion. . At tne parties were aoout
as destitute tu herself; in fine, they had
anting uen, fray 1113 10 ee nr ... ,ulnin!r -,. .e ,xa,,lT
courage up, the puv M t.r. .m ' . . (Wflliin. of u,,-.
shop to shop until, U bee :.Ue, unl j ... nara,vzeil K:.u as,ouishmnL th.
.!.( . ...1.1... .1 '
wuai wau ncr icars uuu me uark.ness me
"I did thiuk that perhaps," and sh '
th quivering lips to the door.
i "Stop, Mop," cried tho stranger;
"you know you wo'd never have return
ed the purse, had you not expected to be
paid for it."
" Sir said the widow, her tone indig
nant, her thin form towering and, oh, the
withering rebuke in her voice and inan
ners.
The stranger paused, holding the purs
in his baud; then drawing forth the
smallest jnissible coin that it contained,
offered it la her.
For a moment she drew back, but
then remembering that her poor buy
were hungry at home, in bed becau.o
there was no fire, she burst into tears as
she took it, saying, " This will buy bread
for my poor children," and hurrying away,
she buried the bitterness of that mornins
in her own heart.
It was four o'clock on the same day.
Sarah Goodwin sat by a scanty fire, busy
in sewing patches on the very poor clothes
of her four boys.
"Run to the door, Jimmy," she said
to the eldest, as a loud knock was heard.
" Oh mother the boy cried, return
ing, " a big bundle for us ! What is it ?
What can it be ?"
" Work for me, perhaps,' murmured
the widow, untying the huge package,
I should have the reward of two hundred
dollars which bad been offered.
I found my goods all safe, paid the er-r disrespectfully of the sex I never in the j ted at first which to favor. '
back ground, until I could coincide with
theirs. I always took care never to speak enual in numbers and influence. I hesita-
T"T rest 1 &haa)d hAve LLt liere there's some go in her. At any
- trf.
sjrVv hid
it.
'-t .
I had entered the woods, and
-vj 4i boat half a mile when my
j wl-tli settled with a tamp and
r:L a deep hole. I uttered an ex
. tf astonishment, but this was
I heard another exclamation
r source:
rate she struck a gait that even aston
ished me. She had received a good mess
ofoaii, the air was cool and she felt like
going. Ia fifteen minute we cleared
the woods, and away we went at a keen
jump. iM cxa nKi kept yelling to
be let oat
press agent for bringing them from In
dianapolis, and then went to work to
stow them away in my cart. . The bul
let holes were found in the top of my
vehicle just as I expected. They were
in a line about five inches apart, and had
I been where I usually sit, two of the
balls would have hit me somewhere about
the small of the back and passed upward,
for they were sent with a heavy charge
of powder and his pistol was a heavy one.
On the next morning the sheriff called
upon me and paid me two hundred dollars
in gold, for he had made himself sure
that he'd get the villain. I afterwards
iouuda letter in the poue at Ports
mouth for me from the sheriff of Han
cock county, and be informed me that
Dr. Dick Hardhead is in prison for life."
So ended the pedler's ttory. In the
morning I had the curiosity to look fet
hi cart, and I found the four bullet holes
just as Le had told us, though they were
now plugged up with phial corks.
tpS" Blessed is the who has a mother's
care, a father's house, and a brother's af-
' ftctkm.
presence of a woman, called a woman a
woman, or a female. ' I bad but one
name, ladies for all the feminine gender."
" How did you do when they differed,
and asked your opinion."
" I would agree with one, and at the
-same time wink at the others slyly, as
much as to say tis all a humbug, what I
am saying.' If a woman was ugly, I
praised her intellect- If she diden't
know anything, I'd praise her virtue. I'd
seldom miss the mark ; for it is ugly, im
moral and a fool in the bargain. Ia
fact it is hard to find anybody who hasn't
some good point, or who isn't susceptible
to flatery in some way or other 5 and a
man must be a fool who, determined to
flatter, and make h'u flattery acceptable,
can't iieize hold of some mrit, in itiid,
heart, form or face of the person he wih.
e to pita?, and feigtiing to admire it,
make that peraoa friendly."
" Mut I be stingy or liberal 'f
u Oh, be liberal, by all means," ai the
dying man, with ft ghastly iraiie," that
i the sentiment, Whenever generous
ded U don. jtalt it t t!; .kis. A1-
" And how did you overcome this dif
ficulty ?'
u I told the committees that if they
would call a meeting of both parties, I
would give them my opinion. That
meeting was called, and I went. Smirk,
Smirk, .Smirk,' they all cried, and after
complimenting the rowdies generally,
the towu, its character, and so forth,
disclaimed my right cither to the distin
guished honor eonfered on mc, or to de
liver my opinion on the subject. I
would not express my preference or opin
ion ; I had confidence that th intelligence
of the S'uealburian would enable them
to choote, I bowed and withdrew, in
the mibt of the cher of partie,"
"That wis well done, father," laid
Sam, admirably ; " and was that th rea
son you were elected to th Legislature."
" Yes," eaid senior Smirk, faintly ; 44 1
made a hit. My firoi-otindednes became
proverbial. I wu compared to Ciociti-
niitu and Washington, aud put up for
representative, and elected by both punk.
'Dosi J did Sam, and ya will projr,
could hardly see her way home.
" If Mr. Hart himself had been there"'
she soliloquized, bending to the strong
wind, drawing her scanty shawl close a-
bout her form, " I know he would have
riven me work."
A she whimpered thus through her
chattering teeth, a tall man, with a kmg
grey beard, passed by her, and a be did
so, something fell to the sidewalk, and
laid upon the criMfcd snow. Sarah
paused ; she had heard the noise made by
the little packet, and a mysterious
impression led her to search for it. Oh,
joy ! it was a purse, heavy and filled to
the brim ; yellow and shining laid the
gold within its strong meshes, as she
caried it toward a lighted window.
" My poor boys, they ishall.watit food
no more," she ejaculated fervently ; thi
is Gold! G'J put it in my way ; he saw
I was deputing."
Suddenly, like a flush of lightning,
the thought occurred to Sarah that not
one cent of the new-fouud treasure was
honestly hers. But a moment tha linger
ed, pressing tho money with her numbed
fingerc, the sorrowful tear chasing down
her thin cheeks, then starting forward to
find the owner of tho purnv, ho walked
hurriedly up the street, fearful that the
temptation, should she arrive at her joor
room and see her hungry children, might
prove too strong for hw integrity.
Opposite the great hotel, a she stood
hesitating what way to take, he saw the
stranger enter. She kne him by hi
long singular bread ; and timidly crossing
th ktreet, she made her way into the
billiard Imll, and there bewildered by tho
light, knew not what to say till twice ask
ed by the servant what the wanted. Of
course she could do no more, than decribe
the stranger by hi tall stature and strange
beard. But bo had already gon out
again 2 she rcuH "call on le morrow,
they said, and akfW Mr. Ahcroft.
The Bext morning, la"mg nothing,
for she could not touch a farthing of the
gold, she was admitted into the room
heru s&t the Granger. lit artwo a
he entf red, aud gaxtui with a curious air
till the presided the purt. Then he
started with pkJ surpri, bid down
hi paper, took th gold and deliberately
counted it rr.
" It is all afe," h ii J, you Lavt not j iin
lakea s
widow remained on her knees, her eyes
riveted on the word " a present for the
fatherless ;" w hile the boys, appropriating
their wardrobes, danced about the door
shouting with glee.
" What' in the pocket ?" cried Jim
my, thrusting his hand in that receptacle,
whenlo! out came the very purse of
"old the widow had returned that morn
ing.
A scene of jcyous confusion followed,
and the voice of prayer ascended from
Goodwin' full heart. Again and again
she counted the glittering treasure, l ive
hundred dollars ! it seemed au almost
endless fortune. How her heart ran
over with gratitude to God and to the
stranger.
She could not rest I'll, throwing on
her bonnet, with chetki flowing now
with hope and happiness, the ran back
to the hotel to pour forth her thanks.
A carriage stood at the door, luJcu
with trunks behind. The drif er mount
ed the seat as the had reached the steps ;
and turning her head there, within, sa
the mysterious stranger with the long
beard. She had not lime to tpeak, but
he nodded hi head as he saw her with
e!aptd baud standing there, her very
faca teeming a prayer einbodied.
Sarah ncrer tw tho eccentrie stran
ger agaia. She took a little shop and
locked it welL and put her boy to tchool.
To-day the it the proprietor of a hand
some ttore. Of her four boys, two art
iiiiuioteit, one a doctor, and the other it
thriving merchant.
Nobody knowt where the man with
lh long gray beard hat gone, but if be
b living and hi y meet thi he wi!l
hae the consolation of knowing the re
(Hiltt of hit g-iierou deed toward Sarah
Goodwia and her four boy.
tS" An linglUh cockney at tb KaRi
of Niagara, when aiked how be liked the
FalU, replied, "They're anbonic quite
to ; but they don't quite aer my hex
pedationt : betid.-, I gvt thoroughly vet
tJ, and lo.t me 'at. I prefer to look at
'am in an Lingrat ing in 'at weather and
iu the 'oute."
th i impotaible l love one iu
whuM trulhfuin we caunot confide ;
or to tlight one whote wordt, and purpo
se, and action are "without dinireu!-
Xniona fneee. tir." ! rr:.A .rt 2 A ceta uorut i. ef 1 Ue; l
. trembling He p-,lf . mam ijn'g'i it ttufsi-
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