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-ao&m nwgMg.tp-anv , - iC 'isjk -.4 ! The Little Peddler. ' ' ( BT MBS. GtLDEBSLEEVX LONGSntEET. One rainy afternoon, in the early part ,, 2. -of, autumn, I heard a low knock at my door, and upon going to open it, . I found a peddler. Kotv peddlers are a great vexation to me they leave the gates open, they neverhave any thing I want. and I don't like the faces whidli belong tojnoet of them especially those of the strong men, who go about with little packages of coarse goods, and I always ' close the door upon them, saying to my selflazy. c --'-i This was a tittle boy, And he was pale, and wet, and looked so cold that I forgot ' he was a peddler, and asked him to come In by the fire. : ; I thought he appeared as though he expected me to buy something, for he commenced opening hit tin box:, " "bnt I had no such intention. He looked np in my face very earnestly, and sadly, when I told him that I only wanted him to warm himself by the fire, and did not '1 ' wIrH t fcitnitliaaA Tnr rHlno, : TTj rnej & - slowly from his seat, and there -1 something in his air which reproached me, and I detained him to inquire why he was out in the rain. He replied," ?I am out every day, and can't stay in for a "" little rain ; besides most peddlers stsy'at home then, and I can sell more on rainy days." I ; "How tnnch do you earn In a day?" "Sometimes two shillings, and some times one, and once in a while I get -nothing- all day, and then ma'am I am very ureu. j , Here he gave a quick, dry cough, which startled me. j.i i,'!-- "How long have yon had that cough "I don't know ma'am." j "Does it hurt you?" . "Yes, ma'am." ; 1 --' "Where does your mother live?" "In heaven, ma'am," he ! said, un moved. ! 1 i .s xiuvtJ TOU miner r - ' '"Yes, ma'am, he is with mother," he replied in the same tone. . 1 "Have you any brothers or sisters?' "I have a little sister, but she went to mother about a month since." : "What ailed her?" 1 " : ' -. - -lShe wanted to see mother r: and so do 1, ana 1 guess that's why 1 cough so."' "Where do you live?" ' "With Mrs. Brown, on N. street." "Does she give you medicine for your , cougnr". .! "Xot doctor's medicine, she is too poor, but she makes something for me to take." ; "Will you take something' if I give it ,':'tOyOU?'' ; , '-'---' "No, ma'am; thank you, mother took medicine and it didn't keep her.' though she wanted to stay, and you see I want to go, so it wouldn't stop my cough Goodrdav. ma'am," . ,., ! . . - w an a minute,'- 1 saio, ., "i want to see what yoa carry." He opened his box . ..'1 . T S ...L . W ' Indeed, I dont think It would have mat tered what he had, 1 should have wanted it, for the little peddler had changed in my eyes he had a father and' a mother . , in heaven, and so had 1. How strange that peddlers had never seemed like peo ": pie human, soul-filled beings to me be- .,. lore 1 now inaiutiui ne was, anu now us ' great sunken, blue eyes looked into mine, when I paid him.' i "You don't ask me to take a cent less," said he, after hesitating a minute, think you must be rich." "O no,"I replied, "we are very far from that; but these things are worth more to : me now, than X gave you fbr.them. Will you come again?" ' .' ! "Yes, ma-am, If I don't go to mother soon." - - "Are you hungry?" t "No, ma'am, I'm never hungry now A CUIUCUIIICB U11UK UlUbUCK IfiClU IU13 W UCU . I sleep, though I don't remember it when w I am awake; I only know I don't wish to ,r T - t-t .1.4. 1, . eat now, since sister aiea."- - "Did vou feel very sad then1?' ;' ' "I felt very big in my throat, and tnougnt x was cnoKea, dui 1 aian'i cry a bit, though I felt very lonely at night 4 for a while; but I'm glad she's up there I i now."' I V ' : i.'ii 1 ': '" "Who told you, you were going to die?" . "Nobody, but I know I am Perhaps 1 11 go belore Christmas." 1 I could not endure that he I should go out into the storm that day, and tried to make him stay, but he said he would run and tell Mrs. Brown what good luck he J . had met with. He bid me good-day again ' - cheerfully, and . went out into the cold rain, while I could only say. "God be with thee, child.'! , He never came again, though I looked for him every day, and at length . about New Year's, I went to the place he called ' home. Mrs. Brown was there, but the little peddler had gone before Jhristmas Poor little pilgrim ! his weary feet were at rest, and never more would his gentle knock be heard at the door of those who , , like myself, forget that necessity, and stern want 01 ten send about .these wan - derers from house to house, and that their employment must be far more unen durable to them, than annoying to us. have learned a lesson, and I never see -il peddler- bending: with, his loud, but my heart softens to them, and I wonder if uiey tuu uu nui wihu ia lay asiue iiieii- Durden and De at rest. 1 V The Penitent Scholar. School Is out. The lust lesson has been recited and the evening hymn sung; and now the shouts of merry voices are heard i ' '" on the green: Their spirit overflow like long pent-up waters ; biit one of their number is still imprisoned. Kll is quiet now In the school-room. There sits the teacher at her desk, with a sad and trou bled look. At one of the desks before her sits a boy whose flashed countenance and nasning eye- tell ot a struggle within His arms are proudly folded,! as in defl ance, and his lips are compressed. He will never say, "I'm sorry ; will you for give me ?'' No ! not he ! His breath comes : " ' thick and1 fastl"aridthe angry; flush upon his cheek grows a deep crimson. The door stands invitingly open. A few quicksteps and he. can lie 'beyond the reach of his teacher. Involuntarily his band snatches up his cap, as she says, George, come to me.' A moment more, and he has darted out, and is 'away down the lane. ' The teacher's face grows more sad ; her head sinks upon the desk, and the tears will come, as she thinks of the return he is making for all her love and care for him. i The clock strikes five, and 'slowly put ting on her bonnet and shawl, she pre pares to go, when, looking out at the door she sees the boy. coming itoward the ! acliool-house, now-taking rapid steps for ward, as though fearful hi resolution iwould fail , him v , then . pausing; as if ashamed to be seen coming back. What has thus changed his purpose? r . ; , Breathless with haste he has thrown himself down upon the green grass by the side of the brook, cooling his burn ing cheeks in the pure sweet watery and as gradually the flush faded away, so In his heart died away the anger; he felt to ward nis teacher. .1 - The soft south ' wind,' ai It stole by. lifting the hair from his brow, seemed to whisper in his ear, 'This way1, little boy, this way;' and voices . within him mur mured, 'Go back, go back.' He started to his feet. Should be heed those kind words, should he go back ? Could he go ? Ah I and here was the struggle. Could he be man enough to conquer his pride and anger, and in true humility retrace his steps, and say 'forgive ?' Could he go" RtCK r An lie rt?jraieu me wurua, lie hhiu to himself. 'I will go back;' and the vic tory was won. Soon, with downcast eye, and throbbing heart, he stood before his teacher, acknowledging in broken accents his fault, and asking torgiveness, . . The sunbeams streamed in through the , open window, filling the room with gol- . den light; but the sunlight in those 1 hearts was brighter vet. Ah, children. ' if you would always have the sunlight " ia your hearts, never - let the clouds of . anger rise to dim your sky, ; He was a hero. He conquered him self; and Solomon says, 'He that ruleth y ' his spirit is better than he' that taketh a , City.' . .;: i -Lft. Sit Oil V -m J Mil n VY V J J1.W MMtWT courage came again ; he rallietl his forces and took the city. Brave is the boy that i lias .courage to do right, when his proud heart says I will not. A t flF-f Via nnuronllir nn mmrnvr font hfa RULIGIOUS NEWS. To serve God is to obey his laws. Worship is not service, unless it makes us more ready to do his will. 1 Joseph Toubert says: "Instead of com plaining that rones have thorny be glad t nat tne morns are surmonnieu iy roses.7 . , . ,,.tr ? Dr. Johnnon was wont to say that a habit of looking at the best side of every event is far better than a 'thousand pounds a year. j Methodist hurches were built in this country in 1870 at the rate of nearly four to every working day, tne number being over 1200. .V ; '; I 1 The Church ' Missionary Society re- Ceived. and . expendeJLduring! the past year fully W,000y supported 2,101 (in cluding 32 "clergymen from pEngland) laoorers or au sorts in. uie neiu, ana re ports a total of some 14,000 communi cants.. , . : . - T, I ' , ' 1 ' P-i Ker. Dr.. R.Brown, xt the Keforaied Chnrch, one of the'oldest misKionaries in Japan, presents a discouraging view or the present attitude of the government of Japan towards Christianity. I The old laws and proclamations against unnsti anity have been generally reaffirmed, but a re-enactment of their oldjnassacres does not seem to be hardly possible, .-'- while the Key. Ttri Thompson1 was bap tizing three little children, - the whole congregation was astonished at seeing a wuicc uuvn in till siuwij Hi' biic uprxi window. It hovered a few feet above the children, and remained in that position while the minister pronounced the bless ing, and then flew quietly away. There are eight Protestant! ministers only according to a late correspondent of the Interior, In JNew Mexico. tms Ter ritory contains a population or H4,uuu persons, of whom 80,000 are ' Mexicans and 28,000 Indians. ' Its American pop ulation is 6,0UU. or the eight Protes tant ministers in New Mexico, six t are' rresoyienan, one is memoaisc, ana one Baptist. Two of the Presbyterians are missionaries to the Indians, two are' sta ted supplies with feeble churches and mall schools, and two are chaplains In the army. f At a late Baptist Karem Association met at Rangoon, in Burmah, and was attend ed by 1,200 native Christians, letters were read from fifty-six- churches, and four or five new churches were received to the association. Fifty-four pastors and six evangelists were present. , Kangoon has a nourishing tneoiogicai seminary, and promises to be an important center of Christian illumination for the eastern world. Kangoon is the principal com mercial metropolis of Burmah, with 20,- 000 inhabitants, it is on tne ease nrancn of the Irrawadi, at the top- of its delta, about twenty-five miles from the sea. The Chrittian Union is, we fear, rather shaky" on the subject of the existence of a personal Devil. . To a correspond ent, who avows his own disbeuet in the Arch Fiend and asks for light, the editor says: 'The jnedival Devil,- with his impish Dranks and jokes, grotesque and malignant in equal manner, ia not found m scripture, nor leared by men or sense, But we do not see that modern reason and science -need deny the existence of deceived and deceiving spirits,; ambitious and insubordinate, who are working out nlans under a leaders hm of high order a kingdom of this world, with a King, contrasting sharply with the Kingdom of Heaven and its Jung, ujo we oeiieve that there is a personal ;Devil ? Yes,' or no?- No not a devil such as the ques tioner 'lias' probably in mind. i,. Yea a devil declared in Scripture, to destroy whose works the Son of God was mani fested.1 But we -reckon faith in Jesus Christ a more important matter than fear of the Devil, or belief - in- his personal existence. " ' i The interest with which the death of Christ is surrounded is so great lhat Dr. . Stroud's elaborate work on the Physical Cause of the Death of Christ" will be welcomed by ail Christians. - ur, Stroud was a Very eminent physician of London, who for nearly a quarter of century had devoted his attention to con stant study ot tne passion anncrucinxion of Christ.While almost ever circumstance of that great event is examined in its mi nutest details from a physical point of view, the chief interest centers in te death or Christ, ur. strona noias tnat this was caused by rupture of the wall of the heart or the larger vessels issuing from it. - in tnis view ne is supported oy the late eminent sir rf. x ; impson. vt. stroua'S booK is in every sense a remark able one. ' It treats its- subjects1-' with abundant knowledge, and in . critical spirit. ''It fortifies all its positions with references and explanatory notes. ;. The vast fund of information it contains will be useful to every student Of the New Testament. '' Dr. Stroud writes not mere ly with ability and as a scientific critic, but in that reverential spirit with which so sacred a subject should be considered AORICT3XTURAL; Ietters ' speak rather unfavorably of tne rencn grain crops, 'ine harvest promises to be excellent in Itussia Hungary and all the East of Europe. A tablespoonful of saltpeter dissolved in a pail of water is said to be a death dose to cutwormsSprinkle around the plant a little of the-wash every evening until the plants are strong and out ot danger. ? : ,, Apples in, the Ohio Valley are passably good. ' The early apple is a success.- - Oats were never better. The yield is larger and the straw firmer than ever before for years. . Wheat has turned out much bet ter than was expected. iThe spring frosts discouraged the farmers, but the harvest turned out a better quality of grain than usual. Blackberry dealers have met with multiplied losses. The fruit is a drug. For corn this has been a prosperous sea son. The face of the hills and valleys presents seas of this indispensable food. If nothing interferes the yield will be Irger,han ever, before known... j , A writer to the Boston Daily Evening Traveller thus discourses; f n-.-! ! The importance of the grain culture in the West can scarcely he overstated. , It is a national interest, becoming more im portant and larger every day The city of New York wants and will receive from the West during the' present month not less than three hundred thousand barrels of flour, about two million j bushels of wheat, and over three million bushels ot other grains; ' Boston in the same time will receive a front one hundred thousand barrels of flour, and perhaps a million bushels of grain. These statements are approximations to comparatively local tacts, hut they can scarcely he said to in dicate the magnitude of the i great agri cultural interests ot tne west, which in view of the future growth of the country and the demands of commerce,,, is yet in its earliest infancy. J. he great West, as a whole, yet to be the home of many millions of people, must become more and more the irreatgrain field of the ;world. capable of supplying with its billions of acres . ot rich and - lertiie lands, all the demands that can possible be made upon it. . Weather reports from the Pacific give a , desponding account of the harvest prospect the present year. : The drouth is said to he the most serious of any sea son since 1864, and far more disastrous than that year, from the tact that a much broader area has been planted t han then Our exchanges indicate that the wheat crop will full short of the usual yield, and it is thought it-will -barely supply nome demand. The Stockton Indepenn aent, excellent authority, says upon this subject: The reported improvement in the state of the crop may be correct; but it would be .well lor . the -farmers who have wheat to sell, to carefully look at me situation oeiore believing ; these re ports. Notwithstanding the fact that there win ne more grain produced In this State than was anticipated a few weeks ago, it is very doubtful whether this year's crop will be over ' half of that of last years. It is estimated that the crop of 1870 amounted in round numbers to 450,000 tons. Of this amount 235,000 tons were exported, and it is now estimated that what remained on hand, must show the amount necessary for seed and home consumption, anil it therefore requires 250,000 tons of wheat to supply our home demand. If the total production for this year is not over one-half what it was last year, it will show but 325,000 tons for our own use, it will leave but 20,000 tons for export, or less than one-tenth as much as was exported last year. If these figures are correct, and we believe they approximate correctness, it is evident that California will have but little wheat for shipment this year, and that nearly all enr crop will be needed to supply the home market. JUDITH, ; -:: ' 'OR THE OPERA BOX. '" TEAXSLATED FEOM THE FRENCH OF li t s KOGBliS SCRIBE. . ; ' V. . 1 . . , (CONCLUDED. , ! -,r l The bishop could not bear up against such a disaster. Ill, and sunenng in mind and and body, he was nname to follow the exiled count as he desired. Disappointment and vexation inflamed his blood. A dangerous fever was pro duced by all these misenes,ana not Know ing what to do in the state of irritation into which he had worked himself, he revenged himself for the revolution of July on his unfortunate nephews " Ar- tnur, still, wean irom m wuuuus,mi in Paris; and it is here that I became connected with the story, said the no tary, somewhat elevating his voice). The r-nnnf. came to me about the succession. I had long been his notary, and that of his family, we proceeaea n w vmim. the seals. ' I will not trouble you ' with nrofessional details : bnt in taking an in ventory of all the papers deposited in his lordship' escritoire, a letter struck , my eye with the signature "Judith, danseuse a POpera," The letter of an opera dan cer In the desk of a bishop! ; I would have destroyed it out of respect to the church;' but Arthur had already got hold of it. and from the emotion it pre ducedV I fancied for a moment heaven forgive me for the thought J that the uncle and nephew had been rivals un known to each other. ' Poor girl, poor girl!," exclaimed Ar thur, "what nobleness ! what generosity I what af treasure" I possessed! There, there !w"te Bald to-me. "read that;" -and when I came to the sentence ("If to love be eriminal in the . sight of heaven, it is a crime, of. whlcb, 1 am guilty, mna - in which Arthur is not an accomplice " ' " Tis .true!" exclaimed Arthur, who had tears glistening in his eyes "She loved me with all her soul, and I never perceived it, and never thought or loving ker- and she was sixteen years old! and imre and beaatiful ! for ran have no idea, M. jsaraton, now Deauuiui sue the most beautuui woman in rim."- "I have no manner of doubt of , it- replied, "but, if . you please, we will go on with the inventory."" , . . ; "As von please :" and ne connnuea to read fragments Of letters aloud. ; "If heaven, if nvy good angel, if the happi ness of my life shall lead him to say, 'I love you, Judith' ah 1 tis a sinful thing I am about to say to you, and yon 1 will most iustlv pour your maledictions - tt my head ; but mark me, my lord, there is no power on earth that shall hinder ma from being nis irom saennexng every: thin? to him." ' , .. "And I misunderstood her ! '' t rejected a love like this! I only was to blame; but I will repair my fault I will sacrifice my life to her I will own her before the world! I shall be proud of her, and In troduce her to my friends to you your self, M. Baraton who don't listen to a syllable I am saying, but keep porting over those musty papers i" .-,..., Papers, indeed I it was nis uncie-s will I had discovered, which disinherited hinv and disposed 01 his enormous for tune among hospitals and other charita ble foundations. I told Arthur the con tentsbut he did hot show the least dis appointment, and began to read Judith's letter again and again. ; - - "You shall see her, M.- Baraton you shall see my beautiful Judith you shall dine with her this very day l ", But these capers tms win." 1 said Well I have nothing, more to do with them." he said, with a smile; "but Judith will love me. Adieu, M. Baraton, adieu. I shall find with her more hap piness : than I lose with these papers. Adieu ; and he left me while his eyes beamed with iov and anticipation. , , -.. Strange young man I'M said to myself "to be consoled by a pretty face for the loss of such a succession ! and 1 nnisned the inventory. i ' , An hour or two afterwards I was about to go home, when Arthur rushed in like madman. ; ' "She is not there she is gohe---I have lost her!" -'-' ; "What! she's false, then? "Who told vou so?. Unsay the word or " He had taken Tignt noia 01 me by the collar. ' !' " ; "l know nothing apout 11. - -"So much the better," he saklv "Three months ago she disappeared she has left the opera." -. a .-- 1- ."What did her companions ten your ; . . . . . . . . . a,. "They told me nonsensical stories- some said she nad been carnea on- another told me, with the utmost cool ness, she had resolved to destroy her self." : - :'--- ' ' ' " Possible enough, I said. ''Since the revolution of July. suicide 'has' come greatly into fashion.' :9av it not say it notl'V Cried Ar thur; "you will drive me mad! ,1 went to her apartments in Bue de 'Provence, but she had left them,, without saying where she was going,'' , ( it-T- j fill - - " ,-l; i ' ' "The rooms are to let ; they1 have nev "Tto tract; r er been occupied Bince." t "And vou found notning in tnem r- Nnthing except that in her aunt's room, on tjie ground floor, this card, in tended for some trunk, with the address, 'To Madame Bonnivet. Bordeaux' and now that 1 remember ,she comes from that neighborhood." weuv Take all the management of my af fair S--make -what arrangements : yon like." , What are you going toMo?" , , Follow her traces or rather those of her aunt." , ' ' - . In your present state of health you wouid'nt start lor Bordeaux r? 'This hour!" He started ' that even ing; am isut nere tne fourth act or tne Huguenot began, and the notary listened in silence. . ..... ,-,- . , , , VI.. .. . , Arthur remained six months at Bor deaux, making every possible inquiry about Madam Uonnivet, but nobody could give him the slightest information. He advertised for her in the newspapers and at last an old lady , with whom it ap peared he bad lodged, came and informed him that his search was now useless, for Madame. Bonnivet had been dead two months.- , ii "And her niece?'? exclaimed Arthur, "She was not with her but the aunt lived very comfortably; and had an- an nuity of a hundred louis." , urn "Where did it come from?? j.v. ;;., "Nobody knew.' ". ; i " , "'"Did she ever speak of her niece?"' sometimes she mentioned. her name but' instantly -checked herself , as if there was some secret to be concealed. - And this was all that Arthur had been able to ascertain by the most careful in quiry. He came back in despair: for. since he hod lost Judith, his . attachment had grown into a passion. It was the one idea of his existence. He bitterly recalled 'the minutes so few: and unob served at the time he had passed beside her.- J!. very look, every smile.- rushed back upon his memory he visited every spot where she had been he never miss ed the opera. ' He wished to occupy her apartments ia the Rue de Provence ; but unluckily they had been - engaged - by a- Btranger, , who did not live in thenar He thought at all events he would go and look at them the porter had not the keys, and the door and -window-shutters continued firmly cioseu: Aiinur, as you may suppose, took very little interest iu his own af fairs, but -they gave great uneasiness to me. msinnerited by his uncle, he had nothing left but the small property of his inoiner uoout niteen thousand llvres t year. He had. squandered half of it, first in his expenses with Judith, and next in his endeavors to discover what had beeome of her ;for he grudged nothing to attain his object. At the slightest hint, lie sent couriers out all over the world, bnt always without success; and he kept constantly saying to me " 'Tis useless! she is dead!" In our meetine-s he spoke to me of nothing but her and 1 couiu naruiy slip in a word about the state of affairs.. At last I got him per suaded to sell off everything, and pay his debts, but it was a great sacrifice for him to part with the lands, that came to ldm from his mother. But It was indis pensable. He owed nearly five hundred thousand . francs, and the interest would very soon nave swallowed up the remain uer 01 nis estate. Bills, threfore. were printed r advertisements inserted In the newspapers, and,- on the very evening before the sale was to take place, I re ceived a communication from one of my legal brethren, which filled me with joy and surprise. Fate seemed at last to have grown tired of persecuting poor Arthur. A certain M. de Corval, a man of very Indifferent character, who had owed his mother a very considerable sum, and now desired to pay-it, with full Interest from the time it had become due making in all the sum of a hundred thousand crowns; and the notary ne employed brought me the full amount in gold and bank-notes. I rushed off to tell the good news to Arthur, but he seemed neither glad nor sorry.' As long as Judith was not talked of, everything else was indif ferent to him. As for me, 1 lost no time in giving a receipt, paying off our creditors, and every thing went on swimmingly, iwith the exception ofoue very curious incident. one day Arthur met JU. ue carvat, who had behaved so honorably, and thanked him in the kindest terms. At the very moment when that gentleman had begun to excuse himself, on the plea of some recent losses, for being still nnaoie to pay what ne But you paid me last month a hun dred thousand crowns,". II" T have no further claim on you you owe me notning." 'Ask my notary." ; The debtor who was such no longer- hurried to me and could not conceal bis amazement, .; -- ;; .... , , 1 Yon area lucky man." I said M. Arthur still mora so," he replied, very testily "for I made up my mind, as 1 could not possibly pay, it was exact ly the same as if I did not owe ; and this business does not make me a farthing richer; bat-the case is very different with him be may think himself exceed ingly fortunate." ; - "What I then." 1 saw. "you reany don't - know . where the money eame from?" I have no notion." replied M. de Cor- val; "but if the same party should offer to par off anr more of my debts, I hope yon wiu let me know; it -wiu ne pleas ant to nave some Dement lor myseii. We were more amazed than ever. 1 went to the notary who had transacted the business. The letter which instruc ted him to pay the money bore the post mark "Havre." and the hand it was written in was unknow to all; but Ar thur uttered an exclamation of joy when he saw the seal, half-broken as it was. It was Judith's. He had presented to hex a seal in former days, with the mot to. "Touiours seal" and there it was upon the letter. - - The letter has come from J uditn ne said, and dropped it on the floor, "Well, then." I replied, "you see sue is still alive, and has not forgotten you you ought to be delighted." ; Arthur was rurious. ue wonid nave liked it better if she had been dead. "For why does she conceal herself? Why, since she knows where I live, does she not come to me? She is not worthy to see me she loves me no longer she has forgotten me i" The letter,, 1 suggested,, proves tne reverse." j "And what right has she to insult me with her benefits? Where has she got her riches ? How has she nad tne. au dacity to offer them to me? And since when has she considered me case enougn to accept them? 1 won't have tne mon ey take it back again!" i "witn ail my neart," 1 said, -put What am I to do with it?" ' "What you like I refuse it." ' 'You can't refuse it now.7'. Your debts are paid with il your estate cleared thanks to the - hundred thousand crowns." j . . I instruct you to sell my lands real ize that sum. which 1 snail never toucn and keep it till I find some means of re turning it." ' i "Hut think what a state your anairs will be in." "That is of no consequence. ' Faithless as she is I cannot repent of having ruined myself for- Judith ; but to be enriched by her is a degradation k, cannot submit to. Sell every thing!" And, in spite of all mylremonstrances, he persisted in his resolution. The. es tate was sold the 'first threes hundred thousand francs were deposited with me, and the -surplus was sufficient to buy anr annuity of six thousand livreS for Arthur in the national funds and that was the whole of his fortune. He lived in this way . tor two years striving to bannish a recolleetiou that wet ghed upon his heart. Sombre and melancholly, he forswore all soeiety. He saw me almost every day,-and spoke of nothing but Judith He told me he bad forgotten her; that ne despised her and yet the only places he went to were those which recalled her to his recollec tion most vividly. One day,1 or rather one night, there was a masked ball at the opera. Alone, in spite of the crowd, he walked in silence through ail- tne noise of the assembly ; he went on the stage where he nad seen Judith so often ; tnen wandering "among the corridors, he as cended slowly: to the oox on tne second tier where he had sat so often in these happy days, and from which he had giv en the signal of a visit, to the Kue Prov ence on the following morning. The door 6f the box was open. A female in domino was sitting there alone, and ap parently sunk in deep thought. At sight of Arthur she started, rose up, and would have left the box-; but scarcely! able to support herself, she leaned on one of the sides, and sank down upon the sofa. Her agitation attracted Arthur's notice, he want forward and onered nis assistance, Without answering, she rejected his offer with a motion of her hand. "The heat has made yon ill," he said, with an emotion which he could not master; you will take off your mask .for a mo ment" i r. . . She refused his assistance again, and contented herself . with throwing back the hood of her domino, which had cov ered her head. Arthur saw the beautiful black hair falling in ringlets on her shoulder; ' It was exactly in the same style that Judith wore it; that graceful attitude, that ex quisitely'' elegant form ; the 'shape, the manners ; that undennaDle charm which we may feel, but cannot account for all were there! . , ., ( , She rose up at last. Arthur started. It was now his turn to feel faint but Instantly summoning all his strength, ne whispered : : "Judith! Judith! tis your' , She would have left the box "Stay, stay! for heaven sake! and let me tell you that I am the most unhappy or men; that! never Knew' you, even when you deserved all my love !" . She trembled. . . ; "Yes, you deserved it then; and I did not know it? and now 1 love you, Ju dith! ' I love nobody but you I shall love you for ever even 'now that you are unfaithful now that yon have for gotten me!" .. ; She tried to answer, but could not, She laid her hand on . her heart, as if to justify bersetl. . .... "And now, tnen, can 1 account ior your ' absence ; and above all, for your benefits which have made ma blush for you, and which I have rejected ! Yes. Judith 1 I desire them not I wish for nothing but vou. and your love! And if it be, indeed, true that yod have not forgotten me, and that you love me still come to me! It is love only I can give you now, for I have no longer- a fortune iaj unci yuui au9 yuu iieaiuiLe ymi mi- swer not I understand your silence! iarewell for evert" He was turning to depart, but Judith held him by the hand. -. "Speak, tnen, Juditni speak, 1 en treat you!'.' . . ; The poor eirllcould not. . Tears ehoked her voice. , Arthur fell at her feet she had not spoken ; but she was in tears and Ar thur felt that she was justified, - "You love me, then, still? : You love nobody but me?" - ; "No one I" shesaid,and gave him her nana.,., :. d - : "And how am I to believe you ! what proof can I have?" , . : .,1 "Time." ' I-''1' ' ' "Whatcanldo?" "Wait!" 1 - ' ' - -"And what token of your love?" Site dropped the bbquet which she held in her hond ; and while ; Arthur stooped to pick It up, she darted througl: the corrider and disappeared. He followed her saw her at a distance among the crowd lost her again and nearly recovered her traces once more. when, on arriving at the lobby, he saw her leap into a magnificent chariot. wmcn went on at a gallop! f "Gentlemen," said the notary, inter rupting his narrative, " 'tis very late I am an early man and with your per mission, will finish the rest of my story next opera nignt. vn. ; ' ' On the following Wednesday we were all iu the orchestra punctual to our ap pointment, mc tne notary did not make his appearance. The opera was "Jlob- ert," and it recalled to my recollection my first meetingwith Arthur. I now un derstood his meloncholly and pre-oceu-patlon, and fancied that if Mayerbeer him self had been aware of his story, he would have pardoned his Inattention ev en to the inimitable trio. But was Ar thur at that moment in a less miserable I 1 : - n . 1. . ... .. 1 : ...1 I appreciate good music ? Was he happy, aid had he discovered the beautiful Ju dith? We were still ignorant of the causes that kept them apart; and the absence or our little historian added to our impatience. He arrived at last at the end of the second act, and never was so enthusiastic a reception given to a fa vorite actor, or dancer, after three months' absence as we gave to M. Bar raton. "You've come at last, my good friend here sit down-we've kept your place. How late you are !" 1 nave been present at The signatures of a contract," replied the notary "I say present at the signatures, but not pro fessionally. I have given up the shop; and, thank.beavenl 1 owe notning." 1 es you do you owe us" "A Zeoumet," said the professor. "Ah. the history of Judith well." M. Barraton took the seat that had beenjkept for him, and continued his tale: . . She had said "Wait!" and, Tor some days, Arthur was patient enough he hoped every hour tor a letter or a rendez vous. "1 shall see ner again ne ex claimed "She will come to me again!" But days and weeks passed on, and .Ju dith never came, six monrns passed tnis way a year and at last two years rolled by. I felt anxious about Arthur, and sometimes I was even uneasy about his sanity. The scene at the masked ball had anected nim strangely, i nere were moments when he believed that he - was labouring under some hallucination. He fancied it was all a dream an illusion ; and he began to have doubts of every thing he beard or saw. it was with dif ficulty that our utmost care restored him from a dangerous illnecs, into which hope deferred had thrown 'him.'" He never would touch the money advanced by Ju dith: and his own fortune, 1 1 told you. amounted only to six thousand llvres a war. Of these he . spent four thousand in subscribing for a box at the opera the box on the second tier, where lie had encountered Judith the night of the mask ed ball. He went there every evening, as long as hejhad any hopes of seeing her S2UI1 , Allll T 1 IT, 1 1 ISC All Vf UCDJMVU , he could not summon courage to enter it. He felt himself, when he sat in it,, "sent, toujour ut" and the reeung of loneli ness made him wretched. Ail ne could do was to come occasionally to. the or chestra ; and, after, looking long and earnestly at the box on the opposite side, he would say. "She is not there!" and leave the theatre. This was his course of life, only diversified by an J occasional journey into the country, when he fan cied he nad obtained some trace or tne lost one ; but he always came j back dis consolate to Paris, and resumed his old habits. It was to meet, him more fre quently that I secured a seat here by the year. last week ne nad come ne nad seated himself in the orchestra not at this side, but at the other. On that oc casion hopeless and wretched he had turned his back to the . house, and was sunk in his own miserable : reflections, But a . sudden sensation among those around him, aroused him from his re very A young lady of the most exquisite beauty, and magnificently dressed, had come into a box and the whole artillery of opera-glasses was turned upon her in a moment. .Nothing was heard but ex clamations of "What a beautiful creature ! how brilliant! how graceful!" " W hat age should you think her, sir r." said one. j . "Twenty-one or. twenty-two," said another. 5 "Bah! she isn't eighteen." ' "Do you know who she is, then ? Ao, sir; this is ner nrst appearance at the opera for I'm a subscriber, and know every face that has made a sensa tion here since the year hem " -. . And it seemed that nobody knew any thing about her. At last a gentleman of very distinguished appearance bowed to her, a. very one worriedhim with ques tions wno sne was. Tis Lady Inggerton the wife of a rich English nobleman." ; v '- Indeed ! so young and so rich !" And it was whispered about that she had been nobody once a poor girl that was aboat to throw herself into the wa ter in a- fit of - despair; and that, after being rescued by the old nobleman, she gained his heart so entirety, that he per suaded her to marry him, to enable him to leave her his enormous fortune which he had actually done. ' ! "ine ueuse: lr sne's a widow, she's a glorious catch V - " ; Her time of mourning has just expired and, of course, all - the young fellows both in England and France are making upto ner." .. . , 1 "No doubt." said the vouna! man who had been making these inquiries, pulling up nis neckcloth ; "and do yon know, my good fellow, I rather think! her lady- snip is looking m this direction.' "JN onsen se!" ' ; ( "Tis no nonsense, I assure you I ap peal to this gentleman;" and lie addres sed himself to Arthur, wno nad heard nothing of the conversation, and had to be informed 01 the whole matter. Arthur raised his eyes, aud ;in the box in the second tier, that box that used to be his, he saw -.: i- - Ah I people don't die of surprise and joy, for Arthur is still alive; ihe felt his heart beat quick, Twas she! 'twas Judith ! but at the same . time he con tinued motionless ; he did not dare to stir he was afraid of awakening. i-r-' "You know her: sir?"" inquired his neighbor.' . ... Arthur made no reply, lor at that in stant his eyes met Judith's he saw hers lighting up with joy and what was he to think? My heavens! how did his brain keep from turning, when he saw the hand of Judith that hand so white and beautiful raised slowly to her ear, (the very signal that in other days he used to give to her,) and play with the 'emerald drops that he had presented to ber! Luckily, as I said before, people don' die of happiness; but Arthur' felt some vague idea that ne should go mad. He hid his face in his hands a moment, to convince himself it was not an illusion ; and when he looked up again, the vision had vanished! Judith had disappeared! A tremor took possession of his limbs, a hand of Iron crushed his heart : but when he remembered what he had seen, what he had heard ; and that she had given him a signal known only to them selves, he darted from his place ; he left the orchestra, and hurried into the street, saying : "If I deceive myself tlds time if I am again mistaken I shall either go mad or blow my brains out!" And hav ing come; to this sage resolution, he walked steadily to the Bue de Provence; he knocked at the door, (which was In stantly opened,) and asked for Judith! , "Madame is within, sir." said the por teress, very quietly. Arthur almost fainted, and had to sup port himself on the baluster, i He went up to the second floor, crossed the well known rooms, and opened the door of the boudoir., It was furnished exactly as it was six years before. . . The supper he had ordered ; before his departure was there, all laid on the table. There were seats set for two ; and Judith, sitting on a sofa, said to him the moment he entered : "You come late,' Arthur," and held out her hand. : Arthur fell at her feet. Here the notary stopped short. ; "Well!" we all exclaimed, "go on." "What more have I to tell you?" said M. Bra ton, with a knowing smile. "I have just come from dining with them. The ceremony took place to day." ' -'They are married, then ?" "To be sure." j - ; "A widow is a kind of animal," said one of the circle, "who " "Has very little resemblance to Ju dith," interposed the notary; "for a curious part of the story that I have not told you is, that the old peer, her hus band, never called her anything but his daughter." - At that moment the box on the second tier opened Judith came in, wrapped up In her ermined mantle, and leaning 011 the arm of her lover her husband. ; And a round of exclamations might be heard among the audience , , . , "How lovely she is!'V , "A lucky dog!". . The Golden Age calls attention to the effective work uccompllNhed bv the Lon don "Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews," for the last year. Its receipts have amounted to two hundred thousand dollars, and its expenditures have exceeded its Income by live thou sand dollars. But. this has tint been expen ded in vain. Four Jews have been conver ged at a cost of fifty thousand dollars apiece, and their nine children baptised. 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' Painesvill, Ohio, July 15, lim. !IAt M HMO!" jl t , f - M 1 M 1-3 i J ) ,iHt Hi . i i r i 1- .t ; ' A BISTORT OP HI8 BUSINESS FOR THE J. past ten months must convince all that be is the Autocratof Picture men. Having worked hard for nearly thirty years to secure an honor able living, he well knows how to appreciate, in au awn 01 nusmess, good won ana low prices. In fact, irom his early boyhood be has favored the nimble sixpence. FAZE Frames all kinds at Pictnres. from the Card Pho tograph to the largest sized Steel Plate, at less agures wan aay other man in Laxe county. 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