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
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3
200
350
450
6i»
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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
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Mb
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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-
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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.