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Ze VOL. XXVIII. ROBERT BONNER, {S85 gmeuesais’ == SATURDAY, MAY: 1S, 1872. TERMS. {is uScs
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STRENGTH FROM MAY. : HNTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CoNOREsS, EX THE YEAR 1872 BY ROBERT BONNER, IN THE OYVICH OF THR LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS, AT WASHINGTON. resembles you, I fancy that it is to his moth.
aot i BY WILLIAM ROSS WALLACE. A - Shot and Pett ely thut abe is .
Ls . Fai down the deop valley, far up the high moun- :
Each shot with tte rustling green trees and fresh is
Young aM wit her blue eyes large welcome is ti stg with nue ana ‘
j And pas fof our songs to be with hor own flow oni are tik eald Heater arly.
{ Come, dear wife and ebildren—come join in her make an re sige uae it. “Phere is pe ae ;
singing: 3 28 ,
i - f = S| | thing— me larger wealth, an aso ths .
ee rovnd us the birds in thelr wed rapture wing nears rea a4 3 eS | S¥gs| | man Seo o he boy paod Toved na tot al .
Behola the mist incense from torrents ascend- idl WH ds te ‘ = ee s{ | Tshould li] 3
ing, Oy rs La fh E j S it wold eo hard ith me: ote mecess
+ And over us God's love in blue heaven bending. sil fully thrdw my apell upon bits and bring hina
‘That Father has given us homé altars holy, ul i tomy te ot. But then fhe could not ofter me ‘
{ ‘should gratitude worship’ Him i the title P'mas cba Jn my foreig roe
\ travel ‘that i
vy. & astatel oon mand beast ot on Ma an Mere; ee je aean ey wil
¢ Will better aud sweeter be from gathered flow- myse! felt na U bewitching as possible, that
if br Sincos a may be in despair at Fthe: prospect
. ) Come. wif, fora day. from old zee of duty:
i a) | > Gente chutiren-anditinogent beauty give beats: ot ate lake and left the room, and
ro mind and to . ester eotnmenced her te
tain
; : = , She Placed iervelf intron of the mirror, a
t Give new strength for duty, from tree, bird and Hh ati ‘ ‘ J. an arranged the toxiriant, moan of hot I
oa 2 waviug hair in 9 peculiar an picturesque
manner wh ery becoming to ber. She.
THE RIVAL SISTERS. pik on ros Tose colores Thuslin, made low in the
o ldieo, and with shee’
covered’ her shoulders,
the beauty it was only deni
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Bowenf th Placed, which ‘lurmee
nized wih ber lear, saath complex ion. The
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LAKE’S HANDS.
TE . I nen
i Te was unuonally }ate whe Mrs, Miiller re- form of ruby racic me ‘and ennunele
turned from ho village. Sb ected 0 8 ruddy, Tea heads. PHestet had selected tema herort
ban,
heen mnfoabiy and she came it
tite eonidenee that he was the beater of
something her employer would e glad to re-
ost Women would bay
from the stock of a travelling jeweller, thorixh
ing
thi ne
anced at her image reflected in the
or eatinan ‘expression of gatistaction, aud
Toning her hea
“Tealled at the post-office, malam, and here
is a letter a magazine for Miss
Ponder hat Rasmiond foul say if he
les ester, ‘Tt a ed tint you've ‘been. anxious ceased to
ubont letters lately, #0 T went out of my way DOCTOR MACON VISITING THE DAUOWTEE OF ARMAND LANDRY. | fink oe ime iu it he i ene “to marry
t ae hen ni ‘ . ’ 1 telle, I Lahealt be him een nan
ih hone tin nena. ” aie haat
nd | was called, she turned sharply to her mother, | rally a reflection of hor owny Het fate had | sweet, even, in p adres to have that man in
ried ie oun
y Tasiced? Swot a hard und bitter one
ne
‘at showlaof nat Yave heen ny b
right to wi
Ne was fro von strumentality they had been sorb Hight thy to emit it at hates ot ‘ora he pial really beep
itt
ced_‘at tho direction without opeuing if ea ny power!” iy eon ai 4
as You have been away a Tong time, Sirs, Mul: Whee your Jotter from? You seemedex-| the wronas she, bad volleged\ eave her the euriouslg. Mrs Blake | Nt Suv mother when aie eslored i bt a
mA ’ ae ras ther anything of interests ‘on when vom openea it” hr se, gn se Tat nad m topless Inlaeke w piyeu owen, He routd bay n, if she had really beew
© it
rm
Hue aehtole place. w ma'am, with toes ‘and I feared be on Tha tat felt-no remorse for the erim nee excitement, 1m fia foved her: wet T canna
enewe of @ dreadfal railroad accident “A err ho would, comes and | mitted 5 ne alte fare’ gn Dissiag iow seit, the pase ie Fesiciet of | BG never truty loved hers yet F nh use
: ‘luge gave way under the train, and several wr innes to any tint fenmerrow he wil . ss | she only thonsht, her story Thad. gradually kindled. Her face onion ad ulte gould ‘have wa ‘
re bled, with passengers weit | this place on his way e May is | Jos, of the £89, rival eho day was almost c mi avery abude of ae aiordoub Rut wba my ae good
‘was only four miles. from to aughter Estelle. “ies ite to moanto Now | Darrow bed beneath the aplvry southern suns | color bad died out rie tow f Fate to too str
pry that cond get ave with hier,"and Jenve “hee with some Bile "he who tind elevate ‘a 9 the placs | The itt asked quick, apechbations now § | Fate, te, tuo strong
brig in the wounded.” ‘They Elona he, ret tien the ext day ghe thought she had the best | Witat wonld you do arith him if euch an | jg thonght of thon as ‘sander What is
were ‘killed "ait a w hours, the and rove to et i ae lowe Ne tes 08 m0 ‘alot improbable thi ing came to mine tol “i wonder? better than :
one ner anditars frrew ala wt shadiored you ie ae hot forgotten ‘your stains it fe ne ‘o ihe ats | send moma, ouch Mie as Za ee Tas Paine to be P vpnder ? Some “pies + ae
at the picture her words conjured t pon him. Bu he requires me to make no in,and indif- | reply,and asslie spoke she closed in coke .
muaa'y Potare he vured up. fore to enter his prest to speak with fect on the part of thelidol she had set up | p zoe able she lind been hucebanically twist | fe ius rise contra i well Pai Lie va aye ‘
"The first acconnt of such things is atsvays | him for ip, but it bad not brought repent- | ing in her fingers thronghont ts ing foe cent @s what he can 0 a !
aggerated, and no doubt this has beon rep- | ** Of course, after all dat has happened, ang wi with her danghter, ‘She w ved ‘a faint ery, | Ng for me, He will do what he can for me
* el as hitch Worse than it really can have as little with to mect him as boas and threw the crushed ower fr ntisor, for an | Oma Lm Batali al then the future wrontd be
. + am stad, though, that we were not ook: to enconnter, you, had Yeon on that | Ntiseane foeson to talk 60 lightly of snf- fisect whielt self among the Somethin Toning Bh
any'one on the train.” Pie bad heel aunols fatally in| forings you have' ak ty of tur | Jeves badd stung her every as ie felt the tie tie ase of thinkion
stiiden fear seemed to move her math | jar (wrould it have been of ital moment to A tithe of, the “st i 6 Pave enduned pecance ‘of her iron clutel Hester coolly | Bf rf
at these words, and he hurriedly, oréned her | us?” i rom bli resaingcatand a bo ttle of harts ‘the Iswn, and thre
Jotter and glanced over the fow lines it eon- mate wontd be rain, for he has made no for- r scontge te him who orn id, ag she applied it to the injured Ho neat plated Wes i
. nal settlement on You of me: When I was fein a ever I have been to him who de-| spot! an ave hetvelf np tothousht
‘was a narrow escape,” sho muttered in- sen, sgrace, he would only consent You hav tness in oun te, that js intended as 4 warning to. you not alain
abe Ray later, aide Tvortld have | to allow me the income he pro hed out of ‘me by dertake mere. thin you can accomplish,
' Bedn’etiong thee. crowd at wnfortunaten | condition that Lmade no attempt to Kcputiones throughs which Ihave | fe ieuoe itkely sunt sch i bal i es
. perliaps done to deat Dy the varelesoness of Louisiana. If it nd been, mine to passed. Quee I could feel yatpachy and out] ther will ever be y Cif suck a thing
@ bridget inspector. . sed with, I cor a him for sssion bat that was ago. I have ape be well for you | 5,
re ‘Miller was ‘dilating on the news with ond have prot rea not nny against » eve over ny Wrongs ta if every emotion is faiprnccea te
q ut the gusto of person who rarely hears id ‘he could have browght on to ave me dee Teithinemne gave dhe Searmiiardeaive to | “Ab, well ale tl’ the time comes, a \
tnything a ul Hester was listening | arraigned for the eriute of which be accused | strike a deadly blow, at the heart that gave 60 wo" far I may sately go.” aid. her ' .
with a ‘Of tore Bt he sa om Youch- tal a st to mine.” mother, vet studden ‘calmness. “There, at
safed tonal th hg a which she was not per- iu had nothing to gain by: going back, | | 101 ‘am hard: f owe it to your training.” will de is quite relieved. Complet
Z sonally cor andy yon ought to have made such concessions | said Hester; “aud yon should not reproach you ie cy cere le Tm: Kenome chniien .
The: ‘roman worind ip by savin ould have secured your own interests aud | Be ‘with the very elt you In'imyown’ DreSlucon will © positive It i
“Taam Dr Macon, Miss Hey going oft | mine. if he had died. in all these venrs, and | Dringabent. Yor ave opuceated from bs bufore tiaeveuing ine over for tosniane you | poe nroused in her heart by the, po : .
DP the wounded.” He ae, his | made no certain nto uss chat world | me ail that Mgt ,, aud have rea) four final anower. Hie, oa | ee eth the expected Visiter, Bue Herocly i
4 bor a aati y with ira, ani ‘d'ho told me | have become of yomand udder When | me, y father w fed, in innocence an vam aiicy in his profession, for he ts as | 4), 4
{0 tell Mrs, Blake that he would not come out | I think of that porsibilit peace? but you elected to gonfide to me that | fara shied mentally de he is short-sighted fe hight have loft that to. my own, sense |
. to fea th javeng a pre sed “He may hav: mit Tam under the | Sich you knew would imbitt. lissieally. | 2¢ you ‘ould only fancy im f propriety: Dues he think’ that I ‘ears r
he Pree Teople who need | impression that he hay geterred making aug Dim, avid mace eta o ‘your. 3 for you to niarry him; aa preys oe he think that 1 care :
his heip, but Y cant say that] aur in despair | permanent settlement till the preso ent ioe zon avo i aimed nd ben | wath he forte You fate ean sl ican ou iyuelf belore him" that 1 yoas Took ‘on bim
hecause! Asculaping is prevented fro Te yor pla one ga Hester, ¥ soo not quarrel w Biight induce hi nee moro Dutt he ara je knoe ;
‘, ing.” said fhe young si lightly. yous i "i ym him Me a dower a “Tam not quarreling wit with, wei Brena it phe eo you would ‘tude tonloty tore to your lodge of nature, he fi jon a - -
? be fe trouble of making his favorite seo that you | imperfectly, done, sine ny other fech tn bitterness ia eft am
4 caliea tor tens Men tiller, Poteht wy by" your fatter: aud iE auticient tet etor shook hor head decisively. neartfor the man who desert tod me for anata :
q . "That reminds ne tat it ig time for me to | Di A man that can't geo | gold’ is offered’ you, to bury beneath it all) “I can make a better use of my father’s for the power to pay ite 5 po? z
be > patting give eyo mn nose srithout te Semnory of my Wrongs.” hounty, than ¢ to pay with ita ‘@ man Who is dis + 4 t
. ng nl xis Hist, oven vite the doc: or thi “What ean xe do peg accept fortune at his tanteful to many Teapec nate to ow. bat ts ‘onli deal 4 .
Ne : tose es not lw hall fascinate my fe | hantlar fhe co Inher to offer auch = oon 1D an n orig slave such ns the doctor | LIPW: bat I Sucther! if 7 eeu “ripe aim ‘ r
i nie me for bis aheenco, Ten pose. | ther, ‘and Sake ira think me worthy to be tomet You aro very unreno xrcoun: | bas been to. me for two yearn past, Hhaehee rou th ildren he has pl . i
Well (Tal a oe and enjoy | endowed with fifty, or perhaps. a. hundred | sel me to win ftom ina al ie an get san then | the alternative is ite apacry bim or to let him | Shove Ss ine oul yen, LE
i Tshould the society of | thousand. With su uch a fortune as that Lean | find fault with me for ng your advice. | go. mnnt do the POUT could. if Ellsvor Russellelaualiter . See
4 i oldu} head among the beets aud if he| We are entirely at my siehees merey ili |” Br. Blake said, sich a alt sigh: ould be on] Mtarned over to ta tende mi . . :
f speak so of the man that | does not give it to me, it ‘rill be the worse for | som positive yossttioment has been “Then we may male wp our minds to leave s would fete fe her no ‘of
2 ty ‘Your feet treads ont If | him.” te; and if 1 espouse youre mah thia place, for we shall no lon et . : y
oo te ei hia, T believe it | | Don't utter idle threats, Hester. You will | see that Lhave done 6, here ie tele ‘Macon wiil consi or bi cit . ‘
: t ont ot be called on to put thein into exec than hie pittance on “which { enconrazement you hi a es
Lae is henrt as if it was glass, or fr be auire to bny yon up, and sa By sxist.” subtle and keen Enomgh to seek 0 antes | 1 fecpivedl suftivient (at :
we FO A think itisof suck eontoned or forgotten.” Net mother, in a low vill Rave no en mak: | jay my hand apes aa ae,
if if will bear a good many “Hester oolly aa tone; “but after you have seen lim, Hester— if he interest in t vent ‘Through her} would pay ¥
ing to much griet,| | “I think you have already avenged them, | after he has done for, yon ail that bo ie will rere re known here that aro him back every pang he bas made me sulirs. ~
£ : Be acon is not one of the | Madame mere. I felt very savage over portions | ing vo do— choose Four own colrne. ff wife, a sus] mtorr of guilt eli Hut ech a thing as that Ge 4 tS ‘
RG of your story, but it, seems to me that you Souetiing eli a that et shail yet pave An inevame, weshould beremorselessly dropped, | wil] take ‘care that I shail never have ‘ EE:
3 : Mrs. Muller. tok | her hend donbtfully. Knew how to hay back wroug for wrong, "As | inand. Land it 4 Ghe MOTy would follow us wherever we | The cine to approach the tteseueed ane. :
i rea no knowing, Blin, wat aman io Ihave eaid T don’t blame sou for what you inst ielp me to pay bn back for all that bite | it linge he valnes wo far above the child 1 gave i ake
* till he ‘strlen, Titov mayacll t hot, the doc- | di, fo had _provoct ation F pant. Say tua you will do that, aud I ion we Will leave before he has found hin. Hester is beautiful ifted sentinge we
a tor would rate for your wrth th robe ‘of winning Shall be antial ont any Teplied, Hester composedty: | they yet. she may Net 3. Slain’ the pos i”
. sake if yon anked bim ¢ yon had sabictent motive for “You may ofely- count on me for that, 1) in somo. fortune, I | Which ahe would know bow to Hil bo we i :
ay b well, T doe think that Tahal try him getting ‘ri oe your pale-faced neal Tt was thi ink, yf oon nes it et to cancel @ debt he | could, with my “heanty, hake a brilliant mar- |“ yfry mie would e put her head an
. that an 3 re oan a Atays, | an te that you mixjudged the mau you Hinge, and we will go there. 1 intend boldly 3 008 Midd ead poe NEF Head in at }
Jovers are prt ra de 6 | had to deal ‘with, for you committed a epme | Dnt, a to ask my father. to Kive me enough to nab ble + and will be ai {
fata asthe nights errant oF te Thich owas of no avall, and which only bore | fort moat slot nam From his | ns to do so, and Tam certain he will n inner, mote abe Lewould look in sad :
reeled todo Lam very gach tge| bitter fant to you lanes fe for met Tay become Madamp la Barowne, | madutes and T thonght I womid look im and nO
my, ry thn d live dn odor mn ti acre am| There w: was at rribio in the com-| bnt the nem wi or btadain tnt niseeven, while my wealth- rn newer a ‘Blak.
Tigbrlous enongh to think it hetter fora man | posnre with whic ung creature dis: | tithe of that wh i it. fev ststers are ouly plain Sirs, ti ‘or that. | mindto rs. Blake forced her
to, a healer ‘sf ounde than icter ed the dread revelation that had been | motnral el je as strong as theirs | That reminds me, mother, of tho possibility | Vimeand shia ithe words of her facto- ;
. be “The may have anu ence rade to her ‘The hardness of her nature, the eH fhe will think pelt more than Jo et if he | that one of them Will ‘marry the | as to ae well Een y sal !
with yi aticr all said Mrs Maller sly! of principle, was vara in hott | lifts me above dependence om my he so fond of when I was a child. Raymond | groqard Vel twill get up and arrange my 1
1 Hester’snddenty. ssa princess air, ede a and mudunes” Stine Cemeeton tran rene | tions pe to We geatetnt “for Delorme ‘wontd .be, a suitable match for | {he hea be i
and tres the ‘anita « het Td uch a dis: | Inher judgments temptatwon ws oniy want: | thataa Tam te ameter of a Won one of tr, Landry's eneiresses,"shongh T, | Slgarose, smootlied her black hair. in which ‘ ‘
nee, tl ‘wondered how she liad dared tng to ma this gil ruthless ag Lueretia Bor- | Jent hervelf to sme 1 no was pray | fhe eldest boro, would be consid rag | MANY Unreads of silver glistened, and gazed a
md i Pee no fina | tied oneenn vues but T aa eat grateful I | beneath him even to obo thougit et ‘Ancor, Ee ante On the retlection of her faded
forma that wontd Be moa ‘eceptablo dott to shall ceept whit he chooses fo give me, but could hold no brighten fate for any woman uti
e | herself and her m {tend to sell my allegiance to sou | than to be the chive of such a mau as I| 7 Would eget rohibition was enperflaons, for
The knowledge of Who her father was had for what he may ofter Lam your ehild— ond lias de yped into.” would scarcely be willing to let bim’ see
j Deen ied from Hester unt | you have formed me, wentared me to attain aes lage coll how "nel have changed since we last met.” .
5 this atone Be, ‘would bave | some vend of your ow’, aud TE 3 gain} “Yes; Raymon fing lad. and he ‘ays wore black, with plain collar .
Poin aA AGhcnit to explain av power of which you eked ie ‘now, you | liked yon very well 58 child. “Fie would and ‘cat wd. such alteration ae sae yithed
rt’ mast look after my supper,” replied | “She had moulded the ductile nature of her | hnve only to commaiid, and 1 will obey your | eonie to Le Hocage in f hia mother, for | (0. ™make in her toilet was ted. She .
tho woman. feeling agarieved and discombit- | chill to suit her own purposes in the @ hope | belient i 1b is e to do so, know that she trea ‘e prevent him from Joined herd daughter af ale caine in Troi the .
ed, She went away, muttering to hense that the opportunity might, ariko to Biro Blake tela out ier hud, and Errping | doing so, she was Puritan, originally farilen, ud went with her to the supper they
might ha’ knowed that she’d put. wher against the mr toward wiieas a she mow reer: | that of hher daughter firmly, sjoke in'alow, | from Boston, and che td not think n good | Saree!
aia iis nd € jown on me at last. ‘That's 1 bit itterest al ao ity. “There is no | fierce ton: ghough fe touch the hem of her son's gar. CHAPTER Iv. .
not WOE ways to ‘be farnliar Fone mint 4) fury tke a woran se nas with truth | "That fe enfleient, Hester. T understand ‘@ winsome Ind, and I do n 7 '
the mes nd this wornan. ioathed the mem-| you now, aud I trust you. . The time onder that sou Yemen ber im 0 Kindly ‘Two hours later, th ke and 4
Sanka’ pie etek ie tie ‘wages wat oryof those day sin wich lshiehad thrown her-| come; omenbet that. 1 am as sure ot it as | Bt You will never be thrown in contact with | herd aghte sa exporting Bek a .
extra, and wi ven to both Haus and me | self in the dust at @ man who, at WN existe: im again, Hester; there is a
onthe places “ A ede had only tolerated her, “She had re-| always signiticant, and rone Lhad inst rola you that thay never be orn If between renidiy erie ditectiontof iat Ela, ba these q y. .
‘Wheu Hester heard the door of the kitchen | ceived little moral training herself, and the | I saw Armand Landry kneeling at m: ho doubt he hias transferred his childish pret. | "Jr Sacom seas a tall and rather ungainly!
closed after the Housekeeper, ae Airs. Biller, "bian ahe gave her ‘daugitors anlad was nave: | implociug for merey at muy haude, “Ale e wea ‘erence for you to the sister who so strikingly | louking wwan,"shont tecutr-eughe OF fairly
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