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There are many and many around you Who follow wherever you go ; If you thought that they walked in a shadow Your lamp would burn higher, I know. Upon the dark mountains they stumble ; They are bruised on the rocks, and they lie \Vith their white, pleading faces turned upward To the cloud of the pitiful sky. There is many a lamp that is lighted, \Ve behold them near and afar ; But not many of them, my brother, Shines steadily on like a star. I think Were they trimmed night and morn- mg, They would never burn down or go out, Though from the four quarters of heaven The winds were all blowing about. If once all the lamps that are lighted Should steadily blaze in a. line, \Vide over the land and Ocean, What agirdle of glory would shine. How all the dark places would brighten? How the mist would roll up and away ? How the earth would laugh out in hcr gladâ€" ncss To hail the millcuial (lay. Say, is your lamp burning, my brother? I pray you look quickly and see, For if it were burning. then surely Some beams would fall brightly upon me. “4.0...- THE MISTRESS 0F ABBEY- LANDS. AN ENGLISH STORY. CIIAPTE R III. “ Is this Charlton More, my boy ?" “ch, marm,” said the small youth in corduroys, to the lady who ad- dressed himâ€"a very neat, plainly- dresscd lady, wearing a Quakerish gray gown and a long dark water- proof cloak, a prim bonnet and gossa- mer veil. “ And who lives in that house to the right, you say I" “ Tna minister,” responded theboy, staring at the lady’s goloshes. “' Ah,” said the lady, with an alfaâ€" ble smile. “And it is he who owns the carriage with the two beautiful little ponies '3” The boy stared va- camly. “ A lady drives themâ€"~a lady with a scarlet cloak and white feath- ersin her hat," continued his inter- locutor. ' No answer, but the small boy’s hands dived dccperfinto his trousers pockets in the effort to extract some mental assistance from their manifold contents. “ Stupid little wretch," muttered the lady, “who lives in that house down the lane ?” “ Mrs. Chiveis,” said the boy, back- ing away from further catcchising, and leaving the lady alone at the turn of the longr Iree hedged lane. “ What does she do With the ponies ?” she asked herself. “ She comer here to some place or house, I know ; but what does she do with the ponies and her remarkable dress ?” The iiiquirer had been walking through the miserable village Of Charlton More; she had plodded up and down through slushy lanes and by-ways, all to no purpose; she had discovered no traces of thewoman’s presence whom she was tracking, and Caroline Penn was unwillingly Obli- ged to confess that Lady Katherine Lindcsay had baffled her in this res- pect also. She was tired, cold, and disappointed, and had almost come to Lho wise Conclusion that she had bet- ter go home to Abbeylands and leave Lady Lindesay’s affairs alone, when she suddenly caught sight of a full, well-dressed boy running down the lane toward her, and carrying some thing in his hands. He gave a startled glance at her, and, Springng over a stile, ran across a piece of furzy com- mon, whence he reached the country road, but not before Miss Penn had recognized Tom, herladyship’s groom, 0r “tiger,” and in his hand a purple morocco hand-bag, which which she had seen in Lady Katherine’s dress- ing-room only that morning. Now, my lady, I have you!” said Miss Penn, deliberately, though her voice shook with excitement. She walked straight up to the farm- house gatc, but she could go no fan thcr; it was locked, and a huge tiff, lying in a kennel only two yard’s distance inside, sprang out with a thundering volley of barks. At the noise, the farm-house door was hastily opened, and a young man came out. “What do you want ma’m?” he asked, civily, but distinctly. Miss Penn scanned him from head to foot, and her inspection strengthâ€" ened her malicious assurance. He was an intelligent, good-looking young fellow, of about live-and-twenty, al- most gcntlcinanly in his dress and demeanor, although evidently belong- ing to what are called "the lower walks of life.” , “I want to see Lady Lindesay,” said Miss Penn, pushing against the gate as she spoke. "I don’t know any such person,” replied the young man, quietly. “Isn’t your name Chivcrs ‘P” in- quired MissfiPenn, sharply, , “No, ma’m said the young manâ€"and there w p of humor in his eyes, is 3‘3 . i l’cnn was too confused to ,' . bx?» “ Nor you don’t know: about Lady Lind‘csay’s gr”a ho left this house live minutes'iago?"re'- tortcd Miss Penn. She would have; made a bad detective, withfalli'her udroitnoss. There was wane? of tact and temper in this questionfi’and its tone was sufficient to plaqe’yvatchf‘ul people on their guard. , ' i “l have just said I do not; know who Lady Lindesay is,” said the 7: young man, looking straight into Carolina’s face with quiet determina- tion; “do you Wish anything else, ma’am ?" » - ' “No, thank you,” said MissiPenn, flushed with vcxation; “I wanted to see you or Mrs. Chivers, on a matter of Lad y Li ndcsay’sâ€"at least’tlfé‘lad y who drives the gray ])oniesâ€"_ari_dâ€"” “I do not know anything about, gray ponies, ma’am," interposed‘the the gentlemanly young man; and this time Miss Penn perceived traces of amusement in his face. ‘ “Ah, well,” said Caroline. with a frigid, threatening smile, “I must only tell Sir Robert so, and perhaps he may come next time." I: The young man bowed, as if suiib an occurrence .would afford him: finuch satisfaction; and, leaning on tlieigiite, he and his inastitf watched Caroline out of sight. '_ She was baffled, irritated and mortiâ€" fiedâ€"fearful of Lady Katherine’s au- ger, which she might have fruitlessly incurredâ€"weary and exhausted from her long useless journey; and, reach- ing Abbcylands about dusk, she had only barely lime to hurry to heriown , room to comincnceher evening toilette â€"for it was the day of the dinner partyâ€"When Bessie Martyn tapped at her door. " Miss Penn, could you come ddwn to mother’s room?â€"sho wants tosses you about the'desserl,” she said inquis- itivcly eyeing Carolino’s lincry on the bed--â€"“about some ices or jellie think, Miss Penn.” fl “ In a minute,” answered Miss Perfu, sharply, almost shutting the doorfii ' Bessie’s face. “ I was just going to offer to deter; mother,” said Bessie il'ldignantly, re- lating the affront, -‘ and make beams. nice I could.” Miss Penn evidently thought she could do without Bessie‘s assistance, for when she sailed into the house- keepcr’s room, a quarter of an hour afterward, that good lady was over- whelmed with the grandeur of her appearance. She had not been saving up her annuity, and sitting up at nights, and paying visits to a. dress- inaker and various others for nothing. Carolinc’s sleek black hair rose in per- pendicular waves above her forehead, and fell in cataracts of suspiciously luxuriant braids and curls down on her neck and shoulders, which were whitened by a cloud-like web of snowy Spangled tulle. There were billows of lavender like silk rolling through the doorway in the wake of Caroline‘s figure; there was silk ma terial glistening in Brodignagian fes- toons and “puffs” around Caroline’s waist; there were damask roses in Carolina’s hair, and tinkling orna- ments all over Caroline‘s person. “ \Vhy, Miss Penn, you‘re grander than her ladyshi p I” cried Mrs. Mar- tyn. ' “ You don’t say so said Miss Penn, scornfully. “ Yes, indeet , keeper. H replied the house- “Myl there’s a splendid dl'ossl Must have cost a sight of money, Miss Penn. A great deal grander you’ll boâ€"she’s in black vel- vet, Bessie tells meâ€"very rich to be sure, but so sober. That’s a splendid lavender Miss Penn.” “ My lady” was in black velvet, as the housekeeper had saidâ€"very pale, very quiet. with the sombre richness of her long sable robe clinging to her like a pull, her very diamonds shin- ing with a cold frosty brilliancy, her small beautiful hands wearin folded in her lap, and the light of her yearn- ing eyes dimmed with sadness. Sir Robert Lindcsay wondered that he had never before noticed what a. lady-like, goodâ€"looking girl Caroline Penn was, but Caroline Penn did not know what he thought of his grave, silent young wife. “She looked miserable,” concluded the lady in the lavender silk, as she pinned up her dress in paper when laying it aside that night. “Did you not notice, dear,” said one of the county ladies to her hus- band, as they drove home from the dinner-party, “ that Lady Lindesayis actually quite fading? Those olive» colored Women lose their beauty very early.” Losing her beauty l fading early !â€" Katherinc Lady Lindcsay, though she was only twcnlyâ€"fourl Day by day Sir Robert Linclesay watched the cloud of spiritless sadness deepening on her bright face, and listened to melancholy tones making disCOrd in the harmony of her clear, musical- ringing voice; a change almost inde- finable, but keenly painful to him, was observable in her frank, gay manner and her self-possessed bear- ingâ€"a mute‘timidity, a nervous fear ofdispleasing him, a feverish anxiety to understand his wishes and. com- mands, and above all, a restraint, a ._..‘_. guarded care and secresy above her Words and deeds. Lot men, such as Robert Lindesay wasâ€"honorable, kind and true, with an armor of‘ sensitive pride, which reâ€" jected the slightest touch on its spot- less-surface as a foul stainâ€"think .«what his feelings were, as ho thus watched, his young wife day by day. He thOught he know the cause of her secretsorrow. He thought the gold cingclet” on" her finger was to her a badge of‘slavery, and that Abbey- luhds,~ahd the5heirlooms, and tradi- " ,ns,":and splendors, were Wearisomc , id ath to her, when she had to share ith‘ém with him. The mirror showed .hi'inia plain' grave face, :and dark 3 ha rithre‘aued with gray, and the lines a’iid Wrinkles that had come with his forty five years, and he thought that they» were hateful in Katherine Linde- say’s eyes. lie thought alsoâ€"ah I What did he‘think in lonely hours, when he reviewed his short _marricd .life, what he owned to himself that which’ he had never told to mortal ear, and when the knowledge only brought him deeper sorrow and more bitter regret? That he loved her I And Caroline Penn? She had never been so amiable, so powerful, so prosâ€" perousinhor way. as in those days, when an intangible woe and grief, like an unresisting spirt presaging coming trouble, walking through the teuautless rooms of the stately house, with the husband and wife apart, silent andisecluded. Caroline dressed in silk and vclvit quite commonly now; her spare frame, clothed in shining garments, flitted and rustled about the old mansion from garret to basement, like an omnipresent domcsâ€" tic goddess. She was not wise, even in her gen eration, this managing, acute, sharp- witted young person. She was apt to be rash, and blind. and wrong-headed, when her passion for revenge or for gain was concerned. She kept close to Sir Robert as her sure friend and most powerful protector, and she dis- regarded all the rest of the household, by whom by this time she was begin- ning to be cordially detested. She hated Lady Lindesay too much to be .able to preserve a.‘ cordial manner to- ward herâ€"and of Caroline’s envious flattery and hypocritical deference lLady Lindosay would have none. hair up in splendid frizzed rolljsgShc would not have Caroline in any shape or formâ€"she ignored her, she her out. offihen-pr ‘ ' otherwise discarded that ladies strenu- ous endeavors to become her consci- ence keeper. With Mrs. Marlyn, Caroline Penn certainly tried to form an alliance Offensive and defensive; but she loos- ened the strongest bond of union there could have been between them, when she omitted to gain Bessie Mar- tyn’s confidence and goodwill. “ I’ll never like her, mother, say what you please. She’s a prying, dc- ccitful, mean thing, even if she wore pearl-gray satin and ruby velvet, like my lady’s court costume. \Vhat busi- ness has she to be giving orders and sailing about, with 'Sir Robert’ here, and ‘Sir Robert’ there, and my lady sitting up there lonelyin her dressing- room, and never giving an order or raising her voice, no more than if she were a visitor?” Thus uttered Bessie, indignantly fastening a lace tie with a natty carved ivory brooch over the blue crapo, and otherwise making herself unnecessarily pretty. “Well, my lassie, I’ll loll you one thirg," said her mother, gravely pat- ting down the folds of her daughter’s dress, “Miss Penn is like to rule Sir Robert and my lady too.” “She never will I" cried Bessie, turning round sharply, her eyes spark- ling with indignation. “Bessie, I know what I know," said her mother, nodding her head, and speaking in all undertone of sig. nilicance; and I’ve a good reason for saying it. There, child. don’t you mind ; it’s none ofyour business, Bes- sic.” This having of course a powerfully stirring eli'ect on Bessic’s curiosity, she made it her business to discover what Mes Penn had told her mother, and under the seal of sccresy her mother betrayed to her the secret that Miss I’enn had intrusted to her keeping. “ It is the wickcdest, blackost, cru- ellist lie that she ever told in her bad life I” Cried Bessie, with tears in her blue eyes. “ Well, Bessie, I’m not going for to say that it’s true,” rejoined her mothâ€" er, “ but Caroline Penn hasn’t been watching her day and night for noth- ing.” “Well, then,” muttered Bessie to herself, as she sat down before a heapedâ€"up work-table in my lady's room, to unpick ribbons and cdgings from :i soiled while morningâ€"robe. “ I’ll watch Caroline Pennâ€"two can play at that game, I'know.” ‘So it was, alas! that While the spring sunlight and the tender green that docked the smooth lawns and moods of Abbcylauds changed into summer’s darker tints and deeper radiance of warmth, brightness and color, the golden beams of hope and happiness which may have trembled for a brief space above and around the ,gray ancestrial pile had long since died out in cold blackness of silent sorrow and disappointment, and in their stead there lowered a cloud lurid with omens of coming desolation and woe Sir Robert Lindosay and his wife j J reason for imitating the other’s be- 'and plots ever agitating her restless, You“ Sn, Bremen BILL- Iulod Weekly on Fridly Morning, Tamiâ€"Om Dollar per m in About ._._._. Aux. Soon, Pxonilu. WHOLE NO. '78." Plank Floors Ruinous to Horses. Can’t some genius invent a kind of stable floor that can be kept clean without to much labor, and will not ruin the feet of horses standing upon them? If not, every horse-owner whose horse, or horses are obliged to stand still much of the time, had better have a yard convenient to the stable into which the horses can run when neither at work, nor eating, nor sleeping. We have had some experience. in this line. Our horses have not much . to do in the winter season, and we, have noticed a tendency in them to become lame, but as they get over it . had lived apart in mute, dignified es- trangeinent almost from the first month of their marriage. Each beâ€" lieved they had good and sufficient havior; but the breach had widened slowly, and than less slowly, and then rapidly, until the great gulf Ofsepara- tion between Sir Robert Lindesay and the woman he had sworn to love and cherish could hardly have been greater if he had laid her in her dead youth and beauty beneathlthe cold white marble where slept the generations of highboru dames and demoiselles of the house of Lindesay; and alas! again, there were times when Robert Lindesay trembled to think that she never might be per- mitted to rest there. ‘ The gull had widened, until the happy, buoyant girl he had married had changed into animperious, proud, cold, resolute woman, with schemes tontion to the matter. . The past win- ter we have kept but one horse, and as a public conveyance ran between our place and office, we have preferred to patronize that, and let our horse stand in the stable. After the sleigh- ing disappeared and the roads became bad he had but little exercise, and we noticed that he was becoming lame. Supposing that he would im- prove as soon as spring Work com- menced, we paid but little attention to it, until he became so lame that he could not strike a trot, and his limbs seemed weak and tender, although we could find no sore or tender sopt, nor were his limbs swollen. We con- sulted a vetinary surgeon, who could neither find cause for lameness, nor prescribe a remedy. We determined to try an experi- ment. We made a fence enclosing a ‘ small plot of grass, and turned him. . out, cutting grass for him. Now» for . . the results. For three or‘ four weeks before turning him out he had been getting lamer and lamer, until he be came unable to trot. In one week from the time we turned him out hoL could trot 01f quite lively, and now he has nearly recovered. He seemed to be lame in every foot, and especially in his hind feet, and we have no doubt that standing idle on a plank floor caused his hoofs to become dry, hard‘ and contracted, so that they pressed upon the tender frog. We have here suggested one remedy for _ hard floors, namely, a yard, it anyof ' our readers know of a substitute for plank floors, that will obviate the ticulties we have presented, we should be glad to hear from them.â€"'â€"â€"Th‘é.4m25 rican Rural Home. ' ‘ - “ v -' A secret for Ladies: unhappy heart, craving for her past life, craving for what he might never hope to give her, recklessly pcrilling her fair name in her wilful defiance of him, weary of trying to please or obey him, weary of her gilded prison â€"â€"this was his wife, the mistress of Abbeylands, the- miserable husband owned to himself. Owned to himself; but what of the evil angel evor at his cap! What of the ceaseless hints, and gentle remind ers, and artfully disguised admissions, and pretended regrets, and delicate assiduous sympathy, and menkncss, and patience, and admirable minis- trations to likings and fancies and re- quirements, which were. ever palpa- ble to his senses in a thousand forms. daily and hourly, through the medi- um of a crafty, cruel, calculating woman’s brain ? Caroline Penn never flinchcd in her remorseless course; she never thought of pity or regret for a beautiful woman’s ruined hopes, or compassion for an erring soul. She had no pitty to spare for Kather- ine Lady Lindesay. She laid her cruel plans and wily snares, and she cared not for the smirching and the bruising of the beautiful creature struggling in her toils. [HONOLUDED' NEXT WEEK] A Conductor to be Trusted. One day, before Cornelius Vandery it Obtained pOSsession of the kind- son River Railway, he was traveling, it'is said, from here to Albany; and considering himself a privileged char- acter, went into the baggage car to smoke. He had been enjoying his cigar but two or three minutes when the conductor came along and in- formed him politely that he must not smoke there. Vanderbilt said it wouldn’t make any differenceâ€"that it was all right, etc.; that the conductor was of a different opinionâ€"declaring Oatmeal is good for something be- sides. food. Young ladies who desire white hands will please harkcn. It is only necessary to sleep in a pair of box- ing gloves, and for a bath oatmeal is excellent. If economically inclined, and country bred, it can be fed to the horses and cattle as an oatmeal mash, after being used. That will be, here- after, one of the “advantages of the country.” Oatmeal contains a small upon driving, we paid but little ‘at-gw; that it was contrary to the rules of the road. “ You don’t know me,” said the smoker “ My name is Vanderbilt; I am sometimes called Commodore. 1 generally do about as I don’t know, nor do I care who you are, Mr. Vanderbilt. I intend to obey the rules. If you Were ten times a Commodore I cou‘d not permit you to smoke here; and you must go elsewhere to finish your cigar.” The loyalty to duty displayed by the con- ductor pleased tho ancient Cornelius, and he Went out, though not before he said to the conductor: “You are the right kind of man for your place. You don’t respect persons. I think of buying this road, and ifI do, you can stay on it as long as you like. Vanderbilt did buy the road, and re- tained the conductor. IIe frequently remarked that that man could be trusted ; that he was never mistaken injudgng of character; and that he knew from the first that the conductor was sound. The conductorstaycd on the road for live years, and in that time, as the story goes, stole himself into a pecuniary independence. So much for Vanderbilt’s knowledge of character. Evidently the conductor knew Vanderbilt better than Vander- bilt knew the conductor. »- w-IVew York Lelter. â€"â€"â€"> ‘0 s 4â€"7 Starting a. I-Iennery. A story is told about a Yankee who lately settled down in the west. He went to a neighbor and accosted him thus, “ \Va’al I reckon you ain’t got no old hen or nothing you would lend me for a couple of weeks, have you, neigh- bor‘l” “ .I will lend you one With pleasure,” replied the gentleman, pick- ing out the very finest in the coop.~ The Yankee took the hen home and then went to another neighbor and bor- rowed a dozen of eggs. 110 then set the hen, and in due time's-he hatched a dozen of chickens. The Yankee was again puzzled ; he could return the 11011. out how was he to return the eggs? Another bright idea. i i would keep the hen till she laid ar .11 eggs. This he did, and then returned the lien and eggs to their respective owners, remark- ing as he did so, “ \Va’al, I reckon I’ve got as fine a dozen chickens as you ever laid eyes on, and they didn’t cost me a cent nuther.” . ..... ~.. ., .__ Our friend, Plum, says, (and Plum knows, eoause he is a nice man) that if there is any one thing in the world that will try a man’s bitter nature, it is to take shelter under an awning during a rain, and see two or three of your umbrellas go by in the hang of bor~ rowers. " please.” “ I amount of oil that is good for the skin. 1‘0 make the hands soft and white one of the best things is to wear at night large mittens of cloth filled with wet brain or oatmeal, and tied closely at the wrist. A lady who had the whitest, softest hands in the country, confessed that she had a great deal of house-work to do, and kept them white as any idler's by wearing bran mitten every night. The pastes and poultices for the face owe most of their efficiency to their moisture, which dissowe the old coarse skin, and to their promotion from the air, which allows the new skin to become tender and delicate. Oat- meal paste is_as efficacious as anything, though less agreeable than the pastes made with the white of egg, alum and rose water. The alum astringes the flesh and makes it firm, while the egg keeps it sufficiently soft, and the row water perfumes the mixture and makes the curd not so hard. 44.0-..” _â€" Moths. At this season of the year, furniture is particularly liable to become in- fested by moths, and there is no pro- tection from their ravages except by continual care. New furniture should be removed from the wall at least twice a week, and should be well wished all round, and particularly under the seats, to prevent the fly from lodging. This is an effectual prevoniau vc, and the only one known. Cayenne pepper, Scotch snuff, turpenâ€" tine, all other remedies for protection from the large mot..- .u'o little or no avail against the furniture moth. Saturation with alcohol will not der- troy them when in a piece of furniâ€" ture. 1f the furniture is infested, they may be removed by taking off the muslin from under the seats, and off the outside ends and backs, Where they congregate most, and exposing it to tho airasmuch as possible. 13 «I. well with a wish: or too open lion. and kill all the flies and worms which show themselves. This dons Often will disturb them, and may mah them leave the furniture, as their «i=- sire is to be left quiet. When in»..- furniture if is free from moths, and is to be loft during the summer mousi‘ls .vitho-ut attention, it may be protect~ ed by camphor in small bags, c. highly concentrated patcuouly. The safest way is to have the furnitum well wisked twice a week, however. In case of the moth attacking the our- pet, spread a wet sheet on the floor, and pass a hot iron over it quickg, ; the stream will effectually destroy oolh worm and egg. The eradication of the troublesome pest rests entirely with housekeepers.