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“ I have c{aimed much work for my life," she as ; A girlish creature with golden hair, And bright and Winsome as she was fair. “ I am tired to-mght; I am lacking power To think," she says; " I must wait until My brain is rested and pulse is null." " The days are iull, till he comes to wed; The clothes to buy, and the home to make A very Eden for his deu- sake." But cares soon come to the wedded wife ; She shares his duties, and hopes and fears, Which lessen not; with the waning years ; For a very struggle, at best, is life, If we knew the burdens along the line, We should shrink to receive the gift divine. Sometimes, in the hush of the evening hour, she thinks of the leisure she meant to gain, Andbthf: work she would do with hand and mm. 0h ! woman and man, there is never rest; Dream now of a leisure that will not come Tilldageb shall make you both blind and um . You must live each day at your very best; The work of the world is done by few ; God asks that a. part be done by you. Have a purpose to do with flour utmost might You will finish your war on the other side, When you wake in His likeness, satisfied. Bay oft of the years, as they pass from sight, " This, this is life with its golden store: I shall have it once, but it comes no moreln A maiden sits in a. window seat, And to and fro swings her idle feet; As she gazed 01f at the sunset glow Over the tops of the hills of snow; In her lap tests a. book, unopened; forgot. Her eyes are gazing where ours may not, As she dreams and dreams. Fer up in those mountains of red and gold, Behind the snow hills so white and cold, She sees. I doubt not a. lover true On his fierv steed go (mutating through ; For the bright eyes flash and the red lips smile And she sits there gazing a. long, long while, And dreams and dreams. Oh I the steed is fiery, the lover is true From the spurs on his boots to his cap of blue; And the hot eyes flash and the cheeks burn fire As he figure his horse through the mud and the At hisisiliie'glenma I sword, now useless and cold, With rare jew_e_ls set. in jts hilt of g_o]_d : As these weeks went on, Prudence showed herself to him in various mpods. He sew a. good deal of her, and she was sometimes (though not often) silent and demure; she was generally irritating and He has traversed the world on his steed so fleet For a. maid hke this in the window seat. Scannedgmnidens or high and of low degree, And qt eegh one said, softly, “ N at thee‘ not Though he had scruples, however, about showing ardor in seeking Miss Hart’s society, it was by no means his intention to exclude himself from any future inter- course with that young lady. 0n the con- trary, he had by this time assured himself that it was his duty,in a quietway, to learn what more of her he could, in order to place himself in a. position to give such advice concerning her (supposing that advice were necessary) as ought to be looked for from an elder son and brother. Without further loss of time, therefore. he set himself about this virtuous work, and continued it with laudable perseverance through week after week of the advancing spring and early summer, for it proved to be an under- taking of an arduous sort, requiring (or, at least. so he thought) much time for its due carrying out. thee!" Will newer 11 hand point him out the way, I wonder? 0h, yogi hp will comp go day, But hark to that sound; was it out of the street ? And was it the sound 01' hurrying feet ? Oh, my heart, stand still and listen with me While I press 111 face to the pane and see, In it horses' hou a on the pavement below ‘2 Have you come, my knighw, is it yes or no? She dreams and dreams. From that sword the jewels methinks I see Adorning the hand of a. maid like me! And now I can feel his breath on my cheek, His hand over mine. Will he never speak ‘2 A voic‘e through the darkness comes loud and clear; ' "What, dishes not washed yet ? How's this, my dear?" PRUDENCE HART. “Dear Mr. Brown"â€"I know she meant “ Dear J_a.ck;" thqt}? vgith aentimant Is overweighted. Shy little love! She did not dare; That flutter in the M shows where She hesitated. The darling girl! What loving head She givgs $119 shrolgeaLifi does not need Great penetration To note the lingering, trusting touch ; As if to write to me were such A consolation. “ The flowers came ; so kind of you. A thousgpd yhanyty" Oh, fie! Miss Prue, The line betrays you. You know just there you sent a. kiss You mean: that blot to tell me this, And it obey a you. ' They gave me such a, happy day ; " " I loverflgam so," she mean; to egg, "Because you sent them." But then, you see, the page is small ; She wrote in Mateâ€"the wordsâ€"and all- I know she meant them. "At night I kept them near me, too, Anddregmt of “gum,” shgwrote, ” and you," But would erase it, ' Did she but have one tender thought, That perished with the blush it brought. My love would trace it. “This morning all the buds have blown That flqgljiah, surely, is “)(our own," " Prudence." Those tender words confess As much «3 gm an a carpes, And Prueâ€"you know it. But then, to teaze me, you must add Your other name, although you had Scarce space to do it. A dash prolonged across the shed; To close the note 7 The little cheatâ€" Too fierce to quell it. And mine! ah, mine is unconfessed; But now ; that dash and all the restâ€" !‘ll have to tell it. "Pia written queerly: She meant it 50. A111 useless task To hide Your love ‘neath such a. mask As that “Sincerely.” No, when she penned it, She meant its quavering length to say That she could write to me for aye, And never end it. Prue! Love is like the flame that glows UnaeenLtiIl lightly fanngdjt grown ' 'Fb'rétbfdi‘oloiihyhébfi bind night; To weep. to sleep, and weep again, With sunny smiles betweenâ€"and than ‘2 Say. what is life? 'Tis to be born A helpless babe to greet the light With n_ spyrp ymi!l as if the rpogq I And then space the infant grows To be a laughing, sprightly boy, Eggpy, gasping his liptle wgqq With mirth and mischief: all Agog; A truaut 015 by field and fan, And capture butterfliesâ€"and then ‘2 "Wéié fié’sfichHsEi’éiis (it his joy I To be, in short, from two to ten, A merry, moody childâ€"and then ? And then in coat and trousers clad, To learn to any the decalogue, Aggbfeal‘x i_t_, an qntlgiqkjng 191d, And then, increased in strength and size, Tobe anon, ayouth full grown: A {new in his ugthexz'qayea, A young Apollo in his 'bwil; To imitate the ways of men In fashionable sinâ€"and then '2 And then In gray and wrinkled eld To mourn the speed of life's decline; Tq pgagse tghg segues our youtgbeheld, Aim dwell in the memo‘r of lung ayile; To dream awhile winh dear ened ken. To drop into his graveâ€"and then ? And then, at last, to be a. man, To fall in love, to woo and wed! with sogthinghmiq t9 gchqme qnd plan To gather gala or tdil for bread; To one for fame with tongue and pen. And gain or lose the prizeâ€"and then 1 The Story of :1 Lite. Dream“ and Dreami. Between the Linea BY GEORGIANA M. CBAIK. Thus she dreams 9.113 dream. Farewell, 0 ye dreams? --â€"San Francisco Call‘ 60' she dreams and dreaxhé. “ Th1! is Life.” POETRY. more or less mocking; she was occasion- ally gentle and womanly; and in all her moods,exoept perhaps the first, she got the better of him. They had many encounters together. and she beat him in every one of them. She was ten times oleverer than he was â€" ten times readierâ€"ten times more daring. And he said to himself again and again : " She is not the kind of woman they think she is ; she is not such a girl as it can do Mabel any good to be intimate with ; if my mother knew her as I do she would not let her stay in the house ;” and yet, though he knew all this, he presently lost the power of opening his lips to make the others know it ; for,before he had been acquainted with Miss Prudence a couple of months, the poor young fellow was in love With her. She had got him in the toils before he had eVen begun to suspect hie danger. Pretty soon indeed he began tobe conscious that she was acquiring acertsin power over him. He knew that she was flirting with him, but he could not help offering himself to be flirted with ; she drew him to her by an attraction that he did not understand, but which he hardly tried to resist ; he thought he was studying her. not suspect- ing that while he was at his olumey labors she had learnt him out and out, and could see through him as through a. glass window. After a very short time had passed, he began to take sdvsntage of every opportu- mty he could find for being with her, and he was uncomfortably conscious that he selzed these opportunities as secretly as he could. and almost conscious (uncomfortably too) that she perfectly understood his method of procedure, and entirely sympa- thized with it. “You never talk to me before other peo- ple," he said to her once, only half die- pleased at the demure manner that she always adopted towards him in public. and yet, for coneoienoe’ sake, half troubled at it ; but when he made this accusation, she gave a liptle laugh, andâ€"â€" V “ Wellâ€"shell we have our next conver- sation before them all ‘1" she answered instantly. “I am quite willing, on my side. Suppose we come to the drawingaâ€"oom now, and let your mother have the plea- sure of hearing you reproach me for my silenceâ€"and my other faults." “You alwayé get the better of me,” he replied. “If I ever venture to blame you for gnything you always turn the tables on “And what else would you have me do?" she asked. “ Do you think I am fond of being found fault with ?â€"and what are you to me that I should take fault: finding from you ‘I’: And then the 0010: came to his face, and that last question of here touched him enough to make his speech fail him. For he had begun by this time (or perhaps had begun) to feel a certain secret conscious- nose that he should like to be something to her ; he believed indeed still that there could be nothing serious between them, but he had thought often that he should like to move her to at least a (spark of feeling, to awake something diflerent from this mock- ing and challenging spirit in her. And the young man who was rapidly growing more in earnest than be yet well knew. was beginning to find that her mocking words had acquired a keen power to sting and wound nim. In addition to these pains. too, that she made him suffer, there was another matter that troubled him not a little. He was afraid of Godfrey. It was true that his brother always spoke of Prudence in a elighting way, which she on her aid»: returned, and that their intercourse, as far i as appeared, was a very easy and indiffer-( ent one; but Keith had deep experience In : his own case that appearances, where Mine Hart was concerned, were by no means 1 to he received with Implicit trust. and once or twice at least, if notottener, it seemed to his eyes (which were perhaps, however,1 too jealous to see straight) that that-ewes-l more between them than either of them was disposed to center‘s. “ I trouble myself about your brother 1" she exclaimed, drawing herself up to bet utmoet height (she was not a. tall woman, but many a day she made him feel, for all his six feet, as if she towered far above him). “ Do you think I should be likely to try to get a boy like that to care for me, when I would not move hand or foot to entice any man alive ?" And her scorn was so superb that, car- ried away by it entirely for the moment, he almost humbled himself in the dust before her to entreat her pardon. So, growxng always more and more tender over her, and more enthralled by her, Keith came and went during these spring and summer monthsâ€"not a. very happy man, for neither Prudence nor his conscience g'we him an easy time of it, but yet loving the chains he had bound himself with too well even to wish to break them. It was not until August had some that, in plain words, he disclosed the state of his feelings to Miss Hart. Long before that time she had, of course, been perfectly aware of how matters stood with him, for both her natural gifts and her large experi- ences made any want of comprehension on such a subject quite impossible to her; but it was only on this August day that the words, which a score of times had been very near the young man's lips, finally crossed them and got spoken. Once he thought this so strongly, that he even charged her with trying to make his brother care for her; a bold thing to do, and a very unwise one as well, for, as may be supposed, she rose to the occasxon. and routed him with humiliation. ‘ It was a Sunday, and they had met early in the morning in the gardenâ€"as, to tell the truth, by a sort of tacit arrangement, they had done more than once or twice before-«he coming out an hour or so before breakfast intentionally to find her, and she demurer permitting herself to be found. On this special day he came in search of her while the heads of most of the rest of the household were still at peace upon their pillows, and discovered her soon in a distant part of the garden, pacing up and down one of the gravel paths, in apparently a very thoughtful mood. " I hope you have not been here long, he said cheerfully, when he lighted on her “ I have been here for some time," she answereq colgly. A “ Oh. by Jove [â€"8.111 I late then?" ex~ claimed the young man in agrieved tone, and he looked at his watch; but as he read it his face brightened again. “No; it is not half past seven yet. It is you who are too Early," he said. “ Too early for what ‘2" she inquired ; and then she looked at him wish a. look that made him ready to sink into his boots, and “ If you think I only came out here to enjoy the pleasure of your company, Mr. Keith. you are under a curious delusion,” she haughbilg solid. _ _ Upon which he felt so confounded that he held his peace, for (as he had taken it. hitherto) he had not had a doubt that it was for that reason that Miss Hart, on these Sunday mornings. had been in the habit of shortening her repose. _ However, when she rebuked his presump- tuous assumption with such severity, he submitted to the rebuke for a. few moments in silenceland than merely answeredâ€" "Well,’it is for your Sompany thatI 00mg. anyway.” “ I suppose it is," he assented, a. little ruefully. “ But, I say," he ramonstmted, other another little pause, “ I think you’re awfully hard upon a. fellow. If you don't consider that you may give one a little encouragement after all this timeâ€"by Jove l”â€"a.nd than his eloquence failed him, “ 1 don’t see why- I need give you any encouragement," she said deliberately. “I don’t; see .why any man needs en- couragement. You are all alike, every one of you. Yuu think a woman ought to be grateful, and no make a. ourtsey to you to:- every civil word you speak to her; but- I “That-is i. very different thing," she said. think differently. From me, I beg to tell you, Mr. Keith, you w1ll gen neither cutti- aeya_r_o;_ ggatitude." _ “ Well, I am sure I don’t expect them," replied Keith, rather indignantly; and then he walked on with his heart pretty hot within him. She had a. light summer mantle over her shoulders, and she folded her arms and wrapped it around her, as if it had been a martial cloak. The movement almost seemed as if it were made to show her lover how self‘eontained and independent of him she was. And so be interpreted it. as he watched her audience, with his heart fullof honest love for her, and yet torn with a good many conflicting thoughts. Did she not care at all for him 7 the poor lad was asking himself. She was far more than a match for himâ€"he knew that; but yet he remembered words and looks that she had given to him, he remembered (they were rarely enough, indeed. out of his thoughts) two or three tender passages that had passed between them, and he could not believe that her indifference was not ae- sumed. He let a minute pass in silence. and then he spoke to her again. “ I don’t know why you come down upon me so this morning,” he said. “ What have I done ? I am sure you ought to be hiends wmh me. It you knew how I felt to you, you would see quickly enough how little I, at any rate. deserved to have you say ouch things.” It was an honest declaration, and no woman need have been ashamed to be touched by it : but Miss Prudence Hart had proved her right to the name she bore on a good many occasions already in her life, and though Keith was trembling as he finished speaking, Ihe healthy color in he: cheeks hardly either deepened or declined, and she paced on steadily for a dozen steps or more after he had ended his speech, thoughtfully to all appearance, revolving rthfiroposal he had mudlfl asa melon, too, when, after that pause, she opened her lips: ‘ 7‘ And why flow less than anybody else? You are like other people I suppose," she ansvzeredjndiflqrenfly. “ But all people are not alike." he reman- etrated. “ Why, its absurd to hulk like that. Do you think all women are like yourself ‘I” “ In holding their proper place, and not letting you or any of your sex trample upon them," she retorted. Upon which Keith said nothing. The implied suggestion that he was trampling upon her struck him as something so wildly wide of the truth, that no ejaculation appeared adequate to express his amaze- ment. ' " If they had my spirit they would be like me 1_n‘one_ reppeoh," a_he said. ” That is. ifi seeming me and all my sex. I suppose ‘2” he suggested after a. moment's silence. They walked again in silence for another minute or so after this. She puzzled him very much; she troubled him and gave him many pangs. But yet he felt unutterably tender to her, and ne‘ longed intensely to give some expression to his tenderness. More than once before now he had been very near declaring his love for her, but some lingering sense of prudence, some lingering sense of doubt, had kept him silent. But now the moment had come when it seemed to him that he could not bear to be silent any more. “ Well. I ought' almost to be afraid. I suppose, to say anything more to you," he abruptly began, with his heart beating fast, after the pause had lasted a little while; “ and I should be, I fancy. it my conscience were notes clear toward you as it is. But you know pretty well how things are with me, Prudence ~I never wanted you or any other woman to knock under to me, but you know I love you with all my heart. and if you can only like me enough to wait for me till I have got a home to offer you, I â€"I think I shall be the happiest fellow liv- ing,” said the poor boy, with rather a break in his voice at the last words. He was trying to find some answerto make to her sarcasm, and had uttered two or three words, when she interrupted him, not without a good deal of dignity; she was so entirely mistress of herself that it was quite easy for her to be dignified. whereas even sell-possession for him was clearlyrlor the moment. a. thing not to be attained. " And what would all your people say to you, do you think, supposing I agreed to this arrangement ?" ehe oompoeedly asked, and she turned to him and looked him straight in the face. “ As things stand at this momenfi. they are notâ€"exactly pre- paied to hear of it, perhaps 7" " They may not be prepared for it, butâ€" but I should tell them at once. of course," he said. “And they would no doubt be highly gratified hy the intelligence ?" replied Miss Hall-b AsqavelyA. The poor young man was gifted with only so small and ordinary an amount of self-control that. at this inquiry, he colored to the roots of his hair. And then she looked at him again as she might have looked at a. beetle through which she had just stuck a pin, and the next moment gave a. curious and, perhaps, noie. very pleasant; laqgh: “ Mr. Keith, I am not quite so simple as not to know how the matter stands," she said. “ Before you compromise yourself any further, take back your proposal. You have meant it kindly. perhaps, but you have forgotten, I think, to take into account that I am likely to be a little too proud to aooept'it. It you wait me to thank you, I thank you, andâ€"decline your offer. And now,” she paid oomposedly, “ let us never speak spout this again." But of course he began to speak about it again instantly ; he might have hesitated before he opened his lips at all. knowing how much reason there was for hesitation ; but, after he had once parted from his dis- oration, it was not likely that an admoni- tion from her would keep him silent. So he pleaded his cause with all the order and the earnestness he could call to his aid, and she walked placidly by his side and listened to him, finding the occupation. perhaps, not unpleasant. “ If it is only that you mind what the test may say, you ought not to give me up for that,” the young man eagerly argued. “And you are not going to tell me, Pru- dence. that you don’t care at all for me? You have as good as said you liked me before now. I don’t think thot you would have let things go so far as they haveâ€" that you would hove let me get so fond of you as you know 1 have been gettingâ€" lf you had not meant to give something back to me at last." "You forget, Mr. Keith, that people are sometimes a little weak," replied Miss Hart to this appeal ; and then, at last. she cast her eyes modestly to the ground. “ I Was very weak it I eger said I liked you." " Well. and may not the threshold of a. new world be 9. very risky place to stand on ‘2" inquired Miss Earn. " I am aoow- am}, you see, Mr. Keith, and I am afraid of the unknown. Come, I repeat it is all foolish. Let us forggp this lung half hour.” She submitted to this movement for s few seconds, but after that space of time she gave a. little, just audible sigh, and drew herself away from him. " This is very foolish," she and abruptly. " Foalish do you call it I” ejaculated Keith, with all his face on fire. " It seems to me likeâ€"llke standing on the threshold of some new world " " But unless it had been true you would not have said it at all!" exclaimed Keith triumphantly ; “ and the truth 0: it is all I want you to allow. It you let me know that you like me, you can't imagine,” cried the young man, “ that I am going to give you up. Prudence, do you like me ?" And with the last woras, which came from his lips with a. tremulous tenderness, he ventured to touch her hand, and after a moment, even to take it in his own. “ How can you fell me to do flat, as if you believed that it was possible ?" the yqugg mfm brpke out passioqatejy. _ ' " ion have been vefy unwise.” said Miss Barf geprovingly. “ I have to learn that yet," he replied, “ Surely, Prudence, I have told you nothing this morning that you did not know before! You allow that, do you not ? And, dear," he went on ardently, after a moment's eilenoe, " if you have known that indeed, and it you have still gone on meeting me, how can I believe that all this time you have meant to say no to me at laet ? You cannot have meant it; there is so much between no and yes. Give me one word of hope, and I will waitâ€"you do not know how patiently I will waitâ€"foi- the rest." - And tfien she made no immediate answer to him ; but after a. little pause, she finally dig give him one wozjd of pope. A It was a very cool and cautious word, but, such as it was, it raised him to the seventh heaven. But. as time went on. I am afraid the poor lad found that he had entered into a rather stormy paradise, and that if Miss Hart had disturbed his repose in the days before he had declared himself to be her lover, she racked him with almost unbearable torments in those other days that came after them. For he soon discov- ered that his expectations of receiving any extended favors from her hands after his elevation was a delusion of the most abso- lute kind. She gave him not more than she had given him before, but less. She treated him with brusquerie, With coldness, sometimes even with contempt; she made him jealous by parading her apparent pre- ference of other people to himself; and when he reproached her with these cruelties she told him coolly that she practised them for his own good, that he might learn pru- dence, and wean his affections from her. “For you know you are very foolish to care nboun me." she often told him de- murely. “ There are a great many other girls that it would be far better for you to like.” And she would enumerate these maidens sometimes, till she drove him wild with impntienue. " I will marry you or no other Women in this world!" he told her one day. wihh vehemenoe. And then she laughed. and suddenly stopped he: teasing hulk, and looking in his (we wish a softer look in he: eyes_ths_n_she often let him seeâ€" v “ Well, I don’t think you will ever marry me.” she said abruptaly ; “but, it such an unlikely thing should by chance happen, I will try not to make you unhappyâ€"you goqd 91d Kgi_th.”_ And on thisâ€"tor she gave him few such tender speeches-the foolish fellow was so moved that, feeling an entire inability to express his gratitude in words. be fairly went down on his knees before her, and kissed the little hand she gave up to him, with all kinds 0! incoherent blessings atumhliug over ones-mother on his lips._ And so, with little visible change, things went on till the summer had passed its height. Long before this,‘ Prudence had made herself much at home in the Verner family, and had won a high opinion for her virtues from Mr. and Mrs. Verner alike. From Mabel she had, perhaps, not quite won so high an opinion, for Mabel's acquaintance with her being more intimate. led now and lhen to certain suspicions that made that young lady doubtiul about the innermost character of her new friend ; yet even Mabel was attracted by her too much to be disposed readily to think ill of her. " it seems to me that she is not quite straightfor- ward." she had said, hesitatingly, once or twice to Keith (who, havmg his own thoughts. too, on that point, had not. per- haps, been able to do much to allay his sister’s perplexit” ; but to her mother she had not said even so much as this. She was akind-hearted girl, and hardly liked to hint at suspicions that she could not prove; “ for it mamma thought there was anything odd about her she would never let her stay!’ Isheflaflped. “ and it would W'hefil to sinfher away. Besides, I msy be wrong, end she is so nice in many ways, and I don’t believe she means any harm. It is only thatâ€"I think-she does not tell the truth,” she would say, a. little troubled, and yet unable to resolve that, if other people's eyes were shut, it was her business to open them. So she kept silent: and Prudence went on her way rejoicing. After an hour or two had pussed. how- ever, Mrs. Verner was seated by herself in the dining-room with her desk and her account-books before her, when Miss Hart’s gentle fingers opened the door. and her soft step having brought her to Mrs. Verner's side, down she unexepeotedly plumped there on the floor. giving the elder lady. who was busy with her bills, rather a. turn. Hart, from which unexpected results ensued. It was a letter adduesad in a. man’s hand, and when she received it at the breakfast table. Prudence blushed a little, and slipped it into her apron pocket un- opened, and when the meal was ended took her departure from the apartment rather hastily; after which for a good while nobody saw her any more: “ Whit's the matter, iny dear ‘2" she smd quiglgly,_lmking_r9ung: “th dearest Mrs. Verner. nothing is the matter," answered Prudence sweetly. She had a. pretty oolor in her cheeks, and in her eyes the softest look of modest confu- sion. “ Nothing is the matterâ€"unless you should be angry; but you won’t be that, I think, because I am so happy. I have come to tell you first of all. Dear Mrs. Verner, I suLâ€"l an! going to be_married." “ Married, Prudence I” cried Mre.Verner, quite taken aback, for she had thought. she knew all the girl’s concerns, and had calmly come to the oenolusion long ago that she had never had a lover in her life. But on a. certain morning, when autumn had begun, and the beech-trees were grow- ing red and dropping their leaves upon the lawn, th postman brought a letter to Miss Hart, rom which unexpected results “ Yes. I knew I should surprise you," answered Prudence. softly laughing. “for I never told you. did I? But it has been snohe long attachmentâ€"oh, such a long attachment! and there were difliculties; but he can do what he likes now, and my only trouble. dear Mrs. Verner, in that I must leave you all at once. Yes. at once, (or he is going with his regiment to Canada almost immediately, andâ€"end there will be so many things to_do you know." “ But. Prudence, where do you propose to go to 2" exclaimed the matron, feeling almost scendalized at the rapidity with which Miss Hart was preparing to transact the whole affair. “ You can’t be married in a moment, child." 7 But Miss Hart did 60E reach-re this pro- posifiion; very warpy. “ Oh, no; but he asks me to go and stay in London with his brother," explained Prudence, with another sweet and modest smile. “ His brother is married. 1 don’t know his wife. but that doesn't mutter. does it? And they have sent an invitation to me to go to them, and they went to have our wedding from their house. Are they not kind ‘I Wherever I go people are so good to me,” said grateful Prudence. ” Why, you won’t see the boys again 1" Mrs. Verner said once to her with a. sudden thought: “ unless. indeed, they could call on you}? Logdon t_o say good-bye ?j’_ The news was startling; but of course the only thing waste facilitate Miss Hart's departure. The gentleman who was to be her husbsnd had just come into a very good fortune. she informed them. “I am sure you will be glad to know that I shall not be poor." she told them meekly; and they were very glad of course. They rejoiced in her happiness altogether very heartily. “ The only thing we have to regret is that we must lose you_." they ssid to her. "But you will not lone me forever, I hope,” Prudence answered very sweetly to this. “ My George hopes only to be abroad for a very few years. and than we shall setule in England, and I hope I shall see a. great 510919! you." ' It had beef: on a Tuesday morning that she had received her letter. and so soon as Thuigiay she took rhet leaye qt them. "I’erhapa', as I d6 not know Mrs. Gar- dener yet, it might look like taking rather a. liberty to ask visitors to her houseâ€"don’t you thmk so ?" she asked anxiously. “ And they would hardly care to come either, I dare say, Oh, no, I think you had better say good-bye to I.th for me. Please say good-by 9. with my very kind remun- branoea.” And so when Thursday came she took her drparmre with smiles and tears. It was quite an affecting purring. Mr. and Mrs. Verner almost felt as if they were separating from a. daughter. They gave her a handsome present to help her with her troueseau; they told her to let them have frequent news of her. “The boys will be so surprised," Mrs. Verner upeated, an hour before the and came. “Iahall wrxte to Keith this afternoon and tell him. They will both be so sorry when they hear yon are gone.:’_ And accordingly, when Prudence was fairly launched on her new hie, Mrs.Vernet wrote her note, and Keith got: it the next morning. He found In on his table when he came in to breakfusb, and he read in in Godfrey's presence, and as he read it he gave a. gasp and turned deadly pale. “ I say. what’s up?" cried hi2: brother in surprise; and than withom a. word Keihh dashed the letter on the ground, and the other picked it up and read it. The next moment Go itrey had struck his clenched hand on the table with a blo N that made the cups and saucers ring. “Confound her l" he cried furiouely. But Keith only looked at him for a. moment, and then walked blindly out of the room. His brother mighs curse her. but he had loved her too well for that. He felt as if 1118 life was ended. Through the closed doors he heard Godfrey swearing and he sat down alone, lzke a man who was stunned. An incident occurred in the big canon of Fraser River last Week of a nature so ter- rifying that it makes the blood of the nar- rator run cold while he writes. A young Victorian who had been engaged on the railway line, being mustered out of service, started for Victoria. At a paint where it is proposed to throw a railway suspenaion bridge across the Fraser there is stretched a cable irom which depends a sort of cage or crate such as is used to pack fruit or cabbages in on steamers. Passengers desir- ing to cross the river enter this conveyance. Wires or stays extend from the c: ate to a wheel or pully on the cable and by means of a line to which a horse is attached the crate is drawn from side to ride of the river. The cage hangs about 100 feet above the stream, which boils and surges beneath in a manner that terrines any person of weak nerves who may entrust himself to the con- veyance. Ten days ago the crate, while making the crossing, turned upside down, and 10,000 Canadian cigars and a quantity of other light goods dropped in the Fraser and were lost. This Incident was still fresh in the mind of the young Victorian abovereierréd to when he entered the crate and was drawn towards the other side. His equanimity was no restored when, having accomplished about one-half the passage, he saw the ferryman leisurely unhitch his horse and drive ed. The day was biting cold. A sharp wind blew down the river and whistling through the bars of the crate made the solitary passenger’s teeth rattle and his flesh creep. The situation was alarming. The frail bark swayed to and fro, threatening with every blast that struck it to capsiza and send the voyager into the depths of the river. No one responded to his calls for more than an hour. Then the ferryman, having finishsd his noonday meal. returned with the horse, finds fast to the line and drew the half-dead. young man ashore. The situation of a person seated in the c age is one of danger under the most favorable circumstances, but under the circumstance A British Golnmhlnn Suspended over :1 Fraser Torrent. J) eases is understood those old lingering complaints so protracted in their course and debilitating in their effect upon the health, which ordinarily depend upon hereditary influ- ences, as in consumption and scrofuia‘ or are the rerult of depraved nutrition, from imperfect assimilation of food and impoverished blood. Unless the digestive process is complete, mater- ial is not prepared for nourishing the tissues and repairing the waste resulting from mental and physical exertion; diminution of constitu- tional vigor is soon apparent, and the vital organs, partakingof the general debility, speedily manifest symptoms of derangement. it is in this class of cases that DB. WHEELER‘S COMPOUND mem or PHOSPHATEB AND CALIBAYA demons- trates its extraordinary nutritive properties, being at once a chemical food and medicament of the highest value. That action is best that; prooures the greatest happiness for the greatest Lum. bets. *Both Lydia. E. Pinkhem'a Vegetable Comâ€" pound end Blood Purifier are prepared at 233 and 235 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mess. Price of either. 81. Six bottles for $5. Sent by mail in the form of pills, or of lozenges, on receipt of price. 351 per box for either. Mrs. Pinkham freely answers all letters of inquiry. Enclose 30. stamp. Send for " Guide to Health and Nerve Strain." in which our young friend crossed in was positively alarming. The ten-yman. in is supposed. desired to play a. practical joke ; hue it will strike most persons as being an exceedingly ill timed oneâ€"Victoria, B 0., Colonist. There was recently on exhibition at the shop of Mr. Cooney, butcher. Belfast, a side ofacaroase of a heifer carrymg an extraordinary kidney, which weighed upwards of 100 lbs. .*.“Better bear present evils than fly to those unknown." Better still, use Kidney Wort and make your present evils fly to parts unknown. If you flud yourself getting bilious, head heavy, mouth foul, eyes yellow, kidneys disordered, symptoms of piles tormenting you, take at. once a. few doses of Kidney-Wort. Use it. as an advance guardâ€"either in dry or liquid formâ€"in is efficient. “ Mother," asked a. Philadelphia girl, " what is a. heroine '2" “ A woman who don’t squeal at the sight of a rat,” was the prompt reply. The Iuverness Town Council have re- solved to oppoue the Great North 0! Scot- ltmd Railway Cnnpauy in their applicgbion for poWera to uouau‘uon a. branch line from Grantown to Invemeas. Intallible. tasteless, harmless, cathartic; for £9verisgness, restlessness, worms. constipa- 103. c, The graduates of Toroufi) University give a bat quot. Feb. 15m. I am very glad to my I have tried H )p Bitters, and never took anything that did me as much good. I only’took two bottles, and I would not mks $100 for the good theydid me. I recommend them to my patienta, and get the best results from their use. I? No lamin dyes were ever so popular as the Diamond D188. They never fail. The black is far superior to Iogwoou. The other col rs are elegant. Many 9. woman who does not know even the mulbiplicflzion table can “ figure ” in society. Would you any that 9. carpenter is like a barber because he on” get along without havings? Ask for “ Rough on 0011gha,"for Cou. hs, C Ilds Sore Throat, Hoareeneas. Troches,15o. Liquid, 5:) Nervous Weakness, Dyspe sin. Impotence, Sexual Debility, cured by " ella‘ Health Re- nawar." $1. Matt-haw Arnold, on his return to Eng- land, Will be Secretary of the Education Department, at a salary of $10,000 a. year. M0'I‘Illlll SWAN’S WOBNI SYRUP Y CHBONIG WASTING DIS- 'l‘IlBlLLING Bl I‘UA'I‘ION. “ ROUGH 0N COUGH‘." DECLINE 0F JIA’V. HAYE SVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1880‘ THE END. O. B. MERomg, M._D. The Terrible Underlow that is Sweeping Away so Nlauyâ€"Wlmt erl-Known Canadian: Have to any. It: is an 111 questionable fact that thousands of people are to-day enduring the mosh intense torture or are rlflioted by hhe most unaccounuuble aympnoms for which they can asa‘gu no reason whafitVer. They hhvefrtquenchezxdaohesmre abrungely languid ; hum: a ravenous appetite one day and none whatever the nexu, and fee} dull pains in various parts of the body. but they imagine it is only 9. 031d or suns passing minor disorder. Indeed, few people realize the presence of grave and serious dangers until they are upon them. The following experiences of well-known people in the Province ere timely end valuable : Rev. William J. Henderson, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Pres- cott, Ontario, says: “For a number of years and until recently, I had been gradually, but steadily declining in health. 1 was subject to severe pains in various parts of my body, shortness of breath pal- pitation of the heart, and a distressing, hacking cough. I consulted physicians, one of whom informed me that I had been ‘ carrying too many pounds of steam.‘ Another stated that I was on the eve of a general constitutional ‘ break up ; ’ another pronounced me as being far g ice in liver complaint, and feeling that the last one had hit it. I commenced a course of his treat- ment, without, however, any benefit. Feeling that I was giing down hill very fast. I grew somewhat despondent, and finally resigned myself to an early death. At this juncture I resolved to try Warner‘s Safe Cure, and I may say that I felt almost immediate relief, and now I am nearly as well as I ever was in my whole life. My cough has disappeared entirely and I sel- dom feel any of my old symptoms. I have always been somewhat di-posed to preju- dice against proprietary medicines, but I feel it to be an act of justice to make this statement for the good of others." John Evans, resiaing at) 139 King street, London, says: ” For two years I have been hroubled with gravel in my kidneys and have suffered untold agony. The passage of the gravel from the kidneys into the bladder threw me into paroxyeme of pain and completier broke me down. Upon the recommendation of a. friend I began the use of Warner’s Safe Cure, which seemed to disaoive the gravel and it paeeed from me in the form of dust. I recommend War- ner’e Safe Cure to everybody who is eufier- mg am all as I have euflered." Mrs. M. Lemon, residing at 5; Victoria. avenue, Hamilton, says: “For ten or fit- teen years I have suffered from female complaints and liver disease. I have cox.- sulted all the prominent doctors in Hamil ton, but none were able to cure me. Six months out of every year I was laid up in bed from nervous prostration and debility, and frequently while working about the house I would faint and remain unconscious for more than half an hour. Hearing of Warner’s Safe Cure, I began its use and am now in good health. All Previous trouble-s have left me. It has worked wonders in my case and I can recommend it to all ladies in the country.” Mr. Charles M. Syme, foreman in W. H. Smith’s saw factory, St. Catharine-s, said : “ Five years ago I begin to be afflicted with most distressing troubles, which in creased in violence until I was campelled to remain in bed. My symptoms were terrible, and I kept getting worse and worse all the while. The doctors could not agree as to the nature of my dieeme, and I finally lost all hopes of ever getting well. Learning of some cases similar to my own that hen been helped by Warner's Safe Care. I began its use and commenced to improve from the first day, and I am happy to gay-that I am now as sound as a dollar and can do a. day’s work without its hurting me.”’ Doctor Samuel T. Rodley, of Chathnm, says: “ I have seen Warner’s Safe Cure used very extensively,and have heard of the moat gratifying results. 1 am convinced that in is an unequaled mediums for dia- ordera of the kidneys and urinary organs, and I can freely recommend it.” MYSTERIOUS "Maiden, Mam. Feb. 1, 1880. Gentlemenâ€"- I suffered wish attacks of sick headache." Neuralgia, female troubles. for years in the most terrible and excruciatin manner. No medicine or doctor coul give me relief or cure me until I used Hop Bitters. "The first bottle Nearly cured 1118;" The second made me 11.3 well a strong as when a child. “ And 1 have been so to this day" My‘ husband was an inanid for wenty year with n. rerious “ Kidney. liver and urinary oomplslnt, " Pronounced by Boston’s best physiciansâ€" " Incurable l " Seven bottles of your hitters cured him and know of the “ Lives of eight persona ” 34' In my neighborhood that have been 35,19 your hitters, And many more are using them with gran benefit. " They almost Do miracles ‘2 " â€"Mrs. E. D. Slack. Q‘Pleaxant to the taste. efficacious and Immediate in its effect. It is a. great help in pregnancy, and re- lieves pain during labor and M regular periods. PHYSICIANS I'SE IT AND PRESCRIBE I'l‘ FREEIK. WFou memesns of the generative organ- ol either sex, it is second to no remedy that has evox been before the public; and for all diseases of the Kmms it is the Greatest Remedy 156: the Warm. W KIDNEY COMPLAINTS ofElther Sex Find Great Relief in Its Use. LYDIA E. 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