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BY ELIZABETH CAMPBELL ' after tearing up about a dozen sheets ; —cool and with no allusions to my for love. Very in this respect No, did not marry few people do; so jam neither better nor worse. [certainly «id wot mary for love; I | believe | married our rector, Cartwright. simply because he asked me tought to have been very happy: for he was a most devoted husband, but I was not, andthough I did not notice it then, I know now that tor the first six months after our mar- riage he was not happy either. One morning about that time he told me at breakfast that he intended | leaving me alone atew weeks, to stay with his mother, who was not very well. He watched the effect of this announcement upon me, but, though Lwas really displeased, I concealed my annoyance, and asked carelessly when he wouid start. He replied, the next day it I had no objection. and so it was settle '. He was. more affectionate than usual that day, and I was colder than ever: Lonce alluded to his journey, and that was to ask if I might have my sister Maud to. stay was gone. The next morning [I was anxious to avoid a tormal parting, so I drove to the station with him; as_ the train moved off I remembered this was our first parting since our mare riage, and wished I had not been so cold. When I got home the house look- ced so dreary and empty, and there was no one to meet me Every room seemed empty, and each spoke ot the abeent master; at last I wan- dered into his study where he spent his mornings, and liked me to sit and work; and now remembered how often I hadexcused myself, sav- ing I preferred the drawing room, and this reflection did not add to my full of little remembrances of me, and everything I looked at reminded me of his goodness to me and of my coldness and ingratitude him. Atlast I went to bed, where, after working myself into a fever of anxiety lest he should not have reached the end of his jéurney in safety, Lat length cried emyselt into a restless sleep. The next morning I went down to breaktast with a heavy keart, for tknew I could not hear from him till the next dz My plate for the first time since mv marriage, Was empty as I sat down to breaktast for my husband. who was an early riser, always had a httle bouquet to grect me with every morning; frequently I forgot all about :t ard lett it to be put into water by the servant; this morning I would have treasured it most carefully if he had gathered it. Atter breakfast I determinea to arouse myself and go and visit some ot the poor people of the vil- luge; so 1 filled my basket with to some little delecacies for the sick and | set out. Wherever I wert was the same storv; and held forth on my hus- band’s goodness and kindness, for all hid been helped by him in some way or other and all loved and re- spected him, As I listened, with burning cheeks, I felt as if Twas the only person on earth who had treat- ed him with cruel ingratitude, and T was the very person whom he had west loved and cherished. When Mand arrivedin the after- noon I treated her to a long trade of abuse against mother-in-laws in “eneral and my own in particular: andI vented all the anger [ really felt agamst myself on the innocent Mrs. Cartwright. ‘In fact, Neliy,’? said Maud, -*1 belieye you are so much in love with your husband that you are jealous even of his mother; and you are making yourseif miserable about nothing. Why, Mr. Cartwright will be. back: in a tortnight, and I dare say that you will get 2 letter from him every day; so cheer up, amd let us go tora drive ”” * I agreed to this plan, and giving Maud the reins, I lay back and thought of her words. Was she right after all? Was I jealous Was I really. as Maud said, in love with my husband? Had I ouly found it out now I was deprived of ‘his company? I could do nothing but inwardly re- Mr. | | swers. while he | Was this the reason | | | i i i | came to ask you and tell you that 1 plaints of my temporary widowlhood, of paper, I at last sent a shurt note misery. For a whole week [ went on in this way, suffering more acutely every day, und every day receiving Jong, loving letters from Mr. Cart- wright, and writing short, cold an- At last, when he had been away | ten days, I could bear it no longer, ; tor I felt I should haye brain fever if ; I went on in this way. sa I deter- | mined to go to Melton, where Mrs. | Cartwright lived, to see my husband. | [ came to the decision one night, | | and went into Maud’s room eatly in | the morning, to tell her ot my inten- | tien. LTexpected she would laugh | at me, but I think she guessed | something was wrong, for she seem- \ ed glad to hear it, andhelped me to | pack a few things and set off in | time to catch the morning train. | It was three years to me, for the } nearer I got to my husband the more impatient lL was to see him. At | last we got to Meltoa, alarge town. Of course, us I was not expected, | ! | i] there was no one to meet me, so I took a catriage to Mrs Cartwright’s where [ arrived about 3 T learned afterward that Andrew | was in the little drawing roou with | his mother when I drove up, but thinking 1 was only a visitor, he es- caped to another room, so I found my mother-in-law alone. - “By her side were some of my bus- band’s socks which she was darning, socks which I had handed to my servant to mend and which I longed to snateh from his mother. His desk ; was open, a letter to me which he ! had been writing lying on it.- | The servance announced me as; Mrs. Andrews, my voice failing as I} gave my name, so that Mrs Cart- | wright held up her hands in astonish- ment when she saw who it was. “My dear Nelly! Has anything happened? How ill you look? What is it?’’ she exclaimed. “IT want my husband,”’ I gasped, sinking down into a chair, for I thought I should have failen. Without another word Mrs. Cart- wright left the room; I feel sure now she guessed all about it, and I can never thank her enough for for- bearing to worry me with questions as to what I had come for. She came in a tew minutes with a glass of wine which she made me drink off saying sie would send him to me at once if I took| it. [ complied, and she went to} fetch him; in anotner minute I heard his step outside the door, and then | he came in. “Nelly. my love—my what is it?"’ he cried* rushed into his outstreched arms, and hid my face on his breast, sobbing bit- terly. For some moments I could not speak; at last 1 recovered my self enough to sob out: “Oh, Andrew, my love! lave! can you ever forgive darling— as I | | my dear me! | cannot live without you.”” I would have said more ‘ut his kisses stopped my breath, and when at length he let me go, there were: other tears upon my cheeks besides | my own. This was. the happiest hour of my life, in spite of my tears; and vefore my mother-in-law again jomed us, which she discreetly | avoided doing until dinner time. I had poured out all [had to tell into my husband’s ears: and I nad learn- ed trom him that he bad left me to try what effect his absence would have on me: for he had felt for some | time that my ‘pride was the great ! barrier he had to overcome to win i my love. ‘He had judged mght. He was iput I proach myself for my conduct to | him? And thought, the more convinced 1 { was jealous, and that I was in leve, as she called it. the longer I and walked out to from him; it was the first [ had ever received trom him since our riage, snd no girl was ever so ar inus for, or so pl do with her first love-letter as [was over this. It was along letter, full of loving messages and terms of endearment, all of which cut me to the heart. tor they sounded like so many reproach- es. I spent the morning in answer— ing it, muchto Maud’s amusement, who, of course. thought I was pour- ing out volumes oi leye and com- became that | | continue to The next morning I got up early | meet the post- | man, so anxious »vas I to get « letter | } dyin too generous to tell me how much he had suffered fom my indifference, know it must have grieved him terribly. fle is a different man now, he looks so happy. and I know he would not change places with any one on earth, Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 2nd. 1SS0 I know Hop Bitters will mendation honestly. All who use them bear recom-} { ¢, . : confer upon them the highest encomiums, and give them credit for making cures— all of the proprietors claim for ther T have kept them since thev were first of- fered to the public. They took high rank trom the first, and maintained it, and are | more called for than all others combined. 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Slow is the painful ascent up to fame; And few the feet that clamor to the height; ; Ambition throngs press at the mountain’s base, Filled with love of glory; and the path That shines above them in the light morning | Seems beautiful, nor difficult te scale- But farther on, a /ittle higher up, Theeasv slope steep That careless feet slip backward and lose . their hold, And dizzy brdins reel downward and lost; And those who press onward to the paus- ing place, A little higher, stand with weary limbs grows broken, and so are And aching hearts, just near enough to | hear The sneers and hisses ot the crowd below —The angry crowd that cannot climd at all, § Or having climed, have fallen back again. Half way they.stand on mountain side Where cold winds blow and crumble down, loose rock And strange birds beat them wild, wild wings, with their No longer of the hurrying throng beneath Nor yet of that immortal few above, How lonely and how all alone are they. Be not af-aid, O toilers up the height! The goas are yery near, though sight: They reach out helpful “‘come higher.” All earnest souls must climb it they as— pire. out of hands and say —ELia WHEELER. President Tyler. Atlantic Monthly. President Tyler, whe was fifty-one | years of age when he took pos sion of the Executive Mansion, was somewhat above the medium hergut, and of slender figure, with long limbs and great activity of move- ment. His thin auburn hair turned white during his term of office, his nose was large and prominent, his hps were thin and his cheeks sunk- en. His manners were those of the oid | school ot Virginian gentlemen, and he always invited visitors with whom he was acquainted to accompany him to the side-board in his dining room and take a glass of wine, or something stronger. The ceremon- ious etiquette established at the ! White House by Van Buren vanish- ished, and the President lived pre- | cisely as he had on his plantation, attended by his old When Healey, the artist, was invite? to reside at the White House wiile he was copying Stuart’s portrait ot Washington for Louis Philippe of | France, he was forcibly struck with the absence of all ceremony. 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