Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1874, Page 10

__THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: ‘SATURDAY, JULY 5, THE WALDENBURG ROAD. Thore' {n nolhing which given & nsmo an ap- Kranco of grdater Insighificanco than'ono in- 1, Two Initials keop each othor company, % 'ho world takes it for granted that thoy rep- “iat matned too long, porhaps, to be always 'Y op’or writton, but, no doubt, eminoitly ro- apeablo. A singlo inftial, howavor, looka pov- erty-strickon ; it convoya tho idea that tho namo s not strong enough to show itaclt, but must hido foobly bohind Its own poor, statvoling lot- tor. T, A. Brown" {8 reppectable; * Thomna Brown ™ prosents an honost, sturdy front; bub 7, Brown " hias o Limorous aspect, and, whothor apoken or writton, appears ashamed of bimself. 3 MI89 VALENIA VALOIS twas a teachor in tho Fourth Ward Schioo}, inter- modiato department, Iow sha eamo by hor quasi-royal name, sho was horsolf Igg:omue. Ilor grandfather brought it ovor from I'rance, and supported it, however sequived, by tonching dancing in Now Yorl, aftor tho fasliion of Fronch emigres; her fatlor had given it to ono of his music-pupils, an Amorican girl, who waa forth- with disowned by her Dutoh-blooded family; and Valorln horsol?, loft an orplion at 18, found it, with hor oducation, bor only inhoritanco. But Miss Valols was s proud of hor name, no mattor how proourod, ns all the Amorfean Stuarts nroof tholrs. “Valeris,"” too, was most tucom- mon; and yet, from tho momont hLor oficial 1ifo Liogan, sho was **Miss V. Valloy,” or “Val- lore,” or “Valloy,” sud eovoral othor varla- tios, on, ms Mies Draddon might saf, to tho bitter end., If it had beon *'Mis Valola™ simply, sho could hiave lived upon hor, dignity; but the precoding * V. robbed heor of all dis- tluctlon. *As if thero wero sovoral lmndred Valols on thio liet!” sho eaid to Mo, Day, tho miatrees of tho bonrding-lionso whoso fourth- story baclk room was tho school-tenchor's only home. * Cannob thoy lot me have oven my name? Do shoy swant to rob mo of my only in- heritance 2" “Oh, no, dear!” replied Mrg, Day, Lind- hearted, bnt inattentive. “Thoy wouldn't rob anybod; al tho boardoers are nll very ploasant gon- tletnen,’ 4 Byt thoy have robbad mo,” porsisted Va- loria, who oceasionally talked to Mra, Day for tho simplo roason that sho had no one’ elio to talk to. ¢ Look at this— anss v, vaLLoy! ' #Sooms to mo it's noar ouough, consider- fng—" + Congidoring what ?" . L Cq,nsmon'ug it isu't & good, plain, squaro Dame. “fPhiank Morvon, therois nothing square about £1" said tho' school-torcher, ** But why conld they not have ])ut Yaleria'in full? It is an imporial'name.” # Well, it may bo thet, my dear, but it's none tho Joss quodr; for my-part, It nlways rominds me of valerian,” roplicd good Mrs. Day, begin- ning to wash tho broukfast-dishes. “Yulerian ? Horrors ou;horrors]” exelaim-~ ed Ming Valoig, half angry, holf laughing. * V. \'n!lor"l' Imight as well bo* Pat Malloy' at once # Whoreupon Mra. Day's son, n youth of musienl anlivhluu, bogan chanting ‘the wdll-known allnd— ¢ At fffeen Years of ago T was My motlier's fatr-linfred Loy, Sho kopt n litlo Luckster's sliops Her ummo it was Malloy," " efe, Mies Valois, haying been favored with this Volksticd, with all its vorses ‘and variations, many times over. during recess, now took hor doparturo to the four-story room to eacapo tho barrowing ropetition. At school sho could uot escapoe, but it ‘was vacation now, and the slavo ‘wos freo. Sho sat down iu her one eaug-chair, nnd meditated. O Ioavons! tho dreariness of hor lot! 'Tho exclamation may bo piwrdoned—for to tho Heavens only conld sho appeal; Earth would not hcl‘p Lor.” *You have your salary,” enid Tarih; “yon aro paid for yoirr Inbor. ~ I it tny fault that your mothor eloped, aud was dinherited 2 Musiciaus aro al- ways impiovident, but I cannot belp that; Tam sure I do my best to frown them down; aud, in this caso, whaé is tho resnlt? Your fathor dics, our mother follows lim, and youare loft on my hands. You ara tonely? Then, why not mako friendu? It 1 your prido that leeps yon lonely. Tho other {éachers, as poor as yoursclf, have friends, You nrogrowing old 2 'Well, can L keop you young ? ''iere was John Nott— YOU MIGAT HAVE MARRIZD HOLY “But I did nob love him;'wo were not enited to cach’ othier,” objected Vulorla, bearing her part in thoe silent collogny. a4 " “Women shonld alweys yield in minor mat- tors, and he would lhave given you uf lenst a “homo.” [ “ Whotlier right or wrong, the past is paat. All that wns suven yenrn ugo. At presont L s 30 yours old; my hicalth is broken, my nervos ebattered, und I Bave not 'been ablo, with all my aar-long dmdgery, to lay by mora than o fow undred dollura. 1f I shoutd bo really illl T tannot dig 3 to beg, Inm ashmmed. O Burth, what ehall [do 2" “You nced not appenl to mo,” answered the Earth, “I bave done all I can for you; [ allow you to teach, and payyou for yourservices. X'housuuds envy you. Look at tho factories, tho \enoment-hoiises, the streets in "tho lower part of tho city, and be ashamed of your discontont."” Tho XEarth spoke the hard “trath, after her fuslyon; Dbut nono the less did the woman sufter, and, torming away, ery to the lonvons for help. ho canded up ber appeatts the su- premo_court, Anauswer camo, which had st least tho merit of uympnthg. * Go,” it said—*'go forth iuto the felds, out undor the broad eky, poor tired .reaturo, Imow that you are worked to tho last fbro of en- duranco, and {hat your usrves are strained nowr- Iy tothe breaking.” Byt dave I spend my poor little storo of tmoney ?" nsked Valeriu, wembing with hope, but &tilt afraid,, “ Yen, trocly, Itia tosave your health, TPERNAVE YOUR.LIFE. m\,\'nt not su afier-thought rob you of your holiday. ‘Po all persons gifted or ecursed with im- agination, there comea otcasionally sn in- tense desivo for change. The dosire is not founded upon, neither can it be defended by, roagon; reason has nothing to do withit., Dut “ntouo the less does it como from tho very depths of b boing, Women hsve genorally more im- agination than men, therefore to ‘them this desire comes mora ‘frequently ; hence thoy are yoproached ns chingeablo. "Tho unimaginutive Lnlf of the world iy all tho timo saying to the other half, “;Why do you wish to g0 away? You aro far moro comforable at howmo,” T'uo othor half, exasperated at tho jmpos- ellulity of making itaclf 'wndorstood, roplies Ynpationtly, W\l Wanth o e gomiariailg o Aut thereby earng o goneral opithet of * fool,” Ah, the voor Toulsl thoy lmve tho worst of it. Thoy sit at home, pining, plning; prisonors Lebind the bars, homosiok a8 Sterno’s poor stmling, they ery foravor, *I can't got out!” When aman hasno imugination Lo i natisfied to do the same thingy, to Koo tho samo pevple, to ‘hear tho samo ideas, to walk tho same etroots duy ufter dny, convince that the world liolds, ou ‘the whole, no better {:uoylu,ddcu, or kiveota; and ho has, alas! tho ald, hord {rath on bis wide, But tho imagina- tive heart can never neo this truth ; it is always keeking, longing, for romething better or more boantiful, and finds its life and happiness in the quest, Let it alono, and it will rovo on, sooking always, aatinatd tmv&-x c:nwnnl. and dying at lnst undigcduraged, undisappoint; 10find It ideat n wnothos world: It bor 1 down, eall it a fool, murder its beautiful hope beforo its vory oyes, and it may live, periaps, ne n machine lives, but tho sonl is gono. Carlyle Jius given volco to Lhis trath when ho fuys, “'I'lio love of change is grounded on tho differenco be- Jtweon antieipation and reality, and ‘dweils with ‘man till the ngo whon hnbit becomes sironger than desiro, or auticipation censes to bo hupo,” Vuloria Valols was of tho imnginative half ; eho took hor fittlo storo of inonoy from the #avings banl (** O fool | " wuld the stay-at-hotes), and journpyed away from tho hot city. Loolting out through tho ‘car-windows, sho vaw, firat, markot-gardons ; then ragged patchos of forost- Jnud fonced in with zigzug rafl-fonees ; and thono in turn softoned down into the corn anl wheat flolds of Central Ohio, which oxtond litorally as far ag the'cyo conreach. Bhe was nob golug gbeolutely into lery incognita ; years Tofore, whou ohild, her lurge-oved, fruglle mothor had taken her down futo -the coru-country, and thoe Lwo had wandored_along tho poths b[y tho rivor-sido, through tho orehards, sud o Ilitle way up tho Wauldenburgg Iills § not far, for tha rond was steop und ktouy, and themother's strongth small, And now, wheu the Yuur mothor had beou long yaard in hor grave, tho danghior, herself aweary Woman, cuma back to tho old ¥eonos, and tried to LIVE OVER TUE OLD LIFE, T'ho amall Germun farm-houso, stunding pros- yeronsly amid ite grost red Lurns, recvived hor Banly 3 thoro was tho sumo porfume of driod Yonosloaven in tho bare litthy hedroom, tho_samo yluty, hourty fuod on the kitchon table, In ad- ditton, thore was cuviosity, openly expreased, ovor hor wnmuerried stato, Dlunt commonts npon Bor - want ‘of flesh and color, wud plain, o “every hill as a matter of conkcionce, N : throngh valloys, and winding around instead of uestiona n# 'to the oxact -stato of Tor fluancos. Dut tho good poople monut uo harin, thoy woro kind aftor thoir slow faslion, and too busy to quostion longj o, aftor givin tholf guost good food: and ‘n brond-brimrow BLYAW t;me, thiey rocomniondod n courko of rest and sunshine, and loft hor Lo horself; which was what Miss Valols most dosired, Fot sovoral daya she snt undor the willows by tho river, or layon tho cloan grags uudor tho cloan apple-treos § Why is 1t that a young orchard always soems 80 clonn? Bholived half nslanr throtgh tho idng days, and Lalf awake throngh tho -still nights, and. rosted, and rested—and rested, DBut - one day a wind camo down tho valloy and slirred the corn 8o that it undulated liko.ilho groou sea, the tranquil rivor enmo up ngainst tho diko with n wash, and tho llli{-]mlls hoaved up and down onits tido, Valoria folt tho.wind like n cordial; it goomed to cloar out hor brajn and warm up hor Donrb; sho sprang up from bor Inzy posture, and lookod around with a new bright vision., To tho nortl, “the sonth, aud tho east, thero wore ouly tho levol floldw; but i the wost rose TIE WALDENBURG IGLLS, Bho crossed the long bridgo, left the river-road, climbed tho upland pasture, aud ontered thcir wild domain,, Lick Oblo haa fow storilo tractay this 18 ono, It Jooks as it o group of rugged, cung-shaped hills had been sot down by mistake iu the midst of tho farming oountry theso hills carry with them their own dark ravines, abrupt angles, and mountain vogolhtion ; the wind is al- wags blowing through tholr dotilen and over thelr bald tops; ihe trecos bave & wild look, nnd grow in strauge shapes with an_outlnw's freodom, quite unlike tho rank and filo of tho regular army, tho trim heochos and mn}flen of tho plnin below, Once withiu tho cirelo of those lulls, you might fancy yourself In Heotlaud, Thero aro maors thore alyo; moors such pg the Dronie sisters loved, those throo gifted sistors londing thoir strange solitury lifo togathor in thoir barron Haworthhomo. Ontho heights _grow Iarches, not in green tlers, nsn oity gardens, but wild aud fantastio, beokoning with their long groen fingors in tho broczo ng thauglh they said, ** Friend, como up hithor, and Iwil[; show you fairy-laud.,” You go up, nnd find only a now outlook over other hills oqually wild and barren g but it iano use romonstrating with tho Inrchos—it’s woll kuown thoy aro witehes among traes, Valeria ronmed through the forest; it was not donso, and_tho wind mado a rushing sound smong tho branches. Bhe felt blithe, hor pulses bent quickly, and sho bummed o liltlo song. There wore no tlowars, but sho trimmon her hat and dress with little leaves, taking ospecinl caro that tho sprays sbould be irroppularly pluced. +*Nothing shatl ba in order, or aftor a ruls," aho thought, I should like {0 mako tho vory slars turn topsy-turyy.” Jeremial McGill, Esquire, tho school-supor- intendeut, wonld lLave ‘dlsmissed this younp person ab onco could ko havo henrd “thoso words, ‘Mr, McGill was a §mlt man ; order al grievaneo iu lifo was his first Iniv ; Lis prine} escoptions to was that Providouco had aliowe 1ulos. ) 'ho woods ended, and the billa grow more and more wild; hero and thers 'n treo stood, like n soutinel, on the highest point, as.if it hud climbed thoro to enjoy the viow; tho .short turf waa hardy and brown’; pebblos lay thick-over its oxpanse, and in places the stono ridges cropped out, covored with mosses and licheng. Suddonly, nt tho top of ashort nscont, Valoris, broathloss, camo upon . AN OLD ROAD. Tt wns n dosolato old track, untraveled and lonaly, with no tineo of wagon-wheol or horse’s foot to cheer its ago, pullied, widling, and in somo piaces overgrown with'tust and mountain- woeds. Vet it was n rond regularly.and carefully mado over tho 'hills, not & mero wood-track or trail, 1t was n hard-working road, too; iv had not been taught tho aratt of the modern -ou- gineer, how not to do it ; but resolutely it faced ita duty, aud went th‘ll‘()‘y up and sharply down No slipping over, for this ssurdy old consorvative, Valeria did not lmow whenee-it came, nor whither it wont3; #o much tho Usttor. She on- joyed tho mystory, *1tis always a tronblo-to deeida which tay-to go,” slhio eald 10 herself ; “iho froed atave cunnot forget bus chnivs, T may think I ‘mma:rambling -entirely at random over these ‘hills; but, in spite of.‘myself, Tam constantly choosing m{ path, now Lekind that rock, naw over tlus hill, now_for this reaeon, naw for that, ¥ero-is arond., Lhavo noidea whero it is going. _ I will follow it, and thus re- lieve my mind of all care and rospo: lity." Tho poor old 1uad way, uo doubt, glad to havo a companion; Jt lod the way down iiito a dark. ravitio, and showed Valede A gny littlo brook running alongiover water-falls and rapide with a meorry; Tuching! sound; then, making n suddon turn, 16 olimbgd half-way up a bill, and paused bosido o° epring, carefully ourbed with largo stones, and cleat aud cold 1 ice. Valoria dranls, sand then sat awhile lookiug into tho still water. Wa all feal AN AFFECTION FOR SPRINGS. I auppose Lhere is hardly a manwho has not, in noma corner of his heart, the picture of a spring whore, ng o ‘bog, he drank long draughts—n spring whose memary conies back to Liim i sick- ‘nosy, whoeo far-awny waiors: eoom purer snd colder than any ‘ho can” now obtnin, though Bronght to him in crystal: pitchor tinkiing with floating fce. ''I'hie old road ‘made'a hroad curve aronnd this 8pring, so that o dozon teams might stand togethor there; but tino hind efinced tho mnrka of ongor faet, the stone coping was moksy, and hero and thore wore brenks through which tho water trickled out and sonked the - ground below. * Who laat stopped hora ?” thought Va~ lorin, **01d rond, do you know?" Rt tho rond wad {n hasto to got away, and hurried on, Valerin fallowing. Now sho climed-n 6tecp hill, and pausod on its breezy summit to count tho peaks round abont; now sho ran down along slope fustor and fastor, nuable to stop, laughing and shouting, like a wild ‘crenture, from shoor oxhil- aration; now shio walked through a dofilo, with rocky walls on each sido, and now she camo out unon o rolling moor, with farzo-bushs, and a fow merry daisics, hero and there, rollicking in the-suushine, It hiad rained the provious night, and the old road was fresl and olastios all tho veg- otation had heon washed, and thero was no dust potweon tho enrth and tho sky s Valeris could loolk farwp into the blue, * Old road,” she said, + do yon know whors you are going? " Buttho silant road wont on its” way, gullied and eidling, ‘but porsovering through- all “difioulties, until it camo to the top of a hill, where-a singlo larch- :rnndsloud,'nml pointed with all-ils flugora to- ward & TITTLE. ONURCI crowning a neighiboriug ominonco, with auly, ap- varently, one deep valloy betwoen, 'It was o winall stono bullding, with a dwarf towor ; o -stono wall, crumbled- and full of bresclies, sur- rounded itg domain, the whole top of the hill ; and o tall, white cross_stood by itself in tho in— closure, which soemed Lo be a placo of burial, datted with low head-stones. Bolow the hill- top, o the far sido, Valerie could aco tha roof of abouso, A churchl™ sho exclnimod; for, in hor isolation and exhilaration, sho ialked aloud 1o horaoll, nstoph do only once or twicoina lifetime, ** Who built it? . Who gocs toit? It must bo for tho moorland fairics and sock- gnomes; unlees, indeed, you keop it for your own private chapol, yon olomnn old rond. will go'over and find out, Of courso, van, too, ave on your way thoro,” Tho rond starfed down the il directly toward tho churel, but'at tha base it turneil awny and went off on a'tangeut. - Va- lorin followed, hoping that it would™ turn back again, but it wout straight on, snd even veered farther and farthor away ; the littlo church was ‘Tost to view, sud, apparontly, she was leaving it fnr bohind. - At length, discouraged with it obslingey, she turned seude into the moorland wasto, and throwiug o luo montally across the hill toward tho Yulnt ‘whore sho_supposod tho church to " be, followed it on and on, climbing ono hill only to find-another, wandering through new ravines and comiug outon now slopes, whore tho brooze and tho ety wore ## fresh as ovor, but no chureh jn sight on sny side, Now that sl liad an objoot again, Valeria folt horself growing onger ; 8lio ran forward, sho climbed, sho hast- roned ‘up tho nscents, wha was suro tho -littlo Banctunry was just boyond, over just heyond. At *Inat, aftor an honr's hunt, sho found it, with an old rond quietly leading up to its door, a rond mln‘\lolmmly lika' tho ono aho had logt, 8o van ek over its winding tenok ; you, thiero woro her. foot-mncks whera alic hed Girned oft iuta the waato on hor will-o'-tha-wisp chaso. - ‘Mhint decolt- ful old road had doubled on its own tenok, and como straight back, whila sho hiad heen going around in oircles! After iho last porformaneo it ‘wont quilotly up to tho church and stoppod. That was its end. “Iaupposo It took orders, and wont Into religious hfe,” anld Valerin ; © but, ]’I‘l’u:mn:,nny snothor mounls, it* wag teleky in its conth, kha wont flrat to tho littlo honse ; it wag do- sorted § the front” door’ stood open, and the starms’ had made havoo with the intorior, T'ha fow rooms were ampty ; nob o vestige remainod ot humuu inhabitants sivo a korap of papor in o closot, preserved, by chango, fnn dry corner, | Adly Voloria toolt i up aud glanced at the printe ‘eul Words, S LpL: 18 PRETTY MUOIE WITAT WE MAKB IT," wroto the country editor, “and wo onn rest -nseurod Cthat, i wo uro jnisorablo, in nine onkos oubt of ton it s our own fuult, ‘There 18 no dog wo forlorn that ho don't huvo dis day, and the trouble with us ia thint wo don’t tako our day when it comos, ‘Ihero 1s only ono thing which makes life happy, ‘anditlinb fs~" hioro tho papor "wus-torn novos, | e e e and tho editorinl camo to an end. " Religlon, T! ‘l’n‘:‘p'::;ui" thought Yaloria, supplying tho miss rd, ; ,Kllnu Volols wan not a church-goor—that s, ¥ith any rogularily, ' She hhd fouglit too hard against hor falo” to fool reslgned; the only orvico that would have wuitod ‘lior.usnal toaoh-" ing-mood wag tha * Comminntion Borvice™ of the Church of Engiand. But -thoro wass nothlag hero Lo “oxoilo hor wrath, hor cares wero loft bohind, thers wére no fino Indiés to ignoro hor out of exlstenco with thelr unsecing, scornful eyos ;: sho and Quoen Naturo might worship togothor undisturbed. Sho went upto tho little church, ''ho-turnatito swnng. slowly aa if 6tiff with age, tho pathway. was ovor- fim\vn with grass, but thoe door of thoe solitary nl-tnminln was carofully fastoned, and tho glass, of {ts Jittlo high-up windows whole. Neither man nor storm had desccrated tho-consooratod walls Lhus lott unguarded. -L'orbaps tho com- pany of graves belind, lying togather under tho Bont{nel-aross, had holpod this rovorence. Tho ropgh lead-stones bore no nstnvs, bowevor,— tho littla band, whoover they woro, - Iay muto undor tho sod. ) ' A stunted troo ¥ow noar tho ldo of tho chureli; Valorls climbed upiuto its orotel, opon- od one of the \v[ndowa,lrroppod it with a braveh, and, croeping through, droppod down to the tloor ingide. 'Iholittlo sanctunry was unadornod snd barron; it hnd n rudo stono font, an -altar-tablo, and a pulpit, whore tho departed pastor had stood wrhion nddressing bis flook 3 benohos wore fixed to the floor aud pogs_to the wall, butnothiug movablo romnined, Valorin WENT UP INTO THE PULPIT, and imnginod herself nddrossipg o congragation ¢omposod of wohool-superintondonts and flne Indies with soornful, iguoring cyos. Iy toxt is—" ubo began, but sho could nob think of-n toxt, aud pausod to considor, Tho only veras that estmo to hor mind was, “Lot-your women keop silenco in the churehes, for it is not por- mitted unto them to spoal.: -and if thoy will Jonrn anytbing, lot thom nsk their husbauds ab omo," “But i¢ they have no husbands,” thought Va- lerin, ‘‘what thon¥" Bho was -considoring this subject, when suddenly -6 wshadow darlonod tho open window, Bo utterly along had she boon sinco enrly morning that bhor hoart scomod to stop boating, whon, looking up, sho saw & man’s hoad thore. Who could it Do? Sho atood siill in tho pulpit, parslyzed with fear. City courago is nt o lowsin the lonel, country ; it knows not what to do. ® 4+ Valorln,” said o volco—** Valorinl " “ My nanio," she thuuqm. vaguely. “*Don't you know moe ¢ continuad . tho voleo winle the man to whom it olongodclimbed through tho window; thon ho-took off bis straw hnt, sud, lsughing, camo toward the pulpit, #You look vory pictiresquo up thoro with, your leaf-trimmed dross, Miss Minister.” i “Jonx Norr!" oxolnimed Valoria. r *I'i0 samo, at your 8sorvico, Miss Valois," How did you got horo?” #On the wings of tho wind.” “Iow 0id you -know that I was hero?" *Magmotic attraction.” ¢ What did you como for ?" ¥ Eypocinlly to hear your sermon, ravorond Iady," Toplied ‘John, taking o soat on one of tho bonches. s Y¥ory woll,” said Valona. My textis—" but boro sho remoniberad the vorso that had sug- gested dtself, and ita subscquent train of thought, and the color rose in bor cheeks. *¢ Hav'n't forgotion it, I hope 7" said John. Blio still beld tho serap of papoer, * 'Ihils will do,” sbo thought, and read it aloud, *3ly {oxt iy an follows: ‘Lifo .is protty muoh what we make i, and wo can rest asssurod thab, i wo nro miderable, in mino cases out of ton it in our own faulé. ‘There is no dog o forlorn that ho don't have s day, and tho tron- «blo with us s that we don't take our day.whon it ~comes. 'L'haro is only ono thing which makos life *happyy ud that ju—'" ' rovE," -gaid John, * Lknow nothlog about that; 1 was going to sny *roligion,'’ snid Valoria, loftily. V * Which -do .you know tho moat -about, AMiss Valois 2" * You are right ; £ know nothing about cithar. T will fiuish thio sentence hiouestly—* thorois only ano thing which makes lifo bappy, aud that is'— dogged - endurance.” g “ Excellent! ‘Tho text discoursed of dogs, 1 believe, Come down, now ; you canuob improve upon that, I willtake my twin; ‘I bavo:long wanted to preach you n sermon.” Misn Valois desconded and gravely sented her- golf on tho benoh, while John Nott took Lig place in tho pulpit. 1Ie was &.broad-shouldered mun, -with bold features, dark eyes, aud a gonoral na- poct which was almost heavy in its massive ro- pose; his hair was dark and.close-cut; thero was nothing -graceful or poetical -abont Bim; and,ss ho rested - his largo, strong hands on the pulpit-front, Valoria Valois thought Lo, looked overy inch o Jobn Nott; . that is to “X’ " blunt, enrt man, most appropriately engaged in tho hardware business, 4 8trange,” she thqught to horself, * that tho only man who ever loved mo_should bo such a oué g this] I iwondor what ho sces in mo "' Il gaw a womau who had never been bonuti- ful oven in youth, and who was now palo, thin, aud worn 5 he saw a woman who had scornfully ropulsed him seven yoars bofore, who had told himto his face “that® ho was atterly common- place ; who, in her poverty and isolation, hold herself fur above Lim, Dut WE LOVED NER. As a question apart, it mayba-asked, * Wi did Miss Vulois Liold heraelf above John Nott? ™ ‘He kuot nothingof music boyond a man's liking for a tune; he was nvt wp in Sobilier snd Goothe; he could . not “dissourse upow:art ; ho did not enjoy Ruskin ; ho cared. littla, in short, for tho emotions of the soul, he carod more for the present than tho past, and-moro for hig native Iand than tha'whole continont of Europe ton times over. Thereforo, ho was to her auath- omamaranatha, Inaddition,hieliked to read news- papors, nud'wanted to discuss tho questions of tho hour. Now, Valoria would have discussed thie Greeks and Romans ; sho_might .oven have condescendod as for ag Ring Chatles the Murtyr, or the inhoront ‘rights of the Bourbons; butb tho plobeian, potty affalrs of Olilo-wore boneath Lier notico, Tut, with all her foltics, Tohn Nott loved hor. Y Tor my toxt,” ho bagan, **I will take your own words: ‘Thora is ‘only one thing which makes life happy, and that is—love.’ Valeris Yalois, you aro all wrong. ‘Seven voars ago I asked you to bo my wifo—my dearly-loved *wifo, You refused—end with scorn, Huve you boon happy? Lot us sco what your life is, You spend your days in o closo room, woaring out vour strongth aund norves in & routino thet kills—soouer or lator kills the brafn. "ho tenchors in the lower do- partments of the public#chaols are . necossarily automatons : they must follow oxnct rulos, snd all individuality of mothod 1a taken from them. T'he move mind they haye, tho -more derdly tho glavery ; the more #pirit, tho heavior tho bond- ago. No sooner have fillof‘ ntiontly tolled ovor tho road with ono sot of childran, than they aro sob baek to bogin over again with s now sot. T'ho children vary, but the-rond never:varioa ; it ig liko a bvendui ‘i quiTe TOUE," rosponded the: congrogation, “Tho picture is clovorly painted,” 4 It sat upright now, this listoning congrogntion of onp, armed at all polnts with the old veorn, # Dhysically, tlm strain {8 even worso, You wore nover bonutiful, Miss Valois; to-day you ura, to ordinary .eyos, without a charm. -You had bloom ;itis gone, You had roundod enrves; thoy ure gona, You hnd awillowy graco of your own; it i8 gone, You aro palo, thin,-and listlors 3 your faco shows llnnu, your forohead ehowa furrows, and your .mouth, always your worsb fonturs from ita oxpression of ecorn, ia' now . addition- ally ugly from Labitnal discontont. Your hands woro once fair and gontlo 3 thoy aro now thin and nqgmfisim. Boven years of hard, monot- onous jubor havo' Joft you thus ; a littlo- moro, and you will have pasaed into the hopelosa atnga of pormanont schanlmarmism, with its dull voico and fixed smila. Romembor, howovor, that I sm looking nt yon now with-ordivary oyes,” % Yon have no right to look at'mo with any other oyos," rorponded the congrogation, hotly, No congrogation’ likes to honr itsclf called old and ugly, whatevor tho facts mny ho. 4Yes, I hnvo, Miss Valofs ; tho right of a man who loves you, ‘Thoro Is no right so saorod and po wtrong." “1 dony it nttorly.” . Tho preachor ignored the interrnption, and calmly pursuod the thread of -hin discourso Ll h{mxmly and physionlly oxhansted, without rogourcen, what ave you to- look forward to ? Thrae rosultat you wmay dio; i'on may broal down and bo_left_upon the cold charity of tho world; or; with all your indiviluality -und son wibilitios ~ dowtroyed, you may liva on, a mero machine, until, with gray Inir and din oyes, you rotira upon your honrded atar- vation pittanco, as ntierly incapablo of enjoy- meont as the poor prisancrintie *Iale’ of Lwo Cition,'" 3 e Iho voles censod, and tha congrogation” cov- ored {ta fave with fla poor huudsy tho pleturo wag ' 178 OWN DARR NIGUTMARE, b;n;mht eruolly aud foreibly-iuto tho broad light of day, I'io proachor went on : “1 cannot aud will nob walt for you forevar, Why should 17 Miich as you dospiso me, kuow that it is not impossiblo fur- others 1o loyemo ; § | you, {ufl, ovon mo | "It I choso, I could thia momont bo in a homo of my own, whero my stop— my hoavy setop which you dlslike wonld” Lring” joy to a .loving - hoart; whoro my natno, my cominon namo whigh 18 5o ‘didtnbtofur to you, would be tho doarost word on anrth to gontlarlips, ' I know nothing of your ‘clatricnl musio? ~ Grantod, But some onewouid . lavo to nln;rv the bailads I like, Lknow nothing: of foroiyn Htornturo ? - Grantad. ot sowme ono ' would profer the poor books Illko, ‘Il news- prpord you despise someono would arrange earo- fully besido my oasy-chalr ; and this gnmo oo ono_wonll -love to feol -my -hand—this largo, hnrd-working haud whieh you scorn—rosting on her. g'oldnu hair," ' You nro fortunate,” said ‘tho congrogation, 1in itn coldeat tono. * But the pity.of it all 18, thnt Ilovo you, Misa Valojs—only you," ! f\hat ju that tome 7" *“Slmply this: you have now a chanco, & last ehapen, to esonpo from your hopcloss, drenry Nife, Inm not rich, as you know, but I.never Bltnll bo paorer, and I have thav daily, nlnddlui:, pleboian {ndustry which-Is sure to’siccaod in| timo, I am ablo now to havo s homo of my own, and < ¥00L EXOUGT T0 WANT YOU TN 11" “T will nover marry for & homo,” said tho cone grogation, "#Why not'for a husband, then 2" “Yon " “Yos, mo. You need not_try.to killmo with our oyen, - What is your idos, pray? I know t without yonr snswor. ~Somo - flne-toned, /mooning < follow, who knows all ‘aboub high:art,.who shuddera ovor band-music, who goos {hrough ‘lifo suflforing -ncutoly in ovor sonso from tho contact of the sommon hord. man who disdains tho politics of his - own country and_tho' quastions of the day, to rlinp- nodizo ovor tho past! “A man who scorns Amor- icn, and goos wild over overything foreign. and oldl ‘Grent heavons! Our lifo is.but short, and shall wo apend it among tho doad men? “Ia thore nothing to do fu tho groat to-day, that wo miist dovole oursolves entiroly to yestorday ?" In his warmth, ‘tho red eamo up into tho Pmachnr'fl ohnoks, and his dark oyos gloamed. "Tho congrogation looked at_him with slow sur- priso; could it bo thatJohn Nott was handsome, aftor all? 1 know the man, and I dopiso him,"” contin- wod the proacher. ** Buch.as ho is, howaver, he will nover look at you ! Ho is foun nnl? among tho rich, this small-brained sybarite If not .rich liimeelf, ho' marrios-for monoy. Yon will find that hio nover discorns kindrod fonls amon; tho poor | Do not flatter yonrself ; if ho shoul mnl;w you» hundrod times ho would:see In you ou A POVERTY-STRICKEY OLD MAID. Tho lnd’Ioa -of: hig fancy ride in their own oar- ringon," Tho congrogation hed now & bright-rod spot in ench of jts ohdolks, and, in its anger, it was equnl to any emergenoy ; no dangor vnow of a lhnrd lump'in the throat, or a toll-talomist in: tha eyos. ‘Tho preachar camo down Trom tho palpit. **Valarin,” lie #nid,- atanding hofors her, ** for tho Inat time I ask you, will you be my wife 7 + T will not be yonr wifo,"” ¢ [ lova you, Valoria.” No auswer, *Thinlk of It a moment. il you roject thin groat glft, the love of an honest man ? “And, on your own aido, think of your lifo; this is your only chance,” 4 Henvens and earth, John Nott! Do yon tell mo that again? Will you noever understand that ‘that bk niothing to do with tho quostion ? I will not-marry you, beeauso I do not lovo you. That ia tho whole of it." it Llong to make you comfortabls, dears and porhaps X could nirke you love meo. In- ;lr,e(\. Tam sure I could,” sald this resoluto ovor, . Thin enlm cortainty roused: sll ‘the pride in proud Valeria’a heart. “ Linten," she said, in hor Fronch way—* lis- ton, I not only do not lave you, but T ABHOLUTELY IATE You ! . Will thas sufics, &ir?"” STt will," answorod John Nott, likewise angry. 4 Mins Valois, I shall not troublo you again, I'he ‘subject {8 at an and forever," Ho turnad ‘away, but not without a look of seorn, Tho woman he loved had -turned into a seorpion, No-goutle hcart could cherish ugly hate, “ hope," began Valoria, aftor n momont's.ei- lonce, “*that you will not think mo—" #Tha subjook is at =n oud forever, Miss Valals,” 4Yor my own sake, however, I must apologize for mv rude mannes—" “The manner i4 nothing to. me; your littla furios aro bengath my notice. Youara a fool to rotuso o, aud I am a aol for loving you! But, as- Ilenven is my witnes, I will suroly root ont Lhis folly from my heart, and cast it away for- ever.” ‘“Bo much the hotter,” -roplicd Misa Valofs, putting on - her gloves with minute esre, 1 really must start back-to the farm-houso. Go firat, plonse.” John Nott wrenched np somo of the benches by mnin Atrength, made 8 passablo Iadder to the window for Valerin's henefit, but swung himselt up by his hands nn’duprnng down.on the outside, dlaria climbod *cantiously up to tho sifl, and, with much inward trepidation, mm\n;:m!' aftor soveral attempla, to ronch the crotoh of tho treo ; sho had lost hor coolnoss, and was renlly trowe bling whon sho reaclied the -gronnd. Jobn had not offered to assiut bor, had not even glanced toward her; hostood ntsome distance, whistling to himself, with-his hands in tho pookets of bis ghort-eack-cont, As she turned down tho avergrown path, lio walked back, swung himself up with ono hand, closed the window, -and then rejoined ber, » “I do not know whora fhis rond goes,” said Valeria, taking foroiblo -hold of her compouuro .and speaking in an even veico. *‘Icameintoit by ehanca,” * It leadn back to the river; I camo cut on it, ‘and fonnd your foot-marks turning into it about haif a mile from the bridge. . The.people ia the house there told me you bad gono up into the Waldenbucg Hills." “Tlow did you know I had loft tho city ?" T missed you, and went to your hosrding- house to inquire whero you had gono; T UAVE NOT LOST SIGNT OF YOU FOR SEVEN TEARS," Than thero was another silenco. T wonder why this old rond waa ever made ?" bogan Valorls again, in o light, convoraational tono, ‘rememboring, with o siuking heart, the long walk baek totho farmhoneo, but delermined not to glve way or betrny her dopression’ and fatigiio. “0Oh, I found out a1l abant it," repliad prac- tleal Johw, /It was luid out about tweuty years ago by a littlo colony of Germaus, ‘who acttled among these hills and tried to make s busineas of gatting out the stono.’ Thoy wora Piotists, and’ built, first of all, that lttlo church, roloct- ing tho highest posk, so that'its whito cross could bo soan from all thoir lonely homes, like o/ beacon set on a hill. Tho desorted Louse near by was the Lomo of thair pastor.” * But T have scon no othor honses,” 470y aro mostly cast of+the chureh, near the deserted quarries ; but wo paus ono or- two ‘on the way back," ‘4 \Whiat-became of the colony ?” naked Valarla, dotermined to keop up tho convorsation, “Thoy labored pationtly, in the German faahlon, for sovoral &'om; but the gronnd was Biard and stertle, and they - could not campete with the quarrios on.tho lino of tho railroads farihor nosth. -A nunmber of them dled, their graves aro thoro behind tho church; and at lnst, disconraged, they sent an agont farthor to tho Wost and purchesed somo- fina valloy-land in 1ltinols, romoving thither, with all-their possoy- wiona, Thoir ehurch, their *doad,” and: their carefully-made road, they could -not tako; so thoy Joft them behind, -Lidden - away in ‘theso Dills, with the white-orosy to mount - guard over them.” ¢ Why eliould "they hnve sclocted this storilo spot P" enid Valoria, bringing anothor question romptly to tho front. +Thoy did not selectit; their agent was cheat- od, Immigrauts aro ofton chented; shamo to our country that it should ba xo 1" * Ohio 14, howovor, xi«’!nwrnilv Bpeaking, & rich State,” romarks Mlss Valois, in her sohool-mis- trosa tono, s “Yoa; it s a rognlar Soriptural land, with'its corn pud wino and oil! Isuppodo : PETHOLEUM WILL DO FOR OIL, won't it ?" 4 pray, do not bo so irreveront, Mr, Nott." +wOh, yos—1I dare say! “Saul among ‘the prophota " i lisé Valois did not venturo to robuko this sar- enstio’ compliment, But, after o momont, 'she bravaty bogan again: [ am ajwayd surprisod whon I roalizo that Ohio iy twico an lurgo s Switzorland, Groeco alko, tho famous land, which filld go largo a por- tlon ot ‘tha world's librarios, could bo put' down 1w it," twice over; and lolland and’ Donuark wonld fill only its cornors." T'o thia instractive romark, John Nott made no roply whatover, and & longs pauso ousuod, Va- Torin wan coueclois of this silonco in every voin, but shio had not the voleo to suy any thing'more; shio folt suffocatod, « By-and-by, they camo to a wide gully, through which tan a brawling brook, sproading lixolf out with nolsy gloa, I'nere was 1o way of crosing oxcopt wading, Valorin looked doubitfuliy at hor boots; sho haid not many pairs, and, for & poor tonclior, way somewhat - fastidious a4 to’ thelr sbiapo. 1 will onrry you sorous,™ said Johu, [ .0, nal” Y \Whby uot? Xon canuot walk. all:tho -way brick in wot shoes. “You aro nothing tome, and I am nothing to you; ‘you eanlook npon mo ‘simply na n convenlently strong porior.” 8o ho lifted hor, and bore har -acrous aa casily s thongh alio hind hogn o ehitd, Whon' slio rogained tior-foot, sho: glanced at him with momontary vuhflnunm bt 8- bons fido. portor coutd not-linve boon moro Indlfferont, Jtather: judignant, aud indignant (with 7 horsolt for belng Indiguct, shio walltod on rapidly. £UWIIL this road never come to.an_ond, sho !’im:' impatiently, asn turn-disclosod o now viata. /It cortalnly ia o tiresomo, decroplt old road,” aunwored hior companion, nsdouting cordlally to the impatience, “I did not flnd it 80 whon I oamo out,”. sald Valoria, .immedintely veoring round. *Tho moors, the larches, tho uunnlyg‘n.-lud ospeolally the lonelitoss, woro delightful,” *You know, I'nnppuuu—nui that it ‘s any- Ithing to mo, bowever<-thut it :may not ho ox- lflly safo for you {0 bo roaming’. azound (ho N alouo,’ 1 am not timid,” snid Valerla, prougly. ¥ YOU ARE STIONQ-MNDED," I lenow, roplied John, ealmly. ‘Vanleris liad & brauch in her hand, snd ro- .vongod bamself upon the flaunting woeds- by the roadaldo, decapitating them ruthlosuly : tho horribla torm * stroug-mibded” cut Lor like. a nifo, At loant, Tam not A0 ‘wonle-minded ns to profor a companton who u[wn!y *deridos me to nono st oll," sho unld angril g +Vary woll; I will wallc bebiud -you. [To all Intonts and purposes you shll bo” alono, Aliks Valoig," anawerod John, pausing. ‘Valorio walked on, with gleaming oyos and soarlot chooka ;. John full bohind, sud when at Inst sho ellowed licrsolf to glanco Laok, Lo woa 1ot In sight. “ Now I shall bo comfortablo again,” sho said to hotsoll, snd bogan humming a littlo song. DBut tho song, for somo renson, wos nob a suc- cogs. ““Iein too nonr bim,"sha thought. I must froo mysol?. cutiroly from tho idon of his* prosonce, Iato him? Yo, indeed! What. hard, cruel things le said to mol In sll my lifo no one has over -boen g0 cruol hofore. - 1le shall not dog: my footsteps. Ho i not In slght—I will run on, and put & good half~-mile - between us.” Glancing. back to a0 that sho was slono, sho ran rapidly down tho rond, laughing to herself over haor stratagom. At length, oue of - broath, alio - paused, sud waikod slowly - down -into a dark ravino, through which tho road psssed. Bho was, at last, ougo moro alono. *“I1am'so s;lnd," alio gaid dooidodly ; and onco more sho took up the unfinished song. .. But, down in thoe hoart of -tho defilo, where tho woods wera-thick and. dark, shio camo sud- donly upon a tramp, 11E WAS A NORRIDLE OREATURE, —a tramp of tho worst nspoct, not morely dirty, but also raflianly; not meroly: poverty~ strickon, but also sodden with low vico, The. tramp was equally 'started. -Ilo had not oxpeoted to meot & lady on the do- sortod Waldonburg road, a lady: with her dress adorned with vines, and a gold watch gloaming in her bolt 3 the watch was om.lunmonud‘ » Boll- tary relic of the happy daya of Valeria's poor mother, but it waa nouo the less: gold, and the tramp's oyos fixed thomselves upon it, Halooked woltishly around, there was 10 ono 10 sight ; ho listoned, thore was no ono within hunrln[z'. * Givo it to mo,” ho anid, stretching ont a_dirty-clawed hand and pointiug to tho watch. Valeria, dumb with fear, dotached it, and gavo 1t into the olutch of the extended claws. Whero wasnow hor boast- ed courage? Cultivated women have.no courago under such circumstances, ‘Thoy know that ro- slstanca is worso than usoless, The tramp was agrodably surprised; ho had oxpocted. o strugglo such as ‘womon of his own. class - would . havo made, and had al- rondy-moistened his [:nlmu inordor.to gat a.good Lold, **ITave you got any money ? " lio domand- ud, pockating tha watch. ™ Yes,*"Valeria, woman- like, hind with her'all tho money: sho -possessed in -tho world; not much, -but. her.sll. .8he henitatod, wIf you don't givo.it to.mo, I'll knook yor down and take iE,” pursuod the tramp, caleulat- ing his distanco, Valorin Iooked doswn the road. But her ranning hind -boon switk, and John Noté tuust have beon loft far-bobind, The tramp saw tho-movoment, and, fearing lest his proy should escape, sprang upon her with a florco oath, With dosperato quickness shn eluded ik - horriblo gragp, bnt gave “l: “$ho- wallot contnining’the 1nonoy, throwing it on the gronnd to oseape s eloper contact, “Te :that all .yor've- got?* sald the man, haatily toaring it opon and connting tho precious littlo storo, Appnrently it was moro thau ho “oxpected, for ho grinned and propared tobo off ; ho had' como mto n- strank of luck, and was not going to presumo too much upon it, Togues ara aver sBupesstitions, M 1'VE A GOOD WIND TO BARCI YER,™ ho gald; as o -last snlutation, more for the fun of tho thing than fromany roal intontion, Ho had his sensie of the humorous, tramp though ho was, and tho spectacle of a loaf-deakoed, delioato lady trombling like » oulprit boforo his dirty solf amusod- him_ greatly, *I'l como haok for the rost another time,” he said ; ** mind yor keepn good lookout for mo." Ilhis was cloarly.n work of supercrogation on tho tramp's-part; Valeria nooded no such warning ; from that time forth for-evermora sho wottld- indeod -keop & good lookout, and n far_lookout, for* dosolato ravinos inhabited by Dighwaymen who demanded your ronoy or your lifo. 8ha hind always admirod Schiller’s * Rob- bers.” ‘“Ah).thorais & work of gonius!" sho hiad often paid. ‘‘Ilow different from tho com- monplace life of to-day!"” But it knd nover oo- ourrod to her that the gallant robbers might bo excacdingly dirty ag woil as galiant. Wit & parting grin tho tramp disappeared, and then Mixd Valois sauk down upon the ground and began to cry; but not hoartily. not loud, un- il shio hioard & woll-known stop coming down the road ; ‘and then, fooling - herself safo -again, her torror and griof surged up-to the surface, and Dbroke forth in soba and hystorical crics, John Nott rushed towsrd hor, “O John!) she eaid, as ho Lnelt down by her side—* O, John 1" “What is it?" ho asked, in alarm ; but even then ho -governed himwelf, and thero was no tonderness in his -voioo, Valerin folb thia in- stantly, and withdrow from bis support as she 10td hor story brokenly, 10memboring, as she spoko, how hio had warnod her of juat such dan- ors, and how sho hud spurned his warning with hor bonsted courago. Thero wns not much courngo in her now ; her -very fiuger-onds wera unnorved, “71 phouldn't have minded him so wnch it Lie hadu't boon so dirty,” she coucluded, pluckiog up a little spirit in tho comfort of a stalwark proteotor. RUT JOMN WAS® OFF bofore she could.atop him., 4 3lr. - Nott—Jobu” sho ealled, in ronewed torror. Wad sho to be loft nlono. again? . Wus she of no moro consequence thau that? What was tho misorable tramp, comparod to her feol- ings? ! But John did not roturn, and, in 8 spasm of fear, sho croushiod bonoath some bushes, sco- ing & uconlthy highwayman lurking bebind every treo. Bhe endurod, .in.thoso few womouts, mora tormont than evor inbor. life bofora; nab ouly wad'shao rpalpitating with alarm, but ber hoart was crushed with tho senso of u Dlank dis- appointmont, which sho would . not, porbaps could not, undersiand, But Liad sho not given him up yoara boforo? Yos, varbalty, But, fu her.heart, & wowan never gives up a lovor, no mattor wlut may intervono, no matter if ‘ thoy aro oth hap- pily marriod olsowhero, until, with . hor owa oyes, sho oau soo that she is no louger any- thivg to him, 1t may be, Indeod it goverally is, & mero mattor of vanity, aud #o deoply conooulod that its oxistonoo_in -raraly suspeotod; but it in thoro. .And so Valerin, “for tho flrek timain soven yours, felt,tho dopthsislinken; he no longor laved her! 'Then came, suddenly, tho yisivn of that '*some one™ with her * galdon bair,” % Vory well,” ‘she said to horself, with frouh tonrs welling up, *it 18 nothing tomal” And sho seomed to soo hor-awn tombstone, with the inseription, ¢ Valorin Valus, aged 80-yoars,” TUndorneath tho name, thora formad thomsotves tho words, *If wearamisorable, iu nine oasos out of ton it is onrown fault,” Lhot remnded hor that sho Lad tho sorap of newspaper atilliu her pook- at, aud, toking 1t out, sho rond-over tho frog~ mout meehanioally. **There is no dog so for~ lorn that ho don't’ have his dsy,:and the troubla with uy is, that wo don't take our day whon it aomes, There s ouly ono thing which makes 1ifa happy, aud that fg—," and here sho thought of tho_ word -whioh .John had uupu\iufl, and droppod the yaper to bury hor faco In hor hauda, At:this momeny sha hoayd & trawpling sound and & how); and Jolm cawe {uto . view throuxh tho treos, DUAGAING THE HIGNWAYMAN AFTER 11X § with ono hand .o hold tho man by the throat, Jwith thoother hie pinjonod his two #rma bohind Tiis Lack, John's face waa rod, and his clothes disorderad by tho_contost ; but to Valoria ho lookod lika an arolangol, as his groat sirength showed itself on tho struggling wretoh in his Tasp, E%1 D, dowt 100 i 1" shio enld, with admiring oyes, lor torror lind vanishod, “Kilt him? Of course not, I shall only glve him & good thrnumu;z aftor you have told mo what lie tool from you,” 4 My wateh,” *You naar ¢ Tho watch!" thundored Jotn, ro- loasiug one hand of tho privouor, The tramp drow out o wateh from some ro- coptacle amung his ragy, ‘and, n obedionce to w llqnnl. 1aid it-on the ground, What clso?” gald Joln. My wallot, qontaining: §80,* :** You hear? The wallet1" Tho tramp bosltated ; but . tha poworful hand tightened its graap on his throst, sud ho drow out the monoy, **You Lind bottor connt it," satd. John ; and. s Valorlamoved toward tha wallet, * dou't touch l‘b\w!‘: your bande," ho addad, quickly. * Tako stiok.! *Thon he doesn't think my hands aro 5o ngly, attor al)," wan tho fiashing thonght Lust craseod Vnlorin's mind ; -shoe obeyed without a word, hiow- ovor, nnd, with tho ald of two sticks, slowly oponnd tho wallet. and .conutod tho monoy, rtahod ot il soppelSyen oot ak atol hor Wi unppoiuted: e u lisd turnod on him, " To6 51408 *41¢ 1s all hero," gnld Valorla, ‘1 suppono you don't want- to seemo thrash hitm," said Johu, dragging the nian away. © Walt here. I will bo back in & fow minutes,” 1o disappearad, But, O feminine inoonsiat~ oncy! Valeria vofjly followed, and, . unuoon lhor- self, witnassod, the performanao. from a safo dis- tance, and Aftoe a whllo, howovor, #hg oatlod out, * Dow? or & whilo, howovor, 8ho aalled oul o hurt blm, Jolin, Pray, don’t]” ot i ** Aro you thoros™ answored John, throshing away without pauso, #.0h, John, don't! You will hurt him." Wt Jy what I Intond.” “Dlonse, John, O, plonso!” * Yory -woll, my mou; you may go,* But, if it wero notfor tho lady, you would not got off e ok i ik o man slunk away like a whipped dog. » I should not haya lot him escape,” unr;d Jnlur:', wiping his forchead, “it I did not think you al- most 28 much o blamo as he. Ladies wi{h gold watchos and wallots ro not often to be met With walking alono on’ the-Waldouburg Road. Bup- posing 1 had uot been horo ? Ilo-gathered up tho billy, and put thom: with the watch into lus pocket, I will gol you frosh Dbills, aud hiave tha walch cloanad,” gu said, Valoria was silont, and they started on. The old road saon eame up into tha ‘sunshino . sgain, and the moors, tho breezoe, and the Iarches, woro a8 gay a8 over. 'This Lie John kept up the con- vorsotion; ho sow thut Voloria was exhaustod and palo, but Lo saw nothing olso. 1o had ro- colyed his sontence. o bad played his game -and lost it. Deliberatoly, soornfully, ‘she had ‘aszain rojocted hitn, and certainly ko :should not give hor a third opportuvity ! 'Tho affair was OVER FOREVET. But, to o him juatice, oven then ho novor onco thought of that goldon-haired somo ono; wtill 1ous - of - his -encountor with the tramp. - Valoria, howevor, wag thanking of both. ¢ X prosume 1t will gtorm bofore night,* said John, looking at tho rising clouds. * Theroe s, unfortunatoly, no signal-station down hero, What & wonderful thing the slgnnl-gorvico ia 1 Valerla agrood that it was wondarful, # Qur Inka:veagols now dopond: outirely npon tho'sigoals, oontioued' John. ¢ You may not bo awnro that thero is atloat on tho Iakes this gqi\an;v_;gr & -total -tonnago of more than 09,- “Yaleria was not_awaro of it, and was duly im- pressed with tho tack, John discoursed loarnadly on this and kindred snbjects, all tho. whilo striding over tho ground so rapidly that Valeria could hardly keep paco with him, - Bhio kept up her ond of the convorsa- tion firut with monosyliables, thon not atall; but John hruvoI{ began and sustained a solo, which Jastod until tho' rond camo out ou a hill- top, and'showed themvthe river, the corn-flolds, and ithe ' farm-house below. Thoy were out of tho wildornosa at Inst, ‘Y The now transportation company nlono, with its steamers and barges,” continued John, gmbrncoa » fum total of—" ‘%Oh, 'do stap,” anid Valoria, faintly. Sha could sop taams moving slong tho river-rond bo- low, and all privacy would soon be lost;. invol- untarily slio liold baok. “\What ia it ?* snid John; ho expected somo- thing sbout fatiguo, or perhaps » fainting-At, ‘Valoria looked nt him with her ovos tull of toars, ot are botter than I am,” -sho mur- mured, *Iam seltlsh, and vain, and weak, :But, 0, John! do you—' DO YOU TIHINK YOU COULD LOYVE ME AGAIN 2" “Asif' Ihaod ever stopped loving you,” an- swerad John, taking hor iuto his ayms witl & sur- prive that was swallowed up in joy, ‘I'hon thero camo to Valeria Valais & suspicion and s cortainty; & suspicion that love and hate wero vory noar togother, and a .certainty that, como froubls, como poveriy, como sickneas, como death, sha was safa from' thair torrors for- over, Xor love is immortal! T will learn Bocthoven ‘and all -that, dear,” safd John, as they journoyed homoward that af~ ternoon in thio cara. 4 e *Aud I will loarn nowspapors,” roplied Va- lerle, with a new, gentlo humility. After a long 160, sho s'l}nl, questioniugly, *’And the goiden uir, ‘John ¢ Poor littlo thing!" answored John, care- lessly, Buch is the way of maukind { “1 am- afraid I looked very red and conrsg when I wag thrashing that scamp,” remarked honest John, anxiously, soma tima. afterward, 1o bnd already put up’ bis lwp collar numbors loss timos,.and wished in his secrot Leart that ho hinl brought with him a. pelrof two-button gloves, Valoria amilod at bis simplicity. Then, with s sudden burst of admiration, *John!" slio gald; YOy LOOKED LIKE A.DEAMI-00D|” At 8 in_tho ovouing-tho cars rolled iuto tho city dopot. " On tho whole,”. said Valoris, summing up the day (she Liad recoverod hor guyety), * it was altowing to that-decoitful Waldenburg Road,” “: Bleasod old road I answersd: John, “ We will go down there again somo time, dear." But thoy nover did.—Conslance . Fenimore Woolson in Appletons’ Journal, ? —_——— 4 Josh Rillings” In Englishs From the London Spectator, Educatod Americaus ofton oxpross somo aston- ishment ub tho liking displayed Ly the. Dritish publie for the Amerienn ‘‘humorists,” men in whom they sy thoy Hud littlo except some com- wmonplace extravagunce sud much bad spelling, With tho oxcaption of tho **ieathon Ohinos,” which mado au numenso hit, and exorcised a per- manent influance on public opinion, they do-ot wo aro told, gonninely admire-any of the comle productious Iingliskmen flnd so racy. - 'hoy pro- for Mr, Lowaoll's serious poems, which, siweet as they are, will scarcely live, to (tho ** Bigolow Papors," which will last 8a long as° their dialect romains jutolligiblo ;. scarcely ostimate Lolamd at Buglish valuation, woudor: ab tho fuss: mado about Mark ‘L'wain, and hold Artemus Ward to biayo beon nlow comodian. As tho Amoricans aro in their way moro Lumorous than the Eu- glish, and ag thoy . produce. these . professiounl humorists, this want of appreciation of thowm would be bard to undarstand, or ovon to admit, wera it pot visible also among the Scotch, binlf-of whom ave full of a racy luwor which tho other half geem uuabla.to comprohond. .-Wo nover mot a Bcotehniau yot—we biave iriod the experis mant several timneu--who fully sujoyed Artemus Ward, ar understood why the absurd incongruity of his sayings with the shrowduess embodied in his thought-mado Englishmon-shako with laugh- tor auch 88 uo English humor scemod in auy equal dogreo to lpmvako. “Thoro must bo two publics in Amorica, just as there are iu Scotland, and oue of them despises the lnughter which the othor enjoys, ‘Ono eause of tha contempt is, wo suspoct, tho artifielality into which all humorista who trado on theirhumorsare apt to fall; another, tho weariness of Amoricans of the shrowd say- ings {u which muck,of their lumor is embodied ; and % third, the proposterous uso somo of the camic aphorists mako of bad spelling., Artomus Ward ‘mude his bad spelling funny, the abeolnto diffuronco botweon the mothod of conjugating one oxpocted and the motbod ho tried oxeiting of itsolf* the souso of ine uoufixjm}y, which ia the first caneo of laughter; but Lis imitatora have lost his art, auch as it was, almost or -quite complotoly. The porson who onls hiwmoolf *‘Josh Ihllinga" has ootirely. Ohavoiug to tako up’ the booi, at a railway sta= tlon, tuo writor docided during a ton-minutes’ run thet “Joah Billugs' wit aud humor was, on (ho wholo, - the most coutemptibly -vulgsr trosh hie had ever hud in hig hand; worso by mauy dogroos than tha worst failuro of the old Loudon comie achiaol ; quita es bad, - in fact, ay its cover, which reprosented n paunchy foal tum- bilng ou Lis lunds , aud litting with his feot 5 | whito hat with a motrning crupe all round it. iaving, howover, to travel furthor, and uo other book boiug at hand, -ho tried to road it steadily, and discovored - in a painful Lalf-tour this curl- ous fack: “Josh Billngs" is tho nlokuamo of s0mo "unknown porson, apparently wotl edu- cated, with the.unnd, if’ one could imagine suol & mind, of a Digsontivg Bydnoy Smith, ~Iio has nat, of course, the full powor of the witty divine; he has lnjuml such power na ho haa by using it up, appaiently, as wo guess from bis dedication, to earn his broad, aud his - iopics aro usu- ally Inforlor; but ho has in o high dogreo tho power’ Bydney Bmith- possossod 'of sny- ing odd things whioh, llke comwon proverbs, enibody iu o line the oxporicnce of agos or the N'nnnn{ng of a Mo, Ife cun do nothing olso. He canuot toll & alur{, or writoa puredy, or toach a losson {u politles, and tho one favulty he Pousesgos 1 avorlaid, by bis own or. his orlginal publishior's foily, til it s almost fuvlsible, 1lalf of the book 8 Tubbish, the wore dregs of hiy buetter work, vooked up, .wo * 8ippose, {or o mare kot whicl. had enjoyed soiae of -His racior oudi- tigs, aud ba= kopt on boping for #otno wore dong aftor tho supply wus exhaustod. About a tonth is mado up ‘of wounk piatitudos, and about a twontioth of Chisstian maxima of - $he moat eay- agely oxthodox typo, which. e ———— an excoption .or two, wrataliedly out of ply though wo must add, strango as it may hn?tm appoar to havo como from tho iowmost convioe tions of tho writor, who has coverod ‘all aliko— ploua-advige, common-place ribbish, kaon opi- -grame, aud * pawky {u-avuxhnfi-ln an' impono- trablo vell ot badepelling. What the objcot of thia epelling -can bo wo aro uttoriy.unblo to discovor. Itis nct comio, an ArtemusWard'a ofton was. : It s not: intondod to expross sny dialect, a3 Loland's was, or if it is, it doca not succeod, It {8 not phonati, it fa not ingonious, 1t 18,in fact, & motiveless abgurdity, all the mora {0 be- condemnod: hovauso such Wit ag ** Jash ‘Billings " posuesnes ia ontirely of. tho sub-aliu- *slvo kind, Which 1 60 scldom liked oxcopt.amon, .tho educatad. - Tho roal man ig not ** Josh Bils lings," but, to compare smail ‘things with groat, ‘st Amoriosn Moutaigno. " 'This sontence; for int ‘stanto, ** Vo havo.mado.justics a laxury of. oiw ilization,” is. osrontlally "of \tho: Byducy-Smith -tppn,.and is not made mare subtle, but only une intofligibte, by ridiculous spolliog: It would by hardly possiblo to expross tho truth that civilizae tion lind scoured juntico, but bas not seoured it :to the poor, in a torsor or mara.biting form, bus its pithinous s just of tho kind which a réader capable of spolling *‘i8". ag ““iz"" would nover comprohond, any more than ho would this onrie ‘ous ahd qurto truo obsorvation in vatural hise tory:’ * Monkeys: nover grow. any older in ox« rossion, A youug moukoy looks oxactly like is grandpaps melted up sod.bornagain Of this: ¢ No man can bo_a heslthy Joster unlosy Lio has beon nureod at thio broast of wisdom,” ¢ sontonco which contaius the whote difforonco be twoon the humor of o man liko Sidnoy.Smith o1 Obarles. Lamb and tho Lumor of;Mr, Lear. :Whore, again, is tho souso, not to aay tho tasta or tho propriely of misapolling & fino sentouco liko'this : * *“1umor must fnl'f out-of & mon'a mouth liko music out -'of a bobolink,"” which ia intolligible ouly to thoso to whom bad:spolling, and-especially. artificial bad #pellivg, 18 a.mera canso of disgust, - Lhero is & world of wisdom in ‘tho saylng, * It ia easler to bo n harmloss dove than n decont sorpont,”—that is, to boa man constitutionslly-outsido tomptation, than a man ‘who, kaonly faoling taunptation, yet resists ; but in whnt way is tho s windom | flavored by spolling adove. s ‘‘duv"? ‘Llo. bitter, worm{ oxperis onco of this remarl, which Rochafoucauld might bave made, and Prosper Morimeo would have writton to I'Incounue, if bo Liad thought of it, is_utterly lost iu.a cloud of bad mpalling : *“Bomo men marry to got rid of themsolves, and flod that tho gamo I8 ono that two can play at, and noithor win.” All tho following .ara suge cstivo shrowdnossos, much better tfinn Frank. lin's, whoso *‘Paor Richard " Americans are sq inclined to praiso;. but they are not tho. more biting, or the more populer, or aven tho more xacy of tho soil, for beiug injured by o farcical apolling: Timo s monoy, and many pooplo pay tolr dobyy with it, Tgnoranca Is the wet-nurse of projudico, Wit without scuse 1 a razor without s handlo, +Half tho discomfort of lifa-is tho result of golting tired of oursclves, Henevolenca iaithe.cream on.the milk of human kinduess, Tooplo ot gooil senso are thoso whoso oplnjona agroe with ours, 4 Ficoal thlngs; ovon adversity s polito to & maw'e ace, . Passion ‘aliways lowers s great man, but: sometimes elovatoa & littlo ono, Btylo fa eversthing for a sinner, and » Wttlo of it wil] ot hurt s saiut, Mon now-s~loys are divided into slow Olristians and wide-awako sluners, Thioro aro peoplo ho oxpect to cscapo bioll batausy stiecrowd goingthers, - Lk B plo-aro ilke egge—too full o bold anyittog etson - ¥ gty Evon when tha sayinge cantaln an clement of grotesquorie, they- are -improved- by ordinary printing: 1t 33 littlo troublo toa graven imago to be patlenl evon-in fl%-'umn. " ey +10ld ageincroases us in wistom—and in rhoumatiam, .. Amula i a bad pun on & horse, Hoalth is a loan at call, ‘Wheat is & sordal. X um glad of it. Manner s o grent deal more attraclive than matter, espocially In a monkoy, * Adversity o n man 18 ke training to o pugitist, Td reducos bt to-his fightiug weight. + Ploasuro is liko traacle,. T0o much of 16 spolla: the ety (b motee of Nogessity i tha mother .of inventlon, but P Bight Is o father, PR M 1d you over hear a vory rich man sing? Bowaro of tho wan wih half-shut vyss, He's not droaming, ‘Mfon was bullt after all other things had bosn made and pronsunced good, " if not, ho would Lave insiated on giving his orders,a to tho rust of tho job, Mice Ixtten slow in o churcli, Thoy can’t liva on re- uglmn any.more than minsters can, Fashion clicats {Lo eccontrio with the claplrap. of freedom, and mokes ihom'sorve fn the habilmonts of the harlequin, ‘Fhera are farmers gojfull.of scienno that thoy wont uet a gato post till they hava iad. the earth undor. the O ot e Ihvouigh bélng litabi ey beda en Jawbs got ihrough belng . lsmbs the, wa sheop. ‘Thls takes tho Hunlln-\tll.lb‘oul of (lmm’. Cloarly Erinkcd, onoe 8e08 why tho cynlesl, shrowdly observaut mou bocomes popular among & paoplo who love proverba, avd i still popular among suother people «who havo a yearning for laughter, and eannob find an oxcuse for it, buk his work requires cloar printing aud a good doal of condousation, .Wo. do not adviso auybody to road ** Josl Billings,” for the plums in hia writ~ {ug aro imbedded in & groat deal too much dough, but still wo arg glad to find and to show thata Dbook which solls overywhora ia not a mass of fol ly and vulgarity as at firet sight it appears to.be, Of vulgarity thero is nono at all, or nono excopt in a line probably misprinted; it i » koo, clov- er raportor orminister who has taken, for unine telligible roasons, to tumbling before tho world THE APPLE-BLOSSOM. *0 bloom of the Rich rose-bloom, o 80 bright! issolving in white When Phobi’s beush Wronght thy boautiful blush, It out have boen dipped in the dawn’s fandes flush Qf.softeat, moat exquiaite light, o Zhe blosaom of Aefolact thou | 5 10 blossom that Liangs on tho bough: "That sweot cow-alin bell A wild story might toll Of Bis feats on (ho sward, where thy potls e well Adorn {ts gruve malachite brow, o may load protty Mab by the hand 0 trip with bis light-foued baud "llcre, on blossom-strewed tiuge, ‘While the nightingalo sings, Aud tho bats wheul in time, with thelr brosd, fapplug wlugs, LUl thoy boar the fays home to ldle Land, 0, Llaom of thoapple! my rhymo Bhould ba read after dny's golden prime, Wheon flowars go 0 kloop Aud-pale atars riso and peop Into orchards whoro pritas a long revelmight Aud o1 e aisly chimol od olfin-harps o —London Soviety. ¥ —_— The Great Farmer ot Elinols, From. tha Bl Paso (11L) Journal, M. L. Bullivant, the great farmer of Iilinols, and of the Wost, too, for that matter, waa in El Tuso Baturday. 1lo.called ou Scory &:Rouso, who Lave beon supplyiug bim with agricaltural machinery for Aonie years, and ordared of :thom half-n-dozon Duckeyo mowers. Hullivant.is ono of thoso cheorful souls who nevor do suything by halves, A correspondont says of. his fsrm : “Iwas at. Bullivant's farm to-day. It is about 8 wiles square aud containg.about 44,000 acros. Mot Ar, Sullivaut iu his oflico, snd found him a most pleasant and. agreeablo man, ‘rondy . to outertain auy. ono who.calls. I-am indobted to Mr,.W, B, Dix, chiof clerk, for the fol- lowing condensed report .of .the workings of the farm: Number of hands -omployed, about 600 ; mules .and horaos, 1,000; cattle (oxen), 50 3 numbor acres in corn, 20,000 3 aores in small grain, 8,000 ; acres. in tamo grass, 8,000; milos of - hadgo, B00; bhoad of hugs, i.ILIIJ; Lioad of cattle, 600, .Bvorything is run -in rogular mili- tary style,. Iocan toll just whot it costs to raiso o bushel of - graiu on -any soation ofbis farm, also the cost each .mouth to feod the hands, 'Iho handg ave, all hired by the monsh and boarded, 'hero isa resident dootor—Dr, Blair—who attonds to the sick. According to aotual figuray it is -demonstratoed . that 11 conts por bushel - in ordinary. scasons will: put corn in 80am . UBURLY, With |i thow. tho _crib, and. 20 cents por day will board hande, Tho Dill of «fare ia bottor than that found in mest boarding-housos. The followjng is tho bill of faro for Juws, 1874; Bwokod shoulder, mesn beef, frosh -baef, flour, bread, rice, boaus, pans, ton, 0offoo, SUEAT, arivd applos, vinogar, wolasees, Jard, spico ey, fresh vogotabivs, &o., cost por eaplta, 34, oohts, Founa bir. Fay, the oashipr, Mr. Miuer, tho gonoral managor, aud others, vory plonsant gentlomen, A gonoral stook of gowdd are kopt, from whiols tho men aro supplied .at uot cost, . An elevator af 95,000 buuha&n capaolty, is:about roady to reooiva:grain, -It is aaid Lo bo, by com- potont Judges, tho best and most complote olos vator in the Blnu, outsido of Chioago. . Thoro is now [n orib ou tha tarm, 450,000 bushels of carn, - walting tho completion of tho oloyator {o bs shollod and shipped. Oropa laok splondid; the rocont rain hus removed all approbousions-'of injury from drought, —_— —Wa regrot to say that. tho most recant and lhrlllln'z zoolugleal ulory la teagioal, A eal in Mussnohusotss borenyod of her young adopted & sot of littlo -muskrats, Whon' their oyos wo oponed, and’ thoy saw what:kind of. mathor fal had bostowad npon. thom, 10, Jondly aome= Pt i B et e hoth oo o dalin R R}