| Show it is better betterto to give than thail to R ecel and you strip yourself of comfort for tile the sake of adding to this merchants gain the widow replied with a flushed cheek git cit C it may seem a light thin thing to you but the thought that I 1 am slowly aud and surely wiping every ivery stain stala from my husbands honor is my greatest earthly comfort mr milner Mil neris is his last creditor and god willing every cent shall be paid her coarser relative responded with an air emphatic plia tic fiddie fiddle fiddlesticks sticks and aud angrily left lefi her tier presence gat G at last I 1 have it said a silver voice and a sweet face glad giad ad and brilliant brightened up the gloom loom only see mother tea tek dollars all my myown own ten tell more makes twenty so we shall bhail have hava a aulce auice lille li tle tie sum for mr milner tears tiem trembled bled on her tier mot mol mothers hers hera lashes and glittered on her pale cheek it ia is to ba be tile the price of thy life my precious one 5 slie she thought Is the baliker canker worm at thel the heart icart of my beautiful flower must I 1 give thee up to weary toil a sacrifice upon the tha altar of duty can oan cault it be that god requires ita ity eva knelt at her ber mothers feet feat where she bad bai ha I 1 fall fali fallen failen with all the tile abandon of a child her tier glance glauce fastened to the shining gold lifting her giat glat fee she ie met that of her tier mother ni oiher full of anxiety touched with sorrow orrow A saddened smile broke over her tier delicate features 1 I was only thinking of tile the endless things this money would buy dont look so graye grave mamma in amnia such a beauty of a warm shawl for you and a neat crimson cover for that untidy old arm chair a bit ever so little of carpet to put down do w n by b Y the ti 1 11 11 bed that your feet might not touch this c cold coid floor 0 0 i and cap besides coal and te tea tda and sugar and such nice comfortable comfor ubie Uble things but never milid mind and slie she sprang to her feet brushed back her tier brown curls and drew drei oil on her neat little bonnet never mind ill may be write a block one of these days make you and I 1 rih rich and dear mother you shall ride in your own carriage and max may maybe be those that scorn us now only wa are poor may be thankful for our notice A truce to romance 11 she gravely continued 1 stern steril reality tells tella me to go directly up to madison street find mr ali milner give him this awen twenty ty dollars take a receipt and then come back bach and read and angl sing to rny my mother hurriedly eva passed from iier tier own home along the narrow streets As she slie went onward street after street diverging into ae pleasant t width and palace aacen lined splendor the houses of greatness and nd wealth glittered in their marble beauty under tile the golden sunlight up broad steps through portals carved and shilling shi iring passed tile hie timid steps of eva sterne at first the pompous servant smiled a contemptuous denial but after a moment perhaps softened by her cl Aldish simplicity and winni winning ur blue eyes he deemed it best dest not to deny her urgency and she entered this palace of a nich rich r nalls thans nails home softly her feet sank in the luxurious carpets statuary Slat uary in bronze and marble lined the way vay to the staircase the splendor of the tiie room into I 1 which slie she was ushered seemed to her e ed d sight too beautiful for use and he lie who came in n with his kindly glance and handsome face the tha noblest perfection of manhood she had bad ever seen i i well young lady he said blandly smiling no to whom am I 1 indebted for this pleasure my father sir died in your your debt said eva eya bi blushing gand gaud and speaking very softly by the strictest economy and hard work my mother and I 1 have been able to pay all his creditors but yourself if you will be kind hind enough to receive the tile balance of your account in small sums I 1 am sorry they must be so small sir we can in the course of a few years fully liquidate the tile sum rum and then we shall have fulfilled my fathers dying wish that every stain might be wiped from lils his honor she paused a moment and said again arrain falteringly may my ray father faher was very unfortunate or ir and broken iu in health for many years bud bue but sir he was honorable be lie would have paid the last cent if it had left him a beggar mr milner sat sal awhile thoughtfully his dark eyes fastened upon the gentle face before him after of silence ha he raised his lead head threw back the mass of curling hair that shadowed his handsome brow and aid said sald 1 I remember your father well I 1 regretted his death he was a fine fellow lie he added musingly 3 bat but my dear young lady have you iceme the means ils lis do you not embarrass yourself by making malting these payments 5 eva bloused again and looking u ingeniously replied 1 I am obliged to work sir but no labor would be too arduous that save tile the memory of such a father from disgrace this T bis she poke spoke with keen emo emotion tiou tion tiie tha rich tich man turned with a choking in his throat threat and tears glistened on oa his llis lavlies la siles eva Ilin liln humidly idly held beld out the tha two gold pieces p ha lip took them and anid bidding lier tier stay a moment hastily left the room almost ansta instantly aly returning lie he handed her a beaded note saying there is the receipt young I 1 idy and allow my me to add that the mother of such a child must bea happy woman the whole debt I 1 find is nine hundred undred li and seventy five dollars you will see by my note what arrangements I 1 have made maae and I 1 hope they will be satisfactory factor eva era lefbom left alm him aim with a lighted heart and a burning cheek at his praise his flis manner was antl anti ei s sj fatherly that she site felt fell lie he would not impose hard liar d conditions and it would woud be a pleasure to pay one so kind and forbearing forbear Dg at last sin sh got homeard home and breathlessly sitti ngat her fier mothers felshe opened her tier letter wonder of wonders a banknote ban bank knote note enclosed she sha held it without speaking or looking at its value read it she said after a moments bewilderment placing tile the letter in ill her mothers are fifty dollars what can cau it mean this said the sick woman bursting into tears is a receipt in full releasing us u from the payment of your fathers debt kind generous inan Heaven will blesi him god wi I 1 shower mercies upon him elom flom bom eom a grateful heart I 1 call cail c all ail upon the father to reward him for this act of kindness oil oh what shall we do to thank him mother said eva jeva smiling through her tier tears 1 I felt as us if lie he was all an angel of goodness oil oh they do wrong who say tilt tiit all who are wealthy have hard hearts lie ile arts mother call can it be possible poss ble that we are so nich rich cli I 1 wish lie he knew liow how very happy lie has made mude us how much we will love and reverence him whenever we think or speak of him or even hear isear him spoken of he has bound two hearts to him forever murmured her mother yes dear mr milner milne r little lie he thought how many comforts comfor ts we wanted now we need not stint themire the gire fire we may buy coal and have one ono cheerful Oie ole erful blaze please god and the tiie tea the strip of carpet the augir the little luxuries for you dear mother aud and davery au a very few books for myself I 1 declare I 1 am so thankful 1 I feel as pas if 1 I ought to go right back and tell him that we shall shail I 1 love iove him as s long as we ve live that evening the grate heaped with lehigh gave tile hie little room an air of ruddy comfort eva bat hat near 5 her curls bound softly back from her pure ure forehead inviting indi ting flit a touching letter to their heir benefactor r her HW mothers face lighted li 9 bated with the hie loss of cankering cire care shone with a placid smile mid bleid her very thought was a prayer calling down dow blessings upon tile the good rich man mail in all ail another room far different from the widows home but also bright with the blaze of bf a genial fire and whose light made richer the polish of costly furniture sat t the noble merchant pa what makes you look so happy asked lina a beautiful girl passing her smooth smooth hand over his brow dont I 1 always look happy my little lina llna yes but you keep shutting your eyes and smiling so and her bright face reflected his own 1 91 I think you have live had something ver very y nice today to day what was ltv it does my little daughter really want to know what has made her tier fa therso happy here is my bible let iet lether her turn to tire acts of the apostles euth chapter aith verse and read it carefully the th e beautiful child turned reverently y the pages of the holy book a tind ud as she read she looked up in her fathers eyes gand and to remember the words of the lord jesus how low 6 he said it is more blessed to give glye than to receive receive ah I 1 know she said laying her rosy cheek upon his hand band you have been giving something to some beggars as you did last week and lie he thanked you and said sald god bless you and what flat fiat makes you happy lina read a confirmation in her fathers smile buhle said nothing noting only kept repeating repealing to himself the words of the lord jesus gilt it is more blessed to give thain to receive SAILING OF or the BOSTON expedition lon ION FOR POP RAISING THE tile SUNKEN FLEET AT SEBAST sebastopol sevastopol SEBA orOL opol the tile boston submarine co have bave heen been for some time past rigorously engaged eli ela A in pushing pus liing forward their preparations for raising rai ral s ing the sunken 6 hip at a t se ba under the ilia arrangement made at st petersburg by col G W lane and on saturday the 3rd ard tile the day fixed for sailing bailing at a quarter past five p m one of the vessels of or the tiie expedition taia th silver key cast loose from the tiie wharf and took tock her tier departure for the black sea she was freighted entirely with machinery and apparatus adapted to raising ships and other submarine operations and is commanded by capt joseph C currier well know as one of our most reliable ship masters master tile tha screw steamer general knox another vessel of the expedition is already ill in the black sea Numer numerous our oui mechanics and the best divers in the united states slates are nov now on their way with willi several completo sets of submarine armor ample apparatus for blasting aid a gwynne pumping engine capable when driven to its full capacity of dis charging ch irgin one thousand lui lut reis of water per minute by means of this wonderful machine machise ma chise chipe a sunken vessel even in eighty feet of water the deepest part of the harbor of oe sebastopol sevastopol Seba is only sixty six feet can be pumpe dout out filled with air andtius raised without the slightest injury upwards of thirty large sunken steamers have been raised by this admirable process in the united states within two years and it is a noticeable fact that ill in no case has it failed 0 of success cess it is not necessary to attempt to make the sunken vessels perfectly tight leaks admitting one thousand gallons allons per minute are aro of no consequence where the engine will discharge as many ba barrels in the same time in 11 1 raising the steamer knickerbocker in september lasi last from the bottom of 0 the hudson river by this tills process two air ports each ten inches square were purposely left open in addition to all other leaks and in just one hour and fifteen minutes she was afloat ready toba tobe towed to new york This included all stoppages re required alred to keep ier her ter upright while she rose v fa the actual working time of the 11 pump lim P was but hut twenty minutes she was a steamer of tile the larg gest class three hundred feet lang and feet beam and till taken hold field of hy by the boston submarine company was regarded as a bo hopeless case these facts are attested bv by F W moores of the tile united states navy who with mr wellington jiu ton tou lee lve chief engineer of the company superintended super intended the operation mr lee who lias has probably ably had more varied and extensive expensive experience in i submarine engineering than thun any other person in america will direct the operations at Sebasto joi jol it is reported that another expedition is filling fitti ilg out at philadelphia to try tile the old plan with chains scows ac should ima this expedition go there will probably le be work enough for both as there must be many vessels besses still valuable which i were so shattered and aird broken by shot and shell as to be lie unsuited to this new method and cannot be raised except by a dead lift stich such cases however I 1 have been provided ded for I 1 y the boston submarine company compans con pads pady they having already sent out pneumatic and hydrostatic ill lit ti ng power egdal equal to two hundred and sixty five tons dead lilt to be followed if needed by a similar lifting power equal to one ono thousand tons boston transcript THE CHINESE 1 AND THE ENGLISH G government OVE iti I VENT ment the tiie intelligence by the last laa steamer indicates pretty fully that the tho newly elected alouse of f commons will upon the chinese ques question tion tiou be largely in favor of sustaining the policy of lord L 0 rd erston that policy as fore shadowed by liis his course before the close celoso of the tile last parliament was a vigorous and detained det mined resistance to chi ohi ilese liese exclusiveness ess the blitsh authorities in china had upon some very small pretext provoked a collision with mhd native authorities the exact merits of the 0 original controversy have long since ceased to be the issue upon the question in england P the conservative party in parliament uniting with it all the elements of opposition to palmerston supported a resolution disapproving tile the violence resorted to hy by the british officers in china this resolution reso lut iut 1 0 11 was opposed at first by the ministry 1 notrip no tipon 0 n the grounds that the violence was necessary but upon the ground that parliament could not at that time investigate with justice tho conduct of absent officials and full information the debates however forced the tile issue upon what was alleged to be the aggressive p policy 0 lcy ley icy of lord palmerston arid and to that the question was in tile tiie public mind and throughout the press and upon tile the hustings reduced the resolution of ol 01 censure was passed and parliament dissolved lord gamerston PA merston appealed to the COtril co mitry try the contest lias has been an animated one A war with the chinese or peace the news from the borough elections is that cobden and bright the leaders of hie tile peace party pany have been defeated the indications are as we have said that lord palmerston will he be sustained by the popular voice he is it is well known naturally inclined to a war whenever he is in power he lie endeavors to get up a difficulty somewhere ar or another the tho people have decided in favor of a war with china arid and palmerston is the last man in E england to refuse their request chicago times april 23 tun THE NEW EPIDEMIC BRAIN FEVER the qa Qs wego times says the extent of tile the ii new ew epi epidemic it ealic known by the name of urain krain brain fever feirer arid and which baffles all t the io shill skill of physicians is truly alarming ili ill rough on n and onondaga counties A genji gentleman eman who has lately visit visited edthe ahe former county informs us that in some bome localities the people are leading irr lir alarm and dismay persons are frequently tacked attacked ai with the tile remarkable malady very |
