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Show ' An Enéident: ‘A man dropped dead im the street, they sayy Iiis body is there, just over the way, Vhere the ctowd is pressing about. He was passing along when he staggered and fell, Lhe last. youd suppose, he lookedse wel And seemed so hale and stout. had béhiaved “entirely according to his aunt’s wish In every respect. One day, however, the peace and tran- it would,be better for them all.to.do so; but she avoided her kind friend’s eye, and there was a scarlet flush on her face that was unusual. The nex: morning Alice, under Mis: ~Concerete in, London, A Medel Magistrate. Weare convinced that both for the New Ortnans, January 13.—the quility of Miss Barbara’s household was sake of building cheaply and build- following is from yesterday's Picaybroken up by a whisper which came to her *ars—John, her John, was *‘paying Barbara’s direction, wrote a little note to ing well, we shall see before long a unes attention” to somebody! She w:s at first John Barton. ‘ell him to come soon,” wonderful alteration in the mode of “An unusual scene occurred in the “Twas heart disease that killed him, they say; incredulous, but as the days went by she said she; and as Alice wrote this, Miss using bricks. We go on making the United States Court on last Thursday Ilis name? I don’t know, and yct by the way, was forced to believe it; for one night, Barbara sat and thought intently fora Theard as they carried him by. lumps of burnt clay we call bricks in morning. Mr. Thoms Hunton read John, sitting at her feet, with his yellow time, her face resting on her hands. “Twas rather uncommon. I think it was Vale, it has to the Court an affidavit made by But your (My Ged! the woman's pale hair shining inthe firelight, told her “Tell him,’ she said again, “tell him the way we do, chiefly because As the corpse.) But you, madam, why? — with much confusion and embarrass- he may bring his wife if he likes—I ean. been the fashion to make these lumps Carson Mudge, charging R. H. Shanment, that he “was going to be mar- at least, see her to please him.” And so in some regular furm ever since men non, “The answer, a man, and the women was gone, United States Commissioner, Tearing her way through the crewd, pressing on, ried.” the note was written and the messenger began to build, although modern:sciHalf crazed with her blinging fear. with unprofessional conduct. Amoug Miss Barbara was a good woman, but dispatched. Phe crowd fell back that thronged the place ence has long ago pointed out to us other things, the affidavit charged she was very whimsical, a little selfish, After this decisive step was taken, As, with frightened eye and death-like face, She stood by the covered bier, much cheaper and better methods of Shannon with saying, ona recent ocand, above all, very jealous of her own Miss Barbara was ina flutter of nervous dignity, and the knowledge that John employing both lime and clay. ness all the time. She donned ber richeasion, that he (Shannon) wrote the “A trembling hand, and the cloth was raised! had asserted his independence, and act- est dress, her most costly cap, and then Buta moment's space she stood.and gazed, A brick wall as it is put together decision of Judge Durell: that he posThen turned and dropped the pall, ually planned out his future life without sat expectant until she heard John’s now-a-days, with its multiplicity of sessed his ear and could influence his And anger shone in her beautiful eye, consulting her beforehand, wasa very step on the stairs, and John himself came _ “Htang it!” she bissed as she glided by, hard thing for her to bear. She was not in as of old. “Tt aim’t hint, after all.” Of course there were a few small joints, and its liability to eon- judgment‘ and that for a small fee he patient nor forg ving, and the result of minutes during which they both talked sist of porous unburnt bricks or fria- conld make a certain case then penJohn’s confidence was a very unpleasant at once, and tuen, when the first excite- ble, loamy mortar, can hardly escape ding in the United States Court all scene; she who had never spoken to him ment was over, Miss Barbara suddenly. becoming saturated with moisture right. In presenting the affidavit John’s Wife. harshly before, overwhelmed him with grew'grave. ‘Where’s your wife?” she every wet day, and retaining for the Mr. Hunton alluded to the frequent hard, bitter words, and then, when he said in her old grim way, and John rose Miss. Larbara Snyder sat in her was gone, wept herself asleep over his longest possible period the water attacks that had recently been made and rang the bell. - Straight backed chair before the fire, “ingratitude,” as she called it. But why on the Court. “She's duwn stairs. I told her to stay used in its construction. This allusion was too her feet on the fender, her head droopWhen at last he was really married, until [ sent for her.’ And then, as the make bricks at all? We ean burn much for the Judge. Heat once al- . ing, her eyes closed—to tell. the truth, her anger knew no bounds, and his first servant made his appearance, ‘‘show my the clay in heaps with small coal, and lowed himself to be transported into -althongh she would have indignantly de- visit to her after that event, ended as wife up.” burn it thoroughly, to incipient vit- the most violent rage, and indulged nied it, Miss Barbara Snyder was asleep. we have seen. . “You will love hera little; for ry Her maid,°a hard-featured, middle-aged to a The days passed away slowly after sake ?” pleaded John, as a light footstep riffcation, for one-third the eost that in language most unbecoming woman, Was moving about the room, John, with his bright face and ringing was heard at the door, and then, greatly we can burn it in the form of bricks ; judge. Among much else that was “putting itin= order,” .as she did fifty. vol e, was banished, and Miss Barbara, to Miss Barbara’s surprise, Alice Worand we can make the chalk mix with unseemly he used this language: ‘Iam times a‘day, at ‘her mist. ess’s command, half-regretting her harshness, was often thington came in. clay into a water-resisting cement for the vieegerent of Almighty God, sitanid watching her futively to see that tempted to send for him again, but her “My nephew, Mr. Barton, Miss Worshe did not fail into the fire. obstinacy, er pride, as she ealledit, pre- thington,” she said, and then turning to very little more than the expense of ting here to dispense justice, and as Jane,” said Miss Barbara, suddenly vented her, and so she fretted and worconverting it into lime. his agent I intend to see justice done.” Alice, “i am engaged now, and you'may waking and sitting bolt-upright with un- ried until Jane was almost driven -discat ae ee There can be but little doubt that blinking eyes; “if-he comes—and I am tracted by her irritability and unreason- be excused.’’ To her surprise, John coolly put his concrete, carefully made from these A well-known Connecticut clergysure he will—don’t let him in.”’ ableness. She was so cross, so hard to arm around his new acquaintance and materials and cast into hoilow blocks man had a deacon who insisted upon ‘No, ma’am,” answered Jane, submis- please, and so ‘‘awfully savage,” as John led her across the room. Alice Worthsively. ee a twelvemonth before it is wanted, leading the singing at prayer-nieetwould have said, that Jane became at ington Barton, Aunt Barby,” he said; ‘Tell him he has seen me for the last He wasa great blunderer, and last entirely worn out, and one day when and then, with the old mischief in his might be a cheaper material, and a ings. time—the hypocrite !—io pretend always her duties had been more than usually better one in every way, than those he sang all the sad and me’ancholy to be so fond of me, ard then go and hard, she surprised. hen mistress by eyes, “Love her a little for my sake, please.” we are now using. Constructed of tunes he could think of. The hymn marry some empty-headed doll-baby. packing up her movable property and There are children’s voices in the such blocks as these, we might ob- was given out, Be sure and send himraway, Jane.” departing from the house. ‘Then Miss great house now, aud Jane (who was in Saree. Maat aii. oe: tain substantial, damp-roof’ houses “T love to steal awhile away.” Barbara was wretched; for three days the plot, and is back in her old place) A sudden commotion in the lower hall she sat ina solitary state, and then, ‘and Miss Barbara pet them to death, ready for occupation directly they The deacon began, “TI love to steal” interrupted them; a few bars of a popuadvantage of —‘Mear,” where he bruke down. He sending for her lawyer, directed him to almost, while John,. the. rogue, often were built, with the lai air whistled in a masterly manner, @ insert an advertisement in the leading teases his aunt, laughingly, about the hollow walls, out of which the mois- started with “Dundee”—*I rapid clatter of boot heels on the stairs, love to papers to the effect that she wanted a ‘“doll-baby” to whom she considered ture had evaporated before they were steal.” and th na young gentlemen, who might The third time he com“young, neat and ladylike person” for a him sacrific.d. Butif there is any one put together. have sat asa model fur modern Hercules, “companion.” menced and broke down, when the person “whom Miss Barbara loves as rushed in and falling over an ottoman. Then, our plastering again; it pastor arose and gravely said, “TI am ‘No more old women for me.” ghe dearly as “hr boy,” it is the sweet-fac upsetting a chair and making “confusion said, savagely, in response to the law- ed, gentle girl whom that boy married. seems hardly credible that we go on sorry for our brother’s propensity. worse confounded” inthe quiet room, yer’s look of surprise, “after the beha- ‘To her mind all feminine graces and vir- daubing our walls with the miserable, Will some brother pray ?” dashed at Miss Barbara and took her by vior of Jane, who has been with me for tues are possessed and shown forth by crumbling, rotten stuff generally used storm. oo oro thirty years;’ and then authorized him for the purpose, while the best mate- Dodgeand His Friend Grant. ‘Congratulate me?’? hecried, after to examine the applicants, she sent him “John's wife.” imprinting a half-duzen kisses on her rial we have ever had, the “patent A Sad Finale. away and waited. ie withered cheek. ‘Aunt Barby, she is fibrous plaster,” made in large slabs [N. ¥Y. Sun Interview with Dr. Durant.] Two days after, the lawyer reinrned, the dearest—”’ ' Among the extraordinary number to screw against the quartering of accompanied by atall, slender young Dr. Durant—“But the presidential “You may go, Jane.” Miss Barbara woman, who had cometo see if she of snicides leately committed in Paris, battens, requires no laths, can be party was not left outin the cold. had recovered from tLe shock a little, (Miss Barbara) would engage her. Miss the following is, in the opinion of fixed by a earpenter in half the time Lct’s see: The President kasn’t yet and as Juze had retired she folded her Barbara’s black eyes looked keenly at mittened hands. tightly together and her for some time, and after inquiring the London Echo, prehaps, the sad- of common plastering. perfectly dry, been referred to in the testimony beturned upon him. . sharply into her antecedents, references dest: A married couple who kept a at a cost battens and all ineluded, fore the committeec at Washington, “Nephew John.” and the like, Miss Barbara pronounced linen-draper’s shop reposed the great- less than ordinary three-coat plaster has he?” : There was a comical expression of deherself satisfied, and Alice Worthington, est ccnfidence in their niece, Anna, work, Reporter—*I believe not. I have spair on the young fellow's face at this (as the lawyer called her,) was duly en- a girl of seventeen, who kept their Any invention of this kind has, unpropitious begiuning, but he said not observed it.” stalled in the office of “«companion,” and nothing. The young girl however, to encounter a fearful Dr. Durant—* Well, let’s not be too a most charming companion she proved books and eash box. “Nephew John—I ami disappointed-in to be, was an orphan, and was brought up amount of prejudice and dislike, and. fast. Dodge and Grant are on most ; you! Lam not angry, but lam deeply Miss Barbara was at first disposed to by her uncleand aunt as their own a precess tending, as this did, to alter intimate terms. Dodge looked after grieved—” be a bit critical and eaptious, but the Anna, however, had beeome the practice of an entire branch of ais friend Grant. There are a great “Why, aunt Barby?” The blue eyes young girl was so anxious to please, so child. ef the listener opened wide, but she sil- sweet-tempered and amiable, so quiet acquainted with a commercial trayel- trade, has very little chence of sue- many town lots on the line of the enced him by a stately gesture. Paeific Railroad. Some of these town and self forgetful, that Miss Barbara’s er, who courted her for more than a cess. ‘Please be quiet—1 wish to speak. 1 severity melted away by degrees, and at year, and at length persuaded her to Houses need not necessarily be sites are already becoming valuable. . have done my duty by you, John (here last she began to love her attendant and fly with him, and to give him the damp, and we could aveid this evil Dodge managed that for the White was a littie tremble in her voice ag she to try in various little ways to make her savings of her benefactors, which by altering our present mode of House people very skillfully.” —Ew. said this, but she went on grimly,) and cheerful and contented in her new consisted in Credit Founcier obligabuilding. Any change in existing now that you were just coming to man- home. tions, and a sum of 700 franes. On hood (John was twenty-six,) and I had systems, however, can only be bro’t ‘‘Alice,” she said one day asthe Died. begun to trust in you a little, you desert young girl sat opposite her before the the day fixed for their flight, Anna about by the most imperceptibly slow On Tuesday evening, 21st inst., at me for a—a doll baby.” fire. “‘how old are you?” went to the place named by her lover, degrees, unless, indeed, some power: North Ogden, Mrs. Potty Suaw, aged “She is nota doll baby!” said the “Not quite nineteen,” was the shy an- but waited all day in vain, at length, ful and united action be induced, 83 years and 9 das. Funeral on Thursyoung husband indignantly. “If you swer. suspecting some treachery, the poor either by Government legislation, or day, 23rd inst., at ll a.m. Friends inonly knew her you would love her dearAnd Miss Barbara looked at. her in ’ gil went to his abode, and there by awakening the public to the sense vited. surprise. .‘-Not quite nineteen,” and yet At Sutton, Yorkshire, Dee. 8, EST2, “Nonsense!”’? The black eyes snapped so quiet and dignified, and womanly; it learned that he had disappeared two of the evil of the present system.— Elder John McClatchly. decidedly. ‘All girls are fools nowe-a- was almost ineredible. Deceased was * days before, taking with him a sum Miss Barbara London Architect. born in Ireland, Aug. 1800, and emdays—but no matter, you have chosen looked at her again, and with a new apbraced the Gospel in the year 1842, at between us. “My wiilis made, and I probation in her face, she saw how pure of 6,000 frances which had been ina Hillsburn, Ireland. He has endured shall not change it, but you will never be , and sweet the fair face looked, with the trusted to him by the house he rep.Anna, thus forsaken and Considerably off the Track. many trials and persecutions for the agin to meas you were before.” shy brown eyes half-hidden. by the resented. Gospel’s sake, but died in good faith in There was a real distressin John Bar- white lids; she saw how plainly and friendless, stole under cover of the: ton’s heart as he. rose and stood before smoothly the brown hair was fastened night into her aunt’s. room, where [From the Boston Transcipt, Jan. 11.] the work of the Lord. her. “If you will only let me bring her back, how neat and trim was the dark At Birmingham, Nov. 9, 1872, Eliza The Newburyport Herald states having written a letter in pencil, to see you,” he pleaded. «Lam sorry dress, how snowy were the cuffs and the Jarvis, wife of Samuel P. Jarvis, aged you are so displeased. Aunt Barby don’t narrow collar, andher heart was filled she blew out her braing with her that the mailing clerk ef that paper, 57 years. 11 months and 9 days.—Mu, in sending away his mail on Friday uncle’s revolver. When her proteclet this part us.” ; Star, Dec. 81, 1872. 33 with wonder. A girl. in the nitieteenth “You have chosen.” The Sphinx could eentury without a rufle, a puff, a crimp, tors hastened to her assistance she| morning, used among his wrappers not have looked more unmoved. <I orsome waste title pages of a sermon an everskirt, a sash, or a- suspicion of a had ceased to live. dered them not to admit you—you need panier about her! —_———-———o6-9 Truly, wonders’ printed in its job office, and on it’ was not come again.” would-never cease; and, as she-gazed on A Mild Climate. a motto so that the direction on one “If you will only hear me—’’ this rera avis, her heart was filled with of the packages read “New York City. ‘But I won’t—good afternoon.” And pity for poor John, who hadthrown him_ Toward the latitude of the railroad Always abounding in the work of the go John Barton left her, with her face | self away. ; turned away from him and her hands! ‘“She’s just the wife for him,” she of Jay Cooks, which is situated, ge- Lord.” “The incongruity of such a still clasped before her, -thought, “if he had only waited a littic ographically, a few rods from the direction, in view of the Ring swindle Miss Barbara Snyder was proud. —he would -kave liked her, I am sure.” equator, there was a snow-squall ‘a and the frequent murders which of Miss Barbara was wealthy. Miss Bar-| And then she dismissed the thought with week ago. Men walked over telegraph late characterized that city, was so Gg DISCOVERY IN | VETERINARY bara Snyder was fond of her own way, ® sigh, and turned to Alice for consolaMEDICINE, ’ wires on the snow; heads of horses strikiag that he called attention to it. but.she was still a woman, and in her. tion. : were seen sticking out of drifts; frozen Found at Last! heart of hearts she loved Jchn Barton,| A gentleman who called atthe Herald As the days went by Miss Barbara’s her lLandsome nephew, dearly, His moth- heart began to ye rn for her nephew. men were found buried beneath sanctum was reminded by this of an A SPECIFIC FOR THEE er, her only sister,-had diel when he She loved Alice dearly, but even she-did several feet of snow; men died within incident which oceurred at a great was a litle child, and his fatver dying not take the place ofthe abseat one. ILis a few rods of the shelter; half'a dozen religious gathering in Chicago a few soon after, Miss Barbara had, in a fash- handsome face haunted her day and HORSE EPIDEMIC}: ion, necepted him. She -had indulged night, and often as she heard a swdden children froze to death on their way years since at which he was present. Cure effected in from 3 to 4 doses. 3 him from the first day of his entrance noise inthe hall, or at the door, she to school; a man went for a doctor Among the speakers was the venerinto her house; she had watched over would look up eagerly, half expecting to to attend his sick wife, and froze to able Rev. Dr. Goodell’ Broken in Price -- + $1.00 per Bottle, him and made her one object in life. He see him ag she, used todos returning, when. the doctor mind and body; but animated by the “Iam get- de:th WHOLESALE, $10.00 PER DOZEN. had been the one gieam of Sunshine in ting old,” she said sadly to herself. ‘reached his patient, she and the babe occasion, the aged clergyman said her lonely life, and tohis honor be it ‘Perhaps I was a little hard with him— ASK For were frozen and dead; fifty victims to “Friends, I am far on upon my jour. said, he had never been unworthy ef the my boy—lI’llusk Alice.” i | the gentleness of this climate perished ney toward the Celestial City, but I iove and confidence which she gave to And so one night she called Alice to him. ‘Aunt Barby’ was to him the onher, and as she satat her feet in the within a radius of twenty-five miles, could not help stopping on my way ly person in the world, and although peo- fire-light, as John had done go often, she and more people fell -before the cold to attend this meeting in Chieago.” ple marvelled. at the affection of the told her all about it—and how she long- fand the storm than the Indians have Wholesale and Retail v y Here a voice from the multitude was bright-faced young fellow for his grim ed to see him again. slaughtered dn many years. But heard by all, “Chicago is not on that: old aunt, it was genuine and true. He C.F, CULMER & co.., “Tam getting old, Alice,” she said. had gone through college in a thorough- “I may die soon, and I want to see my Scuvuyner Conrax says, with aamile, 6nd.” The effect was electrical, esGroesbeck Block, ly satisfactory manuer, and afterwards boy, Perhaps I was wrong abeut his that climate spraeds her softest charms pecially upon the poor old gentleman, had settled down intoas steady and wife. It would de ne harm to see them along'the Isne of this railroad, ard who was so confused that he could SALT LAKE Crry, CUTAN, trustwerthy a young business man as just once, Alice.” even Jay Cookx admits the truth of RO more and waa obliged to, sit thero was tp the city, and for three years | Orders from ‘a distance by letter or Fele-. And Alice anewer gently that perbaps pthis statement.— Cinein, Laquirer., say graph will receive imm @ attention. 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