DO WHAT YOU CAN 
THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST! 
“80 does Fred,” said Lucilla. 
“ And that life would be worthless without 
me; and about my being beautiful (he thought 
so, you know.) J’m sure he ought to sympa¬ 
thize a little,” said Mrs. Richmond. 
But she dared not promise that he would. 
She coaxed her darling to stop crying, and 
made her lie down; then went up into her own 
room to put the letters into her desk; and, as 
she placed them mono pigeon-hole, she saw in 
another a bundle, tied exactly as those were, and 
drew them out. 
These letters were to a Lucilla also. One who 
had received them twenty years before—and she 
was now a matron old enough to have a daugh¬ 
ter who had heart troubles—unfolded them one 
by one, wondering how it came to puss that 
lovers’ letters were all so much alike. 
Half a dozen—just the same number, and mnch 
more romantic than those the music master had 
written to her daughter Lucilla, A strange idea 
came into Mrs. Richmond’s mirid.' She dared 
not oppose her husband ; by a look or word she 
had never attempted such a thing. 
But she was very fond of her daughter. When i 
she left the desk she looked guilty and fright¬ 
ened, and something in her pocket rustled as 
she moved. But she said nothing to any one on 
the subject until the diuner hour arrived, and 
with it came her husband, angrier and more de¬ 
termined than ever. The meal was passed in 
silence; then, having adjourned to the parlor, 
Mr. Richmond seated himself in a great arm¬ 
chair, and demanded:. | 
“ The letters,” in a voice of thunder. 
Mrs. Richmond put her hand into her pocket, 
and pulled it out again with a frightened look. 
Mr. Richmond repeated, 8 till more sternly: 
“ Those absurd letters, if you please, my dear 
ina’am.” 
And then the little woman faltered: 
“ i—that is —1 believe—yes, dear—I believe I 
have them,” and gave him a white pile of en¬ 
velopes, encircled with blue ribbon, with a hand 
that trembled like an aspen leaf. 
As for Lucllla, she began to weep as though 
the end of all things had come at lost, and felt 
sure that If papa should prove cruel she should 
If you cannot on the ocean 
Sail iirnong the swiftest fleet, 
Rocking on the highest billows, 
Laughing at the storms you meet,- 
You can stand among the sailors, 
Anchored yet within the bay; 
You can lend a hand to help them. 
As they launch their boat away. 
If you arc too weak to journey 
Up the mountain steep and high. 
You can stand within the valley, 
While the multitudes go by; 
You can chant in happy measure. 
As they slowly pass along; 
Though they may forget the singer, 
They will not forget the song. 
If you have not gold and silver 
Ever ready to command; 
If you cannot tow’rd the needy 
Reach an ever open hand;— 
You can visit, the atiiicted, 
O’er the erring you can weep, 
You can he a true disciple 
Sitting at the Saviour’s feet. 
If you cannot in the harvest 
Garner tip the richest sheave. 
Many a grain both ripe and golden 
Will the careless reapers leave; 
Go and glean among the briars, 
Growing rank against the wall, 
For it may he that llicir shadow 
Hides the heaviest, wheat of all. 
If you cannot In the conflict 
Prove yourself a Holdier true— 
If, where Are and smoke are thickest, 
There's no work for you to do; 
When the battle Held is silent, 
You can go with careful tread, 
You can bear away the wounded, 
You can cover up the dead. 
Do not, then, stand idly waiting 
For some greater work to do; 
Fortune is a lazy goddess— 
She will never come to you. 
Go and toll In any vineyard, 
Do not fear to do or dare, 
If you want a field of labor 
You can find it anywhere. 
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slipped out of the room, and heard the result 
of the little ruse next, morning. It was favor¬ 
able to the young music teacher, who had really 
only been sentimental, and had not gone half 
bo far as an elopement; and, in due course of 
time, the two were married with all the pomp 
and grandeur befitting the nuptials of a wealthy 
merchant’s daughter, with the perfect approba¬ 
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Lueilla’s mamma, who justly believed that her 
little ru 6 e had brought about all her daughter’s 
happiness, 
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“1 really don’t know,” replied the Quaker, 
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breast-pin!” 
Qltlp, he of the Boston Post, seeing his friend 
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SIX LOVE-LETTERS 
“ Ark there any more of these letters ?” 
When her father asked this question, in an 
awful tone, Lucilla Richmond could not Bay 
“No,” and dared not say “Yes,” but as an in¬ 
termediate course burst into tears, and sobbed 
behind her handkerchief. ^ 
“Bring them tome, Lucilla,” said her father, 
as if she had answered him, as, indeed, she had; 
and the girl, trcmbliug and weeping, arose to 
obey him. 
Then Mrs. Richmond, her daughter’s very self 
grown older, came behind her husband’s chair 
and pattert liltn on the shoulder. 
“ Please don’t be hard with her, my dear,” 
she said, coaxingly. “ He’s a nice young man, 
and it is our fault after all as much as hers, and 
you won’t.break her young heart I’m sure.” 
“ Perhaps you approve of the whole affair, 
ma’am,” said Mr. Richmond. 
“ 1 — no — that Is, 1 only”—gasped the little 
woman ; and, hearing Lucilla coming, she sank 
into a ebuir, blaming herself dreadfully for not 
having been present at all her daughter's music 
lessons during the past year. 
For all this disturbance arose from a music 
teacher who had given lessons to Miss Lucilla 
for twelve mouths, and who had taken the liberty 
of falling iu love with her, knowing well that 
she was the daughter of one of the richest men 
in Yorkshire. 
“It was inexcusable in a poor music teacher, 
who should have known his place,” Mr. Rich¬ 
mond declared, and he clutched the little per¬ 
fumed billet which had fallen into his hands as 
he might a scorpion, and waited lor the others 
with a look upon his face which told of no 
softening. They came at last, six little white 
envelopes, tied together with blue ribbon, 
and were laid at his elbow by his despairing 
daughter. 
“ Lock these ap until I return home thi6 eve¬ 
ning,” he said to his wife; “ I will read them 
then. Meanwhile, Lucilla is not to see this 
music master on any pretence.” 
And then Mi6S Lucilla went down upon her 
knees: 
“Oh, dear papa!” she cried, “dearest papa, 
please don’t say I must never see him again. I 
couldn’t bear it. Indeed T could not. He’s 
poor, I know, but he is a gentleman, and 1 — I 
like him so much, papa.” 
“ No more of this absurdity, my dear,” said 
Mr. Ricbmoud. “ lie has beeD artful enough 
to make you think him perfection, 1 suppose. 
Your parents know what is best for your hap¬ 
piness. A music teacher is not a match for Miss 
Richmond,” 
With which remark Mr. Richmond put on his 
hat and overcoat, and departed. 
Then Lucilla and her mother took the oppor¬ 
tunity of falling into each other’s arms. 
“It’s so naught} 1 of you,” said Mrs. Rich¬ 
mond. “ But oh, dear, I can’t blame you. It 
was exactly so with me. I rau away with your 
papa, you know, and my parents objected be¬ 
cause of his poverty. 1 fctl the greatest sym¬ 
pathy lor you, and Frederick has such fine eyes, 
and is so pleasing. 1 wish I could soften your 
papa.” 
“ When he has seen the letters there’ll he 
no hope, I’m very much afraid,” sobbed Miss 
Lucilla. “Fred is so romantic, and papa hates 
romance.” 
“He used to be very romantic himself in 
those old times,” said Mrs. Richmond. “ Such 
letters as he wrote me. I have them in my 
desk yet. He said he should die if I refused 
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