6V3©0BE 9 S BUBAL WEW-V0BKE8 
home a ain, unlo s I I.nnw it's, wife to do m. 
j’vcbet i..>(r.-eeutec!;yi-s, jwvi:v. p< r. < 
Mr. Uv mum: heaved tin .nvfol rltrh of relief. 
“If «ny women overcome hero tint you don't 
knciW, just lock lie-, floor nod don't let 'em III, 
for‘goodness’ mice. Tell ’em 1 m sick or (lead 
that I've not the -nmll-pox • toijthimr yon 
j 1 11ml thin', iri Yrn in. 
;,fr. Bum tji.E couldr/t forge! Ids dream for 
several days, and kept a con-dant look-out. for 
the widow, inn she didn't follow ldm. Hr- has 
never ventured to visit Ids brother John since. 
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A BRIEF ROMANCE. 
THRICE MARRIED —TWO HUSBANDS. 
About lifteen years ago, a young woman iiv- , 
ingin In r home in Motion, Alar became pos- . 
nested with the desire to go West and teach ( 
school. In the town of Anamosa, Iowa, she / 
found her vocal Ion, ami by-and-by a husband, t 
He was the youngest and indulged son ol a 
wealthy widow. The happy couple set o I. | 
early on i lie matrimonial sea, both being only , 
Ill, nilietcell years of age. When our heroine , 
wrotv to tier father in Monson of her plans, lie ^ 
went on to Iowa for a few months visi.uml \ 
being pleased with his. daughter's prospects, i 
built and furnished a house for her. The mother , 
of the young hushand gave him a hue f.iini, ,< 
well slocked and equipped, and no young j 
collide ever started in life with brighter v 
pro poets. , *1 
In a short time, however, bad speculations | 
and mismanagement had stripped her husband . 
of all ids property. Ills pride was terribly mor- 1 
l ined by Ids turn of affairs, and in sudden des- , 
Iteration lie left liis borne, his wife and infant ., 
daughter, and enlfafiTlin one ol the first rogi- v 
ineiils which vow raised to pul down the rebel* i 
lion, Ilis family received a few letters from j 
him, and I,lieu came an unbroken silence. In 
vain they wrote to him, and the ; lo liis officers ;l 
and comrades, lie was reported among the ^ 
missing. The wife or widow she knew not j 
which — at length returned to her .Monson | 
home, and afterwards came to this city and t . 
entered l lie employ of Tlnkham A do., proving | 
hor.'elf eaimblo and efficient in tlm millinery ( 
department. c 
At the end of four or live years, alio revisited v 
her husband's friends in lows, and soon married . 
a gentleman there, having first for the sake or , 
certainty, obtained n divorce from her lonj-lo«t , 
husband, all hough really supposing herself a , 
widow. In a few months alter this tu.ii i.ig* j 
tills seeoiid husband died, and I he lady again , 
returned lo he New England homo(twice will- . 
owed, as she pposed,' and soon was in her old 
place al. TlnkliamV. 
Home months ago and tills is one of the 
strangest incidents in (hiscveulful history —; lie 
dreamed that, a hack called at her hoarding 
place and took her to Urn Mass-soil. House, 
where she nml her husband, to whom she was 
again united in marriage. The dream, ol course, 
made a deep Impression on her mind, but as 
months wore away and nothing eiime of if, she 
regarded it as “only a dream,” Jlut one day 
ln-d, fall a letter reached the post-office at A mi¬ 
mosa, directed toller. Some olio who Knew her, 
caused it to be returned to till;- city, II so hap¬ 
pened that she was absent on a, visit at the 
time, and after remaining in fho Springfield 
office a while it was returned to Iowa. Her 
friends there then ineloaed-it in anot her envel¬ 
ope and sent it to her again, and it finally 
reached her as site was at her work in TinW- 
lmm ’a store. 
On opening it slm newly fainted. Jt was 
from her first hiioband, from whom <>r of whom 
not a lisp had been heard by his friends ior 
thirteen years. II stated that lie was in the 
wilds of Texas, following the hazardous life of 
a ranehOro. Lie had left homo villi the deter¬ 
mination of never returning fill lie had made 
good his shattered fortunes. Several limes he 
had so far redeemed his vow i hut lie was on the 
point of seeking his family and friends, when 
some torn of the wheel of fortune had dashed 
him back to poverty. At. length the. tickle god¬ 
dess had favored him and ho was rich again. 
Whether liis wife w as living, whether she was 
the mother of another man’s family, and a host 
of other questions asked, she hastened to 
answer. 
Other letters were written by both; blit, all 
failed, by reason of hostile Indians, faithless 
carriers, &o., of reaching t heir destination. Hut 
the one assuring him that Ids wife was still hi; 
own and Lulling where she could he found, was 
enough. 
Some time afterward, a stranger inquired at 
the Mascisoit House if l here was such a firm as 
Tlnkham & < in the city. Being assured Oil 
tins point, he called a hack man and told him to 
drive to their store and bring Mrs.—-to the 
hotel. She was not at the store, and the hack- 
man was directed to her boarding place, where 
ho found her, and the dream was proved t rue. 
The meeting is not for us to describe. 
The next evening there was a wedding at the 
house of a prominent clergyman, and the bride 
was a woman who was then married the third 
time, yet had but two Imatuuids, and by t heir 
side stood a blooming miss of fourteen to wit¬ 
ness the marriage of her own legitimate father 
and mother.—S/mbitf/Md Union. 
In a let ter to a friend, a young lady states 
that slie is not engaged, hut. t hat she sees a 
cloud above the horizon about as big as a man's 
hand. 
MABRYIM UNDER DIFFICULTIES. 
A noth eh instance of the eonr-e of true love 
running rougl ! The Jennings live in Garrard, 
aear Harrods’mrg, Ky., anil • »f them was Miss 
Ann;. a pretty arid rounc.eous young woman, 
who dar.to love John A. i lardwieke o' .icigh- 
I),, hr .1 . . the will • 1 be! ful 
11 lid the wtsliu o* her I>rot h< is. N otv. it.hst anti¬ 
ng I htt OOP • fl 0,11 . | e 0.1111 .e.q ' ro:Tl:! 1C I 
to become bone of one bone, and fie-It of one 
Hesb, on a eei ain ThUl day, trusting Ilia,. 
t| nil ,—which 'o, n to make all things even- 
would bring the old people to a dutiful souse o 
their error. In order to marry Miss Anna <>n 
;he 0. • appoint ed, It becaino necessary in Hie 
emir, v o iiinian events, to run away vviih he 
mi Wednesilav. With this intent uppernnw 
John Ilnrdwleke did make his. way tow ml 1ho 
casket that did contain Ids jewel, to wit, the 
homestead of the Jennings, The Jewel was 
there, ai d so were the Jennings, father and 
sons, ami hey—not including I lie jewel -mp- 
lledthcii shot guns and revolvers and Hungs 
eighteen times at John Ihirtlw icke, which was 
enough to convince almost any man that lie 
was n i vraatau hi that family, it did nol ctm- 
vlnoe John Hardwiden, hut 're •emovm prompl- 
|y. He had not moved far before lie met an¬ 
other Jennings, with more fireworks. John 
remarked that he was unarmed, a which young 
.1 el in i ng gave id in a show 1. >r his white ally, ami 
would not fire. On the next morning old Mr. 
Jennings met John, and inquired ut't* r his 
health, whether he “was hurl'/" John said 
i* no he wirsn'l: ’ and then old M r. Jennings said 
ihat, Anna had left his house, mul that he sup¬ 
posed t hat she had gone t o John’s father, and 
added If you marry her, John, I iriil hurt 
you.’’ Direct Iv John Herd widen heard that he 
made tracks for home, and there sure enough, 
just, as old Mr. Jennings bad said, was Miss 
Anne, pretty and patient, waifingand willing- 
awful willing. Time was precious. John ll'inl- 
wiekel'ke another'(young Lndil lvar, handed 
her into a buggy and tben drove her to I he 
Protect House, in Jliirrodsbnrg, as fast as lie 
could. Young Lochinvar didn't run away with 
Hm beautiful tiraham in a buggy, not exactly, 
but the poetic Idea is the same, and where's the 
(inference? Elder Head niamesd John ■ 1 u'd- 
wicke to Anna Jeiriilngs, and in ay . Ins Belong 
and die lrappy; and may old All. Jennings and 
the youm- .leanings, good fellows all—may they 
Hiink better of their threat to make a cold 
corpus of John ll.irdwieke, for the worst of all 
purposes to put a young and loving wife Hr is to 
make her a widow. 
CHANG AND ENG’S WIVES. 
How the Siamese twins got their wives is 
related by a correspondent of the Philadel¬ 
phia Press. He says that much speculation has 
always been rife as to how the tw ins courted 
ami finally became joined in tlm bonds of 
Hymen. H happened that they w ere traveling 
through the Booth, and stopped at the town of 
Trap hill, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. 
Tim country in this locality being very roman¬ 
tic, and lire land good, the l wins determined to 
sel l le. and aeeo aliiigly engaged ill business in 
the village, luring excellent traders, and their 
novel condition soon attracted many persons 
to them; among these a farmer named Yates, 
who lived in Mm Immediate vicinity and who 
was possessed of two bouncing daughter's. 
Chang and Eng looked upon these women ren- 
dorly, and evinced great affection for them, 
and, like ordinary young folks, made numerous 
e.-ills at (he residence of their bewifelicrs, and 
(here being a pair of lhem all around, a match 
was soon made, and tire four wore 1 wn (or one). 
These wives always displayed great alVeotion 
for Lin ir liege lords, and manifested tlm usual 
jealousies common t.othe human family. From 
ibis double union there were some I■«only-two 
children born. Mrs. Chang presented her hus¬ 
band with some nine or ten, and of these but 
two were boys, while In the Eng family the 
daughters were proportionately outnumbered. 
Tho offspring, contrary to the general opinion 
and preceding statements, with fewexceptions, 
were healthy, robust children. 
A HAPPY THOUGHT. 
A story is told of Governor Chiltendon, wlro 
was one of the early Governors ol Vermont. 
He was quite an extensive farmer, and in those 
days to be a Governor did not greatly interfere 
with the incumbent’s ordinary vocation. He 
had two sons. One of them was a boy of bright 
intellect and the ol her decidedly dull. The old 
geniIonian thought that nature had done 
enough for t,lie youngest and that he would 
make his way in the world without more than 
a common-school education, but I hat 1 he elder 
one would need all the aid of a liberal educa¬ 
tion to make up the natural deficiency, and he 
was accordingly sent to college, while Ids 
brother was kept on the farm. It happened 
One spring Mint among the fruit of tire Gover¬ 
nor’s herd was a very st upid calf. It would not, 
suck or drink, and no amount of effort on the 
part of the father, son, or hired man, could in¬ 
duce ldm to take his gustcunnee. After re¬ 
peated trials the good man’s patience give out, 
and he said to his Son, “ Freeman, what on 
earth shall we do with this stupid fool?” “I 
don’t know, father,” was the ready response, 
“ unless we send him to college with Martin.” 
WILLIAM CULLEN BUY ANT. 
Ortt v, toran Bryant v.o will not say Nestor 
of the poets, for classical as Mr. Hryant’3 
tastes are, lie must he heartily tired of this 
eonipari-oti- is now in Ids eightieth year, but 
i- scarcely inferior in physical vigor to what lie 
was in ids prime. TliC other day wo w itched 
idm walking down Broadway, with a step as 
linn as that of a young man, and with a pace 
find outstripped every one el o on the pave¬ 
ment. The poet, with Ids slight, little figure, 
the mass of while hair that fell upon Ids shoul¬ 
ders, and 1 ho while beard that swept liis breast, 
stalked on, a most, picturesque figure, passing 
uhi men and young mop, slow walkers and 
swift walkers, without the slightest indication 
o| age, infirmity, or fatigue. We watched Idm 
nnti’ towns lost in the crowd, but to tire last 
we saw him keep lip Ills active step, overtaking 
and passing not merely the slow loiterers, but 
all the hurrying bualticss people of our 
thronged highway, -A i>yih(aii’x Journal. 
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NOVEL HEADING. 
TTse fiction as you would spices in your diet. 
No man takes a quart of cloves, nor exhausts 
t he cruet, at a single meal. These things may 
he used with moderation to season one’s food 
with, but they are not to be used alone; and so 
fictions, while they are not. to be resorted to 
exclusively, may ho used with discretion to 
season life with. If you find that using them 
brings you buck to duty with more alacrity, 
with more cheer, and with more apt itude, if 
von Jud Id t makes you bel ter In your rela- 
1 ions tn our fellow-men, then it does not hurt 
you, and you are at liberty to uso them. Hut If 
you find that using them makes you morose: if 
if you find that It gives you a distaste for work; 
you find that it inclines you to run into a hole 
t hat you may get away from your fellow-men ; 
if you find that it makes you unkind, disoblig¬ 
ing, and se'.ftHh — < hen you m.ry be sure that 
whether it injures anybody else or not, it in¬ 
jures you.— II. IF. Jiaeohcr. 
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Thk Hidden Torture. There is nothing so 
remarkable in man as Ids power of congealing 
mental tori lire. What is unsaid hover nearest 
;in<l greatest. The sou! Is beset by some hideous 
remorse, consuming care, warnings of disease, 
fear of death, rejected love, vile pecuniary dis- 
| tress, or the anguish of anticipated shame. The 
I dark thing Is not merely in the background; 
its presence never withdrawn. Us grasp never 
wholly relaxed, if occupies the citadel of 
thoughts mill feelings; and al! that is beyond 
its sway is but outlying and inicoiisidcred pre¬ 
cincts. Meanwhile, Mm man plays his part in 
society as other men do Ih polite, gay, affable ; 
and, if he is really a strong and aide person, is 
as much like Ids ordinary self, himself before 
this dark tiling had any hold upon him, as it fa 
possible to he.—ArUmr Help a. 
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A Happy Custom.-I n Switzerland there is 
a law which compels every newly married 
couple to plant six t r ees immediately after the 
ceremony, and two on the birth of every child. 
They are planted on commons and near the 
load, and being mostly fruit trees arc both use¬ 
ful and ornamental. Tire number planted 
amounts to 10,000 annually. 
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SPARKS AND SPLINTERS. 
TrtE Indian question—Arms or alms? 
Jones calls his boarding house a hacienda. 
No other living thing can go so slow as a boy 
on an errand. 
The man who carries everything before lripr 
—Tire waiter. 
Antonio found Sli> lock to bo “a man after 
bis own heart.” 
Paper cuffs aro said to have originated in 
news pa per al law k s. 
Tin; way to make a lire really lrot, is to keep 
it thoroughly coaled., 
AN early spring—J limping out of bod at live 
o'clock in the morning. 
Hi i.i.incis says “ Misery levs koinpany, hut 
leant bear konrpcifahmi.” 
jT' a saloon-keeper gets rich, it fa because he 
makes many good bar-gains. 
Why is a person who never lays a wager as 
bad as a regular gambler? Because he is no 
, better. 
, An exchange says, woman’s sphere is mar¬ 
riage. We never saw one yet that had any fear 
1 about it. 
3 John Dog petitioned the Massachusetts 
1 Legislature to change his name, and they made 
i it John Kerr, and lie was happy. 
>' What is the difference between a farmer and 
* a bottle of whisky? One husbands the corn, 
and the other corns the husbands. 
I What's tire differ once, between the side of a 
right-angled triangle and an old man’s teapot? 
i One fa a hypotbonuse, the other a tea-pot-in- 
Sabbath 'Fradnuj. 
TWO CITIES. 
BY EBEN E. KEXKOliD. 
To-NKJRT, as 1 . at in the sunset, 
1 reail. with solemn awe. 
Of the iteveiatOr's vision. 
And the city that lie saw : 
The city whose gates are jasper, 
And street:) are paved wiih gold, 
And of whose wonderful beauty 
The half was never told. 
And i thought of another city 
That is not far aw ay; 
Tiie moonlight, and the sunshine 
Across Its nuirliles play. 
Its aonsesarc lout and nuriow. 
Ami their roofs are green mid low, 
And never a care nor sorrow 
Its silent dwellers know. 
There Is never a sound of weeping 
In this city on the lid'; 
There Is never the sound of tumult 
In the street- so green and still. 
The dwellers have done forever 
Willi the old life's st rife and dill 
For whom tlm antes of Unit city 
Have opened to let them in. 
I have known some who grew weary 
Of life so ful) of loss,— 
And the hitter, hitler burden 
Of a never-lifted cross. 
Anil tnry turned to the silent city. 
With its peace so deep and sweet. 
And found in it, cool, green 1>y-ways 
Borne rest lor their weary feet. 
Some dav when mu work is over, 
Lite’s lesson learned and sail), 
They will hear me out to a dwelling 
In the city of Hie dead. 
When the low, ereen roof Is o’er me 
Of my dwelling on.the hill, 
1 shall be (lone forever 
With earthly woes and ill. 
I slin',1 miss Uie trump and the hustle 
Of I lie hurry ir g march of life. 
And rind, in that strange, .still city, 
The rest that comes alter strife. 
OonundUUM.—S aid a boy: “ That chap yon¬ 
der fa my brother and this girl is liis sister, yet 
she is no relation of mine.” Answer—The boy 
lied. 
SCIENCE AND RELIGION. 
THE late lamented Profes or Agassiz is re¬ 
ported by one of ‘-is pupils to have said, with 
reference to the different opinions of the most 
diligent students of natural history “ The 
subject most be very valuable and diversified, 
that men should have so many different opin¬ 
ions about it.” 
And if the remark is true and striking with 
reference to seisutilie studies, much more may 
wo be impressed by its force as applicable to 
t he character and attributes of God, and of our 
relations to Him, n« they are set before us in 
the volume <>f Hovelutiou. 
Different opinions as to what t he lllhlo means 
do not prove, as the skeptic would argue, 
that it is of little moment what view fa held, or 
t hat truth is not. Micro hidden, or that what is 
e.-sseiiiial to salvation may not be known to the 
diligent and prayerful seeker*, but t hey prove 
the value of the Bihle :fa of tiro richest and 
most inexhaustible mine, which, though dug 
from innumerable shafts and leads and galler¬ 
ies, is always rewarding the diligent and labor¬ 
ious worker. 
Hence, amid the diversity of forms and gov¬ 
ernments in religion, lei (’liristians learn, ; s 
Agassiz did in Ills scientific studies, that it fa 
t ire value of i lie subject which causes the dif¬ 
ference. And let them calmly and willingly 
labor that God's truth in revelation may be 
more dearly seen, as the light of science con¬ 
firms the inspiration of the Bible. 
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POPULARITY. 
It is pleasant to be popular, but popularity 
must not be gained at the expense of trut h amt 
duty. None of the Old Testament prophets 
were popular, nor was (’lirist. Their mode, 
office and mteranees gave offence. When IMm- 
cion in the delivery'of an oration was warmly 
applauded, ho asked his friends what he had 
said that was wrong. Our Saviour told hi dis¬ 
ciples, “ Woe untoyou when all met! shall speak 
well of you, for so did their fathers unto the 
false prophets;” and wh. n a eiirfatian minister 
is popular wit li “ men of the world who have 
their port inn in Mils life," and they commend 
his daily deport merit, and sermons, lie may well 
doubt w hetnor ho is doing nis duty and faith¬ 
fully preaching the whole counsel of (rod ; lot’ 
according to the ancient adage, “a compliant 
temper makes friends, truth excites odium.” 
The pure doctrine and precepts of t’hrisi.iand v 
are humbling to proud and earthly hearts, and 
therefore repulsive to them. 
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DISREGARDED DUTY. 
There is no evil that we cannot cither face 
or IIv from but the conseiousncsB of duty disre¬ 
garded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It 
is omiiipresent, like the Deify. If we take to 
ourselves tlu: wings of tlio morning and dwell 
in t he nt tcrinost. pari,a of i he sea. dut y perform¬ 
ed or dill} violated is at ill w ith Us, tor our hap¬ 
piness or our misery, if we say the darkness 
shall cover us, ill the darkness as in I ho light, 
our obligations are yet with ns. We cannot 
escape their power nor lly from llieir presence. 
Tbey are with us In this life; will ho with us til 
its close; ami in I hat scone id incom eivaldo 
solemnity which lies yet furl her onward, we 
shall still find onraolvcaaiirrciumled by the eon- 
s.-ionsucss of duty, to pain ns wlcwover it has 
been violated, anil to console ns so far as God 
may have given us grace to perform it. 
