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ATHENS, GA. DECEMBER 22, 1871 \ Sure Cure for Bara*. While* tliB scientific nieti tit' Miscellaneous, I followed her words dreamily, won dering whether it could really be sev en years since Lettice and I stood talk ing, to each other last,, while I felt how impossible it, was that the little one whom we had all combined to pet and spoil could be at all v?hat Lot;tice was Miscellaneous. preside. Miscellany mmil EAST GEORGIA The Hamilton Brothers. Successors to Georg® Sharp, !*■•> Jewells** AND .-\ tlanta, Oa. ^yE OFFEI^ a huge variety of ; fine watches, : CLOCKS, , JEWELRY; ; „ lf , SILVER WARE, SPECTACLES, ‘ / - v v, v G0 °P$> hurablo: plant growing in nearly, every , part of our land, on our low lands, or marshy grounds, whoso; virtue* need. only to be tested-to be found, a#affica-. cious in saviug suffering and death, ms where she would be," Lettice went on, j that -wonderful plant. , While there .are. a little nervously, I fancied;in my si- ] fc, u t/cio who are suffering from cancer,, lence. • “ you remember the low old j.there isni* a family-in our land but seat under the lilacs, Mat ? Amy isjts felt the nehkofon efficacious fond of sitting there as—I used to be remedy for the suffering produced by whenl was j^r age. You used to say, evcn at slight hern; and it is a fact GRAND EXHIBITION!! t . FOR TH» Farmers, Mechanics anl Housewives of North-East Georgia. . > Op e n VMesty Oajg l rgqll'F. SE ASON tbr Fall* We sat and talked in the firelight, ray brother Frank and I,.just ns we had. sat and talked a hundred times be fore inthe busy, backward years which we two brothers had spent together. , Suddenly looking up, Frank met my ey-s fixed upon his moody face, and running his fingers lazily through his . _ iti it hanAnd betnfnn- JS. willing that Athens ahoulJ La behind other plse^pSTlem Uaportanov,! lutTe deteratiiMd io hmre Hi3 Iettere to you are filled with his own prosperity! tl,e Pcuprec flaini^ Jaral--#botei> to PER A^NUMlFThVAN(ir ji« JwfaFV* r, g \ AT KIN SON, ”L E DOU..VBS l*ER ANNULS iTTgt slcnrts^scM. *w£. r 0' V*V* ’’rvi,, 1 - f.,r each. auhMft*®ld AND STATUARY.i WE HAVE \ FULL COUPS OF J\_ Aft***, Oeotp* ■IMlaf- _____ LAW. A ,taU * ,Uber ' 'Ei r ».a xtsT.vwB'Prt. vW — 7 ... aKintxL. and are prep red to Rive nnv Information on ap- c. w. i pUcitilJll . \v„ guarantee the An unusual assortment of II <> me For Men, Women ami Children ; and an unequalled variety ©i' useful articles for Will give s|*ecial attention ,a Btatrantcy. Al». to the collection of -fj to hi* care. SKKLTOV & at TO R S E V s A r L A W , 4 !,.rt«ll. 1 fort ,^nty, <icor»U. l*ITT.tfAN A HINTON, ; t TTOUNEYS AT LAW, I Jefferson, Jackson county, <■». I —Svai EI. P. THL KMOM*, t XT 0 H N E Y A T L A W\ .' \_ A!her Barry .t Son’s Store. „,w.iaB»nkr,-"* ,11 rlaim tntrusti j~7 * j. r. AI.BXASHKB. taFALEUS in HARDWARE, 1 / IMS Steel. Nails Curing" Materiel, Mining mpl»««aU.,.tc., Whitehall it., AlUaU. M.VAN ESTES, \ T T 0 U N E Y A T L A At Homer, Bank* CountT, Oa. J. II. * t I.V.SKKY. \ ttornev a r LAW, CirueMllle, Franklin couniv, (,n. Offlee occupied by J. K. Langston, 1-sq. fiUOVEUkU.VKF.ls SEW1XU MACHINES! ! rsnvoiMi.n tiie hint in ese, my all WHO HAVE TRIED 1 ) ih,m. These machines, will. all <he lMl’KOYKMEXTS AND attachments. on* b* hwl. »t manufacturer's prices, freight j BANNER OFFICF.. .\OTIfE OF CH.lMiE OF SCHEDULE <; eoiigTa railroad. suiieriiitrnilriit'ft Dfllrc, 'l lirorcia ami Nama A tmru^ta Uailnu-J. / Au^ustj, (» .laninrv 20,1571. 1 M N AND AFTER SUNDAY, V J January ad, IS71, th« Pnsscajer Trains will run a® follow*: I),VI Pwenjer Train, Daily, Sunday Exrepttd. Uavc Augusta at - ® 00a.m. Uavr Atlanta :tl —^ w * An it.-at Atlanta at '* :t0j». in. Arriirat Augusta at 5 10 p. i.u Night JtsMuyer 'Lain. I.cavf Augnataat 8 30 p. m. Uavt AUauiaat 10 Up. m. Arn«« at Atlanta at — 0 >*»• Arrive at Augusta at J ^ a* m* Ikrzrlia Passenger Train. !.\»ve Aii«u*tnat * 1*»P- m. Uitc Herxtliant 7 30 a.m. I Arrivrat Auavsva 0 23 a. in. | Arrive at IL r/t lU 6 Uoth l».»v uni P.ia<-*ngur rnmt will iu ike cl«M cs*numl«vr.a at Aumi'ta and Atlanta wit • himwaRfr Train* of connecting r ad •. PaMsaefr* from Atla H i. Athens. Washington, asdtlation* on 'vrorjria Uiilroad, by takiiiji; ti e Own Diy l*.tss«njnvr Train will tuake lose ■ onuc;-- tianstCaniak wi h the M con P.ies^n^or Train, and rrarh Mac n the name div at 7 tOp. m I'alat'e r*l«vpinj: (!ar»on all Si>;ht Trains. Sfhrtinicon M.tcon .V Augusta Hailroad. To take Krfeel Jan. 1871. Ikturen Anyu*f't nud Macon-—Day vnjtr Train Daily, Sunday Emcptcfl. UwrAnjsusta a* 12 00noon. Dwe M u-Hi at ft 0J». ni. Amir at Macon :il 7 40 p. m. Vrnte at A igu*t.\ at 1 45 •• n». . TSe Jay Pavsenjtcr Tr.iln arriving at Mac»n at W p. iu , mtkrs, rlos » co luectlona with Trains o( « «nrc' In* Roads a l M aeon. “iHcajers Icarmu Mvsin at ft a. m., will make «}■*• connection* at Camak with Un Duy rassetiger Trainf *r AtUnta. Athens, Wasli.n 'ton. .ami all H' U >0 Ccor -i* u.u'rond, and ^ 1 a At- Unu with S. K. JOHNSON. SupL ^ndyour Old Furniture to WOOD’S KEPA.IR SHOP. •rst !o tv. Episcopal Church,and have it IB » hade good .ts sew. “ It seems to me merely written to see if we could send him out an assist ant,” I answered, speaking lightly. “ Of course you do not know of any „ , . T-r- m ‘ assistants to send out to Bent,” Frank ,.r«cr..c, «,.«ip or H 6me {mil fann 3 j •• n, poorest ,o» Dg j in fact, the E»ta;.iiihment l heretof, re known **the ^ of your acquaintance are ourselves the k> PIiUltl‘l* , w j Hamilton Brothers, and thank Heav- hMdqoartgrwM-f^rm rap- i en we have not fallen so low as to ex- plici, if complete stock and fair dealing can make i * it *o. j ile ourselves voluntarily as druggists to An tttnrtivc feature of this Grand Exhibition, will be lie display „f in our own shop, and arc prepare! to FILL ANY Oitsii.i for good* or work promptly. na_ All g h>,1»engraved tree of charge. \\ e make a •pecialty or “ l -lo PRFB1UMS FOR LA RUEST AS.SORTEM NT, THE FINEST GOODS. TIIE LOWEST FlUCKS, ANDTUEBEST WORK. Call and sec us. SH ARP & FLOYD, Whitehall Street, Atlanta. May 23-1 y E. S. ENGLAND & CO., ^RENOW RECEIVING THEIR NEW FALL STOCK! Selected with care by one of tht» firm, In New York, to which they invite the attention of their customer* aud the public. They have a good assort ment of ’ STAPLE&FANGVDiYSOGDo GliUlfKUies, t»IC»Vt*>IO*M, (IAICI>\Y A It I?. « KO«'KBKY, IIATM. t'APM, BUtlTX, MIIOR*. And in short, ererything in the way of Family and Plantation Supplies, They will pay the HIGHEST PRICE FOR COTTON or other FroducO,»nd W ill “lore «'oilon »t 25 t'cnl* n BnTc per month. We are determined todenl fiirly. lelllow, xndby cb>.e attention to busimo* hope to please old custo mers and make many new ones. acptiotf JAY 0. GAILEY, [ NVITES ATTENTION TO HIS mW FALL STOCK GLASSW A liEi Lamps and LampFixtures, Far ahead of anything heretofore offered, and con stituting a leading jfywell worth the attention of Housekeepers. There will always be a complete assortment of t GROCERIES of the best grades and special attention paid to the regular supply of GOOD FLOUli, MEAL, and PROVISIONS GENERALLY. For the accommodation of builders a large supply o may always be found. As all these attractive and useful goods are to be sold at -.-«i my old customer* and the public are invited to call • and examine them. If they have unyiliiug to sell, the llUhcrvt Market Price will always be |*aid for it. J. H. HUGGINS, , nt 15 Sirn of “ Planter’s Store.” Athcn*. OK Oil LONGS it BILLUPS, B tOAD .sr„ ATIIEXS, <jeo., DEALERS IN DRUGS AND MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, PUTTY, ST \TIOJNERY ; CHIMNEYS AND PURE KEROSENE C i’l and examine hi" fcO;»l 13-tl'. stock belore purebusin?. [I6D 7 FoiMoitatGa, Railroad! ' piIE undersigned has jujt returned _x. from New York city, with A Largo and varied Stock flwir/*ge, Buggy & Wagon matrhim,. A LARGE LOT direct from the mxuuuctory, and will he *,11 as low a* can "gwagmiw&r. Good Blacking Brushes, AT $1 o0 PER DOZEN. AT THE I - - __ XEW DR [JO STORE. 1 i,v ^‘ ho,)l Hooks. 100 £2 Z - Ele,ne ntary Siselling h tte *' - w *h*lfr'l Dl< lionary. » „ ffb^rd » Arithmetic*. » .. 1, Sniders. Vi .. aejeold’* Header*. W .. 5 0 »nell’i Coaiposltlon. V« * Ge*«raphy,dc., Ac.. *' ,,| rodu«ii,.n prlr:., at BURKE’S. *** FALL GOODS. L & REAVES have now . -rrite, ‘A0 |, # “>0 Ha, IV A LL & WINTER I CONSISTING OF Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Shoes, Hals, Caps, BAGGING AND TIES HEMLOCK LElTHEU, mu, esc., S/t. Which he offer* to the country at large at a* REASONABLE PRICES at the tame good* can be bought IN ANY MAR Kin IN THE SOUTHERN STATES, Freight added. Ai I am determined to Sell as l.ow as Anybody, In thla or any other market, I incite my old cuato- mera and tha public generally, to (VIV£ Ml A ©All 2 AND EXAMINE FOR THEMSELVES. I ahall continue to Buy Coftonand Country Produce At the Highest Market Price S. C. DOBBS. eeyt 15-tf PFIPI WHY. l.fQlOliS BIITKKS, \ ND EVERY UHING usually usually kept in a First Class Drugstore. Particular atcul on ha* been pard n the selection of aur stock, to the purity and reliability of out '.Kiiis, and families and physic aiusare assured that I orders Will he BUod with promptness and fidelity. ! our j STOCK OF FANCY GOODS I I* Urge and attractive, embracing a great variety FEiiFUMEliY, TOILET ARTICLES, BRUSHES, COMBS, &C. 1! elm bold’• and Ayer** PrejaniUous, Hurley’* Warm Candy and aa sa|*arilia, Drake • I’l.iut.itiou ilitters, ttomaiu’* Crimean Bitters, lloatiuud’iiiwruian Bittar*, and many other popular preparations tdwayson baud. FRESH GARDEN SEEDS of the most appmved varieties on hand and for sale iu any quantity desired. Also Grass Seed. ST. LOUIS LEAD, Warranted strictly pure—the best in the maiket Bent. I would not change quarters with him for any consideration, but I fear I envy his success. You must own, Max, that it is hard fighting here.” “So it is anywhere, in any profes sion, just at first,” I answered quietly. “ There is but one thing Yve can do.— However small our income, Yve can live it down and work hard to increase it. That, I take it, is the secret of success, Frank. We canvassed our prospects, * j and then Frank told me how anxious he was to succeed, that he might win Lettice for his wife. It was Lettice’s birthday and we were going to pay our respects to her on this eventful occa sion. Frank told me how great a trial it was to him, waiting and struggling for success that he might marry, and I asked: “ Frank, do you feel that the wait ing is a trial, too, for—-her ?” “ I know wliat you mean,” he an swered, slightly pausing. “Yes, Max, I think so.” “ Do you know it?” I questioned, in a low voice, whose sadness touched iny own heart. And he answered, with no pause at all: “ Yes, Max, I know it.” Wc had just finished dressing, when I startled Frank by saying very quietly. “ I have made up my mind to go out to Bent.” “ To—what ?” “ Simply what I said—to go out to Bent. I want a change, and a change holding out some prospect of success. you. What will it seem, I wonder, when you are gone ?” “It depends upon who shall live here then, my dear fellow," I answered, “ No house where you and Lettice live could be dreary in any way.” I could see the scarlet rush into his face before he lighted the gas. Then he turned to me with joyous eyes, and leaning on the chimney-piece, asked me laughingly when I would come back and prove that for myself. “ I will come,” I said, quite cheer fully, “in—let me see—in twenty years, perhaps.” “ O nonsense, Max;" he cried, in his quick earnestness laying one hand upon my arm ; “ you will come for my wed ding.” “ For your wedding ? I echoed, as if the words spoken so simply had be wildered me. “Frank, does she really love you T “ Why, Max, old fellow, I never saw you so nervous before. Are you afraid that I am deceiving myself- tbat she is dec&ving me ?” “ No—never Afraid of that. You know she loves you, Frank T" “ Yes, Max, I know it.” “Then I will come—unless you marry within ten years’ time.” Frank’s whistle of astonishment broke into a hearty laugh. “ A nice little waiting time you allow us, Max Wc shall certainly have leisure to think it well over.” “ If you don’t marry until then,” went ou, laughing, too, “ I will come. If you do, you must hav brother represented, and you for a holiday in ten years’ time. “ Ten years!” mused Frank; “what a weary time to look ou to, unless one is anticipating a happy future." Day after day, until the last hour came, had I shrunk from bidding fare well to Lettice. Then I just went to her, as I had gone many a time befor^ standing chatting idly in the pretty Why should I not seize this opportuni- room where we had often been so gay llorsf. Hof. »"d faille Prwdrn. Invaluable for all dl*ea»es of »took. nova&scnoQX* FOR YOUNG LADIES, ATHENS, GEORGIA. V CLASS FOR PAINTING IN WATER COLORS 1»» been orjaniaed. It 1* designe l to afford foil instruction in this beauti ful art and "will lie conlucteJ by a thorough master. Y’oung lodies not In daily attendance at the Home School, are invited to join and to make a [Milica tlon to the Princ' pal. The hours of practice tike place on the afternoon of Mondays an<rThurs day*. from cliwe^r the Home School at» p. in. until half-posiSj ao that five fttU hour* per week ate given tuiaitreetlOB. For for«her i l,uto™aUon 1 .p^ytO ijowsKii Principal Home School for Young Ladies. 8 ml!. M* t oiler, ■Youa r ' ,r “" ’ AI,,, ; ' Rung.os. •" * •a i.e.-ll.wleeied stock of ;~ -: A i‘.L- K <*OOD3. " * ir - *!? }J* public for cash or pro- f, UtV cu’ !“ ,ur ,u » coiefirated U UfTOn CilX. “ But—you take me so fearfully by surprise,” stammered Frank. “Why, you are a far cleverer surgeon than Bent; you go and_bc his servant.” We stood under the bare old lime- tree, which in summer shaded the doorwav', and my hand was on the bell when Frank stayed it and spoke a few words in unusual earnestness. “ Tell me one thing, Max, before we go in. You do not decide to leave here for my sake—because I have so often complained that our practice is not sufficient for two ; and because you know I want to marry, and cannot do so as we are ? You Yvould not leave your home and your friends, and me, and go out to drudgery for that reason Max ? I shall not be comfortable un less you tell me that you do it for your own sake.” Knowing that my going would spare together. “ If Frank is to drive here for you iu time to catch the express, you allow us a very short time indeed,” said Mr. Oldfield. “ And yet it is a long good-bye, 1 added Lettice, jestingly; “ you are not coming home for a long time, are you, Max?” “ Frank and I have made an impor tant arrangement about that,” I an swered, trying to jest, too, because I fancied she would uuderstand what he had asked me to do. “ I am going to stay ten years unless he wauts me." “ If he does not Yvant you, you pre fer staying out there V “ Yes. What prospect is there of any one else wanting me t" “ I suppose none,” she answered quietly, “ as you say so ; but we shall be glad to see you when you return.— Not that you will care for that either, Very softly, while hur clear, sweet eyes- looked bravely into mine, she whispered-the little verse, which has been ever with me since, and has help ed me often, as her voice could help me in those far off days. There is a cross in every lot, Add an earnest need of prayer; But a lowly heart that leans on God, Is happy everywhere. ‘ From the gate I ^ looked back wist fully to where she still stood under the Winter branches, and-she smiled one bright, quick smile and ran in; Then I sat down beside Frank, and Amy sprang up, and gave me, Yvith tear-filled eyes, the only kiss among all my sad good-byes. Later on, in the frosty Winter morn ing, we two brothers, who had been together all our lives, parted on the deck of the great waiting vessel, Yvith only a few broken words, and one long, dose lingering hand-grasp.^ ^ “ The ten years are passing, and you must keep your promise, Max, and come.” i ■ ’i.: . I read the words over and over again. It was not yet ten, hut over seven years since I had set foot in Md- bourne, and in every letter Frank had sent me through those long years I had expected him to tdl me what he had told me at last Yet now that it was told, the lines seemed to swim before my eyes, and my fingers would not write the glad and congratulatory words I wished to send him. Now that my reward is come,” he wrote, “ I claim your promise. We only delay our marriage for your arri val. Max, old fellew, vou would have felt happy for me indeed, if you bad seen how willingly Mr. Oldfield gave my darling to me. I bad been a son to him for years, he said; I could hardly he nearer when I was his daughter’s husband. And now my cup of happiness will be full wheu you come. How soon can you be home ?” So, upon a bright Spring morning, Frank and I met once more in Eng land ; and tired with a tiredness which I had never felt before, I rested that evening in my own chair beside the cheery home fire; striving to look back I will come T «. y ou are very tired, Max,” said Frank, in his quick glad tones. A little; but I was not thinking of that. I was thinking how utterly con tent you look, Frank.” So I ought to. ought I not? be came I am so utterly content. Do I look changed in any other Yvay ?” “No, none.” “Sol look utterly content, do I? yet I have had trouble, too. You ought to say you see the traces, Max.” “ What trouble has it been ?” I ask ed. “ A trouble of five years ago, Max,” he answered quietly; “a trouble I nev er felt that I could tell you in a letter. When I first asked Lettice to be my wife she—refused me, Max.” “ I feared so, Frank,” I said, so Ioyv that he stepped forward to catch the words. “I feared so from your silence at too, thai you loved to rest, there on summer evening; but yjcuj have been away so long,, cooing sq j: -raqch, tha,t ( tho^e old'memories, will be all buried now?" , , “ yes.; JJJhej aro qljl .hurfcdj” I an swered, fueling the scarlet mount into my 'face to contradict the coolness of words. t! ,,|j She smiled a little wistful smile, which had a strange, brave tenderness in it. “ I too have lived seven years since then,” she said: “ but the old memo ries are dear to me, Max, and I would j (Wood) lypha atigustifolxa (Luna-). ell-known to medical men that mnny^vfy-" valuable liveware lost, not <0 much ,.j frora the extent of the burn a* from, ,j the shock and exhaustion to the nerr* - - ous system from the intense suffering, that'the torturing nature , causer heiore it is relieved. This wonderful plaut is the homely,- u Cat tail. Beery school-boy knows it;,>.• for does he not make his arrow# of It* long, slender stem ? To botanist* it is known as bolongihg- tt» the clas* of Af-. lumaeeous endogens, or flower* without ^ es. Of the order, iTypha latifoOu '/i jt or sale or Exchange. I HAVE 300 acres of land in Cle- burna Co., Ala., which I willorilcheap,orex- cbangs for real estate in thi* city. There acre* cleared, 38of It the heet bottom land on Cane creek, producing 50 to 75 boahel* of corn per ecre, end cotton in pnmortlon. The remainder U In the woods. The fora I* 20 mile* from the Selma, Rome end Dalton Railroad, one mod a quarter mile* (tom the county alte, Edwardarllie, • mile* from the located depot of the Columhua nod Chat tanooga Railroad, and one mile Drum the route of the Griffin and North Alabama Railroad Thera i> an excellent store bouao (not be longing to the place), which can he bought or ranted ehra,p and Un Splendid Stand for a Country Store, Title* indisputable. For furth*r Information ap- me great pin, *hicl. in m, co„- «* J™ »rn for nothing, you know, ordice 1 shrank from, I answered him except fortumzmg your life. ply to, or nddr March Sl-3m Un. J. W. MUKRELL, Athens, Ga. 4. MERCHANT, WK. WOOD, DEALER IX ALL KINDS OF F U RNITURE. 1TURNITURE REPAIRED, UP- JJ bolstered and Tarniahed, alto ■ lam earlety or wood coffin* and Flak’* Patent Motalic Burial Cm** alway»on hand. _ , Wareroom* on Clayton SU, next to EpUoop*! Church. 8ep» j*. WILLIAM WOOD. XT ILL & BRYDYE, at the old es- 11 UblUbed B ARBER-8HOP, on Broad street, orar tho store of Morn*. J- R. A L. C. Matthow*. hare tt* best *nd moat— workmen and aU.tho modi 1YG, S1IAMPOOIM1, IU *5U- whcn n d*rirrf.” a p«J‘ rnorlm cwoi wW wedt prompt and careful attention. July 2S* on Yard in A thens. ^^SUBSCRIBER HAS comfortable and commodioo* Waron ▼Aid on River itrHt, bnt tho UpptrBriogo. A mi *»kgLa*r!ia.«p: -* ^Iley 1 hoop Carriage, Buggy & Wagon ^rn)i~o.O^\r.ga B A LARGE and well selected assort- “cHLLDS, NICKERSON & CO with a quick “ Yes.” We had a very pleasant evening with Lettice. I did not feel very hap py, and my dejected appearance was referred to more than once in the even ing. Frank made some remark, Yvhen I in reply said: “ The fact is, Lettice, Frank cannot understand my last new whim, which is to go out to Melbourne to join an old friend of ours.” And this was hoiv I told her; on her birthday night. I, who had worked, and hoped, and waited, for the fulfill ment of that one bright dream which noYV lay shattered into fragments in that pretty, cheerful room. What do you think, Lettice of this new project of Max’s?” asked Frank, laughingly, as she moved by the tea- table. She simply said, “ I do not like it; but if Max thinks it best, I suppose he does well to carry out his project. Max,” said Lettice’s father, as he came in, looking curiously at me, “ Yvhat’s this the little one tells me ? LUCY CUBB INSTITUTE. ATHEN S „ QA-- UB«. A. B. WBIIJUT, Principal, (LATE OF AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.) Her Yvords in their quiet, simple scorn, stabbed me to the hea. t. “ That is a wide word, Lettice,” said, “ and a word which even yet I have not fathomed.” “ But you expect to do so in Mel bourne ?” “ I hope so.” With an odd little laugh she chang ed the subject; and very soon Frank drove up to the gate. Mr. Oldfield and Amy went out and stood beside the dog-cart, talking to him, while ' followed more slowly. Lettice came with me, and stood a minute under the bare old lime-tree, with the winter sun shine on her bright young face. And I looking down upon her—knew that this picture would dwell in my heart through all my lonely life. Her jesting scorn was all gone now only her eyes were a little puzzled, and a little sad. “You will he quite happy, Max ; she said, “ Yvith that happiness which makes others happy too.” “ Tell me how, Lettice,” I cried, the that time. But never mind, dear fellow, as it has ended so brightly.” “ No, I don’t mind now one atom. It has ended so brigthly, as you say.” It seemed like a dream to be walk ing once more at Frank’s side, on the shadowy street; and still more like a dream to be entering unannounced the pretty familiar room, where Lettice sat alone at the Yrindow sewing in the twilight Lettice," cried Frank, in gay ea gerness, “ here’s Max.” I was standing opposite her, look ing down upon her with still, calm, eyes; the grave elder brother of , strong and passionate love of my heart You are surely not thinking, in any • ^ rein bling in my voice. “ Tell me how seriousness of going abroad.” to w j n this happiness.” “ I have decided to do so, indeed, as soon as Frank and I can arrange matters here !” “ I cannot believe it Why, if my own daughter had suddenly told me she was going I could not have been more astonished. What can have de rided yon?” to win this happiness. “ I cannot,” she answered softly.— “ I cannot teach you what yon know so well. “ Lettice,” I said, “my one dearest friend, this is the last moment Give me some few words of help to take with me —as a aster would have given them to me.” not bury them fo! all the world." “ Because it is so different with you and me," I faltered. “ I—*T think I have no courage left. How long Frank stays.” ' ! ' “ I see them in the" lower garden now," she abswered 1 gently, looking away from me as I struggled with my pain. “ How quickly Amy would have run in to greet me in the nit? times,” I said, speaking once more as I had schooled myself to do; only thtifc r a lit tle bitterne$3 \fould creep into the tone. “ Yes," laughed Lettice, softly, “but she will not come this evening without Frank. She has been quite timid about your return. She asked me to- niy if you would think Frank had choseu unwisely because she is so much younger than he i*; so ignorant and untried, she said.” In the bewildered breathless silence which followed Lettice’s words, she looked up at me; deep shadows gather ing in her eyes, as if she too felt the agony of : the doubt and hope which stirred roe. “ Do you think Frank has chosen wisely. Max, in taking my little sister?" she asked, speaking plainly the truth, Yvhich she knew now that 1 had never heard. “ Lettice—Lettice, is it so ?” I stam mered, my fingers tight upon the chair' below me, and my heart beating wild ly- ■ “ Yes, Max," she answered, “ it is so.” And I knew she could read the whole story of my deep and lasting love written in my quivering face. “Andyou, Lettice?” “ I,” she answered, in a bright, low ton*—“ I have waited:” Then I covered my face hurriedly; for boyish tears had overflowed my eyes iu the untold joy of this surprise. “ Max,” she whispered, her gentle touch upon my arm, I thought you knew this, and had come home ' for their sakes.” “ No, not for their sakes, Lettice; for Frank’s and yours." “ Why for my sake?" she asked, tears shining in her own eyes as sho looked brightly into mine. Then, low and brokenly, I told her of my love; the long, hopeless love Yvhich would not die. And at last she answered, with her gentle hands on mine, and a deep, true gladness shin ing behind the tears: “ Max, dear Max, I am V6ry glad I waited.” * ^, * * * * her affianced husband. She dropped «• Max,” said Frank, that night af- her work, and put her two hands into ^ we g 0t home, “ may I have the old mine in quick, glad greeting; and I phte put back upon the door? » spoke to her just as I knew Frank . w e both laughed at the idea, for would wish me to speak to her; watch- j Frant wa3 Dr Hamilton now, and I ing all the while his face as well as had half a dozen letters after my nane; hers. She was changed more than he bu t we took a candle and went off at was. The face that had been almost once to fl nd Frank—sitting down childlike in its sunny beauty was a wo- and ^ k i n g it U po n his knee—brushed man’s face now; deeper and graver, t j )e thick dust from it quite tenderly ; but infinitely more beautiful. I thought, while x leanin over his shoulder, read as I saw its old bright, sunny smile still .... ... ■* there. She looked up at Frank, a wonderful light shining in her eyes. “ Now you have all you wish, Frank, she said. And I felt that she was as happy in his love as he was in hers.— I stood beside them, talking iu langh- ing, genial tones; hoping that she could never guess how hardly I had schooled myself to this. Presently Frank passed out through the open window, and Lettice, looking after him, raised her eyes questioning- ly to me. “ You thiuk us all changed, I sup pose, Max. Even Frank?” “ Yes,” I answered, absently. “ But you have not seen sister Amy yetf*8he went on, smiling. “Sheof course is most changed ot all Frank is gone to letch her I fancy. He says she is like what I was at her age, but that is only his pleasing flattery, for she is very, very pretty.” the letters as he cleaned. “ Hamilton Brothers!” It doss not do Frank; and yet thank God for the truth it tells. We are brothers still, we will be brothers to the end.” “ Leaves ensifornt, concavewitbiRuaar* the base; sterile and fertilc «pikesri®*e - together, or -more remote.-. *4- mon, smooth^ tall, .inhabitant water in muddy .pools and ditebe* » the United StatesAud Cnnudas- iTba.rt stem arises irorn,-three; U).iiftlie-jf«N>l(>> round and smooth, leafy, below, termiv- i nated by the largo cylindri® spikes. Spikes of a brown color, cbes in length, composed of *leBd*r , ^ downy flowers, so compact,.particular- « ly the fertile ones, as to be ofdWMWUfr ,j able hardness. The upper I portion i* >1 smaller, composed of the sterile flower*. Leaves somewhat sword-shaped,' erect* 11 two to four feet long, and nearly one ^ inch wide. They are called flags, and’ 1 are made useful for weaving the seat* , of chairs, etc.” - ! - - • r I have been particular in giving the full description as found in Wood's Botany, that no one need mistake it. The brown tops are fully grown by the ^ first of August geherallyl and can be gathered from that time until the tktrm- ( flies, or as late as they hang on their stems. Their virtue remain* any l?ngth of time, by putting them in » bag and hanging in a dry place. To prepare them for use, you have to pick off the downy substance mix with enough lard to form a slave and apply it twice in the twenty-four hours. The relief is immediate. T have never’ known a case that the pain did''not' cease in from twenty to ^hirty,minutes. And over all other remedies it'has thi* virtue: It acts as quickly oo *n rid burn that has become a bad soft^ as efficaciously as upon a frerif burp. It makes no difierenco b whffit: the burn has been made, steam, fire, water,, powder or any other oonceiv»hle.buxn-, ing matter, it is still (as one sufferer, said, when, in twenty minutes hi# pain was relieved,) “ a miracle." . In these days we are too apt neg lect some of the good old-fashioned, remedies in our haste .to seek out the new. Let our hospitals, our railroad* and steamboats keep a. supply of thi#, natural remedy, which cost# nothing but to gather it, on hand, and aee .if suffering so soon relieved doff- not pay for all the trouble. , Let •wy.xPPBfft copy this simple remedy, that it* hh**s* ing may be felt in: cyery pari our country, now while it i* so much nced-r ed in the fearful baptism of fire through which we are passing.—\V„ ip Rural New Yorker. To KeR^ GMATHS Bright.—- Whi n n gnile is putvliwcd »nd \mi how to keep the |Mili*hixl part* as blight its they then are, you! will almost tUway* get an evasive an**tr, for y|rb*t we do not understand. One would aug; pose that the vender* of grates would be pleased to know that the grates they disp .sc of would always look' as clean and bright as when they left their posse** •ion. A writer in l he Oemantmen- TA*- graph has discovered * modc-for keeping the polished part* ot grates bright with out using *n undue quantity of “ elbow grease.” It i* simply to take * piece ot flannel, mois en it with cost oil, dip it into powdered emery, and rub; and lo, »nd behold 1 brightness will' *uddenly appear, and tiie matronly heart will lie gladdened. A curious experiment was tried in Russia with some murderers. They were placed, without knowing it, in four beds where four persons had died of the cholera. They did not tnkc the disease. They were then told that they were to sleep in beds where some per sons had died of malignant cholera, but the beds were, in fact, new and had not beep used at all. Nevertheless, three of them died of the disease within four hours. The grand, daily-question of life is to be, “ Lord, what wilt thou have mo to do?” Tho smallest as well as the great est matters are all to be settled by it, If brooms are wrt in boiling puds once a week they will become very tough, wilt not cut the carpet, lost much longer, and always sweep like a new broom. A very dusty carpet may be cleaned by setting a pail of cold water out by tho door, wet the broom in it, knock it to get out all the drop*, sweep • yard or so, then wash the broom again as before and sweep again, being careful to shake all the drops of the broom, and not >X«’P f« at a time. The water may need tp be changed once or twice if the carpet i* very dusty. Snow sprinkled over a car pet and sweept off before it lias time to melt and dissolve is also nice for renovat ing a soiled carpet. Moistened Indian meal is used with good effect liy iomc housekeepers. -*-•>- ——“ Never confide a secret your rela tions; “ blood will tell.” /