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THE BUTLER HERALD.
Bubhgiuption TnioB 31.50. Pun Annum.
TUESDAY. MAY 8th., ISH
“Soincboy’s Dnrltllfif.”
Into a wiml ot the whitewashed walls,
Whers the dead and the dying lay—
Wounded hy bayonets, shells and halls-—
Souiehoily'b darling was horn ouu day.
Somebody's darling 1 ho young and so bravo,
H erring still ou his pale, sweet face,
boou to ho liiit hy the rlu.it of tuo grave,
The lingering light ot his boyhood's graco.
Matted and damp nro the curls of gold
Kissing the snow of that fair youUjI brow;
Pale are the lips of dulicate mould -
Homebody's darling is dying now.
Back from the peautit'ul blnu-velued face
Brush every wondering silkuu thread;
Cross his hands as a sigh of grace—
homebody's darling ii still uud dead
Kiss him once for soimbody’s sake,
Murmur a prayer soit uud low;
One bright curl from the cluster take—
They wi re homebody’s pride, j ou kuow,
Bomi.-bodj'sUaud hath rcste.i there;
Was it a mother’s soft and white V,
And have the Jips of a bister fnir«
lieeu baptised in those waves of light ?
God knows best. lie wn* somebody’s love;
Homebody’s heart ensuriuml him there ;
8omel*ody waPed bis name above,
Wight and niorh, on the wings of prayer ;
Homebody wept when lie umrciied away,
Looking so handsomo, brave and grand «
Hot neb uly's kiss o:. his Ibrelu-ad lay :
Homebo.iy eluiig to Ins partiug hand
Somebody’s watching and wailing for him,
Yuurtiing to lidit Inin again t • Her lieurt ;
Ther* h.* lies, with tlic blue eyes dim,
Auri siuiLcg, chiid like ups apart
Tenderly bury the fair yonna dead,
Pausing to drop on his grave a tear;
•Oarv« on the wooden slab at his bund -
“Homebody’s darling liuj buried here."
ftHLEOTIOKfS.
The Gambler's Wife.
Can a woman hinder fate ? And
could I hinder or stop the tido of
love which oanie into my heart for
Alien Starr ?—Did I not. know the
nmn as well, butter than tluise who
Warned me against him ? If he
Was in the wrong, then so much
tiio more need ot a love, strong ns
death, to sot him right. How
could I throw down that which had
been sent to crown my life , ami
above all. how could I turn from
him, sinceovery step but increased
the distance which might lie bo*
tween us for all eternity?
Once, just once, lie doubted me.
He had heard that friends were
trying to influence me against him,
and in theJieat of his mad passion
lie came tosoe mo. Anger, intense
unger, and desperation wero iu his
bluzing eyes, and the fiercest re
proach upon his haughty lips as
ho faced me, the first time he ever
frowned upon'me in all my life.
“Su you have given me over,
like the rest of them? I thank
yon,” he said in freezing tones.
‘‘I ? What do you mean Alleu?'
I asked.
“I mean that the one who dares
to speak wotds that will take you
away from me, must bo brave
enough to face death itself, ior I
will—”
I sprang up and covered hiaquiv-
oring lips with both my hands.
“Don’t say it, Alien,” I cried,
“I am your’s always. Oh, do keep
back tiio wicked words f"
Ho caught me iu ids arms, and
hurst into tears.
I believe I never saw a man
breakdown wholly before, and I
never wunt to again. It was fright
ful to see my handsomo lover so
shaken with stormy-sobs. But I
knew then how he loved me , ah, 1
fcnew then,
By tfm. II. B3HH3,
Broprloior. A ME\VsPAl>En DEVOTED TO INDUSTRY ANr •JIVILIZATION
#l.no a Year
VOLUME 1.
llUTI-IlEf UKOIMUA, TTIISDAY, MAY Sill., IS77.
WIIOLK XUMBEK fit
When he was quiet, lie made ulu
go down upon my knees, and with
my hand lifted toward heaven,
swqui' I would be his forever. “In
spite of all that thu world might
say.” I was glad enough to do it)
anil when afterward he added with
his hand clasping mine uud both
raised. “As I do hy thee, so may
Divine justieedo by me henceforth;
though his terrible earnestness
made me shiver a little, I was
thankful to fell that, we trusted
each other at last, and were past
all doubting forever.
Wo were married soon after, mid
our life began together. I know
"But something lias worn you
to a shadow,” she went on, ignor
ing my indignation ; “and we all
know that Mr. .Starr is not wlmt
he might to bo.”
That was more than any wife
should hear lamely. 1 ro;o at
mice.
“Such words must neither he
addressed to his wile, nor ’spoken
under his roof, 1 ' I said angrily.
“My house is open to you nev-
ertholess,'’ sho urged with her
keen eye, which I hated, because I
feared them upon my face.
“My home is here where my
heart is,'* I retorted. “I desire
well enough wlmt mine would be. j „„ „therand witlt. that our iu-
I had not come to a path full bf terview closed,
soft, fragrant flowers. It, was to | Allen heard in some way that,
he a fearful, if not a long straggle j mv aunt had called ; and he. would
—likely both ; for either 1 must
turn tho current of my darling's
life, or wo should go down togeth-
No earthly power could sop.n
rate us now. Blit 1 was strung in
tho great Invo I linro him, and my
heart never once fal’ered.
For a month alter our nmrriagu
he came home rcgulmly—his ap
parent occupation was head clerk
in a well known firm ; lmt I know,
nil, pity I that hid leal employ
ment was far enough removed from
anything as honorable as that—
lint then he began to return later,
until one, two, three and some
times four o'clock would strike
without bringing him.
I bad resolved at first that. 1
would n I ways remain up it- til lie
came, thinking that I might thus
havo more hold upon him. My
business was to save him. Noth
ing was too hard to ho done if i
might hut ranch the goal at. last.
As Mild lie began to reinrn late,
now, and there grew to he a hag
gard look upon his face, it. was
dreadful to see, since T know, only
too well, what brim-lit, it there.
But I tried to he patient., and
whenever he cone I was careful
nut to make any allusion to the
latenoss ot the hour. It. would not
do with him. Wo sat down to
supper for I persisted iu having it.
invariably at his return ; and
though 1 hail seen his eyes fill
many and many a time when he
looked at me steadily as he had a
way of doing, ho did not tell his
thoughts, and I pretended not to
notice them while I attended to his
wants.
It was an luvfnl thing for a wo
man to see the husband of her love
going down steadily, hut surely,
before her frightened eyes, mill she
powerless to save.—I had wonder
ed once, how miserable, ill-treated
wives, whose husbands were scarce
ly fit to live, I could understand
now, by my own heart, low it was
that they boro everything rather
than separation.
A year went hy and no visible
chango came ; hut 'tho constant
anxiety told upon my face, I want
ed to keep the signs hack, hut, I
could not. Friends noticed it, and
among them the aunt who Intel ta
ken my dear mother's place. She
had never liked my husband ; and
at tho anniversary of our marriage
she came, in a solemn state, “to
inquire into matters,’ * 1 as sho tern-
ed it.
“You are looking poorly, my
child,'’she said opening the sub
ject at once.—“Your marriage is,
pet haps, unhappy.”
“There could not he a kinder
husband than Allen,’' my face
flashing in a moment. "Ho lias
neVCV spokett a harsh word to my.'
not Tie,satisfied until I Had told
him her exact words.
“Sin! is right/ 1 he said bitterly.
You would ha far hotter oil under
her roof than under mine ’’
I know lie did it only to try me,
for lie hud not tho ghost of a fear
that I should choose my bourn
away from hint.
“I did not think fit to tell her
I quickly replied,
“But you believed it? You hu-
Sieved it, then ?”
His breath seemed to stop with
sue intensity ([bids desire to read
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lie went bii| “knowing tlmt 1 was | .hw on iiu
wlmt tliu Wtirl*.} calls, truly enough j Vit-.i" 111
a wicked man."
“Always good to me,” I said, j
through my tears, laying tny lmtid j
trustingly in his. !
“Always cruel, to you, my h»vo,
since lie thought more of his cho
sen sins, iiiiiri of your pernio and
pleasure. lint, tho wife who loved
me, thank heaven, and who stood
bravely by me, has completed at
last. For a year I havo been a
freeman, free and honest; and
this is n»y new years’s orient to
you, best and truest of all women/’
I was nobbing in bis arms, so
tlmnkl'u! and Imppv 1 t|, (lll ,q„ | """rer mol nearer, litl noll.iiig else
, . . ! remained to be tried, the faithful sor-
lieuveu itself must have la en to* . ..
I vatit, in spite ot the expostulation ot
my toot. Our little child, who is his throw himself into the
fust getting toward teens, would midst of them* and by his own
never believe that his father had (death saved his- master’s life,
been other than thu best of men, | T,nt l‘ 5li »r itfar’Ua the spot fchenJ his
What iiu* Done.
In n certain district in Russia there
is to be seen, in a solitary place, a pil
lar with this inscription: “Greater
love hath no man than this, that a limit
lay down his life for his fricml.” That
pillar tells a ibtitihing tale, which
many of* ou must have hoard. It was
a wild region infested wit)} wolves, 1 '
and as a little party traveled along, it.
soon beeiiuio plain that these were on
their track. The pistols were tired,
one horse, after another was left to tun
rareuous wolves, till, as they came
as, indeed, 1 hardly would know
tny self.
I am thankful every day of mv
life that I listened to my own
heart's promptings instead of the
counsel of those who meant, I
know, to help nae, but who would
have ruined us both, had their
wishes been fill filled <
“I prayed font man,” said El-
what was really on my heart, and j Mike, “fourteen days and four-
lie would have wormed the truth nights in succession, ns well as I
from me whatever it had been. j knew how, but lie found no peace/’
‘No, I did not believe it, Al-j “I hope you. will keep on praying
.” I responded quietly, ]naet-M°r mo/’ bo said. “No, 1 replied,
ing and answering thequostioniug • I will never pray for you again
doubt which for tho moment had J tinder present circumstances.”
leaped into his eves.—“ Wherever j Tho man wont Uopm much dn-
you are taking me to, your own | pressed and told his wife of his
soul tells you I am powerless, and trouble, and that Mr. Dikehad re-
must from choice follow.” I bt.sed to pray for him any more.
“Ymi are a good, true angel,” ! Me groaned and sighed lor ft while
he said, with a strange tenderness * Until at lenghth ho said :
upon his lips ; but though I was j “Wife, it is no use ; I must go
certain he loved mo with a strong und carry that money back.
man’s strength, he did not, alas!
love me enough to leave the gnm-
dcr’s den which was fast drawing
him to ruin*
Another year went hy, another,
year of anxious dread and sorrow,
and still another year was added
to it, and all tlmt love could sug
gest or ingenuity invent, had fail-*
cul iu accomplishing my purpose.
I was forced to acknowledge this,
ltd the admission made me treni-
Whiit is it?” asked she.
“I made a trade the other day/’
said he ; “f suppose it was legal,
but I must go and carry that mon
ey hack/'
Back he went with tho money at
eleven o'clock at night, woke the
man up and paid it over to him,
and came home shouting “Glory,
hallelujah !”
There was one thing commend
able about this man’s praying,
hones were found ,* that inscription
records tho noble instanco of attach
ment. But there is another pillar, and
on it lead, “Herein is love, not. that
wo loved God. but tlrt lie loved »■».
and sent Ills Son to tho propitia
tion for our sins.” Tlmt pillar is tins
Bible—the noble, pillar of Scripture—’
written all over with loving words,
and tolling of siilVation.—N# Y. Ob
server.
A Mistake Ofticv Maov—Boys
and young men sometimes start Out
in life with tiio idea that one’s success
depends on his sharpness and chica
nery. They imagine, if a man is able
always to *‘^et tiio best of a bargain,”
no matter by wlmt deceit and metlh-
ness lie carries ids point, tlmt hi£»
prosperity cannot be founded on cun
ning and dishonesty. The’ tricky a*. 1 ^
deceit l td man is sure to fall a victim, 7
1‘iUtr
milu
which are fi/revt r working against
him. “Ilis hoiiso is built upon the
sand, and its Jonudation will ho cer
tain to give way.” Young people can
not give these truths too much weight.
The future of that young man is hale
who eschews every phase of double
dealing and dishonesty, and lays tho
foundation of Ids earo n* in the endur
ing principles of ovm'lnsting trutL*.
Bow to (Set Bit'll.
bio. Was I indeed, then, to go (and that was his sincere dosPre to
lown with this man to whom I
was bound by all the ties which cun
bind a human heart to that of
another, down to an endless perdi
tion ? Or could I break the clnrd
and let him drift on alone? Drift
on, out iu tho lonesome, bound
less sea, which swallows up its vic
tims so piteously, and leaves no
sign ?
“Nv>, no,” I cried, with my
lmn/ls clasped over my horror
striken eyes to shutout the picture
which my imagination so widely
portrayed.
The fourth year after my muni-
age—four years seemed like an
eternity to travel such a road as I
had boon traveling—Allen came
homo at dftsk, and while I won
dered wlmt. had como over him to
bring up tho new and astonishing
exultation which I saw upon his
face, ho led info the library and
stopped before a painting of* my
self, which lmd been one id' my
Wedding presents from him.
ho saved ; but he might have pray
od fourteen (lays, or fourteen years,
and found no pence until he was
ready to wright the wrongs he had
done. iVrlmps some others who
The f'Me'y*h>gstiVifv is told ol a Ger
man farmer living in t he town of Cal
umet :
Ho came to this country from Ger
many twcnly-fivo years ago, and pre
emptied a piece of land in tho town
wliero he now lives. He was then
very poor, probably not having twen
ty-live dollars all told, hut ho pos
sessed a wonderful energy and an un
paralleled taet for getting along with
out any outside aid. When lie want-
mi anything he went to work to make'
it, paying out nothing for wagons/
have prayed for days and weeks sleighs, harne-s or clothing. In uni*
and find no peace yet, might gain <?ng the timber for his log house' Mi’
lighten the path of duty and the j louh«f a bee-tree, and followed up this
way of blessing, by pondering on i discovery By Olliers ot' like sort, sc
the example of this man. Ic is of 1 curing both bees and honey. The
no use to pray unless wo are wil- J bees lie kept, and for years had honey
ling to obey. “II I regard iiiiqtii- (to eat and to soil, lie had no money
ty iu my heart, the Lord will not I to pay for getting his laud broken up,'
hear mo. ’ ’— A rrftorv. | so ho bought live or six hogs and ry-'
2—5—5? j jug a |. 0 pc around the hind leg of each*
Be Neat, l oung ladies, if they fa^toncd tho other end of the rope to a
only knew how disgusting to men stump, »nd all the grain lie sowed the'
slovenliness is, and how attractive jArst year was where Bids o' “sharks’*
are displays of neatness and taste, t bud rooted up the ground. l‘or wn-
would array tliemnultfl in th^trrm whuula ho .sawo.l oil'tin, o.nU -
simplicity and cleanliness of the
lillies of the field ; or, if able to
indulge in costly attire, they
would stiuly tho harmonious
blending of colors which nature
exhibits iu all her works. A girl
of go ml taste, and habits of neat
ness, can make a more, fascinating
toilet with it shilling calico dress,
Four years ago that was an : a few cheap ribbons and laces, aud|
exact likeness ot my wife,” lie said, Uuoh ornu^irAmts as she can gather*
nmi the garden, th iu a vulgar.!'
rf good-sized log nnd the rest of the
primitive vehicle lie lmd no trouble
in milking, lie miulo a rude sleigh,
bringing the runners high up in front
and joining them together, lie made
harness oi'ropes or MdVnV/ WlvHh an
swered every purpose, and although
the ur.ur if to-day rich, nearly all tho
clothing for the family U home-made.
Ho 1ms now on hand a farm for one.
ill pay t-m liiou-
h for a piece of laud
•■•Sliu 1ms changed nir.ee then.” dra Ad's h!,„. ile „u>h „„ n.unuy *
'IJul little, I trust, Icnswuiod. | s , U iilMmi(l lias lliu jutvulry mid Ilia liiink, ff.fi'us no bffl
! ‘S!w> bnim niy wife freely,-’’ • warttruhe ot nr yrinuusKV
ravufntly hitklrviv nv.ny.’