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I JBfSBSuiSSSSSSSS^Sjir^S^ AdveftialrtS flatao. f)na square mio lusartlou §1 00; caoll sub- boqujat i.uuvtiou SO uouta. * , Ouu columu,one year tlOO.OQ Dno columu, nix months i GO 00 One columu, three months ; i.*..35 00 Half colunn, oue year u. .50X10 Half columu, six mouths .30 00 Halt'columu, three mouths \.20 GO Quarter columu, one year . i. .30 00 Quarter column.six months ..20 00 Quarter columu. throe mouths .12 00 Oommunieatious ola political chatrader, nl turt uluN written iu & Ivooaoy or cletensH of toe claims of asplrauts for olHce, 15 cents per Hue. Announcement ef GandlOates $5 00. BZSMS/P&m*a t.ygr.1 Atlvefflaln# I be iu^rte-l at the foil own, K 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 l.r- • : o.inii ii-lr.ti>.ii lirs.li ai'iow i t-l'iii ill..in 1 .,tv,ill-,ii .... tiiAii..,.' ... ’ii to .ItSllohs mot vrsilltofs....... j sals pcrenl osliitoby mlmiuisiraloni, i 11 rs and yniusliluM, pit sipun i S ilo rii perishiiniti iiropi-rlv, ton dim... i •islr.iy uulitn*; no tl»<-« All bills for uWprlisillK m 'bis pup,.] SOU lie et null ‘PI* 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.’