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ELLIJAY. 6.4., THU USD AY, FEBRUARY 22, 1883.
CRUMBLING TOWEB.
Written for the RiPtmufiATr by a. *. Voirf.
Curfew did not ring, sweet maiden,
At that lonely twilight hbur
When with heart so heavy laden,
You climbed that old and crumbling
tewer,
Never once the cost you counted,
As you struggled high ana highert,
TCI the topmost point surmounted-*-
Yet no thought of the task to tire.
With trembling hands, but heart yet true,
One struggle more, the rope was caught,
The pitying angels looked on you.
Your efforts could not be for naught.
No sound the evening stillness broke
As listening ears for Curfew’s knell,
Were strained to catch the first sad stroke,
That would of Basil’s bard death tell.
E’er faithful to Ills twilight task,
The sexton old, but in purpose firm,
Fulled steady on, though none would ask
Him why his duty was not done.
With heaving breast ’twixt hope and fear
The maiden hastened from above,
To meet stern Cromwell, then to heat,
The fate of him so dear, so loved.
Those blood stained hands, that earnest
face,
Spoke volumes for the cause she plead
Which left on Cromwell’s heart no trace
Of ought but blessing on her head,
Said go, sweet maiden, let'your st orf
Be rehearsed in coming yean,
I though Cromwell, give you freely,
Him you love then cease pour fears.
TRUE LOVE’S TRIUMPH.
At tbe foot of the great oak
which stretched its pendant green
branches protectiugiy over her.
was seated a young girl. That
she was beautiful none could
deny, but the chief charm of her
perfect face lay in its expression
of womanly sweetness. A short
distance away, throngh the trees,
could be seen the towers of the
stalely residence which was her
home. But though the child ot
wealth and luxury, it was evi
dent that Mabel Lowerie was
not happy, lor her brows were
contracted with a look of paiu.
and her lustrous blue eyes were
full of tears. A foottall broke
the silence, and with a start Ma
bel sprang to her feet.
“My darling, I thought that I
should find you Here in your fa
vorite nook.”
A young man with a happy,
handsome face spoke these
words, and us he did so he en
deavored to clasp her in his arms
but Mabel drew back.
“No, Royal,” she said, trying
in vain to render her voice
steady, “you must not 1”
“Must not embrace ray betroth
ed 1 Why, Mabel, that is strange
indeed I’’
His face still wore a happy
smile, as it he thought she jested.
The girl hesitated a moment as
though to gain calmness, then
she said, slowly:
“I came here to-day, Royal,
knowing that I shonld see you,
and with the iutention of telling
you something which causes me
great pain. It is this—our en
gagement must be broken- 3 *! can
I never be your wife,”
The young man,.gaffed at bffr
incredulously a moment, then as
he saw her sad, tear-stained
face, his own grew very pale,
“Mabel 1” he exclaimed, “do
not torture ihe 1 You fianDot
mean what you say 1 What is it
that has come between Os f
Mabel's head dropped lower as
she answered, almost 10 a #bis*
per i
“My moihef is tOfy ill—so
dangerously that the least ex
citement might kill
she has set her Heart Upon mv
raatfying my corteln, Mr. Doane.”
Royal recoiled as if stricken by
3 shaft) blow, thert a billet laugh
bfoke Iforti his lips 5
“I see i If yo n thatfjr Mr;
Doane the two estates which lie
so conveniently adjacent to each
other will be made one. As for
me-—1 am only an Unknown ar
tist—it la tio wonder that the
wealthy Mrs. Dowrie should
look higher for her daughter I
A cry of anguish burst from
Mabei.
“Royal 1 do not speak so I yon
will break my heart! Have I
not enough to bear ? You know
that I love you ; but if I disobey
my mother’s wishes now her
death might be on mo conscience.
Do not make it harder than it is.”
Her voice broke, and clasping
her to him Royal looked earnest
ly into her lovely, upturned face.
He read there that no words that
he might utter could change her
resolution.
“Oh, my darling I it is cruel 1
Is there no hope of your mother’s
releasing you from her com
mands ?”
Mabel shook her head.
“I have told you, lioyal, how
feeble she is—if 1 thwarted her
now 1 should never lorgive my- 1
self. We must say farewell—”
she broke off with a sob, and rais
ing ber soft lips she pressed them
one momeut to his in a last, ling
ering caress ; then breaking from,
bis embrace she left him.
Sinking into the rustic seat!
near, the young man thought
long and despondently.
He had hardly realised till
now the true depth of the love
which filled his heart for the girl
who bat yesterday was his prom
ised wife.
lu vain the birds overhead war*
bled their sweetest strains, and
on every side the alluring at
tractions of Nature appealed to
his eves. Royal heeded them
not. For him the future to
which he had looked forward
with such joyful ant c pationfi
would henceforth be a blank.
How long he remained there
lost in thought he knew not. At
last he rose and walked slowly
away.
The next week Mabel received
a short note telling her that by
that time he would be far on his
way West, as he had accepted an
invitation which had been ex
tended to him by some friends
to join them ou a .tour through
California.
News from home frequently
reached Royal, and sometimes in
the letters which he received
Mabel’s name would be men
tioned. He heard that prepara
tions were being made lot her
approaching marriage, and then,
later, that her mother had sud
denly died.
The young man had tried ever
since their last interview to drive
the haunting sweetness of Ma
bel Lowerie’s race from his mind,
but in vain. Day and night it
rose before him.
At length he received a letter
from a friend containing the fol
lowing sentence:
“Have you heard of Arthur Doane’s
sudden marriage I Much to his parents’
rage, and every one’s surprise—for you
know be was engaged to his Cousin—he
had married a yottng girl Who Was gov
ernees to his siAets. You qur imagine
Whdta sensation it bdl made.’’
That was all, but tt was enough
to cause a glad hope to soring
suddenly to life in Royal’s Heart.
Confident of Mabel’* love,- be
felt that, after ally the future still
held happiness fof (hem both.
But thohgh be longed to tetarn
home immediately and try bis
fate once more, he #rfff finable to
do so, fot he had engaged totfav
-6l a couple Of months fifote in
tbe Rocky Mountains to make
sketches fof a pictorial periodi
cal;
It happened that art artist
friend named Reginald Eaton
was about to start for honfle. So,
to him he entrusted a message to
Mabel, together with aome of the
sketches he had made of the ex*
quisite scenery of tbe Yoshttiite,
through which he had traveied-
Meanwhile for Mabel the time
daring Which she had beefi sepa
rated fCofh feoydl had bf-onght
ttilh it Serious changes. First
she had been balled Upon to
mourn her mother's (Jfeatb; dti d
then had coifle the ne#s of her
cousin’s sudden and unexpected
marriage.
Since the feW lines in vHficb
he had bidden her lareWell, she
bad not heard from Hoyal; but
the girl was waiting for his re
turn with an expectant heart,
longing to tell liim that she was
free and that tile lore she had
once cherished for him still lived.
The days went by, till one morn
ing the papers tfrere filled with
accounts of a terrible railroad ac
cident. A train had been thrown
from the track) and a gfeat many
of the passengers had been Seri
ously injured, and some killed.
With dilated eyes, and a face
ghastly with horror, Mabel read
of one gentleman who had been
crushed beyond recognition, but
who was supposed to an artist
named “Royal Esmond,” as his
clothes were marked “.R. E.” and
some sketches in oil bearing that
name were found in bis trunk.
A few moments later a servant
coming into the room found Ma
bel stretched senseless upon . the
floor, while grasped tightiy id
her hand was the paper in which
she bad read the fatal news. For
a long time the girl lay between
life and death, but youth and
strength triumphed at last, and a
shadow of her former self, Mabei
ctme back to the full conscious
ness of her bereavement.
In the meantime the casket
containing what was supposed to
be ber lover’s remains had been
brought by bis friends to his na
tive town. Day after day, as
soon as she was strong enough,
Mabel repaired to the village
cemetery, and there beside the
mound which covered the manly
form of him she had so truly
loved she would weep iu an
abandonment of grief.
The sketches were all finished,
and Royal Esmond joyfully start
ed lor his home. His rough life
in the mountains had improved
his appearance. The ruddy bronze
which his cheeks wore, and the
golden-brown beard which he
had suffered to grow, while it
changed him, only made him the
handsomer.
Unrecognized he passed
through the familiar streets on
his way to the dwelling of her
whose dear image had neVer lei!
his constant heart.
He found that Mabel was Dfrt
St home, and on being told that
She had gone to the cemei.fy
he turned his steps that way,
thinking to find her by her moth
er’s grffv6‘.
He entered the sacred inelos
ure,and recogfirised some distance
away, bending near a stately
marble monument, the slight
black-rtfbed fisjiire of her he
sought. Drawing gently near, to
his unspeakable surpfise he read
upon the Stone hris o#n frame!
Unconscious of the near pres
ence of any one, and believing
herself a tone #ith the dead,-Ma
bel gave Utterance to the grief
which filled her breast. Bending
lower, so tfmt her heavy veil fell
over and Shadowed the gfave,
she moaned Softly to hefself:
“Oh, Royal I my lote 1 my love!
look down from Heaten ad pity
your poor Mabel!”
With an inarticulate exclama
tion Royal sprang to her sYdO and
clasped her passionately to 1 his
heart.
WRh a frightened,startled look
Mabel recognized him. It was
tbb much for her frail strength,
and in her loVftr : s arras she
swooned and lay like an exQuis-
Ife marble image.
But joy seldom kills; and an
VOL. VIII. Nfl.' |;
hour later jjritiT her
hand Royal’s.
tfitH Cheeks to~islioKe pure stir—
face the ficti Colbf iiifl agafti re
turfied, arid *itH eyes
azufb (IfepthS disposed unrtfjslaP
ablMhe rapufe Which had driven
away theif sadness. * 1 ~r ’•
All waS Abtfn Explained’ that
had seemed gffange. fey a singu
lar Coincidence the initials of the
poor young Urtfst' tfhfT’’bit!’lost
his life in the failroad disaster,
arid to fthom ttoyfi fiSfl iftirfisted
the nieSsage aiid sfcefchel'fer
Mabel, were the sittfle as his own,
and thtfs itVtfrilfyt th£ rriiafafie
as to his identity Kad Ansen.
Thus; ris'l* Oft eh the case, had
true lhte triumphed'at last over
all gdteHe circumstances. ; *
Mi* Own Srandfatbar, e**
.'••w i ■>
A young fellow with plant? df
time and: geaifes has figured out
how to become Iris own grand
father, and . this is the won*, ke
does jt; married a widow
who had a grown of
My father visited our home vefy
often, fell in love tfith njiy daugh
ter and married her. .So my
father became my son-in-law
and n?v step-daughter nay moth
er, because she married my fath
er. Some time afterward mv
wile hail a son. He is inv father’s
brother-in-law and my uncle, for
he is the brother of niy step
mother. My father's wife, y:
my step-mother, had a sou. He
is my Drother and at the same
my grand-child, for he is the ion
of my daughter. My wife is my
grandfcpther, because she is my
mother s mother, iam certainly
my wife's husband's grand-child
at the same lime ; aud as the
htlsband df a person’s grandmoth
er is his grandfather, I am my
own grandfather.”
A contemporary says r “In tß lff
a bushel Of com would btfy a 1
pound Of nails. In ISS3 oneWjfsh’il
of corn would buy fifteen pounds'
ol nails. In iSlff lt’fook Itfenty
eight dozen of eggs to buy one
bushel of salt. In MSitone dozen
eggs would do tbe same thing.
In 18lf> it required sixty-foar
bushels of barley to buy -obe
yard of broadcloth: hr ISs'i five
bushels, of barley would do the
business. In ISl?in requited one
bushel ol wheat, to buv one yard
of calico. In ISB2 one bushel -of
wheat would buy thirty-five yards'
of a better article. lu fc-M s' pair
ol Woolen blankets cost as much
as a cow. In the.vuitfeof a
cow wi.iHd buy twenty pairs f
blnnkevs sepenor in every a)a”
►*•••- f Aji' f
The ii llowmg lrom tbe Xewifi
ton fife.) Xourtfal is' s'O true
we reproduce it: It is' iiie func
tion bt thO tq
is'tfifth t and then not only Yo'
Winuo* the true fifo'm the FaTsq,-
but to vfinhow the truth
Not aIF should be spoken at all
times. Suppression is Often as
good as confession'for the newsr'
, isal YF fi. s*3 M
paper soul. There is Often more
talent required in aetermimqg
what shall be kept out ot a jia
p'er than ift determining- vfnat
shall be put in ft. The tfght
word at the right ttme makes'
newspaper a sneiess; the right
word at the wrong ti trie’keep) it
continifallv fn hot Watter. rf i%'
not a question, hotfeYerf of ttfjfk
ifig no mistakes, but of nfakiug'
that uumbbr a minim'rfm.
A bachelor and a spinster Who’
had been achoeimntee in Ypufch 1
and were about, the * #.
met in after years, amt.the lady
chancing to remark a n*rtß‘
live a.great (Joel ffsWc
“Yes, Maria; .llie last wore we
met we \v£re s each TwOffty-ftiof
years' oM. No 1 # Far fO>Py>,-
and 1 hear you ~hafYte’t reached
thirty yet.” Thfey H miw.
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