wmm mmmmmm One Day. found a note upon my table, telling me for it is my Myra, who has not grown old A soldier come from battle-Dlaine, &* "Go West, Ycnng Man." But shall not long remain, i Myra could no longer endure the lift of and gray, as I have, but lives in perpetual Wild -wind, which on my mood a? on a lute Nor shall his heir bear sway again, constant quarreling and reproach. She Plajest sad airs and passionate melody, youth. My child, I once wronged your 1 (5) Then a youth shall follow, who (sic)^ And will nor let one string of me be mute, had taken her child, and would never return mother, bnt have sorrowed and repented All shall know, though none knew. This expression of the lamented Greeley Smiting like master, fierce and absolute to me." for that wrong. Can you forgive me?" One day, one day I shall be Leed from thee. has been the but of many a joke. "Did she not go to relatives?"' Taken in their successive order the The tears were falling fast from Anna true1 And yet, if it had been taken in its Bright sun, upon whose blinding, noonday She had but few. Her father died above lines ought to apply first, to rtin Hilton's eyes, and her voice was trembling spirit, as expressed and intended by one wing: while we were abroad, and having been Tan Buren (but why should he be called with sobs, as she said: Fall the dim shadowing of human care, considered a rich man, was found to have a fox?) second, to General Harrison, who who had worked his way from obscurity "My dear father 1" Wearine=s, discontent and suffering left less than his funeral expenses. She died almost immediately after his inauguration: That was all but as George Hilton and poverty to one of the proudest Dositions One day, my eyes made strong to see and had an aunt and some cousins, to all of third, to Tyler, whose conduct bear, folded his child in his arms, he knew that on earth, its full significance could I shall stand up in your full light and sing. whom I went, but who denied all caused a raptuie in his party fourth to he was forgiven, and for him at last there De better appreciated. The history of the knowledge of her. After searching with Polk, who was popularly known as Young might be happiness in making others "Visions that dawned and staid not, glories West is full of illustrations of the wisdomof the eagerness of penitence deep and Hickory (See nton's 'Thirty Years in happy. brief, the advice and our mind is now called sincere, and love most profound, I finally rethe Senate." I. 374), and fifth, to Whose swift evanishment provokes my Good Mrs. Willet mourned and grief to this subject by the marriage of advertised, and even employed private Franklin Pierce, the youngest up to that joiced at once over her own loss and her Which vainly I stretch after to detain, police investigation. I twas all in yain. time, and whose selection was a surprise couple endued with tne old spirit of adopted daughter's gool fortune, but One day, one day they shall be mine again I never iound wife or child." to everybody. consoled herself with the thought that enterprise. A energetic young man Garnered and bound in an immortal sheaf. Ada must have left her to be Hilton's wife, "Yet you think they live?" married one of the womem described in* While the next [probably Buchanan] do bear Sorrows which blessed and suffering blent and, after all, they would still be neighbors. "I cannot tell. I remained here for five the rule, the last chapter of Proverbs. She is with balms. years and then, you know, went to see my To-morrow's sage is this day's fool Love with a baffling thorn to mar its flower truly what God said, in the second chapter There shall be trouble manifest, only sister, dying of consumption." But she would not give her up until Hindrance that helped me, storm-enfolded of Genesis he would make for mana* North and South, and East and West. "And to become my second father." calms, after a most brilliant wedding, and The strong man Bhall the weak befriend, help-meet. She can work all day, dance One day shall come, renewed to life and "Yes, my boy. I found you, my little George jculton only welcomed his But it shall not be the end power, all night, and be as cheerful and happy daughter to her home when he also gave namesake, a sobbing boy of twelve, heartbroken Under the next [Lincoln] ball widows mourn A troop of gracious shape, upbearing alms. Thousands be slam, but millions born ender greeting to Hilton's wife. over your mother's illness and as a bird the next day. Denth, in the strife, shall pass him by, death. You know the rest of my lifehistory. All things which work together for my woe Shortly after their marriage thev collected But when the peace cometh, he shall die. And wake the mortal heart-ache now shall I retired from the pursuit of my together their worldly possessions* A soldier after him shall be, be. profession, travelled with you, made you Who shall see his century. MOTHER SHIPTOJi ECLIPSED. and loaded themselves and goods into Transfigured into beauty's brightest glow my one interest in life. You filled my One day, and I through happy tears shall two-horse wagon and started for Nebraska The hero of Appomattox is here undoubtedly The Destiny of the Republic Propbected a empty house and neart, for I loved you, see to locate a homestead. Thev will Century Ago. referred to, and the Centennial The loveliness I was too blind to know. Hilton, as dearly as I loved my baby camp by the way, and we will guarantee celebration at Philadelphia. But the Susan Coolldat *n X. T. Independent daughter whose childhood is a closed, that their wedding tour will be as happy The family of Dr. March, in Albany most remarkable part of this prophecy is sealed book to me." as that of many a fashionable couple whomarry avenue, Brooklyn, have in their possession the following. "But, Uncle George, can nothing be THE TWIN BRACELETS. in opulence and spend their honeymoon a remarkable old document, which done now?" in the most fashionable resorts. has been preserved with great care ever Rule afterward shall be got The Story of a Happy Discovery. "We have been in London three years, There is scarcely a county or township iu By the one whose it was not since the father of the present head of the I will not threaten you, Hilton. Years and every month there has been an advertisement Men shall roar, and rage and rave Iowa, but what can be found old couples, family came to reside in that city. Tne But he shall have who should not have. only Myra would understand in ago I made my will, and you -will be my and their respective families, who came paper is a dilapidated bit of parchment When the tide of storm is over the leading papers. I have Dever had heir. I shall not alter one lme of that to this State in the same way, and whoare containing written verses on both sides, Four shall make 6 and not 4, one line of answer. No, my boy, it is document, because I will not bribe you now the wealthiest and most respecte* but the ink has become so faded that He who shall be no more, hopeless now! If in the future yoa ever to my will, or even to be an bonoiable And all that's past not make a score. citizens of the neighborhood. Tnere are careful study is required to decipher the know of my wife or child, I trust them man. You may marry whom you will, several now in our mind, who married words. Around the edges a rude attempt This will seem almost incredible to to your care and generosity." may deiv my wishes in every way, and the noblest specimens of women wh{ at binding ha3 resulted in making many but it is proved beyond doubt that lose my love ana my respect, but the It seemed as if, in thd excitement of his have proved to be help-meets the true the parchment more fragmentary than the lines were in existence, and in one money will still be yours." recital, Mr. Hilton had forgotten the con meaning of the Scriptural word. "Helpmeet" before. Several years ago a copy of the instance published, before Grant left the versation that had immediately suggested means a companion qualified, suitable, verses was made, which is still in good Executive Chair. Mr. Hayes is the nineteentn The quick, indignant flush, on Hilton it. He rose from his seat, and opening adapted to the position, a help a condition, and is shown to friends ot the President there has been "battle Graeme's face, the sudden erectness of his a cabinet in the room, brought back comfort, and a solace. That is what God family. The verses contain a prophecy, 3moke" enough in a political sense, when fkure, told that his uncle had well calculated a small box. I contained a bracelet of intended when he said he would make av and were written by Mrs. Abby Marsh, in it is taken into consideration the recent the effect of his words. Truly, hair with an inexpensive clasp, and a help-meet for man. But, nowadays, too the year 1787, at her home in Sherbrook, Electoral frauds. Can the last two lines with his frank brown eyes, his sensitive locket. often a tax, a burden, an expense, which* Canada. Her immediate descendants by any possibility refer to the sage of mouth, his broad white brow, he looked "When we were in Paris," he said, "I a man cannot support without a large fortune. claimed that Mrs. Marsh was possessed of Grammercy park, received at the hands little like a man to be bribed, but it was had this bracelet made of Myra's hair They have perverted the objectsof extraordinary powers of foresight, and instanced of the Trfbune. as easy to read that he could be ruled by and mine woven together she has the their creation. an occasion where she awoke his affections. When he spoke his voice companion one. This tiny coil of gold But Columbia shall again from a dream in time to save the life or a Work is not degrading. Faithful attention was low and pleading Rise, and fairnr be than then (sic). in the clasp was cut from the baby's head, child. Like all other prophetic effusions to household duties is pleasant Brother shall with brother speak "Do you mean. Uncle George, that I our little darling, then but three months however, it received but little attention and ennobling, where the right sentiments Whom he hath not seen a week shall lose your love and respect if I marry old. I must have been some lingerinsr until several of its assertions had become are entertained. If a wife does Letters shall go neath the deep, Ada Willet?" love that made Myra still keep the bracelet Likewise over the mountain steep things of the past, and publ'e attention not strive to make her home pleasant by "Or any other woman who is absolutely like this which she wore constantly. Men shall speak to brazen ears, was called to their apparent fulfillment. cheerfully performing all her duties, hxxty. nobody. What do you know of her?'' That shall be mouths in after years, What :s the matter, Hilton? You are as Fragmentary portions ot the rhyme, disdainfully looking upon the work and Words sooken shall be sent through uost "Only that she is the lovliest, noblest white as death." which Mrs. Marsh called "Columbia's care of her children as drudgery, her" So no syllable be lost woman I ever saw. If you knew her you "Nothing. Is your wife's picture in Destiny,"' found their way into the Canadian marriage vows were not spoken from the A drop of water shall have then would love her." the locket?" The force of many thousand men. newspapers, some* of the extracts heart. What more noble reward need awomanexpect "Yesyes: but I mean, what do you "Yes. You see how beautiful she was." being now in the possession of Dr Marsh. or desire for her life's great It does not take a very fanciful imagination know of her family?"' "I 3ee more than that," said Hilton labor than in ripe age to know that there to draw from the above a clear A reporter obtained permission to copy Only what she has told me herself "and yet I dare not tell you what I hope. have gone out from her example and' indication of Prof. Edison's numerous the old document and they are herewith that her mother died of poverty, after Will you give me one little hour to see training noble and earnest woikers that wonders of invention. The alleged motor given, together with the explanation struggling to support herself by herif"' are honoring her, and are belovedjby GooJ of Mr.Eeely, the Philadelphia mechanic, which a reference to the history of the needle. They were miserbly poor for a "If what?" and man? claims to utilize "a drop of water" with last centuary suggests. Thus it runs: long time, and then Mrs. Willet began to "Only one hourI will be back then." There came to the neighborhood of such effect that thousands of pounds give work to Ada's mother. When she Columbia, home of libertie, "Stop!" Mr. Hilton cried, shaking with Melrose Farm twelve years ago a young pressure are obtained. Shall not twenty rulers see, dica Mrs Willet took Ada to her own excitement. But his nephew was gone. married couple who had not exceeding Much of the next passage is senseless, Ere there shall be battle smoke, home, and, after giving her every advan Hoping, fearing, not knowing what to five hundred dollars in goods and money. and clearly written in imitation of the old Ere peace shall seem to be broke, tage her own child could have enjoyed, hope or fear, Mr. Hilton watched, the This money was all spent in buying & And in waves of peril tost weirds. Whether the rain falling "as adopted her." clock till the hour should be over. He The ancient order shall be deemed lost. span of horses and a few farm implements men ordain might not be taken for the "What was her own name?'' walked up and down, he tried to read, he It is a significant fact, when taken in to cultivate a rented farm. He was not modern weather predictions, is a question "Smith lived over again that past whose remorseful this connection, that R. B. Hayes is the of that class who study ior an excuse for for the individual reader to pass upon. "Bah!" said Mr Hilton, with every expression memoiies had been so vividly recalled. nineteenth ruler of the United States, as going to town and who frequently gowithout Ghosts shall guide the plow, and rain of deep di&gust. "Well, mairy hewill be s^en by the order in which the With Myra's picture before him, an excuse. He attended faithfully And snow shall fall as men ordain hei, if you will, Your present allowance President succeeded each other: thought again of that wild, fierce love to his business. His wife is a scripturahelp-meet. The commonest of stone or stick shall be doubled, but you need not bring 1Washington. 8Van Buren. that had been his happiness and his 15Buchanan, Other shall be than loner, broad, thick. Watchful, earnest, intelligent, 2J. Adams 0Harrison. 16Lincoln. her here and with a sudden fierceness blight. Here and iu a for-ign clime SJefferson. 10-Tyler. devoted. This couple to-day are 17Johnson. he added, I want no woman here to remind tMadison. 11*olk. 18drant Men shall be at 'hesame time. "Why was I not calm, reasonable as worth $15,000made by close attention* 5Monroe, 12Taylor. 19Hayts. Bread ye shall from ashes bake, me of a past hope I had forgoten." 6J O, Adams. 13-FiUmore became my years and position?" he asked to business and not by speculation. recollection1* of his Ice they shall to diamonds make, 7Jackson. 14ti rce. Never, in all his himself, bitterly. "Why did I give a And salt seas their thirst shall slake. That couple who took up their line of The strange chronicler continues: grave quiet uncle, hat Hilton seen him boy's lovj to a womaa who had lived in march from Grundy lately have an aoundance The conclusion, which looks very so moved. His voice was sharp with the The first shall, too, the second be society, and respected all its requirements? of examples to cheer them. Let mchh like the time when "two Sundays pang of some sudden memory, his eyes If the Fates tell Truth as even he I lived an ideal lifeMyra the us take two examples from the West. meet" or "to-morrow come never," runs Where sits the sire shall sit the son, flashed and his whole irame trembled actual one around us. Where is Hilton? The Nebraska City Newt says: But not the son's son. as follows: with omotion. What can he know? What has he discovered? And ere the son shall ruler be im\ ou are a man now," he said, with one Mr. J. B. Wood resides three miles* Only three minutes gone, and Once rlac shall send three All these things shall happen, when west of Syracuse, Neb. Eleven years? agohe of those strange impulses to confidence They shall haopennot before Three with one shall make her four (4), it seems a day sines he was here." arrived with twenty dollars, and took, Six \ears shall b* reckoned four, And there shall be no more. tnat otten seize the most reseived men. But even before the hour was over up a homestead ot 160 acres, and traded Thirteen shall be thirtv nine "a man seeking a wife. I will tell you Reference is undoubtedly made to Gen. Hilton returned. I his eagerness to This shall bj the certain sien bis watch for a land warrant, with which* what has never before passed my lips Washington's proverbial truthtelhng, in question him, Mr. Hilton did not notice Nine and nine rehersing take, he acquired 40 acres more. Since thattime to any living being. I have a wife somewhere, (Eight and one the nine shall make.) the second line, and to the succession of that he came through the drawing-room he has been a worker, and now he When ninety-two aDd eightv-one, and a child, it may be." JohA Quincy Adams to the place of his to the library where ne waited, leaving owns one of the best farms in the country All these marvels shall be done. Utter astonishmont kept Hilton silent. father, third. "But not his son's son," the door a little open. a little paradisewith 100 acres "It is all my .vn lault," Mr. Hilton continued, A singular explanation of this apparently seems to put to Mr. Charles Francis "Where have you been?" Mr. Hilton under cultivation. 40 acres hedged off "that I am a lonely miserable unmeaning riddle has been suggested Adams, who has uniformly failed in his asked. for pasture, plenty of fruit and shrubbery. man, instead of a happy husband and father. by a mathematician named Townsed. aspirations to become President. Between "To procure this." Hilton answered, During 1877 he sold $600 worth A'enty years ago wnen I was past "When ninety-two are eighty-one.'' the Adames did come three from gravely, placing in his uncle's hand the of cattle, and has on hand a herd of iorty years old I fell in love. Fell mglove, Washington took his seat as president in "one place" (Virginia), who with the accidental duplicate of the barcelet upon the table iorty. Mr. Wood is independentail the for I was fairly insane over Myra Delano 1789 add ninty-two and you have eiobtvone John Tyler made the fourth nor The same braid of sunny brown hair, work of eleven years." when I had seen her three times. I courted (1881). This 1881 is also made up of has the "Mother of Presidents" since with here and there some of rayen black And *he same paper gives anotherr ones and eights, forming nines in reversed her with eager attention, rich presents, borne a son distinguished by even nomination streaked with gray the same small clasp "Mr. G. Warner came to a Nebraskr order. "The "thirteen" may be taken flattery, every fascination I could commend. to the Chief Magistracy. The propecy with a wee coil ot baby curl under the poor boy, but he started in the right way. as alluding to the original number of I was not an unattractive man at proceeds: glass the same lettering, tooMyra and He did not wait for fortune to come, but States, which the rhymer (remember that forty. I had travelled extensively, had George twined together with fantastic The first sprung from these fecund lions started in pursuit, and he has been successful she is stated to have'written in in 1789, been a close student, was emphatically a scrolls and twists. In death his predecessor joins 4 in the ehase. obtained ahomestead not in 1812 or 1813) would have in her society man, a successful lawyer, and Who beneath his son shall pass For several moments there was deep where he now lives, and hiafarm mind. The recent introduction of a bill cammanding large wealth. Myra was And in a house that different was. silence. The old man could not speak, now covers 820 acres, and his residence, into Congress proposing a Constituional twenty-five, superbly handsome, accomplished The next one shall have peace and war and the young one would not break in barns and out buildings are as"-' amendment to extend the term of the and graceful. The third shall brook no kingly star upon wnat he felt to be a. sacred emotion good as will be found on farms east. I Executive to six years, may cover the "I thoueht she loved me. I thought When the quarter century's run, At last, lifting his head, George Hilton his orchard he has 2,500 apple trees, 40f line there was only trust and devotion in the Where sat the sire shall sit the son. asked. cherry trees, and pears and peaches in It is difficult to interpret a portion of lovelight of her large blue eyes, the varying Six years snail be reckoned four, "Does Myra live? Can she forgive bearing. Mr. E. Andrews is a neighbor this extract. Jefferson and John Adams, color upon her cheek. We were married, me?" Mr. Marsh'considers the document as of Mr. Warner he brought a little butt it is well known, died on the 4th of July, traveled two years on the continent "It is years since she died," Hilton answered, genuine, and is able to produce a copy not much money to Nebraska, and during 1826, their simultaneous death forming and then returned here to this house and "but, surely, in heaven she has of the green mountain (Vt) Chronicle the eight years he has been aresidenon one of the most remarkable coincidences opened its doors to society. Our child forgiven yqu. She never spoke oi yon to published in 1813, which contains an almost his farm he has been thoroughly successful. in history bu i the meaning of was nearly a year old when we came verbatim copy. your child but in words of respect and He now owns and farms 500^ the clause, 'And in a house that different home, and what love I could spare from affection, though she always spoke of acres his buildings are excellent he has was,' is rather vague. The venerable Myra I gave to baby Anna. you as dead." ex-President died on the floor of the Capitol, Two or three months ago an extended 15 acres of orchard, five miles of live "We were very popular, being hospitable "My child! You Know my child?" but the latter building is part of the description of the large dairy conducted hedge, and he is fattening this year 100 and generous, gathering around us "1 know and love her. Do you not original one erected at the seat of Government. by the Darlington brothers, in Delaware head of steers and 160 hops from the corn refined people, and both exerting ourselves guess, Uncle George, where I saw that Mr. Adams, administration witnessed county, Pa., was printed in the Intelligencer. he grew in 1877, and he estimates that he to the utmost tor the pleasure of bracelet whose duplicate I recognized at both the war with England and I was therein stated that no will have 2,000 bushels for his pigs in our guests. But while we were traveling, once, whose taee is a living copy ot the the period of peace and prosperity which blooded imported stock of any kind is the summer." all-in all to each other, there was sleeping one in your locket? Must I tell you that followed while the quarter century, reckoning kept on the place, and all the purchases These triumphs of energy are not alone in my heart a demon who stirred to from 1800, saw the inaugural ceremonies the child Mrs. Willot rescued from poverty, of cows are made without regard to breed in Nebraska, but they are all over Iowa life when we returned. of the younger Adams. and adopted for her own, is my or pedigree. Having seen the published, Minnesota, Kansas, Missouri, and in every "Strong as my love I found my jealousy. Here several lines in the paper are so cousin, and your daughter?" statments of Eastburn Reeder, made to land where energy, enterprise and* I was an idiota mad, jealous obliterated or defaced that they are unthe "Ada Smith?" Guenon Commission, which they think economy have planted their feet andi idiotfor I stung a proud, sensitive woman readable. ''Smith was the name h^r mother designed to show superior excellence for reared their standards.Iowa State Req to contempt of rny opinion, defiance Then comes who should have been befon, thought mtost probably would conceal Jersey cows, the Darlingtons have written titer. of my unworthy suspicions. Now I cansee A soldier, who shall not have any war. her identity, and Ada was the name ol out a result of the production of thenown that Myra was but filling her proper Mrs. Willet's only child, who died in infancy." "Old Hickory's" record seems to bear herd. They state that during the place in society as hostess or guest but this out, especially the last line. The first week in August they were milking Burglars broke into toe house of a horribly then, blinded by my jealousy, I grudged vigorous manner in which he "sat down" "But why have you not brought her to over 100 head, all native" stock, and that ugly old maid, the other night, andy. any other man a pleasant look or a cheery upon the Nuiiifiersof that day "deferred," me?*' asked" Mr. Hilton, with almost a it required 9.71 quarts of milk produced just as they approached her couch, tn word. I cannot tell you now of every so Mr. Bancroft says, "the approaching sob in his voice. And as he spoke, the by them to make one pound ot butter. woman, who was dreaming she was being scene that turned her love for me to fear civil war for many years." The prophecy: door Hilton had left ajar opened, and According to Mr. Reeder's calculation it proposed to by a handsome young man. and dislike She became pale and miserable, ^1,2) After the fox the lion shall across the threshold stepped a'tall, beautiful took 9 82 quarts of the milk of his herd rose up in bed, and exclaimed, "Yes love,^ often sullen and defiant. Finally girl, with sunny brown hair, and to make a pound. The Darlingtons add i Be lordly ruler over all I will marry you!" The frigniened bur- she left me." lar blue eyes, who waited timidly until *-f But death shall in the mansion wield that the average above given is below *a dow-sashan never stopped througuntil thewin-.thev fo,,^!" -u ?":c glars sprang thirty feet Sword surer than in the tenied field. hav "Left you?'' I her father came quickly to meet her under a haystack fifteen mile^ 'i"V (3) After him there comes anon, 7ear "I came home one afternoon alter conducting W,^ir^^ hi "Anna!" he said, softly. "Can this be One who tad friends, but shall have none an intricate criminal case, and wer wL?*ea tha2n ninedpounds peunf milk.^ ^^JSS my babymy wee daughter? It must be, less (4) The hickory shall sprout again Ifiss than nine winnrto nf milk i3,i.ssaaaa _,, i from town.PhU. Chronicle-Herald. 4. 4H Irt sass& W^Sm^i^m ski. "*Si 'Si-^y^aiiiBK^PF"