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524?: and toe, and iatterly curvs-e and worshiped 1y :1 husband, Roâ€"e had come to think n importance hr too much of her ow as Mrs. 1:039 Mather.-â€"nee MisaRose -c nmma an acknowledged an‘ 'Ve‘. Ut| II\'“ were (1 he left her, and Rose’s heart was well nigh bursting with its load of pain. It was all in vein that. she said her usual form of prayer, never more meaningless than now when her thoughts were so wholly ab-‘ 90er 'with something else. She did not pyay in faithI but because it was what hegsmi how tightly aha clung to his I‘- i.‘-. kn: d‘h 3:02: seas-ma m ”DI DUI-V.â€" v-.- of 3. God does not t is more lip service. in a stranger to the pr. u; sure Ber with to .. "Is my daughter better? smile upon and [latter m . ,And then she . _ fut- wild scream of Joy int which had cradled her b' hing piteously: go ‘ ‘ mother, Willie has \\ illie has gone to the re- mg. lhlt her mothei’s teats should flow so glance ‘ ' - ' ‘ d an ex- now 3 (st and her face wear so ea archy, and am as true a Southern blood as you would “181) to see. I’ve Southern army under Beauregard. and shall shortly bring the wa. Shelspoke of him, asking why her mother threshold of the Capitol, f be hm not prevailed on him to stay at home, Mrs. Carleton answered, prompt- mon at 1y: . the Ya 3'. 3 . :ted “1 never loved him one-half so well, fun. Inieziotuhtt lime: 2?,geiiot her, to] o ring for Margaret. You'l as on that night when he told me he told had volunteered. He would be un- ce rs worthy of the Carleton blood he bears, a his mre he to hesztate a moment!” and the eye of the brave New England the matron kindled as she added: “If 1 had a o _ twenty sons, I “cum rather all should ing twice, but I'm improving fast, ant tell die on the Federal battle field than shall soon be able to pick off aYanke ) him Eh Jimmie Jimm' ‘0; to h“? ggntlgf at a dis-tame of a mile! ather ed‘bo 1,, 4' “L" y p001 ”gm . “2 o'clock, P. M. ““M‘ y .. --__ mun», ' "Well, mother, I take it tor grante (Limp "A“ 01“) ninolv ‘1‘"de up in bed, Wit want the camphor, and make a fuss of course, so while you are enjoying that diversion, I’ll go and practice a little with my gun. You know could never hit a barn without shoot husband answered: ”You can w darling, â€"-â€" ‘ -' ' ' It will help “i can". 1 "“1 “I don’t know lie, Willie! I }Gone . 'to the lime form lymg. as he had put it ------- dreary pain thr 'ndful f the loud hurrah zmd all unml which greeted William Mather, as he cw r and wave bled there to see had meant at the very heroic, so brave, to worthy the wife of a. soldier, had fainted. v-â€"o “20h mothel , It was very that her motht w W" . It was a piteous cry which came from the depths of that mother’s ach- ing heart,â€"a cry 30 full of anguish that Rose was startled, and asked in much alarm what it was about Jim- mie. Had she heard from him, and was he really dead? ' “No, Rose," and in the mother's voice there was a hard, bitter tone. “No, not dead, but better so, than what he is. Oh. I would >0 much rather he had died when a little, innocent child, than live to bear the name he hears!” “What name, mother? What has Jimmie done? Do tell me, you frighten me. you look so white!" and Kobe clung, closer to her mother, who, with quiver- ‘ inz; lip and faltering voice, told her how recreant runaway Jimmie had joined the Confederate army under Beauregard, and was probably then ' marching on to Washington to meet ' her other son, in deadly conflict, it L'might be; his hand, the very one, per- haps, to ered the fratriridal bullet L ' which should shed a brother’s ' life- ’ lblood! f _ “No, Rose," a there was a 11 not dead. but is. Oh. I won] died when a 1i |IIU\Iuo No wonder that her heart grew faint when she thought of her loy as a Relishâ€"aye, a rebel of ten times deep- er dye that if he. had been born of Southern blood, and reared on South- ern soil, for the toot-tree which :hel- tered his childhood was almost beneath n _the shadow of Bunker Hill’s monu‘ ment, and many an hour had he sport- ed at its ha:<e. playing directly above the graves of those brave men who fell that awful day when the fierce thunders of war shook the hills of Bos- .ton, and echoed across the smoky waters of the bay. Far up the lofty tower, too, as high as he could reach, his name was written with his own boyish hand. and the mother had read it there since receiving the shameful letter which told of his dis- ‘grace. lClimhing up the weary, wind- ing flight of stairs, she had looked ’ through blinding tears upon that , name, â€" James Madison Carleton, -- ' half hoping it had been erased, it ' seemed so like a mockery to have it ' there on Freedom’s Monument, and llknow that he who bore it was a traitor 3ito his country. Yet there it was, just. Has he left. it years ago, and with a Pblush of shame the mother crossed it 3 ,out. just as she fain would have cross- 3;sd out his sin could that have been. t .But it could not. She knew that Jim- 1' ,mie was in the Southern army, and; ' , not wishing to speak of it at home, b where he already bore no envied name; h , she had come for sympathy to her only r. ldaughter; and it was well for both she ,1! ’did, for it hetpéd to divert Rose's gm: “3 , into a new and different channel; to h ,set her right on many points, and DAYS. Vivi-J -___ too. Dear _ iittle Rose. 1 aw... :llly laid down my pen and laughed aloud as I thought how V. . she looked when I treate 5 egj‘ordihgfiegllge worms; telling her I had a . ’ , _ for her! Didn"t she dance and dxdn’t ’11 I saw stars! her very perienced when she . ° on her neck, 1t had (1011, the h nor made her she had ever ow e teasing boy. She mother replied by taking out a letter, on which Bose reâ€" cognized her brother's handwriting. ' ” Mrs. Carleton ‘jne sent me this, 1 L-n..:n.-y “Den I used Martha sand, and about Rose. too Dear httle Bose I actu- ' Just now 'l‘nm thrash me. tOO, U” I saw 82:13! lrcny. an“. am an: t.- v-v â€" .- . I’ve got a Palmetto cockade on my cap.â€" 1 tiny Confederate flag on my sleeve, and what is best ' Southern army under and shall shortly bring th threqhold of the Capitol, licking the Yankees there congregated like fun. It’s about time now, mother, for you to ring for Margaret. You'll the camphor, and make a fuss, of course, so while you are enjoying that diversion, I’ll go and practice a little with my gun. You know I hit a ham without shoot- ing tw1ce, but I'm minrovrng fast, and e war to the t“. a Ulbvuuxw u- .- your head, as the result of what I’ve : told you. I’m sorry that you should feel so badly, and wish I could see you for an hour or so, as I could surely convince you we are right. We have been browbeaten and trodden upon by the North until forbearance has ceas- ed to be a virtue, and now that they’ve thrown down the gauntlet we will meet them on their own terms. I dare say they have made you believe that we struck the first blow by firing into Sumter, but, mother, those northern papers do lie so, all except the Herald, and a few others, which occasionally come within a mile of the truth, but even they have been bribed recently, or something. If you want the un- biased truth of the matter subscribe for the Richmond Examiner, or better yet, the (‘harleston Mercury, whose editor is a New England man, and of course is capable of judging right. He knows what has brought on this war. He’ll tell you how the South Carolin- tans generously bore the insult of the Federal flag flying there defiantly in their faces until they could bear it no longer, and so one day we pitched tn. - "I say we, for I was there in Fort Moultrie, and saw the fight, but did not join, for the brave fellows, out, of compliment to my having been born near Bunker Hill, said I needn’t, so I mounted a cotton bale and looked on. feeling, I’ll admit, §o§ne as I used to on the Fourth of July, when lsaw‘; how noble old Sumter played her part. And once, when a shell burst within ten feet of me, turning things gener- ally mpsy curvy, and blowing shirt sleeves and coat sleeves, and waist- hands and boots, higher than a kite, I was positively guilty of hurrahing for the Stars and Stripes. I couldn't. help it, to save me. 'And yet, mother. I beliqve the North wrong.â€"and the South right, but so geherous a pe‘ople are we._ that al_l we ask now, it; for you to let us alone; and if the Lincolnites won' t do. that. why. then we must stoop to fight the mud-sills. It's all humbug. too, about the negroes being on the verge of in- surrection. A more faithful, devoted set, I never saw. They'll fight for their masters until they die, every man of them. Tom will tell you that. What are his politics? Bell and Ev- erett. I dare say. so there's no danger :of my meeting him in battle, and I'm glad of it, for to tell the truth. I should feel rather tickliah raising my gun pgeingt - old Torn.__ May be. fhoughf he is humbugged like tie to}; and farm: 1 mri nf thnf unfl- “IA ‘. H-vvâ€"uâ€" * â€"wâ€"" “cc “to 1W5. and forms a part of that unit aid to . m to ”I591 â€"â€" v v Southern r . But strange thmgs happen nowa aye, and it may Tom, , has turned hxs ° ' h the Feder- e of the day, when 90 array; 3 held of weak cow rds rushes full on my ' ht. and t ranks of the attered m flight. \Von’t as you call us at home. bad about that, either, to you, if wear it next my heért, and when I go ep it there. Per- into battle I shall ke ' life, who knows .’ ' d, and must close are long. Now, Mother, please don't uâ€"- 'rhn ere long. Now, mower. rum-av “7..- u. waste too many tears over me. [he time will come. when you'll see we are H right; and if it will be any consola- tion, I will say in conclusion, that l it have written a heap worse than I real H ly believe. I am not a fool. I underâ€" 8‘ stand exactly how the matter stands, 0 but I like the Southern side the. best. a I think they are just as near right as . be the last time I'll ever write to you. I’ve been a bad boy, mother. and troubled you so much. but if I’m shot you will forget all that. and only remember how, with all my faults, I loved you still,â€"â€"you and Tom and little Rosierâ€"more than you ever guessed. “By the way, I believe I’ll send you a lock of my hair. out just over my left ear. where you used to think It it won't be; that old Bull across the sea will be goring you with his horns 3 first you know. Then you’ll have a 1 sweet time up there. beset before and ,, behind, and possibly annexed to Canâ€" ;‘é ton by a chap who is goinc to desert. ’e yowhnow, and join the Federals with} 'r a. pitiful story about having “9““ 1; pressed into the Rebel service, telling it tlull-”Ilutot). how poor and weak and deâ€" ly moraltzed we axeâ€"how a handful of it troops can lick us, and so draw them >d mto our web, as a spider tempts a " fly. don’t you see? They offered me rt that honor, knowing that a son of id George Carleton, twice M. C. from Massachusetts, and now defunct. . . I AL--.. L‘Ldaait‘zuum“ b3. ("Iu I‘\"' ‘I‘ u- be above suspicion. and xixâ€"(mm thus“. gather a h_e_ap of items. But hang ‘â€"-â€" ‘.\-On‘u having had sense enough to wait um til I was twentymrne, are I ran away. and so bringing a part of my property with me... Money makes the mare if“ hgre as elsewhere, but. I'm about runâ€" nlng out. I wish you could send me a- few thousand. can't 19“,"- in me 0111ch 5 image and. “mm see It- 10 5”“ "‘"""'â€"" Must have The wife of an thlish clergyman“ has made a collection of all the hub tons placed in the offertory bags dur- ing the last two or three years, and has fastened them to cardboard in var- ions cunning shape- ot animals. birds and flowers. As a bazaar is shortly to take place in connection with thv church she had these button pictures photographed. end copies will he on sale at the exhibition. In. Slimdietâ€"Tho city “tor com~ my has mined my tutu. Old Boarderâ€"Thy must have found out that n have alt mackerel for AN UNHXPNTID NELIESISs OFFERTORY BUTTONS. To ' Be Confirmed. ant to fight against n. This, to me, is 113 feature of the Let be shot or taken will be by some 0”“ ’81. This last I'm Dm's mn8tit Give ate. and tell him ”0' and some for uthern people. has turned his ith the Feder- v‘ is. ‘Tommie, A "1111.01! FARMEI mu mull REMARKAB E cm n log-lu- nun“. I. ‘ rm, and but»: You... .0 “Wu‘ was humble Jaw m“. My“: lulu". I!“ Mr. Robert MCGee, of the M family were born. This rt ‘ is known as Mdiee‘g Sefiemggglh are so many of that name living‘i“: vicinity. Never in my lift did um what a day‘s sickness was until M 1895, when without any known on and without any warning 1 : stricken down with an epileptic fit it came on in the night, ems-1‘8““ consternation in the household, a.“ wife, who never any imbibing a“. kind before, thought it was “Wow.“ for myself lnvitlter felt nor knew m. thing that \K'Jth‘ going on about II. After coming out of the, count“ which they tell we usually lumen". fifteen to thirty minutes. lwoultlmt into a heavy sleep fromwhich [would awake with a dull. heavy feeling,“ all the muscles of my body would b sore. This would was way an“. a day or two after the attack lwottld be able to attend to my farm WI. 1 but strange to say every four mtg 3 after as regular as a clock I wouldh D seized wit 1) :1 fit. which always came“ t in the night. Yuri-nus doctors anticoa- .- cialists were consulted. and hooks". 'v- eral different im--d;r-incs. but without ll effecting a cure. Several doctors all n the disease was int‘UTTliliP. Imdd 38 Dr. \Villiams" Pink Pills in the no.» It papers and was 2t(iViS“dhy friends“ is bad exwrienond cures from other" ie ingly incurable Ailments. to try then in [n Novemlwr 18‘”; l commenced ti ie kept on taking: thorn tit-uularlyfott in year. Thu drerttleti tut-noipasaedafl ye waged 3‘! tin anti (lg-'l n \'.‘l'.h’|\li a” 0- petition of my trouble, .n'l 1 Milk! f-V K‘C ° _, «t that her or 0 1h .‘ITS. 310‘!!! i, 5.1“ V” " we.“ ‘hv must ‘ do most setitiuH‘y :ttftn"in1 h“! M"! 118 and general hrwi ii Ii“ -iiP WTIS alwtyt 0k 'vi in drezttl. ”1'1 m h I'12'ht'9t Ttwt. Th“ F'Wh'm no" she “‘80 iQ ‘h change. th'l‘. 1119 ("fly ‘00 glad m lat afflictionq remedy fm‘ ”“3“ Dr. Wimnms' the .y ‘n<|" I‘ll ‘ III‘ - ._ P ie env‘hwed in a the fu'l Made 1!] ’ Pink mm for P: the now does by 8. t1)? stahl in and again mthontu my 'rnuhle, w! I MM! st rel med frnmlhistelfi I am nuw inthehd l I mni‘uwmv Pareto flat: Pi Hs” In mnmut McGee hh‘ Siid tin frnnh]? was the an 111M 9 mnvo WI LC; nu uu‘ u._ mother than in 1h.) m There is less danzvr the house at 1h}: 1 m» ‘:h~ s7?uh'99? 110! when hens are 1w gm; ' into the fields. '0 bid t droll Irish f' . {ho tqldjns to always 51*" I! h}: i h I ' h? “"‘IS 3‘“. that it “In L St to bring 81‘ R!“ I! use m but) h the light of "A“ 3 way over aim-e .n with gobble”; Mun hit]; but in the :m'u' no prone tn nu. boring (looks by sun“ In neighborliness I m to a system Hf 'a | ‘~ 0 r P1” PH” . reducing: _ um " “I! (obblera “unld . 5' _ - ““6 our DGighlml“ .‘ s“ 'v "‘5 ““de tnnsformed into gm” w' Y; r w‘ G I £53.. .23- a1 It girls if left till eventng. th good lurk in has 1 M i. no indUl‘vmvn "him home for ”1.1! \\ 1m mlly require. ; ize (lat ‘h 16 T]. 103 3‘3"” 1W I- w--. . . â€" b their own hung from g m fathered out 2i]! 1 bd uptembor, when it xw‘ ‘ M until Thrtukxgni pill! crown 'urkeys a! phmnlly to keep {Iv-m : l turkey hatChod in Angus pt to bring a dollar :1 (‘1 db thrive be! ter in au: um W mother than in NW m I. There in less damp-r I C (aster wlwn m k“ such 3 great dimanc “rt out in the mnrmn Muse it pavs. MM you know it pny~ ll m to the question. h the experience of one u “If“. He says: 1“” hand a great am! “at of excitement upo “ind. up my m'md I w “it! there was anythém “I it m like g grand n a ., : ~"75rd jut before milk “tub and yelled and “mu but dldn't strike a I)! ‘hl‘kad loudly. and fur a ’ "v tu a tone 01 um a"! “.0 in Speaking m ' it“! ‘8 not ”wary: Plain, matter-ad I. ‘ Every time a m wt... or 0‘ horwi; “”1 his vows. a m 0‘ hi3 OW!) pm‘kc‘t .fi‘. it If the cow {I ml, planned .‘1 H :q t. ”'1 I told the. hired u ‘cm and I got a: N the M and “'an nu Ed nut before milk m dumbfounde .n II I mu“! 0“ in the :unmu . not so vmy mm L VII 1"! It marked aim-.- ‘ dim ppv ht had I), the excitmne " up It ' tbuse just be)! ute- KEEP THE COW Qt" I} ill in the shit la n tone of voi I {on was in t I Inve a N‘liul) he felt hired ma n as i .' tin. 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