The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1862-07-23

There were four 9th ers, inmates oil tn
room, who had arisen on my sudden en-.
trance One was the bIue-eyed child whom
4 bad already seen, and now stood b,
Frank Chester, clinging TO his hand. Nea
By stood Lizzie, Mary Moore's eIdes, sister
and in distant corner, where she hat
hnrriedly re,reafed when my name wa
sPokeo, stood a tall and slender figure hal
hidden by the heavy window curtain thai
tell on The floor.
When the first rapturous greeting was
over Jennie led me forward with tmid
grace, and Frank Chester grasped my hand
"WeIcome home my boy" he said with
the loud cheerful tones remembere6 so
well. 'You have changed so much ever
would have known you-but 40 mater Tor
that your heart is in the right place
know.
"How can you say he is chaged ?" said
my mother, gently. "To be sure he looks
older and graver and more like man than
when he went away, but his eyes and his
smiles are the same as ever. 1t is that
heavy beard that changes him. He il my
boy still.''
God help me T? AT that moment felt
like boy aud il would have been bless
ed relief 10 have wept upon her bosom, as
had done in my infancy. But kept down
the beating o. my heart and the tremor OF
my lip, und answered quietly, as looked
in his full handsome face
'You have changed TOO Frank but
think for the better"
''Oh yes thank you for the complime Mt
My vile tells me | grow handsomer every
day.
His wife Could hear that name aud
keep silent still!
'And have you seer nay little girl 3 he
added, lifting The Infant 10 his arms, and
kissing her crimson cheek tell you, Har-
ry, there is not another like her in the
United States DON'T you think shs ooks
very much like her mother used 10 2"
Very much | ialtered.
'Hallo y said Frank, with suddenness
that made me siarle violently, 81 had for.
gotten 10 introduce you to my wife, be-
lieve you aud she used TO be pIayma'es in
your days. Eth, Harry ~ aud he slapped
me on the back. ''For the sake 0 old
times, and because you were not here a,
the wedding, will give you leave 10 kiss
her one--bul miud old fellow, don'i re-
peat The ceremony. Come-here she is,
and Tor once will manage those fero;ious
mous,aches OF yours in the operation"
He pushed Llzzy, laughing and bIusaing,
toward me. A gleAm OF light aud hope, al
most 20 dazzling to bear. came over me,
and cried out before ! thought: mot
Mary"
|, must have betrayed my secrets 10 every
one in the room; but nothing was said
even Frank was this lime silent kissed
The fair cheek of the young wife aud hur-
ried 10 The silent figure looking out of The
window.
"Mary--Mary Moore" said !, in a low
Eoice, have you alone no welcome to
give the wanderer l'
She turned and laid her hand in mine
and murmured huriedly-
81 am glad to see you here Harry 2
Simple words-and yel how blest they
made me! | would MOI have yielded up
hat momonl tor an Emperor's crown
There was tue happy home group and the
lear home fire side and there swee, Mary
Moore The eyes had dreamed ef by
hight and by day were falling beion the
lrdea, gaze OF mine-aud the sweet lace |
had so long prayed 10 see, was there be-
ore me-more beautiful more woulany
Ind more loving than before ! | never
knew all thai moment the meaning OF hap
1iness.
Many years have passed since that hap.
" nigh, and the hair that was dark aud
Glossy then is fast turning grey. | am
growing 10 be an old man and Can look
,ack 10 a long aad happy and well spent
ife. And yet sweet as il has been would
lot reeali a single day Tor the love that
made my manhood so bright shines in the
lid man! Can this be 30 Z Al heart am
Is young as ever. And Mary will her
lair parted smoothly from brow tha has
slight iurrow in il is stil the Mary OF my
Early days. To me she eau never grow old
,r change The hear that held her 10 in
ahcy and sheltered piousIy in her he flesh
md beauty OF womanhood can never cast
Ter out till Iiie shall cease to warm it,
Vol even theu, for love s,ilI lives in
heaven.
The PowERoE SHELLs.-Severai instances
secured during the battle ot Shiloh, show
ng the terrible destructive power OF heiis.
n one place lay five men VINO appeski to
laye sheltered themselves behind tree IN
rider 10 take better aim at our mel
he'll bnrs. just over their heads. Oae man
vas struck just OH top OF the head, and
ZACH successive man was struck lower
own abont The breast aud body in regular
rider One OF the men grssped ii, one