Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-10-06

which bad beset him before the failure of
MS house became certain-a temptation bv
yielding To which he could have saved him.
sell from failure. But it must have been
Oy dishonest means, by taking advantage
OF others IN bls pOwer-in short, BY fraud,
which, though mans law never could
reach, Gods did, with that eternal do
unto others as ye would they should do unto
you
o. thank God thank God you were
delivered from this evil! had rather you
should go down to your grave without a
dollar than have committed this siD,' said
May Malcolm; and the tears were bright
10 her blue ewes.
And afterwards there fell little silence
betwixt these two, husband and wife 1t
was broken by the latter She looked up
in the man. face. and her little fingers
sifted themselves through the dark hair
that bad no shocks Of gray. and her look,
bright, grateful. loving, touched and euu,
veyPd O great deal.
What is it. Mary?'
i was thinking, John, how much better
off to-day l am than thousands of wives
throug hnut the land How many there are
who sit in their lonely homes, wearing the
slow hours away with hopes and fears for
the husbands who have gone to the war.
and whose dreams at night ale filed with
visions OF battle-heldS, where the one loved
face lies white and CHASTITY on the sOdden
grass, with no hand to offer the last cup of
cold water, nor ear TO catch the last, low
word. Alb, John, my eyes have never
sought-ss so many eager eyes do search
-:Ur your name among the lists of dead
and wounded; and failed" seems q word
to thank God for when l think of that
She was crying uOw-she, the broken
merchants wiie-crying for joy.
Mary, said John MALCOLM, / never
thought of all this, never once thanked
God for 1t, though this day has been the
darkest and the brightest of nv life; for
out Of the thick cloud has its bles, ed light
shined.'
And after q while their talk went on all
the practical matters and uses which so
nearly concerned them-the retrenching
their expenses, the selling the furniture at
once. and settling themselves in the cottage
as Mary called il. always speaking the
VOrd with tone which gave it sWeeter
asv'r Of home
Il can get a clerkship. and we can con.
tr!Ve to live on q small salary until tie war
is over, which God grant may not be long :;
and atterward | shall. doubtless, see nv
way clear into business again. But, Mary,
don't you know how folks will pity you be-
hind your raek, and say you have come
down dreadfully az the world, and say that
1t Is shame you ever threw your self away
on such poor dog as l am?'
They went know what they're saving,
then, and ce' tanly shsn't care for it,
Her smile was clear and bright now. as
sunshine that has struggled with the cloud,
and come out Of it triumphant.
Well Mary. a strong heart makes a
stout ann, aud | sball toll with both for
yoo and the chIldren, as man does for
those who are dearer than life to him.
Dear John her haLG futtered down
on his shoulder in a pretty, caressing way,
though her tones needed nothing % re.
Il came home, Mary, a miserable, dis
eonraged. broken spirited mau; and now /
feel as brave, as strong, as cheerful too, az
ever did in my life--aye, aud richer; for
it needed this day and this trial to show
me what the woman IShave married was
worth and all she could be to me. o, Ma
~, II there were only more wives in the
world like yuu!'
Dear reader, have you ever stord. like
this woman, face to face with adversity?-
anG have you, too. learned in what spirit to
take it?