Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-10-11


grown to be, Flory!'
eyes, papa I know now that you and
will love each other all the dearer by di
solving the old agreement and entering int
another, where no sacrifices will be RI
quired.
"Who is my rival, little one p
A whisper close to her fathers ear, wit
smiling approval from him, then, with
very grave look, she ssid
"Ada leaves us next week, papa"
"No, Flory. Can you let her go?' b
asked. the sad look coming back.
eyes, papa ; if you will make her prom
Use to come back and remain forever y
Flory answered smiling.
Catching her quickly, and pressing he
to his heart, Capt Arden went out Fir.
heard him enter the drawing room.
An hour after he returned, drew her will
him to Ada's side, and said, his voice full
of joyful emotion
"She has promised, Flory. Help mt
thank her for making us so happy"
Flory's arms were about her, her lip
pressed to hers.
That evening little messenger was dis
patched to Fred, bearing from Ada just onf
word, Come"
After few weeks more the new partners
were united in a. firm compact, which gives
assurance of the purest happiness on earth
can afford.
Has She a Gall to be a Wife?
Has she call to be wife who thinks
more of her silk dress than her children,
and visits her nursery no oftener than once
day?
Has she a call to be wife who spends
her time in readigg the "latest novel;, "
compelling her husband with depleted purse,
to hire domestic to supply her lack of SER
vice?
Has that woman call to be wife who
cries for cashmere or camel's hair shawl,
when her husbands notes are protested ?
Has the woman "a call to be a wife who
expects her husband to swallow diluted cof-
fee, soggy bread, smoky tea, and watery
potatoes six days out Of seven?
Has she call to be wife who firts with
every man she meets, and reserves the
frowns for the home Preside?
Has she a call to be wife who c,mes
down to breakfast in abominable curl papers,
a soiled dressing-gown, and shoes down at
the heel?
Has she call to be wife who bores her
husband when he comes into the house with
the history of broken tea-cup. or the pos
sible whereabouts Of missing broom han
die?
Has she a call to be wife who would
take advantage Of moment of conjugal
to extort money or exact prom
ise?
Has she call to be wife whose hus-
bands love weighs naught in the balance
with her next door neighbours damask cur
tains or velvet carpet F?
Has she call to be wife who takes
Journey FOR pleasure, leaving her husband
to toll in close office, and .'have an eye,"
when at home, to her servants?
Has she call to be a wife to whom a
husbands society is not the greatest of earth
ly blessings?
Has she call to be wife who listens to
outside ISLANDERS against her husband ?
The Pooh. Moore of the Rural New
York, was sitting in his Office one afternoon,
some years ago, when farmer friend came
IL and said:
"Mr. Moore, I like your paper, but times
ire so hard that I cannot pay for it."
els that so, friend Jones Pm very sof-
y to bear you are SO poor il you are SO
lard run | will give you my paper
s'Oh, no can't take it as gift
"Well, then. let's see now We can tx it
xqu RAISE chickeus, I believe"
eyes, few, but they don't bring any
hing. hardly"
Don't they? Neither does my paper cost
anything hardly Nov I have proposition
10 make oyou. will continue your paper,
and when you 60 home you may select from
your lot of chickens one and cali it NINE
Take good care Of her and bring me the pro-
ceeds, whether in eggs or chickens, and we
call it square,"
"All right, Brother Moore" and the fel-
low chuckled at what he thought capital
bargain. He kept the contract strictly, and
at the end 'of the year found that he had
paid four prices for his paper He often
tells the joke himself, and says he never had
the face to say he was too poor to take pa.
per from that day.-Model Farmer.
THANK GoD.-At the close Of the Revo-
luton, George III. desired his Chaplain to
return thanks to God.
The Chaplain replied "Sire, do you want
me to thank God that you lost so many
troops p
"No!"
edo you wish to thank God because you
have lost SO many millions sterling?'
'Nop'
EDO you want to thank God because you
have lost thirteen Of your best colonies ?"
tsNop
''Then what do you want to thank God
for r."
"Iswant to thank God because 1t IS no
avorse !'
AS the artist goes to the quarry, and out
of its bark recesses bids the block into light,
sets righteousness to the line, and judgement
to the plummet, works from the invisible to
the visible. makes the image in the soul the
divine original of the image in the marble,
this perfect because that was perfect first !;
so God works in this clay, this dust Of the
earth. The thought is set in the Eternal
Mind, and forever and forever. until it is
perfect, He will work to'the appointed end.