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are authorized to use all necessary
means.
“‘Given under my hand and seal,
(supposed,) this 27th day of June, one
thousand, eight hundred and twenty
two. William Simpson, J. P.”’
“Just the thing for an off-hand war
rant,” said Mr. Phelps, with a laugh.
“ One thing more,” said the magis
trate. ‘‘ I appoint you, Samuel Phelps,
commander of this posse, with powers
of a bailiff.”
“ Enough,” said Phelps, as the squad
galloped away.
Saloquah looked eagerly after them,
as if he would like to be of the party,
but he said nothing, and remained with
us.
In the course of another hour, the
magistrate, assisted by citizens who
came in, took charge of the bodies and
gave us leave to depart. Garcon, the
dog, had greatly revived under our care,
and now gave some promise of life.
Lorenzo and I were permitted to take
him with us, and to keep him until de
manded by rightful authority. And I
may here say that he was never demand
ed. He remained with me as long as
he lived, a loving companion and a
faithful guard; and, when at last he
died of old age, lie was succeeded in
office by one of his descendant’s, the
nearest like him that could be had. and
he succeeded by another, who is in my
service now, and whose voice kept my
yard so lively last night by his answers
to the barking dogs that I had to go
out and silence him by a switch. We
reached home that afternoon.
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An Amusing Answer,
A sub-committee of a school board,
not a thousand miles from the city of
Lynn, Massachusetts, -were examining
a class in a primary school. One of
the committee undertook to sharpen
their wits by propounding the following
question :
“ If I had a pie, and should give two
twelfths to John, two-twelfths to Isaac,
two-twelfths to one of the others boys,
and keep half the pie myself, what
would there be left?” There was a pro
found study among the scholars, but
finally one lad held up his hand as a sig
nal that he was ready to answer.
“Well, sir, what would be left? Speak
up loud, so that all can hear,” said the
committee man.
“The plate!” shouted the hopeful
fellow.
The committee man turned red in
the face, while the other members
roared aloud. That boy was excused
from answering any more questions.
t The Poles.
Johnny is beginning to learn geogra
phy. He says that the Poles live partly
at one end of the globe and partly at
the other. He knows it is so, because
it is marked on the map.
Caution is the lower story of pru
dence.
BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
Written for Burke’s Weekly.
The Disobedient Mice.
tN old mother rat with her five lit
tle mice,
Once lived in a closet so cosy and
o nice;
a cheese box she’d made a
snug little nest,
And lined it with cotton the softest
* and best.
She went out in search of her dinner one day,
Charging them all in the closet to stay:
“ Now, children,” she said, “be as ‘ still as a
mouse,’
Nor while I am gone budge an inch from the
house,
THE MOCKING BIRD.
For, early this morning I met in my route
The ugliest creature a prowling about:
And if you the monster should chance to
espy,
Take my word for it, dears, you surely would
die.
It had a long beard, a tail, and huge paws,
Great goggle eyes and a set of sharp claws.—
The awfullest monster you ever did see !
Be good then, my darlings, and listen to me !
No sooner her back had the mother rat
turned, ,
Than the mice, naughty things, her wise
counsel spurned.
Johnny-jump-up was the first to begin:
“ On my honor,” said he, “ it’s a shame and
a sin!
Does my mother suppose were so easily fool
ed ?
I’ll have her to know I’m too old to be ruled.
You can do as you please, I’m determined to
creep
To the kitchen this night before going to
sleep,
From the cook to pilfer a morsel of bread.
For w’ith hunger and thirst I am nearly quite
dead.”
So saying, he scampered away from the nest.
Not so much as glancing behind at the rest.
They looked at each other, then Grey-back
the next,
Mustering his courage, quickly took up
the text:
“Brother Johnny is right, we children
were dull
Could every such ‘ cock and bull story’ us
gull.
It is downright cruel to force us to stay
Shut up here in this prison the live-long
day.
Let’s walk out awhile and take the fresh
air;
:=: Thank my stars, here’s one not so easy to
scare 1
I’ll venture to say it is nothing at all.
So come along, children, let’s play in the
hall.”
Then all, except Eye-bright, who icould stay
behind,
(For she said she intended her mother to
mind,)
Sallied forth —Stump-tail and little 80-peep
Clearing the hole in the door at a leap.
But scarce had they reached to the entry, be
fore
A hideous monster appeared at the door,
With eye balls so glaring and/visage so bold,
As made every drop of their blood to run
cold.
Finding themselves in so dreadful a plight
They thought the best chance for their safety
was flight;
But the closet was far and the entry was wide,
So the poor little creatures had no where to
hide.
Shrinking and trembling, appalled at their
fate,
Oh, how they repented when, alas ! ’twas too
late,
Not having minded their mother, the rat,
When she lovingly warned them againsj the
old cat!
And don’t you all know little Eye-bright was
glad,
When her mother returned with tidings so
sad
That she, like a good little mousey, obeyed,
And safe in her nest in the closet had stayed ?
Mrs. Mary E. McKinne.
Wildwood, Florida.
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Getting the Money,
Heath will put an end to the filling
of the money-bags. Like Jesus in the
temple, death will enter and overturn
the tables ot the money-changers, and
the seats of them that sell doves, and
with a voice of authority he will cry,
“Take these things hence !”
THE MOCKING BIRD.
“AqVplc OST everywhere in our sunny
South the voice of this sweet
warbler can now be heard.
A writer from Monticello, Florida,
under the date of April Ist, says of
this wizard songster of the South :
“ I his is the season for mocking
birds, and from early morning until ten
o’clock, and again after sunset, the air
seems filled with their music ; and you
must stop, and listen, and wonder, and
finally go off in ecstacies nearly, or
your soul is dead to all that is beautiful.
They usually begin with low piping
notes, then twitter like the swallow,
then you hear the eanary’s song, then
follows the bob-o-link, the black bird,
the robin, meadow lark, and songs of
other birds, finishing with peeping like
a chicken, or with the cat bird’s scream.
I am watching with much interest the
labors of one on her nest in a small
orange tree close by my window, being
often vexed with her lazy mate —who
is evidently a believer in female suffer
ing—that he does not help more; but
when, suddenly darting away to the
topmost bough of the tall China tree, he
pours forth one of those witching med
leys, I forgive him, taking back what I
said the minute before to Mrs. M. B.
about calling a Convention.”
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