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11 wj . - j* r L. jt-.iniiln jjinml—thbolrii to |)ctib, Ijolitics, literature, Agriculture, anti t|e Jnkslrial Jntosts of fjje |people« j lull,LA US I’l-li: AXXI’.II IX AHVANl'K AI HENS, GA. APRIL 12. 1872 VOL. XLI.—KU. 42—NEW SERIES VOL. 5. NO. 25. - v >. t jj) | jlisccllancua.s. j .Uistvllnncoi m V»" lcn ' 'l] ;ll ' llcr 1W]\r. WOOD Tii <- «<*i *«t r. 1 A ^FUTC A il" 1 f't'CS/th' . HLsccUttnj’. |woni3» than teaching in a public be induced to ga out as cooks, or la- | { V &'A-'ATKINSON, tr T.iaKE 1’^ ANNUM. .s' TRb'TL V /.V .4 /* *'.l ' > r l f , liner l </., m’tfJ. If- If IllT* IJIVKRTKIX'G. *in^ortfl at One Hollar and ,7j\rti of 1 * lines, for the first, and i - ii .»• •»*»»" tl *».»nirvt« w arh Milisoquent nwition, ath. For a longer perlwl DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF F 'f RNITURE, LPURXITURE REPAIRED, UP- linl»:pri-<t nn-1 vani'tOiisl, also a !a:ye up Out! ACENTS WANTED. Miss Twitfhftt. acbo >1. j dies’ maids, or house girls. Any one All day the “A. R, C,” which of! of these vocations might make us Th TJU VK TO TEN DO I 1 MiSn.lnv 1,1 ral " ( ”"»e down steadily, will.'!® 1 * little Twitc, »*« 11:111 regarded as j healthier and happier, and give us U c4n w ma.ie t,T w iiiir; Vcn«w’i Oaier,! tut that sort of persistent energy which ac-1. . n,onotonous hammers pounding | more freedom and more time and and Fisk Citt« always »*n nand. Wan-mom* on Clayton St., next In Enlst-onal Ciiu.xli. Sej*6in. WILLIAM WOOD. \ Business Directory. lU ronn \. s. F.ii*vin. noWBLL conn emm, eriviv ft conn, TTI)v E Y s A T L A W , Slxly-Flre rir*t Prize Itwlala Anarilni ! THE CREtT Sonthrrn Piano MANUFACTORY. /j'impkiii & Jackson, V f'MUNKVS AT LAW, will prarliee ; n tlie Su;*rr» .r • «i AT LAW, will practice i I of Fi.nk Cutinty. the Supi .«*, and th- ” -i.ii-i .*r * '•YHlKL » r r o a x i lll KMOM», : ! •: V A T L A > ii \v ■il.l i. ! \ : >\v \;;f. W VK^BE ft C?. M %!f UFACTVMFRft OF A!\f>,«QI’AMF TFKIfillT Piano Fortes. 'I Bnllimorr, t|nr>lnn<l. MIESE INSTRUMENTS havt ‘ cf..rc t*»c pub!ic for nearly *hirty yimr rrapt. Kca«l the following certificates from well- * nand reliable p.-r.-onj whohave inttl ifieia| ColllplislieS a u TCilt deal. It slid down v^ltroofs softly, ran along the *“««* Slyly, the., plunge.1 precipitate- lv flown the tin leaders that lost to the feet s iper- C. B. VAIL. Nkwti.n House, Atiif.skGz. Man-h 14«h, 1872. Thin fa to l-ertlfy that I Hit* (riot olie ul Mr. Vcranee’a |a»teiit rat traps, and find it superior u> any I hare ever won, bavin;; caught eleven nits tli* first night, and many other, at other times since. A. 0. CLIN A III), Clerk. street, whence it leaped out unexpect edly on passers-by, with an audacious shout and a malicious chuckle pecu liarly exasperating to nervous persons not foud of jokes. It seemed to have taken out a general search warrant, '>•>•*'» i»t* , “ *»» traip,, ami find a mi|h r; ,r t*. j and it inspected leaky routs, and drinp- I have ewwen, having caught fourteen m * , 1 J # # 1 r > nights and many more at other tin.i-5 ^it.<N*. j ed in on the pauper in his hovel, and JOHN sJKl'Mm'U. I cast reproaches on the rich man’s* fres- 1 cocs, and jiccpcd under front doors. .| uglit over one hundred* n*t» ill the > l an r Tu iV I OM c f r. a. eral discount t 1. ih VLitoNKL, Athens (ia. TOUCH, WnRil.MAIE^nil* A17D DUAA3IU:Y. iourSti'A ». f’l.x.Noti luve mir ne* im- .»!. 'i At.Kaml the l?r»Te rtehir. • * uni.I • :ti; tiiH’i i .1 Mttention !»» our late !» flit' ..l he ‘ l|v rhicli linn nan yet o *1.1/ wilts * T» !»5’»»{ *i TFtlfS i*ei»i'*nt .n ihleil t«» ••I M !.I.Oi»KoN> of .ole.al«* and retail, II \!{!>!!■:. » P' Athens,March 11th. 1S72 tocerthy th.it 1 linvc u«ed «»ne of Mr. <*. pe’f|»alent rat traps at the Athena Facto- , . tin,i o ..nr «f the i«ti ever -i- si, having 1 ano came down chimneys, and extin 1 ’ ’'; guished lirrs. and looked boldly into lUltl/.Y. . . rgeni . ’ „r 1 bedroom windows, and stood on tiptoe in dingy .-mil disreputable cellars. It : paid no respect to persons, but persons JfSW SOOSS. were bound to j4iv r°spect to it. In W i'.Fi.'.n'ir! uni! - -' *5g*5S!- a ' Is honor, business assunusl overcoat iii(iiiri>.iv. ttayar.1 Taylor.iiiii-traiea. t and uttibrolla and looked glum, Com- W Oii.iers „f \rgeUtmu. Ky 1W. Scheie ae Vrre. ; . 6 |)ctciicc hiied a cab and lotjketl com fortable, Opulence ordered out his car ■ riage and looked delimit. „ - “ *i« J Through ii oil, Miss Twitchett I tie Tv,, t.uar iiana—new e-litmu. SI 25. I , ‘ .... , liam'. r'. Mis elliiiy—einuiilele. S vu!s. green trudgCtl StC;'- 1 Ollg till llOT CVOry •til. 5l». j l.l la-. v,.v:|—. l..th- $2 each. I da V tllil !i - ~.M V.ilS U V.TV little WO- *1 iviu* !{:■! t’n Novyis—.-l-.tii. «l 50 each. 1 . , . * buna.' i* tri nd*» n.*vei>. $i r.ioirii. I man, :i!i«l uiuitT her spmulin^ urn- 1 S ""° Ko 11,1 1., rite looked like a fairy under a ^ i toadstool. She went past the ir.nli- lu'tniicl. n.e Lind of lienolation. By Dr. It*ac T. ILyts. j Mr^tetL SI 50. eii Kthinger, * r of lilt- • lh.hy t’hftin nRzmuni*. j cions s|Miuts uf water, and tossed tiie f.,r Mr,r:, rial Prept, nit tout, I turbulent gutters which tried to be ( >i tibi,i), Sa> A n i > . rlL.tu IMF. iireal Sj.j i-, M. !>.. Auj her brains to death, and the a-b, ah,! strength for health culture; we don’t which had seemed to nail the colors of I want such places ; no, indeed, not we, ’r. Kinc, Athens. iii- HOTEL, mil .farhmn-tl*., T.\. (iA. . 1 > . •*ropy irl«r». rivers, and couldn’t, and piekevl her way over the soaked and treacherous pavements, never looking to the right nor the left, ui d wilii a cold, set face, which indicated a disposition as jw-r-1 sistcut as tin? rain itself. “ 1 can’t imagine whv I was spared .... ' from my last uemth’s lever, ’ she mus- h,d . ,,seH U i >,,n Uer riecv e as if it e*i, as slit- iilaated lierii'll- leet on the trie, u lr. n never can imagine her life to the iron mast of hard ne cessity, went drearily on almost un heeded by her, while the odor of the tea-rose bore her away on its wings to the days when she was governess to the little Misses Talbot. Dick.^ tfv. 'vild and reckless, but handsome and warm-hearted Dick, had loved her densly, had begged her to marry him and had incurred his fath er’s displeasure and his mother’s anger at his low tastes. Dick she had proud ly repulsed, not because she was un worthy of him, but because he was un worthy of her ; whom she loved, hut whom she rejected, inasmuch as she believed him iucapahle of the sound ness of principle, the steadfast honor, the stern virtue calculated to make a man noble and a woman happy. “ Perhaps, after all, I didn’t do just right,” she murmured, when school was out. and she had thanked Madge, and kissed crippled Jack, and turned her hick once more upon the dingv school-room and the hard life; “ |ier- haps I didn’t do right. He said my love would save him. I did love him, hut I would not wed him, and he mar ried a pretty French actress, and lost his inheritance, after all, and went— heaven knows where; and I—dear me! as I said before, I can’t imagine why I was spared from that dreadful fever.” Just here, a small, cold hand was laid on little Twiteliett’s arm. It came under her umbrella like a ghost, and had rigid, there. Twitchett was used to j small hands—dirty hands, starved a vs iioiiig I ! hands that th lar* •I? were sent to school to he j got ri.l of—mischievous hands, or- ! phaned hands, lielligerent hands.— , , , .; ’..' Never, though, had she seen such a . . * m ! a; . punv, pathelie hand as this which j , ' ->w flt;t-!ie-l her sleeve, and by its '• '••ry -•-. :■!• ,; I: .I her wav. at o.. le’.rrh do von want?” yr -.nm flll.MIIMlW'IWM i'■ 'F 'M’P'ng her so long as teaching in a primary de partment continues to lie, as you say, Minnette, so ‘ drefl'ul respectable.’ ” the streets, and that dreadful jewsharp of yours!” “ To school, miss?” “ Yes, school—it will only be one more little hammer nailing the alpha bet to my brain,”'she added, half to herself—” only one more, and he such a ghost!” Then she clutched the little hand so resolutely and marched off so detcr- “Down the Steps.” RKMINISCfiNCE OF AN OLD NA8HVII.LK INN. Miss Twitchett, in her earnestness, J mir.edly, the small minstrel could do ) had talked a pretty little color in her cheeks, and her black eyes were spark ling as they had not sparkled before all day. The old negress looked at her affec tionately, not having understood more than half her little boarder had said, then exclaimed sympathizing]}*, “ T.n, miss, never you mind. Life is full of haps and mishaps, and the world is cold, aad ’spcrience is a hard tax-mas ter.” Having uttered this phrase, which was a favorite one with her, follow. nothing but go along. Down the street went the two, he lending her, she shel tering him, and down came the rain as diligently as ever. “ \\ hen on earth are vnu going to stop?” at last cried poor, tired, breath less Twichett. “ Right here,” replied the lmv, and darted up an alley, so narrow, so reek ing with dump and mould and dreari ness, that for a moment the little woman, half daunted, hesitated to and respected upon all occasions, Min- nette left the room, hut returned in a moment with a small package of news papers, and a face of mute inquiry. “ Here’s a package left you uiiss, by the minister’s little son. He says they’s done read um at his house, an’ you needn’t return um. I believe he said they w us from Miss Lany, or some such name.” “ Oh yes ! I understand, a package of miscellany. How nicely timed; now I can read all this dreary evening.” “ But the boy miss, in the hall ?” “ To lie sure ;” said little Twitchett, with a start. “Mv poor little jews- har|>er! I had nearly forgotten him.— Give him my supper, please, Minnette, I am not in the least hungry; then send him to me.” “ But let me make you a cup of cof fee and a thin slice of toast.” “ No, not a mouthful for me ; you don’t know what nice things tiie school children brought me to-day—fruit and flowers, just think,” and from little Twiteliett’s expression of countenance one would have supposed she had “ Come on,” shouted the bov from the gloom her eyes could not pene trate. And the little schoolmistress went The following is an amusing remin iscence connected with the history of a famous Nashville hostlery that was numbered among the institutions of the past long years before the wi\r.— The principal actors are still living : While the old inn stood on the square in Nashville, it- was the favorite hotel of the traveling public. On oner occasion, among the many guests there assembled were Harvey II—, from Williamson County, and John G—, from Maury County, intimate friends, and Ixith convivial in their tempera ment. They had imbibed freely of spirits, and were in that happy con dition in which they considered (lie world all their own, and rattier noi-v in their demonstrations. Some of ih< visitors complr.ined of their noise, and the proprietor after some persuasion, induced the gentlemen to retire to bed. He conducted them to their room, on, though her feet were groping in i *'*" 1 saw them safely lodged in 1ml, the darkness, and her heart quailed at ; " aitc<1 patiently until they slept, and the gloom. j then drew the bed, which, as was then Suddenly a door was thrown oj*en— ; to some extent fashionable, wasattaeh- a gleam of light illuminated the form ed to the ceiling by cords, up nearly of little Twitchett on the threshold.— to t,1<? raising them some nine A man’s form upon a low couch in the midst of a hare room seemed to leap upright. “Mon Dieu!” cried Miss Twitchett, tottering forward ; “ Dick, can this be you ?” “ Hagar!” he answered ; “ mv little or ten feet from the floor. Every thing passed off quietly, the gentlemen* sleeping soundly until 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning, when John G—, who was sleeping behind, called out to his friend: “Harvy, get me the water; the pitcher is on the talle there in the . i. \ i, i\ W A ii K, >iV.i r.vcLLs. i'A.WY GOODS, n.\:: ijiiox/ks. AN!) S 1'AIT A K Y. U t::i VVE \ FULLCiiRi* if lUIjajiB.T. Jewellers \ jngravers m ut'udhrr main/ f'itir t,uit Jx • i n - in I ,ir • |.r.-|* ir- 1 t.i t il.!. AM ■' . s.f ..r «..rk mMlilMS FOR FAIRS! irapreved St ck For Sols. umbrella just enough-to see the small, of h i’inni; v that bur.* A re you hungry, my iviiat in the world do A Irribalrl ant \t!a;::e*! In Ir Smitlicrn 1 lis.il* ( -itt!r—anil their (irmle . pHEY A RE Ml’RRAIN-I’il' >’) i,.. i N i'i X\ ii II l i i •' toii;. ilk,* i.l IS. I'M. M;i i.lli.-r In •I In Imt i liiuatr MM KY !««)«>* I JS i:\YTON, I .1-1. !:UV. | %Tlir X+ % 4i\. Do- *C. t.n, iui.ir.iMim fIm- w liin* 1tu**1 mi .:t -Dm k ..f 1 •• p.iml.y. Albert ami Hack Herk*hirt\*. I'i.- i.l tl.rifl i the Lv «-|» r«* 1 t-i AIR itf»* the iKST ASSORTEMNT, UK FINEST GOODS, THE LOWEST PRICKS, AND THE BEST WORK. SH VUPA FLOYD. Uliitrihill Stmt, Atlanta. i i your DM Furniture to TOGO’S { Dll* \ I il ^si it >i\ \’-r! t, t ie K:i ,-tl I'harel,,aml hare it I*;. S. KNGLAND eV CO., ^ Ri. NOW RECEIYINGTIIEIR i W FALL STOCK; Sheep—Spaitixh Merino.-,. a ri- I'ri-,. frnm ml ml .nulfiin, an-' nil*, wln u *m—ii| nialii- a titjt i u»|»ro\«‘in**ut ”ii il»«f nalivt* tt.n-ks. •Iii itiiity ami quality of the w.ml. C-nA,mere Angora float*. mv ’.M-nlitir* tJirv lime provud to «■ \V <i*.i< «-r •>«•* 1 with thu nati 1 i:. ei.ov. sTEI'.I,. ; NAIL-. MILL SAWS, ro t TON DINS, And General Hardware and fuller} 1 , nt Wliolesiile nnd Retail. SI MVKr A M'W 7 (>.' <tliens ( tin., April 14tU. tf So. 6 Rroa.i Nt. GUANO. I liev ar** Ik* very K’.al«, iir.it- l*in«* villi Driars r.l is in loinauil at from i ut tloguc furni-lietl on Rif HARD PETERS, Atlanta La. W. W. SUMMERS, •icutt l-’ann, }Se/lf,rrd ('aunty, Tenn., Ii r nslibrcd short horned t tirltam Cattlu, !Ki;Ksr.inui:i.s ami fiiLT u T ;» shkek i 1 AM BREEDING ENTIRELY PURE PERUVIAN, of direct in- _1_ |*ortatlon, at <ioverniiM*nt d icM. 2.240 pounds to the ton It. *•. Agt-iit for Consign* - Jan. lSIm, Savi LAY.. PENDLETON’S Suano Compound. JPOH SALE BY (It. |i:t* i t La I.-* i !#*•: , a! whirl* t n l at H! »W>. of rv fair, !*oll* i / ‘j j •• y'ijji. •tl Dulls si ,*. 10.1 IDs! i h**sf Dull lit Tenn'*« exhi »U**I. TIloLOl t.llBKEl* ikfos, Itrol from my prl- all Jarkson, l»v imp. Duke of «*r ihe2d.hr Ued Hover the icti in»m 2,VK) to.1,000 lh«. s. native and importe«* Mock, notetl jireiiiiuiu hars, Dick John* Mv premium Uian* and w*s i*. nmi llw. My POTS WOLD e pure, mv premium book wci^liiu); I «hi*ar«»l • >»* ) «r 1!.*. s -e ofi-l ?o one for size,color, heau’r i :he Unite! "ti.t**, having made aU i;s in I ii in airl reeding for this r u. <*-,i w.»!j itc.l and tati n Add tvv< in** ;.t Wartrare, Bed lord W. W. M MM LIUS. z.::v, i J. fr. > Hi liXSiKI’, BKAI.L SPEAKS i CO.. AwfUSiil < : ■ 1 SBURY, R ESP ESS At Macon RSON & WELLS, Atlanta, dm. • P. il. BE1IN A C J., Sirannah, da. Du. E. M. PENDLETON, S/mrta, da. I'ain|i<i!t-t, containing many testimonials, with practical hints on cotton culture, amt the applica tion of fertilizers*, may be obtained from any of the ubose axcit... i*° 1 WILKKKrilBCK liaKIKL. A. WELLBOUS III- . DANIEL & HILL, / -OTTuN FACTOR^, Ag...m Cut- * Ion Kind tiuano. No. 3 Warren lllot k, oppo site (. 1..I>- II .tel, Augusta, U ES riii’iiD H.’.f h.C «. entrusted t«» them will have •trlci rw.nal attention. Oidera for Bagging. Ties and iniily ,>**ppl»es prompiiy filled, liou*mission 1*4 r e,l, ‘ t:.H.—Judge John P. Kin , President •: Hoad, Pie«»;d-nt Natior s u •* .f z\»»- \it:iisi.« Fai’tory. J 1 *» k!.;.nkk, ♦ n; .lie-.Son Fetlil . Pres- i.»! !• 1 l;, Augus- ... W ilk s uonal Bank l,*tj., Sparta (■»• I.L. i»ir W. W. *S.: A ur ' OEiV NO CwOVfS, FTC-, 'J T_ > 1 / ;. i 1 , FilKE! FREE!! FREE!!! .-!N'JI.E COPIES OF OGLMAMS LU AL V/ORLDj | i ' :XLY Agricultural Journ i! ' . \ 1. n published twe.ily-’hree year-- • } • vjng he Largest Coru'n i» n ,»ud . 1 4 -is of any ‘ I . . the valley of th kil.lM'Ul i-;i \ ed, ts ' l & ex' 12 NEW WAR RAN IK D I*-' Blacksmith \ i>i; EVERY PARTICULAR. Bellows, Anvils,!-.-™ EY ^ XEWT ^ )X - hammers, .Stink and Carriage, Buggy & Wagon < mv m.i c * c A LARGE and well selected assort- -lV\. ment, for sale by UIIILDB, NICKERSON & CO. 1 UIIILHS, NiCKUllSON A CO. I I A V E YOUR PRINTING done '• *..Tn Hannee.u.h 1 »rb-. Mi* esippif ji.'iit*. S’lid !* ru id re-ft Norm an Col- ^,3A JE.*.A2»Z» TKAUHEK OF MUSIC. FKICE coni-r of L.impoin ( ) liv.ng *»ut *i t” Pianos, Organs & Sheet Music .U! i,.r *ale. on the most r* a-onaUe t*.r.i m^andSd‘"nwrumenuukeuin t*r|^;“' il in good endition. 1011 “ loci '27-tf OB PRINTING neatly and quickly executed at the Banner Omcu. it deg- it:: ithout r.i ni:i'im< wit'notit i liiiutt*. Now, bad 1 i but died when 1 was so ill, some one of the two dozen worn m who are always j strnugliug l ir a place in ihe -primary ' il-ip irtment’ could have had mine.— | Wages, fifty dollars a month ; hoard, i with .lodging under the shingles, tliir- | or? • : tv dollars ; washing, and clothes, and j a pew in church—well, whatever one j ran make it—twenty dollars remain ! for such expenditure? ; Imt one mustn’t wear out too many shoes, nor lie dain ty as to gloves, and never, never buy a book to read, ami, above all, never fall sick, and never care tor society, and never indulge in the luxury of dimes for the contribution l»ox. “ But, after all,” went on little Miss Twitchett, “ bard as my life is I know plenty who envy me. It is a bad spot, indeed, in this life that has no worse; and really, bad I given up my princi ples and married Dick Talbot for love 1 believe I myself would have been ,v* r?e. offto-dav. I loved him, but that saying of Grace Aguilar always clung to iny memory : ‘Izet no woman wed herself to vice with the hope of trans forming it to virtu* 1 .’ Writers should lie e-ref-1 •’ at they say, for they can vi- i :i:na;e she weight or want of v. -i:*v! ..I' their sayings. I shall al ways intii.k Grace Aguilar lor that sentence, for 1 believe it saved me from a far worse fate than that of being a school-ma’am in ‘ the primary depart ment.’ Still I cannot see why I we- spared from that dreadful fever. Su< a lonely, <lesolate. little old maid as 1 anti here Miss Twitchett’* umbrella seemed to leak again, anti she shut it up with a snap, anil wi]>ed her fact- anil faced her daily duties. When she hail stood her u nhrella in the corner, where it could iiiiium 1 t-clf by dripping all day, and hat! hung up her waterproof cloak and set aside her gum .d ues, she went valiant ly to her platt’orui and sat down by her t! -.-k. Ti.er:* .-.crc t .ret* violets on it. from crippled Jack, >he knew, who alw ays came to s»-hool on crutches, ami there was an orange, which sle- knew M-itlgt: Tinilt p- had given her from h- r own luu.-iicou ; ami here, with tl.-. s’ein tarn** in the keyhote, ami i.u.k-ng a il tin- i.itsiuess of its lin- was to bloom in tif in wholes of’i»ooi school-ma’ams’ tie.-K was a tea-rose, so fresh, so fragrant, it sent a thri'l down into the little old maid’s heart, and made her tacitly acknowledge there were possibly harder fates for i. o play you a tunc, miss.” 1 A tune? And where am I to go, •iii.l want am I to pay ?” ‘ Oh, don’t go anywhere, miss, anti and school- .i' 1 " 1 * l >:, y "hat you like,” was the an- can allude to no one else. Dear, dear! Hagar; what, in Heaven’s name, j cor!5er -” Harvy demurred a little, brought you here?” :but finally yielding to earnest solicita “ I did!” said the small minstrel in j tioK *. >* threw himself out of lied, in tones of triumph, seeing with a child's i pitch darkness of the room, to the quick instinct that something wonder-1 ^®° r beneath. He was unprepared ftil hail been brought about through 1 ' 0 *'icap, and the shock of the fall his instrumentality. “ I did, father. ! 8Ur prised him. I found her in the street; that is. she! Distantly he conjectured that he toiiml me, ami I took her home and ate ' had fallen down stairs, perhaps through up her supper, and there’s half of it ^ a lr:1 P l i° or i s<» 1 ** got down on hi.- | for you ; and then she just tucked me hands and knees and commenced grop- feasted from the abundance of kings, j under her cloak, and brought me here : ln S alwut to find some means of a-cent and was not recalling the memory one little orange and a few violets, ami a tea-rose. To tha w :if in the hall, then, ve nt the school-ma’am’s supper, and the rain came gushingly down, and Miss Twitchett read her papers by Min- net te’s parlor fire. “ Upon my word,” she said, sudden ly, “ I do believe this is the Talbot I once knew. ‘ Riehard Talbot, who left his home—Marlbrook—only son,' etc., etc. This advertisemect surely swer, nnd out of a side pocket the child flashed a jewsharp, nnd placing it be tween his lips, essayed a tune. “ Well, of all things !” ejaculated little Twitchett. “ I’ve been annoyed with fiddlers, and harper-, and tatn- borine girl? over and ov;: a^ain, hut you are the first public performer on the jewsharp I ever met. I)o stop! Here’s money for you and hush ; I say hush!” Unheeding the little woman’s en treaties, the fore finger continued to stroke the antennae of the small steel insect he called his “ instrument,” and half vexed, half amused, Miss Twitch ett pulled the boy under her umbrella, nnd hade him put up that burr-ing thing and come along home with her and get his dinner. She knocked at the door of a sn:al : house, and an old colored woman, neatly attired, and with her head in a calico turban opened the door. How it all comes back to me, that old time. And he married that pretty actress, and went to ruin, disregarded and disowned by the old people after all. How strange it all is ! The fath er who so despised me is dead ; the son who so loved me, is lost. The lit tle girls whom I taught, I remember, died soon after their proud and haugh ty mother. A whole family gone, save the sou, who cannot be found !— Of all that house, only I, poor little woman that I am ! and Dick, an out cast, left. Both wanderers, unknown to one another—unknown, it seems to me, to everybody on the face of the earth. And to think of my living through that dreadful fever, to go on being desolate, and lonely, and forlorn, when so many rich and lieautiful and happy-hearted persons, for whom life was sweet and love was plenty, had to die!” Honey,” said old Minnette, thrust “ La! Mi s Twitchett,” she cried, | ing her shining face in at the door. “ he this you ? Ain’t you half drown ed, honey?” “ Indeed I am, my good Minnette. My feet are wet, nty cloak is drenched, my heart aches and my hands are half frozen. I am very glad to get home to your kind care. It isn’t every poor school-ma’am that can count on such sympathy and comfort as you provide for me.” “ La, miss! it isn’t much that I hies,” said the old woman, meanwhile Irawing the willow chair close to the ire anti placing a footstool for little Miss Twitchett. “ I knows as how it’s hard work, this teaehin’,” she contin ued, as she bust let! about the room ; *■ hut then, you know, miss, it’s drefful respectable.” Li.tie Twitchett buret out laughing. “Yes. Minnette,” ,?he replied, “and its ‘dreadful respectability,’ I verily be lieve, has killed more women than you and I ever knew. For its sake they toil up into the topmost stories of houses to sleep, or content themselves wants me tc go to to the room above. The delay occsi- isioucd by these movements \\a? to H-t to tell you she school.” . .. ,z - - , .... This ratter . ineohenuit* explanation ! t “ re John; who was parched up caused Hagar’s tears to flow softly but; "O' 1 thirst. So he called out in ls*n- eopiously, and Dick still held her ; gm»ge more profane than polite, “Ilar- hand, with his own eyes full of unshed! v ‘-y • what are you doing?” The an- tears. , swer came from the depths below : A long story followed, broken In* i “ John ! I fell down stairs, anti can’t many sobs, and interrupted bv many : 1,11(1 the steps to get up again.” “ Well, choking silences, such as onlv over-; niust I come down there to show you flowing hearts create. The young, the way up?” “I wish you would, beautiful, dissolute actress died vears ! John, for I can’t find the steps.” John, ago ; the lonely, reckless, never wholly j thoroughly vexed at the stupidity of bad, hut always self-indulgent and j 1,ls friend, sprang out of bed, when lo! improvident husband was left with j 1,e > too, went whirling through the air his one child to care for nnd support. } ln to the distance below, and soon found Proud and penniless, and all unused to ! himself sprawling on the floor beside labor, he had striven to do for! his companion. “ Harvey, I fell down those dependent on him with poor sue-! 9tairs myself,” was the first exclatna- cess. Discarded by his father, he had ■ tion. been stung to every exertion, but ali! Then the two commenced a aeurch things failed—he was dying in want; j 1>or the staircase, a ladder, anything to he must leave his child a heggard or- i enable them to get out of this deep phan ! abyss. Round and round they went. Suddenly little Twitchett remember-! upon their hands and knees. They ed the advertisement—with eager lips j found a table, upon which they diseov- she told Dick of it. “ Now, ail will' ered a pitcher of water. Quenching yet be right, you will come into your ! their thirst, they resumed their 1 search, property, you will get well and educate I Tlieir clothing had been deposited on your boy, and he will be a great, good ! llie foot of toe bed, so this was beyon l “ this yere boy says he must be gwine home.” “ Yes, of course,” cried little Twitch ett, hastily brushing a few bright drops from her checks, “ and I will tike him home.” “ La, now, honey, don’t. It’s rain in’ yet.” “ Just the reason why I must put my umbrella over him. Don’t worry,” she added, seeing the old negress look ing troubled. “ I shall come back all safe, and I want to know more of this ghostly little chap, who l as taken up the origiuul idea that there’s an honest living to be gotten out of a jewsharp.” Before Minnette could expostulate further the little old maid had taken the diminutive minstrel and his dimin utive instrument under her own cloak and umbrella, and gone out once more in the rain. “ Now, then,” said little Twitchett, briskly, “ show me the way, and I will take you home." “ Please don't, ” he remonstrated, with tiny back gallery rooms. The | looking piteously out from the corner dreary treadmill «f ‘A. IJ. C.,’ and 1 0 f the Cloak she was sharing with him, ‘John's a noun,’ and ‘twice one arc “please don’t—I have three nickles two,’ liiey walk with sore feet and diz- that I’ve earned, ami I’ve saved half tiie supjier you gave me, and father is sick and don’t like strangers, and— man yet, Dick.” He shook his head radly. “ My davs are numlicred,” he said. “ I have but a little while longer to live—the doctors told me that ten days ago.” “ Well, at least, you must he moved from these quarters,” said little Twitch ett,” “ and I shall attend to it at once.” She was good as her word. Unto old Minnette was told the whole sad story, who heard its end with upraised hands and her favorite comment, “ Well, well, life is full of haps and mishaps, and the world is ccld, ’s|ier> ence is a hard taskma ter.” Then she took into her care and keeping the sick man and his poor little boy, and nursod and cared for them as her ex perienced hands so well could do. Lawyers were sent for. Dick proved himself the lost heir, and was put in possession of his property. The Spring blossoms were scenting the air when Dick closed his eyes for ever upon all earth held for him.— Little Twitchett laid the fragrant blooms upon the coffin of him she hnd loved with her first love and her last. By Dick’s will sho found herself made, as she said, rich, and to her care he had bequeathe*! his hoy. Faithfully did she fulfill her trust, and warmly did he return herjunfail- ing affection, ever, till the years of manhood lmd made them change places—giving him the right to pro tect, her the need to lie protected. their reach, and the we ither was tensely cold. They must keep mov ing or freeze. The weary round was kept up until the gray dawn began to streak the east, when they ascertained their true condition. Stealthily they lowered the bed, hastily donned their clothing, and only remair.ed long enough to pay their bill to the night clerk, when, mounting their horse. 1 , they made tracks for home. brains, patiently wearing the yoke monotony until its weight wears •t them out, and they find rest where tho\- will never tire any more. Ah me! when the school-ma’ams die. we mght to have a spelling-book for a headstone and the alphabet for an epi taph. Still, yon know, we couldn’t anil “ There, hush ! you poor little hum bug,” said Twitchett kindly. “ If you have a home I am going to take you to it. I want to sec about your com ing to school, and being saved from Honest Ixdustky.—If there is a man who can eat his bread at peace with God and man, it is that man who has brought that bread out of the earth by his own honest industry. It is can kered by no fraud—it is wet by no tears—it is stained by no blood. Rich for a Moment.—The British ship Britannia was wrecked off the coast of Brazil, and had on board a large consignment of Spanish dollars. In the horc of saving some of them, a number of barrels were brought on deck, but the vessel went to pieces so fast that the only hope for life was by taking at once to the bpats. The lost boat was about to push off, when a young midshipman went back to ste if any one was still on board. To his surprise there sat a man on deck with a hatchet in his hand, with which he had broken open several of the casks, the contents of which he wrs now heap ing up about him. “ What are you doing there ?” shout ed the youth. “ Don’t you know tho ship is fast going to pieces?” “ The ship may go,” said the man : “ I have lived a poor wretch all my life, and I am determined to die rich.” His remonstrances were answered only by another flourish of tiie hatchet, and he was left to his fate. We should count such a person a madman, but he has too many imita tors. Men seem determined to die rich at all hazards. Least of all risk i do they count the chance of losing tho «oul in the struggle.—Sunday School limes. Nobody is more like an honest man than a thorough rogue. A bit of soap rubbed on the hinges of doors will prevent their creaking.