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ni.pid m>. t v Uli ! } ,
wild Sow.™-*.. OlK.tTorSli- • I
f> U.« hrlglit l»jr . bol. buk ha wad Blar,
Loujlng to bathe -but th# boy could not nrlm.
Ho Ttntuied bia foot Ju a shallow hard by,
Whan the nymph of tha stream, with sharp mocking
1» “Cuptd, don't dabble—he cantloua o
Jump In, or keep out,
If you dabble no donbt
You’ll-fo tome with a oongh,
Cupid, tbua taunted, Jumped In, nothing daunted;
•‘Well done,” tald tha nymph to the boy;
'• Ouoe o'er head and cars, boy, away with youi
The wilder vJ plunge, oli( the brighter tho Joy I
To give you thin lesson, sweot Cupid, Is luclt*
With your doar litUo wings, too—I’m suro you’n
a duck—
But, wild duck, don’t dabble,"
The nymph said to him,
“Once o’er head and ears,
Away wit*, your fears,
for lore never aJ-jUa when determlns«t to swtra I"
to
il yrti Dht an* It yewr own Ktm-
-‘TMwwo-a*.
in antique laco, ifi^het’e 1 what you
mean.”
" Antique laoe I Kensington stitch !”
m
tered Haddie. "At least he always
"Humph!” said Sarella, "I sup-
ou conic
Jf Oll LiO VE OF HIM.
Pit-
•ously, "I a burden lo my husband?
Oh, Sarella ! Sarella! for pity’s sake
don’t.say that 1” ■ *• ••; .• .
Xt . ; Solio-winar the hunily
hegirftL-tnSt most dismal, doleful and
intolerably of days, when the furniture
was piled up in the echoing and uncar*
peted rooms, the pictures turned blankly
ling fla&S?lhii?fe^eary fcifahg raiiK "***t!an ycW-it
At the back of jthe little farm house
the gnarled apple trees were striving to
break out into bud and blossom, and a
few faint-colored spring flowers lifted
their
dead
less billows of the Atlantic, tortured by
the moaning wind, flung their fringes
of foam high up on the shores, flights of
dea-biyda eddlfed oMerhcad^and *he low-,
hangiufcmJlj** lftdty'dfcuds fflrat 9uf,
the misty kmmmer wf 4td tiorizdn*
Baddis had wandered about the houBe .. N0| » B ^ d H addie, with e trembling
all day wrappped in a shawl, looking voic « rm ttfmid x couldn’t.”
about as Iff5Wrt"th 9 ^»odiB*nd joif.;i jrj mk
quils outside, in the vain endeavor to rou noUwngwiere.norcjeBa WA
find some habitable nook or oorner whore , * blm V m lm8, ’“ IKl '” 8oi<J 8ard1 "'
•he could pore over her book. • wtth ttie “ r of * Jud « e pronouncing
net degree, tin’s Rtmuy-hairod, M°s”ipp«i I flb?t6 »»:'*»wW|UiM.r>n4«r, »«¥
human 4%. in .t|,»t all w'a. not made kitten. And l pity Carlos from The
smooth and e Vjlot)t little feot. Werj bottom o* “X kaart, that I dp I
She had ui^rned’ ’(Wide Wmstouley
three mouths pgo, supposing that she wns
entering into 'a human' Eden through
the golden circlet of the wedding ring
and the bowery 1 arcb38 of the ornnge blos
soms ; and here, lo and behold ! he had
failed ; the pretty little house in Park
Terrace had|beeoTOWf witlnitr antique j
furniture, it# bri*al>Jv4 and rose-lined
mrftains, anfi h0Te TOdMidTfr they were
banished for the rest of their lives to the
dismal, oue-storied farm-house, the solo
relic of pjjlp-yV^i^stanlQy’sv scattered
" It isn’t liko a city house,” said tho
young man, cheerily; " but I've always
had a sort of loving far a farm life, and
we can be just as happy hero as it it
were a pklaoe—can’t we,. Haddie ? ”
A ad Haddie, with a half-frightened
HERALD.
W-. N. BENN8, JAMES ff/SflSS. Editors
“ LKT Tlli-iTIlj uk
SoAssription. $1.50 in AdvanM.
VOLUME VI.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUE^p.yjf. NOVEMBER 8. 1881.
NUMBER 6.
Haddie hung her head, flushed scar
let, and said nothing.. . , . . i|J J
"For all I can -see,’*’severely' won't c%x
Sarella, "my big brother might As well
have, married'.a big wax doll. It was all
ve^y Wol^so long AS ho was a merchant
iu receipt of a tig Ihcome. Hut r aw—
goodness me, What sort of a farmer’s
wifo do you suppdse you will make t ”
A
consolidated inquisition,
i" Do yon know anything about but
ter and cheese ?” demanded Sarella, re
lentlessly, tlllAjfl
"No!”
"-Did-you ever makeup a batch of
bread? or pies? or cake?” sternly pur
sued this iron-hearted catechist.
glance at the restless, waves of tlie At
lanta -and file grmipi of cedars writhing
In the blast, clung to his shoulder and
whispered:
" Yes. But,” she added with, quiver
ing lip, "if will be very lonely, won’t
it?” - «t ’ ti I
" Sarella is coming to stay with us and
help get settled,” said Wiustnnley.
" Why, wliAt coUld sdcli a butterfly ns
you do with ail this confusion ? "
Haddie Baid nothing. She could
hardly tell her husband how much she
(eared and disliked his stern-, maiden
■ister, who stood up so g^njiglit, and
wore her iron-gray Hair twisted up into
a tight knot Git tlijp b*ty of her head, iu
an inexoraUl^lfMfok/%hic6-Jna4o Had-
dio feel as"if ner gold frlizek' atid braids
wore vanity and vexation of spirit, in
deed ; and had a way of looking over
and beyond her, a# M hike (Haddie) were
of no account whatever.
But Sarella'was needed, and she came,
just as she would have oomo to nurse a
wounded soldier, or keep watch over a
household of measles, or scarlet fever,
or undertake any other difficult or thank
less task.
And, upon this rainy day, 8arella went
backward and forward, and looked with
a sort of conteriiptuonii' pity oft the poor
little wife, wrapped in her fleecy white
$hawl, with a tose ifr her hair and a
t*ook in her hand.
"Dear me,-Harriet!” she had cried
out, when at last hter- Blender thread of
patience wds qtylfe Exhausted; "why
don’t you do something ?”
" What elial) J do?” said Haddie, pit
eously. Li- hi 1 ,J-.'/ ai
’" I’m sure there’s enough to be done,”
said the rigid elder sister. "Can’t'yon
turn and art* |4ft pi<SN fl«^ot'lo flt
the hall?”' 1
" I never did such a thing in my life,’
said Haddie, ofcarpet-
beast reatl,
_ 7 don’t fhink I
I % an^'Wey.
And, thus speaking, Sarella pioked up
the whitewash brush and at.ilked away,
while poor little Haddie wailod ^ut the.
besoeohiug words with which our story
commences.
"Oh, Sarella, dear. Sarella!” she
pleaded, "I’ll try to do my best.”
- jY^nir be^t J ’’.repeated Sarella. ."And
what .does jthat amqtln^-to? Ypp’i
- - height aitmad 1 Ins'neel
neek—a
what you
to rj»itog 5
"to fee wAshed
and sorted on the. eheiTee,” suggested
Sarella g^miy.
% 4*pld be itr W ft
tered Haddie. "
" The curtains^ are all ready to be
taoiedupto the weat-rbom windows,"
Eaid Sarella, loq^g ^or a took-,
hammer. ^
V-Qh, I oouldn'i So < that*” mid Hod-
die, more frightened than ever. "I
should be sure to turn giddy on top of
thsbstep-ladder*”• f .iu-
&areftt looked 'Wflainfklljr* at her»
1>eAutilul little sister-in-law.
• "1 wohder what you are good for,”
100-pAtmd
blight uix>n his future —that'
are 1 ”
And she gvhiskod into tho kij^hem
while Haildie raj StXAi*tol«io gftroV
to have a good cry.
Haddie was very sad and pensive forn
day or two. Carlos lookod at her piti
fully, afraid td ask if- she w<ho discon
tented in her new : Jiomo, for iio knew
well that he had none other to offer her. *
Sarella sniffed at her selfish inefficiency,
and tli© very* scrubbing woman put -on
.airt* while, ^otwy .Hjiker, a neighbor,
who came into help’with tho "settling,”
caught thb popular tuno, and said,'
loftily: ii
"Please, Mrs. Winstanley, stand out
of the way while we’re a-stretohing
this carpet j ond‘ don’t hehder us ef ye
can’t help us ! ”
At the end of tho thml day of domes
tic saturnalia, when Carlos Winstanley
came home, Haddie was nowhere to be
fouitlvnidgin’Aj» cusliiou wus pinned
the follo#ik0rflpt4j
Dsas Cajilos , Don’t be vexed, but I havo
gouo ayay to st^ yitb Diitton dn-
ttl the Beach farm'i^ *etiled. I don’t iqem to
bo of much use fo aYiytodl^iluJ [Wjrbapr flaTella
will got along bettor without mo. Affection
ately your wifo, H. W.
"Therel” said Sarellf to Betsey
Baker. " Didn’t I tell you so? She’s
bo lazy she can’t bear to see other folks
work l And I don't know whatever Car
los was thinking of when he married her
instead, of Hosanna Martin, who took
the first prise for bread and cake at the
couuty fair, and has got a chest full cf
linen and bedqnilts at homo.”
But she did not express herself thus
plainly to Carlos, when he asked her,
wistfully,, if sho knew why Haddie lmd
gone away.
" I think she’s siok of farms and farm-
work,” Baid Sarella, pursing up her lips.
"I think, Carlos, she’s like the little
portulaccas in the garden outside, that
only blossom when the sun shines.”
And Carlos was more wretched than
ever, fancying that he had darkened his
young wife’s life, and dragged her down
into poverty with him.
" She will come back to me when she
chooses,” he said, sadly. “ I shall not
go alter her.”
Add he grew paler, colder and more
silent as he went abeutthe dtfes pf the
farm ; and Sarella, to #ae h#r own £x-
" I have been at sohool,” said Haddle>
radiantly, " I have beett looming—my
ptofession. Oh ! Carlos, you can never
tell' how awkward and helpless I felt
here, in my bwtt hbUsU, knowing that I
*asAs ignorant as a child of all tho
things I needed most to comprehend.
I lov© you*-oh,so dearly—Ami I-felt so
quworthy of you—Bo UhaDle to help you
fe your sore need as a wjfe .fthquld help
■lier husband. Sarella •defqHsed m'yig-
norhneo—the very servants looked down
on me os a helpless doll j , and they were
S ight, But they shall never do, bo any
iiore, for I’ve learned to bo a house
keeper at las^-AnutJJorcas has,taught
aei everything, t e(in nmlii/'hiiifer like
goal, aCd^Reele" tliut' cVrisu BnrSjla will
Ilut ii'Uojs* i# son*
erry shortcake to-morrow, and my
bread and bisouits are as light and as
white as swandown ; and I’ve Liado- iOfl
a Bliirt, Carlos, all by myself, and Aunt
Ddroits aays I neadn’t bo ashamed of it;
and J, can vva^h ind iron, and ,cfe»r«J
starfti M 1 4dt «uf ever cM Chide-
when I was a girl at home. 1>
, r- j* Haddie! Haddie I” he oried. “.Why
jfti4 yon do this? ” Vlir
."For love of you,” she* aiswetei£
liipply; "to be to you what, a wife
should be to herhugband. You needii^t
think I am goiffg^lft settle *dc#v lut#
common drudge, Carlos. I like
ihakspeare and the,.Kensington sti^el|
as well as ever. But a far pa w'a .wife
should not be blind 1 and helplesb 'at tlid
head of her own household, and I am
thankful that I have learned to do all
these thingVj* ,; ► ,no« . .
Yon are an angel, Haddie! ” he
earnestly. . _
"lam only^onr tmg, lovjpg little
wife,” she anspMbd, kh«ng
his breast.. '*"■
I Sarella needed to stay at the Beach
farm no longer; Betsey Baker was dte- <
missed, and Haddie to?\ her place at
the uglmjWand of all hapr % eifi< ont,
-aawwab
bore away the palm,
j " I never supposed there
in her,” said Sarella. "Carlo^i
have made a.,botfer ohojqe if bo hod
tried for a yeiif."n VV . .1 'm*
,r lt does beat All/ 1 feaiflifeotsey BAIroit
*K*TM /from the best obtainable authori
Tho Boet’s comer ul: Westnun^ttir Arr-' () j ^lobnmniodanism. According to 1
I >ey. is indebted for iterepow}i,Uj.(he great
names of the mighty dead’who
in its gloomy walls, Cbauctor wasbpied.
in 1400 in tho cloisters of tlii Abbey,
without the building, but removal tjo
tlie south aisle in 1555. Herbert Spen
cer lies near lui». Beauliipbfc, pj^ytpn',
Cowley, Denham, Dry den, Gay, itowG,
Ben JonBon, Sheridan', CougreYpjCl^nfef
Dickens, Campbell, David Garrick, all
lie within tVestminster • dftnak-
Walton’s grave ikin SilkstetfeVdhapyl,;
near the city of Winchester. Shelley’s
body was cremated, but his heart, which
would not tuke the flame, is no\f Jjre-:
served in spirits of Wine. ^
was buried; m tho dumcel of
at Stratford. * Dean Swift is
the churchyard of St, Patrick’#,-Dublin;
( Milton in St. Giles’,. (3rippl^ga^» t ^* ul l^
’man and Shirley at St. Giles’, in tho
Fields; Fletcher and. Philip Massinger
in the churchyard of St. Sapor’s, Boufch-
wark; Thomas Oh^ay’s btfttitl place ifr
not known; Samuel Butier in the
churchyard of Sfc J^aul’p, Oovent Gar
den; Marlowe in J -6C Paul's, DfeiAforcT;
Pope in the church at Twickenham; Ed
ward Waller in Beoconfield churchyard;
Thomas Gray in tho churchyard of
Stoko-Pogis, where he conceived his
" Elegy;” William Cowper in tho church
at Dereham; Oliver Goldsmijth^ ih' tho
churchyard .of thA. ^Temple $QJturcli;
William Falconer was drowned at sea;
Lard Byron in the chancel of the church
at- Huoknall, near Newsto^d Abbey,
Sir Walter Seotfc fir DrVburgh Abbey;
Itobert Burns in St. Michael’s churcli-
yard, Dumfffes; S^qVueL; Colenfidge in
the church' at Highgatej Southey “in
Orosthwaite . Obnrrih, : n^ir Keswick
Ohatterton in the ohdroliyard belonging
to the pariah of-St. Andrews, Holburn
Dr. Watts and John Biinyan in tlie vi
cinity of the celebrated cbajiel called tho
TabemAole of -Good "Old Whitfield;
Thomas Hood ? Donglaa Jetighi and
WiUt»n* ®is«k(jMS at* l»}i.4.i»i;i!iisai
Green Oemetely; Wordsworth in the
pleasant hills of Westmoreland; Thomas
Oorlyfe in the ohurdhyaxff ol Jjcpleffeoh-
an, Scotland; George Wasliington at
Mount Vernon; Apdubon in Calvary
Cemetery, Naur York; Nathtoiel Haw
thorn under a group of pj ies on the
brow of a hill in Sleepy Hollow Ceme
tery, Concord, Mass.; William Cullen
Bryant ir, Greenwood Cemetery, New
York; Washington Irving at Sunnyside,
on the banks of'"the Hudson, and Edgar
AlUn Poe in a oemetery in Baltimore.'
rwwfkirst»Apv.ntjt a FA itM-uocsK. 1
P.OTjilt- who live.noar the great thor- !
ighfares, wliero, tlu'y hd¥e nedess to !
ro or tliteo dai|i(. s and a half dozen !
weeklies, do m4 fully appreciate the
value of a newsV )fl p ori They come, in-
deed, to look upd u them aft necesslUes, [
and they yrould^ cheerfully do without
their morning mjrul as their morning
mail. But one iLust be far off in the
country, remote tfoin "the maddening
crowd,” to roalialfc the full luxury of a
newspaper.- The banner who- receives
but one paper a Vveok does not glauce
over its columns Hurriedly, with an air
of impatieiaee„as does your ruorchaut oyr,
U^'er. Hq begins with t]ia beginning
And reads tcTthh closi>, uof ^enijittiii^ 4
neis item hr A julvoriiaenfcnfcflo Aca^ie j
his eye. Then it has to bo thumbed by
every .member of the family, each one
looking for things in wliich lie or she is
most interested. Tho grown-up daugh
ter - looks for the marriage notices,vuul is..
aeiightsd;'-ft tho
tliem“to a 'love Btc^. TftrsoAwmrTS-*
just about to engage in fanning, with
enthuf^Qfin that will carry him fax,
tdvaucpJof his father, reads all ttfe
crop reports and has a keen eye for hints
about improved modes of culture. The
g&JS&tgtXUZS
tun. All look forward to tho day that
shall bring tlie paper with the liveliest
interest, end; if by some unlucky chance
it fails to come it is a bitter disappoint
ment. One can hardly estimato the
amount of information which a paper that
fa not* 6nly4ead4hitf studied Aan oarry hit if
a family. They have, week by week,
spread before their mental vision a pan
orama'of tins busy wqrlfyits fluctuations
and jits vf^tjconcerqp. ^It is jjlio poor
man’s library, aud furnishes as much
montid. food sb he has time to consume
And digest. No ono who lias observed
how much those who are far away from
tfje placed where men most odygregatrt
Vtluov Wi#ir Weekly paper can 'fail vtu
^oin UrAuvokiug a blessing ou tlie in-
this moans of intellectual en
joyment.—Cedar Rapid* Republican.
o tin JUVESILES.
An 11 OUl Boy'a'- AUcIn.
Mr toy, you're won tv be ■ run ;
dot rtaily for a uitii'a work now,
Aud learn to do tha beet you can,
When aweat in brouijlit to anu and kr<
DAt.’t 1A» afraid, njJ- boy, to work j
You’ve got to if you mean to via!
Ue >• a coward who will ahlrk ;
“ Boll up your aleevea, aad then • go ii
Don't wait for chancea; look about l
There'* alwaya aomotliing you can do.
Bo who will manfully atrlke out
Find* labor; plenty of it, tool
Hut he who fold* bta liandvand waita
h-thing to tn
And
’lb* toller iwaat-H
NVliile be, alu*, ii left behind I
He honest ae the day f^-g •
Don’t grind the noor man lor bia oeai
In belpjng others, you grow strong,
And kind deoda dono are only leht;
rea.s,J ytiuember: if ybti’'« wi*o«
l ; To now uirn bu«n«* be 01 nfined.
Bo la a fool, and falls, who tries
ilia fcQow-ineu’s affaire to mind.
. Don’t Iw diaoourHgcd and get blue
*orkoit P,rh»pi.ltr,.i«.ILhyoa ’
ladfaat, kind and t
Mb. WilfiudB. Blunt, the well-known
Orioutulist, has just completed a census
’itics
of Moliammodanism. According to him,
tho creod numbers 175,000,000 believers,
divided into four sects, of which the
^unites aio 145,000,000. There were
93,250 pilgrims at Mecca lost year. But
'the most singular feature of Blunt’s
record is the spread of Ldamism in the
heart of Africa. In the Dark Continent
the faith is alive and at work,’and is
ptosolyting fts fiercely as in tho days of
.the Caliphs of Bagdad. Each year adds
thousands of converts to thefuith of the
Prophot, and the result will shortly be.
tho erection of another Mohammedan
Caliphate in Soudun, which is now
j largely Ishynito, Tlie work wlifekthis
( Screed has done in thf civilization df the
world will never jmjimproOiiyqui aud
now aghtnln Africa,' ns^ettirtrifts «|;o iu
Europe; tho Orosoont is shining brightly
upon a-beuighted popple. Our debt toj
the Arabs in Spain and to tho Ottomans
in Southeastaru Europe will never lx>
paid. Thofr. philosqphMs laid-the
foundation oHalmostf "tfVofy'sciotfed'' ivo
havo ; their commanders taught us strut!
egy and ; modern war. It would bo
Btrunge if Islam took a now lease of life
in tho oldest part of tho earth aud
sprouted freshly uraong its peoples. It
is a system which is indigenous to tlie
tropics, as characteristic as tho fauna or
fclie flora of the Torrid zone ; and young
Africa* under, the graen standard of the
Prophet, may yei tako her'place among
tho nutions.
5 PAklOS^ ^ :
; New Yorit* b»\ik*
crickeij” Aud ptrf
oforder, ;
"We’re better off without Harriet
^h of. XabU^Crloswas oresy ^ismbe^^a
and tolereto the crjditiesor youth D,
, . a uLjj._iu.iii.. more than tolerate; try to undorstam
came book, aud fluttered down the lilac- . . . ’ \ ..
’ J. ‘i . ( / . , and do not be impatient if youqg eyes
shaded Harden walk to medt her hua» j gee things just as you sec tliym.
Gray hairs Bnd wriajUes^-ou capuo.t.’
cape, but you need not grow ol
FINANCIAL
In May, 1837, tlie
suspended, and tho crash, which had
threatened fAr some time, came to the
country. This disastrous event was fol
lowed by otlier failures, many business
establishments wore forced to close, and
oven States became bankrupt. Farm
products fell greatly in price, credit wns
a by-word, aud tho finances of tho Gov-
ormnoji were Jh such 'shape *«** the
President ol t*(i Unfled Hateejuuianol
d'.vaysBetliis SalSiy -sds* itduo.
This was about the time when Ihe no-
tioualilnbt amounted to only a nominal
‘mini. The pahicof lfl67 ; wiMbpenod by
thu failure of the Ohio Life Insurance
and Trust Company. . Many bajflui in
all the States wero dbliged ~ to'ewspend,
and oeriain kinds of pa;»or wore abroad,
which' proved to be worthless. The
panic of 1873 was inaugurated in Sep-
shaded garden walk to me6t'
band,- like a bird, as he returned from
hip day’s work.,,,. , .
'•Oh, Carlos! CiuNpriH criea; "I
am so glad to bo here again I ”
"Little one,” he asked, almekt re-
pMIdiftilly, ‘‘why d^ljjvik^ayp,me?”
tember by the fail^ pf J^y Cooke A
Co., of Philadelphia.- • Th* effects of
this last financial hurricane are too well
known to "need recital here. Various
causes have been attributed to these
financial crimes, almost olj wnters-pgi
ing, however, that i eoklesA speuulati
grcoving extravagance, and the careless-
ueM with which debts were contracted
were mnopg tlie leading ones.
Every boy and girl should determine
to be accurate. Iu studying lessons be
sqre to get tho exact moaning; in. talk-
Inp state tho truth of tho thing; in
working do everything just right. I have
lately heard of two hoys who worked in
jthAfefdne store. Th*j were named Jolin and
James. Their duties were alike, aud they
were required to bo at the store at lialf-
pust 7 in the morning. John was always
there on the minute, or a few minutes
before tho time; James caine the same
number of minutes nftbr. . Wlien John
arranged the goods in the windows they
accurately murkod and priced ;
Janu s forgot to put tho number on, or
priced them incorrectly.
These are only two ef the things which
marked tho distinction between the two
boys. But every day and week thpy
grow further apart-r John doing his work
curab ly, uud therefore well; James
slighting till he conveniently could.
John was promoted for carefulness
in his duties. .Tames was warned to al
ter his m miner, uud finally diseluirged.
Tho accurate boy grew up to be u
wealthy, self-made man. Men liked to
ileal with him ; they were sure of being
treated fairly. James tried several po
sitions, but lost them on account of his
inaccuracy in little details, and, though
ho gets through the world somehow, he
has not tho happiness and success which
with the same opportunities John
achieved.
There are many things that tend to
mako a noble character. Plaeo accuracy
high in tlie list.—School Journal.
TUr Volta' Vie ii It.
There was a picnic in Farmer Blake’s
attic.
The farmer and his wifo b*d gono to
the village, and left little Dick and
Fanny to take care of Baby Bon. So the
children thought they would have a
picnic.
It was Doll Diuks’ birthday.
Doll Dinks was a black baby, 6
months old, and he squeaked.
Ho had a birthday twice a month.
Doll Midget lmd bine eyes and yellow
curls. She was invited to the picnic.
Dick got a great milk-pan and filled it
fnl|,ot water. .This was Boston bay.
The dolls were first t<> be taken out to
sail, and then they were to have luueh.
Tho lunch was a hu ge piece of spioo
cake aud,two jam torte.
Pudge, the fat kitten, was invited to
tlie picnic, too.
To begin with, they put her on a small
table, elosa lo Bouton bay, to that sho
could look on.
There was not room in tho boat for
three of them.
Tlie lunch was laid by in an old wood-
box.
As soon as the boat was ready Doll
Dinks uud Doll Midget went on tiom'd.
t Tliq bout was one of Grandpa Blake’s
f hi slippers.
Then they set sail. Dick made the
wind blow with the bellows, and Fanny
puffed out her rosy cheeks with all her
might.
But tho trouble wns tlmt "Baby Bon
wanted to help with a fire-shovel.
Ho the children told him he had hot
ter bo, thq fairy godniothei
life-preservers, but Dick and Fanny
draggod them from the waters.
As for Pndge, the children taw the
end of her tail going down atairs, with
a stream lika a small Charles river
drippiug off behind.
Doll Dinks, being hollow, could
float, and he squeaked aa loud aa ever
when he was polled ont.
But, after all, poor Doll Midget was
drowned. Her nico, clean clothes were
soaked and her lovely hair all came ont
cf curl.
" &ow,” said Fanny, " we must take
Doll ^Tulget to the kitchen lira, aud dry
hr*/ or *he .never will be fit to oome to
the picnic.”
"Oh, no I” replied Diok. "Sbe’a
drowned. She’s dead as a—as a hair
pin. But l’v# heard Uncle John tell
tlmt they roll drowned folks ou a barrel
and then blow ’em up. That rusticakea
(Uncle John said resuscitate, but this
was too bouncing a word for little Diok).
" Rusticakos ’em ? ” said Fanny.
"Yes, that’s what Uncle John called
it. Let’s rnstioake Doll Midget that
wav. Hold on till I get a barrel I ”
But all he conld find was a large spool.
Then after Doll Midget’s dress was taken
off she was rollod. Di<5k rolled her so
hard that her sides split open.
Next he put the nose of the bellows
between her ribe, for he said that her
mouth was not big enough. Then he
blew just os hard as he could.
The first thing Fanny knew, a puff of
sawdust flew ont ef Doll Midget’s ride
into her eyea.
She threw her apron over her head
and began to cry.
Dick kept shouting, "She’s rusti
cated ! She’s rusticaked I ”
But poor Fenny only cried the harder.
So Dick proposed to woke up the fairy
godmother and eat the picnio.
At this Fanny dried her eyes. They
crept up softly to the wood-box. There
luy Baby Ben fast asleep, sure enough.
There are cruiube of spico coke and
jum tart on his frock, and a bit of jam
on the eud ef his note. The lunch was
all goqe.
" Oh, you vogue ! ” cried Fanny.
Ben ojiened his blue eyea and looked
so 'chiming that both the ohildren
laughed and forgave him at once.
Then they Agreed to put off the rest
of the picnic till the next day.— Youth,'«
Companion.
CANDID iMBS. l.Ai'lll'V.
The death of Mis. Lafitte, the
daughter of the late Commodore Van
derbilt, iu Paris, calls to mind some pe
culiarities of that truthful woman.
Her tint husband was a favorite of
her father, and when he was stricken
with consumption old Vanderbilt felt
worse than his daughter about it. He
Font tlie pair down to Florida under th«
care of a Mr. Lafitte, and Mrs. Barker
t(X)k a greut fancy to the gentleman—a
fancy the siok husband was not slow in
discovering.
"Well, madiuuc,"he said one morn
ing, " where have you been this hour?”
" Walking with your successor," an
swered the hold lady.
And then and there she told him that
ns his complaint was pronounced incur-
able—and she disliked a lengthy widow
hood—she had selected Mr. Lafitte os
her second husband.
The sick man wrote jHist haste to pa
in-law, who .was greatly incensed, bnt
before Any actual steps could b* taken
the widow urul her prospective husband
were bringing poor No. 1 home to bury
decently in the family lot. Then in a
very short time—a matter of weeks—
the ludy became Mine. Lafitte, aud
went off to live in Paris.
Old Vanderbilt stuck to his dislike;
he left #500,000 to Madame, at her
death to reve rt to the children by tho
first husband. Bo MonsieurTaifitte was
not pecuniarily benefited by bis con
nection with tlie millionaire’s family.—
Rhto York Idler. _
llAKOISH WITH UHILhtANTBUCCBK#
William Scott was nung with more
eclat than any one elaa hod ever been.
People who witnessed the exercises said
that they never knew a man to straight
en out a rope with more unstudied grace
aud earnest zeal than William did.
He seemed to throw the whole vim
and concentrated energy ol a lifetime
into this emphatic gesture.
As ho hnng there limp and exhansted
| at the end o! the rope, the Chairman of
i the vigilance committee said, while ho
i book a cigar from William’s vest pocket
and lit it, that lie had never known
FLEA 8ANTRIM.
An Albany woman woke her husband
during a storm and said: "I do wish you
would stop snoring, tor I want to hear it
thunder.”
It is cruelty to east your bread upon
the waters if the bread it sour and
heavy. It might give the flshea tha
dyspepsia.
When the bold Highlander want
courting he tersely introduced himself:
"Ann Saxon, I am Roderick Dtyi*” Ann
replied, " Dim tell! ” ;
It isn’t becaaso a woman ?j eaMtfy
afraid of a cow that she ife t*awiya*l
screams. It is because dnaat#
are Dot fashionable. ' r ; i, < < j i
When a New Orleans man wanted hi*
picture in an heroic sttitude^J%t#rt4atr.'.
pointed him in tho act of TffM‘ "
drink.— Boston Transcript.
A young lady wrote some verses for a
paper about her birthday and headed \
them " May 30th.” It almffst made lie* i
hair turn gray when it appeared is ,
print, " My 80th.”
" You don't know how it pains me to
punish you,” said the feacher. "X
guess there’s the most pain st my end
of the stick,” replied *he lloy. " *T any
rate, I’d l&'willing ow*p.'
Bailey says: ‘ What men Ball acci
dents in God’s own parti” but it fitihard
to convinoe a man of tlm* when he efep*,,
down a step that he didn’t know /W^e •
there aud busts a pet corn. He thinks tt
that other party’s part. '■’t;. 1 , 1 7
".It’s a long way from tLis world W v
the next,” said a dying man to a friend
who stood at his bedside. "Oh, never
mind, my dear fellow,” answered tha
friend, consolingly, "you’ll have it all
down kill.”
Hi loit«r*d at th* f**tir*l,
A goblat In bia fiat
A wUhj -wMhj- fluid brinmad
Th# margo bia liplata klaa#d.
Quoth ha, “ I wish that I ooslfl t*
A pair ol trouaera mad*
lor laminar wear aa thin as this
OcaaumptlT* Umouadn.
—Oil Citg Dtnick
" Hallox ! Bob, how are you ? ” Bob,
who had been m jail fur debt for some
months past, ataFweredt ‘‘Vary well,
thank you ; bat 1 have then in trouble*
you know ?” "fWbfti Uonhfe ailed you?”
"A trouble parsed in <uianoe,”
A young lady whp was doing the Alpa
reported progress fo her gtardian : "I
tried to climb the Matterlom j 1 didn't 1
reach the top. It’a absurdly • high—
everything is high ift tbia.i**Htrjr.
Please send me some money.” : ,
postlieroua flj
fvp l
That will uot let
When I would uie;
I aqulrni about and
That fly,
e lie
y luainiug a
godmother always hid in the wood-li
and popped out «t just the right
moment-
Baby Ben tbonglit be liked best to
blow tho boat with the fire-shovel, but
Fajiny promised to give him a bite of
)ier share of the cake.
This consoled Ben, and they made a
place for him in tho wood-box. Then*
ho.kept qo very still that tlie <d^dren
thought lie must have gone to sleeji.
All at once a loud splash whs heard.
Tim Dcnvm-an l Rio Grande Comp my , A/en^u 1 storm arose iu Boston bay , imd
cape, injt jr<fu need not^ryw; oj^ unless, coutomplato lmjhinff 3,0^0 miles; of rail- l life w,w , npwt.
you chootje. * And, ; BO,loh^* as 'yoiir ago [ road in Utih withip f he next five years. . It wns all'thqt fat kitten Pudge,, who
an thjB oufejde, you will win qohfiflence j They will .«ivc fiqployrap^t, to at least j ^in^ tum^fed from the. table into the
uprolir! The dolls, had no
from tiie yo\ing, and .find, yoip- lift- till | J5,00(J‘people, und Salt Tinlie will j/y -.
the I•vigliter from contact with theirs. ’ tlioir iumhiuurteis '. |J * Whiit ’au
The fairy j to jump into the bosom of tlie great
uncertain -with more ehio or more
sprightly grace and paNiiaion than
William hod.
This should teach ns the importance
of doing everything thoroughly and
' i ll. Whatever we undertake, aim to
do it better than any one else. It in
better to be hung aud know tliut we
have brought ont all there wan in tlie
part, aud to know that we expiated our
crimes in a way calculated to win the
respect of all, than even to run for Alder
man and get scooped.—Npt*» Roeny
eranu.
Tjiosu ara mock genMefolk who mask
[heir faults to othsrs and to themselves ;
the true know tfaess fsrieotiy and «*-
knowlegja them.
But Blip my 1*00 In »aln *U#ra*i
To kill tli# wrotch.
An alleged poet says that violets are
"heavenly gems on Nature’s polonaise,”
and wo presume on the same plan ii
may be said flat white turnips are tbs
buttons on Nature’s negro-minstrsl
duster.
"I’vs five cents left,” said a loafer,
"«o I’ll buy a paper with them. ” " What
paper do you buy?" said a friend, ou-
rious to learn the literary taste of his
acquaintance. "A paper of tobacoo,”
replied tlie loafer.
Indians are like a great many white
men in sometimes losing their courage
after getting on thu ground for a duel,
hlitlip Bob aud Square Sam, young
braves of the Santee Sioux, were so
equally attroctive in the eyes of Sal
Molly, their chief’s daughter, that the
would not choose between them. She
promised, however, to accept the sur
vivor of a duel, and it was agreed that
the fight should be a deadly one with
■tone-lieoded war clubs. Tho meeting
was oeremonious in u high degree, and
it was ouly after lengthy preliminaries
that the two warriors, mounted ou
ponies, armed with tlie murderous clube,
and hideous in war paint, faced each
other for the encounter. They circled
around for an hour, harmlessly whoop
ing and gesticulating ; then they caiuu
together, whacked away wildly a while,
but injured nothing except the ponies ;
and, finally, Sam accepted Bob% offer of
five horses and a gun to relinquish hi*
claim ou Sul Molly.
CPIUt rOR TOUTHFVL INFIDELITY
I had one just flogging. When I
was about 13 I went to a shoomakei
and begged him to take me as an ap
prentice. Ho, l>eing an honest man,
immediately brought mo to Bowyor, who
got into a great rage, knocked me
lown, and even pushed Crispin rudely
out of the room. Bowyor asked m«
why I had made myself such a fool. To
wlich I answered that 1 had a great de
sire to be a shoemaker, aud that I hated
the thought of being » clergyman.
i*Why so?" said he. "Because, to
tell you the truth, sir,” said I, "I a»
*n infidel.” For this, without more
ndo, Bowyor flogged me, wisely, os 1
think ; soundly, as I koow. Any whin
ing or sermonizing wonld havo gratified
my vanity, and oonflhnb.1 me in my
absurdity ; as it was, I was laughed at,
and got heartily ashamed of my folly.—
Samuel Coleridge.
A new idea in the way of sleeping-.
cars was exhibited in Rochester reoently.
Stiff canvas stretchers take tho plaoe of
the ordinary berths, and so cleverly are
these stowed away tlmt one would think
himself in a drawing-room car unlets
otherwise informed.—’The ether ap
pointments of tl;u car are of tlie sanno
high order us for us ease and lieauty r
conoornci. Each of the twelve b
has two plate-gloss windows,
scats for use in the day a
able.
MuaoiNa says he
sweetheart is afraid
■ct awrfully attract*?,