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41 Mt w*ter 11 bs down in a minute, and «ay»
roa r* to wit, if yen pW,
And mft I might *Uy till *h« came, if I d
VTvaavM- bfcs teteasa,
Nor speak till yoa spoke to me find. But that *
nouKtiM), for bow would you know
Wba4 *be told me to say, if I didn't? Don't
▼ou.reaBy »nd truly think »o f
44 And then you'd fee’ Grange here atone’ And
you wouldn't know jewt where to sit;
For that chair isn't strong on its togs, and we
never use it a bit.
We keep it to match with the sofa. But Jack
•eye it would b* like you
To flop yourself rigit down upon it and knock
out the very hurt screw.
Toaj 8 ^« i
~*'°*_*;*« *»
TL. Thtre. her [ncinre. Y5g-knBW-ttlJp« T T- r,-, Uka ns.
her, but the ain’t »t good-looking,
«»««'
■ This Ian*. It's tfca but of 'em aU. MO*.
----- —- —-•—-■
That Once I was little m that? It's th« oul.
CM that could be bouzht— e
For „ that , was the ,, message to ps from , ,, the photo- h .
graph man Where I sat
That he wouldn't print off any more till be
first got hi* mousy for that.
“What? Maybe you’ re tired of waiting. Why,
often she’s lonaer then this im
-There Thm.-. sail »n b« her iwk bsck i hwr sir to .do dr up .ml «J] of
bmty**em)»U>t™.
Bat its race to he «».-•« twrs talking Uke
grown people, fast yon sad me,
Do you think yon’U u- coining h«r« often ? Oh
fio’ Bnt don't come like Tom bee.
“Tom tea. Her !«-t Ix-so. Why, my good
ae»»! lie used to be here day and night
TWthe folks thought tew be herhushwali
v™.rJ™,;r.h , -, , .. . ,, . vlv | -,
ion w« iron sway th<n,M he *<i. .or yams
’ y •'
Ps Baja yon or# poor m % cbnreh . monne. v Now,
sro yon f And how pdor are they ?
“Ain't yon glad that you met me? Weil, 1
for I know now that yonr h»ir t>m 1 red.
Bat wk.t thcr*. I. left of its mwn«y, stul
ahit that nsnghtT J.ck said.
But there ! I must go. Bister’s coming. Bllt
1 wish 1 could wait, tu»t to see
that she used to kiss Lee
hrct irtHiri Ba H» In*,, l» ■
SAM’S JUDOXENTr
“Hen-e-ry I Hen-e-ry Is-ye?” 1 Say 1 Hen,
e-ry Pino, where sailed Miry)
Almira (oomiuOuly from
ms shrieked this summons
back-door of the farm house. The
for that
day, vernal. Crocuses gilded the ;ne nd biiifa posy
dsokf-d the maple branches. A A vobiu robin
or yi^, two teejfrigijrii tappetl Wistfn out 1, about for il.e chip
SJ1 morning, *hose
hens; but as it was
of price verr? bnsy with Oomeetio
cares in fragrant hollows of the haymow
or onvemous Viarrels half full of clean
shavings, while made the ready cock for such far aflchi exi
uencep. w««
p i ck in g up - the eat ly W ohn. ao H
robius were undisturbed.
Miry was embofied in spring
self, as she Stood on that rough atone,
her shining hair knotted in a golden
bnnch behind her head, her face rosy
a pc ach, her eyes bright and Ct*l
gold fitfle gray gray eyes eye* ea CM be, and her trim
figure clad " iu - —— calico ----- e gem; —,
with a striped bib-apron, while rolled
up sleeves displayed to the elbow w
pair of stiirdv arms, and her strong
shorthands the broom handle.
“ What do ye want want ?” t a a cheery cneery voice voice
dark-hj^d handsome young fellow
l ifted his ■bead. fcim-h«b»d- from h<d>in«l the
wrxxl*pile, uod smilM miledetothe-giri,-with his st the girl, with a
glitter 44 1 didn’t of mischief know ief in in his eyes. eyes..
tow as ax yonr your name name wan wan
Henery,” saw! Miry, liry, git git with with what *sniff. a sniff. it’s it’s
“ When ye can’t I’t what ye ye want, want,
sorter policy to take what ye can git,"
returned 8 am Peters, - - . with a smile,
Mebbe Mebbe ef ef hollered holler . mite louder,
44 44 ye ye a.
Hen Hen would would heaT hear !” ye.” ye.” girl girl
and •*Hen-e-ry •* Hen-e-ry the Word, !’* sereame.1 screame<l left her lips, toe the sheepish- again again;
as liow-uatas a
lo oking fc stumbling out of
the barn with a hatful of eggs.
“ Hen in a-layin’ on ’em, Hen-fashion,”
put Qam, in a stage aside.
wanted ahe to vexed tough with at this Sam, rustic she joke, bit bnt her
was so
lips ; but her eyes would glitter.
44 Was you a-callin’me?” said Henry,
ambling up to the door.
“Yes, I was; don’t ye know your
name yet, Hen Pine?”
‘ Y vli, iWtolye; ti ou.-, i i ia up ^ u> lo iu?^ ill??
top o’the mow. I heard ye ; bntrtl’,1 but <-f I’d
■a hollered back, I’d 'a skeert the oldlieu
enter her wits.”
dryly “ Maybe remarked you’d 8 have picked shouldering ’em nn,”
am,
axe and going off to the woral-shed with
an armful of kindlings.
’Mira threw au indignant glance at
him, Henry. and proceeded irer good errand to
Sam wae out of her
iust now. He had talked too much
And Emily Snow at going last to niuhfa believe quilting. all
who was
nonsense, when he conM talk a
hour to another girl? It di,l not
to’Mira that rile had refused tea
to the aforesaid qnlltinfc and he
according to the much-vexed
it is uot one that women wear;
it is reserved for collar buttons and
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Now Sam ^ Peters and Henry
(bough they were txith “ hired out ”
old JcUirt Calkins, were also his.iangh
ter s lovers—« state of things
Momalon s nor nncommon m old
Engliuntrwtierc
time for Kacliel, and grew up into
patriarch with flocks and herds of
own.
Bnt neither Alnpra tror'hcr
knewyetwho-.would whether, indeed, succeed in this
V1«, aor some
man both. might not had step ill aud distance
well-known Henry factthat one powerful ally
the his father
“means," as Yankeedom phrases it,
’Mira had a keen eve for the goods
gauds of this present world.
bard common- -lise lined that
equa re foreliead, ; .nd the firm chin, al
most too of prominent-for resolute will symmclfy,
its story She atkt stern de
termmaliou. aid
that lug farm-house of. Sol Pine, s,
itastreteh of level meadows lying to
south, skeltered by great hills
to their summits, and on their
terrace bearing orchards full .of
aud white promise and'golden perform
anoe. She liked a snug prospect for
utnre, a garnished and well
homo; lout!—kind-hearted, but Henry was so Stnpid Isnch
utter d 6
with n o i cata t rc e a ud no energy ;
Sam was intelligent, alert,
and full of courage—and so handsome
Iu her secret soul ’Mira admired
mightily, but he was only uoe of
children ; and bin widowed
sole possession lay m a wild
farm, .•thersu partially girls. cleared as vet, and
were
If «emarried him the world lay
rvix cf am; uiuy lueir roar
wherewith to open its shell; but
Oglethorpe Echo.
By T. L. GANTT.
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there were great possibilities, and these
! i «• detenmeato and A future with there Henry
secure; UiTtt was
f smi »*■** and
j But 8 am alec? was determined. Nature
) »ui bad that not given strong him development those keen dark of sinew eyes
•nd muscle for no purpose; tlie future
! did not daunt him, and his.mind was re
t *>l?«d on ’Mira and Congress, and this
like was his own precious secret. his However,
many another man, plsns came
near to shipwreck for lived want who o! a chart;
yet what man ever knew the
channels and the quicksands of a
womans mind?
8 am set himself to work to make his
I to iaktt tb« m\he we^e«t,
^ ^ gave H«ry ^tn^henoour^
1 " I do declare.* aaid friher Caltana,
“ hzUx kftAen flre-plaivi
i one idtg^ Nay rrfptrandpnlhiy-off.his
f b N.5 00te **“
; at the embers, Almiry be ats nif‘,
1'” ef she *in t
j tin to Hen Pine now, a teua a ye live!
taln t good two months hack ! could
: ba swore she was bound to hev Sam
Peters. Jeethnnder! women-folks is
wnes r. the weather ; you can t guess on
cm
! sleepy “ We-e^eU wife, ” I droned dono as I the keer. txie.1 Heniy and s
won t never want fur
nothin ef she takes up with him. A
bird ini the hand swuthi»good deal, pa
M j Almiry is p^ty kee«, now I t.
ye. “That that ..... so,’ rejoined the
s so; s
old man. “ButfiMniB dreadful likely;
lie’s smarter’n any steel trap; fortino"
(which ts-vernacular, d«W reader, for
. “ for what I know ”)“ he 1! he a jedge
* OT authin afore he dies, and Hen Pine
won tneverbe nothin’but Ml evcrlaatm
, f„^^ “ \Vell, the Alrairyll day after^ tnoe never. t»?t yp,
. pa. He won’t know Iimi soul s his own
ef that gal marries him. v
“Lordyf Jeroosh, ham t you lived
|°ug kmlm enough » ^ to / know They yon re jest earn t like no I way ar
son Powder a donkey, that went all ways
; “fa Jj Sunday ezct’pt the way to meetm .
1 rnttar take mv chance with a feller
£at had got h«a<!
: than one with nothin but whM was in
w Mobbe 8 ,^ ke so, ’ mebtieso, " ? ame,i Jehiel, ? ?“i i but it ,• s
kinder borne in on my mind unit Mirv
will ta ke Bene ry, n evertheless anil what
sueC'e?. dia l sTe' gone a-rnlin over to
Oolebrook with him this blesseil niglit,
jest for nothin butbecnsBamweU asked
;herfor to goto the teeter own the
njte? That ainf nothin ,. she . ... 11 get . ' so , ,.
,
fired sick o Hyn s sttsi|»id grmmn ways
i ! a for e l on g, I Ij l<e « y e a ml eent shell
take to Sam fin’Uy.”
j RigluU sighed 14 It’s Mrs. Mra, dreadful Oalkius, Calkins, onsartain, as as she sfie-tooK took, anyway, up up ner „
; M candlean.l the bcdr.sim,
ow wentinto
j <f«® wW» teo rteepy turnotl to discnss current tlm matter, of Ins
f ‘ ps tJm
; thought® to thu new litter of pigs, Al
j mira for his and brain. her ways being quite too much
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But it. is certain . that so this stupid , ., did
Henry Pine show himself very even
' iSg,Tticr™ ; unspeakable tWRTBta dOT
key, that Afity s heart failed her, and
she was sudden almost inclined to put a sharp be
and cud to his probation;
sides, 8 am was on his dignity ami
piqnail her waywardfancy mightify toward by
Ins curt and masterful manner
her aud Henry both. for him, She began to feel
‘ a certam that respect he a coliseums- and
ness was the strongest;
with one ola«B of vrf>mori thin is ft lansr
step _ toward surrender: -------------------------- much «b they
; Hk© to ru>, there is a;keener faseinatien
in .uuiwv,.,,™ discovering their » f u ruler. ,, lra . been enraged,
pwtejmtwnrti Perhaps she ^ might tadwto have
i y t toterviowbelwcen j genr her two
; i unseen, u utetm, They
; lovers lovers th the next morning. were
'both-planting ’ land corn iu the long lot—a limit bvt of
; of m€»dow at the extreme
- .
; the the farm— farm~ana # and when when their their , . bugs bags were were
i empty, and the drills levelled over their
golden sprinkling i of seed, i Henry i o wras
a turning: • i his * * face homeward, when Sam
.stepped Xook bin). here, Hen; hold I
• on; ve
•' somethin to say to ye.
-Haw.- "reBWmdAl Henry, wifli an
| air . of idiptie astmuslunent, baUumuig
hack.on his tracks.
!><m t yawp .so. I jest want kt say
i that I know what you re snakm around
this here bumstead for; an you can’t
i comeit, now I ten ye.
44 What be yew a-talkm about < put
ui the naturally astounded Henry.
“ Why, I m think talkin- about Miry Calkins, git that that.
; .Maybe you i —_______ yon re gom. n to . git. Along liioiig
ri*d, iiiu, shotr shot!” but uub A ivh^i} tu % >o you tom t, i»t>i uy
Well ... 1 whose . troop do you rule ... ..... in ?
inquired .. the other, with fine Hen sarcasm,
‘‘Not yonr n, anyhow. Pine-and .
i 1 oin t jofan, you swear. Imgom
to many Almiry, ef any living man dims;
so yon d jest as good haw out ont o the
load afore you re kick e.l ont.---. ..
; ** Mighty the alarmed Moses! youth. fiown yew talk .
i m^v _
1 < ? ir ' gom
quit without haulm, or not < *
; I £>. *“0% answered Henry, sul
. to]?. h fJ“ h J e ss ?*, r fc“*±
self mplaoe of T
, to VwmHwA^rer fins fsshiom
; I fto< *» J as jou be, ami X ve
Muy *.aSK»*-w, that d rather
am t sort; she marry
a man than a pocket book.
;ye,HftmPeters She amt nobody s fool, now I _ tell
See ef she wouldn’t
heap rather settle down on our farm
than go a tm-ped^iu’ ’long o’ you. Ho i
I guess i aha u t haw onto yourrootl;
i not much. No, sir .
“ Look-a-here, 'ejaculated 8 am,
e wa»aj^-..f U ag’d li etteU iea r .to
me, Hen Pine. Ef I ketch yon hangiu.'
raound yon’U Almiry wish any more, I’ll make you
sos’t ,’t, you was
pretty benothW quick. A bumble-bees’nest won’t
to it. Now this I sayan’
swear; ef yon don’t go that.'” easy, you'll go
hard; jest handsome you reelect dark and
Sam’s face grew
his fist aud clinched involuntarily chuckle, as he
spoke; with an have unesay made defiant,
which he meant to
Henry went off alone, resolving to per
severe in his devotion to Almira, aud,
! besides that, t o tell her all a bou t this
smallTnterview with lus rival. “
But Sam’s 'keen wit'wanted him that
t h i s totn ld-A te -genry’s-fitsk mere; a u i
that luckless wight got no chance to
speak to liis adored all drive day, off and was the
even obliged to see her to
village ffin’s with audacity. her mother, quite ignorant
of . .
Now it was Henry’s duty to fetch the
cows from pasture at night, aud he-set
off early to-dav, that they might be back
by 'Mira sunset, returned, and his chores all done her when
inte nding to ask f or
h Walk'after shpper, and put his fate to
the touch, as well a* bring Sam to
1 fusion. But he reckoned withont his
host. Sam took a short cut ajroea the
hill, drove the onlv Alderney heifer, the
pride ami delight of Miss Calkin’s heart,
odt of the pasture into a mowing lot
where an old bam stootl, and shut her
j , np, hemlocks betaking himself .to a the clump -oi
which overlooked road,
till Menry came mflittering along, and,
j letting down the bars, began to call the
THE ONLY PAT ER IN ONE OF rt 3 E~^iAllGISTr MOST'INTEEUfflENT AND WEALTHIEST OOUNTIE 8 IN GEORGIA.
creatures oat of the Sot. They came on
• ™‘i.'■■!' ' rj531
Aldanjfy.had not Ham, who was some- his
tiling of s reutriloqsist, further hill-side, thrown and
.voire sorom t!.e
uttered a faint “ Moo-no."
Henry started, looked, started toward
the sound, then back to the cows, and
after rubbing hi* eyes and counting over
the slow procession filing past him,
aeemed to become aware that Miss Betty
of wmth nature n»d with diagyt, v&rions but eypfetivesof notd^tego both
homewithoot the After cow, whichwa* Miry s
especial landed pet. hm lucklow yanous tribnlationi the
Sam rival on
edge .of, a great swamp, fro m whose
*???* ->t Mi-.H Betty ^ irinrothanonce u ltalA u l je te
fore Htnry dared attempt the *»&IJ
surface and darkling grwrth ; a. laet.
however, device he plunged having boldly in, and he
bam s taaen effect
himself, familiar as a squirrel with all
the wood ways, hastened liack to the
pasture released Miss Betty, who had
.been kept uuiat with a bunch of jmey
carrots, and .turning her into the road
where the rest had gone, took the short
cut homeward and would uavearr.ved
there in time to be seatol on the door
step receive Almira but for an imfore
seen occurrence. And yet fate had no
spite id evil against tlmt 8 only am ; it bidden was the good, old though stoiy
j it seemed unmized is evil to_ (nm that m
jumping over the five-rail fence into the
. high-roml only few rods from home he
a
should light on a rolling stone that
slippts from under Ins foot ami sent lnm
; too rolling Into thegutter, with a broken
le£. Nrow Sam bmi properly
brought up by a «tm*t hen .E^iaud
motherwho behevej in judgments ready
to be burled from the hand of .Ood on
, every mu ofraart, while memos were
capncioua visitants; to be feared rather
than welcomed, sud Reecptod on the
platform of the old hymn ;
: “ We When should stupectamiadsager dokght. nigh
« po«««
Therefore it is not strange that Sam
considered it a direct punishment for
his tricks upon Henry when be found
leg waa helpless, and he must lie by
, j the aa.y-sele-H) Luckily this -seme proved Samaritan to be came Miry
past. and her mother, who shocked to
were
and him lying on the grass,pale as a
sheet, and suppressing opened with his effort firm-set the
| P»>u that all but
|j.> a X11 «pite ol his self-control. With,
Almiia’s stron g ar m to .help, fa and l iis
■ ,., T .,rto, h- was aTHarit
bottom of the. wagon and taken to the
rescue, and before long Sam was care- the
, {a Jl y Uid on “ma’s” own bed iu
little room off the kitchen ; aud Hemy
ingfor being yet MiH in the Betty, unpleasant Almtttiheroelf swamp drove look,
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hurriedly back to the village and fetched
the doctor.
Two hours after, as Sam lav there
splintered ^ and hd SfflJ pleas, but uot up
lu rortaBI.5,Ti5 stumble uot but bear ktteh- a
blpfidenng foot farmer's into voice the its
elli a nd the old in
4 niffcst tone begin ben, : Henery Pino?
“Where hev ye
Here’s the oldest to pay ; cow* hum
two hours back; ’Sam an’ fetchell nobody to do a
chore but me; iu with a
broke leg, mother e’en-a’mqat distract
e<li Almiry cbleegetlto mul y<*H«-WHaliiiV” go tutor the
h»»r«4f, man,” responded
“Well,I swan to l
Hcary, in anlalt u 7rt . - ^vi r l,.'- ’ W ben
a-doin’ my best to find < tuat tarnal Jersey
kw)w . she’s led me sech another chase
, yjt • an'I dono but what she’s sot in the
. .hemlock swamp this minnit."
“ Oh, come, now, that won’t pass no
muster at all, sir, Betty’s safe in the
yard ...... along o o’all the rest on ’em, an’
has has give give d>: down.’six good quarts into my
.^il r----- this v< 'ry night; so you talk, needn’t gi^e I
me no such humbugging sir.
won’t stan'it.” .
44 Lordy! awWbon Idonowhatyou hun^ rea-talkin Bet .
s a y au* a -
j U H over, tip acrostthn woodlot an’ way
iDto the big swamp, till I've-tore my
clothes a'most o<Tn me. Look a-theto!
44 More fool you! ejaculated the
gusted old farmer, as glare, he eyed Jest Henry’s
rags with a sidelong aa* make 44 tracks you
harness up Pother mftro,
n p to Miss Peter’s, over on the
♦ i„g f au’ fetch her over to see Sam. Take
the lantern along; the road’s kinder bad,
ftn* n e’ t?ob*t d-r-’t -Idfio. !o-tC themsrc;” the mnr
Stung Htung by by the the undeserved undeserved sarcasm, sarcasm,
and and uot not as as sorry sorry for for Ham Bam as as he he ought ought to to
have been. Henry took things at his
ease, and it was well on to midnight be
f„re Mrs. Peters got to her boys bed
side, to find him sleeping quietly; and
w b en he woke at early dawn to the
strange consciousness of his own help
. leiwaad painful condition, it wwA.com
to see hie mother’s anxious, tender
face bending over him, aud to feel her
motherly^^tonch about hi» bed, smooth
and settling and “tidying up,” as on
jy his mother could do. After the rest of
V>® famUy^had Sam dispersed uul bo, to .m.lVcr their various all to
himself, he came to fall tyuifesston.evM
sofarastoown lus previous oonversa
“wasrsv-s.—.-a» I knew you’d t il about its being jedg
a
meat; an’ I de i.sre I dono but whftt it
wa «. He’s got a clear field, any way, an
rnr left out in the cold for all my boast
m ’ ; ” ^d here Sam heaved a deep reluc
“Well, B igh. Hamwel, don’t novel-do to
it
ftwee Providence. The,Book says, ye
know, • it is good that a man should
-bot h hop e a n d gi
, peet that holds tree about all good gifts.
r make no. doubt it’s'a judgement, 8 am
dt'U t i e blesae t Lto v e : "
“I don’t feel none too blessed now,"
murmured Sam, under his breath. “It
does seem a heap more as if I vraa
t’other-thinged.” Luckily
his mother did hot overhear
poor Sam’s amendment of her final
i opinion, but busied heraeif as tenderly
and-carefully if she about least his wants and wishes the
as visitation, meant While at she acknowledged to modify his
deserving it. But Mrs, Peter.- coul d
| not and be though spared she long .took for Ham’s service,
every opp-r
' d nnn g - tente f riWlo impress upon
him her belief that lie was being pun
;sh«l for hra hard feeling and unkindly
acts toward Henry, aud read to lum
punctually could and sift pointedly of all the the Bible Scrip
tores she out to
that same end, it was donbtira even to
her hopeful soul if Sam accepted the
situation with proper submission. Still,
she had to leave him, for be could not
1 he. moved vet ...ver tiiat ioaghmoniitaiu
i road,-and Mrs. Calkins and Miry,
declared it was not to be thought of at
i any time.' The bedroom “dreadful
handy,” opening into the kitchen and
shed both ; and now all the plowing and
planting were over, there was not the
same pressing need of his services that
\ the there field had been. clear for'hi** Even Henry, courtship, seeing be
; wus
: came sulkily amiable to liis rival, and
j helped Uke u*mc of him. unasked, which
] in tame softened Sams feeling toward
LEXINGTON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MAY 17, 1878.
him so tatieh that one bnght Sunday
sasifis stasis
tithiug-man, "zs&sgutsant Sam improved the
oces
sion to eon/eas hia sin tp Miiy—that is,
a- tar as concerned his hiding of the
cow profound and leading conviction Henry astray—and his
that the broken leg
was Sow a.judgment
Almira was at heart a real
wommvfor all her oool head and strong
will. To have Sam on her hands, help
sod more toward her nudeclared k»ver
forlhm; word of l tad ove never to her, yetsaid yet by some ihe son- drst
derful perception this acute voong
person was aa well aware of hi* pawoon
as ifd had been blazoned in a
woi*K
did e < .. j - IT- , re T i n -
tmmt on that' Sunday, for Henry took
heart the name night to declare himself
on the way W8 home from singing-school, d
pref(wing offer with of a foil, threats true, and an
particular account Sam's quick
b a rd words. Of coarse ’Mira was
to understand at oncewhy Sam
had migled H enry on that eventful
night when he broke his own leg, and
g^e could scarce of her help smiling adorer at the
piteous tone present aa he
yecounteil Sam’s fierce menaces.
.. Well. T I wa’u’t bnt thinks skeert I, n I’ll >ne, be ’Miry,
„„ w tell ye; even
with him, sure as shootin'; for I’ll tell
’Miry on't next show time her I git a chance, o’ an’
,,f tbat don’t what sort a
feller „ f finno nothin.’ ”
“ And I appose," retorted ‘Mira, “you
n< , T (!r thought you was a-sliowin’ did what
kind of a feller you was, now ye
^eapiftp Book-a here. ll-tale HeneryPine! from the.tinic lalwayadid 1
fcaS^igb'to a t-p .was
a hoptoad; and a grown
op tell-tale is the Worst of all!”
dew 44 Ob* Lordy t Almiry Why, Calkins! what
yon mean? I want ye to
mftrr y me t Hain’t I said it out plain?”
; “'Yon needn't never say it no more,"
' put in Almira, with a nohle disregard of
grammar 1 wouldn't in behalf of impressiveness, the
marry you ef you was
Kingo’ Siam."
: "Well! well! well!” blubbered
Henry. “I never’d lm’ thought you’d
lia’ gi’n me the mitten, seem’ what a
farm our folk* has got, an* money in the
bank, an’stock au’crops. I don’t know
how to b’lieve it”
“Don’t make mo give ye a pair o’
mittenR," said his enraged goddess: “so
I wish ye gtsxf here night and bettor the door; man
ners —for tbey-were at
and Almim jlippcd-iip .ataira-ta bed,
tills. ^mgmjmr^rrt 1 with loathing and rage, and
^ .that tarn
<
fool of himself. No,indeed! 8 am was
no fool; He became aware that Henry
wasinadiear and sore frame of mind
the next day; and seeing that'Mira »s*
more thananally with snappyan<lalert,^'and hot color in
went about a l‘« r
cheek*, onr liedrid phihmo|dier drew bin
own coudufliom, and when *Miw cama
after teft-tu with Mxa^l
contrived to coax the story out of her.
It was abominable in 'Mira to tell her
discarded lover's secret; but let us for
give her, for she hail her own reasons,
Sam's face grew bright as she recounted
with unaffected scorn Henry’s miprise
at her contempt of his money.
» He’s a brute," said 8 am, curtly, and
then his voice softened. “Ob, ”Mirv,
,f I should ask von; w ith no sort
temptation, kiss’the only jeht Hi»t Fit tte to
^ajaittM tip.of Jriur shoe, t«»r I lovo ye « 0 ;
hard, 'Sliry anirfurning looked down m her toward Hap very
her face the
said, slowly, “ I dono bb ’twonia hurt ye
to Tliere try.” mightilv expressive
waa a
silence head bent for a minute, low-that' and Bam ’"Miry's could pretty lift
so
himself to meet it before he spoke again,
to say, with a queer half laugh, “Mother
said my broke leg was u jedgment, but
somehow it stems anything but that
jest now. I dono’s I ever should ha’ got
cmirege, ’Miry, without Pd laid here an’
seen ye so dreadful good an’ kind to
me.”
“ Mebbcyon'll wickedly retorted find it’s a jeffement
yet,” Well, ef ’tie,” answered ’-Mira. satisfied
44
Sam, 44 it’s mother mightily nsed tempered say/” with
mercy, as to
And nothing to this day Squire did him Peters much-good always
says ever so
as his first acknowledged, judgment,
! 0
— —//ar/xsr«’ Harpers* flazar. Bazar.
” '- J “
Words or Wisdom.
There is hardly any circumstance that
may not have been worse.
He that knows not when en 10 to be silent- enl ’
,
1 *
He a that <»n compose mmself t is . wiaer .
than he that composes books.
If a man cheats yon once, blame him;
if a second time, blame yourself.
It is a glorious itisa thing to resist tempts- a£,id
ti ons, but safe thing to
them.
T he praises sr of .'«rjaraaa others mav be of use in
g r *
It .. is , a dull and hurtful »* » pleasure ? to ,
have to do with people who approve of
we do or say.
It takes one less time to l^reconcilea get over one’s
own tnisforluno than to to
a neighbor’s good fortune.
There are people with whom penitence
stands for repentance—people with
nrotirning dispenses- w ith
f,, e ling sorrow.
M|ld| ,„ rpso i llt ;„ n s like the sodden
b ■ t
^ C ‘ “L f l] «n the changeable.,ess
Write ytrar name mkihdhess, love and
mercy, on the hearts of those you come
> n contact with, and yon will never be
forgotten.
(tenerosity dnring life is a very differ
ent thing from generosity in.the hour of
death; the one proceeds from liberality
and benemluiuPv-atiri-ttig-ottrer from
pride or fear.
fo!grtttetim Bureessin - We is ltid ieren’t io 111 Air a*
e when we much,
j, is ; n8t Kl wjt h the frog on a jump; he
pan - t remember when he was a tadpole '
_i ’TT' mt ot her folks can,
!h2t?e t A 'ireS*^ u£u£Z
F Knt
“j ' tre^n're J
the other a a treasure. ”
the present. prestdesMerlhe.psst;-a The first lives 6
over in a
nch temple hang with glonous trophies,
and huisl with tombs; the other has no
fthnne but duty, and it walks the earth
like a spirit.
Silent, patient, noisy continuous labor does
more than talk or vain boastin'
Silent labor accomplishes and makU
; viriil.»|e something that is enduring;
while idle talk, like the babbling of a
shallow brook, evlhcea more noise than
strength. ■*.
t A TERRIBLE SCMA
«— --^r
and steodilv toward the valley of Mexieo,
bnt abontfi-rty miles below TorresNeras
the iron horse ehsc., s headlong pace
for a moment, and the wheels revolve
slowly and oanthmaly, as if we were
moving on dangerous ground. We pass
a depot which four months ago formed
the terminus of the eastern road, but
now only marks the eattera tetc dr pout
step out on the opposite bulk
transfer yonr baggage to a little hotel,
whose good-sired beds and rustic fare
will ke^p you tolerable ojmfortable till
tte nezt day's afternoon. .
: ii The hnnk two of depots and the hotel stand t!;e at
l e trw-A { Isrrsnra. nn
j fathomable canon of the Bio Sentander,
| which iasues from the mountain gate of
! a narrow glen eleven miles further
southeast, and 8 ,000 fee t further down,
; not far from the village of San Lucas.
Half way betweeudmre and San Lucas
; the depth ol the barranca is three-tenths
: of a league, the or just one English the mile,
but between main piers of via
; duct and further up hill, a plumb line of
1,800 fathoms has failed to reaeh the
i bottom. Near Acoleingo the width of
1 the barranca is half mile, nod as far as
i «
the eye can penetrate its gloomy gulf
the sidm present the appearance of
slippery or f»y-niant!ed but absolntelv
vertical depth walls, of 200 and lanterns lowered to
the or 300 feet only serve
1 to “make darkness visible," and to start
the bats that seek refuge from the sun
iu the eternal night of theabvss. Six
; teen miles above Aeoleingb, the canon
o Brn tedtj. meainree ii» developed from
> ft ravine which baldly twelve
feet across by sirtv fend deep to its upper
' extremity, and retains timse- dimeusionr.
for nearly half a mile down hill,
where its visible lsittpm sinks abruptly
; j u to a yawning precipioo, and only
appears‘twenty-«even the south fork of miles the further river iBsuea east.
where
f rom the ravine near San Lucas. For a
mile or two above the mouth of this
ravine the water can be heard rushing
an ,i foaming between its sunless banks,
but further up all is stil l i an d rocks
tumbled over the edge Of the abyss
thunder and reverbwato in tlieir descent
f or second after second till the last faint
ram blings seem to echo from the in
terior of the earth.
jn* carts of bridging this hatchway
Tartarus were at first ■ vtimated at
^yjp(v SSUrtingMd B oo T CTriv-
laving fouudatioDS over
foundatuin^for thRm ye ars and a hrtf,
‘
Shed The “heir™butmenta
SSrn. ^mbtoJU and
L2 too- neotm <w Indian 1
beside a corps of skilled North
ffTKeMmHirate mR «on 8 forthree further Teatu !
cortrf the '«orti te
a wcimn nr hmfIv
^StoWv L wth« w£rld"
a French engineer^^ expresses it—who
i„__.if !,;« fnollml .1 nnc/> bnt ban Sf
Peiedtog rati* nrnmind sn a in m ^ne the ^mez^of nick
incrcaswtny me mrcnmsuuioeinaiaur
Z^raauc^L ^ aralivZd with traM A*S'
^
. n ,. h _ nf the
the cnlf level ihe nlaoe is afflicted with
fta ^^ oL TT*! .,,,1 its "P” tree
stunteri , , ; ?? firs nr i amt ,iiSbS jumper nusnes. etrcies,
■ T "
A Coble Mile ef Humanity.
A fanciful' geniiis suggests that it is
now time cubic to eelebrntc toe humanity, completion and of
the first mile of
gives a calculation to show that toe
| HH « 8 S of all mankind, from the first
i Adam down to the Adams just bom, if
closelypacked without diminution
; volume, would exactly fill that space.
i Here are his figures, which our yrang
mathematiciaus wk.. have nothing else
to do mav verify to^the ifthev can.
: According orthodox chronology
j the world has been inhabited about 6,000
| years, or 170 generations. Its
population millions-; but is this about fifteen of population hundred
density
must have been slowlv reached,
I seqaently . ;ti Uv.^uuteU he takes uuutau the briginai. number Uoh- of
th2'presint half
i liens^ seven huudred au.l flftv mil
as the average population of the
! world from the begiintog until now,
making the aggregate of human Imdies
during the 170 generations, 127,500 mil
lions. Since many ,lie in infancy, and
half are women, the sverage wright of
each body The ia taken aa weight seventy-four of all
pound*. may^ind - date aggregate accordingly be
to must
4,212 milBon ton<s-or a little mm than
the weight ihe of a cnhic milu^f tfi sea ihe water.
Since human body, lungs
not inflated, is a trifle hesvier than sea
i water, onr calculator assume, that hi.
estimated 4,212 million tons of human
'«?- wouldfiU the same space as 4,805
Taking ^ the same figure and exercia
iu „ the me freedomin striking inclined avera
SeduwanvSer^!amusing „ tlie mathematical! v may
‘ results,
Foi^instance, teuXof1mmani^^be assumiiK'' the average
» little muter
. fourteet, the bodies of ail mankiud, ttv
ing anil dead, placed end to end, would
: iust make a bridge from the earth to the
; sun I—.Vricn t in c Amrri rtm. ----- 1
‘ .-w' Died ,„„o For.
Have u
Colonel Montgomery was shot in a
- due , about-.a dog; C,Monel Ramsey n.
, one about abouT a servant: Mr- Sterne:» Ferthe^toie father
. su one about a recruit; and another
- in one a goose, gen
tleman in one about an acre pf anchovies.
One officer was challenged for merely
asking his opponent to enjoy the second
goblet, and another was compelled enera! to
fig ht about a pinch of sn uff._G
Harry was challenged by « CilptaiD
Smith for declining wine at dinner on a
ste.ux.lm trt ’, al t h u ugh tte.i- G fiun tl, hM
ma<le pleade.1 him as sick, an exense aud Lieutenant that m --^nabiy Cowther
lost his life in a duel because he ref used
admittance to a clnb oocumS of pigeon shooters,
' In 1777 a duel in JJaw York
city, between Lieutenant Featheretone
hangh, of the deventy-sixth, and Captain
McPherson, of the Forty-third Bnttsh
Regiment, in regard to the mannerof
eating an ear of corn— 0 “® contending
ffia 4 r - tfe -b H(l -mating t.- 3 Slrom the
and the other that the grain should be
cut off from the oob before eating. Lien
.tenant Featherstonehangh lost hia
urm, the ball from his antagonist^ pis
- fcol shattering the limb dreadfully, Graham, so
that it had Noah’s to be amputated. editor the
Major assistant on 1827,
[ Motional Advocate, lost his Hoboken, life in with
at the dueling the son-in-law ground at of E*fward Liv
iugstone,'' Barton, dispute about
in » simple cards,
■ “ what was trumps” ia a game of
iBreattoBS at Auction.
provement tssasxrjLsre in brick molds, (choice of
; ore
uff the United States,) brought $1,000; a
conrere cylinder attachment to a heater.
warranted to obviate leakage from ex
haunt steam pipes, 81,200; • new .boot
and shoe trimming machine, $1,075; an
improved turbine water-wheel, $ 1 , 550
a dosimeter, which is an apparatus for
measuring doses ot medicine, $2,050; an
SS^I*ta?T blank or oilier tZi form at 'thesame injures-
82,150; *1,075; an Dewparlorskatefone-third improved quilting madhine,
a
intereet.) $125; m improved portable governor tree-fell- o
ler water-wheels.XtSO; sawing, a
and machine, *570j_ an
i)mvem>»nt in .--.T-arie ItoTtes. AA 45 :a
new lathe chuck for holding the packing
rings of steam-engine pistons, SM0; a
new fire kiudler, composed of mineral
coal, wood, resin and a paper bag, (New
York City only,) $400; a Bpring balance
which indicates the net makin? weight only,
*345; a machine for concave
corks, *500; an improved level, with top
and side indicators connected by gearing,
*336; an umbrella that may be turned into
a cane ot-rice versa, 8600; a cheap bale
He, *350; an invisible aaifii lock, *525;
a witlTaW new jacket fountain pen, 8350; a slate
in the frame for holding pen
oils, *250; au improved steam (Pennsyl- trap,
*225; an improved washboard
vania. and New New York York, except Kings county
that be mannfictnre.1 City), *280; a fop ccmformi- the
tor can *«,
present one costing windbwacreeu, 875, 8250; a cbeaj)
sod easily adjusted *230;
an improved boiler water gauge, $150;
ft sa^ih perforated clothes key, plunder, $175; a
fastener, lock with a doors, $125; a com
binat-ion for tranks, etc.,
$1,100; a wate\'^cooler, with an ioe rack
above the water line, went for $75; an
improved harhess buckle (New England
New York and Choice of Southern
Stales), for 835; an-improved aah-sifter plow for
875; au improved for *65; a
cigarette machine, 835; a guard for door
knobs, 835; a machine for gathering
cranberries (choice of any State except
Massachusetts) for by 835; a fire escape,
which can be us ed three persons at
once, for 825; a enmUned file and screw
driver, 825; another nnti-niootine improved fire-es
cape, for 835; an cigar
holder, for 825, and a combined and scissors
sharpener, screw driver button
hook, for *50. Several potato diggers,
corn planters, stopper holders, clothes
fasteners, chnrf.-. cut-offs, bnttou
hole cutters, grates, barrel-stauds. bar
rivers, am. ottar articles including
withdrawn-for ’
were lack of bids.
---—.......
Fashion Notes.
n. mare trains are coming in vogue
rhiMirni'a ^^‘^ ren B th-enscs -i r « Hat w M r nnu!« made lpn^f i .ncer .
Flowers are not used on English round
hats. -
P el t iop - ym m ^ and rnrtbrethtunr e j
* 8 ^ in voffue.
Jacqueminot red is the newest shade
of this noon'ur color
T tank gf jfg*. more worn worli ,or for
evening toilet than kid gloves.
Re lge colored gauze round is hats. th» jiopular
veiling material for
Flower bouiiets for summer wear are
made of small flowers only.
Pure wiuteis more fashionable at the
MrvTritotbcI Princosse limrcrie is ahsolntolv nm tft
sary with the present style of dress.
--Sbprt'Wterti tips « hunches arc
preferred to tong sweeping jilumee.
Cutaway jackets and waistcoats of
silk, terry cloth, or bourette aro very
stylish. require taste
Bead ornaments great
and -careful management in thoir use to
look well.
AU children’s earmeuts, whether for
bova ox girls havi the skirts longer bv *
severnl inche«
JS,, tinnuet sbnSto^d trimmimrs are amnaed Steolfbv to'
tot^ nriint 7 the
■
hes* “lUmery artists.
Old gold, Jacques red, ar«\tUe beige, cotow mastic, most
^ robin’s egg blue
8 ° a flkt for at the ipoment.
The fashionable evening shades are.
pale rose, pale dove pale and blue, ashes opaline of or rose
gray, roses.
Wldt'' be'worn tenr make** e nretty waisteofft
that may indoor morning with‘any costume. kind of a
street or
sKmlobs lontt tnouXto teatsh a line
l“£ 4 J 0 ! eth ® top ® hebo ° •
Medwn write and sleeves, with troth
m . the armhole and aronn d the elbow,
are announctsl as coming fashions.
An ostrich tip or a wing and wiifi an orna
ment of metal, jet or beads, a aearf
of veiling material, i« the only trimming
that a round hat needs.
La<*e waistcoats-Honiton. Dncdiesfie,
Ruesiau guijhre-«e Point antique cut-work and
verv ^ fast ionahle worn over
. —r-— .
The Mystery ef Seren Hketeteas.
JjjSiW Kv* Tho^cavc is in the hVh
bluffsthid overipok the Tennessee river.
m t O’Brien wereImrrified^to andhis ueighborsexplorod sevenskele
find
tons S-S^“fn^midtegs, tenanting the darkness. Judging Vl
and the
(He month of the room in which
they were found had been almost entire
t T bbstructed by debris, which murt
been maHTT. WSl l l aei ui ma l atmg,
nrobable that the bones are those
: of “ Tib-riiriiirr of the Ohio
the skeletons bad^been wonl^ndteate
• a Wnltaweo v
^ »)«,». recesses of tins subterra
- • „ r one „f them lies across
, ^ bony fingers of both
. , 1 Ito h the throat of the rttoln sup
| walteof the
. . .'etons were discovered
; - _ .i. , *■•.- „ •« ,) iPT hail tieen finish
, , ■ n,
„.,t. n v..»tK>o of anything that would in
d U icate that the eave had-ever been occu
■ (ranmHwOT«w<aaa.ins
I’’-' r qq- r v '" li!
-
xjj or NlII!
l It .. . p£f e to doubt whether
the Pope.who has just ; n st been ^ electad elected
should not
Leoi-HI. elected asPopfttbetoreh
twelve Leos ,
but uuc _of those, II l, held h.
1 . le ten
position by a vp ry flueshona 1 ^
not- generalty aotmste* *"
i been a genuine Pope. Me was <s
iBy the authonteol. the remptror uh- ,
an opposition pope, Keneuict oe.ug
elected by the vonnai.. ne i^noir >
some Cathoh^i to have r>een a i gi
_
Pontiff, but Ban>uum trt.aw nim u
intruder, ana tnc ,>•
been jhaftctoriir aenuw. n« »r .
was-altogether a iu< •»
also that of Ljm ri , _ i,avinw* , been
med m exile ^ , *■ , ^
deposed by the kjnp < ••
YOL. IV. NO. 32.
FAU*. BARDBY i=s. ASD H0CSLH0LI*.
fruit and ornamental trees, and, indeed,
to *11 who sre following the pursait
tned agricnltore, eyen if their iabom are
to bat a small lot of land. In
word, if only a few shrubs or bushes
to be planted out in a village lot,a small
garden to be Ihe kept as a source from and which
j to- produce vegetables small
frats necessary for family consumption,
ter. The«e condition* areobrioasJy oi im- be
port»t to vegeUtioa, and they the
surface very effieienUysecur«l of by oorering
with a ataatum porous nmter
jals, such as.tan bark, charcoal duet,
leaveaor strawy maunre, which wUl pre
piv’l or hard, and, at the same time,
assist mnmmtaminga uniforBBtym its
mechanical tertiira favorable to tnere
tenhon of moisture. Air is the best non
conductor, and bodice are represaited an
good ot bad conductors, Iron just as they m e
»lid or porous. is s better
duetor than*ood, .granite stone abetter
! conductor than brick, hard pressed soil
J* * better conductor than soil that is
loose and porous. A hard trodden path
w warmer m summer and colder m win
ter thandhe cultivated ground alongs'de
«f «t. When the so.l particles are m
pressed contact, the condition is favor
able to rapid conduction. Bummer muds
over such a aurfaec carry off the
moisture which the heat evaporates, the
"nrfaee w languishes. speedily parched driV-*»L
vegetation When the sur
face is covered with a mulch of Much
porous matenals as those enninerateii, it
fffft ««ure 8 a stratum of air in re-■
P°*® between the soil and the cause* of
ration and evaporation. In the ease
of recently aumformi planted degree trees, of Hie presenra
**on of moisture in
the soil surrounding their roots is a great
point t< evard their successful growth;
nnd, other things bemg eqnal, they will
languish condition or^flourish of uniform m moisture proportion is secure. as this
’Although mu. -lung losses is a very have simple
red operation, from yet muMjiplieation. serious It is oocur- often
its
Jhe case heavy that trees application are destroyed mulching from
”0 an of
material, .such as grass, manure mid tan
bark. Before applying the mulch to a
recently the-amt Mound planted it tree, basin if m form, spring, extend- shajie
m
mg.the the run beyond this oonfimration the extremities of of
facerainswi roots; by U he retained, and if sur
letfua
ed,-nrtilleial wnleriiigs ei.n~be applied to
beetadvantage. \Vitb refere ncetofaj i
stem of Hie plant, so a* to throw off the
ke »vy rains o water. Of co.trse such
mound should be removed before the
following summer. remarlft*d, the principal
As already
n80 0 f winter mulching is to The:b«it prevent
frast frmn retohing the rtwto. undoubtedly
material for this mirpose is
c ha ro ost ;dnstr"Wirch manure « »
'[ «Uonld not be thrown < lose tip to the
8tem P 1 * 11 *’ otherwise it might,
[irove a harlior for ground mice, which
r 0 °K h tt ™""' 1 or under a coarse cover
mg are sometimes very destructive When by
eating the bark of young trees.
they aro trouhlesomc the precaution
should be taken to trample firmly over
the roots aud around the stem
heavy snows, and keep the snrfsce clean
compact. nnlcr bocffcctn^^ ■ :
In to
, lo
f heavy. * 7 ““mSP" When sawdust, i“l tanbark » m S, orchar
coal dnst is used, a layer of three inches
m.lej.thwaLhe.<xinte. snfflcieijt^Orass suitable, but
cut torn lawns is verv
mere spmikhng only should^Tie applied
at. a time. ThickooatingH promote fun
goiti growths, winch frr-qnently destroy
trees. Fruit or- ornamental trees that
have been transplanted wul rarely be
much benefited by mulching alter toe
nrst year s growth.
The «d™nteges.of mulching . t»grow- . _
mg . veget ables are eqnally import ant
cr °P? pS»^es, will thus be w*m, enabled to mam
‘ain growth during the dryest veathcr.
This oovermg_is not lntendtsl to super
setle stirring the soil, but when the plants
become so far advanced in| growth as to
be beyond the hoe and plough,^muich
mg may be applied,, mui those who give
it a fair trial on their crops in a dry sea
w>n “j®* Let promptings those who
to repeat the practice.
uerewnore, nav^
.
g ve d a fmr trial, and SJ'
themselves the great benefits to be de
' I ™ i .* rom lts P^iper and jndicious ap
P h<a ‘ l0,> ’
„
,.2*?“**® article of
divt for poultqr.
H yon have a sick frint tree, dig it up
and plant a good one m ifca place.
Thorough drainage, plenty of stable
manure, with will a heavy foundgood top-dresaing of
coal aalie*, be
for soils of a close, heavy toxtnre.
A writer in Moore’* Mural has neve®
known JravmJays, butter milk, “poureri on .luring WacS
to fartto cure . pig of ’
senrf.’ even when «re disease was of so
long -fers. duration that the animals back was
stnilw.He.i by if ^. hi# health
many a m»in
amUtrong arms, he is qualifier! for farm
iog. Here is where so many fatal mi»
tokes are made. Succere is onlv and won by
long years of patient study expen
meat poultry
The French mode of killing bleed
causing instant death, and perfect mplish
inv without disfigurement, is.acoo
ed bfra iening the benk^of the fowVahd
with a sharp pbiuted aud narrow bloded
mikingan iucisi.m at IheJiS£k_2L
of the month, which wfll divide
1 the vertebra; and cause immediate death,
which the fowls are hung np by the
-legs till bled. Thev are then picked
while warm, and, if desired, without
mg. In this way the akin presents when
a more natund appearance than
scalded.
: .... ssss.--------:-----
Progress in Japan. from
Japan is no t a w aki n g slo w l y a
sleep of ages. She has waked up with
a sudden start, to find that she is left
! three hundred years behind in the race
of civilization and enlightenment. the last
She has been making during catch
! ten years herculean efforts to np.
fte-hsa thrown off the usurping the feudal power
Ltem capitalized overthrown
the enormous pen
smns of the Daimios and their two il 1
^ ^ >f ^inere, the Samnrai, into*
to] phBi i^hthonses, and a
gvstmn, ^ the latter as complete in- as
POn tlT oan boast ol She has
, trfB , nml / ^bool svstem, United taking the
, systems of the States as
More than one huudml daily models papers
; jU> , j^ned • b ^ks of law, science,
. ^ \!re bllosoIlhv have been translated,
»ud ‘scattered ev«rvwhere through
tb ; f ) aoirt . They are con.vpicuoURiy
a » 4 >v. : ry passer-by, tosh .the
I slitdvc* of cvery^’lioofcdjor*-* in rvery city
> un. i!!age in the land;
Set a Man-jins (Jirl.
jfacaK ' s«rsf’ , —
— w
“lizzie.” he said “yon mast
jeaj mT heart ere this- you must know
km dearly I lc.v#
i ‘-yes, Fred- ”‘aaid yon have certainly
Terv attentive Liazie.
“ But, Lizzie darling,
, me? Will you be my wife ?”
“ Your wife, Fred 1 Of aU things, no!
No, indeed, nor any one else’s.”
twe^flve^Sh^Stata. “I^ook *liere I’ve had over
thanks friends,” to yon and n$' other gectlemsn
py*! winced a little here, whether at
■ the remomiirance of that unpaid livery
i h - li, or t h e id a r.f Li il kie's sle igh i ng
.
with her other gentlemen friends I tan
no t positively How answer. do think sisters
“ many you my
, have had ? Not the sign of one, either »f
i ; them Nellie . Such pretty girls much as attention May and
were, too, and so
thev nse<l to have»” .
•• Now, Lizzie-”
“I am fond of going to the theater
occasionally aa well I as shouldn’t a lecture or
cert sometimes, nnd like it if
I pyopm,. V d attenSingany such entertain
meat be invariably told that times
K ,_ Cr , iar ., mv fo ]„„band couldn’t
afford it, and then have him sneak off
ai on «.
“ Lizzie, Lizzie -”
“And then if once in a dog’s age he
lH a eondeacehd logo with me anywhere
jn the evening, I shouldn’t Uke to be
;,,f( p, pick mv wav dfbreaking along the slippery
i4swB at the risk mv neck,
he walking I’m along unconsciously dependent, by n y
and I of need a the protection clinging
natlire> of a
BtronR arin> -
“ Lizzie, tbia is all nonsense.”
“ I’m the youngest in our family, and
J , wr ij a p 8 J’ve been sjxnled. At all events,
know it would break mv heart to have
my congeals husband vent allthe the world ill-temper which de
lle from on mv
fenceless head."
“But, Lizzie, I promise you that
J_
•• Oh, yes, Fred; I know il what l yon ore
K 0 i,jg to say—that von w be differ
cj t - bnt Mary and NeJl have
time and again that no better husbands
(ban theirs ever lived; no, Fred, as a
ll)Te _ T on are iust perfect, and I shall
hate awfully to give yon up. Still, if
yon arc ,,f bent girls on u-bo marrying, there marrksl are
t v have., not
sistera, or who are not wise enongh to
, lf< ^ t |>y their eBtmp |». if they have.
H 8 ^ 1 ‘ t ^ ^
P^Tbefore __•■ _
Lizzie l.a.1 t,ering concluded, something Fred
ma< , e {or the door> ma
“unmentionable “There!” exclaimed to ears Lizzie, polite." the
as
^ oor c | OS(H j w ith a bang. “I knew he
wa„ n<) and betterthMfther**t. Aleck Tnat’atheway ^nnra
j n bn ewf-fw*
when tuil perfect 3 g fl don bea? - t go just right. He’d
^ , of a husband, bnt
j> m 8ony he came splendid to the point so.toon,
f ( , r j ie wa s just a beau."
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Traveling In a Land or Leeches.
Monotonous as it was, writes a traveler
Slffl lSg! there g was constant excite
L°teSeL fiedni and otillingoff,
which swarmed
T),c around seemed
hHvp- bodSes^embling wherever yon lonk«?I you
fine “elastic”
(similar to a piece out of the side spring
^f a boot), ” gracefully \ ? erect, ? and p^^s- making
, y a ith the mod of tin
their genus, s tart,
-j !ia d encased my legs in thick
stockiuira.'iatd aecurely tying which them 1!
fi iraH 4 . my ^ trbwsere.
^ n miH of tape, thinking trudged myself
p er fg 0 tly secure. I had. on
wit t 10 ut caring for the voracious worms
which j constancy saw on the bare carried legs
mv companions, J each of whom
R ^ #t be mA of And_iime^_(!Qyered wh ich was a small
witlia of tobocca
^ piece of muslin, one application drop
sufficed to make a leech
^ apparently stupefied. Salamah At noon river, we
reac bed.the banks of the
w ), ere asHumcd the aspect of a monn
^ tarrent, and, being anxiorts to con
template at my ease what was a grand
the midst of a forest—the water
aTi ^ roaring among bowlders of
_ reat magnitude—I ordered a halt, and
, , ■ , ?. -y r’ r ~ end
and^-.bathe my feet. full Oh.hor
ror l my stockings eSntrivaucss were of blood;
mT ^ European hadfaUed,
in(rteai j 0 f keeping out my enemies,
had offered them a safe retreat, nine gorged for I
discovered no less than
. jesoj^g j n one stoeking^^and moment eight I discarded in the
; other. From that
s hoes and stockings, and, doing in Ma
; laya a» the Malays do, ever after walked
barefoot, armed with a stick, tobacco
; and lime, which I found most effective,
mtiMfctift oniv % little vigilance on mv
s own part ot mm
lowers in omr Indian myde of progrea
sion. - J- _
~~
. Snake (analbsllsm.
Regarding the question whether there
ar. , has received several
American correspondent com- (H.
{municatjons. j of Poughkeepsie, - N.Y.) wntee: While ,
| rambling Ma^., through the woods near Pead
ham one afternoon, some Tears large
ago, I snJdenly the came of upM swUowing a
black snake m act a
1 garter anake of aboutJiali its own srae.
He had sUcceeifed in getting own near
ly oneTialf tin- length of lUBBHiy. HMU
first, and was so oomplsteiy gorged
,»* EIows .te^be^mcapableof fFom stouTiHMspaiehedliim, moving. A-iew
a
and the garter spake was drawn from his
interior dead. Theblack, snake mres;
nreil fonr feet eight inches lnlength.
Mr. V. S. Ejffcf*. .<* ffewtagJF B.
observes: We have here a black and
white snake we call the kind-rt'faod king snake,
which will leave any other
to eat a snake. - There waa one brought
in la town' snnke a few tli days itself ago hangi with n a g much f rom
r ger - a n
its mouth half swallowed.
T .'
A l»amrer«m« „ »«'«•
John Mars all :
William -on of Mrs
about shell on sixteen Antietam years ^a^fieH oj«Lt»«e>* an^ up took a
it home m Porterstown, Washington
county, and in the evening extracting
some powler, tested its virtue with
by the lighted candle, and it failed to
explode He then laid the shell by
the night m the kitchen. The fiext
1 morning he made, the ffremJhe .stove
and firing a stick at one end he inserted
it into the shell, when it burst with, ter
rible effect, almost tearing off one of his
hands, and lacerating the otherr-shatter
iug it with the bonee of the wnst, which
will in a few days require amputation,
and destroying one of lus .eyes. It
demohshed the wmdt.w lights and
broke n hole down through the floor,
hU'l a iragnieijt passed up through
floor above and through the ropf.-a-~/tao
i . limore Am#ru:an
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Items of Interest.
•*.«"»*«*-««»» «—•*?%—"—t
*•“* i* the most warlike nation?
Vareinatioti. Why? Beesnae d »«•
in arms.
There arc many men whose tongues
might govern moJtitudea, if they could
8 OTera t!l ” , ' ,<,D «J lM, »
horses. King Humbert owns eight hundred
Heseenadeternm.tdtuestab
liah a stablegove nment.
***** sbR d sod herrin# werl sre fonad in
^ they hitherto an
Kansas teeeher : “ Where does all our
gram produce go to ?” Boy; “It g-es
into the hopper.” Teacher; “What
? h o ppev ^i- Boy ttri o aplm nHyrr^rnrsv
hoppmr.’
The Emperor Alexander of Bosnia has
I signed a charter conferring upou Xcw
York capitalists the right to • reet and
operategrain eleyatork thronghout the
Russian empire.
eouSv Mr Larkin ^roreia Tnrner of ilerriwether
mediae b»k his flret dwe of
wlmn he was hue htmdred
years old Fatal step ! He only ^ lived
ten years after tliat
” J
T “ rk 'i' ! J,
There w me fifty-two nwTiw,-, ^ persona . V^n , who U
draw each fo ,000 or over.
The cup of human bliss is alaint as
fnll as it can ever become without strum
mg the goblet, when the tiny, bright
’T 0 ^ little toddler bids gopil-bye to
gowns and sashes and finds himself in
■»* »«•» !>«>?«» panttloone.
Horseflesh is now becoming eo cora
mon ftfi article of food m Fans, that
1,000 beasts are consumed every month.
They are not killed until they become
useless for work through age or lame
ness. Tlie meat ia but half the price of
beef.
A generation or two ago, when
colleges «m?totogtmeralnw,itus«ltobefrc- were few and coal oil had not
nuently urged that occasional world wars from were
necessary to prevent the
becoming densely populated.—Srre/
f,,*t Tnhu _
aa— t „,k tofjwwifc_
A trasom little desr.
He feuoed her In situ botharmr
And whispared in l.or ear.
“
For i “ekutoiera, littto JL,
.jS' w , . L h n . showf^nl^fofioWera , f
the «t,which ri s e* in the morning
>te toil tor^TeAs three jerks, «dtawSdrS3 and is ready drewwl
r 7
A . Boston _ , „„ „ A. - . o
was eftug >th End vesterday.
It may be safe enoug u m cateh a hut.er
ft >*u-ctni-, bat when ertfr von rr
J waspvou want tc it at
? eaa - Bh,,tlDg » e8 ‘ erl ’ V
toward the bead.
The strengtli of the French army is
»follows: Active army (five classes),
719,366; reserve of active anny (foni
elaasca). S!»,98a; tenitonal armytfivo
classes), 004,736; reserve of territorial
army (six classes), 638,782; total, 2,473,.
- 868 -rtl trained nuo;
Ten tliouaun ?i<1 mifr** nf __
' n into the Atlantic,
and yet its salty nature would befresh
ensdonly in and around, the mouth of
the iscnrionaanddeeplylntSwiteag. rivers^ Nature's work, in salt-water
Ocean's
Two dogs were found on tlie plains heavy by
some cow boys after a recent
snow storm. ‘They starvation, were reduced but in- to
skeletons through
stead of eating the meat thrown to them
they carried it to their master, a team¬
ster, who had wandered about for twelve
days, lost in the snow.
A traveling tree peddler gooeelierries sold some ex* *
traordina ry kind of t< ^ a
farmer. Next year when thtf pedti.’er
came round the farmer informed . him
that his gooseberry bushes bore cur¬
rants. “That is all right,” says the
peddler, “that kind always produces
currants the first year.”
wqbk.
4 * How Rpe&ks the present hour V set
Walk, upward glMteing; in glory be tracked,
8ti .iihfU thy advancing. footsteps
blow, but of daily endeavor,
8coru not the whiIlno*«
Let the great meaning «moble expended it ever;
Droop uot o’er, efforts in vain,
Work as believing that labor is gain.'
Japanese workingnjen are piling of 1,000 up
wealtlt on the enormous * salary add
• ‘ cash ” per day. It is .needless to
they are paid in “cash.” Tliiw para¬
graph is written with the purpose of en¬
couraging immigration to Japan, and
therefore the fact that it takes 1 CK) eftr u
to make one cent will not be divulge**. *
Knowing now, mi vre do with certainty,
tho tmtrenae* of form to which all matter
is liftbte, we may surely predict that the
future of onr globe simply depends
upon tlie amount of heat received by its
Rorface. H the heat diminishes, aU
earth and air wiil l>e silent stone, with¬
out the breath of file upon it ; if the heat,
increases, the whole world< will melt in
thin' air. — Zb. E. li. Foote?* HeaUh
Monthly.
The Washington correspondent of
the Boston Herald, in describing House, the
Cabinet’s room in the White
J . “The Cabinet table, which
s m ) 8 j E tlieceoteri.f the room, is of
(brk t(xkI COTere ,i ^th red morocco.
Tll&re arb m ven drawe rs in the tsld c.
^ lickf> aQd key8f end <rf hi* ewiil memlter The
of Cabinet has one «wu.
j, ;, JeDt at all times during office
bonre, SiB-at the head <A torn table
’Symoreinff jt , , ; s papers in front of him, ami
a large, fresh bouquet is
P before him.
Jt hflfl lKWoraP 8 fashion with certain
1 ptan • sheets to give original
Sstote , entertainment of the
JSn. in thehome circJe. pre-empted We beg
j I fortrespasaing on the re&aYad
8 .but havin g
■ eoii tnTmtOT entirely new
trisnne an
for making bread, we ted «*•'
' -trainisl to give it to Urn-culinary world,
. - « f„ii OW s ” Four quart* tlonr ; four
I . „ np j ( „tto„ tnttihg;
^ - nfA condense-i fog; eight
, ( •: oue-ouarter pound
- stove and
„w> rin e Pnt it in the
; watch it r.se.
- 5 ; ““•*
'
The tmv mettius?
ITie f.r« 7 *th of south wind totting p»«t
I crimson in the msple *ilooteT
n6 fPitieh febing .'Toctrvat- brtdrt. tiieMns-bira the rootv . - * note, .......
, The hw
The dxnAetton on the tuost;
The earthlv color of the Rtraaio
Toe wjmrfT flnffh of rtPMhin it g5eam
the vmg or bird. woodkide f he h dir of 1>ee
fixe dswa'Of the U : ^
Tltei The rapid Tigidw r«*h fitter o-f Utt on rub
j The morning hear fo---1 ’»«
The noonday dr• « n-r* ; the -.x-dge
The ehfingins &Aot • the visvfe,
'i!he fr«dx«. r haeof BiotioUiii lAne
Are things that te-ii to fevs* *uo e«r
.. .. dm*mg . . . .
Tbttplpnng e *oft d»y* ***