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STOH HOME JOURNAL
WATERMAN,
AT PERRY. GA.
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MORNING,
BY J. T. WATERMAN,
PERRY, GA., DECEMBER 17, 1870.
YOL. I, NO. 1.
SELECTED STORY.
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STORY OP -WESTERN LIFE.
' T ' •- . ...
AUK S, STEPHENS.
It was a wild clearing in the heart
of a Western, forest A tali, athletic
man was at work in one-comer, and
each lusty stroke of his axe, as it was
swung into the heart of a giant chest
nut, reverberated cheerily through the
woods. The morning was bright, and
die air rich with, the commingled per
fume of mosses, flowers and foliage
gathered upjlriyn the wilderness. The
early - "suilsluiie di&eed’ among tliS”
boughs over.our woodsman’s head,
and every blow of his. axe Brought - a
storm of dew down to the' daises and
strawberry vines which he wiis treading
■"Well, there isn’t nothing very un
common in that, is there ?” said Da
vid, laughing as the young man hesi
tated and blushed like a girL
“No, Mr. Hunt, no, I may as well
ont with it,” cried Shaw, setting down
his rifle hard and speaking with des
perate rapidity; “I meant to
with you about it in a day or two, but
as we are on the subject suppose we
finish it at once. There is Hannah,
your daughter—-we have been acquaint
ed three years come fall, and if yon
a’nt willing to let her keep honse for
me, it don’t make much odds whether
I have a a farm or take to the woods
again. One thing' is certain, I shan’t
be very contented any where.” s
“There, now you’ve spoken np like
a man,” replied David, frankly extend
ing his hand; “I cannot spare the
“Yon have saved me fifty dollars by j under those long eyelashes, - she was
that plunge, old fellow,” he said still J perfectly certain in her own heart that
gasping'with passion. “I Was a don-1 she had.neyer once looked at Mm since
ble fool th let yon break loose, though, i they sat down to breakfast, nothing in
the world would tempt her to do anv
thing so forward.-! Dear, pretty Han-
Though the morning was deliciously
cool and breezy,‘the workman.stopped
now and then to inhale a deep breath
and -wipe the perspiration from his
forehead, and at each .time lie cast
glance of good-natured anxiety over
the logs rolled together .dri heaps, and
the forest of newly made stumps that
stood glistening in the sunshine, yet
full of sap and with tufts of green still
clinging to their broken bark. But
though his eye took in every object.
the log
'paBin that stood on the opposite verge
of the clearing, it invariably lingered
last and longest on thq lhong of newly
cat leather which from the distance he
could just see dangling through a
gunlet-hole in the door from the wood
en latch which secured it within.
Honest David Hunt. There was
hunger and some little desire for rest
in those frequent glances toward the
slender cloud of smoke that went curl
ing up from the stick-chimney of his
dwelling. At last he planted his axe
against.the massive trunk which it had
half cut away, and was rolling down
his shirt sleeves, when the latch-string
began to vibrate before- his eye, and
after a moment the cabin door opened
and a young man came ont with a rifle
in his hand, and dressed in a green
hunting shut.
‘Halloa !” exclaimed David Hunt,
with a scat of half whistieaa he but
toned his wristband; “arly and late
that chap is always a hanging round
my premises. I calculate it ia’nt very
alinSave to depend "cm;'-but fqn’t
look so down in the mouth about it.
I’ll tell you what we can do ; tajra up
your three hundred dollars and buy
the lot that lies, next .agami^iinci—
a. housekeeper in jt^Ffannah wont
make a worse daughter forme because
she is your wife,” i
pointed to his dwelli
on lus face, yet'a sii!
lid David Stunt
ng with a smile
gle tear brighten-
s love which he
the most‘.holy
ed in Ms eye, for
bore his daughter
feeling of his life.
“I never teas so/happy,” exclaimed
Shaw, grasping tlh rough hand of liis
father-in-law andgiving it a vigorous
shake. . “And -Hinnahp.clour girl, she
thought you matt miss her 'help, and
would not constat to go 'away. I left
her eyes.”’ ;
a good gal,” replied
the back of his rongh
eyes; I only hope she
good a wife as her
, and she will But
it, Ike, there is -that-
Make, Mike,' easy boy, ■ easy. Come
back, so-ho—so-so. ”
■ It was surprising that a voice so
fearfully savage the moment before
could have-been modeled on the in
stant to the low, silky, and wheedling
tones which tin’s man adopted in per
suading the horse back to his
again. It sounded through the woods
iikef*.the mellow tone of & bird calling
for his mate. Bnt the horse plunged
on till the call terminated in a low,
sweet whistle. He had leaped
a rivulet-which ran gurgling along the
depths of the hollow, and his front
.hoofa were .buried deep in the opposite
ascent when that whistle came
her with tears
“Hannah
Duvid, dm;
hand across
will make
mother was
now I think
young fellov Bill .Wheeler, from the
Bend. HI I§* fl ® p ” a aij
■What audacity Ls to love and boldness
the skillful use of printer’s ink is to
in business.’’—Henry Ward Bceclier.
“The newspapers made Fisk.’’- James!to gness why the gal was so
David had scarcely buttoned
ithout tlie aid of advertisement;, I
done nothing in my speeuia-
I have the mast complete fiulh in
nter’s ink. Advertising is the royal road
P. T. Biirnum.
POETRY.
Woman’s Work.
Darning little stockings
For restless little fee;
Washing little faces
To keep them clean and sweet;
Hearing Bible lessons,
Teaching catechism,
Fraying for salvation
From heresy ond schism;
Woman’s work.
Sewing on buttons,
Overseeing rations;
Soothing with a kind word
Others’ lamentations;
Guiding, clumsy servants,
Coaxing sullen cooks;
Entertaining company,
And reading recent- books;
Woman's work.
Burying ont of sight
. Her own unhealing smarts;
lotting in thesunsliine
On others’ clouded hearts;
Binding up the wounded.
Healing np the sick,
Bravely marching onward
Thro’ dangers dark and thick;
Woman’s work.
And blessing manhood’s years;
Showing to the sinful
How God’s forgiveness cheers;
Scattering sweet roses
Along another’s path;
Smiling by the wayside,
Content with what she hath;
Woman's work.
Letting fell her own tears
Where only God eun see,
Wiping off another’s
With tender sympathy;
Yauning for tire gateway,
Golden, pearly, ample;
Womans work.
onieih^ilenco.
A day of deep repose;
Her locks smoothly braided.
Upon her breast a rose,
Lashes resting gently
Upon the marble cheek;
A look of blessed peace
Upon the forehead meek.
The hands softly folded.
The kindly pulses still;
The Ups know no smiling,
The noble heart no thrill.
Her conch needs no smoothing, -
She careth for no care;
Love's tenderest entreaty
Wake’s no responses there. «
A grave in the vaUey,
Tears, bitter sobs, regret,
One more lesson given
That life may not forget;
A face forever hidden,
A race forever ran;
“Dust to dust.” a voice saith,
'And woman’s work is dona
The BvMtBMrof ForsMa*
And if the husband or the wife,
la home's strong light discovers
Such slight defects as failed to meet
The Winded eyes of lovers.
Why need we ask ? who dreams
Without their thorns the roses f
r,T < ? n< ^ era . that the truest steel
The readiest spark discloses ?
^bttaill in mutual sufferance lies
The secret of true living;
~2® ®aroe is love that never knows
The TOeetmm of forgiving.
second wristband when a young gpl
appeared in the cabin door with a nip-
kin in her hand which she flung upas
a signal for breakfast. ' J
“O, yes,fsbo can call me now,” mid
David, taking up his old straw hat-
from the grass, “but before I ea or
drink I must know what brings hat
Ike Shaw into these diggius 60 ten
—wheii foxes' begin to prowl fio id a
hen-coop in the day time it lookf lnn-
gerous.”
‘I say, Ike-7-Ike Shaw, hallo; this
wny a minute !” and ns David imt
uttered this shout he swung his Win
the air; an unnecessary signal, his
voice might have been heard fa into,
the woods.
The young hunter turned and-amc
across the clearing, and thou he
swung his rifle about with a d ling
air,'David could, see that his fat was
crimson as he drew nefir, -but fine
himdsome face it was, Da'
deny that, though he did
self to look ferocious, imd
frown as he approached
much out of place on that bri
forehead. ^
“Well, Ike, what- brings yi
parts so soon again ?” ini
Hunt-, putting on his old
folding his arms ovenhis broad chest,
after a fashion which he ’ ’
much admired in Othello di
only visit he ever made to tin
while on his journey “ont;
the New England States.
‘ ‘Don’t think of
diggins, nor any thing,
“Well, said Isaac SI
still more deeply, “I don’
it will be. A chap can’
his home in the
that, I suppose ?”
David nodded his head
“Just so, Ike.”
“Well, continued
courage from his com]
“I have a sort of notion
before long, and clear
myself. Game is getting
I begin to feel rather loi
ing out at nights so
“And how are you a
for the land ?” inquired
ing his arms more
chest; “wild land is
true enough; but yet
won’t be satisfied with
titan cash on the rudL’
I know that,” repli# the young!
iv gal away from her old
a ferocious chap to deal
Wheeler, I shouldn’t
gives us some trouble
attempt it,” replied Shaw,
.t Hannah loves me, she
much this morning; what
eeler say against that, I
know.?”
of course nothing,” re-
t, “though Bill is a savage
ien any thing goes again the
him; but see, Hannah is ut
the breakfast will get cold,
and we will talk it all over. ”
«$© -V inii liiterandd—rite-TWO
deuly, -with his ears still laid back
and his lioofs on high. A shiver ran
through his limbs. His ears began to
tremble as they arose to. their natural
position—his fore feet. sunk slowly
down, and, wheeling, gently around,
he recrossed the brook and crept -up
the hill, like a hound called back from
the chase. .
‘So old fellow, you have come brick,
have you ?” muttered' Wheeler, tying
the broken bridle and tightening the
knot across liis knee with both hands;
‘.‘it’s weli : for yon that I have no other
horse to carry me to the Bond—now
see if you can stand quiet, will you.
This speech terminated with another
oath, while Wheeler knotted the bridle
to the splintered trunk, of the sapling
and. moved away. He crept, stealthily
around tlie edge of the clearing, tak
ing care to conceal his progress by the
underbrush that grew thickly in that
portion of the woqil. At lengthihe
reached the little patch of vegetables
which lay between the forest and the
back windows of the cabin; here he
paused a moment, peered anxiously
through-the thick foliage to the right
and the left, then parting the branches
with hisjfiands he stole softly forth,
and, darting across the garden, crouch
ed down beneath one of the windows,
where he lay for two or three minutes
holding his breath and afraid' to stir a
limb, lest he should agitate the creep
ing plants that clung around the win
dow, and thus give notice of' his pres
ence. "
At length he arose cautiously, first
to one knee, then to a stooping, and,
at last, to an upright position, which
brought his face to a level with the
window. He lifted Eis. hands and
parting the net-work of convolvules
At length, when David Hunt had -Hannah snatched her sup-bonnetfrom
msfgjye^ the ;'Iast. ^msrsels of Kafli the grouridT anch^hastily filling her
Trom the plate tohis lips, and drained; pail frdmthe sjfiririg, turned breathless-
his cefifee cup for the third; time, he ly into the path, .It .was too late, for
drew Vbaek his chair and looked-ati escape ! scarcely-lnid - she advanced
Shaw. half a dozen paces, when William
gd[ np, a
nixl
5 David
at and
went toward the house together.
Scarcely had David Hunt and his
companion closed the cabin door after
them, when a horseman came from a
cart-polk leading through the woods,
and; dismounting near the chestnut,
he looked cautiously around, saw the
gxeat gap cut in the trunk of the tree,
and driving’his-horse back into'the
woods-again, tied hint to a sapling
down in-an’ almipti hollow which con
cealed them from the clearing.
When the man appeared once more
in the open space lie took up David’s
axe, examined it closely while he dis-
lodged the- tiliy chips that dung to its
edge, and tried its sharpness with the
ball -of his. thiimb.
“The chips are moist and green yet,
the helve is. warm with the old man's
handling. I umy as well-make myself
scarce at once, for the old fellow will
be hanging round home till night, I
am certain of that from the way he
has begun his day’s work.”.
As William Wheeler muttered these
.discontented words to himself,- he set-
down the ‘axe and moved away as. if to
;-like caution that
scarcely shook a drop of dew from the
host of purple-bells that clustered
around him. Having thus made an
opening which commanded the interior
of the cabin, he remained motionless,
except tiuit how and then his • fingers
clutched themselves together, and
once he-unconsciously crushed a dus
ter of the scarlet bean-flowers which’
fell against liis palm with a violence
that shook th© -whole vine.
nak Hunt 1 how'did she know that tkq of an innocent heart, Anew how pure
young man at her left, in the green- and entire that joy was.
.All at once a shadow fell on the
hunting shirt, Was looking at her, if
she'never turn either eyes that way ?
The conieal-shaped coffee- pot with its
steaming contents shut in by a . lid
marvelously like,on overgrown p-^tin-
gtusher, was bright- as hands c-ould
make it, but notqhite brilliant enough
to reflect tlie mofious 61 lier lover.—*
Still Hannah Hunt wits very positti^
that she had givijii Ike Shaw no sort
that wa^, and, of course,; she knew
» the fr-wera that trembled and
off then? dew,- ;uid ‘zt-emed langk-
ing at her throngh the window, were,
hot more modest of innocent than
Hannah Hunt.
that ever fell from the blossoms - of a
young heart, sparkled in those soft
eyes; and there she sat, so' quiet and
motionless, bending a little forward
like a wood lily;on its stalk, and ' none
but the- Almighty, who loves the joy
fling his disengaged, arm also afionnd
spirit of tlmtyounggirL : One of those
strange, intuitive feelings, "which
seem like spirit-tones in tlie heart,
came over her. There was no unusual
noise .in the forest, and yet she bent
her ear to listen ; still no sound, save
tlie soft hum of summer iqsects, and
as love the soli
tude, arose to startle her; fciufcthtafecl-
of encouragemeu\ri» look at liprvin ing of'dread was in her heart, : slre put
back the mass of golden carls that had
fallenqyer her shoulder and
vail more mfegntiy - -Tt^us- arlfitandi
the tramp qf a horse mellowed and
broken by the forest turf. Certain
that ifc was the approach of an enemy,
her person, Wheeler .lifted her from
the ground and moved rapidly toward
his horse. The poor girl struggled,
her head fell back on his shoulder, and
her terror found voice in a single sharp
cry.
“Hush!” said Wheeler, turning his
face till she could feel thewonn breath
as it poured from his clenched teeth.
“Hush, I say, or I shall he forced to
quiet you with my handkerchief.”
He moved toward, his horse as he
spoke, set her oh the ground, still
grasping her arm with one iron hand,
d’pasTie^sprtingto his Kiddle andattempt-
1 to diag heff np after- bim.
Another cry, sharp wiih terrible ag
ony, broke from the lips of that poor
girL It was followed by a rushing
/‘Well now, Ike, I am ready to talk
pver the business as soon os you’ve
arnind to—”
David Hunt was hero interrupted in
his speech, for Hannah recollected
that moment that she had no spring
water in. the house, and the haste she
made to get her sun-bonnet and lift
the pail to her arm quite disconcerted
the whole party, but it was only for a
moment. David settled hack in, his
cliair again, after giving a glance at-
her burning face as ijhe . lifted, the
wooden doqr-latch, and muttering to
himself,'
“Well, ‘wefl, it’s oily human natiie,
I was young once myself, ” he address
ed Shaw again.-
And there was that vile man listen-
in-law. He-was crouching' amid the
vines as Hannah passed him, with the
on her arm, ; and the love
light brightening her blue eyes and
sending, its-red to her cheeks. Her
garments, almost touched him as she
turned a. corner of the cabin, but he
held his breath and shrunk close to
the logs listening to the conversation
within, even' while’ his kindling eyes
followed the young and happy creature
as she passed with a light step into the
woods. When she had entirely disap
peared he turned liis eyes inward again,
bent liis ear, like a‘hound, and pressed
g beans _ the* .draped th-- bis f-.«- dose 'to 'the' matted-foliage,
™ ~ ' that no word passing between the two
men at the table might escape him.—
After s<pme ten minutes he drew steal
thily trick, darted into a patch of early
corn that came up. almost to one end
of the cabin, and winding noiselessly
through it, cautious as a serpent, not
to shake a single silken tuft that
streamed from the half ripened ears,
he entered the woods again
Wheeler appeared in a curve of r the
path. She turned , into -the wood,
though the undergrowth, was so thickly
tangled there that it seemed-almost
impossible to force a passage through.
Wheeler sprung from his horse and-
left him standing across the path, as
he came quickly toward the breathless
and startled girL
“What, Hannah, yon are determined
to fight shy yetexclaimed the vile
man, pressing close to the. struggling
girl,; and attempting to take the pail,
from her hand, “Come, come, give
i To-morrow! to-morrow! quick
work, hut I am ready—-the job pleases
What a tranquil and happy scene^ W^ftjjjegses me^-ao, so fool-stand
is that the bad man gazed upon! stilL What, afraia^c.£.iv 0 0
seek the woods again, but os he tnmed “
■tk.temcMaiM.«w..
-the cabin lie gave a start, his heavy
eyebrows worked arid knit themselves
over Ms flashing eyes, and with a half!? 6 ***' seined in pro-
lie looked porbon, for Hannah was holding forth,
Ike
make
! agree to
replied,
lering
assent,
.‘ttle down
farm for
and
camp-
suppressed oath, he looked aronnd
if to ascertain some means of:
the cabin which might not expose his
person to the inmates.
“There, were two. I. saw them
through the window. Who.-is he?
Let me make him out—let me but fas
ten an eye on him and he is done fori ”
Once more he sent an oath through
grindiug-Wcfh, and plunged into
the hollow where his horse was tied.
The fine animal turned Ms .head- and
greeted Ms coming with a, low neigh,
but his brutal master lifted his heavy
boot nnd gave the poor creature a kick
that made Mm wheel and run back
with a violence that almost, tore the
sapling up by the roots.
|ng to
pay
fold-
noise, and giving the bridle a savage
jerk.
“Stand still, stand still, or I’ll bleed
you with a new-fasMohed lancet,” he
over
out here,
fgovemment
thing less
exclaimed through Ms-shut teeth, and
drawing a bowie knife from beneath
was that tlie bad man gazed upon
In the centre of the cabin stood
small table, covered with a coatee cloth
of snow-wMte linen, a plate of savory
ham—the ruddy color of each slice,re
lieved by the pearly and golden circle
of an egg, wMch formed a tempting
mound upon it—stood in the centre,
wami corn bread, a plate of potatoes,
with their dark coats tern just enough
to reveal a tempting and mealy rich
ness at heart, a saucer of wild honey,
and another..of golden butter, *com-
Davii
second fame. Hard labor and "fiie
morning air hnd g^yen him a, teeii ap~
ifi.' ■> > y 1 ' 1 if .*.. i' _ ' i. _
bnt without lifting her eyes to his face,.
Ms tiiird cup of rye coffee, on which
thfr heavy cream was mounting 1 Le ta
foam, when Wheeler looked in upon
the peaceful gronp.
’Shaw ate but little, and • Hannah.—
the . nobkv.. warm-hearted Hannah
Hunt—did n ithiug but- blush every
time she lifted her eyes from the
bright tin coffee-pot,' and deluge every
cup she filled with, a double quantity
of cream, that little brown hand of
hers was so very unsteady. It seemed
What, ujuii^rt ^ knifo yrt ?
It has better fare on hand—sod_g 0 i
• These words were uttered after
Wheeler entered the hollow where his
horse was tied. ; He had been finger
ing the haft .of his knife while muster-
tag to himself, and partly drew it from
his bosom as he ' .pame up. The ’still
restive animal started at the gleam of
the blade, which gave rise to the half
savage half soothing words wMch his
master uttered, as he nnknotted the
bridle.. -After looking cautiously over
liis shoulder, Wheeler mounted; to his
saddle, and,’;grossing the "cart .path,
road leisurely toward the spring where
Hannah Hunt inid gone a few minutes
before. ; ^
A.hfippy girl was Hannah -Hunt as
she passed through'those thick woods
down to the little spring wMch sup
plied the hoasehoM • with water!—
Every thing aronnd her bore a thrice
in full cry.could not have leaped more
■fiercely forward; he grasped her arm,
turned’ her round with a jerk, and
when her pale face was close before
his, he laughed, not as might have
Tie©**- expected, a coarse, ruffianly
taughj but low aiins-jweot,. with a tone
that thrilled through the fieart it
reached.
“Come, gill, come! I do not want
to frighten you. Go down to the
spring—I have a great many things to
talk over. How can yon, tremble so
..close by the .man who loves yon better
than any thing on earth?”
And, with a reed-like bend of his
the little footpath and came .in sight
of the .fountain it was gushing up
quick and bright, with a. sweet impet
uosity, like the sensations of her - own
pure heart. It seemed rejoicing with
her, smiling on her. How' sweetly it
flashed up from its mossy basin, dimp
ling an.l laughing as the ^arrowy sun-
of foliage overhead, - and broke in
so strange for her to sit there, with her golden shower on the rivulet that
father directly opposite, and Isaac -danced down, through the rieh turf
carpeting the .earth all around. It
fill ..thw art-the roots of that- gnarled
Shaw lifting those brignt, saucy eyes
to her face'every other minute, and--
“By Jove,' you hadbetterstop that,” ]hhn dropping them as i? he knew per: j old oak. that twisted in and out among
exclaimed the man, infuriated bv the f ^ly he ought to beasham^ ttqroeks just above, like a knot--of
- -L ° { himself there before her father. It; huge serpents claimed to sleep by the
was as much as Hannah could do to! s*ft InlLfll^f the waters—and on the
“* sn ""■ 7 on tile t,-iblc % -|ttl little hollow,'- efioked up with brake
-'old; leaves, where the prettv s
man with a brightening
havn’t been so idle as
think. I’ve got three
out at interest with
down on the Bend. ’’
■- “Well, but you havn
tion to mv property h
ye, “bnt I ■
sit still and wait
seemed a marvel that her dair/oM; leaves, where the pretty stream lost it-
father could eat so heartily. Every j self and plunged into the earth again,
thing seem'd looking at her with pe- ! Hannah came down the path .smiling
his hunting-shirt, he plunged Ms 'am i ^ ° ld ! sdi Sh ° ** d< *"’ n ^
back to drive it into the heart of the I *** ^ 08 i neath tte shadw of the ««&, with the
moved dcmnrdy across the room, the j water almost kissing her feet A bird
purple morning glories -trembling ‘ was overhead, and it began to sing till
around the windows, all seemed per-j the leaves aronnd its Mding-pLice
fectiy aware that every thing was set- 5 shivered again, bnt Hannah did not
it up,'it’s too heavy, you bend under
it’like a young sugar-cane in the wind.
Let me cany it, I say.”
He took the pail forcibly from her
hand as he' spoke, and dashed half the
water to the ground. •
“Never mind,7 he said with a disa
greeable laugh, “we can go down to
the spring and fill it again, I want to
talk with youi”
.“■What do you wish to say ?” falter
ed the terrified girL “I thought you
would not come again. I most go
home, my father is waiting.”
“Thought I'should not come again?
A pretty fellow I should be to take you
at the first word. No, no, Miss Han r
nah, Ido not so easily give .up an idea
when it once gets into my head. Such
girls as you are scarce here in the
bush.”
While he spoked Wheeler swung the
half emjity paii bn one arm, and J forc
ing Hannah’s hand through the other,
dragged her toward the path.
“I do not wish to go down there—
I will not unless you drag me from the
spot by force,” said Hannah, wringing
her hand suddenly from the hold he
had fixed upon it, and darting up the
hill with the speed of a deer.'
and the shout of a fierce voice in its
rage—’Wiliain!—Villain!” and with
this fierce cry David Hunt plunged
like a lionflown to tiie spot where his
child was lying,.prone, pale and sense
less on the earth.. He sprang over her
body with his anna outstretched and
Ms eyes on fire—for one instant his
iron hand clutched the folds of Wheel
er’shun ting-shirt, but.it was wrested
from Mm by the violent leap taken-
that instant by the goaded, horse, fas
he wheeled .and dinted up the path
and out of sight it seemed with a
single bound.
“Oh, if I had my rifle!” exclaimed
David Hunt, in a hoarse whisper, as
he lifted’Ms daughter from the earth
and laid hfer down again, for the stout
man shook with rage, and that moment
was weak as ah infant—“If I but had
my rifle!”
[to be continued in oub next]
CURRENT ITEMS.
“The rose most admired by women”
—-he-roes.
Wheeler sprung after her. A hound Thrashing machines are giving ker
osene a close pull in fatality out West.
Iowa mourns forty deaths from the
former.
Oh! Mr. Wheeler, pray let me go; you
frighten ine almost to; death,” cried
the poor girl, trembling in every limb,
while har ashy lips quivered with ter-
ror - - . . ■ .Y-i:: . . : -Y
•How foolish you are, Hannah
Hunt, to fear from one man—an old
lover ; and true friend—that WMch
pleases you in a fellow like one Icoidd
mention. Now m wager my horse
that, you
fine form, William Wheeler threw his whieffi u^accommo-
, — ,, . , , . datehve hundred pupils three stones
arm around Hannah s waist, and again * - *
attempted tether to persuade than
force her toward the spring.
“I will not move a step. I cannot.
•high.
A curious typograpMeal error re
cently appeared in a morning paper.
In giving an account of an inquest, it
was'stated,.“the deceased bore an ac-
Theysaymit on the plains -.iv;
fheSedctfd-hnd excursion p: ;.v:i’t
quit coming ont there, they’ll >- b. e \ii>
something worth telling about. One
sweet creature, in it hooiied skirt, 'iy-
roleso hat and heavy chignon, liti u*!y
[ sAired a buffalo sC badiy-’tLat his -h: :r
turned wliite in a single,night. • !
A piliysicnin who fa sometiiing <>f r.
wag called on a col°te4 -Baptist minis
ter and propounded a. Jew pnzrfir.g
questions. “Why is it,”’ said he,
“that you arc not able to' do the samd
miracles that the ajiostles' did? Th-. v
were protected against poisons and id!
kinds of perils; how is it that you are
nonprotected in'the sanxe^tuy?” Tiui
colored brother responded promptly:
“Don’t know about that. Doctor. I
spectlis. I have tooken a mighty,
sight of strong medicines from yon
Doctor, and I is alive yeti”
It is told of John Wesley that, when
he saw some of-his Bearers asleep,* Le
stopped in his discourse and shouted*
“lire!.fire!” The people were aLirmed,
and some one cried out,. “Where, sir;
where?” To wMch Wesley earnestly
and solemnly replied: “In Hell for
those who sleep under the preaching
of the word.” „
A celebrated writer says: “No wo
man can be a lady who can wound or
mortify another. No matter how
refined or how cultivated she may be,
she is in reality, coarse,ouid the innate
vulgarity, of her nature nuiuifests itsi if
here. Uniformly kind, courteous anil
l above, the crash of polite treatment of. all peigons is one
of a strong man, mark of i trufe wumiin. ; ‘ ' ”
A eonntryman visiting Dartmoor,
England, observed that a gang of me n
were working on the-moor, each wear
ing a ball and chain. He asked one
of them why that ball was- chained to
his leg.. “To keep .people- from steal
ing it,’’ was the reply; “there are so
many thieves about here.”
In some parts of C'onnecticnt rain is so
scarce and apples so abundant that cider
is absolutely^ cheaper tliitn water.—
The teetotal societies are iiauic-sn ikon,
and are disbaudlh gby tlie dozen. '
The “Sleeptaglea itv 1 f Teunessso,”
who has passed twenty-one years in a
state of somnolence, with the exception
a few walking moments-daily is now in
St. Louis and the doctors. have her m
hand. It is thought that even if
treatment' produces no beneficial ef
fects, the “ronsing bill” they present
will certainly moke the patient, joj.vn
her eyes.
It is said that the mosquitoes are so
plenty in the Ailirondacks that they
can't all get on. a stranger at- once,: o
they stand aronnd in reliefs and wait
for their turns, like customers in a bar
ber shop. They exhaust a ham in three
days, and then let’him alone, like a
deserted oil weU, to accumulate more -
blood.
“Mamma, dear, I tMrik I 'shall hr a
duchess.’ What nonsense, Ethel.—
What do you mean?” Why, '"Iiow
would it be if I married a Dnchman?
There are eight gii’ls in the MicM-
gan Agricultural College who have io
work, in tlie field tlm-e hoius daily, just
as the young men do.
A fascinating youth pf Louisville was
recently very badly “sold!’ by tlie
matron of the Kentucky State Prison,
in whose daughter he seeined to catik o
a very strong interest while traveling
in a railroad car. Tin..ring that the.
flirtation had continued long enough,
she suddenly changed her seat to the
side of the young man, and whispered
in his ear, “Sir, yon’are a. total straifc
ger to me; but I tliiuk it to be my
duty to warn yon of impending evil.—
That young lady is just out of the
State Prison.” A passenger got off st
the next station. “-
The troubles of the country v% ill
never cease. It is new announced that
old Brownlow is in Wasliingtou with
improved health.
A Columbus man got up in tiie
night for a drink, and in the dark ab
sorbed a quantity of concentrated 1ye.
The Statesman remarks that the_ in
ternal arrangements of the ivnfortnn.ite
man are just now in -a terribly “tom
up” state, and there is a loud demand
about his domicil for a mild grueL
The Cuba sugar crop we understand
will be more than an average. The re
bellion in the island affects only a very
small portion of the country, being con
fined to the mountainous regions or
grazing country, and the cane, whero
molested, promises to be better than
nsuaL The prospect therefore js that
there will be no lack of sugar this ye.a-.
Mr. Connelly, a Missouri gentleman,
who’had an engi^ement tejlehangiaJ-
on the 25th, is imposed to be . quer 'V
ous. On being*iiformed that fis sen
tence had been commuted, he said: j*
“This is the d—dest country on earth, !
and has the poorest laws, i have bsen
lying here in prison’for months. Siy
execution, for wMch everything h.-is
been made ready, has been made rea
dy, has been twice put off:', and rao.v I
am going to the penitentiary for life
instead of-being hanged, as I-wanted
to be.”
A man who is gain
What nation, produces most mar
riages—Fascinacion.
'How to build a house for nothing—
Use freestone.
■ -Why don’t farmers like a bad sum
mer? Of course it goes against the
grain!
-In Mississippi sixty-one out of every
hundred of the population can neither
read, or write. They can all vote,
‘though. i
The religion of Washington city is
what a Western lecture is about. It
•must be a novel subject.
What specie of love is that wMch
never reciprocated? A neuralgic affec
tion.
There were only five unique and ele
gant patterns of mob-handles patented
List mouth.
Sait Francisco is Sxcited over a forty
foot whale ashore near that lively
port.
Wanted to know—If two hogsheads
moke a pipe, how, many will make a
cigar?
Why is the letter Y like a prodigal
sou? Because it makes pa pay.
Connecticut aspires to a National
Hen Fair.
A photographer in Indianapolis ex-
peses; delinquent Customers by display
ing their pictures upside down, and
labelled ‘itibt.paid for.”
_ The Bulling Passion—A great faun,
cial reformer is so -devoted to figures
ilrnt when he has nothing else todo hff
casts up Ms fjwa .
A colored lyceum in Hlincns is pre-
paied to debate: “Resolved, That a
dog is a biped when his tail curls ’ so
tight that it lifts his hind legs off the
ground.
Wisconsin must have some tail peo
ple if the statement of a local paper
way be believed, that they are going
cidental character, and the. jury re-
" ' ‘' St’K'o
tnm a verdict of excellent death.
Hall’s Journal-says: “If a man can
sleep soundly, has a good appetite,
with no unpleasant reminders after
Weals, the bodily habits being regular
every day, he .had better let himself
alone, whether he is as big as a hogs-
head, or as. thin tend dry as a fence
Aciptain, of.the old .school, being
•’at a baJL had been accepted byabeau-
tiful partner, a lady of rank, * *“
the most delicate manner
4... i-T. ra .
did not shrink and tremble, and quiver
all over with disgust, when Tke Shaw j hinted to Mm the propriety of pi
came to your Utaue tMs morning,” j °P a °. f ^oves. “Oh!”
-•-! i‘” "' iiioiV
j in r.
voice
Isaac
'
his money when
deal of it, makes a
devil; and the devil 01
men are going to use
that it mil do good
through with it, ,th<
tM-ough with them
of being through
If you want to be be .
by, be benevolent now.
An exchange isays: “Disringthewsi;-,
■"’dier in Sherman’s “army faruu-l
him. 1 .
mqn’e;
hen they get
■' 1 is apt to get
think
money,
.by and
firmly with his arm, and
isisssssii
Shaw that Hannah raised
eyes to Ms face in wonder
ilread, but they suUti tb 1
again,riiocked by the co:
rearing anirnaL But, as if compre
hending his danger, the beast leaped
back with a fierce - impetuosity that
Itnvas as if a rainbow had. sMvered in-
d fragments and fallcti
tile throng.” J;
An old gentleman of the name’of
Gould, having married a very young
wife, wrote a poetic epistle to a friend
to inform him, of it, and concluded it
thus: y
••SoYou Ken, ray dear air though I’m eighty
A girl of eighteen is in love -with old Gould.”
“Say what you wish l ere, then,” j To wMch Ms friend replied:
she said, almost wild wifi, terror; “I! “A gkj of eighteen may love Gouid.it ig true.
- - >- • i:’. ' il * iv Tint biA-erci* mr* ilpar air 5f ■?* Gold vitluvnt TT "
,, , Wheeler lost hi* balance and fell for-! T*T% •>«***, j will listen-take your am away, and
■ nave yon i i , _ i would be the death of him if she were she onlv knew tnat
itamiaR her -!fnrthcrfataftyour
nothing fU ° Ut ’ DOT ; yard before he could recover hitaself. ! ^ * 0454 ^ ^ ^hage and the glimpses of all yon have to say
^ .1.^1 .... : particular had happened. She was • sky shining through, seemed reioicinn
,T; broke the sapling sheer in twain, and T7i 7 1 Vr T ? ■ i- f , T. , - T , <UU DOt
folks might g , . ’.. tied between her and Isaac Shaw, but = listen to the bird; whv should she’
'~ddolLirsj phmged dt>W11 the hollow 1™* fame !~*n™. ♦, m . 1 % I , '
. , .. , , , , ! rather astonished that the old man ■ There was music enough in her c
Church,;, . shoidd take it all so quietly, when heart! She had tnriden upon a I
£ak--n
! launched at his chest So fierce had
] been his attempt upon
own
tuft
■off now,
the clasp of
Lis strong arm, and looked wildly over 1
her shoulder in hopes of -i 1 from the!
»» ygrzntei? -me,
my hands when I’ve done
I shall
dancing.
There is^man in Decorah, Iowa,
so ! penurious that when shelling com
a touel flew into a wood pile, and. he
removed seven cords of wood to find
it. A neighbor standing near dropped
a kernel neap, where the searcher was
looking, but when he found it, he
said: yon can’t fool me with that cm-dl
kernel; the one Ilosthas alarge one.”
The Nashville Banner keeps a poet.
Hear him talk about the people'at the
StatrFair: “It was a beautiful specta
cle. The bright dresses of the ladies
‘Come, have done wit. all tMs
childish nonsense,” eontinu cl Wheel
er, “I ouly want a fair hem ug. Yon , , _, _
came like an nonest lnan -/ pid asked r- ;c r_a _i_.- , -
you to marry me, andL'
wait off with my cause !
Stop, step, there Ls no ;
I must be heard.’
Still Hannah writhed
honse.
the horse that ; ^d every one of tliem heard l»im of wild blossoms and the air was ptr-
' . , j protest, a thousand times, tiuit it ’ fumed with their dying breath, Imt!
But believe rat-, dear air, it is Gold without U.
A gentiemau who had a very deaf
t every thing was let me sit down on the iog a little ! servant was advised by a friend to ttis-
No ” . , , The furious man started np, gazed TT. , , .
o stammered the j unghnnter, ; w .. ° fnghtened to death
' through, seemed rejoicing “What, you
the idea of over her head like old friends, longing the house, and
^ ess ^ er - 5v‘ r i mv eves to that pre!
a low savage ohaw, it raally was too bad ! what on! lieart-.jF’.is laShruingtwith joy, ^tears, iyonrs v \o no
earth did he keep looking at Lor fiMWtSl^^ieiit nnd most blissfoi drops not to be cheated
T : -Tv-',;
charge her. “No, no,” replied the
; gentlemap, with much feeling, “that cumstances,’
I poor creature could never hear of an- I
theh 1 ° f ^ 1 ^ ^tM»^^>mhis totie he thrS ft 1 Mr father s eyes, and for Ike; to come nearer
utt'ofpusjrifle to hii Tus'embar- back to hfa bosom with
■wmen^ “but Tv* beeqtitinking—” laugh.
' r
ient member of
e rapidly discip
le of the woman is not j the extrao:
Itichmond
