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WHICH SHALL IT BE?
[A rich man who had no children,
proposed to his poor neighbor, who had
seven, to take one of them, and prom
ised, if the ’>arents would consent, that
he would give them property enough to
make themselves and their six children
comfortable for life.]
Which shall it be 1 W hich shall it-be ?
I looked at John, John looked at me,
And when I found that I must speak,
My voice seemed strangely low and weak;
‘Tell me again what Kobort said;'
And tlieu 1, listening, bent my bead
. . This is his lettter:
k i •
- ‘I will give
A house and laud while you shall live,
If, in return, from out your seven,
Une child to me ter ave is given ’
] looked at John sold garments worn;
I thought of all that lie had borne
Of poverty, and wdrk and care,
Which I, though willing, could not share;
I thought of seven young mouths to feed,
Of btven li.tle childrens’ need,
And then of this.
‘Come, John,’ said I
‘We’ll choose among them as they He
Asleep.’ So, walkiug hand in hand,
Dear John and 1 surveyed opr b tnu:
First to the cradle lightly stepped
Where Dtllian, tuo baby slept,
cioltl" the father stooped to lay
His rouge baud down in a loviug way.
When dream or whisper made her stir,
And huskily he said: ‘.Mother!’
We stopped bedde the trundle bed,
And one long ray of lamplight shed
Athwart the boj ish faces there,
In sleep so beautuui and lair.
X saw on James’ rough, red cheek
A tear uudned. Ere John -outd speak,
'He’s nut a baby, too,’ said 1,
Ami kissed him as we hurried by.
Pale, patient Koubie’s angel taco
Salt in his sleep boro suffering s trace,
‘:<o, for a thousand crowns not him"
lie whispered, while our eyes were dim.
PoirD.ck! had Dick! our wayward son—-
XurPuieut, restless, idle one—
rjuuld lie be spared! Nay, lie who gave
Hade us to betrteml hiui to the grave;
Only a mother’s heart could 1 e
Patient enough lor snob as he;
*. nil so, su'd John. ‘1 would not daro
To take him Irom U-r boJstde prayer.’
Th u sole we.softly up above.
Ami Knelt hy Mary, child of love’_
‘Pet haps for her’twould belter bo,‘
1 sud to Joint. Quito silently
He lifted up a cun that lay
Ac oss her cnees in a vvi Du. way.
dal shook Ins head: ’Nay, love, tiot thee.
The white my heart shook audibly.
Only one more, our oldest lad,
Trusty andlaithtui. g.od mid glad,
&u Its ins father. ’No, Joint, u.l
I cannot, wilt not, let him go.’
6 we wrote ill a coarteau, way,
V, e co-mt not give one ehitd away,*
And uf ei’wuid toil lighter seemed,
i musing ot that ot winch we dreamed,
Happy in tru.h that no one face
W ts missed from its accustomed place;
Trust, l g the rest to Oun tu ilea- e t.
UUH NEW YORK LETTER.
Starting tiie Centennial —Tiie Bro
Tea-Party on Record— 6,ooo
DANCERS.
[From Our Own Correspondent'].
New York, March 2,187 G.
Editors News 4- Farmer :—The past
week has witnessed the lirst great Cen
tennial occasion of the big Centennial
year, and the ball may now be consid
ered opened. Washington’s birthday
was the time, and the occasion referred
to was what was called a grand Cen
tennial Tea-Party, but which, in reality,
was nothing more nor less than a mon
ster ball with a tea-party ‘attachment.’
The scene was the group of halls on
Fourteenth street and Irving Place, all
three of which were connected lor the
evening. The tickets were great steel
engravings something less than a toot
square, tilled with scenes and emblems
of a century ago. Most of this mam
moth ‘pasteboard, ’ whose size befitted
the scale upon which the whole affair
was planned, was intended to be kept
by the holder as a souvenoir, the real
card of admission being a narrow por
-fotafced coupon bearing the passwor i
of the year with which we are all get
ting familiar by degrees (I wont repeat
it Imre, but will just hint that it com
mences with C and ends with l). The
Academy of MusiCj which is the largest
auditorium in the city, was the main
hall, and this was connected on one
side with Nillsoii Hall, appropriately
draped and used as a supper-room, and
on the other, by a temporary enclosed
bridge thrown across the street, with
Irving Hall used for a tea-room, an.l for
the display of revolutionary relics.
Early in the evening the guests began
to choke the main entrance, and for
more than two hours continued to pour
into the place, until it looked very much
as though all the carriages north of Ma
son and Dixon’s line were congregated
in the streets leading to the centre of
attiaction. The order of exercises was
quite elaborate. At ten o’clock the
curtain of the Academy ro3e, disclos
ing a large chorus an and orchestra, which
at”)ace commenced tin performance of
a hymn written for the occasion; This
ended, the singers dispersed, and a doz
en couples, 'ftttflrcd after the most gor
geous fashion of the last century,
slowly advanced upon the parquette,
which was floored over even with the
stage, and dauoed the stately minuet
of that period with the utmost grace.
This over, there followed the grand
entree, one procession being headed by
Rea*-admiral Bowen and Mrs. John C.
Freemont, and the other bv Gov. Tildan
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and the Mayor of New York. When j
these processions were over, the acres 1
of polished fteor were speedily Hilled
with guests and the dancing commenc
ed.
In addition to the distinguised per
sonages above-named, there was present
a large number of other prominent sol
diers and civiliians. Mr. Frank Leslie
with his beautiful wife, one of the
most elegant ladies in New Yoik socie
ty, occupied a proscenium box and was
surrounded by a brilliant coterie of la
dies and literary personages, the bright
particular star being. Mr. Joaquin Mti
ler. As noticed in a previous letter,
these gentlemen have recently assumed
the relatiou of and publisher.
Mr. Miller, by his new* novel, ‘l’ink
Countess,’ having contributed in no
small degree to the phenomenal success
of the ‘Popular Monthly,’ which was,
perhaps, the boldest, most daring liter
ary enterprise, not only in Air. Leslie’s
career, but in the whole h story of
American publishing. It remains a
mystery, even to the trade, how a mag
azine of 128 pages and 100 illustra
tions, can be afforded for twenty cents,
especially when a portion of the con
tents cost as much as this new novel.
The exact sum paid the author for The
Fink Countess’ is not divulged, but it
is known to be very large. Only two
numbers of the ‘Monthly’ have appear
ed so far, and yet there are to-day over
a hundred thousand readers impatiently
waiting the coming issue witli its mine
of miscellaneous treasures, and the con
tinuation of the graphic and romantic
tale just mentioned. No small propor
tion of the interest which attaches to
this romance, arises from the convic
tion which tiie opening chapters carried
that the poet’s own secret life is but
thinly veiled in the experiences of his
hero.
But tc return to tiie festivities. The
number present by midnight could not
have been less than 6,000, and the
scene throughout was gorgeous in the
extreme. Tue floor, boxes, c uridors
and adjacent halls were one mass of
brilliancy and beauty. Your corres
pondent was never much of a •Jenkins ;*
iu fact, he is the object of much snub
bing from his female relatives on ac
count of liis uncertainty as to whether
any particular article of feminine appa
rel was flounced seven or eight times,
or whether it was cut bias or trimmed
endwise; but it did not require the
practiced eye of a society reporter to
appreciate tht be.vil taring enhancement
of fair woman’s charms which the
sumptuous costumes afforded. It look
‘ed far more like a scene from the Ara
bian Nights than one laid in a city
whose ceaseless cry for months has
been ‘Hard Times!’ Acres of silks
and satins, miles of cosily laces, jewel
ry by the carload, and diamonds by the
bushel were there, and aided to form a
pageant that even the cynical old soci
ety veterans who are forever descant
ing upon past glories, were forced to
acknowledge unsurpassed in their ex?
pericnce. And thus the kaleidoscope
went on, promenading and •dancing to
tiie enlivening strains of three full or
chestras, until at about dawn the bright
colors dispersed and faded, ending the
great social event of tiie season. i
Radix, i
liSCBLLMEBUS.
THE TWO PREDICTIONS.
“The air to-night is balmy as the
breath of angels. ’
“And the stars arc as beautiful as
your own sweet eyes.”
Annie nestled closer, and unheeding
the compliment which followed her po
etic sentiment, gently laid her hand on
my shoulder, and sail—
“ This is a glorious night for story
telling. Tell me a story.”
“What shall it be, farce, commedy or
tragedy?”
“The commedy of life suits me better
than its tragedy. The first will please,
the second frighten me.”
“You have steame 1 up the Mississip
pi River in summer time.”
“Yes, fro n iVew Orleans to St. I.ouis
you know.”
“Well then, you shall have a story
running from the levee of one to the
landing of the other. If during the re
cital, 1 catch you in a single jealous
act, I shall refuse you another story,
however mush you may coax me with
your sweat eyes and honied tongue.”
“ Worn down by incessant mental
labor, r decided to leave the Crescent
City fjrtha wed and nort i. Calvin E 1-
son might have claimed me for a broth
er I could scarcely liud a thought with
a search warrant. My nerves ware un
strung, and my appetite gone. Na
ture, yon know, never fille 1 to reple
tion my granary of humor. M'y stock
was exhausted.
“A glorious beautiful June evening
was that on which the steamer turned
her prow up the’torrent-like old Father
of Waters. All along the great levee
thousands of little flags, the ensigns of
the commercial houses, and
speculators, fluttered from their battle
indnt of boxes and bales of cotton. The
sun had gone down among all kinds of
fantastic clouds beyond Lake Rcnchar
train, and a soft, hazy twilight settled
over the elongatod city from Chalwette
to Jeiferson;
“Standing on the deck, listening to
the lusty songs of the ebony deck-hands
and watching the vessel cleaving the
muddy waters, I resolved to leave, if
. possible, care behind, and seek health
in the arms of pleasure. WliylJwte
villo set up his t eodolite in the old
Place ’d Arms ( and laid out a city in
a swamp inhabited iby alligators and
frogs, and why the Knight of the Saff
ron Flume came on Sis errand of dea’h
and twenty other things which I
thought of in so many minutes, were ail
dismissed from my mind. I found that
I could think orlee more, and that was
the first step towards restoration.
“‘(Till you have some stake, sir?'
asked the waiter, as I sat down to the
table to go through the motion of eating.
“Mechanically I replied ‘yes.’
‘•1 hated the very name of meat.—
For days and nights T had been discus
sing at the point ofjgvy pen the Anglo
llindostanee war. *Jkthc Britislwcus
tora of eating
fiendishness of shooting Sepoys from
the mouth of a cannon. If the tiger
laps blood, and becomes more ferocious
from the lapping, why should not the
Briton, who does the same thing? And
then you remember, Fuseli, the paint
ter, and Mrs. Ratclifle, the romancer,
when they wished to get up some hor
rible picture of suffering or death, ate
raw meat for days together.
“There was another aversion <o be
conquered—dislike to society. And
here begins the ma v row of my story.
“I looked in vain among the passen
gers for a congenial companion. The
only man at all companionable was the
captain. He talked well, and it was a
positive pleasure to hear him give, on
the hurricane deck, learned astronomi
cal opinions, lie knew so much of Ju
piter, Neptune, ami Uranus,that one al
most fancied he had slept under the tel
escope of Herschel.
•‘Among tiie ladies, there was one
who annoyed me. She had coal black
eyes. Such eyes are my detestation. 1
love blue eyes. You have them. Annie.
Do you know that I think most of the
angels have blue eyes !’
‘And do you thiukdevils have black?’
asked Annie.
“Blue eyes melt, persuade; black
rivet, command and paralyze. Nature,
in her serenity, is blue, Toe ocean is
calm an:l blue, so is tiie sky, and so the
mountain. But in the storm how black
the deean, the sky, and the mountain !
There, run the parallel as far as you
please!”
“But suppose the lady’s eyes had
been gray,wool i you have disliked them
then?'’
“i would not have loved them, I
think, for grey is the eye of persistence ;
it is the e. eof conquest. Alary Q leen
of Scots had gry oyejs, and see what
persistence iu error. .Sue would have
gone on marrying until the last days of
a good old age, had not Fotheringay
Castle stopped her.
“But to go on. At Biton Rouge a
pair of Cue sweetest blue eyes came on
board. The owner was slightly, yet
gracefully formed, young, with the
step of an antelope an l the mein of a
thoroughbred. She was a bloo lre la
tion of Hebe and Juno. There was
that tranquil expression of face which
betokened a woman passe 1 twenty,’and
one who had seen much of the world,
and perhaps had been acquainted with
grief. Yet the face still retained some
thing of girlishness. 1 never saw a
face which wore such an expression ol
I mingled serenity, jsadness an l gentle
ness. The very minute I put my eye i
upon her, 1 said, “Now L shall not bo
without a companion.” ’
“Were you disappointed?” interrup
ted Annie, somewhat anxiously. The
little vixen was growing jealous; I
could feel her lingers tighten on my
arm.
“The belle of Baton Rmge was the
belle of the palatial steamer. Her ap
pearance was the signal for a shower
of glances. Sue had the same influence
upon us as a certain drug, name l beila
donna, has upon the eyes—she caused
a certain dilatation of thepuplis.
“Very royal was the walk of the young
stranger. I saw her foot for a moment.
The instep curve 1 like that of the finest
walkers in the world, the high-bred an l
the blue bloo led Ci istillian.”
“Ah!” said Annie, 1 see how it was,
you fell desperately in love with her at
first sight.”
There was in the tone the least per
ceptible irony.
“If you think j3#,” I replied “let the
story drop right here.”
“By no means. Do not frown. G-o
on and L will not interrupt you again.”
said she.
“So be it, dear ” and a kiss on the
forehead brought the smile into An
nie’s eyes. The lamplight across the
street seeme 1 to burn more brightly.
“‘Red Stick,’ that is'the name the
ungallic natives have for the beautiful
town embowered among the trees an 1
flowers of Louisiana—‘Kel Stick’ was
at once popular among the male pas
sengers of the steamer. It had cast a
flower in their midst, fairer than the
magnolia grosms and orange bowers.
“ (Then her fingers touched the keys
of the piano she did not need admirers
to turn over the leaves for her. When
she sang, no oantralrke awakened more
admiration She was name 1 after the
beautiful State that gave her birth,
Louisiana.
••Just twp syllables too long.” re
marked Annie.
“Yes; it i? no easy matter to put
Louis Quarto?/',’ with his feminine af
fix, into one’s pocket of names, it strains
the seams, lift Annie can bnslippei
in au'l buttons l over without the sligh
test trouble.
“Louis Ravel was left a widow be
fore she was out of her teens. Her com
pensation was a large sugar plantation
ami a home in which wealth, luxury and
taste combined to make it attractive.
I shall not tire you with a description
of one of the sugar planters. I let's
was not the quaint oi l fashioned plan
tation, house of the ceoles—two stories
| with large, high outdoor stairway, pear
shaped roof, and broad verandahs on
every side—but a modernized dwelling,
spacious and airy, such as marks the
taste of Anglo- Amei ioan planters from !
adjacent states. These are always ■
spots of beauty, for no people in the j
world are fonder of flowers than those
of Louisiana. The juice of the cain is
not sweeter*U> the vesta than the scent i
•of the aemi-tPop'ca' dowers to the thin ’
nostrils of the fcvir h lies of that State.
They dwell in . 1 a' nosphero the
year’round. .
’ d : 4 her
fair of mv Wtuif
storv. Had she 'not, 'travelled? Was
she uot aecomplisho 1 and Wealthy, and
then surpassing fair?”
“Dear mo ! I shall beleive at last that
you wore in love with the strang.gr,”
said Annie,
“Hear the sequel, and then decide.'
Days went by, and although meeting
each other constantly, there was no
recognition, intrepid mediocrity had
distanced me in the race for smiles.—
Once 1 took part in a conversation
when she was present. It was a iite
rary conversation, and her v>s a vis
made a fool of himself. Evidently she
thought so, for I caught the faintest
glimpse of a contemptuous smile cross
her face. She neither notice 1 nye or
seemed to hear a w ir l that 1 uttere 1.
I was digusted. There‘was a rapid
dislike growing up within me. To tell
the truth, before we had passed C tiro
I learned to hate. At least I did when
ever 1 thought of her disregard for the
most gentlemanly efforts to engage her
attention. I won! 1 not have aske lan
introduction for her entire sugar plan
tation and her next year's crop in the 1
bargain.
“ft was a lovely day when reach
ed Caron ielet. Tiie bright bird’s nest
of a town sat smiling in the sun on its
rocky enrnence. Every passenger was
on dock enjoying the weather and the
•approach to St. Louis. Among those
who stoo 1 within the toss of a hand
kerchief from me wer? the black eyes
and th 5 blue, the sprightly widow from
Caronslet an i the charming widow
from Baton Rouge.
‘Presently I was approached b\ r
black eyes.
‘Sir,’ sai l she. Airs. R, of B it.ni;
R urge, requests me f > iDeoyy hi t-o tiie
spot where she is standing.’
•You are a inarming decoy.’ replied
1. with an air of gallantry, and I place
myself at your coinmin i.
I could feel iny eves twinkle at the
pi enure very akin to a hit of revenge.
I'iie proud lady had at last vieldo 1.
We mat. Tue lady’s ev es fell as I
gazed into them.
By Jove, who was conquer. 1 now?
It was a draw, battle, n.y vanity sug
gests l: but lam a little afrai I that
the molest attitu lc. the going down of
the violet stars un 1 _*r a dark clou 1 of
fringe, made a captive of a vaunting
her >.
Milam, said I spasmoßeally re
gaining mv composure, how is it that
we have been on this boat for seven
lays, and become acquainted at this
late hour?
There wis a dash of impartiueu iu
this query, for a morsel of my former
bitterness got somewhat under mv
tongue. If she noticed, her heart for
gave the speaker. Turning liar Dine
eyes full upon. me. and with a smile so
inexpressibly sweet that made me at
once regret my ru leness, she answered
in a low voice :
Jt is not my fault, Mr. Leroy.
l’ermit me to say that it was not al
together mine, 1 said, bowing low. S io
did not notice this second, though soft
ened bit of rudeness.
Well, then, the fault was mutual. I
trust we shall know each other better
some day.
Amen ! I replied laughing. Dp. you
stop in St. Louis?
No Do you?
No; I go West, N >rt’i. anywhere to
regain my health. I shall return to St.
Louis during the sum.nor, and then 1
shall see yon.
That cannot be, as I spend the. sum
mer with iny uncle, some distance in
the interior of M issouri.
During this colloquy I had determin
ed to venture upon a prediction.
Remember we shall meet agnoi on
my return. Jot it, down ponder on it.
and await the fulfillment of this bit of
prophesy.
She looked curiously at me, as if
doubting uiy sanity.
It was wicked in you to practice sueh
deception, said Annie.
Wicked ! I like. that. I don’t know
how the idea got in my heat. Did I
put it there, or was t he result of an im
pression from an external source?
Solve me that riddle.
There are in uiy tnysteri. jtlnt neith
er you nor I can solve, an 1 perhaps
this is one of them, replied Annie, in a
subdued voice.
We parte 1. Nearly months
had gone by when 1 returned. Id}" j
health was thoroughly restored.
Where shall l put you down, sir?
said Jehu, on tha Illinois side.
At Rarnnm’s. I hai heard much of
this jovial landlord, and wished to taste
his dishes.
My toilet was made in a hurry for a
late breakfast in the ladies* or Unary.
I paused at tha door, glanced rapidly
at the guest, and, io ! near the hea t of
the table sat the beautiful young widow
of Baton Usage. An i there was a
vacant seat near her, tool Approach
' ing tier I bowed:
Madam, you see I am here.
With a half bewildered look she fal- ;
tered ;
Yes. It is strange.
Not at all. I had a presentiment
that I should meet you in St. Louis on
jmy return. And look, you Stave a va
cant seat for me at your side !
(Uficn did you arrive?
j About fifteen minutes since, 1 re
plied. Fray when did you come to
town?
Yest onlay evening. Ido not under
stand this. and came quite unexpectedly.
My uncle was annoyed at my -so l ien
resolution to come to town,” j
“ You came to meet me, to w>.‘ .-••
l ino—to fulfil mv prediction." -^3
".She biiiMred fleepiy. r h 1 A
' had a long, long talk. In tiie evening
a steamer was to depart from New Or
leans. Business called me home .speed
ily. Before leaving her I said :
We shall meet in New Orleans next
winter.
No. I do not expect to visit the city
next winter.
But you will; and, more, you will ap
prise me of your visit.
Sue looks lat me creduouslv. Mv
confident manner and tone caused a re
action.
If I di l visit the city I surely woui i
never forget myself so far as to sen l ,
you word of my coming.
But you will do both. Remember,
we meet next winter ! And now. don't i
be ollbn led at my boldness. The d• ;r
is hunted in the very presence of tiie
hunter.
Again we parted.
Tiie rich sn nmer of Louisiana rolls i
fast with its wealth of sunshine, foliage |
and flowers. Taere is no aiituin ; me i
summer gli des into winter almost ini-!
perceptibly. i
One day while paining an editorial, j
a gentleman walked into my sanctum.
i call to say that Mrs. R. of Baton ,
Rouge, sends her compliments and ex- i
pacts to be in tiie city un ihe coming
Tuesday.
J quietly asked, Where wiil she stop
at?
At the St. Charles Hotel, sir.
Hcrcommiug was anticipated, I was'
about to say. but strangled tiie words, j
Fray tell her that l snail lie most happv I
to see her, at will call at the St. diaries 1
next Tuesday.
| 1 stood before her. Her lips parte i
as if about to speak. She blushed, bu.
! said not a word.
Well, Lou, I see that you have com-' ■
i to see Tno at last, and sent me void o. ;
| your coming, too !
j There was just enough exultation in ;
this utterance to arouse her pridw !
; did not care for that. No w miau ov? j
entan Rod in such a web of curious coin j
i cadences can free herself when she 1
| pleases. I knew by her look that she I
was rqystilie i in the midst of tiie little
clou I of indignation which was rising.
Don't j'ou thiuk you are a little fa
miliar?
i Lou, Ido not. I looked at liar with
j a conical ini hi lance that swept the
| cloud away in an instant. Breaking
| into a laugh, she extende 1 her lian 1.
I lam glad to. sac you, in spite of your
> impertinence. Really. 1 ha i no idea
! until recently that 1 should cone here.
| Aly frien 1. he who calle t upon you, was
jon the eve of leaving soon after in v
j mind was male for a visit, and, without
I thinking, l sent my co nolimouts, an and
tol l him to say on what day I should
arrive, I rushe lto revoke Ml had
sai l, but it was too late. His carriage
had just gone as I laid iny hand on the
gate,
It was not ordamed that you should
bain time to revoke your request.
Are you a fatalist?.
No. my dear. Do you remember the
Corsican Brothers? Chateau Renan 1
an i his friend was fleeing from the ven
geance of the surviving brother, and
without being aware of it the carriage
upset on the fatal dqeling ground. Re
nan I's friends says, the carriage was
overturned because the postilion was
trunk. No, said the duelist; the pos
tilion was drunk that the carriage might
be overturne 1! I make two pre dictions ;
it is not because 1 make them that we
meet, but you come to fulllill my pro
lictions.
I saw that slip, was bewildered. Evi
dently she believed that I was gifted
with some strange prophetic faculty;
in fact, l was half a convert myself.
Will you give mo another test of your
power?
I shall not. But let the alphabet de
cide our feelings and our wishes. H ire,
1 will take this pencil and write on the i
fly leaf of the bible. twenty-six letters.
Naither you or I will presume to play
false within those sacred pages any
game of chance.
What are yon at now? she inquired
curiously.
No m itter. Do you consent to play
this game? Women, sometime* don't
like to an iwer direct questions, if there
is some delicate way of answering indi
rectly. The alphabelt shall talk for
both.
Go on ; mv curiosity is excited.
I will propound two questions. The
I answer shall be given thus: we are to
| close our eyes, and the letter touched
i by the tip of the pencil is to be consid
ered a full response.”
‘•You will be beaten. It "is next to
| impo vsiblc that both can pause on the
1 answering letter. For this reason I
agree.”
I Measuring the istance from letter
to letter with my eye i for a moment, /
■ shut out ail light and asked :
••Whom docs Lou love—some on 3
el is or I("
l ran pencil over the letters a id
NO. 4-4.
S’ ... "and. Opening my eyes 1 found it
rtjs*l on 1.
Her face flushed, and she looked pnz
z and. t gave her the pencil, and asked:
Whom will Lon marry?
Tiie baud that held the pencil was
tremulously. Running over the letters
te iittde instrument paused on U’.
.she ope n e and her eyes and took it.
dy away. ”, ,ic pencil fell to the
door, but, the sweet lady did not.
' am beaten. Fate is against m° !
‘ siv-‘ •'••:, luit rays of sunshine broke
i :.hr >u trie cri :-cm of her face.
1 iet - ,u and I Ia ke the consequences.
I-fcav- some where read this exquisite
■ , .(into every man on this
"i a beautiful fellow soul.
union with anyotiier scarcely less a
I crime.'
She bent liar beautiful head until it
rested on mv shoulder, and then turn
ing over tha leaves in the bible, rested
her 11 iger ou those sweet words of Ruth
to N tom i :
‘Whither thou guest, /will go; whew*
thou lodgeat ! will lodge; thv people
shall be mv people; anil thy God, mv
God : where thou diest, will / die, and
there will Ibe buried. The Lord do so
to me, and ;n ire also, if aught bu*’ and >ath
part you an 1 me.”
••Am -n !’* /pa isiouately respond'd.
“And what became of her?” aske 1
Aunt >.
••Mv little darling. / have toil von
tiie :tor.v ofyour father's courtship and
your mother’s. She has gone to R 'til
and all the sainted worn >n whose
beauty and fidelity ou this earth helped
to make it a sublunary heaven. V m
were a wee thing when she died; md
let me say you need u ever h jealous o r
ray love for another. Y-mr mother lives
here in your swee face, we shall Van l
on t-ne other side, hand in hand, to
wolc.ome our daughter when her me is
-lone.
Annie bowel her Imud, and pother
soft arms aron iI mv neck. Two tears
droppe i upon mv hoso n. and vve w ;nt
in from the starlight.
JOSEPH and AIRS. POTIP3AR.
This famous I’gen lis still found
among the Egyptians of to-day. but in
a somcvvlia* diifirent form from t!;at of
t-i e Biblical narrative. M. De Eesseps,
the distir, pi:shod en rineer and cava it,
wlio has r *s >d > 1 mucli in ili‘ a E .st. gives
this as t iE ryotiau tra I tun : it;li
phar was not a tend >r-!iaa“te I man—
H.: i iS"virone-l his w M ns-' to Josep >.,
alt-htiu r i tiie -aly an 1 J >.-•? ih asserted
t ieir ;•>•. lc.uice. The jn igeor fared nn
i.iqnir , a i l the wife of l’otiphar. in
her dei'ens-*. urged that her passion foi
.1 >;cp!i ha 1 been awakened by his pm--
s >’i:i.i b ‘auty. which she declared no
woman povitiy could resist. Others
she said, would have done as she ha 1,
an sue was invite 1 to prove it ()i be
ing set at liberty she invited a number
of h;:• female trim Is to meet her at liar
i house, without informing them of her
i purpose,. To each guest an orange and
la golden knife was given, an 1 tiiv were
[requested not to cut the oranges until
I the lady of the house, had given Mum
j the signal so to do, by pronouncing the
I word “Now.” The ladies, with their
j oranges in one hand, and their knife in
II lie other were gazing in surprise at
their lioste*s when sn 1 ienly fin and >or
opened and Joseph made his appear
a-ice standing on the threshol l. ‘N >w.‘
j cried tin: wife of Potiphar, but her •
! guest- captivate I by the beauty of the
i Hebrew, paid no attention to what they
I were doing, and consequently, cut their
I fingers. The party was calle 1 before
the judge on the following morning;
every one of the ladies save one. h>d
her wounde 1 h.an 1 in the folds of her
dress, while the one whose hand was
unhurt etda'e l that she had escaped
the common fate by throwing her knife
i away the moment she saw him ; and on
j being further pressed with questions,
j declared that hid she not thrown hp
i knife away she would have stabbed it • -
|s df to the heart, because she could
I not li 'ar to look on the Hebrew and
j know that sh> could never possess him
: as a husban 1.
Symptoms of M uni:x Celibacy
When a woman begins to have a little
dog trotting after her—that’s a symp
tom. When a woman begins to dr nk
her tea without sugar—that’s a symp
tom. When a woman begins to read
love stories in bed —that’s a symptom.
IFiieu a woman begins to say that she
has refused many an offer—that’s a
symptom. When a woman begins to
talk about rheumatism in her kne ‘s and
elbows—that’s a symptom. When a
worn in fm Is fault with her looking-gla? i
and says it don’t show her fea'tires
right—that's a symptom. When a wo
man begins to talk about cold draughts,
and stops the crevice? of the doors and
win lows—that’s a symptom. When a.
woman changes her shoes every ti nr>
she comes into the house after a walk
—that’s a symptom When a woman
b 'gins to have a ca ! at her elbow at
meal time i, an 1 give iit sweet milk
that’s a symptom. When a woman be
| gill? to say that ;• servant has no hint.
li(MS Will Jl ?VY j Wu —t liilt’s ft n\
ton. When a woman begini to
wh.it a di -adfu! et of creatures men
arc. and that she wouldn’t be brtl er-’d
| with one of them for the world—t ut’s
| a symptom.
! “Meet nm by gaslight, alon' l ," sang
a II irle n s-.vaiu beneath the wi ;1 iw
j “Now. you get out: 1 ain't no gas
’ replied the gen'd’ creature, throwing
opri the lattice, an l sending the non
teats of tha tan kettls on his hea I.