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JOSHUA JONES, PUBLISHER.
YOU. II.
Good Night.
Good night, dear; under tho moon
The lovely nightingale sings her tune
And the rose-trees, reft of the dowers of June,
Sigh that the twilight falls so soon.
Good night.
Good morning, dear: the sunlight glows
O’or waking lily and lingering rose,
And every woodland walk one knows
Gleams in the glory the dewdrop throws.
Good morning.
Goodby, dear; low in tlie sky
.Green and daffodil colors lies.
jAre there more lovers, who silently
Say, hand in hand, and eye to eye.
Goodby? —Household Words.
The Lesson He Learned,
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
“I’m going to put a stop to this
sort of thing !” said Mr. McElroy. “If
,1 don’t, I shall certainly come to the
jpoorhouse. I bave’t saved money all
these years to rain it down on peo¬
ple’s heads as if it was hailstones.
No, Delinda, I haven’t got live dol¬
lars to spare. Your bonnet is quite
•good enough to wear for a month
[longer. Everybody else has got
Theirs? Well, if everybody else is
fools, that ain’t no reason that you
should be. Six dollars for a subscrip¬
tion to help buy the new minister’s
•furniture? Not if I know it, James.
When I came to Bloodville I bought
my own furniture, and there’s no
reason that new minister shouldn’t do
,the same thing. The grocer’s book?
■I never saw anything like tho way our
’housekeeping bills runs up! It ’ud
Ibe a deal cheaper, so far as I can
jeee, to go to New York and board at
(the Windsor Hotel than to live here,
junless you and Sarah can manage a
'little more economically, Matthew.
[And as for those singing lessons that
'no!” Lucy wants to take, you may tell her
“Lucy thought—” meekly began
Matthew Starling.
But his uncle interrupted him
curtly:
“You may tell her no! And that
ends the question!”
John McElroy was a man wljo had
in the local dialect, “saved a lot of
money.” Being a great deal too
economical to marry, he had invited a
lame nephew, Matthew Starling, to
’come with his family and keep
house in the old red homestead,
,and thereafter took credit to himself
for supporting all the Starlings, al¬
though Matthew toiled diligently at
;his trade of shoemaking, and James
the eldest son, managed the farm with
!skill and success, while Mrs. Starling
and her two daughters, Lucy and
Delinda, were the model dairy-women
and best managers of the vicinity.
In an evil hour Matthew Starling
had borrowed a thousand dollars from
Uncle John, to pay off an old debt.
He had kept up the interest pretty
iregularly, but it would have been
[about as easy for him to pay off the
.national debt as to discharge on obli¬
gation of a thousand dollars; and in
this way Uncle McElroy contrived to
Ikeep him ground down into the very
idust.
Had it not been for this thousand
jdollar debt, the Starling family would
•have crept out from under the harrow
of Uncle John’s tongue and temper
dong ago.
“It don’t seem as if we could stand
it,” said Mrs. Starling, plaintively.
“I don’t care how much he scolds
jme,” said Delinda, “but he has no
Business to tyrannize so dreadfully
over poor mother.”
“If I could only raise money enough
to take a quarter’s singing lessons, I
could earn a hundred dollars a year in
the church choir,” said Lucy.
“If!” said James,laughing. “That’s
a big word, Loo, for such a little one.
If Uncle John would only let me plant
a crop of tobacco up in the south
field, I am sure I could raise twice as
the will of the people is the supreme law.
FORT GAINES. CA.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 18511!.
inuch money as tho turnips will bring
us. But Uncle John sticks to old tra¬
ditions, and that littlo if stands in the
way. I only wish that the farm were
mine!”
The housekeeping book was partic¬
ularly aggrevnting that morning, and
Mrs. Starling had shed a few quiet
tears before the interview was over.
“I hato whining women,” said Mr.
McElrov, “ and I hato extravagant
ones?”
“I try to do tho best I can,” said
poor Mrs. Starling.
And when the book was flung
wrathfully on the table, and when
Mr. McElroy had dismissed his
nephew’s wife, he sat thiukiug.
“I’ll do it!” he said, aloud. “I’ve
had it in my mind for some time. I’ll
send these Starlings about their busi¬
ness. I’ll put an end to these ever¬
lasting impositions of theirs. They
only care for me just the length of
my purse. They hate me, every one
of ’em. I can see through ’em, dull
as they think me!”
As he sat there, a lad came to the
door, with a yellow envelope in his
hand.
4 4 A telegram for you,” said he.
“Twenty-five cents, please;”
Mechanically, Mr. McElroy paid
tho money, and put on his round sil¬
ver-mounted spectacles, as the lad
sped away.
“I wonder who it can be from,”
said he.
It was very brief. It said:
“Stocks have fallen. Your money
is all gone. Sorry, but could not
stand against market.
“H. Haven & Co.”
H. Haven & Co. Yes, that was the
name of the Nashua Street firm to
whoso care his diligently-hoarded
fortune had been consigned. He read
the brief dispatch over and over
again, as if it were impossible to com¬
prehend its full meaning.
“I don’t understand,” he repeated
to himsel—“I don’t understand. I
thought those stocks were safe enough.
I only believed what those scoundrels
told me themselves. Stocks fallen 1
My money all gone! What will be¬
come of me now ?”
“lama poor man!” he faltered.
“As poor as old Jim Watson, the
clock-mender; as jioor as Matthew
Starling himself. The saving of
years have all gone at once; and I am
a poor man!”
“Uncle McElroy, don’t mind it,”
said the cheerful voice of Matthew
Starling, when at last he had mustered
courage to tell his trouble, and sat
with his head supported ou his head
at the table, with a face drawn and
pinched as if he had just recovered
from a long sickness. “I’m doing
well at my trade just now. Herbert
Long has promised to take me into
partnership at his new shoe store, at
Bloodville Corners, and you shall
never feel the loss of your money
while I can handle an axe or draw a
thread. ”
“Never feel the loss’of my money 1”
vaguely repeated McElroy. “The man
talks like a fool.”
But neverthelss, there was a grain
of comfort in the words.
“And, after all, Uncle John,” con¬
solingly whispered Mrs. Starling,
“money isn’t everything. You’ll see
how nicely we shall contrive to live.
I’ll take a boarder two, if you don’t
object. Your comfort shall not be
interfered with in the least degree;
and we may even manage to save a
little at the year’s end.”
“You always did have a good heart.
Sarah,” said he; “but I wonder how
you can have any patience left with
me, after the time^ I’ve scolded you
for half a pound extra of coffee, or a
nutmeg 1”
“And I am going to take in dress
making!” declared Delinda. “Oh,
you’ll see, Uncle John—you will live
like a gentleman. You needn’t think
that we have lived on your generosity
all these years, not to try and repay
it now. ”
“I! Generosity!” said Uncle John
hardly certain whether the words were
in serious earnest.
But no, there was no covert light of
sarcasm in Delinda’a bright, brown
eyes as she bent caressingly over him.
It was real love, real gratitude that
sparkled there.
“It’s just as they all say,” declared
James, the stalwart youug farmer.
“Wo owe everything to you, uncle
John, and we don’t forget it. Aud if
you don’t want tobacco crops raised
on the place, I’m blessed if you shan’t
have your own way. Not a leaf shall
be grown. But I really think we can
do pretty well with a vineyard on the
side hill, now that grapes aro bringing
such a profit, instead of using it us a’
shuep- pasture. ”
And Lucy brought him n letter.
“It is from Mr. Grover, uncle,’
said she. “He offers to give mo sing¬
ing-lessons for nothing, if I will help
with the Sunday-school music; and
then, pretty soon I shall bo able to
earn money for you, too. Dear uncle”
with tears in her eyes “wo hivo all
loved you, only wo didn’t dare to toll
you how much. If—if you would
only let me kiss you, Uncle John!”
The old man clasped her in his arms
with tears streaming down his wrin
kled cheeks.
“I don’t caro for tho monoy,” ho
faltered. “Let tho money go, if you
will only love me like this. I never was
happier in my life! I know now what
that feeling is that has been chilling
and freezing mo all my life. It was
my heart starving to death ! Yes, yes,
we’il begin the world over again, chil¬
dren—you aud I. We’il begin to en¬
joy ourselves at last.”
They were sitting talking in tho
dusk of the evening, when thero came
a knock at tho door. It was the tele¬
graph lad, breathless with haste.
“I’ve made a mistake,” said he.
“I’ve left tho dispatch at the wrong
place. It was for Mr. McAlbin, at the
hotel down tho street. Thero wasn’t
no dispatch come for Mr. MeElrdy, at
all. Please to give me back the enve¬
lope!”
Tho family all looked at each other
as tho boy rushed down the road with
his freight of evil tidings for some
one else.
“And my money is all snfe!” Baid
Mr. McElroy,with along breath—“all
safe! It seems like a miracle, don’t
it? or a lesson sent direct from the
Lord to try us. Well, it won’t be
thrown away on me. Jim, here is ten
dollars to subscribe to tho furniture
fund.
“It’s too much, sir,” said James.
“No, it ain’t,” shouted Uncle Mc¬
Elroy. “Matthew, her’s your note to
me for .$1,000. I make you u present
of it.”
He tore it in two as ho spoke.
“Delinda shall have her new suit
as quick as she and the milliner can
settle matters between them,” he con¬
tinued. “Lucy shall take singing
lessons and I’ll buy an organ for her.
And Sarah shall have a hired girl to
lighten up the farm work a little. Hush
don’t say a word, one of you. That
money has come back to me as if
through a miracle, and I mean to en¬
joy it.”
The next he went to the city and
took his money out of the hands of
Haven A Co.
“Allow us to advise you not to dis
turb it, said the senior partner. We
are just about to put it in some excel
lent mining stocks.”
“Hangyour mining stocks,” said
Mr.-McElroy, “Government securities
are the articles for tne. Or else good,
straight bonds aud mortgages at six
percent.”
For Mr. McElroy had learned more
lessons than one in the course of the
last 24 hours.—Saturday Night.
Iceland's Greatest Glory.
From the beginning Iceland’s great
cst glory has boon tho universal odu
cation of her people- Of tho entiro
population of 78,000, thoro is not an
individual among them (except idiots,
of whom there are less than 100 in the
country) over 1G years of age, but can
read and write and has some knowl¬
edge of arithmetic, history, and geo¬
graphy, and, in addition, generally
knows somo English and Danish. The
education is carried ou in tho homos.
There are but fow elementary schools,
as nine-tenths of tho people are too
widely scattered to admit of collecting
the children into regular schools.
In somo districts there is an itiner¬
ant teacher in each parish who
“boards around,” remaining with one
family for a fortnight or a month,
and then moving on to tho next. Fre¬
quently several families arrange to
have their children move with tho
teacher, and tako turns in housing
tho little Hook. Tho work of tho
teacher, however, lies principally in
outling and defining a course of
study, Tho real work of instruction
is performed by tho parents during
the long winter evenings. Then tho
family surrounds tho centre table, a
large kerosene lamp suspended from
the ceiling and great chunks of burn¬
ing peat ablaze upon tho hearth reu
dering tho room comfortable and at¬
tractive. The books aro got out -and
several members of the family assume
tho duty of teachers. Mouuwhilo tho
women knit and spin, tho men road,
and the old folks as they sit with their
foot to tho lire, hold tho littlo chihlrou
ou their knees and weavo yarns that
greatly delight tho imagination of the
woo folks. All children aro regularly
examined by tho pastor of the parish.
Every child must possess uu elemen¬
tary education before being confirmed,
at about tho ago of 15, and as confir¬
mation carries with it certain import¬
ant civil rights, tho observance of this
ceremony is rigidly practised.
Tb,ore aro a number of high schools
throughout the country, two ladies’
seminaries, and what is known us the
Latin School at Iteykavia, where the
young men are given a live yours’
course in philosophy and tho lan¬
guages, preparatory to entering tlie
university at Copenhagen, These
schools all receive money appropri¬
ated by tho government.—New York
Sun.
The Age of Deer.
It is difficult (writes our supposed
Highland forester) to speak with cer¬
tainty ns to the ago of-deer; but we
have undeniable testimony that thero
wore in tho old Gltsngurry forest stags
upward of eighty years of age. Home
maintain that deer attain the age of
six and seven score years, In 1820
while Macdonnell of Glengarry and
Lord Dtinmore were hunting at Terr*
nucorra, a huge stage with gigantic
antlers darted out of the wood. Glen¬
garry shot him. Finding that it hud
a certain eur murk, he asked his
forester to explain whose it was.
“That,” replied the forester, “is the
ear murk of Eoghain Maclain-Oig. ”
(Ewen-son-of-John-the-young.) Ewen
was a noted forester, who had died 150
years previously! The antlers of the
stag (we are told) were preserved in tho
old Glengarry family ever afterwards.
—Scottish American.
A Dog for Mrs. Cleveland.
A black Japanese poodle, nine
months old, and weighing but one and
one-half pounds, has been presented
to Mrs. Cleveland by August C. Ravel,
an enthusiastic democratic admirer re
aiaiig flt Milwaukee. It is said to bo
tbe snm ii f!H t pug dog in the United
States, and is intended us a playmate
j- or j] 1(J e hiL1 i’hii.—W ashington Star,
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The cost value of the paper annually
made in all of the countries of the
world exceeds $150,000,000.
ONE‘DOLLAR PER ANNUAL
NO. 5.
WOMAN AND TIIK OLD LAWS.
In England less than ninety yearn
ago it was not unusual for a man to
sell bis wife into servitude.
Upon murriugo tho husband became
entitled to all his wife’s goods and
chattels, also to tho rents aud profits
of her lands.
lie was her lord, bound to supply
shelter, food, clothes aud medicine,
lie was entitled to her earnings and
tho custody of her persou.
He had tho power to choose her as¬
sociates, separate her from her rela¬
tives, restraiu her religious and per¬
sonal freedom and, if necessary, chas
tiso her modorutoly, as though she
was his child.
Tho father of legitimate children
was bound for thoir maintenance aud
education, and was entitled to their
labor and custody. >
Ho had power to disposo of them
until they were twenty-one years of
ago by deed or legacy aud the testa¬
mentary guardian’s right to the chil¬
dren’s custody superseded that of their
mother. • The mother was entitled to
no power but reverence and respect
from her children.
She had no legal authority over
them nor right to their service. Only
the mother of an illegitimate child was
on titled to its control and custody.
Intestate personal property was divi¬
ded equally between males and females,
but a son, though younger than all his
sisters, was heir to tho whole of real
proporty.
Gilded Silk.
Gildod silk, it is said, may possibly
come into use as u surgical dressing, or
in medical applications of electricity.
It may be prepared in several ways.
That of Ooninconsists in impregnating
tho silk fiber with chloride of gold, and
reducing tho metal by hydrogen,
finally polishing by means of a smooth
surfnee. This method is too expensive
for ordinary use, but silk may also be
gilt by electroplating it, after it has
been made to conduct electricity by
soaking it in some metallic salt,, such
ns nitrate of silver, acetate of lead or
coppor, etc. The gilt silk thus pre¬
pared retaius its flexibility and soft¬
ness. The method is applicable to
Jnces, muslins, tulles, etc.
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Part Green an«l White.
A fine gown of white satin has the
skirt trimmed with stripes of pale
green satin ribbon, upon which uro
scattered rays of lilies of the valley.
The bodice, which is one soft, billowy
mass of chiffon, again shows the stripes
of green with the lilies of the valley.
These flowers decorate tho largo chif¬
fon sleeves.
Tim World'* Earnout Potato.
That’s Balzer's Earliest, fit for use In 28
days. Bulzur’s new late potato. Champion
of the World, Is pronounced the heaviest
ylolder in the world, and we challenge you
to produce its equal! 10 acres to Bolster's
Earliest Potatoes yield 4000 bushels, sold in
June at 81 a bushel— $4000. That pays. A
word to the wise, etc.
Now IF YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AUD SEHD it
with 10c. postage you will get. free, 10
puckagos grains and grosses, including Teo
slute, Lathyrus, Hand and Vetch, Giant Bpurry,
Giant Clover, etc., our mammoth seed
catalogue. (A. C.)
Worthy of Trlal-Thal is Iho Opinion of
Mr. A. E. Thornton.
“I think It Is best not to aide a light under
bushels, and when a good remedy Is discovered
it is our duty to let it be known in the interest
of suffering humanity. • indigestion
“I have been suffering wit li and
dyspepsia. I tried all the various remedies as
well as several eminent induced physicians, by friend hut to with¬
out avail. I was a try
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relieved me. Yours is a grand remedy for and in¬ I
digestion and dyepeps a It builds up.
recommend It ns worthy of trial by uil who
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teething,softens the gums; reducesinftammi
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