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<3 <» cn1 i n cl, 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, ---- — - 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. - --- ~ 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 Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy and the flr-t dose relieved me. 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