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WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Adam and Eve had a hard time on
their bridal tour. They never got home
again.
Get a cow with a dyaan^v eye i{ you
mare is the only animal that has a
dreamy The’ eye.
become game latest of “ Fifteen,” we read, has
the fashionable nonsense,
but we can’t see whv it should. Berne
girls at that age haven’t yet shed their
short clothe r .
A young lady iu Brooklyn is working
a motto, “No Ice-Cream.’’ She says:
“ You know it is leap year, and the ice
crop’s a failure, and the boys might as.
well know it first as last.” .
Ha tola her that he loved her,
In tonys so soft mid mellow t,
But she said she couldn’t in:irry him;
Thirteen, fourteen, aU7sleap°year.> fif
teen, is merely
a numerical continuation of that inusi
cal nuisance, “My Grandfather’s Clock,”
which every one knows, stopped short
at 12, as do ail other clocks,”
“You are an ojus, liijjos iijit, my
dear!” said a playful mamma to her
daughter day. Oh, at dancing school the other
“ my dear Mrs. T-,”
sighed one of her neighbors, “what
wouldn’t I give to have your knowledge
of Latin.” ~
W hen the Ru sian Czar heard the
jarring and trembling under his dining
room lie smiled a sort of sickly smile,
and turning to Gen. Karotidofiski, who
was villain by his side, simply remarked, “ The
still pursues me.”
“ Breadstuffs.” We never see this
eratuitousassertion made iu the columns
of a staid commercial paper, without in
dulk-ing in a confidential giggle. Just
as if every reader doesn’t know that
bread stuffs. Ti e trouble is to s> t
enough of it times. '
at
Leadvilee is rapidly becoming civil
ized. kept Six month-, his ago'a poor man who
never agreements went there
and they roughly called him a low-lived
liar. Now they use the more irenlie
manlv but little description forgetful.” of “ a good Fellow,
a lie struck a
rich mine about four months ago.
“Nassy stuff’; won’t take it,” said a
rebellious vounsr patient who thrust the
healer’s cup from his lips. “ Ts it really
so bad, doctor?” inquired a fond father
“0 dear no,” said the healer; “tbe
vermifuge the wnrS would.” is only bitter, tasting like
dinner she t i had i a doctor % c on ei-her
nand, one of whom remarked that they
were wcG served, since they had a ducx
between them, res, she broken in—
her wit is of the sort that comes in
flashes-’and I am between two quacks.’
ltien silence fcTl.
A Tennessee man accidentally shot
a dog, and in trying to explain to the
o-ner how it occurred accidentally shot
him. A coroner thought he ought to
explap. couldn’t how he shot the man, but
gel - iury that was willing to
listen to the i*; ’ an alio n; they were
kind of sliy of him, as it were.
’The man who w.s appro ached from
the rear wali by u g' rSote at and went over a six
foot and 1 up tbe ground for
three rods, cn being revived told the
doctor that he hadn’t at the time of the
accident the. remotest i lea that he was
stand ng on arni’ro d track.
He axed if lie might see her home;
She axed him in to tea;
lie never hesitated, but
Axminister Axepted speedily.
earpoUMHi the floor,
And tilings axesscTV;
" I wonder,” tlroirsht he, “ is thin all
Axessible lomtl" 4kMow
Just tlien the B. ramb home,
And Quite with axiderftaliy, her
broom that young man’s leave
Axeierated she.
- cv.„,-,,m,o: n.uuM av Sight.
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( ongress Getting Even wi.h New
papers. '
The present mail laws for newspapers
were enacted wuen Congress was mad,
and bad as they are they Ate not near so
bad asmany mentbersproposed, and would
liked to have enacted. The newspapers
had made a row about the franking
privilege which eonstrained-Con.-ress to
cut it off. It was done under coercion, and
C ingress was mad about it. They made
ar other row about Congress raising the
salary This of members and giving back pay.
compel Id many to disgorge, and
this made them madder. The readjust
ment of newspaper and other postage
was up at teat time, and Congress fixed
it so as to compel the publishers of the
papers of general circulation to pay pos
tage in advance. . This put all the pay
ment of postage on the publisher. But
as the country papers had not offended
in this way, and as each member had his
petsin the these, Congress within made these free
of mails their respective
counties. It came near putting the rate
of postage much higher in addition to
this. The present postal law, as to
newspapers, stands a monument of spite
work and favpijtism- Tp.^nabe
privilege the mails. even, all should he made free
of
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What Clarence King Has Seen.
- irrom tii* a*na^«z«iie.]
Thomas Lovelock, 'the pioneer of
Lovelock Station, Nevada, was describ
ingaome of the na ural curiosities of
his section, while in town last Saturday
evening. north his He says that fifteen miles
of place, there is a petrified
tree 600 feet in length and two feet
thick. Its roots and most of jts branches
are still perfect. The tree Is lyingnn
the surface of the ground, and is
fied threugh andj£ro«|h from bark to
core. Clarence King was taken to see
thetreeby Mr. Lovelock.* The
eist natural pronounced curiosities it one of the greatest
he had ever seen,
Mr. i*ove!ock say? he recently stumbled
upon a petrified rattlesnake in the vt
cinity of bis ranehe. The serpent’s
bead wits gone, but his body and rattles
were whole. Ihe rattles give out a
metallic sound when ^aken, like the
nngiDg of a bell. The body of the
snake w as hard as rock.
“ Let me look at a revolver,” said a
min who walked ,i,r.to a store ate
ston“, Mo., and a weapon was shp,
to him. “Mietw rne thr* cartrifTgri, _
added, as be care essly loaded ope of
tta chambers. “Excu*e me for uring
this a minute.” he further remarked aud
.hot himself through deal the brain.
p.en have a great of cheek.
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The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME 1.
W ild Fruit in the Black Hills.
A correspondent writing from tbe
Black Hills Country to the Chicago
Western Rural, says: We wilt
J? e §i n , JjBh ^ strawberry, by
^tle above the common wild-straw
berry in the Western States. Then the
g. ra P a comes in about the same propor
tll0se They are of the same variety as
of llle West, with a noticeable
P r «lific vigor a little in advance of
those of the (States. The wild plum is
jery common in the foothills, and of
several'arwties, 11? The Oregongraneis ^5“%
”
8 “ a11 P P Janfc ac f °* ln shrub ^e foothills. uot It lar is f er a
! han a plant, , the roots he
U1UCQ ISrgBT thill) thG top, .Jt llOHw
its leaves in winter the same as ever
ItW for not prized medicinal SO high% forAts
lru its as its qualities,
The roots, when steeped in water, yield
atonic powerfully which, though very Litter, is
is quite invigorating. The June
abundant. Derry It common though uot
grows on a shrub from
one ^ our inches high, is about the
size of a gooseberry, is black when fully
r >pe. and very palatable. We have two
kinds of -currants, the blacksAnji tike
clove currant. These I believe are only
found iri,the valleys among the foothills.
The bracing gooSeSWry three varieties, is very common, ferh
the leading one
being duced exactly throughout tbe same as was intro
the Western States
twenty which proved years ago for cultivation The and
that a success. I know only growing dis
paragemmt as to
* ame f rul ts here is that the apple is not
represented in its wild state (that is the
cr 7l I here a PPf are e ) several other varieties of
ffuit * laa Bm « 11 W tbat I shall not
mention now, but the crowning fruits
faloberry. region The is the raspberry and buf
daut and raspberry quality, is very abun
o* the finest superior
to anything of its kind that 1 h ave ever
Heei ? unf ’ e r cultivation, The vine is a
moderately fair grower, the berry red,
of ,“ uo “ av ° r aud uncommonly large,
Although they are plenteous and free
for M W- have known pickers
fiTf'tnZrte da y gathering Z 6 ) hem 6 t0 for f 0ur the do,,ars m irket. iF e , r
Then comes the buflaloberry Perhaps
77 7 1Il bat 7 1 b describe be lu8ty
7’ can f l v. it by say
it . shape color and
ing is in size, ap
pearance (when gathered) nearly exactly
the same as the common red currant,
It grojvs on a bush or shrub, is in size
and appearanre Very much like the
crab-apple, which begin? to bear at three'
y eara old, and remains in bearing of for
many years. The berries are fine
favor, very asciduous and excel the red
currant for table use. They are a very
prolific bearer. A bush not larger than
an ordinary wild crab-apple bush will
yield from two to six quarts of these
berries,
The James Boys.
|Kan8aB city Times.]
There registered at the Pacific House
from the eastern portion of the Btate,
gentleman who claims to know all abou
Jaf»sr«i 8 a 2 s 5 S«
balance of the gang who aie thought to
a^Glendale. have been connected 011 He'falked with the robberv
quite freely of
the entire party aud says that Jesse
James was and surel'y in St, 'Louis not ten
dav*-inee that lie saw a man and
<.onversed with him, >vho talked with
the most famous outlaw in the land,
and He savs that that he Geonre di<T Shepherd is a fraud
not shoot Jesse as
claimed. “There has been bad bl«od
the two ever since that Ken
tucky ), ank ro bberv when Shepherd
was caged ” said the talkative mall to a*
Times representative, “ and Jesse Jafiies
would never have allowed Shepherd to
get the drop on him in the manner
stated. He is too old a bird to
caught by chafl and is aUve and well.
to-day.”
“Ito you think Shephe»d shot Jim
Cummings?” wounded
“ Perhaps so, as there was a
man hidden in the brush near Joplin for
weeks, and Cummings has not been
heard of since.”
“What has become of Ed. Miller
and the fourth member of thit Joplin
party ? ’
“ Oh, they are in Yhe "South aB safe,
and there thev will remain.”
“Is Frank James dead?”
I am not sure, although Jesse par
tially admits it. while Mrs. Samubla
who is one of the sharpest old ladies I
ever knew, says he la dead.”
“ Did he die a natural death?”
“ He had weak lyues and the terrible
ride'of four hundred ihiles Wotinds after the
North field robberv, and the he
received at the time, killed him, if he
isBeadAit »Hofr all.” longCj»ve ltss , a „
JjAesloy?” fj ' vou known U the
*j|s4 fe y ^ras
whifc yet a
youngster and before he fired a gun,”
^He “ How aU«it Frank?.’, ¥
Was a verv devil
and was tbe most cruel man the Quan
trell bad. He was made so however
by tbe outrages female.” upon his friends both
male and
“ And you are sure that Jesse is not
dead?”
sure as I am that 13 15 14 is
■ tke greatest fraud cff the age and one
i ac apable / of solution.”
J . • , n « .
' Labor hi ItalV *
The renumeratipn . fqr ; wwk m . Italy ,
appears to be very sukB, according to
an ^investment recently made by M.
1 Nathan.. nanutactone«oiCapriglta,anindustnMi Tne yvorkrng day .in the
r
; a»*tnct, is from fourteen to *even teen
^°urs a nay, the wages tor men being
, sixteen years of age
®^° n - centimes (twelve cents)
(day. The (W«r foi [women w«s
■Sl A
j
" AR > ?our pwr relation that a
; | eerous fKW counterfeit note is in
lation. It would l»e a shame to
I o{ tbem
WAT KINSVIL LK. GEORGIA, APRIL 14, 1880.
(V1IITE HIVII.V.
BY VfYS RiKL. .
44 8uch dear little hands,” he whispered,
44 Holding Unfit her wind hands iu his “own;
as s&gjgp, swept rose lea vqs, ^
To battle life’s
44 Such white little hands,” fee murmured,
And kissed them, bending down;
44 Hands which should sparkle with jewels,
And uever grow hard and brow a.”
No word of the fields awaiting
laborers, curnqgt and t rue,
Oi the master’s work, that even
A woman’s hand might do.
No word of the weary journey,
Of the pitfalls, dark and wide,
Aud thorns across the pathway
Her hands might pnt.JiSMft.
So ” time and the hour ” went onward,
With U19 change the seasons bring;
And the white luipds glittered with jewel",
Bfet never w«e a wedding ring.
^ldtc liindf lik« folded lilies;
Tree froffi alftoil carmsea^Auad
Then, kissed, forsaken,
And claspetl in dumb despair.
<f * * V *
Through the cheerless hospital ic inf
Over the blank, white walls,
On a face it’s brightness warms not,
The pitying sumight falls.
And over her heart—forever
From pain and passion stilled—
Lie the folded hands, their mission
Left ever unfulfilled.
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BKfi * 'N SOU liOQUl'*
liie cows are housed, the milking done,
The sheep re in the fold;
I hear the vespers of the birds
Across the dewy wold.
The mowers from the tnarsli come late,'
The sun ct bells have tolled,.
I see them loom, like silhouettes,
Against the subset gold.
And, flushing o’er their loosened sails,
From some last, lingering ray,
A fleet of homeward fishing-boats
Comes rippling up the bay.
I hear the closing of the forge
That clinks across the way,
And, as he duff’s his lrock, the strain,
OiCiedge's roundelay.
While fisher John comes from the wharves,
My And heart Joseph from the lea.
. is torn to choose bet wixt,
With all a-wooing me;
Anotfeer He will minute, beside with abound,
I me be,
think—peihaps To and love ’twill be as well—.
try all throe.
KIXU’tt EX.
BY MARY HARTWELL.
O, King’s excuse! my shoe is loose;—
I said King’s ex.—you can’t catch me!
(I wish it would lie any use
To tell the teacher 44 King’s excuse ”
When I don’t know my g’og’rphy!)
O, I can’t wait to thread this shoe—
The mean old thing—it’s knotted so!
Recess time will be almost through,—
The Black Man’s calling 44 What ye do?”
I’ll run and let my shoe-string go 1
That Nora Jones she don't play fair!
She’ll cry “ King’s ex.” just when you have’r;
But lior lame sister standing there -
Poor little thing! how can she bear
To be King’8 ex’d. for ever —Kokomo V ever! Tribune.
JACK CAVENDISH.
it wastfee twenty-fourth of December.
I was standing in the recess of a narrow
street in Log Angele>, gazing idly at the
passers-by. laborers Across the way some
Chines abode e wall which the were propping had an
of early rains
^pnmg. A group Mexicans were
bpamsh. Two or three lustrous-eyed
children Justers passed me English on the vUteouk pavement,
clasping of
«de their black serapes.
I was consciou s of a vague home sick
sn^rgeBtive of discouragement; a
sense began of'strangen^s think errand in my own^ Cahformi hand; I
to my m
a hopeless one. The matter-had seemed
umple enough as the senior member of
the firm had stated ft to me in New
York.
“ I want you to go west,” he had
Ba H “ am * bud John Bunyaa Oaven
disli? his brother is dead and has left
him a fortune. Draw on me for neces
sary funds and don’t fail to find
t*«t.-%e had dismiatod
both.the I had case and nje-^ with
set out upon my mission a
|o Jively sense of enjoyment. In addition
the novelty of fishing with such
tempting of being bait, the there hearer was of the agreeable things,
sense Whoever and wherever John good Bunyan
Cavendish might in be,hewas likely his always bene
to fact regard me as some way
9fi a view of the matter which I was
not inclined to despise. More than this,
the fieW oi my investigatfons was pecu
saltogether liarly attractive ahd disposed picturesque, and
I was to consider
myself a fortunate individual. Isay
the matter seemed simple enoigg*.
yet, after several mouths of
search and interrogation, I had flailed; to
learn anything whatever concerning the
missing man. I had visited
able mining grizzly camps pioneers, and interviewed innumer
with the same dis
couraging the result. track Once Cavendish, indeed I had
got upon of a who,
after leading me a jd%Athe-wi^)
ney of two hundred miles, proved toba
°f a debilitated^ew health, and bearing York dtvineiu search
among other
the name of Obadiah; a fact
which he regretted even more deeply
than mjrself.
There Gradually had my zeal had dimppeared.
come to be a painful mo
notony in paying far advertisements
had which brought no response; indeed, I
gone so far as to indulge the refiec
tion that in carrying about with me a
tetter from my deceased client to his
kinsman, disemlmdied I was the bearer of tidings
from one spirit to another,
a reflection which it will be readily
mitted was not enlivening.
could find no proof that the itwr
dead. Of his early life I had ample in
formation, but later than that I knew
little save that he had started for
fornia suddenly and alone, during the
ea(r hejte'l ly gold of slice. eagi,lenient, A thousand and hajf not been
were in the long, tediou* possibilities itamey which and
intervening magnified themselves years,
into
than chasing the whim of
suaHsdtt Ildficiiltieqteibpt Mt|m«e eqttM*|*j^ip«ct, An-fteu 1 *. PUC [!
I said to myself; and turning with
half resolution to give up the
] l found myself face to faee with a
who had evidently fcerf sharing
niche for some time unobserved. He
was by shabby, no inear homely-built s an attractive person¬
age; ing against a door-way in figure, lean¬
the an sttitudo
of habitual idleness, and gazing up and
life toolr a strip forward muf laid his
hand rather unsteadily upon the arm
of by. a stout elderly r gentleman, A hurrying
“You're just the uian I’m looking
for, Governor,” I heard him say, draw
ing his and victim mistake.” into the entry; “just the
man, no
tad* “Is I that m In sq, a tremendous Uujle Japk? hurry It’s this too
morning. W ouhln’t another tune do as
“No, sir,’ said bw persecutor, sol- ,
emrily, balancing himself by tbe iappels
of his companion s coat, looking him
confidingly m the eye. “ No, sir, time’s
money,” phasis; he repeated with leisurely em
“an! a man in my position can’t
“Well, *?, W ‘\X Uncle i Jack,” T , returned * , the ,
other resignedly, “what is it now?”
“ It's just this, Governor,” lowering
his voice to a beery confidential wHis
Iter, “ it’s just simply and solely shis:
that I’ve struck it at last; struck it
richer’n h—1, and you’re a lucky man 1”
“Indeed! Well, now, I’m greatly
obliged to you, unde; I've no doubt it's
a big thing; can‘t you drop into the
oflice and talk it over by-aud-bv?”
“No sir” replied his tormentor 9
crushing promptly, the tightening tuberose Ids in his grasp
ion’s butlon-kuie, until it its corhpan- divine
sent
fragrance toward toe, “no, sir, 1 don’t
do nothing o’that kind, an’you don’t
crawfish out o’ this thing in no such
style, Governor. I’ve had my eye on
you, and the minute I struck this lead, ’
says I to myself, ‘ There ain’t none o’
my old pards that I’d rather set up in
business than oil Governor Digby;’
that’s what I said, and you know what
it means when Uncle Jack sets down on
anything.” Evidently Governor
the knew.
“ You’ll want to put about ten thou
sand into the concern, and in six weeks’
time you won’t speak to your own re
lations. How does that strike you, my
boy?” Where
“ I must say it sounds well. is
the claim, did you say ?”
The embyro bonanza king relaxed his
hold upon bis companion’s coat and fell
back against the wall with folded arms
and an air compassionate but unyield
ine dianitv is
“Where v\ nereis that mat cfainf claim claim, did mu 1 i under- under
Wdf ,T t ilt raVe GovTnor-^a G ZLi
claim is like Loaded he of W
between the almiehty an’
m ■
Ike governor made , good ... las escape
with a friendly iaugh and a wave of the
of H and, and I was left mone with the man
mysterious wealth.
“That map,” of said he,tuniing acquaint'anceshijt, toward
me with an air old
“that (here man Used to be governor of
the Btate of California, au he hasn’t got
no more eye for business than- than you
have. h act! 1 ve, know* lnm since
53; nice _ friendly lad, too-buthe don’t,
° ~
“He has rather a comfortable look,”
accused I suggested—“ like a man who is not
to want.”
Oh, no; I reckon the old governor’s ,
collected a good deal o stuff round him,
in a small way, you know, stranger; but
he ? s chances-he never (hme anything good big and he’s
had s nad as chances
as ve had, stranger!” >
“You seem to be well acquainted _
here—d£d Cavendish—John you ever Bunyan know a Cavendish man named f”
1 asked the question with one of those
sudden impulses whiqh we are always
ready to call inspiration, if successful,
and forget it if otherwise.
My new-found acquaintance shut one
eye and directed the otuer heaveaward,
«if the names of aU old refute wpr*
written above.
’Squire,” “That’s he a said, verv slowly; peculiar “a question,
very pecu
liar question; an I’ll tell you why. my
name’s Cavendish—Uncle Jack Caven
dish; hut the rest of it, he added,
shaking Bunyan bis Cavendish, head reflectively, did say?— “John
sounds familiar old you
Look as as an you’d psalm tune!
here,’Bquire, about three if struck I’d me
on this hdfirs ago, have
panned out better;, business but the man that’s
got the amount o’ on his mind
that I’ve got, always gets muddled Tong
about*-naon; like enough if weM to
have Ikoiethini iwjirili toAak^-oh, ’Bquue?’
I Imd^taken pavenlfer#. ajf* stepped out
upoifthf TWre was not a
doubt ififcay m»«f (WMfefofaig his kleri*
small tity. Where we went was pushed a matter of
pair importance. swinging He shutters, open a
of green and I 1
followed his unsteady steps across the
^w-duat When ml floor. comBanion J’he saloon had drained was empty, his
glass,$ui§tione<fliim little aside. * tooneof the tables
a
“ Now, my friend,” I said, “I want to
have a little conversation with you about
that mine of yours; you see. I couldn't
help overhearing what you said to the
governor out there. I trust you’ll par
don that, to begin with."
“There’s no further and apologies Judge; neces
sary between you me, I
know a gentleman when I see'im, an’ I
know a judge of liquor, an’, Judge, I
don’t know’em apart.”
He drew a bit.of ore from hi* pocket
and laid it on the marble table between
Dhyou4^-that‘laid, £ „ If
“
toward me confidentially, and gazing at
his treasury with melting fondness; “
you-“had the grip, Judge, dollar you could
squeeze that into a fifty slug with
von* fist. Well, sir, waiijis that mined*
full o’ that/ All its is wprKing;
an this f l tell ffoi, Judgl, everything tolre’* but r*ea
to write children give
wives and tor the chance
1 brought my limited knowledge
n la,lurgy nl * m ^ H I ,ecimf '
‘ftiit *'**^‘7 sftriplyrtifi)»i#nf^7 -‘.7 • lr 1
man doesnT walk into a thing of
kUid wiUiqjyJ skills w/iysLUst have
in the hifip-i* | ^ 1 a tofk ,T |T Mr.
dish.”
“Uncle Jack, if you please Judge.
Well, sir, I’ve been at it nigh thirty odd
years—not know. steady, of course—off an’ on,
you It’s just this way, Judge, if
you can take a broad view of things, arid
for want to small get rich, mind, minin’s the thing; but
a an’ daily expenses,
there’s nothing like a Ukde-that's what
I said when ^ went- l|to the book-biud-
1U ?
aid yoti rome from, mar I
ask?” ’ *
I was fingering the bit of ore indiffer
entiy, as if more interested in it than
his reply.
“From York state, Judge, yes, sir; I
come from York State; let me see, in
fifty-one, an’ 1 ain’t seen no .puttier
slope. piece o’dirt than that since l struck the
I tell vou, sir—”
gravely “It is “I prodigious,” I interrupts
; don’t wonder at your e..
thuriaam. Did you leave any brothers
in New York ?”
Hi» f aee alterod strangely.
“There was two of us,” he Baid.
quickly—“ Jamie an’ me.”
. /'>’ , n at jn , once jny pockety ll ., addressed .. t0 ,n , 0 m . lhi .. James ) t , the ,,
Ctt J e " d lsh 8 angular hand might be
something , had more than a mire legal docm
me,lt - i seen the writer often—-an
austere, least reticent man .bent upon gam;
ac lf lm 1,fe so they flaid who knew him best.
hftd ever known a breath o
. have lain cold
romance, it must and
for yews, liktf a bit of moss in the
heart o{ “
“Just Jamie an’ me,” repeated my
companion, an’1 musingly; “we was orphans,
was the oldest. I’d look after him
a haven’t good bit, and sent him him to school. I
Judge, but spoke of for thirty years,
somehow the lad’s been run
uin’ in my mind ever since you said
that name a while ago. John Bunyan
Cavendish. Do you know, Judge, I be
Here to God that’s my name? Yes, sir.
I tell you it’s a queer thing for a man’s
own name to come up and slap him in
the face, like a ghost, isn’t it? Yes,
sir; it’s a devilish queer thing! John
Bunyan Cavendish,” he repeated, stow
ly> tender, looking absent past me with a strangely
gaze, “Do you think
Jamie’d know me, Judge? A man
roughens a good deal in thirty years,
don’t he? ’
“ I think I have met your brother,” I
said, Albany.” thoughtfully. “James Cavendish,
of
The man learned toward me with a
startled, “ eager face. 7
xr Ct * '“.‘r r • P, ^ I° U mean .x* tbat
you * ve seen the lad, Judge?—a , straight, -
H‘im young foliowwith checks like a
tU^Sh A’S
came away; it was down back o’ the
house, an’ I was puttin’ up the bars
in the south pasture. Jamie come up
to me in the moonlight, an’leaned
against the fence.” 5 »fr¬
California’ “ ‘ Jack,’ says the’boys?’ he '*are you going * h to
with
« Two ar * hrwt i.„,i «t mt >
to eo ^ across the J plains with’em but 1
(Hd t ]ilre to , ftaT the Iad ’
8t d with a uick rwTV )m tretnor of
his heavy unghaven chin
j” “ a f % ^ ^says iTughi nT
d 1 ? 0 Jamie oanim, says i, laugmng a *
Si, 7 „77*'” r wu'h^gdd g tatteSF 1 “antm m
..hT wauw a a hit miuu UU T’«, iu out pui up „„ we
^/^llokSout ?o A " ' to^HotorT—. 1
™, lark ’
gavs * ile he > W an H’s it s all all sMttal settled. T I want, you
to know it first and so does Mary.
ItoqkJw^flo minute an’ the (hut fence, and held The
on 11 my eye*.
ground don know slipped whether from the under boy my knew feet. what I
t
it meant that he d said to me or not.
I hope to (fod he didu t. I came away
that night. An you jhinlt you kno w
Jam»e, . JntoT Well, now, whod
thought [ it? this is a startlin world,
'Yes, I knowyour brother we! i, , I
said. 1 shouldn t have been here,-if I
hsdn t known him; but he i«n t living,
Uncle Jack. He has been dead almost a
I was watching his face anxiously . for
the look of intelligence that had come
and pone since his brother s nanre was
mentioned. He fixed his eyes on me
With a queer puzzled expression, as if
hghting fins way frogn a long stretch of
t.
Dead? he said, Jamto u. dead-my , ,
Mtle brother? I guess there s some mis
take, Judge. The lad was always well
enough. JJeed 7 pe rejeatt4f after a
pause; I wi#h ypp d M it afl
again, Judge; go over it Slow. I don t
seem to have a grip on things, some
how. - * r , , . . .
I went ogerdt all as he said; BlbWty
and carefully.' His brother’s past life
so far as i knew it, his death and his
will. The latter was short and easily
stated. Everything was left to his only
brother, John Bunyan Cavendish, if
divii&d, livings <d .hi* death to b*
share and share alike, among
tbe cpiWren of tbe late Mary Onnsby,
of Fdrtb. My companion listened irtth
a stapi. aikffce When that I I sometimes had finish*!, feared J drew was
from my pock' t the letter, grown sud
den Ijf- so sacred, and laid it on tbe table
pie befol^tua. need from it Hi to raised lit* eyes and
me.
“ Judge,” he that laid, letter quietly, here. “I I don’t don’t
wan%to read
like the looks o’things. Iwanttogoto
some place where tlimgs i* growiiL smell. an’
there’s a'fresh countryfied You
understand, an’I want you to go along.”
I would willingly have left him alone
with his deed, but 1 did not dare to, even
then. Howe walked silently through
the narrow, crowded streets to one of
those quaint hillsides valley overlooking the
calm verdure of the ana tLe
wintry snows of Ban Antonio. Mvcom
“^w, Ju4gg,7 Jte wdd, hoarsly,
wa 7 that letter to me;
tJ fyou’W«me<m* 0N,r * ^ ra * tint far, and I think
U»*oogb.to :
I read the letter. If comes frank to
me dUtinetly even now. The scent of
the orange Wowoms below
lu,le 01 lh * w,n *"*- th ‘’
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NUMBER 6.
sound of my own voice, even the words
that I said:
“ I>kar J aou—'W hen you read this X shall bo
dead. All these years I have been afraid to
look you in the face. You know now hok t
wronged you and Mary ; she knew it boforo
she died. I don’t ask you to forgive me. I
didn’t ask her to. f" I only ask you not to hate
mv mPlmlry . r t ght t coujJ mftllc hpr , ovo
-*,« but .ho never did. She never loved the
8 ^® married ; sho never loved any one but
Jack, and I knew it. 1 would have laid
down my life years a^o to right the wrong I
did, hot it wo# too late, I ruined your life and
hers, and yet I loved yuu both, and love you
■till.
Aly liHtener did not move or raise liis
eyes. How long we sat there I do not
know, but our shadows lengthened on
the hillside, and the air grew chill.
Whac the old man was thinking, God
only knows. When he spoke his voice
startled me.
“ I’ve got a good deal of busine-s on
hand, Juiiee, an’ if it’s all the same to
you, we’ll go down town. I’ve been
thin kin’ about the children. 1 >o you
Mary’s know anything children, about know ’em, ?’’ Judge’?—
“ Not you
much. theoldest They are girl, orphans, and works and
very poor; trade’. is a
at J think.” some They are note together,
“ Jamie’s little pile goes to them when
I’m gone?” -
.
u Yes ”
He made no further inquiry, and we
walked on in silence. I parted from him
that night with a vague uneasiness. It
was Christmas eve, And everything was
ablaze with light. 1 walked up ami
wn a J l,on S the hurrying throng in the
, ‘ l °V e of seeing his face, grown familiar
ii r ‘, f ’ but it was not there,
' «ry early in the morning f weut to
ru and knocked gently
at *., the door, , there was no answer, and,
P l,s “te? *t softly on its hinges, I went
11,1 ‘mcle Jack was sleeping quietly
on a low bed in the corner. 1 here was
a bundle lying on the floor, and beside
*" a r( ’;' blankets and an oaken
® ta “- V’". 1110 table a spent camlle was
“aringin its socket, and beside it lay
lin "’■nnislied letter, insenbed to me in
. unst eady hand,
a ar .S e
1 am go»ng across the mountains to
. l°°k ftor the Take the
fl mine. money
back to the children, and telI them its
a Christmas gift from Uncle Jack. Tell
t tw.VJ 1 f to f th lf . ef whatever happens.
lhatwasail. i he window ■ i was open,
nS st ® a ' in £ over
? ra 7 ,.f wn n ,u 0 ' n y ban An
‘
tonio like a great , uncut amethyst. I
went to the bedside and touched the
sleeper’s laid’my liami forehead 2 It was Z. lev cold I
hi« b„
TJ ^ , hear ^ f -"“m ^
Where Tin Ores are Found.
Tin in one of the earliest pietals
kriown, which is contrary to what, not
many yearn ago, wan the general opinion
tf scientific men. The researches, how¬
ever, which within the last twenty years,
have been instituted with regard to tbe
earliest races inhabiting Europe, have
conclusively implements of shown that weapons and
bronze (an alloy of tin
and capper) were probably the metalie.
articles earliest in use, after those com¬
posed introduction of copper of iron. alone, In and the before curious the
“Jake dwellings,” discovered in (Switzer¬
land, not only bronze implements, but
bars of pure tin varies from four to
twenty per cent., about twenty per cent,
belngthe most common. The principal
present lecourecs of tin are, first, Corn¬
procured wall, whore it is now almost exclusively
from the mines instead of
washing, or “stream works;’’ second,
iSaxony or Bohemia, in small quantities,
and exclusively from mines; third,
Banes and other islands of the Malay
Archipelago, well the of Hindoostan Malay peninsula, as
as parts and Bur
mali; all the productions from these
(now furnishing the greater part of tin
commerce) “Strails tin,” now being known derived generally as
from
stream works; forth, New Mouth Wales,
Qpeenland, together with and Tasmania, other parts of Australia, Bolivia
Mexico, also Hpain,
and furnish (or have lately
done so) some portion of the tin com¬
merce. Greenland, Japan, Finland,
Biberia, Iceland and Madagascar, and
some tin in other localities less quantities. have also yielded
greater or
Meissonier Mad.
M. Melssonier decidedly refuses to be
patronized. Englishman It is related him that day a rich and
came to one
offered him f1,000 if he would paint his
portrait and agree to finish it in a forte
night. If fail,” he added, "I shall de¬
“ you
duct f5 a day until you hare delivered
it.”
This angered the artist, who declared
he wouldn’t paint the portrait for $10,
000 .
“ You are not a fit subject,” he said,
“for any pencil. Allow me to bid you
good morning.”
“I dare say, now, that you are
joking,” won't insist responded the the deduction, Briton. if " you’ll But I
on
|gree not to detain me very long,”
Won’ “ Detain tdetain you?” another echoed second. the artist, “ I
you There’s
the door. Go!”
“What—what’sthe matter?” inquired
John Bull. “What is all this row
fbout?” “It that have mistaken
means you
your man. You think me exclusively
a» animal painter. I paint horses and
*°g*» b u t curs, never!”
It is imftossible to make people un¬
derstand toowledge their ignorance, for it requires
to perceive it, and, there¬
fore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Tub human race is divided into two
Lmelhlng, elasses— those who go ahead and do
and those who sit still and
- r
Tub Czar shoes hi* hor»e with silver.
^-.Baltimore ffewt And the farmer’s
*ifo »h‘k<s her chickens with an old
i Dr on
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*hw» the home
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THOUGHTS FOR SUNDAY.
, Mosey is the total wheel-work of
human action, tbe dial-plate of our
value. t bi i
Moderation js the silken string ruu
r niug through b * )l the pearl-chain of all vii
tuee.
U.I. habits gather by unseen degrees.
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to
seas.
There is a wealth of affection and
kindness in every human heart, if
properly developed.
IN all the guilty train of human vices
there is no crime of deeper dye than that
of ingratitude.
TitEfaults that are comm it ted through
excess of kindness, it requires small
kindness to excuse.
No evil propensity of the human
heart is so powerful that it may not be
subdued by discipline.
The most brilliant qualities Vv come
useless when they are not sustained by
force of character.
If you would have your desires always
effectual, place them on things which
are in your power to attain.
Wisdom is not found with those who
dwell at their ease, rather Nature, where
she adds brain, adds difficu’ly.
If the balance of happiness be ad¬
justed conditions fairly, it will be found that all
of life fare equally well.
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity
of the shell, so ripens in the tomb all
the fame that is truly precious.
Courtesy and kind language in great
ones draweth all hearts unto them, as
fair flowers do the eyes of behotderH in
the springtime.
Inquisitive they people are the funnels of
conversation; do not take iu any¬
thing for their own use, but merely pass
it to another.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and
now them fashions, and valuing ourselves by
is one of the most childish pieces
of folly that can be.
A beautiful smile is to the female
countenance what the sunbeam is to the
landscape. It embellishes au inferior
face, and redeems an Ugly one.
A KNOWLEDGE of art tends to self
knowledge, laws inasmuch as an anal) sis of
the of beauty and taste promotes
an understanding of the soul. of the powers and
purposes
It is easy to tell when others are flat¬
tered, but not when we ourselves are,
and every man and woman will lend
firm belief to the soft nothings of the
flatterer, very man when they believe to be an arrant
others are in the case.
Wintering In the Crimea.
A contributor to the Boston Commer¬
cial Bulletin, who served in the Crimean
campaign, writes: When I say that
this first winter in the Crimea was
simply awful 1 feel arsured that I utter
but faintly the sentiments of aJl sur¬
vivors. mountain Encamped with higher on top ground of a table
no any¬
where to shield us from the marrow
searching blast, which, we felt sure,
came direot Irom Nova Zenibla and
Biberia; with nothing but a thin canvas
tent in which to huddle and crowd to¬
gether for mutual heat; with no (ires
and consequently no cooked food (for
over two months); with no woolen un¬
derclothing; thin with nothing (without save our red
coats, a be easily overcoat rolled the knapsack lining,
so as to on
at parade), a reaching single white the blanket, ankle, thin low
army boots, to
socks, and no gloves—what wonder was
it that men who had long enjoyed sunny,
spice-smelling India, balmy Booth
Africa, bewitchingly luxurious Mediter¬
ranean, fruitful W«*t Indies, comfort¬
able North America, and easygoing
home with its mild climate—what won¬
der was it, I rej>eat, that these men
should sink .before such hardships?
These heroes that had but recently
startled Christendom by their unex¬
ampled beasts of fortitude burden, and cavalry bravery! artil¬ Our
our and
lery horses—powerful before animals all, wilted What
like weeds these ’ rigors.
wonder was it that disease and death
stalked through our camps and satiated
their ghastly appetites ou Britain’s best
blood and sinew?
^ Tne Awful Famine In Persia.
Ireland and China are not the only
countries where human beings are
perishing stalks the for heels food and of starvation. where pestilence From
on
Vautiiul Persia, whose very name sug¬
gests gardens images of and luxury and beauty, pearls,
of roses ropes of
there come accounts of the most harrow¬
ing distress. Mr. Cochran, an American
Missionary Spain, wfio has lived for thirty
years in writes to Rev. A. H.
Plumb, of Boston, (bat tbe throngs of
wasted and famishing beings that daily
besiege the missonaric»’ doors are ap¬
palling. No help is afforded by the
government. The starving go to tbe
slaughter-houses the blood. Msny and have catch sold all and they drink hffd
for bread, parting with valuables for a
mere seng. A bushel of coarse wheat
meal sold for $20, January 7, wffile in
the former famine It never went above
$8. Barefooted multitudes tread tbe
frozen streets, having parted with all
hut a few rags, which offer an apologv
for children clothing. for slaves; Parents are selling their have
fled, whither many men
no one knows to avoid see¬
ing the death ef there dear to them.
Mrs. Cochran says: “Would that I
could take you out among the haggard
crowd that wil) coine ,to-morrow, that
sunken come daily to receive a little Oh! those
eyes, those bony Jittie fingers! Trembl¬
ing, fainting children women, trampled under wihl foot eyed.
ulinoy whom hunger by
t :ose has made sttvace,
old men and women, and wasted babies
in the arms of mothers .that can no
longer give them nourishment. - *’
The oth -r day, when ah Illinois mm
met bis divorced wife, the foisr tears
started to his eyes and rolled down his
cheeks in torrent*. But it wasn’t the
old caused love this welling outburst; to his bosom that
itjwas the red pep
j per she fired into his optics.