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Farmer Joy’s “Arrantin’.”
'Gits Joilieat former was Ephraim Joy,
tWay-headed and bent, with the heart of a
boy.
Hs whistled ah day as he ploughed or mowed;
He hailed each neighbor upon the road;
He petted his cattle and called every one
By some comical name—for the sake of the
fun.
He sang at his milking, and pitching his hay;
He always was sunny whatever the day.
He carried his tveam to the neighboring
town; . ' ?
Three days in the week he rode up and down.
Still singing or whistling or resting his team
After climbing the hills or crossing the
stream.
Not a single house did he ever pass by
Wit bout stopping his horses and waiting to
cry:
“Well, neighbor, anything wanted my way!
I’m a-goin’ a’arrantin’ most of the day.”
And all of the farmers who plodded along
With never a smile or a note of a song—
Who never found time to get out the
“shay,”
And take wife and children off for a day.
Who thought it was queer in old Ephraim
Joy £ .
To be jolly and merry—so m,uch like a boy,
Were all very glad, when he went upend
down,
To have him do “arrante,” if need be, in
town.
He was postman, expressman and messenger,
too,
No one caught him forgetting a thing he
could do; '
And you'd never have guessed lie was sixty
years old,
If you’d seen him “a-arrantin’,” as he’d been
told,
Though empty his milk cans, he’d always a
load
When he started his horses again on the road.
His face was so bright and his manners so
gay.
“Ths more a mints the better,” it seemed he
would say.
How often I’ve wondered, while thinking of
him
With my heart full of love, while my eyes
have grown dim,
Os the help and the oomfort which he always
bore
To the sick and the sorry, the weak and the
poor.
He did errands of mercy and love unseen,
As well as the “arrantin’ ” known to men;
And I know if such work is the angels’ em
ploy, ,
They have one helper added in Ephraim Joy.
Caroline H. Lerow in Good Cheer.
THE WRONG MAN.
“Ab,” said Mrs. Prodgitt, “things
yy da 7- When I
was a girl, folks used to stay at home and
help their mothers do the lsWwork,
and piece bedquilts, and embroider laco
veils, instead of running about iu all the
dirty streets and narrow lanes in creu-
J Mrs. did not take kindly to
mode.ro civilisation.
She had come up from Owl Brook to
visit, her eousin Mary Ann, who had
warned 1 Ebcmczer Hardy a quarter of a
century ago and settled down in New
York; as she expressed herself,
“tilings sectrwd to be all turned topsy-
“Bhit, ’’Cousin Prodgy,’’ said saucy,
Hattie H ardy, who was equipping her I
self with basket, bag, parasol and water
proof cloak, “it is a work of mercy and
charity that we are engaged in.”
“Nonsense!” irritably cried Mrs. Prod
gitt, “I think you've all gone crazy to
gether ! Pm surprised at you, Mary Ann,
to let the child go tramping all over the
jjity ni - v it wasn’t
considered respectable,” -
“You say truly that times have changed
since then,” mildly uttered Mrs. Hardy,
who was knitting fleecy wool by the fire.
“Be sure, Hattie, that you come, early.
The new minister is to be here to-night
to tea, and Betsey can’t be trusted with
the new set of moss-rose china.”
“I wonder what he is like I” said Hat
tie, as she tied the deep blue strings of
her hat into a coquettish bow under her
round chin. “I do hope he's young and
handsome.”
“My dear!” remonstrated Mrs. Prod
gitt.
“Os course,” added Hattie, “we knew
that old Mr. Puzzleton was a jierfcct
saint; but one don’t like saints with red
noses and apectaotai and three layers of
double chin!”
Mrs. Prodgitt looked as if she expect
ed that Hattie would be struck by light
ing on the sjxit for that heretical re
mark.
“Harriet !*’ was all that she could utter.
While Mrs. Hardy, more accustomed
to the audacious speeches of her pretty
daughter, went on in her purring, sing
song tones:
“Don't forget that }MK»r widow in Cob
lane, Hattie. And if you go to Milo
Boneau's, I think it would be well to
«f>euk a word in season to that great lazy
mui of hit, who is always buying lottery
tickets, aad does nothing to the
old ftfifcs.”
“Oh. yea! I’m glad you mentioned
that,” said Hattie, penciling an entry on
Wr little tablets. “‘Mem —to give Jonas
Reneau a jdveo of my mind.’ .Dear Mr.
Ihu’l-.Lm always said that that young
man was.a dreadful Mumbling bieek I”
“And t think.” went on Mnt. Hardy,
“that the Gray sisters can find work for
Alice Jeiiaiugs now, if she is still uncm-
“The whehr' said Mt*. Prodgitt.
•'The Gray water*, ” explained Mrs.
Hardy. “One of our chunk orgauua
-tiett*,*
Mrs. Prodgitt glared. r.-j
“Is there any end of the folly and non
sense of the present generation ?” said she.
‘‘l suppose, ” laughed Hattie, ‘‘that -In
your day, Cousin Prodgy, nobody went
slumming?” ■
“Went—where?” said Mrs. Prodgitt.
“Shimming!” distinctly repeated Hat
tie. . . ‘;
“Sjiftn^anj^visiting the poor and seek
ing l&ir cases bf destitution,” explained
Mrs. Hardy. “Hattie .ray child, 1 do
wish'ybtt wouldn’t talk slang.”
Hattie disappeared with a little breeze
of laughter, while Mrs. Prodgitt resettled
her spectacles and uttered a deep groan.
“Mark my words, Mary Ann,” said
she, “that girl will come to no good.”
“Hattie does not mean any harm,
Cousin Prodgitt,” mildly pleaded Mrs.
Hardy, as she knitted on. *.
While Hattie, on her errand of mercy,
went from house to house in the darkling
lanes and crowded tenement districts,
leaving an ounce of green tea here and a
lecture there, a bottle of beef, wine and
iron by a sick bed, a little rose-scented
snuff in a poor old woman’s hand, a pict
ure book on the pillow of some little
child, a wooden toy in the delighted
grasp of a skeleton-like infant, a gentle
admonition in the ear of a willful facto
ry-girl, and a word of comfort to encour
age a despairing teidow.
She could be gay and flippant enough
when “Cousin Prodgy” tetced her, but
here she seemed to have assumed a per
sonality of dignity and sweetness.
Old Milo Reneau’s was the last house
on her list. She glanced anxiously at
her watch as she went in.
“Past five,” she said to herself. “1
must make haste or the dear little mam
my will be fretting.”
The dusk of the October evening had
already darkened the little room, where
lay the patient old sufferer from rheuma
tism. It was always neat and clean there,
but in Hattie’s eyes it seemed more squa
lid and poverty-stricken than usual to
night. As she came, around the corner
of the door she perceived a young man
sitting at an uncovered pine table—a fig
ure strongly silhouetted against the win
dow.
“Ah!” said she, the spirit of righteous
exasperation rising up in her heart, “I’ve
caught you at last in the very midst of
your evil practice!”
The young man rose hurriedly to his
feet. '
“I beg your pardon ■” he began;
but the Hattie’s indignation was
not thus easily stemmed.
“Don’t beg my pardon,” said she;
“beg the pardon of society—of -public
opinion—of everything else which you
are outraging by this shameful behavior
of yours. Apparently you have neither
pride nor self-respect left—now take riy
advice; turn over a new leaf. Give up
your evil practices and set yourself to
earn a decent living. Look me in the
eyes, young man !*’ she added severely;
“telj me if you are not ashamed of your
self!”
yk J®
To all appearances, the culprit was
stricken dumb. Involuntarily he raised
a pair of clear, honest eyes to Hattie’s
face, according to orders, but he did not
speak a word, good, bad or indifferent.
“He's not bad looking,” thought Hat
tie; “but I must’ not neglect the chance
of making an impression. lam surprised
at you!” she added aloud; “a great,
able-bodied fellow like you sitting down
as ajlisreputable incubus on your friends
and relatives. Don’t you know that you
are the talk of the neighborhood? Get
up—go to work! Never let me see you
idling here again. No; don't answer me,
I never enter into argument with the j>eo
pletnmy district. Logic is useless in a
case like this.”
She hurried to old Milo, who being
stone deaf, looked smilingly on during
this brief but energetic monolgue, as if
it had been a recitation from Shakespeare.
“Here's some extract of beef for you,
Mr. Reneau,” she shouted in bis ear;
“and a tumbler of lemon jelly! I hope
your lumbago is better. I'm sorry Ican't
stay a little longer to-day, but I'll come
again very soon.”
And nodding and milling good-by to
him, she bustled away.
She arrived none too soon on the do
mestic tapis.
B< tsy had already broken one of the
moss-rose tea caps, and spilled all the j
salad dressing, so that Hattie had to go
to work to make more.
Cousin Prodgitt had lost her spectacles,
and Mrs. Hardy could not find her best
lace frill.
Consequently she was only half through
arranging her hair when Mrs. Hardy
called up the stair-case:
“Harriet! Harriet! Mr. Gray has cane?’
Site hurriedly coiled up the shining
bronze locks, and fastened them with a
shell-pin, tied the Swiss muslin bow at
her throat, and, catching up her pocket
handkerchief, ran down-stairs.
Cousin Prodgitt was still adjusting her
capstrings in her awn room.
Mrs. Hardy had gone down to see if
the ten was properly Ste ping; and so our
Inert>inr walked directly into the presence
of Reverend Cecil Gray.
“I am Miss Hardy." said she. “I beg
roar pardon! but ”
IL re she stopped, with the syllables of
further spyech fairly frozen on her tongue.
A cold chill crept through all her veins
i m site recognised the curly brown hair, !
; the clear, honest eyes, the thick mustache.
L, But the Reverend Cecil was equal tc
the emergency.
“Don’t beg my pardon,” s:yd he,
gravely, although there was a roguish
sparkle in his eyes. “Beg the pardon of
society—of public opinion. No, Miss
Hardy,” he ct-ied. suddenly dropping his
solemn mannerism, “don’t look so dis
tressed. Os course, it was a mistake.
Don’t I know- jterfectly well that it was.”
“Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” grasped Hat
tie. “I thought it was Gilbert Reneau.
I never had seen him, you know, and it
was so dark, and— and'——
“And so you scolded the wrong man,’-
said Mr. Gray. “Well, I’ll pass the
lecture on to the genuine offender at the
very first opportunity, only I’m afraid I
cannot emphasize it half so neatly as you
did.”
“Oh, don't,” said Hattie, piteously
lifting her little hands. “Please don’t.”
“No, I won’t,’’said Mr. Gray. “We'H.
forget and forgive.”
And when Cousin Prodgitt and Mrs.
Hardy came in Hattie and the young
clergyman were earnestly discussing the
rival merits of the geraniums on Mrs.
Hardy’s flower stand.
Mrs. Prodgitt stayed until spring, and
when she went back home she told her
daughter that Hattie Hardy was engaged
to a young minister.
“Or at least I suspicion she is.’’ she
added. “She won't own nothin’ for sar
tin; but things ain’t now as they used to
be. Folks as was engaged to be married
used to be proud of it. But Hattie’s a
queer girl. She hasn’t been brought up
as girls were brought up in my day.”
Dandies on Horseback.
The haciendado on horseback, writes a
correspondent to the Springfield JiepvUi
can, is a picture usually conscious of it
self, for these fellows are bom dandies,
and both men and animals are full of
prancing life. The horses are noble crea
tures, whose chests have been magnifi
cently developed by the rarefield air, and
the rider is athletic and a born horseman. ■
He wears a suit of black cloth,, a short,
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nattily cut jacket with big silver buttons;
a low cut waistcoat, or more often none
to hide his delicate, snowy and frilled
shirts; close pantaloons that bear along
the outer seams two rows of fancy silver
buttons; high-heeled and usually top
boots that end in silver spurs; and a faja
or sash of red and other brilliant color to
bind the waist. Over the shoulder, or
across the saddle, which is a most orna
mental affair, is carried the bright scrape
that looks like 1 an immense Roman scarf.
The hat completes the picture, and the
ample proportions of that put ridicule
upon the jpeagre head coverings of the
North. The only fault to be, found
the felt sombrero is its weight—but for
some occult reason it never st ems burden
some in the wearing. Buffnjb Bill’s Irats
are a libel on the genuine Mexican article.
His wide brim is all right, butHhi-- > rown
rises to u dignity and eomlim ntueh
like that which characterizes the head
gear of Miles Morgan on your Court
Square. But while 3li!es restricted him
self to sober black, the Mexican indulges
in all colors from a beautiful silver gray,
through browns to a gorgeous purple.
The crown is encircled by a silver or gold
cord, often in three or even four coils,
and the brim is embroidered with a
wealth in silver or gold trimming. Straw ,
hats arc of similar shape, and provided j
with puffed bands of the same material.
Dangers from Goal’s Milk.
A correspondent writes: The BritiA
Goat Bociety has held its half-yearly ,
meetings and the rejrart states that the
committee have been able to supply goats 1
to cottagers with very satisfactory re- ,
suits. So far this is good news, for«
milch goat is tractable and gives a most
abundant yield. But it is to be hoped
that the cottagers will be careful of their
milch goats, and will not allow them to
pasture at large. The goat is proof
against almost every known vegetable
poison. Any one who doubts this may
test the fact for himself, for there is
nothing a goat likes so much as a mouth
ful of tobacco. A goat which knows
that you have tobacco about you will
fellow you anywhere and any distance
for it. And it is an unkind practical
joke to disturb the tranquility of a row of
chaises at the seaside by the production
of a ttAacco-pouch. The cow, as we all
know, from the time we first began our
nursery-rhymes, is partial to the “hem
lock rank,” and there have been eases of
poisoning from the milk of cows that
have eaten hemlock. But the goat will
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yew clippings (which are fatal both to
cows and horses), bryony, foxglove, and,
indeed, almost every |K>i-onous plant.
The result is, ©f course, to poison the
milk, and it is consequently to be hoped
that the favored <\>ttagers will confine
their goats to swedes, vetches, cut grass,
and other such harmless substances, and
will not allow them to roam at large.—
iit. Jawß-s's Gcatfte.
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