Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 March 1871 — Page 6

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THE LOVED AND LOST. tallowing poem, from the Church qf Bmjiand Mtigtixine, will outne Ulica "song In ti»night" Jo m.iny a stricken heart:] ••"Pin- loved and lo*t!" why do we call them

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Berati-v wi ml« them from oar outward road. tod'* anjt^N o'er our pathway ciwt, fooki-d on tlnnali.and loving them the most,

Straightway rellnvod them front Ule's wmiv load.

They arc not lo*t they are within the door That AhuM out los« and every hurtful thing— With ansrel* bright, and loved ones gone iM'fore, In tli'-lr H»-«U «'ii»*r's pre*i»nco everrn«»"\

And 0xt himself their Lord, thei, Judge and King.

And tiiI•» we call a lo*v»! O *elfl*h sorrow Uf Ki'lflfth h-art*.* Owe of little fait hi I u* look roa.id, some armiinfiit to borrow, Why we in patience should await the morrow

That nurely mtHt *ucctHd thU night of death.

Aye, look upon this drwiry dewert path. The thorns and thistles whene'er we turn What trial* and what tears, what wrong* anil wrath. Wh"' fltri:" !1'"* and what strife the journey hitlh!

They hnv.i escaped from these and lol ye ni-iurn.

Ask the fioor bailor, when the wreck Is done. Who, with hN tr«»*Miref strove the *luro to reaeh, while with the raging wave* he battled on. Wii It not Joy, where every Joy seemed gone,

To nee hi* loved one* landed on the beach?

iioor wayfarer, leading by the hand A little child, had halted by the well, To wash from ofT her feet the clinging wind, And tell the tired IK^T of that bright land

Whare, thin long Journey jiossed, they longed to dwell. Wh»*n lo! tiie Lord, who many man-sioiw had.

Drew iiear and looked upon the suffering twain, Th"n pity hue, spake, "Give me the little lad In «!reng:ii renewal and glorious beauty chid,

I'll briti« him with rne when I come ag»in." Did '.he ui.ilJe answer selfishly and wrong— 'N*y, but the WOT 1 feel he too must hi •h-ip Or. ralln-r, hurtling Into grateful wing, Mh went her w.iy rejoicing, mid made strong

To utrua^i. on, siii"c he wns freed from W re. We will JO II'.OT/M. I) ill: hath made no !r"fien

In lore and -y'iM Ihy.ln hope and trust No outward «iiih or sound our ears can reach Hut tln reV an Inward, splri ual spei-ch,

That greeix ntill, tlmugh moral tongues be duKt. It lilds us do the work that they laid down

TaUe up the sons where th broke on a 4o jourueving till wi1 reach the hea\enij town, Where are laid up «air treasures and our crown.

And our lost, loved ones will he found lifee'III.

Tom Joiner's Angel/'

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The iollowing narrative is told lo the reader in nearlv the same words as it was told to Ili«' writer by as line a 4peelilien of the Briti-di workm as over stood in a workshop. 1 couldn't even

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time—could I, Mary?—and as to book learning. I was the only ono in the shop not able to read the newspaper. was almost ashamed to listen to tliem and ahvavs kept out of sight when they wore reading. At hreaktast-time they would all lie sitting down on a heap of shaving* ami sawdust in one corner of the shop, reading and talking, while I would stay in the noxt room protending to work bilk I ntoppud Micro o«» to work, but to think, and the only'connotation I obtained was the knowledge of niv ignorance. Yon might have .seen me crouching behind the* door, wiih mv ir against the erevice, listening until I felt thoroughly ashamed or ill vsel fan I in lack ot edited ion. I»ut then, thought I. there is not a man in the workshop who can plane, or join, or chined, of cut belter than I cm, and I do it without the aid oT books—so yon HOI' that although 1 envied them when thev were reading, 1 li.uln the emirai'e 'n ike kindly to learning. "No," I said, "if a unit comes to be thlrtv'years of ago antl knows his trade well," \vll bout having any book !ariling, he is sure to get on in the w.. '1."

That «*'as he wnv 1 put it to m\«"ll, and 1 believe that is the way with hundreds of others. Some nay learning makes a man proud—not a bit. of it— nor does it make him over-ambitious. I am unite content wuhmy present situation. and do not intend putting myself very much out of the w-iy to get rich t.ei'er, tor I believe that they who run loo swiftIv soon los all their !r th.

What did I d» wlih myseltof evenings? Some'.iines when I could afford it. I wen? to the theater, and sometimes music-halls, ttivl when I couldn't atfui it, I only wen! to the nearest tin1'Be house to "drink live or six glass»w of ale. and smoke my pipe in eotnpniwv with

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th- tii'rM is this: Thev nrty t»e inno(Vnt enough, to those who can p-ty to UO to tho best p:\rts of the house, for all I know, or they in-v not hut I do knort thai I never received any good in the c'-'f'-"'/. mixing wiMi so many of all sortk ami I very often aught a severe eoli! 'rotii th-A almost snlloeating heal li,.c. the pure, cold night air -if the ntikwl 'nuvens. It would never for man in mv trade to frequent (heaters he can't get up early in the morning, and. in rnns.Mjuenw, he very often tose* his «dtn \tiot-.

I w-:'* g.inrr to tell von how I came to tie foreman In the shop where I now work s-h .11 c" ue t» it jiresently Win 1 tu uried Mm*. 1 didn't kow from bull, rsthe old saying is and on taking her the tlrst week's wages, Ihe s:ii:l holding up a shilling. "I am going to put »\v shilllna every week lo Imv |Kt|ion Hiid books ft»r you when you c«n h»a«l." "Thd won't Vrf' l«»r a long time to Wio," **ild I. "How long did it t-akc you to lei*rn "N«t str»v, while atwul twelv© nimuli, I think." "It wiM^nts to tiie, Mary, that lone Um" But *iiv shontd I learr. to rwad?* I ns»kM. for I didn't like even Mary to know that I to lM»rn, and was too proud to eommme*. "Nevor mind," she iwkl nlayftilly •«von shall Imv a *|^lHng book to-night thd I will teach v. myself." "N'onwMise. Mary, you've quite Anoucti »o do to attend to the hoiw, to *v nothing dresw-makmg

"1 cm flml pieiitv of time to te*eh yo* Tom." and she crnne up to me, and laid her hand loringty on my shoulder, and fell to eoaxitig me in auch a pleasant manner, that I eouio op]KMw» her wishai no longer. an" *trai *hi to the bo»iksrller\s shop for the apellloff book and that very name night irv gave iw my rtr»t leswon. I never Iwui e»rtny hours to spare, and haven't now wo y«n irns| not exp*et liiat I know great deal, but 1 can and

do read and understand my Bible and the nowspapera, and on Sunday®, when wo go to church or chapel, I

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Join heart and aoul In the service, because I now know what It all means. We read the Bible together every evening, Mary and I she reads

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and I the next, and we should do so in the morning also, but you know how earlv I go to work—long bofore she is await e.

About a month nfter we were married, whom should I meet but very old mate of mine,Jack Ruggles. Twas Saturday night. "Well, Tom," said he, "how are you? I have'nt seen you this age." "Middling, Jack nothing particular to complain of." "Still in the old shop?" "Yea, and likely to stay there if I mind what I'm about." "That's the sort. I've heard you were married—is it true?" "It is," said I. "Well, cotno and lot us have a glass over it."

I didn't make any objections, although I would rather have gone home to Marv. I didn't like to retuse, or he would have said I was under petticoat government. That's what they always say when they* see a newly married man wants to get home to his wife, and they want him to go to drinking. We wont into tho "Slow and Kasv,' and called for a pot of beer, and then several of our chums dropped in, and, I am sorrv to say, I drank moro than was good for me. I got drunk—don't look so grave—'twas for tho last time. I thought of Mary at home expecting me and wondering whatever had happened. What would she say Could she fancy I was getting drunk at the "Slow and Easy?'" No—nover!

Instead of giving mo tho courage I was lacking, this thought inado me drink the harder to drown it. In the davs when I was courting Marjr, I never'drank anything intoxicating until after I left her so she did not know— for I never drank at home—that I was not a total abstainer. She told me afterwards she always thought I was one, or she would never have married ine.

We stopped at the "Slow and Easy," drinking for five hours—in fact, until half-past eleven and then were turned out by tho landlord—probably because we were too drunk to drink any more. Just as wo were pushed out like dogs into the street, against whom should I stuinblo but Mary and my master, both hurrying to tho police-sta-tion to inquire whether any ono like me had been seen during the last few hours. They were afraid I had inot with a most serious accident.

If I wore to live a thousand years I should never forgot the amazed look of scorn and contempt Mary cast upon me. It made mo mad—mad I swore at Mary and called her such bitter UHIHC3 as I would give the world to revoke and with my fist, knocked my employer into the gutter, and, as it was very muddy, he wasn't in a good temper when he'lound out whose fault it was. "Tom," said lie after a time, during which ho had been scraping the dirt from his clothes, "go home with your wife. I shall have a few words to say to you on Monday morning."

Drunk as I was, I was too ashamed to sav a word to Mary until we got home", and then only to wish her "good night."

The next morning I awoke in a frightful state of nervousness—too nervous to loavo the bod. Mary, after getting mo a cup of good toa to settle my nerves—it's wonderful how drink unmans one and muddles tho brain—told me all that occurred the previous night. Strango to say I hadn't tlio slightest remembrance of knocking the governor into the gutter, most likely because I had been thinking so much about what Mmi 'r» t.» -.n Uau* rv ft r*l mo intoxicated so soon after our wed-ding-day. But I found tho governor had not forgotton it when I went to work Monday morning. "Tom," ho said, "I always thought vou a stoady, sober,upright workman." lie laid particular stress upon "sober," he did. "I thought and hoped that all mv men knew how to conduct themselves with propriety and sobriety."

Atul thon ho gave me a downright gcod lecture, ending by saying he would nover have a drunkard in his employ, and gave mo a Aveek's notico to uuit.

Mino was a good place, a very good place, and I was loath to leave it. But you know all working men are more or less obst inate—the old spirit of independence, I suppose. At any rate I was obstinate, and said I was under no obligation to him,and a great deal more to the sameetVect. I was certain at the time that it' I chose to be humble, to beg his pardon, and promise to bo careful for the future, he would havo kept me in his service but no, I was downright stubborn, and although he had been an excellent master, I abused him terribly, lie kept rerv cool, however, and "when I Wcaino quiet he called me and said, "Tom, we'll part at' once here's a week's wages instead of the notice, and you will obligo mo by going at once."

At that moment I congratulated my self upon getting away with a week's wages, teeling quite sure that I should soon obtain another situation, and weut home to Mary with a rather light heart but at times my conscience— that indescribable monitor—told me I was wrong, and that I should be sorry for what had happened. In spite ol mv implicit confidence that I should readilv obtain employment, I could not help occasionally whispering to myself that trade was very, very dull, and that our master—for I couldn't help calling himso, having been in his service fifteen vears—had only the week lietore, discharged three liands because there was nothing for them to do.

I was out of work si months. Marv's dross making supported us the Hirst three of them. Of course I was ashamed of the fact but what could I do? I could not starve, and no one would enipiov me. If anybody wanted a hand they referred to mv lato master for a character, and askea the reason of my leaving. And he, like the christian "man he is, told the truth. But ho also added, that 1 was a good workman.

It was no use—we were starving! Mary hod overworked herself, and was now" very ill. We got into debt, gradually but deeply, and there wasn't a singie shopkeeper who would trust us farther. One by one every article except the bed on which Msty was lying, even the bedstead, was either seined by creditors or sold by me to obtain drink —for I *v*ld have drink, taking care, however, never to get intoxicated— while Mary was dying for want of the common necessaries of life. I became thoroughly reckless, antl cared for nelher man not Ood.

Marv's fHends at length heard of her miserable condition, and wanted to take her away from me. Bat, like the brave, true wife she ts, she refused to go until every means she could think of to make me better had tailed. They then brought her money and provisions, which she insisted upon sharing with me, in spite of their remonstrances.

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Still, after all her kindneaa and selfdenial, I would not llaten to her adviee and become a teetotaler.

When ahe became botter she gold to me: "If I were you, Tom, I would go to your old master, and tell him honestly how we are situated ssk his for-

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iveness for your misdoings, and I'll bound he'll take you on again." "No, Mary," I said,, "I'd sooner starve." "Don't talk like that, Tom, or I shan't love you half as inuch as I do now. You know we are deoply in debt and penniless, and the landlord threatens to turn us luto the street. Do, plenso do, Tom, go to your old master. I am suro ne'll work." "No, I won't," I answered sharply.

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Mary soemed groatly hurt, hut said nothing. After that instead of getting better, ns before she became worse. Day followed day, and week, we°k» ana still thiugs were in the same unsatisfactory state. I could not get work, not even an odd job. Mary was dying.

I hadn't anv faith in prayer then but 1 thought that now was the time to try it, if over. We couldn't be worse oil than wo wero so I took to praying to God that Mary might get bottor and whether it was nature, or whether it was faith in prayer, worked the cure, certain it is that Mary from that time began to mend, and I tco, seemed all the better although I was half starving. "I've had such a strango dream," said Mary to me one morning when she was nearly well, and when there wasn't a bit of crust in the house to cat. "I.dreamt, Tom, that you was back at your old shop, and that you wero foreman thore. Do go to tne old master to-day and ask him to give you something to do." "No, I won't," I replied as sharply as I could for I was determined that I wouldn't humble lo him. "Then I will go for you," she said very quidtly." "Nonsense, Mary. You'll go on a fool's errand." "Can but try," said she and before I could saj' anything further she was ready to start. Then she came towards me, and putting both her hands on my shoulder in that confiding, loving manner which cannot be resisted, and raising her clear, heavenly eyes, beaming with hope, to mine, she sweetly said, "Tom, we havo been married only a short time, and I aui quite disappointed in you. I don't know why, out I always thought you were a teetotaler and as I know you always keep your word, please promise me you will be one now and forever." "It's precious queer," said I, "if I'm not a teetotaler now for there's no money to buy drink or anything else with whatever." "I know that," she said "bnt I want you to promise to be a teetotaler always, or it you think that's too hard, until we live in a house of our own and she finished by gving me one of those bewitching smiles all women know so well how to bestow when occasion requires. "I'll promise that with the greatest pleasure," I answered "for when you were so very ill, Mary, deir, I had time to think over matters, and came to the conclusion that if I hadn't got drunk on that unlucky evening, I should have been in work now, and able not only to support yoa. but to

urchase those nourishing things the ordered." "Never mind, Tom, dear, all will be right in the end, you may depend upon it, now that you have premised' to abstain. That dream I hadinthe night still haunts me. I wish, yoi#* £o tho shop." "Xo, won't," I said JSjfeiiSiUKr

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er smile, and after giving, went out. I did not thinktf 5g mentsho was in earnest, or® /71't have let her go. \J'.

In about an hour she returne^with the pleasant news that she had beori to the shop, and seen the master, and that I was to go to work again on tho following Monday morning, provided I meant to keep my promise of being a teetotaler." "Mary, my dear," I said to her, "when I say anything I mean it, and, by God's help, I will keep fast to my word." "I believe you with all my heart, Tom, or I wouldn't havo gone to thei shop so willingly. I'm sure you will keep your promise."

And I did. I went to the old slioj* the next Monday morrting a little be« fore six o'clock, and tho governor at once asked nie ir it was true I was 1 teetotaler, and whether I mount to kce£ the pledge. I asked if he ever kne? me to break niv word. Ho jiaid "No,? and I told him I wasn't goiiig lo begii then. And I set to work, {singing 1* merrily as a lark, and quitdastonished and alarmed tho other woikmen, n/, and the governor too, bi the va|t amount of work I manited to g»t through during the day.J And tie whole" week passed so swiftly and happily that I was really surpfised to fild how soon it ended. And vhen I tosk homo to Mary every fartling of tie first week's wages, we danied like tvo little children,and laughedill wo cried. And everything seemed so rery joyois and different from the Hull dreafy weeks I had wilfully wasUd—not perhaps altogether wasted, fol I had be}n loarning a wholesome lespn—that ve thought we wero living ircinother ami more beautiful world, lie next dny, Sunday, we went to churli very early and asked the minister to offer up that thanksgiving in thqprayer book which says:—"For all "liy goodness nnd loving kindness tojis and to all men, particularly to Ihoc who desire now to offer Mp their praiAs and thanksgivings for Thy lale merles vouchsafed mito tJtcm..'" Great merc|s indeed had been vouchsafed to us.

Mary again set about tinching me to read ana write and t^s time with some success. In a few*ionths I was a tolerably good scholai| and began to devour all sorts of book! eagerly, particularly volumes of factory, biography and travels.

When a year after i|r return, our foreman gave notice thrt he was going to set up in business ft himself, our master came to me anwaid, that inconsequence of my kecing the pledge he would make "me fretnan of his place. I was to have hre shillings a week extra for the fiit six months, and after that another!ve shillings a •week.

We were exceeding careful and thrifty, and soon paid 0" our debts and begun to save. The ltuse we live in we bouizht some time do, and we have soniethfng put by twards buying more. Haven't we "Now, can you woncirthat I call her mv "good aqgel?" $e taught me to read and write, shetmaintained me when I was out of vlk, she obtained work for me when I Wouldn't seek It myself, and It was i|consequence of her making me proline to become teetotaler that when le foreman left I stepped Into his pile: it's through her that I am the owrr of a house, and

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to her I owe it tilt I am not an outcast and a vagabond. The old saying Is nothing on t~ good wife."

Is a true one: "There earth so good-as a

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SOCIBT\ OF WOMEN:

Thackeray, l* one of his "Roundsbout Papers," nid —"It Is better for you to pass an fining, onee or twice a week, inn lady'i drawing-room, even If the conversatfoi is slow and you know the girl's song heart, than in a club, a tavern, or the pit of theatre. All amusements of 1 outli.to which virtuous women are not* idmitted, rely upon it, are deleterious 1 their nature. All mon who avoid feniile society have dull perceptions, an I are stupid, nnd liavo gross tastes, and revolt against what is pure. Your club-swaggerers who. are sucking the butts of billiard-cues all night, call female society insipid. Poetry is uninspiring toa yokel music does not please poor boast who does not know ono tone from another but, ns a true epicurOis hardly ever tired of water, sauce, and brown-bread and butter, I protest that 1 can sit for a whole night talking to a well-regulat-ed, kindly woman, about her girl Fanny or hor boy Fruik,and like tho even ing's entertainment. One of the great benefits a man may derivo from woman's society is that he is bound to be respectful to' her. The habit is of great good to your morals, men, depend upon it. Our oducation makes us the most eminently selfish men in the world. Wo fight for ourselves, we push for ourselves, we yawn for ourselves, we light our pipes and say we won't go out, wo prefer ourselves and our case and the greatest benefit that comes to a man from woman's society is that he has to think of somobody to whom he is bound to be constantly attentive and respectful."

AN UNFORTUNATE ERROR. A rather irasciblo vicar having fallen out with his parishioners, and wishing to administer inin a good publierebuko ordered a number of handbills to be printed. The copy began: "Whereas au evil-disposed person," etc.

The bills wero sent homo late at night and tho vicar and his man wont out, lantern and paste-brush in hand, to ornament all the shop doors and blank walls in the village. Next day, early in the morning, our clerical authority set off 011 his rounds. Jack Stubbington was on tho b»-oad grin. Jim Stiles nearly forgot to give liis front lock of hair the right pull, he was laughing so when he looked at his reverence. Mrs. Hammond ran to hor bakehouse, instead ofstaying, as was her wont, to be questioned*abont her sick husband. "Ah! the3r have all seen my handbill, and are enjoying the lecture I have thought it my duty to administer," condescendingly explained Dr. Blank to liis clerk, the companion of his walk through the village.

The man smiled delightedly and, at the moment who should come in sight but the miserable sinner, the object of the vicar's righteous wrath, Mr. Dash. Pie burst into aloud laugh. "Perfectly outrageous!—quite hardened," cried the vicar but tho rest of his reflections were lost to tho public, for his eye fell on lar.je board carried by one of Dash's men, on which wero three of his own printed effusions: "Whereas an evil-disposed parson," etc the change of one letter had made a wonderful difference in the handbills they were no longer applicable to his neighbor—the cap fitted himself.

ANIMALCULES.

If somo hay is placed in a glass of puro rainwater, and allowed to soak few days in a sunny place, and if 0 then removed, tho water will be

TaTn many* very smaTl" moving ---tigs which are called intusoria, from their being produced after infusing the hay. The eggs which were on the hay bred there myriads of small things, which often have a very beautiful coat of transparent Hint or silica. Tf tho water is kept clean, and is not allowed lo decompose or smell, generation after generation of tho infusoria live, die, nnd fall to the bottom of tho glass. They form a very delicate liim there, and minute portions of it when examined under a high magnifying power, show the silicious skeletons of shells very distinctly.

Now many strata in tho earth are formed entirely of the remains of infusoria, and a very familiar example is the Tripoli powder, from the polishing slato of Bilin in Bohemia. A single grain of Tripoli powder, contains no fewer than one hundred and eightyseven millions of tho transparent, flinty skeletons of dead animalcules yet the layors of earth which are made up of them at Bilin, extended for miles.

In the harbor of Winsmar, in the the Baltic, they increase and multiply at a great rate for seventeen thousand cubic feet of mud are formed every year thero and every grain of it contains one billion of tho beautiful silicious remains of the infusoria. I11 the Island of Barbod oes thero is a thick mass of the most beautiful Uinty sea animalcules, nnd they are in such numbers, that it must be supposed the dead minute things were constantly falling in showers from the sea to the bottom.

RISK IIIOUKH.—When the birds are flying over, and the fowler lies in wait for them, if they ilv low, at every discharge of the fowler's gun some fall, some are wounded, and some swerving sideways, plunge into the thicket and hide themselves. But you will find that immediately after the first discharge of the gun the fioek rise higher. And at the next discharge they rise again nnd fly still higher. And not many times has the plunging shot thinned their number, liefore they take so high a level that it is in vain that the fowler aims at them, because they are above tho reach of his shot.

When trouble comes upon you, fly higher. And if thev will strike you.tl still higher. And "by and by you will rise so high in tl»n spiritual life that your affections will bo set on things so entirely above, that these troubles shall hot be able to touch you. So long as the shot strikes you, so long hear the word of God saying to you "Rise higher."

A COAL MINK OS Finn —An English coal mine, tbat has been burning a hundred years, is still burning. All the efforts of tho workmen to quell the flames at the time they broke out failed, and have ever

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A short|tlme ago it became known that the fire had noarlv reached the bottom of the shaft, and "it was determined to build a wall for the purpose of shutting in the fljunes. A wall on© thousand yards long has now beenCcompleted. It contains plugs which can be removed at will to ascertain the condition ana position of the Are. Persons who have gardens above the burning colliery declare that the heat arising from it is intense enough materially to aflect the the growth of plants, and that they are enabled to obtain two or three crops every year. ., ,.

CONN UBIA LI TIES.

Charley I What ia escalation Osculation, Jenny, dear, la a learned expnmion, queer, For a nlqe senaatiou. I put my arm thus around your waist Your head sinks to its resting place: This It approximation, You neeu not fear—

There's no one here— Your lips quite near— 1 then—

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"Oh, dear/" -b Jenny, tbal'4 osculation." A Covington woman wants the Cincinnati Ferry company to pay hor $20,000 for drowning her husband. They prefer to get hor another.

A San Francisco lady thinks her husband's being "a confounded fool" good ground for divorce, lie proved it by marrying her.

Mr. Martin, of Fort Wayne, lias just married his eighth wife, having been divorced from seven. He says he is most tirod of trying to get a wife.

Nellie, daughter of the Hon. Humphrey Marshall, was lately married to a Kentucky legislator, who was sick in bed at the time.

A bigamist's lawyer, In response to a question from the judge, as to how many wives his client had, said, "We have thus far counted up only thirteen, but there are yet twenty-nine states to hear from, your honor." .T "Why," asks an enthusiastic gusher, "why, "oh why is love liko a canal boat?" and knowing that connundrums are not intended to be guessed, he replies to his own question, "because it is an internal transport."

A Florence paper says of the American ladies there: "These ladies are so handsome, these girls so lovely, that if one but sees them, or, still worse, if ono enters into conversation with them, ono cannot help falling in love at once with the New World."

I hope you will be able to support ine," said young lady, while walking out one evening with her intended during a somewhat slippery state of the sidewalks. "Why, yes, replied the somewhat hesitating swain, "with a little assistance from your father." There was some confusion and a profound silence.

Where tho shoe pinches" is attributed to Plutarch, who relates a story of a Roman who was divorced from his wife, and who, being blamod by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste was she not fair?" held out his shoe and asked them whether it was not new and well made "yet," I10 added, "none of you can tell whore it pinches me.'"

A Tennessee girl of 15, eloped with the man ot her heart to Knoxville, and married him. Her father pursued and took her home. Her husband went tor the old man, and wounded him. A justice advised that the girl be left free to go with which one she choose, and she dutifully elected the father.

Up in Piscataquis county, Maine, there is a suit going on now, which is brought by the stern parents of a lovely being against a young man of the neighborhood, claiming $90 for luncheons, horse baitings ana courting fires, furnished the defendant while courting plaintiff's daughter. Whether tho young man has married tho daughter of tho thrifty father does not transpire.

A Maine paper reports a spiritual marriage, asserting that at a recent "circle" a young woman asked if the spirit of her dead lover was present, and, 011 being answered iu the allirmativesand told, moreover, that he wished to marry her, had a justice of the peace called'in, and tho ceremony performed. The spiritual and spirited

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TUB New York Season tolls talcs out 01 school, about somo of tho theatrical managers. It says: "Carriages are said t» havo been hired by a pianomaker to stand in front of Booth's Theatre during the Welili matinees to give an air of fashion to the rduous undertaking. This beats the Straknsch dodge of getting theWallack suppers to persomitoSoandinavians and draw Nilsson from the first four dollar eoneert to her hotel."

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A WoNDKitiTt. Doo.—A Norwich man who habitually liquors too much and falls Hsleej) oil In" sidewalk, has a wonderful dog. When the man lies down arid dozes, the dog takes him by the collar of his coat and gives him a gentle pull. If the man gives a snore and a turn, but refuses to wake, his friend gives a more omphalic, reminder of the necessity of moving. Then if the sleeper does not awake, the dog takes a firm grip on »oine loose portion of his master's habiliments, and pulls him until he is fain to arise,shakoliiinsclf, and wend his way homeward, followed by the watchful eyes of his brute companion. Tho man is somewhat deaf and cannot hear when a knock is given on his door. Tho dog, who sleeps near him, awakes at a summons for his master, pulls him until ho awakens, and thus notifies i«iin that ho is wanted.

PHEVF.TTTJSIOCoxsiTMiTioJf.—It is not intended to give a chapter on the dire disease, consumption, believing that a few words on its prevention will be moro useful. To insure suocoss we must begin with tho infant subject— tho offspring of healthy ancestors. Protect it in infancy with warm flannels next the skin, and let it breathe only pure air. In youth teach it that

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health is the greatest of earthly without it there can lie no enjoyment of life, and with it thore should be no complaint of its defects. Teach it that good health, like an estate may be squandered little by little, until it is bankrupt. Teach it that temperance, in all things is essential that there can be no violence of the laws of nature with impunity. Teach it to sit and walk erect, that the chest may IKS fullv expanded. Do not suffer the clothing so tight on the chest or body as to Interfere In the smallest degree with the expansion of tho lungs. To keep the feet dry, use thick oiled leather, loosely applied. Exercise several hours every day in the open air. Choose virtuous and cheerful companions, with whom singing ami lailgbter may be indulged in, and finally take time to eat, and masticate your food well.

[From Forney's Anecdotes of Public Men.] JOHN C. BRECKENRIDOE. Another Illustration of the force of circumstances is that of John Cabell Breeklnridge, of Kentucky. I have always believed that he espoused the Confederacy, if not reluctantly, at least in the conviction that it would forever end his political career. He inherited hostility to slaveiy. When he came to Washington in 1851 as a Representative from the old Henry Clay Lexington district in Kentucky, he was in no sense an extremist. At that early day, when he had just attained his thirtieth year, and I was in my thirty-fourth, we conferred freely and frequently on the future of our country. He used to relate how Sam Houston, for whom he had

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reat respect, would expatiato upon the and evils of slavery and it was not difficult to trace tho operation of the same idea in his own mind. But lie was too interesting a character to be neglected by tho able nltras of the South. They saw in his winning manners, attractive appearance, and rare talent for publlo affairs, exactly the elements they needed in their concealed designs against the country. If thev were successful in arousing his ambition, and finally making hiiu one of themselves, wo must not forget that few men similarly placed would have been proof against such blandishments. Let this bo said of him: He was nevor prominent in the small persecutions of the Democrats who refused to indorso the courso of tbo Administration of which I10 was Vice President. No doubt that lost him the confidence of tho President and his immediate followers.

He was mado a Senator in Congress from Kentucky when the Buckanan regime expired, taking his soat on tho very day that his venerable chief retired to Wheatland and he remained a Senator in Congress till tho close of the called session, which opened on tho 4th of July nnd closed on the Gth of August, 1861. Ho was the leador of the Democracy in that exciting month, and though he gave no sign of his intention to join the rebel army, nobody was surprised when ho was reported at Richmond, Va.

Perhaps the most dramatic scene that ever took place in tho Senate chamber —old or new—was that between Breckinridge and Col. 12. D. Baker, of Oregon, on the 1st of August, 1861, fivo days be-, fore tho adjournment sine die, in tho darkest period of tho war, whtn tho rebellion was most defiant and hopeful. The last week of that July was full of excitement in Congress and the country, nnd I know how much labor and patience it required to koep alivo tho hopes of our poo pie. The courso of Powell and Breckinridge, of Kentucky, and Bright, of Indiana, opposing tho (.lovernnient, had nearly obliterated party feeling in tho Senate. McDougall, ot California, Rice, of Minnesota, Thomson, of New Jersey, all Democrats, had declared for force to crush the rebellion. These men wero especially emphatic, though closely endeared to Breckinridge. Thompson, of Now Jersey, spoke loud and firm from his seat—"I shall vote for tho bill as a war measure—I am in favor of carrying on the war to crush out tho rebellion." The same day McDougall questioned tho right ot "Powell, ot Kentucky, to his seat in tho Senate. Andrew Johnson roitorated his determination to stand by the flag to the last. Carlisle, of West Virginia, would vote for forco to put down the rebel foe. .1 FIGHT WITH A 11 EAR.

I was out with another man, prospectin'for gold in tho woods. Somehow, we got apart from oach other. As I went along, I hoard a quick stop after me, and looked around thinking it might bo my mate coming up. It was a grizzly, running right at 1110, with his

my six-shooter,?and fired, by a ®ort of instinct, hardly knowing what I was about. Wo found out, afterward, that I had hit him but he didn't seem much to care at the time. On ho came quickly as ever, and I took to my heels through tlio woods. As 1 ran, I could hear the brute pnntingbebiml me, nearer and nearer. I thought I was fairly 'gone up but tin.- love of life made mo run on, and it might havo taken him

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time itch me, only I tripped ovffr a log and tell fiat on my face. In a second the hear hail mo fast by tho leg. It was well I was on my faeo or he'd just havo scratched rno open with his paw for that's tho way they like to betfin. I dei-laro you, as he shook 1110 and gnawed mo, remember swearing at ilio brute, just ns if he was 11 man and understood. The pistol was still in my hand, and 1 pnt another bullet into iii 111. Ho wen* on chawing at my leg. So 1 put 11 third bullet into him. He just chawed 011. Then I remember thinking—though the thinking didn't tako long, you may bo sure—where I should have my last shot, before 1 eayoil in. I chose a spot behind the ear, and gave him a fourth barrel. Tho brute fell over, st-one dead and I was able to get up. Presently, up came my lricnd, calling out—'Was that you llring?'_Yes, 1 said'that was me firing.'— 'What at?'—Why a grizzly has had nie down, and I've shot him.' My friend, seeing mv leg bleeding, wanted to carry me oil"at once to tho wagon but told him I wouldn't stir till I had that brute's skin and—would you believe it?—wo just sat down, took our knivof out, and skinned the bear, before over we moved from the spot.

TUB following, tohl by tho victimized individual himself, will Iw appreciated by those who are familiar with tho "'bills of fare" of boarding establishments:

A clergyman of tiie Kptscopal Church, and principal of a boys' Ixiarding-school in Connecticut, on tho approach of tho Lenton season, called together his pupils and remindod them of the practice of his Church in regard to self-denial and abstinence during that period. Ho desired them to fulfill, as was proper, their part of this church duty by denying themselves somo luxury of th« table. He would not influence thei choice, but leave ti.em to consult to gether, and decide what one article food they would l« willing to give uj and then announce to him their decision. The next morning a commitu of the boys, with due formality, waite upon their principal, and informed hit that, after serious deliberation, tl school had unanimously agreed th throughout tho wliolo of Lent tlwould abttain from haxh.—Harp Drawer.

Ix the ooursc of tho recent trial of Indiana murderer (the same who acquitted on the ground of impuls insanity"), Judge who pnssidcrt the trial, gave the following char "Gentlemen ol the Jury, you will permitted to separate until to-mori morning at hair-past eight o'clock. tbo mean tlmo you will so dcrri I yourselves that the world, lookini may be constrained to complain, language of the Roman Mattress when asked, 'Where are your ji She pointed to her two dead

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