Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 21, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 14 February 1879 — Page 6

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A rAHX-lIOUSK DUOS.

IIHtTtlll- VM. UuMi Ikt liutt kiktt uaiu We.rrwM k wwtk, ay. Wi tu tint uh t ifrJUj t Jm YlHr My, where Bat SlrrOt 4MfkM befctk her here 1 WiM tMMt tMitt U4kH a WSJ. Sw k ha longer with iui, hut we em M be HiWHJH wtttt hor, 1h the teaser IhmI h we he lt, ami eaa't jftrt her to tHk or s44r. Y, I'm at work; "H time I wn. I should have heipm before ; But UtU 1 tho room where He lay o still ,ece Uy carried lw wtt the hxr. I tHmMcht I never eoulu let her go whew it hiii o lonely of ntfchhi ; t how 1 m)h scrubbing and tlnsttnjcdown, ana wttluK the piece to rhchte. AH 1 Hhvb kept htm the Ho wars there, the last that HMi by her ImmI. I !4Hot I meet throw them HWHy, She kekel mtHrtt Jwtrer when )te whs dead. in. "Thank yo (tr thinking of Iter ao wueh. Kiwi thought U the truest friend. I wih ytHi hl m how tlea bhe was with the peache you uM to send. SheUrM of m toe ere tke end, so tie did with Mil we tiled; But h) liked to look at them all the same, so , we wt them down by Her tide.

Their bfeow hhm tin nuh Hjwm hereheek were MMke, I used toMty; Beth were so wwootw, ami Hlt, and round, and kotk have faded away. IV. "I never cihjW tell youkow kind, too, were the ladle up Ht the kali ; Every noon, fair or wet, oho ot them uwd to call. Worry and work freetnaoure.but yours pleasant mulmsy days, Ami when all kimw smooth, the rich Had poor have different live ami way:. Sorrow and ib-atli bring men nioro cloe, 'tis , Joy that put ueaiMirt; Tie a comfort t think, though we've severed so, we're all of as one at heart.

v. "Shu never wished to bewnartand rich, as so many in those ilitys do, Nor carod to go Ik oh market-days to stare at the gay aad new. Ska liked to iviuhIh at liowe, aad pluck the white violets down 1h the wood : Sk said to hor sisters before he died, 'Tig so eay to bu xood.' She mw have found it so, I think, and that ww the khcou why G&d deemed it needh-M to leave her here, so toek her up to tlte feky. vi.

"The Vkar that lie knows she is there, MMd surety she owekt to be:

itt though I lvpeHttlio word, 'Ms bard to believe what one does not mh. Tkey dW not want ate to xo to the grave, bat 1 cotld not have kept away,

amu w nivur i ho i can oniyfeee a coram hihI churchyard clay, "ies, I know- It's wrong to keep lingering

uu nivKfu hiui wlmk io trei; t hit's why I'm hard at work agttiii, for it

JKjti oe to lorget.

ttHMli b wm atl found that kind word.

kind wwkM km1 a friendly tatorert

W(Mikl not towok him I t Mm nlom

tr m i oould and contented mynM witk knowiutt that every member of

Cowpiwy hMd him m muk aw did.

One night r band of twdnty-fiv mm moved out of our otmip for h scout aoroee

th Loudon Valley, then held bv Moebv, and lack winced Jim Shanks alonfsul

of we. lie wm seleoted by asotdeat, it

omK me intention to take a better man, but be was there jut the sawe' silent,

sullen and ready to elbow or bayonet

any one wno aootdeniauy orusiieti him. That night as we filed along the muddy highway, speakinj only in whispers, I saw Jim in front of me and I whispered to myself: Jim Shanks, if you don't get killed down hero you'll be hung for murder before you'are out of the army a year I" Just in the gray of the morniasr. and

when within a mile of Union Town.Jim

Shanks and myself were sent forward

to reconnoitre. I would have sooner gone alone and ten times sooner had the company of any ono else, but luck decided it. "re said not a word. I watch-

up and there iaut have been at leaet 100 bullet fired at the running man in the next minute. I saw them plow up the earth all around him and one of them sent hia oap sailing into the air. As he got in line with the boraeethe lire slackened while the men saw hia plan and rushed forward. Jim waa in no hurry. Keeting hie oarbine over a saddle he wounded another of his pursuers and it seemed a full minute before he mounted and rode off towards Leeburg. There was a rush for the horses and away they galloped after the recruit firing as they rode.

l he strange luck that stood by Jim 'property, in saying this I make no in 1 ! t. S . i . a. i.l. . J 1 . . , 5 1. a. .

mi. w.-m.- mr

me iNnaeaee hi iievpis

Tkaekeray,

The following is from n artiole by Anthony Trollope: In widespread popularity tke novels of Charles Dickeni have, I believu, ex

ceeded those of any other British novel

Dickens and Iry Lyndon's oareer has deterred many

iium iwKMMiiuiu, m wusn a cateor can only be xceptional ; but it has oertainly enticed no lad to follow it. Vanity Fair," thowfrh not in my opinion the bust, is the best liked of Thackeray's works. Headers, though thuv am '.

lighted, are not satisfied with it because

ist, though they have not yet reached Amelia Sadley is silly-, because Osborne

lUHiopeu market, ui uiuwiuuiwi uoia-, is seiliSll, because IJODUUt is ridiculous

petition which a book reaches only when its copyright has run out. Up to this present time over 800,000 copies of

and became Hecky Sharp aloho U clev

er and successful, while at the same time she is as uboiuiimblu as the genius

try in fell,

vidious comparison between Scott and

Utckens. l may inueeu be in error in supposing the circulation of "Waverley" to have been loss. As it h open to any bookseller to issue Scott's novels, it would be diiticult to arrive at a correct number. Our object is simply to show what has been the circulation of a popular novel in Great Britain. The circu-

not been scratched. The church-steps lation outside the home market has were as full of holes as a colander and probably been as great, perhaps greater.

about the same distance apart, and vet , &s American readers arc more numerous

Jim was not wounded. Mean-spirited, . than the English. Among the millions

obstinate and dogged as a tcnt-mato, ' of those into whose hands those nun

Shanks in his fight might have aided

him to escape had he selected a better horse. After a gallop of half an hour ha found his pursuers gainine, and in

ing to get into the fields his horse

rolled over the poor fellow, and the

pursuers found him dead when they rode up. His clothinsr was fairlv rid

dled with bullets, and yet his ilush had

nokwiok " have been soul in tn is of a satirist can maka liar, lint hit. him

country and the book is still oopyrightlor her who hits read the hook think. of

I the lessons which have been left bohind

by it, i'ondennis is an unsteady, ambitious, clever but idle young man, with oxcellent aspirations nnd purposes, but hardly trustworthy. He is by no uieans such a ohu as an anxious father would wish to put beforo hh son as an example. But ho is lifo-Hko. Clever voting men, ambitious but idla and vacillating are met every day, whereas the ift of persistency in a vouujr man is uncommon. The l'endennis phase of life is ono into which clever youug men are apt to run. The character, if alluring, would bo dangerous. If reckless, idla

nnmitf Let jut . a.) l,. .1.1.. i . .

.vuuKvin uouvwiiOT tmiisr uuiore

ed Jim and saw that he was as cool as I he had the couraare of a lion anil Mm dreds of thousands of volumes have fal

ii um aujuiur. ii sueiv a wuu as i - gauaniry oi a xnignt, antl xno ltrst and ion uioro can nanny oo ono wno nas not 1 it in the story if I'ondennis did that we were advancing on Mosby's. last grave ever dug for a Union soldier received some lesson from what he has J had been made to be noble in the midst headquarters, but he stepped out boldly ' by Mosby's men was hollowed out for a read. It may bo that many dissent from of his foibles tho lesson taught would and with no change m Ins demeanor. ' recruit who had never been at tho front. , the mode of telling which Dickens , have been bad. But the oieturo whinh

adopted in his stones, that they nro in- becomes gradually visible to the eves of iliiiitmnt. to t n storing tlinmn1vfq. tliaf I il. ......... l,... .i... t J..

, . "- -"" i iiBi is mu leveisHj oi bliu, tii-

When we had nearly reached the 1 M. Quad, in Detroit Free Presa.

church standing on the hill abovo tho 1 -

town and feeing the road leading away Population of the United Slates, to Leesburg, I halted, knowing that a '

picket poet must bo near. I had not ex- It is singular that writers and speak- dents and unnatural characters which it changed a word with Jim for days, but , ers.contrary to tho usual American hab- is his delight to portray. All that has no

now i wnisperea to mm mat we must t u,havo almost without exception under- bearing on the issue which

we now at-

proceed with caution. j stated tho population of the country for tempt to raise. The teaching of which

"If youaro tired sit down in the mud, " some years past. Probably the Nation we are speaking is not instruction as to

jj giunroi, irviiuiug ntuij, Rim aimr a, i now growing too inouesi, ysnionuerminute I followed him, both of us walk- j ly was too much inclined to boasting, ing on the side of the highway. I knew , But those who have occasion to refer to we would soon strike the picket but it ; the present population almost, invariaWas Cither follow .Tim or turn lmnl- l)K' numfirm a nnm)u- wliinli tl'... ...,..

Suddenly and without a word five or six ; try has undoubtedly passed several ' the girl learn to be modest or braxen- j that is not

juou rosKj up m our pain, l nau oareiy years ago. it is customary to speak of

uiscurneu tnem wnen one seizea my , tne population as about 44,000,000 carbine and another tripped me down J 45,000,000. But the calculations

while a third growled out: Prof. Elliott, of tho Census Bureau

they question tho taste and fail to ititcr-i mond " is niiilnni.fiviiv 'n,..t.rt......

' est themselves in the melodramic inci- irreatest work, nntonlv hMumuim iti.s-

Ii - -w - ma

aiuij, is win wait mo ttireciest purpose with less of vague wandering than in tho others, but by reason also of tho force of the characters portrayed. Tho ono to which we will specially call attention is that of Beatrix, tho younger heroine of tho story. Uermother, Lady Castlewood, is an elder heroine, a term as applied to the personages of modern

novel as may ue said a so of horn

taste or art is not mstniction as to

style or literary excellence. By such lessons as Dickens taught will the young man learn to be honest

or dishonest, noble or ignoble? Will

"if you make any fuss you'll get a which thus far have been singularly sus- grand thing to throw off the conv

bullet mighty quick." tained by facts, give 47,983,000 as the tionat rules which the wisdom of

1 Uidn't propose to make any fuss probable population July 1. 1878, and world has established for its

out tum oaaiisa uiu. lneiwomen wno y.ayo.uw as tne prooabio population . or win iney unconsciously learn

grabbed at him were brushed off like Julv 1. 1879. Thoso calculations, htul the author's uatres to recognize the

Vflrr Hnnrnnriato lint- if in

, i r' - iv . u ... m

icUf in growi oe engendered and , tho word which will best convev the in.

or seu-inuuigence r ill taste for vicious tended meaning to tlte reader. Nothing of pleasures be created ? Will the young saddur than the storv of iinatrtr n n &

, of either sex be taught to think it a imagined nothing sadder though it.

And

vu.

"The youj? dOH't seem to take to work aMUeiruwthcrsHnd fatberadld. We Hevtr wm iwktKl if we liked or ao, hut

tmn io mifv wneii ma. There's Be.le won't swill the dairy how, nor

jiieftarn mohhj uw cows, And all of them cry, ' How am you, mother?'

whch i earry ine wrmh to the raws.

Jvdith wowtd UriHUe. for always Death the

Mart oi the neiniumst rom.

Hat hh w ae pretty I eould not hear to set

nar on umyjoiHJi VIII

41 1 don't know how It'll he with them whoa

sorrow Him torn are tiieirn.

Tor It k-n't likely that they'll escape tkeir

jwh-k iu w umia Hnu csrw. Tkey savlt'rtan ae ot prorvsa this, and a

mmm ui iuin iiiiprovwi, Bat k"kHC! Hnil e, and bereavement scdi

IO WTK in ttlU IWHitt OKI XTOOVUM.

rine they HMiyimiw, and tnat, but Death as

mi take tne motn a the xnu.

WkeH thlr umr anm die, I pet they'll wkh tby'(l a floor of their own to w;rub.

OLD AND NEW,

Where are they hidden, all the vanished

Where Is this biugkter Mown to ami the tears?

rmrmitnt ah, Hay i

BeaHty and trenath are Irani of sb aad shower ; Shall thM aot surely sprln aealnin lowers?

Mies, and whirling his carbine around

Ins head ho cleared a oath for himself

and was lost in the darkness. More than a doxen shots were tired after him,

ana dcids intercepted on his retreat

down the road he made for the church on the hill. Before he reached it there were a score of enemies about him. and

the reports of the carbines sounded more liKe a brisk skirmish than a con.

flict with a single soldier, aad a raw re-

cruit at that. I think he meant to get into the church, though he could not have told whether it was a church or

other building in the darknoss. Failing to get in he found a retreat under the front steps and in the darkness tho Confederates believed that ho had oscaped altogether. They, however, threw a line of videttos across roads and fields, and it would not have been possible for Jim Shanks to regain the road bv which he

had come.

Had the rest of tho command moved , middle of the decade, it waa 16,9flSi,020, on hearing the row there might have .the gain being 16.1 percent, in about

five years, or at the rate of 82.2 per cent. . 1 .1 l T. .1 .

guidance

from

fact

upon the principle of constant second that happiness is to bo obtained by

differences, give an increase of about ' obeying and not by running counter to 82 per cent, for tho decade now ap- tho principles of morality? Let memoproaching an end. They are strong-' ry run back for a few moments over ly confirmed by the census taken ! those ..oi ies and it will fail to lind an imin fifteen of the States by State i modest girl4who has been made alluring authority during 1874 in Michigan; to female readers or an ill-conditioned dnring 1875 in Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, ! youth whose career a lad would be Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New tempted to envy. No ridicule is thrown Jersey, New York, Oregon, Ithode on marriage constancy; no gilding is

Island, South Carolina, and Wisconsin ; given to hetitums pleasure; no charm

ana during 1S6 in Missouri and Ne- s w

1 lalls so infinitn r snorf. ir-rr.uUt n..i

tne , we sneak siieomllvof it. Wn Kmm

Deiteve its ellect on

the minds of cirls

who read it to bo thoroughly salutary.

Turkish Writing

braska. With allowance for the unavoidable incompleteness of every census taken by defective State machinery, it must be granted that the actual increase for the whole country to 1875 must have been at least as great as the :.. . ; . i - . .

uiuiuaro tujimruui. in tne returns iroin

added to idleness: no allurinsr color

is icni io ueuaucnery : l'ickwick may be

softer and Ralph Nickleby harder than 1 "i .. . !

kitu oiu uiou wiiulu we

world ; but

leacu are an in iavor ot a sou heart, a

strontly opposetl to hardness of heart.

Of all Dickens's novels" Oliver Twist "

these States of the dates named. Tho ' is perhaps artistically the best, as in it

population of the fifteen States in 1870

was 14,610,686, and according to the census taken by the States about the

for the decade. It

able that the estimate of Prof

"JIM SHANKS."

A Strjr et the War.

The bovs used to sav that you could

not understand a man until you had Wounded and dead were brought tn th

1 M i. - il 1 . 1 A i v . " -

up

boon a show to release both of us. but

they did not come. By the time tho sol-

diers hed given up the search for Jim

our comrades were on the back track for will ha realized in th actual

the Potomac. ' rew York Triftunc.

I was retained at thn nicVnt. niat. he.

cause Mosby's lieutenant was there.and A Very Hard-worklHg Man.

uwausc ue uupeu io urioc or irighten me into furnishing him information of

value. I was, therefore, in a position to see the result of Jim Shanks's work single-handed and alone. When he

broke away he disabled one man bv a

blow from his carbine. In his flight he.

Kuiea one ana wounaea two others.

tho author adheres most tenaciously to

one story and interests us most thoroughly by his plot. But the characters are less efficacious for tho teaching of lessons than in his other tales. Neither can Bill Sykes

is, therefore, prob- or Jvancy, nor can even the

. Kliiott, i great oumuie, do credited with having guros. ' own of much service by deterring read

ers irom vice, nut tnen neither have they allured readers as has been done by so many winters of fiction who have

ventured to deal with tho world's rcpro . T t . l . . I i .

A ragged but rugged specimen of tho batos. It may be admitted in reganl to

tramp called at the residence of I ihckens's young ladies that they lack

. Jen Nichols the other day. and. nature. Dora, Nelly. Little Dorrit.

genus

Mrs

greatly to the surprise of the lady of the Florence Dombey and a host of others

nouse, volunteered to chop wood fa' crowd upon our memory, not as shad

tented with him at the front, and there

wm considerable weight to the saying. A comrade might be known as a jolly,

good-hearted lellow at home, but his

whole nature would change in a week

wlwn you had him where the real man

hood and worth of a man came to f he

picket poet and I saw them. Mosbv'a

men were terribly incensed, and but for the fear of an attack bv our forces.

whose strength they did not know, I

believe they would have hung me up is their first rage.

it was tne guerilla chieftain's last dash

aurface.or where a Miserably mean spirit into the beautiful valley. He was gath-

wm. me ujkcb wi ii. bu uusgiwuju you i enng iorage ana flurrying it back to with him. 'A comrade who shared his Lee's lines, and many farmers were

iaet cracker, performed hie fall share of robbed of their last horse and tiwdr W.

caaap ana field work, stood by you in ear or corn. In three days more they atoksese and divided clothing with you would have been out of the valley en-

jn miuiB iuob m him wm IUUTB MJ TOS I UlBl .

than all the brothers at home, aad if be . ....

uvea to come out of the war has not

been forgotten. The army is the place

where a a oaa be Meaner than dirt

aad uglier than a wolf aad yet retain

a pi ace in im raKs, or ae can be a

white man all through and receive no reward except the gratitude of hie tent-

mate.

rsow, I never saw a meaner private soldier or a more sulky aad xaoroee tent-mate than luck gave me in the win

ter ot igei-'eo. lie came down to us in the fall a recruit having enlisted for the big bounty, and at that time the old vets

who had faced shot and shell for sever.

al years had an edgewise feeling against

laeee "iresa nan," who had pocketed A ...... a .

aveornx numireu collars ana came aowa to spend the winter in a warm hut. Soma ol the recruits realised this and

At the first shrns of davliarht and

when the old church on the hill was hardly visible through the erav of morn

ing came a bullet which bored a soldier through and through and dropped him dead in his tracks. It was from the car

bine of Jim Shanks. Hidine under the

steps he had only waited for daylight to open the fight anew not waiting to be hunted out and captured. All was excitement in an instant, and as soon as

Jim's location was betrayed the guerillas scattered and formed a skirmish line.

The fire of this line was concentrated on the steps and was as rapid as if opposed

w a une oi oaHie. i ne nrmg nad just begun when one of the skirmishers fell

away from a stump with a bullet in his head. In three minutes another waa

shot through the chest. Jim Shanks

had forty rounds of amunltion and he

pile of which was conveniently placed near the door for the benefit of roving young men of Indolent habits) for his dinner. His offer was accepted, and he chopped while dinner was beiag prepared, and much to the surprise of the lady, built an apparently largo pile of splitwood in front of the window. As a reward for his industry, be received a first-class dinner and many compliments as a chopper.

"Madam." ahl th framn. T'

nara-worain'

Owing mainly to the scarcity of printed books though the supply in Turkey Is noW much larger than it was 10 years ago this particular art of writing is ono of the most important branches of study throughout tho East. Its difficulty is greatly complicated by the numerous varieties of penmanship in use. Of these there are no fewer than six that called tho wmt'", which is the base of all, and which is cmnloved solelv for

know in tho i tran&cribiup th Tvornn nml Lt ni...

the lessons which tbov 'sacred books: the fmluz. which is imnt

11 imnscriptionj for the interior of mostiuos f 'and thn fuoailou rt ...(...

.mvo vr jjiiira, juuiikAiiis, UW pitals, and other public buildings; the dewani, employed for firmans and other official documents; the rflbVi, or current hand of ordinary correspondence; the Mile, or Persian character reversed, used in legal documents, and the.?wviA, which is peculiar to the Ministry of Finance, and its provincial sub-depart-ments. These various stylos are nearly its distinct as so many different systems of shorthand, and it often enough happens, therefore, that even an educated Turk, who can write, it may be, two or three of them, is as much at sea with tho others as a practitioner of, Gurnoy " would be with a rjsca of Pitman " A

kiatib, therefore, who can read and write the whole is, not unfairly, considered accomplished. i-Vawr's Magazine,

man, and never

m a

ask

somethin1 for nothin'. I'm an extra man with an ax, as you see by that there pile of wood I have split, and I don't mind choppin' a little more to pay for this meal." Mrs. Nichols told him that was unnecessary, as he had already earned his dinner, and the tramp left, proof against hunger and every inducement to work for at least 24 hours. Shortly after his departure Mr. Nichols arrived, at home, and his wife called his attention to the pile of split wood which loomed up like a miniature pyramid in front of the window, and would not be convinced that

her eyes were not affected when he told

ows of people we have really known, as

ao uenme ueans, for instance, and Jane Eyre, but they havo affected us as the personifications of tondorness and gen

tle feminine gifts. We have felt each character to contain, not a woman, but something which will help to make many women. Tho Boythorns, Tulkinghorns, Chcrrybles, and Pickwicks may be as unlike nature as they will. They are unlike nature. But they nevertheless charm the reader and leave behind on the palate of his mind a sweet

savor ot humanity. Our author's heroes down to Smike are often outrageous in their virtues. But their virtues are virtues. Truth, gratitude and manly self-respect are qualities which a young man will be made not onlv to admire but to like, by his many hours spent over these novels. And so it will be .with young women as to modesty, reticence and unselfish devotion. The popularity of Thaokeray has been very much lees extended than that of Dickens, and the lessons which he has taught have not therefore been scattered afield so widely. It seems sneciallv to

. a j

D7 laetr good nature aad nleaaant wavs fired aiowlv and with mWsinn t ..m

soon baaisbed the feeling so far ae they see splinters fly from the steps every

time a ban struck.and I knewthatmany of tho bullete were driving right through the boards. For a long 20 minutes Jim held that skirmish line of 85 men at

were concerned. Others were settled aad indignant and were not inclined

that the old vets should get relieved of one single camp duty because of the arrival of new men. Fate or luck sent me " Jim Shanks " for a teat-mate. He was Jim some one else, but the nickname was very appropriate. He was dogged and suite from the first, and we hadn't known each other twe hours before we had a quarrel. Next day we fought again, aad after that we did not exchange a word for three weeks. When 1 mw how

bay; killing three and wounding two, I

Kunming iiw sbow ana ne nrea luet ifi times.

A reinforcement of about 20 mounted

men finally came nn and hltahlnv tkoir

horses under cover of the hill the men took the skirmish lias. Juat a tn fir.

mg began anew Jim Shanks suddenly left his cover and rah for the horses down the road. Every skirmisher rose

- - ---- ...... . ..v... VI UM.K1 tU her that it was a dry-goods box with a cover with scorn tho vwa whinh in hi.

few sticks of wood artistically arranged i hands were displayed in personages who on one aide of it, until she went out ( wero only too roafiitic. Wit-i him there doora and saw that it was so, and that is no touch of melodrama. From first the industrious tramp had not actually I to last you are as much at home with chopped suiltoietit wood to cook the Barry Lyndon, the most complete rascal dinner he had eaten. Winmmttcm . nerhana that vr was drawn wuu

(Nov.) Silver Stale.

your wife or your private secretary, if

you have one. or the servant whn waits

for upon you daily. And when he turns

to the whom

Anna Dickinson has written

.jonn lucwuitough a play called - from the strength of his rascals " Aurelian." which that fin actor la in i umalrax ldSuvnnoet . i

a . " ... i. """" u mo r vou ro io iove mr meir virtues, he is

line role, ftiiss Dickinson Is to nlav i enuallv efiloar.lona. littrrv T.minn .

ChildrvH at Heme. Nothing concerning the future welfare and happiness of the young is so noglectcd by parents and puardians aa

the manner in which their evenings are passed. Darkness is a temptation to evil, and allowing young; men and boys to be absent from home whon the light of day does not restrain them from misconduct, is in reality training them to it, and will in the future often be productive of incalculable mischief and ruin. In the family circle, however, something more is needed than tho mere command, aad parents should endeavor by their own examplo to show tho importance of waking the evening hours the happiest in the day, for if heads of households do not acknowledge tho truth of the proverb, there is no place like home,'' how can they expect their children to believe in it I Evening amusements ami recreations in tho homo parlors are decidedly more agreeable and ploaeant than enjoyments of dissipations abroad, and honorableand learned men are the product of the one, while miserable and dissipated specimens of tho banian race arc the fruit of the other. Lot homo bo the delightful place it shonld be, and let the same fascinations and inducements bo offered at the homestead as abroad, antl a more exalted and creditable class of citiaens will U found.ITcMwy EycortfM, in Country Gtnthimn.

with him, taking the first female part of Queen Zenobia. The scenes of the play are laid in Rome and Palmyra, and the work is said to be extremely ideal, and yet full of human interest. For street wear, under all circumstances, a very simple drese, although it be a little shabby, ie preferable to one more elaborately draped and trimmed that has lost it freshness.

a man ot infinite intellectual canacitv.

which is more than we oan say for Colonel Newtomb. But was there ever a gentleman more sweet, more lovable, more thoroughly a gentleman at all points than the Colonel? How many a you'4g lad has been taught to know how a gentleman should think and how a gentleman should act and speak by the thoughts and words and doings of the Colonel? I will not say that Bar

One awful cold night-coldortiiRa two of the coldest niehta consolidated a hunter named Hosking built an extra big lire in his log cabin to keep warm, an' he kept a piling on the wood until his shanty was all allasse, and when a few persona livin' round there saw the light an' run to his assistance, they saw Hosking a-settin' in tho midst of the llamas a-shiverin' an' a-rnbbin of his hands as though he couldn't get warm; and when the shanty was alfburned to ashee they found him in the ruins a-sit-ting on a big hickory log, frozen to death. mnnmta's Eli Firkins