Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 46, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 March 1881 — Page 6

A Garficld’s Present Trouble, Certain Republican papers, supposed to know all about the trials and tribulations of the President-elect, say that he is just now grappling with one which taxes his patience and ingenuity more than any of its predecessors; and, singularly enough, it is non-political. The public is aware that when the Hayes family took possession of the White House, everything 'in the shape of stimulants stronger than tea and coffee was banished from the Presidential board. The thirstiest caller was not invited to interview the decanter, and -the foreign diplomate who had been accustomeg to his daily wine from child“hood was -compelled to go through a loug State dinner on water-power only. While the credit of this new departure was given to both members of the domestic firm, it was generally understood in Washington that Mrs. Hayes was the prime mover, and that Mr. Hayes yielded only under protest. Indeed, it is said, on what seems to be reliable authority, that the latter not only does not object to moderate indulgence . in ardent spirits by others, but occasionally indulges himself -when away . from home; and that the rules estab- © lished at his own table are not binding upon him at a table not his own. But be this 4s it may, the Execvtive Mansion during the last four years has set an example of total abstinence from all that can intoxicate which the friends of that species of reform have enthusiastically applauded; and as a testimonial of their approbation and admiration they - have started a* subseription for a lifesize portrait of Mrs., Hayes to be hung “up in the famous East room forever. - Naturally enough, too, they are asking this question;: *‘*Will Mr. and Mus. .Garfield go and do likewise?’’ And it is this question, vigorously poked at him by letter, and private deputations, which is vexing the soul of the gentle- ~ man at Mentor. Mr. Garlield, like Mr. Hayes, takes a little now and then, but unlike Mr. Hayes, is quite willing his guests should have the same liberty. In other words, he is not disposed to enforce’ the Maine law in the {’)Vhite House; yet he does not want to alienate the temperance people by abolishing it there. He would be glad to compromise, but compromise is impossible. The temperance people are as ‘*stalwart”’ in this matter as the other stalwarts are in regard to the Southern - policy of the new Administration. They insist that the table and sideboard rule of 1877-81 shall be adopted in 1881-5, ~and that not a drop of the juice of grape, corn or rye shall be allowed except for medicinal purposes. . So the case stands at present. Mr. Garfield has not fully decided what he will do, and is sorely perplexed in coming to adecision. Cabinet construction is easy compared to it, for if one piece of timber does not suit he can put in another; but it must be total abstinence. or nothing. If the former, he will displease himself and three-fourths of those -~ whom he entertains, and if the latter, he is sure.to provoke a storm of antialcoholic wrath. From the best obtainable information on this interesting and important subject the probabilities are that the rule of 1877-81 will be sus{)ended on and after the 4th prox.; at east for all dinners to which company ‘is invited. At any rate it is rumored’ that Mr. Garfield leans toward a mildly spirituous regime, and that while stiil open to eonviction, it will require a prompt and vigorous advance of the temperance army to hold the fort so gallantly held by the Hayses.—S¢t. Louis Kepublican..|

Subsidies vs. Free Ships, In 1855 there were 3881 ships and barks built in the United States; in 1879 there were 37 barks and ships built in this country. It is reported that the grain fleet dispatched from the port of New York in 1879 numbered 2,987 vessels, carrying 102,312,568 bushels of grain. All of this tonnage included but one American steamer and only 74 American sailing vessels. E.F, Noyes, our Minister to France, devoted six months to the investigation of our commercial earrying trade in the Mediterranean by order of the State Department. He reported that he experienced a sense of humiliation at the absence of the American flag from the waters on which he looked. 'The .Consul at Smyrna reports that while formerly as many as seventy-five or eighty vessels had been seen in that port at one time, there were last year but three, all told. We are now paying foreign nations annually over $100,000,000 for the transportation of our freicht, and $20,000,000 for the carrying of our passengers and mails. We pay, that is to foreigners, largely to England, $120,000,000 for carrying our products across the seas and bringing the things we wish to buy to our shores. The Awmerican flag has disappeared from the high seas, and our merchant marine is no more. Senator Beck, who is more and more distinguishing himself for critical and Well-informeg attention to the public interesus, and who is capable of broad and National views as well as of attention to little things, recently made a notable ;Feech in the Senate upon free ships. He was antagonized by Senator Blaine, who will be a conspicuous figure in the next Administration. The remedy which Senator Blaine would apply to the decadence of the merchant marine of the United States in subsidies. The remedy which Senator Beck would apply to the decline of the commercial power of this country upon the high seas is free ships. Senator Blaine says that within thirty miles of his residence in a Yown which is the largest wooden ship-building place on the globe. He is in favor of a subsidy of about $4,000,000 a year in the ship-building interest. He, representing the Republican party, argues that since Congress nas passed ninety-two acts within twenty years in aid of internal transportation by rail, and has given 200,000,000 acres of the üblic lands, worth to-day $1,000,000,800, and has given also, in addition, $70,000,000 in cash to railroad corporations, Congress ought, for the sake of consistency, to subsidize the men and coriporations that carry passengers and freight over the waters. This is a fair statement of the argument, as Senator Blaine presents it. It is consistent with the subsidizinf policy. The argument vividly reveals the pernicious tendency of the subsidy golié.y. If A should be subsidized, why should not Balso be Mbsitisedr - o o 8 : _ The l?ill which Senator Beck asks

¥e R R l Congress to é)ass' provides 'that the sec-| ' tions of the Revised Statutes which pro-, ' hibit citizens of the United States from | purchasing shi(fs built in other countries to be used in the foreign carrying trade of the United States, and whicﬁ impose taxes, burdens, or restrictions, . on such ships when ownedfby American i citizens, which are not !imposed on { ships built in the United ' States, shall - be repealed, and that it shall be lawful for citizens of the United States to buy | ships built in wholeor'in part in foreign | countries, to have them registered as. lshi.ps of the United States, and when | so registered such ships so bought are | to be entitled to all the ri%hts and sub- ‘ jected only to the same regulations as i are now provided by law for the gov- | ernment and management of ships built | wholly in the United States and owned ' and controlled by citizensjof this coun- | try. Senator Beck does not under- ' stand why American citizens should .be prohibited from purchasing ships ' for the foreign trade in the cheaprest market when all. other na- | tions enjoy this privilege. While | England, and France, . and Ger- . many, and Belgium, and Norway and ' Sweden have the right to bring freights ' to our ports and to carry freights from ~our ports in foreign-built ships, it is not ' easy to see why the laws J)f the United | States should select citizens of the ' United States ‘to be alone ostracized - from this privilege. Ought this country . to pay $120,000,000 annually to foreign- ' ers for our carrying work to oblige a few ship-builders thirty miles from the ' residence of Senator Blaine? . .Subsidies are wrong in principle and vicious in practice. Freedomis beautiful in principle and equal and beneficent in practice. Senator Beck has this ' fundamental advantage [over Senator | Blaine in the discussion of this importi ant subject. And the arguments of | Senator Beck can not be answered, as | Senator Morrill attempted to answer them, by saying that Mr. Beck, being ‘from the interior State of Kentucky, | can know nothing of commerce on the | high seas.— Cincinnati Enquirer.

A 1 : A Letter from Mry Tilden. Hon. Samuel J. Tilden has been elected the first honorary member of the Jefferson Club of New York. In reply to a letter of the President, Chauncey F. Black, Esq., informing him of his election, Governo; Tilden writes as follows: ! : NEW YORK, January 27, 1881. - My DrAr Str: I have received your letter notifying me of my unanimoiis election as the tirst hono:ary member of the Jefferson Democratic Association of New York. I accept the distinction thus conferred in order to testify my approval and commendation of the objects of your association. Thomas Jefferson has a title to the esteem and gratitude of the American people even greater than that which he derived from being the author of the Declaration of Independence, and from being the author of the statute of religious freedom by, the Btate of Virginia. During all the bloody conflicts of the American revolution, and the civil struggles out of which our system of government emerged, and the controversies through which = was impressed upon it the character of the, (grovernment “by the people, for the people,” he was the ﬁ{)OSﬂe of human freedom and the *greatest leader of that beneficent philosophy which was embodied in our institutions. .Ata time!'when powerful tendencies are at . work to subvert the original character of our! Government; to break down the limitations; of power established by the Constitution; to centralize the action and influenee of official authorities; to create a governing class, usilig the machinery of Government as a corrupt balance of power in the elections, and then shaping legislation and administration in the interests of the few against the many; the precepts and example of such a man a 3 Mr. Jefferson cannot be too often invoked. The formation of societies which can act as centers of discussion and as agencies for the propagation df the true principles of the Fathers of the Republic is a measure capable of great service to the people and to mankind. | With assurance ot sympatly and esteem—to the members of your association and to yourself, I have the honor to&, be, your fellow citizen, SAMUEL J. TILDEN.

The Majority on the Pppular Vote. It would seem that after a careful collection and consideration, by the Baltimore Sun, of the entire vote polled at the last Presidential lelection, General Hancock has a clear majority over General Garfield of 6,332. The BSun says: Careful revision of the returns from all the States, obtained by correspondence with thebest sources of information. enables us to lay before the readers of the Sun a correct table of the popular vote of the United States for President in November, 1830. The total vote of the country was 9,200,794, divided as follows: James A. Garficld, Repub1ican.........4,437,981 Winfield S. Hancock, Dem0enrat........4,444,313 James B. Weaver, Greenback.......... 807,063 ilNeal Dow: Profibition ... . .0, 9,644 Seattering. .....cci v ciie cannbdiaaeen, o 14,793 7 [ et T 9,200,794 Hancock’s majority over Garfield . ... 6,332 The total vote polled for President in 1876 by the same States as in 1880 was 8,411,136, and the increase is 789,658, i . : The vote of the States for Garfield, Hancock and Weaver is as follows: | ; | STATES. G’ rfield. ~incmcock. ! Weaver. Alabama... ........| 56,178 90,687 4,642 Arkan5a5.;.........| 41,661 60,489 4,079 California.. ... ... 80.348’ 80,426 8,392 Solorado .. .. .0 27,450 24,647 1,435 Connecticut ........| 67,078 64,417| © 868 Delaware ........... 14,150 | 15,183 Plorida, ... ......0 0 25808 SRoRe. o Seorgia ... o 52,652 102,522 481 IS .IoL e 318,03'1!!' 277,321 26,358 Indinng . ..., 2300 225,528 12,986 T0wa................ | 183,904 105,845| 32.827 Kan5a5d........c..00 12168 I 59,7891 19,710 Kentucky...........| 104,550 147,999| 11,498 Louisiana _.........| “susell ‘es3lo .. .. Maine ... oLI 408 D 65,171 4,408 Mary1and............| -78,615| 98,706 818 Massachusetts. ..... 165._205; 111,960| 4,548 Michigan............| 185,190/ 131,300 34,895 Minne50ta...........| 93,908 53,315’ 3,267 Mississippi.. ...vua.. 34,624] 75,750 5,797 MIBSOUT. (.o ..] 168,b8T 208,609 85,045 Nebraska ...........| 54,999 28,528 8,853 Novada.. . ......0. . 8,742 gll o New Hampshire... 44 852 40,794 . 528 New Jer5ey........| 120,535 122,565 2,617 New Y0rk...........| 535,544 534,611 12,873 North Carolina......| 115,878 124,204 1,136 0hig.................; BiGOLB 340,821 6,456 Dregon. ... .........] 220,014 19,9481 245 Pennsylvania.......| 444,704 407,428| 20,668 Rhode 151 and....... 18,195 10,779 236 South Carolina..... Sh‘,g’ll 112,312 566 Tennesgee ... ......|. 107,930 130,169 6.016 Texas...ifq ..o losad] o 53900 156,628| | 27,405 iVermont.... . ..., 45, 18,181 1,212 Vimo 127,976 139 West Virginia......| 46,243 57,391 9,079 Wi5c0n5in........... 144,897 114,634’ 7,980 _T0ta1.......... ...[4437,981| 4,444,313 407,063 Hancock’s majority over Garfield, 6,332, e . ——llt-turns out that Mr. Hayes, the great Civil-Service reformer who has or nearly four years occupied the residency in spite of the notorious fact that he was not elected thereto, has compelled the Treasury officials to pay him his salary monthly in advance. This he did in plain contravention o. _pa.ra%raph’ 3: 648 of tlze Revised Statutes, which provides that ““no advance of publie money shall be made in any case ‘whatever,” and in spite of the protests of the officials of the Treasury ‘%‘vﬁi““ this bold violation of the law. When remonstrated with a member of his Cabinet, he simply' answered that he ‘must have the money for investment. ‘But then, could anything better be ex‘gcted from a fraudulent President?—

PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. —Those who hew timber try to do the square thing.«—Detroit Free Press. —lt is only the goose that counts its chickens pefore they are hatched.— Whitehall Times. —lf it took coffee as iong to settle as it does some men, a' great many of us would drink water.— Steubenville Herald. —The best machinery ever made will not work unless its parts are well lubricated with oil of the brain.— Whitehall Times. i ’ —ln two years a boy can learn as much Latin as he can forget in six months after he goes to work for a living.— New Orleans Picayune. —Remenyi performs on a £3,000 violin. No wonder the young man next door plays so abominably. His fiddle cost but s2.so.—Phriladelphia News. —A liveryman thinks the great want of the day is young men with three arms. He vaguely says it would lessen the number of sleighing accidents.— Rochester Democrut. : —What a pleasant thought it is that the luxury of ice, which we enjoyed sb dearly last summer, is now within the means of the poorest of the poor.— Boston Iranscript. . —lt has leaked out that the real reason why the widow of Oke Bull refused to marry Bjornstne Bjornson is that she broke three of her teeth trying to pronounce his name.— Puck. v —A man who will break a gum-drop in two pieces, to make the exact weight when selling candy to a little girl, is mean enough- to sell cross-eyed needles to a blind woman.— Oil City Derrick. —They were a little short of music out in Driftwood until three sewingmachine agents and five book peddiers settled in the town and they have had a brass band ever since.—Dßurlington Hawk-Eye. ! : i

© ' Jimmy’s Experiment. DEAR Mi. HarPeEr.—l'm in an awful situation, that a boy by the name ot Uellew got me into. He is one of the boys that writes stories and makes pictures for Youny People, and I think you ought to know what kind of a boy he is. A little while ago he told a story about imitation screw-heads, and how he used to make them, and what fun he had pasting them on his aunt’s bureau. I thought it was a very nice story, and 1 got some tinfoil and made a whole lot of screw-heads and last Saturday I thought I'd have some fun with them. Father has a dreadful ugly old chair in his study -that General Washington brought over with him in the Maytlower, and Mr. Travers says it is stiffer and uglier than any of the Pilgrim fathers. But father thinks everything -of that chair and never lets anybody sit in it except the minister. Itook a piece of soap, just as that Bellew used to, and if his name is Billy why don’t he learn how to spell it, that’s what I'd like to know, and made what looked like a tremendous erack in the chair. Then I pasted the screw-heads on the chair, and it looked exactly as if somebody had broken it and tried to mend it. I couldn’t help laughing all day when I thought how astonished father would be ~when he saw his chair all full of screws, and how he would laugh when he found out it was all a joke. As soon as he came home I asked him to please come into the study, and showed him the chair and said, ‘¢ Father I can not tell a lie, I did it but I won’t do it any more.” .. P ) Father looked as if he had seen some disgusting ghosts, and I was really frightened, so I hurried up and said ¢ It's all right father, it's only a joke; look here, they all come off,”” and rubbed off the screw-heals and the soap with my handkerchief, and expected to: see him burst out laughing, just as Bellew’s aunt used to burst, but instead of laughing he said *¢ My son, this trifling with sacred things must be stopped,” with which remark he took off his slipper and then—— But I haven't the heart to say what he did. - I think that boy Bellew.ought to be punished for getting people into scrapes. I'd just like to have him come out behind our barn with me for a few minutes. That is, I would, ‘only I never expect toitake any interest in anything any more. My heart is broken and a’ new chocolate cigar that was in my pocket during the awful scene. I’ve got an elegant wasps’ nest with young wasps in it that will hateh out in the spring, and I'll changeit for a bhullterrier or a shot-gun or a rattle-snake in a cage that rattles good with any boy that will send me one. ; Ever affectionately, : : : JiMMYy Brown.

Switzerland Saved by America. Dr. St. John Roosa, of New York City, sends the followingietter to the London Spectator: *“ln your suggestive article of December 11thupon ¢ American Prosperity,’ you state that *there is a legend current, which we have never been able to trace fully, that America once intervened in the most decided way to save Switzerland from an invasion.” .If you will allow, I think I can assist you to fully trace out this bit of history. You probably refer to the intervention of our Minister, Mr. Theodore S. Fay, in the matter of the dispute between Prussia and Switzerland in regard to Neuchatel. Mr. Fay did interfere most decidedly in this question, and his entreaties, made personally to the Prussian King, the brother of the present Emperor, probably stopped the German soldiers just as they were about to eross the frontier. Mr. Fay sought and obtained an interview with l?in‘g Frederick William, which was untrammeled by the presence of any kind of official. The long residence of our Minister at the Prussian Court had given him great opportunities of knowing the estimable private character of the monarch, and when he was closeted with him he appealed to him simply as to a Christian man vested with great power, and that appeal was regarded. How far Mr. Fay may have been instructed by Preeident Buchanan’s Administration to yndertake this mission I cannot say, Zut Ido know that the kindly-hearted intervention was cordially approved of by our State Department.”’ ,

- —A Nevada critic, speaking of a harpist, said: ¢We never before knew there was' so much music in a gridiron.” :

Hor Young Readeys, - THE SANDMAN. An old, old man, with whiskers white, Flies over the earth as the night comes down, And softly sings, in his gentle Hight, As he w;inhdts his way through the shades of night: : ‘¢ Close, little eyelids! close up tight: For the Sandman is in town.” : He comies to the babe while yet 'tis light; But on all at last the shower comes down, And the eyes of blue and brown so bright - Must close when he slngs, as he comes at night: ** Close,. little eyelids! close up tight; : For the Sandman is in town.” He knows what makes little eyes so bright, 80 he pours the showers of bright sand down, And sweet Sleep lingers till broad daylight; Then flies to him who sings each night: * Close, little eyelids! close up tight; . For the Sandman is in town.” _ —James Clarenvce Harvey, in Youth’'s Companion. : B

A HAPPY BIRTHDAY. ‘““Mother, can I have a birthday?” ‘““A birthday?” said Mrs. Keaney, pausing in the midst of her washing and looking down, half bewildered, half amused, at her little daughter. *“Yes, mother. I - have birthdays, don’t I, just the same as Mabel Ray?” ‘* Shure there's no -mistake about that, darlint,”” laughed her mother, resuming her work. ¢ Eight years ago next week you came into this throublesome world. That's two things we }Eve in common wid the rich, innyhow :the day of our birth, an’ the day of our death.” : ¢ But, mother,” persisted Biddy,. her big blue eyes rounder still with eagerness, *‘can’t I have a party on my birthday? Mabel Ray had one last week; Eliza told me so. An’ she had ice-crame, an’' cake wid raisins in it, an’ a wax doll what opens its eyes, an’ lots o’ children come to play wid her. An’, oh, mother—"’ : ‘¢ Sakes alive, Biddy! what's §ot into EOU?” said her mother, gazing down at er with a mingling of pride, amusement and regret. No bonnier child than Biddy could you find anywhere. Her complexion was a pure red and white, her hair chestnut, falling in natural curls over her shoulders, her mouth as sweet a rose-bud as Mabel Ray’s. | : : , . *‘She’s as pretty as inny lady’s child of them all,” thought her mother; ‘‘an’ as égintle an’ good.”” But aloud she said, decidedly: ‘““Honey, you're talkin’ nonsinse. I’ve bard work enough to kape us both in bread an’ mate, Tet alone clothes, widout givin’ parties for you. Icecrame an’ cake, indade! It's a nigger waiter ye'll be wantin’ nixt. to be openin’ the door foryour stylish frinds,’’ she weny on, chuckling, as she wrung out one of Mrs. Ray’s embroidered. white skirts. : i - ¢ Oh, mother, I know you couldn’t give me such a party. But I thought I might have just a few little frinds in to play wid me, an’ we'd have some crackers, an’ some ginger cookies maybe; and thim two pinnies you gave me would buy candy an’ nuts. An’ if—" ‘““ An’ who do you want to invite, may I ax?”’ said the mother, trying not to laugh.. , ¢ Oh, mother, if I could ask poor little Jim Swaney, the boy what lives acrost the way—he's lame, you know; an’ little Annie his sister. They’re so poor, an’ the father gets drunk, an’ bates thim awful. I'd like thim to have a good time for onst.” ¢ Bliss your little heart!” said the mother; ‘‘you shall have thim in an’ wilcome, an’ I'll buy some cookies to trate thim wid, and maybe something besides. But don’t you ask another child in this neighborhood; they're a bould, bad set, as you know, and it's sorry I am we have to live in the midst of thim.”’ _ ]

“No, mother, I won’t; but I do wish I could ax some of the %irls I go to school wid. There's Sally Flynn, and Jenny Dean, an’ Mary Connor, and Ann Gormly, an’ Kitty Fay, an’—"’ ‘‘Saints presarve us!”’ cried Mrs. Keaney. ‘“Do you want to bring all New York in on me? No, no, honey, I can’t affoord such a party as that. Be off to school now, like a good child, and dor’t bother me no more.”” ° But the pleading face of her little ﬂrl, the only child she had, haunted ary Keaney, and when, later in the day., some unexpected work arrived from a lady to whom Mrs. Ray had recommended her, she resolved at once to gratify her darling. : ‘lt comes only onst a year,” she said, ‘‘an’ she’s the only child I've got. I'll buy ’em some cookies an’ gingerbread, an’ a half-dozen limons to make -some limonade wid; an’ I hope they’ll be satisfied, for I can’t do no more.’ So Biddy, to her great joy, was allowed to invite half a dozen little girls, her most ‘intimate’ friends, to her ‘‘party.” which would take place Thursday afternoon of the following week. When Mrs. Keaney took Mrs. Ray’s clothes home Thursday afternoon, she told Eliza, the chamber-maid, as a good joke, about her little girl’s ‘‘party’’ and the expected guests. : Thursday atternoon came, and about four o’clock *Lame Jim” and his sister arrived, and were received by Biddy, fresh and sweet as a pink in her clean cambric frock, with a rose-colored ribbon tied above her shining hair. Mrs. Keaney had but two little rooms in'the third story of a tenement house, but though poor and scantily furnished, they were kept as clean and sweet as broom and scrubbing-brush could make them. :

How happy little Jim was!, How his sweet wan face brightened like a pale flower brought into the sunshine! Mrs. Keaney placed him in her one rockingchair, and gave him and little Annie a drink of milk and a goodly slice of bread and butter straightway, for she knew how little they had toeat at home. And soon arrived the six girls all together; and what a merry clatter of tongues there was in that little kitchen! They were just as happy as if they had worn silk dresses and kid slippers—happier, perhaps. Soon all were engaged in a merry game of ‘“ hide the thimble,”” Jim as active as any one, hopping nimbly about on his crutches. At last they found the thimble snugly hid in his pocket, where Kitty Fay had cunningly slip})ed it, unknown even to the boy himself. . Game followed game in quick succession, until Mrs. Keaney, who had been looking on smiling, ordered them into the bedroom. | : ‘¢ Guess .she’s settin’ the table,”

said Mary Connor: = I hear the dishes rattlin’;"’ and (hereupon they all fell achuckling. A i‘f)ew: moments after, they were calfed into the next room. - “*Ain't it jist illezant?’ whispered Ann Gormly toSally Flynn. ¢ Look at the sugar-cookies! and, oh my! there's limonade. I smell it.” *Can’t you behave?”’ said Sally, regrovingly. “ One 'ud think you'd niver een to a party before.” i *Nomore I haven’t,” said Ann, quite above concealment. ¢ Oh, goody, Sally, there’s slices ¢f mate atween the bread an’ butter!” | il ‘“Ain’t she a greedy?’ whispered Sally to Jenny. : ““Poor thing! they say she's most starved at home,” said kindly little Jenny. ‘‘Her father’s been out of work these three months.” Mary Keaney, hospitable-Hearted soul, had not been able to content herself with the bill of fare she at first meditated. The talle was bountifully spread with sandwiches, cookies, molassescake, rosy-cheeked apples, and a plate of gay-colored candy in the center. . Biddy’s cheeks were like roses, and her eyes like stars. Was there ever such & mother, and such a *¢party?’ The good cheer soon set all the little tongues going, . while Mrs. Keaney watched the *{fun.” well pleased, and kept the plates and glasses filled. In the midst of their festivity Mrs. Keaney was called down stairs. She came up in a few moments with something wrapped up in her apron. . The children were too absorbed to notice her, but when in a few moments she appeared bearing a big earthen platter exultingly alott, what a shout went up from all the little throats! - *“Jce-crame! ice-crame!”’ Even demure Sally joined in the cry; and Ann Gormly nearly fell out of her chair in her jovful excitement. ' ~ “Oh, mother! mother! have you given all your money for my party?”’ cried Biddy, hot knowing whether to ‘laugh or cry, and feeling a pang of self‘reproach amid her transports. : . **My lamb, who sent it I don't know, but I mistrust Mrs. Ray. An’look at ‘the illegant cake wid the dape white frostin’, an’ the Charlotte-Russys too!”’ -she added. setting two other dishes on }‘the table. ‘The children sat a moment - dumb with adtniration. then set up another shout. : - *“The man said he’d a horrible job to ’ find the place, an’ I reckon it's the first - time ice-crame an’ Charlotte-Russys - found their way to Rid Lane!”’ said Mrs. Keaney, who scarcely knew whether to laugh or cry herself. . ¢<Oh, mother. wasn't it lovely in Mrs. Ray?” et ‘““l'roth it was, darlint. It must be ‘Eliza tould her, and — | | ¢“Scarcely were the words out of her ‘mouth, when | a loud rap at the door made her start. S

“‘Sakes alive! I hope nobody’s come to say the ice-crame wint to the wrong place!”” She opened the door; there stood John, Lﬂrs. Ray’s colored man. “Good-evenin’, Mrs. Keaney,” surveying her with a condescending smile. ‘““Here’s a package for Biddy, with Miss Mabel's love. - Sorry to be so late; but I had a number of other errands, and it was hard tol find the place. Good evenin’,”” and before Mrs. Keaney could speak, lle was gone, anxious 'to escape a reprpof from his mistress for his delay. v With trembling fingers Mrs. Keaney undid the strings, while the little group looked breathlessly on. But when at last she brougzht out a doll—a lovely wax doll, with golden hair and large brown eyes—a cry of admiration broke from all but Biddy. She stood speechless, with flushed cheeks and dilated. eyes, gazing up at the doll. \ *Och, darlin’, where’s your tongue?”’ cried Mrs.. Keaney. ‘‘Such a swate doll, dressed up so illegant, an’ she can open an’ shut her eyes! Look, honey, look! Why, what are you crying for?” “It's too beautiful’”’ sobbed little Biddy. ¢ Everythin’s so beautiful, I don’t know what to do!” That night, as Biddy lay in her bed, while her mother was tucking her in, she said, with a long sigh, *Oh, mother! mother! I'm so glad I've had a birthday! I'll niver forget it as long as I live! Oh, mother, wasn't it jist beautiful ?”’ - | ! : ““Yes, dear,” said Mrs. Keaney. But a little jealous pang gnawing at her heart made her add, *I couldn’t give you ice-crame, darlin’, nor wax dolls, but—"’ ; Biddy threw both her arms round her mother’'s neck. ¢ Oh, mother! dear, darlin’ mother! what you did was, most of all. Oh, there niver was a mother like mine!” , o A tear rolled down the mother’s cheek. What reward could be sweeter than those loving words, the clasp of those little arms about her neck? And so ended Biddy's happy birthday.— Harper's Young People. -

Ed. Boyle’s Nerve. | Superinténdent Ed Boyle, of the Alta, came in from Paradise Saturday evening, and gives the following particulars of an accident which happened to him and his party on the way in: «« As the stage was descending the steep hill this side of Paradise one of the wheels struck a rock, and the driver and Colonel Harding, an outside passenger, were thrown off. The lines became entangled with the horses’ feet, and they started off on the dead run. Mr. Boyle and two other passengers pn the inside found themselves 'in great danger. Mr. Siegel jumped out, and for his daring was rewarded with a broken leg, a sprained ankle and a bruised head., Mr, Boyle took in "the situation, and borrowing another passenger's six-shooter, leaned out and fired four shots at omne of the horses, three of the shoty taking effect, knocking the horse down under the pole, and thereby throwing the other down, thus stopping the stage. This happened just in time, as only a few feet ahead there was a bend in the road, which, had they reached, must have resulted in the upsetting of the stage, with great chances of himself and friend being seriously injured.—Reno (Nev.) Journal.

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