Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 4, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 September 1869 — Page 1

POETRY.

1 HE DARKENED NURSERY. Thkb'9 room enough in the nuntery now. Twit crowded a little before For when the crib In the corner tat The rocker came close to the door ; But the light wm aweet. und the air waa sort, And the room wm filled with cheer, For we all were chained to the little spot By the voice of the hay dear. Where is the sunshine where la the uoi:?2T Where are the playthings gone ? What shall I do with my empty arms Sitting alone, alone! What shall I do slth the empty crib! W here shall I ist bis chair M ist the darling little one's clothes come down ! Oh. let me leave them there I Nay. fold them np softly and put them by. Life U holier through this pain : Lav up the carriage -check the deep sigh, "Take np life's duties again ; Tnrn the face fully toward Heaven and God ;! His sweet peac hall keep thee still ; Bow low before Him. kissing Bu rod. Aad murmur. 1 ve -Jsst as God will." HOW TO MAKE MONEY. The following characteristic whimsy of the late distinguished poet, Fiu-(ireene lialleck, is now published for the first time -.--Iltarlh and Home. I will tell ron a plan for gaining wealth. Ratter than banking, trading, or leasee: Tak a baiik-note and fold it up. . And then you will flad yonr wealth Inmates. Th' wonderful plan without danger or loss Keepe your cash in your hands and with nothing tu trouble it. And every time that you fold it across. Ti nlalu as the light of the day that yon donble ir. MISCELLANEOUS. THE WIFE'S SECRET. If I pride myself upon any mental en- 1 dowment whatever, it ia upon that humble one of fnwiT finnan I live what is railed hv the intellectual people a con yen- I lional life. I have my pew in the neigh- ! boring; dinrch, and sit in it twiee every i fSmmUmj. I know one captain in tjie army j just such a person as he should be pol-i-dicd, and vet ferocious, gentle to ladies, j but rather insolent to civilian males, boast ful of his clubs, and giving all his leisure time, which i considerable, to the cultivation of his mustaches : but. otherwise I atn ignorant of the fashionable world and all its gay doings. I have made no endeavor t' break through the gilded pale that separates it from the steady-going middle class to which I lelong. I do not understand the feeling which prompts my superiors to he ashamed of being seen in an omnibus. Once everyday I return from the city in one ; and if it is wet I use the same conveyance in the morning to reach my office. I pay my tradesmen Teekly. M v best sherry i -k. a dozen ; and when the captain talks of vintage wines (as he will do by the hour at my table), 1 often Woadtl what he thinks he is drinking. However, with true good-breeding, he imbibes it in great quantities, as though it were the beat I do not keep a man-servant. Our cook cannot compass an omelette soußee. My wife trim her own lionnets. We have eit;ht children, who all know the Church Catechism by heart, except the baby and the last but one. In short, a more respectable and unfashionable family than our own does not exist in ali Bafswater. Under these eirc umstances, it may be easily imagined that we are as free from the vices of the great as wc are without their privileges: and this was, I honestly believe, the case until within a very recent period. When I used to read in the papers that the Lady Day Col ay (of Norman ancestry and bluest blood) had left hrr husband's roof, and Bed with Mejor Flatter of the Life Guards; or that it vra rumored among well-informed circles that the gentleman of the long robe would soon find employment in the domestic affairs of hi Grace the Duke of lielraris, I used to ive a prolonged whistle, and remark : 4' Here they arc again," in general reference to the habits of the asjssj ton. I knew that our hereditary aristocracy were given to these escapades, which in my own rank of life would certainly be crime, and I perused such details as the press could furnish with an avidity unalloyed, I am afraid, without much reprobation. I seemed to oe reading of a clssj of persoas whose way of life was too far removed from my own to aflbcfl me, except as a spectator ; j it is when I went to tke play I found myself in an atmosphere of intrigue, and misunderstanding, and jealousy, altogether unreal, and with which I had not the ghot of an experience in common. Jealousy! Why, I had been marriei sixteen years without entertaining that passion, so that it was not very lik-ly, however well acted, that that passion should entertain me. Misunderstanding! The thing was impossible, l r whenever there promised to be 44 a row in the pantry" and every unified man will understand me when I niakt use of that saetaphorietJ expression) 1 bronrbt it to bead, and bed it out, and oft ere started yam (speaking for sell and1 Mrs. B ) on tbe smooth current of our lives, with the little fracas buried forever in its depths. As for the mother of eisrht fa 11 - ing In love with another man it is all very well in a tage play, and particularly where the husband is a black man, and, as I hare said, befitting enough among personof quality: but upon the Notting Hill tide of Be js water any such mischance would, I h it, be out of place and ridiculous a awessl presumption, as well a a grave doeeeetk crime. Imagine, therefore, my astonishment when my oppuahe neighbor, Peabody, who also calls himself my friend, lid me the honor to Call Bpoa me a few weeks ago, to apeak, in confidence, of the alarming conduct of my wife. Having demai.ded and obtained a private interview, this scandalous old person, who waa once an indigo-merchant, and yet retain the race of his celling upon his no-, act before BSC in detail a number of curious circumstances connected with the M goings on,'1 as he was pleased to (-all them, of my wife, which he was not, indeed, prepared to -ay, "might not possibly be only comcidences, alter all," but which be t ti it is his duty :is a fellow creature, and one who had been a husband in his time he re his lips made a dumb motion of gratitude to let me know. Even as a neighbor, and an inhabitant of a common Crescent, hitherto remarkable for its reBpCCtabifaty, and which, as I doubtless remembered, had declined to permit Mrs. Joses to put up Ai-trtuf,t8 in her window, li st we should be confounded with the lodging hou-e localities ; nay, which, by the mere force of its public opinion, bad presented No. 44 from being let to a playactor even in this character, mid Peabody, he would have felt it his duty to r. lake nie aware of what was beinif said, 4iiough doubtless falsely, respecting the behavior of Mrs. B . Here I should have locked the door, and informed Peahen's tint his hut hour was certainly arrived, and that he hart letter aiaK his peace with Providence before I cut his throat but from (gaoraaoi of the proper conduct to be adopted in suen sxcppf lonal circuin-stance-, and perhaps from the knowledge that there was nothing but a paper knife in the room with which to effect this righteous nunishnient. I only burst out laughing, and railed him a meddling and imiM rtinent old fooL 44 Very true." returned he, for he always makes me af tliat form of words -' 4 very tine; ,)ut still the fact are worth investi sratim?. even from their singularity. Do you Know, for instance, that at eleven o clock, ihree day a week, your wile goes out in a cab by herself?" " No," said L 44 I do not; though, if she does, -T i Min-ly tetter than if she had any ineligible companion. As a mailt r of met, however, she does noj .do so, for I have omared to go shoppies: with her twice this week, and she has declined to accompany me on the ground of having a sore throat." Upon what days did she give this exinquired Peabody, taking out phi pocket-book. 44 Last Monday and last Thursday," returned L " Well, here's a memorandum : Monday, 4th. Asm Mm R start, om usual, at ; Ihurs&iy, th, ditto, ditto. She could not be going to n orning concert, because She had no white gloves QB." ' 1 will grant tint much," qanth I, sar donieall.v, and yet not by any means unmoved by 'ids unexpected intelligence. .11 , wile ! es it.. i jr., morning cu C'Tt s " 44 Very true, 'observed Peal od y. " Then the .(oetion arises, where dot she g to? Wow, as an inhabitant of tbe Crescent "

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VOLUME XV "Peabody," interrupted I. severely, acknowledge the right of no man no, not ot the man m the moon himself--to med a A sä j v uie in my anairs upon Utai ground. A am obliged to you for the interest vou have taken in this matter, hut fhe srmplefact is, trial it lias been entirely misplaced. 1 have been perfectly well aware of my wue s movements, ami thev have had m fullest permission and approbation oniy wanted to see to wuat lengths your impertinence and love of interference would carry vou. That is vour hat, I be Here; your umbrella is the alpaca one; I wish vou a very good morning. I ushered mv visitor out, and then sat down in my private parlor with my elbows upon the table, and both my hands thrust into my hair. I had temporarily extinguished Peabody, but I was on tire with jealous apprehensions myself. What coidd it all mean? For sixteen years my wife had never taken any excursion unless m my company, upon which, she had always givn me to understand, she doted ; and yet, after refusing to go out with me upon Monday and Thursday last, on the plea of re throat, she had started, the instant that my baek was turned, in a Hansom or even supposing it was a four-wheeler in a cab, ithout white gloves on. and Confound it, here too a row in the pantry, and one which my peace ot mind demanded to have cleared up at once. "Anna Maria," cried I, huskily, from the bottom of the stairs "Anna Maria, I wish, to peak with you immediately." 44 Lor' bless me," answered mv wife from the tcp story, 44 it isn't one of the ren, is it, John ? Pray tell me the childworst at once." 44 No, Madam, it is I," replied I, stiftly. "Then it's the kitchen chimney," exclaimed she, in a dogmatic tone. 44 And didn't I tell Mary to have it swept a week ago; and now the fire-engines will spoil everything; even if we are not burnt out of kotJK and homo." Wee it possible that this woman could have deceived me, as Peabody had said, and yet talk so pimply of her children, and of house and home ! By the time Anna Maria had got down to the drawing-room flight I began to be rather ashamed of myself. When the mother of eight reached my sitting-room door, with her honest face aglow with animation, and her voice so earnest about the soot, I did not dare to mention what I had in my mind. 44 1 called you down, dear, to say that I wa going to give myself a holiday to-day, and to ask you to come with me to llamtead Heath, and dine at Jack Straw's Castle this afternoon, it being such a beautiful day." A ray of joy passed for an instant over her features, and then, as if recollecting berselt she begin to stammer that she was very, very sorry, but really she had so much to do alnmt the house just then; if I would only wait till Friday week, which wns my birthday, then we would go somewhere, and she should enjoy it above all measure. This afternoon, however, the thing was impossible. "Well," sairt I, gravely, 41 we have not many holidays together, and I am lorry. Vou had a sore throat cm Monday and on Thursday, erben I ottered you a similar opportunity." ,4 Oh yes," answered she, shaking her little head, which is very prettily could it lie too prettily y eet upon her shoulders; 14 it was quite impossible that I could go whh that throat." "litre,'' thought I, for she could not have gone out without her throat, " is some dreadtul falsehood ; but Peabody may have told it, and not she. Perhaps the never went out at all. Should 1 not rather believe the wife ot my bosom than that scandalois old retired indigo-merchant? Was it not base even to suspect Anna Maria of deception! Doubtless it was; but yet I thought 1 would just satisfy myself .villi kv own eyes." 44 Very weil," observed I, quietly ; 44 since yon cannot come with me to-day, I shall jo to the city, as usual. I don't care for a holiday by myself. i. dear fellow,'" said Anna Maria, j coaxi' rreal y. as she helped me on with my i, 'lam quite grieved to diaappoin on. Good-by, John. Mind you have j pood luncheon ; it's Tory bad for you eating those buns and rubbish." 44 Ah, v hat a tangled web we weave." avs soRCDoay, when nrsi we practice to decetve," though niter but little trying, there' nothing easier than lying. I proteat I felt like a pick-pocket, as I dodged an 1 lurked about our Crescent, watching in he distance my own door to see whether Mrs. li would crom the threshold. I suppose I bave none of the attributes necessary to the profession of a detective; for whenever a passer by cast his eyes on me I felt myself blushing all over, and hanging in head on one side, as a log hangs his nil. I dared not, of course, stop in tue Crescent, but loitered at the corner oi a street which commanded it, now trying to dig up the tops of the coalcellars by inserting the mizzle of my um brella iu their circular holes, and now eliciting mournful music by dragging it airuinat the area railings. Exhausted with these exercises, I had been leaning against a lamp p. st for about ten minutes, when the door of a house opposite opened sud dsnly and a widow lady of vast proportions came sw'ftlv out upon me, with her c:ip strings streaming in the wind. 44 Now just you go away, my gentleman," aid she, in a menacing voice, 44 before the police makes you. I know who you're a looking for, and I can tell you she ain't a-coniing, for I've got her locked up in the coal-cellar. know you, although you have not got your red coat on to-day ; and mind if you get another slice of meat in my house, I'll proseeute you as sure as my name's Mivins." "(iracions Heavens, Madam !" cried I, 44 do you take mc for a common soldier?" 44 No, Sir," answered she, maliciously ; 44 but for a tuppenny-ha'penny LitefJuardsman, who never saw a shot fired in his life ; and if ever you come after my Jemima again " I turned and fled into the very arms of the abominable Peabody. 44 Make haste!" exclaimed he ; 44 there is not a moment to lie lost. No ; the cab is coming this way ; you may see for yourself w hether 1 am not right this time. And sure enough, who should drive by, at a rapid rate, but Anna Maria, in a fourwheeled cab, and without her bonnet, and ttrith a flower in her tviir This blow, com ing so closely upon the attack of the widow lady, waa almost more than I could bear " Where an she be goinir, to?" gasped T, half lini sjnef hiisljr It s the most extra ordinary Miing I ever heard of." "I hare heard of similar things," re turned Peabodjr, quietly, "although I never experienced anything of the sort myself. Of course, I don't know when she is going to; but the direct inn she has taken is toward St. John' Wood." . I hastened liack to my own house, and with the air of a man whe has forgotten something, began to search in the poeketx of a great coat hanging up in the hall. 44 By the -by," said I, as the servant who had h t me in was disappearing, "1 think your mistress must nave got it aner an. Just run up, and tell her 1 want to see her for a mil ute. Emily Jane, who has been in our.eryice ever since we were married, turned as scar let as her can-ribbons. "Sir," said she, bolder than brass, 44 missis has just step pe I out ; she has taken two of the little rirls for a jnoruing walk." Which two?" i quired 1, ! Mtkiiiir this abando ned young -.crson full in the face. lb r mi bill- spirit was eowed by Ihie.osnnwi of procedure ; the replied thai ahe did uot kn m -she didn't reeulloct ehe hadn't pa;d particular attention, bill 'she rather thought that it was the two youngest all in a breath. I In that case," rejoined I, pointing with

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if MM is C TV withering scorn to the perambulator, "how comes this here ? No, Emily Jane; your mistress must have taken out with her today the same two children that he took on Monday and on Thursday, when her sore throat was so bad that she could not go out with me " 44 Yes, Sir," replied she ; 44 it was the same two." 44 Emily Jane," said I, solemnly, 44 always tell the truth. I knoic alL Where is your mistress gone to all by herself to-day, with her hair so neatly arranged, and a flower stuck in the left-hand side of her head f and that after tehVng me she was too busy to move out. Concealment is worse than useless. Where is she ?" 44 Wild horses shouldn't do it," returned the domestic, resolutely. 44 1 told her I would keep it dark, and I won't betray no confidence as has been reposed in me. You must find it out all of your own head, Sir. Oh dear, oh dear !" Here, to my confusion, Emily Jane cast her apron, by a sudden and dextrous movement, over her features, and in that blinded condition rushed down the kitchenstairs like a bull stung by bees. At that moment the front -door bell rang with a violence such as none of our visitors, except the captain, ever dare to use. My wretched heart seemed to experience a little throb of joy. lie at least, then and I confess my suspicions had been turned in his direction, for was it not his profession to guard us from foreign foes, and to destroy our domestic peace he at least, I say, uiUcuttlure mi more tuin one I dared not trust myself to finish the reflection, but opened the front-door with my ow.i hands. It was somebody in uniform, but not the captai i. 44 Tele&rronA for Mrs. It ," squeaked the boy, in his shrill thin voice ; please te sign on the right and side. Then dancing a double shuffle upon the tloor step, in orrter to keep himself warm, be broke torlli into ballad, "Theres somebody in the house with Dinah, there's somebody in the house I know; there's somebody in the house with Dinah" I dirtn t like hid impudence, and I didn t like his song, but there was nothing for it but to submit. What could Anna Maria he doing with telegraphs? From Rupert MerringUm, 0 C'ipidn FtBot, SK, JUtVi Wood. Pray, le pit iwt'inl this time, f am engaged tfter ticelce. I trust you will be looking your btst, not pile, a on Monday and Thursday. Theres somebody in the house with , Dinah, there's somebody in the house I know " I rushed out with the receipt in i my hand, and the boy snatched it, and , took to Might, for lie saw t hat I was danger- 1 OUS. What could tins dreadful message ' mean? or rather what meaning could it nave out one? unpen Merrington ! not at all a steady-sounding name, to begin with; the sender, too, was evidently no business-man, or he would not hare ex ceeded his twenty words so foolishly. It had a military smack all over (and 1 didn t like OuU notion a military smack !). 1 Merrington was of course an assumed name. I he handwriting was good, and so far unlike the captain's; but then people can't write there own telegraph messages. roll that sonic immediate action was necessary, or that I should be suffocated. In a couple of minutes I was in a Hansom , bound for Cupidon Villas, in a state of miud easier imagined than described; and yet I had often read descriptions of it in i novels which professed to describe aristo cratic life, and often had seen upon the ! stage (although principally in farces; the husband racked by iealous pangs. Vi hat had there men to laugh at in that. I wondered now f Why should the tendered! emotions of thp human beart be made the subject of button But what a wickcu-lonking set ot houses were these which I was now passing! If bricks end mortar and especially stucco can look vicious, certainly St. John's Wood possesses patent for What number, Sir? shouted my driver, through the little hole in the roof. This is Cupidon Willas." 44 1 am sorry to hear it," groaned I, pass ing my poekct-handkerchiei over my brow r'"J .wv. y "'J "v.... i Don t mind me, my good man' (for his . it I k .. ' I ..... .. . I ... . " countenance evinced much dismay at my ! voice ami manner) ; " 1 know it is not your fault that I am miserable. Please to pull j up at No. 0." Ot all the wicked-looking houses iu Cu- i pidon Terrace, No. (5 was, it teemed tome, : the wickedest. The round eve which formed its staircase winked viciously in the i sunlight, and in the garden door was a littie grating, as though for the purpose of! cconnoissance before admittance, which I WU not a little grating to me. The drawtag room shutters were closed. This latter drciiAsUnce rave roe eome satisfaction, since it might signify that Mr. Merrington was dead, but a glance at the gay attire of the servant-girl who answered my sum- ...... .... .. ii.:. .i l . uhjui cut, waj uns groiino oi cousoiauou. "Is Mrs. R within?" inquired I, with a tone of assumed indifference 44 Well yes, Sir but you can't see her just at present. Mr. Merrington has a great objection to Confound Mr. Merrington ! cried I, pushing my way in. 44 1 want to see my wife." Oh, your wife is it, Sir ?" replied the maid, with a giggle. 41 Then of course you can go up, if you please, although it's as much as my place is worth. You will find them in the drawing-room." "What: there r exclaimed I, passion ately, pointing to the closed windows. es, of course, Sir ! That s the room they always sit in." I hey alwtiy sit in ! Then this sort of thing must hare been going on for years! I cleared the two little flights of stairs in a couple of bounds, and hurled open the drawing-room door like a catapult. I found myself in a large apartment. darkened, indeed, upon one side, but well lit hy a huge window (invisible from the trout of the house) at its northern end. In the centre of the room was a raised structure, hung with purple, and rather her tbe resembling a scaffold decorated for execution of royalty, and upon the scat fold sat my wife in an uncomfortable attitude, and with an expression of countenance that she only wears upon those ceremonious occasions which demand what are called 44 company manners." Between her aud the window stood a gentleman with mustaches, and in a velvet coat at an easel, and evidently painting her portrait, lie elevated his eyebrows at my peculiar mode 'of entering the room, and looked toward my wife, as if for an explanation of the phenomenon. 44 It is only my husband, Mr. Merring ton," returned she. 44 Oh, John, I am so sorry that you found me out, for 1 liad meant my picture to be a pleasant surprise to you upon your birthday next week. This was to be my last sitting but one; and nobody knows the trouble I have taken to keep yon ignorant of my coming here. That stupid Emily Jane must have let it out." 44 No, my dear,"said I ; 44 discovered the fact for myself through the telegraph ; and really I I couldn't help coming down to see how the picture was getting on. It was so very kind of you. And, dear me, Mr. Merrington, what a charming likeness! Well, it's not in a very good light, vou see," rejoined he, depreeatingly. 44 Not having a room with a skv light I'm obliged to block up those windows, and manage how I can. It makes the house dark, and, I'm afraid, caused you to stumble at the drawing rom door. Yes,'' s:tid L " that Was just ii ; I very nearly came in bead fb'-t. I- I only thought I d look in on inv war to the city, i won t interrupt vou anothcJ too ment : and, indeed, I have myself no time to lose " I I gave the maid five shillings, sad thinking it would be mom iikely to insure

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her silence a chuck under the chin. Then I wrote to Peabody from Binhill "Row (where my place of business k situated), to tell him that I would not riake a fool of him any longer; but the tad was that, during the last few weeks, . had been making niy wife sit for her pctnre, which he was to come and pass hisjudgment on as soon as it was finished i there was a question as to whether the lover in her hair was an improvement or not But I knew that Emily Jane worn! tell Anna Maria all about it. Hovever, nothing was said until my birthdiy arrived, and with it the portrait, for'vhich the dear creature had saved up her pinmoney, and put herself to the grpatst inconvenience. I declare my heart smote me for my base suspicions when-1 looked upon that honest face, which had never worn paint before. Upon that day she said: "By the-by, John, when that telegraph arrived for nie from Mr. Mijrrington, it didn't make you jealous at 41, did it r 2 4 Oh dear no, my darling f Jearms of you? Impossible!" Not, öf tonren that you are not beautiful enough to im all the world fall in love with you "but I never dreamed of snob a thing." 44 That's ;ill right, .John," said she, kissing me; but there was a wicked twinkle in her kind eyes as she added, diyW : 44 1 am glad to hear you say that, tor Jo you know, my dear, I almost thought y'm icerc juat a little jealous.'' oie The Milkman's Donkey. Bomb forty years ago my husband spent .j f l l t : mm uHiaira in opsin, aim warn mo vn- ' neeeed and heard there quite revolutionized his opinion of donkeys. When habitually overloaded, beaten ami half starved, they undoubtedly become vkious, obstinate and stupid : just as human brings do under similar treatment. But with the peasantry of Spain the jackass is a petted favorite, almost an inmate of the household. The women and children of the family feed him from their hands, and talk caressingly to him. He knows them j all, and loves them all. He will follow 1 Ins master, and come and go at his bidI ding, like a faithful dog. He deKght to have the baby placed on his back, ami to walk round with him gently on the green sward His intellect expands in the sunshine of affection, and he that is quoted as the stupidest of animals becomes sagacious. They told Mr. Child of a peasant in the ntüfuborhood. who had fief many vears carried milk Into the market of Madrid to supplv a set of customers. Every morn ;ng he and his donkey, with panniers well loaded, trud -vd their accustomed round. One morning, when he was attacked by sudden illness, and had no one to send with his milk, his wife advised him totru-t tin faithful animal to go by himself, since be always knew just where to stop. The panniers were accordingly filled with can isters oi mdk.and the priest of the village wrote a request to cus'omcrs to measure their own milk and send back tbe empty vessels. The donkey was instructed, and set off with his load. The door4vlls in Spain have a roue hanging outside the house to which is appended a wooden handle, or the hoof of some animal. The donkev stono. d hfam tin- him of everv customer, and. afler eraitin what, he deemed a sufficient time, he nulled the rone with his month. Wbta he had ron the entire round, he trotted home with the empty canisters. He continued to do thii for several days, and never missed a cutomer. Lydia Maria (JhUd. The Hornet. i;v josh niLLiNos. TU hornet is a iullamible bugger, sud1 den in his iinpreshuns and hasty in his ' conclusion, or end. His natral disposishen t. a warm cross ; between red pepper in the pcxl and fusil I oil, and hiz moral bias iz, 44git out ov mi way." They hav a long, black boddv, divided I .i i. in. i t A. . i a. ii..!. luu JJUUUIC OV a WH1SI NpOl, mil IIICIT nhisikal imi.orta'nce lavs at, the terminus ()f their suburb, in the shape of a javelin. This javelin iz alwuz loaded, and stand raddy to unload at a minuit's warning, and enters a man az still az thought, az spry az liteninfr and az full ov ntelinknffv az the toothake norm t nomr 'iMvi mm- UinT Mttk awl nv their differences mr onlnVmi hv letiw,r their javelin fly. and are a, certain to j, r sa iniile iz. '1 his lm! v kritter lives in congregations j numbering about one hundred souls, but whetlier thev are male or female, or c-on-f aervatife. or matched in bonds ov wedi,K.fc or whether they are Mormons, and a p-omi ,anv ov them kline- together and j keep one husband to save expense, 1 don't I . 1 Kno nor don t kare . j never hav e examined their habits much, I never kotisidcred it healthy. Hornets biU their nest wherever they take a noshun to, and seldom are disturbed, tor what would it profit a man to kill 90 hornets and hav the one hundredth one hit him with hiz javelin? Thoy bild their nests ov paper, without enny windows to them or back doors. They hav but one place ov admission, and the nest iz the shape OV an overgrown pineapple, and iz t ut up into just as menny bedrooms as their iz hornets. It iz very simple to make a hornet's nest if you kan, but I will wager enny man :I00 dollars he kant bild one that he :ould sell to a hornet for half price. Hornets are az blzzy as their second couzzins, the bee, but what they are about the Lora only knows ; they don't lay up enny honey, nor enny money ; they seem to be bizzy only jist for the sake ov working all the tune: they are alwua in az much ov a hurry az tho they waz going for a dokter. I suppose this uneasy world would grind around on Its axle-tree onst in 24 hours. tyiui ef there want enny hornets, pete must be good for sumthing, hi but horbut 1 can't think now what it iz Thare hain't been a bug made yet in vain, nor one that want a good job, thare iz ever lots ov human men loafing around blacksmith shops, and cider mills, all over the country, that don't teem to be necessary tor anything but to beg plug tobacco and swear, and steal water-melons, but yn let the cholera break out once, and then y ii will see the wisdom of having jist sich nun laying around ; they help count. Nex tew the cockroach, who stands tew the bond, the hornet haz got the most waste stuminuk, in reference tew t he rest ov his hotly, than enny uvthe msec popu lashun, and here iz another mystery what fn 'arth duz a hornet want bo mutch reserved corps for? I have jist thought tew carry hiz jave nn in ; thus yu see, the more we diskovcr about things the more wc are apt to know . a 111, always a ginui purciiasc lew pay out our last surviving dollar for wisduin, and wisdom is like the misterlnus hen's egg, it ain't laid in yure hand, but iz laid away under the barn, and yu have got tew mreh for it. J lie nornei iz an unsiiosnai kuss, he ir. more haughty than he iz proud, heiz a thoroughbred bur, hut his breeding and refinement lot made him like sum other folk I kno ov, dissatisfied with himself and every boddy else, too much good breeding acKts ims way sometimes. Hornets are long livod I ksnt state ii&t now long tneir nves hh". nut know from iastiukt aud obscrTasliun that enny kritter. lie he liig oi he he ilevil, who I, mad al the lime and fnM every good chance hi kau nit, tjeueraWy Mit lives all his nabi rs The only good way to ipt at the ah I meui'r weurni nv in nornei is Tew mich him, let him It i I you once with his javelin and you will lie willing to testify in court

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ti a that sumbody run a one-tined pitchfork into yer ; and az for grit, 1 will state for the informashun ov tnoze who havn't had a chance tew lay in their vermin wisduin az freely az i hav, that one single hornet, who feels Well, will braku up a large camp meeting. What the hornets do for amusement is another question i' cent answer, but sum ov the best read, and heavyest thinkers amung the naturalists say they hav target excursions, and heave tlieir juvelins at a mark, but i don't imbibe this assershun raw, for i never knu enny body, so bitter at heart, az the hornets' arc, to waste a blow. Thare iz one thing that a hornet duz that i will giv him credit for on mi books he alwuz attends tew his own bizziness, and wont allow anv boddy else tew attend tow it, and what he duz iz alwuz a good job, yon never see them altering enny thing, if they make enny mistakes it iz after dark, and aint seen. If the hornets made haff nz many blunders az the men do, even with their javelins, cveryboddy would laffat them. Hornets are clear in another way, they hav found out, hi tricing, that all they kan git in this world, and brag on, iz their vittles and clothes, and yu never see one, sending at the corner " ov a street, with a twenty six inch face on, bekausc sum banker had run oph, and took their money with him. In ending oph this esa, I will cum tew a stop, by concluding, that if hornets was a HfCTU more pensive, and hot SO darned peremptory with their javelins, they might be guilty of less wisduin, but more charity. Rut yu kant alter bug natur, without spilting it for ennvthing else, enny more tlum von kan an elephant's egg. New York 'Weekly.. CHAKITY. "Ami now ahideth Faith, Hope, Charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Charity." It is a hopeful sign in a young man when his meditations on heavenly virtues are so deep and earnest as to causo him, almost uncoifSclously, to repeat aloud to himself passages of Iloly Writ, as did Dr. Norton, riding slowly home in his sulky, one dear June afternoon, tue above quoted verse. But when we confide to you that he had just come from well-to-do Farmer Abbott s, whose three blooming daughters were severally named Faith, Hope, and Charity, it may reasonably be doubted whether the handsome young doctor's meditations were as much on heavenly virtues as on earthly. Tt was rather a pretty tableau that he interrupted when he "stepped into the Abbott's cozy siuing-ioom that afternoon and s niehow its memory haunted him still. The wheels of Iiis light sulky made 1)0 noise as the? rolled over the grassy lawn In front of the house, and with all the freedom of an intimate acquaintance he sprang lightly to the steps, then in through the open door without knocking, and waste their midst before they knew ' him to be anywhere near. Now Charity, the youngest of the sisterly trio, hail thai very day purchased a pair of new gaiter boots, and at the very moment when he darkened the doorway, was exhibiting them for tbe opinion of her mother and sisters. So she stood in the middle of the room, her dress raised jiut tar enough to SbOW Ihc liim hoot.', , little lrip of tmowy rtockinjr, and, above all. the faintest suspicion of dimity ruftling. Down went the' dress, however, when she suddenly saw j her trio of spectators changed to a guartette, and up, up to the very verge ot her ! brown hair, mounted the rosy blushes;, but the burst of laughter from her mot her snd sisters at her discomfiture, restored : her composure. i "I'd like to know your opinion of niy new boots, Dr. Norton? said the little puss, saucily, walking up to him, determined to face it bravely out, and thrusting forward one dainty toot. "Hum, weli," said the doctor, with as much gravity as though he were pronounc ing on a case of malignant typhus, "let! us see. ( loth, but that s no objection if von always remember your rubbers in the damp. Heel rather too high; if I were a cobbler I d take a half inch off that; but i lerluips you'll stand it if you ve been used to that sort ofthing. Don't pinch anywhere do they ! Consumption soled? No, j is 1 live, irood. honest, half inch soles: J hink they'll do, Miss Charity." " What is your consultation fee?" said i Charity, gravely, pulling out a neat portmonnaie. " Five dollars iu so important a case as this," replied the doctor, subsiding into a cosy rocking chair, " but don't pay me the money; 1 11 take this chair for a few mo- ; nienls, and a glass ol water, ami call it even; so Charity went for the water. When she came in with it he was just making known his errand. ' I've been to see old M rs. Wells. Bhc is very low, won't last much longer : but the family arc all worn out, and 1 agreed to tend a watch for to night. So I called to see if one of yon ladies wouldn t go. " 1 cau t 1 m sure, stud Mrs. Abbott, promptly. " I haven't been able to watch for years; but one of the girls could go." " 1 shouldn't like to go into such a place,'' said Faith, "thev are so poor, and every thing seems so disagreeable there and her handsome face expressed such lofty disdain that for a moment Dr. Norton felt quite ashamed that he had ever made such a suggestion to one so gracefully fastidious. "I should be really afraid to go, and Hope raised her soft blue eyes timidly to him. " What if the poor creature should die in the nigldr" Hope Abbott looked iuvf what she was, a gentle, confiding girl, and we must pardon our young hero if the thought did pass through his head, what pleasure it would be to cherish and protect one so lovely dl his life. I II go," said Charity, quietly, I m not afraid, aud if the place is disagreeable 1 can endure it for one night. Even if the poor creature should die, I can call the family." "les, certainly," said the outer Dr. Norton, while the Inner man was coin me n ting : "Most sensible of the three sMers ! Heboid true Chanty ! "liu very glad to have found a suitable watcher for the night, and alo much obliged to you, Miss Charily," said he, as he took his leave a few moments after. "The family will till you all about the medicines and drinks, and I shall be over myself in the morning unless 1 hear of her death previously. Keep up good courage, snd take good care of yourself. Oood-day." And with a wave of his hand to the whole family he whirled away in a cloud of dust, the noble, prepossessing young doctor, whom half the girls were breaking their hearts for, hat who, as they indignantly averred, seemed to have not the least bit of a heart to give anvliody c p t his patients, to whom he made himself very dear, no matter who thej wert, or how old and repui sive. His breakneck pace, however, subsided into a slow walk as he rode up the hill beyond, and it was then that his reflection gave rise to the seriptnrcd quota tion which heads this story. That evening, just at sunset, Charity Abbott went leisurely down the meadow path across lots from her pretty homo to the humble cottage of the Wtlls family. The grass waved and surged around fn the evening breeze, a sea of billowy green, 5etnmed with tall, nodding buttercups. !he delicious breath from the crimson clover on the hillside came wafted to her like purest incciute, aud aliUW tnriker on, a taint delicate odor from the lonlainb, fold of 1 1 raw berries ripening to bis ions swi ( tue down among th rank grass and weeds. The iK'bclÜlk maided I hcireaucy Mach caps' at her as thev followed along In Mendly nnnlintlj . I rlin ng forth, mi ni while, their unintelligible jargon, rich

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30, I860, and clear in its silvery sweetness; and thus attended she traversed slowly the long meadow path, drinking in at every step the beauties of earth "iind sky and cloud. Down the little hill which hid her home from view, then through a huge gate which opened a little Way -with its creaking swwep, letting through her agile form, then around the corner of a field of rye, already standing stout and tall, and she entered a little pine grove. The breeze was whispering and sighing in the waving branches, making a sweet, pensive music which chimed pleasantly with her thoughts, so attuned to nature' harmony, and she lingered in the charn ig grove a little, pleased with everythü-? even the soft, brown carpet which the fallen leaves made under her feet. Regarding it then, and not till then, she noticed that she had on her new gaiters. Provoking! The morning dew would nearly spoil their beauty, but it was not worth while to go clear back again: so, resolving t) make the best of it, she passed on out of the bars and down a little piece of dusty road to the brown little house which was her destination. The soft, clear summer night passed slowly away, the patient watcher moving quietly about, doing all that sympathy could prompt for the poor old woman now so nearly beyond the reach of her gentle ministrations. With a touch as though the invalid was a dear friend, she chafed the aged limbs, smoothed back the snowy hair from the wrinkled face, and bathed the aching head. Unwearied were her intentions, and much were they needed by the worn sufferer, until toward morning they took effect, and she sank away into a quiet, peaceful sleep. Still Charity sat by the bedside, driving away with her fan the villainous mosquitoes that persisted in annoying her charge, and at the Bame time creatine with it fresh currents of air for the comfort ol the sufferer, whose were well nigh wasted away. lungs At sunrise the family was up, and Charity was released from her post, glad to go forth in the fresh morning air, after her wearisome night. The fresh ray 8 of the morning sun shone full in Dr. Norton's face, musing him from i a night of unusually quiet and undisturbed I sleep. To visit old Mrs. Wells was his lirst , thought, and he made a hasty toilet and ' started out. A sudden determination seized him to go across the lields on foot, instead of takimr his horse to go around by the road, which was twice as far. The morning was so invigorating that he felt as if the walk would be a decided benefit, so he struck into the path across the pasture, which, at the rye field, came into the path Charity traver.-ed the night before, and walked briskly on. Mindful id' the well being of her new gaiters, Charity picked her way carefully along the road, wetting them in the dewy grass when she tried to avoid the dust, and covering them with dirt when she I tried to avoid the dew by taking the mid- i dleoi! the road. Once in the shadow of i the pines, she paused to look at them in disgust, when a brilliant thought struck her. Why uot doff shoes and go hare- , foot ? It wiu PW wtrm mikI plcvt -;t m , finu the path smooth and soft. 1 here was no I danger of meeting any one, and ihe could slip in unobserved by the back door at home, so that even her watchful mother need not know it. To plan was to execute j with this active young lady, aud seating herself on a fallen tree trunk by the path, she quickly bared her feet, rolled tbe snowy stockings into a snug ball which she put into her pocket, light knotted to- J gether the strings to her gaiters so she might hang them over her arm, then rose and went bravely onward, congratu- ! Utting herself on her brilliant idea. Alas j for the frailty of hum in calculations! Out of the pine wood, along by the edge of 1 the thrift) rye, and there was Dr. Norton, himself, just coming around the corner, Within ten yards of meeting her, palpably and undisguisediy barefoot as she was, with her skirts caught up to avoid the dew, and h'-r new gaiters carefully strung ' across her arm. It was a trying moment for Charity Abbott, and all sorts of wild thoughts careered through her mind at once, though she still kept on her way, since it was too late for concealment. Yesterday s blushes, when he caught her showing her new gaiters, were as white a.s roses to peonies compared with the burning red which suffused her cheeks and forehead, and even crimsoned her shell like cars. That he should think her so careful and 'enuriousaa to save her new gaiters at Jie expense of her feet her confusion overwhelmed her. What thoughts passed through his mind we Will not pretend to say, but it is certain he then and there discovered that he was fully in love with the girl before him, whom hitherto he had thought he only half loved. So careful, and so modest a girl as her blushes betokened her to be, could but make her a prudent, fsithful wife. The Unplose of the moment came over him, and he yieldcd to it, so that when at last they met, and he took her hand to say "good morning," he looked frankly Into her clear eyes and said instead, in a quiet way, "Charity Ab- j bott, will you be my wife?" Charity A answer is not on record, but we are told that not many months after i she bought for herself a pair of snowy satin slippers, and that her feet were shod with them as she stood dressed in pure wuite nv Lr. norcon a sums in ner lathers large pnrlor, while the gray haired minister said to them some very solemn words from all of which we infer that her answer at that embarrassing moment was not especially discouraging. Never Raise a Child by the Hand or Wrist. It is a common practice of nurses and parents to grasp children by a single hand or wrist, and lilt them bodily, as in step ping over gutters, streams, etc. ccasionally a child is seized by the hands and swung around with great force, the body being held nearly at right angles. This feat is not always followed by immediate ill effects, but it is liable to result in most serious injury. At this period ol life, the ends of the long bones are united to the shafts by cartilage, which renders them weak and very liable to be distorted by force. There are three of these bones iu the arm : one between the shoulder and elbow', and two between tho elbow and wrist. The arm ot the child Is, therefore, very weak. When extension is made at he hand, the force is not expended upon long, firm bones, but rather upon bom s broken at several points, and very loosely uuitexl. A small force, tar less than is required, to lracture a fully formed bone, will separate the cartilaginous portions, or permanently bend '.hem. There is lleo another form of injury which may oceur at the instant. Of this I have seen several exaniole. It consists in a slight displace ment of the cartilages in one of the joints, ... ., .... I..-. Cl 1 1 IC r I lie i IM oi nmin, luniuniiri i i ii , swelling, and tenderness The joint is Axed in a semi Hexed position, aud the little sufferer will not allow it to be moved or even handled. It can be i nily rectified by a surgeon, by forcible flexion and extension. Finally, by lifting child in thh manner the ligaments about the joints may be extended, and this will washes the joints, and this weakness may remain as a permanent disability. An Eminent lhya.c an, iu Hearth and Home. A oi.oomy octogenarhm wa complaining to Auberof the hard necessity ol growing öW. "Tlard as it is," replied the veteran composer, " it seeau n me the only means yet discovered of enjoying hoig life.M At m recent wedding reception in Tlr.klyn, there was present a gentleman who Wre a f'jo,000 soltaire diamond pin.

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FACTS ATfD FIGURES. Bhigiiam Yocxo weighs two hundred and forty pounds avoirdupois. It is said that operatic singer eat an early breakfast on the day thev are oineto sing. s 6 The late Henry Keep left four million dollars, which will be a fine keep-sake for the heirs. PnoFEsson Judas Dana, of Rutland, Vt., has a copy of Virgil printed over three hundred years ago. The first newspaper published in Virginia, a weekly Issue, in 170, was ."iO a year subscription. Harky Schmidt, a newsboy on the Kentucky Central Railroad, haa fallen heir to a fortune in Germany of 13K,000. It costs eight hundred dollars a year to clothe the hand of the Empress Eugenie with appropriate gloves. A Fr.ENcn lady was detected, the other day, in trying to smuggle through the New York Custom House six poodles, stowed in her pockets. A stoky is told of a belle at White Sulphur Springs who, according to a vow. accepted the one hundredth man who proposed to her. The largest tannery in the world is at Kane, Pa. It is not yet finished, but haa IKK) vats in operation, and consumes l-fyKK) tons of hemlock bark per year. Rxv. J awns Dunnonow, an Episcop-ii clergyman in Philadelphia, recently solemnized his 1.000th marriage c eremony during a fourteen years' pastorate. Some one has sent to Postmaster-General Ureswell 500 for the widow and children of Secretary Rawlins, with the request that his name shall not be mentioned in connection with the matter. Tiiekk is a letter in the Postoflice at Richmond, postmarked Savannah, Ga., directed ss follows: "To Mr. Porter, a young man in Richmond, Va., whose Iirst name I have forgotten." The Brooklyn Mercantile lihrarv is a figorotu and floarisluog institution. Ii j has on its list 23,000 books. The member- ; ship is about 8,0 o. Thirteen thousand dol- ' h rs arc to he expended annually in the . purchase ot new volumes. Tiik largest manufactory of gas fixtures m the world is in Philadelphia. They have built the largest chandelier in the! 'world for the Philadelphia Academy of. i Music Id feet in diameter, 25 feet long, ; j with '"0 burners. A MARRIED couple in the Palatinate wi re about to make a journey by cars from Geretersheim to Dürkheim, and missed the train; the man began to abuse his wife ;j ! she returned disabuse with interest, which ; exasperated him so much that he pulled out a pocket pistol and shot his wife aud himsclt. Thk Young efen'a Christian Association : of this country has a membership-of '.M,1 000, having property to the value ot $:,- ;;."), 00;. Nearly 3,500 conversions are attributable to their efforts. There ar" 000,000 of younjz men in our land. :tnd only 250,000 profess to be Christians. Thk full strength of our navy actually on duty, in ships and guns, is stated to be as follows: Werth Atlantic squadron, 10 ships, (8 guns; Sooth Atlantic, 4 ships, 4:5 guns; European fleet, S ships, ;" gaits; Pacific, 11 snips, 77 runs; Asiatic, 9 ships, 53 guns; on special duty, J ships, M guns. This force could be trebled at short notice. John Coffin, of Chichester, X. EL, recently seised by the tail a black snake which had taken refuge under a roch. Coffin held on at one end and the snake at the other, and the result was that the snake parted, breaking open in the middle. The two pieces, when put together, measured six feet in length. A FRENCH Canadian girl, aged nineteen years, was killed a few days ago, at the St. Alexandre Station, near Iliviere du Loup, in attempting to cross in front of an engine. Her mother remonstrated, and said the train was too near, but the father suid, "Go, you can do it, if you're smart." The girl was crushed beneath i the engine wheels. The entire cost of the Suez Canal, to be opened next, December, has been sbont i $S 1,000,000. But to include improve ments, which will be spplicd SS experience may suggest, we may safely set the sum at i $85,000,000. It is estimated by some authorities that the annual business of the canal will amount to 10,000,000 tons, and ! Utat its gross receipts will be $30,000,000. Thk Hottentots living in Cape Colony, South Africa, number in all 7l,(.K0 Many of them are rising in the scale of education, civilization and religion. In one of their towns, having a population of over 1,000, they have lately built a Christian chapel which will accommodate about 000 hearers, and it is gem rally crowd' 1 with sober and attentive worshipers. Tun is a straight forward, broad shouldered, honest drayman standing every day with his team al the corner of Third avenue and Twenty -third street, who OBCC lived where .Mr. Field now resides in Qiammercy Park, and whose father owned all of what is now I'ni 00 Square, and much of the neigboring land. He bears his downward turn of lortunc i quite bravely. Nrw Yerk Mail At Jamaica, L. L, a few day ago, Lewis Carter, a colored man, descended Lato a well to take out the tube of an iron pump. At half past :t the earth and stones fell upon him, and be remained thirty seven feet below the surface until extiicated the following night at half past it. BTe wai interred thirty two hours. 1 K ax y fttonei lodged on his shoulders and pressed against his sides, and he was unable to move. He was entirely without light, but air reached him through crannies between the stones. He experienced no bodily pain, and Iiis menial sonmtioas were hot distressing, inasmuch as the sounds above gave him ai tu ranee of rescue. After working the whole of the first night, the laborers were gratified at daybreak to hear the man's j voice. His head was uncovered in the ahVrnoon, and brandy was administered to him, but it required six hours more to release Iiis body. When drawn up he was weak fion bruises, but perfectly able to walk to his home, leaning on the arm of a friend. Beyond being stiff and sore from the contusions received, he was in no way injured. Bobsk-Racing Amo.no thk birjIABB. Rodlander," a New Orissss coiwifiaisal of ess luii'. JnlLu.! '.(. ni: llii toll.. in: -loi ol n rate Tn tin Creek nati.ui. where the raring authorities bsttaved that weight no objection if it were well placed, and that It wa an advantage i SSTS two riders - SM lO Whip and ihm- lo ull : " .ner Mnie trading, inin h talk, and BSSshers of driuks. the Indians proposed to inn a large In re that Uey had agatM Ihe pony a qnarl-r ol a no I.-, and bet two to one nil I lie Mg ol"' nsJ the double WkVK The while- man n willim; to run. but Jn-!iit : .(. iei tin roll. .win m.h oi 1 objected i, the rjdew 1 w very innll. himI co rv. ah he had bin on.', ana nr nl. I do but tint.' in tli- way ot whipping an.l pulling- After iinu h pow wow ing it wa- rompromWd bv Ihe wlui.- man agreeing that the Indians might tide the big-.-ot man in the nation. The race w as etOSea and run. and won by the little pony and UttM Uy. as we would have cipectod. Oat the Indian sUrfhatea the defcwl of their ravorile to Ihn fact that h- carried but nie ri.b-r. After much eoiiMiltation and talk with their jockey (a iVi Saratoga .Indpcfo the Indiana propowd to race over, provided their horse wa allowed two rider and tli- while m n put up dollar for dollar. The white man agreod, provided th- ladlsa Keys came i" -eile not tnniiinq one hundred pound each Thi wa accepted, Ute race run. and won by the little pony and boy. M ill IV 1 1 I Mil M II i fl 1 1 1 lie w 2? n film I' MH l ll-M'tl to hat. It UM kntm liotliiiur aUmt :i mrr In bo walk.-r 1 hnr-ton tun.l he was a harp onel ncd ran. and von nnet ixM on it or freeze, alwav inn - tw ' W unit Ka . v It va ... . . tms,. 1m Iv. k t on the liitle-t boy." The Indian were terribly iurftaed. After ch ine; them a day or two to recover coufldeuc, the wiuie man psopwasd to rtintliem S Other rs? . l-t them two to one. mi. I the Indian mir. lit pot no a male) and a lari. rider as thy pISSSSsT, and In- ihe white mau would run hi pony pi UAomt any rid.-r nll lo whip or pull him. Thi o-rv liberal piopo-uion the Ipdian repetful ly declined, declaring: they would run no n.ofiAee with the whltS man. beeMlle he WH- : .! hurt1 medicine and coulu not be beaten."

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NOTHING IS LOST. NoTirrxo ! lot. The drop of dew That temhlee oa the leaf or flower Is hut exhaled to fall anew In pnmmf rV thunder rfiower : Perchance to Uiae within the bow That fronts the xnn at fall of day ; Perchance to xparkle In the flow Of fountain far away. So with onr deed, for pood or ID, They have their power acarce undent OOd. Then let m ne our better will To make rbem rife with good ; Like circles on a lake they go. Kins' withiu rii.e. and never stav. Oh '. that our deed w ere fi-hioued i That they might hies ahvay. Fishing with a Beardless Hook. Some months ago, business led me to an out-of-the-way place, where, near by a fall of water, there lived two boys, one eight and the other ten. They were brighteyed, inquisitive little chaps, but generally without either hat or shoes, and often with pants and jacket sadly rent. Busied as I was in the repairs of an oi l mill, these hoys were handy to semi on errands, bring tools, look after mv horse turned out to bait in the mad, and do numberless little things to save tin steps of those who were older. One day, on reaching the mill, I saw the oldest boy standing upon a rock, partly hidden by the foliage of the surrounding trees, fishing, and as often as he f-p ?i nibble he would jerk his line a spitefully out of the water as though he bore the little fish some terribh grudge, and wanted to pay it by twitching their heads off. I asked him why he did so, and explained as well as I was able the best modes ef takine such fish as made the little brook their home. After hearing me patiently and respectfully, he said : " Mit r, yon fi-di with a hook that has got a beard on it, and when you hook one he stays. Ky book han't got any beard. It's an old broken one that Liger Green gave inc. I ha n't nt any money to buy a new one. Mother wants the pennies you gave me. I like to fish like to cat h 'cm for mother, and I have to twitcli 'em when they bite, orthey wih wiggle off, and I shall lose 'em.'' I liked the talk of that boy. He did not grumble alxmt his old hook, but did the best he could with what he had to do with; and day after day, as I saw him doing it, and taking to his mother the reward ol his toil which bed cost him so much care and thought and skill, 1 knew that he was laying with that alder rod in hi hands the foundations of a erand charact r. That is the w ay Bonoe QlYJCfcy l-g;m. Ik-fished awhile with a beardless hook. His father ems very poor, and he had scarcely any books, and what he had he was obliged to read by the dim light ot pine-knots which hi own forethought had gathered; but he is now one of the ablest writers, as well as one of the most influential men in Ameriea. And so with John Jacob Astor. Be bad no money, or comparatively none, when he cum' to this country, but he wanted to trade, and so he carried hi- little bundle ef ! goods around under bis arm or in bis j hand. He fished with a beardless hook. , Afterward he bought furs, aud canted ; them on his back hundreds of miles to I market, and when he died he had grown i from absolute poverty tobe the richest i man in the country. There is scarcely a great man or a good ; man on this side of the Atlantic that did ' not have a tough time in his boyhood, did not lish awhile with a beardless hook ; and of all the boys now in the country, those ' only will arrive at eminence who do the best the- can with what tin y have to do I with; never complain, but pan cheeffulj ly and resolutely m in the Bath that leads j upward to a nobl 0 BSad good and grand I manhood. Jkatik sd Ilunc. The Little Slate. "Thkrk. I did mean to sew these huttons on Fred.'s jacket before night. I hr..T" thought of it just in time, for lie must have it early in the morning. I do forget so many things I have to do,' said Lucia Warren to good Aunt Patience, who was visiting her for a d:iy or two. "You can wait a few minutes for me, can't you, aunty f 1 will not be Ions;; and Lucia wont to g t lier work, taking off her gloves, and throwing luck her veil. It whs troublesome to stop ju-t as she was going out, but the work must be done. Indeed, it was nothing so very unusual, as Lucia seemed always forgetting thimrs, as she said. "I will tell you an excellent plan I have followed for rears, said Ann; Patience. "It is that of keeping a little slate w ith a pencil attached, hung up in some convenient place, and notins: down oa it all the things I wish to do. 11 you like, we will buy such a slate while we are out, and I will get you started in the same ystesav Lucia entered into the scheme with great enthusiasm, an.l that night -aw MM side of her little slate well covered with items she wished to remcmb: r. She did not attempt to cbis-ity them, but ootid them down in just the older she happi at 1 to think of them Aunt Patience tlid not wish her to undertake too much at once. The ciasiucnlion would come afterwards. The other side of the slate had SUMSI reserved lor tomorrow's duties. A regular plan w:-s not laid down for the whole day. with the hours set to them: for aunty knew that no house-mother could hringau tin rest of her household to time in such matters, even it she could herself By un leit.ikiug too much, young boaarmcepen are often discouraged, KB 1 gitC up all v ft tS at systematizing. It was the ground plan only of her work which was laid down, but" it helped her wonderfully all throu :ii the day. It was such a satisfaction lo draw a line through anything which had been completed : and then, by gfauM ing her eye down the list, hc was bjh not to forget just the thing she ought most reBseesher. In time, the little date came to he regarded as one of the nt useful article of furniture about the house. It sa red hours of time and dollars of waste, b ides adding fully a third to the family com! rl and convenience. If you an sceptical, hang up one in vour own home, and DUHM nil il as Lucia did, and I do not doubt but you will arrive at a similar conclusion. If the youthful reader will begin early the practice of making a memorandum of the duties to be performed each day, ami discharge those duties in their proper season, a habit will be formed which proveof incalculable benefit in after year-. Exchange. A tienerous Huband. Peuhap 15 or I years ago. in a very good Mate, 1 saw a woman wuh a pleasant Quaker face, under a simple Quahi r bonnet 1 rather liked it and horÜoah' r husband sitting bv her with his broad brimmed hit on. 'Tiny had spent many years together, vou could see by their "faces. liewas jtisl bidding her goodliy as the train was starling, and I beard h r L- for a little UlOUeV. I did Hot at I all wish to hear what they but I heard that be had bought her ticket, ami rt.v j,,. taken in l s.u, n. i pom. .v a his arm she bated to ask him o - the money: a gd many oth r woven hare bated to ash for it, too. she U-gau i to say, " 1 wish 1 had a little" , did not want to finish, thinking that ht would think of it and give it to her; but he did not. So out it came all at once, : " Mav be 1 11 want a little mom y while I am "gone." The good, honest Qanhse i turned his face toward her with surprise, ..1 'Wliit bast tli.-U don.' the quarter 1 gave Ihee lust week Laughter and appkuisi .Fr-m Lucy '' . ( ehnssa. Dinmii enHtoaoal haa beca created at Columbus, Mis., by the appearance tbre of lour immens; insects, supp-d t bo Kantian locusts. Tlicv were three tunes a iarue an the common locust, wit li I n . f- " , . i hittk cvrs. It L' of ITtTÄt ttTTOÜtl!, Trtl I .wmmm j n O 1 ... f w i niobirk' like a s!iangii;ii ; incKen, aus " adorned, and a hard shell covering. 'I h like ot them was never seen beton by the oldest inhabitant -M The Episcopal Church Scotland 1 about to admit lay representation, only the laity are not to vote upon .pi ' - l doctfine.