Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 21, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 January 1870 — Page 1

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BY AND BY. BT L. D. Xirnnw. n-KN Bttti childish hum, Wh' for fftiirifd food they slijh, Mtft the h pe-lefrring word " By ami by, dear ; by and by." Wlien will Johnny be a man I.ik-5 p ipa. o tall and hiirn When can hu Bit up at night?" M By aud by. dear ; by and by." W hen will winter o away? h-n will coma Fourth V July?' Whru can Nell long dr wear? ' By an i by, dear ; y and by." " Br.n1 bJ" tb country teem V !i re J! gloriea waiiinc lie : And hen diiiayvnointmenr com?. Tuar are dried Witt " By and by." f- M h bright hope the yonng hearts form, IrfMgiKgi fond, amottiotn hiirh. Watt Vneath. the rainbow-arch the laud of " By and by." tlMae ;rnwn, "tia y-t the same : Though the raiubows farther fly. Mocking oft onr esjrer chase. We prcaa on K By and by." II on or there, and true Iotu crowned. Gold, and all that gold can btiv ; rreMit toil, ick "hope defcrr-. d," We can bear till " By and by.' "Year roll rni-omc fair, some al Aire and death are ill en Im nijli; Look we npward -onward tili To the rve Ü M lly and by M Merry's Museum. PLATING KITTEN. Hat yon neu a kitten pay with a ball SJm rlWtehM it tight in h-r aharp little c'a.vs. To-"oh It np. and then k-ta It fall j Koils it away, and, af'.er a paWM, ltring it again to her ide ; with a spring. Mound? tar from it with motion active. Yet ner for an instant, liwes the thins: Oh! a kitten playing is very attractive lout 90 a maiden play with my heart ; A moment he hold It meshed in her miles. Then -e.-m to forget mi and turns apart : And. when 1 am almo-t freed from her wiles, Calla dm iM.-k with a giaaea 0 aweet That or,'v her fn the world I see. Ai d aain 11. c ipltvi before her feet. Though I k:r w she u playing kitten with me. Hart'inl Advocate. MIVJ2LLAXE0U8. A MTKnEI OTERNooN. BT HEBSCCA IIA R I I.N 'i DAVIS Tup; wind nfF the Delaware was keen. It reddened the noses of the pretty young girls hurrying home up Chestnut street, and brightened their eyes ; their plaid riwdrj and scarlet plumes tluttered; the red onset glittered on the windows; people called gayly to each other as they passed ; out off very area window came savor' whirls of dinner. The world to Sam Ben let bod never seemed more .insultingly (rood-humored. ' BW d'vn like this blow, Sm! Smells wintarish, eh?" " ilow goes it, Bender?" " nal s the ir od new?, Sam !" Bei let turned at this. It was little Joe 1 ouston, one of his fellow-clerks, who bod clapped him on the bark. Good news ! no good news," turning gruffly away. Yet he wished the fantastic" little reDow would stay with him. He felt terribly alow as he had never done before in all his life things had reached men a narrow strait with him to-day. "Tut, tut, Bender! You're morbid since you've been sick. Do you think you're the first mm that's had typhoid ?" I've lost more than health. I find tolay Stooeh stopped my salary after the first week." 44 Whew ! But, after all, what's money, boy Can sordid dost make the booom's lord sit lighter on hi- throne?'" tapping his gaudy lit'.lc waistcoat theatrically. 44 Anyhow, I don't believe Stouch knew anvthing about it. It's that cursed old M "rris." 44 What does that matter? It's gone. I hove boon suving for year to pay olT the mortgage on our house. I'll have to take ihr money to clear off the debts of the last three months, and the mortgage falls doc to morrow." i That's bad luck, indeed 4 Such a snug little house, too! liow long have you lived there, Sim?" "I was born in it. It's the Bender hometeed I've been saving ever since I was married, to pay off that mortgage. But ilOW ' 44 Mary's done her e'tare of saving, too." Bender was die at a moment. 41 1 have no fault to find with my wife," he said, coldly. " No chance of renewal P 44 None. He is glad of the chance to foreclose." 44 Too bad, too bad !" He was chewing his s.indy mustache. Joe was always fi Igetty and in motion 44 There's Kitty eM ich eoiaing now. She's a brick of a girl ! Know her ! It would he wo;ih a fellow's while to cut in there, hev'r If you've nothing more to say, 1 11 JoU her, Sam," his eagef face growing as red as his hair as the young lady came ,(ear. " I've nothing ni..,rt to say." ,4 Uye, then!" touching his cap and kipping off 0 tuc. gkle of the large, calmeyed hi r je. who was abreast of th m. Hci hf 4yy, lustrous silk brushed against Hon a. hhe brushed by. When Houston i'med her he spoke eagerly, motioning hoch to Sm; then they both laughed. What had induced Bender to make a conßdant of the saanl He cursed his own folly, looking after him as he went skipping along, light as a grass-hopper. Yet he used to think Joe was soft-nearted as a woman. But what did it matter to any sen that he stood there ruined to day, the patient toil of years swept away in one blow? What did the world care? Or iod if there were a God. He looked for a few minutes stolidly over the heads of the gay, moving crowd into the cloudy sky. Only a year ago Sam had been a rigid rhurch member, teaching a class of boys n Ike Sunday-school. He tried to teach I hem to trust in a living Christ, to troot in each other; constantly growing stronger himself from the teaching. Now It was not the loss of money. Bi.t that Mary should have turned from him. He walked down the Street, with hia boo 1 on his breast. Then he came slowly bark to the door of Saul's ware-rooms. In a lew minutes he could know the worst, and he would not shirk it. He did not rememher ever to have notieed this place particularly before. It was a seven-storied, white marhle building the ware-rooms above, and the ground not oeenpied as a sale department. The manufacture was exclusively that of gsj fixtures. The windows, be ride one of which he stood, wi re filled with costly bronzes; the lofty ri-iiintr. of the room within glittered with chandeliers and lusters. Two or three of these great gewgaws would have rid for his home, he thought, Utterly, was strange that, at that moment, when was waiting to know if his wife were lint or tiilse to him, the loss of th- home should have recurred to iiim. But it had beeoane, through lonu years of waiting, of Iwsmj aving and self denial, a mania with lender. " Saul, Crompton A Saul "he read the naini' of tin- firm ov r and over. The Hauls were mfffhont princes Hicksite Friends. lie knew their stately houses out on Lneont street. Tt was CrompCon whom Morris, the overseer, had told him, with so mannings sn tic, was a gay fellow, not to re trusted with so pretty a wife as vour's, Bender?" It was only this morning that Morris had told him this, when he had crept down to the othYe f,,r the first time after his three months' illness. He felt, when he opened Use efltee door, as if it were the ghost of Sam Bender who was going in, Use StOSngUl w:s bo drained out of his iKwly. Then he had, for a long time, noticed the change in Mary how pre oe i upied she was, silent, going about the house with her thoughts tar off. He had not failed to note her long absences, even when he was still ill, and needed, or thought he needed, her constant care. This thing had worked a deep change in him. Sam Bender was not the man to ask ijuest ions or chatter over his jealousy or wounded love. He only put his wife coldly from him, a little spaee, and waited. At the n'st he fancied that she had grown wearied of the sick room and sick man. Bnt when she was put away from him, the soul seemed to grow weak in his weak bndy. They had been a peculiarly loving husband and wife. That morning. Morris had told him first of the stoppage of his salary. 44 Very

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For my part, I am very glad if she has made a pleasant friend. Morris laid down his pen and came outside of the desk railing. 44 Now, don't be offended and sulky, lad." drawing him aide. 4 I'm an older man than you. I know women better. They are neiTOtU and magnetic, especially high spirited, delicat-; women like your Mary, if that' her name. They grow tired of the jogtrot life at home, and the dull, daily talks with their husbands. The' pine for some repetition of the old romantic, lovemaking days. So they form a nlntonic friendship. That's the worst I ever suspected of your wif a platonic friendship. But if she were my wife," emphatically, " I would as Hex another man kissed, her lips as paltered in that fashion with her heart." 44 1 am not afraid." Coldly. M Of coarse not. Ob, certain j not ! I am sorry I mentioned it." 44 On the contrary, I am obliged to you for vour interest in me. But you are mistaken." " W ell, good day, Bender. You'll be on hand to-morrow ? By the way, though, it was odd, now, that Mrs Bender did not mention Crompton to you ?" He was not angry with Morris, though he had tried to blind him as he did. The old ufan wanted to save him and her. He did not go home again, though he had promised Mary to be back by noon. Be told her he would bring the back salnry with him, in time to pay off the pressing bills that afternoon. He would draw the money Irani the savings bank, too, to clear the mortgage. But, on leaving Morris, he had gone wandering aimlessly about the streets, out to Fsirmonnt at last, down between the great wheels, over which the river rushed with a deafening sound. It would be so easy to end it all ! But Bender was a slow, phlegmatic man, not apt to bo moved by any sudden temptation. He came back to Chestnut street in the afternoon. Young Ward met him, one of the clerks of the savings bank. 44 Hello ! Sam. You told me y ui , meant to draw that little pile of yours to day. Bank's just closing. If you want it come along." " Yes, I suppose so, ' following him. " Going to clear your mortgage, eh? That's clever. Well, there you are," counting out the notes and smiling over the counter. Sam smiled back at him. Then he went out, an-! down to Saul A Crompton's He would meet her there, if it was true : the de Til whispered that into his ear as a certainty. He had been standing by the window for an hour when Joe Houston passed. People went in and out of the idiowroonis ; but Mary's slight figure, in the well worn brown snit, was not among them. He peered in now and then through the shinimr vista of gilt work and colored glass, to see Crompton He would know him at the first sight, he knew 41 tall, genial and handsome." There was no one like him among the dapper little clerks. It began to grow dark at last. He went in. 44 Is Mr. Crompton in?" 44 In his private office, sir. Second lloor. Will you walk up?" One of the clerks was coming down the stairs. 41 He is engaged just now, PniL A lady." 44 Will you wait sir," said the first. " Sit down," pushing a stool toward him, seeing how white and weak he was. " I'll go outside, into the air." 44 You may miss Mr. Crompton. He comes down the private stairs often on the other street. Shall I send your name up?" 44 No." He went 'out to the other street. He knew Crompton would come down the private stairs. He knew who would be with him. The door of this side entrance is narrow; there was a fruiterer's stall next to it. Standing in the shadow, Bender wa? almost concealed from view. Half an hour passed. The State House clock struck five. He moved to go away. After all, it might be but a devilish dream. Mary was at home, doubtless, watching at the window for him, with .lackey in her arm.'. The door opened. There was a moDU nt'a pause, and then a nmn's voice : 'Takecare! The stairs are dark. Give me your hand." A ringing, rich voice, such as would belong to a genial, love making Irishman, softened now to a very tender inflection. Then Ihere was a quick, light step upon the sta:rs. Sendet had learned to know it years SgO, They came out together on the pavement. Mary's ilress almost touched her husband; it was her one good dre.-s, the brown silK so long kept for church. She bad a bit of blue chenille, too, twisted in and out of the coils of her black hair. It was many a day since she bad taken that trouble to look fair in his eyes! They spoke together in a low tone, Crompton urging something which she faintly resisted. He prevailed at last, though. ' I will be there at nine, then f raising his voice. 44 At nine if yu will," she said gently. 44 Will it be sate?" 44 Oh, quite safe. He goes to bed early since his sickness. Poor old Sam!" with a nervou laugh. 44 Shall I not go home with you now? It grows late." " No, no. W; may be seen together." He held her 1 and in his a moment, and then she was gr ne. Crompton stood still, looking alter her. Bender came up the pavement and faced him. His face was so ghastly and menacing that the younger man drew luck, and the air died on his lips which be was softly humming. The low sunlight fell on his eh gantly dressed figure as he stood there on the flushed, handsome face, with its full, reddish beard and hair. Sain halted, and then wnt on. " POot levil, I wonder whether women or whisky have driven mad," thought Crompton, beginning his tune again a moment after. Bender went down toward Fourth street, with slow, resolute steps. His old strength seeme.t to have come back to him in the last bar boor. Stopping at a large boarding bOVJSe he ent in for Ward, the bank clerk. They had been old chums in Bender's bachelor days. 44 Lend me your revolver, Horace ; I'll be done with it by to-morrow. Mine is broken and I never bought another." 44 Of course." Ward vanished and reappeared In a moment. 41 What arc you going to shoot, Sam rat'" I euder took the pistol and turned away without speaking. He had been deaf And iilind b every sight or sound of the Rtrcd tunce Mtiry's voice rung in his

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ears. After he was gone his manner recurred to Ward as strange and unpleasant. 4 I believe I'll go after him." h thought. But dinner was ready, and he turned bark into the dark entry; and, being feather-headed young fellow, forgot the whole matter speedily. The pistol was not charged. Bender topped at a shop on the way up the street, and loaded it carefully. It was nearly dark when he reached his own steps. Mary opened the door before he could touch it. She wore yet her silk dress and her pretty collar of fine lace ; her hair was curled about her f;ice ; her cheeks were pink and hot ; her liquid eyes brilliant with a new fire. He saw it all. What was it that Morris had said about their hunger for a repetition of the old love-making days ! She put up her mouth to be kissed, as usual, and when he passed her, hurried In after him, taking his hand. 4' Poor old papa ! He's tired ! Go in, Jackey ; don't worry father now." So skilled in deception already! She was leading him into the dining-room, where supper was spread ; but he put her quietly aside and passed up to his own room. She followed him. 44 You are worn-out. Why did you stay in the work all day?" coining behind him and putting her white hands on his shoulder as he sat staring into the fire. When he did not answer, she drew his head back on her breast and kissed his lips. That kiss set fire to Ine smoldering madness within the man ; but he was always quiet and grave. He looked her steadily in the eyes. How beautiful the face was that bent over him! Some dainty Arie; of a spirit looked out of it which he bad never conquered or owned. He saw that clearly now. She turned away from him at last, and busied herself about the room went down and brought him a cup of tea. The farce of playing the wife over, she became absent, as was usual with her now; her thoughts far off He took out the roll of notes and laid them down on the mantelshelf. 44 There is the mortgage-money." 44 Yes." She did not brighten and Hush as she would once have done. He remembered how often she had taken out her pencil and counted up these savings in a triumphant sum, drawing a little framework of vine about it, and presenting it to him with her joyous little chuckle. She scarcely glanced at the money now. But he would try her further. 44 1 cannot use it for the mortgage. Stouch refuses to pay the back salary." 44 Then the mortgage will be foreclosed to-morrow? And you will lose your home?" She came suddenly close to him, her face colorless, her dark eyes wet and full of pity. Not love. He was not deceive 1. No wonder she had some little compassion for the man in whose bosom she had lain years, on this n.ght when she meant to lly from him. 44 Boor old Sam!" 44 The loss of the house matters little to us now !" 41 Why. i thought your heart was bound up in it." She paused suddenly a keen suspicion flashing into her face. 44 What else have you lost?" For a moment there was silence, the husband and wife looking steadily at each other, the oil lamp burning with uncertain yellow flashes between them. 44 1 do not know," he said at last, in as quiet a tone as though replying to an ordinary question, 14 what there iä left to me. There is nothing on Gods earth that I can call my own H She did not answer by a word ; but stood motionless, with the same penetrating, doubtful look fixed on him. Now, Mary was not naturally a reticent woman; all her emotions bubbled straight to the surface. She had been a gay, giddy girl; and now, when she was a mother, she kept the house alive with what her husband censured as a most numatronly lightheadedness singing, jesting, laughing most of the time, and washing away any trouble in a shower of tears. Her immobility now proved how deep his thrust had wounded her. 44 You've nobody in the world ! Nobody ! Not even mc," she said, slowly, at last. She turned to the window, putting her hand, for support, on an old chair that stood there. It was a worn and shabby chair ; but she had nursed both of the children in it; Jackey and little Jenny .Jenny, who was dead, who would never lie on her breast again. Did she remember? She looked at it, and then at him for a moment; and then, without a word, turned away and left the room. He knew that she VTOUJd never enter it again. It was strange how many of these intuitions, amounting to certainties, came to him to-night. He thought that pain, in this great crisis of his lile, had given him a spiritual clearness of insight. Another person might have suggested that the devil helped him. It was only seven o'clock ; there were two hours vet to pass before the end. He sat by the fire, pushingtho poker between the bars, looking around him. There was nothing in the cheaply-furnished, pretty chamber that had not to-night a terrible meaning for him. He remembered when he had brought that very chair home, two or three weeks afTer Jack was born ; and, lilting Mary out of bed, had placed her in it, and laid her baby in her arms. Thet was only six years ago; 'et he thought of himself then as but ahoy. What a perpetual frolic they made of life then ! Hard at work and miserably poor; but joking away all weariness or want lull of joy and content the world was; hOiv many friends they had then ! He had learned since to see things differently. When he set his heart on paying off that mortgage, it seemed to suddenly open his eyes to the seriousness of life. It aftected his religion. He began to see faults in the old friends who were in the habit of dropping in every day, finding Mary's house so pleasant j he began to fear his own and his wife's spi:i' na character would sutler from contact with them. One by ine he had driven them off. As he stinted and saved more and more to gather this money, his Ideas of duty hardened. Hu had grown old ami trrave, while Mary remained the same cheerful, happy-tempered girl. Tonight, for the first time, a dull doubt tame to him whether he had not been to blame her perpetual goodhumor, her eager interest in people about her, her singing, her noisy romps with Ja- k all had seemed giddy and trivial to him; he had relinked her incessantly for them. "It was a solemn thing to "live ; who could go dancing over graves ?" had come to be a proverb with him. Could he have drifts her from him? Driven her to a man whose temperament suited her own ? He Was standing before a looking-glass, and he could not help comparing his own commonplace, gloomy face, wi'h its stubby black beard, to the gay, winning eountenanee that had won her from him. He put his hand up to hide the face from himself. 44 1 loved her," hesaid, quietly ; thinking that if she had known how much, she would have forgiven him. He sat down again. Searching again for miserable sc erets in the fire. He had become a wiser man since he had been ill. Sitting, staring day after day into the embers, he had learned how utterly hollow the world was, how treacherous were men, and faithless were women. Nothing was true but Hod ; and as God, to Sam Bender, meant his own narrow notions of duty, there was nothing to lilt him out of the ulough in the thought ; there was nothing in it either to check him in the slow, subtle madness that nerved him to his present purose. What maddening fancies those two

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hours brought to the unhappy man, it is needless for us to know. The house remained very quiet. When Jackeya bed-time enme, be heard his mother bring the child to the door, aud opened it for him to enter. But he would not look at the little fellow in his white night-gown, who stood pulling at Ins coat. Beside him, on the mantle-shelf, lay the pistol ready for use. He could not touch or look at the child, but motioned him away, turning his back on him. Eighto'clock came. He heard his wife come again to the door, softly listening. He remained quite still. She should think him asleep. 44 By nine o'clock ail would be safe," was part of her plan. The clock in the hall rang out half-past eight. Nint ! Bender took up the pistol, and, concealing it in his breast, left the chamber. Passing the door of the child's room he laid his hand on the wood, with a sudden, passionate tenderness, as though it had been the boy himself, 44 Jackey ! Jackey!" he cried. To-morrow the child would be alone without father or mother ! It might have been different. But it was too late now. He went down the stairs, and entered a small tinlighted room adjoining the parlor. In another moment there was a roll of wheels on the street, a carriage stopped at the door, and then there was a low ring at the bell. M They carry the matter boldly !" he muttered. Whatever agony of pain the old love that would not be stilled had cost him to-night, was over now; an implacable madness seized him the fury with which the hound pants the moment before it falls upon its prey. They were in hi power. He crept nearer to the door ; held it ajar, his hand upon the lock. He heard Crompton enter, and the next moment the soft rustle of Mary's dress. He could not distinguish her words, but the tones of her voice made him shudder. Not for years had they thrilled with such nervous, trembling joy aa now. She laughed once, a low, hysterical laugh not far from tears. Crompton spoke in a whisper. Once she raise her voice a little. 41 You do not know what to-day is to me ! I have waited for it for years r Bender raised his hand his linger was on the trigger. He pushed the door; but before it opened, Mary left the parlor, going lightly up stidrs. She had apparently forgotten something for her flight. He stood waiting, her steps sounded above him. When she should re-open the door would be his time. She was OO the stairs. One moment more then she broke into the verse ol an old song ; an old silly habit of hers to ing when her heart was full : "Sao trac hit heart. sa -mnotli Iiis pcrli, Mis breath like rallor air ; Iii rerj -K-p ha Baste in"t At he conies up the stair. For them's nae hic k shoo! the house. AtiO BM lach at a'. There's little pleasure. In the house When my LMidem:in SWa.1 It was his song. He had liked it best in their old courting days; be had made her sing the children to sleep with it always. The pistol dropped from his hand. "She is true ! My Ood ! she is true!" He stood there, for how Ion he never knew. He heard the low raurmur of their Voices, The devil, be suro, did not leave him altogether. He fancied her hand in Crompton's their HpS meeting. But the weapon lay at his feet untouched. Why should he not at least open the door? He had a right to their secret, Whether guilty or not. The man trembled. Great drops of sweat wrung out on his forehead. 41 She is my wife. She isatrue woman. Though she kill me, yet I will trust in her." Yet there was nothing to fight back the devil of suspicion but that cheery old song ! The hall door opened and shut at last. There were hurried voices outside, and then the carriage rolled away. Was she gone ? He thrust the pistol in his breast and opened the door. Mary stood there, her Lace flushed, tears in her eyes, folding up a strip ct paper. When she saw him, she spr.ing forward, and hugged him close. 41 The money ! the money !" she sobbed. 41 For the mortgage ! " crying and laughing, till she cried again ; telling him between times that she made it she in her usual tumultuous fashion. 44 Couldn'the understand?" 44 No, I don't understand," he said, sothing and petting her as he Lad forgotten to do for many a long day. 4'I have been more dull than you know, Mary. But it's oyer now, thank God.'1 44 It was all my drawing, you know, Sam. My one talent, as you) used to call it. When you were so hard pressed two years ago, I thought I might turn it to account. I went to the ' Academy of Design.' And I dkl turn it to account in designing.1 Don't you understand me now Friend Matthew Saul said I had a very pretty gift, indeed. Everybody was anxious to help me. It's such a friendly world, Sam," creeping closer to him. 44 Is it, Mary ? Perhaps so. God knows. 41 So they took me into the establish ment, anil paid me for designing new patterns for gas fixtures. Ten dollars a stone. That was two years ago. And I have not drawn the money till to day. I heard (taking breath, and speaking slowly), that you were not to re-eive your back pay. So I went to .Mr. Crompton this afternoon and asked for a settlement. He is the business -man, and so considerate and kind! I always thought how much alike you were, and what good friends you would be, when you knew him. It wasn't pay-day, and it took some time to make out my account. But he offered to bring the money himself to-night, that I might give it to you as a surprise in the morning. And he did bring it, and there is enough to pay off the mortgage ; and now have you nothing, and nobody you can call your own not even DM f Sam Bonder only held his wife close to his breast and kissed her. She was so used to his silence when he wai deeply mOTCd ' that she did not heed it. 14 You thought me brutal mad tonight, Mary V" 44 Bless your dear old miserable face! how could I be so silly? You have been ill and nervous, and the disappointment to day was more than you could bear. I understood it al! ! I sent .lackey in, think ing he would comfort you, Shall we go and tell Jackey about the mortgage:-" anxiously. 44 1 doubt If he would understand." " Perhaps not," looking blank. "Though Jackey understands a great many things that would surprise you. EIeS a very wise child. Who can that be so late ? Mr. Crompton! carriage again t" The door opened and the handsome Irishman entered with a lady on his arm. He blushed little as he glanced down at her, laughing and looking handsomer than ever. 44 1 ashed have, Mrs. Bender, you remember, once, Jo make known my promised with to you? I have brought her to-night Sin; has an errand to your husband which, she fancies, will not wait." The words came to Bender like far off, I pleasant sounds in a dream. How bright the Ure glowed I What a cordial, wholesome ring there was in the man's voice! fellow it would be good to know. The girl's face, too, wan sweet and friendly; he had seen it before, in some pleasant time which he could not remember. Itut there was no woman who would not look dark and dim beeide Mary. Where had nhc hidden that tender, glowing beauty all th-se many VtJffgf the very familiar room had a lOOl which it used to wear when the first glamor of their married

life made everything about them mysteri ous and bright. Was that old time come again? Crompton's cheerful, ruddy face was before him 44 1 am so glad to have the chance of shaking you by the hand. I have been waiting for it a long time." S:im took the hand and shook it heartily. 44 Mrs. Bender, this is Miss Stouch, who hopes she will not bear that name a month longer." The fair, calm-looking beauty took Mary's hand and then kissed her, after the manner ol women. 44 I've heard all about the mortgage and the secret," she whispered. 41 Was it not delicious ! But I liave a message for your husband Papa bade me say to you, Mr. Bender," turning, with a business like look, to Sam, 44 that he has been ill for several weeks that horrid rheumatism it is; and he had to leave the business almost entirely in the hands of Mr. Morris, win will make mistakts sometimes. He is so sorry that there was one in yours, and that your rightful salary was detained. He begged me to hand you this letter." 44 The salary is not due," said Sam, Stiffly. " Mr. Morris will tell you that." 44 Mr. Morris has no authority to speak for us," the young lady said haughtily. 44 It is not the cust' m of our house to make deductions in case of sickness." 44 It is the best policy," said Mary, quietly. M A house loses nothing by generous dealing. At least, not with men like my husband." Bender stood hesitating 41 How did your father know?" 44 Oh, it was that little creature, Joe Houston, who told me. Where in all the world is the man? He came with us so ridiculous, Mrs. Bender ! But the best fellow in the world ! The tears were actually in his eyes when he told me how unjustly your husband had been treated. Oh, here he is!" 44 Here I am !" Joe came in with a skip and a llourish. 44 Here we all are, Sam. God bless you, boy ! Just like a eccne in a play. It's a jolly good world after all, now, isn't it? What a bad humor you were in with it to-day, though, to be sure? You look as if you were cured now" in an undertone, where Bender stood apart with his wife. 4 Are you cured ?" she said, softly touching him. 44 By an old song," he said. 44 Sometime I will tell you all, Mary. But let me hear your songs and your laugh every day. You do not know from what they have saved me." He stood looking at them talking together, a smile on his hps, but his eyes dim as a man's Seldom are in this world ; thinking of the song, and of how many messengers He had in this world, ami how pone of them ever failed in its errand. Iht Qalaxjf. m m A arrlage in Joke Turning Out HapThirty years ago, when Charleston, Illinois was in an embryo state, Dick Stoddard was caught napping for the first time. Dick was at a party, a country dance, and had been playing his tricks on the boys and girls, when it was proposed to enliven the company with a matrimonial scene. All things being ready, snve the bride and groom, two very essential parts of the ceremony, they were soon procured in the persons of the aforesaid Dick and the beautiful and accomplished Miss , the belle J the whole country, who, like Dick, was full of fun and of a romantic disposition. The license was easily procured; so was the justice. The ceremony was performed, and the bride and groom pronounced ftp hand and wife. This of course was considered the joke of the season. Dick and his bride enjoyed it; so did the spectators. Tin1 justice, however, hal performed the ceremony; had the license, and knew the penalty for a failure to return it as the law directs, and being sworn to discharge the duties Incumbent upon him as a justice of the peace, was legally and morally bound to return the license to the county clerk, which he did, andgWherc it is to this day, with his certificate properly indorsed thereon to the effect that he had 44 duly joined in the bonds of holy wedlock" the pHrtics aforesaid. Dick and his wife soon learned that what they had conceived to be a joke was a sad or joyful reality. So the matter WM talked over, and they concluded to make the best of it. They have been livinir together ever since, blessed with a bountiful supply of this world's goods a large family and a host of friends, and as Dick says, they have been enjoying the joke ever since. .If usoun Republican. m m A Singular rlxperlence. The Auburn Advertiser publishes the following statement, with the remark that, from iU knowledge off the gentleman by whom the account is given, it is prepared to give entire credit to it: 41 Some weeks ago, a prominent citizen of Auburn was in the city of Chicago transacting business connected with his manufacture In this place. One evening, after an active day's work, feelins? some

1 what fatigued, he retired to his room at UM hotel earlier than usual, and made his customary arrangements for the night; but just as he had composed himself for sleep, he experienced a singular sensation, and heard a voice, apparently very near, and as plainly and distinctly as thoueh it issued from the throat off a human.' pro nounce the words, 4 Your mother died today ;' and with the words came an assurance that the announcement was, indeed, too true to doubt it. He arose in the morning, after having passed a sleepier night, and made immediate preparation for a journey home. As he started for the depot he met a boy with a telegraph dispatch In his hand, and calling him to his side hr a-ked if the message was not for him giving the name and, sure enough, it was from his family, confirming the truth of the announcement of the unseen informant, that his mother had died the day previous at Auburn. 1 le had received no intimation but that she was enjoying her usual health; nor had there been anything to excite; in the slightest degree his apprehensions for her safety, until the occurrence of the Incident related." A Haktkokp mother amused herself the other day by leaving a hand-carriage, occupied by her baby, standing in the middle of the sidewalk while she hid herself In a doorway. Soon a great crowd assembled, from which arose a storm of indignant utterances relative to the heartless "desertion," and, just as an officer was about to wheel the little innocent to less exposed quartern, the jovial parent Stepped forward, and, remarking that there was no occasion for excitement, walked away with her charge. The water power of Maine, derived from the rivers and streams, i s estimated, by an official report, at Im twee n two and three million horse power The approximate area off the lakes, ponds, aim riven of the Slate is placed at J.200 sonare miles, land the area of forests at 21,000 square miles. Maine, it is asserted, has 1,008 lakes, more in proportion t its shse thai any other countrj Dl t h globe, with few exceptions, and 1 ,229,400,00000 cubic feet of water are annually delivere d hy he r rivers. A won a n feportof who ascertains fhoti in re'ganl te BOWiSSJ WOmfffl. telW the' Ne w York 8tw off a young woman who ws making "chemises" for a Broadway dolla i store at live- cents apiece. She could make two a day hy elint off kasd work. Three women in Brooklyn made up Bal moral skirts for scve-n cents eaeh, and together earn ferty cents a day.

Democrat.

27, 1870. FACTS AD FKJUBE& TJoston has eighteen hundred fire hydrants. Tvu.nno has a one-leggeel champion skater. Charleston has a military school 77 years eld. TnE King eif Sweden has written over 500 poems. TnE Bank of California paid a dividend of $000,000 last year. Two arrests for umbrella stealing have occurred in New Haven. Dr. Hollowav advertised six hundred thousand dollars' worth last year. Toe message of the Governor of Rhode Island was net two columns hmg. The preifit ef the richest gold mine in California last year was $:40,400. A. T. Stewart has sold this season, twenty $2,000 shawls, and one for $5,800. Buck Poiieroy is the third wealthiest man and the largest tax-payer in La Crosse. In Liverpool, England, over 5,000 women were punished last year for drunkenness. Pkesioent Grant has received a suit of clothes from Siberia, made of Siberian furs, and cut in the Siberian fashion. Wisc onsin has 020 persons who draw pensions from the United States. The amount paid them is $575,640.66. TnE young women of Lewiston, Me., have formed a seiciety pledging themselves not to kiss a man who use-s tobacco. EfOHTBS. Hundred and Seventy, finds old Boston entering upon its 240th year of existence, but the 48th year of its city life. It is estimated in London that the fetes at the opening of the Suez canal have cost the Viceroy the enormous figure of 0,000,000 In gold. A magazine writer estimates that every man, woman .and child In America uses up tivc hundred matches per year, or at that average. Every fashionable bride in New York expects such costly presents that many people decline to be present at the ceremony. The 44 Universal Russian Expositiem" to be held at St. Petersburg in May, 1870, will be an exhibition of Russian produe ts and manufactures sedely. B. B. Allen, of Vergennes, Vt., wlm died a few days ago, aged 61, had taught the High School in that place twenty-six consecutive years. Mrs. Stanton's advice about choosing a wife is: 44 Always look for a girl with good teeth, for the teeth arc a sample of every bone in the lair one s body. A saw mill in Gardiner, Me., the proprietors of which were compelled in 1808 te hire teams tocartoff the sawdust made, received last year $300 from the ice companies for all the sawdust made. The "supes" in th London pantomimes complain that this year they lose their situations because ambitious clerks, anxious to be se en on the stage, are willing te take their places without pay. In Ojueen Victoria's crown there arc 1,963 brilliant diamonds, 1,273 rose diamonds, and 147 table diamonds, 1 large ruby, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, 4 small rubies and 277 pearls a total of 2,1'JG precious .stemes. A PhiladklpHIAH named Morgan, re cently arrested as a thief, declared by all that was sacred that he was an hemcst man; vet he at that moment had on fentr coats, three pairs f pantaloons and three shirts, all stolen. Theh is a couple In Xew Hampshire, 31 r. and Mrs. Archibald Ford, 74 years old, who have lived on the same farm forty live years, and for the last eighteen years have not deemed it necessary to employ either servant or doctor. SeME very fashionable ladie;s in New Orleans hung a yellow ribbon on their eloor-knobs, New Year's Day, as an indication that they would receive calls. The callers didn't trae, and they afterwards found that it had been considered a sign of small pox. A few years age) an ingenious gentleman managed to get drunk free ef expense almost daily in the streets of London, by fallingdown in a fit, with a small placard Jon his breast, 44 Don't bleed me, but give me a glass off hot brandy and water." Pop-coBH, vegetables and cold water are saiel to be the principal diet of a Pittsfield (Mas.) family, with only two meals of these daily, ll breakfast is not on the table at 8 o'clock precisely, the pastime ef eating Is dispensed with until So'dock, the dinner hour, as no member of the family is allowed to eat 41 between meals." Music is to be intrexluced as a curative treatment for insanity, hypochondriasis, and other chronic diseases ef the mind, in some of the great asylums of Paris. Several of the greatest physicians have stated that, in their opiniem, music, if well ami skilllully applied, will cure, or, at least, moderate and check insanity and kindred diseases. PROBABLY the cheapest carriage of mail matter in the United State s is that between Rock Island and Newport, R. I. The contract lbr carrying the mails is let to the lewest bidder, ami there being ceinsiderable rivalry at the time of the letting, the biels were accerelingly low, the successful party agreeing to perform the duties 44 for one cent per year." The lowest terms ever before- known em the same route were femr dollara The San Francisco police are raiding on Chinese' gambling henises, with small result. The door-keeper at these dens has his hands always on a string, which, when palled, sounds a gong beneath the gambung table, anel enables all hands to clear up and make their escape In case any un1 T . 1 fl 1 welcome visitors come. r wen nave i they ope rated that one keeper of such an establishment has procured the punish ment by fine of an officer who entered his saloon. There is a singular hero tic spring on the farm of J. II. Temple, of Farmingham, Massachusetts, which has the pecu liarity e)f overflowing with a suelden rush just before a rainfall. It matters net what the season of the year may be, summer and wdnter, in wet weather anel at the' time of the seve rest drouth all at emce the w ater CODM pouring trenn this spring, eftem llewxling the intervale through which it is discharged, and within thirty -six hours thereafter a rainfall cornea. Se me Interesting statistics em the density ef European population have" been grouped by a Q er man writer: In Frame there hi one dwelling house te) every L9 inhabitants; in Lngland and Wales, 5.1; in Belgium, 52; in Ireland, .); Holland, 5.9; Italy, 5.9; Spain, S.9; Bavaria, 6 2; Norway, 6.8 ; Austria, 6.0; Baden, 6.s; Hanover, ''.; Bwitaerland. 7.2; Prussia, 8.9 and Saxemy, 0.7. In the cities one dwelling oomci upon 6.2 Inhabitants in Belgium; 8.4 in Hanover; 88 In Swite-r land; 10 2 in Bavaria; 115 in Norway; 12 7 in Prussia; 13.1 in France; U.2 in Saxony. Du. ChoaTj Superintendent of the Stttc Lunatic Hospital, at Taunton, Mass., in his reoaat report give s senne interesting facts regarding the comparative' Insanity of tlw se xes. He says that the excess of insane women eve-r insane me n is becoming more and more marked. He does not attribute it te any greate-r liability to the 'se'ap-' among women, but te) the fact that more lunatic men die. Men arc made in sane by physical causes, while WOBBOU raoeBUkb te subtle me)ral influences net endly reached by hospital treatment; nett threatening to life, but Intractable1 and net very we 11 undcrstexnl by the profession.

NUMBER 21.

YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT 'HOE TOUR OWN ROW." I think th?re nrv some mnxlm Unser Um ma, S.mit sly worth jirt'sorvatiem : Bal here. Ihiv. is (MM So mmuhI l rmaiatple, TU worth a aik m knee,; Ami nil in the single lino. Hoc your own row I It res want to have ride , Anel w .nt to asve ftlnadn. Deal trainjik- ti; MeHMsSoWB,' Ano look for tin- eaelt ; Bet always remember. Whoever yeu go, The irhdoai ot prnrriciti, Hoc your own row ! Don't jut sit and pmjr. For lacreeM of yi ur toif. Bin work : who will hclj hini"!l, Baanea help- more. Tlie wc eel traileB you're stsspisg Will ".ome up mi grow, But it yon would haw the Full cur. you Mat hoe ! Nor will it do only To hoe out th- weed. Yon mni nahe your greased bmBow, And put in the Meets : And when the yoaag blade Pashas through, you mmH anew There is nothing will Btaeagthenj It- pMtt like the hoe I There 's no ue of ayin; What will be. will 'lw j Once try it. my lack himn. And see what you'll nee! Why. ju-t mal! potatoes And few in .1 row ; Yoa'S hotter take hold then. And aoaosUj hoe Ij A crood many werken Srea known in my time -BawM Milden f liotw. Some bnDdera of rhyme And they that w -re pro-pcred, Wrre prospered. I Know. By the intent and meaning of Hoe your own row! I re known, too. a trood many Idler-, who -aid. I've riirht to my living. The world owes me bresi ! A ri'iht! lazy tahhor I A thousand times. No! Ti- his. and his on!r ho BOM his own row.--All try. Almost a Swing Obb Saturday, three little girls were about to put up a swing somewhen they didn't know exactlv where. They had thirty cents to buy ä rope with, and the day was before them. On Mondav, their cousin was coming in from thcoUBtry, to spend the afternoon with them, and It would be " so grand," they saiel, to have the swing already. Just as they were about starting to buy the rope, in came their brother Benlamin. "Pooh!" he exclaimed, when he had heard all about it ; ' how can girls make a swim: ! Leave it to me. On Monday morning, I'll put it up feu- you in a.jilly." " Do it now," coaxed the girls. "Cant," answered Ben, " I'm coin? to the library with Bill Saunelers. Go, spend your money for something else. I'll manage rope and everything on Monday, before chooLn And oil ran Ben with his hands in Ins pockets. "Isn't it splendid to be sboy f said the littlest girl, Susie, looking after him in great admiration. Well, early on Monday morning, Ben sprang eut f bed and dressed himself in a hurry, whistling with an air of great importance as he Sid so. Then he rushed off to get a tine long rope that he remembered having seen somewhere it might have been in the WOodshtdor the garre t, or in some of the barrels, in the backkitchen area. Bnt it wasn't in any of these' places, and time- WM flying; SO he ran to the kite hen to beg Norah for a strong clothes line that he could double for the- swing. " Arrah ! is it a bit ef me do's line that you.rc aller want in' this tunc ? Borraa bit I've' got feu the likes of yous," answered that young lady indignantly. "Sure an' what ' But Ben, nothing daunted, eonclndeel Im would Just run out to the back yard while she was finishing he r speec h, and look for something that would do fror a wing-board Unfortunately, all the boards were so long anel so "full of nails that Hen had to have a claw hammer and aw before he could do anything. There were ne) hammer and saw in Ms tool-chest fit to we)rk with : se) he ran with all his might to borrow Bill Saunders'. Bill Bounders saiel be was quite welcome to use any too ef his he could find, but for his part he had no idea where in the' world that hammer and saw could be-. So, Ben rummaged in Bill's tool-room, in a halfwhistling, half-breathless way, as if he was sure of rinding them, until he suddenly thought that his father might shut lbr down -town before he had asked him whether he could hang the swing from the apple-tree- in the back yard. In this case, there was nothing to elo but te) rush ofi, eibtain the desired permission, ami then run back again to look for the tools. So, Ben fle:w home, but his father hael eaten breakfast and gerne. O dear ! he exclaimed. "But never mind, the big beam in the garret will do nobodyH care about that," "Come' e-Mt your breakfast, Be-n !" called out his mother. Ben swallowed a few mouthfnls in a pro digious hurry, looked at the clock, saw he bad just ten minutes before school tune, rushed back to Bill Saunders', and in hunting for the hammer and saw, found an iron ring. "Wonder if I couldn't elo something with this?" he panted. " If I only had s mate te it anel a couple o( hooks, it weuihl be grand ! Hi! the re is a rim: in the barrel in our cellar." So off be scampered te) the cellar, and there wasn't any ring there. u Bother T exclaimed Ben. "But that's nothing. I needn't have heoks and rings at all. I'll jut tie the rope over the beam." 14 But you oaa'et," mid one e-f the- girls anxiously ; "the big boards are dose down on iL" " Whew ! that's so," cried Ben, as he scampe-reel neU-mell out of the house " m run and get an augur and bore botes in the- bt am." Soon he came back. He had feMiml the augur, but there wasn't any point en it. " It's School time", Ben!" called eut his sister. " You must go right oft" ; ma SSJS so. Is the swing ready P M Not quite," called eut Ben. cheerily; ",but I've de'ine all I cemlel about it." And se) he bad OOOT fcllenv ' The girls were sadly disappointed, but they couldn't possibly be provoked at SUCfa a dear, good, obliging brother as Ben. Mis another, who bad slyly taken notice ofallthat was going en, fett that it w Mild prove epiitc a lesson te) lien, showing him the aelvantaire' e)f keeping things in order anel in the ir right places. lt' not In the' least likely that it did, however. Harth and Uome. The Lazy Lad. TnKUK was a loy at our school WhOOB name' was Silas Low. He always wrote his name & Low. I am not a friend of nicknames ; but he- here gave- too great a temptation to the' boya To change A J.oir into tfoir was an easy step: so Silas lost hi name' ef . for that of &M0 ; for slow BO was in all he tried to do. If his lather told him b run for a pstl of wate r, Silas would stretch himself, aid shun h eut e)f the rooa at a snail's pace, anel net ooms bach perhaps for live min Utes. I i hink he' WOttld imt be the right seut e)f a boy to help put emt tires. When Silas le ft school, he tried to get a living by selling newspapers in the street ; but in this he was too r All of the lit tie beys would S' ll e)tl" their stock e)f pa pers while he -am idling away his time leMuing en a wall, or hoking into a shop-window.

Ielle boys often make idle men ; for-- is haril to throw off a habit fixed on us in our youth. Silas Wll a lazy loy, ami he grew up n. lar.y man. Ho never lst his name of " ld Slow." Now "slow nrd pure" i not a bad motto ; but Silas was neither fast nor euro. The last I saw of him lie was running to catch a railroad train in one ef the eel of which I sat. Ah! He was just halt a minute too late. "Slow totlM last:' thought I, OS we whirled awy, leafing poor Silas far behind. Iht JfursM'g. Kules for Schulars.

The fofkrwiag excellent rules for scholars are taken from A"y; thfntTn Taucha' Axtaiil : L On entering the school, pass as BjUSetly as possible to your seat, taking can- to close the door tjehtly, and avoid DKah unnecessary OOSSeS with the met m cross bag the- room. 2. Take out books, slate, etc., from your desk with care, and lay them OOWU in such a manner as not to be heard. Avoiel making a rustling neise wiih papers, QT noisily turning over leases of books. Never let the marking of a pencil on your slate be heard. 3. Be careful to keep the feet p:;'i while engaged h itndy; or, if it be necessary to move them, de it withe mt noise. 4. In passing to anl from recitatioBS, obeeite whether you are moving qusetty. Take special care if you wear thiek shoes or boots, or if they are made of squeaking bather. 5. Avoid the awkwreland: annoying habit of making a noise with the Hps while studying. 6. Scuffling, striking, pushing, or rul--irss. of any kind, should never 1' pre tieed at ill Within tin- school bull ding. 7. Let yeur shoes or booss Ik- cSbssmmI at the doorsteps; sJwsys'Bse the seat, if we't, muddy, er dirty. 8. Never sulfer the tloe)r und r VOW desk, or the stales around it, to be covered by pap'-rs, or anj thing else dtoppodi on it. !. A. void spitting on the floor; it is a vulgar, filthy habit. 10. For cleaning your slate you should provide- yours "If with a piece of sponc, and should moisten it with ctsSU wst'.i before school opens, or at recss, 11. Marking or writing en th- detdc, walls, or any part of the buildingor school premises, with pencil, chalk, or other articles, manifests a bad taste, or a vicious disposition to destiuy and nemoo property. None but vicious, rncklem, nt thoughtless pe rsons will do it. IS. Knives should never be sand in cutting anything on desk. Ml Particular care should be OwBBfUul to avoid n'lling ink anywhe-re in the school building. 14. Let you. books, etc., b always arranged in neat anl oonvenimt order in your desk and upon it, 15. After using brooms, dust brushes, etc, always return them b their place 10. Be ambitions to have everv part of your school in so neat and orderly a condition that visitors may be favorably impressed with this trait of your character. 17. Never rreddle with the desk r property of ane.it her icholai without liberty IB, Boys should never wear hat? or caps in the school room. If. Always be in your own place, and busy about your own duti-s. Tea Culture in California. A ceUTespondent of the Marninf Ci , writing fnmi th' Japanese colony, in El Dorado County, where Japanese agriculturists are preparing to ongagt rxtensivcly in the te-a culture, anel rahung other prd net ions hitherto peculiar to their own country, glees the following information concerning the tea plant anel its culture in this State, gh aneel from conversation with Herr Schnell, the manager and proprieter of the experimental farm. Tinonly question involved seems to bo whether labor can be obtained by contract or otherwise in California, uprn such plantations, at sufficiently low nit: s to make the business profitable. The freight, interest en capital during transit, exchange, and diminished cost of packing, ail would operate in favor Of tea raising in this State, and help te compt jisate for the difference in tin-rates of wages prevailing in the two countries. "From the experiments thus far made, Mr. Se line 11 is convinced that the' problem of tea culture in California is solve d, and there is no longer doubt but we cm raise as cool teas here as are pr.nl u led in China and Japan. The te a shrub in Japan is an evergreen, from four to six feet high, with a straight stein and numerous irregular branches. Growing wiiel, the shrub will reach s height of fifteen or twenty feet. I stem is of a bright gray color, the brain lies chestnut, and the wood hard, and having a peculiar Odos. On the- young branches are the short, soft, greet), small leaves, wh'ch are arranged in inlerv anel are of an elliptical shape, with teeth on the bore'.ers, resembling closely Ike leaves of the wild rose. The color i a bright green, ef different mades, deepi ing as the season advances. Between Ike leaves sprout the tdessouas, which are si first of a rose coioff, hut in the- course ol their elevelopment sswasse Bgkier ikopes, and finally, wb-n fuli bl;w n, :nv of tlto ch)r ef the ordinary ten rose. They have ne) xh)r, and are very temler, but are put te) no use. The story that these llowers are preserved for mixing teas that anon!' drank by the Emperoranel the' lability, is a fabrication. Whea these Bowers fade away, they leave a small lruit. which is divided into two or three partitions generally three, which contain the SSOdl . they are difficult of preservation, and easily elecay. The U a shrub is very easy of cultivation, and willgrow nearly every where, with plenty ofsJruad WOW, but cannot live in shady places. All et the new plants at Mr. Selim-ll's plantation see raised from seeds. Which are planted in re)vs in furreews, ftvm fenr b six Inches eleep, in a manner similar to that in WBSftl beans are usually pl.mted; but out of this number of seeds, probably but OUe or two in each hill will spnmt, owing to the do ay prexluccd by tlu- excessive ipiantity of oil the y e ontain. The proper time for lea planting is in November e.r December, when it sprouts through the' ground in alnmt thirty days. By the rnsntng May u reaches a height of about fourteen im lies, when the perfect and tcnelcr have- uro stripped e)tr. anel are placed under imme diate manipulation. They arc first pi t in a large copper pan ami leoBBM , then put in baskets and shaken anel swung in ÜM wind until they nr' dried of the meusture whie h has been SB uded by the bent, then roasted again, then toDed m the palms of the hand to separate the leaves, ami to prevent their crumbling into powder, then dried again in the bis ket.s by shaking ami swinging, SBl then put in iars, when they ire ready for in r ket. The blaek teas are roasted ti n times, the gree-n teas 'but OUCS e)r twice . Everv vear the trci s e r shrubs aretrimmed down to a height )f about Ihm feet, alter liaxiag reached that height, und when properly taken care ot. itl produce good orops tor upward of thirty years. It is absolut lv necessary that th plains should have th morning sun. and b- on the- SOUth siele fa bill. r the leave will benoBM yellow, ami the tea bt et m inferior quality. Mr Schnell has hIh'hi I J0 acres f Vl,,d agricultural land n sdy tor planting. sndaboBt 400 a rcs I roe - 'i lanel, which he prposea to clear a. soon as he can bring it iuto requisition His plants will reomlU to irrigatien, but in is digging a well on his place lor other pur poses." Sm Francisco Ihdlftxu. ao B A okn'TI.f.m vn visited Atlanta one yeraf ago, bought a plug of tobacco fanuji .u Irish cb rk, anel hamhd him w hat ho eoa siden d the proper change. YeM rday be walked into the same store f r the first time dace the pun hase of the IskueoSL ami was hsneled the amount b' bsmghsed he hid paid for it. The Iriskansj ll formed him that after he hnel left the sb)r he feiund that tw) bills ! the same amount sticking together had been piv n t) him by the genta snsa in pn'stio'n, and he took tkhi Eke first opportuaity ol i funding the amount overpaid.- Atlai t, taBBagsassr. A SMAM. carriage drawn by four tr itt goats i.nw kept Bar hire inCe ntnd Park, New Yerk.