Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 10 February 1870 — Page 1

POETRY.

YOUTHS' DE1AIIT51ENT

BY MART A. DKXISON. Brssir is e;ghtr-aerrn, and I am two year more ; W; littl thought to linger her- over laansSBN : ir Me i- like a strip f and the grxr sen rcct)f I p t tie- border of ttut .hur whWN ailcurj s.ecps. MvoM wir. Banst ' Someilmes, when tee suu m 'Mini nghl and frhaetow, gazing toward the town, Tb. kM town, hSM Ihetail spires catch iMtn1! first MTU ; It wi- a auafta 0r straight pine trees in our roans uy.

Our firm wa ther; -'"l.ien pTd, S.'ui.-i iiue 1 wuiktd :( r.f.tid : to tili the roarl scrrncl sioging, and sometime? I I net mtxwiMai, wife. nmI Tom lun il end. with I..1 ucec6, ie'un. the milW what 1 with son. fear II j v:ia a ta.inusonie voulr.. wore oefr rl.itho-. than 1. II: f.ithur, too, waa richest, thaiih I owned the sky. And all the honnteotit fields r earth niv freehold -eniel : What i . lih, wiltl.tte-liciou dreams my light lieart ureamd ! Von wore your pretty h.i'r fust as rou wear it now, 1 n i v . tried, Mnalbly, lrlght airuinst the brow : When I s.j eioiiMed-keaflaS girls, ol these net rtasa. I tlilnlc of yeur wc-t, fresh attire and modest wity . nel you vre. a e-r, u. that heaven! summer dar 'i . i r-cy.xi kwMa ma, l'ly lika. in pure array: ! imde my heart. t'jt hour, a aealeti and atONM room. Wber. mi no eilplaat or weed, or cankered rruit slioul' i)io m. wvcalf year, dear wife, aid not one irtne MB) Iii rlance, or Pme, or smile, ortender, fond cai ess ; V-ii Mill are little 1.. -i ; v.hen I shut my e' es Hie white haired, patient, .-onu-iy wise old Vnintnhip dies And yen are. young a0'an- ,ind this our wedding hour -Only ih.- winsomo bud flower: lias chunked to winom" And thus 'twill be, d -ar B-t-ie eye,. we slvill-hut our A iid cla-p your.- lxnK and ios young lips bevond i . - IWk'inJ'g Jloir)iy MISCELLANEOUS, I IK M!. VAN VOhiHT.-A fBU STOBT BY nnCCi TIA KDIN' I DAVIS. ITMTEV. I. W9 just outside of Mr. Ketaoe'l own r:n rate that he an J Tom met Mr Knapn. The ciergymaa ted been riding , ird, Tom noticed, and looked soared and ited; so Tom promptly pushed his hagjry pony h t wren hin father's horse m I th hedge to hear all that was going Ml. "The rebels are here, and in force, Mr. Kelsoe; there can Iteno doubt abotit it. Jarre jr sa w with his own eyes last night, ' ir. ''dies of m SB, masked, crotsbig the road yonder. They are secreted in your v. ;-. Tom wn servants are no doubt in lea-rue with them." " That can't be, father," cried Tom, an.uril v. Mr. kloe put his baud gently on Toia's shoulder. " There ba no trusting any of them," "Nlr Knapp went on excited 'y. "Tlu sertt leaarue incladca cverv jlilesian Iri.shman. ur foster brother, or the old nttree in your chimney rner, may be pledged to poison yoo, or to slab you hi I your bed." i Mr. Kelsoe shook his head " I think I know t hese s ti l mildly. people b. r than you," he 44 What did they do last week in Poneßalf InSligo? Plundered every loyali 's bouse of arms then bcrntd and kilh d as they went. Ami our district is anproteetad by a single soldier. I tell yn, Mr. Kdoe, there'3 murder in the air ! L Ott to your house to night." He rode away hurriedly, and Mr. Kelsoe n 1 Tom jogged on leisurely. Tom looked down uneasily through the darkening eveniny, at the stretch of black . , 1-1 T . , woods Ik low tue hin. He haded myste-; r us shadows of masked men passing to : and fin " Father, is it true that the rebels have dans as he says in Sligo v" 4 T am afraid U i", Tom." "The hounds! I'd like to see them eoaneaftc our arms: Il would give me H itisBBClii B, father, to have a crack at one of that r:i "Me, with my fowling-piece !" ' Th -re is wn met hing to be said n their skie," .Mr. Kelsoe aud, as if talking to himself; 4 there is something always lobe said "n the Other side " Tom's fatiier had hi ways been a member of the Church of ' England, but Natura meant him for a (Quaker. " They are thieves and murderers!" " YUv.y are OodS creatures, my son." As toon as tli y re:tchel the hous, Tom rashed up stairs to clean his fowling piece. ' He had only owned it a week Tom Kelsoe was 10 years old ; just the j age of Tom Waters here ieide me. He j was a big, broad-chested fellow, tx, and 1 could throw any twv nl his ie, just tike IhUl other Tom They had the MUM hon est, frechlad faces, and shock of black hair, and chapped, red hands; and there Wae a lot ol string, artl nails, and a top, and a wormy apple, in Tom Kelsoe's pocket, precis ly as there id in Tom Waters' now. But this Tom wears a cheviot sack, dull xnd decorous : that Tom was to be seen afar oiljn his blue roaudabout,gny with gilt buttons; this one shoves his way through a great public school, and chatters glibly ot ehcsnistiy, geology, and steam engines; the oth'-r p ired over heavy Latin bo ks, with an humble, awkward tutor, who M taught -ons of the gentry the humanities," at he cut high pigeon wiagS in the air with his legs, before his dancing master, praetielng contra daneo3, jigfl, and strath speya tr Tom wlusltos " Le s ihn-ile man pere," anl plays base ball; the other Torn trotted after the whipperin, before- day, to see the hsuub throw oil", fihoutin-', A sonhr!r vfauaai a donlf sky rrix-laini It a liwiitm niiiriilnf. With a hey ho, tiy tnmiry h: ' or he enaurasd for hares over the snoweorered turf One hurrahs j 'or CHraal ; the other prayel every night for King George o f i 1 Quaes Charlotte. Tosn Waters is a jolly, wide-awake boy yet, nnd means to be President; the other Tom was long ago laid to rest, sn old, white-head' d mn For our story is of nearly a century ago; and the rebels whom Tom Kelsoe reared belonged to a little island, where t he field are green, and the people hottempered all the year round. Tom polished his gun vigorously. Kit ( isidy held the oil and bits of leather Kit was Tom's foster brother. 44 I'd like a nhanc at one of the rebels with this, Kit." " It'g yerself as wud be the shurc shot, Mas h r Toaa ! 1 4' What ran those wretches do with arms?' hoastingly). "They nevei own d a ?un." " Tre-y wnr'n't allowed any, -no more than the hasten You're in the right of it, M ist her Tom," fawned Kit. 41 Whji yoo ! !'!ig lo their church Kit; 3 l 'ught to 1m one of them," (carelessly p- ring in the barrel as he spoke. 14 Ocn, vir isthrue! wud yees say to sac f1'.' I wa Ribbonnuui f1 with a iwddm howl of horrr. " DmI bother, Kit. rirk up that doth, a ;d top whining. I kn.v yu're Orange In ihn bi kbone. Like me." Kit stood by in silence a while, his fur trvabtna eyes steadily watching Tons, uinlr the light hwhon 44 1 HuppM- y'e?. aldn't lift one of thc niath-r's gnus, now ?" 44 1 can iifl any one of th tn. Come ami see." Tom hung his pretty silver mounted run over his bed carefully, and then ran down the steps leading to his father's chamber, closely followed lo Kit. It was i large room, with windows opening to thegrmnd. Over the tire-plaee hung a mple of crossed swords, and a fin-- gun, which Mr. Kelsoe used in the CSSSS Frans ander the pillow Tom drew a pair of pistols ; the bed was high posted, with heavy woolen curtains ; from the tester, or top, he tool down a couple of light guns. 44 Is that all f" said Kit, with a touch of contempt. Tm hesitated. An Irish gentleman took aa much pride in his weapons as hl horcs, and Torn had no mind to heai his tit her sneered at; still ho fla

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VOLUME XV. memltered that Kit belonged to Um class who were punished with Heath, it a gun was found in their booses, and th.it they were now in rebellion, burning and killing, Mr. Knapp said, all before them, to gain puivSesMon of these very weapons. " If I show yon the others, you'll never breathe it BOW, Kit?" he said at last. M There's danger of " M Them nucmlly Ribbonmea. I know. Oeh,yce. wouldn't be afeard of poor Kit, o.v. Master Tom" So Tom pushed back tie- bed-curtains, touched a spring in tin- panel, and showed a sicret denct, in which hung about a dozen Lruns, mmtof them finely mounted. " My father has a belter collection than Lord Roscommon," he said proudly, closing the door. 44 Troth, it's foine." lint Kit turned away with BOch a dull, indifferent fare, that Tom's uneasiness was dispelled, lie went down to supper. That was a v ry different meal from the light dish ta oi cracker and oysters and tea, whieh Tom Wat r calh rappere There waa a table rover, d with rine linen, which Mrs. Kelsoc and her maids had spun (there were Real presses full of it up stairs), and on it were masted wild ducks, and a mountain of spiced beef, and dishes of game and fish, and a hare pasty, besides hot cakes and tea, and an enormous bowl of punch, and high jugs of smoking toddy, with the roasted apples bobbins; up and down. Some of the neighbors were there, as they were, indeed, lor every meal. Tom slipped away after supper, and ran out to the kitchen. There was as great a crowd there, and as hcavy eating, as in the hall. There was no counting the hangera-on about the Kelsoe kitchen. There werecooks, and maids, and grooms, and the hen-wife, and the gi -ose -wife, and the wife who made the barm (yeast), and S dosen more, who "just held by the family" Yet Mr. Kelso.- was not a rich man. He held large dairy-farms (on peppercorn leases for ninety-nine years), and the many mouths ate up more th in the profits from year to year. Tom liked to go down to the kitchen to be fluttered and joked with, and to hear stories of fairies or banshees. 1 Jut tonight it was very dull down there; the men, even Kit, had all gone to a wake, and the women were silent. So he went to bed early, leaving a candle barning, with a frightened look out at the slope of the hill and the woods beyond. It was about midnight when Tom awoke with the sudden feeling f terrible danger. The room was still as death ; the candle was gone, but the moonlight lay in a square patch on the lloor. He got up and groped about Nothing. Ha went to the window. What was that dark, compact mass by the copse yonder, where the fox found cover on Monday ! What were those morian shadows stealing slowly to the house, beiow the trees ! Suddenly a wild cry broke ; through the air. It was his mother's voice. Tom sprang to the door, dashed i it open, and found himself in the grasp of vice-like hands, that, struggle as he might, dealt with him as if he were nothing but a weak kitten. In a moment he was gagged, his hands ami fee! tied together, and thrown on the landing. There were a dozen figures in the hall below, struggling in the moonlight. His mther fighting the robbers alone and unIHWAIi m Ulli MV (UU IH'I , J il III It 11. inli(.Iy l)Ut lo M I)Un)i,S), Mr. Kelsoe was .. J, i . . v.u.. ;ud d. Tom kit Led and writhed Iran uet a strong man, but he iouirht like an Irishman. It was in vain, though ; the dark, silent figures swarmed out ol every door, overpowered him, left him lied ami helpless. Yet Tom, through all his fury, could not but notice that they wire oddly gentle with his father; did not return one 1 his desperate elowa The women they had locked, unharmed, into the dining-room. When Mr. Kelsoe was conquered, there w;is a moment's quiet : then the masked men went out and returned, carry ins th' store of weapons which Tom had discovered to Kit. one man, who seemed to be the leader, paused a moment st the door, and, coming back, laid two ot the most costly guns beside Mr. Kelsoe, breaking the absolute silenee which they had observed, by : whisper" You BttSl not miss the foxhunts." Then they disapperred ; all but one small, stealthy figure, that stoic- down, a moment after, from Tom's room, with his fowling-piece in hand. "It'sthat scoundrel, Kit (Jassidy !" Tom could ham cried with rage. W hen his mother had succeeded in freeing herself ami her husband, and Tom had found a roice, his passion knew no bounds, lie shrieked out, 44 Croppies, lie d wn !" from the door, after the retreating figures, :ts the moat offensive words he I could nnd. "'God's creatures !" he stormed, following his father. M They are treachcrous thieves !" He wondered to hud his father and mother so quiet. "They jhave not touched the plate,"' ml 1 Mrs. Kelsoe ; "and look at this, my 1 deir, " pointing to a heap of rings, a watch I and chain, whieh she had taken otf the 'night before. " They took nothing but the arms. "How can she say a word for them V" muttered Tom. 'Mi-d's creatures, indeed !' He went opto his room and looked it. the esspty hooks, where his gun had hung. It was as mach as he could do to keep the tears out of his eyes. 44 1 hope that Kit Cassidy my never come in my way," 1(' MÜd, nav igely. 44 I'll be revenged, if it is a thousand years from no w !" CWAPTOB II. Kit Cassidy was seen no more in the ICelsoe kitchens. His father, ami two or three other men, who were employed on the farm, disappe ar d, ami we e Nippon 1 to have Joined the Ribbonmen. Tom wu naiteaharo among the other boys for a few weeks, Je Spencer and Phil Boyd came over tn see the marks of the papi I on his wrists. At the meeting on Saturday, too, Captain Duncan, who often din-d with Mr. Kelsoe, called to Tom 41 That footer brother of yours played you a sharp trick, eh, Tommy v" 4" But I mean to pay him for it, sir," cried Tom, loudly. "That's right, my lad," said the Captain, nodding and laughing. Tom was almost as proud as if he hail his new fowling piece to t arry thai morning. He nod after that to say every day to the hoy-: I'll pay Kit Cassidy yet," thinking how Captain Duncan would apnhtnd him if he heard it, until, one day, PhtFi big brother George said: 44 1 did n t think you were the kind of boy to keep a grudge, It seems mean and cat tish to DM." Now, George wore whiskers, and could construe Bunpldea Tom began to doubt whether his revenge were so m inly alter all. Besides, he was not in half such a fury with KH as at first. 41 1 never knew a fellow who could train a setter like Kit CaasMy," he said to Phil; Mand when I had the ague, that ehap slept at my door like a doe There'll no denying thai he was rery fond of ma. But ; there'll n good in cfoppy. Mind I t 11 vou i'hil." Soon aft'T news came of th' battle at Boss. The slaughter of the rebels was terrihlu Mr. K N e read the account from a Dublin paper, which iras taken by a club ami passe I from hous - to house "One little lad from County Cork." it said M rushed np the embankment and thrust his body nuainst th' mouth of a cannon, shontfag, Consa on, boys! I've choked the baste !' Curiously, he escaped with Ins life.'' "Father, thai was Kitf cried Tom. "He wan as brave as a lion, Kit was." 44 The bravery of thu or roppies seems to m' to resemble that f the beasts," said Captain Duncan, who rat by

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the fire, brushing the snuff from his cambric shirt-frill. 44 They are men," said Mr. Kelsoe, gravely ; "and perhaps it would be better to have called out the best part of their manhood, instead of the worst." Ton turned this over in his mind, but could make nothing of it But at the di si words he pricked np his ears. "By the way, Kelsoe, there is a queer story going that one of your dairies is left open at night, from which the croppy families can help themselves to milk und bread. Surely, there is no truth in it f "The wtnnen and children are starving," laid Tom's mother, quietly. "You encourage the rebellion, madam." 14 If thine enemy hunger, feed him," add Mr. Kelsoe. 44 If you are trying to make a man out of a croppy, through gratitude, 3-011 ure bribing swine with pear!-," said the C';iptain. All this perplexed Tom. Of course Ids father must be right. But it was bo easy, like the Captain, to see no good in those who differed with yon, to deny that your enemy was only a faulty man, like yourself, and to call him a brute! He went down that very night, and stood on the bill to watch the lean, ragged women stealing into the Open dairy for the food left there for them. It was all that Stood between them and starvation. They were huddled into the huts on the Cloyne estates, and their husbands were all in the rebel army. CITAPKK DX Nearly a year had gone by. One cool evening just after harvest time, Tom sat alone on the door Step, looking over the dreary fields. He had just eaten a miserable supper ; the usually bright, cheerful room was dim and dirty, the ashes of the fire were scattered over the hearth. There had been sickness in the house for many months, and trouble almost want had come, so that the old orderly routine had long ago given way to discomfort Tom crept up now and then to the door of his father's room, and listened to his hwavy, feverish breathing, or looked at his mother's pale face bending over the bed, and then down again The doctor e ime down after a while from his daily visit. " How is he to-day, sir?" 44 The panic, my lad. Typhoid is a slow disease. But I hope it will all come right, in time." He looked pityingly down on the boy, who had followed him to the gate, and Stood with his hand on the horse's mane.' "The farm needs your father sorely." " Yes. If I was only a man," The doctor was tilent. This terrible year of war and pestilence had made the -ky dack for them all. The rebels were conquered, but were 4iil in hiding among the hills, shot down like dogs whenever they ventured out: in every house there was disease r want, but the jolly Kelsoe household seemed to have fared worst of all. " What is wrong, Tom, boy? Perhaps I can be of some help to you." 44 My father was in debt, it seems. One Of the creditors is pushing hard for a small sum. The Sheriff served a writ today ; if my father was not so near to death, he won Id be in jail at this minute f1 Tom broke down here, altogether; be a only a child, after all ; and he hid hi 1 Base against the doctor's knee, and sobbed out load. "Tut, tut ! Poor lad! This must beset right at once. I'll see to it, Tom." Rut Tom, when he looked up, had no brighter fj.ee than before. So many of his father's friends had gone to 41 see lo it," and there was the end ot it. There was nothing so plentiful as good-will that year, or so scarce as money. "If your crops were in " hesitated the doctor. "If the crops were in, we would be safe," said Tom, eagerly; ' but look at them!" pointing to the great Behls ol uncut grain, beginning to droop from over ripenesa 44 There is not a man to be found to cut them." "Then; are not half a dozen laborers left in the county ; we miss the croppies, that is true," rejoined the Doctor. "There is no chance of pardon for them?1 asked Tom, anxiously. 44 Pardon! Why, regiments trom Dublin are guarding every cross road through the hills; and, as soon as a rebel thrusts his head into siuht, he is shot down like a rat in a hob. Hut that is not our trouble ttSt now. I'll do what 1 can." 44 Yes, sir." Hut Tommy sat down airain, despondingly, on the step, not even turning his head to see th' doctor ride off. If he had done so, he might have caught sight of a dark shadow gliding swiftly away from the hedge by which they had stood, through the fnrze-bushes. It was a boy's figure, and one BleCVC hung empty by his side. Dr. Laanaa did what he could the n t day, but it was not possible to raise the money. I f Kelsoe's CTODS were harvested, every body said, 44 they could be sold in an hour." But the crops were not harvested. " Keep a ijootl heart, Tommy. s:iid the doctor, as he bath- him good by the next evening lour lather has been true to and Ids friends, and neither of his God them will desert him " I don't know," said Tom, drearilv. But his heart grew warm anil light. Heran to the kitchen, and brought a smoking cup of tea up to his mother. She would drink it trom him, rather than any of the maids. She looked at his bright face, as she gave the cup back. 4Is there any good news, Tom?" 41 Well, no not exactly news. But it will come, mother," said Tom, confidently As he came down the stairs with tincm pty cup, he saw a dark figure standing in the dimly lighted hall. He stopp. -d, with a thrill of terror: the man was mashed, lit: had heard of Cases where, desperate from hunger, the rebels had left their hiding places, and gone into farm houses, both to rob and murder. Whether these Stories were true or not, it is. no Wonder that Tom drew back as th: man came close t him. But he only held out a letter; and when Tom took it, disappeared. It wass Miliare, dirty paper, sealed, with the mark of a thumb upon the wax. Inside were these words: 44 M no out leave thin !ouc to ni'ft. On Mfa of drrrfh. (Signed) " By order of "Tiirt Siiv.n Van VoQRI " And underneath wre scrawled these lines: ' Kr oiild .reland slmll lo free, Frtini th: rento: to Ihr gra. Says th,. nam Vim VagM." What the Shan Van Vogtat might be, Tom dkl not eh arly know. A mysterious itow-r n men n- re Dei i ooeyea, ne n.-xi heard, no matter what deed of wicked nesti It dictated to them. II- sat down on the stairs. "The will enrrv oll' II Lh atnrk and leave us to starve," he said d p rale ly. 44 They will bum the bouse, aad us, like rats in a barn. It it eomestn that, I'll tell mother, but not otherwise, and he want to the great hall More, and threw in the letter, watched it crackle ami burn. 44 I'll not tell mother,1 he said again. "She tins no muchtobear.1 He would take all this letribla weight on himself Bui his bean thumped hard with the richness ol rear, ander his Hille buttony jacket, and his knees shook. He knew that onl) nom desperate undertaking would brinir the croppies hoe, within ;i mile of the village, where a regiment of royal troops were quartered; and for the same reason they would com', if at all, in great numbers. There wan no resistance to be made. What he could do, hs did j lra-k d ami haired the lor- the list time th-y had ever been s maltreated in tin: memory of

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man. The house was nearly vacant. The crowd of retainers had dropped away, until only two or three of the maids were left, who were busied with his mother. 1' ut lest some accident might occur to tempt them from the house, Tom set himself to keep watch, patrolling the long halls, down into the kitchen, then to the parlor, and back again, the nightlong. When Tom was a man he kept guard many a niirht on the battle field, and felt it was child1! play compared to those slow, creeping hours, in which he tramped to and lro, his little legs weak with terror, but his heart brave cnoucrh to stand between his father ami mother and their horde of enemies. Tho moonlight fell in level beams here and there across the long stone hall ; at one end the fire smouldered low in the stove : overhead he heard at intervals his mother's soft step in the sick chamber ; from outside came at times an owl's hoot, or the baying of the watch dog at the moon. That ceased presently. Had they poisoned Lion? At that Tom's face grew hot, and, taking sudden heart, he hurried boldly to the front door and flung it open. The moon j was behind a cloud. The court yard was dark ; but close beside him he heard the clang of a musket on the stones, and, the 1 moment after, a quick, sharp click. He drew back and shut the door; but, climb- 1 ing up, looked through the transom. 1 When the white, chilly moonlight shone out again over the fields, he saw that the dark and maked figures which he had 1 seen onco before stood sentries around ; the house, while large bodies of armed j men passed noiselessly as ghosts across the slope between him and the woods. The Shan Tan Voght did their work of murder (if murder it was) in silence. All night long ! He did not look out j again ; but he never rested for a moment. Now he fancied he heard stealthy steps above or below ; now he was sure it was the crackling of a fire kindled in one of; the cellars underneath ; relieved ol one 1 tear, another and a greater followed continually. The deep of the night had pass- j ed. The moon had set, and the fire gone out. Tm crept up and down, to and fro, his limbs stifl with cold and damp,through the pitchy darkness. A sickly light began to struggle through the windows ; far oil" he j heard the corks crow. The sound reached him, poor Tom as in a dream. He dragged himself to ' he door of Ins mother's, room, and heard her foicc within, and his father's. Morning had come, and they were safe! He turned to go dovn and resume his weary march ; but, on the way, the poor little head reeled, the brave heart stopped beating, and Tom lay stretched on the Cold stone floor, over whieh he had kept his long vigils so well. He was roused by a warm cordial at his 1 lips, and the doctor's breezy voice calling him. 44 Good news, Tom, boy ! Good news ! Look :" Somebody had him in their arms. It was Captain Duncan ; his mother, half Bobbing and hall laughing, was kneeling bt lore him, chafing his icy feet, and hold- i ing them to her breast. But when Tom j tried feebly to rise, there was his father Sitting up in the bed, his eyes bright, and his cheeks full ol ruddy color, as they had not been for months. "You're safe, father!" Tom clung to his hand. "Side, my boy !" cried the doctor ; "The crisis is past, thanks to God." Hut Tom's brain went back to the old thought: 4'YVhoin did they murder? Father, hither, to call them Qod'fl creatures I1 No one spoke. But the captain led To;., to the window, and threw it open. The red Mush f the early day lay soft and bright on the green slopes, ana the dewy woods, and glancing rhrer ; and there, as lar :is the eye could see, was the cut grain, in long, even, golden heaps, shining in th' sun 1 Tom tried to speak, but a great lump in his throat choked him. Underneatb the window were stacked the arms taken from Mr. Kelsoe.Tom's pretty fowling-piece laid on top. " Tiiey left this bit of paper," said Mr. Kelsoe, Tom read the words scrawled on it ; " Qod$att yn r fcs net. Wfrtojf ( Amer?7.v." There Will be a free pardon issued," mid the Captain, "And, upon my word, I'm almost glad the scoundrels have escaped." But Tons was looking intently at a wretched figure below, with an empty sleeve pinned to his breast. 44 It's Kit, father," he said, pleadingly. "He's my foster brother." 41 Yes, go, Tom, and bring him in. And never forget that it was the hated croppies who have saved us from ruin ; ami that the man who seemed vilest to you is only your brother, with heart and blood like your own." 44 They've given you new life, Kelsoe, that's a fact r said the Captain. He stopped, turning his head away, that they might not see his wet eyes. 44 It's a curiously pleasant day," DC said, after awhile. 44 1 suppose it is something in the air. But I leel as if I eouhl tind a brother iu in any man, even a scoundrelly croppy, and i f something good even in the Shun Van Voght!" Hivi rsi'l? Jfayeifae. Will Farming Tay I Horace Greeley is writing a series of essays on 11 What I Know of Farming." The lirst topic he discusses is, 44 Will Farming Fay?" We make the following extracts : 14 1 commence my essays with thisqms1 ion, because when I urge the superior advantages of a rural life, I am often met by th- objection that 4 farming don't pay.' ihat.it true, is a serious matter. Bet us consider : 44 1 do not understand it tobe urged tl at the farmer who owns a large, fertile estate, well fenced, well stocked, with good store of effocttfc implements, cannot live and thrive by farming. What is meant is, that he who has little but two bfOWn hands to depend apon cannot make money, or can make very little by farming. 44 1 think those who urge this point bare 1 very inadequate conception of the difficulty encountered by every poor young man in securing a gmxl start in life no matter in what pursuit. I came to Mew York when not quite of age, with a good constitution, good health, a fair common school education, good habits, and a pretty fair trade that of printer. 1 think my outfit f(r a campaign against sdrerse fortune was decidedly better than the average ; yet ten long years elapsed before it was settled that I could remain here ami Jake any decided headway. Meant ine, 1 drank no liquors, need no tobacco, alt nled no nails or other expensive entertainments, worked hard and long win-never I COUld And work to do, lost has than a month altogether hv sickness, ami did very littl' in the way ol helping otiers. 1 Ultr that unite as many did worsethan las did netter; and that of th' jeung lawyers and doctors who try to establish themselves in their protessions, quite aR many warn h-sa as earn more than their bare hoard during the first ten years of their struggle." Mr. i. mentions several instance illustrating the nCCCSS tint men, with his knowledge, have achieved from very small in ginnings by patient, intelligent, net I -directed effort, "Depend open it," ha saysi "yoanjr men, it is ami mast ie hard work to emu honestly your lint thousand dollars. The burglar, the forger, the Macfcieg (whether he play with cards, with dice, or with stocks), may seem to have a uuick and easy way of mah ing a thousand dollars; but whoever makes that sum honestly, with nothing

buthis own capacities and energies as capital, docs a verv good live years' work, and may deem himself fortunate if he finishes it so soon." Probably no man in this country applied scientific facts to practical sericulture more successfully than Prof. J. Ifapes, to whom Mr. Greeley refers in the first of the following paragraphs He illustrated 44 scientific farming" by raising such Tops as tilled those who saw them with wonder : 44 Walking one day over the farm of the late Prof. Mspes, he showed me a tb-ld of rather less than tt n acres, and said, 4 I bought that field for $2,400, a year ago last September. There was then a light eropofeorn on it, which the seller reserved and took away. I under-drained the field that fall, plowed and subsoiledit, fertilized it liberally, and planted it with cabbage; and when these matured, I sold them for enough to pay for land, labor and fertilizers altogether.' The field was now worth far more than when he bought it, and he had cleared it within fifteen months from the date of its purchase. I consider that a good operation. Another year, the crop might have been poor, or iniirht have sold much lower, so as hardly to pay for the labor ; but there are risiis in other pursuits as well as in farming. 44 A fruit-farmer on the Hudson above Newberg showed me, three years since, s field of eight or ten acres which he hail nicely set with grapes, in rows ten feet apart, with beds of strawberries between the rows, from which In- assured me that his sales exceeded $700 per annum. I presume his outlay for labor, including picking, was less than :100 per annum ; but it cost something to make this field what it then was. Say that he had spent $1,000 per acre in undcr-drainintr, and enriching and tilling this field, to bring it to this condition, including the cost of his plants, and still there must have been a clear profit here of at least 300 per acre.

44 1 might multiply illustrations; but let the foregoing suffice. I readily admit that shiftless farming don't pay that poor crops don't pay that it is hard work to make money oy farming without some capital that frost, or hail, or drouth, or floods, or insects, may blast the farmer's hopes, after he has done his best to deserve or achieve success ; but I insist that, as a general proposition, Goon Farming ioeh pay that few pursuits all'ord as good a prospect, as full an assurance, of rewartl for intelligent, energetic, persistent effort, as this docs." Domestic Economy A Fashionable Lesson. Mrts. Smith has a lot of cake left upon her hands after New Year's, and announces the fact to her husband in these words : " Mr. Smith, I must give a party." Mr. Smith groans approval. Th' cake itself was superfluous, as he told his wife, for men like pickles ami fWthsMer, or nasty stuff with some such horrid name, much better. But when Mrs Smith remarked severely : 44 Mr. Smith, I have xLt my table with seventeen kinds of cake and a pyramid in the centre tot thirty years, and I am not going to stop now : Of course there was nothing more to be said. And the cake was bought. MOW it Wa8 tO be got r id of, and how could that be done except by giving I party ?" Mr. Smith succumbed As men. tyrannical as they are, always do under such circumstances. It would not be a very oostlj 1 ntertainment, Mrs. Smith argued 1 hiving the cuk Only music, (for the young people would want to dance). Ice creams and creams from the confectioner's. A lew dozen oranges, a pine-apple or two, and some gi apes lor show. A couple of boned turkeys, a few moulds of jelly, and a Charlotte Russe. Five hundred pickled oysters, some chicken salad, and Other trilles. 44 The wine," hs Mrs. Smith remarked to a friend, " Mr. Smith never grumbled at, and always sent home himself." Even from Mrs. Smith's light, and every point of view, the paity is a mete bogutdU, ami 1 fear Mr. Smith wilt be surprised, not to s:iy dumbfounded, when the bibs come up, lor really having the cake does not make so much difference as it did, when the cake ai d tea formed the principal part of the banquet at a parly. Already he observes with some dismay the possession of the cake does not prevent the days t)f discomfort which precede and follow a modem evening entertainment. He has, moreover, a dim suspicion that the thing won't 44 pay." There was only one man that he wanted to ask, and he 44 couldn't" come And wouldn't if he could. lie told him so. Told him he didn't believe in parties unless people could afford house room enough for the nun to more without step pin lt n the women's trains. But then Hoggs was always a hear. At least Mrs. Smith siys mi. The party will be a success undoubtedly. A number of people will arrive in car riages, eat some chicken salad, drink a glass of champagne, and go away again. The carpeta will be a preat deal soiled. One of Mrs. Smith's crystal fruit dishes will be broken. The gas bill will be double. The house will be in a Mate of siege for a week. Mr. Smith will be unable to take his afterdinner nap during all that space of time. The children will be sick and want the doctor. The servants will be cross. The beggars demoralized by the amount of cold victuals they will get. Mis. Smith laid up with a nervous headache. Surah .lane with a sore throat. Five hundred dollars, more or less, will be ppcut. Hut the etkc triU bt asaai. There's economy for vou ! And there's work. If that is not living for others, anil living hard for them, tot, I dtm't know what is. Af. V. World. A Story for Lawyers. The Valley of the I lackensack contains till a certaia number ol old people, descendants of the old Hollandiah Bettlers ; people who will spcik Dutch in their homes, and who are reported to Jog on faithfully adhering to old styles of living ami to old ideas. Oae of these M old Dutchmen," aa they an- Irrerently called, riding on th' Northern Railroad the other day, noticed al Englewood a handsome carriage, ami asked a gentleman sitting aol lar from him, a well known New York lawyer, whose it was. 44 It belorgs to Colonel Hunk," replied th- lawyer. 44 He must be a ri h man," b- rved the settler. 44 Yes," replied the lawyer, 44 he la a neb man, and a !;ood hon t man, too M " Ah r " He is a ban her and broker.1 44 A broker, " said the old linn w ith prise, " a hanker and h broker, ;"' honest man v" " oh, yes," replied the lawyer, " tin re an- hones! bankers and brokers. 44 Well," said th- oh! man, in a doubt Mg voire, " I dun no 'bout it ; 1 class 'em all with lawyer

10, 870. The Ants of Africa. A vf.uy few hours' resilience in the tropical regions ot Africa brings one into a very undesirable familiarity with tied extensive tribe of insects, the ants, sonuspecies of which are found in all pirts of the world, but which arc greatly multiplied in the tropical reeions of the globe. Africa, it is believed, can boast of a ereatter variety than any other land. Their name here is legion. They arc everywhere: out of doors and in doors ; in your food nnd in your bed, determined to share both. They are of all sizes; some so small that they pfis easily between the threads of common muslin, and even insinuate themselves into your watch as it hangs in your chamber ; others measure nearly an inch in length. The habits and food of the difb'rcnt species differ trreatly. Some, aa the termites called white ants (which, however, .hre not t nie ants, but Xeuropterous insects), eat vegetable matter exclusively, destroying our houses, furniture and clothing; others are carniverous: others feed upon sugar or the sweet juices of plants. Any one of the many species, found in so great abundance, would furnish sufficient material lor months of study for the enthusiastic naturalist. It is of one species only that I propose to speak, the drivers (annoma arcens of AVestwood), an insect whose life history is yet verv imperfectly known, but of whose habits the dweller in the tropical regions of Africa cannot long remain ignorant. The driver ants vary in size from threequarters of an inch to one-third of an inch in length, the soldiers being the largest. They are of a glossy, jet black color, with a large head, armed with exceedingly sharp, branching forceps, or mandibles, with which they seize and cut up their prey. They do not appear to have any fixed habitations as d the termites, but excavate the earth from between the roots of trees, and in the cavity thus formed lay their eggs and rear their young, and from which they issue in incredible numbers (literally millions ot millions) to go upon their raids. The night is chosen for the foraging expeditions. In the midst of social enjoyment the stirring announcement is made, 44 Here are the drivers!" and instantly, as by an electric shock, all are on the .alert to escape a personal attack. Lanterns and bamboo torches are lighted, and a search made about the house to learn the direction taken by the assailants ; and if in tin ir usual numbers, the house is often left entirely to them for hours. And still more unwelcome at the hour of midnight is the bleating of sheep and the cackling of hens, in the enclosure. "All hands ' are awakened from their slumber, and the whole yard lighted ; the animals are re leased from confinement an '. left to take care of themselves ; the fowls removed to a place of safety, if one is to be found ; but if neglected and left without the chance of escape, their destruction is sure. The drivers are alike the enemies of man and beaSt, though there are times when their visits are most welcome. On their approach every kiud ot vermin is seized with consternation, and seeks safety in flight. Centipedes, cockroaches, scorpions, &C, A;c., leave their niding-places, 1 and are seen seeking places of trrcater se curity, only to fall ,t last into the lutein -of their relentless foe, from whom there is no escape. An invading army could not exhibit a higher state of discipline than is set n in the movements of these insects. They enter a house usually at one point, where a strnur fruard is stationed to defend th- pass; tluy then branch oil fight and left, and again divide and subdivide, till the whole ground is completely covered ; not an inch is left Unexplored, and ever' crack ami cranny is entered, giving but little hope of escape to any cn ature that may be found secreted there. Attacking their pre' they plunge they their forceps into it, regardless of the si.e or strength of tin ir antagonist. Nothing will cause them to relax their hold. The animal or insect writhes and twists under the pain, but his case is renilcred more hopeless every moment by additions to the 1 umber of Iiis assailant-; at length, when completely exhausted by strugLrlin-, he yields to his fate and is despatched at the victor's leisure. The attack goos on simultaneously, in different parts of the house. Animal substance being almost exclusively the food of the driver?, an immense number of the smaller vermin that in fist our dwellings are consumed by them, ami some of the larger animals when confined an-aNo destroyed by them. They have been known to attack a human being, when rendered helpless by disease, and cause his death in a few hours. It is in teresting to sec a band of these midnight marauders returning home from a scene oi plunder on the approach of day. Issuing from the same place they entered, they are each seen bearing away some trophy with them ; a joint of a cockroach's leg, the body of a spider, or the larva' of some insect, &C., are the various spoils. As the laborers pass on with their loads they are guarded by a large body of soldiers.which are stationed along the sides of their path; or, if they are to pass through a place of uncommon exposure, these soldiers form a coveted passage, by standing upon each other's back ami Invoking their lorccps together ; through this arch, thus formed, tin' laborers pass in safety. When they leave a house it must be from some signal from the leaders, as some of them are Been running from one to another, evidently giving command. The retreat is made in good order; not one individual is ever left behind. They often bridge narrow streams of water when these come across their path, by going in large numbers upon a flexible plant on one side of a stream, until their weight causes it to bend to the othertide. For courage ami activity the soldiers have BO equal ; tlu y know no fear, ami when on duty they stand with their shiny black headfl erect ami forceps open, ready to Seize on any passing animal. No horse, donkey or- aog can be induced to cross 1 heir path, seeming to have an Instinctive dread of them ; and woe be to the individual; man or beast, who gets among them at night. If atwig is drawn through their ranks they instantly close their forceps upon it : and others in turn close Upon their bodies and legs, until a mass of them is seen at the cm! of the stick, look ing like a bunch of curled hair. These insects have no eyes, but their sense f tmeU is very a lit;, for if the breath be blown on them from the distance ot some feet, they are Instantly in motion, running to and fro with the greatest speed, evidently aware of the approach of some human being. When a live coal is dropped in their way they Immediately attack it, though hundreds may perish in doing SO. They are very sensitive to the liuht of the nun. which is fatal to them. They seldom move during the day, ami then nnly when cloudy, choosing then the t'ark woods or thick grass. Their rate ol progression is about two yards in a minute, ant, in their journeys Iren place to place, they go from four to eight abreast, 1 have seen l si ream of drivers crossing an open patch at six o'clock in the morn Ing, and at six o'clo k at night their num b 1 waa unfinished. How long they had been passing fit fore I saw them, or bow loriir it continued I am unable to sa Their path, (roes constant travel, became iiuite norn and imnoth. The natives arc v r careful to remove all grass from the vicinity of their houses, hs a means of keeping nffthOM posts. ilmsriOSW Nin- ) tdixt . Komibkokt is n avowed iiilldel.

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r 1 . NUMBER 2:;. FACT'S AN D FHHJRE&. Tup. present white population oi Idaho is put :it 12,000. Pin has made a fortune Of f ,000,000 in Spain. Bbgoikq in Rome, save on the steps of churches, is unlawful. CALlPonxiA has abolished the law. prohibiting Sunday theatres. ToOACCo costs the citizens of New ()rleans three times as much as bread. BaxubL (J'.si.in lives at (iirard, Paaged 99 almost old enough to be called a goose. A BkKUH professor says that all chil dren r.re born with blue eyes : Um darker hues come later. Hf.v. Dr. Osgood estimates that s person can make a trip to Europe for ii gold a day. Tiif. construction of iron bnildings is largely on the increase in our leading American cities. BnKATOn CamBMMI has recently fallen heir to $ 1,000,000 by the death of his father-in-law, James MeCoioiick, of Harrisburg. A clrrotm n in Belvidere, N. J-, refused to marry a couple because they had only 44 parked" for one week. Some RODT has stolen the only beams In Parmington, Uonn, and the authorities offer a reward of (35 lor its return with the thief in it. In 1S0 the census placed the total number of negroes in Kentucky at (16,167 ; in ist''. the State Audit- reports only 140,445 in the State. A COLonXD man died recently in Brazil, at the age of 150. lie could remember tvents occurring in 1T'!0, two years before the birth of Washington. MABYLAKD has three hundred and seventy-three square miles of oyster beds, ninety-two of which are closely covered, and the rest scattering. Tffic names of 845 new members were presented for election to the Young Men's Christian Association of New York, on a recent evening. Otkb a thousand houses have been built in Charlotte, N. C, since the war, and yet the population is increasing so rapidly that more will soon he necessary. A nnxin West Gardiner, Me., have received an order from New York for twenty-four thousand bat-sticks, for the ue of base-bull players, which they are rapidly filling. In New Orkans there is s man f whom the papers say : 44 11 commenced his career as a pirate 102 years ano, and now at the age of 11 he is a dock rat and a river thief." At the funeral of a young lady, at Chester, Yt., the other day, six young ladies, appropriately dressed tor the occasion, acted as pall bearers, and sang a dirge at the grave. A MAIN! paper enthusiastically describes the con rage of one of its subscribers Who cut a hole in his burning 6tore, and pulled out "JT firkins of butter with his feet before it had melted. A LBCTUnnU at Fort Plain, N. Y., who did not appear to suit his hearers, stopped and offered t refund the money to those who were dissatisfied. The ilail was cleared in eleven minutes. A BunoPnAU traveler says that it cost $16 in New York to take his family and baggage to the boat, and that very much the sam- service was performed for him in Paris tor $2.50. Tub marriage portion of a bride in the olden time Was a feather bed, six chairs, a cherry bureau and table, rix cups und saucers, six teaspoons, and a quantity of sand for sanding the Boom Fostana, the Paris nnging Blaster, who committed suicide, broke several mill from the wall by his weight, and was final ly (breed to hang himself to a strong hook only three feet from the ground It is said that in the once flourishing town ot Meadow Lake, Cal., now almost deserted, there are less than twenty per sons in the town at present about ten or fifteen houses to every person in the dace. Tiik Fat Men's Association of New York have provided, in their constitution, that 'I'JO pound- shall be the admission weight, although a falling off shall not be good cause lor expelling a member. Thf. f!:ght of :i hawk, when its powers arc liilly exerted, has been calculated at 150 miles an hour ; of the eider duck "jo miles. Tho American pigeon will fly a mile a minute, ami the albatioas U0 miles an hour. It is 8 curious circumstance that one of the heaviest men of the Convention of the fat men of Maine, bean the nam of Small, and thai another, but a little lighter, named LittlefiekL One of the heavy weights there is named Rounds. The champion jumpist in Massachusetts claims Newbury port as his place of residence. One day lately he arranged seventeen barrels in a row, and Jumped from one into the other without stopping, through the whole number. Tiik wife of a Boston man ran away to Denver about two months ago, and the other day telegraphed her husband to send money tor her to COBM home with. He replied, 44 Don't cut your visit short on my account," and she is in Denver yet. Tue Empress Eugenie sold lately the dresses she srore during her Eastern trip. 250 in number, with a jjreat collection of hats and bonnets, at auction, for the benefit ot he r orphan school, but they brougb.1 very small prices. Th' best dress in the lot, of rose colored satin, sohl for a (tout $2& A oMiM.ETE catalogue of the works of George Cruiaahaah, t he eminent engraver and artist, has been published, from which it appears that he has been engaged on 4,618 works of art, comprising 2,657 etchings, 1,693 woodcuts, 73 glyptograpbe, 00 lithographs, besides illustrations t 400 hooka, tracts and class books. The vicissitudes oi fortune were sadly illustrated in New York a lew days since. A Mrs Disbrow was buried in the Pot-tcr's-tieid, who only a few years ago was a leading New York belle who wore her f 15,000 worth oi diamonds, and wis beau t i t nl without them Now sin- tills a pan per's grave, at the age of Ml A pomp AHi ol fishermen returned lo Hudson, Wis., a tew days since, from the wilderness, more than a hundred miles northeasterly from that place, and mar the hendw:it"-s .,f the Chippewa. Tluy brought Otu them 1,326 tcook trout, which weighed in the sggregats 560 pounds. The fish sen all taught with hooks and lines, through holes cat in the km. Bmili ouMF.n, the French Premier, receives Ins friends only at breakfast, goes out si half past l, and when he dines at home, returns at i. Il- noes t i. d early. and rises at f or 7 o'clock. He drinks nothing but water, never smokes, n idem MS to the theatre, and onlf to hear music. Hp has newer, hitherto, given din ncr parties or soirees. Tiik meteorites which now arrive upon the earth arc not ol the same nuneralogi eel nature a1- those- whieh fell in past egnn Formerly iron Tell ; aou stones tall. Dur ing the list lis years, there have Ih-cu in Klimpe but three tails t iron, whereas tlier have been annually, on mi avecsure, three falls of stones. Perhaps it ami even le sanl that stones ot anew kinel are beginning to arrive, for falls of carbona ceous meteorites were unknown before the year 1 80S, and four have been observ ed since, then.

TU IE BAAL TT. "FlANnsoME they that handtome do. Grand aid to little Sue; Aud the dull gray eye- srww bright, Kiii'lled with an -airer light. From that bur flic strove to mnke IltTPelf more fair lor other' Mfce. Thouirh no rotes decked her cheek. She grew gentle, kind, and ne- k . And her voice soon band BUB Which, till then, it ha not know u. And. at length, her ptaraMte Thir " beat lrieud ' did suse call. Tin n no longer did -:uh Kr snowy brow and parkim? eye ; Well OSanSM thai th--c ehe knew Sh n Id Und her ever MSd Mtid true. And th- maxim wnmmm tanr'it.

Oiteu waa In Butte's thought. Harr 's MlttS aSi AaWMSU tho contents of Harry's stocking on Christmas morning hfl found a pair of bright-red mittens, with knag wrists that came up so lar ander his ja K et-sieeves, he thought he ahnuM never i'cold with them on. Not one of his pr ents pleased him much as these hi autiful bright soft mittens that hi- aunt Anna had knit and sent to him Iron: j. , ton. It was a clear, cold mornine, with capital coasting, and Harry tied his tipp, t close around his throat, put n his new mittens, took his sled and started lor a coast. All day long no one was sei happy as Harry. He gave his little, sister use long rides, ;t always r ady to draw the sleel of Johnny Hell, the; lame boy, ap th 1 hill for him, and his merry laugh mag ut clear and full on the cold, sharp air. In the eveninir, when all w re looking over each other's present-, Lay ask d 44 Why. Harry, where are your new m:t tens tn Harry blushed, and oontinued on rending Ids hook as if he had not heard her question, and sh soon lornol il in haagh ing with Willie OVflTthfl ß nay picturehis new book. A little while after, Mrc. Hay sat .'own by Harry, and aski d : "What has become of your ncwnitteiis, my son v' " Oh, mother," said Harry, and the bright color came into his fare, "Tom Wilson was out coasting this mofniag, and hfl looked so rjnM hfl had DO tip; i t and no mittens n, and the sleeves to hi jacket were so short an! ragged, his hands were sore and looked so bad I gave him my mittens. JJo you think aunt Anna will br angry with m mother i LM yofl know Tommy has no lather, ami his mother is poor ; and then, mother, he had no Christims present. I guess my bfOWH ones will last out this winter, bt UV f have not one hle iti them yet, and y hi know my new Jacket si v - come .'.own long on my wrists. You are not SOtry, mamma f ami Harry gave her :rxd hug and kiss. 44 My dear boy," said Mrs. May, M flofl have done mc mote od this day than any gift you could have given me would have done, for you have stewn BUB thai you could ghre cheerfully what sras dear to yourself. Always remember, my bf.y, that Cd loves a cneertui giver. Hour 1 Poor Daha 44 Go ami get it ! Go and tret i:, I cv P Poor little Dash crept ( lose to hlsyoung master's feet, looking up with canie-i, pleaelii eye, as it he would -ay 44 Please, please don't I 1 csnnot do wdiat you want." Tom was trying to make Dash swim after a st'ck, which he had justthrown into the river. Now, Dash was not a water dog, having no more i fefof ilthan a est and loolish Tom was beat on smkhtg him one. He kickeel the poor little animal away and repeated his older : than, anury that it was not obeyed, seized him and threw him into the water. The dog was sorely frightened, but, by hard Mtruggling, reached the bank, and crawled to kifl master's feet with a pitiful whine, wet, pantLngj In ml dins lue cruel boy caught him up, with hard words, and mal Jaul totng to throw him in again, when a pair of strong arms seized him, and a man's voicesaid : 44 Here, you yotimr scamp SfoW we'll see how you like to swim '. ' It was Tom's turne! to be frightened, lie turned pal-, tre-mMed and caught his breath as the stranger lifted him in hi-, strong armsas easily as he aadpoorDash ; he began to beg. 44 Oli, sir, pray don't ! I cannot -wi:u, indued I cannot ! Oh, don't throw me into the water. I will never, neve r, do so again !" Tiie man paused, but did not let u his hold. 44 Neither can your do? swim." said he, 44 but yon meant to make him do it. just In aaaflsc youracht Why can I not make you do it to amuse mal I MS as mm ii larger ami Stronger than you as ynU SfU larger and stronger Una that poor, pant ing. trembling dog." Tm still bagged and prom had, and the strange-rat last released him. saying 44 Now, my boy, let me- give- you a kind word f advice. Meant treat another, whether human being or dumb animal, as you would not like to be irat i y H self. Never try to make anybody or any thing do what God, when lie created it. did not make it do, or to be what II did not mean it to be. It you keep tnesrules, you will be a be tter, v. isi r, and happh r boy. Good bye." And loin knew in his bean that tue man was right, and the lesson, though it emed severe, given in re a' kinelness - Christina Begittt r. An An ful Btery TiiFitF. was once an awful littl. l-'iI who had an awful way of my ing "awtnP to everything. Bhc lived in an awful house, in :in awtul -treat in an :iwtui ! bum, which was an awful distance from any oth.-r awful piece. She Weal to awtul school, Where Mie hail an awiin teacher, arho gave hr swfhl tamaasflnri of awful books. Kverv dav sh. w awtul hunirrv that she eat an awful am un' of Ibod. so t hat she looked awful healthy. Her hat wa- awful small, and her 1 t Wem awful large. She went t an aw it church and her minister was nu aw.al mancher. When she' tok an awful walk she limbed awful hills, and when tdio ! '4 awful tired she sat down und r an awtul tree to rest herself. In summ r she !-. the weather awful hot. and in winter. awful cold. When it didn't rain tierw SS an awful drought, and w hen th- h tul droucht waa over there waa an awful ran So that this awful uirl was ail the tun iu an awful state, and if she don't omef myiac "awtul about everything, i am atraia she will, by and by, noaue t aa awful end Kxch.tnge. Timr.F. enterprising lads who liv' in Trenton, N. .1 , and wham ages range from 12 to 16 years, hac hit on a rauaaT novel winter asmmeaaeni, Th y ham s miniature telegraph WWU StffltCned went the tops of tin- houses ami connecting their homes. All the apparatus i- d their own construct ion , nnd though ptitc rude it still works admirably. In this way they are virtually fas each other'- company though miles apart, and amuse the inn 1 a discussing th" news of the day and track ing their juvenile jokes, while a. Ii 1 seated hj his own fireside. Tub Beimel Hwm lrr reports the death in that town t a woman BaaUfld Kllen Croghan, at the ace l 1 ".. Her remains wer- tollowen to the gl 1 by nix of her children, the sUeOl of the boys, who is a great-gramltathcr. hi in about ninety, ami the l iest girl about two y'ars younger. Besides tin family, the aumnami left behiud her forty on grandchildren, thirty two great -grand-children, and two great-great -grandchildren. In 44 A ihn.k aJbowl Words, by CI P. Graham, the author rives an explanation of the phrase-, -Nun- Tailors M V 1 Man." In the olden time the stroke ol the passing Ml were tailed tellers,' and as nine strokes indicated the h ath ol man, while three announced thai -l S Child, ami sii that of n woman, He " "nine 1 Hers" wwre easily pervert .1 into nine tailors.