Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 24, Plymouth, Marshall County, 17 February 1870 — Page 1

POETRY.

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RISK. Is the quiet or the fvemnij Two are walking in unreal : Man ha touched a jealous natnre Anger burns iu woman's breast. (These are neither wed nor plighted, let the maybe hangs as near And m fragrant a the wiid-rose W tiieh their garment hardly clear; A od as briery, too. you fancy ? well, perfcap so some aad'morn w ish they never had '.en born'.

Happy oatpa iid honest pleading Hat m iiccre or a m: er : Sir e keenly har ahe listened she vowed aho would not hear. N ii a gr-.-at oak pirts the pathway. WatmiTI gratify your mood : To the rirht let this divide yon; It will all be understood." No Qapriea, with childih weaknep, Tel with subtlety of thought, WMwpored in the ear of woman. Law, with dread, the answer sought. Was it uperstitiou taelinj Htmck at once the haart of two -INd ho -.een proud eves hnirorry ror what little feet must do? Pot he stretched an arm towards her. 1 uin' nothing mit th- air, H lying nothing - iust the motion Drew, without offending there. h Om nuiet orth .ninz Twoan waH.lTlir hata again; At t he oak, th,.tr h V(jrc, 1 Map ol a TfigEi pain, ' Wh.t .r they tM-night be plight ?, .o 1 the rrtfivhe hangs nure m aAnd more Iragrantthan the wild-roso w l:;ch their garmenis hardly clear '. .1 more briery, too. yon fancy? Well, perhaps so. Thorn are IB, Bat law draws them out so k'.ndly. One must trut him, come what will. A'Umn.- Monthly. MISCELLANEOUS. HI MAS MAN'S BELL. " Mvchild crying again." said Tom Morley. irvc minutes after I bad ben in his liou-c , p irabolically refcrrinsr to the surgery bell ..aar focae than any child," said I iK-v. r heard such a bell: it doesn't ring, lf 1118." It Plight have been a knell auch ' its solemn, deep-toned clangor. " Why n earth don't you change it for somethine: mow professional? It's enough to frighten yur patients into fits." M HI tell you when I come back," he replied; and Tom Morley went to the Margery t see what was wanted. I bad taken Crankford on mv way in a journey to Exeter, because I knew Tom Morley, who had recently come into mae considerable property in that little town where he was practising as a surgeon, and h cause there was some queer circumstances connected with his settlement in Crankford, of which I wished to learn Ibe particulars; and he was such a bad carrespopdent, it was no good writing to him. His house was a verv nW fashioned " I I askew in a crooked street ot I crooked town, and every room seemed arranged cornerwise, as to consist of beams, and ancles, and recesses. "Well," mid Tom Morley, returning to the room after having seen his patients, " now, abonl the bell Why don't I change it lor a more musical one ? Because I owe nearly all I have to that bell. Come and look at it." I followed him up stairs, aal along a winding dark passage on th first Soor, til we came to it, a large and heavy Iron bell covered with eobwebs, remarkable tor not hi a?, to my mind, but its size and its hi.l .nus nniirtarw Tom set it a swing ln- it produced a deafening peal so that bead ached. ' There," s iid he, with evident relish for the horrid none, "as long as I have a avrgery, I hope that will always be my surgery bell. It has been the unconscious instrument of punishing crime, of avenging the dead, and of causing justice to be done the living." We caae down stairs agaia, and when comfortably seated by the fireside, Tom Morley told me the story. Von mal know tbat this poky little hewee, and that big gabled barn next to it on the right hind side, which is sufficiently assuming to be dignified with the title ot " ed;fi. ," once-upon a time formed one boa tmu great crooked bü of anaightlinesa thd might have been built during "' aattbqaake by a Manx architect ; it ünald not have been crookedcr. The then owner of the- place used to live in the large home, whilst his butler and the butler's wife (the owner's housekeeper) inhabited Ibe smaller one in which we are now sitting. At that time the great house was a tine one in its way, well furnished, and well k-pt up ; but when (through eircumitanoei which I need not mention) the property caaM into my father's posat w n, dc u twenty years ago, he made two homes of it, lived in the big one himself, and let the little one. My father, Mr Isaac Morley, was called a bad landlord ; be seldom had a tenant ' y in the smaller house lon: ; in fact, he allowed it to go almost to wreck and ruin, for vj-antof the necessary external repairs; hut then he suffered t be large house, which ted himself, to fall into a similar state of decay. It was not that he was a poor mm, but because he had a morbid dislike to pirt with his money. Some people called n.y father a miser : if finding money in his own house, and gloating over it with some degree of MtfaActtoa, mike a person a ruiser, people were. justified in railing him one. Hut he was not a mieef in the ordinary sense of the term, .'lis b arding at home had grown out of a mufefttmc whirh nearly ruinel him in early Bfc j aleealbaaii in which much of hit money was deposited had tailed; and from that time he said (foolishiy, no doubt,' be would never trust another. As la his gloating over his money, that is little, after all, because it is just as miserly to gioat over a balance in a banker's bMk as over a heap of gold and notes in a eaab box. Hut my father differed from the mi ser geanai more especially in this particu lar ; be never pinched or stinted himself far the s ik of his cash box. I do not say this difference was much in his favor, but be wa.s my father, and, though he was a s' range man in many things, I should be Barry t i sv the contrary. FT" marri' d late in life; my mother lived only two years with him, and died in giving me birth. My father took a itraBge an ! unreasonable dislike to me, as being, im MMM sense, the cause of my mother's death. It worried him to think about his lo-s when be saw me, and as the sight of in" reminded him ofthat, I was sent away to bebroaght up with air mother! iliter'i children. The quarterly payment my lather remitted far my board and edaaa tion were a substantial help to my aunt. I had a comfortable home, and, though I I a little of my father, we were n ver on on friendly teriae, In due time he consulted my wishes about my future life, ap preatieea BM to a surgeon, and paid the necessary expenses for my studies. Folks in Crankford were divided in opinion as to whether Isaac Morley really was Heb and miserly, or only poor and economical He was &n quiet and reserved in his habits; whilst it was known he bad mflered losses in his time, that there was no getting at the actual truth. I knew no more than they did, and my re lations with my father prevented my ascertaining, so that whatever was said alumt the nutter was for many years no more than guru.i-e. As to the ucal old housekeeper who lived in the house, sh"! was always crosfl'y discreet, and had Natll a VlCWMU temper he. idea, that it was usw baa for any of tlie neighbors to try and confirm their suspicions from her. Well, after my father had grizzled nearly a twelve month over the little house lxung shut up, and began to frar he must nut it into re Mail before he could let it any more, a tenant suddenly turned up in ine person of ir. John tiryant He wag a suave, flabby man, nearly 40 short, a id rather stout, with a fat, color less, doogh-like face. It was rumore! that he h.id very powerful, if not very cnditb!e, reasons tor relinquishing pr w tiee smewb'-re in Essex. We nev knew if that was tnu it was merely I .-sip, tad Crankford is a gTeat place for . . . mm an a. a. that -hur lr. rryam. paid oowu nan a year's rent in advance, took the plaet from Michaelmas, and wanted nothing done. Isaac Morley took his money and aked no questions. A great man for doctors was my father. He was scarcely ever really ill, but as he

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VOLUME XY, grew old and began to feel the natural infirmities of age creeping on, he was never content unless he could bo squirtiug all manner of things into his ears ami his eye to make bi n feel better, and improve bfa sight. He aad his dinner pills regularly, whether he had any dinner or no. He denied himself wine and spirits, but drank steel, quinine, and bark, and all manner of tome medicines to excess. He was a Ceftaifi income to any doctor who w;otild pm up with his whims and fall into his ways, but as fond of ( hanging his physic; ia as the habitual toper is of (hanging his publican. What is more, though " ner " in most things, he narer objected to a doctor's bill, As soon as Doctor Gryant was installed next door, my father paid off his last medical man, "Dr. Rom, who lived at Spedminton (a neighboring village), and gave himself up to the advice of Iiis new tenant. It was always a great day, and one to be remembered by my father, when he commenced with a new doctor. There were all his ailments to be gone over his eye symptoms, his ear symptoms, his indigestion, his nervous debility, his liver, fcc, so that, as he said, 41 his constitution might be properly understood " by his adviser. Doctor Gryant ticked off every item in the long catalogue very solemnly with a nod of his fat white chin in his shirt collar, aud though he knew these to be purely imaginary complaints, he said, " Ah !" aad Mdear me!1 and "Very true!" and promised to send corrective medicines for each. One symptom, however, was that of a real disorder, and demanded more careful attention. My father complained, in addition, of certain nervous twitchmgs in his limbs. Doctor Ron, who had become accustomed to the fancies of his patient, had taken little notice of this, but Doctor Gryant laid more stress on the symptom, and mentally determined to exhibit minute doses of strychnine. I get very nervous about these twitchings," said my father, "and my health being altogether in a precarious state, I am glad to gave a doctor living handy, lf I should happen to want you, either by day or night, I hare only to pull your bell. Don't be surprised if I should not wait for you to answer the door; the weather is so chilly, and I am so susceptible of cold that I can't stand draughts. I shall ring your bell if I want you. and come indoors again, where you will find me. You can never mistake my ring : I know the bell better than you do. Oblige me by going to your surgery now, and listening." Dr. Gryant did so, and in a few minutes he nrard this identical bell ring, not as it BflaaUr does, in a pe;il, but in slow, measured beats "One, two, three, four," and so on. It rang in this manner for nearly a minute, then stopped. The unusual sound of the bell struck painfully on Dr. Qryant'i ear. For an instant he was conscious of a ciecning a sensation, a warning of evil, as though some one were walking ov r his grave ; but, shaking it, off, he laughed at himself, and saying. "It's only a whimsical old fool ringing the bell his own way," went to the door. Did Isaac Morley had not waited in the cold, but had left the front door of his house open for the doctor to enter, who found his patient quietly seated at the dining-room fire awaiting his return. " You see," said my father, " my dining room being on the ground floor, I may just as weil wait here for you by the fire as on your doorstep." " Quite so," assented the doctor. " And you are not likely to mistake my ring for a stranger's ! 1 M Certainly not. But that is a very queer bell, Mr. Morley. Do you know it has not a pleasant sound when rung as you rang it " It has a distinctive sound, Dr. Gryant ; that is all I want. Whenever you hear the bell rung in thai way, remember it is I and I want you. Whether aight onlay, will you kindly remember this And if I should not be at the door you wiil find me in the dining-room." The doctor said he would, and on returning to his house made several experiments with the bell handle to repeat the effect produced by my father, but with very poor success. " Well," he thought to himself, " there is no doubt I shall know the old fellow's ring." My father was, certainly, a great plague for any doctor to live next door to. Doctors were his weakness; and to get a doctor living so near a tenant too, with forty poaadl a year rent to credit against a score for phyioc was a sore temptation. tN Cr V V V , r nnt wnii i w cr mi fr Iwir t oil boroh I , .Ii r I i 1 1 - . . . ...... .. . I . . . Ii.' i . . twu " "mv ..1 lain a." r lav ill lllal Mill oil, grating summons on the most trivial errand, until be got so accustomed to the bed that it ceased to a fled him in any other way than business viz : " Morley, visit, three and sixpence," except when he happened to think about the sound, and then it did certainly Sit ecroM his mind that he wished old Isaac would ring like other patients. Dr. Gryant's practice was not large. In a small country town especially, most people are chary of exchanging an old doctor whom they know for a new one they do not, and with i ute disagreeable rumors attached to his name, his brother practitioners fought rather shy of him, whilst nu mbers of a kindred profession were unplea antly familiar. He was continually getting lawyers' Letten about outstanding debts contracted in another part of the country. He staved these off as beat he j could, paying installments where he was most worried, bat living a pn carious and unsettled life in Crankford, continually treateaed with process, whilst it was mid, with what truth I do not know, that he did not dare face the Court 1 1 Bsakruptcy or tear ot revelations which might prove still more imurious to what little reputa tion he had. Fix. if you please, in your mind these two bits of Crankford goasjn that Doc tor Gryant was in want of money, press- d tor it on all snles, and that he wits a con stant, and the only eonstaat, visitor at Isaac Morley's a man supposed by many people (witii lar worse opportunities of judging) to tie very wealthy and miserly, ant you will be prepared tor part of what follows. Laie one evening in the f dlowing March, Dr. Gryant was sitting alone in his study. With ni head on his hands, he was gazing into the ire as earm tlv as if the -l,:,,,, - in the burning coals could show him in a picture some way of escape from Iiis difficulties. Letters lay on the table containing peremptory demands for money. While he was thinking and worrying how to meet tteae demands ho heard my father's summons. It was just after 11 o'cloek at night, and the measured beat of the iron bell, like a ghostly clock slowly striking the hour, jarred on him it was so baunah. It was some minutes before lie answered it he had papers to put avsay, and his desk and drawers to loek. Then he took his hat and went to the door. No one was there; but he saw, as usual, that his patient had left his own front door ajar for him to enter. The dining-room door was, however, closed. Dr. Cryant opened it. Isaae Morely had fallen down prostrate on the floor, struck with paralysis. Dr. (Iryant saw immediately that he still breathed and judged that my father must have had just warning enough of the Impending Stroke to enable him to go oat and ring tor his doctor, and then regain the dining room before the seizure took place. The stroke must, however, have been very mddea My Bvtber had been - - i . it. 'muni. in? Ml ;!, i.ii ii c mm ,.y dently attempted to replace in the heavy cash-box, which lay open on the table, before help could arrive, for the notes weie crumpled up and thrust in hastily in a

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heap ; some had fluttered to the floor, where Isaac Morley lay, with gold still in his hand, and gold lying about him. Dr. Gryant hesitated between the cashbox and "the patient. A lew moments could make little difference, alter all, to a man in my father's condition. He looked in the cash box saw there a packet of thirteen notes, each for a thousand pounds many tor smaller sums, and numerous rolls in which sovereigns were done up in rouleaux of fifty, lie looked at the paralytic, then at the gold, then quickly from one to the other. One was little (o him little, perhaps, to anybody, he thought; the other, the purchase of freedom from annoyance, luxury at least tranquility. Then he placed the packet of notes and four of the rouleaux of sovereigns in his own pocket, still glancingat the si k man. Bat ther" was no sign of consciousness, only a heavy stentorous breathing. Lower down in the cash-box was a will a mere sheet of note paper, but duly signed and attested, and it ran thus : "I, Isaac Morley, of sound mind and body, do give and bequeath all my real and personal estate of which I may die possessed to my son Thomas Morley, whom I hereby appoint sole executor to this, my last will and testament." A more blundering thief would have taken the whole and destroyed the will. Doctor Gryant contented himself with the packet of notes and four rolls f gold. He left all the rest in the disorder in which he found it, and relying on tue fact that Isaac Morley's wealth was not known even to his son, he then turned to his patient. Only one circumstance was ever likely to discover the theft. That was, should Isaac Morley recover. There was no danger of this, as it happened, for in three minutes my father had breathed his last, probably without pain or consciousness. Doctor Gryant, frightened at what he had done, rang the dining room bell violently for the housekeeper. Its very sound was better to him than the silence, but the old woman was so deaf and slept 80 heavily she did not hear, so the echoes died away, and there was silence once more, with the dead man still clutching the gold, and the doctor longing to see a live man or woman again. Doctor Gryant was not usually nervous with the dead, but he feared my father as if t he dead man could get up and strangle the money away from him. At last he could bear it no longer. Re ran from the room, up stairs, and hammered at the housekeeper's door : " For mercy's sake, come down, for Mr. Morley is dying! ' At last he made her understand something serious was the matter. But he waited for her Doctor Gryant did. He had seen death from all points of view but one, and never quai led, but he feared to enter that dining zoom alone. The housekeeper hurriedly threw on a few articles of clothing and followed him. The doctor let her go in first. Never heeding the gold, she went straight to the dead. "Oh, bless me' bless me." cried the old soul. "Goaad get a cordial or something, do, and don't stand i taring there, or he'll be gone !" Dr. Gryant was glad of any excuse to get out of the house with the money. He went to his surgery, deposited the money there, and quickly returned with stimulants. Of coarse they were useless. He told the old lady her master was gone, and mat surgical aia. Thru be related how he had been summoned as usual, and had found Mr. Morley smitten with paralysis in the ve ry article of death as he entered the room. The old woman paid little j heed to what he said her whole mind was , taken up just then with simple and sin cere grief at the loss of her master, whild she rather resented what little the doctor said as exemplifying to her belief the ignorance of u book learned" about anything practical. She believed the could have saved him, it she had only seen him "when he was first took" that was about all the housekeeper had to say. Dr. Gryant then did perhaps the wisest thing he could have done. Pointing out the notes and gold and the open cash-box to the old woman, he said he would go and fetch Mr. Naresby, the lawyer, who lived in the same street, that the property might be duly restored to the box an l sealed up by an independent person, pending inquiry. The housekeeper seemed nettled at this, and wanted to know whether "she would steal from the dead who never robbed the living ?" He ex plained that it was simply ordinary pn caution, as much for the sake of his own character as hers, and with that went tor Mr. Naresby J The lawyer was rather surprised than otherwise at the amount of my Gather'! property, lie was one of those who never believed Isaac Morley to have been a man with more than hare competency to live upon, so that when he found five or six thousand pounds in gold and notes in the cash box, together with the will, he had no suspicion whatever that money had been extracted tharefrom. He counted the money in Dr. Gryant's presence, noted the amount on a slip of paper, of which he gave the Doctor a copy, and then sealed up the box and took charge of it. An inquest was held upon the body the following day, but adjourned in order that I pari mortem examination might be made. Dr. Gryant was requested to undertake the duty, but he himself requested, since he was alone with the deceased at the time of death, that Dr. Real might be allowed to assist in the examination. At the adjourned impiest, Dr. Gryant stated that he had for some months past been treating the deceased for incipient paralysis, while Dr. Ross deposed tl spare von technicalities) that there was no doubt of Mr. Morley's having suffered from that disorder; that a considerable part of the brain and the whole of the right side of the body were found to be affected, and i i a a a mat, inouLMi a somewnat uncommon occurrence for a person to die from the first a i a a a . si roue oi mis disease, ii was ny no means an unheard of event; that, in the opinion of himself and his brother practitioner the deceased had evidently come to his death by a stroke of paralysis, of which abundant evidence was noticeable. A verdict was therefore recorded in accord ance with the medical testimony: "Died by the visitation of God." Dr. Dryant's theft appeared in all human probability likely to escape def ection. It is certain that not a soul inspected him of it at Itte time ot the inquest. The amount oi money lounu in the cash box was just sulhcient to satisfy everybody s curiosity wo now suggesting nuspieion. I came down to my father's funeral, am when that was over Mr. Naresbv, who had constituted himself my solicitor, rca the will, and I came into my property. ii a 1 1 1 a . i DBnaunij never expecieu so large a sum irom my miner, ami had not UM vuguest suspicion ot anything or anybody. I have a parrot a queer bird. Mis name is Hob. I believe he knows it. ret he obstinately persists in (ailing him I, Pretty Polly. I brought Huh down with me in his cage, and mv doaT Dash, too f.ir company in the lonely hou-e. That bird is so talloaa, you would scarcely believe. If 1 notice " Dash," and p it him and say, " Poor Dash F my brute of a bird will get upon its perch, plume himself, and then, with his head perked on one side, will look down on the dog and cry in a prolonged squall of mocking irony, " Poo-O-OOOf Dash !" in a strange place he is very quiet lor a day or two whilst "taking notice," and then he brings out what he has heard, fcr he Is quick at catching conversation. For the first two days he was put out in the kitchen to sleep, but he was unhappy there, having been used to sleep in the diningroom. He picked up something in the a. a a

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kitchen, thoueh, which I may as well tell you. "Bob," among his other accomplishments (and he was a very wise bird), used to imitate distant voices with surprising effect. Down in the long garden adj lining ours, Dr. Gryant's voice would often lie heard calling to his boy who did the gardening and errands besides. What he said it was difficult to distinguish owing to the distance, but the Bemblaace of the voice was accurately rendered by the parrot, thus: "And, John, gabble, gabble, gabble, gabble. And, John, gabble, gabble. And, John, gabble, gabble, gabble. Yessir." The second day alter the funeral this bird was in the kitchen, and heard Dr. Gryant shouting to hi lad about a water rat that the boy was hunting. The parrot remembered it in the evening, and when the lamp was lit began to call with a shrill screech, "You've killed him, John ? Yes-sir." A singular bird " Bob" is. See him at supper-tiinr, when I let him out of his cage. He comes and perelu s on my shoulder, waiting till the spirit decanters are bit) ht out. He t:ien helps himself to a large knob of sugar from the sugar basin, and walks in a stately way to the brandy bottle. ThPre he flings down his sugar, and remains calling, in a most insinuating manner, " Pretty Polly," until some one dips the sugar in neat brandy. With his grog in his left claw, " Bob" returns to my shoulder, and sits there imbibing it until he first shuts one eye in extreme satisfaction from time t time as tee spirituous juice gets up in his head, and at lat, with both eyes winking, he becomes ready for bed. He had gone thus far through his evening performance on the third night after the funeral, when, as I had determined not to send him out in the kitchen to sleep, I looked for some convesient nail on which to hang his cage in thedining room. The only thing I could find was a brass knob against a cupboard, about six feet from the ground. Pob did not like the situation, since, the knob being nearly flush with the wall, his cage was canted on one side; but I left him there for want of a better place, and went to bed about 11 o'clock. Doctor Gryant had already gone to bed. I now know the fearfully anxious time the last tenjdayi had been to him. The very absence of suspicion hitherto had only lasted long enough to excite each night a dread lest the coming day should reveal the whole truth vivid and plain to all. Judge, then, what Doctor Gryant felt when that night he heard my father a rummotu again, my father being dead and under "ground ! " " One two three four " the bell tolled out, harsher and more horrid than he had yet heard it. "Pomb pond:" it went on, never hurrying or staying its measured, beat. "Toll, toll, toll," and the dreadful thing rang on as if it would never stop until he answered it. How could be help recollecting my father's words: "Whenever you hear the bell rimr in that way r mnnber it is I, and J tc tut tO" He threw on his things and went down to the door, white and trembling, and his knees quaking under him. As he passed along the passage the bell topped. He unbolted and unbarred the door, and looked out into the night. The moon shining on the pavement, and the wind blowing coolly on his damp forehead, house asleep, streets deserted, not a soul abroad, nor light from door nor win. low, and Mr. Morley's front door closed. Nothingelse. A wf ulier to him than any vision of another world were the silence and the stillness and the sight of the quiet st irs, when his very heart cried aloud in fear within him. Almost fainting he got back to bed, and tossed there till morning. The next night it was the same, with thi-; exception, that, frightened beyond endurance, and really longing for the sight of a fellow creature, Doctor Gryant rapped at my door. Not being gone to bed, I answered him myself. His face, always white, looked ashen and deadly in the moonlight. "For Heaven's sake, Mr. Morley, tell me did. you ring my surgery bell?" "No," said L " But what on earth possesses you ? You look like death itself," " I fancied I heard the bell ring, Mr. Morley, and that it rang like he rang it for me the night he died. I mean your lather; but I am nervous to-night, and it may have been my fancy after all." " Fancy,'' I repeated, " that is absurd. There could be no fancy about hearing such a bell as that. Either you did hear it or you did not, for it is a bell that trill )rib:thi ihad. Inadvertently and lightly 1 spoke th(vse words, but their effect on Dr. Gryant was rrible. 1 thought he would have fallen, md so asked him to come into the diningroom to take something. He looked at me with a long, vacant stare, and then, with a shudder of horror, stammered qnicklv beneath his breath. 1 No, I cannot," and staggered out into he street, and shut himself up in his own house, i ne man s manner impress ed me so much as that of a cowardly limine who did not. dare to face some thing he had done, that, when I returned to thedining room, I began to suspect him of being one. I was Bitting in the same room, and near about the very spot, where my father led, ten days before, at that very hour. I give the coincidence for what it is worth, lecause. in my opinion, the surroundings had much to do with driving my mind Irresistibly in one direction. Subjectively, I believed myself to have been under the influence ofmy father's spirit, through the op ration of this coincidence of time and place, taken in connection with what had fallen from Dr. Gryant, but of any objec tive or supernatural presence I was unconscious. I was merely aware of a direct influence on my mind while 1 sat thinking over Dr. Grvant's singular and marked agitation. When, f or instance, I reflected that ? his agitation might be the result of simple nervous disorder on his part, and my thoughts showed signs ol wandering to the diagnosis and treatment of such aberrations, the influence would strongly impress on my mind the fact that Doctor Gryant had himsell connected Iiis terror about the bell with my father, while by his marked dread of entering the house he had shown reason for fear which he as sociated with this house. In spite of myself, whenever my thoughts took any direction favorable to Dr. (rvant, the' ajere blocked by some startling suspicion or bint of motive which I had before, overlooked. 1 know that I was thus Influenced in some manner from outside my own mind, until I becnne unwillingly forced to tin conclusion that lr. ttryant had done some great wrong against my lather. Having reached this conclusion, the end seemed less unreasonable to me than the Itepfl by which I arrived at it. I must have unconsciously drot oed ofT to sleep in mv chair, for I awoke old am chilly, the fire gone out and riT limbs numb and stiff I knew that I had dreamed, and that the dream bad been about my father and Doctor Gryant, but me particular oi the dream were gone from my memory. I ret lad a distim knowledge of having seen vivid things in my sleep. It was as though some light had Bashed into my mind for an instant, lit up l picture there of something I reff much wanted to know, and then suddenly and irrevocably died out. Hut I awoke, I remember, with the impression that I snouiu see my lather s hody in the room, I a a r m ... aaaaw ami mat i mur see it t here. There was nothing unusual In the room. Still I mold not get rid of the Impression oftht dream, and, again, in spite of me, the in the nce o winch I w a -t he conscious but unwilling agent, swerved round my mind till I felt 1 must see my father s body for myself. I then went to bed, believing my

thoughts would recur to what I judged a more healthy tone in the morning. I slept, dreamless till early twilight, and then by that singular property of the brain, unconscious celebration, whereby the brain, of its own accord, will produce images which the will has been powerless to make it recall, I remembered distinctly every particular of the dream I had gtr van in vain to recollect over night. It w ts so vivid and clear that it impressed DM I had witnessed my father's death in every deed. 1 rose early, and went over to Spedminton to consult with Dr. Roes. I told him little or nothing of my experiences, feelbig be would disbelieve in them, but contented myself with minute inquiries a3 to the nature and extent of the post-mortem examination in which be had assisted. Dr. Rom entered at length into particulars, and repealed that he was perfectly satisfied d it h had resulted from paralysis. I gathered from him, however, that Dr. Gryant had performed nearly the whole of the practical part of the post-mortem himsell, and that beyond generally satisfying himself of the truth of what his brother practitioner demonstrated, Dr. Rose had made no thorough personal examination of his body. Returning to Crankford, I called on Dr. Gryant. He had almost entirely recovered his self possession with the daylight, but was still quiet and reserved. I found him employed at his surgery bell. He had taken out the bell-handle and bell-wire. I went up stairs with him, to examine the bell itself, and found he had taken away crank, bell wire, and all lrom that end, and there was, in fact, no wire of any kind now attached to the bell. The bell hung, as it does at present, in a corner, about two inches cither way from the wall, and certainly he left nothing attached to it which could account for disturbing the peace any more. That night I was away from home between 10 o'clock and 9 the next morning. My business took me to the catacombs of Crankford Church, Hut it is a fact that, notwithstanding all communication had been cut oft from the doctor's bell, tin' lull still rang at o'clock that night, with the same monotonous tteady " toil " as before. It rang for nearly a minute, and then ceased. I found, on my returning home, that Dr. Gryant had again rapped at the door, nearly beside himself. I did not wonder then, for I k tie io irliy. The following day I remained at home. I had important business there, which led ni.' to lock myself in the dining-room for a great part of the day, and also to lock the dining room door when I had finished. In the afternoon, among some old letters in an escritoire, 1 found a piece of paper on which the contents of my father's cashbox were specified. Towards evening I ascertained from the housekeeper the precise position in which the cashbox was found when my father died, and where the loose gold and notes lay on the tloor. Doc tor Rom spent that evening with mc. Eleven o'clock struck. I pulled a little cord by the fireplace. My father had been accustomed by this cord to unlatch the front door, without leaving his seat. I set the front door ajar. Then I laid my hand on the hook where the parrot's cage had hung every night till now, kept it there with a gentle pressure, and waited. In minute or two we heard Doctor (Iryant's door unlocked. He came to ours, and finding it open, ran into the passage. " This is some infernal trick, Mr. MorU y, and I aftS know the rights of it. Did any one in this house ring my bell V" His lips were bloodless and quivering as lie spoke, his words quick and frightened. 44 You shall Know," I said, shutting the door and locking it to prevent his retreat. "Some one in this house did ring your bell. Dave you forgotten who said, " Whenever you hear the hell ring in that way, it is I, and I want you V" Come in, Doctor Gryant ; you wiu find my father in the dining room " We forced him into the room, carried him almost, but he was helpless as a child, and would have fallen but for our support. There we sat him face to face with his crime. Everything was arranged as it had been that night. The cash box was there, and the loose fluttered notes, and the gold on the floor and in the dead man's hand. And the dead man was lying there. 44 Your post mortem examination was superficial," I suid, "Doctor Gryant; you

omitted to notice a very important fact. The deceased was attacked by paralysis, it is true, but he died of murder, from the minute puncture of a surgeon's needle. I find that the needle was insrrted in the open mouth of the patient, and the throat ; tabbed through to the spinal cord, so dextronsly that it scarcely bled internally, and left no outward sign. And you, Doctor John Gryant, did this deed to cover your robbery of 1:5,200 from his cash box. That is what my lather summoned you for to hear this. And now, what have you to say to my lathery" The man's face was fearful he gasped and struggled to get tree, but in vain. His mouth was so parched he could scarcely frame a word, but covering his lace with his binds, and seeking to hide it, be mid 44 1 I I," and stopped. A horrid, choking voice in the room sen ached,4' You killed him, .lohn, ra." It was the parrot, which kept on repeating the same words, and I could not stop it 1 never heard in my lite a sound so ghastly. W lien he heard that, the murderer shrieked and leaped from us mad ! It was with great difficulty he was secured, and bound hand and foot, to prevent his injuring himself. The Coroner's commission was re-open ed, and followed bv a formal trial. Doc tor Gryant wa . sentenced to be con lined during Her Majesty's pleasure in a criminal asylum, where he soon died raving mad. With the aid ofmy father's memorandum 1 recovered most of the gold, and all the notes, of which I had the numbers. We found them in a drawer in Doctor Uryant's surgery. Respecting the bell, as you will have guessed, it was put up originally by the tormer owner or the huge house, to ring lor his butler La the smaller house, as an unmistakable summons in case of serious alarm at night, The hook in the diningroom, and a similar ene in the bed room above, used to have cords attached to them to pau. The principle on which the bell was struck was very simple merely a hammer, like a pianolorte hammer, which, exeept in the act of striking, was hidden at the back of the wainscot, and worked through a slit or mortice, which, being covered by cobwebs iu a dark corner, was not very apparent to so hurried an ob server as a guilty man. When either of the hooks was pulled it threw a heavy weight out of gear, allowing a smaller one to eat on a pulley and work the bell hammer until the weight ran down. When the hand was removed from the hook, the larger w eight ngain pulled the snmller one up into its position ready for use. The parrot's cage, hung upon the hook nightly at bedtime, had been the simple means of ringing the bell which Dr (Iryant, in Iiis guilty conscience, believed to have been tolled by a tenant ot the grave. The annexed fish story is a Maryland production : A man fishing in a river in that Slate found that his hook was at Inched to something, and pulling it up with some difficult y, discovered at the end of th line a jug holding about half a gallon . .1 wishing to lose hie only hook, he demo I ished t he jug, and to his great astonish meat band that the hook had beta swallowed by a monster eat fish exactly the sir.e and shape ot the jug.

Democrat.

IT, 187(1. A Bear Hunt in Lapland. A peasant generally goes out in Kirch of his trail, and, having found it, moves in a ring some miles in circumference, to make sure of having him within it, he then gradually contracts his circle, till he cemes to the retreat itself of the animal. Weeks are sometimes expended in this search ; the peasantry are summoned to a skall by the landshofoding, or Governor of the province, and put under the direction of the jogmostare, or ranger of the district, who marshals them and commands their movements. The peasants are generally formed into circles, and come armed with wdiatever weapons they can procure. Though opposed singly to a whole host, the bear often spreads havoc among his assailants. Kvery ball that enters his huge carcass but adds fire to his fury, and woe to the individual whom his wrath has singled out. It ceases to be a mere pastime, and nothing but the greatest selfpossession can save him from a miserable death. While at Hernosand, I saw a rep resentation of an event that took place at a skall in the neighborhood, in 1831, and which shows that bear-hunting must be quite equal to tiger-hunting in excitement and peril. The bear on this becasion was very large; nothing like an American bear, with which an Indian can grapple, but an enormous btiast able to earnoff a pony under his arm. His temper, probably never very good, had been ruflled by ten shots lodged in different parts of his body: all present intrenched themselves, and awaited some desperate effort on his part, should not a lucky shot give him his quietus At this moment, a man, bolder than his companions, advancing before thera, the bear rushed upon him, tore the gun from his hands, and began to wound him with his tremendous claws. The wretched man was unable to contend with his muscular antagonist; already Lis wounds were letting out his life, when a young Norrlander, unable to look quietly on, rushed to his assistance. Besides the danger which he himself incurred, and which, of course, he had no feeling of, there was some difficulty in shooting the bear without striking the man. As he advanced, the bear rose on his hind legto meet his new opponent ; his victim dropped before him ; the Norrlander seized the favorable opportunity, raised his gun with both arms high above his head, to bring it in a horozontal position on a level with the bear's and, trusting more to feeling than to sight, discharged his piece. An immediate death wound could alone save either from their enemy. The success which the brave man deserved attended him, and the ball passed through the brain of the bear, which fell dead en the rescued man. An Indian Story. A correspondent of Press writes as follows: the Detroit Free " About three miles from the village of Greenville, in the county of Montcalm, State of Michigan, is a small lake now commonlv known as Wabassa's Lake. It is a handsome sheet of water, with a fine shore tree from swamps of brush, affording a pleasant resort to the lovers ef piscat orial sports. There is aroinantic, vet truth ful, history coneeted with it which sounds more like an Indian tradition of centuries ago than an actual occurrence of fifty vears since. While on an excursion a few days ago,I gathered the following storv.and its truthtuiuess has since been vouched for bv other settlers. A tribe of Indians were then encamped on the shore ot the lake near its outlet, a stream of the same name, and had just been paid by the government quite a large amount of gold and saver, wiiicii tney iook to tneir camp, as was their custom, undivided, held in their charge by their Chief, "Wabassa. On arriving at their camp and spreading their gaily-covered blankets out admiringly, together with their trinkets purchased at the station, some of the tribe, warmed more or less with " fire water," demanded their portion of the gold. Disputes arose as to the relative share of each. Some claimed more than a share, claiming to have contributed more to the protection or general good, glory or dignity of the tribe. High words were about to be followed by bloodshed, when their chief demanded silence, and proposed to them to wait till the morrow should cool their excited brains, and they could listen to reason and words of counsel from the older men A truce was finally (fleeted, and quiet once more reigned throughout the camp, when the t Met, regarding tne gold as a causeTof cil instead of a blessing, stole (liiietiv out. carrying the gold with him and entering a canoe, paddled quickly and noiselessly to the centre of the laky, where he consigned pot and gold to the deep waters of the lake. In the morning he did not deny what he had done, but was in the midst of a speech, telling them of their folly in being like the pale-faces, slaves to gold, when, with a loud whoop, the entire band set upon him, murdering him, and mutilating his body in a horrible manner. 1 1 is grave is si 111 snown, ami . . 1 a 1 many have seen his son return, within the last twenty years, to mourn over it Greedv hands have often sough' for the lost gold, but to no purpose, for the waters are many hundreds of feet in 1 .nth Siran'!' as it mav seem. lor so .. J v., . w 0 J P small a luki a mere pond. But the story is often told of the ' Pot of Gold in Wa bassa's Lake.' " It Costs More Thau Bread. A ntW days ago a policeman remarked : " There are three glasses ol liquor drank in this city tor each loaf of bread that is eaten. Suppose this true ; then for each loaf ol bread, at ten cents, there is paid for drinks thirty cents; or three times a much for liouorax for bread ! It is estimated that four barrels of Hour will supply a family of five persons with bread for a year. A tmrrel ot tltjur will make 2tl pounds of bread, and the tour barrels will give 1,066 pounds. At six cents ncr noiind this is 615.84 for each barrel of Hour, or 662 :!t' for the four bar reis. If this estimate is too low, take five barrels of flour lor each family of five nersons. and the value of bread at six cents a pound is 676.90 a year. The 1SJ,(K) families of five persons each, constituting the population of the ritv. consume at this rate bread to the value of 14.414, 100 a vear. There are in this city at least four thou sand places were intoxicating liquors are sold. The Dumber in New York and Brooklyn, in ISfifi, was 9,270. If these receive, on an average, I -U a lav each, that is 646.800.000 a year; or at $15 a day each, it k 661,660,000 a year It is true some of the drinking houses an ' holes in the wall." but others of tin -m nre oalaces. Some of I hem take in onlv a few dollars a day, while large num of others take in hundreds of dol lars. Hut it is not at the drinking houses, at nuhlic bars, where all the intoxicating li (piors are consumed. At eating-houses, at clubs, and at the hotels, are expended large sums for wine and strong spirits Thus the use of strong drink counts up vi. rv raat us uminal bread. Ifem j ork . mi m 1 O Foot. In can be turne! in a lathe and lenses ouil v formt I thronih whi h the rays ot 11... .in in ! 1 1 . n Ml 11 ranee heat sutti 11 lit to Urnlte a match. These ice I ns o e-eilv made ami rem wed that they I. m'ii 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 I 1 1 ' ( t 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' nded for use for as t mm ieal nanaaaa in countries the Ian nerature of which is Mow that of Baal ing for two or three months of the year

NUMBER 24.

FACTS AND FIGURES. About half the currency at Denver is Chinese coin. Indivnv has thirty-seven townships earned " .Jsckson." B Toa has had eighteen snow storms this season. A 1. 'OMSH Count is a regular lodirer at a station house in Baltimore The tives in Texas are the highest of all the States in the Union. One of Brigham Young's daughters claims to be the belle of Salt Lake. It is said that nine-tenths ot all patented inventions turn out worthless. A SKVEN'TT tiikee yea. s old Virginian hai recently been arrested for horse stealing. The ladies of Salem, N. Y., have formed an association to build a town ball It is estimated that fifty per cent, of the people in Dubuque, Iowa, drink cistern water. Of the 652 convicts recently in the State Prison, at Jackson, Mich., only nine were women. An English coast steamer lately burned 10'J pigs in order to get into port, having exhausted her coal. TnE King of Prussia declares that so long as he is on the throne of Prussia the death penalty will not be abolished. TnE city of Burlington, Iowa, has a colored population of 174. and a voting of 2,111, according to the census of 186J. The new Mormon paper says that Brigham Young has impoverished hundreds of families in building his new railroad. An Italian n ' 1 nan, who has spent two years in Ar a, has written a book, in which he says the Boston ladieg excel for beauty in this country. TnE advice of a Pennsylvania 6uicide to his brother was, " Willie, don't go with fellows who have more money to spend than you have." Sixty thousand copies of German newspapers published in the United States circulate in the States of the North German Confederation. A New Hampshire man has, this win ter, raised full-sized green peas on vines grown in his sitting room, fed with water and air entirely, having no soil near them Mus. Pierson, a venerable lady of New ark, N. J., has recently celebrated her hundredth birthday. The invitations to her party bear the figures, " 1770 170." An astronomer predicts for this vear a comet of such brilliant and so near the earth, that our nights a. ill be almost as bright as our days. .1 ames Coombs, a printer, who set the first stickful of type on the World, died in .New 1 rk the other day, having been a "comp." for forty-three years. Mona than forty vears after the pocket of the late .ludge Richard Fletcher, of Massachusetts, was robbed of twenty fivecents, the thief sent back the money with compound interest. As a !Leavenworth man was' wending his way to the river to commit suicide, he was told of a fellow who had called him a liar, and he gave up his idea of death to lay low for the slanderer. Mr. Jahez Gates, of Germantown, Pa., is verv happy in the possession of an anvil upon which were forged the molds iu which the first types made inthiscountry were casl Two medical students at Keokuk pre tended to rob a friend in a dark alley. They were arrested as street thieves, spent a night in limbo, and were obliged to friends for an explanation which liberated them in the morning. A New York physician's bill was $12. for attending a child ; and the parent's satisfaction in paying it may be imagined from the fact that six doctors testified in court that the treatment did not kill the child, and three others that it did. A Cincinnati woman, who had receiveu irom tne tveiiei 1 nion an umaanionaoie r . -a-, mm . ? i pair of boots for her daughter, prompt returned them with the request : " Please give me a liner pair, and the tops high, for my daughter wears her dress short." George Thomas, called "the local Peabody," of Bristol, L.iglaud, has an income ofjuiO.OOO a year, of which betakes f 0,000 to live n, invests f .,000 111 the funds, and lays up the balance, (50,000, where moth and -rust do not corrupt by charitable contribution. Six vears ago, John E. Dewitt, a youth of eighteen years, took the local agency of of a life insurance company at New 1 ork By energy he soon took thegeueral agency for New England and New York, and the . . 1 ! 1 . A J. 1 . oilier uaj was paio djiug cumpanj 000 to give up his right. ( uk at Buita in has 14,223 miles of railway, on which h:is been expended $2,45.0OO,OOO. L ist year the gross receipts were tJ(tO,OO i,H0. Less than half this 4 sum was required lor working expenses so that upwards of $100,000,000 reiiaained available in the form of proh At a any Una of the Social Scicaea As sociation, in Albany, New 1 ork tne 101lowing statement was made: In Nw York alone, f ,000,000 worth of meat annually is consumed, besides 83,OOJ,000 pounds of batter, valued at $ :::.00,000 ; 2,000,000 p.uinds ot cheese, valued ai 614,000,000 a total of I'.'.OOOIOO. Tin; University of Edinburgh has anale arrangements to enable ladies w ho wish to d so to study medicine, but in a sepa rate class from men. Five ladv students have presented themselves. In London there is a Female .Medical Nx-iety, under the Presidency of the Karl of Shafte-lmry, which established a medical college for women live years ago, and eighty-two latlies hare during that period availed themselves of its facilities ; most ef them have since tailed in business, and arc succeeding aonuraniy. A I'kkncu paper mentions the following custom which prevails at Stuttgart, t he capital ot Wurtemburg. On the aflernon of New 1 ear s Day a sort 01 hut, or exchange lr visiting cards, is held in a nnblic nlaoe. All the servants of good houses meet there, and one among them, mounting on a neuen or lame, cnie om m .11 11 At the addresses. At each name a cloud OS cards falls into a basket placed for the pur pose, and the representative of the per son tor whom th M cards are intended can pocket his contingent Bach follows in his turn, and in a lew minutes Hun dreds of cards have reached their destina tion without fatigue to any one. T. K. Bkki HKK bclievci in pensioning the families ol convicts, lie put it thus: A husband is convicted of crime and sent to the States prison. 1 lien nc is shaved, clothed, housed, fed, warmed, doctored, preached t good books given to him, and extra pav lor overwork. His wife, with two children under six years 01 hum1, is left without wood, coal, food, shel ter.Of friends, to shirk for herself. A tinge of infamy settles on her goxl name. She loss caste, Mie girds hernelf lor un wonted work. Her back aches. She staggers home frm a day's washing, half paid, because as yet she cannot do a day's work. She heroines an object of charity. She is dreading the winter. Which one of these two is now liearing punishnierd? Which one mfiers the guilty mn or the Innocent woman? When the State shuts up a aaabaad and lather, the wife and mother is entitled to compensation. The law should allow her at least lifiy cents a day for herself and twenty live rents for ca I child ander twe lve years of age, the pen sion to begin at the man's arrest, and ton tinue until he takes his place in his family again."

THE WAT TO DO IT.

fl'sri Tib's little hoolin-i am twnd tht piece for wee froys and i:irl to BM B. be actfd as well as recited,. .'t is intended to I'll tell rou how I peak a pieee: Firat I make my bow ; Then I bring my word out clear Aud plain a I know how.J N'fxt I throw my hands up 0 Thru I lift my ayes That" to let my hearerf know Something doth surprise. Next I grin, and pfiow my teeth, Nearlv every cue : ataaka mv flioiildcr. hold my eid. TliatV the sign of fnn. Next I Mart, and knit my brow. Hold my head erect : Something V wronsr, yon see, and f Decidedly object. Then I wahble at my kneew, '!utch at aaalewi near. Tremble welt from top to toe : Thil the Mgn of fear. Soon I acowl. and wit ha leap Sei ! an airy dagger. '; W'Rrroi '"'I cry -thuf - tracedy. Every ul to Mugger. Then let my voice grow fittnt, (hp and hold my lireaMi : Tumbledown aud ptaaM about That 's a vi Hai- " ' ath. Qntckly then I cmic to life. Perfectly restored ; With a bow my apMCfe M done. Row, you II pleate anplaud UumMtS a Handles." Handle, law herndteof" our dear, polite, gentlemanly prsndpa used to cry when his grandsons came rushing noisily into his presence asking favors, making remarks, and replying to questions, leav- ' ing out the little, verv important words, MaWty" "JaVasa," "Ifyot nlaase,1 mImät you," and " Kxru, hu." Not a reply could be gained from grand- ; pa, no matter how pressing the case, till the handles were applied to the sentences. If six boys had been waiting to start on a fishing expedition, if a new kite was just ready to be launched, if a bras b ind, and a procession of caged wild beasts, had feeaa passing the door, not even the elephant could move him to reply to a strinir of sentences without handles, uttered by boy with his hat on his head and his hands in his pockets. As a consequence, the boys about grandpa grew civil and polite. They learned to stand aside, and let a lady enter a door before them ; they ceased to interrupt conversation, or monopolize the easy-chairs I and pleasantest seats in the windows, so prized by the old, who cannot walk out to see the out door sights. As they sat about the evening fireside with their books anl games, they became an ornament instead of a nui8anr as I have heard boys nailed by those who do not view their actions with a loving mother's partial eye. Grandpa, with his saintly -pirit and courtly manners, has gone to his reward. With his generation have pasted away our "gentlemen of the old school," who obeyed the command. " Be courti ou." "Y s, ma'am," and " No, ma'am," have become antique phrases ; and a half-spoken " Ycs'm" and " No'm," a shake of the head, a nod, or nothing at all, has taken their place. A group of boys standing by the roadside district schoolhouse, with hats off. making a polit' salutation to passersby, as was the custom in ancient NewEngland days, would be a more wondeiful sight to behold than the children who mocked the hoaijf -headed prophet ol God, and were devoured by the bears. I don't know how grandpa could endure it, if he was alive, to hear the sort i of inarticulate sounds, perhaps hlteaded for "Utuph umpli" that proceed from the mouths, without opening the lips, of our young people now a days, in place of the absolute "Yes, ma'am.'' It tries my love ' and patience severely. This new code of manners may be a "modern improvement;" but I fail to tee its beauty or utility. A polite, respectful boy can never, by any freak of fashion, be transformed Into anything but abcauUfa! sight, frsatan favors the Moden 13 a ' tern of calling parents and guardian " M fogies," "played out," "not up to the times," because he knows titer want to make boys nnnlv, pure, and true; and he is trvinir to have them disr so( cttnl. Ih'Io, and regardhss of the feelings of tkaai who are given them by God to guide them in the paths of wisdom. They say " fashions come around every seven years." This is encouraging, t hope the readers of this paper will not wait for polite children t come in f tshion. hut, when they find themselves acting rudely, will remember grandpa's cry, " Hahdh, lxy, laaafai " I once, in passing by, gave a little boy an apple. What do you think he sai.l ? " Of course," you wiil reply, "he nsjaed his cap, and said, 4 Thank you.' " I blush to tell what his leply was a stare, and the exclamation. " Bully for you !" Boys, be eourteou. You will never be fit for any position of power or influence in our land unless you learn to Üa tinhandles. Our country is growing very large; and we shall want MM noble men for President, Governors and Cabinet members, twt my yt ars h. nee. I hope ajfew boys, at least, will cling to old lash ioned, respectful ways, such as Oeorn Washington practiced, and be ready fr elevation to these high portions. ChrisHorn B niter. I'nselfisl'a Ix passing up a street the other day, we mil two little girls of some sevi n or 1 jgfcfl summers, who seemed to be enjoy hag vacation finely, and all to tin tnselv. s. Passing through the street, unmindful -f what was going on, thev seemed as happy as two larks, ami looked as beautiful as tin y seeas ed happv. Stopping ;d one nfoVf eaudy shops, one of them made a purchase of candy, a large, nice poking stick, and breaking it, gave her little companion half, saying, as she di t it, with the utannSl simplicity imaginable, "Here, Mary, you may have the largest half, as you are the small , st." Dear, artless child, what a 1 aaoaof unselfishness was coniaimd in your simple words! Qod bfcssyoa and 1 nable you through life t manib st tlie same gentl and sweet spirit. " H-re, Mary, you mmj have the largest half, as you are the smallest." MsxkSMSß . m To the Farmers' Boys. Faumrrs' boys, th'v.ue fan ereataf ba 1 na iBaia and' not onlv t read on:, hut to stmly, and you will acquire h kn.'wledc 11 j. 1 1 ; ,l .. . , i . .it udy will you will H'ei neu 111 iuc ihm wk'm will acquire a home -attachment, ana en joy a home felicitv, yea would not change for all the 'hilarity of public amusement!, and u can obtain a rank in learned society, far h ss banataaaf than the vieissitu.les and perplexities of a pub lie career. Do you wish to study, or to review ss . - the case mav !. (Jraminar, rv Hi I oninohT. Mathematics, Philosophy, A 17 tronomv, Phvsioiogv, a. ,vc , mnow unpractice of self -made men. stu.ly at your own" firesides, and especially during the finis that Nam re herself 1- giving yea in the long winter evenings Don't dossip. Itovs and girls hoiyou med top th r. talk iboal the hot ks you arc rea.lm;, the lights von hate wen, but do not gossip heal other boys and girls who are all sent. And, if you must talk alxMil others, tell the good, kind aad pie tfcinga jrem know or have heard about them boa John (i rant got to the head ot theCaSSe; or Katie Drew staid after school lim help little Ann; Brown with h r HUBS. Or when Frank Smith ct a bad hall, through the inilllseSMf il Allnrt SlU (who is so clumsv, you know, but always no sorry for it), he bore the pain llk 1 hero not to add to por S lines' .listn ss, at the result af his het llcBanetJ. V 1 ! m . m The largest pig in Enuland, if aaf, in the workl, is now the property of Hi Uojd of Hrcln, Won est. r-hire, who purchased it of a neighbor, when tw o .nonl lis old, for less than five dollars This w.n derful Hiiiinal is now U m two mn old, ami measures mjmm and ne halt I 1 from the enl ot his nose l the tip f 1 he tail, five feet around the body, and taand four feet high. ... . . . 1 e . 1 1 . 1. ..