Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 May 1870 — Page 1

POETRY.

YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT.

OCR MAYDAYS. Dr.VR Lottie, e -od wit how wel! I remember Thit May w&jn I ;oand yon, the sweetest of M . ml t h.-:rr. liki- a ha'f (I vinsr ember, K AVii al your presence, scarce out of your teens. Th a - on fc lawti the Mny-pole was lifted, Tata I with rnurea ant evergreen sprays; Thr.i-isrh fh frv-htwii:- a 8ummr-liht sifted, t" UiBK vi ;th splendor the ear y r-pringdaysi.

Oa IMcte carpet yonr throne upnwe greenly, . croon you s:it crowned with white rose levve. and KnigB'iua the youths with an air erave and queenly, Accepting addresses and granting reprieve?. .nothe- Mav carae ; aain. dear. I round you . hy ürle woman ever was kd, A t nnr! t tue m vn. my arm cIoe aronnd yon. ou vowed with drooped head to be ever my queen. Cut May-po'c prono, a nd Bag entwine it, o u BM ne i uncertain, onr fjceptrc a brcora, A tow.'! your cr.iwn, and order res'gn? it Claim to our priueu ia bwhUMI and bloom. Yon irrivcly hold court, and rill have petition? From Rddy and Jennie, aud three year old K-re: Yoa irranr them roprieves, and ca m their -editions, And h .v ou Kam May-day receptions in state. Car m n nr.d h. knien, if not forty kaiehted. Are HnhtHd hv your nvtin u at curious 'T w! "fr"'1" (Chairs and 'aVe-O are rtebtcd Ant htifcher ai.d hakers rei.eved of their claims. But royalty mark vonr straight elances purely. Mid 'N on your hrow a of y. re in yonr teene My Karl wuh :t homage f Tear rt-t securely, Lfy nl Torerer, my sweetest "of uneet? Iharth and Tlonv. MISCELLANEOUS. Tilt PAIXTKR OF ROTTERDAM. N mil B, KDWAHDS. Mt Bather wms a trnderand distiller at Schiedam, on the Maas. Without being wealthy we enjoyed the means of pro curing every social comfort. Wc gave and reed red visit from a tew old friends, we W iit occasionally to the theater, and my bat hex had his tulip garden and sumBaerdBoeanj at a little distance from Schied tin on the h icks of the canal which CPi nects the town with the river. But my father and mother, whose only child I was, cherished one dream of amhit;on, in which, fortunately, my own taste li-d me to participate, They wanted me to became a painter. " Let roe hut sec a picture hy Fran Linden in the gallery at Rotterdam," said my lather, 11 and I shall die happy." So ail fourteen years of ace I was reBBOYed fron school, and placed in the see of Messer Realer, an artist living at Delft Here I made such progress that hv the time I had reached my nineteenth I y I wis liatYlll ll to the at- V r of II in- Van I I om, a descendant of the celebrated family of that name. Van i; a was not raoVe than thirty eight or I rty rears of aire, and had already acquired uisiderable reputation as a painter of p r traits and sacred subjects. There Wae au altar piece of his In one of our t churches ; his works had occupied the place of honor for the last sx years at aw annual exhibition, and for portraiture he numbered eoaoag his masters most of the wealthy merchants and burgomasters Indeed, there could he no question that my Water was rapidly acquiring a fortune commensurate with his p pularity. S'ill he was net a cheerful man. It was whi ; -red by the p'ipils that he had met with a d isappointmeat in early life that Im had loved, been accepted, and on the are of narrfage had been rejected by the lady for a aaeee wealthy suitor. He ;'' from Fr, island, ia the north of Holland i a very young man. He had - beea the same gloomy, pallid, . vmg citizen. Me was sparing of d nmestk expenditure and liberal to the poor. This every ,m(i could tell yoa, and no one knew rn.ire. The mi rub ajfMi pupils was limited to fix. tu .cpt us const: ntiy at work, and '. n" ..y permitted us to exchanue a word '.'.n eaca other daring the day. Standin ; th4 r am mg us afiently, with the light from above pouring down upon his . 3 : Incoming absorbed in the t I ' f his long, black dressing-gown, he '" ed almoat like some stern old porrait hmaeht To ti ll the truth, we wenaH '-mewhat afraid of him. Not that he aa aanad any un lue.uthfrity ; on thecontrarr, h was Btatetr, s lent, and frigidly e : but Itis politeness had in it somethii - opprcaaire, and we were all happier ! an pfeaamaa. None of us resided uro- r his roof. I had a sccontl floor in a h ring atreet, and two of my fellowStadenta oecn b'd rooms in the same hoose. We used to meet at night in each fa i - I ambers, and make excursions to the exhibitions and thratns, and someon a summer' evening, wc would i.:r . ;i pVasur: boat and rovr a mile or two down th- river. We were merry e Bah tln n, and not quite so silent, I proaahm, as in the gloomy studio. in the meaiiUne I was anxious to glean erery beaelh from my master's instruc1 osa I bauarorcd rapidly, aad my paint- - - aooa exo Bed those of the other five. U id no? incline to sacred subjects, thai of Van Roee hnt rather to the miliar rural aceaeaol Bergham and Paul i'c,ttert It was my delight to wander along the rich pasture lands, to watch the ambi r innaet, the herds coming home to da'ny, the lazy wind mills scarcely raffled by the passage of the public trtcktkmmi (canal loat). In depicting BB : ' - 01 this nature, " Tha clow cinal. the yellow-blo9omed vale. I M wsl! w-tafu fl riiink, the gliding hall," I w.s simrularly fortunate. My master r praised me by word or look, but a n my father Caaae up one day from Schiedam to visit me, he drew me aside, and in a voice audible to the rest, he told him that " Me?s-r Linden would do efed i ;.r t. s-ion, ' which sodelightedtlie pood distiller that he straightway took me oal with him for the day, and having 'iv- n oae iftcea g"M pieeea aa a teatiaaonr I itw aatiafactiofi, took; me to dine with his tri. nd, the fJurgomeister Von Gael. It was an eventful visit for me. I pon that evtnma I Brat fell in love. Pew people, I think, would it that time h . :'' ui. d the personal attractions of( lertrude Von ; t 1 Vtt I do not know that it ran her features as much as her soli vok e and gentle womanly grace that las mated me. Tho.irh o Toung, she performed the fa im ra of her mibt r I princely table with aelf poaacaaiOB andgo(l breeding. In the . mig aha mng aaaaa aereet Oermas songs to her own simple aecompaninu nt. H talked of rKks and poetrj, and I Bel well-read in Jmglish, French and i- raaan Hh rararet We spoke of art, and sh daajdajptd both judgment and en t n siam. Aa we took our leave at night, the bure aaemtei hoofc an by the hand and told me aa eanaa aftew fancied that Gertrude's blue eyes brightened when he s ti 1 it, and I b it the co r rush quickly to my brow as I bowed and thanked him. " Franz," said my father, when we were in the str ft, ,l how old are you f " Jaat twmty-two, sir," I replied, surprised at the question. " You will not be dependent on your bru-h, jay boy," continued my father, as hj ! aned upon my arm and looked back Bl the lofty mansion we b id just left. "I it ire beam m father wasteful nor unsuccessttti, and it will be my pride to leave you a rtsptctable income at niy death." I inclined BJJ hand in silence, and wondered what would come next. 'Borg mm deter rofl Gael is one of my ! le-,1 ir t-mk" said my fkther. " I have often heard you speak of him, sir," I replied. " A: I ha ll rich." 9o I should suppose." 14 Gertrude will have a fine fortune, said my lather, as if thinking aloud. I bowed once more, but this time rather nervously. Marry h r, Franz." I dropped his arm and started back. "Sir! 1 BHiaaad. " I I marry the Frau in von Gael "And prav, sir, why not?" said my father, eurtty. Uc tppetl ahort in his aik and leaned both his hands upon the tori of hts walkirg stick. I nxwJe no reply. Wh, H,r ' repeated my father, enerreticaUy. vtTiat could you ia for better ? 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VOLUME XV. some, good-tempered, educated, rich. Now, Franz, if I thought you had been stich a fooi as to form any attachment without " "Oh. sir, you do me injustice ! " I cried. " Indeed, I have done nothing of the kind But do you think do you think that she would have me?" " Try her, Franz," said my father, good humoredly, as he resumed my arm. It I am not very much mistaken, the burgo meister woidd be as well pleased as myself. As for the fraulein women are eastly won." We had by this time reached the door of the inn where my father was to sleep for the night. As he left me his words were : 41 Try her, Franz ; try her. " " From this hour I was a constant visitor at the house ot the BurgtofiKfoto r von Gael. It was a large, old fashioned mansion, built of red brick, and situated upon the famous line of bouses known as the Boompjes. In front lay the broad river, crowded with merchant vessels, from whose masts fluttered the flags of all the trading nations of the world. Tall trees, thick with foliage, lined the quays, and the sunlight flickered through the leaves upon the sp icious drawing-room of Gertrudes h me. Here, night after night, when the studies of the day were over, I used to sit with her beside the open window, watching the bucy c rowd beneath, the rippling river, and the rising moon that tipped the masts and city spires with silver. Here we read together from the pages of our fa vorlte poets, and counted the first pale stars that trembled into light. It was a haopy time. But there came at last a time sufi happier, when, one still evening as we sat alone, conversing in unfrepient whispers and listening to the beating of each other's heart, I told Gertrude that I lovf d her, and she, in answer, laid her fair head upon my should. r, with a sweet confidence, as if content so to rest forever. lust as my father had predicted, the burgomeister readily sanctioned our be trothal, specifying but one condition, and this was that our marriage should not lake place till I had attained my twentyfifth birthday. It was a long time to wait, but I should by that time perhaps have made a name in my profession. I intended soon to send a picture to the annual exhibition, and who could teil what I might not do in three years to show Gertrude how dearly I loved her? And so our happy youth rolled on, and the quaint old dial in Messer Von uaela tulip garden told the passage ot our golden hours. In the meantime I worked sedulously at my picture. I labored upon it all the winter, and when the spring carae I sent it in, with no small anxiety as to its probable position upon the walls of the gallery. It was a view in one of the streets of Rotterdam. There were the high old houses, with their gables and carved doorways, and the red sunset glittering on the panes of the upper windows, the canal flowing through the cenre of the street, the w hite draw bridge, with a barge passin beneath, the green trees deep in the shadow, and the spire of the church of St. Lawrence rhinr beyond in the i'-ar sky. When it was quite finished and about to be sent :.way, even Hans Van Boos nodded a cold encouragement, and said that it deserved a good position. He had hia self prepared a painting this year, on a more ambitious scale and a larger canvas .aan usual. It was a sacred subject, and represented the Conversion of Bi. Paul. His pupils admired it warmly, and none more than myself. We all pro kounced it to be his aaasterpiece, and the artist wai evidently of our opinion. The day ( f exhibition came at. last. I had scarcely sie;)' the previous Bight, and the early mornina found me, with a number of other atndenta, waiting impatient ly before the yet unopened door. When I arrived it wanted an hour to the time, but half the day seemed to ehtpac before we heard the heavy bolts giro way inside, and then forced our way through the narrow barriers. I had flown up the staircase and found myself in the first room, before I lememberi d that I should have purchased a catalogue at the door. I had no patience, nowever, to go back tor it, so I strode round and round 'he room, looking eagerly for my picture. It was nowhere to be seen, and I passed on to the next. Here my search was equally unsuccessful. " It must be ;n the third room," eaid I to myself, " where all the best works are l ung. Well, if U be hang erei so high, in ever so dark a corner, it is, at all events, an honof to have picture in the third room." But though I spike so bravely, it was with a sinking heart I ventured in. I could not really hope for a if od place aaaong the magnatea of the art, while in either of the other rooma there had beea a possibility that ii might receive a tavor.tble position. The house had formerly been the mansion of a merchant of enormous wealth, who had left it, with his valuable collector, of paintings, to the State. The third room had been his reception chamber, ami the space ort r the magnific ally car red chimney was assigned as the place of honor to the bt at painting. The painter of thi picture always received a costly prize, for which he was likewise indebted to the munificence of the founder. To this spot my tyes were naturally turned as I entered the door. Was I dreaming? I Stood StOI -Ftumed hot and eoH by turns. I ran for ward. It mat no illusion There was my picture, my own picture in Iteaaodcat little frame, installed in the chief place in the galh ry ! And there, too, was the official card stuck in the comer, with the words, "i'rize Paintiag " printed upon it la a shining gold frame. I ran down the stairs and bought a catalogue, (hat my eyes might be gladdened by a oonflrmauoa of this joy. And there sure enough was printed at the commencement, "Annual Prim P tinting View in Rotterdam Na 137 Frans Linden." I could have wept for joy. I was never tired looking at my picture. I walked from one side to the other, I n treated, I advanced closer to it, I looked at it in every possible light, and forgot all but my happiness. A very charming picture," Raid a poiee at my elbow. It was an eld rly gentleman, with gold spectacles and an umbrella. I colored up and said falteringly : " Do you think sof " I do, sir," said the old gentleman. I ' am an smstfHT I am rare fond of pictures. I presume thai y hi are slso an ad mirer of art ?" I bowed. " Very nice little painting, indeed very nice," In- continued, as he wiped hiaapec 1 tacles and adjusted them with an air of a connoisseur. 14 Waters very limpid, colors pure, sky transparent, perspective admir able I'll buy it." Will you." I exclaimed joyfully. " O, thank you, sir." M Oh," said the gentleman, turning suddenly upon me and smiling kindly, "so you are the artist, are you? Happy to make your acquaintance, Messer Linden. You area very young man to paint auch a picture as that. I congratulate you, and -I'll buy it." , So we exchasged cards, ahook hands, and beeinie the best friends in the world. I was burning with impatience to see Gertrude and tell her the good fortune, but my new patron took my arm and said that he must .ake the tour of the rooma

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in my company, so I was forced to comply. We stopped before a large painting that occupied the next best position to my own. It was my master's work, the Conversion of St. Paul, and while I was telling him of my studies in the atelier of the painter, a man started from before us and glided away, but not before I had st en and recognized the pale countenauee of Van Boos. There was something in the expression of hts face that shocked me something that stopped my breath and ma la me shudder. What it was I scarcely knew ; but the glare of his dark eyes and the quivering passion Of his lips haunted me for the rest of the da', and came baek again in my d reams. I said nothing of it to Gertrude that afternoon, but it had effectually sobered my exultation. I dreaded next day to return to the studio; but to my surprise my master received me as he never had re ceived me before. He advanceel and extended his band to me. Welcome, Frane Linden," he said, smiling, ' I am proud to call you my pupil." The hand was cold, the voice was harsh, the smile was passionless. My companions crowded round and congratulated me, and in the warm tones of their young, cheerful voices, and the close pressure of their friendly hands, I forgot all that had troubled me in the manner of Van Boos. Not long after this event Gertrude's father desired to have her portrait painted to console him for her absence, he said, when I should be so wicked as to take her away from him. I recommended my old master, whose tutelage I had recently left, and Van Boos was summoned to fill a task that I would gladly have performed had it been in my power to do so. But portraiture was not in my line. I could paint a sleek, sp tted milch cow or a drove of sheep far better than the fair skin or the golden curls ot my Gertrude. Sue could not endure the artist from the first. In vain I reasoned with her all was of no use, and she used to say at the end of every such conversation, that she wished the portrait was finished, and that she could no more help disliking him than than she could help loving me. And so our arguments always ended with a kiss. But this portrait took along time. Van Rooa was in general a rapid painter, yet Gertrude's likeness progressed at a very slow pace, and like Penelope's wreb, eecmeo never to be completed. One morning I happened to be in the room a rare event at that time, fori was hard at work upon my new landscape; and I was struck by the change that had come over n y late master he was no longer the same man. There was a light in his eye and a vibration in his voice that I had never observed before, and whi n he rose to take le-avc there was a Itudied courtesy in his bow and manner that took me quite by surprise. Still, I never suspected the truth, and still the portrait was as far as it ever was from being finished. It all came out at last, and one morning Hans Van Koos made a formal oiler of his h ind and hej.rt. Of course he was refused. "But, as kindly as was possible, dear Franz, " she said, when she told me in the art ning, " because he is your friend, and because he seemed to feel it so deeply. And you don't know how dreadfully pale he turned, and how he tried to restrain his tears. 1 pitied hitn, Franz indeed, I was sorry." And the gentle creature could scarce keep from weeping herself, as she told me. I did not pee Van Koos for some months after this disclosure. At last I met him in front of the Stadt House, and, to my surprise, for the second time in his life he extended his hand. M A good day to you, Messer Linden, " said he ; "I hear that you are on the high road to fortune. " M I have been very fortunate, Messer Van ROOS, I replied, taking the proffered hand; "but I shall never forget that I owe my present efficiency to the hours pent in your aUlier" A peculiar expression flitted over his face. M If I thought that," he said hastily, "I I ahould esteem myself particularly happy" "There was so odd a difference in the way in which he uttered the bei inning and end of this sentence so much hurry and passion in the first halt, such i. deliberate politeness in the last, that I started and looked him full in the face. He was as smiling and impenetrable as a marble statue. " I, too, have been fortunate," he said, after a moment's pause. M Have you Bei B the new church lately built at the east end of the HartBg vlietV" I replied that I observed it in passing, but I had not been inside. " 1 have been intrusted," he said, after a moment's pause, "with the superintendence of the interior decorations. My 'Oonecrai n of St. Paul' is purchased for the altar-piece, and I am now engaged in painting a series si frescoes upon the ceiling. Will you come in some duy and give me your opinion upon them?" I professed myself much flattered, and appointed to meet him iu the chureh on the following morning. He was waiting for me at the door, when I arrived, with a heavy key in his hand. We passed in, and he turned the k y in the lock. " I always secure myself against intruders," he said, smiting. " People will noma into the church if I leave the doors BBfattene and I do not choose to carry ou my art like a sign painter, in the presence of every blockhead who chooses to stand and stare tit me." It was surprising in what a disagree able manner this man would show his teeth when he smiled. The church was a handsome building in that Italian style which imitates the antique, and prefers maarniflcencc to the dignified sanctity of the Gothic order. A ro.v of elegant Corinthian columns supported the roof at each side of the aatu, giiding and decorative cornices were lavished in every direction. The gorgeous altar-piece already occu pied its appointed station, and a little to the lelt of the railed space, where tin communion table was to be placed, a scat fold was erected, that seemed from where I stood to almost come in contact with the roof, and above which I observed the vet unfinished bketch of a masterly conception. Three or four more, already completed, were stationed at regular intervals, and some others were merely outlined in char coal unon their intended sites. "Will you not, come up wun mer asked the painter, when I had expressed my admiration sufficiently, "or are JOB i . ii' ii . a. : . . , n I afraid of turning giddy I felt some what disinclined to impose the trial on mv nerves, but still more inclined to aeeent it; but I followed him from flight to flight of the frail structure without dar ing to look down. At last we reached the summit, and. as I had supposed, there was hardly room enough for the artist to assume a sitting posture, and he had to paint while lying on his back. I had no fancy to expend myself on this lofty couch, so I only lifted my head above the level of his flooring, looked at the fresco, and descended immediately to the flight below, where I waited till he joined me. "How dangerous it must be," aid I, shuddering, " to let yourself down from this abominable perch. " I used to think no, " he replied, " but

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I am now quite accustomed to it. Fancy," said he, approaching the edge of the scaffolding, " fancy falling from here into the church below. " ' Horrible ! " cried t "I wonder how high it is from the level of the pavement, " continued Van Roos, musingly; 180 feet, I dare say, perhaps 200. " I drew back, giddy at the thought. "No man could survive such a fall," said the painter, stdl looking over, " the thickest skull would be dashed to atoms down there." " Pray, come away, " said I, hastily, " my head swims at the idea. " Does it," said he, turning suddenly upon me with the voice and eye of a Bend. " Does it ? Fool !" he cried as he seized me around the body in his iion grasp, M fool, to trust yourself here with me me, whom you nave wronged, whose life you have blasted; me, whom you have crossed in love and in fame. Down, wretch, down! I've vowed to have your blood and now my time has come." It sickens me even now to recall that horrible struggle. At the first word I had sprung b.icK aDtl seized a beam over my head. lie strove to tear it from me. Named at the mouth; the veins rose tt ile like knots in his forehead ; and still, thoueh I felt my fingers strained and my wrists cruelly lacerated, still I held on with the terrible energy of one who struggles for his dear life. It lasted a long time at least it seemed lopir to me, and the scaffolding rocked beneath our feet. At length I SiW his strength failing. Suddenly I loosed my hold and threw my whole weight against him. He staegered, he shriekt d, he fell. I dropped upon my face in mute horror. A.n asTe of silence seemed to elapse, and the cold dew stood upon my brow. Presently I heard a dull sound far below. I crawled to the edge ol the scaffolding and ooked down. A shapeless mass was lying on themarbh pavements, and all around the place was red with blood. I think about an hour must have elapsed before I could summon courage to descend. When at length I reached the level ground, I turned my face from what wa. so near my feet, and tottered to the door. With trembling hands and misty eyes I unlocked it and rushed into the street. It was many months before I recovered from the brain fever brought on by that terrible day. My ravings, I have been told, were fearful ; and had any doubts existed in the minds of men as to which of us two had been the guilty one, those ravines were alone sufficient to establish my innocence. A man in a delirious fever is prttty sure to speak the truth. By the time I was able to leave my chamber, Gertrude had also grown pale and spiritless, and unlike her former self. Rotterdam was insupportable to me. I found myself a hero of romance a lion I thing to be stared at wherever I went ; ull of which only served to shatter my nerves still more. In short, change of ?cene and air was recommended for us both; so we thought we could not do better than marry and take B wedding tour for the sake of our be!? ha. And I assure you, re-ader, it did us both a great deal of good Criminal Trials and Punishments ia flflHi TtiK penal laws of Japan are remarkably severe, ami the list of crimes which are punished by death is very large. A complicated system of espionage exists for every branch of government and every grade ot society, reudering it extremely difficult for a criminal to escape detection. Once in the hands of the police, there is little chance of his escape by means of bribery, because of the many checks brought to bear upon those having the case in charge. A sentence and its execu turn are not so prompt as has been gener ally supposed. A primary examination is made by a police court, and if the case is one demanding further action, the of lender is placed in confinement, there being no provision for a release on bail. Many of the lower classes who reach the gaol never obtain a trial, the tartly action of the authorities and cruelty of the gaolers deciding their cases by causing their deaths. The forms and obligations of an oath are not recognized there as in Christian communities. ( it the modes of arriving at truthful testimony there are two quite peculiar and worthy of nob: : First, by making the wi'ness seal his written testimony with a drop of blood taken from under the finger nail ; second, hy subjecting the giver of false testimony to the same punishment which his evidence brought upon another. The testimony most relied upon, however, is that ob tained from the criminal himself, for his own conviction or acquittal. This, of course, is rarely voluntary, and tortures of different kinds are resorted to, the most common of which is that of placing Mm aOCBSed on his knees across sharpedyed stieks. Heavy stones are then piled upon the thighs so as to cause the sticks to press into the tiesh, producing the most excruciating pain. The bamboo is also freely used. Untier this system there is little doubt that many an Innocent man has confessed to the commission ol crimes of which he has been entirely innocent, rather than suffer further torture. Petty offences are punished by beating with the bamboo, by imprisonment, and transportation to work in mines. On being discharged, a ring is printed around the arms in Indian ink. If, on being arrested at any time, two or three rings are found to exist, the offe use is punished by death, no matter how insignificuit the offense. The most common form ol execution is by decapitation, and a theft of any amouut exceeding $10 is thus punished. For fratricide or the murder oi a master, an' . runes ol an aggravated character! the culpiit is crucified and transfixed by spears, one on each side. Arson is punished by burning at the stake, or rather on a cross. The ground of execution is usually near some thoroughfare, or on an elevated piece of ground, so as to make as public as possilue the punishment. A criminal, on being taken from prison on the day of execution, is placed Mund on a horse and made to pass through the chief streets of the town. Before him, in procession, march some wretched eoolles bearing bits of board, on which is written the ottense ot the criminal, his sentence, and the time aud place of his execution Hy his side stride along the officers of the prison police, while the rear is brought up by a noisy crowd of men and half grown boys. Even little children may be seen trudging along in the train to the place of death, where they gaze upon a terrible scene with few siirns of compassion. Passing m ar the execution ground one day, on returning from a ride in the country, yonr correspondent witnessed an execution of Japanese justice. The prisoner, who had been making the usual tour of the town, was just approaching the loot of the hill, surrounded by the usual crowd. A more distressed looking object 1 have never seen. H" was unwaMicd, unshaven, and sickly from long confine ment and the many hardships in the prison. As the procession commenced ascending the hill, we observed him swaying to and fro on his scat, and ready to fall to the ground but for the support afforded him on euner sine ny me jtnuro. e ai nr. -a thougl t this unsteadiness of the poor Eel low was due to weakness and exhaustion. It proved to he partial stupefaction caused by some drugged liquor, which was plat ed to Ida lips every few moments hy one of . i . i a . Am. 1 11' .aa a

THURSDAY, MAY the attendants. Little balls of rice rolled in fish-skin were put in bis mouth by another attendant, which he ate with apparent relish, while in the intervals of this last epast he gazed about on the jostling crowd with a stupid indifference, clearly showing that he had but a faint realisation of his apnroachine doom. The crime for whidi he was condemned was arson, and consequently his execution was to be by burning. On being "ifted, or rather, let fall from his horse, on arriving at the appointed spot, he had to be carried to the foot of the cross to which he was to be fixed. The fastening was effected by straw ropes instead of nails, dampened clay being plastered around them to prevent their brdng burned off before life was extinct. This being accomplished, the cross was set upright, and the fuel, consisting of bundles of straw, piled up about nim till he was no longer visible. Torches were now quickly applied at several points at once, and the flames leaped in an instant to the top, enveloping the confused form in a fierce flame. An Instant more and the cloud of smoke, which was hanging like a pall over the scene, was lifted by the breeze, and the blackened and charred remains of the i , , , . , T-. ' cl,IPru oecame VISIONS. ioi a izroan or cry was h ard, but his lee Die lue must have psmed away almost instantaneously in the midst of the fierce flame and suffocating smoke that had enveloped it, though only for a moment. The body was left for three days exposed to the passers-by, as la the custom. Yokohama Cor. N. V. Tribune. A lEagie Square. A Philadelphia sends the following M magic square " to the flesanWJfe dewrieon, not becaoae it is formed on any new plan, but because it is different in some particulars from the more ordinary magic squares, and m:iy be of interest to readers. The numbers used are 1 to 100. The whole square is a magic square, having the number HOö as the sum of its lines,

N 14 ti 100 84 Bl 4 10 -2 16 l. M :JT N ii 60 SI l'J S5 ii 3'.: til 0 4 J 75 25 21 7S 9 7 .v.i 4i 40 ;-: BJ 77 79 2i N SS 3S 04 ).- Bl S3 -20 21 7'J 13 IS 55 50 54 43 27 73 7'2 30 83 86 " 45 54 m 57 70 M U 7 15 3 41 53 49 5ß 34 6S 6 31 '.H I 53 47 51 4i 71 29 28 71 05 ftO 87 89 1 17 8 il 5 M H

files, and diagonals. If the margin is disregarded, as indicated by the continuous line, the square will btill be a magic I square, having now 404 as the sum of its various mes. A.nd if this square be divided into quartern, as indicated by the double lines, the four resulting squarts will each be magic squares, having as the sum of tin ir lines. Invisibility of Light, Wk are permitted to publish the following interes'ing extract from the paper read a few evenings ago by Richard Williams, Esq , before the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences : A friend recently handed me a file of English papers containing a partial report of a lecture or lectures recently delivered before the Koyal Institute by Professor Tyndall, and announcing what seemed to me an important discovery. No account of these lectures having as yet appeared in our own papers or journals, I have thought a slight abstract from them, with a few observations of my own, might be interesting and instructive. The discovery announced by Prof. Tyndall is, that paradoxical as it may seem, " light itself is a perfectly invisible thing. " It seems that Tyndall, in his experiments on the decomposition of vapors by light, was much troubled by the dancing motes or dust which we have all seen occasionally when a small body of light is let into a partitlly darkened room. These motes he found weie both organic and inorganic he was much troubled in his endeavors to get rid of them, and after trying to do so unsuccessfully, by passing the air through caustic potash and sulphuric acid, he finally succeeded in making the air perfectly pure by burning them out. He then showed by various experiments that light would not pass thrtmgh perfectly pure air, and proved conclusively that the thing we call light is absolutely without witness of itself except it has something to strike upon to reflect or fill wilh the mysterious and subtle life of illumination. One of the methods by which he proved this was a flower shade with hydrogen gas, or a glass tube with common air free from those motes. On passing rays of light through these vessels, or intercepting the rays, they became perfectly dark in the vessel and light again upon emerging from the other siele. Another way of showing it was to cover his mouth and nostiils with a thick flatting of cotton wool. The motes were caught in the lungs and cotton, and the exhaled breath instantly abolished the light in its path. Verily, the Bible and science are not at war here, for we are told that ''The light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not" an exact description of this physical phenomenon. One would naturally infer from the multitude ot stars we see in the heavens, every one of nhfeh is a sun like our own, that the universe would be filled with light ; but it is not so, and it is certain that the orbs of heaven, guided by a Hand that needs no light, wheel in their ap pointed paths amidst the most profound and inconceivable darkness. Thisdiscovery of Tyndall may explain the mystery of the darkness of the great stellar spaces which the astronomers have heretofore been unable to account for. In reading the history of scientific truths, one is constantly surprised at the important parts mere chance has played in their advancement. The means of measuring tin1 inconceivable vclocdy of light, a problem which Newton was unable to solve, were discovered by accident, and often, in searching after trifles we stumble upon facts of the greatest value. This discovery ofTrndall's isa striking illustration of this truth, and of that constant revolution of knowledge from knowledge ever going on; it is full of significance, opening, as it does, a vast field tor inquiry, and maybe of the greatest practical value to man kind. Tyndall a". so showed that iron, when heated only to the temperature of boiling water, partially burnt up these motes. A French chemist recently announced that one of the most poisonous of the gaset emitted in the combustion of coal went through red hot iron as easily as water does through a sieve ; we know thit in the best constructed furnaces there is always more or less leakage of as which is imperceptible to the st uses, and that, notwithstanding every one recognises the fact that basements are not healthy places to live and sleep in, we fake air from its lowest strata on the earth's surface, ami from cellars to warm our bonnes. These faels may go far toward explaining the alleged anhealthineoa of hot air furnaces. Tin iitr tilled with these motes we are ooBstaBtly passlBf through our lungs. One of t he iricntiBC ne-n Off Kurope, years Hüo, A?seneo mat. wnen a oer etion oi meat was that i H" from onanusofl air, and only exposed to that whieh had DeeS raiHtd to a hih temperature, putrefaotim never sets in ihus showing that Munething more than oxygen of the air waa

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12, 1870. needed in the process of destruction and 1 decay. A lady now in the city (Buffalo), who was living in Texas a few years since, at a place where the yellow fever raged with great violence, and where the air is so pure and dry that ordinarily, in the hottest weather, fre'h beef ne'ver spoiled, but dried up making the "jerked beef" of the Span tarda informs me that for a few days before the fever broke out, their fresh mest spoiled SO a lew hours, and before th$ animal was f.irly cold. Malarious and infectious diseases, and the Lay fever, have long been supposed to be owing to germs in the air. Surgeons in hospitals are careful not to allow wounda to be exp scd to the air for fear of gangrene. We know how this class of diseases is propogated by clothe", hides, etc., and it may be that whilst pure air would not carry along these infectious germs, these motes act as a kind of raft to float them from place to place, and this fact demonstrated might give us the means of stopping to some extent at least the spread of infectious and epidemic diseases. Buffalo Fxpras. VOX AMI GCNS. nv TTKNRY WARD BKECTTER. Hardly anything just now attracts to itself as much inventive thought as the gun. Jn olden times the sword was the typical implement of wTar. It still remains so in literature, and probably will contiuue long to do so, just as yet we speak of palms and laurels, though ages ago the custom dietl out which gave them eminence. The sword has become little more than a si (e ornament Even in cavalry it more and more gives place to the pistol and the carbine. But it is not of the gun a a military weapon that we mean chielly to speak. It is as an instrument ot amusement and profit in the hands of private citizens. Every man should own a good pun (better, if he can afford it, a shot-gun and a rifle both), and no parent should let a boy go past fourteen yeara of age without having taught him to handle a gun with skill and safety. We shall give the reason for our position after first disposing of an objection which ail parents will at oncu express, viz.- the danger of accidents from firearms. We admit that fire arms are dangerous. The lontr list of fatal accidents scored up every year leaves no doubt upon that point. It will therefore seem paradoxical to many when we say that it is In part to prevent accidents that we recommend early instruction in the use of fire arms. JNo amount of care will keep boya from handling guns. It is a fa-cinating implement. There is a charm about a gun which bewitches a boy's imagination. Guns are now so cheap that ererybody can have on. Even if timid parents withhold fowling pie'ees from their sons, it wii! not prevent their handling them. Tu town u fall of them. And accidentally or on purpose your soa will lind out, something about gunning. The military companies are so many, and the manual of arms so fascinating, and aharp-8nooting has become such a fashion, that you niiy be sure that an average boy v, ill c line by a gun clandestinely, if he doa not witn your permission. Now, we aru;; that it is lar more aamgeroua to leave bpyi to find out secretly the pleasures of a gun than it is to teach them its skillful use. A child aooa learns caution Altera few weeks, a boy of ten years old is in as little danger of doing mischief with a gun as he is of taking poison or fallirg inm the river, or d iwu-stnrs, or of Btabbing himself with a knife. We Bold it to be sound philosophy, that children are ssfer by being taught how to meet danger and to overc om ; it, than by seeking to keep them away lrm all danger. It is not the bold aud brave lids that are apt to be harmed. In wrestling, climbing, swimming, riding, leaping, shoeitin, they who have been tautnit skill and self-reliance are sei dorn injured. It is the clumsy hand, the awkward foot, of one untaught in manly exercises that courts disaster. The boy that is familiar with thi1 gun is notthi; one who snaps it at his feister, thinking that it is not loaded, and shoots her dead. It is the green lubber who has never been permitted to know anything about tirearms that docs thit. A iriee lather should teach hia boy how to load, how to carry a gun safely, how to scale a fence, and all the precautionary arts of hunting. It would be well, too, to teac'i every girl how to use a pistol. Many a woman baa been placed in the power of burglars lor lack of that knowledge. The moral uses of lire-arms are not the least to be considered. A boy with a gun on his shoulder, on Wednesday afternoon, or on Saturday, tramping the forests threading the river valleys, or searching the hills, is learning self reliance, skill, enterprise. He is far less likely to fall under temptations which so easily bes-et ! high-apirited boys that have nothing to do, than if he was pent up in narrow (piarters at home. There is more power condensed in small compass in a rille than in any other engine. It is so docile, so manageable, so far reaching, so instantaneous in its effects, that it is attractive to every wide-awake bov. It is stiil an obiect of fascination to ; ourselves. When we shall he so old as not to care for a fine ritle, and not to be curious of every new invention that makt s fire-arms more efficient, we shall consider ourselves in our dotage. But, with a little care and instruction, a boy soon hunts lor something more than merely to secure game. He beOoanca interested in aturai history. He begins to read about and to observe the habits of birds, beasts and fishes Nothing h more important than to teach a child to derive a pleasure from the use of his higher facul ties. A hoy that knows all the birds in his neighborhood, their haunts t. J hahits, the style of their nests, their eggs, the color of their young, their food, dispositions and uses in nature, the common wild auimals that exist in the region around his home, the flora and simpler elements of ge logy, eas opened up in himself tasfes and habits which will have a power upon his whole life for good. Such dueation, by broadening t he sources of etii vinent, and by making him leas dependent for happim si upon any single j set of circumstances, diminishes the power of misfortune and of commercial revulsions. Men who derive their joys from one or two sources only are usually very unhappy or very stupid in old age. The wider the range on whieh the mind pastures, the less likely will it be to suffer from famine. These- considerations are equally applicable to the rod. Whether it he gun or rod, or better yet, both, the man who never saw anything but the pan and the spit is not half a sportsman. The true sportsman has a keen zest for early hours, fresh air, the exhilarations of vigorous cm reise; he learns to love the face of heaven, of the earth, and of the sun. Rejecting the stewing and cuddling luxuries of a la.v life, he purchases health and pleasure la pne bargain. Nor is a true son of the st ream and the foreat an unkindly man On the contrary, a true aporfamaa latendeifof cvm living tiling. He knows the rights of birds and bsaatt, as I reepepta them. Wou'da true man stand nearby the hour firing into the dense crowds of a pigeon roost? It is bird murder that should shock a true son of a gun! Killing for the sake of killing is simple barbiritv. One may, aud should, be lover ol ti 1 sp rts, tn I vet be in sympathy wilh all animated nature, ab iaaUaoted and sum Orablfl b y will never kill anything tor Baeaakaof killing. Song-birds, snarrowa and the small fry are sacred. For the talle, it ia lawful to elay that you may

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eat But those gunners who go f r' shooting whatever the' c-n hit. be if bird, frog, or bear.t. arc barbariana. B d this is a tatog to be learned, ITruegsuai d deetrttctireneaa belongs to the young human animal, but the tongue ofwtadom 2nd the rod of correction shall drive it !'ar from him. And so, for a hundred reaat i we say, 'et the Mys Be tamr'nt how to u-e a gun. At twelve, at fourteen oertatnlr, a boy- is capable of taking c ;re ol himst Ir Out of doors. He ought to be able I I 1 1 a horse, toclimb the highest tree, to sirfe skillfully, to carry n gun eatery and ' ose it aright, to be of such ;i manlr diaBoeitiofl as not to provoke attack, or, if wantonly asaailed, to h;ve such a courageous way of using himself as that the same miscreant will not choose to meddle with him a second time. Nimble of hand, tuick of fort, strong of Io ns, patient Oi fatigue, loving action.!'. r mere luxury this is the boy that a pious mother tinU it not hard to train Chrisiianly, and when to lb' - outward freedom is added the Belr control which a true religion cives, he will grow up such a man as the State ne dfl agood men honor and true women fervently love. OhritUa a Um i TSMBB arc in Kentucky 11,-jIO negroes over 18 years of age, The DoaSoa AitverHw announces that beards are going out of fashion. A coLORBu roter, a century old, was registered the other day la Sin Francisco. Senora Blestioue, a Mexican lady died lately, and give 3(6oO,QOO to tue poor. The opium revenue In India, for the year 1807 8, was just under 45j0ftu,00Q. A man ha! lately hern wbippM a Newgate Prison, London, for BUrroting R lady. A Connecticut wrestler recently broke one leg in lour places iu his athletic practice. It is estimated that there will be half a million Texas cattle driven to Kansas this year. Tita estimated population of Pennsylvania, by the coming census, is over 4,000,000. The dealers in kerosene In a Vermont town fiave agreed not to draw any oil alter sunset. M. Ltkak Utunr, of Waiden, Vt , has a tub ot maple sugar that he made in l.J"i, thirty-live years ago. Pie RH e Hoxaparte's head is desctib ed as so fUt. that you oould set out a small cold aupper on the top of it. Tue oddity of book titles cuimin ltd in one latelv announced in London : 44 Ginx s Baby ; his Birth, and Other Misfortunes" Ir is reckoned that there are fifty Protestant Missionary S icLtics in the world, with 2,0-3 mUsionaiics, and expending 5,1640190 annually. 44 On ! my dear child, how came you ao wet?' inquired an affectionate mother of her son. 44 Why, ma, one of the beys said I daresn't jump into the ere sk, and by jingo, I tell von I ain't to he i ired." Ix .r)(W capitil crinvs v.cr;' committed in Prance, while only eleven persons were condenied to death, of whooi six were reprieved and five executed. The total number of persons buried, during the peal acres years, in tliret UkresJaad cemeteriea, waa 6,899, and of this number 1,174 died of eliseases of the lungs. The Methodist Hook Concern annually publiahea 3,000 bound Volumea, and about 1,000 tracts, and, in lSi'.o printed ")1T,'227,0(X) pages of Sunday school books. A Philadelphia. Mind man rocBWlcd his sight remarkably when a passing policeman offered to drop a brick ie bia cap. 44 JSTo yer dou't," said he, and was arrested. HxT.pn Waldo Emfrsox saya the chain of Western railroads to the Pacific h:iplanted cities and civilization in lern time thau it costs to bring an orchard into bearing. The railways of Great Uritain and Ireland ar - 1 :i :i 1 1 miles in length, and for the week ending April 1, received for freight and p issagc money $3,783,960, or $229.50 a mile. At a minstrel show in New Orleans, one Talbot performs William Tell by shooting with a pistol an apple from the head of hia wife, the ball lodging la the board against which she Btanda, M. Sommer propounds a new theory ol sleep: his idea is that Bleep is simply a result of the deoxy genatkm of the ayateaa, and he believe that sleepine-; c am I n as soon as the exygen that is Stored in the blood is exhausted. In an English trial for BD ;ich of promise of marriage, lately, a letter was reel from the lover, whieh, among many oth r aice things, contained the following frank aaaj gracious suggestion : 44 11 1 era you, dear est, 1 would take that beastly Soaei out of vour hair ! Tub all-powerful influence of the Em peror may be imagined when it i slated that there are in France 35,000 rural guards, 1:1,000 gen'.:..' 38,000 primary choounastera, ,000 private guards 30,000 cuaeom BgeuBj lo.ooo foteateiSi WOO police agent 8,000 justices of the peace, 8,450 judges at least :t5,000 tobacco deal ers (appointed by the Government), and inuneuse numbers ol constables, BOtariee, and pensioners. The soil for Lima beans should be richer than for the dsrarfa, aa thai an strong feeders. A shovelful of rich liht compost mixed with the earth breach hill, will be the best fertilizer. Bandy or gravelly soils are much to be preferred, as clay lands are subject to become hard and retard fheir growth. Hills slioii! I not be less than four feet apirt each a ay, as upon an abundance of room will, In a measure, depend the amount ol the CI TTllK Paris Gaulois says t- m workmen, -ng-iged In dem diabin r an old Bouse in Paria, caaae apoa a net of d dais containing some hundred o these reptiles, at. the bottom of an exhaneted well. In the midst of this snake m st found a skeleton, which had probably fallen into the well ynrs ago, and the Been of which had been deroured by the adders. Sirange to say, in the hand oi the skeleton was a pocket-book of n d aaurOQCQ leather, in which, when opened, there were found forty bank note- bffI,Q4MM each, a woman's likeness, and a leltwr whieh had been almost eBtlrely t a I ) the rapt lies, tha oniy iranment resBaining aecipneraoie hearing the aroma, " i not make known the plot." A Judicial Inqoirj has been commenced. Alas for the giant business in N York state ! Theexposnn of the Card if huinhUkT has ene nir iged an old r pro bate to write to the Tttrttftari (Vi Harald thai the Cohoes roaftodon, so caret i preserved iu the museum nt Alboiy. the skein ton of a circus elephant a hi h knows to have been buried in !fjgS in those days caravans, not uodersiwJMlinc the ait of advertising, us d to trw . 11 night, to avoid befhg " seen far nothmi and t his animal oit d on the road d buried c nsiqnently in the rich' Thi nrciia wa fatnadi Ang'vm. 's, an1 I ket pi r sawed off thp tusk o tie- dead elephant for preservation The body a e so large that it had to be cut in pieeea before the horses e uld haul it OUJ oi IfeSj road and dump it in a neighboriug peat hole.

J 7 OMAJfDMA'8 BED8WK XL SPUAi: i c an. , . 0 Gr a du a elpep? Wev r T nr I pball wake her; I'll "ir hytne betbilc sn vry !ow, And ein of my 'pj ! ol hulfTMps iruie hrr A bright llt'le n-try: 'thrill vl-tOdM. tier -' The day. tMnce her gicknte are duller and longer, . . Bnt then arbat a hleii i' -t nAVr no piin ! Evcryn-irhtl a-.; Givl, m JV are o, 1h h-r jrrow stntrcrer, ., , And tr my dear wtde-awnke (Jrarid- :-':ur: !" Ban rToer it would eeip if hVp' through the dTt mo. And r- er mM up whTi th Mrr1Ti'51 ix-nn. An! c rod not a' alffer thi beantiful Blar-ttaaa. S.j pccritoi with hloscoaie and me .rjr won con fii I 'h bo ! I npp'w wo ti trmm" o'rter V.'e ateweari fe t. men il :ne :. Nll:av. tV the wav o! ib- wofJd. and I d her I hot- d that the world"? way woa'd rr.' i-'l loan U ty. üaiM 'hook aar peftd M0y; pcrh.ip Mie H 'nk:rg flow I va'd ba roe' Vl .r hlt'tt if Oy. r Ihr darken mv tlrr : pr Orsrdaia ref - th re. . . . . i f .- V;. j f. iin! no cart Ar n-rhrv imrnt i Of ill. Wii, Liitink in '.'r. - o; am ft) iv4 ,ie:isi:i r wu would ap IT arh M wi.m T ioved rr.n7ht 'npoe of tlowor, And w itched by ray beadd I'm ratrBSej here. hv Yuvftj AMY f& MVfilE. Amv ard AT'e were two VVn cils who live I with their grandpa and grandma. Their rhrher And n 1 1 1 ejUfB taBBa. Amy was five ye r . 1 Sud Agi- was three. One morning Amv went info the kitchen to ak Nor for a s'rin' Sho wantel for a clothes line, t-r sho and Ar ' were playing if was washiBgMltT, sttd thee wanted to hang up thtTr !' clothes. It was Nor' washinr-dv, too, an-1 Amv found the kitchen bd- of ateno, and Nora scrubbing aw:v a the tub as bar : he could. 44 Please, Nora, giv m I Jtr'ng f S"kfd Amv. "Atrcd' an I Mve got a rreat. wasning, and we want to put out our1fne.M " I'll ?et it in a nfurrnt " asH Njra, eoodnatuiedre. "Just wait till I got theae cl"the out of the tnb Eh Amy climbed up into a eht'r ani ar Steel. Nora's minii" SSM B Rood loBff "t1. but she got IBB strinir at lt. Bad giv e it to Abiv. Put, O ehar ! just a AuiV v gi t'in? dowB from Ihe rhar. fdif nut one foot iBtoa paS nf ht water, thai Nra had (arelp1v left sear her. Tin' hot water burned hor foot v rv much and she ?crrarred ao loudly that Nora drcpnet. Tkt tiaeVt of ohan cVfthen, er.Hu lmaand little Agpi- ate run; : tp leC what was the ranker. Pooi li'tl" Amy! Nora crrid hi f into the sitting ro m. and put oil and flour on her foot. Then she wrapped BOBSBBOat bandages around it Little Aeci" stod by. andcri d b9rauce Anay did But when the pain had from down p. little, they both laughed to aes how lnree the foot 1 ioke.': i:( its bam'ar "Why," o 1 Agc'e. 4 you've dot one drrst foot and one Mf'i" tbity t nv one!" 44 1 can't wear my stneninrj," siid Amv ; 41 mv foot Ls almost as big as grandma's." "Tuen tou cm wear ono of grin' pa's BtocklBga1 nüd :rr ?t Iran, So aha bn njrjrt a pair of pcrandpa'a bine ritor'iinir. and put one of then car-fu'ly OT Ar v's foot, Thev ail loiu'hed hi See BOW MSB It looked. Aggie daaecd aheaat la great glee, ad Amy Iseghed, too, with hc BUtfl still atar one on her faee, "I wfeh 1 coull wear tti obor Btnah fng, said Artie, M T. w Imi, I can have a bi S foot iV,- Amv'ft" "Nooaenw, cBtVI f sab c-aT"lma. "Y m don't want that treat stocking on. Amy's foot was Beatrice, von .r. ..v. I Bl yours ig well enough." And aha picked" up the ato kin? and put it awav. Ajrcie h oked rerv murh disappointed. i4 It aay foot ami burned like anay can! I ! I w ar i' ?" she asked, presently. when vour ro I l e , ii ' urn n., get burned, like Amy's V.., " r-n t 1 ....... l..o ' you may war it all you p'case 41 1 guess you wouldn't like the ary"!tr said Amy rnoutnf dlv. 44 Hob !" stid At.-'o. Pr tty soi n. .Vr':-- -";rsv 1 out lrtn the kitchen. Nora was hsnii? out the efothea. But the pail of hot water Blood there, near the chiir. Aggie ran up to it, ard puf h"r foot in. Tin' water wasn'f o iit" s ht a" 't wn erben kmy put hers in, but eaounh to hart Aggie a rreat it wa hot deal SB e than s' e expected it would. Öo xhe aareaoaed, an-' grandma and Nora came running in agon to ree what waa the m itter. Aggie didn't care much, j''- then, a -out weiring grandnal Itocklng. She cried with a go d w ill. I Grandma and Nora tried not to lang . i f r they Al sorry for the little giri Bo they wrapped 'p her foot like Amy's, and nuo grandpa a other srocKiBg ob h. The two little girla aal tfk re. looklnepo aaournfal, that grandaaa and Nora had to go ino the kitchen ;nid I mgh. "O, the poor Httle vi Uasafaaid Hora, wining her eyea OB her apron. ThoB She thought of Agie, and laughed again, till s.ie had almost loat her breath. And the "little vi tims!" had to ait still all day. YoittK C, Why Fliie was not Invited. Acxt Jane, will four be too many at our part v f '4 I think not." said Aunt .T me. The little girls looked ven luppv Th. sun whs shining brightly info the prior windows, afo r a st Ntflay Bl rei;ig. wa Saturday afternoon i and little girla wl 1 go U acaool know Low nice it is to haw it sunsiiinv and warm on th it al t ' the winter, to give them a chance to viit and plav. 44 We don't want Elias; we are not gotBST . . a 1 to invite lief. And the lime one? oancM anont s window. " w hy merry the exdd fish in tin don't real want Kniet" sii' Aunt ane, langhing. " oh : wi don t win! Inr, she alwavj A -'d away the littl- pr rin to invite th ir f; lenda While th v were pJ timing for the -arty. I asked them wha they were going lo h ivc for amusement. "Oh a concert and tableaux ; and wc are going to have the tickets one cent iut one rent." I did not attend the party, hart I BBppase Ihey iarlb d the four girls they were talking nh Mit Hut the little e'r1 who wanud her way about en rythfceg did not t't an invitati.m. 1 wis sorry for h r. lor 1 know thev must have hnd a BOOd ti ne Did you ever hcaraliMle niri av. wh-n j-ou wanted to p'ay "keep house," I'm g o W the lady of the heSBBI ; I'm gning to be the asaaaanai and aani must all mind me or 1 sha n't plav ?" Or did you ever m that little lv who aid 44 Y u must be y horse, hi d 1 t mo drive or 1 sh a'n't t-Xtiv : 1 shall er h- me ;" ami who made nd the other little h y eive up to him. no matter how muchthov wanted to drive f Dn you think that all the prelty look- and u- tine clothe such litile boya and cirls can put on will tvir make people love them v A FniKNo who ! i I o.g. vm u-d in trie famdy a b pet, relftt s a utranjre incident of the p o. r to charm or fascinate, common to reptiles, but rather extraon'niaty Hniona oudrupcds lv ct ntly the hitch i n cirl stw th's d g seated on hif hinder, with One BWe foot Rfted, ryelng rat nnder ac ipboar.1, in aorne room contrt d with the house. The raf aK bad hi y s fixed v the dog, and after watching them a few minutes, the edr!. fhinVnu it vtringe, chIIihI some rd tlr family, whn, imer iiti'1 to how tMt. eurinu cirrnaa tam e would turn ottt. atood by. t of hall an how these enunaissaaintaini d the !aine position, Ining six or riiio fe t ipnrt At the end, tin rn, low1y.irfid r.inbl'og aith tVnr be ras hi apprfaarSj n . iloi? th. ir . - tid i xid on aeh uSSa r mtinowbl . Coidm ng o creep when within a couple ot U t '4 sprang, and c&tching the rat qhckrS poaed of h in. It a a a!t4 raul d cors ereu that the. hL in th whII tbruua'h whicFi the rat ennn w :.s me i tt ly ba k of wh' re ha was flrat h d racu IT?

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