Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 38, Plymouth, Marshall County, 26 May 1870 — Page 1

fOUTHN' DEPA8THEIT.

POETRY,

TUE DIFFERENCE.

Yesterday, the wind it moaned, The sleet drove fast, the forest groaned. Yet within all was bright - My heart, it was light ; The birdies were flinging Their wealth to my singing The glad summer sky, It shone in his eye - For Robin was here, Robin, my dear! Ah ! Little I cared for the gloom of the weather, So Robin and 1 could whisper together. To-day. I coldly sx-nn it o'er. Tu;ö üuod ot !ud on the silent lloor, it glttters and t re nib .e a And vaiuly disyemb.e. The hirrli outride. 'J'lu-v miii'k arä derive : Ai.a ih- -ky io'k- me through WM Itl fi)il eye ol blue V'r Kntdn i- irone, Ultu. my ov. u : Ah! whr d e- it matter how ?parklincr th If If obi u uuU I cannot ramble together ll-ar'K (t'tl Ilm . MISCELLANEOUS. HK1S DELICATE CASE. Wm Mrs. Fi ! -was Soec.ators sigtetd tl at a bride, all the die was a pretty ana interesting grl, who would make a nne wman wm-n she crae to till out. But she mver did rid out; on the contrary, Time, tnai itok her years away, robbed hr of plumpness, to; and alter thirty anniversaries of that wedding-day, she was considerably more slender than at starling. iShe wore curls, and a black burnt round her forehead, and mittens not knowing that these things Lad Ion,? ceased to make- her attractive, and, on a first introduction, would have, struck you generally as being somewhat of a guy ; but a better wile yon would s-circelj gad in aii Kagiand, und that is infinitely ruwre important that', con lehness and tasteful attire, as you wid own before you have been married lor a quaitt r of a century. Lxctlietit it al timet, Mrs. Fid culnshustsd at meals. Call no Baaa hippy til you h we seen him at In ml fart ; t. natural irritability in Mr. Kiel's disposition had been ahswst entire! c.red by little soothing com! UftS and tit bits. He was a SO" licitor, with an ollice in London, :ind a MM detached villa in the suburbs, who had to leave the ItSUf at 0 to reach the füCTMf by 10 every morning. Tnis necessitated breakiast at 8, but tvn at that early hoar Mrs. Fid saw to every detail hi x "elf. El would have shaken a very confirmed bacu lot to have seen her table one spring morning u lew y "ard ago the linen was so while, and the tea so black, the watercresses and radirln-s so lresh, tue marmalade ami apricot jam M daintily- set out, the eggs so new looking the loaf so brown aaid crnsty, the dry toast so crisp and tbiu. And when she heard the tread ot her husband's tool on lite staircase, and She flourish on his nose which invariably herah led his approach, she rang the bell tor tue appetizing little covered dish, which matched and fitted the slop-basin to be brought up. Tnis contained triz.led slices ot ham or bacon, delicate and curled, a sausage, a kidney, or the savory thigh of a chicken. May such be youroniy domestic broils ! A fcale, ntat man, with sharp gray eyes, ad a vtry g od opinion ofl himself, entered anu looked at his letters, seiecling suit opening .ue at or . Well, Martha,' said he, "the Chipcho .v liaa arrived at last." " Ymi dnu'i amj so' rh' n Mr. f.obyear will be keil pra.stntly. Will he 00OM to stay w ith us, do you think r'' I ttV n't know. You had l)etter have bul iVi. iy; though 1 expect he has hot come t England Willi the idea ot shutting hnnseii up with an old man and STOUU h.iir BUkfl fron the Marble Anh. Still, as e-veiything will be strange to aim at first, he may accept my invitation tor a nig ii or two." ' Tiiis Mr. Thomas Lobyear is .ich, is he not ?" 44 Will be, J suppose. At present he probably depends upon his lather, who ha3 sr'iven me very liberal orders, absurd ly bbend erJtrs, arout htm. From living bo iocg auiongat stvages, the dd man must have lost all idea of the value of men.-y. Howvver, there is plenty ef it accumulating, and it dots not matter to me."' 44 I), h't you think," aid Mrs. Fiel;' it migl.t be well to have Saiah home?" B trah, Um only child oi the Fi -Is, was at a tinishing school at Cliltou, but she was seventeen, and a woman. 4i Ah, ah, ah V 1 Mghed the lawyer "At y.ur match making, old lady ! From v. i it I aai aovi-eit, he is proof against our attempts. Besides which, it woold h -. something like a breach ot trust; old Lobyear has evidently got other views lor his ton than marrying him at present it any rate to in Knghh woman." 44 Why, he would never : and match him with a heathen, with a ring through her nose, Uke a pie !'' "1 dott'l km a ina," replied Mr. Fiel, laughing : it he could uiscover a new weed or a lresh variety of black beetle by it, he certainly would." It WM of good augury for Mrs. Fiel when her hu-band laughed, and a battel w hen he r plied to her observation?, in ? i-vd ot Iooki! ur dt at and grün' ing, which he geaeHalljf did if she albaded to his lients or their bwiaees; lor it showed that h was willing to he pumped, and Mrs. Fiel'i thirst lor information was great, thoiifh it was rarely slaked, in the pp - nt n stance, however, the lawyer t: ought h' u.ilit rt'jMire feminine aid in the taah which he bad undertaken, and w M thefl tore not unwilling to admit his wMfa into his confidence. ' Ah," said he, 44 that was a urious idea for a rich man to banish bimaelf cotnp! (-ly, and yive up civdizel life, for the sake ot studying botany and butterflies in Japan. Fora poof man, indeed, it would be explicable if he expected to make s mrthing by II tn the end. Bat from what yon my, Mr. Lobyear h s more money than he knows what to elo with as it is." 4' Yes ; b- was well off originally, and got a good property through his wife besides.'7 u Ah, poor man; I daresay grief for her death iav- him a craze." 41 Fudgi " exclaimed Mr. Fiel, somewhat rudely. 41 He wa- glad noogb to be free ti f go hunting on his favorite hobby. If sh had lived another year, it is my opinion that he would have bolted and left her." "Ab, well," s;iid Mrs. Fiel, " it is a fortuiiiiti; thingfbf him, or at any rate for this s.n, that he fixed OB SOgOOO a man of buafaeeaa as yourself to look after his interests" 14 We.," replied her husband, compliicenily, M considering that the bulk of hin property is in houses situated in a rapidly improving neighborhood, and that the tenants are up t all sorts of dodges to avoid having their ret ts raised, perhaps an agent who was no sharp might mini SU advaatage here and then-. For inItanTir. there was an application for a renewai cf a .- the other dfty, and I discovered that the tenant, wh had been paying forty pounds a year, had underlet I i the last three years at a hundred and ten." " Lor, how sharp you are!" 44 Well, I was Bof born in Yorkshire for I thing I d not know of more than one l THon who ever regularly t-Kk me in that youn ra. al, Tom Scott, who robbed me five years o." 44 Ah, that was very shaking," said the good wife, soothingly ;" but then, you know, lie was brought up in your offi -e ' "Why, Martha Do you suppose, then, that he learned dishonesty there ! I never expected an epigram of that sost lrom your mouth. I would have you know that I could put at least a couple of thousand a year in my pocket from the L byear property alone, w ithout a chance of detection, if I chose Ui be dishonorable. 4 I am eure I mev r meant to call you sn ei igram or any Otbcf name," cm d ra, Fiel, astonished at this outbreak. 41 I only said that a breach of trust was easy t r that Be H, iH-cause he had been under you for - me time and probably he had pportunit ies " Oh, that is different. ' said her bmv band, cracking an egg. It was not a tSSlU r coufccieiic- whif h made Mr. Kiel so touchy lor though priding himseli upon keen shrewdness, he wa perfectly up-

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VOLUME XV. right and tru dworthy but the thought ot Tom Scott Th 're is this disadvantage ii reckoning ronrsell to be cleverer than tne rest oi i'u- world, that if ever you are takes in. ii rankles. S the remembrance ..1 Tom :Scntt always irritated Lim. He had taken a fancy to the sh vrp lad, and put him iu the office, where he favored, eneou raged, and trusted him more and more every ytar; and the result had been a cunning bit i f roguery and flight, There was one consolation ; he had caught the pound rel, w ho waa sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Iiael Tom Scot", got ofl" with impunity, his heait would have In en Bear breaking. 44 1 atippoM thk young gentleman was quite a lad when his father went to fbreig parts?1 sahl Mis. Fiel, presently, retorting to the pump-handle. 4 Aa he is not of age yet, I suppose he DtlSt have been," replied her husband, continuing to tl w. 44 Was he educated in England before he went out to his father?" "I d n't know; Mr. Lobyear rever mentioned hiui betöre. I have wiitttu regularly to advise him how his aff.ors stood, and he ha, from time to time, brklly acknowledged By letters, declaring himself tatittitel, telling me to do what 1 thought best, Baying Where he wished bit remittances sent, and now and then requesting me to undertake certain commissions lor him connected with bis pursuits, but not at all With my business, However, as he lias always behaved very handsomely, i have done my besl to Oblige him, and mean to do so still, thoOgb this present j b is rather a delicate afidr, aud püte out of my line ; what 1 call a regular bit of diploin icy." m Ah r Yes. It eeems that the young man has inherited his lather's fancy lor a roTing lile, though not his scientiic tastes. He has been living iu Borneo for some jean, tailing about with expeditions aeainsl the pirates, and 1 don't know what all Mr. Lobyear, senior, went to Cnina from Japana year and a half ago; and his son joined n m it tlOBg-Kong, Where he intimated a desire to go to Lig'and for a while, and have a spell of comfortable living. The father was willing enough to let him do so, and gave him a letter of cedit to me. and he started in one of the tea sailing ships. JJut aller he had sailed, Mr. Lobyear, s aJor, received information lrom a liiend that his sou's principal reason lor desiring to visit England was the Lope ol meeting with an adventuress, whose acquaintance he had made at Calcutta, and whom, in the ardor of a first passion, he deaired to marry. The lady had otner views at the time; but had since smiled by letter on his suit ; and she is a most untie sirabb.: wile tor him. This new! baying cone to dm by steamer, has of course loug preceded the youngster's actual arrival; and my mission is to prcveiii this marriage. This can be done with comparative ease while he is a minor; but he win come of age iu eight months, and it would be poor success merely to delay matters for that time. 1 hope to break it off altogether." 44 Exactly. And don't you think that if he were thrown into the society of an innocent, accomplished, ami attractive girl, his infatuation 'r this creature would the a oi er be got over? ' ' Well, well; send for Sarah if yon M she would be leaving any BOW at the yi 'he quarter. Only, don'1 put her i to thinking this youngster is a very .ieat catch, tor his father may have other children, and older ones, lor aught I know. Or he in . v -peiid all hi; i: oney iu building pagodas, or aquariums or black-beetle museums ; or in fitting out expeditions to du orr the South Pole, w hich really ought to have a turn, aftel all the luss made about the North. I am not by any DM ns sure that it is a good thing, Martha. A .Mr. Fiel altered these last words, he looked at his watch, and then took a cigai out of his case; whereupon Mrs. Fill brushed his hat, and brought it to him, together with a light. Something like a wife! And ere a man could cry: M Conductor, hold!" the City Atlas had devoured him u;. It is one thing for a sail'ini: ship to be t legraphed, and another fbr it t arrive in port. A heavy gale tantalised the crew and passengers of the Ohipchow, and it w:is week b lore Mr. Fiel and bia client l ion met, by which time the tecom hed Sarah was saf ly established und the paternal roof; tor her mother thoogntthe lawyer exaggerated the chances against the young man's inheriting a good f nunc, and stuck to her lit' 1.- intrigue. It i- certain that she herself overestimated her daughter's attractions. Sarah was a good loiI enough, but commonplace, and not beautiful ; a pellet hardly calculated to diive out anoili r very firmly fixed in the pop-gun in-art of a lover. However, the designing mother and unwitting daughter had a t.tir chance, for young Lot year a pte ! the offer of hospitality made him by Mr. Fi I, and established himself in their house until he could look abonl him. Travel in hot disss tea had matured the young man, whom you would have taken for fire-and-twi Bty. It haM likewise- tanned him ; and his face and hands were so dark that Mrs. Fiel was induced to make inquiries about the nationality d his mother; but a.s Mr. Fiel hail never known anything of .Mr. Lobyear before he put his affairs in his hands, on going out to the Baat, and was even ignorant, until quite lately, of the tery existence of this son, sheeould not get much satisfactory information oat of him Bo She Concluded that Mr. Lobyear. senior's, Oriental tastes were not confined to the fauna and flora; ami the deep black sjeaj of the young man's hair, eyebrows, and lontr, drooping, silky inoustache certainly tended to nonftrm her theory. His tranners were not very good. There wa an evident restraint about him; and if in an anguaided moment be gave nature bcrbeed,hc became boisterous and vulgar. He was very careful, however, and only broke out once- or twice, recovering himself almost immediately. He seemed to find that the safest plan was to -pron Sarah, and devoted himself to her so a -i dnously the first evening, that Mr. Fiel listened to ais wife's statement ol j, end esni with rioaaneat tint night. 41 1 have no doubt his father means well by him at present," aid he, "or he would b:-.rd Show so much anxiety about his contracting an unfavorable marriage, as to c ! ve me almost carts UasMib in the cosl of preventing it. Neither would be name so handsome a sum as sixty pounds a month for expenses, if be intended to have him penniless at his death. Jiut this is all conjecture." 44 But rather strong, surely, bnr; Mid he is certainly Knitten with Sarah," said Mrs. Fiel 44 Don't you be too sure of that. Very likely he Carries on with everything in a petticoat, or out of one. in those Borne parts, that he meets; or it may be that he ia throwing dust iu my eyes, to cover his intrigue with this old Calcutta friend." M r Fiel felt it to be so impoi tant to prevent the young man giving him the slip, that he left his other business to tbeclerKs, and took upon him the oAee of ahowman, whereby he made acquaintance with many London sights that be had never seen before the interior of St. Paul's, to wit: the top oi the Monuoaaat; Madame Tus-aud's wax works; and certain bewd ib ring circular pictures, apparently seen from the inside, as it one were a figure represented, called panoramas- all of which very much iu forested the youn man, who, nevertludess, owned that, on the whole, he prelerred L'al cutta. Mention of that city gave the law

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yer an opening ; he inquired it there were much society there pleasant Society f Anei eventually Mr. Lobyear, the son, who of course could not be expected to know his father's discovery and communication to his lawver, took his cic rone into confidence. He. adored the most charming, innocent, persecuted saint that ever exri'ed the jealousy of a spiteful coterie. Her name was Montacute, and she was a widow without encumbrances. She had been r suiii1r jn a quiet ptrt of the Isle of Wight, but was now on her way to London : and he had received a letter that very morning directing him where to find her; so he would not trespass on Mr. Fiel's hospitality after that day. Where shouts was Duke street, Jermyn street? The complacent Mr. Fiel conducted him to that neighborhood, and also, in reply to further questions, gave him an outline of the steps it was necessary to take before a gent U m .n and lady, inclined that way, could be joined together in holy matrimony. There could be no harm done in affording him such scraps of information; the first cabman passing would have driven him to the address, and the chinning widow probably had license and baniii formalities at her lingers ends. 41 ( If course-, you are of age f he thrc w iu at the end. 44 1 believe my father would say I WM some months short of it," replied the young man, carelessly ; 44 but really his evidence is so little to be trusted in any m il ter not. connected with plants or insects, that I mean to give myself the benefit of the doubt. That's good 1 iw, eh f Mr. Fiel proposed a bachelor's dinner at his club that day, and entertained his guest all the evening with caustic observations upon widows, and the dangers to whiuh young men were exposed from beautiful sirens, whose antecedents would not bear strict examination, illustrated with numerous apposite anecdotes, which th-; young man seemed to enjoy heart dy. But he would not apply them to his own case; so that, at list, the lawyer was forced to be more explicit, and with mm h apology asked whither the young man knew who the late Mr. Montacute was. and Under what circumstances the fair widow came to be alone and unprotected in Calcutta. But the ardent fover would not listen to a hint reflecting upon the ob ted of his affections, ami got so excited and angry, that Mr. Fiel dropped the subject at once. Where was the use of talking sense to a man who declared that if all the world swore to anything which his mistress denied, he should take her word in preference to the united oath 1 To expose his gaaae by showing the paternal letter empowering him to forbid the marriage, would have been stupid Indeed at present ; that must be kept as the very last resource, wlltdl, Combined With Considerations of probable disinheritance, it might have an Sect. What effect? the lawyer asked himself unflinchingly, when quiet th.Ht night. Probably that of making young Lobyear dissemble fbr the time, and marry his widow elsewhere, unknown to the lawyer. And if the agent were deceived, the bridegroom might well hope to conceal the matter from his but-teitly-hunt ing lather; at all events, for a t me. Young people, especially when in love, never look far forward, not have a confidence in things turning up. Mr. Kiel owned with inward chagrin that he was at fault. Suddenly an idea flashed upon him like an inspiration. Why not attack the woman ? he h ul her address. 44 Of course," he said aloud, turning h'i9 head on the pdlow. 44 What, my dear ! ' responded Mrs Fiel. 44 Nothing." And he went, to sleep. Next morning young Lobyear left Mr. Kiel's house-, anel went to an hetel in dermyn atreet Mr. Fiel possessed a very sharp officeboy, for in spite ef the trick which had been played upon him by Tom Scott, he liked sharp boys ; only he never meant to give another the chance of abusing his confidence. Billy Daw was employed in m nor matters alone: his master had no intention of pushing him. This lad had already seen young Lobyeai ; the house in Duke street was now pointed out to him, and he waa directed to watch it, and let his master know when Mr. Lobyear left it. So Mr. Kiel waited in his club, which wa- close by, and BiUy Daw loafed w ithin sight of Dune street. Billy was good at loafing; he gleaned amusement aud instruction from the window of a newspaper and caricature shop ; studied natural history at a fishmonger a ; set two b rys to fight ; exasperated a drunken man; procured 44 cuts behind" for several youngsters who were riding without paying their fare .11 without losing right of the door he was directed to watch. His report at the end ot the day was, that Mr Lobyear had left his hotel, and g one to the house in Duke street at 11 a. m. At ball-past t, a servant girl had eoine out with an empty flish, aud returned in ten minutes with oystera At 6 o'clock Mr. Lobyear had at last come out, accompanied by a lady, and they wa keel together, arm in arm, to St. James' Hall. "Never mind," said Mr. Fiel; 44 he can't stick so close as that to her long, however despeiate his condition may be. Try again to morrow." True enough, at IS o'clock on the following day Hilly Daw summoned his m:i-Wr from the lub, and informell him that Mr. Lobyear had gone out for some time, and the lauy was alone. Asked how he knew that his absence was not for a few minutes only, he replied that the gentleman had lit up his baccy directly lie got outside t he door. Mr. Fiel wasted no time in further questioning, but hastened to the house in Duke street, knocked and rang, and inquirad fbr Sirs. Monticule. Yes, the servant girl said, she lodged there, and was at home. What name? And the lawyer was ushered into the front drawing n torn, A lady with a creamy complexion and golden hair, eleeantly dressed in halfmourning, (dosed t he novel she had been reading, and rose from her lounging chair to receive him Pretty, thought the visitor, decidedly pretty; but at least ten years older than fie is. 44 You do not know me, madam, or the object of my visit," he said; "so I had better tell you at once that my name is Fiel, and that I am the legal adviser of Mr. Lobyear, the lather of the gentleman Who SSpireS, I believe, to the honor of your hand." Mrs. Montacute bowed, and requested him to be seated. 41 1 hope, you will pardon me," continued Mr. Fiel, dropping into a chair which had faced the lady, and looking as conciliatory as he COUM, " il what I hav to say should prove in any way disagreea Me; I am but the mouthpiece ui my client, you know. Mr. Lobyear, senior, has heard, not from his son, but through other sources, of this protected marriage, and f regret to say that he has convey ed to me his disapproval." " O, sir " 44 His very decided disapproval He has never had the honor and pleasure of seeing you, madam, or he would probably view the matter in a different light, and hesitate before depriving his only child of t he felicity so nearly secured to him. Itui, unfortunately, his tetter was forwarded to me from Hong Kong, and he was then about to return to Japan, so that there are dilliculties in the way of a per Honai inten lew." 44 lteally, Mr. Mr. Fiel," said the widow, glancing at the card that had b en given her, " 1 hardly know what to make of all tbia. I was certainly aware that

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Mr Lobyear had a father very much deVoted to various branches of natural history, who, if alive, was supposed to be somewhere in Japan; but that he takes any notice of his son's affairs, or profesaei to exercise any authority over him, is quite a new idea to me." 14 To me also, madam, and I believe it to be a very unusual proceeding on his part. But marriage is an exceptionally Important thing, a3 his son is under age' "Under agel Thomas under age 1 Impossible!" cried the widow. "It is a fact, madam : but were it OtherWise, it would be of no importance! since Mr. Lobyear is entirely dependent on his lather, who is determined to discontinue his allowance, and cut him out of his will, if he marries without his consent and approval." lira Montacute remained in pensive contemplation of a very pretty foot for some little time before she-replied: 4,LxCUse me for being over csutious, Mr. Fiel; but you are an utter stranger, you know, and I should like to see the letter frem Mr. Lob) ear's father, il you have it about you." "Certainly, madam," replied the lawyer. 44 A ?ery natural and proper precaulion on your part. I might be a rival, prompted by motives of jealousyr. Here is the lettt r, w hich, however, I fear may give you pain. Evil tongues," he continm d, as the widow took the documenl and ran her eyes rapidly ver it "evil tongues have evidently traduced you. Alas I the best and fairest cannot escape siander! Indeed, the greater the merit, the more virulent the envy." M Evidently genuine. Thank yon," said the .widow, returning the letter with extraordinary composure, considering how s'-ie was treated in it, aud then, once more fixing her gaze upon ber boot, which she flgeted about, she relapsed into silence and meditation. At length she raised her es slowly to the lawyer's, and looking at him quietly, but very fixedly, she said : 41 Mr. Fiel, you have come to me treating this i fTiir as a pure matter of business, and therefore! will not ipeak to you of my af fections; it would prolong the interview ; and probably you will not understand me. I will speak of the marriage engagement between me and Air. Lobyear, then, precisely as if it were a mere c unmercia! tr in section. In order to fulfill my part, I have left India, where I had a home, and have come to England to live on n:y meagre pension. For ail his threats, I consider it very unlikely that Mr. Lobyear will really disinherit his only "child." 4i Pardon my Interrupting you, madam ; nothing is more probable. The ardor with which he pursues his favorite science amounts to mania, anel I fear that he would be hardly sorry for an excuse to devote his entire fortune to the building aed foundation of a museum.' "There is a certain force in what you say," replied the widow, caimly ; "and I do not conceal from myself that it would be a very great misfortune indeed for both of eis it" Sir. Thomas Lobyear were to be deprived of bis income upon our marriage. Still, it would be worse lor me to break oil, and remain here, far from friends, penniless.1 "May, madam, not penniless; some compensation would hn. your due." "gtt?. Ventre Cttpidinetgut if they didn't come presently to fair up-and down bargaining! The matter was finally settled thus, lira Montacute was to Hart for New York by the next mail, Mr. Fiel taking and paying for her passage; she Wat to write a farewell letter to young Lobyear, breaking the match, ad keeping silence about where she was going to. Mr. Fiel was to accompany her on board the ship, and then to place in her hands the sum of one thousand pounds. When this treaty, with 44 No Trust '' for its basis, was concluded, Mr. Fiel took his leave; and as he stepped into the street, Jack Horner alone could appreciate his sensations. Never had ss delicate a case been so skillfully handled I T hree days afterward, Mr. Fiel escorted the fair widow to Liverpool; accompanied heron board the American steamer; staid with her till the last moment, gave her the thousand pounds, and relumed to the bosom of his family, having himself sealed ,!t.d (nested a most satisfactory letter of farewell to poor young Lobyear, which was put in his hands unfastened, that he might assure bimaelf that the content! were according to treaty. Next day, the deserted lover came to him in a hurry-storming, upbraiding, beseeching him to tell him win re his cli armer had Mown to; threatening murder and suicide when the lawyer remained obdurate. Finally, he rushed away, dedaring that he would never speak to him again. " Yes, you will, when you want money," UU Mr. Fiel, as the other door behind him. banged the He was right. In less than a fortnight young Lobyear returned, jede, calm, and haughty, and coldly intimated that he was about to return to the Fast, and required funds. After some discussion about necessary expenses, passige money, outfit, what bis lather usually allowed him, etc., Mr. Fiel let him have five hun dred pounds, and saw him depart withinfinite relief for now the edifice of his diplomacy w as crowned. Commissioned to separate a young couple, he had despatched one to the East, the other to the West. What success eoiil 1 be more comph tef He had always estimated his own a uteneSS very highly, but now he felt as if he should "strike the stars with his sublime top," as a schoolboy friend of ours once translated a familiar line of Horace. This slate of extreme self satisfaction lasted some months, during which be locked forward to the letter of thauks and admiring approval w hich he expected from Mr. Lobyear, the lather. It came a mail sooner than he expected, ne morning, on entering his office, he found two foreign letters awaiting him one from an unknown correspondent, the other in the familiar handwriting of his (dient in Japan. He opened this letter eagerly, and prepared for praise. DbabJUb' 1 1 . ui i BMke out ins sMaatas f sd thi- rtamarals yon bars writtes to mt skoal tea iiihI I BMVrfagS. I had n son onv. LtSttteaSBt in lbs Oi. Itiit lh! poor boy I' II tl virion to tin- eHbmmo of iiiim lea years ago. You rektf to a letter of mini-, il.-e ivl lrom Unrig Koog, anil il is tine thai i wawlBew aboet Um ihne you Mwstloa, int eartataly I adjM viele to you during in. May. If yea are in your meines, you fears hOOS grossly ini-ix--(l ii i m n fey hbi MgM or MioUmr I wlali you uoula have tee froodaen In all upon PbMUBOl Uja lilt Mi haseaas,aBd tell him; toe The reel all about bugs and beetles. Mr. Fiel staggered to his desk, took out the letter he had last received, and compared it with this presentone; the Imitation of the handwriting was cunningly executed, but a palpable forgery. Had he entertained the ghost of a suspicion at the time, he could not have mistaken it. It was a good hour before he partially recovered from I he effects of this blow, and then, in a bewildered, mechanical way, he opened the second foreign letter. It was dated from New York, and ran thus : Sik: Whaa I wie a oWk In your BflfcS, yon triad lot?' t too min h out of mi! hui I nnagM to Iiiiii Um tattles, anil pny niy-elf ior time ami troable expended on yoar Debail tiuii naseae to im'. Von run ir lit me ml goi bw two yean ihai hu din' In Jim. With the mi. I "t mv eh-ver Httle wile, I bare Irawn about llftcen SSSdred ami eighty poiiii'i out oi you whimn ' twoeveata oal ol Ihren. Novit iiiiimI ; it wh- hnprob iMe I hat I, who aloes fcsnw the detatti of yoai baslaesa rein tteas wail Mr Lobyear, thneM bare rkaaeed upon thai teaUassaa in Hoaa Knag, sad arecsred a pecliaea ol fete SaadwrlOac ; ml in the walaattained yoaag Mian, with e Mai I, har nml mux bu he, you rouid hardly be eipi cted i ret k'uw the lair, naootb lut ed, red beaded Tom H ott. ' .S Luvt-Ii, Sur ih. I roirri-l that w? COOM not iqe oi- not ton ry a uHrtaaotttol alltaacti, bal htg amy i nut nm of my tittle irttme m Btataat, Mr. Fiel threw the letter ott the ayrosusd,

THURSDAY, MAY

pounded it with his heel, buried his lace in his hands, and, in a tone ot agony which might have meltctl the heart of his bitterest enemy, exclaimed : M Done! " Chambtn1 Journal. FACTS AM rlttUKES. S2tTABn-TOXD boots are once more fashionable. TnFitr. are f,f."9 liquor and beer saloons in New York city. Quam ISAnKLLA, of Spain, has an inc une of two million francs a year. In twenty-three weeks there have been twenty rainy Mondays in Boston. Titkrb is a factory in London which produces 4o,()00 artificial teeth a week. Tran is only one town in Massachusetts that has not a church building. TrtK number of milch-cows in the L United States has increased 200,000 since 1860. It takes 1,200 head of cattle to supply Philadelphia with beef for a single day. PoTTSVILLU, Pa., is the home of a man who has been on a drunk for thirty-five years. TrrR Germans of New York have formnil a Pal Man's Association. A 265-pound-er presides. It If mid that oOO.OOO Californians are unconnected, even nominally, with any religious body. Six men, convicted of petty larcenies, were publicly whipped at Wilmington, Del., a lew days ago. Icr thirty three inches thick, and so dear that a newspaper can be read thmugh it, is a product of Minnesota. TriK whole number of Teasels owned in the United States is 2G,3'.il, the tonnage being 3,744,310 tons. The 2Vew Hatnpehift Gmefte is one hundred years ol I, and boasts that il never " missed " a publication day. Boston has had sixty seven marriages during the past year in which the grooms were under twenty one years of age. A London criminal has been Imprisoned three hundred times. ITe has spent forty years and eight months iu confinement. A COLOnsn pedestrian arrived at Lynchburg, Va., the other dav, after some twenty-live days' walk from New Orleans. Tram are 394 bulges' of Odd Fellows in Ohio. Their general fund amounts to $71 Ö 886, and the widows' and orphans' fund to $300,018. A Paris correspondent estimates that twenty thousand sane people are imprisoned as lunatics in France, simply to get them out of the way. Ao men, Ten i implements are beincc introduced throrjghoat New Zealand, and the culture of fi ix is an industry which bidfl fair to assume large proportions. A idVR lizard, five and a half inches lone was foemd, on a fXM )uortem examination, in th heart of an ox which recently died at Treir.ont Centre, Long Wand. A Mains burglar in prison recently gained possession of a hoop skirt, aud made the steel springs into saws, with Which he cut the bars of his cell window. IIkukaktkk. according to the laws of Mississippi, any person sending or aceeptinr a challenge, or second carrying a challenge, r any person going out of the State to light a duel, will be forever disfranchised. Brooklyn, Mass., has a "last year's" lamb the head id' which is put on upside down. It can turn it about half way around, and when it b ids it travels backwards. The animal appears healthy, and has a tine fleece of wool. Tiir leading job printers ot Boston have decide.', to keep a ldack book for each Other's inspection, w herein shall be rgIstered the name of individuals who neglect to pay their bills, or who order printing and never call for it. Tin: blasting of Blossom Rock, in the harbor of San Francisco, was witnessed by from 50,000 to 00,000 persons. Twentythree tOIS of powder were used. An immense column water, stones and smoke was thrown up about one hundred feet. In the square of St. M irk, at Venice, there is a clock, and two bronze men strike I he hours on a bell. One day an inquisitive stranger put his head between the hammer ami the bell, and the bronze man knocked his brains out DrjRrxe the quarter ending March do, 1S70, there were letters for warded from the United States for Europe, the postage on which amounted to 1 1 5,204.80, and during the same period, 1,317,854 letters were sent from Europe to the United States, postage, $124,095.15. A copy of 8poonmf$ Vermmt published at Windsor in 1891, has a communication which the editor pronounces crazy, and which suggests the feasibility of opening a road, or canal, for freight, "across New Hampshire and Vermont to the Pacific, or Western Sea." A Boston paper says: "Willi all our increase of population the past year the deaths have only been increased by four the total number being 5,523. Of this number, 1MU were by consumption, 291 by brain diseases, 140 by bronchitis, 17o by cancer, and 220 have died from accidental causes." "Arc motion Rnraa. A 'novelty has n ached London under the above appellation which is said to be an invention the cleverness, of which is unquestionable. Without any necromantic tricks, an optical delusion, pure and simple, IS produced. To all appearance a link is seen to traverse the whole length of a chain, but it does not lall on, ami whence it comes or whither it goes are inexplicable mysteries. Nnw Tom does about one eighth of the w hole soda water business of the United States. One thousand fountains are in blast in that city alone during the summer months. One store on Broadway sells, during the hottest days of the season, ten thousand glasses per day. It is computed that during the three hottest months New Yorkers drink two hundred thousand glasses daily. In a history of labor embodied in the report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is stated during the reign of Henry Vill. thirty-eight years the number of robbers, thieves ami vagrants executed in England was 72,000, or about SjOOO per year, and in the reign of Elizabeth " hardly a year passed by wherein MO or UM! ot them were not devoured and eaten up by the gallows, in one place or another." Pnor. VmOWOW recently delivered a lecture before the Berlin Mj dh al Society on the Siamese twins. In the course of his remarks he mentioned a case of twins who were grown together in a manner similar to the Siamese, but who had been separated by an operation immediately after birth by their father, a lr. Böhme, of QunsenhattSen, Nassau. The weaker of the twins died alter three and a halt days; the stronger äs now living, and Is5 years old. Thk I nited States mercantile navy on June d0, MU'.I, according to the monthly report, No. of the Bureau of Statistii amounted to 26.393 vessels, measuring 8,- ; I I 819 tons. Of those. New York own- . .,i;.i teasels, measuring 1,319,956 tons; Massachusetts, 2.879, measuring 471,642 Ions; Maine, 2,944 vessels, measuring 148,771 tons; Pennsylvania, 9,082 vessel-, DMasuriog 965,980 tons; Ohio. 1 128 Tea els, measuring 146,089 tons! Illinois, 8J7 v. sxels, measuring 12 1,030 loa -. Michigan, To'. ressels, measuring i 8,108 lona rhc reSBela temporarily registered numbered

Dem

26, 1870.

1,033, with a measurement of 401,040. makings grand total of the United Bietet mercantile navy at 27,4 '!" vessels, measuring 4,145 866 tons. Some twelve yean aeo a well known member of the Milwaukee bar, upon opening his mail one day, found a ten dollar bill in a letter. The letter was not signed, arwl s iid simply that the money riuht fully belonged t the lawyer, and he must use it as Ins own and ask no questions Hie lawyer did so. Ne. year about the same time, another letter, with another ten dollar bill and the same request, came; and every year since that time a similar letter, with a similar bill, ha reached the lawyer. Naturally he has felt some anxiety to know who the donor is, but nM his attempts failed, and until a few days ago, he was in ignorance. At that time a letter came with ten dollars and an ex pl nation. It seems that over twelv years auo the sender was in the city ; got into trouble, and could get nobody to defend him bt cause he had no money. The lawyer in question learned of the case, felt interested in b, defended the man, and got him d( ar. His bill would have been $10, and the client was bo grateful that every year he has sent as a present the amount of the fee. A Suggestion for BehsslWi TnEY have a delightful custom in the Swiss schools for boys, which miirht inadopted with great advantage to ali concerned in this country. During the weeks of the summer vacation, it is the habit ot the teachers to make, with their pupils, wdiat are called pefmms en zigzag : i. e., pedestrian tours among the sublime mountains and charming valleys of that li land of beauty and grandeur." Squads of little fellows in their blouses, with their tough boots drawn on, and knapsacks on their back, may be met, during the season, on all the highways, and sometimes in the remotest passes of the Alps, as chirrupy as the birds on the boughs, and as light and bounding as the chamois who leap from crag to crag. They are perfect pictures of health and happiness, and the treasures of tine siixhts that they lay up in their memories, during these perambulations, it would be dillieuit to de-scribe. We know of more than one tin bin that has scaled the summits of the Faulhorn, looked down from the precipices of the Bevent, walked over the frozen ocean of the glaciers, and gazed in rapture upon the sunsets on the J ungfrau or Mont Blanc Their tramp? are made without danger and without much expense, and the life is one ot incessant enjoyment and rapture. Putnam's Mnjmitie. The Ciirenlio -An Important covery. Ms "We Wrn from an extra of the St. Jo seph (Mich.) Herald, of the 1''U Inst., thai lion. John Whittlesey, Mr. Kansom, and other leading Crutt-growera of that Fruit region, have just discovi red a way by which curcubo may be destroyed iu al most unlimited numbers. The Herald states that on the morning of the 16th inst. Mr. Whittlesey called at that office, and stated that on the 14th inst. he killed 2,715 curculk) about the roots of 200 trees, and on the loth, in four hours, on t hesame trees, he killeel 1,566. Mr. Whittlesey also stated that Mr. Hansom, Mr. Bonelle and himself, In live hour-, had killed upward of -",000, in a portion of three small orchards. The manner of doing the work is as follows: Put the orchard iu Hiebest order; level down the soil about the root of every peach tree, and suiooth a circle for a diameter of two and-a-half feet from the tree aa a centre. Have the ground very clean around the base of the tree. Do not leave a single hole close to the tree. Leave no place where the cureuliocan hide, except under the shelter you provide for tin m. Tiien put close to the tree, and close to the ground about four pieces to the treeeither a chip, a piece of buk, or board, or lath, or rag, or corn cob, or old leather, or anything else, for a covert. The curculio will conceal themselres under this shelter, and may be destroyed by thousands. Go around every day, turn over each chip, and kill every curculio. They will generally adhere to the chip ; but may often be found on the ground under the chip. Mr. William ii Kansom has made the curculio and its habits a Study for many years. Last year, when hunting for the little turks, he discovered that they all dropped within two or three feet ot the trunk of the peach tree, aud sheltered themselves on the trunk, in the holes near the base, and the underside of the principal limbs. Some idea h the quantity of curculio which will gather on a single tree may be understood from the following fads: Mr Kansom says that on the 1 1th he took 25, on the 15th, 65, and tin the 16th, 0. Ol thn number, 41 were taken ia cluster under a chip, two by three inches. Be gives the following facts in regard to the batata of the curculio : In the fall they seek a warm and safe shelter to hibernate. This is either the ground, or leaves, stump -. Iol's, old fences, woods, and other congenial places ot concealment. The first warm day in spring that starts vegetable life calls the curculio forth, and it proceeds to its feeding and breeding ground. They walk very fast, and then By and feed generally at night, eating the young and tender leaves. They crawl on cokl days and nights, and hide Under the shelter of the trunk of the tree, wailing to Iced when the nights become sufficiently warm. The curculio uses the green peach only to hold its egg. It aotnetimea cats the ripe peach, also blackberries, quinces ami other fruits. Chicago JWMMS, May 18. How Is Trove an Alibi. DimntO the fate trial of Thomas Soffman, in the Anne Arundel County Court, for the robbery of the Barnden Bxpreaa messenger in Baltimore, an attempt was made o prove an alihi, anil a witness was examined who testified that Boflman had been with him the morning ot the rob bery, on K isl llaltiinore street. He ras cross examined by District Attorney Jsa. Kevel, Esq., and the following dialogue took place : Mr. Revel -How do you know it was the day ot the robbery that Holfinaa WSS with you? Witness I put it down. Mr. Kevel Where; in a liook or memorandum ! Witness No; on a piece of paper. Mr Bevel Where is the paper . Witness In my fCSl at home. Mr. Revel (handing witness a piece ol paper and pencil) Please show the jury how you put it down. Witness (confused, 1 put it down I put it down " 19th of .May." Mr. Kevel Well, put it down on this piece of paper. Witness I put it down simply M 19th of May." Mr. Berel WiH you show us how? The witness then, with great difficulty, made figures thai bore some resemblance to the figures 19, and evidently could not write. lie ban led the paper to Mr. Kevel. Mr. Revel Did you not put down May. too? Witness No; I carried that in my head. The witness retired, and" the ali'n was not proven. A KAan place to Ix; In dying, with no money, no property, no life insurance i luy in the IVaabingtoo late Insurance t ompanv, of New York -with a wife and small children.

OCRAT

NUMBER 38. The Eflfeeta r Cnewtaar and Mmshfag flow to Break the Habit. From a report of Dr Do Lewis' Ic lure on tobacco, in the Boston VowfrtgationaUt me take the following interesting -tat raeuts : Tobacco, in its twdinary stf tin " pings,1 which you have in your noek I is a powerful p'- 'on. Tt will do what o other po'son will do. I do not speal of the oil of tobacco. I do not cp,.:t'i: , nicotine, s single drop of which, out upon the ton rue ofs cat, will kill h.-r in twenty seaonds; three drops of which, nut op r the tongue of a bull-dog, a i'.l kill him so quick be will hardlv" re! o d of yoe; urtn In his struggles j and ten drops of which will kill a cow in:de of ten minutes. 1 am not talking erf thse things H1 all, though they are in tOhaoco. T am talkinp ot tnhaeeo m the form of the "plug." original Now let me suppose an experiment. I call from this audience a boy ten y arold, who has neve used tobacco. "Charles, will you beln US make an ex periment here to night ?" M Y s, sir." " ! will give you fifty dollars if you will ?e through it like a plucky man.1 "I will, sir." -The experiment is this.- There is s pice of tobacco, as large a? a pea. Pu that in your month; chew it; don't let one drop go down your throat ; spi' every drop of the juice into that spit toon; but keep on chewing; don't stop; just chew steadily " Before he has done wi'h that piece of tobacco, as large BS I pea. simply squeezing the juice out of it without swallowing a drop, he lies her upon the platform in a cold, death-lik perspiration; he von its the contents of aia stomach; put y a lingers upon hiwrist, there is no puise ; and so he seemfor two or three hoars as though he were dying, or, perchance, dead. Nov, gentlemen, no to your drug sfores. begin with the upper shelves, and tsk down every bottle, and then open even drawer, and you cannot find a linghpoison (except some verv rar ones, which yon never heard of) which taken into th mouth id' that ten ytar old boy, and no: swallowd, will produce these effects Tobacco, then, I repeat, in its ordinary s'ate. is an extremely powerful p' is m. Look into a man's m u'h who cheuu to banco, and see how red it is The tongue ia s i red that the doctor no longer appeab to it to determine the condition of th mans stomach, He can learn nothing ol it by examining his patient's tongue, if hi be a ehe Weg of tobacco. That congestion which produces the redness, extends little farther down than you can see, ami affects the speech. Dr. Cole and Or Waterhouse affirm thit they are never nisUkea in under! iking to dctermfa whether a public speaker be achewcr tobacco or pot, so peculiar is its tnflneaci upon the artientation. Bat let that past Smoking injures the teeth ; it pmdncef decay in the tein. Tt produced decay it. two of my upper teeth, and one un let tooth, before 1 bad any other decayed tooth in my mouth, by holding my pipor cigar bet wen tin m. It is not remark -able thai with the heat of ihe lohnten smoke and i's acrid poison, this inj irlou influence should be exerted npoa thteeth. But thai is no' bin.: com pared vith its influence upon th lunus. Put your hau I oyer four eye, fill your mouth with smoke, and then blow that smoke up under your band. Nov look in the glssa Bum rul the eye is: The tears run down the cheek; what ithe matter? There has been i powerful poison iu the eye. And yet, nu n whosi fathers and grandfathers have died of con sumption do not scruple to 8Ü down in a room wh" re tin re are a d n smokers, and smoke until it is all blue, t iking in lungful after lungful ofthat deadly poia m I believe with Dr. Waterhonse, that il young men would abandon cigars, consumption would be confined almost ei cHisively to women, am! in them be pro dnced by their unhappy state of dress. I believe the great Liebig. who says that of the German males who die between fifteen and forty, many die of smoking tobacco. Pass on to xfiu '!''. ft. In the first phtC , muffing spoils the voice. How strange ii is that any man should willfully changi bis vok'c, the ric icst music this side of heaven, into a Basal snarl by taking snuil into his nose! I tell you a man windoubts the doctrine of total depravity must be staggered by that fact, Besides, it prodncea headache and diseases of the stomach which nobody "m cure. I know I do but echo the voices of the wiseones of the world, when I say that this use of tobacco paralyses and deadens the moral sensibilities afanosl more than any other habit in which civilized men indulge. Gentlemen, I sdrise you to dean yourselves, and quit. I would give it up. It is a nasty, disgusting, ruinous habit. Itut somebody says: "I can1 give it up; I want to, and have tried, but I can't do it." Can't yo't t Then I wouldn't. But it you really are SO enslaved that you can not get out of your chains, 1 will hdpyou a lit le. Stop to night; don't use any t morrow. The first day will not be so Tery hard Von can get on pretty well the firsl day, as everybody knows who has been through the mill, as 1 have keen. The second day is pretty bad. In the after noon of ihe second day, your BUtlUiU J i a little doubtful; you can't exactly say whether it was two brothers or three brothers thai came over; you can't exactly say whether your grind fat her came from the Kast or the West w hen he Settled here. But be patient the second dav. Tec third morning conies the ttiur. Now go and take an old fashioned alcohol sweat. IMace an alcohol lamp under your chair, pot a blanket over ur should rs, an l sweat until your skin is fairly parboiled. Then you will be just as comfortable for one day as you could wish. Theie is no dryness Of the mouth, no disturbance of the secretions. You are ncrfectlg com fortable for one day. The next day you are in trouble again, but not so bad as the day before. Take another sweat; take even a third, or a fourth one. Sweating does not hurt people; sotnctiiins it M good fbr them. Take three or tour thor ough sweats, and then you will go off under easy sail, and will have no further trouble fnm your enemy. Simple Nature. Itannrn's Basar, treating of the effect of simplicity, in the Bsjdst of elaborate and expensive artifices, s'ays : Let a young wmuen with no hair but her own, and that I mply dressed, enter a roin with those whose le ads are elabor ately built up with a profusion of purchased locks, and see who will be most admired. It is a great advantage fbr a woman, in these days of an dice, to re main hersell, and thus be unlike every one else. A simple dress, white or b'ack, will produce the greateoi effect w hen surrounded by the most gorgeous e m tunics. These serve, as it were, as frames for the former, and women arc often foroed to confess thai they have draped themselves magir.heently. at an (SBHSMMS expense, for M other purpose than to In Iahten by contrast Um beauty of a rival in met, they hare been wearing a areas which is very la coming to others. A OKNTI.KMAN rcCCIltlv 1 1 it'll to sell. at. a Kew York Jewelry store, a beantifnl diamond ring Which he bad bought there a fen weeks previous, saying that, as the engagement was now broken off, he had no farther use fbr it in rowatdi raitoa of his sulb tings they allowed him halt price tor it. aji original portrait t Cromwell was lately sohl in London tor $a,0UU.

TWO FOKTÜNES.

BY AI.I S 1 O.T. " T?i rot atnore wine rehrr: smon? nototis mten of Swk : for o,e drunkard urt th flutnm -h:iU com- tn pove-rlv : una SnMNSaMi eüaU clotho m in with rat'? " Prov. xxiu , ). SL IH leg von two torture, ray fine little lad. For ou to Kernt nr reTam Th' ore of them yond. AS other on tiai ; Now hear them, and say which you chooae! I ma bf mv eft. within reari of your hand. A fortai e rieht fii' to Iwhold A h n so and a Itnnrtred ?ood acre of land. wnt aarmal Seles yMiow a? gold. I 9fo n uretC orohnrrt. the how hHgins- down. With apples of rn-?ct and red : I - ,. Srovi-s ofcstrle. tili- h'te and wmc hrown, hut all of th-m sleek lend wel! fed. 1 rp (tovi' unit wallows iil! ,10 hatS door. I Hie RmnVagtaSn trMrUag fo fat. i.t-r, who are t,r.hingU.c wh-at on tbe floors; And now the hiit'ht ptCUM i past f A-li 1 SM ri-:nir '.i-miUy nn Hi UM p' ice Of UM beaut 1 fa' home a)''. On" "'nid, a sma w;th a Swt red ease n St an, A: d a litre hrown Jag in hi hand! O i I If ran behest aba. mv hi, ran would wita TM he were It u rhi '. e : For his Hoot toes, UMy r ; : liks-- the month or a Sea, An3 ant rrensarssja sal at the knee I In walfcinir he ' aggi i BOW tie- wav. row that, f , r:- "v- th'V I HI ont ItkS n Mac ni h' newt an old reel aai n h . tiered iu hat, At.d I think that tt IM t ir OSS hael For jnr tssl mm th- drniikard shall come to be poor. And dr iWwiMCM r'o're TT'-ii wPh rar' : 't be eoeea't look anKfc Mae a mm. I am pore, Vho ass hanet a iri r-ih in his lues. Hmw wbtrb wTO warn eh be thrifty and nnst Ami lolv rt.-'e -id'- an I Oi your dih? orto ra arlta roar en - Ilka the eyes of a hn, Ami rear ihoe like the month of a fi-h r If VVIL Bavd Barry, throw ing down the shoebrnsh. "There, that'll do: my shoes don't look very bright. Wo matter; who cares v" "Wha'evor i worth doing, is worth loin? well," replied a serious but pleasant voice. Herrv itartod and turned around to see who Spoke Tt was his hither Harry Unshed. Iii sVner sal 1 :-" Hsrrv. my t v. your boots look wretched. Pick up ronr bmah and m ike them hine. When hvl ok as they should, come into the library. cS, pa," replietl TTarry, pmt'ng; and taking up the brnsh in no very g oi huaior, he brudte l the dull boots until thev shone nicely. When the boots were notkh id, he went to his father, who said to him : "My son, I want to tell you a diort t,rv. I oc.ee knew a pOOt boy whose mother tanrnt him the proverb, ' WhaS t,t is worth doing, is worth doing well.' That boy wen to bo a servant in a genlennn's family. He took pains to do v rrythin wed no matter how trivial it sermfd. IT;s employer was plenaed, and vk him into bis shop. He did bis work well tin re. When he swept out the shop, 'aedid that well. When he was sent on in errand he went qnkkly, and did his vork faithfaTly. When he was told to sake out a bill or enter an ace mnt, he dilthat well. Fitis nleased hU cm plover, so that he advanced him step Of step, umu ne nenne clerk, than a partner, and now a rich man, and anxious that his son Harry should learn to practice the rule which Bade hin prosper." ' Whe, pa, were you a poor boy once' asked II irrv. Ye-, mv son : c,i n'r tint I lind to en :nto a family and hl ick boots, wait on the able, and do other little menial services i'.r a Tiring. By doing those things trefl, f was BOOB Tut, aa I have told you, to to MiinL's nvre hnportant ObedhNSOS to the proverb, with Gkafs b'e.-iug, matie aae a rieh man." Harry never forgot th conrersaJtion yyinsncter he hit like dightingahitejf .vork, he thought of it, and felt spurred to do his work properly. "Whatever is worth doing, i wl.rth doing well," cheered aim in his daily duties. Alra.il Tapnr da line Ktory. Mu. Oxistl wa i u ewAuSlaslIt, earned, ynwna man who had traveh-i a good leal and had always been blessed by a cheerfnl disposition ami enjoyed Usehene8ta of cool audfety. Pasty 'n ne he nmaed a secret allachmnnl fht Mbw Hy IlOgen, a lady of rare ability and attractions, ghe was ot s fair crenpleiion, an elastic step, transp ir-nt spirit, and an aspiring disposition. Her nana had onrc t, sought by a green fellow by the name of Chloiine. Mr. Oxygen ptcssod his sail with great tr ior and" finally SttCC -led in getting the ittention of this beanttfhl belle They were Anally married by Iter. Mr. Chemical Affinity of the town of Physics. The happy couple embraced each other with are tt joy and fond demon-trations, on the redding day, and t--ars of rej acrng were the result. "Tin y lived a !ng and happy life ami had many children. T.iey called their children Drops. Oaceasthey arenssaatea in a carnage to take s ride, a fellow by the mime of Beat eases along and aroused the? fhsnBy into a great excitement, and they concluded to nen e rmt of their OM home, and -e v rm away and took up their abode on a hill Called Steam Then they took a ride in a balloon called Vapor to a counter by the name ot Cloud. Here thev met Mr. Wind who drove them into Rain, a rnaaD town situated in the country of Cloud. In irn at distress they met a man called John Frost, who Look pity on Hi"o, and give them a new suit of "clothes, very tine and white. These were worn out by apring, and thev were compelled to He down cold and md n oVd on the ground Afvr they had fallen as-hep, 14 bright-eyed ladv, named Iron, c awe along ami touched xvren gently on the shoulder, and awoke Tiim Fascinated be her appearance. Oxygen forgot his beloved Hydrogen, who bad accompanied him through so many dangers, and took np with Miss Iron! When the beautiful Hydrogen awoke, she was so overcome that she im n.cdiat'cly b-tt the country and went SS Heaven. ' - ' ' ' ' IngtiUans ETanfaasj Tie eves of one ot the brethren at Calvary charca were recently dosed. The trick was d- ne bv a Hutchman The brother had a honse to rent, it wa h a-.) iTUt. Kite to :i down town rrravcva d. The brother refused to rent il to a person having children. As the Dutchman had no less than thirteen of these expensive blessings, he was slightly nonplussed. Being htm If a member of the Church, it WM impossible for bun U lie, and so he did the next b, t thing he came Ouik.r over the brother. When making application for the house, he took srtth bun bis entire tr.be of olive branches. He turn. d them into the gi ivevard to play. H then opened up a negotiation lor the cc. upancv of the premises. vnkana tbe terms " " said the alvary. ' Yah, T know .ler terms " And you're satisfied with them'' "OslfaaVidT Yah ' You have no children?" "Mine chUdrena (with a sound that came as neir 60 a i buckle as to a sohl ish all over dcre in dnt graveyard." The Palihrnaa stdfy sasknhnl across the street. ' Poor fellow r Said the Calvary brother ; "fety mtiy kt you. Sign the lease, and here's the key." The other day, the Calvary brother called for his rent. He found one joungsb r racing through the ball way with the cal harnessed to a trying pan. while another was drumming ' Slno My" on the banisters with a pair of potato mashers. Fancy his feelings! A ten of death from ntsTTS&imi under rctlial ktble ein UUisUnees is reported in the New .I rs. v papers A young man of lb igen l it V, a few weeks ago, waa told that a fatal tumor was growing and pressing against his entrails and that he would slena to death. There aas no Mirgical remedy, a nothing could bux-b-fully remove ihe canceroos nicer. raduady it eom pressed the twtsHage wav, and then difwnthna SSunmta an.l Ktarvalkm erjfcilcd.