Plymouth Democrat, Volume 16, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 September 1870 — Page 1

POETRY.

rOUTHS1 DEPAKTÄtNT.

MY LOVE. My love s pde, bu in her cheeks K.tin'. roey ilahe- com: and c, Tat gather -ligtr y wBMtslM .-peafca, Aua iom,.?inie.' oeepn to & ow. Sie seem'1 most lifee a yosag while rose, W tma wnwe heart a b ush is set, Bof.'.y unfolding as if $ro tabu; ah, I km do: found tier yet 1 II I r eye are Iie euch weet fetes eyee! Hr unitl iid veil them f -'.m joa: sibt, Bat now and then a smili will rte. Ana fill them -utideidy wi'h heht; And vut-d ehr iuirs of some CMrese, Axd on ths li'he tears a--e wet, Th-iy loo with such jialued tenrtrnvjr? üiu ah, I ij,-.Te not loand her ye: I Arrom tier hrr.w in ev- n b.-r.'ds wvaoetkly laid her gk wkj tey'r; M love ! is r.vt d of no la.- . if. O. tricks i f ri'cs, to n :ko U.-r fdr. 6h-j d'ies no' D -cd i,-m nttea train. A gQZ torn gteeVy 10 gat; In her f: hom-ly dre.-s sie reigns U Jl ah ! 1 hBM not bund h C yet She win? ynr heart a hnndr-, ;1 waj 9 Laynr :. fkt ban 1 oa y ur.tr.n," 8liiw-.' iii i he don uH n$a A move do er'-n: :;! Cftakm M.vicg a'-out WitaQakd rao ; Sura iitt c tMagfl you eoca f jret, Altn. tt-jh ta y s eal your km a'r:Hv ßut ah, Ihava no: found erye' ! Her'mne lr tnv b- ar: 1 wen,; My leva my faitu. I all 1 at own : 1 Baäp BM 1 in p - -psf d tot l er w h.n aaaaHa l eaaai aad t&ke r"-hnae. 1 dn.aa af wcat 'h a v .r d will p' cm - mcf h more, bright When we h ve m?t ; I wocd. r. b)B ii . (beam For ah I hV4 no- lound her vet '

m mum urjar lit u CHAEtSSAL'S C05FECTI0N, Many years ago, there liVud ia Lor, Franco, wealthy we-wer, who" one bright cay met wirh a great misfortune; wh;c'i waa no less than the laaa of two valuable servants. They BUddettiy di3apTxred together, and all inquiries and starch for the in proved Utterly Iruitltss; tad, isd m sd, itj weJ had their tracks been covered bx It wi? impossible to r?ce theni t'f J oL(i ntighborinr corner not Hftv yar.ls from the hou8 3. Tiiey n'traotrd' my ar'icles of mine S.T.& r tnvc.ienci1, such as lir-n, Virku3 ut..ü&i!s, bottlei rf iquor, etc.. and ajior,g the ret a try of ton years CC ago, th cegltcted and disliked fOUfCM of the fumiiy, He vus nuny, nt'-e, 4 apWtkm an ! k-U out wilh hia rekti -r.s the moment he appeared amort th; tn, by r:vi:r h;3 cV.ow "heart ia &I1 its CHUrt-ty to ),n soft-bacd, ki-d -Uw one, y.-h. r w I cr pert recipiecittd as well fii a woman eoald who hid received hun dredl of srch eafeetkm in her i(rjg expI joe, hut oniy to aea theai fade and die Wkea tho g-vors of theai were p.'ile to Read air.no. Thorc ws a fftel hue and cry nwd ill over the Empire, and all north oif proceedings put into operation lor the captu;c of the departed trio; hut vr.-cks, th-n moatlw, and Hardly years elapsed, and the recurrence faied into aomelking dim with a f-w. and with the rnij rUy was lost altogether. The aflk-weaver, taerefbre, who was mormoxulj wealtliy, continued to give ivis fsm sua S.tnday dinner to h's sect pny of kliow-epicures, who declared that they nthcr liked ti.e change in the eonfci aptmiae whole, th uoh they frequeatly coBftavad. lo hi& gtdiacrülort, thai t'10 laaof of p,mti little ish only aaggeated the saddening merrir.ry of what tt might have been. Barring this drawback, raatter3 fwHimod m'tch aa they wan before ; the vacancy BUdf by the p.b-xnoe cf the sod, however, was not plied, as his mother died in ti-äü him binh. 'ine four years aft-r the crsarp-o. r as c, a baker and pastry-cook named 'Ii irmmlj who resided and kept his shop in a snant atreet ia London, which we will esü JetWKJU street, suddenly sprang KatoBol rirtyaad Buae. By saying sud"denlv, it not ia fatteaded to convt-3' a ?renchrcars idea of the time in which it u p"ssibe to achieve a city-wide reputat n. namely, twenty -J.-ur hours or a week, but the man stable or merited celebrity which Bkay be ob:ainc4 aoiODg Englishmen ok is äarrinani ia eight mont"j or a year. That ChibtlMal hI obtaiucd his deeaif Iny and secureiy, thtr ran he no m-4nn?rot doubt; fir hi3 cu lom, btginTiicgand rnavttaaiap; for a long tiiue ia t- purch.?e3 of two or thr:e 5'.ores'of pe p!', suddenly bBtaed into tho..e of a s;ore ot L mdr 'ds, aud from ten in the tnornincj un'i! four in the afternoon his lit ie shop wa- thronged. The great body r f the crowd came on foot, but there wa a andtfeade a m who came in liveried carriages, which were required by the police to take their consecutive turns, thus Baking a iine which often extended for blocks. The people on the siic-walss tx t? obliged to make a cordon which genera iy w is aood natured, if customers in advance maüe tiieir purch-ists quickly; Hadtha adv.-nt of every one bearimr in hi-j 11 ir.ü L . the well-knows pure, whitepapaied pane, with hi net.t pin ribbon, w-ts a si.aal t r a snvthe.-.;d cheer orai elappiai ot hands. H aaetiaaei there vere wi-Anioa an i qnarxela, but the peon e were m -Hly too busy with their caleuiatioaa f then chncea, and of the probab'e holding out of the desired article, to have amweh to hay. Tj:s article was a pastry for dessert, and which Cbabjiaeal had receiyel from a a idea :. I C n. ;idera'lv e;n!v lliehed f.n 1 pieced beTore the public. Ta-wflky erai h d ia its different pirr3 no iesj, than three distinct aad dolicate flwors, while the creamy interior, wilh its browned Mfingut, was probably the most divine offerLag man's palate ever apprc ciated. The compoeiUoa oi this was Chabaaealfi peeftal work, ani was rirried on in a little cabine with locked door wbch. led eaTfroa hü Utchea. He was obliged at flnl to d.uble the number of his j ourneymcii in order at pgepare the required amount ot palry, and fi mlly buch was the incre-e of his business, and the ha paratifi aad constantly incrvasing deaaejada of the pubi'nj, that ha was obli. 1 1 agin to d.-ub"e hia frce. V I ri a PreBchama'i true tact and foresight, he flatly dedSned to remove to a larger and more ele .nt plce, though oftea prtscd to do go ;.y t ,-.( o i.-y Vd ' j who iove to ooddle an POTtVa man' s tcc ss, particalarry it it .s's .hem not -ing. He w-vs acutely aware that he value of his dessert was much enhanced by the humbleness of the eratatef 07er which it wa? sold, and that hia trade would suffer no diminution were his customers forced to tell their friends tha. such deiightfl were only to be had in an faaforioK street acd at the nrpnaati of some tnmhla Hfl thamloie remained stead atly in his fifteen by thirty ihop, wih noa-sis-taatbatth-t ol his cheery, nimbi; w:f", w .tcbieg the incrracing erowdl with a Ii? t a Bwtiiini neau ana vaterirrg eye, and mo -.n while growing rapidly rich. On the evening on wh;ch he at first becom8 of interest tc na, be i s'anding in h:s aot.u8tomed pHce behind his counter, with his ands in 013 waistband, for it is long past the hemr whm his iat nper.iiliU Wr;s --.rrtü : red to devouring hands, and he has notbin? now lo do but to supply an occasional dropper-ia with hiu tea ih(i or han 'u' 01 ' . . Chabr. -sal wha a larjre man, dressed c pieb ly in white, witn hi i head sur m iialtd with a huge cook cao, the top of wh.ca he aflectedly wore inclined to the ncht, which gave him sjmothing the appearance of a thrice bleached Highlander. He had a sinootb, full, rewind lace, with small, brown eyes and red lips. His dr ss and ekin had a floury appearance, as Well as his eyelashes and hands, but, as thil Was in consonance with his buinets, co on: , objected. His wife stood by him, E Utting various packages into a large sket, which being arranged to her satisfaction she pushed over to a thin, sickly looking, hollow-eyed boy, who aei -d u bravely, aa if in a hurry to begone. " Well, young spiJcr legs!" cried Chi-bu-a', gruffly, " what have you got?" "Everything, sir," replied the boy, hesitatingly, moving slowly away. Hive you got Perrin's roll?, J Arnold's Creame ikes, and Purdy's macaronies, eh T The la-i received a snrreptiticai.s nod from Ch'.bussal's wife, and he r plied instantly ihit he had, and followed it up by asking timidly if he nuplit be gone ten minutes over his time. Hi had never asked such a question before, and was led to do so now by a fancied humor and good nature ia hia n aster's rare induJ-

VOLUME XVI, jjenc in oalltsg him by any oth r name than idiot. As soon as Clutboaaal c ald recorei from Iiis surprise and iadlgnaUoa, he leaned over the counter and ihook his let a' Irra. " No, sir ! If yoa are not here on aar lime, I'll CIÜ je isr hea l ? ! " 'All right, air," u lined the boy, meekly, bu-, with a loach of deep disappoint mcnt. " Do you mean that it will be all right for bm to cut your head off, or that you will be baek T I iba! Certainly be back." Chatmaaal then nodded significantly, and the boy that the door be lane biuiand went away. Thcv belfifi nothing pr tien ar to co, dhahwaaa fell to maano 5 which emyloyment alio engaged hij wire, aad they both gaaed at the door three h whicn the lad had pns3ed, it being the kst thing wöich attracted their atte&tkm. Chabaaa al oi'ginally might have been , very delicate and refined chiM in his feelings and spirit, tut, as he quitted that stage of his growth and became a boy, he alaoquitSed hi Innocence ; while the ianoctnee f. i the proportional liucriess of hia ch-racter at that age were duly cv chaaged for c.wser grades as his bulk and stature ircrcas.-d : and, therefore, when he linilly inat the poetry of hia form, tad became the giant, that he ws at nreaent, he also exchanged all the poetry cf his soul 'or a manntr commoi: among swine aud brutes. "Annette," growled he, presently, "whet a aaeaa we made of bringing that j-oung rubbish from France I" " Pe: baps if we had given him the fine dothea and horaea, and chambers we promiaed, ho would not look so longingly back at those "which he lelt," replied ah , sturdily. "But the rpeenlatioo looked fA;r, did it not? True, ne was no great favotite, but public opinion ought to have male them offer a decent reward ; but, j ist think of it only rive thoaaand francs for their 0 fa Bean, and blood! the inhuman brutes!" His wife give him a sidelong glau.-, while a smile cros.-ed her lace ; but he was perfectly horn st. "He is a weak one," observed Chabassal, redectivriy. "Yes; but he is growing and will soon be Btr mg. And, mind you, I love hint, ii you do not; on.y he ought to have been a girl, and not be obliged to become great monster like yoursvlf." " You are complimentary," returned the other, wiih a gruct like a pig. II a then looked vacantly before hioi for some moments, as if thinking. " Ann Ue, you noticed that he taken me a favor tonight?" Bha nodded. " Th?.t his given me a hint that the boy is growing, as you fi".y. Now what do you think ot sen-ing him back to France, if they will pay us for the trouble of finding him! For, you iee, if we do not, he will be starting oil' on his own Recount, one of these fine days, and so prevent us from turning an honest penny." 1 he idea waa a new one to both, and they looked at one another, a little startled. Bd 're eithi 1 c i ld again speak, a man entered the ahop, and, approaching the counter, made a purchaac of Rome jelly. He was us atont aad aa heary aa uhabnaaal himself, b".t appeared to ee a gentleman He wa florid aad w;re glasses, and had t.n atremety gentle voice, which induced aaadame to look at him twice, whereupon he went and haatirj concealed hen f bhiad ihe screeu oi her desk, trembling bic: a loaf. He turned to Cfteptut, um. larr.ed to Ohabusaal, with a smile. "Sxcnse me, ' nud he, "but I should like to aak you three qnestiona, which I invariably ask all Frenchmen, Did you e7erhearof a penOB whose true name w-.s Joan Vrcet," (Chabussal nearly tank npOD the floor), "a woman named Annette Ncir, or a JOUng boy named Brueat Nhrdin r" Chabussel itealthily glanced towards the de$k, shaking nis head thoughtfully. No. he never had. "Pardon ine for asking," said the straiigr; "but I have an excellent reason, i am at this m ment engaged in searehieg for ihe b"y, who was abducted or seduced from home by the other twn, and who h -s become extremely rich by the death of his father by over eaiim, or, BBOre politely, by apoplexy, ar.d the dea -e of the remaining children by indigestion, induced by the habit of trying j hwpoaaible diahea invented by the parent. I am si) mt despairing, f r the wretenca have hidden him. It would be a fortune for his reetor r." Chahussal moistened hij Vry i:ps wiia his tongue, and when he could tnut himself to speak, asked, with the Iea3t posaib:e interest in the world, how much that might be. 4 Almost anything," replied the other, oponir gthe door ; "anything the lucky fellow w.uld mind asking. Adieu ! I will come to-morrow." "Annette ! Annette !" roared Chabussal, "who the devil was that!" PaIc as a gnost she cimc from behinJ her hiding place, wringing her l ands. "Oh, tha is our master's b aom-friend, M. Viol, aa 1 he is coming again to-mor-row They ioo'te 1 at one another in astonishment. Avarice burst into GlatbuaneTa faceii the t hape of a 3mil-. and ha cl&pped his han ds with a aounding blow upon his D-ps, which resulted in enveloping him in a cloud of flour. Bef .re be ;, .1 ap tk, the boy returned fr.-m hia errand, euterieg a little more hurriedly than p-u-d, which fict was by no m- ai ia f at opon the other tvvo, and he wasordered tocloae the h-p instantly, v, hile they retir:d to the bacä parlor a couple of oonapirators. The boy apfUUg to ids v.-ork with the air of one who had Bomething to eonuau nteate or ask, on its eompletiou. His shutters flew i.;To their places with an unexample 1 rapidity, his wrappiag paners were quickly arranged against the . vrrow, ids dour looked, his gas extinguished, all in half his usual tin.e, ana he presented himself to bis two frienös. "Madame," no aaked, "who was that gentleman who just left herer" ili.T queation was answered by Chabus sal, who turned upon him savagrly, and gare him a blow upon the head which sent him flying half senseless into.a OOTnur among some dn.-'.t pans nl hruahoa. "Why did you do that?" demanded madame, fierc; iy, f ChabussaL "Can't you eve how small he is? how thin his legs and arms are ? that hia head is no bigger than your two lists? I wish the 1 1 - had you !" Chabvsal, standing over the prostrate boy, did see it apparently for the drat liana in hia life ; and stooping, he raised him to his arms by the collar, and went and sit down by the tire. One of the :-!iibtleHt powers which Nature bestows upon U3 is tnat of touch and contact. Chaoussal never felt its influences until the moment he placed the lad's head upon ht3 shoulder, and put his huge arm about him. It reduced him to silence, and, in gazing over the boy's head at the fire, his lips slowly sank upon Ms smooth hair, and there they rented, w oile he thought if it would pay better to lie kind to him or to be harsh; touch wishing it cnll be the former, now that he f.a.d if S' pleasant. He so decided, and he looked downward at the quivering eye ids, and he saw tears tremSiing upon the n. "Ernest," Baal he, in a wlmpr, "what arc y .i thinking about?" "Of dear France," murmured the b y, with a low Bob, 'ne tears breaking l hemselves on Cbaliussal's hand. Madame came and stood by. "And, supposing I thought of sending

you back to Franco, what would you do for mo f "Oh, monsieur." eri d the boy, raising hiins.lt and loosing Chatajaaal in the lace, "I oould worabip you ! You are not plaguing m are you ' ' Voul 1 ou teil two lies to get back to France and be ii h? ' " t wo i:e i" repeated the boy, In atton ijhment ; "will they hurt uy one?" "No," fr.iu CliH'öif- vi, "not in the lea3t merely for form'fc sake." " Well," r. j rined the boy, after a long pause 1 for turn's fake, I think I would! What arc they, monsieur?" "I will te:l you to-morrow, Ernest," replied he, smoothing the boy's hair with his enoaiaMMM palm, "and to-morrow you utuat not fctir out of this room. I was wrong to stride you ; I thought you were impertinent. Tust wretch that you saw go out of the shop a moment ago, is the lax colle ctor." at. onlin.l V. lnUl Uia t.,o.t UM 1 iib itiLu tue tjui .uj , uic ui.au uiieu with tne visions of home; "I thought he looked like M Viol." Wary Jhubussal ! Wary madame ! Could the tax-collector have looked in upon you and overheard your council, wheic an ingenious net-work of falsehoodd was agreed upon, by which the boy was to be turned ovrr to nim for a frightful sum, I much doubt if he would have thought you far removed - Irom a pair of knaves. A m thical friend, an acquaintance, waa to appear upon the scene in nanm; Chussal was to recall to hi3 memory that this personage knew of the wbereaibouta of just such a triumvirate as M. Viol deacriDed. Ue wa3 to agree to put himself in communication with this party, and, after many terrible risks and frightful tr nblea, was to produce the boy ii on the payment of the stipuiated sum. Early on the morrow, Ions fa iore the etist mary throng began, 3i. Yol presented himself. Madame precipitately retired behind the screen, and her worthy husonnd, fat, good natured, and in immaculate while, lied for twenty good minuter aecoruing to the plan. M. Viol became mucn exeited, and leaned upon the counter with a pair oi eyes fixed upon Chaoussal, in a manner which made it extremeiy tliilicult for htm to retain his presence of rind. Aain, in the afternoon, M. Viol came this time, of course, a' ter the throng had disappeared. Ha aaturally grew more 1 miliar with Chabussal, and began to ask questions which were very annoying ad displeasing, so much so, indeed, that Cabus al tldly declined to answer some ol them, it would never do fox either to quarrel, and so they begged each other's pardon, and became civil again. M. Viol's refrain was, "Tüeboy! the boy, at any price 1" Chabussal's was, " The difficulty, the distance, my friend I ' Madame and he had agreed that the already tremendous pr cj might possibly bei: eaacd by dallying, and therefore they raaoleed to avi id closing the con tract until they ha; reached the very end of the rope; as it was, howevei, they shook hands and embraced in their chamo. r, and c BC cied more falsehoods. Tue more eager M Vi I became, the more obstacles they pretended to find in the way oi producing the lud. It M. Viol became vexed, Ohabuaaal became ead at his want of confidence, and aasnred him, with hia hand upon his hart, that he was moving heaven and earth. On the nxt day an incident occurred whieh nearly sent Chabussal into convulsions. 1L Viol was present in the Bhor In the evening, aud wao louKCO up m With o.vvyt wtu u nm mlaiSAnce as would t'e bi Btowcd Upon a royal ugcr. He aaid he was very lired, m wished to knov if Obabuaaal would loan him his boy for a moment to letch a pair of shoes irom a neighboring shop. " 1 regret to say I have no boy, montieiir," responded Chabus3al, promptly and politely. " Why," 3poke up - an old woman, who was purchasing some rolls, "have you discharged that pretty little Ernest ?" "Hist!" whispered Chabussal, savagely. "Hallo!' said M. Viol, coming near; " have you a boy named Ernest ?" " I one a had aa ugly lout oftbat name, but I dismissed him for drunkenness. Here, wit I cr., is your bread. Get along !" Ciibussal reported thta to madame with chattering teeth, and ahe advised him to teli M. Viol that he would find the boy on the next d iy, aud beco.etent with the Bum he waa wflting to give for the service. For, ahe urged, an accident might reveal Ernest at any moment, and it were better to be sure oi a generoue amount than try ior a larger one, aud run the risk of losing the whole by deary. Af'.er much discussion, Chabussal, with a algh aaanutort. saying thit he h id bit one wish and that W .s to get the. oil wodur ba his kitchen for ten minutes and he would teach her to hold her tongue by giving it to her in her hsnd. The b! it day was ore of great events, and M. VL1 again pnucintnd mmarilf at the usual hour in the morning, as civil aud pleasant aa ever. xN early the firit thing lie did, after 'alking mceesautly about Ernest for fifteen minutea, waa to produce another tumultin Chahaaaal'a breast, an I make nearly another rjpturc. Chabusaxil delcrmiued to watt untü the atteraoon, before oüeriug to produce the boy, as it was barely possible that M. Viol, in his despair, might betempU d logo deeper Into hia purae. Hut M. Viol, apparently, had no such intention ; and after chatting and sighing for a while, he ashed lor a gl M o! Water, and immediately jumped to bia feet, saying that he would not think oi tronbling Chabuaial bat would get it htmaelf, and proceedea toward the rear aparttneat, to thabussai'a conaternation. As soon aa he could maett r his tongue, he begged him to stop ; but M. Viol k apt on. " I order you not to touch that door f thundered Chabussal making toward him. " My ite i there ; she is a disfiibilU." M. Viol Instantly apologised) and sat down with an unconcerned air, which c intrasted strongly Wi-,h Chabussal's heat and rage. A word here about M. YiolT8 imperturbability. He hfvd bctn some sort of a diplomat, ia a lar,' v.. y, in his own country, and was wed used, therefore, to con c aim mt, when ret U waa expedient to luable power. It waa afterward found that, by a'l reason and probability, inch aa occäaloa preeented itaelt at the exact mooaent when he wan prevented from rushing into Chabussal's bu k chamber, and 'hat, despite his calm c mntc nance, M. Viol was on lire Internally. 'This was the result ot a habit he had of wearing his ees open, according to his education, and Of reversing the usual order of things by considering every human being a plotting scoundrel until he proved to be otherwise inclined. The particular impulse which put his soul and suspicions in arms in this little entanglement was the aceidcntal sight of a stray napkin, which lay upon the counter during one ol his visits, and of which there is more said farther on. Thia affair of tbe glaai of water threw both the baker aud his wile into a fever of anxiety, and they wished heartily that the incibns was ifT their shoulders. It so happen-.d that tho day was stormy, and, H'thou'h th" r wd which came to buy Chabussal's dessert was immense, and seemed larger t han ana il, snch whs really not the tact, i ad .or the tir.-t time in hi life he had a tew of his dk)BMM left oyer. He tore, aw that such Would be the fact, and he stopped selling at a very early hour, with the cu. tomary Baaaoo that he had Bold OUt iliac day's quantity. This the assembled people, to the ex tent of someihing like fifty, positively refused to beiieye for Chabuasai'a little

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trick was rather shallow, after all and the fifty tirevi raen, drenched with rainwater, pounded at hladoora and nhutter? with a vigor which was unprecedented. They hung about, hoping, as crowds al w"ays hone, that pn-Vy ?oon something would appear to ntlsfy t'.em; and, sns tained by their own shouting and clamor, ih'-y raued inch a tumult that Chabussal and madame looked al one another several times in alarm. B tt thc-y bad many other things to thirk of, and ts s'"on as M. Viol presented himself, nearly torn to piece1, Chabussal admitted bi n, and paid but little furtler attention to what was going on outside ; and there fore the noise crew fiercer if anything. As for If. Viol h.iw Chabussal and madame watched his temper I nothing could be more suave an 1 polite, and the two exchanged looks of great gratification ; and Chabussal made up bi3 mind tO make him a present of one of the remaining Eugenie, which, I forgot to mention, was the name Clnbussal rather ostentatiously gave bi3 piece of cookery. After the lunch was to come the subject of the boy, und the definite naming' of the reward. Matters were in good trim, and Baadaare gave Chabussal many encours:lag nullea from behind her screen, while M. Viol sat with crossed legs, licking curiously toward the closed door in the rear. "Monsieur' said Chabnss.il, when all was ready, "if you will pardon my ego tism, may I ask if you ever heard ol ni; c oking?" He produced his dessert upon a napkin, and hid beside it a silver spoon of peculiar shap. In his character of epicure, he had invented an instrument resembling a toy fire shovel, with which he recommended his vr ealthy customers to eat his pastry, as he imagined it wa deHrabio to escape the vulgarity of a common implement, such a3 he conc-ived a spoon to be. M Viol arose with a glistening eye, and placed his umbrella in the corner ; for the dish looked particularly rich and delicious. " I perceive you are a gentleman of delicate taste, and so I venture to csk your opinion of this little trifle, which is entirely and wholly ol my own concep tion." Here the huge, white, fljury, Chabussal opened bi hands, and bowed, while M. 'i -l toyed a moment with the well the spoon. He p accd hia hat upon te counter and his left hand behind him, while wiih a neat eggshell tap he shattered the upper cru3t. With a s iloirn face, he slowly rained a trifle to hü mouth, and closing hia lips upon it, looked thoughtfully our of the door. For a moment he was silent, and then Irs head turned about, with a lingular, smiling expression in his face. Without a word to Chabussal, who looked on curiously, he tasted another bit, j and seemingly became more singularly j pleaaed than before, lie tartcd this last repeatedly and caref"ily. He bent his j head in the manner of one who had for- I gotten something, and slowly tapped his teeth with the spoon. " Bring me a glass of water." Chabussal obeyed, wondering at the tone, and set it beforo him ; and he raised his mouth. HltfliMa T .,-., .'S 4VOa Kofv- " , neu; u.vj i kaoieu nils wiuici whispered he, with a sharp glance up- j ward. V'a,buotal turned to a deathly white, andglAfeu ,. , 4V M. Viol i piuo- i another snoontui ort Tii and then auother, in quick suCceaiion. Tims far he had tailed, and he drink more water. He then took more of the pastry, allowing it to rest upon his tongue while he held his mouth slightly open. Suddenly his small eves shot around at Chabussal, while ht3 fice became purple, and he stamped upon the floor. He wheeled about before the frightened baker, and violently cut the dish in tw ; and, throwing halt upm the counter, seized a spoonful from the very centre, and thrust that into his mouth. A few seconds elapsed, during which Chabussal's knees sank uu der him, as he beheld the furious gestures an i the workings of ML Vici's fr.ee. Fres ently he dashed the cpo n upon the floor. "X have eaten hat selfsame dim art at the table of M. Nardin, in Lyons !" shouted he, in a thundering voice. 'No cook but his eyer made it; and you r.re thai c k the thief tbfl abductor of Ernest. Your name is Jean Verne !" M. Viol's eyes started from 1Ü3 head, and he ibook Ids fists across the counter, wit a a purple face. "Where is the woman Ar, netto Holr The boy wacre la the boy ?" Qock as thought, he turned and sprang to tue outer door, and withdrew the bolts, and threw it wide open to the futoiug, preaaing people without ; and th n turning upon his heel, he rushed at the rear door, and kicked it in with his foot, and disappeared. Ohabuaaa was instantly hemmed in by the irrupting crowd which fiung itself hea Jlong into bis shop at d filled it to overfl wing. They attacked him with a'l sorts of abuse aud cries of anger, Which rapidly augmented in force, until a moment more of than WOuld have had them turning bh place inside out. He stared at t hem w ith ehatt ring teeth and a very white face, listening to some faint cries aud contusion which ho could hesr through the partition in spite of the hubbub about him. All eyes Were upon him, and sll the rouih Voices were directed at him ; and I regret to s:y that some lew Batfl wore shaken at him. The fatal door to the chambpr suddenly I pened, and M. Viol plunged headlong at the aatoniahed mass, until he got a foot hold wh' re all could see him. no had dropped his eiiplomatic c ldness, and al low d hii natural anger to fly wherever it would ; ami therefore it lit upon Chabuasal as a matter of course. He j imped upon a stout shwlt acd fiercely addressed the people. Ho recounted the true his lory of Chabussal his pos'oion, his abuse of trust, hii tnett, his abduction ot a child, his mercenary motives, and his continual deception for the purposes of further extortion. He approached a towering climax by the moft vivid pictures; ami, as he ended, he c .ught the cowering, fright aned boy in his powerful arms and held him up to their view. " Behold him, weak, puny, uneducated and starved ! And now cast your eyes on that yonder pile of brutal muscle!" Here he shook his hand towards the breathless, terriii. d Chaoussal. "Look at that fist, that eye, that whole ponderous Mountain if cruelty and meanness. Heboid your innocent paetry r .k, bi floured, modesl, and ingenious the inventor of a cake, and the hider, the stealer, the beater of a poor, paren.leR8 boy like this!" A tremendous tumult instantly broke out, and a rush was made for Chabussal, who hugged himself in a corner. "Waul wait!" cried M. Vh again; and they became silent for a moment. "Chabussal," continued he, "your skill your confection has ruined you. To day I should have paid you twice your pries for Ernest; but Providence and jroui cookery have at once saved your sou! and my franc3 Adieu, you devil ! and tell your woman that she should have been careful to cut M. Nardin'a crtst from his napkins bclore she left them lying about so careieialy. Adieu, Chabussal! Now, good people," said M. Viol turning to them. "I have done. M. Chabussal can have no further uso for his utensils, his furniture, his lUturce) or anything, ex 0( pt his Ufa and an BBUfUJatd skin. If i costs you anything to start him again in life, witu no incumbrances but thos; two, I will cheerfully pay your expenses to the last penny. Oome Ernest."

He took the boy in his arms, and hurried away amid the choers of tbe crowd. Aa he disappeared, the cheers turned to groans and cries of execration ; Chabus aal'a shop became a Beething vo'cano of dual in a doi n seconds - a terrible uproar of breaking wood, cracking glass, shiver ing panes; a TolumnioOJ sound of oaths, cries, cheers ; of ripping and tearing; of disintegrating thumps, clows, and thrusts an 1 a general uproar of destruction. Ten minutes found Ghabueeal without an apron, a ctp, a s'Ädiet or a saucepan. They huatled him into the street, bare headed, and covered with grime, where he found madame, who had save! nothing but a bail of twine. Together, the look d at it aignificantly, but thought better of it, had it been charcoal, it might have been different, aud, though it set wicked 'o hint it, perhaps much better; for to day Chabussal is a journeymanbaker of bad reput e, and madame a laundress of worse, and as the days go, their Mtuationo and proc!i7ities intensify visibly. Appleton1 Journa7. aTiBflaTJ. A TfBflTHi ITEMS.

A Light Duikk Benzine. The Raw M.vtkhial, Underdone steak. The Draughtsman's Peueii-vauia. A Prrcnno Battle A two tar j. Paradise liiht between Coi. Fisk spent $850,000 pocket money last year. A Motto fou an Arab Tribe Up and lie douin. A bihd on the roast is worth two on the roo: . DnitoxiNo men, like drowning men, catc.. at s:raws. Russia punishes drunkards by making them sweep the streets. Lord Palmkkston once defined dirt as "matter in the wrong place." The Grand Jury of Baltimore report'.-! be ball as "onoot the gradations of crime." Of what feminine creature are you reminded on the completion ot a building t A house-made. Up to the lt of September nearly 7,000 persons had visited the summit of Mount VVaabington, this year. BOMKüODT has di.-c -vered that in forty years a muff taker devotes twcnty-Lur mon'hs to blowing i-is no. e. Ttikee young countrymen were fined ten dollar! each a few days ago for loitering upon the atdw walk H at U ston. " "Waiter, this bit of turbot is not as good as that you gave us last week." vVaitcr "Beg pardon, fir, it's off tho very same fl:h." The Lewiston, Me., Journal says there iR little boy attending a grammar school in thaf city, thirteen yearj of age, who weighs 165 pouids. Patience is exemplified in the man who left ids wagon while the horse balked, and jat on a slump and read thy Bible till the animal was hungry enough to go home. A journal aakfl what ia the difference between a soldier and a fashionable young lady ? and replies, " One faces the powitr, and the other powdera the hce." "It is a curious fact," says some c-nto-nologist, "that it is the female mosquito that torments in.'' A bachelor Says that Cbkyisnä is wic-e years old, aiKi tut its 4,00 J inhabitants has a Methodist, a Congregational, an Episc niiao, x Presbyterian and a Roman Catholic church. The Boston rout is responsible for the statement that the ntocqoitoea now cjusing the Eog'dsh people so much discomfort arc marked and branded " i.tw Jersey." The State Prison at Auburn, N. Y., has 900 cells, and tnere is a new extension now being built, w hich will contain an aduiional 30v. The prison was founded in 117. The Louiovillo Courier says there is a Servian Prince iu the Prussian arm whose name is bo long that a company of engineers have been ordered to level down the consonants and use it as a pontoon-bridge. Prof. Kino, of Poughkeepaie, recently made a trip to WcsLport, Conn , in Hballoon. The distance sixty milts waa oassed over ri one hour ana lortv min utes The highest point he attained was nvle. hail a rmle Fnoif tho returns ma-te to the United States Marshal, it would seem that Ten neSL-ee is the healthiest country on the luce of the globe, and tue most remarkable of any for longevity. A nox containing a black bear waa received at an expreeu I ffice in San Francisco, the other day, with thia inacriptioa : "Black Rare. El yew don't want to get bit, kepe ycr fingen oaten the crax.' One of the amucemcrtsat LongRr.mch i 3 to watch the I c w Jersey moequitoes Opendami wiih their bills on the shore. Scver.d of these useful infects are being domesticated and taught to punch iivet holes iu steam-boilera. A Be hal Englishwoman had the right idea when, flnoug herself unable to whip her husband, ahe shouted to hrr con who was up stairs in bed : ISill ! come downitain and lick thi feythor, or elae he'll be the mabster o th whole aouaa I The Bricksburg (N. J.) Time counsels moderation in the use ot fruit. It sas: "Three watermelons and a doa M large bunches of grapea form a deaiert ample f r any eivilieed man, aad anything beyond that i3 not to be thought of, if you care for ur he?.l;h." A Newark merchant got np a lot of fans with hia business card printed thereon, which he gave to a deacon to be distributed at camp meeting, but that gentleman turned an bonedt penny by hiring boys to sell them at five cents apiece. An apprentice, cue day, after dinner, deliberately stepped up to hia master, and asked him what he valued his services at per day. "About MXpeuoe," said his m ister. "Well, then," said the b y, putting his hand into Ida pocket and drawing out some coppers, "here s uJroepence , i in II on tiu Bj ret." In the Third District of New Orleans rrMi'es Jaies Paare, bü years of age. Who for more than thirty years has not had a tooth in his head. S una six weeks ago, however, his guins began to Itch aud swell, aud very BOOB he began to mtPome teeth. He has now a full mouth oi young teeth, which are growing finely. A woman in Cincinnati raises fortyeight iuches of hair on h r lo ad every three years, and then sells it. Supposing that she lives to be 7U years of age, she wiil raise, allowing her fifty one year I of the seventy to do this business in, si ven teen of these crops of hair, amounting in all to sixty eight feet of hirsute adornment. A BAJtnnn lent a graceless scamp fifty dollars m the hope of getting rid ol him; bat, to his surprise, the febow paid the money punctually ou the day agreed upon, and a short tiice alterward applied to hi e for another ioa l. "No," said the banker; "you have deceived me on. t , and I am Keeoived you shan't do it c rad tirn" " The mortality r.Ji :ns of Xngland for 18ffj record the death of 178 men and 885 women r,.gi.-;t.ered as Mi years oid and up Waaawnen they diet; 11 Ol these men had reached 100 or Howard, and one at I Cheltenham was lit: 53 off the women had alsj completed a century of life,

more, and one in the district of Monmouth and South Wait a had attained the great age of 114 years. IF the revolution of the earth on its axis were to be suddenly stopped, the temperature of everything would be raised to auch a decree a? to be Incapable of existing in any other to rm than vapor "Veen a bullet Strikes the target, it oecoraes Eo hot thtt it cannot be held in the hand. Its velocity is at the rate of twelve hundred feet a second. But what must be the heat produced when a body like the earth, moving at the rate of ninety million feet a aeooad, is suddenly arrested! It would soon be converted into a sea o hre, and all life would become extinct. At present there are thirty-two circuses ana menageries in the United Slates. Of this nttmbe-r ten are circus aud menagerie combined ; three nienagerie3 without the circus, and nineteen circuses without the meangeries. Thee establishments give direct employment to seven thousand men and horses, requiring nine hundred vehicles for their transportation, and rejres nting a capital of $2,000,000. The receipts of each company average about $3 iO a clay, while their expenditures amount to $700. Dn. Wieoand, Professor at the University of Halle, announces, after investigation, that trains running northward have a tendency to run of on the east r'.i-, aud those running south likewise go off on the west. This he attributes to tr e combined shape and motion of the earth, andevee calculates the amount cr pressure for a given latitude in Grrmany. For a thirty-ton locomotive the tendency to fly the traetc, from this cause, is exactly six and twenty-four one hundredth pouuds. An exchange says: "When we pour milk Into a cup ot tea or coffee, the albu men of the milk and th?, tannin of the tea ins-antly uioite and form loather, or minute flakes of the very same compound Which is produced in the texture of tbe tanned hale, and which makes it leather as distinguished Irom the original skin. Ia the course of a year a tea drinker of sverage habits will have imbibed leather enough to make a pair ol shoes, if it could be put into the proper shape for the purpose." The E aperer Paul, of Russia, once ordered that c rtain retail shops should all be numbered "No. 1, etc." Forthwith every shop bere on its front "No. 1, etc " Such was the Emr eror's order, and it was literally obej M, for the Russians are a literal people. One day a mandate waa issued that no man should walk the streets at aight without a lantern. A doctor set out on h.s rounds, attended by a servant, G&rryiag a lantern. The police allowed t e servant to pass, but arrested the doctor. A fsw t'ays since, a fortune-teller was standing in front of the St. Joseph's market, Rae Montmartre, Paris, and was do Ing a g od business with the cooks. While he was dealing the carda which were to reveal destiny, a man came up and afked 'or le (jr ind jtu. The fortune teller promiaed him, for twelve sous, honors, fortune, long life, good health, a faithful, loving, good natnr d wife. He asked the fortune teller : "Can't yu tell your own iortune?'' 1 Oh ! I never read my own fortune." The customer eaid : "Then tTJ tell you. In less than five minutes you are going to pack up your cards and come with me to night you'll sleep in jail. I am a poiiceman." An interesting paper on tho examinaw23 f&ety A'ru Jwrnyayh Clitics., bei re the Roftl Irish AcAdtmy. In air from an iron factory he found carbon, ash and lion. The iron was in the form of little hollow balle, each abouf, ore twothousandth of an inch in diameter, and the iron so thin that light passed througn it. In "shirt factory " air w.re found filaments of linen and cotton. Antimony from the type metal probably was dis covered in the air ot printing rooms. Stable air was akowa to ontam floating hair and scales ; and in the air through ichi'.h tohaneo smoke was passing, nb otioe, the poison of tobacco, was Brand in little globules. Cariana BperJea cf Barter. In ihe district of Bemin Sooar (In Westrrn Barbary), a mountainous country inhabited entirely bv Berber tribes, there is one place where, duriug the fair, a barter of vnre curious kiud takes place. This v. mm - dv held once a year. anu is cnieijy rt-soried to for the purpose of bachelors I Onrlinff wives, married men addiDg to ! their matrimonial treasures, ana maiatns o- widows wettiet- nuajands. in menum whole atl'air resolves itself into the women elüng thems Ives, but to escape the ignominy of such a procedure, the traffic is carried on as follows : Each maiden desiring to enter into Wedlock dresses herself ir her best and most becoming attire, am taking with her a phite of cloth of h own weaving, sits down unveiled in the market place. The men, both voung and old, who are Candidates lor matrimony, arade about the market examining the texture ot the I cloth displayed by the ladies, and scrutiniz ug at the same lime tueir loos ami behavior. Should thi customer be -with the mjo.den he in iira the mice of the cloth ; HSp re,ili"S bv naming what she would expect rtnwrr. ana me auiouf ttv rWs lier. resorting to the demand An ,r of an exorbitant sum should she be averse j t i ihe purchaser. During thia b .rter, the enamored swam hi able, in some degree, to judge her ternner and character. If they c me to an; agreement, the parents of the girl are r?p pealed to, and they have tbe right to assent or not, as they please. Suouid they assent, the parties adjourn to a public notary, the contract is made, and the purchased bride is csrried to her new home. In this traffic widows are at a low price in general, and divorced ladies sell their cloths very cheap. The wife thus purchaaed can not be rcold, however much the purchaser may repent his bargain. She is his lawful wedded wife, and retains the pnrchaaa money, which is her jointure r dowry. It is evident that thia curious ivatem oi barter is resorted to by these Manoauedan ill intrtiii'-ers as a means ol evaoing ine - ? . a i it W of Ute if proiMc V, wiiica mo raicia an , i . .... ..... . tc . . op 'K l.-ie man mj;e. ' How lo Find Contentment. It is hot, undeniably, awfully hot, and has been tr a period that we are now be ginning to reckon by weeks. Day after day the suu burns in a cloudless sky, and the mercury in the thermometer creeps silently up to 02 degrees, perhaps to 06 degrees. Even the leaves on the trees seem to wilt, grass dies, the streams are drying up, and now people begin to n ah.e what hot Weather la. The nights are only a little cooler than the days, sleep is unn freshing, every body is getting tired and nervous aud cross, and murmurs at Ihe weather are heard on every hand, even from those w h have every comtort and luxury at their command, every appbai ce for mitigating the discomfort for the heat. Would these grumbling souls like a re. lue to enable them to endure patiently and pleasantly the beat, and think twice of their blessings where they think once oftbeirownannoyar.ee? Let them follow the example of one ot our good city pastors, who told us yesti way mat ne nau. been spending an afternoon visiting the or I sick, and had concluded well people had

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no reason to find fault with th weather He bad sat by a sick bedaide in an atic, where the confined air was In ated tili that cut of goora seemed cool jn compariaon, and vet Um re a human being was ob'icr-d to remain. He na: visited other sick -b-da that he MA , - tell about their oeejoarr- nrrhc burri- - with fever or fkditiv oui' with conaumptlon, conscious thai this is their ket summer on eaith, and tbe t?ct upon Lim was wonderful to see. He w;s te :) rf-d .- man one could ixsgine no crumbling about the weathej fr m him, and the ;enet of it was he had been going round aomg good. What a simple rule it ir for boimr I r py, either iu winter's e old or surimerV heat, and yet how few ot ns know iv or if we have heard of it how Beidom W( practice it. We beg some of those peopL who live in fine houses, in shady yards ir houses so large that each occupant can have a room to himself, where coo blindi shut out the sun, and wire doors ar-i win dow screens bar the ingress of annovirg irsects -who have all the delicacies of the Fea3oo on their tables and cooling drinks always at hand, who whea tired ol home can take a run to the mountains or a trip to the seashore and rnme back at'ain Invigorated and refreshed -we beg those who can command all throe lurn ries, and yet go growling around at th weather, making themstlv s and all around tbm miserable with their repining", to follow the example of the pastor we have mentr ned, and of many ot her good pat rs, and try tho effect of a viatt to the sick and the poor, in st likely tobe found in sir-.e crowded tenement house, and may be in an unsavory part of the city. If the world dot s not seem rdeasxbter to them afterward, and the heat we have had or likely to hare, perfectly cadurabie, it will be contrary to the experience of everybody who over yet nought contentment ia dring good" SpringfU-ld Republic ne. What Breaks Hewn Young Men. It is a commor.ty received notion h ha-d study is the anhealthy element of & colh?g3 life. But from tables of tJ o mortality of Harvard University. eoUe I 5 by Professor Pierc from the last triennial catalogue, it is clearly dem nstrated tha the excess of deah for the fir-t tea y. an after graduation is found in that portion of each class of inferior scholarahip. R very one who ha Been the curriculum kn ;ws that where M b lui &nd poliÜcal economy irjir one, late hours an I rum punches use up a doaua, end that the ir two little fiuers are heavier Ib -.n lb loina of Euclid. D aipatkn is a sure deatroyer, and every young man who follows it is as the early flower expoaed to untimely frost. Th se who hnve been inveigled in the path of v:cc are aami d Legion. A lev hours' sleep ?.ch night, high living, and plenty of " -mash s" make war upon every function of tre body. The br.dn, the heart, ihe Im tue liver, the spir.e. the limbs, the b -the flech, every part -tr.d ficulty ar overtasked and weakened by the terrific energy of i.assion looeeaed irom reetrafatt, until, like a dilapidated roansnn, the "earchly house of this tabernacle" falls into ruinous decay. Fari young uien, right about! 8centifi: Annriean. T .f Blackmitb. VvuoÄm appcäia" i ö Ba"Tc UChV . -'e li : . black amith of whom there. i3 any authentic record. Be forged bolts for Jupiter. Jupiter caught him forgfcg them - and had him arresie . Alter a fair and impartlil trial before the Court or Common Pleaa of rlamiltoa county dS, he was convicted of forgery In the thirtyseventh degree (Fahrenheit), and Jupiter kicked him out ol heaven on Lis own recognizance, injuring his recognizance very considerably, and producing a lame ness from which he hasn't WlaOUy i covered to this day. As Vulcan was a man of great strength, so blacksmiths aie renerallv noted tr their muscular poWef, the natural reault of expanding their lunga by blowing the bellows, and strengthening their arms and hands by swinging Ihe uedge. The blacksmith follows a u-eial ard laborious profession, f.rd no laey man la eVei round In It Whoa a lazy boy i urged to learn the Wa a m L1 a'l tra . be replies: "Oh, blow the belfoWB," acd i! required to do it nib bellow 3 are re&lTj painful to hear. Blacksmithicg BUggaated to the Italians that proverb oi so much meaning, "Strike while the iron is hot." A great many failures among men can be attribute d to hesitation and delay in seizing the iv'.t moment for acti. n, and then the opportumoment n'i cn--, . nity passes the iron is cold, b'acksmith is quick to strike 1 he to jet when the iron ia hot, unlesa he l? striking f r bigrer wages, when he don care particularly whether the Ir -n is hot oi cold The blacksmith irons off wagons of vs rious descriptions Our worthy aim, a a remember, ct t tot a wagon to a btt h smith to be ironed off. and he u ored It wav off to Kansas, so that we Lever tw anything aaore of the wagon or o tie" much a- -afterward out there 1 Mtekniiih. Wagons am t ot c mnt iroue.1 oh so iar, e read tf a wicked biackmt h whin pitched in and gave mni aaueiui n, and we used to hope it was tt l blacksmith who ironed tne old gent eman's wagon some thirteen hundred miles off But then the preacher, after slashing sin out of him, whipped religion into b m, so, as we never rec ived the wagon back through the p st ffice, accoaapanied by a letter of repentance, we concluded It wa another blacksmith. ae , ii t Horse-shoeing is one of the most important branches of the blacksmith's trade. The blacksmith not only Baaken all the horse's shoes but he puts them on lor lom, aud laces them up. The hoi is generally able to pull them elf hiinseli. In. countries where there are DO blacksmiths the horses arc oompeUed to go barefoot, winter 8 well as summer. Blackemitha oeactuuea she oxen as well aa horaea and muleat We once aaw n nreat braWHV SOU of VaiCaB some cbiekena that wexe in ate garoen, and manv ol tin in can "s oo ily.' Cmcinnwi timet. Gkkat tracts of pine wood are every v r deatroyed !y fire la the south i Fiance. M. tchr..der, who ha trie I to diseov. r the origin of these irea, has cyme to the eoucluaion thai they are caused by the tun's ma' letting Ire i the vapor f terpentine which ia contained in the trunk, aud wnJch I BX M d to direct eonUuM with external aeal hy the holes bred for the extraction of turpentine. Tub line of conduct choaaa by i roung Hum during the. tiv.' ytrs Irom lau BB 1 -twenty will, iu alnaoal every iuatanca, aV tcrmine bis ctiaracter fir life. As be is then carff d or oareleaa, prudent or imprudeut, industrious or hadolent, truthful or diasimulating, intelligent or Ignorant, temperate or diaaolute, so will ha be in afit r years, and it needs no pr. phet to caat his hroscope or calculate u cinaw in life. TnK imprint of a woman's face, afllstd there by lightning. i plainly visi' le or the glass of an attic wiidow in Law n ttoe. Mass , and a great sensation is CCUatl 1 thereby, gho4U being hmted at.

wmJM. Bl " m I Bateju enotber hhy. Jap, a carinln?' esn be, E pa !1ul' tw bornie bine bau, br : h H tfweet as ro-enury ; Jsnii n day. flihlcp uube.-m. Hi r el pareflL laired gold, p , ..j j o... ;;.o r- fo of dimp ef. Little Wiiaiie, eight m jotni old. If iklrg fa any, cootn? tpecclie Nobodvem undeMiridSoch a qia d: nl preoy language, On v rp "kf tn biby- a: d. ShouM i idng. all csj abjat her. I 1 ber fwrt'tefii were to: told 8tea bod. a bi d. a fairy. LUt.e Winnie, e.hi Dionthso.d.

A "anm" in Arithmetic. CnAKMK was at school, and though just tu elve years old, be was head of the ctass in arithmetic His father had come ee from hia work, Lis mother was out that evening visiting a neighbor whose boy was very ill of infl immation of the anra Charlie, sitting with his siate, on a Btool near bis father, satd : ""Wow Tih-asa oive. me an sccourt, anu vou wdl see how soon I will do it." ' Well, I wii , nis iaimr repoe-u. "Are you ready t A rich lady once found lying at her door, one Eumm r morning, a Utile BUUf wwiiyw "V ' dmwL Saw could ant lad who laid it there ; but she rt solved to rear it, and -dve i' out to nurse, keeping an account A aP H cost her. When the little baby aad arown Op a fine iwy m iweivc .ears ,f age, she wr 'tt; out the account tuus A enrse for aUUflBg inf:uit for three year at ftlTfl a year rioüie f ;r tw.-lve yearf. n w a a te u ZW Oi Fo jd fr tvrewe year?, a: ? T .AaWn fnr Twelve V.aTS B YCT. tV'SlI'& " . ,- ,,,, . i. hnof. . 'c . ler PiX nr-. ni iu ii;i?, DOOK.P. it a ar Whim 'he bey was u. -v , m.r. ill three limes, fit), 5 'Uia i V) Tota? tl,aai ex (N aw, ell nv'the Furc of it." Phrlie ulier a little explanation, BUt to. an by multiplying found out the figures Biarked Oppcawe eaen arin :e, aait auu.us ft.und thai the Utile D-.oy na iue BdV ft 525. ... . H w much n J ' tne noy exela:med. . i'Yef it is indeed, Uhanie,' saio me a in -- father. "Do you th:bK ou coum pay ua aauch f . ,, "Oh.no! I have uai one nan crown era ad pa eave rre. - 3 -. . W v- -V T TAU "Wet!, but my ooy. eo ym .iiew .t'u -w ntj that, and much more, to a kind lady?" Charoe starea. "Ye-' Are yon not bici tweive yews Old; and whnt jind ladv BUIUed you, Biol bed and taught vou ? I thought Char lie forgot who did all this lor ntni, ween be put on a sulky wee im? mtirnir uu went aw slowly on mamma's errand to the baker!" . . , Tu- little face was bent downward ana c .vercd with bluehes. "Let me see your account, Charlie; fhcraia auaacthlng more to pnt down. For twelfU ye-.r-' mmna hs loved m, matched OVr yen, prayed f -r you ! Ho money ct teb how mneh tbis love and pn vera a woh! When you -row un vou aaiekt pay the 1 SlfL hwt h ow will t on par mamma tor her ive r - ... . . AT - .11 C . rlie's eves biet wrn tears. a waa not b have p a.a n! I tan n ver pay mamma what I have c et her ! Waen hm another came home Charde showed her the account. 6he kissed birn ami s;id lov.rgly, "Oh! if my Claarlla growauotobea eovd man, I shall be well paid for 1L flhiilaj KnlBaf anar. are Ye - sOv;atts! nxun Winwrnxn lived next dr to the 6c.hoot-he.ue. So he tue ito work un - - til quarter off nine ev(ry mo theaexeditiouily changed bis wordking rb t r a neat chool suit, which made him I.taV q new bOV. T wouldn't be uwng sray ther. SO "verv moruing," raid Uub Roger? as nc , T. .J .nbnreah IU eiffht lour 'e-a over tee gaic-.u -t. o'clock. "I'm g dug ever to BBBaUBl to have 3cme tun." ,., , , , The tracer dor? r.ot like to have pa eoaae aaueai before aefcool time," aaM a.ae.eiiucVnror V-'5 iatiiegaruen -nan ha a f ' h.lb even, though 1 like that well enceuh, I V " Wer you have aoanoni taana, MM the h.uner. as he sauntered on, to j ir a oonapTy of aki minde l b ,who thought plav the main bufineaB of Wc, Mother waa aura to call Allen at the moment he desired. m . - Don't be late, Allen," she said. glancf in- at the clock which said one minute o( nine. " NYv.r fear, mother. raid tbe lad. r.H. ninir tbe last but'- n on bis lacket, ICJ.'.U'"", t ,t, it-ahrr iust n-issel. I will be there i ii ... w-. ,p a ivitur im mother a ,.n to ' V 11 itepi oBd in another Banana vas m Ml 1ilÄBioMw,rc qkly mm, 'tt him be wkere be wcaüd. Tncy Wj VJSZ. k! Z b ,vs and the best scbolats rZTJ' rTV tter whether they in itie e- wf, . i j v. a- ),:imi finun. A bl"reiie . . i. --JK ,.,'li-r tew! tSUbt h:m from cbi'dhood that character, acVnen, wae the standard by which to mtaaure peopK v, . u thftr, vrhoel is tue OJO . ' .a trno Bi nwbvww - A 0n nn ot a At recesa, you www c "rhn 4 cd bot s who were mtelllgently talk one oi r ire over lessors, or mn'tcrs m mfrt or toiaing heartily in bracing .an ly sports. ii .... ; itt o: rreulariV craritsted toward a very Oiliercnv i . w - rh : trick v boja, ihnc who always kept ebacheron the alert, afopteg m the hud tir plans of mi,ehief.or come w th nt f r rd.dem- anors i flt out of their excellent advantages 9 A 1 asm f r obtain. eg n ecuc tie 'u. Now, cannot Buy one easily fancy the future I M rv of tfeom tWO boys. One siukimr lower and lower, led an by evd Seodatea Into the rounda of dipation bcainuin at the drir.kirc aaloft tka heed, to take the respomible posittons oi boror in society. . ?i tun waiketkwitfe ware mm. He wis 5 A young mam. whole future 5ft depends largely on the aaacemtea he chooses. . What Mary iiave. When the contribution box emu round in church bovB and gtil throw m money which leanw pnnwntn have given ,h.m tor thai purpose. The money is nV5 theil gift, but that Of tie tr falber ami mother. They bare just as much to spe d for ttnir planae.re as they had beAnd so I once hoard a kind-heerb d -i romnlain that she had nothing off her that she cmw give j- - what she gae in one cay, nt ou .o see that she was nu : n. She gave an lumr I pa: it at care to her 1 Pie hnb, i.-tt-r uho wa cutting tcr.U. 1...V j . A .1.-.1 ..,n aii.l She cave a siring anu a cnc i" . A. 1 ,. io d advice uubc Hintvc u old brother wr.o wat.uu i. . nahing. She cave Ellen, the maul a nrectoua hour to go aud viait her ick babyal home, for Riten vas a widow, aad bt her child with ils grandmother while she worked t A.et bread I t t oth. I: he OOUld B t have seen th m v. ry otte-n f our generous Mary bad mt offered to attend the Avar and took after the kitchen Ire Whiai e was awsy. But this ia mjt alltl a! Mar c,v . She dns- n l e 1 - neat v, and looted so nrigm tu a..... . and obliging, that ah gav her mother a thrill oi pleasure w h. i ever she oaeguv sight ot the y.-ung, vie -Sint face; ehe Mote a letter ta ber Bather wh B was abv ,o .n basiiitss, iu whi. h the gave him all the uews be wautod in stich a iraok, ess way, that he thanked bis daughter la his beaut She cave patient attention to a h-n, tin s-.me sto v bv her prandBMther, t kOUgh she bd h- ard it many tones before. She laughed jut at the ri ht time and when it waa trded maoe the old lady happy by a good night knm. ,8 she bad ßlven valuable presents to six p. np ein one day, and vt ahe had not a cent in the world 8ae waa aa good as gold, and ahe gsve something ot herself to all those who were so happy aa. to meet her. Jüchange.