Pike County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 August 1880 — Page 4

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT PETERSBURG. : : INDIANA THE BEDOUIN^^SBUKB, tA FAULK-r • 1 M Bcdrailn of trim honor-good Nebar— Possessed a horse whose fame was spread afar; No other horse was half so proud and strong. His feet were like the north-wind swopt along— tn his curved neck and in his flashing eye You saw the harbingers of victory. Bo, many came to Nebar day by day, And longed to take his noblo horse away; Large sums they offered, and with grace besought, Hut all in vain—the horse could not be bought. AY]tli these came Daher, of another tribe, ■l'o see if he might npt the owner bribe; Yet purposeless—no money, skill, nor breath, Could part the owner from his horse till death. Then Daher, who was Rubtle, mean and sly. Concluded, next, some stratagem to try; So, clothed in rags, and masked in form and face. He as a beggar walked with limping pace. And, meeting Nebar with the horse one day, He fcil. and prostrate on the desert lay. The ruso succeeded; for, when Nebar found iA helpless man in sorrow ern the ground. Me took up, and on the noble steed Have him a place—but what a thankless deedl Tor Daher about ed, laughed, aftd, giving rein. Bail, “ You will never see your horse again.” '“Take him,” said Nebar, “but, for Mercy’s sake. Tell no mail in what way you chose to take, Lest others, seeing what has happ’ed to me. Omit to do some needed charity. Pierced by these words, the robber’s keen remorse Thwarted his plan, and he returned the horse. Shamefaced and sorrowful; then slunk away h As if he feared the very light of day! —Joel Renton, in Wide-Awalte. “DID I FLIRT WITH HER I” I was engaged to Margaret Sheppard, and I thought myself the luckiest man living. Margaret was so handsome that no stranger ever saw her without expressing admiration; and ohe did not weary of her face after years of familiarity with it. She was well-bred, accomplished, and a great heiress. I had reason to believe that shj was very fond of me. No man could be more entirely content than 1 was as I leaned back in the palace car that bore me over the country to New Valladolid, where I was to preach for a few Sundays. The pulpit was vacant, and I tvaS just trying my wings. With nay pecuniary prospects I scarcely thought I -should care to accept a call to New Valladolid, but I had no objection - to Ailing its pulpit for a few weeks, especially’ as Marfaret had gone to Saratoga, and New ork was warm and stuffy and stupid. Casual remembrances of elqgant parsonages built in the Queen Ann style; of a study, where the footfalls were softened by Persian rugs, and the doors draped with portieres of..velvet; c..airs and a desk carved richly as some old

confessional, flitted through my mind. And I thought also of a table spread •with silver and rare china, with a lady at its head who resembled a queen. And I breathed a Injurious sigh as I awakened from my Nday-dream to a knowledge that the worqs"“ New Valladolid” were being shouted through the car, and that the train was coming to a standstill before a little pine station. 1 caught my traveling-bag from the cateliali overhead, and hurried out of the car. The porters had just dumped four or five trunks on the platform. Two old wagons stood in the road, one driven by an old woman in a sun-bonnet, the other by a red-haired boy, with hare feet; and’ a queer, knock-kneed Jiorse, attached to a still queerer old buggy, was tied to a post at a little distance. A young man, in a very light summer suit, and a city family bent on rural- happiness, were my companions on the platform. The former put his trunk into the first wagon, kissed the ' old woman in the sun-bonnet, took the reins and drove away. He was evidently the son ot the family come home to spend his vacation. The rest of the trunks and the city family, mother, father, little boy, nurse-maid and baby, were put into the wagon driven by the boy. r Some one cried, “All aboard!” Conductors leaned out' over the platforms and made mysterious signals to each other with hands held sideways. The cars rattled and clashed, the whistle shrieked, and the train moved away. 1 was. left alpne on the platform—alone bi$ for the baggage-master, who sat upon a log chewing straw. In. a moment more this functionary, without looking at me, made a remark: “Deacon Glover has come down for the new dominie. He's over to the store. Cornin’ back in a minute.” “Thank you,” said L The baggage-master took no notice of me, but having climbed upon a stool and made some changes in a time reg- . ister on the wall of the station, locked the door, put the key in his pocket, and sauntered away down the sandy road. I took his place upon the log and ■waited. In a few moments a prim little old gentleman in a linen duster appeared upon the top of the hill, carrying an one hand a tin can, in the other a tin - pail, aud under either arm a brown paper parcel. I knew at a glance that it was Deacon Glover. “That Mr. Gannet?” he inquired mildly, as he approached. “I want to Ikdow! I hadn’t any expectation of being kept so long, but, you see, it saves the women folks trouble to fetch things over when I drive down. Step in, won’t you? I’ll get in after. I’ll jest hang this can of kerosene He on behind. Some dislikes the smell—maybe yon do. The molasses, and tea, and coffee can go under the seat as well as not. How’lyour health, sir, and how do you like New Valladolid?” I answered that my health was good, »n<|that I had not, as yet, seen much of Valladolid the New. « “ No more you haven't" said the old pentleman. “Well, you’ll drive through it now.” And he shook the reins and the old horse began to stumble along. And on wo drove past certain rows of frame houses very much like each other and with the same flowers in their front gardens, until, having passed the church, we came to one happily set about by old oak trees, before the gate of which he drew up. A girl stood at the gate—a fair girl in a'blue muslin dress and a white

apron. “ Take the molasses, Tilly, before it gets upset,” said the deacon. “This •is Mr. Gjuinet that’s to preach- for us. Mr. Gannet, this is my daughter Tilly.” We bowed &nd she vanished with the parcels. ~ “ What a lovely little creaturer’ I said to myself. “ Nothing like Margaret, hut so prutty!” And I found myself thinking of her as I washed my hands and brushed my hair in the bluewalled bedroom on the second floor, with white fringed counterpanes and curtains and two black silhouettes over the mantel-piece, on' either side of the china vases of rosea. There were only four of us at table— the deacon, his wife, a stout lady who never said mere than she could help, and Tilly. She had spent the. last winter in New York( and we talked abont all she had seen. She Was selfpossessed without being fomard, and oh, so pretty -so pretty! Now„Margaret was splendid and tjueenly, so this was mild praise thatshe could not have objected to, only I said it very often. I freached in the church on the morrow; preached on the next Sunday. It was settled’ that 1 should spend the summer there. I wrote this to Margaret: "Since t/OH cannot bo with me it does not matter where 1 nrn—tills stupid place as well as any other. Address to the earo of Deacon llezekial Glover. 1 shall Ijgjurd with him while Islay.” * Jt was a pleasant snapper, despite

the dullness of the place. How good the quaint old deacon was when one really knew him! How motherly was Mrs. Glover; as for Tilly, she' grew sweeter every day! I often wondered what Margaret would have said could she have seen me helping her to pick blackberries, to find the runaway cow, to carry home the milk pail, driving her over to the country store and re-' tftning vrith a freight of groceries — Margaret, who knew nothing of domestic detail;, and whose monogrammed and perfumed letteis were often bronght over from the office in company with the kerosene can. I wrote my sermons at one end of the round table, while Tilly sat at the other, sewing. Between us was a lamp with a green, paper shade. Now and then a big bug would lly into the window and go humming about our heads, or a moth would try to singe its wings over the chimney, and I would stop and drive it cut. The odd people would go to bed alter a while, and them Tilly and 1 would find ourselves hungry, and she would go into the kitchen to find “something good.” I always held the light for her. When- something good was found, we ate it on the back ]M>rch, sitting side by side on the step, like two children. She waii so like a child, that little Tilly, that it seemed no harm to ask her to kiss me good-night, or to hold her hand in mine, as it rested on my arm, in our long walks home from church on Sunday evenings. The summer passed.. October came. Margaret returned to the city and wrote to me. It was while we were eating peaches and cream on the back porch that evening that I said to Tilly: “ I will tell you a “secret if you will keep it for a while, Tilly.” “ Oh, of course I will, Mr. Gannet.” “ I am going to be married this fall, Tilly,” I said. “Those pretty letters you always thought came from my sister are from the lady who is to marry me. She :is very beautiful, very rich, very stylish, but very kind. You must come and see us, Tilly, when we are married. I shall tell Margaret hour good you have been to me—what a sweet little sister I found out here in New Valladolid. Why, Tilly!—” For as I spoke 1 felt the little hand I held, grow cold and heavy in mine. I saw her sink backward. The big china bowl of peaches and cream slipped with a crash to the ground and shattered to pieces. I caught the poor child in my arms. In a. moment she came to herself and said that she had overtired herself, she thought. They had[ been baking all day and it was warm. And now she bade me good night. But I did not see her next day, nor the next. She kepi; her room, and was not well enough to bid me good-bv."

roar little Tilly! X felt very miserable. However, Margaret met me in New York. She was more beautiful than ever-more elegant in contrast to my simple country friends—and very soon I laughed ■ at myself for the thought that had been in my heart. Of course, I said it was the baking that had overcome Tilly—it was not ■ my news. I had only been to her as a friend—as a brother. I had not made love to her; above all, I had not flirted with her. But I thought of Tilly a great deal., and I missed her every hour exactly—bh, yes, exactly—as I might a sister." I wrote to Mrs. Glover, and her answer was very brief. ;-j “ I haven't much time to write,” she 15aid in her postscript. “Tilly is sick, and besides being driven, I’m anxious.” - This letter was in my pocket on that day when Margaret and I went together to the great fair for the benefit of the church of St. Surplice. One of the features of that entertainment, if you remember, was the array of little arbors in which refreshments were served. After we had roamed about the fair and bought all sorts of nicknacks, l escorted Margaret to one of these arbors, and there sat down to wait, white one of the ladies, who, ‘‘on this occasion only,” was doing good, onerous hard work, brought us a tray of refreshments. As we sat leaning back against the evergreen and smilax which draped the lattice, two women entered the next arbor, and one of them, as she sat down, said to the other: “I’m just about tired out. Aren’t you, Mrs. Tripp?” and the other answered: “Yes, 1 am tired. I hardly know that it pays to conle all the way from Valladolid to New York sight-seeing.” It was the voice of the Glovers’ nearest neighbor, of Tilly’s godmother, and I liked her and respected her, yet did not feel ijuite sure how Margaret would like an introduction, and so refrained from looking around the corner of the bower and making myself known. “I think we’d better have tea,” said the first voice. “It’s more refreshing than coffee. Oh, bow is Tilly to-day? Think oi my never asking before!” “ Tilly is poorly,” said Mrs. Tripp. “ Oh, Mrs. Birch, what a pity it is that flirting y oung minister came down to Valladolid. T don’t know what Mrs. Glover was about, to let him do as he did. We all thought he was courting Tilly. She did, poor child. She just loved him dearly, and the day before he w<mt away he told her he was engaged tc some girl in New York. I’m. afraid it’s broken her heart She told me all about it * Oh, Aunty Tripp,’ said she, * I know I ought to be ashamed, but I can’t help it. He seemed to like me so. I hope I shall die of this fever, for life is nothing to me.’ Ashamed! Why, it’s he ought to be ashamed. Of all things a minister to be a cold, cruel flirt! And that’s what Alfred Gannet is.” I listened, but I could not move or speak; I felt as though my heart also were breaking; and oh, the shame 1 suffered! The women drank their tea and left the arbor, and then Margaret turned to me with a cold, sarcastic smile: “Iseebyyonr face that that little story is perfectly true, Mr. Gannet,” she said. “Margaret.” I faltered, “I have done nothing that should give offense to ■you.”

“Nothing but lore another woman,” she answered. “ Lore her and let her see it, meaning to marrv me! Don’t think I am hurt; indeed I am relieved! I should have kept my word to you but for this; but not so gladly as * 1 once should. „You are a very good-looking man; but on the whole you don’t suit me. I met Senator F. at Saratoga—and —he does; Frankly, I have been thinking what a pity it was that I must decline his offer—I who like the diplomatic circles so well. Asfor this—Tilly, is it not?— wouldn’t she make a very good minister’s wife?” It came into my mind that she would —that she was the only wife for me— that Margaret, splendid as she was, would never have made me happy. But I only said: “Miss Sheppard, if yon desire to have ■your freedom, 1 have no choice.” “I desire it greatly,” she answered. “It is yours, I said, with a bow. After that I think we were both happier than we had been for days, and we shook hands when we parted. That night I went down to Valladolid, and 1 told Tilly that my marriage was broken off, and that she was the only woman I had ever loved. She tried to summon up her pride and refuse me, but failed in the attempt, and let me take her to my heart. To-day I am pastor of the church at New Valladolid. Tilly is my wife, and we are as plain and quiet a pair as you could fancy. I often help my wife pick currants for tea, and hace taken a tom at the “wringer” when help' was scarce. But 1 do not; envy Senator F. his splendid wife, nor pine for the luxurious possibilities that I lost with Margaret Shop

pard. Tilly and my little home camtent me. But one thing is on my conscience. I have never been able to answer myself the question: “Did I flirt with Tilly?”—Mary Kyle Dallas, in N. T. Ledger. FACTS AND FIGURES. —It is estimated that the shipment of peach es from Delaware this year trill reach 3,.‘132,000 baskets. —It is believed that over $10,000,000 a year are expended in private horticulture in Great Britain and Ireland. —In two years’ time the value of lands in certain parts of South Carolina has jumped from two dollars to ten dollars per acre. —The manufacture of sporting implements has assumed large proportions in this country. It is estimated that from 50,000 to 60,000 sets of croquet, 200,000 base-ball bats, and 250,000 base balls will be made for this season’s trade by a single firm in Chic ago. —The province of Buenos Ayres counts 54,000,000 sheep, of which 13,000,000 belong to Irish settlers within a day’s ride of the city. These flocks will suffice, if necessary, to feed the National Government army formany years, without counting 6,000,000 cows, which belong mostly to natives. —The destruction of Russia’s grain crops during the past two years has been simply enormous. Statistics show that the crop of 1879 was reduced fully $50,000,000 in value by the bad weather and the various pests of the grain, and it is now established that the showing this year will be still worse. The exports for the first six months of the current year are less than half those of the corresponding period last year. —A member of the Statistical Society of London has computed the population of that city as k will be at future periods: In 1981 it will be 7,277,000; in 2081, 8,638,000, and in 2181, 9,015,000. The population of England and Wales together he estimates at 31,973,000 in 1901, at 74,358.000 in 2001, at 127,274,000 in 2101, and at 169,081,000 in 2181. These figures are based on the theory that the ratio of increase will decline every decade as many per cent, as it has declined on an average during the past fifty years. —The number of marriages in England of divorced persons is not very large, but it is steadily increasing.. In the year 1868 there were nearly 177,000 marriages, and only 40 were between persons one or both of whom had been divorced; but the report now issued for 1878 shows that there were 107 such marriages in that year among the 190,000, the total number. In the eighteen years—1861-78—there were 885 marriages of divorced persons. In 464 the man was a divorced man; in 405 the woman was a divorced woman; in the remaining 16 marriages divorced men married divorced women.

WIT A>'D WISDOM. —Spots on the son are sometimes freckles and sometimes photographs of a mother’s loving but weighty hand.— New Haven Beqister. —Don’t call yourself a fool, my friend; do not be outdone in politeness by others who only think what you are so rude as to express in words.—Boston Transcript. ~ —Down by ttao river side they met, Sweet Romeo and Juliet, Her hand in his he placed and said “Sweet Juliet, I would thee wed.’* “ Indeed?” she queried, “ An I let’s jco; G et in this boat. Oh l Row me, oh !** —Rome S&ntinek —“Think twice before you SDeak once.” That is a good enough rule for some people; but there are folks who can think of so many meaner things to say the second time trying that we prefer to hoar their first inspiration on the subject.—Cincinnati Saturday Night. -“I’ll teach you to lie, and steal, and smoke, and use profane language,” said an irate Galveston parent to his eldest offspring, at the same time swinging a good-sized sapling, “I’ll teach you, you young scamp.” “Never mind, father, 1 know all them branches already.”—Galveston News. —The announcement is made that Prinpe Gunther II., of SchwartzburgSonderhausen, has abdicated because he has become near sighted. When he wrote his name he rubbed it out with his nose, and his subjects felt mortified to see their ruler with half a pint of ink smeared on his countenance. —“ Was it a wailing bird of gloom Which shrieks on the house of woe all night. Or a shivering fiend that flew to a tomb To howl and feed till the glance of light? Twas not the death-bird's cry from the wood, . Nor shivering fiend that hung in the blast !” ’Twas only my night-shirt—stout and good— And it flapped on the line as the storm rode past. —Oil City Derrick. —One day recently, as one of our prominent business men was about to enter his favorite resort for dinner, he was accosted by an individual with a decidedly .careworn expression who begged that he would assist him to get something to eat. As the man looked like a worthy object of charity, the gentleman told him to go in, and directed the waiter to give him twenty-five cents’ worth of food and charge it to his check, when, noticing a humorous look on the waiter’s face, ne asked him what the hungry man had ordered. The reply was, “Five glasses of lager.”— Boston Advertiser. A Mule That Broke Up a Picnic. On Saturday, in Talbot County, the colored people gave a picnic, to which their friends in the surrounding country were invited. The forenoon was passed in an enjoyable manner. The aitiner was all that could be wished, and after disposing of it many engaged in a dance.. The fun continued for an hour or so, when several shouts near at hand caused all to run in that direction, when a most ludicrous sight was presented. A long meck-lookihg mnlo had his ears set forward, and was doing his utmost to demolish with his heels a couple of bee-hives. The bees were resenting the attack, and in largo numbers were stinging him. This cansed the mule to kick more wildly. Several persons attempted to untie the animal, but came off with face and hands covered with bees. By this time the party were forced to scatter on account of the bees, which were attacking all whom they met. All sought protection in a house, At last some one succeeded in cutting the halter, and the mnle made a dash. This broke Up the picnic. The mule had been borrowed by a negro whom he had kicked about a year since, and for revenge, it is supposed, the negro tied him near tfae^hives. — Columbus {Go.) Enquirer.

# A Dor's Achievement. p. S. Lapham has owned a canary bird and small cur dor; about three ■years. The two pets have, in fact, known each other intimately all their lives, and they.have been on uncommonly cordial terms considering the radical diSorenCe in their respective natures. On Wednesday last the bird escaped from its cage, and verv soon after the dog disappeared. When Mr. Lapham opened his front door yesterday morning there stood the dog with the truant canary in its mouth. Remarkable as it is the bird was alive, and it now occupies its old quarters, not particularly “chipper,” it is true, but still in passably good health.—Detroit Free Press. —The Vevey cigars, smoked so generally in South Germany, are entirely composed of cabbage and beet leaves deprived of their natural taste and smell by a special form of cultivation and steeped in tobacco-water for a lengthened period. Thoy beat tobacco.

Judicious Economy. A very erroneous idee prevails with many that any thought spent over small outlays—sober deliberation over economy in little things—is evidence of loiy^uxf mean traits of character, and betokens miserly habits. We have heard it said that to feel one must stop jmd calculate—examine articles with reference to the cost rather than to taste, to deliberate upon the sum total before daring to buy—would make life unendurable. To stop and examine an old garment, and learn if by any ingenuity it could be turned, retrimmed, or remodeled so as to answer another season, instead of buying something new, would be a torture which would banish half the comfort of living. “To pick hp pins and needles, carefully sew buttons and strings, and keep before the mind all the time the necessity of economy, would make me feel so little, so mean, I should despise myself. I’d sooner spend freely as long as the little 1 have lasts, and then go to the poorhouse, or die, than be a slave to economy.’’ This is no imaginary talk, but something similar or worse is often uttered, and girls who spring up from childhood to maturity inclined to such false notions are not the kind to make the wires in whom the hearts of their husbands can safely trust; and their children will not rise up and call them blessed. Waste and extravagance go hand in hand; and those who thus seek their own gratification and indulgence bring no comfort to those' with whom they are most closely connected, because they/ minister to their own selfish desires regardless of the good of others. Parents often err, doubtless, by being over strict in matters of economy, and while trying to enforce its practice teach their children to feel only disgust at the idea. For this reason, perhaps, together with some others which are hani to explain, the young seem to shun the very idea of economy of late, and would feel that they were outside of the pale of good, or rather genteel society, if they allowed themselves to speak of it; but to attempt to practice it would shut them away from certain acquaintances as altogether an inferior

Class or Derngs. Many who are absolutely compelled td try and economize closely, look upon it as an evil to be greatly deplored, and to be attempted secretly. For the world they would not have it known how they “strive to keep up appearances” by outwardly bringing their surroundings into some little harmony witli their more wealthy neighbors. The ingenuity they must practice to do this, and to conceal the many deprivations they submit to rather than forego this outside show, would be worthy of all praise if practiced openly, without regard to foolish criticisms. Those who have the gift to practice a judicious economy, and carefully watch to prevent any waste because it is right, not from any mean, miserly desire to hoard aud carry the practice into all the departments over which they rule, are blessed with a talent for which they may be grateful. This talent judiciously used is recognized by all sensible people as most desirable, even by those who are placed in circumstances where there is no necessity for rigid watchfulness and care. But it is not merely as a matter of necessity that we wish to urge all good housekeepers to look to this, ana see that thrift and care in the management of their affairs is not simply a duty which their own interest demands should be conscientiously practiced, but if rightly viewed it is, or may be, a source of great pleasure. The frugal' use of the means put into their hands may give more true pleasure to those who have an abundance of-this world's good than they can find in the u«ual round of fashionable amusements and dissipation, which is too often supposed to be the distinctive mark of good society.—Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, in Christian Union. $S Setting-Out Strawberries. August is the best time for settingout new beds of strawberries. Some persons defer it to September; but in order to get a pretty fair crop next year, it is better to transplant in August, and perhaps the earlier the better. It is hardly worth while to enter upon any Earticulars in making a strawberryed, the fruit has become so common that it is grown in almost every garden. It is well to dig deeply, pulverize well, manure liberally with stable dung; set out the plants when they are wished to be gro.wn in hills, in rows two and one-half feet apart and the plants about fifteen inches in the rows. The tops and a portion of the roots should be pruned pretty well, the plants set rather shallow, and the soil be firmly pressed about them. The situation should be rather dry, and the plants should be covered lightly in the winter with straw manure from the horse stable. There are a number of varieties that will produce good crops, there not being nearly as much difference in the flavor as some suppose. So far as our own experience goes, we like the Captain Jack as well as any other. Seth Boyden is good; the Sharpless Seedling is considered among the best; then there are Triomphe de (land, Monarch of the West, Jucunda, Charles Downing, Crescent Seedling, Wilson’s Seedling, *&c.—Qem\aniown Telegraph.

Fodder-Corn, Br the analysis of Prof. Collier we learn that he 'found the per cent, of sugar in the stalks of Indian corn to be mueh greater the more perfect the stalks were and the nearer they were to maturity. These experiments demonstrate the importance of planting fodder-corn thinner, in order to get a more valuable crop. The reason why there has been so much controversy in regard to the value of cornstalks as a green forage plant is because of the difference in the value of the stalks grown by thin or thick planting. When the crop is too thick m the rows or broadcast, the stalks are soft, weak and washy, and really worth very little except to till up the stomach; but when the stalks grow the natural size, with all the joints perfect and cars set on them, there is, as Prof. Collier has demonstrated, a great deal more sugar in them, and hence they possess more value for food. Farmers should learn by these facts to put in the cornstalk crop much thinner than they have been in the habit of doing, as it is not so much the bulk of the crop or the stand upon the ground, as it is the perfection and maturity of the stalks which make them valuable. This condition can best be reached by planting in drills. When t his is done, and perfect stalks produced, there will be less controversy about the value of com as a fodder-plant.—Cor. N. Y. Tribune. —Mr. Saunders, the horticulturist in charge of the public gardens and grounds at Washington, who has observed that the outside rows of trees in an orchard always grow more thrifty than the interior rows, is credited with making the following suggestion: That trees be set in two rows, twentytiro to thirty feet apart, then a space of three hundred feet or more and two more rows of trees, and so on over the ground, the intervening three hundred feet of ground to be cultivated in such drops as may be desired, and the space between the rows of trees to be put in grass as soon as they begin to bear The cultivation of the ground yfould keep the trees healtlfy and conduce to their bearing fruit. The double rows of trees would shelter the crops belwoen and be beueheiai in that way.

Getting Erei «1U the School-teacher. The following bit of school-boy experience is from a humorous publication entitled “Mike Horn; the Independent Candidate for the Presidency,” by Joe Kerr, published by P. S. Drown & Co., St. Louis: Mike declared that he would pay “Old Silenoe,” as he called the teacher, for Whipping him, and not Jim Jones, and for several days he was planning how he should do it, but in vain, as it was a task that required considerable skill and ingenuity. At last, however, the opportunity came to him unexpectedly. He had, as usual, been “ doing nothing,” . and as a punishment had to stay in school during dinner time. It was a severe ordeal for him. Looking out of the window he could see the boys playing, and having a good time generally; he would rather take a dozen whippings than be deprived of his play hour. He, however, concluded to while away the time in drawing on the blackboard, for he had considerable talent m that direction. All at once a thought struck him—just the thing for revenge on “Old Silence.” He would caricature him and write his new name on the drawing and leave it to be seen by all the scholars. So he glanced about, and seeing the place clear of prying eyes, went to work. “Won’t he be mad?” chuckled Mike to himself. “That’s his nose exactly,” and he stepped backward to admire his work. *• No one will ever know who did it,” he thought as he added the eyeglasses and finished the work, much to his satisfaction. The scholars had hot long been assembled before the illustration was discovered, and its resemblance to the teacher recognized. A general titter went over the school-room and attracted the attention of the teacher. “ Silence !•” he exclaimed, looking up from his writing, at which geographies were in great demand bv the school.

“Simon, what amnses yon?” Simon George had left his geography at home, so his mirtn was beyond concealment. He did not dare to speak lest he should burst out laughing, so he simply pointed to the blackboard to which the teacher had his back turned. Mike Horn had his revenge; in fact he never enjoyed any thing so much in his life. His handkerchief was scarcely large enough to fill his mouth, and it was with great difficulty that he kept from laughing aloud. The teacher gave one look at the blackboard and then at the school. There was no merriment HOW »!»•••• ' “Silence” was about to vent his wrath land commence a search for the guilty person who had thus caricatured him, but the thought struck him that the course he had on the spur of the moment intended to pursue was not altogether a wise one, even though it might fie the most correct. What, then, was the astonishment of the school to see the stern features of the hard-heart-i ed school-master relax into a broad smile. In fact, he laughed quite heaitly, and again examined the drawing. “ Well, whoever did that,” he said, aloud, “ has a superior talent for drawing, and will make a great artist.” He pretended not to notice that it was intended as a caricature of himself. “ Surely that must have been done by some grown person; no scholar of mine, I imagine, can draw so well; if there is, he must receive instruction at once.” Mike Horn opened his eyes very wide; he was being praised for his work, and “ Old Silence ” did not recognize it as himself. “Well, that is too good,” he thought. “ Yes, whoever did that,” continued the school-master, still looking admirv ihgly at the blackboard, “ must take lessons in drawing and painting. Whh did it ?” Putting the question abruptly. - Mike, suspecting no deception on the part of the teacher, and thinking he had made a great hit, which would indeed make him a hero in the eyes of the school, rose to his feet, and, casting one glance of pride and grandeur over the school-room, said, grandly, “I did.” Every eye was upon him in astonishment and admiration. All except “ Silence ” himself—his eye was upon poor Mike, but not in admiration—the pleasant smile had left his face, and in its place a look of satisfaction at his own great cunning. “Mike Horn,” he said, “it was you?” “ Yes, sir.” “Well,” continued “Silence,” “you certainly deserve praise for your talent, as I said before, and should improve it, but you did wrong in ridiculing your superior in choosing such a subject for illustration, and for that I must punish you severely.” Mike was neatly trapped; he admitted that afterward; at the time, however, he was too frightened to reason much about it. The eccentric “ Silence” immediately dragged poor Mike to the front, administered to him a sound flogging, and compelled him to remain standing eu the small, stool all the afternoon; but Mike kept his voluntary promise—“He never did it again.” —Best quality of lard melts at 81 degrees.^_■

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