Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — Page 2

JI ST LIKK A PEACH. My love It lowly aa » peach Wph brantr ripe and rare. U h»t though aha be beyond.my ranch t To pralne her I may dare. Bar dn>ky,skin, her t,lu*hexAwwi Her rouiiiled, girlish f»<*. A Ho dimpled hniifl*. her liny feet, Her charming inrxleet grace. Her merry langh, b*r Amd>tn£ wit. Would make n eyific rave. Oh 1 should never lire of it If I could t»* her nlave.' But t>hc f« fnr beyond my reach, and 1 mu*l live alone. My love, very like |«-ach— , Shehat a heart of»tone.

THE RICH HUSBAND.

” Wonders will never cease," said Mrs. | Noakes, as she opened a letter she had j found lieside .Tier. piste at breakfast. I “Here is Cousin Corner coming home I after a’l ttseae y< are’. And snrlra letter. Just listen, mi dear: D*nr Counit: 1 sntyidw yon have nil made up i ye.,r min4Mhal.l am .Fa-t; Mt I'm alive, m you I Mt. * —t Im tired ul muru money- |. gruutrtrnt Srrt tfrnrr wtrj have mvie-In tmien • klr* that they need something eltein ibeworM. I I mean,to etid my <iny.- ninons my '.relatives; and I between rod iin.l me, 1 tihiill pirt them to the | Met. 1 want to find mil who ate really my friend j ■■4 whocoirt me for nsaaoii*. an 1 what 1 a»k I you ur do is to make tjieni think iuv a very poor man quite mil of picket; Blew hie ten laugh-j i.g out loud as 1 write. You should bear me. Tki make them think that I'm poor, and that it would be n charity to n«k meta pay them vi-iti and to invite me now anil then to dinner, and all that. There I am again laughing*until the rosm rings. And in this way I am discover my true irio ids. 1 shall come to your house first, dretM-d iu character.. I know it is alt old joke, quite a thing out of the .plays an 1 novels, but I trust 1 will succeed Your* affectionately. IiIIAIUAII CokNBK. P. S.—lxpecl me Thursday O. C. •If that isn’t the most amufitig thing,” said Mrs Noakes—“coming home eo BO" rich tiiat he hr snsoictotw of hisTtdalives, and afraid of being courted fbrhis money. And a bachelor, too! Dear, dear! Poor Obaliah Corner, who used to be the bla-k sheep of the family, and wf oiti w.‘ believed would never come to any good! How everything dots change about in this world! Life is a checkerboard, to be sure. % William, what a splendid tiling it would lie for Araliella Muffit.' 1 < ‘‘What would be a splendid thing for Arabella—a checker-board?” asked Mr. Noakes. > ‘Oh, Mr Noakes,” cried his wife, “don't pretend to be stupid, because you are n<t, my deary and y m don’t do ▼ourself jussice. I mean’Cousin ObSdiah.” “Cousin Obadiah would tie a good tiling for Arabella. Oh—yes—yes—-y-e'td” said Mr. Noakes. “Ob, I see; you rm an a gobi match fordier?” But Arabella Muffit, though a mostexcei- • lent person, is no longer young, and she’s never been handsome, ivy dear.” “Thai’s so ridiculous.” said Mrs. Noakes. “Arabella is much younger.than Obadiah, and by no means as plain as _kejs. Bn) thatl® fbjß men. The older and uglier they get the younger and prettier they think their wives should be. Boys of 20 sometimes fall in love with women of JO, blit men ©I 60 never think of any age beyond 16 wh ti they choose wives.” “Very nne;inrrtul,“ said Air. xhakes “And very ridiculous,” said Mrs Noakes “At ah events. 1 have an affection for Arabella, and I’ll’ do alLl can to ’ further her interests; and don’t forget that we must, keep Obadiahs secret from the rest of the relatives. 1 shall give Arabella a hmtof the real state of. the ease. But no- another soul shall know a word beyond what Obadiah has told me to tell them.” “ .Well, women must be match, makers. I srtpp •*•<. said Mr. .W.iak, ,-. as he swal lowed ..esp ot coffee and glanced at he dock; "bui don't calculate too ; much on success in this affair, my dear.” Then he took his ha' and coat and departed .tor those regions .cplloquiajiy.. ( known as "town, ’ where men of busi- i ruse hide themselves the best part of the day:, and shortly ..After Mrs, Noakes. ; having arrayed herseH for the-prome-nade, went out also, her purpose being a ■ confidential interview with the Arabella, ' of whom she had spoken toherhusband. i Arabella Muffit, known among her friends as Ifttle Miss Muffit, was a verv email black-eyed lady of 45 years old, who lived in a tiny house, principally furnished of fancy work that had been IBshioffable for the last twenty-five years. She had no near relatives, and could" remember none but the grandfather who left her the small property on which she now lived, but she had connections who took tea with her occasionally and with whom she dined at times; for the. rest church-going, needlework, and books occupied t her time. She opened the door for Mrs. Noakes her.el and having kissed her on both cheeks escorted her to the bedroom above, Where she waa busy with a chalr-i cover. ‘N ow We can have a nice chat,” said ; she. “And. you will qtay to lunch, won’t] you, Martha?” z ’Martha promised to stay, and having taken off her cloak and hat dropped into • a chair and produced Obadiah Comer’s letter. “There," said she. “read that, Arabella.” ArabeHa read it, changing (0 : 0r a 3 B } le did bo. . ‘ “Dear Are,” she said, “how romantic j . he. must bc.\ He nerer o ea to be ro-! mantle; 1 changed very - uiucu m these uve-and-twentv rears.

He must be 67 now. And to think of his having made a forlnne and wanting to prove his friends sißcejre. Martha do you think you ought-1* betray him?” “No, I do hot,” aaid Martha, “and I - shall lei) noons but you. I had a motive in telling yon, and he says in a p. Htscript he’ll be here on Thursday; I want you to dine with tU on Thursday and meet him.” 4 Poor Araliella looked in the glass sadly. “He’D find ma dreadfully changed,” said she, “Uul I’ll come, Martha." “Bits ’ you, we all change! We can’t help that,” said Mrs. Noakes. “I never worry about It;” and then they fell to talking about Obadiah and what he used to do, and what had been doing, and found the subject so interesting 1 that they kept it up . over the cold j chicken, sponge cake; etc., shat com- | posed their lunch. When ThurktUy evening arrived it found little Miss Muffit in Mrs. Noakes’ parlor,witting opposite a burly looking man, whose nose was rather red and | wh<si eves were not honest, candid ) ey< sßy any means, tie wto dressed very shabbily, to say the least, and hail whispered to Mrs. Noakes in the hall, “Take notice of this coat; it carries out I the character, doesn’t it? I look like a ' s edy bld man who had had ill luck, don’t I,” ap.d he pudged Mr. Noakes withoneelbow and Mrs. Noakes with the other, while they mentally agreed that he did look the character meet thoroughly. On the whole, it was a rather pleasant evening, and Arabella and Obadiah got on finely. He promised to take tea at her housein a few days and saw her home at 10 o’clock. The rest of the connections, not having read Obadiah’s letter, were not deHghttrtl at his return. They saw him shabbier that ever, and were very careful to keep at a distance. Mrs. Ndakes often smiled to herself to .think what, a difference, that letter would have made in their conduct if they had known ii; but she wisely held her tongue and left a fair field to Arabella. In a little white, to her joy and the great surprise of Mr. Noakes. Obadiah -Corner actually proposed to dittle Miss Muffit and waa accepted by her. “Such a rplendid thing,” said Mrs. Noakes. ‘ Such a .wonderful thing for Arabella, and it shall all come out now!” Thereupon Mrs.,Noakes wentcalling >• :. ng reAiives showing Obadiah’s letter every where and creating great excitement. • ... ; “A i.d wbat can he see in little Miss Muffi'?” said one mother of many daughters. “And though 1 say.it—who,, perhaps, should not—there’s my Marguerite—such a beauty.” “But Maguerite was very rude to Cousin Obadiah,” said Mrs. Noakes.' . “The idea of an old man like that marrying—with relatives lie cou'd .leaxejmMhmg-iQlld——-—sa. “But men don’t leave everything to relatives who insult them,” said Mrs. Noakes. Besides, Obadiah is not very old—not. old at all. It’s just splendid for \rubella, and she was the only one who was civil to hiip, you know.” Then Abe went, away, leaving the con-, nections generally envious of Miss Muffit and angry with her also, as one wlio had been wiser in her generation than they. • And Miss Muffit, so hap_py_that she began to grow plump was making, up a ■pearl colored ,silk dress, and had sent sogxA’jieyla thathad behn left to Biejr l >y her grandfather to the jeweler’s to be ; reset,' and sat one evening building, castles in the air. with her feet on the ier.dt-r of the grate, when the he'll rang and hereld/’rly lover was shown in. There was no light in the room but that of the fire; and as she wouid have lit the drop-lamp, he stopped her. ‘;I want to- talk a - little,” he said, “and I like talking in a half-light. Arabella, I’ve a question to ask, and I want you tn arswer rqe truly.’ I' want you to promise solemnly that you’ll tell me the truth.” “I will,” said little Miss Muffir, faintly. “Whatever the question is, I’ll tell the truth, Obadiah.” “Well, then,” said Obadiah, “did you see the letter I wrote Cousin Noakes?” The blood rushed to Miss Muffit’s face in the darkness. I—l—. Yes, I saw it,” she said. “I know no one else did,” said Obadiah. “But yon—she showed it to you? ■Well, I intended she should. I wrote it to-be seen, I never thought Cousin Noakes could keep a secret. Arabella, I’m a poor man and a rascal! I have met with nothing but failure. You are rich in comparison. , You've a home ami twelve hundred a year. My letter was only a trap. I wanted every one to See it. and hopsd to Settle comfortably i down among my friends with the i tation of being a rich bachelor with a ■ fortune 10 leave behind him. You only saw the letter. You only were civil,and I offered myself to you meaning to impose on you until .we were safely married. I cared very little for you then Arabella! I wanted a home that was all.” - .7: ” J" , 4 Oh,” cried little Miss Muffit, 'as if ■ something had stung her. - "But smee then.” said Obadiah, look-. ing miserably into the fire, “since, Lnen i’ye found out howgood you were—how good, how sweet—l’ veeome to love I yo% Arabella, and tofeel that I mustn’t lay a trick on you. It waa natural you* tmouid like uuc iffioughw of & rich

! band—and then we were great friends ”aa boy and girl. I don’t blame you, land can’t ebeat you. I think it will I break my miserable old heart • But I good-by, good-by. I’ve eome to aay good-by, and beg your pardon,my dear. They’ll say you had a lucky escape. 8o you have. I’m going.” He aroae, but little Mine Muffit aroiw too. : “Obadiah,”»hesaid ‘I never thought of the money. Obadiah, don't think ;hat of me. And denyou care ioT me now?” “The only tiling in the world I love,” he. Then she held out her tremixing i hand. “Stay, Obadiah,” said she. And he caught her hind and kiwted it, and in the darkness she heard him sob. So they were married after all, and Obadiah has turned out better than could have been expected, and only Mrs, Noakes knows of that bridabeve confession, and qhe, you inay be sure, keeps the secret.

BRILLIANT BRIEFS.

The. snake excels the rest of the] world in dis ability to make both ends meet. - . ■ Fashions formales don’t change much; still there is always a new wrinkle in coat tails. It may sound paradoxical, but we can’t help remarking that fogs never would be mist. Education is a good thing when it does not directly unfit a man for working for a living. As autumn merges into winter the growing corn is supplanted by the growing chilblain. A man can be put dow-p on the lazy list when he claims that breathing all day is, work enough for any one. A man out In Kentucky has just found a heavy pot of gold. It is likely that he lifted it with three jacks. A sportsman wlio can’t bag anything else effir bag his trousers by crawling on his Hands and knees behind fences. Sympathy won’t pay our board bill.. Perhaps that’s why one’s friends often volunteer to lend vast quantities of it. Why is the letter u like a creamery as compared with a common dairy? Because it makes batter lpittpr. > ..y.O4J-kmrw.' It is said tliat a small hand ir.d;cates refinement, and yet we have Seen small hands, and heITT them, too, b’ thunder, .tliat brougi • Augnage anything but refined. When j ou see a iqan look at his watch and put it back 4,» his pocket, ask him the time, and in nine cases out of ten he can not tcli youTauvit he has"lboked~at’ it again.

Paterson’s Silk Industry.

Merchant World. An enormous length of silk ribbon is manufactured in Passaic county,- N. J., yearly. In the city of Paterson“"aloffie during the past month the siik manufacturers have u s ed up 805,625 ribbon labels, and as it is only an average month that would make 3 667,500 labels in a year, Each label is wound on a block containing ten yards of ribbon, which would inake 36 6.75,0(X) yards a year made in Paterson alone. This is 110,02i,000 feet,and in 110,025,000 feet there are a little less than 22,731 miles. This would reach from Washington to Java and back. It is two and a half times the distance to Canton, China; three times the distance io the Cape of Good Hope, and seven times across the ocean from New York to England, ~~Patersbn~man-" ulacluresThree quarters of all the ribj bon made in this country. About one- , tenth as much more is imported. As a j considerable quantity is exported it i would be impossible to estimate how much is consumed in America; but a careful calculafion would perhaps maker it about 30,000 miles a year, or considerably more.than enough to put-a silken belt around, the eart h. The output in broad silk iu yaiYis is abqut one-tenth that of the ribbons in this' country, And the product in silk handkerchiefs about one-tenth more. The value runs up into the millions annually. Directly and indirectly the silk manufacture in Ameri a -gives employment to about 65,000 people. < -

The Visitor Did Not Stay.

•an Francisco Chroniele. « One time Mister Deyutig, which i< the editor of “The Cronkle,” he was a sittin in and prety soon a big u.ly man come in with a vffle great stick like a tre, and he sed, the man did, was the editer in. ~* Mister Dej tinghe looked at the man a wile, and then he looked at the stick, an bineby he sed. “Tha deuends. If ; you have cum for to sell a nice main boom for a yothe-is in, and he will be : pleasedto-eee~yeu,-lmt if youonly wont to fine ont Wot sun of a sea cook rote a certain piece in the paper he is too bizzy a man for to be bothered with sech . tr;fles, and so ne has gon put of town.for to shoot Then the man he sed, “W.ot is yure ’pgition on this paper, my good fetTer?” Mister Deyung he sed, “Wai, I don’t [mind tellin you, if voa will keep it to I yure own self, that by honable con duo. ; and striek to dewty and being heheerfie and obeediaut I have attained [ tlie pQsitioij. .ux, pTk'pri“ t- Then the man-begave him a withery i giants and Went a wav. . Texas listings:. of a walkring match are properly called gait I 1 money. ~ . 1

THE MODEL COW.

How I hii* Useful Animal Shonld Be Bred and Fed. ~ t | rat N«r Zotrm. - ; Perlet ion in breedings eow is prebsnni finable by mankind; but as here at different models for the same, necessity fur different purposes, it should be the farmer’s erideayor to breed whatever kind he can and seep |it as perfect for its special use as poseiI ble.. Before attempting a particular j description, ot each of these, I wish to I speak of what they should be in generI era’. I- ’ 1 Every epw worthy to be bred from, if not polled—which is really best—ought to possess as small, flat and rather short horns as possible; a fine head, with dished face; open nostrils; a good-sized mouth and bright, glowing eyes, slighvly prominent. The neck must be fine, harmoniously extending to the shoulders and without dewlap; the chest either broad or deep or both combined, requisite for its particular purpose; the bofly level from the crops to the end of the rump, round and well-ribbed up, rather broad across the loin and hips; full in the tYvist and a fine well-set tail; thin thighs; clean, flat legs, .hoofs of moderate sire, tough and clear; the udde* extending well forward and behind, rather than deep, with four square-set ‘".ts, long enough to fill; the hand, of the milker. Now for particular requisites. The genera! purpose cow.—Some contend that such a cow does not exist, but? I know that it doe s, and that is the very best and most profitable sort to keep by the fiyrmer who is not devoted to the special purpose of making either cheese or butter, or selling hia milk Iresh. Such a cow annually drops a calf that fattens nic&iy to a satisfactory weight on its mother's milk when one month old, ana can then be sold to the butcher for a good price and turn out first quality veal. Or it can be raised at a moderate costy as a steer or cow, according to its sex; and then parked with if desired at a fair profit. This cow will give from 16 to 24 quarts of milk of good quality when flush, and if properly fed and treated she will continue to yield a fair mess til within one or fwb months as may be desired. The milk will be found excellent for family use, and for the makineof butter and cheese. When the eow becomes aged, she can be dried off easily, and economically fattened and turn out an excellent carcass of beef. In make up she should be as near my genefkl-description above as ponsible, and- broader . behind, than forward—in fact, moderately wedge shaped. • The breeds of cows which have for many years past been and still are the mt at satisfactory for the general purpo;e of the farmer are the -Shorthorn an 1 its cognates, the Yorkshire of Eng--laii-d-fthe-Devon, the Polled Norfolk and (Suffolk”, an d the (Guernsey, also, to some extent. The grades of the above often excel- in this respect, especiailj r when as high as three-fourths .or seven-eig’m:..-. bred^— The dairy cow, such as particularly excel in yielding a large quantity of milk of fair quauty, to sell to tiie population of towns and cities, or to make into cheese, may also approach, or be as perfect in form-as is required by ll*e above /description; but it is not'necessary for a goo.l yield of product trial she be so fine and shapely in all her points, as a superior dairy product is the great censideration. The dairy cow ought, to be considerably Broader behind than so; --ard, quite wedge?shape.!, with' a lar x r stomach capable of first rate digestion, and deep, rather than fall, in the chest. When milking it is not expected that she will take on flesh, but give,.all she consumes to the production of milk, I retaining merely enough nutriment-to keep her strong and iu good health. Now and loenone of these cows Ino'st excelling in the dairy make a fair quality of beef when dried off and fattened for this purpose; but it is not expected that she will do so as a general thing, and it may not be profitable to strive for it. They are satisfactory for the daily alone that is enough—all that should be asked of them. The breeds, of dairy cows which generally excel in the richness of the qua I ty of their milk are the Guernsey and the Jersey.. Next <:ome the Devon and the Red Polled Norfolk and Suffolk. The Ayrshires and , Hol stein- fjpiesians yield milk of a fair quality- nbuntifully, the latter, chiefly on account of their larger size, much excelling. Indeed, they yield in our country beyond all precedent known in any other. The beef cow ought to be of the Lest possible form, round and smooth, and fine in all her points. The chest should be broad and deep, with a goed projection of brisket; the. crops fuller than in a dairy cow, andtfie’foreribs particularly well sprung, wide across ther Idiu and nips, with a low let down of the twist, flat thighs and clean limbs; ■the body thus presenting the shape, as nearly as p >s:b e, of a right-angled jrffielogr'’l - She should have a. n Tirate-!- J; udder and “teats, thb latter ■ set pare. she gives milk enough to bi. ? rup Tb -p flTfis is" all that cng fit regtj <:■; mr. The breeds of cattle most ’ought after for bwf are the Kyloe, the Alier-di-en-Angus and the Galloway, the Short-horn, the Hereford, the Devon and the Sussex. .

Our farmers are often very hegketfn) in not breeding their own cows. Unless some neighbor wbeee sleek they thoroughly well know is entirety suited for their particular purpose does it for them, they shou ; d invaribly breed for themselves. When they depend on cows of whjcj* they know nothing except their present appearance, they are often liable to.purchase ouch as-are not suitable for them, which entails a loss rather than a gain. Moreover, it is generally much cheaper to rear'one’s own cows than to buy others, conkfdering the present advantage of the use ot itnproved implements for all kinds of farming operations. Co this we may add the introduction for several years past of new sorts of excellent forage for soiling in summer and autumn, and for curing for winter feed. If the farmer pleases, with the ufle of these improved implements and the cultivation of suitable trope, he may defy, droughts whichliave so often been destructive to the profit,? of his occupa - tion. A steady and abundant growth of forage is absolutely necessary a supplement for short pasture for dairy cows. If their, daily yield of milk is not [ pretty regularly kept v.p it will he difficult, after it is much lersewed, and’ take considerable time to restore it to its former abundance. Thus not only a present but a future advantage is lost, to the great detriment of the farmer.

A Famous March, Lieut. Hamilton iu New York Post Looking through history, we find that though in all other particulars the art of war has matte wonderful strides, yet in the actual distiMices accomplished in marches on,foot the auciente were- fully equal to? modern soldiers. In fact, the most wonderful feat ever recorded in marching was Ujcoinplisbed by the ancients. In the second Punic war Han-, niballay waiting at Canusium for his brother Hasdrnbal to bring him reinforcements from Spain. Facing Hannibal was a Roman army under the Consul Claudius Nero, while opposite Hasdrubal was another Roman army under the Consul Livius. Leaving the main body to hold and deceive Hannibal, Claudius, with a picked body of 1,000 horse and 6.000. foot, marched secrctly and quickly to Livius, and joining forces with him they hurled themselves on Hasdrubal and defeated him. Claudius then at one- marched 'isok again before Hannibal was aware of his brother’s defeat. tlie distance between Canusium and Serra Galiicia, the place of the battle, by the best authorities, is g.ven a. tue. least measr ureiiient asffffaiiiilrs. 'Hie march was made each way in six days, or at the rate of over thirty-seven miles a day. But this march is an exceptional one, and, if believed, must stand out like so many other of the wonders- of the ancients. What Elect ions Cost. Troy “ Times." Toe New York World shows) by a series of tabulated figures that SI,OOO, 000 was spent in that city to secure the election, of local officers. The larger part of the am runt curie, of course, from a.esei srfients upon Democratic i office-hoitlors and candidates. When to (be sums sO contributed is a-iiled r.’je campaign fund expended under the auspices of the Ds-hocr t H -Scttemittee, which approximate another 41.000,000, the frigh.ttul extent .to which money, is used at elecxions ' will be. ap■Bareflt. When .will rhe. -pa.sple’ call a bait upon {his monster evil? r -t No “Special'' Had Been Engaged Washinst n Crltit. “Mary,” s.b! die old gentleman, severely., “I tuink I saw you em Drawing young Blinkeraly this evening.” “Perhaps you did, papa.” “ And yesterday evening Snifkenshad his arm around your waist.” “Well, papa?” «■ r' “And the night b-iore that it was Brovin whose arm encircled you.” “What of it, papa?” “Nothing, only I think it’s about time for me to take up the franchise for this Associated Press arrangement.” The Man to Carry New York Cincinnati TineaAtar. Senator Evarts doubts if any Western candidate could carry New Ywk. Hd mav have sounds reasons for eo believing, but this ie a matter of conjecture me-ely inasmuch, as no reasons are given by him. ’ In the popular memory the fact remains—and dueamportance » attached to it—that two Western candidates have carried New York since the war, and that the only Eastern candidate of the party —Mr, Blaine —lost New York. ’■ • A Means of Controlling Correspondence. Mishawaka Enterprise, Parents or guardians who desire to break up an undesirable’. cc<rteepen-’ the part pf the young people can resort to the postmaster tp.Lelp ’them. Here is .-thel law gs it rea-’L: “All letters addressed;to girls under eighteen years of age, oi to boys under twenty-one years of age. wil! be plrcnd in care of their parents or guardians-.” Tommy's Sarpr>se. lisirjerYoung Pv i e. Little Tommy (who has never been out of the city before) Oh! oh! dill Lady—What’s thematter, TornuTy 7 ’ Little Tommy—Why, what a big sky ! they’ve got here, miss. j

FIGHT WITH A WHALE.

A Finback ftmashea a Boat and Kill* ITiree Mea. ' '< ■* ' , I - - Proviaeetowa, Mm., special,Nov. 19. The whaling steamer Liwie N., Capt. West, has been engaged in thefinback whale fishery, on the eastern eoast, this season, on Oct. ft when about fifteen miles east-southeast from Reguin island, off the coast ot Maine, saw a large, tone whale of that species and attempted its capture. A bdat was lowered and manned by Captain West, his mate and four seamen. Captain West, wdfh a large, heayy whale gun, in which was an explosive bomb lance, took the breach of the !>oat, while the mate steered. Upon approaching the whale it was seen tha’ he would, be an ugly customer to deal with, as he showed.no inclination to run, but kept slowly moving around, evidently waiting to be attacked. When tlm boat was near enough to warrant a shot, Captain West fired the gun, but as the sea was rough the motion of the boat destroyed the accuracy of the aim. The whaio was badly wounded, but not in any vital part. The whale then made for the boat, and in passing under it struck it with his flukes, throwing it some thirty feet into the atr with its erew. As the boat descended the whale again struck it with its tail and completely demolished the boat and killed one of the crew, Jacob K’.oek, cutting him completely in two. •The whale then commenced to bite,and strike with its tail, at the pieces of the boat, killing two more- Neil Olsena and Chns Johnson—who ware supporting themselves on pieces of the wreck. Captain West, the mate and th& other men were. safely taken aboard the steamer and another boat was lowered capture the monster. Then the w'tiaJu attacked the steamer. By a quick turn of the rudder the steamer cleared him by a few feet. Th’s occurred a second time, and the .swell which was created by the whale’s fall back into the water knocked all on board off their feet. By throwing over an immense cask, at which the whale, thinking it Was the ship, kept backing away, the Captain was enabled to get a shot with the bomb lance, and finally the whale was killed.

TOMMY ON AUTUMN.

An Kutretaining Essay from the Pen of Our Young Man. This it Thee thurd sheson of thea yeer. it Has 2 naims, faui And aughtum. punkins and Winter squashes Is Ripe in oughtum and is reddi tu be hauld hoatn punkins is feltu the Cows mostli, but Squashes is kookd fur thea famly tn Ete. Sum of them Is giv awa tu thee nabers whats bin too lazy tu rase thare own. Thea qucumber Bugg rases Hop with the squash vines, and It Goesfermellens and things when he gets A chance. there is Lots ot kinds- of buggs in natcheral histri. Thay isdifrundt shaip and koler naimli: Thea pot at er bu gg, the api nch bugg, thea Joon bugg, The chinch bugg, the Litening Bugg, Thea dride beefe bugg. Thare is a hull drove ot Bugs besides, but i kant Think of thare naims just how. In aughtum squinulls is Fat and maik good Pott Pi. mi Bruther joehoway shot 8 thea uther Da. mi Pa set Him to plowing and he sneaked off And Wente hunting. Pa Felt riled Up and promist Him a thrashing, but Hee never Got it, cans mi Ma took joshes part and sed so Mutch, that Pa Let Him go. Wimrain is poore Hands tu rase A family of Boys, in the aughtum the skoole Dereckters Hire a man teecher fur our skool. in the summer we allwais have A ladi Teecher; cans its cheaper, bat it Taiks a %tout feller tu teech thea winter skule; cause aul the Big bovs go then. A skulemom cudnt Handel them. Skule Techers expeckt tu gif. Licked about twict A week. It taikes Lots of Edgukashun tu maik a Teecher. Tha knonwl Abouhspeling, Reeding, jografy, Grammar, ritbmotick and Rtteing. mi Pap see, He donte 8e no yoose in a Boys studdying grammer; It aint No benifit tu Him in Reel life. I like jografl Best. A oshun is A boddi of Watur surrounded By Land, a eyland is A. boddi of land surrounded By watur. Ships sale on thee oshun. when Pokes aipt yoosed .tu Riding in a bote, it moastli all wais maikes Them si.k tu Thare stnmmicks. Seesickness is worse than Luvsieknes, i Hurd mi sister Tel her Intamist jung Ladi fiend so.

A Generous Fat her.

“Oh, George,” said the happy girl, “do you know what papa gave me last night when I told him that I had consented to be your wife?” “No,” responded,George, endeavoring to conceal his anxiety, as visions of a check loomed up before him; “what was it he gave you, dear?” And the girl, bowed her head on his coat collar and murmured: “Hia bless-

She Spoke Too Soon.

“I want to ask you a question, Mies Smith,” he said’ in a iow, tatter tone of voice, ‘land may I net hope that you will.say yes, that you ” ’ “Really, Mr. Sampson,” interrupted Miss Smith, Austerely, “I beg of you not to go on. Jtisimpossi . “Teat yon,” he went on, not heeding her itucrriiutem. “will go with me to lJehnoniv o’s for a disb of.ice cream?” - i'. Miss Smith, without J austerity- —- —- 4 ——w It is’generaily conceded that a sleep’ , ing beauty is a nod woman.

TOMMI.