Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 6, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 October 1875 — Page 2

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A PAPER

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IU heart break:«and II* strue. Wecan only t*«»K*•"»

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AH suWect to «-rrtr*nl woe. TU-n IrtV- -J ch ij,i u« uiii .-vajr»

RSsi »pu«—

for tn our oloact dayR? bgaoKhttoUght.

Edward Brown, Stoker,

in tiio midst of life we are in deal Those word* sounded »o quiet and sol 01,111 that Mi»rv a«d I stopped short closo to the #*kl-fashiorM!d lych gate at the lit

Mowery and old, a great clump of tbo biinceat and oldest yew trees I ever saw, and a tail thick hedge separating the churchyard from the clergyman's houso. The iuu was shiuia# brightly, turning the Itekeu-eovered roofs of the church and the »i«irage iot/i ^old from the

It was mv f.mcy perhaps, but as we atn»ll-d round that churchyard, and road a tombstone here and aboard there, it neeiu"d lis if no sooner had the parson gone in to tnk" olT his surplice, and the mourner* loft tho churchyard, than tho whole pUo# woko up again into busy life. A chaffinch came and jerked out IU bit of a song in one of tho yews, the Oiiinrftffiwiit in a form close bv set up their loud «ryit» {, the jjeeao shrieked on the green, anti creaking, and rattling, and bntupii) Jf, Hore cauio along a highfilial of tho nwwtiwit bov thnt ever was ©night in loosohandfuls by tbo boughs of the trw, and thou toll noAly baok iuto Ihe ro.id.

Wo weri very quiet, Mary and I, as wo strolled out or the churchyard, down one of tho lane*, and then crossing a stile, we went through a couple of Holds, and sat down on another stile, with the high hedge on cither side of us, and tho Atefldew, tbat they wore beginning to rtow at the other end, one glorious bed or il iwers and so It feathory grass.

Pollv," MVi ht last, breaking tho silence, '"alnH this hflnvenly T" And you feci bolter T" ske says, laying her hand on mine.

BeUcrl" I sjiys, taking a long draught of the soft sweet-scented air, and tilling my chest—"better, eld girl! I reel aslr I was growing backwards Into a l»oy."

And rnu ftfty laat week she says. A Y«w,'rI"ays, smiling, "and you tor-ty-eeven n«ili wi»ek.", And then wo sat thinking f«r a bit.

Polly," I says at lost, as I sat thoro drinking iu that soft brwnco, and fcellntf it give me strength, "it's w*rth be log ill ojily to feel as I do now." fvr yon we I'd been very b*df I tiare say I'm not the man to go hanging •bout churchyards mud watcinng funerals I'm a stoker, and mv work liosin steamen trading to the hast. I'd oomo borne from my last voyage l»d with fetor, naught out in one of thorn nasty hot bad-sii»elllag ports—been carried httntn to die, as mv mates thought and it was being like this, and getting bettar* that had set nw thinking soaeriously, and made me ao QUiot not that I was ever a noisy sort of a man. as any one who knows me will say. And now after getting letter, the doctor bad said 1 moat go into tbo oountry to get strong so as there was no more vovagIng till I was strong, there was nothing for It but to leave the youngsters under the car* of the oldest girl aud a neighbor, and oiune and take lodgings in this aolet Surrey village.

Polly thought I never should «rrt bet« ter, and one time more did I tor about a month bo ft) re this time, aa 1 lav hollow^ved and y®Uow on the bed. knowing', too, how had I looked—for I u*ed to make yoOng Iick bring me tbo

SSiffiuSS."**"0"'

All"rfgbt, doctor I mts stand y»o mean that tmf««

hinds

In fo-i, 1 k-iow 1 was drifting fi«t, sn

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PEOPLE

TERHE II AUTE, OCT. 16,1875.

JtiO W LITTLE Wb KSQ N'. How little i«'W of =rt-h o:h»r? W* pa*sth. "«*U the. nicy With it *Tru«#i«

surface,

h\w pt-opU- dory In ti. And a^u:.if«#«

ToU»«t win hra«f«*.

Mr -X

POIIT,

my dear,"

."tin.

How little we knew of each other!

Tkf WISH to-'1 I*V RlMwrd with 'ftun- iu»«l .nor and titles, Ami holdtn* head on high, Mav carry a dr«ad ''t with t**«*

V^fcieh make* his own (w«ora a neli, An4 be, IKMBV or later,a felon, May writhe tn the prisoner a ce»l. Hon Utile we know of «*ch pi

That womM of f.*hiefi. who -iicer* At lite |«K»r i. bet f.iy«d »tid abandoned, And loft t* unr nd tear*. Mar, er* the »nn rt*e* te-iuorrow,

I lave the ran-dt Mirn from her fcce, And «ink torn th« i.. her f' TO tUO tfukllllUlni «i uiiUfflB Wu tlisJttCf. How little we know ef each other! it our »«i vo* too liuie wc know. W',' aro all wenk wlnw under U)inpU!wn,

*ty«.

"1 J"**™*"1

a few words with the doctor «&«

My dear fellow," he says honestly, "I've done everything I can for your

^^That's what you think, doctor," 1

MVS,

"but look here: I've been at sea thlrtv vcar», and it* seven wrecks. It been like dodging death with me a score of timwi. Wliv, I pulled my wile there reeularly out *f the hands of death, and I'm not going to give uj» now. 1 vo

stop, stop," ho says gently. ou're exciting yourself." .« Kot a bit," I sa.vf, though my vol.-.' was quite a whisper. "'I've had this over all night, and I've come to think I must be up and doing my duty."

But, my good man "he began

But, my gool inan—— ne wfjau.

Then I shan't tako it," I says. "He's give me up, and that stuff's only to keep me quiet. Polly, vou go and make me some beef-tea, and make it strong."

She looked horrified, poor old girl, and was about to beg of me to tnko hold of thi1 rotten life-belt he'd sent me, when I held out my shaking hand for it, took tho glass, and let it tilt over—there was only about a couple of tablespoonfnlsin It, and tho stuff fell on tho car-p«-t.

I saw the tears como in her eyca, but she said nothing—only put down tho glass, and ran out to niako tho beef-tea.

The doctor didu't oomo till late next dav, and I was lying very still and drowsy, ijalf asleep like, but I was awake eiVntgh to hear him whisper to Polly, fast j" and^ I heard her give such a heartbroken sob, tllftt AS the next great wave came on the sea where I was floating, I struck out with all my might, rose over It, and floated gontly down the other side.

For the next four days—putting it as a drowning man striving for his life like a true-hearted fellow—it was like great foaming waves coming to wash over me, but the Shore still In sight, and mo trying hard to reach it.

And it was a grim, hard flght: a dnr^n

arms, and watching face safe on shore but a look at that always cheered me, and I fought on again and again, till at last the sea seemed to go down, and, in utter wearinww, I turned on ray back to float restfully with the tide bearing me shorewards, till I toucbod tho sands, crept up them, and fell down worn out, to sleep in the warm sun—safe!

That's a curious way of putting it, you may say, but it seems natural to me to mix it up with the things of seagoing life, and tho manner in which I've seen so many men fight hard for their lives. It was just like striving In the midst of a storm to mo, and When at last I dW fall Into a deep sleep. I frit surpriuedllketo find myself lying in my o*n bed, with Polly watching by me and when I stretched out my hand and took hers, she let loose that which she had kept hhkfen from me before, and. failing on her knees by my bodside, she sobbed for very Joy.

As much beef-tea snd brandy ss you ean get him to take," the doc*or says, that afternoon and it wasn't long before 1 got from slops lo solids, and then was sent, a» I told you, into the country to get strong, while the doctor got no end of praise for the cure be had made.

I never said a word though, even to Polly, for he did his best ont I don't think any medicine would have cured me then.

I was saying a little while back that I pulled mv wife regularly out of the

k^nMrUw every unorning-^the doc- hands of death, aad of course th«t was Erelong usual, and likeTblunt Eng. when we weni^th lUhman Iput it to bim flat. though, lor the matter o? that, donvt

Doclor"' I ssvm ••vmi kmt think I feel much dlfSwent and can't well see ahallSt UterY" and I looked him the change. That was in one of ilt»

my man!" he says, I^T lKUe n*'mhiK»kle sort

bUCk

-So"V«fU.»t, doctor," I-jr.: "oat mor. do« lo .h^ w.lb«r lMn hc m.lw with It likes man. I ean stand it I've or finding of the £»«. lM«n expecting to he drowned or blown that tbey used to find tbeit half my life, ao I shan^t be scared at port and yet the passenger*, poor

thrtt*t tot» the furtj teen, arc when the padtlle-wlieel* nrt\onIy

sh«

t»ot her apron up to h»r eyes awl vent out. closing tbe door after her very softly while the doctor looked at me curious like, and waited for mo to speak.

Doctor," I says, "you've about Riven

up. There, don't shake your braid, for I know. Now don't you think I in afraid to die, for I don't believe I am, but look here: there's seven children down stairs, and if I leave my wifo a widow with the few pounds 1 ve been able to nave, whet'* to become of them Cant y«»u pu'l me through

wav'/f'very~bii

Listen, to-me, doctor I «ajs A .^nktri«i» 'hiniBJj

score of times 1 might have given up and been drowned, but I mado a tight for it and was saved. Now I mean to make a fight for it bore, for the sake of the wife and bairns. I don't mean to die, doctor, without a struggle. I believe this here, that lift's given to us ail as a treasure to keop we might throw it away by

ottr

but

moved and thought together, we huuior nie in my madness. •wont in eofllv to tlie funeral, and stood That's better, dot-tor, I says. No at a little disiftnt'"1 mo with rav hat off look here, sir, speaking as one who has lid bent down, till sailed the seas it's a tern bio stormy ihi SSJhi over. There it is all

time with

auaio aa I'm tolling it to you, come back f\t hand, the tir(* are drov' ®",c' a* fresh and clear a» if I was looking at unless wo can get up a bit of sail, there It now a pretty little old fashioned no chance for iiniii with a «iono wall round the can vou j^t up of nail v£d wl?i th« lay pretty thick Ml go and send yon something that looklngi green^nmi ^J'T1SSSt^ ^Snl#»g »o irivsolf. "And now look hero," I says, "I'm not going to give up till the last and when that last^jmes, and the ship's going down, wliv, I shall have a try if I can't swim to satety. If that fails, and

own folU' at any tims,

there's hundreds of times when we mav j»reserve H, and wo never know wLJtber we ean save it till we try. Give's a drink of that water."

He held tho glass to iny lips, and I ,v- took a big draught, and went or, he

^'viluieThuriyard" and then, «s if seeming all the time to he stopping to

me there's a lee shore close

I can really feel that it is to be, why, I

i».|» I »hVA to ,••»» i»f» t'i© grofttdeep

irees ci»!»n lit,,, lon^fnl nuiH. nravincr of birds, aad away past tho village houwM bathed iu tho bright afternoon aunshine there were tho tields of crimson clovt-r, and the banks lull of golden brsnn and gorse. Over all was a seneq of !-ui?h peaee and silence that itseouied as if there was nothing torrible, only a quiet wfiiiess in the funeral, with its few mourners «Unding by the open grave and tho grav-halrod clergyman stand In bv and Ixst of nil, when Mary and I went up and looked into the grave, and read on the collir.-plate, "Aged 77, onu couldn't help feeling that the poor ooul had only gono to sleep tirod with a long life.

calmly, like a hopeful man, praying that fionielKKly above will forgive mo all I've done amiss, and stretch out His fatherly hand to my liUIoones."

Ho went awav, and I dropped asleep, worn out with mv exertion. When woke, Polly was standing by the bed-side watching me, with a bottle and glass on the little table.

As soon as sbe saw my eyes open she shook up tho stuff, and r*ured it into wine glass. "Is that what tho doctor sent?" I says. •'Ye", dear yon were to take it directly."

The skipper was behaving very oli and he kept «s sll at the pumps, turn and turn ia spells, but we might as well have trie.1 to pump tho dry and when, wtth thn water g*lnin« fast, toUi liitM what we thought, ho owned as it

wsh

ao use, and we gave up.

We'd all been at it, crow and passen 2f»rs, about forty of us altogether, in cludinc the women—five of them tliev wwe, «w*«l they wero all on deck, lashed in a sheltered place, «ioso to tho poop. And wry pitiful it was to see them fighting hard at ilrst and clinging to the side, but only to grow wenker, halfdrowiml as they were and I saw two

nml

fool luff

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1 v.,

'your

r„r,. mv mtn,** be saps «trmpt«m« are of a very grave nature, Ymi see the liver h*» undermined yo« helbre vou came home, and unless

things, knowing no better, nsed to take nasnsge, aye, and mak* a voyage too from vrhlea they never got back.

Well, I was working on hoard a steam eras t)K»v used to ml! the Equator, and

I under* heavy iadeo, and with aboot twenty

YOU mean tbat tmfoss you ean pswsengers hoard, we started w*» •et a new plate In tl*9 boiler she won't fhsnnei with all well, til! we gol down blmk! another voww." right off the west c«"*a*t of Africa, whew

Oh eoaie we wont look upon it aa there oatno one of tbe heaviest «t«w* I ahooeW case," he sat* "therms al- was ever in. Kven for a well-fouad wavsboti#and after a little more talk steamer, such as they

ai»d went away. it would hsve be«n a hard flfht but

xSad*vwb«n h« earns I had heen with our poor shaky *oode« tub it was ihinkimr ii all over, and was pswly (br a hopele** case from the firs*. TUB grand essentials to hspj^ness s*R

Relieve I was a bit better (tar nklp^w m^e a brave flgbt^of^it

jUrtid un Sh55Eij JIT-1 Vt" to Wlf m* to Urn 1» «Som

EVFffil?, ti AITTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL,

•o dirow|»u^i Konlyi^b®

or fall «t is blown«U»an

out of the bolt-ropes, and at last tbo ship begins to drift fast for a !ee shore That was our case, and every hour the sea s*»etned to pet higher, and the wind more fierce, while I heard from morfc than «no titan bow fti*t the water was fainiag below.

Mv Oiate and »Udn't» wsflt any tellintt though. We'd lieen driven up out oi the suwk-hole like a pair of drowned rats, and came on deck to And the bulwarks rip|KHt away, and the *ea every now and then leaping aboard, and wanning the lumber abont in all directions.

hang dreoping

fur not

i'ikGtfrom their lathings, dead, f«r not #onl conld do thent a turn. was holding on by tho shrouds when the iiute got to tho skipper's side, and I saw in his blank white lace what he was telling bim. Ot'courso we couldn't hear kas words in such a storm, but we didn want to, for his lips said plain enougli-

She's sinking!" Next moment there was rush made Ibr the boats, and two of the passengers cut loose a couple of tho women placo was made for thein before the first lx.at was too full, and she was lowered down, and cast off", and a big wave carried her clear of tho steamer. I saw her for a moment on the top of tho ridge, and thew sho plunged down tho other side of sight—and that or evervliody else for how long she lived, who can say She was never picked up or heard of again. (jiving a bit of a cheer, our chap: turned to tho next, and wero getting in when there came a wave iike a mountain, ripped her from tho davits, and win I shook tho water from mv eyes there sho was hanging by one end, stove in, and the men who had tried to launch hor gone—skipper and, mate as well.

There were only so veil of us now, aud I could see besides tho tlireo women lashed to the side, and only ane of them was alive and for a bit no one moved, everybody being stunned-like with horror but their cauio a lull, awd feel ing that the steamer was sinking under our feet, I shouted out to the bovs to couie on, and we run to the last boatj climbed in, aud were casting off, when I happened to catch sight of tho women lashed under the bulwarks there.

Hold bard!" I roars, for I saw one Of them wavo her hand. Coine on, you fool," shouts my mate, "she's going down!"'

I pray I may never be put to it again, like that, with all a man's selfish desire for life lighting against him. For a IHOruont I shut my eyes, and they began to lite it was

And then I

boat—the boat

HOW A FA TJi F.H J1KJLPJ&D .TME BASilFUfhoVJCm There is »o fftolishneaa abottt tho fathers of* Dubuque comity,Towa who bavejnarrJjSKcable daught4?rs. and they know bowfo predpltat© j*"*1™** when tho fruit W ripe for

scurea nicu, wivu iwiig tuwu -»u go* round it, and a pair of little white hands Soon bo time to go to plowin'— no time

were stretched out to me as if. for h6lj Hold hard 1" I shouts. No, no," roared two or three, "there isn't a momentand na the boat was being lowered from the davits I made a jump, caught the bulwarks with my hands, and climbed back on board just as tho boat kissed the water, was un-. hooked, and floated awav.

_i »«i/i

Wo* warn*t long, thoogh, before w4 met again, for somehow we'd settled that we'd write and a twelve-month after Mary was back in England, snd my wife. That's why I said I took her like out of the hands of death, though In a selfish sort of way, being far. know, from oerfeet. But what 1 know, from pe..,„speaking as Edward Brown, stoker, Si this: Make a good flght of ter how black ma

rthings

mmen,jn#

UAl 1a«a

)d flght of st, no mat things may

look, and M&uville

leave the rest to ilim.—[*.

Feon, In Caseell's.

WIT AT IS THE St A

Prof. Rndolph. In a lengthy jfpfrrmt the sun. savs: "A molten or white-hot mass. 850,000 miles In diameter, equaling in bulk 1,300,000 worlds like our own. having a surrounding ocean of gaa on tiro 60,§00 mllee deep, flame darting upward more than

picking,

sud

hangs wasting its sweetness when should bo plucked. Matters vere brought to a climax with a r'1 *t eerWn -father's resident* in, Yetnon township recently. A yo'ang tiller of tho soul had ft»r months been paying most assiduous attentions to one of his daughters, but he was such a bashful, modest chap, never having been much in the company of girls, exeept this one, that ho had never been able to raise his courage sufficiently high to pop the all-

he had placed his heart, his courage would invariably "go back on him," and be would return to his lonely room in greater suspense than before. l*p«n the evening in question be had determined that, come what would, he would tell his Mary that he loved her. He would once for all decide the matter, but, as wpon former occasion, ho could

Itlrin! KAn

Then as I crept, hand-over-hand, to the girl's side, whipped out mv knife, aud was cutting hor loose, while her aud was cutting hor loose, w&ilo heii months ago, John, if you hadn't been so weak arms clang to mo, I felt a horribly skecry. I know'd all the tlmo what

IVUllllg wvSplU jy I boat was leaving us and I knew what a coward I was at heart, as I bad to figbt with myself so as not to leave the girl her fate and leap overboard to swim tormy life. I got the better of it though—, went down on my knees so as not to 6oe( tho boat, and got tbo poor trembling, clinging creature loose.

Now. my lass." I says, "guick"—and raised her up—''bold on by the side while I make fast a ropo round you." »toou up the f*

of despair (jome over me, for thq rou wanted to ask me but it wasn't my _® ..... n.wl I.MAtif ntuno irk on\r anvt.hlnff. TOI1 knOW."

you

—i the

warn there, for in

those brief Vxiou^mts she must have oap-

ras a grnn, nara ngni a ~..y uiwu.uu» —, ,Tr times I could liavo given up, folded my s^u, and we weie aloHo on the sinking said good-by to tho dosr old steamer, which now laj in the trough of the sea.

As soon as I got over the horror of tho feeling, a sort or stony despair came over me but when 1 saw that pule apt pealing face at my side, looking to me for help, that 'brought the manhood back, aud in saving encouraging things to ber I did myself good.

My first idea was to make something tbat would liost us, but I gave that up directly, for I could feel that I was helpleas and getting tho poor girl more intd shelter, I took a bit of tobacco in a sort of stolid wsy, and sat down with a cork Use-buoy over my arm, one which I had cut loose from where It bad bung for* gotten behind the wheel.

But I never used it, for the storm went down fast, and the steamer floated still, waterlogged, for three days, when we were picked np by a passing vessel, hall starved, but lioping. And during that time my compsnion bad told me that she was the attendant of one of the lady passengers on board and at last when we parted at tho Cape, she kissed my hand, and called me ber hero, who had «aved her life—poor grimy me, yoq fcnow

50,000

mi lee, volcanic forces that burl into the aolar atmaepbene luminous matter to the height of 100,(XW miWw, drawing to itself all the worlds belonging to oar family of planets and holding them all in their proper placws, attracting with audi superior Jbroe themUUons of so*ki snd stray rcmsses that are wandering the (fathomless abyss that they rush heltrfemir toward him and fall into his fleryeabtam."

Af\/^

{rtK

for lovo-makin' then, (lood night, gootl night hope I wasn't too rough, but I

whs

determined to tix the thing up one way or t'other and the old man went back to bed.

Now that tho ice was broken the young people laid ail their plans for the future, ami John feltjust a little bad at the comfort be baa lost when Mary lookod up at him slyly, and said: "Tliis would have been all light four

'place to soy anything, you know." No cards..

THE REASON WIlW

tVhy have birds gizzards Because, having n* teeth, the tough and fibrous gizzards are employed to grind the too*_ p.-oparatory to aigesUoD,

Why doc* A Wa^h down grow under tho fathers of a bird as Winter approaches Because the down is a nonconductor of Jieat and black tbo warmest color. :s

Why have ostriches small wings? Because, having long legs they do net require their wings for flight they are merely ttsed to steady their body while running,

Why can not flesh-eating animals live on vegetables? Becauso the gastric juice of a flesh-eating animal, being adapted to the dnty which it has to perform, will not dissolve vegetable matter.

Why are there so many bodily forms in the animal creation? Beosuaft the different creatures which God crested have different modos of life, and tbo forms of their bodies will be found to present a perfect adaptation to the lives allotted to them.

Why have birds with long legs abort talis? Because the tails or birds are used to guide them through the sir by steerage. When birds with long legs

V:nU9vf ®so tiiv uwiwii»^

STairW 8 jockjy gs J# "j GJA. 1 (Atlanta ConstltnUen. sas sitting in the wagon in front £r Whitehall street dry goods' store jlding the horses, whilo she made her purchases. She bad just come out to oonsnlt him and was standing on the curbstone.

Whafsthwtt" he«aclaimed. "W'v, say them striped stockin's

striped stockings?" I wants 'em fur Mary, an' the clerk se® they're tho fashin' now tetotally I"

Want 'em fur Mary,deye? l^ke blazes! I kno' ye, ole woman! Ye'd tell Mary she shouldn't war 'em only on Sundav, ami yo'd .be up two hour's 'fore-day and hev 'em on yer own shanks every Sunday the Lord wut e/.

important question. llo had gone to the house in which bis admirer lived upon at least twenty different occasions, resolved to know his utuoreutoccasions, resoiveu wj Know uio snanux cvi-i jr cjuhu«jt fate, but when ushered into the pres- long us they lasted, and never take em ence of hh fair one, Into whose keeping off tell the moon waz four hours high 1 t.i„ ui. i-i- '-~it up thar in that wagin, arrant ye!" she said,

"John, ef I got you'll bush, I iuid she.l»Hked stormy.

\tii, m, iuu jwu I stockens on fust, won't ye? Yer'd look purty, woodn't ye, with tbem post rammers o'youru all strijied up like a jwbrv's in a cirkus?—"

uut, as upon lormor occasion, n« mum John, ef that p'leccman wam't over gat tho proposal no further than his ynnder I'd git up tbar an' take the peel throat. There it tack, ami he had jut in' otTn tbat biled beet noso quickdetermined to gulp it down and give up er—" the sit go, when the door opened and in Of ko-arse ye would! an' do it jest to stalkea the girl's father, who advanced show all these Atlanty folkcs what sort to wbero they were sitting, and thusad- of ootton-secd mashers thom is that j® wont i/i rif* un in Htrines tell they'd dressed them*

I camo in to put a stop to this infernal foolishness. It ain't the courting expenses that I'm looking nt, for coal oils cheap an' wood can be had for the hauliif but I'm sick and tired of this billin' and cooifi' liko a pair of sick doves, keepin' mo awake nights, and

old man. "Answer, *.ves' or 'no' an mighty quick, too. It's got to be settled now or never."

lJlV ll|j aUS»UX yC9 Ul UlVU asp muuu»W WIJ\J ututig

8 UUHimws lUHt tuw WH Ml

you all to pieces. __

you want that gal o' niino for a wife? Speak out like a man, now." Why, Mr. ain't this rather a—I mean can't you—" "Speak it out, or out of this liouso you go head foremost. I won't wait a minute longer. There's tho gal, and a livelier one there ain't in the State, and you iust heard her say sho wanted you. Now, John, I won't stand a bit of foolin' onoo for all. 'yes' or 'no'?"

Well, yes, sir I have been presumptuous enough to hope that I—" O, cuss your soft talk the thing's settled now. You two blasted tbols would have been six months more at the job that I've done in live minutes. never saw such foolin' as there is .mono: voumr people nowadays. Ain't

steerage, wnen oirus wun long tegs net themselves against ner as a manor take to flight, they throw their legs be- of course, and look with distrust and hind, and they then serve the same pur- alarm on all she proposes for tbeir benpost as tail. eflt.

Why have flsbes air bladders? Because, as the density of the water varies WOMAN'S DRESS. In how a victim say* Hf«els:

greatly at different depths, the enlarge-

ment or contraction of tbe bladder reggravi th

nlates the relation of the specific gravity of the body of the fish to tbat water in which it moves.

Why ate woodpeckers' tongues about three times longer than their bills? Because, ir their bills were long they would not bore the trees so efficiently and when the tree* are bored, and the Insects alarmed,they endeavor to retreat jntotne hollows of the wood but the

into me nouows oi me www out mv

and draws them Into the bird. Why has the elephant a short, unbending neck? Beosn*e the elephant's head is so heavy tbat it could not have been supported at tho end or a long neck, or lever, without a provision ef immense muscular power. Note—Ac-

immense muacular power.

around any object.

drag dirlt

Oh, yes, but you'll have yer striped

want to rig up in stripes tell they'd look like barber shop polos made inter wooden legs, yer wvula!" "Oh, ye jist wait—" 1'me bound to wait, kase I'me aii^, alius to e€& yer flounce 'round hvar with them striped socks on, alioldin' yer old black gownd up two feet high to stop

bustin' tersee yor kavortin' round agin like a young kaff at a bumble-bees mass-meeting! Here's yer dollar—go git yer stripes!

Well, but, father, don't you know— if you'd only wait, and—" Dry up answer 'yes' or 'no.'— ored up her bundles and slung them un

Sho didn't take the money, but gath-

Speak*" roared the old gent. dor the seat, climbed in after them, and "Well, yes, then! There, now," and as the wagon went out Mitchell street Marv again hid her face. she was working her mouth in an agony "That's business that's the way to of rage and feeling around in the straw 11. ,. !«,.!» I,n MA 1nr,b

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woman arose and said: "It aint a drag ng t»4 to perdition. But the darned ting's got test in my flesh, and I'm

Mying

to do^ sinnethlng lo love, aud

to rank it out. You jtet keep on

with the preach—I ain't goln' to squeal if it does hurt a little."

truth and side has a

Is deciding qoesCfocn of duty, remember tbe wrong erafty and poarrful advocate is yo»r mm owoMsri,

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IIY CHILDREN HATE MOTHERS. Wo expect children to be amenablo to their father's new wife, when the very name of stepmother is taken to emblcmize simply so much cruelty and oppression. Story books and nursery tales teem with accounts of the shameful stepmother who always does such cruel despite to the lovely daughter of tho poor dead wifo, and is invariably such a monster of wickedness from end to end. We give these books and tales to the young at their most impressionable age, and then wo lament when tho rather has married somo superior, dutydoing woman, whose solo desire is to act well by the little ones given to her care, and she Is met by suspicion and childish hatred, unconquerable coldness and a disobedience founded on a belief In ex-ofllclo Injustice, which neither love nor patience can break down. Wo sow the crop of dragon's teeth with our own hands, and are amazed when tho furrows turn out armed men. We make the stepmother tho sign of misery and mischief, then giieve when the children set themselves against her as a matter

K** "T^ke a man and pin three or four hi

table clothes about him, fastened bac with elastic and looped with ribbons drag all bis own hair to tbo middle of hishesd and tie It tight, and hairpin on aboot Ave pound* of other hair, and a big bow of ribboo. Keep tbe front locks on pins all night, at"l let them tickle his eyes all day pinch Iris waist into a corset, and give htm gloves a sim

Rtnall

long, thin tongno of tbe woodpecker will not stay on with out torturing clanfixes them on its ahsrp, horny point,

and shoe* ditto, and a hat that

t|P and

a frill to tickle his chin, and a

mouth of the uttl# i* little lace veil to blind his tym whenever be goes oat to walk, and he will know what a woman's dmaa Ifc."

THKREVIVAL1S SEW YORK. The8un says:

If we are to have a revfvaL Tet ItTe

cording to Cuvler the number of mus- thorough and Inclusive, taking In the eles in an elephant's trunk amount to rich and poor alike, clergy and laity, forty thousand all of which are under governor and governed, pnws and twotbe will, as it is to these tbat the pro- pie, and not fid ling to cleanse wall toads in this animal owes its flexibility, street and the Fifth avenue, as well as It can be protracted or contracted at Avenue and Wster street. We can pleasure, raised up or turned to either all of us be a good deal better than we side, coiled aronnd on Itself or twined are. •JUf

DYSPEPSIA.

Wttxyou let a one-dollar breast fin Americans are particularly subject you down to perdition naked a this disease and its effects such ssi»n n« earnestly from the pulpit. He Stomach, Hick Headache, ItaWtual Os ooasid«rab(y startled when a young tiveness, Heart-burn, Wster-brswh, owning op of the food, coated tongue, disagreeable taste In the mouth, PalpHation of the Heart, and all dtseasMi of tbe

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funeral notices!

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talk. Now, John, look hero—look np to lind where he had hidden tbo whip, hero, or I'll shake you all to pieces. Do For further particulars see small bills-

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is a notable fact observes Hearth and Home, that whenever a large banking bouse fails or suspends there is an immediate expression of sympathy, and tho press breaks out into compliments of tfio most gorgeous colors, while the broakago of a sm»ill or obscuro lirm is passed over with scarcely a notice. But it is notoriously true that in most cases the large failures are caused by questionable if not dishonest transactions, by speculations that aro Illegitimate, or by down right gambling. A well-con-ducted banking house has no business to fail its operations are safe it is secure against everything but a panic, which cannot be foreseen nor provided against. Instead, therefore, of sniffling condolence on the suspension of a greatbanking house the papers ought to demand a rigid scrutiny into its ntfairsand learn whether it deserves sympathy or censure. If, knowing it must fall, it has been careful lo protect its rich and powerful patrons while it has left thousands of poor people who have trusted to its honor without warning and without security, it should be rebuked for its dishonorable dealing and forfeit the confidence of the community. But this thing is of frequent occurrence, and often people find themselves stripped of money when away lrom homo by the sudden suspension of a Arm that was careful to secure a few great operators at the expense of Its poorer yntrons. Most of t|ip great banking houses that suspend are swindlers, and deserve to be punished by low of conUdenoo as veli as bftTjkruptov, "r'VfV""-"- mintv

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