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A ire.), lot just reeeived at: EDCRLEIN'd Grocery Store. itTarch 10,1860. •-• No. 71 Lecuet street? T gE /ATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, the au thorized edmon. eCantoek. Price, 91,50. Cootielie on the Boundary of Anotler World Price,ol,2s. Memoirs of Garvosso. Prier.. 40 cents. ELIAS BARR & CO.. Oppo..tte Court !loose. @MB "N'S PURE C ITAWBI BRANDY.--a vcry •upenor end geCUlue en'a•lr roe eledeenkt per rA Agents (or Colombia'. lOncsk Feb.//,'CO zaorir AMID STEEL ! MILE Subscribers harp .reeeived a New and La rgq Stock at sell toms and Dias of ' BAR IRON AND STEEL! They are con•tantly supplied with stock in this brawl' of Ilia busier., and can funish it lo eosionwr• in large or mall quantities, at the lowest rates ,J. RUM i•Lr; & SON. Locum. street betow Second, Colombia, Pa. Apnl Huson's Handsome Daughter $1 50 'Arurchisson, we hare said, stayed at home that day. He was quite confident all must go right, but still there was a hankering, an unpleasant doubt in his mind.as to the cer tainty of benefit to accrecto himself in the present aspect of affairs: In his deer friend Huson he had not the smallest atom• of con fidence; then what tie had he? He felt as if he had played his card very badly somehow. tily would certainly marry Gray Russell: he felt assured the •young man was only startled. not lost. It would then be [Fuson who would benefit by all his scheming and Grey's wealth. Ile was lost in perplexing thought. True, II•uson. lintl engaged to pay him a large sum if the marriage tool: place, but nothing legal was possible. So lie felt that. his dear friend wonld laugh nt all else. • What could be done just to defer Gray's prop ‘. 05a1. 9 lie would not hare a chance of doing so that day, thanks to their well com blued plans, thought Murchisson. And be fore anything could ho done he'd secure himself somel;ow. Ile Wa.9 just rubbing his hands over this idea,.'when his file (for ne t 1 119 late at tvork)'eame Graj. Ravacll, kith excitement lighting up his hand onto face, and happiness sparkling in his 11Iurchisson mistook the expression, and in the ex.:ited look read indignation. But Gray's ferst words dissipated the error. "Wish me joy ; Murehissnn. I'm the hap piest fellow alive. As a poor clerk, without a penny, I've won Lily Ellison over the head of that dolt, John Doe." 13 it—hm." ejaculated the solicitor, in a confused, hesitating tone, "how did you know it? Itilien did ,'he tell you so?" "Hal ha! hal" laughed the joyous Gray, flinging himself into ono of the easy chairs, "it is the best joke going r —only faney."— And here he related how cleverly ho had outwitted the other schemers, little dream ing that the master hand stood before him. We may perfeerly imagine thesoyt of face Murchisscm made, how he tried to smile. and how odd a one it was. B'ut the happy Gray didn't stop to analyse it; he thought every one•except Hoven and Johnny Doe must re joice with him. '"Take my advice, my dear fellow," 'Mar chisson . sai4 at. last. "lieep your secret awhile. -I know Iluson. A more stubborn, dogged man does not exist, when he takes art idea into his head. For a few days keep quiet. I'll reconcile hire to take you in lieu of his pet, John Doe." Cann! On-in That night late Murchisson called at Hu son's. This exemplary man had found his way home by train, and not till he arrived did he know the extraordinary turn afriirs had taken, after he had left all so cleverly arranged, he deemed. 11 indignation fell uron poor Lily's head, who, despite her joy at heart, wont weeping to hod. Mureld. , ton. of course, did not confide the fact to Iluson that Gray Russell had proposed to Lily; that would have destroy ed all chance of ndrantage to himself. In tact, he led lluson to suppose that Gray MIN trifling dishonorably with Lily's affec- UM "The villam—the mean villain!" exclaim ed liuson, but not with the indignant feel ing another father would have expefienced. "But it won't do to cut him, Murchisson," he continued. "Such a fellow ain't met with every day. We shall trap him yet; just keep a sharp look-out after her, that's all." "Do you know what I've . been thinking, Iluson?" "Why, this—clown , the Bostern line I'te a snag shooting-box b let, some twenty miles off. An old woman, whom I can fully rely upon, is there. I sated her son from transportation, and she thinks I can send him out of the country at any- time, if I choose.' ]Sow suppose you take Lily down there..don't tell her where she's going, and when Russell finds she's gone, and be don't know where, he'll come to book." "By Jove! what a splendid idea':' The proposed plan was put into execu tion. Murpbisson ran down at once and prepared all, and Iluson, who had purpose ly sulked all day with his child, next morn ing held up a flag of peace, in the shape of a trip to enliven her. and as the best means of producing that result, she flund herself. at the end of her journey. locked up in a half furnished room, in a shooting-box with as ugly and disagreeable an old woman to play jailer as any one ever met with. This time it Ins Murchisson vvho called upon Gray Russell, with indignation in every feature. "That Hamm," he said. "has tricked us all; he'saarried the girl off, I don't know where." Gray cpaite etamf•ered beneath this Most unexpected brow to - his hopei. lie had been sitting castle building. with Lily for his architect, fur at least an hour, when in rushed Blurchisson to crumble the fabric in- to dust. - "I suspect," continuedthe solicitor, "that grintins. [CONCLLTDED.] CTIAPTEEL VI "NO ENTERTAINMENT ES SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY IIOR,NING, SEPTEMBER 1,1860. he has sent her abroad in order to coerce her into a marriage with John Doe." "But she had pledged her word to mer exclaimed poor petrified Gray at last. "Promises and pie crust, my dear fellow. when a father holds a girl in his power, un der loch and key..!" 'What's to he done?" demanded the agi• tated lover. "I really don't know; that Huson is not nn easy fellow to deal with, and the deuce of the thing is that John Doe has money." F‘or some mbments there was perfect si• lence, with the exception of Gray's footsteps as ho paced up and down the room. Mw chisson sat nibbling his fingers as if in pro found thought. "By Jove, I have it at last!" he cried, looking up. Gray stopped short in his walk. "Iluson wants money," continued Mur chisson; "he'S deucedly hard up for a thousand pounds; in fact, I know he's afraid of the wrong side of the Queen's Bench. He don't like asking Doe, because he apprehends it might put him off the mar riage. Men who've made all their money know its value, and arc shy birds at lending. I havn't it, or 'lnsert should have it at once, but—" "Give it tolliM I give it to himl" eagerly exclaimed Gray, "proviled Lily's brought back." "That won't be enough," shrewdly an swered Murchisson; "before giving him the money, I must have a written promise from him that Lily is to be yours. ne's a slip pery fellow." "My dear Mt rchiscronl" cried the young, ardent lov.r, grasping his hand, "I never shall sufficiently repay this kind interest in me. How can I reward you?" "Well—by making Lily a good husband." "Never fear me, only let her be mine.— Let no money stand in the way." "'Pon my soul you deserve her, Gray," Murehisson cried, enthusiastically. 'Sup pose, then, we at once proceed to business. Give me the money, and I'll be off to rinse% I won't say that you gave it; so when you see him, don't allude to it." "Oh, of course not." "It Will seem strange that such a fellow should have a certain pride about him; hut we' are all of us contradictions. Ile wouldn't like you to know lie was in diffi culties, it might mar all; I'll lend him the money, and thus shall have a hold upon him." "Bravo!" esclaiu•ed the young, hopefLil lover, rubbing his hands. "And when I've seen him, I'll come back to you." The unsuspicious Gray drew a chock fur a thousand pounds as readily as some would for five. "I'm off, then," said Murchisson, eagerly handling the precious document, which be put in his pocket-book, and with a warm shake of the hand he left the anxious lover, promising to return as soon possible and re lieve his anxiety. It should bo roznembered that this scene took place at five o'clock in the afternoon. For some moments after he left, Gray paced up and down the room, in love's sweet reveries and day dreams. Quietly the door opened, and a head popped in. "Deg pardon, sir," said a man's. voice, "rapped twice, sir, and getting no answer, looked in." "Oh, that's you, James," exclaimed Gray. who recognized in the intruder the groom whose information on the race clay had been so invaluable. Out of gratitude, Gray had taken the wan into his service. "James," said Gray Russell to his man, "they've car ried off Miss Mason; there's a pretty affair," "Vc,;• pargrm, sir," answered the groom, "who's they." "Well, I should have said he. Her father, done it." "Quite' sure it ain't thc,y sir?" naked the man, with a. peculiar look. "What: the lady's father and Mr. Doc?" "I wurn't a thinkire of Mr. Due, sir," was the answer. "But of ho as is just gone out." "What. Mr. Murebissonl" and Gray laughed in an unequivocal tone of mockery at such an idea. "Why, Mr. Murchisson is my most intimate friend; and most kind adviser in the affair. llo's just put me in• to the way of finding out the whole hnsi• nem" "Beg pardon, air, but who pays for it?" "Who, pays for id" echoed Gray. "Yes, sir, who pays for it? You ace, sir," continued James," "I lived four years with my last master. Ere war rich when I went to him. Mr. Murehisson was his particular and most intimate friend—rid his 'oases, druv his carriaAe—bnt somehow there war always money to be paid for somethink. So at last my poor master got sold up. Mr. Murchisson did it all, sir." It is wonderful how light penetrates into a place. Eren a mere pin-hole at first, through it creeps, until the whole place becomes light as day. There was but this pin-hole at East in Gray Ru..ell's bosom; but as James spoke the rays streamed' in. end he began to think that the groom might know better than himself. %Tint by ward ...ThabeS arrived at the truth—check and ail Looking at his watch, be said: "It wur po.4t fire when b get it. elk. He ain't gone to the bank; all's closed there; I'll be Cr and see where he does go." Before the man had reached the bottom -tair, Gray called him back. Ho felt it un generous to even suspect his best friend, Murchisson. - , But James was shrea-d, and suspected what his master was going to do, so he turned a deaf ear to the call, and hurried away. It was late at night when he returned.— We will not attempt to portray his master's feelings all that heavy time. A glow was on his cheek as the groom almost burst into the room. I know'd it, sir, F knelled- it, sir!" he cried' in a tripmpliant tone, "that Murchis son's dono it all ..imself." "lime it all " exclaimed the startled Gray. "Yes, sir, done it all, just toget the•rnoney out on you." James then narrated to his master h nv by the exercise of his knnwledge of the weak nesses of servant :maids, he had olaained clue to the movement.. of Mr. lin-on. 11 - hud next traced Mr. :%itirchissorr from hi. door to the railway elation. and ultimately to Lily's place of confinement. W hen he reached this point of his narrative G:ay io tertupted him by exclaiming: "You have found her then r ••Found her and spoko . to her, and she ex• peels you to-morrow•,.tur when I see the lawyer safe in, I wandered roue I the house, and a queer out•o'-the•way one it is, close, on the forest. Seeing alight in the room u;) stairs, I climbed a tree and looked in, and there I saw the young lady a cryi , g bitterly, a•id Mtirc.ii4s.m talking to her." "The cillainl" - James then proceeded to inform his mos• ter that after Murchisqm left the room lie threw a piece of earth at the window, by which means Lily's attention was drawl, towards him as he sat ,perched ap ,in the tree. In a whisper ha told her who he was. and how be had come in that peculiar posi tion, and she in return confided to him all that had occurred to her, and that the mo tive now of Mr. Murchiss,m's visit was to urge upon her a consideration of John Doe's claim upon her loco, as one far more sincere than Gray Russell. All this was in her father's name, he said, and that no hope existed of escape from her confinement, ex cept to become John DOO'r; wife. Murchisson, in urging this, knew that he held lluson so moult in his 'p :wer Ina! ho could make him c•msety. to anything. 01 course he had strop • per-mini in an•rs for throwing over Gray James was a particularly shrewd y,lit a genius in his way, like all the-e have lived' with fast young mon about town. In a few hurried word 4 he suzgested to Lily the propriety of her holding oat hopes to Murchisson of the success of his scheme as ho was to see her again that evening be fore starting, having left her alone awhile to cogitate nn his proposals; and she was to promise, if ho would remain art night down at this shooting-bos, to give him a final answer in the morning to transmit to her papa. Lily's spirits, girl like. rose high, when James told her he would bring down his master in the morning: but before James otarted homeward she was to drop n hand kerchief out of the window, ns a signal to him that Murchistm, consented to remain all night and receive his reply in the m.,rn log. This was dose, and, as we Imre seen, James made nil haste to communicate with Iris master, who was up and doing at an early hour next morning. An early train took Gray Russell and Isis groom to Epping, and thence they walked to the shooting-box, where puor Lily, anx iously expected thorn. Murchisson Rai still there, and in a frightful temper; for, having passed a most uncomfortable night in ono of the half-fur nished rooms with the hope hold out by Lily that in the morning ho might bear her con sent to Boson to marry John Doc, he had just quitted her room after receiving nothing more positive than the night before, yet she durst not doeidedly utter "No." Until the promised arrival of Gray RaIS roll. Murehisson sat broadmg over the not very luxuriant breakfast which the old dame Cerberas had prepared for him, resolved to Imre ono more interview with Lily before he left. Ile had — mach at stake: From his breast-pocket ho took a pocket book, and thoughtfully 1631:0 over some papers therein. "One thousand safe as the bank," he said; "but confound the girl's obstinacy the other's not quite so sure: Doe's a shrewd fellOw, and Russell's a fool, like all who arc madly in love." At that moment a scream met- his ear.— It came from the kitchen adjoining the room in which he sat. "The old fool's burnt her lugei-, Nv on a 7 : thing of that sort," he muttered, elk -Li n-Ards the door, book in hand. As he laid a 6 agar on the handle,it turned from tho outside, opened, and there stood Gray and James. For a moment 3farchiasan was apeochige and prwerless with amazement. "lie„ pardon, sir," raid James, with a grin. clutching; at the packet-book. The net awoke Murchisson from his sto p% Fie, tan. graspesi stir.; but James had the start of him, and came off the con queror. "II •w dare you, yen villain!" ho-cried, spriogiog upon the other to recover it. Me "Softly, .softly, Mr. Murchisson," said Gray composedly, at the same time Ileixint: his arm and restraining him. "We don' , intend violence. We only want to parley with you." "Give me—make that thief giro me back my pocket-book!" exclaimed the excited man, forgetting all policy. "It contains private papers of no value to any one but myself." "Are you sure? Perhaps they may be equal]. so to me. 11,1 d him , tight, James.' "All right, sir. Pro seed Mr. Morey, and know how to tame vicious osses." The very dove will become pugnacious in defence of its young or its mate. All Gray Russell's suavity of manner bad disappeared when he discovered the dupe he had been, and how near Lily was to becom ing a victim; and while Murchissop swore. threatened. foamed with-rage, Gray deliber .ttely began to examine the papers in, tha• book which James had handed him. -lleraig any creak," he said calmly, open ing a parer: "o.clesai now, my dear 'Mar since Mr. lluson- has positively re in-rd ria con.aent to the niliatnce." Who said so?" cried the solicitor, dimly seeing a r.ty of ho; o. "Toe young lady herself told my man last night out of her window, after your visit, it, which you did your best to coerce her into a promise to marry Mr. Doe.," We won't repeat Murchisson's very em % phatic words from between his set teeth. "But no!" cried Gray, in surprise, as he unfsode I the paper in his hand, "nut tn.% check, but a curious doc.thient, equally in terestinou, me. Mr. Don's a more wary bird , than myself, I perceive," and he read aloud:, "I, John. Doe, do hereby most solemnly engage my word that the,sum De; one thous. and pounds, which has been placed in the handi . of the mutual friend of Mr. Murchis tido and niysolf, (Mr. Phillips,) is to be paid over to the said Mr. Murchisson the day Lily idoson becomes my wife." ••Braro, Mr. Solicitor," he laughed.— "Yon are indeed a clever chap!.• But as the lady you so insolently tnade.a market of to all will never. be the wife of Mr. Doe, why I'll just leave this little paper in the young lady's hands, who will return it with thanks to its owner.- -As for this other," he held up his own cheek for a thousand, "we'll just burn it." I What passible words could portrarMur chissoo's rage? Ltro Opt,- kitchen they led him to witness the .lestroutiott of his own hopes, and there, aa.xer , i ;yr! hound. was the woman whose -hack had aroisel him. Or.ty Russell ,tssored her nn harm was in tended, and in proof thereof he placed a couple of gold pieces in her palm. Shrewdly and 'even pleasantly she smiled op on Gray -behind Murebisson's back, as she beheld that miserable man bound also, and then locked• op in a cupboard, of which Gray took 1110 key, assuri,g him that in a few hours he wanton be relca-el. We have depicted the misery of a detected and defeated schemer, but who would at• tempt to paint the joy of the young lovers? James discreetly kept down stairs, while his master went up to release the fair prisoi.er. No time MIA lust. Lily and her lover start ed for town, while James remained to watch over the prisoners until the moment should arrive to release them. Not to Inr father's house did. Gray take him beloved, but to that of a lady, to whom he confided the whole history. Leaving Lily there, he went Or to 1111- son's. "Better not take. her into the lion's den," irreverently thought Gray of his future father-in law, "until I know what his inten tions•are, for if I find him turn. rusty and regolute about his John Doe, the deuce will be-in , it if 1 don't persuade her to dispense with his consent." These thoughts in his mind, (hay presen ted himself, and not little nervously, be fore Iloson, who was laid up with :he gout . , to which Gray had most unconsciously coil tributed by the disappointment and annoy anee tioson had suffered with respect to the other's non.pr..p[..al for Lily's hand. Vory careially he broac:ied the suidect, no: saying one word about the affair of that Morning. When the proposal was laid before him, despite his gouty foot, up started Uusuu, and warmly grasped Gray's "Mydoir felloWr, ho cried, "why didn't you Sooner ifiralc,outl' What a world of troublisyou would ltitro eared us all!" Gray elated in amazement at. this most unexpected bunt of fooling and delight. The fact.vms, tha Boson, though an un principled man, one living by hie wits, was nat a cunning rogue, like 2ilurchisson. lie • was glad, and he expressed his feelings. "Why," continued lluson, freely opening his heart to ono Ache would, soon belong, to liiinscif,"tho fact is, only three days since- Murchissott advised me to send the girl sway, as be-thought you , were merely tri fling with herr:ln - actions, and it was by, hie advice that I encouraged .the ottentions,,of that fo - ol,,John Doe„ only just to. test .what sincerity there was in you." . . "Then—then," ejaculated - Gray, '.von have not given year word to Mr. Doo?" "IT-,what, 1 let that fool have my girl? I could do better with her any day." Gray shuddered at this sort of traffic in a daughter's heanty;so unblushingly avowed. vAred now," added the gay father, almost dancing in his list slippers, "all that remains to be done is to bring Vie hnrna $1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVAINR. Nlurchisson has looked her up in a house to I "Then tell mo what you did put in the 'et—hal hal hal" . 1 stocking, and lot me take it down. And "She has been brought back," answered , r . then hold your tongue, if you can, and go Gray Russell, and forthwith he detailed the I Year way, and come back to-morrow."• • whole affair- i The particulars of the notes were taken "Ha! ha! ha!" roared Hutton. "Capital!' without any reference toould Phillips, who so you've got the lawyer in the cupboard.— ' ; could not, however, by.any means, be kept H d ha! ha!" , out of the story, and the man departed.— was gone, the stocking-foot was But when Gray related about the two i When lie shown to the chief engraver of the notes, monol transactions, his own thousand and I who said that if anybody could settle _the' J din Doe's promissory note, Iluson changed I business, his son could. And he proposed his tone. villeier , he 1 that the particulars of the notes should "The villainl the sneaking I be communicated to his son, whily.tvaa ,then uttered, striking his fist on the table." ' employed in his department of the, : Banit, Ifuson fell suddenly into a train "dfl thought. He began to see that he had beet; ;.hut should be.put away under lock,and.lfies. these ashes wh l&enable what notes neuvering ho might have got not ono but ; him to discover front many thousands out of Gray. , had really been put ,in the, ,stocking„ ,and .. the two lists should tally, the man. should be However, he brightened np. The mire: ' of wealth was still before him, and howould paid the lost amount. To this -pendent work it yet. : proposal the Batik of Ireland -readily as- Gray did not feel quite secure in the W seated, being.extremely anxious that theord m of his future father in-law, after all these' man should not.he a loser, but, of. course, deeming it essential to be protected front revelations, so with !some little cleverness he ' imposition. •... •- odaced ['upon to let Lily remain where lie The son readily undertook the delicate had placed her, and where he Heson, nif " l ' t ('commission , proposed to him. _lle detached visit,Dlafter, to - her every day, and ' from that lrilY'sthe fragments from. the stocking with the homze Lily wits married, a oath 1 utmost care, on the ; point of u penknife; Gray Russell. ' - I laid the whole gently in a basin. of warm Murchisson hMl'been . dulY 'released frOm '' I I n.a l ter and _presently,saw them, to hie.-de the cupboard, breathing vengeance upiiii all, , bat somehow he thought it better to 'hu.s h ' fi ' nv lt ers b . e , g . i lT a y-a to nd- m b; ul l l e . a l.e "l gan ell t l o ari4 "te l a ik se e up an affair which, if known, would have ' ' with a canters hair pencil, and the ruined hinm.-'.Tohn Doe threatened an action: penknife tilezn" got the various morsels, separate tbr breach Of promise against Lily, before him, and began to piece them togeth had no•Promble, so that didn't do. 4 . Then he, er. Time first piece- laid dOwn faintly was M forreac enn• thought of urchisson— bronchi of recoolt:zoble by a practised eye'et 'bitof inlet; but that was equally Lnd; so all that j the lefthand Go t o wn. enrmte:r o ci f f" , im: twenty resulted in the way of action' and redress I ti,Analt then a of bit twenty;- five; , then was a;o311-it brought against Ilinself,' poor lof a..ten; then ' more a bits, tm.,lventy; then : Johnny .Doel -by the stableleeper Of 'Whom I more- bits of a five and ten; then another he had hired the raw-boned horse - Tor 'the I left hand bottom corner of a twenty—so there were two twenties! and so on; until to the admiration and astonishment of th's whole Bank, ho noted down the' exact amount deposited in the stocking, and . the exact notes'of which it had been composed. .`• Derby. • Gray RusseiP•"tried hard to induce - hie father in-law to settle qttictly on n cosy in• come in the' country . ; he essayed it for' a month, then returned to town. "Can't rest, my boy," he said -to Gray, ' "till I.'vz. punished that follow Murchisson fur his roguery." And by way of accomplishing the deed, after a scene of mutual recrimination, they became closer friends than ever. Tho fact wit's, that the episode of Lily's courtship had completely unveiled them to each other; they now thorougly understood ono another's little ways, and could 'work well together. There is no real confidence until we mid the-heart of our -friend. Lily and Gray tried hard to break off the intimacy between Murchisson and flagon, but the latter always replied• mysteriously, ••Leave me alone, I am trying to convert himl" What could be said after that? And now all is told, except that James drove his master's well-appointed broughath to church, where Lily was to meet him, and where he became au last the happy husband of "Iluson's handsome daughter." riom llowebn!d Word, A Stocking Full of Bank Note's. Some years no—in the drys of the titir ty.shilling notes—n certain Irishman saved up the sum of eighly-seven pounds ten. in the notes of the Bank of Ireland. As it sure means of securing this valuable property, he pat it in the foot of en old' stocking, and lour:td it in his garden, where bank note paper couldn't fail to keep dry, and to comeout, when wanted, in the bait preserva tion.. Alter Tearing this treasure in this creel lent place of deposit fur some months, it oc- curred to the depositor to tako a look at it, and see how it was getting on. Ito found the stecking•foot apparently full of the frog month of mildew and broken mushrooms. No other shadow of a shade of ei•ghtyseren pounds ten In the midst of his dwpair the than had the sense not to disturb thenshee of his pro perty. He took the stooking•foot in his hand, posted off to the Bank in Dublin, entered it one morning as soon as it was open, and staring at the clerk with a most extraordinary absence of all expression in his face, said--:: "Ah,look at that. edr! Can yo du ally thino• "What do you , call this?" said the clerk. "EighlY-siyin pounds tin, pralso the Lord, as I'M 'a , Shiner I °hone I There wan,..st twenty as was pilid to me by Mr. .P 4 lin &Dowd, sir, and tin as was changed Pat'Reily, and five as was °wen by Tim; and Ted Conner, says he to onld "Well ! Serer mind old Phillips. Too have do'ne it, my fiiend'!" "Oh, Lord, sir, and it's done it I have most com Plate ! Oh, good luck to you sir, can you do nothing fur me?" ".1 don't know what's to be done with such a mess as this. Tell me, first of all, what you put in tLe stocking, you unfmlunate blunderer." - "Oh, yes, sir, and tell you true Ite if it was the last word I had to epalco intirely. and the Lord be good to you and Ted Con ner, ses he to old Phillips, regarden the five as was owes] by Tim, and includes of tbe tin which was changed by Pat Reily—" "You didn't pot Pat Reily or old Phillips into the stocking, did yea!" "Is it Pat or ould Phillips's. was ever the valy of eighty-sivin pound tin; lost and gone, and inoluden the five as was ovum by Tim, and Ted Conner—" [WHOLE NUMBER 1,567 Upon this, as ho wished to see - and divert himself - with the man on his return-Lilo provided himself with a bundle of corres ponding new, clean, rustling ' notei, and awaited his arrival. Ho came exactly as before, with the same blank staring face, and the same inquiry, "can you do anything:for me sir?" 1' "Well," said our friend, "I don't• know Maybe I can do something. ' But I haie taken a great denlof - . pains-and. lost a great deal of time, and I want to know what-you mean to give me?" , • .• •• "Is it give, sir? Thin, is there anything) wouldn't give for my eighty•sivin pound tin, sir,. and it's•murdered I am by old Phillips?" - "Never mind him• There were two twen• ties, wore there not?" "Oh! holy 'nether, 'sir, there was! ; Two most illegant ttventied and• Ted Connor and Phalin—whichlleilly—" * 4 lie faltered and stopped, as our-Mend, with much ostentations rustling of the'erlsii paper, produced ti new twenty and . then •a five, and so forth:- Mila - nwhile the ± milr! occasionally murmuring an ex'elaineiti On of surprise. or a protestation of gratit6dectini gradually-becoming vague. and 'retard to in the latter as the notes reappeared, ,, lciektoi on, staring, evidently inclined toLtfeleive that they were the real lost notes, reprodte eedin that state by some chemical-:procesii. At last they were all told nut,•and - his pocket ns he still stood staring and mutter ing, "Oh, holy mother, only to think -Orit Sir.-its bound in ymi forerei- that I aM!"— lut more vaguely and remotely now 'than befors. "Well," said our friend, '*trhat Oa you propose to give me for skis? After staring and rubbing his blast 'for some time- longer, he replied with the un expected question; • , - "Do you like bacon?"., "Very much," said our trial - A. , , "Thin its a side as I'll bring your hbnor, to-morrow morning, and a buclat,;f t ew milk—and ould "Come," said our friend; glancircg at a notable shillelagh the man had finder his arm, "let me undeceive you. I don't - want anything of you, and I am very glad" yod have got your money back. But I suppose you'd stand by me, now, if I wanted it - boy to help the in any little skirmish?" • - They wore standing by a•win-Aoir ont.the top story of the Bank, commanding a court • yard where a sentry was un: daty:gUllber friend's amazetoentithe manidtuthedimat:isf the roonswithoat-sprialdng one wordmuid denly appearaitrthetooart-yurVperformod a war dance mend-this astonished who was a modest youtigreMciit--':nadkilie shillelagh flutter a" woodier-butterfly, round his musket, round his bayonet, round his head, round his body, round his arms, inside and outside his legs, advanced and retired, rattled it all round him flititlfite - work., looked up at the window, cried 'out with a high leap in the air, "WhoertioL Thry m "—vs n ished —Old never 'wall be held at the TlAnk arain from that timeArrthr Three GroOZ MANY Vt:inicir —To the trading community - any man Wh o ran pay his debts is "good." A. rnoestvr• son is undoubtedly, 'good;' bixt then it l yery immoral one is °Geo esteemed is "gond fa:. low." With eon:menial people goofiness consists in .money; with "the fanny.'; is Inniele. In abort, ererYwhare and ffit4-111/ sorts of folks, "good" expresses simply 'quit is moth liked or desired. A traveller on the Coast of Africa. writes that e. - native said to Win, eyeing hie abundant apparel. (of which the negro had next to none)— "Yon vary good man —you got pretty shirt!' SEMI
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