The Delivcratie.Watchman, BELLEFONTE, PA TOE DOORSTEP rlir cOniereAceidikking through st lest, , We boys around the veil* , wafted ' Vn see the gttis come tr{ppleg post, I tike snotrhlfds willing to be touted Not bra% or The that leaps the wall letel tnanitetAaahea tttten ; Thou who rtepped befoto Wein Mi. Who longel to ate me let the mitten flu l - to, she blushed and_look toy arm I We l.•t tho old folks bore the highway, tnd titartml towards the Maple Farm Oohs a Wad otiovars' byway. I mu't remember rhnt we'eeld "I'vrn- , nothing wOrtha EOM or ntbry. YAtt that rude Oth by "blob Its Avid, Treated all tamotervied stadia glory the. nob's , wall crisp beneath our feet. Thl, moon *gut ta,tlle °tide were glearniog, Hy hood and tippet ~bettered *WHO Hot teen with youth and 1)606 nu toommg I tpr litGle }lambi pulel a hdr dluff -0 %captor, if F ew, byt mould ill -40 Nlightly tour myriad:44olff; To krep It wa I hod to hold It. 0 her with Me here alone— Twee lOVN And &or Setid triumph Weeded ‘t. 10 , .t we reirehed the foot item atone lit.Nl that dellelmajourtey ezyied ,a e shook her rineets Iforri her hood, \nd with u"Tlukaik. you, Ned" tifarteznhled Rut yrt I knew erne under, With it hat a daring wish tfTlitabled. 1. loud pneeed kindly orerheka. The moon wan slyly peeping through it. it% (e 43. an ir . Come, Uovr or flavor! do It! do It!' tinuiTlaa nnlj kiinwb 'rho kink of Inottwr and of Tatar, antun tie on sw...a, fumy, darling po moul r l— HI nr, l'erhap. 'tyros boyish lore, yet still, 0 liatloss woman' wear) lo‘er 10 feel-once moth that fresh, wild I'd gisd—but who eon lite youth orer• —Ereltcoefr, The firid..' Tomb = Ile incident which I. arn about to re icte is one of the nutty evidences of the oft-repeated litiyina, that truth is strati -4 r than fiction. Science, which has ~ e lved tit:l4lloi harder than the.Sphyts ever propounded to the, Thebuns, looks with silence upon a certain Lind phenomenon which has puzzled N% iper heads than mine, and which Webster classes under the nebulous word ,uper natural Haiti ZIA l ucid it the definition of those who dnny the ageney fd other thin phyeical or natural ennaeS In producing this class of rvents. ' Imaginutiaai, coin oidetwe, optical Filmdom, are the wet blankett NVALICh these superbly practical - proplr **newer trpent the -heed% of 611 cvho may iiielivied with the poet, “There . ure more things in heaven arid earth, Horatio, than are draiont of ut your ploloenph v " Thnt the writer „as [Wt. e.),Aitigatßiled t ears ago by one or morn of these Wei blankets, may he aeeepti tl as proof that they are nnt potent for the I,uilaise m a ny goo d nouple imagine them to he, I repeat, truth le stringer then fiction, which re petition toe tiam that I am not exercising lay imagination I beg 1., Slate that I too prolutindl3 ignorant for any toetatii exereow 1 nroM, a on e-us of but one reia.on 'Ti. the 29th March, the unnivereary °fan ever marnorable night. Like Coloridge' , . -Ancient Mariner,' toy heart is tilled Nvoefhl agony, and I am eon ,tralined to Tqpefil the title Years ago, wax invited to airerld the nl4.loth Of March with a fandLy with Naluxtt I ea,jo)ed the most intimate re lations. Thlt. family consisted of three iiirsoitis—Mr and Ilre. Linder.% and (heir daughter Marie, it lovely girl of nineteen 11. r ie wiuk t he married on Ike 29th of th e month, and tt was the de- , ire of Intl mother at I daughter that I ahould -pend as imati time with them lifi I , tatald previous to the event. hats bean so often aeserted that there can be no real love ipetweLlt women, that the .ayillg has come to be accepted as truth 1 hat o nu heart to-night to make aoy ,attempt at refitting thin absurd ea-rur ; lot t , / at It in ak error my love for Ma rie / 11.tiieti would he convincing proof in saw ottnt h#wl, though 1 had never loved atiollapr A,popular wre.er L, Hull that "to have a face that van look beautiful for those who love on whom it looks with Jove, is rot ugh for ordibury,wo ,,,am,, s uc h a hto Marie vet, &wily us 1 /. , N 0,1 her, I doubt,lf 1 can einvey 'Tv clear linpression of it to durrender. i.yee, auburn hair, and Moright complexion, tell nothing— et was „sot in fonut or color that the beauty lay Perfur it v.a• because the camases go sweebacrd true, or perhaps it was in f tan eyes, eftieh wore serene to the very depths-4u. inward serenity, which Inotio it impri,4l)le to associate • anything akin to sorrow with their possessor-4 know rua.,, and must pro- C 434.14 with ru story. Mr_ Lin&en's haute was situated on meet of sitting ground, aboutta mile distant from an old sea-port town. It , u nimeaded a variety ufscenety, which "'must kswe satisfied the most difficult taste!. Thehouse faced the north, front ing the brdad'bay, which swept into the open sea. ',Between the bay and the house a broad expanse of level ground extended for miles along die coast On the soutikenn aide were,SSehly-wooded slopes, with stretches of meadow be tween, where, int the season, the ripened grain waved like a billowy sea. The en.nt side commanded a vlow of the town; here diatsmre lent its usual enchantment to the picture. Midway between the town and Dir. Linden's house stood the gray church, whidlt Mr. Linden, with his wife and - daughter, always attended, and where two or Atm generadlns Kra. Linden's Wally were„burioi, Two white columns width marked the graves of Mrs. Linden's parents, and bne daughter, who had died young, were, on a clear day, diatlaady vtaibla from the house. The month, passed rapidly, as the months always' do when people are ab sorbed. Marie was to roam the man of her own choosing, and n man that har tietrenta would have chosen for her, eAtould* their choice have eanprehended tlio world. The love of Mafia Linden and George Percival was a gat contra., _fiction to the old saying, tlist J . :aurae of true love never runs smooth." During a two-years' engngetnent, no altsdow bad over darkened their pars- .• bud been a clear sky, a bright infrishineVfrem first to last. - , The 2titb‘arrlvrad, and the beak port of the programme . ..ditch heal long been arranged, was carried Out. Ves Mt mony took Once at 4 o'clock In the af ternoon, only a few intimate friends be ing present ; but there wee to be ft bri dal. party in the.lyettipg, and on the following day the bride and gredln were to Mart en tkeir bride/. tour. Nine o'clock frdml came, latiti . the r()41:20i were filled with the heiuty and aristocracy td both town and codritry, Never Was there a more beautiful bride than Mode Verdi - al. Never Winfthere It happier groom When her husband. Never wan there a gayer company than was mem:disked that nightundor Mr. Lin den's roof. Yet moof - of the guoats halo probably retained only such recollection of the-rvening us an unusually pleasant party might leave upon the mind. But for me, it is branded on my memory with A etrengh which years have bad no power to dim. The al most summer warmth of the rilglit„ blue sky without is cloud, the stars, t full moon, which lit up the old gray church, and the two white columns. Within there was the bewildering light, the perfume of the flowers, the male of the waltz; and the rajfid whirl of the waltzers, as they floated past the ,lpon window, where 1 stood gazing eaten , lively upon the' two pieturea—one with out and one within. It was there that Marie joined me, chiding Ine, in her pretty, girlish star, for not joining in the waltz, I told her that 1 had bean better onteruamed ; then nutting -the lieu curtains further back, I drew her close to the window, and we -tood there hand clasped in band, for at least flan minutes; she gazing out upon Hie beautiful night, talking of George, and of her expected trip, with sometimes a loving word ler myself; I, gazing, upon her, thinking how well her bridal robe became her, when 1 saw the color slow ly fading out from her sweet face. I thought it was the moonlight, and was going to draw the curtains, when she stopped Inc Pointing to the monu ments in the churchyard, which were as sisibte eti at mid-.lay, "How many are there 7 " she said "Two, dear," I atn.wered, "You know there never were m,,re " "I count three,' ,lie said. I turned my eyes ...von the 1 001111- ments, almost evia-oling mice a third ; but to me there *ere only two. Yet I felt the hand which was clasped i n ' mine grow cold and rigid, while her face had become hie the marble upon which her eyes were so intently fixed. I strove to draw fee from the N% Indut? it was impossible. I entreated her to speak to was of no avail Thor oughly alarmed, I said I would call Mr. Pereiliat. "No, 111 , . not amwered, while a perceptible shudder ran t her frame, But hi. name had rowed her from her , drunge lethargy, or (ranee, ur a hate ver It might hat,, been WWI rotaling the words, sIo What words, Muriel". 1 unswernil. ...Yon know the words on the lionin nirtit% , Skint if 3 nit did not, 3ou eotthi not r.nii,,sht.in at flitch a distanee," She refilkd, "1 ani xpenking of the third it is talkr than the othvr two, and the word, in, w distinct. , tiftered to the Mernol of Mario Perci val, who Feb 5, nine teen lears and eleven months ' "flush, Mario I'' 1 rant, I ealitiot hear you tall: en ;" and, happil) for iii,,, Mr Percival, who wa , looking for lie, bride, di' ov 'rid her at tin- moment A lew rapid tap. I,ronght Win to ti,r side. "Why,llserw, Stlkit kll , • 0%1 OXV pale 1114 one of Hocsee Witlpole's Lli ed-- bah I it to this ghw4CllPlnuonlight lie drew the-curtains together, and I saw the color come back to her face as he Imre her away. Ittit I knew it had gone from mine I knew there was ay unearthly pallor on my own face, as I eat there with my hack to the moon light ; and still the musicians, played on —it was Weber's waltz, and it seemed as if the waltzers would never tire ; my brain reeled, and circled, and quivered, and still they played on, and still the waltzers waltzed—then Marie arid her husband floated by, the inerrie.it among them all, Am I this,,irtlmofN drvxm l I saki hi Marie Percival stand by my side a moment ngo, reading the inscription upon her own tomb 1 wax that true? or is thus true 7 for et.thet moment it did not seem to me that both could be true. Just as I waft losing the power to solve this f or any other question, the waltz ended and supper followed. Shortly after the party broke up, and Marie kissed me good' night, without making any alluilioni to the alogular episode which had smile such an im pression on my mind. Mario kissed me "good night," I said, but it wax hi reality good-by, for as 'they were to leave key nye o'clock the neat morning, I did slot expect to see her again until her return., This would 6e. in about four weeks, and I had pro :ohm(' to remain with her parents until shat time. But. fate decided otherwise. few lines from an only brothel in formed me that he had just decided to I eatery ont•st long-cherished wish, which woe to go with his wife to Europe. It was their desire that I shoald accompany thaw. As we were to start in tees than a week, I was obliged to Warty borne. I left a few line* for Marie, stating that I would write to her as soon as posaihte, and let her knoerwhee to ail dress a letter to me. It is not my purpose to speak of mj life in turope—where we west or what we saw—only this; my brother could never understand my dislike to visiting th 4 tombs of the dead. Al do sot like rummaging Ist grave. yam*" I would say to him. 80, too, with all moonlight nights ; at, 'beautibil to him, bet which were, and always will be, a gimatly horror to me. I wrote fregwently to Marie and her mother, but my brother had no Used I plan, and se we were constantly on the move, it was impossible for tae to re solve any repilek We remained abroad until the follow , big April, a little moo than a year. The day after our arrival home, I started for Kr. Linden's. I cannot exactly tell whut my feelings were as the cart *ear ed th. old town. Certainly I was not elm as I would have been without thut disturbing vision. Slut if any one hail nhimd ttto tt i believed ihs he gessf- Way 0f1.11.,., , trit131,. I tiliclUlkliaysi. au averedv It %Vs litteee'tfteAt when 1 arrixed at tEeWed'efitly ieUrne,y. A few Minutes' *Falk , Vela:tett me to the house. Tang eft 'Mt, *bleb was answered by an old iilthan whom I bad frequently seen during my previous visits. 'Come in," she mid. "Mr. and Mrs. .Linden are in,.-.F , mFope; you did not know it, perhaps. ' 1 know nothing," I replied quickly; "1 have just returned from Europe my- I could not ask about Marie; but I arose and went to the window, the ono that looked out upon the churchyard; and I saw—yes, reader, I saw the third monument • in ten minutes I stood be fore it. With a brain too much pare , lyzed to admit of surprise, or any other feeling, I rend : "Sacred to the Memory of Marie Percival, who died February sth. 18—, aged nineteen years and eleven months." 1 don't know how long it was before . 'efts aroused by the old woman from the stupor into which I had fallen. Be, coming alarmed at my long stay, she bad come out to find me. From her I learned all that I shell erer know. I FiZIEMEM On that day Marie, with her husband, and two or three other young friends, had gone, out on the bay, as was their frequent custom when the weather was fine. I gathered from what the woman said, that the day had hoed unusually calm, but that a sudden squall had thrown the boat ti ; .mt a low reef of slimy, weed-rovertiProeka, which ran out into the water It did not upset the boat, hitt Mrs Percival was thrown out. The Accident happened on the rocks, anicl-lhoiteh Mr Percival was a good awimmer, and remained in the wri ter until he was dragged out by one of the party, yet Mrs. Percival was not found until some hours aftervinrds. I have only to add, that Mr. Linden, who WWI an 'Englishman, took his wife to Europe, hoping that in change of scene she might recover from the shock. But she <lied shortly afterward, and wits buried there. Mr. Linden has never returnsd to this country Kicked by a Mule WI ZIA' WA.DPILLL Jack Janson had a dude. There wan nothing remarkable in the mere ful l of his being the owner ut nuch an hµt• there wee something quit• peculiar about the Mule. lie (the mule) could kick farther, hit harder, on the sliglient provocation, end act uglier then any other viol, .11 record. o n e m orn _ mg riding trin pr, , pertS• to market, Jack met J im DdexS, against silhinn hs , bird an old Lilt coneerded krudge, Ho knew Boggs , wenknena lay in bragging and btting. Therefore he seluttni him cot- ”IIOW AIM ,ott, JtmT Fin° morn ing.' Hearty, hquire, ' replied Jim Beautiful weathir ; line mule you Mo. e there Will do to bet on '7" 'Bet on Gum' kr will that , I tell you ; .I)nn Boggs, he's the firest triek muh l% thiA eountry Paid Ave bun- Boller. for him • `great Prnarh ? 14 that "or ejacula ted Jim ": 4 01b1 truth every %aril of it Tell confidently, Jim, l'm taking hun to !lir betting purpose?, I bet that MT , ran kick a fly ofilrom any man with ont titer hurting htm " "Now look here, squire," 1.1115 Jim, 1 itt not a hettlng character, but I'll bet you something on that inyttelf ''dim, there's no nay ; don't bet. I don't want to win your money." "Don't t ou be:alarmed o Squire, 1 take suo•h bets as that every time " • Well, if you are determined to bet I will risk a small stake ; say, five dol tars." "All right, Squire, you're mg man ; but s , who'll he kick the Ay off t Thera no one here but you and I. You try It. "No," says Johnson. "I have to stand at. the mule's head to order him "Oh, ping," siivsJiiri, "then probably I'm the man Wail I'll do It, but you bet ton agin my five, if I risk it." "Ail right," quoth the Squire, ' , now there's a fly on your ahouitler, stand still," and Johnson Atuited his mule. "Whist Jarvey," Paid be. The mule raised his heels with such velocity and force that Mr. Boggs rose into the air like a bird, flew through a briar hedge, and alighted on all fours in a muddy ditch, bang up against a fence. Riming in a towering rage, he etz claimed, "Teas, that is h-1 I I I knew your triple couldn't do ft. You Led that all put up. I wouldn't ■ been kicked like that for fifty dollars. You con just fork over them are stakes for it any way." Not so fast Jim ; Jarvey done just what T said he could ; that is, kick a fly off it man without hurting him. You see tire mule is not injurned by the ope ratic' However, if you are not satis fied we will try again as yon wish "The d—Rake your grammar ketch es," growled Jim. "I'd rather have • barn falg on me at once than let that critter kick me again, Keep the stakes, but don't say anything about it," and Boggs trwigod on in bitterness of soul murmuring to himself. "Sold, by thun der I and kicked by a mule." Veer Waal, TOLD.—The neat morn ing the Judge of the police court sent for me. r went down and he received me oordially • said he had heard of the wonderful things I 144 accomplished by knocking down Ave persons and assault ing six others, and was proud of ?Kw. I was a promising young men and all that. Then be offered a testsb--..aGnilty or not guilty 7" I respoaded, in a grief but eloquent speech, setting forth the im portance of the °mutat that had brought as together. After the usual ceremonies, *-4 was requested to laid the city $lO. WILDDIrp God West interns's, The fill our hives With y little bees And how They ease Mee shoduk And mend our nooks, Sot—don't they spotlit the many I When we ars flak They heel us eulek— That hi, It they love to ; if not, we die, And yet they en', WllhJuxt ono eye, Juni wink the other on the *l7, Al; some pulse wan law,* Pk ..-811.04•164. A PRESIDENTIAL INTERVIEW A petrol! &WO*lin sod hie Mooting kl!ith Flak PlettieL In the happy days of Democracy, belanied;many an adept tit pull• ing the wirer, and making up the Stake in the interest of those who generally arranged things at "Ten Eyck's old stand." Prominent among her ward politicians stood Alderman John a butcher by profession and a Demo. crat by faith, whose earnestnres knew no faltering. The "Wye" all swore by him, and the ambitious for political spoils all ollowed him, no at last the Alderman came to he the central tut i nary in Detroit politics, around whitdi the leaser lights revolved with delbren• tial precision. Among the diatim guislied Democrats who were honored with the support and firm friendship of the managing Alderman, was the ex- Secretary of the Interior, Robert Mc- CleflatiJ. In return for the energetic support which he reecieved at the hands of hie butcher friend, Robert, of course, could do no less than to treat him with the moat gracious smiles and favor, and it came to pass that atler McClelland was well established in the Secretaryship, Alderman John, having neyer visited the Federhl city, deter mined-to honor that famous city with a Blida sojourn, and to tint the acad. fasmess of his friend MeCieltand's friendship, now 'that he bore blushing honors thick upon him. Carpet•bnggern were not )11 such dis repute in those days; 80, packing up a clean shirt and a bottle of venerable rye, in due time John was ushered in to the presence of the urbane Moses Hefley, at that time the smooth and polished chief clerk of the Interior De. partment. "Where's Bob?" /tooth Alderman John. "'Who, sir?" replied Mr. Kelly in bland tones. "Bo.b, Bob McClelland, rir, ' replied John. "The Secretary is engaged, air, just at present, aiid cannot be disturbed." "The h-1 he is," resumed our Detroiter. "Toll him that John 111111 wants to sec him, and by —, I guess that'll fetch him." In the meantime Governor Me., hay. mg recognized the %ince of his Michi gan friend made his appearance at the door, and of courme received him with the most distiugutt•hed consideration After brief inquiry after friends'end matters in Detroit, the Secretary ex plained to Mr. Hull that a Cabinet meeting would claim his attendance du ring the afternoon, and after making an engagement to present him to the Prei.ident the next day, he turned him over to n messenger to show burn about town. The ne\( morning, punctual to n minute, our friend was on hand Rt the office of the Secretary to make the promised call upon the Chief Magis trate of the natton.l In the meantime, Mr. McClelland had announced ter Mr. Pierce his in t n led call with his Michigan friend, and begged hien, so far us he possibli could, to bury die dignity of the Presi dent in the cordiality of the ritiren, as suring him that Mr. Hull would feel highly Nattered with any familiarity that, might be extended to him by the President of the United States. The twain were soon at the White House, and while, at the requegt of lair Pierce, Mr McClellan went for a mo ment to the President's pri 1, ate r Hull was seated in the ryception TOOlll to await Ins return, Mr. Pierce desi ring to act upon the point of the Interns- Department, suggested to its Secretary that, if he would, remain there it few moments to examine some official pa pers requiring his indorsement, he would .ego down and entertain Mr Hull/ Upon entering the room where our Alderman was seated, Mr. Pierce made his politest bow and said "Mr. Hull, of Detroit, I believe 7" "Yes, sir," gruffly responded that dis tinguished tudividual—evidently not aware that was sainted by the Presi dent Mr. Detroit, w in “Anything ne Mr. Piero". 7"interrogated replied Mr. Bull, shorter than ever. "When did you leave home?" con. tinned Mr. Pierce, not a little an axed at the grumness or his viaitar Without deigning a reply to thitelast question, Mull, in uncoutrullable wrath at his supposed neglect; broke out in a loud request, spiced with an oath, that "If no, McClelland intended to intro duce him to the President, he wanted him to do it d—n luick, as he didn't come up there to sit around like stoughton bottle. Mr. Pierce greatly amused at Hull's misconception of the situation, pleaaant- Iv remasked : "My name is Pierce." "'What f" interrupted Hull, In amaze.. men t. "Flank Pierce; President of the United States 7" "I have that honor," replied Pierce. "Well) well I" ex.. claimed Hull, grasping the President's soft hand in his vice-like grasp, "I'll be 4—d if I didn't think you wasa waiter." —Kalamazoo Telegraph. A CslifOrnis Heiress Mrs. Ellet, In her recent book on Furious American Women," makes mention of a California lady remarkable for her ability to entertain twenty gen tlemen at once by her ViyaelOUl conver sational powers. If this ware the only or chiefly remarkable thing about Miss Hitchcock, sbe would be • far lees re markable personage then she is. But she is a public character--an actress re. quiring a far broader stage and larger house than other actresses of the time, the is an only daughter, and 'only child, I believe, of a wealthy and Meet reapecteble family, her ftMer, Hitchcock, having oomy toWO coasters, any army surgeon during'lmatexlcsin war. He is now a Ban ciecoan. His accomplished datighter bee long been one of the belles of this city, without *horn no special gathering of the ton was complate if she was In the countey. 'When s(child she was rescued from a burning building by some members of the nlikerbocker Eng' no Com pa ny , No. 6., since whieb time she has sever for. gotten them—wearing sanaspilltuenaly Pt ail times, and in all places, a neat gold 1, 10 upou her drilla* and all times malting the Company of Which 410 is ti r duly elected member costly presents, slinging 'from the cherished NS" to a bar. tel of brandy, now, by staking a thou• sand on fi:tvotitu horse at the races, again by riding on the cowcatcher, the the entire length of the" Nape Wkly railroad, to which ride sho challenged &fa engineer, innbatill again by 56 omo of the noblest clouds of philanthropy and charity, She ha upwards of liftyi(tbousand dollars in her own right, and of course is expected ,to inherit the hundreds of thousands of her father's estate. From her own purse site sppplios the wants of man y needy Accts of charity, being generous in the extreme and of noble impulse. She vibrates between San Francisco and Purls, taking New York and London on her way, and io,toniab lug the nati% es clench of these quiet (1) intermediate eldest by what she does and what she does not do. She donee all rides and conventional ities of society, dresses and'aets as she pleases everywhere, selects her company from all classes at v. ill, and yet °out man& the confidence and good will of nil. She is conspiepous atthe Tuilleries, attends annually the Derby in ,England, where it is said she arouses herself by II inning or losing a few hundred a day at the hands of the young springs of no- Wilt) A' few days since she started in com pany with her parents overland for New York, and thence to Paris Two days utter, her marriage notice apTssarcd as evidence of the latent of her ermentrici tiesL she in u [pact way, with the per sonal knowledge of but two human be ings beside herself and the fortunate groom hosing suddenly experimented in the sae of bride. Another admirer WILY with her all the afternoon of that day, until 6 1' M. when she went lie they supposed, to dinner. At 8 P M., he met her again by appointment, and went with her to the theatre, after which he accompanied her and the fam ily as far as Sacramento, on her over land journey, quite ignorant of the fact that from 8 I'. M. he had been in com pany with Mrs Howard Colt instead of Miss Hitchcock This is the same youth whom sbe dared, to drive down an em bankment ut_the Clan:mu road a few years ago, which the did at a small cost of Her husband is left behind, she not tinyinL; scan bun, it is said, •ince oy left St James' Free Chrueh Doubtless, ere this she has informrwl her inning pa and dearest ma of her late rommic experiment, and is now enjoy ing- some other innocent amusement. But while this heroine is thus eccentric and rominitic in her compotition, and thus reckyst s in her dignelthor, as WON' remarked, there ore in her charticter many of the noblest traits pass-eseied by any :the speak, et ,ro, h iss a kind word and a warm heart for lilt ideas/ JOU rfani A STORMY NIGHT A lii/ITTlai round of beuttint rein I. heard egalaNt the o endow pent The he , tt of Nhttxrt I IrOVro, W‘th Her Jn urn• learn Uuces,ll.ll4 floe The rksks,l i.ranchss to•• .n 4 sikh No atar.gle►ma in the clouded sky The gl o , ts of hurled flow Tr. moan. And •troama rept, with trilling tone Drow up )nut luta phut out the night Hume nest r peened before us bright NA, ...WI .1 not cure. for .htt•lde gloom ts. ,N 1 ithh• thin cheerful lighted root,, 43 roAr a JO gueity mitt h- A fire in bluing on the hearth %Uit Figlot ..a.tons in) %1•1011 .414 (bpi' A , ntlileu ‘iNion o'er Inv • rept maw, from out tin., entbk.rn tine, foi ion, in ghastly guise A eruvril of faces. white end gaunt, And worn, alas' with sin and want Their eyes ore forth a hungry glare, And yet were hopelese with despair. Their "cant) , garments. thin and old, Could not keep out the damp and cold And oh' they looked An pinched anal blue: The Holly storm had plereaxl them through The von vanished; whet In meant I li.nuor too well, and why lama rent- in household sheer end warmth secure We newer should forget the poor. This lesson God wottld have us learn, And part of what He gives rettlrn —frachartg(. A Continental "Dam." A correspondent in Atlanta, Ga., of fers the following_ plausible explanation of this term .Ho says: "I do not claim to be versed in slang phrisaes, but I must confess that my knowledge of them is sufficient to explain the origin of an expression of this nature, of which Mr. Richard Grant White tidrnits he can give no account. In his article en titled, "Words that aro not Words," which you recently published, he says,, with regard to the combination of words, "Not worth's Continental damn, I em at a 1014 to assign a scource, etc." Those who are familiar with Ameri. can history will know that during the Revolution of 1776, the Continental currency became of little value, This currency was counterfeited to inch an extent, that it became necessary fur the Goverrdnent to take some steps to neer tain which wes genuine. To this end they required that it should all be brought to the oomstson treasury. Here the spurious were distinguished from the genuine notes, and such conterfeit notes had the word dam—an abbbemiation of the Latin word clatneatua, condemned— **wiped upon - their faces. When the very small value of the genuine Conti- i nestle! Notes, and the utter worthless- 1 nen of those marked data. is considered, it will be easy to assign a source to this phrase. The Ildditton of the letter ato the abbreviation requires no explana tion. —"I have come for my umbrella," said the lender of MI6 of Urea articles. "Can't !Moth/it," exclaimed the bor rower. "Don't you lee lam going out with it ?" "Well, yea," replied the lender, as tonished at such an outrageous impu dence, "yes, but—but—but .whist am I to do 7" "Do 7" replied the othe'r, as be throw up the top and walked off, "do as I did —borrow one. " This, That-and th. Other. early and be out eoanom fat of time L-North Caroitart dawn tolled trad produces, St,too,(alu in gold. • • , —A Now linmpalifie ladl of 10 la cutting her third set of teeth, --Gophers are said to be fond ot corn. inn man hu he„ corns doeeiit like to "go f ur" —Franklin, Kentucky , thepa to LmHnvllle one ilibilhand dozen of Ogppo per weA. SW oror net on IL horse race r "Nb,u.a. /Imo been igq , sister Bet on an old Mare T" —A woman moms] Welch, fatally shot John Diable, In Alton, Illinois, for attempting to outrage her. —ll . there any portion to whom you fool a dlaillre, that 6 the person of alum) you might 'terror to speak. —lf Mrs Lincoln can tlirPosr of tier obi cluthea, It In raid rhc a ill go urani the Maw. to a gay ballet girl. —A girl in PAHA who hen n, itla•r arm- not lege,eewx wry nicety. etuhrolderw and erica. with her lip* and Oath., —Brighton Young hem fixed the legal length or meu mon Indian' drerneb. They luny ex lend to the tun of their ',hoer —A doctor in Meriden. Coon.. tette hie en• dente on u telxlWde. It 10 bo gentle that he lierret it wlttrut hitching. —Maintain dignity N appeamee of pride; manner 1x enmething to elerybod), and o.er-riling Arith acme. —Part of the trial of a penclingt Illx l !tuft it New York. 0.11.411t11 of rending the whole of the novel "Griffith / Gaunt to tlio jury. —captain 84,011 And Lieutenant Small, tenth Union oMcers clutinA the 'ear, htit e coelenittee muleelt . 118411 rronLiseu, a itbin to a dAy,, —"The attempt." Pay* en can bongo, "to atm.( an na)luni for uneleha )oung 'nen fulled:an na budding could be ronntru,tod large enough " old holy, when her lette.tee CO ' her, "r.o r i hnw not degerted yno In eurrr old NCO: . r( piled. "No, eh - 1 Itmo a gory Rood appoint. till)." that gold I, so plenty In to, R on, that liras, litsttles and tin {wen will 1 4 winds of it before the lust fourth of July noun stair, —A rintrn Orange, 1111 0 111, lilt% a got., yearA old tbor tuf."ll o or .dal potilfnp• Here iv n c hanr Prot - .ome ono' , tnnnk•gh lnt Fllnurr. —tn exchange any.; A nti)aleinn M New Albany. Ind., epent to die hour,. hot week in taking am eight-foot tape•,. orm from a In.) too year. old —I nmer It•tt n In eminninien Te.•anse, if" bry ere untrue, I rUli the no( of being deceisNl end, If they he Iron, of hating pereone worth thinking about. —Whatever God hte intruded you tot, run may merely tract him tol,ring you to; hp mm lead vim round, hut be will guide you HAM err the hl,t, wy ui Joseph —The bullet that killed Nelnoil at Tratalgo is in the lauipeapiim ni saueers Nietnria it t. net In preeinup etnnen . and eneireied In is gold , case plusped like a walnut. —An !Hallman recentl poillogulzad . hot ll. %loll' tontvoi , to b uy Mite vihen you know the halt ni it la hone, while you ran 441,1 it for rum that hasn't a t , 01:10 in it " —Au ()bin lartv, of nn••preJudiree." ban latn'% stool n negro (or notinitints outlet ?Tontine innoinne Ann) nub "rwle Nino Ir u trot Itadienl, anti ?metier'. abet ntta preacher. fellow Attrint .3danrt wl 4 , 44, A player with thh *wrap ilArt. I tu,omota Thee to heir my I.lllyer it t.hti. time. TorTtloll hllOw 1.. t I I rouble Thy., ton —The (nom lint tinlng i t hi to get a Met' or the trial Of :lame. Grant, the f1 , .10.00if) of Ali Pollard. talllehtnond. ha. Men compelled I. common citizeun from Norfolk and itieilol drth —A "vagrant In the work linnt.e" writga a 1,1 tar ton New Yet* paper, erttivimlng a narmon eolnght I , of Wa.hingion, 11 w 111 , h ho ahon I. rin,,dr,l knowledge not oftep found to Runt, placer In Enl1I•h glri hnM 66tnfrioil LS dnmatt•• 11 - tini vihn, whllw rotirtLnr her eqnrrcnd lirr hand MO howl ikk 1 , . break kith nwitringii Qr mien I.le, pi it At tql 11. T %) t with Impunity. , --Purtnix n trill In It hich the Court ha/I re P^Mottly ruled tiguln.t thei.to• .I.m.s T. n o , d3r. he hlfudty 'mkt. "51ty It ploemo your hono ontrovect on the other Plde Or the ra. bestelos the Judge" —A ClAlemitn Sonrnnl klltttlint In Garrett A rt •olurhna Pet -. lll'lllV Rutter anggertn that 'in Hillier IA I..tiort A...terve never , purdAhment he he pent jn the Senate to /lesr one u( lAA •peerhe+ "I noivrnnii in ar. haber p.l to 111101 .4110 )I.w r 1 1p that a oherll7 elected I.v .hottht collect laze. at them They .Miff rimer le Ole to work the }twice that thing through tlteir wool —Tito f.oft,otto (Ind 1 r - narlet - °annum., that n patent far making talek 14 atia,,,f (or Ralf , that , • nn.i r i i flat-rata not*, trill, b. Land In lb. talatrraphla , nlumn—the fall ne lan el, ~ t arple lank of that kind of ma , tint " -1 new law In Cincinnati prohibits the nt eratio» of commercial agent,' or "drummer✓ In that city A troettng ward of a New Yort havand cap eatahliahment haft .1.1. t been finc.l 00 and Costs, and another agent double that amount. —A eeloelpetllpt In New Maven, while crop% ink n Atreot. ran Intel a bore. and knooked Alm down. The home era. ae i n)atad by the that the owner Wl4l nbiiged to kill hit% and he now bold, the voloolpede-rider renpAalble In therxtentoftlon . —Teas truant Bon. —ltawormul Nwtm --, I. your papa in, my littio mint Nol Woll tall him I Tilted—you kpow mn--Blimber, Dr. 1111mher I Frank Tiny--q, eh ! I know , you're the gen tieman that pa lawn is such a stick In the Pulpit! —A MP.vourt odtfrr speak. thnv of one hi. brethren of the previa “The poor Md, di hiphlatad pito, of (tech and bones who hang , Minigolf not ovary week In the Jenknon Stand ard, and who by common anhoent, wee ronnia end the facknom of the Itellterial Union, la' , tattled Ills old skeleton at on." -11 in said that before the stateMinhment or lighthoneee on the northern entremity or Scotland, the Orkney island fanners and wreckers (teed claret wine instead of talk In their barley porridge, and leered their farm with Honduran mahogany. They bitterly ofe posed the erection of light-houses. —Rome of the Qu♦ken of Pennsylvania no. advising •their brethren to reniet paying the tax. But the mace% honnied on the negro war. It Whil all right for the youth of the country toa 11 their blood to tuns the darkle , Toone. but It le all wrong for the Quakers to pay the tato. which have come from the fear. —A Pittsburg peperaaye t "The other dsy a little Rid wee playing near a well, when she alleged and began to fan Into It. Hut {arta nattily a cat wee sitting on a log close by the well, end the girt grasped the cat's tail and herd on, screaming all the time, until Rome body came out of the hove aid saved her. —Not long ago Cerl &honk Ina public ePn' venetian, said: "God le only an limminary onneman who dwells Iyond the clouds" Chi,m im load& anti rot so-esited stianObit ittithor, or Imocese un, thin whfeh fit merhrletlett, peal,* God for ht. election to the United finites Senate. Comment, nano. cessary. , --A Hew Hampshire mac told a Glory about a gook of crows three miles long, and so Chita MO you non/t1 not see the eon through It "Don't heifer* it," wait the reply. "Wal,'• gala the narrater, 're a streamer, and I don't went let *Oh y a ou. 90 to please VAL VII Wk. & quarter Or mile from the thin pi zeal , . • . _ —Algaitelle.ele that little igkyeterrler youra 1" ' Leottorate It hi." Algereetr—eDayon know the saying, I , ' , '" me, lore trtydogr” •Leonors—"Yee," Alteraoa—"Do you agree with its phllolo Ph lionora—"Oti, Yes." • j Algernan, (after • moment'a paulte)—ogy yorn I lore your dog awfully !" • He was accepted.
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