The Democratic Watchman;- 11 F. 1,1, F„N 1. WHY SHOULD WE WORRY? Why ehowlil WM ry llfe is not louß Here to kW 14tialekil it taglill/g gait Silly and °weigh Wh.elv with ree•ell le flight •111I1) fiat, arti'a imi n onward, it tilt eewr.iy,e eel half othemh, Fault le fie, 11.1 no ray. it it laugh rroti i i,b,gollo like Ikon , 1• not bore. Moro'ry t.o Often will 1.1.1n¢ us .1,1 qorr,,,t; Whet, they ere, lu 1 1 . ill.l Will tott forget their' 'I htt fool alone Dori IM r.•gft•l« rnat, thu vrittl. 1./ the ;In'. ('RI 11., now (lianwy It It‘ tAttertli l t ,Lurl u lotting 7 Wlittt , t done done ittt all, lin film The pre.. tit furl. r. trl Upotlet:, find viii I. it t. i) 1 ill rakeV the Ind.` \VIII 100 1.(11,1 Ike pt 4,111 a Curnnt.and.itek r u.l Ole illtlre . •+ dal k Why vigil ,to ti..k1W.14 , al ii hot .+lk. I. fearing' NVii, .0,10,1 it, In alu l ing.. with at Wail WI the‘'re real thing..., an.l prcoent hero If ill,' Ate nor' h it. ire II are her them th44l Nov. th •v re Hit Far i4•olltire..l t qr.. tnru Tinto, si ith the Pret.itht rt nl Irlt.l.ltt Th 1! ?int wot M 1,111. t Who can deny fle.h 11114 H , 11,41 I a ',MI , ' I. el 1110 l`nre.rrtef nnd nnetti-t a 01 nunl.oillelll•elWm k I,rt f• kr v.- kr • r to II /II Llicu.l4,,,init to.. • INtrktl. hrtlik4A , 1111-1,1, 44 fn..; Off oh 111 To km.. wit•l i0,..—00k; it cull n( .11.3 long - t BELLE ALDEN'S TRAVELING BAG A train titattel ttir 1..114 had 0; 4( left the depot of Itellehintame, when a gentleman entered th.a.i.ittoking ear, arid I ti,i hi- , hand 111,01 the +hoidder of 111.1 traveling companion --a, tall, hand POllle limit of thirty. who -tat nimongly blowing rings of smoke into the air 'MareN,' ani the new comer, if sou want to see at once the t.weetv.d and saiblret sight you es er behelii, co into the Ctr but one net thit train There's an emigrant t;ernutii with four little children, and during the afternoon the youngest, a babe, bae died. The imdlier awl the other chil drew are Itlf.ill.dahle: 'I can anderstao.i: intertapted the smoker, 'the .a , lnroo el inch a scene, but where'. the SS% eC111.C 4 4 you spoke of?' 'I route to that The whole part% have been taken its charge lit a swing lady. Sneh . a beauty ! She's dried the mother C tear- , ,and \t l is I lie noses. She's a ili%init% ' She only needsa few teatbera on her shoulder blade , . to make a , tleged of her If I tine not a married man, I'd never leave her till I d inade Mr.. An geheit Townsend out it her , That.'.. , a tilleeeh Whiell I ...hall faith r‘port,o Nirs Town-end' Bald I hr gem tertian addressed as Matey, rising. 'I shall go bark and teaat titv• C) , I'4 on it 1 '1,3,0r , and, ' he added, taking hit Traveling sateltel and 'shawl Irmo the rack, 'as we stop at pity? station whirl) isdue 111 ten nimutes, I may at well take nt traps through atilt and juts tau on the platform ' Thus saying, Richard Marcy threw his mh, ia d hi. shoulder, nut .411111 tered le;•mrel, thronglr the long WWI --ru-lrie4 bllmlly aml eAliniv to his fate I.or, as lie vilti•reol the hist ear but "Ile he lieritllle n LaMar-. 4 and ?in astir 11 , a 0 .0, 11011 1,1111..1.1,i whoie tutiire life. The p.err, v,rie! etre 1,, Mn, Wilio(11 fit. ,ofilio mow I%.tt sere!, ha.' ,poketi, the - Mead infant to In• 1 .1(111-, ,1I lIIt \ It ,•1•1, 1111 11• den f il Ince The (I rev. v 1,1111 4 ,1 111 cliil.ll4ll wprn)sir ,11.111 their 11111 e teal Isrllllwr, 11‘,1t,,1, 111t1elmig Npertnele, mtantlitlo be-i•le 1111.111. seas the Ilitlnlly of 1)r To% nrld\Nhe wh,) ‘1 , 1,4 moot certathlv Iu "rhare the nn happy I,bellard. Sh e wnc n titil..dender trlrl of teen,with magnificent eve and hair he entered Ihr ear, nhe aan speaking; he r lovely f a ce flushed, and 't he ...wall, TONY 111111101 dise.lo , ted a beautiful v e t , i f teeth, turned Lett ucimglt toward. the tall stranger at t he door I.ailies and t !,.,ttletnet,,' t h,. meet %woe, 'this Fool. woman, Irteml lesm RIO pwmilens.apeakm no I.:114114h, With four little children, Wil4 eeperttu to find work ifl Si LOON In ioilifairt them If everything had gone well with her it would have been hard with her , but with her little dead baby and her sorrowful heart cute IA certainly a dener~ing iilijeet of charity , amt I pro 11010. that as feel willing, contrih ate their mite toward a little purse ITir her iilimedlate wants and the burial of her poor hall, Anil,' she added, with it bewitching nettle, 'if any gentle man will lead rite a hitt I will go round arid take up a collection.' In an 'natant the gallant Itichard pulled his traveling cap from his blonde curie and offerelt IT to the Angel of Mercy, who accepted it with a smile, this time all hie own, and commenced gathering the readily .fortlicouilliK dollars her generous, graceful appear brought from the purees of all in the car. Richard watched the slender figure in gray, gathering the money ; and, looking at the laid cap in the white, jeweled fiuglirs, be bethought hiiit of his own donation, and 'stepping to the seat the beauty had just occupied he laid his satchel and shawl upon a fain• ily of its kind, belonging to the angel in gray, and took from his pocket a ten dollar lull, which he placed in the little hand that returned him hie cap. F urt h er damage the poor-fellow receiv ed, when a second smile and•warmly worded thanks for his liberal contribu tion were dealt him from the beautiful mouth. Dick was in the midst of an elabo rate reply, when the cars stopped. Ile lingered yet another moment, seizing Iris satchel and shaul uith his eyes still on the face of his charmer, and then, even as the cars were again in motion, he bethought hinotell of the d. mor, and hurriedly left the ear and joined his friend on the platform. 'Weil,: ejaculated that worthy, 'I lama to belies e you'd concluded to go and Miry the dead haliy, and make the protecting beauty Mr 4. Angelica Marcy. t site n stunner 7' 'Townsend: returned his friend, 'don't lie glang in gpealong of the noble creature.' Tle 'oohed A lter th e train just disappearing in the diHat cc it IA to licalen,' lie c(Illitslle I. 'l ' d rl . lllailleti nhoarl ilna Hutod i ttas to le tve if. 1 tni , ,ht lotto learned her name and regidenee. A nil noty--' bow, in all pr-bnlnlit: broke in the doctor, 501111 never. meet her in tlliq %ale of te'trs !Int Ou'll htime her in lIVIIVe7I, rf yon hehnve %on elt enoug h to get there,by her n mg she'll have the biggest ninny nl them, seeing they'vo entionrneed to t•mout on cart h.' And thus rall log ht.+ ilioronglik eari‘ated friend, the two male their war to the house of an acquaintance, with whom ,they weir to remain that miz hi, and ff o on the next day to their de , tination tit Low-. Alter lbe nor here went to his room, to rethole some of the et ofroc e .4 of 1114 l(prtg role front New York. Ile had reino‘ed his coat, cent, and collar; he had t,pla , died and F•na pr.' and Qoalwd and waulied, till hi. datnp etirk , clung cloQe to 1114 shape Iv head, wilier) he made a ~l arth n; di cot ITV l'lmdled and brenthltet be Imrpt into the next room, upon hei (rem]. cried lie, 'what upon earth do ‘4,tl l'%e got the ,rong hug I're rhangad luiggnge ,Its the Angel ol Mere Look at that slipper See. (bat 11.11111)1V. ( . <lll. template that glove el 'dent )ou'Se got the lad% , ntehel. and what %cll.+ there In tours?' bring up that dreadful idea: said Dick, 'Cigars and a hair brush,a park Of card+ and a comb, pocket Ilaqk and a tooth brush--everything di-reputable. If I am judged by that hag. I'm a loat man.' 'And thin I took for a clean shirt: and Dick held up a lrilled and fluted sack, such as .lo duty for wore ellen hits night dresses with htdies when traveling I'd like to see Angelica when she opens my satchel ' \nd Dick tell to musing, with the dipper pen lied on two lingers, and the trilled white sack spread out tenderly 111.011 1118 knees In an upper appartinent of a lieand ,,pie 1111111414,11 111 SI. Linn', un the es Aning iit the flay err heroine fir-it made the N.filler ' t , 1101111illitafIre. beau Will Itelle Aide!), the petted and only ilanglitir of the house, mat contemplat 1114 the articles her confiden tial maid was 41141,0'1111g 114)1)11 the table talsen Irmo no less a recept acle than Dick Marcy's traveling bag The caribi and cigar ... ram. lay side by lode, and it highly ncented party they tve•re• 'll'hnt'r+ in the little rifer dask, 9 ' satni, the Lair 'ltrandy, replied the timid 'lle can't be ery dooflpated to tray el with 5u,.11 a little bottle. That'm I CO.Ye of riTatneer, I Suppose, ' returned 14elle 'lt is my tadiel,'maid Hoettosho WELK a shrewd gul, 'that the gentleman was it mighty nice one, eke ).iti'd nut lr e %rune the card+ and the bottle 'Eor shame, Rosa. All gentlemen play euchre traveling, and even ch!r cymen take a little brandy in cane of itti-Uvre I Belle 4 A 111: thin uuw wax a gentleman, awl a liberal one, too, he.gave the pour emigrant woman •:•10 What's that, For, at that moment, I{o.lt held between her lingers it letter. Whether It was wrung to real a stranger's letter vexed Belle for a in o mem, as her eyes &need al the nu pen.cription and handwriting 'Why, of all things?' exclaimed the delighted girl, seizing the latter. 'Why, Rosa, this in Jenny Marcy'e wrung, and addressed to Bit:bard Marcy—her only darling brother - who was in Eu rope when we two graduated at Mad am Bitter's ir i ßrooldyn.' !tell read rapidly till she had reached the, middle of the letter, wlien she burst into a merry laugh. 'Above all things, hick , dear, don't Mil, while in St. Louis, to Bee my lie friend and schoolmate, Belle Alden. T know ton will lull in love with ber,for betodes being the best girl in the world, stir's it ['runty :tin] an ['miens, and fa ther's choice above all others, for hie son's wile. Ile used to talk it over at Inane, and hope Belle would not mar ry before you came borne iron, Europe. She lb full ae anxious to know yomand wearit your hair and mine in a locket lather gave her last year. Give bee lota of love and beg her to overlook your Many imperfections, for the cake of her old schoolfellow, Jenny.. 'Hien this gentleman is, of course, Mine denny'e brother,' bald Rosa, 'and what will elle Hay when else hears of your having met in that romantic a ay ?' 'I don't intend to tell her of it till I go to New York this fall,' said Belle. 'Perhaps her brother will call.' But in this supposition Belle was %%rung. The month passed, and she rum no more of the golden-headed Itichard. And she carefully separated the yel low lock in the keepsake from the dark tresses of Jenny's and put it back into its place alone, while another locket held the bit of Jenny's. And, somehow, Belle looked very very often at the wee golden curl,and she never did so but the rest of the handsome head sprang up beside the lock; and she would sit and contemplate the picture her fancy wrought for her, little dream• ing the intereet she was allowing to grow in her bosom for Jenny's brother. ' In the fall, Belle and her father went to New York, and the first day after her arrival fotind her sitting with her old friend, who, after the fir , tcetrusive meeting was past, sat down to empty her foo l, Tin ,n glad you are here this nionth 9 ' Jenny said, 'because I'm to he married in October, nail I have' always been ernzy to have you for a brdesmaid, and lack Is to be Harry's best man.' Bel le Mutated, 'But Dick has fallen hopelessly, madly in love!' Belle turned pale. 'Yes, I was so dreailltilly provoked wlviti he pa.-ited through St. Louis and never went near von But lie went wild over some lady he met On !lint fatal nil.. "lie will talk to iire i hy limird of big Angelica And whey hare' spoken ill oil be has keen pos i tively rude, and waked me to have done bothering him about un freckled kelitiol heads lcimw )onr pleinre creek ley; but 1,1e.s pni any now! .1,:n1 your 01111 . 1 look any mole like It .lovs like ine, 11111 ft bl •• "But tell said Belle, "k your litother engaged to_ thin holy''" "Engaged! Why, dear heart, he don't know her name Ile Just found some of her old clothes soniewliere. Ile's got her old slipper, tinder a glass ea-e: he $ of her ghoi, under another: he's got ber no!lit g)mii dune op in la‘Crldt r , got her gold thimble hung on his anti chain, and f do beliese he's got a hair hrikli and Nome hair bran next to heart (lb, ). lolly to ititeilere' lie's beyond all. hope I did think the excitement of tat nedding would %%eat) him from it but »i 4 a lit lie looloi nt 1/11' hutgs as calmly 114 an oyster, and tud! , tail ICH nit kuul 01 We to re !meat it though,' broke oil Jenny, wa• it h e stud'(" inquired laughtio,r now heartily "Don't leur for my teeling.." " he sad, "I'll gland up with tour friend, Bell, Rod see you safely matind, and Own I'm oil; to winter to Paris. rin done with love on tny owl Recount. It's positively awful. - And no Belle thought, an she lodised at her old slipper and gime lying be tenth a globe on either of faithful Richard's mantle. "And," said Belle, "sines lie ,letirt•R only Iky meet nie on the morning 01 the wedding, 6,, it shall be. I will lie in troduiceil only an we are leaving (lie lion , e, and be earl (10 14 lie pleames about cwitiniong the itequitintanee afterward " RV Ile RAN rtiohnot with happiness wizen she returned to her father, and delighted h e tfuul heart by the change, for Itellehßd h4n very quiet of late. ,lenn yAnd Belie shopped and talked and visited together for the nert few da)s, and when the eventful morning arrived, and amid a bevy of beautiful girls, Retie shone like a queen, the bride was eclipsed, and delightfully acknowledged Belle"' she said ; "1 long h a % e old stoical Itiek HIT you - Hark ! there's his step. (mac Iraq the hext room now, and be introduced. Don't wait until the carriages come-- it's an hour vet And Belle. with a beating heart, swept through the door and strait even as hick first saw her, only, In place of the gray travelling dress, a nuiguilir•ent a hoe satin tell in rich iolds shout her, and upon her lovely *hate throat lay the turquois locket that held Dick's golden r•url. Upon the beautiful head, clowned by Oils chentioit hair, N corn "Ipearlm added to the grace and 1...r0iN of an image that shunned ih In,. I - an , 4 already an angel Ile did not look up, but she telt the pre.ience, it, Richard Marry. came up and was introduced to little.lennv•s of l .cboolrnnti• Then, as 111. lIVIII out ii: hand, elan rased her eves. and laid her tiny palm in tile, and said "I think we had better rectify that ine..take :Liana the traveling hap, Mr. Mare) I." "iimd !leaven, .lenny r . said Dick Marcy. Why didn't you tell me that vonr friend Belle was my 'Angel of Mercy?" "Beraww I didn't know till last night, and then Belle made me Kota ine nut to tell And besides you didn't Viallt to meet the freckled school girl till it was pieutively necessary." re turned Jenny, mischievously ft would be hard to say which of the lour that made Jenny's bridal party VS am the happiest that day. thek did not go to Paris that winter. Ile found that St Louis contained more attractions than any foreign ea V. Hut the next fall will see Dick and Itelle on their wedding tour, and be vows lie will have the two old roman tic traveling bags bruslAl up for the ()evasion. Doctor Townsend, who 18 to MO along, says he knew the minute he saw,,that girl she would one day be Angelica Marcy, as lie "felt it in the air." Jona P. Ilm.a.—The Boston Times has the tollnwiag about a man who Once tilled a large portion of thu public Hon. John I'. Hale, who used to be so robust and healthy looking, has greatly changed. Ile may he seen on the streets of Dover, New Ilamsiiire, any fair day, walking slowly arid pain fully with a cane. his whole right side is paralyzed, but not completely. In walking he d rags his right foot, the difficulty seeming to be mainly in and below the ankle, In opening a door is obliged to use his left hand, changing his cane to the right. Intel lectually, Mr. Hale is vigorous, but thinks lie is somewhat impaired in memory. The rotund, rosy man of yore is no more, for Mr. Hale is but the ghost of his former self, His hair is well silvered, and, altogether, no actpiatntance would recognize the man without some clue to his iden tity other than that presented by his appearance. A gourmand friend of ours, writing from Paris, complains that. they have plenty of sorties but no entrees. Napoleon--The Letter M. A I.ETTEItjaL„: TIIE VIN'ESS OF D IE4 AND TIIE OF Ett'ITIE,I, Sumo genius, with a taste for the enri Oils or facts and the supernatural in speculation, has made the 10l low ing discoveries of the wonderful Towers W . the letter M. Monet' wits the first to reconize the genius of Napoleon I. at the Military College. Marengo was the first great battle won by General Bonaparte, and Melas made room lor him in hale. Mortier was one of his licsi generals; Moreau L;trayed and Mural was the first mkrtyr'in his cause. Marie Louise sharydhis high e,t fortunes : Moscow Wll9 the abyss fi,f min into it Rich he fell. :oil , : mar , shalls (Minimum, Morner, Marmont, :Ski/on:MI, Murat, Moncey,) and twen ty six generals orditNiol. under. Na poleon I, hail the letter "M•i" for their initial. 'Murat, Puke of liassatm, waft the mast trusted counsellor. Ills first bat tle was (hat of Mentenotte, his last Aionnt St. Jean, as the French term Waterloo. Ile won the Intl ties of lifondovi, Monamtrail and Monterean, then camel he storming of Mommartre. Milan was Ow first ene foie v 0:11111/11, 111111 4 Moscow the last, into which he marched victorious Ile lost Egypt through Aiello'', acid emplo)ed %nibs to take Pins VII. proomer. Mallet conspired against him , Murat was the first to desert him, then Marini - int Three -of his ministers were Mare', Montalivet anit •lalLen, his lirst ehamberlain was Montesquieu Ills last halting place was Maltnnison Ile surrendered to Capt. Maitland, of the Ilellerqplion, and his comp:tidbits in St. I I tielllt were Montliolon and his valet March land. If me turn to the career of Incu neph ew, Napoleon the 111, we find the same letter no less prominent, and it Pi said that the captive of Wi}helms/toe attaches even greater importance to the mystic influence than did his uncle Ilia empress was a countetor Mont ; his greatest friend watt Morny.—The taking of Malakoff and the tnamelon• vert were the exploitrtot the Ccs.uician war, peculiarly French. Ile planned the first hat tie of the Italian eatypeogn at Marengo, although it was not fought until alter the engagement of Montt). belle, at Magenta. —McMahon, for file important lierVl , eB in this battle was named the Puke of Magenta, as l'e lister had for a similar merit received the title of hike Malakoff. Napoleon 111, then made Inc entry into Milan, and drove the Austrians out of Marig nano. After the fearful battle on the Minch) of Solferi no be turned hack before the walls 01 Mantua. Thus up to ISO, since when the letter M would seem to have been ominous of evil. Passing mer Mexico and Maximilian, we see IliOw vain has been his hopes, founded on three M's of the present war—Mar , shal MrMalioryeount Montanhari and the Mitrailleuse I Mayenee was to hit.% e been 010 bilge of further opera lions or I ht. French army, but, pushed hack first to the Moselle, us doom was f4Coll'd all the Meuse, at Sedan Lastly, we have to notice the full of Metz, and all ihr+e Inter iltqasters are owing to another . M, which is inimical to the third Napoleon, and this a capital AI —Moltke. ---The i htl tlclphtn Rnnda y Men cury tells the following story, V III goes io t•limv that member-40f the Leg ishiture are 4ospieious charactert+ "SR ii is FAmi, "—An amusing iiiei dent occurred on Eightli , street, on Monday,lwit, of which a State Senator trom the interior was the hero, much ugain m his w i ll n o doubt. In compa ny with some friends he was purchas mg come holiday presents for the "lit tle ones, - arid in the course of his per egrinations stopped at a stand for the sale of whistling China birds, presided over by a Young-American. Our Seri atonal friend exercised his well known Conversational powers for Rowe time upon the youthful verider,in the meant time leeilmt his wares, and finding some ilitlieplty in getting suited, said . "sly !Ale friend, this thing won't whistle." The juvenile merchant, en.uing it knowing glance at the Senator, very quietly replied . "Well, mu-, maybe not ; but the one you have in your pocket will 1 ' Tlini remark rather startled the lion eBt. Senator, and after fumbling in his porkek for coin et tine to eateify himself that he hadn't stolen one, rejoined in titl.ttiantly • "Ytait,g man, bow dare you insult u gentleman in that manner 7" The bpy's eyes at this moment ltrer ily alighted titan) the missing toy, and looking up at the atitoniiilieti Senator again, ut a curt of apologetic way, re plied "Well, sir, I happened to hear one of these gentlemen say that you were a member 01 the Legislattire,and that's why I thought It, sir I I'm gla,lllo see that you ain't mat'. Here's the bard sir—ten cents. k you ; good day I" —A Scotch nail who h.red hires self to a farmer had a cheese set down before him that he might help him self. The coaster had occasion to re mark sometime afterward, "Sandy,youi take a long time to breakfast." 'ln truth, master," answered he, "a chests o' this size is nae sae soon eaten as ye may think," —A Chicago boy being asked it be had a mother, said he tAidn't know, as he hadn't been home since morning, and when he lett his father and moth er had been quarreling, with odds in favor of hie father, who had the hatch et. We are told "the evening wore on," but we are never told whim the evening vim on the occasion. Was it the clotte of a klutnnier day ? The Birds, the Peas, the Cat. , - Let 'us have peas. I have been a zealous advocate of the birds. I have rejoiced in their multiplieittfon. Yhave endured their concerts at four o'clock in the morning, without a murmur, Let thorn come, I said, and eat the worms, in order that we, later, may enjoy the foliage and tire fruits of the earth. We have a-cat, a magnificent animal, of the sex which votes(but not a pole-eat),—so largo and powerful, that, if he were rim the army. he would be called Long Tom, Ile is a cat of tine disposition, the most irreproachable morals I over saw thrown away in a cat, and a splendid hunter. Ile spends his nights, not in social dissi pation, but in gathering in rats, mice, flying-squirrels, and also birds. When be 11r,t brought me a bird, I told him that it was wrong, and tried to convince him, while be was eatink it that be was doing wrong , for he is a reasonablu cat, and understands potty much every thing except the _binomial theorem and the time down the cyeloidal are. Ilut with no effect. The killing of the birds went on to my great regret and shame. The other day I to my garden to get a mess of peas I had seen, the (IA before, that they were just ready to pick. How I had lined the ground, planted, hoed, bushed them I 'fire bushes were very floe—seven feet high, end of gaud wood, How I had delighted in the growing,"the blowing, the pudding What a touching thought it WAS that 1 they has all podded for ire I W went to Ork them, I found the rd. "all plat npa•n and the pea, gone The dwir little birds, whir lire o h udoltilestrr{w berries, had eaten them all there were left its many as I 1%111111 0 4 did not count them. I made a rapid es timid° or the Rr,t of the ,00,1, the inter est of the ground, the Fine of laber,the value "row bn,hrs, thivwxn•ty of of watchfulness ' I looked about 'neon the Give of iiatur , " The wind blew from the smith so soft and treacherous I A thrudi sang in the woods sir deceitfully I All nature seemed fair Hut who was to give me back my peas' The fowl, of the air have peas 7 but what has roan'' I went into the ,hou , e. I called Cal vin (That Is the name of our cat, given him on account, of his gravity, morality and uprightness We never familiarity called him John I I petted Calvin. I lavished upon him an enthusiastic fond ness I told him that he had to fault ; that the one action that. I called a vivo was an heroic exhibition of regard for my interests. I liim go and do likewise continually I now saw how inueli better instinct is than rriori• ungui ded reason. Calvin knew. If he 'haul pet his opinion into Englidi (instead of his native catalogue), it would have been • "You need not teaelvyour grand mother to suck eggs " It wan only the round of nature The worms tat a nox ious something in the ground 'fire birds eat the worms Calvin eats the birds We oat—no, we do net eat Cal vin There the chain stops When you ascend the scale of being and come, to an animal that is, like ourselves, inedi ble, you have arrived at a result where youerin rest Let us respect the vat lie Completes" an edible chain —Front ‘• Mit 51111111 , 117 . 111 a Gar , len," bre f'ham P. Wainer its The Late Alexandre Dumas In the death S,f Alexandre Dumas one of the timst celebrated literary men of France has passed away. characteriAe this remarkable genius would demand almost as large a «pace as in enumerate his writings. lie was the most voluminons of modern an thorn, and it might be mathematically demonstrated that lie did not write hall the books that appeared with his mare, pis( 114 It is Kll. , reptlble of %irool that Rubens did not paint a moiety 01 the pictures attributed to him which are to be seen in the great galleries of Europe. In the ease of Dliffl/114, (14.111 (1111 t. of Rubel's, the outlines merely of the work were drawn by the master, the details and execution having been left to workmen of los school. Such at least was the explanation given by the great French romanco,t, when legal proceedings were inAt)Uiied against him by his publishers for famishing copy in greater quantity than he could possibly have written it. The books upon which his fame will chiefly rest are "Monte Chrism" and the "Three (;ilardsinen," though lies populaiuv wall even greater as a iliamsue4 than as a writer of novels. Ills , ersatilit) was wonderful, Mel lie produced upon demand any amount of literary nut tenni that might be desired. liie peroonal anco i lotem that are re lated to hun would till volitinem. lie n‘itittildrred vast alltll4 ‘ IA money for (Iv gratification it Inn vanity, lie built the moat extraordinary arelliteetural folly of modern times, null alto con mtatitly exchanging prolumion for ',elm ry an lie became the VICIIIII ul MUIIIe new caprice Ile died at the age of oixty never.-- Y Evening 1101. Need of Regeneration • A raw countryman having brought his gun to the gunsmith for repairs, the latter is reported to have exarnin• ed it, and finding it almost too far gone for repairing, said. "Your gun is in it very worn out, ruinous, good for-noth• ing coruhlion, what sort of repairing do you want for it?" "Well," said the courtryman, "I don't as 1 call do without anything short of a new stock, lock, innd barrel that ought to sot it up again." "Why," said the smith "You hall better have a new gnu altogether." "AU" was the .eply, "I never thought ofthat ;and it Ntrikes me that's jam what Ido want. A new mock, lark, arid barrel, why, that'a about equal to a tew gun altogether, and that'a what have." Juet the sort or repairing that maws nature requires. The old nature cast aside as a complete wreck and good for•notbing, and a new one import 7 ed, "Won, Ms. Smith," Paid Mrs. Jones, .‘it I'm anything, I'm a Unitarian : what are you ?" ainiintartin what they,calls it, but my old man says he's a vegetarian." All Sts of Paragraphs House decorations—Women. • ; High-drawfic Omura—A lisp. The eldest father—Father Time. Objects of interest—bills payabld Tho oldeet. mother—Mrs. ,Necussity A debating society out Wei,t is dis cussing the question, "Which is the butt end of a goat?" Ahairy !loth ug—tlio result of a boy's first shave. Organ Winders' Motto—Turn about is fur play. fore , its are in danger when the w intl chops. flow old /S n ship when she is in her nnr•horago? The um•expericnced Innke the lost hoti.l tervatit%. boll, doe.ri't al%Vays give the best bone to sorirty. Greeley kap' the horso do combat is the 1 ) 04 for carriage purposes, but too dolicato for farm use. Vanity is a strong .drink that wakes all the virtliesstagget. 1 A sign in Red Bank, Now Jersey, rends thus,: ''New maid and old maid . 11/01 i n 4. always Oil baud." In (144:440, the (111111ibtli driVer9 11 1111, .! tin Itllrrt.riee of one cent in the tare ho_ t it fat arid lean people. Uly—c., in 111,4 late me+sagn, nlludri pathetically to "air fi, , sth/c,/ t r Ar,r ,doors and orphan. flrrnmr tt tanner tiin4 4k ins al es nut safr to in ler that ha can. TH o t past;y us ally rec•omnu•nd jadiei t.b ("nil ..calklniz is a !natter in which step+ glioubt be taken A 4 mintry paper wtk, if the Regten dip" 1, n new kind of candle •Mea•ure for inea , or S lioetritik4r ariett tailor W foil bar is that which often opens and never ? A crowbar. In whet tongue did Dalawns ads speak? Probably in the be-brayde. A petition to the Detroit City Gov eminent ends: "And your petitioner will ever pray—if praying will do any good:. An Indiana mother thought she spited n courting couple by removing the tight. Why should howls be liable to lire when everybody who sleeps ui them put their hose alongside the bed when , they turn in Can n man he stud to leak " when his oration "touches" his au dienco Why is a newspaper like an army ? &•caws it has leaders, columns and re lOWS Why should ispider be a good cot respondunt? Because he dropi a lino by every post. Why 14 a young lady forsaken by her lover like a deadly weapon ? Because she to u CIA-11186. Fortune's band, so a broken down writing master assures us, is remarkable for its heavy down strokes. /Olt I`, hOMO without a mother?'' as the, young girl said when she sent the old lady tu chop wood. A work we may expect. to /00.111.11- 11"11nuced sootily, the "lien's Cackle, ' by the author of "Lay Sermons " witty Frenchman says "in Amer ica they have invented two hundred re ligions and only one gravy " What is the runt profitable of all manufacturesl The shoo, for every pair is soled before it rs finished. When a criminal upon the scaffold tleds how soon he is to do•, Whitt IS h., prone to request ? Time to dilate. "Father, won't you buy me a fish polo'!" Fan] a pious boy You know the Bible pays, "hpare the rod and spoil the held Whitt is nna man S 101. S IS another man's gain, ' ns the fellow said when ha saw a man before loin drop his pocket book. •Grans came to the American people,' says a B ',ton jiver, as a diSperlhatioll of Providence " The deluge was also a 'dispenoution." Xenia, Ohio, girls have a pleasing habit of kissing strangers in the street, and then wildly screaming, "Oh, my I 1 thought it was cousin Charily" It Is dillieult for even the beat 8111140rfi AI Way+ OP IN' in Voic,, but any COM Moo clerk curl keep a whole custom house v owe with ft little care A California professor is writing says "on the tly s nose." A very tick lish Waco to write essayif, we should say, though, perhaps, ho knows it. Puneh thinks it would boa real bless ing to mothers if somebody could invent a soap that would enable in ion was to get then daughters off their hands. Thu NOrfolk pollee forco wont on an egg-nog bonder Christmas, and ono half of the force had to commit tho other half to the station house by night. Thu height of pugilistic sarcasm was reached the other Jay by Jom Mace, who, speaking of a rival, said . "What I him? He couldn't lick a postage &temp i ' Editors,-however much they may be biased, are fund of the word 'impartial.' A country editor oneo grvo an "impar tial account of a hailstorm." "What New England Lost in the War" is the subject of an article in the Montgomery Mail. Now England's loss in the war consisted principally of sub stitutes. A speaker in exhorting a miscellane ous audience recently, urged each and all to come up to the work and "he a man." Of course the ladies couldn't see it. Mrs, C. W. Johnson is lecturing in Indiana, on "Man in the Raw " This is Mrs. Johnson's (point way of spooking of good nom, for it Is the good men who are rare. It must have been consoling for sick soldiers on low diet in the military hos pitals during the late war to sing, ' When this gruel war is over we shall meet again." Josh Billings observes : "Sokrets nro kussed poor property cnnybow ; if you circulate them yu lose them, and if yu keep them yu lose the interyst on the in vestment. ISE Barter be
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