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
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1110
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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