4 UKCLE DAVE'S ADYESTUBE. BY A. mitSSMOR. "Hullo, Uncle Dave! Good for youl Hess aud I were just selling for aonie ihinj; to turn up. Walk right in!" And the old gentleman was seized and ushered into the hall tvMi impetuous hospitality. "Clarence, how rude!" protested a second voire. " But, uncle, we are glad to see you ; the folks have gone to the soci able, aud our lessons are nil learned, thank goodness!" Aud ft bright young face was eagerly raised for the kiss that, you may be sure, was not grudgingly given. Uucle Dave was a great favorite with both nephew and niece, and he was soon snugly settled between the two upon the library sofa. "Well, Bessie, what is to be the order of exercises to-night?" he asked, as with a sly hand he released a mass of curls that tumbled in a shining cataract over her shoulders. "Disorder, you mean," was the quick retort, as she caught tlie daring hand and slapped it rigorously. "First of all, we mu8tcon tri ve a plan for keeping you quiet. Clarence, what was father saying about uncle this morning f " "Do you mean when I was reading up In parlor magic for our party next week f "Yes." "He told me to ask him about his ad enture with Satan. Oh, uncle, tell it to us now, won't you 7 Please do! Please!" "So I am to be kept quiet by being made to do all the talking; good! But, chicks, it is against my principles to frighten children with ghost stories. " "Chickst Children!" Bessie remon strated. "Why, even Clarenoe is more than half-past twelve, and I am two years and ten weeks older. Besides, this isn't to be a ghost story, exactly. We shall neither faint nor shriek, shall we, Clarence?" Clarence laughed derisively as ho ran to the tablo aud turned down the light; then, regaining his end of the sofa he an nounced : "All ready." "Well, if I must, I must," sighed Un cle Dave ; and in a grave voice, that con trasted strangely with his previous ban ter, he began : "It was back in the thir ties. Our grand old State of Iowa was not yet born, and your father and I had come to grow up with the country. Sho kokon had just sprouted, aud her one forlorn tavern was so overcrowded that we were forced to find quarters in the upper story of a primitive warehouse." "I know, I know," cried Clarence. "I've heard papa tell all about it. Every man slept in a bunk with the bedclothes Hailed at the foot, so that he had but to kick them oil in the morning, and haul them back again at night what fun I I wish I had lived in those days ; oh, don't I?" "Clarence, be still !" exclaimed Bessie. "It is very impolite to break in in that way. Go on, uncle dear. " "We were forced," repeated Uncle Dave, with deepening solemnity, "to lodge in a ramshakle affair called by jourteey a warehouse. A lank, tow leaded young giant named Johann iJoethe Boltz roomed with us, but we didn't mind that; the accommodations were ample. " "Yes," Bessie assented, "it's a standing joke with father that his boudoir at that time was mora spacious than elegant. Later on, I remember, it sheltered a half dozen families of Irish immigrants; and one day an up-river steamer landed at tha levee close by, with a couple of babies conspicuous among tho passengers thronging the guards, which prompted three of the warehouse mammas to ex hibit at a window a trio of 'darlints.' The people on the boat responded at once by producing a quartette, and the compe tition went briskly on uutil the triumph ant steamer paddled off amid the wildest enthusiasm. " "W-h-e-w!" whistled Clarence. "Very impolite, et cetera, et cetera. Go on, uncle dear. " Uncle Dave seemed in no way put out by these interruptions, but he now re sumed in a tone so serious, so impressive, that his vivacious audience was at last awed into silence. "One night," he said, "about a month after the sign, 'Brent Brothers, Carpen ters,' had been hoisted in Shokokon, I was busy at the shop shaving down a lot of split shingles. Your father had gone with his gun, just after suuset, to look up a wild turkey roost located in the timber a mile back of town. Niue o'clock had just struck wheu the door was hur riedly opeued, there came a rush of -wind, and puff! all became dark. "'Who's there? I cried, as tho door shnt with a bang. "No reply. I felt for the caudle and re lighted it. Boltz, trembling from head to foot, stood facing me, his look hag gard, his hue that of ashes. 'What's the matter?" I gasped. 'Has llal shot himself?' "A slight shake of the head was bis only answer. ,. "'Well, then, what ails you?" "His lips parted, but his tonguo seemed paralyzed. lie was tho most terror-stricken man I ever saw, Draw ing near, I grasped his arm and shook it roughly; this aroused him. Ho pulled himself together, gulped down the lump iu his throat, and begun shaking rtipully, though huskily, in German, accompany iug his words with extravagant ges tures. I whistled, and he, recollecting himself, stopped abruptly, groaned in despair, and then tried English. It dawned upon me at last that he thought lie had just escaped from the devil, who, he firmly believed, had made away with your father. "I had heard Boltz called 'the super naturalist' by some of the town's folk; vpw I knew why. "Ha explained, as well as fright and 1roken English would let him, that Hhortly before, on entering the deserted lower story of our abodo, and beginning to grope his way to tho stairs at the roar, he had been horrified by the sight of an indescribable something whit h he was sure whs the foul fiend himself, who had orcurcd 111, your father, au.l uow lurked the for us, "His terror vrns too real to be ridiculed, so I just slipped into my coat and pre pared to go to the warehouse. "ycint nein! Du mutt nicht! Dii must nicht." he implored, and I saw by the dying candle that he was actually in tears, "I persisted, however, and ha threw himself desperately before the door. His herculean height towered above me, but I more than matched him in breadth, aud easily put him aside. "I passed out, and, as I had expected, ho followed, but whether from devotion to me or the foar of being left alone in (he shop, who shall say ? You see the caudle had burned down, and a low, con tinuous growl in the southwest told of a coming storm. "Our goal wag near; we were soon there. As I pushed open the door Jo hann had neglected to fasten, I felt his breath on my cheek, his hand on my shoulder. lie was in such a tremor that his touch thrilled, as it were, my entire being, and I still shuddered After I had shaken myself free. "The room before us was eighty foet or more in depth, and appeared gloomy even at noonday, being lighted but by a single wiudow in front. It now yawned as biuck as a dungeon, as silent as death. We hesitated at the threshold; then Johann's quick breath suddenly ceased, and at the same instant I beheld a huge eye glariug at us wickedly from a remote corner. " "Sinbad's giant," whispered Clarence. "Polyphemus," Bessie echoed. Both nestled closer. Uncle Dave want on. "I felt queer, there was no denying it. 'But,' thought I, 'if, as Tom Campbell says, distance lends enchantment, then a view at close range must clear up tha mystery.' I advanced. "The eye moved as though to meet me half way. I halted involuntarily and glanced hack. Johann still stood in the doorway; I could dimly trace the upper portion of his giant figure thrust through the aperture. He was evidently spell-bound. Turning, I grasped my courage in both hands, so to speak, and again started forward. The eye changed its tactics. Uloauiing maliguantly, it be gan now to move slowly from sido to side; back and forth, hack and forth, like a restless wild benst iu its cage. " I Clarence's hand slid into that of his uncle. "As the space narrowed between us," the latter continued, "the eye became fixed, then gradually sank down, down, ns though its invisible owner were crouch ing to spring. I once more paused irres olute, raised instinctively a protecting arm, then, ashamed, let it drop by my side. As I did so, the apparition shot up with incredible swiftness, aud I, tripping on a loose plank, measured my length j on the floor, striking as I fell a pile of boxes adjacent, aud slightly gashing my head. "I regained my feet in a moment, Johann had fled. Sly courage had now risen, and clutching a crowbar that chanced to stand within reach, I was ready for anything. "The evil genius confronting me was no longer an eye ; a near view had dis pelled that illusion. It was too large, to begin with, and lacked color. It looked ghastly. "Its activity, however, left little doubt of its being alive. True, the dread object had not pursued me, had scarcely ven tured as yet beyond its lair; but it seemed to be fully aroused, and glided stealthily this way and that I felt sure it meditated an immediate attack. "I resolved to be first. Setting my toeth, and swinging aloft my club of iron, I bora down on the foe. "My action was the signal for a new freak on its part, more strange, more ap palling, than anything that had yet trans pired. It now began revolving with amazing velocity, round and round, round and round, in ever contracting circles. "My heartbeat like a death-watch; the moisture drenched my brow ; but on, on I strode, and faster, faster it flew. "Tha crisis had come, and whiz! straight at my head! I struck savagely, missed, dodged; a lurid light was about me; a jell " Here a great crash drowned Uncle Dave's voice. The children clung to him, panic-stricken. "What's that?" they cried. Then, Bessie, reproachfully, "Uncle Dave! did you kick over those library steps?" Clarence sat up with a jerk. "It's a sell 1" he ejaculated. "But the evil genius, the apparition, the eye! What was it, uncle?" "Punk," Uucle Dave answered. "Punk!" "Punk ; your father had stumbled on a rare piece in the woods, aud not finding the wild turkies, hastened home to make game of two precious geese. " "And Herr Boltz, did he never come back?" queried Bessie. "Comeback!" ho wus bnek in less than ten minutes, with halt the town at his heels, Poor fellow!" added Uncle Dave, retrospectively. "The nickname of 'Punk' stuck to him until '40, when, with many another, he was carried off by the Cali fornia fever." "So impa was Satan," Clarence mused. "Look here, my boy," objected Uncle Dave, "I didn't say that. Come to think ot it, though, the theory accounts for your being so impish. " Clarence sprang from the sofa, righted the Btepj, aud turned up the light. "Come, uncle," he coaxed, "let's play tiddledy winks." A Item on for It. He rnught her to his manly bosom with a wild, impetuous, tumultuous, tempest uous hug and held her there for as much as a miuute. "What a slugger you are," she said rwlmlrinirltf mi Iim released her. "And why shouldn't I be," he replied ni',,iiitlv luLinir a velvet case from his pocket, "haven't I brought the prize ring witu nier Rl nnonail tha case lovfullv and hei eyes rested upon a solitaire which was really a corner. : One-quarter of the people die before tho age of C ; eue-hnlf Lx f Ji o 10. ' WASHINGTON'S IISTHDAY- r.XTRACT PROM E. J. IIOWMAS'S K.I.O QUKXT ADUKKSS ON NIOIIT 2 2ND OK FKBRUARY, RKyUF.STEl) TO EE rvuusiiEn, We participate with pleasure in oc casions of this sort Ve can speak with pride ami pleasure at the career of our Country; another such country as the world docs not possess. There is no room for another such Country. The discovery by Christopher Colum bus was the last final climax of all dis coveries. It was held in reservation by the God of nations through all the night of the Centuries when America was to unfold the grandest possibilities known to our race. Other nations have risen and sunk like bubbles on the ocean wave, and their missions were not the character of ours They have come and gone like plunto.ns that flit across our pathway. Manv have been of no u?e to the world's ad vanctmcnt. Many have been such that it would be better if they had nev er been born. They lived and died in the night of despotism. Their careers have been marked by bloodshed, slaughter, oppression. There were in dividual characters among them that bore no affinity to them, because they loved the freedom and redemption of the race. We can look back through the night of the centuries and find them stringing their lyres and singing of liberty; but liberty did not come. It was but an idle dream to them, a mere hallucination; something thought of but never realized. One nation is conspicuous in history for its love of liberty, Greece. Another nation, Rome, sets us a warning example. She was a Republic for several centuries; her people lost their grip, and Rome became a bloody despotism. Alexander, Caesar, l'ompey, Pyrrhus, Hannibal, Napoleon were powerful and ambitious, but they never fought for the amelioration of mankind. They left the human family no better than i hey found it. We must turn to our country to find a name that will re main, illustrious bright and undecaying when these others have mouldered in to dust. It is hardly worth while to mention it. It is on the lips of every school boy. He it was who stood up on the mountain tops of the centuries and saw the light of liberty dawning upon the world. I tell you the name of Washington is as endurable as the summits of our mountains and the rocks that lie in their ravines and line their base. Washington's name would have lived no longer than ancient war r ors, had ambition and the lust for power been his actuating and ruling motives. There was somethi lg high r and nobler in his make up. His sword was drawn in freedom's cause and the rights of man When brass and mar ble crumble that name will live as bright as the firmament of stars that shine in the dark blue canopy of God ! live in the hearts of unborn genera tions every human heart in the long ages of the future will feel an inspira tion at the mention of his name. He is the great central figure of our hu manity. Thi 22nd of February will never die as long as our language is spoken and while liberty endures. We cannot in this connection fail to allude to the great struggle for the per petuity of liberty and the Union. There are dark spots on the sun and bright spots on our earth Antietam, Freder icksburg, Lookout Mountain, Gettys burg and a host of other battlefields. Through four battle burdened years arose and fell like the waves of the sea, the stars and stripes, till at last they hung in brightness and glory over fallen and dismantled Richmond and at Ap omattox Court House. It there looked a if it had been dipped in the fountains of the morning and the hand of God had placed it there. If there is anything that will live undimmed upon the ocean of time it will not be some mound of crumb ling brick work, some monument of mausoleum dedicated to the memory of the aspiring and ambitious soldier merely, but it will be a monument consecrated to the memoiy of a Wash ington. What tongue can tell the grand pos sibilities that is out in front of us if we are only faithful and posterity is true to her own interests. No eloquence can portray, no imag ination conceive, no conjecture ap proach, no supposition surmise, the glorious destiny that awaits the Amer ican people and the American nation. 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