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T lint's the moral of the whole.
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'Tia the glory
Of the story
In our babyhood begun;
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(Never doubt it)
Are as worlds without a sun I
If yon think a world would please.
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"Words may give delight with ease.
When no act is atked from you.
Word may often
Soothe und soften,
Gild a joy or heal a pain;
They are treasures
Yielding pleasures
It is wicked to retain !
Whatsoe'r you find to do,
Do it then with all your might;
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Pray in all things
Great and small things,
Like a christian gentleman ;
And forever,
Kcw or never,
Be as thorough as you can.
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SOT C3 171 LTV.
"THE RIGHTEOUS NEVER FORSAKEN .
In the spring of IS I wa9 called to
Jackson, Alabama, to attend court, hav
ing been engaged to defend a joung man
who bad been accused of robbing the
mail. The stolen bag had been recover
ed, as well as the letters from which the
money had been rifled. These letters
were given me for my examination, and I
returned them to the proseculing attorney,
having got through my preliminaries about
noon, and the case would not come off
before I he next day, I went into court in
the afternoon to see what was going on.
The first case that came up was one of
theft, and the prisoner was a youncj girl
not more than seventeen years of age,
named Elizabeth Med worth. She was
very pretty, and bore that mild, innocent
look which is seldom found in a culprit.
She had been weeping profusely, but as
she found so many eyes upon her she bos
came too fiightened to weep more. The
complaints against her set forth that she
had stolen a hundred dollars from a Mrs.
Nasby, and as the case went on I found
that this Mrs. Nasby, a wealthy widow
living in town, was the girl's mistress.
The poor girl declared her innocence in
the wildest terms, but circumstance! were
hard against her. A hundred dollars in
bank nutes had been stolen from her mis
tress's room, and she wrs the only one
that had access there. At this juncture,
when the mistress was upon the witness
stand, a young man came and caught me
by the arm. "Tbey tell me you are a
very fine lawyer," he whispered.
"I am a lawyer,'' I said.
"Then save her! You certainly can
do it, for she is innocent."
"Has she no counsel?" I asked.
None that's good for anything nobody
that will do anything for her. Oh, save
her 5 and I will give you all that I've got.
I can't give you muc but I can raise
something." I reflected a moment I
cast my eyes toward the prisoner, and she
was that moment looking at me. She
caught my eye, and the volume of en
treaty I read in her glance resolved me in
a moment. I arose and went to the girl,
and asked if she wished me to defend her.
She said yes. I then informed the Court
that I was ready to enter the case, and
was admitted at once. The loud mur
mers of satisfaction that ran through the
crowd, told me where the sympathies of
the oeople were. I asked for a moment's
cessation, that I might speak to my cli
ent. I went and sat down by her side,
and asked her to state candidly (he whole
case. She told me she had lived with
Mrs. Nasby nearly two years, and had
never had any trouble before. About
two weeks ago, she said, her mistress had
missed a hundred dollars. "She missed
it from her drawer," the girl said to me,
"and asked me about it. That evening
I know Nancy Luther told Mrs. Nasby
that she saw me take the money that
she watched me through the keyhole.
Then they went to my trunk and found
twenty-five dollars of the missing money
there," I asked her if she Buspected any
one. . 'I don' I know," ehe uaid, "who
could have done it but Nancy. She has
never liked me because she thought I was
better treated than she. She is cook. I
was chamber maid." She pointed Nancy
Luther out to me. She was a stout, bold
faced girl, somewhere about twenty-five
years old, with a low forehead, small
eyes, a pug nose, aud thick lips. I caught
her glance at once, as it rested on the fair
young prisoner, and the moment I detect
ed the look of hatred which I read there,
I was convinced that she was a rogue.
"Nancy Luther, did you say that girl's
name was V 1 asked, for a new light had
broken in upon me. "Yes, sir." I left
the court room and went to the prosecut
ing attorney, and asked him for the letters
I had handed him the ones that had
been Btolen from the mail-bag. He gave
them to me, and having selected one I re
turned the rest, and lold him I would see
he had the one I kept before night. I
then returned to the court room, and the
case went on. Mrs. Nasby resumed her"
testimony. She said she entrusted the
room to the prisoner's care, and no one
else bad access there, save herself. Then
slie described about the missing money,
and closed by telling how she fouud twenty-five
dollars in the prisoner's trunk.
She could swear it was the identical
money she had lost, in two ten, and one
five dollar bank nofes. "Mrs. Nasby,"
said I, "when you first missed the money
had you any reason to believe that the
prisoner bad taken it ?"
"No, sir," she answered.
"Had you ever detected her in any dis
honesty V
"No, sir."
"Should you thought of searching fief
trunk, had not Nancy Luther advised and
informed you ?"
"No, sir,"
Mrs. Nasby left the stand, and Nancy
Luther took her place. She came up
with a bold front, and upon me cast a
defiant look, as if to say, "Trap me if
you can." She then gave her evidence as
follows : She said that on the night the
money was taken sheaw the prisoner go
up stairs, and from the shy manner in
which she went up, she suspected that all
was not right, so she followed her up.
"Elizabeth went to Mrs. Nasby's room
and shut the door after her. I stooped
down and looked through the keyhole,
and saw her take the money and put it
in her pocket. Then she stooped down
and picked up the lamp, and as I saw she
was coming out, I hurried away." Then
she went on, told how she informed her
mistress of this, and how she proposed to
search the girl's trunk. I called Mrs.
Nasby back.
'You said that no one save yourself
had access to yotlf room," I said. Slow,
couldn't Nancy Luther have entered the
room, if she wished?"
"Certainly, sir ; I meant that no one
elVe had any right there."
I saw that Mrs. Nasby though natural-
ly a hard woman, was somewhat moved
by poor Elizabeth's misery. "Could your
cook have known, by any means in your
knowledge, where your money was?"
'Yes, sir ; for she has often come to
my room when I was there, and I have
often given her money to buy provisions
of market men who happened to come
along with their wagons.
"One more question : Have you known
of the prisoner having used money since
this was stolen
"No, sir."
I now called Nancy Luther back, and
she began to tremble a little, though her
look was bold and defiant as ever. "Miss
Luther," said I, "why did you not inform
ycur mistress at once of what you had
seen, without wailing for her to ask about
her money ?"
"Because I could not at once make up
ray mind to expose the poor girl," she an
swered promptly.
You say yoo looked through the
keyhole, and saw her take the money ?"
"Yes, sir."
"Where did she place the lamp when
she did so ?
"On the bureau."
In your testimony you said she stooped
down when she picked it op. What do
you mean by that ?" The girl hesitated,
and finally she said she did not mean any
thing, only that she picked up the lamp.
Very well," said I j "how long have you
been with Mrs. Nasby ?"
"Not quite a year, sir."
"How much does she pay you a week?"
"A dollar and three quarters."
"Have you taken up any of your pay
since you have been there ?"
Yes, sir."
"How much ?"
I don't know, sir."
"Why don't you know I"
"How should I ? I have taken it at
different times, just as I wanted it, and
kept no account."
- "Then, you have not laid up any money
since you have been there ?"
"No, sir, only what Mrs. Nasby may
owe me."
"Will you teil me if you belong to this
State ?"
I do, sir."
"In what town ?"
She hesitated, and for a moment the
bold look forsook her. I next turned to
Mrs. Nasby.
'Do you ever take a receipt from your
girls when you pay them ?"
"Always."
"Can you send and get one of them
for me I"
"She has told you the truth, sit, about
the payments' said Mrs. Nasby.
"Oh, I don't doubt it," I replied, "but
particular proof is the thing for the court
room. ' So, if you can, I wish you would
procure the receipts." She Said she
would willingly go, if the Court said so.
The Court did say so, and she went. Her
dwelling was not far off, and she soon
returned, and handed me four receipts,
which I took and examined. They were
signed in a strong, staggering hand, by
the witness.
"Now, Nancy Luther," I said, turning
to the witness, and speaking in a quick,
startling tone, at the same time looking
her sternly in tho eye. Please tell the
court and jury where you got the seventy
five dollars you sent in your letter to your
sister in Somers." At this she started as
though a volcano had burst at her feet.
She turned pale as death, and every limb
shook violently. I waited until the peo
ple could have an opportunity to see her
emotion, and then I repeated the ques
tion. "I never sent any," she gasp
ed. "You did!" I thundered, for I was
excited now.
"I I didn't," she faintly murmured,
grasping the railing by her side for sup
port. "May it please your honor, and gentle
men of the jury," I said, 'I came here
to defend a man who was arrested for
robbing the mail, and, in the course of
my preliminary examination, I had access
to the letters which had been torn open
and robbed of money. When I entered
upon the case, and heard the name of the
witness pronounced, I went out and got
this letter, which I now hold, for I re
membered having seen one bearing the
signature of Nancy Luther. This letter
was taken from the mail-bag, and it con
tained seventy-five dollars ; aud by look
ing at the post-mark you will observe
that it was mailed the day after the hun
dred dollars were taken from Mrs. Nasby's-
drawers, and directed to Dorcu3
Luther, Somers, Montgomery county.
And you will observe that one hand wrote
the letter and signed the receipt, and the
jury will also so observe. And now I will
only add( it is plain to see how the hun
dred dollars were disposed of. Seventy
five dollars were sent off for safe keeping,
whilst the remaining twenty-five dollars
were placed in the prisoner's trunk, for
the purpose of covering the real criminal
I now leave my client's case in jour
handd.'" The case was given to the jury
immediately following their examination
of the letter. They had heard from the
witness's own mouth that she had no
money of her own, and without leaving
their seats they returned a verdict of
Not guilty." I will not describe the
scene that followed, but if Nancy Luther
had .not been immediately arrested for
theft she would have been obliged to seek
protection of the officers, or the excited
people would have maimed her at least,
if they had not done more. The next
morning I received a note, handsomely
written, in which I was told that the
within was but a slight token of the grat
itude due me for my efforts in behalf of
the poor, defenceless maiden. It was
signed 'Several Citizens," and contained
one hundred dollars. Shortly afterwards,
the youth who first begged me to take up
the case, called upon me with all the
money he could raise ; but I refused his
hard earnings, showing him that I had
already been paid- IJefore I left town I
was a guest at his wedding my fair cli
ent being the happy bride.
The Works of Dickkns. The fol
lowing curious catalogue of Dickens
works, by an ingenious somebody, is
worth preservation :
Oliver Twist, who had some very
Hard Times in the 'IJattle of Life,' and
who had been saved from 'The Wreck of
the Golden Mary' by 'Our Mutual Friend'
'Nicholas Nickelby,' had just finished
reading 'A Tale of Two Cities' to Mar
tin Chuzzlewit.' during which time 4The
Cricket on the Hearth had been chirping
right merrily, while Tbe Chimes' from
the adjacent church were heard, when
Seven Poor Travellers' commenced sing
ing a 'Christmas Carol ; Uarnaby
Rudge' then arrived from The Old Curi
osity Shop with some Pictures from
Italy,' and 'Sketches by lioz' to show
Little Dorrit' who was busy with the
Pickwick Papers,' when 'David Copper
field,' who had been taking 'Ameiican
Notes,' entered and informed the com
pany that the 'Great Expectations of
Dombey & Son regarding 'Mrs. Lirriper
Legacy' had not been realized, and that
he had seen 'Boots at the Holly Tree Inn
taking 'Somebody's Luggage' to Mrs.
Lirriper's Lodgings' in a street that has
No Thorougfare,' opposite 'Bleak House'
where 'The Haunted Man,' who had
just given one of Marigold's Prescrip
tions to an 'Uncommercial Traveller,'
was brooding over 'The Mystery of Ed
win Drood.'
Her? is a good thing on the "later
bugs." Three men comparing notes;
One says, "there are twj bugs to every
stalk." A second says, "they have cut
down my early crop, and are sitting on
the fence waiting for the late crop to come
up." "Pshaw !" said the third, "you
don't know anything about it. I passed
a seed store the other day, and the bugs
were in there looking over the books to
see who had purchased seed potatoes."
LOVE IS ItLIXI).
The following is vouched for by one G.
B. Taylor, a correspondent of the Green
Bay Gazette:
Mr. William Bruce, a gentlemen living
in comfortable circumstances upon the
bank of Suamico river, Suamico, Brown
county, Wis., is highly respected by the
community in which be lives, as has been
evinced by his being elected, fiom time to
time, to fill most of the various township
offices. He has also enjoyed most of the
blessings of life, being in' good health and
pecuniary circumstances, having a valu
able farm and a pleasant home. But
one thing was lacking to make borne all
gladness a helpmate to share with him
the joys of the household
Last winter his niece, from Pennsylva
nia, visited him, and, discovering his
want, gave him the address of a lady
friend of hers, living near Linn, Susque
hanna county, Pennsylvania, and recom
mended her as every way suitable to adorn
his name. Her name is Mary Knapp,
who was consort of the late Justus
Knapp, of Lynn, Pa. She is an intelli
gent, cultivated, and highly respected
lady, and beloved by all who know hr.
A correspondence immediately sprang up
between them, and love grew and thrived
even through a medium as raatter-cf-fact
as Uncle Sam's mails, and finally resulted
in an engagement. About this time her
affianced had an attack of neuralgia,
which settled in his eyes, and so affected
them that within four months after they
had become engaged he was almost totally
blind. Though he had become very much
attached to her through the correspon
dence, yet a sense of duty led him to in
form her of his misfortuno, and to exlend
an offer to release her from hr en"a"e
ment. Thereupon she wrote him a very
kind and sympathetic letter, in which she
stated that if Le were doomed to suffer
for life the awful afTJttion of blindness,
he was much more than ever in need of
a wife to care for him through life and
lighten the burden of his dark and dismal
pilgrimage upon earth ; and therefore that
she had no desire to be released from the
fo'.eran compact of marriage which she
had taken.
However, a few weeks ago, the expec
tant bride arrived, and the meeting with
the betrothed was warm and affectionate,
but, of course, somewhat disadvantageous.
Soon afterward I accompanied him to the
Eye Infirmary at Chicago, to learn if any
relief from his blindness could be afforded;
but, alas I no encouragement was given.
Prof. Holmes pronounced it dropsy of the
eye, a disease so far advanced as to admit
of no hopes of recovery. Returning home
with a sad and heavy heart, this fate was
disclosed to his bride and relatives.
Though tooched to the heart with sorrow
yet even this did not dissuade her from
her noble purpose to assume for life the
burden to care for one who had suddenly
become as a child, but who had spent
many years in active toil.
The wedding day was appointed, and
the nuptials were celebrated August 8th,
1871, by which time he had become it
may be said, totally blind, not having,
sight enough to enable him to distinguish
one from another of his own family
The pair are now, however, living in con
nubial bliss. And why shouldn't they ?
She renders unto him with a kindly hand
and heart every act of kindness in her
power, attending to every want and n2ed
with a watchful eye ; and he fully ap
preciates it all with feelings of greatful
ness Ashe has never had the pleasure of see
ing her whom he has promised to "love
honor, and cherish," who can deny, in this
case, the truth of the adage, "Love is
blind ?" "Love at first sight" has always
been considered a rare phenomenon of the
tender passion but whst is love without
sight at all ?
He stood on his head on tin wild sea
shore, and joy was the cause of the act ;
for he felt as he never had felt before
insanely, glad, in fact. And why? In
that vessel that left the bay his mother
in law had sailed to a tropical country
far away, where tigers and snakes pre
vailed. And more than one of his cred
itors, too those objects of constant
dread had taken berths in the ship
Curlew, whose sails were so blithely
spread. Oh ! how he might look for a
quiet life, which he never had known as
yet ('tis true that he still possessed a wife
and was not quite out of debt). But he
watched the vessel, this singular chap,
o'er the waves, as she upped and downed,
and he felt exactly as if to the cap 'the
edifice was crowned." Till over the blue
horizon's edge she disappeared from view;
then up he leaped on a chalky ledge, and
danced like a kangaroo ! And many and
many a joyous lay he pealed o'er the
sunset sea, till down with a "nV sank
the orb of day, and then he went home to
tea.
The following brief poem, a contribu
tion to the State Journal, of Wisconsin,
is equally well "calculated" for other lat
itudes :
"I know a woman, pale and slight
With heart in hopeless mood.
Who often toils throughout the night
To earu her husband's food ;
"While he, in strength of manhood's power
Some gay saloon will Fcek,
And spend more mouey in an hour
Than she earns in a week "
TtiflHIugr Adventure In a 5Iltli
igan Svvauri.
The Detroit Free Press of the 30th ult.
describes an ad venl fire of a Gcrtnan named
Henry Oss ter, of Ni.nkin towofhip, who"
was hunting a missing cow, and got mired
in a piece of marshy ground. The nar
rative continues i
To his right, about ten feet away, was
a knoll of solid ground, on which grew a
thorn apple tree, one of the limbs extend
ing almost over the man's head, and about
four feet beyond the reach of his aims.
Thinking that if he could get possession
of his gun he might secure the limb, Oss
ter took off his suspenders, tied them to
gether and made a noose ou one end, and,
after careful and tedious work, lat-soed
the rifle and dragged it to him; This was
after he had been in the mire nearly two
hours, and q'lite a while after dusk. He
was induced to believe that he had not
sunk any for the last half honr, but the
extra weight of the gun as he held it up
sunk him nearly to h"i3 hips in a moment
and he quickly laid it down.
Little tufts of grass, growing from spots
of solid ground, not much latger than his
hand, were all around the man, but the
moment he took hold of one of thera if
would pull away, having no real support.
Ouster had a pipe with him, and he got
this from his coat and twisted off the
German silver ring around the stem.
The ring l.e broke off between his teeih,
bent it up like a hook, and then fastened
it to his susptnders, determined to make
an effort to reach the limb. Time after
time he made the throw, but the hook
failed to catch, or slipped off, or bent out
straight, and ten o'clock at night the
victim was up to bis hips and slowly set
tling. Placing his coat n&S test on either
side, he pushed them down with his
hands, and in this way kept his body
fiotn settling as fast as it otherwise would.
He ceased trying to shout, knowing that
he could not expect help before another
day.
As Osster did not return at dark.
Starts feared that he might have shot
himself or met with some other accident,
and walked a mile or so in the direction
from which the man was expected, and
stopped within half a mile of where he
was slowly sinking djwn to death. Re
turning home, he agreed to make a further
search in the morning, and when the
time came got a neighbor to go with him.
They took a direction quite distant from
where Osster was to be found, and, to be
brief, searched the woods until nearly
noon, and then determined lo go to the
hamlet and see if Osster had been there.
In coming out of the woods-they passed
within forly rods of Osster, and were
nearly half a mile away when one of them
fired a shot at a squirrel on the fence.
All night long Osster had been slowly
sinking, as the sun marked noon be was
up to his shoulders in the mire. Hearing;
the shot, he put forth all his vocal strength
into one grand shout, followed by another,
and his voice was heard and recognized.
Even when his friends were within fifty
feet of him he had to shout to guide them,
as his head was below the grass. It is
needless to say that they instantly set
about the work of rescuing him. Logs
and brush were piled up in the swamp
until they could reach him-. Finding that
they could not pall him out by the arms,
the mire was scooped from his bod', and
he was laterally pried out by a leaver iu.
eerted under his feet.
Talkesg to lis Wittt.es. The fol
lowing: story, although it may be familiar
to some of our readers, is pungent enough
to merit repetition ; Twenty years ago,
there being no railroad up the west branch
of the Susquehanna river, travelers were
compelled to patronize the stage iu winter
and canal packet boat in summer. After
a freshet the packets on their up-trips
were usually much crowded with return
ing raft men, and a rougher or more bois
terous set would be bard to find. On one
trip of the boat, commanded by Captain
1 he had more than his fair allowance
of rough characters, and among these one
man by far outdid all the rest. The cap
tain pleaded with him, begging him to
keep within bounds, but it produced bc
good effect. The captain then begged at
minister, who chanced to be on the beat,
to use his infloance. The minister did so,
but he might as well have talkd- to tho
winds. At dinner the minister naked a
blessing, and as he did so. the boatman
boo booed as if bis vcy heart would
break, and all concluuW that the tender
spot was at last reacbed. . But no sooner
was the minister's petition concluded than
the raftman, in, a broken voice, and be
tween sobs, said : "That reminds me of
my old dad ; he always talked to his ur"t
tits before he ate Vtcin "'
Old Hves A school teacher in a
town n Hampshire seqyig one morning
a new pupil in. her schoolroom, asked
the 'young hopeful his father's name.
'Hayes answered the boy, promptly.
What is his given name ? said the teacht
er. 'Hayes, I tell you ! replied the.
promising 3'outh. 'Well, inquired the
instructress, determined to know if Mr,
Hayes had any Christian narae'wbat
doos your mother call him ? 'Mother?
She calls him a'J Hayes ! responded the
boy, as if his destiny depended e Vha
reply.
What is the difference between heo,
stealing and Cock Robin?
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