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1T TUB LATE WHS. MART FORD (UNA.)
The surging sea of huroati life forever on-
wanl tolls; ...
And liedrn to the eternal shore its daily
freight of son In.
Though bravely nails our bark to-day pale
deuth si lit the prow,
And few shall know we ever lived a hundred
years from now.
O, mighty human brotherhood ! why fiercely
war and Ktrive,
While God's great world has ample apace
for every ihing alive?
Broad field, uncultured and unclaimed, are
waiting: for the plough
Of progress that shall make them bloom a
huudred years from now.
Why "honld we strive so earnestly in life's
short narrow span,
Ou gulden dtairs to climb so high above our
brother man?
"Why blindly at an earthly shrine in slavish
homage bow?
Our g Id will rnst, ourselves be dust, a hun
dred years from now ?
Why prlae so much the world's applause?
Why dread so much its blame?
A fleeting echo is its voice of censure or of
fame ;
The praiso that thrills the heart, the scorn
that dyes With shame the brow, ,
Will Ik; as long-forgotten dreams A hundred
years from tow.
O patient hearts, that meekly bear your
weary load of wronj;? .
O earntHt hearts, that bravely dare, and,
striving, grow more strong!
Press on till perfect peace is won; you'll
never dream of how
You struggled o'er life's thorny road a hun
dred years from now.
Grand, lofty souls, who live and toil that
freedom, right, and truth,
Aloue may rule the universe, for you Is end
less youth ;
When 'mid the blest with God you rest, the
grateful lands shall Itow
Above your clay in rev'rent love a hundred
years from now.
K.irth's empires rise and fall, O Time ! like
breakers on thy shore ;
They rush upon thy rocks of doom, go down,
ar.d are no more;
Thn starry wilderness of worlds that gem
night's radieut brow,
Will light the ckies for other eyes a hundred
years from now.
Our Father, to whoso sleepless eyes the past
and future stand
Au open page, like babes we cling to Thy
protecting hand ;
Change, sorrow, death, aro naught to us if
we may safely bow
Beneath tun bbadow of Thy throno a hun
dred years l'roni now.
J low Maggie Caught the Jiurglar.
"You are not afraid, Maggie I"
"Me afraid 1" said Maggie. "I'd no
fear boru with inc. As for the bouse it's
the strongest fastened I ever was in. You
say yourself there's no lock a burglar could
force, at d I'm not one to let tramps or the
like in of my fioe will. God knows the
place will be safe enough when you come
back as safe as though there was a regi
ment of soldiers in it; and I'll have all
bright for your now wife, Mr. Archibald."
She called her master Mr. Archibald
still, this old woman ; but she was the only
one who still used his Christian name.
He was an cideily man himself, and hail
few intimate friends, hospitality not being
one of his virtues. He was rich, and there
was muth that was valuable in the bouse ;
more ready money, too, than roost men
keep about thetu ; but then it wa tweare
ai a batik-vault patent locks and burglar
alarms that first sent a bullet into any one
who sought to cntr by stealth, and then
iang a bell to awake the household were
attached to every door, and a furious watch
dog, that lived on raw meat, wa in the
back garden. The Van Nott mansion con Id
havo withstood a siege) at a moment's
notice.
Mr. Van Nott was a money-dealer. He
had ways and means of accumulating
property which were mysteries tohis neigh
bors, and they -were suspicions that the
little back parlor, sacred to business, had
even seen such lesser dealings as the loan
of money on gold watcher, cashmere shawls
and diamonds of genteel distress. Two or
three nioitgages had been bought up and
rather cruelly foieclosed ; and bo ww a
haid landlord and a bad person to owe
money to altogether. On tho whole, bo
was disliked in the place, and rich as ho
was would havo found it hard -to get a
wife tohis liking among tho neighbors at
Oukham. However, having resolved lo
marry again there had been a Mis. Van
Nott, who died years before he had sought
out a wealthy widow of a saving disposi
tion, who lived on a small farm some miles
outof town, and having already disinherited
her daughter for espousing an estimable
man of small means, and turned her son
out of doors for equally prudent reasons,
was not likely to bring any troublesome
generosity into Ids household, and bad of
fered himself to her, and had been ac
cepted. And now, though both their econ
omical souls revolted against it, custom
deciced a wedding of some sort, and a
honeymoon trip somewhere, and they had
decided to do it as cheaply as possible.
For this brief time Mr. Van Nott must
leave his business aud his house, and it
was on the eve of his departure that be
had the above conversation with bis old
servant, standing with bis porlmauteau in
bis baud, and regarding hor gravely.
"Yes, yes,"-he sahl, "I presume it is all
safe enough. And I'll speak to tho night
watchman, and give him a dollar to take a
particular look at this bouso. Well, good
bye, Maggie ; make things as neat as possi
ble, for if they look dirty ray wife may
think tho f.nniiuie old, and want some
thing new for tho parlor." And Mr. Van
Nott departed.
"Yts, yes," aid old Tlaggie, "uo doubt
she'll have fine, extravagant ways. Poor
master ! What a pity be should marry
after all but old fools are the worst fools.
A yonng thing eight-and-forty, too, when
he has a sensible servant, sixty last Janua
ry, that knows what belongs to good house
keeping. If be wanted to marry why didn't
he ask nut I'd not have gone gallivant
ing and spending. Ah, well, be'll suffer,
not I." And Maggie trotted away to begin
ber sweeping and dnsting.
She had said truly that there was no
fear born in her, but as the bight drew on
she began to feel somewhat lonely. Her
master's presence was strangely missed out
of the great house, and there was some
thing ghostly Id the look of bis empty
chair when she peeped into tbe little back
office.
. "If I was suptet-stltlousj" sbe said to
herself, "I should think something dread
ful was going to happen. I feel chilly up
and down my back, and I keep thinking
of funerals. I' 11 make myself a cup of tea,
aud see if I can't get over it."
And accordingly old Maggie shut her
self into the srtug kitchen, and lighting
two caudles, drew a pot of the strongest
young hyson, and putting ber feet close
to the cooking-stove, begtui to feel much
more comfortable.
The old clock ticked away on the man
tel, the bands pointing to half past eight.
"I'm going to bed at nine," said Mag
gie. "I've worked well to-day. Much
thanks I'll get for it) I doubt. Hark!
What's that?"
It was a sound outside the door a slow,
solemn grating of wheels. Then feet trod
the pavement, aud tbe bell rung faintly.
"A carriage I" cried Maggie. "Has ho
changed his mind and brought her home at
once ? Dut that can't be he's not mar
ried yet." And taking one of tbe candles
she trotted to the door, but uot before the
bell rung again.
"Who's that?" she cried, the door slight
ly ajar.
"A stranger," said a voice, "one who
has something particular to say to you."
"You'll have to wait for to-morrow,"
saij Maggie. "You can't come iu to
night." "My good woman," saKl the stranger,
"are you Margaret Black f"
"That's my name."
"Mr. Vau Nott's housekeeper for tweuty
years?"
"Yes."
"Mj god woman, if you aro attached to
your master, I have very bad news for
you."
Gracious Lord 1" criod Maggie, but she
'did not open the door much wider only
enough to thrust ber head out. "Don't
3 care me, mister. What is it ?"
"The worst yoa can think of," said the
man. "Mr. Van Nott traveled on the
railroad. There has been an a cci-
uent."
"Preserve us !" cried Maggie, letting
the door fall back, and him on bis way
to his wedding. He's hurt badly then ?"
"He's dead," said the man. "Dead,
aud we've brought him home."
Maggie 6at down on a chair and began
to ci y.
"We've done what we could," said the
man. "The lady he was to marry and her
friends will be down to-morrow. Mean
while my instructions are that you shall
Tratch with him, and allow no stranger to
enter the house. There are valuable things
here, I'm told ; and Mr. Van Iott's lawyer
must take possession of them, and seal
them up before strangers have access to
tho rooms."
"Oh I dear, dear," cried old Maggie.
"That it should come to this. Yes ; I'll
watch alone. I'm not afraid, but oh,
dearl"
Then she shrunk back, and let the two
men oarry a horrible coffin into tbe front
tiarlor.
They camo out with their bats off, and
the other man held his also in his hand.
"I regret to leave you all alone iu the
house," he said.
"I don't mind that," said old Maggie,
"but its terrible, terrible."
"If you'd liko me to stay," said the
man.
"No," said Maggie. "I've no fear of
living or dead men. You can go."
Then she locked the door and went into
the parlor, and putting the candle ou tbe
mantle, looked at the coma through ber
tears. '
IIe was good enough to me," she said
"poor Mr. Archibald I And this comes of
wanting to marry at this time of life, and
gallivanting on railroads. I wondor wheth
er lie is changed much. I'll take a look,"
and Maggie crossed tho room and Kfled
tho lid over the face of the euclosod body.
"I'll take a look," site said to herself
again. "I'm not afraid of dead folks."
In a minute more ifaggie dropped tbe
lid again aud retreated, shaking from head
to foot. She had seen, within the coffiu, a
face with its eyes shut, and with bandages
about tbe head, and the ghastly features
of a clown iu a circus, minus the red
mouth.
But it was a living face, well-chalked,
and not her master's; and Maggie knew
at once that she bad been well humbugged
that this story of her inastor's death was
a lie, and that a burglar lay within the
coffin, ready to spring upon her and bind
her, or perhaps murder her at any moment.
She could, of coaisc, opcu tho door aud
try to escape ; but the accomplices of .the
man were doabtless outside. It was a
long distance tb the nearest house, and,
even if they did not kill ber, they would
execute their purpose and rob the place
before she returned.
"Master looks natural," said Maggie
aloud, and tried to collect her thoughts.
Mr. Van Nott's revolvers were in the
next room, she knew, loaded, six shots In
each. Maggie could use pistols. She bad
aimed at troublesome cats with great suc
cess more than once. If she could secure
these pistols she felt safe.
"Poor, dear master," she sobbed, aud
edged toward the back room. "Peor, dear
master." She lifted the desk lid. She
had tbem safe.
She glided back to the front parlor and
sat down on a chair. She turned up her
klceves and grasped a pistol in each baud,
and she watched the coffin quietly. In
half an hour the lid stirred.- A cautious
hand crept up the side. A wiry eye peep
ed out. It fell upon the armed figure, aud
e'oed again.
"You'd better," said Maggie to herself.
Again tbe head lifted. This time Mag
gie sprung to her feet.
"You're fixed quite handy," she said
coolly. "No need of laying you out if I
fire, and I can aim first-rate, especially
when I'm afraid of ghosts, as I be now."
The head bobbed down again. Maggie
reseated herself. She knew this could not
last very long that there must be a conflict
before long. It was as she supposed. A
moment more and tbe cortln was empty,
and a ferocious young fellow sat on its
edge, and thus addressed her : "We meant
to do It all quiet." be said, "and I don't
wao't to frighten old women. J (1st put
them down."
"I'm not frightened," said Maggie.
"I'm coming to take them things away
from you," said tbe man.
"Come !" said Maggie.
He advanced one step. She took aim
and he dodged, but a bullet went through
his left arm, and it dropped by bis side.
Furious with pain, ho. dashed toward
her. She Sred again, and this time wound
ed him in the right shoulder. Faint, and
quite helpless, he staggered against the
wall.
- "There, you've done it, old woman," ho
said, "Open the door and let me out
My game is up."
"Mine isu't," said old Maggie. "Get
into your coffin again, or this time I'll
shoot you through the heart.'
'The burglar looked pitcon6ly at her,
but he saw no pity in her face. He went
back to the coffin and lay down in it.
Blood dripped from his wounds, and he
was glowing paio. Maggie did not want
to see him die before her eyes, but she
dared not call aid. To leave the house be
fore daylight would be to meet this man's
companions, and risk her ownjlife. There
was nothing for it but to play the surgeon
herself, and iu a little while she had stop
ped tho blood and saved the burglar's life.
More than this she brought him a cup of
tea, and fed him with ic as if he had been
a baby. Nothing, however, could induce
her to let him out of his coffin.
About one or two o'clock she heard steps
outside, and knew that the other burglars
were near, but her stout heart never failed.
Site trusted in the bars aud bolts aud they
did not betray ber.
Tho daylight found hor sitting qnictly
beside tho wounded burglar, and the milk
man, bright and early, was the ambassador
who summoned the officers of justice.
When the bridal party returned next
day the house was neat aud tidy, and Mag
gie, in her be6t alpaca, told the news in la
conic fashion.
"Frightened!" she exclaimed, in answer
to the sympathetic ejaculations of her new
mistress. "Frightened ! Ob, no I Fear
wasn't bora in me."
Tfie American Flag. Persons who de
sire to make their own flags for the coming
4th of July should remember that certaiu
proportions should be observed in its manu
facture. Any one can find the proper pro
portions from tho following data : The
United States garrison flag is thirty-six
feet "fly" (.long), and twenty feet hoist
(wide), or in that proportion, the width be
ing five ninths of tho length . The recruit
ing flag is nine feet nine inches by four
feet four inches, the width being four-ninths
of the length. The "union," or blue field,
is in length one third the length of the flag,
and extends in width to tbe lower edge of
the fourth red stripe from the top. There
are thirteen stripes, oeginning and ending
with red. Tho garrison flag is the ono usu
ally taken as the standard for making flags
for private ro or decoration.
Thr clock which is to bo presented to
the city of Philadelphia by Mr. Seybert, of
that place, and which. will be placed in the
tower of Independence Hall, has been fin
ished.' It weigh altogether six thousand
pounds. One of its combinations is so ad
justed that at tims a hammer will strike
on the bell in the tower the nnmber thir
teen, to represent tbo number of tbeorigi- i
nal states, and sevonty-six; to represent
tbe year of tbe century in which the
Declaration of Independence was publish
ed. t
When do two and two not make four?
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iron u.cy siauu ior ifftiiijr-iw".
Doing J3t$sineifs without Capital.
He was poor but proud a stranger in
the city, and no one to take him in. He had
expended his last dollar, and as be wan
dered through Tremont street, at mid-day,
be seriously contemplated bow be should
possess himself of the wherewith to obtain
a dinner. He was well clad, and made an
unusually respectable appearance for a man
who could not boast of possessing even one
of the lowest denomination of greenbacks.
Tbe thought occurred to him that bis im
mediate necessity might compel him to
pawn some article or articles of bis ward
robe, when his attention was arretted by
the eloquent, earnest tones of an auctioneer,
in a store be was passing, expatiating npon
tbe "ruinous, wicked; awful sacrifice" he
was about to make la knocking down a
rich set of parlor furniture "for one tLird
its cost," but which be had orders to sell
"without reserve." Curiosity to see such
an "awful sacrifice" committed, led- tbe
moneyless stranger into the crowd there
assembled. He caught the auctioneer's
eye that was all and "going going
gone T immediately followed.
"Your name, sir," said the auctioneer.
The stranger besitated, and thinking of
his dolorous and dollarless condition, began
urging his way to the stand, to inform the
auctioneer that he bad mistaken his look
for a bid, w hen a gentleman tapped him
on tho shoulder, and said, quickly:
"Tweuty-flve dollars for your bargain I"
"It is yours T as promptly replied tho
Stranger.
The money was paid to him, the name of
the second purchaser giteu, and the first
one went ou his way rejoicing nor di3 he
stop until he seated himself iu the big din
ing hall of the Paiker House.
"I'm in luck to-day, surely ;and I'll
havo a good dinner," Lo soliloquized, as ho
scanned the "menu" placed beforti him.
The- viands most craved were ordered,
and while he waited to bo Bervcd, he took
up a morning paper, and the first thing
that met his eye was the staring caption,
"Elegant Ebtate at Auction This Day, at
3 P. M. j" aud following was a grandilo
quent description thereof, also, including
a catalogue of the elegaut furniture, works
of art, etc., which furnished and adorned
the niansiou, and which were also to be
sold immediately after tho sale of the real
property!
Some good genius it may have been
Dame Fortune prompted him to deter
mine at once to attend the sale. It lacked
an hour and forty minutes to the appoiutcd
time ample todo full justice to the edibles
he had generously ordered, and leisurely
walk to tho.aristocratic street on the Back
Bay, w here was situated tho valuable estate
indicated iu the advertisement.
Ho was there in season to view tbe
property, and did so with apparently as
much interest a3 if nE intended to be a
competitor in the purchase. Then be lis
tened with due ntteution to the auctioneer's
glowing praises of the mansion, and tho
not very favorable tcims of ale, including
tho "$500 to bo paid down," which did not
appear to appal him in the least.
Tho sale begau at a "ridiculously low
figure," aa the auctioneer said, but, never
theless, he warmed up to his woik as the
bids advanced to twenty-five, thirty, thirty-two,
thirty-four thousand, and after
much shouting, hammering, and significant
pauses, it was finally knocked off at a frac
tion less than $35,000 I And tho poor fel
low, who possessed only $23,00, minus the
value of a dinucrat Parker's, was tho lucky
purchaser !
lie gave bis name as Abraham V. Stuart,
and the auctioneer was pleased to say, not
withstanding tho property sold below Lis
estimate at least ten thousand dollars:
"Mr. Stuart, I congratulate you. This
estate cost not less than 00,o00, aud ought
to have brought at least $50,000 !"
Scarcely had the hammer fallen for the
last timo, than an agent of one of our most
opulent nabobs appeared on tbe scene, al
most breathless with exerting himself to be
at the sale ou timo, as be was authorized
by his employer to bid off the property at a
figure not exceeding a certain fixed limit.
He expressed much disappointment when
be learned tbe price it had sold for, and
declared that bad be been present be would
have raised the figures at least fifteen per
cent.
"If yon want tho bouso so badly, perhaps
it is not too late to obtain it," said tho pur
chaser ou hearing the remark that was
made.
"I do not want it for myself; but I was
sent here by a gentleman wit h instructions
to purchaso it at a certain limit," replied
tho agent.
'Perhaps you would liko to make an
offer for tho purchase?"
"I will give you three thousand dollars
above what it sold for," said the ageut.
"Then you must acknowledge that it is
worth nearer twenty more.. Oh, no ! three
thousand will never do. Make it ten thous
and dollars, and the property is yours?"
"I will give you five thousand," said the
agent. ' -
"Couldn't think of it," said the pur
chaser. "But as I bought the house neither
for a residence or an investment, but purely
as a speculation, I will split, the difference,
and ca'd it seventy-five hundred dollars."
"Done !" said the other. "And here is
a thousand dollars to bind the bargain,
and if you w ill walk with kc lo n.y office,
I will draw a check for the balance, and
satisfy you that the-bank will cash it on
presentation."
The auctioneer's clerk walj notified of
the transfer, the "$500 to bo paid down"
was paid by the agent, and in less than half
an hour our innocent speculator was in
possession of a reliable eherk for seventy
five hundred dollais, one thousand dtllars
in greenbacks, and the small sum on hand
from the entirely accidental "streak of
luck" earlier in tho day.
With the 8 trail fortune thus almost
thrust upon him, be established himself in
trade on one ot tbe best streets m the city,
where be Is now doing a flourishing busi
ness. ,
This episode in his career be frequently
speaks ef to his most confidential friends,
and declares bis doubts whether any mer
chant in Boston ever did quite so profitable
a "business in one day on so small a capital
as he did on that, to him, memorable day !
Tiznfcw Blade.
' When a Woman Will," Etc.
There is a woman ou Seventh street that
always gets the best of it when she and her
husband have little differences. This
spring she wanted to niove into a larger
house, and her husband didn't want to,
and being the head of the family of conrse
they didn't biove. But she didn't say any
thing ; she kept still aud bided her time,
and shortly it came.
One morning the husband came home in
a great hurry and said he mnst go East,
and he would be gone about two weeks,
and sbe knew very well he would be gone
two weeks if be said so, and probably a
trifle over that.
She packed his portmanteau with shirts,
and kissed him good-bye, and saw him
safely off, and went right out house-hunting.
She found just the house she wanted,
and that man hadn't been gone three days
when she was safely moved, and at the fcnd
often days was as settled and serene in her
new quarters as though she had never
moved iu her life. Meantimo, a family
bad moved iu the house stio had vacated,
and all went quietly on till one day, as the
woman was mixing bread in the kitchen,
aud the outside door was open, too, i:i
rushed a man and gave ber a hug, saying
"How are you, little girl? Doing your
own work, are yon?"
And then there was an awful pauso, as
that woman looked round at him, aud be
saw it wasn't "little girl" at all, but an old
girl of the Spartau typo, and she didn't
seem to relish the hog he gave her, cither.
Says he :
"Is your mistress at home ? Or, I mean,
do Mrs. Brown's folks live here?"
Then she told him she didu't know any
thing about Brown's folks ; her name was
SSimmens, and if she was poor she was
respectable, and then she began to cry, and
all at once she waxed wroth and laid hold
of the broom and took after poor Browr,
and says she "I'll sweep you off the face
of the earth, you scalawag-you !"' aud tho
way Brown went cr.t the dcor with the
swish of that broom behind him might be
called abrupt.
Well, be went out among the neighbors
and found out where li9 lived, and went
home and interviewed Mrs. Brown, who
cried and 6aid she "didn't tbinlc he'd care
if sbo just moved while b1 wn gone, and
saved him all the trouble," which last made
him madder than ho was before, and she
Cried again, atad the end of it all was she
came out one Easter Sunday with as hand
some a new bonnet as any one, which W3S
very significant of his beiug a done Brown.
A STRAXfJE Story.- Troy, N. Y., has
just bad a startling sensation. A newspa
per man charged one Dr. Camp with hav
ing sold an infant out of the county house
to tho wife of Jack Goddard, a cornet
player. On a trial for libel the editor
proved the truth of the charge, and was nc
quitted, but tho facts developed caused a
breaking up of the Goddard family. It
seems that Mrs. Goddard was unblessed
with children. Her husband's love for ber
was unbounded . but she knew that be
would love her better could she only
sent him with a pledge. She leg?'-, too.
to fear that if she should remain childless,
bis affection would die avvny so she
thongut to deceivo him, by purchasing a
child by bribing Dr. Camp '.o get ono out
of the alms house for her juring one of his
protracted absences w:.t,n a traveling show.
Tho husband was o.crjoyed on his return,
and the wife, liTit in tho security of Dr.
Camp's promise, of scresy, was supremely
happy. Bur, when Dr. Camp found that
the editor, knew tbo secret be wrote to
Goddard telling him of the deception
practiced on him by his wife. Tbe anger
ed and grief stricken husband wrote to bis
wife, enclosing Camp's letter, telling her
that ho' could never live with her again.
Sho is now in straitened circumstances and
overwhelmed with grief and shame-, but
clings to tho babe with the love of a trne
mother and refuses to part with it. There
is some hope that through the kind offices
of friends the unhappy pair may bo brought
together again, as the fault committed by
the wife was not a criminal ono, and was
Intended rather to promote the happiness
of her husband.
A oooi lawyer is not a ' uecessity, for
necessity knows no law
MAK1XG THIS HOME JiASE.
A SIGHT THAT C A US HI? DUM TEDKO Tt
MolliM
The following is said to be' one of Dom
Pedro's letters borne,' intercepted by tb
Cincinnati ia1urd.ty XtgTit:
PntLAr.Ei.rni , May 8, 'TO. I must
write you of the pecmliar treat tnent of
idiots in the Uuited (Stales. In .Brazil, ,
you know, we confine- that unfoituuato
class in tho asylums and submit them t.
such hnma-ie treatment ns will niitigato
their calamity if it does tv.t improve their
.mertal condition, but in tli:3 countrv asy
lums have been abolished R, jjjots aro
treated to an exercise called "Imsc ball "
All do not play at ot;ce, of course! A
great body of tlieni go ir.to Some- open lot.
and nine ' are selected t play against
another so-called "nine," wh;i'0 uie re
maining idiots sit and stand au und, utter
ing incoherent fcibtorish jit ear. while, and
liululging in idiotic jell at fWtuent iuter-
"bnsfl ball grounds' the other dav, ml
found at cast 20,0m w.ple congregated
there. TLey were of ail rrs, Hiz
aud conditions, and all more or less do
menled. 1 rom my observations, that dv
I cannot cay that I was favorably impressed
with base bail treatment for the ferblo
minded. I think the old fashioned asvlum
with its attendant discipline, is better for
t.icm. I would liko todescribe "base ball
if I could, but it is so foolish a pel formauca
that it is d-.fncnlt for a sensible man to con
vey an intelligible idea of it to readers in
the full possession of their intellects. Suf
fice it to say that it consists mainly in ono
man flinging a ball at anotLer, who makes
a wild and ofltimes fruitless effort to hit it
wit h a club. The former is called a "pitch
er. He takes the ball in his haiid,scruiu
izes it carefully to make sure that it isn't a
codnshball, then glances up at the clond
to see if it is likely to rain, then casts his
eye around at the inrii m intellects who m
watching Lim so intensely from tbe bench
es, looks intently at the ground as if select
ing some good depot to sit down, then
wheeling suddenly on his beel he spins the
oa.l with a swift, jerking motiou toward
th5 mail with the bat. You cannot imag
ine the frantic yells that crow d of impaired
mental constitmioLs sends up if the batter
hits it and sends itspinning a long distance,
particularly if it isu t captured by the nim
ble ni lots who run after it before be cart
ruu aiound a given circle. I was curious
to know whether or not this exercise wa
pecuniarily profitable to those who partici
pated in it, and I aked theaforemrntioretl
base ball repoi ter. "Do these unfortunate
cieatuies who play base ball ever inako
anything?" and he replied, 'Oh, yes, they
rVHko r !,eir ,,0?no base occasionally."
I oor fellows, I should think they would
make home base enough, but of course
they can t help it. They were born, to for
the most part, though I Uin told that base
ball idiocy is contagious and oii the iiK
crease.
5o.ii ox 'riiu srAiirs.
HOW MR. PACKLF.M ETITOTT COVE TOCHASGE
ins sii?:d ok woman- scvfkaoe.
A gentleman residing mi Abedcen street
was. until Friday Inclined to "Jvtjft'
mnle6uffra2o. IHs w ife had pi ..dent ly de
layed in...,, till after the 1st, so as iVtaka
advantage of the r,n 0f LOIlse' Pe.,t .
house to which they moved had a tremend
ously steep fi.ght of stairs, and an oil cloth
ed ball. 1 he wife had the stairs scrubbed
do, and left the soap on the lopstVp.
full of clhes pms iu ore hsnd and a cloak
under the other nrnsEhei. bis wife, S
as down staus, aw a mouse, and shakin-r
;'tiwd!y, bounded , the tahlo
and let oft a scv.es , f -Ir:ll iL.Uks bc-i. -;".
on hU Z-Z above the clef. 1lor
h.isbniid thmking U,. h.. .c wus n fl
the very least, sta.tnd to , t.. her resco
and Ptrppiug tUo , :ece u th.itsl.o
bad so thoughtfully left on the s.ai.s, t
down Tcher.K-i.tly at ,Le i,.p ,,f tl)(! n .hf.
and shd tl.Mvn wi,h the sjA-d ,.f t J. Si '
I ire flew from l,;s r;l. to'f.th as ,,0
edge of eicl, step, volleys of clothe-.,,!,.
were discnarged ,,,, ie air aT,d c 1
flic CIK'!s!i.d its in ivards over . '
TI:ol..j,lr,l hsbar.d ai .l "'re
flection when he leache S 'V"
el.ah .f the !laj, 7 . t K
scarcely diniinisl ed v . '. r"" "1'1
ing tbe.i!-cloth 7 ?
that tlmtiM,. a xst.t,,e fWl' "ith violence
house l"L Tb V; rVU t U,e Cf t,;
bis wife m' ?lf,!l,co,,ra:-fl"" slartle.1
f.o n be Jl e i C k D;ck-orsao!t
which !t ""I a t,,b "f P-ads, it.
had tc it? T ed that sho
au-f V! " a:',a,, P 'm ud canter
v j "d cataracts of it.nr.dating ber.
ten-Ia.r.ier wiili k,j, i:u .. . j
- . - i - j. iiif unrrr,
and jarred down mvt f the plaster cor
nice. hen tho man's wife bad sUugh
e1 l'er tub, sho Fa:nitered calmly into the
hall and tenia. ke.T, "Well. ,eu are tho
elums,estat.d a hall bnd just been
washed, too." Her husband did not s.iv
much, but he thong-it a Re-io deal and
now, he says, just let Sni-a:. B, Anthony
come, ntul lecture here again, and if
other Man bar, the courage to hiss, h. i l
fo he;i bin Jaspfr Packlemciton. C7 v-.u
go Tbunc
Tiia!T!k has it that year r-o,
Bent ".aim Frank In v. - . i . , '
, . , ., - " '., ii" o-n tv?
suiuy philosophy, and s.,,, h ta...c flK, ()f
applytug technical na-ucs to common ob-
his father that he swallowed some ace ba
loivs mollusks, tho old .m was much
for;helP. has Fi.iukliu cune will, warm
water, and the hired man ruhed pi with
tho gaiden pump. 1 l.f.v fo.cc.i h.df a
Ion down Peiijamm'sLurooi. I he?i held
over the edsic of thepou.l. and sl,.k bin,,
while tbe old man : "If e don't tret
them things outof Benny, he ;u be even
ed, rare. ' W I.e.. they were out, ,,d V.ea
jamm exj huned that the si: t ai,, ,
were cy-lCs, his father Amdh-d him fr
half an hour with a tihnk strap for searin
the family. After this Bcr.jamin-sianguago.
was simple.
Xoor.esh .,,:dx!nvt f.,r the Black Hi"