v u Through Slf|*er.
IM, w*>U I know TOOT words are PUT,
I premised tin* last due* to Ton,
Th /set 1 can't duT s
Yet do not dorm t maidsu false.
' Nor thtoV ebe d wtUi anoi her waits
Wliil* vou art st&ndiuc by.
Think not I >oo* use tty card I've kl
Hi at something hath mj temper crossed.
Nor Judge me * CO*ieUs ;
Fain would I in the giddy whirl
With Von my partner madly twirl.
And all my £rfet forgot
i -
Bnt ah ! to-night my joy* are o'er.
No more 1 trwad.tlio polished floor
(1 though i you never frowned ?>
For (Vdigwr) eattu hi net atroug,
And, Henry, having danced too long.
* t tMy torn an' vat V <jrei*d,
••••>♦ : .iil ..it , ,
.-•tt tr ' t 'K i ;y /.a.ui , ...
A Son? of hlllarttoj-.
< Slum me a eight
Dates for delight.
An ould Irtah wheel aid a young Imh gul< it.
0! Noi
, , Nothing you'll show
AijuaU her situu' au takin' a twriH at it.
- > • liOok at her there.
Night ui her hair—
The hlue ray of day from her eye Uughui out
t .on us*!
|((( Faix. an' a foot,
For feet of cut,
reepiu' to put an end to all doubt in ua.
That there'e a eight
lioie* for delight
An ould Irish wheel aid a young Inah girl at it,
... 0! No!
Nothing you'll show
Annate her attun' an' taluu' a twirl at it.
See ' Uie lamb'* wool
. . Turns ooaree an' dull
By them soft, beautiful, weeehy, white bauds of
bar!
Down goee her heel.
Svuu' luua the wheel,
Tarriu wid jleaeure to take the conunan.ht of
her.
Then show me a eight
lis tee for delight
Aa auM Irieh wlteel aid a young Irish girl at it
O! No!
Notiun' you'U shew
Afjnahs her eitUn' and takui' a twirl at it
Talk of Three Fates.
Sated on MUS,
Upinalu' and ala .rui' away till they're done for
me.
Too may want three
For your massacre.
Bnt one fate for me, bora, and only the one for
me. •
And
Isn't that fate
IVrured eotnplase.
An' ould Irish w heel wtd s young Irish girl at it ?
or No!
Nothin' you'll show
Aquaie her sittm' au' takin' a twirl at it
HETTY'S DOUGHNUTS.
The long rays sf the afternoon sun
slipped in at Mrs. Baxter's open door,
danced gaylv over the spotless floor of
the ample kitchen, darted in and out
for a moment or two among the highly
polished tins which stood in orderly
rows on the dresser, and then suddenly
plunged into Hetty's heavy braids, and
nestled there, as "if they* had at last
found what they were seeking, and hat!
no wish to wander more. They conld
not well have found a fairer resting
place than those same rich braids, red
in the shadow and gold ia the sun. un
less they had chosen the long dark
lashes, or the roguish dimple, or the
soft pink cheeks, or the rosy lips. But
no 1 the lips would have 'constituted
bnt an uneasy resting-place, for they
were in tolerable constant motion. Not
that anv one who bean! Hettv Morris
speak wonld have wished her to be
silent; still, silent she seldom was—at
least in her waking hours.
At the moment when the sunbeams
first pointed her out to us, as she stood
at the great table rolling out dough,
her sleeves fastened up, and her round
- white arms here and there dabbsd with
flour scarcely whiter, she was softly
talking to herself.
" Dear me ! I shall never get these
miserable doughnuts done by tan- time,"
she was saying, as she cut off a strip of
doufch and" gave it an airy twist • and
that horrid fat gets hotter and hotter
every minute. The last two kettlefuls
are utterly rained. *
"If that is ' uttr rain,' " remarked a
masculine voice, " I am willing to take
it off your hands. Pass me the pan.
Miss Hetty." Aad the vines trailing
over the east window were gently moved
aside, and a dark curly head, adorned
with two or three ahsVings, proceeded
to insert itself into the open window,
as if a portrait had snddenly pushed
its way into its frame.
Hettv trefeed her head. " Xo, I thank
you, Mr. Kennedv," said she, with an
other twist of the light dough. " Uncle
Baxter knows to s doughnut how many
there should be in a batch ; and if there
were one missing I should suffer for it."
" Oh, noosense I** said her companion.
** He is not so bad as that I>ll the
truth, Hetty, and say it is you who
; tj grudge me the per" satisfaction of a
solitary cake. Never mind. There's a
good tame coming toon, when they will
be every-day affairs with me,"
" What do you mean T* asked Hetty,
pausing with her fork in her hand.
" What should I mean, exaept that I
am thinking of getting married ?" re
turned the yonng man in the window,
brushing off a shaving as he spoke.
" Ob— I hadn't heard," observed his
companion, returning with supreme in
difference to her rolling-pin.
" Haven't you ? I am surprised at
that," was the reply, "for it has been
talked all over town for the last fort
night "
-1 "I wish yon wre not so fond of those
silly jekes, Frank," said Hetty, de
cidedly.
"I will agree tp abandon the habit
from this tims forth for. evermore," he
replied, looking very' handsome and
penitent; " that is, if you will give me
a certain slight token that I am for
given."
Hetty drew rearer to the window.
" What shall it be ?" she asked, with
a deepening blush and a very encour
aging smile.
"If you love me, my desr, bestow
Xn me that crusty donghnot which
rns the top of yonder pile,* he re
sponded, theatrically, striking an atti
tude as he spoka -
Hetty's heel* clicked expiessively as
she walked to the pantry door, herhead
high in air.
*' Help yourself," she said, briefly.
" Thanks 1" responded Frank, reach- i
ing a long arm in at the window and
over to the table. "It is more conve
nient than I thought. I could easily!
carry away the whole panful,"
No reply.
" Hetty, are you vexed ?"
A dead silence.
" Come here, little girl, and give me
a better token of forgiveness."
" Help yourself," was the demure re
sponse.
With an agile spring Frank perched
upon the window-sill, when from the
upper rpgionp a voice, clear and sharp, \
made itself heard in the succinct In
y done, Hetty?"
"Yes, aunt. Do you want me?"
asked the girl, darting to the door.
"Come up," was the rejoinder; I
and Miss Hetty, looking triumphantly
back as she attained a secure position
inthe doorway,- had 4he satisfaction,
dear to her mischievous heart, of be
i .holdi'pk a djsooraflted countenance dis-1
the window, afe Mr. Frank
Kennedy dropped down on the outside.
The vthes rustled for an instant, arid
tfcen were still. Hetty closed the door,
and the sunbeams and the huge pan of
doughuuts had the big kitchen all to'
themselves.
Mrs. Baxter sat examining a chestful J
of woolen cjothes, in the cool solitude
of the noiih chamber.
"Those pesky nioths; have got in
here, after all," she remarked, as hr
niece entered the room. "Look at
that, now;" and she exposed to vfcfcv an
ancient garment completely riddled
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VOL. VI.
with email holes. "You jnat ait down
hv, lteutirtta, tuid eort out all the
stocking* into that basket by them
selves. You'll hare just about*time be
fore you sot th supper-table."
HA ttv sat down as directed, arid waa
aooti deep in a uiuaty heap of stocking*
aud fianuel*.
"There's Will Lowrrv going by," said
her aunt, pausing a moment iu her oc
cupation And glaucing out of the opeu
casenit lit, "I must ask hiui about
Auut Kligy.— Good-evening, William,"
ahe calhwl, leaning over the aill, and ad
dressing a good-looking, broad-shoul
dered rouug follow who was passing
the gate. " How's all the folks, par
ticularly your aunt Klixv ?"
"AU the folk* are well, except Aunt
Eli&a, and she's better," replied the
vonug man, pausing iu his walk and
leauiug on the gate, as if quite willing
to prolong the interview. "Aunt Mar
tha is going te have the sewing society
up there to-morrow."
"They'll eat her out of house and
home," rejoined the old ladv, rather
grimly. "That retuiuds me, William,
I promised to tend your auut some of
my yeast cakes, aud if you don't mind a
bundle, you may take 'eui along with
you. They're on the kit ohm table. If
you'll jnat step round te the back-door
you'll find 'cm quite handy."
" I'll just run down aud get them for
him." proposed Hetty, anxious to es
cape from the wool chest, aud noi at all
averse to a little dirtahon with Will
Lowry.
'! You'll just stick to the stockings.
Miss Mom*, "answered her aunt, prompt
ly. "Let him wait on himself.'
Presently the-tast pair of stocking*
was laid away, and then her aunt said,
"uow get the tea ; and be quick about
it, too, Henrietta, for I see father's
waguu driving rouud to the barn now."
Hetty flew down to the kitchen, hur
riedly put the tea to draw, and neatlv
set out on the white cloth snowy bread,
golden butter, and crimson jelly, all
made by her awn deft fingers. Then
she ranged before her uncle'a place a
huge platter of cold boiled beef, a dish
of cold potatoes, and another of pork
and greens. Theu, standing at one
side, she glanced critically over the
generous board to see if ail was com
plete. Something about the arrange
ment struck her as faulty ; but at first
she could not satisfy herself as to what
it was. At last a light broke in -upon
her mind.
" Hew near • I came to forgetting the
dough nuts ! How uncle would have
fretted, to be sure! lam glad 1 thought
before he came in."
So saying, she took a plate and went
into the pantry. Not a doughnut was
to lie seen. She examined tle cupboard
under the milk shelf. There was the
bread box, a jar of cookies, and two
lusty loaves of gingerbread—but no
doughnut*. She brought a wooden
chair from the kitchen, aud stoed there
on to search the topmost shelf. There
sho beheld only pots of jaru and pre
serves, together with some disused tjsa,
all very much covered with dust—but
ne doughnuts. Then she pulled out
the big pie board from behind the flour
barrel (the pie board made by Frank at
the age of ten years—his earliest essay
in the carpentering line—and which
warped past all using within the first
month of its existence). No doughnuts
—nothing but two or three cobwebs,
against which she promptly registered
a vow. As she was replacing the board
a thought darted into her mind which
caused smiles to fade quickly away, and
a txowu of annoyance as quickly succeed
them.
"Frank! That is the reason he
went home so early from kis work, is it?
How silly of him to ulav mo such a
(rick 1 It he only knew how cross Uncle
Baxter can bfc when he is vexed ! What
ahallldo?" And poor Hetty began
turning over in her mind sll sorts of ex
cuses for the noti appearance of her un
cle's favorite delicacy, none of which
would do in the least, and in the midst
of which sho heard his rough voice in
the kitchen.
" Supper ready ? "
"All ready," she answered, faintly,
from the depths of the pantrv; and
hastily cutting several thick slices of
gingerbread, she harried out and took
her seat at the table.
" What time did Frank go?" inquired
her uncle of nobody in particular, at
the same time heaping his plate with
meat aud vegetables.
Hetty said nothing and her aunt re
plied :
" Somewhere between five and six ; I
don't know exactly."
" Did he get through with that door
before he went ? " demanded the gruff
voice ngain.
"He did." repliejl Aunt Baxter,
ooncisely. He.iir breathed more freely.
" What that fellow does with his time
is more than I know," gro'wleil Uncle
Baxter. " It's lucky for him he's work
ing by the job, or he'd hear s piece of
my mind."
Farmer Baxter's " women kind," as
he was wont courteously to term the
ladies of his family, understood his
ways, and usually passed over his ebul
litions of temper in silence, knowing
that he would doubtless eat himself into
better humor in due course.
" I Ixdieve he spends half his time
gossiping with the women," ho continu
ed, rightly surmising that the subject
was distasteful to his wife and niece,
aud therefore doggedly pursuing it.
" Has he been in here this afternoon,
Henrietta ? " -
" No, sir," replied Hetty, boldly,
though a recollection of Frank's part
ing attitude came over her guilty as she
spoke.
" Well, just sec that he don't then ;
and yon tend to your work," was the
surly rejoinder; and the old mm sub
sided into a discussion of his dish of
greens.
For a few moments silence reigned
about the table. Aunt Baxter, with
the policy induced by long experience,
remaining Hetty l>ecuse her
angry tears choked her utterance.
Presently a subdued conversation com
menced and was for some time carried
on in an undertone between anut and
niece. Suddenly came the awfol ques
tion, which had all the time been hang
ing like a doom over poor Hetty's head.
" Where's the donghnnts ?"
"They were just done andquite Lot,"
replied Hetty, flushing crimson. "The
gingerbread is fresh, and I thought you
would just as lief lisve it Uvniglit."
" You know better;,* amiably, return
ed Uncle Baxter. " Just you step
quick and get Borne."
Hetty mechanically rose to obey,
when her aufit quietly observed:
" It seems a pity to let the ginger
bread dry; bnt I presume Aunt Saman
thy will be glad of it."
" Aunt Human thy won't get it then,
that's all," returned her lord and mas
ter, quite uuconscious that this was
precisely the response she wished and
expected. "Sit down, Henrietta, and
another time don't cut gingerbread
when there's fresh doughnuts in the
house."
So that danger was over ; but in pro
portion as her fear of her uncle's dis
pleasure passed away her indignation
against Frank Kennedy increased. Bhe
could not readily forgive him the soold
ing she had received or the more for
midable one she had escaped.
"I think I'll ruii up to grandma's,"
said Aunt Baxter,the nextday, as they
TSHHfiw-dinner-tabTe, yon-can clear
away the things alone."
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
" Oh I I ran do that easily enough,"
replied Hetty, with alacrity, for the
poor child had boon planning all the
morning how alie could get au oppor
tunity to replace that dreadful lnisaiug
dish.
" Very well," said her auut: " and if
you waut something to do, you might
sort the rest of those flannel*."
" 1 want to gather uiy dress skirt,"
said Hetty, faintly, blushing us she did
ao for the deception.
" Well, 1 don't care, ao yon're not
idle and Auut Baxter walked heavily
and reapoctably out of the gate adorned
with her tiuuday bonnet aud her best
mantilla.
No soouer did the gate click liehind
her than Hetty fell to work with the
greatest energy. Kggs were beaten,
spice measured, sugar aud shortening
weighed, and worked into the dough
which had been surreptitiously rising
Iwlnnd the pantry dortr siuco moruiug.
The fat was tested, and the strips of
the soft yielding mass speedily reap
peared in crisp, browu twists piled up
ill a large yellow dish, which dish was
spitefully placed out of reach from the
open window. The young lady did not
*mg over her work to-day, but frowned
blackly instead, as she dew from stove
to table. The frown dee|eued jiervep
tilily when, just as she was contempla
ting the last of the golden brown cakes,
a well-known voice was heard from the
window, exclaimiug :
" Heaven defend us ! What a capa
city Uncle Baxter must have for dough
nuts, if he has eaten all you made
yesterday, aud now demands more !"
This was too much. Hetty felt the
blood leaping through her veins.
" Mr. Kennedy !" she said, icily, "it
ia possible to carry a joke too far, 1
am so busv this afternoon that I can
not stop to War you ' talk nousense ; '"
with which cuttiug quotation she turn
ed with much dignity to leave the room,
and presently found * herself wildly
struggling with the dt>or-latch, which,
with the usual pervevwity of inanimate
things, chose this inauspicious moment
for sticking fast.
" Won't yon tell me what I have
done ?" pleaded the delinquet, seizing
his opportunity.
"1 don't can* to discus* the point,"
replied Hetty, still fumbling with the
obdurate doorlatcli.
" How unfair you arc'." he broke out,
impatiently. " You accuse me of some
mysterious offense, and then utterly re
fuse to allow me to defend myself. '
"I dou't accuse you of anything,"
said Hetty, shaking the door furiously.
" I know that yon consider joking at
every time and on every subject JHT
feotlv allowable, but when I had told
you fairly what uncle can be when he i*
vexed, I did think it very cruel and in
considerate that you should set him on
me just for a silly trick."
" I give von my word, Hetty, that I
hiul no idea of your uncle s really
grudging nie those cakes, if that is what
you mean, or even knowing anything
about it." Hetty elevated her eye
brows. "Of course I know- he is stingy,
and all that, but I had no idea you
were in earnest when yoti said he would
visit it ou your head. My taking them
at all was auly a bit of fun, anyway."
" And a very stupid bit of fuu," inter
polated Hetty. But iut here the door
yielded to a particularly vigorous twitch,
and Hetty rushed upstairs.
The tea-things were hurriedly washed
up and pot away that evening, and Mrs.
Baxter aet forth sedately through the
village street, for it was coufen-uce
meetmg night Who does not know
that meeting well, with its swinging
kerosene lamp, whose Light seems al
ways in rout eyes, whichever way they
turn, until you close them for relief;
the solemn countenance of the good
deacon who " leada ;" the donhtful aud
wailing hymns ; the swfnl pauses; the
sense of personal gratitude to some
long-winded, pnwiy brother who rises
aud " fills up the time " after a deathly
hush of nnnsual duration; and the
bleeeod period which closes the service
and removes the restraint that for two
hours has bound the senses of all pres
ent?
The closing prayer is offered, and the
words spokcu which dismiss the wor
shipers, who stream out into the nar
row aisles, the older ones gravely ex
changing bits of local gossip, the
younger, to whom this is the moment
of culminating interest, wishing, fear
ing, and hoping. The girls cast blush
ing glances toward the phalanx of tall
youths on either side of the door, aud
the youths, having already made a se
lection, only await opportunity Happy
those whom no disspjointment awaits ;
for, alas ! there must be some "previous
engagements." Then comes the deli
cious saunter homeward in the soft
summer evening, the elders having Con
siderately gone on before; the linger
ing at the gate while the trees softly
whisper overhead, and the good-night
reluctantly mnrmtued beneath the stars.
Alas that youth comes but once, and
will not return after disappointments
have taught Us to value aright its sweet
dream-life 1
iietty walked demurely out of meet
ing that night by her aunt's side, oon
smons, though they had not exchanged
a glance, that Frank Kennedy was await
ing her. A little lonely sense of separa
tion from him came over Iter, but it did
not soften her resentment. It had le
--1 come a regular thing for Frauk to walk
home with her after meeting; she was'
vexed with herself when she thought
how regular it was. As this thought
passed through her mind, she becamo
aware, though her eyes were cast down,
that Frank was Approaching her on one
side while Will Dowry was offering her
his arm on the other. Fixing a cold
look UDOU the former—a look whinlicut
him to the heart—she turned with 0110
of her brightest smiles to the latter,
and, with a "Thank yon, Mr. Lowrv,"
she walked away with him, leaving
Frank gazing after her with a look of
pain and perplexity mingled. As for
Hetty, though she talked and laughed
in her gayest tones, and leaned on Will's
arm and glanced up in Ids face in her
usual coquettish maimer, her heart was
heavy within her, nor did she feel hap
pier, though she became much gayer,
when, a few minutes later. Frank passed
her with Belma Burton clinging to his
arm confidingly.
"Is that an engaged couple, Miss
Morria ?" asked her companion, as Sel
ma's lisping tones died away in the dis
tance.
" I am sure I don't know," answered
Hetty, with a light lnngh; and then the
conversation drifted into the usual talk
of two young persons takingthe longest
way home under the elms on a balmy
summer evening. They stood for some
time by tbe gate, trying to distinguish
various constellations in the sparkling
heavens—so long, in fact, that Frank
Kennedy, returning no doubt from sim
ilar astronomical researches with Bel
ma, heard Hetty's clear laugh, aud
paused for a moment, hulf intending to
join her. Bat hiabctter judgment pre
vailed; he walked away and disappeared
in the darkness. Then Will aud Hetty
exchanged a good-night over the low
gate—several good-nights, jp fact—and
they parted.
Every thing had gone exactly as Miss
Morris wished. Bhe had crushed Frank
to the earth witu her scorn, aud she had
shown him that she was by no means
dependent on bis attentions. Certainly
no one could ask for a more devqtcl
suitor than Will Dowry. tiling
he hod said during the evening had
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! shown her plainly that she had but to
stretch out her hand and take him; aud
bow manly and handsome he wss ! "1
will take hiin, too. if he utTttrs huuself,"
•aid iletfy to hersulf as she put out her
light. Then she very consistently eritwl
' herself to sleep.
The next day passed like a dream to
her. She performed her usual duties
as if she were somebody else, l-'rauk
was still at work in the barn, having
not quite finished his job; but he did
1 not once look toward the house, as fsr
as HetTy could see, much less come to
ward it; aud she noticed that ha had
left (<tT the customary whistling over
his work. Even Farmer liaxter could
not complain of auv neglect on thut
day. Just at six o'clock, while she was
settiug the table, feeling thoroughly
wretched and forlorn, her heart gave
a great bound. There he stood in the
doorway ! She had been feeling all the
afternoon that if he came to her again,
. in suite of hia otYeucea she could not re
sist him. Bhe was too unhappy with
out hiin, aud now he had come, as she
' had liurdly dared to hope he would do.
She hastily summoned all her pride,
that her surrender might not he 100
sudden or absolute, slid went forward
with a frigid air quite contradicted by
her rapidly beating heart.
"This is the key to the tool-house,
Hetty," he said, placing in her out
stretched hand a cold door-key instead
,of the fervent clasp she expected. Tell
your uucle I've got through. Good
night 1" aud he was gone before she
could form a reply.
" Tin* la the end of everything,"
thought poor Hetty. " Now if Will
Lowrv comes I will accept him."
Will Lowry did come iu the evening,
but she had no opportunity of carrying
out her resolution, as hi* auut cauie
with him expressly to see Auut Baxter,
and they all sat together in the front
room, except I'ncle Baxter,who audibly
•lumbered on the lounge iu the kitchen
during the entire call, greatly to the
mortification of hi* niece. What that
young lady :ud and did during the
evening she could not tell. She was
living over and over that cold parting
with Frank Kennedy, and feeling again
the chill of that disappointing door
key. As the visitors rose-to go, Will
it-marked.
" Aunt Martha, you have n.-arly for
j gotten your errand."
"Surely," returned Miss Ixiwry, pro
ducing from some mvsterious quarter
a huge wilk-pau. " \Ve came specially
U> return your pan. The cakes were
splendid. Did you make "em, or did
Hetty ? For 1 want the receipt."
" ( always make yeast cakes myself,"
replied Aunt Buxter,looking liewdden-d.
"But where did the pan come frwm 7"
" Will brought the doughnuts home
in it. By-tho-by, you promised me
some of thorn yeast cake*."
Auut Baxter still looked dazed, but
Hetty, for the first time seeing n light
dawn through th* clouds which had
for some day* overshadowed licr, burst
into a peal of rather loud ami hysterical
ltnghur, which brought Uncle Baxter
out of dream-kuid into the front-mom
to ascertain the cause of *uch a start
ling sound.
"Was it yen who took the donghnnta?'
cried Hetty, as soon as she could speak
"And you thought they were y.-ast
cakes ? And a reuewed peal of laugh
ter attested the poor child's revu'soon
of feeling.
"Mrs. Baxter said they were in plain
sight on the kitchen table," responded
Will, in rather an injured tone ; " and
aa they were the only oaken there, I nat
urallv supposed them to be yeast cakes."
"No wonder you went home across
lota," cried Hetty, goiug off into another
peal of laaghUr, m which everybody
joined.
"Well, I thought myself it was kind
o' qu.-er," aaid Miss Lowrj at last, wip
ing the tears from her eyes; "but 1
a'poaed of course yon sent 'em for the
society ; so we ate 'em up."
That night before Hetty slept she had
written a brief note to Frank Kenne.lv.
She bad a bitter struggle with her pride
before she could make up her mind to
take the first step, but the lesson of the
last few days had not been altogether
lost:
"DIUH FBAJOL—I have mads s horri
ble blunder, and I am ashamed of my
self. If yon fuel that you can forgive
my abominable treatment of you, come
to see me, and I will explain.
H. M."
Sh waa sitting under a tree in the
orchard idly rolling one or two half-ripc
apples about on the gross. She had
watched and waited *ll day for Frank ;
and now, ss evening was drawing on
and he hail not crime, she was lmgin
niug to think he was ton deeply offend
ed to soek her again. A shallow passed
betweeu her and the setting sua, and he
stood before her.
"Well?" he demanded, gravely re
garding her. He loved Hetty Morris
better than hit own life, but he felt that
she had injured him solely through
caprice, and he felt that he could not
lower his dignity oven to regain her
previous fnvor.
"I want to ask yonr forgiveness,
Frank," said Hetty, speaking very fast
lest her resolution should fail. ' "fc have
treated you very badly, hut it was all a
ridiculous misunderstanding."
"Of course you were forgiven before
you nsked," he said, still gravely, and
without offering to ait down. The nar
rator discredits this magnanimous state
ment, but the young roan said it, never
theless. "And now, ho resumed; " I
suppose I may ask the promised ex
planation. "
"It ia too preposterous," cried Hetty,
breaking into irrepressible luuglib r.
"The truth ia, I lost my doughnuta.and
I thought you had taken them just for
a joke."
"But I did take aome, you know," lie
said, looking puzzled.
"I know yon took two," nuswercd
Hetty, banting out again ; "but I lost
at least n bushel."
Frank Kennedy hod come to lhis in
terview with a determination to bo dig
nified, and, if necessary, atom ; but as
tho sun Hank beneutli the horizon a Ixv
latoil swallow hurrying homo to liis
family might liavo hoard him remark,
"Whatever clao wo havo at tho wed
ding-supper, Iki auro and havo a butch
of doughnut*."
"You may depend on roe for that,"
replied Miss Hetty, smartly, "for 1 shall
rely on that argument to bring Uncle
Baxter round."
Cheese It,
Not the least ingenions suggestion
offered to the Commissioners of the
Centennial Exposition comes from New
Hampshire. A citizen of that State
communicates the following colossal
plan : " Dear Sirs : I speak of cheese
—cheese in the grandest and inoat
sublime souse of tho term, cheese such
us the world has nevor slen—cheese 1
hundreds of thousands of pounds of it.
It shall be an immense plain, the con
solidated efforts of every cheese manu
facturer in the United States, and will
be capable, when laid down upon its
aide, of accommodating many hundreds
of people. Such a cheese as the one I
icak of would certainly create aston
u hmont, and would gain for our maim
fa- 'nrers the admiration of the world.
1 ib-sire space for such a cheese. Can
I have it? Answer."
A man thrift his arm info a lion's
cage, lit Mansfield, Ohio, recently, and
nearly lost it in consequence.
Wbj Marriage* Decrease.
VVlitl • Writer lUt la Hay
About It.
Tho fulling off in matrisges ia found
in the centre* of population, where tin*
needs of lift* press hard. Tim old-fash
ioned disinterestedness litta of lsto
v ears been lostuggrouud in these places.
Thirty or forty yearn ago it was plain
auilitig ; a gibbons hat ami the operu
were unknown j all wotked for a living,
aad none were rich ua compared with
those of to-duVi It haa become evident
that 111 cities Hymen u losing hia power;
yet the goddess who ratoa out of the
seu foam coutiuuea to exercise her
wonted oliariua over men, though they
refuse to follow Hymen. There is a
hide-and-seek process on tlie part of
man to avoid sup|>ortiug the woman,
which would be to the last degree un
generous if it were not in some meas
ure compulsory. Father* endeavor to
dis|tose of daughters to those who
stand upon comlitieus, and each tries
to shirk the ei|iense of keeping them.
Thus regarded, the woman become* a
|>oaaiblc incumbrance to the marrying
man, and almost a parasite in her own
family. A gr-at number of those who
live in luxury iu the metropolis make
both euds meet with difficulty. The
head of the family is stretched on a fi
nancial wheel, which never ceases to
turn every day iu the year. He is
pressed for what he consider* the nec
essaries of life, and spends twenty
thotisaud dollars a year. The capital
of this man who spends twenty thous
and dollars a year, at legal iutereat,
would not, pcrtia|>a, yield Sum a third
of what he expends ; thus he ia obliged
to work hard f r hht living, and without
relaxation. He ia not iu a (xiaition to
help auy one hut himself, however wil
ling he may be to do to. The young
man making bis way through an oceau
of difficulties, aud earning heavy bal
last iu the shanc of claim am! social
diasipat ton, may like the daughter of the
poor, rich father ; but he haa not the
audacity, even if she were willing to
maka the sacrifice, to take her out of a
handsome neat into an inferior one. In
resisting the matrimonial temptation he
has something to say for himself. His
knowledge of life tells liim that there
are scarcely any hours of happiness
which are compensation for the rasping,
wearing, daily want of means to pro
vide for every-day necessaries and com
fort*. and that it is not long before do
mestic peace gives way under litis ter
rible pressure. It is human, too, for the
woman in uugtiarded momenta to mak<
comparisons between her married and
single life, ou which n-giels and re
proaches are implied if not spoken.
When matters reach this point, it ia the
coup dr omrc, and domestic felicity ia
at an end.
An adviser may say to this young
man, if he wants to marry the poor,
rich girl, "tki West;" hut this is coun
sel he can uot follow. His lot ia cast
here, and through industry be has rea
sonable expectation* of ultimately ac
quiring a modest competency. It would
lie foolish fur him to give up the bird
in hand for the two out West in the
buh, to say nothing of his liking*,
wbieh, ten to one favor his present sur
roundings. Here the field of labor is
plainly indicated and he is already in
the harm-**. His future leing here, he
must submit to the condition* of life
around him and accept civilization as
he finds it. Thus reasoning, be turns
awsyfrum the poor, rich man's sumptu
ous dwelling with a sigh; he may not
p'.tick the Coveted flower. And if the
expected bridegroom in purple and fine
hueu. frui Lydiau "bores fail to come,
•he daughter u coudemued to a life of
celibacy. If the fntln'r has several
such who wail in vain, his hou*e, ac
cording to the Dutch proverb, becomes
like s cellar full of sour beer.
There arc three issues out of the dif
ficulties which involve marriCgc in the
cities—s simpler mode of life; the in
dejieiKlenc- which the woman may so
quire in self-supjwirt ; and the dowry,
which concerns rather the parents than
the woman herself.
A Story of Bean Richmond.
I Van Richmond, the politician, nuS
WIT magnate and stock operator, bad a
son whow habits and character tern
not entirely in accord with liia father's
wishes. He would not bold a jM-n l>e
bind bia ear, nor perch himself upon a
stool ia tbe office, nor did bo exhibit
anr of the qualifications for a auiveaa
ftif bull or bear njon tin* stock market.
The father hat eon fide nee in bia aon,
and so strong beoaroo hia dianatiafae
tiou that be eventually ostracised him.
He WUH allowed to labor and alii ft for
hia own support. lie became a eon•
dnetor on hi* father'a railway, the New
York Central. Mr. Richmond told him
that the leant infraction of the rnlea of
tbe company would iuanre hia immedi
ate removal, and especially vraa be
warnel against allowiug any person,
whether a friend or not, to ride without
allowing a poaa or a ticket, or paying
the neeeaaary fare. He bad been em
ployM in thi* capacity for aome time,
and there hail liecn no complaints,
when one day I Vau Richmond himself
liecame a passenger himself on hia aou'a
train. The conductor came to the old
railway magnate, when the following
dialogue occurred :
"Ticket, Bir ?"
" Ticket! Get out ! lam preaident
of this road. I don't buy tickets."
"That makes no difference. It is
against orders for me to allow anybody
to ride unless he pßya his fare, presents
a ticket, or shows a pass. Coma, linrry
up I"
" Well, air, yon know who I am, and
know that I am entitled to ride on tliia
road free. I could make out a pass,
but I haven't any blanks. You go on ;
it's all right."
" See here, old gentleman, it makes
no difference who you are ; give me a
ticket, show a pass, pay your fare, or
get off the train."
" Humph ! young man, you are get
ting mighty arbitrary. If you dou't gu
about your business I'll have yon dis
charged."
Tho young conductor made no rrplv,
but gave a vigorous pull upon the befl
rope. As the train chocked it* speed,
and the father saw that he was about to
lie treated like any other passenger,
and was really liable to be act down
alongside the trnck, midway lietween
the stations, ho pulled out hia wallet
and paid hia fare. This little episode
gave him a new insight into his son's
character, and lie forthwith commenced
casting about for somo business occu
pation for him.
A Pat Uejolnder.
At Oxford, some twenty years ago, a
tutor of one of the colleges limped in
his walk. Stopping one day last sum
mer at a railway station, ho was accost
ed by a well-Kiiown politician, who
reooguized him, asd asked him if he
was not the chaplain of —— College at
such a time, naming tho year. The
doctor replied that lie was.
"I was there," said the interrogator,
ami knew £ou by your limp."
"Well," ,said the doctor, "it seems
my limping made a deeper impression
than my preaching."
"All, doctor," was the reply, with
ready wit, "it is the highest compli
ment wo can pay a minister to say tbut
be is known by his walk ratber than by
bis conversation."
Accepting a Nomination.
We uever accepted a nomination to
the Legislature but once. A political
friend of ours named Felteis said the
community demanded that we should
run, and we consented. Fetters man
aged the whole thing. Upon the even
ing of the day ou which the convention
adjourned, Fetters cams around to tell
us that an enthusiastic constituency
k was about to aercuade, aud in a few
moments a brass baud arrived, accom
panied by fifty or sixty politicians.
The music lasted for au hour. Then
Fetters said we must ask the liand and
the ouiupsny in to have some re fresh
men ts ; ami we did. Fetters had pro
vided a wagon load of things, including
the must sxpeiiaive kinds of wines by
the gross.
We could not snfflcisutly admire the
large-hearted lilteraiity of Fettera. The
company sat down to the banquet until
four o'clock in the morning, the poli
ticians making speeches and the baud
every now and then playing in the
dining-nsou, and waking the baby and
the neighbors, and rattling the very
shingles on the roof loose with its
yociferouaneaa. At half-past four the
company was in such a riotous condition
that we weut out to hunt for a police
man. When we returned the leader of
the tuuid was sitting upon the stairs
with the handle of au uu#irella in his
month, vainly endeavoriug to play
" Hail to the Chief " with hi* fingers
fumbling among tko ribs. ♦
Fetter* waa in the corner supporting
hmox-lf by the wall, while hi* endeavor
ed to discuss the tariff question with
our bust of Duivl Webster, and to cor
rect Daniel's views of the localwiptton
law. The man who played the cymbal*
waa crying on the mat at the parlor
dour because, aa be informed iu, hi*
wife's maiden name waa Mri'arthy,
while the leader of the deb-gallHu in
the convention waa lying in the piano,
the top of which waa rained, beating
time with hi* heel* on the aoundiug
board and string*, and whooping to
" the lniya " tliat Uiere ww " only one
more county to hear from !"
Wo let the lid down with a slain, and
that act tied htm ; and the policeman
came just a moment too late to prevent
a fight between the baaa drummer and
the trombone man, daring wbieh the
bald bead of the drummer waa bolted
through our only pier glass, and waa
then dragged out to bleed over the
carpet The company left finally at
aix o'clock. We Ix-giu to have duubta
ntxjut the adviaability of running for
the logislatare.saul these were increased,
when Fetter* called around at noon
with a bill of twelve hundred dollar*
for expense# of the baud and for re
freshment*. That act lied it We had
thought the n-renaJe a compliment,
and the *up}*cr'a little treat from Fetter*.
We did uot run for ligulature then,
and it I* probable we never shall ;
cerUinly not while serenading by braaa
band* uiuat be endured by candidate*
for the office.
lb-building the Column Vendeme.
The London Huildrr givea the first
definite information as to tlie progress
and difficulties of the work of recon
strurUng the column Yendome at Paris.
It appears that the masonry work is
•uly jnst Iwgun. Tliere ore more diffi
culties in the wsy of this part of the
undertaking than most unimtistrwl out
sider* imagine. It is imagined that the
foundation and pedestal base can be
built like an ordinary wall. That is
impossible. From motives of economy
it is iu tended to utilise the stonework
of the old column—at least all those
portions of it which have not been ex
cessively attenuated or defarmed by
the demolition. Two-thmla of the ma
terials can be so used ; the remainder
of the work will have to be executed aa
at the first erection of the column. But
even among the two-thirds judged ser
viceable there are only two steps abso
lute!? intact The others require to be
repaired, and will be replaced or re
minted by means of cement in the
Place Vcndome itself. But this repara
tion is not the most difficult operatic u.
Tlie interior of the column is formed
by hugs square blocks of atone, pierced
at intervals with large holes, into which
are soldered cramp-irons that hook the
outer bronze plates by a species of
horseshoe eyelet attached to the inmost
surface of the plates iu the foundry.
The problem to be solved now is oqe
fact that requires the nicest precision.
The completed column will be sur
mounted uot by the little hare-legged
Cicanr, placed tliere in 19M-66, but the
old staute. relegated to Courbevoie, of
the Emperor in gray redingote and jack
IKMIU, with the arm crossed iu the
legendary attitude. The statue ia con
siderably injured, but not irreparably.
The new colnmn is not likely to be ootn- !
plcted before the end of the'yoa*.
*
High Farming.
A noted farmer of New England,
after visiting England and examining
with tbe eritical eye of a practical and
experienced agriculturist the system
produced there, he says :
" 1 am thoroughly "confirmed in my
old faith that the only good farmer of
our future is to be the ' high farmer.'
Thera is a widely prevailing antipathy
among the oomroon farmers of our State
against not only the practice of high
farming, but against the use of the
phrase by agricultural writers. This ia
all wrong, aud should at once be cor
rected. Through aome misconception
of the meaning ->f the phrase, and also
of its application, they have come to
believe it aynonvmoua with theoretical
• book farming,' * new-fangled notions,'
boasted strides of progress, followed
hv disappointments and final failure.
TW ia all an crrar. High farming
simply means thorough cultivation,
lilieral manuring, bountiful crops, good
stock, good feed, and paying profits
therefrom. It is not strange that mis
conceptions have arisen in the minds of
doubting farmers who have been eye
witnesses to some of the spread-eagle
experiments of enthusiastic farmers,
Iwtter supplied with money obtaimd in
a business they know how to manage
than with practical experience on the
farm. Bountiful crops and paying
profits of oournc aro aliat all farmers
who are dependent upon the farm for
an income are striving to obtain ; and
every year as it passes is reconfirming
the op'iniou thst the profits are small,
and will grow 'benatifully less ' where
high farming ia not practiced.
Cards Exchanged.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Avrrtiter
savs: A young la ly of this city who
bail just returned from school, sent her
card to her uncle, onr old friend Colonel
O——• M—- —, with the letters R. 8. V.
I*. inscribed in oneoorner. The Colonel,
who didu't understand "R. S. V. P.,"
and who didn't oore a darn if he didn't,
sent hit card in reply—inscribing the
letters D. S. C. C. in the corresponding
corner. These were new initials to the
young lady, and when she met the Col
onel, asked what he meant by such out
landish initials?
"What do you mean by yours?" que
ried the Colonel in respouso. "Oh! I
meant that you mast answer if you
couldn't come. Now what did you
moan?" "Me ! Why, I meant—that is
the letters meant—'Darned sorry
couldn't opuie.Wasn't that correct?"
The youug lady was fairly cornered and
gracefully "acknowledged the oorn."
Term*: 02.00 a Year, in Advance.
About A Wedding Fee.
A matrimonial engagement has for
aoute tune existed between a young gen
tleman from a Western city and a young
lady of considerable personal beauty,
the daughter of a widowed mother. It was
arranged between the parties interested
that the engagement should terminate
<a all matrimonial engagement* ought
to terminate) in a wedding—Wednes
day, April 2, being fixed up for the
ceremony. The prospective bridegroom
arrived from the West last week aud on
Monday called upon the rector —there,
we might have said clergymen ami made
the thing a little more indefinite, the
term " clergyman" being applied to
all denominations, bat we have aaid
" rector " we'll stick to it aud repeat—
he called upon the rector of one of our
Kpiacopal churches to engage kw vervioe
for the h#ppy ucoawou.
" I want to tr.- married," Mid the
young man, " aud I waut you to marry
me."
The rector nodded aast-tit.
" I waut to be married on Wednes
day anvwhere from eleven to twelve
o'clock," aaid the young man.
" Very well," aaul the rector. "We
bava a service in the church from ten to
eleven, aud there is to be a wed
ding in the church noon after. You
can le married at eleven o'clock if
you like, or you can wait til] quarter
past eleven or so, following the other
wedding." .
"All right," aaid the young man,
" quarter past eleven, half past eleven,
any where aloug there. Time for a little
spirad afterward*, you kunw, aud then
take the noon train. Call it quarter past
eleven."
"Very wall," said the rector, "at
quarter past eleven it shall be."
" And now," said the young man,
" what 11 it cost. 1 want to do these
thing* all up teforrhand you know."
" Oh," said the rector smiling,
•• that's a matter that's left entirety with
the parties interested. It's purely a
gratuity." i
" But," aaid the young man, "I want
to know. Anything that's right yon
know. How much is it?"
"Anything," said the half-amused,
balf-diaguated rector, "anything or
nothing."
" But," persisted the young gent,
" what do you usually get f •'
"Well," "aaid the rector, "I have had
five dollar* and 1 have had fir* hundred
dollars."
" Whe-e-ew!" ejaculated the young
man. Then he drew out hit porkeflook,
opened it, took out a rooi of bitla and
drew up to a table, spread out the mon
ey and ootnmeuood counting off:
•■Five!"
lie looked suggestively up at the reo
tor. but the rector aaid never a word.
"Ten!"
He looked up at the rector again. No
response.
"Ftftcpo!"
Anotbar glance at the restor, who
held hi* pence.
"Twenty!"
Another glance, full of anxiety, at the
rector, but not a muscle of the clergy
man's face moved.
"Twenty-fiver
"There!" aaid the young man, push
ing the money toward the rector; "there,
it's all nght; you are to marrr ua."
The rector bowed, and the young
man departed.
So far. fact. Now for a brief space
supposition. It ia snjipoaed that the
bridegroom expeetastweut to his future
bride and her mother ami related 4h
particulars of bis interview .with the
rector, telling the amount of Her he paid.
The mother has the reputation of being
decidedly close iu money matters and
disposed to drive sharp bargain*, and it
is snppesed aha was horrified at the ex
travagant expenditure for a wedding
fee, and made up her mind that it moat
be got back again into the family.
So much for supposition; now, for
fact again.
Tlie next day, Tuesday, the rector re
ceived a message from Mr*, (there, we
came very near saying it right out!)
from the mother, requesting him to call"
on her at her ho—, Boarding place we
mean—thatisnt ao definite. The rector
complied with the message, and on pre
senting himself, the mother ejaculated,
"Oh, Dr. , we find that my daugh
ter must be married at haU-paat ten."
" Impossible 1" aaid the reetor; " I
have a service from ten to eleven, the
church is occupied, and it would be en
tirely wrong and unheard of to give up .
a regular church service for a wedding.
Imp.su.ible!"
" Well," said the mother, " the wed- 1
ding must take place at half-past ten,so I
I don't see but that we must get some-1
bodv else."
"Very well," said tbe rector, " then I
don't sue that there is anything left for
me to do but to say ' good morning;' "
and he took up his hat and started to
go.
As he went, the bridegroom prospec
tive, who was present, rushed up to him,
seised him by the arm. and said with
anxious alarm depicted in every feature,
"Hee here ! I'm going to see you again,
ain't 11"
" I guess so," said tbe disgusted rec
tor. and departed.
On coming home the rector enclosed
tbe f~-> in an envelope, directed it to
" Mr. , care of Mrs. " (was
t lie re tbe least bit of sarcasm in tbe
" car* of Mrs. f") and acnt it by a
clerical friend, who waa visiting with
him, to the boarding place, with in
structions to deliver it personally. The
messenger hod no sooner deported than
there came to the door a colored waiter,
1 tearing a note, with tbe verbal roea
*" Wants an an sab. sah; right off."
The rector opened the envelope and
found s missive from the young man, as
follows:
• iior, , please send that $25 im
mediately."
The rector sat down at his desk and
wrote:-
"Sin—lf yon had waited a few mo
ments you would have been spared the
trouble of seudiug for your mohey. It
lias already been retiarned.
Ho directed the note to *' Mr. ,
care of Mrs. —, Jd the servant took
it in charge.
The parties were married the next
day (Weducsday) by another clergy
man. And there are those who would
give a dollar to lutow how much the
clergyman who did the business got for
his fye.
Educational.
Tlie report ef the West Point Board
of Visitors directs attention to a fact
which ought not be lost sight of. It is
that out of 134 appointees for the posi
tion of cadet examined during the year,
forty-nine, or rather more than one
third, were rejected on the litsrary ex
amination. The Board attributes this
rather surprising result to want of
thoroughness in the primary education
of the United States, and very properly
nrges it upon the attention of the eohool
boards, sujierintendents, and teachers.
The preliminary examination of candi
dates for admission to the Military
Academy is of the most elementary
kind, and it shows the existence of
very serious defect* in the educational
system, on which the country spends
so much, that thirty-five per cent, of
the young men selected for cadets
should be so glaringly deficient in the
simple rudiments of knowledge.
NO. 38.
Tbe Ha!lM at PriffM. t l
r Friday U tbe Tnrkiah Babbstb, says
> out win) waa witb Own. HhermaS'a party
• in Lh Old World some year* pgo, anil
, upon that day tit* HulUn go** to *uae
> one of hi* numerou* mo*quea U aay hi*
i prayer*. Thia i* a reremoay Attended
r , with much pomp. The m<>*q4e *-I*b(-
. ; <*< l during OM of the Friday* of (Jan.
Hhrrtnaii * vudl waa <m the !ia*pborui,
ij on the l'rraaide. Hearing that Own.
i j Hherman and party were dadroo* of
i witnessing the orremony, hi* Majesty
, ' rati and to be plaoad at their dbpoaal
i hia ktoak, ahu-h waa naar the moaqae
i he prt>po**d visiting, a email house,
11 beautifully furnished, from which he
I j uaualiy wiUkmmmml msuumvrcf of the
■ troop* on the parade-ground near by.
• When the party reached the kio*k they
> found drawn up in two lines, feeing in
ward, about 2,000 tufaiitrr and the
• i officer# of the imperial household, all in
' full uniform, awaiting the finlua"* ar
| riral, who waa to come froth hi* palace
in one of hia eeiquea. The tej* of tha
• • moaqua waa oovetwd with earjiet, aa
■ waa alao tha landing by tha wMor. At.
noon a gun gave the aignal of, the Hul
i tan'* departure from (be palace, and a*
> I the procession Approached the ship* of
■ war in tha harbor they fired aaliite*, eo
i that the noiae of the artillery became
r deafening, and echoed and re-echoed
• along thu hilla of the horua First
r appeared around the turn a caique
rowed by about twenty oaiu,<-a, in
, which tat an official, who jjmp<-d quick -
, ly from the caique on the landing, and
i j the l>oat then paused on.
11. Thia waa followed by another in like
! order, and then came the Sultan, who
aat under a handsomely embroidered
i velvet canopy surmounted by the cres
cent Hia caique wae rowed by about
, thirty oanunen, who wwe dtf-***d in
> white clothing, made out of a vwypret
|ty material aeen at Constantinople.
Their arm* were here from the elbow*,
i aa were their Vega from the knee*. In
II rowing they roe# from thek aeate in
reaching to the stroke, took one atej.
: forward, and at the moment of pulling
i > bowed very low, settling in to (hetr neata
aa the atroke became exhausted. The
caiques were white, with gilt ornamcn
-1 talion. A* soon aa the Bulta'* caique
appeared the troop* presented arm*,
and remained in that positicai. A* he
landed the officer* of the botirefcold all
.looped, placing the right hand to the
ground, then on their hip*, then on the
top of titrir head*—thua indicating that
: they picked up the dirt. The Haitian
' waa* in uniform, and on hia Igeaat wore
hi* order*. As be paaaed by the troopf ,
i they cheered, and while holding the
muaket* at a present in the left hand/
saluted with the right Aa the Sultan
came near tha kiosk be looked up at the
' windows where were the General and
party, and after he had entered the I
moaqae, sent his Lord Chauoellof to
inquire if they were comfortable. Paaa- !
ittg into the aoaqne, the trxegs and the
attendants swaitod him outside. Some
of the attendants worn green gold-em- 1
brotdered lm-nes, other* purple.
' 'i ■■ ■ ■ <1 imi 11 i * u* in I *
Five Bar* Without Food.
The aehooner William A. P>ur, of !
Cape Ann, which arrived from (lie;
Grand B*akn brought in two of the
crew of schooner Lewis, of Marblehead j
j Wiliiam Ward and Lawrence Mul-1
cshy—who left their vessel on the fid of <
' Jnly to visit their trawl, and a thick j
fog setting in they were nnabla to regain
her. The schooner subsequently j-i
turned to port, and the men turn given,
np aa kL The men state that for five
day* the fog waa eo dan** it wa* im- J
possible to see but a very shift distance j
around them. They made every effort ,
' to regain the vessel, bnt without sue- j
ores. They frequently heard the whis- j
tic* f steamer*, bnt never asw one ;
and their sufferings for the want of food
and drink wars must < icrnting. On '
, the fifth day tbav were *1KIII to giro
up in despair when the fog lifted, and *
to their joy they described a vessel in
the distance. "This gsve (hem new •
courage, and determining to make one ,
mors efiVwt for their Uvea, they rowed '
for the echooncr and soon succeeded in t
making thcmarlvaa aeesu Tim sehooner j
proved to be the William A. and a j
float waa aooti sent to their assistance.
They were taken on board in a very ex- >
hausted condition, but with careful j
nursing and kind attention from the '
captain and crew, thay were Soon mi
tbe mending hand, although they atill
j *how the effect* of the terrible ordeel
through whieh they passed. When
they arrived horn# at Marblehead they
were welcomed aa those only can be !
who bad been given up aa dead. . j
w York Hoot and Shoe Market.
Trad* is fairly active in nil depart- ,
, menta. and some of too leading houses >
are doiug a driving business. Bnrers J
are here in goo.! force from tha South
' and West, and realise the fact that tlie j
; vnpplv of goods ia not *o largo but that
( there' may he soma a.(vantage now in i
hurrying up their purehnsee. , Evenr i.
section of the country i* represented,
and everywhere in the distributing mar
keta it appear* that supplies have hem
allowed to ma down-Very kiw. Thia,
with tbe fact that leather baa com
menced to advaaee, enable* dealers
readily bo-obtain full price* fur their i
I good*.' Buwm. fido.jarw in rather good
[Kiaition to purchase, as. the very care- '
ful policy which has been so generally
followed* during the past year baa deft j
tbetn with lower net** to meet, and the
average condition of the crops in all the
agricultural districts rather above |
what it waa anticipated they would be
two rnontha ago.
In the fine goads trade the rush ia
eqnally great, and New York manufac
turers, who hove a reputation all orep
the country, have never before seen so
marked a preference (or their goods, or
been favored with no many orders so
early in the season. There is sh active j
competition, but the quality of the .
1 goods made is so closely defined that j
buyers art willing to uay for every j
speersl titotUftM) in stock or taSnufao-1
turc whieJils put forward, so that nearer ;
every house has some distinguishing ;
fonturc In its goods which holds a cer
tain line of trade. 1 t .1,1
>.. - A i: ..il ' ~ 1
A Trawl JfeL
The trawl net ia a very simple contriv
ance when it ia well understood: and,
by your lee ye, I will try and make its
const mot ion plain to you, Imagine an
ordinary seine, fioopea up St. the cor
ners . "Funnel shame, or rather in the
form of a cone sUoca in two, the mouth
of the apparatus ia kept open on one
aide by a pole some ten or twelve fqe|
long, called the " trawl beam,' which
flouts uppermost when the pet is down 1 ,
while the lower side is weighted with
a thiek heavy piece of hawser styled
the ** ground" rope," around which the
meshes of the net are woven. A bri
die or " martingale" unites Uie two
ends of the trawl beam, ; • To ffiis is
attached a double sheaved block,through
which runs a hundred and fifty fathofi)
rope, capable of bearing a benvy strain,
end in hauling ip which great' nicety
must be observed, as the slightest hitch
or deflection will cause the beam to
turn the wrong way, when (he net gets
Von her back," as tha fisher folk say,
all your catch being simply turned
out into the " vasty deep," apd your
case resulting 111 that tif -" love's labor
lost. "—Belaravia.
ehsww of
t rogir
What did a blind wood-sswyer take
to restore his sight ? He Matt lis homo
Ohlorofornt *. • |K{ >vTJp n t from •
"•garment or ela9MH|m # ,WMk beuaol fit
1 bisulphide of oarbonTails,
t A rpoeol .wriint.Mpptfifirm the fear
that the art of sf*<. ii'>tan
j lial houana is /'
It is a mi slake UfenfttfiM Ahat thay
who
believe every wordrtas HT W
A boy eleven l A
111. gathewf t'',; 1 *> ft#'" ST
from an aoaa field, sad goi tor it.
Mis. a tl. Anthwft
of tbe Pullman car* *Jler-d UfPull-man
and woman, OirTtitt issaspsMi ve-of-aa
' nam" ri t
!; A boiler in the Si Maurice Lumber
, I CotfipAuf* miUwif4ode<!. The flremaa
wm ktltdd anfcirtise eth,|mr or lees
i, injured,
> i about half the otimber being in Phils'
f delpMs. *\l tl |t HOMI
A ami ahaetmg ia tH" P*'**
waru nntj paa r* •-ntly attacked by
■ minks, pud only Mter a aevara
nmfi are setheneea to a vaaFs tmpmon
, meni
Tha divetaifiqd industry fd Mew Eng
land finds s repreeenfntfroin tbe Dea
' bury m*. who repairs jewfitry. bleeds
horses and dig* wdlk."
Humor hw *H ber ihoaftsfKfi tongue*
cmplovcd in amaring us tbak naxt win
-1 tor will b one of thh most brilliant
1 New York few ever ream.
A boy in D*obnry after being bitten
hy s horse was asked by a geiitU-ma# if
he wa* much huit, rertted that " tha
horse waa only fooling."mu ,
Hum is ah UngalMnt ecSntrv. There
the Awt wile map be. difaroed, and
i after that T wife may be sold for
cash or traded fnr'a yellow Nog.
Appearance* art that purple will be
the prevaabng color hi street coetumee
thw aeaeoo, juat .aa fwrown waa last
spring and rifle-green last whiter.
In the Sad Pnaieiaro city prison, re
cently, a cherry root pipe waa discov
ered tfi oooof the walla, fa tha stem of
which war* cuaesalkil tow fine steed
saws 1J ~' l
! The Vcrmoei Central H. R- fureiabea
aevaral tot tha rendiMhpr* and engineers
with firat-claaa ,|ip|clin*,, costing filfiO
each, and they are charged ia those who
bold therm. '' Ir ' ' <■
1 A Trenten f MieMfirl f IHstmm, tbo
! other day, jumped J/ou* the cars while
under full motion, and pitied herself
np and climbed a roil hates before the
. traip could bf stopped.
' Tl cre fa's KriM* made of
ibamitoo. It M a single apiui of fiO feet,
. 10t' feet above tbe water, and without
nulling. It that tor
| Giro your raaoer ereoik for soma
. little inteUigencc-yfpr at least enough
to know when a Word need* to be mo
' phaerxod without hamng tha fact thnu'i
down hi# fihwnt by a Lpav squad of
reeling italics. ' .
A mlisea of Hai4fcL <k, raeenUy
left a aom tot mewoy. the interest of
whieh in to he t xpeoded M* providing
the inhabitant* ef the crty poor boose
with a dinner ettrf Haw Tear's aa4
Thankagivmgday, f , .„,%
1 -The frog neada no ether or ehioro
fonp to keep him <i?tie: sfrsng* to ey,
a dip in li^weariJvittW*for half a
Din uto>'arid ho cempletalg deprive a
pay be cut to
pieces and feel nd palh. '
i A New York !*wyr'tesile a telling
I point foe htv eheut WheO he said that he
did notAeep a oMkMT Wltbin
the meaning ot tbe because in
! stead 6f torii plavtag •• a game of
f ohanm thry piaynd *A,?'A deed sure
, thing." , . .
XUnv of tile cops sbottf Cairo and
vicinitV aiV 'goiiis? WtwA. temporarily,
! however. The oauseua thppght to be a
SB
face of the cwtale,-hkilfl hunting the
gnaaon the ooewnqy*-, y
I ,-r htr in tbfi •gaewahi'dominkma.
| m No." said.tbe l&oiam Vty youkaow
the reason why ? asketl John. "Be
1 cause God It'-afrald WfirtwAlui English
man in the dark," wew the savage's
I t 1 i Pxl. •dT
The Clinton (Ma) Adromte aaya
' there are foore YartfoWMMkd just now
1 than wa* wear know* before. Some
gentlpmea **>• mm .i*^ .
spades but the "Jack,* or meed any
1 earn except ih a ifloSa,' m* now claim
ing to bam been JU/aiuag agricultu-
A man has e-mrr'H.-J suicide off
Bhsk*peare*e ClW.'fifi Jfir. When a
third of thw wad wp. thfi clif ha aat do wn
| on tbe grass, and after taking off hi* hat
Sut two large atones anffS feirdin it, lay
rrwii on tha edmeoli Mte ebli; oovwred
hie (ace pith hmhfiplv,*? ""fl
sideways.
Tmom do not like Strong snd fragrant
odors, iueh, as.la vender, mode and
tlivffie! of chloride of
s lima wi# awe) Ahem from rooms, but
carpets atioufl be taken up and shaken
' and (he fldart%aehedTKffiV solution of
the <dsg. < CjßJL)oUelaoi poP is the
Orlame i* veijifmid pl..hw btUe girL
i Indeed, such is the stfrffigA of her m
1 tern*! aSbcttdn thai nothing but a fi
nance*! induce her
to part with the chifi, ,
A Frenchmen bcttfg al>bSi\ to remove
hie 'shop, bib' I lSW<llenl'fiiqiiired the
reaaoa. Stating at, (h( it ,
vea, hfi'e were good nta%dk>r de buai
neaa.. for oobodj
come to make me piovc.
An Imperial okMedirtsimisaion, in
elndtng tlie isaMtiliaptlriant scientific
authorities sgx .Uiq,pn I^t{cj|in Northern
and Houtherh Qermauv amoig its mem
bers, has foWl efSfced in Ber
lin. It ia otarfioditg 4&F HP * P 1 *"
for inquiring into the nature of the dis
ease. It is also to com*#? digest and
criticise all thw seSeatiflb evidence pro
vided. x'} ~' nu ol Kinullg
: It ia kld .of. % young gentleman whom
a maided liked, bdtVMther didn't,
thst at ft resaonShle>koaeUhe old gent
mildly tnt#kri)i>(# t\ m ® for **"
tiring had arrived. . ,'L think you are
correct, inr deSf -im(V , " u ßffcwered niue
teeuth century, aaodestifl "we have
fattier retired thettghkfuWg
A clergymsly veht.liia!Oßuie through
some, ptrauge vii'issitqjjta-'of life, was
charged at the HirkepUHd (England)
Police Owfrt, UiW CfiSrtb idMs with having
titoea feand; ittU*#i.ifci>J|fld at West
Kirba. The prison* WLbeen at one
titoe Hectbir r oT' Larleftbr n. and he
Stated that, Vhneaghlanialng specula
he could get nrtddbg-'ldidfi? and he waa
uow reduced kotti¥tdiWiP° °* *J*-
&iM w rfercd tto
k ' l 'A iduring a
recent thunder-itioktctiSebil City, Pa.
The lightning struck jm fi u*tank, eaps
ble of boldiog lOJwto 1 .juf-ds of oil, but
oddtritiifig'abdtal AKIW I * l the time of
the 1 ocemjeaw. TfiPlfrfitti sbnick the
top, cutting off iheihkalklflf every bolt
that lastonpd s*£})& T{ie
top was raised about two feet by th®
coucusSfou.-jfofi tffdclfi W* fire, send,
ling the imn*epilhfidji'llfe#f me in
fire inside. <frtie<oi!ilafcM*ofl the out
side of nft-jfqrther dam
age was done. The covet was not two
1 ihehorl Ww itir orig Hrt*ffetition after
its fall.