THE YEAR THAT'S GONE,
Pown the dark vale of the past,
Backward memory's glance is cass,
O'er the days that fled so fast,
In the year that's gone; —
Fled for aye, each truant day,
In the year that's gone.
Fairy islands, bright and green,
On life's desert waste are seen;
But dark waters intervene
"Twixt the Now ani! Then,
Shining brightly in the light
Of the year that's gone,
Joyous spring with budding flowers,
Dancing through the forest bowers,
Headless was of Time's fleet hours,
In the year that's gone;—
Gipsied wild that happy child,
n the year that’s gone.
Many were the castles bright,
Peopled with fair forms of light,
Elfin kings and fairies sprite,
In the year that's gone;—
Bo sweet visions, that they fled
In the year that's gone,
Moming fragrance early shed!
Childhood's dear hopes bere lie dead;
Youth's wild dreams will soon have fled,
With the year that's gone;
But e'er bright in memory,
It sLall have a throne!
SRS AIR
THE TIDAL TRAIN.
There was a great rush for the tidal
train that morning from Paris. It start. |
ed at a very convenient hour, 9.40, and |
was patronized by a crowd of people,
As the time for departure approached, !
there was the usual outery for seats, |
The French officials, if asked, shrugged |
their shoulders and pointed to the |
nearest carriage; what they meant was, |
that there was still room to spare if |
people did not cover np extra seats with |
their belongings, and so monopolize |
more than their share. Late arrivals |
turs neglected wandered miserably up |
aud down the whole length of the train,
sveking sccommodation excitedly, and |
i. vain,
Among the rest were two ladies, one |
of whom, the elder, seemed greatly
flurried and put out. “I knew how it |
would be,” she cried, in a despairing
voice, ‘‘every seat is occupied! What
shall we do? why were we so late?”
She was a middle-aged, somewhat
plethoric-looking dame, with an air of
much importance, marred for the mo
moment by helplessness and ill-teraper, |
**We shall find places presently, dear
Lady Jones,” replied the younger, who
had the rather sycophantic air of a hum-
ble friend. ‘The guard will help us,”
“They never do, and they don't un-
derstand. Dear, dear! why didp’t we
come in time? It was all your fault
Hester” —this to the maid who followed |
them: as they ranged backward along
the platform—*‘you ought to lave
packed last night, What shall we do?
Ob, thank you so much!” she cried |
suddeniy, with effusion, !
A reutleman, who apparently had
been watching her distress, pushed
opeu the door of the carriage he ocen
pied and invited her to enter, His
companion, another man at {Re far
end, made room by removing rugs and
rags, and presently Lady Jones, with a
sigh of relief, sank back into the
cushions, Then with feminine selfish-
ness, and forgetful of the trouble she
had just escaped, she proceeded to pre |
vent any one else from getting in.
“Cover up the seats well, Millicent,
sbe cried, ‘and do keep the door shut.
Oh, thank you, sir,” she added to one
of the men, who secmed to fall in
readily with ber idea of keeping the
carriage ww themselves,
There was nothing very remarakble
about Lady Jones’ new-found friends.
One was a tall, dark man, with a elean-
shaved face, and very dark eyes which
giared out from under the shade of
black felt hat; the other was smaller—s
restless little freckled faced man, with
a short red heard cut and trimmed to a
point. They did not look Ike English-
men; but they spoke tue langnage
fluently with a slight accent, i
The firm, somewhat fierce demeanor |
of the dark man had the desired effect, |
When he said abruptly, “Il n'y pas de |
place,” people retired discomfitted, and
a8 time was nearly up, Lady Jones |
began to hope that their privacy and |
comfort would not be disturbed. Almost |
at the last moment a mau came to the |
door, importunate and persistent,
“Any room?” he asked in English, as |
hé stood on the doorstep. Then get. |
fing no answer, he repeated the ques- |
tion iu French. ‘How many are you?”
8till no answer; so he counted for him-
self, and went away,
Lady Jones was delighted; bat her
trinmpl was of short duration. The |
last srrival camo back ai once with a
whole posse of French officials at his
baok the chief of whom, in a voice of
authority, repeated the inquiry,
“How many are you?" Four? More to
come? Impossible! The train is start-
ing, Entrez, movsier; entres, yite;”
and the next minute the stranger was
bundled into the carriage, the door was
shut with a bang, the horns sounded,
and the train went off at express Sus L
The occupants of the carriage, Lad
Jones in particular, resented this ns
ceremonious intrusion,
*“Extraordi I" she said, in a loud
tone, aside to Millicent, ‘‘People never
know when they are in the way.”
“So forward and presuming!” replied
the young lady,
“In my country,” said the dark man,
“men never intrnde themselves on
ladies. ‘LUhey wait to be asked.”
“We have a very short way of set-
tling with them if they do,” added the
short man, offensively,
“And pray what do they do with
them,” as the last comer, quietly,
He was cool and self-possessed, with
a broad face framed in by square-eut
grayish whiskers, His upper lip was
clean-shaven, showing bis firm, rather
hard mouth, ahd a. Dg I were
steady snd perotrating. Not a man to
be triflel with, in apite of hs calm
MARGE and unobtrosive demeanor,
“Wiat do you So pestis. Shompl ih
repeated, ey ard at the ivsolent
hittie red man.
‘Vitel them out of tie window, or ob
to the lines,”
“Would you like to do it now?” said
the other,
*B: quiet, Thaddy,” interposed the
dark man; ‘‘remember there are ladies
present.
“Don’t mind me, gentlenwn, if you
¥
drm #
wish to give him a lesson,” said lady
Jones, who had espoused the part of
her first friends,
The Englishman looked at her rather
keenly, but made no remark. Nor, al-
though they continved to talk at him
and abuse him for the next half hour,
did he take any further notice of them,
but read a novel attentively which he
had extracted from his little black bag,
By the time they reached Amiens, quite
a pleasant intimacy had sprung up be
tween Lady Jones and the two men.
The four went to the buffet and break-
fasted together, Returning to their
carriage thoy found that the English-
man had disappeared, so they made
merry at his expense,
But they had not done with him yet.
He was there on the quay as the train
ran alongside the Boulogne steamer;
they A es again on board with his
Iittle hand-bag, snd always calm and
imperturable, Only once did he betray
the slightest emotion; it was when a
man came up to him as he stood near
the funnvel, and, with an almost imper-
ceptible salute, addressed him as Mr,
Hopkinson,
*‘Hush, you fool!” he replied, an-
grily. “Don’t mention names here,”
“It was too late, however; many of
those around had heard the name, and
among the rest the two men, who were
smoking close by.
*‘Come aft, Thaddeus!” whispered the
“Ind you hear that name?”
“I did. It must be that murdering
villain himself,”
“And you, you fool, to get quarreling
with him in the train!”
“Do you think he has his eye on
or
“You may take yout oath of that,”
“What in the name of conscience
shall we do!”
“Leave it to me; I have a dodge, if 1
us
The steamer being very crowded,
a good place. Bat, thanks to the at-
tention of her friends, Lady Jones was
made comfortable with rugs and wraps
near one of the paddle-boxes, while
Millicent and the maid sat close beside
ber, The vovage across the channel
was not good, and the ladies reached
Folkestone in a more or less battered
condition, Now the strangers, like
chivalrous gentlemen, came out in their
true colors, Nothing oconld exceed
their kimnduess, They took
and strap ap the rugs, and made them-
selves generally useful. Lady Jones
was 50 grateful and so charmed that she
begged them to call on her in Tiondon,
and gave them her address,
When the porters rushed on board,
Lady Jones desired one of them to go
at once and secure her carriage.
“Can't be done, mum,” he replied,
“All the things have to be examined
before they let us through to the train.’
“Absurd!” said her ladyship; ‘‘they
won't examine mine I am Lady
Jones."
But her ladyship was no better than
an ordinary person before the law, The
and, in spite of her protests, all her
small parcels and those of her party,
were faken into the search-room, and
laid out on the counter,
perious wave of the hand, an official
ordered her to follow them. To make
raatters worse, the quiet Englishman,
» whom she had been so rude in the
‘rain, was standing in the doorway,
talking to two other men, and lan ghing,
as she thought, at her distress.
For a moment her two friends were
nowhere to be seen.
“I never heard of such a thing!” she
said indigoantly to Millicent, as the
officcous searchers turned everything
out of her gold-mounted dresaing case,
and then proceeded to unroll the rugs,
**What do they take us for?”
“Everybody is treated alike, dear
Lady Jones. I suppose they are afraid
of Fenians, or dynamite, BOM
thing."
“It 1s preposterous, disgrascful!l Sie
John shall write to the papers—I beg
your pardon,”
This was to an official who
to her twice, “What i= this?”
A small parcel done up in stroog
brown paper securely tied acd sealed.
“I havent the least idea. Something
of my maid's or Millicent's—this young
lady here. I really cannot ray,”
~
Of
had said
customed garrulity, the custom honse
officer had already cut the strings, un.
done the parcel, and laid bare a small
plain tin case.
It had a lid, which was easily opened,
Insile were a number of A 4 of a
whity-brown, sugary-looking substance
which might bave been tenth-rate
choosiate or indifferently-made ‘toffee,’
“Some sort of sugar,” smd Lady
“It's just what 1 expected,” said a
Saunders, This is my affair,”
“What, Mr. Hopkinson, are you
here?”
“Very much on the spot this time, I
think, Mr. Saunders. Now, ma'am”
to Lady Jonrs—*‘where are your other
friends?"
“How dare you speak to mel” she
replied, hotly. recognizing her old
enemy of the tran, “I am Lady
Jones,”
“Ot course, all right” replied the
man called Mr, nson. “Bat
there,” he went on, haif to himself,
‘we don’t want any scandal or noise,
We might lose the others;” and with
that he whispered » few words to an
attendant, and drew back into the
crowd,
The examination of Lady Jones’ bag:
gage was completed, everything wae
re-packed, snd the party proceeded
toward the tran. Just sas they passed
the refreshment. a railway guard
eame np, and Boy ia cap, said
“I'he station master has reserved you
o£ VT RE
TA API
the station up the hill to Folkstone-
town, and Lady Jones, who was rap-
idly recovering her equanimity, after a
few ejaculations of delight at being
home again, composed herself to sleep
in the corner of the carriage.
But fresh annoyance was in stbre for
her. At Folkestone Tcwn station the
earringe was unlocked, and three men
got in; one of them, to Lady Jones’ in-
dignation and dirmay, was Mr, Hopkin.
son, with his black bag, which he kept
on his knee,
*“*You musn’t come in here,” she said
loftily; *‘this carriage is reserved spe-
cially for me, I am Lady Jones,”
**Oh, are you!” replied the other, “It
is time you should know who I am.
My hame—"
“1 am sure I don't care to know,”
‘My name is Hopkinson. 1 am chief
inspector of police from Seotland
Yard,”
“Well,” said Lady Jones, still bold,
but with much inward musgiviogs, “I
really do not understand!”
“By this time my men will have ar-
rested your
| friends who helped you in trying to keep
me out of the train at Paris, I knew
them all along.”
‘My friends! I never met them be-
fore this morning! Why, [ don't even
know their names!”
“That won't do, You know as well
as I do that they are Phelim Cassidy
and Thaddeus O’Brien, American Fe-
mans"
“Gracious Heavens!”
sttemped to convey dynamite into
der, in slabs too, for convenience in
packing.”
“I deny, most positively! I! I!"
‘‘Oase is too strong against you,
| Why, the stuff was found in your pos-
| session, and I have it here in my bag;
| enough to wreck the whole train,”
| Lady Jones shrieked,
“Do you mean to tell me that there
Oh,
i
i
{ 1s dynamite here in this carriage?
| do, please, throw it away!”
| “The concussion would certainly ex-
| plode it, and we should all be blown to
| kingdom come! Don't be frightened;
| you traveled with it all the way from
| Paris, and would have carried it on to
| London yourself,”
{| “I assure you I know nothingof this,
i I am Lady Jones, the wife of Sir John
| Jones of Harley street. Millicent, help
{ me to explain who I am.”
The detective shook his head doubt.
{ fully,
“It may be as yon say, but 1 don’t
| soe my way. Wait till we get to Lon. |
don, If you can prove your identity,
| at any rate you msy escape being locked
up; the magistrate may give you bail” |
With this cold comfort Lady Jones |
| had to be satisfied, and ip dire terror
| and discomfort she made the rest of
| the journey to London. Hopkinson, it
must be confessed, had alredy made up
| his mind that it was as Lady Jones had
{ said; but be chose to keep her in sus. |
pense,
On reaching Cannon street, the guard
| brought him a telegram. The detective
{ read it with strong symptoms of dis-
gust,
“Shpped through my flugers!
| when I thought I had them, too!
| the very mischief,
{ next?”
After a pause of deep thought he
turned saddenly to Lady Joaes,
“Do these men know your London
address? Yes? Well if vou will assist
wow, I thiok 1 ean promise that
nothing more shall be said about this
unfortunate affair. Bot first, you must
secret, silent as the grave, Can 1
trust yon? And ths young lady?
Millicent aod Lady Jones answered
4 in a breath, promising to be
circumspect,
“My idep now is that these men only
planted the siuff on you, hoping it |
would pass nunoticed; whether it did or |
| no they would know by the morcing
| papers, which would bes sure to publish
| an account of the seizure of dynamite, |
| Well,’ wont on the detective, “no one
must know a syliable of this; there
| shall be nothing in the papers or any
: To-morrow or next day they
Just
It's
What shall I do
Ha
be
Los
where,
will eall at your house to recover their
| small parcel explaining that it slipped
iu a.ong yoar rugs by mistake, If
they do, we have them; do you onder
stand? And will you help?”
Li dy Jones only too gladly assented
hat night the house in Harley stroet
| was practically in the possession of the
police. Sir John entered into the
| epirit of the thing; gave his hall-porter
a holiday, and instalied Hopkinson
disguised in his place, On the third
| day the dark man called, seut up his
| card, and was given the dynamite, As
| be left the house his companion joined
{ him, and both were arrested before
| they had turned the next corper,
trial, with the examination of Lady
| Jones, was one of the events of the sea-
ASN RO)
Words theEnglish Want.
No American can have traveled in
England without learning that its peo-
ple are no whit superior to ours in bear-
ing or in speech. Moreover their feel-
ing of complacency often deprives them
of the power of changing for the better
—that is, of learning. The nation that
Is insulur and provincial. American is
men seldom change except Ly forgeting,
Americans, during a ce tury, have
added hugdreds of needful \ords to the
language, What we ought to do is, not
and get more of them to fill up the
out such words as breadstufils, bakery,
(for gown), indo=se, fall (for autumn),
fix (for adjust), freshet, fleshy, hard-
ride (ride in a wagon), sleigh, smart,
span (for pair), stoop (for porch,) sparse,
store, ugly, (for cruel or cross), venison,
vest, woods?
These are all good, honest words,
that ought to be and will be retained
permanently in the language, yet none
{ of them are known in England in the
that have recently been adopted for
| convenience,
The English have no comprehensive
word meaning what our *“‘dry-goods”
| means, and they need one,
| ambigious word “print.”
| For “mirror” they alwayssay *‘glass”
| (“glaws”’), though, as there are a hun-
dred different kinds of glass, mirror isa
{ word they sorely need.
For “homely,” as apolied to the fea.
| tures, the English, always say either
“plain® or *‘ugly,” and deny the pro-
| priety of the meaning which Americans
| give to the word. But Americans are
right, “Homely" is exactly what they
want to say, for It means considerably
| more than “plain’’ and considerably less
i than *‘ugly.” The English have no
{ equivalent for it; hence, when they wish
to say that a lady 18 homely, they can-
not say it; they can say only that she is
“plain,” that is, that she has no positi
beauty, or that she is *‘ugly,” that is,
deformed or repulsive—and neither is
what they mean,
For *“‘loafer’ English always say
either “vagrant.” “vagabond.” or
“dandy,” and a loafer generally
neither, England has yusands
loafers, but one word to describe
them,
The
waist”
“body’ of her ‘‘gown,’’
tainly neither
tha
wie
is
Of
not
of
ak
oul of
English neve:
of a lady’s “dress”?
%
Ww
SD
wich is
Gore Corl BOT
For *‘burean’ they say
drawers,” which is employing «
cution in place of a name,
For ‘candy’ thevalways say *%
which is a similar subterfuge, using
ties of the article ¢
sy needfal
rool in
of the qua 11168
the whole thing itself. “Can Lid
word, but also (which is of
far less conseqgue it metymologically
accurate, finding Hs French,
italian, Arabic, Persian and Sanscrit.
For “bench’’ the English say ‘form.
It is a matter of
they always
va, prefera-
th words had
“trousers,’
re Decause shorter; In
tier be retain
For “hakers.” “lumber and “har
ware,’ they hiave wor
ix
givalent a%
whatever, and have to resort to plirases
anid sentences Ww indicate what thes
fea.
For ‘perfumery’ the Euaglish
scent.’ and insist that the long word
« preferred by Americans because they
are pedantic. Bat this charge of a
preference for big words is scarcely
borne but by the habit of Americans in
saying “‘help’’ Instead of ‘‘servants.’”
“boss instead ‘‘employer,” “shop”
instead of “masufactory,” “guess
instead of “‘conjectur,”” “spars justead
of “thinly populated,’ and, «bove ali,
‘fix’ instead of the Latin words “‘ad
just,” *‘repair,” or “renovate *’
The Revolutionary war is far off, and
travel has much mixed us ap, and
young men of enlbure m this country
seem to think it meritorious to uniearn
the vernacular and sabstitute English
words, It seems to me to be mere
flunkyism, without any
grace.
[n the application of word
Bay
inventions americans have shown them.
selves superior to the English, When
the first miiroad was bullt the English
the words already in use In stage-coach-
ing; while Americans adopted or invent-
things. For miiroad the English say
“railway’’ for depot, “‘station;” for
$
: | track, *'line;” for locomotive, “engine”
AA sist | (which is only part of a locomotive),
Ce s——— NI
to assist, and they were thus employed
for centuries, till long after Shakes-
peare’s time. ‘Charing Cross,” the
center of London. 18 a corruption of the
French ‘‘cher Reine’’—'‘dear Queen,”
The word clever, as still used collio-
quially in New England, is an admira-
our literature. It means more than
| good-natured-—it means unselfish and
obliging, as well as merely amiable:
land I hope to see it incorporated into
cultured speech and letters, It will be,
unless the dudes and snobs have their
own way, and we become once more
merely an outlying provinee of England,
“Smart” is another word which
| should be saved for a language not too
| prolific in synonyms. The word “‘talen-
| ted?’ does not cover its meaning at all:
| it makes a natural capability which can
be expressed by no other word.
Our language is sadly in need of new
| words,
| relations, new tendencies of thought;
and the refined slang and common
| speech of the United States constitute
| the chief fountain of its enrichment.
pany tells me, and I am glad to learn it,
that the new dictionary will contain
some hundreds, perhaps thousands of
aew words, notably Americanisms and
provinelalisms, which, by their usefal-
{ ness, have vindicated their right, This
15 an example of courage and discern-
| ment as well as public spirit, It will
| not answer for Englishmen to object
{ that a new word cannot be admitted as
proper till they see fit to adopt
{ That day has gone by forever, They
are outnumbered, and have ceased to be
| the official custodians of the common
| tongue, A majority of all English-
speaking people are now on the Western
Continent; in another generation three-
quarters of them will be here; and to
our progressive sche nd expert phy
silogists is allotted task of hence
forth guarding, improving, re enfore
and fertilizing the language, till it
make its triumphant way around
world and become adapted to all races
{ of men.
LATE §
the
ing
whail
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the
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A Freepo.Out,
: revenue
hritling
hits ago a
t.1, &
raiders 1
experiences sometim
parity of raiders wer:
ind North Georg
LY Was a very quie
voung fellow named
¢ party approacl
men
uve
ent 3
feet wide and
The night was or
¢ recent severe weather
3 bold dash toward
about fifteen
sv}
inches deep,
: § af tl
on the off
y intercept
side of the
him,
ane
both
he did so Leo
opposite bank, presented
and sad
“Halt!":
The
of the stream
“Don?
“Hell
®
monnshiover stopped in
dle
ran,” said Cape,
Leo.” observed the
ig half-waist
mone
deep in the
stiiner, andi
WALES,
“Hello, Mi
out and give up.”
“You come in and take
yy ok ¥ '
icy
wes,’ sald Cape, *“
ne
wis IF
me 11
then!”
“Well, stand n
“1*'11 do 11
“All right,” said Cape; “you'll stand
in that water and I'll stand ners, [ can
stand it if you can. ”’
The moonshiner a
chatter.
At last he sald
“leo!”
“Hey?”
“1°11 have to cave: I'm coming out."
**All right.”
And the blockader, shivering and
freezing, came up dripping from the
creek, and Lee marched him into eamp,
i
therel
teeth began to
fToarning Latin and Greek.
There can be no doubt that by the
| ing. the student might acquire an easy
| and facile use of those tongues in half
he time now spent in learning {0 read
the college Dons insist that the langua
ges are chiefly valuable as furnishing
But
Fut His Cont On.
Guy Tippleton is a great practical
| joker. At a country house, not long
| ago, when the ladies had retired for the
the smoking room.
“i say, Ewart,” said Tippleton, «I
think it’s very bad form of you com-
ing in here withon! taking the trouble
to go upstairs and change your coat, If
you do it again I oertanly shall have
those claw-hammered tails out off.”
Next evening the scene repeated
young Ewart strolls into the smoking
room with his dress coat on, Without
more ado Guy Jand a few congenial
spirits had young Ewart down on a
couch and out the tails off his coat,
took it very coolly. He strolled
the fire _ stood in the attitude,
indies alleged, to be the favorite
one of the male sex.
“You take it very philosophieally,”
said one of Guy 's frends,
“0,” replisd Ewart, “if doesn’t mat.
‘tor to me, It's not my coat; it's Tip-
I
w wo I jos n
room in passing and put his coat on,”
There was a roar of langhter, and to
do Guy Justios, ug one joined
in it more
ELA I
Tears are the shadows that fertilize
| this world.
t
|
for engineer, “driver; for car, “‘coacli;” | it may be saggested, as a4 point not
for conductor, “guard; for baggage, | often considered by either side in this
pe i controversy, that tbe practice of study-
inggage;"” for buying a ticket, which
is ny what it 1s, “Booking.” which |
is exactly what it is isn’t; for switch, |
“shunt,” merely a vulgar contraction |
of “shun it.”
In America letters go by mail; in
England they go by post verbal
survival from that early day when let.
ters were locked in a hole in a wooden
post and taken out and borne onward
by another. Both words are eorrect;
the choice, a matier of taste,
The word ‘guess’ is used ten times
as much here as in England. It is &
square, honest word, and should
not be shunned. English people sub.
stitute for it the long word “‘conjec-
ture’ or the flippant word “fancy,”
which is a cheap contraction of a Greek
original, and in no way preferable,
So is ‘notify’ a legitimate word, The
word ‘advise’ is always used instead of
it in England, but such use is ambigu-
ous by y for the word has
another and much more important
meaning. ’
I feel even like making a plea for the
word ‘clever’ in its American mgnif.
cation. Tie eritie nay sa Sh etymo-
logically it meant sk terous,
ingenious; but thousands of good words
are used in violation of their
inoaning. The word *““let” meant to
, and the word ‘prevent’ meant
itself is a clumsy inversion of the Youper
or
We do not make analysis of things not
yet in possession. We do not cook our
hare until we cateh it. Under the ex.
isting system a student 1s set to study
the niceties of Greek and Latin gram-
mar before he knows anything at all
about those languages, and there is
manifest absurdity in the method, how.
ever valuable such study may be when
properly pursued. It is lke setting a
child who has just learned to say
“mamma’ to consider the relations
between verbs and their nominatives,
or the methods of forming preterites,
it we oigil devise tho Ytte oF Byut
years of preparatory y in Latin
Greek, not to the grammar, but to the
work of acquiring the facile use of those
tongues, our Freshmen might then ra
tionaily and profitably take up the ana-
Iytical study of their grammatical strue-
ture. Ast is, we require our youth to
thd seven or eight years in studying
structural peculiarities of two lan
guages which we give them no chance
to acquire at any time
A cursing driver may spoil your team,
A Btrasge Acquaintances,
On a dark windy April night a car-
riage conducted by a sleepy coachman
and containing one passenger, passed
along a part of a highway which, bore
on the other by a deep declivity sloping
favorable for ambuscade, and where
attacks by armed men had already oc-
curred,
Suddenly, when least expected, four
ers. The attack was serious, the driver
ravine where he remained quiet, and the
passenger, attempting to defend him-
self, received a knife-thrust on his arm,
when he was saved by the un-hoped-for
a man who dispersed
unexpectedness of his share in the fray,
While the coachman regained his
“Young man, you have certainly
nize that service,’
“Thanks, sir; I have only done the
not do anything for me,”
“Perhaps you are mistaken without
being rich, I am well off, and."
“Thank you again, sir, but I repeat
it, you can do nothing for me.”
“Pardon me if 1 insist, my brave de-
liverer, bul you appear poor and suffer-
2: you have not enough clothing fo
this cold weather and
At least take a little
for something better.’
“1 will, but it is for
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yur face is pale,
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or
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another.
be here fo
when I was
yw did you Lappen to
help moment
about to be
“Oh! 1 i
he road—I heard a nois
ou know the rest.”
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you, and I wou '«
I followad
i hurried
y
» my life to
be of service
5 scarcely pr
But whol
i YOUur name
‘he traveler knitted }
remained silent,
“Did you hear mj
' Young man.
“Excuse me from
ny profession my name,’’ said
raveler, “Perhaps you would regret
having done me a service. But if yo
cannot come to claim my aid 1 can
always come you mine, Tell
me your game and residence.”
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telling you either
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me last look by
on the cart age
Couversation.
the road
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execution.
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Strange Peddie:
pausing near t 8
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And what has he done?
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am sure he did not
nas done nothing but
fellow, since he has been in prison.
At this moment the crowd became
excited. Here Le is] Here he isl" was
cry everywhere, All eyes were
fixedona li cart which slowly ad-
vanced toward the scaffold,
“lcan’t see! I want to see!” a child
Eel erving. The peddier raised him
very distressing, f
very good boy,
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The condemned man descended from
the cart. His head was veiled. His
confessor helped him to mount the fatal
steps. A large man dressed in black
had already preceded him there.
{dilence solemn and affecting.)
in the twinkling of an eye all was
ready. The executioner drew off the
black veil which covered the criminal’s
bead. Their looks met and both ap-
peared petrified.
“Hel”
*“Youl”
That lasted but two seconds. The
executioner grew suddenly haggard and
bent as under some invisible burden.
It was with a feverish and convulsive
movement that he made the fatal knife
fall,
From that day the executioner became
ancholy. . He gave up his position next
day, and, although not rich, he gave
brave man to moarn for his son.
AH AI IO
She Knows More Now.
A fashionable scciety girl married a
man who lived in a country town, and
as she really loved her husband, she
wanted to do all she could to please him,
says the Merchant Traveler. One day
she told him she was going to make
some nice home-made cider for him,
apd when he came home she had about
two bushels of little hard apples piled
up in the kitchen,
“Why, Mande!” he exclaimed, when
he saw them, ‘*what have you got here?”
“Apples, darling,” she ted, with
a smiling face,
“Where did you get them?” :
** Bought 0 of course, love."
“But what did you get such hard
ih
“Di you say you wanted me to
make you some home-made cider?” she
asked, with a trace of quiver in her
oy on, det, but these are not good
cid
**Why-—why--** she hesitated “you
sd you kd bad Shr, ad of cour
ve hard apples to make
with, didn’ I?" "