WET RE Gold and Silver. Along her father's field they strayed, All flecked with cowslips yellow, A little dainty gold-haired maid, A sturdy nine-year fellow, And there love's courss they two began, { Ab, thorny path for treading!) And vowed when they were maid and man The town should see a wedding. Their golden curls were blown and blent, Through wafts of fragrance treading ; “And eb!" they murmured, well content, “Twill be a golden wadding!" n,'’ sald he, ‘to claim her vow," rth he went and found her; But she was grown a beauty now, And half the town was round her, *t I soe,” says he, *youdon't want mel”’ The tears were ripe for shedding, “I'mg h, where's the golden wedding ? He flung away, and left her there, Such heart-sore tear-drops shedding, And gossi cried, in blauk despair, ” 0 1 “He's Sp led the rarest wadding! He sailed the seas, he beat the French, Two-score good years he tarried, And then he thought, *' That little wench I wonder if she's married 27 Next week a bluff old tar rolled past, The gabled High-street treading, And a t gossips crowed, ‘* At last We're like to have the wedding 1" i tor him forty year threading : aes with weir locks were with smiles, and s wedding, I sliver IL PIAS, MY GREAT AUNT'S WILL, her about and 1 pt Own Saves Lh in the stooud was nf and} Now, that had that flour, $ pe 111 sel ped recommended cheap, and took it because { was I help him roll and I can see that he thinl SARE S That day . and I hate tea, detes 16 week af miaratu wotion and all APE Of he Lott o be a tmge!, a hough 1 fish and wish calico loth, drilling, and the rest of the wretched neces ut artificial eivilization were at un of the Indian ocean. I long aviage more than I do to be; i shall be one of these days, do wear cloth suits and have a shaving mug at the barber’s marked in gilt fters, >, OO, Haynes. 1 wonder hat all self-respect and sentiment of hamanity hasn't long ago perished from aut of ty bosom, Suca were ny reflections one fine morning just after train time, while I was weighing out half a pound of black ea, when my 1ellow-sufferer in the dry oodd and grocery infliction called out: | “Here’s a lady inquiring for you Sam, *? In distinct outline before the door stood a little woman, her skirts spread wit by a triangular hoop like the skirts | of the female figures we used to draw sn our slates at school. I came up to make my bow, and saw she had deposit- od a brown willow basket on the show- mse and dropped a black glazed bag at | ber side, shawl, with fearfully long fringe, and | seemed to be afflicted with numb palsy, “Are you my nephew Sam’wel?'’ asked she, “My nmmne is Samuel Haynes, ma'am.’ “I'm sour father’s aunt, Loueezer Haynes.” “I'm glad to see you, Aunt Louisa.’ She looked at me sharply, as if I was making fun of her. [I suppose it is be- cause the corners of my mouth turn up, people are always suspecting me of making fun of them, I wish those cor- ners would sink and wonder they don’t, “I’m your only living female relative an: the Tather's side,” said she, My business experience with females YOU Cin > 5 2 . HOOKS eves aad been so embittering, I was glad to | learn she was the only one on father’s side, | duty to help make a home for you,” Instantly I remember Lowmisa was worth $75,000, 1 parental knee, along with who ness in the relation of a primary truth through the medium of groceries, and went throng as often as the law would HOW, head and ejaculate me if she only would.” But Louisa wouldn't tdidn’t, | her filial affection, the oscillations in the ringer market have convine soundness of her Judgment, { “I'm delighted to { Louisa. I'll go right down Lo my {Ing place wish vou. Hence, with a brown i i a shiny or at leas i On t} vag me ot HOE y OIL, board willow id an leather bag other and ) ) TICE wiv my side rinder down the s td a round br when | hed I femem: i easoned that il bative emale rel il we found that my aunt whi seized her in the nigh imperative that 1 should run for the doctor, Liability to these attacks pres cluded the possibility of my being away from home evenings, excepting Sunday and Thursday evenings, when I was expected to fee my aunt to prayer meet- » %iett teal LETTOUS ALLACKS, went off in an opposite direction with another fellow. 1 didn't know but justice both to myself and Evelina demanded that I should have a conver- sation with my aunt, and set before her, in language which even a child might understand, my views of the duties and privileges of an engaged man: but I felt extremely doubtful of her sympathy, dea! to risk, We kept one servant, whose wages We lived largely of broth, My aunt marrow-bones, I wonder if it is gener- persistently boiled marrow-bane? For two or three years I had been in the close of the day's lab rs, One even. ing I was sitting on the piazza indulging in this luxury when out came my aaut, “Sam'well” cried she, “are you smoking?" “Yes'm,” very meekly, “Well, said she, calmly but firmly, “none of my money shall ever go up in cigar smoke,” en again, “How much do you pay for cigars?" *“T'en cents,’ “Now, Sam’wel, I want you to take your pencil and ealculate how much ten cents a day will amount to in a then how much in Ofty years, then 1 much # will you are seventy and how i amount to by the time | interest, “EO | frve years of age.’ It struek me that 1 | daring my lifetime. met woblems, but 1 the caleulation, { *“*Aunt,’”’ cried I, *I’'m perfect ap | palled. Never did I dream of this, Of | what mad extravagance have 1 been | guilty!” mto the camomile bed, It beeame generally known thro 1g ort our village that my auwt was wealthy, and I was heir-expectant, and I soon perceived that whether or not I | ever obtained the gold, I was going { have the glory. At a town-meeting. i legally called, and with the moderator in the chair, I was elected one of nine prudential eqmmitteemen: duty— “to see about getting the wood.” Our Sab- bath school appointed me delegate to a conference rd: privileges lose my time, pay my own fare, chang twice, stage it {ive over a try road and a November : prospects—address hy Deacon " 2 } L SOIGNOW had with similar ' 17h at Commingfe » rial ars iNLes : } through vl andg hat : Tare id A Ag mpany wealt xpressad the : thing above Downy g, and he was glad ken lina said mind; iT INOS not many days after, Evelina she had begun to realize what a solemn was matrimony; and 1 young, and had our way to make, and she thought perhaps for the present, it batter for 08 to a go LO soe 14 down a peg. Eve fi But me we don’t care toll ordinance she were both would be consider ourselves only friends, I said, “*Very well,” and felt {hat 1 was a lonely bark tossed on a wild and watery waste, I had read of instances similar to mine where the sealed packet or the old finger the paper left me as 1 would, | could make nothing of it bat paper. Fora year 1 went calmly but liope- lessly forward in the dry goods and gro- cery way, and we then assembled for the opening of my sealed orders The first words that met | unfolded the paper were, i mer wills | revoke,” ete, passed the document to the lawyer. | After provisions and legacies similar to | those in the first instrument, This l1at- | ter document proceeded as follows: “To the American Missionary Society 1 give and bequath the sum of twenty- | five thousand dollars, “To my beloved nephew, Samuel O, Haynes, who I hope may have learned, | during the year that has elapsed, lessons { of wisdom more valuable than monuy, I bequeath the sum of twenty-five thou sand dollars, which I direct my executor | to pay over to said Haynes as soon as | may be convenient. I further direct my executor to annually pay to said Haynes the income from the gumainder of my | property, both real ané personal, and to | pay from the principal to said Haynes on his thirtieth birthday, if he be living, or to his heirs or assigns if deceased, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, | and to pay to said Haynes on his thirty- fifth birthday the remainder of my my eves as | by me made I do hereby property be it more or less,” next morning, for 1 wished te When I filled our bes Ww WW i Iny head turned, customer's molasses I knew 1 hod demonstrated TINS, The chairman of the men wanted to know i] | advise m regard to rebuilding the Pip 1 § the docton Fe board of hou asked { candid opinion was coneerning the com | par merits of muriate of and iodide of potassium lu a case pleuritis where egophony denotes effusion, but with adhesion of the media | minister sald there was an “*Semi-Pelagianism m the 1 | Century” in Liibliatheca Sacra { thought stood on th that evening, E 1 me, and said she, 8h, how tone bi idge, itive slig HE stinum article Oourteent enioy peru door-step aft I chool came back of hiver, da-rk It fl shed across ne arm for es ine Come of ort home, that lmaginat matri evenly-live ‘solemn ordi 00 ary oi ——— ———— Woman Stumps the Philosophers, lenurs hd 4 F ¥ espe LIF Balzac Byron ngels ways end up in flving o Diderot He who comp is their implacable enemy. Chamfort—The in the world can she has, Saint have nds them most girl oniy g We women wm for take we quit tl Evremont Leopardi When one speaks of wo- men there is a weapon more terrible than calumny--the truth, Oriental Proberb--One leads a horse Chafort— Love is more pleasing than marriage, for the reason that novels are more amusing than history, The Koran in good health and gentle humor, Byron-1 have seen those (the tem- Hamilton—In matters of love noth- ing is more common to all women than the desire that another shall not gain that which she herself refuses, s———— i a——— A Critic's Knowledge of Music. At a concert the other night a young chap who sat next to me faithfully con- sulted his programme and eriticised every singer in very awkward terms. Having listened to enough of his talk 1 quietly sald to him: “You seem to know considerable about music; are you a musician?” I not exactly,” he replied, “but my sister makes piano covers,’ To bronze 2nc fret work coat the metal with a very thin gold size, and when nearly rab on a sufficient quantity of red bronze (bronze powder), dry and burnish, SALUTATIONS. Forms of Greeting Among | Moslems, { It is related by Sir Walter Ecott, in | one of his great historical a certain chieftain possessed strengih that he was able to crush the hand of any one offered him by way of salutation, That this is not mere exaggeration is evidenced from {Tact that there are many cases record 1llustrat’ng the Samson grip of such persons, and their dress otherwise in court and on fleld, The various forms of salutation have always been of much interest In early Bible times, the record reads that Esau ran to meet Jacob, his brother, and fell upon his neek and kissed him. ‘Phe embrace and the | kiss were certainly among such to the on like ad- Le hibitions of fraternal affection, Hebrew habit was that, so it ean quoted from the “Blind old man Selo’s roeky isle,” Homer, in ’ Oi the that f to his made himself known placed thelr arms and showered kisses upon 1 ANAS An grand eple friends they 1 shoulders. Lecame in time and th by the rriage eon Lo be related Testament times the hols joined pon the brethren cultured peoples the riube- noses was long held in } gh e teem, and it 18 told by travellers that 211 1 thls i Vv y ¥ ’ if » WO this day in parts of Africa the és 485 4 $4 or nose rubbing custom pre- » also among Ilndo-Chinese Mongols, and 8, while ’ Laplanders fol for » as others the Wow Lhe h other as regard. It Continental Eu near relatives ariel ali sil ii a £ Nar among Stroke of Fox Ever sin born met wi that accident, when asked a Chinaman what a 10-cent cis was, he has felt like giving up smok ing. And another experience has just happened to him which makes him afraid to buy a cigar ase some joke will come out of He engaged a new boy for his office—a young, zeal. ous, economical, bright boy, whose whole soul was devoted to his master's service, Among the boys duties was to go out Tor cigars for the judge. other day the boy was given half a dol. lar, “Go out,” said the judge ‘to —--'s and buy me four cigars—four for a half, He knows what 1 get.” The boy started off and came back presently, his face aglow with pride and triumph. He had six cigars, He handed them to the judge, “What are these?” “I didn’t go to —~"8 sir. I know a place where they give you six for a half.” And the boy, if he reads this story, may perhaps discover why the antici- pated raise of salary did not follow Lis struke of economy. © 1) th } ‘ 24] is ie a ia A Letter of 1775. | In the uxcouth gard of a Puritan | letter, written In 1775, one can detect | the sumple, affectionate nature: DEAREST LYDIA] received your kind letter by Mr, Burr, as also the inkstand, corn and cucumbers you sent. Every letter and present from you is like a cordial to me in my ab- sence from you. My heart is delighted in reading your letters, especially when on the countenance of them you-appear to be in health, and when you appesr by your letters to be in Srantbie 1 long to participate with you, received yours wherein you expressed your joy in my not going to Quebec. Remember the D'salmist’s expression, “If I take go to Q cluded upon the been requested to go, refused, though I think it carries appearance of a desperate undertaking. WirLray TurNEn MILLER. # a — BEAVE BOY'S DEES, * THE The Btory of How a Telegraph Lad's Good Aym Saved a Train. « tor and brakemen EX press, a few F Hl ana ie Back lo pick Le oper- supposed was mang in the curve above The wy say, had been badly In T grateful and happy because it worse. In a minute or so the & gineer old friend-—makes his pearance, Face covered with cond nd The tra vards away man had come whom and dea gineer, int uy : ti by some of the broken brakechain, : } v4 AMY ABS 111 ui ap- blood, with bunches of greasy waste, a long cut just under the roots of his hair, told where he had been burt, Throw ing his arms about the brave boy’s neck he whispered through his sols of joy as ed cheeks, “I was asleep, and you risked your life to save us all. Thank God, yon it straight and true. I will be "Twas so. The true tale has never before been told. That engineer's life was thenceforth a true, honest and sober one. The chain served as thd pretext for the wound, and the fireman, who was nodding on his box, too, never knew the true history, Death long ago came to him in the discharge of his duty, And now that the shades of death have closed over our old friend, peace to his memory, He has gone to that final footboard to rest, where his “runs” will be in pleasant places. His occasional meet- ings with his operator friend were always gentle, kind and full of affec- tion, no mention was ever made of the attempt to “‘hold the express nt all hazards," The Oldest Fresco. The museum at Boulak, in Egy, contains what has been called the picture in the world—a fresco from a tomb at Maydoom representing six qoese,
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