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BY A BIGG PIiCLE
From reading constantly the lines,
Produced by college scions,
I've learned the object of their muse :
Those mighty would-be lions.
Their single aim appears to be,
Beyond all contradiction,
To stamp the idea on our mind
That knowledge batches fiction.
That inspiration lies concealed,
Within the mystic pages,
Which grace the classic scholar's shelf,
And store the minds of sages.
In short that, if you ponder well,
The undeciphered quarto,
Perfection will reward the toil,
And so of course it ought to.
Yet one, uncertain of the fact
That he has made impressions
To that effect upon our minds,
Is wont to make concessions.
And if lie cannot make it plain,
That lie is big with knowledge,
lie never allows us to forget
That he attends a college.
Ile's written lines on everything
About that institution :
The problem finds, in my weak mind,
No readier solution,
Than, being troubled with the thought,
That verbal information,
Will never reach one-half the ears
Of all this mighty nation,
He grasps, in haste, the poet's pen,
And lo! the press is teeming
With scintillations from the orb
Which on mankind is beaming.
What force his lines on others have,
I dare not here conjecture ;
For aught I know they may excl
The famous Beecher lecture.
But in a few quite simple words,
l'il state the deep impression,
Which A. T.'s poems hare produced
On me, a sad reflection.
The fact is plain to any one,
Who searches deep for knowledge ;
But few are shrewd enough to see
That A. 2". goes to college.
toril-rEtlitr.
STORY OF A WELL
"Thrown off his horse and killed !" I
read, in the city weekly paper just issued,
as I sat in my law office one morning in
Wellington, the county seat of a certain
Franklin county.
It was on Thursday morning, in Sep
tember ; and the paragraph went on to say
that on Wednesday morning, Stephen Ed
wards, a wealthy old farmer, who had
lived near a place called the Cross Roads,
three or four miles from Wellington, was
found dead on the road, within half a mile
of his house, and the appearances indicated
that he was thrown from his horse and
killed on Tuesday night., on his way home
from the latter place.
"Why, I declare !" I said to myself,
"It was only the day before yesterday that
I wrote his will, and it was signed and
witnessed here in my office. How sin
gular! Killed that very night !"
Mr. Edwards was a somewhat singular
man. I knew that he changed his mind
often, for I had drawn several wills for
him. In this last one, which I now very
emphatically declared should be the last,
he had bequeathed the bulk of his wealth
to a dissipated nephew, Ross Edwards, re
serving barely enough for his only daughter
to make the will valid. He did not tell
why, and it was no part of my business to
ask him, although, knowing the family
well, I wondered at it.
I had scarcely finished reading the par
agraph relating to the accident, when Mr.
Brush, the constable, stepped in. He was
not a very learned man, and was very ex
citable, and entertained a keen sense of
the solemnity of his duties as an officer.
"Have you heard about Edwards ?" he
asked.
"I have just read of it," I replied; "it
is a sad thing."
"Well, there is a suspicion of sowething
about it."
"Ah! how so ?" I asked.
"You drew his will, didn't you ?"
"In favor of Ross ?"
"Yes."
"I did. What is wrong about it ?"
"Why, his daughter Lucy has come in
to town this morning, and got a warrant
out to arrest her cousin Ross, on suspicion
of murder. She says he knew that the
will was to be made iu his favor that day,
and as the old man had changed his mind
so often, and might do it again, she be
lieves that he waylaid and murdered him,
so as to make sure of the property. You
know Ross is called a hard case. It's sus
picious."
"It looks bad," I replied.
"It does so. Well, I have a warrant
for his arrest, and I am going to ride out
to the Cross Reads and get him. Will
you go along ? You are a lawyer, and I
would like you to go along You might
notice things that I wouldn't."
"Yes, I'll go with you," I said; 'wait
just a minute."
I had a horse, which I soon saddled and
bridled, and in a few minutes Mr. Brush
and I were galloping away over the coun
try, towards the Cross Roads, a place that
aspired to be a village on account of its
having a postoffice, grocery store, and three
or four dwelling houses.
"By the way," said the constable, as he
rode along ;'' did Edwards leave his will
in your care ?"
"No; he took it with him. Was it
found in his pocket?"
"I didn't ask the girl; but we'll know
when we get there. He won't be buried
until an investigation is made. The cor
oner is coming to-day."
We learned on the way that Ross Ed
wards made his quarters at the Cross Roads
tavern ; and when we arrived at the little
two-story building, we saw him sitting on
the porch, reading the county newspaper.
He did not seem to notice us dismounting,
and we _had secured our horses at the
hitching-post and stepped upon the piazza
before he was aware of our presence.
"Ross Edwards," said Mr. Brush, in a
very impressive tone, as he laid his hand
on the startled man's shoulder, "I arrest
you for the murder of your uncle, Stephen
Edwards; whom you waylaid on Tuesday
night, and knocked from his horse with a
club, to secure the immediate benefit of
his will."
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Grave as the occasion was, I could
scarcely keep from smiling at this pompous
speech ; but I think Mr. Brush had ment
ally prepared and committed it to memory
on the way. It was the first time that he
had been called upon to arrest a man on
charge of murder,and he evidently intended
to make the most of it.
Ross Edwards looked up into the con
stable's face, then at me, with apparent
HUNTINGDON, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1876.
surprise; alter which he turned very pale,
and seemed trying to speak though unable
to utter a wool.
"I'm sorry," said Mr. Brush, in a less
official tone, "and I hope the charge may
prove false, but I must do my duty. Your
cousin Lucy made the complaint, and got
the warrant out. Ilcre it is :"—and he
began to read—" Commonwealth of—"
"Never mind reading it," interrupted
Ross Edwards, recovering his self posses
sion, and speaking very calmly. "I know
what a warrant is, and I know you are the
constable. I will go with you at once ;
but rest assured there is some mistake
about this "
He arose and put on his hat as he spoke.
"I hope it will turn out so," said Mr.
Brush.
"Russ," said I—fur I had often ad
dressed him by his first name—"do you
happen b know that your uncle made a
will in your favor ?"
"No," ho replied, coolly.
"You don't ?"
"No. I don't know that he did so. He
told me a few days ago that he would. He
had a quarrel with Lucy, who has a violent
temper, and he said that I should be his
heir. He told me that she did not treat
him with either affection or respect, and
was determined that she should not, be,
come wealthy at his death : that's all I
know about it."
"Then you don't know that he made a
will ?"
"No ; I never saw him alive after that
—Tuesday morning, I think."
When the coroner arrived, we proceeded
to Edwards' house, where the usual in
quest was held.
The country physician testified that
death had resulted from a fracture of the
skull with some blunt instrument. •
A neighbor—one or two men who found
the body—testified that he fmnd it near
by a round stone, of three pounds weight,
stained with blood.
I testified concerning the will.
Ross Edwards again admitted that his
uncle had toll him that he would make
such a will; that he knew he often changed
his mind ; yet he denied that he had any
knowledge of the murder.
"Where were you the early part of
Tuesday night ?" asked the coroner, eye
ing him sharply.
:'Let me sec I took a walk across the
fields to the river, and had a swim. I got
back by 9, I think."
"Did you meet any one on the way to
the river or coming back ?"
"Not a soul."
The verdict of the coroner's jury was
unfavorable to Ross Edwards, and he was
taken to Wellington, briefly examined by
a magistrate, and committed to jail.
remained behind to see if any new
facts could be learned ; and it is singular
that the constable and the coroner, with
the prisoner, had been gone half an hour
before I thought of the will : then I sought
the two countrymen who had discovered
the body of Mr. Edwards, and asked :
"Were there any indications that he had
been robbed ?"
"Yes," they both replied ; "the pockets
were turned wrong-side out."
"What: was the inside pocket of his
coat turned wrong side out ?"
"Yes; and a memorandum book lay on
the around, nearly covered with dust."
"Did you see anything that looked like
a will—a good sized paper ?"
"No ; nothing but the memorandum
book :it had a little money inside. We
handed it ovr3r to Lucy, just as we found
it.''
Here was a new and singular feature of
the case. Where was the will ? Had
Ross Edwards been so stupid as to take it
with him after committing the murder, to
make sure of it ? If so, it could probably
be found in the room he occupied at the
tavern, or even on his person ; and that
would be a piece of evidence that would
establish his guilt beyond a doubt.
"Ah, how short-sighted men are when
they commit crime," I mused. "Even
the shrewdest of criminals are sure to
leave some clue."
I hastened back to Wellington, at.d
found Mr. Brush.
"Did you search him ?" I asked.
"Yes," he replied, "I took all his effeets
—knife, pipe, tobacco, and a pocket book
with fifteen dollars and twenty cents in it."
"Nothing in the shape of a will ?"
"No."
"Had he any opportunity to throw any
thing away alter his arrest ?"
"No, I am certain of that., I watched
him like a cat.
"Then get out a search warrant and we
will go to the Cross Roads and take a look
at his room at the tavern."
This was done at once, and we went to
the Cross Roads that afternoon, when we
made a careful examination of Ross Ed
wards' room, and everything in it. No
will was found, nor did any of his clothes
show marks of blood.
"He must have been more cunning than
I gave him credit for," I remarked to Mr.
Brush as we mounted our horses to ride
back to Wellington. "Where can that
will be."
Within a month the County Court was
in session, and Ross Edwards was tried for
murder• Yes, and to the astonishment
and indignation of everybody, he was ac
quitted. Not because the jury believed
him innocent, but because the evidence
against him was not conclusive.
"He is the luckiest murderer I ever
heard of," I said to several brother at
torneys, and they all agreed with me.
Not long after Ross Edwards was set at
liberty, the daughter of the murdered man
called on me and said she desired to con•
test the will, and would place the case in
my hands. She stated that her father
was probably not in his right mind when
he made his will; that he often had peev
ish spells; that he frequently flew into a
passion about nothing; and that she had
done nothing whatever to offend him on
the morning that he started for Welling-
ton with the avowed intention of making
a will that would disinherit her.
Lucy was rather a handsome young
lady, not over twenty-two, with black eyes
and a clear complexion. her manner was
candid and earnest, and I was soon con
vinced that if her father had not been de
ranged, she at least believed him to be so,
and I readily agreed to take the case. We
were in consultation half an hour in refer
ence to what witnesses should be summon
ed to testify the old man's acceutricicies
of character, and she had risen to go, when
I said :
"Why, how forgetful I have been ! Un
less the will is produced, there is no use
contesting it."
"Why, I have it !" she replied.
To my astonishment, she deliberately
drew from her pocket and handed me a
legal paper, which I immediately recog
nized as the missing will.
"Where did you get this ?" I asked, al
most with vehemence.
A puzzled look came over her face a
flush—then she turned deathly pale.
"Where did you get this ?" I again de
manded, as a fearful thought flashed across
my mind.
She tottered a few steps, and sank trem
bling into a chair, and, covering her livid
face with her hands, ejaculated :
"Mercil'ul heaven ! What have I done !"
"What have you done ?" I echoed, with
some severity. "I'll tell you. girl : you
have murdered your father !"
"No, no, I haven't !" she said, franti•
tally, while she clasped her hands, and
looked imploringly into my face. "Oh, I
didn't kill him ! Spare me ! Save me !"
"Spare you! Save you! Why ?"
She dropped her face upon her hands
and was silent.
"Answer me. girl !" I said sternly.
"Did your Cousin Ross kill your father ?
Speak the truth."
"No," she replied beginning to cry.
"Then you did !"
"No, no, no !" she wailed piteously.
"At least you know who did ?"
"No one did ; he was thrown from his
horse."
"How do you know ?"
"I saw it."
"You saw him thrown from his horse and
killed ?"
"Yes."
What mystery was here ? Was the
girl crazy ? No, that could not be, tier
why was she so frightened ? and, above all,
how came she in possession of the will ?
"Why did you try to have Ross hanged
for murder ?" I asked.
"Recs.:lse I hated him."
"How came you to sec your father
thrown from his horse ?"
Here she burst into a perfect convul
sion of sobs and tears, and after a few
seconds regained control of her voice so
as to say :
_ . .
tell you all I might as well
nnw. But they won't hang me for that,
will they ?"
'For what ?" I asked, unable to sur
mise what was coming.
"I know I'm as bad as if I'd committed
a murder," she replied, "but I did not kill
him with my own hands. I knew that he
had gone to town to make a will that
would disinherit me, and it made me hate
him and Ross both. He rode a fiery horse,
and I made up my mind to frighten it,
hoping, I confess, that it would throw him
off, and I didn't care if it would kill him.
So I went out in the road in the evening
to wait for him. I knew he generally got
home about nine o'clock, when he went to
town, and I knew what time to go, I took
a white sheet with me, when I heard him
corning I wrapped it around me, and as he
rode near I ran suddenly across the road,
directly in front of the horse. The ani
mal was frig htened,as I had expected, and
instantly whirled and ran away ; while my
father was thrown violently to the ground,
his head striking the loose round stone
that was found near by. He did not move
afterwards, and I took the will from his
pocket and hurried home. I was foolish
enough to think I ought to preserve it,
and it has exposed my crime. It looks
like a judgment."
Justice to the innocent compelled me to
have Lucy Edwards taken into custody so
soon as I heard her astounding story.
She repeated the confession she had
made to me, arid the people were a second
time amazed.
Ross' neighbors, who had refused to
recognize him since his release from pris
on, and who had even talked of ordering
him to leave the community, now hasten
ed to take him by the hand, and say that
they had never believed him guilty, and
had constantly predicted that time would
bring his vindication.
Ross was soon placed in possession of
his fortune, but he was so generous as to
make every effort to obtain the release of
his unnatural cousin ; saying he was de.
termined to provide so liberally for her
that she should not miss the estate she had
so justly forfeited.
The singular girl, however, who seemed
a strange mixture of cunning and stupidi
ty, once more astonished everybody by es
taping from jail one night : after which
she set fire to the old homestead ; but it
was, happily, extinguished in good time.
She then disappeared from the neighbor.
hood, and was never heard from again.
*tittt Niscitiann.
Our New York Letter.
The Coaching Club—Political—The Chil
dren's Opera— Pictures —Fashions—
Religious—Business.
NEW YORK, May 6,1876.
THE COACHING CLUB.
It is a terrible thing to have too much
money. Indeed, lam not certain that it
is not better to have too little. The last
agony of young New York, with too much
money, is coaching. What is coaching ?
A very simple thing. Men with fine horses
who think there is comfort in the old
fashioned stage-coach, went to England
and had built for them old-fashioned stage
coaches—just such, gentle reader, as you
saw on the roads thirty years ago, fitted
out complete with boot for baggage, and
everything else, as it was in the days when
coaches, or stages as we call them, were
the only means of conveyance. They put
to them four blooded horses, and they put
themselves in the uniforms of drivers, and
they load on the roof all their lady friends,
and they drive them. That is all there is
about it. It means that a certain number
of rich young men choose to transform
themselves into stage drivers. There is a
club of these amiable lunatics in New York,
the head lunatic being young James Gor
den Bennett, the proprietor of the Herald
Last Saturday the club made its first pa
rade. Seven stage coaches, rather more
costly in style than those you used to see
on your roads, drove up in front of the
Union League Club,seven very rich young
men habited as coachmen took their places
on the seven boxes, forty-five very rich,
and not at all beautiful, young ladies
mounted the roofs, and with the utmost
solemnity the cortege drove off, up fifth
avenue to the park, and back again. The
streets were lined with people to see this
procession, from Madison square all the
way to the park ; and if the object of the
parade was to attract attention, the gen
tlemen stage driver may be congratulated.
But isn't it queer that in the day of steam
men should attempt so absurd a thing as
the revival of the stage coach ? The horses
on these coaches are the very best that
money can buy, and they are groomed to
a degree that is almost painful. By the
way, the absurd fashion of cutting the-tail
of the horse in the shape of a club, has been
adopted here. Pray let it be confined to
New York, for it is as ugly as sin.
POLITICAL.
The Democratic State Convention did two
foolish things, viz :—lt endorsed Sammy
Tilden and snubbed John Morrissey. The
Convention by its acts made it a certainty
that every Republican in the country will
vote his straight ticket, no matter how
much he may have been disposed t•► belt.
Fur Tammany—• John Kelly's Tammany—
run the machine from first to last. .14in
Morrissey male a vigorous fight but he
was routed, horse, foot, and dragoons. and
Kelly was left in complete possession
of the field. Til(l,:n was endorsed. and if
he wins the non►ination he goes before the
people as the nominee of the most villain
ously corrupt organization that ever exist
ed. Ile gees into the canvass as the es
pecial creature of the old Tammany ring
reorganized—the Tweeds and l',nnolly4
under ether names. I have no especial
admiration for John Morrissey, but I must
say that he did make a good tight, and an
apparently honest one, against these vil
laini. But Tilden's money, and the Tam
many organization were too much fir him.
and down he went. The decent portion of
the Democracy of New York are very sere
ever the result, an l with a good candidate
the Republicans can easy carry the State.
Tammany has recovered from its defeat
last fall, and is arrogant as ever. Let the
Cincinnati Convention give the Republi
cans a good candidate, and let the St. lo►uis
Convention nominate Tilden, and we ran
early New York with perfect ease.
TILE CHILDREN'S Ol'Elt.l,
' in aid of the Centennial." stares one at
head of every pleasant project now-a-days,
and people are pretty well pillaged on one
pretest or another. The last was the very
pretty rpectaele of 'Cinderella" at the
Academy of Music, given by two hundred
and fifty children of fashionable families
Tableaux from Mother Goose followed,
and it was a pretty sight, the curled dar
lings, with flowing flossy hair, and cloudy
white silver-spangled dresses, with gauzy
wings and wands as fairies, and all the ro
mantic Mother Goose people—Red Ri
ding Hood with her bas: et, the Sleeping
Beauty and the Enchanted Prince ; and it
won plenty of compliments and plenty of
dollars from thu admiring families and
friends who filled the house. Perhaps the
best fun was the nextday, when the young
performers all went down to Mora's the
Spanish artist who takes the beauties and
celebrities of the stage with such delicacy.
to be photographed in costume. A crowd
stood about the entrance to the gallery on
Broadway for hours, to catch a glimgse of
each snowy clad figure as it fled from
mamma's carriage up the steps. The boys
were the handsomest in my eyes. There
was one little prince in blue satin ani sil
ver court dress, whose mother ought to
pray that he might go to heaven before
he grows up to spoil one trace ofhis open.
laughing beauty ; and the fair boy in
black satin Continental dress, with white
silk stockings and ruffles at his wrist. look
ed as if he had just stepped out of a picture.
with his noble countenance and ;rate,
sweet air. The girls had marvelous, deli
cate complexions—too delicate for plero
ure ; and, with their shrinking manners,
seemed like wandering moonbeams. Even
the slender, fragile creatures of fift...en who
will be debutantes next season, who held
the parts of Continental dames in flower
ed trains and powdered hair, there was
hardly one of them that looked substantial
enough to kiss. Like sugar atrels. they
were to look at and, not to taste. Rot
fancy how charming was the interior of
the photograph saloon, with groups of
miniature court people in gold and satin.
with blue and purple and rose mantles,
figures a hi pompadour and watteau, nigh
ed in the window seats, delicate faces, hap
py, tiny sprites. hardly as tall as their
golden hair was long, presided and hov
ered over by anxious mammas in black
satin and white bonnets. What fun it
was to he hidden in the photographers'
closet, and among the villainous smelling
acids and chroniates, and prep nut at the
tableaux and the gorgeous little sitters as
they were taken.
SOMETHING ABOUT PICTUREA
The gallery of the late Wm. T. Blod
gett s ild at auction this 'X eek for over
$90.000, a tidy sum to have locked up in
pictures. Mr. Taylor Johnston. whose pri
vate gallery is one of the choicest in New
York, opens it to the public in his own
house in aid of the \Voman's Centennial
Fund, charging $l.OO admissi-m, and the
chance is eagerly sought. It is expected
that Mr. Stewart's pictures. for which he
paid fortunes, and which he kept jealously
guarded from the public, will now be ac
cessible. Theie who do not care for pic
tures on any other account will have some
interest in this collection, knowing that it
represents a value much above 1500,000
TILE FASHIONS,
The tuctEteval linens are sornethin7 f►r
which the present has to thank modern
skill and old design. They are stout da
masks, in natural and half-bleached shades.
relieved by soft dull colors, and form a
desirable class of fabrics f►r use, coolness,
and artistic merit, as they have much the
appearance of antic,ue brocades, copied
from old pictures. Linens are taking their
place at the head of textile fabrics. not ex
cepting silk, fur no other material takes
more variety, or can be adapted to more
purposes of utility and beauty. It rivals
brocade in lustre, and cotton in service.
while it is now made to resemble wool in
finish and comfort. The heavy furniture
brocades and tapestries, used in art furnish
ings, which look like silk and wo-...1en, are,
one is surprised to learn, of lir.-n. durable.
and what is worth every other considera
tion, wholesome, as they will not absorb
dust and bad odors as reps and brneatelle
always do. The Venetian carpets, largely
made of fax. are handsome as the choicest
patterns of brussels, and wear wonderfully.
while they are clean and sweet longer than
wool carpets can. Fine mixed cotton and
linen lawns are snit at the low price of 30
cents a yard. and make comfortable under
wear for summer, while for dresses they do
up like new every time they pass through
the laundress' hands.
REL t(UOUS.
Moody and Sankey have gone. anil the
ministers or the city ehurchei have under
taken to carry on the work that they be
gan. That is to say, they are endeavoring
to run revivals on their own hook, in the
same manner the evangelists did They
have employed better singers than Sankey.
to sing Sankey's songs, and as they all
think they are better orators than Moody.
they believed they could carryon the work
better than did these men. They have all
failed. The fact is they may preach better
than Moody, and their paid singers may
sing better than Sankey, but it don't
amount to a straw. They have not the
soul in it the evangelists had, and soul is
what counts. Moody and Sankey were in
earnest, they believe in what they are do
ing, and they were successful. They ago
nized; they never ate or slept while at
their work, and having no clap trap or
nonsense about it, they did good every.
where; hr maehinory
and never did an.l never will. k won't
arr.wer to put an opera •in.zer :ts the Owe
of Sankey. for while he tatty Se .4 h.tter
singer than : 4 anloy. be will vinT art an
era ,iinger, and not a.. a 1,1211 who foe!.
that he i 4 reeponeible for the salvetine
Tn.'s. It 11. i. hut it us trne that with
the going of tli•• evarmeliet.. the interest
in religion:. tw i tte r ., in t h,.
New irqrk will have to zo on in it. sin till
they or some other equally zealot• men
come to lift it ont
RU4rlE*4
IP 31 drill it tan h. Th..re its tittle trawls
Ow!. rent,. are ,Li by .v. thons
anfti upon then:moan are not of employ
ment. an.' the oistlonk ,e gloomy
interior cities are 4oinz better. re re eery
e metropoliA that ig infferiargr Tab.
course, oisti'le. and pity us who are *west
ine here. Pmhspos it ta se well gir
eitie4 ar. ere Itcurs,+ trier sr.
Facts in Natural History.
IVlty hay, hir.l4 ztizarii.s 7 14-raise
hatinz nn teeth. the tough an:: fibrins ins
lards are etuploye i to yin,' the f+Pi pre•
paratory .ligestion
Why a", + a black .lown zr.s in.ler the
feather+ ~t birL+ a. 4 winter approaches!
lieratre the down a nin conductor of
heat. and black the warnte+t enioe
Why have o.triehols wiar De
c-awe, havinz long lez4, they do sot re
quire their winza G.r fizht ; they are user».
ly oiled t , : steady their hieiien rbsie tan
ning..
Why cannot fle.4h eating animals live
upon vegetables' Beeittse the rastrie
juice of a desh-eatiwz aniusal, being adapt
ed to the duty which it has to perf.r:n.
will not 'limonite ve•zetab:e matter
Why are there ,44, many feebly f.rm4 less
animal creation ' Bc.-atase the ran...se
creatures whieh liotiereat4.4l have dilkirst
modee or lir!, and the r.rase of their budiee.
will be found to pre lent a perf•et wiapta
tion to the lives allotted to thews
Why have birds with long legs shoot
tails' Because the tails of h:ris are tresl
to r,nide them through the air by steerage.
When birls with long legs take to fight,
th e y throw their lel:. behind. and they
then serve the sate purpose as a tail.
Why have fi4hes air blatitlers R.eartse
as the .lensity or water varies greatly at
differ:tit depths. the enlargement or con
traction of the hivider regulates the rata
tioo of the specific grtvigy of the bndy of
the fish tj that of the water in which it
Why are w ioilyckers tonzsesahnit
three times lontr.o. than their bills' R.
mum if their bills wen. , lone. they would
not here the tr..e.4 s.) efficiently ; and when
the trees are bored. and the insects alarm
ed ; they endearar to retreat into th• 16 , 4-
lows of the wood; bat the long thin towns
of the woodpecker fixes them on its sharp.
horny point, and draws then' into the
month of the bird
Why hts the elephlnt a short. unbend
ing tvek ? Becats.e the elephant*" heagi
it 510 heaTy. thit it mold not hare been
supported at the end eta Inn; seek
lever) without a provision ofimmertne twee
enlar power. Note: :lee”rdittr, t rneine.
the number of mnselen in an elephant',
trunk amount to forty thousarrl. all or
which are under the will. an it ie to them.
that the pro-who:iris of thin ani-nal eW its
,an be protryled or e•m•
tneted at pleasure, raised ate harried to
either Side. roiled round on itself or twin
ed around any obj.et.
The Lord's Prayer.
ifere flrnethits.,:: mein 14 for yon It
the Lord's Prayer in the F. trlish 4 P.m
er times. aitil it 4hows how rh' lancisaze
ha. changed :
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And woffsif are 'km., as ii vorsiten em
detfnumt. Ana iene nes sneak is . tem
tation. bot delavorof 'Tel. Ames.
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A D. 1300—Fodir our io heves...llJ
ewyri by hi Name. thi moor not
wille be itine zis in hewn. MIA la tithe.
Oore orrhe dayee heeil give w to -dial-
And forstive w oore dew,. vs we forxive
not .lettooreo. led" UP not isen temp
t t ion Rotdelyvere ow of rel. Awe..
A. D 1 it►ll --11nr father which art in bum
ven,eanetibed he thy irinee. Let :bee Iciest
dom enure. Tby will be 4rip• z in h•ahr
in earth a?•e. Give to to day our super
substantial nr^ao. And lead a. , vot into
temptation. Knt deliver T*4 from
Amen.
A. D. 1611.—Our father which art in
heaven. hallowed be thy Name. Thy hiss
done come. Thy will be done in earth i.
in heaven. Give on thin day nnr doily
bread. .In.l forgive no net fiehts v. we
forgive nor 1-4ttort. .%nd lead tr ens in
to temptation. hot .leiiver in front evil.
For thine 'he kingdom, and the zlory
forever. Amen.
Do the Right Thing.
Whenever inn are in doubt which of
two thing. to do. let your dariyion he fee
that which 's right. Do wit waver. de
not parley : b-st = T sar , . op to the mark matil
do the right thing. Boy. when yew *vide
that apple with your iittk timer. be ewe.
fel not to keep the lame.' hell jettowN
Tonn min don't +flesh oat the brommitit
door bee-an,c you want ineeespe your fob
el.'s eye. )(Aflame : let not the mom
deceit pays current is those fink sets
which make the 50111 of your life. No mot
ter who you are. what your !ot. (sr where
you live, you cannot aftiri to that "Web
is wrong The only way to obtain bimpi
nels and plea nre years If i 4 to 4, the
right thing. Toss way wit alien* hit the
mark. hut you should *menfolk's' aim st
and with every trial your shil wit in
crease. Whether you we to be mild or
blame.] fir it by others; whether it 0411
eeemiegly make you right/ or riscrer.
whether no other persoss than yeierwlf
knows of your action still. slimy.. awl in
all eases. do the right thing Tow tit's
lesson in this will grow easier. until &any
doing the right thinfr will become a heist.
awl to do s wrowe thing wilt seem an alb
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