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Every Year.
BY ALBERT PIKE
The Spring has less its brightness,
Every year,
And the snow a ghastlier whiteness,
Every year:
Nor do Summer's flowers quicken,
Nor Autumn's fruitage thicken
As they once did, fur we sicken
Every year.
It is growing darker, colder,
Every year,
As the heart and soul grow older,
Every year.
I care not new for dancing,
Or for eyes with passion glancing,
Love is less and less entrancing
Every year.
Of the loves and sorrows blended,
Every year;
Of the joys of friendship ended,
Every year:
Of the ties that still might bind me,
Until time to death resigned me,
My infirmities remind me,
Every year.
Oh! how sad to look before us,
Every year,
While the cloud grows darker o'er us,
Every year!
When we see the blossoms faded,
That to bloom we might have aided,
And immortal garlands braided,
Every year.
To the past go more dead faces,
Every year ;
Come no new ones in their places,
Every year.
Everywhere the sad eyes meet us,
In the evening's dusk they greet us,
And to come to them entreat us,
Every year.
"You are growing old," they tell um,
"Every year;
You are more alone," they tell uP,
"Every year.
You can win no new affection,
You have only recollection,
Deeper !sorrow and dejection,
Every year."
Thank God ! no cloud.. are shifting,
Every year,
O'er the land to which we're drifting,
Every year.
No looses there will grieve ne,
Nor loving faces will leave u.,
Nor death of friends bereave u.,
Every year.
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MY FLIRTATION.
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BY A MARRIED WOMAN
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I had plenty of beaux when I was young,
and liked that very well. However, I had
heart enough at ifottoni, and when Stephen
Lashley asked me to marry him, in the
end I consented, though I kept him in
suspense a long while at first.
Neither Steve nor I was rich. My
father had sufficient income to keep the
family in a good style of living; but be
saved nothing, and I could expect nothing
from him when I was married. Steve had
just begun to practice medicine, and was
struggling as young doctors must. There
was a pretty house just outside the town,
that Steve and I had our eye on for a long
time, and I bad promised to become his
wile as soon as he would call it his own.
By dint of such struggling and economy
as I never could have guessed be had put
by enough for the first payment, and was
plodding patiently on toward the second
and last.
I can see now what a selfish creature I
was, what a wretch, indeed, to please my
self with the flatteries of others, while
Steve was working so faithfully for me .
That sounds as though I wasn't going
to marry Steve for love, but I was.
Our town was something of a fashionable
resort for summer boarders; and many of
the people were in the habit of taking
boarders then. Father had always ob
jected to our doing so ; but this summer
of which I speak he fell in with a stranger,
as he was returniug from a long ride in
the country, who having shared his phmton
with him during his homeward drive, suc
ceeded in so ingratiating himself with my
father that he allowed him to board with
us.
The stranger was very much in my line
—distinguished looking, possessing au elo
quent pair of eyes nearly the color of my
own, and having a propensity for saying
"pretty things" that was just delicious to
a girl of my turn. It was such fun to
draw him out and then laugh at him ; to
pretend pleasure, then shyness; to invite
and repulse in the same breath. It was
genuine flirtation, as much to him as to me.
Steve came often to see me, but he did
not see me alone, and he never stayed late.
Steve's sister Marian and I were inti
mate, and spent much time together. Poor
Steve enjoyed my visits to Marian better
than he did seeing me anywhere else, and
I liked it too as much because of seeing
him as Marian. It was then a miserable
piece of heartlessness for me to permit Mr.
Fordyce, the stranger, to accompany me
thither, thus parading, as it were, my con
quest, and the accomplishments and at
tractions of Steve's new rival, in the most
disagreeable manner possible.
Steve was good natured, and kept his
disappointment to himself; but he did not
like Mr. Fordyce, and he was quite alone
in that. Everybody liked Mr. Fordyce
but Steve. He was an immensely popular
man in our small community, entering as
he did with such genuine zeal into all our
interests and bearing himself genially to
wards all.
When Parson Hammond, who lived
nearest to us, lost a valuable horse from
his stable, and came over to our house to
see about pursuing the thief, Mr. Fordyce,
though he had just got home from a jaunt
with some friends, which kept him most
of the night, insisted on being one of the
pursuing party, and, indeed, quite led it.
It was the same way when Mr. Dudevant's
store was broken open and robbed. Mr.
Fordyce went over and over the ground,
and gave shrewder guesses as to how the
robbery had been managed than any one
else. When other thefts of's similar nature,
and also of lesser degree, continued to vex
and puzzle us from time to time, it was
Mr. Fordyce who insisted on severe meas
ures, prevailed on the authorities to offer
large rewards for the apprehension of the
offenders, and made himself so active in
the matters as to win the gratitude of the
whole town.
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He often joined our social gatherings
and became the life of them. I was quite
envied in having his escort so frequently,
and the rumor was very soon circulated
that we were engaged.
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Steve and I had some words on the sub•
ject several times, and, because it was so
unusual for him to insist in such a matter,
I resented it when he did; and
_the more
I suspected myself to be in the wrong, the
more I would not own it.
I detected Steve's dislike of Mr. For
dyce, and taxed him with it. Steve said
nothing, but only shook his head and
looked gravely at me when I praised him.
HUNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1.877.
He never said worse about Mr. Fordyce
than that he did not believe him. Steve
objected to my 'lntimacy with him on
rather general grounds, and I answered in
such an ill tempered manner that Steve,
not being ice but flint, struck fire and re
torted angrily for the first time in all our
acquaintance. The result was a serious
coolness. Steve apologized for his part of
it the next day, but I listened coolly and
retained my anger.
I flirted with Mr. Fordyce more des
perately than ever after that, but the affair
had really lost all its relish for me. I went
recklessly on, however, in my foolish course,
till Mr. Fordyce in so many words asked
me to marry him. I don't know what it
was about the man that all at once struck
me as insincere. I know that he did not
mean what he said ; and yet he wore a very
lover.like-air, and he would have clasped
and kissed me if I had not shrunk swiftly
away from him'
I answered him, however, as though he
had spoken sincerely, and told him, what
I did not often acknowledge, that I was
engaged to Stephen Lashley. No man likes
to hear "No" from a woman's lips when
even his petition is an idle one. For the
first time, I saw Mr. Fordyce's face dis
torted with a sneer of mingled anger and
dislike; and I knew that my poor Steve's
strange feeling toward Mr. Fordyce was
reciprocated by that gentleman with at
least equal intensity.
One night there was a party at Steve's
father's. It was Marian's birthday. Mr.
Fordyce took m 3 over at about 8 o'clock.
It was a gay party. We had dancing,
which we did not always have, and the
music and supper were good. I danced
with Steve several times, and being in good
spirits found it rather difficult to maintain
the distance I had lately adopted toward
him. His eyes, too, had such soft, tender
light in them, and his lips such brightness.
"Come into the garden a minute, Bell,"
he whispered to me at the close of a dance ;
"I have something to say to you ;"—and
for the life of me I could not say no.
When we were in the bright moonlit
garden, he stepped where a clump of lilac
bushes hid us from the house, and drew
from his bosom a roll of notes.
"I shall finish paying for our house, to
morrow, dear," he said, in a voice that ex
cessive hsppines made tremulous. "1
drew the money from the bank to-day—
twenty-five hundred dollars. Ah, how I
have,worked for this hour :"
I should have been harder than a mill
stone if I had not forgotten all my foolish
anger at that moment. If I had not
melted rather from my coldness; for I was
as glad as he was, and I dropped my bead
on his shoulder there in the moonlight, and
cried happy. happy, remoneless tears.
"Steve," I said, "you shall let me keep
the money until morning. I shall think
I hare dreamed if you don't."
Steve laughed, but he let me have my
way. Ah, what a foolish whim it was !
Few women would bare dared to take
charge of such a sum of money, and fewer
men would have permitted them. But
Steve knew it was as safe, to all common
calculation, with me as with himself.
As we turned toward the house, for a
single instant I thought I saw the shadow
of a man across our path; but, looking
back, I saw nothing but the lilac bushes
tossing in the air.
"What's the matter ?" said Steve, noti•
sing my backward gaze.
"I thought I saw the figure of a UM
crossing the path," I replied.
"Nonsense !" lie replied, and we were
indoors.
Well, Steve and I were the happiest
pair there that night; and Mr. Fordyce
saw, and could not quite keep his eyes from
saying that he hated us both for it, or I
fancied so.
The party broke up at 12 o'clock ; that
was late for us, and Mr. Fordyce, having
brought me there, took me home. On the
way he told me of another robbery that
had taken place the night before at one of
the hotels. A person had been robbed of
$5OO, which he bad just received at the
bank. Perhaps it was that story that
made me, tired as I was, bestow some
thought on a hiding place for Steve's mon
ey. I pondered very seriously as I took
down and arranged my hair; then, with a
laugh at my own ingenuity, I tucked the
roll of notes in my luxuriant tresses, and
drew a net over to hold all in place. I was
asleep almost the same instant my head
touched the pillow.
I ought to have slept soundly, and dream
ed happy dreams, but I did not. Some
counter influence seemed to ruffle my
slumbers and I awoke.
Some one was in my room. I knew it
as well as though I could see, and the room
was too dark for that. There was no sound
either, bat for all that I knew that I was
not alone. I tried to scream, to raise my
voice. I was frozen with terror. I never
thought once of the money, or robbers, or
anything, that I new of. I was only fright
ened so that I could not move band or
foot, or make a noise. I don't know but I
stopped breathing. I can remember how
cold I felt, though the night was warm.
Suddenly, without the warning of a
breath, I was conscious that a hand was
creepinc , stealthily about my pillow.
I did not think of money even then. As
terror had stolen my senses, so now it
brought some of them back. I gave one
scream and sprang from the bed, or tried
to. Two strong hands stopped me ; a firm
hand held me, while the other hand vainly
sought to loose my hair. The net, more
obstinate than nets usually are, would not
come off probably because, in his hurry,
my mysterious assailant was unconscious
of its pliant meshes. He pulled my hair
in his awkward attempts horribly. The
pain was like a spur to me. As his arm
lay across my arms, I bent•my head swift
ly, and fastened my teeth upon it with a
viscious snap that only a woman in my sit
uation would have been capable of.
The unexpectedness. of the attack die
solved my bonds. With an audible oath
he let me go, and I darted away with
winged feet and met my father in the pas
sage. Of course I fainted then and there;
and by the time anybody got into my room,
my robber had made good his escape.
Alas, however, he should not have allow
ed himself' to swear, above all, to a woman
of such acute ears, as I had heard the voice,
and I knew it belonged to Mr. Fordyce.
Father fairly turned pale when I told
him ' • but he cautioned me not to betray
thatl suspected any one present,O he
took Steve's money under his secial
charge. We all met at breakfast. I should
have said that Mr. Fordyce had made his
appearance about the same time as the
rest of the family whom my screams
aroused, and in the most natural manner.
lle came down to breakfast now, smi
ling, and just interested enough in my ad
venture.
Father went away into town after break
fast, and Mr. Fordyce sat in the garden
and smoked. The officers who came to ar-
rest him stole upon him from the back way
and secured him before he thought of re
sistance.
It was a plain case. They found proof
enough of robberies he had been at the
bottom of all along, hid away in his trunks,
and he owned them at last, with smiling
nonchalance, turning back his sleeve actu
ally when no one was looking, and show
ing me the prints my teeth had made on
his right arm, and kissing them with the
old gallant empres.snient.
Of course Steve made his payment, and
we were married at an early day.
cstlett )jlistellanp.
Tweed's Confession.
We publish the following purported con
fession of William M. Tweed. We do not
believe this document is what it is repre
sented—that is, a confession. On the con
trary, we think that it' Tweed has made
any statement it is in the possession of
those who will keep it out of the hands of
newspaper men. But we publish the state
ment for what it is worth, and as such it
must be received by our readers :
The confession is a lengthy and exhaus
tive document, purporting to give a com
plete history of the Ring from its very in
ception, following it through its successive
steps until the municipal government of
New York was under its absolute control,
detailing its operations through State Leg
islatures by which the corrupt charters of
'7O and '7l were passed, and producing
the checks and memoranda as proofs of the
complioity of various persons, heretofore
suspected of such complicity or otherwise,
in its various transactions.
The confession goes as far back as 1867,
when the ring first began to assume form.
It gives in detail the story of the various
conferences between the writer, Peter B.
Sweeny, Richard Connolly, Henry Genet,
A. Oakey Hall and others, by which
Tweed was elected to the State senate.
Connolly Comptroller in 1867, and Hall
.Mayor, .January 1, 1869. The steps which
led to the drafting of the charter of April
5, 1870, by which the control of the city
was finally given over int) the hands of
the ring, are then pointed out, but the
sensational features of the document are
reserved 6,r a detail of the methods by
which the passage of that charter by the
State Legislature was secured.
It was necessary, says the confession, to
obtain the support of several influential
Republican members. The person whose
influence was most valuable, Mr. Tweed
considered to be State Senator William B.
Wood* of Auburn. He therefore ap
proacbed that gentleman through State
Senator Winslow with various proposi
tions looking to his support, and after sev,
cral interviews with iVinslow transferred
to him in person the sum of $200,000,
with the understanding that it was to be
used in securing the passage of the char
ter
It was his understanding► with Winslow
at the time that the money was to be di
vided between Messrs. Woodin, Samuel
Frost, of Richmond; Augustus R.
Ellwood, Osego ; William H. Brand, of
Leonardsville; Norris Winslow, of Water
town ; James Woos:, of Genesee ; Isaiah
Blood, of Saratoga; George Morgan, of
Dutchesi—all members of the State Sen
ate; aul also with Messrs. Van Melton,
Williams, Crowley, Merriam and Beaman
for their influence in the Legislature. This
money, in various amounts, he has assur
ances was after wards paid to the parties
named in the compact with Winslow. He
was a member of the State Senate at the
time, and all the persons named voted for
his charter.
After the passage of the charter (which
received the signature of Governor Hoff
man the same night) he arranged with
Mayor Hall for appointments to all the
municipal offices. April 9 the list was
completed, with Tweed as Commissioner
of Public Works, Peter B. Sweeny at the
head of the Department of Parks, Henry
Smith at the head of the Police, and John
J. Bradery as Chamberlain.
The confession then proceeds to give in
exhaustive detail the proceedings of the
board of audit of May 5, 1870, when so
many millions of claims were passed upon,
together with the ratio of fraud to the real
merit of the separate claims. It gives the
circumstances of the division of the spoils
between himself, Sweeny, Hall, Connolly
and Woodward, through whom the divis
ion was made, as well as the particular
amounts set apart for the various trades
men and mechanics by whom the claims
were presented. It implicates Garvey, In
gersoll, Davidson, Watson and a majority
of the members of the Board of Supervis
ors—among them John Fox. Jas. Hayes,
Henry Smith and Isaac J. Oliver.
Mayor Hall's proportion was 10 per
cent. Ile shared throughout in all the
profits, was in full collusion with the va
rious details of' fraud, and was fully aware
of the fraudulent nature of the contracts
presented for his signature. lie secured
from the Board of Police the John L.
Brown street-cleaning contract, and shared
in its proceeds With reference to the
document purporting to be a record of the
proceedings of the Board of Audit of May
5, 1870, by which Mr. Hall on his trial
secured an acquittal on the grounds that
he acted only in a ministerial character,
Mr. Tweed says that it was manufactured
after the exposure.
Hall came to himself and Connolly after
the exposure with that document in his
own handwriting and already signed by
himself, and asked them to sign it also.
Each of them did so, and then Mr. Hall
took it away. The resolution was never
presented to the Board of Audit, and was
of course never passed by it. The next
Mr. Tweed heard of it was when produced
in court, purporting to have been found in
the County Auditor's safe.
Among the various persons to whom he
paid money for their influence in the Leg
islature, besides those already mentioned,
was Mr. Hugh- Hastings, editor of the
Omunercial Advertiser. He gave to Mr.
Hastings a cheek fur $20,000 dated three
or fourdays after the passage of the char
ter of 1870, with the understanding that
the money was also to go to Senator Wood
in. The check, however, afterwards came
back to him from his bank, where the mon
ey was duly paid, indorsed by Mr. Hast
ings and also by his broker, Jenkiss Van
Schaick. Mr. Tweed says that lie after
wards gave Mr. Hastings, at various times,
checks for smaller amounts than the
above.
Mr. Hugh Hastings brought Mr. Jay
Gould to him, continues Mr. Tweed. The
circumstances of the arrangement between
himself, Gould and Fisk, by which the
Erie Classification bill was passed, which
practically enabled the Gould directory of
the road to continue indefinitely in power
until the bill was repealed, are well known.
In return fur this the Erie influence,
through Gould and Fisk, was used in be-
half of Tweed and his associates.
The confcssion says that all the painting
and bookcases in Recorder Hackett's hone
were paid for by the city. Mr. Tweed
purchased the votes of sufficient members
of the Common Council to secure a major
ity and the passage of any of his meas
ures, and the names of these various per
sons, as well as of many others, whose in
fluence was obtained by similar means, are
given in the conf , !ssion, together with the
amounts paid to each. He also obtained a
majority in the Board of Supervisor: by
the same means, and the names of the cor
rupt members are given, with the lams
paid to each. Among the members of the
Board of Aldermen mentioned are M rgau
Jones and Thos. Cowan.
lie gives the names of five persons who
he promises, ifimmunity is given them,
wily swear to the truth of all his state
ments. He has preserved all his checks
and kept memoranda of all his transactions,
all of which will be placed at the disposal
of the State. Of the five persons named
are E. D. Barber, ex-Senator James
Pierce, of Brooklyn ; Alexander Frrar.
and William Kink, Tweed's former deputy
as Commissioner of Public Works.
Shortly after the publication of the -se
cret accounts" in .July, 1871. Mr. Tweed
says that Francis N. filthy and ex-Sher
iff (then State Senator) James O'Brien
came to him and offered to secure him
against any further investigation of his
bank accounts, his relation with the city.
or indeed, from any further trouble, if he
would pay 8150 000 toward O'Brien's
claim against the city for 8'..196,000 fin- un
paid fees.
The two represe-.ted to him that they
had such influence wer Mr. Tilden. -lodge
Barrett, and William C. Barrett as to im
mediately quash any further steps in the
pending investigation. Mr. Tweed says
he paid them $20,00) in cash and mort•
gages which they afterwards collected far
the rest ; and he understands that they af
terwards secured the same amount from
Connolly upon the Siirrlß representations.
Ile says that he does not ennsitier that
O'Brien's claim has any real merit.
lIn;11 Smith, Sweeny s particular friend.
attended to ail the transactions with Judge
Cardoza by which judicial action was ta
ken in behalf of the Ring.
Mr. Tweed says that the Navarra claim
of 4000.00 against the city. now pend
ing in the courts, being for water-meters
furnished to city i 4 a fraud. The contrast
with Mr. Navarro is fraudulent. and the
meters never answered their pnrpnse.
He mentions Mr. Thurloer Weed by
name, but does not connect him with any
etinivocal transaction. Ile mentions Judge
Folger, of the Court of Appeals. and Ge o .
H. Purser, of New York. as persons (0
whom he paid money.
The confession concludes with the prom
ise that the writer will he a wttneea for
the city in any snit brought by the city
for the recovery a moneys frau) any of the
persons mentioned. Ile does fact ask that
the snits against hill be Trashed, felt that
he be released from elnfiopment without
bail
George Lake's Great Fortune.
Mr. Lake came to New York spoor boy
from New England. He obtained a situa
tion in the old house of ri x id e ll A pi er ,, o3 ,
and in the course of time, made a contract
for three years at five hundred dollars per
year, or an aggregate of fifteen hundred
dollars for three years. Jost after making
this contract he was called on one day, by
Mr. 17rist, of spies. Cri-t h Co.. who said
to him, "Mr. Lake, we have had our eyes
on you for same time; your fidelity and
application to business please u.s We have
been looking for just such a man to take
charge of an important department of oar
business. We offer you three thousand
dollars the first year, five thousand the s.'e
ond, and seven thousand the third " Mr.
Lake replied : ••1 am obliged to you, Mr.
Crist. for your good opinion, but I cannot
accept your offer "
Mr. ('rist was surprised —Why not.
Mr. Lake ?"
"Because I just made a contract with
Upsdell & Pierson."
"But not on such terms as we offer you.
Mr. Lake ?"
`•No, certainly not," replied the ponr,r,
man
"Is your contract with 17pideI! k Pier
son in writing. Mr. Lake'"
"No, sir,"
"Well, then, it is not binding," said Mr.
Crist.
"It makes no difference." was Mr. Like's
reply ; "I have given Upsdell & Pierson
my word."
Three years went on, Mr. Lake support
ing his wife and child on $5OO a year. They
boarded on Canal street at 88 a week. Near
the end of the three years Mr. Pierson
one day said :
"Mr. Lake, we wish to say to you that
we are much pleased with you. Among
all our young men you have been most
faithful. We know where you go. When
your daily duties are over you go home.
We arc so much pleased with you that we
have decided to offt.r you an interest with
us."
Mr. Lake replied, "I cannot accept it,
Mr. Pierson."
"Why not ?"
"I have no capital and I will not bar
row."
It was Mr. Pierson's turn now to be sur
prised. "But, Mr. Like, y:)I will stay with
us?"
"I will stay, Mr. Pierson. but you must
make it an object." Mr. Lake then, fur
the lust time, told of the offer of spies,
Crist & Co., three years before.
This he had kept to himself, 2s liitbful
'to his duty at SSUO a year as he would
have been at $5,000 or $7,000 though he
could not always keep out of his mind the
tempting offer he had put aside.
Mr. Pierson said : "Mr. lake, on what
terms will you remain with us'"
"I can not both buy and sell the same
thing, Mr. Pierson. It' my services are
desired by you, make me an offer." They
parted. The next day Mr. Pierson said:
"Mr. Lake, my partner and myself have
determined to make you this offer: $lO,OOO
per year for ten years. -
"All right, Mr. Pierson, I accept. And
so, by fidelity and patience on 8:100 per
year, George G. Lake laid the foundation
of his fortune. He is one of God's noble.
men. His heart is warm with sympathy
fur the struggling and slffering.
THE other day a house in Putman Con
necticut, in which there was a sick negro,
was struck by lightning, and some of the
near neighbors going in to see what had
become of him, he peeped out from under
the bed-clothes, cove red with splinters of
wood and broken pieces of plaster, and
cooly asked :—"Am dar going' to bo an
nudder shower, honeys ?"
Lars Look.
TWENTY THOCSAND DOLLARS IN 401.0
?OVID IN A CATS re IA 31111111 CnVNTT
I' 'NNE/Puri.
Morristown T•en, (nset*, Weft*
There is a very 'troop story, yet sever
limiest., a trne one, to be gives yes foe per
readers. In the early history et Let
Tennessee, about 1794. so war as 1111111
determined, three taco by the Rams et
Patterson. all brothers, visited the New
Market Valley, with the ilifilllitille 4 buy
ing the rich and extensive lime seer whet
is known as Panther 9prisgs. They
brought with them a kegs smicisat
money, supposed to be fecal those
and to 6tty thoesaad &laws is Mnins
coin. While they wen leaking seer 11101
lands they were murdered mid their mese,
and other articles of rahm takes from their
person by a hunter, mid their bases blest
in a cave near what st that time was boos*
as the `sbellalo crossing," sow homes se
the G'rin.loone Bellow, which ohm wee
the rendescou.4 lf the murderer whom it
is suppeed. fearing that the Pattersemi
would be missed from the seiehborhood,
fled to the western porticos et Viggiano.—
There he died, and on hie death bed be
traWn a way bill that his \Mew treasures
might be round. Some forty year, spa.
say the older ritiawas, two ass came with
the way bill, giving a deoeriptiow st the
placl, and made every awl to Id the
money, but t., no purpose, sod after several
weeks of hard labor gave a, the search
Now for the sequel :
Puringi the heavy ,now 4 the pave wan- 'h. eni.. ft-wititer it it Is.. 'has
ter a man by the name of Jibs fromilert IV , it* wag "ever or, tossetes s a w
anti a man from the vicinity of Plotkin , • Ile 4...sehipr. ry.N..ipipi boa.
: 4 prinzii went hentiraw and tracked a eons sod Ihrowillw woo s sae-rshle -. v ol
to 3 man hole by the edge if a 'esti.— •Esed. freirliftansr_ row hemw twee thir
l Arn b.. r t stopped op the bele sea resserhod • altberileses 4 the swim orh. owl sego
that -Ile would get the gratkose yet if the !wpm 4 'he 4dorh, wed lA.,
he wasn't pretty sharp." Be trobainossitly rowillwuttirortl ?elm, trieivv.4 Lrassihr
went hack it le improed after the saam, , its tor rhino whore Ito hermotto ru - .
had ale;ted and rend two radio near dal?!
hole ;he moved these and slew below the • T.,. 1 0....4 .Nreo , Lowsepep'e /rose
a vast elven, Fla renamed hone sod apawito Wei.: -rite .-te lose ressieso
F e ,cured a bed cord. tied this wow s Pryor , It wow oar if* the !wet 'five
walnut tree. ind &Amaded iota it for antis epeerhee aver hewed lii•ers • .
lior feet. and there gonad the rrenswor fairoy:o R..
spread nut itrynn a rock, with an 41,1 :new- party wish 4s-4111/ iheeirwreisvoioe Pt , *
itnn i-tiftile Minket grew' ester 'lr. The ..a.• 41104-4 mos 4 ie-etv restgesliertn....
blanket had derayerl until wishing bet the were foil .f pewee oeo4 s.o wassail
remained. lie also fretted owe o)wew Ideve*.f• nisi. te-rie H.. -. 4 44
middle and vie Mesiese sti . Lowthort answer pirw,l by
mail.. these eatenients on s fvi.w•l4 hie. „ es .
and Anire•l him a pieltet roll 4 opoirr foam 4 Loftin,. and 44bOtair b o Iv
fi.! was a 'toy laborer. wad did woe boo+, wisseeed Iliserhoro filbsisserosee is -Ow
what it was to hove any SIMON 1110 , 101. hotereee posses' initswrietti-is N. woo
Toni. eorrisipnrelein visited Ott Vella, 4 WPM marrygiamagy. w.. Pwww mirror
errantry white sh e pp*, were sakimar imam .tilaehaimaiaca, a. imp *ma.
earatioos where Loather had Wad the and MPS aisieerisdne IMO almompafte.
cave. and 'Awaited with b own era lie amid Ma Pryor bet mid aim e. ega
sevrty owe- half of a boom alle.aam taboo *man waggle mi The. ipadad Also
ant. and all other **so sada a boodrapil . isav a eilaillsotne woof *Sr spa 4,, r.
year. Laaelliert sad hit swill km* 11Prpere..... , .1 w as
departed rni , enwn satimPire away with NOW
she money The. f•ft- s wee he r•"`"' i•I•1 0 • r
proven by a ntireber 4 -he beet eitiseirs 4 e 7. be hoe se. Mir felt that thy fr.
p m /4,r, , 4 neinlrs da•mr, piny 111.4 ...irsqp4 eh. limpa.—
dam rs 1114111 limo or same No boo ihisio a.
pliammetitits power sod irsvie-bisioes
NMI /boy comers! Landar. ob. sus aL
Died ►MI.
• It warn a *ad fierral tn gewl the isruispil wibihrigibiset we* Se" — i d,
.p!aker—"the qualdali I bay! actPadl.d for imp a MA Swirl& a. aroma. we la
Jam, "
-That of Voluentoono 1-
1 - Teo.-
• flow did he , be
P.or Poor to prrerty —ht4 !ire was
one long simple with the world. and at
every di4ndsastaTe /mtgs. inesled him
all the while with %Med romw tit
were destined sever in bow fellillomai
"Yet, he was patient and esisriag." str•
marked '.n of as esiariary.
-Patient 29 a ehriiitia•--warlarias siv •
martyr," was flat answer. •• Poor um
fle was worthy of a hotter fats. He amp*
to have miesseded, fur he donor sasnass."
DUI be sot seessui r opossiessd
one who bad 'pokes of his pwsurovinasa
and enduraace.
-No. sir ; be flied pior. so I have jam
Nothing that he put his band is
ever succeeded. A straw, fatality ssirsasd
to attend every avierprior."
• I was with his is hit his sore stn."
said the other. "and 'howls. be aid risk"
"No, be has left toothier; wag mph*.
"The heirs will have ao "mews me to the
adaiini.tration of the ensile
Ile has left a good ease." saw. one.
and that is something "
• - .lnd a lima , ' of *obit deeds that were
done in the same of boassaity." rinsarited
another.
Ind preel..us e ia l esph.,..* p ai d se ntb er
1,e,...e.0ns of patience in valorise; of
hope in adversity ; of heavenly ennietrwee
when no gilt:beans fell upon hie bewildered
path." was the testimony of another
-And h'gh trait. rirsaly courage. hervte
fortitude.-
- Then he died rich was the emphatie
deelaration—••richer than the millionaire
who went to his home the same day. a
miserable pauper in all bat ;old .% Ind
funeral. did you say! X,. my friend. it
was rather a triumphal proeesewm: ant
the burial of a human clod, but the eery
ninnial attendant on the trass!ation of as
angel. Did sot queered'—why his whole
life was a Aeries of /weenies ! In every
conflict he cause of the victor. and now
the •iinor's eriwn is os hie brow. Asy
man, with a share
of brains. may rather in motley and leant
the art of keeping it ; but set nee is s
hundred can bravely coarser is the beige
of life as Edmondson has eowyeered sea
step forth from the maks of men a aria
tian hero No, no: he did we die pew.
hot rich—rich in celestial alerting/. Asa
his heirs have an interest in the 'daises
maim] of the estate. .1 large property
has tiesen left. and let them see to rt that
they do not lose the preeiown thiagsthreweit
false estimates anal ignorant depreeieti.tee."
"1"..11 have a new way of vitiating the
wealth of a man," said the one who had
fi r st exp r o.scil sympathy for the deceased
The Game of Life.
Min's life is a Ramp of eirds First it
- rrib age." Nczt he trw gw
alone, - at a sort of "cot, shwas awl Jeer'
pnee. Then he '-gambles ea the elves."
The 3 he -raises - the •decree" when hie
mother ••takes a hand in" and, erretrary to
Hoyle -beats the little joker" with her
"five." Then, with his "dientoogio - ►e
‘•irins" the "queen of hearts." Tired el
"playing a lose hand." he esp....ems de
sire to "assist" his fair "portlier. "threes
out his eard3," and the clergyman takes
ten dollar bill out of him -oat a pair."—
She "orders his up" to bald the Gras
Like a "knave" he "joins" the -this,"
where he ones get. "high," whit* is
'•low" too. It he keeps - visaiglit - be is
oftentimes "Ilooh." He grows old sad
sees a "deal" of trtmiller. wives m
last he "Angles" off his sort& nail, aid
"passes in his cheeks." As be is "raked
in" by a "spade." life's &fel 'game is
ended, aad he waits the sesswiees of Gs
brier.-trutup." which shall order kis up.
fleard Compeaskalist Slob.
I W MUMS L rTf.stfs irrrit iagrias
O. 4
V.,• 'to "bow War Osier.
••Lare wit mewl the Sally, iirwl 414-
Saw A. .kworr. to hie nisi rialey tireweed
le wires calormiewal wwWWwwwww
while we *wry Awing aiewelrie moo 4
thaw C B lea 9 Maim mem Dere:
, "the west 404 . that W. obio ems riwupww
shed heel. Aber the Whir of Jame Was.
saw Ralik Beery A. W wad eaurami.
wee Cilloy—ellet sow er •112 yew hew—
war the Bre*, Ihrhoseele Air. lan
hew llarimmoma lierreeired Bra id we
week .se Alismese wearily mil Mean.
NON' by eltelliagawy Berriewirwe
seam. was 4..errelly serprowi she
Dowrwarom swwpw4
Irani was s mreiral orweed
Breali. • e.wood 1 =Mt
ya ow hew
re $ ee 4 / 1 114 heave. ler Ilse shim* verb
Berrteper. N.. gams priapir• ewe barb
lues bon. :be *weds imerwil
bet h. al, Intl, doer Awry. Floriseram.
scoPperd Lbw *Aft
wriveted rait-wis >w elbs. ara4 aortele rI
.• floe. true ...or the 11101,.• Wow. 7‘.
whoae• wai.• sir et...-1. my, Alin+ I
wallows, mow fr." Ylimmtrws swwww.•
to Parer Ihwirowtowe g.• bvemiirmr tibp
if erety WM ribs • ob.
furirared gittasser 17 -antes 4 1.4.ftee
'in the: mite rliarriew •
• Di , . riv• *At Amiwp
• Yls. harie.l FL- •ir
u.-eptsepori _4 Ammo berim 1•••••• so 4
4nollieg somporl • 10 tam mow
dhow. 4•••••
I w Liarir are might 11.110, t•
romelled Prpw 11100 b 4op smipinow" tow
tieeePti retem. am very
for Las it dakelhool is • tea_
New so it ipmer Leer Isere
afraid they'll bs prior NOW a iry
-Kill li.' Nr, • Wloy. r a ps,
soil I bow r P•seiw a,. Amour bsollo
lisoivs.. Om s 3• foam rows glib disomilioro
Pow so so owns or loorlow. lb rot
dish Prrw rub lir Follo ar
Pryor Ira weir. Ro".1 coy %noir loom
Iwo •ffrblimes. ger --
- WU* thee. Loookr
- Irby. r. Pfter.e. oftwemll. sod dim
nl 440111111 P Prong o. SOW osylliwit
r. ihmeilmwsto Doopooros. Imo anow
body Mr get so Hs tw.vy reek or dew
isosiros doom *worn will .weiresove •vvry
flortlrris wow so cowrie
"Aosi Lappin lOW OP good or bay awol
rooolooril Mr Clow -Pryor id bore
dowse. se thy grouse rbro is &Ewe row.
has beirur. i am.. emir roiled goo 4 the
ondo r horlos- , or sys.oproo Tb.. Loa
I.r ehal boob lbOoposfr *,. iralkp
Pry-, bow4+ll +sow lbw, Ibrr
FAO* Ilisibm.
It :4 •of SC in
L itz 6 0 4. ow l .wirtainig I now 4it pia
Awing ?bat awarbars sad 4 / a nailaanamaa aso
seit:Friiii *epos tnipsh+r st Air awlliart
Not "sly es rim web." , fa. Gra. kik vie
whim, 74e as dap brow
wh..r. pal visit 'am 7r-e"-•• verla. Tr.
earns.. thr-Astli-aw : ;pee dr
prem.& at tho, 4i.vr•-r t.ii s , bee ND day
eirmarz party si. ma an a q.t.% Rhos
ev..r way 6. yfter Swim aulpr....wes 4 welt
if it Ihrinwii• ire yaw
•yuipapt%ti. s`.% tfM ;a .!I. 6111.0
rim tr it To.r:r 4. is 74porm D. *big* ft. v
•0411. - 1 . 4
t ire... 1r 004
rftr.tt..ll eh. 4.lpcsePi. A. s room
all avr.t a•inott thy arraiaerrirsis to Imp
parfret 11w !!r ietfy r.ris sod suorfteo ,
, 6Taity ..f iantlavr am am ••••Taiwr. ii .if
to th. rot hr.; twnery trsd soserire
se.. 4 chat eigeffbe•vs. %.J yam .rn foe
estlibiles w im.r. I•nt •••••ritinere, ellesime
the lowest of the poem. Stir mobrv . •
promasse M7R emir I. argeor as so se
warms restrairar Itot•••••, her sod tile
dlssicker• WTIT sort 'b. smut r•flo..
piayfei, bns fr•-•imel irnlbmos rho ism -
1e 4 alkali. our. oral diem, ismil ar
ii•ority es the .•• loved. sr otamoss spiew
ftol 11141 'hay tho maser ft on" by
*Psi 4 IlLerli*lte sinerrally tfiLs
show cap) thlsza •re it aberwor
abr. G. w!lt . ent Lomb pa ?...sted istalloriev .
WA el* moot Itionourit friwilma 4 maw
enwrap b•nrews pesses• 154 timer ILL
Chinni Midnie le Illowsegis.
Tie istisis• assns. 4 Ti pro .41'
Aland hiarns. sea amplarr it swirl.
pasiser 2 wirer OW ir 4 tie awns
era rain. sr $ lewd sigiassacis
gia. Dr Lim Prow wowar 111 Of
Ate Baehr.) wri.b.ra perusio. Aso be bre
rispinyed Is is bur prwrolow. and laboord
nabs?. to 4, et. rd dim is ..erry raw is
Ilmer adirrilell gra. wed is ems ironware.
issossisasowo mist kr aserra.. is app.
doss net appear re be no iirrisinas ne
doe nerve amok it bums/ ors* ire.
eines is enueolleis 4 !b. reirner, no 4 sir
originator—is 4 dr imam weir is
aninigis of till. ;ryes and no rellasiwg
tress .4* are 4 4 r wryer ea Irwroorras
dienseerr. it it dimply sassamay ss poise
an rums" WO* seer the porsAal lows.
so 4 to allow 4So dry. is arm, Karr ,
dinstrb it soy tirosso• a olifirog arm
time of dim. shin Pre inwillanew ill
1C.08.1 as ctreilent
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