Happiness.
In tti® peaeo of Juue's sweet weather
Up the (till two lovers start,
And two pathway* tiloml together
In till* summer of tho heart,
t aro nestling in the clover,
Blackbirds chatter loud and lung.
And a robin flying over
Tells love's secret in his song.
She i* shy, and fitful blushes
Come ntl go ujx n her face,
Like a brood of startled thrushes
When we near their nesting-place.
Downcast aro lier eyes, and lower
Droop tho fringes of each lid.
When he bonds hia head to show her
Where the sparrow's nest is hid.
Where the noisy brooklet tinkles
Down the rocks, they stop to see
How the yellow sunshine crinkles
All the ripples gotdcnly.
•' Wooing! wooing !" sings the waUr,
As it laughs and leads away,
And again his eye# have caught her
Blushing like a rose ill May.
Then a silence comes about them
For a time, until it seems
garth has gone its way without them.
Leaving them in land of dtvams -
Harpy land, where lovers linger,
Where they find their dteams come true.
And lovo points with rosy linger
From the old world to tbc new.
A Fortunate Casualty.
A sweet voice comes lilting down the
, stairs, light footsteps trip along the
ball to the sitting-room door, which
opens, while a face with mischievous
eyes, with floating cnrls falling all
about it in a lustrous shower, looks in,
to start back in amaze at the sight of
her mother in tears, and her sister doing
her best to sootheber— her own face not
wearing its usual calm expression.
All the sparkle dies oat of the pretty
face as Pnssy enters and goes to her
mother's side.
" What is it, mother dear? Has any
thing happened ?"
lint the old lady sobs on, and it is
Sarah who answers, holding a letter to
Pnssy to lead.
"It is this that is the matter. Mr.
Elbermarlc. through bis agent, tells us
that we must pay up the fall amount of
the mortgage within two weeks or leave
the house. - '
Pnssy's eyev dilate; she knows the
sleuderness of the home exchequer, and
that to pay such a large sum upon such
a short notice will be an utter impos
l sibility.
" Oh, dear, what shall we do ? How
cruel of that rich Mr. Elbermarle, to
turn us out of house sml home when be
ia rolling in wealth !"
He rah turns her eyes tenderly yet
anxiously njon the pretty, indignant
face; she evidently has something to
sav which does not come easily.
" Yon are the one who can prevent
■acli a disaster, Pussy," she says at
length. "One word from you and onr
feeble mother wilt not have to leave the
home she loves so well.'
"I can help it—how?"
Sarah evades the upturned, question
ing eyes.
"Mr. LAW was hero this morning,
Puny, and—he wants to marry yon. - '
The last w< rds came in a great harry,
as though the speaker were glad to
have them over and done with.
With a g< store of dismay Pnssy
shakes her long ringleta about ber face
and sinks down in a little heap upon
the floor.
" Tlia* old man wants me to marry
him, and I am only seventeen 1 Oh,
Sarah, could yon honestly harbor such
an idea for a moment 1" a world of re
proach is in the young voice.
Sarah's hand falls gently on the
bowed head.
" I know it ia dreadful to even think
of. But, Pnssy, what other way is
there? Think of mother of
her feebleness, which has always
kept me tied to her side, pre
venting my even thinking of obtaining
any employment. If we have to leave
the old home it will surely be her death.
Look at her now."
Pn*sy glances up. The invalid's face •
ia covered with both her hands, while
through the thin fingers tho bitter tears
are stealing.
" Pnssy, come here."
She rises and goes to her mother's
aide.
" My pet, do not heed what yonr sis
ter savs. She means it for tho best,
but she bos thought only for me.
Sorely yon do not think yonr mother
wonld purchase comfort at the expense
of her child's happiness."
All at once Posey's resolve is taken,
though she saya nothing then to ber
mother, only presses a silent kisa on her
dear gray bead.
Bat a short while later sha appears
at the door bonneted and cloaked, with
a little banket on hor arm, and beckons
Sarah out.
"Yon said yon wanted sugar and
eggs from the village, Sarah, and I'm
going for them now, I wanted to tell
\ yon that I've thought over what yon
•aid about Mr. Law, and I've come to
the conclusion that it wouldn't be so
bad a lot after all to be a rich old man's
daring."
Compunctious tears spring to Sarah s
oyos as she stoops and kisses the inno
cent young face, and watches as, out
wardly light-hearted and cheery, Pussy
starts out upon her long wintry walk.
Her brave words and manner have
not deceived her sister. "I ought to be
ashamed to think of allowing hor to
sac riflco her young life," she thinks, as
she turns back ; "but it is for the dear
mother's sake, and what other way is
there ?"
Pussy walks on, u pretty picture in
her dark suit with its scnrlet pipings,
aud the lovely face whose brilliance no
heart trouble can quite quench.
It is very oold; overhead tho sky is
gray, and tho wind skurries tho clouds
along at a rapid rate, and plays rnauy a
prank with Pussy's hair, now blowing it
forward into the rosy face, and now
backward into disheveled, curling,
bronze brown masses.
A steep incline is before her, and it is
i one long dazzle of ice.
" Oh, dear," thinks Pussy, "I shall
: certainly fall."
Tho thought has scarcely passed
through her mind when, with on ex
clamation of dismay, her feet Blip from
beneath her, and down she goes.
Some one sees and hastens to her
| assistance ; but masculine boots cannot
| always tread dangerous spots in safety
I any more than the tiuicst of feminine
feet, such as Passv's—and there is ex
clamation number two, as, with a de
cided thud, her would-be deliverer sits
down by Pussy's side.
It is a frank and very haudßome face
which meets hers, as his dark eyes look
into her blue ones with au irresistible,
mirthful laugh. In a moment the gen
tleman is on his feet aud Pussy, with
his help, soon stands beside him.
" I hopo you aro not hurt," tho young
man says, as he lifts his hat, his voice
grave, though his eyes still brim over
with fun.
"Not at all," Passy answers; "but I
am on my way to the village, and I am
afraid if 1 go on I shall fall again. I
think I will tnrn back."
" I am going to the village myself,
and if you will allow me, will accom
pany you as far as you go."
"Oh, thank you," Pussy says, "I
shall not tic at all afraid of slipping com- j
ing hack, as it will be up hill."
And so they walk off together, and bo
fore leng, with the bonhomie of youth,
they nro chatting together as though
they had known each other weeks in- \
stead of moments. They part at the 1
postofllce, which likewiso is the rrpoai-'
tory of ail the needfuls of life, such as
sugar, teas, needles and pins, and such
like commodities.
11 1 am ever no much obliged to yon,"
Pussy says, earnestly, raising her soft,
innocent eyes to the handsome face of
her escort.
"Thanks are needless," he says,
politely. "I am only glad that yon
wero not hnrt by yonr fall."
A little mischievons light dashes into
Pussy's eyes, and she replies, demurely:
" All the same, I do thank yon, and L
am equally glad that you eseapod any
serious injury from your fall," empha
sizing tho "yonr" vsry palpably.
As the door closes upon tho girl's
slight figure a faint smile curves tho
gentlemau's mouth.
" What a little darling 1 lam not by
any means sure that I hare escaped a
serious injury after all," he thinks to
himself
" See here, dray," ho says aloud to
a gentleman who is just passing, "I
have a question to ask you. You have
lived around here long enough to know
something i f the pooplo. Can you tell
me who the young lady Is you saw mo
with just now ?"
" Of course I can, though I am not
acquainted. \Yhr she's the daughter
of— 1
Turning, the two gentlemen move on,
while the crisp wind carries away what
they are saying. A couple of hours
later sees Pussy home once more. No
one is in tho sitting-room, aud as she
runs up the slairs she sees that the par
lor door ia open and hears voices.
Pussy's faco blanches sml then flushes
again.
" I am sure it is Mr. Lsw," she thinks,
turning to flee, but she is not quick
enough, her light steps have been
heard; and at Barah's call, the girl goea
with a fierce, resentful feeling as of
some hapless animal caught in a trap,
to face, as she thinks, the detested
suitor she has determined to accept for
the sake of her mother—to prevent her
lieing turned in her old ago from her
home.
Bat when she is once within the room,
Paas; pauses in amazement, for there,
seated on the sofa, in easy conversation
with her mother, she sees the gentle
man who had so kindly come to her as
sistance a few hours before.
"Pasty, this is Mr. Elbermarle,"
Harsh says, " and he has been so very
kind aa to offer to let us keep the home
stead at a very low rent. Please, sister,
join with me in telling him what a load
be hae lifted from uiir minds."
The gentleman rises, and as Pussy
ieya her dimpled hand in his, he eaye:
" How eruel you must have deemed
uie, Miss Ooldthwaite. I must confess
it—'hough it ii to tnv hame-I leave
my business affairs much too entirely
in my lawyer's (Mr. Gray's) hands. He
acted quite on his own responsibility in
this matter. I have learned a lesson;
henceforth I will be my own agent. Can
you forgive roe for causing yon all so
much distress ?"
There is a thrill of earnestness in his
tones more than tho.'occasion seems to
require, and something within Pussy's
breast responds to it, though uncoil
sciously. Otherwise, why does her
lovely face color so charmingly?
Mr. Elbermarlo leaves the occupants
of tho Goldthwaite home with fur
brighter hearts than ho fonnd them.
And when, a day later, Mr. Law—tho
rich old man who has coveted his
neighbor's lamb—conies for his answer,
he goes away with more of rueful
ness than his demeanor usually pos
flosses.
Three months of education does not
make a scholar; nor yet would the same
number of months of toil for tho " root
of all evil" bring the desired wealth;
bnt three months of love making can
tie mode to connt for a good deal, and
so finds Roger Elbermarlo.
The winter is over aud spring is here;
the month when the birds choose their
mates and build their tiny homes, and
' men's minds turn instinctively to
thoughts of love; and one afternoon,
jnst as the sun is setting behind greut
cloudy bars of crimson and purple,
Roger draws up in his phaeton before
the little gate of the Goldthwaites' cot
tage.
" 1 will take the licst of care of her,"
he says to Barab, as he lifts Pussy's
slight figure into the carriage and jumps
lightly in beside her. Sarah's face
softens as she looks after them.
" The darling! it's easy to see what
is coming. Ob, how could I ever have
thought to let her sacrifice herself—and
ye 4 ., when i 4. was for mother! Well, aho
de*orvea everything of the best."
The two young people drive along
with but few words for a littlo while,
drinking in the beanty of the scene
abont them; the low lying valleys are
bathed in a golden haze; tho 44 green
thin 2* growing" have already began to
clothe the roadside with verdure, and
over all the sky throws its gorgeou*
mantle. In a short time the sun will
I have set, tho twilight fallen, and all
will be quiet and gray; but just now
the earth seems like a new and glorified
sphere.
Suddenly Roger tnms and looks into
his companion's sweet face.
" Do yon rememlier this spot?" he
asks.
A smile chases away the gravity which
Pnsay't face has worn for the past few
moments.
" Yes," she replies, "it is the scene of
our casualty."
"Thst fortunate casualty I I see yon
do not mean me to forget that I lost my
eqnilihrinm vs well as you. Rut, Pussy,
psrdon me, I always call yon so in my
thoughts, you are only right in saying
4 onr,' for my heart received an injnry
tbad day from which it has not yet re
entered and never will unions yon say
one little word to what 1 am going to
ask yon. Pussy, sweetest Pussy, I love
you—can I hope that you care for me
in return?"
Pussy's face is turned sway, but tbe i
small hand he has daringly taken pos
session of trcmhlos visibly.
44 Pussy, answer me—will you be my
little wife V
That Pussy says "yea" may be in- j
ferrcd, for one month later she stands a
blushing, beautiful bride by her bnv
hand's side in tho little parlor of the
homestead, which, tho paper Roger
presses into his mother in law's hand I
later in the day, states is henceforth
hers and her heirs, forever.
It is not often that such a thing cap
be sfilmed, bnt for once a casualty can
unmistakably lie called fortunate.
Two Notih-men.
Among the passengers of the steamer
Sorthia, on which I returned from
Europe, was an English varl, a qnint
gentleman, in no way remarkable or in*
teresting, who comes to onr country
almost yearly to hnnt in the West. The
obsequious homage of the captain and
officers of the ship in the presence of
the little great man, and the painful,
cringing defercooe of the stewards were
almost as disgusting as was the ineffable
silliness of one or two American women,
who Irccame oblivions of the commonest
rules of good breeding in their raptures
over the presence of a live earl There
was another gentleman among the pas
sengers, a nobleman in the highest
sense, bat ni. titled. and of the people —•
Samnel Morley, a member of perils
merit, a grand man, a philanthropist
finding his happiness in work for the
race. llis charities are unbounded, his
contributions to the temperance work of
England alone amonntinginsome yean
to r 000. Bat while offioers and
stewards gave to him, as to nil passen
gers, the most court eons attention,
there was in their manner an alter lack
of the fawning and a If effsoement so
conspicuous in their behavior toward
tha earl. OM was an hereditary noble
man by birth -the other, every Inch a
nobleman, without a title—and this
made tho difference.—May A. Lirtr
mom.
AX IXIAX AUEXOr.
A I,*r luslan Chief-—Novrl Made •!
Ilnrlal—-Indian I'allrrmru.
Captain Boyton and a Now York Her
ald correspondent, who started on a
voyage down the Missouri, the former
in his rublior suit and tho latter in a
canoe, arrived at Fort Bennett in an ex
hausted condition. Boyton was con
voyed to tho honso of Major Love, tho
Indian agent, in an army ambulance,
after having paddled incessantly for
twenty-eight hours.
After breakfast tho next day, says
tho correspondent, we made a trip
through tho agency buildings and
learned something übont the Indian
question. There are over two thousand
Indians connected with tho Cheyenne
agency. Tho principal chief is Little
no-llcart, and among tho other chiefs are
Rattling Rib, White Hwan, The Charger
and Four Rears. These me.'- are peace
ably disposed and belong to tribes who
farm and raise stock on the reservation.
But a few days ago, through some loose
management, 120 of Hitting Rail's war
riors were permitted to leave tho camp
of the hostile* at Bunding Rock aud
enter the Cheyenue agoncy. They were
headed by two of tho hostile chiefs
Spotted Eagle and Two Eagles. The
agent says that up to the timu of their
arrival he felt great confidence in tbe
Indians in his charge; but at present he
feels rather uneasy. When tbe steamer
Sherman, containing Hitting Bull and
his followers, passed Fort Bennett the
Cheyenne agency Indian* assembled on
tho hanks and tho most violent demon
strations of grief occurred. Major Love
is apprehensive that Sitting Bull's in
fluence may be extended throughout
the Cbeyonno agency through the me
dium of the infiucuoo of the newly
arrived hostile*.
One of the most unique exhibitions
of audaaity on the part of the "noble
red man" that I have yet witnessed oc
curred in tho agency offise. It is a good
illustration 'of 4 tho manner in which the
impudent humor* of the Indians are
pampered by the very official* whose
dnty it is to impress the savage with a
proper appreciation of his statu* iu the
body politic. Wnilo we were holding a
conversation with Agent Live Two
Etglei, a lazy-looking chief, who evi
dently needed a bath, lounged ioto the
room and took a chair near to tho fire,
where he sat comfortably wa*ming hi*
feet- A meanly-clal "back" handed
hi* pipo to the chief hut wa* tint bio to
furnish a lignt, whereupon Two Eagles
tnrne l in the coolest possible manner
aud motioned the agent to get him some
matches. While Major Love waited
upon him the chief lolled hack in the
chair with an injured air and sc< wled
Itocanso tho matches came too slowly to
snit him.
"If I had my war," said Captain
Boyton indignantly, 4, 1 wonld take that
fellow by tho oar and turn him out to
work for his living. Thi* lionizing of
men who spend one part of thoir time
in murdering white* and the other part
in drawing ration* from the government
ought to stop, and the sooner the bet
ter. These savage* are not half ao vain
ablo to the community as the negroes,
and yet they are waited npon like
princes.' 4
Accompanied by the agent in the af
ternoon we drove out of the fort about (
two miles to a tree in which a nnmber of
Indians, according to the custom of their
trine, hail lieen buried. It was a well
grown elm, which grew ntraight oat of ;
tbe gronnd to a height of five or six ■
feet, at which point tho trunk forked :
into a dozen gnarled and twia 4 od ,
branches, the pecaliar black bark of :
these limb* giving them an unnatural
look. Everywhere among tbe yellow
leaves were perched heap* of decaying
garments and bones. In some places
storm* had torn away the gaudy funeral
paraphernalia aud whole skeletons were
exposed. All the implements which the
dead are supposed to need in the happy
hunting grounds were placed at the aide
of tbe corpse, and In one branch I saw !
a trunk which belonged to a skeleton
just underneath it Ho many Indians
have been placed npon the branches of
this ancient elm that it ia said to have
had a more rigorous growth than any
tree in tho neighborhood in conse
quence of tbe fertilization. The ma
jority of the bodies deposited in the
aerial cemetery are Reese Indians, but
tho Crow tribe laid throe of tbeir braves
there, upon learning which B >yton ir
reverently remarked, 44 Three crows act
on a tree." Since tho establishment of
tho agency the Hionx have not been per
mitted to keep up this disgusting prac
tice.
Attached to the rescrvatioa is a huge
school for hoys, which has an attend -
ance of abont fifty. The education of
Indian mchins is attended with great
difficulties, as the parents of the chil
dren are almost invariably opposed to
having them learn how to speak Eog
li*h. Indent, while the agent was ex
plaining the school sy item two Indian
policemen went by, carrying between
them a refractory youth who ran away
from school a few days ago and had to
be returned by force. The Sioux stub
b irnly resist all attempts at d< nation
alisation or edueation. 44 T|a©te who
have been taught to speak English are
ashamed to do it," Maid tho agent.
"One of our boy* can apeak tbe lan
gaage almost a fluently an my own aon,
and yet, when be wanta anything he
goea to tbe agency interpreter, just as
the other Indiana do. They are very
apt pupil* and tain comprehend ideaa
with wonderful accuracy, but their
prejudice against white people i* * 0
gvon 4 and unconquerable that educe
tio:- would be thrown away did w<> not
know that it ia gradually raising the
standard of Indian intelligence."
The Indian policemen employed at
the agencies appear to be the most
painstaking and loyal of the govern
merit's servants. I meet them every
where. On the banks of the river,
looking oat for clandestine whisky
dealers; in the timber groves, guarding
against marauding wood cotters, and
among the tepees of their brethren, day
anil night; always vigilant and ready,
with rifle in hand, to protect tbe in
terests of the government at the risk of
their lives. 1 have only to hand a let
ter addressed to any person living at
tho fort to one of these inoeassined em
ployes, and without a moment's delay
he will dart away with the swiftness of
a deer and deliver the letter before he
rents. When 250 Cheyonnes broke
away from their reservation a sergeant
and five policemen were sent to bring
them back. The fugitives were over
taken near the Powder river and ordered
to return by the police. The head
chief laughed at tho command, and,
pointing to over forty of biA warriors,
asked the sergeant wlut he could do
against such a force. The latter re
peated his order, and tin chief said he
would die before he would go back.
Hardly had be apoken the words when
tbe sergeant shot him dead. The
promptness and bravery of the act
awed tb whole encampment, who were
taken back to their reservation without
farther trouble. Major Love says that
a dozen Indian policemen can do more
real work than fifty white soldiers.
It'j-brls of Confederate Mono;.
A Griffin (Ga.) correspondent of the
, Atlanta Cc>**titutioH write* a* follow*
oonecrning Mr. J. W. Corbin, a citizen
jof Griffin: Homo years ago bo took a
j j>ocnlir notion that Confederate money
anl bonds would tomo day be worth
, -omothing; ao he went to work and
bought them up in large |U%ntitie, pay
ing cah for a oonci lerablo amount and
bartering meal from hi* mill for the bal
ance. He gave a buhel of meal for a
thousand dollar*, and many a wagon
load of that food ha* been hauled away
from hia door. Many people, of eonme,
regarded the no'ion a* rather cranky,
bnt to those Mr. Corbin gave no heed,
going right along and buying every dol
lar he eonld rake and scrape. There is
really no telling how mnch Confederate
money be has. Those who know, or
seem to know, say he has between seven
and eight millions, beside several hun
dred thousand dollars in bonds. When
aaked at a bank how much his bonds
were worth he replied: " Well, 1 have
3125,000 in one boi, and that isn't all,
by a lot." And no he has gone right on
this way for year*. He has had letters
from all over the country, and he ha*
bought the stuff right and left, from far
and near. As already stated, no one
knows just how far exactly his freak has
cxl ended, and be may have 350,000,000
for all I know. Mr. Corbin is consid
erably stirred np by the recent demand
in London, and seems satisfied be is on
the right track to an immense fortune.
Ho ta not considered st all shaky in the
npper story by bis friends, though they
•annot, c f course, understand hia st range
fascination abnnt Confederate money.
He lias always leen considered a solid
ciiiron, and ia in go >d circumstances
now. hot will he the wealthiest maa in
the Honth, if bin dream ia over realised.
Fish In • Block of Ire.
In Virginia City, Nev., recently was
on exhibition a block of ioe in which
Wcro fror.cn several trout. The ioe was
froseu by the company's ieo machine on
the divide. The trout were almost as
plaint r visible as though they bad been
suspended in the air. They were in
natural attitudes, and appeared to have
congealed without knowiug that any
thing unusual was happening to them.
As atl their spots and colors were dis
tinctly visible, and they stood immova
ble, with tails aud-Aas expanded, they
would have formed a splea lid study
for an artist. Indeed, we think that
there is a hint that painters of snoh
subjects should not neglect Bel s were
made that they wonld thaw out "alive
and kicking," and the block of ice was
accordinglr placed in a tank and al
lowed to melt, bat at last account* the
trom were lying on the bottom appar
ently quite deed. Artificial froesing
was evidently too qnick and sharp for
them.
Toe Late,
" Osn yon let me have some clab
ber T' asked a traveler at a fsrmh .use
not far from Austin.
" Yon can't have any," replied the
honest farmer; " I've just gin nlt to
the hogs. First come,, first serv d, you
you."—7W Si/ling*.
OIl AVCIMESrff.
At Pine Bluff, Ark., a sberifTa poaae
surrounded the residence of a clesjx-rate
thief. He jumped from a window and
ran for the wood*. One pawner out
st ripped hie fellows, and the next fleet
eat mmtook him for the thief and ahot
him.
At Kanaa* City, a* a man waa aitting
on the balcony of hi* houae, a steam
boat ran into it and cruahed him to
death. (This waa daring the April
flooda.)
At Baltimore, a man who waa being
shaved heard a runaway, and, thinking
it waa hia team, jumped np and had hia
none nearly cut off.
At Canton, Ohio, Jamea Little drank
some cold beer which paralyzed hia
i atomachand, forming carlwnic acid gaa,
hia whole system, csuaing nearly in
' atantaneona death.
At Nanticoke, I'a., John Lafachuski
broke a bottle of whiaky in hia jiocket,
j saturating hia clothea ; when ho subse
ijuently lit a match they took Ore, and
| he waa fatally burned.
In Adair county, Mo., two young
' men agreed to be photographed with
i piatola drawn on each other. The
artist, while arranging its poaition, dia
j charged one of the piatola, shooting
the opposite sitter through the lungs.
At Laktport, Me., a sailor wanting a
drink of water and flndiug the cask
j pnrnp frozen, poured hot water into it,
and while attempting to sack a drink
from it inhaled the ateam and wa*
scalded to death.
At I'ittaburg, Pa , Mike Maroney en
j tercj a core oven in a foundry to warm
himaelf, and another workman placed a
| core on the truck, ran It in, closed the
1 door and roasted him alive.
At Itixford, Pa., Loui* Garthwait
i lowered a forty-quart torpedo of nitro
j glycerine into a well, when the well
. made a sudden flow, struck the torpedo
1 and blew him to piece*.
At Green Ridge, I'a., John Thompaon
and his brother tried to atop a dog
| flgbt, anl the latter threw a atone at
1 the animals and, misting them, smashed
his brother"* skull.
At Bl Louis, Thomas J. Wharton,
Jr., took up a large oyster, Raid:
"This is the kind of oyster Walter
, Brooks choked to death on," tried to
swallow it, and wat choked to death.
t At Dovereourt, England, a boy named
Boast swallowed the sting of a wasp
j while eating some preserve*, and died
' while running to the doctor's.
At Neodeaha, Mian., Albert Grant
waa playing with a Newfoundland dog
and dragging it by the tail, when it
jumped into the pood, pulling him in,
i and be was drowned.
Popular Son?*.
" Shoo Fly," sung ton years ago from
one end of the Union to the other, had
a sale of 80,000 copies, and ia now for
gotten. It netted the fortunate pub
lisher several thousand dollars. " Old
Folks at Home" was written thirty
year* ago by 'Stephen C Foster, who
•old it to Christy, of minstrel fame, for
$5, and received a bonus of f."> more for
the privilege of having his (Christy's)
name on the title page a* author, and
after the piece bad male him rich he
generously gave Foster SSO more, which
is all he ever received for the song.
But it served to make the snthor
famous, and to sell all his other songs;
yet be died a poor man. For a while
the piece waned in public favor until it
was sung by Mile Nilason at her con
certs, when it took a new start, and at
this pros nt time it is one of the best
selling songs in the market. The nu
merous transcriptions from its melody,
by npwsrd of twenty-different eom
posers, serve to keep it popnlar. It is
really a worthy companion to " Sweet
Home," and will probsbly be snng for
a hundred years or more. During the
war several songs published at the time
And a remarkable success. " Weeping,
.Sad and Lonely," had a sale of upward
of 300,000. " When Johnny Comes
Marching Home," "Tenting on the Old
Oamp Ground " (sang by the Hutchin
son family), each had a very large sale
and enriched the publishers, and in one
or two oases the author*.
The Batfhiat ti.-l or Wraith.
QD of the commonest idola in Japan
i* that of Daikokn.the lialdbist god of
wealth. "Ho ia jolly and roguish
looking usually," #m Mi* Bird, in her
rwnt work on Japan, "as fndeod the
god mar lie who leads all ni on and fool*
moit He ia abort and stout, wears a
oap like the oap of liberty, ia seated on
rice-bags, holds a mallet in hi* right
hand, and with the left grapa tightly a
largo sack which bo carries over hia
shoulder. The moral taught by this
figure has long ainoa been forgotten. It
teaches humility by ita low stature. lot
bag represents wealth, requiring to be
firmly held when attained. The oap
partly shades the eyes, to keep them
beat down on the realities of life. The
mallet repreeenta manual labor, and the
riee bags the riobes to bo enquired by
following the rulea whth raise the
lowly. Tradi r#, farmers, and all who
hare their liWuf to make, propitiate
Daikoku. and he ia ceror without offer*
! inaa and income," •M,-- .