—t—— ER a as THE OLD BROWN Cl OAK. old man, To was vorelonly ban ———— | gry. “1 dou’. know as I've anything | “Where's the bombazive cloak, give,” said Farmer Foxglove, looking | pa?” cried Scraphioa, after the some” dubiou-ly uronud the kiichen. * Phi- | what frugal supper, as she took down lena, she don't believe in giving much the milking-psil. “It's raining a lit. igh the ‘Church Benev- tle, and the cows haven’ t come home ¢ | from their pasture yet, | “I'll go afier them, Phiny.” the farmer, starting up with alacrity. tle sniff of mingled deprecation and “With your rheumatism! No, in- Buwility, “Times is very bad with | deed.” said Seraphina. “What can mo Be. Foxglove,” she said. “1 | have become of the eloak ! ['m sure gy & . \! * bain’t had no work since August, and | I left it here this morning.’ 7 ’ “ A there ain't nothin’ to eat in the house. If I had a pair of eyes, I'd use “You don't tell me !” said the farm’ unless its throu olent Guild.) hou.” The Widow Waterman gave a lit: And Serapbina isn’t a : said them,” said Mrs. Foxglove, coming to “ “ ar y @ ery who was the softest-hearted of men, the rescue and viewing th “ere. give me your basket ! Philena “Well I declare! “Nehemiah, turning to her husband, “that comes You must have gone off and left the door will say I am an old fool; but 1 don't care.” “There's them as has entertained anes unawares,” whined the Widow Waterman, us she sidled into the room und held out her talon-like fingers to the fire of good pine logs which were erackling and sputtering cheerfully * of leaving you to keep house. open, and some tramp has got in and robbed us.” “I did just step out to the log-pile for said the thankful or the avenue of escape that some logs farmer, oa the hearth. Anything less akin to the angelic tribe than Mrs, Watter- maa could scarcely be imagined as she sat there with bedraggled gown bonuet bent a over her eyes, and a gauzy rag of a was opened to him. jut 1 wasn't gone long.” “That's it,” said Mrs. Foxglove, with a tope of @ayiotion s “that's it! Any in onesided fashion I do wonder at you, Nehemiah! four-year-old child he have known ghall all [spoons at once.” shawl pulled across her gaunt should ers. But Mr. Foxglove, honest man, saw only her poverty With a trepidation not unlike the sen- gation of a schoolboy who robs an or: chard for the first time, he went the buttery and helped himself to hall & cold roast fowl, a loaf of rye bread a goodly wedge of yellow butter out better. count » and destitution. The farmer wriggled uneasily in his 10cking “I wish cushioned chair, old Mrs. cho, before she came here! into m he said to himself. “I wish Philena would stay It will be caught int the last time I ever get | of a covered stone jar, and thre :quar: ters of a | “It'll keep | her for twenty:four hours at : he thought. And Mrs. Foxglove's especial tin uicy apple pie. bat trap.’ sing Meanwhile pretty Seraphina softly folded striped shawl around her taper should- least, he ing to herself, a0 then opened tea:cad: dy, and filched a handful of fragrant of Old jaogling among the | the truant company cows, dried leaves, which he wrapped up in alin’s bell was a brown paper and pat beside the tulips bell wa: silver-stemmed birches on the bleak hill ; ward path, but Seraphina loitered un- other viands. “I dunno what Philena will say,” he thought, but here I ain't made of stun nor yet of cast iron and steel fillin's, And I can't stand and see a fellow:creetur starve, matter how shiftless and nothin’ And notice how thin and poor old w lessly took cloak, they were already on the home- by | necessarily on the bars, and paused a no ned a brawling brook. fr autumn air, and the good: for. she 1s" chanci ing to and dusk : & certain osty the reck inadequate was in the only he bombazine | down | but | water ep- | .. ima ~rrinding d yman's shawl waa, | visible )Erson WAS 8 woman oid a bright down an brook, who was dipping out originally brown, now faded in as many streaks as als strong, swift and zobra’s hide had from wn the derd the ; which hung time immemorial in “There ain't no more dud,’ he thought. the cold out ! a fuss, I'll give her a new back entry. |its progress use that old ] ned ; “And i'll keep | } And if Philena makes | mur Seraphina’s eyes bright in vivid color rose on There he comes now!” “There « To her surprise and dismay, mured. ymes Lreorge blanke: hill, 1 3 the ollie shawl !” cavalier did not come up the Mrs. Waterman went off rej And when the firs of tion had faded Farmer glove’s soul, a deadfal fear took poses gion of him. “What will think 7” said he. “I Whole, that 1 won't say nothin’ about age of the ad don’t care! Whysh sure don’t icing his steps beside tL olow gatisfa He is thr wing ES | { § m Philena iy gucss, upon the absoiulely rid? yald I car matter ness in this Ww F oxg love and Sera. it the we ekly |m nore r the Helpers Seraphina h n, in inl LADS Presently Mrs. phina came home from meeting of the Society f of the heath “George Patterson was there, Mrs. Foxglove, “He said he came after his aunt, but it was my belief he when a tall figure approached. wanted to walk home with Seraphina. | don’t Just as if our gal was going to heap | self to speak to me, company with a fellow like that, hasn't got a penny in the world, hit works at a saw mill for a crown a day! | Not if I know it.” ' meditation, pausing for the ¢ urried them h hiner ¢} y shing the it had ilking in less tis taken J! iris said | ever her before, She “Sera phina! “Pray, trouble your gir,” said Sera $| is, with a toss of the head. u do call ih ! please me ‘Miss Fox And Seraphina vanished | through the kitchen door, “Certainly not,” said the farmer in| “What's the matter, Phiny !" said | a concilatory tone. Jat Seraphina | her mother, noticing the girls quick said | movements and heightened color. “Nothing, Ma; It was getting and Mr. Foxglove had dulged | naj only bung down her head, nothing “Ia me!” said Mra, the kitchen. * What has of thing? Here's the cold chicken and the apple-pie gone! And the er off the batter jar too!” “Y —yes," said the farg &—1 got sort of hui Pd jest take a snack. “Couldn't you have waited until supper time!” said ; severely, Her hushand was silent Was it not just posible, thought he, here's that the recording angel might bal- Mr, Fox. ance that ready falsehood against his | glove, snd, humbly thanking you all recent act of charity, 80 that his soul | the same I'd rather not wear it.” should be nove the gainer by the | “E compound transaction ? it was so hard | ment. to always tell what was right. *i was very kind of you to give it “f wns calculating on that chicken | me, for supper,” said Mrs. Foxglove, [utter and total discomfiture of the “Now we shall have to put up cold | poor farmer, “but there's some things boiled pork and mustard, DByt Las human flesh and blood ean’t bear, don’t suppose, Nehemiad, you'll want | and to have Denson Pallaby's son to eat much,” mking if he could not see me home “Xo, of course not,” said the poof | when I came out of the store, and » and ' said Seraphina. in Foxglove towards nine o'clock in- surreptious become already in one or two Cov as his wife read the newspaper monotonous and | si ck a it. | {aloud in accepts, MW kings do if, There : | Sera; hina ther Foxg Ive wreoughing darn " ry, so lt ought came a kn the Mis opened hnnet and inevitable sniff, Mrs. Foxglove “I hope I'm not intruding,” said Mrs. Waterman, ‘but brown bombazine cloak, the hd WER y oid | my silver | Waterman had been in Jeri- | at home and look after things herse If y old | ers, and went out to the pastures after by moment at the foot bridge that span- | All was still ! sweetDess | 1 full of purpose | leaves in | howeve ry | was just carrying in the foaming pail | “Or, |S when stood | the Widow Waterman, with ber lamp { Mr. : srid Mr, Foxglove in amaze | Mr. Ferdinand Plufl saying was I to be at the dance at Melinda Edward's on Tuesday night, and might he call for me at eight o’clock—well, it's rather upsetting. But the worst of it all was when I went to get a little water at the brook--for my hogs- head dropped all to pieces that last hot weather we had in September— and as true as you live, a young fel: low seized hold of me and was going to kiss me, if I hadn't up and give him a box on the ear. And I believe it's the brown cloak has done it all,” with a meaning glance at Seraphina { sand Austraos: Marshall Ney at | Moskwa, McMahon at Magneta, Sho | bye Dake | | Michael at Kars, either i Foxglove. “So if you would please row of | take it back, I'll try and get along empty pegs with an eagle glance. | with my old shawl a spell longer. Aud the roast chicken was very good gir,” with a courtesy in the direction of the luckless farmer, “and that ap: ple:pie couldn't be beat.” moment's direful Mrs. Waterman, seeing no probability of being invited to sit down, the and betook herself once more There was a silence, and then sidled out of room, to the mysterious silence of the night, “Well, I declare !” Mrs. | glove, “Ma, phina, between crying. The rubbed his hands, { bed,” said he. And he out to the well for a said Fox: Sera’ laughing don't scold sad halfiway pal” farmer feebly “I think I'll goto and went. While Seraphina, | running pitcher of water, the last thing before for the night, had nearly stumbled against poor George ting the house what Sera: Paterson. “Goodness me! are you doing here?’ said { phina. | and “] can’t go home sleep you are angry with fell in .'s hina, while id the poor young yw, who desperately love. lone to deserve your coldness?” the { Serap hina’ s eyes sparkle, { Even in she answered, “Except except that you can’t blame me for when | hug Water | being jealous §0¢ you | ging and kissing the Widow { man! loak, that misle th “It was the c Seraphina- rown cloak | mi , plead Cie ught, of course rge: | farther | Suddenly there was another | the well:ichain And Mrs, F hat Seraphina had 1 ind up with great ng in bringing re Paterson, i ments seemed wit ged never | \ | home | the less he | phina had went rei1oic forgiven him, sr] A— {1 Le A mmpaign both armies eve what they attempts complish, Both were equally suc sasful in their strategy; both were and fHight- Ker and jually poor in their tactics Had General Ho his plan the original crushed teneral Lee's army yended, Had Gq | mistake of stopping at Chance WAr Hooker's Horsville | neral been successful in delivering a crush | ing blow to the Army of the Potomac |] { he would in all probability have made [a great step towards establishing the outhern Confederacy. Why did th | Gens rals fail ? | this measures of these two The answer is simply | Had either General emulated the tac: of Desaix at Maren Davoust at ics and fighting . Moseon at Wagram, lB Eeckmabl, | Frenchmen, he defeated ninety thous leff at Plevna, or the Grand would have won, Grea! victories have never been ab great Crenerals! cn 4 A— HERAGE wan! hy “How old we Snooks !"” unutterable things at him, ld you take me to be, she lisped, looking “I danno,” be replied,” twisting | nervously about in his chair, “I'm awfully old, I assure I've soon twenty-three summers !” you. “Then you ought to wear glasses, he replied, earnestly. i ' went on Mrs, Waterman, Wo the ! “Why, Mr twenty three 7" “Yes; your eyesight must be bad.” “I'meure I don’t know why yon {should think sn,” she pouted, “Because, I'm afraid about twenly snmmers have gone by that you haven't seen.” Snooks! glasses at bers shut: | | " } i apniversary of the Joundiog ANNIVERSARY OF A BELL. The busy city of Breslau, in Prus- gia, found time recently to celebrate the five hundredth birthday of church bell has kept it famous throughout Germany for a longer period than has elapsed since the dis- n covery of America The founder of the bell, on the 17h of July, 1886, when the molten meta) was just ready to run into the mold, left the foundry for a few moments in charge of a boy, warning him not tw meddle with the apparatus. The boy disobeyed the injuction and set the Terrified, r, who, on seeing the he called metal running. the chief, supposing the bell ruined, struck | the boy tu the earth and killed him, When the metal cooled and the bell was tried, founde mi it was found to be of admir. | tone and finished —the Stricken he gave himself up 10 the magistrate able founder's | masterpiece. with remorse, condemned He place of execution to the sollioe of his and was to walk at crime by death. own bell, calling upon all the to pray for “the poor sinner.” bell has ever since the borne the name Poor Sinnper's Bell. At that early perlod Breslau was a country village of little note, It now grown to be the seat of manufacture of sil 5 i} Berlin, the largest city of 4 Poor Binner's Bell was not | however, {i chare was | “ What starlight he could see | tiwithou of walter. | wever, Lhe carried | would | | all parts of the o The bell was rung morning ning, and the h preached a serm the and ev pastor of the OCCASION, man must have eit! great objects before him, his powers degenerate, as the do ’ when it has lain for t bei n turned toward the corners of ~the | t . astrous, if no all thn , rv inward an on - asserted, Herald at the mocralic pariy to power aled by the shutting d Hd advent wi wh le, c # fact iron mi Ke Work general depression of busines iniry. we read of rator wh the iy #Ome stump { still prates of such things, but general public wink and laugh at the | f.11 ALA It is read the papers to see ’ Frodo yw 8s folly. that business everywhere is | Bad tactics and poor fighting, | where with thirty thousand | | Th the | {demand for iron has in a healthy evadition | and that prosperity in all depart- | ments of trade is the rule and not the exception. 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