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VOLUME XXXIX.
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Out or the clover and blue-eyed grass,
1k turned theut into the ricer late.;
One after another he let them pa. u.,
Then fa:dened the meadow bare again
1.71.1er the willow and over the hill,
lie patiently followed their sober pace ;
The merry whibtle for once was still,
And somethluzShowt , ul the funny face.
'BENJ. M. BECK
Only a boy I and Ids father had Fuld
Ile never could let his youngest go,
Two already w'ere lying dead,
Under the feet or the trampling foe
1, '7,1
Rut after the ever.ing's work Was
And the frogs were loud In the meadow swam]
/over Lis thonlder Le:slung lilt gun,
And stealthily followed the footpath damp.
Across the clover :mil through the wheat,
oitN SANDEILSON
With resolute heart, awl purpo , e grin],
Thonghicohl was the dew on 111. i hurrying feet,
And hlt . ;:t lin; bats hitting startled bite.
Thrice then Ca.l the-lines !wen while,
Atli the orchards sweet with apple-bloom;
Awl now when the cows came Lack at Light,
The feeb!e !zither drove them hotac.
For news ha•l corm to the lonely farm
That three wt re . ly:n; sethra two hal lain;
And the old man', trt:tuu , ous, pabled arm
Could berer lean uu a son'. agate.
The se tutivr
,day.g'rew cold and late,
He newt for the cows wheh the work teas done
But down the lan 7 ,b, :i, he op,nr.l the gate, -
He eau'. t hue c,udng, o:.e by one.
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111dik!, "EhOny, Speckle :Ind floss,
Shuktog their horns In the vening wiud ;
Cropping tlieullt:rcup, out of, the grr..-
1; ut who wai It folhrA tug elute
Loosely swang in the idle air
The empty slecAT of army-bla:•;
.11,1.1.1 worn anti pale. frera the crisping hair,
7.,,eked out a faro that the father knew.
MUM
Frr :on:et:mos :ia:vu,
And y:i•iii ti.ll!e
Aad the ,by that c_renc., M'lZ'a a r.44.1,1:y damn
gl.•ry way %au
The gr....tt te.rrs :Tr:n - 1g to their iteetil.g eyes;
1 , ,,r the heart : L:us; speak Nth: n the lips are dull,h
A - Ptt I's CEt.“..11 t.scr.teg •Ltei •
!let - feUotted tie c-lttlell,rue.
Dr. rratt's
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a'utlTay Night
`• Fatiler," exclaimed Madeleine
Caritim, "ir!wl is ti is sacrifice ilia
you demand of me? what it
I=IIIIBME
nuccssa ry ?"
Mr. Carlton smiled, as he placed
his arta about' the slender waist of
his only, and well-beloNed child..
Saciitice ?'' I.e repeated. " Few
w - omen,
.my darlin!, Would call it
such, were they honored with the
choice of Vane I:aline's name and
fo: tune—a name old and honored,
a fo; Lillie worthy its possessor ; ',and
this name, this fortune, with a heart.,
strong and tender anal true,is laid at
my Madeleine's feer, with the earnest
prayerrhat she will stoopto Claim it.
• But,'.. : and here his tone grew earnest
1N ith a - Tle.eper meaning:. ‘" other rea
sons are at stake, my child, which
make this acceptance imperative.
;orr- have: t riways been surrounded
with Dixuryz--have always known ine
as a very rich man, who. prized his
w(alth the more that the father's
heart need never close - to his- child's
appeal. Madeleine, will you now
close yours to mine ? I stand to-day
on the brink of ruin. Nay, do not
start! I have kept back the-knowl
edge from . you, until, longer with
hell, it must reach you from other
lips ; for by to-morrow, unless yon
will give yourself to Mr. Faring as
his promised bride, I shall be bank
rupt. He will then loan me the
amount necessary to tide me o'er
this crisis, which at the moment 'of
3-our refusal I dare not ask him ; nor
would I -urge my cause, did I not feel
, it would assure your happiness—did
I not know it was bitt a I
girl's folly
which makes yo u hesitate.llave you
.
not already heard of the marriage of
1 the man whose inconstancy you thus
onourn ? Shall he return to find you
still 'weepinq for his faithlessne,s?"
" You are right, father!" the girl
answered, proudly raising her head:
I am weak. I know; P l ait sometimes
the thought comes to me that maybe,
after all, some mist:ll:4 has occurred
—that Jack is po' married, Spite of
that fatal announcement in the papers.
He loved um so well, he so dreaded
!his long separation his lack of for
tune made ineesgary, that my faith
in him wit: not be killed: and yet—
Yet I know him falscl. I am - only
.
nineteen. papa—think of it! and al
ready happiness and I have parted :
but you shall not deem lIIC selfish,
nor unmindful •of your welfare. I
will consent to become Mr. Faring's
wife, and-name but one condition.
Ile ,must know everything—that I
have .no- heart to give him in return
for the noble one -12 e others me—that
I accept him to save you from inin
—that the man I -loved proved false
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to me. But tell him, also, that his
I fai. - - , cue,-s has shown me his unworth
iness; and, U. 10111411 I have buried even
his memory, my heare . lies • in his
I*rave ; but that to my husband I
will prove loyal and true- —will make
his Oppiness, my aim—will strive
,
with all my power to be to him a du-
I 'Ufa ; wife., Promise me this, father;
(land -your Will shall be obeyed."
Mess you,darling! you have my
I:Proinise: and in this moment have
1
repaid me-all the years of anxious
Watching over my motherless girl.".
( But even as he made the promise,
I ';..Mr;e4rltori knew that it could not
. i'be 14,eptlinew that Fane Faring.
dearly as he loved Madeleine, would
not accept her as a sacrifice, nor,
spite of the rare .beauty of the out
ward image,'have been happy in pos
session of its emptiness. .
So Fanc learned nothing but that
a gracious consent, had been given
his suit,and attributing his betrothed's
shyness, alMost coldness, to the reti
cence of her maidenhood, he reveled
in his dream 6r bliss. .
The bankellsconfidential interview
with him had been satisfactory to
both, and left him proud indeed that
his wealth thus early could benefit
the woman he so passionately loved.
It was,-however, a great surprise
to learn how frail was the foundation
on which stood Mr. t'arpon's prince
ly mansion, and a shadow of doubt
crossed his anind as he questioned :
"Does Madeleine know nothing of
this ?"_ - • - I _
BEM
MIMEO
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TOWANDA, PA
61 . 2:5,000
66,000
N. N. BETTS, Cashier,
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DEIVING SOME THE COWS. -
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clected (1-afe.
Bought at a Price.
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+• :" the -father answered.
" I felt sure of ber.answer, and would
not - hate her thus perplexed. The
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embarrassment is bat temporary, and
soon with this aid, tem again ride
triumphant on the wayessof prosper
ity, and repay you • tenfold for your.
generous - . compliance with my I de
inands." . - • 1
" I am already repaid a hundred,
fold!" the young man exclaimed,
grasping the banker's hand, find
thinking of - ehe rich prize soon -to be
his, little dreaming it bought at a
price
• So the wedding took place. it was
a fray, a brillianCalfair, and though
the heart the bride thought dead
beat fast and loudly, the glad notes
of the orchestra silenced it to all ears
save hers, and the marble paleness
of her cheek but rendered her loveli
ness more perfect.
:One thought comforted her, as,
with every word spoken•by the min
ister, the memory of :another scene
(similar to this, yet all unlike, since
the man she liked was - t haVe - knelt
at her side) seemed pi red before
her--ile thought that least. she
hail not deceived the noole heart
whicir henceforth was to be hel• shel
ter. Yet she wondered how, knowing
all, his eye could be so bright, his
smite so fearless.
Six months had passed, and Mi.
and'Mrs. Faring were in London—
six months of unallorred happiness
to him, six months almost of content
inent-to her; and sitting this morn
ing in her pretty parlor at the Lang
hate hotel, reviewing the past and
present, recalling the iniunerable acts
of tenderest devotion her husband
tins showered upon her, it as ttiougl
dew from heaven had fallen upon the
black plaec - s of her heart, and fresh
seed was springing into life.
A knock at the door nronscd her.
Pane h'el left her, to be absent'some
hours on business,• and, determining
to deny herself to any visitors, she
called :
"Come in.!"
But glfineing up to receive the
card the servant doubtless had
brou,ght, he but ushered in a visitor
unannounced. then withdrew.
Who (laced thus intrude upon her?
Ilaugirty surprise was in the glance
she bi , nt • upon him, followtd by a
sudden I , nlior, as recognition leaped
into her eyes.
The man made no movement :Tor
ward, but stool r&g:trlinli ber,i his
arms across his brea,t, with seorn
find repr.oach blended' in his glanc,
Ile was both young and liiindsonie;
and, she - 15r(!he the silence by the
low utterance of his . name, something,
ill the word told all the story.
.llas - ! . for the seed that reilffiref
Filch ca re Cul ‘ll u ere it could hltis
stun iutn flowers!
".lact:!" she repeated ' • then,
intr yinr her face in her Inunis, sank
into a chair. " Why—why have you
Come here now ?"
"It was a nod folly, doubtless,
which brought me," he answered ;
"AA I have crossed the ocean simply
to look again upon yOur fair, false
face. Iv-has haunted me all of these
months in my dreams; but it has.
been the face of an angel. It has tor
tured me since I learned the truth,
and I said, trill see her. rioubfless
its beauty Ices Led. She cannot look '
the same and b .so false,' But oh,
my GoYii,! the fatal ma.k you wear is
still tint same. I shall hee it before
me, sleeping or waking, until I die)" ,
And, with a groan, the man stag i i
, 2 - ered to a seat ; but Madeleine Lad!
risen to her feet, and a scarlet spot
now burned on either cheek:
" flow dare you thus insult me?"
she imperiously questioned. " flow
dare you hurl back your falseness at
m
y feet? lam married, Mr. Dow
ning; I was itarning to be happy.
Leave me to the forgetfulness I had
so nearly found :"
Not until I understand the eniF- -
mjs in which you speak. You, the
betrayer, speak of my falsehood. Ex
plain your words."
" Were ' your wife preent, she
would r:4lcler explanation supertlu-
Otis."
- My zcile: You, the.only woman
un Goil's earth whom I have el:cr.
loved, speak of my wife to 'me! Are
you . a that yo'n should mock me
thus You, the wife of another man
falA! to nie, Whom you have
sc nt a ileiess. houseless, childless, to
his gravor'
Jack ! Jack !" she pleaded. "Do
not deceive me! Did you not, with
your - own hand, direct to me the pa
per which containcd the ; notice of
your marriage ? 1i d . you not thus
cruelly-, without one softening word,
shatter the vase which held my fair
ek hopes ? Did-7
Stop!" ills voice rang through
the room, as, rising to his fect,.he
now stood facing her. " a
Did you ri
,et the letter I sent with that paper
--the letter explaining how a merry
party of us, starting off with a wed-
dial . party, had been confounded by
some btupia reporter in the place,
until, in the nest day's issue of the
paper, I figured as the groom, in
place of my cousin Robert I sent
`you the paper as a joke, hit the
hridegroom took it more seriously,
and punished`the poor man severely.
But, ph, Madeleine, I looked at it in
the light of a foolish piece of fun..and
wrote you how, some day, my name
wotild indeed' appear in print, with
yours beside it!'
, "I see it all," the young wife an
•swered. "But your letters—who
could have withheld them? From
that day, I never received one."
And you thought me false r Qh,
Madeleine, why did you not .wait
1 brought horde the fortune dear to
me only because it would do away .
with your father's opposition to our
marriage, and prove a Worthyigift
for yOur, acceptance. I found - 'you.
g-onc.;—married ! Sleep forsook my
pillow.- I could not rest until I had
seen you, and learned from your lips
the truth."
"The filial truth!" she gasped, in
answer. "But now, Jack, you must
leave me. The man I have married
is good and true and noble. Ere I
became.his wife, my father told him
all—of my early love—of my broken
heart—and how - I had but duty and
respect to oter WM. But he took me
even thus.; nay, pore.:—repaired my
father's shaken.kirtunes by a generous
loan, which has turned the tide of
wealth intQnis coffers, and has ut-.
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TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 29, 1879.
tered no word of reproach to me .in
all these monthS / - until—until I had
alznOst learned to lore him."
46 il/moFtl" Alas for the one word,
which rang like a knell in the ears of
the man who ha&ientered through
his own dressing-room, paralyzed
with emotion, an unSpen listener to all.
Ile now saw it 411 7 .-all his Blind
ness. Yet she had.filmost learned to
love him.
" Bless her I" lie murmured, to,
with a pallid..face and a great groan,
he noiselessly retreated as he bad'
come, and Wended his way out into
the foggy streets of London ; " slie
gave me ker • duty—l will
. oive her
back the happiness I so neatlY wreck
ed." ' „'
It wai — i . .strange impulse which
took Pane Faring, that morning, in
to his lawyer's oilice,•and led him to
re-word his will, so that all he had
was given unconditionally to his
young wife, coupled with a hope that
she should not remain widowed for
his sake.
But the . expression of his face
changed, and grew hard and stern,
'as he penned line - atter line of . a let
ter, which he-sealed and addressed to
Iloaer Cadton, Esquire—Madeleine's
father. - •
A few hours late'', there was great'
excitement in the Longhapa
A bride of six months was soon to
be widowed. The gentleman, through
some strange carelessness, had lien
thrown down by a powerful team of
horses, into whoic path, were not the
idea absurd, he would seem to have
thrown himself, but doubtless the fog
decei red him.
In one quiet chamber the wounded
man lies, and in his eyes is only love
unutterable for the young 'Wife who
bends so tenderly over him.
My darling, you have made me
very happy!" he says, brokenly. "In
time—in time I ntigl . ll have taught
you evea to love me,!"
Alia with these words he dies
Madeleine finds a true friend, a 1
faithful helper, in "the sad rites that
follow, in the young• man who has
forgotten his own selfish hopes in the
very overthrow of their only obstacle.
The will and its conditions, maie
on the- .very -flay of Fine Farin e ,kis
death, men call a coincidence ; Lut
one, reading the letter penned that
day from the dea'.l man's hand, knows
it otherwie, and the letter falls from
his trembling grasp, while a great
wave of agony sweeps across his face,
as, in God's book, he sees his name
written as Vane Faring's murderer!
• But Mad el mourning faithfully
the true heart whose nobility she had
learned to kaoT so well, once 'again
listens to.vows of love her heart re
echoes, until, sonic -three years-later,
Jack Downinws long-suflering•ls re
warded, and Madeleine's
But at the'wedding feast, where all
is joy and brightness, one alone, of
that assemblage, raising their glasses
to their lips to drink health to the
hrlite, sees written on the wall, in
letters of fire—" Bbught at a Price!"
OUR - WESTERN LETTER.
ocapr. CLTY. Kamat, May 72, -1.579
Mn. EinTon: Osage City. is a inin
1110* town. located 33 miles southwest
of Topeka, on the A., T. S. F. R.
11., and contains a population of fit* ,
teen hundred or two thousand. It is
like all other mining towns—does a
considerable buiness, but a cheap
class of housei. There.arq more new
buildings in sight than in any town
I have seen in the West. New build
ings are going up in all• parts of the
city, but they . are of a cheap class,
being all wood. The country about
it 1...0ks fine; still, the soil is not as
productive as outside of the coal belt.
The veinof coal runs under the eity ;
coal shafts can be seen all about.,
There are but few buildings - of note
in the place. The Osage City Sav
ings Bank is a brick structure; other
business houses being either.of Wood
or stone. They. have :the - .Kansas
school house here, as elsewhere,cost
ing from fifteen thousand to twenty
thousand dollars. I passed over the
country from Burlingame to this city
in a wagon, and it was a beautiful
sight. The country is quite rolling,;
could see a long distauee on the high
points, it looking like orchards and
meadows, there being vast tracks of
land hel by speculators. The Reitd
' ing Coal and Iron Company of Penn-
Sylvania hive about twenty-six thou
sand acres, I am\told, in a body.
. .
The - county of Osage is undulating,
and would suit those liking hills and
valleys; has a good many streams of
water and good wells; coal and wood
plenty. The coal is not as good *as
our .coal down the valley, still it is
taken out in large blocks looking
very tuncli like the coal in Western
Pennsylvania and Ohio; burns free,
_and costs much less than our ,coal..
Von can go to the-shaft where it is
mined and buy it from eight to ten
cents a basket, twenty-five ibaskets
making a ton. -Wood as cheap, or
nearly tip, as at our place; corn, '2l.
cents per bushel; wheat, from 70 to
so Cents ;' oats; 18 cents ; meats of
all kinds mulch less in Price than in
the East. I. - regard this State' - for
men of small means preferable to any
State now being settled: The climate
is .t - hat of Southern Missouri, the soil
as good if not better than any prairie
in the West. Tile tide of emigration
is passing this' place for. Western
'Kansas and Colorado, but are doing
it without a knottledge of the advant=
ages here or the. price- of land.: Lind
can be bought as cheaply here as
2.10 miles west, where you. strike the.
sand hills—a country destitUte of
timber and coal, being compelled to
ship the same from Eastern Kansas
or from Colorado. Local freights
being high, this makes fuel expengive.
Ada to fertility of the soil, there is
no question about that all the' l way
from Topeka, until you Strike, the
sand bills in Western Kansas, you
enter the Arkansas Valley at Newton
on the A. T. & S. F. R. R„ which is
undoubtedly the most fertile section
in Kansas_; at least, it has a record
in the agricultural reports surpassing
any other locality - . I shall make a
personal examination to Dodge City,
the western .:terminus or nearly so of
settlement at present of Kansas, and
may in some particulars change My
mind, as my information from this
place Rest is from books and conver
REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER.
•
sations with those acquainted with
that part of the State. As my letters
will be read by l many-who expect to
make the Westt,their future home, I .
shall aim to state facts as to soil, cli
mate, natural resources, 4:c. "A man
with a few. hundred dollars and a lit
tle pluck•in Kansas can do well; yet,
perhaps, there •is a greater number
com_e•without money, except enough
t? RA them, with pluck and a large
amount of sand, that in - a very short
time are comfortable. Neiman need
expect to come here and succeed that
has no means, without industry and
rprivation. If he accepts the situation;
takes off his coat, rolls up his sleeves
and goes in, he will win. I have
traveled over ' considerable of the
Wrest, tallied with a great many men
that are comfortably fixed, and I find
that nine out of „every ten came here
poor. They accepted the • Situation,
commenced the battle of , life, and
have succeeded. - If a man can come
here With eight or ten hundred dell
larsenough to get teams, tools, and
supply them the first year—they can
move right along, and do better than
in any place .East with that'amoimt
of capital. -
This county is agreat stock-raising
Section, from the fact of its Undulating
surface and abundance of stock water,
and a county that has no herd law.
All farmers here have.their cropi to
fence, and I consequently immense
herds of cattle-are kept on the large
tracts of land held by speculators,
. with very little expense. ( They have
pasture fields and meadows for mow
ing their winter supply almost limit
less. Finch Brothers, of Burlingame,
I understand, have thirty thousand
dollars in cattle. They have sevetal
large herds in different - sections of
the county, with a herder to look af
tdr each herd during the season.
These gentlemen came here but - a
short time ago with but little money;
they are now among the first men in
the county in the business.. Men can
come here with a few hundred dollars
and make a fortune-in a-short time
in the stock business. It costs com
paratively. nothing to keep their
stock, either sumther or winter. - All
their hay' costs - is- in cutting and put
ting it up; their pasture costs noth
ing; corn the past winter,;ls to 39
cents per bushel. Patton Brothers
passed through Burlingame to-day
with two hundred head of two and
three year-oki cattle, on their way to
Wabanusee county, joining this on•
the west, to pasture them for the sea
son. These gentlemenbefong.in this
county,. alSo.. Lord & Nelson, of
Burlingame, are' large operators.
Cattle fori slaughter are not put in
market until they arc four years old - .
- The prahielgrass i particularly whore.
it is burned over early, is large enough
to turn .cattle upon. These large
tracts of uncultivated land are
burned over in the spring, i+,hich
helps the grass
. to start early add
grow vigorous and strong during the
season. Stock men have their range
which they burn,—some portions of
it early-for early feed, and other sec
tions later for late feed.
As I did not mention in my letter
to your paper from Topeka anything
in regard to the price of horses, Bat
tle, farm implements, I deem it
important, as many of your readers
are expecting to settle in the Vest.
Horses are a
.nonsiderable cheaper
than with you. Good team horses
can be bought for from $75 to $lOO,
or from $l3O to $:200 a pair. I saw a
good team of horses sold - for $l6O to
a gentleman from Michigan, who
came here this - spring with a large
flock of SpadiA Merino . sheep. He
has bought a quarter section of land.
adjoining these laige tracts of uncul
tivated lands, and expects to let his'
sheep roam over this wild-expanse of
prairie land. Good cows-are as high
'as with
. you; farming implements
cost more, but are much better tools;
farm wagons (first-class, double box,
well painted), $6O ; groceries and dry
goods are as cheap as in your place.
It costs much less to live here than
in your place. There is as much com
petition in mercantile -business- as in
the East. All towns are well -sup
plied with business houses, and goods
of all kinds arc sold reasonable.
G. F. Nicnot.s.
WHERE TIN' ORES ARE FOUND.—
Tin is one of the earliest metals
known, which is contrary to what,
not many' years agO was the general
opinion. of scientific men. The re-.
searches, however, which within the
last twenty yeals, have been,institut
ed with regard to the earliest races
inhabiting Europe, have conclusively
shown that weapons and instruments
of bronze (an all- of tin and copper),
were probably the metallic_ articles
etirlier:.,t in use, after those composed
of copper alone, and before the intro
duction of iron. In the curious " lake
dwellings," discovered in SWitzer
land, -not only bronze implements,
but bars of pure tin, varies/from four
to twenty per cent., about twenty per
cent. being the . most . common. The
principal present sources of tin are,
Cornwall, where it is now almost
exelusively procured from the Mines,
instead of washing, or "stream
works;" second, Saxony or Bohemia,
in sinall quantities, and exclusively
-from mines; third, Banes and other
islands of the Malay Archipelago,
I the Malay Peninsula, as.well.as parts
I of Hindoostan and Burmah ; all the
pioduptions from these (now furnish
ing the greater part of tin coiumerce)
now generally known as "Straits tin,"
being - derived from steam works;-
fourth, New South Wales, Queensland
and other parts of A ustralia„together
with Tasmania, Spain, Bolivar and
MexicO, also furnish (or have lately
done so) some portion of the tin com
merce ; • also. Greenlarid, Japan; Fin
land,Siberia,lceland and Madagitsear.
TILE dead leaves cling .
To the boughs till Spriug.
But the beautiful buds are swelling under;
And a thousand things •
•
:With togs and wing*,
Now wait for Spring In the wools out yonder;
The Arbutus wravei
Its crown or leaMeS,
Ilut bencattrthe sweetest flowers arc ipringinr
No blue eggs rest
•
thetast year's nost,
Bat the robin his ancient tune Is singing,
Awaking lova In his sweet hearts
. And nothing's been lost • •
In the snow or frost,
Far the lieod Lord watches over all.
ENHALORD.
The pink and love of bursting bloom
• Were on the apple trees,-
The air was full of sweet perfume,
- And fragrant was the breeze.
Along the scented meadow Mutt
-
Tile merry robbinv sang
And where the sugar-maples stand
Tire blue birds•. call outrang.
The brook ran on, a sliver line
Where golden cowslips shone;
The tern-fronds waved .their branches flue,
itound money stump and stone ; -
And where the sunny valleys lay
' Was heard the hotnpt bees,
Seeking the
: Violet's KtPlii spray,
And starred anemottes.
The dalslek showed their faces sweet
Among the tender green
Of clover Leaves; the bearded wheat
Waved the low hills between,
Nor yet had come Its golden prime,
That gleams in harvest days,.
When locusts wake their droning chime,
Amid the orchard ways,
llow swift the months: How shillthe years
It seems but yesterday, . t .
When your low voice stilled my i tove's fears,
In:that cool meadow a way: .
And now the threads of sliver syw I
Amid the soft brown hair, -
Where sunlight made a golden glow,
That morn so dear and fair.
•
F.
Ab, earth for ns has not he.en cold, •
Nor full t;f hitter wee , ,
Though death's tiark tide his by us
Its,swift recistiess fhw
Love's hol)llight has lit the path -
Wherelulour feet have trod, ' i
And sweet and dear itfe's aftermath
(Glows with the hope of (ital.
—Th . oYn'as S. Collier
THAT HOUSE TO LET
" Ifeigho!" 3 - awned Mr. Ellicott,
the real estate agent, as he looked:
out of the WindoW at two old women,
a market 'cart and the postman.
limes are dull—fearfully drill!
Never have- known 'cm stagnate so
since I was in the business. list of
houses to let and for sale that would
suit anybody, at prices that are abso
lutely scandalous,
as far as cheapness
is concerned, and no demand for 'em
—literally none I"
And Mr. Ellicott lighted his cigar,
at ranged the "To Lets" a little
more .accurately in the window, and
shook his head mournfully at the big
ledger on the high desk.
•
But just at the irltant in-which he
drew a Bureau sigh, indicative of the
extremist degree of despondency, 'a
stout, middle-aged gentleinan, with a
felt hat, an umbrella under his arm,
and -square-toed boots, walked into .
the neat, little carpeted office. .The
agent slipped nimbly off his chair,
laid &mu his cigar, and resumed h's
business smile.
" What can I do for yo'u?" he said,
rubbing his handS, and scenting a
brown stone sale, or a red brick ex
change, at the very least.
"My name is Jonps," said the
stout stranger.
" see you., Mr. Jones,"
simpered the real estate agent, rub
bing away harder than, ever.
" And:l want to rent a respectable
house. in pleasant neighborhood,"
added the gentleman: " I am sick of
boarding, and I intend- to take a
house. and go a=housekeeping." •
" Celtainly, by all means," said the
agent, beginning to flutter over, the
leaves of his book. "We have, lam
happy to say, a number of most elig
ible residences here, which can hardly
fail to meet your requisition."
"GiVe me a list," said the old - gen
tleman.
" Certainly," said Mr. Ellicott, dip
ping his pen into the wooden standish. -
"I mean business," said Mr. Jones.
" I am glad to hear it," said the
agent.
And scarcely more than five loin.
utes • had elapsed before the middle
aged 'gentleman, with the alpaca um
brella and the square-toed _boots, was
where a fat-lettered "To Let" hung
conspicuously beside the door.
Miss Pamelia Peppermint was just
taking her hair out of crimps in the'
front thitd-story department as the
bell sounded its hollow tocsin throtigh
the house.
" Joanna," said Miss 1 7 t, over
the stairs, "look opt of t, m win
(low and see who it it is.'
" It's a gentleman,ma'n,...
answered, in a shrill wlfisper,
superfine broadcloth coat and anew
umbrella."
"Come to ansr the, advertise
ment," said - Miss/Pamelia,.radiantly.
" Show. him into the parlor, Joanna,
and tell him be clown directly."
. She settled' the crimps once again,
pinned a petite ribbon bow- in her
back hair; gave her forehead a fare,
well!clab/With a powder puff, and read
over, for the last time, a paragraph
in that morning's paper, which run
as follows:
/WANITO—BY a lady of educatiOn
and experience, a position as house
keeper to a gentleman of means. No
triflers need apply to Miss P., - No.
99 Nixon street.
" Dear me," said Miss Peppermint,
" how my heart fliitters--for surely
this is a crisis in m! life ! Row often
does the housekeePer eventually be
come something,pearer and dearer to
a gentleman of suse , ptibility and ap
preciation ! I hop he is fond - of
poetry." . .
She crossed the threshold with a
tripping step. To her surprise, the
apartment was empty. •,
"•Where is he, Joanna[" saict she,
looking around in dismay: '
" Please, ma'am," faltered thelittle
maid, " I think he's an escaped- fana
tic—for be's walkin' all' around the
back kitchen, and - peerin', into the
stationary wash-tubs, and mutterin'
to-himself I& everything."
" Ah 1" said Miss Peppermint, with
a satisfied smile. " Very natural—
quite so. lie means to find out what
sort of-a-practical housekeeper I am.
Ahem - , here he comes. Run, Joanna,
there's stoveblacking on the bridge
of your noise 'and a hole in your
stocking. Ahem! Please to' walk
in,,
,sir,". to,_the middleagedgentle
man, 'who nbw 'appeared on the
threshold, with' his spectacles tipped
over the bridge orshis nose, and his
umbrella, carried, javelin . fashion, un
der his arm. "-I have- the pleasure
of addressing,-" -- - . - •
. "My name is Jones," said the gen-.
tleman, brusquely. ' "You are the
person Who—" .
." Wbb advertised ? Yes," Said
Miss Peppermint, with a smiling in
clination of her head. -
"Then I wonder at-you!" enun
elated Mr. Jones. • .
" Sir !" said Miss Peppermint.
L. • •
IL
..
,
".As old as the hillsj 2 said ,Mr:
Jones; "all out of repair. Fifty
years old at the very lea St."
" Sir !" .ejaeulated the lady, more
astounded than ever.-
Truth is truth," said the gentle
-111 an. "Not even decently painted."
f' Painted ?" gasped-Miss Pepp6r
mint, instinctively remembering the
pearl powder.
" Rheumaticky, and, full of fever,
and _ague I" energetically. added Mr.
Jones., " But forty - dollars a month !"
," Only twenty," said Miss Pepper
mint, faintly.
"1 wouldn't consider the question
at any price I" roared Mr. Jones. "A.
tumble-down old ruin I"
." Sir, you insult me 1" - cried the
spinster, bristling up.
"Then, madam, you shouldn't ob
trude your damaged wares before the
public." •
"I never was so abused in my life !"
faltered Miss Peppermint, wringing
her bands:
" It's' - high time somebody spoke
the truth,"- said Mr. Jones.
"Leave the house, sir!" said Miss
Peppermint. * •
"And welcome," said Mr. Jones,
putting. his hat beligerently on the
side of his head, and shouldering his
umbrella like a bayonet. " But first,
ma'am, let me give you a piece of ad-.
vice: The next time you have a
house to
" . But I haven 3 a house _to let,'
indignantly interposed Miss Pamelia
" Eh ?" said Mr.-Jones. •
" And never had," added the lady
breathlessly.
"Isn't this house to let?"
"Yes, but it isn't mine and I've
nothing to do with it."
"You - said you advertised:"
"So I ,did,". said Miss Pamelia,
with difficulty keeping back her hys-
terie tears..." But it wasn't in Elliott's
show-windows.
.I wanted a position
.
as housekeeper
The middle aged bachel l or stood
aghast, the full horror of •his Situation
gradually breaking upon Erb.
"Madam," said he,."l beg your
pardon-="
"Sir," said Miss Peppermint,"there
has been an unfortunate. misappre-
cnsion all aroun,l."
"I .was alluding to the house,
ma'am, when I used those unfort
unate adjectives,", . explained
. Mr.
Jones. •"I hope you don't think,
ma'am, that I could apply them to.
a lady ?"
"I am a solitary female," said
Miss Peppermint, retiriiy , behind
her hankerchief,." and I find mypelf
compelled to earn •my bread in a
genteel way. You' couldn't recom
mend me to any single gentleman in
want of a capable housekeepericould
i 'ou t" ! ',
"No—no, ma'am, I.couldn't that
s, not just at present," stammered
Ir. ,Jones. • -" But if I hear of . one I
-ill certainly let you' know. Good
is orning."
And he bolted' out of the doo/in
4 state of cold perspiration.
" What a fool I have been V' said'
he to himself as he sti sng the
%Indy April streets, NS is7fore
head- with a red silk tanker
chief. "I'll. go back i s Bud
get's boarding-house age my
.
rooms there for the n...,,, Len years."
And so he did-- . .• •
Nobody answe ed Miss Pareelia
Peppermint's ad,%ertisetnent ; .no one
rented the des' able mansion, No. 99
Nixon "street. .
Mr. Ellin '
,t the real estate aget,
d eclares' that business is duller than
ever, and/Mrs. Budget the boarding
house keeper, says to her daughter.
" Whatever has come to Mr. Jones,
I don't know, but he'S. docile as a
lamb, and hasn't found fault with
he roast joint in a month.'' .
"Wonders; will never cease,". says
Miss Bodget f devoutly.
WHY HE SHOULD NOT BE A FARMER
Durllng r tozi 3iaxtefe.• .
•
It'is spring and the animal
war
fare begins.. ' Early ih the morning
the jocund farmer hies him to. the
field and hunts around in the dead'
weeds and grass fog - the plow he left
out there sometime last fall: When
he finds it he takes it to the shop to
have it mended. When it is mended
he goes back into' the field with it.
lialf-way down
.the first furrow lie
lays, he runs the plow fairly into a
big live-oak root, the handles alter
nately break a rib on this side of him
and jab the - breath otit of him on the
Other, and the sturdy root, looking
up out of the grotind with a pleased
smile of recognition, says 'cheerfully . :
Ah, Mr. Thistlepod, at• it again.,
eh?"
oanna
"in a
Fifty feet further on he strikes a,
stone that doubles up the plow-point
like a piece of: lead, and while the
amazed and breathless agriculturist
leans. a limp heap of humanity across
the - plow, the relic of the glacial
period remarks sleepily: • •
"Ab, ha! Spring here already?
Glad you woke me up."
And then the granger sits down
patiently tries to ,tie on that old .
plow-point with a hickory withe, and.
while he pursues this fruitless task,
the friendlfcrow-Swoops down near
enough to a*:
" to` - put this-twenty in corn
this- years, Mr. Thistle pod ?"
. And, before he has time to answer
the sail°. bird, a -tiny grasshopper,
wriggling out
. of a clod so •Tull of
eggs that they can't be counted,
shouts briskly:
-" Here we are again,, Mr. Thistle-,
pod, dinner - for 500,G00,000,000."
And then a slow-moving; but very
positive potato bug' brawls out into
the sunlight to see if the frost bad
faded his stripes, and says:..
"The old-fashioned- peach , blow
potatoes are the best for a sure crop;
but the early rose should' be planted
for the first market." .
Then several new kinds of bugs
who haven't made any record yet,'
climb over the fence.- and come 'up to
enquire ahout the, staple crops of the
neighborhood, and 'before he can" get
through with them, Professor Tice
sends him a circular 'stating th s at
there won't be a drop of rain :froth
the middle of May till the last of
October. This almost
.stuns him;
but he is beginning to feel a little
resigned when a dispatch from the
Department of A griculturael at Wash
. ington, saying. that all . indications
SI.OO per Annum In Advance.
point to a summer otunprecedentecl;
almost incessant and long.dontinued
rains and floods, and advising him
to plant no root crops at all. • While
he is trying to find words in which to
express his emotion, a neighbor drops
in to tell him that all the peach trees
in the country are winter killed, that
the hog-eohlera is raging fiercely in the
- northern part of the townshin. !Then
.his wife comes. to tell "himmthat the
dog has fallenintothe well, and when
the poor man gets into the dew yard,
MS children with muclr shouting ! . .:ind
'exeitenient, meet him, and tell him
thud a:e a couple of rats, of the.pole
denomination, in the spring house,
and another, one in the barn. With
tears and groans he returns'. to
,the
field, but by ,that time it has begun
to snow, so hard that he cant see the
horses when he stands at the plow.
Ile-is, discouraged and start - 4 . for the
house, with his team, when he meets
a man who bounces him-for using a
three-horse- clevis, lie made hiniSelf,
afill wrung ten reluctant dollars out of
him for it: When he :reached- the
house, the -drive-Well man' is waiting
him, - and • while he is settling -with-.
him, a clock peddler comes iii and a
'lightning-rod man, screened by the ..
Storm, climbs upon' the ten Jollar
smoke-house, fastens
.SG.,. worth of
lightning rods on-,it, and before the
poor -. farmer .can get his. gun.-half
loaded the bailiff comes into tell him,
that he . has been drawn on the jury.
. No, I would ,not, even if I could,
be a farmer. .
:The life is pleasant andAndepend
ent, but it seems: to have' . its draw
backs.
HI were a farmer J would grum
ble ail I wanted, and thump•the. man
who foundlault with.me for it.
THE LIBBY PETS )3 ,TUNIILL
0. W. Glkonln Ilochest . er Detnoent.
. The tunnel was first proposed- an!
Started by Captain Martin Flick. o
the Sixty-sevefith - PennsyKania Vei l --
emits, Who was • captured, toget ter
with nearly all his regiment, liile
under MillrOy, in the valley f the
Shenandoah, at the time of 1,. e's sec
ond invasion of Penns - 1.1 nia and
Maryland. There was IV a single
hatchet or axe of any. 1 - nd used in
the whole work; no!! ng
. .buti bare
hands,- a few poor • se-knives and
one iron 'poker, Logy. her with a firm
determination to -Secure freedom at
.any hazard, and escape { the terrible
stitferings endured at- the hands ofd
Captain Turnir, Winder's chief tool'
at-Uhl - T. he tunnel was first start
ed/ by Ca twin Flick loosening the
bricks o of the chimney on the see-
Mid flo r above the basement, back
-of the stove used for cooking,
.This,
Of course, was done at night, and in
th daytime the hole made; was closed
! b. --a board, that Was kept near the
/Stove. The chimney was built from
the ground up,,and as soon as the in
side was reached, communication of
course could be had with-the base=
ment of the prison, Pieces of rope
and twine of all kinds were gathered
together, . until finally enOugh Was
ha - ti to citable our men to descend to
determine' what next to do. Then,
'and only then,
were other than Cap
taila _Flick and a lieutenant - from his
reoiment concerned in. the work. Af
ter, this other officers were'approach
ed until thirteen had joined in the
_undertaking. All were swornto se-.
crecy, and all the thirteen were Ma
:sons. - Among -the numbed- was Colo
nel Rose, Of the One Hundredth
Pennsylvania Volunteers, who first
appeared at this time. Colonel. A.
' L. Straight was not of this number,
as' at this time - he was confined in a
cell for attempting to esedpe befOre
this. _ ,
The first idea was to -tunnel into
the sewer, and:_thence across Cary
street into the James river, but it
had to be abandoned -on account of
the-great stench arising -from it.. No
one could enter a short distance with-'
out being overcome by the foul air..
Then, this outlet -being closed- tip, it
was decided to tunnel - across the
street into - an old tobacco shed used
for storing hogsheads of tobacco.
The next time a detail from the pris-
Oners was made, - Colonel Rbie man
aged to, get out and step the t istance
off, and the tunnel was started- ac
cordingly. • After -digging digging the dis
tance stepped by the Colonel, they
started up and found 'that they had
Miscalculated, aS they came up im
mediately under the fence and right
.under the guards. That being closed:
'they again started ahead, and. after
going a short distance found that-at
last they were right, for after digging
'upward they found they had. conic
under an inverted_ hogshead standing
on the dirty floor.
That night was to- see the great
stampede .for freedom and the North.
Captain Flick gate up his place to
go
oat-with the original thirteen to
Colonel S. D.. Straight, of Indiana,
supposing, of_ course, that.fie could
get out with the next-Jot. The first
man out of the:tunnel passed out of
the warehouse dbot, out across the
. street. climbed the- lamp-post and ex
tinguislaik the gars right under the
nose of the guard, who suppoSed , the
man to be ari employe attending to
his .duty,gaullAid not
.say anything
Or challenge him at all. The thirteen
were to have one-half hourAtart be
fore any • more started. - As soon as
'the time was up, all began a great
rush to get out, and it continued un
til four o'clock A. 31., the . next ,day.
Captain Flick did not succeed in get-,
tkng out at all, the rush was so great.
•
MAGISTRATE-7' 1 - Qll seem to have.been
drinking, and to haie left your wits at
the bottom of .your:. tumbler." Pristme , -
e , -
-`lmposilble, your Ito3nr, I
never leave anything at the bottom of my
tumbler."
A NATURALIST has discovered that
crows hold a solemn court at which of
fenders are trieda sort of crowhar. We
presume no bird - is tried without caws,
and that a true hill-is necessary in - every
case:— Toronto G rip. . •
SMART Sophomore—" What fruit would
you most resemble when riding on a jack
ass °" Innocent-looking. Freshman—
" Give it up." A beautiful.pear."
L L. 1 3 ,—" All right ; come outside and
try it."—liarrard :Advocate.
- A ALAN out West recently looked dowry
the muzzle aids rifle, and at once took
his departure for the summer • land. In
stead of putting the epitaph tin his tomb
stone of" Didn't know,' :etc., they -in=
scribed it "Ounmed.toglory."-Ili•adf9rd
Era,. •
(-The following is a most remarkable:composition.
It evidences an ingenuity of ariatgetnent peculiar.
17 Its on - u. Eiplanatton : The iziltlat capitals spelt
"My boast Is In the glorious ern's.; of Christ." The
words In (tones, when read from top to bottom and
hottom to top, form the Lord's Prayer completC , :l
Make known the gosPel tr.nths, our Father king,
Yield us thy grace, dear Father, from abOYet
Bless us with hearts which fooling can sing, f
'Our life ttdu art for ersr,-God of Lufe V' •
Assuage our grief in lore for Christ; we pray, -
Since thkinightprlnci of Hearessand glory
Touk all our sins and hallowed the dlsplay,• .
Infant -fie lug, first aman and then was crucified.
Stupendous God thy grace and - power mako&
,
' known,.
In Jesus' name let alrtho worlitrejoice.•
Now labor in thy heavenly kingdom own -
That blessed kingdom for thy sallits the, choice.
'How vile to come to:thee is all our cry.
Enemies to thy 'coif and all that';Mine. -
tlraceless emir wilt, we -live for vanity. -
Loathing the Very t. log, 'cell In design, -
0 God, thy will be dotteft9m. earth from henna;
Reclining - on the gospel let us live,
In vorllt froM sin deltrer-eel and forgiten.
Ott as thyself tot teaels us to forgive,
llseless tre ptrortl temptation doth destriiy,_
Fury to our tall Into the depths of woe... .
mind: wel4 not a glimpse cif joy
liaised agalult heaven ; In ser hope we can ibiv.
O glee us ware and lead us on the way.
Shine on us with tty love awl give us peace;
Self and this sin that rise against us-stay;N •
Oh; grant each day our fres padits may cease,
Fagive our evil de'eds
COLlVillet! va doily of them to onfhhatne,'
Help 113 with heaveilly"?.readrfory , ce us, too,
Iteeurrent lusts, and adore'!.by name, •
In Ill;•fprvire nest we as saintseast
S44to for 'le az,a r,ur trerpasses so high, 4 -
Thy 84M, o'er Savicnr, bled on Cati3l7.
NUMBER 52
LITERARY 011103ITY.
- .
FIIN -r- , - F - A - Ot AND FAOETIS
DesenTrms from the arm' put them
selves on the retired lid.
PEACEA TILE Indians all stand in 'seg,ar
Stores.—N6 ±C - 0 ileilla Picayune. _ • .
WANTED—_lboat that will float on the
sea of troubles.— Yonkers .Statesman..
THE - early robin wears a inatisard roof .
',.d . snow on his back. - --Chleago - Journaf.•
WIZEN a town burns up in the eil:/re
gions it is ”cauter;- -',7er
-fiser.
'1'1OFES:i()11. OM.
As no bas'e 'a fe•
like to have any on'
disposed:" Stude,
MEIN
A PROFANE ma)
when lie "opens oT
imagine there was
him.—Yonkers Ga .
.
IT isnot often t.
metamorphosed iu,.„ ...ocuer ;yet ....... tirSt
apple in ParadiA tuned oat the i first
pain--; Wd.terNalaimrrcr. '.
A NATIVE / 4f Kentucky - imita•.es tin
crawing.of aZeock so remarkably well that
the son up , h..setiereral occasions has tier
two hoar earlier by mistake. _ .
A W/ ITHIIALL dog tried- to drink: tea
/
quart.. of milk in ten consecutive hours
on T Airsday. lie, made - 847- laps and Lip
pe:over the clif,h.•,,,Wh, 7 lchtal Time&
"Sue t never told her love" that she
.ad ben eating'onioni, but their chairs
were found a :4 , ,.i.,41 ways apalt the next
morn i ug.--Ci,E ein net‘i :s;4(Pirddy Night.
Ilia.a deferred inaketti:the heart sick,
but when in tit:, fullness,f time and plc''-
, titude of iinripo fruit holic be6omes a , re
ality, how about the stomach.—Pyek.
TnE Bradford Era - says the man who
originated the raring, "Hurry is the
mark of a weak le,ind," never was chased
by,a -
,To be interesting., a speaker should be
full of hi snitjeet, hiltless- he happens fo
be spet.kin% against liquor.—Ncia Orteums
he. •
Tut: reason that so few people in Texas
die a natural -death is not owif , to- the
f,ict that the c )antry is unhealthy, but
.e.tose t.112y seldom get a chance.
/cm exeia , n ,,, ,i are full of items about
the •• Light Itnirning Dor:lest - ie." - They
probably ailude to the hired girrwito goes
:vomit! th-' Loia.ti in her stocking-feet.—
:•rr e erintkinletit aciiireed the Sun
day-5c1i0..,1 oil obedience to thernord law, :
and arg:.d the keeping and tint breaking,
of the comatarini3ntii, atld to fasten the
: "is anything, -better
for being brok,,n - ?" " Yes," =aid a little
boy, "a nag.' The . address Broceecled
uo 11.4ther. . .
Cort•mnus avenue, Sunday aftemcon-
Miserable street-mucker to Snodkins, the
bel: of whose Ulster was dragging :• "1
say, Ohl !Toss, it' you don't tighten up .
y'oui• bellyband you'll lose your blanket.''
(AndSnodkini bad to keep on looking
pleasant, as if he hadn't heard it).--/kr
r•frd • ••
" HAvt: you given .electricity a trial for
your complaint, =dame r asked the
minister. as he took tea with the oktlady.
" Electricity !" said she. " Well, yes, I
recl;ou I has. I was - struck by lightning
last summer' and hove out of the window,
but itididn't seem t.) do me tro sort of
good.'! , ---/Jo.ltwt Traveller. - •-
ntar . young lady has fallen in love
with and married n New York street-car
driver. Froth the bridle and the halter ho
went to the , alter and the bridal, and the
only train and switch to occupy his mind
hereafter are - those belonging to his wife.
She takes Lira for wheel or. whoa, as It .
u•
- A coLonch child had a fall - trot:l,a sec
ond-story window the other day, 'and . his
mother,_ in reratini4 the occurrence at a
grecefy, said : •• Dere dat child was com
ing down feet fast,: wid every chance of_
being killed, when the,,Lawd, he - "turned
him over, de chile struck oa Ms. : head, and
there wasn't so much as a bxitton IRAs
off."
Its 311•FustsEy's dog is dCad. In the
midst of his morning'; bath, while cover
ed with lather, he broke away and.ran in
to the street, and immediately people be
gan to asceml lamp-posts and -trees '
and
finally a policeman . caran . along an l shot
thd animal, and all the papers chroalcicd
the first mad-dog seate l lnf the season.—
Puxt. I • • ;
tssrttucTon'in logic'tattempting to il
.
lustrate intention and eNtensiol),: "Now
3lr: A., what •is the iUtention the%
dog " Diligent pupil No. " A—a—
Sir, - that tlepfnds upon circumstances ; he
may be intending to bite you, ..or—"
"That will do for you, sir." Mr. jl., what- •
is the extensioil of 'the dog"' pili go it
•••;,,
pupil No. 2 (so re •or a dead rush): ".His
tail. sir_:"— Yule Record. . • .
MAINE parson who announced from
his pulpit that a 'circus
. waslaboitt to-Visit
the town, and that if any of his flock
should attend, he would gladly give them
a letter of dismission, was somewhat Mol
lified in his wrath when a bright and bold
little Sunday school sehojai- of eight pire-
smited himself at the close iofthe service
with, "Please; sir, will you give me the
ticket to the circus that 'you promiged?'
"r. never weary of reading-a good epi
tapli; one which indicates the work of a"
lifetime in a few short, crisp words. - Hero
is one, for instance, which needs no ex
planation.. It Was inscribed en the tomb
of a cannibal :- " Ile loved his fellow-Men."
And - here° is' a double obituary, which
!MOWS that the state Of ma4imony is
sometimes a happy one one : Y r , -
I ani anxiously expecting yen. A, D.
• •
•
ME
Here I am. A. D. 1807.—Christian at
Work. . •
TliE II AYES C E ESE.-" Stkikel.
Boys Strike:" Ezekiel . ,llayes, the
grent-grandfather of the President,
was a successful mechanic in Con
necticut, and kept a number ap- •
prenticeS in all ages, they felt that -
theY had long work and short ra- - .
tions. At one :time a • new cheese
was put on the table whole. It stood
uncut for a day or two, Hayes, say
ing at - each Meal; " That is a nice
looking cheese. - It is a pity. to cut.
it! " The • boys , thouglit .this
was . growing rather monotonous,
and planned to show their sentiments.
The - blacksmith had :One tliay got a
bar of iron nicely heated, 4nd.held
it across the iron anvil toe be cut the
proper lengths. The boys; with
chisel siedLtes, were to;cut it off.
But no hand was raised. - Hayes
asked why they did not " strike."
One of them - replied "That is such
a nice bar of iron—it would be.a . pit.
ty to cut -If ayes qUickly - se,w.
the point, and shouted, with a lane",
"Strike! boys, strike! the cheese
shall be cat
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