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With help eo near ;
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- To UM thy rese t •
When thou art resting In raj secret dwelling.'
Shadowed by me.
Thou shalt not the of listenin g--I of telling- ,
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love for thee. .
Thine eyes me bent open each lowing token
• Sent by my baud ;
With these alone ihy spirit would be Molten
In thy fair land.,
Thou art a bier of all things or beauty
IA earth and pence ; •
Theta, moils. nate thy Plaasure and thy duty,
?belt soiree to trsee • • • •—• • ' '
Back to its source ;
See all the blooming growth , thy toot la pressing:l:.
Alonglts course.. . '•
See, gathered in thy itarebnitse of sweet drodiing,
Each glowing thought.
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gleaming • -
To thee have brought.
All real beauty which - thy heart Is greettng—ii
. In thishar ressis— , -
AU Musk *hick Utzehirased ear 41 meetlat4'
From me bad birth.
But this will be revealed when thou art leaning
17pon my breast;
Thy soul shall comprehend my bidden meanl4
And thon shalt rest. f`
Why He Did Not Run Away
Twenty years ago Peter Raymond
owned • a hard, stony firm, eighteen
miles from Hartford. One. Septem
ber evening,about nine o'clock,as he
was returning, home. from a neigh
bor's, he suddenly recollected that '
he bad lett his bridle hanging on 'a
bsr-post, by his sheep-barn, when he
turned his old white mare into pas
ture that afternoon. He sprang over
the wall and across the lots, hoping
to secure it before any greedy-mawed
bovine shOuld make it forever useless
for bridle purposes. As he drew near,
the turn be thought he heard 'voices'
inside.. What any one should be
there for, he could not conjecture.
He stepped lightly as he could on
the unmowed rowen and slipped in '
behind the door which was standing
ajar. and listened.' •
Philip, his eldest son, , ,was s there,
and Clinton Dexter, a son of the
man at whose house be had been to
call. The lads , were abont•of an age
—‘bent fifteen. Philip was talking
when his father went uplo the harn,,
but he finished .what he was saying .
just as Mr Raymond got Into a posi
tion to catch the words, and young
Dexter commenced to reply. He said :
" Well, Phi 4 my father is just as
inconsiderate as your father is. I
don't think he remembers he was
ever a boy.. There is scarcely arddy
in the year he doei not ride out—he
rides more'n he used to before he
was selectman, and you may be sure
that be always has something on
hand to be done, just as your father
does. Soon as the.frost is out of the
ground, in the sfirivg, be tells me ,
before he rides off that I may pick
up stones or spread manure till it is
time to milk and fodder. After that
time plowing and planting. A little
later in the sewn he tells me to hoe
the potatoes, or weed the garden, till
it is time to get up the cows ; and if
he is at home when I take up the
pails to go-out and milk, he always
tells, me to be sure and strip the cows
clean, jrst as. though he thought I
should be lazy and dishonest enough
to leave half the milk in their bags if
he did not tell me so ; and be would
be just As likely to tell me before
visitors as any way—makes fellow
feel mighty uncoinfortable, you know.
In the winter- have to chop wood
most of the Itime that I am not in
school ; andi don't think my father
feels quite satisfied if I don't chop as '
much as. a full-grown man could do
in the same time I didn't know till
the other. day just how it was with
you. Phil, I don't wonder that your
;patience has worn' out, and. I assure
you that I am quite as tired of living
in this way as you are."
" I'hesitated a goad while, Clint,"
Phil replied, ‘ before I decided to
speak to you about it ; but I made
up •my mind in haying4ime that it.
was the last • summer that I should
stay at home and help hay it and fare
as I 'did then. Father is always
ready to find fault—he generally says
when be gets home, '1 ,don't think
that you have hurt yourself working
to-day; Philip!' And sometimes be
asks me if my back doesn't ache, l',ve
-chopped so much or hoed so mueb,
d, no matter if .
.I work as hard na
can, from sunrise till' aundirriiil
Inter bear anythingmore .01i:11111g
ing—never get one wont of praise.
I feel sorry to clear out on my moth
er's account. I love her and I be
lieve she r loves me ; but if father
loves me be never shows itr,—never
speaks a tender, loving wor.i to me.
My mind is fully made up,'Clint. I
am going to ran, away, and I want to
get off to-night. Never mind about
your eloOes—l've shirts, hand
irerchteti and stockin a enough pnt
bp and I'll divide wi ;you until we
`can earn more) Last week I thought
it over and thought it would grieve
mother, so I pretty much decided to
give it : up; but I 'get's!, provoked.
the day father went to Hartford, I
determined that I would go any Way.'
YOU Ne t here I've lived ever sine •I '
was born, within eighteen miles of
Hartford, but I never iris there, ilor
in any other city. I asked , father if
I might go with him last June, wbea
be was going, and? he said\l couldn't
go very well then, - but I -Mould go
with him the very firsttimehe.went
after haying. Well, when he `spoke
of going.laat Week, I asked him ithe
was going to take me along -and he
answered pretty crabbedly: I No,'
sir; pretty time tothink of going
when the hired roan is ganef' I told'
I him / would get you to come and
REIMMEINI
Earn
the choreic' and 3ou would be a
kithful in doing thee at lkwould "be;
but he wouldn't heM a word about it.
I didn't feel very light4eatted alter
he was gone, but I tried to brace it
out the best that I could, find I work
ed hard all day. =That afternoon Was
a dark, cloudy afternoon, and I got
up the cows and milked them a. little
earlier .t h aw :t supposed .I did, but
don't think the sun wail five minutes
high when I got the chores done. I
took the_newspaper and sat down in
the doorway pop to be on hold to
take;,eare of the horse when Ihther
came, and I bsiln't read a quarteriof
a column wheci he drove tip. Well,.
Clinton, as true ' as I live and breathe,
after'his promising that I should go
to Hartford with him the first time
that he, went after haying, Ord then
breaking his word and leaving me to
work hard all day, the first thing he
said to me when be (hove up was :
What are you sitting there a read.
Ing for? Why aren't you doing your
chores I' It galled ma, I tell you,
but I - told him that the chores 'were
all done, and he said : ' 0, ho, that.
is it? Yiin do the chores in the mid
die; of the afternoon when I am gone,
and then sit down and read, do you
It was confounded cutting; if he had
stuck a knife , into me it , wouldn t
have hurt we any worse. I vowed
then I would see Hartford nn my
birthday, and I-shall be much inis
taken if I am not there to-morrow
morning, and if my tither sees: me
again for a year he will see nsore's I
think he will. I , will be at the barn
just, at midnight. My bundle' of
clothes is here now 'ln the oat-bin.
Don't MI to Pe on time, Clint. We
must get a single glimpse of the city
before the steamboat' goes out. 1.1
don't know what the fare is to New
York. I doubt if we'lkaie money
enough to take us there. It we
haven't we can stop at some of the
landing places on the way." ,
Wilt: variety of feelings Peter,
Rayiniond bad in the fifteen minutes
he stood behind that barn door and
listened I At first be was utterly
surprised, he could hardly;: believe
Us ()Wit ears; but as he took it all In
~—as he comprehended what his..son
contemplated doing, he was in high
dungeon ; he unconsciously clenched
his fist tightly. • He could hardly re
frain. from 'pouncing upon his son
then and there an& eying him a
sound diubbing ; but he decided that
it, would be wise to heatt the boys'
talk-out; and learn all their plans and'
then confront them. But as Philip
I talked on Raymond's teeth were less'
firmly closed and his flat relaxed, and
1 when Philip said in a half .sad tone,
" I doubt if my father loves me at
rall," a dozen different feelings strove
for the mastery. -i
" Don't love hum ?" be responded
to himself; "the ungrateful rascal l i
Haven't I been scrubbing along as;
savingly as possible and privately
putting little sumo in the savings
banks so that I - Could send him away
in a year or two, and give him a bet
ter chance for an education than I
ever had ? _Haven't I often said 0
my friends that he was' one of the
most faithful, trusty boys in the
world ? 'and that I could leave home
any time, day' or night, and never
,worry about things as long as he was
:there to take care? If he does doubt
my love, up to this time I have' loved
him and have been proud of him. - I
haven't been very demonstrative
about it, to be sure. I never thought
it was wise to pet and, praise chil
dren. Perhaps I have been's little
too unsocial and bold and straight
laced with him. _ Maybe I'd better
I not let him know I've heard this talk
about their running away ; but I,
I shall of course do something to pre
-1 vent their going. I'll go up to the
house and think over what course to
take." . • ,
And Peter Daymend crept away
from the .barn as though he was a
speak thief, and huriied; home• as fast
st 4 be could, not once thinking of his
While. He bad bardlkgot seated in
the big arm chair before Philip came
in. Philip expected his father would
say, gruffly : "It is high time you
were in bed." And so he was quite
taken by ' surpriee when he said,
gently : ,
" Won't you hand me the almanac
before you sit down, Philip ?"
Philip's mother raised 'her eyes
from her sewing and glanced, at her
husband as though she wondered
what bad called forth such unusual
gentleness. Raymond opened the
almanac at September, and after
glancing down the page he turned to
his wife and asked : "Is to-day the
third or fourth Tuesday of the
month ?"' '
"The fourth," she replied. "To
morrow is the last day of the montP."l
" Are you quite sure about it 1"
he queried. "If you I are correct, I
am a week behindban& in my reckon
ing I've bad so many things crowd-,
ing upon me lately, I've hardly known
which way to tarn first. I promised
Mr. Skidmore thit I Would take the
two.years-old heifer away that I
bought of him before the first of Oc
tober.. She must he got home to
morrow." • .
-Philip got up to go to bed. Mr.
Raymond said: - •
" Don't hurry, Philip. I'm think
ing bow to get that heifer home. I
believe I will take you down there
early in the morning and leave you
to - drive ber up.'lt is nine miles
there, but you can come back leisure
ly and let her feed alongside the road.
You'd like it as well as to stay home
and work, wouldn't you,-Philip 7"
" Ye ' sir."
l
Pbili replied in an absent-minded
way. i was in - a quandary. Per
hags he had better try to stay at
home a little longer and see if things
didn't seem more agreeable to him.
Maybe he bad judged his father a
little too harshly. -Clinton Defter
would come to the barn at midnight,
Philip-was arrested in his cogite,
Lions by his father saying: - 7; .
"1 - have so many cares, so many
things to think of that I can hardly
keep track of my children's-eqrs., 1
believe,Tbilip, your birthday Comes
the thirtieth day of Septenffler,
doesn't'it?"
,1 .
" Y,ett, sir."
4 And so you wig Oltenia ye4w
1-
IMES
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ME
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old, to-morrow; • it 'iioes
beat all.bow the time tam -Mite*
years! -It doesn't, aeon : more than
halt that time since you were a baby;
Let me see, I believe .I: promised
let yo* go, to 'Hartford this WI, dhint
I t We shall be hilt way there when
we get to Skidmore's; seeing toinori
row is .your birthday, perhaps we bad.
better keep on, I &MI, know as we
shall have any better , time to leavej,
.We eanotiut—have breakfast at. halt
put ftve, and get or by siX, and by i
nine; if we have good loolkwe shall ,
be there. We can stay'-
.there till
three otellok In the afternoon, and;
then you Wouldn't White home. It
will , be light to-morrow evening—
there is -a good moon now. Well,
you may as well go .to bed and get,
allrthe sleep that you can. I "shall
caltyou up at four o'clock."
-Philip started the second time to
go, but just as he got his band on
the door latch, his fathet said:
• "Wait a. minute, Philip. If you
hid some one to keep you , company
from Skidmorels and help you drive
the cow, I wouldn't mind staying till
midnight before we left the 'city.
•Perhaps Clipt_Dexter would be will- 1
ing to walk up from , there with you .
and help you drive her, if he could
go with us to Hartford and spend
the day. If you think that he would,
and you would like to have him.go,
you may 11/1I over -to Mr. Dexter'sl
and tell him if- it is amvenient for
him to spare Clinton, I would like to'
have him go to Hartford with us to
morrow, and walk home from Skid
more's with you in the evenitg. And
be "sure to tell Clinton, if his father i
consents to his going, that we will
call for hi as early as six o'clock."
Philip said: - "Yes, sir," and took
up his hat and went into the hall ; 1
but before he got to the Outside door,
his father called out :
"One thing more; Philip. I left'
my,bridle hanging on a bar-post down
by the sheep-barn thlit afternOon. If
you'll come back acrosilots and bring'
it up, it'll save going for it in the
morning. I intended to get it myself,
when I came home frolif Mr. Dexter's,
but it slipped my mind." .1 1
"Lucky thing it did," Philip said
to himself as he stepped out of the
Aoor.• " If he had come around that
may and heard Clint and me talking
In that barn, I guess' he wouldn't be
An so gentle a mood to-night.: He
would have given me Hail Colum
bia,' right and left, and Clint would
have fardd worse than I ; - for when
his father's lack is up, he's as savage
as a tiger. Strange what has come
over father to-night I I noticed that
mother was surprised to see him so
much more- social and gentle than
c0mm0n.7,..
On his way over •to Mr. Dexter's
Philip had a great variety of feelings
suit's's great a conflict with them as
his father had whihrstanding behind
the barn-door ; but, before he got
there, the summing, up was, that he ,
was an ungrateful scamp and that his
father was all right, only he had so
many, cares and anxieties that it,
sometime made him "a` little stern
and crabbed.
MEE
MEM
MEE
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Mr. Dexter was ready to oblige his
neighbor Raymond, and he cheerfully
gave his consent to. Clinton's going.
Clinton didn't know what to make of
this sudden turn of affairs. As be
went with. Philip to the door, he
whispered : •
"'What's up. l Phil ? What has hap
penedl Has your father found out
anything ?"
".Not a thing not a thing," Phil
lip hurriedly whispered.back. "You
don't suppose, Clint, he'd be taking
us to Hartford to-morrow if he had ?
It's all right, but it's the strangest'
thing that ever happened. tell
you all about it to-morrow, can't Say
long,enough now
Mr. Raymond took up a newspikper
and bowed his bead over it as soon
as his son started for Mr. Dextee t. s,
but if his wife , had observed him
closely she would hive seen that he
did very little reading and there was
a troubled expression on his minute
nance. He did not raise his eyes from
the paper when he heard returning
footsteps, but he listened very intent
ly and he knew that Philip stole soft-
ly and hurriedly to , the back end of
the hail and opened the chamber-door
before he came into the sitting-room.
A look of relief came over his face
and he straightened op as if a great
burden bad been WWI from him. He ,
had no doubt that the bundle of
clothing bad been brought up from
the oat-bin and left on the chamber
stairs' till Philip should go up to bed.
That is what he hoped his boy would
do when ho asked him to come
around by the barn and get the halt
er. He had no fuither fear thit he
would attempt to give hiin the slip
that night.
Mr. Raymond and Philip rode up
to Mr. Dexter's door for Clinton the
next morning, just as the sun was
peeping over the hills- It :was as de
lightful a September morning as they
cold desire. As soon as they were
well on the road, Mr. Raymond said:
"Nuts boys, you must keep your
eyes open—see all there is to be seen
and get all the enjoyment out of
going that you ,can. We don't have
holidays very often sod' we must
make the - most of them when we do
have them. Philip and I have work
ed pretty has* lately , and I guess,'
Clinton, you have. I believe a play
will do us all g o od. I made , up my
mind, this morning s _ to try and leave
all my cares sad business !,hind me,
for once; so ' yon may ask me al
many questions as you wish and, you
netd have no fears that it will dis
turb- me at
It did not maps Mr. Raymond's
observation that' his remarks caused
the lads to . glance at each other in
blank astonishment, ind it cut him to
the qiiick. "What kind of a father
have I been,":' he :
_asked.himself,"
"not to be able 'to spilt a few civil
and kind words to my son without
having it received with such surprise.
Poor boy , I Wonder, pleasure, guilt
and -grief are all =depicted in his
countenance today. Alter this, with
God's helps Pil so uunine that he'll
never doubt my loving hink—never
plan toran away from his father's
house again.."
Mr Raymond spired no pains to
t haveibe boys enjoy .their first trip to
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them*liircrised au& ink such a
ferat-whente wee alaw.wbst toi
land' was, mei* ad acre thee; mid i
*hat was Its marketvidee tiow.wboi
built-this hotesetoand that;--
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pointed where '. elelifind .--, ‘nuil
born, and where Mononlie -- lived!
tilthelrent- to, college.. Me was . .'
less painstaking when they got tot*
city. -..He took Shell, past
* Trinity.
College, the State time, the Sigh
School le : pointed ont the different
,churches and told who peeled in!
them; -. he went with thank to - the
Athenteum and spent an 4ur - witli
them there. . ] _ .1
Sometimes Philip looked at hirr
fiither t in dumb bewildamrnrt, won 4
doing . if they 'were , teeny hi,
Hareord, or if it. ;were all a dream:
;How social and Interesting Mild
was! Ile felt as if he was ileVer 1 101 j
quaintedwith him before." What What I
lfi
,delighthrl time be shotdd ve if be
had not been planning to do some
mean thing. ' If father kir wit bort
he would despise , him ; he . ooked at
him so earnestly sometimes; be was
afraid that he saw guilt in his counte4
name. It be could only get up the
Courage he would confess the whole,
to his father and Implore his Only-,
Hess.
Thus the day wore away and Phil;
Hp was not sorry when it was timetci
start for borne. After Mr; Raymond;
bad left the ,lads to follow on with;
- the heifer they talked over the events
of the past twenty-four hours togeth:-:
er. and they were both decidedly of,
the opinion that they hada verynar
tow and providential escape fermi
committing at very &space, ful 'act;
and they both a,greed, after a little',
discussion on that point, that they
would never divulge to any human
being that they had ever' dreamed of
running away. •
It' Wasindf-past nine when" Philip
droVe , the heifer into his father's,
barnyard. After he had his supper;
his father asked him .to step out to
the shed and get alackage that - was
under the svagon-seat. When he
brought it, Mr. Raymond opened it
and took from •it t 4 Webster 'a Una
bridged Dictionary," -arid sat dow n'
and wrote on the fly-leaf:
" Presented to Philip C.' Raymond
on his fifteenth birthday, by his
father. Peter Raymond," and then
without closing the' book passed it
over to Philip. -
Philip could bear no more. The
tears that 'had comez,lo his eyea
twenty times had been , . forced back
now overflowed his eyelids and razi
down his cheeks. - He stammered.
"Yon amino kind i to me t father;
I do not deserve this."
aDo not deserve it,' Philip!" ex.
claimed Mr. Raymond, with apparent
"I think you'd better leave
that to my judgment. I should like
to hnow what boy does not deserve
the kindness from his, father if yoa
don't? If I bad a dozen sone Leonid
not ask them to be more faithful and'
industrioai than you hays been:
There, there ! don't shed any more
teat* over it--you're tired better go
to bed is soon as you can, so as to
feel fresh in the x 'morning._ If it's a
good daY to.m6rrow we must secure
that rowen."-
44 Thank you, father," Philip aid,
with a quivering voice; and went im
mediately. up-stairs. If had been a
little less overcoming to himself, he
would have noticed that his hither's'
voice was a little shaky; and if he
hadlooked back as he passed out of
the door he would have seen 'his'
father haitily brush a tear or two
from, his own eyes.
Henceforth there was no lack of
confidence, sympathy and affection ,
between Mr. Raymond and Philip,;
and, by reason of a private interview:
that Mr. Raymond had with Clinton'
Dexter's father, Clinton's life was;
much more agrmtble than heretofore..
Philip has always looked back to;
his fifteenth-birthday as a remarkable!
epoch in his life; and be never ceased'
—until his aged father recently visit
ed him and heard him speak rather ;
t
harshly -to his own little son—to;
marvel at the wonderful change that'
came over his father, himself or both;
at 'that time. Then his father told;
him the whole story, and cautioned,
him against growing into the habit
of speaking in that way to his chkld
" Always remember, Philip," be ,
said, "that crustiness and nnhappi-.
new are no more agreeable to &child's,
feelings than they are to a grown!
person's, and that they aremqre
ly to lead any one out of the right:
path than into it, and that they never,
will forgo love."
Soma particularly withusiastio!
young Barnumites, alias Connecticut.
Democrats, employed by a large ,
manufacturing .company of Water
bury chalked 329 all over_ Abe door'
before election. The hoed was a Re
publican, but he said nothing shout ,
it at the time, only. s he managed to;
find out who the chalkers were. The
day after election he .came into the :
fackiry, summoned ,all who had par
thipated in the figuring and ordered
them to fortn in line on the floor, as
he was going to organize a broom
brigade. He armed.. them . with
brooms, buckets, cloths and sera.-
bing brushes, telling them he was
going to have them celebrate Grat;%.
field's election. He appointed him
self captain,
and told them they
were now to march and wash out all
the dirty work they lutd been revel
ling in for the past six weeks. Some
of it didn't wash out easy, and they
had to work .two • hours with cold
water and sand to remote all traces
of the chalk marks. They won't
chalk any in 1881.
As expectant nephew, took upon
me side the physichm ‘who visited
his "uncle, and demanded' to know
the whole truth concendag that be
lovedirelatim "Be s ts dying!" mdd
the doctor. The nephew howled with
piteous lamentations. But the old
doctor who knew human Aniture, and
expectant nephews in • pardmdar, ex:
claimed ; ".You misunderstood me!
I did not may he was recovering—l
said be 'is dyieg l"
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Colonel Ingersoll says he keeps all
pockethOok In an open drawer, and
bis Call'Ullo go $O4. help
to along whenenr they went it;
They. eat. when - they want to; , they
may sleep all dtiy if theychosse c and
dt tip" all night if. they ; desire.
on't 47 to coerce. them. : . never
Punish, never scold. They buy their,
own clothes and are masters of them.:
staves:, • •
A gentlemen living 011 Marshall sk,
who lmea boy that is AM - as hitter - 1y
as Lai father, read the edicts' and
pondered deeply. 'ilia "knew - that
Qolaaesl Inwsoll enema, at
chiUnm in the, way they'',
should go, and he thought he wouhl
try it. The boy bad causes him vow!
sid,erableannoyatice, and be made Up
his mind that he had not treated the
boy right, so he celled, the boy'
from the street, where he was p*
tang softesols,_ pon a lamp - post in or;
der, to see the lamp-lighter ellinb it;
and said to hintF •
"My son, I have decided to adopt
different Course - with you. Hereto:,
fore I haveilleen litlellll about giving
you money, and hive wanted td
know where every-cent went to, and
thy supervision has no doubt heed
annoying to you. Now I'dk going 10
leave my pocket-book in the banal
drawer, with plenty of money in it,
and you are at libeity to use 4500
want without asking me. I want yod
to buy anything you desire . to; buyl
your own clothes feet as thouge
the money was yours, and that poi
had itotgot to account for it.- Just,
make yourself at home now,. and try
And have a - good time." •_
The boy looked at the old' gentle4
.man, put his hand on his: head act
though he had. "got 'em sure," and
went out to see the lamplighter climb
that soft soap. The next day the
stern,parent went out into the counJ
try. shooting, and returned on the
midnieht train three days liter. He
opened the door with a latchkey, and
,a strange yellow dog' gabbed him
by the elbow of his pants and shook
him, be said, "like the agar."
Ttie diog barked and chewed until
the son Came dcian in his night-shirt
and called him off. He told hislathr:
er he had bought that dog of a fire
man for $1 I t and it Was probably the
beet dog bargain that had been made
this season. He \sold the firemad
told him he could Sid a man that
wanted that kind of a dog. -
The.parent took -off his pants;
what the dog bad not removed, and
'in the halt he'stumbled over a biretki
bark canoe the boy bought of*ldj
dian for $9, and an army musket;
'with an iron ramrod, fell down from
the cother. The boy had paid:s6"
for that. He bad else bought him
self an overcoat With a sealskin col
lar and Cuffs Inds complete outfit of
calico shirts and slikettocklegs.
In his room-Abe parent found,. the
marble top of i *ode_ fountain, a',
wheelbarrow, and dithelf filled with'
all kinds of canned meats, preserves
and crackers, lied a barrel of: apples.'
A wall tent and six pairs'ef blankets
were rolled .up ready for camping
out, and a buckskin , shirt,.anda pair
of corduroy pants lay on the bed'
ready for pulling on. Six fish-poles'
and a basket: NI of fish-lines were
ready for business, and an oyster-eat
full of grutmrorms for bait were
squirMing on the washstand. The
old gentleman looked the lay wit
over, locked at his pocket-book In'
the bureau drawer, as .empty as a'
contribution.box„.and said;
"Young man, the times Lave been'
too flush. We will now return to a'
specie basis. • When you'want money:
come tome and I will give you a‘
nickel, and you will here tai. tell me'
what you intend to - buy with it or
I'll warm you. You bear me ?" —'
From: the Springfield Republican.
The Same Old Game.
The other afternoon the tools,
plements; fixtures, apputtetumee end ,
,whatever else belongs to W game o
croquet, were, pit in position on a.
lawn up Woodward avenue, and seal
young lady and a young-- man wbo,
seemed to be her lover, took up the
mallets CO start the balls,* bony-look !
lug old tramp halted and leanelpn,
the fence and got his mouth pucker;
ed up , for something good. The;
young man took the first shot, Mid,
before the ball ceased rolling the .
girl's voice was heard calling:.
" You didn't knock - fair—you've ,
got to try it over." Before either of
them were half/ way down she had
'occasion .to remind him that .be
wasn't playing with a blind person,
and that she could overlook no cheat.
ing. As *she went under the last arch
he felt compelled to remark that her
playing'would rule her out of any
club ever. heard of. On the way-back
she asked him why be couldn't . be an
honest matt as well as a jockey and a
falsifier, and he inquired why. she
didn't write a set of rules to tally .
with her style of playing. , " It's
coing—tain't five minute's off"";
chuckled the tramp as he too a new
grip on the fence and shaded his eyes
with his bat. "Don't yen knock that
bail away 1n shouted the girls min
ute after. ". Yes, I will!" " Wet
jou dare to.". - "l'm playing accord
lug-to the rules." No, you arn'tl
You've cheated allthewaythrotigh.7
"I never Cheated once t" ""And ST
you sae' adding the crime of perjuryl
Sir, I dare not intrust m3r future hap.
piness to such a man I cotdd'never
trust or believe in you I" "Nor lln
you Pi "'Then let , us part fanner!"
she aid, as she burled her millet at,
a Mane dog - . ;"So I"he him
ed as he flung his at , ber eleeping
poodle. She bowed and darted for
the bouseta pack up his littera. Be
raised his-hat and made for an ap
proaching. street ear to get down
town in,time for the Toledo train.
" That's'all I wanted Ur - know '
" sigh
ed the tratnp,_as be ' turned away.
"Iv'e been out in the woods for a
fevi years past, and I didn't knew
but what there bad been some change,
made in croquet, but '1 .see it's' the
oame old game clear throughl" l -,De.
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Comitici.'enr Tmr. !sow:
Ob dis blipt
Ihrin mono in the mirth
IlindalytW lacesfai fora,
Illseebinall us SYmet air-.
' limb'
Keallanlinsa sadraoustabi ten.
Ob t►e mita, Magid irtater
bikes lite ilitmereil et Zino:
• Set tbr violas raslibet rose t
I.lkis each. MO ea
DowdwaM two Ow mellows bowies
11 Mors lowness was untitled.
Ob tr. Meld s trfild Wilder
How II Magas tar the pow:
Like s von st wiry Aloar.
jleimest co the mut of woke.
1167atellieg, Unless. for the finless
Ag 4 tba lIIE 1. crtm and mat,
Oh, the naming wolf at 'Hato,
Outlaws, e* tons taw
0, the ievesNamideg law,
' 0f the love thc*lasfa, bare ,
For Alie poor —astO that 'cadre
.. blabs loortiathetidooi. -
. • Ob. the ramie, welts? winter— ,
Weald ye bars Ides harts away?
11141 him. awl be steal obey;
- Valle ye the maddviss arse
On the hearthstones et the humble
While the Intipds strike their Vies. -
-Y C. Iw the Philadelphia North Americas:
One or the "peers."
She was about forty-five years old,
well dressed, had .black hair, rather
tlan and tinged iith' gray, and eyes
4d which gleamed :the fire of a deter
nhMtion not easily balked. She walk
bito Major House's office, and re
(pleated priimte interview, and have
ign satisfied berielf that the kW
Mndents.were ncit listening at the
keyhole, said Skiivly, solemnly and
impressively :
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"I want a divorm"
"What for? I supposed ion bad
one of the best of husbands V! said
the Major.
"1 epos°, -that's what everybody
thinks, but It they knew what I've
suffered in ten years they'd wonder
I hadn't scalded him long ago: I
ought to, but for the sake of the
young onea I've borne it and said noth.
ing. I've told him,. though, what he
might depend on and now the time's
come. I won't stand it, young ones
or no young ones_; I'll have a ' di.
vorce, and if the neighbors want to
blab themselves Wane about it they ,
can, for I won't stand it another day."
" But what's the matter ? Don't
your husband provide for you ?
Don't he treat you kindly ?" matted
the lawyer. - -
"We get victual' enough, and I
don't know but what he's as true and
kind as men in general, and he's
never knocked none of us down.
wish be had, then I'd • get him into
jail and • know where he goes at
night," retorted the woman.-
'Then what'sthecomplalut against
him
- “Wa if you must imow, he's one
of them dratted poem' -
A'what ?"
"A jiner—one of ttem pesky fools
that'salways jiningsomething. There
can't nothing come along that is
dark and= sly and hidden,. but he'll
jine it. If anybody should get up a
society to burn his house down, he'd
jine it just as soon as he could •, and
if he had to pay for t he go all the
suddeoer. We hadn't been married
More than two months - before be
jined the Know Nothing's. We lived
on a farm then, and every Saturday
night he'd come tearin' in before
suppe4greb a fist hill - Of nut cakes,
and go off gnawing !emeand , that's
the last I'd see of him-,till morning.
And every other • night he'd roll and
tumble in.his bed, and holler in his
sleep, q'td, none but Americans on
guard--George Washington;' and
rainy days he would go out in the
Urn and jab at 'the picture of the
Pope id* an old baguet thatewas
there. - I ought to put my. foot down
then, but he fooled me with his lies,
that the Pope's coming to 'make aIL
the Yankee girls marry Irishmen and
to, eat up all. the babies thatices , -Wt.
born with, a croon on their forehead,
that I let hini go m sad encouraged
him in it, /
"Then he jined tbe Masons. Per
haps you know what they are, but 1'
don't spect / ttey think they are the
lame kind'oreritters that built Solo. i
inon's Temple and took care of his
concubines; end pf all the denied'
nonsense And gab about worshipful
masters and squares and compasses
and such like_ that we had in the
house, for the next six -months, you.
neveffseen the beat. And he 's never
ontgrowed it nutter., What do you'
think of swan, 'Squire, that'll dram
bisself fn a white apron, t 'bout big
I enough for a monkey's bib, and go
[ marching up and down, and making
motions, and talking the foolisbest
lingo at, a picture of George Wash
ingtonin a green jacket and a truss
on his stomach? Ain't he a loonytic ?
Well, that's my Sam, and I've stood
it as long as I'm going to: 4
"The next lunge the old fool made
was the Odd 'Fellows. _ I 'made it
warm for him whe be came home and
itold me he'd jined them,but be kinder
pacified me by telling me they bad a
sort of branch show that took in
women and he'd get me in as soon ss
,he found out how to do it. Well,
one night he said I'd been proposed *
and somelmdy bad black-balled me.
Did it hi melt of course. Didn't '
want me around keowing of his
rtzh0,....0: co u rse be didn't an d
"Then he jined - the Sons of Mal
tee. Didn't say nothing to me about
it, but sneaked off one night pretend
in' he'd got to sit up wities sick Odd
Feller, and I'd never found it out;
only be came hem( lookin' like a
man that hid been through a thresh
ing machine, and I 'wouldn't do , a
thineor 'him till he owned up. , And [
solt's gone from bad to was and
from wus to wooer, 'fining this, that
and t'otber, till he's Worship Minis
ter of libason.s, and Goddess of Hope
of the Odd Fellows, and Sword Swat
lorr of the Finnegan*, and Virgin
• Cerus of the' Grange, and Grand Mo
gul of the Sons of Indolence; and
Two-Edpd Tosnahawk of the United
Order Of Black-Men, and Tablebear
er of the Merciful Manikins, and Skip
cif the Guild Catherine Coltun.,
and Big Wiper& the' Arabi
an igiits, ankPledge-Psuser of the
Reform Club e and Chief .Bulier of
the Jewish , Mechanics,' and Purse
•100 Dor Annum In Advaner.
:. NVMBER2B
Keeper of the Cansdhus - Coosciane
end Dotaide Barreled• Doctor of
Knights of the Brass . Circles, a
Eitandud Ikater of thelloyal•
singe* and Sublime Porte of the On
ion League, and Chambermaid of the
Celeitial Cherubs, and Puissant 1 1 / 4 0
fea st. of the Petrified Piptitickers;
and heaven only' knows what else.
I've borne it and borne it, hophe
he'd get 'em ell' jived after a
while, but lain't no' use and when
he'd got into a new one,. and beers
made Grand Guide of the Knights of
Horror, I told him I'd quit, mulcl
will."
Here the major interrupted, say.
ing:
Well, your husband is '
pretty,
well initiated, that's , a fact; but the
court will hardly call that a good
cause for a divorce. The most of the
societies you mention are compa
of ;honoraria men, and have ribellent
reputations. Many of them, though
called lodges, are relief associations
and mutual insurance companies,
which, if your . huiband 'should die;
would take care of you, and would
not see you suffer if you were sick."
"See me . suffer when I'm sick
Take we of ..me. when he's dead
WIL rlefebot; I can take care of
myself when he's dead, and if I can't
I can, get another. There's plenty of
'em. And they needn't bother them
selves when I'm sick, - either. If I
went to be sick and suffer, it's none
of their business, especially after the
sufferin' I've had when I ain't,sicki
became of their carrin's on. And
you needn't , try to make me believe
Ws all right, either. I know what it
is to, live with sr man that jinea so
many lodges that be' don't never
lodge ; at- home - , and signs his name;
Yours, truly, Sam Smith, M. M., L
0. 0. 8.,11. of P, P. of H. H.,
R. It. A. H.„ I. L P. K..of X., N. C.,
L. E. T., H. B. L P., X. Y.
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" Oh, that's harmless amusement,"
remarked Mr. Housej
She 'looked at him square in the
eye and said
I believe you 'are a jiver your
self', _
iII admitted he was to a certain
extent, and she arose and said : " I
wouldn't have thought it. A man
like you, chairman of, a Sabbath
schaol and superintendent of the Re
publieturs. It's enough to make a
woman take pisen. Bat I don't want
anything of you. I want a lawyer
that don't belong to nobody or neck.
in'." And' she bolted 'out of the
office .and inquired +re Captain
Patton kept. •
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The Old Blue Chest.
One day last week five or Mx woo
men with serious faces and hushed
voices were gathered in a room in a
house on Fort street'east. For two
years a poor old WOMall had lived
there,' not exactly a beggar nor an
object of charity, bat certainly in
want. She bad a' husband when she
first moved there.,-a poor old, man
whosedays could not be long; but
one day be was missing. - He may
have Mien into the river, or he may
have wandered out into the country
and died. This left the old woman
alone, and there were days, andtdays
in which no one went near her or ad.:
dressed her. The other day when
she felt the chill of death- approach
lug_ she wanted someone with her.
She had lived alone, but she could
not die that way. She wept when
tender hands clasped hers and kind
voices addressed her. Death had
already/placed ,its mark on-her face,
and the women could do nothing.
Whileetheir tears fell upon her wrin
kled hands she - passed away as a
child sleeps. • .
There was but little in the rooFa
beyond an old blue chest—battered
and bruised and splintered, but yet
holding. It had seen strange times;
that old blue chest. It bad held silks
and broadcloths perhaps-=it - 'bad
surely - held rags. It had been moved
• from house to house and from town
to town. It had listened to laughter,
and had beard sobs and moans. It
had grown old no faster than the wo
man who had so often lifted its lid.
It bad doubtless kept the company
Of good, carpets and furniture and
crockery, and laughing, romping
children had climbed over it or hid-
den in it. IS had &did; and its
hinges were rusty and wcak, but it
had outlived its owner. ,
The women looked
_about for gar
meats in which to enshroud the dead.
Nothing was in sight. One of 'them
lifted the lid of the old blue chest,
and called the others to- help drag it
out from its dark Corner. It held
treasure—such tresaure as men could
not buy nor -poverty steal away.
There, was a dress of fine material,
cut after a fahlon of long years ago.
For twenty years the chest had been
its guardian. It would -hive sold for
a few dollars, but though the gnaw
ings of hunger bad come often and
the cold had fought its way to her
Marrow, that poor old woman would
not part with that, relic of better' days.
It may have been a link to connect
her with , wealth and love. Beneath
it wag treasure stilt more, priceless.
Carellilly wrapped -in paper was a
silver dime more than fifty years old.
A week's faet--sirould not have sent
her to the baker's With that relic. A
child, dead. In Its young years, had
worn that dime around its neck as a
gift-or talisman. There WIN a child's
mitten, stained and worn, bat a mit
' ten knit by a proud young mother
for her child. It could not speak to
tell the dim psukt, but it had power.
As the women saw it they-covered
their faces . with their aprons and
wept.
There was a lOy's cap and a girl's
bat, both so old and faded and time
oaten that, they had 'to be tenderly
handled. The women looked from
them to the , poor old white 'face on
the bed and whispered : .
" None but a good mother would
have treasured these relics. She was
old and poor, Nag her heart was
[jinni" -
' Peeper down, u if to bat. the
search of rime itseig was a lamiliar
tor—a child's dumb watch. Hands
were broken and gone, face scratched
and case' battered, but the women
ha 101,4 it as if a touch would shiver
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nasi oslia tbinipio elbow lbst the
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the non kliass Of And •Ni - biee — g their
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that.. Vois tato...woo
wept ',O.Ver'" 4o 4. mimed tiith
fresh, teebetehui. • They asked the
old Woe ebeetimiloeitiolig:ltaiel*
might hate heen,ed to s
but to s r Na OM
Lad s tale lit words ss philscsa print.
?shed sore tam sa. they bent
pots. old
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she had only told one, this
Low, we , wosld hare Loved kw and
WU &to likiihten. her serrellle."
But shelled :gone. _Shs bad eon*
and -eons as a zsraery; sad bah for
the old tilos chest in:*wearier , kw
would love . tared, ssid,nona-watati
have sorrowed —4*koit Awe l'tnr&
Not Even-the Erring arc
L Porgtten.
,
- There is no quality of the human
heart so touchingly beautiful in its
manipulation. as that of pity ; pity
the erring—the_ pity which ftVves
and - forgets-4nd which stoops to
lift• up a crushed heart, or efface a
stain. We don't have ,:mtieh -of this
in the pnwtice of daily life towards
the living or the memory of the
dead, and therefore, when it does
show itself, it seems that the voice
which said to the qrWg woman,pros
trate on the groan "go and no
wore," breaks spin on the world is
commendation or the pity in the hu
man heart which forgives the erring.
There is in the old cemetery a grave
which holds one who in life erred
fearfully, and as fearfully paid the
'malty of her sin--sinning sad sor
rowing she died and was laid away to
bwrorgotten by those who shared the,
glitter and the false .pleasure of her ;
misguided life.. But pity does not
pass her grave neglected. 1f good
woman; with her soul filled with •
Christ's charm, sad the love of :a true
heart, has marked this' graiTe with a .
rose stalk, which, when the birds ,
again sing and the flowers bloom,
will stied he, fragrance over the
mound with a perfume as sweet as
that bestowed on _ the grave of the
most- blameleis. This is charity—
this islove:-this is the Christianity
which Christ died to spread, because
it is the pity that forgivbs..
A Missoula •vr
law 13p
well-kidwn lady artist, resident in
ROme, relates that while standing
one day -near the Apollo Belvidere,-
she suddenly became aware of th
preseisce of a ,country-wonuai„ The
new comer; a well-W.& looking
American woman, introduced herself
as Mrs. Engles, of: —, Mo.,- and •
then asked : . •
" Is this the 'Apollo Belvidere ?"
Miss H— testified to" the identi- -
ty of the work, and the tourist then
said :
" Considerei a great Statue ?"
The Interrogated. lady replied that '
it was generally thought to be one of
the master-pieces of the world.
" Manly beauty and all that' sort
of things ?" said the liady—from the"
land of the setting sun.
Yes," responded the now amazed
artist. "It-is said to be one of the
noblest representations of the human
'frame."
." Well," exclaimed :Mrs. 'Reggie% -
closing her Baedeker; and with arms'
akimbo taking - a last and earnest -
look at the marble, ." I've seen 'the
Apollo Belvidere and I've seen gag
gles, and give me Raggiee."-4.10e10n
Commercial Bulletiii. - -
Am - old "colored man took a tele
gram' to Woodland, add., the other -
day; and asked the operator to send
it right :may. The operator rattled
it off in a few,seconds and stuck it
up on a file. Raising his head half
an hour afterward, he saw the old
darkey . still . standing! there , gazing
intently at the file. The old darkey
remarked, " I say, boss, 'hain't yer
gwoine ter send dat message?
very impoitant, it, mould go 'megete
ly." The ope rator
, answered "Why,
oTd man, I 4,ent the' dispatch long
ago; it's delivered long before this. "
The old roan then said : "Ye can't
fool dis , chile. It's not sent at all—
it's .hanging np dar on de hook. I
saw ye when you put it dar, an' I
hasn't taken my eyes ofrn it since,"
and the operator had to take the
message dosin and pretend to send
it-411' again by practicing the alpha
bet, before the old mark_would go
away. • -
AT the baths : A fat man opens the
door of his dressing-room, enough
to ga, bib head out and shouts in de
spair, # Waiter, some one has stolen
my- • trousers." "Impossible, sir;
there must be a mistake somewhere ;-
I will search fot them." After awhile
he comes •bnck without them and
says. " I cannot find them, sir; are
you quite, sure you „brought theni
with ytu •
• 'Thoughtful Thought&
ALL useless misery is certainly folly,
and be that feels evils before they 0010111
may be deservedly censured, yet surely - to
diead the future is morn reasonable than
to lament the past.
Sogn persons are capable of tasking
great sacrifices, but few are capable of
conceding how much the 'effort hike cost
them ; and it is thiiconcealment tbat con
stitutes their-value..
IF we daily walk those tillage 'which
are true, lovely and of good Mon t tho
life beyond will be the fallbunt of oar
highest ambitious, the enutpktion of an
we desired sad lived for bare.
Dr rasing upon the fortaihhas garden
that crowns some lofty bill inseosesible to
um forget the traits and flamers
that" are lying in profusion at our feet un
.tasted and - unappreelated. - • •
Taos" passionate' ponds who awry
their hearts in their =oath ars tether to
be pitied than feared ; their threatening'
serving no other purpase than taforeatut
hi= that is threaUmed. • ' •••
Tits happineiii of - your life. depends
upon the quality of your thoughts; limo-
Tare guard soundingly,- antEante sire
that you entertain no no uneuitable
to virtue and winnowed, to Datum,
Iv is abeam( in tbs Bible, the fraftaet
deep readiation, width las storied me as
the guide of my weal mad literary life.
I have found it a caplial saki, Wrested
and richly productive of interest.
Ora leivare hours areoman; those that
have the, most impaisuice In molding oar
characters. Our hours an very
important, but OUT leisure haunters thous
that form or tastes and oni.habits.
Poona never plOt mischief when they
are merry. Laughter is an enelny b m
tee, a foe to scandal, and Mead to eve.
ry virtue. It promotes good temPer, en
livens the heart and brightens ,the Intel
ket. ,
Ir men coosidered the hippiness of oth
ers or their own ; halewer words, it they
were `rational or provident, no State
would be &pop's:dated, ao city pillaged,
not a brim would be laid in salsa, not is
farm deserted.
Nicvzit wish to appear greater than
you are. Above all Way
_beware au.
pressing: `.other _peOple's opinions se it
they were your owe. That-brings ruin;
it to darkness. Dare to yourself
that ',will bring. _you light.' Above an
tliings, be k!uniblik ' . •
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