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A SPIIILITL SO*;1,
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nr otonan itc00:44..
Wzra. I mast—my heart rune over; •
Would he once himself discover—
once from far away! ' •
Holy sorrow I still prevailing
ls the weeping, is the wailing:
Would there were.turned to clay!
Evermore 'lac* him crying,
Ever preying, ever dying:
Will this heart unending, beat?
Will my eyes in dcatb close never
Weeping all,into a river -
Were a blessedness too sweet I
Is there none with me lamenting?
Dierbis name in echoes ranting?
Is the peopled world struck dead?
Shall I from his eyes, eh! never
Mere drink lore end life forayer ?
Is he now and always dead ?
ikad! 'What means it--sound of dolors?
Tell rue then, 1 pray, ye scholars—
What imports the symbol dim.
lie is dumb, and all turn from me
Nmone on the earth can-show me
. .
Where-my heart might look fki him
Earth no more while I am In it
Can provide one happy minute;
All is but a dream of woe.
I too am with him departed
Would I lay with him still-hearted
In the region down below!
Hear, oh, hear, his and my Father I
Speedily my dead bones gather
Unto his —oh, soon, I pray
Grass will soon his low mound cover
And the wind will wander over.
And the form wilt fade away.
If his love they but perceived,
Suddenly bad all believed,
Letting al/ things else pa by ;
Lord of love him only ownine,
All with me would fall bemoaning,
And in bitter weeping die.
—Serilner'Afar June
trite ffitorg
THE LEGEND OF THE GOLD STONE,
A STOICS WITH A )LORAL.
In those far away times when the
world was get' ibg its baby clothes and
people were not as wise as they arc now
a-days, there dwelt in the town of Len
donn poor tailor's apprentice named Bart
lenty Bowbell. lie might be celled poor
in a double MIR. for not only was he
such a lazy ; idle fellow, that he scaleely
ever took a stitch, and seldom had a cent
of his own. bet he was a miserable work
man. In the sante room with him were
several other tailors, who sang together
one or two tunes as they stitched. If they
were paid by the day for their work, tlti•t
sang "Ity the day, by the do-y, by the
sla-y !' uud the needle went in and out
an slowly as the coaches of a funeral pro
cession ; hut if paid for every pitmen!
es they I.l::iztied it. then Lit y sang '•liy
the job, by the job, by the job r and the
needle flew like a express train. Bart
lemy, however, scarcely stitched more
than tire minutes at a time. then gazing
out of the window, he would sing:
"Oh! if I were only possessed of m)• riches,
I 'lever w•ouli sew on a pair of old breeches!
Thimble and thread!
Buttons and braid !
Oh! who would he bound to this rascally trade
Li money I had, rd be free from all rte,
Altd whilt master Inuit make, I should hare but
to wear ;
Needles and pins!
Shears and cloth ends!
When the work's ended, then pleasure begins."
"What's that you are singing about
riches ?" cried his master.sharply. "nich
ed, forsooth! You will die in the poor
house, I can tell you if von don't stitch
away more d ill igen tly. Come, sew away !"
So saying he gave him -a good thwack
with his yard stick. All the beatings in
the world, however, could not thrust out
of Bartlemy a belief that he should one
day become rich. He had heard of a
wonderful jewel called the gold stone, that
had the power of turning to gold any
common metal that it touched, and he
felt perfectly certain somehow that he
would one day find thit wonderful jew
But tired out reit!) his idleness, one day
his master turned him out of doors, say
ing that "he atelnore than he would ever
earn."
As he had not earned a penny during
the week, he was entirely out of money.
and he knew that nobody would give him
food and lodging for nothing. so hewan
dered on until he was clear of London,
and in the open ;field•yand as night came
on he was compelled to seek shelter be
neath a tree, whore he soon fell asleep.—
The moon rose nigh, still Bartlemy snor
ed, when, all ofsudden, he was aroused
by a smart blow on the shoulder which
he would have sworn was from a yard
stick.
"Needles and pins!" said Bartlemy,
sitting np in haste, "what's that ?"
"Bartlemy Bowbell," croaked a strange
voice, "look at the."
Bartlemy looked aronnd and to his ex•
Creme terror, saw standing beside him a
hoblin. He was not more than four feet
igh, with very bow legs, as though from
a constant habit of tucking them upon
tailor's shop board ; his clothes fashion
ed from odd bits of velvet and cloth,such
L 'as tailors call " cabbage," were trimmed
with thimbles for bell buttons; on his
head ivas'a tailor's cotton night cap, with
a long tassel, and banging at his waist
were an immense pair of shears, and a
pin-cushion bristling with needles stuck,
and ia the other a tailor's goose, or flat
iron.
Asoi Num°La
His face was expressive of the most
jovial .good hunior, but it was far from
handsome; for is nose was flat, and he
had an ab,omin ble squint..
"Bartlemy;* at is the :_matter with
you ?" said the goblin, "you are ever
lastingly
,growling and grumbling, in
stead of" working at your trade like an
,honest tailor, and nobly deserve to be
thwacked with the yard stick every morn
ing by way of breakfast, but becer mind
I choose to help you; so say what you
want quick ?" , ,
."I...and Who - Might your Warship be?'
asked Bartlemo,, with a cold shudder; for
be,,f e it,4espera&ly afraid that be had got
ten-hold Arm - Bo g ey or Old Nick.
"That's_noutt of you business," said
"TRUTH AND RIGHT :
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1873.
the goblin, "but still I'll tell you ' • I am
Suippenbitz, the patron of the tailors.
"0 lord, your worship, you don't say
en," stammered Bartlemy.
• "That's a fact," returned the goblin,
"Come, out with it; what can I do for
you r'
Bartlemy scratched his head, and took
off his cap, looked into Mound no words
there, put it on again, and finally, with a
bow that nearly toppled him head over
heels, and a kick up of his foot, behind,
he managed to say :
"Please, yotir worship, I want to find
the Gold Stolle."
The goblin burst into a laugh on
hearing this, then said : Well, that's a
sensible request, Bartlemy, and a modest
one under the circumstances. Never
mind, I have taken a fancy to you : your
wish shall be accomplished. "See here."
With these Words Snippenhitz put his
hand into histoeket, and pulled out. a
magnificent jewel. as it seemed to Bart
lemy. It was pf the most beautiful pur
ple color, and sparkled all overwitb flecks
of gold. Nothing could look more Ron.
geously beautiful, as the astonished tailor
held it up iu the moonlight. Yes, there
could be no doubt of it. The mysterious
the unattainable Gold Stone was really
hie.
"Now, Bartlemy, attend to me," con
tinued the being." The gold stone is
yours, but under certain conditions, which
must be faithfully complied. with, or no
gold! First, you must returntto London
to-morrow, seek out your old master, and
ask him to employ you as a regular work
man. You will find yourself to sew us
well as the best, through my assistance,
and you must employ this power diligent.
ly on the work the gives you to do. I
warn yon, however, that you must keep
the secret of the gold stone from every
body ; and in order that yen may do so
you must never take it out of your pouch
until you are'sare in your own chamber.
...eitondly, when you receive your wages,
place the money directly in the pouch
containing the gold stone, and do not
look at it untilyon go to bed. Then you
will find the *per turned into silver,
and the silver into gold. But if you count
the money firstit will not change. Third
ly, in a year's time from to-night, meet
me at this spot; and tell me how you have
prospered. Willyou keep these conditions
faith "oily ?"
"Ye-y.es! your lordship!" stammered
the apprentice.'
"Then, how ere'you. Mr. Goldstone r
exclaimed the goblin. With an outrageous
wink he treated Bartlemy to another with
the yardstick and vanish e d.
The blow struck our tailor insensilde!
and when his eyes again unclosed it was
broad daylight. For a moment he stared
ahout him. wondering bow became tfiere.
!hen remembering the extraordinary
events of the primes night, he littstil%
relt in his pouch and drew forth the mir
aculous jewel. Jr flamed in the sunlight
like a bright diamond eye, and taking
a long and delighted stare at the much
desired Go:1 S ue, lie start.d straight ,
for London. a 4er the way in which he
had been turned out of his master's shop.
he hadn't much hope of getting in again.
but afraid of disobeying the goblin's in-
June-ion, he cloned with as much cow.
:Te as he could muster, and found the
other tailors stitching away as usual.
while his master nut out a coat,
Bartlemy took his cep humbly elf: say
ing, "Please, master, if you will employ
me as a workman now, I think I can
place you. Do try me. I will be indus
trious—indeed I will.'
"Oh-ho!" said the master tailor; sleep
ing out in the fields and going without
supper and breakfast has done you good,
has it? Well, take this coat and sit you
down; but I warn you beforehand, and if
you are not more industrious than usual.
I will lay my yardstick over your shoul
der, and clear you out again. 4
Bartlemy took tho work, and having
planted himself on the shopboard near a
window, he put on his thimble, threaded
his needle with a grand flonrisn and be
gan to stitch away for dear lire. He sew
ed faster and better than he had ever
done before, and found to his joy, that
the goblin's premises had begun to be
fulfilled in reality. But bad habits are
not to be conquered as one would pull up
weeds, though both must be torn up by
the roots, if you wish to get rid of them,
and so Burtlemy began to ply his needle
less briskly ; his thoughts wandered, and
finally the work came to a dead stand
still. But thimbles and thread! What
haprened! The instant his hand stopped,
a lorg yellow yardstick cane flying
through the window, and hit him such a
whack on the shine thatheroared again
with the pain, and the stick instantly
vanished.
"Why what's the matter ?" asked the
other tailors, startled, as well as they
might be.
",fatter!" cried Bartlem:y. . "Why
didn't yon see that—horrible yardstick
coming at me ?"
At this they laughed at him fora fool ;
for nolxidv but.onr tailor could perceive
this
,terribe weapon—it was invisible to
common eyes. Ilia conscience told him
that it came from the gobblin,and he set
to work with renewed diligence. But
again and again his mind wandered, and
his work would full, but just us often in
came the yardstick, and awaked him with
a vengeance. The yardstick would only
allow him to stop and thread his needle,
or turn his work, add by sunset the coat
was done.
Bartlemy, taking his coat in band car
ried it to his master, who viewed it in the
greatest astonishment; but, not wishing
to raise his appreutrice's ideas of himself,
be grumbled out, "for a wonder you have
your work this time; so now take your
wages, and be sure to come early Monday
morn." As he spoke, he slipped a couple
of coins into Bartlemy's hand, who re
membering the gobblin's wordsput them
into his pouch, without looking at them
—and hurried home. ,On reaching his
room,and striking a light, , he found, in
stead of a farthing and penny, which had
always been his weekly pay, he bad: a
crown and six pence.
"Huzzah! bnszah I" be cried, fairly
jumping for joy, "my :beautiful Gold
Stonets doing .the. work bra v ely: .Tle
kisied the stone - in his deP4l4 . and went
to lotto dream of bienunta waster
GOD AND OUR COUNTRY."
tailor and making clothes for the king.
The following Monday he went to hie
master's shop, and with him went the
watchful yardstick, and ita reminder had
a good effect., soon Bartlemy kept along
so steadily and swiftly that the yard-stick
was much less frequent in its visits.
So things went on till Bartlemy bad
earned quite a fortune in his eye; ten
whole guineas-lay glittering in the ole
nightcap where he kept his savings, and
the tailor felt that he had now earned
enough to set up for himself. The year
at last drew to a close, and one moonlight
night he suddenly remembered that it
was the very anniversary of his meeting
with the goblin. Starting up ho ran to
where his pouch was placed took out the
Gold Stone and enjoyed a long look at it,
and then throwing a clook around him,he
hastened forth.
At last he paused under the old tree ;
he heard a familiar croaking laugh, and
found himself unexpectedly in the pres
ence of Suippenbita, the friendly goblin.
"Well Bartlemy," croaked the being,
"and have you prospered with the Golden
Stone ?"
"Alarvellously, well, your worship," re
plied Bartlemy, in a joyous tone.
"And you found a crown and a' shil
ling, and a guinea and a crown, instead
of your penny and farthing, did you,
Bartlemy ?"
"Why yes, your worship, I did certain
ly."
"And the Golden Stone changed them
did it Burtleme ?"
"Why yes your lordship, of course it.
did"
"Now, Bartlemy," said the goblin, in a
confidential tone, laying his bawl on the
other's shoulder, "I want to tell coo
something. It isn't the Gold Stone—''
"It's not—not—the—Gold—Stone?"
gasped Bartlemy.
"Why. no, yon donkey ! there's no such
thing. That is but a bit of purple glass.
There is no such preposterous jewel on
the face of the earth as you imagine.
There is but one true gold stone, and it's
name is
"FA ITH FUL I N DUSTRY."
As the goblin. spoke these words, he
suddenly began to change his form, and
crew taller and broader, and his bell-but
ton thimble fell off, his flat nose became
long and sharp, his thread hair gave way
to a bald pate, and his whole appediance
became wonderfully like Ilartlemy's mas
ter. He raised his gold stick, brought it
down with a tremendous crack—and
Bart lemy awoke.
Yes I he was lying natter the tree where
he had thrown himself the night before.
The whole of what had passed ; tiold
Stone, yardstick, money, goblin and all,
was but fantastic trackg of a dream ;
and above him really stood his master,
who had repented of having turned away
his hapless apprentice and had come to
seek Inm.
The lesson was not lost. however. on
our hero. Ile returned to his master's
shop, where he worked dilligently ' with
”itt any yardstick contlng after ham, and
in three years' time ruse to be muster tai
lor, married his old master's daughter,
cut the coats of the King himself, took
for his arms a gold stone supported by
two shears, and the motto
"FA ITHFUL NHUSTRT."
SPARE WELL. SPEND WELL
Ella's and laicy's husbands were each
hard working men and bad about the
same income, but the difft rence in their
home contorts was very marked. If a
f tend called to take tea with Ella, she
was always thrown into the greatest con
sternation and trouble. In private, she
opened her mind to her husband in no
measured terms.
"She had nothing fit to set but a table
with. The only decent table-cloth was in
the wash; she hadn't a clean napkin; her
dishes were cracked and chipped,
and not
half enough of them; the coffee pot
leaked ;" and so on indefinitely. If a
gnest came to stay over night her troub
les were multiplied teu-told.
Now Lucy had none of these perplexi
ties. Though her stores were simple and
plain, they were sufficient and always in
ref diness. The cause of the difference
lay in the fact that Lucy had earned the
art of spending well. It is a greater vir
tue even than that of earning money. She
made every dime tell.
"What are you going to` trim your
Spring dress with Lucy ?" asked her
neighbor. running in one afternoon with
her sewing, as she often did.
"0, some simple trimmings made of the
material," said Lucy indifferently, "I
mean to carer buttons for it out of a
scrap of silk I happen to have, which
matches nicely."
"Now I would be-a Qua'er in earnest-
Are you not going to flounce it ?"
"0, no, I like a plain skirt quite as
well. The flouncing would cost an extra
dollar, which I prefer putting into a nice
- covered dish I am coveting for my table
It will give me twice as much pleasure
there."
"Well, I expect to put two flounces on
mine, and a row of beautiful trimming
above each flounce. I paid three dollars
for trimming, but wouldn't have Ned
know it tor anything. He would think it
extravagant."
"Ile wouldn't miss it much, would he,
Ella? Now I can think of a dozen things
I should prefer to three dollars' worth of
trimming for my dress. You could buy
a nice table cloth, with a set of respecta
ble napkins with it,• or a new rocking
chair, or four nice pear trees,which could
soon furnish you with an abundance of
delicious fruit, or two , nice calico dresses,
or any number of small permanent coat•
forts and conveniences about the house.
You don't know how many nice things I
have bought just biassing up milk pen
nies—that glass sugar bowl and cream
cup, covered butter dish, set of best cups
and saucers, preserve saucers—and-I have
almost enough to buy me a nail , dozen
soup plates; we have taken our. soup in
saucers quite as long itel like."
"Why, you will need a china closet- to
held your dishes," said Ella, looking at
the uice Shelf full with .a half eaviona
feeling. - • „
"I abould Jai of*, but this pantry
shelf must sum fer eke -Present Fred
has one planned for rainy day's work. I
have tacked this little curtain so it hangs
down over the shelf, and keeps oat flies
and dust."
"Well, I should never have thought of
that; but it makes little-difference. All
my dishes are in covstant use, and have
no chance to get dusty. Did Fred make
these nice drawers below the lower
shelves ?"
"Yea, this is one for table linen, and
this for kitchen towels and tea towels."
"Dear me,
what a supply you have I I
don'tdon'tknow how you can afford it."
"Believe me, Ella, they did not cost
half what you spend in trifles that never
show for themselves afterward. Money
put into substantiate gives na tenfold the
real satisfaction that it does in fancy ar
ticles, which no one cares for but our
selves or scarcely notices. It was an old
maxim of my father's to "spare well and
to spend well." He had no idea of hoard
ing his money, but be taught us from
childhood to spend our pennies in some
thing that would-show where the money
went. He always encouraged us when
very little to buy pretty toys rather than
candies, and when we grew older to get
hooks and periolicals,whicla would please
and instruct us alt through the year,mth
er than toys.
"I wish I had been trained in a similar
way ; but it is too late now," said the
other with a sigh.
"No, no, Ella," said her friend earnest.
ly. "It is never too late to mend habits,
you are just at the time of life to take a
new start, now von have a dear little
home of your own to beautify. Indeed,l
think this habit of all others, is a very
easy one to change, when one really has a
strong motive set before her. I remem
ber of a young man who had squan
dered all his line estates by his dissipation
setting out to win them all back again.—
He resolved to take the first work that
was offered, which chanced to be unload
ing coal. He saved the small num he thus
obtained, and ate the lunch of cold meat
and bread given him as a gratuity. So he
saved up every penny he received, when
it could be done, and at least won back
not only his large estate,bn tdied a wealthy
noted miser. This is an extreme case,bot
shows how one can completely turn about
in the matter of eipeuditure. I know a
small family who, before the war, used to
spend about three thousand dollars a year
having every luxury of the season lavish
ly provided for their table. But when
every one grew straightened their habits
changed most remarkably. The cake in
their silver baskets was Cut into boarding
school slices. One chop was made to
serve as the family breakfast. The small
garden-plot was cultivated to the highest
degree, affording nearly all the summer
vegetables for the family. They moved
in the same fash ion ble circle as before,but
within the home rigid economy was ob
served. If this family could turn about
so thoroughly anybody can. Now take a
motive strong enough,Ella, and see If von
do not surprise yourself. Don't Tea a
dollar without making yourself give .an
account of it. Ned is a good provider, I
know, and von can make your home just
what you please, if you will only exercise
prudence and economy."
"Well, I will try to be in earnest, Lucy.
A sight of your nice pantry and drawers
of linen has just stirred up my ambition,
Who is that stopping at your gate.lincyl"
she added, looking out of the win
dow.
"Why that is the .weaver with my new
carpet; he is here sooner than I expected;
but Fred left the money with me for st a
week ago." -
"I don't see how you could ever make
such a roll as this,".said Ella, when the
man had gone ; and the two unrolled a
yard or so of the fabric to see how it
looked. "How many yards are there of
it ?"
"Twenty-one; just enough for my sit
ting room. It was all made up of odds
and end& I have been saving np scraps
for it, and sewing a ball when I could,this
'long time. I had a large bag full sewed
when I was married."
"That's just like you. But I don't be
lieve I have got enough rags about the
house to make a yard. I sold all the old
clothes we had to an old Chinaman, and
my husband hasn't mislaid an article since
but yet he says he don't doubt the old
Chinaman has it The scraps I sell for
old tin, but I never get enough for them
to pay for saving."
"And you never will, Ella; but you
can make them into excellent common
carpets. I never missed the time I spent
over this but now it is done, and I am
very, very, glid of it," and she looked at
it with as much pleasure as a house mit.
tress ever did her rich rolls of Brussels or
Axminster.
Ella went home that day quite thought .
fol, and with a new purpose in her mind.
She turned over the trimming she had
liked so well, and somehow it seemed to
have lost half its lustre. -
"I wonder if the storekeeper would take
it back " she thought. "It was the last of
a pied and he did not have to cut it. I
will try at least," and putting on her bat
at once she was sooh at the counter.
Ella was a good cash customer, so the
smiling shopkeeper was very ready to
oblige. Instead of a little package of
trimmings she pould clasp in her hand,
she took home a huge parcel containing
two substantial table cloths. How de
lighted she was with her purchase. She
had hemmed them both before she went
to rest, and taken a last pleased glance at
them as they las neatly folded in a bureau
drawer. She had begun to taste the - pleas.
ure of spending well.
Edward had .given her money for a
new hat sometime before, but now she de
termined to see what could be dorie with
the pretty ono worn last year. The re
suit was another handsome saving, which
was speedily invested in some pantry
stores she greatly needed. She was al
most Surprised at finding herself the pos
sessor of so many new household com
forts, and so thoroughly a believer in her
friend's philosophy. It was easier to mend
her bad early .habits than she had sup.
posed, and the result was in the highest de
•gree satisfactory. • ;
Let any skeptical young
. housekeeper,
who . ,finds herself .in • constant:at:tits for
ueedfula for home comfort, tly a i :broiler
experiment : • -
Terms 111 1 1°,3rilatiVill
leg di DirittaLl
More Good Than Bad.
—o—
There Is many a rest In the read of ire,
If we would OttiV stop to take it ;
And many a tone door the better land,
It the querulous heat would make it.
To be the soul that is full of 'hope,
And whose beautitatrust ne'er feilet h, TheThe grass Is green and the dowers are bright,
Though the winter steno prevatletb.
Better to hope though the clouds hang itni,
And to keep the eyes still lifted;
Forthe sweet blue sky will soon peep through
When the ominous clouds are rifted.
There never was a night without a day,
Or an evening without s twining;
And the dark hour, as the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many a zero to tho path of life,
Which we pass in our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jeweled mown,
Or the miser's board of treasure;
It may be love of a little child,
Or a mother's prayer to heaven, •
Or only bezgar's grateful thanks
For a cup of water given.
Better to weave In the web of life
A bright and golden filling.
And to God's will with a ready heart.
• And hand that are swift and willing;
Than to snap the delicate, minute Weeds
Of our curious lives asunder;
And t.ben blame Heaven for the tangled ends,
And alt, and grieve, and wonder.
One Question ToO Musty.
—e--
About a generation by-gone there flour
ished in Western Michigan a certain
'Qnire, T—, whose stalwart sons now
till the parental acres, in whose honesty
the community had great confidence, but
who bad an unfortunate failing—Drink.
He had beeh known to try causes when
he would have been more appropriately
in bed, Upon one occasion an appeal
was taken from a judgment rendered, as
it was alleged, "when the wine was in and
the wit was out." Under the broad lati
tude taken that day, a full inquiry was
gone into the trial of the appeal, as to
the question of sobriety of the Justice,
his friends swearing one way and his ene-
mies directly contrary. At length a very
candid witnpss appeared, who testified
with great apparent circumspection—so
great, indeed, that on the direct examin
ation, almost nothing was elicited from
him. Upon the cross examination, the
lawyer conducting it made a very common
mistake, and being unwilling to "let well
enough alone" kept driving away at the
witness until he finally .felt safe in put
ting the leading and dangerous question:
"Did yon not look upon the Justice.
upon the trial of tharwsr, as a perfectly
sober man ?"
The witness hesitated, and the counsel
pressed the interrogatory still closer.
The witness finally emitted the fidlow•
ing, with great ditficulty.as though it had
been drawn from him painfully:
"I should have thought so only for one
thing."
"Well." said the cross examiner, "what
was that?"
"I saw him fill up his inkstand with
whisky and take a snifter out of the ink
bottle."
The cross examination stopped at that
point.
flow It Is Done,
--o--
They tell the story of a captain of a
North River boat, who was something of
a wag in his way. A committee of the
New York Legustature was on the mip
tain's boat making a tour of inspection,
and one of the members, who knew the
captain of old, attempted to extract
amusement for himself and his fellow
members by rallying the captain on his
preaching, as it was reported that be
sometimes indulged in that exercise.
said the captain, Tre taken' to
the law lately."
&gator.— 'Not been admitted ?"
Captain---" Yes, regular; passed my ex
amination in open court."
Senator—'•And answered all the quel
twin fair and square, captain ?"
Captain—" All hut one."
Senator—" And what was that ?"
Captain—"l don't like to tell; it-tir
hurt your feelings. and some-of - Vie gen
tlemen here may be offended."
All—" 0 no; out with it; what was it?
Let's hear."
Captain—" Well, the judge naked me
—and I couldn't tell—glow can' a man
go to the Legislature, get three dollars a
day, pp five doltaraa day far his board,
amd lay up money?'
The committee gave the captain a
round of applause, and invited him to
supper that night, which he positively
declined.
Wonted A Fortnight's Notice.
Some thirty years ago—more or less—
there flourished in Dracut, or an adjoining
town, a quaint old individual who was
'called Thurston. One fall •he was lucky
enough to have occasion to 'employ a
carpenter; and the job "held Dn )11w the
toothache." An winter long the Indus.
trions carpenter sawed and hammered
away never idle, never without something
to do. In the spring, however, the good
man finished the last piece.• of work that
seemed required, :and once he said ap
proaching his employer, "Mr. Thurston,
I believe I have got through." "Got
through !" exclaimed Thurston ; "what
do you mean ?" I mean I believe there is
no more work.here fur me." "Eb ? What's
that? No more work ? Do you , think
I'm going to let you off so, after keeping
you all winter? Guess' not I ' Want at
least a fortnight's nothie before yonquitl"
But this Thurston's joke on the carpen
ter, with whom he•gladly settled, vvithqut
exacting the usual notice thlit employers
require before their workmen leave thorn.
Thurston still lives. •
A IiOST shameful trick was - played late.
ly upon a lover a Terra Haute by his
rival. The generous wooer had procured
a package of guni - dropa to present , to his
Angelina ever dear, but the - other,man
maliciously substituted - therefor a paper
of white beans. .• It was•not ,until three
o'clock in the morning that matters were
explained and a reconciliation effected.
. ,
A azuraizu husband, in an obituary
notice' of bia deceared- wife,. wrote; 'She
has gone to her eternal reeit;" but to his
horror the newooper printed it;
got. to bet -forma rase
•
NUMBER 2&.1
Social Chit. Chat.
......4)--
A BEV CNTY-YEAIi Ord Couple west di
roma in Morgan county, 111, recently:
CIIEAP necessities are respectable,
Cheap finery is low.
• -
THE stylish feminine boot isylow made
very broad-soled.
grrousu thorn is the fashionable wood,
for sticks and umbrella-handles..
. AS twenty-five a man wonders what wo
man he, will have; at fifty what woman will
have bin& - -
Low shoes_ , and stockings of gorgeous
colors andfattern are to be worn bygem4,le;
men this summer.
A Yount} husband callshitiwife "Birdie;
because, he says, she is always associated,
in his mind with a bill.
VERY pretty cbatelaina and their attrieb.!
menta are now made of vulcanized lzult:s
rubber, ornamented with gold.
Plats - white note-paper, very thick,
and heavy, with a crest, black ontlineOs .
now declared to be the proper thing.
rTALIAN kid gloves are cheatei thin
the French article, and are said to be
growing in favor with the Neil~ York '
people. •
A NEW fabric, made of woven glass;
has been invented for ladies' dress mater
ial. It can't ne stained and is incOMbins7
tible.
ACCOCDING to the recent :London'
letters Queen Victoria shuns society MOM
than ever, and is growing rerygray and ;•
feeble. - , ,
Amex° the Arabs the inability - of
wife to make bread is a good , ground of
divorce. What a business the courts would,
do if that were the law in the - ilniteet•
States.
TnEUE 19 a young girl in Brooklyn wilo •
for a long timo has supposed herself to be'
dying of love, but a council oteminentL
physicians being called pronunco it to be
dyspepsia.
A PARTY okAmerican boarding-school
girls started for Europe the other day,us...
der the charge of competent instrnoteeth ;
for a 15 mon ths' tour of observation:
Youxo Ladies• who are distrusted -With ;
,things in general, as many of - them ,pro-.
fees to be, are reminded that faced' dre
three hundred nunneries in - the United'
States.
•
WREN . a man begins to present his wife
and daughters with magnifient diaj
monde you mair,expect in a few weeks to
hear that he is a bankrupt, not able to.;
pay ten cents on the dollar.
A PRODIGY of ,domestio accotaplish,
meets advertismias follows in Vienni
paper; ."Anna Agrikol, sick, latirse,inach
es dead bodies, repairs straw, abatis,: sp..
pliis leechesand makes paitrieli, .deaserts
and delicacies.
TnE respondent in a recent dirotvd,
case in St. Louis stated that it had been
agreed by himself and the plaintiff that,
if they did get a divorce they-would be
married again immediately.
AI.EXAsnEn ItAuturcof was but fokty.
seven when he died. His monument m
Trinity chnrchlard, New York, gives
no hint-of themanner of hisulaking off. ° .
A son eighty-four years old, may Still be .
seen in that city. '
Ozas of the newest thing's' in jewelry
are ladies' rings to be worn on the littler
finger. The collet is made very:long,' so
as to cover the first_ joint, and' is studded.
with gems according to the taste ,of.: the
wearer. - _
THE nervous diseases fashionableTow
adays render apropos the remark of some•
body that "sawdust pills would Ohre :kalf
the illsof humanity if every man would
make his own sawdust." A 4
. A rims rimblishes sonie statiattes
r mgt e linen of the crown,the sale
of which terminated recently: "It was
composed of 35,000 pieces, includingc-A
-000 sheets and table cloths of a sin gle
piece, capable of dining 200 persona
cost of washink alone amounted to 404
'OOO francs annually.
A you No lady at a wedding, the other
night, fractured her ankle by tumbling
off the back of a pew. to which she bad
clambered to obtain a good view of the
bridal party. We hope thui will prove a
warning to others of our gymmistia
TR - tan is a young lady ou Fifth arcane
who is puzzling all her acqUoitntances as
to how she colors het hair. She changes
its color ever other day: one' day it will
be auburn,snother brown,anothergolden,
another jeCilack. How on earth she
does it we don't know; but she does, '
Fon fall dresS, gentlemen wear, instead
cf a watch chain is fob ribbon, after the
fashion of their grandfathers, with a seal
attached, the older looking . the, better.—.
This taste for old jewelry is in oppositiion
to shoddyism, the (Ned.. being to show
that the wearer is not the first of tbefam;
ily who ever possessed any jewelry..
Ogc of our belles. has diitinguished
herself as a "woman of business.", Her
father, a bioker,bavingbcceine bankrupt,
she went personally to each of his urea'.
tors, and by her peysnasivo powers induce
ed "a majority in number and value- to
sign off. The rumor that she is about to
be admitted to practice as a - bankruptcy
laiyer, is, however, entirely unfounded.
"Ito yon liko chickens?" - asked , a re
markably modest Nashville youth - of his
sweetheart:as he was walking about two
feet from her on his way to church, Suii:
day night. "Certainly - I do," she replied:
"why do you ask such a question as
that?" "Because I thought if you liked
chickens, you wouldn't object to taking a
wing," and he crooked his arm in an
resistible manner. Sweetness- took „ a
ELIZABETII STVAUT PHELPS i 9 thllB de.
scribed by the Boston limes; "Lier looks
arc a flat contradiction - to her ,writings,
which seem to represent her 'as viva
okius, healthful person, overflowing with
hope.. But, on the contrary, the is frail,
and very ili,and wears isets bright
tint in all bee postutaa to Ore it chat• .
fal "gleam"