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Feb. 21,193
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VISIONS OF THE NIGUT.
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BY KATE u. STIERROOD.
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O the visions that the night brings!
0 the fluttering of white wings,
0 benignant eyes and beautiful that down upon
us bend!
0 the hum of happy voices,
0 the glad throng that rejoices,
When the visions of the midnight bring the
absent friend to friend I
0 the dainty feet that find me,
0 the dimpled arms that bind me,
Of the little love that softly from the star-land
conies to mei
0 the gladness, past revealing,
Filling sunl and heart and feeling,
When upon my yearning bosom she is sleep
ing peacefully!
Ah, bow sweet to know this dreaming
Is a glimpse, a twilMht gleaming,
Or the beauty ant) the glory of the heaven we
adore;
And the faces which behold us,
And the arms that fondly fold us.
Are the faces and embraces of the loved ones
gone before.'
() the comfort that the night brings!
the guttering of while wings,
0 benignant eyes and beautiful that down up
on us bend!
0 the hum of happy voices,
0 the ghid thronz that
When the visions at the midnight brings the
absent friend to rrlenti:
—Galarvfrr Jnlu.
AFEARED OF A GALL.
-0
Oh, darn it all l—afeared of her,
And such a mite of a gall !
Why, taco of her size rolled into ono
, .
. .
Wt . net ditto sister Sall. -
-
-
Her yoke is sweet as the letnpperwirti,
And the sunshine . " in her hair;
But I'd rather face a rettskin's knife,
Or the grip 01 n grizzly hear.
Yet Sail says. "Why, she's such a dear
She's just theme for von."
Oh, darn it nil !—nfeartsi of n gall,
And me just six feet two.
Though she ain't any size, while I'm
Considerable tall,
I'm nowhe.e when she peaks to me,
She makes me (Mg so small.
Mv (Lee grows red: my tongue gets hitched
The cussed thing won't go;
It tiles ow, it. makes her think
I'M most tam:akin slow.
And though folks says she's sweet on me,
1 guess It can't be true.
Oh, Mum it all I—aftmred of .t
And me just six feet two.
31v sake! just 'slam it what the folks
rat ing should he so!
Go, cousin Jane. and speak to her,
Find out and let rue know ;
Tell her the galls should the men,
For MI [ilk le-tio year?
That's why kinder bashful like,
Awaiting for her here.
And should site hear tin se:lml of her,
You'll swear it can't lie I rue.
Oh, darn it all !—afoared of a gall,
Ain! rue just six feet two.
—43laektnxe Mayruiroe.
The Story Teller
OVER A CABIN TABLE
In the MS—, Frank Manly and I were
homeward bound flout China to Boston,
in the splendid clipper ship Sunset.
We were children together, and had
followed many a butterfly in company.
In later years, wo had often ran after
those marvelous butterflies in pink sun
bonnets—those Will-o'-the-Wisps, in dim.
ity—in other fields; rather as rivals
though, than side-by-side companions, to
con fess it.
This was Prank's first voyage as master.
He was now, at two-and-twenty, a sailor
and a man. I was his only passenger,
running home after some years' truancy,
in a period between a closing clerkship
and an opening partnership at Canton.
These wore to me delicious days—care
free, and every hour with my old play
fellow was communion of a rare order.
We were chatting one evening openly—
for there was now nothing betweeh us
but the cabin table. The light burned
just low enough for the quiet dreamy
hour that Frank reeled oft' to me the
small talk of the dear old town, of which
his memory held an nureckonable car
go.
There was Mary who had married
January, and the squire who had drank
himself from influence to the poor house.
He told of young Skinnem, who in boy
hood won marbles, and sold them again
to the losers at a hundredl per cent. ad
vance . upon regular rates—who never
played on the 'Fourth," but opened a
Barb-stone bazar of pop beer—of his own
brewing—fire-crackers, peanuts and b
full line of dried -apple taters of a low
grade. Now he was piously loaning
money Saturday afternoons to gain Sun
day at two per cent. a month, and wonder
ing what this would be without interest.
He had bought a book, "Business in
Heaven," which proved to him that the
occupants of earth are continued above.
He dwelt with miserly unction upon the
life to come.
The steward. now appeared with our
evening coffee. Then came the usual ci
gar, and. we swung apart in meditation
as lightly as two vessels parting company
after exchanging sea courtesies.
"Captain," said I, suddenly, as if some
thing had just come to mind, though the
question had been balancing ou my tongue
for an hour—
" Hal," interrupted my companion,
"don't Captafti me off deck, here under
the cabin light, if you love me."
"Well then, my modest old deck mate,
how is that little Amy Woodson whom
you used to endow so bountifully iu
school days with pickled limes and chew
ing gum ?"
M' captain—the splendid fellow—to
show his unconcern, breathed a couple
of smoke wreaths out of his mouth, and
replied with counterfeited sadness: ."Hal,
I shall never have faith again in the
power of pickles with school girls, and I
am a doubter forever of the virtue of
spruce gum. So,so, sly bey, you
were on that tack too, were you ? but
you may as well emulate the example of
your forefathers and throw that chest of
breakfast tea overboard, for Father Wood-
son bas gone where tea drinking is nei
ther a blessing nor a sin; No, no, Hal,
J snow s
Poetry.
"TRUTH AND RIGHT :
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1873.
Roy Elwell weathered us all. By
Jove, to think of it! The little toad that
I nursed through vulgar fractious and
the rule of three—who never had spunk
enough to kiss a girl under four eyes—to
marry Amy I . But the ways of women
are wondrous, HalL The sunset is my
choice. tau% she a beauty j lam wed.
ded to her.
. .
Then he laughed, drew himself npoind
I thought, How could a woman resist
you my handsome captain ?
"Poor pass, she has had a confounded
rough way of it," he continued.
"What do you mean ?"
"Why haven't you heard of it?"
"Vague rumors only. Her father, cash
ier of the bank. Wasn't there trouble?
Was it all true? Proud old mau. His
heart broke, I fancy. For heavens sake,
Frank, tell me what you know," I de
manded.
. .
-Well, well, old gaill•driver, don't
rough up so. Ido know about it, and,
though I 211* it, more than any but e very
few iu the old town. I never was any
hand at a yaru, but it you'll have it,may
be 'twill harrow you some, seeing you
were a little sweet on Amy."
"Come, come, captain—tthere, chummy
then—begin. But, by George, if you ex
aggerate one iota, I'll call the Sunart—a
clumsy old nooker."
"Well, I needn't ask if you remember
Amy," began my vis-a-vis, tormentingly
"nor tell you of her step iu the dance. of
the color of her hair and eyes, nor what
her laugh was like, nor what a woman she
has grown. Let me see, you left home
in forty— "
••Eight."
'And you rememner General Wood
son, then, as a cheerful, elastic old gentle
man, who, at the Lank counter, told off
the notes with a celerity little less than
magic, to our unaccustomed eyes. He
was a favorite everywhere, you know.—
With a lad's help he performed all the
litho: in the bank, except when Amy
would come down once in a. while to
give him a lift on the books. Amy was
her father's housekeeper, too, her mother
just after you left home, I guess.—
You see the young girl had fish enough
to fry. For all, she alwuis hail a spare
hour and some mekcack of her needle
work for us sailor bys' when alsout leav
ing home. And then the old general
would esiy. linek to you, my lad,' in a
mighty good manner that won us.
. -
-But I never could see that she favored
one much above another. Once I had bid
den her gooil-bv. I remember, and after
ward seeing Ben Boltiope call at her
house, I stood out of sight and timed him
—you laugh—watch in hand, and I had
the better of him some odd minutes. or it
may have been seconds. I always think
of it when I meet Ben's widow in the
Street. Ben married the milllber's daugh
ter, Melissa Bliss. whose. mune we young
sea-diigs changed to .Irlissy Blissy. lie
went off to Sagapore a month after. and
was never heard from. Iler widowhood
began, you see. as soon as her honey
moon ended. Melissa wears mourning fer
him yet, and always will. And Ben was
worthy of all her tears—as good a fellow
ever learned a rope. Go and see her,
But where am I running? Let's
tuck ship.
"You know the Woodson homestead on
the corner of India street. Yes. lint you
don't know—as we young fellows never
think of such things—that the grand
looking
place had been in the Woodson
family for some generations, and that the
general's father lett it to him eneumbet
ed. The mortgage teas never lifted by the
latter. The general lived pretty well,
thinking his positiourequired it.
'Then iu an evil time all Bramblehead
ran wild with a land fever—a speculation
that promised to make-the poor rich, and
the rich happy. All the old stockings in
all the dark corners in town were emptied
of their shilling to buy land in Roostock.
Why people, old people, took money out
of their bibles that they had laid away to
bury them, to invest. expecting it to re
turn them a hundred fold before it would
be needed. Burial day always seems so
distant to ns, especially if there is a
chance to make any money to-morrow.
"Amy's father was bitten by the going
madness. He gathered the little he could
together. He drew his salary regularly,
and let his household bills run. He sold
wrongfully a few blank shares that he held
in trust for Amv, which an uncle had
willed to her, and invested the money in
the golden land, secretly in the name of a
brother in Ohio.
"The voyage turned ouP mighty poor.
The land was well timbered, but a hun
dred miles away from river or tidewater.
'The bubble burst. So the rich became
poor. and the poor became happy. think
ing how their betters bad ,come down.—
They were sure of a burial, for nobody
was ever too poor for that.
"The old gentleman aged. He grew
fretful and absent minded. The grocer
and the butcher called again and again
for their dues—at the front door, too.—
The milk boy was even more malicious.
He chalked on the garden gate, 'Warning,'
pay up, 01' boss,' and chuckled to himself
around the corner, as ho peeped and saw
Betty Floyd, the old domestic, spend
many minutes spelling out, and many
more in scourino . ' off the words,and
shak
ing her cloth at the empty street Thrift
had abandoned the household.
"Amy knew but little of the truth. He l i
said he had only the amount of two or
three gnarters' salary in the lamented
land slide. She saw the failing step. and
that he did not like to have her note it.
He was glad, though of her help at the
bank, which was needed now oftener than
ever. The toil began to tell on little Amy.
She didn't lose her beauty, though. I
don't believe she will ever lose that. My
boy. a I m tedious ?"
"Very. Go on."
"Don't blow your smoke in my eyes,
then, or you'll swear I'm crying."
"Well, well ; forward."
"Where was I ? This went on a • • fie.
the old man keeping the ship on the old
tack, close hauled, flag at'the peak, and
pumps going. But there came a day
when the world could do little for Abram
Woodson, and he could do lin for the
world. One morning, when Amy was
helping him on his coat to go to the bank,
he staggered and fell upon the sofa. The
GOD AND OUR COUNTRY."
doctor came and said "Paralysis." He
revived somewhat but the old general was
a wreck of the saddest kind. Lie couldn't
speck an intelligible word• Amy became
bis hands, eyes and mind. Roy Elwell
was appointed acting cashier, for the
directors would not supersede him at
once. He lingered for Mouths with his
faculties at sixes and sevens. One day
ha said'something that sounded like 'May
tenth,' and soon after he dropped anchor
for the list
"The bank officers, when examining
his cash and accounts, discovered a de
ficency of between one and tiio thousand
dollars. And they who had held the old
general as incorruptible said. 'There is
none true under the son." His bonds
men were called upon, and the few,
which finally means the many, thought
they knew the cushier had used the funds
in his keeping.
"Amy, living secluded wits her old do
mestic, Betty Floyd, was ignorant of thel
affairs at the bunk. She knitted worsted
work, and fitted ball dresses for her
school mates of old days. Young Skin
nem offered her what he called his heart.
By Juve, twenty young fellows would
have come forward for her hand,but there
was something in her way that wouldn't
let a man with a decent heart offer it.—
Skinuem thought his magnanimity twen
ty per cent. above par. He had inherited
from his father the mortgage on the
Woodson homestead, which he threatened
to foreclose. Trouble came in troops.
"Looking over her father's papers one
day, Amy discovered a note addressed to
her. It was in the neat hand of the gen
eml. It told her that he wrote this fur her
in case anything should happen to him—
thut the world, after he was gone, might
judge him amiss. That fe had. it is trio
wronged her, his sweet, beloved daughter,
that he had been false to his trusteeship;
that their means were all gone with the
broken land bubble; that his heart and
thoughts were long sick with the secret
of it ; that May the 10th of such a year,
he had found his cash unaccountably
short, and no man yet knew it. If he liv
ed long enough he should make it up ;
yes, make it up, every cent; but Amy
mustiwait for hers; perhaps he could nev
er make that up. unit it he did not would
his darling daughter forgive him ?
"Amy bowed beneath this blow. Now
appeared the reas , in of the unpaid bills
and the ill-supplied household. And the
thought cattle to the stricken girl, bow
once she hail proposed to sell a share of
her bank stock and buy a gold watch and
chain, and on New 1 - ear's morning she
found them tinder her breakfast cup. a
present front her Whet. I get all this
from sister Nell. of whom she made a con-
Willa. Yes, llal, Amy bowed as the lily
bows when blown upon. She sent fur
Roy Elwell. t• he pressed Roy until she
drew from the reluctant fellow the affair
as viewed by the directors. It was a plain
ease to them. A land enterprise--all
op
liortunity for making money—and the
casli ler yielding to temptation, borrowed
the funa4 of the bank, thinking to enrieh
himself, and return the money. They
were all the noire ready to look on the
dark side for him, as many of their dol
lars had gone the way of his. The fever
had been among them too.
•"This point of %iew was not plain to
Amy. Through Elwell, who had been
made cashier after the de:alike the gener
al. she obtained permission from the otli
,ws to make a personal examination of
the books, to be aided by Roy, Her
knowledge of bank routine was now ser
viceable.
"About this time I returned frOm an
Indian voyage. I served as boy in the
bank awhile, you remember, and Roy
with her consent, invited me to lend them
a hand. I was glad fur her sake, not to
say my own.
"Hal, are you yawning?"
"Spin away, spin away, my old boy."
"Well, we met and made our plans,
agreeing to make researches after Elwell
had finished his day's work. By George,
Hal, you ought to have seen the girl. Her
perceptions were all quickened by pride
nod love for the honor of the old man.—
The theory of the directors was not the
theory of the daughter. She admitted
nothing but the existence of an error
that might yet be reeealed. Roy and I
followed her with a low consent. We be
gan. We turned to that May the 10th,
which he mentioned in the note, and
named on the night or his speechlessness.
We took the first entry of the deposits;
we analyzed it. If bills, it was not so no
ted ; if checks, we followed them to their
final entry. And so through each and all.
Amy surprised us by her thoroughness.
Items that Roy and I were willing to
cheek, as being correct beyond question,
she looked to again and again before dis
missing. Tho general had been much
harrowed by the trouble to make any
systematic analysis of the day's transac
tions at the time, Who knows but the
error, if one, would have been detected
had he called his quick eyed daughter in
to his confidence?
"We finally arrived at the end of the
day's labor, and summing up the figures,
we found the balance on hand was two
thousand dollars lees than the amouet re
quired. Here now was a chance for spec
ulation. What had become of the sum ?
Amy was not long deciding that its equiv
alent had been misled—some check mis
placed; but this was merely guess. work.
"Her proposition at the next meeting
was to search thoroughly the papers of
the safe. Not succeeding there, books
and papers in the vault were taken, one
by one,and turned,leat by leaf. Through?
I think - so. it was a slow, laborious pro
cess. Her patience was astonishing.—
Her glance seemed as though 'twould
burn the papers it fell on. But, they could
not reveal a secret not in their keeping.
"Where was the waste paper put? In
a basket. And emptied where? Boy
coul n't my.: The old woman who swept
e • .ms wits called. She emptied it,
when all, into the dark closet. Some
timed' when out of shavings she used a
little of it to start the fire. Amy turned
pale. The closet 'was cosigned for the
next day. Was it narrowed to this, the
chance of finding a valuable paper in the
rubbish P She would have had more
heart, but for the knowledge of those oce
casional handfuls taken for kindling.—
Piece by piece we went through thin ac-
cumulated heap of duty, gone by papers
and without nieces&
"Roy and I had not forseen the end—
failure. We didn't anticipate having to
see that noble girl sit down diseotiolata,
with the tears falling upon heti' ration
hands. By joye, I wouldn't have begun
the work. It was joy for ma told:Mr-with
her all the way, but .wheu that labor was
brought to the hater end—to sea hope
go out of her heart by her blessed blue
eyes! Roy attended her home.
"The nest day he and I - Were seated in
the bank, talking over the "Roy
said I, "the Borneo, Charlie Lanie,ie due;
can't we see, from the skylight iu the gar
ret, if the is in the bay? '
"He proposed going up to ,see. cloy
went ahead and opened the skylight.—
Theplace was dusty as a grave, and just
as jolly. Tnere was no Borneo to sight.
Account books and bundles of papers lay
here and there, with dust upon them
nearly an inch deep. And over these things
that had one day a meaning and a value
and neither now, the spider had woven
their homes, and 'were having in turn
their little cares. We looked about us
curiously. Roe remarking a book on top
of a pile, less dusty than the others, pro.
posed to me to take it down stairs as a,
curiosity. I did. The skylight was low
ered, and two sunbeams, that had vanish
ed as we opened the light, came back
again, and lay athwart one another like
bars of dusty gold. Down stairs we sat
and , examined our prize. It was not a
bunk book, but a ledger,evidcntly belong
ing to the general, and filled with records
of dealings long years ago before, when
in the wood and coal business. The wri
ting was neatness itself. Rarely a blot
or an erasure did we see, as Roy sat rather
indifferently turning the leaves. Occa
sionally there remained and unbalanced
account. The fuel had became smoke
and ashes long ago, and the debtor dust,
may be. Here was one Job Jones, charg
ed with a cord of wood a generation ago.
Out of this scanty material we imagined
a history fur this later Job. We invented.
for him little pleas for his delinquency;
that he had married a wife; that he had
kft the town; that he never had it; that
it was only half u cord; that he paid' for
it at the time, ete. 'Nevertheless, it ta a
shame, Job Jones, for yon to owe forever
for the fuel that boiled your kettle, and
blessed your hearthstone, and, perchance.
warmed to life one of the innumerable
little Jonesess, we concluded. Don't his
ears burn ?
"While we were laughing over this,the
door softly opened, end Amy Woodson
appeared. I had almost expected 'twas
the ghost of the said Jones.
"She wished again to see the book con
taining those entries on the 10th of May.
Roy brought it. Amy. sat at. one side of
the table; Elwell and I at the other. ,She
ponred over the page, as her father, had,
doubtless, done before her, with dreamy,
misty eyes. We mentioned the reason of
our mirth. I took the book, carelessly
and openea it. Roy and Amy looking oil
as I turned one leaf then three or
four together; when "My heavens!"
claimed. They started. Amy leaned
over the table. Her breath went and
came quickly. By jove, I can feel it now,
do my cheek. Never a wind can blow
-thataway. There, staring us all in the
law were two one thousand dollar bills.
I swear I saw joy go into her eyes.
"It was pretty clear to her. There was
fresh writing on the credit side of an ac
count, The old general had bad the
book from the garret and upon his table
that 10th of Mey. Exchanging the hills
for some customer, he had laid, them on
the open book and absently closed it. it
was then returned to its old place in, the
garret. His mind being 'distracted by
his pecuniary trouble, the transaction of
the - loins had made no mark upon his
memory. This was our theory.
"Amy had dreamed, singularly, thatehe
was greatly comforted by a book, and this
was the reason of her coming and calling
for one'we bad first examined.
"And yon say Amy married Roy ?"
"Ay, ay; and their boy they've named
Frank Manly Elwell. turn in, Hal, I
must look after my girl, the Sunset."
I obeyed, and in a moment more I
thought I landed on a wharf in Bramble
head, and the first sign that met my eye
was "Job Jones. Dealer in Coal, Wood
and bark, For Cash Only." , A beak mi.'
ed, fiery eyed little old min leaned over
an old fashioned door that was divided in
the middle, half shut and half open„
"Job Jones." said I, "Frank Manly and
Roy Elwell have judged you unjustly.—
That cord of wood they thoughs you ow
ed for," I continued, as his classy eyes
seemed to demand an explanation. The
little man was silent, but he gave me a
look which said plainly enough, "What is
human justice to me or injustice?"
And Jub Jones, for I could not think
or him as any other being,bevame instant
ly a statute of ice ; a tear trickled from
each eye,and another trembled splendidly
item its nose, and in the sunshine they
became—
I awoke, and instead of Job Jones my
eyes fell upon Jim the steward, who was
setting the breakfast in the cabin of the
Sunset. on the table over which this tale
was told to me as I tell it to you=—only
that drowsy gleam of the cabin light falls
not upon the paper, and never will:—The
Aldine.
A GEonark editor describing • a wed
ding lately, said the bride "looked a very
lily, cradled in the golden glimmer of
come evening lake— a foam fleck, showy,
yet stn-Rushed, crowning the ripplingeof
some soft Southern sea." If that were
really so, the bridegroom must have beeri
very much puzzled to know whether he
was wedding a submarine conservatory
or an Aurora Borealis.
A PORTLAND man was caught fishing
for tout on another man's tend the other
day, and completely sileoced the owner,
who remonstrated, with the - Majestic an.
ewer, ."Who want's to catch pour trout?
I am only trying to drown this worm.
A CAIRO pound keeper has =Sipa
because the Common Council objected to
his writing Hon. before his name.
en .
TWO DOLLARS PER IrMISADVAIA I / 2.
- 1. - ermsi IV NOT: E4IID A uvAr k pa. oßpi.
The Saddle' Lover.
Ali wilt Jura came to-night and stood .
Yoe full= hour beside the bans,
And we two watched, between the trees,
• The glimmer of The moon and stars,
John acted very strange, I think—
' wish I knew the , reason Why ; 411 ,
I really thought he meant to say
Einutethheg tonight besides goodby.
JoblacoMingkers quite often now;
Fm soto I goal know wh y fi he should—
Althongle my lister Jenny says
ltti talk ed the neighborhood
That he Is enaking love to , me— •
The sinners: thing I ever heard ;
For if Ws true, how queer it
That John pp 4 key% said a word
Ab, went alseuldn't carves much,
If John himself had told me so;
Forthen he might have said it all ,
Upon his own account, you know;
But het so bashltd, I believe
lied Inver dire to speak out plain V
I hope he'll muster courage up,
And try it, when' be comes again.,
It cannot be that Fm to blame—
• I'm awe rythelped him all .1 could
•
rve always met hina at the bam •
And talked as any woman would
That had s lover whom she Eked, '
'And wafted, with her heart aglow,
For bim to break the subject drat, •
' And then how quick she'd let him know
BitlM he keeps a:nothing still.
Ain as he bas for twelve months past ;
Fro thought sometimes It looked as though
I'd have to speak myself at last.
I'm bound that he shall know the-truth,
?tads:tow, resolved, I cumin wail
For him to find it out himself,
And'so, next time, I'll by my Este
Elark_ Twain , . Tribute to Women
At an annnal banquet of the Washing
ton Correspondent's Club, the followiug
Out was read :
"Woman. The pride of the professions
and She iewel of ours."
To which Mark Twain responded as
folkiara t,
Human. intelligence cannot estimate
what we owe to woman, sir. She sews
on buttons, sbe roes tit in at the church
fairs, she conlides in us, tells us whatever
she min find out abont the private affairs
of her.rieighbors, she gives us a rime of
her mind sometimes, and sometimes all of
it. In all relations of life sir, it is a just
and grateful tribute to way of her "abe is
a brick 1"
• Where you place woman, sir, in what
ever posittort.or estate, she is an orna
ment the place she .occupies, and a
treasure to thd wOild. Look at the wo
men of hietaryl.' Look at Lucretia Bor
gia I Look at mother Eve! I repeat, sir
look et the, illustrious names of history I
rook at Elizabeth Cady Stanton! Look
at George Francis Train I And, sir,l say
with bowed hi.ad and deepest veneration
look tittlie mother 'of Washington I She
tailed a boy that could mot he, but. be
neves had a.chigice.
It might hive been different it be btu]
belonged to a newspaper - correspondent's
dub.
• Maik kioked around placidly' upon his
excitedeaudieuce•and.rtaumeil
I repept f whatever position
yot! put a ,wonlan, she is an ornament of
society, and' lreasure to the . world. As
a sweetheart she has few equals, and no
superior. &smithy grandmother with
an incurable-Olivet • she is gorgeous.
What, air, would.-the people of the earth
be without woman ? They would, be
'saute, siir-alittiglityjititrear The ' let
us give her' Mir suppOrt; our sympathy—
ourselves, if We gat A chance.
But, jesting aside, Mr: 'President,. wo
man is.loyable, gracious; kind of heart,
beantifel, worthy of respect, of all esteem,
of all deference. NO One here will refuse
to drink bit. health right cordially, for
each and every • one of us has personally
known, loved :and honored the - best of
them all—his own mother. • •
A Little Itztin with flopklns.
Some few yearsego a new fire company
was organized atleading. and the mem
bers one evening thought they would have
a little;innocent fun at the expense of
Hopkins,, their President. They decided
to rush around with the engine to Hop-
Irina' house after dark, to throw up their
ladders, pull out their hose, climb on the
roof, and scare him with the belief that
his dwelling was ou fire. But that very
day Hophina moved out of the bouse,and
a Presbyterian clergyman moved in, with
out the company being aware of the
change. So; about 8 o'clock the humorists
dashed out; and want through all the
rnovenients,- getting , on the roof and
splashing Water around, and creating a
terrific distort:lmmo generally. A rival
company, noticing what was going - on. al
so hurried to the scene, and without un
derstanding the joke, attached their hose
to a plug, smashed in the front windows,
and began to empty a two inch stream on
the family of that Presbyterian clergyman.
They squirted into all the rooms, split up
the window abutters with an% axe, broke
down the front door,"ran out the furni
ture, tore off the shingles and bawled
through trumpets until the hired girl had
convulsions on the kitchen stairs. The
first amipany tried to explain, but the
new comers thought an effort was being
made to get them 'out of the way,, and a
fight ensued, and presently firemen were
sliding off the roof, and pelting down the
chimneys, and bleeding ever the entry
carpet, and having boisterous encounters
with spanners , and brass horns on the
stairs. And the next morning that Pres
byterian divine moved.ouk .Theysaid the
place seemed. to be too animated and sen
sational for *quiet domesticeirele. They
("aura a, holm(' where -there was more
calmness anti peace; where they could
have mortrsecurity for their privacy and
pianae,'and for their front doorsand 'bin
gles peaceof mind and window sash-
AT a coroner's inquest, a witness was
asked "What was the last thiug seen by
the&awed?", _ "
,Kerosene,", was the re.
PTY. . - •
"MagsA.cin'twe isire anything we
wear "'Vs, my ommo, but be' careful
auttreetwaistratiyemgrafea't bare."
NUMBER 30.
Itel;glow Notes.
A. F. BOAS, of fteadilig, has be:ill gm.
perintendont of on , Bundv; schpollor
over forty years, but iqllptge gorthli,
position next Sabbath.
. , . .
THE historic portion of Boston is now
almost without a church only
thnie reniaining thire-:-oneZpiscopatona
Irkiman CathOlio, and . orte Barisit. '• ,
aie to:' the fail nggliaelfbi of
Bishop Arne '',4sf•thelifethodist.l3h6rch,
are greatly_ Ita_ bag not been
seriously - ill, and is now in; usual health,
and good fur any reasonable 'ardbutit of
Tits Virginia Baptistihave •gosd'ies-
KM for. their recent ;jubilations: -Tiny
years ago their first association was, form
ed with fifteen ministers . . and .less than
2,000 church members- .nbir.. they .. glory
in 1,900 minister and 'irccinstitnency of
over 150,000. • - -
IN' the South Pacific Odeon. there:lite
now about two hundred ChrisAidnited
Wanda,in - whichit ern - are - two hundred
and fifty thoutand adtterenbs, fifty3thou
sand members, and a band op•-eornix;eix.-
teen liundred to prvacheyrt,
.Taz following notice is soul. -,to ; have
been recently found 'posted. in - the. vslitt
hule of a church' in Sdthhina r"The per
son who stole "Songs of the Satittnary
from pew No. at Should itriprovOlte,;op
portunity of singing 'Ahem -here; airle
will have no tx‘casienito sing them; Or-c
-arter." r' ' • '
Wins eighth Y-nine, persons weN,.pre
senting themselves fur receptioar..,to ; the
Church in Watertown, N. r.,
or two ago, among them wasp graii_dretth
er at the head of a honsehold mne,and
as lie approached. the pastor,lter..4or.
Porter, said to him , _ "Coln? thou sid, all
thy houie into dits
Rev. Mr. Wilace,4he lowa clergyman,
who not long ago, MOS arrested fur Weak
ing into his church, has been acquitted, It
was show.Oliat the trustees badloelced
the doors to prevent service; - Utak - his
congregation were outside waiting to
hear him preach, and that .being deter
mined to preach,-he did preach: ,
The Book Committee of the Methoilutt
Episcopal Church has reduced-the salary
of Bishop Morris from $3,500 to 81,400,
because,
being an octogenarian,- he has
married a young wife, at' 1i in
Ohio, an act which they regard - ai scan
dalous to the Church. The-matter creates
a good deal - of talk at the West. •
Tint London Tabeet: (Catholic,) tinder
date of May.l7, declares that the - Pope is
sufficiently . well to rise at GI a. tu., and at
tend as usual to all the business connect
ed with his august office; reading' dis
patehesi4ritur.„,(l-dichstitig; and- conver
sing, all owith - the 'same acmess and
proptitude as ever. His malady is simply
local, and his general.health is excellent.
:Varlettes.
,
Wriir is the eifferenebetweau bayon
ets and . ballete?-4layonets are
bullets are lead. • • '-• •
•
•
Larrti "
o - doetor: Mitongne OTT
sore." She protrmlei Doctor to 'lady :
"Only 'sunburt, madame."
ltiss'E:' HOWLED is ' the' &padre=
candidate for County ;Superintendent of
Schools of htadson to., 111, , •
Ongsuelr wrote Roupsthing !about
“Anni .Dickinpon's..leeture : on 4oirn . of
Are," and: the printermade retid„,l 4 ny
Dutchman can play the' jewshnrp."
MR& AMY PRANKS, of Payette di:unity
Pa., boasts of over 500 living deiceridzints.
Amy is ninety-yeah otagez"
•
"Tnonsette for 018'481 lies?'ppla in
the reformation platform of theßrooklyn
Yonng Men's Chrietoin Association-1:
THE women of a Wiscontimtewitlavo
organized to prosecute the men who leave
their teams staudinLon the-strect,cross
ing.
. .
Ir listated that Anua ,Dickinson will
certainly appear on the - stage' next fall
upon the opening •Of the • uew Boston
Globe Theatre.
A PROVIDENCE paper states that Afire
Senator Sprague invites clergymen,school
teachers, and common people to; fill: , the
eighty rooms of her home .at. Newport;
A lfrxxeratt having remarked "three
winald be a nave in the new' edifice...oo
society was' erecting," an old -lady %aid
"she knew the person to whom he referr
ed."
A 311,88ACTIII8ETT8 pO9ttUistrealbllB
resigned her office
,as a,matter ofjtoncjity
because she cannot find time to•read all
the postal cards and attend to her other
duties besides.
MADAIIE SEEDACHI.9 reietitti' fined
one hundred:florins, in Pesth,for attempt
ing to secure gratuitous advertising !by
falsely reporting that she bad stolen from
"her eleven thousand francs worth of Low
dry.
Is SPRISOFfiLD, MASS. rent% a
yoang bridal couple applied for temporary
lodgings at the'peli& - statitm. They had
been married that day, but 'had 'had
a quarrel with the old folks, ,who; bad
turned them out intd.the streekhomeless
and penniless.
, „
A max up in lowa, by the natito of
Silas Ohew, watt married the 'other day to
a girl 'named Anna Good. Thit"tuost
obtuse person mould instantly to
mind, the Scriptural injunction, "S. Chew
that which is aril, , . cleaving ..only to that
Which iseocid.
Tug first thing .a .man does wheals
sees a friend , with a new bat on_ist.e take
it off and serenly try
. it, on his own head.
When a young lady sees ono of her ac
quaintances with a new bonnet, she ifist
hits up her nose and ' serenely wonders
"where the thingtot that fright.
Tun women are to hold an indignation
meeting at De Garmo'e Hall on, Weber.-
day evening on account of-Judge Hunt's
ruling in the caste of SIISAII B. Anthony
for illegal voting. They would have pre
ferred that she had been' sent to prison than
a fin ed paltry: 4101 . Tiourea nothing
like :martyrdom for the "canes."
eiram