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TUX rtaivimator szocticir.
tiro dark an4.l9anOless river
Etretob sO - -
The homeward rolling title,
over which have crossed '
Our lovel • and early lost;
Thst their unsealed eyes may never see
the further side, •
w Imo still amid this toil and misery,
We iddel
i• 1110 realm of their transitloir
Close At bend • •
To this, oOr living !awl I •
Nearer tbariPiyo dreamt
Can thoy l oatoh the gloitut
or olr italics, end heist' tim I%orilti
speak 1 • I T
' Anti coo our needii 1 • -
looltingrdeoper thetil otir .
oyes tuay,
sock, '
• Our deodsi
no they mingle iroour gladnutiat -
Do they grieve •
~
When *aye of good leaVot •
• no they know each t onght ,14114 liopep
S. While wo in ehttaowe grope t
Can they hear in the Ifuture'e high belt*,
• rot tack the power ,
To load us from our 116 or tovrreet
'rho hours •
When they find ualiOreed in aorrow,
rip the? 'nib 1
or when earth passes by ,
ror them, 49 they forgot
The okras tbot hero boaot • .
Their wellbelo►eo t Or do thoy wait
id ho it LlM**
Ana watch beside tbo goideo Hato
iror oaf .
aro yearning for thoir secret ' :
ThOugh.WO Oall,
No /infla t ers over lsll• '
t ITyou our dulled ears,
•
To quell Our nanaeleas Nara.
e! Goo Is over all, wliate'er may
And trusting no, ,„
l'ittlence, my heart l OM le while, and ire
shall know.
, —Round 112014.
THE ANCAPIt OP TIM TCHKETO.
• ,
• ( ItY Vitt:TM .
rficre was never, probably 'a•,'better
matched couphithim, SolomonPar
wntsand bis wife.r 'Mr. Bolo . mou Par?
!one as had been predicted in.his bey.
hood, madd a very exemplary, frugal, in
hlgent husband, while Mra, SoloinCT
PSYSOVIS, as everybody hefted before they
were married, made a very exemplary,
frugal and obedient wife.' They agreed
in all things; And as they were never
known to find 'serious fault with each
other except on one ocolislon', it may be
a matter of interest with the reader to
know what that occasion was.
This was the affair of tho turkeys. :
You must know that Mr. and Mrs, 8010. ,
mon Parsons live on a farm in New '
Ilan . tpshire, and pride themselves on
raising the best turalps,onions and•beets,
And on fattening the noblest hogs ) the
tenderest calves, and the nicest tur keys.
I said the occasion of the quarrel was
the turkeys. 'rho Paraonsos never {apt
mote than nix at a time, with perhaps an
extra one fattening for Thanksgiving or
Christmas. But these they Were pi:4We-,
ularly proud of; and next to the chil
dren, the turkeys were cared for by Mr.
and Hrs. Persona. •
One day,Mr. Parsons found that some
body had potired the contents of ft cer
tain jug he kept in the house—Vote cases
of sickness only)—into a peck-measure
half full of shelled corn which was in-
tended for the turkeys. After making
particular inquiries of his wife as to the
44. 110111 TONI 0900 THAT tAltife AlitlinfiltlNE t Pea . Tnn *ROW *HAT SEEM
READING, PA., DAY ITBRUABie 16,1808,
perpetrator.of the mischief,' ho draWle ,
off the liqur which had , swollen aban'd•
anti; the corn, and thoughtlessly threw
bhe soaked grain to the (Owls. • This done
e rode to town on hilliness, leering
Mrs. Persona alone with the children end
the turkeys. - • '
Not many minutes 'had elapsed' after
Mr.. Parsons' departure, Oen oneof the
boys rushed into the house crying h out to
his mother that "all the turkeys bad got
fits, and were dying as if they had the
cholera!"
Mrs. Parsons was
,keitting in her easy
chair, but she sprang ,to her feet id as
instant. , Dragging the ball .of 'yarn,
Which had &lien _upon the'lloor, more
than a dozen rode;, she reached the spot
of.the terrible turkey tragedy I AWful
sight! fatal catastrophe 1 Not• one of
the six fat turkeys was on• its tet. One
or two were making vain attempts to.
walk, apparently witbdut any definite ob.•
feet in view, while the rest lay as thOugh
their heads bad been .shopped otl*,l 'and .
careffilly replaced after death.
"Dear mei" exclaimed Mrs. Parsons,
lilting her hands in dismay. What
can be the matter with 'etn ? What can
have poisoned 'em ep ? 0, my poor tut
keys I"
As she finished speaking, the only fowl
that bad apparently retained a spark or
two of life in its body till then, quietly
gave it up, and making a very respecta
ble tumble for a turkey, laid itself down
with its companions. Mrs. Parsons
called it a wonderful judgement--a ter
rible decree of Providence- end resolv
ed to Make the best of the affliction, or
dered the toys to dreg the turkeys to the
house.
"The feathers are good," said she,
q
, -Inast have theta." ' . '
'Accordingly , the frugal housewife
stripped the defiant foWls oftheir feath
ers, tne afteitanother, and Made a pile
of Weir 4103114868, for Parsons to look at
on Itiereturl2. It was a sad spectacle to
behold them In their fallen state peaked
up without eitherjife or feathers I Bat
scarce had Mre. Parsons gone into the'
house with the feathers, when the fount
eat and least respectable for') in the heap,
ove a movement wondrous)); like life
fora dead tnrkey i , opened its eyes, rail
ed ita head, and finally,. after nine
several indeeisive e ff orts, regaini3 its
feet. The praiseworthy -Ample was
follOviedby another of the flock, then by
another, and soon until you 'might have
witnessed the unusual and laughter-pro
voking Speetable of eh:, ' two-legfoid Ani
mals, adorned whit neither- hair nor
feathers, walking and staggering about,
as if they were afraid' of themselves and
of oath other. Youl4tronld have Said'
that they 'never felt so funny before in ell
i
their lives ; that they were in a . p fleet
state& bewilderment, not known how
to account for their Odd appear nce L
that they had been in a trance till their
feathers had rotted off, and that on re
covering their consciousness, life was a
new and strange thing to them, and they
could not oridit their senss. Poor be-,
Wildered, singing, misguided turk,eys I
The same urchin who had rue to in
forth his mother that the turkeys were
dead,l ' ni:no pr eipitated ' himself in
to the hitch a.- to tell hei
that "they had all ome to life -again 1 7
Mrs. Verona rah out as. before;- but she
was Tore surprise!) thati *her; She do
declaredit was a miracle. . Who had
ever heard of 'dead turkey s' walking
before ? The Miracle of the man who
took up his feather bed and, walked,
wasn't mere strtiogo then that Six dead
turkeys should arise and walk without
'their feathers.- ` You would have said.
Mrs. Parsons was as bewildered es , the
'turkeys.
Matters stood thus when Mr. Parsons
teturned. ' Judge of ~ Ms surprise,
when . he beheld his One. turkeys, sad and
crestfallen, trayeling about no wiltila
so many eels! iie
"What en 'arth does ; th is mettn?"
den3anded. ' - •
"0 VI sobbed Mrs; 'Parsons, "it's tte
str t.angest
1 beard of the li ke
'-never! The turkeyk all •
."Dled • ' 1,u,4) 4!
• "Yes;-and rpiCked
"Died and you picked em'l"extlaiMed
Parsons angritY. ' 4 'o, 'you good for no.
thine"' :• ‘. ' . • '
It wisJ the first unkind2.word • Pilk
sons had ever spoken to his wifo l and she
felt it. -
"01 01 0 t"-she cried, weeping bit
terly. ,' •
"01 01 01' 1 echoed Parsons tbrotigh
his teeth, as he ' looked first at hie wife,
then at his turkeys.
"Parsons 1" • • • I -
•
' "You fool 1" •
!
"Yon brute !" replied the wretched
woman; unable - 1p bear mote ; and she
swelled up before Portions as tho toiler
had often done, before stripped of their
,fenther6. "Mr. Solomon 1)01r/tons, If am
note fool 1" '
"'ou picked my fine turkeysyon
haven't left a teat* ,
'Your finelurkeye 1 I placed my ter•
keys because they wore dead."
"They were not dead 1" exclaimed
Parsons.
"As dead as dried herrings!" cried
Mrs. Parsons.
"You are a fool, as I told you f"
shouted Parsons, "The turkeys were
drunk."
"Drunk I",screauted Mrs. 'Parsons.
• "Drunk,' ,yes I" thundered Parsons;
"for I gave ion that Corn that,bad soak
ed in walskey."
•
11 0,Parsehs I you gave'em that co rn t"
cried Mrs. Parsons, hysterical. "0, you
fool! 0, these fine turkeys! 01 010!"
• Parsons • was frightened. He feared
that his faithful wife might sopa bb in
worso condition than-the turkeys, if he
did not soothe her as he felt that the
original fault was his, be readily•made
endeavors to offer her consolation.
"Don't cry, said he. ,
"I will I" said she, "You called me
a fool I You gave the turkeys that corn)
You—you—you are a brute!"
~ "I know it," replied Parsons, humb•
ly. "I piped guilty to the charge.
,I am
fully convinced that lam a 'brute. I'm
a more degraded animal than these
-turkeys, featherless as they are. But I
ask your ibrgivenescit
, "Parsona I" sighed the poor woman.
"My dear," said Parsons.
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And Mrs. Parsons threwherself on his
;nick, al if' she bad not 'seen him for a
Year:
forgive met'' •
61ye k t, I •
Acid .that, • exceedingly 'well,matelied
pair embraced,•to the *mat surprise of
the six featherless turkeys, that had
witnessed the whole'' scene in,perfect
bewilderment. Then they both fell to,
andbegan to butcher theturkeys,.as if they
(the turkeys) were altogether I fault,
and as If they (Me. and Mrs. arsons)
wished to see I'M& could kill great.
est number. Soon the foils, 'were put
cdtt of their 111f807 and into a basket,
and as they did not. need any pSc l king,
Mr. Solomon Parsons and Mrs. P rsons
looked at each other and langlied.
, "They're all dead now," sni Mrs.
Persons. R'"" •
"Aid picked," said Solomon. 4
, And they embraced again.
."It was foolish in me," ,observed, Per
sons afterwards, "very foolish, to give
the turkeys that corn 1
"And foolish," added Mrs.. Parsons;
"very foolish in the turkeys to get
eorned,!"
-Velocipede pint are advertiend.
e~~eeidT,~arpao; ►; '
ori anTs .BE WEEK.
Ittraqinowitto.
It aomewhat surprising that with all
our nation's love of grain, and thel,gent
rat -appreciative admiration of beautiful
trees for ahadeand ornament, we have so
few inetancet where ant bearing trees
have been a opted for planting ie. the
pl ace of maple, elm,. or linden. 'An
chestnut, butternut, black walnut,' and
Madeira nut, where 60 . .4:inmate Will ad•
mit, are all beautiful seabeds' Ott orni- .
mental treee can be ttausplanted while
young withou t!' loss of over ten per-cent.,
grow very rapidly, and come'into bearing
tumidly from the /seventh to the tenth year
from seed. The hickory or white walnut
is' more difficult :of transplanting ; but
even that we have removed with ;success
by digging deep and obtaining, and again
replanting entire, the taproot. - This
tap ytiot retaining is, in fact, a featdre of
bnPOrtanCe wi t - nll the nut -bearing,
trees, -its less • often resulting in
death of the tree, while, if fhllyietithed,
.a tree rarely dies., It is, liewerer, mere •
certain,-and probably:meat eel:Mongol,
to plant the nuts where trees are design,:
ed to stand. flair may be done and the
ground yearly cropped to corn, potatoes,
or, small fruits, and at the end of five
years or so it may be left in grass if de
sired. As a paying productive crop, as
a permanent inyestment, attended with
little or no labor , in the cultliation or
pruning, etc"
we know of nothing more
reliable than that of an orchard of tint
bearing trees. Our Halide , forest trees
are being rapidly destroyed, and without
the 'attention of horticulturista to the
' abject of growing nut-hearing as well as
apple and pear trout, we shall soon find
the products ,of our native land, in this
particular, more rare than that of for
eign shares: Already the chestnut com
mands a ready Sale at from eight to
to twelve dollars a bushel,
whilep the , white walnut „Bells freely •
at from two' to three dollars and yearly,
tM time rolls on, these prices are en
hanced rather than reduced, because of
the increased demand and the lessened
product ) by reason of cutting away; the
native forest trees. ; We write this, bar
lug kat °time from an orchard of *boa
sixty trees, now, about, twenty-five leers
old j and from which the owner last fear
gathered an average of over One and a half
bushels to the tree, paying him 'a net re
turn, exclusive of laborof gathering,' of
over six hundred dollars. Theo! trees
stand in pasture land, and when thnotin
er was clearing up the forlst Were young
saplings and left to growth . with a, hopetlil
looking forward to' the present reedit.
In our earlier days wo spent many a : day
gathering the white walnut, and or re
collebtion is of six to eight bushels of
fruito a tree, for which buyers then paid
one oiler a bushel ; and as the trees erire
in p aura land, the - product was a clean
net gain, extremely acceptable to the
owner. • • •
A STORY is told of an old hunter in
Michigan, who, when the country was.
new, got lost in the woods sevetal times.
Me was told to buy a pocket compass,
which he did, and a friend explained to
him its use. lie soon got lost and lay
oat as usual. When found, he was ask
ed why ho did not travail) , the compass.
stated that he did not dare to: He
wished to go north, and ho "tried hard
to make the thing point north, but 'twant
no use ; 'ttionld diddle, "diddle, diddle
right around, and point southeast every
time I"
—The Government lost 'a million dol.
bp' worth of property, last year by the
!unking of steamboats, on the Missoari
Titer.
-.7-A drunken man in Brooklyn recent.
IyAsped from the . top, of l 'a six•stori
Aims° and killed himself,
A