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" Sly siHtor'll be down in a minute, and says you're to wait, If yon please, And snys, I might stay 'till she camo, if I'd promise her nevor to tease, Nor speak 'till you spoke to me first. But that's nonsenpo, for liow would you know What she told me to say, if I didn't? Don't you really and truly think so ? ' And then you'd feel strango here alone 1 And you wouldn't know just whore to sit; For that chair isn't Btrong on its legs, and we never use it a bit. We keep it to match with the sofa, liut Jack says it would be like you To flop yourself right down upon it and knock out the very last screw. B'pose you try ? I won't toll. You're afraid to ! Oh ! you're afraid thoy would think it was mean ! Woll, thon, tbero's the album that's pretty, if you're sure that'your fingers are clean, For sister says sometimes I daub it ; but she only says that when Bhe's cross. Tbtre's her picture. You know it? It's like her; but sho ain't as good-looking, of coarse I 'This is me. It's the beht of 'em all. Now, tell me, you'd never have thought That once I was little as that? It's the only one that could be bought For that was tLe message to pa from the photo graph man whi rs I sat That he wouldn't print off any more (ill he flrtt got his money for that. "What? Maybe you're tired of waiting. Why, often she's longer than this. There's all her back hair to do up and all of her front curls to friz. But is nioo to be fitting hore talking like grown people, just you and me. Do you think )ou'll le coming here often ? Oh do ! Cut duut come like Tom Lee. Tom Lee. Her last beau. Why, my good ness 1 He used to be here day and ni, Lt Till the folks thought he'd be her husband; and Jack says that gave bim a fright Jon nou't run away, then, as he did? for you're not a rich man, they ray. I'a says you are poor as a church mouse. Nov , are you ? And how poor are they ? Ain't you glad that you mot me? Well, I am; for I know now that your hair isn't red. Bat what there is left of it's mousy, and not what that naughty Jack said. But there I I must go. Sister's coming. But I wihh I could wait, ust to see If the ran up to jcu and kissed you in the way that she used to kiss Lee." LrH flarte in the IndependetU.- SAM'S JUDGMENy. IIor.-3-ry ! Hen-e-ry ! S iy I Ilen-e-ry Pine, where be ye ?'" Almira (commonly called Miry) Calk ins shrieked this rammenn from the back-door of the farm house. Ti e month was April ; the weather, for that day, vernal. Crocuses gilded the posy bed here nnl there ; a few red buds decked the maple branches. A i b'a or two hopped wistfu ly about the chip yard, keeping an eye out for aggressive hens ; but as it was morning, thoKe dames of price were basy with domestics cares in fragrant hollows of the haymow or cavernous barrels half full of Jrean shavings, made ready for such exi gences, while the cook was far afield picking up the early worm, so the robins were undis'turbenl. Miry was embodied in spiing her self, as she stood ou that rough sone, her shining hair knotted in a golden bunch behind her hoad, her face roy as a peach, her eyes bright and coo as gold gray eyes can be, and her trim little figure clud in a clean calico gown, with a striped bib-apron, while rolled np sleeves displayed to the elbow a pair of sturdy arms, and her Btrong Bhort hands grasped the broom handle. " What do ye want ?" a cheery voice responded, as a handsome young fellow lifted his ilurk head from behind the wood-rile, and smiled at the girl, with a glitter of mischief in his eyes. I didn't know as your name was Henery," said Miry, with a sniff. ' When ye can't git what ye want, it's sorter policy .to take what ye can git," returned Sum Peters, with a smile. " Mebbe ef ye hollered a mite louder, Hen would hear ye." " Ilen-e-ry 1 ' screamed the girl again; and as the word left her lips, a sheepish looking fellow came stumbling out of the barn with a hatful of eggs. " Ben a-layin' on 'eco, Hen-fashion," put in Sam, in a Btage aside. 'Mira wanted to laugh at this rustio joke, but she was vexed with Sam, so she bit her lips ; but her eyes would glitter. " Was you a-callin' me?" said Henry, ambling up to the door. " Yes, I was ; don't ye know your name yet, Hen Tine?" "Well, naow, ye see, I was up to the top o' the mow. I heerd ye ; but ef I'd 'a hollered back, I'd 'a skeert the old hen outer her wits. " " Maybe you'd have picked 'em up," dryly remarked Sam, shouldering his axe and going off to the wood-shed with an armful of kindlings. 'Mira threw an indignant glance at him, and proceeded to do her errand to Henry. Sam was out of her good graces just now. He had talked too much to Emily Snow at last night's quilting. And who was going to believe all his nonsense, when he could talk a whole hour to another girl t It did not occur to 'Mira that she had refused his escort to the aforesaid quilting, and he hud been obliged to go with Emily iu con sequence. If consistency is a jewel, according to the much-vexed quotution, t iu not ona that women wear ; pt i baps it is reserved for collar buttons and scarf pins. Now Sam Peters and Henry Pine, though they were both " hired out " to old Jchiel Calkins, were also his daugh ter's lovers a Btate of things neither anomalous nor uncommon in old New England, where many a Jacob served his time for Rachel, and grew up into a patriarch with flocks and herds of his own. But neither Almira nor her lovers knew yet who would succeed in this ser vice, nor whether, indeed, some third man might not step in and distance them both. Henry had one powerful ally in the well-known fact that his father had means," as Yankeedom phrases it, and 'Mira had a keen eye for the goods and gauds of this present world. Good hard common-sense lined that low square forehead, and the firm chin, al most too prominent for symmetry, told its story of resolute will and stern de termination. She did not underrate that big farm-house of Sol Pine's, with its stretch of level meadows lying to the south, sheltered by great hills wooded to their summits, and on their lower terrace bearing orohards full of pink and white promise and golden perform ance. She liked a snng prospect for the future, a garnished and well-stored home ; but Henry was so stupid I such an utter lout! kind-hearted, dull-witted, with no resource and no energy ; while Sam was intelligent, alert, quick-witted, and full of courage and so handsome I In her secret soul 'Mira admixed Sam mightily, but he was only one of seven children ; and his widowed mother's sole possession lay in a wild mountain farm, partially cleared as yet, and the other six were girls. If she married him the worl 1 lay be fore her, and only their four hands wherewith to open its shell; but then there were great possibilities, and these are fascinating. A future with Henry was determinate and secure; there was only peace and plenty, and 'Mira was ambitious. But Sara also was determined. Nature had not given him those keen dark eyes and that strong development of sinew and muBcle for no purpose; the future did not daunt him, and his mind was re solved on 'Mira and Congress, and this was his own precions secret'. However, like many another man, his plans come near to shipwreck for want of a chart; yet what man ever lived who knew the channels and the quicksands of a woman's mind ? Sam set himself to work to make his rival ridiculous: he demonstrated poor Henry's ignorance, and played on his credulity; he ridiculed him to his face sud carefully beguiled him into all kinds of false positions: all of which roused Miry's innate feminine perversity and kindness to take the side of the weakest, and 6he gave nenry so much encourage ment that even her parents were puzzled. "I do declare," said father Calkins, as he sat down by the kitchen fire-place one chilly May night, und pulling off his big boots prepared to toast his feet at the embers, " Almiry beats me, mother. I'm blamed ef she ain't a-sit-tin' to nen Pine now, 's true 's ye live 1 an' 'tain't good two months back I could ha' swore she was bound to hev Sam Peters. Jeethunder ! women-folks is wuss 'n the weather; you can't guess on 'em." " We-e-ell," droned the tired and sleepy wife, ' I dono as I keer. Henry's got means; she won't never want fur nothin' ef she takes up with him. A bird in the hand's wnth a good deal, pa, and Almiry is pooty keen, now I tell ye." "That's so; that's so," rejoined the old man. " But Sam is dreadful likely: he's smarter'n any steel trap; fortino" (which is vernacular, dear "reader, for " for what I know ") "he'll be a jedge or suthin' afore he dies, and lieu Pine won't never be nothin' but an everlastin fool to the day aft;?r never." "Well, Almiry'll tune him, I bet ye, pa. He won't know his soul's his own ef that gal marries him." "Lordy! Jerooeh, hain't you lived long enough to know you carn't no way break in a fool ? They're jest like Par son Powder's donkey, that went all ways of a Sunday except the way to meetin'. I'd ruther take my chance with a feller that had got suthin' inside o' his head than one with nothin but what was in side his pocket, a blamed sight." " Mebbe so, mebbe so, Jehiel; but it's kinder borne in on my mind. that Miry will take Henery, nevertheless and what soever. Ain't she gone a-ridin' over to Colebrook with him this blessed night, i'est for nothin' but becos Samwell asked ier for to go to the looter over'n the 'ville ?" That ain't nothin'; she'll get bo all fired sick o' Hen's stoopid grinnin' ways afore long, I'll bet ye a red cent she'll take to Sam fin'lly." "It's droadful onsartain, anyway," sighed Mrs. Calkins, as she took up her tallow caudle and went into the bedroom, quite too sleepy to discuss the matter, whi e " pa " turned the current of his thoughts to the new litter of pigs, Al mira and her ways being quite too much for his brain. But it is certain that so stupid did Henry Pine show himself this ?ery even ing, such an unspeakable bore and don key, that Miry'a heart failed her, and she was almost inclined to put a sharp and sudden end to his probation; be sides, Sam was on his dignity, and piqued her wayward fancy mightily by his curt aud masterful manner toward her and Henry both. She began to feel a ceitain respect for him, a conscious ness that he was the strongest; and with one class of women this is a long step toward surrender: much as they like to rule, there is a keener fascination in discovering their ruler. Perhaps she might have been enraged, perhaps trembled, had she seen, herself unseen, an interview between her two lovers the next morning. They were both planting corn in the long lot a bit of meadow land at the extreme limit of the farm and when their bags were empty, and the drills levelled over their golden sprinkling of Beed, Henry was turning his face homeward, when Sam stopped him. "Look here, Hen; hold on; I've somethin' to Bay to ye." "Hay?'.' rtteponded Henry, with an air of idiotic astonishment, but turning back on his tracks. " Don't yawp so. I jest want ter say that I know what you're snakin' around this here humstead for; an' you can't come it, now I tell ye." " What be yew a-talkin' about ?" put in the naturally astounded Henry. " Why, I'm talkin' about Miry Calkins. Maybe you think you're goin' to git that gal; but I tell ye you ain't, not by a long shot 1" " Well I whose troop do you ride in ?" inquired the other, with fine Barcasm. " Not your'n, anyhow, Hen Pine and 1 ain't jokin', you can swear. I'm goin' to marry Almiry, cf any living man doos; bo you'd jest as good haw out out o' the load afore you're kickbd out." ' " Mighty Moses I how yew talk 1" gasped the alarmed youth. " 'Tain't all talk, sir. Be you goin' to quit without haulin', or not ?" " I &V know," answered Henry, sul lenly, his native obstinacy asserting it self in place of courage" I do' know's I'm goin' to be walked over this fashion. I guesB I'm as giod as you be, and I've got a sight more chink. " Darn your dollars ! who wants 'em ? Miry ain't that sort; she'd ruther marry a man than a pocket book." " She ain't nobody's fool, now I tell ye, Sam Peters. See ef she wouldn't a heap ruther settle down on our farm than go a tin-peddlin' long o' you. Ho ! I guess I Bha'n't haw out o your road ; not much. No, sir !" . " Look-a-here," ejaculated Sam, growing savage. "You'd better hear to me, Hen Pine. Ef I ketch you hangin' raound Almiry any more, I'll make you sos't you'll wish 't you was further, pretty quick. A bumble-bees' nest won't be nothin' to it. Now this I say an swear; ef you don't go easy, you'll go hard; jest you ree'lect that." Sam 8 handsome face grew dark and his fist clinched involuntarily as he spoke; and with an uneasy chuckle, which he meant to have made defiant, Henry went off alone, resolving to per severe in his devotion to Almira, and, besides that, to tell her all about this small interview with his rival. But Sam's keen wit warned him that this would be Henry's first move, and that luckless wight got no chance to speak to his adored all day, and was even obliged to 6ee her drive off to the village with her mother, quite ignorant of Sam's audacity. Now it was Henry's duty to fetch the cows from pasture at night, and he set off early to-day, that they might be back by sunbet, and his chores all dono when 'Mira returned, intending to ask her for a walk after supper, and put his fate to the touch, as well as bring Sam to con fusion. But he reckoned without his host. Sam took a short cut ajross the hill, drove the only Alderney heifer, the pride and delight of Miss Calkin's heart, out of the pasture into a mowing lot where an old barn stood, and shut her up, betaking himself to a clump of hemlocks which overlooked the road, till Henry came sauntering along, and, letting down the bars, began to call the creatures out of the lot. They came on after the fashion of cows, as if time was no matter and speed unknown or impos sible; and perhaps Henry would have driven them homo without missing the Aldemey, had not Sam, who was some thing of a ventriloquist, thrown his voice across the further hill-side, and uttered a faint " Moo-oo." Henry started, looked, started toward the sound, then back to the cows, and after rubbing his eyes and counting over the slow procession filing past him, seemed to become aware that Miss Betty was not among them. Another distant low convinced. "Darn it all!" Sam could hear him mutter ; "that all-fired critter's ben an' strayed agin. Well, they'll go hum dy-rect, I guess. I must hunt her." And hunt her he did, first up hill, then into the deep woods, Sam stalking him all the time like a deer-hunter, and Henry disturbing the fragrant stillness of nature with various expletives of both wrath and disgust, but not daring to go home without the cow, which was Miry's especial pet. After various tribulations Sam landed his luckless rival on the edge of a great swamp, from whose tangled thickets the distressed utterance of MiBS Betty issued more than once be fore Henry dared attempt the boggy surface and darkling growth ; at last, however, he plunged boldly in, and Sam's device having taken effect, he himself, familiar as a 'squirrel with all the wood ways, hastened back to the pasture, released Miss Betty, who had iTeen kept quiet with a bunch of juicy carrots, and turning her into the road where the rest had gone, took the short cut homeward, and would have arrived there in time to be seated on the door step to receive Almira but for an unfore seen occurrence. And yet fate had no Bpite against Sam ; it was the old story of evil that is only hidden good, though it seemed unmixed evil to him that in i' umping over the five-rail fence into the ligh-road only a few rods from home he should light on a rolling Btone, that slipped from under his foot and sent him too rolling into the gutter, with a broken leg. Now Sam hud been properly brought up by a btrict New England mother, who believed in judgments ready to be hurled from the hand of God on every Bin of man, while mercies were capricious visitants, to be feared rather than welcomed, and accepted on the platform of the old hymn : ttVe should suspect some danger nigh Vhen we possess delight." Therefore it is not strange that Sam considered it a direct punishment for his tricks upon Henry when he found his leg was helpless, and he must lie by the way-side till Borne Samaritan came past. Luckily this proved to be Miry and her mother, who were shocked to find him lying on the grass, pale as a sheet, and Bnppressing with effort the fain that all but opened his firm-set ips in spite of his self -control. With Almiia's Btrong arm to help, and his own efforts, he was at last laid in the bottom of the wagon and taken to the house, where the old farmer came to the rescue, and before long Sam was care fully laid on " ma's " own bed in the little room off the kitchen ; and Henry being yet in the unpleasant swamp look ing for Miss Betty, Almira herself drove hurriedly back to the village and fetched the doctor. Two hours after, as Sam lay there splintered and helpless, but not un comfortable, he could not but hear a blundering foot stumble into the kitch en, and the old farmer's voice in its gruffest tone begin : "Where hev ye ben, Henery Pine? Here's the old cat to pay ; cows hum two hours back, an' nobody to do a chore but me ; Sam fetched in with a broke leg, mother e'en-a'mobt distract ed, Almiry obleeged to go arter the doctor herself, and you a-wantin'." " Well, I swan to man," responded Henry, in an injured growl, "I've ben a-doin' my best to find that tarnal JarBey keow. She's led me sech another chase all over creation, an' I hain't faound her yit ; an' I dono but what she's sot in the hemlock swamp this minnit." "Oh, come now, that won't pass no muster at all, sir. Betty's safe in the yard along o' all the rest on 'em, an' has give down six good quarts into my pail this very night; so you needn't give me no such humbugging talk, sir. I won't stan' it.-" " Lordy I I dono what you're a-talkin'. I say an' swear I've ben a-huntin' Bet all over, up acrost the wood lot an' 'way into the big swamp, till I've tore my clothes a'most ofTn me. Look a-there 1 " More fool you !" ejaculated the dis gusted old farmer, as he eyed HShry's rags with a bidelong glare. " Jest you harness up t'other mare, an' make tracks np to Miss Peter's, over on the moun ting, an fetch her over to see Sam. Take the lantern along; the road's kinder bad, an' don't lose the mare." Stung by the undeserved sarcasm, and nob as sorry for Sam as ho ought to have been, Henry took things at his ease, and it was well on to midnight be fore Mrs. Peters got to her boy's bed side, to find him sleeping quietly; aud when he woke at early dawn to the strange consciousness of his own help less and painful condition, it was a com fort to see his mother's anxious, tender face bending over him, and to feel her motherly touch about his bed, smooth ing and settling and "tidying up," as od ly his mother could do. After the rest of the family had dispersed to their various duties, and Sam had his mother all to himself, he came to full confession, even so far as to own his previous conversa tion with Henry. "I thought of you in a minnit, mother. I knew you'd tell about its being a jedg ment; an' I declare I dono but what it was. He's got a clear field, anyway, an' I'm left out in the cold for all my boast in';" and here Sam heaved a deep reluc tant sigh. "Well, Samwel, it don't never do to force Providence. The Book Bays, ye know, it is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait,' and I ex pect that holds true about all good gifts. I make no doubt it's a judgement, Sam wel, and I hope it'll be blessed to ye." " I don't feel none too blessed now," murmured Sam, nuder his breath. "It does seem a heap more as if I was t'other-thiuged." Luckily his mother did not overhear poor Sam's amendment of her final opinion, but busied herself as tenderly and carefully about his wants and wishes as if Bhe meant at least to modify the visitation, while she acknowledged his deserving it. But Mrs. Peters could not be spared long Jor Sam's service, and though she took every opportunity during her short stay to impress upon him her belief that he was being pun ished for his hard feeling and unkindly acts toward Henry, and read to him punctually and pointedly all the Scrip tures she could sift out of the Bible to that same end, it was doubttul even to her hopeful soul if Sam accepted the situation with proper submission. Still, she had to leave him, for he could not be moved yet over that rough mountain road, and Mrs. Calkius and Miry both declared it was not to be thought of at any time. The bedroom "dreadful handy," opening into the kitchen and shed both ; and now all the plowing and planting wero over, there was not the baine pressing need of his services that there had been. Even Henry, seeing the field was clear for his courtship, be came sulkily amiable to his rival, and helped take care of him unabked, which iu time softened Sam's feeling toward him so much that one bright Sunday afternoon, when Henry had betaken himself to church with the rest, leaving Miry to look after a hen that would " come off " on Sunday in Bpite of the tithing-man, Sam improved the occa sion to confess his sin to Miry that is, as far as couotrned his hiding of the cow and leading Henry astray aud his profound conviction that the broken leg was a judgment. Now Almira wan nf. hent-t. a real woman, for all her cool head and strong win. io nave Ham on nor hands, help less and appealing, for the last three weeks, had softened her mightily toward him. The handsome dark eves, languid with pain and wcarrnes?, had their bbnre in this influence, no doubt; and the courageous patience with pain, the grateful look and word which always met any little service done for him, the cheerful endurance of helplessness and weary days all these bent 'Mira more and more toward her undeclared lover for Sam had never yet said the first' word of love to her, yet by some won derful percep.ion this ' acute young person was as well aware of his passion as if it had been blazoned in a thousand words. r Sam did himself good service un awares on that Sunday, for Henry took heart the same night to declare himself on the way home from singing-Bchool, prefacing his offer with a full, true, and E articular account of Sam's threats and ard words. Of course 'Mira was quick enough to understand at once why Sam had misled Henry on that eventful night when he broke his own leg, and she could scarce help smiling at the piteous tone of her present adorer as he recounted Sam's fierce menaces. " Well, I wa'n't ske6rt none, 'Miry, now I tell ye; but thinks I, I'll be even with him, sure as shootin', for I'll tell 'Miry on't next time I git a chance, an' ef that don't show her what. Brirf. r n feller he is, I dono nothin.' " "And l s pose, retorted 'Mira, "you never thought you was a-bhowin' what kind of a feller you was, now did ye ? Look-a-here, Henery Pine ! I always'did despise a tell-tale from the time I was knee-high to a hop-toad; and a grown up tell-tale is the worst of all !" " Oh, Lordy! Almiry Calkins ! what dew you mean ? Why, I want ye to marry me f Hain't I said it ont plain ?" " Yon needn't never say it no more," put in Almirfl, with a noble disregard of grammar in behalf of impressiveness. "I wouldn't marry you ef you was the Kingo'Siam." "Well! well! well!" blubbered Henry. "Inever'd ha' thought you'd ha' fn me the mitten, seein' what a farm our folks has got, an' money in the bank, an' stock an' crops. I don't know how to b'lieve it." " Don't make me give ye a pair o' mittens," said his enraged goddess; "so I wish ye good night and better man ners "for here they were at the door; and Almira slipped up stairs to bed, filled with loathing and rage, and thinking in her secret soul that Sam never, never could have made such a fool of himself. No, indeed ! Sam was no fool. He became aware that Henry was in a dicar and fore frame of mind the next day; and seeing that 'Mira v as more than usually snappy and alert, and weht about with a hot color in her cheeks, our bedrid philosopher drew his own conclusions, and when 'Miry came in after tea to "visit with him," he contrived to coax the 'toryout of her. It was abominable in 'Mira to tell her discarded lover's secret; but let us for give her, for she had her own reasons. Sam's face grew bright as she recounted with unaffected scorn Henry's surprise at her contempt of his money. " Ilo'a a brute," said Sim, curtly, and then his voice softened. " Oh, 'Miry, if I should ask you, with no sort o' temptation, only jest that I'd like to kiss the t p of your shoe, I love ye eo, should I get a rcitten too ?" 'Miry looked down in her lap very hard, and turning her face toward the door as if she heard somebody coming, said, slowly, " I dono as 'twould hurt ye to try." 3 There was a mightily expressive silence for a minute, and 'Miry's i retty head bent bo low that Sam could lift himself to meet it before he spoke again, to say, with a queer half laugh, "Mother said my broke leg was a jedgment, but somehow it seems anything but that jest now. I dono's I ever should ha' got courage, 'Miry, without I'd laid here an' Been ye so dreadful good an' kind to me." " Mebbe you'll find it's a jedgment yet," wickedly retorted 'Mira. " Well, ef 'tis," answered satisfied Sam, "it's mightily tempered with mercy, as mother used to say." And to this dav Snuira Patera-nlwava says nothing ever did him bo much Rood V : t i ,11 . ms nrss acKnowieugeu judgment, though it took the form of a broken leg. Harpers' Bazar. Curious Invention. Some of the monasteries of Italy and France will send curious inventions to the Paris Exhibition. A Florentine friar has constructed a watch only a quarter of au inch in diameter. It has not only a third hand to mark the second, but a microscopic dial which indicates the days of the week and mouth and the proper dates. It also contains an alarm and ou its front cover au ingeniously cut figure of St. Francis of Assini. On the back cover two verses of the " Te Deum " are distinctly cut. A monastery in Brit tany, France, will contribute a plain looking mahogany table, with an inlaid draughts or chess board on the surface. The inventor sets the pieces for a game of chess, and sits alone at one side of the board. He plays cautiously, and the opposite pieces move automatically and sometimes checkmate him. There is no mechanism apparent beneath the table top, which seems to be a f olid mahogany board. The cup of human bliss is about as full ai it can ever become without strain ing the goblet, when the tiny, bright eyed little toddler bids good-bye to gowns and sattheH aud finds himself in his firbt puirof pantaloons. Items of Interest Good name for a wood-cutter nugh. Hens come into the world by the hatchway. February, March ! Camden Pot' So that April May. OU C'ify Dcrric. What is the most warlike nation 1 Vaccination. Why ? Because it is al ways in arms. There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues. King Humbert owns eight hrfndred horses. He seems determined to estab lish a stable government. Hard up as the people of most Euro pean capitals may be at present, it's al ways easy to find a V in Vienna. t They say that a hundred and fifty mil lion kisses are bestowed upon each other or Borne one else by nil the inhabitants of the world. ATiinciai nsn propagation nas proved a success in Virginia, and large num bers of shad and herring are found iu streams where they were hitherto un known. The officials and employees of the city of New York number over $7,500, and their yearly pay is more than $11,000, 000. There are fifty-two persons who draw each $5,000 or over. Horseflesh is now becoming 60 com mon an article of food in Paris, that 1,000 beasts are consumed every month. They are not killed until they become useless for work through age or lame- ness. The meat is but half the price of beef. When Mr. Baker took to his wife, A buxom little dear. He fenced her in with both arms And whispered in her ear. ' Now do I promisa thee, my Ne'er from thy side to go; For like all bakers, little one, I daily need my doe." What a beautiful example of sim plicity in dress is shown some followers of the fashion by that domestic animal, washes its face with its right hand, gives its tail three jerks, and is ready dressed for the day ! A Boston paper says: "A bntterfly was caught at the South End yesterday. " It may be safe enough to catch a butter fly at the south end, but when you go to grab a wasp, you want to catch it at the northeasterly end, shifting westerly toward the head. The strength of the French army is as follows: Active army (five classes), 719,360; reserve of active army (four classes), 520,982; teriitorial army (five classes), 594,736; reserve of territorial army (six classes), 638,782; total, 2J73, 866 all trained men. work. " How speaks the present hour? not ! Walk, upward glancing ; Ko shall tby footsteps iu glory be tracked, Hlow, but advancing. Scorn not the smallness of daily endeavor, . Let the great meaning ennohle it ever; Droop not o'er efforts expended in vain, Work as believing that labor is gain." A traveling tree peddler sold some ex traordinary kind of gooseberries to a farmer. Next year Vhen the peddler came round the farmer informed him that his gooseberry bushes bore cur rants. Thafc is all richt " savs the peddler, " that kind always produces currants the first year." Knowing now, ai we do with certainty, the extremes of form to which all matter is liable, we may surely predict that the future of our globe simply depends upon the amount of heat received by its Burface. If the heat diminishes, all earth and air will be silent stone, with-,, out the breath of lite upon it; if the heat increases, the whole world will melt in thin air. Dr. J, B. Footc' Health Monthly. Traveling in a Land of Leeches. Monotonous as it was, writes a traveler in Malaya, there was constant excite ment in watching for,, and pulling off, the numberless leeches which swarmed in every direction. The ground seemed alive; -wherever you looked you saw small bodies resembling fine "elastic" (similar to a piece out of the side spring of a boot), gracefully erect, and making toward you with the mode of progres sion peculiar to their genus. On start ing, I had encased my legs in thick knickerbocker stockings, into which I thrust my trowsers, securely tyiug them on by means of tape, thinking myself perfectly secure. I had trudged on without caring for the voracious worms which I constantly saw on the bare legs of my companieuB, each of whom carried a Btick, at tho end of which was a small bundle of tobacco and lime, covered with a piece of muslin, one application of whioL sufficed to make a leech drop off, apparently stupefied. At noon we reached the banks of the Salamah river, where it assumed the aspect of a moun tain torrent, and, being anxious to con template at my ease what was a grand sight iu the midst of a forebt the water foaming and roaring among bowlders of great magnitude I ordered a halt, ami proceeded to take off my shoes and stockings and bathe my feet. Oh, hor ror 1 my stockings were full of blood; my European contrivances had failed, and, instead of keeping out my enemies, had offered them a safe retreat, for I discovered no less than nine gorged leeches in one stocking and eight iu the. other. From that moment I discarded shoes and stockings, aud, doinir in Ma laya as the Malays do, ever after walki barefoot, turned with a stick, toba and lime, which I found most eflVti requiring oulv a little vigilauce on own part and that of my linuWiir lowers in our Indian niode of eion.
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