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The Young Trnnip.
Hollo, thar, stranger I WhRr you from ?
Come in and make yerself ter hum 1
Wo'ro common folks, ain't mnch on style ;
Come in ant' atop a little while ;
'Twon't do no harm tor rest yor some.
Youngster, yor pale, and don't look well ?
What, way frura Hosting ? Naow, dew tell !
Why, that's a hundred mile or so ;
What startod yer I'd like ter know
On sioh a tramp j got goods ter sell ?
No home, no friends ? Naow that's too bad I
Wall, cheer np boy and don't be sad
Wife see what yor oan find to eat,
And put the coffee on tor heat
We'll tlx yer up all right, my lad.
Willing ter work, can't get a job,
And not a penny in yor fob ?
Wall, naow, that's rough, I dew declare?
What, toara ? Como youngnter, I oan't bear
Ter Bee ycr take on so, and sob.
now came yer no bad off, my son ?
Father wan killed? 'riho ; whar V Bull Ran?
Why, 1 was in that scrimmage, lad,
And got uhc(1 np, too, pretty bad ;
I sha'n't forgit old 'sixty-one.
Bo yor were left In Bunting, hey ?
A baby when he went away
Tboue Routing boys woro plucky, wife,
Yer know one of 'era saved my life
Elite I would not bo here to-day.
'Twas when tho " Clack Horse Cavalcade "
Hwept down on onr small brigade,
I got the shot that made me lame,
When down on mo a trooper came,
And this 'ere chap struo op hla blade.
Toor feller t He was stricken doad;
Tho trooper's saber cleaved his head.
Joe Billings was my comrade's name,
II a wai a Boating boy, and game t
I almost wiHbed I'd died, inuteaJ.
Why, lad ! what makes yer tremble soV
Your father I what, my oomrade, Joe ?
And you his son ? Ceme ter my heart I
My home is yours ; I'll try, in part,
To pay his boy the debt I owe.
C. F. Adams, in Detroit Free l'ot.
A DARK GAME LUST,
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The three magistrates had sat unin
terruptedly fur into the antuinn after
n m, and bad now redirect to consider
th'r decision. It was a distressing case,
and oonnriing in Singlebridge, which is
a mere handful of a town, provoked in
touse interest among the inhabitants.
Sil w Westbrook, the reluctant prosecu
tor, was senior partner in an impressive
1 solid firm which lid flourished in the
borough for gent-rations. ITts son Au
gustas (also of the Arm), a witness for the
prosecution, was held in much esteem
by certain of i'.. a younger sort in Single
bridge, who sympathized with his amia
ble wildness. About Mr. Blanchard,
another witness for the prosecution,
little was known to the inquiring gos
sips, lie bad been a resident with the
Westbrooks for about eight months,
during which period he had sat along
si lo Ous in the oilioe iu business hours,
and had been a good deal about him at
other times. They got on amazingly
well together, people observed, but
despite all bis efforts and some of these
wore marked euough suave Mr. Blan
chard failed to similarly captivate Qua'
pretty sister Fanny. As became her
father's daughter, sho treated the West
Indian connection of her father's firm
with" unerring gracionsnes?. But her
sweetest moods, her tenderest looks and
gentlest tones were not for him. The
inngieian, at whose bidding they so
gladly cume. was Blanchard's instinc
tive foe. From the moment Harold
White, a confidential clerk to the firm,
and a potential partner therein, met -and
simply shook hands with the West In
dian, they hated each other With a
hatred that owed its sustenance on the
one Bide to contempt, and on the other
to malice and all uucharitableness. To
day will behold the triumph or discomtt
tureof Blanchard. In the police court of
Biuglebridge, in the presence of a crowd
of. people, the majority of whom are
personally known to him, Harold White
stands accused on the united testimony of
the Westbrooks, father and sob, of em
bezzlement.
To the profound chagrin of the magis
trates' clerk, who, cordially disliking
Blauchard, wishes well to the acoused,
the latter oondnots his own defense.
" Silence in the court."
lue silence is oppressive when, in a
voice full of feeling, the chairman turns
to the acoused and says:
Harold White, I, who have known
you for so many years, need not say that
the long examination, which my brother
magistrates and myself have this day
t conducted to the very best of our ability,
has been to all of us fraught with con
siderable pain. And we are bound to
admit, in your behalf, that nothing has
transpired in the course of this hearing
which reflects in the least on your con
duct during tne period to which I refer.
We have given due consideration to this
fact in your favor, and have oome to the
conclusion, actuated by motives which
we earnestly hope you will live to ap
preciate in" a proper spirit, to dismiss
the case. You may go."
"But my character," exclaimed White,
in a voice husky with emotion, " who is
to clear that of taint ?"
"Yourself," solemnly answered the
chairman. " Call the next case."
Dazed, trembling under the influence
of warriug passions, he left the dock aud
passed out of the court into the sunlit
street. Whither should be direct his
feet?
ine beptember suu was setting redly
behind a familiar belt of woods which
fringed the further bauk of the river as
he continued bis moody walk. He bad
held on for miles, heedless of the direc
tion he took, and now he awoke from bis
lit of passionate bitterness to find him
self on a spot that had often been hal
lowed by the preseuco of the girl he
loved. What did Bhe think of him ?
"Harry I"
"Fanny 1" ,
In those two words all was expressed.
"Oh narold. I have followed von for
hours, featf sr to ppeajkfm look so pale
and changtwS
I am changed. Thf iave not sent
me to prison, Fan, but tnn-ison taint
is on me. Why don't youlthrink from
the moral leper, as the rest of them bav
done?" '"'
"Because" and it seemed to bim as
though her voice bad never thrilled with
such sweetness before " I know jbu."
An1 vnn Kjhliawn"
" That all will be righted yet. I can
wait, dear if you will let me. You were
never more precious to me than yon are
at this moment."
" Miss West brook 1 Come, Fanny, this
is no place for you."
Harold and she had not heard the
footsteps. It was Blanchard and her
brother ho approached nnnotioed.
" And no place for you either, said
White to Blanchard.
"Faugh." replied that worthy. "I
have no words to waste on such as you,
sir. l am here to perform a duty.
Scoundrel 1" Harold began, at the
same time raising bis hand. She touch
ed bim, and he was still.
"Bir" Bhe eaid, "I am mistress ol
my own actions. If I choose to accom
pany my brother it is because I choose !
Harold, good-bye I Come what may,
my faith will not falter, my love never
change."
The last four words were murmured.
As she shaped them she reached forward
and kissed him before her brother,
whose surprise at her defiant attitude
wan unspeakable.
They parted and went their several
ways. - '
Three months bad elapsed, and not a
word had been heard of or from Harold
White; unless, the female gossips sug
gested, be had written to Miss, West-
brook, which, considering his departure,
he was hardly likely to have done..
It puzzled well-informed Single
bridge to hear Fanny Westbrook's cheer
ful words, to note her placid brow and
bright manner. Sho never oould have
thought much of that Harold White,
you know, or she would have manifested
some regret at bis misfortunes.
Blanchard. too, was mystinod by her.
What did it portend f Had sho resigned
all hopes of being restored to tho lover
whom he bad so effectually helped to
disgrace and banish? Was the course
clear, at last?, ne would see. His im
petuous love for the sunny-haired,
Saxon-eyed girl, a love which sprang
into existence the moment they met, had
grown mightily since the going oi
White. He would put an end to this
uncertainty. He conld face his fate.
"An interview with me r replied
Fanny to his blandly proffered request;
"certainly, Mr. Blanchard.'' Her tone
was provokmgly even.
"And if you please, let it take placo
now. I'ray be seated.
If she only had been embarrassed.
"Miss Westbrook, I I fear thnt the
imoression which I made upon you the
day of that unfortunate rencontre by the
river side was not favorable. I "
"Pray proceed, sir," she remarked in
icy tones.
" Well, then all ow me you cannot
surely have remained firm in the resolu
tion you then expressed to cleave to "
"Mr. Blanchard, J. will assist you,
You apparently wish to say that I. must
have ceased to love Harold White ? Is
that so?"
" Miss Westbrook Fanny pardon
me : 1 do. lie is ui ua wormy ot you.
Oh, if you did but know the depth of my
love for you
"Stop, Mr. liiiincnara, said sue, ris
ing from her chair, and moving siowiy
toward the door. " ijet us understand
each other. Whether or not Harold
White holds the place in my heart which
he once did concerns me and me only.
The honor you have done me, Mr,
Blanchard call it by what tender name
you please I deepise. Mr. Blanchard,
I know you 1
" Stop. Miss Westbrook 1" be ex
claimed, making one step forward and
barring her way to the door, "and
barken to me. You have thrown the gage.
Very well. I accept it. It was I who
drove Harold White from Singlebridge.
Ah, you can be impressed, I see. It is
I who can compel you to consent to my
demands. Now, Miss Westbrook, know
me 1"
Her face was very-white as she swept
oroudlv past the West Indian, but it
was not the whiteness of fear. They
measured swords with their eyes how
clear and searching hers were I and
parted.
Next day Fanny Westbrook was miss
ins from Sinelebridge.
For twelve months hiias westbrooK
has been daughterless. Danny was
sought for, far and near, .but without
avail. However, we must for the present
leave Singlebridge, and make our way
to the Theater Royal, Lasthampton.
The house is crowded by the admirers
of the leading lady, whose benefit night
it is.
Old Fussyton, the stage door-keeper,
is at this moment in a state of mind
bordering on despair. He dare not for
the life of him leave his post, and he
has just learned that a stranger has suc
ceeded iu reaching the stage nnder the
cover of an audacious super. If that
should oome to the knowledge of Mr.
I Somerett Beauchamp, the manager, he
(Fussyton) will to a certainty be dis
missed on tho spot.
" Take a note to Miss Harebell, sir 1
Conld not do.it. It's against orders,
sir."
The speaker is a call-boy. The
tempter is Mr. Blanchard.
" Very well, sir, I'll risk it. If yon
are an old friend, I suppose it will be all
right"
Induoed to commit a breach q disci-
Eliue by the bestowal of a rather potent
ribe, the call-boy disappeared behind
a pile Of soenerj, and is presently heard
in altercation with Miss Harebell's
dresser.
"What do you want?" Miss Hare
bell is not aboginnor,' she is not on
until the second Boene."
" I know that, Mrs. Cummings. I
want to speak to you. Open the door."
Blanchard heard no more. A whisper
ed conversation between the leading
lady's dresser and the call-boy was im
mediately succeeded by the reappear
ance of that precious youth, who said :
"Miss Harebell will meet you after the
performance, at her hotel, the George.
She has private apartments there. AJ1
you have to do is to send in your nano.
And now, sir, do clear out of this. Htfy
you got in 1 don't know. If Mr. Boit
shang was to stag you, wouldu't the
be a shine neither."
Meantime his note had producM a
startling effect upon Miss HarebellT " It
ran thus :
"At last I find you. In Miss Hare
bell I have recognized Fanny West
brook. At the peril of those nearest
and dearest to you see me to-night. I
am desperate." -
" Cummings" gasped Bhe, " lock that
door. You did it for the best to get rid
of him. It is always convenient' to de
cline receiving a visitor at one's hotel ;
but I will see him. Finish my hair and
then find Mr. Beauchamp. I would
epenk with him before I go on."
Blanchard had agHin curiously" under
valued the strength of his lovely oppo
nent, -' . i , ' i I
She saw the manager and exchanged
with him a few whispered words. He
grasped her hand warmly by way of
emphasizing his chiyalrid intention's in
her cause
Since that day, more than twelve
months previously, that Miss West
brook had merged her identity in that
of the now talented actress, Miss Hare
bell, Danny had played many parts,
both on aud off the stage. On this par
ticular night she excelled herself. - The
applause of her crowd of admirers was
what would have been termed in stage
parlance "terrific." Such was the elec
tric force of her acting that it carried all
before it. Was she playing up defiant
ly to Blanchard ? Tei-haps. ,
un the conclusion or the play sue. la
den with bouquets, retired to her dress-
lug-room, and in a few minutes had re
sumed, with the. aid of the attentive
Mrs. Cummings, the attire of ordinary
life. .
In the space of a few minutes Miss
" Harebell" was proceeding unnoticed,
eave by a group of her youthful idola
ters who surrounded the pit door, under
the convoy of Mr. Beauchamp, to her
apartments at the George.
Before ascending the staircase which
led to her rooms, she informed the maid
servant that probably a gentleman would
call upon her. If he did she was to show
him np, after having privately informed
Mr. Beauchamp, who would wait for the
news in the parlor, of her visitor s ar
rival. Mr. Beauchamp, whose face beamed
with complacent delight, nodded bis
approval of this arrangement Observed
Fanny to bun :
"Now, Mr. Beauchamp, I shall leave
you to your devices (here she indulged
in the tiniest ripple of laughter)r-your
devices, mind. ...
""very well, my v dear, they shall be
ready, if wanted."
"Aud he"
" Everything is ready, Miss Harebell,
and everybody. Let that suffice you."
Seated in her snug little room, Fanny
dreamily awaited the coming of her
ancient persecutor. She had not to wait
long,
Mr. Blanchard,
'in," announced the
thereupon ushered
maid-servant, and
that gentleman in.
Miss Westbrook rose and
acknowl
edged his elaborate bow with a silence
that was full, of scornful eloquence.
She then resumed her seat.
"Miss Westbrook, can you divine
why I am here ?"
"Yes."
" Oh, you can ? You are frank. After
all, why should you not be ? We can
spare each other the recital of a long
firefuce of dull retrospection. After a
ong and painful search I have found
you no matter how." .
" I know how," she calmly interposed.
" Ah 1" he exclaimed, " perhaps you
would not mind enlightening me." His
toneB were sneering. Her perfect equa
nimity put him about.
"Not at all. You got the informa
tion from my brother."
" Even bo. And your brother ? Had
he informed you also that he is just as
completely in my power as was another
person of our acquaintance more than a
year since ? Did he tell you there is a
bundle of papers which would give
him penal servitude if I chose to put
the Uw in operation 7 Did he
A tear had stolen down her cheek at the
suggestion to Harold, but now that
Bhe confronted the West Indian her
eyes blazed defiance upon bim. "He
did not. Remove your mask. . I can
read the rascal underneath it. Ho, then,
my band bestowed on you in to be the
price of your silence concerning my
brother's crime, if crime it be. But
you have shown your claws too soon,
sir ; see that they are not clipped."
" And who is to clip them ?"
"U" exclaimed a voice that came
from behind the chair near which
Blanchard stood, while at the same time
his arms were seized in a grip of iron and
wrenched violently back. ",I Harold
White I Fan, tfcke possession of those
papers."
" So von think to trap me, do you?"
growled Blanchard, actually foaming
with rage ; " but you are mistaken."
" Not a bi of it," observed obliging
Mr. Beauchamp, at that moment . enter
ing by the door on the landing. Coolly
turning the key and placing it in his
pocket, the manager of the Easthampton
theater continued: "Now look here,
Mr. Blanchard, I have stage-managed
too many little thing of this kind not to
know what's required to strengthen the
situation. I have two pf my fellows
handy on the stairs. My property man
is on the other side of those folding
doors. My friend here and myself
reckon for something, to say nothing of
Mrs. Harold White '
"Mrs... Harold White?" gasped
Blanchard.
" Yes, Mr. Blanchard," releasing him
and approaching her, "my wife. She
always believed in my perfect innocence
of the charge you helped to fasten on
me, and when poor, miserable Gns con
fessed the part which he had played in
the conspiracy, we got married."
" Confessed conspiracy I" sneering
ly exclaimed Blanchard ; " where are
jour proofs?"
" Here !" replied Harold, pointing to
the papers ; " and here they remain
until"
"Until what?"
" Until the father of my dear wife has
perused them line by line, and the mag
istrates of Singlebridge have made my
innocence as public as a year since they
proclaimed my guilt."
"Then I may go," said Blanchard,
alter a pause ; and taking for granted
the consent of the temporary custodians,
he stepped toward the door, which was
nnder the janitorship of Mr. Beanohamp.
That gentleman gracefully waved him
back.
" You may go on one condition, sir
pardon me and it is this : That you
leave for Jamaica by a certain steamer
which leaves this port to-morrow. I have
to night bespoken your berth. Pardon
me if you decline, tate the conse
quences ; one of which will be the tein,
porary ocenpatian by yourself of a neat
and commodious apartment within the
precincts of Easthampton jail !"
" Open the door." Not another word
did he utter, but taking his hat, and
looking straight before him, he left the
betel and proceeded not unattended
iu the direction of the Jamaica boat.
It was a pleasant hour or so which
Mr. and Mrs. Harold White and their
friend Beauchamp spent together that
night. It was a more than pleasant
meeting that took place a few days after
iu Singlebridge. Silas Westbrook's
happiness was unspeakable. There was
a streak of sorrow in it, though, when
he thought of his absent son, and prayed
that the lad had turned over a new leaf
at the other end of the world. London
Society.
Ancient Wonders.
Nineveh was fourteen miles long,
eight miles wide, and forty-six miles
around, with z wall one hundred feet
high, and thick enough for three chari
ots abreast.
Babylon was fifty miles within the
walls, which were seventy-five feet
thick and one hundred feet high, with
one hundred brazen gates.
. The theraple of Diana, at Ephesus,
was four hundred and twenty feet to the
support of the roof it was one hundred
years in building.
The largest of the pyramids was four
hundred and eight-one feet in height
and eight hundred and fifty-three on
the sides. The base covered eleven
acres. The stones are about sixty feet
in length, and the layers are two hnn
died aud right. It employed 350,000
men iu building.
The labyrinth of L,gypt contains three
hundred chambers and twelve balls.
Thebes, in Egypt, presents ruins
twenty-seven miles around, and con
tained 350,000 citizens aud 400,000
slaves.
The temple of Delphos was so rich in
donations that it was plundered of $50,
000,000, aud the" Emperor Nero carried
away from it two hundred statues.
The walls were thirteen miles around.
"Oh! Dominion."
This term, which is so expres
sive and significant to every Virginian,
is said to have had its origin as
follows: "During the protectorate
of Cromwell, the colony of Virginia
refused to acknowledge his authority,
and declared itself independent Short
ly after, when Cromwell threatened to
eend a fleet and army to reduce Vir
ginia to subjection, the Virginians sent
a messenger to Charles 1L, who was
then an exile in Flanders, inviting him
to return ou the ehip with the messen
ger, and be king of Virginia. Charles
accepted the invitation, and was on the
eve of embarkation, when he was eal'cd
to the throne of England. As Boon as
he was fairly seated on bis throne, in
gratitude for the loyalty of Virginia, he
caused her coat-of-arms to be quartered
with those of England, Scotland and
Ireland, as an independent member of
the empire, a distant portion of the "Old
Dominion." Hence arose the origin of
the term. Copper coins of Virginia
were issued even as late as the reign of
George II., which bore on one side the
coat-of-arms of England, Scotland, Ire
laud aud Virginia. JlLitoricul Maya-
tine.
TIMELY TOriCS.
Raifaa and Barrabnn-a, two islands of
the Society group, have completely
burst up, and a large number of people
have been drowned.
In a gambling room in Nevada the
janitor, on opening the place in the
moruiuir, found a man sitting dead at a
table, with cards still in his hands He
bad been shot'at poker, by his adversary,
who had fled. .
A. T. Stewart once said : " He who
invests one dollar in . business wheuhii
invest one aoiiar in advertising nat
business." How many men are there
in this city who began ten years ago in
a small shop on $1,000 of capital and
who are no better off to-day, and who
have never spent $5 in advertising.
jVettf York Mercantile Journal.
The prevailing hats aud bonnets iu
Paris are quite a study for an entomo
logist. Swarms of bees and other in
sects are settling on some of the hats.
Arrows and lizards are giving way to
email ornaments of holly leaves, with
pearls for berries. Owls heads of va
rious sizes, some very large, and gilded
caterpillars, are largely used to confine
bows on hats and bonnets.
A female elephant iu the Philadelphia
Zoological garden was greatly fright
ened by the recent gale, and when she
cut' one of her feet on the glass of a bro
ken' window her terror was complete.
She sat on her haunches, held up her
wounded foot, and bellowed load and
long. When the keeper entered, her
male companion bad his trunk wound
round the foot, as though trying to com
fort her.
A prize of $500 for ah essay on bydro
phopia, its nature, prevention and treat
ment, having been offered by Mr. Stan
ford, M. P., to be awarded b"y the Royal
College of Physicians of London, the
Marquis of Salisbury has instructed the
British minister at Washington to bring
the matter to the attention of the de
partment of State, that the necessary
publicity may be given to it in this
country. r
A Cincinnati firm has issued a circu
lar relative to the peanut crop, which is
of interest. The Tennessee crop for the
year ending September 80, 1878, was
805,000 bushels, against 500,000 for the
year previous ; in Virginia the crop waa
405,000, against 780,000 last year, and
in North Carolina it was only 85,000,
against 125,000 in 1877. The growing
crop, e., for 1878-70 is estimated at
400,000 bushels for Tennessee, 800,000
for Virginia, and 1)0,000 for North
Carolina, The North Carolina crop
proaiisea to be about the same as to
quality as last year. A new feature with
this crop is the largely increased amount
tdielled, one estimate being that one
fifth of the crop was takeu in this way.
Absolutely latest : The black ponv of
Mr. T. H. Shipp, of Midway. Ky., lias
just died at the age of thirty three.
Mrs. Richard Evans, of Tangier island,
Va., has had the same tom-cat for forty
one years, and it is still alive and lively.
Mr. Lake, of San Jose, Cal., and his
dog recently undertook to catch a bur
glar at night. They set out in different
directions and met in a hall-way. The
dog sprang from under a table, intend
ing to seize Mi. Lake, who. believing
that he was attacked by a robber, hastily
fired several shots. A light was brought,
and the wounded dog, recognizing his
master, crawled to his feet and died.
An eighteen-year-old father and seven-teeu-year-old
mother in Grove county,
.Ky., are the parent of twins, a boy and
a girl. Mercer county, Ky., fills the
mighty trump of sounding fame with a
thirteen-pound sweet potato.
' Turn ef Lle." . .
Between the ages of forty and sty
a man who has properly regulated him,
self may be considered in the prime of
life. Mi matured strength of consti
tution renders him almost impervious
to the attaoks of disease, and experience
has given soundness to bis judgment.
Hib mind is resolute, firm and equal ;
all his functions in the highest order ;
he assumes mastery over business;
builds up a competence on-the founda
tion he has formed in early manhood,
and passes through a period of life at
tended by many gratifications, xiaving
gone a year or two past sixty, he ar
rives at a standstill. But athwart this
is a viaduct called the " Turn of Life,"
which, if crossed in safety, leads to
the valley cf "old age," round which
the river winds, and then beyond, with
out a boat or causeway to effect its pas
sage. The pridge is, however, con
struct ed of fragile materials, and it
depends npon how it is trodden, wheth
er it bend or break, tiout, apoplexy,
are also in tho vioinity to waylay the
traveler, and thrust him from the pass;
but let bim gird np bis loins and pro
vide himself with a fitter staff, and he
may trudge in safety, with perfect com
posure. To quit metaphor, " The Tarn
of Life" is a turn either into a pro
longed walk, or into the grave. The
system and powers having reached their
utmoBt expansion, now begin to either
close like flowers at sunset or break
down at onco. One injudicious stimu
lant, a single fatal excitement, may force
it beyond its strength, whilst a careful
supply of props, and the withdrawal of
all that tends u force a plant, will sus
tain it in beauty and vigor until night
has entirely wt in.
The Washington Capital, which is an
authority on slang, says " Cheese it " is
a corruption of " Don t give it a whey."
Hems of Interest '' "
The head-seenter Fomade.
A chimney sweep A hurricane.
The present population of Chicago,
according to the census just completed,
is 4:16,731.
Since its foundation in 1795 the pres- '
ent Taris mint has coined 1,700,000,000,
gold pieces.. s
In the past seven months there has
been more than 850,000,000 deposited iu
French savings bank. - i
By the use of the microphone yon .
can hear the rope walk and the butter
fly. Or the gum drop.
Some cannibals prefer human fat to ,
anything else for cooking. They would. '
like to live on the Isle of Man.
Thoughts that burn Amateur poetry '
when the editor's waste-basket is over
flowing. Stamford Advocate. . .
In some English coalpits it is found
necessary to force down 350,000 cubic f
feet of fresh air every minute to supply
the needs of the workmen.
The Egyptians were certainly ac-
qnainted with the art of glass-making.
Beads have often been found in the
mummy-cases with the preserved bodies.?
A pretty girlojit West is a "mind
reader." She said to a bashful beau '
the other night : "Lai I believe yon ,
are going to kiss me I " She was right;
The Journal of Microscopy says the .
entire Bible could be photographed on
a little more than an inch and a half. . It
could be photographed nearly ten times
ou an ordinary postal card.
A painter's apprentice fell off a soaf--1
fold with a pot of paint in each hand.
He was taken up insensible, but as soon
as he was restored to consciousness he
murmured : " I went down with flying
colors, anyhow." -; ,
Augustus and Maud linger long on the
porch these clear, cool evenings and
drink in deep draughts of astronomy;'
thatisthev attentively and persistently,
study the" reflected stars in each others
eyes while they take particular notice of
Mars' movements. . t ;
A Scotch witness somewhat given to
pievaricatiou was severely handled by a,
crofs examiniug connsel. "How far is
it between the two 'farms?" said the
couusel. "By the road it's twa mile,"
' Yes, but ou vonr oath, how f af is it
as the crow flies?" "I dinna ken ; I
never was a crow." :'' ''
HAY-MAKING.
Kmaied meadows. Held of clover.
Grassea juicy, fresh and sweet t
Iu a day the wild bees hover
Over "manv fragrant heap ! ' : it
Windrows all the meads do cover,
Blossoms fall, and farmers reap'-
1
In a mouth, and all is over . ; a ,
Htnrod awav for winter's keep. '
lxra Hi al Goodale, in fiorflmef,
A nioii the Muine Indians.
I found the governor or chief "of tit
Passamaquoddy tribe at the house- y
one of his pooplo, where had been in
vitedtodine. I was ushered into tb
diuiug room by a small papoose, wl
took it npon himself to lead me to U
governor without first obtaining his per
miision, and I came upon the party nn
aw ues. I cannot say but what t!
governor was just a little chagrined:
my intrusion, but he hastily rose fro i
the seat which he occupied on the fi.
aud gave me a cordial welcome. Tl:
" cloth " was laid upon the floor, thout
a table was in the room, and six of the
dusky people were Bitting around enjoj
ing their repast Gov. Solomon Fra.
cis is now chief of his tribe. , He i
eighty -one years of age, and his posit,
entitles him to a further annuity of
dollars, which ho considers a very er
sum, inasmuch as bis father many jv
ao received $150 for occupying the b:i
posit iom He i chosen by his peo
with a life term of oftioe, and his dn
ure to maintain order and quiet
among the Indians under his jurii
tion. His son, an intelligent yout:
about twenty years, was given me ;
guide, with instructions to condui t
to those families where a correct idc i
the characteristics and manners of i
people might be observed.
He led me to the cleanly loci
dwelling of - Lewis Francis, who -then
on a porpoise expedition, but
squaw, a white woman of very respc
ble family connections, was b';
engaged in preparing dinner. ".
woman is possessed of more than o.
nary intelligence, with flashing eyes .
a proud bearing. Her twenty-ti
years of married, life and assmi"
with his tribe seems not to have hu i '
effect of destroying the refinement -
teachings of her early youth. Sheer
the Indian tongue fluently, nnd
adept in the finest branch of b;t
making. She appears to be happy
satisfied, and when I asked her i:
ever had cause to regret her man.
her quivering lip and subdued mas
betokened her answer, and. in the
oi the fair Desdemona, she could L i
said : J
" The heavens forbid ' ' -Hut
that oar loves aud comfort should uii
Even as our days do grow."
She is the mother of eight chi'
all girls but one, and finc-'.ookii
Indian blood being scarcely perct i
The wife assured me that her ail.
for her husband and children was
that she would willingly risk her 1
Bave them from danger. She expetu
very little difference in her nnu
living from that which she bad
aooiibtoiaed in her earlier life.
true she bad married without
sent of her parents, but this fleii
long since been condoned and 1
visit exchauged, and her father ,
recently, bequeathed to her fifty
of
land immediately adjoinm
vilbie Lorrtuponni ive
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